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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol 28, No. 3. 1965. Special Extra.
Drama Club Replies
Drama Club Replies
An advance proof of our page one article on the Drama Club was supplied to the club, and the following reply has been received:
Sir,
We refer to the front page headline of this issue.
Bertram and Robertsons' motion (No. 101/65) read as follows:
"That the Drama Club be requested to forward a cheque for £10 to the secretary of the Management Committee for the purchase of capital equipment for the theatre. '
This was the motion that was carried at the meeting of Executive on Tuesday 16th March.
There was no mention of a fine.
Surely such inaccuracies in the major headline of Salient do little to improve its reputation.
We quote the words of two vice-presidents of the Executive Committee in reference to this matter :
Helen Sutch: "Completely erroneous. "
Tim Bertram: "Bull. "
Richard H. Cathie
President, V. U. W. Drama Club
Mark von Dadelszen
Committee Member.
Salient's Reporter comments:
"The original motion had the word 'required' in the place of 'requested' - which would clearly have been a fine. When the story was written to minutes were available and I relied on my notes. The change of wording was suggested at the meeting, but I was not aware that it was made. In any event, the action of the Executive was the result of the events outlined in the article and is only a modified version of the original intention to fine the club."
Salient agrees that the heading does not indicate that Executive made a request, not a direction, but feels that read as a whole the article gives a full, fair, and accurate account of the Executive meeting.
Ed.
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