A sad case of student apathy
Tom Scott is ‘that pirate guy,’ and Matt Burton “something to do with Langwith bar,” according to students sitting in the Courtyard, not knowing that the £1.80 they paid for that coffee is going to help provide them with free condoms, legal advice, employment protection, and, of course, a campus media to tell them such things. All from their Union.
Within the last year, we’ve had a bar, and we love it. But we’ve also had investigations into medical facilities, lobbies for a GUM clinic on campus, pressure to improve sports facilities, a right-to-feeback campaign launched. The list could go on, but how much the average student would be aware of would most likely dwindle as the list grows. And this is YUSU; working to provide us with what we need, and frankly if we as students don’t know who these people are, helping to hold the university to account and ensure students recieve what help and support they need, then we have no one to blame but ourselves.
We have a pirate for a President, a walking advert for the Union and most of us are aware of him. But what about the other five members of the YUSU elect? And all the staff behind them to ensure that we have our fully functioning bar, our campus events that run seemlessly? Just because they don’t wear a prosthetic parrot as they walk through Vanbrugh is no excuse not to know who they are and what they do. If we buy a newspaper in Your:Shop, join a campus society, take part in a volunteer project; it’s thanks to those YUSU people who work to make our university experience the best that they can. Maybe we owe it to them to be a little more savvy about campus politics after all.
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