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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 3. 1967.

Insight

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Insight

Dear Fresher: Never forget in your years here that students are broke. Ask, nay bee, for every last cent of tree aid you can get.

Thus each year, you must demand free trucks from local firms for procesh.

You won't get many, so you'll hire the rest anyway. This annoys all the truck firms — whether or not they lent trucks. But it keeps poverty philosophy right on top. . . .

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And Never Forget your right to ever increasing aid from Keith and this country's staggering taxpayers.

Overseas, they recognise different student needs. All get basic aid. Those who need more get it as interest-free loan money, repayable after you leave university.

This radical idea is in danger of reaching New Zealand. Dear Fresher, never, Never fall in for it. Really the taxpayers Love supporting us. It makes them feel wanted. Even if we do walk down to Parliament sometimes to remind them.

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Once Again—this time at Waikato—the freedom of the student press is in issue.

Certainly, editors should have complete control of their paper. But what need have Waikato students of an article on lesbianism? The episode looks like another use of sex by student papers for sensationalism.

Student papers have a valuable role to play in sex education and reform. But this article — not a very good one—would not have served this aim.

Did Waikato editors Sim-cock and Williams deserve editorial freedom in the first place?

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Graduation ceremonies at Victoria have a sickly history. It seems the university administration forgets who they are run for. First, students had to battle for respectable degree certificates. Then, honorary degrees became a controversial topic.

Is it just possible that one day we may have a ceremony run for the students' enjoyment, instead of the academic convenience of the university? God knows, it's supposed to be the time when the student celebrates his academic success.

With a complete revamping of organisation, graduation in December would be quite feasible. Trouble is, the graduates are never on campus to give the necessary impetus.

—Cynic