Velida Pudic
Student apathy struck again today with the General Meeting failing to meet quorum with just 127 students in attendance.
The first item on the agenda was ‘The Fight For Democracy: No Need To Shout!’ which hoped to change constitution so that students who are too busy to attend General Meetings can vote online. For this to be debated a quorum of 1000 was needed. Naturally there was little hope of meeting quorum. Hence the first item on the Ordinary General Meeting was ‘The Fight For Democracy: Always Have a Back Up Plan!’ which proposed an online poll to be put to students on whether they wanted to pass the motion ‘Fight for Democracy: No Need to Shout!’
The other four items on agenda were ‘Increasing opportunities for accountability, transparency and participation in the union’, ‘Reclaim the Uni’, ‘RBS Funding Climate Chaos’ and finally, ‘NO2ID.’
All interesting topics, all enthusiastically campaigned about. Yet a poor turn out once more.
The speaker invited attendees to participate in an informal debate about tackling student apathy. Ironically, the hall emptied.
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