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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 6. April 3 1978
Searching for the Facte
Searching for the Facte
Dear Simon,
While I appreciate (not cynically either) the reporting in 'Salient' (be it your own or someone else's) as it provokes some controversy and conversation making material, I like Mike Treen would protest the scale of the flea punching attacks in the last few 'Salients'. While recognising the necessity to keep 'Salient' informed one almost gets the impression that SRC and other officers are responsible to 'Salient' rather than the student body as a whole and that before the lucky incumbent does anything he/she must make sure Salient approves first.
Often, the inferences and pointless innuendo you publish tell people more about your approach to student politics and indeed, you and your Salient lackeys' approach to politics in general, which need not be described as it is well known.
I would politely suggest that you should have a good shit stir as the Editor, but that in future you should try to be more impartial in your editorial comment and reporting and not allow your own political prejudices or opinions to affect your judgement too much. I hope that the shit stirring continues, but misreporting of facts and getting things the wrong way round will do nothing for 'Salient' or for the interests of the association in general. Construction is better than knitpicking.
| 1. | The leaflet put out by me on the exec by- election was not shoddy. It was plain, clear, and to the point. | ||||
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Although in the original leaflet 'Sports Officer' was left out, before distribution 'Sports Officer' was added in by hand and corrected in block capitals. (In Future Get Your Bloody Facts Right) |
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| 3. | You published a picture and statement in the last 'Salient' which was inaccurate.
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| 4. | To say in the report on the SRC meeting that it would be a dangerous move to allow one officer to gain the exclusive use of the SRC/club room is absolute rubbish. |
Apart from being rather childish, it is clear that Sue Cairney did not advocate exclusive use of the office by herself and furthermore the bursaries issue is an important one and Sue Cairney's proposal to assign that office for the bursaries campaign is a good one and would in no way downgrade the activities of other SRC officers (at least as another SRC officer I'm buggered if I know how it would).
I look forward to the inevitable acid drop editorial comment after this diatribe type 1080 diorhea.
Andy Tees
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