Letter: Giles Brooker

I was both saddened and disgusted to learn that, after being kept waiting for some weeks at the adminstration's pleasure, Giles Brooker was finally told that his application for the position of Assistant to the Managing Secretary of the Student Union had been unsuccessful.

Another example of the shitty way in which the powers that be treat those who are prepared to work with them. Without wishing to decry the ability of the successful applicant, Philip Brew, (but let us not forget that he was President of Drama Soc., til last week, and that Byron Buick-Constable, his boss, is Pres. of Unity Theatre) I fail to see how anyone's credentials could have been more acceptable than Giles's. He worked bloody hard for and during Arts Festival; he organized last year's elections efficiently, and virtually single-handedly; organized and ran this year's Orientation Programme, for which he gave up most of his time over the summer vacation. On top of all that, he is well known and popular, completely honest and trustworthy; non-pushy, perhaps that's why the system was able to shoot him in the back, because he believed it would treat him as fairly as he treated it. Well I guess we all get disillusioned; at least the French Dept. gained a full-time honours student. Better luck with your flat-hunting, Giles.