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The Fulcrum
 volume lxix, issue xxifeb. 13–25, 2009sfuo election coverage 
Campus cries
Seamus Wolfe was all smiles after being elected SFUO president for 2009–10.
photo by Frank Appleyard
by Emma GodmereFulcrum Staf HE MOS EXCIING race o the2009 Student Federation o the Uni- versity o Ottawa (SFUO) electionsalso turned out to be one o the clos-est.Current SFUO VP University A-airs Seamus Wole will be returningto the SFUO executive or a thirdyear, nishing only 442 votes ahead o runner-up Renaud-Philippe Garner.“o be honest, I’m eeling a little re-lieved,” said Wole. “I put my lie andmy heart and soul into this campaign.I had a lot o people behind me, andmost importantly, this campaign orpresident was not about me—this wasabout the people who supported me.”Wole, who secured 36 per cento the vote, also acknowledged thewidespread popularity and interestthat suraced in this February’s 12-day campaign.“I’m very, very proud to say that orthe rst time in the SFUO elections,we had an extraordinarily interestingrace in each one o the races that werecontested,” he said.Wole continued to explain that hismain ocus or next year is to “build acommunity that’s built on respect”. Gar-ner, who ran in last year’s presidentialby-elections, ofered somewhat o achallenge to that promise.“I’d love to see a poll in one year’stime about how many students nd[that] a community has been built andthat all the goals have been accom-plished,” he said shortly aer resultswere released on Feb. 12. “I’d love toknow ... i really 36 per cent, even 20per cent o students without any coax-ing will actually answer, ‘I’m satised.’”Tird-place candidate yler Steevesseemed satised, at least with how hisbid or president rolled out.“I eel like we ran a solid campaign,”he said aer capturing 26 per cent o the vote.When asked i he will continueto participate on campus next year,Steeves was optimistic.“I’ll always be involved, whereverI am,” said the ourth-year manage-ment student.Fourth-place nisher Marc Kelly,the deregistered sixth-year physicsstudent who encountered di culty campaigning beore the university temporarily lied his ban rom cam-pus, was more certain about his u-ture involvement at the U o O.“All the things I’ve been talkingabout and saying, I’m going to keepdoing,” Kelly said, aer capturing justover 500 votes. “I think everybody should be ree to speak and decideand have inuence on the politicalenvironment ... I don’t agree with thenecessity to elect somebody to makedecisions on behal o others.”When asked about his direct in- volvement with the SFUO, Kelly wasrank.“Oh, I’ll be barging into their o-ces requently,” he said.Tose o ces will be lled by therest o the newly elected SFUO execu-tives come May 1. Wole indicated heis looking orward to working withthe resh six-member executive in theupcoming months.“We have a very strong team and... I’m looking orward to be able tomake sure that next year is the bestyear o our lives,” he said.
Current vp universityafairs takes reins o SFUO
Seamus WolfeRenaud-Philippe GarnerTyler SteevesMarc Kelly36 %30 %26 %7 %Results
“I put my life and my heart and soulinto this campaign.“
Seamus WolfeSFUO president-elect 
 Wolfe
 
by Amanda Shendruk Fulcrum Staf HE SUDEN FEDERAION o the University o Ottawa (SFUO) willwelcome ed Horton as vp university afairs or the 2009–2010 academicyear aer he won one o the election’smost hotly contested races on Feb. 12.Horton, a current Faculty o SocialSciences representative on the SFUOBoard o Administration (BOA), willtake over the position rom currentVP University Afairs Seamus Woleon May 1.Horton secured 32 per cent o the vote, narrowly edging out his clos-est competitor, Jeremy Stuart, by 339 votes.“I thought it was going to be a re-ally close race, and it was. I’m gladall the other candidates got up,” saidHorton.Fellow candidates Sidney Loko andCameron Montgomery trailed Hor-ton with 21.6 per cent and 19.5 percent support, respectively.Soon aer results were released,Horton admitted to eeling “ecstatic”.However, he quickly got down to talk-ing business, emphasizing that aernext year he hopes students will look back and say they were better of thanbeore.“[My] daily concerns will ocusa lot on the really huge issues, and Ithink those are important, but we risk neglecting the daily lives o students,”he said. “And i students aren’t inter-acting with the SFUO on a daily ba-sis, I don’t think they’re getting theirmoney’s worth.”Although the night’s results did notall in his avour, Loko, who helpedound the West Arican Youth Asso-ciation on campus, was ready to con-gratulate his competitor.“He did a good campaign,” he saido Horton. “He was out there, and hewon.”Stuart, who received 26.9 per cento the vote, also elt the results o theelection were satisactory.“Tere was no one I was going to beby Megan O’MearaFulcrum Staf MICHÈLE LAMARCHE MAY haveailed to receive the support thrownbehind last year’s unopposed vp -nance winner Roxanne Dubois, butthe new vp student afairs neverthe-less impressed voters, securing 86 percent o the vote. Tis is Lamarche’srst election to the Student Fed-eration o the University o Ottawa(SFUO) executive.“I was kind o hoping it was going tobe a little bit higher because [Dubois]got 91 per cent last year, but I am …a little hardheaded and strongly opin-ionated, so some people don’t approveo me,” explained Lamarche. “I washappy with the results overall.”Due to the act that she was unop-posed, Lamarche didn’t let her cam-paign take over her daily lie.“All my print material was sent be-ore I ound out that I was unopposedso I still went ahead with all that,” shesaid. “At the same time, I still go toschool ull-time and work ull-time soI decided not to take as much time of and I didn’t skip any o my classes.”When asked what she will do rstwhen she takes over the position inMay, Lamarche emphasized the im-portance o collaboration within theSFUO.“I’ve been on other executives be-ore and I’m on the [Student Associa-tion o the Faculty o Arts] executiveright now, so [I know that] you haveto rst nd out what the executive’spriorities are,” she explained. “It de-pends on what the executive as a teamwants to set as goals.”Despite being near-certain that shewould be victorious, Larmarche wasnevertheless thrilled about her newposition.“I’m really excited to get started,”she said. “I’ve wanted this or a longtime.”
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 vp university affairs vp student affairs
BOG,BOA,Senate
Horton all business after election winLamarche cruises to victory 
Board of Governors
Amy Kishek
Board of Administration
Faculty of Arts
Scott BédardMelanie BookDanika BrissonMichael CheeversRobert Prazeres
Faculty of Law, Common Law
Arthur Dennis Stark
Faculty of Law, Civil Law
Bruno Gélinas-Faucher
Faculty of Education
Myriam Bérubé
Faculty of Engineering
Brandon Bay
Faculty of Health Sciences
Osama BerradaLaura RaschotteKyle Ryc
Telfer School of Management
Khadijah Kanji
Faculty of Science
Matt AlteenRichard MahJim Rae
Faculty of Social Sciences
Aminka BelvittIain BranniganPeter FlynnCam GraySarah Jayne KingKyle Simunovic
Faculty of Medicine
Marie-Ève Bérubé
Senate
Telfer School of Management
Andrei Huranchyk
Faculty of Arts
Melanie Book
Faculty of Science
Alex Bevington
Faculty of Social Sciences
Kyle Simunovic
Faculty of Medicine
Andrew Boozary
Faculty of Health Sciences
Shamin Mohamed, Jr.
Faculty of Law
Bruno Gélinas-Faucher
 Ted Horton comesout on top infour-way race
Ted Horton was one of three
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rst-time SFUO executives elected on Feb. 12.Michèle Lamarche secured an easy win in the 2009 SFUO elections.
photo by Frank Appleyardphoto by Ross Prusakowski
Ted HortonJeremy StuartSidney LokoCameron Montgomery32 %27 %22 %19 %
Results
particularly disappointed with in my race,” he said. “Tey’re all good people.”Both Horton and Loko had positivethings to say about their competitorsand the campaigns.“It was a air campaign,” said Loko,while Horton commented on the dy-namic among the our.“We all got along really well,” hesaid.Both Loko and Stuart plan to soongraduate. Stuart will graduate in thesummer with a political science andhistory degree, while Loko will nishat the end o the semester.Montgomery, a current Faculty o Arts representative on the BOA, wasnot available or comment.
—with fles rom Frank Appleyard and Emma Godmere
 
by David McClellandFulcrum Staf I WAS A close race or the position o vpsocial in the 2009–2010 Student Federationo the University o Ottawa (SFUO) executiveelections, with ourth-year social work studentJean Guillaume securing 55 per cent o the vote to edge out Zoom Productions coordina-tor Alexandre Chaput.“I’m denitely happy,” said Guillaume aerthe results were announced. “I want to start towork on everything I’ve planned, everythingI’ve promised. I’m going to make sure they’regoing to happen.”Guillaume campaigned on a platorm thatpromised to create inclusive and multiculturalevents, in addition to having more and biggerevents. Guillaume elt that the inclusive natureo his platorm reected some o the reasonswhy this year’s election had a record 27 percent voter turnout.“Tis shows how when we don’t leave peo-ple behind [people get involved],” he said. “My rst point in my platorm is inclusivity. We cansee the diference [and] we can see the resultswhen everybody gets involved.”Chaput elt that the campaign had been di-cult, but rewarding nonetheless.“It denitely got more intense in the pastcouple o days where students actually got to vote,” said Chaput, who went on to say that heelt that the election had only been lost in thelast ew days o class presentations.Chaput also noted that the election hadbeen very good or Zoom Productions, andwas quick to note that he planned on remain-ing involved in the U o O community throughZoom.“Zoom has been extremely present duringthe elections, and it’s really put us on the map,and I can only thank my co-workers [and] my employees or that,” he said. “[It’s] literally putus on the map in terms o getting students torealize we exist.”“Tere [are] big projects that Zoom is do-ing. Mainly, I’ve been working on new renova-tions o the o ce, and more visibility towardsZoom,” he continued. “Tat’s something I’d beinterested in working with next year.”Meanwhile, Guillaume is eager to start work-ing towards his goals and election promises.“I’m going to start to work as soon as pos-sible. I would say tomorrow, to start to makesure that I’m going to come and deliver what Ipromised,” he said. “I’m very happy and excitedbecause I’m going to bring a lot o change.”by Frank AppleyardFulcrum Staf CURREN SUDEN FEDERA-ION o the University o Ottawa(SFUO) VP Communications JulieSéguin secured an overwhelmingmandate or a second term on Feb. 12,wrapping up 80 per cent o the votesin her uncontested race.“I’m very excited,” said an elatedSéguin shortly aer the results wereannounced. “I think next year’s execis going to be good.”With little over two months re-maining in her current term, Séguinwasted little time in looking ahead tonext year, describing her desire to seebilingualism requirements not pose aroadblock to potential SFUO employ-ees.“We can make sure that there’s astrong second-language learning pro-gram or people who want to work atthe SFUO. I you want to get involvedin the SFUO as an employee, you haveto be bilingual, and I want to makesure its open to everyone,” she said.Despite an uno cial No campaignlaunched by SFUO promotions teamstafer ristan Dénommée and anendorsement o a No vote in
La Ro-tonde
’s Feb. 9 issue, Séguin was notperturbed by the 1,440 votes castagainst her.“I eel like it was a very small num-ber o people [that voted ‘no’],” shesaid. “But I will take it seriously andtake whatever eedback they have togive me.”Dénommée was pleased with thenumber o students who voted againstSéguin, admitting that his campaignintended to shed light on Séguin’sperceived shortcomings this year, notto necessarily deeat the incumbent.“I dreamed o 25 [per cent], andthe No side got 20 per cent. I think it’sa victory or the No side,” he said.In light o the opposition to hercampaign, Séguin displayed a com-mitment to work with all students,not only those who voted or her.“I remember that last year when Iwon, I said, ‘I will listen to both sidesand try and do my best,’” Séguin said.“No one can blame me or that. I triedto listen to 100 per cent instead o the57 [per cent that voted or me] and Ithink any exec that wins lower than100 [per cent]—which is everybody—should listen to every other platormand listen to ideas that other candi-dates have.”by David McClellandFulcrum Staf WINNING WIH A margin o over1,200 votes, incumbent RoxanneDubois has been re-elected to theposition o Student Federation o theUniversity o Ottawa (SFUO) vp -nance or 2009–10. Dubois captured59.3 per cent o the vote, beating outchallenger Maureen Hasinof whotook 41.7 per cent.“I eel really happy. I think the en-ergy was always really positive andrespective between the candidates,which I think is essential,” said Dubois.“A campaign has a certain rhythm andit’s really hard or me because I already have [the position this year] and at thesame time I had to work so hard to getre-elected to be able to nish my job.”In spite o the loss, Hasinof washappy with the way her campaignhad gone, noting that she was proudo her hard work.“I ought hard, and it’s really hardto beat an incumbent, o course, butI worked my butt of and I tried my hardest,” she said.For Dubois, the next challenge willbe implementing the platorm she waselected on, adding that she eels thatthe experience she gained in her rstterm will be invaluable in helping herdo so.“Te vp nance position, as I’vebeen saying or a while, is really heavy in administrative tasks,” Dubois ex-plained. “And I think having done itonce I’ll be in a much better positionto be able to make changes and adaptsome things that I wanted to do whenI came in, but kind o had to get overthat learning curve [rst].“[For] my second term, one o my platorm points was creating consul-tative budgets,” continued Dubois,noting that getting students involvedin the budgeting process would needto begin beore the end o her rstterm. “I think we will have to put[consultative budgets] in place in thenext ew months to be able to havethis consultative budget beore I [be-gin] my second term.”Hasinof, meanwhile, is not rulingout uture involvement in studentpolitics.
 vp social vp financevp communications
Guillaume ready to go
Double-dip for Dubois
Second serving for Séguin
New vp social wantsto begin work assoon as possible
photo by Ross Prusakowskiphoto by Frank Appleyard
Jean GuillaumeAlexandre ChaputRoxanne DuboisMaureen HasinoffYesNo55 %45 %59 %41 %80 %20 %
ResultsResultsResults
“I’m not leaving student politics,[and] I’m not leaving this campus any time soon,” said Hasinof. “I’m planningon being involved or the rest o nextyear and until I’m nished my degree.”Hasinof went on to say that shemight run or a position on the Politi-cal, International and DevelopmentStudies Student Association (PIDS-SA) executive.“I’ll probably run or [a] PIDSSA[position],” she said. “I’m consider-ing vp external, but it’s nothing o-cial yet. I haven’t decided [yet] …and we don’t even have elections or-ganized yet, [so] we’ll see what nextyear brings.”
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