1. What is your name, what position are you running for, and could you please sum up your platform in one sentence?
Alexandre Bevington for BOA and SENATE for the Faculty of SCIENCE. Proper research, respectful debate and popular communication will result in concrete improvements concerning: the environment, campus accessibility, increasing tuition, discrimination and inclusivity on campus, student representation and participation.
2. Name one thing the University of Ottawa administration is doing right.
The University is adapting very well to the incredible increase in undergraduate enrollment. Though it is not perfect, their efforts are obvious and appreciated. From study halls, to computer and wireless internet accessibility, couch lounges, new buildings, online technologies, and, and, and… but the work is far from finished!
3. What is the largest problem on campus?
Campus unity. Not it the ideological sense of “uOttawa is one campus that are together on all issues”, but there, that there is an information divide between those who have access to information, those who want access to information and those who have no idea or don’t care that that information is available. Information refers to free vegan buffet serving times (with the People’s Republic of Delicious), club participation, BOA meetings attendance, newspaper and radio participation, mentorship and help center utilization, and the list goes on!A unified campus would make: important issues (environ., tuition, accessibility…) easier to understand, businesses easier to mange, public opinion easier to assess, accessibility a no-brainer, students less divided between misunderstood debates, university life lively and fully functional.
4.What can you bring to the SFUO/BOA/BOG that no other candidate can (aka why should someone vote for you)?Too often to candidates represent extremes, social justice extremes, financially focused extremes, data oriented extremes or ideological extremes.With experience in social justice work (mostly through OPIRG and volunteering http://abevington.ca - BIO), having been enrolled in three faculties (science is my favorite!), having sat on many boards, being a musician and photographer, open and inclusive… I feel that I bring a calm blend to the urgency of social action and the timeliness of logical thinking.
5. And to steal a question from my co-op workbook: if you came back from a meeting and there was an elephant in your office, what would you do?
If it was…
(1) Sitting in my chair: I would sit across from is and wait to be spoken to… (let’s face it, elephants are huge!) … then calmly try to get some information as to how the elephant got through the doorframe! And what the elephant wants, if anything!
(2) Asleep: I would probably go get a Polaroid camera, and call my little sister!
(3) Dancing: I would warn all the floors beneath the dancing elephant to evacuate!
(4) Chilling: Offer it some food and drink, I normally have an array of study food in my back pack, maybe even some peanuts!
(5) Floating: throw a glass of water in my own face, rub my eyes, then pinch my arm… is this real?
(I cut some of the formatting to save room-Ed.)
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