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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Paper. Special Issue 1965

[David Shand]

Men's Vice-President

David Shand

David Shand

Fourth-year full-time commerce student. Currently Public Relations Officer. 20 years old. President Labour Party Club. Treasurer Te Rangatahi. Keen debater, Secretary of the Debiting Society. Plunket medal oratory contestant. Also member Student Union Planning Committee, was prominent in Student Action organisation committee, a frequent speaker at Forum.

Policy: I have no specific promises to make. Instead of making promises I believe that we should be looking at present deficiencies of the Students' Association and ways in which these could be overcome.

1.)Executive wastes too much time on petty issues. For it to have the confidence of the student body it must give proper leadership.
2.)Executive must look at ways of making the Association more useful to the student body.
3.)The present office and administration is shambolic and must be improved.
4.)Research on accomodation and bursary problems etc is hopelessly inadequate. We should have all the facts at our finger-tips, rather than have to scratch up information at the last moment, as happened in preparing documentation for the Boycott. This could be centralised through N.Z.U.S.A.
5.)More co-ordination is needed in University sports, social and intellect [unclear: al] activity, and someone should be appointed to control this co-ordination.
6.)Executive has often been reluctant to speak out on major issues, both national and international. Students should be intelligent enough to have a viewpoint on major issues and should not be afraid to express their viewpoint For this reason I believe that we should make public our views on any matter from Vietnam to the hours of drinking.
7.)More student representation of Council is essential, if the student viewpoint is to be heard. As P.R.O. I submitted this to Executive, and the matter is now being discussed with the University authorities.

I see the position of Men's Vice-President as a policy portfolio. The Vice-President should be free from time consuming day to day administrative duties so that he can act as the President's right hand man.