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Explanation of BrockTV downtime.
Makes you think about BUSU, Inc.
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For sale: BrockTV Macs. Sources say they are switching to PC. If that’s true, that is the most ridiculous shit I have ever heard in my entire life. I’ll give you an example. I was talking to my friend in the video industry and I asked him what kind of computer he uses. He said, “Mac, of course.” Of course. As in, why would you ask such a stupid question? It’s true, it was a stupid question. Everyone knows this. Yet BrockTV is switching to PC? Why?! What sage brought this advice down to BrockTV and said: the industry is not prevalently Mac. Jeez. What prosumer-market crap has BUSU Inc’s BrockTV been buying, now?
Source: Facebook Marketplace
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BrockTV.ca downtime: 4 DAYS.
No one is on staff who is equipped to solve this because the full-time position of I/T Manager was eliminated. The position of I/T Manager is something I pressured BUSU Inc. to create after witnessing the responsibility placed on the Web developer position, two years ago. The on-going project depends on a web presence and yet no one on staff knows how to operate or run a website. That’s serious mismanagement, right there. It’s like having a train without an engineer — it all comes to a halt.
Update: 1 hour after posting this, BrockTV came back online.
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Anonymous asked: Hey, you are doing great things. NO ONE ever stands up to BUSU. In fact you should probably stand up more to them. A lot of them go on power trips and are there for the wrong reasons. Continue doing your great work it's being noticed. Thank you!
Thanks. You should probably stand up more often.
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Five Dispatches From The Pepsi Campus
1. BrockTV didn’t want to talk about it.
In summer 2010 I was a writer/researcher for BrockTV. A member of OPIRG approached me and asked about doing a news story about “the Pepsi contract.” She felt that the students had a right to know a new “ten year” contract was being put into place. I brought forward this story idea to the executive producers who turned it down for the reason that the story would not be easy to categorize on the website. This was the first I had heard about “The Pepsi Contract”, and it has been a theme underlying my observations of BUSU Inc. ever since.
2. BUSU Inc General Manager insisted on seeing the Pepsi Contract
In summer 2011 the BUSU Inc minutes (June 17, 2011) include the following text:
General Manager N.K: I wasn’t able to send this contract by email as it is very confidential, the University wouldn’t even release it to us last year. This is the Master Agreement between Brock University and Pepsi that covers the entire campus. We have to be in agreement with the University. In the past, we have signed the contract without seeing it, but this year I told them we would not sign the without seeing the contract.
Four days later, N.K. was fired and BUSU went through a restructuring.
3. BUSU representative claims BUSU did see the Pepsi contract
At the BUSU special general meeting on March 22, 2012, this author raised questions about the Pepsi contract. I referenced the statements in the June 17 minutes and asked, “did BUSU Inc. see the Pepsi contract?” I was told by L.S. that BUSU did see the contract.
4. BUSU Inc acts as corporate promotional vessel to Pepsico
This semester BUSU Inc has provided platform for Pepsi to market to the student body through the Pepsi Campus Contest. The grand prize winners were announced this week on BUSU.net.
The final three winners for the Pepsi Campus Contest have been announced! Over the past 8 weeks, Brock university Dining Services, Brock University Students’ Union, Travel Cuts and Pepsi teamed up to give away over $1600 in prizes, including Brock SWAG, an e-reader, Sabres tickets, an iPod touch and multiple gift cards. And we’ve saved the best for last. The final three lucky winners will each receive a $1000 Travel Cuts Gift Card, and we have a video showing the selection of the winners!
5. Is this even constitutional?
When reviewing the BUSU Inc constitution (PDF), it makes very little reference to serving as a corporate partner for multinational conglomerates. Facilitating the university on a food and drink contract is one thing, but providing this depth of promotion is simply, in this authors opinion, beyond the appropriate mandate of the students union.
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Grand prize winners of the corporate campus contest are announced through busu.net. The real winner is here is Pepsi and its corporate affiliates. Campus is now Pepsi Campus. Is this BUSU Inc. acting as the students’ union or merely a vessel for corporate promotion? What is the content of the Pepsi contract held between Brock University and BUSU Inc.?
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