Interview

On Friday (30/11/2007), after getting the approval of Mr. Zam, the Director of STAD (Student Affairs and Sports Division), an interview was conducted to fill the remaining seats available in the 2007/2008 Students' Representative Council. The number of seats to be filled was 7.

The criteria for applicants:

1) Ready to serve students immediately
2) Must have CGPA minimum 2.5
3) Able to manage time properly
4) Good interpersonal skills

Interview session



Puvan, Nithyaah & Ali being interviewed.

News about the interview was announced on the bulletin board and also spread via word of mouth. A total of 17 MMU students had submitted their applications for this interview session.

The interview was conducted by the SRC excos themselves. This has been practiced since the formation of SRC in MMU.

Rezal & Ain being interviewed.


Candidates were assessed based on their answers as well as how they carried themselves throughout the interview.

After the interview, the SRC excos offered their input regarding the candidates' performance to the SRC President who will make the final decision on who to choose to fill the remaining seats in the council. The President, Mohd Hamdan Bin Mohd Sharif, deliberated on the matter and announced his decision on Sunday.

The successful candidates are:

1. Puvaneswaren s/o Letchumanan
2. Nithyaah d/o Kolinthevalu
3. Amirul Ridzuan Bin Hanif
4. Nurul Ain Binti Mohd Ghazali
5. Mohd Rezal Bin Mohd Daud
6. Nanthakumar Gohbal
7. Lai Jock

Congratulations to the successful candidates!

Meeting with Mr. Zamzuri Abdul Majid (Director of STAD)

15 SRC excos, those who won after contesting in the election and those who won uncontested, had a meeting with Mr. Zam, the Director of STAD (Student Affairs and Sports Division), on 27th November 2007 (Tuesday) at 9am to discuss several issues.


Mr. Zam


Among the agenda of the meeting were:

Introduction of SRC Excos

1. All new SRC excos introduced themselves to Mr Zam. Pleasantries were exchanged.
   

Problem with SRC Election

1. Suggestions for more polling booths in several locations around the campus was made by Excos.
2. The excos who contested in the election inquired for any possible compensation because of the cancellation of election in Trimester 1. Mr Zam informed them that SRC election follows the policies of Malaysian Election Commission and it is stated by the commission policies that candidates of the election would not be given any compensation if the election were to be cancelled for any reasons.
3. Mr Zam said Industrial Training students and Final year students should not run for election next year. He also said this rule would be included in the Election form next year.
4. Election for the academic term 2008/2009 would be held around week 6 (Poor voter turnout if held close to study week).

Appoinment of additional SRC Excos

Every year the SRC is composed of 20 excos. The election allows for only 15 candidates to be appointed through the election. The remaining seats would be filled by appointment through interview conducted by the 15 SRC excos.

For this academic term (2007/2008), Mr. Hamdan (President of SRC) requested for 7 candidates to be appointed through interview therefore the total number of excos in the council would be 22. He stated the following reasons to justify his request:

1. Lack of representative from CADP
2. Only 1 Indian exco (Nicholas) in the current council
3. Only 1 female exco (Yeong Khar Mun) in the current council
4. Around 6 excos would be going for industrial training in the first trimester

Mr Zam at first hesitated but later agreed to accommodate the request. He, however, stated unequivocally that this would be allowed only for this council and should not be taken as a precedent for future councils.


Other issues

1. Lack of packing space in campus.
2. Library carrel lights cannot be switched on before 6pm.

The meeting was adjourned 2 hours later.

Cleaning Sri Perdana

After the election and the first unofficial SRC meeting, the 15 SRC excos set out to clean the Sri Perdana (SRC Room) and rearrange the furnitures and fixtures in the room to suit their liking.



The room was separated into four areas: Meeting area, Guest lounge, Exco's lounge and mini pantry. Old stuff was taken down and stored away safely while new stuff belonging to the new council was put up to potray a fresh image.



After about 6 - 7 hours of tireless labour, the room was finally ready for the new council to occupy.

Students' Representative Council 2007/2008 Election

Multimedia University (Malacca campus) Students' Representative Council's election for the academic term 2007/2008 was held on 22 November 2007. The contested territories were General and International. Other territories were not contested as the nominees of those territories were not opposed therefore won uncontested.


Lee Hong, Hamdan, Azril, Amirul, Weng Keong, Chong Hong


Teck Chee and Yeong Khar Mun (Jess)

The General territory offers five seats whereas the International territory offers two. Seven candidates contested for the General territory while five candidates contested for the International territory.

On 20th Sept. 2007 (Trimester 1), the election committee had tried to conduct an election for MMU Malacca however due to some technical difficulties involving the servers and voting software used, the election had to cancelled. All votes cast on that day were considered invalid.

This however did not deter the students from coming to vote once again to choose their representatives. Students lined up in CLC amidst their busy schedule to exercise their voting right from the minute the election process started till the end.


Weng Keong, International candidate, Amirul, Osama and Khalil


Hamdan, Jess and Azril

This time around, the election went on smoothly with no setbacks and at 5pm that day the result was announced. Wong Teck Chee, Liang Weng Keong, Mohd Irfan Bin Zainal Abidin, Mohd Hamdan Bin Mohd Sharif and Lee Chong Hong were the successful candidates for the General Territory. Similarly, Osama Sadeq Mohammed Ali AL_hamdany and Khalil Saeed Mohammed Abdulsalam were the winning candidates of the International territory.

Refer to this bulletin to read the complete list of successful candidates (including candidates of uncontested territories).