I have received complaints from freshers regarding the policy that freshers cannot be on groups until Semester 2 of any given year.<div>Freshers feel this policy is arbitrary and is not justifiable.</div><div>For example, the fresher rep has a precedented exemption from this policy.</div>
<div>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.</div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>-- <br><div>Ash Tyndall [ASH]</div><div>2011 Fresher Rep</div><br>
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