Maynooth Campaign face strong opposition from S.U.

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Thursday March 25, 2004 17:55

by Boycott Coke Campaigner - NUI Maynooth

maynoothcoke at campus dot ie

S.U. argue financial implications of Boycott too great and campaign against issue

...despite supposed Neutrality

The situation in Maynooth now is, following a Union Council meeting last night-the executive of the Students Union have refined their argument to state that the financial implications a Boycott would incur on the Union is too great.
As a result class reps have been advising students to vote against the Boycott at the start of lectures. This means our Students Union are campaigning against the Boycott.
We’re holding a meeting this evening to discuss new strategies.
We were told that out of the 1,200 signatures handed in only 860 we’re valid. This was due to bogus number entered. We estimate that there were probably 1,300 gathered, we needed 1,125 in total to hold a referendum (one fifth of the students population). This means we had a surplus of about 275 to cover bogus numbers and suspect we are being fobbed off. But this is irrelevant.
This point is we are in the midst of an all out war with our S.U.
We intend on continuing until we have achieved our Goal but suspect we will need support.
Will report back after meeting.

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very suspicious activities

by David

Thu Mar 25, 2004 21:16

We went through the list of signatures. many of those that were disallowed appeared to be valid. we discovered that even one of our campaigners had her name disallowed for no good reason.

We also discovered some things relating to the finances of the Students Union that totally discredit everything the S.U. have been saying but we need to confirm these revelations before making them public.

Basically the Maynooth Students Union have been frustrating the efforts of the Boycott Coke Campaign with no mandate and without voting on an official policy. they have been using dishonest and misleading arguements and refusing to accept the experiences of UCD following their referendums because apparently UCDSU are untrustworthy

time to send in the kildare wombles

by womble

Thu Mar 25, 2004 21:35

they live in the park where the ducks are and onlu come out after dark

what are the financial implications

by pc

Fri Mar 26, 2004 17:58

of banning coke in su shops... to the su

Fri Mar 26, 2004 18:01

none

by conor - SAucd

Fri Mar 26, 2004 18:22

if there were, rest assured the right wingers would be barking it day and night. most people just buy pepsi, or whatever.

which im sure we all aware

Fri Mar 26, 2004 18:34

is just as bad in various areas... but hey you can't boycott everything

anyway having not been drinking coke i have reduced the amount of minerals i drink

(as he sits at his comp drinking pepsi twist.

coke campaign

by Patrick

Sat Mar 27, 2004 23:53

Well done those in Maynooth pushing the boycott coke campaign. Don't be frustrated by the SU keep going and it will be worth it. We heard all this rubbish in Trinity about SU finances too. It's an absolute fabrication. You should point out that student services in TCD or UCD have not been affected by the boycott.

Maynooth - What's the story???

by Curious

Fri Apr 02, 2004 14:36

Any news on this? all seems to have gone quiet in Maynooth!

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