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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 4. March 19 1979

Scott Replies

Scott Replies

Your Royal Editorship,

May your locks turn to dust and disappear in the wind you old barbarian, you will be calling me a member of the KGB next. If, by "he secretly made his decision" you mean I made it myself without asking anyone else's permission or consulting the Delphic Oracle, then you are right and how singularly unsurprising. As for "not taking the chance of being.......persuaded" out of it - unlike Peter Edwards - I would not resign if my reason were so shaky that all I needed was a bit of "persuasion" to reverse it.

Thirdly if my principle guiding force in life was "fear of blemishing my academic record" then given the state of said record I would have either given up or committed suicide before now. It is not only Not the reason I resided, but given your own personal knowledge of my situation and precisely what aspect of it has changed since I stood for the position last year, it was an unimaginative guess. I said my reasons for resigning were personal and I Meant personal, not academic. I'm sorry about the vagueness of the word but if I thought your readers would be even slightly hungry for the details I probably would have suggested serialising The Young and the Restless in Salient last year.

I am aware that your Editorial was written to perform a necessary function, and despite my lack of affection for its inaccuracies I think it did quite well. But I share your belief in the need for a good Executive and an effective SRC Co-ordinator, and I don't see how the alternative possibility of having to conduct the position by correspondence from Canada could be seen to fit in with that principle.

Finally may I suggest that in order to prevent this sort of thing happening in the future you demand from all prospective Exec candidates an assurance that they can predict the future. That way if they are later sauntering past a building site one day and a great block of concrete drops on their heads crushing them to a 1 inch thick disc, you can rip into them for unjustiable and irresponsible resignation. It they're impressed enough with that arguement they might even agree to carry on in that condition in order to stave off the crippling cost and bother of finding a healthy replacement.

Your in grovelling self-defence,

Jonathon Scott.