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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 18. 26th July 1973

Salient Biased???

Salient Biased???

Dear Sirs,

I wish to register my protest at the insidious and subversive forces of evil that are taking over the world with the evident support of fellow-travellers such as yourselves. Your support has increased markedly both in volume and tone over the past few issues, under the flimsy pretext of some few students visiting China who get three and a half pages of propaganda in your last issue. Not content with this you publish a further three pages on Rhodesia from a self-admitted biased source. How about some pretence at fairness such as an article from Ian Smith? Returning to New Zealand, you seem to be doing your best to stir racial hatred into our present harmony with three pages mumbling about the "minority race" and the "power structure". The last true words I saw in Salient on this topic came from Bob Jones. No apology is sufficient to cover the blatant pushing of your point of view in the "Salient Notes" of the last issue — how about less emphasis on "revolutionary correctness" and more on campus which the average student is much more concerned with? Whatever happened to the page on sports? — a subject much more likely to provide wholesome relaxation and character building than the present mythological paeans on China.

Yours etc Glenn Fraser