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What Matters To Students...
Apparently the major issues affecting students are a 90 year old mini-uprising with boys playing army (while the real men had gone off to fight a war) and the IMC report on the IRA, which A. was no surprise and B. everyone else seems to be ignoring anyway. Now, ask the majority of students at Queen's how much impact either has on their day to day life and the answer is likely to be not much, but this is how Queen's University's Student Council is wasting its time (or not).
Follow up:
The minutes of the January meeting, which never took place because too few people turned up, included a motion that:
"This Council, in acknowledgement of the 90th anniversary of the Irish Proclamation of Independence and in memory of Ireland’s patriot dead recognises the importance of the values espoused therein, with particular emphasis on the 4th paragraph in which Irishmen are called upon to pledge their lives to the pursuit of "religious and civil liberties, equal rights and equal opportunities for all its citizens" and the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and all of its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government."
While the agenda for the February meeting due to take place last Tuesday, included:
"This Council, being concerned that a durable and exclusively democratic basis is established for political progress, commends the International Monitoring Commission in withstanding pressure from the British and Irish Governments to produce a report which properly exposed ongoing paramilitary activity.
Council condemns the failure of the IRA to fully decommission and desist from criminal activity, intelligence gathering and the exiling of citizens.
Council further condemns ongoing illegal activities by loyalist paramilitaries."
Both these motions have sweet fuck all to do with life at university and the proposers and seconders concerned (whom I'll spare the embarrassment of naming) need to take a long hard look at themselves and wise up. These guys think they're going to be the politicians of the future - well God help us all. It looks like we're in for more of the same arguments as we get now, from a new generation of politicians incapable of escaping the mindsets of the last one!