In the first successful SU UCL General Assembly for four years, the Union was saddened to discover that their electronic voting machines were broken. Students were asked whether paper would be an acceptable alternative vis-à-vis confidentiality. At last, technology restores our trust in democracy. Darcy Bounsall
In a historic night for the Union, Tuesday’s General Assembly was the first since 2014 to which enough people showed up for the meeting to actually go ahead, so that advisory motions could be passed. The biggest talking point of the night was the spirited, sometimes emotional, debate over a motion to prohibit the use
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This evening, the results for UCL’s NUS referendum were announced, though you’d be hard-pressed to find a student who actually knew that such a vote happened in the first place. So much so, the results have been deemed invalid as only 903 people voted. To put that into context, UCL is the second largest university
Students’ Union UCL (previously known as UCLU) will hold a referendum this October on whether it wants to remain a part of the NUS (National Union of Students). As usual, we are late to the trend following on Cambridge and Oxford who both held referenda on the topic last year. The decision to hold the
