Candidate for the position of Experience and Community Officer
Leroy Cohoone
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Hey everyone; I’m Leroy and I’ve been your Activities and Community Officer for this past year.
Before that I was a Postgraduate student at Keele and I graduated recently in January 2020. Over my time at Keele I’ve been on the committees of so many societies (and a club or two); these include Street Team, Gamerbase, Fencing, Esports, LGBT+ and Tea society to name a few and have helped here and there on many more.
I’ve also been a part time officer (the SU postgraduate officer) for a year too.
I am passionate about the things that make us a community, the societies we become a part of and the activities and interests we share that form those communities across our student experience in Keele.
I like many of you came to Keele not knowing what I’d be spending my spare time doing or who I’d meet and become friends with. That’s why I love societies and sports clubs; because you get the chance to meet great people in the same boast as you and dive straight in to all what Keele has to offer. |
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I love this place, I love people who come here and I love what we stand for and do here; which is helping students have fun, be that helping hand, blow off some steam and explore extracurricular passions and interests.
I’ve worked on many things over the last year and I’d like to make sure they stick around for more than just one cycle. These include things like:
- The creation of the new SU grants pot this last year so that societies that are struggling can get a little boost or need some money for a special item or event.
- Getting in more themed variation on our nights out and continuing with wacky, experimental, flashy and different things (like the Rave of Thrones, Mad Hatters and more).
- That we can continue to have consistent societies forum events and a proper societies page
- That societies executive keeps meeting and working with its new framework.
- That the campus wide herbs planters scheme #herbaceous continues to expand.
I’m running to be your officer again next year so that we can keep societies doing what they do best, going from strength to strength.
I’m running to be your officer again next year so I can continue fixing issues, making change in our SU and around the university and representing students.
I’m running to be your officer again next year to be there helping you as I always have.
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1. SU graduate engagement/grad cards - When we leave university we still feel a connection to this place so I’d like to seek a way for us to maintain that (which might come in the form of investigating the return of grad cards). On a serious note, after graduating we go from a very social atmosphere to back home in a snap. Post university depression is real; the back home process should feel like a transition and not a cut off, and if our SU can have graduates come back to have a night or two when they need it is good for everyone.
2. Maintaining the progress of the variation of our nights out - We’ve done a lot in modifying our nights out and the team are constantly working on it with the feedback they get, the feedback I seek out and input from myself (it’s probably the office I spend most of my time visiting apart from activities). I promise to continue to be innovating what we put on for our nights out and themes to do.
3. Transparency for society members - A problem that has been plaguing both committees and members that is recently coming to the forefront is committees and constitutions. Some society members and committee members don’t know what is in their society constitutions because they’ve been kept behind closed doors, with restricted access to only one person or a small circle of people. This needs to change. Everyone has a right to know what’s in their constitutions, what’s being done for them in their name and not go in blind to a society AGM not knowing what’s in their constitution. I would like society constitutions to be publicly available for all members to see.
4. More Storage space for societies - As societies, we’re always looking for place to store the things we need for socials and society activity. As we’re building up societies to do bigger and bolder things, finding the storage space we need is now starting to become a struggle. We’re reaching the point where we’ll soon have to think about better storage solutions for societies in and around our SU, so this is something I’d like to look into and make a priority for next year.
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Thank you very much for reading through my manifesto. Please vote for me and remember: Trust The Fro!
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