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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 4. April 23, 1947

Council Interference

Council Interference

The Council has taken the view that the speech reflected discredit on the University. Be that as it may; considering those sections of the public who ever acknowledge the university that is probably true. But the Council has taken the occasion as a convenient one to demonstrate its dictatorial powers. Surely if the university students of Otago are sufficiently intelligent to elect a responsible body to represent their interests and manage their subsidiary organisations, they are sufficiently intelligent to attend to their own President when he makes remarks offending certain sections of the public and the University. As for the cheap jibes of "half-baked" immature ideas, etc., it is only reasonable to say that age does not necessarily confer wisdom, that many of the so-called immature students are ex-servicemen who were considered sufficiently mature to learn "how to put on a gas mask in the wind."

We suggest that the Executive of the OUSA take a more positive attitude towards the Council decisions, and that it maintain its democratic rights to manage its own affairs without peremptory, dictatorial usurpation by the College Council.