UPDATE: Halifax is expect effects from Hurricane Earl on Sept. 4th. A hurricane contingency plan for that day will be posted by Thursday, Sept. 2.

For a weeklong period, from September 4th to September 11th, the King's Students' Union and the University of King's College welcomes 400 new first year students and orients them to a new city, a new lifestyle, and a new school! Through events, from wild neon dance parties to hip hop shows, from frank talks about sex to giving back to the Halifax community at large, King's Frosh Week 2010 guarantees that it will follow in a rich tradition of being a week to remember.

For more information, go to the sidebar and select "Orientation Week at King's" to find a move-in day schedule, a weeklong schedule, and more! For further questions, email frosh week coordinators Adrian Lee, Liz Johnston and Griffin McInnes at kingsfroshweek@ksu.ca!

If you have secondary health coverage above and beyond the provincial standard health insurance, you don't need the King's Students' Union's health and dental plans! Save yourself that $100 or so by following these step-by-step instructions before the NO-EXCEPTION OPT-OUT DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBER 24th, 2010.

 

1. Log in to your Dal Online account at
https://dalonline.dal.ca/PROD/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin .
2. Select 'Web for Students'.
3. Select 'Opt In/Opt Out' from the list of options. It should be near the bottom.
4. Choose the Fall Term.

5. Enter required information. In order to Opt Out you must have alternative secondary health coverage.
6. Once you submit your information, your Opt Out becomes sent and pending review. This can take up to 48 hours depending on traffic.
7. You will receive one of three status confirmations:

a) Accepted means you are officially opted out!
b) Declined means your Opt-Out has been declined, most likely because
you did not provide valid alternative coverage;

c) You may receive a second Pending notification, which will ask for
additional information to confirm your alternative coverage.
8.If at any point you have any questions whatsoever, please email John Adams, our
Internal Coordinator at ic@ksu.ca.

For a weeklong period, from September 4th to September 11th, the King's Students' Union and the University of King's College welcomes 400 new first year students and orients them to a new city, a new lifestyle, and a new school! Through events, from wild neon dance parties to hip hop shows, from frank talks about sex to giving back to the Halifax community at large, King's Frosh Week 2010 guarantees that it will follow in a rich tradition of being a week to remember.

For more information, go to the sidebar and select "Orientation Week at King's", and for further questions, email frosh week coordinators Adrian Lee, Liz Johnston and Griffin McInnes at kingsfroshweek@ksu.ca!

If you have secondary health coverage above and beyond the provincial standard health insurance, you don't need the King's Students' Union's health and dental plans! Save yourself that $100 or so by following these step-by-step instructions before the NO-EXCEPTION OPT-OUT DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBER 24th, 2010.

 

1. Log in to your Dal Online account at
https://dalonline.dal.ca/PROD/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin .
2. Select 'Web for Students'.
3. Select 'Opt In/Opt Out' from the list of options. It should be near the bottom.
4. Choose the Fall Term.

5. Enter required information. In order to Opt Out you must have alternative secondary health coverage.
6. Once you submit your information, your Opt Out becomes sent and pending review. This can take up to 48 hours depending on traffic.
7. You will receive one of three status confirmations:

a) Accepted means you are officially opted out!
b) Declined means your Opt-Out has been declined, most likely because
you did not provide valid alternative coverage;

c) You may receive a second Pending notification, which will ask for
additional information to confirm your alternative coverage.
8.If at any point you have any questions whatsoever, please email John Adams, our
Internal Coordinator at ic@ksu.ca.

 

The King's community would like to extend its warmest welcome to our new President of Alexandra Hall Amanda Leslie and new Chair of Bays Noah White. Congratulations to the both of you!

Here are the full results:

Chair of Bays -

Sebastian Ennis: 17

Noah White: 27

DJ Rossi: 22

President of Alexandra Hall -

Amanda Leslie: 46

Kayla Fells: 29 

Check out the attached results.

Your executive for next year will be:

Kiki Wood -- President
Gabe Hoogers -- Vice President (Student Life)
Nicholas Gall -- Vice President (Financial)
Daniel Brown -- Vice President (External)
David Lewis -- Vice President (Communications)

Your Board of Governors Representatives will be:
David Etherington
Liz Johnsten

Thanls to all candidates!

KSU partner, The Ecology Action Centre is currently offering Internships to anyone interested in working as a research assistant on a project measuring the environmental impact of
importing goods and food to Nova Scotia. The position would require a time commitment of about 2 hrs./week, no experience is necessary and all students - particularly those in sustainability or environmental sciences - are encouraged to apply. Please submit a brief cover letter to externalvp@ksu.ca or drop it off directly at the KSU office. For more information contact the Ecology Action Centre (http://www.ecologyaction.ca).

Hi there, King's folk;

As of midnight last night, nominations were opened for the KSU's executive election. Positions available are: President, Vice-President (Student Life), Vice-President (Financial), Vice-President (External), and Vice-President (Communications). Stop by the KSU office to pick up a nomination form if you're interested in any of the positions> Forms are due February 9th at Midnight.

Love,

Gabe

The results are in and your new Grad Class Committee is Jackie Blenkarn, Emma Cuddy, Aesclinm Donahue. Congrats ladies! Suck it, RON.