18 February, 2010

UWS Hive collapse?

Hot off the presses: Apparently the Hive (the student organisation at UWS) has just/is about to/is in the process of collapsing.

The Hive was a new student body at UWS, set up about 6 months ago. The previous student body, UWS Student Association (UWSSA), disintegrated in the aftermath of VSU coming into force.

The Hive was very strongly dependent on UWS for funding (as with nearly all student unions post-VSU, Arc included to a lesser degree). And it looks like UWS has removed all funding to the Hive, just before O-Week. There's a few different reasons being floated, from it being 'too political', to neglecting some of the UWS campuses, to even rumours of corruption amongst Hive OBs.

We'll see where this goes. The Hive's board will be meeting soon to determine whether the organisation can remain solvent (which seems unlikely). If so, then UWS students will again be left without even a paltry attempt at representation.

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