We are not the university, but the student body – for political public affairs work
A department of public affairs in the General Students’ Committee has to understand itself as decidedly political. Political public relations not only means simply conveying information for in a narrow sense student matters to students, but must also be understood as the political voice of the written student body. The department must take a critical position on social and political issues and actively intervene. As a result, the General Students’ Committee’s public affairs does justice to a core competence of the written student body, for the exceptionally quoting a law text, lies in “Promoting the political education and civic sense of responsibility of students” (SV §3, section 2.1). Of course, it is not our goal to fabricate good citizens, but if anything, to contribute to the formation of critical, responsible individuals. This, however, means quite concretely that, for instance, political developments in the Kassel region are commented critically and, at the same time, the General Students’ Committee calls for political action.
The committee’s public appearance must be fundamentally redesigned to meet this demand. New logo, new attitude, new language! We are not the university or the telecom, but the student body!
Currently, all political groups in the students’ parliament receive fractional funds to cover their costs. The expenses for the election campaigns of the lists are however not recoverable. This poses a major disadvantage for student university election lists, which have no party or large organization behind them, because here some dedicated students of the lists have to agree to pay the campaign costs out of their own pockets. Therefore, we demand that all university groups or at least student and student senate groups, each must have a sufficient, equal election campaign budget from the resources of the student body previded, with which necessary campaign costs can be refunded so dedicated studs do not have to sit on necessary campaign costs and the advantage of the big party lists and lists with large organizations behind them, is somewhat weakened, although then they would continue to have logistical help and would still have more money. Therefore: for the political!
