Eye On Exec: Where is the love?
Shit gets weird at VUWSA
Last week down at the VUWSA Office was extremely fucked up, complete with wall-art, resignation threats and a smashed door.
Following last week’s exec meeting, Welfare Vice-President Heleyni Pratley went on an alcohol-fuelled rampage around the VUWSA office and stairwell with a permanent marker, sparing no wall or window from scribbles of ‘Love’, hearts, and ‘I realized VUWSA is our canvas’.
Union Manager Rainsforth Dix said that she wasn’t angry or upset by Pratley’s doodling, but that VUWSA would have to fix the damage and repaint the entire back stairwell behind the Salient, Union and VUWSA offices (because just painting over the ‘Love’ won’t blend in with the old faded mint green paint) as well as most of the VUWSA office, which was only repainted late last year.
Pratley put her wall-decorating effort down to the fact that her role as Welfare VP has been enormously stressful in recent times, particularly due to the lack of support and work received from Education Officer (Welfare) Chris Renwick. Pratley announced last week that she intended to carry out a recent threat to roll him (get him booted off the exec), when she gets a chance to type up a petition.
Pratley’s exterior office door also received damage on Wednesday night, with exec members alleging that Acting Women’s Rights Officer Clelia Opie had threatened to hit them for asking her to get off the phone, and that she had thrown a bottle at Pratley’s door, the glass window in which was only held together by wire.
Education Vice-President Joel Cosgrove, who doubles as Pratley’s boyfriend, was overheard last Thursday night berating President Geoff Hayward, insinuating that Hayward was to blame for the scribbles, saying “this wouldn’t have happened under (2006 VUWSA President) Nick [Kelly]”, and claiming that Pratley, Renwick and Opie are all considering resigning.
As Salient goes to press, VUWSA exec members Clubs Officer Melissa Barnard and Education Office (Education) Stefan Tyler are spending their Thursday night cleaning the walls with some really potent spirit which eats through vivid, paint and their rubber gloves.
And so anyway, back to the meeting. I left about a third of the way through to do important things elsewhere, and missed pretty much everything good.
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64 Comments
13 May, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Relevant, or is it just that only four people in the entire world give a fuck?
13 May, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Ummm… Actually, the smacking bill debate on Bran’s Sue Bradford went to well over 150, a column on Emo’s from 2005 rocked over 80, and some of the VSM debates when VUWSA raised the levy went to well over 60 or 70. Also 2005′s piece on pole dancing got to over 80 at last count.
Sorry to bump you down the list Nick. Also, was sorry to hear about what happened with you and New Zealand First. Good that you moved back into Student Media. I bet they just didn’t appreciate you. Fucking Winston man. Fuck that guy.
And also, you know it’s different when people are actually discussing, and debating an issue on this sight – not just talking about how you’re moronic shit stain of a reviewer. Bring back Thomasin. She was pretty too, as well as actually knowing something about visual arts.
14 May, 2007 at 11:17 am
This has to be the lamest thing I have read on the internet for awhile.
Congratulations, you are all Lame. oh accept tush, I love TUsh Ta Rah!
14 May, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Bernard: Shall I take that as a “please add my name to the list of people getting rolled at the next SGM?”
You aren’t doing much to give us (the students who you represent) much confidence in you.
14 May, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Hey Dave, leave Bernie alone. You have been warned!
14 May, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I love bernie, you could love him too
14 May, 2007 at 7:03 pm
If VUWSA went voluntary the university would lump on the (increased) cost to students anyway. It increased quite a bit at auckland after AUSA went voluntary. They’re also getting fucked over by the Uni management (god bless stu) at the mo in relation to the SLA they’re forced to sign to get enough money to cover costs. They’re asset rich, cash poor…
Go back to the press releases from the late 90′s by the VC’s committee to see what they said over the VSM debate then.
God. Enough with the personal insults already. Wonder why these apparent ‘good’ candidates don’t run? Everyone who stands gets character assinated.
14 May, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Hey Bernie, give up the self loving psuedonyms and do some real work ;-)
15 May, 2007 at 10:08 am
HEy Soon-to-be-VSM-advocate aka Anna Dugan, give it up.. you lost.. you can’t be part of the VUWSA exec action… late night orgies and drunken fun
15 May, 2007 at 11:11 am
Bernie lover: Guess again. I give you a clue – I’m male.
Late night orgies with VUWSA geeks wouldn’t be anyone’s (with a life) idea of fun either.
15 May, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Soon-to-be-VSM-advocate – you have a life… really? Anyone with a life would not read the salient website or be a VSM supporter.
16 May, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Ta Rah.
If you try to roll me I will Still manage to uphold my “POSITION” but instead of working while doing it I will do nothing and just take the honorarium.
immmm Gravy Trainnnn… the Best thing about it is its your money I will be wasting… a very small percentage of that $120 goes towards paying me remember.
Oh and Bernie Lover. Thanks for the E-Hugs.
16 May, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Berine, you are just in it for the gravy
16 May, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Geeky Alex just figured out that out of the $120 each student pays to VUWSA, only 46c of this goes to each exec memeber as payment for the work we do. This includes full bonuses, which aren’t always given. Including the Prez and V.P’s, it totals $8.83 per student to cover the entire exec’s honorarium.
Berine, if anyone complains, you should give them 50c. That should keep em quiet.