Re: The Official Union Board Elections 2007 Thread
amazerxl said:
and by the way simon, the policies you've listed(from nols) aren't the ones he is running on. anyways. the only thing with the radio which does seem to match, he said he wants to take it forward from having a station for only 5 days played during o-week which was implemented last year to having it 24 hours.
It's not just for 5 days during O-Week, it's on for about 3-4 weeks. Running student radio all year would be, imo, impractical and a waste of resources for the following reasons:
a) the quality of presenters is generally lacking (I should know, even I was on there at one point last year
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b) reception is dodgy just about everywhere
c) nobody listens to it
The fact that the policies listed are somewhat different doesn't matter, it's the fact that NLS continually run under policies they have no real intention of implementing. This is in contrast to Mark Chan (former Union VP) who ran under the premise of getting a proper membership card to access discounts (which has been implemented), and Simon Fontana (current board director) who ran under cutting the fee (which has now fallen from $270 to $99) and bringing private food outlets to Wentworth (for those of you playing at home, Wentworth was a very different and overall more depressing place back in 2005 with a couple of Union owned outlets and that was it).
with affirmative action, i'm a bit confused but i think the union needs to be looked at a lot more than just aa. it sucks taht women have gone quiet and i am glad they are planning to speak with everyone. and on those lines we shouldn't let this election be an aa sucks one but what are the candidates about.
I think that it's a pertinent issue, and I'd suggest that Ruchir does too given that he published his blog on AA before I did expressing his support for it. In other words nobody should vote purely based on AA, just as nobody should vote based on any one policy, but it's still an issue and one that is important to make a judgement on.
