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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 22. 4th September 1974

Munz muzzled

Munz muzzled

There may be some staff members who regard growing student representation on faculty committees with suspicion, but Professor Munz (History) has dispelled all doubt as to his own feelings on the matter.

He prepared the following motion for the last Arts Faculty meeting:

"In view of the fact that the students' representatives on both Board and Faculty rarely attend classes and do written work only under duress, I have come to the conclusion that they are quite unable to know what it is like to be a student let alone to represent student opinion. In order to remedy this I would like the number of student representatives on the Arts Faculty to be raised to 20 because between them 20 such representatives are likely to possess the experience equivalent to at least one real student."

Unfortunately his interest in the subject did not extend to his actually being present to move the motion and the feeling of the meeting was aptly summarized by a subsequent amendment:

"In view of the fact that Professor Munz rarely attends faculty meetings and provides information about departmental practice only under duress, we would like the number of Professor Munzs raised to 20 because between them 20 such professors would be likely to display the sensitivity and feeling for the present mood of the faculties which one would expect of one real faculty member."