Election 2007/08

Hello everyone :) Kyara/Joss here, apologies for not writing my manifesto up sooner. I am running for the roles of President, Secretary and Publicity Officer, but mostly I would like to be President.

I would like to be President firstly because I have been asking people what they think about SUCS, and mostly people don’t want to join/don’t think the society is that great because they feel the gaming isn’t up to scratch. I would like to fix this by perhaps organise a weekly, or monthly, event where everyone who would like to could get together and play multiplayer games on consoles. Owning various consoles I don’t mind lending them out for an evening. Asking around I have also discovered that out of the games we do have online more choice would be nice, perhaps getting a rts or even a rpg online.

I would also like to find out which games work with linux, and perhaps once the gaming side is more known organise a LAN party in the SUCS room when it is not being used, with tournaments and prizes for winners.

We would of course have to make what we are doing known to people so they know about these things, perhaps by sticking posters up and putting adverts in waterfront or even by word of mouth. I don’t expect for this to work straight away but with enough interest and effort I believe it will happen. The reason I joined SUCS was for the gaming aspect, so it will be improved!

I would also like to organise more social events such as perhaps an outing to laser quest (several people in SUCS seemed interested at this idea) or maybe, as aeternus has done, an outing to the cinema, and perhaps organise lightning talks to occur more often, with people suggesting topics they would like to hear about.

Also, as it is the 20^th birthday next year for SUCS, we will be having a huge celebration. Either by making the beach party bigger and better, (yes, I know I wasn’t around last year to even know where to begin on this… but I’m open to ideas :)) and/or by organising something new.

I believe that I am an approachable person for people to talk to, if anyone has any ideas for the improvement for SUCS or on a personal level if anyone has any problems. I also feel that I can at least explore any ideas that anyone may come up with, and hopefully use them to make SUCS better (or at least, get someone else to… :P).

I know I am not afraid to ask for help if things go wrong, and hopefully I will learn from any mistakes I make (which I anticipate happening – no one is perfect :)). I also may not be able to get all these things done, but I can at least try!

Thank you for taking out the time to read this, and I hope I have helped you make your decision on who to vote for.

-Kyara