Stephen Hay

Background - LLB graduate, now researching LLM; current and sometime member of various student committees.

Policy - introducing "specials" examinations, akin to Massey, so students failing a paper in the final year of a degree or professional course can sit another paper within 12 weeks of sitting the examination they failed.

- subsidising university creche (affecting 120 children) at least with an additional full-time supervisor.

- introducing a strict editorial policy for "Salient" so it becomes a newspaper for students, and less a paper for the editor - by insisting on an overall balance in the selection of articles so that no particular viewpoints are exclusively presented.

- no "politicking" except in matters affecting students directly.

- stopping Studass payments to outside pressure groups.

- ambitious financial policy using trustee investments and restoring to Studass the powers of investment of all its income.

- cutting NZUSA links but retaining Student Travel arrangements (either with NZUSA or at VUW) using the levies paid to NZUSA ($8,580) for student purposes here. This permits VUW an independent viewpoint on all issues and lets it accomodate individual student opinion.

- improving the cafeteria - reducing the rental payable by management, cutting selection apart from meals -both permitting price reductions -and preferring students over outside staff in employment.