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VOLUME 80 ISSUE 10
March 10, 2025
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SRC elects directors and senators for upcoming year: is student engagement in decline? By Jillian French - News Editor
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nofficial results of the 2025-26 SRC election have been posted in an email sent on Feb. 28, 2024. Out of nine open positions on the Board of Directors, six applicants campaigned, and all were elected: Anthony Dumas, Jessie Graddon, Josef Spence, Juliette Chaput, Maude Demouy-Girard, and Mirana Iliza. Three students were elected to senator positions and will represent their division serving on the Bishop’s senate: Emily Miller in education, Sonoma Brawley in humanities and Liam Stewart in social sciences.
SRC adopted the new bylaws approving the BSR restructuring in the fall of 2024. These bylaws will dissolve the current executive and representative roles in the BSR in favour of nine general directors. Among themselves, the board will select a president and vice-president, to be selected in “the next 30 days,” as stated in the Feb. 28 email. The election highlighted some major issues in engagement with student government at Bishop’s. The BSR restructuring was approved to fix problems
This marks the first election since the
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International Women’s Day: Why women and sustainable agriculture go hand in hand By Nicole Rindisbacher Contributor
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t first glance, these subjects may seem far removed, but with both International Women’s Day and Agricultural Day coming up, we are offered a closer look at the connections between the two. Women make up almost half of the global agricultural workforce and produce between 60-80% of the food grown in developing coun-
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tries. Despite this large contribution, women own 15% of this agricultural land and occupy only 23% of leadership positions within agriculture. Now why does this disparity matter? Case studies have shown that empowering women through secure land ownership and decision-making power lays the groundwork for sustainable changes. These changes include improved household nutrition, increased crop diversity, and more social and environmental contribucontinues on page 9systems. tions within agricultural
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