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Author Archives: Matthew Naylor

the rising scourge of kritarchy

They’re at it again! The Stu­dent ‘Court’ has done the same thing that it did in ‘Cromp­ton v. AMS Elec­tions Com­mit­tee‘ two years ago. The rul­ing is a massive power grab, one that under­mines the policy set­ting prerog­at­ives of elec­ted stu­dent lead­ers. They have already man­aged to force the rightly elec­ted AUS Pres­id­ent to resign, […]

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inter-period thoughts on the ruling

It’s in between peri­ods, and I don’t really want to edit my full response to the Stu­dent ‘Court’ rul­ing. I’ll put it up tomor­row morn­ing, but suf­fice it to say that I find grave and ser­i­ous flaws in their jur­is­pru­dence. Basic­ally, I feel that the ‘court’ has stam­peded head­long into the realm of policy after […]

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AUS Elections Committee Response to Student Court

I have a lot of opin­ions about the Stu­dent ‘Court’ case, but I am first going to ask the ‘court’ whether they feel they have reviewed all the evid­ence. The focus on the “absence of rules” makes me think that the rules were not read. The fol­low­ing is my email to stu­dent ‘court’ in its […]

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badda bing, badda HBBH+BH

Don’t for­get to vote for your SUB archi­tect today. I went to a couple of the present­a­tions and then watched all the videos, and these are my thoughts. All in all, I think that there were two standout firms, Bing Thom and HBBH+BH. They get what it means to be a stu­dent here, and they […]

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Why I voted to cut the Equity Program

Editor’s Note: I was going to put some clever and snappy title up there, but there really didn’t seem to be any­thing that really cap­tured the spirit of the piece. The saga of the Equity Pro­gram is prob­ably close to being closed. This ori­gin­ally star­ted off as a response to a couple of ques­tions from […]

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Naylor on Sabbatical

Dur­ing the VFM con­test for the upcom­ing (ongo­ing) har­mon­ized elec­tions, Mat­thew Naylor will be on sab­bat­ical, as he is the AUS Elec­tions Admin­is­trator.
Cheryl Kornder, Omid Javadi and oth­ers will be blog­ging on the RBT dur­ing the cam­paign period. Y’all should vote for them on the con­tinu­ous VFM bal­lot, linked to on the side – […]

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The Sound of Beer

I stumbled across http://www.codeorgan.com/ today, and I found out what the Tribune sounds like – this web­site trans­forms the code of any site into a song, using… let’s just go with magic. The RBT song is a little plod­ding, and it always feel that the notes are being played a little to early or two […]

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Referendum Results

Please remem­ber to vote for the Rad­ical Beer Tribune in Con­tinu­ous VFM.
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In this whirl­wind of a morn­ing we’ve seen a mean­ing­ful ref­er­en­dum res­ult retrac­ted, and a mean­ing­less one pass. The RBT will be elab­or­at­ing on how the pas­sage of ques­tion eight means noth­ing for the Soci­ety in any way, shape or […]

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Declaration of Vacancies

After the wins of a num­ber of the can­did­ates, there will be vacan­cies in a num­ber of pos­i­tions around the Coun­cil table and in AMS admin­is­tra­tion. At the moment I’m just writ­ing to take my mind off of things before the Gra­vol kicks in and I can go back to bed.
Pres­id­ent – No Vacan­cies Created. […]

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Referendum Results

Quorum Not Met
Pass (76%) Quorum Not Met

Quorum Not Met
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Quorum Not Met
Quorum Not Met
Quorum Not Met
Quorum Not Met Pass
Quorum Not Met

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