The suggestions goes towards extending these active table campaigning during the last 3 days of the passive table campaigning to ensure a fair and better visibility to candidates and offer individual promotion and distribution of campaign flyers.
Another proposal goes towards the costs of the electoral campaign that each candidate has. There can be cases when funding does not come from sources of trust and therefore such a measure would ensure transparency of the entire process. Change is critically important to any system and usually is accepted and put into practice after long negotiations. An electoral system's change, of any sort, "has a great effect on the type of the system which results, its appropriateness for the political situation, and the degree of legitimacy and popular support it will ultimately enjoy." (Reynolds, 2005,-page 5). Therefore, any change to this electoral process must not only be put into practice by the Governing Body but should also receive support from the community, in this case the students.
Regarding the composition of the Students Senate, this is composed at this moment of a Student Body President, a Vice President, 57 representatives...
A proposal would be to ensure the representation at the Senior Level for two Vice Presidents, as this would ensure a better functioning of the Student Executive Committee and would also ensure better representation at the top level of various groups within the students' community. As each year and generation of students has a different composition of its community, 2 Vice Presidents would offer the possibility for no inter-students or inter-faculty separation and conflict to exist.
These proposals come at a time where more balance, fairness and transparency is required in our societies and as possible conflicts management is crucial for the development of any community.
Bibliography
Reynolds, Andrew, Ben Reilly and Andrew Ellis. Electoral System Design:the New International IDEA Handbook. The International IDEA Handbook Series, Stockholm: 2005
University of Kansas. Student Senate, Rules and Regulations, 2010. Retrieved on 15th December 2010 from https://documents.ku.edu/policies/StudentSenate/StudentSenateRulesandRegs.pdf
