Resident Executive,

NZUSA, have appointed a subcommittee on International-affairs. The committee will be concerned with the establishment of organisations at College level to deal with problems of Asian students in the UNZ, and will also act as a point of contact with South-East Asian students at each college.

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NZUSA Resident Executive

have received samples of a student identity card prepared and published by the Secretariat in co-operation with other national unions. The original idea was put forward at a Cosec conference.

This card provides students in all parts of the world with a Standard, generally recognised document certifying him to be a bona fide student. This should make available to him, while travelling, whatever special facilities are available to students.

The card could, when used in conjunction with "Student Hostels and Restaurants" and the "Handbook on Student Travel", also published by Cosec, make possible very significant savings.

NZUSA is responsible for issuing the document, and they hope to have supplies in by February or March next year. Those students who intend to travel are invited to write to the Editor, "Salient" for a descriptive leaflet and further information.

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The NZUSA Resident Executive travel and exchange officer announces that Cooks have not yet chartered an aircraft. It was not possible to charter a DC6 and it is hoped that a DC4 may be obtained, at a slightly greater cost. "Salient" is willing to provide further information to those interested.

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Always Awake to Changes,

the Resident Executive have appointed a sub-committee of Messrs. Fitzgibbon (president). Dalgety (vice-president) and K B. O'Brien (representing CAC) to investigate the effect on students of the new proposals for College autonomy.

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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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Elsewhere in this Issue

there appears a notice from the Secretary of the Students' Association, calling for applications for the Editorship of Cappicade 1956. Nominations close on July 31 and the editor will be appointed shortly afterwards. This is to ensure that the editor of Cappicade can obtain his materials in reasonable time.

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Literary Issue of Salient

is to be published later this term: all those who can write are urged to do so. It is not a magazine solely for the intellectuals of the College and it will do you good to get that passion off your chest. Charles Doyle is Editor and contributions should be addressed to him, C/- "Salient".

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The Editor of Capping Book

1956 should be appointed only after he has been interviewed by the Publications Committee and has submitted to them a plan of the proposed format of the magazine, recommends the retiring executive to their successors. Members of the Publications Committee are the President of the Association (chairman), the Secretary (ex officio, without voting powers), the editors of "Spike", "Salient" and "Cappicade". the Business Manager of "Salient", and Mr. I, Free, and two executive members.

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"Salient" extends felicitations to Mr. W. N. Sheat, LL.B., B.A. on the occasion of his engagement to Miss Genivieve Leicester. It seems that all of the old guard are breaking up. Mr. Sheat, a member of the Men's committee of the retiring executive, did not seek re-election as he is not a financial member of the Association.

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On a dare from a professor at the Oklahoma. A & M University, who insisted that unconventionality is dead, an experimenting student took a noon hour stroll on the crowded co-educational campus in his underwear. It is reported that the feat "hardly raised an eyebrow." (Observation Post, New York).

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At midday a few saturdays ago a small 20-year-old car drove down St. George's Street in Cape Town, and parked across the middle of the road outside the "Cape Times" offices. Its four student occupants climbed out, took off one of the wheels and deserted the car with a "Gone to Tea" sign on the front. Fifteen minutes later two traffic policemen arrived. While the Saturday traffic piled up on each side of the obstruction, they put the wheel back on the car, and got it out of the way. The incident was the students' answer to an editorial in the "Cape Times" that morning which said that students' had "gone to the dogs" because they got up to no pranks these days.

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The editorial was inspired by a report that 25 students had marched down the streets of Pearl, singing out the Vintage Festival. Why only 25? the editorial asked. While the diversion of the car was created, other students clambered up to the "Cape Times" balcony and [unclear: shung] up a 15foot banner, reading "Here's to the 25." (S.A. Students, Cape Town).