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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2006-01-19 12:04 pm

the continuing stupidity of student politics

(note:  the icon is absolutely not to be taken as any sort of volunteering on my part.)

saw this in the dead-tree edition last week, but have just remembered that it's online as well.  Budget errors leave Student Union facing £110,000 deficit.

that's £110,000.  un-bygod-believable.  i saw that headline and i was more pleased than ever that my common room voted not to affiliate.  now that we have a statement from the VP (Graduates) -- who is not, by the way, a graduate student -- i'll be in a position to assure my own people that it's none of their money that's been mis-handled, because we've paid no dues.

the article is really disheartening.  i'm in favor of student unions as a concept, but man, not this one.  eh, [livejournal.com profile] cannons_at_dawn, anything to add?

[identity profile] anariel-di-gaia.livejournal.com 2006-01-19 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't mind them being rubbish so much if they provided a severely cheap student union bar like they do at other unis. Luckily we're disaffiliated from them also.