Feeling somewhat excited about this week’s meeting (having heard rumours we could be in for a bit of a show), Critic decided to rock up early to see what the Execcies were up to prior to start time.
Upon arrival Critic was greeted by Campaigns Officer Daniel Beck, who seemed to be going out of his way to be extra nice to Critic. Maybe he didn’t want us saying anything about finding Francisco Hernandez topless in his office with three bottles of booze sitting on his desk? We were quickly advised by Beck that the alcohol was neither his nor Francisco’s and in fact belonged to maverick renegade Daniel Stride. They always blame Stride, poor guy.
On arrival at the boardroom Critic felt the need to gag as the smell that wafted over me was reminiscent of a Mexican internet café. Smell aside, the meeting started off in fairly good spirits although there seemed to be a bit of tension between Stride and Geoghegan. Critic speculates that the tension may in fact not be sexual, but rather was down to Stride’s insistence on correcting Geoghegan on the OUSA constitution every other minute.
Special guest at this week’s meeting was David Do from the New Zealand Union of Students’ Association (NZUSA), who came to speak to the Exec about this year’s annual plan. Unfortunately Do was present only via speakerphone and it was very hard to hear anything he was saying. Critic inevitably drifted off and, upon waking, found we weren’t the only ones.
However, Welfare Officer Shonelle Eastwood, who was among the few actually listening, had some good questions which Do struggled to answer. Overall the Exec was not impressed by NZUSA’s annual plan and thought that they had nice ideas but, to paraphrase, they really amounted to pipedreams.
Then the ever-charitable Exec members confirmed that the Red Cross would be the official Capping charity for 2011, and also that $2000 from the Community Grants and Donations line be donated to the Dunedin Community Law Centre for the service they provide to the community, i.e. helping our more enthusiastic students get out of couch-burning and riot charges.
The most exciting bit of the meeting for Critic is unfortunately not going to be exciting for you, the reader, as it was dealt with in complete confidentiality and we are forbidden from mentioning any details on pain of excommunication.
Also whilst writing this column we again noted how Word’s spell checker insists that “Geoghegan” should really be “egghead”. Cool.
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