VUWSA supports VSM
At the final SRC of 2009, the good students of Victoria University voted 45 – 35 that VUWSA actively support Sir Roger Douglas’ Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill.
This means VUWSA is now obliged to put in a submission in support of the Bill, which will make student associations voluntary.
Jenna Raeburn was at the SRC and live blogged the multiple tactics used to try and prevent a vote – multiple quorum counts, competing motions etc.
There are going to be some very upset student politicians tonight.
Congratulations to those 45 students who took the time to turn up and vote, and most of all for being subtle enough about it, to pull off a superb tactical assault.
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Tags: Jenna Raeburn, VSM, VUWSA
October 14th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Fantastic news for all students that believe in individual rights!
October 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
excellent stuff!
October 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
suck it VUWSA
October 14th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
lol. That is absolutely brilliant!! What about the feeble stalling tactics – what a joke!!
Just shows that not many give a toss about these guys and they are essentially a waste of time. Good luck in attracting members!
October 14th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Heh. Reminds me of the SRC yonks ago at Otago University, when the constitution was amended. The office of president was renamed Emperor, the term extended to life, and the stipend increased to 10% of the association’s budget !
[DPF: Liam was made King not Emperor, but yes it was a lifetime appointment. Of course at the next SRC he was shot with water pistols by assassins yelling out "The only good Kennedy is a dead Kennedy
]
October 14th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Thank you to everyone that came along.
A fantastic result.
October 14th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Excellent!
Edit: Well done Peter, I imagine you had a bit to do with rustling up the numbers.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
VUWSA’s policies don’t really mean much. A “policy” passed in 2004 – which has not been overturned – was that the VUWSA exec must sing ‘Smoke two joints’ by Sublime before every exec meeting. As far as I am aware this policy has not been implemented.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
So they are in good company Dave
writing rules they don’t really mean people to obey.
Is their hero John Key?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
fantastic!
Bloody Well Done to all those who participated!
October 14th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Another victory for the enlightened individual over the tyranny of society.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Beautiful. More lefty tinpot dictators put on notice ! Congrats to all involved.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Jeez MikeNZ, have you noticed everybody here is having fun except you ? Tough day for the left when freedom gets increased eh ? What a shame for you that we don’t give a shit !
October 15th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Dave
VUWSA SRC policies are not enforceable if they require expenditure by the executive. A General Meeting motion is required to enforce expenditure from the executive.
Because executive meetings are public singing smoke two joints would require a performance royalty to be paid. This would need to be paid by VUWSA and therefore the executive have decided that this SRC policy is invalid and it cannot be enforced.
VUWSA often decides these sorts of exceptions to policies in many cases and so they do not often repeal decisions at further SRC meetings. They often argue that staff time / emails / research / communication / submission all require expenditure and that invalidates almost all policies if they do not wish to apply them.
Regards
Alexander
[DPF: Luckily there is no cost involved in having the 2010 President speak in favour of Sir Roger's bill]
October 15th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
[DPF: Luckily there is no cost involved in having the 2010 President speak in favour of Sir Roger's bill]
In fact Max Hardy said during his campaign that he would support VSM if that’s what students wanted!