Air-Basking

At the last executive meeting, John Perham. Sport's Committee Secretary, who has several years experience of student politics behind him persuaded the executive to reverse their previous decision. Previously, the ten delegates only had second class rail far's to Auckland for the Winter councils which started the following Saturday.

Perham said that the Sport's committ:e had expressed some dismay at the second class rail fares. He pointed out to the executive that their delegates would be in conference at Auckland all day Saturday, all day Sunday and most of Sunday night.

He declared that this was a most gruelling test to go through.

"As has been shown in the past the agendas get larger and larger and hence it becomes more and mors important that delegates are au fait with what is going on. They need to be clearheaded and clear-sighted at their m etings."

He suggested that it was impossible for the delegates In give any sort of justification whatsoever to the organisation that they are representing. He said that they were wasted unless they were mentally alert and they were wasting their own time and that of the other students' association delegates.

He told them their remarks from previous meetings were vague and fairly misleading. He said that the only conclusion that could be made regarding the Executive's previous decision was that they were not in complete possession of the facts.

In the face of this onslaught of rhetoric the Executive wilted, and gave the delegates which included some of their own members the required air fares.

Subsequently, at tournament, one delegate indicated his disgust to Salient that flown delegates had been at parties till 4am on Saturday morning.

Even with the air fares, two VUW delegates arrived at council an hour late!