Point of View Archive

Point of View - Season 2 - Feb 20, 2014

Point of View - Season 2 - Feb 13, 2014

Point of View - Season 2 - Feb 6, 2014

Point of View - Season 2 - Jan 30, 2014

Point of View - Season 2 - Jan 23, 2014

Adam Marshall, BrockTV news, regarding BUSAC’s decision to pull the “FED UP” referendum after Brock University said it was looking at the liability of third party ancillary fees and would not collect the FED UP ancillary fee. We talk with him on campus at the BrockTV lab.

Daniel Nardone, BrockBUG.com videographer, helps introduce guest Amanda Hiscox, OPIRG Guelph, regarding this Saturday’s Brock Social Justice Forum which she is on a plenary of speakers with the theme Criminalization of Dissent. Hiscox was arrested for organizing a demonstration at Toronto G20 and spent nearly a year incarcerated. The Social Justice Forum is Jan 25 in Pond Inlet.

Karen Hoffman, BLAST (Brock Labour and Students Together), regarding the formation of “BLAST” and the issues they focus on, as they plan a demonstration against tuition increases.

Mitch Ludington, Brock Students For Liberty, a relatively new club with libertarian ideals discuses why the club has been formed.

Point of View - Oct 17, 2013

In this episode we talk with Dean of Humanities of Brock University Douglas Kneale regarding the St. Catharines Performing Arts Centre and the Marylin I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.

Point of View - Oct 10, 2013

In the studio with admin overseeing the Student Life Fee: Kim Meade, Vice Provost Student Service; Robert Hilson, Director of Athletics; Karen McAllistar-Kenny, Director of Recreation Services, and Melodie Schick-Porter, Director of Student Health Services.

Point of View - Oct 3, 2013

Guest: Kevin Wilson, Brock University Senate regarding recent developments in the Presidents Task Force and other matters of campus student politics.

Point of View - Sept 26, 2013
We have an in-depth conversation with the BUSU executives regarding topics such as the Brock President's Task Force, new bus routes, the Student Life fee implementation, the Referendum Review Committee (Bylaw 4200) and the reasoning behind the proposed constitutional amendment referendum.
Guests: BUSU President Cooper Millard; BUSU VP Finance and Administration Christopher Yendt.

Point of View - Sept 19, 2013
In this episode:  the Brock University President's Task Force;  BUSU referendums; Canadian University Press loses student newspaper members due to economics; Canadian tuition has tripled since 1990; and an interview with BUSU Vice President of University Affairs, Roland Erman.

Point of View - Sept 12, 2013
On the show this week: Mohammad Akbar, University of Windsor Student Association, in response to CFS disaffiliation; Vic Mucciarone, Focus Editor, Brock Press following up on her recent piece on austerity and privatization in post-secondary education; Jordan Coop, Western Solidarity Network, who were reportedly escorted by police to leave campus at Western University for handing out pamphlets about tuition fees and holding signs such as "For Sale: Your O-Week".

Point of View - Sept 5, 2013
The news of the week is a new disaffiliation campaign against the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), so we have an interview with the group's spokesperson Ashleigh Ingle. Also we talk with with Brandon Clim the author of StudentUnion.ca and we hear again from Mohammad Akbar about CFS. This episode also includes some interesting student voices from Orientation Week 2013.

Point of View - August 29, 2013
Guests:  Brock TV's Ryan Moccia and The Lance's Sarah Howath from the University of Windsor. Also in the studio is outspoken BUSAC councilor Tyler Evans who discusses the Student Life fee, the President's Task Force, and the role of the students' union at Brock University.

Point of View - August 22, 2013
Guests: Brock University VP Academics Dr. Murry Knuttila
Our coverage of the President's Task Force continues this week with an interview with Brock University's Vice President of Academics Dr. Murry Knuttila. We also include an important clip from a past broadcast on the topic of Apathy.     

Point of View - August 15, 2013
Guests: BUSU VPUA Roland Erman and Linda Rose-Krasnor
This episode features two interviews. First we talk with BUSU VP University Affairs Roland Erman regarding his job and the current affairs affecting students at Brock and in Ontario. Then we sit down with Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA) president Dr. Linda Rose-Krasnor to talk about the President's Task Force which, she says, is fundamentally flawed.

Point of View -  August 8, 2013
Guests: UWSA VPEA Mohammad Akbar, OUSA VPA Adam Garcia
A conversation with Mohammad Akbar, VP External Affairs at University of Windsor Student Alliance (UWSA), who lead a campaign at Windsor against OUSA, and won. We're also joined by Adam Garcia, OUSA's VP Adminstration who is also a VP Education at Federation of Students, Waterloo (FEDS).      

Point of View -  Aug 1, 2013
Guest: Brock Student Justice Center coordinator Brandon Vrysen
In this episode, we cover the letter that the Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA) wrote in response to the President’s Task Force. They have "serious concerns about the legitimacy of this special task force" .We also cover the three referendums scheduled for this October. We sit down for the 2nd half of the show with Brandon Vrysen, Brock Student Justice Centre coordinator.