Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 10. May 15 1978
Bursaries
Bursaries
Although certain students appear to believe that all their executive does is organise protest marches against the bursary system and the SIS Act, certain of this band have managed to organise a Poverty Fund. The fund at present stands at $120, the money having come from the Poverty Auction held last term augmented by some generous donations from the general public.
This fund is intended to provide some amount of financial assistance to students who find themselves in severe money shortages. It is to be hoped that students who face difficulties will indeed avail themselves of this facility. It is there for your use.
The executive also has some information regarding part-time jobs (rumour has it that there is a notice board somewhere around the studass office containing details of part-time work), so if you're looking for work they might be good people to try.
The exec all swear that they are very nice people (although some of them are a bit silly), and you pay them their money so get them to help.
Speaking of marches, there was a bursaries march on the last Wednesday of term. The chemistry department scheduled a test to coincide with it (in a lime which is meant to be kept free of all important academic events anyway), and a lot of students couldn't drag themselves away from something or other, but for those who did go it was quite a success. The public didn't turn up their noses for one thing.