Voting opens in ISA Election
Voting opened today for the International Students’ Association Executive Committee Elections after hustings took place last night in Derwent JCR.
The elections sees sixteen applicants competing for eight positions, with only the position of Vice President being uncontested. The most contested position is Internal Activity Officers, with three pairs of students campaigning for the position.
Former YUSU Democracy & Services candidate George Papadofragakis, who is also one of the current ISA Welfare Officers, is running for President against Albert Chan, the Vanbrugh College International Officer.
Chan is pushing his manifesto, nicknamed ‘ABC’, in which he highlights his “Ambition, Accessibility, Balance”, and “Competence, Commitment, (and) Creativity”. Papadofragakis, wants to “secure a fully-paid sabbatical position” in order for the ISA to become part of YUSU.
Wan Shukri is the only candidate standing for Vice President, and is the current Vice President of the Malaysian society.
Peony Tsz Yi Wong and Joey Duy Le are the two candidates standing for Treasurer, and Marian Heng and Christiana Dimakoulea are standing against each other for the position of Secretary.
Patricia Sanjoto and Helen Zhao Wei, Satnislava Kunovska and Sema Gaith, and Dario Palumbo and Igne Pupelyte and the three pairs standing for the most contested position of Internal Activity officers.
The other positions being contested are Welfare Officer, Press and Publicity, and External Activities Officers, all with two campaigns taking place in each category.
All international students can vote at www.yusu.org/vote. Voting closes Monday, Week 9 at 3 pm with the results being announced at the ISA Summer Ball the same evening.
Loading ...
“Papadofrogakis, wants to secure a fully-paid sabbatical position in order for the ISA to become part of YUSU.”
To clarify, this is something that the ISA has been trying to do for the best part of the last two years. We now have the agreement of Jane Graneville (Pro Vice-Chancellor for students), but in order to finish off the job we’ll now need to re-write our constitution, put it through a referendum and become part of the Student Union.
This is by no means a personal initiative, it is something that the current ISA committee has worked very hard for – I hope that I will have the opportunity to finally close this chapter and start a new one for the ISA. Also, it’s spelled ‘Papadofragakis’ :p
*Jane Grenville
And it’s presumably not the decision of the ISA President but the committee as a whole; if the ISA President opposes it, it could still pass?
It’ll have to be passed by the ISA membership, and quite crucially, it’ll involve a successful YUSU constitution change…
“It’ll have to be passed by the ISA membership, and quite crucially, it’ll involve a successful YUSU constitution change.”
True, and this is why it is a major challenge.
“And it’s presumably not the decision of the ISA President but the committee as a whole”
So far, there hasn’t really been any controversy surrounding this – we all realise that not having a sabbatical officer is holding us back. There is simply too much work to be done by a group of volunteers.
I meant that if the committee completely support it, the opinions of the President on the matter aren’t really the deciding factor. It’s just a matter of putting it to the public vote, which the President can’t stop. Ergo focus should be on other policies, such as International student integration which are much more important
Indeed, that’s why I clarified that this is not a personal initiative.
Albert Chan is not Vanbrugh’s JCRC International Officer – he is Male Welfare Rep. Joey Duy Lee is the Vanbrugh International Rep, and he is running for ISA Treasurer.