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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 12. 1964.

Editorial — Effort Needed

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Editorial

Effort Needed

editorial title

The accommodation shortage, one of the full-scale-problems to be met with the expansion of the university, requires forward-looking activity by students as well as by government.

The tendency has been in the past for NZUSA to attempt solutions in sudden bursts of enthusiam, accompanied by continual and possibly effective sniping at the government.

In addition to seeking government financial assistance, NZUSA and other sectors of the student community need to broaden their sphere of activity and to consider some of the other aspects of the problem.

It is necessary to consider alternative modes of finance—perhaps from the private sector—types of accommodation, and the satisfactoriness of any panaceas that do arise in the future.

At Victoria in particular, where the executive has made tentative steps in the right direction, student co-operation and assistance is imperative.

Since it's inception last year, the accommodation subcommittee of the executive has been plagued by indifference, and by inadequate membership. At the moment it lacks a chairman. This committee has several specific programs underway from last term including a consideration of means of finance, an assessment of the real extent of the shortage, the possibility of students' association-owned houses, the inception of a 'guarantor' system for flat dwellers and landlords and of types of accommodation. Each of these require more study, if Victoria is to get what she needs in this field as soon as possible.

Student effort will provide a certain amount of progress towards meeting the problem, and the effort would no doubt engender a more appropriate attitude from the government.