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| ESA dissolved as Feds club |
Contributed by: David Mandelzys on Thursday, April 21 2005 @ 02:00 PM CDT
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Following months of back-and-forth accusations, as well as many meetings and negotiations, the Embassy Students Association (ESA) conflict with the Federation of Students has finally concluded with the ESA’s official dissolution as a Federation of Students club.
The ESA was officially dissolved as a Feds club as of April 6, 2005, after rejecting an Internal Administration Committee (IAC) proposal and debt repayment plan. The Federation of Students and the University of Waterloo claim that the ESA owe the University $6,000 in facility rental fees. The ESA maintains the debt to be illegitimate and has stated that they will take legal action against the University of Waterloo to have the debt nullified.
According to Council Procedure 3 Subsection G, Part 7:
Federation of Students’ clubs will not be permitted to operate in debt. Any club having a deficit in its account will be dissolved unless it proves to the Internal Administration Committee that it has a viable plan to return to financial solvency in a reasonable time frame. The onus falls on the club to demonstrate this ability to the Internal Administration Committee.
The motion dissolving the ESA also contained a clause stating that:
Should the Embassy Students Association receive a binding legal judgment which nullifies their debt to the University of Waterloo, and the University formally decides not to pursue other legal avenues, the IAC will reinstate the club status of the Embassy Students Association. The club will be re-established with the same standing and with the same IAC limitations that were in effect on March 24, 2005.
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| Authored by: Student on Thursday, April 21 2005 @ 09:59 PM CDT |
| Why does everyone keep throwing the word dissolved around? They're really just no longer recognized as a FEDS club. [ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Dwayne on Friday, April 22 2005 @ 06:25 PM CDT |
I'm just wondering if the Feds really believes that ESA owes money, since this is a much disputed point, with ESA having paperwork demonstrating that they don't owe money. If the Feds really believe that this is a serious outstanding debt that ought to be repayed, doesn't that mean that they have to repay it to the university, as the VPFinance stated in the Dec '04 council meeting. As a student, and "former" ESA member, I would feel very disillusioned if they took this supposed debt seriously enough to disband a club (which is rare and serious), but as soon as the club was disbanded they changed tunes and said the debt wasn't their, so they didn't have to pay it.
Really sorry to open a can of worms with this point, but I think it is a serious issue. If the Feds don't take this supposed debt seriously enough to repay it themselves, then how can they justify taking it seriously enough to disband a club?
This comment is not aimed at the IAC specifically, since I understand the student vote on the IAC was 2-2 tie. Nor is it aimed at any other aspect of the Feds that is not involved in this issue, for I think highly of my Feds other than this question.
Dwayne[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Libs suck on Saturday, April 23 2005 @ 09:48 PM CDT |
| George W Bush is president of the United States of America! [ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Shaun T on Sunday, April 24 2005 @ 12:51 AM CDT |
Finally, the FEDS did something right and got these manipulative, religious nuts off our campus. It's about time we stopped subsidizing their church.
Three cheers for the FEDS. You know all Embassy members are going to hell, right?[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: HUMPHREY on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 11:19 AM CDT |
MILK MILK LEMONADE
PRESS THE BUTTON
CHOCOLATE CAKE![ Parent ]
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| Authored by: Shaun T on Thursday, May 12 2005 @ 05:00 PM CDT |
| And if they ever come back, I'll personally make sure they regret it. I'm going to walk into Fed Hall during their service with a sign saying "The Devil is Good" [ Parent ]
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| Authored by: ALumni'04 on Sunday, July 24 2005 @ 07:13 PM CDT |
Hey folks, I haven't really been following the Embassay saga since I don't go here anymore, but may I ask: If the problem with the Embassay is that the proportion of community members to students served is to high to justify the subsidy, has anyone done similiar calculations for CKMS?
a.) CKMS receives a cash subsidy of greater magnitude, I believe, than that afforded to ESA.
b.) I don't know any UW students who listen to CKMS and I went here for 4 years
c.) Anytime I have listened to CKMS the DJs were not students but community members wanting to be famous on the student's dolla.
I think a dbl standard is being applied here, and frankly I don't care either way I would be just as happy to see CKMS toasted as ESA reinstated, I only crave consistency.
--A04
P.S. I think similiar calculations could be performed for WPIRG. . . [ Parent ]
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