The Planning Forum

Yearbook Report 2007-2008

The year began with a string of talks, all conducted mainly in order to lure in hapless first years and convince them that the PF would really be a ‘cool’ society to join. Voila! Mission successful! We got tons of applications and managed to cull out the select few we deemed most likely to work for us in our noble endeavors. Thus the Planning Forum of the academic year 2007-2008 was born.

 Talks continued through the year with the associated drama: guests would cancel at the last minute, guests couldn’t be identified at times, the Mess refused to give us glasses, the Café ran out of cold water (at least in the summer months), first years forgot their sundry duties forcing poor Raghav to run around doing everyone’s dirty work. Glitches and hitches galore, but they always got smoothed over eventually,  with Manav turning around and saying to the Chair: ‘Good talk’.

 He’s a nice President, Manav is. Always tells you your talk was good even if everyone else present fell asleep in under five minutes. He also always asks questions and looks interested. Increases a Chair’s morale no end.

So yes, it’s been a good year. But talks (even panel discussions like we’ve been having) are definitely not the be all and end all of the PF. We had a very successful Model United Nations, with delegates zooming to the Stephen’s campus from all over the country. Whether it was the free food, the smiling faces of the Secretariat, or the men in suits, the PF was (in the words of an anonymous member) “actually popular for once”.

We grumbled, we shirked, we whined- but we’d like to believe that we pulled off a great year. Let’s just hope that the luck continues into the next.