Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 17. July 18 1977
Support for Rally
Support for Rally
The latest developments from other campus have been very good. Motions put forward to University Council in Canterbury and Lincoln have been supported and University Council in Waikato has expressed its concern that the total no. of overseas students should not be reduced. Support from Trades councils, teachers organisations, churches, and educational institutes has also been good. She emphasised the need for a rally on July 26th to get the message across to the NZ public. Representatives and their supporters will be coming down to Wellington for a rally outside OSAC meeting on July 27th.
The next speaker, Lisa Sacksen, exposed the fallacy of the economic and redistribution argument put forward by the government. She said that it does not cost the NZ government $2,000 a year to educate overseas students. Rather the cost of maintaining overseas students is a small marginal cost for administrative expenses. Whether overseas students are here or not overheads have to be borne. In any case 75% of U expenses goes to staff salaries. She emphasised that the the economic argument was a fraud and that the survey is very important to refute the lies told by the government.