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Author	zellisgoatbond
Comment	Fair - I don't mean to say that he's been completely absent or anything like that. Although, at least from a student's point of view, the general perception seems to be that he doesn't really do anything if the media attention isn't there. To maybe try and back that up a bit, in the 2 and a half years I've been at uni, with him as rector, the list of emails I've got from him: * Two emails regarding the strikes in early 2018, one before they started and another after meeting students who had occupied the Senate Room. Fair enough, though one of them devolved into a pretty overdramatic rant. * Some emails about a few roundtable events between November 2017 and March 2018 - all well and good, but he promised to do them every two weeks, and there's been no news outside of that pretty short time period. For the most part, I haven't really minded him - I think he focuses a bit too much on saying things rather than doing things, though I fully accept that quite a bit of what he will have done won't be very public. But I think what's worse is the expectations he set. In his campaign he was very public about being a working rector, and being very involved with students. But he hasn't lived up to those expectations, and in a role where your goals are set almost entirely by expectation, that's very damaging. And the thing I'm most concerned about is that I think having a working rector is rather important, and an active rector can make quite the difference. But I think he's set that back substantially, making the likelihood of an absentee rector considerably higher.
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Created	Sat 7th Dec 2019 3:57pm
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Fair - I don't mean to say that he's been completely absent or anything like that. Although, at least from a student's point of view, the general perception seems to be that he doesn't really do anything if the media attention isn't there.

To maybe try and back that up a bit, in the 2 and a half years I've been at uni, with him as rector, the list of emails I've got from him:

* Two emails regarding the strikes in early 2018, one before they started and another after meeting students who had occupied the Senate Room. Fair enough, though one of them devolved into a pretty overdramatic rant.
* Some emails about a few roundtable events between November 2017 and March 2018 - all well and good, but he promised to do them every two weeks, and there's been no news outside of that pretty short time period.

For the most part, I haven't really minded him - I think he focuses a bit too much on saying things rather than doing things, though I fully accept that quite a bit of what he will have done won't be very public.

But I think what's worse is the expectations he set. In his campaign he was very public about being a working rector, and being very involved with students. But he hasn't lived up to those expectations, and in a role where your goals are set almost entirely by expectation, that's very damaging.

And the thing I'm most concerned about is that I think having a working rector is rather important, and an active rector can make quite the difference. But I think he's set that back substantially, making the likelihood of an absentee rector considerably higher.