Shameful Acts
Display Uncultured, Dishonourable

Two Executive members crashed the recent Weir House ball, which was held in the Student Union Building.

Complete with partners, the two Executive members entered the hall and came on to the dance floor, despite the fact that they had not paid to enter and had not been invited.

They left after the Warden of Weir House, Dr. T. H. Beaglehole, told them that they were not welcome.

Dr. Beaglehole wrote to the Executive expressing his displeasure at the behaviour of the two members, and in due course received two letters of apology.

The matter was raised last Tuesday at an Executive meeting. During the hour reserved for students' questions, a student asked what action Executive proposed to take against the two offenders in its ranks.

President Chris Robertson said that no action could be taken unless a formal complaint was received.

RECENTLY executive directed a student to pay £4/10 / to the organisers of the Science Faculty Ball-as a result of the incident related in Salient 10.

Executive has a judicial function to see that standardsof behaviour are maintained on campus. The standards of executive members must reach those which they enforce.

Shortly after acting against one student, two members of executive committed exactlythe same offence as the student they punished.

Not all executive members live by this double standard. But it can be no source of delight to Chris Robertson to know that two members ofhis executive have acted so improperly.

If Dr. Beaglehole were to treat the incident in the way that executive treated the Science Ball incident, two executive members would have little option but to resign.- Editors.