Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 19. August 1 1977
Dirty Washing
Dirty Washing
The Chancellor had to put him right on this one as welt. The fact was that if he had been there he would have tied the vote and the chairman would have used his casting vote. [As far as we can ascertain the Chancellor would have voted against the motion and thus the restrictions would have been lost]. In the same breath Thrush said that he had been villified by the student press for not attending the meeting [once again as if anyone was interested]. As one person close to us remarked it was not really surprising, given his perfromance that day. Thrush's last words were "The students object".
Peter Winter, making his debur at Coun meetings, had a bad start. He began talking about the very subject that had been ruled out of order by the Chancellor, that of the pre-requisites. He, like Thrush, was all at sea having some confusing moments as he attempted to play maths with numbers on who might come to law faculty and those who might fail, and those who last to the bitter end and pass. The ideas were there even if they did come out strangely. Then in came two of the seasoned performers on the academics' side. Professor Could and Mr Johnston. The latter is the chairman of the Academic Committee and launched into the time worn argument of saying that there had been no student voices against these measures even though the students had been represented by various student reps all the way through the system. John McGrath, former Studass President and lawyer, voiced his objections to the cuts on the same grounds as he had the previous meeting. Quite obviously no-one wanted to traverse all the old ground. It came to the vote and the student motion went down 6 votes to 9 [a greater margin than at the previous meeting]. The afternoon tea break came as a godsend.
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