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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 11. May 29, 1975

4. Student Organisations

4. Student Organisations

All student bodies are deemed dissolved and must seek fresh approval from the V.C. on such terms and conditions as the Government-controlled University Council specifies. The entire students body in the University will be conducted by a 4-member executive committee. The strangle-hold of the V.C. in the control of this body is as stark as it is crude. The number of representatives to be elected from the Faculties or Schools to the SRC will be determined solely by the V.C. So too, other representatives of the SRC. liven student elections are now conducted by the university administration which means that they can also be rigged by the administration. The formation of ad hoc committees must obtain the prior approval in writing from the V.C. To cripple their financial independence, students will not be allowed to manage their own finances, but must, for any expenditure, seek the approval of the V.C. who will then authorise the University to effect the necessary payment on production of the receipts. The 'recalcitrant' among the 'students' representatives can easily be removed by instituting disciplinary proceedings against him, when such are merely pending, he must relinquish his office unless the V.C, authorises otherwise in writing. Students cannot align themselves with other student organisations. The National Union of Malaysian Students will cease to exist. Nor is any affiliation with international bodies permitted.

The defined objects for which student bodies must function, reduces them to petty welfare groups; they are no longer permitted to concretely associate with the wider community outside the campus, (responsible for financing their education), with the hope of understanding and responding to their plight. Criticism of Government mistakes and maladministration is a heinous offence.