...and messes

OU then withdrew their earlier ment of Congress Controller for 1950 motion and moved "that the appoint be made at this conference." Mr. Tizard (AUC) and Mr. Evison (VUC) objected strongly to this, since there was no mention of it on the agenda paper. There was no remit submitted on the subject by OU and therefore, no other college had any opportunity to offer nominations for the position. This motion was carried, the chairman called for nominations, OU immediately nominated Rev. Sullivan, and as no other colleges had nominations ready, he was automatically appointed. To us, it appeared that the Controller was not appointed on his merits, but due to some clever manoeuvring by OU and CUC for reasons best known to themselves.

Lincoln and Massey stated that it was unlikely that any of their students would be able to attend Congress; CUC refused to subsidise Congress for no obviously good reasons. CUC's miserable attitude in refusing to pay their share of Congress expenses was matched only by their impudence in seeking to dictate the choice of Congress controller. Some CUC students may attend, but entirely at their own expense, which will be prohibitive to many students. That means that AUC, VUC and OU are going to be the colleges interested. Of these three, both AUC and VUC opposed the appointment. Further. VUC will have most of the work to do and it seems distinctly unfair that they should work with a controller in whom they rightly have no confidence.

Finally, it has been noted that the resident Exec, of NZUSA refused to recommend Rev. Sullivan, so that the action of the Council, and particularly that of OU and CUC is tantamount to a vote of no-confidence in their own Executive.

Together with Mr. Taylor. Salient has nothing whatever to do with Rev. Sullivan personally; we wish this to be understood. But the manner in which this appointment was made, considering the lack of confidence in Rev. Sullivan, which has existed since his unfortunate press statements, leaves Salient staggered at such ineptitude.