News Review

News review #2 – City Centre protest

News Editor Patrick McGhee and Online News Editor Freddie Herzog review Redbrick’s coverage of the City Centre protest against council cuts. Follow us on Twitter @RedbrickNews for all the latest news from the University of Birmingham and the Guild of Students.

Birmingham

City Council cuts protest

A group of protesters, including a number of students from the University of Birmingham, took occupation of the balcony of Birmingham’s Council House ahead of tonight’s meeting where Councillors voted on the city’s 2013 budget. As well a Twitter campaign under the hash tag #savebirmingham, the protesters published an online statement explaining that ‘We are...

Campus

General Meeting: Interview with the chair (Andrew Vallance-Owen)

Why was there a vote on the adjournment of the General Meeting? There was a vote on the adjournment of the General Meeting because the President proposed a procedural motion, following information received regarding alleged impropriety with the proxy vote process, and concerns over the use of the proxy system. What will you be doing...

Campus

General Meeting: Statements

Guild of Students: Official Statement Last night (Monday 28th January) the General Meeting (GM) of the University of Birmingham Guild of Students took place at 6pm in the Avon Room, University campus. Prior to the meeting the Guild received allegations surrounding the legitimacy of the proxy voting system. In light of the allegations a procedural...

Campus

Investigation underway amid voting concerns

An investigation is underway following concerns that proxy votes for the Monday evening’s General Meeting were being mishandled by members of the Guild of Students. The General Meeting, in which a series of votes relating to the structure of the Trustee Board and the Guild of Students was due to take place, was adjourned on...

Campus

General Meeting: allegations of proxy vote manipulation

Update at 19:00 The general meeting has been adjourned following a vote: 119 votes for, 80 votes against, 3 votes abstained. More is available on our live blog here. The meeting has now been adjourned, and will be held again in approximately two weeks although this cannot be confirmed at this current moment. A full...