Board Member Sacked

The two candidates retired and the grubbiness began. It was decided that because both people would be excellent board members, present student director Nigel Petrie, who supposedly had not been working as hard as he should have, would be rolled and Chronican and Bowers would be elected to replace him and Judge. Sure, if Nigel hadn't been doing the job he had been elected to do, he should have been replaced, but certainly not in the manner that he was.

President of Massey University Students' Association, Felicite Jardine, started the ball rolling (excuse the pun) by saying that a picture was being built up that things were not as good as they seemed on the board. "Specifically I'm not happy with the way Nigel is working. He has had a year on the board now but he is not shaping up to the job," she said.

The directors, excluding Chris Gosling, withdrew from the meeting at this stage, saying it was "unreasonable" for them to be expected to pass judgement on one of their fellow board members. Chris then told the meeting that in his personal opinion Nigel's performance on the board "has been less than adequate".

"He has attended most meetings but his contribution has been very small. In simple terms he has said very little and what he has said has not covered any new ground or raised any new facts." Chris said that he had come onto the board "more ignorant" than Nigel but considers that he has done more than him in that time. "We have two good candidates for election and I think both these should be appointed and Petrie's appointed terminated. And that's not said lightly," he added