Lurching into action

The meeting eased into motion against a background of movie-type crowd noises generated from the nearby 'Alternative.' The apologies and minutes were inspected and passed before most people were aware there was a meeting on. It was during this brief lull in high powered inertia that Peter-lets-not-get-excited-Aagaard, exercised his wealth of procedural knowledge by taking the opportunity to close the folding door, and thus, in one masterful stroke, not only keeping the undesirable noisy lunchers out but more to the point keeping the even leu desirable political dreamers and super-cliquers in. Meanwhile the meeting moved on. Next up 'Matters Arising' where matters arose. It was soon discovered that there was a vacancy for a student representative on the University Council. Somebody mentioned the words 'Steven Underwood' and up sprang a highly estimable young man who proved to be from the body of the same name. He pledged to bring the Building Fund under student control; press for student representation at the National Universities Conference; try to preserve the Hunter Building (how he would achieve this he did not say, though rumour has it, Underwood favours placing it in a giant pickle mixture, which is just about as likely as any proposal heard yet) and if this failed, to press for students to be consulted on the form esc; of the new building. All this was greeted by someone passing wind in the second row. Steve was duly elected unopposed.

Next came reports from student reps and others. Lisa Sacksen spoke about the town planning committee hearing on the Hunter building where it was generally agreed that Hunter should be designated a historic place; and another report from Lisa dealt with the salaries of appointed officers of NZUSA. Kelvin Ratnam (the election returning officer) announced that nominations were open for the 1976 executive (ic; president, etc) and that these should be in by 4.30 pm on Wednesday 30 July. Lastly. John Grainer re-ported on the Commerce Faculty Meeting where he said little of any great importance or controversy occured.' We heard him mention that amongst other things, ex-Prime Minister Jack Marshall has been invited to join the Master of Public Policy (MPP) Board of Studies and that the in-term assessment committee reported that it had prepared a questionnaire for all commerce students which it was about to distribute. To the great relief of all concerned, the reports finally ground to a halt. Next came the motions.

Diane Hooper,"particularly obnoxious"