[ProgSoc] VSU (Was: What should the exec do? (Was: Scrap VSU info from UTS Union))

jedd jedd at progsoc.org
Tue Mar 10 03:57:00 EST 2009


 There's only really one bit from this email that was truly
 insightful - on the subject of whether you paid fees
 voluntarily.

On Mon Mar 9 2009, Andrew Halliday wrote:
> ... at the ANU I looked at the prospectus if you
> will and declined to because it didn't benefit me.

 You then describe the lack of food subsidies, how your school
 circumvents the need for union assistance, medical and legal
 benefits weren't part of the package, etc.

 Surely - by your stated logic - you should have paid up, and
 *then* fought to make them do what you want them to do.

 Weren't you thinking about how other students - less advantaged
 than you (three universities and you're how old?) - could benefit
 from the COMMUNITY aspects of you paying your fees?  Everyone
 has to pay in order for everyone to benefit, don't you know.

 Jedd.




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