SU Election Candidates - Mod Warning post 196

irish_goat

Sweet.

Here ye's go. :P

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=142079&id=100000510275527&ref=nf#!/album.php?aid=11768&id=100000510275527

Michellenman

Well it's definitely entertaining.

Rozabeez

Clever lady.

K4t

Seeing as some of the events organised by ents in the past few months have included semi-nude girls jelly wrestling, female pole dancers and sex games, this shouldn't be shocking or controversial at all..

Rozabeez

At least she's attractive!

princess_calico

K4t wrote: »

Seeing as some of the events organised by ents in the past few months have included semi-nude girls jelly wrestling, female pole dancers and sex games, this shouldn't be shocking or controversial at all..

Hear hear! Even though she's my oppponent I agree that sex shouldn't- but does sell!

K4t

princess_calico wrote: »

Hear hear! Even though she's my oppponent I agree that sex shouldn't- but does sell!

It's a university election, and those who do bother to vote in university elections will not base their vote on anything to do with sexuality imo. *please no abortion debate, pleaseeee*:pac:

princess_calico

K4t wrote: »

It's a university election, and those who do bother to vote in university elections will not base their vote on anything to do with sexuality imo. *please no abortion debate, pleaseeee*:pac:

ah come on! we all know that boobs=votes! i hate to admit it, but if hilary clinton had whipped out her baps obama wouldnt have stood a chance!

BuroniKiisu

princess_calico wrote: »

ah come on! we all know that boobs=votes! i hate to admit it, but if hilary clinton had whipped out her baps obama wouldnt have stood a chance!

No She Wouldn't.

princess_calico

BuroniKiisu wrote: »

No She Wouldn't.

That was a really bad example.....

irish_goat

K4t wrote: »

It's a university election, and those who do bother to vote in university elections will not base their vote on anything to do with sexuality imo. *please no abortion debate, pleaseeee*:pac:

Are you takin the piss? Hot girls (and guys, for that matter) get elected in SU's up and down the country every year. :P

Some reasons:

First off, hot girl candidates are more likely to be able to convince gullible guys into campaigning for them.
Second of all, hot candidates and campaigners attract people who may not normally vote to stop and chat with them. Drunk guys on a night out will love to hear about a hot candidates opinions on tuition fees if she's got her boobs out and the next day they just might go vote for her.
Third of all, we have a natural disposition towards attractive people.
Fourthly, if you go to vote for one particular position and then skim through the rest of them the hot people are going to stand out in your mind and are more likely to get your vote.

Don't be naive and think every student voter puts serious thought into it.

irish_goat

Pat for Ents.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=nf&gid=325002272355

I want the fame, and the power. Also, I can bring peace, prosperity, equality, justice, fulfillment, hope and love to the people of NUIM

O...k... Pat.


And with that, I am off to bed.

LeixlipRed

That is one hot campaign poster. Where can I find this chick? So I can, er, press her on the issues :P

funky penguin

Ugh. Shes hot, but my god that really grinds my gears.

*insert joke about grinding*

sadie06

I really am no prude, but I don't like that at all. The same pose with a different slogan may have elicited a different reaction from me, but the combination of that slogan with that pose is humourless and a bit crude in my opinion.

banquo

More jokes about grinding!

Michellenman

I saw your new election poster rob. You've lovely legs.

Norrdeth

ooooh bebe

Nision

This Pat for Ents Guys manifesto is brilliant.
"Gingers have souls. Lets prove it."
"This year's "The Gathering" is a great idea, bringing the festival atmosphere right into the heart of the college experience. I see this as an annual event"

Michellenman

I saw his page... yer wan Basia (hot as she may be) is going mental at him about the mystery tour thing on his wall. Other than her lack of coherent spelling and correct punctuation her immature attitude and how she's picking at minor details of his manifesto are putting me off.

Also, who's this Lydia wan? I haven't seen/heard anything about her other than her graffitti all over campus. Seriously, wrecking the campus by writing your name in huge colourful letters all over the ground in Chalk is not gonna make me vote for you, the place looks a mess now.

irish_goat

Michellenman wrote: »

I saw his page... yer wan Basia (hot as she may be) is going mental at him about the mystery tour thing on his wall. Other than her lack of coherent spelling and correct punctuation her immature attitude and how she's picking at minor details of his manifesto are putting me off.

Christ I just read his page, she is nuts!

Though has a point about the mystery tour, there's no sense in the SU organising it as effectively it's encouraging student punters out of the SU and sending them off to spend their dosh elsewhere.

banquo

At vp welfare hustings. James and liz are funny and smart.

Usi:

mark duffy says yes,
liz thinks we should spend the 40k here in nuim instead,
Mary Quinn is 'on the fence', as is Lydia. Lydia talked about how important it is to fight for stuff. Fluffed the question, basically.
James Boyle is for joining usi.

banquo

On lack of food facilities:

Mary Quinn wants more vegetarian food.
Lydia wants to ensure healthy, vegetarian food on campus. Down with chips and curry sauce.
James hates the food on campus, hates the total lack of options.
Liz would like somewhere that actually serves food, and wants to make sure that the people building the canteen get the finger out and get it done quickly.
Mark says that we need to ask the services to provide good food, because the have no idea that people want more options.

Thwip!

banquo wrote: »

On lack of food facilities:

Mary Quinn wants more vegetarian food.
Lydia wants to ensure healthy, vegetarian food on campus. Down with chips and curry sauce.
James hates the food on campus, hates the total lack of options.
Liz would like somewhere that actually serves food, and wants to make sure that the people building the canteen get the finger out and get it done quickly.
Mark says that we need to ask the services to provide good food, because the have no idea that people want more options.

that gets my thumbs up

banquo

On education:

Liz says she's been working on fixing the career centre,
mark mentions the fiasco with lecture clashes, etc.
Lydia says that it's about promotion, that people know that there's a welfare officer, and that we could extend the maths support centre,
James wants all depts to have class reps since only about 20% attend. Also that lecturers would know who made an education related complaint with just one class rep per class, so we should get a suggestion box.

banquo

iPod died, on laptop.

Missed a bunch of questions.

Question about Pink Training. Liz didn't go because she's not gay so she passed the opportunity on to Lydia, who couldn't go because she was sick.

James Boyle says you should go because there's loads of stuff to learn, guests speakers on sexual health, and it's good craic.

banquo

What's the SU's position on Bertie as guest lecturer and honorary professor:

Liz: The SU isn't there to impose political views on people. We took it to union Council, which is democratically elected, and it was voted on by the student representatives that there was no objection to it.

banquo

As education officer: What is your position on the (I'm paraphrasing now) total failure to give us our ****ing grant money and the high registration fee, and where that fee goes:

Mark Duffy: We need to know where our goddamn money is going, I'm all for transparency. Let's show the students where the money goes so we know it's going towards college facilities.

Liz: I have some serious issues with how some colleges are spend the money that is raised from the increase in the student services charge. It should be going to the Union so we can get better stuff for students, but college is using it to replace the money that they're losing from somewhere else (banquo: I can't remember, but she knew what it was)

Mary: (verbatim) I'll represent you, that's kinda basic, it needs to be done.

Lydia: Union is working on verifying the facts before we act on anything, and I will continue this work. The student services fee isn't being spent on student services, and we need to make sure that it goes back to students.

James: I'm totally against this misuse of the student services charge.

banquo

On biggest mistakes of last year's vp welfare:

Mark: Liz has done great work in the access office, but first years don't have enough information.

Lydia: I'm not going to start critiqueing anyone else, and Liz has done some great work and I'd love to continue it.

James: This is a difficult question, but some events weren't published that well. I will commend Liz on her job so far though.

Mary: Welfare Group didn't really take off, and that's something I'd like to take up and really ''make go'' (verbatim, lol)

Liz: I wish I'd had more skills at the time so I could have publicised things myself. The majority of the work you do goes unnoticed because so much of it is confidential. You have little victories and failures every day. I have accepted that I've done some things wrong, and I'd like to make sure everything is run much more efficiently next year.

Michellenman

You're so handy to have around Rob!