By Jessica Wind (The Cascade) – Email
Print Edition: April 10, 2013
AfterMath will be sporting fresh faces this fall.
With the pub’s summer closure just around the corner, Brad Ross submitted his resignation from the position of AfterMath manager.
Ross came to UFV in the summer of 2011 as part of a SUS attempt to bring the campus lounge back from its license-violating past.
With Ross at the helm, the pub has provided a hangout for hungry students, a venue for multiple student clubs and associations events and as a participating location in Thursday night pub crawls to Finnegan’s.
But Ross says the time has come for him to move on.
A little over a week ago, he accepted a position with a subsidiary company of Sodexo that deals with major fast food chains.
“It’s something that I was offered a few years back, turned down and it became available again,” Ross explained of the timing of his new position. “This place was closing for the summer … so it was perfect timing to accept the position finally and move on.”
AfterMath will be moving into the Student Union Building as a full-fledged restaurant once the project is complete, something that Brad was theoretically brought in to see through.
“When I came originally, it was to get that new building up and running; that never really came through in the time I was here,” he explained of the dirt lot between the Envision Athletic Centre and D building. “That’s still going to be too far down the road for me to stay here in a small role; so when the offer came through from this company, it was an easy one to take.”
In Ross’ wake, SUS is taking the summer to look at the service provided by the campus lounge and consider possible avenues for improvement.
“We do want to make sure AfterMath continues to be a place for students to go to,” SUS president Shane Potter explained. “We’re going to be hiring outside consultants to make sure that we have good direction and good advice on how to make AfterMath a long-term option for students on campus.”
SUS general manager Meghan MacDonald expressed interest in moving toward a more by-the-students, for-the-students method, meaning that more positions could be filled by students in the future, including that of manager.
The summer closure will allow the new SUS board to look at the internal structure of the campus pub and potentially restructure.
“It’s an opportunity to completely reevaluate the service to see if there are ways to improve it,” MacDonald explained. “That includes its management structure and the opportunities it’s providing internally as a service, including students positions.”
Any positions will be posted publicly in time to hire a new face for the fall semester.
