http://thebeaveronline.co.uk/2010/01/19/underwhelming-general-meeting-again/ Newspaper of the London School of Economics Students's Union Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thebeaveronline.co.uk/2010/01/19/underwhelming-general-meeting-again/comment-page-1/#comment-765 LSE Student Life « nocachyblog Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:31:12 +0000 http://thebeaveronline.co.uk/?p=2066#comment-765 [...] Overall though, I’m not too big of a fan of the Union. For one, I think it’s a little too militant in portraying things as an “us-against-them” struggle with the administration. In general, I think the people who run the political side of things are the self-important, egotistical, smooth talking type who will eventually become politicians. For example, Palestine is a big issue here (on both sides) and the SU regularly passes resolutions on Palestine. Come on people, what is this, model UN? (for PHS debaters, a bill demanding world peace suddenly seems plausible). I think their attitude turns the general student body off and it shows as attendance at the general meetings lately have reportedly been abysmal. [...] [...] Overall though, I’m not too big of a fan of the Union. For one, I think it’s a little too militant in portraying things as an “us-against-them” struggle with the administration. In general, I think the people who run the political side of things are the self-important, egotistical, smooth talking type who will eventually become politicians. For example, Palestine is a big issue here (on both sides) and the SU regularly passes resolutions on Palestine. Come on people, what is this, model UN? (for PHS debaters, a bill demanding world peace suddenly seems plausible). I think their attitude turns the general student body off and it shows as attendance at the general meetings lately have reportedly been abysmal. [...]

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