OUSA Belgium prepares for Conference...

This is top secret footage of course - lucky you!

Evensong

OUSA Istanbul Branch has a unique way of opening meetings - it might not be constitutional but it gets the crowd's attention.

Modes of address

Visitors to Conference 2011 found this type of signposting helpful when being assigned to working groups on key policy issues.

Conference fun

Delegates to Conference 2011 were pleased to be met at the station by a special bus, but were not sure whether the idea of Conference being fun instead of business-like needed closer inspection.

Room for the bite

When scouting possible future Conference venues, OUSA reps were duly impressed by the accommodation on offer this bid from Romania, although they were not sure about the vampire lurking between the windows.

Celebration

Here in OUSA Belgium we believe that success should be rewarded. Here we have baked a cake to present to the fifth student in the UK who has agreed with one of our motions over the last twenty years.

That shadow in the background is not a spooky lifeform from another planet about to take over Belgium but a manky old ficus - that's not an old German insult, but some kind of fig tree about which we care a lot.

Dealing with spies

In another example of dastardly espionage, we recently caught this delegate from OUSA Greenland trying to peek in on an OUSA Belgium meeting, which was open anyway. We hadn't the heart to tell him that clandestine recording and closed meetings are both SO last century.

Conference mystery

When asked why the OUSA Celtic Fringe seemed to be four bottles of wine missing, OUSA Belgium's most important member said she had no idea.

Conference excitement

On being told that (right now) O U S A Conference was discussing Constitutional matters, O U S A Belgium's most important member found it hard to contain her excitement.

The art of rhetoric

Here in OUSA Northern Europe we are very keen to train Conference delegates in the art of rhetoric. Here is an excerpt from one of our training videos demonstrating how to oppose a motion successfully based on carefully selected briefing. Note how the delegate from Southern Europe on the left proposing the motion tries to get away with making the same point twice and how skillfully the Northern Europe delegate on the right opposing the motion um.............outplays him by making the same point three times.