The newspaper lists four main reasons why increased staff salaries are necessary.

• 1. University staffs have received no share in the country's increased prosperity during the past forty years.
• 2. University staff salaries compare unfavorably with those of other occupational groups, and
• 3. With salaries of overseas university staffs.
• 4. The overall sum spent on the University of New Zealand makes it the cheapest-run University in the world.

"Staff salaries have as much importance for students as the need for retaining and recruiting first-class professors and lecturers for the two are intimately connected," the paper says.