Hullfire Online » NUS http://www.hullfire.com University of Hull Student Newspaper Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:10:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Digital Delegation at #nusnc11 http://www.hullfire.com/2011/05/02/the-digital-delegation-at-nusnc11/ http://www.hullfire.com/2011/05/02/the-digital-delegation-at-nusnc11/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 08:00:14 +0000 Online Editor http://www.hullfire.com/?p=2422 ]]> Whether because of the speeches, campaigns, fringe events, debates or the parties (oh the parties!) NUS conference provided excitement by the bucketful. On the first day we had opening speeches from Sarah Stuart, the Chief Executive of the Newcastle Gateshead initiative, followed by Rose Rigby the Performance Director who both spoke of the music acts that have been at the Sage and that both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party held their conferences there in its opening year and the Sage was expecting the Liberal Democrats next year, at which point there were mutterings of “if they are still around”.

Next up was Sally Hunt from UCU (University and College Union), she gave an
amazing speech in which she told delegates “you’ve been there for us right the way through.” She asked delegates to put their hands up if they had attended the tuition fee demo, at which point seemingly every hand in the room was raised. She said the demo laid the path for the march on the 26th. Her speech was only rivalled in its passion by those of the hard-left, Michael Chessum in particular gave some outstanding speeches and Mark Bergfield never seemed to leave the podium!

The central lobby of the Sage was a constant hive of activity as all the organisations associated with the NUS set up stall (literally) as well as the main food outlet in the conference centre being there. As if it couldn’t get any busier there was a veritable kaleidoscope of campaign t-shirts with the occasional Gruffalo or tiger wandering around and at lunch time on the third day a ‘Glee’ style flash-mob! The fringe events provided the NUS with an opportunity to showcase its campaigns to delegates such as ourselves; I know that between us we are bringing back a range of ideas for HUU such as Olympic themed events next year and zero tolerance to sexual harassment in particular.

For many of us I think the two main highlights of the week were Joe Oliver’s Block of Fifteen campaign speech which really did have us all in pleats (if it’s anywhere online then you have to watch it!) but also the speeches of the outgoing officers. Despite not knowing either of them personally Ben Whittaker and Shane Chowen’s speeches were both completely heart-breaking and hilarious at the same time. We all thank you so much for supporting us and voting for us to go to conference, you provided us with an amazing experience and we all hope that we represented you to the fullest. Feel free to get in touch with any of us if you have any questions about how we voted on motions or in elections as we all kept records of who and what we voted for.

We all have more extensive blogs on the HUU website if you would like more
information about our times at conference.

Victoria Winterton and Joshua Atkins
Image by: Google images

]]> http://www.hullfire.com/2011/05/02/the-digital-delegation-at-nusnc11/feed/ 0 Hull delegates for the NUS election results http://www.hullfire.com/2008/10/22/hull-delegates-for-the-nus-election-results/ http://www.hullfire.com/2008/10/22/hull-delegates-for-the-nus-election-results/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:31:25 +0000 Online Editor http://www.hullfire.com/?p=375 ]]> The NUS Delegate election results are in. Mark Alcorn, Irving Anderson, Richard Antony Jackson, Iain James Keers, Urslaan Waheed Khan, Emma Kinloch, Chris Marks and Ben Wilcox have been elected to represent the University of Hull at the NUS conference. Students voted at the end of Week 3 on hullstudent.com. The delegates will meet before the conference, and will welcome any comments or suggestions students may have

]]> http://www.hullfire.com/2008/10/22/hull-delegates-for-the-nus-election-results/feed/ 0 NUS call for a ban of ‘initiations’ http://www.hullfire.com/2008/10/15/nus-call-for-a-ban-of-initiations/ http://www.hullfire.com/2008/10/15/nus-call-for-a-ban-of-initiations/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:44:16 +0000 Online Editor http://www.hullfire.com/?p=313 ]]> The NUS has called for a ban of student ‘initiations’ in the UK following BBC footage of Gloucester University students taking part in a distastefully themed initiation party. Older students, one of which donned a Nazi-style uniform, encouraged those being initialised to drink excessive amounts of alcohol. The incident, although commonplace throughout Britain, has angered the NUS due to the offensive costume and the BBC expose which has again highlighted Universities as breeding grounds for Britain’s ‘binge-drinking’ culture.

Alex Johnston

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