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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 13. 1966.

First 'split' tournament

First 'split' tournament

For the first time Winter Tournament and Arts Festival were separated this year. The split was advocated by VUW on the grounds that organisation had become too cumbersome for one university to deal with alone.

Since Then there have been complaints from many students that the great divide would mean the end of the spirit of Tournament. An NZSPA reporter interviewed Alan Galbraith, Tournament controller, to see if any advantages had been gained by the split.

Mr. Galbraith said that Tournament can exist on its own, but the absence of the Arts Festival participants, particularly from evening activities, had taken away some of the atmosphere.

There was no appreciable decrease in the problems of organisation except perhaps that fewer billets had to be found. On the other hand even more activities had to be planned and although these had always been a part of tournament their organisation had in the past been shared by the Arts Festival committee.

Russell Armitage, Secretary of Auckland University Students' Association, had stronger things to say. He said that he had been puzzled to understand why the split had been decided in the first place for good organisation could handle anything.

He commented that this year there had been none of the real Tournament spirit in the evenings and also that Arts Festival must have been dead during the day.

"I think the organisers must realise that it is not advisable to divide the heart of varsity spirit," he said, "The move by Otago to unite the two again for their centenary will probably be a permanent step."