Note: The following article is no longer as true as it once was (and likely hasn’t been all that truthful since pre-2004). For future presidents, please take this information with a grain of salt
FEDS: The Federation of Students, which is the officially-recognized undergraduate student society at UW. CTRL-A is a FEDS club - that is, an organization chartered (from a legal point of view) as a part of FEDS, according to the FEDS Clubs Policy. FEDS gets new people in charge at least once a year, and the new people never know what the old people were doing and usually try to “fix” things that were not broken. Among other things, they keep attempting to assert absolute dominion and control over CTRL-A; we have to keep re-fighting the same battles over and over, because whoever we dealt with one time will eventually be replaced by someone who doesn’t know the score. FEDS holds periodic “clubs meetings”, typically two or three per term, where they announce the latest initiatives in their micromanagement plan. There is seldom anything important announced at these meetings, but it seems important to send representatives for two reasons: one, FEDS thinks it’s important and will be upset at us if we don’t send someone, and two, sometimes important news items are mentioned there slipped in among the trivial items.
The FEDS website is http://www.feds.uwaterloo.ca .
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