NEWS: Warwick Delegates attended NUS Conference, amid calls of racism, homophobia, and for abolishing the monarchy
The National Union of Students (NUS) Conference is held annually, where elected delegates for 95% of UK Higher Education and Further Education Institutions attend – including the University of Warwick.
In recent years, the NUS Conference have become a centre of national attention and controversy. Last year (2016), Conference elected Malia Bouattia NUS President, despite accusations of anti-Semitism – once calling Birmingham University ‘something of a Zionist outpost'. This year (April 2017), Bouattia was defeated by Shakira Martin, but Ali Milani was elected NUS Vice-President - his controversies involve offensive tweets to Jewish students, including replying to someone online, ‘nah u won’t mate. It’ll cost you a pound #jew’.
This year, Warwick made national headlines, after the Boar reported ‘Warwick Students’ Union motioned to abolish the country’s monarchy’. Warwick SU’s Student Council voted for the motion to be debated at Conference, which was passed with 8 votes for, 4 votes against, and 1 abstention. The Boar reported that Warwick delegate Chloe Wynne said, she was in favour of abolition on principle, but ‘the NUS Conference 2017 isn’t going to progress that principle, and I think we have a responsibility to not give right-wing press a stick with which to beat us, because negative click bait headlines undermine the work we do’ – no doubt is what this headline could be accused of…
This years’ delegates were Dapo Adaramewa, Alex Bevis, Chairman Rose, Uma Kotwal, Hope Worsdale, Chloe Wynne, and SU President Luke Pilot.
Warwick delegate, Chairman Rose - in his Delegate Report - told Student Council, ‘"time after time, speakers took to the stage decrying Brexit as an act of racism. One suggesting it has directly lead to an increase in homophobic crimes! For a group that heralds accessibility, this libellous branding of 25% of the student population hardly seems fit’. Leave voters constituted 52% of the British public who voted in the Referendum, and no doubt include many students across the country.
Fellow delegate and left-wing WFFE activist, Luke Pilot accused (on Page 3!) Chairman Rose’s campaign of being ‘a parody of me, and aimed to mock the system’. It later transpired, Pilot and Chairman Rose shared a room at Conference – clearly comrades stick together against the bourgeois.
By Warwick Eye
Sources:
Malia Bouattia Controversy (link)
Ali Milani Controversy (link)
Boar Article on NUS Conference 2017 (link)
Delegates Reports in SU Student Council Minutes (link)
In recent years, the NUS Conference have become a centre of national attention and controversy. Last year (2016), Conference elected Malia Bouattia NUS President, despite accusations of anti-Semitism – once calling Birmingham University ‘something of a Zionist outpost'. This year (April 2017), Bouattia was defeated by Shakira Martin, but Ali Milani was elected NUS Vice-President - his controversies involve offensive tweets to Jewish students, including replying to someone online, ‘nah u won’t mate. It’ll cost you a pound #jew’.
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| Ali Milani elected new NUS Vice President, amid controversy with anti-semitic tweets. |
This year, Warwick made national headlines, after the Boar reported ‘Warwick Students’ Union motioned to abolish the country’s monarchy’. Warwick SU’s Student Council voted for the motion to be debated at Conference, which was passed with 8 votes for, 4 votes against, and 1 abstention. The Boar reported that Warwick delegate Chloe Wynne said, she was in favour of abolition on principle, but ‘the NUS Conference 2017 isn’t going to progress that principle, and I think we have a responsibility to not give right-wing press a stick with which to beat us, because negative click bait headlines undermine the work we do’ – no doubt is what this headline could be accused of…
This years’ delegates were Dapo Adaramewa, Alex Bevis, Chairman Rose, Uma Kotwal, Hope Worsdale, Chloe Wynne, and SU President Luke Pilot.
Warwick delegate, Chairman Rose - in his Delegate Report - told Student Council, ‘"time after time, speakers took to the stage decrying Brexit as an act of racism. One suggesting it has directly lead to an increase in homophobic crimes! For a group that heralds accessibility, this libellous branding of 25% of the student population hardly seems fit’. Leave voters constituted 52% of the British public who voted in the Referendum, and no doubt include many students across the country.
Fellow delegate and left-wing WFFE activist, Luke Pilot accused (on Page 3!) Chairman Rose’s campaign of being ‘a parody of me, and aimed to mock the system’. It later transpired, Pilot and Chairman Rose shared a room at Conference – clearly comrades stick together against the bourgeois.
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| President Luke Pilot [far-right] - comrades dressed evidently against the bourgeois, Chairman Rose not pictured above. |
By Warwick Eye
Sources:
Malia Bouattia Controversy (link)
Ali Milani Controversy (link)
Boar Article on NUS Conference 2017 (link)
Delegates Reports in SU Student Council Minutes (link)
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