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Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, we not not have the hustings videos for this category. Campaign Video 1 Interview What is your background? 1. International Students Officer SOAS SU 2. Faculty of Languages and Cultures Representative 3. BA Japanese course Representative 4. Student Ambassador 5. SOAS Salsa Society Vice-President
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Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, we not not have the hustings videos for this category. Campaign Video Interview What is your background? I started up The SOAS Spoken Word Society in my 2nd year of SOAS. We’ve hosted a variety of events from nights inspired by Rumi to
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Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, we not not have the hustings videos for this category. Campaign Video Interview What is your background? Prior to coming to SOAS, I was vigorously involved in organizing campaigns, activities, and events such as fundraising parties and protests for grass-root human rights organizations in
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Interview What is your background? I have been Student Rep for my course and I have been active politically with Amnesty International, environmentalist and anti-racist groups in Bonn, Germany. What are the two most pressing issues facing students on campus today? With tuitions extremely high, education at SOAS is in
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Hustings Interview What is your background? I have been at SOAS for the last 5 years, so my background is SOAS! I have politically engaged at every level contesting the status quo, from challenging individuals and institutionalised inequality, to global issues, to academic issues. I am currently a National officer
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Hustings Interview What is your background? In my third year, I co-founded the ‘Agender’ society, for the last year, I have been Women’s Officer in the SU, a trustee to the Union, an NUS Women’s delegate, and have sat on the schools Equality and Diversity board and Public
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Hustings Interview What is your background? I’m Italian and I’m studying Anthropology and Politics. At SOAS I was captain of the Women’s Football Team, Secretary of the Italian Society, and have been involved with ADD and with the Student Reps. Before SOAS I was a rowdy teenager
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Lucy Warden, MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies With its pastel coloured buildings, grand Victorian pubs and leafy streets, it certainly looks like a neater, better kempt version of Camden. Some could be seduced into thinking that Kentish Town is just another area of North London succumbed to gentrification. However
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Carolynn Look, BA Chinese & Development Studies An increasingly predictable conversation takes place each time I tell people where I live. Oh wow, Kennington? No no, it’s Canning Town. You know, just beyond Canary Wharf? At this point I receive either a judgemental look because ‘I’m one of
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The following people have been nominated for the corresponding SU positions: Co-President Activities & Events Amar Shabandar Marco Vita Ana-Luiza Zain Dada Co-President Democracy & Education Hannah Slydel Tareq Sydiq Olimpia Burchiellaro Saqib Ali Rafiq Shadia Edwards-Dashti Grace Mason Ahrar Abbasi Co-President Welfare & Campaigns Tom King Agnes Adebisi Olowogboye
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The next SOAS Students Union General Meeting (UGM) is set for Tuesday 17th February. There are two motions here which focus on some of the most heated debates in the past few weeks: the format of UGMs and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. For your convenience, you can
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Johntex/Wikicommons – CC BY 2.5 Paloma Rao, LLB Law Love Coupons What you need: Card, scissors, ribbon 1. Cut out coloured card into rectangles to make your coupons. You can print templates online. 2. Decorate each coupon with your ideas. 3. Make a hole on the left side of