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It is a fixture of university lore that during all his 11 years as Prime Minister, John Howard never once set foot on the campus of ANU, just a few kilometers down the road from The Lodge in Canberra.
Certainly he never visited what is now Australia’s leading university anytime after 2001 when Ian Chubb became vice-chancellor, a job the 67-year-old relinquished on Friday.
Chubb, a rough-hewn figure credited with the most astute brain in higher education management, turned ANU into a major research hub where PhDs were earned in greater numbers than elsewhere and youngsters came from all around Australia, and the globe, to study.
The past few weeks have given us a mediocre campaign at best and left the electorate cynical. Can there be any other outcome when all both sides can come up with is an exchange of slogans, attention grabbing stunts and petty bickering.
Making sure they say what they believe to be safe and popular while avoiding the risks associated with delving deep into the important issues. Yes, student elections at ANU are all about shallow populism.
Wait… did you think I was talking about another election?
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Steely Dan says:
I remember one year we did actually have the engineering students along to the polls in droves, and the engineers proved they weren’t the apathetic lot we’d all assumed they were. They contributed over a third of the vote to be the largest bloc, ahead of the Arts/Law crowd, Economics… Read more »
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jim says:
I got elected into the student union, just for the union to get Chinese votes, because surprisingly I’m yellow, have asian parents but I can’t even speak mandarin. They even re-wrote my entire blurb ... just to make it sound nicer and attuned to receiving more votes. I never agreed… Read more »
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