-iiiV.'-. tiii'v'^'W'--^-'-**^"*'*-'' "•' '-'>*i<CWt Editorial 3 & Sallyanne Atkinson and Roy Harvey had a lot to say about this week's City Every week the world seems to get a bjt more crazy. The bewildering 4 Council Election (and each other). LENORE TAYLOR also reports on the array of insane decisions and nrtind boggling facts make it very tempt­ candidates in Taringa, candidates on campus and the women candidates in ing to withdraw into our own safe little worlds of assignment deadlines Paddington. and coffees in the refec. 5 Out of the ashes of AUS... arises another big mess! KEVIN VELLNAGEL One thing is certain, nothing will change If we all sit round like limp pieces of car­ reports. pet. 6 More MX. PETER D'ARTAGNAN reports on America's latest decisions. Power isn't some mystical quality which eminates from our leaders. Their power is. simply the sum total of our allegiance. Protest by us can wobble their pedestal and 7 They've brought nuclear weapons into Brisbane. Semper was there when the make them snatch for policies which please us. We just need the energy and the. warships docked. knowledge to do some effective wobbling. 8 Union News and Letters to the Editor. The most monstrous insanity is the world's desire for new and improved means of personal destruction. We can already destroy ourselves forty times over. One would 9 & Women's Rights Pages: The series of interviews with women in the profes- think masochism would have its limits. But this week congress approved another $15 10 sions continue, plus; the young women's collective and more on the women's billion spending on MX missiles. (Think about it, $15,000,000,000 dollarsll I) self-defence courses. This Sunday the people of Brisbane are" rallying for peace at 12.30 p.m. in Roma 11 In true Chariots of Fire tradition our own Great Court Race, by ANDY Street Forum. This is when peace groups count theirsupport. This is when politicians WORRALL. Arts Summit: Three ambitious, but not so charismatic students peer down from their pedestals and figure out how many votes they might lose by organise a meeting in the style of their leader. There are two new anti-nuke making more pro-nuclear decisions, This is when we can all stand up for sanity.. groups on campus. LYN IRWIN reports. College News: The Natives are Restless by P. GIBBON. More on the 75th Anniversary celebrations by The second disturbing issue to resurface this week is the probability of the re-intro­ JOHN MAINSTONE. duction of tertiary fees. Apart from costing each one of us Si,500 every year, this decision will worsen the 13 The Union has recently cut up its cupcake. KEVIN VELLNAGEL talks to already elitist nature of universities and is indicative of the decreasing priority place Treasurer, Tony Kynaston about tlie budget and the problems. TEAS dead­ this government gives to education. line is fast approaching. Get those forms in fast. The rumblings from Canberra have turned into a roar and we could all soon be faced with tertiary fees, Minister for Finance, Peter Walsh, made the pro-fees submission to caucus last week, GAVIN SAWFORD gives the inside story. while education Minister Ryan's proposal recommended against the re-introduction of fees. Caucus referred the matter further to the Expenditure Review Committee. 14 & Wliat's On ... 1000 ways to get off your bum and go out. 15 The Walsh argument, contained in a paper leaked to Semper, Is flimsy and based al­ most entirely on a study of students commencing higher education conducted in 16 KATHRYN McKAY talks to our new Education Resource Officer. THE 1976 and 1977 by Anderson, Boven, Fensham and Powell. POSTMAN gives a revised version of union happenings. Opposition to Job's This study concluded that the abolition of fees had 'produced no discemable dif­ Doctorate is growing. MADONNA KING reports. ference in the social spectrum of higher education'. 17 & Fiction, Consuming Passion - a disarming short story by ROSS S.MITH It is important to note that the study was conducted only two years after the abo­ 18 lition of fees, a very short time in which to expect a breakdown in the attitudes and norms barring lower socio-economic groups from tertiary education. 19 The Real Axis. KEVIN GILBERT talks with (and about) PSI and Other Voices. _ One of the academics involved in the study has been quoted in the Melbourne Age as saying that the re-introduction of fees would be 'socially regressive' and that more 20 An Overview of Rock. GAVIN SAWFORD interviews the author of "Rock in the Eighties". recent studies have shown that more people with lower socio economic backgrounds are attending university. 21 & Reviews, reviews, reviews... records These statements seriously undermine Senator Walsh's arguments. It is disturbing 22 that caucus voted to pursue the matter, despite ALP policy to provide free tertiary education and the flimsy pro fees arguments. 23 More reviews; books and films Student measures to combat the re-introduction of fees wilt be discussed at the 25 Still more reviews; theatre, galleries and restaurants rally on Wednesday March 27 at 1 p.m. in the Great Court. Also, there is a letter on page 4 of this Semper which can be filled out and sent directly to Canberra. 27 Dirt and our new comic "Get Tough" The student outcry throughout Australia must be loud and persistent to reach the 28 I wasn't kidding, or how lo commit suicide so they will never forget, by ears of a government intent on budget cuts. Andrew Christie and Karen Heuler. Reviewed by MORT STREET. These two issues affect us all. This week we are presented with an opportunity to take a stand on each of them. Think past next weeks assignment deadline. Think about these threats to our existence as students and as residents of planet earth ... and .. .RALLY AGAINST THE RE-INTRODUCTION OF FEES, MARCH 27, THE GREAT COURT, 1 P.M. and RALLY FOR PEACE AND NUCLEAR DISARMA­ MENT, MARCH 31, ROMA STREET FORUM, 12.30 P.M. LENORETAYLOR WE WERE WRONG In the article "Conventional Warfare" on pages 12-13 of our last edition, in Roi't Number Two, reference was made to Thomas Bradley and Tracey Harrison having attempted to represent Bald Hills TAPE college and the Queensland College of Art respectively. Semper now finds this information to be incorrect. There was an at­ tempt by other students to represent these colleges but THOMAS BRADLEY AND TRACEY HARRISON WERE NOT INVOLVED. Semper apologises to them for any inconvenience this error may have caused. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiintiim^ CAN YOU HELP US?? The next edition of Semper is the 75th Anniversary edition. If you have any interesting anecdotes, information or photographs which we could use, please drop them in at the Semper office. We are also researching a story on the publishing industry in Australia. If you have opinions, expertise or information in this area, we would also like to talk to you I General contributions of articles, short stories and graphics are also needed. Come to the Semper office or call 371 2568, Semper is a non-profit political and cultural magazine based at the Uni of Qld. EDITORS: Lenore Taylor, Kevin Vellnagel and Gavin Sawford TYPESETTING: Louise Larder LAYOUT: Matt Mawson PRINTERS: Warwick Daily Nev«, Warwick DISTRIBUTION: On campus - the editors, Off campus - Gordon & Gotch ADVERTISING: Phone Tony Anderton on 371 2568 PUBLISHER: Mr Brad Bauman, President of the Studenu Union, U.Q. Contributions are welcomeij, but no responsibility is accepted for unsolicited material. Ssmpsr, March 25,1986 . The POfA SALLYANNE Show With less than a week to go, the governments. He said that Brisbane rate Brisbane City Council eleclion cam­ payers were already footing $20 million of the $32 million bus system deficit and paign focuses ever more closely on could ill afford a bigger bill. Alderman it's-time-for-a-changc At­ Sallyanne Atkinson was also pessimistic kinson and Lord Mayor I'll-stand- about the possibility of sludcntconccssions on-my-record Harvey. unless ihe savings generated by the Liberal Party's planned bus system overhaul The polls have put S.illy.innc slightly could fund ihcm. ahead, but only the incautious would make substantial bets. BIKEWAYS The Labor adminisiration seems on the Bikeways are another transport mailer defensive. After 24 years of City Hall do­ relcvanl to sludenls. Both Sallyanne and minance, they arc facing their closest cam­ Roy have grand bike way plans. paign. The Labor administration provided When Semper interviewed Rov Harvey, SI.8 million to improve the University his public relations person was constantly bikcway and build bikeways in other parts present, occasionally prompting the Lord uf the city in 1984/85. Further work will Mayor, finding him relevant material and complete the Toowong Station section of indicating whether or not material was on the University bikeway and extend il the record. through'the city to the Botanic Gardens. 5allyannc .Atkinson seemed confident Sallyanne Atkinson was critical of the when she spoke lo Semper after an early Labor plan and said that she would pro­ morning breakfast engagement. duce a mote comprehensive plan includ­ She often mentioned her admiration ing a bikeway from Indooroopilly Station for the type of local government she had to the University, observed on her two irips to America. She obviously has many new ideas and CAMPAIGN FUNDING uses her academic friends at University The Liberals have accused Lord Mayor and QIT lo help her with plans and pro­ Harvey of using ratepayers tnoney to fund posals.