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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 6. April 10, 1974

October Club on Orientation

October Club on Orientation

Orientation:

During Orientation Week a group of students organised a series of discussions in Stage I lectures on the university and its social role. From their observations of the nine departments they dealt with they have compiled a series of questions which will be used as a basis for discussion:
1)What did they try to achieve?
2)Did they take the right approach?
3)What is the university's role in NZ society?
4)Does the subject matter taught at this university help perpetuate the status quo?
5)How far can the university be changed within New Zealand society at present?
6)What would university education be like under socialism?

What is the October Club?

In recent years, student political awareness has been primarily directed towards overseas issues such as the Indochina war. Each issue has been treated separately, largely on a humanitarian basis with little regard to underlying causes. Marxism and socialism have appeared to be abstract dogma, unrelated to us as students. By starting a New Zealand base (and the university in particular), and discussing the theory and practise of socialism in this context, the October Club hopes to involve more students in problem areas and extent political awareness.

How is it going to do this?

This can be done through films, forums and discussions on:

The content and approach of university subjects;

The university's effects on students and on society as a whole;

Local and international political issues and the underlying causes of these problems;

Methods of solving these problems.

Thursday, April 11 7.30pm—Smoking Room and Lounge.