Nine motions raised at UGM
A total of nine motions were submitted at the UGM on Thursday March 5, including the proposal to ‘tidy-up’ the constitution and improve private lettings in York.
Four of the proposals were championed by third-year student Jason Rose. He firstly suggested the motion of opposing a tuition fee increase, arguing that the Union should resolve to officially resist any governmental attempt at increasing the tuition fee cap.
Rose also proposed the motion of improving private lettings in York, which was seconded by Nouse Technical Director Chris Northwood. This follows student dissatisfaction with letting agents such as Sinclair Properties.
It has also been proposed that the Union should mandate the Campaigns Officer to educate students about the potential problems of letting in and the best ways of avoiding problems with letting agencies.
Rose proceeded to propose that the Courtyard should be made more accessible to vegetarians, arguing that vegetarian and vegan labels should be added to the menu, and that at least one vegetarian option should be available with full ingredients of menu lists being included where possible.
The most contentious issue of the night proved to be Rose’s proposal that the Student Centre should be renamed ‘The Matt Burton Dance Hall’ – it was the only proposal of the evening that instigated an oppositional speech. The motion was initially proposed by Oliver Lester, who Rose represented on the night. They believe that such moves will ensure that officers like Burton will have a long-lasting legacy and that the ‘Student Centre’ is a boring name, revealing nothing about the personalities inside.
YUSU President, Tom Scott, and Sports President, Alex Lacy, both gave supporting speeches of the motion, with Lacy saying that Burton was the “quintessential YUSU officer”. Rose told Nouse he thought it was “great” that it was the only contested motion of the night. Names for the Student Centre in Goodricke expire every three years.
The other uncontested motions to be proposed were: to campaign to get York students against government proposals to introduce national ID cards, as proposed by Ralph Buckle; to improve the University’s assessment and feedback policy, as proposed by Jonathan Krasner-Macleod; and to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Voting for these motions takes place from Monday 9 March at 12pm to Thursday 12 at 12pm.
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I only just realised that you incorrectly labeled me as a third-year. It doesn’t really matter now, it just ended up being quoted on other websites
Jason,
Which of the motions were featured on other websites? Did the Telegraph pick up on the Matt Burton Dancehall? Or perhaps the BBC ran something on the issue of putting little green Vs on the Courtyard’s menu?
I’m not entirely sure that I said CNN had snatched up the chance to comment on Assessment and Feedback. What I said wad ‘quoted on another website’ and indeed the article was quoted in its entirety on an archiving website that has little importance other than the fact I happened to stumble on it.
Anonymous Massive! is under the impression that the good Admiral has a bit of thing for Mr Rose, due to jumping at him within a number of hours for no good reason!
May Anonymous Massive! suggest that Mr Rose and the Admiral get a room, obviously with an Internet connection, for how else would they be able to enlighten all us Nouse readers!