Let the games begin
In The Running
Tom Langrish
President
YUSU staple Langrish has a long history of Union roles and is a walking consitution factfile. Hoping to lead a strong Alcuin cabinet.
Election chances: ****
Tim Ngwena
Student Activities
Chair of Fusion and Bad Taste maestro Ngwena is well-versed in campus societies and hopes to extend his diverse endeavours to YUSU.
Election chances: ****
Rhianna Kinchin
Student Activities
Springboarding in from the position of Training Officer, Kinchin – a familiar face at YUSU events – hopes for a bigger piece of the YUSU pie.
Election chances: ***
Charlie Leyland
Academic Officer
With a blemish-free term so far, current Academic and Welfare Officer Leyland is hoping to run for another year to focus more on academic issues.
Election chances: *****
Matthew Pallas
Welfare Officer
Former LGBT Officer Pallas lost the AcWelf election last year. After a break from YUSU, can he draw on campus support to secure the position?
Election chances: **
Ben Humphrys
Welfare Officer
With a strong background in Welfare, the industrious LGBT officer should have a strong support base for his campaign.
Election chances: ***
Lewis Bretts
Democracy and Services
Relatively unknown to campus, hardworking Bretts is hoping to burst onto the YUSU scene. Could that be an advantage for this fresh face ?
Election chances: ***
Ed Durkin
Democracy and Services
The man who brought you The Saturdays at Fresh now hopes to bring democracy to campus, one student at a time.
Election chances: ****
On The Rumour Mill
Rory Shanks
President, Student Activities, Welfare
The current societies Lieutenant is mulling a second term. But in which role? Expect a late decision.
Chances of running: *****
Michael Batula
Student Activities
Our Policy and Campaigns Officer and campus hottie could become a more prominent face in YUSU. Here’s hoping.
Chances of running: **
Dave Sharp
Democracy and Services
Having sucessfully extended his own college venue, could the former Halifax chair follow in Burton’s bar-building footsteps?
Chances of running: *
Dan Taylor
President
The campus ‘celebrity,’ political fireball and York Come Dancing contestant is rumoured to have YUSU aspirations – again. What would Haleh say?
Chances of running: ***
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You mis-spelt Sharpy’s surname… no ‘e’.
Just to say, Ella Grace Kirton is also running for Student Activities, after being involved in a range of societies including Student Action
Are any of these confirmed?
I’m a bit wary of the fact that Student Activities seems to be a lot more focused towards societies than towards the volunteering/charities side of things, which to me brings question marks as to the future running of the Student Action Kids Camp.
I feel it was a mistake to dispense with the SDC position…
Anonymous Massive! demands to know who the above poster is! Anonymity is unacceptable!
It wasn’t me, although i totally echo the opinions expressed.
Kids Camp is the best thing i have ever done at this university and to see it go would be criminal.
Either way, best of luck to everyone running! YUSU’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it!
I’m a bit ignorant towards the whole SA/RAG part of things, but do things like Kids Camp actually need a full-time sabb to do it?
Chris.
In terms of Camp, it does not NEED a full time sab to do it. But it does need someone who is fully trained in child protection, trained to train others in child protection, and to have all the various other certificates and training that Jamie, and before him Joey, have had.
Also it’s a lot of organising and planning, and I know that it takes up a lot of time for the SDC in the weeks leading up to Camp.
So it’s basically a question of who can/could run it. The Student Activities officer could run it in theory, but then they have all the other roles the Societies and Communications officer had, so it would take up a lot of time. The only other option would be for YUSU to pay for a volunteer to take up all the training and run camp as a volunteer I’d imagine. (And there’d be no shortage of volunteers I’m sure…)
I fully agree with Oliver Lester that Camp is the best thing you can do at Uni. So if it does have to go, I’m glad I got to do it…
Quite simply; yes.
Kids Camp occurs twice in the summer and once during Easter. It involves about 20 volunteers and 20 children, going away for a week at a time. Having seen just a fraction of the work Jamie Tyler and Joey Ellis (SDC Officer 2007) put in, i can confidently say that it does warrant a full-time sabb.
Chris, applications for the next Kids Camp are open – you should get involved! I would hate to think what it must be like to graduate from York and be ignorant of some of the amazing things both RAG and Student Action do.
I think you’ve missed someone off of your list…
Be careful on announcing candidates, nominations are not out yet and this may be construed as campaigning before people are officially allowed to.
This piece is speculatory.
Also I am concerned for camp too, what an amazing project, but am told that planning is ongoing to sort out he future of it
Given the way the article is laid out, it would seem Nouse believe some of the rumoured candidates are definitely in the running…
As I’ve done before and will do again – I’m declaring myself out of the elections.
When is Kids’ Camp again?
Defs agree with “Concerned” on nominations. Until those forms are in we cant be certain whose running and more importantly for what! Tom looks un-contested at the moment but we saw what Tom Scott did last year !
As for the positions in general, it’s a new setup so we cant be sure how things are going to work therefore as students we need to vote for someone whose going to be dynamic and able to take on challenges that lie ahead!