Who has Student Council been working for so far this year?

The Lecture Boredom Buster - First Edition

This edition was printed with 300 copies available around campus on the 27th January 2010.

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Who has Student Council been working for so far this year?

I’m going STRAIGHT TO THE POINT so that you don’t drift away whilst reading. Are you still there? Great!

Do you use the Student Union shop? Go on Student Union nights out? Are you a member of a Society? That’s right I’m talking about the Student Union and how it is run!

The Student Union has a body known as Student Council (think of it as a Parliament or Assembly). This body has the role of scrutinising the Sabbatical Officers and representing YOU! I was a member of this student body last year. This year I’ve been observing it from a far (Denmark to be specific) and I am disappointed to be honest. And this is why...

YOUR representatives on Student Council this year have not been passing nor debating any relevant proposals, making it more of a social event rather than real representation.

One of YOUR representatives even had the audacity to propose that they should all get five free drinks each on Student Union nights out. I don’t think they deserve the free entry they get for SU nights out, never mind free drinks on top of that!

YOUR representatives have not made their own presence clear to you. Do you know who to go to if you had an idea as to how to make the Student Union more beneficial for you and your friends? I don’t think so.

In this article I am not criticising any member of Council in particular. I am blaming the Student Union and how the institution of Student Council is organised.

I hope that the STUDENTS AT LEICESTER UNI can get the MOST OUT OF THEIR TIME AT UNIVERSITY AND GET REAL BENEFITS FROM THE STUDENT UNION.

Written by: Nathan Woodcock (nw67@le.ac.uk)