Law Faculty Club

Law Students have elected a social conscience.

At their AGM an executive which could almost be described as radical was elected, and a motion was passed to formulate a legal aid scheme. The meeting was not even stacked.

The new president of the Law Faculty club is responsible yip-pie-Rumanian Con Anastasiou. In a straight battle on the issue of whether the law student's club should branch out from the organisation of Stein evenings and beery football matches (Anastasiou wanted a move from "the bog" of green beery chunder which has characterised such events in the past, to something which law students don't do all the time), to the playing of a constructive role in the student and general communities, commenting and acting on controversial social issues, Anastasiou beat blue-suited, conservative part-timer Shanahan (if any of you are still awake I'll shake you out of your apathy) hands down for the position of president. The trend continued with the election of arch-demonstrator and Anastasiou-man, Warwick Flaus, as Secretary, and Anastasiou-seconded D. Howman as Treasurer. Second year rep. on the committee is Socialist Club President Wendy Proffitt, and Women's Lib member Shona Abernathy is third year rep., and among the committee members is arch-liberal legal-aider Colin Keating.

The first socially conscious act of the new executive will be to take action on a motion of the meeting that it take steps to create a legal aid scheme for students, and for such other groups in the community as it thinks fit. Specifically mentioned was a proposal for a legal aid scheme for Polynesians in the Porirua area: the first press statement of the executive is likely to call for moves towards homosexual law reform.