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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 23. 23rd September 1973

'Suicide Squad'

'Suicide Squad'

By the time the election of officers was held the meeting was divided into two hostile camps. The presidential candidate of the opponents of the incumbent MSSA Executive, Mr Lim Peng Aun, proclaimed that he wasn't interested in politics and that his faction stood for harmony between Malaysian and Singaporean students, other overseas students and New Zealand students. One long-standing member of MSSA observed that this ticket Was a "suicide squad" intent on dissolving the association.

The other presidential candidate, Mr David Tan, stood by the actions of the 1972/1973 Executive and said membership of the association was open to all students, irrespective of nationality. Mr Tan won the election 83 votes to 69, and the other candidates on his ticket were successful by similar majorities.

After the elections the meeting proceeded to discuss a motion to dissolve MSSA, moved by Cornelius Derado and seconded by Mr Michael Lim, a former president of MSA. Mr Derado said that while MSSA had fewer Malaysian members than MSA, it was the only body recognised by the Students Association, and claimed that it was "no good" for Malaysian student to be divided up.