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EUSA elections

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James Wood: The everyday needs and wants of students are more important than internal politics »

James Wood

I’m running for president because I feel completely unrepresented by EUSA. I don’t think they work for the majority of students. EUSA representatives have shown themselves to be politically motivated and have made policy decisions that alie...

Mon 26 Mar 2012 by James Wood | Read more »

RoN rides again at EUSA »

With the Edinburgh University Student Association's October by-elections on the horizon, the democratic impact of co-ordinated RoN (Re-open Nominations) voting is being examined once again. After heavy disruption in last year's election, EUSA have tak...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Richard Morgan | Read more »

HWUSA and EUSA by-elections to begin »

Members of Heriot-Watt University Students' Association (HWUSA) have begun voting for candidates in their by-elections this week, including the currently vacant presidency. Mike Ross, currently senior vice-president and acting president of HWUSA, is r...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Leonie McSorley Sheridan | Read more »

The Rumour Mill: Factionalism the name of the game at EUSA »

EUSA GM (03/10)

Campaign season has kicked off in earnest at EUSA, and with it comes a surprising proliferation of gossip blogs and anonymous Twitter accounts - and the revival of this most unsubstantiated of columns. EUSA establishment favourite Matthew McPherson ha...

Sat 12 Feb 2011 | Read more »

EUSA vote for first year reps in record numbers »

EUSA elections

In a welcome change from the usual student tales of rising apathy and falling votes, there were many success stories in the recent Edinburgh University Student Association's by-elections. Over 2,500 students cast their votes which meant turnout increa...

Thu 15 Oct 2009 by Ross Cullen | Read more »

Done and dusted »

Joe Pike

Nothing is quite as surreal as the elections results announcement in Teviot’s Debating Hall: it’s usually full of drunken boisterousness washed down with lashings of bitchiness. However, the best we were treated to was a minor scuffle which...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Joe Pike | Read more »

EUSA sabbatical candidates state their case »

EUSA – quick statistics * 126 seats * 42 seats vacant * 22 positions elected * 41 seats contested * 135 candidacies * 94 members standing President Thomas Graham The University has tighter budgets than at any time in the last decade and ...

Wed 25 Feb 2009 | Read more »

The Rumour mill »

Mill

Like the fearful writhings of a dying beast, the rectorial campaign at the University of Edinburgh has, in passing, delivered one final slash at the guts of the contest’s loser. The slowing revolutions of rectorial rumour mill herald news that th...

Mon 23 Feb 2009 | Read more »

Manifestos at a glance »

HARRY COLE The Big EUSA Lottery A Students' Association-run lottery with £1 tickets, half the proceeds of which will go to the winnings, the other half to societies. Potentially a good way of raising much needed cash for the Students' Associat...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 | Read more »

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