The Latest at SFU

• Representatives of the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) have indicated that more information on the recent firing of the Graduate Issues and University Relations Coordinator will be disclosed at tomorrow's meeting of the Board of Directors
  
  
• SFSS Democracy Now is a new website on the present controversy. It has lots of information, including a comprehensive timeline and an online petition.
  
  
• CUPE 3338, the union that represents clerical, secretarial, and technical staff at SFU and that also represents staff in the Food and Beverage Services Department of the SFSS, has written a letter to the SFSS expressing their "grave concerns."
  
  
• The International Students' Group of SFU has also put information on the recent controversy on their website. They have also uploaded an extract of the minutes of a recent meeting of the Graduate Issues Committee (GIC) in which these concerns were raised, and in which GIC passed a motion of non-confidence [PDF] in the Board of Directors.
  
  
• The SFSS has made no efforts to remove the name or the email address of the fired staff person from its website.
  
  
• Coincidentally, SFSS President Shawn Hunsdale proposed the following as a new SFSS Administrative Policy at a committee meeting earlier today:

“All staff and elected representatives of the Simon Fraser Student Society shall make every reasonable effort to avoid conflicts of interest wherever they may arise, in accordance with standards of fairness, decency, and good sense.

“The Simon Fraser Student Society will take every precaution to guard against favouritism in hiring. All staff and elected representatives must be scrupulously fair and honest in assuring that positions are well advertised and that appointments are offered always to the best-qualified candidates.

“If a potential conflict of interest is identified in any dealings of the Society, the Board of Directors may, at its discretion, review the process followed to ensure that the standards of fairness, decency, and good sense have been strictly adhered to and the best interests of the Society have been sought in all dealings.

“In the event that a conflict of interest arises in any dealings of the Simon Fraser Student Society wherein the best interests of the Society have not been sought by either staff or an elected representative, the Board of Directors shall seek to implement appropriate disciplinary measures, up to and including impeachment or dismissal."