Testing the Jester's privilege

Election post

Status
Elected
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?

Being part of committees of six societies- spread across Arts (Juggling, Fashion), Sports (RUMS Badminton) and General Interest ones (Space), I understand the different needs of each one!

I came into my role as treasurer mostly relying on training and frantically searching up “su ucl…” for any doubts I had- struggling to find an answer without having to call/visit Activities Reception. The struggle IS real!

I’ve seen firsthand the issues faced by us and have cursed at deadlines when I’ve missed them because there is too much information we must know from the start.

I can also make balloon dogs x

What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?

1. Make training better, NOT LONGER

  • I'll try my hardest to make it less intense and increase the pace

2. Improve digital infrastructure:

  • More resources easily accessible on the SU website
  • A way to copy info from past activity regs
  • Save handover documents and other such details onto the SU website
  • Create a noticeboard feature to help societies collab

3. Build a bigger community:

  • Better advertising for more participation
  • Connect non-engaged students with societies
  • Developing SocietiesUCL to increase collabs

4. Creating a SocietiesUCL Handbook (download-able) as an alternative to multiple training PPTs

Please summarise why students should vote for you.

Every society has its own ways to work and the SU needs to work alongside us. I will do my best to ensure each society is able to function smoothly throughout the year.

So, here is what you will get:

  1. Better committee training
  2. Better SU website and more accessible resources
  3. Increased collaboration with societies
  4. Improved advertising and marketing opportunities
  5. A bigger community
  6. SocietiesUCL Handbook
  7. Uni-wide events like, a Societies Scavenger Hunt!

Lastly, to get an idea of what the notice board would look like, I asked my friend Adam Cleary to design it, which you can find here: ucltools.xyz

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Testing the Jester's privilege
UCL is celebrating its 200th birthday in 2026. What do you think UCL will look like in 200 years time?

In 200 years' time, if UCL is still putting up signs about disruptive thinking and disagreeing well, I hope it is a university where students can do both of these things. I can picture more green spaces around campus and a special tube service that connects all the UCL campuses!

Stuff I hope remains: Fire Nights on the Quad, Sports nights @Scala, student productions of plays and MORE!!!!!

They should build a Portico 2.0 and for the celebrations, and risk-assess/approve fire juggling for UCL400! The world was robbed of such a treat this time around (I might still be a bit sad about this)