{"id":474,"date":"2018-03-15T07:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T07:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=474"},"modified":"2018-05-11T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T07:39:00","slug":"lusu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/15\/lusu-news\/","title":{"rendered":"LUSU NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">ELECTION<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Amidst all the \u2018disruption of the student experience\u2019 caused by the strike, the LUSU sabbatical elections rolled around last week, and six new people have been elected to replace the outgoing officers. The results were as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">President: Rhiannon Llystyn Jones<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Vice-President (Union Development): Matty Robinson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Vice-President (Activities): Toby Wilkinson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Vice-President (Welfare &amp; Community): Emily Delaney<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Vice-President (Education): Ian Meeks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Vice-President (Campaigns &amp; Communications): Islay Grant<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">We note that Rhiannon Jones is the first woman to serve two terms as LUSU President, and the first person to serve two non-consecutive terms in any sabbatical LUSU post for nearly 40 years. She comfortably defeated sitting President Josh Woolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Many of the contests offered a standout candidate who had done their homework, were deeply experienced, and had a lot to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">The contest for the role of Vice-President (Union Development) was not one of them. The &#8216;ding-dong&#8217; between the three candidates at hustings was so devoid of content that SCAN&#8217;s live-bloggers saw no point in fact-checking their answers because &#8216;they said nothing of substance&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">The contest for the role of Vice-President (Campaigns &amp; Communications) had a standout candidate. That the student body instead opted to elect a candidate who ran on a whim; has no campaigns experience; believes experience isn&#8217;t important; wants to give student media \u2018directions on what needs to change\u2019 (we&#8217;re sure SCAN editors will be only too pleased to take direction from someone who doesn\u2019t read it); and demonstrated zero enthusiasm or knowledge of any major on-campus issues, was therefore baffling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">The Vice-President (Education) race, in the midst of intense industrial action with staff working conditions at the forefront of everyone&#8217;s mind, was won by a candidate who thinks that a four day turnaround on feedback can work in all departments because it does in Physics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Oh dear. Resentment is growing among students &#8211; the strike action, the current political discourse, the on-campus refurbishments, the lack of transparency from their union, the rises in rents and fees, and the cuts to services are just some of the causes. LUSU\u2019s utter failure to weaponise this is bizarre. It&#8217;s raining soup, and LUSU is out in the yard with a fork. The golden goose is heavily pregnant, and they&#8217;re plucking it ready for Christmas dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Readers might have thought that the atmosphere on campus would have lead to more candidates standing on an invigorating platform, and a couple of them maybe even winning. The students deserve better than the hollow, tepid, no-effort cacophony of &#8216;listening to students&#8217; and &#8216;having an open-door policy&#8217; and &#8216;bringing people together&#8217; that it got.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">So why they voted for it is anyone&#8217;s guess. We invite the candidates-elect to prove us wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">HUST NOT LEST YE BE HUSTED<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Contributed by Craig Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">This year\u2019s LUSU FTO hustings saw a handful of candidates that (in my opinion) promised to truly change the Union and may well have seen it become a political entity once more, rather than nothing more than a front desk for management. However, the results have now been announced and only one of these four promising candidates has made it through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Hustings were held in Barker House Farm on an evening of bar sports, resulting in the husting speeches being drowned out at times by cheers and shouting from the teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">For the position of VP Union Development, candidates were asked what they understood the word \u2018union\u2019 to mean, to which none of them responded particularly well. A personal favourite was the answer that opened with \u2018The student union is a collection of students&#8230;\u2019. Something new every day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">The candidates for president were asked what their opinion on the UCU strikes and why they held these opinions. All candidates said they supported the strikes and when asked if they would come and show support at the picket line, all said they would \u2018try and make it down\u2019. Only two presidential candidates visited the picket line at all &#8211; one simply to hust to the students in attendance, and the other (Rhiannon Jones) to show support to the staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">With the results in, it doesn\u2019t look like the SU will see any massive changes any time soon&#8230; or maybe I\u2019m too pessimistic&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELECTION Amidst all the \u2018disruption of the student experience\u2019 caused by the strike, the LUSU sabbatical elections rolled around last week, and six new people have been elected to replace the outgoing officers. The results were as follows: President: Rhiannon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/15\/lusu-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[274,262,20,273,179],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ftos","tag-issue-175","tag-lusu","tag-sabbatical-elections","tag-strike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-7E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1270,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/06\/19\/nuttall-officers\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":0},"title":"Nuttall Officers","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Contributed article by Ronnie Rowlands Back in those heady, wistful days of February 2020, subtext reported that the students' union (LUSU) had passed a drastic restructure of its executive officer team without adequate consultation. 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