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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 19. August 1 1977

Under Starter's Orders

Under Starter's Orders

The meeting started with the election of Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor. As with most things of this nature the elections were but a formality. In the blinking of an eyelid K.B. O'Brien was re-elected as Chancellor for a further three years, and Mr Walter Scott was elected Pro-Chancellor for 12 months.

After a quick formality motion concerning the purchase of a piddling number of shares in Winstones Ltd. [one of the weeks budget specials almost], Council moved onto staff salaries.

There was nothing exciting in that either except for the fact that the Vice-Chancellor would now receive an annual salary of $27,428 plus a cost of living allowance of $365 per year. At this stage I couldn't help but compare his $1 per day cost of living allowance with the paltry $2 per week that students were given.

A quick glance at a report of the Standing Committee On Student Accommodation suggested that there may be a trend away from students living in flats to living in Everton hall type hostels. Not that any of it can be substantiated yet. It was on this matter that Professor Gould showed why he was made the Acting Vice-Chancellor. He proceeded for 5 minutes to say more and more about less and less until he had succeeded in losing everyone. It was a poetic lesson on how to say nothing in public without really trying.