Goatie lost

Against all pleadings, in spite of all advice, Toro shaved off his goatie. Just a few brutal strokes, and havoc was wrought. He revealed himself to be a fresh-faced youth of ruddy complexion.

The revered remains of "goatie" are pinned to his wardrobe with a suitable white cardboard cross over them.

Staid elections

Well The elections certainly coughed up a staid little bunch of exec members. Four lawmen, three current GE men, one past president of Auckland's GE, one self-confessed leftist (who's so far left that he's right), one alien, and one allbody. Oh, yes, that's right, there are four females—that makes four unknown quantities.

No doubt this happy little bunch will settle down to their bureaucratic pastimes. We can expect all those platitudes to roll forth honouring motherhood, the Queen, daily baths, democracy and Andrews Liver Salts.

EU capitalist?

Evangelical Union really takes its capitalism seriously. They go for the "get out and sell" policy in a big way.

Just before Study Week they were busy as bees handing out guff on how we could all be saved. A poor student couldn't even grab a few minutes in the caf without being descended upon with news of the "good" message.

You know, a university's not really the place for this sort of performance.

Golden voice

Rumour has it that the new Public Relations Officer. Dan Bradshaw, is looking for students with a golden voice. If you happen to be one of those lucky people there could be an opening for you to break into the field of big time broadcasting on the 2YD University programme.

Train them!

Lecturers are chosen on academic ability, as we know. Academic ability does not imply teaching ability, as we all know. It would then seem reasonable that lecturers should be given some training in the techniques of teaching, or even of public speaking. But, as we all know, this just does not happen.

Congratulations

Congratulations to the "Sunday Times." An excellent series on abortion. And it was written by a former editor of Salient.

We hope to see more of this approach. Most pleasing of all is that it's not a vain hope.

An omen?

For Many years New Zealand's finest feat in social welfare has been our ability to maintain full employment. This has been wiped away in a few short months.

What we have witnessed is not a passing phase, it is an omen of future promises held out by mechanisation. It is not too early to follow Britain's lead and introduce large-scale retraining schemes for the unskilled, or other Jobless.

Capping

It Seems the major objection to there being two evening capping ceremonies was that University dignataries would have to put on tails two nights in a row.

Council has managed to overcome this disadvantage, and there will be two evening ceremonies for next year's capping.