John Doig National Affairs

Candidate: John Doig.

Nominator: Tony Jacques, feature writer, Vice-President for N.Z.S.P.A.

John Doig is a second year Arts student, Accommodation committee member. 1966-1967 he was a Scholarship extramural student at Washington University in St. Louis.

This portfolio is reliant on the transient path of national affairs. It being difficult to predict with certainty crises to come, then much action taken within the position will ensue as the issues arise. But. he will support the following policy outline:

(1) Voting and drinking age reform.

(2) A series of lectureseminars in first term '69 on (a) Drugs and 'varsity; (b) Race Relations; (c) Conscription and the student; (d) The economy and primary industry; (e) Illegitimacy and the pill.

(3) Continuation of corporate membership with N.Z. Homosexual Law Reform Society.

(4) Model Parliament (similar to model U.N.).

(5) National Affairs Week.

(6) Comparative survey of N.Z. universities, viz. student-faculty ratios, Union amenities.