The Fanshawe student union election wrapped up today and Jerry Thomas came away with the victory with 996 votes.
However, we will have to wait and see how our new president addresses the different aspects of Fanshawe he plans to improve in his presidency.
One issue that gained lots of attention during election campaigns was ideas centered around Fanshawe’s gaming community. Fanshawe ultimate esports league hold tournaments such as super smash bro’s night, chess tournaments, and FC25 tournaments which all garner lots of attendees and future fuelers, however the current FUEL station cannot support the amount of people hoping to use it during the day.
Adam Boyce, lead for fuel content and production and presidential candidate says that “over ninety per cent is students that are not team players” and that the largest portion of people using that room are just going there to try and kill some time between or before classes.
Boyce touched more on the difficulty for players to get a spot in the station saying, “If you come any time during prime time that isn’t very early morning or on the weekends, you probably won’t be able to get in if you weren’t one of the first there.”
Not only are there concerns with capacity at the main campus but the south campus as well, Boyce talked on the campus’s situation at the moment saying, “South campus is running Xbox One’s that released in 2013, and they basically haven’t been repaired in the last year. Things like that need to change if we are to continue to grow.”
Not only does this seem to be a concern for the casual gaming community at Fanshawe, but competitive too which leads to many different needs, and as Boyce went on to say, “It’s about time that we’ve moved into a new facility with more room to catch up to the other colleges that are moving ahead of us.”
Although it is still the first day of Thomas’s presidency, only time will tell if these changes can really happen for a community that is, as Boyce puts it, “growing exponentially every year.”
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