Queen’s University students voted last month to rejoin the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), an organization they helped found in 1992.
“We’re very excited that Queen’s will be a full member of OUSA once again,” said Adam Spence, the Alliance’s Executive Director, in a press release.
Queen’s Alma Mater Society, the university’s undergraduate student government, held a general referendum on whether to rejoin OUSA on November 9 and 10.
“The AMS is delighted Queen’s undergraduate students have voted resoundingly to rejoin an organization they helped found 12 years ago,” the society’s president, Tyler Turnbull, was quoted as saying.
Queen’s was a co-founder of OUSA in 1992 along with student unions at Brock University, the University of Windsor, Wilfred Laurier University, and U of T. It parted ways with the Alliance in 1995, however, citing what one student paper at the time called “concerns about the level of communication” within the group.
Spence, contacted by phone, was unsure of the details of the 1995 split, but said that the two groups had buried the hatchet.
“If I remember correctly,” said Spence on Monday morning, “[the dispute concerned] questions about the operations of the organization at the time. Some students raised concerns and allegations about the organization that later turned out to be false.”
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