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gee wiz, what the?

taken from: Glendonites

Dear Glendon students,

The GCSU had a meeting last night regarding the 6 hour general meeting.
motions were presented to ratify the motions that were passed at the general meeting, along with new motions.
the ratification for the dropping of the lawsuit being dropped was passed,
the ratification for the impeachement of our President and V-P was not.

why? well as the speaker stated, the manner it was done was "illegal" and unconstitutional. All year you, the students, have been after each member of council claiming that we need to follow the constitution 100%, and now you go around and do something unconstitutional? that my friends, is not right, and could endanger the Union with more lawsuits.

so we, the council, discussed ways of trying to work around it for you guys. what you should have done for the impeachment was to hold a referenda question for the student populous to vote on. in order to do so, we need it to reach the student body 16 days prior to the voting of the referendum.
we counted days, and tried to figure out when would be best to hold it, and with the help of our new current speaker, we decided that by the time it all happened and took place, we would no longer be in office anyways. Basically, we do not have 16 days, we tried our best to please the students, but we are now running out of time.

so in short:
1)there is no longer a lawsuit, just a great debt for next year's council
2)the president and v-p were un-impeached (if that is even a word or makes sense?)

seeee ya around.

*rhoda*

As stated in the letter posted by Rhoda Mousa on the Glendonites blog they have refused to ratify the impeachment of our president and vice-president. Though let us nonetheless applaud them for ratifying the motion to drop this lawsuit against York University. The main issue now is this latest turn of events, from last nights G.C.S.U council meeting.

So as you all know, a general meeting was held roughly a week ago and one of the motions passed during that meeting was to impeach the president and vice president. And as you may or may not already be aware of before that motion was carried a vote was made by students regarding the interpretation of the constitution with the specific section on impeachments, and a majority of students during that meeting had decided to over-rule the speaker’s interpretation of the constitution (that in itself is within our constitutional right to do so, if you weren’t aware of that fact).

Are you telling me the opinion of one speaker is paramount than the opinions of 110+ students that were present in the meeting? Now I can’t speak for those reading this, but I believe that’s what most political scientists would call a dictatorship you know when only one person’s opinion matters. Wow you guys are really taking a page from the autocratic regimes of history by trying to pull something like this. What’s next a G.C.S.U run Gestapo? How about an SS division of G.C.S.U? Seeing how as you guys are already taking the first steps by opposing decisions made by the members you supposedly represent you might as well go all the way.

Now in all fairness the president did make a very good case, but the fact is most people decided that mistakes were made during the course of his term which is the reason why he was voted for impeachment. I believe your argument on impeachments in this manner would be a cause of more lawsuits is one that is very much a fallacious one, because precedence does exist of a president being impeached before a general meeting. IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE. It’s also worth mentioning that a referendum would have been ideal in this situation but that wasn’t possible thanks to the lack of time left until election. That still doesn’t mean we can forget about holding our elected members accountable for their actions does it? Why did many of us waste 6 hours of our life for? You obviously didn’t get the point.

posted by Sam @ 4:12 PM