(lives here with the students) - Dozens of students found themselves this morning (Monday, 9/9/24) waiting for long hours at the entrance of the Student Union offices at the University of Haifa, in order to submit their candidacy for the union. According to them, the wait was obviously unreasonably long, when representatives serving in the association "drag" filling out their form over 40-50 minutes, when in practice it only takes a few minutes.
◄ Drama in the student union • Watch
Students who were there said:
As part of the election process for the student union at the University of Haifa, students who wish to submit their candidacy must come to the association's offices by today (Mon. 9/9/24) at 12:00. Now it turns out that at this time there are over 100 students in the place, as they seek to exercise their democratic right to run in the elections for the student union of the University of Haifa, but the representatives of the union are physically blocking the entrance to the offices, and preventing the students from submitting the nomination forms.
◄ "Simply a disgrace" • Watch
"Although it is a simple form that can be found within three minutes, the representatives of the association brought in the incumbent members of the association, who delayed filling out the forms. Oral Vakanin, a law student at the University of Haifa, said: "The students, who only want to run in the elections, encounter great difficulties. The situation escalated to the point that we had to call the police to the scene, and the situation turned into complete chaos."
From the students' WhatsApp group:
According to reports received in Hai Pa, this "exercise" was also carried out yesterday (Sunday), when several incumbent management representatives were delayed for about 50 minutes in filling out the nomination form, which, as mentioned, contains only a few simple questions. This conduct meant that many students did not have time to submit their nominations on time, which could seriously affect the election process.
And Kanin adds further: "It is simply a disgrace that this is how the student union is conducted. I call on the University of Haifa and the Registrar of Associations to open a comprehensive investigation into the irregularities taking place in the student union. It is time to return the student union - to the students!".
Yuval Guetta, a third-year psychology student, says: "I arrived at 8:50 a.m., when registration opens at 9:00 a.m., in order to apply to the student union. When I arrived, there were five current members of the union waiting in front of me, all of whom already had forms. Although filling out the form takes Exactly two minutes, each of them took 40-50 minutes, which prevented us from submitting their nomination.
When it was my turn, I began to fill out the form, and the current chairman of the association came out of the office and claimed that I had bypassed the queue, even though he is not at all related to the current elections and it is not clear what he was doing in the room. In addition, they did not respect the exemptions that were there, and even a postpartum woman, who was with a baby , was not allowed to enter. At 12:00, when about 50 students were already waiting in line, the secretary announced that registration was closed, and we were unable to apply."
Haifa University's response:
We emphasize that the Student Association is an independent association that operates according to law and is subject to the audit of the Registrar of Associations and that the University of Haifa has no formal standing to interfere in the association's affairs.
However, the university saw fit to contact the association and emphasize to them that it expects the election process to be proper and fair.
Even in the Technion Student Union AST conducts a dubious and non-transparent election process. It is not clear who elects the chairman of AST and who he actually serves. Is it the students or the Technion administration and its interests and those of the Technion employees? Asthag organization, which represented practitioners.
Simply shame and disgrace a corrupt association that receives millions from us the students, the state and the university and we see nothing of it!! Note that this is not the first time they do this, in all the previous years they prevent democratic elections and distribute the money and positions to those close to them... simply a breeding ground for corruption, no wonder all the corrupt politicians used to be association representatives. Conduct that does not embarrass Russia. Well, at least in Russia there is a representative who is like a contender, they don't even give us that.. Disgust makes me want to throw up
This is how it goes in the Bolshevik-Communist extreme left stronghold
It's old fashioned methods. get to know Very nice. That's how they prevented most of the public from running in the elections until 1977.
Everything is true except that rightists control the association and the students who are protesting are not rightists.