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The CSU is holding another Special General Meeting at 2 p.m. on Monday, March 26, in the Hall Building terrace.

This meeting was called to order by petition of students to discuss the minimum agreement.

The minimum agreement includes the Solidarity clause, the Non-Recommendation clause and the Non-Denunciation clause.

These clauses will be thoroughly discussed and voted on at the General Meeting.

The renewal of the strike vote is also on the table.

The renewal period would extend from March 23^rd up until March 30^th.

The resolutions state that the CSU financially support faculties and departments that vote in favor of the strike.

Many departments have set dates for another General Assembly to vote for or against the renewal of their strike mandate.

The next Special General Meeting is scheduled for Friday, March 30th.

A Better Concordia swept this year's Concordia Student Union elections.

All of its candidates were voted into office even though students could have voted for candidates from both teams. 

But it was close.

Schubert Laforest won with just 28 more votes than Mel Hotchkiss for president.

This result is subject to a recount.

It was not a smooth road to office for Laforest and A Better Concordia.

He and VP Academic and Advocacy elect Lucia Gallardo were disqualified early in the campaign for allegedly not being registered students. They were eventually re-instated by the Judicial Board, but with just one full day left to campaign.

Students also voted to give Concordia’s health food market Le Frigo Vert an extra $0.08 per credit.

Official results will be posted online as soon as they are received from CEO Ismail Holoubi. 

-The Unsettlers

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, there are two really big shows at Cafe Campus. Tonight, Keller Williams brings his amazing guitar skills and humour to the stage at Petit Campus, blending bluegrass, folk and reggae into writing songs about being a contestant on The Price is Right and a certain combustible in his pocket; a good time should be had by all.

While he will be performing solo Friday night, he often collaborates with String Cheese Incident under the moniker Keller Williams Incident and was also part of the Rhythm Devils with Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann.

This Saturday, March 24th, one of Montreal’s hardest working bands, The Unsettlers, will be back on stage  at Petit Cafe Campus. Starting up in 2007, the band has plaed over 200 shows including POP Montreal and Osheaga. This is the band’s first chance to woo the hometown fans since a long remembered show at Theatre Rialto last November. The audience was treated to an evening of circus mayhem provided by the Blue Mushroom Sirkus Psyshow, the powerful gospel tunes of Li'l Andy and the vintage sounds of Montreal's Johnny Griffin.

Led by vocalist B.W. Brandes and featuring contortionist Andreanne LeClerc, they filled the hall with sounds and sights not often witnessed outside of a 1930‘s carnival. With the show going way into the early morning, the band had plenty of time to showcase their latest double CD, Oil And Blood. Blending many forms of music from polkas to spoken word, The Unsettlers have a distinct sound resembling gypsy zydeco. The accordion playing of Santosh Lalonde and the trombone playing of Eli Richards propel the listeners to a simpler time of late nights around the snake charmers tent learning the subtleties of Three-card Monte while a cool spring breeze blows a discarded flyer advertising a traveling circus.

Sheesham and Lotus will be starting off the evening with their own take on old time music. From the pre-jazz sounds of Memphis jug bands to the Appalachian Mountains and blue strains from the Mississippi flatlands.

-Clifton Hanger hosts Brave New Jams every Tuesday from 9-10pm

Read by Shaun Malley

Produced by Erica Bridgeman

Stories written by Sarah Deshaies, Tara  Brockwell, Judy-Ann Mitchell Turgeon and Danny Aubry