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Issue #4 March 2011
| sa election
By : YewMaxine Below is the list of candidates conte -sting for the respective posts: SA Entertainment Officer Dilawar Soomro Lahiru Ovi J SA Diversity Officer Adnan Allawala Akeed Azmi Anand SA Societies Officer Ejaz SA Sports Officer Navin Jacky Chan Omar
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“We’re living in a jungle, that’s a fact” Candidates of the SA Elections performed their hustings on the 28th and 29th of March and each of them was given 5 minutes to convince their peers to vote for them. The whole process was pretty entertaining yet enlightening, as each candidate stood before the crowd and talked about their too-sound-promising manifestos. The crowd, in turn, got to grill the candidates with some spicy questions; some managed to sail through with more cheers but for a few… lets say the situation turned a tad bit nasty and unfavorable [confusion on who the ISB President’s advisor?]. The Q&A session was exhilarating, what with half the current SA Executives showing up and casting a bunch of worthy points.
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SA Communication Officer Mashael ElMasry Sara Abu Tahir
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SA Education Officer Tong Shwu Hua Bibi SA Treasurer Phenyo Matenge Harris SA Secretary Andrew Hamza Zarnab Amin
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SA President Khalid Saleh Natasha Gudka
Personally, some of the candidates did come out with a number of splendid ideas that they promised would be put to work once they win the election. One of the guys running for the position of the SA Entertainment Officer, pledged to search and offer better discounts for concerts, clubbing and other events. *Crowd went crazy*. More of the Not-too-bad jungle plans: -More facilities for physically challenged students. -Advance relation of UNMC with other universities through joint sports tournaments. -The tracing of missing laptops through laptop IP addresses. -Food: Introduction of receipt system to implement fair price system. -Summer programmes for the underprivi leged where Nottys can volunteer as teach ers. -Voluntary student help squad: patrols at TTS. Most of the candidates harped on the employment of the online system: e-proposal, online subsidy form and online
voting. Well the online idea wasn’t so new after all, was it? Just the implementation is. Present SA Execs Show Time: Ejaz, the current Societies Officer, seemed to be the only SA executive to be running for the same post again, and ironically, he faced no fellow competitor. Another familiar name, Natasha, the present Welfare Officer, was in for the post of the SA President.
You Sure You Ready for THE Post? Jing Shen: One must have the passion to help improve students’ lives and the right heart to work with the students. Commitment, good leadership and communication skills: you never get to choose who you want to work with because the team is elected by students. Part of your job is to bring the team together and push everyone to work together; get ready to solve conflicts; knowledge about the SA is not a problem, it is the passion that drives everyone to achieve vision of the team. Numra: Play clean, keep cool. There’ll be moments in the campaign when you want to scream your head off. Resist the temptation. Counting helps. If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen, it’s not the end of the world. Chris: Responsible and be willing to help the students with your own experience. Be committed to your position. Gear up to handle complaints. Khalid: Do not need a lot of experience, be committed, punctual and consistent, must possess high level of honesty and integrity, be able to understand the financial situation of SA and work within the budget and team work. Maybe we are not the best, but we have tried the best. In a nut shell, all Nottys should attend the husting activities for at least once in their years in Nott. They might find solutions to ‘dancing flies on kebabs’, or have clearer minds on voting for the execs that, for the student’s sake, would fight for better lives.
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Issue #4 April 2011
| inner workings: smc
Since behind the scenes is becoming a big thing in this issue, we thought we might share ours with you. Send in opinions to SMC@NOTTINGHAM.EDU.MY OR SMCREW.2010@GMAIL.COM
There comes a moment in everyone’s precious lives that reality gives them a boot in the arse. Reality can be in many forms – be it that you can never be with the guy you lust after from afar ‘cause he’s too busy being wrapped around the finger of the biggest puta in school; or it can also be in the form of you praying that a hole open up in the floor and swallow you whole because you’re too mortified of what just happened.
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-Sigh- that is exactly how I felt last week at our weekly SMC meeting. Not a lot of people – actually chuck that – no one knows about what happens inside the busy room on a Tuesday. But let it be known that there is never a dull moment.
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The editor shall enter - with her huge suitcase of a backpack which carries items which can only be described as the closest you will ever get to the Aztec gold pieces – at 5 minutes before 7. Following her would be the other 3 editors, and then trailing behind them would be the cogs that run the wheels. There was a moment a Tuesday ago that I would have wished to have taken back. I think you all know that the SU president from the UK was coming over. Well this issue was about trying to set up an interview with him. So I raise my hand – and me being the deprived female that I am – start asking our darling editor details about this ‘president’. Name, age, height, looks, hair, eyes...and looks but I digress. And she’s trying in her own way to shush me up but obviously who would listen in the moment when they’re trying to get some info on some fresh ‘meat’! I mean can you blame me, ladies?! Huh? And then I hear a very crisp voice, because the editor has ignored me and addressing someone I can’t see. So I lean back –and lo and behold- we have a new journalist in our midst. It is only time before I find out that he is a mobility student and the best part is, he shall be assisting
Moving on from this cheek-scorching moment – the editor assigns topics to the roughly 7 journalists present, and then the section editors. Issues the deadline for all of the minions to hand it over to her - so that she could pass up the articles to the graphic designers to work on for a few days; then, she addresses the photographers and asks them to hand in the pictures – which really everyone should send in more of ppl! – to the lovely designers. So the meeting is adjourned in 45 minutes of haggling – yes we are free to shoot around ideas and most importantly make fun of ourselves – for articles, trying to shove in more articles in other section editors spaces, and having them glare at the others to back off ‘cause they’ve already got too much in their section. They already have so much stuff to do and hats off to them for pulling it off leading to what you have in your hands. But then at the end of the 45 minutes which can only be described as something close to a fish market – the editors and writers walk away happy and the editor-in-chief, who is the most calm from us all, has placated everyone and written each and every idea us fish mongers were mouthing off, and has kept everyone happy until the next issue.
And in the end you hold the efforts of all the 25 people of our team in your hands. See you in the next issue ya’ll!
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