Your new JCR Committee, the BY-Elections and much more :-D
Hello everyone following on from my last blog about JCR awards, I’ll be starting by initially sticking to the similar theme by officially putting out the list of your very own new JCRs who take up their roles in the beginning of next year and some information on when the by-elections are, how you can get involved and apply for the vacant JCR positions.
This election round saw a total of a 101 nominations for the 77 positions available and out of all of those we only had 19 unfilled positions for which we shall be having by-elections on Monday the 17th November 2014. The by-elections will be held in the boardroom (situated in the union building 42 on level 2, if you’re unsure just ask at the reception where it is) at 6pm on the day and if anyone’s interested in applying for the Vacant positions below all you have to do it come up with a 2 minute long pitch to present in front of the JCR Committee members on the day, if you can’t make it on the day then you have the opportunity of sending in a 200 word manifesto (email it to democracy@susu.org and vpcommunities@susu.org) of why you’d like to be in position that will be read on your behalf on the day.
I’d like to also like to congratulate everyone who has been successful in getting their post. I know you all can’t wait to get started, you’re all in for a heck of a journey 🙂
The following is a list of all the positions by halls and I’ve bolded out the vacant ones:
Archers Road

Your Welfare Officers
President: James Littlefair
Secretary: Rachel Neill
Events Officer: Daniel Roberts
Social Media Officer: Emma Power
Welfare Officer: Laura Angeline
RAG Officer: Christian Linsangan
Sports Officer: Sam Arnold
Bencraft
President: Natasha Skinner
Secretary: Vacant
Events Officer: Vacant
Social Media Officer: Nicola Grindley
Welfare Officer: Emily Perrin
RAG Officer: Vacant
Sports Officer: Vacant
Chamberlain
President: Benedict Landauer

Your Social Media Officers
Secretary: Vacant
Events Officer: Calum Healey
Social Media Officer: Finlay Meldrum
Welfare Officer: Izzie Soave
RAG Officer: Rebecca James
Sports Officer: Ross Pilkington
Connaught
President: Harriet Averill
Secretary: Vacant
Events Officer: Alexander Balfour
Social Media Officer: Daniel Nash
Welfare Officer: Bryonny Little
RAG Officer: Hamish Barker
Sports Officer: Stephanie Wood
Erasmus Park
President: Mark Jerrom
Secretary: Roberta Fowler
Events Officer: Samantha Elston
Social Media Officer: Samantha Gallagher
Welfare Officer: Rebecca Moore
RAG Officer: Vacant
Sports Officer: Vacant

Your Secretaries
Glen Eyre
President: Liibaan Mohamed
Secretary: Vacant
Events Officer: Natasha Moorcraft
Social Media Officer: Vacant
Welfare Officer: George Seabrook
RAG Officer: James Pearce
Sports Officer: Nicole Spriggs
Highfield
President: Kelechi Nze
Secretary: Kristin Barrett
Events Officer: Rhona Bunce
Social Media Officer: Vacant
Welfare Officer: Thomas Dowan
RAG Officer: Vacant
Sports Officer: Thomas Melieres -Frost
Liberty Point
President: Arun Aggarwal
Secretary: Isabel Baldwin
Events Officer: Bethany O’Connell
Social Media Officer: Harry O’Brien
Welfare Officer: Thomas Kouloumas
RAG Officer: Romy Sherlock

Finally your JCR Presidents
Sports Officer: Matthew Fairless
Mayflower
President: Jordan Macphee-Torres
Secretary: Ayush Kumar
Events Officer: Marcus Taylor
Social Media Officer: Samantha Higman
Welfare Officer: Benjamin Harding
RAG Officer: Eda Ucur
Sports Officer: James Bird
Montifiore
President: Gregory Williams
Secretary: Vacant
Events Officer: Miles Cottier
Social Media Officer: Vacant
Welfare Officer: Radhika Khanna
RAG Officer: Vacant
Sports Officer: Vacant
Private Rented
President: Daniel browning
Secretary: Shiyin Liu
Events Officer: Simon Pinney
Social Media Officer: Johanna Foden
Welfare Officer: Vacant
RAG Officer: Vacant
Sports Officer: Vacant
Moving on to the events side of things hopefully everyone’s hyped up for the Christmas Ball on the 6th of December which should be absolutely epic promising a whole host of treats.
Early bird tickets for which are priced at just £6 so I’d get them while they last over here: http://boxoffice.susu.org/view/190/jcr-events
I’ll also over here mention a cheeky Your Skills session plug 🙂
I shall be delivering one this Wednesday so if anyone’s interested in applying a range of interpersonal communication skills with confidence and much more then head over here to find out more about the it.
http://www.susu.org/your-skills/114/express-yourself-communication-and-interpersonal-skills.html
Finally it’s time for the regular Blog-ly Trivia question.
Last time I asked you ‘WHAT LIES AT THE CORE OF THE ELDER WAND IN HARRY POTTER?’
The correct answer is but of-course the Tail hair of a Thestral 🙂 The winner of last blogs’ free meal in the bridge is Sarah Howard.
Big shout outs to Aaron Scott and Bruno Russel as well for getting the right answer 🙂
To make the next one more interesting it’s not just the first one to comment but I’ll actually be choosing one person completely randomly from everyone who comments on the Blog with an answer. The prize is fairly similar but I’m raising the stakes to include a free meal in the BAR 3 Diner this time round 😉
So this blog the question is:
What is the significance of A113? Detailed answers will be given extra preference when the winner is chosen randomly :-p
And last of all if anyone has any questions for me regarding anything, literally anything do not for one moment hesitate to get in touch by emailing me at vpcommunities@susu.org 🙂
07/11/2014 at 8:10 pm Permalink
A113 is an easter egg inserted into films by graduates of the Animation course at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in reference to the room where they had their teaching sessions. It’s found in lots of films but most famously in every Pixar film from the numberplate on Andy’s Mum’s car in Toy Story to the Camera in Finding Nemo.
Well done to all the JCR candidates elected as well! 🙂
18/11/2014 at 5:39 pm Permalink
see who’s won
http://blogs.susu.org/sabbs/2014/11/18/winchester-bus-service-survey/
08/11/2014 at 11:35 am Permalink
Animators from the California Art School put A113 in little details in films and cartoons that they animate. I think it’s the room where they have some lectures. 🙂
18/11/2014 at 5:39 pm Permalink
see who’s won
http://blogs.susu.org/sabbs/2014/11/18/winchester-bus-service-survey/
10/11/2014 at 5:11 pm Permalink
A113 is the name of the road going from Leytonstone to Chipping Ongar, and who doesn’t want to go to Chipping Ongar?
18/11/2014 at 5:40 pm Permalink
see who’s won
http://blogs.susu.org/sabbs/2014/11/18/winchester-bus-service-survey/
10/11/2014 at 6:12 pm Permalink
A113 is hidden in many of Pixar’s movies. Standard examples of this include: number plates (Cars), wing numbers on planes (Cars) and room numbers.
More elaborate examples include: In Wall-E, the executive order given by the earth’s leader not to return was called order A113. A graph on one of Pixar’s animated computer screens was labelled “A1” and the column marked “13” had the highest bar.
The significance of this is that pixar’s founding animators studied in room A113 when they were at university in California, so it’s left in their movies as a throw back to that.
The other significance is far more sinister… “A” is the FIRST letter of the alphabet, which means it can be equated to the number “1”, if we add this up with the other three numbers, we get: 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 = 6. Six, interesting… As “A113” has three numbers, we must write out this result three times: 666. The Devil’s Number. OMG Illuminati Satanists confirmed.
18/11/2014 at 5:49 pm Permalink
see who’s won
http://blogs.susu.org/sabbs/2014/11/18/winchester-bus-service-survey/