YUSU President Rich Croker and Academic and Welfare Officer-elect Grace Fletcher-Hall have clashed over a proposed constitutional amendment to replace the current Policy and Campaigns Committee with a new Campaign and Environment Forum.
Fletcher-Hall said that the Policy and Campaigns Committee as it currently stands is defunct, as the number of sabbatical officers who sit on it makes it “impossible to make quoracy”. She claims that the committee has been inquorate at every meeting called in the past three years.

The new forum would play an active role in providing ideas and serve as an information-sharing platform for Union Officers, societies, student groups and JCRCs.
Croker denied that the current Campaigns Committee was defunct, saying it “meets as often as it needs to”. Of the proposed Campaign and Environment Forum he said “it wouldn’t work and would weaken areas that are currently strong such as the Environment and Ethics Committee.”

Croker added: “Grace never called a Campaigns Committee in her two terms as Policy and Campaigns Officer. How can you say it doesn’t work when you don’t call it?” Fletcher-Hall denies the allegation.

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