The usual SRC started off with the minutes of the last meeting. We were reliably informed by our most illustrious President that executive had affirmed the last SRC's decision to donate fifty dollars towards the expenses of the abortion campaign.

Moving on to reports, Gyles Beckford told us all about what Council had been doing recently. They have decided to rid themselves of all interest in Tarewa Lodge and are now looking for someone to take over their share in it. The next thing from council was about bursaries: they have given full support to the bursary campaign accepting Prof. Board Bursaries Committees report in full, and giving instructions for this report to be sent to the University Grants Committee.

Tony Ward then called for a report from the Union Management Committee - which Gyles gave. The cases of the four people who allegedly assaulted a member of Gay Liberation at a Women's Choice Club Wine and Cheese evening had been handed over the the Discipline Committee of Prof. Board as Union Management decided that their disciplinary powers were too limited.

It was then on to catering, where we found that the cafeteria had made a loss of $32,000 over the period up until the end of May, and that everyone who ate chicken was causing a loss at the rate of 47c piece. The ubiquitous Mr Ward then said that "students must take cognaissance of what happens in the cafeteria" and said that more reports on catering should be in Salient.

The next report was from Commerce Faculty where discussions about internal assessment have been going on between staff and student reps. Accy 211 and Accy 212 will be scrapped next year because of lack of staff and finance and Accy 101 will probably have a limited enrolment Student reps have been voicing disapproval over the proposed limitations in numbers and are to use their words "waiting for action".

Gyles then gave a report on the bursaries situation. Anyone interested in helping on the bursaries campaign will be very welcome in the activities room at any time. The final report was on the book-shop where a profit of $11,000 dollars had been made up until May.

Underwood Asked to Resign

After the masses of reports had been delivered the shit finally hit the fan. There was a procedural motion by Finlayson/ Skinner that the motion by Ward/Ryall "that noting the conflict of interest between his roles as Man Vice-President, and as an employee of the Victoria Book-centre, this SRC request Steve Underwood to resign from the position of Man Vice President."

Tony Ward got up (to the sound of boos and hisses) and stressed the fact that the motion was in no way meant to reflect upon his performance in that position, but that there was a matter of principle involved and that he wanted to see just how important SRC thought the conflict of interest was. He also pointed out that the motion was a recommendation only, and that SRC did not have the power for a vote of no confidence. He said that Steve Underwood's work on the bookshop was excellent, that in his executive position he had worked far beyond the call of duty, and that this was very laudible, although the conflict of interests still remained. He pointed out that he would be in a very invidious position when something occurred involving bookshop staff.

Next person to speak was John Ryall who didn't get quite so many boos and hisses as Tony Ward. He said that Victoria University had always attacked NZUSA for having its paid staff manipulating the political officers. Adding to that he said that when paid staff become political officers a power bloc can easily occur.

Martin Doyle, the next person to arise from the depths of the Union Hall thought that we weren't just talking about a principle. He felt it was also a point of practice as could be seen by two serious incidents involving staff which had already occurred this year, and gave as an example the ever-present Goodall affair. He said that it was dangerous to persist in the present conflict as the same thing could easily occur with regard to the bookshop.

Somebody then wanted to know if Messrs Ward, Ryall and Underwood had discussed the matter in private and were told that the motion had not been discussed at length, but the motion was really only meant to gauge student opinion, and that the motion was only a matter of principle, not expulsion. John Ryall pointed out that it was up to students to decide, and not Ward, Ryall and Underwood alone.

Gyles Beckford was asked just how much influence the executive has over the book-centre. It is run by a board of five, consisting of President of Students Association, Treasurer of Students Association, Company Secretary (Steve Underwood), Company Lawyer and one member of the Academic Staff.

Underwood "Can't See Conflict"

Steve Underwood finally got to the microphone and said that he couldn't see that there was a conflict at all. He said that Messrs Ward and Ryall thought there was a conflict, but that they didn't know what it was. He had a vested interest in maintaining the book centre as a viable interest. He also said that as Man Vice President he had decided to concentrate on three broad areas, those being Social (hops, SASRAC etc), Catering and Union facilities (such as lighting, sound, the installation of a lift and so on). He said that as he was not directly employed by the Students Association, but by a wholly owned subsidiary of the Association, which for some strange reason didn't count.

Mr Ward then summed up the case for the prosecution and the jury came up with a verdict of not guilty.

Then, it was back of item five, a motion dealing with sexist terminology used by SRC, particularly the use of Chairman. This motion came to the floor amid a mass exodus of the right wing supporters of Steve Underwood who had just come along to make sure he stayed Our beloved chairman, who was about to become a chairperson told them off for not participating in democracy, and it was on to the motion.

Ms McGimpsey said that protesting against the use of chairman was not a petty complaint - "wouldn't people complain if it was Chair white ruling out any Blacks?" Even if it was petty, that was no reason for voting against the motion. Anne Dwyer said that Chairperson might be an awkward word to use, but because of its awkwardness it made people think twice. There were a few fairly insignificant comments from the floor, and the motion was carried with acclamation

Women's Commission Discussed

On the subject of Women's Rights - the NZUSA Women's Commission was brought up again and a motion supporting its work was passed. Conflict centred over the performance of Victoria's delegation at May Council, as they had not supported the Commission, believing that a sub-committee would be more effective.

Next, it was the Zionists turn when a motion recognising the state of Israel as a sovereign and independent state came up, supposedly with the aim of clarifying Victoria's position on the Middle East. However, the motion seems to have made matters worse. Allegations were made that in effect the motion was supporting Israel. As Bob Drummond pointed out, the motion recognised the sovereignty of Israel over the territories gained since the 1967 war, although Lewis, Adler and co seemed to think that the motion only recognised Israel in principle, and not the actual boundaries.

A little light relief was added when local Moonist Chris Barker moved an amendment "congratulating Israel on a successful rescue of hostages from Entebbe Airport, Uganda. The amendment was ruled out of order by the new chairperson Gyles Beckford, as it wasn't in the spirit of the original motion. Mr Barker then made a new foreshadowed motion, but failed to find a seconder

It was then on to the Moonists in general and a lively argument ensued. However, due to the number of people moving out of the Union Hall there was [unclear: n] longer a quorum and the meeting closed at around 2.15pm.