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Satire or shame? An astonishing email from USI
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Saturday June 17, 2006 13:48 by Daithí - (Grumpy Old Men, Inc)
Encouraging students to get involved in politics, representation, activism and campaigning is a funny business. In an ideal, perfect situation, you wouldn't have a division between encourager and encouragee; no-one should need to drum up interest among others or to have a position of 'managing' student involvement. But we don't live in that world, and it's perfectly usual to see students' unions, political 'youth wings', campaign groups and so on trying to encourage 'others' to get involved. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has had some difficulties in filling positions in recent years. The reasons for this are complex, but include finance (many elected positions had the accompanying wages withdrawn for financial reasons), political division (many students' unions disagreed with the existence of certain positions, such as LGBT officer (five attempts in a row to remove or downgrade it!) or deputy president/campaigns officer), sudden resignations (declaration of interest: the present author is a member of the ever-expanding USI resignees club), disengagement/apathy, and many many more. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Must be a quiet day on indymedia for this to get put up as a serious news story.
This is symptomatic of the doldrums that wider political participation, as well as student politics per se, flounders in. Colleges and universities were traditionally hotbeds of political foment, but if this is the best that USI can come up with in political motivation it should concern any political entity reading it.
Plus, indymedia publishes live so a slow news day here should be measured in numbers of stories rather than content.
bring on the silly season. Loads of room to play.
Is that constitutional Daithi?
(not bunreacht constitutional but USI constitutional)
Just wondering coz tomorrow being the 7th anniversary of rts! london catalonia will vote on its "estatut" but not the one it overwhelmingly supported last september, tomorrow is the "madrid catalonia estatut" not the "catalan catalonia estatut" but they're still all well being catalan about it, and the supreme court found it was unconstitutional of the government to ask or pressure the public to vote or take part, nonetheless Pasqual (our most excellent president of the generalitat) broke the law yesterday for the final time [ the missing punctuation , , , ; : . I do like to see someone write the username "green ink" very clever for yes I write in green ink mostly and see the laugh yes look it up on google yes why not and see the history of "green ink letters" a now mostly forgotten journalistic code phrase yes of the late nineteenth century ] & told the catalans to vote yes i say yes i say yes yes yes