What are these elections that are coming up? What is Exec? Can I stand? Can I vote? What do I get out of it?

Questions of this sort are always asked around the cafeteria and commonroom—or rather whispered in lecture-rooms by the sort of student who never looks at the caf or common-room—about this time of the year.

A resolution of the annual general meeting of the Stud. U. in 1956 instructed the powers to be, through "Salient", to issue a broadsheet explaining just what the elections were for, and just what being on the Executive involved. It has been decided that an article in a prominent place in "Salient" could be squeezed into the confines of a definition of a "broadsheet". So the Hon. Secretary and the Editor of "Salient" have put their heads together, and this is the result. The elections which take place in June every year are for the purpose of electing an Executive to manage the affairs of the Union.