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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 14, 5 July 1976.
Randall Attacks Salient over MSA
Randall Attacks Salient over MSA
Dear John,
The week before last, two letters were printed criticising MSA. Above each letter emotive captions such as "MSA in the Shit" conveyed Salient's continued resentment of M.S.A.
Criticism of any organisation is healthy and should be encouraged but recent criticism of M.S.A. is being made without any constructive alternatives being suggested.
M.S.A. held a sports tournament in the Gym over Easter. It was free to members even though the hire of the Gym was expensive. Did those students who negatively criticise M.S.A. participate? Obviously not. No doubt they were busy writing letters to Salient complaining about M.S.A.
Three years ago M.S.A. had a restricted membership and was not affiliated to V.U. S.A. Pressure was brought to encourage it to affiliate.
Subsequent to affiliation M.S.A. has been continually harrassed by student leaders living in the middle ages with middle minded ideas.
While M.S.A. has been subject to attack, M.S.S.A. has been allowed to fade into obscurity without even an eulogy in Salient.
Salient's inability to define M.S.A. places Salient a decade behind the rest of the student community.
Bernard Randall.
Salient has not defined M.S.A., it is merely reflecting the comments of the many letters we receive criticising its leadership - a leadership which is very good at organising sports tournaments, but terrified at organising forums or educational discussion evenings. We cannot stop the dissatisfaction - we can merely reflect it - Ed.