UNIVERSITY CHAPLAINS

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32381, 21 August 1970, Page 20

UNIVERSITY CHAPLAINS

Support For ’ Students Support for many of the decisions and recommendations made at the council meeting of the New Zealand University Students’ Association in Palmerston North, was given by the 14 university chaplains at the first meeting of the University Chaplains’ Association in Christchurch this week. ’

Seven Roman Catholie chaplains, five ecumenical chaplains and two Anglican chaplains attended the twoday meeting at the University of Canterbury at Ilam. The University of Canterbury chaplain (the Rev. J. A. Elvidge) said yesterday that the chaplains decided to support the students in their concern for student accommodation and in their decision to establish a vice-presiden-tial position to investigate Maori-Pakeha relations. It was also agreed to back the students in their concern for foreign students in New Zealand and to commend them for the financial support they proposed for the Maori Research Centre at Waikato University. Mr D. B. C. Cuthbert, president of the Canterbury University Students’ Association and president-elect of the New Zealand University Students’ Association, spoke to the chaplains. Mr Elvidge said that it was decided that two of the main tasks of the university chaplains were the fostering of the community in the university and relating the university life to the life of the church and community. Throughout the meeting a need for the chaplains to work together as a team, was also emphasised.