Cult of the Hacks

Do you know what a UGM is?

Have you ever been to one?

Have you ever been to an inquorate one?

Have you ever been to a UGM with less than 50 people?

Did you stay to the end of the meeting?

Have you ever voted at UGM?

Have you ever spoken at a UGM?

Have you ever chaired a UGM?

If so, have you chaired a UGM without being Chair or Chair-designate

Do you know what DSU Council is?

Have you ever been to one?

Have you ever understood it?

Have you ever understood an entire meeting?

Were you given a voting card?

Have you ever got a voting card because one of your college reps was absent?

Have you ever got a voting card because all of your college reps were absent?

If you answered yes to the last question, did people then complain?

Has your Senior Rep refused to give you a voting card even though he/she had spares?

If so, was this because they knew you would disagree with them?

Have you stayed to the end of the meeting?

Have you ever chaired Council?

If so, have you chaired Council without being Chair or Chair-designate

Ever been in Council after 10:30?

Ever been in Council after 11:00?

Ever been in Council after 11:30?

Ever been in Council after 12:00?

Have you been frustrated with other members of Council?

Have you been frustrated with Senior Reps at Council?

Have you been frustrated with Steering Committee at Council? (note: as a whole, not individual members of it)

If so, were you on Steering at the time, or on Steering yourself in the past?

Have you ever submitted a motion?

Have you ever managed to get a motion passed with opposition?

Have you ever had a motion defeated?

Has Council ever tried to overturn a motion you submitted to UGM?

If so, was it about something to do with the running of DSU or the University?

Have you ever submitted an amendment?

Have you ever had a motion or amendment ruled out of order for being late?

Have you ever submitted a holding motion?

If so, was it regarding NUS Conference amendments?

Have you ever proposed a procedural motion?

Have you ever been told that a procedural motion you proposed did not exist?

Have you ever proposed a procedural motion that doesn't exist without anyone noticing?

Have you ever proposed a procedural motion to take something in parts?

If so, were they incredibly complicated and/or cunning parts?

If so, did everyone understand what you were trying to do?

Have you ever proposed a procedural motion to suspend standing orders?

If so, were you able to name the correct standing order without looking it up?

Have you ever nested two procedural motions?

If so, was it unintentional?

Have you ever been on Steering Committee?

If so, did you enjoy it?

Have you ever chaired Steering Committee?

Have you ever made a ruling?

If so, was it appealed?

If so, was it appealed to an IAT?

Did you resign from Steering (as opposed to ending your term of office)?

If so, for reasons other than academic pressure?

If you resigned, do you regret doing so?

Have you ever found being impartial difficult?

If so, were you able to do so anyway?

If so, in doing so, did you disadvantage the side you agreed with?

Have you been on Steering for more than a year (not necessarily continuously)?

Have you been Clerk and/or SRO for more than a year?

If you have never been on Steering Committee, do you wish you had?

If so, can you give a good reason when asked why?

Have you ever voted in a cross-campus election?

If so, was it for a candidate you knew?

Have you ever proposed/seconded a candidate in a cross-campus election?

Have you ever voted against a candidate you knew?

Have you ever counted the results of a cross-campus election?

If so, for more than 4 continuous hours?

If so, for more than 12 continuous hours?

If so, for more than 24 continuous hours?

Have you got the right result in a cross-campus count?

Have you ever run a cross-campus election?

If so, did you stay sane?

Have you ever run an election with a turnout above 2000 or above 20%?

Have you ever run an election with a turnout above 3000 or above 25%?

Have you ever run an election with a turnout above 4000 or above 30%?

Have you ever run an unappealed election?

If so, was this because you got it right?

Have you ever got your college ballot box turnout above 30%?

Have you ever got your college ballot box turnout above 40%?

Have you ever got your college ballot box turnout above 50%?

Are you/have you been a Junior DSU Rep?

If so, did you disagree with your Senior Rep on anything (and vote accordingly)?

If so, did you regularly disagree with your Senior Rep?

Have you ever been a Senior Rep?

If so, did you consider it more important that you were an exec member than a senior rep?

Did you ever force Junior Reps to follow your voting, in a situation where there was no explicit JCR mandate? (If there was an exec mandate you can still tick this box)

How many non-sabbatical officer posts (including publications editors, and heads of RMOs) have you held?

How many University committee rep posts have you held (including ex-officio)?

If any, how many were on important committees?

How many DSU committees (not including steering) have you been on? (sub-committees count as well, but ONLY if you were not a member of the parent committee)

How many DSU committees have you chaired (NOT including committees you chaired by virtue of holding another office - e.g. Campaigns Officer/Campaigns Committee)

Have you ever been a sabbatical officer?

Do you know what DSUSL was?

Have you ever been a shareholder?

If so, did you actually get the shares?

Have you ever been a director?

Have you ever stood for NUS delegate?

If so, did you get in?

If so, were you angry?

Have you gone to NUS conference anyway after losing an election? (or not standing at all)

If so, was it as a delegate?

Have you been every single year possible?

Have you ever written a motion to submit to NUS conference?

If so, did anyone else at Council understand it?

Do you know where the General Office is?

Do you know who can use it?

Are or were you one of them?

Have you spent some time most days in there for at least a month?

If so, of your own free will?

Have you ever lived there?

Have you ever slept there?

Have you ever ordered pizza there?

Have you spent many hours in there looking through the archives?

If so, was it after midnight?

Have you ever found anything useful in the archives?

Have you ever found anything amusing in the archives?

Did you know the door combination?

Did you have an old general office key of your own?

If so, do you still have one?

Have you read the DSU Constitution/Standing Orders?

If so, did you understand them?

Did you write some of them?

If so, as a member of Rules Revision Committee (or similar)?

Have you ever written Standing Order changes while asleep?

Have you read the official copy?

Do you have your own copy of the documents?

Have you ever been mentioned in Palatinate with reference to DSU?

If so, was it on the front page?

If so, was it in a special edition?

Has Palatinate ever accused you of attempting to overturn democracy?

If so, was it with respect to something ethical

If it wasn't an ethical matter, was it because you were trying to get Council to overturn UGM decisions?

Have you ever convinced Palatinate not to run a story?

Do you know what a HLM is?

Do you have one?

Do you have more than one?

Do you know what an SFT is?

How many do you have?

Do you know what a Rusty Bolt is?

How many do you have?

Have you helped allocate Rusty Bolts?

Do you know what Document X is?

How many times have you appeared in it?

Have you helped write Document X?

Do you know any DSU in-jokes?

Do you find DSU in-jokes funny?

Have you written any?

If so, was it inadvertently?

Do you understand all of the above questions?

Did you spot the references to real events?