AGM

The other day, I went to our Student Union AGM.

Oh, what a mess that was. The chair didn't appear to have much experience in running it, the motions were handled in an apparently random order, with little consideration for importance (this is significant given that in the past the union has had a hard time maintaining quorum), the handling of motions 6 and 7 was a complete farce, and half the time people had no idea what was going on.

Apparently we actually managed to start with the needed quorum (just under 500 students), which is a first while I've been here. We even kept quorum until right near the very end, unlike last year. Unfortuantly this quorum appeared to be made up of activists and arts students (being a science student, I get to look down upon the arts students. I'm sure they look down on us science students in some circular loop of looking-downness).

I turned up just before we voted to split from the NUS. Not sure what the reasons were, but there will be a referendum over this and if that passes then the USSU will no longer be affiliated with the NUS. Southampton union apparently went this way a while back, and about the only visible effect was the union got more money to play with.

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Oh what fun.

Dom (housemate) has just informed me that the drains overflowed last night. I was home for that night, so I missed all the fun, but according to him "The water from the drains is brown, and running down our path." We still have running water, but it comes out in the front garden which is somewhat less than useful.

This makes me glad I went with plan B, which was to head straight to campus.