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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 8. July 1, 1955

New Sports Officer of NZUSA

New Sports Officer of NZUSA

is Mr. R. I Gilberd, retiring Men's vice-president of VUCSA. He succeeds Mr. K. Phillips who has held the post for a number of years. NZUSA informed Mr. Phillips that "both in the past and in the future, in his absence, we will and have always regarded him as our bestest ex officio, in absentia Sports Officer."

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The NUSAS Executive (South Africa—Ed.) will recommend to the Student Assembly of the National Union that NUSAS should move, at its earliest opportunity, an amendment to the IUS constitution which would restrict delegate status at its meetings to representatives of national unions of students. Sectional or minority groups in countries where there is or is not a national union were felt by the NUSAS executive to be welcome at IUS meetings, but not in a capacity higher than that of observers or visitors.

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It was decided that the recommended NUSAS amendment would be subject to the exception that in countries where there is only one recognised institution of higher learning, the representative students' council of that institution should be regarded as a national union.

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The NUSAS executive also passed a resolution regretting that the IUS executive report to the Moscow council meeting had omitted to criticise conditions in any of the Communist countries. "The executive finds it difficult to believe that no problems exist at all in these countries which demand solution," the resolution stated. The IUS has been requested to ensure a fair presentation of all the facts in its executive reports and literature by giving the same prominence to problems in the Communist countries which it at present devotes to the "Western" and colonial countries. (NUSAS, Cape Town).

A prominent candidate for the elections said recently "I never fight men with my dress on." She intimated afterwards that she wore slacks. She also suggested that "women know more than men think they do about the next move."

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The Council of the National Union of Students of England (NUS) at a recent meeting at Loughborough decided to withdraw from the IUS as an Associate member. The resolution was put forward by delegations from a number of universities and training colleges, and was supported by the executive. On a card vote it was carried by 633 votes to 481.

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It was in October, 1952, that the NUS first withdrew from the IUS which has been increasingly used as a means of Communist propaganda A year ago, to keep in contact with students in Eastern Europe, the NUS Council decided to rejoin as an associate member. During the year a number of affiliated unions withdrew from NUS on the grounds that it still supports the Communist-influenced IUS organisation. (Manchester Guardian).

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