The Varsity highlights SFSS Controversy

The Varsity, the student newspaper at the University of Toronto, has an article on the impeachment controversy here at SFU. This article has a lot of detail. However, as is frequently the case, there are a few minor errors:

• The article states that "In order to have the university's student forum, an advisory body, call a campus-wide Special General Meeting to hold an impeachment vote, SDU needed a petition signed by at least five per cent of the student body." In fact, under our By-Laws, Forum has the authority to call a Special General Meeting whenever it wants to. The By-Laws also provide that the SFSS President must call a Special General Meeting upon the receipt of a petition signed by at least five per cent of the student body. However, President Hunsdale refused to call such a meeting, and Forum's decision to call an SGM was simply in response to his inaction.
  
  
• The article also states: "The conflict, which began as a purported murky conspiracy and has ballooned into a mud-slinging debacle of finger-pointing and denial, will reach its climax this Wednesday in two simultaneous student meetings, each of which declares the other illegitimate." Neither Forum nor Students for a Democratic University have ever suggested that the Annual General Meeting is illegitimate.

Aside from these minor quibles, however, it's an excellent article!