Posted on Thu 04 Apr 2024 at 15:57 by
Amber Snary 
If you have been through campaign week once, willingly going through it again can mean two things:
- You really love your job, and want to continue to help out students as best as you can
- You have no fear in your soul, and should be feared in turn
I am absolutely the former and, being amazingly luckily unopposed, spent the week campaigning alongside current and future colleagues. This brings two questions – why campaign when unopposed, and what do you do when you are only against RON ?
Firstly – running unopposed. As ripped from my own linkedin post, I chose to still campaign because:
1) I want to know that y'all are happy with my work, and want to see me carry on
2) I haven't been a student for a year, and while I have great feedback from my reps, I also know they are super engaged stars, and won't have the same experiences of everyone else, and I want to hear these. Anecdotes from last years campaigning still drive me, and have been used to make real change, such as around IMCs.
3) Engagement ! If I can convince you to vote for me, you already have the page open, and will look at other candidates
4) By voting for me, you can keep me accountable - a key part of being an officer
5) Last but not least, these students will be our future officers. Presuming RON doesn't absolutely beat me out of the race, we will be standing together for a year - in marshalling, in front of the VC, local council and government, banding together for graduations. Why on earth would I not start supporting them now ?
Secondly, what do you do ?
I kept the little graduation hats of last year (not the same, remade, I swear), made up bags of both vegan and halal pick and mix, handwrote and tied heart warming messages to daffodils to cheer up dull days, and, fan favourite, made stickers.
In fact, here is the sheet in case you want to print them yourselves.
Student favourite was most defintely the skeleton ones, especially when cut off to read simply "f***ing rocks". Staff favourite ? PVC Education Julian Chaudhuri being pecked by Edgar Allan Crow. A classic.