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tich which letters 8. Further WHO'S A SILLY BOY, THEN? arcade join Donim around, and then invited them for a It has been asked w hy some people write do the other 10,500 think? I bet they think like I T . Dear C R A C K E M , "light snack". W hen the dining room doors continuous letters like this. W ell I write them do, that the whole thing is a farce, and that I ne peep-sl [ ^ er last week's silly letter, here is the even opened there was a long table filled with plates to establish some type of imagined readership every serious candidate is just as ultra left-wing :ographic sillier: ALFRED NONYM OUS AND THE full of grapefruit, and also at the end of the empire, push some particular unidentified as the rest. Well, this year you all have a GRAPEFRUIT STRIKES BACKI: peep show table was Agent Grapefruit and Colonel cause, and for m y own alter-ego trip just like chance to stand and be counted. This year there the inside, ai Froggy Kent was minding his own business Riphurheddoff along with that whinger Baby Nigel Pearson suggqpted. It compensates for is a serious candidate who: on the planet of Hothity when he noticed a Fitt. Alfred chucked a grapefruit at them, but >ne. For 5 m y own dull and boring personality since I'm 1) ls N O T a communist or socialist. strange c r a c c u m d r o id w h e e lin g a r o u n d t h e the Agent used the dark side of the farce to just a First Year Science Student. It is so much 2) Does N O T remain a perpetual student, lute segmeni campus. The farce told Froggy that this was a heave it back at them, and then ordered them fun to walk around the quad and peer over just to re-run for president every year. hile many spy craccum droid sent by the evil minds of to be taken away. Agent Grapefruit then their shoulders and watch them reading m y 3) SUPPORTS the tour (and the smelter). queues wait! AGENT GRAPEFRUIT and COLONEL decided to test his new freezing chamber so he exciting letters in the pages of Craccum, with 4) Has had a G UTSFUL of all the whingeing, TIIPHURHEDDOFF. He quickly ran down to the s waiting decided to try it out on Maya Sue Donim, and Dak's witty captions above. Hee hee hee, and bleeding heart m inority pressure groups that phones in the basement of the Maths/Physics so he froze her to Alfred's dismay. This made nobody kpows who it is who writes them give Auckland University a totally undeserved 3 P a rty" Building, and changed into ALFRED Alfred very angry, so he finally pulled out a except Alfred Nonymous! Although I think I b a d n a m e . I wondei WONYMOUSI He met Maya Sue Donim at the rolled up Craccum, and challenged Agent may have been getting funny looks from Dak This year you can show that you are proud 3er basket w , and they rushed up to the Craccum Grapefruit to a craccumsabre fightl as I walk past him, or m aybe it's just m y of your University, that you appreciate the Office to w a r n t h e R e b e l L e a d e r D a k l S e r g e a n t Alfred Nonym ous and Agent Grapefruit lit imagination. Ah, who cares anyway? education the taxpayer is giving you, and that Dak quickly called an em ergency meeting, and ire to their craccumsabres, and both began to fight BORING! Anyway, until next week I remain; you, too, are fed up with the bad image a few then all of Hothity Base was frantically savagely. After hours of this fun, Alfred cut off stirrers are giving you. this morning preparing for the im m inent grapefruit attack. Agent Grapefruit's head, and noticed very little Yours in Insanity, The candidate is Gavin D. McLellan: the Suddenly they came, the tie-craccums firing ss the fiowei difference! Then Colonel Riphurheddoff took a Alfred Nonymous official Grapefruit candidate. The only :adem ic rotten grapefruits at the Rebel Base, and led by craccumsabre, and quickly had his head cut off candidate that the Agent has ever supported. the Agent and Colonel in the om inous KILLER i w ho le thing since he was an uncoordinated little twitl P.S. Coming next week: ALFRED The only candidate who thinks like YO U do. GRAPEFRUIT that was zapping the base with Shocked at the death of their leaders, and NONYMOUS THINKS BIGI Vote for McLellan, give the bastards a shock, i you leave death rays. The Rebels retaliated fiercely with disorganised, ignorant, and incompetent as P.P.S. Here's a test for the poor typesetter: show them how many there are of you!!! 600 ak the spell, their own craccdm lasers and X-craccum s, but well, they let Alfred run halfway back to the #j)-384jfd8'(**$*kdos82340H'()g78U9djf8JOh'2F votes and he will be in. I size ; they were obviously being beaten, so Sergeant MILLENIUM CRACCUM before they started jqhLdje90'""""'xxxs'('Et%*&'%*&&'4564. filled the Dak ordered a mass evacuation, and everybody chasing him (well this is the only w ay I can How about: Que pasa senor? Tiene kolen! Yours very sincerely. took off in X-craccum s, except for Alfred think of ending the story). Firing death bolts as es to protect Neat typewriter, huh Dak? Agent Grapefruit. Nonymous and Maya Sue Donim who took off he ran, Alfred Nonym ous got into the in the M ILLENIUM CRACCUM I The Rebel MILLENIUM CRACCUM and was into P.S. Don't be fooled - the only difference Army did as much damage as they could to on/vay bus, hyperspace before the Imperials could catch WRONG ALL OVER THE PLACE between Stephen Fullerton and Stephen Deople would! the KILLER GRAPEFRUIT, but could not him, as the fickle machine finally worked this Dear cute, gorgeous and cuddly editor, Mitchell is the spelling. destroy it, so they all just split into hyperspace >n the bus time! He had also zapped the KILLER You've been censoring m y letters again, P.P.S. If you censor this out, DAK, I will to get away from the Imperials. GRAPEFRUIT into a million bits before the jump issed and haven't you? Actually, I think you have been instruct m y camel to perform several obscene Unfortunately Alfred Nonym ous had trouble to hamper any retaliation. just a bit too harsh on m y last letter, because it acts of sanitation upon your letterbox, at ; head, with the hyperspace controls, so he could not Alfred Nonym ous was satisfied that he had only mentioned feminists once, for just a few regular intervals, for a long, long time. the slurring escape th e K I L L E R G R A P E F R U I T a n d killed Agent Grapefruit and Colonel lines. But if they really need to be protected by had to say, tie-craccums that were now pursuing the Riphurheddoff, and destroyed the DEATH you to such an extent, let them carry on that MILLENIUM CRACCUM . Alfred used the farce GRAPEFRUIT but even as he thought that, a way. They can stay away from noticeboards to dodge the death rays and rotten grapefruit, shit-stirring in the farce told him that the evil and then they won't get offended, because TRAGEDY OF FOLDER-CLIPS ith song, if but he could not keep it up for long, so he just pair would still recover som ehow from their m any copies of that last letter will soon be Dear Yorrick, >r chrissakes turned th e M I L L E N I U M C R A C C U M a r o u n d , loss of heads. Probably because their heads a p p e a r in g . I'm sure that no-one (that is to say, no omebody el: and headed straight for the KILLER were not so vital to them in the first place! Anyw ay, this letter is not about feminists. sensitive person) would want to suggest that GRAPEFRUITI Agent Grapefruit and Colonel Anyway, Alfred headed towards a rendezvous No - there is a far more ridiculous thing about your desire to purchase a single folder clip was Riphurheddoff were stunned as it approached point with the Rebels to build a new Rebel a trivial matter. somebody to happen. The presidential electionsl! In them, and then disappeared from their screens Base, and started thinking up ways of rescuing previous years, I have just sat passively and Folder clips are cussedly difficult little d re tty altogether! Agent Grapefruit was so angry that Maya Sue Donim. watched the whole show pass by, doing no gadgets. The come 50 tops and 50 bottoms to all enjoying he used the farce to strangle som e more than cast m y vote for some joke a pack, and we were always finding ourselves m ean if you controlpersons w ho he thought were T*H*E E*N*D candidate or for No Confidence. Now, there's left with too many tops or bottoms. So we responsible. started packaging them in bags of 5, to thwart du be here? only one reason you vote for a joke candidate: Alfred Nonym ous was laughing because the Note: I doubt if I will ever bother writing a because you find the whole election a joke and their elusiveness. MILLENIUM CRACCUM was really just sitting sequel to this story, as the sequel to The you couldn't give a stuff who won anyhow - It was never intended that a person should on top of the KILLER GRAPEFRUIT, and when Empire Strikes Back has not come out yet. So but this year I decided to do more. I shall not be able to purchase one single clip. (To the larger ship ejected som e grapefruit peels as it looks like I can't write a story where Maya e la b o r a te . each according to his needs; and so forth.) rubbish, the M ILLENIUM CRACCUM just Sue Donim is saved. I therefore won't need to I have felt for m any years that his impression The misunderstanding has been resolved. drifted away with it. Nobody on the KILLER sign her name anymore, and I can have the of the whole setup as one big joke was not Please com e in and buy your single folder clip - GRAPEFRUIT noticed the difference, but the column all to myself! Also I think I will stop only mine, but also shared by m any other we have it all sorted out for you; one top and booty hunter Baby Fitt sure did, so he followed putting the word REALITY in brackets as it has students on campus. Possibly even the one bottom: complete, single, and perfect. Alfred to the planet of Aspirin where Alfred very little to do with these stories! So I can majority. Normally 500-600 votes is enough to was going to meet his old friend Lardo. Lardo now just put Alfred Nonym ous at the end of get a president elected, and out of 12,000 Signed: showed Alfred Nonym ous and Maya Sue each letter. 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aclaurin Hi x ' D r 23 CRACCUM July 21 1981 letters A KEVIN HAGUE LETTER support of other wom en enough to get up and D e a r J o h n , y O f £ F 0 1 , read to us. Nothing feels better than How I hate to write, but I must let you know v v - JOHN discovering the depth and potential and sheer tonight, and all that. creative drive in women, about women, for women, with no men. In last week's Craccum, the President said «f Before I get so enthralled at our own magic that he would be commenting on what the job and wander off into further realms of joy, I'll of President involved. Since the President and I get to the point - wouldn't it be a good idea to differ on this subject, I felt that it m ight be do it again? appropriate to present the alternative point of This week w e hope to recreate that relaxed v i e w . blissful atmosphere. W e plan a women's The President is the link between AU SA and poetry and music evening. W e want informality the outside world, in the sense that he or she and general good feeling. W e're providing wine is responsible for meeting with the press and tef7 A\ and beer for sale and we hope the women on with the public, and for representing the X. this campus with a song to sing or poem to Association on a large number of University read (or songs or poems, written by committees. themselves or their favourite writer) will come along and listen and be listened to.

The President is also the person to whom The idea is to pay a small entrance fee and /A indulge in women's poetry and music with the people take their problems. W ayne would have consequent love and pain on Thursday the youbelieve that the position is essentially 2 3 rd . administrative. I suggest that AU S A spends a 'We' are four or five members of unifems great deal of m oney each year employing who want to organise it. Any m oney made will highly competent administrators and that the > 4 •rt go to the sad budget and maybe help fund financial blunders this year are evidence of further women's activities. I am Carmel. what can occur when the President seeks to m e d d le . Disrespectfully and enthusiastically myself The President is the leader of the A positively revolting Hag. Association. They must be trusted by students, and they must project a responsible and PLEADS INNOCENCE respectable image to the public, the University D e a r S ir, and the Government. I have never, until now entered into There are three candidates with the correspondence with your illustrious rag/paper. preliminary knowledge necessary to become However I am prompted to by a letter which I President. These are David Kirkpatrick, Peter have just perused in your latest issue. I am Shearer and Heather W orth. afraid I must disappoint your 'Everlasting I do not consider that Heather meets the Detective' (Christopher Robin?) Harrod, who other criteria. seems to have got the wrong person. !n fact Heather has made much of the he must have the brain of a chocolate fish if he various positions she has held both here and at thinks me to be the Colonel. He seems to have Victoria University. I am not in a position to the description correct (a boring little misfit), comment in any detail about her work at but what does this make a Stage 1 Chem V ic t o r ia , student? (Eh Mr Harrod, get the drift?). Perhaps Mr Harrod ought to be more careful W e would all have benefited if she had,, *'•••«nd they /«utjH for be/ievj n ^ in 5*rrtf» C/ausi at w ho he points the finger at. If he names for instance, devoted only half the energy she som ebody different each week who gets the has put into her election campaign into helping which cannot remain unanswered. we are never alone with our thoughts, our odd laugh from the regular Grapefruit column John Bates and Fliss Hope with the Education Throughout its six and a half year history Coffee Bar sausage rolls, our joys, our cold then be prepared for a regular Harrod column Fightback campaign. If people think back, the Impulse has given m any excellent Dancers and cups of coffee, or our failures in the last terms for the next hundred years or so. But don't only significant thing that she has done is to Choreographers a vital opportunity to pursue te s ts . give up Mr Harrod you are bound to have organised the picket of the Education their career. Under Jam ie Bull's courageous The crossword in the Herald will be done, accidentally pick the right bloke sooner or later Department - an event which seemed totally leadership Impulse has continually, and often someone will come (pleasel) and talk to me and I personally promise to give you ten contrived to provide her with the opportunity against seemingly impossible odds, launched soon to stop me swotting for this chocolate fish when you do. to be arrested. The leadership of the new untested Dance-works, enabling New assignment... they do it deliberately, you know Yours in innocence Association has lost a good deal of credibility Zealanders to share in the thrilling creative - bowling up and standing beside your chair Peter Alan Thompson with students and with the University. process of their country's Dance history in the until you have to look to see who's taking up m a k in g . the light and invite them to join you (you can't There is a place for radical politics and This process is very much like life itself. Not say "Go away, I've got to get this done by 5 WATCH OUT, CHRIS! emotion-packed rhetoric in AU SA. That place all is going to be to everyone's liking. Nor is it tonight" - you haven't seen them in your D e a r D a k , is N O T the presidency. intended to be. lectures lately). Then it's the classic W e the anonymously undersigned W hen one organises political activities, it is Trem endously important is that Impulse conversation, taking place every five minutes: ex-GBHS-ers would like to publicly disown and important to set goals which are realistic and today form s an integral part of New Zealand's "Gidday, how're things, what d'you reckon excommunicate ourselves from a certain to set out a strategy and tactical approach Dance-Drama development. To us that alone about that new lecturer yesterday, have you Christopher Harrod. Not to mention any names which are within the capabilities of one's gives it the right to exist. Jamie's dedication to done that assignment yet, did you manage to - w e know a very boring little social leper who organisation. Both Peter Shearer and David Dance is beyond dispute and deserves our full find those references..." Naturally w e are only spends his time compiling boring lists of boring s u p p o r t . Kirkpatrick are capable of this approach, as are looking for an excuse to stop work, but the seven-letter surnames. Please give him a runny Shale Chambers and Fliss Hope or Tom W e have some sympathy for Leonie conscience in,the back of our heads is always chocolate fish that he can use an an enema, so Bassett and Darryl Carey. The goals of these Reynolds' comment that one should "sack the reminding us that we really should stop he can spread his shit som ewhere else. candidates are all realistic. entire QE II Arts Council", although for a catching up on the gossip (who won the game Maim the little fuckwit. rather different reason. It is our experience, on Saturday, which longstanding - or not so - Caf-apathetics. Kirkpatrick, Bassett and Carey provide an along with m any other artists, that this couples have broken up) and continue our opportunity for greater student participation in organisation is irrelevant to the Arts in that work - unfortunately. AUSA's decision-making process. Shearer, virtually all its decisions are politically W e live in our own little world up here, THE BUBENDORFER SAGA m o t iv a t e d . Chambers and Hope would be officers in the earning a reputation (not necessarily deserved) CONTINUES tradition of AUSA's better past leaders. You Consequently theirs is a record littered with as bludgers, whiners, stirrers, and whingers, by D e a r D a k , have a choice between the political ideas of massive evidence of artistic incompetence and making a noisy stand on issues of apartheid, I was astonished on picking up last weeks Kirkpatrick, Bassett and Carey or the more ignorance. Inevitably their artistic efficacy is bursaries, and conservation (and that's only Craccum to find two letters written by me that complete experience of Shearer, Chambers and rare, accidental, inadvertent. ABC). W e stamp up and down on our hollow I don't ever recall writing, and what's more, I H o p e . The situation was summed up neatly for us soapbox and sometimes jum p right through it. even managed to spell m y own name wrong. recently in Wellington by the QE II Arts But you must excuse me - it's nearly time for W ith regard to the position of Treasurer, Could it be that "Concerned W om in" has Council's Dance Adviser, Dr. Ruth Harley. m y next lecture. Jonathon performs his money-managing job Said she with a giggle: "I really don't know adopted m y name as a pseudonym? well, but performs, generally speaking, poorly the first thing about Dance." Then, with the NOT ASHAMED In that case I could well believe that girls as an Executive member. Perhaps this will dignity befitting her position, she added: "Of Dear David, would laugh when seeing her 'thing'. Could it improve as the novelty wears off. He's still course, that makes it possible for me to be Some years ago I joined/formed a garage be that the poor cow has failed even as a worth your vote. le s b ia n ? perfectly objective." A pause. "Anyway," she band by the name of 'Oxdaks'. In this context One last comment. If the vote is split concluded, "I'm learning fast". the word 'dak' was taken to mean testicle. I In ardent support of feminism, between Kirkpatrick and Shearer (a situation Plopping both feet in one's mouth in rapid realise this must be a rather embarrassing Peter Bubendorfer which I am familiar withl) W orth has a good succession. W ell, that too, is an art of sorts. revelation which I hope will not cause you any chance of getting elected, even with a D e a r D a k , At the QE II Arts Council it is practised often, personal emotional strain. Naturally, I thought minority. If one of the two candidates is having I've been thinking about some of m y letters and with a panache commensurate with the it best that you should know this. second thoughts, it would make good sense to to Craccum, and I feel I should confess that I perpetrator's position and income. Impulse for Congratulations on the Jonathon Hunt withdraw in favour of the other. don't give a fuck about abortion, since I really one, certainly deserves a better deal from this interview. I enjoyed it. I am using this letter Yours sincerely, do prefer girls, so m y chances of getting b o d y . also as an open challenge to W ayne to give Kevin Hague pregnant are quite slim. Leonie Reynolds, kindly pick your target some sign of his existence as a human entity, AUSA President 1980. Concerned Womin intelligently when next you decide to shoot if he can't bring himself to write anything of J o h n , from the hip. his own opinion in his column with any D e a r D a k , This sort of personal attack, / think questions provocative content then he should be pushed I've been thinking a bit more about m y Kevin's credibility not m ine. Fightback has Liong and Faye aside from the heady world of journalism. letters to your literary journal, and feel that I been effective this year because I've w orked United Arts Enterprises Just to say that I like Craccum this year and didn't confess, well, everything. You see, I've so hard on it. P.O. Box 5938 - Wellesley St. wish people would stop harping on about the never actually seen a male 'thing', although I Heather W orth AUCKLAND good old days when Big Dave Merritt ran the did read Cleo once. Do you think that maybe BOO HISS REYNOLDS & QE II AC ship. It really wasn't that shit-hot. I'm a frustrated screwed up lesbian making a MORNING IMPRESSIONS OF A Dear Craccum, sub-conscious cry for attention through the Yours W e recently attended a Gisborne FIRST-YEAR STUDENT, or WHAT pages of Craccum? Lionel Gubb. performance by IMPULSE DANCE THEATRE I HAVE LEARNT SO FAR THIS Concerned Womble and thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Jam ie YEAR. ANOTHER FESTIVAL! P.S. It's quite untrue to say that I've never Bull's "Open Sandwich" stood out particularly seen a naked man simply because I resemble Sitting in the varsity cafe with a hot cup of Dear Editor of Craccum, as a highlight in the programme which something from under a rock. There are other coffee, low mixed hum of conversation and the This is an advertisement to the wom en on contained works by no less than five reasons as well. air-filters in the kitchens, cash register ringing campus. One of the greatest things about the choreographers. W e were also struck by the up the coffees and the teas of the W om en's Festival apart from the exhilaration of Dancers' integrity and sincerity of purpose. conversationalists. Fogbound students celebrating women's culture, was the friendly, CUTE, SNUKINS Taste brooks no argument, and we are wandering lost through the Park, late for their warm, supporting, generally delighted D e a r D a k , certainly not about to argue Leonie Reynold's 9 o'clock lectures. Radio B not going yet - it atmosphere which surrounded us. W e Nothing personal but i think we should hope extravagantly expressed dislike for Impulse, would only add a background melody in especially felt good about the women's poetry fro a good EVP and pray like hell for a good (Craccum's latest edition). However, she also harmony with the filters. Never mind, someone evening, when women who'd never read their P r e s id e n t. questions Impulse's right to exist in terms will throw an album on the turntable soon so poetry before, gathered the courage and Snukins. C R A C C U M July 21 1981 22 arts EARLY Bay. Albert Barracks, site of the present park and university, AUCKLAND ART churches, Maoris and their canoes, Partington's Windmill, the North 4 Watercolours Shore and Rangitoto are clearly by Patrick Hogan observed. The prints in this portfolio are from P.J. Hogan (1805-1878) who had originals held at the National Library studied art in Dublin came to of Australia, Canberra. They are Auckland on the 'Oriental Queen' and printed with light-fast inks on heavy completed these paintings of the mat paper. There are biographical settlement in 1852. The works are and historical notes and at $29.95 for executed w ith skill and include a the complete set are a genuine number of interesting views that bargain. They make a fine decoration vividly portray life in the colony. for flat or mansion and former Gov. The 'Governor Wynyard', a paddle General Bernard Ferguson displayed steamer built in Auckland and the them at Government House. first steam vessel on the harbour, is Enquiries 661-548. sexist depicted arriving from Panmure approaching its berth in Commercial Jim Burns

serious entertainment foreign languages, synonyms, ESSENTIAL Anglo-Saxon, American influence, ENGLISH hyphens and Dr. Johnson. An President observant traveller, even road signs A Word in Your Ear are subject to his penetrative I was slightly stunned to find last what they achieve depends on the Ian Gordon appraisal. It seems to be a question week that a few students do not amount of support the Association H einem ann of possessing an alert and an know that the Recreation Centre members give them. enquiring mind. I was interested to exists. Inside the Red Roofed building this same principle applies to the Whatever courses, business or read his suggestion to ignore the opposite the Engineering School are Administrative Vice President, the interests that engage your time on well-established rule about never many sporting facilities for students Education Vice-President and the the campus, anyone unacquainted ending a sentence with a preposition. use. Th e re are free show ers and Treasurer. with the author's weekly articles in But his own sense of correct usage is separate mens and womens saunas The final choice and the power is the 'N.Z. Listener' should rectify the so true in the placing of significant that are now open (at least partially) in your hands. Use it well. omission immediately. The former words, that I could discover but a and I w o u ld recom m end that if you professor of English at Victoria solitary example of his breaking of have not used our Recreation Centre BURSARIES University, left his native Scotland to the m axim . at this late stage of the year that you Still staying with serious matters, devote almost forty years to He mentions 'Heinemann's New begin to day. you will be no doubt aware that the W e llin g to n students. W h e th e r it is an Zealand Dictionary' which provides Budget provides for an additional $4, assessment of English dictionaries hundreds of New Zealand entries PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS to your Standard Tertiary Bursary (N.Z. Listener, 13.6.81) or writing that cannot be found elsewhere. All I can say is P L E A S E V O T E . ($23 to $27 for 1982). A U S A will still about collective nouns, he helps to There is a useful and entertaining be striving to improve this situation close those many gaps most of us are introduction and an index for those PRESIDENT'S JOB with a restructuring of the current aware of, in our command of the who need counsel in a hurry. This The President must spend about Tertiary Assistance Grants scheme. English language. He accomplishes it work will surely assist everyone to 80% of the time working on with insight, scholarship and humour. use language more expertly. administration. He is there to oversee THIS WEEK His net reaches far and deep as he and m aintain a w a tch in g brief over all comments about borrowings from Jim Burns the activities of the Association. The Tour Conceptually he must weigh up the Students will be travelling this interests of an electorate of 12,000 week to the Springbok match in students and seek to achieve a Gisborne. A U SA has voted over balance between various factions that SOCIALSTl $1000 of your money to pay for travel would seek to pull the Association in subsidies and protest banners. While one particular direction. Look at the many students have voiced protests 21st PARTIES candidates policy statements and that we have spent so much, none printed response to the questions put have actually seen me about this. If to them in this issue. See if they have you had I would explain that in order the experience in organisation and to action Association Policy and WEDDINGS, administration that will enable them actually do something about Racism to cope. About 15% of the time the within New Zealand we have decided President deals with Managerial to spend a small amount of your decisions and only a small amount of CONFERENCES money. The decision was made after time can be spent on Political work. a lot of careful thought and You have political officers elected in discussion and at meetings that were The A.U.S.A. Functions Dept, has order to show a lot of leadership in publicised widely. If you have further this last area. fully qualified, professional staff for all comments either for or against what To summarise, the President the Association is doing in this or in should be a person who has had your catering requirements. any other area I would welcome experience dealing with the University them . 3 0 - 7 8 9 6 4 at the highest level or have the Please phone Jill Cable on ex capacity to do so. Academic MEETINGS ______/ performance is important but the Meetings coming up this week are: ability to communicate student ideas Monday : University of Auckland effectively to men such as the Council, Student Community Service Vice-Chancellor Dr Colin Maiden and Programme Coordinating Committee - the Registrar Warwick Nicoll and to W e are looking at a guide to help you the University Committees is CRACCUM prepare for summer jobs. essential. Most importantly the A Deed of Management negotiating President must effectively divide his session and a Publications Committee SHORT STORY time between areas such as meeting to finalise your publications University Liason, analysing the Cafe Grants. performance, dealing with student Tuesday : Recreation enquiries, liasing with other student CDHPEirriON Sub-Committee, Finance Committee, organisations, the media etc.... No Craccum Administration Board and a one person can do all these things Faculty of Arts meeting, EQUALLY WELL. BUT TO Any length, any inspiration e tc ., e tc ...... CONCENTRATE ON ANY ONE AREA Entries close Friday August 14 As you can see you need a IS TO THE DETRIMENT OF ALL THE First prize $50, two runners up $25 each President who primarily has the OTHER MANY AREAS OF THE administrative mettle to handle these The winning entries will be printed in Craccum PRESIDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY. diverse committees on behalf of Make your choice carefully but no students. matter who is finally elected the Please Vote Tuesday and important point is that once elected Wednesday this week. that person deserves your support. Wayne McIntosh They hold the authority and the PRESIDENT responsibility of the Association and iaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...... aaaaaaaaaaa 21 CRACCUM July 21 1981

Another of a seemingly endless THE ANGELS at MAINSTREET stream of "Australia's top band's" hits Mainstreet this Friday and Saturday and play a single night at the Windsor Park Hotel tonight (Tu e s d a y ). The Angels are a five-piece band who started playing together in '75 They are but only really go going in early '78. with someth Since then they have achieved fairly above all tto formidable record sales with albums Veins last w "Face to Face" and "No Exit" both diverse and selling by the truckload. of modern c Angels live also have a fairly good only been t< reputation, setting attendance records that time ha at numerous Australian venues. in the far fn Their particular brand of, quote, dancing pro Auckland Town Hall uncompromising and complex brand While in > A ugust 7th of rock 'n roll, close quote, is Asker, the < Supporting Deane Waretini is supported by the always entertaining group, on a Richard Eriwhata, an expatriot from and professional drumming of ex-CB a feat to ex Mangakino, who has been doing the Brent Eccles. Should be good. on your ow nightclub circuit since 1979 though Supported by Techtones and external hel his big break broke when he became Broken Dolls. the bureacri part of the musical Waltons family govt w h o ai show. 12 Bar Rhythm and Shoes MOTHER GOOSE at needed curt now in its third season has had MAINSTREET their music. above this ( Richard Eriwata as a member from Mother Goose were originally a Yay! Yay! Yay! Mother Goose Human Veil the outset. His other television Dunedin band and, like so many return to a New Zealand Stage after complex ha appearances seem monopolised by before and since, left these fair an absence of too many years. These which provi Hudson and Halls but he has also shores to seek fame and/or fortune guys have been around a long time drama grou appeared in the Ray Woolf show to out in the wide world. Now, five and have had precious little support magazine, \ almost name a few. his first album tours of Australia, two of NZ and one from the NZ public and record expansive l< (from which he got his name of the US later, we have the chance companies. They are actually a All of Hum< incidentally) has now been released. to see the new rejuvenated Mother bloody good rock band playing their work is d o r This tour takes great pleasure in G oose in A u ck la n d . If rum ours are style of music with their style of spending m introducing “a spectacular looking true then this time round we are not stage act. They are both entertaining touring. In Auckland teenager", Kerrie Took^who going to see "Baked Beans", we will to listen to and to watch and company hi with her classical training in voice and see a fair degree of inspired lunacy unfortunately in a way it is the Adelaide, S clarinet is now exploring the cabaret on stage, w e will see a lot m ore push vibrancy of their delivery that has at well as tout scene. This includes a tour with from their new record label (W EA) times overshadowed the quality of country cer Diamond Lil but this is her big break and their international agents and we more than 1 folks. should hear some very good rock Touring just about every settlement m usic. immec in New Zealand except for a large After yea majority not forgetting Reeftoi>is middle-easi Deane Waretini, the godfather of the commissior New Zealand top ten. Unheard of for Asker decic X amount of years he hit the to establish headlines and local airwaves with The v major influ< Bridge, based on a 1965 hit II FEATURING... an influenc Silencio. apparent n< For a cabaret performer the who had hi prospect of touring all the big stages performing in New Zealand and even a few little W * * * * * * strengthen! ones, this will be a learning technique < experience for him. For all concerned developed this tour is an insurance assessors PANDIT GIRAJ: sitarist seven years nightmare but it is good to see a local dancers art artist being given this opportunity and In mid-August a sitar player of concerts, accompanied on tabla by machines c can only be good for other artists to international reputation is to give a Rajkumar, should be well worth the Ik? . work, a pr< do the sam e if it succeeds. series of recitals throughout New price of a night out for all those fans JOE COCKER many modi Zealand, including the Maidment on of, or those curious about, Indian was immec August 17 & 18. m usic. It's true! Joe Cocker is coming to was this fir Pandit Giriraj made his debut on "Giriraj is an artist of unmistakeable Auckland and if you've got your immediacy All-India Radio at the age of 18, in merit. His stroke has the virility of his latest bursary cheque and a taste for form Huma 1958, and has been giving recitals Ustad. He is deeply tuneful." nostalgia what possible better way overpoweri ever since, both in India and in -Bharat Jyoti could there be than to indulge Asker look Europe. In 1967 he was awarded the “ His playing has 52 carat yourself and take a chance on Joe Surmani title for proving himself the tunefulness." Cocker at the Town Hall this Friday. rising sitar star of India. MOUNT/ -Mumbai 'Sakai' Cocker, probably more than It is rare that a sitarist of Giriraj's “ Der Einfluss in Europa". anyone, is the quintessential failure o standing makes an appearance in -Rheinsche Post the 1970's. "W ith a Little Help from New Zealand and this series of my Friends" was recorded in '69 or '70, followed by "Joe Cocker" and the absolute classic "Mad Dogs and THE CURE Englishmen". Tow n Hall From then on it seem ed all July 31 downhill. In an effort to broaden his With three very successful albums base of support Cocker took to behind them and thousands of recording B-grade material and graffitied walls in front of them, The putting out generally weak albums Cure need very little in the way of an ("Stingray", "I Can Stand a Little introduction. This is their second visit Rain" etc.) with a smattering of the to NZ, bringing this time the film old "C o c k e r" spread all to o thinly in "Carnage Visors" with them, though the m ix. there is some disagreement at the But Cocker has always had the moment whether this will happen or ability, on the night, to put together a not. concert of rare power. He has one of The band are announcing new the m ost distinctive voices still Kilimanja directions in their music making this extant, and, even when singing The Tearci concert incredibly interesting, as well inferior material, he has a raw Mercury ( as being what promises to be a intensity of delivery that has to be highlight of the Town Hall's year of heard to be believed. Displaye '81. C ocker can be so good that it's probably t Due to the demand, a late show w o rth the risk of a b u m concert. I'll seen in a \ has now been scheduled, making it definitely be going, and I hope the Zenyatta f inexcusable to miss The Cure. place is packed to the aging rafters. jacket of t Sean Tuohy an equally CRACCUM July 21 1981 20 arts

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They are young, highly skilled and instruments on stage working on with something they want to say, but getting a whole polyphonic sound above all th e y are dancers. H u m an generation working from within the Veins last week showed just how dancers. diverse and compelling the medium On the excellent dance stage at the of modern dance is. The group has Maidment, Human Veins performed only been together three years and in two works, "Strollers" and "Under that time have established themselves the Skin". Strollers was a piece of in the far from lucrative business of dance that was a choreographed dancing professionally in Australia. unity of six dancers who though While in Auckland I met Don never moving in unison danced Asker, the choreographer for this together. The dance was random group, on a fence in G rafton R d. It is movement under control. The a feat to exist totally independently choreography is based on the idea of on your own twelve feet without having each dancer related to one of external help. This financial truss is in the instruments used in the music. the bureacratic form of the federal This gave the dance an incredible govt who as well as providing much feeling of tangible form. Sadly much needed currency has also put a roof of today's dance sees the music above this group. In Canberra, operating as a mere base for the inally a Human V eins' hom e to w n , a n e w arts movement. This incorporation was a m any complex has been recently finished stimulating development and with i fair which provides bedrooms for two Don Asker's obviously large ir fortune drama groups, a literary /critical vocabulary of movement could be v, five magazine, painters as well as an developed to fuse the subtlest of sJZ and one expansive lounge for H u m an Veins. counterpoints to individual ie chance All of Human Veins' initial production movements. As a dance it was a I M other work is done here though they are feast for the eyes and unusually the ours are spending m ore and m ore tim e ears too - a complete choreography. /e are not touring. In the last fe w m onths the s", w e will surreal animation company have done seasons at d lunacy Adelaide, S y d n e y and M elbourne as The second work was in three m ore push well as touring the New South Wales parts. "Under the Skin" traced a (W E A ) country centres. This amounts to couple through a journey from its and we more than fifty performances. 'comfortable' conventional living d rock through alternative lifestyles. No immediacy for arts sake conclusions are drawn in the dance, After years in Europe and the merely a commentary. The dance middle-east dancing and doing incorporates music, poetics, voices, commissioned choreographies Don dance, movement and the elements Asker decided to return to Australia of acting. The few props on stage are to establish his own company. His utilised to their fullest most major influence for dance then, and interesting limits and Don Asker and an influence w h ic h is still ve ry blanket made an interesting chair. apparent now, is an Israeli woman This aspect gave the dance the who had her back broken and is n o w appeal of surreal animation. The performing. She straightened and movements were all very angular and strengthened her back using a environment for the inspiration of his were, has happened on its own though the dance was layered in the technique of skeletal manipulation dance. accord. same fashion as ballet, lifts and the developed by Kraus. Don Asker spent In his dance he hopes to both movement, speech music kinetical sculptural effects were done seven years in Holland where the reflect and comment on society and unusually, compensating grace with dancers are beautiful athletic its relationships and inter-relationships The most unusual part of their coordination. The movement was machines doing the same pattern of with other cultures. The possibilities dance as far as New Zealand forever changing in a choreography work, a problem that seems to plague Don Asker feels are boundless audiences were concerned was that that was expansive. It is sad that so many modern dance companies. It portraying anything he feels critical or dancers speak, a method used by few were exposed to this new unique was immediacy that he wanted and it strongly about. "The general public in Asker to reinforce the dance. In the form of dance. >ming to was this firm belief in art for Australia is not politically aware" and future he wishes to further develop The medium of modern dance is /our immediacy's sake that led him to he felt more passion was necessary. this aspect taking his dance to a finally getting the exposure it taste for form H u m an Veins. W ith no The dancers have varying much larger frame of reference. deserves and Don Asker's Human er w a y overpowering history to follow, Don backgrounds making them stylistically Originally in "Under the Skin" the Veins theatre company are intergral Ige Asker looked to his immediate different but a company person, as it dancers and composer played all the part in its development. >n J o e 5 Friday, MOUNTAINS OF EXPLODING DRIPS. THE STEROIDS CREDIT CARD / DESTINATION TOKYO an dubious about the African The Steroids enjoy an enviable The Steroids are at present writing failure of connection. reputation in their home town of rather than performing but future ilp from T h e Te a rd ro p Explodes is a band W e llin gto n and it is a pity in a w a y plans apparently include an assault on l '69 or usually lumped in with the likes of that they have never felt the need to that bastion of musical innovation sr" and Echo and the Bunnymen and Joy make the great trek North. They are (cough, cough), Auckland. And ogs and Division through common ancestry, for my money one of New Zealands about time too. locality and, well....melody. more underrated bands and deserve a II Kilimanjaro was put together late in larger share of the limelight. iden his 1980 in the pnidst of a flurry of Unfortunately this single isn't likely to personnel changes. It's by no means to win them many new fans. The A nd a flawless album in terms of side is an eminently forgettable track Ibum s production, but it does have one called Credit Card. It is quite Little thing going for it : Julian Cope, listenable, they have a reasonable j of the songwriter, singer...the most video clip to accompany it and it is thinly in constant thing about the band. well produced (Marmalade Studios Cope admires the technical take a b o w ). It is not, h o w e ve r, a d the proficiency of both (the late) Jim track to set the Thames afire. If this ogether a Morrison and Tim Buckley, and in was a one sided single at half price is one of striving for that same excellence, he I'd say don't bother... till Kilimanjaro undoubtedly carries the album. However, the so-called B side of ing The Teardrop Explodes They're not the greatest set of lyrics the single is a track that has all that N Mercury (through Polygram) ever laid to rest on a sheet of paper, the A side lacks. It has bite and to be but as Cope displays 'lyrics (can) purpose and not an ounce of wasted Displayed in record stores now is work more on inflection than fat. Destination Tokyo is a fast rocker at it's probably the worst packaged album m e a n in g.' in the finest tradition and deserves to :ert. I'll seen in a w hile - it's com peting w ith So, its out now. Also, includes be played loudly and repeatedly. >e the Zenyatta Mondatta for the 'ugliest 'Bouncing Babies', 'Treason', Destination Tokyo is an excellent rafters, jacket of the year' title. It possesses 'Sleeping Gas' and 'When I Dream' song and, in my opinion, suddenly in Tuohy an equally exotic name. I'm rather which have been released as singles. makes the record value for money. 19 CRACCUM July 21 1981

VARSITY VERSE first collection of his work represents the observations of a student poet over his varsity life. His outlook is Dreams of Falling perhaps indicated by the title of the Grant Duncan book, but that pessimism is by no means everpresent or oppressive: it is Punga Press quite simply a product of the (avail, in UBS) circumstances of his lifestyle, a lifestyle which most readers of this In the present cost-effective world, paper should be able to relate to. it is difficult for all b u t established But as Grant notes in his writers to find publishers for their introduction, poetry is a ve ry personal work. That situation leaves writers thing, and people may get from it with two choices: either they don't whatever they find. Grant has no get their work published, or else they intention of forcing his viewpoint on publish it themselves. That's the anyone, he is simply putting his view course Grant Duncan has taken, forward. Before i am accused of naming his publishing house after the damning with faint praise, let me street he lives in, and getting friends finish by saying that I found this to to help with the technical bits. be a satisfying volume of poetry, and The result is quite a success. Grant advise a nyone interested in the poetry has been reading his poetry in various that comes out of this campus to venues for some years now, and this pick up a copy. Dak

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T — f : OUTREACH, items in natural and dyed flax are 1 PONSONBY ROAD. quality products that have found a 30 JU N E - 10 JU LY 1981. ready market. The Powhiri and Opening on June Outreach in Ponsonby Road has 29 was itself a unique experience. been the venue for a unique Appropriate protocol had to be exhibition that deserved more devised because of the unusual attention than it received from the nature of the event. The organisers Auckland media. Flax Weavers of the and visitors from Auckland were in Far North was not only an innovation one sense the tangata whenua who in terms of Auckland exhibitions. It were welcoming the manuhiri who Pic...James Black also represents a major step forward had travelled down from the north. for the small community of Te Hapua And yet it was the people from Te near North Cape which is proving the Hapua who provided the kai, economic viability of traditional Maori signifying the fact that the exhibition crafts. was really their own. The After ar Threatened by forestry participation of Maori leaders, tribal, introductir development projects, the people of religious and political, some having various N< Te Hapua are experimenting with a very close links with both Te Hapua very enthi number of projects that will provide and Auckland communities W rockers tr< economic opportunities without represented this fusion of interests Queen Sti undermining the local community. and the significance of the occasion. midnight < One of these ventures is the revival of The exhibition represents a great 'Cold Chis traditional flax weaving by the deal of effort that has been made by Having women of the tribe. a number of people, organisations from a vei After several years of development and government departments. At the re-adjuste the Auckland Committee on Racism centre is the spirit of a small rural my feet tc and Discrimination (ACORD) is community determined to survive and position a assisting the people of Te Hapua to to resurrect and preserve a traditional now prep* find direct channels for marketing craft based on local skills and Then it hii their product which is of an extremely naturally occuring local resources. sledge-hai high standard. The flax kits, food The role of ACORD in putting the charming, baskets, floor mats, hats and other community in touch with resources, slob of thi government departments, information steam-roll' and markets, is also proving crucial. Many of you will have probably visual arts. It is hoped that advertisers surprising! The success of this exhibition will noticed a glossy 'paper' called PAPER will see what could be done with a Rage" in I prove to be significant both for the full of custom art and advertising on little more imagination and the artists the rest o1 survival of the craft and for the future display at a very discounted price. It's concerned get a fairly wide exposure, ROGER Guitar; Rc of the community at Te Hapua. free, or rather it is paid for by the as several thousand copies have been SEASON artists w h o b u y their page and fill it Steve Prei E X T E N E D j published. Distribution is m ainly in with all the artwork they've wanted Small, Ba: Stephen Payton Auckland and Wellington. Philip scorching to do, but the agency or client Peacocke, Pop Shots photographer vetoed. PAPER is a forum for the and Roger Jarrett co-ordinated the [MOnjERENGUNw effort with much behind the scenes M on.Thurs, 6.30, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, 8.15 CONCERT PROMOTIONS PRESENT work by Maryanne Bilham. Artists SPONSORED BY READERS DIGEST includfed are Paul Hartigan, Dean HANCOCK? by Heathcote W illiam Buchanan, Terence Hogan and Dick I act JULY 7-18 Frizzell to name but several. Hrathrutc Williams ■ r W I M o n & T h u r s 9 .0 0 p m Anyone for jellybeans? HALF HOUR Tues, W ed, Fri, Sat6.30prr BOOKINGS 33-869

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BOOKiNGS: PHONE 33*869 H e rtz Tickets $11 90 trom The Corner. \J Details on Radio Hauraki. CRACCUM July 21 1f31 18 arts epresents 1 1 nt poet look is All for Mary" le of the Onehunga Repertory Players b y no Written by Harold Brooke and Kay ssive: it is Bannerm an e Directed by Audrey Brown 3 , a Dolphin Theatre of this te to. This is a re-hash of a British arises when husband 'Humpy' comedy style, popular with the older contracts 'chickenpox' and is required y personal to be isolated in the attic if he is to rom it generation. The accents are appalling continue staying at the hotel. He as no and the actors certainly did not complains loudly and vociferously to point on 'listen' or otherwise communicate being accommodated in a 'garrett'. I his view with one another in the silences id of between their lines. Waiting for one's Despite Mary's pleading, and Victor (the manager's) willingness to let it m e cue while standing, sittina or lying him stay, 'Humpy' decides to check this to recumbent-without keeping one's >etry, and character flowing, is a grievous error out. Subsequently another guest similarly infected with 'chickenpox' the poetry which the actors unfortunately m oves in. Needless to say, it is none >us to indulged in. T h e play is described in the other than Clive, Mary's ex-husband Dak programme as being worthwhile and actor Peter Webb. because of its 'unpretentiousness, its Humpy and Mary decide to good humour and its simple fun.' honeymoon after all. Consequently, Humour was conveyed. Simple it the two men stay close together for was. Bill le Marquand was one of the three days in the same room while Tew who did not make mistakes in Mary goes skiing with Victor. the vocal renditions of his lines. To cut three acts short, a nanny is The plot involves a woman by the hired to nurse Humpy, Clive and name of Mary, her ex-husband, eventually Victor. The chickenpox husband, and the hotel proprietor turns out to be nothing more than a who wishes to become her future food rash. During the proceedings, husband. W e are all English in this Clive, Humpy and Victor each in turn play, and the audience had better attempt to outwit the others in order sympathise with all the prejudices this to win Mary's favours. Finally with V. entails. The proprietor being French is the aid of Nanny, Humpy and Mary naturally meant to be a figure of fun - exit the chalet to return to maybe more, since the husbands are Stockpodges and domesticity. to be laughed at too. So here is a fairly ordinary play Basically the situation involves a which you may or may not decide to husband and wife honeymooning at a see. W ho knows, you might even ski resort in the Alps by the name of laugh. the "Hotel Splendide". This comedy Sharmila Haque Pic...James Blackwood ■ ■ Kangoham m er s P Z T Q E L F N 0 G P J A J 0 J W After an exciting but hard-going then on the excitment never faltered C R S B E D W S introduction to Friday evening at as Chisel tore thru songs of their East various North-side pubs, a car load of and new Swingshift albums with a P H G A M R S G Y R Y H U very enthusiastic and not-so-worn-out few classic covers thrown in as well. rockers traversed the Great Divide to Over amping on the ragers like the Queen Street's 'Mainstreet' to see the P 0 Y P 1W R brilliant "Star Hotel" (complete with J N Y H N J w midnight concert from Ozzie ragers Barnes climbing up balconies, 'Cold Chisel'. jumping off P.A. stacks and then X J X J K T X E H 0 Y Having caught the last four songs plummeting Vodka bottle first onto G U from a very impressive 'Blind Date' I an unsuspecting crowd) and proving re-adjusted my ear-drums and nailed that when it comes to ballads they've 0 L L m m. ■ y R H N S P H R P G my feet to the floor, securing my u got soul (Moss's version of Georgia position at the front of the stage, was excellent). be). This scene was, to me, quite a now prepared for the onslaught. By the third encore including a Don't worry, nobody has destroyed Then it hit - more like a fitting Troggs classic "W ild Thing" the sumptuous furnishings at the disappointment. It seemed aimless, as Globe; Scrambled Jelly are relatively if the cast hadn't decided what the sledge-hammer than a chisel; the ever (Barnes is a nutter) and after 2 'h charming, charismatic focal-point and hours plus on stage the Chisel tour non-messy theatre group. This scene was about and had just put slob of the band - J im m y Barnes de force left (but not before performance was the last of about a themselves in this situation in steam-rollered on stage with a Barnes dismantled Prestwich's drum week's shows and the group showed rehearsal and liked what happened. I dvertisers surprisingly articulate "Let's Fuckin' kit with his boot killing all chance of a a fair degree of confidence in front of d id n 't. A r it h a Rage" in his best Scottish accent and fourth encore) and a sweaty, an audience. The material was The third of these little vignettes ie artists the rest of the band (Ian M oss, breathless and happily stunned generally good and the delivery was, opened with one woman on stage xposure, Guitar; Ron Walker, Keyboards; audience left with the knowledge that with little exception, almost as good. telling the audience that they can ive been Steve Prestwich, Drums; and Phil "Cold Chisel" are Hot. The show opened with a slide relax now because the last of these nly in Small, Bass) retorted with a show, birth to death by slides. The playlets is totally silly and good fun. ilip scorching "Conversations". From James Bladewood slides were projected onto one of the As she finishes her introduction some rapher members of the group dressed in a of the "audience" start giving her the id the white sheet. The technique was very razz and telling her just exactly how scenes effective, serving to pull the scenes bad she is, very effective and rather rtists off the back wall and into the well done. ean audience where they belonged. This The play itself is called 'The Life id Dick feeling of audience participation was and Times of a Girl called Xerox', OR heightened by the commentary for The Last Domino. It is, surprise the slides being given by members of surprise, the story of a girl named the cast being scattered through the Xerox. Her parents decide that Drama room. My only complaint of this School would be a good place for scene was that in an effort to make a Xerox to learn what to do for the rest point the script tended to beat the of her life. Xerox is manipulated by audience over the head rather than everyone she meets and as they screw let it creep up on them. up her life they each take a domino. The second scene was not as good This scene concluded with the best It was an obscure piece set in an ending of the evening and sent the office: four people waiting for an thirty or so audience off home with a interview and the interaction between definite feeling of value for money. them and the eventual interviewer Worth seeing. (and what an animal he turned out to Sean T u o h y 17 CRACCUM July 21 1961

peace linke< an overarch Henceforth De-linking oppose ecc kind of gro' growth as i as an enerr was cast in Peace & Development romantic oi his teachinj by Ivan lllich so-called n< Each word that I shall say will M e n remind me of the difficulty inherent in every speech about peace. Because What we now need is the history t a s k s of peace, which is infinitely more each people's peace seems to me as diverse than that of war. Today o v e r . distinct as each people's poetry. The translation of peace is as arduous a research intothe history of peace has a s s i g task as the translation of poetry. becme more important than ever Peace has a different meaning for before, because "peace" has been each epoch and for each culture-area. progressively purged of its cultural developme This is the point on which Professor and historical connotations. Much of fault, his p Takeshi Ishida builds his argument in what is now peddled under the name growth. Pe of peace, at closer inspection can be his paper submitted to us. Further, focus on tf unmasked as a new banner of Professor Ishida reminds us, within eco n o m ic empire. Just as peace research has each culture area, peace has a wildly oppc different meaning at the center and acquired a new status, its object has developme on the margins. At the centre the narrowed. So-called "peace" is now taboo agaii accent lies on peace keeping; on the pax econimica. Peace has been research w margin, people hope to be "left in reduced to a mechanical balance Sakamoto, peace". During the three so-called under the assum ption of scarcity, the you, w a n t development decades, this second assumption of scarcity is, no doubt, Th e linkc meaning of peace, people's peace, fundamental to economics. developme has lost o u t. T h is is m y main Economics is the science of values developme argument: under the cover of under the assumption of scarcity. But suggest th< the fact that peace should have been development a world-war on people's main task < peace has been waged. In developed linked to this assumption, this fact - if doubt, dev areas, not much is left of people's it stands up under examination - things to d peace. I believe that ought to worry us deeply. It should one thing 1 worry us especially, if we should find grassroots-sponsored limits to ministers o economic development are the main ou t that it is p a x e c o n o m ic a w hich something condition to allow people to recover is the first meaning of peace to of the Nev\ their peace. achieve worldwide acceptance. In this Order. Hov Culture has always given meaning introductory lecture I therefore want all parties ( to peace. Each ethnos (people, to contrast pax economica with its developme community, culture) has been opposite and - henceforth - its "developm mirrored, symbolically expressed and complement: popular peace. lifted devel reinforced by its own ethos (ideal, Since the foundation of the United exclusive c guideline) of peace. Peace is as Nations, peace has been century ide vernacular as speech. In the progressively linked with equality an examples chosen by Professor Ishida development. This linkage formerly disputes oi this correspondence between ethnos had been unthinkable. How new this get w h a t" & ethos appears with great clarity. linkage is can hardly be understood to all devel Take first the Jews: look at the by those who are under forty. Its During the newness is easier understandable for Jewish partiarch when he raises his there is little research done b y hidden cos peace-research neglects this those who were, like myself, adults arms in blessing over his family and historians on the idea of pax, while come to lij ethnological truism, it turns into a on January 10, 1949, the day his flock. He invokes shalom which library shelves are filled with treatises concerns c technology of peace keeping: it either President Truman announced the we translate as peace. Shalom he on war and on its techniques. example. 1 is degraded into some kind of moral Point Four Program. That day most sees as grace, dripping down from Huo'ping and Shanti seem to have developme rearmament, or it is perverted into of us met the term "development" heaven, "like oil dripping through a meanings today which are not unlike been disen the negative polemology (war-service) for the first time in its present beard, through the beard of Aaron those of the past. But between them prime task of high brass (general staff) and of meaning. Until then we used the forefather". For the Semitic father there is a gulf: they are not peace-rese computer-games. "development" to refer to species, to peace is the blessing of justice which comparable at all. The Huo'ping of Developi Peace remains unreal, a mere real estate, and to moves in chess. the one true God pours over 12 tribes the Chinese means smooth, tranquil propagatio abstraction, unless it means an Only since then could development of recently settled shepherds. Roman harmony within the hierachy of on goods < ethno-anthropological reality. refer to people, to countries and to Peace means something utterly heavens, and the shanti of the perceived ; However, it would remain equally economic strategies. Yet, in less than different. When the Roman governor Indians refers primarily to intimate, means the unreal unless we attend to its one generation, we have already been raises the ensign of his legion to ram personal cosmic non-hierarchic which the historical dimension. This is a point flooded with conflicting development it into the soil of Palestine, he does awakening. There is no "identity" in subsisteno which Professor Yoshikazu Sakamoto theories. Most of these theories are not look towards heaven. He looks peace. Peace, in its concrete been elimii underlines in his paper on three-level by now curiosities for collectors. You towards a far-off city; he imposes its meaning, places the "I" into the making it < compenetration. Until quite recently will remember with some law and its order. Th e re is nothing in corresponding "w e ". Peace gives production war could not destroy peace totally, embarrassment how successively common between shalom and this concrete meaning to the first person commoditi could not penetrate all levels of generous people could be motivated pax romana, though both exist plural. Paradoxically, peace, by inevitably, peace, because the continuation of to sacrifice by such things as together in the same place at the defining the form of the exclusive pax e c o m war was based on the survival of the "growth" "GNP" "catching up" same time. Both have now faded. "w e" (the Kami of the Malay and every subsistence cultures that fed it. Too "modernization" "dependency" Shalom has retired into religion, languages), is the base on which the T o illusti many historians have neglected this "autochthonous unlinking"; or just "P ax" has invaded the world as inclusive w e (the Kita) can arise. between p fact. They have made history into the think of the many things which were "peace", "paix", "pace". By two This distinction between the kami economics tale of wars. This is certainly true of deemed worthy of export: attitudes, thousand years of use by governing and the kita of the Malay languages European i the classical historians who tend to atoms-for-peace, electronics, jobs, elites, pax has become a polemical comes naturally to most speakers am em pha report on the rise and the fall of the windmills and now alternative catch-all. Pax was used by around the Pacific. It is a grammatical return to t winners. But, unfortunately, the same lifestyles and self-help. Each Constantine to turn the cross into distinction which is utterly foreign to only to illu is equally true for many of the newer theoretical onrush came in two ideology. It was used by Europe, and badly lacking in Western opposition historians, who want to act as waves: one brought the self-styled Charlemagne to justify the genocide pax. Asian peace-research therefore com plem e reporters from the camps of those pragmatists who highlighted free of the saxons. Pax was the word cannot be wary enough of "pax". formally re who never made it, who want to tell enterprise, open markets and used by Innocent III to subject the Here in the Far East it should be rather thar the tales of the vanquished, evoke trans-national corporations (TNCs); sword to the cross .... in modern easier than in the West to base peace theory, to the memories of those who have the other brought would-be times, to put the party in control of research on what might be its or the plar disappeared. These new historians politicians who relied on ideology, the army. Pax, once it has been used fundamental axiom: "war tends to my exposi too are often more interested in revolution and the state-agency by St. Francis and by Clemenceau, make cultures alike while peace is plans and polemics than in peace. They which they made their carrier. But has lost the boundaries of its that condition under whch each possible; t primarily report on resistance: n the both camps were in agreement on meaning. It has become a sectarian culture flow ers in its o w n turn to the mutinies, the insurgences, the riots growth. And each camp, each set of and m issionary term , no m atter if it is incomparable way." From this it because tc and seditions of slaves, of peasants, experts, each set of saviours always used by the establishment or a follows, that peace cannot be violent pa: of minorities, and of marginals ... and linked to their development the sectarian alternative; no m atter if it exported. Peace is inevitably infected tf in more recent times on the class pursuit of peace. Peace, by thus claims legitimacy East or West. Pax corrupted by export. The export of took its sh struggle of proletarians and on the being linked to development, became has a colourful history. However, peace always means war. When Pax in tl sex struggles of wom en.... a partisan goal. And the pursuit of mean the C R A C C U M July 21 1981 16

peace linked to development became lords. The Pax that Church or vernacular subsistence that would its own, unique pattern. In no two an overarching, unexaminable axiom. Emperor wanted to guarantee was keep people outside the clientage to cultures is the distribution of tasks Henceforth anyone who would not primarily the absence of armed markets organised by the state. The within the society the same. In each oppose econom ic g ro w th - not this encounters between knights. Peace pax economica protects production. culture, "growing up" means to grow kind of growth or that, but economic meant to protect the poor and their It exalts the producer of commodities into the activities characteristic there, growth as such - could be denounced means of subsistence against the and creates entirely new forms of and only there, for either man pr as an enemy of peace. Even Gandhi violence of war. Peace protected the degradation for the dependent. woman. To be a man or a woman in was cast into the roll of the fool, the peasant and the monk. It protected Pax economica also means pre-industrial society is not a romantic or the psychopath. Worse, specific times and places. No matter environmental violence. It protects secondary characteristic added on to his teachings were preverted into how bloody the war among lords, the exploitation of the environment as genderless hum ans: it is the m ost so-called non-violent strategies for peace protected the oxen and the a resource for the producton of fundamental characteristic in every commodities and as a space for their single action. To grow up does not M en have prim ary access to the paid circulation. Pax economica thus mean to be "educated" but to grow implies the destruction of the into life by acting as a woman or a s e history tasks...and w om en to those w hich are left physical, social and cultural features a man. The dynamic peace between t m ore of the environment that sustain men and women consists percisely in oday over. ...a ll tasks relevant to subsistence are subsistence. Pax economica is this division of concrete tasks. In this peace has therefore profoundly opposed to intimate domain, too, people's peace i ever assigned in a gender specific w ay. popular peace. It is opposed to it for limits both war and the extent of as been two reasons. First, because it domination. Wage labour destroys cultural development. Not entirely without his grain when it still stood on the stem. withdraws social protection from the this pattern. . M u c h of fault, his peace too was linked to It protected the emergency granary base of subsistence. Secondly, Industrial work, productive work, is the name growth. Peace reserach tended to and the time of harvest. Generally because it transforms the nature of conceived as neutral, and often on can be focus on the promotion of pax speaking, the peace of the land warring parties. The powers at war in experienced as such. It is defined as of economica. The unanimous bias of protected from violent interference the age of pax economica are no genderless work. This is true, no arch has wildly opposing cam ps of the utilization values of the common more feudal lords or dynasties but m atter w he the r it is paid w o rk or >bject has development agents cristallized a environment. It protected the access economic powers, each acting under unpaid shadow work, such as work j" is now taboo against the kind of peace to water and to pasture, to woods assumptions of scarcity. done by housewives. But, even : been research w h ic h yo u , Professor and to livestock for those who had Pax eco n o m ica is opposed to th o u g h w o rk is conceived as i lance Sakamoto, if I rightly understand nothing else to draw their subsistence popular peace on at least three genderless, access to this genderless arcity. the you, w a n t to prom ote. from. Peace between warring parties accounts: First, old forms of activity is radically biased. Men have 0 doubt, The linkage of peace to was thus distinct from the peace of government were based on the primary access to the paid tasks development has made a challenge to the land. This primarily exploitation of a surplus generated by which are defined as desirable, and F values development into a hard task. Let me subsistence-oriented significance of communities that regenerated women to those which are left over. arcity. But suggest that unlinking the two is the peace was lost with the Renaissance. themselves, marginal to the market. As a consequence of this la ve been main task of peace-research. No With the rise of so-called Peace protected this independence. neutralization of work, development his fact - if doubt, development means different captialism, an entirely new world The new, economic peace empowers inevitably promotes a new kind of tion - things to different speakers. It m eans moved towards establishment. It the state or its bourgeoisies to make war between the sexes. It is a t should one thing to TN Cs, something else to brought with it an entirely new kind people's survival dependent on their competition for wage labour which fiould find ministers of the W a rs a w Pact, of peace and of violence. Its peace access to education, health-care, has become scarce - and a struggle ca w hich something else again to the architects and its violence are equally distant police-services and all kinds of other to avoid shadow workt, which is e to of the New International Economic from all form s of peace and of super-markets. It thus violently neither paid nor capable of ice. In this Order. However, the convergence of violence known before. While peace deprives people of their communal contributing to subsistence. ore w ant all parties on the need for so far had meant at least the ability to subsist, to be left in peace. Pax economica protects a zero-sum 1 w ith its development has given to protection of a minimal subsistence Second, the old peace protected the game. It perpetuates conditions under its "development" a new status. It has on which the war of lords had to be minimal utilization of the environment which one party always looses if :e. lifted development into the lofty, fed, henceforth subsistence itself from which subsistence was drawn. It another one gains. Development is he United exclusive company of other 19th the name given to the expansion of century ideals such as freedom, this game. It means the suppression equality and democracy. Under D evelopm ent alw ays im plies the of all form s of exchange that do not orm erly disputes on the issue "w ho should fit the zero-sum model. It propagation o f scarcity. n e w this get what" the common traits inherent extinguishes in many people even the lerstood to all development were buried. ability to think of conflict and ty. Its During the seventies some of these became the victim of "peaceful protected the com m ons. Pax contract outside of conditions of dable for hidden costs of development have agression. The new kind of peace economica defines the environment a scarcity. Therefore the monopoly of :, adults come to light. W hat we now call the meant the protection of structural as scarce resource, to be used in pax economica is deadly. It must be iy concerns of ecology is a good violence against subsistence-centred production. The new peace thus challenged. id the example. The violence implied by popular cultures, each based on its regulates com petition of all w ith all To challenge pax economica does ay m ost development, however, has so far not unique image of what is human. This by imposing conditions of scarcity. It not mean a return to the past or a >m ent" been disenterred. T h is seem s to m e a peace is still w ith us. It bases the defines the borderline that separates jump into utopia. It means a search nt prime task of radical social fram ew ork of all people at the those values which are already made for countervailing forms of peace, d peace-research...... service of an utopia that is based on scarce, from those which are free for and of a framework for a new pecies, to Development always implies the the image of homo economicus, aggression. This new peace ultimately balance. The industrial revolution has chess, propagation of scarcity: dependence homo equalis. T h e n e w peace is a is the mantle that defines survival as happened. Ball bearings are to be ip m e n t on goods and services that are cover for violence. The disinterrment a war. The cloak can be tailored to with us, as much as dynamos and and to perceived as scarce. Development of the new forms of violence covered socialist, capitalist or alternative microprocessors. They will be less than means the creation of milieu from by pax economica seem to me one of fashion, it can dignify class-war, war produced as commodities, and will eady been which the conditions for the main tasks of contemporary of resistance, war of liberation or free circulate on markets that are elopm ent subsistence-oriented activities have peace research. competition. It remains a violent structurally different from those tries are been eliminated in the process of The new peace also has its history. peace. Thirdly, the new peace which supplied pepper or indigo. And tors. Y o u making it over into a resource for the It stems from wedding of the pax establishes, protects and hides just as some features of modern production and circulation of romana w ith ecclesiastic charity in simultaneously a historically new war technology have proven to enhance lively commodities. Development thus, the time of Constantine. Only in the between the sexes. new forms of subsistence, so certain otivated inevitably, means the imposition of Renaissance it began to shape all This is so because development features of pax economica can be s pax econom ica at the cost of all material life. This new peace does not means the increase of productive effective to guarantee truly equal u p " and every form of popular peace. protect vernacular communities. The forces. It means the monopoly of access to them. The challenge of pax c y " To illustrate the opposition new peace protects a new construct w age-related labour over all other economica can only come from those or just between popular peace and pax created by thinkers, guardians and forms of work. And this too means who are intolerably aggrieved by this ich w ere economica I shall now turn to the governors, according to which people aggression. The monopoly of modern, western form of pax, from ttitudes, European middle ages. By doing so, I are born clients, dependent in their wage-related work means aggression those whose only hope lies in new , jobs, am emphatically not advocating a basic needs on scarce goods or e return to the past. I turn to the past services that must be produced and only to illustrate the dynamic delivered to them. The earlier Peace is inevitably corrupted by export NO opposition between two dependence on a God whose grace styled complementary forms of peace, botsh had to be mediated by the against one feature that is common forms of increased subsistence. How free formally recognized. I turn to the past sacraments of the church was now to all subsistence-oriented societies. each community, from the I rather than to some social science redefined as a dependence on a Though these societies may be as grassroots, will express its claim "to F N C s ); theory, to avoid that utopian thinking mother nature whose gifts had to be different from each other as those of be left in peace" I cannot know. To or the planning mentality creep into henceforth mediated through the Japan and France and Fiji, one be true, each claim would have to be >logy, my exposition. T h e past is not, like agencies of the state. The central feature is certainly common to formulated in each community in its ic y plans and ideal, something which is nation-state became the framework all: all tasks relevant to subsistence own unique way. r. B ut possible; the past has been. And I for a war on subsistence. are assigned in a gender-specific way. >nt on turn to the European middle ages, The nation state is based on the They are assigned either to men or to ***** :h set of because towards their end that assumption that people are impotent women. The actual, concrete tasks alw ays violent pax economica w h ic h has to provide, from the grassroots, for which are necessary and culturally t see I//ich, 'Shadow W ork' (Boston: he infected thinking around the world most of their own subsistence. The defined vary from society to society. Marion Boyars, 1980), 5 essays :hus took its shape in Europe. establishment of the nation state has But each society distributes each including the title essay which is also becam e Pax in the 12th century did not implied the violent suppression of all possible task either to men or to published in Social Alternatives 2 ( 1) suit of mean the absence of war between traits of popular culture and women, and each society does so in 1981. - ed. eoBf |eojey\| neeoJB|fl Pablo Picasso Raymond Ching Paul Klee Hans Holbein Raphael Michelangelo da Vinci Robert Morse Uri Geller Baden Powell Babe Ruth Bob Charles Arnold Palmer Gary Sobers Henry Cooper Guillermo Vilas Jim m y Connors John McEnroe Martina Navratilova Mark Spitz Boston Strangler Jack the Ripper 5 uy2 1981 21 July M U C C A R C 15 w e could cope m u ch m ore easily than than easily ore m ch u m cope could e w o t wel n ht ee but if t u (b here that on ell dw 't n o w e w so thinker's unique life experience ... the the ... experience life unique thinker's toothpaste, just because yo u read the the read u yo because just toothpaste, difficulties involved, just let us k n o w ). ). w o n k us let just involved, difficulties although there is a heavy sales tax on on tax sales heavy a is there although the correct w a y to w rite (in one class class one (in rite w to y a w correct the through am putation or a stroke, have have stroke, a or putation am through ulcers, heart disease and polio (those (those polio and disease heart ulcers, M usic for the Left H a n d ' on Tu e s d a y y a d s e Tu on ' d n a H Left the for usic M exercised. 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G iven that that iven G sy. clum or rd a kw w a be to hn ht hy r i a nrt; rm from inority; m a in are they that than right handers, but large-scale surveys surveys large-scale but handers, right art even suggests that the proportion proportion the that suggests even art scissors, books and m agazines, d oor oor d agazines, m and books scissors, tells us that left handers have alw ays ays alw have handers left that us tells of left handers has rem ained virtually virtually ained rem has handers left of ae eeld o rt t ti. her re e Th this. to truth no revealed have Benjam in w h o "c o u ld th ro w a stone stone a w ro th ld u o "c o h w in Benjam right handed. T h e evidence suggests suggests evidence e h T handed. right w e k n o w , no other m am m als exhibit exhibit als m am m other no , w o n k e w handedness goes back over a million million a over back goes handedness give an im pression of aw kw ardness. ardness. kw aw of pression im an give years, to prehistoric tim es. S o far as as far o S es. tim prehistoric to years, einn o rcre hsoy T e re e Th history. recorded of beginning for right handers, it is not surprising surprising not is it handers, right for balance, h o w e ve r, som e ten percent percent ten e som r, ve e w o h balance, inclinations. T h e y are often accused accused often are y e h T inclinations. m ig ht recall that Leonardo da V inci, inci, V da Leonardo that recall ht ig m Despite centuries of conjecture ther ther conjecture of centuries Despite hum an beings is that m ost of us are are us of ost m that is beings an hum handed. A g a in , the historical record record historical the , in a g A handed. handedness as depicted in w o rk s of of s rk o w in depicted as handedness perhaps in m usical aptitude, certain certain aptitude, usical m in perhaps pta sil, n cetvt, n we e w and creativity, and skills, spatial addes A Cnda authority, Canadian A handedness. estl gnu o al i , left s a w e, tim all of genius versatile M cE n ro e , J im m y C o n n o rs, M artina artina M rs, o n n o C y m im J , e ro n cE M that left handers should som etim es es etim som should handers left that cultures, and has been so since the the since so been has and cultures, this curious lopsidedness, not even even not lopsidedness, curious this discrim ination, for no other reason reason other no for ination, discrim right hand, against all their natural natural their all against hand, right still forced to eat or w rite w ith the the ith w rite w or eat to forced still of being of lesser intelligence than than intelligence lesser of being of at a hair's breadth and not m iss". iss". m not and breadth hair's a at Needless to say, left handers have have handers left say, to Needless parts of the w o rld left handers are are handers left rld o w the of parts unhygienic connotations. In som e e som In connotations. unhygienic alw ays been victim s of abuse and and abuse of s victim been ays alw T h e im pression should be quickly quickly be should pression im e h T A g a in , left handers are often said said often are handers left , in a g A s ehp t e ou n udges s e g d Ju in d un fo be to perhaps is to not Laver, Rod or Navratilova, is still no accepted theory of left left of theory accepted no still is the term "c a c k -h a n d e r", w ith its its ith w r", e d n a -h k c a "c term the A distinguishing characteristic of of characteristic distinguishing A In a brave attem pt to restore the the restore to pt attem brave a In of the hum an population are left left are population an hum the of is even som e evidence that right right that evidence e som even is left-handed m en of the tribe of of tribe the of en m left-handed is even som e evidence that left left that evidence e som even is that this is true of all races and and races all of true is this that distinction between us. Bert Sutcliffe - - all elegant left left elegant all - - Sutcliffe Bert perhaps the m ost creative and and creative ost m the perhaps been w ith us, and a survey of of survey a and us, ith w been gracefula manner 20:16, w h e re w e read of 700 700 of read e w re e h w 20:16, n ne ol tik f n h o J of think only need one constant for 5000 years. years. 5000 for constant b A b A * uubq the higher apes. apes. higher the xjb W dB uospnH odjBH handed......

C. ballis a rb o C . .C M nrdcal ad neetn ta te ■ the than interesting and unpredictable s edn dsblt o sutrn ta ; than stuttering or disability reading as y o p > iey o ae agae ersne i ? in represented language have to likely vrrpeetd n h moe raie s creative ore m the in over-represented et adr fr aig o e ifrn, t different, be to daring for handers left eutn fo ak f xgn t it. S birth. at oxygen of lack from resulting lgty r poe o uh iodr j I. j disorders such to prone ore m slightly aeaie maoiy Alhough te left the h g u o lth A ajority. m lateralized will alw ays have left handed children. children. handed left have ays alw will n a n ma tr ot o e 3 be to out turn ay m any m d o o g a and omp nt o et addes bt t ; it but handedness, left to t en n po m co oh ie o te ri ta ae right are than brain the of sides both n ma nt ta lf hnes hw < show handers left that note ay m one hne f en lf o rgt add j handed, right or left being of chance xrme y ty n ny f hm j j them, of y an on etry m sym a e extrem ipsto t b lf hne i often is handed left be to disposition xd aeaiy n ital al te I other all virtually on laterality ixed m xd atrs f aeaiy n hs J these on laterality of patterns ixed m left handed couples are left handed, handed, left are couples handed left n at aot af f h cide o * of children the of half about fact, In l y rgt yd rgt ae, ih | right eared, right eyed, right ays alw adr, hn gt xet this expect ight m e w then handers, m u ch of the age-old slander against; against; slander age-old the of ch u m hoy ht a be avne g advanced been has that theory e n O Th e re is actually ve ry little evidence evidence little ry ve actually is re e Th atr o aiiis ad o e oe j more be to and abilities, of pattern o isac, et adr ae oe £ more are handers left instance, For nie, n ae es iey o hw S show to likely less are and indices, urne ta lf hne culs 1 couples handed left that guarantee ht et adr ae r lkl o [ to likely ore m are handers left that are the consistently right handed, handed, right consistently the are togy vdn fo n al ae ? age early an from evident strongly ept n ovos nlecs that influences obvious no despite hrceie te jrt o rgt * right of ajority m the characterizes itie ta lf hnens s jis handedness left that aintained m ae a dfiut its hn right than births difficult had have gh hv fvue i. hee sa : is a ere Th it. favoured have ht ig m odto wl tu sad n qa » equal an stand thus will condition o xli ti i ta i i nt left not is it that is this explain to j^e uqy ouq leBipnAi uopuBq sew»* uaqoy pjo^pey s o s srnl epesd s o 2 to as expressed strongly so not is e shrs lf hnes ipa j display handers left ispheres, hem ees ih hnes r nearly are handers right hereas W im pression that there is a genetic genetic a is there that pression im eg iim" bt hs mcs too smacks this but ", tivism ga ne addes ht s neie, but inherited, is that handedness nrt t show a r dvjs « jrse div ore m a w o h s to inority m handedness is due to "em otional! otional! "em to due is handedness n ute spot f hs hoy $ theory, this of support further In f t s re ht o pol ae I are people e som that true is it If add n abltrl y e j f be ay m ambilateral and handed datg i te vn o ban j brain of event the in advantage isl sihl lf-add has ! left-handed, slightly himself aeaiy A cid neiig this3 inheriting child A laterality. adr. eiv ta left that believe e m o S handers. represented in the le ft cerebal cerebal ft le the in represented handedness is ta u g h t, but the but t, h g u ta is handedness manifestations of asymmetry, asymmetry, of manifestations u t tastr ban injury, brain transitory to due rather the la c k of consistent j j consistent of k c la the rather o sbetd o ht tog S strong that to subjected not adr, n ti i t ter * their to is this and handers, otd ad ae agae $ language have and footed, sciti ter ta left that theory psychiatric aeaiig nlec ta < that influence lateralizing t s ifcl t aod h jr j the avoid to difficult is It hy lo em o e J be to seem also they rs n poesos o professions, and arts mietos j ambidextrous, injury. injury. } \ j j \ [ \ j j l \ j J \ j j j \ I j i

stealing w f f w stealing with Merat Merat with convenient you inhibit i will reject oeg t s to foreign o e o ne so to be huhs I thoughts. and sophis D after all. something tupunas ...... tupunas answerable le thatthey encounter1 "tupunas" "tupunas" i only need is material rvs him proves yol hapless me poured, bysuggest ffins c offriends w< "People basic to basic to nert, a integrity, be oversim be oversim philosophy philosophy o o b y m do to hita y y Christian see througl see througl convention ... I (decide (decide I ... SCO "virtues". h Pakehas, I E B The List List The The impl impl The □ □ □ □ o h ti the So 3I/IITFIC Sco Boy T < □TJ 33I/1E JO □ t3>eC

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BE A BOY SCOUT Moebiu. (Comic, S t r i n f o r H e r e ; « what you've t The Listener, on Merata Mita's h e ^ ! . ^ u y ° all be«n /------^ encounter with the Pakeha world: "People were so 'success-oriented' WniVincoMm 1int 9n Wai,in9 that they let that dictate their choice of friends and lifestyle. ■■ ... I (decided) to stick to the simple C u t Out philosophy ... that I had to stand I: Ime a,on^ d o t Z the thick "ne. answerable in everything I do to my tupunas ... A n d w hatever I d o, I have to do m y b e s t..." The implication that responsibility, o „ integrity, and doing one's best are foreign to success-mad Pakehas may 9,ve one a teb-*** - ^ end; be oversimplified, but rings true. W e Pakehas, having o u tg ro w n the dreary conventions of Victorian times, can see through these Boy Scout Wf,,/a™ Mellh "virtues". So the truly adult person is amused by suggestions that there might be inded, has ! something in the Boy Scout virtues dedness is j after all. Derision and scorn are ain injury, ! poured, m ocking fingers are pointed, n at birth. j and sophisticates snigger at the } evidence i hapless yokel who voices such re likely to { thoughts. None of which, of course, than right j proves him w ro n g . 'e that left 5 Boy Scoutery doesn't pay well: you it, but the: will reject it if yo u r sole object in life id is often l is material prosperity, because it will i early age} inhibit you lying, cheating, and ances that j stealing w h e n e ve r it's profitable and Th ere is a : convenient. But a Christian Pakeha y that left need only substitute "G od" for emotional j "tupunas" to feel very much at home ■nacks too i with Merata Mita's philosophy. Some ler against \ Christian yokels will even see it as different, basic to Pakeha culture too - how sad avoid the j to be so naive! a genetic ess, but it ; The University Chaplaincies ssed as to ; id couples • i children. [ :hildren of * :t handed. | □TJ sai-RRU s ai/iAH t =o j advanced g is not le ft{ 3 H T R 0 3 R 3 I3 A 3 3 3 IJ 3 X A M O T irited, but j 3 11 3 3 consistento □ Q / A H T J iriting this o J an equal ■ t handed, 3 out to be 3 JJA 30 2T3OTOOT3 idextrous. \ .H.J =IO STR02 lis theory, o jjA ROT 2RŪ22I32 fers show < 233U 30 2TR02 ' all other j lymmetry. are nearly 1 ired, right [ language { snesris Qni>lniq ft cerebal 1 irs display 1 ' on these J 3-103310 3 lien suandxsbidrns lenensQ 93 o q n u q 1 to show 3 J īs l ^ d q n ’ of them, o are more £ isented in ? i are right \ is to their * it of brain 5 ansnbliHo injury. } teople are » iat strong S ence that < V of right * xpect this 33 A 31 XDOT2 1/11 03JA re diverse « JOH33UOH 30 1/I0IT03J33 rRORS yflAMOITATS ,3R^V 1 be more >DHOO0 1/OT3URTI/II .RA33 3-l9>lsm339-lb l than the ; 2 > 2JOOT. 2I/13R 2 > 3311/1 lh the left i .S3ITJ3VOM 3 I m ay be J disorders j iring than ; - >100T3 RUO HŪUOT OT 3MOOJ3W 3RA UOY t handed, j 30M3R3330 3HT J333 sem to be ■ e creative j TBXFIAMW 31/I , ASAJR YAWOAORS Sessions. 0 2 3C8- TAS riq ft !l/\l sei^oiu uoq 13 CRACCUMSOCIETIES July 21 1981 UNDER Societies Amendment Act On April 8th, despite widespread protest, the Malaysian Ghazali government hurriedly bulldozed through Parliament and his the law; amendments to the Societies Act 1966 to enable the otherwi government to exercise total control over organisations in the ABIM (M: country which are critical of the regime. The amendment was Movemen a g a in s t 1 dished out in parliament for first reading in early March. d e m o c ra c y Academic Associate The brief contents of the proposed as such: "W e must call a spade a ...u n d e n amendments to the Societies Act spade. W hy do people hide behind a distinguish 1966 are as follows: m ask?" bodies unc • Any society that seeks to In any democracy, individuals, Act are no influence government policy in any were those societies and associations should be their politic way will be defined as a political allowed to function freely in AURAN ( society. accordance to laws. The above O n e b e g • Appeal against the registrar's amendments have removed the right to be desc S h o u ld w e order is to the Minister of Home to organise, while at the same time not a auto Affairs. There is no appeal to the giving the registrar, a functionary of fig-leaf to < courts. the government machinery who is not Bar Coun< • Any convicted criminal will be even elected by the public, the n o t o n ly barred from holding office in society. immense power to curb the freedom of separati our Consti • The registrar of societies can of people. To register a citizens judicial po\ suspend any non-poltical society group which performs the function of of these ar which he deems has become political trying to influence the public policy Lawyers protest, outside the Malaysian Parliament, constitutio • Political Societies will not be as political is to suggest that the Bar Comr w h ile it i permitted to have connections with citizen groups of a non-political new laws < any foreign body nor receive funds nature do not have the right to Parliament and on April 16, 104 Malaysian Reformist Movement, G o v e rn m e i abroad. influence public policy. Freedom of heed disse Chinese guilds and associations from University Academic and • The registrar is empowered to expression is basically a constitutional Selangor submitted a memorandum o rg a n is e d Administrative Staff Association, Bar Comr freeze the assets of any society right. The Government in passing to the Government, protesting Malaysian Bar Council, Consumer 1981, de pending the investigation of its these Amendments has seriously against the amendments. In a joint Association of Penang (CAP), Year o f th> affairs. jeopardized the practice of democracy described * effort to protest the Amendments, a Malaysian Medical Association and • The registrar will be able to in our country. for Malays Societies Act Coordinating many others. Democrai instruct a non-political society to As soon as the amendments were Committee (SACC) was recently For the first time in many years the T h e blac remove any committee member or made known, a public outcry was formed. It represents 115 of the arm of U n ity stretches across racial, Malaysiai adviser. raised. On March 19, 19 societies 14,000 clubs, associations, merchants religious and interests barrier, uniting Society: Home Minister Tan Sri Ghazali W e o w e issued a memorandum criticising the guilds and other non-political groups various non-political groups for a Shafie said the changes were amendments. On April 8, 200 lawyers which include Malaysian Muslim Youth against the c o m m o n objective: Repeal the unjust stacked ag designed to identify political grouping led by Bar Councl protested at the Movement or ABIM, ALIRAN or Act. The fight will continue. Malaysiai th e a m e h y p o c r is y

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It is obvious that the vast majority of the conscious public are strongly seriously tarnished. governm ent policies in the interest of the fro m c o m against the amendments to the Societies Act. For the less conscious if Designating 'Political Societies' nation. Obviously then influencing government activities < Designating a new category of societies someone were to explain to them, they would most likely take the attitude is theoretically everyone's responsibility. in v o lv e m e called 'political societies' is not going to that 'the government is like that' (in other words, n o g o o d ). It is odd that groups which perform the There will enhance the government's credibility. A At the moment, those who come out openly against the amendments are normal, natural function of trying to influence w h ic h a re political society is defined as a society that public policies should now be specially societies < those who are affected by it directly, the intellectuals and professionals, 'seeks to influence in any manner the policies classified as 'political societies'. Anyw here else b o u n d t o and the politically conscious who are not on the Barisan National band or activities or any of the policies or activities, in the world, such groups would be regarded F i r s t , intei w a g o n . or the functioning, management, or operation, simply as interest-cum-pressure groups, some able to pr of the government of Malaysia, or of the The Islamic groups think that the amendments are directed at ABIM - the with specific interests, others with general p r o b le m s Governm ent of any state, or of any local interests. By describing them as political c o n c e r n fi intellectual groups which are vocal for the last couple of years think the Act authority, or of any statutory authority, or of societies, one is repudiating the time-honoured be in a pc is aimed at stopping them; those in the Chinese education movement tends any department or agency of any such role of interest-cum-pressure groups in a to serve a Government or Authority'. (Amended Section to think that the government is using the Act to clamp on them. They are d e m o c r a c y . articulatio 2). It is a definition that manifests so little all correctl Even from a political point of view, it is provide th understanding of the workings of a democratic For the first time in the memories of many people, racial barriers are going to be very difficult to implement the g o v e r n m e system. In order to show how illogical the proposal. It would mean for instance that for a 'which int broken down in a united effort to protest against an unjust Act. This is one concept of a political society is, one has to period of time when a society is commenting a w h o le v of the most heartening aspects of the atmosphere. ABIM is chosen to analyse the reasoning behind it. upon state policies, it would becom e a 'political assistance Certain government leaders argue that only coordinate the protest action because it is most difficult for the government society' and then revert to its 'ordinary society' formulatic professional politicians have a right to to hit, while others may view themselves as rather vulnerable. status. Most societies with the exception of public pol comment upon affairs of state. If one wants to The Bar Council did a fantastic job in voicing criticism of and protest perhaps service clubs - will have to switch back c o n s e q u e criticise governm ent policies and activities one and forth in this manner. It proves how utterly im p a c t up against the Act. In going to the parliament to hand in the protest letters, should be a member of a poltical party. It irrational the classification is. The only te a c h e rs , follows from this that groups that are not they highlighted the case in a way none of the other societies had managed alternative is of course to apply the law public ser to do. ° political parties and yet continue to articulate selectively which will make a m ockery of the active inv social issues should at least be classified as It appears that the government has more to lose by bulldozing through principle of administrative justice and bring societies' political societies. disrepute to the government. d e v e lo p in the Act for they hit at e veryb o d y and every group. A s alm ost all channels There is a basic fallacy in this. All individuals One can however understand w hy political s tr a t u m is for expression are now sealed, many are seriously toying with the idea of and groups have the right to discuss affairs of parties exist as a separate category. For unlike w it h d r a w : state. They have a right to influence policies having to challenge the Government by way of forming alternative interest-cum-pressure groups which are th e g e n e r and activities of govenments. A voter in an opposition parties. This idea is now publicly announced by some quarters concerned with merely influencing policy, a social issi election is in a sense expressing his opinion on affected by the Act. Before the issue of the Act dies down, the political party is involved directly in the struggle h a v e a n a state policies. A housewife who writes to the for political power. That is the distinguishing th e c o m r r government is having another pain in the neck. press complaining about garbage collection in characteristic of a political party. The with vital uem ai o t Access to the Courts her locality is commenting upon an activity of can only help to strengthen our democratic relationship between political parties and R e s t r i c t s The Amendments emphasise that the government. A literary body which endeavours system. It is with this understanding that the politicians, on the one hand, and the rest of us O r g a n i s a Registrar's actions cannot be challenged in any to engage society in discussions on language Malaysian constitution was formulated. For who are part of the larger social process, on T h e r e i: court. In the past - because this was not and culture is exerting som e influence over even if Parliament is sovereign. Ministers are the other, is not unlike the relationship A c t b y w : explicit - a society could always turn to the government thinking on these issues. A n o t . between teacher and society. While the introduce* courts. The denial of this implied opportunity religious m ovem ent which tries to examine Indeed the proposed amendments are in a teacher is directly responsible, society as a R e g is tra r means that if a society is deregistered, it can society from an ethical perspective is at the sense violative of, and derogatory to, the whole and parents in particular should show f r o m h a v i appeal only to the Minister whose decision same time evaluating government policies. A Federal constitution, for the new powers given real concern for the education of the young. c o n n e c t io 'shall be final and conclusive, and shall not be business association which attempts to to the Registrar would enable him to determine There will undoubtedly be some parents who e x c e s s iv e challenged, appealed against, reviewed, persuade the state to accommodate its Constitutional matters which are within the are more concerned than others. It would be a T h e pre quashed or called in question in any courts' interest, is exerting influence upon the jurisdiction of the superior courts. By pity if the teacher challenges those concerned this and p (SS 2A, 13A, 18H). This places all registered government. A consumer group which combing Article 128 (2) of the Constitution and parents to join the teaching profession if they t h r o u g h s societies in great jeopardy. As long as one advocates better goods and services for the Section 48 (1) of the Courts of Judicature Act, want to discuss the education of their children. a s o c ie t y could appeal to a body whose independence consumer is involved directly with government only the courts could decide on Constitutional It would be equally sad if failing that, he affiliation, and impartiality is a cardinal tenet of our policies and activities. An environm ent society matters. This amendment therefore amounts to demanded that they at least declare themselves dealings v democratic system, one could at least hope for which seeks to create a more livable a blatant transgression of the doctrine of the 'teachers' even if they are not teaching - organisati some fairness and justice. To deny societies environment cannot help but try to make an separation of powers as well as an usurpation otherwise they should not express any opinion. t h e F e d e r this opportunity is to submit them to the impact upon governm ent activities. Finally, a of the powers of the judiciary by the executive This in fact is the whole idea. Since many g o v e r n m e tender mercies of a political personage. Surely, reform movement which is committed to branch of the government. As such the societies m ight not want to be called 'political t e r r it o r y c subjecting executive action to judicial review improving ethnic relations and enhancing credibility of the government would be societies' for fear of being confused with W it h t f public integrity has also got to influence political parties they would choose to refreain o rg a n is a ti CRACCUM July 21 1981 12 ... ■ ■ ■ m i...... ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ "« TACK ! FORUM

citizens w ho used their democratic rights to Ghazali has his say in parliament, ON THE SOCIETY (AMENDMENT) ACT (1981) AND DEMOCRATIC and his w a y of pushing through put them in power. The very same politicians should not deny citizens the right to express PROCEDURES IN MALAYSIA. the law, but the people think themselves. otherwise. MIC (Malaysian Indian Congress Green ABIM (Malaysian Islamic Youth Garden branch): Movement): The government should not use parliament Date:- 23/7/1981 (Thursday) against the tenets of Islam and concept of to legislate laws that do not have the support Tim e:- 8.00pm of the people. d e m o c ra c y . Venue:- Room 237, (top floor), R£6r\S7RAR\ Academic and Administrative Staff Malaysian Medical Association: Association (Sains University): a medicine which is worse than the disease it Student Union Building. ...undemocratic.... The criteria used to is supposed to cure. Jointly organised by : distinguish between political and non-political MTUC (Malaysian Trade Union Congress): Union of Malaysian Students in N.Z. bodies under the amendments to the Societies The attitude of the Government and Auckland Malaysia-Singapore Students Association. Act are not meaningful because social issues demonstrates that by gradual process, freedom were those that could not be divorced from and dem ocracy will diminish in our society. their political implications. Pan-Malaysia Hakka Association: ALIRAN (Malaysian Reformist Movement): unite to oppose the amendments. One begins to wonder whether we deserve PSRM (Partai Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia) to be described as a parliamentary democracy. the amendments were designed to give new, Should we not call a spade a spade? Are we widespread arbitrary and draconian powers to not a autocracy that uses Parliament as a the Registrar of Societies to control, and even fig-leaf to conceal the truth? dictate, the running of societies. Bar Council Malaysia: PAS (Party Islam): not only a blatant aggression on the doctrine against the principle of democracy of separation of powers, which is a fabric of Penang Chinese Chamber: our Constitution, but also the usurpation of the Am endm ent Act violates the spirit of judicial power by the executive... the architects d e m o c r a c y . of these amendments show little regard for the Perak Arts Research Association: constitutional position of the courts. seriously violate the freedom of speech and Bar Committee Negri Sembilan: the spirit of the Constitution. while it is the Governm ent's right to initiate Selangor Chinese Assembly: new laws or amend existing ones, the The Societies Act would 'paralyse' the Government ought to recognise the right and activities of Chinese guilds and association. heed dissent and comment by citizens and Selangor Independent Schools Old Boys organised bodies. Association: Bar Committee Penang: severely corrode the independence of the 1981, declared by the United Nations as the judiciary and the spirit of democracy. Year o f the Disabled could very well be Socialist Democratic Party: described as the Year of the Vocally Disabled The way the amendments were hastily for Malaysians. introduced looked like panic measures Democratic Action Party: reflecting the ruling party's lack of confidence The blackest day in Malaysian history. in itself and its ow n policies. Malaysian Environmental Protection Tan Chee Khoon: LIST OF LEGISLATION CURTAILING Society: In truth, in all m y years of involvem ent in W e owe it to our conscience to speak out politics amounting to more than a quarter of a HUMAN RIGHTS IN MALAYSIA against the amendments although the odds are century, I have not seen a greater opposition stacked against us. to any governm ent bill than this. INTERNAL SECURITY ACT (I960)- empowers the Minister of Home Malaysian Hindu Youth Council: UMNO Youth Federal Territory Branch: Affairs to authorise the detention of any person if he is "satisfied" that this the amendments are an example of sheer This goes against the basic rights of the is necessary to prevent him from acting in a manner "prejudicial" to the hypocrisy on the part of politicians. It was the people as contained in the Constitution. "security" of the country. PRINTING PRESS ORDINANCE (1962) - requires the printing press to obtain from the government appointed registrar an annually renewable license, which if granted, is also revocable at any time. CIETIES AC T Legislation affecting Trade Unions and the Labour Movement a) The Employment Ordinance (1955) from commenting upon the policies and affilitations or connections must apply to the b) The Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 1980 activities of government. As a result, public Registrar to commence or to continue doing c) The Essential (Trade Union) Regulations 1969. involvem ent in crucial social issues will decline. so. This is another retrogressive m ove. At These laws give the employers the right to hire and fire and empower the There will hardly be any discussion on matters present, a high proportion of societies in Registrar of Trade Union to cancel unions or refuse them registration. It which are of great relevance to particular Malaysia are having links and communications societies and the general public. There is of one kind or another with m any foreign also undermines almost completely the worker's right to organise and bound to have certain serious consequences. societies or organisations. This is only natural strike. First, interest-cum-pressure groups will not be and right, as it promotes international goodwill. SEDITION (AMENDMENT) ACT 1971 - make illegal any public able to provide non-partisan perspective on Instead of placing curbs and controls on such discussion of certain sensitive issues such as matters pertaining to race, problems which political parties, given their ties, the government should encourage the concern for popular electoral support, m ay not development of international cooperation. national language etc. Even M .P.s do not enjoy immunity since it is illegal be in a position to do. Second, they will cease M oreover, societies will not be allowed to to raise these issues in Parliament. to serve as effective channels for the receive funds or donations from UNIVERSITIES AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGES (AMENDMENT) ACT articulation of public feelings which in turn foreign-individuals or organisations, except (1975) - states that it is an offence for students or their organisations to:- provide the sort of feedback that the with the Registrar's permission. This will not - associate with any society, political party, trade union or any other government has always asked for. Feedback only affect international ties but more which interest-cum-pressure groups provide on important restrict activities of various societies organisations, body or group of persons whatsoever, even if they are legally a whole variety of social issues can be of some which have been able to contribute towards established. assistance to the governm ent in the national development partly through assistance - express or do anything which may be construed as expressing support formulation and sometimes rectification of from foreign sources. sympathy or opposition to any political party or trade union. public policies. If anything, these Apart from this, the vagueness of various consequences will have even more disastrous terms such as 'connection', 'communication', UNIVERSITY DISCIPLINARY RULES (1977) impact upon the com m unity if civil servants, 'directly' or 'indirectly' and 'or other dealings' - prohibits students and their organisation from holding any assembly of teachers, lecturers and other categories of would adversely affect the legitimate role of more than 5 persons on the campus without the prior permission of the public servants are forced to withdraw from societies. For instance, does communication V.C. (Vice-chancellor) active involvem ent in these so-called 'political include receiving a publication or letter from - students' publication must be formally approved by the V.C. societies' because they were 'political'. For a abroad? An essential attribute of law is its developing country where the educated preciseness and this is missing in the proposed - students must not organise, incite or participate in the boycott of any stratum is still numerically small, the amendments. exam, lectures, tutorial or class. withdrawal of such groups would mean that Disqualifications Applicable to Criminal LEGAL PROFESSION (AMENDMENT) ACT (1977) - disqualifies M .P., the general quality of public discussion on Offenders, Detainees and Others State Assemblymen, local councillors, office-bearers of political parties or social issues will suffer considerably. This could Further, the disqualification of a person trade unions from being members of the Bar Council or Bar Committee. have an adverse effect upon the capacity of 'convicted of any offence under the Act or any the community as a whole to come to grips other law arid sentenced to a fine of not less ACADEMIC STAFF DISCIPLINE ORDER (1977) - prohibits teaching with vital social challenges. than two thousand ringgit or to imprisonment staff from :- Restrictions on Links with Foreign for a term of not less than one year' (Section - speaking in public on political, controversial issues Organisations 9A) from holding office in a registered society - writing letters or giving interviews to Press There is already provision in the Societies for a period of 5 years even after he has been Act by way of Section 13A which was released is a clear contravention of the - publishing books, articles/leaflets giving their ideas on any political introduced as an amendment in 1972 giving the principles of justice. In law, as in Islam and party or circulating such items Registrar the power to prohibit any society other religions, once a person has been - criticising the policies/decisions of the University. from having any foreign affiliation or punished for his crime, he should be allowed to ESSENTIAL (SECURITY CASES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATION connection. This in our opinion is already live and act like any other free citizen. Even e x c e s s iv e . more important, a person who is detained or (1975 and 1979) The proposed amendment goes further than whose m ovements are restricted under - under this regulation, hearsay is admitted as evidence, witnesses are this and gives the Registrar sweeping powers Security laws (Section 9A) should not be allowed to testify masked, and the accused is presumed guilty until proven through sub-section 13A (1)(b) which prohibits prohibited from holding office in registered innocent a society 'from having directly or indirectly, any societies simply because he has not been - the 1975 Act was ruled ultra-vires of the Constitution by the Privy affiliation, connection, communication or other convicted in a court of law. This is especially dealings whatsoever, with any society, true of political detainees w ho are denied an Council (London) in January 1979, hence the 1979 Act was passed with organisation or other body whatsoever outside open trial. retrospective effect. the Federation, or with any authority, ARTICLE 150 (AMENDMENT) CONSTITUTION (1981) - empowered governmental or otherwise, in any country, the cabinet to act through the King to issue proclamations of emergency territory or place outside the Federation...' 9 9 With the present amendment, all and ordinances without having to seek approval from the Parliament. organisations in Malaysia having foreign 11 CRACCUM Jiily 21 1981

with a responsibility to youth but that a reduced offending rate, and youth there was no coordination of such workers become frustrated in their activity. Y.A .C . also pointed out that efforts to respond to increasing social the Government's contact with youth problems with diminishing financial affairs was limited to the N .Y.C. and resources. field officers within the Ministry of T h e Y . A . C . , the Y .M . C . A . , and the Recreation and Sport. Not enough N.Y.C. are in broad agreement on a status was accorded the views of i number of issues. youth and community workers, There is a need for more innovative working at a grass roots level, and and experimental programmes to be the views of Youth Work developed in response to the special Associations. needs of "at-risk" youth. Among those needing special help are: those Some facts who lack personal and social skills; Between 80-90% of those those who can't find jobs; those appearing in Court are under 25. without strong family support; Over 50% of the total number of minority groups seeking involvement registered unemployed are under 21. and identity; those who leave school Approximately 50% of the total with a sense of failure, those who unemployed are classified as cannot find work but fail to register unskilled. for the dole. Superannuation accounted for Punitive sentences and increased 68.7% of the 1978-79 Social Welfare police surveillance will not decrease department budget, compared with the incidence of youth crime. 2.7% spent on unemployment Th e re is a need for a greater benefits. emphasis on human felationships/ In the 1978-79 financial year, each sexuality/communication skills in the farm in the country is estimated to school curriculum. have received nearly $5,000 in Schools should participate more in To Be Young... "subsidies". By contrast, a person the affairs of their communities and under 20 received $1,800 on the dose. vice versa. At Auckland University last year There needs to be more emphasis out of 11,752 students, 354 were on work exploration/work release Maoris or Pacific Islanders. programmes to allow young people to At ATI last year, out of 15,000 examine the options open to them Every generation of young people the North Island on 16 August and students, 3.9% were Maoris or before committing themselves to a is weaned on the tired old traverse the centre of the North Pacific Islanders. career path. catchphrase "Youth are the leaders Island, holding rallies along the route As at the end of February, 1981 The school curriculum should be of tomorrow." in major towns, before reaching there were 6900 school leavers more relevant to real life, e.g. It's always been a hollow carrot for Wellington where a petition and registered unemployed. subjects like how local, regional and most youth and sounds especially manifesto will be delivered to In 1978, 67.1% of Maori children central government works, the legal laughable, or perhaps contemptible, Parliament. left school without any educational system, consumer rights, budgeting, in the light of burgeoning youth The Youth Action Committee arose attainment. gardening, parenthood, how to look unemployment, crime and other from a series of 10 deptutations to During 1979, Children and Young for jobs etc. "casualty" areas where youth are Members of Parliament and local Persons' Courts recorded 14,151 There needs to be a shift of public hard hit. authorities in the middle of last year. appearances which were not resources away from "band-aid" However, there are signs that At a meeting at Boystown in subsequently withdrawn or dismissed. services towards more constructive young people, and professionals October, it was felt that MPs and As at 31 December, 1979, there preventive approaches - such as the working on their behalf, are bringing local authorities had little appreciation were 7,031 children and young employment of more youth workers, pressure to bear on Government to of youth needs and it was decided to persons under the care and control of recognition for youth leaders in the make a more firm commitment to the organise the march to demonstrate to the Social Welfare Department. community, more money spent on "country's future." the Government that youth is "in A Justice Department study of unstructured recreation opportunities, crisis" in New Zealand. reoffending patterns in 500 probation e.g. drop-in centres, research into The National Youth Council, The Y.A .C.'s petition calls for the cases showed that 59% had appeared what youth want. recognised by the Government as the following action: before courts again within a period of Young people need to be involved country's official youth voice, has In employment, youth have the 30 m onths. at all levels of policy-m aking and decided its membership of 29 national right to work where and at what they In 1979, there were 1,511 people decision-making in areas where they and regional voluntary organisations choose; youth without work have the under-20 in prison; 1,571 prisoners are directly affected - this includes is not fully representative of New right to the same benefits as adult were between 20-24. the school system, the workplace and Zealand youth and is attempting to umemployed, with the same Many young people are leaving all levels of g overnm ent. broaden the base of participation to opportunities for relief work. school at 15 and are unable to get a Voluntary Community Service, with include various kinds of groups, both In education, youth have the right job. They cannot receive or without remuneration, would structured and unstructured. to learn practical skills which provide unemployment benefit until they are enable young people to find their way Last year, the NYC issued the real employment prospects, survival 16. around their communities. widely-acclaimed "Youth In skills to cope with everyday realities There are fewer than 35 detached Offences committed by young Perspective" study of youth services and the opportunity to learn their youth workers in New Zealand. people should, where possible, be in New Zealand. This made sweeping own culture and language; the Slightly more than $1 million is dealt with at a local community level, recommendations on a host of issues education system should stress the currently spent on youth work in New where the person is known. relating to youth and asserted youth's development of people rather than Zealand, compared with $122 million Efforts should be made to extend potential political clout by noting that academic examinations. on catching and imprisoning the opportunities for tertiary 19% of the current voting population In recreation, youth have the right offenders. education for young people from is aged between 18 and 24. to a proportionate share of all m oney The cost of keeping one offender ethnic and working class Two months ago, the YM CA spent on recreation, to free access to in prison is only slightly less than the backgrounds. issued a yduth manifesto, which also school and community facilities and cost of employing one youth worker Long-term youth employment made wide-ranging to subsidies for youth projects. in the community. strategies are needed, with emphasis recommendations. This also noted In the political sphere, youth needs ********** on job creation, training and youth's untapped political power. special representation through local retraining programmes and alternative ...... " In the past political parties have authority youth advisory groups and a Who plans one year ahead should work opportunities, such as not seen the "youth" vote as a more co-ordinated youth policy at plant crops cooperatives and cottage/craft significant political force. W e believe Government level, with the Who plans ten years ahead should industries. that all political parties would be now establishment of a new portfolio of plant trees There needs to be increased well-advised to rethink their attitudes "Ministry of Youth, Recreation and Who plans a hundred years ahead Government spending on all areas to young voters. Sport" or a permanent Government should take care of the young relating to youth. "The old tradition of young voters Committee on Youth Affairs, p eo p le. The general election is four months merely following the voting trends of accountable to, and in constant away. Whether or not youth will their parents seem no longer to be consultation with, youth and youth - old Chinese proverb. wield its supposed clout and tangibly the norm. Recent surveys have w orkers. affect the result will probably depend suggested young voters are extremely The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr ********** less what the parties do to woo the volatile and contain a large number of Highet, on hearing of the march and The YM CA document points out youth vote than on what young "swinging" voters. The 1981 election its objectives commented that the that a clearly defined youth policy is people can see in it for them. Apathy could be decided by whichever party organisers were "uninformed on the important not only to youth but to is a strong m otivator and the parties succeeds in attracting most of the Government's youth policies". He the wider community. It argues that don't seem to be going out of their Youth vote." said that within the department of parents become concerned when way to seduce the young. Only the Early this year a group of young Internal Affairs there was a section their children cannot find Labour Party has a youth policy. people, mostly teenagers, some devoted to youth and it was employment, the older generation Space Invaders anyone? youth workers, got together to form responsible for the Government's become worried if they feel young the Youth Action Committee, whose youth policies. people are lacking direction and look For further information on the purpose was to organise a national The Youth Action Committee to central government for answers, youth march to Wellington, please youth march on Parliament next replied that it was aware there were a taxpayers become concerned when contact the secretary, Damien month. It will start from Te Hapua in number of Government departments increased expenditure fails to lead to Jones (579-479). CRACCUM July 21 1981 U> north LOGIC & POLITICS DON'T M IX

Logic and politics, at the best of party had spent 19 years trying to be party should have had som e Social Credit will be able, by voting in times, are strange bedfellow s, but elected as the Government. During experience as Government before the House, to decide whether come election year and they tho$e years, did the Labour Party not formulating policy, but it remains legislation is passed, failed or completely forsake each other, with formulate it's own policies on impossible to understand how Mr amended. This would, therefore, often unbelievable results. One economic issues of the time, Rowling can say this in terms of a suppose that Social Credit MP s example occured during the recent inexperienced in governing as it was? new party. A new party, whether would vote together, but how can furore generated b y Social Credit's And today, with 27 out of 40 MP s Labour, Social Credit or National, in this be when the party's manifesto proposals about tax reform, and was having been Government MP s and of it's beginning formulates policies that states that it's MP s are under no supplied b y M r R ow ling. those 27 only 12 having been Cabinet are alternatives to those in operation, obligation to vote on party lines When commenting on the Ministers, do they not formulate as a means of attracting voters, so except on monetary matters and they proposals, Mr Rowling remarked that policies because of lack of that it can become Government and will not be subject to party discipline? the proposals were the sort of thing experienced people, and lack of implement alternative policies, no Although research shows that the that happened when a party with no experience in the past six years? matter how ridiculous the other side present Social Credit MP s vote experience in ^Government tried to One can, perhaps - with a great finds them. together, 99.8% of the time, can we deal with major economic issues. An deal of logical leniency, understand The other example has been assume that this 'mutual agreement' interesting point from a man whose the c o m m e n t if it w a s m eant that a around for a long time, but has will extend to new MP s? It would beco m e m ore absurd each tim e it is seem unlikely that both these espoused. This is provided by Mr objectives can be achieved Beetham, who is confident that after simultaneously, but which takes this election his party will hold the precedence - the 'balance of 'balance of responsibility'. From what responsibility' or the 'free vote'? is said around this topic, it would appear to indicate that it means D. W atkins

Laid Off Heather McKenzie's time is up. The long to travel as an able-bodied Disabled Students Resource Officer person. since March 1981, Heather is to be Many of the disabled students, laid off at the beginning of presently under Heather's care, are September, shortly before exams. mature-age students who have been Then her position, initiated and away from learning for a number of Get out your dictionaries, it's funded by the PEP (Project years. Last year four of them came Employment Programme) Labour through a special preparation Dept scheme, expires. programme - New Start for Disabled AZOIC SUBJECTS AND There are at least forty disabled People, organized by the Centre for ENDOCARDITIS students on campus at present. This Continuing Education. figure includes those temporarily and It is common knowledge that 1st In order to establish the effects of azoic states on susceptibility to partially disabled. Of that total year mature-age students encounter endocarditis, a group of laboratory rats were exposed to bacterial Heather has the most contact with even more disorientation at university endocarditis. A control group of randomly selected rats were also exposed twenty. She spends most of her time life than the average Stage 1 student. to bacterial endocarditis. The results suggest a strong causal link between with eight students, who form the Consider the plight of the mature age azoic states and immunity to endocarditic diseases. core group of those she helps. disabled studentl This is one of the The work she does for her students areas in which Heather is relied on M ethod is mainly practical. It includes many extensively, to aid with their study Tw o sets of laboratory rats were selected for treatment. The first group activities which most able-bodied and learning techniques. consisted of non-azoic laboratory rats (N = 40). This group were exposed to students take for granted - getting Next year Heather knows of at a 40ml/1 solution containing metastases scrapings. This procedure was books out, typing essays and least ten new disabled students who followed for the second group of azoic subjects. Treatment for both groups xeroxing key notes, to name a few. will be entering Auckland university. consisted of exposure over a period of two hours, every day, for two Heather also aids with their mobility, Seven of them are presently on the weeks. Previous literature on bacterial endocarditis has suggested that this or more aptly immobility; remember it New Start Programme, for Term II, period is sufficient to induce bacterial endocarditis in strongly susceptible takes a disabled person three times as which helps prepare them for subjects, (see Stiglitz, Stiglitz & Semite - 1977; Scheim, Kline & Tosh - university life. Such a programme, 1980). After the cessation of treatment the rats were inspected for signs of along with International Year of the em pyem a. Disabled Person 1981, has ensured that we are all more aware of the Results disabled in our midst - they form 10% The control group, consisting of 40 laboratory rats, had significant of our community. indications of advanced endocarditic deterioration. 25 of the group suffered The Centre for Continuing death from the endocarditic bacteria, while 15 had signs of advancing Education hopes to offer a New Start empyema. These results are set out in Table 1: for the Disabled programme on a Table 1:Results:Control Group regular basis to encourage disabled Metastases development Empyema Adv endocarditis people of academic potential to take N 40 15 25 up the challenge of university study. Chi2 = 0.98 B u t if there is no b a ck -u p service once the students enroll for degree The azoic group, consisting of 40 azoic laboratory rats, had virtually no studies they face a hard road ahead. signs of advanced or intermediate endocarditis. No examples of deterioration due to empyema were found. These results are given in Table Heathers' existence on campus has 2: already encouraged disabled students Table 2:Results:Azoic Group to attend university, as it assures Metastases development Empyema Adv endocarditis them that support and help will be N 1 available if needed. Yet what will Chi2 = 0.96 happen to this year's disabled students and next year's group, once Conclusions H eather's office is disbanded? These results support the earlier findings of Schaum, Greenspan & T h e m ost im m ediate concern is Hajiyata - 1975; Herron, Francescagelli & Montaigne - 1977; Thom & Smith that of the remaining months in the - 1942. In particular, it was noted that a significant reduction in year, once Heather goes, ls there susceptibility to endocarditic disease occured amongst the azoic subjects. much point in laying her off two The results of Kampf, Greenspan & Hopp - 1916, are supported also by the months before exam-time; the most fact that the overall metabolic standard of the azoic subjects not kept under stressful time of the academic year? refrigeration was much lower. These results are, however, tentative at this Surely she could see the year stage, and further research will be necessary to fully validate the azoic through, to tide the students over hypothesis stated in Watkins, Seagoon & Li - 1972. with their exams. D.W. K. Davis 9 CRACCUM July 21 1981 $4 increai "Further cutbacks must be made all probability be a real decrease in indicators so that we can afford our 'think-big' spending if inflation rem ains at its strategy. To this end it is current level. The total budgeted SI BUDGET SOPS inconsequential to us if the increase is 1 4 .2 % above that A b o u t unemployed, the poor, women, expended (rather than budgeted) on Departrrx ethnic minorities, beneficiaries, Education last year. addressee students, pensioners, gays, etc. Particularly hard hit areas are : released 1 suffer even further. Therefore our Operation of schools (a 13.6% (the Dorn 'social' policies are, at best, decidedly increase) proposal 'anti-social'. -remember the school committees?; would be "W e will continue to pursue a Teacher education (a 5.2% under-20 policy of divide and rule, whereby an increase) - this area involves refresher students, increase in spending on one of these courses, in-service training etc. allowance groups will be made by cutting back and University education (11.1% depender financial support for others. We will increase). So thei slash departmental budgets where it Note here that the university of a $27 1 hurts most and will not reduce the education component of the budget red tape. If anything, people will have does not include operating costs, VCC ! to grovel and lick our shoes even staff salaries etc. These items are In early m ore. included in the quinquennium, a represent "W e believe in equality of separate, five-year, block grant. N Z V .C .C opportunity (when it suits us to)." the Vice-i BURSARIES universitie Well, so much for the bright Most students would no doubt review iro future. What does it add up to in have been expectantly waiting for and his d< monetary terms? news of an improved bursary on without ir In real terms, total net expenditure budget night. The $4 added to the were goir is estimated at $10,917 million, just basic rate w a s hardly generous. It will the Depai over 19% higher than that budgeted just about match this year's inflation This w as for the March year 1980-81. The rate. begun ne increase is less significant if one But let's think about it a bit more. hindsight, compares the amount budgeted for Remember when the TAG was undercut requirement that proposed new next year with the amount actually introduced at the start of 1980? We Members programmes be funded by spent this year. The latter was less had a direct cut of $7 in the basic Educatior On Thursday the 9th of July, compensatory savings in existing than the amount budgeted for. This, rate, from $30 down to $23. So the (comprisii Muldoon presented what was departmental functions has been taken together with inflation, leaves $4 increase takes us just over halfway as a meai generally regarded as a lack-lustre rigorously applied... This... has forced little or no real increase in the back to where we were in 1979. the T A G budget for 1981/82. He talked much the re-evaluation of policies with a amount budgeted for the coming Moreover, when you consider that, One wc about the "bright" future in front of view to identifying those activities financial year. since 1976, the real value of the react if N the country (as long as the electorate which can be restricted, eliminated or basic rate has declined 114%, (to without ti votes National, of course), but what pursued more efficiently." EDUCATION March 1981) the $4 we got in the staff/stuc did it all m ean for students? W e m ust Exposing the rhetoric, what he is W hat is specifically planned for the budget is a n on-event. reduced r firstly consider the overall context. really saying runs something like this: Education sector? Firstly, there will in W hy did the government pick on a

and refusi students 1 Maoris. TH E R IG H T TO PROTEST This y e fared no l This year fifty-odd protesters, most previous \ Despite New Zealand's very serious young Maoris, marched from approachi internal problems the government has Whangarei to Waitangi to mark the protest at encouraged the growth of beginning of a series of protests two elderl multi-national companies in New the police against the continued celebration of Zealand and increased New Zealand's the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. and all wc military, political and economic ties The Treaty, signed in 1840 between riotous be w ith m any m ajor countries, all of selected Maori Chiefs and the then resisting c whom have very serious internal present representatives of the British were the < problems as well. government, was the essential tool not o n e c So, with a diminishing hope of a for British Colonial expansion into attemptec bright future in New Zealand under New Zealand. While the Treaty was seem clea the present system, it is ludicrous to the instrument to herald colonialism in responsibi celebrate the signing of the Treaty of New Zealand, in India, North Africa protesters Waitangi and the subsequent birth of and in many other countries of the who protc this crippled nation. It is this point World Britain murdered, raped, face the c that the protesters are making. They enslaved and stripped the indigenous those wh< are asking every New Zealander to peoples of the world of their dignity and pow e examine his or her own situation and and heritage to achieve colonial But w h to ask themselves "W hat am I domination. But despite British expressed celebrating on Waitangi Day?" colonialism in New Zealand taking a authority T o d a y , the answ er is surely directly oi different form, nevertheless the long rhetorical. term effects have been much the bureaucra New Zealand has had a very poor sam e. police/arr history so far as allowing groups or And it is these long term effects of expressed individuals the right to protest. The colonial expansion resulting from the New Zeal, 1913 waterside strike and Massey's actions of political, economic and social system mounted strikebreakers, New that way brought into New Zealand in General Zealand's treatment of conscientious the 1840's, and aided by the Treaty wanted a objectors in both wars, the of Waitangi, that the fifty-odd They w en government's intervention with police protesters are voicing concern over. political ir and Arm y on Bastion Point in 1978 all In New Zealand today the inflation of W aitan clearly indicate the intolerance of rate is about 16%, over 100,000 content t( successive governments in this people are either unemployed or are pushed oi country to protesters. And yet very without long-term job prospects, interests i little protest in New Zealand has been taxation rates are disproportionately ie. propag violent; most has been deliberately high in the lower to middle wage people, oi non-violent. Where violence has gone brackets and education and social harmonioi hand in hand with protest, either services have been progressively cut. poverty ai deliberately, or not it has been used There are signs of increasing countrysic in a counter-violence sense or poverty, high suicide rates and It is this because all other channels of protest mental disorders. Maori people are New Zeal* over a long period of time have been over-represented in unemployment, fed, that i unsuccessful. This was the case in crime, suicide and depression strength c the violent clash between engineering statistics. Maori language is in danger And unlec students and young Maoris at of being lost if some progress in dominatic Auckland University in 1979, when extending bilingual education and significant five minutes of violent interaction establishing a bilingual media etc is Zealand p between both parties ended not made in the next five years. Th e tec twenty-five years of cultural abuse, C R A C C U M July 21 1961 6 $4 increase? There are two clear INCREASE LOUSY indicators. So, after the budget the National government is no closer to meeting SECRET DOCUMENT the realities of the situation. About 5 weeks ago, a secret Nothing has been done to reduce Department of Education document, the dependence of students on the addressed to the Minister, was iniquitous, arbitrary hardship grant. released to a W e llin gto n new spaper Nothing to alleviate the paper wars, (the Dominion). It contained a the delays or the anomalies either. proposal for a new bursary : there This, the second year of operation would be two basic rates, $27 for of Mervyn's TA G scheme, has under-20 students and $32 for over-20 become even more of a nightmare students, and a supplementary than in 1980. Students in all seven allowance for married students with universities are leaving because of dependents. ^ financial pressure, others are So there we have the first mention destroying their health because they of a $27 figure. cannot afford to eat adequately, thousands are getting themselves into VCC SELLS OUT STUDENTS hock with the banks so far that they'll In early June this year, following take years to repay their debts. Under representations from N ZUSA and the an already oppressive assessment NZ V .C.C (a committee representing system, these pressures can only the Vice-Chancellors of the seven N.Z wreck one's chances of studyin. universities), the minister convened a review involving those two bodies REVIEW UNDERMINED? and his department. The V-C's, Clearly, given that the most crucial without informing NZUSA that they aspect of the review discussions is were going to do so, suggested to the level of the basic rate, the status COOKERY the Department a basic rate of $27. of the $4 increase must be clarified. This was even before the parties had NZUSA has written to the minister to COLUMN: begun negotiating. This costing, with ascertain whether or not there can be Special Request This week's column is a hindsight, was clearly used to an increase over and above the $27 If the Springboks do play in combined effort; Bob contributed the undercut NZUSA's position. basic rate for 1982. Past experience Gisborne tomorrow please show your marmalade recipe and political opposition by staying away from your Members of the Government does not augur well. commentary and Susie the jelly and Education Caucus Committee The onus is clearly on the V.C.C. to job, lectures etc and taking part in jam recipes. one of the many protest gatherings. (comprising 12 M .P.'s) latched onto it push for a fresh initiative in the as a means of diffusing criticism of review. Students must also maintain M arm alade: the TA G at minimal cost. their vigilance whilst the current Jelly Recipe Lots of gardens have trees laden One wonders how the V.C.C. would government continues to pursue such Take any kind of fruit - apples, with grapefruit at this time of the react if N Z U S A recom m ended, anti-education policies. crabapples, quinces, loquats, year, doubtless mother is pressing without telling them, worse Brian Small currants, plums ... wash it and put it lots of lemons and oranges on you, staff/student ratios in universities or Education and Welfare into a preserving pan. If you are and if y o u r flat is like m ost there are reduced research grants. Vice-President NZUSA using apples quarter them, but don't probably three million old coffee jars peel or core. Just cover with cold under the stairs. Time to make water, bring to the boil and leave for enough m arm alade to last till this an hour, stirring occasionally. Now time next year - only with sugar the for the exciting part. Pour the lot into and refusal by the engineering backbone of this society, propped up price it is under the present a jelly-bag (if you don't have one use students to negotiate with young by the logic of profit margins and government marmalade isn't as cheap a tea-towel folded in half and stitched Maoris. scientific advancement, is part of the as it used to be and this recipe might up two sides, or make one from This year, protesters at Waitangi politics of domination. For those who cost you thirty cents a jar. So get a muslin) tie the top of the jelly-bag fared no better than they have in have jobs today, most follow similar loan from the bank or an advance on and leave suspended over a bucket previous years. The Maori who patterns of work. The technical your bursary, pick some slightly overnight. Don't squeeze the bag, or approached the dais to voice his apparatus that most of us work with under-ripe fruit, and here we go: the jelly will be cloudy. Next day, protest at the ceremonial knighting of in N e w Zealand is in itself Find two lemons and six large measure the juice in the bucket with two elderly Maoris was grabbed by authoritarian, requiring service, grapefruit (or replace two of the a cup. Add !4-1 cup of strained the police along with seven protesters submission and subordination of grapefruit with three oranges or a lemon juice. Bring to the boil and add and all w ere charged dubiously w ith those who control the apparatus. handful of mandarins and tangerines). as many cups of sugar as you had of riotous behaviour, intent to injure and Technology has been made into a Wash the fruit and chop or slice or juice. Throw away what's left in the resisting arrest. But, although these powerful instrument of domination. mince or grate depending on how jelly-bag. Boil the juice and sugar were the charges laid by the police, There must be increased control by chunky you want the finished until it will set (see marmalade) and not one of the protesters had people over their work, leisure, product. Cover with about seven then pour into sterilized jars (as attempted a violent action. It would finances etc before we can expect pints of water and leave to stand for above). Easy and delicious on toast. seem clear, therefore that the them to increase the control they 24 hours. All the books say you responsibility for the arrests of the have politically. should use a non-metallic container, Jam Recipe protesters should not fall upon those This will require teaching New but this a m o u n t is a bout right for a Take 6lb fruit (all of one kind, or who protest who are going to have to .Zealanders how to liberate i preserving pan and I've never noticed mixed) wash and cut up if necessary face the courts of law , but those themselves so they do have control any side-effects. (berry fruits can be left whole) cover those whose abuse of the authority and then teaching them how to use Next day bring to the boil and with six pints of water and boil until and po w er justifies such opposition. their liveration. People must be while this is going on wash about the fruit is soft. Add 8lb sugar, stir But while concern must be taught and led to be free, and this is fifteen one-pound jars, rinse and put until dissolved and then boil until it expressed over those who wield more so the more the society in in the oven at about 250°. When the will set. Proceed as above. authority and power in New Zealand, which they live uses all the available fruit has been boiling for about half directly or indirectly (ie the means to shape their consciousness. an hour stir in about nine pounds of General Note: bureaucrats, also political and the But one thing is for certain and the white sugar (a bit less if you have For all jam , jelly or m arm alade police/army) concern must also be protesters at Waitangi knew it and some sweet oranges in the mix) and making it helps to warm the sugar expressed over the attitudes of the many other New Zealanders are now stir while you get it boiling again. before adding it to the fruit and New Zealand public in relation to the aware of it. Liberation, total liberation Add anything else you fancy water. This means that the jam will actions of the protesters at Waitangi. cannot be fought for and achieved (brown sugar or a quarter of a pint of come back to the boil much more Generally speaking, the public for a few people only. No total s c o tc h ...) and boil until it is done, quickly than it w o u ld if the sugar w as wanted a day-off and a paid holiday. liberation of the rest of society and stirring now and again with a wooden cold. To warm sugar, measure it into They were in no hurry to see the vice versa. It is this new direction spoon. It is ready when a small a flat roasting pan (clean it firstl) and political im plications that the Tre a ty which will lead us in the 1980's and amount put on a saucer forms a skin place in the oven at the same time of Waitangi has had on their lives and will see many changes within existing when cool, and this might take 30-45 that you are sterilising the jars. Keep content to absorb the propaganda political pressure groups. m inutes. If yo u c a n 't get it to take stirring the jam so that it does not pushed out by those in whose Maori people have ignorantly squeeze in the juice of a lemon. burn. Fruit should not be too ripe or interests it is to celebrate W aitangi, believed that their liberation, in all Stir in about half an ounce of the jam will not set. If it doesn't set, ie. propaganda about being "two genuineness, can be achieved butter, turn the oven off and put the add lemon juice, or 1 tsp of citric acid people, one nation," having divorced from any wider struggles pot aside for a few minutes to cool or commercial pectin. As a last resort harmonious race relations to overseas and this more than anything accounts slightly. T h is is to allow it to thicken you can add a packet of jelly crystals poverty and a picturesque for the slow progress that the Maori a little so the bits d o n 't all rise to the of the same flavour. countryside. liberation movements in New Zealand tops of the jars - but of course you It is this factor, the willingness of have made. New Zealand has quite a can leave it too long I Final Note: New Zealand's people to be led and way to go before radical change will Pour into jars, put dinky little Jam making is not difficult and the fed, that underlies the incredible occur but when it does, it will be cellophane covers and hand-written results are well worth the effort. It is strength of the politics of domination. achieved in the name of the desire for labels on them, then leave over-night much cheaper than store-bought And unless the cycle of the politics of a united liberation. to see if it sets. If it does give a jar to jam, it tastes better and the jars look domination can be broken no mother, otherwise pour it all back very pretty sitting on your shelf, so significant change for the New Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou. into the pot and cook for another half that all yo u r visitors will be im K. jssed Zealand people will occur. AKE! AKE! AKE! an hour. by your domestic skill. The technology that is the Alison Green 7 CRACCUM July 21 1981 What Are Schools For? organisation of work - provides us said that the tendencies identified with example. Typically, though the above need to be clarified. mediation of pamphlets, talks and 2. Conversely, the labour guidance w o rk is presented as movement must take seriously the challenging and open-ended and the educational experience of its children Education concept of 'career' is taken as and not hand it over by default to a unproblematic. When it comes to the system which is far from sympathetic new technology questions about why to working class needs. Schools it is being introduced, w h a t interests typically serve the interests of the For The it serves, about control, deskilling and ruling elites and the powerful in redundancy are not talked about. society. Universities in New Zealand Instead, technology is seen as are virtually off-limits to the children technical and natural, not as a set of of w o rk in g class families. A t all levels Revolution! choices and determinate the curriculum rejects, ignores or commitments. Certainly no mention is distorts the lived daily experience of into high relief. It makes very In these brief comments I want to made of the aim to maximize working people. Academic criteria concrete and particular the conflict do two things. First, to describe the profitability by reducing costs and if define success, manual work is between those who, on the one { , context in which our schools are left to private interests what children demeaned and the curriculum content hand, control resources, decisions, embedded; second, to suggest lines will hear is w h a t corporations like of social studies, geography, history processes and commodities, and of strategy which are oppositional to IBM and Wang want them to hear; and economic filters out the reality of those on the other, who have only their the reproduction of class ideology in that there is an unlimited job future, class struggle, the capitalist labour to offer in exchange for wages the school system. At a time when just as secretaries may be duped into organisation of work, the structural and salaries. working people and their children believing that the word processor will, inequalities of New Zealand society The social relations embodied in face a well financed and powerful* open up new horizons of career ^ and the oppression of Polynesian opposition and a state which is capitalist work are formally and challenge and adventure. Employers groups and women. The labour In his ai increasingly unresponsive to their actually authbritarian and workers are adopt a much less romantic picutre movement must actively develop and The N Z Ci needs, it is important to develop a ry not mystified by this reality. The way when talking to one another away light for the acceptance of curricula released s understanding which resists any C r in which unemployed workers are from the ears of employees. As one dr* w h ich introduce children to the reality relating to suggestion that new forms of capital thrown back on to the labour market employer, responsible for modernising of work, the class structure of who com r organisation are natural and or into the home - in the case of office procedures put it: "The society, the purpose of strikes, the Of the 1 inevitable * i many unemployed women - average secretary or clerk works with history of workers'fiovements and reported t T o answ er the question 'w h a t are#», demonstrates to those of us who are $500 to $1000 worth of old easons lying behind the crimes of schools for?', requires an answer to not engaged in productive work the typewriters and adding machines, and reduction of new .technology. 12.6% fro a prior question, 'in what kind of a structural inequality underlying our is probably a m o n g the least momsts now go hools and give 215,582 in society are ousjschools found?'. * J society, This rptility has long been - productive workers in the world. ^ on their wo the F.O.L. of 6257 pc Schools must be seen as part of the obscured by such liberal slogans as That's why after thf excel ional book on drug offer welfe ■ iV’ the equality of opportunity. and other assorted support le w jhnolo' Crunch, which related to not in isolation from It . j* *1 * 1 The necessity for productiveness The name of the game we're able. B ut ul is these drug, cam The welfare .state in fact embodies demands that the labour process be i s __ productivity." (Saturday are^hey fa itjoht of what I represents contradictory tendencies. It is neither controlled as closely as possible and ^ June. k in a 23,23 1979)19791 * WWm ing here a previous \ merely an expression of capital th«the «mArninnemerging stmnniAstruggle nx/crover th«the » m if schools are ^tgeddd^ytL* | | > r an ^jtiyp campaign by cannabis < interests nor a bastion of socialism in introduction of new technology capitalist society in the way Th; 'ement to have a voice the use ar a world otherwise dominated by the centres precisely on this issue. The have suggested and if they have the htln our schools and narcotics' pursuit of profit without regard to resistance of workers in a capitalist effect of mystifying children about to pro heroin dec human need. However, the limits technological social reality then we need to ask this F o lyn and girls in During within which progressive features of ejopment is. not irrational or blind f question, 'W hjt is to be done?' One particul most at the of 17 year the welfare state operate are defined and it cannot be dismissed as a | caveat must be entered into my hands of if 26.6% of by the imperatives of a capitalist simple-minded fear of change. On the comments at this poipt. Schools l E d u c f l those und eco n o m y rat*onal 0PP0Sitifn on cannot change society but yvh|| essentia responsibl Through a vast number of the part of those affected by the on in schools and around These f programmes the welfare state technology. This opposition is of a linked struggle KIM labour that a higl controls and habituates people to the directed against the interests change, in what follows I want into the sphere under the requirements of cartalism. Schools, represented by new forms of a n um t >le strategies tied to %demand|hat worker for example, by means of selection | investment aimed at control and varying dt can th o u t in explicit representation or ' devices, curriculum content and j f T efficiency. As David Noble of M .l.T. of cannab m m R M iter all institutional organisation, serve has concludeced, " It is here th a t w e small perc St julariy rep specifically to reproduce labour % d the |onlyj jy point of entry for labour illegally in janisati* lachers need ill r 3i students go power. By labour povyer I mean the ter itslhtiilpgin the process actually ai Their organisations as unions to ti Ir t u d y . skills, attitudes and bits of knowledge chnological d< ' If those work at every, of teachers necessary to being a productive f jT 3, Politic 1978). 5% of all solidarity with the w idttl g a i n i n g worker. The necessity of pourse is term s of 111,420 pi .m ojffient.^For e^afnple, t\ f6qi n from the defined by the imperative o f # e sketched ■ >ur equivalen executive hap moved Wth labour, chers' colleges efficiency. Bill Renwick, InJijp pape the other f | child of th frecentlyvfcitl' uni not be Education and Workin4C|fe,®J city. Franl I f a m % .the Conference ion children of makes this connection quite explli F u l.S fti even one class. by arguing that economic produci m dable, reliat skit were appr iuneration Act 1! that working "... has beep a main justification The kind of one looks experience ai imod perspective be in N e w Zs the development of the New Ze< shing that employers Parliamentary and in inc litted to schools. I also propose a particular! education system". This justific .fro m tim e to tim e is b o t h ^ J j l rl lations, PPTA Nationj jnce julare contact for teachers with W hethe in terms of adapting children and Unnecessary - demands its repeal aneyfuppor the sites and processes of productive should be fitting education to capitalist dems acious because schools af<§ * % reasonable action in the PP1 “ work. This cannot be left either tp offence is remains central as can be seen cing hard at adapting children to externally which helps < the accident of finding the odd particular! Bill Fenwick's first policy aim: "... ilist society and unnecessary repeal." In March the Execui Jay job or part-time work. Neither preparing young people to get and because they are successful.s The * # agreed that the Xssdeiaf oh si They argu i!d it be done in such a way as to keep jobs in a competitive labour principal of Green Bay High School suppottJtipe Kinleithmanagerr that canm take jobs away from workers. anti-social rm rk e t". (Mr E.D. Mann) made this point struggle Nevertheless, teachers desperately tobacco a During the long post-war boom recently when he characterised New Government's arbitrary use or the require contact which reaches beyond W e are period in which the country enjoyed Zealand education as a closed system Remuneration A c t The P P M also the classroom if they are to have any cigarette ! full employment the question of the which consequently produces people set up an appeaf iniuppbht of the chance of teaching effectively about health. Th relationship between the social who are "inhibitive, rigid and Kinleith workers and asked members \ the world from which their students and other relations of production (work) and repressive". (Reported in The Press, 1 0 contribut^o it. These tendencies come and into which they will go embarked schooling was rarely broached. j\ 14, 1980). need to be clarified, encouraged and after leaving school. advertisin Educational theory was written arid then do schools achieve this strengthened. What I have been arguing tor hei the evils ( taught in teachers' colleges and Wresult? This is a large question Teachers' organisations should is the explicit politicization of universities as if capitalist produci will confine myself to identifyi without d esent the interests of children as education. If e d uc; is and did not exist. Banalities like three features in the content c com m on t prepare for and enter work. The continues to serve class interests than complex, rapidly changing schooling which contribute to th crimes, p< children of workers, the vast majority it can also be one of the sites of class technological society" arid " jpressive socialisation of children. violence, of those who attend our schools, struggle. In general, the aim must be choice and development" lisation of work under cause for confront such obstacles as to develop a set of linked struggles iscured and disto T h e rea ^mentation in the labour market - against and intolerance for the analysis. Indeed, little has ch relations whic breakups nes of class, race and sex^ ; structural inequalities of our society. and in 1980 the mmyths y f h s o f in jrn support w | There are unemployment, skill redundancy and Only when the material conditions * liberal-democratic theory and dominated by the extraction of documem technological development. These are underlying these inequalities are bourgeois individualism provide the surplus are either never mentioned or a serious the same problems which workers transformed and surpassed will we foundations of almost all curriculum muted. Third, children are confronted successfu and their unions are grappling with. have warrant for talking about human content in education, whether by an ideology of individualism such by substil In the end teachers cannot development and education. academic or professional. As a resu that any failure appears to result from uncritically support both management Unemployment, however, has had personal weakness, inability or just have not and workers, for capitalist production John Freeman-Moii the effect of throwing the essential plain stupidity. hold d o w is the activity of separate and Lecturer in Education features of productive social relations Younge The first point noted above - the contradictory classes. This is why I University of Canterbury understar CRACCUM July 21 1981 6 ntified

isly the 13\ ; s i t 1Ha t /~ e children ault to a YO l/Jt£ UNOu t rmpathetic hools T H E C O M I N G of the Ô ul in ' Zealand i children PROTESTS x all levels res or So the Springboks are here. The TUESDAY 21st JULY: Mini-buses rience of question that everyone must ask will be leaving from Studass from criteria themselves now is what are we going lunchtime to about 4pm to take rk is to do about it? W e have worked people to Gisborne. If you can make through the system for many months the trip (cost $6.40 per person) there im content may still be a few places left. All you i, history - organising protests, debating the need is a sleeping bag. 3 reality of issues, and there is little doubt that we won the battle of public opinion. WEDNESDAY 22ND JULY: tructural It is a terrible indictment of our THE NATIONAL DAY OF society "democratic" process that the SHAME. Government and the N.Z.R.F.U. have lesian questioning prohibition T h is is the day of the first reneged on their responsibility in the Dour In his annual report to Parliament, alcohol and tobacco on a large scale Springboks' match in Gisborne. Many face of the opposition to the Tour. velop and The NZ Commissioner of Police are the recipients of knighthoods and of our fellow students will be in There are a few people who welcome curricula released som e interesting statistics other rewards, whilst those who Gisborne, protesting and we we the presence of racists in our the reality relating to certain crim es and those peddle cannabis on a modest scale intend to support them by holding country, but they are a minority, and of who commit them. are awarded terms of imprisonment. two rallies in Auckland. W E ARE they hide their stupidity behind hazy ces, the Of the total number of offences If the use of cannabis is so vile as to CALLING FOR ALL STUDENTS AND statements about personal freedoms, m ts and reported to the police 61 % relate to warrant the status of a crime, is not LECTURERS TO BOYCOTT and sport, not politics. 3 crimes of dishonesty, an increase of the answer to explain to people, LECTURES FROM 12.00PM If you are in favour of the Tour, logy. 12.6% from 191,407 in 1979 to particularly young people, why this is ONWARDS. WE WILL BE you are supporting Apartheid, no s and give 215,582 in 1980. During 1980 a total so? Surely it is far better to convince ASSEMBLING IN THE QUAD AT matter how much you try to hide F.O.L. of 6257 persons were charged with people rather than coerce them. If 12.15pm FOR A MARCH TO THE your attitudes - even from yourselves. I book on drug offences. 8 9 % of dru g offences people cannot be persuaded RALLY IN AOTEA SQUARE AT If you are opposed to the Tour, you c h , which related to the class " C " controlled convincingly that cannabis is so 12.30PM. DURING THE MORNING are now weighing up your iese drug, cannabis (5571 people). This harmful, why should its use be YOU CAN HELP TO PUT commitment to the massive f w h a t I represents an increase of 32% on the illegal? PLACARDS AND BANNERS movement that has grown in New t, a previous year of people charged with It has been said from time to time TOGETHER. Zealand over the last months. When paign by cannabis offences. Offences involving that cannabis is harmful to the users' AT 4.30PM THERE WILL BE weighing up that commitment, you ✓ e a voice the use and supply of so-called "hard health. Even if this be so, and it is ANOTHER RALLY AT THE CORNER should consider the effect of a ools and narcotics" such as LSD, cocaine and not generally accepted, it is not a OF SYMONDS STREET AND K' successful Tour, free from protest, I groups - heroin declined by 1 7 % . sufficient reason by itelf to outlaw its ROAD, WHICH MAY GO TO EDEN against a Tour that is fraught with During 1980 children under the age use. Many things are injurious to PARK. difficulties, and is forced to be called of 17 years were responsible for one's health but are quite legal. Like SATURDAY 25TH JULY: This is the off in mid-stream. The world has 26.6% of all cleared offences, whilst alcohol, it's not so much its use but day of the second game, in Hamilton. already judged Muldoon and Blazey - those under 20 years w ere its abuse that may render it harmful. W e are organizing a car-pool to get can we stop it from reaching the responsible for 59.7%. That is merely a question of degree. people to Hamilton. If you want to go same verdict on New Zealand? These figures appear to indicate It has also been claimed that to Hamilton, leave your name etc. at If the world reaches that verdict, ent that a high percentage of people cannabis is only the start and the the stalls in the quad. If you are there are a number of things which be under the age of 20 years are, in user will progress to harder narcotics taking a car and have some spare will happen to us, although the full e have varying degrees, involved in the use such as heroin. There appears little seats, give the details to the people in extent of any repercussions is difficult |ol of cannabis. Quite clearly, only a justification clinically for this view. At the quad. Please do this as early as to assess. W e know that the Tour re small percentage of people involved best it means the cannabis user has possible so that we have time to get will cost us all a lot of money, that gh only a illegally in the use of cannabis are more chance of coming into contact lifts and people matched up. sports people from New Zealand will dents go actually apprehended. with harder drug users, ls it really any If yo u cannot m ake it to H am ilton, be ostracised from the world ly. / If those apprehnded represented different from saying that beer there will be two rallies in Auckland: competition, that we will be subject teachers 5% of all users this w o u ld a m o un t to drinkers will become spirit drinkers 1.00pm POTTERS PARK - CNR to political boycotts throughout the ling 111,420 people, that is close to the because they might meet spirit DOMINION RD & BALMORAL RD. C o m m o n w e a lth . B ut, w e have all >m the equivalent of every man, woman and drinkers? Obviously not. 1.00pm NIXON PARK - BOND ST recognised for some time that this ' colleges child of the population of W ellington In recent years Parliament has BRIDGE. would be the direct cost to us all. be city. Frankly, I ve ry m u ch do u b t if drastically reduced the maximum The fact that those in power have Idren of even one in twenty cannabis users penalty for cannabis offences. Surely ignored this is little consolation. s. were apprehended. Whichever way this gives recognition to the fact that However, there are going to be far vorking one looks at it, the use of cannabis its use is not as serious as it w as THESE PROTESTS greater costs that we will not be so ctive be in New Zealand is quite common, once thought to be. It is very rare for aware of. In South Africa the Black ARE IMPORTANT. >ropose a particularly amongst younger people. Parliament to decriminalise any Peoples who have been struggling s w ith Whether the use of cannabis particular act or reduce its gravity by under the oppression of Apartheid DO NOT SIT BACK jcoductive should be regarded as a criminal decreasing penalties. W e have far too have been betrayed by the departure ther tp offence is not unanimously accepted, many criminal laws in New Zealand, A N D LET of the Springboks. For years they >dd jJ particularly amongst young people. particularly in the category of have been heartened by the refusal of k. Neither They argue, with some persuasion, victimless crimes. SOMEONE ELSE the world to welcome representative w a y as to that cannabis is less harm ful or I am not necessarily advocating sports teams. They have been let C A R R Y TH E s. anti-social than the widespread use of legalisation of cannabis. W hat I do down by countries who have sent stately tobacco and alcohol. ask for is an explanation of w h y it BURDEN. teams to South Africa, but they have es beyond We are constantly reminded that should be illegal. I am sure I am not found support in those countries from have any cigarette smoking is dangerous to our alone in this request. people who would not let those ly about health. The Department of Health Mike Bungay IN VITIN G contacts move out of South Africa. students and other medical agencies have They, thd 14 million Black People of TROUBLE TO till go embarked on vigorous and expensive On Monday, the 27th of July, listen that country, must be wondering advertising campaigns pointing out to Radio Pacific from 10am, when SOUTH AFRICA when the world is going to wake up for here the evils of sm oking. It is accepted Gordon Dryden will lead a discussion to the atrocities of their daily lives. Any restriction on freedom of f without dissent that alcohol is a very on this question. A t 1pm there will be There seems to be only one way speech is undesirable and the events and common factor in the commission of activities in the Quad, and at 7.30pm left for New Zealanders to restore the which have led to the cancellation of rests than crimes, particularly crimes involving there will be a public meeting in B28, faith of the world and, more the visit by Mr Tom Hayden and his ss of class violence. It is also a ve ry c o m m o n in the basement of the Main Library. particularly, of the Black South wife, Jane Fonda, are regrettable. m ust be cause for the breakup of marriages. Speakers will include Hank Jansen Africans who have been ignored by However, an invitation to an The real victims of amrriage MSc, a scientist with the DS/R and the Government and the N.Z.R.F.U. avowedly radical celebrity to address breakups are often innocent children. the president of the National That way is to continue the protests students on an already emotive ■Sri There are a significant number of Organsiation for the Reform of and make the progress of the campus on a day such as June 16 is iitions documented cases where people with Marijuana Laws: New Zealand Springboks through this country as inviting State objections. In similar are a serious alcohol problem have (NORML:NZ), and Sue Hurst BA, the difficult and shameful as possible. In circumstances, the governments of vill w e successfully overcome that problem Secretary of NORML:NZ and a the other part of this page is a list of Britain or Israel might possibly have ut hum an by substituting cannabis for alcohol. delegate to last year's International the places and times where major taken the same action. As a result of such substitution, they Cannabis Alliance Reform Forum in protests are planned - support them, -reprinted from have not become violent or unable to Amsterdam. Speakers from the " Th e S ta r" an eeman-Moii and make sure this Tour is seen by hold down a job. Wairarapa and the Waikato will also SA newspaper, the world for what it is, an aberration n Education Younger people find it difficult to be present. in the S . 4 D ige st of freedom and democracy which we, C a n te rb u r understand why people who peddle P.S. No Smoking! as a nation reject. 5 CRACCUM July 21 1981 VOTE T l one of the ir the Associat We're not far out... FEATURING... The following interviews with kind of modi the 1982 Presidential Candidates were conducted by Election operate, and Editor John Bates. diversity is v want to see What do yoi HEATHER WORTH Department that made a difference, president w i Why would you like to be President we lobbied M.P. s and I think even Firstly, I gue We're right on of A.U.S.A.? although we seemed to have gained with simple i I would like to be President because I nothing as far as public pressure and things, makii feel that I could make a difference to even public opinion I am sure they run well that the Association. I think I could give it are right behind the students. People work well to the direction which it lacks and I now realise that students can not live against each think I could make A .U .S .A . stronger on $23, that the bursary system is in that means s campus as a pressure group, and as an an absolute mess and I feel quite issus and I d organisation. happy that I have achieved at least that devotes W hat do you think are the main part of what I set out to do. issue is repre issues in this year's Presidential What do you want from a bank? As well as being conveniently The Presider cam p aig n ? You want it to be convenient and located we understand the money on occasions Th main issue I see for students has close at hand. Th a t’s why the Bank problems students have. We can University, h of New Zealand is your bank right to be their financial difficulties. help you with banking services such campus, see on campus as cheque and savings accounts, free Financial difficulties as far as food in students, se< financial advice, the Nationwide the cafeteria, financial difficulties as PETER SHEARER life. account, travellers cheques, student far as the lack of bursaries, financial Why do you want to be President of What do yoi loans and so on. Better still, we’re difficulties as far as housing, finanical A.U.S.A.? ready, willing and able to talk over system in thi difficulties in having to have an I think there is a lot of advantages to your financial problems with you. I think chanj outside job as well as trying to get the job, that people cannot ignore, it Y ou’ll be surprised at what we can early 70's we through your studies, and not being is a good thing to have for your do to help you. direction, bu able to be involved in campus social career, but that is not the real reason The staff like life. I think it all com es d o w n to I want to be President. The real as much as \ having to end financial pressures on reason is because of a lot of the not good for students. things I have done over the past us down to ( Ask for Laurie Schade, W hat do you think the role of three years around the Association. I need a syste University of Auckland Branch President should be in this and the would like to carry on working with freedom to s Phone: 774-024 role of the Executive? the University. I think that one of the in our course The President is the leader of the things that has been lacking over the assessment s Student Association, he or she is the past fe w years is a President w h o can flexible, that figure head. I think it is very co-ordinate, and is good at personal that we are < important that the President has relations, particularly with the other ^ Bank of New Zealand badly neglec leadership qualities even before members of the Executive. I think I Here when you need us - on cam pus system since administrative ability. I feel that I have the experience to do that. and that is s have a lot of administrative ability and What do you see as being the major lot of empha competence, but I see leadership issues that A. U. S.A. is or should be qualities as being my most important involved in? asset. The President is there to unite That is a very hard one because Executive action to give the Executive A . U . S . A . is so diverse that there are direction, and to see that they carry things that are very important to large MARX BROS. out their portfolios for the benefit of groups within A.U .S.A . but that DAVID K students. mean absolutely nothing to other Why do you This year you are the only woman people. Of course bursaries will A.U.S.A.? candidate, what do you feel about continue to be an issue but I see that Because I d< the position of women in positions of broadening very much in that the of the other responsibility? general cuts to the University to do the thi I would like to make it clear from the spending will start to hit harder and be done for beginning that it is a real shame that I harder as the years go by. I think that not want to am the only woman candidate. I think we have to start working with the I want to be it is a reflection of o u r society that University, working out how we can Bassett as tl women are not taking as many best approach the Government, Carey as the leadership roles as they should. I and work together to stop those cuts together w e think it is really important for women and give education the importance it various refor to take these roles, that we fight for deserves. M y experience on Senate Association equality for women, that we fight and other committees over the last Association against discrimination. There certainly three years will be a great help in worthwhile < is discrimination in the Universities this. I also think there are a lot of members. V\ against women. The staffing ratio of people around campus who are wanted to b male to female lecturers is very bad finding things very hard, overseas a large exter and the administration of the students are finding it hard, people ambition, bu University has very few women at the are finding accommodation problems to the concli top. I am sure that as a President ve ry difficult, and a lot of people are that somethi people will look at me as a woman simply dropping out because they can that at the n and I will have to work twice as hard not afford to stay here. I think that else to do it as the men to be seen to have done a Education Fightback is handling these standing. good a job as them. I will do that things well from one angle but I think How importi because I think it is im portant for another way is to work with the you get elec women to take on leadership roles. University, put those issues before of you? This year you have been the them and ask them to fight along If the three < Education Vice-President. W hat do with the Association. The be able to w you feel about the work you have Vice-Chancellor's report this year was hopefully, ef been doing so far this year? one of the biggest steps in the among ourse I have been quite please with the Education Fightback campaign and us gets elecl work that I have done so far as the small increase we got are due in stay in office Education Vice-President. I have done large part, not only to the fact that would be un what I promised to do . I stood up at the Students' Association, but also that we have the election forum last year and the Universities are starting to make a other words promised that I would have an active fuss about the kind of money we get elections on Fightback campaign, the Fightback as students. rather than e would be my number one priority. You mentioned that A.U.S.A. is a coming toge When I started this year I was very diverse operation how do you ticket. W e a determined that this would be so, see this functioning or the Executive put cohesior and it has happened. W e had a very coping with it? Association, good march with 2000 people. We As I said this diversity is a very extent it is a certainly have made a difference. W e important thing, it leads to conflict stand. had a sit-in at the Education but as far as I am concerned that is CRACCUM July 21 1981 4

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one of the interesting things about What do you see as being the main University in the past but they have and was a body with effective the Association. I look on A U S A as a issues for A. U. S.A. ? been ignored. All we have left is decision-making power, then more kind of model of how society could Well obviously the first and foremost active protest. I am advocating students would come and we would operate, and so i think tolerance of issue is that A .U .S.A . needs a protest on this campus, not on have more government from the diversity is very important. I do not structural reformation and one of our Queen St where they cannot see us, bottom instead of from the top. want to see that lost. main objectives next year, is to over issues which some even possibly What do you feel is the job of the reform the way the Association agree with. Now to go into the president w ith in A U S A ? works, its committee structures, its nature of the protest, let's Firstly, I guess a lot of it has to do present management structure and hypothesize the situation as it is with simple administrative day to day the way it operates its systems as today in the Science Department. (It things, making sure that Executive is well as reform within A .U .S.A . We really could be any department.) All run well that Executive members would also want to re-establish the Stage 1 students say that they GAVIN MCLELLAN work well together and do not work A .U .S.A .'s position on the University are going to boycott tutorials or Why do you want to be President? against each other. To some extent Council and other organisations such practicals until such time as more I would like to be President because I that means staying out of particular as that. I believe A .U .S.A .'s standing credit is given for them, such as a feel I have got a lot to offer the issus and I do not think a President with the University has deteriorated value of 50% in the final exam mark. average student and I sort of feel that that devotes themselves to one this year and we would want to What would happen is the Science I can do a lot for the average issue is representing most students. change that quite drastically. W e Faculty would be left with the choice student. The President has to speak publicly want to shift the emphasis in the to either fail all Stage 1 or else What do you see as being wrong on occasions, has to deal with the Students' Association education compromise. Imagine if they did the with the Association at present and University, has to be visible around campaign from Education Fightback form er, h o w w o u ld they fill their what will you do to change it? campus, seen to be among the to assessment. Stage 2 classes the following year, I do not think there is enough students, seen to be part of student Last year you stood as the and the year after that they would representation of the ideas and life. Triumvirate for the position of have Stage 3 class, and so on right opinions of the average, as well as What do you think of the assessment President and you were taken as a up to PhD. The whole system of the majority of students, I feel a lot system in the University? joke candidate, this time you say that Stage 1,2,3 etc. would be more can be done in this area, I think changes that we saw in the you are serious, would you like to undermined. instead of the usual Executive early 70's were a step in the right elabo rate? Do you see any other role for yourself command. I do not want Executive direction, but we have left it at that. Last year when Tom , Darryl and I as P resid en t o f A . U. S .A . ? command to overrule all the affairs of The staff like the assessm ent system stood as a single candidate for the Definitely, the President must be a the Association I want to see things as much as we do, essentially it is presidency, that was a joke candidacy competent administrator. As run for the students themselves. I feel not good for students because it ties because the candidates that year for President, I would delegate as many that as far as issues go minorities us down to doing a lot of work. W e the presidency were much stronger of my administrative responsibilities seem to have too much say in need a system that gives us more than they are this year and the as possible. If the President is ou t matters that are concerned with freedom to study the things we want situation that A .U .S .A . was in last there in individual departments, being students, and I feel that there should in our courses and also need an year was a much stronger position seen to advocate student unity in be more say from the more basic assessment system that is m ore that it is in at present. This year we action, and explains the importance levels of the student body. flexible, that lets us choose the ways have become increasingly anxious of such strategy in the overall student What sort of minority opinion are you that we are assessed. A .U .S .A . has about A .U .S .A . because it appears to political schem e; if the President is talking about when you say that the badly neglected the assessment us that A.U.S.A. is heading down out there being visible, as he has minority opinion rules the system since I have been at Varsity hill. Therefore we decided that the never been, not even in the 60's, I Association? and that is som ething I hope to put a time had come, if we actually did believe that we might be successful. I Well, seriously, I think that groups lot of emphasis on next year. have any commitment to this believe we have a very competent like the Feminists (and I know that I Association we would have to show Secretary and often the Executive has am going to be quite attacked over it by standing serious candidates, so spent hours of debate trying to this), I feel that they have too much that is what we have done this time. decide an administrative policy, and say and that they are too small a This year we feel that we have a job ending up with what the Secretary number of students in this University, to do and that we are capable of proposed in the first place. A fte r all and I feel that the students around DAVID KIRKPATRICK doing it, and the three of us are he is the expert. Of course he would this place are not as extreme as many Why do you want to be President of going to, if elected, put into practice not have any power, but I think we of the minorities. A.U.S.A.? the ideas we have for this should rely a lot on his experience, The opinions you just expressed Because I do not really think that any Association. That is what we mean and the Executive could take far more about feminists and minority groups of the other candidates w o u ld be able by we are serious, it is no longer just part in areas I have mentioned. are continually appearing in Craccum to do the things which I think have to a case of the Triumvirate standing in What do you see as the function of through the letters of Agent be done for A .U .S .A . next year. I do order to give the other candidates a the Executive and S.R.C. in the Grapefruit. He has written letters in not want to be President on my own, run for their money, what we intend p o litic a l life o f A . U . S .A . ? support of you as a candidate; so I want to be President w ith T o m this year is to be elected next year Well the only real power which the where do you stand in relation to Bassett as the A .V .P . and Darryl and to make this Association S.R.C. has at present is the power to him ? Carey as the E.V.P., because something which we believe can be affiliate clubs, but even the important Well I am a very close friend of together we intend to put through and at the moment is not. The three issue of what grants the clubs get is Agent Grapefruit, I have known him various reforms within the of us have high hopes for the still in the hands of the Executive. I for quite a while and he is a sincere, Association and re-establish the Association and we are increasingly believe that S.R.C. ought to be given even although it is in a kind of Association as an efficient and being depressed over the way the the consititutional rights to make tongue in cheek way. I feel that I am worthwhile organisation for its Association is going and we hope resolutions and policies which are sincere and I feel I am carrying on his members. W hen I started University I next year to change things for the binding upon the Executive. At kind of mission. Just to polarise wanted to be Craccum Editor and to better. present the S.R.C. can only make issues so that everything comes out a large extent that was my only recommendations which the right for the individual student. ambition, but this year I have come Executive can ignore or implement at Do you not feel that Agent to the conclusion with Tom and Daryl their discretion. I would make the Grapefruit's attacks against minority that something needs to be done and important exception that the power groups are somewhat unwarranted that at the m o m e n t there is no one to allocate money should remain in and in fact some of the minority else to do it and that is w h y w e are the hands of the Executive, because groups do need the support of the standing. STEPHEN FULLERTON S.R.C. can easily be stacked by Students' Association? How important is it that the three of Why would you like to be President interested parties who might want to I feel that they do need the support you get elected rather than just one o f A .U .S .A .? make a little, or even a lot of money. of the Association but not at the of you? Because I want to do things which I believe that this would improve expense of the everyday student I If the three of us get elected we will no President has ever done before, in S.R.C. and that the main reason we feel that he just brings the absurdity be able to work co-operatively and the area concerning the relationship seldom get more than a quorum of 50 of their demands to the front. hopefully, efficiently. W e have agreed between the Students' Association is the fact that most students know ls there anything else you would like among ourselves that if only one of and the University. The fact that we that S.R.C. is not very powerful on to ad d ? us gets elected that person would not have only 4 members on Senate out campus and that whatever is decided I feel that the grapefruit experience is stay in office, because that person of membership of 90 others, who are there is not necessarily going to have a worthwhile and valuable experience would be unable to fulfil the aims concerned with either the academic any impression upon the real decision and I would like to carry that on as that we have for this Association. In or the business side of the University makers, i.e. the Executive, so they his friend, for the good of the other words we are entering the and the fact that we have only 2 stay away. If S.R.C. was seen to be, students. elections on a co-operative basis members on Council, which is the rather than as three individuals supreme governing body of the coming together to form some sort of University means we have no voice at Please Return National Housing ticket. We are standing in order to all. put cohesion into the Students' What sort of approach are you Commission Survey Forms To Association, and therefore to a large advocating that AUSA adopts with extent it is an all or nothing election the university? stand. A U S A has sent representation to the Students' Association Reception. 3 CRACCUM July 21 1981 notices

SUMMER EMPLOYMENT!!! N.Z.U.S.A. AUGUST pOUNCIL WINTER GENERAL MEETING 1982 A S S O C IA TIO N EXECUTIVE S.C.S.P. meeting; W ednesday 22 July, NOM INATIONS are invited for positions as Notice is given that the winter General Notice is also given that nominations for the 5.15pm Executive Lounge. delegates of A.U.S.A. to the N.Z.U.S.A. Meeting of the Auckland University Students remaining positions on the 1982 Executive A meeting to discuss this summer's S.C.S.P. August Council which will be held at Lincoln Association will be held on the ground floor of close with the Secretary at 5.00pm Friday 24 projects. M any projects have already been College during the August vacation. The dates w the main hall of the University Recreation July with elections to be held on 4 and 5 outlined (see your faculty noticeboard), but any for this meeting are presently set down as 26 Centre on Thursday 6 August 1981 August 1981. more project suggestions are welcome. to 29 August but these m ay be subject to commencing at 1pm. If a quorum is not These positions are: Come along if you'd like to be a co-ordinator c h a n g e . achieved or if the business is not completed on or a worker on a project or if you have your Cultural Affairs Officer Nominations for these positions close and an 6 August this meeting will commence or own idea for one; or if you're just interested Environmental Affairs Officer appointment will be made at an Executive continue on Friday 7 August in the Recreation a n y w a y . International Affairs Officer P i meeting to be held on Tuesday 11 August Centre at 1pm. National Affairs Officer If you can't be at the meeting and would like commencing at 3pm. Candidates are invited to The business of this meeting will be to Overseas Students Officer some more information phone Elaine: 549-680. attend this meeting and are advised that all I ar receive a declaration as to the result of the Publications Officer delegates will be required to take part in a elections for the positions on the 1982 Student Representative Council Chairperson anyth A REMINDER FROM THE Council W orkshop to be held on the weekend Executive Committee, to consider any matters Societies Representative of 15-16 August. that f PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY of which notice has been given and to consider Sports Club Representative politic The Secretary of the Photographic Society A decision is yet to be made as to how any matters which members m ay raise and for Welfare Officer would like to remind the members of the m any delegates will attend this Council the ti which notice is not required. Women's Rights Officer above-mentioned party that entries for the meeting representing A.U .S.A. but it is The agenda for matters other than grieve competition are due in by Friday, the 24th of probable that there will be at least one delegate consitutional amendments closes with the UNIVERSITY SAFETY Cracc July. Entries m ay be prints or slides, black and and possibly two in each of the following secretary at 5pm on W ednesday the 29 July COMMITTEE capacities: A n white or colour, any size, and need not be and the full agenda will be printed in the issue Chief Delegates NOM INATIONS are again opened for a mounted. There are prizes in each of the two of Craccum published on Tuesday 4 August. " H o v position as representative of the Students' categories, black and white and colour but you Education Commission Delegates I'vc Association on the University's Safety must submit something to qualify. Late entries Finance and Administration Commission R.W . Lack C o m m it t e e . will v will be accepted at the discretion of the D e le g a t e s Secretary An appointment to this position will be made of m« o r g a n is e r. International Commission Delegates at the first Executive meeting held during The final day for submission of prints into National Commission Delegates will b WOMEN'S RIGHTS OFFICER August and nominations will close the day the exhibition is also approaching rapidly. Welfare Commission Delegates Sprin Nominations are now open for the Executive before this meeting. As the date for this Prints should be handed in at the darkroom by Women's Commission Delegates position of W om en's Rights Officer for the meeting has not yet been set candidates are I p< W ednesday, 29th July. Every club member is Further information m ay be obtained from remainder of 1981. Nominations close and an advised to submit their nomination to the w o rk expected to submit at least one print. No the President or the Secretary. appointment will be made at the meeting of Secretary by 31 July. rejecl restriction on size, num ber of entries, subject the Students Representative Council to be held matter. For more details see the darkroom R.W. Lack, SECRETARY a sen on W ednesday 29 July. Candidates are invited RETURNING OFFICER noticeboard, or phone Martin (494-439). fa vo i COROMANDEL IN CRISIS - to attend this meeting from 1.00pm. Nominations are now open for the position ignor AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LARGESCALE MINING MENACE of Returning Officer for the elections for the MEETING WINDSURFING 1982 Executive, which will be held on 4 and 5 W e v On Sunday Aug 9th at 5pm the Mercury A u g u s t . Theatre will present on behalf of the fight Meeting on TU ESD AY the 28th at 7.30pm at letter Am nesty International will be meeting on Persons intereisted in acting as Returning against multinational mining on the the Tamaki Yacht Club. All welcome BUT 50c A n 27th July in the Exec. Lounge at 1.00pm. Officer for these elections should contact the Coromandel Peninsula a programme of music, cover charge. OK? See you there - Bruce. Secretary no later than 5.00pm on Thursday, articli song and theatre. FOOD CO-OP PRICE GUIDE FOR 23 June 1981. I hop A number of performers have offered their TRAMPING CLUB - BUSHSKOOL 23/7/81 A small honorarium will be paid. view ; time to create entertainment to inform the 25th and 26th July. Held at club hut in the Beetroot, 6c each; Broccoli, 10c = .070 kg; refus public of the issues and fund the cause. Waitaks. Topics covered include: map & R.W. Lack Brussel sprouts, 10c = .130 kg; Cabbage, 20c quad each; Carrots, 10c = .350 kg; Cauliflower, 60c compass, routefinding, campsites, weather, Secretary equipment, natural hazards, fires, getting air th each; Celery, 40c each; Garlic, 10c = .020 kg; LOST Ginger root, 10c = .020 kg; Kumara, 10c = unlost, etc. See noticeboard for details. STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT Black nylon wet-weather motorcyclist jacket. Bushcraft Film - Thursday 23rd, 1pm, B10. .300 kg; Leeks, 20c each; Lettuce, 50c each; S.C.M . is a group on campus that offers you If found ph. M atthew 4786-544 E d it o r ------Mushrooms, 10c = .020 kg; Onions, 10c = the opportunity to explore a whole range of Technical Ec .110 kg; Potatoes, 10c = .450 kg; Pumpkin issues from politics to theology and anything KENNETH MAIDMENT THEATRE Advertising Crown, 80c each; Silverbeet, 10c = .070 kg; MUSIC SOCIETY else you find interesting. W e adopt a Christian Friday 24 July, 1pm Assistant Ed Tomatoes, 10c = .041 kg; Apples, 6c each; Informal Chamber Music Evening : perspective in our discussions but there is no "FRIDAY A T ONE" Free lunchtime concert Distribution Bananas, 10c each; Mandarins, 10c = .350 kg; restrictions on what sort of religious beliefs are 7pm Monday 27 July Rm9 Music Typesetters Pears, 10c each; Tamarillos, 4c each large; comprising Schubert Piano Duets by Janetta Conservatorium. A fun opportunity to play acceptable. W e meet for tea in Maclaurin Hall M cStay and Bryan Sayers and the Mozart Kiwifruit, 5c each; Yam s, 10c = .040 kg; every Tuesday evening at 6pm and in Room chamber music with other students. If A r t is t s ------Parsley, 10c = .010. Piano Concerto in A.K.488 with the University interested ring Mark 866-351 or Gerald 676-067 144 at lunchtime (1pm) on Tuesdays. Come Chamber Orchestra r David Nalden and senior along and meet us sometime. piano students. This week the lunchtime meeting is cancelled so that w e can support anti-Tour activity. See Saturday 25 July, 7.30pm you for tea in Maclaurin Hall. "M ARX A T THE MAID". The Marx Brothers inimitable entertainment presenting "The Big For more information ring Stephen 606-010. Store" and "A Night at the Opera". Bookings ASB Equatiori’Account Phone 30-789 Ext. 66. Tickets $2.50. DEBATING SOCIETY CLUB At the ASB we can appreciate some of your problems — the NIGHT < money ones, mainly. Sunday 26 July, 7.30pm M ICHAEL REDSHAW presents a piano Our first really, truly serious debate of the So we’ve got together to work out how Auckland’s Bank can recital prior to his N.Z. concert tour playing: year will be held on W ednesday July 22nd in help Auckland’s students. Beethoven: Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; the Old Grad Bar at 7.30pm. Drinks provided Beethoven: Sonata in B flat, Op. 22; Liszt: but rationed to retain the sober tone of the Valse Oubliee No. 2; Liszt: 'Les jeux d'eaux a evening. 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Keep it to MAIDMENT LUNCHTIME MOVIE about 250 words and any good b & w photos O trusteebank Monday 27 July, 1.06pm are welcome. Bring material to the Craccum "ANNIE HALL" R16 W oody Allen and Diane office or post to Craccum Ski Guide, Auckland Keaton star in a nervous romance. Admission University Students Association, Private Baq o n l y $ 1 . A u c k la n d . CRACCUM July 21 1981 2 editorial

UTIVE ons for the CRACCUM is registered with the Post Office > c u tive as a newspaper. It is published by the Craccum F r id a y 2 4 Administration Board for the Auckland WHOSE University Students' Association, and printed a n d 5 by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily anyone's, including the Editorial Staff, and in no way represent the official policy (should there be PAPER? any) of the Association.

I am continually amazed by those students who refuse to take part in h a irp e rs o n anything other than their courses while at University. While I would agree that few students have the time or inclination to get involved in student politics or the organisation of clubs and societies, I fail to see that they lack the time to vote, or to read newspapers. And as editor the comment that grieves me most is that of students who say "I'll never write anything for C ra c c u m ". Anything? Not even a letter, or a poem? Not even a scribbled note saying I f o r a "How about an article on chimneysweepers?"? id e n ts ' I've said this at the beginning of the year, and I'll say it again: Craccum ity will welcome just about anything from anyone, be it the offer of labour or /ill b e m a d e of manuscripts. And to those three guys who, if they are reading this at all, lu rin g will be scoffing at all of this, that includes articles in favour of the h e d a y Springbok tour. th is la te s a re I personally am against the tour, and the majority of the people who :o t h e work on the paper are also, but that doesn't mean that we are going to reject out of hand anything pro-tour. If anyone comes up to the office with a sensibly written article (and I believe that there are sensible arguments in favour of the tour - it's just that most pro-tour people are or choose to be a position s f o r t h e ignorant of them in favour of fatuous arguments) then Craccum will print it. in 4 a n d 5 We will not censor it, but we will, as can be expected, also print articles or letters in reply. t u r n in g An example of this sort of newspaper debate occurred over Ireland: An n t a c t th e ‘h u r s d a y , article, a reply, and a reply to the reply. I hope everyone read all three, and I hope there are mure to come. Craccum is yours, for you to state your views publicly, and until the day comes when I lock the office door and refuse to speak to people who come up to see me or who stop me in the quad or around varsity, I refuse to be accused of not allowing students to air their views in this newspaper. > V E M E N T -E d . t offers you E d it o r ------David Kirkpatrick a n g e o f Technical Editor ------D a v id F a u lts a n y t h in g Advertising Manager ------J a s o n K e m p a Christian Assistant Editor ------Paul Grinder iere is no Distribution M anager — Graeme Quigley beliefs are Typesetters ------Darien Pearce laurin Hall Raewyn Green n R o o m A r t is t s ------William Mcllhagga . C o m e Julie Downie YOURS! is cancelled tivity. See

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