Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 3. Monday, April 11, 1960
[introduction]
Although its activities nearly ended in an embarrassing shambles, the Exec. delegation to Palmerston North was more or less successful.
The main idea was to help the new University College students in the organization of their Stud. Ass. The main problem was that, by regulation, P.N. students are Victoria's students and as such must be under, at least, the nominal rule of Vic's. Exec. This, together with a few ill-chosen words in the proposed constitution ("subsidiary and subservient") raised many nasty little doubts and suspicions in some Palmerstonian hearts already burning with a desire for freedom and independence from Vic's. "big stick." There appears to be three main factions at work on the P.N. student scene. Firstly, the biggest—the P.N. Teachers' Training College, which has by far the larger representation on the roll of the new college. Secondly, the most vociferous and most militant, Massey Agricultural College, some of whose members are taking subsidiary arts units to broaden their outlook. Thirdly, the innocent minority, the four full-timers and straight part-timers owing allegiance to neither of the former factions.