No Choice for SRC

The remaining members of the Executive had come to some sort of agreement and SRC on Wednesday 1st August was told that it could have Caroline Massof. Even the usual alternative of no confidence wasn't open—apparently as we had to have someone to sign the cheques and chair committees.

Even the most blase attender of SRC's (such as myself) could see trouble brewing. Witness an Executive which for very good reasons could produce only Caroline Massof as a person with the time, motivation, experience and masochistic desire to put in the long hours of hard work that makes the Presidency of VUWSA the rotten job that it is. And witness an SRC not at all amused by the microscopic notice it had had of the pending appointment of a President. Indeed few people had absorbed the former President's resignation given the night before.

It was perhaps not surprising then that Motion 162/79, to appoint Massof as President, was defeated. I can only marvel at the inability of some of the people present at that SRC to grasp the feeling of a meeting or to know when the votes are on their side. For no sooner had they recoverd from the shock of not getting their way than they were demanding that the doomed motion be recommitted. It was reput later in the meeting, and again lost. In the meantime other forces had been at work and something of an alternative course was hammered out.

As one of the people behind that alternative I am to blame if it casts the Association into peril... hence these words of explanation. (Oh the joys of blame-spreading!) Two unanimous SRC votes have set us towards a Presidential By-Election at the time of the coming General Election. Massof remains as Interim President till then.