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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 21. September 3 1979

Reports from Council

Reports from Council

Reports from delegates to August Council followed, with Caroline Massof saying that on the whole she had been "quite disappointed" with it. "It certainly didn't try to keep the spirit of the education campaign going. The campaign isn't over yet and we're still going to fight. We'll be encouraging as many students as possible to apply for hardship grants," she said.

Commenting on the non-election at Council of Colin McFadzean as General Vice-President (see full story in last week's Salient), Caroline said that the Victoria delegates, on the grounds of Colin's expressed sexist attitudes, did not consider it responsible to elect him as a national officer.

Finance and Administration delegate, Peter Beach, reported that the only outstanding feature of that commission was the decision to raise the levy to $3.53. This increase was mainly because of "skyrocketing administration costs, which are going up In leaps and bounds," said Peter "any one for a mixed metaphor" Beach. (another reporter for the blacklisted.)

Women's Commission delegate Virginia Adams expanded on Caroline's comments concerning the non-election of [unclear: Co] McFadzean. In association with the [unclear: great] condemnation of sexism at Council [unclear: s] said this was the most significant thing [unclear: the] happened for that Commission.

Paul Norman must have been [unclear: gen] restless by this stage because the [unclear: silling] started. He asked Virgina what [unclear: Bl] "particularly sexist behaviour"[unclear: she] said had marred previous Councils." [unclear: dgg] the past at Council dinner there have [unclear: been] quite a few sexist jokes and that," [unclear: m] replied. "Ooohhh," Paul said [unclear: ridicul]

About Colin, Virginia said he [unclear: ll] "touching women when he had no [unclear: jfl] to". "Oohhh, shame," came the [unclear: com]

"I find it appalling that people [unclear: can] laugh at this," said Virginia, and a [unclear: sa] section of the meeting broke into [unclear: juv] titters. The fatuous questioning from [unclear: pa] continued, in fact it got more and [unclear: more] obnoxious, and then he ended up [unclear: tryil] justify himself by saying, "I think you [unclear: B] see what I'm getting at" to a sea of puzzle faces. "The report system simply [unclear: do] work."

Welfare delegate Bob Wallace was [unclear: wa] next to get the third degree from Paul [unclear: will] a series of bloody stupid questions, at [unclear: tl] end of which somebody wittily asked [unclear: ic] what size shoes he wears. I'm not [unclear: blan] anybody, (heaven forbid), but I had [unclear: ioc] around at this stage and there weren't [unclear: man] people left.