“Most of our time consists of working with departments and keeping everything organized, funding them, and helping them all the way through,” said Gill. “They’ve done an excellent job in giving students the opportunity to express their opinions.”
While the three executive positions and the John Molson School of Business directors’ positions have already been acclaimed, eight candidates are running for a total of six seats in arts and science, and nine are running for the six in engineering and computer science.
Students who were supposed to occupy the Guy-Metro building today on Concordia's downtown campus changed their plans and ended up merging with a protest in support of a student who was allegedly hit by a Concordia security guard yesterday.
While some students were participating in a sit-in on the 7th floor, another group of students were facing half a dozen security guards on the 4th floor. The conflict began when a group of geography students used hard-picketing tactics by blocking the entrance to their classroom.
After the March 22 protest that saw 200,000 students marching the streets of Montreal, student leaders warned the Liberal government they were now taking the movement further.