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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 4. March 20 1978

SRC Reps

SRC Reps.

The first of the committees needing members was the Union Management Committee, that with the overall responsibility for the running of the Union facilities. Five people were needed for this committee and, wonder of wonders, we got seven nominations! The lucky (or unluck-y) five were: J. Hebenton, K. Skinner, S. Kos, R. Turner, and P. Edwards. Hopefully these five, and the four Catering [unclear: Rep]. (P. Callinicos, K. Callinicos, S.O'Connor, P. Edwards ) will help get the caf. food back to edible.

Pubs Board—As the benificent leader explained the difference between this and a public bar (to widespread gales of derisive laughter) six enthusiasts leapt to their feet and were duly approved en masse. They were Sue Cairney, Rire Scotney, Lamorna Rogers, Lorraine Robinson, Sean Tuohy and Paul McHugh (Caveat editor).

Photo of students taking a vote

You take a look around.....

What proved to be the last election of the day was that for Student Reps, on Prof. Board, the most powerful of the university bodies after the Council. The debate started with an impassioned speech by deposed rep. Gerard Winter, who seemed to be exhorting reps, to vote against SRC policy, not a good idea. I think there may still be some under the impression that Gerard was making a plea for his own candidature but VUWSA's answer to Ray La Varis assured me that this was not the case and indeed the five nominees did not include the said Winter.

Before nominations were opened for these positions though, we saw a vain attempt by Thrush/Winter to get the SRC Coordinator on the Prof. Board ex-officio (I wonder which of them is considering standing for SRC Coordinator).

The major oppostion to this idea came because Winter sees Prof. Board as a place where you vote according to your own beliefs and not necessarily as the SRC would have you vote. Luckily, no one was sucked in by Thrush/Winter's rhetoric and the motion went down heavily.

The five eventual nominees for the Prof. Board were C. Chapman, P. Edwards, P. Sheat, S. Wilson and the ubiquitous Paul Norman. Chapman, Sheat and Wilson were successful. With the end of that election the great and glorious leader declared the bunfight over until next Wednesday and added that we shouldn't forget the VUWSA A.G.M. on March 30.

Sean Tuohy

Photo of Neil Gray

And some give up (Neil Gray bowes out of student politics.)