Semper Floreat 5 TALKING to JEANNIE LEWIS
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SEMPER Semper Florett Volume 45, Number 11,14th August, 1975. Registered foi transnitsioD by poet u • newspaper. Ctt^iy B. FLOREAT g wmper tiorMt THE TRUE MEANING OF EKKA WEDNESDAY NICOLA Dl GRECO letters Dear Teacher, Dear Ed, Congratulations! You and Mr Nicola di . I went to the Ekka last Wensday and rode Gteco have published the best piece of bastar on the octipuss and the Zipper and then i vom dised Italian Pve ever seen. REFECTORY PRICE RISES as represented by the writer of the article, ited and then i had a dagwood dog and fairy seems to be the various Union Committees Floss and had a ride on the decern cars and Ell De SabbaU Dear Editor, with which the.staff meet. To me this is ty vomited I broat seven difrent sample bags, and (Arts Student) Your article "Refectory Price Rises" was one pical ofthe bureaucrats who comprise these while 1 was reading my phantom comic i vomi 'of the most tedk>us, jumbled and hotch-potch Committees. Shouldn't the author be talking ted. pieces of journalism I have seen for some time.' of worker-student participatkjn. The funct And then we went to buy some strawbry I realise why the author didn't put his name to ion of the representatives on these Commit icccreem and chips and we went to pick up it. tees is not to behave as self^ppointed dema dad at the pub but he was vomituig. A rise of about x percent in prices tells the gogues answerable only to themselves, but Next year i'm going to go to lots of side PARADOX PERPETUATED reader what? (Para 1). Similarly, to say there to represent the faiterests of students. Real shows that i never saw.this year and see the will be average rises of 2 cents on cold range participation in decision makmg brings with bulls. Dear Editor, and 5 cents on hot range says little. The insert it commensurate responsibilities - responsi Like so many other Christians, Ross which says "info stai coming" is in line with bilities for profits as well as losses. It is not love, Ctaik keeps on asking us to "examine the the trend of the whole article •- it tells the a game to be played by pseudo-avant garde . Steven, documents of Christianity" and scrutinise reader nodiing of significance. It Is just ano intellectuals. its daims. Instead of ttotting out any of ther example of the conthiual whitewash to In a period of hiflatun, in which we are his * 'incontrovertible evidence" he pres Justify continued increased prices for stud now involved, price rises are inevitable. But cribes a reading coutse. This gets the ball ents. Increased numbers of students using the refectory, because of its great turnover, out of his court very neatly, smce Semes- the refectory also increases volume. More stu student fees subskly and non-profit funct terisation (that atheist plot) robs'most dents using the refectory should lead to de ion, should be able to compete better than people of the time or Inclination to become creased prices, not increased prices as sugg outside cafes with regard to prices for food. a spiritual Sherlock Holmes. I once had both, ested, because the indirect costs Le. fixed In many cases it fails to do tius. Let's not and I flatly deny the assertion that Christian overhead (uicluding the interest on debt for have these excuses printed in Semper ag renovations) will be spread over more pur STAFF ity gains by investigation. All this suck-it- ain. Why don't the buicaucrats admit to the and-see rhetoric reminds mc of a passage chases, The indirect cost per unit of indivi failure they have created and hi some cases from Voltaire: dual purchase is reduced. inherited? Editor (this issue) I once knew a true theologian... He was Why should the Holt Room serve until Anne Draper familiar with the variant texts of Ihe Bible. 10.30 pm? (Para 6) Why can't the people Yours, For 30 years he tried to reconcile Ihe gos who use the library at night eat before 8 pm? Ken Hayward, pels and bring the fathers into union. He in It is too much to expect that people should Don Hayward. Also vestigated the precise date of composition be able to purchase hot food and drink after Jan Tumer-Jones ofthe creed attributed to the apostles, and 8 pm The self-service machine would still be Vicki Noble .. how the Christian church was divided after av^ble and should suffice. People who eat Peter Poynton its birth into different parlies, and Kow the at reasonable hours shoukl not have to subsi LOGIC I Heather Ross dominan t group stigmatised all the others as dize those who can't or won't. The question John Stanwell heretics is one of service for a few versus lower prices overall. David Fianken The difficulty of organising in his head Squirrels hide nuts in grass Was it the Unbn Staff Association that Jane Camens so many things whose nature is to be confit- Pigs plant grass decided girls in the finance section of the Un Bemadette Dalton sed... often disheartened him, but.... he de Squirrels are not pigs ion Buikiing should receive subsidized meals? Denise Tissizis voted himself to them in spite of his disgust Pigs have no nuts I have been told that the lunch vouchers for .... So lang as he lived he was tolerant, and Grass is good for squirrels as he died he confessed that he had uselessly Union staff will cost the Student Union Publication Sec. $7,000 yearly. Could the Chairman of Pigs pursue squirrels for their grass Annmaree O'Keeffe worn out his life. Squinels are not pigs Hoping you don't do likewise. House Committee tell me if that was one of the decisions of worker participation? Trees are rooted in grass Business Manager Pigs root DavM Meredith Bruce Gaunson, Participatwn in deciskin making is essen Squirrels nest in trees BD (retired), tial to the successful functioning of modern Processed by B.A. industry, but worker participation is/should — Draw a logical conclusion from these CPL/CAT be more than a series of "give mes". It statements. shoukl result in real decision making power to workers, not a childish game. Management N>N needs you ? tmn IM 'T6 Many final year students ask We're a counseUing service and themselves this question every year. information exchange. FOR eom,mm To know you're one of many 'Who needs you?' Maybe one of doesn't help when it's your tum. the visiting employers will help trnMiSiknirtotig The Australian Public Service Board's Admin istrative Trainee Scheme That's why we're here. The you work out an answer. Introduces-about 30 graduates a year to administrative work through Careers CoiinsellingCentre. Why If you want to meet one of structured tralnlnfl and experience.. Competition for fhe scheme Is keen and selection standards are high. If you have a sound academic record, we organize a Campus Interview them, it's a simple matter. Call at potential for administrative work and an interest In making things happen Programme every year. the Careers Counselling Centre m In Australia today, you should find the scheme rewarding. Present annual salary while training ranges from $7,252 to $8,469 , We invite a variety of employers the shack behind the Social depending on the level of degree held. Promotion in the Australian Public from commerce, industry and Scienws buildmg. We'll introduce Service is on merit.'Former trainees have found their training year has helped them to respond quickly and effectively to the demands of work govemment to speak with students you. areas which interest them. about the employment scene. A career is your life and your The next training year begins In Januaiy 1976. If you are interested In an administrative career In Canberra, apply to the Australian Public Service In theu* own organizations and dedsion. We believe a little more Inspector Australian' Government Centre, 295 Ann Street, BRISBANE others. information won't go astray. QLD 4OO0 (Telephone 25 0122) before 29 August-1975. im yJUSnWLMN PUBUC SERVICE BQ4RD THE CAREERS INFORMATION OFFICE C10.003SF semper floraat 3 ^ ^:^\^^yi,-...-...,,^;^:..,. ^.. ,. ^„..,- ... ;A Uttfekiiown or remembered fact on campus these, t .r; there is no dpiibt that; despite sonie UniVMsityofficisJsi;,, ;j;isfinaUy'doiiecWhat will hap^ part of ^ ,' : days|istliat:afew years ago, uriderqiiite outtagebusand' - dabtistothecohtrarji:(theseheirigbasedpn'irreIevMtle-;/v vFAUSAan^ hot really clear;i^ ! unjust drcumstsinces, a University of Queensland lectur- •gal mitrnbo Jumbo), this unjust.and iil!thhate%im^ •i Aiolw^r, tti^.thuch is ~ a censure of iifiis type is a iseri- > ; er was forced by the Senate ("thiough the Vice Chantie-' ful action which the University had ir&ed^ vm dirisc^^ ; oils rinaiterlind surelyiall staff at this University should •. • llor") fo face up to the prospect of disnilssal because of : ly responsible for much anguish, fiiianciallyahd other;). how aetata a iwitedinan^^^ to guarantee thattliis exisf- hbagreement'to the string of an artistic event which wise on the part of those"cbncerned.'«dtiiiRghtinig thVs >^ ", ing (jeiifflire^islgiyeh teetlx so that justice ultimately is ach- ,.jad involved some''sexual content'*. ' : charges; 'iv • : ".'v^, •,•,,:;' ^:fv''•^•T,v^V•"•v'•'..9•i'^^ ; ieyiwi oyer thisciae ^' othenyi«'mere Is hb jreaisbh to be [: Regardless of the content of any rhetoric which may* When tius fact was pointed bm lieve that staff diould ever be safe ftbin the possibility, , officially be forwarded to justify this move against the "ate and subsequently a quite reasonable claim made dii of facing siinilar oppressive charges theinselves (LiJ.