Discussion: Wine

That's OK. I was drinking my own (well, a sip here and there in the pauses between note taking) :)

Need to turn the microphone off while are pouring on a conference call in my limited experience :-)

The chair didn't notice.

(My one contribution to ANU student politics - apart from noticing that a proposed new constitution provided for the temporary death of the President - was a motion to ban alcohol from Students Association general meetings. This was nothing to do with any moral position and everything to do with stopping the Young Liberals from stacking meetings with offers of free beer).

blair - what's a temporary death?

When the president dies but the action is ruled unconstitutional by the committee.

It wasn't passed by a show of hands?

I think the actual wording was something like "if the President is temporarily unable to perform their duties because of death, illness or incarceration..." (the last of these was probably a hangover from the Vietnam War days when getting yourself incarcerated was part of the duty statement for any self-respecting student union president).

In 1995 I was president of the Catholic society at Adelaide Uni (true story; they were desperate) but I'm not sure they even had a constitution. If they did, they might have realised that someone who was neither a student at that university (the pharmacy school's @UniSA) nor a confirmed Catholic, ought to have been ineligible!