{"id":9103,"date":"2011-03-30T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T19:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9103"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:23:38","slug":"busu-holding-referendum-for-new-on-campus-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/03\/busu-holding-referendum-for-new-on-campus-building\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSU holding referendum for new on-campus building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9104\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9104\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9104  \" title=\"a voting station in the Mackenzie Chown A hallway for the BUSU referendum\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/busureferendum.jpg\" alt=\"Student voting stations for BUSU's referendum include a table in the Mackenzie Chown A hallway.\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student voting stations for BUSU&#39;s referendum include a table in the Mackenzie Chown A hallway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University Students\u2019 Union<\/a> needs its constituents to vote in two referendums it\u2019s holding on campus this week.<\/p>\n<p>Students are casting votes from Tuesday, March 29 to Thursday, March 31. The question posed is whether BUSU can access $2 million in restricted funds to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>renovate Isaac\u2019s Bar and Grill, Union Station food court and Skybar Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>secure funding for the first two phases of construction on a new building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The renovations would cost about half a million. The other $1.5 million would go to the new building. BUSU already has permission from the University to start the process of creating the new building, which would be about 69,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>The money is in an account for restricted funds, which means BUSU can\u2019t access it without students\u2019 permission. A \u2018yes\u2019 vote would grant this.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations to Union Station would add three new vendors. Current plans are for a sushi bar, a shawarma hut\/Indian cuisine and a Harvey\u2019s. There would also be a breakfast menu and a \u201cwalk-through\u201d window.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations to Isaac\u2019s would include new washrooms, energy-efficient lighting and a newly relocated DJ booth.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations to Skybar would include a year-round patio and a dumb waiter to transfer food from the kitchen to the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Possibilities for the new building include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>clubs lounge, offices and meeting rooms<\/li>\n<li>media centre, including new homes for BrockTV, Brock Press and CFBU<\/li>\n<li>new offices for BUSU, the Brock University Students\u2019 Advisory Council and the Graduate Students Association<\/li>\n<li>faith and prayer rooms<\/li>\n<li>a student justice centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\/events\/2011-elections\" target=\"_blank\">BUSU &#8211; information on 2011 elections<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brockbusu\" target=\"_blank\">BUSU on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University Students\u2019 Union is holding a referendum this week to spend $2 million on new capital projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions\/9106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}