Remember the Salient report on the AGM — the major talking point being the abusing and accusing of the 1973 association treasurer? Well, when the meeting continued on the Wednesday after Easter that fiery enthusiasm had spread,

At least 10½ students were there on time so they sat around in the Union Hall waiting for a quorum (50) to turn up to start the meeting. Triumph came when they managed to cajole five Drama Society members to come for a while.

Once underway, and with the last year's treasurer present, the accounts and his report were discussed. Student heavies Cuthbert and Law, who had at the pre-Easter meeting moved a censure motion against the treasurer, failed to turn up and such was the feeling of the meeting that after a couple of yawns and two or three criticisms of Mr Treasurer, the meeting rescinded the censure motion, and aborted itself when the Drama Society's contribution went back to their rehearsal.

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Did you see in the paper who's the lucky man getting a honorary degree from Vic this year? No, neither did I. Let's all go along and listen to the fen fares and speeches and see the latest batch of graduates patted on the head. Not a waste of money at all — keeps the right sort of distance and respect between the students, staff and administrators.

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If you go down in the Cable Car or walk down past Talavera Terrace you may have noticed building going on for what's to be Everton Hall. It will house a few students both in 'flat-type' and conventional' hall accommodation. Trouble is, when its finished that's the last of the planned student accommodation. There are, or was, others, (like Trinity Hall and the odd private scheme) but despite the money spent on them so far they look like being bombers. It's not fair to say that the Halls of Residence Foundation is impotent — at least not quite yet — but it's about time that students and the university started doing something to ginger them up. The Foundation is sitting on thousands of dollars; students are just sitting on their arses. Altogether it's quite a restful situation. Who cares?

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And now it's on to the Food Co-op. I don't belong to the Co-op for two reasons. One, I don't eat vegetables, and two, I'm wealthy enough to pay through the nose for the vegetables I do eat. But goodness gracious me, what's happened to the Food Co-op? Seems as if one person leaves the whole thing falls apart. What's happened to all the loans that have been made to the Co-op? Why the loans anyway? Where's our veges they're all screaming — and they're all too lazy to do any work for the Co-op. Quite happy to get cheap veges though.

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Another service which doesn't seem to be operating at the moment is the Legal Aid Service here at the Students' Association. Meant to be organised by the Law Faculty Club — yes? Guess they're pretty busy these days making submissions to Parliament and ordering cans of beer. Still it would be nice to see the service back.

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Dragging the chain again, that's the University. The present creche facilities provided by our glorious administration just can't cope with the demand. This means that the Students' Association has had to try gap-filling with a creche in the Theatre Foyer. It now appears that the university is still using our creche as an excuse to go slow on providing extensions to its own creche.