Scott Money
News Reporter

Director of Orangeville Campus said he understands why students from his campus can’t run for Humber Student Federation executive positions.
“It’s unfair that there is a provision in the constitution that prevents students from considering a position,” said Joe Andrews.
“However, because our campus is so young, there are only a handful of students that would want to represent the whole student body.”
Due to a provision in the Humber constitution, any student from Orangeville Campus with hopes of one day becoming HSF president is not eligible to do so.
This is made clear in the HSF candidate packages.
The package requires all candidates to be enrolled at either the North or Lakeshore Campuses.
Vice-president of administration at North Campus, Melissa Mendes, said that the HSF considered changing this condition in the constitution during this year’s review.
“We considered revising that part of the constitution, but we decided that it really isn’t necessary yet,” she said.
“It would be amazing to even have a VP up there, but because their campus is still growing it’s just not needed.”
Mendes said that even if the constitution were to change, anyone trying to attend class at Orangeville and be committed to the responsibilities of being HSF president would run into trouble.
“When you consider the commute, the demanding programs at Orangeville and then 30 hours in the office, that’s almost impossible,” said Mendes.
A member of the Orangeville Student Association (OSA), Nathan Stevenson, said, “I personally wouldn’t be interested in running, but I’m sure others would want to step up and take the initiative to do that,” he said.
The OSA meets every few weeks to plan student events and consists of eight to 10 students representing each class.
Andrews said that some people from the campus of about 250 students have considered it and that next year there could be a student from their campus trying to change the status quo.
“A student may consider it next year, but it will probably take a very unique individual,” said Andrews.