[unclear: VSA] — A Protracted Argument

[unclear: nce] the Special General Meeting called [unclear: two] months ago to discuss the motion [unclear: confidence] in Andrew Tees as President [unclear: UWSA], the Executive has been in a state [unclear: me] disarray and internal conflict. In [unclear: of] these disputes it has been Tees (of-[unclear: rth] Alan Phillips before his defeat in [unclear: y]-election) on the one side and the rest [unclear: e] Executive arrayed on the other. With [unclear: lection] of what is basically a new Exe-[unclear: e] (six new members) it appears that these [unclear: reements] may lessen in number and ma[unclear: de] primarily because over half the Exe-[unclear: e] did not hold office at the same time [unclear: e] SGM, from where most of these argu-[unclear: s], directly or indirectly, come.

[unclear: s] the issues have been more or less resol-[unclear: or] in some cases more or less forgotten, [unclear: worth] recapping the events that took [unclear: Hopefully] this will enable readers [unclear: it] in focus the occasional salvoes that [unclear: been] issued, both privately and publi-[unclear: through] the pages of Salient. To some [unclear: y] appear as the story unfolds that there [unclear: ing] of the Hillbilly feud, which started [unclear: a] minor incident and assumed graver [unclear: graver] implications, and eventually las-[unclear: over] a century. In this case, however [unclear: everse] happened. The original issues [unclear: were] raised were, and still remain, of [unclear: importance], however when the "bat-[unclear: nes]" were drawn within the Executive, [unclear: 'factions]" found progressively minor [unclear: ers] to have full scale disagreements over.

[unclear: hese] comments are not however in—[unclear: ed] to cast aspersions on any or all of [unclear: Executive]. At the time the matters all [unclear: ed] to be of great importance. How-[unclear: it] must be admitted that, with the be-[unclear: of] hindsight, this was not the case. [unclear: I] believe is it accurate to say that it [unclear: only] one group on the Executive that [unclear: obstructing] the activities of the Asso-[unclear: on]. Both groups are equally answera-[unclear: o] that charge. The question that rea-[unclear: might] like to consider is that of how [unclear: believe] such a diversion within the Exe-[unclear: ve], particularly one in which there was [unclear: ar] majority, should in general be resol-[unclear: It] is unsatisfactory to merely say that [unclear: use] your own views happen to coincide [unclear: those] of, say Mr Tees, that his views [unclear: Id] have won out, for that leaves open [unclear: ssue]. What would happen were you to [unclear: yourself] in disagreement with Mr Tees' [unclear: s] next time around?