Dave Sharp
Former Halifax College Student Association President David Sharp has a strong bed of support in Halifax, with its 1,000 students. Sharp has been particularly involved in the redesign of JJs, the Halifax JCR. Whilst president of the HCSA, Sharp was particularly involved in events, especially as the college had to deal with losing a bar.
Before becoming president Sharp was the HCSA Bar Rep where he gained more services experience. Sharp has attended a number of Union Council meetings as well as Bar Strategy meetings, particularly at the closing of JJs. Sharp has also served as University Golf President.
MANIFESTO:
Sharp’s campaign is based largely around his principle of “service to the students”. Sharp believes that YUSU is currently run too much like a company and he hopes to bring the focus back to serving the students. Sharp has based his campaign around a number of policies which are directly aimed at students.
Sharp’s experience as President of Halifax has led him to propose a number of policies relating to campus bars. He proposes that colleges without bars such as Halifax and James have access to the Courtyard for events, specifically working with YUSU on currently running events such as CO2. Similarly Sharp also pledges to move the night of Quids Inn so that it is less detrimental to college events. He intends to move it to Sunday night, so that both colleges and YUSU benefit. By improving relationships with Commercial Services Sharp believes that the experience of all student bars could be improved, particularly with increased competition from town. Finally Sharp would like to take the concept of Access All Areas further by introducing a “campus night”, where all bars on campus are open and work together.
Other student services which Sharp hopes to introduce include a new YOUR:SHOP on the Heslington East campus and a Bi-termly book fair to replace the loss of YOUR:BOOKS. With regards to the new Heslington East campus, Sharp introduces a number of policies to deal directly with the transport of candidates. As well as increasing the frequency of the Magic Bus to ferry students between the two campuses, Sharp promises to lobby FTR for a £1 return between them.
Finally Sharp promises to improve the YUSU website to make it easier for students to vote and to increase student participation. He also intends to install satellite navigation in all YUSU vehicles so that societies and sports teams can arrive at destinations quicker and with less trouble. Finally Sharp intends to implement a paper subscription service from YOUR:SHOP, so that students can have papers delivered to their college receptions.
HUSTINGS:
The candidate’s manifesto in Wordle form
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