AGM

Nothing slacks me off more than having to attend the scores of AGMs that crop up at the beginning of each year. Last Tuesday I went to one of the worst. Due to begin at 7.00 it finally got the requisite quorum of 50 financial members at 7.30 but only just; the first quorum count came eleven minutes after the meeting began. There were 51 students present. The meeting, as you can guess if you were one of the few hundred who endured some part of the three and a half hour marathon, was the AGM of the Students' Association. You ended up with a feeling near to contempt for the 6000 students who had so sheepishly forked out $19 at enrolement and couldn't bother to come along and watch it rise to $24. But most of the student hacks there were politic enough to realise that it never pays to alienate the masses, and quickly passed a motion of censure in the association secretary, Richard Moore, for alleged incompetence as regards publicity for the meeting, and the lateness of the 1970 annual report and accounts. Not that he took it personally. But three hours later while motions of no confidence were being aimed at the chairman and the whole exec, the meeting collapsed.

They've decided to reconvene the AGM tonight, and probably someone is eagerly reading this to obtain a critical analysis of what happened at the last one. Stiff cheese! If you weren't there you will have to go along tonight to find out what it was like. If you were, then like me you probably want to forget it. Which isn't a bad piece of advice. Anyone who has a real interest in the affairs of the association doesn't sit round waiting to read about it in Salient: if you profess to be interested then turn up. As far as this association is concerned, you're going to have to realise that if you aren't interested or competent enough to manage your own affairs, then you deserve the mismanagement you are getting.