Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 13. June 11 1979
Back to NZUSA's May Council
Back to NZUSA's May Council
Leaving the crowd reeling - in a rather dozy way - from this super long report, Simon surrended the floor to Virginia Adams who gave a report from the Women's Commission at May Council. Apparently the story down there was that, while almost all the existing policy was reaffirmed, there was a lot of discussion on a motion put forward by Victoria saying that the oppression of women was linked to the oppression of classes. This motion was passed by council after lengthy discussion, but a question came from SRC as to whether this was in agreement with Vic policy. Virginia replied that it related to a motion passed by SCR back in 1977.
1) | opposition to the CS and A Act |
2) | research into the position and status of women in university with the aim of promoting general understanding and awareness of the particular hardships faced by women in the universities. |
3) | research into the financial position of women in universities. |
Further reports came from Paul Norman, about the Environment group, and Victoria Quade, the Womens rights officer, who revealed that there will be a variety of films about women shown in the near future.
Then there came Stephen A'Court, who gave us the run down on the National Commission at Council, and in an attempt to bring our policy in to line with that of NZ USA, proposed three motions that (to his obvious surprise) generated an anormous amount of discussion.