Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.

Commissions

Commissions

After the Plenary Session, the Council split up into Commission meetings — Educational. Cultural. National, International, Finance, Program and Affiliates. These were the working sessions. After the first day. the delegates found themselves behind schedule; they were never to catch up. Morning sessions dragged on after lunch; afternoon sessions went on into the evening. By the third day, a weary group listened from their committee chairs as the chimes of midnight tolled. By the end. the delegates even cancelled their special dinner.

It appeared that part of the Eroblem was that their words ad lathered in their mouths. Whlie only phrases, "matters arising" and "point of order" took on lives of their own. and they ran a wild mulberry chase with "moving for adoption," "lapsing for want of a seconder," "speaking to the motion," and a league of others.

Even outside of the committee rooms, "conferencese" captured the delegates' intelligence. They could not stop talking about it. Late one night, a crowd of them went to a local hotel for a nightcap, but to their surprise, found Dunedin's most hospitable resting place closed and quiet. The buffy-head blonde from Massey took the floor: "May I put forward the suggestion that we delegate one from among this body to investigate the question of the whereabouts of the propriator. and if he can be located, how he might be persuaded. . . ." At this point, a non-delegate who had been doing sport interrupted rudely, and looking up at a second story window, yelled: "Hey, you old b—. get out of bed and let us in."