Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 13. June 11 1979
Are the Cute Inevitable?
Are the Cute Inevitable?
The short answer is no, but this rests solely with students themselves. Government will only act if enough students are angry, agitated and active in protests a— gainst the cuts. It was largely through mass student pressure that the STB was originally introduced in 1976 and subsequently the level increased albeit inadequately. We are now in the position that the 'alternative government', the Labour Party, is actually committed to the principle of indexation.
Changes and amendments to the Budget can be made up to two days prior to its announcement. Consequently NZUSA is organising, through its seven constituents, a nation-wide week of protests calling for opposition to the cuts and instead for an immediate increase to the level of the bursary (as well as for indexation and abolition of the abatement.)
Ian Powell
NZUSA Research Officer
At Victoria, we are having a rally in Pigeon Park on Wednesday, 13 June. Daring this rally, the Minister of Education, Mervyn Wellington, will be brought out and put on public trial for crimes against the education and thus the people of this country.
We expect the verdict to be severe, and the sentence will reflect the nature of the crimes: an education cut will be aimed at his neck.