Turn on our Fountain!

Students passing through the guild recently may have noticed that despite the good weather we’ve been having recently the fountain in Mermaid square is suspiciously bone dry. It’s not because the sun’s been drying it out, it’s because Guild President Gary Hughes refuses to put it on.

We in the society don’t think much of the argument that the fountain is too environmentally damaging, or expensive to run as Mr Hughes has been suggesting, or the argument that it’s too dangerous a risk to have there, if students in the 20’s could deal with the dangers of running water, then Lib Dem soc finds the notion patronising that today’s students have dumbed down so much.

Rather we think that the Guild President is being a spoilsport, and a little hypocritical, keen eyed students (or perhaps just the hacks then) might have noticed that the Guild was interviewing for a General Manager between the 18^th and 19^th and the fountain was on to, quote “impress the new Chief Executive Officer of the Guild of Students.” (Gary Hughes May 22^nd) Funny, we thought the candidate was meant to impress the employer, not the other way round.

It’s silly that the guild president is being so childish on this issue, a fountain is meant to look pretty with water, not gathering dust, and if the exec think it’s too expensive to run I’m sure we could have a whip around… not that Student Beer Money keeps the Guild in money or anything…

How can you help? There’s a petition here, and Theo Lomas, and Martin Shapland (Conservative Future and Liberal Democrat execs) have put in a motion to guild council to ensure that it gets switched on, so back it and turn up on the 7^th June… but Gary, if you’re reading this, don’t let it come to a motion, from everyone in the Lib Dem society, the Conservative Future society, and most in the student body, cut the red tape and oh won’t you please turn our fountain on?