Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 13. June 11 1979
[Introduction]
The Executive meeting that took place on Wednesday of last week was one of the most argumentative meetings I have ever attended. The Executive spent some two hours discussing the recent interview with Andrew Tees (Salient 5 June) in which he spoke against the Presidential Statement Salient had carried the previous week. The Executive were concerned that the President was failing to represent the Association properly by [ unclear: poblically] taking a stand opposing the motion after it had been una inously passed.
Because of the importance of the debate, and the likelihood that a further rash of accusations against the Executive would arise from it, the Executive requested that the relevant portions of the minutes be printed in Salient. The editor greed to the request, and the minutes are reprinted below.
Although they are at times a little hard to follow. Salient urges all students to read these minutes. They were recorded shorthand by the Association Secretary/Typist, so there can be no question of any bias in the transcript. Although there have been slight changes to increase clarity, what is printed below is virtually a verba turn record of the meeting and those who are perhaps intending to take up arms over the issues would do well to read it.
Present during the debate were: A. Tees, M. Underwood, C. Mass of (who took the chair during the debate recorded below), H. Aikman, P, Sowman, P. Norman and P. Edwards.
In attendance were: S. Underwood, H. Worth, G. Moore-Jones, A. Beach, P. Beach, T. Rochford.