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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 14. 28 June 1972
Don Carson
Don Carson
- Has played rugby for Victoria
- Was a provincial rugby rep. while at college.
- Is vice captain of his home cricket club.
| 1. | Ensure that non-students in sports clubs are not subsidised by students |
| 2. | Fight exclusivism in sport. Those clubs that fail to advertise themselves sufficiently in handbook and around the Association generally should as a minimum have their subsidies cut. Sports clubs should be open to all in fact as well as in theory. Including the Sports Clubs in the forthcoming Club Day would help... Don would encourage such participation. |
| 3. | Push for recreational rather than competitive sport on campus. For example a billiards table for the Union Hall. |
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Don realises that on this campus politics are in sport for keeps, as the Sports Officer is a fully operative member of the executive and is required to make political decisions. Accommodation problems and the open entry to university connected to the Muldoonist degree factory thinking are felt by Don to be executive concerns. He is also a member of OHMS, an organisation dealing with the most immediate political concern at Vic. for many students.
He believes that S.R.C. should be convened more often to facilitate student participation in attempts to solve these problems and cites the PBEC reaction as showing how the executive can become divorced from student opinion.
His main concern on executive would be to improve the sporting facilities on campus and to make University sport rather more of a student activity than it is at present.