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Saint's Use of Association Facilities

Postby Students Association on Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:00 pm

Ah, so the Equal Opportunities Policy [i:1ez8fqmn]is[/i:1ez8fqmn] a purely reactionary document? Thought so. Not so much interested in going out and doing something about equal ops as in having a big stick with which to beat transgressors?
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Postby Students Association on Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:01 pm

It is our unfortunate duty to announce that the decision was taken not to re-grant temporary permission to use the Association’s facilities to the student newspaper, The Saint. The Saint, as a newspaper, is not funded or in any way associated with the Students’ Association, though they have for a number of years maintained an office within the Association building, for which they pay an annual rent.

The Saint, resulting from an incident in the second semester of the last academic year, was found to be discriminatory against minority groups. No group can use the facilities or resources of the Students’ Association if they are found to be discriminatory against the members of the Association.

Members of SRC have devoted a lot of time to help The Saint be less offensive to minority groups. The Director of Representation, Ben Reilly, and SRC Student Support Officer, Dave Vinton, have made most effort on this topic to help avoid offence being caused in future. The feeling is that every effort has been taken and so little progress has been made there is no alternative. Some of the groups complaints have been received by are the University’s LGBT students, dyslexics and the Welsh.

The Students’ Association exists in order to protect the rights and interests of our members as well as to foster the development of the students through the activities which we support, via our many societies and campaigns like the Charities Campaign. The Students’ Association has long held the view that an independent student newspaper is an asset to our University community and for this reason until now we have been happy to allow The Saint access to our premises. However, when the student newspaper has been found to repeatedly discriminate against our members and thus to ignore our standing anti-discrimination policy, we have no choice but to take action. Discrimination in any form is not tolerated by the Students’ Association. As such, while we would look forward to being able to support a strong independent student newspaper, we could only do so on the condition that said newspaper be able to assure us that it would treat our members with respect via an appropriate series of checks against potentially discriminatory material which could be brought about if there were the appropriate degree of control by the editorial staff.
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Postby Director of Services on Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:01 pm

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This is the full statement.
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