Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Don't Write A Letter, When You Want To Leave...

Well, Council this evening was quite long, yet paradoxically short on substance. The proposal to create a committee to oversee a Council newsletter went down in defeat after a rather drawn-out debate. I don't think the idea was bad in principle, but in the end there were just too many questions. I anticipate that the newsletter proposal will come back in another form, so it will be interesting to see how many of these outstanding questions will be dealt with. Gary and Josh's proposal to use The Bridge (the ESS newsletter) as an outreach medium is an interesting one, though I'm sure advocates of the water-tight compartments conception of SU/FA relations must be cringing at the thought.

In other matters, the strawberry daquiris that are on the "seasonal specials" menu right now at Earl's are quite good. Sickly sweet alcoholic beverages are the perfect complement to sticky, hot summer days. They've also got a strawberry pie as well, so I'm going to have to try that before they change the menu.

4 Comments:

Blogger Bazin said...

Using the Bridge isn't a bad idea. Sure, it's using an FA's resources, but they want to have us help them out by adding content.

I don't see cooperation between the SU and useful FA's as bad.

12:06 a.m.  
Blogger Kyle said...

I don't really have a problem with SU/FA cooperation either. In some faculties, the FA is actually better positioned to reach students than is the SU. At any rate, I expect to see an SU column in this year's Bridge (tangentially, is there any discussion about having it online this year?)

10:10 a.m.  
Blogger Gary said...

Here's a question: How responsible is Council responsible for what councilors say? Say that Josh is reporting council matters in the Bridge, is Council ultimately liable for the comments he makes?

The Bridge is coming back as a full monthly newspaper, and while it will become online eventually, there's nothing concrete in the works other than maybe throwing up a pdf of the issue. That may change depending on how many volunteers we get this year

7:07 p.m.  
Blogger "Steve Smith" said...

I have no objection to cooperation between FAs and Councilors. I think it's actually a good thing, provided the FA isn't totally useless (and even then, I know Heather Wallace was fond of using ASA office space last year). My *only* objection is to FAs having any kind of privileged position in the governance of the S.U.

As to Gary's question, Councilors don't speak on behalf of the organization, so I can't see any reason that the organization would be considered liable for a Councilor's remarks.

12:57 p.m.  

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