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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 11. 1967.

New constitution ushered in by Sgm

New constitution ushered in by Sgm

Salient Reporter

A Special General Meeting over two days last week approved a new constitution for the Students' Association.

The new constitution which will take effect as from next year underwent some marked changes at the hands of the SGM. Election of Sports and Cultural Affairs Officers were taken out of the respective Councils hands and will be by direct vote of students.

The meeting also rejected preferential voting and in future elections will be run on the first past the post principle.

At the SGM a new position called National Officer was created. This officer will concern himself with New Zealand matters which fall outside Education, Accommodation and Public Relations Committees. This position complements NZUSA's National Officer.

There are now 15 positions on Executive.

The new constitution was drawn up over the past year mainly in recognition of the fact that the old one was full of internal contradictions.

The general trend is to divide student administration up into specialised areas.

Major features are:

Executives will run from January until December instead of June to June as at present.

Elections to be held early in the third term this year for next year's Executive.

• There will be a Publications Board to replace the existing Committee.

The Board will be responsible for all publications and will administer the 10/- student levy to Salient.

• Sports Council and Cultural Clubs Council have greater autonomy.

It is exepected each will receive a fixed portion of the Students Association fee to administer as they see fit.