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-In the summer of 2000 a number of old YSTV hands graduated/left, including [[Chris Ward]], [[Chris Parker]], [[Alex Hudson]] and [[Rob Sprowson]]. A mostly new team of officers (the exception was the Director, [[Peter Bowles]]) took over and looked at the society with fairly fresh eyes. The Constitution and Policy documents were quite badly hacked around, weren't easy to understand and had various other shortcomings. In particular, there were some "Officer" posts which were created in the Constitution and formed a "committee" and other "non-officer posts" which were created in the Policy and had fewer rights and responsibilities. It was felt that this had potential to produce a split in the society and so it was decided to create a new structure in which all the posts became "officers", defined in the Constitution, and which formed into four teams:
+The constitution was rewritten in 2001. Up until this point there were certain named roles that existed in the Constitution and then others that were created in the Policy. It was decided to move all the roles into the Constitution to give them equal status as officers of the society, and to group them into four teams.
 * Administration team, headed by the [[Studio Manager]]
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 The Constitution was drafted by a small committee ([[Cally Nixon]] and [[Thea Darricotte]] were both on it) but most of the text was actually written by [[Michael Prior-Jones]].
-This structure has remained in place ever since, despite shake-ups in the naming and number of posts at various points, most notably in the [[2005 Constitution]]
+The next rejig was the [[2005 Constitution]], which restored the idea of creating junior roles through a Policy - the idea being that the policy could be more easily changed without needing to go through the process of amending the constitution.
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