S.G.M. Motion

We The Undersigned Students Of The Victoria University Of Wellington Hereby Call For A Special General Meeting Of The Students' Association To Discuss The Following Matters :

1.

The Government's lack of interest in the problems of higher education and its failure to recognise the increasing importance of higher education in New Zealand, and in particular : a) Its failure to increase student bursaries to an adequate level and to increase these in accordance with the cost of living, whereby competent students are discriminated against page 2 because of government pressure for full-time study. b) Its action in increasing university fees, operating against part-time students and those not under a bursary. c) Its total inaction and lack of interest over the pressing problem of student accommodation, which will be to the detriment of the country as a whole. d) Its undue interference in planned university expansion at both the University of Auckland and Massey University of the Manawatu under the guise of the need to restrict government spending.

For these reasons the following motion will be moved at the meeting ... :

Moved

"That the Executive be instructed to organise a one day total student boycott of all University lectures and activities, and on this day students shall be called on to attend at the Student Union Building for the purposes of picketing the entire University area. For this they shall prepare documentation and shall release this to all interested organisations, the Press, TV, and other news sources. Support should be sought from members of the staff and at the same time a programme of action should be drawn up for presentation to the Government. If the above action does not bring results from the government within a period of three weeks, then the Executive shall call for a second strike on a national basis which should be a Universities sit-in. The action is to be taken in a serious and orderly manner and is to be in the interest not only of students at Victoria University, but also of students throughout New Zealand.