A) Re: The UoA-MSC Accord's Section R) Urgent General Business
1) Administrative Document Consolidation
a) Membership Roll
Members (as per Mailchimp admin console): 475 (approximately*).
* No distinction is made for students, alumni, and friends of the Club who have duplicate subscriptions, have unsubscribed from our mailing lists, and/or have had their contact details misplaced throughout the years in the community. This may indicate the need for either a membership officer or a committee member who can adequately take this workload away from any remaining active executives.
Accord-affirming members: 87* as per aggregated Mailchimp data, i.e. The UoA-MSC Accord required multiple deliveries to ensure that members received it in their email inbox.
Worthwhile noting that members of – and some of who are now executives for – either the fork-Club, and other motorsport/motoring-themed Clubs on campus were happy for the current leadership to continue pursuing the Accord's arguably imperfect but fundamentally articulated ideals.
* Any constitutional membership percentage thresholds may be redundant – among other organisational concepts – due to what's discussed in the Accord's 'Section H) Structure of "Club as separate legal entity [from UoA]".'
Karts-And-Coffee Roll-Call (in lieu of UoA-MSC-GP as last resort): 66* out of 81 current Accord-affirming members "present".
* Timed event results were arguably arbitrary due to both Club reps and HDMP kart centre staff acknowledging that the performance restrictions on the go-karts discussed from the Accord were active during an informal get-together between long-running supporters of the Club and its leadership.
More discussion on the ideal format is required. Also worth noting is the timing of this event being held in the middle of the day on a Friday, during in-semester classes, i.e. unreasonable for students to make the pilgrimage to North Waikato on a weekday, even if they don't have classes scheduled.
b) Statement of Financial Position addenda
A small set of adjustments need to be made in the Statement of Financial Position which was included in the Accord – and initially communicated to SG-CL. It was stated that $130 of membership fees were deposited into the Club's ANZ Bank account.
This needs to be corrected to $70 as some students who indicated their desire for financial membership status did not actually deposit anything into said account. A brief summary of the Club's current finances is attached below.
Gran Turismo movie night fees which were unused are being held in an executive's personal account (in lieu of the ANZ club account currently being inaccessible to anyone, reportedly as far back as the 19th of May, 2023 as discussed in the Accord). These are to be refunded as soon as practicable, including potentially validating who made the deposits, and/or which accounts the deposits originated from.
Further commentary on this – as well as a holistic assessment of the action [and inaction] drivers for this community – may be of value in the context of the Club and the University's P/MV, and shall be engaged in a collegial manner after all other commentary on Section R) is complete.
2) Remedial Action Points
a) Digital Asset Restrictions
Still in place.
Noteworthy that Meta Platforms Inc. appears to be 'in bed' with whoever wants this Club to be 'nudged' in the direction that best satisfies their desired outcomes, e.g.
Club Instagram has been unpublished since the 3rd of June, 2023;
Club Facebook conveniently fluctuates in and out of being able to post publically, consistent with any behavioural tactics being employed by those monitoring the community;
Other Meta services which the Club utilises appear to have had agents with some connection to the parties above (potentially with contra-Club values) reach out to those with access to said Club asset as a way to influence the decision-making process of said executive(s).
Mindfulness of this was communicated to all executives since 2022, however, given the saturation of the community with concerning affiliation to potential problem-parties, this may have been a redundant reminder.
b) Committee Member Restrictions
Still in place. Further discussion on this as above.
3) Bank Account Access Retrieval
As per the Accord's Section R)1)b).
Redundant to pursue this at this stage pending the sequential and conditional requirements of any existing contracts and agreements between the Club, the University, and any other party to this subsection.
Further commentary is also of considerable importance in the context of s267 of the Education and Training Act 2020 and the University's P/MV.
4) Alternative Service Providers
Un-'Kiwi' to forgo seeking a collegial outcome with parties that have impacted Club affairs, whether it be due to negligence or ill-intent.
Nonetheless, it is only rational to seek greater value, whether that be with existing, underutilised, or new partnerships and/or relationships. Elon Musk's acquisition of X-Twitter comes to mind, though it appears that said platform is also – by technical necessity – having to employ economic tactics and strategies as countermeasures for the prevalence of AI-supplemented dishonest activity (in the form of bot accounts for example).
5) Prior Partner Follow-up
More or less completed. Hooncorp caught up with at the Karts & Coffee event, with team owners indicating other UoA parties have also expressly been in touch.
Nobody from the Club interfered with this process, though we do ask – and commend – the patience that other University of Auckland affiliated groups have more or less exercised since the 22nd of March.
B) "Meeting Halfway"
Holistic and consolidated commentary on the community's affairs in aggregate (long section). If time-constrained, please skip forward to Section D) Key Points / Executive Summary.
1) Re: 'Section O) Thank You To Outgoing Executive'
There are now placeholder executives who are awaiting a response in good faith from SG-CL about having the Accord error-checked*, confirmed, and/or validated, including any sensitive and/or supplementary information that this message shall seek to further clarify with all interested parties.
* such as the materially insignificant corrections about an intentionally UoA-code-of-conduct-breaking direct letter addressed to Club leadership, supposedly from one of the other student motoring groups leads (see Accord's 9 November 2022 entry).
This non-material error was communicated to Accord-affirming members on the 8th of February, 2024, followed on the 1st of March, 2024 by:
Notification of Club leadership priming an engagement with senior University management – and its correlated subgroups such as University Sport – about the potential value of a bespoke sporting student groups' presence on campus on the 31st of January, 2024 (including any informally forecast value-additions from its early-adoption/bootstrapping with the intended use cases for the inbound sport and wellness centre on Symonds street);
Motorsport-iterated proposal on the concept of co-governance (MSC-GP as exec selection format), given that the way in which this community on campus – and all the associated layers of having to operate with respect to New Zealand academia – has mirrored many aspects of the Maori way of life. This is a natural progression of an undisclosed and implied pedagogy for any member of the Club and the University who had – and continue to have – deep-rooted designs to identify Aotearoa-New Zealand as their home.
There is at least one member of Club leadership which everything discussed in this point sees an equally natural fit by way of his heritage and commitment to the ideal of good character. Thus, it is arguably – and ultimately – consistent with both the Club and the University's Purpose/Mission and Values (P/MV).
Other comparable parties to this community – motorsport/motoring-themed or otherwise – have also been reached out to, with either an express or implied indication to see that unresolved matters in the community are sufficiently resolved in good time. These boil down to direct conduct by said parties which may be in express violation of the University's P/MV. Any statement about these matters is not a reflection of the Club's position on any individual's current affiliation or involvement in any matter deemed appropriate to discuss via this channel.
Rather, it is learned commentary for said individuals and organisations to consider in the context of how they interpret the University's P/MV's and the "Kiwi way of life". Beyond any administrative Club affairs that need to be covered, the remainder of this publication will collegially expand on everything discussed thus far.
2) Re: Financial Matters
Has been described as a 'necessary evil' by some in the Club. Leadership would rather reframe this aspect of Club management from an information theory perspective, i.e.:
Pandemic threw a meteoric curve ball at the world in 2020;
Parties either had to:
- Show themselves out of the status quo;
- Blindly follow 'guidance' from that term's government; or
- Innovate – at times naively – to satisfy express and implied presumptions about the state of the community;
First principles analysis of the Club's management of finances – and how other parties have influenced outcomes for individuals and collectives – suggests that there may have been 'larger games' at play and is further explored in a section below.
As indicated in the Accord; Club account signatories, the University, and ANZ are the primary parties to this account. Whichever party froze access to the account on the 19th of May, 2023 has further gotten in the way of the Club being able to fulfill any contractual obligation it had to these members.
There's also the matter of consideration – from a contract law perspective – from members who financially contributed to the Club by way of membership fees currently amounting to $70.00, and the University appearing to be proportionally equally out of pocket with their funds supposedly still being stuck in the frozen account. This may ultimately boil down to a 'successful' activation of the appropriate MSC-GP format, as discussed in the Accord.
However, it is further worth questioning these lines of inquiry – from a financial perspective or otherwise – as this is not the only factor at play with respect to this community, and shall be done in accordance with s267 of the ETA 2020.
3) Re: Irreconcilable Differences[?]
Given that the University appeared to be willing to sophisticatedly forgo its "Addressing Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination Guidelines" in how it may have utilised its powers to discreetly isolate any member and/or collective within the motorsport/motoring community on campus who may not have – collegially and justifiably from all of the Clubs prior publications – agreed with the narratives it has been adopting and promoting; it was only fair and equitable for active Club leadership to mirror what the University may have been engaging in.
Within the limited capacities of those who were willing to contribute to the Club in the manner that the Accord described, exchanges and correspondences among all parties to this community have been more or less aggregated and analysed for the reasonable presumptions to be made, i.e. on the presumption that all parties' conduct – since disputes with this community arose – have more or less implied a preference for mediation, defense, and a collegial pursuit of a potentially globally optimal outcome; what would then be explored in the remainder of this "meeting halfway" section shall provide the Club and community member with context for what's transpired, potentially since – and arguably even before – its 2019 founding.
In retrospect, it should have been somewhat obvious to read the message in the medium which the active participants in the UoA student body was communicating, and ultimately caution those wishing to engage in meaningful campus affairs via the pathways experienced by and available to Club leadership.
4) Re: New Club, New Decade, New Adventure [Event Calendar 2020]
It may be worthwhile to informally expand the scope of what's being discussed to the activities of the University and motorsport/motoring communities well into the previous decade as this provides appropriate context with where all aforementioned communities find themselves today.
Prior documentation has indicated that there are members of Club leadership who have held a bespoke and outlier 'tenure' with the University community, and this is a reflection of who they are as briefly described in bullet point three of "Re: 'Section O) Thank You To Outgoing Executive'", i.e. they are current UoA-FSAE alumni from the cohort of other alumni who have contributed to the Club since, and – for obvious value-added reasons – have further made significant contributions to the campus motoring community either by attendance and/or express voluntary contributions to a vibrant and engaging campus community since their first undergraduate enrolment in 2011. These contributions were actioned within the limitations of operating within the different policies, systems, and processes of the University during those different academic years.
As of the last known record, a memorandum of understanding was reached between the Motorsport New Zealand-recognised Auckland University Car Club (AU Car Club) and the management of the University's student groups/campus life at the time. This memorandum appeared to have granted current students with a license to conduct on- and off-site motoring activities which satisfied the 'vibrant and engaging campus community' custom required from clubs and societies, in accordance with the University's rules, regulations, and policies; and ultimately with respect to New Zealand legislation, whatever that actually connotates in the context of academia.
Similarly, the respective cohorts from the prior decade naturally utilised the tools available from the [digital] environment to facilitate this, including the repurposed AU Car Club Facebook page which saw 'best of' media from the University of Auckland Motorsport Club migrated to its albums at the beginning of 2021. Justifications for doing so have been documented; documents which – for an informal student group – were more often correct than not (see discussion about SMv1 in the Accord's Section H).
The problem with this of course is when disputes begin to see the community test legal concepts. In a landscape of learning interspersed within an ever-changing legal framework, only collegiality and good faith between the communities' diverse members will see the global optimum be achieved (much less have the opportunity to do so).
Unfortunately, if any party's position on these matters is not articulated to the extent that all interested communities have witnessed since the Club's founding, it leaves room for interpretation open, and by extension – an opportunity for the parties who withhold important information about the reasons for their conduct – to arbitrage, i.e. they are able to asymmetrically and inequitably capture value from the aggregated contributions of those to the community to satisfy their own interests in University, motorsport/motoring, and potentially nationwide affairs.
5) Re: Memoranda of Understanding
The Club's not privy to the contents of any of these.
However, it is common practise among any and all parties, on and off campus – including how other representative student groups with an express relationship with the University – appear to have engaged with the University's de facto third party for student affairs, i.e. AUSA (see their Constitution referring to a working memorandum with the Postgraduate Students Association and a number of other specialised and cultural student groups).
There's no express requirement for any group or party to adopt any type of memorandum [of understanding], though the surface level value of this is that a structured framework to have efficient and meaningful correspondence/exchanges with said parties can take place, should this be deemed necessary, i.e. on their respective terms, any individual or collective can formalise their interactions with other parties on campus by submitting – or offering – de facto terms of engagement in a written memo format, should existing regulatory frameworks within the campus community not satisfy their sensibilities.
This is consistent with the 'Kiwi way of life', where agreements to have any type of informal work required by a patron typically see them commission a service provider to undertake the work required. Both parties then either countersign a generic agreement containing 'good faith' clauses for the patron to countersign, or communicate their agreement to undertake and complete the 'mahi' with a handshake and their subsequent conduct.
It stands to reason then that there are other informal agreements – as described above – at play among members of the motorsport, university, and voluntary communities. Outside of the ones expressly known by active Club leadership – such as those described – the others are influenced by 'time-adjusted market forces' and can be conceptualised by any member of the community in their own respective way.
This presents issues with how everyone in the community has engaged with each other and may have impacted both the individual and collective outcomes for all interested in motorsport at UoA, i.e. the inaction from UoA agents and affiliates which the Club, its members, students, and other student groups at the minimum rely on may be a result of the influence from memoranda external to the Club.
In light of presenting the challenges which the Club experienced since founding in this manner, a reasonably structured final addendum to the Accord can be presented below.
C) How the discussion above appears to have influenced The Club and its constituent membership
1) Re: Impacts of Licensure resultant from Memorandas
On the first principle that a memorandum of understanding existed – and potentially continues to exist – between a Motorsport New Zealand-recognised group and The University of Auckland for the purposes of discreetly educating members of both communities within a higher education context (see ETA 2020, s267); let's consider the following points and [reasonable] presumptions:
Every group with an informal relationship with an MSNZ-affiliated club that operates as a separate entity from the expressly University endorsed, student-incorporated society known in short as UoA-FSAE, may be subject to any agreements, and/or memoranda of understanding between parties external to the University and the University of Auckland itself, by way of license or otherwise (e.g. how the Auckland University Car Club operated on and off campus in the 2010s);
The informal nature of these agreements as described – particularly between the parties where an implied license in good faith is reportedly active, including but not limited to:
i. The Auckland University Car Club (MSNZ) and the Auckland University Car Club (UoA);
ii. Motorsport New Zealand / The Motorsport Club Incorporated / The University of Auckland Motorsport Club (as per the Accord, i.e. Fork-Club known as Vroom 'as [implicit] conversation' between active Club leadership)?;
The subsequent changes in the University of Auckland's framework for extracurricular student pursuits since the 2010s (e.g. natural changes in management processes, asset migration, staff rotation, etc. in student groups/club support services, including the different relationships with student associations and the University);
The current administrative position of the Club is somewhat precarious but reasonably stable. This has been the case for many of the motoring-themed groups on campus since the 2010s given the sociocultural environment up to and including that decade.
Campus community members from the corresponding clubs from that era (e.g. AU Car Club and Motorcycle Club [UOAMC]) can attest to this claim and have customarily seen an informal, student/member-funded pursuit of their shared activities unless it is an event held on campus grounds (e.g. 'Lunchtime Drift Challenge' in the UoA City Campus' Atrium/Quad in 2014).
The natural progression of this informal state of affairs is a largely informal transitory process between leaders of the respective student groups and typically spawns an 'informal-official' (see the Accord's Section H) presence on campus during events such as Clubs Expo.
The expressly described restrictions placed on active Club executives as per the Accord appear to be in response to this customary format. This is worthwhile comparing with the influence of colonisation on historic opportunities for the nation's first settlers, i.e. European impact on Tangata Whenua. Though not of the same breadth and scale, there are enough concurrent and parallel narratives for the audience to be able to select relevant sections of this knowledge and apply it to their own pursuits of good character.
2) Natural progression of outcomes resultant from licensure affairs (plus addenda to timelines/calendars):
2019:
Notwithstanding the impact of unsustainable – and potentially uncollegial – actions, conduct, and processes from all parties to the University's motoring communities from the 2010s; let us focus the scope of the remainder of this document on the University of Auckland Motorsport Club initially formed in 2019.
A brief review of Club documents indicates that this student group had a 'minimum viable product' ready for the UoA Club Expo in Semester 2 of 2019.
Both Car and Motorcycle Clubs did not appear to have an express, physical presence during the first semester of that academic year, which opened the gap for the UoA Motorsport Club to be formed. The earliest known instance of AU Car Club (UoA) leadership being informally advised of this Club's presence on campus was early Semester 2, 2019.
However, given that the members from both of those groups remain on campus as students, friends, and/or alumni of UoA, it was natural for there to be movement of individuals within and amongst those groups; and subsequently saw then Club leadership begin to onboard members with executive potential into the management of this student group as early as the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix.
Despite the hiatus from members and leaders of these communities from the 2010s, an invite was received by the Car Club from UoA's SG-CL to attend the 2019 Club Awards; with attendance being worthwhile for further 'ice-breaking' between any and all groups with comparable and shared interests. This 'olive branch' is worthwhile to keep in mind in the context of what's to be discussed below.
Key takeaways from Club leadership during its maiden academic year on campus revolved around yearning for strategies to increase student/member attendance (hence the subsequent onboarding of leadership from the early 2010s community groups).
2020:
Despite motorsport being a common interest for all contributing members of this community to Club administration, there appears to have been a fundamental misalignment with where Club leadership stood on what this student-led group should be.
The last of the remaining active Club executives from its founding – as of this year – have always considered and accounted for these differences in opinion, and this is reflected both by statements and conduct.
It may have been prudent, pragmatic, and rational for these differences in opinion not to have been permitted to manifest themselves in the compounding of statements and conduct which would have yielded negative outcomes from this academic year onwards, and – had it not been for the inherent capacity of current Club leadership to mitigate any malicious outcomes from this unpalatable nature of modern academia – may have been irrecoverable from (hence the Club's current administrative position being somewhat precarious).
The seeds of these potentially irreconcilable differences began to sprout during the informal, in-person meetings and exchanges between and amongst the Club's executives during the summer of 2019/2020; and were ultimately accounted for via the 2023 Constitutional clauses which make express reference to irreconcilable differences.
Other instances from the 2020 academic year naturally included, but were not limited to:
The unexplained email deletions of potentially important correspondences from the Clubs maiden contact method [motorsportclubuoa@gmail.com], reportedly enacted by one of the Club's initial foundational members which won't be named for the purposes of privacy, dignity, and with respect to the University's Code of Conduct;
This point is worth considering in light of the Clubs Support Committee granting funding for off-site catering. Nonetheless, the very first majority suggestion – and subsequent collective action by the majority – of the 2020 Committee Members who were also bank account signatories was the intentional and express breach of UoA Clubs Handbook policy on what Club funds can and can't be spent on (with the very first instance being Club Support Committee funds being used purely for administrative executive carpark costs which did not have a justifiable reason from the perspective of adding to a 'vibrant and engaging campus');
There were three then-current committee members/signatories present when the initial decision to emphatically spend the funds in this manner was agreed on. This of course is a slippery slope, given that justifiably perceived and articulatable ill-intent resultant from an approved majority suggestion could have irrecoverable-from consequences should it be permitted to scale an order of magnitude beyond the informal environment of University campuses;
In retrospect, this majority-governed conduct – along with the supposedly-customarily-justified disruptive collective actions – are consistent with how the motoring-themed groups [at minimum] have engaged with active Club leadership as described in the Accord and other Club publications.
This aspect of collective student body culture is toxic and dangerous, particularly in the context of motorsport, and every member of the New Zealand community should have the individual capacities to exercise a firm opposition to the tyranny of a vociferous majority should the situation necessitate.
These instances of intentional code-of-conduct breaching behaviour, cross-referenced against all the documentation and anecdotal exchanges available to Club leadership also permits the proposal of a thesis where this Club's formation and/or continued operation as allowed during the heavily government-dictated pandemic period from 2020 to 2022 – as part of a grander and more nefarious design (see Re: Financial Matters, 'larger games' [at play]), and is something which the conduct from all other members of the campus community – and beyond – appeared to have discreetly masked when required, and ambiguously pointed toward when a particular emotional response from active, consistently value-adding leadership was being sought.
The following fact-scenario described may be a stretch for some in the Clubs' membership to contemplate as being related to what's discussed thus far, however:
Consider the Clubs 11th of August 2020 approved (at 3:29 pm) digital promotions request for the "Back to School" Rush Sim Racing event in Paradice Skate Arena, immediately followed by the government's decision to return Auckland City to Pandemic Alert Level 3 the day after (forcing the current indefinite postponement of said event);
Compare this in the context of the Accord's "Section G) … Supplementary Comments on P.O.A. …" re: The University's potential tacit knowledge and/or influence over what was transpiring with the government's pandemic response.
2021:
Covered in reasonable detail from prior Club publications.
The only additional comments about 2021 were the less than palatable – and the arguable bending of the University's code of conduct – in correspondences from senior members of the University's extracurricular community which appear to be of a demoralising nature; namely [conduct consistent with] suggestions for dissolution from that year's SG-CL team – which subsequently sought to validate an emotional response from leadership at multiple points throughout the academic year – including during the active executives' attendance of the first aid training course held in the Business School.
Other examples of comparable correspondences directed toward the Club from other members of the University community have been documented by the Club, which won't be divulged for the same reason the identities of the 'Irreconcilably Different' signatories are being withheld.
Non-collegial and negative-sum incidents – within the scope of this Club – aggregated from as far back as the summer of 2019/2020 ultimately resulted in the UoA Motorsport Club Grand Prix format – in lieu of the traditional executive selection processes – being developed, and subsequently proposed for submission to the refreshed SG-CL team of 2021/2022.
2022:
Covered in significant detail in the Accord.
Worthwhile facts to additionally consider include active executives' receipt of an email from the last known Club secretary which ANZ Bank appears to have on record is received on the 21st of November, 2022. This email was in response to active executives' attempt to consolidate the disjointed – by poor team play or by design – Club assets prior to the end of this calendar year.
Prior to this, the last known exchange between said irreconcilably different, and potentially campus-favoured Club executive – by way of their proportionally considerable demographic heritage – was a phone call from the 24th of March, 2021; where a Club executive meeting was requested by active leadership in light of a generally poor showing from Club executives during that year's Club Expo.
Said secretary refused this request at the time in 2021, citing significant coursework commitments in the early stages of an already-pandemic-adjusted semester.
This former core executive is different from those onboarded during the summer of 2021/2022 and is reportedly no longer in the country due to professional commitments.
2023:
Covered in significant detail in the Accord.
All parties which have purposely directed behaviour toward the Club and its active executive which contradicts – sophisticatedly, discreetly, or otherwise – the University's Code of Conduct during this academic year have foregone any significant return correspondence in 2024 due to the legally sensitive nature of what the entire campus community in practise engages in.
The legal test for what active Club executives claim to have been subject to is reportedly quite high, so besides the conduct expressly engaged in by the other motoring-themed groups on campus, and the parties who have implicitly and/or expressly displayed their support for these other groups without any collegial and ethical consideration for the on-campus experience of the longest-serving members of this community; the character of the University and motorsport community's members, patrons, partners, and stakeholders are ultimately called into question.
Is 2023 a representative example of how Kiwis can conduct themselves as part of the "Kiwi way of life"? There's enough comparable conduct from the brief summary of prior years above to suggest this, thereby justifying any recommendations of caution Club leadership extends to the greater community this correspondence proliferates to.
2024:
Ongoing.
Informal exchanges between members of the community and Club leadership – including metadata from member interaction from the Club's correspondences – indicates that the Accord has had a significant level of both proliferation and meaningful consideration (in the form of having been read in detail by a sound cross-section of current students, alumni still categorised by SG-CL as current students [3 years from their last enrolment], and friends/alumni/community members of the University of Auckland).
To reiterate what was engaged in and communicated since the Accord's promulgation on the 31st of January, 2024:
The University of Auckland's management expressly made aware of Club executives consistently value-adding position on matters revolving around motorsport, including the opportunity to supplement MSNZ's high-performance initiatives via from the 31st of January, 2024 (see Re: 'Section O) Thank You To Outgoing Executive').
The potential sophisticated extension of The University's influence on active executives professional lives was also mentioned in passing, and it has been requested that any orders/restrictions/notices – either for said executives and/or the Club be lifted on grounds which are largely unsubstantiated outside of modern academia's failure to parse good character from bad.
Active executives have further noted that any discreet and implied order to surveil their on- and off-campus activities may have overextended to as far as their enrolled courses and personal lives, with third-party volunteers and contractors being the ones to engage in this conduct; and, in addition to this, the University's internally appointed delegates are redundantly – and arguably uncollegialy – interspersing morsels of uncertainty in the globally-optimal seeking process initially described in the Accord;
All known core Club executives, past and present, have all been reached out to by active executives to validate their position on Club affairs.
All of their correspondences – more or less – have been aggregated and cross-referenced with the University, motorsport, and voluntary communities' direct or indirect statements to the Club and its representatives.
Key incidents with overly convenient timing – including those which have extended to active executives professional commitments – point toward an evidence-gathering pathway which could permit the legislative escalation of matters revolving around the Club which supports the thesis of its hidden, discreetly nefarious purpose; though active Club leadership has consistently opted-out of activating these negative-sum pathways, given how it has already disadvantaged students during and after the governance response to the pandemic.
The Constitutions' 8th major iteration accounts for the above, where the 'foundational member' title is available for any community member who satisfies an ideally redundant test for sound character.
The majority of the Club's past core executives who have not competed even at a grassroots level of motorsport have implied a level of irreconcilable difference by their statements and conduct up to the promulgation of this Club-wide follow-up. Barring those who are awaiting return correspondence from this year's SG-CL team and leadership, these core executives have expressly requested that any outstanding responsibilities they have on behalf of the Club and its membership be wound down, i.e. their contributions to the community will most likely not extend beyond attendance of events which resonates with their interest in motorsport.
SG-CL's new leadership has been contacted and their linguistic communication style suggests a convolutedly redundant application of 'utu' (reciprocity) which fundamentally challenges the University's P/MV. As indicated above, the last exchange Club executive has had with them was from 24th of February, 2024.
Active executives would like to further note that on the run up to semester one, SG-CL and the University's I.T. team were more than willing to prompt an escalatory response from Club representatives in how they exercised their administrative I.T. access, i.e. executive access to technical University services were being changed on the fly. This conduct was recorded and subsequently requested to be stopped. Perhaps new University policies are required in light of members of staff abusing these powers, given that no formal complaints are typically considered outside of the academic year which an incident occurs;
Conduct from the fork-Club's on-campus presence (Clubs Expo, Vehicle Maintenance Day, etc.) indicates their and SG-CL's acknowledgement of – at the minimum – UoA-MSC, UoA-FSAE, and Vroom-UoA being their own unique and separate collectives under the University of Auckland umbrella. This is further validated by Vroom not appending any iteration of The University of Auckland (UoA) Motorsport Club nomenclature to their physical signage.
The Club however must reiterate its position of acknowledgement and respect for the worldview of Aotearoa-New Zealand's tangata whenua, which is why a motorsport iteration of co-governance was proposed, ultimately paying homage to this concept via the UoA Motorsport Club Grand Prix executive selection format, where the customary practises of the campus community are not dismissively foregone, provided that Club leaderships' unique worldview as developed by their experiences in the arena of motorsport is equally respected and upheld;
Further commentary on the conduct from the fork-Club and the parties which have potentially expressly encouraged the unpalatable aspects of said conduct is worthwhile to discuss.
The social media posts which directly sought to tarnish the UoA Motorsport Club name, brand, and by extension, the contributions of members of the community from as far back as the prior decade, remain online.
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