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City College Student Union Presidential Debate
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On the Community Chest programme, Dominik hosts a presidential debate for the City College student union. Candidates Shane Mann and David Mark Pratt outline their platforms, with Mann proposing technology-driven communication and accessibility improvements in the Norwich Building, while Pratt emphasizes the class representative system and budget priorities for student events. The recording also covers election logistics and the potential for a dedicated student radio station.
Dominik hosts a discussion on the Community Chest programme featuring student union presidential candidates Shane Mann and David Mark Pratt, with Jonathan Lovat also participating. The candidates outline their platforms, with Shane Mann proposing technology-driven communication improvements such as text alerts for cancelled lessons and a website relaunch, alongside enhancing accessibility for the union room in the Norwich Building. David Mark Pratt emphasizes the importance of the class representative system and argues for prioritizing budget spending on events and parties during the first month of the academic year to welcome students. The session also covers election logistics, including ballot box locations and the start of the presidential term on July 1st.
Topics
- Student union presidential candidates' platforms
- Student grievances regarding campus food and parking
- The relationship between the student union and college management
- Student union presidential election logistics and candidates
- Strategies for addressing student diversity and communication
- Proposed improvements to college facilities and services
- Student union communication and technology
- Funding and spending priorities for the student union
- Upcoming student union elections and hustings
Participants
- Dominik
- Shane Mann
- David Mark Pratt
- Jonathan Lovat
- D. M. Pratt
- Shane Man
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For an hour and a half to college for one day, their lessons are cancelled. They're having to go back home after the hour and a half journey. That's not how you treat your students at all. They need to be informed straight away in the morning by a text message alert saying, "Sorry, your lesson has been cancelled. Don't worry about coming in today." Or
A quick lick of paint to make it a little bit more accessible for all students. The door, the doorway to inside the uni is very small. I mean, those that have disabilities would find it difficult coming into the room. So I think we need to. We're not catering for all.
Make ourselves known to the students, get alongside them, and that happens in the in the first month that students come back. So we need, so we should spend as much money as we can on that. Quite frankly, because if we don't spend it then, and the students don't see us, then they're not even going to come back for the rest of the year. So we got to, we've got to.