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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 8. April 30 1968

Out Side Left

page 12

Out Side Left

Correction: Committee on Vietnam chairman John Cough has a bourgeois career after all—he's a Big Wheel in the Institute of Nuclear Sciences. So status is saved, the C.O.V. is in no danger, and the only thing lost is the cause of Student Power.

John has in fact graduated three times. So we have erred — badly. Long may the bourgeoisie chair the C.O.V!

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New idea for exporting revolution: paint Owen Gager black and send him to Harlem.

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Among the steady stream of protests to Salient'S editor against the folly, irresponsibility and/or crudity of this column was another letter on the Saga of Downstage's Own Paper, ACT, this time from a Marie August. Miss August rebukes this column for ignoring Mr. Bruce Mason's assertion that ACT "breaks even".

It is with bitter tears indeed that this column, under pressure, is forced to admit that it won't take Mr. Mason's bare word until it sees his figures—and finds out why they weren't included in Downstage's balance sheet. Which goes to show how suspicious irreverent and rude this column is. If you have read this far why not stop reading now. Your mind will be healthier for it.

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I like Piggy Muldoon. Its good to see somebody mentioning that education costs money, and obeys the laws of economics rather than transcending mere vulgar cash. Perhaps now Piggy has proved the education pressure group is dishonest with statistics, somebody will start wondering why we are spending all this money on Halls of Residence when most students prefer to live in flats. Is it because churches and other responsible hostelsponsoring organisations think it is easier to Watch Student Morals in hostels, especially ones with tight 11 o'clock curfews? Wouldn't it be easier to campaign for lower rents for flats than build hostels whose cost per square foot is spectacularly richer than commercial buildings?

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Before the Executive, whom a letter to last week's Salient revealed was a branch of the Labour Party, kicks me off Salient for supporting Muldoon, I should compensate for my right-wingery by a plug for the left. Going back to Piggy's speech last Tuesday, it did seem, that at some time Piggy was going to try to cut down education spending, and if we think that Piggy was wrong we don't want that. But how Is Piggy going to beat the Sound Men in the Education Department, the University Grants Commission, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all? Who will say he's wrong? Well, he told us. He'll try to undercut the normal methods of working out Government education spending by making submissions to the coming Nat. and Development Conference. The Conference will then be used AGAINST the education lobby. Sinister, eh? But did you know our Exec has gone on record In Favour Of the National Development Conference? Shortsighted, perhaps?

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