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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 23. 21st September 1972
Politics or Pampering — NZUSA - No President
Politics or Pampering
NZUSA - No President
NZUSA met at Victoria on 9th and 10th of September. Like the August Council meeting at Christchurch a major item on the agenda was the election of a President for 1973. Like the Christchurch meeting an acceptable candidate could not be found.
The conflict between political action and welfare work for NZUSA members again divided the Universities. The more politically aware were conscious of the demands the proposed Springbok tour may place on NZUSA and pumped for Gary Emms. Otago and Canterbury Universities felt Emms lacked ability and with the addition of Auckland's vote, prevented Emms from obtaining a majority of the votes.
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Cuthbert has agreed to stay on until a replacement is found and the next attempt to do this will be November this year.
Your Money Spent
Despite the second fall on the Presidential Hill, the meeting last weekend passed the 1973 budget. $1000 allocation for Anti-tour activities and $500 for Anti-War work. The meeting allocated $2,500 for U.S.P. work.
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So far I've read page one: four 'bloodys' Page two: 'Piggin hell' and 47 people killed in Vietnam, one baby shot. Page three: 'one cunnilingus' two 'bloodys ' and a 'damn,' two men killed in car. Page four: three ladies have a fil. Page five: 'Hello ducky this is the man's fashion page but, despile that, the overall feeling is one of intense boredom......"
Despite the strain within NZUSA and the mutterings of withdrawal from some constituents, the storm will be weathered and a compromise candidate will wind his weary way to the presidential pillory. Nothing much will have changed — despite the interim therapy.
Hypocrites & Slaves
| 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. |
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