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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 4. 1964.

Crud Crude?

Crud Crude?

Sir,

How long will the just literate ravings of the "cruds" on the varsily campus be able to dominate so much space with their absolute banality? The myth of the sun-tanned, hearty drinking of a huge quantity of brown culture, treating women like "confectionery dolls." is at last showing signs of dying in this University. It Is dead, that is, except for the Iloud-mouth rowdies from Weir House who keep up the tradition of boorish behaviour, as their out-of-town fathers expect them to do because it is a closeted tradition In the family, like the musty varsity scarf in the wardrobe.

We are very perturbed that Mr. Crud had a party after which he had bloodshot eyes, worried that they had a party that was "crashed" by some gentlemen or ladies with homosexual or lesbian traits; all this Is so unusual in Wellington and looks really fine treated in such a bull neck way.

Without making a value judgment (cough), Mr. Crud's preference for the anal imagery of the Taj Mahal docs show a crude literary appreciation. Crude is the operative word.

—Yours, etc.,

Murray Rowlands.