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You have been hearing about "UDG" for more than nine months: the time has come to propose to the Normalian community whether or not to modify the regulations for the attribution of thurnes in favor of this new system.

At the end of its work, the Délégation Spéciale (DS) formed for the occasion was able to refine the contours of the reform project, propose answers to the questions that remained at the end of the March General Assembly, and simulate the proposed system (on computer and with a mock Thurnage). As a result, the project is ripe for a vote, which will take place between June 19th and 26th.

A regular meeting of the General Assembly is called for June 9th at 7:00 pm in the Galois Room and remotely on the DG’s GoToMeeting to prepare for this referendum.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Presentation of the reform project and reminder of the process
2. Presentation of the simulations carried out by the DS
3. Presentation of the variants and proposals of the DS
4. Open debate on the reform project and its variants (without voting)
5. 5. Elaboration of the referendum questions :
   1. Choice by the GA on certain variants
   2. Determination of the variants to be submitted to the referendum
   3. Study of possible counter-proposals
6. Other matters

The DS will propose to the GA to arbitrate directly on three elements of the reform project for which the debate had remained open (determination of the possibilities of setting up UDGs, implementation of a redistribution mechanism in years of crisis, modalities of the transition). It will therefore propose to let the referendum arbitrate two questions: whether or not to set up a "boost" system (allowing a person to be housed for only one year but in a better thurne), and how to allocate trumps (which allow a better thurne to be obtained without changing the number of possible years of housing).

We recommend that you first read the summary of the DS proposals: (in French, sorry; for a short explaination in English, please refer to the “Explaination of the UDG system” section at the end of this mail).
If you have more time and read fluently French, you can also read the summary of the report "for a fair and transparent thurnage", at the origin of the proposed reform. You can also take the time to watch the video presenting the system, but be aware that a few things have changed since these materials were made.

We hope to see many of you at this general assembly where the stakes are high!

The Délégation Générale: Clémence, Jan, Julien and Ryan

The Délégation Spéciale for the reform of the Thurnage : Julie-Maï, Mattéo, Nicolas, Sayah, Juliette and Valentin

As a reminder, everyone can collect 2 masks of category 1 at the central security post, as well as self-tests. Gel will be available in the room and it will be necessary to fill in our name and a means of contact on the attendance sheet, and to inform the DG and the health pole in case of symptoms or positive test within 7 days after the GA.

Explaination of the UDG system

You have two units : UDGs, which determine your probability to get a thurne (playing 1 ensures you a housing) and trumps, which will be used to choose your thurne before the others if you do have a thurne.

To make sure that every year 1 UDG = 1 thurne, the UDG are updated every year according to the fluctuations of the housing stock. This means that if you save up to keep 1 UDG, you are not sure you will still have 1 next year (but also that keeping 0.9 might allow you to have 1 later).

If you play less than 1, you will be in one of the two intermediate categories (Silver and Bronze), and you will have more or less chance to be housed : Silver are all ranked before Bronze for getting a thurne. If you play 0.8, you have an 80% chance to be in Silver (and you would be high in Silver, so with a good chance to be thurned), and therefore a 20% chance to be in Bronze, and therefore to have maybe no thurne.

Everyone can play 0 UDG; 0.1 UDG; 0.2 UDG; ... 0.9 UDG or 1 UDG. If your number of UDG does not match, you can also play them all at once (for example, if you have 0.88, then you can play 0.88). If you have more than 1, you can also play all of them to get a boost and get an extra trump, but you won't be able to be accommodated the following years.

You can play as many trumps as you want (in full number), but they will only be used (and counted) if your UDGs allow you to be housed.

Finally, if you have a "housing guarantee", you will be housed regardless of how many UDGs you want to use. Nevertheless, using them can allow you to choose your thurne instead of inheriting the last one.

Don't hesitate if you have any questions !

Hello everyone,

We remind you that the registrations to the Thurnage Général are open, and this until this sunday 23 May at 23h59. Past this delay, it will not be possible to register anymore, just change your room choices.

If you're not yet registered and want to, you'll find the registration form here: https://www.dg.ens.fr/degetteweb/tg/inscription

Best,

The Délégation Générale

Good morning to all of you,

As every year, the DG is organizing a General Assembly to introduce the General Thurnage to the conscrit⋅e⋅s and to all, so the question of the allocation of accommodation for the futures conscrit⋅e⋅s will be raised in these times of sanitary restriction. In addition, we will come back to the state of the boarding schools, and in particular to the works accomplished and planned. But also, on the results of the referendum which will bring modifications to the internal regulations to be voted. Finally, we will let the DS present their work.

This GA is highly recommended to conscrit⋅e⋅s, it will explain to you the mechanisms of thurnage and your attention will determine your changes of accommodation in the ENS boarding school.

It is therefore in this context that we are pleased to announce that a new General Assembly will be held on Wednesday 5 May at 18:30 on GoToMeeting <https://www.gotomeet.me/DélégationGénérale>.

Technical subtlety, attention: An Internet outage is planned for 5 May from 5.30 to 6 pm; in the unfortunate event that the Internet has not recovered in the boarding schools by 6.30 pm, the GA will be postponed by one hour and will therefore start at 7.30 pm. If, despite this delay, the Internet is still not up, the GA will be suspended and cancelled, and we will contact you as soon as possible. We will communicate on Facebook and our website (if it is reachable).

The agenda for this General Assembly is as follows: 

1) Update on the state of the boarding schools, including the 2022 (renovation) works;

2) Explanations of the General Thurnage to the conscrit⋅e⋅s ;

3) Questions about the distribution of thurnes to future conscrit⋅e⋅s during the period of health restrictions;

4) Vote on the amended Internal Regulations with the results of the referendum;

5) Address by the Délégation spéciale;

6) Miscellaneous items

We remind you that you can ask to add an item to this agenda by email until 48 hours before the GA.

The consultation of the student community concerning the withdrawal of the CST joker and the creation of the 3rd student joker is now over. The Délégation Générale would like to thank the voters for having expressed themselves in number (442 valid votes). The proposal retained at the end of the vote is proposal A "Remove the CST joker and create a third student joker".

The detailed results can be found here: https://vote.eleves.ens.fr/elections/view/2

The Délégation Générale is pleased with the choice made by the student community for a system with more equality, and wishes you a good day.

The Délégation Générale

The Délégation Générale is pleased to announce that the report of the General Assembly (AG) of 31 March 2021, on the reforms of the rules of procedure, the institution of the Special Delegation for the reform of the thurnage and the referendum for the TG 2021 are out.

It is available here: https://www.dg.ens.fr/fr/banalites/compte-rendus/, with the slides used during the GA.

We strongly invite you to go and read it, it contains :

• Changes to the rules of procedure for the Special Delegations;
• A new draft of sanctions to allow alternatives to the single sanction of "fraudster";
• The institution of the Special Delegation for the reform of thurnage and the appointment of its members
• The proposals for a referendum on TG2021 concerning the CST joker and a 3rd student joker

In this respect, the DG regrets that many 1st years did not participate in the GA, even though they are the first ones concerned, and encourages them to participate in the subsequent discussions.

At the end of this GA, a referendum project will be pursued from 12 April at 10 am to 16 April at 10 am, the proposals of which can be found in the GA report.