Candidate for SRC President: Andrew Quah, BoS nickname Phanatical
ANDREWQUAH&RESOLVE
It has been a long time since we could call the SRC “our” SRC, for it has become so far removed from the needs and interests of the students at our university that the SRC has lost all relevance to the students it is supposed to represent. Every year, candidate after candidate promises “Action”. Every year we are reminded that the SRC should put the interests of students before anything else. But every year we students are relegated to the bottom of a long list of priorities. While our student fees contribute to political campaigns against the government of the day, political campaigns against foreign governments, and in one especially heinous case, a protest at a boy’s funeral, students across our university continue to be unrepresented.
Student participation and feedback is essential to a sustainable organisation, yet it remains nonexistent on our SRC. With this in mind, I will work towards the twin goals of making our SRC more accountable and more accessible. Our SRC must address the true needs and concerns of students, but this will only happen with the determination and RESOLVE that I stand for.
I refuse to make meaningless promises of Action. I stand for Real Solutions, and Sensible Representation.
As SRC President, I will draw upon my own experiences as a student to facilitate the provision of the essential services to every student at the University of Sydney. As an affiliate campus student, I am especially aware of the issues facing students away from the Main campus, and I am committed to addressing them.
I am committed to forming student committees across faculties and degree structures that will advise and work with the SRC and University on the issues relevant to their courses.
I am committed to addressing student health, welfare and wellbeing issues on campus. As President, I will introduce health awareness initiatives and address the acute problem of student malnutrition.
I am committed to doing my bit to alleviate the financial burden on students. Students are poor enough, and I will not allow our SRC to continue exploiting students. I support FREE SRC membership for first year students, and lower SRC fees for continuing students - and as SRC President, I will pressure the other organisations to do likewise. Forcing students to pay obscenely high student fees is nothing less than a disgrace, and our representatives must take responsibility for their inaction.
I am committed to comprehensive, transparent and accountable representation for every undergraduate student at every campus and clinical site at the University of Sydney, no matter their faculty and degree, campus, gender, politics, economic background or race.
I have the determination, the desire, the RESOLVE to institute positive change on the SRC, to introduce honest and responsible student representation, focused first and foremost on putting the “Representative” back in OUR Student Representative Council.
ANDREW QUAH and RESOLVE.
The decision rests in your hands. Make the Sensible Choice.
www.thesensiblechoice.com
__________________
ANDREWQUAH&RESOLVE
- The Sensible Choice for USYD SRC.
www.thesensiblechoice.com
Julie Hanna // 01/01/1985 - 10/01/2005 / Rest in Peace
BA/BMusStudies // Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
Sydney Eclectic Composers Society // www.secsmusic.org
ANDREWQUAH&RESOLVE
It has been a long time since we could call the SRC “our” SRC, for it has become so far removed from the needs and interests of the students at our university that the SRC has lost all relevance to the students it is supposed to represent. Every year, candidate after candidate promises “Action”. Every year we are reminded that the SRC should put the interests of students before anything else. But every year we students are relegated to the bottom of a long list of priorities. While our student fees contribute to political campaigns against the government of the day, political campaigns against foreign governments, and in one especially heinous case, a protest at a boy’s funeral, students across our university continue to be unrepresented.
Student participation and feedback is essential to a sustainable organisation, yet it remains nonexistent on our SRC. With this in mind, I will work towards the twin goals of making our SRC more accountable and more accessible. Our SRC must address the true needs and concerns of students, but this will only happen with the determination and RESOLVE that I stand for.
I refuse to make meaningless promises of Action. I stand for Real Solutions, and Sensible Representation.
As SRC President, I will draw upon my own experiences as a student to facilitate the provision of the essential services to every student at the University of Sydney. As an affiliate campus student, I am especially aware of the issues facing students away from the Main campus, and I am committed to addressing them.
I am committed to forming student committees across faculties and degree structures that will advise and work with the SRC and University on the issues relevant to their courses.
I am committed to addressing student health, welfare and wellbeing issues on campus. As President, I will introduce health awareness initiatives and address the acute problem of student malnutrition.
I am committed to doing my bit to alleviate the financial burden on students. Students are poor enough, and I will not allow our SRC to continue exploiting students. I support FREE SRC membership for first year students, and lower SRC fees for continuing students - and as SRC President, I will pressure the other organisations to do likewise. Forcing students to pay obscenely high student fees is nothing less than a disgrace, and our representatives must take responsibility for their inaction.
I am committed to comprehensive, transparent and accountable representation for every undergraduate student at every campus and clinical site at the University of Sydney, no matter their faculty and degree, campus, gender, politics, economic background or race.
I have the determination, the desire, the RESOLVE to institute positive change on the SRC, to introduce honest and responsible student representation, focused first and foremost on putting the “Representative” back in OUR Student Representative Council.
ANDREW QUAH and RESOLVE.
The decision rests in your hands. Make the Sensible Choice.
www.thesensiblechoice.com
__________________
ANDREWQUAH&RESOLVE
- The Sensible Choice for USYD SRC.
www.thesensiblechoice.com
Julie Hanna // 01/01/1985 - 10/01/2005 / Rest in Peace
BA/BMusStudies // Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
Sydney Eclectic Composers Society // www.secsmusic.org
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