Dean Hickey has been elected Goodricke Chairperson for 2013. The former Environment and Ethics Rep beat Matthew Ayres, Alex McDonald and Benjamin Carter to the position.
After the first round of voting, which had a quota of 228 votes for victory, Hickey collected 217 votes to Ayres’ 156, while Alex McDonald and Benjamin Carter collected 63 and 13 votes respectively. The process moved into a second round and Hickey overcame the required quota to win, seeing off nearest challenger Ayres by 230 to 182.
One of Hickey’s key aims includes “selling Goodricke as a brand”, increasing the number of corporate partners and securing sponsorship deals with large multinational organisations. Cooperating with YUSU President Kallum taylor, he also intends to secure a cashpoint and shop on Heslington East, and improve the bus service.
While the positions of Vice Chair for Welfare, Secretary and Treasurer were all uncontested, Mason Guerney claimed Vice Chair for Services against opponent Leon Aves and Paul Gallagher won Female Welfare Officer against four other candidates. Tara Annison and Hayley Calvert won another intense race for Social Officer.
Goodricke JCRC 2013 in full:
Chairperson: Dean Hickey
Vice Chair for Welfare: David Cribb
Vice Chair for Services: Mason Gurney
Treasurer: Koren Randel
Secretary: Katie Kynaston
Male Welfare Officer: Connor Bennett
Female Welfare Officer: Paula Gallagher
Social Officers: Tara Annison & Hayley Calvert
Bar Officers: Nicole King & Mitchell Salter
Entertainments Officers: Josh Douglas & Lucy Shiplee
Sports Officers: Tom Merriman, Fabian Ashurst & Daniel Weston
Merchandise Officer: Steph Carter
Environment and Ethics Officer: Gabriella Demetriou
RAG Officer: Aidan Swietochowski
Volunteering Officers: Nikolaos Kontraros-Tsiokos, Mark Shapiro & Shaunna Edwards
Technical Officer: Saul Rennison
Sponsorship Officer: Alex Kontos
Marketing Officer: Hannah Quigley
Newsletter Officer: Scott Dawson
Janet Baker Court Representative: Joe Mortimer
Oliver Sheldon Court Representatives: Lara Demirci & Amalie Nordberg Juel
Kenneth Dixon Court Representative: Election void – To be re-run alongside the January By-Elections
Well this is certainly a contentious decision by Goodricke.
This I assume, being the same Dean Hickey that proceeded to delete all his opponents and their campaigns teams off Facebook and block them in a childish fit when he found out the position of Chair was going to be contested and that some people were daring to support somebody else? Setting a great example there Dean, well done!
I really am worried for Goodricke next year. Lets just hope that some of the superb candidates that have been elected to the other ‘executive’ positions will be able to make up for the weak link at the top.
ALWAYS GOODRICKE WHO ARGUE ABOUT PETTY CRAP THAT NO ONE ELSE CARES ABOUT. GOODRICKER, THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY YOU MORON, EITHER SHUT THE HELL UP AND MOVE ON OR CUT YOUR TONGUE OUT YOU VILE BEING!
Dean Hickey’s Facebook friends (checked today):
– Matt Ayres
– Benjamin Caterer
Yes he deleted them all off Facebook…Oh wait.
Overheard in Goodricke Common Room from the new Goodricke chair:
“DEATH TO THE GEESE!”
#justsayin