LUPS Elections!

This week, it’s election time! Now is your chance to take control of the society, and either follow our good example or clean up the mess we left behind, depending on your perspective…

We’ll be meeting at the usual time and place (Fylde SCR, Tuesday 6-7pm), giving you another quick run-through what the positions entail, and then getting down to the election process. Anyone who wants to run for a position will give a little speech declaring why they’re right for the job; don’t worry, it only needs to be a little off-the-top-of-your-head jobby, not a grand powerpoint mission statement or anything! After the candidates have made their case, they will step out of the room while the rest of the members discuss the candidates and vote (it’s also possible to vote against any of the candidates for a position, if you don’t like the looks of them!). We’ll go through this process for all of the positions, going back to redo positions no-one ran for the first time round - remember, even if you lose out on one position, you can still run for another one!

The positions currently available (details here) are:

- President
- Vice-President
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Safety Officer
- Social Exec
- Website Editor

The positions of President, Treasurer, Secretary and Safety Officer must be filled, or the society cannot continue! However, don’t let any of the above worry you at all - the voting process is really quite informal, and you’re almost certain to get some kind of position on the exec, even if it means making up new ones (one year we had two ‘Co-Vice-Presidents’ - hmm…)! On top of that, it really is worthwhile being on the exec - it doesn’t take much time and effort, it looks fantastic on your CV, and it’s great fun deciding what the society will be getting up to for a year. And please come along and vote, even if you’re not planning on running for a position, so you can all have a say in who you trust ‘behind the wheel’!