Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 5. April 2 1968
So much garbage
So much garbage
This letter was sent to :—
The Secretary, Student Union Association. Victoria University.
Dear Sir, —I am a third year part-time student at the above University and as such have been forced to pay your Union the amount of 539.00 to date
The fact that membership of your. Union is compulsory is perhaps the most repugnant factor of University life and is a direct contravention of the very basic principles of democratic living, however in order to gain a degree, I am legally obliged to pay your fees and have to accept the situation as such. I am very interested to know exactly what I get for my $13 per year, apart from that pathetic apology of a news bulletin "Salient" which I find is just so much garbage and rarely worth reading. Perhaps I am being 'protected' from exploitation by the big and nasty University Adminstration.
Being one of the many students who use a car to get from their place of work to University. I should like to know what the Union is doing to rectify the situation of totally inadequate parking facilities. Nothing has been done in the past three years.
It would well be that I am unaware of a lot of constructive Union functions, in which case I would appreciate some meaningful answers to the above questions.
Yours faithfully,
N. Merson.