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Sports Has Social Side

By John Winton

The Sports social committee and the plans to set it up have been approved by the sports council at its last meeting. Andrew Morrison, largely responsible for the planning of the committee, has at last seen the social committee graduate from a mere idea to an accepted working system.

The Basis of the social committee structure lies in the individual sports clubs themselves. All sports clubs officially affiliated to the union have been divided into seven groups of four clubs.

Each club will nominate one member of their own choice to be a possible representative on the committee. The final decision lies with the sports council who will then select two representatives from each group, making the membership of the committee a total of 14. Appointments will be made every two years and all clubs will have the chance to be represented.

The advantages of a system such as this, and the idea of a committee so set up. are not so much in direct material gains to the clubs but are rather more indirect. The aim of the committee is simple … money! Money for "blues" dinners, for overseas trips and to a lesser extent for the financing of tournament social activities.

Sports clubs then can expect no great increase in grants through the committee, but rather more in the advantages that a unified and strong club structure brings. The committee will. for instance, help to dispel the narrow-minded outlook of some sportsmen towards their own activity. It will bring, I am sure, a greater efficiency, which is sorely needed if we are to emulate the smooth operation of other tournaments at which we have been guests.

Easter Tournament is a joint responsibility of all sports clubs as are the social functions that we must arrange as members of Nzusu.

The sooner many struggling clubs realise that they have a collective responsibility outside the spheres of their own activities, the sooner we will get new, strong activities' which are universally attractive to students throughout the university.

Must Christ perish in torment in every age to save those of us who have no imagination?—Shaw.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.— Swift.