{"id":40498,"date":"2019-03-07T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=40498"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:01:05","slug":"2019-student-elections-are-pointless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/2019-student-elections-are-pointless","title":{"rendered":"Student elections are pointless, argues Joshua Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Friday saw the changing of the guard at the student union, with new full-time officers democratically elected. Does this actually change anything?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40630\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40630\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40630\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/student-ele-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/noscript> Election poster defaced in a Cardiff university building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Springtime\u00a0in every university across the country inevitably brings with it well-meaning minions hanging up banners or offering sweets in return for a vote. A practice that has always reminded me of the child catcher from Chitty\u00a0Chitty\u00a0Bang\u00a0Bang.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just that these elections are annoying and make students want to avoid any university building with a foyer. Its that these are paid roles in which the people elected don&#8217;t seem to achieve all that much.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Have you voted in the Spring Elections yet?<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you have your say before Friday at 5pm! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElectionsCSU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElectionsCSU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y7c0U3vcr2\">pic.twitter.com\/y7c0U3vcr2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardiff Student Voice (@CU_StudentVoice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CU_StudentVoice\/status\/1101080188224503808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Union and by extension the university likes to use these elections as examples of it listening to students and addressing their needs. They point to what they call &#8216;wins&#8217;, like the increase in the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/about-cusu\/nus\/nusawards\/officers\/\">cups of tea<\/a> they handed out during exam times or a healthy recipe of the week suggestion for\u00a0sports students.<\/p>\n<p>While as a British man I understand the importance that tea holds for students in the UK, I&#8217;m not sure that pointing to the fact they handed out\u00a01800 cups\u00a0of it is the achievement they think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their wins aren\u2019t as trivial as tea or healthy recipes:\u00a0the Union also brags that\u00a0they handed out 6000 freshers wellbeing booklets,\u00a0or\u00a0about\u00a0the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/about-cusu\/nus\/nusawards\/officers\/\">mind your head<\/a>\u201d mental health week. These are undoubtedly positive initiatives as mental and physical wellbeing are important but surely the university should have been running programs like this anyway?<\/p>\n<p>I would never make light of health issues and the importance of combating them so I also can\u2019t help but wonder why the university doesn\u2019t hire medical professionals instead of elected former students to do this job.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marios, Student Wellbeing Champion tells us all about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UniMentalHealthDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UniMentalHealthDay<\/a> and the theme this year, Use Your Voice!. ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPM7HzFFeA\">https:\/\/t.co\/uPM7HzFFeA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xfklmgIAz6\">pic.twitter.com\/xfklmgIAz6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Student Life CU (@StudentlifeCU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StudentlifeCU\/status\/1103588611939856386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the Cardiff University Students Union officers webpage (that will have now seen an 100% increase in traffic because I clicked on it) there is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/about-cusu\/nus\/nusawards\/officers\/\">overcoming challenges<\/a> section. This section goes on to talk about a \u2018crisis&#8217; the officers&#8217; team had to deal with which, long story short, turns out to be writing a report by a deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all of\u00a0these officers are former students\u00a0whom\u00a0I have to assume have had deadlines before, so should\u00a0meeting\u00a0one really be termed as a crisis or even a challenge? This might seem petty to bring\u00a0up;\u00a0maybe it was a stressful time, but if deadlines constitute a\u00a0crisis\u00a0I have to ask what they do the rest of the time?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meet your new Sabbatical Officer team for 2019-2020! ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y44oTnhX1q\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y44oTnhX1q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WebNWbhYcz\">pic.twitter.com\/WebNWbhYcz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardiff University Students&#8217; Union (@cardiffstudents) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cardiffstudents\/status\/1101871363634184194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t doubt that a lot of the people trying to get elected for these jobs really want to make a difference to an institution that they have been a part of for the last three or four years.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand,\u00a0I also think that a lot of people go for these positions as a way of improving their employability.\u00a0Even the biggest graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospects.ac.uk\/applying-for-university\/university-life\/student-elections-why-should-you-stand\">careers\u00a0website<\/a> says that you should go for these positions to improve your CV, not for the love of politics or your university.<\/p>\n<p>Taking jobs to increase employability is not in any way wrong,\u00a0but all the candidates\u2019\u00a0campaigns\u00a0were about making a difference in students&#8217; lives,\u00a0not on how this will do far\u00a0more good\u00a0for their individual careers.<\/p>\n<p>Should we ask the student population to go out of their way to vote for people, who don&#8217;t seem to have much power to benefit them directly? it is\u00a0almost as if the union is giving the students the illusion of democracy in order to seem more benevolent than it\u00a0actually is.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ll forgive the use of an over-used quote,\u00a0Winston Churchill\u00a0said, &#8220;democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms.\u201d\u00a0I&#8217;d make the argument Winston never had to sit through election speeches shoe-horned into a lecture on a Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students&#8217; union has just held its annual elections. 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