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ELECTIONS for the Union Communications Officer have been rescheduled for tomorrow (Thursday). This is because last Monday's ballot was cancelled after recommendations from the Election Committee. They voiced concern over the conduct of some candidates, other students and your independent student newspaper, Concrete. A statement displayed on the door of the Bill Wilson Room cited seven 'events' that, in the opinion of the Returning Officer and the Committee, questioned whether the electoral process "was being conducted in a fair and proper manner.· These were: •Interviews by Polly Knewstub with Uvewire and Nexus UTV being broadcast prior to the campaign week, •Phil Clegg being harrassed by members of a "political organisation", •An advertisement placed in Concrete by the GSA which included a recommendation for its members to vote for Phil Clegg, •The GSA producing and displaying posters that could be considered detrimental to Polly Knewstub's campaign, eA reader's letter published in the last edition of Concrete containing critical statements about Polly Knewstub, •A mock-up front page [sic] of Concrete. with the words 'Vote Polly' clearly visible from the outside of Union House was displayed in the Concrete office in UH, •Phi I Clegg's election publicity being displayed on the walls oftheGSC. But the statement also made clear that no written complaints had been received. In his statement, the Union General Manager and Returning Officer, Mike Hogg, said, "I brought the above mentioned events to the attention of the Union's Election Committee on October 21 . "They discussed the issues and the outcome of their deliberations was that they considered infringements of the Union's Electoral Standing Orders had occurred."
Comment- See Page 2.
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Our teams' theft of college 'trophies' leave Sports Officer powerless to act over away-game farce ... SPORTS Officer, Alex Bainbridge, has been left fuming after UEA teams playing away were faced with a series of bodge-ups at Middlesex University last week.
The Women's Rugby team in action...
But in an astonishing own goal, . r~---- By ----., he has been unable to complain to Nik Davy the college's authorities after students returned to Norwich with an ' friendly' game on a half-completed Aladdin's cave of"trophies" includ- pitch. ing concrete bollards, traffic cones Meanwhile, both ofUEA's Hockey and campus maps. teams who had travelled to the LonIn just one of the ' try ' -ing inci- don college were left without dents, the Women's Rugby team were matches due to a misunderstanding. forced to mark out their pot-holed The Women's team were livid, havpitch. They had already cleared the ing decided to play two teams often field of cans, golf-balls, and a park players rather than one full team. bench before attempting to underSaid Alex: "It's really difficult to take the bizarre task so they could complain to Middlesex seeing as play their scheduled ' BUSA' match. we've nicked all their stuff." But he But they realised they had insuf- agreed he would sign letters of comficient time, and ended up playing a plaint from the students involved.
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