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The blind leading the blind

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The blind leading the blind

The blind leading the blind
Clueless candidates just might romance the naïve student vote… but you can stop them
Reid Southwick
News Editor
In the University of Calgary’s student union election last year, roughly 500 students voted for a rock. The six-foot-tall boulder placed third in the presidential race, beating out six human candidates.
Under the union’s election rules, a [...]

News: A whiff of what The Rock is cooking

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Winter term of 2005, Josephine Tsui and Daniel Charlebois decided to run an inanimate object for student union president. Here is an excerpt from the news the controversy generated;
A whiff of what the Rock is cooking
From Alan Cho
Entertainment Editor
When it comes straight down to it, you don’t give a shit. The university experience for you [...]

Support letter from co-campaigner of the Rock as President

Posted by admin under Testimonials, The Rock

Re: Support letter for Josephine with respect to the Sauvé Scholars Program
February 18th 2009-02-20
To Whom It May Concern:
I have known Josephine for six years over our involvements with Engineers Without Borders and the Scala project. As the Scala project leader I have seen Josephine in various leadership positions.
Late [...]