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Last week’s meeting was more succinct than a Shortland Street special, with Earnest Adams slices to boot.

With Dan Stride at the helm, some more clubs were affiliated, namely the Jewish Students’ Association, The Renaissance Rapier Club, the Dunedin Abrahamic Students Interfaith Group, and the Anthropology Society Constitution.
Perhaps the meeting would have been over in an even quicker flash, had John’s late report not sparked such a fervent discussion. Dan was angry: about John’s failure to return his law notes, about his failure to turn up to certain events, but mostly that John’s report was late for the fourth consecutive quarter. Dan told John rather fiercely, “Sorry, but at some point, I just want to put my boot down with this,” and threatened to dock John’s honorarium. Wise old Travis told John he didn’t care about lateness, and that $750 was minimal to a million-dollar company, but he did care that the Exec had spent the last 15 minutes discussing late reports. With that, Travis promptly left, and Critic silently screamed: “Hear, hear!” The Exec resolved to accept John’s report next time, once he’s made some changes, but whether John’s honorarium will be paid in full is still a matter of contention.
Claire has plans to make a documentary library, where students can borrow documentaries for a few days. Unfortunately, money is tight, and John was concerned that the library would become underutilised, at which point Michael noted that this would merely be following the OUSA trend. So the Exec are going to use their connections to get the library to meet their demands. John became upbeat at this point, saying conspiratorially “I think we can win this against the library.”
Harriet has been in negotiations with Student Health, which wants to increase consultation fees to absorb the GST increase. Most of the Execcies were all for the sneaky levy increase, which students probably won’t notice. When John pondered why they cared what Harriet thought she retorted: “Because we’re friends, duh!”
The meeting ended on a positive note, as the Exec plotted their delivery of the OUSA ‘Flat Taken’ signs, which come complete with funky star stickers.