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Monday, February 04, 2008

"Last month..."

"Last month, she said, oh baby don't feel so bad, you work so hard"

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Since term started I have:

• Completed work on phase one and commenced work on phase two of my student media strategy. More information is on my blog - http://www.kclsu.org/officers_vpcommunications.php
• The aim is to take this to the April trustee board and offer much improved student media provision, in the line with the rest of KCLSU’s student activity provision for the start of September 08 and beyond.
  
• Attended student council and they approved the aspirations of the plan.
• Trained and started to mentor 8 sub-editors to assist with the production of roar.
• Produced one issue of roar and started on another. This last issue was the first one to feature a fully elected student editorial team and the benefits can be clearly seen in the biggest and best issue to date. Feedback on the new issue has been almost entirely positive. RESULT.
  
• Arranged an interview with the mayoral candidates for the next issue of roar, out February 20^th. This has resulted in an email interview with Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone and a meeting with Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick tomorrow.
  
• Helped to co-ordinate a “roar does RAG” campaign to boost the visibility and accessibility of RAG on the strand campus.
  
• Held three roar “get involved” sessions to boost awareness and involvement in roar.
  
• Met with my heads of all the sites involved in this year’s 24/7 library run, which will start on 17^th March and runs through to May 30^th. We have been assured their will be better catering provision this year, and I will be starting work soon on a REVISEWISE campaign.
• Liaised with ISS over a February shut down of all business systems as they install a new generator. This means no email, web etc. Closure will be 15th Feb (evening) - 18th Feb (morning). After internal consultation we pushed for an April shutdown when New Hunt’s House is going to be closed, but PCT chose an earlier date. ISS’ publicity of the shut down has been abysmal and we are letting them know it.
  
• Attended an NUS Governance and Democracy day in Leicester. We didn’t learn much about governance (obviously!) but took away some useful advice which we can use to boost voter turn out and interest in the elections.
  
• Attended and assisted the Student Council Widening Participation and Communications scrutiny committees.
  
• Invited the Development Office to a gig at Tutu’s to show off the sound system the annual fund helped pay for over the summer. This will hopefully strengthen relationships between them and KCLSU.
  
• Attended ULU Trustee board and mandated them to set up a finance committee, a standards ethics committee and to hold a strategic review day before their next meeting at the end of February.
  
• Attended ULU senate and supported Adam in changing their sabb roles as KCLSU seeks to single-handedly save ULU from itself.
  
• Given a post offer open day talk to prospective students.
  
• Attended Healthy Living Week and the RAG opening ceremony at the Guy’s campus. Despite my dubious eating habits I am officially not a fatty. RESULT.
  
• Attended a resident’s forum at Brian Creamer and Rectory. Some interesting issues arose regarding Senior Students, Entertainments Users Committees (EUCs) and how such students are trained and supported.
• Liaised college to have a polling station in reception areas in the KCLSU election.
• Started to co-ordinate a University Challenge team.
  
• ...and finally...I have drunk over 100 litres of coke and successfully avoided Tom’s attempts to make me join the gym...

posted by VP Communications at 11:57 AM
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