YUSU Elections – Candidates Revealed
There are seven candidates running for the YUSU Presidency this year, with a raft of other nominees in one of the most contested elections in recent years.
The Returning Officer has confirmed the provisional nominees list for 2012′s YUSU elections. This year’s elections look set to be one of the most highly contested in years, with seven candidates for the Union Presidency, whilst only three positions are set to be uncontested.
Incumbents Graeme Osborn and Bob Hughes face competition to hold onto their Sabbatical roles from Eppie Leishman for Academic Officer, and Hannah Wigley and Lewis Haines for Welfare Officer respectively.
Voting opens at midday on Wednesday Week 7 and closes at midday on Thursday Week 8.
YUSU Elections 2012 Nominees:
YUSU President
Abir Ahmmed
James Carney
Kallum Taylor
Thomas Stuart Taylor
Peter Warner-Medley
Nacho Hernando
Zahra Latif
Academic Officer
Eppie Leishman
Graeme Osborn
Student Activities Officer
Helen Marrison
Chris West
Hannah Brearley
Welfare Officer
Bob Hughes
Hannah Wigley
Lewis Haines
York Sport President
Charlotte Winter
Dong-Oh Shin
Campaigns Officer(s)
Megan Cross & Ben Dilks
Peter Hollingsworth
Disabled Students’ Officer(s)
Emma Hersey
Madelaine Kirkman
Ents Officer(s)
Chris Edwards & Sanchita Chawla
E&E Officer(s)
Emma Hughes
Isobel Edwards
International Officer(s)
Mike Anstey & Ankita Chawla
Egle Vasiliauskaite
Ian Lau
Maciej Rys
LGBT Officer(s)
Leon Morris
Mature Students’ Officer(s)
Minal Niriksha Supri
Racial Equality Officer(s)
Vishnuu Nithiyananthan
Itai Choto & Rohan Banerjee
Rebekah Phiri
Asiya Elgady
RAG Officer(s)
Becky Mursell & Erin Cork
Volunteering Officer(s)
Alissa O’Malley
Guan Li
Louisa Moorhouse
Amy Jepson
Yu Gao
Women’s Officer(s)
Lauren Bray & Zoe Wilkinson
Emma Hawkens
Union Chair
Josh Allen
Mark Taylor
Nick Hall
Student Trustee
James Burch
Harry Clementson
Jason Rose
Mark Taylor
Megan O’Kane
Senate Rep
James Burch
Harry Toynton
Hussein Kesvani
Itai Michael Choto
Jason Rose
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Wow – Carney, Abir and T.S. Taylor, the 3 Joketeers. T. S. Taylor’s manifesto point on Nightline makes me sick. One thing is a joke, another thing is mocking an amazing service that students do for free out of their own time.
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Is anyone else confused as to why Jason Rose is still allowed to run in these elections?
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@Lame – agree with taylor, but i’m not so sure carney is a joke candidate
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A moonbase! How I have longed for such visionary representation!
What does it say about our confidence as a university not to have a moonbase?
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IIII-EE-IIIIIIII will always love Nightliiiiiiiiine. Any funny manifesto based jokes about it will always be too soon in my eyes.
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Moon base?
Seems legit.
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TST is not mocking nightline, he wants it to be a 24 hour service.
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The Rose is still a student
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There is a big difference between being a joke candidate and including jokes in a manifesto. T.S. Taylor seems to be having fun while putting forward some important, attainable and ultimately logical points.
Do you really want a humourless YUSU prez? I don’t.
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I have no idea what any of you are talking about.
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LOUD NOISES
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@to be honest
Once upon time, in a land far far away, a bored student looked out of his/her window and thought “why not protest for absolutely no reason, about nothing?”. That moment, YUSU was born. To this day, no-one has any idea what YUSU is meant for, so we just keep it here to make us look a little more organised.
As you can see, we failed miserably. And now we just have a big embarrassment instead.
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Fascinating how people respond to pro-TST comments by clicking dislike rather than engaging with his actual policies. Guess it shows that people are conservative because they are unwilling to engage with progression and something different, not due to sheer intellectual cowardice, which…I guess is a good thing.
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You could always propose a Union motion to edit the constitution to say “all full Union members except Jason Rose” and then define “Jason Rose”. You’d probably have to get confirmation from Democracy Committee, YUSU President and the Trustee Board but there’s no logical legal reason for it to be blocked. And then it’s just getting 300 people to vote yes :P
In the meantime, I’m still allowed to run because I’m still a student of the university. Just in case there was any actual confusion as opposed to banter.
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@n what a load of tosh.
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STOP ALLOWING PEOPLE TO RUN FOR A POSITION AGAIN. GO AND GET A PROPER JOB. CAN’T AVOID REAL WORLD FOREVER!!!
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Warner-Medley has been here for years…he couldn’t even get elected welfare so what exactly makes him president material?
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You can’t spell Bob Hughes without hugs.
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