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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 20. August 27 1979

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With these fine principle in mind, Tony Stuart (President of UCSA) asked Simon whether he was a communist. Simon replied that he had never hidden his personal political views, but as President of NZUSA he would consider it his role to express and support only the policy of the Association.

Clemency Rogers, Waikato President, was concerned that the continuing Education Figh-back campaign would concentrate entirely on the TSG, to the detriment of the $1500 fees issue. Simon's response was that this was an issue not to be overlooked in 1980. So far, so well.

Chris Gosling asked Simon what his response would be if one constituent decided to withdraw from NZUSA. Simon claimed he would be "shocked". But he does not expect this to occur. A withdrawal will occur "only if NZUSA is not working properly."

Felicite Jardine, Massey's President, stated that she was concerned about Simon's "aloof personality. She [unclear: ered] whether he was "approachable", [unclear: whether] he was able to work with [unclear: e] personalities. Simon cited the [unclear: tion] Fightback campaign as proof of [unclear: lity] to work with all kinds of people. [unclear: e] Tuffield, from Victoria, backed up [unclear: oint] later in the discussion — citing [unclear: wn] case, a newcomer to student [unclear: s], who found she could talk and work [unclear: imon] in the campaign