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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 10. May 21 1979
8 Did You Comb to University from the 6th form, as an Adult Student, or without a Pass in the Bursaries Exam?
8 Did You Comb to University from the 6th form, as an Adult Student, or without a Pass in the Bursaries Exam?
Next year that may not be possible. The inevitable consequence of cuts to university standing proposed by the Government will be enrolment restrictions. This flies in the face of the whole basis on which our education is supposed to be built.
If you do not believe any of this, talk to your lecturers. Read the letters printed on these pages. Have a look in the newspapers to see what Government spokesmen are saying about education.
In every field of education, the Government is proposing to slash expenditure. The consequences will be disastrous for the whole country for years to come. Education is only now getting back on its feet after the last depression, when the Government used exactly the same tactics.
In those days, education (especially higher education) became the prerogative of the rich. That has always been true to an extent in the education system. It is precisely to avoid this becoming the only truth in New Zealand education that the Students Association is waging an Education Fightback campaign. We are calling on all students and staff at university, all people involved in other areas of education and everyone else concerned about the future to join in this campaign.
This campaign will succeed if the mass of the university population become involved in it. The campaign belongs to everyone. If you have talents, ideas, time on your hands, concern for the issues at stake, contact Simon Wilson, the Campaign Organiser, either through Salient or the Students' Association.
- Raising money (would you like to set up a friendly "Most Boring Lecturer of the Year" competition, in which people vote with 10c pieces? Would you like to get the lecturers to retaliate with a competition of their own?)
- Writing, designing and producing leaflets, posters and banners
- Producing buttons, stickers, T-shirts
- Speaking to lectures, tutorials and labs
- Gathering information on the cuts, on the Government attitude and on what the university is doing about it
- Backgrounding the situation, looking at what happened as a result of cuts in the 1930s
- Examining the cuts in the broader context of their place in Government "solutions" for the economic crisis
- Writing to the papers, to MPs, ringing up talk back radio
- Getting tutorials and similar groups to discuss the cuts and what the people in them think should be done
- Getting those groups to do what they think should be done
- ...in fact, everything, particularly the things nobody has thought of yet.
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