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AMS meeting October 24th, or boo to code & policies.
Posted By Maayan Kreitzman On October 25, 2007 @ 9:42 am In News | Comments Disabled
Yesterday there was an AMS council meeting. I missed it, but since everyone loves hearing about the machinations of democracy, or better yet, themselves, here’s a summary written up by Blake Frederick, the AVP Academic and University Affairs (otherwise known as Brendon’s minion), on his brand-new blog: http://universityaffairs.blogspot.com/ [1]. I also have word that a certain illustrious blog was featured to encourage more people to run for office! woot!
Reading Blake’s summary over, it strikes me that the code and policies committee is a bit ridiculous. Yesterday they brought forward a policy restricting sound recording and video recording at AMS council and committee meetings. This is a topic that when you really think about it, might actually be important a couple times a year. Whatever. But code & policies has pro-actively taken it on! It almost instantaneously devoted attention to this (in my opinion silly) topic, to introduce (in my opinion silly) code amendments, when at the same time, code & policies has been sitting on some big items that have literally been waiting for attention for years. Big items like committee reform, and a students’ assembly. These are initiatives that actually had council support, and partial approval, but were sent to the committee for some more work and expertise. Hah – the committee is basically a junkyard of abandoned policy. Apparently, committee chair Scott Bernstein’s personal aversion to the gaze of video lenses (the horror!) is more important than council’s priorities.
This actually brings up some bigger topics:
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