The “Debate”
Saturday, September 8th, 2007A response was received via email from the General Secretary of the MSC herself, Ms. Nisha Gill.
MUSA-CAMUSA Debate
From:Nisha Gill (gensec@musa.monash.edu.my)
Sent:Friday, September 07, 2007 9:12:16 PM
Reply-to:gensec@musa.monash.edu.my
To:ca-musa@hotmail.com
Dear CAMUSA,
The Monash Student Council (MSC) acknowledges your opposition to the
referendum, but feel that there are several points that have been
misunderstood. Furthermore, we are concerned about calls to abolish the student union (the Monash University Student Association, or MUSA).We’d therefore like to invite a delegation to a live debate, to be held next Tuesday from 12PM-1PM at the cafeteria. The MSC hopes that you will accept the offer, as we believe it will help towards cementing the student culture here as open to criticism, transparent, and democratic.
Please RSVP to this invite by 9th September, along with names (and/or
nicknames, if you are anxious to impart your given names at this moments) of the debaters so that we might be able to identify them.Thank you.
Best Regards,
Nisha Gill
General Secretary
Monash University Student Association
Monash University
Jalan Lagoon Selatan
Bandar Sunway
46150 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Tel: 603-55146000 ext 61784 Fax: 603-55146356
E-mail: gensec@musa.monash.edu.my
URL: www.musaonline.com
We, we’re informed by a student that fliers had been posted around campus that there would be a "MUSA - CAMUSA Debate" going on this coming Tuesday at 12-1pm as in the email. This boggles us as CAMUSA had not at any time agreed for a debate, apparently the members of the MSC weren’t willing to wait for a reply. However we did send one that reads…
RE: MUSA-CAMUSA Debate
From:Ca Musa (ca-musa@hotmail.com)
Sent:Sunday, September 09, 2007 1:32:32 AM
To:gensec@musa.monash.edu.my
Ms, General Secretary,
Considering your invitation
for the live debate, of which we suppose would take place during the
"Speakers’ Corner" session, we regret to inform you that it is not to
our best interests to participate in said debate considering your
fellow councilmembers’ reputation of hitting below the belt, namely the
case of a certain Mr. Daniel Tan not very long ago. Make no mistake, we
find Mr Tan’s remarks in his blog to be extremely appalling, but action
speaks louder than words, and by your handling of such trivial matter,
God help us from whatever you’re planning to do regarding our little
fracas.CAMUSA
P/S: As for our identities, I think we need no introduction Ms. General Secretary…
This of course in reference to THE Daniel Tan, Presidential hopeful from the ACE party of the previous MUSA election. Mr. Tan was accused of posting racist remarks in his blog by the rival party (no prizes for guessing who), of which he denied, it’s his words against theirs…we have no comments. Again, we are affirming that we are non-partisan, it doesn’t matter to us who sits in the MSC table, we are against the structure that is MUSA and whoever it is who happens to run it.
FREEDOM!
