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Salient

No Man's Land

No Man's Land

Objection

Sir,—I object to the statement put to my credit that "haggling over money is an unpleasant way of dealing with student affairs." What I said, or intended to say, was that it would appear from all the haggling that went on about the sums that are (or were) paid to these bodies (i.e. W.F.D.Y. and I.U.S.) that we did not consider whether we gained anything from membership but "How much does it cost?." and the fact that W.F.D.Y. has been budgeted for, and that we were no longer affiliated, did not run us into debt by allowing £50 to three I.U.S. observers.

I feel that in a lot of cases, one of the functions of the Exec, is to haggle over the expenditure of the Association's money and to say that it is an unpleasant way of dealing with student affairs is somewhat erroneous in that it may be unpleasant but is necessary.

Audrey Cook.

Who Lost The Way?

Sir,

Your report of the Annual General Meeting omitted all mention of the resolution:

"That the Executive be recommended to give favourable consideration to affiliating V.U.C.S.A. to the World Assembly of Youth."

This was passed by 42 votes to 29 and is, I suggest, important because

1. It shows that while V.U.C. was dissatisfied with W.F.D.Y. it was still willing to look into alternatives rather than shut its eyes to the world outside.

2. Previous apologists for W.F.D.Y. had argued "never mind about its Communist tinge—let us do what we can to put our point of view." These people were apparently unwilling to consider W.A.Y. at all, whereas I expected them to overlook any deficiencies in their anxiety to do their bit to improve it.

A. W. Cook.

(We apologise for losing the W.A.Y. in our A.G.M. report: at the end of the meeting after several hours, apparently even Salient reporters are capable of human error.—Ed.)

Your Slip Is Showing

Sir,—Your paper has very graciously published our article which had been overlooked in your previous number. We thank you for this small mercy. You complained bitterly that you had no information about this year's Wellington-Masterton road race while our report—"eritical" this time since mere reporting of events does not interest your readers—was sitting in, your letter rack marked with the assistant sports editor's name. To accompany this same initial report, the club had procured carefully from the Evening Post a block photo of the change over in the race this year and you were pleased to publish it and label it last year.

This mismanagement is understandable in the decadent weekly which Salient is fast becoming: but we do object to the bumptious patronizing overbearing arrogant attitude your various sports writers adopt towards sport and sports clubs of the college. We ask you Sir, to see that they mend their ways, and we are looking forward to your editorial comment should this letter be published.

W.M.M.

, Harrier Club.

(Here it comes. The slip was due to the fact that both of the Sports Editors were absent for some time: the block was mistaken for one which slipped up last year and did not arrive until after publication date then. We are quite prepared to acknowledge the error and apologise for it. We publish this letter although the correspondent could well learn that abuse is no valid argument.Ed.)