News

First-Year Representative Elected!

Congratulations to Aisha Sobey who was elected to be the First-Year Representative in the 165th Session Council! We’re all looking forward to working with Aisha and anticipate great things from her. We had a huge number of nominees for the position (six!) and were very excited to see so many people who are passionate about the society.

To all who would like to be a part of helping out with the society, please come to our Council meetings! Meetings are from 6pm to 7pm on Mondays in the Senate Council Room (next door to the Senate Room). We would love to see you there!

Literificans at Stormont Mixer

Almost 40 members of the Literific had the opportunity to visit Stormont on the 22 of October.

After watching a short debate at the Assembly, John McCallister MLA gave Literificans a historical tour of the Parliament. Afterwards, debaters and MLAs came together to consider the motion “This House Believes More MLAs Should Resign”.

The evening was at times silly, deeply serious, and sometimes a bit absurd — a great time was had by all. We would like to thank our guest MLAs — Phil Flanagan, Anna Lo, John McCallister, and Basil McCrea (Literific Trustee) — for their support.

Photos from the event can be seen at our Facebook page.

Our social events are once a month, every month. Email internal@literific.org if you want to know more about our Pub Quiz in November. We’ll hopefully see you there!

(For those who are wondering, the proposition [Anna Lo MLA, Phil Flanagan MLA, and Andrew Carruthers] prevailed over the opposition [Conor Conneally, Adam Kydd, and Basil McCrea MLA] in the motion This House Believes More MLAs Should Resign. Considering what happened after our blood ban debate, same-sex marriage debate, and 1967 Abortion Act debate, Stormont should take note! 😉 )

Literific’s First Workshop

This Wednesday at 3 pm in the Peter Froggatt Centre the Literific is hosting its first workshop!

Workshops are a new feature this year to benefit members and they are a chance for Literificans, new and old, to pick up tips for speaking at either our regular meetings or venture out into competitive debating.

Members who are thinking about competing will have a chance to talk to veterans of the debating circuit while having a bit of craic along the way. And sweets. Did we mention the sweets?

If you’re interesting in coming along, let us know on Facebook!