SGM Report

Moved: Aikman/Montgomery

That this Association has no confidence in its President.

Last Wednesday a Special General Meeting of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association was held. The purpose of this meeting was not just to clarify an issue of great interest to students — it was a matter of the greatest importance to the future direction of the association that was under discussion. At a meeting of the Student Representative Council last term, our President Andrew Tees was rejected decisively in his bid to be an official representative of VUWSA at the NZUSA council held in Christchurch over the holidays.

At a meeting of the Executive of VUWSA shortly after the SRC, Alan Philips, the Man Vice-President, expressed consternation that Andrew had not been elected Chief delegate to the Council. His solution was that the Executive over-ride the decision of the SRC and send him as a chief delegate if this was not done, Alan said he would resign.

The SRC is the most democratic method of action that has yet been decided upon by our association, and the Publications Officer, Helen Aikman, (to her credit) saw this as the attempt at blackmail and perversion of democracy that, it was. Her solution to the problem was to recognise the fact that neither the Executive nor the SRC had confidence in the ability or competence of the President, and to accordingly ly call an SGM to consider a motion of no-confidence in the President in order to clarify the situation. It was clearly intolerable that the President should not command the support of the body that decided the policy of VUWSA [unclear: the] To this end the motion was presented to, and passed by the Executive.