HOUSE MEMBERS REJECT THE SOCIAL DIRECTOR'S PROPOSED SOCIAL COMMITTEE, DEMANDS ADJUSTMENTS IN TERMS OF ADEQUATE DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERS ACROSS THE DEPARTMENTS, APPROPRIATE FILING OF NAMES: SHIFTs INAUGURATION TO THE NEXT SITTING

 





Members of the FATSSSA House of Representatives resolved at its last sitting that the inauguration of the Social Committee be postponed to the next sitting, until the Social Director incorporates the corrections proposed.

One of the reasons for the rejection was due to lack of perfect correspondence between the names contained in the letter submitted earlier to the House, and the people fielded on the floor of the House as appointed members of the Committee. A notable case at this was the name of Mr. Braid of Geography 300L which the Social Director did not include in his list, but mentioned on lips as member of the Committee.

One of the other reasons for the rejection of his proposition by the House was the lack of ability to satisfactorily defend the values and criteria for the selection of the proposed members of the Committee. The Social Director said they were selected on the basis that they have influence in the faculty and the fact that he has worked with them in the past, thus certain of their credibility. But the Editor-In-Chief of the Press raised an issue around the uneven distribution of members of the proposed committee among FATSSSA’s constituent departments.  This he argues should be an issue of significant address since FATSSSA had received several informal complaints in times past about poor mobilization for social events because of the concentration of the mobilizers in few departments, leading to poor participation in such events across board. Similar lines of concern were echoed by members of the House. The submitted list had six members from Psychology, three from Sociology, one from Political Science and none (on the list) from Geography Department. This is against the background of the Constitutional Stipulation in Chapter Three, Article Eight Section J(V) which states that “…all the departments shall be adequately represented in all the committee and commission...”


Finally it was observed that the proposed Committee had exceeded the 8 members stipulated in the FATSSSA Constitution, as the list submitted had about 10 names.

Hence the House raised two self-opposing motions, the motion for the adjournment of the Social Committee’s inauguration till the Social Director made adjustments prevailed, after votes were cast.

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