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Who will you vote for? As you have hopefully realised by now, there are elections this coming Thursday (18th Oct) for the position of Vice-President (Services & Communication). The post is well contested this year with 3 candidates running for the part-time position. Every year each candidate will ask you to vote for them and the Student Association will make you aware of the elections. And every time they will all tell you how much the outcome will affect each and every one of you! I am also sure that each year you will be able to find a large amount of students who will tell you that this is not the case (you might even be one of these students). In all fairness I will admit that even though I have been involved with the Association over the past 3 or 4 years, it took me until last year to realise how many of the decisions made by the Executive team and the Members of Council actually affect me. To realise how widely the Student Association can represent us! I have also come to appreciate how much they value the opinions, suggestions and general input of the student body. As much as I know that there will be a large number of students who have already made up their mind about who to vote for (and yes, I am one of them), I do believe that there are also some of you who want to know more about the candidates themselves as well as their ideas before making your decision. Now is the time to read the manifestos as well as fire lots of questions (and suggestions) at the various candidates because in the end it is all of us who decide which one of them gets a shot at the job! Having read all the manifestos myself, I believe that every candidate in this election is different – One has been involved in the Association for a fair amount of time and knows about the problems and current issues. Another will be new to the union and will probably have a different and fresh approach to things. The third wants you to come up with ideas (as long as you’re being reasonable) and tell him what he should do in his year of office. One has ideas that aren’t really possible and people who are involved with the union know this. The other wants to work on liasing with the university to get us moving forward. The third came up with a fair amount of things that are already in place. Whichever one of them will be elected for the position of VP (S&C) will have to put a lot of positive input into the Association. On the other hand he will also get a chance to prove to us students that he was the right choice for the job. So as much as I know who I am voting for this Thursday I’d still be very interested to know what you think of the candidates and how much you agree / disagree with their ideas. Let me know what you think – either as a reply to this post or as a comment on my myUNION page. Who will you vote for?

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