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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 11. May 28 1979

"Advertising" the SGM

"Advertising" the SGM

The result of this motion was last Wednesdays SGM. It is interesting to examine the activities that foreshadowed this SGM. On Monday morning we were priviliged to be presented with a collection of leaflets which outlined the "facts" of the matter. Appealing to what can only be called students baser interests and prejudice, these leaflets protested against what they termed the Maoist takeover, and the attempt of the Milo/Salient clique and their PSA front to dominate the Students' Association at the expense of 6,000 others. These leaflets [unclear: aa], while representing the undisputed right of any students to air their views, rather smacked of a particular period of the 1950's — that of Joe McCarthy.

The disturbing part of these phamphlets was that an incredible lot of students seemed to accept them as gospels. It seems incredible that any student could go along with the kind of transparent smear campaign espoused in these pamphlets, yet of the 600 people at the meeting, at least 400 appeared to be affected to the extent of wishing to jump on a red, regardless of their understanding (or lack thereof) of what Marxists believe in, or indeed what the motion under discussion was actually about.

Photo of a person speaking at an SGM meeting