Student unions are so full of shit
It's been nigh 20 years since I was at uni and I can still remember the experience that was my first student AGM. I attending naively thinking it would be interesting, addressing issues related to the university, student life etc.

First item on the agenda? Whether to boycott Nestle because they promoted powered baby formula in the 3rd world. For fucks sake. The next hour was spent listening to a handful of egomaniacs from the left and the extreme left debate a series of equally pathetic items with points of order, resolutions, show of hands etc, I resolved to eat more Kit Kats as a form of protest. The student building even had a coffee shop named Winnies after Winnie Mandela long after she was exposed as a murdering bitch.

It was about this point I concluded it would be an excellent idea if student contributions to the union were split between political and non-political with the political portion being voluntary. I was strapped for cash through uni and it irritated me no end that some of my money was helping fund these tossers.
(MagicMoose, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 22:49, 1 reply)

There are elections
and since only about 1% actually vote, you could have got a few mates together and taken over.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 1:22, closed)

What's the point?
Any people I could have mustered would still have been out voted. Besides even if I *had* won, I'd be stuck in hell with these extremist idiots attending every meeting and being as obnoxious as they were that night.

I'd much rather leave them to pass their stupid resolutions but not at my expense.
(MagicMoose, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 18:59, closed)

At Uni
For a couple of years the Union was run by the Communist Party. Which was as awesome as it sounds. Then the young conservatives got organised, and changed the name from 'Student Union' to 'Students Club' (wasn't club, but something more commercial and as banal).
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:27, closed)