Margaret Bryson

A New Kind Of President

Fourth year law student.

Returning Officer, April 1968.

Records Controller, Winter Tournament 1968.

Hon. Secretary, VUWSA, 1969.

Student rep.: Joint Committee,

Student Union Management Committee.

Committee on University Entrance, Bursaries and Entrance Scholarships.

Enrolment Procedures Committee.

Furnishings Sub-committee and others.

We need a new kind of president for VUWSA. The establishment of the Student Representative Council, with its wide policy-making powers, should, and will, make the executive just what its name suggests, an administrative body. The president will, therefore, need to be:—

1. An efficient and experienced administrator.

2. An impartial chairman—for Exec., SRC, and Management Committee.

3. A person who can put the views of the students clearly to other bodies within the University and to the news media.

4. A person who is prepared to commit a great deal of time and effort to the office.

5. A person willing and able to see all sides of a problem and to present them with clarity and care for student decision.

I will fulfil these requirements to the best of my ability. In particular I will work for a student union building with the facilities and furnishings wanted by students, and for a more realistic system of student representation. We must build for the future—a second Student Union Building—a closer liaison between student representatives. We need a new outlook, a new kind of president.

John Eade

Nominated: John McKoy, Pres. Biological Soc.

Seconded: Alan Pratt, Pres. International Club, Glenis Davies.

John has started a law course this year having studied for his B.Sc. during the last three years. He is an active member of the Bach Choir and interested and associated with Drama, underwater swimming, soccer and skiing activities as time permits.

John is on the Finance and Long Term Planning Committee and is International Affairs Officer on Exec. His specific aim this year has been to help in the integration of overseas students into New Zealand life and has worked closely with the International Club and his committee of 50/50 N.Z. and overseas students, which has organised a number of activities including USA publicity during International Week, the model UN assembly, the visits of WUS and ISMUN general secretaries and has arising out of that established committees of WUS ISMUN and 1 per cent AID. He has also organised a successful appeal for an overseas student excluded from the university by the Labour Department.

John feels that the time has come to get away from "personality" presidents to one who is willing to get the work done acting on the guidance of the students through general meetings and the SRC and as such he would give a stable and unemotional lead in the complex affairs of the students association.

Mike McCarthy

The Student Government should be actively promoting this Vietnam War opposition. Conservative student governments have been a major reason for the stagnation of this movement here in New Zealand.

Policy:—

1. To actively promote the movement of opposition to the War in Vietnam.

2. To replace Fritz Levenbach as union caterer with a manager, paid by the students' association and responsible to the SRC. This ensures that students get food at the cheapest possible prices and that profits made on after-hours catering accrue to the association and not to an individual.

3. To demand a rise in wages of the dining room staff.

4. To invest union money into its own bookshop on or near the campus. This bookshop to be run by students on part time wages, at no profit to the association, thus providing cheaper books for students.

5. To create more interest among the student population for their active participation, through the Student Representation Council, in Union policy and Campus affairs. This would be done by raising issues of wide controversy such as is not being done at present.