.jpg)
Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 12. 7 June 1972
Peter Rotherham
Peter Rotherham
Co-ordinator of the Auckland Mobilisation Committee 1971-2, candidate for the President of Auckland University 1972 and currently Co-ordinator of the Wellington Young Socialists.
The first term of this year has presented us with a number of cases where the rights of groups of students have been trampled on with the direct or indirect support of the clique which currently administers this Students' Association. Likewise, students will have witnessed the blind and destructive factionalism which determines the actions of many members of this 'Establishment' - the hysterical 'trot-baiting', the disruption of meetings, slanderous articles in Salient, and so on. Any students who oppose this clique and attempt to organise opposition to it, face the threat of being slandered, having their meetings disrupted, their posters defaced and torn from notice boards, and perhaps even the threat of physical assault (this has already occured once this year.)
All this is not just wild supposition.
Every one of the examples mentioned above has actually happened at least once this year, and in some cases many more times.
votevotevotevote
.jpg)
For the democratic rights of all students, whether they represent a majority or minority of student opinion. That is, the right of students and clubs to freely express their views on campus and through the pages of Salient, and to organise around whatever issues they choose, free from the threat of slanders, attempts to stifle their viewpoints, intimidation disruption, and so on.
All the Young Socialist candidates also endorse the demands for Women's Rights and advocate an on-going campaign against the Indochina war and the continued U.S presence in the region: U.S Out of S.E Asia Now, and Withdraw All Support from the Thieu Regime.
Vote for the Young Socialist candidate.
Vote for a clear programme of action.
.jpg)
This special Salient election supplement was produced by all the usual workers with special thanks to Lisa, Frith, and Grub who took the photos.
Salient Office: 1st Floor. University Union Building, phone 70-319 (ext. 75 & 81). P. O. Box 1347. Wellington. New Zealand.
Copy Deadlines
All copy should be in the hands of the Editors by Wednesday evening, although late contributions will be considered. Copy should be typed or written in legible printing, doublespaced on one side of the paper only.
Advertising
is in the capable hands of Roger Green who can be contacted at Salient (phone 70-319, ext. 75 & 81) or at home, 793-319. We need ads to keep the paper going, so if your old man is a 'senior executive in the world of commerce or industry' (as they say in the trade), or even a self-employed drain layer he's bound to be keen to advertise in Salient.
Letters to the Editor
should be given to one of the Editors, left in the box outside the office or posted to Box 1347. If you can't type it or write it in legible printing, double spaced on one side of the paper only, in the space of 300 words come and see us.
Printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd.. P. O. Box 433 Wanganui, and published by the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association.