Salients indendence raised

The Executive has agreed that contents of Association publications prior to their publication shall remain confidential. The disclosure of such contents shall be at the discretion of the editor involved.

This was decided at an Executive meeting on 20 May.

The matter was discussed following the receipt of a letter to the President from the Salient Editor. The letter drew the Executive's attention to the action of the Men's Vice-President, Colin Knox, who had approached the Publications Board Secretary in order to ascertain the contents of a Salient news story. Mr Knox had not approached the Salient Editor prior to this.

The Executive passed no motion on the matter since, according to Association President Margaret Bryson, all members of the Executive agreed that the contents of Association publications should not be subject to interference or investigation by members of the Executive.

Miss Bryson said that Mr Knox's action put the Publications Board Secretary "in an impossible situation" and that Mr Knox "had no right to do what he did".

Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, answering questions at a meeting at Victoria on 13 May, Mr Trudeau bad specifically asked that he be given an opportunity to attend a discussion with students on a New Zealand campus. Over half of the audience at the International Affairs-sponsored meeting were students. The meeting was chaired by Listener Editor, Alexander MacLeod. Mr MacLeod and a panel comprising Auckland Students' Association President, Michael Law, Salient Editor, David Harcourt and Roderic Alley, Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science put questions to Mr Trudeau. Provision was also made in the 30-minute meeting for a number of questions from the floor.