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Mr D. Riddiford, MP for Wellington Central, has said the Evening Post "badly misreported" a portion of his recent speech which mentioned student demonstrators.
Mr Riddiford, referring to the demonstration of June 26. was reported as saying: "This gang (of students) rushed into the place left by the departing workers who had been peaceful in their demonstration, defied the police and attempted to let loose a tirade of disorder and perhaps death on the people of New Zealand."
Doug wrote to Mr Riddiford saying the statement was "factually inaccurate" and asking him for clarification.
Replying. Mr Riddiford said that the statement taken by the Post was just one passage from his speech and it had been given prominence while the rest of his speech had been disregarded.
Mr Riddiford included a photo-stat copy of the Hansard report of his Address-in Reply and pointed out the errors the Post reporter had made.
"A further difficulty had arisen because for some reason. the cause of which I am unaware, I must have been somewhat inaudible when I spoke of letting loose a train of disorder, and the Evening Post recorded it as a "tirade of disorder'.
"Obviously I did not use the word 'tirade', which does not make sense.
"The Hansard reporter failed to record the word I did use, which was 'train'."
Replying to Doug Whites remarks that the news media had used the incidents at Parliament to create a sensation to keep pace with the sensational reporting of overseas riots, he said he did not consider that the rest of his speech was open to objection.
"As to the rest of what occurred. I was myself an eyewitness until a short time before 2.30 p.m.
"In my opinion it was a very ugly crowd and I say this without any exaggeration.
"I do not know what influences were at work in the crowd, but they were in a mood where they could easily have given way to violence." Mr Riddiford said.
In his letter Doug claimed there was little violence and said that a senior policeman had told him that the demonstration had been carried out with the minimum of violence.
He said that inquiries into the damage done to the Australian High Commissioner's car had shown that students were not involved.
Only one student had been arrested.
Doug said that students joined the unionists rather than filling the gap they had vacated, as press reports and Mr Riddiford's letter suggested.
Neither did students make up the majority of the crowd as press reports stated, a large number of workers and others remained when students arrived.
Mr Riddiford refuted these suggestions in his letter and drew attention to the last page of the Hansard report where he said, "The University is unfortunately associated with this to some extent, even if these were an unrepresentative number of students—I wish to state that this was a deplorable incident.
"I hope there will be no recurrence of it.
"I hope it will be totally isolated and that the work that student leaders have done to improve the image of the University and to develop good relations with the citizens of Wellington will not be undone."
Mr Riddiford finished by saying that he hoped that the University would still count him as one of its friends.
Those elected will hold office for calendar year 1969.
Any member of the Students' Association may be a candidate for 13 of the 15 positions.
The Treasurer however should be a qualified accountant or have the degree of B.Com. or B.C.A. including Accountancy II.
If no such person is forthcoming the position must go to someone having Accountancy II.
Members of the Publications Board for at least six months have precedence in the election for Publications Officer.
Nomination forms will be available in the Association office till tomorrow.
Members of the present Executive were asked for their advice to prospective successors; six replied.
A first-year commerce student, Alan Wiltshire, has been convicted and fined $50 as a result of an incident during the demonstration at Parliament on June 26.
He was accused of assaulting a policeman trying to stop demonstrators getting up the main steps of the building.
At the hearing of the case in the Magistrates Court last Friday Alan emphatically denied having hit a uniformed policeman, though he said he struck lightly" a man in civilian dress who threw his hat away.
Giving evidence against Alan, police constable
In answer to defence counsel Mr
Winn said Alan had first denied the offence but later said he was "mad" because someone had thrown his cap into the crowd.
He agreed with Mr Dalgety he had "quite a pleasant conversation' with the defendant on two occasions.
A plainclothes police constable.
He had gone to Winn's assistance and "grabbed" Wiltshire.
To Mr Dalgety he said he had no way of knowing how the incident had been initiated.
Again in reply to counsel, Woodham said he was not wearing a tweed coat on the day of the demonstration.
(A witness later described the man who took Alan's hat as wearing a tweed coat.).
Alan said in evidence he had moved to the front of the crowd because, together with a Maori he believed to be a unionist, he was helping an elderly woman through the crowd.
He had been trying to restrain the demonstrators.
When a man seized his hat and threw it into the crowd he had "aimed a blow at him and struck him lightly in the face".
He had then been seized by three policemen.
At no time had he hit a uniformed policeman.
Alan said that when charged with assault he had thought the man who threw away his hat must have been a plainclothes policeman.
When he knew it was PC Winn he was accused of assaulting, he had said to him, "I didn't hit you, at least not deliberately".
Winn had replied that he had hit him "once" but didn't think he meant to.
Alan said that when taken to the police van at Parliament he thought he had heard the words, "You don't hit a cop and get away with it".
He described a man he had seen throw Alan's hat into the crowd.
He had tried to restrain Alan and had thought he had succeeded.
He did not see him land a punch on the man who had thrown his hat but could not say for sure that he had not done so.
Two policemen had then moved in on him.
Mr
In fining Alan $50 (costs $5) he would take into account the fact that he was "a student on an ordinary bursary".
Doug said that in 1961 it was decided that the Sub would be extended by the addition of another floor when the need arose.
The Students' Association realised the problem that could arise in the future and had voted to tax themselves an extra $2 a head to ensure that students of the future would not be handicapped by a lack of amenities.
"This $2 levy," said Doug. "has since been held in trust."
The problem of overcrowding was brought to the attention of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr
This year the matter was again brought up and the University Grants Committee advised that it was not possible to give any indication at that stage as to when subsidy money will be available.
"If it is at all possible to fit this project into the current financial year's programme, this will be done, in which case you may be able to arrange for the calling of tenders towards the end of the financial year."
"We should not like you to construe this as being any kind of commitment, however."
The estimated cost could be met with available finance together with the probable Government subsidy.
"There is some degree of urgency as projections show that the present upward trend in student numbers will increase," said Doug.
The student population when the Sub was opened numbered 3497, today the roll exceeds 5000 students.
Otago has similar problems, but a decision on extensions to their Sub is expected soon.
Doug said that the extensions to the Sub are vitally necessary at the moment and immediate action should be taken before the problem escalated.
Even assuming an ejaculation of 10cc of semen were all fat, this would only be 90 calories.
Review of new novel entitled Cocksure described author
Frustrated St Trinians reject who used a Calder mobile as a suitable diagram for period exams. (She passed.)
On the Anglican Society grant: a Pettiview. Give them seven loaves and seven fishes and tell them to work from there.
Lost at party Boundary Road—Saturday 13, 1 shoe. 1 letter (West European) and 2 pages copy for Salient. Reward. Finder ring 70-319 and ask for Bill.
If you enjoyed The War Game you would enjoy On The Beach from that Toolroom man, Nevil Shute.
While in hospital recently, a prominent politician who had been having trouble with his resonant voice, was examined by doctors who were amazed to find him a medical oddity—a political defect one might say. He is expected to undergo another operation shortly, to disconnect his bowels from his larynx.
Last Monday Helen Mc-N**** said,"My weak end came to an end with a bang at 4 this morning."
Salient to run for President of the Students' Association.
At the Publication meeting on July 15, Bill said that three weeks leave from Friday would allow an acting editor to be appointed from the time he left for the dominion conference of the National Party at Auckland till the end of the election campaign.
There was no legal bar to the editor standing for election to the executive but he felt it would be "unwise" to do so.
During the elections the content of Salient would be irrelevant and an editor could be appointed without approval from Publications Board.
Salient. He would need Bill's help only on technical matters.
Students' Association Secretary Salient and standing for the elections were incompatible.
The meeting agreed with him by four votes to one.
In a letter to Exec withdrawing his application Bill said he had considered other ways in which he might stand for President, including resigning from the editorship.
He decided not to stand for President to prevent a reversal of the Board's decision.
"This is not to suggest the Board has made any irresponsible or faulty decisions, except this one in which I am sure it will be noted I am far from impartial."
News from the meeting of July 18; mercifully short at two hours.
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Executive nominated Women's Vice-President
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On the recommendation of Publications Board, Salient 1969.
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A letter was received from Salient editor
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Accommodation Committee Chairwoman
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Education Officer
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A committee of the Cultural Affairs Committee and Exec officers was set up under the chairmanship of
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Remits were sent to NZUSA Winter Council asking the national students' association to act upon previous accommodation remits; to seek representation at the VUW-organised universities conference next February; and to support all students' associations in their efforts for greater student participation and improved channels of communications within the universities.
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NZUSA was asked to support the abolition of foreign language requirements; to hold a conference of overseas students within the next year; and to make a submission to government giving reasons for not setting up the proposed Omega radio station.
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NZUSA was also asked to comply with the request of Arts Council for financial support for cultural activities in the individual universities.
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Finally the national body was called upon to investigate Christmas vacation employment for students and, if necessary, to publicise employment needs.
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Quote of the evening: Treasurer
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Exec will meet again Tuesdey, August 6.
The New Zealand arbitration system was strongly defended at Victoria recently by Mr N. V. Douglas, the president of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
"The arbitration and conciliation system has been with us for more than 60 years, and I think it has worked fairly satisfactorily, particularly as far as the weaker unions without much bargaining power," he said.
"The system may have worked against the stronger unions in that they might have come out better with direct bargaining.
"Over the years we have built up a system which acts fairly efficiently when weighed up against systems in other countries."
"The trade union movement in this country has, year after year, reaffirmed its support for conciliation and arbitration.
"I think this system is a good one, and I am satisfied that we have advanced more as a result of the concilation and arbitration system than we could have done without it.
"If you can get behind the scene of a strike it is a very ugly situation.
"Many people get hurt, and not only necessarily those involved in the strike.
"Often the strikers do not get what they hoped for, and often they lose what they could have got otherwise.
"I have rarely seen a situation where, with proper advocacy, a strike could not have been avoided."
Mr Douglas said that the system had to be pragmatic enough to meet each situation as it arose.
"Without some sort of system we would soon be back in the jungle, and I certainly don't want that."
Mr
"It has prevented the unions from developing modern outlooks and ways of bargaining. It is also faulty in that it is based on the old system of the man-master relationship."
Asked by the panel chairman, VUW Labour Club Secretary
Mr Douglas said that he would agree with this.
The third member of the panel was the secretary of the Clerical Workers' Union and the New Zealand Food and Chemical Workers' Union, Mr
Asked what he understood by the term industrial relations he said: "It is the attempt to work out the relationship between those who control labour and those who control capital.
"The employers ask 'what can we do to keep the establishment rolling, to avoid stirring up the unions, and to try to maintain a paternalistic attitude towards the workers.'
"I think the I.C. and A, act was meant to be the bones— the framework.
"The originators of it realised that it would not work unless there was a full recognition of its spirit by the people using it.
"It was left for the unions to put some flesh on the bare bones."
"Why are there no psychiatric facilities in the Hutt Valley—an area with over 100,000 people?"
This is the theme of a campaign to make mental health reform a live issue in the Hutt by-election.
The campaign is being organised by Dr Geiringer and the New Zealand Medical Association with the help of a number of students.
It is regarded as a logical continuation of a similar effort made in New Plymouth at the time of the general election in the long term NZMA policy to change the Government's attitude toward mental health facilities.
"The ultimate aim of the campaign is to teach politicians a few lessons about running a community health programme." Dr Geiringer said,
"So long as doctors remain silent about the quality of medical services they are an asset to those politicians.
But if doctors feel it is their duty to point out the great inadequacies of the present system people will listen to them and it becomes a huge political liability.
"We really want to remove medical services entirely out of political control," concluded Dr Geiringer.
The campaign is being organised so as to make people aware of the lack of adequate psychiatric services with the hope that this will effect the result.
"We may have had some effect in New Plymouth." Dr Geiringer remarked, "the seat certainly changed hands from National to Labour."
The campaign will include a massive house-to-house pamphlet distribution, two public meetings, close questioning of the candidates at their meetings and possibly street meetings.
Students who are interested should contact
NZUSA Council suggested that a representative attend the South Pacific Commission's regional seminar on youth to be held from August 28 to September 12, but it will cost NZUSA nothing to be represented as Mr McGrath's expenses will be borne in full by the National Youth Council which he will also represent.
Included in the programme for the seminar are: A review of youth problems, policies and activities in the commission's. territories, a study of out of school programmes for rural youth, increased cooperation at territorial levels among those concerned with youth, and exchange of information between young people.
Common youth training programmes will be discussed and evaluated and there will be discussion of a proposed South Pacific Youth Festival.
Editors of the student newspapers in each New Zealand University will benefit from bursaries and incentive awards given by Rothmans of Pall Mall.
The awards, which will be given annually, and will enable each editor of a student newspaper to receive a bursary of approximately $100.
Judging for the awards will be by a panel of journalists.
Mr Rosier, who has graduated LI.B. and is presently studying for his LI.M. and tutoring in law. fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Miss
Asked about the work he sees entailed in his office, Mr Rosier, a former Education Officer of the Canterbury Students' Association. said: "At the moment I am involved in carrying out the directions of Easier Council which in the main part are undone and which have to be done by August.
"This is just about a fulltime job until them.
"At the moment we are preparing submissions for the National Development Conference and these have to be in by August 28.
"We are also preparing a case for increased bursaries in conjunction With Victoria for the consideration of council which will decide when and if the case will be presented
"In addition we are preparing a new pamphlet on the bond to replace the much criticised Beware of Bond publication.
"It will cover all bonding systems, but will still centre on the teaching bond as this is the most invidious one.
"The present pamphlet is very emotional and not particularly valuable.
"Its lack of objectivity often denies it entry into schools where it is most required," Mr Rosier said.
'After August we hope to have a full-time education research officer who will enable NZUSA to present far more convincing arguments and further more undertake far more work than is possible with the part-time nature of the education vice-president."
"Food production without population control generates hunger, and the only solution is to control population while increasing the food supply," Dr F. B. Shorland, food chemistry division, DSIR, said in a recent winter term lecture entitled "Synthetic Foods".
"The prospects for new sources of food to replace those now in use depend in part on costs and acceptability," he said.
He then considered three sources for future foods; chemical, plant and animal.
Protein is gained from chemicals most readily as a by-product of petroleum refinery.
This source may provide up to 20 million tons of protein a year, almost doubling the present world production, he said.
"Oil seeds represent a cheap protein resource which is at present inadequately exploited," he said.
'It would be a mistake to substitute for participation (by students in the University) greater representation on the part of those who already represent the student body.'
This statement by Mr
Are we willing to accept elected student representatives on the university administration, or is it 'at the grass roots that closer relations might more effectively be established' as Prof.
What would this student representation consist of? The Students' Association Executive in its submission suggest that 'there should be three student representatives on Council.' One of these should be appointed by Exec. Another should be the President of the Stud. Association (or nominee) and the last should be directly elected by the student body.
But if student participation, and hence, representation within the Association remains as it is now, not one of these people would be any more representative than the Association Executive.
The argument may be produced that by increasing representation, increased participation will follow, but it is doubtful whether very many people are likely to be interested, at present, in the actions of the sub-committees of Council (other than perhaps the Student Union Management Committee— but this is a special case).
It seems then that any moves to increase representation before increasing participation will result in increased power for a minority group within the Association. This the Exec. submission tries to justify: "The indifference of a majority should not serve as an excuse for excluding from the decision-making process the ideas and talents of those who are 'civic-minded' enough to want to offer them."
But this only seems a justification if it is accepted that the mythological concept 'democracy' has failed totally in our situation, and the Exec. has no longer a duty to encourage its practice within the university.
Because, if this is not accepted, a nonapathetic electorate being one of the fundamental precepts of democracy, the Exec. should realise its paradoxical position of being democratically elected from a non-democratic electorate.
And more important its primary concern should not be to increase the power of the 'civic-minded' but to reduce the apathy of the 'non-civic-minded' so that it can justify its existence.
It is unfortunate then that the first recommendation to come from the Joint Committee asks for greater student representation on Council, although the method of election is not disclosed.
Most submissions have asked for some kind of departmental student/staff committees and for these to have some degree of power. The Law Faculty however, on question of student representation at Faculty meetings passed this motion "That this Faculty, being divided on the question of student participation in Faculty meetings, has no recommendation to make."
The major problem seems to be the staff's desire for autonomy. "I don't think there is any advantage in students seeking representation on faculty committees. Instead I think there should be meetings of all interested students from time to time to discuss departmental matters with the staff. In these meetings students would express their opinions and influence the department more effectively than by any form of representation. I think there would be more goodwill among staff for such consultation than there would be for Committee representation" said a staff member of the English Department when questioned.
But this is the area where students are most likely to be induced into participation, one need only compare the number of people who get annoyed with some aspect of their degree, caused by lack of communications between departments and students, with the number that take part in student elections to realise this.
But without any form of elected representatives by students this cannot go any further in administrating the Association.
So the suggestions of Prof. Bailey and Mr George are valid: some kind of student representation within the departments leading on to Faculty committees.
Eventually one would hope this to go further, to elect representatives to Council and Prof. Board.
The only alternative to this increased participation would.be the forms of direct democracy proposed earlier this year.
Unfortunately this would probably induce some kind of coercion allowing government by pressure groups.
Because the deliberations of the Joint Committee will be in committee close contact cannot be kept with it, but it is to be hoped that its members will keep in touch with the group they represent. It is to be hoped that a satisfactory system will eventuate.
—Simon Arnold.
July 23, 1968
Opinions expressed in Salient are not necessarily those of VUWSA.
The significance and implications of the May 3-10 revolution in France were both over-simplified and under-estimated in our daily Press. Newsreel film emphasised the bloodiness, the shambles and destruction throughout Paris and other parts of the country. The written word could not impart the ugliness of repression in a modern democracy that a piece of film did.
Accounts of "les jeux de mai" have been pouring off the presses in France. Despite the impression one might gain from the election results, it shouldn't be surprising that the majority of these eye-witness accounts are strong indictments of the Gaullist police state. One publication, "Le Livre Noir des Journees de Mai", was quoted at length in the July 5 edition of the "New Statesman". These statements are itemised accounts of police atrocities.
But our insularity, both economic and social, has all but given way to total absorption within the international economy—suffering its first major depression for over thirty years.
Television's all-embracing hold over the global village has upset many who see its violence as a rudely shattering experience that should be curtailed.
But is it possible, or desirable, to suppress violence, even if an artificial division is made between the "real" and the "staged"? On film they are the same in essence, only their form is different. To claim, as many do, that "gratuitous" violence is harmful and unnecessary is to negate an expression that has created all the major civilisations—and destroyed them. Everyone is against violence, and no one willingly takes part in it. But how many can say they have control over all decisions.
The bogey of student violence is dredged up by middle-class moralists to protect the middle-class. Make no mistake about it. The link between the spectre of student violence consuming society and the rejection of claims for higher bursaries is tenuous and unjustifiable.
An article on the opposite page asserts that the worker-student alliance is unwarranted and abortive.
However, it falsely assumes that the interests of the working-class are opposed to those of students. It forgets that the grievances of both groups arise from the same thing—the standard of living. If workers have an objection to students, it is that they are predominantly middle-class.
Opinions expressed against the student emanate not from workers but from the same element that gave support to the Nazis in Germany — the lower middle-class. Those who worry about the student "image" in reaction to these opinions defend that same class. These people stand to lose most from workers' (and student) power. A democratic control of society concerns only the democratic elements of society, not the ruling elements. Only when this is understood will it be possible to confront and use all possible means in the struggle.
—N.G.
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Extracts from submissions to the Joint Committee on Student Participation in the University:
"This report expresses no view on the desirability or otherwise of increased student representation in the various levels of university government.
Even if students were to be given more seats on the council of Victoria University, and places on committees within its system of administration, it is doubtful if this would improve the university's internal public relations under present conditions.
Reasons for this are to be found in the transient nature of the student population and the considerable time it takes any one person to obtain sufficient experience of the workings of the complex system of university administration to be able to play a significant role in its processes. Certainly, were such a reform to be attempted it would be likely to be fruitless unless the present complaints about the adequacy of student representation are recognised as aspects of a general communications problem which exists within the university."
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"I cannot see how student union representation could be organised on the Professorial Board on account of the confidential material concerning academic matters which comes before the Board. However, I do feel that some better form of liaison could be established between the Faculties, the Board and the students than at the present time."
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"We submit that students, if given the opportunity, would take a valuable part in the affairs of their University. We acknowledge problems in the field of increased representation, especially from the angle of the rapidly changing nature of the student population. Nevertheless, we feel that increased representation would be of inestimable benefit to the University as a whole. We are grateful for this opportunity to express our views on the matter, and we thank those who made it possible."
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"It has been suggested that some student represent dives should be elected by the student body at large. I am doubtful whether an election campaign of this type would necessarily encourage students to be better informed on university administration matters nor would it produce the best person for the job. This process would erroneously reinforce the myth of "student opinion". Student representatives must be able to earn the confidence of a committee around the table and I believe the Associations Executive (which is itself elected at large) is better able to judge the abilities required.
"In general. I see little possible harm in extending student representation, but considerable potential benefit—not as a panacea for student discontent but as a means of assisting other channels of communication within the University between Students and the administration."
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"A staff evaluation scheme should be introduced to allow students' opinions of courses and lecturers to be brought to the notice of the Faculty.
"There is at present no system whereby the Dean and other appropriate persons in positions to rectify such matters can evaluate lecturers. A form of questionnaire, based on proper educational principles, should be issued and tilled in by students regularly, and be forwarded to the staff for appropriate action. Any defects that become apparent could then be rectified and the staff would have somes idea of how each subject and its lecturer were progressing. Such ideas from studenis should also be helpful to lecturers on course content, size of course etc."
It was recommended:
"That each Faculty (or Department) of the University should elect a Committee to form a basis for the communication of opinion from the students to the staff of that Faculty."
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"As will be well known to the Committee, university students are represented on the University Council, and this is something for which university students in England are currently pressing but do not as yet enjoy. I am not too sure how the Student Union appoints its representatives. I must observe, however, that at least some past representatives seem to me to have been long past the student status. Unless the student representative is a student, in my view he cannot represent students."
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"The Education Sub-Committee of V.U.W.S.A. would like to submit for your consideration that the Education Officer of V.U.W.S.A. be a member with voice and vote, of the Academic Sub-committee of the Professorial Board.
"If this is not possible the Education Subcommittee should like the Education Officer to be present and to have speaking rights at the meetings of this sub-committee of the Professorial Board."
• A word of warning to those contrmplating trans-Tasman transit: If you happen to be sporting a duffle coal and beard, or any other article of colthing that sets you off as a typical university scungy, be prepared for a cool reception on arrival. The might of Australian Customs descended on me at Kingsford-Smith airport, searched my luggage thoroughly, examined books with dubious interest, fingered articles of clothing, and generally treated me as a pretty shady character One of the officials muttered the word 'marijuana' under his breath, thereby indicating a blitz on the importation of noxious and innocuous drug I don't know why they were bothering, as acid and pot can be obtained with ease from many sources in the city.
• The normally amiable relationship between protesting students and the Police took a hammering recently when a policeman died of a heart attack during a demonstration. Many irate citizens wrote irate and ungrammatical letters to the local rags, protesting at 'student hooliganism: the murder of a policeman doing his duty, and so forth. They behaved, in fact, just like the reasonable Fascists most of them seem to be. Student leaders immediately predicted that future protests would he used by the Police for purposes of retaliation. Their fears were realized when Prime Minister Gorton was met by a haggle of hecklers a few days ago. A squad of minions charged at them (first removing identification numbers) and proceeded to lay about with considerable force and abandon. Over twenty students were arrested and others carted off to hospital. I look forward with anticipation to the next round in the continuing battle.
• A favourite venue for Sunday afternoon entertainment is the Domain, where speakers gather to exhort the population on a variety of topics. There's a character called Webster who draws crowds of up to a thousand. He is supposed to be an entertainer, and the mentality of the Australian public can be gauged by the numbers who gather to listen to his ramblings. What he has to say is negligible, as is the content of the newspaper that he publishes and hawks off to the more gullible in the Sunday audience. The best speaker on the Domain, and the one who has the best things to say (natch), is former Vic activist and anarchist
• There's a lot of talk in the air about helping the aborigines, especially among the do-gooders in the student population. At a recent meeting of the Free University (a terraced house in Redfern) a group of keen types gathered to plan a further stage in their Up the Abos campaign. One remark, casually dropped into the conversation, really bowled me over. A speaker facetiously suggested that they set up boomerang factories as part of their activity, and one young woman replied that this wouldn't help the aborigines very much, as the only people she knew who made boomerangs were Australians. An unconscious slip, perhaps, but clearly indicative of some brand or other of sell-deceptive doublethink.
• People glimpsed:
• Film-going is outrageously expensive, but has not deterred me from seeing Stanley Kubrick's dazzling achievement. 2001: A Space Odyssey, shortly opening in N.Z. I believe, This is Kubrick's finest film, from the point of view of both technique and content. The colour Cinerama is at least as good as that in Grand Prix, and the simulations of space and space travel are unrivalled. Some may question the enigmatic nature of the theme. with us implications of metaphysics and Einstein, but I think that definite knowledge of what Kubrick and Arthur 2001 is not popular with the intellectuals over here, and even the film addicts seem to he anti-Kubrick, to say nothing of being anti-Frankenheimer. A queer place, but I suppose there are compensations. At least Tne Graduate and No Way to Treat A Lady can still be seen, and one can always avoid the grumblings of the pedants. In a few days I will be seeing Vittoria de Sica's classic Bicycle Thieves, so my jaundiced assumptions about neo-realism will be put to the test More of that another time.
Have you ever been had? If you were one of those who marched to Parliament the other week to register your demand for better bursaries and accommodation then you have been had. You have been had by ambitious student politicians who united causes, amalgamated student demands with those of other groups, and eventually ended up denying responsibility for the violence resulting from the union.
There is a hard core of marchers at Victoria, people who will demonstrate for almost any cause. It is not a large group, and it is certainly a small share of the group which marched. The actual count of marchers have varied from 550 to 1200. Whatever the numbers, two points merit attention. Firstly, this was a healthy turnout, and I suggest that it was healthy essentially because of the unique student issues, bursaries and accommodation. Secondly, there were many in the student march who were not students — 'People's Voice" sellers and assorted other hangers-on.
But what was the end result? The bursaries issue was swamped in protest and violence connected with another cause. The leading banners were loudly proclaiming worker-student solidarity. anti-Seato, burning napalm, Vietnam, and a wide range of leftwing bogies. Sure enough, the banners did just enough to signify that a fair proportion of the crowd were students, but they did little to suggest just why many students were there. The BBC mentioned that evening that students and workers were present and that there was anger at a wage claim being rejected. but nothing was said of student demands. Local press coverage was similar. The Evening Post of the following day gave extensive space to the disturbance, but of student demands there were only one smallish incomplete photo of a female student with a caption indication the cause of her presence. In a scathing editorial reference was made to 'ostensible reasons' for the student protest. The bulk of reporting gave great prominence to students but only because it linked them with the violence. The Auckland Herald featured the demonstration prominently on its front page. Student claims, as distinct from student violence, rated two and a quarter lines compared to an esoteric banner attacking Mayor Love of Petone which made three lines of type.
Who was responsible for arranging the shotgun marriage of student and worker? Politically ambitious
But there were other individuals, recently student politicians, who were eager to promote the unity of causes in a king size demonstration. These were not students. These men were connected with the PPP conference, men who had
The whole scheme was ill-conceived and abortive. The timing was poor—student arrived when many workers had been and gone, and there could be no doubting the prominent role of students in what followed. The idea of a grand alliance between worker and student misfired. Workers on The Terrace hurled abuse at the machers, and in the crowd which formed, students were booing trade union leaders, and workers were heckling s'udent leaders. There was little unity, and it is unlikely that any but the most militant trade unionsists will consider joint action along these lines in future.
The crowd was treated lo the usual minority platitudes of "victory" and "on to future successes" but such meaningless phrases won't do anything to raise the student image from the mud which was once the parliamentary lawn. The whole performance can be seen as a demonstration of hothead crowd manipulation, of political ambition, of ulterior motive, of the lunatic fringe "student activist".
—Devon Biggs.
Here we sit on a shellfish-shelf, side by side, myself. Mazinta, imacassar, Andromeda, Gastrophonic, Ruwenzori, and
on devices similar to those known in Aggabug as "chair".
X is where our wagon sank, taking with it all our possessions. It is possible that the level of water will drop further; if so, we shall be able to rescue it. This loss is my fault: I should have quickly shut one of the doors as soon as we fell from the top of the shellfish But instead I rushed to sec that none of my inventions had been damaged. The water-powdering apparatus was intact, but the eye-opener seemed to have been partly broken in that fall. Now they may be further damaged by water.
O is a pillar protruding from the water. Perhaps it is a tree surmounted by a carved two-legged giralTe. It is becoming very uncomfortable on the shellfish. We are afraid to move for tear that it will feel us, reach for us. then devour us It is also very damp and cold and we can no longer see our fellows. All we have saved from the wagon is this green book, an armful of food, some beads (in case we find it neccssary to trade with the natives), a few rugs which we have wrapped around ourselves, a tiny wheel which turns when the sun shines on it, a handful of pebbles, a green glass ball, and a set of cards So we are to sit here, amuse Ourselves with these baubles and speculative chatter, and finally die from dampness.
We are rescued! Ottoman's wagon sailed through the gap at the distant left, we attracted the attention of Partenopeus as he tried to dislodge the 2-legged green giraffe from its pillar, and we were rescued by a rope The next message is from Ottoman.
"It was some time before we discovered that one wagon was missing, Ocarina sent a message to all the wagons, asking who was missing. Nobody would admit that they were missing, but after clever reasoning he deduced that it was yourselves He was relieved to find it was you. since you would be sure to take care of you and not he forever lost. We drifted for a few days, till we reached this city and the water began to drop."
A City! Of course! I see now that it is very similar to Aggabug. We are surrounded not by shellfish but by tops of buildings! Truly there is perspicacity in numbers. Ottoman continued
"As we floated between the tops of buildings we saw treetops, so we made towards them. We anchored ourselves to treetops, and the following morning the water had receded. We found we were in a pleasant grove. interspersed with large stones. We then set out to explore our surroundings, which is what we were doing when we found you."
We are waiting anxiously for the water to go down. Ottoman told me. Do sou remember what caused us to leave Coldplace? he asked. Nenuphar found a large white stone, growing Straight out from the earth in our newly-found grove; on it were carved the words
Ocarina dreamed of a grey stone with the words "Rest in peace" addressed to ourselves by our ancestors In short. they think that we have reached our ancestral land. I can see the truth in what Ottoman told me; it seems very likely that we have attained our homeland. But 1 am very disappointed. Even if—as Otto assures me—the spot itself is congenial—the surroundings are dismal, and not interesting. now that I can see we are in a city. These are the points of similarity of this place with our homeland
Ocarina has been studying the chronicles and decided the coincidence is great enough to be true: we have therefore arrived; our journey is at an end.
It is a very pleasant place, full of trees, mainly cedar, with a few large clearings, in one of which the main camp has been made, The walls are about half a day's walk around —less than I expected—with three gates, towards the north. towards the southeast, and towards the southwest. A curious thing is that the ground, which is mostly grass, is sprinkled with heavy, pale, square stones with some sort of inscriptions on them. These were obviously not left by our forebears, since they are nol inscribed in our script. Also, the ancients (as is well known) had a pathological horror of square stones.
Ocarina thinks that we are in the presence of truly ancient works, left by the ancients that our own ancient Hexatriximenia refers to. Ocarina is thinking of knocking off the corners of these stones, and making a while memorial building to us all. A splendid idea! Work has already begun on this. in the central clearing.
Haranguertang and Anaxagoras have taken their wagons to look in the deserted city for objects that may be useful to us. Cagliostro and Geranium have returned from a similar journey, their wagon loaded with oddities and enditics but not much that could be of use. Soon we are to leave with Ottoman. to see if the water has yet dropped far enough for us to recover our wagon, and to see where the animals are, (Geranium has found a few elephant-giraffes wandering in The streets.)
I am sitting now in the highest clearing in our homeland, which I see to be on a hilltop, (See the map.)
The Homeland Of The Triboldies
The Key To The Map Of The Homeland Of The Triboldies
A promising territory, except that there is a ridiculous pole projecting from the ground, thus
—Obviously a sign that some form of totem worship has been taking place here. Not by my ancestors! Some intruders must have been while we were away, and indulged in their disgusting riles at this very spot. But we shall soon pull down this pole. I thing I shall settle here, if others agree. I shall build a dwelling in a treetop. Or underground might be better, if the ground is solid and dry. Or both. with an ingenious interconnecting device; I can live in the treetop, and work underground on my inventions.
I went with Ottoman to rescue our wagon. We reached our northern gales (which Noilly Prat was polishing), and saw Haranguertang and Anaxagoras arguing with a group of strange people dressed mostly in grey and black, very large and clumsy looking people with loud voices. I saw immediately that the argument was being carried on in two languages, our own (by Haranguertang and Anaxagoras). and a barbarian tongue (by the others) Even in our own language, the argument was totally unintelligible, but it seemed that these strangers were claiming the objects that Harangue rang and Anaxagoras had brought back with them. I saw that there were many hundreds of strangers, in dozens of flimsy wagons drawn by those archaic creatures, horses, and immediately guessed that these people were coming to occupy the deserted city, which we have more right to than they, since we were here earlier. But if we are to share the spoils equally with them, we should lake the useful objects, and they the town. since we have no use for it. We certainly do not care for the buildings. When Ocarina's building is made, the rest of us shall probably dig large caverns under this homeland, and live in there. While the gates were opened after our exit. Harang and Anax rushed in, leaving the grey people watching. The grey ones made no attempt to chase them, but began to travel along the street which We were about to. So we waited for the grey people lo pass. They were contained in several hundreds of wagons that I counted before I reached a higher number than I knew. There are obviously many more of them than there are of us. We shall have to be careful when dealing with them. Some looked at us curiously—perhaps at our wornlooking wagon as much as at ourselves—and others shouted something that was unintelligible but seemed hostile. We ignored them, and after several hours of wailing for them to stop passing, we spat publicly on the roadway, and went to tell Ocarina what we have seen.
—I. M. Cain
—Eric Beach
—G. P. Soutre
The editor of the monthly YC programme "Poetry" intends to devote the August edition of this programme to writing by university students. He wants to receive as many poems as possible. Anyone interested, please drop contributions into Salient office, or send to Attention: Mrs Cloud" to arrive not later than Friday, July 26. Contributions should be clearly marked with name and address of writer. Contributors who are successful will be paid and will be given the opportunity to record their own poems.
The work of one of New Zealand's best artists,
A well-known New Zealand artist.
The eleven paintings in the library are selections from the major series of the artist's work
The "Fire" and "Showgirl" series painted while Hanly was in Europe represent what the artist himself would describe as his "corny" stage, when he was concerned to create socially significant and symbolic paintings. These powerful pieces of work are characterised bv an energetic, almost Feverish, application of colour.
By contrast in the "Figures In Light" series. Hanly's work has become more stylised, formal and ordered. After returning to New Zealand he was greatly affected by the light and space. He portrays this feeling in his paintings with impersonal people painted in hard light. Similarly in "The Girl Asleep" series, again painted in a beautifully controlled and restrained style, he captures the mood of the sleeping girl.
Finally with the "Pacific Icons" series Hanly has moved away from representational work and created abstract images of the Pacific "essentialness".
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The Benson and Hedges Art Award is at present being exhibited at the National Art Gallery.
With a very gent runs first prize of $3000, 26 selections from 214 entries, one would expect this exhibition to present some of New Zealand s best art.
But this is not the case. Most of the artists, in striving to keep up with overseas trends, seem to have confused originality with novelty. As a result their paintings tend to be facile and unconvincing attempts at emulation of overseas artists.
However, there were notable exceptions such as
The winning painting, Wong Sing Tai's "Outside The Inside Out" is certainly an impressive and powerful piece of work, if not exactly pleasing to the eye. The jail scene based on the artists personal experience conveys with a disconcerting reality the horror of the claustrophobic jail.
The bareness of the room in which the prisoner crouches menaced by a huge black figure is emphasised by the restrained use of colour.
Nevertheless, I do feel that the overall standard of the exhibition was disappointingly low, reflecting the poor quality of much of New Zealand art.
The performances are known well enough to need no description. If you are not yet a Supremes fan these discs won't help change your opinion. I suggest waiting for an outstanding forthcoming release—The Supremes At The Talk of The Town, recorded live in London.
The title Greatest Hits on the
I Was Made To Love Her (STMLM 6006 Stereo) just shows what can be done with Tamla Motown material when the singer has an original stylistic approach. In my opinion Stevie Wonder is the best of the Motown solo artists and this disc really swings—from the title song through to "Respect" and "My Girl", Unfortunately the recording is like most products on this label—lacking in bass with excessive sibilance.
At last And Lee (Reprise RS 6273 Stereo) contains most of their hit singles—"Summer Wine", "Jackson", "Velvet Morning", "Sand", and "Ladybird", plus interesting new material. I notice that someof their earlier hits have been re-orchestrated and the new recordings with dynamic Reprise Stereo sound are excellent. Lee's voice never Stays in tune very long, but he manages to extract the most out of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". It's a pity this duo don't concentrate more on album work.
God Bless Tiny Tim (Reprise RS 6292 Stereo) is one of the Campest LPs ever to come out of America. You've probably read about him in Time—he's an unknown identity, about 6 feet tall, with straggly shoulder length hair, a sickly feminine smile, and a nose bigger than Dnrante's. He carries his Complete musical accompaniament (i.e. ukulele) in a brown paper bag strung around his neck.
His self-confessed speciality is singing "psychedelic folk" numbers in a nasal falsetto voice, interspersed with Sick comments about hitting your grandmother with a shovel and other such sweeties. Cher sounds like an angel in comparison to his "attack" on her tune I Got You Babe". He warbles about "Livin" In The Sunlight, Lovin In The Moonlight" and "Strawberry Tea" and asks "Daddy, Daddy, What Is Heaven Like;" Funnily enough Tiny Timothys first single (off this LP) "Tip-toe Thru The Tulips" is winging its way up the American and New Zealand charts.
The Fugs (whose numbers include Tenderness junction (Reprise RS 6280 Stereo) but this is the first to be pressed in New Zealand. Their other LP was banned for Indecency. The only reaction to this disc seems to have been one of horror—everyone has jumped on the bandwagon and slated it as "sick" and "rude". Their humour isn't for the prudish—"You're My Radiant Wet-dream Angel Baby" —"Sitting On My Throne" Sung by a typical American backing of a fifties ballad. The "Aphrodite Mass" is slightly more musically advanced, with its "Litany Of The Street Grope", ":Genuffection At The Temple Of Squack", and "Homage To Throb Thrills", Like or dislike according to personal taste—I do, but I haven't yet found anyone to agree with.
The art of the personalised cinema—where direction is combined with Interpretation—is the most demanding artistic aggrandisement. These are the genuine auteurs. The most successful of them have been comedians—great names like Chaplin. Tati and Lewis come to mind. Acting-directing has also featured auteur of comic fantasy. Neither is Charlie Bubbles (Universal), is strongly influenced by the masters of the personalised film.
Charlie is persuaded to travel North from London to take his son to a football game. He takes a young thing who has latched herself on to him. exuberantly played by swinging chick American-style Blow Up style, he drives the Rolls through the bomb sites to placate her.
But Liza is in a different world to Charlie. Boredom seeps out of his even pore. He embarrassingly fumbles not only with her clothes but in the act of communication to all who admire and want to know him. A hitch-hiker's wife has read all the novels but Charlie cares nought. This atmosphere is remarkably captured in a roadside cafe when
The football match is observed from a glass booth so far from the play that it is no larger than a TV screen His son leaves him, returning home, Hours later Charlie returns after looking everywhere, His divorced wife, a brilliant
Britain's bright young cinematographer (It Happened Here, Privilege) uses Technicolor to evoke the cold loneliness of the Manchester slums and waste land—remember the bleak black-and-white of the early kitchen sink films?—and the potential lyricism of the country home.
(A Taste of Honey) is credited with the screenplay, I find it haul to believe there was one beyond a story outline. Even scene is impromptu, spontaneous. The people are real, exposed, ridiculous. It's as though the National Film Unit wanted to use the sale vards at Brightwater to make the Great New Zealand Film. Yes, it is screamingly funny and exceptionally entertaining, Universal are to be congratulated for making films of this type in England, following on from Privilege and Fahrenheit 451, preceding those on the way, I'll Never Forget What's is Name and Work is a Four Letter Word.
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A brief note cannot do justice to Paramount's new homage to slapstick presenting the blown-up swinging city full of mini-skirted bra-less birds and peacocked males. Girl With Green Eyes. Not surprisingly Smashing Time is directed by The Uncle (1965) and I Was Happy Here (1966) have not yet reached Wellington.
Rita and Lynn, one large-eyed the other large figured, romp through their many besetting adventures from the time Camden Road is contused with Carnaby to the sky-raising climax at London's revolving restaurant. The filling consists of coloured aerosols, oosy pics, laxative gin and hydra bubble baths. Affectionate and entertaining, Smashing Time is welcome relief to the over-exposed Antonioni enigma.
* Next week: "Belle de Jour" and "Shakespeare Wallah".
The Fire Raisers "A morality without a moral". In this variation on the theme of the search for the real face behind the mask, the audience is left to draw its own moral. The play can be interpreted as a criticism of Nazism; but its message has far wider application than this. Its strongest point seems to be the immorality of sitting-on-the-fence appeasement.
The play utilises the structure of traditional morality plays wiih Biedermann as Everyman, and the Fireman and the Fire Raisers symbolising the forces of good and evil. Schmitz and Eisenring, The Fire Kaisers, act largely as foils to Biedermann's emergence as the real villian, emphasised by his treatment of Knechtling. Frisch makes a definite statement against the uncommitted and those lacking in strong moral conviction in his presentation of Biedermann's inability to face the truth and the empty intellectualising of the Doctor of Philosophy. Frisch's point has relevance for our time in that if Everyman does not speak out he may be the villian.
This recent production was an excellent choice by the Drama Club although, unfortunately, the presentation was not entirely successful. Firemen and prints their lines without any mention of how they are to be performed. To cast women and to have them sing these lines was a brilliant idea.
Two performances stood out from the rest:
Photography has long been the Cinderella of New Zealand visual arts.
Only one art gallery in the country contains a photographic collection (Wanganui), and the "Arts in New Zealand section of the New Zealand Year Book never mentioned photography.
The passive ignorance or active prejudice towards this medium exists in spite of a strong national society, the Photographic Society of New Zealand, over 120 photographic clubs, and numerous local and international photographic exhibitions. The national society claims there are more amateur photographers per total population here than anywhere else in the world.
Various reasons have been advanced to explain photography's underprivileged status. It may be partly due to the prejudice that still regards this medium as a series of mechanical acts of technical virtuosity rather than a vehicle for artistic expression. The popularisation of photography as art in such books as The Family of Man, Nothing Personal, and Maori, should go a long way towards dispelling this attitude.
The low prices offered by New Zealand newspapers and journals of newsworthy pictures has been advanced as an explanation for the low incidence and output of professional photographers. It is notable that most creative photography in New Zealand is the work of amateurs.
Camera in New Zealand present a cross-section of subject-matter and skills in monochrome and colour. Prints were solicited by the editors from a large number of photographers and the published collection of 198 pictures is a selection of these.
As with New Zealand painting, sea- and land-scapes are the dominant subject, the result of the great variety and beauty of scenery offered to the artist within a confined territory.
Most of the photographs examine the mists and soft light effects of early morning and evening. A particular beautiful example of this type is E. F. Ashby's colour print of mists swirling through Dunedin streets after dawn.
There is no evidence in this book of attempts to explore the stark and sinewy ruggedness of the New Zealand countryside in full daylight as
The other main categories of pictures in the book are the collection of highly competant nature studies mainly close-ups of birds and insects, and the human studies, mostly drawn from the extremities of life child hood and old age.
A very effective example of the latter group is
The collection shows little evidence of experimentation in colour and tone, apart from a number of competent prints developed in limited black and white tones One of the few, ambitious exceptions is
While the subjects and treatment of some of the prints may strike the reader as hackneyed, this book is valuable for the interest and beauty of most of its pictures and as the first general record of photography in New Zealand.
Camera In New Zealand. Edited by Dr
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There was nothing missing last week. Read it again. Twits.
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As I sit in my Spot in the Library, this being one of my many wonts, I think of that phone call I forgot to make in the Student Union after tea, and I look at the rain, and I think of wetness of paths between the Library and the Sub, and I mutter stuphph or visualise a manipulated digit. Then I think of Rankine Brown Building, and bow it was built, and bow it was promised that phone booths for student use would be installed, and I wonder. I think to myself, perhaps someone has forgot. Perhaps someone thinks that we have forgot. Have we forgot? All together now. face the Administration Block, and make A Noise Like a Dial Tone. Thank you.
One writer and political thinker in this university objects, it seems, to being called a 'right-wing commentator'. Never fear, James, we know what a commentator is.
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This Week's Ideology.
Jaw-jaw is heller than war-war. Talking keeps wars at bay. Our Society, and the world, is kept from toppling over the brink of peace by the sporadic mutter of many voices, and if a Great Silence were to break out inconceivable violence would ensue.
It is therefore the duty— and the right—of every peace-loving citizen to take his part in the common strive to ward off the ever-imminent Great Silence, by ensuring that those sudden silences which descend are prevented from becoming permanent.
This is will of course prevent the inevitable violence breaking out and becoming a danger to world peace.
He has previously won the title in 1965 and 1966. Second place went to
Seconi has consistently finished in the first 20 in the so far. This is no mean feat major inter-club races held when the number of competitors is usually 200 plus. His placings were Vosseler Shield (15), Dorne Cup (14).
One of the unfortunate aspects of Vosseler Shield was the disqualification of
The annual competition with Massey for the Paekakariki Cup was run off in conjunction with the Club Championships.
Vic won the teams race with 23 points.
Massey scored 26 points (
Massey would have won but one of their runners.
The next big event on the Club's programme is the Provincial championship to be held at Trentham on July 27.
Last year, for the first time for some 15 years, the club had a member, Tony Woolhouse, make the provincial team.
It is highly unlikely that anyone will do so this season. but the overall team performance should, on results so far this year, be an improvement on the placing gained last year.
Vic's female hockey team recently had their first win of the season when they beat Massey 3—2 in the annual pre-tournament game.
Goals for Vic were scored by
This was a commendable effort since one of the regular Vic players was absent and Massey are top of the Palmers ton North competition.
The performances of the team up till now have been rather mediocre when one compares them with teams of past years. The departure of several key players, notably last year's Captain,
However, one must also take into account the fact that the standard of play in Women's hockey in the Wellington area appears to have risen appreciably.
One of the team members.
The team have a new coach this year.
The second term Badminton Competition closes with the finals between Biochemistry and Mathematics, and History and Music. These will be played on Monday 5th August.
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Ballroom Dancing Classes —Rember the times—10 a.m. Monday, 9 a.m. Thursday, and 5 p.m. Thursday.
Girls, this is a chance for you to brush up on those rather "rusty" steps. It's still not too late to join and you'll be very welcome.
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Intramural games have been arranged on an individual basis this year.
Leading players to date are:— .
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The challenges for 24/7/68 are as follows:
12.00 English vs. Weir (Rugby); 12.20 Chemistry v. (all Stars); 12.40 Physics v. Horowhenua: 1.00 Commerce v. Salient; 1.20 Economies v S.C.O.B.; 1.40 Geography v. Accountancy.
In the finals of the Intramural Basketball competition Law won a fast open game after five minutes extra time had been played.
At full-time both learns had scored 26 points, with Economics enjoying a four point handicap. In the final few minutes Law. (scratch) scored six point to win an exciting game.
Final placings were: 1st Law (Scr). 2nd Economics (+4), 3rd Maths (Scr). 4th Exec (+10), 5th Chemist (+10). 6th Tramping Club (+14).
Challenge matches will be arranged for the remainder of the term.
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Indoor bowls is the largest participant sport in New Zealand and the gymnasium has mats and bowls available for play.
A small group regularly use this equipment and play has now reached a very high standard. Perhaps this sport may become an intramural sport with appeal to the less actively inclined.
Any students who would he interested in regular competitive play should make inquiries at the gymnasium.
Congratulations to
These points came both from his ingenious running with the ball and his power- ful boot. Ricky is the strength behind the Weir backline and. but for his solid defence and calmness. Weir could have been in for a lot more trouble. His future looks to be one of first class rugby.
The VUW Underwater Club held its first meeting on June 24. Since then it has held another meeting and two trips.
Officers of the club were elected and at the second meeting a constitution provisionally approved. Affiliation with the Student Association is in process, and an early application for a grant aimed for.
At the last meeting a motion was proposed and carried without dissent, that a membership fee of fifty cents be imposed on all members to cover costs.
This will entitle the member to an individual membership card tor use in obtaining a discount on diving gear at a shop downtown. subject to completion of negotiation.
Affiliation with either the NZ Underwater Association or the local Wellington Club is being considered Trips are being held about once every weekend.
As the weather improves, more and more people without wetsuits are expected to attend. It is planned to hold at least two major trips to northern waters in the summer months.
The club includes in its aims the improvement of diving techniques and insists on safety at all times. It is hoped to institute training programmes for all members
Interested people number over sixty and others with an interest in any phase of underwater activity may contact
The Senior B and C rugby teams had wins on Saturday, defeating Tawa and Petone respectively.
The Senior A team continued their successful run of the last few weeks, defeating Wellington in one of the best Jubilee Cup matches of the season.
Forwards and backs combined to insure a well earned victory. This means that at the end of the first round University are top equal with Petone and on form have an excellent chance of taking the Jubilee Cup.
Mention must be made of the victorious march of the Third Grade Second Division team. This team leads us grade, and is one of only two undefeated teams within the club, the other being the Weir House Junior Third All Junior rugby cancelled.
Senior 1 v. Wellington, won 15-9
2 v Tawa, won 12-9.
3 v Petone, won 14-3.
Third 1 v. Tawa, lost 3-19. 2 v. Wellington "A" won 29-8
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Sir- Perhaps you are not aware that even as newspapers throughout the world proclaim the capture of James
The police, and others, are anxious to know the whereabouts of God, a male. believed to be of Jewish origin, who also uses the aliases 'Yahweh' and 'the Word' His age though unknown, is reckoned to be considerable.
The search for God was almost called off in 1966 when rumours of his death were widespread. But the police received information that he was alive and living in Argentina. Their Informant was later found dead; witnesses said he appeared to have been struck by a thunderbolt.
There is evidence that God may be it large in New Zealand where several societies sympathetic to his cause are still operating. Police believe that he will rendezvous here with Dr
God is wanted for questioning by the Egyptian authorities, who several years issued warrants for his arrest on charges of disorderly conduct, river pollution and infanticide.
More recently, he was cited as co-respondent in a now famous paternity suit by the
The Narcotics -Squad is said to be anxious to question him on a charge that be is 'the opium of the people' and claims that he is omnipresent may lead to charges of trespassing and loitering with intent The Earthquake and war Damages Commission is reported to have lodged a huge claim for damages against him.
Anyone knowing the where abouts of this person will, it is rumoured receive a reward of eternal life. If you have any information would you please contact the nearest police station immediately
Sir-I have a sister at University who is constantly complaining. Is this true? If so, what can be done? What is?
Sir- There has been a lot of discussion in daily and weekly journals about apartheid in Rhodesia however many of the letters contain opinions not facts
To me the facts are that Rhodesia is definitely following a policy of apartheid in matters of property ownership, segregation of facilities, education, inter racial sports and the press
Under the property
The regime has the power also to demand separate eating houses, separate transport, recreational facilities, parks, swimming pools sports fields. public conveniences and park benches. The Municipal Amendments Act is one of the pressures to end inter racial sports and mixed teams
The other pressure against inter racial sports is felt in the school since June 1967 Interracial sports have been forbidden. In November 1967, the smith Parliament enforced separate changing rooms showers, conveniences and seats For whites at non-white schools and enforced that integrated private schools had to send all white teams when visiting white schools.
The additions would be impossible for many native schools, which can not provide transport for deprived neighbouring village children. Education is not com pulsory for coloured Rhodesians, so many simply do not receive it.
It seems to me ironical that Smith claims to have support of all Rhodesians. Many native chiefs would lose all their livelihood if they do not support this fear state owning numerous restrietion areas, heavy press censorships and powerful police. Are these Smith's 'support'?
Sir—The Labour Club released a sheet in support to the Wednesday strike. The reasons given for demonstrating appreared thin enough that we might wonder why they wanted a demonstration.
The first reason was: "A number of individuals of the University feel indignant about the recent decision of the Arbitration Court." Apparently we should demonstrate in support of their opinions, not our own.
The second reason is rather more substantial We should demonstrate because: "the unions are looking to the universities for support." Since when have the unions had any sympathy for students.
We are informed that an undisclosed number of unnamed economics faculty members hold the opinion "that the economy could have stood a slight wage increase". It is of significance that the "slight wage increase" is not given as a percentage. Mr Haas then waffles on about a nonexistent wage freeze which is supposedly holding back the university salaries. He conveniently ignores his statement about "those on the lowest incomes in the society carrying burdens of community economic problems and inflation." Then we have the crowing argument, the persuasion that sweeps all before it: "it is expected the cafeteria will be closed on Wednesday'.
If we didn't know better we would think the Labour Club wanted our presence for some other reason.
R. Holland.
Sir—In the fifteen issues of 'Salient' so far this year space has been allocated to an obscure piece of writing entitled "The Return of the Triboldies." Why?
In your last issue (July 9th) this writing occupied a ball page of 'Salient, but in spite of this rather determined effort to take over the newspaper it appears no nearer to its conclusion. What is half a page of advertising space worth?
If this writing is not obscure, I withdraw use of that word. Similarly if it is not writing.
I am, by the way, protesting that this writing occupies potential newspace, potential advertising space and that it has pushed 'Sludge' out of the paper.
I am etc.,
"Denn is Pist"
[Sludge has retired to write scripts for a Downstage review, all advertising that can be sold is published, and I think that the Triboldies is more amusing than any of the news that is excluded —ed.]
Sir—The indictment of the press as claiming "power without ressponsibility, the prerogative of the harlot through the ages", has been splendidly fulfilled by you during your short term as editor of Salient.
An unfortunate combination of arrogance and immaturity can to some degree be blamed for this: while explaining, it does not excuse the attitudes which forced me, with some regret, to resign as a contributing editor. This is amplified by your comments regarding my resignation as printed in your last issue.
It is entirely evident that you remain reluctant to act in a responsible manner as editor. You appear unable to grasp the simple principle that your opinions, such as they are. belong in your editorials and in signed features. It should be no part of your job to play down, and attempt to belittle, articles with whose conclusions you happen to disagree.
To an unsophisticated, or to a fanatical mind, it may appear that one's own opinions are the only true and correct ones, to betreated in a "normal" manner. Those not fortunate enough to fall into this category must, to such a mentality, be placed on one side, under a sneering headline, together with photographs calculated to draw attention away from the test, and to subject it to criticism unrelated to its context.
Objective layout and sub-editing are not incompatible with strongly held political views, Writing from some experience in this field, while Political Editor of Craccum several years ago, my particular views were disagreed with by almost every contributor.
At no time did I receive any complaint as to my handling of their articles. It is to he regretted that you feel so insecure in your views that you must treat others so subjectively.
While tribute must he paid to the work required in making Salient a weekly publication, it can only be a cause for regret that mediocrity and a total lack of originality have characterised its columns.
It is particularly noteworthy that while flourishing the banner or rebellion. Salient has remained, in its editorial attitudes completely in conformity with what its editor appears to think to be fashionable student thought.
This was emphasised by your treatment of
Finally,
Specific comment is made of the fact that your well-publicised intention to stand for President of Students' Association may not be rewarded favourably if you antagonise left-wing groupings within the University by over-truthful reporting of their activities.
It is to be hoped that one day you will learn the difference between explanation and distortion, and between a headline and denigration. Until then. I must request that my resignation be confirmed.
I remain, etc.,
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I think also I should point out some factual errors in the letter above.
(1) There was "censorship" only of letters opposing
(2) There is only one article regarding the activities of "certain elderly ex-students" which I have been reluctant to publish. a disinclination to involve the Students' Association in a suit for defamation of character led me, on expert legal advice, to delay publication of the article pending alterations and a more thorough examination of the facts.
(3) It would be unlikely that I would expect to draw any con-siderable support from left-wing groupings in an election when though obviously to the left of the Party I hold office as President of the National Club (especially as it has for some time been well known that an active member of the Labour Club is a candidate for the Presidency of the Students' Association) I no of course no longer a candidate.
Any specificity Mr Mitchell has achieved in his letter thus appears somewhat less than accurate
I confirm his resignation with regret: I found his writing entertaining.—ed]
Sir—In Salient of July 16, you (and four others) signed a letter "to the editor", which immediately followed a letter signed by five people, including myself. Your letter was obviously a parody of ours.
As I understand it, it is only permissable for an editor or member of his staff (in a paper such as Salient) to insert a Comment. accompanying a letter in to the editor" Columns, where there is a fact which can be clarified or when an attack has been made, on the paper or a member of the staff, which can be rebutted.
But this comment appears a letter, possibly written independently of our letter which in fact has obviously been shown to a number of people so that a reply could he published next to the original.
It is evident that you realised that if you had published our letter alone, Mr Gager's considerable abilities as a parrot would have had no effect in Confusing the isues raised by our letter.
I contend that you as an editor have acted irresponsibly—in treating a serious letter as a joke— and that your action was a clear violation of the ethics of journalism.
I also submit that Salient is not a joke-sheet for the benefit of Mr Gager and yourself.
Yours faithfully,
[If Mr Fyson were to read the reply to his letter again, carefully,. he might see beyond the joke. I agree that it would have been better to delay publication of the reply for a week or so. —ed]
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Most asked question around campus last week: What is Trotskyism? Understandable confusion about the Spartacists and their Roman limes hero and the dreaded Pabloites — where else but on the Left do we have such a plethora of romantic names. For the record, he was murdered by a Stalinist agent in 1940 by means of an ice pick axe embedded in the Great Man's head. The convicted killer was released last year and went home to Russia.
As for Trotskyism, the only solution is to read the man's writings, readily available courtesy of such bourgeois publishers as Allen and Unwin, Heinemann and the University of Michigan Press.
Once emerged from a life-time of writing, you may well feel competent to impact a new brand of Trotskyism Redder than Red.
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If in doubt about depravation in NZ (see Nzrfu as a replacement for the national council of churches. With the hymn book banned what next? Liturgy and ritual, then the closing of the pubs for a permanent driven' strike.
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Now that this column has a rival in the return of that great scribbler Pettipoint, it seems the appropriate to lunge into a side kick at the Papal edifice. Dem Bones,
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This column occasionally touches on the movies. After all, in what other media can such mastery and mischief be found? Anyway, Hammer Films, who have churned out over a hundred horror movies of the Dracula's Daughter Meets Frankenstein's Ghost From Outer Space Type, have received the Queen's Award to Industry for Export. Modestly muttering on BBC TV next day, Big Bod from Hammer described how Britons have their Vampires tame— only the hammer raised over the stake—the Americans a little tougher—the hammer strikes the mallet — while the Japs (bless their little hearts) want to see the heart pierced and the victim jumping up to remove the stake. As they say in French, "Plusque...
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Apart from bestiality being invoked in the beer market's "Lie Down With A Leopard", the current spam of politico bum fluffery may be the cause of the black velvets label transplant.
"Old-fashioned . . . inadequate . . obsolete . . in fact, downright dishonest," said Mr V. F. Cracknell, leader of the Social Credit Political League and its sole MP, of New Zealand's present financial structure.
'This policy will simply not work in this changing world. We cannot continue this two dimensional taxing and borrowing—borrowing and taxing."
"If 80 per cent of money is created by the stroke of a pen in the banking system." he said "Why can't we do the same thing with the use of Reserve Bank credit?"
Inflation in this country at present was one of costs, not a case of "too much money chasing too few goods."
As long as a balance was maintained between production and purchasing power, such conditions as at present woud not exist.
The amount of credit issued would depend on the amount of goods and services available.
'As long as we go on ignoring this third dimension we will continue to pile up debt, the government will conlinue to borrow with the resultant higher taxation."
This acceleration of the debt cycle was the fundamental issue of today.
For the worker this cycle meant "the obtaining of a rise but with extra money in his pay packet being needed to pay for increased costs in goods and services."
"I cannot see that the worker can win through the Court of Arbitration under our present financial system."
"Irrespective of what the Arbitration Court decides it is essential that we solve arguments through constitutional means."
"If the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act needed amending Parliament must get on with the job. But we must not bring changes in the priority of criteria for a reversal of the original decision.'
"I think that if we are not very careful we may undermine the function and effectiveness of the Arbitration Court."
The basic problem, he said, was "the struggle with an out of date, inadequate, economic system."
Because of the reading knowledge requirement, many students have experienced considerable difficulty in completing their degrees, says Education Officer Caroline McGrath.
A petition is being circulated to ask for immediate reexamination of the compulsory foreign language requirement for B.A. and postgraduate science degrees.
Case histories are also being called for, Caroline says.
If you have a grievance or any comments on the present situation, please write them out and hand them in to the Students' Association office.
The following information is also required in any grievances :
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The Chancellor's lectures for 1968 will be delivered by Mr Robert Melville, a prominent British art critic, well known for his regular reviews in the New Statesman and the Architectural Review.
This was announced at a recent meeting of ihe University Council.
Mr Melville has written books on Picasso,
The dates and title of the lectures which will be given in the University Memorial Theatre at 8.15 p.m. are as follow:
Tuesday, 17 September, Surrealism and its influence; 19 September, Expressionism and Abstraction in Contemporary British Art; 24 September, Pop Art, British and American; 26 September, The Erotic Element in Western Art.
Nsusa may aquire its eighth constituent Association. At the annual meeting of the Association at Massey University in May the Executive was instructed to investigate the possibility of membership of Nsusa. Nzusa President Nzusa Councils for a year before finally deciding on Nzusa membership.
A student loan scheme is available to students who are in need of financial assistance and who have successfully completed at least two years full-time study.
The loan of $200 annually, with a maximum limit of $600 at the end of the student's fifth year.
The treasurer of the Students' Association,
The President of the Students' Association, Doug White, is to propose a yearly honorarium of $400 be paid to the President of the Association, at the SGM on Tuesday, July 30.
"The role requires so much time and responsibility that an honorarium should be paid to him," Doug said.
"It normally involves 30 hours per week."
Doug listed the aspects of student affairs for which the President was responsible.
"Because he represents the Association in the University and in the community he must have a full knowledge of Association matters.
"The ever-changing nature of student concerns, requires that he devote time to obtaining information and preparing cases."
"Only then will he be in a position to represent in a reasonable way the interests of the Association both inside and outside the University."
"The necessity to have student views properly presented will become even more important should Students' Association involvement in University affairs be increased as a result of recommendations made by the Joint Committee.
"Apart from that possibility, the responsibility of representing students will become more onerous in a growing University.
"Secondly, the President acts as the official spokesman for the Association through the news media.
"It is trite to say that experience is needed to utilise the channels of the news media to our best advantage.
"Obviously the President should have the opportunity to do this to the best of his ability."
Doug said, "The President initial and co-ordinates policy. Too often student claims collapse because they are made without any appreciation of the background to a problem or the circumstances surrounding a particular decision in the University."
The President should be able to ensure that policy is based on reasonable facts, presented in the right place, and followed up where necessary.
"As Chairman of the Association, he assists members of the Executive in their portfolios, he is responsible for the administration of the Association, and he needs to be available to se estudents and act on justified complaints.
"To do this he needs to be on campus much of the time: day and night.
"Finally, the President is responsible for presenting Vuwsa's views and protecting our interests in Nzusa, The national student organisaion."
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"Large numbers of young people in the United States are experimenting with drugs, but this is not a serious problem in New Zealand," said Dr
A film on LSD, shown by Dr Hall, explained why many young people in the United States are attracted to drugs, and showed the harmful effects they can have. Dr Hall said that 68 people in New Zealand last year were admitted to hospital on drug charges, and seven were on LSD.
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Professor J. T. Campbell, head of the Mathematics Department, has announced his resignation.
Professor Campbell says he has not regretted devoting his life to mathematics and students.
He received his B.A. from Otago, and then went to Edinburgh University to study under the late
He started his career at Victoria in 1936 as a lecturer, and after seventeen years became a Professor.