Having had their application for a club affiliation rejected once, the Mount Street Moonists came back to last week's Executive meeting for a second dose of the same medicine.

However, the Executive's anti-Moonist lobby must have weakened during the past fortnight, for when the affiliation vote was taken the Moonists came out on top.

This time the name of the club had changed to the VUW (not NZ) Collegate Association for the Research of Principles, although one of its major aims was still 'to maintain that materialistic antidemocratic (i.e. Marxist doctrines) are a barrier to freedom.'

Henderson in for Kill

Publications Officer John Henderson was first in with the questions, asking the club's advocate (Chris Barker) to clarify many of the phrases used in his application form.

He was followed closely behind by Association Secretary Peter Aagaard and Cultural Affairs Officer Anne Dwyer, who were concerned lest the club had any formal connections with the Korean-based Unification Church.

Anne Dwyer asked Chris Barker about a pamphlet distributed the week previous (about an anti-communist march through Wellington), which was signed by the Unification Church and the NZ Collegate Association for the Research of Principles.

Chris Barker denied the club's connections with the Unification Church and said that of the signatories to set up his club, only seven were Moonists, with most not wishing to have anything to do with the Unification Church.

President Gyles Beckford, taking on his impartial chairman role, moved that the club be affiliated. All those in favour - 'Aye'. Those against - 'No'. Gyles paused, hesitated a moment, and then declard the motion passed. No count was called for, but John Henderson and Anne Dwyer both registered their dissents.

The other club affiliations were fairly straight forward affairs, although there was a long groan from Anne Dwyer when it was decided that Alf's Imperial Army was a cultural club and not a sports club.

Ward Dishes Out the Cash

So, with the excitement over, it was on, to the reports. Anthony Ward, back from his much-publicised junket to Auckland to hire films, said he had nothing to report, although he informed us later of the get-togethers he had been having for the SRC officers.

Not to be outdone, Anne Dwyer gave us a run-down on the regional cooperation that was taking place in cultural affairs, with the folk club zipping off to Palmerston North, and Te Reo Maori heading down the South Island.

John Henderson, looking tired and shagged out after all the work he'd been doing over the last week, told a very distraught meeting that he was going to have to apply for a month's leave of absence in order to earn enough money to keep going.

Executive members had just about recovered their composure in time to listen to Vice President Steve Underwood speak to two up-to-date financial statements he presented on SASRAC and the Orientation Hop. These reports had been requested by the last exec meeting, and everyone seemed content with their content, so after a quick summary of National Executive goings-on from Gyles, it was onto electing members of the Studass Election Committee.

Positions Up for Grabs

Peter Cullen, John Roseveare and Stephen Franks were nominated for the vacant positions, and were elected unanimously.

The Position of Capping Controller was not so easy. There was one applicant, Michael McAleer (of SRC fame), who was slandered by most executive members before being rejected in favour of an executive sub-committee of Steve Underwood, Gyles Beckford, Peter Aagaard and Scott Wilson. It was felt that because of the amount of money involved in Capping that the executive should oversee the week's activities while encouraging individuals (such as Mr McAleer) to organise specific events during the week.

Steve Underwood led off on the next agenda item, which was an up-to-date report on the Commerce and Administration Students' Society, which for the last eight months has been used by him as a means of selling bean bags. He reported that if the bags held in stock were sold, the association would reap a profit of $135.

The present situation was that he was virtually in complete control of the bean bags, but because there had been a good deal of criticism of this at the Studass AGM, it might be appropriate to constitutionalise the club. Steve then moved that the Studass executive should become the executive of CASS. This was passed.

Finishing in Style

The last major item was a battle with Arts Council over who would have use of the Union Hall on the Saturday night of Capping Week. Arts Council required it for a concert with the Auckland group Waves and Steve and Mike Curtis wanted it for the Capping ball.

Most of the executive members expressed their disapproval of the arrogant manner in which Arts Council had gone about its negotiations for the venue and a motion was passed declining permission for the concert to be held.

I thought the meeting would finish without the executive having had to move into committee once, but not so. Treasurer Mike Curtis moved that the meeting go into closed committee, and said it was not appropriate to tell anyone the reason for the move.

So, after taking a few minutes to gather my papers together, I left the cloak and dagger gang to their party games and hurried back into the safe confines of the Salient office.