[committee] Restrictions on group applications for freshers

[Susie Johnston]

No freshers in door or coke until Semester 2 is a rule of thumb, not a hard
and fast rule.  Just like no freshers in wheel.  There has been freshers in
wheel before, and there will be again, but as a general rule we don't allow
them in.

If someone joins UCC in third year and isn't well known to members, they would
probably be rejected to join coke in the first six months too.  It isn't
really to do with labels, it's to do with trust.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:10:07PM +0800, Ash Tyndall 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