Fuck Rishi! The way I’d have gotten rid of him would have been like this:

Me: “Uh, Rishi?”

Rishi: “Yeah?”

Me: “You’re through here. You have 15 minutes to pack up all your stuff from your office and get out. After which time, security services will be called.”

Rishi: “Can you actually do this?”

Me: “This is how all corporations function when they scapego…erm uh, downsize people. See you later!”

Yeah…that’s how I would have run the corporation. That, or I would have used WLUSU to launch a hostile takeover of WLUSP. Then we could print our own pro-WLUSU propaganda.

As an “insider” I’m more than willing to help you out in your crusade, and will offer you any information you desire…

“Conduct unbecoming” for handing out said pamphlets is bullshit. WLUSU student politics are too often eclipsed by WLU adminsitration, and that’s the real problem here. Not Rishi.

Mike and Rishi lost any chance of being able to change things in WLUSU by resigning. How cowardly. If they really wanted to change things, they would have stayed the course and through effective tactics, made changes. But all they chose to do was bully their way into an organization and thought everyone would listen. Well they are merely faint wispers behind the walls of power now that they have resigned.

Shame.

that’s a really good picture of fraser.

“”Conduct unbecoming” for handing out said pamphlets is bullshit.”

and he wasn’t even handing them out…

Machiavelli, take note of how many BOD members actually say anything during a meeting. Regardless of whether or not Mike and Rishi resigned, the BOD remains an organization that “faintly whispers”.

I sent that image to my good friend at U of T. She said I make students’ unions look evil.

“Well they are merely faint wispers behind the walls of power now that they have resigned.”

They were always faint wispers, the seats have just changed and the stress levels declined.

Machiavelli, neither Rishi nor Mike “bullied” their way into WLUSU by intimidating other candidates or busting their kneecaps. I believe they were elected democratically to their positions.

That said, Mike stated that he would be able to fulfil his platform a lot better from outside WLUSU than from within. It remains to be seen how he will be able to accomplish that, but I remain optimistic.

Machiavelli,

I disagree with your assessment of the situation. As Tudor said, I feel that I can’t change things from within. This is because of the other people that sit around that table and their unwillingness consider change. I’m sorry to hear that you felt I bullied my way in by being elected, but if you thought what I did before was bullying, then I’m scared to imagine what you think what I’ll be doing from now one will be.

There are many ways to go about affecting change within WLUSU, and you’ll see more and more of them when we get back in January. I’d be cowardly if I just gave up, Machiavelli, or worse yet, sat around that table pretending that those directors are making a shit of difference and getting frustrated. I’ll take the radical democratic route instead, thanks, and that way everyone can be involved.

Faint whispers? Sure! Just wait…

Well well,

It is the hypocrisy of this whole situation that I find interesting.

From what I’ve read and learned myself, mistakes were clearly made by BOTH the Management Committee and, now former, directors Mike Borrelli and Rishi Kumar. The Management Committee and the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board should have procedurally informed Rishi Kumar of the motion being brought against him for conduct unbecoming of a director. However, this does not excuse Rishi or Mike from their decision to breach in-camera discussions and tell all their friends about it.

Borrelli and Kumar are so quick to call the processes of the WLUSU BOD undemocratic and claim their voices were silenced by the Board. I’m very sorry gentlemen but you were actually involved in a democratic process where 17 people, all of whom were elected by the student body, have a single vote to make a decision on issues that are brought to the Board. Because things didn’t go your way, and every vote wasn’t to your liking does not make the process undemocratic. People will disagree with your opinions too.

You also seem quick, I’m referring to your resignation letter Mr. Borrelli, to claim that people are unwilling to change their opinions through open discussion. Well I hope that you are not also guilty of having an opinion and sticking to it. Wavering from an opinion is not a sign of weakness but new information and discussion can cause one to see things in a different light. You seem to understand that, but don’t be so quick to judge others.

I also might suggest that there were times when Borrelli, Kumar, and also director Piscitelli may have silenced the voices and opinions of other directors. I have attended a Board Meeting and in that meeting a Director was voicing an opinion when Mr. Piscitelli starting yelling about personal privilege or something like that because the opinion of that director somehow offended him. Or maybe it was hurting his arguments and influencing directors to see another side of the discussion? I don’t know.

Unfortunately, I didn’t make it to any other meetings, but I wish I had.

Both of your self-righteous resignations are interesting. I hope the student body at large, unlike all of your friends, doesn’t buy the fact that you are both perfect directors who did such an incredible job but then resigned when things disappointed you. I imagine other directors are also disappointed. You both had a part in this year’s BOD, and decisions you both made have effected where the Board sits today. So don’t play the innocent card.

I think it’s a shame you both resigned, I’m sure your opinions and intelligence were as important to this years BOD as any other directors. Your input in future decisions will probably be missed.

Good Luck,

I have a message for anyone of the Laurier Student Body before I go. Do not read the Cord Weekly, or read the opinions you see on this website or others like clublaurier.ca and immediately become influenced that things within the school are the way these opinions paint them to be. There are two or more sides to every story and before you can make an informed decision you should try to find the other opinions. Unfortunately, you will not usually find those other opinions here or on clublaurier because anyone who doesn’t agree with the CL faithful is immediately vilified and torn apart until they leave the world of clublaurier. WLUSU isn’t the only clique at WLU.

“Unfortunately, you will not usually find those other opinions here or on clublaurier …”

I’ll just make a quick note that even though I tried to find as much information as I could regarding this incident, WLUSU has been less than forthcoming. Their press release did not address the issue and they did not comment on the story. It was this lack of opennes that some of us objected to.

And I’m not aware of either Borrelli or Kumar breaking the in-camera discussion until their resignation letters were published. For the WLUExposed piece I’ve written I received no information from either of these two directors. I knew there was going to be a censure motion brought against Kumar, but this hardly consists of in-camera information (look up what in-camera actually means).

“Do not read the Cord Weekly”

If you say so. Can I still read the comics in the Toronto Star? Or will they somehow corrupt my world view?

“Do not read the Cord Weekly”

“If you say so”

Thanks again Brian

Hmm…Sam, I find it funny that you know so much about the incident…Are you a director? You sure know a lot about things that were ‘in camera,’ things that I’ve certainly never talked about. Has another director broken the so-valued secrecy that in-camera meetings were supposed to provide? I’m really interested how you know all of this…no wonder you want to hide your identity.

The point of personal privelege was a totally warranted, although done in a not-so-subtle way. Piscitelli, Rishi, and I have put up with so many ignorant statements directed at us that I’m surprised points of personal privelege weren’t called more often. My favorite was my last meeting where Diana Spadafora was on the way to calling Pish a racist before Colin mercifully told her to be quiet.