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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 38, No. 12. June 4 1975

SRC

SRC

Last weeks SRC was one of the worst so far this year. An agenda containing several quite important motions was not touched upon as 'reports' occupied the entire meeting. The second hour was fruitful as it debated the complex and complicated question of the Standard Tertiary Bursary (STB), the first hour markedly less so, covering a couple of reports on University committees and then a series on what happened at NZUSA May Council at Hamilton.

The University committee reports weren't too bad, but the following reports on Council were allowed to waffle on for far too long - grounds for criticising the chairing of the meeting, especially when most of the ground had been covered in a Salient article. Hardly surprisingly, a large section of the audience had gone off on their merry ways by the time this was over at one o'clock.

Which started the debate on the STB. Most of this centred on the position of teachers training college students, who were facing severe pay cuts from circa $2500 to circa $750. After a motion of support for the teacoll students was put forward debate ranged over an amendment that we shouldn't be supporting a return to salary levels but a push on from the STB with supplementary (and voluntary) bonded allowances. It is interesting that, despite Mr Tizard's statement in the Budget that 'there is no longer any justification for paying teachers college students higher allowances than other tertiary students' (p20-1) Mr Amos decided later on Thursday night to introduce the supplementary allowance.

The proposed amendment was generally opposed by people arguing:
1.student teachers are different from other students, having greater responsibilities and suffering greater control. Hence they should be paid more.
2.we shouldn't have a bonding system (this is now being discussed by STANZ and the Education Department).
3.any supplementary allowance, if voluntary, would favour the rich over the poorer backgrounds.
4.the union principle that VUWSA shouldn't interfere with STANZ.s business.

Personally, I think 1 and 2 are irrelevant, and 3 and 4 misreading the situation concerning the two proposals being debated, but anyway the amendment was soundly defeated.

After a suggestion that we go on STANZ's proposed march on June 4 pushing VUWSA ideas was emasculated by deleting everything after June 4, Lisa in the chair steamrollered through a motion reccomending a loan of $2000 to STANZ for a strike fund. It is to be hoped that, if the strike goes ahead, Exec will consider this matter more carefully than SRC managed to do.

Which just about brings us to two o'clock, the remaining time being taken up by a motion to extend the meeting to 2.15 which was eventually defeated at 2.03 (and hence after the meeting finished, officially).

About the only other thing of note was the start of the John Roseveare memorial chocolate fish awards to 1. the best speaker and 2. the best new speaker at each SRC, the prizes this time going to Colin Feslier and Ellen Forch respectively. Roll up all you chocolate fish lovers !

Drawing of oblong shapes