New CUSU President-elect Rahul Mansigani and his defeated opponent Beccy Talmy at a debate last week.
Rahul Mansigani has been elected as CUSU President – with fewer votes than were cast in last week's Fit College!
The former Robinson JCR President beat his opponent Beccy Talmy by 300 votes in a contest which only attracted two candidates.
Of the 2738 votes cast in the Presidential contest almost 10 per cent were protest votes in the 'Re-open nominations' box.
Elsewhere in the contest for the post of Women's Officer, Sarah Peters-Harrison beat Anna Goulding by just 9 votes and Maria Helming thumped Luke Hawksbee by more than 500 votes to become Education Officer.
The other three full-time CUSU posts, those of Coordinator, Student Support Officer and Access Officer, were uncontested.
Newly elected Education Officer Maria Helming and Luke Hawksbee
Click here for the election results in full.
No one gives a shit about CUSU. They literally have no impact on anyone
maybe they would if the electorate chose the candidates who promised to actually do something worth paying attention to. instead, the same people who complain about cusu being pointless and ineffectual have rejected the campaigner who was pushing for concrete achievements and opted for the candidate who has promised to have cusu follow you around like a sad puppy asking to be liked, but without giving you any reason to do so.
ha that's funny! fit college is way more exciting.
It's definitely the t-shirts that did it for Maria…shows that she was serious.
No wonder nobody cares about CUSU- look at the choice: a boring ineffectual say-nothing, do-nothing bunch of New Labour wanna-bees or a bunch of raging communists, with ridiculous ethical affairs proposals and the ludicrous idea of electing editors for TCS. I'd rather CUSU did nothing than let the reds in.
I'd rather CUSU let Ron run the shop for a year, he'd cost less and do no less than the usual bunch of bureaucratic buffoons.
Vote RON.
So you're saying that a group of committed, passionate campaigners who would have put pressure on the University to make real changes like increasing sustainability and investing ethically; making the admissions process fairer; enshrining the right to study free from harassment; holding colleges to account for inequality; keeping rents affordable and fair; as well as connecting students up to a national movement against fees and cuts; is a worse prospect just because the foundation of their policies was a strong ideological position?
Maybe next year students should actually pay attention to what the people who want to work for them for a year have to say, rather than pigeonholing them within two seconds of glancing at their manifestoes.
And I'm sure the people who have got in will work hard for the policies they stood for, as well as taking on board a lot of the good sense they heard over the course of the week from their opponents.
So you're saying that a group of committed, passionate campaigners who would have put pressure on the University to make real changes like increasing sustainability and investing ethically; making the admissions process fairer; enshrining the right to study free from harassment; holding colleges to account for inequality; keeping rents affordable and fair; as well as connecting students up to a national movement against fees and cuts; is a worse prospect just because the foundation of their policies was a strong ideological position?
Maybe next year students should actually pay attention to what the people who want to work for them for a year have to say, rather than pigeonholing them within two seconds of glancing at their manifestoes.
And I'm sure the people who have got in will work hard for the policies they stood for, as well as taking on board a lot of the good sense they heard over the course of the week from their opponents.
Pipe down.
"keeping rents affordable"
The only thing that anyone gives a shit about from that list.
Oh I know. It's like, I don't *really* want to pay 10k/year for university, live in a country where education is an exclusive playground for undeserving twats who did nothing but be born rich, have my faculty downsized and be taught poorly, and let pervs get away with harrassing other staff and students, but I just CAN'T BE ARSED to do anything about it, and anyone who can must be some sort of moron. Just give me a cheap room; I'll stay home and have a wank while others try and get stuff done. When people try and discuss important shit, I won't engage, or even have the decency to leave it alone, I'll shout "PIPE DOWN" at them – putting people down for the crime of caring is a great way to prove to myself how awesome I am. Because I need to do that. Constantly.
I'm so sick of people like you. I'd sooner take a raging right-winger with actual principles and the will to act on them, than the sort of **** who takes pride in their apathy and arrogantly sneers at the people who spend their time trying to make things better for everyone.
Why wasn't there a 'Fit President' vote?
Yes.
Surely, ethical investing is like so very many things in life–beauty in the eye of the beholder?
That's what millions thought sending cash to Ethiopia 25 years ago, now we learn much was stolen by corrupt leaders, meanwhile the population has risen from 32 million to 80 million! No wonder there is poverty.
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