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

An IVP ~ Third Time Lucky

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An IVP ~ Third Time Lucky

Once again for the umpteenth time financial matters seemed to take up the majority of the NZUSA National Executive meeting held in Victoria two weekends ago.

After mundane things like apologies [unclear: [none]] and other such small talk, the meeting moved on to constituent President's reports. All very ho-hum until Canterbury President Nigel Petrie presented his report. Now, if you had been avidly reading "Salient" like I'm sure you've all been, you will of course know that the folks at Christchurch are not very happy with NZUSA in any of its many manifestations. Things finally came to a crunch a few weeks ago when a motion was carried at their General Meeting which will effectively withdraw Canterbury from NZUSA in 18 months time unless ressinded. . . It's very hard to put ones finger onto the main reason why they want to withdraw and exactly what they are unhappy with . . . reasons ranged from NZUSA's commercial operations to the need for reform of the whole NZUSA structure.

Otago President Ross White was not happy with an article printed in the Auckand student paper "Craccum" over the financial affairs of STB which put him in a tricky position to get a loan out of their local Bank. The Editor of "Craccum" had better not meet White in a dark alley until he cools off.

Waikato, in the true revolutionary fervour decided to have their Bursary Demonstration a week earlier than everybody else since their students demanded action and quickly after the Budget announcement. Their march was held on the 28th of July, and a report will appear in next weeks Salient on the Nationwide Bursary action on August 3rd.

The National Exec. meeting moved into a general meeting to elect an International Vice President for the remainder of 1977. There was one applicant, David Merritt, the SRC Chairman from Auckland. After a brief election spiel outlining the work in International to be done for the remainder of the year as well as his own personal philosophy of the job he was declared elected with 37 out of a possible 42 votes and 5 abstentions. The rest of the meeting was largely taken up with finances and other such stuff which mere mortals like myself cannot report on since the meeting moved into committee and the Press was excluded.

Photo of two people at a table

Lisa Sacksen, President of NZUSA, and Peter Macloed, financial whiz-kid, at last year's August Council.

NZUSA is now past the half-yearly mark and with August Council looming up in Massey on the 18th of August and the subsequent election of officers for next year it looks like shaping up into an interesting gathering. With discontent in canterbury and a general uneasiness at some other campus's we may see some new direction emerge from August Council concerning NZUSA in the coming years, both in its structure and its image to students.

There are already moves a foot in Otago to scrap the position of International Vice President and replace it with another General Vice President. There is a feeling that NZUSA has neglected its traditional welfare orientated roles in favour of more active political and educational role.