by Rob Hearn on Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:48 pm
Yes, you're completely right. We don't do anything, or collect subs, or organise many events. I can't speak for either of the two Alexes, but for my part it's because I don't care. I wasn't ever elected onto the committee, really, since I was a founding member, and one of the three people to vote in the initial elections. People can get uppity at us, I suppose, but remember that it was us who started it all up. Would you have, anybody? Before us there was nothing. We haven't brought many things about, but there would have been less if we hadn't been uncharacteristically and temporarily motivated two years ago. There would have been no microwaves in the kitchens, and the disgusting rubber mattresses would still be here. And the few events we have hosted would not have occurred. Since the beginning, nobody has shown any interest in taking our places, so we've just let things lie, because none of us are the types who want there to be a big, ball-hosting, sub-charging committee. That's why we live in Fife Park.
Believe me, if anybody has a burning desire to be deputy senior student, they're welcome to the role. At the moment it's basically like the screwed up kit-kat wrapper on my desk that I'm too lazy to throw in the bin. Nobody objects, nobody else wants it; it asks nothing of me, and I ask nothing of it. If somebody were to bin it for me or put it on their own desk, I wouldn't notice that it had gone. If that annoys anybody, I really don't know why.
I'm not paying subs though.
"I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of, are disgusting."