The Devil's Advocate is funded through the Voter Funded Media project. Readers (that's you!) vote to award prize money to campus media outlets. A year round VFM contest is generously funded by Mark Latham. Click here for more information.
For the AMS election, a total award pool of $8,000 is being offered by the AMS. Find out about that contest here.
Despite the AMS's best attempts to hide it, elections are underway. Do they piss you off as much as they piss me off? Want to rant about it? Want me to buy you beer for ranting about it? Email devilsadvocate.ubc [at] gmail.com
The Devil's Advocate began life 3 years ago as the journal of the UBC debate society. It was successful mainly because of abundances of charts. This year debate decided to stop giving us money, so we went independent. We started off the year by providing 100% AMS-hack free coverage of the election. Why? Because AMS hacks annoy us. There is a massive disconnect between insiders and the majority of the student population. We wanted to do something about that. But the elections were messy. Slander, libel, kangaroo courts, fires . . . in the end we came out tainted with hack.
We're better now. After spending the summer in a drug induced haze, the layers of political hackery began to peal off. Onward to actual content!
And we are still seeking the answer to our old question: why do most students don't care about thei government? Is it the incompetence? The ball dropping? The lack of relevancy? Dan Siegel, an activist at Berkeley in the 60s said, "if the university turned off its Wi-Fi, they’d get bigger demonstrations than they would for People's Park"
That ain't right.
Aaron Palm Head Editor Person
Who are these handsome devils?
If the Ubyssey is the CNN of UBC news, then we are the Daily Show, the Colbert Report. We don't endorse candidates, we DIS-endorse them. We rake through the muck of AMS hackery and give you gleaming bits of information, with a shiny film of satire and sarcasm. We don't know things, but we know people who know things, and that's good enough for us. And should be for you.
Aaron Palm is Editor in Chief, he's the Stewart, the ACLU pin wearing Jew boy.
Eoin O'Dwyer is the token Irishman, representative of the man, the Colbert reactionary.
Will Worden drops by once in a while. If Aaron is Stewart Will is Lewis Black. Only more bitter.
Austin Holm is the mutant lovechild of Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. Expect him to rant about sex and violence and cut your mike when you try to make a valid point.
Angelina Xia made the logo, she hates comma splices.
Commodore Cuddles likes sunshine, hugs, and naval supremacy.
Serious Steve is serious. Mainly because he's not funny.
Together they will remake the world of VFM. Tremble all ye hacks.
1 comments:
I'm a big fan of Devil's Advocate for over a year now. Thanks Steve for the posting.
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