Opinions

The Decietful Dancing Duo

By Robin Steudel

Seventy-eight per cent of the Board of Directors of the Simon Fraser Student Society don’t even know their own bylaws. According to the Society’s rules on referenda (By-Law 17), subsection seven requires that a minimum of five per cent of the student body vote on any question to be considered valid or binding. With well under the five per cent needed to satisfy the requirements, the SFSS equivocated and stated that last March’s vote on membership in the Canadian Federation of Students was a mandate for the board — that’s some fancy footwork. Does the SFSS give dancing lessons?

It’s about time that the SFSS Board stop tangoing around the issue and get rid of those flyers they’ve been handing out that say 78 per cent of students voted to leave the CFS. If their own bylaws, the rules governing our Society of Students, state that the Society should not consider the results valid why are they using those results? And since the results are invalid, why do the deceitful dancing duo Joe Paling and Derrick Harder insist on not following the beat of their own bylaws and continue using these flyers?

Harder and Paling’s inability to take the lead and destroy these fliers demonstrates that they have contempt for the rules (our bylaws), and the judges (their electorate). If the board can’t follow our Society’s rules, why should students trust anything that has the board’s name attached? With such foul steps our deceitful dancing duo Harder and Paling are counting on the ignorance of the judges to shuffle off more lies.