ACT on Campus Welcome New NZUSA Co-Presidents
Submitted by Peter McCaffrey on 7 January 2010 - 2:34pmACT on Campus is today pleased to welcome new NZUSA Co-Presidents, David Do and Pene Delaney, to their positions for 2010.
"I, for one, welcome our new student overlords," explained ACT on Campus Vice President, Peter McCaffrey.
"Clearly students are incapable of thinking for themselves and need their views on all the major political issues of the day dictated to them by two unelected apparatchiks. Without NZUSA telling us how and what to think, we'd all be lost and hopeless."
ACT on Campus is also pleased that NZUSA has given up on representing the views of its forced compulsory members and has instead decided to make its key focus for 2010 the defeat of a bill that many of their members support - the Voluntary Student Membership bill.
"Why would NZUSA support students and represent their beliefs when it is much easier and more efficient for them to simply promote their own policies? Students can't leave their student associations or get their money back, so there is no reason for NZUSA to waste time and energy on such activities."
"Representing the views of your members is an outdated idea whose time has long passed. We look forward to another decade of NZUSA's generous and benevolent wisdom and guidance." said Peter McCaffrey.
January 07th, 2010 at 3:57pm
Even though I am not ACT aligned, I think NZUSA should be disbanded, it does nothing for students, isn't really radical and is just a training ground for future Labour MPs...
And as for VSM even though I am radical and wouldn't ordinarily be against the radical things on campus (like a lot of Young ACT people are) I think VUWSA etc need to be dismantled and start all over again as they are just bureaucratic (VUWSA just got rid of their unionised workers recently so that tells you something!) and don't actually help students or progress real issues on campus. A lot of the progressiveness is from individual students and clubs/groups on campus, even though there has been umbrella support by the Students Associations through the EAG etc...
Personally without sounding like a Maoist (as I am not one!) I think there needs to be a revolution on campuses VSM or CSM and a clean out of bureaucratic-ism, they need to start over again.
Things are going to progess and VSM looks like it will be in soon, so there needs to be a BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD PHASE on campuses (by the students who naturally will feel threatened by VSM).
I expect the Universities may strip back some student services as a result of this etc but it will be up to students to build real students associations/blocks on their campuses.
In the end if there is apathy, then there will just be apathy...
January 07th, 2010 at 4:55pm
They don't need to be disbanded.
They can do whatever they want for all I care, as long as I'm not forced to pay for it.
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