Management
The management of the Society is entrusted to a Board elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The Board consists of a President, Vice-President, Honorary Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Whip Secretary, Publicity Secretary, Macer, Social Convenor and two First Year Representatives. The Convenors of Debates of the Glasgow University Union and Queen Margaret Union and the Society's immediate Past President are also ex officio members of the Board. The President, Vice-President, Honorary Secretary, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary form the Executive. The current President is Michael Grey.
Some quirks of the electoral procedure at the AGM are that posts are filled in descending order, allowing those who failed to win more important posts to stand for others, and that candidates must leave the room while a vote is taken on them. The AGM was traditionally held at the end of the University's Candlemas Term, around the middle of March. Despite the new semester-based structure of the University's academic year, this remains the case and the AGM is now held shortly before the end of the teaching period of the second semester, which is separated from the exam period by the Easter vacation.
The Society at its AGM also elects an Honorary President, up to eight Honorary Vice-Presidents and up to four Honorary Life Members. The current Honorary President is Noel Peacock (former University of Glasgow School of Modern Languages).
One of the Honorary President's duties is to chair the Honorary President's Debate, held in February each year. Some years this is a debate organised on a special topic, but other years it is the same event as the Inter-board debate. between representatives of the Boards of the four main student bodies at the University: the Glasgow University Union, the Queen Margaret Union, the Sports Association and the Students' Representative Council. If not chaired by the Honorary president, then the Inter-board debate is chaired by the President of the Society
Read more about this topic: Glasgow University Dialectic Society
Famous quotes containing the word management:
“Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“People have described me as a “management bishop” but I say to my critics, “Jesus was a management expert too.””
—George Carey (b. 1935)
“The Management Area of Cherokee
National Forest, interested in fish,
Has mapped Tellico and Bald Rivers
And North River, with the tributaries
Brookshire Branch and Sugar Cove Creed:
A fishy map for facile fishery....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)