Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 6. April 2 1979
Aries on the Local Scene
[unclear: Aries] on the Local Scene
[unclear: VUWSA] bursaries campaign is now [unclear: its] second week, with the bursaries [unclear: n] Tuesday being this week's attrac[unclear: is] forum is designed to give you a [unclear: o] witness first hand the attitude of [unclear: ous] political parties to bursaries.
[unclear: National] party show their total lack [unclear: iro] about the chronic financial hard[unclear: ed] by many students, by not even bo[unclear: to] front up with a speaker for this fo[unclear: ne] Labour Party at least show a wil[unclear: to] discuss bursaries with us. Their [unclear: f] indexing the bursaries in relation [unclear: onsmer] Price Index is a step in [unclear: t] direction. A main objective of this [unclear: hould] be to put as much pressure on [unclear: our] Party speaker to make some [unclear: ment] as regards removal of the abate[unclear: ve] must show them how unjustly [unclear: nating] this form of means testing [unclear: ary] is. We are not likely to get any [unclear: asure] of support from the speaker [unclear: te] Labour Party is just as likely as [unclear: onal] Party to be the Government [unclear: next] elections, it is up to us to keep [unclear: iure] on them to give us a better [unclear: bur- l].
[unclear: other] main speaker will be Dr Allan [unclear: rch] supporter of the idea that stu[unclear: e] just middle-class bludgers on [unclear: Gov- spending]; a man who proposes a [unclear: if] student loans and complete [unclear: abo- of] the STB, and an ex-lecturer in [unclear: own] sociology department. He re[unclear: a] growing body of opinion which [unclear: e] view that education is not a right [unclear: ivilegc]. This kind of attitude must [unclear: gly] tought against wherever it [unclear: ap— we] are to retain any choice in the [unclear: education] system is run.