University of Hertfordshire's ACS

The academic year is now coming to an end and it’s that time again when a new ACS committee must be elected for the next academic year 2013/2014.

We the ACS of 2012/2013 would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us this year. Whether big or small we are tremendously grateful to you. 

How to Apply:

E-Mail uhacs@hotmail.co.uk with a 100-200 word summary including the following:

• Your name, student number, what course you’re studying and your phone number
• What position you’d like to apply and why.
• Any skills and attributes that you believe enable you to be best suited for this position
• Any previous experience you have that is linked to the position you’re applying for.

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SUNDAY 21^ST APRIL 2013

Leadership Roles

President - Responsible for the society as a whole and general overseer. As president you are the face of the ACS, your team and society as a whole may look up to you for advice and leadership. A president must be diplomatic, fair while also being stern. It is your responsibility to ensure that each captain performs their tasks to the best of their ability and that communication within your society is effective. The president is also in charge of being the link between their society and the wider ACS network such as the ACS Project.

Vice-President- Also Responsible for society and overseas alongside president. As Vice President you act as the Presidents right hand man/woman and the link between the president and the team captains. You are there to support, advise and make cohesive decisions alongside the President. The team may also look up to you for advice and leadership e.g. in circumstance when the President is unavailable. Also responsible for communication between the society and the wider ACS Network such as the ACS Project.

Secretary – Responsible for society emails, documents and general admin. Arranges weekly meeting times, takes minutes from meetings for records. Also responsible for room and venue bookings for events.

Treasurer – Solely responsible for keeping records of the society’s finances as well as suggesting ideas on how to raise society funding, e.g company sponsorship, SU Society Funding.

Street/Marketing Captain –  In control of increasing the society’s membership by being the mouth of the ACS. Constantly communicating with our audience as well as creating innovative ways to advertise and raise awareness.

Events Captain – Responsible for planning regular events with the most intricate details in mind. Also responsible in overseeing during events to make sure they are executed to the highest.

Arts Captain- Responsible for bringing the society alive with performances, workshops and anything that comes under the umbrella of The Arts, e.g. drama, dance, music ect

Media- Solely responsible for the youtube channel UHACS TV. In charge of film, photography, social media, radio, TV, Designing flyers, sound, lighting and technical equipment. Note: it is not a necessity that the Media Captain is able to do all this but they must recruit people onto their team or arrange photography and filming for events. However, it’s preferred if the Media captain can perform at least one or two of the duties themselves.

Sports Captain – Responsible for organising various sporting activities for both male and female students. Can also work alongside the Arts captain to put on dance workshops ect.

NOTE:: APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SUNDAY 21^st APRIL 2013 

Check out your new ACS Team on the brand new UHACS TV. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE! www.youtube.com/UHACSTV

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Written by Deborah Makinde

Which best describes the events of Friday 25^th November, when the University of Hertfordshire (UH) beat Bedfordshire University in the second round of The Big Clash game show?

Perhaps this review of the night’s events will help you decide.

Starting off on a calm note, the event opened with hosts, Chaleboy and Kumi leading a moment of silence for Nabila Nanfuka and Danni Jackson who sadly died a couple of weeks ago at a rave in Northampton. For a minute both universities came together in unity to show respect.

This was until the games began…

An air of competition soon dominated the atmosphere as both universities were introduced on the stage. Bedfordshire came on stage to the sounds of popular Afrobeat ‘Bo wonsem ma me’. UH came on stage in style with entrance music that is true to our university – ‘All I do is win’ (by DJ Khaled & co.)

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After introductions were made, the games officially kicked off starting with game number one – ‘Powder Face’. This game consisted of members from both universities’ teams competing to get vegetables out of a bowl full of powder – the catch was they weren’t allowed to use their hands. Both teams did well in this game and gained a score of one each.

Game two was called ‘Till the last drop’ and basically involved participants from each university being asked a series of random questions. If they got the answer to the question wrong they had to drink a concoction of an unpleasant drink. If they got the answer right they avoided the drink. Again here both universities drew with three points each.

‘Hip-Hop Karaoke’ was the name of the next game and involved members from both teams, as well as selected people from the audience, performing popular songs such as Rihanna ft. Drake – What’s my name? (Team UH) And Beyonce – Best thing I never had (Bedfordshire University). UH won this game.

Next, game number 4, ‘Play my tune’, involved DJ’s from both universities having to play a song to suit a particular situation that the audience came up with. Bedfordshire University won this game, 2:1. Nonetheless UH was back to wining in game number 5, ‘Dance like me’, where members from both teams had a dance off, dancing to three genres: Afrobeats, Bashment and Funky House.

For game number six, audience members from both universities were called upon to take part in a game called ‘Speak up, Break up, Make-up’. This game involved two guys from each university showing off their best lines for chatting up, breaking up and making up with a girl. There were some good lines (as well up some dodgy ones), from both teams in this game but again UH ended up winning because we have game!

For the last game of the event, the universities took part in The Big Clash’s very own version of ITV’s ‘Take me out’ dating game. This was just for fun and no points were involved. Love was in the air as a few of UH’s guys were matched up with some of Bedfordshire University’s ladies.

After this, the scores for both universities were calculated and it was revealed that UH had once again won at The Big Clash and were the overall winners of the game show, scoring twenty-eight, five points higher than Bedfordshire.

Overall, while it could be said that UH smashed Bedfordshire at the game show, I’d like to think that The Big Clash was more than simply a night about winning or losing. To me it was the coming together of two universities to enjoy a fun and entertaining night filled with light-hearted competition and on-point music.

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Written by Nicholas Ayanwale, ACS Journalist

It was about 8:07 when I walked into the lecture theatre where ‘The Great Debate’ 2011 was being held already at this point the lecture theatre had almost reached its capacity and more people were still petering in. It was about 8:30 when the event actually begun and   Peter Olawaye stepped onto the stage in order to introduce himself and the guest speakers. The speakers where MOBO Award winner Triple O, Ola Da Poet and Three ex UH students Benjamin “Chaleboy” Bennett, Hannah Oyewole & Nathan Ghann. He then went on to talk about the Elevation Network which is a charity which aims to help youths kick start their career paths and give youths experience of the working environment. After all of that was completed Peter kicked off the debate by introducing the first topic, which was the UK Riots. The guest speakers started the debate by giving their opinions on the matter, however there was a boy who stood up from the audience and gave his views on the Riots and did a great job of explaining how the media twisted stories in order to portray youths as thugs and hoodlums. He explained how the initial riots in Tottenham started because police brutally beat up a girl.

He also explained how the riots in Hackney started because the police stopped and searched a boy for no good reason. He continued to talk about how police have caused youths to rebel against them, this prompted a female audience member to make an attempt to justify police actions especially as her one of her relatives is actually a police officer. She explained how police officers go into their job knowing that they could be killed or injured so they have to take risks and do certain things in order protect themselves and the public.

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Photos by: John Ojuri, ACS Photographer

The next topic which was brought up was the claim made by David Starkey which was the “whites have become blacks” this controversial comment was highly controversial. This prompted a debate from the panel and audience about how black people don’t like to integrate with others. I found this debate increasingly frustrating as it’s as though when people were commenting they kept generalising black people as though every single black person is anti-social and refuses to integrate with other races.

The next debate was how the Brixton riots compared to the recent UK riots do. I particularly enjoyed this debate as it drew an interesting debate on how the black community was closer in the 80’s as opposed to how distant the black community has actually become at present.

The final talking point was about the coalition government and what people’s views are on them. People seemed to agree with some of the policies that the coalitions have set out however, some people felt that the government are out of touch with young people and need to speak to us in order to help us. I thought through that in that final debate Hannah Oyewole made a very uplifting and inspiring comment which was “Focus on your goal and vision and you’ll succeed” I feel that students should take this comment on board as with this mind-set all you can accomplish you’re greatest goals.

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Photos by : Nyiwa Katalayi, ACS Visual Artists

On what appeared to be any other student evening on the De Havilland campus, a meeting took place.  A meeting filled with comedy games, inspiration and performances.

Once the clock struck 7:30pm, the largest lecture hall on campus reached and overcame its capacity (no black timing). People were definately eager to meet the new regenerated team, partake in games and watch performances from students, ex-students and visitors.

The host for the night,  Benjamin “Chaleboy” Bennett (UH ACS President 2009-2010) , opened up the event warming up the crowd for the packed night that was meant to come.

With poetry from ACS member Kirsty, raps from UK Gospel artist Stealth and Fresher Felicia, Stand-up from graduate and comedian A Dot comedian, melodies from ACS Arts Captain Miles, moves from South African dancers and a short video from the Media Team the ACS Launch Meeting was an event not to be forgotten.

Written by Tobi Akingbade , ACS Media Captain