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On August 14, Labatt ceased to be the sole beer supplier of McGill undergraduates. The Arts Undergraduate Society and the SSMU chose to remain with Labatt, while all other groups signed with Molson. Two years ago, the various faculty undergraduate societies, the Inter-Residency Council and the SSMU decided to negotiate beer contracts as a single unit. They hoped to use their aggregate numbers to fetch more lucrative deals from breweries. Members agreed to allow the Engineering Undergraduate Society to negoti ate for everyone to simplify the process. The contract is divided into two parts. The first is a general agreement that applies to all par ties equally and includes such ele ments as the cost/supply ratio. The second addresses individual
faculties and associations in terms of their specific levels of con sumption, their size and their scheduled events. The latter part of the agreement also includes details such as the number of free cases and promotional items each group will receive. Though the entire document is confidential, member-represen tatives are free to exchange infor mation internally after the sign ing, if they so wish. However, when EUS refused to share the details of its portion of the con tract, openness within the group was curtailed. “We reserve the right to keep our contract confidential,” said ËUS President Lucy Georgakopoulos. “We did not see that our portion had any baring on anyone else because it was based on what we asked for, what we felt we needed.” Georgakopoulos noted that all faculties were free to make
their own contract demands. Nonetheless, other groups resent ed EUS’s secrecy. “We had a grievance with the fact that everyone else was willing to come out and say how much they got on their contract-to make it an open-book p o lic y ,” said Management Undergraduate Soc iety President David Levenson. Georgakopoulos claimed that EUS’s closed stance is justified by the negative publicity that has surrounded Engineering parties in the past. “If there was a faculty that had a really good reason as to why they wanted to see [our por tion o f the contract], and they came to EUS and said ‘Can we please see the contract,’ I am pret ty sure that we would not turn them away,” she noted. D espite its explanations, EUS’s stance has resulted in sug gestions that it had negotiated a better contract for itself and had
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inflated its consumption rate to obtain more promotional items. The VP Finance of EUS, Ariane Shuster, who negotiated for the entire group rejected the rumours. Many student reps claim to have been in the dark throughout the negotiations, making the process itself another point of contention. The only time that the student reps met as a group was after the signing of the contract. Many now say that having an initial meeting would have cleared up miscon ceptions and fostered feelings of inclusion in the negotiating process. Last year, the different facul ties all signed their own contracts. This year, Molson and EUS felt that having the student negotiator sign all contracts would simplify the process. This irritated those student reps who were not aware Continued on Pag e
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