Quoting Al from 22:51, 10th Mar 2006
How can the electorate be sure that you'll take the duties of Association President any more seriously than you took your previous posts?
Quoting Harry Giles from 10:39, 11th Mar 2006
If elected, what commitment to environmental and ethical issues can the students expect from you? What do you consider the role of President in this regard to be, and how do you intend to best fulfil that role?
Quoting Dave the Explosive Newt from 01:31, 13th Mar 2006
Following on from the other thread, it's a great shame how under-advertised this election has been thus far and the high number of uncontested seats can only be deleterious to the quality of candiates being elected. Do you believe that the student population is, by and large, quite apathetic towards union politics and how would you go about solving this problem?
Your need to work on the dissertation may explain why you missed a meeting. It does not explain why you left a meeting early. Why did you?
Quoting shinyhappyperson from 23:12, 13th Mar 2006
a few questions i didnt get a chance to ask at the hecklings...
Firstly, as a supplementary to the question about your (lack of) participation in the Rent Rises protests of Feb. 2004.
You seemed to think that it was acceptable to not have participated because you didn't currently hold office at the time. Surely the petition would not have been at all successful if only elected officials signed it... the fact that over 2100 students signed it shows so. Secondly I can think of one individual who did not hold any elected position at the time, yet she managed to collect 700 signatures, plus lobbying a member of court in Edinburgh and steward the rally too. Doesn't this put you to shame?
Secondly...i was interested to hear you make reference to the Charities Campaign and in particular their stellar efforts of fundraising at Rag Weeek. However did you have any affiliation with RW06, any previous Rag Weeks, infact does RAG Week even fall under the remit of the President or is it not more accurate that it is the responsibility of the DoES and DoSDA. Infact why even mention it at all?
It's not as if anyone would be shameless enough to try to take the hard work of the Rag Week committee and volunteers and try to use it for your own political agenda...surely?
Quoting Spike from 23:03, 13th Mar 2006
In the hecklings this evening you mentioned using money invested to be used to pay for the STAR radio. What, in your opinion, is the benefit of running STAR radio for a year compared to that of running it for the two weeks it runs for? Also how would you ensure that the 2000+ hits a day would be kept up?
In another point you also mentioned the fact that RAG week raised over £10K for charity in a week and suggested that this could be done again for the students. As far as i am aware the majority of the work done for that week was done by the events crew of the union and that some spent almost every waking hour in the union ensuring that the events were efficiently and professionally run, so my question is how would you manage to get a similar week for fundraising to run without majorly overworking the ents crew?
Quoting shinyhappyperson from 23:34, 13th Mar 2006
If STAR were to go continuous, would it be the only SSC sub-committee to receive such funding (the same amount as almost the entire affiliated socieities budget) or would similar monies be made available to the other SSC sub-committees such as Charities, Mermaids, Debates, the Music Fund & the soon to be affiliated SVS?
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