Rose of Dawn on student politics Southampton Student Union President Emily Dawes' suspension:
'Student Officer suspended for sexual misconduct. Again!'
Rose of Dawn includes discussion about Jess Bradley & wider issues in NUS.
Emily Dawes also in press recently for a different issue:
Times: JENNY MCCARTNEY
October 28 2018,
'A mural for modern Britain — less woke, more wise'
(extract)
"I ’m already feeling a little sorry for Emily Dawes, the 21-year-old president of Southampton University’s students’ union, who sparked widespread fury with her tweet: “Mark my words — we’re taking down the mural of white men in the uni Senate room, even if I have to paint over it myself.” Her choice of target was woefully misplaced: the mural was painted in 1916 by Sir William Rothenstein to commemorate members of British universities who fought in the First World War. Many of them died in water-logged trenches having barely attained adulthood.
It was a silly tweet — and not the only silly one in Dawes’s Twitter timeline. She has already apologised for “the offence and upset” and said that “upon reflection I have realised how inappropriate it was”. The tabloids have had a field day with her wealthy US family home and background, but the press shouldn’t be too hard on her: its own ranks are stuffed with journalists who spent their university years striking similar attention-seeking poses, which they now recall fondly as the political foibles of youth. Today, however, a fatuous statement can cross the world in a matter of minutes and turn a lone student tweeter into a lightning conductor for global derision, resulting in deep personal shock.
That in itself is harsh — yet the wider philosophy underpinning this row is certainly worth examination. In the “woke” campus circles in which Dawes moves, her views are not controversial at all. The rules of modern identity politics have created a new orthodoxy with its own particular language in which many students and academics are fluent, often to the bemusement of denizens of the outside world."
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-mural-for-modern-britain-less-woke-more-wise-r3nj325rv
TW confusion over vulva/vagina!