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From 10.20pm on Friday the exec positions were announced starting with the Environment and Social Justice Officer, which went to Sarah Joy Lewis

Next up was education which went to uncontested candidate and current Arts Faculty Co-ordinator Michael De Vletter

AU Officer went to Sarah 'Swills' Williams

Danny Barry
Democracy and Communications was won by Danny Barry (and his 'fro!)

The hotly contested Accommodation and Community went to a very emotional Julia Seal

Another hotly contested position - Finance and Services Officer (FSO) went to Sam Le Pard

Rosie Tressler
Equal Opps and Welfare went to current SU Women's Officer Rosie Tressler

Simon Murphy
The new Activities Officer is Simon Murphy

And there was more good news for Simon from the URN news team....

And finally Alex Corck-Adelman won the big one - he is the new Nottingham University SU President

Wednesday was the long-awaited turn of the Presidential candidates. Alex ‘Corcky’ Corck-Adelman and Ngok Tran were apprehensive, but soon got into the swing of things after the first few ‘Candidates Questions’. Corcky’s show and tell was his Law Society football shirt from his first year when he first joined the team. Ngok’s was also a t shirt, from the Demo day in London which she helped to organise.

The president’s challenge was to ‘construct a cabinet’. The first part of this was to think up a cabinet ‘dream team’, filling the positions of AU, Welfare, Dem Comms, Finance and Activites. Corcky chose David Beckham for AU, ... for Welfare, Mark Zuckerberg for both Dem Comms and Finance, and ... for activities. Ngok went for Zidan, Mother Theresa, Chris Moyles, Bill Gates and Tom Cruise.

The second part of the challenge involved the candidates building a cabinet out of cardboard to keep their dream ‘cabinet’ in. Valiant efforts were made all round, with Ngok’s ending up as a bookcase style cabinet, and Corcky’s more of a filing cabinet. You can see the photos below.

For Exec Factor, the candidates went for a more simplistic approach, deciding to keep to only three words...

And, elections night has drawn to a close - there were some very tight battles fought, but here is your list of duly elected Executive Officers, Representational Officers and Faculty Coordinators.

President – Alex Corck-Adelman
Activities – Simon Murphy
Equal Opportunities and Welfare – Rosie Tressler
Finance and Services – Sam Le Pard
Accommodation and Community – Julia Seal
Democracy and Communications – Danny Barry
Athletic Union – Sarah Williams
Education – Michael De Vletter

Postgraduate Students’ Officer – Georgia Thresh
LGBT Students’ Officer – Elliot Reed
International Students’ Officer – Mohammed Alam
Women’s Officer – Jennifer Ingram
Mature Students’ Officer – Adam Abukari
Disabled Students’ Officer – Joseph Clough

Faculty of Arts – Florence Pickup
Faculty of Social Sciences - Nathan Jacobs-Thompson
Faculty of Engineering - Maria Vasic
Faculty of Science - Dasha Karzunina
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – Deeane Dias

URN will be bringing you clips, photos and more from the night over the coming days, so thank you for sticking with URN as your number one source for elections news!

Second show of the week, on Tuesday, we welcomed the FSO candidates down to the URN House of Fun, for some hard-hitting journalistic interviewing by Ollie and Liam again. Phil Geller, Rob Hudson and Sam LePard endured The Third Degree amicably.

On to Show and Tell now, Sam brought in a collection of passport photos for us to see, however these were no ordinary pictures, there were a number of just random people that he had never even met, interspersed with a selection of his nearest and dearest. Rob told us all about his collection of antique weaponry that he had been collection for years. Finally, Phil told us all about a box of Quality Street that he received during his Freshers year, and was still yet to open to this day, however, for his Show and Tell he went for a personalised pillow that he received from working on a New Theatre show back in year one.

The highlight of the show had to be the wittily entitled SU-permarket Sweep, because looking after the finance of the SU Shop is a skill every good FSO must have. We sent all the candidates upto the SU shop with £1.50 and asked them to get eight items that were: red, sticky, long, made of paper, hot, cold, they like, they dislike. We then called them back down to the studio after a bit of Paolo Nutini and you can hear below how each person did.

Monday saw the turn of the DemComms candidates to be comically interrogated by Ollie and Liam. Danny Barry and Sammy Bucknall were a little apprehensive at first but soon got used to the vibe of the show after being asked questions such as ‘Legolas or Gimli-Duplo?’ and ‘Tiramisu or Sue from the SU?’.

Danny’s show and tell was well received in the URN office, a packet of ‘Fox’s Chunkie Extremely Chocolatey Cookies’ , the only things he loves more than Week One. Sammy brought in his bow and arrow, archery being one of the first societies he joined at Freshers Fair in his first year.
We wanted to cover both aspects of the position; democracy and communications, so we decided two games were required. Democracy, it turns out, is a hard subject to base a game on, so we resorted to Democra-sea-lion; a game of skill and precision. We introduced the URN Democra-sea-lion and the two candidates were each given four rings to throw over her head. It was a close call with Danny winning by one ring, 2-1.