President Perry Asbury
 Mansfield
 perry.asbury_at_mansfield.ox.ac.uk
President Of Vice
 Liina Pihel
 St. Hilda's
Treasurer


Secretary
 Sasha McKenna
 St. Hilda's
Homes And Schools Liason Officer Laith Dilaimi
 Magdalen
Social Secretaries





Contact these people if you want anything or for more details on joining, seeing our plays, leaving us all your money, etc etc.

Past committees:

1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008

Email lists:


oules-announce

 Notices about auditions and performances. Anyone who just wants to know when we're performing or auditioning should be on here. If you signed up at Fresher's Fair you will be on this.
 Very low volume
oules-members

 List for all members, ie anyone who has ever been in a play, with info about Flosscars, Voles etc. Currently not really used at all.
 Fairly low volume
oules-cast

 Current cast list, with director's rants, props panics, etc etc. If you are in the current play you have to be on this, if you are not in the current play you shouldn't be on this.
 Medium volume, but you're not getting out of it
oules-social

 Random ramblings, party planning, chums chatting. This list has loads of emails and if you want to be taken off it that is fine but please contact the webmaster rather than emailing the list.
 High volume

To be put on or taken off any of the lists... let me know: rory.morrison_at_mansfield.ox.ac.uk
Please note that I cannot put you on anything other than oules-announce unless I or someone else in the society has met you, BUT -announce can tell you where and when to meet us and we're really not all that bad! Or you can email the president about coming to rehearsals or joining the show.

To avoid having to send duplicate messages to all the lists, if you're on oules-cast you're put on oules-members, and if you're on oules-members you're put on oules-announce.  What you hear from these two extra lists will almost certainly be relevant to you if you're in the cast, and it helps us keep track of everything.

Constitution:

The proctors say we have to have one, so here it is.  At least, here is the version that Kate originally emailed us.  Someone should update it, but it is unconstitutional for the secretary to read it, so I'm not sure who can or will.

Annual General Meeting:

In Trinity Term 2003 something strange happened. We held an AGM specifically for discussing business, rather than as a brief excuse for speeches before starting in on the Flosscars ceremony.   Here are the minutes.

Constitution Amendments:

  1. 1999 AGM, If the society is abandoned all society funds will be donated to charity rather than split among the members.
    This was just a sensible one. We are a charitable organisation so it seemed a bit off that any balance would be divided among the members.
  2. 1999 AGM, OULES will not donate to political charities.
    Another serious one.
  3. 2000 AGM, Joint presidency will be allowed in future, must be re-approved by each AGM.
    This was so that Duncan and Rhi could share the presidential duties to fit around their exams. The original motion was only temporary in nature, requiring renewal each year by the AGM. In practise it has become fossilised into the post of vice president, who is commonly known as the president of vice. The previous incumbents have lived up to the job title well.
  4. 2001 AGM, The secretary must not read the constitution.
    The previous committee had managed to go all year without calling any committee meetings or reading the constitution, bar our first secretary. We spent the first term without our secretary since she accidentally read the constitution, in particular the part about the secretary having to be an organised individual. Realising she did not fit the description she decided to drop the post, much to our dismay. Our pleading that she didn't really have to be organised and that the constitution is bollocks weren't sufficient to persuade her. Thus the rationale for this amendment. It is a dangerous folly for any committee member, in particular the secretary, to read the constitution.
  5. 2001 AGM, Each committee must make up a cocktail.
    This was just a formalisation of current practise. Each year the committee had made up a new cocktail and it was felt that this was a tradition worth enshrining.
  6. Somewhere in here, I'm sure, there was an ammendment that said we would not donate to religious charities or those doing missionary work. I know it existed but I can't find it in the constitution or the ammendments. If anyone knows where it belongs, let me know and I'll add it in...

The reality:

In reality we are a self perpetuating oligarchy with only vague pretencions at democracy. The constitution is in fact an oral tradition and actually reading it is thoroughly deprecated. The constitution has never been updated with the amendments and is mainly there to keep the proctors quiet.

Differences from the Constitution