NUss Distinguished & outstanding Member Awards
NUss Distinguished & outstanding Member Awards
NUss Distinguished & outstanding Member Awards
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Cover Story<br />
Post-General election<br />
Dialogue at nUSS<br />
promising young politicians were invited to share their views and experiences on<br />
the recent General election and also the motivations driving them to be part of<br />
our nation’s new political landscape.<br />
the mood was an electrifying<br />
one as candidates from the various<br />
political parties descended<br />
upon the Kent Ridge Guild House for<br />
the Post-General Election Dialogue<br />
held on 26 May.<br />
Headlined, ‘A Watershed Election’,<br />
the invited candidates were attending<br />
the dialogue session on their personal<br />
capacity where they shared their<br />
thoughts and took questions from<br />
NUSS members about the recently<br />
concluded general election.<br />
Although mobbed by their fans,<br />
some of the invited speakers managed<br />
to take time out to speak to<br />
The Graduate about their campaign<br />
highlights<br />
“I didn’t really feel a specific high<br />
Mr Johnny Tan, Mr Benjamin Pwee, Mr Gerald Giam, Dr Vincent Wijeysingha, Mr Harminder Pal Singh, Ms Nicole Seah, Ms Ho Soak Harn, Dr Lam Peng<br />
Er and Mr Alex Yam.<br />
8 THE GRADUATE Jul-Sep 2011<br />
Active participation by NUSS members during<br />
the Q&A session.<br />
at a certain significant event per say.<br />
I think throughout it, it was really<br />
the little things that mattered. For<br />
example, when someone came up to<br />
me and said I have never voted for<br />
Mr Benjamin Pwee (second from left) with<br />
Mr Johnny Tan (extreme right) and invited<br />
guests at the dialogue session.<br />
the past 20 years and now you are<br />
giving me that chance or if someone<br />
came up to me and said “I want you<br />
to be my voice”, those were the most<br />
gratifying thing because that is why I