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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 4. 7 April 1970

US student leader scheme attacked

US student leader scheme attacked

A move to withdraw NZUSA support from the America Student Leader Grant Scheme was tabled at Easter Council.

The move was sponsored by Auckland University, whose Publications officer, Michael Volkerling, had presented a report to an NZUSA Executive Meeting in February on this subject.

Mr Vokerling's report quoted the Director of the Programme, Mr John Esteline, as saying "Basically, the programme is an instrument of US foreign policy, We realise that those students coming on the programme will become leaders in their own communities. We would like them to understand our country better, for we know that if we help them to do this they will be able to help us in the future." Mr Volkerling recommended that NZUSA consider withdrawing from sponsorship of the scheme as it now exists.

At Easter Council, a motion withdrawing NZUSA support from the student Leader Grant Scheme was tabled until Winter Council in August. Continued support for the Scheme will then be evaluated in the light of the comments of Canterbury's Women's Vice-President Marraine Logerman. Mrs Logerman is to visit the United States under the Grant Scheme within the next few months.

Michael Volkerling

Michael Volkerling

Otago President Errol Millar, who returned from the US the day after Easter Council finished, had this to say about the Scheme:

"I definitely feel that the American Student Leader Grant is worthwhile. There is a tremendous amount to be gained, both personally and on behalf of the students of New Zealand. It would be a crying shame to withdraw from these trips because representatives would then be selected from other youth organisations in New Zealand and it is better from a student point of view for students to be the representatives of New Zealand."