Amanda Thomas: Official Platform

If elected as a Brantford Campus Councillor, I will actively work to find out what is important to the student body using tools like open forums, surveys, suggestion boxes and the open door policy, and I will make every effort to ensure that suggestions are acted upon. I plan to promote the student unions  visibility on campus so that everyone is well informed and has the opportunity to get more involved in university activities and the Brantford community through outreach programs.

I think it is important for a campus to have clubs like Rainbow Alliance and the Diversity Club to allow all students to feel accepted and have the best experience possible at Laurier Brantford. As a growing campus we need better services and facilities. For example, a variety of healthy meal options, an improved recreation center and new safe places to relax and socialize, these would be a few of my priorities. The Waterloo campus has more resources at their disposal so I believe we should increase inter-campus communication and access. But our rush to expand should not be at the expense of the environment, I believe we should support the Laurier Brantford Sustainability Center in their endeavour to work with the local community and the Six Nations to make our campus eco-friendly.

Safety is another issue that especially concerns the Brantford Campus, being one of the most dangerous cities in Ontario there is a need to make students feel like they are safe on campus, Foot Patrol is a good service provided but there is room for improvement. I think there should be more patrols at night and maybe a front desk in residences so that everyone in the building is accounted for and strangers cannot get inside by slipping in behind others.
I would strive to build a SAFE, DIVERSE, EQUITABLE and SUSTAINABLE campus.

Nick Savage: Official Platform

As the Laurier Brantford Campus approaches its eleventh anniversary, a major goal for the future should be connection, cohesion and community. Being a small campus, community is very much a reality. However, I feel as if there is still more room to grow. My vision is getting the ball rolling on a more prominent campus. Some of my ideas include looking into more Laurier owned buildings, creating more activities that link Laurier (Brantford and Waterloo) with Nipissing.  Activities such as a plan to have one Winter Carnival day in Brantford, as opposed to all days in Waterloo. Activities like this will ensure connection with the campuses and provide the communication required for the future.

Through the cohesion I am proposing, I feel the Brantford students will have much more access to the Students’ Union and the University as a whole. As of right now, Brantford is very limited in the access it has. For instance, the Brantford registrars’ office does not have an official stamp. As Brantford campus has a formidable number of students, I feel it would be appropriate to have the authority to provide that to the students. That way, they do not have to spend the money to send it to Waterloo campus out of their already dwindling university student bank accounts.

An issue brought up by many of my fellow students is safety. As a member on the Brantford Campus Council, I plan to maintain the relationships between Foot Patrol, Special Constables and the Brantford Police. I plan to connect the three organizations more than they already are to provide Brantford students with the safe campus they deserve.

As a student of Wilfrid Laurier Brantford, I have an immense passion for the school and the campus I attend. It is an incredible opportunity to attend the fastest growing campus in Canada. As a member of the WLUSU Brantford Campus Council, I propose the appropriate connection for Brantford students, cohesion with not just Waterloo campus but with Nipissing and community within Laurier and within Brantford.