About the Campaign

Are you fed up with “education”?
Are you fed up with rules, and arbitrary boundaries?
Are you fed up with the walls and constraints of physical buildings?
ARE YOU FED UP WITH NOT HAVING A RHINOCEROUS?!

If you vote for Chris Lowry as President, he promises to get rid of education! Get rid of rules! Get rid of buildings! AND BUY A RHINOCEROUS!
What are you waiting for?! Visit my blog, the facebook group, and the union website page, and remember: “Vote for Chris RHINOCEROUS RHINOCEROUS RHINOCEROUS!”

Campaign Video

About Chris

Chris Lowry has been an active member of Union politics for more than 1 years, serving on the Welfare committee for most of 2007 and 2008. Since then, he has taken a more relaxed approach to the Union, rarely visiting and generally not even bothering to vote.

He does, however, frequently still get himself free cups of tea from the Officer’s private kitchen. Aside from this, he is a medical student, web designer, punk band frontman and pretty big fan of Jesus.

Finally, if you didn’t work this one out yet, Chris has a big sense of humour, and along with Raj, we are trying to raise awareness of Union politics by encouraging people to laugh, take interest, and thus vote!

So remember, “Vote for Chris RHINOCEROUS RHINOCEROUS RHINOCEROUS”!

About the Rhinocerous

The rest of this space will be used to tell you all about the world’s best animal, the Rhinocerous:

Often shortened to “rhino”, its a name used to group five species of odd-toed ungulates in the family rhinocerotidae. The rhinoceros family is characterized by its large size, reaching one ton or more in weight; herbivorous diet; a thick protective skin; relatively small brains for mammals this size (400–600g); and a large horn. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter, if necessary.

The rhino is prized for its horn. The horns of a rhinoceros are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Both African species and the Sumatran Rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan Rhinoceros have a single horn. Rhinoceroses have acute hearing and sense of smell, but poor eyesight. Most live to be about 60 years old or more.

So, a few projects I’ve been working on that I’d like you to check out. The big one is the soon to arrive Crookes Online, which you can check out at http://www.crookesonline.co.uk. Nothing much there as yet, but watch the space for more there. Am going to be working on it with my beautiful wife, so if you see her taking photos on crookes high street, say hi.

Related to that is http://www.crookeshardware.co.uk. Many of you have probably bought nails, compost, hammers and other oddments at Hobbycrafts in Crookes, over the years. They have now moved (further down the high street) and renamed as Crookes Hardware. Their site is a work in progress also.

Next is the glorious website of Snodland Community Centre. The hall where my wife and I had our wedding reception, it is operated by a community group including my parents-in-law. This site is a belated Christmas present to my father in law! Check it at http://www.snodlandcommunitycentre.org.

If you are seriously still in the mood to look at more sites, check JirehDecor.co.za, for some awesome South Africa based home decor, and Sheffield’s best promotional gifts company, Cutting Edge promotions, for whom Salt and Light are about to embark on our biggest project yet.

I have possibly taken on more than I can chew. However, am definitely going to take steps to avoid burning out, involving evenings off, walks in the peaks, and refusing to spend hours fighting with my new server and its recalcitrant ubuntu installation.

Watch this space for upcoming articles on building your own home server, making a MediaWiki template, and my upcoming campaign to be President of the Student’s Union. Before then though, I’m off to watch You Only Live Twice. Gotta love Bond Films for 10p in the R.S.P.C.A. shop!

Blessings,

Chris