Cafeteria

Elsewhere in this issue we have printed Miss Jenks's Caf report. We don't completely agree with her findings, but are pleased the subject is being debated at last and the executive have found it necessary to have a proper investigation.

It seems that in prodding the collective conscience Salient gave the impression that we were attacking Miss Rosie and her staff. We thought it was clear in the article that this was far from our mind.

If it wasn't let us make it clear now.

This is not a retraction of Salient's stand that there is room for improvement in the cafeteria set-up, simply a clarification that our argument was and is with the executive and not Miss Rosie, whom we realise has got to run her business as she sees fit.

Executive must however, he continually watchful on behalf of the students.

We believe further that Miss Rosie is administering the CAP with the best of intentions; we are disappointed however, that she did not see fit to state her own views in these columns as she originally agreed to do.

Keep Watch

Whatever the merit of Mr Hampton's argument in his no-confidence motion he must have succeeded conspicuously in pricking the conscience of the student body.

For it could hardly have been brought home more dramatically just what and how much the executive committee is capable of achieving on the students behalf.

But in this the essence of achievement can be measured only in terms of student support.

If the executive is to function at its highest level and avoid becoming an autonomous body it deserves to have every student take an intelligent interest in its affairs. If it errs then any member of the students' association is accorded the right to say so.

But by the same token the executive, whose responsibility to 3,000 students is an onerous one, rightly requires active backing from every quarter of the student body.

Assuming the widespread enthusiasm shown by attendance at last week's meeting to be genuine it would appear that interest by Victoria students in their own affairs is in its ascendancy.

We are not, however, sufficiently optimistic to really believe this. What has happened is that the executive for the past two weeks or so has at last the appearance of a team. Only a constant watch will keep it so.