The Guild of Students Officer elections are all over and done with and Emma Cooper has been elected as LGBTQ Officer for the 2010/11 academic year. 1,214 students have made an excellent choice and I would like to congratulate Emma on her election. As for the 289 students who somehow felt that RON was a better choice, well...jog on, basically.

As with all of the new officers, Emma takes office on 1st August 2010 after my term as Officer ends. However, in the first few days following the announcement of results, Emma stood in for me while I was locked away completing my final year project and has done an amazing job, on top of her good work on the LGBTQ Committee over the past year no less. This bodeswell for the year to come :D

I'd also like to congratulate all of the newly elected officers - particularly Johnny Davis for making Guild history as the first re-elected Sabb!

Elections of 2010/11 LGBTQ Committee

Myself and Kitten also held the Annual General Meeting of the LGBTQ Association last Thursday, 17th March. Knowing that I would be more-or-less gone next year, and that the Association has become somewhat dependent on my technical abilities to maintain our online media, I pushed through a motion to create an Information, Communication and Publicity Officer position on the LGBTQ committee.

My relatively crappy report on campaigns and projects was easily dwarfed by Kitten's well-prepared PowerPoint presentation - our way of satisfying constitutional requirements of committee reports. In both cases, we had an opportunity to report on the successes and failures of this year to our members and committee candidates.

After listening to nomination speeches, distributing ballets and counting votes, we announced the election winners who are the new LGBTQ Committee:


Dan Guzman
Chair
Andy Roche
Secretary
Rob Unwin
Treasurer
John Chivers
ICP

Christian White
Open Place
Katherine Johnson
Open Place
Sarah Green
Open Place
Caitlin Horne
Open Place
 
Sarah Perry
Guild Councillor
Dan Doherty
Guild Councillor		  

A lot of these were elected unanimously; congrats to all in any case :)

I will retain my co-chair position on the committee with Emma shadowing until the 1st August at which point Emma will take over.