2014 Committee Lunch

Date: Wednesday 7th week, Trinity 2014 (2014-06-11)

Attendance

Present: Dan Turner (President), Krista Halttunen (Vice-President (Administrative)), Georgina Wilson (Secretary), Max Dalton (Treasurer), Alex Mullan (Lindsay), Anna Hufton (Dr. WHO), Joe Mansour (Dr. WHO), Matthew Lynch (Foody), Caitlin Tickell (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Isaac Rose (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Sam Bumby (Access and Admissions Officer), Anonymous (Access and Admissions Officer), Nina Plowfields (Affiliations Officer), Henry Wisbey-Broom (Charities and RAG Officer), Aisha Simon (Charities and RAG Officer), Colm Britchfield (Design & Maintenance Officer), James Kavanagh (Design & Maintenance Officer), Elizabeth Tulloch (Student Disabilities Officer), Alex Cheng (Entz Officer), Kelly Brotherhood (Entz Officer), Ian McFarlane (LGBTQ Officer), Alastair Bassett (LGBTQ Officer), Richard May (Website & Computing Officer), Claudia Freemantle (Women's Officer), Izzy Williams (Women's Officer)

Absent with apologies: Robert Walmsley (Affiliations Officer), Xavier Cohen (Environment & Ethics Officer), Rivka Micklethwaite (Environment & Ethics Officer), Harry Rimmer (John de Balliol), Holly Marriott-Webb (John de Balliol)

Absent without explanation: Darryl Braier-Lorimer (Foody), Thomas Posa (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Eniola Oyesanya (Ethnic Minorities Officer)

Agenda

Matters Arising

Doug's leaving do [Entz]

 

Agenda

Co-options

 

Minutes

Matters Arising

[Doug’s Leaving – Entz]

The entx have decided to do an afternoon cake and tea session for Doug – people can bake and turn up. There might be pimms, but AC is concerned that people might turn up to get drunk not necessarily to see Doug. The event would probably be held in the JCR. RC said that getting a picture will be very difficult to ship across to America. Dan has got Josh Jones to sort out a silver-based present for Doug.

Cable [D&M]

D&M have bought a cable to connect the Skye box to the projector. They are going to go and test out said cable after CL.

 

Agenda

Co-options for Duckworth

Present for co-option are: Alex Mullan acting for Richard Ware, Richard Ware, Jamie Mawhinney, Ali Teeney, Ruby Breward, Will Mcarthy, and Alex Potten.

Each candidate presented a short speech about why they would be a good Duckworth.

After questions, the candidates left the room and we discussed various issues. CF pointed out that co-option is very different to general election, and if the Committee pick a Duckworth who then runs for Lindsey, then we might have hand-picked the next Lindsey even though that will ostensibly done by general election. AS said that can’t really control this even by discussion, and shouldn’t not pick a Duckworth who is going to be good just because they want to be Lindsey. ML pointed out that there are only about twenty committee members to pick between seven candidates which is possible not democratic. NP said that people who run for Lindsey who have been Duckworth will probably be better. JK said  that we don’t know who will actually run for Lindsey – people could change their mind either way. He also said that someone who has the foresight to plan committee positions shouldn’t be penalised for it. IR said that there is problem of perception in the Committee and this could be exacerbated by us picking someone who wants to be Lindsey. AH said that we should choose someone who can’t run for Lindsey because it is seen that the Lindsey has the favour of the current Duckworth, particularly by Freshers who will have 6 weeks of seeing a Duckworth behind the bar when they’re voting for Lindsey. IW said that a potential hust question for Lindsey might be “why didn’t you go for Duckworth”, so we shouldn’t eliminate potential Lindsey’s. AH said that the legal side of the bar was not really part of the Duckworth’s job. AS suggested we make this a public election in order to dispel our worries about committee “clique-yness”. DT said that there is an immediate need to get this done. CB said that there is a problem with co-option itself in terms of democracy, but that this might be diluted slightly by committee members’ experience. He also spoke against penalising candidates on this instance because of some on-going problems with co-option. I pointed out that possibly this is something we would never agree on and that it will inevitably play into individual voting. ML asked who couldn’t run a full term of Lindsey: Ali Teeney, Richard Ware and Jamie Mawhinney. They could all run and cut their term short. AS said we should all vote on what happened here, rather than hypothetical situations.

We voted by secret ballot. Jamie Mawhinney was co-opted as Duckworth.