Sports Club Officers

So much shit has been flung around in the last few years about Sports Clubs and the grants that they receive that it would probably be a good idea to give a brief run down on how the particular bureaucracy attempts to function.

Sports Committee is elected each year at the AGM of Sports Council to which each sports club is supposed to send two delegates. Of course they never do and its only the really active clubs that can be bothered to send delegates. Other clubs snivel end moan about the grants they get but are too bloody lazy to even attempt to help themselves.

Sports Committee is responsible for the allocation of the money it receives from Exec, in grants to the individual clubs and the popular fallacy that the Rugby club gets a big grant every year because Sports Committee is made up of Rugby players is just so much shit.

A survey conducted by lest years Sports Committee Dave Howman showed that a large amount of grant money was spent in just keeping clubs in existence by way of administration costs and affiliation fees. New gear appears to run a poor third.

Once started I could rave on endlessly about how much sports clubs get end how much they should get and how student politicians don't give two stuffs for sports clubs.

Suffice it to say (good legal terminology) that lest year Sports Committee received $10 more in grants than in 1970. This year the tentative grant amount to be administered is up by $490 to $6,000. This may seem a lot to some but it doesn't take long to be swallowed up by money troubled sports clubs.

As well as administering Sports grants Sports Committee runs the annual Blues Dinner end supplies some members of the VUW Blues Panel.

Sports Clubs attention is drawn to the following motion passed by the Students Representative Council on Wednesday 6th October 1971.

Moved Burns/Cullen

"That clubs which fail to substantially advertise themselves, particularly in Handbook, be ineligible for financial assistance of any sort from the Students' Association in the year in which they fail to advertise themselves."

So kiddies if you are sports club officers end couldn't stir yourself last year to supply any guff for handbook you may find yourself in the proverbial shit up to and over your ears.

However ell is not lost, note that if you have "substantially advertised yourself" you are OK, but if you couldn't be bothered to advertise in handbook, you probably haven't bothered to "substantially advertise yourself" so to speak.

Sweat it out kiddies.