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Victoria '65 Supplement to Salient, Vol. 28, No. 1. 1965.

N.Z.U.S.A. Controls Many Student Activities

N.Z.U.S.A. Controls Many Student Activities

The new student, ignorant perhaps of the wide field of student activity, may think N.Z.U.S.A. a remote and even rather unimportant organisation. This impression is understandable, but wrong. The student who is unaware of what N.Z.U.S.A. is and does is missing many interesting and beneficial aspects of student life.

The New Zealand University Students' Association is the National association of the universities and university colleges. Membership of the Student's Association at this university automatically makes you a member of N.Z.U.S.A.

Headquarters are in Courtenay Place, Wellington, where a resident Executive composed of representatives of each of the Student's Associations meets monthly to discuss matters of policy and affairs affecting students.

The Association is the official link with university students in other countries. It arranges study tours and student exchange schemes. Through Arts Festival it promotes inter-university debating, drama contests, and other cultural activities.

Council meetings are held twice yearly at the same time as the Tournaments. Each Student's Association sends delegates, and it is at this time that all major matters of policy are formulated.

N.Z.U.S.A. acts as a clearing house for ideas among our widely scattered university population. It can provide strong representation on behalf of all students when issues such as bursaries or increases in fees arise.

N.Z.U.S.U.

The New Zealand University Sports Union administers university sport on a national level. It arranges tours and tournaments, and awards Blues. It is comprised of delegates from each university, and meets at each Tournament.

Tournaments

Two inter - university spotting tournaments are held during the year, at Easier and the August vacation. University athlete and sportsmen complete in a friendly atmosphere. The standard of sport is always high. Certain qualifications apply to competitors which exclude non-student members of university sporting clubs. For competitors, the cost of travel is subsidised. They are an experience which no student should miss.

Arts Festival

Arts Festival is held in conjunction with Winter Tournament. Each year in the first week of August holidays, students from all universities assemble at one centre and proceed to compare, discuss, create, destroy, and perform most of the forms of self-expression known to the Western world — painting, sculpture, drama, debating, chess, photography, writing, music, and Pooh sticks. Writers contribute to the New Zealand Universities Arts Festival Yearbook, usually called Literary Yearbook in order to leave room for the contributions.

N.Z.S.P.A

The New Zealand Student Press Association is the national organisation of the New Zealand student: newspapers. Papers from the five universities and Lincoln College appoint delegates to its meetings twice yearly at tournament. It provides a medium for the interchange of New Zealand and overseas student news.

Congress

Congress is an annual event held towards the end of January at Curious Cove in the Marlborough Sounds, Students from all the universities attend, as well as guest speakers who are the most competent men available in New Zealand in their various subjects. Congress provides a week of discussion, addresses, dancing, swimming and associated activities. It provides probably the best opportunity you will have during your student life for friendly and informal discussion.

Songbook

Songbook is obtainable from the Caf. shop for a modest sum, and contains most of the songs students are meant to know but usually don't. Ingenious editing has ensured that despite the Indecent Publications Tribunal nothing of an essential nature is lacking.

Seminars

A specialised side of N.Z.U.S.A. activities is the running of seminars and work camps. The former, as the name implies, are discussions of a particular topic for which background papers are prepared and guest speakers arranged. They are more likely to interest the more advanced student.

Work camps are a popular innovation which achieved considerable publicity in 1964. Two work camps were held in New Zealand, with parties of students assisting Maori education at the local level. New Zealand students are also welcomed in overseas work camps, and some did attend Australian work camps.

Both activities are well publicised, and applications from those interested generally exceed the places available.