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Title: Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 1. February 27, 1948

Editor: W. J. C.

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association, 27 February 1948, Wellington

Part of: Salient : An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z.

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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 1. February 27, 1948

What Is IUS?

What Is IUS?

The International Union of Students is the student United Nations with headquarters in Prague. It represents 2½ million students, about 60 per cent, of all the students in the world. We in New Zealand are represented, through NZUSA, by John Ziman, a recent graduate from Victoria.

To give a clear picture of what IUS is doing, we give below Its main aims and activities.

Aims

1.	To ensure that Universities in every country are open to all, by way of scholarships, grants or free tuition.
2.	To ensure that students are economically secure so that they may have the practical necessities of food, lodgings, health and cultural life.
3.	To ensure that University staff and students and teachers have full rights to express their political opinions.
4.	To eliminate Nazi teachers and textbooks in those countries where they still exist.

Activities

1.	Student Relief and Reconstruction Department co-operates with World Student Relief, aims to set up Relief Organisations where they do not at present exist, and organise world-wide collection of funds for WSR.
2.	Central Travel and Information Bureau assists students who are travelling through Europe.
3.	World Student News is an excellent magazine published six times a year. Its articles on student activity throughout the world give a clear picture of what students are doing and thinking in other countries. We receive it through NZUSA for 6d. per copy.
4.	The Colonial Bureau was set up to investigate student conditions in China. India, Indonesia. Vietnam, etc. IUS is trying to get native language Universities in these countries, and is giving active support to those students who are not allowed to organise their own Student Associations. The Arab students in French North Africa and the students in Iran and Kuomintang, China, are under such a ban.
5.	Such a vast amount of activity obviously needs money to sunport it. IUS levies 6d. per student per year on all member organisations. This we can easily afford, yet NZUSA has neglected to pay the fees for two years.

VUC delegates to NZUSA conference at Easter must see that the fees are paid.