Consensus

I was prompted create this post by a posting by xyz on The Radish on post about the new guild officer blogs.

here is a copy of that post
"@ edward bauer, for the students to have a democratic input it would help if the officers had a contact address on their blogs (which you don’t have)…as well as just the space for comments on the specific articles you have written. or even a forum on the blog if possible…where people could talk about the EEO issues they want to, not just respond to your posts.

i appreciate that an element of anonymity stops the position appearing to be run by only yourself, and that instead you are trying to make it a consensual body of all the students, it currently seems hard to interact with the blog and the EEO. give people a point of contact at least! then they can start to get involved and you can take a backseat :)"

Tom Guise VPDR, Brigid Jones VPEA, Damien Duff (green party), Lizzy Bell (people and planet) and I were defeated at last guild concil in our attempt to reform the EEO structures and make them more consensual (needless to say I'm sure we will try again).

However there no reason why for now the EEO position cannot by run by a consensous of students.

I've created this post so we can have talk here about how best to to operate consenually.

The forum on the website sounds like a plan, Perhaps allowing all students to post here so the average student can set the agenda of debate?

Next term I plan on running the ethical and enviomeantal committe weekly and in those meeting diccusing all the EEO descisions for that week.

Any other ideas, like or dislike the ones currently here and does anyone know how to make a forum or allow guest posts by students on this site?