organisations. Management The management of the society is entrusted to a board elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). The Board consists of an Executive of five individuals comprising the President, Vice-President, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer, Assistant Honorary Secretary. They are additionally joined on the Board by the Whip Secretary, Publicity Secretary, Macer, Social convenor, Welfare Officer, Charity Officer, Archive Librarian, and up to four Ordinary Board Members, the number of which is determined by the newly elected Executive. Two first-year members are elected to the Board by the end of the first semester of each year. The Convenor of Debates of the Glasgow University Union and the Society's immediate past President are Ex Officio members of the Board. The electoral procedure at the AGM runs such that posts are filled in descending order, allowing those who failed to win more important posts to stand for others. The AGM was traditionally held at the end of the university's Candlemas Term, around the middle of March. Despite the new semester-based structure of the university's academic year, this remains the case and the AGM is now held shortly before the end of the teaching period of the second semester, which is separated from the exam period by the Easter vacation. At the AGM the Society elects an Honorary President, up to eight Honorary Vice-Presidents and Honorary Life Members. The current Honorary President is former Liberal Democrat leader and Society member Menzies Campbell. One of the honorary president's duties is to chair the Honorary President's Debate, held in February each year. If not chaired by the Honorary President, then the next highest ranking member of the Board (usually the President) will chair the debate. Former members Notable former members of the society include: Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Donald Dewar, former First Minister of Scotland Liam Fox, Secretary of State for International Trade Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Lord Justice Clerk Derry Irvine, Lord Irvine, former Lord Chancellor Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Rector of the University Andrew Neil, journalist and broadcaster Nicholas Parsons, media personality Meta Ramsay, former Secret Intelligence Service officer John Smith, former leader of the Labour Party Paul Sweeney, Labour & Co-operative MSP for Glasgow Region Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang, former Archbishop of Canterbury Groundings The society was responsible for the founding of Groundings, an interdisciplinary journal publishing work in the humanities,