This year’s Leadership Race candidates faced the annual Question Time last Wednesday, where they were grilled about their policies and manifestos. LS was there to bring a break down of each candidate section. Tyron Louw […]
Nudity ban rejected in Union Forum battle
An attempt to ban nudity on campus has failed. Meenakshi Sarkar proposed banning “advertisement in [the] Union or campus with nude/explicit photos of students”. Three Better Union forum members voted in favour, and nine against. […]
Sustainable Leadership Race?
Leeds University prides itself in its engagement for the Leadership Race, but are we engaged or just visually harassed by extensive realms of paper encouraging us to vote in a popularity contest? Ironically, this year’s […]
LUU Leadership Race 2013: The Results Live Blog
Update: The results are in – your exec and editors for 2013 are: Leeds Student – Rehema Figueiredo Equality & Diversity – Emma Friend Community – Frankie O’Byrne Welfare – Charlotte Warner Education – Alice Smart Activities – […]
Debate: Should there be limitations on LUU campaigns?
Unless you have been bunking for the last fortnight, you will have seen posters displaying puns, slogans and plenty of flesh around campus. This week Big Debate asks, should there be regulations for candidates’ […]
Leadership Race 2013: Candidate Question Time
On Wednesday, the Union hosted the annual Candidates’ Question Time event. The debate, hosted by LSTV’s Andrew Seddon, provided a platform for students running in this year’s Leadership Race to express their views and answer […]
LUU Leadership Race 2013
Update @ 17:40 – The live blog is now over, full concise coverage of the debate is now available online here. Or re-live the live blog below. Thanks to LSTV for their video stream. With the […]
Is block voting undemocratic?
With the leadership race upon us, it’s time to start thinking about who your votes will go to. Certain societies have been known to influence who their members collectively vote for. Debate asks, is block […]
Leadership race kicks off
A record number of students have nominated themselves to run the Union. Students having been putting themselves forward since December for one of the six Student Executive roles: Activities Officer, Education Officer, Union Affairs Officer, […]