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Last week’s Exec meeting welcomed in OUSA’s two newest members, Postgrad Rep Thomas Koentges, and International Students Rep Art Kojarunchitt. And WHAT a first meeting for them to have come to…
The bulk of the meeting was taken up with a formal complaint from former OUSA Financial Service Officer James Meager (for details of this see the thrilling read on page 16 of this week’s Critic). President Harriet Geoghegan stepped down from the chair for the duration of this “presentation”, handing over to the alarmed Education Officer Katie Reid. To say Reid was relieved to hand the position back is an understatement, describing the experience as “exhausting having to think all the time!” Your levies are in safe hands, students.
 
The Cambodian Culture Club seems to have gone slightly rogue, and there are apparently concerns at Clubs & Socs that the club isn’t legitimate. A lack of financial statements from the club for the last six years has contributed to this feeling, and their president has been particularly unresponsive to requests for these documents. Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride was of the opinion that the actions of the club weren’t malicious, instead just “genuine incompetence,” but that it had led to a “potentially dangerous situation”.
 

Critic understands that the club wants to close all its bank accounts and donate any money that they may or may not have (with no financial statements, who would know?) to a Cambodian orphanage. There has also apparently been a situation in the past where all the funds belonging to the club have gone AWOL, which is alarming to say the least. Possibly someone took the club eftpos card out OTP in Dunnerz? The Exec is investigating it at the moment and Critic will keep you posted (unless, of course, we are bribed not to). 
 

 
The Lawn Bowls Club was affiliated to OUSA, proving quite the clusterfuck over who could actually vote to do this, as it seems the club consists almost entirely of the Exec members, who are the ones who have to do the affiliating. And they want us to think it’s the Cambodian Culture Club that can’t be trusted...
The First Quarter Executive Reports all passed without incident (a rare occurrence), so the Exec have got some extra pocket money this week to reward them for all their hard work in the first part of the year. Katie had another blinder of a comment when she let everyone know it took her months to even find her Terms of Reference, and that she spends most of her time going to meetings, typing up reports from the meetings, and proofreading the reports that she’s typed up from the meetings. Critic just hopes that none of the above requires thinking; after all it’s an exhausting process. She also thought it was “really cool” that Francisco had been turning up to meetings she didn’t realise he was going to be at; Francisco was stoked that she didn’t think he was a stalker. Everyone wins.