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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 33, Number 7. 27 May, 1970

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?

page 8

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?

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The academic community (is) a way of organising a set of personal relationships, of contriving an equilibrium of conflicts, so as to promote an imaginative grasp on living knowledge. Within such a community, learning is a joint and continuous process, ideally embodied in the tutorial or seminar group accompanied by individual study and it presupposes the free-ranging and responsible play of intelligence, informed by passion, and always moving towards a critical comment. Within such a community, assessment should emerge out of self-assessment. . ."

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Wellington Hotel Association 3rd Floor Westbrook House 181-183 Willis Street Wellington, I The President, University Students' Assn., Kelburn Parade, Wellington

Dear Sir,

For your information, I list below the various hotels in which incidents occurred on the day of the recent University capping parade:
  • Gresham Hotel - 60 broken beer jugs, 90 broken glasses.
  • Grand Hotel - I Spirit bowser broken. 144 broken glasses, 24 broken jugs. Bars closed for 1 hour to clean up the mess.
  • Carlton Hotel - Cash box containing $17 removed from the reception desk and subsequently found empty in the toilets at the Britannia Hotel.
  • Britannia Hotel - 1 dozen broken glasses and 1 jug broken.
  • Duke of Edinburgh Hotel - Broken jugs and glasses to the value of $30.
  • Hotel St. George - 10 dozen broken glasses, 14 broken jugs. 26 pint bottles of beer stolen, as well as 2 tables valued at $40. Bars closed for 2 hours to clean up the mess.

At this stage I am advising you of this information, but do not make any further comment, except to say that the matter will be considered by my Executive at its next committee meeting.

I am forwarding similar letters to His Worship the Mayor and the Superintendent of Police, Wellington.

Yours faithfully,

J.J. Williams

Secretary

Full marks to those students who took Victoria's public image out into the streets during Procesh, We've heard nothing but praise from members of the public for the way in which students eschewed humour and satire and once again stressed those oral, anal and genital fixations which so clearly demarcate them from the pigs with which one might otherwise be tempted to compare them. We know, of course, that they were weaned too early and—since this is the land of Karitane—were fed to the clock and not to the demands of their stomachs. So they have to drink as much as they can. And then they excrete what they drink; which leads us, indirectly shall we say, to their anal fixations. Okay, so they were toilet-trained to the point that the lavatory has become for them a shrine and confessional. And then there are their genital fixations. Oh yes, we know that they have serious doubts about their sexuality and always feared at school that their latent homosexuality (how's it going mate, alright?) would one day manifest itself in the scrum. So they have to prove that, too. Knowing all this, as we do, we know that smashing glasses in the Gresham is about as much as we can expect. We find that we don't need the watery horsepiss which is commonly served in New Zealand hotels to make us vomit.

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