Go Green Waste

From the Go Green Week Project Fund Bid:

In order to attract students, the Go Green coordinators have budgeted to spend £175 on the Blenda Venda smoothie maker which will also require £40 worth of fruit

Doesn't Quench already have some nice expensive smoothie makers?

Election Rigged

Eric has been AWOL for the past few days in an alcohol induced haze. In his travels, Eric has overheard a vicious rumour in a skanky Coventry bar that the election was rigged due to an Elections Group cock up. Apparently ex-students were able to log in to the SU website and vote... for Kirby it seems.

The current Sabbs are allegedly aware of this yet are sitting on their hands as the prospect of a repeat election is not an enticing one.

Is O'Brien a joke candidate?

Eric picked up a heftier than usual Boar this morning to discover it contained the election manifesto booklet - useful, as he has just run out of bog roll. It is doubtful that the Union asked Marvel Comic's permission to use Spider-Man's image to promote this guff, Eric hears they can be quite protective about this sort of thing.

A couple of candidates failed to submit their manifestos for inclusion in their booklet, rather sadly in the case of Phillip T. Woolley as his pledge to reduce lameness by 75% quite excited Eric.

The only other major candidate not to submit a manifesto for inclusion was Joe O'Brien, who's running for CDCO. Eric cannot work out if Joe is for real or not. His official campaign page shows him pictured with a bottle of Tesco Value gin (gets you shitfaced for 6 quid, bargain) yet he has some original ideas that, whilst perhaps unfeasible, Eric hasn't heard of before. Perhaps more of a half-arsed campaign than a joke one.

Being an FDSO is tiring work

The overbearing Union election regulations strike again! One of the 3 candidates for FDSO has some kind of fatigue related medical condition whereby he can only physically campaign for a certain amount of time per day. Due to some bizarre rule that Eric cannot seem to find, all candidates for FDSO have to provide proof that they are only campaigning for a certain amount of time per day.

If a candidate for President were wheelchair-bound, would all candidates have to campaign in wheelchairs?

Fergus fined

Lovable rogue Fergus has been fined by the Elections Group for misconduct. An email was sent on his behalf to Rugby Club members advocating his candidacy. Eric can only presume that this is a cockup by Oliver Vaughan (who sent the email) who can't have realised this is in fact against campaign regulations. This is the second fine Fergus has received.

Campaign regulations are in themselves a farce, Fergus should never have been fined for this email, but that gripe is for another post and a saner hour.

Make your mind up Ed.

Isn't Facebook Fun?

Usually I don't mind people hedging their bets, but Ed can't seem to make his mind up on who he wants to be President:



(Click for bigness.) His likeness to Matt Chapman is debatable, but I wonder if he's really considering voting for another FDSO candidate?

Meet Fergus

Laurence Fergus Griffiths is an upstanding member of the Warwick Student Body. Former Chairman/President of the Rugby Club, Fergus is currently running for President of the Student's Union alongside 8 others. He has obviously thought long and hard about the problems the Union is going to face in the coming academic year:

"In terms of actual policy I have deliberately left mine broad. It would have been easy for me to pinpoint actual small-scale ideas like the manifestos of some of the other candidates; I restrained from doing this for two main reasons. The first is that with there being mass changes in the Union buildings over the next year, I think it is important that policy is emergent and pragmatic."

You can tell he studies management can you not.

One wonders, though, exactly how emergent and pragmatic Fergus is willing to be:



As of posting this is the 5th hit on a search for university of warwick on YouTube.