Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 20. August 27 1979
Things get Serious
Things get Serious
It all sounds damn silly doesn't it? But remember the events of the last two weeks of the Second Term. Andrew Tees decided to seek out calmer pastures and was last seen busying himself on the 6th floor of Rankine Brown amid the shelves of leather-bound Law Reports. He was a president with a good deal of popular support as his election and then dramatic survival of a No Confidence motion showed. But he was a politician very much marooned amid an Executive of a rather different flavour.
The fiendish designs of those who vote at Studass General Elections and By-Elections in so producing such a mixture can only be marvelled at. The inevitable occurred and the rest of a sorry story is too well known to Victoria students and the other readers of a national weekly to stand repetition.
An inexperienced Executive was faced with the prospect of a headless future and acted with the best of intentions, bona fide and in good faith in trying to follow the procedure in Part K S.5 of the Constitution. That is, where a vacancy occurs on Executive, SRC may appoint a replacement. But when the vacancy is that of President the SRC may only choose from among the (elected) Executive. At this point the shit hit the fan.