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The Compromise Council

May Council at Lincoln College. The compromise Council which will set NZUSA back on its feet and secure its effectiveness as the voice of New Zealand students? Or a series of superficial decisions which do not get at the core of NZUSA's problems and thus cannot be expected to contribute much to unity?

Certainly nothing happend which will guarantee that those campuses threatening withdrawal will decide to stay in. Nevertheless, the kinds of solutions arrived at (dropping the IVP, altering the voting regulations) may be all that NZUSA can itself do at such a level. It must still prove itself on campus, and that has always and will always be the case.

More importantly, those people on the various campuses who do believe in NZUSA must continue to fight for it. NZUSA, with full campus participation, can be more than the sum of its constituents. But those constituents alone can determine this; they are the ones who hold the key to its success or failure.

This week we report on the two major events at Council: the solution arrived at out of the report of the Working Party into the future of NZUSA, and the methods adopted to cope with a $6,000 deficit budget.

In future issues we will be looking at the policies of NZUSA and the ways in which they have been formulated.

There were two notable absences from Council: James Movick and Dave Macpherson. James is back in Fiji, his case still pending in the Court of Appeal. Dave has resigned from NZUSA and is shortly to return to Australia. We hope to run an interview with him next week.