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Bloodletting all round at USI
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USI is reeling from a massive internal coup this afternoon as both plotter and president have fallen on their swords. A letter from earlier this week addressed to the President and listing a litany of failures, sparked some furious debate on politics.ie which has been followed up by confirmation from David Cochrane, editor of P.ie that both the letter’s author, Stephen Conlon and the USI president, Richard Morrisroe have both left USI as a result of this controversy (see more here).
USI = One giant mutual masturbation society making the world a whole lot worse not better.
The only good thing about USI is the fucktards that live on the festering pond scum that is Irish student “politics” partake less in the real world since they are so caught up in their own pointless incestuous dramas in colleges around the country. I often wonder if dropping all those various characters (pronounced “wondercunts”) just once more on their heads when they were babies would have evened out the obvious brain damage and made them a little less imbalanced, though still tragically dim.
That fat fuck in college answers the question “who ate all the pies?”, student politicians answer the question “What happens to the socially stunted who can’t live in the big bad world?”
“Point of order”. Oh fuckoff philsoph/hist wanker.
I’d tend to agree that USI hasn’t really been the most successful in its role but then I was in UL and they’ve always had more sense than to join that gaggle of loose headed chickens.
The risk is that 10 years from now we’ll be discussing these same characters in the context of their rise up through actual party politics.
Bloodless coups should not be allowed.
Apparently, USI has no provision for how to select a new President if the incumbent resigns so perhaps they will all go on hiatus until next season.
…and in the interim it will be realised that life functions perfectly well without them and over the summer it is wound up?
please let that be how the story ends Dan
I’ll echo Cian’s call to hear how it ends.
Its about time that USI got the decent burial it deserves. There is a need and a place for an active and campaigning national student organisation, unfortunately USI is not it nor has it been that in a long long time.
Actually, a wiki page, and decent conference calling and content management systems would allow a national union coordinator/president to function quite well.
spot on Eoin, as each president removed themself farther and farther into their own navels it became an inward-looking carrerist organisation, a far cry from what is should be doing.
I think you’re right Dan with most students hooked 24/7 to Bebo or Facebook, once you add some knowledge base like a Wiki and some mass SMSing like clickAtell sure why would you even need an office ? You can get virtual receptionists and IVRs from angel so there isn’t a need for even somebody to answer the phone, as for transcription from meetings, sure record it and send it to casting words.
At this rate, I could run a new organisation for half the cost of USI, pay myself three times the salary and still achieve five times what USI ever did …. time people got to grips with virtual organisations and USI was made one. Kill it off and go virtual I say.