Disappointment surrounds YUSU’s ruling to disallow the candidate Arbitrary Party Duck to run for President in the Union elections.
The joke candidate was seconded by several members of the University of York’s satirical magazine, The Lemon Press.
APD’s spokesperson, Alexander J. Allison, claimed the decision had left him feeling “like we’d been shunned.”
The Arbitrary Party Duck for YUSU President Facebook Group currently has 195 members, exceeding those of both David Hansen and Matthew Freckleton’s, despite no campus promotion. Many students in the group expressed that they were looking forward to an alternative to the usual YUSU clique and ex-College Chair candidates.
Six candidates were allowed on the ballot for President, including a joke candidate David Hansen, whose many policies include “establishing a transparent paradigm matrix to promote synthesis and stimulate relational infrastructures.” Joke candidates have mixed success in the past, Ngwena’s predecessor Mad Cap’n Tom Scott, ran as a pirate and ended up winning and serving a full term.
Democracy and Services Officer, Lewis Bretts, told Vision “To be eligible to stand for election, candidates must be members of the Union… Arbitrary Party Duck’ is not a member of the union, and because he or she isn’t a real person, would be disqualified from acting as a trustee. On this basis, his/her nomination was rejected.”
Mr. Goddard, can you please maybe write an article that doesn’t set you up for a career writing for the daily mail.
get a hobby.
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What a harsh and completely unnecessary comment. How this article suggests any of the things you say is beyond me.
I have no idea what inspired this immature personal attack but perhaps you should let go of your own anger and find yourself a hobby.
The whole thing was a joke. Speciesism is clearly rampant within YUSU… In some ways this was a good result for me – I wouldn’t like to be in charge of a load of folks pushing their own pro-human agenda anyway.