Andy Easton President

Biography: Andy is a senior student completing a double major in Botany and Geography. Other subjects include New Zealand History, Chemistry and Zoology. Active in University life—Science Editor of Salient and outside is a respected N.Z. authority in his Botanical field. Andy is also a keen sportsman— serious cricket, social rugby.

Broad Policy: Development and enlargement of the concept of the "Student Union", a unified body of over 5000 students who can, and will, press for many reforms both within the University and without.

To this end I would continue the present campaign for increased student representation in University administration, demanding that we at least have speaking rights at meetings of the Academic Sub-Committee of the Proffessorial Board and preferably a vote too!

Some Specific Policies

(1) Establish closer links between Victoria, Polytech. and Training College. This will give unity to student efforts in obtaining concessions down town and in the case of Training College provide support for the new Teachers' Union which appears likely to attempt to break the evil, bonded studentship system.

(2) Take immediate steps to examine possibilities of introducing suitable drinking facilities onto campus—for students. If the staff can have them so can we.

(3) Set up a composite Executive Grants Committee to work out a more satisfactory arrangement for grants to cultural and sports clubs.

(4) With the present surplus of recruits for Compulsory Military Training the time is opportune to pressure government into exempting all students from training. which for the unlucky birth-dates, can seriously reduce vacation earnings.

G. P. Curry President

Gerard Curry is an Arts Graduate and an honours student in law.

Among other positions he has been President of the Debating Society. co-Editor of Salient. Currently he is Forum Controller, plays senior rugby for Varsity, and is on the Law Faculty Club Committee.

He has won Union Prize for debate, Salient Reporting Prize, first individual placing at Joynt Scroll, three NZU Drinking Blues. Salient was judged top student paper in the year of his coeditorship. Three times he's been in Plunket Medal, three times he's dipped out.

Last year he led Vic's debating team without defeat and the NZU team to a test victory over Australia. For the first time NZU won the Tasman Trophy.

Gerard believes

(1) That students deserve an effective voice in academic decisions. There should be no delusions. A student president will have difficulty getting Council to hear, let alone to act, on what he has to say. If the effort is made cogently, a workable staff-student dialogue should emerge.

(2) That a student president should be prepared to lead. Vic is in need of leadership that is close to the mainstream of student life. Decisions should not be removed to backroom halls of power.

(3) That the mark of a university is the enquiring mind. Executive should stimulate that mind and provide maximum opportunities for its expression.

(4) That students cannot escape concern for the material. Bursaries, accomodation, and Sub extensions are in need of review.

(5) That students should promote cultural interests with vitality.

(6) That sporting, political and social activities are to be encouraged.

Gerard makes One promise ". . . to serve your Association to the best of my ability."

Paul Peretz President

The Candidate

Paul Peretz is a fourth year arts student who has majored in economics and political science. The winner of a University Senior Scholarship, he is completing honours in Political Science before going on to his M. A. Twice Congress Chancellor he is an N.Z.S.P.A. executive member and on the University Focus Administration Board. House Committee Chairman on the 1966-1967 executive he has served on the International Affairs, Public Relations and Publications sub-committees. A past member of the Political Science Club committee, he was secretary of the Labour Club and a member of the last Winter Tournament Committee. A long standing student representative on Management Committee and a former member of the Student Union Planning Committee he is the author of the hard hitting 'Report on Management Committee, (see Salient, May 28) and is a frequent Forum speaker.

Policy

The work of the President falls naturally into two parts. Internal Administration and Communication

(1) As President I would ensure that students get a fair say in the affairs of the University, not only at the upper administrative level but in individual faculties.

(2) I would keep students informed by speaking at Forum, etc.

External Activity

There are in my opinion four major points that the President should deal with:

(1) Better staff salaries.

(2) Higher bursaries.

(3) Removing the Council's ban on a bookshop.

(4) Obtaining long overdue Student Union extensions.

Without going into detail I consider that the studies I have been doing this year on pressure group tactics and my experience in Students' Association affairs would enable me to achieve more than past Presidents.

Dan Bradshaw President

Is a fourth year Law student! in Extrav '65, '66, '67; Procesh Controler '67; Public Relations '67; Men's Vice-President (January - April '68); Finance Committee '68; Joint Committee '68; retired from Rugby three times through injury.

He Believes

(1) That the President must be able to deal competently with the problems of administering the $70,000 of Students' Association Funds (your fees) for your best advantage, and that he is the only candidate with the ability and experience to do this.

(2) That the President must be able to lead the Executive and that he is the only candidate with significant recent experience and proven ability.

(3) That he must be able to lead and represent students adequately and know-ledgeably as they are, not as the public wants them to be.

(4) That the President must have definite objectives and some of these are:—

(a) To work to ensure that Victoria (and indeed all N.Z. Universities) are not turned into second-rate colleges by stringent Government expenditure. He will do everything possible to ensure that Government is cognisant of the drastic problems of staff salaries (to the point of demonstrating).

(b) To ensure that the Joint Committee on University Government (of which he is a member) does bring about student participation in administering this university effectively.

(c) If the Government does not decide to complete Student Union Extensions this year, to fight to get them next year.

Dan Bradshaw has the proven ability and the proven experience to carry out all these objectives. He stands for a strong Students' Association and for pride in this University.

Devon Biggs President

In the past, only mugs have stood for President. I have decided to change this. If the establishment crumbles and I am elected. I shall:—

• Convert the Law Library into a public lavatory for dogs;

• Abolish the monarchy and/or declare New Zealand a republic;

• Deport Mayor Love, demolish all Petone except the hotels, and relocate this university on fiat land.

• Open a fund to buy fertiliser for John Hale's undernourished beard;

• Confer an honorary LL.D on Ho Chi Minh;

• Nationalise the Chineseowned Waterside Worker's Union;

• Install a portable toothpaste-vending machine for Niel Wright's teeth at forum:

• Sack Bill Logan and replace him with Brigadier Gilbert;

• Erect a statue of a seagull with a statesman perched on its head outside Rankine-Brown;

• Appoint Paul Peretz Reichskommisar fur Kelburn;

• Purchase an all-embracing machine for student politicians with all-embracing policies;

• Send all polar bears back to the Cook Islands Haastily;

• Cause Salient to be printed in suitably perforated rolls;

• Advocate elocution lessons to remedy Norm Kirk's whistle;

• Legalise pot for Gerard Currie;

• Resign at the first sign of rain.

M. D. McSporran President

This is the last gesture of a malcontent. I have decided that my contempt for present student policies can better be demonstrated by attempting to get onto the Executive and fighting for change, than by disregarding it altogether. 1 almost withdrew, not because of coercion, but because it now seems futile to expect vitality or action from students. However, while a tired revolutionary who won't prostitute himself by deceptive campaigning I am still prepared to gamble that the students might do the same.

Ideally the administrative duties should be dealt with by a body, monarchial in type so that necessary pomp and arrogance can be retained, but mechanistic in effect. Issues and policies could be decided by some form of open council. This University desperately needs a cataclysmic experience if it is not to founder in its own inactivity and torpor. Perhaps a complete collapse is needed if something other than a lifeless Executive is to ensue. A paragraph merely spotlights empty promises. 1 don't intend making guarantees of pathetic consequence and I don't ask for undying faith from you. If you care. or don't care, to vote I will force for changes. If I get onto Executive in any capacity (this is why I am also standing for another position—it is not proof of insincerity) I hope to shake it with internal stretching.

John Mowbray President

John Mowbray is an undergraduate with the time, the concern and the ability to represent the interests and some of the problems of the average student. He is not part of the establishment nor the aged oligarchy of the usual presidential hopefuls, John's policy is aimed directly at helping and assisting in every way possible any student or body of students whose problems are based on those experiened by the average student. In other words he stands for a better deal for all students.

(1) Abolition of language requirement for B.A.

(2) Provision of Licensed Drinking on Campus.

(3) Abolition of Banking services monopoly currently granted to the BNZ.

(4) More student representation on University Council.

(5) Better Student facilities such as provision for more parking.