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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 1. 1967.

Insight

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Insight

We must admire those courageous little men of executive who tried to stop Grand Establishment from showing films to students. What right has a group of students to the use of student facilities for the purposes of entertaining students and raising funds for student and charitable purposes? Clearly, none at all.

Indeed, as one executive member pointed out, these said GE students are a clique, a closed group, and many are well-off also. It is high time that we realised that only democratic paup-ers of radical beliefs are entitled to be called students.

The sooner that the members, of GE realise that their aims of student activity, student entertainment, student vitality, and student aid are impossible, the better for all. These aims are the preserve of a small clique of the "humanitarian left." Long may they of executive keep it so.

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Which administration bod had forgotten his promises? When students were sitting down in Salamanca Road, demanding pedestrian crossings, oh how sympathetic the administration was. Then they said they would arrange the university's pedestrian routes to assist the City Council's solution.

But have they built a path across Hunter lawn from the end of the Kelburn Parade crossing. A simple gesture. An earnest of good faith if you like. At the moment, however, a broken pledge.

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Present treasurer Ken Cresswell must be an early candidate for life membership of this association. Certainly, in recent years there's never been a treasurer to come near him. He's untangled the financial chaos of over a dozen student enterprises, and released several thousand pounds of accumulated special funds by completing accounts for audit.

When association financial adviser Malcolm J. Mason told executive of the "pleasure" he experienced in auditing Cappicade 1966 accounts, older executive members must have staggered with shock. Ken Cresswell has certainly done more of real value for this association in the last ten months than any other student official in recent history.

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Auckland University Students' Association will collapse within six months. Absurd? No. Possible? Yes, if reports from Auckland friends are correct. Auckland lost £4000—let's have that in words—Four Thousand Pounds on Capping last year. The association is strained for cash, its student paper is editorless for the umpteenth time, and popularity of incoming president Prebble is near zero level.

The struggle back from the mire of the present will be long and hard. When will our biggest university grow up? When will it cease its irresponsible Capping, newspaper witch - hunts, financial meanderings. and drop its snobby aloofness? Only their past arrogance denies them our present sympathy for their plight.

—Cynic