Law Acts For Inaction

The Law Faculty Club is not really renowned for anything. Any other body might feel that such a reputation was undesirable, but it looks very much as if the club likes its image the way it is.

On Monday, March 29, the club held its AGM. An agenda was put on the notice-board. It was the usual thing—election of officers, annual financial report, general, etc.

"General" usually means moaning about bursary and special regulations at a Law Faculty Club AGM, but on Monday it included a rather unusual motion. A group of the more senior students had decided that the boycott motion passed by the SGM would adversely affect the club's image. So they introduced a motion deploring the boycott, and dissociating the club from it.

In the vigorous debate which followed, many speakers voiced their doubts as to the club's power to dissociate itself from anything done by the Students' Association. Eventually the motion was withdrawn, and reintroduced with the clause involving dissociation. This did not end opposition to the motion, but when eventually put to the vote, the motion was passed with a majority of five—40/35 (a majority probably due to the fact that only the group backing the motion was aware of its impending introduction at the meeting.)

Where this puts those people who voted against the motion and for the boycott, is a little uncertain. One student described his position as "invidious," and vociferously announced his intention of "pulling in a change of course card and doing arts."

There certainly seem to be a few points still in doubt. Can a motion of such an unusual nature be introduced without some prior notice to club members? Were the rather sketchy newspaper reports sketchy because the papers had been supplied (in advance) with the text of a motion differing from that finally passed?

Anyway, the Law Faculty now stands unsmeared. Behold one club which the general public cannot accuse of being involved in any unseemly complaining.

The meeting then moved on to the usual complaining about bursaries.—Peter Williams.