BNOC 2015: Group Three

It’s the title everyone who’s anyone in Leeds is striving for – but there can only be one winner.

Without further ado, here’s the next four wanna-BNOCs vying for your vote.

Melissa Owusu

Hip Hop Society bigwig Melz is not only known for her hugely successful Education Officer campaign, in which she would “bust into lectures and drop her manifesto bars to lecture halls full of students – even in one case asking a professor to drop her a beat”.

Melz has also “been part of RAG since day one”, has long been big on the uni’s spoken word scene and that she can often be seen getting down at Fruity every Friday or monthly at Clarks at HiFi.

James Down

James’ remarkably passive-aggressive nomination told us: “He’s your standard southern twat who thinks the world revolves around him” and “he should be given the stain that is BNOC of the year”.

Like a drunken Pied Piper, the LUUMCC Social Sec “takes freshers on a magical adventure to Warehouse every Wednesday with the sole aim of getting them dangerously drunk”, and often wears a three-piece suit when doing so.

“When you get involved in his ‘activities’ you soon wish you hadn’t”, we’re told – “or at least your liver wishes you hadn’t”. Right on.

Toke Dahler

Toke Dahler is certainly an intimidating competitor, having risen through the LUU ranks to become next year’s head of Union Affairs. When he took the time to speak to us earlier this term, he said that he had grand plans for the Union – and if his rousing promises to tackle student debt weren’t enough, he also wowed us with his impeccable Star Wars knowledge.

The Danish powerhouse may have already secured his place as Leeds University’s very own Emperor – can he secure the BNOC vote too?

Liron Velleman

You already know his name – it’s seared into your brain after what his nomination describes as “that awfully awesome video” that was ultimately unsuccessful in gaining him a place as Community Officer in the Exec elections.

But LUU’s loss was pop culture’s gain, and Velleman’s unconventional dance moves have gained him campus-wide fame. He’s the hero we deserve, but maybe not the one we need right now.