NZUSA Headless Again

Neil Newman, the 1974 President of NZUSA, has been thrown out before he could take up office.

A NZUSA general meeting at Palmerston North last weekend passed a vote of no confidence in Newman by 19 votes to 9 with 17 abstentions, and incumbent President Stephen Chan ruled that Newman had been deemed to resign.

Newman was elected with the minimum number of votes necessary at NZUSA's August Council. But following a barrage of unfavourable comment in the student press and grumbles from NZUSA officers, student leaders decided Newman had to go. VUWSA President Wilson gives his views on page 5.