PUBLIC APOLOGY MADE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25160, 16 April 1947, Page 5

PUBLIC APOLOGY MADE

PRESIDENT OF OTAGO STUDENT BODY

(P.A.) DUNEDIN, April 15. An apology for his statements on moral and religious issues at the freshers’ ball and in a preface to the freshers’ handbook has been made to the Council of the University of Otago by the president of the Students’ Association (Mr John Child). Mr Child, who has also resigned from the executive position in the Students’ Association, will, in terms of the council’s resolution, be stood down imtil the end of the present term. May

The University Council offered Mr Child alternative forms of disciplinary action. Subject to his resigning office as president and undertaking not to accept re-election to any position in the association and making a public apology in such form as the council decided, he would be excluded from the University until the end of the term. Had he refused to comply with those conditions he would have been excluded from the University until the end of 1947.

An undertaking, signed by Mr Child, to comply with the conditions of the first alternative, came before the University Council this afternoon.