Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 33, Number 10. 8 July, 1970

SGM Called

SGM Called

Three members of the Executive have called an SGM for next Monday night (13 July).

The three members, Graeme Collins, Lesley Jacobs and Colin Knox, have requisitioned the meeting to consider the following motion:

"THAT in Schedule 3C of the Constitution, Clause 2 (c) be amended by deleting the words 'except that the Student Representative Council shall confirm the appointment of the editor of Salient."

The motion, which is to be moved by the Publications Officer, Graeme Collins, has the effect of returning to the Publications Board full powers to appoint the editor of Salient.

Clause 2 (c) of the Constitution, referred to in the motion, outlines one of the functions of the Publications Board and reads as follows:

"To appoint editors, advertising managers and business managers of such publications under such terms or conditions as the Board shall think fit and decide."

The subclause to which the motion relates was inserted in the Schedule on a vote at an SGM on 9 March this year.

The movers of the motion at that SGM were Messrs B. Logan and K. McCaffery. They reasoned that the position of Editor of Salient was too important to leave the appointment entirely in the hands of the Publications Board. Graeme Collins and Students' Association Secretary Denis Phelps dissented from the motion.

The SGM will be held next Monday night in the main Common Room on the second floor of the Student Union Building. The meeting will commence at 7 o'clock. Also on the agenda is a motion of no-confidence in the Executive (see other story).