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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1936. Volume 7. Number 14.

Move On and Move Out?

Move On and Move Out?

Dear "Smad,"—

As Secretary of the A.S.S. (Association of Superannuated Students), I commend your editorial defending the interests of "the men who have passed away" whom, traditionally, V.U.C. should praise, not pass resolutions against. It is all very well for students attending lectures to want to manage their own affairs, but they should understand that they have not the necessary experience. The members of my Association have that experience and wish for nothing better than to employ it in the interests of their dear old Alma Mater.

A little thought should show that we old 'uns have the first right to office. While we attended lectures we did not waste our time; we applied ourselves exclusively to study, eschewing College politics, debates, discussions, and other anti-scholastic interests. Now that we have proved ourselves, it is only fair that the younger people should give us our due by sumbitting themselves to our guidance. Apparently they have not the sense to do so, but prefer to entertain ridiculous notions of their own self-sufficiency.

A painful feature of the recent: decision of a notoriously irreesponsible type of meeting is that it gave no thought to the effect that decision must have upon our personal careers. Servide on College Clubs is a recognized means of bringiing oneself under notice of one's employers, whether in Education. Accountancy, the Public Service, or other walk of life. More so is it necessary to the securing of a Rhodes Scholarship or similar award. Soon it will be sought as an avenue to a seat upon the College Council. To deny us the opportunity of acquiring a "record" which will assure us personal preferment in our chosen vocations, especially when the opportunity is so easily within our grasp, is to selfishly ignore the sacredness of our ambitions.

My Association is convinced that, if the resolution is not quashed, the College Club system is doomed. Is it too much to hope that the students who were so misguided as to to vote for it will now admit with shame that their denial of our superiority was not only presumptuous but disloyal to the true interests of Victoria?

I am, etc.,

Secretary, A.S.S.