I’ve uploaded a copy of the draft EUSA reform proposals which were sent to elected EUSA reps.
Students for years have been calling for EUSA to make available information about what they are doing. But EUSA have always resisted this idea, using excuses like its too difficult to communicate with us and ask our opinions whilst developing policy.
Mike Williamson (VPAA, Defend Edinburgh) for one stood on a platform of increasing transparancy in EUSA decision making, and I for one am disappointed that he and the other sabbs are continuing this undemocratic tradition of denying students a voice in how our student union is reformed. I call on Matt, Mike, Emma, and Philippa (the sabbs) to make the reform process open to all students, and that requires making their draft reform proposals accessable to all students so that we can comment on them, and start a real dialogue with all of us. How can any EUSA elected officer represent our views about student union reform when EUSA is so secretitive about the whole reform process and what EUSA does?
Anyway rant over, and here are the documents. And I’ll continue posting anything I can get from EUSA on my blog until EUSA starts doing it themselves. Anyone on who is on the student council who wants me to put something up from EUSA please email me jayeware [at] hotmail.co.uk
Draft Democracy Schedule – Liberation Version
If you want to make comments to the sabbs then their emails are below. I’m sure they do actually want to know what we students think.
president@eusa.ed.ac.uk (Matt McPherson)
vpaa@eusa.ed.ac.uk (Mike Williamson)
vps@eusa.ed.ac.uk (Philippa Faulkner)
vpsa@eusa.ed.ac.uk (Emma Meehan)
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Edit: I apologise to Mike Williamson for comments I made in the original version of this post. It was an uncalled for attack on Mike, based on a misunderstood comment made in private, and taken out of context. Sorry.
Posted by Maximilian C (@WilfredWilmore) on August 22, 2011 at 1:03 pm
To be fair, I’ve seen most of this stuff before and I’m not an elected rep. Most of it was made available at the end of last year, though obviously not the nitty-gritty which I assume has only just been finalised.