AMS EXECUTIVE CANDIDATE PROFILES

Team KMV wants to make first-year students aware of the AMS Event sanctioning transparency is an immediate concern for these executive candidates

S kylar S oroka

Assistant News Editor

This year’s three-way contested AMS executive election includes Team KMV, who emphasized making students aware of AMS services right from their first year at Queen’s.

Team KMV is composed of presidential candidate

Kate McCuaig, ArtSci ’23, vice-presidential candidate (operations), ArtSci ’23, Michelle Hudson, and vice-presidential candidate (university affairs)

Victoria Mills, ArtSci ’23. The election is happening on Feb. 6 and 7.

KMV has experience working in student government, holding leadership roles in 2022 ASUS Orientation. McCuaig was Head Gael, Mills was the Operations Chair, and Hudson was the Community Awareness, Respect, and Engagement Chair.

KMV spoke about an AMS where all students are aware of student government, and that starts with building connections from the start.

“Through working on Arts and Science Orientation Week, you’ve seen me on campus, you talk to me, you tell me what’s going on. I hear these recurring issues and I feel like I could do more,” McCuaig said in an interview with The Journal Wanting to engage in advocacy in the overarching student government on campus is KMV’s goal.

First year involvement

Mills said it’s important to consider the best avenues of communication to reach certain groups, like first years. Residence outreach is one example they raised.

Upper-year students who live in residence, such as dons, are necessary in facilitating communication between the AMS and students who may not know of its existence, she added.

“This is important because these students have likely paid into either all or some kind of slate of fees to be a part of it. We would love to distribute the information to you.”

President

If elected, McCuaig hopes to increase advocacy efforts and listed various examples of the team’s plans.

“Something we’ve proposed with event sanctioning is the triage system. Right now, the [Campus Activities Commission (CAC)] is severely overworked, but they handle the event sanctioning process among many other amazing things on campus,” McCuaig said.

Team TBD is running to unify Queen’s students

me personally. I want to give back to the community that has given so much to me,” Crawford said.

S ophia C oppolino Assistant News Editor

The candidates making up team TBD are counting on passion, not experience, to win students’ votes in the upcoming AMS election.

TBD consists of Presidential candidate Thomas Crawford, ArtSci ’23, vice-presidential (operations) candidate Ben Bertin, ArtSci ’23, and vice-presidential candidate (university affairs)

Dante Caloia, ArtSci ’23.

In an interview with The Journal, Crawford said he’s running for AMS President because he appreciates the AMS’ role in enriching his experience at Queen’s.

“[The AMS] has done so much for students and done so much for

Crawford worked as the Judicial Affairs Manager for the AMS this past year and was first exposed to the AMS as a first-year intern. He is the most experienced member of Team TBD but is confident his team has a refreshing perspective to offer students.

“I think our perspective is unique—and especially different than those of the other two teams running,” Crawford said. “Our philosophy is we talk to [students], we don’t put up an image, we talk to you the way we talk to regular people, this is just it.”

Having been invested in running for AMS President since last year, Crawford recruited friends Caloia and Bertin to join him as the potential future AMS executives.

“I like to put things bluntly,” Caloia said. “I think that the AMS has a long way to go.”