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

Fended

[unclear: Fended]

Photo of a woman

Mr Poseur '79 had finished, Virginia [unclear: oke]. Virginia, who is the [unclear: chairper][unclear: e] PSA, was trying to reply to the [unclear: iade] on the alliance by previous She saw the attacks on left wing groups as an attempt to cover up Tees in-action and incompetence. What it really came down to was that the President was attacking the right of an independent club to exist. His claims that the PSA was under mining the Association were dismissed as obvious rubbish. It was the PSA that was largely responsible for the success of the Bursaries March. If anyone was hindering the operation it was Tees, who played little part in the actual work that led up to the March and limited his activities to grabbing a loud hailer and grabbing the limelight.

Carried away by their new found "democratic" fervour, the crowd called for a motion that the speaker be no longer heard (although there was so much heckling going on that the speaker could not be heard anyway). The Chair refused to accept this motion, and Virginia continued to reiterate her view that it was absurb to suggest a group of about 20 people could possibly be riding rough-shod over 6,000 others.

Caroline Massof launched into Carr-Greg for his "contemptible display", distributing his leaflets around the newspapers and radio stations, and posing as an official spokesperson of the Association. Moving on to the problems of the Exec she said that last year, despite their political differences, the members of the Exec managed to work together as a body because there was definite leadership from the President - leadership which is just not there this year.