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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 8. September 14, 1956
Around and about
Around and about
Plans for conversion of both common-rooms
Following the presentation of a detailed report by Mr. Paul Canham to the Executive recently, plans are now going ahead for the conversion of the men's and women's common rooms. Present intentions are that the women's common room will become a common common room, and the men's common room will give place to a reading-room.
It is understood no serious objections have been lodged with the Students' Association concerning the new "intergration" programme which, it is generally considered, will lead to much better utilization of facilities at present available.
Honorary degrees to be conferred
Four honorary Doctorates of Science will be conferred by the University of New Zealand in the next few months, according to a decision reached in committee by the Senate meeting last month. The Prime Minister. Mr. Holland, whose name had been linked with the subject of honorary degrees, is not one of those to be thus honoured.
The four recipients ore all men who have rendered valuable service to scientific scholarship and research in Australian and New Zealand. They are:
Sir MacFarlane Burnet, F.R.S., M.I). (Melb.), Ph.D. (Lond.), Hon. D.Sc. (Cantab.), director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute, Melbourne.
Sir Theodore Rigg, M.Sc.. Hon. D.Sc. (W.A.), formerly director of the Cawthron Institute and Chairman of CSIR.
Mr. L. J. Wild, C.B.E.. B.Sc.. M.A.. pro-chancellor of the University of New Zealand.
Mr. A. W. B. Powell, of the Auckland Museum, a world authority on mollusca.
NUAUS student form at Sydney
An international congress and forum organised by the National Union of Australian University Students, will be held in Sydney from December 10 to 20, 1956, Immediately following the Olympic Games to be held in Melbourne from November 22 to December 8.
NUAUS believes that an international forum of this nature will be the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and that it will be another step forward in promoting goodwill and friendship among the student organisations of the world. The theme of the Congress and Forum will be "The University and the Community."
Leading Australians, prominent international identities and student leaders will give talks and lead discussions on student affairs. English will be the principal language. Further information may be obtained from the NUAUS President. Mr. David Tep-litsky, SRC office. University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W. (NUAUS. Melbourne).
Summer club grants decided
The following club grants were ratified by the Executive recently, on the recommendation of the Finance Committee:
Athetotic Club (1956-57): £37/5/10,
Cricket Club (interim, in the absence of audited accounts): £60.
Rowing Club: No grant until audited accounts supplied.
Swimming Club (interim, in the absence of audited accounts): £3, The club was also asked to repay a £25 loan grunted by the Association for the Australian tour of New Zealand in 1954.
Men's Hockey Club: £4/6/11. Talks are to be held between Executive members and club officers concerning the basis of future grants to the club.
Boxing Club (subject to audited accounts being presented): £24.
Tennis Club: £102. Disapproval was expressed at the high expenditure on tennis balls last year.
Weight Training Club: £6. Further applications for grants from this club will be considered when the club has proved whether or not it has Student support; association with the VUC Rugby Club gymnasium was suggested by the Executive.
Extension of US exchange scheme
President Eisenhower's proposal to extend exchange programmes to countries behind the Iron Curtain will have the Support of Senator J. W. Fulbright, the originator and chief champion in Congress of the United States Educational Exchange programme.
Senator Fulbright said that in general he approved the President's suggestion, and that with what he called proper safeguards, he thought the plan could prove helpful in promoting better understanding.
"There are really only two approaches to this problem," he said. "Either we have to regard it us hopeless, and accept the view that war is inevitable, or we must try to find some basis for improved relationships between our own country and the communist countries.
"On that basis, and considering that any exchanges between peoples have a tendency to promote better understandings, I think the broadening of the exchange programme as proposed by the President might do so good, and I shall support it." (USIS)
Approximately eighty Australian travel and exchange students will be visiting Wellington and requiring billets and entertainment during the summer, the VUC Travel and Exchange Officer (Miss G. Jackson) told a recent Executive meeting. Members present expressed surprise at the large number expected; the increase is due to the running of an extra return air trip between Australia and New Zealand this summer.
Mr. H. R. Carver has been appointed Orientation Week Controller for 1957.