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Fawziyyah Ahmed – VP Wellbeing and Diversity

28Feb

By Josh MarrNo Comments

Politics, Student's Union

Fawziyyah Ahmed – VP Wellbeing and Diversity

Plymouth Gazette are working with UPSU during this student election cycle to bring the candidates to you in their own words, unedited and unabridged to represent their true personalities and passion. These are Fawziyyah Ahmed's answers to our questions. Fawziyyah is running for VP Wellbeing and Diversity. Why are you running for your role? I have the pleasure of representing students for 8 months now as the current VP Wellbeing and Diversity, I have found myself in a position where I can use my experiences in University as well as empower students to call for a better student experience and I worked on a range of issues and campaign relating to student’s wellbeing and empowerment of underrepresented groups and rent rebates. I passionately believe that a student’s time in Univers...

28Feb

By Josh MarrNo Comments

Politics, Student's Union

Owain Gullam – VP Activities

Plymouth Gazette are working with UPSU during this student election cycle to bring the candidates to you in their own words, unedited and unabridged to represent their true personalities and passion. These are Owain Gullam's answers to our questions. Owain is running for VP Activities. Why are you running for your role? I'm running for my role because I believe the SU can do a better job for all students. Student groups are too marginalised from each-other, left to pick up the pieces of really hard situations and don't get equal representation. I have experience as RAG Chair, setting up other societies including the Plymouth Gazette, and helping to run established ones. I’ve represented UPSU at a national and international level at conferences, winning awards whilst doi...

Obioha Emmanuel Chukwunwike- VP Activities

28Feb

By Josh MarrNo Comments

Politics, Student's Union

Obioha Emmanuel Chukwunwike- VP Activities

Plymouth Gazette are working with UPSU during this student election cycle to bring the candidates to you in their own words, unedited and unabridged to represent their true personalities and passion. These are Obioha Emmanuel Chukwunwike's answers to our questions. Chucks is running for VP Activities. Why are you running for your role? My name is Obioha Emmanuel Chukwunwike (chuks)I am running for vice president of activities because I believe that covid19 has greatly affected our student experience over the past one year and so societies and clubs have not been able to perform as effectively I believe that now more than ever we need passionate and purposeful leadership that would be able to partner with students, societies and clubs so as to provide innovative solutions to ...

28Feb

By Josh MarrNo Comments

Student's Union

UPSU Election Disclaimer

When deciding how we will make the UPSU elections fair for all candidates, we devised seven questions which covered nearly all of the topics that need to be discussed, as well as an opportunity to send a photo of themselves and a video lasting a minute as part of the #MinuteToWinIt campaign. To show true transparency here are the candidates who did not send us their answers to our questions: Joseph Dasari - President Candidate Madeline Morton - VP Activities Candidate You can read their manifestos at upsu.com. If there are any concerns regarding our coverage please email editorial at editor@plymouthgazette.co.uk and tracy.priestman@su.plymouth.ac.uk so we can discuss everything. Happy voting!

18Dec

By Poppy CarrollNo Comments

COVID-19, Societies, Sport, Student's Union, SU Policies

Have Clubs and Societies Been Supported by the SU Since Lockdown?

BY POPPY CARROLL Once again, our clubs and societies returned to their Zoom activities, as physical operation was prohibited due to lockdown 2.0. However, during our first semester back at university, clubs and societies were able to operate fully - providing they did so under Government regulations regarding COVID-19. So, how did the student union help our committees in the run-up to our return in September and, how did they guide them throughout the recent national lockdown? With the majority of clubs and societies relying on physical interaction to run, it was bound to be a challenge to recruit and re-start while adhering to the Government's regulations. Like many clubs and societies, the University Choir Society's biggest challenge was not being able to meet up. A representat...

Your Student Representatives Up for Election Now!

15Oct

By Owain GullamNo Comments

Politics, Student's Union

Your Student Representatives Up for Election Now!

BY OWAIN GULLAM Part-Time Officers and School Reps make up the Union Council. The Union Council is your voice to our Student's Union and University. How does the Union Council work? The UPSU is a Union that represents students and their concerns and wishes for our community. As all Union's work, the Union Council is one of many forms of control that students have over the Union. Other roles include the Sabbatical Officers which sit on the council and the forums. The Part-Time Officers run campaigns and forums to make changes within UPSU to direct it's policy, and provide a direct voice for the students it represents. Alternatively, School Representatives work with their faculties and schools to improve the studies, working on projects that will increase accreditation ...

12Sep

By Lucas VossNo Comments

Entertainment, Events, Music, Student's Union, SU Policies

The Mis-sold Freshers Week

BY LUCAS VOSS Amidst a pandemic, nightclub venues are unable to reopen due to the difficulties in operating with sufficient social distancing measures. Despite the fear of permanent closures in the industry, event ticket representatives continue to sell tickets to unsuspecting students. Live entertainment. Image: Copyright Lucas Voss After the exam results chaos for the class of 2020, the incoming students who secured a university place this year will be excited to experience the much anticipated ‘freshers week’. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister announced nightclubs will remain closed for the foreseeable future. UCAS data in June showed deferred entry is 0.7 percent lower than the previous year. With grade inflation supporting an increased intake of university students a...

Plymouth Gazette Voted to Become An Official Society!

7Sep

By Josh MarrNo Comments

Societies

Plymouth Gazette Voted to Become An Official Society!

BY JOSH MARR At 07:20pm on 07/09/20, Plymouth Gazette was officially voted in as a Student Society at the University of Plymouth by society leaders in this evening's Society Forum. This means that you, the students, are able to become members of Plymouth Gazette for the minimal cost of £10 per academic year, with a one off £3 Student's Union joining fee, to write, be creative and learn with us from September. The Forum Plymouth Gazette passed with flying colours through the Societies Forum with 80% of the vote in favour of us, and answering questions from Debate and GovSoc about editorial independence and how we will allocate the funds we get from members. PG's answers were, in a nutshell, that we absolutely do have editorial independence, championed by Verity Lemm (VP Activities...

Sports Clubs Dependant on the Life Centre may Suffer into 2021

12Aug

By Josh MarrNo Comments

Plymouth, Societies, Sport

Sports Clubs Dependant on the Life Centre may Suffer into 2021

BY JOSH MARR A Plymouth Herald article last week revealed that the Life Centre will be closed for “essential repairs” until at least April 2021, leaving the survival of some sports clubs in question. The Everyone Active-owned facility has been open for eight years and supports at least six sports clubs as their facility, on top of the free student swimming sessions and countless other local sports clubs and teams. "It's been announced at the worst possible time" Max Kimble, Chairman of the Plymouth Mantas told Plymouth Gazette, "we had a really successful year last year in terms of gaining more paying members than ever before [...] this closure could send us back to where we were five years ago; struggling to get students interested and worrying about not being able to continue." Th...

Veganism in Sport – Is the Revolution a Potential Solution?

7Aug

By Archie MurphyNo Comments

Plymouth, Societies, Sport, Student's Union

Veganism in Sport – Is the Revolution a Potential Solution?

BY ARCHIE MURPHY Copyright - Archie Murphy As many of us have probably experienced in lockdown, there are only so many episodes of A Place in the Sun, Bargain Hunt or Homes Under the Hammer you can watch in one day. So, I started to flick through various other channels, and I came across a documentary by Jermaine Jenas – ex Spurs Footballer – on ‘Football Going Vegan’. As a die-hard member of the University of Plymouth Football Club and a general football fanatic, I find anything that is remotely related to the subject enjoyable. As it turns out, a documentary on football and veganism transpired to be quite the eye-opener. Who would have thought it, ay? Rhiannon Lamb...