MDXSU Elections: The Results Night & What This Means for Us

On Friday 8th March, Middlesex University held it’s annual Student Union Elections Results Night. Join us as we take a deeper look into the election results, our new representatives and the entire nomination process.

By Melissa Nabre, photography from the Student’s Union

After weeks of having the Student Union staff, all dressed in purple, chasing you around campus, having manifestos thrust onto you, and seeing the ever present ‘HAVE YOU VOTED?’ question posted everywhere in the university, the results are finally in for the Middlesex Student Union. Do you recognise your new reps? Flip to pages 10 to 11 to see who won!

We’ve all read the manifestos, or at least glanced at them before leaving the little slips of paper lying around campus. With over twoand-a-half-thousand members of the student body voting for their favourite nominee, this year’s elections were interesting to say the least.

Results night in MDX House was jam-packed with campaign teams and supporters, with the SU providing many awards aside from the Presidential elections. The ‘Best Campaign’ was awarded to Uduack Benson, ‘Most Innovative Campaign’ was given to Derek Lamb, ‘Hardest Working Campaign Team’ was handed to Reygan Davison, and ‘Candidate’s Candidate’ was accepted by Seakhy Lay. These teams and campaigners all helped to let you guys know about what their candidate would do for you, and worked hard to do it, so a big congratulations to them for their hard earned achievements.

The question is - now what? It is up to these people to represent us as a student body and improve aspects of university life that we complain about, so how do their manifestos help us? Our new president has explained that he

will improve the academic situation for commuter and international students, while also working to make the student’s voices heard through student representatives and student voice leaders. This not only provides a solution to the constant complaints of the Commuter Student Group and International Student Group community, but also gives them more opportunities to receive the education that they want, without being held back by travel fares and lack of communication, as well as giving us a voice that will actually be heard.

Lucy Holland has explained that as the re-elected Vice President for Art & Design and Media & Performing Arts, she will continue her hard work in improving her mental health and guidance campaign, as well as providing the students with a list of trusted estate agents and tackling the issues of high pricing across the university. This not only gives students relief in knowing that they are living in safe and reliable places, but also reduces our worries in regards to money, both during university and after it. For more info about Lucy and her plans, flip to page 3!

Tahmina Choudhrey has explained that she is fighting to make misogyny recognised as a hate crime, spreading out the deadlines for exams, and creating more awareness for international issues. This means that we, as a student body, get better educated on various issues on various topics that effect all of us, as well as helping us reduce our stress when it comes to exams and that dreaded deadline season.

Khalid Abumaye has explained that he will be focusing on improving placement choices for nursing and medical students, providing more opportunities for postgraduate students for jobs and support, and bettering the welfare of the students on campus. Meaning that medical and nursing students will have reduced stress in finding a placement, and students are given more favourable circumstances in finding reliable jobs.

This year’s elections sparks a range of changes for Middlesex University. Let’s wish the new team luck and hope they manage to fulfil their promises to us!