Exclusive interview: Chris Luck

**How do you plan to carry on building on what you’ve done this year?**

It’s a slightly different role for next year, which is going to take some getting used to but it’s all about finding out from students what they want from democracy before I do anything. The problem that we’ve had in the past is peacemeal democratic reviews but it has largely been lead by people who are involved and it’s a clear problem. Yes, turnout went up, but it’s not as high as it could or should be, so that’s where the key problem is; finding out what students who aren’t engaged want from their democratic system and go from there.

**Why do you think it is that students don’t care enough about student
politics?**

I don’t know. I think we could make the system a bit easier, a lot of people complain that during this voting period electing nearly 30 positions, so you may have every intention of voting, but then doing it could take up to ten minutes to go through all of them. It’s quite frustrating for people. That’s something very simple that we can fix quite easily. Having said that, there are a lot more things that I don’t think I know about.
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What will you do differently next year?**

In terms of democracy next year, it isn’t just about elections: it’s about putting decision-making online. I’m a firm believer in that. At the moment we expect students to turn up to three hour-long meetings and with so many students in lectures and seminars and tutorials, attending society events and sports clubs, we’re never going to get a time when enough people can turn up. So for me, by putting as much decision-making as possible online hopefully involvement will soar. But I don’t know yet.
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What have you learned from this year that you’re going to take with you
into next year?**

A million things. Every day in this job is completely different but every day you learn something completely new. The huge advantages are; knowing the staff and knowing how the Union works, which I had a semi-advantage of last year as a student staff member before I became a Sabb. It just means you really can start from day one. You don’t even start, you just keep on going, and knowing that I’m here next year means that I can do a lot of work in term three which will help for next year.

**Apparently earlier you said that you are the ‘Union spin doctor’. What do you have to say about that?**

No comment. Cheeky _Boar._

**Do you have any comments on the co-workers that you know about?**

I’ve predicted them all right so far.

**Who is your prediction for President?**

Leo Boe. Societies I reckon Matt Rogers and then Leo I reckon for President.

_This interview was transcribed by Katherine Price._