{"id":1359,"date":"2009-12-10T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-12-15T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:01:04","slug":"gss-needs-a-sober-second-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2009\/12\/10\/gss-needs-a-sober-second-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"GSS Needs a Sober Second Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we report the GSS has stopped the service of free beer at their council meetings. This motion was passed this evening:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WHEREAS provision of drink tickets will facilitate further socializing of Council members at Koerner&#8217;s Pub, encourage shorter meetings, and encourage Councillor attendance until the completion of Council meeting agendas;<\/p>\n<p>BE IT RESOLVED THAT alcohol is no longer served during Council meetings;<\/p>\n<p>BE IT RESOLVED THAT at the end of each meeting, members and guests will receive two drink tickets, each redeemable in exchange for any single drink at Koerner&#8217;s Pub during the remainder of the evening of that Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the President should bring the issue back to Council within 3 months.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is supposed to be in place for only three months, but whether or not it will be reconsidered at that time remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Free beer was possibly the only thing that made GSS meetings tolerable. That, and Dave Tompkins, who is also now gone. Ye both shall be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we report the GSS has stopped the service of free beer at their council meetings. This motion was passed this evening: WHEREAS provision of drink tickets will facilitate further socializing of Council members at Koerner&#8217;s Pub, encourage shorter meetings, and encourage Councillor attendance until the completion of Council meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}