NZUSA Conference
NZUSA are currently holding one of their three annual conferences in Wellington at Victoria University.
While they weren't kind enough to extend ACT on Campus an invitation, I have already been leaked no less than six copies of their internal conference papers, all from different sources.
I won't publish the full papers yet, but I have summarised some of the highlights for you, my fellow students' association members:
NZUSA's 2009 accounts - which they had previously refused to provide to us, show a $77,000 deficit.
NZUSA hired a new full-time staff member to run their campaign against VSM.
The office holders' reports are full of apologies for not quite getting around to their other important student work because they were too busy fighting VSM.
NZUSA tried to get all the university chancellors to sign a joint open letter against VSM to be published as a full page advert in all the major newspapers. One VC agreed to do so and the attempt was abandoned.
When NZUSA apologised for 'accidentally' using VSM-supporting students' names and email addresses to spam MPs emails lobbying against VSM, what they actually meant was that they they regularly lobby MPs by spamming them with emails pretending to be from different people but actually all coming from NZUSA, they just 'accidentally' used the wrong list this time.
NZUSA admit that the poll they commissioned from UMR wasn't designed to find out what students thought about VSM but to "demonstrate that the position NZUSA and students’ associations were taking against the Bill was shared by the general public. This was intended to address and debunk the criticisms of self-interest often made about us." In other words, they didn't care what the actual poll results would be, they just wanted results that agreed with their position - as we always knew.
And finally, the bombshell - every student association except Lincoln, Waikato, Massey Wellington and VUWSA have already given notice that they are withdrawing from NZUSA.
While they weren't kind enough to extend ACT on Campus an invitation, I have already been leaked no less than six copies of their internal conference papers, all from different sources.
I won't publish the full papers yet, but I have summarised some of the highlights for you, my fellow students' association members:
NZUSA's 2009 accounts - which they had previously refused to provide to us, show a $77,000 deficit.
NZUSA hired a new full-time staff member to run their campaign against VSM.
The office holders' reports are full of apologies for not quite getting around to their other important student work because they were too busy fighting VSM.
NZUSA tried to get all the university chancellors to sign a joint open letter against VSM to be published as a full page advert in all the major newspapers. One VC agreed to do so and the attempt was abandoned.
When NZUSA apologised for 'accidentally' using VSM-supporting students' names and email addresses to spam MPs emails lobbying against VSM, what they actually meant was that they they regularly lobby MPs by spamming them with emails pretending to be from different people but actually all coming from NZUSA, they just 'accidentally' used the wrong list this time.
NZUSA admit that the poll they commissioned from UMR wasn't designed to find out what students thought about VSM but to "demonstrate that the position NZUSA and students’ associations were taking against the Bill was shared by the general public. This was intended to address and debunk the criticisms of self-interest often made about us." In other words, they didn't care what the actual poll results would be, they just wanted results that agreed with their position - as we always knew.
And finally, the bombshell - every student association except Lincoln, Waikato, Massey Wellington and VUWSA have already given notice that they are withdrawing from NZUSA.
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