Categories: just-life
Date: 10 March 2005 16:07:22
For those of you who may not have noticed (or cared) today is the second day of our Student Union elections. A day which will decide how our Student Union is run in the upcoming year.
I have not yet voted and I am not going to.
Before you start pointing out that if I don't I have no right to complain who gets in, or commenting on the general apathy of the student generation I feel that I should point out that I have tried to vote and have been told that I'm not on the SU system and will have to get a letter confirming that I am infact a registered student here in Swansea.
The fact that I have a university card, have voted in earlier SU election (twice this year) and the AU had me in the list of registered students has nothing to do with this. I happen not to be on this list of students and therefore can't vote.
What's interesting is that this happened to me last year as well. I had to go between my department and the Academic Registary to get a letter that "proved" that I'm a student. What made this funny was that last year I was also a canditate, running for one of the positions.
I'm very tempted to wait until I know the Academic Regisrary is closed and therefore unable to give me my "letter" and then seeing what they do. Just as an experiment. Afterall, I have every right to vote, let's see if they let me!!