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The Students' Association is an incorporated society, and like all incorporated societies it has a constitution, an administering Executive, various sub-committees (which are dealt with elsewhere), and general meetings.

It is little use writing about the constitution at the present time, as the current one is under review. At most general meetings some amendment is made to it, not always a well-drafted one, and after five years it is showing its age in the anomalies which have crept in. If you are interested in inspecting this legal relic, you are entitled to do so at the Association office.

General meetings divide into two categories—Annual and Special. The latter kind is held by people who can't wait for the once-yearly Annual meeting, and generally concerns important topics such as fees. As an entertainment spectacle, a general meeting has not been bettered since public hangings went out of fashion, and no encores are necessary.

Any fifty people can call a general meeting, and usually once or twice a year they do. Meetings rarely finish their business and generally collapse for the want of a quorum in the early hours of the morning. Those whose constitutions cannot stand this strain often prefer sub-committees, which meet more often for shorter periods of time.