Salient

Hooray for Tristan Egarr -being appointed to the post of Salient Editor rather than Laura or her close friend Nicola Kean. My reason for saying that - once again Laura has chosen to say that I “resigned to concentrate on my homework” not once but twice in this particular issue. Given that I am currently doing a Masters of Arts Degree as well as a Law Degree surely at some stage it would have been appropriate to have mentioned that! After all of the 2007 Executive only Tushera is doing something comparable and yes Geoff does have a Masters Degree.
My other reason for this comment is that I want to apologise to Mary Jane and any other past present or future member of Ngai Tauira or anyone else who like me is offended by that large picture of me on Page 18 of this weeks Salient. Yes I did give permission for the original photo to be taken but not for this one and yes I do think that I have a sense of humour which is why I agreed to the original one but this one?
PS Steve when’s the Salient Xmas Party? Or don’t book reviewers get invited?

Chris: nobody gave a shit why you resigned but I bet there was an awesome party afterwards.

Yeah I believe i choose to include your reasons for resigning in this particular article- laura obviously agreed with me tho because it made print. I don’t think what you are studying (regardless of how impressive it is) is relevant in a look back on the year in exec. Eye on Exec is essentially about how the exec are grappling with looking out for student interests-not about their own personal struggles with acadamia. So in short no what you were studying did not need to be mentioned in this article and yes I believe the term homework was suffient enough to explain your reasons for resigning.

Your right Tushara it is most likely not a full reflection of the work you all do.
I try and include things that you do for students although sometimes it is hard as i base it on what happens during meetings and nothing really happens in meetings that is productive. I always include something you are doing eg. box city, food parcels etc or something you are discussing e.g agenda for next year. I think if you take a closer look (lol not that Im expecting you 2)at most of the exec’s i have written I try to make it not “a mere piss take.” It is not my fault that most meetings are unproductive, disorganised and outright ridiculas. I know you were very good at your job and so were a lot of exec members but if the exec (as a whole) want to be taken more seriously they should make it harder for salient to make fun of them and conduct themselves in a more professional way i guess. And I think the exec deserved to have the piss taken out of them this year…they spent heaps money on sausages, they bitched and argued like teenage girls ,their was so much arguing and very little co-operation, the phone calls and the urine incident (lol sorry rachael). Lets not forget eye on exec is supposed to be critical to keep you all on your toes.

And lets not forget I said how you grappling with looking out for students interests not what you are doing…which when you think about it are entirely different things. Maybe you are right…maybe next year I should include more of what happens outside of meetings. Hmm something to think about.

Oh fuck, not tosh.

Yeah I have to agree with that one. I also didn’t see many exec reports this year (thankfully I didn’t have to go to many meetings). I believe more work goes on during the week in the VUWSA office than in the exec meetings, but that Salient often isn’t given enough information about what’s going on. All we hear is that Joel’s a dick coz he lent the van to Nick Kelly, or whatever.

As a member of the awesome Massey, i notice we do not have anything in our magazine about our Exec. Could it be that Massey Exec (wellington) are far more porfessional and on the ball with student needs and interests than VUSWA will ever be, that we do not need any such piss take opinion pieces written by second rate wannabe journalists.

lmao magneto calling any magazine out on quality why don’t you go fight wolverine rofl

comment above talkin about tranny not the rock haha

lol you couldn’t think of anything better to call me? Fucktard?
Honestly?

But fair comment. Next year I’ll try and make it a little more informative but thats not to say it will be any less critical. Eye on Exec isnt meant to be the mouth piece of VUWSA where I harp on about how great the exec is. BUT a little non satrical infomation never hurt anyone.

Lol I still can’t believe you called me a fucktard. Your a winner.

Lay of her bitches! Why and how did Nicole get drawn into this? The work Nicole does for Massey Wellington students is amazing and often (as shown here) goes unnoticed. It’s so easy to shout and heckle from the side isn’t it. Do one better and call talkback, or post on Kiwiblog. LIKE LOL LMAO ROFL LOLZ ZOMG HEHEHE TTYL.

we’ll call it exec atteck

(just pronounce “attack” with a south african accent )

Tightrope walking fire-poi battles…. With bassy d’n b. The winner gets to launder money through their opponent’s Association accounts. yussss.

Now, is that because the MAWSA Exec are THAT boring, or because the Magneto journalists are that….. how do I put this delicately?…… useless?

I’m pretty sure I know which it is.

Actually, making anyone fight our exec would be kinda unfair, since we have communists on our exec, and communists have petrol bombs and terroristy yeast-free-bread-making training camps and other dastardly weapons… or at least helmets, in joel’s case.

Whereas, what is a design school exec going to be armed with? Photoshop and fancy art paper? How are they going to defeat the might of an enraged bum with such trinkets as these? It makes you think…

Come on! do a Exec Survivor or something during O Week or a Exec vs Exec thing to complement Eye on Exec Salienttttt

Hey guys and gals

Don’t be so hard on the design school kiddies. Fancy art paper and photoshop can be potent weapons. I mean come on, Papercuts anyone??!!

Regards
Alexander

Hi Jenna,

Although I know that you have included the things we have done (box city, etc), I do think that for an outsider, it is difficult to understand the true goings on at the meetings. To say that the meetings are unproductive, may seem true on the surface, with all the in-jokes that go on, but on a deeper level, the meetings are productive. Things get done, but the meetings do end up taking longer than they ‘should’, with all these in-jokes. Motions get passed/ failed, and we take our votes seriously.

Secondly, come on, let’s get real. Of course Eye on exec is a piss take. If it weren’t, then no one would read it. If all you wrote was about the hard work the exec do, such as Gen and Stephan (they aren’t boring, just hard working and quite), the article would be very boring. Why would anyone want to read, Jen and Stephan worked really hard, and did over 10 hours, or that Tai gets up at 6:30, comes to uni to leaflet drop, so that people are aware of the fee rise. It is not as funny. People are more interested in what Melissa has to say, cos that’s funny.

Come on, the point of media is to get people to read it, not to inform people. People like to read about personalities, not about the nature of the work these personalities do. It’s the nature of the beast. I am not trying to start a fight here; I am just keeping it real

Tush:
lol fair enough.

Fancy lala: Massey Journalists are really good actually….one of them won best contributor cant remember who but hes pretty rad.