Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 20. August 8 1975
Leonie Morris
Leonie Morris
I have been at Victoria for two years and during this time have participated in both campus and off-campus political affairs. At the moment I feel that this university is apathetic and lacks any real student spirit or involvement. Thus, if I am elected I will encourage more student participation (especially female) in social, political, and cultural activities. Some of my specific concerns would be:
(a) | an appointment of watchdog committees to ensure that student workloads are kept to a reasonable |
(b) | continual lobbying of the University administration in order to liberalise and democratise the university as a whole, especially in connection with women' issues, e.g., extending and upgrading creche facilities. |
(c) | to urge a greater student liason with the female members of academic staff who have recently begun a campaign for a rise in status of women on campus, (recent investigations into women's status by the University Professorial Board revealed extremely low figures of female seniority in the various academic departments) |
(d) | representing democratic student opinions and decisions, e.g. on such important issues as the All Black Tour. As I have no supportive clique to consider I would be free to support genuine student opinion. |
Finally I feel I have both the time and the enthusiasm to work hard in the interest of students as a whole and women in particular