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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.