The Socialist Club at VUC has, over the year, provided Socialists of nil shades of opinion with a forum to air their views and act on issues which had the support of a majority of the club. It has done this, in my opinion, most successfully and should continue to go on doing it, but at the same time it seems evident that there is need for another student club or group oriented towards a particular Social Democratic programme.

In effect this type of club could meet the need of those students who want to adopt and popularise the "Socialism through Democracy" that is the basis of West European Democratic Socialist parties. There is, I think, an analogy that can be drawn between this re-grouping of the Left and that which obtains among Christians in the University.

There are at present, I believe, no less than four religious clubs all of whom are concerned with the Christian faith and paths to salvation; yet there ore no obstacles that I know of to prevent an individual student from belonging to two or more of them if he wishes.