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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 6. 1964.

[introduction]

It is my intention if elected to represent the students of this University.

Executive has been dominated by semi-bureaucrats for too long. Its members have been seemingly uninterested on the views of students, and in what the students really want. This is in part, the fault of the students themselves, but it is my hope that with a greater Executive-student liason, this apathy can be overcome. The Executive should lead the student body. It should not limit students' rights to voice their opinions on policical, economic, religious and social problems, as was done by the out-going Executive.

University social life is organised around Club activity-but at the present time, there is little or no co-operation or co-ordination between clubs. I would like to promote a Clubs' Council which would provide for the meeting together of every Club President and Secretary at periods throughout the year. This Council in conjunction with the Executive, could contribute a great deal to the discussion and formulation of student policy.

Additional and important co-ordination could come throught the instituting of a Political Clubs' Council and a Religious Clubs' Council, in addition to the present Sports' Council. (a body which needs much reinvigoration