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Union Colours 2007

Jun 13 2007 23:21

Ashley Brown

In a hack-studded ceremony this evening the union presented colours to those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty this year.

The assembled masses

Colours were awarded to a selection of students this evening for services to the union. The Athletics, Social and Recreational Clubs Committees gave out their awards alongside ICU, leading to a large audience attending the event.

Members of Sport Imperial also appeared to present an award to the best sports team of the year, women's fencing, who will be a premiership team next year.

As always with colours articles, here follows a very long list of badly formatted names...

Half Colour (24)

For service above and beyond that required of their position, the following people were given half colours:

Head of Sport Imperial Neil Mosley praises the co-operation between College and Union. In light of recent policy passed by Council, Live! dare not make suggestions as to why his eyes are red...

Jibran Ahmed
Shazia Arshad
Steve Ashton
Martin Bailey
Daniel Burrows
Junwei Chen
Priya Garg
Jessica Gillingwater
Kate Harvey
Edmund Hunt
Andreas Koukos
Sophie Mitchinson
Simon Nance
Daniel Sauder
Saba Shafi
Florencia Tettamanti
Hannah Theodorou
Jamie Thompson
Lily Topham
Ved Vyas
Matthew Wallace
Ammar Waraich
Lara West
Tim Wilson

Full Colour (14)

For service above and beyond that required of their positions across a number of different activities, the following people were given full colours:

Danny McGuinness expresses his gratitude for his fellowship

Shobhit Arya
Ashley Brown
Stephen Brown
Eugene Chang
Alex Guite
Matthew Hoban
David Layfield
Kirsty Patterson
Adele Peel
Aidan Roche
Nicholas Simpson
Eirini Spentza
Joanna Swarbick
Mary Williamson

Outstanding Service Award (2)

Tianzuo Huo - for exceptional service to the union as a steward, often coming in early and leaving late even when not required to.
Jad Marrouche - for leading the resurgent RCSU to a hugely successful year, including the incredible Science Challenge.

Fellowship (4)

Anojan Arulanthanan - for being an integral, active member of the medics union over the last 5 (or 7, depending who you ask) years.
Steven King - for his tireless efforts across Arts & Ents.
Daniel McGuinness - For his service in both ICSMSU and central union across the years and his continued dedication as council chair.
James Millen - for building the SCC into a credible committee and his evenhandedness in union meetings over the past few years.

Mark Flower with his tankard, certificate and tie. And John Collins, but he doesn't get to take him home.

Distinguished Fellowship (1)

Mark Flower received the first distinguished fellowship for four years, for doing immeasurable good for the union over a number of years, including working on budget templates when he should have been doing his PhD.

President's Award (5)

Prof. Sir. Leszek Borysiewicz
Shiv-Karam Chopra
Hamish Common
Victoria Langer
Robin Pitt

Honorary Life Membership

Finally, on Monday Council considered which sabbatical officers had exceeded the effort required by their role and were thus deserving of honorary life membership (so they can get into the bars without forking out £50). This was awarded to the following people:

John Collins
Jon Matthews
Ben Harris
Eric Lai
Andrew Sykes

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Discussion about “Union Colours 2007”

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1. jess

Jun 14 2007 00:04

finally someone is recognised for their repeated and genuine committal to commercial services! well done james, you absolutely deserve it.

i would, however, like to please just point out that james huo was in fact a building steward - a small point, but then again surely nobody would be short-sighted enough to imagine that bar stewards worked long hours or over and above what they were expected to do in their job description.

many thanks

2. not fair

Jun 14 2007 09:42

honorary life membership for andy sykes? even though he couldn't be bothered to publish the past few weeks? dubious.

3. jokes

Jun 14 2007 11:09

this is a joke. half these people have done sweet FA and if you asked 10 random students if they knew 90% of the people on this list they'd say "who wtf?".

and to add to "not fair"'s comment. andy sykes receiving any gratitude for the most unpopular felix (when it still was being published and he hadn't gone a tree-saving spree) is just stupid. his salary should've been rescinded a long time ago.

4. Hmm.

Jun 14 2007 12:28

Colours are for doing the work, which does not necessarily involve self-promotion. OK, so many students probably don't know most of these people's names- but would notice if they stopped what they do for the Union, if their club stopped running, if their academic experience deteriorated because there were no reps to flag up issues, if the services they like to moan about were no longer there at all. It is partly because these people are not famous (and several of the citations for the top awards explicitly mentioned modesty) that the Union uses colours to acknowledge them once a year. OK, "jokes", maybe you didn't get the award you think you deserved (often this is just because no nomination was received)- but try reading the citations before calling other people undeserving.

5. Oliver Pell

Jun 14 2007 21:42

My first response at "6 years since the last distinguished fellowship" was oh-dear-god-it-doesn't-seem-that-long. So I've just checked the tankard, and I was awarded one in 2003. So even if no-one haa been awarded any since, that's still only a more modest 4 years...

6. Matty Hoban

Jun 14 2007 23:16

If you submit a paper to Council next year you could try and get any of the above awards (except President's Award as this has nothing to do with Council) revoked. Just like Rupert got an Honorary Life Membership, I'm sure they can take one away. Also I'm pretty sure if I went round campus asking people if they knew who "jokes" was, they'd instruct me vacate their personal space. Anonymity and non-constructive comments will never enamour yourself to anyone, especially at a time when we are congratulating selfless service to the Union. Also Council deliberated over all of the prizes so I'm sure they had their reasons - I will welcome the decision if Council decides to rescind my colours.

The only contentious thing I noticed is that all recipients of the President's Award are paid members of staff (for various institutions) but whatever.

7. matty

Jun 14 2007 23:21

Well... not so much welcome the decision but accept it, I like my new tie.

8. engineer

Jun 15 2007 00:09

Oliver - the Union President telling fibs to make his administration look like they've done something special is hardly novel is it... ;)

9. Ashley Brown

Jun 15 2007 00:16

Hamish is a paid member of staff of an organisation, but has given a lot of his free time to volunteer for the union.

The other recipients are paid by their respective organisations to do the job they were doing, but have definitely gone beyond what was required of them.

10. James Millen

Jun 15 2007 11:01

It's certainly less controversial than the whole Sabbatical team (big S) recieving Presidents Award last year:

I refer you to http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/meetings/files/paper1-354-3543.pdf

Section E, 17&18 (she also gave out 6 if memory serves)

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