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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 26. 1975

President's Statement

President's Statement

Students at a meeting of the Student Representative Council which met today, exhibited an innate sense of sillyness and bad taste, said the President of the Association Miss Lisa Sacksen today. The completed motion, she said, was arrived at after a series of several amendments each one more gross and insignificant than the one that preceded it. In terms of debate the meeting was an absolute failure. Many students lied or distorted the facts, the President said, many merely buried themselves in the arms of their respected spouses. 'At least', Miss Sacksen said, 'I hope they were their spouses'. Although the debate was wide-ranging it was totally inconclusive and further more was carried out in an atmosphere of suspicion and discontent. 'After all', Miss Sacksen said, 'vulgarity cannot be veiled by a spate of words'. Miss Sacksen described the students who attended the meeting as 'stupid, sullen, dissolute and irresponsible. 'Never', she proclaimed holding her hand over her heart and winking at a passing mussel seller 'have I seen such a display of low humour and dispicable blasphemy. One could hardly call it a full and frank discussion.'

Miss Sacksen expressed satisfaction that it was the last meeting of the year of its kind. 'I could not have put up with much more of this', she said. The motion that was finally passed implied and meant nothing. 'It is merely a collection of words, randomly selected to produce a feeling of nausea and frustration in the listening', she said. The motion reads 'Once Upon a Time the Naked Bleeding Jonathan Livings Ton Albatross Tripped and Fell from 20,000 Feet But. . . 'Miss Sacksen expressed uncertainty as to whether the meeting was attempting to complete a story by committee, that is, by passing amendments until at least a sentence was completed, or whether the meeting was trying to put ridicule and contempt upon a not unworthy writer who had attempted however unsuccessfully to point out the error of human condition in the shape of a story about seagulls. Either way the motion cannot but sicken a public grown weary of such excesses. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association is not a 'Last Tango in Paris', she said somewhat mysteriously. Independent bystanders attributed Miss Sacksen's strong feeling about the motion to the fact that she was instructed to issue a press statement about it by the same meeting. Miss Sacksen however denied this and stated her opposition to sillyness where ever it arises and whenever it occurs. 'If VUWSA is not the Last Tango in Paris, then neither are we the house of representatives, and such behaviour as was exhibited by students today should be kept in the place where it belongs' she said.