[committee] Restrictions on group applications for freshers

[Christopher Bobridge]

Ash,

The policy is a shorthand way of needing six months to assess someone and
their character before being comfortable placing them in a position of
trust. What is arbitrary, meaningless or inconsistent in that? As a member
of those groups, you are answerable to committee. As fresher rep, you are
answerable to the membership.

And I suspect you're selling yourself short in saying that you were not
elected on at least some measure of trust.

Chris

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ash Tyndall <atyndall at ucc.asn.au> wrote:

> I have received complaints from freshers regarding the policy that freshers
> cannot be on groups until Semester 2 of any given year.
> Freshers feel this policy is arbitrary and is not justifiable.
> For example, the fresher rep has a precedented exemption from this policy.
> In this way, the policy assigns a higher level of trust to a role that is
> not elected on trust. The policy is thus inconsistent and hard to logically
> defend.
> I would ask the committee to present the reasons for this decision and to
> consider a policy where *every* person is reviewed for groups based on trust
> and never due to arguably meaningless labels.
>
> --
> Ash Tyndall [ASH]
> 2011 Fresher Rep
>
>
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