Did you hear that?

Guild election candidates answer questions.

At 1pm today there was another candidate hustings. This was a chance for students to hear candidate’s policies and to ask them any questions. The Sports candidates were asked about initiations, Welfare candidates asked about safety provisions for students such as the nightbus and the Community candidate was asked about student profiles within selly oak and the local community and what could be done to improve the student image.

It must be a nerve racking experience for the candidates with plenty of people looking to get their questions answered before they decide which candidates to vote for. For those of you that have not voted yet the hustings would have been a good opportunity to sound out the candidates on their polices. However their manifestos are available to view here.

Any candidates that you may have questions to would love to have them submitted via their websites, facebook or in person if you catch them on campus – it is important to find out what their plans are for the Guild so that you can make an informed choice.

The hustings have been being filmed by GTV so im sure a copy will be made available soon for people to watch, that way you can check on all the questions asked and the answers given – also all candidate interviews are here.

 

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Have you cast yours?

Have you voted?

So being the ‘keeno’ i am, i voted this morning, voting has now been open approaching 12 hours and the candidates are out in full force – i was accosted several times on campus today. You must be lucky if you have been on campus and been able to avoid noticing anything about the elections.

But what is it all about, – well we are voting to elect the team of students who will run our Guild for the next year, this includes sabbatical and non-sabbatical officers. The seven sabbatical positions are President, VP Democracy and Resources, VP Education and Access,  VP Housing and Community, VP Welfare VP Student activities and development and VP Sport.

The people in these positions are responsible for helping to fulfill and implement policy decided on at Guild council, represent students to the University, fight and lobby on our behalf and make sure that the Guild is supporting all students. So it is imperative that all students take this opportunity to express their opinion about how we are run and how will be represented for the coming year.

The electronic voting system also includes an option to ‘spoil’ the ballot meaning that you can express your dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates and their policies if you feel that the candidates are not suitable. – This is a means to stay engaged with the system without feeling like you have to make a choice that you don’t believe in.

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