Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981

What you can do!

What you can do!

Despite the poor attendance at a meeting held at 5pm on Monday 23 to discuss the Education Fightback Campaign, all is well with plans being made.

Hardship Inquiry Service

A Hardship Office has been set up in the Treasurer's Office of the Union Building, to be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10am and 2pm. This will be manned by those at the meeting and will provide advice for students filling out hardship applications, and also help in appealing against Department decisions.

We hope that this service will be of help to students, that it will arouse interest around campus. We ourselves will be able through this to assess more accurately the plight of those students who are being refused hardship.

It was suggested that a Forum be held, with guest speakers being a National MP, a Labour MP and a spokesperson for NZUSA. Although the date tentatively set aside for this was Wednesday April 1, this has proved to be at too short notice for most of our Honourable Members... so we should see the elusive Forum on Tuesday April 7, up in the Union Hall. The subject will be:

"Should tertiary education be financed by the student, or should it be the responsibility of the taxpayer?"

Monday, March 30, sees some street drama about bursaries in the quad outside the library. Leaflets will be handed out. That week we start the countdown to April 8... banners, posters, leaflets and talks will all be given. How else are people going to know what we're fighting against?!

Starving or Homeless

Other activities for the week 30 March to 3 April are not finalised, but could include a tent-out for unaccommodated students, and/or a soup kitchen for starving students. We'll let you know!

Finally, the march is on April 8 - well, you've seen the publicity! See you there!

Timetable:
Mon 30 Street Theatre 12pm
Tues 31 Hardship Office 10-2pm
Wed 1 Tent-Out
All Week Count down to march
Tues 7 Forum 12pm
Wed 8 March 12pm