Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 18. July 30, 1968

Cultural Affairs Officer

Cultural Affairs Officer

Helen McGrath Cultural Affairs Officer

Helen McGrath Cultural Affairs Officer

Helen McGrath
Cultural Affairs Officer

Helen is a second year arts student, majoring in French and English.

On the Cultural Affairs Committee she belongs to 11 clubs, especially French (folk-singing), Drama (2 productions), Folk Music Club, and 2 Extravaganzas.

Policy

(1) Supervise allocation of higher grants, by extra loans and NZUSA grants. The grants system should be an incentive for cultural activity both creative and instructive.

(2) Encourage all clubs to participate fully in the Otago Centennial Arts Festival 1969.

(3) Work for relaxation of affiliation rules, encouraging National Societies of Overseas Students to join.

(4) Show cultural documentaries obtainable from legations.

(5) Organise another successful Little Congress. 1969 (200th anniversary of Cook) a theme could be the problems of the Pacific, or its role in culture.

(6) Co-Ordinate clubs in exhibitions at the Display Centre.

John Sebastian Hales Cultural Affairs Officer

John Sebastian Hales Cultural Affairs Officer

John Sebastian Hales Cultural Affairs Officer

Characteristic Features:

(1) Exquisitively Intelligent.

(2) 21-year-old English student.

(3) Edited Poetry Brood-sheet 1967.

(4) Vice-President Literary Society.

(5) Lost Miss Vic. contest by Default.

Policy

(1) Standing to gain Power.

(2) To use increased Stud. Assn. fees to reduce the disscrepancy between Cultural and Sports Club grants.

(3) To give substancial grants and interest free loans to those clubs which incur heavy expenditure in worthwhile activities, e.g. Music Soc, Drama Club, Literary Soc, and political clubs.

(4) To reduce and if possible abolish additional club membership fees by means of increased grants.

(5) To increase coordination with town and intervarsity activities, including distribution of outside publications.

(6) To hold Tournament and Arts Festival in separate weeks.

(7) To enrol Cultural Clubs also as Sports Clubs to receive Sports Club grants.

Malcolm McSporran Cultural Affairs Officer

Malcolm McSporran Cultural Affairs Officer

Malcolm McSporran
Cultural Affairs Officer

Nominated: R. G. Timms.

Seconded: J. B. Croucher, S. P. Graham.

A vote on the present (Executive) system may, if accompanied by sufficient energy, be effective in changing some of the tedium. However, I would be happy just working for 'cultural affairs' because the implications are vast, promising, and hitherto ignored. Until now the 'cultural' side of the affairs (of both the position and the representative) has been absent in this portfolio.

I propose, not to ignore the important club activities but to handle them with a subcommittee, no less effiicent than past management, and to promote a revolution in University cultural activities. My main aim—which in New Zealand where there is a frustrating paucity of talent and facilities is of paramount importance—is to bring representative artists from overseas to cover the University circuit. This is the only way that the virtually non-existent modern arts can ever be seen here.

Alan Dentice

Cultural Affairs Officer

Nominated: Devon Biggs.

Seconded: A. W. Easton, D. Harcourt.

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