 With campaigns just getting underway, for this year's SU elections, we asked students what they wanted to see from their incoming student unit. I want to see more of a focus on more equality. Third level education is very hard for a lot of people to access. I'm originally from a disadvantaged background, I found college quite difficult to get into as well. So I think now, especially in times of recession, there should be a focus on figuring out ways to get more young people from disadvantaged areas engaged in third level education because it is the way forward, the recession, better jobs, better quality of life, all that kind of stuff. I need it to be very on things all the time. I feel like right now, sometimes I miss out on so many things. I want it to be really involved. I hope that's going to be something next year. Well, at the moment, I don't really know what student union to do, so it'd be nice to actually see some kind of more involvement. A couple more events would be pretty useful though. There's not really a lot going on this year. It's actually my second year at DCU and I haven't really understood what their whole purpose is, so that would be nice to see. It's supposed to get more involved with students in DCU. I often just get emails from them and they're often overlooked, maybe a bit more face-to-face stuff like going around and actually talking to students. Like, as well as the buildings and stuff going on there, you can see that. Spend up a little bit, maybe, a bit more access to our campus. I heard they're trying to charge us into the library as well, so I nipped that on the board and knocked that in the head anyway. That'd be it really. Students also commented on the fact that 8 out of the 14 SU positions are currently being run uncontested. I think it shows a big issue that a lot of people aren't interested in getting involved in the student union anymore. It used to be, as far as I was aware, it was always something that a lot of people were eager to get involved in, but it doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I think that's interesting. There's a lot to be said in that, why aren't they going forward? Is it that they don't feel welcome in the student union? Do they feel like it's a waste of time? Do they feel like they're actually getting something out of it? So, I suppose it'd be worthwhile to do maybe some small research or some studies to kind of say, why aren't you engaging in this process? Elections take place Tuesday, March 21st. With the debates being shown live on DCUTV on the MPS YouTube page on Monday, March 20th. This is Ulrich McQuarrant for DCUTV News.