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When he finiShed the dele— gates representing the six Atlantis province schools at the conference walked out together. They spent the rest of the day cau- cussing among themselves and with other delegates, sounding out the possi- bilities of eventually joining the national body.

(The delegation from Memorial University of Newfoundland later wrote to the remaining delegates wishing them well and hoping MUN could join at a later date.)

Immediately after the eastern walkout, most of the 11 Quebec delegations left. Chairman Boisvert left with them, to be re- placed by David Dick from U.B.C.

"We've got to start somewhere," Simon Fraser representative and steering committee member

‘ Michael Warsh said. "We must continue to form this organization and by start- ing small we will build our strength. I urge the remaining delegates (most— ly from Ontario, the prar— ies and B.C.)to remain and proceed."

And proceed they did. Through more than five hours of seemingly endless wrangles over amendments to the proposed constitu- tion, some major, but most minor. The constitution was not finally adopted until late Sunday morning.

(Cameron left the meeting after the walkout because he had lost the his credibility with the remaining delegations. He did not play a major role

in the conference again un-

til Sunday during the cen- tral committee, when he ran and was defeated twice for member-at-large and for treasures.)

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The remaining . delegates changed the proposed name of the org— anization from National , Association of Students to National Union of Students. The word "association" was retained in the French for translation purposes.

They also adopted De— claration of theCanadian Student, which formerly served as part of the Canadian Union of Stud— ents' constitution.

In the context of this year's struggle against the government—ordered fee increases and student

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larly appropriate. It in- cludes the clause, "The Canadian student has the right to beifree to con- tinue his\education with- out any material, econ— omic, social or psycho— logical barriers, created by the absence of real equality of essential conditions."

Delegates beat back an attempt to cut the number of general NUS meetings from two to one per year

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toria College of Univer- sity of Toronto, Glendon College, Atkinson College, Lakehead, Trent, Carleton and York universities, the universities of Ottawa, Windsor and Guelph, along - with U of T part—time students' council, all from Ontario; and Champ— lain CEGEP from St,Lambert Quebec.

In a controversial move, they added a by—law which requires one half of all NUS standing and special committees be com- posed of women. The votd was 24—16-8 with such traditionally conservative student councils as Uni— versity of Saskatchewan Saskatoon campus and York University voting for iy.

They also ruled that community colleges must be represented on comm— ittees in the same por— portion as their NUS voting'power.

Only 24 institutions were left when the cons— titution was approved. The walkouts cut the size from 51 to 39 and other schools left to catch trains or to catch the attractions of Ottawa.

Schools which stayed throughout the conference and indicated interest in joining NUS and which went on record as approving the constitution were U.B.C., Simon Fraser,‘ University of Victoria,

Columbia College, Caribou College, Vancouver City College, Camosin College, Douglas College, Capilano College, and New Caledonial

by a vote of 16—28—18. I

Except for brief app- earances, the University of Alberta student council reps left after the chair— man adressed them in French. The U of T under— graduate council reps play— ed no role, although they popped in and out from’ time to time.

Quebec's Vanier CEGEP and John Abbott CEGEP left observers throughout.

All Atlantic schools appeared willing to neg— otiate further and said they would return to their student councils to discuss it. An Atlantic student union conference

will be held Nov. 18-19 in Charlottetown and the NSU will be on the agenda.

NSU central committee representatives are Warsh from B.C., Roy Ellis and Gerry Trinker from Sask— atchewan, Jack Kushnier from Lakehead, Ontario, and members—at-large Teri Ball from U.B.C. and Lin Gibson from University of Manitoba, Russell Freethy from University of Victoria was elected treas— urer.

The committee is try— ing to organize a policy conference for February when it hopes asignificant numbers of institutions will have joined NUS through referendums. Only resolutions which have received three weeks notice before a meeting can be considered NUS pol— icy. Otherwise they must be approved by member \ student councils after the meeting.

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