 Do you see where Merge is now at the door? Can we be seen going out? No. No. No, it's pointing out. Someone share me the link if you can pull it over my way. We'll do it. Yeah, I have it on here to say I'll text it to you. Do you have the link for me to put up? It's on the big router. I just put it on there. Try to export this video there. What do you use to control? Capco. I use it the first time I speak in the logo. I use it just for my own videos anyway, but we would use it for where it's easy to do, to use, and it works to do like that. My aunt has tried to let me do it. She'll be able to do it for a long period of time. I'm really just hoping to try and maximise what students can get out of DC because I believe there is so much potential there. Do you agree with Brandon's take on how our societies are integrating, especially when it comes to big amounts? Well, like, I think there's always more that can be done and we can work more, but I would disagree with that. Some of you may know me as one of two blonde girls running for a well-being, so I should probably introduce myself. I'm going to ask you both what the most important part of your campaign is. Todd, I'll start with you. Well, currently kind of, I think, the student accommodations and ask a piece. Can I ask you another question? Ask, work away. How come nightlife comes first on your poster if accommodation is the most important part of your campaign? If you want to improve the system then, why bother changing it when it already works? You could say it works. To say it works is not say that it works properly. This is not something I'm promising that will happen. It's something that I'm going to campaign and pressure the university to do. I would really like to foster a more connected DCU. You, in particular, Brandon, you've been very complimentary of Todd during his presidency and the work that he has done. It's so much so on Monday that you would almost think you're proud of his campaign team at some points. I would genuinely put a lack of results, like after that protest, down to a lack of further action being taken. And a lot of the work of your colleagues on the union this year was to try and push DCU to implement more student purpose-built accommodation. I'm unsure how it would work if we aren't paying anything. It's beyond the students union. It's beyond the university. It is a national issue that needs a national approach. It all comes down to this. Your vote can make all the difference. The College View's coverage of the DCU Student Union elections continue. Your views, your college, your paper. Hello and welcome along to the College View Election Day coverage. It's the 22nd of February and we are only four hours away from hearing the winners of the 2023 DCU-SU elections. My name is Amy McLaughlin and I am the presenter of the College View podcast. And I am Marcia Carul, Deputy Editor of the College View. Coming up, DCU's voter turnout is a lot lower than what the candidates expected. How has that impacted the race? 1,950 votes are required on the yes or no side of the USI referendum. Currently turnout is only coming up at 1,359 below the required number for a successful referendum. We'll be asking candidates their opinions and discussing the reasons why students were asked for their input. We'll also be asking candidates of the ever scary reopen nominations vote. As many posters have been canvassing the wrong choice and they have been seen around campus. And lastly, we'll be discussing and covering the tidest of the races in these elections, providing you with the most up-to-date news on the elections themselves. So Amy, we did do a poll last Monday, about two days ago, didn't we? Yeah, it feels like a lot longer since Monday. It's been a longer than that, yeah, it's been a long week. But let's discuss what did we actually find? Yeah, so the poll was taken by just over 40, just under 40 people over the DCU-SU elections and through the College View Instagram. So as you can see here, we've got a mix of faculties and an awful lot of people from the humanities and social sciences, which is one of the big contested races at the minute in the part-time races anyway, and you can see 60% of the people who took this poll are from the humanities and social sciences race. And see, a lot of that school do cover politics, they cover media, they cover that type of stuff, so this is something that they're obviously going to go for. Yeah, and one of the biggest faculties as well, especially here on Glasnevin, with the Henry Bratton. If we actually look at the first pie chart just up above, you see that the majority of people were actually from Glasnevin. One person from the whole Hallows campus. One person from the whole Hallows, so say hello to you, whoever you are. So yeah, what else did this poll find? So we'll start with, I guess, which is the first race that we polled for. Probably the most important race most people will see, which of course is the presidential race this year. Current SU President Thomas O'Dowdyd was of course running again. With competition this year for the first time ever, Thomas obviously ran on a pose last year, and then we have Brandon Perry. As you can see from the pie chart, the people who've taken this poll anyway are all behind our current president to retake his seat at 34 people, which is 89.5%. With the polls added in from yesterday, it's looking like Todd is up there in that 88, 89%. Almost certainly, yeah. But I mean, we have to also take a look at is that the numbers that we saw, we'll be talking about this later on the turnout, because they were quite low. So we still don't know, there could be a huge push for Brandon Perry towards the end of the day. There could still be a huge and even bigger push for Todd. But I mean, even reopen nominations could get his own. Absolutely, one or two in there. As we can see, Todd is ahead, but we were talking to him earlier on in the week, and when we mentioned that we were doing a poll, he said, well, the polls are not always right, and they have been wrong in years before. I don't think this one is going to be wrong. I don't know. It's a tough decision that students have to make. I mean, both candidates are through our covers that we've looked at. Both candidates are kind of going on the same thing. They want affordability, they want the accommodation, they want a better time on campus for everyone. I mean, Brandon did say he thinks that Thomas has built a good foundation and he wants to kind of jump on top of that and make it even better. But I mean, the students then also have to look at the foundation that Todd built. Was that much better? Yes. So it would be interesting to see how that one goes. I meant to say is it much better for Todd to continue the momentum or for somebody to build off of his foundation. So moving on down now to VP for Academic Life, the only person running uncontested in the full-time roles is Owen Crossen, who is our current VP for Academic Life. As you can see here, 76.3% of people. Although a bit of a pull there in onshore and for reopened nominations. A lot of people that we've been chatting to over the last couple of days have said what's the point in voting in an uncontested race because surely that person will still win. Yeah, and it's totally that. But I mean, for that point we have reopened nominations on campus and we have the choice that students can make to say, no, get someone else in there. But you also have to ask the question, if it is what's the point then surely that person should think about voting themselves or running themselves. Yes. If they think that they can do a better job. I mean, that's not my words. That's probably pretty much the words of all of the candidates when I ask them about reopened nominations. So, yeah. Now, this is a race that I think everybody is anxious to see the outcome of this. Looking at that you would think Katie Warren, well-being, she's kind of got it in the bag. From what we've been seeing from people around campus that race is going to be an awful lot closer than what we think it might be. Two people who've run two very different campaigns for the well-being race, which I know we'll talk about later. Katie Warren, you can't miss her on the way in the door. The bright pink right at the front of the door, big signs vote for Katie for well-being. I mean, you are right. You can't miss her. But also, again, the two of them are talking very similarly along the well-being sort of arc. However, one of them is focusing more on like general well-being, feel-good attitude where Katie Warren has chosen to kind of focus on mental health and things like that. So there is a choice there still, very different candidates, very different type of campaigns. But I think that poll is what reflects it. It's a very different campaign to what we might be used to in a student forum. And every year well-being is probably one of the most popular races that people are kind of interested to see what's going on. It was the most voted for race up until the look at the figures this morning. So at 8 o'clock this morning it was revealed that the presidential race had overtaken well-being. But not by that much. And still right now, they're still kind of close. The president race has just hit over 2000 and well-being is catching up quick. You do have to also take into account that both these people are very likeable, very popular. You have a lot of really good supporting friend groups who are going to want to help them in this race and spread the word for them as well. And we saw that the both of them have large teams. There's a lot of people sitting at the desk with them down on the, what's it called, the roadway or the walkway or the road works or whatever they call it in the SU. But there's a lot of people sitting beside them giving out flyers and sweets. And to anybody out there who's never experienced election week in DCU, this week has been a bit mad. It did seem to be a group of first-years earlier on in the week who were just so overwhelmed by, there's people in t-shirts everywhere handing out sweets, handing out flyers. It's like a political, it's almost like an alleyway down the bottom of the street for you, isn't it? Like a lot of people, I remember in first year obviously I was online so I didn't really actually know what any of this was about. I think actually I voted for it. Oh, so it was like an accident. I was like, again, I thought it was the fire line. I think it was actually we voted for the first year rep at the time or something and that was the only thing I did. There was nothing else. And it was quite different. And then I came into campus last year and I was like, wow, people put a lot of effort into this. There's posters, there's flyers, there's t-shirts, and as you can probably tell from all of the noise, there is something going on outside. The annual DCU carting trolley race is on today and many of the candidates could be seen sporting trolleys with their t-shirts and signs hanging out of them. I mean, great timing from the guy. I'm not lying. They've gotten great publicity for their race today. No, actually it's a great event. I've been watching out the window. Just every now and again seeing someone wearing a bicycle helmet in a carting. In a shopping trolley. Being pushed around. It's quite literally DCU carting. Absolutely. So we move on to diversity and inclusion. Now, diversity and inclusion will be the first race that we're covering so far where one of the candidates or more has been virtually non-existent for the last week. Sam Mooney, as you can see from this pie chart, is ahead in our polls, but Rupinder Sain, who is the other candidate, was not at the hostings last Monday and was not pictured on anything. There was no picture of him on the flyers or anything like that. I actually have yet to see an actual poster of his. Whereas Sam has been very, very present on campus. They've been at the back, right beside the new bar and handed out advice. Hosted a fantastic open mic here yesterday in the U. I mean, that's kind of what we will see a lot of the time in these races. Whoever's very present, who's ever talking to people, really just wanting to get your vote. And wanting to get your vote, not just saying, I'll vote for it. She's one of the many candidates who will stand and chat you for as long as she can. And even if it's not about the campaign, like asking how your day is, are you interested in the elections? Are you interested in voting full stop? And if I spotted her yesterday chatting to a couple of first years who didn't know how to vote, explaining to them, this is how you vote, this is how it works, and this is what I can do to help you. Which is fantastic. Community and citizenship up is next, which is another hotly contested race. Aletheia Williams and Emma Monaghan. Monaghan. Monaghan. There we go. Without the G. Without the G. I might have pulled in this race for onshore, which we have seen across the board. Is this because the two of them are quite, probably it's going to be a close one? It's definitely going to be a close one. And again, they're very similar to each other. They vote on sustainability. They vote on acknowledgement in society life, in student life. So it's definitely something that we will have to keep an eye on. It's going to be very, very tight, I'd say. I mean, we'll wait and see at eight o'clock to hear the exact numbers. Now, not only today are we covering the full-time elections, to the full-time positions who sit here on the salary in DCU and have offices on campus. Part-time positions are also a huge part of the SU and the people that represent each individual faculty, as well as the clubs and societies. Now, the club's officer, Kevach Deer, which is spelled incorrectly on that poll, but that's okay. Apologies to Kevach for that, has 34% of this vote here. But as you can see, onshore and reopen nominations, that's quite a close one across the board. Another person who has not been spotted has a photograph on the SU website. Close, yes. But no plans, no manifesto. There we go. Yeah, but it's also, from what I understand, they're a master's student as well. So it'd be interesting to see how they balance that as well. Because a lot of the part-time roles are usually undergraduates. So, I mean, it's a little different because in undergraduate, you have a lot of time. You're here for three, four, even five years. You're spending a lot of time in clubs. You're spending a lot of time in societies. Whereas master's, you're here one to two years, depending on how you're getting on, even three sometimes. But anyway, and you don't have the same amount of time to invest in clubs. It's a lot of academic life. So it'd be interesting to see how that vote turns out. Again, not very present on campus, not very present around the place, but again, we'll see. Because again, if you look at the kind of convenience of one candidate as well, some people might just say, well, I don't need to think about who I'm going to vote for because there's only one person to vote for. Again, look at reopen nominations. That's why it's there. But club's officer is quite an important role. Do you think that a lot of students invested in voting but will still come to have been to the polls today and may vote hopefully before they close this evening? We'll just see one candidate and just vote to them anyway, whether they know what's going on or not. Yeah, probably. Especially up until the deadline, when you want to kind of, if someone is walking down, what's it called again, the roadblock? The street. Yeah, if someone's walking down the street in the U and meets someone and says, can you vote for me today? Oh, how do I do that? And this goes on and votes for them. Just as a kind gesture. We're actually understanding that there's a whole lot of other elections going on. That might cause a few issues. But look, I mean, maybe Kivach has just been at it all day trying to hone in more votes. Absolutely. Society's officer is next. Shane Murphy, who people will know was a member of the SLC, the voice chair of Karating, the founder of Poker Society, who's the previous chair of the gaming sock, are up in this race. As you can see, Shane is pulling ahead. Probably helps the fact that one of the societies that he's majorly involved in is holding one of the biggest events of the year right outside the window today. How do you think this one is going to go? Do you think as well, like clubs and society's officer, a lot of people are kind of only finding out this week that these roles exist? Yeah, I remember it when I was in first year or in second year. Actually, yeah, even more second year, well, that's the thing. So, I mean, speaking with the both candidates, they have very different campaigns. One's very much focused on keeping and improving what's going on in clubs. The other one is very focused on inclusivity and diversity within the clubs or in societies in this instance. So it'd be interesting to see what do the students actually want more? Do they want the inclusion? Do they want the field diversity in their societies? From what we spoke to Shane about yesterday or was it Monday? Again, it's been such a long week. Yeah, it's not even a week, it's three days. When we spoke to Shane on Monday, he was talking about what's this bank on campus? Banking the financial stuff to sort of make it easier for people to get bank accounts. So much ideas, so many ideas. Whereas Matty's on the other end where it's looking more of the personable aspect of it and making it more sort of human rather than running it as a business. Our next position would be the Irish language officer, which is something I know very little about as my Irish would not be up to scratch. But somebody who has a lot of Irish is our very own Irish. The Irish language officer, what do they do? What's their role on... Coordinating with the Irish speakers on campus and then also the main body of executives. There's a lot of push for the use of Irish. All the buildings have their name in Irish on DCU. There's a huge pride of the Irish language in DCU, but it isn't used as much. And with that, the representation of it isn't great either. I know myself, if I want to avail to Irish services in DCU, even just going to the loans office and asking for a camera, I have to do that through English. I'm not one myself to say I want that always to Irish because that's actually in a real world that's never going to happen. We're both sitting down here speaking in English. On the other end though, there are people who do think that way and are very, very passionate about that point. Unfortunately, Michael Finn, again, like a lot of the other candidates, hasn't been very present. Doesn't have a very big presence on campus. I've been trying to track him down to try and ask him a few questions. If you're watching this, Michael, please come up to the water room. Please come up to see us. I don't even know his manifesto points, so I wouldn't even know what he wants to change. But they're very much so in charge of making sure that Irish is sort of kept on campus. There's a lot of work in this one. Next is probably what we're going to be chatting about a lot today, which is the USI referendum. Now, the question that is being put to the student body is, should the Dublin City University Students' Union remain affiliated to the Union of Students of Ireland at a cost of 8 euro per full-time student and 5 euro per part-time student added to the student contribution charge. Now, we were chatting a lot about this. I spoke to Brandon and Todd last week on the College View podcast about this when they were in for the presidential debate. You've been chatting to people about it. It seems like it is going to head towards a yes vote. But are we even going to reach the quota required for the vote to happen? I mean, the quotas of the tallies are pretty slow. Currently, what is it? There's 69% of the quota. Nice. 1,359 is what I mean, we said at the top of the show we need, what is it? 1,950 votes on either side in total, basically. For them to actually approve whatever message comes out of it and we still only have 69% coming up to four hours away. It's also not a thing that's been very forefront. A lot of the people involved in the SU who aren't running, who have the spotlight on them right now are the ones who are like, let's have a look at the USI, let's have a look at what we can do. So I mean, no, there's a lot of positive messaging around it. A lot of students are very for the USI. There is a no campaign which we will be speaking to later. But... If we don't reach the quota, we could be here again in three weeks time. Doing the exact same thing. Doing the exact same thing all over again. We'll just move on down here first, because we've got to talk about some of our part-time positions as well which I have to find which are somewhere else. Do you want to start talking about our first part-time position, will I? The Institute of Education, is it? Yes. Yes, indeed. If we look at the part-time positions the only candidate for the officer of the Institute of Education is Mark Don. And that he claims that there needs to be more Don on Pat's campus. And Don claims that Pat's is less represented in DCU compared to class 11 and hopes to integrate two campuses for more support and engagement. Mark also wants to host information mornings in Pat's and help teach students in their workplace. Don's main objective then obviously is to unite both campuses together. Yes. He spoke with the Hustings quite a lot about the issues that are ongoing in Pat's campus looking at exactly what is not being addressed there because they don't have represented by the moment. He is a first year going into second year. So it would be interesting to see the things that he's spotted and he can change if he is to be elected. Also not running unopposed that's the word I'm looking for. Yes, he is running unopposed and one of a number of part-time races that he is running unopposed, which you've discussed already Cavatier, Michael Finn Ben, it comes into them probably more hotly contested races than the biggest faculties being business and humanities and social sciences. It's the business race, we have Oshima Govren, we have Rose and we have Shania who has kind of fallen off a little bit since the Hustings. She was there on the Monday and now it kind of seems to be turning itself into a two horse race. Shania is a first year as well similar to Mark, who obviously I mean there were very good points that she brought up about mentorship about making sort of that relationship between moving through the college as a student and getting that guidance from someone who can give you a better idea of what you want to do when you get out of college. But then the other two they had more kind of practical stuff like intra fixing their portal making it more sleek giving kind of a good outlook of the business school because the business school and intra that is used all the time. And that's actually another reason why the turnout was so low because a lot of them are on intra and I still came to the students and have to pay fees and things. So yeah, I mean they're not on campus to find out. But yeah, it definitely does look like a two horse race. It's looking at it because Oshima Govren is the chair of CARTING CARTING seemed to be running in every race here. Maybe they've got a stake in it somewhere. He's the current society's officer part time on the SU and then he has that experience to back it up. He's the chair of the SLC and then you have roles coming up. I think this race is an awful lot closer than people think it is. Totally, yeah. The two of them are very experienced. Two of them have very similar ideas. It's just who do the students believe in more? That's kind of the question that they have to ask themselves in this race particularly. The last race we'll be looking at of course is the humanities and social sciences. REP, which is the representative for us as journalism students. We've Joshua Lowell who's a final year media and politics student and Sorka Rose McGrory who is a second year media and politics student and Sorka who is a second year journalism student. I think this is two people who've been very like civil with each other. I swear to God they're the nicest people. They're so nice to one another. None of the other candidates want to look at each other whereas these two are literally like go talk to the other candidates to see what they're saying. They've been so visual. They're here they've been in and out of about every class. Every time I speak to one of them they've said oh I've done 10 more class addresses since last we spoke. Running on slightly different paths Sorka's talking a lot about having careers fairs, the likes that law and business students get for communications and media students. Sorka's focus is a lot on timetabling and ensuring that students are able to their daily lives in the college run better so it'll just depend on what way students want to go. Yeah and I mean it's similar enough to what we were talking about earlier with Matthew and Shane. One person kind of wants to improve on what's happening right now, Josh with timetabling with extensions with all those types of issues and then Sorka's like let me bring in some new ideas let me have a look at what we can improve the student life in humanities and social sciences why did I say that so weirdly I don't know so yeah it'd be a tight race I'd say and again a lot of these we won't know obviously we won't know until until it's announced but a lot of these we won't be able to call quite easily. Yes I would think so now you're the thing that the college views team have been talking about all year is this year's voter turnout. The turnout has been quite slow however as we said at the top of the show we do have four hours left so if you want to get your vote in you still can do that on loop. One thing that the team has found that would be a cause of this is that many students who we spoke to have expressed that they don't know how to vote. So our very own Sarah Otumo was out earlier on in the week and had a chat with plenty of students about whether or not they knew how to vote or not. In the week of the DCU Student Union elections where the students decide between this candidate or this candidate or these candidates the student union has also proposed a referendum should the student body remain a part of the union of students in Ireland. So I think students should vote yes because it provides support for local unions it provides support for local students on the national issues so you look at USI this year and what they've been able to provide support on they've worked really heavily on the walk out. Now I know there is issues of what came of that but I think that's where we can play a better role in getting more active and engaged so I think they empower the student movement across the board in an equal way and you don't have students that are in one union maybe higher up the chain in terms of their education and activism compared to students and maybe smaller universities and smaller unions. USI is a very valuable kind of resource for us to be able to have as a battle class with lots of students so we get trained from there to be able to benefit the students on a day-to-day basis. They lobby the government which obviously saves us a lot of time from being able to do that so they organise meetings with ministers which is like Simon Harris so we're able to lobby for the 1,000 year reduction in fees which is a huge win for USI obviously USI are still pushing for abolishment of third level fees but it was a win for this year the 50 cent travel reduction is another big one that they kind of lobby the government for the free consciousness for 125s. The no campaign said that students having voted for the USI and they reject the additional 8 euro that students must pay to become a member. The campaign claims that the union only uses the money for themselves and questions the efficiency of the union as a whole. The decision whether or not to stay in the USI is now in the hands of students. The referendum is taking place in parallel with the SU elections. 1,000 950 votes to either side are needed for a decision to be made. Mercer Carul, The College View Incorrect VT We have another one on What are we even covering? Myself and Sarah were hit out on Monday microphones in hand to have a chat with a couple of the students around Glaston Evans campus in particular to talk about do they know how to vote do they know what the elections were. I think it's interesting to chat to first years about this because it's one of those times of the year where they really I think start to feel like first years again once they started to settle in because they have no idea what's going on. Again, I wasn't on campus in first year I hate to keep bringing this up but for yourself, what did you think of that? Last month, last year You could definitely see I think this year it all kind of started with a bang. It kind of hit last Monday or Tuesday and suddenly there was posters, there was t-shirts there was campaign teams everywhere ahead of campaigning starting on Valentine's Day at one o'clock on the 14th of February Last year it kind of slipped in slowly, posters kind of started going up there wasn't really a solid there was hostings but they weren't obviously we did a whole camera crew and team thanks to the ads from MPS over outside the offices last week I think it is it can be a little bit overwhelming for students sometimes it can be overwhelming for people to see which I think we saw on Monday ready to go, we have that footage now We have it now, so roll it Do you guys know how to vote tomorrow? I know it's on loop and they said to be open from 7 to 10 but I wouldn't be too sure where on loop so I'm sure I could figure it out Yeah, I've heard the same we were just talking to one of the lads earlier but I haven't really seen it advertised anywhere but I know for sure it's on the loop Do you know anything about the elections or do you know how to vote? No, not at all and I'm so confused I have had some people come up to me and I talk to me about it and I've seen the Instagrams and I'm agreeing with people but I actually have no idea how to vote What's to voting? Are you guys sure like how to vote? Do you know how to vote? No, I don't actually know how to vote I would have seen a lot of people saying only a vote for me but it's like okay but how do we vote for you? I'm not entirely sure in terms of that whether it's been made clear or not and I've just completely missed it I've been sleeping under a rock or something but I haven't seen much of where you can actually do your multimedia student career we were chatting there and you were saying to me you don't know that much about the elections No, I know absolutely nothing I'm not going to lie, I don't know what they're for I don't know any of the people I know that someone followed me on Instagram so I'll probably just vote for them I don't know And that was a clip from Amy Mulachman and Sarah Otuma earlier this week Talk to me about what you found in that A lot of no clue what's going on which I think was probably the thing if I could go back on Monday if I had a euro for every time somebody had said that to me I'd be a rich rich woman People were very confused about what was going on but probably they knew about well-being knew about the presidential race knew there was a referendum but were very unsure about what they were voting for if they voted yes, what would that mean if they voted no, what would that mean and a lot of people And I know this person because they're friends with this other person I know or they are part of this society which hopefully I think what I saw on Monday is kind of reflected in the voter turnout that we have today One of the things that stood out to me was like I'm agreeing with all these people I understand what they're saying and I'm like totally I want this but I don't know how to vote People have no idea how to vote and what I've seen over the last two days It's so annoying throwing in the fact that we have to do this two-step verification thing now which takes forever if you get it at the wrong time of the day the interest in voting seems to be very down Totally It's just like a it's not a fun thing to do really No, but you've got to do it But anyway we are joined here with Louise Hickey the news editor of The College View So what do you want to say Louise? Louise is going to talk to us about this currently Last night we did see the elections or yesterday evening we did see the first sort of numbers and the election statistics The lowest we saw at the time was if we look in the Guelga which was 503 but in the full-time roles it was academic life whereas there's only one person So Louise, tell me a little bit about what you think and what your thoughts are on the turnout at the moment It's a really busy week on campus, this should be one of the most busy and exciting weeks with the SC election but also it being rag week everybody is here for events there are people in trolleys outside It's all going on It's crazy, we were trying to film some box-box before this It was so hard to just get out of that noise because it's so busy Yes, the voter numbers are so low and you know we need over 10% for the election results to go ahead, we only met that caller this morning and this is probably the best time for people to vote so it's just a little bit worrying that we're now seeing those numbers rise At least we know that the election will go ahead tonight but in terms of the USI that's where I think a lot of candidates are worrying still just because we haven't reached that quota and there's just a lack of interest there and overall students just are really caring The quota with the USI that's a goal that we need to reach and if not it's just going to keep happening and happening until it does happen What we could look at though is that there was a little bit of a push last night there was more information that went down exactly how to vote and exactly how to do it So Amy, can I ask maybe what do you think of what's your opinion of the turnout at the moment? Is it good enough? No, and especially considering the fact that there's far more candidates running this year compared to last year like we were discussing it earlier President was a well-being and community and citizenship were the only two races in the full-time positions that had some competition every other position they ran uncontested and more people came out to vote almost double it's looking like at the minute like the referendum on the latest poll that came out we're talking 1,359 they had well over 3,000 people vote last year and close to 4,000 people voted in 2021 we are trying to find the figures for the 2022 election if somebody from the DCUSU is watching this and can give us a hand with that that would be fantastic but I just don't... like 3,000 would be great that's what... 3,350 or something is 30% which is the aim at the minute 5,000 has also been thrown around as an aim from some current members of the SU and then of course I was speaking to Brandon Perry last week who said his big aim would have been 50% and now he did of course say that that is a buildable thing and it's not going to happen this year it's probably not going to happen next year it's certainly not going to happen this year anyway and it may not happen the year after that but we're going rather than towards that aim of 5,000 people or more than that of 50% we're kind of seeping back now what I might ask both of you actually then is like if there is a vote of 10% do you think that's kind of fair is it representative of the student body I feel like 30% I think it's going to take a very long time for 50% of students students don't vote they don't even vote with local or general elections so like is it right to suggest that 50% of people should vote this year I don't think so but is it even worse that only 10% have actually done so I just think it's not representative of the student student body like 10% of people in this room you know like it just doesn't make any sense how many people are in this room right now 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 like that would be like 4 of us it's more like a majority of rules than anything and in this sense it's a minority it's only 10% of the student body which is just not big enough considering when these are the people just over half of one of us is 10% it just makes any sense and these are the people who are going to the government international bodies to lobby on behalf of the students at DCU it's so weird like considering we have so many political courses here and students involved in politics, the media, students who should care it's so weird that the turnout is so low and if you look back to even like 10 years ago like the health and staff from 2016 here so look back they were voting on this exact issue and there was a huge interest at the time there was 2,304 votes cast and out of these 2,176 voted to remain a BSI so that's over 94% you know and this year we're like begging people to vote like if we look back we were all there the day of the walk out like there was far more than 3,000 people at that walk out whether it was on Glassneva or Pats or on Hallows the entire university walked out of lectures that day about an issue that they cared about so I wonder is it a thing that students aren't actually realising that there is a connect with this that if you care about this issue you need to get out and use your vote for the right person to ensure that this issue is dealt with properly I think especially with the USI point like they were very key in that momentum in building that sort of that campaign and the fact that that kind of fell flat I don't know if that's going to really have an impact that could I think really have an impact even on the amount of people who care about those things like walking out and for a reason like the cost of living and to show that it's affecting students I mean people are going to want to do that it's easy you don't have to go through you know you don't have to talk to anyone you can just do it you know you're making a point you're making a statement you're almost voting with your feet but when you look at like when you look at this sort of thing and the way the momentum slowed down especially in the USI which we'll get to later on actually they've already seen the VT but we will get to that later on and we'll talk to someone from the NOVO and the ESPO on that but we have to kind of look at it like if there's a lack of momentum are people going to be interested like we were we were told there's going to be a lot more of these there's going to be a lot more of these events and campaigns and protests and there never was so I think your point that they're just not interested is exactly right I wonder is that because of what the candidates are pulling forward like should they be pulling forward more stuff to do with walking out and cost of living like is that what students care about rather than entertainment or events you know and is it a thing that they're kind of looking like let's say the presidential race for example which is the most voted on race people know Thomas will doubt they know his face they've seen him around he looks like it's looking like at the minute he's probably ahead in the race is it the kind of thing that I'm like right I'm not really bothered to go out and vote then if he's going to win without my vote yeah I think also like do you I know I'm the one meant to be like being interviewed here but I'm going to ask these questions of course there's no rules here today but do you think the way of voting should be changed then to make it easier or does that go against the point completely because if people aren't bothered to log on to loop then I think it's great that it's on loop because I think it makes it accessible for people on intra who could be on a RASMAS abroad people who are here in person do I think that it takes a long time yeah I think it does in some places you have to go in you have to put your preferences in and then is when you have to understand what it means what the preference vote means which is difficult in this case because it appears to be your first pass the post-election but we're voting by preference which doesn't really make that much sense to me and then you have to go down through and you have to make sure that you voted for every single person and you're going into every category maybe they should look at doing it in a different way they used to vote in person they don't anymore I do think probably the electronic way is the best way to go going forward they probably would have gotten a smaller turn out if it had been done in person I do think it takes a long time to vote and I do think it throws people off yeah definitely I think as well it's just like there's not really there's nothing down that's pushing students to do so the SU changing happens every year so if there's only two or three people who are actually going to change positions does it really matter if the president is going to be the same or if the academic person is going to be the same or if there's only one person diversity or whatever you know what I mean it's like I think the point that we said earlier as well is I don't know if anyone really knows what the SU does apart from the people like us who are interested in it because we all get an email we get an email every week from the students union I'd love to know how many people just skip over it or send it straight to junk mail or archive it or something like that like how many students actually sit and read these these emails I will say from my point of view I think that this year I guess you have been a lot more visible than they were last year you will see them around a lot more often you will see them at a lot more society events which can be important as well and that's where you draw up support sometimes as in societies and going and meeting people rather than just the week before you're running going ok well now I need to start getting to know people we did see like compared to last night like this was 48 am this morning you can see science and health it's somewhere between 400 and 450 people by that's this morning that was last night compared to this morning it's jumped again and it's jumped again it's closer to 600 now so they're getting there but it's these roles, it's the part time roles it's the people who are actually directly lobbying for individual courses I think they're very important races and people can tend to forget about those but the turnout's not been all that bad Institute of Education running on a post the science and health race is as you can see the most voted for a part time race and Adam Daly is running on a post however there was a lot of reopen nominations posters for that role and that role alone going on and he said that he met the person who was putting them up and was just like oh it's a democratic process that needs to be highlighted that someone could open and reopen the nominations if they chose to do so but then he was kind of questioning why aren't you doing the same thing for all the other unopposed hopefully we'll have Adam with us later on hopefully, yes to kind of chat and see his take on that it is the only race that we have seen a very forceful reopen nominations campaign for so it'll be interesting to see how that one goes and then of course you can see with the referendum this morning there was a few worries we're not even halfway there by two o'clock today we're about three quarters of the way there so hopefully by seven we get there if not we'll all be back in about three weeks to figure out what's going on just with the USR referendum as well the current members of the student union and of the student union's Instagram are promoting to vote to stay within the USR and it's just unless you're a big nerd like I am and look into it and vote why we should stay there it's quite hard to see as an average student why we should leave the USR and I feel like that could be a major issue in terms of keeping those votes fair we've seen the no campaigns points some of them are not correct as has been cleared up by several people it's 76,000 euro is needed to run the union every year it's not 156,000 euro and I think that's obviously the route they're going down it's more expensive for students to pay for the USR but there's also the argument that the USR without the USR if we were out on our own would we be able you also have to look at though the USR pushing for abolishing complete abolishing of all fees for third level students if that is to happen will there still be a requirement for us to pay that membership fee I think it would be a little bit more clear if that were to happen I'm unsure where that money goes we saw as I spoke about really wrong we had a lot of momentum with the various different campaigns that I mean I've covered it over the last year and a half there was various different campaigns but they all of them fell flat a little bit they started off with a bang there was two or three really big events that grabbed attention they were able to start talks and things like that and then the USR kind of molded them all together and made this one large campaign again I'm a little bit confused as to like what happened with that so I think that's another just for balance as well the way that the students are represented by the USR there's an additional fee that goes on your fees to have that representation and if the students don't feel like they're doing enough for them the biggest way to say you're not doing enough is voting no I mean that's not an opinion of mine but I think it's kind of fair to say that you should look at what do they do for you specifically I think that should pretty much be a better question to ask should we keep the USI do they benefit you or do the USI benefit you directly and that's what the type of questions should be asked not how much money is being spent from students what's the USI using the money for it should be less about money it should be more about actually assisting it and they're not very visible here on campus like there's no representative of the USI you see them every now and again you see them with careers fairs clubs and socks fairs somebody from the USI down but it's very difficult to understand as a student who may not be as well informed but you have to go and look for this information yourself yeah the fact that the current members of the student are giving their reasons and they're all very forced staying within the USI the fact that they're speaking about it and they're such knowledgeable people they're people that speak to us directly who we see on Instagram every day it can sway votes you know and it's just it's a little bit worrying that we're not meeting the full level the people that are voting are seeing all this coverage so it should probably be looked at and I don't know if it does reopen it should be final thoughts let's think about our final thoughts alright do you think we're going to have a big push can you see a big push happening no I think you know we've reached our highest point in the campaign in terms of people on campus I don't think there's going to be a big push at all especially with the turnout so far I think they'll get close I think they'll be like painstakingly close to it I don't know if it'll go over we're going to get there today what you can see down below today is if you are walking around there's a lot more of a push just to vote we don't care who you vote for please go on to loop and vote so we will see how it works what happens exactly well thank you very much Louise for your help and we will be moving on to I think we'll have Adam Day in a few minutes so we might go take a quick break we're all out now so stick with us and we'll be speaking about science and health keep watching the college coverage of the election finishes God knows what time tonight God knows what time it starts at 7 we all want it over please vote so we can vote we don't have to listen to that we don't have to listen to that we don't have to listen to that we don't have to listen to that we don't have to listen to that what's the scene set the mood what's the scene set the mood the elevator was like we're in this good sound the elevator goes up She's not in the board for hours. I was just like, oh, I think it's just like, that's like, it's so awkward. It's just like, bro, just move around the way. Is that what they have? We must stop on time. It's like, we just didn't know about it. We went down to the building. We went down to the building. Oh, thanks for coming. I was going to say I've been somewhere around. Like a tumbling. No, like I didn't know about the town. If I look at your... When he first looked at it. I like how this... Look at this. Instagram posts about training chest. Don't train chest wounds, bro. You train it? Only if you bench press. Only if you bench press. Get a strong ink line. Train for the point? No. Follow a stroller. Let's just do a normal bench press. A little punctuality. Yeah. What do you mean? Do you have to do a bench press? No. Do you have to do a bench press? Do you have to do a bench press? Do you have to do a bench press? It wouldn't happen to the business because I need to do a bench press. I don't know about bench press. I think it would, sir. That guy with a long hair, where'd you turn off? I was filming while you were... I was filming while you were... Only one? Hey, where'd your... It was like someone was... You're going to a fucking orphanage. What are they going to do? Tell them they're fucking parents? Exactly. Frank! Frank! What the fuck is with him? No. I don't know how to talk about it. Frank! Frank! Frank! What? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I say no to that. Okay, nice to have everybody together. No? Si. No. but I say no to that too. It was! We were walking together. Right. For once. Yes. Good to hear. It's been a lot of work, but I really, really enjoy it. I think there's something really fun. I study psychology, so I get a lot of joy out of being able to help people. And I think this role has really empowered me to be able to do that. And on top of that, it's been really fun getting to know the people and the faculties, whether it be staff or students who like the amount of personalities that are inside the faculty and the community as well. I really, really enjoyed it, yeah. Obviously I'm not part of one of this faculty, but I am interested to know, what is the kind of feelings around the faculty as a whole? I wouldn't know who was there previously before you. Do you think maybe it's a little bit better? Can you get a better vibe around the faculty, around the whole school? Yeah, so I'm not going to comment on anyone that was elected previously, just because that feels a bit poor taste, regardless of if they did a good or a bad job. I think that in my experience, being faculty rep, I think of improved things. Yeah, great. I think there's so many issues in Science and Health, and it's derived from the fact that it is, in my opinion, my very biased opinion, probably the most diverse faculty in the course content that is provided. You know, you have the nursing cohort, which has so many unique issues specific to that, and then you have, say, financial actuarial maths, which is kind of leaning almost towards business, and then you have the harder sciences like chemistry, biology, astrophysics, and then you have the more kind of social sciences like what I do, which is psychology or health and society. Yeah. So I think there's so much... It's such a broad faculty that the issues are very sparse or equally when you get an issue that does affect everybody, it's hard to come up with a solution that works for everyone, whether that be with staff or with students. I think maybe one thing that I haven't been fantastic at this year is publicising the things that I have done, because it always feels a little narcissistic to be like... Sure, as well. I can imagine getting that work done or whatever it is. It obviously takes a lot of time, this job. I mean, I had to go to anyone who goes for these types of things, but I think the last thing you'd want to do then is be like, well, look what I did. It's more like, I don't want to look at that ever again. It is that fun. And I suppose you're going for part of a master position. You know, you're not going to be like... You're on the students' union, but you're not one of the people on the students' union. You're not one of the five sabbatical severances. You're not going to have a poster with your face on it. You're not getting paid. There's no kind of that aspect of it. I really think if you're running for a BTO position while you're in a course, you're doing it because you genuinely care. For example, one thing that I was really happy to achieve was a reading week for the entire faculty. You guys didn't have a reading week? Wow, I never knew that. It's complicated. There's a reading week in semester two for some courses, but for a lot of courses, this year is the first one that they'll have one. Across the board? Now, obviously, there are organic sections that because of the diversification. So, for example, unfortunately, the nursing cohort won't get that because of the way their placement falls and the way their classrooms have to kind of smushed. A semester one reading week was something that we really looked at today, or sorry, not today, this year, because you know what's intense? Science and health courses are really difficult and there's a reason why they have so many CAO points because they're highly competitive. And the amount of stress that's experienced in that first kind of semester is really intense to do without a break. However, unfortunately, because of a variety of issues, it just wasn't possible. So I was just about turning the attention and redirecting and getting the semester two one for everyone. Well, I mean, that's... Would you hope to kind of continue that trend on for the next year and year on? I've had it made a deal with the faculty that it'll be there for forever, especially unless decisions are made at a high level, but whoever takes over my position after me will be informed about it and then have their ability to have their say about that. Very good. So it's about ensuring longevity for this type of thing as well because the role isn't about me, it's about helping students. So it's about empowering who comes after me as well. One thing as well that I was really, really happy to achieve was semesterly assignment lists. So in science and health, a lot of the time, because the course content is so dense, you're only really getting your list of assignments or finding out that information. Sometimes week seven, we get quite late in this semester. So one thing that I really pushed this year amongst the faculty was getting the course cheer people to coordinate with the course, sorry, the school cheer people to coordinate with the course cheer people to make up this list of assignments to send out in the first three or four weeks. And I believe it was like 70 or 80% of courses actually got that information. Now that 20% is something that needs to be addressed going forward and that's just due to some schools within the faculty not really having that uptake from the staff. But on a broad margin, a lot of science and health students this semester and last semester will now have more opportunities to finish their work. Brilliant. Another kind of thing I want to ask then is about this year. You want to kind of broaden out the fun side of college because I know myself I have a lot of friends in nursing, I have a lot of friends in science. I hope you told them the vote for me now. My brother, he isn't here, he's over in Trinity but he's doing a science course so I already know what's involved in those long hours in lab work and all that extra stuff they have to do. But you want to bring in sort of extracurricular stuff. 100%. I remember one of the things that the Hustings was you get the slide tack with your least favourite lecture and I thought that was a really good... It's nice, it's fun. Is that something you want to focus on there? 100%. He got the reading weeks, he got all that stuff done. This year, I suppose the way I'd word it is that there are a lot of issues inside of them and they have not been addressed before so a lot of the time for me this academic year was working on fixing those issues and also kind of mending relationships with members of staff. To the point where now I would consider the role quite well respected amongst the staff because of the kind of bridges that I built. So next year I'm looking to do more project based work. So I've already started with the staff student coffee mornings and the reason for that, I think it's easy to look at social stuff as just social stuff but there's always a scheme behind it, right? Yeah, it's like to further develop what happened from it. Exactly, yeah. A social thing like a staff and government or faculty football although it's a really good chance for students to socialise and have that outlet that they wouldn't normally have because they have the long lab hours and they don't really engage in societies maybe as much. I think it's also a really, really valuable opportunity to get to know members of staff. So then if you do ever have an issue or you're really struggling and you just need an extra bit of help that it doesn't feel scary. It doesn't feel like a big deal to get in contact with the lecture and make that step towards getting the support that you need. To become almost more comfortable with that type of stuff. Exactly, you feel more comfortable to see those people. And it just creates healthier relationships within the faculty a better community and it leads to more academic success. I think, I believe. And then just lastly then is the reception you've gotten from students because your race is actually the most voted race in the BTO. Is it proportionally, of course, yes. So I would like to know like what's the reception been like when you talk to students? Do they recognise the achievements that you've done last year and are they excited for what you could do again? Yeah, I mean I think obviously we'll have to wait for the vote to come out to decide that. But I mean in my personal experience I found it overwhelmingly positive. I think I've tried to make the role a lot more visible because I find, especially with the part-time officer roles that it can be easy to kind of do the work but fade into the background a little bit. So even just having fun little things, I think students, they know me. They know my face, they feel comfortable. I say hi to half the faculty in the morning kind of coming into campus like that type of thing. I feel that there's more of a sense of community and I feel like the students hopefully feel that as well. And I think although I maybe haven't publicised the achievements that I've gotten in terms of like the reading week or anything like that, I think students have seen from like one-on-one work that I've done with them. I think I've worked one-on-one with over 50 to 100 students individually and then I have a class group chat and I text frequently different class reps where there are any issues or any ideas that they have to get them involved as well because again, the role, any role in the student team isn't about the person that's in it. I'm only as good as much as I empower my class reps and the class reps are only as good as they can empower their students and I would like to think that I've achieved that. Great, so building on that teamwork, making it possible to slide tackle your least favourite lecture and giving reading weeks, that's really good. I wish you the best of luck and we will head to another break. Well, thank you very much for coming in and I hope to see you later on. Thank you. That's for sure. No. Okay. All right, see you then. Here with Josh, one of the HSS candidates. So what are you kind of looking forward to? How is the campaign going so far? The campaign's going pretty well. I've talked to an awful lot of students. I've had a mountain of class addresses do today, a full schedule. But yeah, I know just trying to get people to get out and vote is the main thing. And how do you think voter turnout will be? Obviously that's kind of the question on everybody's lips but do you have a good feeling or do you think it's going to be, you know, the 30% from last year? Yeah, well, I mean, 30% was, I think, in the President's election. So it was much lower in HSS. I think we had about 520-something students vote in HSS, which is obviously a lot less than the students that we have. So I'd be hoping that we'd get a lot more out. Obviously a big part of my campaign is going to all three campuses, visiting all Hallows, Pat's and Glassnevan. So I'd hope that me reaching out to those students would be getting students who haven't voted before to come out and do the elections and vote for me. And what's kind of the one thing that you think, like, HSS students need? Like, what's your number one point in your campaign? My number one point, I think the main thing we need is effective representation and someone who can work with staff to achieve the things that will help students get through their daily lives. So we're here with Circa, who is also running for HSS Rep. How are you getting on? It's been fun though. And how do you think campaigning is going so far? Do you feel like you've talked to a lot of students over the past few days? I think it's going really well so far. I think I've been putting my best foot forward. I've been doing the best I can. And I'm more just enjoying the process. I want to do the best I can. So it's going well, I think. And a few of us on the College Review team have noticed that your Instagram and your stand and even your outfit, as we can see today, is all pink. But is there a specific reason for that? There were two reasons. One of them being that I wanted all my posters and everything to stand out. So when you look at the wall and you're looking at all these posters, there's this hot pink and you can't ignore it. So you see the hot pink and you've got me wearing hot pink every single day since I started the campaign. And also I own a lot of pink. So it makes sense to use it for my campaign clothes. I'd have to buy loads of more clothes to make it work. But yeah, it's also just a fun colour. I kind of encourage you to run if you think that you wanted the role. Honestly, this kind of work is something I've always done and something I've always enjoyed. I've always really loved working with people and helping people and helping people to raise their voices. It's just something I've always done and just kind of felt right to continue it. I thought I could do a good job on the role. It's something I would really love to do. I'd love to be an advocate for students on a wider level. And yeah, that's kind of why I decided to run. And speaking of the role, what is one thing that you think you will bring to the role? What is your number one priority if you do get it? Well, one of my number one priorities, I've got two big ones, but one of them is I want to expand the courses that get career fairs here in DCU. You know, it can kind of feel like it's just law students within the HSS faculty, Humanities and Social Science faculty. And I think, you know, communications, multimedia, journalism, translation studies, there could be so many more opportunities for career fairs for those students to make those connections before they actually leave college and also get internships. And that's one of the things I'd love to do if I was elected. That was our very own Sarah Otouma speaking to both of the candidates for the Humanities and Social Sciences representative race. I'm delighted now to be joined in studio by two of our very own college view writers, Harry Do and Rory and Liam. We're very welcome along to some election takeover. It's been a bit of a bad week. It has. It has. It's been an up and down week, I think, for a lot of people. You guys have been outside kind of milling around how's the atmosphere going? I think it's kind of starting to wind down now ahead of the big reaction to results. I've just arrived, but it seems like I don't know pretty hectic out there to me anyway, but I've just arrived maybe it was busy earlier. But a lot of people are trying to keep running around like some Brandon Perry running around and he's trying to get people to vote. He's eagerly wanting to get up to the accommodation locks he was saying and try knock on doors. To kind of jump in there. A thorough referendum. Yeah. Yeah. I think you might head up to Shenona or Gateway even to get a bit of support. It's been a really interesting week to kind of see how everybody has reacted to different campaigns. The ideas that are floating around. We're obviously all humanities and social sciences students as journalism students and we're looking at these two candidates now. Joshua Lowell and Sorka Rosenbrunnerty who at some point one of them by 8 o'clock tonight will be representing us in the next academic year and hopefully it's one of them and we're not left with the reopen nominations campaign. Both of them running two very different campaigns. Sorka is talking a lot about running careers fairs, the likes that the law and business students get for students like us. I know you guys are all on the hunt for intra-placements at the minute. You're all looking down the barrel of final year projects. Do you think something like that going into your final year and going into DCU karting are still, they're pulling for the end of the karting race we apologize for any noise interference in the back of the broadcast. Do you think having something like a business and careers fair might make it easier for you guys to go on the hunt is a good idea when I heard it. I thought that's a good idea. I like that it's obviously there's a lot of focus on getting a job immediately after you graduate. But I think bringing that earlier makes a lot of sense. Why wait until you are out of college before you start going to these fairs and exploring your job opportunities. I think it's a good idea myself. Yeah, it would be a very good opportunity I suppose for students like us to network which, you know, okay everyone has their LinkedIn or whatnot but there's a way of doing it or meeting people who have ads and whatnot but some students don't have access to it so I think it would be a good idea from that perspective. Josh, on the other hand sorry, go ahead. Sorry. No, you go ahead. I'm just especially for Germans and students networking is so crucial so I think especially for us I think it would work really well those fairs. Josh is running more on the side of everyday issues that students come about in timetabling which is lucky is us to just search JOR 1, 2 or 3 into open timetable they have to go module by module by module which I'd say is a pain if you're doing a lot of modules at once the other thing Lee in which you had quite a vocal reaction to is this 24-hour rule Well, I had a vocal reaction on the microphone throughout I'm a more abbreviated I don't think it's a great idea to be honest I think the point of a deadline is that it's a deadline I mean you can't have a deadline in my opinion after that where that's the real deadline you know there has to be a cut-off point at some point and that's the point of the deadline so yeah I don't think the 24-hour grace period as he called it I'm not sure if it makes a whole lot of sense to be honest Yeah, because for us the rules in the school of communications are every day it is late it's 5% docked off the mark up to 7 days and then after that nothing is accepted Do you think that for a student who is 2 minutes late over the deadline who is 5% just to somebody who is 24 hours over the deadline I don't but I also don't think in reality that's what would happen in the vast majority of cases so I think I think you know lecturers are human they understand that people can be ever so slightly late and you know they're usually quite forgiving about those kind of things I would imagine I don't think there's a raft of students out there who've submitted 2 minutes late and are dealing with 5% deductions across the board so yeah no I agree would agree pretty much what you just said there Liam like I mean a deadline is a deadline and I think especially for the likes of people sitting in courses like journalism you know you've got to work to a deadline exactly we'll go out here in a few months time and like it's going to be all on deadlines so the very fact that like a deadline plus 1 a deadline 24 hour grace period is there not still a deadline at the end of those 24 hours that's exactly it some people will see the deadline and say well another day and that's my real deadline push the deadline one day more I don't know would you guys be of the opinion that the humanities and social sciences portfolio would be one of the tougher jobs because it's quite a broad stretch of different courses you're talking people who are doing things like political science like obviously politics and media are connected but they're by no means the same course connected into this role would have a tough time covering all these I mean like you said the spread of courses is like this such a vast range of courses that definitely exactly what you said I think it is a tough job I'm not sure exactly what it entails to be honest but I would imagine with that spread of courses with that diverse range of needs that there are a lot of demands on the humanities definitely I would like to see like more of a there's obviously a lot of demands but you'd like to see maybe more representation of that person in the role because I don't feel like with like okay I can tell you here the current faculty rappers but I don't feel like you can you don't really see his presence around which it's something that I think would be good to see I would agree with you on that I think we've gotten a few we definitely have gotten emails over this year but probably more maybe even class visits and if there's an issue with your course I wouldn't say that the faculty rep would be the first person you would think of going to in that instance I actually don't know I've seen them around but I didn't know who I saw Do you think that's a thing that maybe the individual reps do need to kind of step up a little bit more to the plate I don't know I don't want to but I just I think maybe he wasn't as visible as maybe he could have been like Roy was saying you just want to be able to like put a face to the name I'd like I'd know him to see but just about so like you know you want to have someone who you feel like just a more of a presence basically so as humanity students is there anything in particular you'd like to see the new representative as well we're heading away I think I don't know there's nothing particular for me but I do like the idea that of the fairs having the career fairs before you I think that's a good idea it's a solid one because there's so many of us already working so many people in second have heard your journalism who already have jobs and for those of us who maybe are not as privileged to already have connections in the industry they're definitely needed to put in the door absolutely yeah it is very tough and even like you see people now like our course maybe scrambling to get opportunities and whatnot and like a bit but just the addition of like some sort of fair even if it isn't like first semester of third year would be probably quite beneficial absolutely well we'll be chatting all things business the business race which is one of the most hotly contested races at the minute in the part time roles as well as the after a short break Theo McDonald from the college you're here with Katie Katie what has the reception been like on campus today? you know what I feel like campus has been in the past two days has been absolutely electric like people have been so friendly and so supportive and I'm really encouraging everyone to vote for me as well and everyone's been really friendly to that and open to the ideas once I discuss my manifesto with them so it's actually been a very positive experience not as scary as I thought so that was nice too so what issues are you running on if you could summarise my manifesto is that like what I want to do yes yeah essentially like what I've been saying to students when I'm trying to give them the brief run down because you know when you don't want to interrupt people for too long essentially a couple of main points are implementing a Movember based campaign here for men's mental health and supporting that also having a psychiatrist as part of the counselling service so you know personally I've been to the counselling service and you don't want to walk in there and not have the issues that have arisen to not be resolved or really like do you feel the colleges neglecting it kind of at the moment a little bit when you kind of read up on the policies that are on the website and they say like but it's only kind of done by urgency I was actually saying on podcast yesterday that's quite disappointing for students as well so I'd really urge to change that and have everyone get in as quickly as you know as quick as possible it's very important and as well as what I'm discussing and I'm discussing a lot of awareness about you know sexual and domestic abuse as well I think like people actually don't know about that and that's very surprising I know it's only kind of a new movement but it's very interesting I'd love it discussed a lot more in college as well I know they did a pop-up here a couple weeks ago I went to myself but I really would love that discussed particularly targeting unhealthy relationships as well so I've been saying that to students too but I keep going because there's a lot I've been saying so much very enthusiastic so best of luck Katie thank you so much guys two hours to go thank you don't forget to raise the well-being candidates what do you say Emily Warren is that an actor? I don't think so Katie Warren anyway just made that up in your head as you can tell folks it's been a long week here at the college view Katie Warren just spoke to one of our reporters Theo McDonald Amy what do you think about that? I was almost going to call you Katie everybody's face is just blurring into one the well-being race I've been keeping an eye eye on all week Amy sorry Emily Warren is one famous singer-songwriter singer-songwriter thank you thank you researcher Rory Rory's moving from the sports department to entertainment next week it's been a race that we've been keeping an eye on all week well-being is always and has been for the last number of years a very popular race and I think that's probably just because of the generation that we're growing up in we're all very you know mental health focused well-being focused and it's a big part of everybody's campaign as you can see across the board nearly everybody who's running has some sort of well-being mental health element to their campaign I think this has been a really interesting experiment in how popularity factors into an election Katie Warren is very popular on the society side of DCU she's a member of DCU dance she's a choreographer she's very well known a lot of her campaign team are also very well known Sarah on the other hand is very popular in a different way she's an awful lot more of an activist and has been seen like you can kind of see from support on social media has the support of the likes of Usheen McGovern has the support of Thomas O'Dowd has the support of some we would call them heavy hitters within the SU so I'll be interested to see how this goes both of them running two very different campaigns both of them using different assets to see how their campaigns work Katie Warren held a flash mob yesterday with several members of the Heels Squad they did DCU dance but all all dancers which I thought was an interesting way to go about things I think she's first of all she's a fantastic dancer and she's a fantastic choreographer and her work is unbelievable was Heels necessarily the best route to go I don't know everybody's opinion kind of differs on that front I thought it was a fantastic performance I thought it was it was an interesting time of the day the EU was full people certainly knew Katie Warren was running for well-being sorry where's your face yeah I'm just a little bit confused because you're saying I don't know if Heels is the best way to go Heels is a certain style of dance which is what the girls danced in yesterday oh okay see I'm yeah fair play to them I don't know how to dance 6 or 7 inch Heels and a pair of tights in the middle of the EU when it's full of people it takes a lot of bravery everybody's opinion was kind of split on it I would fall on the side of Heels dancing and it's all about body confidence it's all about female empowerment it's all about working together and I think they were fantastic I think it was a great idea for her everybody's opinion is kind of split on it see actually you're saying everyone's opinion is split on it I'm kind of the opposite I was thinking she kind of is all about that empowering body image good mental health good good sort of I want to use the term vibes but it's not never say that again not a very professional term if I say so myself but yeah like it I feel like showing kind of a confidence sort of sides to you my helper and kind of benefitter in a sense I'm interested though in the other side with Sarah I would question if it's fair for Sarah then because I mean I don't know if she can dance in hands but she hasn't certainly hasn't been able to prove it if you know what I mean are you proposing a dance-off for the well-being race? yes that's how we set it let's it's a tired election the entire time I think your point though I think your point of popularity comes into play obviously someone who has is quite socially popular rather than kind of especially in a race like well-being yes but someone who's quite socially popular will have the confidence in a sense to be able to do that whereas the activism with Sarah that's all she cares about she doesn't want to dance I don't want her to dance even though I said she hasn't proved she can't that was more of a joke sorry Sarah but yeah the kind of question I would say though is it kind of is it sort of bending the the view of what well-being is supposed to be do you know what I mean yeah election week falls on rag week as we've all seen we have things like the carting race going on outside it just so happens that there's a lot of events going on that the that the candidates get involved in which I think is to drum up support from students who don't necessarily know a lot about the elections strictly compole dancing was on last night the underwear mile was on yesterday that we saw Thomas O'Dowd pushing actually pushing Sarah who's running for well-being in a trolley in the trolley race like maybe using those slightly more gimmicky parts of election week to drum up support is the way to go in certain races so I you brought up the kind of tough pushing Sarah in the trolley race I mean you said earlier on she has the support from the heavy hitters I don't know if that really matters in a student election you know what I mean especially for this is kind of even talking about quite a lot is that a lot of people don't necessarily care for the politics of it the politics side of it more people care of what am I going to benefit from up what am I going to benefit from this person being in the role you know and I feel Kerry Warren I mean focus on mental health getting psychiatrist on campus making it like especially the focus on men's mental health as well I mean they're very niche sort of things you know target certain demographics but they're quite popular yes and they're they're the main kind of fronted issues that when you think about well-being what do we think about well first of all like men's mental health is something that we are constantly trying to open the door on expanding services the counseling services you would hear every day from students I was waiting this long or that long well the kind of point I'm trying to make here is like yeah we could go back and forth talking about those popular ideas but I mean with the with the support of the heavy hitters as you call them with Sarah she obviously has something going on for herself you know what I mean yeah I think that the whole idea of the support side of things comes from the fact that for those students out there who aren't as well informed who perhaps are only following the likes of the president is reposting Sarah for well being maybe that's who I need to be voting for maybe that's I mean if you also look at the just the numbers itself that we've 10% just over 10% currently in the last figures that we've been given have we're in the president's election and similarly just over 10% a little under the president's election was the well being one so they're obviously the most two popular ones that are going on right now and it will be interesting to see who wins both especially in this one because I mean there is these flashy sort of literally flash mobs there's these there's the the activism side of it where obviously Sarah is very passionate about the ideas that she's trying to bring to the role and I mean so is Katie but she's kind of doing it in a more extravagant way and it'd be interesting to find out what catches the eye of students more because if we look at like Katie's manifesto for example increased mental health campaigns for body and food positivity free gym trials and more membership options for students breast check vans which is a huge thing free pregnancy tests free drug testing kits on campus for in her physical well being in sexual well being strengthening the framework around sexual harassment and assault and allowing sex services expanding contraception range and availability on campus and also she's talked a lot about ensuring that students are able to access the free contraceptive policy on campus through DCU health which was an issue at the beginning of the year and I spoke to Louise Hickey about it like she's picked topics yes they do slightly skew more female if we're looking at it from a demographic voting point of view but it's very strong and it's very well laid out totally but again similarly Sarah has a huge focus on consent and a huge focus on I mean here it's she wants a straightened framework around sexual assault and harassment she wants to pee for pizza initiative which is an STI testing where you get free pizza when you go I hope you wash your hands if you do those things they want she wants to expand safe sex education and services on campus and then another one it's student swipe card access to services so get pregnancy tests get condoms get heatpads but then also similarly enough free gym trial cheaper and more healthy lunch options breast check vans like there's very huge similarities yeah if you look at Katie like she has a few different things decrease of fee for parking clamping I would say looking like what we've just talked about with Sarah and then if we jump over to Katie's manifesto Sarah's plans are probably better laid out about how she would go about things which is I think is an argument we can make just looking at the two different manifestos but very very similar and I thought it was interesting that Sarah introduced herself at the hostings which you can hear in the promo so you probably know me as one of the two blonde girls running for well-being so I should probably start by introducing myself they've run very similar campaigns just with two completely different personalities I mean there's it's literally the exact same a little bit different in some aspects obviously there's a huge focus from Katie with the mental health side and then there's a huge focus from Sarah on the sexual health side as well but I mean in this instance it does come down to what we were talking about which is what is actually going to get students to vote more is it the flashy things that will grab attention I mean we talked about it earlier on the big slide she has right at the front door of the U you can't miss it you can't you can't at all or is it the kind of soft approach that Sarah has brought where she has the experience she knows exactly what she's talking about all laid out properly for all the students to look at and I mean maybe could be the better candidate but in the same instance they're both going for the same thing they're both the same ideas yeah so we're going to chat about USI next after a short break we are indeed and it's getting exciting now we're getting down to it we're an hour and ten an hour and nine minutes down for voting closing yes and we have a little bit of word from insiders in the SU to say we are actually getting very close to being able to make a definitive definitive decision on whether or not the student body should stay in the USI so therefore what we should be doing is saying go out and vote if you haven't already we're not going to tell you how to vote obviously well if you haven't already do push it see I mean if you've been following this I think you get the idea of all of the campaigns by now so make an informed decision though prepare for yourself and soon enough we'll be speaking to a few representatives from the yes and no side of the USI referendum that is happening today so yeah cheers in the week of the DCU student union elections where the students decide between this candidate or this candidate or this candidate or these candidates the student union has also proposed a referendum should the student body remain a part of the union of students in Ireland so I think students should vote yes because it provides support for local unions it provides support for local students on the national issues so you look at USI this year what they've been able to provide support on they've worked really heavily on the walk out now I know there's issues what came of that but I think that's where we can play a better role and get more active and engaged so I think they empower the student movement across the board in an equal way and you don't have students that are in one union maybe in terms of their education and activism compared to students and maybe smaller universities smaller unions USI is a very valuable kind of resource for us to be able to have as backpack officers but also students so we get training from them so we're able to benefit the students on a day to day basis they lobby the government which obviously saves us a lot of time from being able to do that so they organise meetings with ministers which is like Simon Harris so we're able to lobby for the 1,000 year reduction in face which is a huge win for USI obviously USI are still pushing for the abolishment of third level fees but it was a win for this year the 50 cent travel reduction is another big one that they kind of lobby the government for the free contraceptives for under 25s the no campaign said that students having voted for the USI and they reject the additional 8 euro that students must pay to become a member the campaign claims that the union only uses the money for themselves and questions the efficiency of the union as a whole the decision whether or not to stay in the USI is now in the hands of students who are taking place in parallel the SCU elections 1,950 votes to either side are needed for a decision to be made Mercer Carul The College View Welcome back to the College View coverage of the DCU SCU elections 2023 I've just lost the screen so God that's these never go smoothly these intros anyway there's less than an hour to go to the polls and we are going to be talking about one of the referendums this election to season and specifically we're going to be talking to the no side you just saw a VT there that I did about the claims that the no side have made and the claims of the yes side have made and why why we are being asked to basically cover and say whether or not we want to stay I'm joined here with Nico who is a representative of the no campaign am I correct in saying do you run the campaign I'm one of the founders of the campaign and I'll describe it as the chair person chair person right and why why is it important so then to have a campaign that represents the no side well of course you know it is a referendum and you know to any argument there are two sides so essentially our whole argument is focused on actually you know making sure that the USI don't necessarily get to cakewalk into DCU all over again like they have done for perhaps a number of years you know we've been advocating for votes you know for years now at this point so we're glad to have the vote and we're glad to argue against it and when why is that then why do you kind of oppose do you oppose the USI then as a whole what could I oppose the USI completely as it stands you know the USI are nothing more than unelected bureaucrats you know that they're coming in here and they're telling us what to do you know the people that run the USI are elected through you know a shadowy electoral college ordinary students such as myself or even you you know we don't get a vote in USI elections and I think it's absolutely ridiculous that they get to come in and take our money 76,000 euro every single year and they get to spend it under USI congress you know champagne caviar fancy wines God knows what else goes on at these congresses and ordinary students I think for it you know such as myself and you and everyone else you know on campus at the moment okay and do you not think though I mean just do you not think though that money goes towards representing the students at all I don't think so I mean that could be done for free if they wanted to if they feel really passionate about it they can do it for free let's be real they're essentially being paid at the moment every single student in DCU can do it for free there are organizations in this country that are run entirely by volunteers without the need for 76,000 euro from DCU students pockets that's essentially what we're spending on them to go out outside Liberty Hall with a nice flag and to wave it about and but see that the thing I would be asking is the DCU-SU they are also paid they're paid spout of gossip and we pay them as students so they're not kind of the same thing you say we elect those people we have a vote like we're voting for them right now so you see that's the key difference if we don't like them we can you know vote them out or you know we can take other measures to make sure that if we don't like the job they're doing we can remove them and we can't do that with the USA the USA right now is a shadowy organization that's above the issue that are unaccountable and unelected that are taking money you know 76,000 euro I can't get enough of that figure can you do spend that's kind of the point that you're hammering home here so is it purely like if USA membership was free and the USA did the exact same job as they do now because a lot of the DCU-SU representatives and VPs they lull over the USA they say how well the training is how well the training for both the sabbatical officers and the students are so tomorrow if they decided tomorrow absolutely no fees are going towards the USA would you be in favor of keeping them in DCU? well I think there'd be a stronger argument for them in that case but I still would be completely opposed to the fact that they are currently unelected by ordinary students you know at the moment it's a very small select group of people that's electing them and it's absolutely ridiculous that you know they're out there claiming to be representative of students when I didn't vote for them no one you know no ordinary student has voted for them so it's ridiculous for them to be claiming to be representative of students so I would still oppose them in that way but you know the argument for the USA would be stronger if that was the case if they weren't paid 76,000 euro a year do you not think the argument for the USA is already quite strong anyway considering the campaigns that DCU-SU helped put on from the USA here because I mean they are very well representative of the student issues and the cost of living we've had the cost of accommodation I mean last year we had what else did we have last year I mean there's loads of campaigns you do have a point but the point needs to be made why do we pay 76,000 euro a year first why can't it be done for free is it 76,000 or is it 152,000 because on your Instagram it says they want to spend up to 152,000 euro of your money that's with proposed fee increases in the coming years at the moment last year that technique is not really true though in the fiscal year in the fiscal year 2021 to 2022 we spend 76,000 euro that's in the OSL budget that can be looked at by anyone within the issue 152,000 figure I'm not talking about 76,000 I want to know why though your vote asks you it says on your campaign that they spend 152,000 yeah that's what it says is that not true that is an estimated figure the figure at the moment is 76,000 euro which is a ridiculous sum we're essentially paying them to go out and protest on the street they are paid protestors I think you have a point in that sense there is a certain amount of money going to them and we have talked about it here pretty much the entire week there's 76,000 euro going to these people we have these campaigns and you said yourself that you would be in support of the campaigns that they put on of course I support the campaign to lower the cost of living I'm suffering from it as much as anyone I'm an access student believe it or not and the USA haven't done anything for me they've only charged me money for work that can be done for free and now it's all one and good mentioning the campaigns that they've run once again, why can't they be done for free you don't need to be paid to go out there and protest there are hundreds, if not thousands of people that have done it for free you saw these solidarity marches earlier in the week most of them were for free I get that totally but the sense that I'm looking at here it's the momentum that caused but it didn't really go through we saw what the walk out but then there was nothing else after that is there anything like that in your kind of campaign that you're also looking at or is it purely just our own elected people who are taking our money well no Jesus the campaign is much bigger than that look the USA the USA have a tendency of making outlandish statements and then not actually backing up with action like that walk out that walk out was ridiculous it didn't actually help students and it only hindered them people are paying good money to go to lectures and the USA turns around and says actually lads don't go to these lectures you don't think the point of that was we are paying to go to these lectures some of us are paying extortion if you go to these lectures but at the same time we can't afford to get a cup of coffee but it didn't achieve anything at all it didn't achieve anything at all that's not the way to get changed the way to do it is through dialogue and communication and the USA haven't been great at that recently do you think though that the DCUSU could do that by themselves of course look the issue that we had this year look obviously they're not perfect they're human but like they did a great job by themselves and obviously other universities such as UCD and UL they are not members of the USA they don't need the USA so the question has to be asked why are we still members it makes no sense to me well thank you very much Niko for coming on you raised some very interesting points and some very different points what we've been talking about today so I really thank you for that we're going to head to another quick break so thank you again Niko and less than an hour 45 minutes an hour until the poll closes so if you haven't already cast your vote have your say and yeah we'll be back in a few minutes we'll try and maximise what students can get out of DCU because I believe there is so much potential there do you agree with Brandon's take on how our societies are integrating especially when it comes to big amounts well like I think there's always more that can be done and we can work more but I would disagree with that some of you may know me as one of two blonde girls running for a well-being so I should probably introduce myself I'm going to ask you both what the most important part of your campaign is well currently kind of I think the student accommodation is a mass piece can I ask you another question ask a work way how come nightlife comes first on your poster if accommodation is the most important part of your campaign if you want to improve the system then why bother changing it when it already works you could say it works to say it works is not say that it works properly this is not something I'm promising that will happen it's something that I'm going to campaign and pressure the university to do I would really like to foster a more connected DCU in particular Brandon you've been very complimentary of Todd during his presidency and the work that he has done so much so on Monday that you would almost think you're part of his campaign team at some points I would genuinely put a lack of results like after that protest down to a lack of further action being taken and a lot of the work of your colleagues on the union this year was to try and push DCU to implement more student purpose built accommodation I'm unsure how it would work if we aren't paying anything it's beyond the students union it's beyond the university it is a national issue that needs a national approach it all comes down to this your vote can make all the difference the college views coverage of the DCU student union elections continue your views, your college your paper three weeks after the vote so please vote now we've got a very tough one here Dave and Falter Rask the college view election coverage I don't know what to say Tommy let Michael Finn and I talk about role part I'm sure Michael Tom I'm not going to lie to you so what do you think the role part is kind of different from the manifesto well this year I've been here and it's been a long time I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I've been here I don't know how to explain it. I don't know how to explain it. I just want to give you a piece of my own and some volumes for the version. Sure. And do you have any thoughts on how you made this song? I don't know. I think it's a good idea and I would like to share my thoughts with you. I think it's a good idea to talk a bit about the song. I've always wanted to talk to you about it. You can talk about it on the clubs or the songs. I'd like to talk about the song about the song about the song. I think I like the language a lot more. So I'm really happy that I could speak to them. And I also like to speak to them. I like Kaley, she's a good person. Kaley is a great girl. I like her. She's a cultured person. And just a piece of food here. What are some of the things you like? My name is EPL and I'm from Gwelga, and I'm from Cagdeline. I'm a class rep, as you can see. What's your name? My name is Balachlemi, and I'm a student at Mann School in the year. Oh, in a year? Yes, she's from Galdiv, in fact. Are you from Cagdeline? Yes, I'm from T.Y. Oh, Calculator. Well, I'm from Gokrothlatt, and I'm from Almor. I'm from Cugdegnome, and I'm from Tassul, and I'm from Curgdegnome. I'm from Curgdegnome, and I'm from Curgdegnome. I'm from Curgdegnome, and I'm from Curgdegnome. I'm from Curgdegnome, and I'm from Curgdegnome. We'll be back soon with more coverage of the SU election this year. So yeah, we'll be back in a few minutes. Thank you. I'm really just hoping to try and maximise what students can get out with these two, because I believe there is so much potential there. Do you agree with Brandon's take on how our societies are integrating, especially when it comes to big amounts? Well, like, I think there's always more that can be done and we can work more, but I would disagree with that. Some of you may know me as one of two blonde girls running for a well-being, so I should probably introduce myself. I'm going to ask you both what the most important part of your campaign is. Todd, I'll start with you. Well, currently I think the student accommodation is a massive piece. Can I ask you another question? Ask, work away. How come nightlife comes first on your poster if accommodation is the most important part of your campaign? If you want to improve the system then, why bother changing it when it already works? You could say it works. To say it works is not say that it works properly. This is not something I'm promising that will happen. It's something that I'm going to campaign and pressure the university to do. I would really like to foster a more connected DCU. You in particular, Brandon, you've been very complimentary of Todd during his presidency and the work that he has done is so much so on Monday that you would almost think you're part of his campaign team at some points. I would genuinely put a lack of results, like after that protest, down to a lack of further action being taken. And a lot of the work of your colleagues on the union this year was to try and push DCU to implement more student purpose-built accommodation. I'm unsure how it would work if we aren't paying anything. It's beyond the students union. It's beyond the university. It is a national issue that needs a national approach. It all comes down to this. Your vote can make all the difference. The college views coverage of the DCU student union elections continue. Your views, your college, your paper. You're very welcome back along to the college views coverage of the DCU SU elections today. We are 10 minutes, just 9 minutes, they're gone now until the voting closes at 7 o'clock on Noop. So if you're watching this and you haven't voted yet, please go out and cast your votes. We obviously can't tell you which way to vote, but of course voting is important. We're going to discuss now the VP for diversity and inclusion spot and I'm joined by the features editor. The lovely Miss Hannah, how are you doing? I'm good, how are you? What's all of this SU election coverage? It's a whole new experience. So it's like seeing another like students showing all their manifestos and what they want to help DCU in general. And recently I talked to one of the VP diversity and inclusion candidates, Sam Mooney. It really has kind of the diversity and inclusion race has become a one horse race. Really the other two candidates, Rupinder Sain, who is a professional master's of education student and Alexander Victor is a PhD in machine learning. They've not been very vocal, not been very visible here on campus. So you spoke to Sam, Sam was around yesterday, she's around today, can be seen everywhere you look, held a fantastic open mic at the bottom of the steps to kind of drum up support. What did she have to say? So yesterday, actually it was two days ago, I talked to her and asked her about her manifesto. In one of her manifestos, she said that she would love to have more quiet space in all campus. Basically she'd love to have more sensory pods and glass nevain or even in pads or all hellos. But she said that having the pods, there's not much of like booking system. So she wants to have a booking system in order for everyone to have like the same time. And she'd like to have more quiet space for everyone because there's a lot of space for students, however, for neurodivergent students. There's not much in there. Because even if you look in the U like this week and you could really pick any week of the year as an example, the U is always really busy. If you're down on Pat's campus, Pat is a very overwhelming place to be. There's a huge amount of students in a very small amount of space. If you're looking for somewhere quiet to study, for somebody who is neurodivergent, could be on the autism spectrum, there's very little spaces to kind of stop and take a moment for yourself. Yeah, and she's really pushing to have more, if ever she wins, she told me that she'd love to have more quiet space for everyone. For everyone in DCU, especially those who are in both neuro-typical students and neurodivergent students. Talk to me a little bit about, did you speak to her about her LGBT plus manifesto points? Yes, she said that she'd love to talk to students, love to know their experiences, like how trans students in DCU, how they experience in the campus, and she said that if she doesn't talk to them and know their experience, it's not gonna be the DCU perspective, it's only gonna be Sam's perspective. She doesn't talk to them. So in her manifesto in general, she just wants to educate everyone so that other students won't be able to explain themselves in some ways. She's talked a lot about disability awareness as well, engaging with disability services to allow easier access for students, workshops to educate staff, societies and clubs and students about different disabilities, particularly hidden disabilities, more quiet spaces on campuses as we've discussed, and more wheelchair accessible spaces. If you look here on, say in the U for example, obviously there's a lift up to the floor, but the venue for example, which is a place where there's events on regularly, not wheelchair accessible. There's many places in Pat's that aren't wheelchair accessible. That's a big point of her manifesto. Yeah, and she mentioned that when she wins, if ever she wins, she told me that she'd get in contact with the SU to have more spaces for wheelchair accessible and she even mentioned that there are a lot of areas that are not fixed, so she'd love to have a stop on that. Some of them get broken and she'd love to find out how to make it better for them and how to make it comfortable for other students, especially with clubs and soft societies. Some of them are booking rooms that are not wheelchair accessible, so she'd want to make them better for students basically. She's just like the voice of peace. Christina Mahney, who is the current VP for Diversity and Inclusion this year, has done a lot about cultural weeks and involving the different cultures of DCU. You're very proud to be from the Philippines and you talked to me often about it. Is this something that's really important for students who may come from different cultural backgrounds and would you like to see Sam developing upon Christine's foundations next year? I think it's good for students to have representation especially in DCU and a lot of, I asked her with one question. I said, would you love to have a multicultural day or multicultural event for the DCU students and she said she would love to have one just like the clubs and soft fair but make it more like a multicultural fair. For example, having more of events that could encourage students to learn other cultures, other religions and she'd love to have all the students to learn about these cultures that we have, especially with my culture as you mentioned and she said that she's open to everything to talk to students, basically reach out and learn and she mentioned about the Ramadan coming up next and yeah, that's what she said. She wants to make it more fun for students and encourage them to learn. A big basis of this comes down to education and educating each other on people's different perspectives on life and she talks a lot about educating the community of DCU on diversity and inclusion so students no longer feel left out or feel like they have nowhere to go providing workshops to the faculty and education students on diversity so they feel better equipped when entering the classroom. This is something that's really important that those of us like myself, I would never understand it because I am a white Irish person. Is this something that you feel maybe if you were in a class that if a teacher understood your culture and your background would you feel more comfortable? I think I'd feel more comfortable and more approachable. They have the knowledge that my country or my culture has it would be better for me to be in a friendly society basically in DCU and with Sam's manifestos I think it's a really good thing that she's bringing this into the student body and making all the students more connected to everyone and basically she said I want to be a voice for everyone and a voice for all the students DCU is going to be a better society. Of course we've talked a lot about Sam but that's particularly because the other two candidates within the race have not been very vocal have not been very visible and you yourself have been trying to get in contact with them. Yeah I've been trying to get in contact with group and nursing but I couldn't find anyone that I could ask for his contact I'd love to know what his manifestos are if there's any difference between her Sam's manifestos and his manifestos I have no idea but hopefully if he ever comes out and tells us we only have two minutes basically but the other candidates when I asked Sam what's the difference between her and the other candidates she said I'm here and present I am willing to learn and willing to share my experience to other students and that's probably her main point getting everyone to be So it's 6.50 and right now there is just under 60 seconds left to cast your vote in the DCU SCU elections we're going to take a short break just after 7 o'clock and we'll be back to talk all things presidential elections have a review of our coverage of the week and just also talk about the voter turnout as hopefully we'll be getting in some final numbers about that 60 seconds left to vote we'll be back after this short break Well that's it, it's all over now being counted and results are due to be live at the bottom of the use steps at 8 o'clock of course we'll be there but there's one race we haven't talked about Yes and that is the presidential race of the DCU SCU president Who will it be? Brandon Perry or Thomas O'Dowd? We'll find out very soon but let's go over what they said in their campaigns over the last week Marish, you sat in I hosted a debate last week between Thomas O'Dowd and Brandon Perry Thomas of course is the incumbent DCU president Brandon Perry is a final year media and politics student what was your reaction to that because I think we've stated already today hostings are not perhaps the best way to get a view of students Totally yeah, I think Brandon came off quite well in the debate that you did between the two compared to the hostings the hostings he was able to I think that time limit they get in the hostings obviously it's needed and for a very good reason but when they were able to develop their thoughts and talk through what they're trying to do I felt like both candidates came across very well but especially Brandon Brandon during the hostings he didn't really develop further in the ideas that he would like to bring in but the podcast that we did definitely brought that aspect to the campaign even sorry that he needed it A lot of people kind of think it's an open and short race Thomas O'Dowd is obviously very popular current SCU president and has done a fantastic job and that is not an opinion stated that is very much fact up to 80% probably higher the manifesto that he put out this time last year he has followed through on one thing that he hasn't followed through on which is in the middle of doing at the minute the town hall debates which is a big part of Brandon's manifesto you can obviously see that he said it himself that he thinks that Thomas did quite a good job a great job in fact is what he said but we struggled when you and I were researching the questions to ask Thomas because everything he had said that he wanted to do he had somewhat done to literally the fullest extent if not to the fullest extent he had started or had built on so I think it's very important to state that he has done a good job but I mean on the other side of the way he's been looking at this for a year now and there's some things he still wants to do and some people might have the question well why didn't he do that in the first year obviously these things take time so why didn't he do that in the first year and that's what Brandon was kind of there for because he sees what Thomas is doing and he says he can do a better job obviously we will find out very soon who the students decided would do a better job but yeah it was very difficult to try and find things that Thomas didn't do very well his manifesto is broken down into a couple of different points obviously starting with student accommodation it might be worth mentioning slight spelling errors here and there across both of the presidential campaigns it seems to be since they have found the second M in accommodation so I'm delighted for Todd's campaign that they've managed to do that student accommodation, campus space, student light life a DCU-SU structural change and the student jobs hop very well put together 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 let's start with student accommodation obviously a massive issue all those months ago now with the walk out and said this is what I want to do I can't build the rooms myself but I'm going to work as hard as I can to make sure it does happen he's obviously going to start by powering through with that in his second term if he is to get one the point that he brought up is that we have planning permission for 1,200 rooms and nothing has been done about it so that's what he wants to focus on especially for the accommodation aspect is to bring in that point we have the planning permission whereas I mean I think he has the insight as to how they should do that properly and he's told us the college himself that he wants to do that by speaking to the ministers and trying to figure out ways that maybe they can do it in a tangible and sort of sustainable sense but on the other aspect of it it's been right outside the nursing building that has been built since before I came onto campus it's been being built a long time yes and it's under construction for a very long time again planning permission was there for a very long time I actually have no clue what the building is all I know is that it's a construction site right at the very front entrance of the university it doesn't look very well obviously that issue has been tackled by the work ongoing every day I see that thing get like 10 or 11 feet taller every time I see it but that's the sort of hurdles that he'll need to jump to get that push through I've been on campus here for two years but I know myself that construction site has been on campus right up to five years so it would be interesting to see how he does push for a start to break turf on that accommodation and it's going to be a tough run for him if he does get elected and if he does decide to push through with that promise furthering engagement has been another part of his campaign which is quite big to do with a restructure of the SU and making the SU more transparent and engaging more with students through class reps, through post-grad officers through the part-time officers he'll be disappointed with the voter turnout I think definitely I mean both of them both candidates said that they wanted 30% Brandon even said on our podcast that he wanted 50% and they wanted to work towards that the last time we checked and we got updated numbers from the SU was 2pm and only 10.7% of students in DCU had actually only voted in the present election the figures go as low as 4.6% in the clubs officer and similarly no 4.6% in the Ifigut and Gweaga so if you look at those I don't think they're going to be too happy with it again we had this conversation earlier with Louise it's a question of like is it proportional is it right should there be a mandate in place to where you need to reach a certain capacity of the students we have got word from the SU that the voting has gone up in the evening time on the afternoon of the second day ourselves both candidates Thomas and Brandon both were out talking to people getting them to scan QR codes getting them to log on to the loop telling them what they wanted to do and they are everywhere they're in London they're in New Bar I believe Owen Crossen is walking around with some sort of megaphone that keeps making that alarming sound if you're hearing it in the background it's still the bell they did it and I mean it's interesting to see because there was a lot of passion in that last two hours and it was kind of weird that that passion wasn't there the entire time should this push have started at I know 7am probably would have been early on Tuesday because nobody was in the building you're right though I think the push should have started earlier we did have a lot we had the Hustings event we had all those types of things going on I wasn't like how was that really wrong the back street or something we had people on the motorway at the U they were all looking into telling everyone what they should be voting how to do it but there wasn't that sort of they're jumping in from the people so I think it's not to say that it's their own fault but considering that both of them really wanted to include a really wanted to have a large proportion of students voting in this election it might be a little points to bring up that they had a very big push about an hour and a half before do you think if the referendum hadn't been part of the vote this year that the push for voting would have been so high I think so yes because of the level of students who were voting in the other elections I mean we saw it ourselves of the part-time and faculty officers we had very small turnouts obviously with the faculty you're going to have a little bit of sway there but with officers like part-time like societies, Guelguert, clubs there's not that much interest we talked about how a lot of those roles weren't up for they weren't competitive there was no one person who was doing those things we have to look at it on that side as well but I mean in this sense Todd and Brandon I think have done quite well in their canvassing and their campaigns they've gotten their message across the presidential race is the most voted one since 2pm today and we know now that there is quite a big push and they were very close to the goal around five o'clock today so yeah we've had a great week it's been a long week as you can tell the two of us are probably look about as tired as we feel but it's been a great opportunity for those of us who are interested in journalism and even for the people out there who are campaigning who want to get involved in politics a lot of politics students out either on who are campaigning themselves or people on campaign teams student elections are really giving an opportunity to everybody no matter what industry you're in to come out here and get a bit of experience definitely I mean I had a conversation and I hope he doesn't mind me telling this but I had a conversation with my dad showed out to Marisha's dad and I was talking his same name but I was talking to him about this sort of actually I even said he had said you're treating junior hurling like senior hurling in the sense but this is exactly where to get that experience it's exactly where to make these mistakes that you want to do vape workshops instead of vape bins which I did with them I had to very quickly correct in the live blog and she was kind of saying vape workshops do o's or something but it's exactly where to make those mistakes but it's exactly where to make those mistakes but my dad he told me that these students usually they don't necessarily vote in general he told me a story that when he was in U.C.D. there was a similar vote to the U.S.I at that point they actually said we will stay in the U.S.I but at the same time there was a presidential race where the guy was a joke candidate and it blew the ever living crap out of everyone because like something like 60% of the college actually went and voted because they liked this guy's drip but they thought well like he's a bit of crack and you know the SU isn't that really important and I say that would have been hilarious because he actually got voted in and eventually he had to stay down and impeach them but the story there is like these types of things like for us as journalism students people interested in politics it's handy, it's nice it's fun to cover these things but then when you look at the other aspects of it where if he was campaigning to have better toilet paper in the toilets and he wanted the silky soft stuff instead of the grease paper they had and he was making all these promises that were in no way going to happen but at the same time there's so much experience for both people who are running people on the teams, people who are covering it like us we have a television studio at 12 o'clock this morning none of this was here and now suddenly we have laptops and microphones and cameras and of course as you can see from when we've been taking a break we've been shot out over the year we'll be taking a step out to where as I'm calling it our CNN White House balcony eggtoyed to cover the elections we're lucky that we have this equipment and that we're able to do this but also like it's just been great crap talking to candidates getting that bit of experience to force them to go off record sometimes was very funny because no one on the SGR would say this now and this is actually kind of a testament to all the people who are overvoting every candidate wouldn't go off record, they wouldn't say anything that they didn't want their names directly attached to and I think that's a testament to them, they're very honest, they're very open, they're very true for people everyone who ran and I think that was quite a good thing to see as a journalist I enjoyed myself it was a nice atmosphere as well and we've been down on the street down below the motorway of the year and it's good to see the bit of and the competitive energy between the candidates even people who aren't running in the same race there's been a lot of crack over are you going to do the trolley race are you in New Bar tonight are you doing this or are you doing that it's been great to see this atmosphere back in DCU it's our first full year after COVID oh, totally I mean if you talk about just a year a review of the FCU team that has come in obviously there's a lot of people there's two who are going up for re-nomination but that team did very well to facilitate that there was if you saw the drop, we spoke about it earlier on there was a drop off in society places there's been a drop off in clubs in those sort of activities because in COVID times, you're sitting on your laptop you're going to Zoom you set up an event in five minutes whereas now you have to go through hazard warning health and safety, risk assessments people then you have to have a certain number of people you have to have a first aid or there we've seen that drop off that was last year we saw that drop off was it the right time for me to join the committee was it the right time for me to join this club but that kind of like you said, that bulls in the air has, you didn't say that the atmosphere in the bulls is there is there and it's back again and I think that you have quite a bit to do with that considering the events that they put on at the start of the year but it'll just be interesting to see if they can continue this momentum with this new team going forward because I mean there are two people for a nomination one person is standing one opposed but it will really be a whole new team and I think students are going to have to get ready for that as well Annie in Races in particular you're looking forward to seeing the results I know they're all tights but there's a few is there a few in particular I'd love to see who wins the HSS one because I feel like as time went on more people actually saw that the two of them quite like each other and it went on well and we brought it up earlier Sarko was telling all the people who were talking to her to go over to Josh and Josh was doing the exact same thing so and another one is the I mean president obviously but another one is the well-being one I mean we spoke about that length earlier on just to see they were so similar to each other but what sort of and I think if people are thinking of running for election as a full-time officer next year definitely study those campaigns and look ahead they did those things because if they're the people who get elected depending on what campaign they did I mean you're going to see a very obvious trend so yeah I mean it's really interesting but well-being a HSS I can't wait to see I'd say you're definitely well-being I'd be interested to see what way the business race goes that's been very tight all week and a lot of most of you talked to most of you that I've talked to have kind of said oh yeah, Oshin probably is going to take it but then I would say it's an awful lot closer than people think I think obviously today we'll get they will say the number of votes that each person's got I think it's going to come down to the wire in certain places interested to see what happens with business interested to see what happens with the science and health race as well because it's been the most voted faculty obviously Adam Daly is running on contested be interesting to see how much considering there was a reopened nominations campaign going specifically for that race would be interested to see what way that goes I think that actually is something to look out for too how many reopened nominations in every race yes, but also there were so many people voting in that that was the largest one in the faculty and why that race in particular when it's somebody who's running on contested exactly, so especially considering that there was flyers and posters for reopened nominations it would be interesting to see is there a sort of sense where maybe Adam wasn't the right choice the year before we'll never know we won't know until we see which will be good, we're going to take a short break get ourselves set up on our balcony outside and we'll be back with the results of the DCU-SU elections thank you welcome back to the DCU-SU elections 2023 coverage by The College View we are joined by Matthew Joyce editor in chief of The College View and Louise Hickey news editor once again hello guys how are you we are going to look at our exit poll our exit poll was done through our social media at The College View on pretty much everything is everything, actually our social media manager is right behind the desk here she's nodding away so we're just going to run through exactly what this was but firstly what's the importance Matthew you're kind of the spearhead of the exit polls so what's the importance of showing an exit poll the whole point of an exit poll is to try to get an idea of what the opinion of the human body is like right now in a way it's like spoiling the surprise for people but it's not the same time as we're getting a complete picture we're getting a bit of a picture of what the idea is like of the human body at all unfortunately we only had 28 responses which is about 2% of if we take from the numbers that we got in 2 o'clock it's about 2% 2% of people 28 as we said we're student journalists we're learning as we go so we will start with the presidential election of course as you can see as we spoke about earlier Thomas O'Dowd up at 85% with Brandt and Perry taking about 10% of the vote and then reopen nominations with one person that same one person from the Monday poll I wonder Louise I kind of said this earlier and where I should have necessarily agreed with me is the presidential election kind of an open and short case at this stage? Yes I'd say I think it probably is I think all the voting that has been done is finished now they've been campaigning all day and as I said earlier on was probably the busiest point on campus with all the rag happenings going on and I don't think there will be any more voting I don't think there will be a surge anyways I don't think there will be a major surge in that I do think that Brandon has done amazing with his campaigning up against somebody who had such a big reputation built for themselves and I was talking to him earlier and he said it has been tough but just kind of congratulating it has been tough we've seen them they're all wrecked You have to put more emphasis on the presidential race because they are over everything in the SU and that's why I was delighted with the way that the debate went last week especially because we were really dissecting both campaigns and I just found it so fascinating the different points that were made by both people especially you saw Todd talking about turret and I love when ABU corrected him in saying he was proud of the fact that probably a thousand people have voted you said that's only 30% there are things like that where it kind of to me for me I don't think it is that's what my concern is I would probably say that I think Brandon will get more votes than people thought he would this time last week I don't think he's going to beat Todd I don't see it I don't see it happening I think they both run very strong campaigns I think I would say like Mauritius and I were obviously talking a little while ago about the presidential campaigns Todd has built himself a very strong foundation to improve upon I don't see it going Brandon's way I don't think the gap is going to be as big as people thought it was going to be I also just think Todd had more time to build relations and more people know who he is and like speaking to people that aren't big nerds like us and saying like who are you going to vote for for president or who's running for president they know that Todd is running you mentioned Brandon they're like oh who is he because he hasn't had this time to build a platform so I think with the short amount of time he has had, he done amazing he definitely got his word out there so yeah that's off next up we have the VP for academic life it is uncontested however we do have 96% of the vote going towards Allen Croson so I think it might be safe to say that he will probably get it I mean he didn't necessarily have any hiccups or bumps he was very he was very outspoken at the walk out rallies specifically about the academic life side of the things so I mean like I don't see how he did very well the day of the walk out from a point of view of I'm here to fight for the academic life of students and if students don't have a safe and appropriate place to stay that affects everything across the board of course it was put to him about how is DCU going to how are DCUs supposed to help students with this issue and he said it doesn't start in DCU this is a national issue that has to be fought on a national stage which he then of course linked back into the USI campaign I don't see us being in a situation where one will be re-elected I mean yeah totally I mean it's 28 people to those 28 people out there thank you I can't even see the statistic because it's quite small but I think it's about 3.6% I'm so good at maths one person who said I'm going to promise that one person was just being awkward we move on to the battle for well-being which as you can see here is a little bit closer than the poll from Monday I think it always is with well-being it's a position that many people want to go for and it's always highly contested I think we had 3 or 4 last year yeah and all of which were very tight again I could not call this one I mean 57 for Katie and 42.9 for Sarah I mean that's only a very small proportion of people who are bothered to do the walk what's the name of the exit hall I should say walk out I think this is a lot closer one thing though is that there are no reopen nominations here in this one so that one person obviously didn't get very awkward decided I'm not going to be awkward anymore but it's almost neck and neck I think it's only one more person if we are correct 16 12 this is why you're in journalism but I think this race is an awful lot closer than it oh yeah it's going to be tight this is one that I think this is going to go on the time to the wire and again as you were saying earlier on there are two very similar campaigns so it's going to be very tight and it's a fairly important point to make diversity and inclusion I spoke to Hannah about it a little while ago Sam Mooney is the only very vocal candidate in this you can see there is one vote for Alexander Victor who I have not I'm yet to see I think they've dropped out have they not possibly I'm unsure still on the website so we'll see and then Rupinder Singh one vote as you can see there Sam Mooney but six people here 18% for a reopen nominations it's been interesting to actually see the volume of races that do have a strong obviously we've talked about science and health but I decided that that there is a strong instance in some races where reopen nominations could get a few nods I really want to know is that people being cynical cynical in what sense they're being cynical of the SCU in a sense do they just think first of all those three people none of them are good enough for the job maybe we were thinking that last year possibly it wasn't well done I'm just saying I'm just trying to think of people what people's thoughts might be they might think possibly Christina Mani didn't do well I'm just saying what they possibly could be thinking I'm not saying that myself but maybe they are being a bit cynical you never know maybe one short who's chosen they want to reopen and see I'd actually say differently I would say that I mean Rupinder Singh I haven't heard a peep from I don't know who he is exactly I think it's probably just sorry I just completely cut off I think what it is is that if you're not going to vote for Sam you're definitely not going to vote for Rupinder which means you'd probably not a fan still you're probably both three open nominations Hannah made a very good point it was actually Sam's point that Hannah spoke to Sam earlier Hannah asked her what's the difference between you and the other candidates and she said I'm here I'm willing to work and I'm ready to go I just want people to give me the chance to do it she could have finished after I'm here she could have but she didn't and to be very fair to her she is aware of the fact that there is another candidate in the race who has not been very vocal and she has still been out every day still flyers, still posters still hosting events I'm very willing to talk to everybody and give them the time of day and tell them how to vote which has been an issue that we spoke about throughout the day so it's important to have somebody there to explain that so then on to VP for community and citizenship we can see Emma Monaghan there is up to 64% of the vote I think this is another one that I couldn't call I'm surprised actually that it's so high for Emma I thought it would have been closer again Emma had the time in a different position last year to build that platform so people know of her and know what she is capable of and she performed really well in that position last year so perhaps that's why the vote is weighed that way again but of course anything could have happened in that space of time when I interviewed Emma what she said she said that of course she kind of as a close officer they were kind of a good relation to Wendy's and Murphy to learn kind of about the role from him and then it was kind of inspired to then go for this so she kind of realized she could understand exactly what is required of all of this that's actually we've seen a lot of that throughout the entire race people using the same well I was class rep I've done this on the committees in societies and they use their experience and rightly so to show they're the right choice Alidia had a bit of a tough one there because Emma exactly had that strong emissivity precisely well Alidia did a pretty good job I mean her manifesto was laid out very well similar to Emma but her manifesto was laid out very well and she had a very clear kind of message which was that she wanted to include people in clubs in society events she wanted to make it easier for people to get involved in campus life and that's exactly what community and citizenship is all about that's what we've seen across the board from all of them people who it's almost the underdogs in the sense similar to Brandon Brandon had a hailed crime well he did very well and in the last week he's just been standing out on the street standing out on the motorway just handing out the factual stuff it's in the u he's been handing it out he's been telling people from the challenge and Alidia hasn't either clubs officer Kevach Deer is another person who's been quite nonexistent I'd say in the last week which is fair to say seems to be doing quite well according to our 28 people on our opinion poll so we'll see how close those 28 people were to the answers I would say it's probably a strong chances could be a reopen nomination situation I think judging by the polls judging by the engagement that we've had especially since the hostings those of them who didn't show up were very not there pretty much we're very not there like, yeah, absence I've just been given the word even the people who didn't give pictures for posters and things like that you know there's a question there I think also for like a role like clubs and socks you want somebody that's present you know these are people that are going to be getting you involved in activities throughout the year and if they can't be present for a week when they're being voted in then it would explain the reopening of nominations votes we're getting down to the wire now and we do need to start getting ourselves head up to actually for the release of the results but I want to just kind of move down to the referendum it was looking like at about 8 o'clock this morning that perhaps we weren't going to have quorum for they weren't going to reach the quota it's looking like they were there about two thirds of the way there at about two o'clock confidence seemed to be growing that we were going to get there as you've probably heard in the background of our coverage they're out there pushing, the yes campaign are out there pushing and it looks like from our opinion poll that they if they can get the amount of people to vote that it could be a yes vote no, the yes, they reached the quota then, yeah, that would show the two labels today even on this morning it was about 44% of the quota was already filled yeah, well they put, well I have to say they did get another nearly 25% between 8am and 2 but if they get another 25% it's only 94% after two o'clock we needed over 500 more votes so it's a question of whether that quota has been matched and we didn't hit those numbers either in any of the stand-alone full-time and part-time in between 8 and 2 we'll see what happens hopefully the t-shirts and the lollipops have done the vote enough we'll be back in a few minutes live from the EU with the results of the DCU-SU 2023 elections hello and welcome to the what was it you called it earlier D-Day no, the CNN this is our CNN news balcony we're feeling very Caitlyn Collins here this evening in the EU we're at the CNN news balcony anyway in the EU building we are how many minutes out I wonder, let me have a look three minutes out from the announcement of the results of the election we have a lot of candidates who have just shown up on the steps of the EU we have Adam Daley, Shane Murphy, we have Andy Down there there's a bit of a buzz in the last couple of minutes now they've all started to flood in it was like nobody wanted to curse it it's been quite empty now for the last kind of 45 minutes and suddenly now the room is just really starting to fill up hopefully there will be a bit more of a buzz this is going to be exciting I assume we'll have a returning officer appear at some point to have a chat with us I am the returning officer Marish's returning officer joke has been made about seven times today and it's still not as funny as it was the first time you did it it was funny once, it's not funny anymore it really has been a great week everybody's kind of gotten a drink into them now at this stage as is always the way with the student elections not us, not on the job Marish, this time last year they were announcing elections in New Bar it feels a little bit more official this year oh yeah totally, I mean like this is how it was before Covid alcoholism last year because of the residue of Covid but yeah I mean this is quite it's quite nice actually to have a whole setup for the union down there we will be bringing you all of the live coverage I'm just listening in really to hear who wins hear the shouts, hear the roars I mean are you excited? I'm excited, this is really the buzz is kind of starting to kick in now to see what happens who's going to win and as well like the figures that we've been talking about this all afternoon what is it going to come down to is it going to come down to that one or two votes you can already see some of the candidates are showing up we've got both of the candidates in the humanities and social sciences races here Brandon Perry is here, seeing Thomas O'Dowd kind of walking around there's a bit of a buzz going on at the SU offices that are over beyond from where we are here in the U but hopefully now in the next couple of minutes we might have somebody appear from the SU and we might have a returning officer that's not Marish it's been a long day folks I've done that every day, every time every single time I mean this is kind of like the ultimate finale of the last three days and I mean that's kind of weak really of our experience with it do you feel sad it's coming to an end? I think I feel sad tomorrow I think once I've had a sleep back I do that again now I'm ready for a bit of a rest but you never know if this referendum doesn't go through we might be here again in about three weeks time totally we'll be here we probably will be here in three weeks time anyway I mean you can have a rest but I'm up early, I'm travelling all the way to Belfast tomorrow what happens when you're in you're in final year journalism and this is what we're all here for the experience at the end of the day it's a great opportunity for us to get a bit of experience and it does include long days like today and even longer days getting up to your final year project tomorrow open at 6am leaving the house at 8pm getting there for 10pm it's the way it's done folks getting home for 10pm tonight is that? there seems to be a bit of movement here Nathan has just arrived there's a couple of other former members there's Thomas O'Dowd coming down we've got some official people from the SU now kind of starting to make an appearance Kaleesh the current well-being officer is here we've got a lot of people from the US I hear just spotting actually Thomas O'Dowd and Brandon are sharing quite a beautiful moment there Thomas is pouring the ends of a bottle of champagne into his mouth to celebrate the end to celebrate the end of the campaigns that was actually quite a nice moment to see I hope we got that on camera that was brilliant but yeah there's a very good sense of sort of we did it we accomplished it and you wouldn't get that anywhere else without any kind of cattiness either and we were discussing this everybody really likes one another they've all been really nice there's been none of this kind of backstabbing reporting of issues going on between people it's all been very cordial it's been very supportive obviously there's underlying competitiveness but we're we're really getting down to the wire and I'm getting really excited I mean I can see Glenn and Orla down there just oh wait no they're not doing anything they're just drinking um but yeah we're just sort of waiting around now until we see someone of importance we have Alan Crossland who's now just came to the steps of the U we have our reporter talking to our reporter Theo talking to to Brandon the rest of the college view team who are down here Louise, Rory, Liam and Rachel are down below we're keeping people updated on Instagram as well as on the website with the live blog as well we've been running for socks officers just arrived we now have both of the Soiides officers and the little bit of buzz is starting I'd say now people will kind of start to drip down from the different levels of the U people will start coming up from New Bar to have a look and I'd say the rooms will kind of start to empty out and we really will have a good bit of atmosphere for the results yeah I mean totally we had just looking down at the college view team there people from so many different sections of the college view got involved in this and I mean it was kind of nice to see our arts editor, Liam our sports editor Rory, our social media manager Rachel really got involved and that's kind of the point that we were making earlier on it's like this is a time to make your mistakes but also learn and I mean this has been great it's been great crack and it's not just me and Maurice here standing in front of the camera Matthew is here, Hannah is here everybody is getting involved with the team the camera's probably too high up I don't think Hannah will even make it on but at the end of the day yes it's been a great opportunity for us to kind of get to flex our interview skills and flex our on screen skills as well but it's been a great opportunity for everybody so to anybody out there in the college view who's written an article over the time of our coverage who has been involved in Vox Pops to Sarah Otouma who I dragged out with the kit the other day to ensure that we had enough content thank you and as well thank you to all the students who I've harassed in the U and been like what do you think about voting do you know how to vote to everybody who has gotten involved thank you and hopefully this won't be the last of major coverage for an event for the college view and hopefully next year I'll have to do it I'm alone some last of my major coverage whoever will be editor and deputy editor at the time wink wink Amy go and go for it no chance in hell so we'll see what's going to happen we might cut for a little bit watch the build up and then we will be back to you in just a few moments with the results hopefully no one just arrives now in the next 10 seconds and is like here's the results because that will happen knowing me but yeah we'll be back to you in just a few moments yes if you are still with us which I hope you are tuned here to the college views live coverage of the DCU SU student elections we're having a couple they seem to be having a couple of technical difficulties trying to get themselves together down below so we're still holding out the room has filled up a bit a couple of representatives from the USI here I'd say ahead of the results of the elections we're not entirely sure in what order things will be announced as a possibility it might go part time and then the USI and then the full time we'll see what happens as you can see current president and candidate for the president of the USI Thomas O'Dowd past chair of DJ Sock down below they're trying to get some the technology working they've been trying to look for a couple of different plugins so hopefully they can find their way around that you can see Barry is there with them Barry is one of an instrumental part of running the SU and has been a massive assistance he kind of looks over all of the students who are members of the SU and is down there giving the lads a hand he announced the results of the election last year so there's a chance we might see a redo of that again or we might see the returning officer Podge make an appearance Marish what do you think? It'll be one or the other thanks for the help with that one Marish really appreciated there's a bit of a buzz going I wonder could we get a camera pan to our team down below you can see Louise is there and Rory Rachel is getting away there as is her job and of course Liam Coates who is the editor of our arts section it might be a bit of an opportunity now to let you know that if you are watching this and you do want to get involved with the college view you can of course still do that we are here right up until the end of the semester and of course further beyond that into next year student journalism isn't just for journalism students it's for everybody comes as you can see today multi-media we have everything going for us cameras microphones all sorts of wires technology, social media everything for everybody so please do come and get involved we're seeing a couple of people from Sam Mooney's team moving in and as well a lot of students have come to just watch the election results kind of starting to appear in small groups on the steps it's more on the far side I don't know if we can see at the minute you'll see Shane's party the society's officers race is there Sarah for well-being is also within that group you can see Oshin McGovern there all their campaign teams kind of making one large clump as we said earlier those candidates in particular have kind of aligned themselves together they've all been given a glass of champagne very kindly by DCUSU as Marsh said to celebrate it Thomas O'Dowd is testing sound there so we might be here in just a minute we can see some of the current members of the union down in the front row there ready possibly for the result of the USI referendum most importantly this evening which I think is what people will be sticking around to see come back to us in just a moment as we think sound is fingers crossed they're getting there and College View will be back with coverage in just a minute so by nothing short of Miracle we have sound by the looks of a Thomas O'Dowd's plug in an iPad down below hopefully there'll be a bit of music going maybe raise a bit of atmosphere as per usual at a DCU event there's a couple of staples Sider with a dash and Nubar Gougeon seem to be on the run Carating Society who've probably been the hero of the day with many different events ongoing have now provided music while they're experiencing technical delays I don't know whether that's to do with the technical system in here sound system or is it to do with voting I know I was just about to say that considering they couldn't find a microphone that could have been the technical delays but then now they have a microphone quite obviously and they still are saying they have technical delays so I mean returning officers people from the SU who work there aren't here they're elsewhere so it'll be interesting to see if there is a larger issue or not as I was just saying before Todd started speaking there drinks kind of started flowing maybe people are trying to settle down the nerves a little bit before the big announcement drinks are certainly flowing and there's someone's bag who's going to get a a buzz ball that's completely covered but anyway look yeah the DCU staples what's it called? Sider with a dash Apple Tree Jack Slats as it used to be called or IP mon Jack Slats with a dash and then Nubar Gougeon and then also another DCU staple everything starting at least 30 minutes a day absolutely it kind of just reminds you a little bit that we are really dealing with the student election doesn't it oh yeah totally I mean they had this set up about like 45 minutes ago and then they realised oh the microphone doesn't work so they've been at this quite some time but hopefully not too much longer because I am getting tired we're getting there hopefully now in the next 5 or 10 minutes we'll have some results for you stick with us here at College View election proceedings ongoing and hopefully we'll have some results in just a little in just a few minutes okay so it's being reported currently here in the EU that there is an issue with the count system with loop we're not entirely sure what that means we are being told that the results will go live a quarter to nine we may not get the results of all of the races but we are going straight away yeah it's kind of understood from who we've been talking to and all that type of stuff that there's one case in particular which we won't hear the election we mightn't hear we don't know we will or won't but we definitely have question marks around some of the elections today we're probably a lot of people kind of upset about that too the results have been counted in a majority of the race that's the exact number except we cannot release it for the minute but hopefully soon enough we might have election results yeah apparently this is all kind of starting around quarter to it is now quarter to so it looks like there's some little bit more movement going on here so with any look we'll have it all sorted and yeah I mean that was a really long time I'm so tired we'll be back in a few minutes so we have returning officers we have members of staff from the SU we also have some of the members of staff from Nubar because you couldn't have an election results without them we're about to get underway finally here with the DCU-SU lead DCU-SU election results it all comes down to this as you can see Thomas O'Dowd has just arrived down the bottom to the podium Podge who is the returning officer as well as Barry who is one of the management members of the SU and I think we are about to begin that was Thomas O'Dowd the current president of the DCSU handing over the mic to Podge for the answer for this year's elections this year's clubs officer met a total valid vote of 1,162 votes to call them the 5,081 votes Kavash Deir received 988 votes real good nominations with the 172 votes Kavash Deir is now your new club's officer Kavash Deir has just been dean-delected as the club's officer for the next academic year Michael Finn as you can see here on your screen at the minute has just been dean-delected by Podge for the Irish position on the DCSU that's Mark Don who has just been elected into the Institute of Education Faculty Rep Adam Daly the current science and health representative has just been dean-delected once again that's Shane Murphy a current member of the SLC and not being dean-delected for the society's representation position of the DCSU Erica McGroty second year journalism student being dean-delected for the humanities and social sciences position on the SU receiving well over the number of votes that they needed to pass the referendum where is the reactions massive yes it's a huge reaction especially from this current sitting and I mean soon to be not sitting members of the student union from the USLA here to celebrate that as well that too and a sigh really from a lot of them too academic there's Owen Croson being held by his girlfriend I'm a monitoring down below as he is re-elected and quite emotional very emotional a few tears coming from the eyes I mean this man has worked so hard so the closest race to the night yet and Emma Monaghan is dean-delected for the role of VP community and citizenship I mean we knew this would be tight but I think that was like 30 votes between them less than that even celebrations down below relations to Sam Rooney on that but a lot of votes for a candidate who made no appearances a booming victory for Sam Sam Rooney there and yeah you're dead right well I mean in comparison science and health officer Adam Daley as she is elected to the position of VP for wellbeing I mean quite a tight race once again we always knew it would be and here's the press and he reigned supreme for a second year in a row Thomas O'Dowd poking his competitor Brandon Perry in a great show a sportsmanship like again less votes less votes from wellbeing compared to wellbeing but Thomas O'Dowd is now being re-elected as DCU-SU president so they don't have to remove his photo from the wall here's the first word to the re-elected president not bad when we're getting thanked first by the new president doesn't work what's this all about well it's been a long day well it's been a very long day and there you have it the results of the DCU the results of the DCU of the DCU SU elections it's been quite a day and I have to say for Thomas O'Dowd to stand up there and thank everybody, especially us so cheers for that Todd but to Brandon Perry especially again just another true form of sportsmanship from the man the first thing you did was share a hug with Brandon as soon as the election was called I mean there is a fairly nice fairly kind welcoming vibe in this room right now I mean we have Katie Warren and Sarah Fitzpatrick just sharing a chat and congratulating each other and I mean everyone has such a a well rounded campaign and really hit the nail on the head and everything that they wanted to tackle so it will be interesting to follow especially for yourself Amy to follow this team for the next year I mean two people as we talked about earlier two new, two old and then three new people so it will be interesting to see how this team works together, the dynamic has that changed would it be better, would it be for worse but I mean just a very very exciting campaign some tight, very tight ones there so 30 votes in some of them 30 votes in some of them and even I think in well being in the end there was only less than 100 votes between them I mean we knew it was going to be tight we knew it would be dense at the wire but this is, this is kind of more than what we asked for really Hopefully we'll get to have a chat with a couple of the newly elected members of the SU of course what's most important is the fact that they've been elected we can actually see their in case we didn't get it on camera but Adam Daly tearing up reopened nominations poster after he was successfully re-elected into his position there's a lot of buzz going on here just really a great end to a long two weeks of campaigning Oh a very long week actually only five days at Amy I know I felt like two weeks but yes definitely a definitely very long, very good end to a long five days I only wonder I'm actually dazed out at the minute it just really is a great buzz I'm wondering can we get a couple of candidates and we're going to get onto the team down below if we can to get people as soon as we can just to see what they have a quick chat with us and the USI we're saying it lads there was obviously a very judging by our polls, our own polls ourselves and speaking with people around the campus there was a very good feeling around the yes best campaign I mean I don't think there was a very small majority minority of people even who were going for the no campaign we did speak to Nico earlier from the no campaign he told us just before we went on air that there were only 20 people part of that campaign at the time still though I didn't really catch the no vote because of the roars the booming roars from the SCU candidates and the number they were well over what they needed let's talk about the number of people who voted for well-being over three thousand three thousand people I mean we knew that was a very popular run we knew that that was going to be a very large one we were watching it all day but we hadn't actually seen the last time we had saw the numbers for that poll we were not even two thirds the way there no I know it's absolutely insane they were just below two thousand last time we saw it they were just overtaken by the presidency whereas the presidency where I think just under five hundred sorry five hundred thousand five hundred less than well-being I mean crazy crazy pushing the last couple of hours made the difference totally definitely I mean you could see them all running around at the time we were talking about earlier there was a bulls around trying to figure it out trying to get people to talk and get people to vote but yeah I mean overall I think this is quite a good victory for a lot of people quite a well-deserved victory for a lot of people too but on the people who didn't un-sex un-successfully run I don't I feel terrible for them because all of their campaigns were absolutely wonderful I mean everyone was really going for something so good so I think we might have an interview soon here we're keeping an eye out and there's just such a great pause we didn't talk about the business race we've no results for the business race the business race was the question over they're currently hand counting votes I know and it's we'll take some time we probably won't even find out until later on this evening so keep an eye out on the the College of Youth the College of Youth Socials we'll post them out we are being told behind the camera here that tomorrow at lunchtime tomorrow at lunchtime I mean that's a long wait for those guys we won't be waiting that long I'm not here I'm gone you could clearly see I do I am my heart goes out to Ocean McOvern my heart goes out to Rose as well and Shania who were over here and you could see quite anxiously waiting for a result we're waiting Rachel our social media manager is here come on Rachel how'd you come you are down in the middle of it what was the atmosphere like I'm very vibrant we actually ended up right behind most of the candidates you can kind of feel the tension as things were starting to get down to the minute a lot of shaking a lot of screaming a lot of shouting but I think look everyone did a fantastic campaign everyone's after working their backsides off for the last couple of weeks and yeah just fingers crossed they will put their manifestos into work now in September 2023 Oh and crossing is on his way up to us now and I have to say probably even I was getting a little bit choked up and here he comes now our re-elected VP for academic life I've never seen a man so emotional to have his name called out how are you doing congratulations this is the second year in a row I've cried at the election results how relieved are you right now I'm so relieved but you know what it's just it was to build up a tension over time and wait because it was a long 45 minutes was a long time to wait boy did they build up that tension fair play and they know how to put on a show whether it was willful or not now we could see you and it was really lovely to see all down the front there USI election USI referendum passed you were outside our window with that megaphone ensuring that everybody knew where to vote and how to vote are you delighted absolutely look it's it's I think the union is stronger for it you know it's it's something that we really really benefit from I think what we can learn from the turnout is that we need to educate more students some push in the last four or five hours though oh come here I was pushing the USI over my own campaign you know but it's us look I think we need to like obviously we we've heard the message loud and clear we need to communicate USI and their message to students I'm just delighted the message got true and that we got it over the line thank you so much on going celebrate and enjoy congratulations remained as the VP for USI clearly thanks very much congratulations you can tell you can tell that that that means an awful lot to him oh yeah definitely I mean he said the second year in a row where he's crying and also the second year in a row where he's grand successfully so here's another man who can only be we've been described as the man in the orange t-shirt for the last couple of weeks yeah Nathan Murphy a I mean you must be over the moon delighted absolutely delighted huge turnout a referendum usually it's hard to get students engaged you only care about elections between well-being over presidents which is crazy to think about three more years in USI DCU still benefit from our USI so brilliant to see now obviously you did not rerun this year for your own position how does it feel to watch the next generation being elected and moving on it's good it is to see there's kind of a new people coming in obviously you have Todd now and here are going to continue the great things that they've done this here and obviously inspire the other three officers and work very closely with them and I feel like they're just it's going to be a great team next year brilliant with you not running is there a chance we might actually see you in the next election there is a strong possibility of that there is a strong possibility sure only time can tell well of course you let the college know you got the college view know first I can confirm I'm running for USI congratulations well we'll see now we'll have a DCU representative at the USI elections Nathan congratulations go and celebrate we're hoping Kaleesh is here our current VP for well-being the buzz is just electric yeah I mean you can hear them all celebrating down below like win or lose they're still hugging they're high-fiving it's so lovely and it's nice because these people spend so long together the last couple of days so I mean it's only only just the Kaleesh come on in you must be delighted to wear a collar that's not orange from tomorrow honest to God I really am thank God it's over now absolutely delighted with the results thank God thank you so much all the students who voted everyone's probably absolutely success that was campaigning for the last 10 days but we're absolutely delighted with the results and thank you to everyone I know it was a long wait and we could see you guys all down the front kind of getting really impatient it must just be such a relief for you and you were really I spotted you in Laundice earlier on and there was kids following you around that box of lollipops and you were just trying to get everybody to vote the amount of people you got in those last couple of hours was highly impressive yeah I think everybody you know like we want to say a part of the uni students in Ireland I think everyone showed up today in the polls to do that there's a massive amount of effort put in from all the campaigning teams from our own yes US to US like campaign we're doing multiple lecture addresses on the ever you know going around to QR codes getting people to vote harassing people to death they were sick to death of us we were sick to death of our own voices strap stills were the lozens of a show to strap still the pharmacy is going to be making a lot of money over the next few days honestly yeah just glad to have my voice back that's all and Collette we asked Nathan the same question is there a chance we might see you in the US in the next couple months say tuned oh now it's really starting to go in Nathan pulled the same trick Collette thank you so much go ahead and celebrate with the rest of your friends and congratulations we are trying to grab Thomas O'Dowd who seems to have disappeared possibly gone up to his office and take a last few minutes I wonder I see Usheen McAvrin down below if there be a possibility of chatting to him possibly if one of our producers can get him and see how he's feeling yeah I mean that will be tough it's going to be a long way for me to figure that one out I mean if it is if it is that they're going to be counting them hand by hand I spoke to Katie Warren earlier and she talked about how she really just wanted a full night of sleep but here's a man here's a man who won't be getting a night of sleep tonight Usheen how are you feeling oh great I'm happy with the USI going through and I'm happy because some of my friends have been elected so I had a great event today so I really don't mind that much everything has gone so well for me today with regard to everything else to everybody who was watching us since 4 o'clock Usheen is the mastermind behind the madness that was the DCU Carating Race obviously we're not getting a result for the business election this evening another sleepless night for you I think I'll sleep well I'm very tired you'll eat it after all of the stress it must be disheartening though after all this time campaigning and things like that you don't get to share the same sort of excitement can you tell me how you might be feeling over the next day well like all my friends their elections have gone the right way so it'd be great well I am still celebrating with them of course because I'm delighted for them to celebrate myself as well or not I don't know if I won that so it would be nice knowing but I'm not I could be in the worst state now I'd hope you're either going to walk or take the bus home you're not going to have somebody push you in the shopping trolley no depends how the night goes if you're successful tomorrow will you do another trolley run up the campus in Glass 7 in your underwear I'll say to you Phil about that thanks very much Usheen best of luck tomorrow I'm sure the college will be back covering it this has just been a day we're going to try and grab some more candidates if we can I know Sorka McGrawarty who's elected for HSS is down the bottom there I have our team run records trying to find candidates the vibe is great interested to see what will happen now tomorrow with business Aletheia who has been elected who was not elected for diversity and inclusion is on our way up to us very happy to test community and citizenship it's been a long day and all of the faces are starting to blur you can see Brandon Perry is still here chatting away delighted with the USI results obviously he was he was I saw him jumping up and down as soon as that was announced we spoke about it earlier on going up against someone who had the experience who knows the job it was always going to be tough still however 435 votes from I mean it's not he did lose still a lot of people believed him on the campus it was fantastic Aletheia you're very welcome along commiserations thank you so much I'm very proud of the work that I put in and my campaign team so I really from the bottom of my heart couldn't be more grateful to all of the people who supported me and the fact that it was so close it was on with the two of us it was unbelievably close I'm very happy with everything and the outcome and absolutely congratulations to Emma really really proud that I stood my ground against such a strong opponent sorry congratulations once again Emma really great work to her now you ran such a fantastic campaign and I would be betting that this probably won't be the last that we'd see of you with the possibility maybe you'd go on to the USI in the future or be back next year possibly for the DCUSU absolutely being that I had never done anything like this before I'd never gone for a class rep even so this is my first experience in something so intense especially with the chance to have so much responsibility and impact on students lives I really enjoyed the process of campaigning and definitely I would love to try again next year it's such a tight race as well it was obviously very tough to choose between the both of you because the both of you are so great so I mean does that kind of give you a little bit of hope as if you were to go on to next year you could maybe get across that line absolutely it's like such a confidence boost to know that people believe in what I'm saying believe in my story like I struggled quite a lot believing in myself from a young age so the fact that people heard what I was saying understood what I was saying and supported it was so amazing and I couldn't be more grateful for that so yeah thank you so much and congratulations on everything that you did an unbelievably close race there 30 votes we were saying almost 30 votes humanities and social sciences sorca majority is the new representation of the humanities and social sciences we don't even know if she's in frame you went and got the ashes this morning for a good look you made all the difference here hiring a feeling because you were up you were very emotional oh my god I'm a ball of nerves still it hasn't quite hit me yet I'm not going to lie to you I'm both really excited for myself I'm really sad for Josh he was an amazing opponent and I wish it could have been both of us we were saying this earlier this was the nicest race to commentate on ever we might just move slightly closer to the camera the two of you like each other so much and when that came up to our table we were like we should go talk to the opponent as well to get a rounded viewpoint I got told that was a bad politician so many times clearly not that bad like we couldn't believe it mic drop for that one sorca thank you so much for your time and congratulations we have winners lining up here two people who spent most of the day pushing carts around with Sarah who's just been elected to well-being and Shane who's been elected to societies congratulations you got your cart in top now so that's not fair Shane you must be delighted because you had quite the crew in the centre of the room there and there was quite a big reaction we're all EPLers we do be at nothing anyway so I always say we bring them all down you spent most of your time sitting in the U anyway so you probably felt like home second, mostly trolleys and carts and spreadsheets and the U after that then Sarah you were the winner of one of the closest races under 100 votes in between the two of you I could just see the relief seep into your body I was so anxious waiting for it I'm so happy that all the work paid off Shane was on my campaign team I'm really the best campaign team and the work was so so hard we were also relieved an amazing campaign a very straight message we were talking about it earlier on it was a very clear way of how you and Casey were trying to talk to the students it was activism and then there was dancing so it's clear that you're very passionate about this role I'm so excited for you to see that you were able to get across the line today so congratulations I think bought myself a K it was the most voted for it was the most far over presidency as well bought myself a K put in so much work it was really close as a psychologist I obviously feel passionate about it hence why I studied it for four years and I want to go into it as a job but I think bought was putting so much work and it's paid off I think the two of you deserve a trip to New Bar as soon as it's feasibly possible congratulations guys who says we haven't gone already guys congratulations thank you so much for stopping by the college view it's starting to wind down here we can see the last few candidates kind of wind down I'd love to talk to Thomas O'Dowd before we finish up here if it were possible but really has been a great a great day oh yeah totally I mean what a day we didn't even know if they get enough votes the entire day and then we found out that they got enough votes I mean what a tight race I think the USI race came to about 1800 which is just under what the quota is exactly yeah I mean it was just such a to be kind of tracking it the entire day and then seeing that there was that little differences between each of the nominations obviously in those really tight elections it was just really mad to see because I mean here's us two thinking of different like scenarios the entire day and then going wow we were mind blown so yeah I mean really really exciting day and I mean so happy I'm happy for everyone else just seeing everyone with their smiles on them it's just it's a nice thing and you could tell like what's been nice about this because we've gotten to know one of the candidates really well and you're coming along every morning going Harry a feeling did you sleep last night and then they're asking us to go to bed planning and covering and things like that and you could see today they were really tired and this has just been such a nice lift I'd say I don't think they'll be in the bar for too long tonight though no I wouldn't expect so I mean during the 24 hour broadcast there was one drink and then gone home because it was that long and I mean this is five days of just campaigning constant constant campaigning constant talking to people I mean like they are going to be tired I mean Owen was walking around like a zombie just before the election the results were announced he was sitting down he was just kind of asleep basically in his slumped sort of in a way where the rest of his body was holding up the rest of his body and the rest of that body was kind of there but yeah what an amazing way to end it I'd say we're probably going to wrap up in a few minutes if we can't get a hold of Thomas out no sign of him he's disappeared down into the bar somewhere I'm sure he'll come on and have a chat with you the first promise I said to him if you win will you come and have a chat with us he went yeah yeah yeah absolutely and he has disappeared I can't imagine the amount of things that are going through his mind right now like to get a second go at this job I mean I'm sure this job is so much fun I could never do it so I'm saying it's fun well he's probably saying it's very stressful but you can clearly see the passion that man has and the sportsmanship as we saw hugging Brandon as soon as the election results were announced thanking all the people who made the coverage and just the campaign possible just wow really really wow I think from our point of view we'd like to say a massive thank you to Owen Campbell from the loans office in the Henry Gratton who set all of this up and made it all possible you can't see them on camera right now but there are wires taped to the ground there are microphones there are cameras everywhere we could not do this here in DCU without the team we have behind us thank you to our loans for letting us take all the equipment thank you to all of the college team even the people who didn't come down because without the support the rally the passion that people have for journalism on this campus we wouldn't be motivated to do so either so thank you to everyone who helped out over the last couple of days thank you to all the candidates winners or losers who came to speak with us throughout the day and throughout the five days actually because it's not easy and we ask hard questions every now and again we do we do we can have our crack like we are having now but sometimes it is about making sure that the tough questions are asked everyone seems to be so pleased with accepting those questions and it was very clear we put them through their paces sometimes and it became very clear very quickly that we were dealing with a very professional group of people who really understood what they were trying to go for what they were trying to do on campuses across DCU just one exciting way to finish wow so I'm sure the team will be back on Instagram lives and all sorts tomorrow for the business race but for myself and Warsh we did it we're done thanks to all the college view team thanks to all the candidates thanks to everybody we can go home now you can keep an eye on the college view online at www.thecollegeview.com you can also email us at deputy editor deputy editor at www.thecollegeview.com follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and we will be back for the next DCU election this time next year you won't be here but I will so thanks very much for watching