Maynooth Campaign face strong opposition from S.U.

national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Thursday March 25, 2004 17:55 by Boycott Coke Campaigner - NUI Maynooth maynoothcoke at campus dot ie

S.U. argue financial implications of Boycott too great and campaign against issue

...despite supposed Neutrality

The situation in Maynooth now is, following a Union Council meeting last night-the executive of the Students Union have refined their argument to state that the financial implications a Boycott would incur on the Union is too great.
As a result class reps have been advising students to vote against the Boycott at the start of lectures. This means our Students Union are campaigning against the Boycott.
We’re holding a meeting this evening to discuss new strategies.
We were told that out of the 1,200 signatures handed in only 860 we’re valid. This was due to bogus number entered. We estimate that there were probably 1,300 gathered, we needed 1,125 in total to hold a referendum (one fifth of the students population). This means we had a surplus of about 275 to cover bogus numbers and suspect we are being fobbed off. But this is irrelevant.
This point is we are in the midst of an all out war with our S.U.
We intend on continuing until we have achieved our Goal but suspect we will need support.
Will report back after meeting.