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Executive Officers We have now named our Student Association Team for 2016/17! There are eight Executive Officer roles. These are: Black Students’ Officer: Gavinder Bains LGBT+ Students’ Officer: Chloe-Lynnette Winning Disabled Students’ Officer: Amy Cowan Young Persons’ Officer: Zoe MacPherson Mature Students’ Officer: David Ritchie Welfare Officer: Thomas Graham Sports Students Officer: Lora Miller Care Experienced Students’ Officer: Olivia Khan Being part of our Executive Officer Team is a great way to get involved with the Student Association and the student movement. Our new officers will get the opportunity to join the Student Association at NUS conferences, help organise events and set-up their own forum or society. Being on the Executive Team is great for their CV and adds many different skills sets for future employment. Class Reps No doubt you are all settling into your new and learning environment with Curriculum classes and getting to know each other pretty Managers at class rep meetings. well, but have you thought about becoming a class rep? Becoming class rep will also look good on your CV and you will get a certificate at the end of Class reps will be the voice of your class your post for volunteering as class rep. for the year, so it’s up to you to make sure that they are voted in by the class. It’s good The Student Association President and Vice to have a class rep that is approachable, President will be doing random class confident and trustworthy who will raise any drop-ins to talk about class reps and the concerns you have about your course Student Association.   6 THE STUDENT VOICE EDITION 7