The new system for council elections, where candidates can only be seconded and voted for by people in their constituency, appears to have a few teething problems.
Although the number of postgrads is approximately half the number of undergrads, both were required to find the same number of seconders in the election. Those standing in postgraduate and "non-faculty" constituencies found it difficult to find people who were: a) registered for this academic year; b) not on placements; c) actually in their constituency.
The non-faculty constituency consists mainly of the Tanaka Business School, sabbs and a few other postgraduate courses, providing a much small pool of people who might know a person well enough to second them.
As a result of these problems the Returning Officer and ICU President John Collins, in consultation with other Sabbatical Officers, opted to lower the number of seconders required for these constituencies. Candidates were allowed into elections for some positions where no candidates had the required number of seconders.
The scientists appear to have a problem, with only two candidates for four positions and a low representation overall.
Candidates standing are as follows (RON stands for all positions):
Equal Opportunities Officer
- Syed Junaid
- Thomas Brodrick
Councillors: undergraduate engineering (4 positions)
- Edo Abraham
- Joao Serra
- Nicholas Simpson
- Steven King
- Yanyan Huang
Councillors: postgraduate engineering (2 positions)
- Ashley Brown
Councillors: undergraduate medicine (3 positions)
- Anojan Arulananthan
- Jitin Verma
- Kapil Sugand
- Zain Sikafi
- Zubair Sarang
Councillor: postgraduate medicine
- David Bonsall
Councillors: undergraduate natural sciences (4 positions)
- Derek Wan
- Zhibing Hu
Councillor: postgraduate natural sciences
- Alex Guite
Councillor: non faculty
- Andy Sykes
ULU Delegates (3 positions)
- Furquan Kidwai
- Lin Mei
- Varun Reddy
GSA Treasurer
- Furquan Kidwai
GSA Activities Co-ordinator
- Tushar Singhania
GSA Communications Officer
- Pei Xian Yan
GSA Secretary
- Christina Swasey
CGCU Academic Affairs Officer (Research)
- Eirini Spentza
RCSU Publicity and Communications Officer
- Neil Monteiro
RCSU Welfare Officer
- Jennifer Morgan
Come along to hustings tomorrow from noon in the JCR and from 7pm in Reynolds bar.
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