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Elections
The month kicked off with a bang with the Students Union Executive Elections. Here were the results:
SU President: Carys Rhiannon (re-elected)
Vice President Pontypridd: Ellen Rose Jones
Vice President Cardiff: Rozalind Green-Innes
Vice President Newport: Re-Open Nominations
Student Council Chair (Cardiff): Angharad Megan Paget-Jones
I was in Cardiff to announce the Student Council Chair Cardiff and Vice President Cardiff results. I caught up with Roz after the election to see what her reaction was to her win:
Vice President Newport ended with an indecisive result thanks to a R.O.N. campaign that picked up steam. This meant the nominations for the position were reopened. We've now been through another round of nominations and have one candidate Drew Burman in the by-election. Voting for Vice President Newport will happen between March 31st and April 3rd with the results on April 3rd.
There was also the Elections for Student Council Officers. In Cardiff we had the following results:
Atrium Campus Officer: Chris Legg
Women's Officer: Emily Lee (re-elected)
Sports Officer: Ruth Miller
We actually announced the results live on Tequila Radio which was very exciting. You can have a listen back to that below:
Cardiff Issues
This month saw some wins in regards to Cromwell House and Atlantic House. Cromwell has had its opening hours extended to Saturdays until April 5th (when a lot of deadlines for them are over). Atlantic House was originally scheduled to open between April 5th and May 30th on Saturdays. However I managed to bring this forward by two weeks so Atlantic will be open almost every Saturday between now and the end of term. However there have been a few technical and access issues with this which I'm looking in to addressing.
Since our Course Rep Meeting back in February, I've been working hard on the issues raised along with some additional things I've picked up along the way. I met Jane Davison, the Head of School of Media at the beginning of the month. I spoke to her about the Glammies (which a number of students had raised to me) and she assured me it would happen this year which has now been confirmed to be going ahead on Friday 30th May at Cineworld Cardiff.
I also discussed issues with open-planned rooms. Jane told me that when working in Industry, this type of room format might be common as there's a lot of collaborative work which is why it's been designed like that. They are working on synchronizing timetables in the next academic year so there is less pedestrian traffic going through the hallways during the middle of lectures and seminars.
Also this month, I've met with one of the Associate Heads of School of Media, Jaya about issues surrounding the Film and Video course which were brought to me by first year students on the course. They're looking to address these problems to provide a better course for the next two years for which it runs.
Other stuff
I've also been working with the sabbatical team to build an induction pack for incoming sabbs. I've already met with the Vice President elect Roz to give her an overview of the job and what it entails. We've also been looking at how we can improve the regulations surrounding Elections so we can ensure the maximum number of students can participate in both the nominations and voting process.
That's all for March. I'll be back with more updates next month.
