Other than the ill-advised "affiliation" motion that passed at first reading on Sunday, 17 July 2011 SFUO BOA meeting, the audience (of 5) was surprised by what the Chair, Federico Carvajal announced at the beginning of the meeting: he announced his resignation as Chair of the BOA and that would most likely be the last BOA meeting that he would chair.
He has presided over some less than stellar BOA meetings in the past. To be sure, we needn't look far: the 15 October 2010 BOA meeting when he called Protection to have students in the audience removed (which never ended up happening). Another example took place on 6 March 2011 which was the meeting at which time the Board heard appeals arising from the SFUO elections (i.e.: disqualification of Tristan Dénommée).
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS CONTAINS COURSE LANGUAGE - VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!
Federico became the SFUO BOA chair at some point between the 2 March 2008 and the 1 June 2008 board meetings. Amy Morris, Carvajal's predecessor, had only been the SFUO BOA's chair since 1 January 2008 and only chaired 4 board meetings.
Federico has deep roots within the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) which made his chairing the board during discussions involving issues such as the SFUO bulk t-shirt orders very controversial. (the report recommended Just Shirts, a company strongly supported by the CFS)
1) First "final" report authored by Martin Schoots-McAlpine, Jesse Root and Iain Brannigan: http://www.scribd.com/doc/48751480/Final-Report-of-the-Ad-hoc-Ethical-Purchasing-Policy-Committee-Submitted-to-the-SFUO-Board-of-Administration
2) The final "final" report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/48751480/Final-Report-of-the-Ad-hoc-Ethical-Purchasing-Policy-Committee-Submitted-to-the-SFUO-Board-of-Administration
Carvajal was the CFS-Ontario Chairperson of the Ontario Graduate Caucus; While Carvajal was the external commissioner of the Graduate Students' Association (GSAÉD), he was a member of the "Yes" Committee during the CFS referendum that took place on the U of O campus in November 2008. As recent as 26 April 2011, Carvajal was at Trent University speaking with the Trent Graduate Students' Association (GSA) to promote the CFS administered health plan with Green shield.
Here is an image of the job posting for the new Chair of the SFUO Board of Administration which appeared on the Charity Village website:
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