sfss election
2025 SFSS vice-president candidate details concerns around name misspelling
May 30, 2025By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Vaibhav Babbar, who also goes by Vee, spoke with The Peak after his lingering concerns about the election were brought to the paper’s attention by an anonymous source. Babbar, who served as one of the associate vice-presidents of events and student affairs during the 2024/25 term, ran in this year’s election cycle but was not elected by a margin of 88 votes. He said issues around his platform commenced before the election took place. At the candidate debate, his nickname was incorrectly spelled “Veer.” At this point in the election, the mistake “was fine because…
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Students raise concerns over fairness of SFSS elections voting system
March 24, 2025By: Mason Mattu, News Writer and Petra Chase, Editor-in-Chief From February 27 to 28, SFU undergraduate students voted in the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) election. On the ballot were SFSS executive position candidates and fee increase motions. The results…
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A minimum voter threshold for SFSS elections should be required
March 15, 2021by Gurleen Aujla, Peak Associate Another round of SFSS elections is complete, and I congratulate all of the successful candidates, but something about the results isn’t right. The 2021 election results had an average of 891 total votes per position,…
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Why voting in the 2021 SFSS executive committee election is important
February 14, 2021by Madeleine Chan, Opinions Editor Last Fall’s Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) annual general meeting saw over 600 students in attendance — one of the largest turnouts since the fervoured attendance of the 2018 impeachment. It seems like students want…
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A 12-year history of SFSS presidents
March 9, 2019By: Natasha Tar, Peak Associate Editor’s note: This piece was put together with archival sources from The Peak which may not be available on our website. Please feel free to browse previous editions of The Peak on our Issuu profile.…
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Voices of SFU: “What do you want from your next SFSS representatives?”
March 9, 2019Compiled by: Alex Bloom and Gabrielle McLaren “I would like to see the SFSS focus on more health and wellness resources for students. I think bringing in a dietician/nutritionist to give workshops geared towards student lifestyles and student budgets would…
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