Union Board Elections 2006 (7 Viewers)

[Phanatical]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I mean no offense to melbournian, but College funding should not be the priority of the Union. Compared to most students, college students get a helluva lot of the Union, and it should be the priority of the Union Board to make it more accessible to students who don't live on the fucking campus.

 

[Phanatical]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

lansdowne FTW.

And fuck colleges, they're full of inbred retards.

There's at least one in this thread.

 

[ujuphleg]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

rofl.

Title got edited just 4 me.

what971 --> *feels special and important*

I didn't edit it for you, it was edited before hand. Sorry to burst your bubble

Did he tell you that Labor right heavyweight Sam Crosby is "just a friend" too? Tanner seems to be a good bloke, but he's not independent.

I only asked about Amit because he was on his nomination list.

6. Disocunts that work-off campus,r ather than just giving you q5% off the food you don't eat. Discounts off phone rates, 4c off petrol and 15% of liqourland - good idea, but practical?
7. More campus stores that you want to use such as Borders bookshop and a grocery store - Borders would never happen - they wouldn't want to come on campus, and where would they put such a big shop. Grocery store (assuming its a small IGA type) would be a good idea.

You have to give him kudos for trying to come up with something new though, even though I don't agree with his college policies.

She's been at all the Senate meetings so far... she comes back to Sydney surprisingly often.

Okay, I stand corrected. She should be more vocal about this all though, we haven't heard from her all year. And despite the fact that many students probably perfer it this way, she's still our rep, and representation is a two way thing. She can't be representing us if she doesn't know what we want.

I'd tell her this myself, but I don't have any contact details for her etc.

...should be the priority of the Union Board to make it more accessible to students who don't live on the fucking campus..... There's at least one in this thread (in reference to inbred retards)

Do you always have to be so crude and unrefined? If you don't have anything constructive to say get out of the thread.

I'd love to have a bakery on campus - how cool would that be? It'd have awesomely cheap food and stuff just about everyone could eat.

Now THAT is an idea I like. Bakery FTW!

 

[ujuphleg]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 ON TOMMOROW

Again, forgive me for being a noob, but who exactly is our rep, ujuphleg?

Its none other than Ms. Rose Jackson herself, current President of the National Union of Student and the University of Sydneys Undergraduate Representative to the Senate.

You've spelt 'tomorrow' wrong in the thread title. I just noticed it then.

Thanks I'll fix it up. I've been off the assessment fairies today.

 

[withoutaface]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

She's been at all the Senate meetings so far... she comes back to Sydney surprisingly often.

On our NUS contributions, no doubt.

 

[ujuphleg]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 ON TOMMOROW

That's OK, I understand perfectly well what that's like.

And I've heard plenty about *that* Rose Jackson, I just didn't realise she held that title among her many others.

Well, without really knowing her, I'd be inclined to say she's a CV accumulator, but who knows.

I was personally all for Jordan Walsh being Senate Rep (one of the editors of last years Honi) more because I don't believe that one person should have so much power.

But what is done is done and since she is our rep, I'd like to see more of her around, actually gauging what we want rather than just sitting in on meetings.

So who are you voting for tommorow?

On our NUS contributions, no doubt.

To assume is to make an ass of yourself.

 

[what971]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I didn't edit it for you, it was edited before hand. Sorry to burst your bubble

 

[what971]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

BTw..

Sux that its on tomorrow, I'll have to go to Uni now when I was thinking about skipping again.

Anyway, someone tell me where to vote? Anywhere near Carslaw and Merewether is fine.

 

[what971]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

Thanks. Who are you campaigning for?

 

[greeninsanity]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I'd tell her this myself, but I don't have any contact details for her etc.

You can email Rose Jackson at pres@nus.asn.au

 

[withoutaface]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

Susan: she'll be down at engo tomorrow trying to sabotage suttie's campaign, so go down and talk to her then.

 

[withoutaface]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

Thanks. Who are you campaigning for?

Malfoy's campaigning for Monica.

Everyone come say hi to me tomorrow, I'll be at the Fisher booth from open til close.

 

[sexy-cinderella]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

Grocery store (assuming its a small IGA type) would be a good idea.

even though there is one at broadway, which is only a small walk.

 

[melbournian]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I mean no offense to melbournian, but College funding should not be the priority of the Union. Compared to most students, college students get a helluva lot of the Union, and it should be the priority of the Union Board to make it more accessible to students who don't live on the fucking campus.

I don't think that college students get a hella lot of union (sports union yes). However, I agree with you mostly. I think the union should represent students interests, not college interests. Certainly there should be increased dialogue between intercol and the union, but I don't think funding should come from the union.

 

[Phanatical]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I'm glad to see you agree, because I strongly believe that the Union caters to one audience and one audience only - the politically active student community who lives, breathes and haunts the campus.

If I'm elected I will call an open forum for interested parties to present their views on the direction of the Union, and I would hope the Colleges are represented. The biggest problem facing the Union is the fact that they don't relate to students, and I'll do whatever I can to fix that.

 

[melbournian]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I'm glad to see you agree, because I strongly believe that the Union caters to one audience and one audience only - the politically active student community who lives, breathes and haunts the campus.

Now I disagree.

1. I don't think college students are politically active. The number who actually vote is low (definantly lower than the campus average, and probably lower).
2. Disagreeing with union funding for colleges etc. has nothing to do with where people live or how much people choose to use campus facilities. It is to do with the fact that it isn't governed by the university and doesn't allow universal membership. Also two of the colleges (Drews and Sancta), accept students from other universitites.

 

[ElGronko]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

yeah, but than again, you nare a fuckwit.

Take that cunbt.

and I have been asked to not use the "C Word" because appartantly it is sexest, but than again,m you are a total fucking cunt.

YTou are fucked. Like actually, I am not just saying this, I seriosuly think that you barfe fucked in the head.

Seriosuly, ok, this girl who is with me, but bare i mind that she is like really intelligent, like heaps mopre than me, so abre that shit in mind, she says that i have to articyulate "fuck'better,, but wioth better grammwer, so "fuck you and your stupid fucking policies and all that bullshit" That is from me, not her by the way, I am not exactly sure that i am prooving my point entirerly, but to be brutaky honest, you are seriously fucked.

Like, sweriosuly. I know I am fucked and all that, but to quote my intelligent friend Phoebe "like actually" like, you are fucked man, you are fucked,

Seriously, you are fucked.

Just plain fucked up.

 

[ElGronko]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

I refer to that moron qua, jnot melbournian.

But having said that, I think socialists are the joke of this world.

So yeah, basically, i hate both of you moron wings and shit. Stop being unrealistic.

 

[Phanatical]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

Now I disagree.

1. I don't think college students are politically active. The number who actually vote is low (definantly lower than the campus average, and probably lower).
2. Disagreeing with union funding for colleges etc. has nothing to do with where people live or how much people choose to use campus facilities. It is to do with the fact that it isn't governed by the university and doesn't allow universal membership. Also two of the colleges (Drews and Sancta), accept students from other universitites.

I wasn't referring to college students, actually. I was referring to the sorts of students who get their ABC presenter mummies to buy them apartments in Newtown, so that they can go off and call themselves sympathetic to the poor. College students live in college generally because they live too far away to commute from home, and they can't afford to live anywhere else. NOLS students live in houses rented or bought by their mummies and daddies, and THEY are the students that our student organisations cater to. That's why they win elections. They have lots of disposible income to run campaigns with. They have houses a short walk from Uni to store their campaign materials. They're able to vandalise main campus at 3 in the morning because they don't have an hour and a half drive to get to campus.

 

[ujuphleg]

Re: Union Board Elections 2006 - UPDATED 26/4

^^ Wow is Egronk drunk?

You're right on that point Andrew, its been proven that campus participation is higher the larger the amount of students living near or on campus. The most politically/socially active people on our campus are those who live at college or on in Newtown/Glebe/Redfern etc.

The conundrum in how to address and improve the situation for people who live >45 minutes drive from the university in terms of their potential participation is a vital one but one that, short of changing Sydneys infrastructure, is hard to address.

I suppose thats why I am in liking of Tanners policies for stuff I can use off campus like discounted petrol/alcohol. Your idea of vouchers etc. wasn't bad either. I suppose the option of what can and can't be procured needs to be researched more deeply, but if viable, is certainly an idea that could save the Union.