Oh Mr. President, what will you think of next!

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Oh Mr. President, what will you think of next!

By Conrad Reyners | 9 Apr, 2008

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Good ol’ Joel has done it again. In this weeks president’s column he has once again refused to defend his free intertr0nz policy to the masses at large. Instead he has circulated a petition asking students to support the move… what the fuck…

Wasn’t that why we held an ELECTION Joel? Didn’t you run on a PLATFORM of free net and printing — within reasonable limits (oh its nice to see that final qualification inserted in print after all). You won the election, probably because students liked your ideas. Congrats, well done.

But why circle a petition which wastes a page of your best tool for communication with students! More people read Salient then attend SRCs — and why would you circle a petition of an issue which you already have support. When the Labour party won the 2002 election on interest free loans, it didn’t ask for a public referendum or petition to validate the policy AFTER it was elected did it. No, it just got on the with bloody job. And Crucially it spent its time working out solutions and consensus to see that its legislation got passed.

That’s what you should be doing Joel. Instead of leading a campaign against the film school (which could perhaps be left primarily to your campaigns officer) you should be working on issues relation to ALL your constituents. That being said, I do appreciate the leadership you have shown in that campaign. I’m not being sanctimonious (if any other exec member was acting like you are I would as critical of them) it was good to see you working for students. But now I want you to do the job you were elected to do and get ALL students what you promised them. Hiding behind petitions which prove nothing, and are useless in the face of an establishment that wants good arguments rather than activism - is not going to do anyone, any good.

For Joel’s benefit go get a copy from any Salient on hand. But you’re just doing Joel’s job for him. And I doubt the petition is going to be worth the paper you paid for it to be printed on.

Comments

Inadvisable Hand
April 9th, 2008 at 12:36 am

I have heard tell that ITS had something in the pipeline to reduce the costs of internet at uni for a while, and that there has been no dialogue between ITS and Joel.

Instead of using the paper that Joel has so lovingly provided you to petition for something you already want, but can’t have. You should twink out the top bit, the bit with all the crap about wanting free internet blah blah blah, and write:

“We, the undersigned 10 members of VUWSA, and students of Victoria University, wish to call an SGM in order to cause a vote of confidence about the current VUWSA President, Joel Cosgrove.”

Dave
April 9th, 2008 at 1:31 am

Nah the campaigns officer is too busy scouring wellington streets with a bucket of water looking out for chalk protests of the Electoral Finance Act

peteremcc
April 9th, 2008 at 11:24 am

But Joel can’t work for ALL students, because not ALL students have the same views on issues.

Roger Douglas
April 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

He did promise to work for all students though… at the moment he isn’t working

half man
April 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Yeah. I wonder what will happen if you do get free internet and the already overloaded SCS comp labs get a whole horde of extra seatwarmers browsing their facebook profiles.

If you get free internet you probably got to get more computers, too.

Tristan Egarr
April 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

The SRC just passed the following motion by 32 to 3, with 4 abstentions:
“That students of VUW do not support free printing.”
Moved by Mark Newton (VUWSA environmental officer)

Conrad Reyners
April 9th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Excellent, that just means Joel only needs to spend his time on internet proposals. Things just got easier! We expect an announcement soon — or at least a status report.

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Conrad is a very grumpy boy. When he was little he had a curl in the middle of his forehead. When he was good, he was moderately good, but when he was mean he was HORRID. He likes guns, bombs and shooting doves. He can often be found reading books about Mussolini and tank warfare. His greatest dream is to invent an eighteen foot high mechanical spider, which has an antimatter lazer attached to its back.