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Executive

by John Henderson

Come into my parlour, said the spider to the fly. Or, alternatively, come into my boardroom, said the Exec to the Salient reporter. The meeting, which started a 6.00 ended, or rather ground to a halt amidst a morass of paper and several exhausted bureaucrats, just before 12. It was a long haul, and, in the interests of accurate reporting, and in the interests of the students for whom this article, and indeed newspaper, is written, I am forced, against my better wishes, to write the longest Exec article I have written for a long time. Here it is:

The meeting started with a motion that the apologies be Not accepted. In line with the usual Exec policy of carrying frivolity to its illogical extremes this motion was lost only by the casting vote of the president.

Correspondence was then discussed, the only item of any interest being a letter to secondary schools from Lisa Sacksen asking them if they wished to advertise rock concerts, this advertising being for the benefit of their students, and from which there has been one (positive) reply so far.

There was then discussion on the recent Blerta rock concert, which was organised by our old friends the NZSAC. Arts Council lodged various complaints about how the concert was handled, but it was noticed that the only SAC people there were ones who happened to have complementary tickets. Most odd.

The Executive then accepted the resignation of John Rosaveare. John, over the past term, has put in a great amount of work for the Association, often doing the shitwork which no-one else wanted to do. Discussion was then entertained on the question of an NZUSA national student newspaper, the blueprints for whch we offered to do at May Council. This particular buck was passed to the Publications Board, who, hopefully, will produce a viable and stimulating outline.

Cultural clubs were then reaffiliated with the exception of Angsoc, Israeli Club, Law Faculty Club, Photographic Society, MSSA and SCM, who will be reaffiliated as soon as they pay their debts. Those who have not even put in a reaffiliation form are: Association of South Pacific Students; Amnesty International; Astrology Society, Christian Science Organization; Dionysian Society; Econonomics Society; Italian Club; Russian Club; Nurses Club; Rock Society; TPA; Thoreau Society; Accountancy Students' Society. So there.

The Exec then decided to clarify the position of students who join the Association without taking any credit workload, in regard to ISTC travel cards. It was decided that a Studass member trying to get a ISTC card without taking any units would not in fact get one.

I told the Exec that Stuart Williamson is going well. Lisa told the Exec that Knock na Gree was a roaring success with a tot being accomplished and a lot of ideas being interchanged. Barbara Leishman told the Exec that the arts side of things were proceeding smoothly, with a bazaar being expected for the third term, and a questionnaire on arts in the near future. There seem to be problems with people trying to rip off the students association by climbing in the toilet windows on the middle floor instead of paying at the door like all right-thinking citizens should do. It was decided to put a discouraging length of barbed wire on the offending wall. The Exec was also informed by somebody, this somebody probably being Di Hooper, that the Population forum was a success.

Discussion on Bursaries and on ways of killing Amos were left to be decided by the last SRC.

It seems that Barbara Leishman will be arranging another of her mini-festivals in early July. Plans aren't finalised yet, but it is likely that it will include contributions from as many clubs as possible, with displays by cultural clubs from here and from the Polytech, Massey University and various other places. Also the possibility of a couple of those wierd Paranoic American anti-drug films, which are always worth a laugh. And I mean a laugh. Jesus Christ, those bastards give me a pain. Bloody pontificating on the dangers of the evil weed while the bloody yanks come back home and fill themselves up with tranquillizers and beer and nicotine and pep pills and aspirin and codeine and god knows what else. Although a Western society which produces such glowing examples to mankind as Gerry Wall and Richard Nixon can't be expected to see the point of longhair hippy commie radical troublemaking anti-government filthy dirty should-be-bloody-well-shot youths who smoke a deadly killer subversive weed calculated to destroy the very moral fibre of our society.......(Bruce says he doesn't agree with that last paragraph. It's not political. Jees....)

And now, said the dreaded bard, to the catering (he, he, says he, smiling in his ancient grizzled beard (the bard, I mean, not me) (are you sure?)

Graeme Jordan will be resigning from his position as catering manager at the end of this year. It was decided, though, that he would be asked to continue organising the outside catering, with somebody else being employed to handle the administrative side. The times, Dylan said, are a-changin'.

After some plans for a lift in the Union were tabled the meeting ended, and not before time.