WEDNESDAY 20TH MARCH | THE LION

ELECTION4

HEYTHROP STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTION

The Lion Gives You The Low Down on ALL of Your eLecTion cAnDiDATes

PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENTJAZ OMID PETER O’NEIL SAM ENGLISH ASH LODHI CHLOE MAY

I’m Jaz and I’m running for HSU president because of how much I love Heythrop! I really care about the reputation of the college and the well being of all of the students. I think that more people should be able to get involved in the deci-sions made by union executives, so one of my main focuses will be to increase the opportunity for students to have a say by starting things such as online question-naires. I also want to increase the transparency and approachability of our executives, and make the basement more of a fun place to be for everyone. Another thing I’d do is advertise associate membership to the students’ union so that after you graduate you can still come to all of our events and be a member of our societies. I want everything to feel more inclusive and inviting. Obviously, I will do all of the other things that are included in the job, and I’ll do a great job because of how much enthusiasm I’ll bring to the role and how much I care about people’s university experience. I’m confident and passionate and good at talking to people, so I will be good at discussing things with the college and making sure that the students get as much as possible. I’m a very friendly person and am good at working with and leading others. Vote Blue for a president who will listen to you.

I’ve been involved in the College life from my first weeks at Hey-throp. As a candidate, I have ex-perience both as head of the phi-losophy society and as this year’s academic affairs officer. I have the experience and know-how to be a productive and effective sab-batical, and I think this is what the union needs. From the very start of my term last year, I was involved in the planning and execution of what has proven to be an exceptional year for this executive, and this ex-perience has given me the founda-tions, the knowledge, to be able to successfully co-ordinate the year to come. But on to the nitty details, as you’ll know, my manifesto is on-line at heythrop.su/peteroneil, so I won’t bother repeating myself too much. I’m really pleased to see that every single candidate is pushing for better disabled access, and it is about time the basement, and the rest of the college is brought into the 21st century with regards to fa-cilities. On this note, I’m sure most students are immediately thinking of a bar, and this is currently mov-ing its way through the College Board structure and could well be fully constructed and licenced by mid-summer, given the right sabs. We also want better academics, af-ter all, that’s what we’re here for, and I’m happy to deliver this! I re-ceived 100% approval at OGM for my role as academic affairs, having worked with the HSU to revamp the feedback system, provide bet-ter library hours, and bring the reps under the union and to get a student chairman on the staff-stu-dent liaison committee. The ‘why am I the right candidate’ seems to be because I’ve been there and done it all before!

As the only candidate with ex-perience of ULU senate, gov-erning body and the creation of a strategic plan, I am qualified to further the work of the cur-rent union , linking Heythrop to London whilst supporting the interests of students on site. Having worked on ‘The Lion’ editorial board for two years, I am the only candidate running for VP with knowledge of InDe-sign. This may seem trivial, but such expertise is vital, as the VP is head of marketing; my skills allow me to improve the Union and society marketing immedi-ately. I am the only candidate stand-ing for VP with an intimate knowledge of the college’s com-mittee structure, allowing me to push through crucial devel-opments such as the construc-tion of the college bar. Devel-opment of college facilities is extremely important and I vow to lobby college thus ensuring students get their fair share of new spaces in college, like the building next to Halls. I was also the first Sabb candidate committed to making the col-lege more accessible for disa-bled students, having consulted the current campaigns officer about the problem.For societies I will speed up the expenses payment system and do necessary work to the Students’ Union website so stu-dents know what is going on. I will also hold monthly ‘VP’s meeting’ which all students may attend with societies heads.I am also committed to further-ing the possibilities available to students both pre and post graduation. My experience ena-bles me to secure amazing deals from ULU and the Kensington group. I will secure paid intern-ships and wider choices from the Heythrop Careers dinner.

Hi I’m Ash Lodhi and I’m running for the position of Vice-president in the HSU exec. I’ve got a few points to make on the limited space I have here so let me cut the BS. If you vote for me, you’ll be voting for:- A diverse and cohesive union in touch with students.- Continuing work on the base-ment renovations, making the stu-dent area even better.- A boost to societies and HSU events.- An exec who are available, appre-ciable and ready to do whatever we need to to back you up.- Encouraging the great work for faith based societies within Hey-throp.- Systems in place for students to be able to go to events even when they don’t have the funds at the time.

Thats the core of what I’m about. You can read the rest of my mani-festo online.

You may have seen me around college at Open Mic Night, on stage with HEADS, at the Phi-losophy Society or perhaps you just heard an Australian accent booming in the background of your common room conversa-tions. If we haven’t already met, my name is Chloe Westley and I believe that Heythrop students need an Academic Affairs Offic-er that they can approach easily and have confidence to confide in. This year I’ve heard of stu-dents having difficulty with get-ting referrals and communicat-ing their academic difficulties to members of staff at the Col-lege. If elected, I endeavour to appeal decisions that students feel are unjustified and be there at those sometimes daunt-ing meetings with members of staff. I will also be around col-lege to help students with any problems they’re encountering with their academic work, as well as ensuring their voices are heard on all the committees. I’m a team-player, work hard, and most importantly, like to help out people in any way that I can. Vote Responsibly Heyth-ropians!

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Hey, my name’s Milly and I’m a sec-ond year Philosophy student. I love Heythrop, and have enjoyed my time here so much that it has made me want to give something back. Therefore, in running for Events, I feel like this will be the best way I can personally contribute some-thing to Heythrop, and the HSU, in my final year here. I feel like I’m correctly qualified for the position of the Events Officer, as I have had the experience of being the Head Girl of a school of 1,500 students, voted for by my peers. With this came a huge amount of responsi-bility, for example, it was up to me to represent the student body at the meetings of the governing body of the school, and bring the voic-es and demands of the students to the people that could make a difference. This also means I’m thoroughly experienced in plan-ning an array of different events. I think that Heythrop’s unique mix of students is a huge selling point of the college, I couldn’t imagine being at any other university and would love to have the chance to represent each and every student by doing my best to create events and memories that everyone will want to be a part of. I already have so many ideas for Freshers’ week and in general for next year that I would love to see put into action (Some of these are included in my manifesto.) So please help me, to help you to have a momentous and entertaining next year. Don’t be silly, vote Milly.

It has always been my dream to satisfy you all across London, give me the budget, we can make this happen. I want to see you all enough to the point where it’s time to have ‘the talk’, I mean, “we’re spending all our time with each-other and I feel like we should take it to the next level and maybe have a neon paint warehouse rave together”; I’m ready to make that commitment Heythrop, baby, you know you’re my world.

Right now the time isn’t right, I don’t see you enough and it’s kill-ing me, let’s go to the hot tub cin-ema together and then wind up at the top of the Heron tower to watch the sunrise. More events! No more excess in moderation, let’s wor-ship this City all day, but maybe stop for a coffee in the mornings. I’m out all night looking for what I think will be your favourite cock-tail or new music that you can’t say no to. Whatever is your freak, I in-tend to find it, book it and enjoy it with you.

Events at Heythrop have been great, and making sure that next year’s events are enjoyable enough to forget for a minute that our clock is made of marker pen, or that you could fall through the felting in our pool table, is a challenge worth tak-ing.I want to share my ideas for a fresh-ers’ week to remember, talk about all the great piss ups I’ll run, and the great non-piss ups too.I want to run a freshers’ week to where each day offers a morning of sobriety and the chance to see one of London’s highlights and at the same time has drinking, dancing, and laughter to enjoy afterwards.For any of you who like the sound of drinking, dancing, and laughter, but want to know more about what the piss ups I have to offer are, you need look no further than comedy night, the last BBQ you had under England’s all too abundant sun, or a great night out drinking some-where new. There is more, but for those who want to really make next year their own I’ll place an anony-mous suggestion box just for you.What about those of us who don’t drink? Here I’m making the wild assumption you like pizza, res-taurants and free lunch. If instead you came to London for the sights you’ll find no shortage of trips, and for anyone inclined towards the fairs and festivals, you need only look at the events I’ll put up on to a calendar at the start of next year, and check out where to go.

Well, if you don’t know, I’m Roger, and I’m running for events because – not to put too fine a point on it – I’m a whis-key-fuelled West End-trawling Epicurean rake-hell who can-not comprehend why anyone would ever do anything that wasn’t fun enough to tell their future grandkids about. I take my hedonism very seriously, ladies and gents, and in its pur-suit I’ve explored every avenue London has to offer – from the traditional undergraduate past-times of debate, Scrabble and cheeseboards to pulling sparklers out of magnums of Moet with my teeth in South Kensington members’ clubs. I’ve seriously explored our adoptive city, schmoozing the managers of the venues that brought me (and perhaps you) here in the first place and turn-ing up the unique experiences only a world-capital can offer. So, I reckon I’d make a great Events Executive for you be-cause while music and mayhem have been my life’s work, I’m also a shark-minded business-man, constantly out to get the best for less. In my more lucid moments, I can put unmatched energy and connections at your service, whether you want a restaurant table, an intimate conference venue or a whole damn club. Give me and Alex a vote, tell me how you want to enjoy your time in London - and watch me stand and de-liver.

Hey! Im Han, a second year PRE student and future Publicity Of-ficer on the HSU (please vote for me!). I have one main ambition and that is to make this posi-tion a real role on the union. This year it has been down to the Vice President to fulfil the tasks of this role, thus giving him less time to focus on what he may have origi-nally set out to achieve. I want to work closely with next year’s VP to make sure I can support them in this role so that they can focus on important tasks such as getting us a bar! Further to this, I have five other aims; to make sure every stu-dents knows about every event, to use every resource to ensure this happens (posters, facebook events, flyers, the blackboard in the com-mon room…), to produce a more imformative freshers booklet, to create a section on the website where photos from past events can be seen and finally to have more publicity for societies and their events. I feel I am more than quali-fied for this job, I have vital expe-rience in working in a team, I love SU events and have the drive to get more people to go and I have a lot of photoshop experience and have already started to learn InDesign!

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WEDNESDAY 20TH MARCH | THE LION

ELECTION6

HEYTHROP STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTION

The Lion Gives You The run Down on ALL of Your eLecTion cAnDiDATes

FEMALE WELFARE MALE WELFARE

STUDENTACTIVITIES CAMPAIGNS

I, Elliott Handley, esquire, bring the following to the no-tice of all brave souls ready to fight the libertines in Heyth-rop.The revolutionary storm in the West profoundly undermined the mechanism of our society by detaching the intellectuals from the mainstream of na-tional ideas and aspirations. Led by the intelligentsia, both political-social and liberal-bu-reaucratic, the people - though in the depths of their hearts they remained loyal to King, Church, and Empire - started straying from the narrow path laid down by the whole devel-opment of national thought and life; for revolutionary thought flattered the vanity of the mob, but without teaching the people the first principles of freedom or construction. Indeed, the crowd is a liber-tine, and acts as such on every occasion. As soon as the mob has secured freedom it speed-ily turns into anarchy, in itself the height of libertinism.Yet feat not! For the Holy Prophet Daniel foretold of the cruel time when the corrupt and the unclean would be de-feated and the days of peace would come.And as such, in emulation of Saint Michael the Archangel, I shall stand tall against the dragon, and, through my claim to become Female Welfare Of-ficer, strike out in defence of the counter-revolution! Nihil innovetur! For Saint Dymph-na!

My campaign is about access – and not just so that I can lark about in a wheelchair without hinderance – it’s about all Heythrop students be-ing able to access all areas. If elect-ed, I will make sure that students can not only better access college, but also their elections, their un-ion, their events, their freshers’ week, their campaigns, and, most importantly, their welfare. I’m not just running because I too think I would look amazing arranged on the pool table, I’m running because I’m confident that I’m the best per-son for the job – I’m skilled, I’m passionate, and I can make this happen. Vote Nori, eh?

May I first of all thank you for the opportunity to use your powerful newspaper as a platform whence to roar my cause for male welfare. My pledge is to do neither too much, nor too little, and to end the job with people saying “That Chris guy, he did alright.”I present to your esteemed readers, therefore, the following remarks as to why I would be better than this Ronald fellow at the position of Male Welfare Officer. My intention, first and foremost, is to fully realise my responsibilities as a first port of call for any stu-dent experiencing welfare issues of any kind. When one is under some burden, the worst thing is to have to bear that burden alone. And for that reason I consider it fundamental to my role and a mat-ter of first principles that my avail-ability and willingness should be known to all. I will further do lots of things, such as provide contact information about groups that deal with welfare issues, work with the events team to raise awareness on particular issues (modelled, for in-stance, on such successes as this year’s mental health awareness week) and form subcommittees with other groups, such as LGBT and the various faith societies.I could go on, but limitations in terms of space persuade me to rec-ommend the following: If you go onto the HSU website, get the con-stitution up look at 1.4, the bit that starts “the welfare team shall…” Basically I’ll do that. My no. 1 pledge is that at the end of the term no one will be able to look at the constitution and say that I didn’t more or less do that.May the spirit of the almighty be with you and all of your future publications. I have the honour to remainYours,Mr C. E. G. Page-Tickell

On the 14th of March Heythrop College will be holding it’s very first Feastival, and by the time this article comes to publish we will al-ready be celebrating the (hopeful) success of the event. The Lokahi Foundation has done a excellent job of bringing together all the societies, not just the faith based ones, and I have heard some excel-lent things about what the HEads society will be doing from the Li-on’s newest editor, Rob Leftwich. I think that the Lokahi Founda-tion are onto an excellent idea with this Feastival, getting all the socie-ties together, and it’s an excellent way for the societies to advertise themselves and a perfect way for Heythrop to come together as a community. I believe that part of the role of the Activities Officer is to motivate societies into commu-nicating with one another, help-ing both the society grow and the Heythrop community develop. If elected as Activities Officer, one of my aims is to be proactive in trying to get many more of these kinds of events to occur. My other focus is to fundamen-tally develop the role of the activi-ties officer and the clarity of the rules that societies follow, making it easier to start and maintain a society, while ensuring that eve-ryone is treated fairly and equally. My manifesto is now available on http://heythrop.su/election and I am also available to email at Iain.Perkins@heythropcollege.ac.uk if you have any questions. Thanks for your support!

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