"Bill Of Rights" Suggested

A remit before Easter council of NZUSA this year calls for the formulation of a "student Bill of Rights".

The idea originally arose out of local discussion on the "mixed flat" incident at Dunedin in the second term last year.

In this case the Dunedin University Council invoked a section of the regulations disciplining students for "acting in a manner likely to bring the University into disrepute" to force a male student to leave a flat he was occupying with three girls.

The Victoria Student Association Education sub-committee passed a remit about a "bill of rights" onto the 1967 Winter Council, which was unfortunately lost in transit.

The remit has now been revived and passed by the Executive to go to Easter Council at Massey.

Documentation on the remit by Jonathon Cloud has provided the basis of the "bill of rights" should it be accepted.

He considers the three aspects of university life; the idea of a university; the nature and purpose of university administration; and the character of the student body.