Two weeks ago the annual elections for student members of the University Council were held. Everywhere in the university buildings there were posters of Groep-één and PF and students were egged on via e-mail to go and vote. Cursor received the following question from Emily Yang, a student of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences from the United States. Can someone explain how the systems works? Like who are we voting for? And what role do they play?

Although the elections as such are now behind us, we shall give a short explanation to make things clear for next year at any rate. The elections are held for the composition of the University Council (UR). The UR checks the resolutions adopted by the Executive Board and consists of employees and students of TU/e. The students are divided between two parties, Groep-één and the PF. As a student you can cast your vote once a year for one of these two parties. This allows you to have a say in who will get to be in the University Council. The viewpoints of the parties can be studied on their websites (the information is also available in English), which will help you decide which party you want to vote for. At this moment Groep-één has six seats and the PF three. (HB)