Maidstone Officer

Luke Frost - An introduction

Hi all,

My name is Luke, I’m a 22 year old graduate of BA (Hons) Illustration from Sunderland, North East England.

When I ran for this position in April 2011 I made it no secret that I am a Marxist. From a young age I’ve always known what is and isn’t fair, and ever since the muggy fog of adolescence lifted I’ve been committed to the socialist ideal.

But what does that have to do with being a Students’ Union officer here at UCA? For me, everything. I believe in Unions, I believe that people have to come together to protect each other, and for students we have to come together as part of the community working and living at the University for the Creative Arts if we want to have a great time here.

On November 10th 2010, UCA Students’ Union provided coaches to the demonstration against the rise in tuition fees. I’d never been to a protest before this, but I knew it was time to stop talking and start acting.

Since then I’ve been on six protests, one of them organised by me and other students at UCA Maidstone, and most of them were about the protection of education and students.

I ran on an anti-cuts platform, my manifesto outlines my desire to create a fighting fit Union. That not only included boosting our political clout, but improving the Course Representatives system and beyond.

As well as the Maidstone Campus Officer, I am the Chair of the Executive Committee, which is the leading day-to-day decision making body of the Union. My role is to organise how the Union can achieve its goals and deliver for students, and how we build and organise campaigns.

But lets not forget that I am here for Maidstone students, every day. My office is located by the refectory. I studied at UCA for 3 years, and I’m an artist too. I know what it means to be a student at UCA, I know all the problems you face, and I know all of the things that are great about UCA too. If you want to talk, come and see me.

With the help of UCA students, we could be perfectly placed to resist the governments onslaught on Higher Education, on Further Education students via the removal of the EMA, and to resist the privatisation of education via the White Paper.

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