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This is mainly aimed at the Brits: apologies to the rest of you.
Glasgow University Student Representative Council (SRC) is one of only 15 students' unions around the country not to be affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS). On Wednesday, we're having a referendum to decide whether or not to join (it's constitutionally mandated that we have such a referendum every few years). I'm pretty much decided on voting against joining, but I'd like to canvass your opinions to see if I'm about to do something daft.
In case you're wondering why: my memories of the NUS from Oxford are of one college or other trying to secede every year, and of a friend going off to Conference as the college NUS rep, then coming back in despair, telling tales of insane, vicious, antediluvian politicking that would have been considered a bit extreme at the court of the Pharaohs, and of an "organisation" that made OUSU look like a model of silent, resolute effectiveness. Joining would cost the SRC a lot of money that they don't actually have, and the SRC actually seem to do a fairly good job of representing students' interests already.
Oh, and the NUS gave the world Jack Straw. Need I say more?
Glasgow University Student Representative Council (SRC) is one of only 15 students' unions around the country not to be affiliated to the National Union of Students (NUS). On Wednesday, we're having a referendum to decide whether or not to join (it's constitutionally mandated that we have such a referendum every few years). I'm pretty much decided on voting against joining, but I'd like to canvass your opinions to see if I'm about to do something daft.
In case you're wondering why: my memories of the NUS from Oxford are of one college or other trying to secede every year, and of a friend going off to Conference as the college NUS rep, then coming back in despair, telling tales of insane, vicious, antediluvian politicking that would have been considered a bit extreme at the court of the Pharaohs, and of an "organisation" that made OUSU look like a model of silent, resolute effectiveness. Joining would cost the SRC a lot of money that they don't actually have, and the SRC actually seem to do a fairly good job of representing students' interests already.
Oh, and the NUS gave the world Jack Straw. Need I say more?