Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 23. 21st September 1972
Hypocrites & Slaves
Hypocrites & Slaves
The major dilemmas of NZUSA seem to be:
a) | Primarily white, middle-class students adopting socialistic and revolutionary international policies, the realisation of which would destroy their middleclass security and complacency. |
b) | The simultaneous adoption of grossly selfish welfare policies, and selfless international ones. |
c) | The flippancy and ignorance surrounding the setting of environmental policies compared with the informed seriousness evident in discussions on welfare matters (e.g., NAC reductions.) |
d) | The disproportionate amount of time, effort, and money spent on general, selfish, welfare activities in relation to education reform. |
e) | The pointlessness of student representatives adopting policies which their constituents have not even discussed (or may not even be interested in); and the hypocrisy of such 'leaders' voting against their constituent's policies on less than rational and altruistic grounds. |
f) | The spending of the vast majority of NZUSA's income on bureaucratic functioning, and almost nothing on individuals, groups, and activities to which we make policy commitments. |
g) | The hypocrisy of having idealistic policies which could be enacted but about which it is deliberately intended to do nothing. |