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Executive Reporter

"That this Executive expresses its alarm at the powers delegated to the Otago Accommodation Service, interfering as it is in the area of a student's right to make his own private decisions," was carried.

Discussing the motion Julie Rayner (Education Officer) said the Otago Authorities "had no right to interfere in the private lives of students." Jim Wallace (Men's Vice-President) said that the matter was one of principle. The trouble lay, he said, in a "weak students' association that doesn't want to impinge the Administration, an Accommodation Officer straight out of the army with ideas about accommodation and a new Vice-Chancellor just recently a scientist with the DSIR. We should express our opposition to any infringement of the right of individual students to live their private lives, he said. Owen Gager called for University solidarity on the issue and said that "this is the sort of question that raises a question of principle—a plain, simple question of whether students are going to live their private lives without interference from the University administration."