Actioi :ak oi in B.1S Registered for transmission by post as a newspaper. VOLUME 44, ISSUE NO 19 F ree to students >on have armchair i idle > arc in dgement to stick t. The to judge Massey politicians eas for force ^Chaff ” resignations The editors and staff of the Massey University student newspaper “C haff’, have all resigned because of bureaucratic quibbling on the part of the Massey Executive. staff cheques were temporarily In their last issue, the editors stated; “At an Executive meeting on July 24, it was ruled withheld while Executive that the editors and administrative staff who have resigned from Publications Committee are representatives pondered the no longer constitutionally empowered to produce “Chaff” and that they must be replaced as constitutionality of payment for soon as new applicants can be found and appointed by Executive.” work already done on previous This situation arose fromtrom a issues. This is a particular example controversy over the Massey ERODED staying on. of the absurdity of the situation. Alpine Club’s publication Massif Members of the Chaff staff, The Chaff staff then asked the The Executive appears to be earlier this year. The Alpine Club who are constitutionally members Executive to give written prepared, on the strength of a refused to accept the limited of Publications Committee, felt assurance that the Alpine Club bureaucratic quibble, to deprive amendment be rescinded or that agm supervision which the one of the key functions of the the students of what has at last members of the Chaff staff be Constitution gave the committee Committee-the supervision of become ah efficient and regular freed from membership of publication.” and, when directed to comply by advertising in Massey Publications Committee. SUPPORT the Executive, amended the publications-had been eroded The Executive has failed to do A telegram of support for the tonight B28 constitution in its favour. and felt there was little point in so and the editors, distribution editors of Chaff was sent last and advertising and business week by the editor of Craccum REE. managers have all resigned. and the Publications Officer-elect, ABSURDITY John Shennan. Theatre progress The editors replied, expressing Further, the editors state, “the gratitude for this support by said After almost a decade of discussion the final plans for a Executive’s attitude was the Massey Executive was still* University Theatre have gone to the University Grants demonstrated last week when “adamant” in its attitude. Committee and Cabinet for approval. The proposed theatre, which is fully financed now, is designed to meet the requirements of university drama particularly student drama. The building is also suitable for uses other than drama such as films and musical performances. The design report makes interesting reading and I propose to set out the declared intentions of the architects. The site is part of the Student Union grounds on the corner of Princes St and Alfred St. It was designed and planned in outline when the Student Union was built and forms the northern sides of the Rudman Memorial Gardens. The area outside the coffee bar (D block) was designed to form the foyer of the theatre and act as a link with the present basement facilities of the Union. FLEXIBLE The stage is capacious and The proposed theatre from Princes St. simple but flexible to suit both proscenium and open stage of the theatre as a whole. The orchestra well is provided six feet included are property rooms, productions. The two sidestages little theatre has its own foyer below the forestage. An store rooms, dressing rooms and can be opened, fully or partially, and entrance from a paved area interesting inclusion has been to managers offices. The total cost to permit multiple staging and the beside the gardens. ensure that much of the concrete of the theatre assessed in May free movement of large groups as wall facing Alfred Street is 1970 was $400,638 and it is to be required in Shakespearean 386 SEATS suitable for posters. This will hoped t h a t building will production. The auditorium including the provide an interesting view from commence this year. The The plans include a ‘little small gallery seats 386, plus the library. The provision of 600 University T h eatre Co. has always theatre’ as an integral part of the further seating in the forestage square feet of storage space in the suffered the disadvantage of no concept to provide space for area, being fan-shaped with a plans was the maximum able to adequate campus facilities and small, sim ple and cheap gradual rake to the stage. The be provided on this difficult site. this building will fill the vacuum. productions, (primarily designed public approach from the foyer in $400,638 The facilities provided will effect as an arena stage), suitable as a block D is by carpeted staircases, A projection base is provided several clubs and thereby (it is to rehearsal area. This will assist the following the course of the back in the theatre as well as in the be hoped) students at large.-Bill efficient and economical running wall of the auditorium. An little theatre. Other facilities Spring.

like Rotaract and VSA. This The other approach would be shows the job is there to be done, for S.I. to act as a co-ordinating S.I. is on the rise but at present the co-ordination is committee w hich would be able After two years of being eclipsed by the foreign students’ completely lacking. to organise a few dances of its National clubs, Students International is re-emerging. own but w hich w'ould aim, PLANS through liaison with clubs and Previously when there were fewer foreign students at S.I.’s new committee,under its through its large mailing list Auckland University, this club was the largest on the campus chairman Patrick McCombs, is gathered during orientation week, providing contact not only between N.Z. students and their planning to hold a series of at co-ordinating the social guests, but also between students from different parts of the functions this year aimed at activities of o th er groups. This would encourage foreign students world. With the increase in students particularly from determining just how best the club can fulfil its functions in to become involved in university Malaysia and Fiji a whole series of clubs has been formed harmony with the existing clubs, life through cultural and sports exclusively for expatriates from each country. and to gather support for a major clubs and to allow more Kiwi While the need for students can meet New programme from Orientation next students to get in to those companionship, National Day Zealanders and where Kiwi year. The first of two alternative fantastic suppers o f chopsuey and celebrations and for the students can make some contact approaches which S.I. could rice. preservation of familiar habits of with the outside world without follow is to organise its own S.I.’s first social function this food and language are appreciated travelling overseas. functions where people could year will be a coffee and talk in a country so very different Student International fills this mix. These would predominantly session in the McLaurin Chapel from home,, these clubs are not gap by providing a link between be local style dances and parties Hall from 7.45 p.m . on the last fulfilling one very important all of the students and clubs since the foreign national clubs day of term, Friday August 14th. aspect of campus life. This is to interested in people, different put on - mostly exotic It is expected that from this # provide a forum where students depths of culture and foreign entertainment at their own meeting will com e the guidelines can learn about different people, politics. At present this role has functions to which all S.I. on which S.I. will flourish and 49 High SI customs and ideas. Where foreign been filled haphazardly by clubs members could be invited to go. bloom in 1971. Page 2—Craccum, Thursday, August 13

was based on by a person Political This space provided qualification conversation. Students throughout New Zealand must surely for armchair REVOLUTIONARIES In conm mourn the scuttling of yet another excellent student research into heart diseases newspaper by bumbling and weak student politicians. Longmore sail This year, the Massey University paper Chaff has supplied, wit! been the best it has been for years and has made a question of p significant contribution to the recent rise in the general specimens of f a private nursir standard of New Zealand’s student papers. Thdt the In view of Massey politicians should sabotage Chaff over a mere there will soon be some liberated Liley’s Society which I consider men, too. very disturbing. allegations an technicality shows their retrogressive mentalities and denial were pr Sir, The sort of liberation which The July newsletter No. 2 of there seems tc lack of concern for the best interests of the general As a frequent user of the Tim Shadbolt’s story on John concerns me more than sexual the S.P.U.C. informs its readers of the publicatior student body. library in the University I am Bower (July 30) is the most liberation is the freedom for “an infant sale scandal” in only, in Jul; For it is a fact that New Zealand’s student papers are greatly concerned about the irresponsible piece of sensational women from enforced Britain, alleging sale of live inadequate facilities for studying Professor Lili playing an increasingly important role in keeping the liberal journalism I have ever seen. role-playing. The physiological foetuses for experimentation and especially with regards to seating I had previously held Mr facts of life ensure that most comparing this situation with that soeiety she “ scientific students of the country’s universities informed of each arrangements. This, I think, is Shadbolt’s free thinking in very women will be put into the of nineteenth century body television scien other's activities and attitudes-attitudes which are often aggravated by some inconsiderate high regard but this article, full of position of being mother/house- snatching. The author says that order to play students who like to leave their illogical sentimental crap, wife, a role which a great many abortionists will now be able to formed independently of any university’s politicans. It emotions? Pc books unattended for hours at a seriously questions my opinion of find most congenial; but as a make a bigger profit by selling follows, therefore, that the vehicle of these attitudes, the emotive ferve time leaving other students him and some other left-wing corollary to this it is assumed by foetuses for experimentation. student paper, should not be tied to the whims and abortion law rc wandering around without seats. thinkers. the male sex that any women The basis of these allegations considers the expediencies of the politicians if a true reflection of Sure, I too think the Vietnam with whom he may live will seems to be a New Zealand Herald I would suggest that anyone means? student opinion is to be obtained. war is a sorry unnecessary shit-stir assume this role, regardless of any article of May 18 1970 in which needing a seat in the library feel Professor L and have marched several times in other role which she may have Of the couutry’s seven student papers, only one, free to occupy any unoccupied Mr St John-Stevas, a Catholic MP Nazis, a both Vietnam and Cambodia taken on. It is difficult, without Craccum, is openly free from political supervision and seats, even those with books on alleged that a leading British anti-abortionist p ro te sts. But blowing up appearing ungracious and them. If the owners of the surgeon had bought live foetuses told was that only Craccum and the Canterbury paper Canta have not establishment buildings-literally militantly feminist, to escape unattended books do not appear for research which he planned to Nazi Germany come into disunifying conflict with their Executives. as Shadbolt and his hero from becoming a housekeeper, in, say 15 minutes I think it is keep in a state of suspended their Abortion seek-not only damages the and I do not think it is going to Craccum is under the Financial control of the quite fair that he should give up animation until they were 40 1935 respective protest movement in the eyes of be possible to do so. After all, it Craccum A dm inistration Board (which has his seat gracefully. weeks old. vyas made a c must be most confortable for men representatives from Executive, SRC and the paper) I would also like to suggest the establishment w'hich w'e The same article also printed Italy and occ should be trying to win to our to have us, convenient to hand, to that notices of the above the following rebuttals: Dr 1943. His a while editorial responsibility lies solely with the editor. side and thinking but in see to the running of domestic information be posted at strategic Malcolm Potts said: “I should like humanism-at This experiment has been tried this year for the First Shadboft’s writing, emerges as complexes. But I do think this is points in the library as reminders. to state that the details given in ianism is as | time at any university and has been extremely Daniel Foe nothing but a criminal offence. one of the reasons women these allegations are scientific successful. Generally, Auckland students appear to be To dismiss the possibility of become ‘zombies’. It is too balderdash and no-one should • someone getting hurt as difficult to combine more than take them seriously.” Dr Martin satisfied with the content and standards of Craccum Sir, a‘time-worn pathetically one role and more comfortable to Cole agreed with Dr Potts and while the paper’s finances are in a very healthy state. Firstly, many thanks for the hypocritical statement’ is abandon the struggle. said “my own feeling is that the The Waikato paper Nexus, however, has been often regular copies of your paper I absolutely ridiculous in itself. For If lone parents who are also surgeon has only established have received this year. It is about sniped at by the Waikato Executive; the editor of Mr Shadbolt’s information students, as Graham Jackson says, contact with a clinic for a supply the only intellectual stimulation I of foetal material and the rest is Victoria’s Salient has been continually harassed to revert someone probably would have are unable to receive social have received down here in Te been killed or seriously hurt if a security, I would like to hear just embellishment.” He added to weekly publication; the Lincoln College paper Caclin Kuiti all year. I am one of those certain blow-up some months ago more of this from anyone with that he doubted whether a foetus Entries fi has had a remarkable knock-down-drag-out fight with young teachers everyone seems had occured only minutes earlier. in fo rm atio n . I agree that could be kept alive for more than Journalism A worried about lately and the the Lincoln politicians and the editor of Otago’s Critic And to suggest that Bower and something should be done about 2 days after an abortion let alone Anyone \ report of a recently formed it immediately. I have already 40 weeks. was forced to resign by his Executive because he sought friends were forced to use ‘the during the fi women’s liberation group on last resort’-dynam ite, to blow up made some enquiries about this And one London newspaper campus has prompted this letter. to spend more money in an effort to upgrade the quality the Waitangi flagpole as it was too and would be glad to join any stated that the allegations closely editor of Cra Last month I was married and of the paper. hard to cut down is equally campaign on their behalf.-Gayle followed that o f a plot in a recent prize for feat although there is no employment The argument that supervision is needed because of foolhardy. Was not the stealing of Hanson. television science fiction serial. for my husband in this small published ph< dynamite and the use of it a • the danger of financial irresponsibility or libel suits has town, we decided to see out the The next report printed in the The judge criminal offence? To use pure Sir, been shown to be false. year here, mostly because I didn’t New Zealand Herald 22 May 1970 emotional rubbish later on that Undoubtedly, impetus has Neil Illingwo want to leave my classes in the said that Mr Donald Longmore, a Craccum, for example, is financially healthy as stated ‘at this early age the chances are been given to the abortion issue Hutchins, Ela lurch in an already badly leading member of the British above, while there has been no suit brought against it, 85% that he will become a with the formation of Professor understaffed school. Anyway it Heart Transplant team of 1968 is habitual criminal . . . . and face Liley’s S.P.U.C. I do not intend to even though editorial policy has been by no means works out quite well at present as reported in a letter to the Times homosexuality’ by being in jail reply point by point to Professor as saying he was the doctor timorous. my liberated husband doesn’t reduces Shadbolt’s article to a Liley’s effusions (Craccum 16 mind staying home and minding accused of using live foetuses for The politicians may avoid all of these dangers simply left-wing version of Truth. Even July 1970) as other research. He vehemently denied my two year old daughter while 1 by appointing responsible, competent editors. Once that the heading ‘Bower-the full correspondents have dealt with work. he used live foetuses or even choice is made, each editor should be left to get on with story’ has been borrowed from most of the points raised. contemplated doing so. Now male teachers are the Women’s Weekly, (such However, I would like to discuss his job for the benefit of all students, not just that of a automatically eligible for a Furthermore he viewed with the a’loyal sincere man . . . . product an aspect of the propoganda gravest disquiet the allegation of small group. married allowance if their wife is of a mixed up home .... fancy approach taken by Professor Mr St John-Stevas which he said not working, but (and here comes having this horrible thing happen the crunch) when I tried to apply to him’) -Craccum editor-I LOOK AT for the same allowance 1 was censure you for publishing such a TH -THAT CH -C H - GHICK. — bluntly told women were not disappointing article. A Detective SH-SHE S G-G ~GOV O M tO F eligible. Further enquiry showed Hutton • versus Mr Shadbolt’s ,T H -T H O S E S-S-SW-S uUElo NEW that there is provision for women allegations-which I am wanting AEEAL SUEDE DUFpuE BAGS to receive it (with the to hear the full story on-would r-EROM TUB U-U-U-U.B.S l A Department’s special approval, have been more profitable.-Tom but only if their husband is siaffi Crawford. totally incapacitated! S-ST pp MUMBLl M The only reason I can think of [t h e Yr E OML-Y for such blatant discrimination is TOO/ As the subject of women’s Editor: Ted Sheehan, that, in spite of the government’s much vaunted “equal pay for liberation has been raised I cannot Technical editor: David Kisler women teachers”, in fact, it, and forebear to comment. As a Editorial secretary: Sue Tattersfield presumably most New Zealanders, sexually liberated woman I do not Arts editor: Richard King don't really approve of, or want, feel that sexual liberation is Editorial staff: Richard Rudman, Jil Eastgate, Tony professional women. It is a rather altogether to be sneered at. Surely subtle way of reminding us that a sexually liberated women makes Haszard, Sue Millar Jocelyn Logan, Janet Bogle, our “natural” place is over the a more relaxed companion than Christine Wren, John Shennan, Barbara Lagan, Ken kitchen sink, washing nappies, one who is bound by sexual WE SET C hang-ups of one kind or another. Hutchison, John Daly-Peoples, F. Bruce Cavell etc. I enjoy being a mother, but I If you're as: Photographers: Alan Kolnik, Clive Townley, Murray am a person first and also enjoy As I see it, for those of us who are sexually liberated, and also single, otherwise Jones, Ron Park, K.J. Witten-Hannah, Graham my job. But the education Department obviously doesn’t there is the freedom, physical and Wardell expect me to take it seriously. No psychological, to sleep with Columnists^ Bill Rudman, Mike Law, Tim Shadbolt, wonder they are short of teachers. whomsoever we like-provided he Donna Breiteneder, Keith McLeod I’m afraid there is going to be one also likes (now, there’s a snag) Advertising manager: Leo Pointon less next year. and we are not hurting anyone Barbara Cavallero else by doing so. I am sure there Advertising assistants: James Austin, Robbi Page are a lot of sexually liberated Distribution: Ruth Bookman • Sir, women around and I am sure Sports Editor: Tim Haslett. After reading and hearing Andrew Pulley’s views on revolution and the potential of the American worker as a THE INTERCONTINENTAL revolutionary, I feel rather uneasy. Andrew Pulley is unrealistic PHARMACY when viewing the American worker as a potential supporter of a left wing revolution in the US. WATERLOO QUADRANT : TELEPHONE 373-242 The worker would rather support a governm ent that would 501 perpetrate the present capitalist tradition. Any rising that may Parn STUDENT HEALTH PRESCRIPTIONS occur in the US will probably result in a fascist type regime and R DISPENSED the continuance of “free enterprise’ (i.e. exploitation). 7 / I feel that Andrew Pulley’s v . view is unrealistic in that he merely offers an optimistic NORMAL PHARMACY PRICES viewpoint to those who want to believe it. Optimism is not FILMS TOILETRIES COSMETICS necessarily the truth. lr*~ ■ Rae Brambley

______Craccum, Thursday, August 13-Page 3 was based on the understanding incorrect. It would be just as Prof. Liley’s various Vietnam and Ireland with Consider ‘January justice’; is it by a person without medical logical to allege that because the detractions gleaned from attendant violence and poverty. - Sir, qualification of a technical Dutch Church in South Africa Lawrence Southon’s article in Prof. Liley and Dr Otto both surprising that a known arsonist conversation. supports Racialism, all Christians Craccum include the inference In promoting logically argue that abortion is no who utters threats against the police and Agnew is arrested, In connection with his are racists. that the atheistic minority an open society, humanists different from other acts of research into the treatment of endeavour to draw opposing killing and these arguments must especially in the emotional Finally, Professor Liley’s claim (humanists?) has no right to heart diseases in young people Mr prescribe legislation because of groups together for dispassionate therefore be extended to the atmosphere engendered by that it is the pecular prerogative Agnew’s visit? Longmore said he was recently ‘its record’, as it ‘has no long exchange of views and support moment of conception. of youth to call for law reform The Air Force bombing was a supplied, without payment or tradition’ and as ‘it has only the freedom of the individual to This raises one question in my which would allow abortion to be crime. It is not made any the less question of payment, with two flourished in modern totalitarian act as his conscience allows mind, and one which I cannot specimens of foetal material from decided by the woman and her providing Such action causes least answer to the satisfaction of unlawful by being done as a doctor is fascinating. I have no states’. a private nursing home. Humanism was emerging harm to his fellow citizens. myself. This is: What is the place political protest. Destruction by doubt that Dr Fraser McDonald explosive is arson and there is no In view of the fact that the during the era of Protagoras and The freedom of a woman to of the ‘morning after’ pill in these (Auckland Star, 20 June 1970), abortion arguments? allegations and their complete Socrates, but since the decide on her abortidn without legal technicality in this; the Bishop John Robertson (A.L.R.A. denial were printed in May 1970 Reformation, humanist thinkers legal strictures surely should be These pills, the most effective crime subsists in the destruction Lecturp, October 22, 1966), there seems to be no excuse for have been pre-eminent in social her inalienable “Birthright”. of which contains a drug of property by a violent agent,not the publication of the allegations Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J., and scientific advancement. When Prof. Liley asserts that such Stilbestrol which is generally used in the means used to destroy. only, in July 1970. Perhaps Dean, Boston College Law School Modern totalitarianism, born a decision is “the peculiar in the treatment of uterine It is unfair to compare Bower Professor Liley considers his (The Catholic Lawyer, Vol. 14, in Catholic Bavaria, was nurtured perogative of youth—we rarely disorders, are legally available in to the previously un convicted society should propogate No. 3), Lester Breslow, President by Hitler and later Mussolini, encounter it in older people”, is the United States and may or may man obviously in need of “scientific balderdash” and of American Public Health Franco, Salozar. The Vatican he naively assuming we have not not be in this country. treatment, who got nine months television science fiction plots in Association and Professor of supported Hitler and Mussolini, heard of the menopause? The pill is to be used after for his arson. Bower was order to play on the public’s Health Services U.C.L.A. (Address blessed their crusades but omitted Humanism as a social force is ‘unprotected’ intercourse and determined by the court to be a emotions? Perhaps in their to First National Conference on to condemn the “State well established in England with therefore it will kill or dispose of deliberate, calculating arsonist, emotive fervour to discredit Abortion Laws, Chicago, 15 fa th e rh o o d ” of illegitimate the Agnostics Adoption Bureau, in some way an unwanted embryo with a record of arson and wilful abortion law reform the S.P.U.C. February 1969) will all be children for cannon fodder or Humanist Counselling Service, if conception has taken place. Is destruction by explosive. He was considers the ends justify the flattered by such a description genocide” by a people admirably Humanist Housing Association this abortion?W.D. Garton jailed because twelve -jurorS means? since they have all called for law free from any religious bias”, as (flats for the elderly), Humanist • believed Det. Hutton and not Professor Liley mentions the reform which would leave the quoted by Prof. Liley when he Youth S e rv ic e and in Sir, Renee de Rijk who is one of those Nazis, as do most decision to the woman and her refers to Rabbi Astor’s statement Bechuanaland the Swaning Hill In Craccum Thursday July 30, friends which Shadbolt admits anti-abortionists. What we are not doctor. concerning the five million Jews. School. Tim Shadbolt tells us the full Bower will not incriminate. If told was that fascist Italy and Wayne Facer “Gott mit uns” appeared on every In Auckland we have been story of John Bower. Bower was in a position to incrim inate his friends as Nazi Germany both tightened • soldiers uniform. Witness the high assisting other voluntary bodies in Consider the nine month, later accomplices how reliable would their Abortion laws (1927 and Sir, rate of religious adherence in community service, and will $1000 fine for blowing up the their testimony be? 1935 respectively) and Abortion Humanism as its name implies, Spain, Portugal, South and welcome volunteers to expand Waitangi flagpole. Bower was, it Is this not a very different ‘full was made a capital offence in expresses its concern for, and C entral A m erica, Balkans, our work. appears, the ringleader and had a story’? Italy and occupied France in faith in man who holds the power India/Pakistan, Middle East, Ray F. Carr, previous record of disorder, not 1943. His attempt to link to solve his own problems and Hon Sec. an innocent. A. D. Mclnnes^ humanism - atheism — totalitar­ who must reject the absolute ianism is as pathetic as it is authority of supernatural sources. guerrilla war’ ... . Dr. Frew explained the difficulties of poor poor France. He again ‘forgot’ I suppose to mention the most important agreements of this period—the Paris Accords and the Fontainbleau Agreement. He also ‘forgot’ to mention the 1946 elections. He also forgot to mention the bombing of Haiphong Harbour by the French Navy. All Dr. Frew seemed to remember about this whole period in fact was a load of trivial irrelevances about a British Bank award platoon of dogs, (about which all the old ladies giggled joyfully). 5. ‘The majority of the french army at Dien Bein Phu consisted of Entries for the Bank of New South Wales Student Vietnamese’ Dr. Frew’s comments on this battle irked me most. Fair Journalism Award close at 12 noon tomorrow. enough if he’s a bum historian. But at least as a military officer he should get his military facts straightened out. The Dien Bien Phu Anyone who has had material published in Craccum garrison (March 13 1954) consisted of 10,814 troops. The ethnic during the first two terms of this year may apply to the composition of the garrison was; French 1,412 Foreign Legion editor of Craccum to have it considered for the Award. The 2,969 Africans, Algerians, Morrocans 2,854 Vietnamese 3,579. The prize for feature stories is S I00, for news $50 and $50 for Vietnamese only consisted of just over a third of the French army at Charity & Dien Bien Phu published photographs. 6. ‘The Geneva Conference was non binding’ The judges will be Ron Taylor, of the Auckland Star, This staggering historical fact was backed up by ‘the man with Neil Illingworth of the New Zealand Herald, and Tom no axe to grind!’ Dr Frew’s only reference was the infamous right Hutchins, Elam lecturer in photography. wing conservative P J HONEY the w ar Dr. Frew’s ‘no axe to grind’ description of Honey was made by that well known journalist Allsop (who also supports Nixon in BY TIM SHADBOLT Cambodia and believes in the neuclear arms buildup). Our non axe I’d long suspected that charity had become a middle class excuse grinding friend in his unbiased introduction to the book Dr Frew for political apathy or perhaps a conscience salve for wealthy used, said ‘The Vietnam war is a culmination of forces used TO Christians. A few bob in the box and you’ve done your bit. It even SERVE COMMUNIST ENDS’ (ie. it’s all a commie plot) and also allows you to call long haired demonstrators non-constructive. I stated in his other book)Communism in North Vietnam that the couldn’t help being attracted to a charity evening for Vietnam. Just Communists are engaged in a war of subversion aimed at bringing to watch the ritualised hypocracy of giving medical aid with the left Sth.. Vietnam under their control (ie. yellow peril oozing down). P J arm and artillery shells with the right. It was a Wednesday, July 29. Honey’s contentions over Geneva Convention are in direct Dr. J Frew speaking in the Takapuna Methodist Hall. A hall full of opposition to the Conference' of the National Assoc..of Democratic old ladies with two Naval Officers looking very handsome in full Lawyers from Western Europe (Brussels 1966). The International military regalia. But first came the childrens choir-w ith that ear War Crimes Tribunal, U Thant, and almost every other historical soothing international song of peace and brotherhood God Defend documentation of international law available. NZ. Item 2 was national dancing from all over the world. But the 7. Dr. Frew’s absolute epitome in historical absurdity was his world didn’t include any communist countries (except summary of Diem-which I wont even comment on. ‘Diem rigged Czechoslovakia). Still perhaps the Russians don’t do any dancing. the elctions TO SAVE VIETNAM-and he may well have been right’ The Israel dancing was as outstanding as the lack of Arabs. This all And so the historical debauchery came to an end-an end ended with a little sermon on Greed. The wealthily attired throng noticable mostly for its absences. No gulf of Tonkin-insignificant? applauded vigorously-forgetting the mass of large gleamy new cars No American invitation theory. No reasons for NZ. entry. No parked outside. In 6 years the choir has raised $1,132-10c, said the mention of Seato. fur coated conductor with computer-like accuracy-more squeels of When I tried to question Dr. Frew he said he was only prepared approval. Why that’s the deposit on one of the cars, I thought. What to answer medical questions...... kind sacrificing people. I wonder if Jesus would have sacrificed the Oh yes-and now it’s time for films. The films and slides were deposit on his new car within 6 years for starving children. But a even worse than the history. We saw hundreds of happy fat kids little hypocricy was minor compared to the evenings grand climax. everywhere eating and laughing for joy. All the kids seem to do in What followed was one of the most blatent, one-sided session of Vietnam is eat and laugh-jesus some people get all the luck. We saw military propaganda that I have ever faced in my life and I’ve faced a beautiful young nurse and then Dr. Frew’s voice winced in agony Thompson, Holyoake, Muldoon and even Sir Leslie Munro, but the ‘she was killed two weeks later by the Vietcong. I for one was WE SET CRACCUM (how did you guess!) military campaign waged that night by Dr. Frew made them look relieved to discover that only the Vietcong misuse or harm young like soft boiled amateurs. girls in Vietnam.’ Then a burnt down village. Dr Frew explained If you re associated with any publication, student or A mass of medals, ribbons and brass strode forward-the large how the Cong had burnt 300 huts. Funny that we’ve dropped more mounted map, the sword-like pointer-thc very kindly British bombs in Vietnam than WWI and WWII; still maybe they all missed. otherwise for further information manner-all very impressive. First he said with great authority I wish Then came the slide of the starving child from the North that Dr. WRITE: to present a brief history on Vietnam .... and he proceeded with Frew saved and weened back to health. one of the most misleading drivel sessions I’ve ever heard presented Then we saw the burnt corpses and the amazing revelation that in the name of history (and after doing 3 years of history at Dr. Frew had never ever in Vietnam ever seen a Napalm burn or ever University I’ve heard some beauties). I’ll limit myself to an anti-personnel bomb wound. He placed one hand on his chest commenting on just seven of the most obviously misleading very dramatically and swore by his grandfather’s scout badge or City Typesetters statements. something that he was telling the truth. All the old ladies swooned. 1. ‘The Vietnamese had a 200 year history of vicious primitive He then went on to an even more incredible explanation and medieval warfare’. This misleader is to show that it isn’t really our convinced us all that the most lethal weapon used in Vietnam was fault that there’s a war in Vietnam because they’re a warlike people the petrol stove. We assumed every burn Dr. Frew ever saw was p h 7 5 4 8 5 by nature. It’s rubbish. In fact Vietnam had a civilisation 'with caused by the H-Stove. Perhaps if we sent a thousand electric considerable architectural prowess, a written language, canals, stoves to Vietnam the hospital could close down. Still it was bridges and university education some 2,000 years before Columbus relieving to discover that all the napalm we’ve dropped in Vietnam discovered America. Dr Frew “forgot to mention that the 1,000 missed too. The last slide was classic. A Vietcong prisoner who was years of Chinese domination was from 330 B.C. until 962 A.D. and restored to health-and then I knew the real TRUTH. Con Son was a that most of the fighting was uprisings against the Chinese overlords. commie propaganda plot after all. 2. ‘The Vietnamese slaughtered 30 French missionaries so France The slide evening was in fact nothing other than a series of moved into SE. Asia and set up protectorates. . . .’ Vietcong atrocities. Blatant heavy-handed propaganda under the This w'as to show all the little old ladies that good old France roof of the church, under the pretext of humanitarianism and in the didn’t really take over for colonial exploitation but simply to name of charity. As a past President of Rutherfords SCF. scheme protect missionaries, purely humanitarian reasons. Dr. Frew ‘forgot’ and keen SCF. supporter I have never felt so ashamed of supporting to mention that as well as protecting missionaries France screwed anything in all my life. I’m not in any way doubting Dr. I’rew’s 100 million francs per year out of SE. Asia for 40 years. medical credentials. But as a historian or neutral observer of 3. ‘The Viet Minh got American aid during WW.II but stored the Vietnam he has badly tarnished the neutral reputation of SCF. equipment instead of using it against the Japanese.’ Two suggestions. 1) The SCI7 should organise another discusion Again rubbish. In 1941 the Americans sent Ho Chi Minh into evening on Vietnam and present the alternative to the military point Vietnam with 144 second hand rifles to fight the Japanese Army. of view' regarding this war. 2) The radicals arc going to have to He .was so successful that American aid poured in and Ho’s Army extend themselves even further to jar all the charity organisations grew from a platoon of 32 to 15,000 men. By"early ’45 the Japanese and make then the second front of the protest movement rather only just controlled the cities. The Viet Minh attacked the Japanese than leave them as open fronts for military propaganda. Go to every rice stores and supplied it to populace who joined the Victminh in meeting you can that’s held on Vietnam—even if you have to go droves. As the Japanese empire crumbled in defeat the Victminh alone as I did and just observe. We must stop the launched a general assault. The triumphant Viet Minh had fought church/charity/military front. Sorry to be such a column hog lately. continually against the Japanese for four long years. Oh yes-the response to the last column was $160 for John Bower. 4. ‘France returned after WWII to fight an extremely difficult His thanks to ail the students of Auckland. His appeal goes through. Page 4-Craccum, Thursday, August 13 Winter Council preview New Zealand’s student politicians gather at Palmerston North this weekend for the annual Winter Council meeting o f the T h e im m e New Zealand University Students’ Association. NZUSA’s Wii I f NZUSA’s Easter Council here in Auckland was a crisis meeting Grocott’s successor as NZUSA President. Two constituent presidents, national stude at which student leaders had to decide where the national union was David Cuthbert from Canterbury and Errol Millar o f Otago, are going, Winter Council must be pre-occupied with the crucial question declared candidates for the post. Cuthbert has been a popular and It is propose o f how to get there. effective politician and has made significant contributions to NZUSA. Society which w Millar is less well known, and there is the possibility that his failure to There seems to be general agreement that NZUSA must expand its .to attract she ensure Otago’s attendance at Easter Council might have weakened his function as an education pressure group, and must extend the scope saving by < chances. and range o f services it offers its members. But it is equally clear that interest rate All that can be predicted with certainty is that as yet few votes will this cannot be done unless major sources o f alternative finance are available fro have been committed. The opportunities for horse-trading are as great found. And expansion and reorganisation o f the Association’s example, and as they have ever been in NZUSA. national office in Wellington, along with increased liaison with its specificall However, there is always the possibility o f a dark horse or constituent members, are two other areas to which this Council must requirements < compromise candidate emerging as the pattern o f the weekend give its attention. .to attract loi becomes clear. A number o f significant and detailed proposals are to be placed saving by ( After all, Auckland president Michael Law has never publicly before constituent representatives at Winter Council. Attitudes to interest rates these carefully-researched schemes will largely determine what denied an intention to seek the presidency. There is a possibility that available on t NZUSA can and will do in the future. Law’s student political career might dramatically shift to Wellington. the form of Auckland’s delegation will be led by outgoing President Michael Law’s control o f the Auckland association is obvious. And his bonds; Law and Treasurer Tony Falkenstein. Law tended to dominate Easter control o f the Auckland delegation to Winter Council will be equally .to provid Council and it will be interesting to see what his swan-song determined, if not authoritarian. financial accc performance on behalf o f Auckland will be like. It is understood that he has warned the Auckland delegation that students who Falkenstein and Student Liaison Officer John Coster will be the any member who does not play a full part in the two days o f meetings able to o major support for Law: the remainder o f the delegation will be will be billed for travel expenses which the Association would security to a gaining experience in the game o f NZUSA Council politics. otherwise pay. but who need Otago, who in a fit o f pique and the absence o f their president in So NZUSA Council meetings are now solid work sessions. And so complete a y< America, did not attend Easter Council and were thus indirectly they should be. But there is the danger that in a welter o f finance course; responsible for the major reappraisal o f NZUSA then undertaken, will proposals, lobby tactics, reorganisation ideas, and round-table barters, .to earn a m< be at Massey in full strength. References to their threatened the politicians may forget their grass-roots electorates. through ir withdrawal from NZUSA are inevitable, but there is no reason to It is not difficult to quote resolutions o f general meetings and it is deposits, to believe that the southerners will not play a full part in this meeting. too easy and too simplistic to regard such decisions as the ultimate improve nat Indeed, it is significant that Richard Weatherly, who tried to lead expression o f real student opinion. Paul Grocott service, researi Otago out o f the national student body earlier this year, is listed as an NZUSA must be careful to explain to all its members just what it is operations; observer to Winter Council. at. Internally, public relations are at present equally, and with the .to attract Major interest amongst delegates will centre on the election o f Paul mooted changes probably more, important than they are externally. long-term invi student merr Plans for Focus” duration of 1 courses by tl universal bond At least four hours of NZUSA’s Winter Council meeting Major changes needed on Saturday will be taken up with discussion of the national In view ol In his report to Winter Council, NZUSA President Paul Grocott says “it is impossible for NZUSA to student magazine, “Focus”. presented to the Council by the students’ son It is understood that the expand its operations without a major re-orientation of the national administration”. Focus Administration Board. corrected its future of Focus is also^ to be The Board is appealing to Grocott considers the appointment of a full-time purchasing scheme, operation of students as p contribution of about 65 cents raised at tonight’s annual meeting NZUSA for clarification of the education vice-president and of a manager for the per student. wholesale liquor outlets, but there seems to be role and objectives of the tonight’s A.G association’s commercial enterprises as the two essential expansion of the Travel Bureau considerable feeling that magazine, and suggests that its I suspect it w EXTENSION into an independent organisation, aspects of this reorganisation. $ i ,1 36 for the operations of the Auckland should delay a firm development over the past two Mr Draper says that any extension of the insurance scheme decision on this question until years has been hindered by In addition, a permanent Travel Bureau, $2,565 for extension of NZUSA’s activities, into other insurance fields, and a after Council has met and the debates which have obscured editorial staff for the national FOCUS, and $79 for general unless financed externally, or any magazine (whatever form it might student saving society coupled views of other universities are rather than clarified Focus’s activities. increase in allocation to existing with a universal bond scheme. For known. problems. take) will be required. activities will require either Mr Jamieson stresses the. great Mr Draper recommends that NZUSA will be asked to We are we are w From the report of NZUSA importance of a refinancing of greater student contributions or efforts to finance and construct FLEXIBLE affirm that Focus should continue You ’ll always re Treasurer, Alan Jamieson, it can finance from other sources, such NZUSA’s activities now that the NZUSA’s own premises be Mike Law believes Auckland’s to be supplied free to students so Don’t fear for y< be seen that major changes have as the activities themselves. services it provides are being intensified, since he sees this as a attitude towards Focus should at long as they are underwriting its For half o f us at been made in office accounting Schemes at present under expanded. way of giving NZUSA greater this stage remain flexible. budget. procedures during the past year. In a report on financing consideration which combine financial stability and staffing, of Although discussion of Focus We’re preoccupi $1,944 service to students with profit for proposals, NZUSA Vice-president reducing rental payments, and of is a hardy perennial at NZUSA Who cannot hoi The funds of NZUSA at Charles Draper will point out to NZUSA include a national MONTHLY making constructive use of the meetings, this weekend’s Our problems gc Council that the present activities academic text-book and And the Board will also present amount to $1,944. otherwise uncommitted liquid consideration will be centred on a Say “The only t Deficits incurred in the six of the national student union are stationery scheme, a national bulk recommend that Focus be assets of some NZUSA thirteen page report to be months to June 30 this year are barely covered by the foodstuffs and equipment constituents. published monthly from February next year with a radically altered A maiden and at format and professional The engineer wa production and promotion. His scientific me Monthly publication is seen as Tho ’ she hoped. straightest lit the best means of putting the magazine on its feet, and that Bursaries talks at Massey Godiva was a lac professional production and very To show the loc This weekend’s NZUSA Winter Council meeting will give high priority to consideration of the vigorous promotion are realistic My father who v submissions on higher bursaries drawn up by Education Research Officer, Lindsay Wright ways to reduce costs by Was the only on improving Focus’s off-campus The final submissions, which have to be approved by Council before NZUSA presents the national student union “get appeal while at the same time them to the University Grants Committee at a meeting late in August, are based on surveys closer to the practical, working She said “I’ve cc being consistent with the With the man wi and research which have cost NZUSA several thousand dollars. politics of university change”. magazine’s objectives. It seems likely that the The suggested new format is submissions is thought to be that seeking adjustments in the ADVOCATE submissions will call for a that of a folded tabloid (like the 8 equality of opportunity in New Wallace says “NZUSA has a bursary system is a long-standing O’CLOCK but folded in half with f ■* ' differential system of bursary Zealand education is impeded at definite place as an advocate for payments designed to remove one, and it is believed that Mr cover designs on the outside and present by unrealistic bursary the student case firstly, and anomalies in the present Wright’s submissions will be the ‘front page’ on the inside of levels and government assistance, instrumental in persuading the secondly, as the advocate for structure. For example, higher the fold of 32 pages. neither of which take into Grants Committee to make rational development nationally bursary assistance is to be sought The advantages are a printing consideration inflationary appropriate recommendations to in terms of the country’s for students in those professional pressures which have emerged cost reduction of almost half, schools (such as medicine, government. situation”. over the past five years. Lindsay Wright more space for copy and ag ricu ltu re, and veterinary In his report to Council, “The rights of students to advertising, and for imaginative Around eighty per cent of science) where there is added NZUSA Education Vice-president representation on all matters layout, and the possibility of university students are now drawn individual expenditure by Bruce Wallace laments that concerning the university” says exploiting its ‘difference’ in from the upper income groups of constituents are perhaps a little students. “NZUSA is still outside the the vice-president, “have not yet promoting Focus’s new identity. New Zealand. processes by which university been established nationally and it ahead with their student The basic premise of the NZUSA’s commitment to education is run” , and urges that is in this area that NZUSA representation.”. 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driiMri'umutiHiiH is i % in m ijii i iī M I i I i. H i u i h s m i m r i * rri-n h is u n * i»* i »*•* ** t » 11 i m *• Craccum, Thursday, August 13-Page 5 Student saving proposed The immediate formation of a University Saving and Investment Society is to be recommended to NZUSA’s Winter Council as an ideal way to provide finance for the operations and activities of the national student body. The apparent injustice of the It is proposed that some or all NZUSA constituent students’ associations form the Savings proposal, says Mr Draper, must be Society which would have seven main functions: set against the obvious justice of All student representatives on staff-student consultative studies. The bond would be allowing those who will benefit committees, faculty committees on Senate-come to a meeting .to attract short-term student from the scheme help pay some saving by offering better .to provide medium-term loan repaid on March 31 following for all of you at 7'.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 9th September. of its initial cost, especially when interest rates than those finance for capital works by cessation of these studies. Probably in B.28—watch Titwiti for the venue-this meeting is they are required to make a available from banks for constituent students’ The bonds would provide vital. repayable, interest-bearing loan * * * example, and service tailored associations (thus enabling capital of at least $80,000 by rather than a levy. specifically to the vitally needed local facilities M arch 1971 increasing to Sick of the pub, movies? Give your one and only an evening requirements of students; to be provided when $380,000 by 1974 when student $ 10,000 with a difference- helping those sweet kiddies at the homework necessary in spite of .to attract long-term student numbers would exceed 38,000. The Canterbury University centre in Otara. Monday’s 7.30-9.00 pun. Phone Peter Ilalio temporary government saving by offering better Students’ Association has refused (Department of Maori and Island Affairs) 34-969 Ext. 12. Maybe inability to meet its subsidy The account would increase in interest rates than normally to impose this levy on first-year he’ll arrange a lift, so it won’t even cost you anything. commitments); and line with increases in the student * * * available on time deposits in population and, being continually students. Instead, its recent .to attract short-term Then there’s the Hillary College (Otara) Polynesian Club on the form of $10 negotiable replaced, would never be required general meeting decided all bonds; graduate and university staff Thursday’s 7 -9 p.m. Anyone willing to join in ring Ian Mitchell saving by offering acceptable for net repayment. students enrolling at Canterbury .to provide short-term next year will be required to or Mrs Raimata Kirikiri, 27-48109 (school hours). financial accommodation to interest rates and the OBJECTIONS * * * opportunity to support the make the $10 deposit. students who might not be Two objections to the bond Charles Draper reports that Talkers: here’s your big chance to do something. In the able to offer adequate educational. objectives of August holidays (24th-28th, 31st-4th) i.e. our second and NZUSA at no cost. scheme have been raised in other profit from the universal bond security to a private bank, universities. It is argued that scheme alone would amount to third weeks, a community activity thing is being run at the but who need an advance to first-year students cannot afford Ponsonby Kindergarten Hall. BOND about $10,000 each year, and complete a year’s work or a the $10 bond, and that it is unjust that this money could be freely It will go from 9.00 a.m .-4.00 p.m. daily, and will cater course; The compulsory development to “tax” students without their distributed to meet NZUSA’s especially for school children, from the Ponsonby area though .to earn a margin of profit, bond scheme (or universal bond) having a say. research, service, and welfare anyone can come. through investment of has already been discussed by NZUSA Vice-president Charles operations If you can come and be an activating force in painting, or deposits, to be used to NZUSA at Easter Council, and it Draper says there is no evidence This would permit expansion music, or games, or reading, or teaching nippers to knit, or make improve national student is likely to be accepted at Winter to support the first objection. of those activities and services to trolleys, or talk, or just want to go there: go and sign community service, research, and welfare Council this weekend. Auckland’s Rather, “both intuition and the students, and would also lead to a Centre List at the Studass Office. If possible state a couple of operations; attitude is to be determined at the NZUSA Incomes and Expenditure lower NZUSA levy on member days you can definitely come—helps organisation. Any enquiries .to attract compulsory annual general meeting tonight. Survey show that most students associations. about the Centre? Then ring Liz Thom 80-271 or Jean Winston long-term investment by all The proposal is that all are better off in the first year Mr Draper says that funds 74-650 (ext. 827), or Donna Putt 768-329. There will be a student members for the first-year students would be than later”. Mr Draper suggests considered and given away as preliminary meeting at the Centre in Ponsonby Terrace at 3.00 US duration of their university levied $10 over and above their that cases of genuine hardship profits by the Savings Society p.m. Sunday 23rd August. Try and come-ring one of the above courses by the sale of $10 basic students’ association fee at could be underwritten by could to some degree be regarded to get directions, and call in and see Studass or Contact for universal bonds; the beginning of their university constituent students’ associations. directions. cil meeting by NZUSA as capital. * * * * lie national In view of the many inaccuracies in the engineering Another worthy cause: the superb facilities at Boystown, The man who took her from her horse and shouted it a beer, Nelson Street aren’t being used to capacity-basically, the uncil by the students’ song I have not only re-composed it but also Was a well accomplished horse rider-a drunken engineer. problem is that there’s a lack of instructors and supervisors. Any l Board, corrected its lousy scansion and spelling. I trust as many keen person would be welcomed if only to sit and swot in the ippealing to students as possible will bring the corrected version to Pharaoh’s harem was so full o f lovely lively female joy, Library so that it can be opened for use-Evenings 5-9 pjn. ition of the tonight’s A.G.M. lest the original be resurrected there, as He had a fear that Moses p ’raps was just the first stray boy, Enquiries? Ring Donna 768-329, Mary 375-930, Wendy 370-300 es of the or Nigel 453-806-better still, get in touch with Boystown ests that its I suspect it will.-Alan Liddell He needed guards who need no guards so ended all his fears, Now the harem’s trusty sentinels-soprano engineers. 379-968 (its located in Nelson Street, up Wellesley Street and he past two turn left-seven minutes from Varsity). lindered by * * * /e obscured Dr Kinsey was a gentleman who wrote a long report Youth Forum (on Education) was held on Thursday 21st ied Focus’s O f sexual deviation and o f other forms o f sport. For the AGM But tho’he searched through all the world for year on perving July in the Town Hall, and provoked varied reactions from those who went. It’ll be continued on a monthly basis-next one is on e asked to We are we are we are we are we are the engineers year, >uld continue You ’ll always recognise us by our seamless nylon sheers He had never heard o f half the things indulged by engineers. Thursday, August 13th. Topic suggestions are wanted-so phone Don’t fear for your girl around us she will shed no guilty tears Liz Thom 80-271. o students so * * * lerwriting its For half o f us are wankers and the rest o f us are queers. Sabrina was a lady with a 42 inch bust She was structurally unstable, she was insecurely trussed. We’re preoccupied with beer and sex like every little weed The council recommended she be inspected twice a year Who cannot hold his liquor down or proudly drop his tweeds And so her proportions stayed the same they sent the engineers. d will also Our problems got so bad the lowest madames with a sneer Say “The only thing left for you, my lads, is to be an engineer. ” The engineers went to the shore to share the navy’s booze, UNIVERSITY CRECHE Focus be While all our merry sailing lads were safe upon a cruise. om February A maiden and an engineer were sitting in the park. The seamen’s rum supply was past the local grocery store Any Staff member, wife, or student, (not ically altered And alas the smell o f wine gums put them all upon the floor. rofessional The engineer was busy doing research after dark, at present using the Creche), intending to use otion. His scientific method was a puzzle to define, Tho ’ she hoped h e ’d look for shapely curves he grabbed the Now Caesar’s deeds could not be beat in 50 normal lives the creche next year, should contact one of ion is seen as straightest line. He was wife to all the husbands and he husbanded their wives. the persons below as soon as possible. putting the So when Cleopatra pushed him out each night at 3 o ’clock et, and that Briar Wilson Phone 546-860 Godiva was a lady who thru ’ Coventry did ride, He had his favourite engineer, waiting round the block. ion and very \ To show the local citizens the colour o f her hide, Miriam Jackson Phone 762-442. are realistic My father who was standing there an engineer, o f course, So if you’ve an awkward complex o f inferiority This information is required for future costs by Was the only one who noticed that Godiva rode a horse. 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! 30-709 LTD 458-483 7th FLOOR C.M.L. BLDG. Tele.370-299 159 QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. What use is education? BY STEPHEN SMITH Education today is bloody useless—more so at the big teaching institutions like this University. Here at university you are confronted with a list of subjects you can undertake to study so as to gain a specified degree. Out of this little list—very confined in subject matter you unsatisfied degree-holder. constrained to one field and to must choose eight or nine units (or even more) so that they one field of knowledge only, fit in with all the requirements as set out for the degree. If BRAINWASHED unless as I said before you have you make just one little slip up you can find yourself The ‘educated’ person this ten years on hand. Also all the spending another year in obtaining this heavily sought after University is mean’t to produce is faculties-A rt, Law, Science, merely a partly brainwashed Commerce, Engineering, degree. Now this is just ridiculous. student. This is not education at Architecture-are very closely I mean, here there is just no pre-requisites to a unit you may all-and yet, amazingly it survives related and only a fool tries to place for the learned person of separate them though there seems have an interest in. Now it has in this so-called modern society of old (such as a Grecian from the to be some fools around here been proven that the ours. We come here to learn not Golden Age) the one who wants trying to do this, an impossible sub-conscious fights against to be brainwashed and taught to to do a few science units, a few task. We need a ‘common pool’ involuntary learning and hence regurgitate irrelevant material arts units, the occasional method of education where each decreasing the ability to pass (irrelevant to the student that is). architectural unit, and others he student picks out his units he finals and to pass finals only. He Let us away with all compulsory may have a following in. Instead wants to do and on passing finals does not curse or damn whether units. What we need is a we must confine ourselves to one receives, a certificate to show he the ‘knowledge’ so gained aginst University where people go to particular branch of knowledge has succeeded. From here it is up his sub-conscious mind is learn and not to study, where and stick with it-unlcss of course people go for interest’s sake alone to the employer to chose the you have ten years to spare. retained. All he has is one ambition-to pass finals in that and not for the sake of a job ora student who has the necessary unit and so go ahead to gain the degree. units he requires. Thus a student BRANCH degree. He does not take the unit I would like to have a who comes to University solely to Basically we are confronted for its interests to him but University where I go to learn and be an accountant is spared the with the branch (and a branch of because if he does not take it he expand my thoughts and develop task of three to four years work knowledge is a far too great a will not get a nice diploma to my interests. Now everybody is in gaining nine units and instead thing to be so narrowly interested wave under mummy’s nose and different and it is plain just gets the three accounting in) we are interested in most and then hang on his bedroom wall. foolishness to make the ‘perfect units required as well as following following all the sticky an interest in a field other than This is involuntary education student’ and make everybody do commerce. This method not only regulations we choose our units. and against the free will of the a similar course-for the rules But, out of these units ‘Chosen to govering a degree are far too strict saves time on the part of the individual-a breach of civil rights. and narrow. To produce the student but helps him gain a study,. «many-as much as The end product of this education proposed University all degrees wider knowledge and helps him to 5 0% — have to be taken is a bored individual who next should be banished leaving a few progress as he is doing units in involuntarily either because they forgets as fast as possible those hundred units and papers to chose which he has selffinterest. This arc compulsory units or are units he was not interested in. from and letting the individual produces not only an educated Now after so many years when he pursue his own interests. Only person in the true sense of the has his degree do you honestly through voluntary teaching and word but also an intelligent God. Mr Savage soon began to think he is going to remember or learning are we going to benefit person always striving to go take everything as a personal even try to recall the subject ourselves and produce genii to further in the fields he has insult, sulking in Cabinet like a matter of the units he had no help the world. undertaken. Is this not what we child. Lee remembers interest in (though he may if want? Is this not what we have Oh those days-it was tempted with a nice job-another WASTE been aiming for through, all the “ N e\t beautiful to be with young men involuntary action). This not only Many degrees are a waste of centuries of poor education? Is John A Lee recently addressed a meeting at the university who wanted to change but it was ch op p in represents a ‘false’ degree to an time and effort-for how many this not what produces men of on his political experiences. ‘40 years behind the scenes in wretched to be frustrated by employer but is also a waste of employers chose a geologist thought, men of meaning, men of 19-year- those old mid-Victorians who the Labour Party’ was reported for Craccum by Brent Lewis. time and energy of the students because of his unit in English or understanding and research?-men could never see the need to d escrip t life-for he has gained but little French, a meteorologist because who believe in what they do and “During World War 1 because was suspect. During times like this change. o f th e v out of it. These wasted years of a history unit, an accountant do it for interest’s sake rather vve wanted to kill people we built \ everyone becomes a politician. You know I’ve said many could have -been spent doing because of a philosophy or than for society’s sake. industry as never before. But People read, discussed changes to things about my colleagues but During the ] when the war ended instead of something worthwhile and economics unit etc. By the This is what we must do-for humanise society-it was in flux I’ve never said anything after my Women’s Libert trying to build up economic interesting to this individual degree-method of education the God’s sake bring education to and the people wanted something. expulsion that I didn’t say to An examinati< stability, instead of trying to instead of turning him into an area of one’s thoughts is this University. Harry Holland was the leader of their teeth . . . show that the ac develop a distributed system we the Labour Party then and his inately superior t went back, back to the gold In politics 1 am against the funeral turned out to be a great standard. divine right of poltiical leaders. are lesbians; and t political demonstration, Sick men should not lead parties In dealing wi Lee said: In New Zealand once thousands were there streaming . . . but apart from being against reported as try ini every 50 years or so there occurs the streets. It was evidence that deifying leaders we must always women are not a breakthrough. There have been Labour was on its way for Labour strive to improve the lot of the complementary, some great breakthroughs on a gave them, the common people, a average man and woman. That is which men do no radical front in New Zealand promise of a future, gave hope to what I fought for and that’s quite men or women as often as a result of depressions. the businessmen and the nation. enouah. The women’s libe As a result of the gathering M.J. Savage became leader of does not want chronic depression New Zealand the Labour Party and the greatest Nash soon got a peculiar hold traditionally men began to look forward to the next father-figure in New Zealand on Michael Joseph but that was their organic consti breakthrough. history. Because he incarnated the easy. Savage had never run men are. Because r By 1931 the Labour Party was spirit of the Labour movement, anything in his life-he had always Nominations are extremely popular. Before then it Savage began to think he was been a boarder never even a star The claim tha boarder, and had not committed hardly be seen as one sin-not even the original sin. would lesbians v called fo r demand and a { The guaranteed price, increase in pensions, import restrictions, liberation is not m m liberate itself fron HR credit creation-for all these grounds of sex. things we fought against Savage, Nash and Frazer and they got the Editor & Technical editor To answer th< nunmshib credit. It’s amazing the bouquets particular demand Nash took without blushing. Why Firstly womei does the Labour Party go on with centuries they wei the mythology that Savage Frazer and a means of ca n o n fo r 1971 as people in their and Nash were architects of Closing September 8 * UN1VLRSITY policy they opposed? of careers. Once n AGENCY chattels owned bj 27 Sv monds Street I remember once when Mr Nordmeyer moved a 2/6d increase on their husbands • • . .lust halfway legal rights as well between O’Rorke Hall in pensions. Savage responded that we’d be the laughing stock of recent years worn and the Campus. the world. They were like Bumble technology increa: obsolete in many b a n k OF n e w SOUTH WALES in Oliver Twist when Oliver asks for a little more. 1 interjected that and control their SWINGS BANK would be like telling the the chance to part pensioners to go to hell. their fertility. It i: No, said Mr Savage- its tefling have acquired th* you, Mr Lee, to go to hell, which former way of li perhaps was appropriate for I JOHN REID’S women still are d suppose that was. a good place for still do not have Lucifer in the Garden of Eden right to vote. trying to tell the innocents. Suppliers of ALES, . . . ON SAVAGE In schools gir Nash did some peculiar things WINES & SPIRITS typing, shorthand in those days. His idea was that the view that as tl we should be a farm for England. subjects will not 1 Money makes money when He thus went off to England for The home of you bank at the ‘Wales’ — 3% six months to convince the p.a., when you have a • government to bulk-buy New TEACHER'S WHISKY Savings Account • Special Zealand goods. Of course he got Purpose Saving Account nothing-oh-no that’s not quite SACCONE'S GIN Thrift Club Account • joint true, he got a deal of 100 tons prat Savings Account — and 4^% each year from the Hitler in an Investment Account. GUSTAVE PIERRE BRANDY government. ,. I must tell you something. OLD BUSHMILLS IRISH WHISKEY CONTI A fellow once came up to me and themLEsC**s», said Mr Lee for years I used to go up to the Savage Memorial and b a n k o f n e w s o u t h w a l e s stand there and thank God for JOHN REID'S OF ANZAC AVE., AUCKLAND SAVINGS BANK (N.Z.) LTD. Micky Joe but now after reading your book I take my dog up there and say “hey, boy, go on piddle on it”. Craccum, Thursday, August 13-Page 7

Women’s Lib. By CHRISTINE WREN didn’t come “Newsweek” categorized them as karate chopping lesbians; a local writer as “giggling 19-year-old braless man-eating shrews”. These descriptions refer to the recent ‘phenomena’ of the women’s liberation movement. from Lesbos During the past term two groups have formed in Auckland. These are the Women’s Movement for Freedom and the Women s Liberation Front. The members of these would hard r fall into any of the above categories. An examination of the attitudes of opponents of this movement show that the accusations levelled against them are:- that men are academic subjects they are often discouraged from taking subjects such as maths and science because the traditional view is that women inately superior to women; that the members of women’s liberation are not good at these subjects or it is not feminine to be so. Only a are lesbians; and that women are already liberated. very small number of women ever reach university. Schools should be In dealing with the first accusation some overseas groups are co-educational. Specifically female and male courses such as cooking reported as trying to prove women are superior to men. Yet surely and woodwork should be replaced with general living courses. girls leave school and take boring jobs with the view of marriage, or they marry because they are bored or lack security . . . . Once married women are not equal or superior to men. They are equal and Society enforces an opinion of what the proper sphere of with children they are tied 24 hours a day. complementary. Women have particular qualities and possibilities behaviour and activity of a woman should be. The previous economic which men do not possess and vice versa. Therefore to speak of either and legal position enforced a particular way of life on her which it has PRIMARY ROLE men or women as being superior or inferior to one another is absurd. only recently been possible to act outside. Now th at it is possible to In a New Zealand context the primary child raising role falls to the The women’s liberation groups (at least the Auckland counterparts) do so the old attitudes still prevail. The climate o f opinion places wife. Most of these women have not developed themselves as people. does not want to obliterate these differences or to start doing women in an inferior position. Double standards exist as to sexual Their whole lives are focused on the achievements of the children. Yet traditionally men’s work of heavy labouring or fighting. Women by behaviour of men and women. Women are expected to be pure, these children are no't substitutes for her own personal development their organic constitution are not as suited for some types of work as passive, dependent and submissive. Their sexual role is primarily and creativitiy. When her children have grown up she is in the position men are. Because women are different not inferior. maternal, whereas men are freer and regard women as their ‘hunting of having failed to develop her skills. However, if she follows a career NOT LESBIANS ground’. Many jokes are against women. Eg women drivers, she is also at a disadvantage. Most women do not want other women The claim that women’s liberation members are lesbians could mothers-in-law, and dumb blondes. This also exists in cliches such as a as their bosses and men resent this. To be accepted in her field she is hardly be seen as accurate in the light of some of their demands. Why woman’s place is in the home .... Slang terms are more abundant forced to act like men and also to identify with them. In the sphere of would lesbians want free access to contraceptives, abortion on and derogatory about women. It is hard to find well known and politics they have technically the same opportunities. Yet women demand and a greater number of child care centres? Women’s widely used equivalents to such terms as nymphomaniac, whore and make up 51% of the population and they are not represented in liberation is not trying to liberate itself from men. It is trying to slut. political bodies in proportion to their numbers. Men are prejudiced liberate itself from the discriminations made against it merely on the against women and so are other women. SEXUAL OBJECT Women’s liberation groups demand greater sexual freedom. grounds of sex. Women are bombarded by modern advertising which encourages To answer the third accusation it is necessary to look at the Traditionally men take the initiative; while men ask for dates women her to disguise herself as a frivolous and superficial sexual object. particular demands and grievances women’s liberation has. sit at home and wait for the phone to ring. Women’s liberation want Advertising creates the idea that women can only be successful in a 24 hour child care centres, freely available contraceptives. Unmarried Firstly women start out under a handicap historically. For sexual role and to do this they must use X toothpaste and Y centuries they were regarded as sexual objects, procreators of children mothers should receive an adequate allowance to keep their children shampoo. Modern advertising uses and exploits sex to sell. It creates if they wish to. Greater provisions for separated, deserted and and a means of carrying out household tasks. They were not regarded expectations which most women cannot fulfill. Women are as people in their own right. They were forced into marriage by lack divorced women. Abortion is a controversial issue over which the brainwashed into following extravagant and constantly changing Auckland group is divided. In an ideal society it would not be of careers. Once married they lost any property they had and became fashions and use large amounts of different kinds o f make-up to live chattels owned by their husbands. They were financially dependent desirable. Yet American groups question whether it is valid to make it up to the idea that she is only successful if she is beautiful. Women’s illegal in a society which does not place much value on human lives in on their husbands as well as being tied by large families. They lacked integrity and intelligence is further insulted by beauty contests other spheres. Furthermore abortions occur despite the fact that it is legal rights as well as being unable to participate in politics or vote. In measured largely by sexism. Many pickets have been held against illegal. By legalising it the lives of the mothers may be protected. recent years women have gained increased freedom resulting from beauty contests in overseas women’s liberation groups. The New technology increasing household appliances and rendering housework Zealand groups are considering picketing the Miss New Zealand ASK A MALE obsolete in many respects; increased legal rights in that they can own Universities’ contest. These contests only add to the exploitation and One of the main reasons for women’s liberation is exhibited by and control their own property and participate in politics; as well as oppression of women through their sex. Among this is included asking a male what he thinks of it. It is generally treated with some the chance to participate in careers and the acquired ability to control ponographic magazines and bars which refuse to serve women. mirth that women should even want to participate in politics at all. their fertility. It is only in the last couple of generations that women There is a need for the drastic re-thinking of relationships within The fact that they can’t even see why women form these groups is a have acquired these freedoms, yet the psychological ties to this the family structure. The fact that the husband is no longer the sole major reason in itself that they have arisen. This leads to a feeling of former way of life and the traditional attitudes still prevail. Yet bread winner and the wife in many cases does not stay home to look alienation and helplessness, culminating in anger. Awareness of the women still are discriminated against in many different areas. They after him and her children, means that relations must be given a major areas of discontentment is a step towards solving them. still do not have equal pay. In Switzerland women do not have the different emphasis. There is a need for twenty four hour child care right to vote. centres. However, the traditional view of marriage still prevails. ACADEMIA NO USE Society enforces the idea on women that she must marry. It doesn’t A student customer of mine says In schools girls are encouraged to take courses which include matter who as long as she does marry. Woman is not seen as an he is not going to tell anyone typing, shorthand and homecraft. The climate of opinion reinforces individual but in terms of her male counterpart. Her social status is the view that as they are just going to get married, anyway, academic measured by that of her husband. From an early age she is given dolls where my shop is as he wants to subjects will not be much use to them. Even when women do take and encouraged in the idea of fulfilling herself solely as a wife. Many keep it all to himself. But we are going to tell you where it's at ourselves. Tennis, Golf, Fishing, 714 Dominion Road, nm nm oon m linnl/o Balmoral. progressive d o o k s Remuera Sports Depot In the T.A.B. 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by other remants of the wars, both basic

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curiosities as a German bicycle whose tyres

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FREED/ed. Murray Edmond * Ō O O G M f I am becoming very fond of those nude, squirming Barry Linton Stud. Ass. publication; glad to be of use. I find the finest couplingo munchkins, each with that rare face like a phonepad doodle-portrait poetry, poetry format & pictorial image, however, to be the full pag of Doctor Doolittle’s foetus, a stray cellgrowth from some of Alan Brunton’s “Shellback’s address to the city’. The thric parthenogenetic braintissue. Kinsmen of the anxiety-prone interblock repeated voyager of June 4 Craccum’s epic Floyd, these two part company on the sunclock’s leaf beneath a fruitmachine alinement with the Moon in last phase Cherry dance the urgent hours and Saturn the Lemon. One of these Gemini is enwombed within a to retrieve our afflictions funline mirage-ogre. The other is miscarried into a thicket of stars. Coverblock for Freed three. (A.U. Stud. Ass.). which divides the poem is beautifully equated with the juxtapose! Freed three is good news. Primarily a collection of recent local line images of High Altar and submarine below, whose malevolen poetry, with predictably enough Mitchell,Haley, Brunton, Wedde and bleepline rises to skewer the Calvary. At the bottom of the oppositi Edmond featuring high on the bill-and well. There is a pretty even page, a photo blowup in black & white of a mouse face conjoin standard, the anthology is selective and compact: the essential quality Murray Edmond’s ‘As I didn’t like it’. The bead eyes and expanding of freed three, though, is in the physical realisation of the poetry. hairfields of the mouse follow your own eyes over the Each piece is allowed to talk or extend its dialogue with the reader in Meister Francke i yell terms of its own visual format. Not, for God’s sake, that THIS is ‘Bring me a knife anything new. The poetry is. In addition, a really imaginative and and discriminating use of black & white line images interinvolved with the than wake like a martyr word format, so that a genuine fusion or at least association of forms layin with a nun and idiom results. Given some of the economic-technical limitations at the bottom of the 2 poem columns. involving freed three’s production, this has been made to work very Two facing pages of Alan Taylor (a Maori-type lament & well, thanks again David Kisler, who has been giving you Craccum’s Navajo-cum-Dubuffet type drawings) & 4 poems by Bob Orr are lesj 1970’s look. successful. Both design integration of poem with visual substance and Rather than vivisecting verse, I’d like to refer to several particular the mutual relevance of image break down, mainly because seven pages, where the impact of poetry shapes and picture images is solid. short pieces of poetry find uneasy alliance with each othei Dave Mitchell’s gold-rim & stubble leer is caught well in a camera typographically, and two dense and static line images. study that is by Brian Beresford in fact, at the beginning of Mitchell’s I was pleased to read John Daly-Peoples’ interview with Leon ‘the singing bread’, and a really impressive image fills %’s of the final Narbey about REAL TIME in New Plymouth earlier this year, page of this long piece. A total-contrast photo-image within a shield especially after Bruce Cavell’s ill-applied hatchet in Craccum a while shape; and entrance to a sky paradise above, towards which, below, back. Speaking as a first-nighter of REAL TIME, I doubt the capacity reclining hands reach like a paperfold dart, and the foreground of the standing neon sculpture & the reproduced work drawings to entrance to the earthly pudendal paradise is curtained by interloin convey to the uninitiated very much of the grass. A splended approximation of Mitchell language: ‘the singing sound-light-participation nature of Narbey’s Govett-Brewster show bread’ is a very substantial item in freed three apd provides Much as I endorse the initiation of solid artist-writer dialogue of thi considerable weight to the publication-together with Russell Haley’s sort. After all, Leon is, like freed three, committed to th. ‘Spanish City’, and its concluding word-image media-fusion idea and his inclusion here is apt; though the interview does rather break off without any apparent conclusion, as if the t i g projector had just suddenly jammed. e r e But like this interview, freed three finds pertinence in relative a g e brevity. Rejoice, at last it’s possible to find here NZ poetry published (under by no means ideal budget conditions) in 1970 and looking like it-n o t somehow typographically sterilized in the literary-tradition Two pages, with Wedde’s ‘Because of its Marked’, and the obsessed editorial surgery. “Nothing will fit if we assume a place for beginning of the automutating ‘notes on film alone’ employ dynamic it”, says Edmond’s editorial. I fully agree. There is a competence and conjoining of solid & broken type lines and visual images-including a freedom in freed three which I hope very much will find further Don Binney, a line engraving montage I did years ago for some other issue-Don Binney.

IM UVt COHORT ATTMX ROTAl ALWSt HALL DEEP PURPLE/CONCERTO/HMV here Paice has his drum solo. Well. .. .1 remember saying hi COMCIRTO t o n GROW AM» o rchm tr a Jon Lord has finally seen an ambition become reality. Lord, Deep Purple COMBO»» «YIOM LOR». drumming wasn’t hell of a sensitive but he’s not a classical organist for Deep Purple, wrote what he called a Concerto for Group percussionist so let’s get things in perspective. Paice can be good. and Orchestra and somehow managed to have it recorded with The Deep Purple can be good. But here they are not Deep Purple; they’ve Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. To call the orchestra the Royal given too much of their pop identity to the concerto and we are left Conducted by Malcolm Arnold Philharmonic is really a bit of a cheek as less than half the orchestra is with many of their weaknesses. It’s hard to know whether they have present on this recording, and to gauge to what extent Lord scored over-extended themselves or whatever but their basic weakness, for a small orchestra is next to impossible as his arrangement is predictably, is their insensitiveness, in this media and sections of this inconsistent and, I suspect, often called for minor improvisation. drum solo (here called a drum cadenza) come off only because Paice The opening movement presents the orchestra and group as you lapses back into the pop drumming he is at home with. Personally I might expect to hear them. . . .as antagonists. Its lengthy introduction don’t feel classical and pop music can be successfully fused in any is built around a theme initially carried on clarinet and after a great way; certainly not while the instruments in pop music retain their pop deal of heavy timpani and loud brass leads into another slightly identity. I shouldn’t imagine the pop purists like this, and the classical grotesque, but also beautiful, theme sounding very reminiscent of one purists certainly wouldn’t but then you can’t really view this as a of Dvorak’s earlier Slavonic dances. This theme is brutally thrown serious piece of music. If you can get over those distinctive thefts aside as the group emerges and gives its own interpretation of the from the romantic musical archives and see it for what it is-OK-it’s opening clarinet tune. The transition from orchestra to group is very fun-good fun. convincing but Ritchie Blackmore’s lead guitar carries over into a At times the orchestra seems to be floundering and I feel Malcolm hectic barrage of rather tuneless drivel. It’s in this movement the Arnold is somehow holding the whole thing together. This record has group really seems out of control with Blackmore’s guitar taking off a place; it is refreshing and at times exciting; it may also serve to and over and Paice’s drumming unimaginative and quite frankly, introduce a few people to a twisted interpretation of classical music rather pathetic. Jon Lord’s organ does not save the group’s reputation for although Deep Purple are never really a pop group in this thing, to some extent in this movement and as Composer Lord has, more a sort of neuter, the orchestra does do some pretty smart things. understandably, a control and sensitivity both Blackmore and Paice Parallels between Deep Purple in this concerto and the Nice, lack. It’s hard to believe Lord composed and scored the whole another pop group, can readily be drawn. Both are essentially a basic orchestra completely from start to finish as it often bears the stamp rock group using percussion, electric guitars, and organ; in both, of an experienced and musically mature composer of classical groups the organist is the driving force and inspiration and both j background. At the same time it does show up most of the groups have tried on this classical merger for size. The Nice, however weaknesses of a novice composer, markedly the all stops in-all stops have given away any pretence of classical scoring and taken themei out: all or nothing; approach you might expect. .. .heavy timpani and like Brubeck’s Blue Rondo a La Turk in classical rondo form, and] brass to light woodwind and strings with little filling the gap. This is butchered it to hell. Using the superficial theme they draw it out and perhaps due, in part, to the strong pop influence running through the throw in all the monotonously pounding pop gimmicks they can lay whole score but top marks must go to the orchestra who carry off the their hands on—it’s loud. In this respect Deep Purple’s attempt is often banal orchestration well. more successful in that it has the added advantage of retaining some The second movement opens with a very beautiful theme played of the classical identity in the orchestral scoring. Whether this is an by the cor anglais-a theme that could almost have come direct from advantage or not is debatable but it does overcome the monotony of one of the slow movements of a Bruckner symphony. After leading Nice exuded by the use of contrast. . . . a give and take thing between into a second theme carried by the flutes, the group again enters over group and o rch estra; quiet-lo u d : sensitive-insensitive: the orchestra and Ian Gillan, the group’s vocalist, is suddenly singing. competent-incompetent .. . . contrast is the hallmark of this effort Surprisingly this whole movement almost comes off...... I say and even though this may not be enough to justify it, it does let us see surprising because after the first movement you couldn’t imagine into the difficulties involved in a synthesis of two dynamically adding a vocalist to the already overworked score. Gillan’s voice has opposed musical styles; the basic three chord simplicity that is pop an airy quality and this vocal section, short but effective, is his only music and the infinite complexity of the classical score. contribution to the concerto. Now an unforgivable thing is about to Well-we can’t take it seriously and Jon Lord does say ‘Critical happen: suddenly the group stops to a short bungled dram break reaction to the concerto was mixed and happily, quite favourable.! from Paice and the orchestra continues on to fade out 12 bars later am sure that critics are generally sincere in what they say. I am also because that’s about all the engineers could fit on side one. The slow sure that critics are a necessary, if slightly archaic, appendage to the movement (we can call it that as it does bear some vague resemblance music business.” “What puzzles me is that an evening which was to an adagio movement in construction) resumes on the second side intended to be, and in fact (as witnessed by a very large and glorious and the orchestra and group alternate in and out of a few more audience) turned out to be fun, should be treated by some critics with themes, tunes, too heavily done, and badly orchestrated percussion such long faced seriousness” -a n understandable sentiment but Lord Two distinct impressions emerge about now. Firstly, . . . . just how goes on to state. . . .“This is only the beginning” ...... It seems as if he much Lord makes it all up with his sensitive organ playing. is going to take this further-perhaps treat it more seriously. I hope Secondly.. . . just how contrasted the group and orchestra are in not as I don’t feel it warrants another attempt-but after hearing quality of recording. If only the group could have obtained that clean rumours (especially associating the names of Zubin Mahta and Frank recording studio sound the orchestra gets by nature of its make up. Zappa-god help us indeed). I suspect we haven’t seen the end of it. The contrast between the unclean, and at times, badly distorted group This concerto is basically a whole series of superficially beautiful and the orchestra is very marked. Deep Purple lack recorded presence themes thrown together over three long tracks. The three long tracks and are often out of balance. The group was recorded from amp to are the only similarity to concerto form and here a comparison to mike to monitor without the direct link electronic equipment classical form must cease if comparison is justified at all...... although demands, so they tend to sound a compromise live outdoor, studio, one knowledgeable friend came in and listened for a full minute and recording. asked what version of Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin I was The third movement bears no relation to the preceding two, and playing.-Derek King Craccum, Thursday,August 13—Page 11

CANNED HEAT COOKBOOK / The Best of Canned Heat / Liberty horribly, Vestine’s playing is good in Bullfrog Blues and Same All The first thing to note about this album is that there is nothing Over when he gives the rest of the group a chance. These are two good new on it. It’s the'old capitalistic plot of promoters and middlemen in jumping boogie tracks. Inest coupling o the ‘Best of .. . .’ tradition. The drumming of Adolfo de la Parra is pretty effete and 3 be the full pagi The next point is that as a ‘Best of. . . .’ record, it shows up the unimaginative. Where it is needed to carry the beat, in Time Was and ity \ The thrio Canned Heat as a bad group. Of the ten tracks featured, there are only Boogie Music, it fails through attempted ostentation. In these two the two really good ones, that would be well known by anyone familiar bass is the strongest instrument and literally races away from the with the group- Going up Country and On the Road Again. Two melody. This is Taylor’s weakness-he is competent and inventive but reasonably good tracks are Bullfrog Blues and Same All Over. I would sometimes gets carried away and leaves the rest of the group behind. assess the rest as ranging from-very mediocre to the very bad. To make things worse, in Time Was, the rest of the music is basic i the juxtaposed I am not an expert on blues, my conscience provokes me to chordwork which places unfavourable emphasis on the bass and the hose malevolent inform any misguided readers (you too can be a Craccum reviewer) so bad drumming. Boogie Music is just an incoherent hash of trumpet, of the opposite what you are about to get is a subjective, contentious analysis of saxophone and guitar. se face conjoin! those much-sought-after qualities which make good blues music good, Now about those two brilliant tracks. The same styles of playing s and expanding as applied to the Canned Heat. are there, except for Vestine’s guitar, but everything falls together. The real secret, of course, in this group’s two great successes is the The beautiful simplicity sets the scene for a delicate interplay utter simplicity of the music. This is probably just as well because between vocal and melody line. In Going up Country the simple each member of the group js a musician of limited ability: one chord sequence and flute open and establish the melancholy, but possible exception being the bass player, Larry Taylor. This is why relieved and light, modd. Then the bass, drums and vocal come in. their attempts to range further afield in the blues idiom are The bass in aggressive but restrained, following the line of the guitar unimpressive. work. The thin, reedy vocal of Alan Wilson alternates in a jazz-type The lead guitarist is Henry Vestine, who left the group in July last reflection of the flute melody. On the Road Again is similar, but here year, and in typical style the new lead, Harvey Mandel, appears on the the flute is replaced by the blues harmonica. Wilson’s vocal mimics pe lament & cover although, as far as I can tell, he doesn’t feature on the record. the harmonica incredibly, in tone as well as melody. The background Bob Orr are less Vestine is tolerable when he doesn’t try to take himself too seriously. is a simple bass pattern with subdued organ and what sounds like the al substance and He has a quick hand in the Chicago tradition but the screech he drone strings of the sitar. The lyrics of both songs reflect Wilson’s love because several produces is often painful. It completely saturates and destroys of the country but also mixed with the sad indecisiveness of the th each other Amphetamine Annie which otherwise would have been merely a bad wanderer. The precision and integration of the two tracks-their real track. He is also pretty unbearable on Fried Hocky Boogie, an II secret-must be credited to Wilson who has a degree in music from dew with Leon minute synthesis of bad, self-conscious solos-not to mention the Boston University. rlier this year, utterly precocious vocals of Bob ‘The Bear’ Hite-and craps out John Laird Iraccum a while rbt the capacity ork drawings to ch o f the BURNING UP YEARS / HUMAN INSTINCT / Marble Arch / Taste New Zealanders precludes their being really creative-we’re all too -Brewster show, The Human Instinct ... to see them play . . . to hear them, there, well off and comfortable. But the fact that I talk about the Instinct at dialogue of this in the same room as yoir, with, behind them, this, it’s a wall of the same time as the Cream and Experience shows you how good I mitted to thi speakers and they’re not your usual toneless ‘total sound’ Jansens but think they are. Their commitment is rare among rock musicians in h the interview Marshalls-big, brute force sheer power Marshalls. And there in the this country-I mean, it takes stamina to keep playing every night of sion, as if the centre is this guy, Maurice G reer-he’s slim, with this kind of unusual the week at the Bopeep-it’s not an especially stimulating place to face-he used to dye his hair red, a kind of bright red . . . and he’s play at-you know, hardly anyone goes there, in the weekends and :nce in relative standing up-he stands up to play the drums. But the drums . . . the that, to listen to the music .. . they’re there to show themselves off aetry published first time you see them, it takes your breath away-the whole kit-it and pick up. I mean, this is O.K. . .. in fact it’s great, but it’s not all nd looking like gleams in the light there-all these dents in the timpanis—there’s three that good to play for week after week. You can see the Instinct get a terary-tradition of those and nails in the floor to hold it all down . . . The whole set is real kick when they play at the caf. ime a place for pretty tatty-well, they’ve taken a beating-the skins have all got this Now I’m not trying to say there’s less dead shits proportionally up ompetence and sort of patch in the middle and one has even got this great tear in at the University, but at the Instinct’s dates, they don’t seem to be ill find further which he’s tried to tape up, where he has beaten the shit out of them, around in such large numbers as normally. and two of the cymbals, one on each side, are up in the air, way up Anyway, you’ve heard them live, you know what I’m trying to say about 6 feet off the floor-the stand on these long multi-jointed stalks . .. but to put this sound down on record-it’s not simply a matter of there which are really ricketty looking . . . The whole thing looks like putting a couples of mikes in front of them and letting them play. some kind of space station or something-and in the middle o f all of You listen to Hendrix or Creams’ or Zeppelin’s studio recordings for them stands Greer-he sings too, into this mike which is also on a long instance, and what you’re hearing is not just a trio. Most of their stuff aer saying hi stalk, sticking out over the drums. And after a while, when they’re is recorded on 16 track machines as is most good rock these days. 16. iot a classical having a good night like in the caf the other Friday, Greer’s hair, it tracks gives you up to 16 bands of separately recorded sounds that ; can be good, gets wet with sweat and starts sticking to his face and he’s got to keep can be mixed together in whatever relationship you like to give you Purple; they’ve pushing it off and the whole time he keeps up just thrashing those the exact balance of vocals, instrumentals, etc that you want. The and we are left drums and the high cymbals just kind of explode over everyone’s head final effect of a record is influenced as much by the mixing as a movie Jther they have again and again and this really characteristic style of drumming he is by the editing . . . asic weakness, has, it’s because he stands to play and can’t learn forward over the kit, A three-man combo recording with 16 track equipment can lay sections of this It’s like a bren gun-very staccato-rapid fire, 12 rounds at a tim e and down on separate tracks the drums, bass, lead, vocal and back up r because Paice the bass drum thudding away like shells exploding ratatatatat boom vocal and still only have used five tracks. This leaves 11 more for h. Personally I b-boom b-boom ratatat crash b-boom crash crash boom ratatat boom overlaying more guitar, double tracking vocals etc etc. It’s a really / fused in any boom b-boom crash crash .. . and over there-to his right is this complex scene and that’s why producers and engineers now get the etain their pop young guy Larry Waide-he’s short and doesn’t look too intelligent credits they deserve on the record sleeves. nd the classical but he’s got this thick but sensitive face and thing long curly Burning up Years was recorded on a four track machine. It is this view this as a hair-he’s playing bass-doom doodoom doodoom di-doom doom that makes the album so disappointing-it’s so obviously tinctive thefts over and over, just laying down the rhythm with Greer and even underproduced. It sounds thin .. . there’s just not enough body in it t it is-OK-it’s without Greer, when Greer feels like going off into these cymbal and to reproduce the feeling that , you get from them live. There is only staccato passages .,. . Waide sings a bit too but altogether he’s not too one bit on the record that does them justice and that’s on the second I feel Malcolm flashy-he just stands there playing, looking at Greer and staying with band on side one, a tune of Greer’s called Maiden Voyage. The words Tiis record has him and smiling every now and then as they get into something they are pretty trite . . . Oh, what’s this confusion / Is it now an illusion / also serve to like-doom doodoom doodoom did-doomdoom-doom doodoom Why don’t you come along with me? But at the end of the second classical music did-doomdoom ... verse, Greer’s familiar staccato break comes in and T.K. roars off on • in this thing, But on the other side is this Maori guy with heavy features, Billy this incredible solo, broken into three parts by big chords, the rhythm r smart things, T.K. He plays this G ibson-it’s claret coloured-very tasteful, nothing gets faster with each part and then comes down again nicely to ind the Nice, flashy-and he just kind of stares out into the middle distance—from Greer’s vocals. This track works well. mtially a basic 20 feet away he looks bored-but, well, he couldn’t play what he does Their top 40 number I Think I’ll Go Back Home, written, as all rgan; in both if he was bored, and if you go up and have a closer look, y o u ’ll see the numbers except two are, by Doug Jerebine of Auckland, now in ion and both he’s not there, in the room . . . he’s up up and away, on a volume the U.K. (who, like all the old blues masters used to, gives a slice, however, high, his eyes glazed, blank as behind him.and beside him these non-de-plume for the song credits-Jesse Harper-but that’s O.K.)is taken themes incredible sounds-well actually, they don’t appear to come from good to hear on record with the better fidelity than you get on the do form, and anywhere—theyF cram into the whole room, they feel as though radio. The number is mainly a showcase for Greer, the vocals and raw it out and they’ve been there for ever, waiting for someone to release them , and drums dominating the whole song, Waide and T.K. just filling in. »they can lay' his fingers-they’re really nimble fingers, flitting up and down, They do a send up of the Kinks’You Really Got Me which shows e’s attempt is pausing as he eases a long, long feedback note out but then they you that Greer has got a sense of humour, as he changes the etaining some group into chords, big powerful rich chords, hard chords and then he intonation of the words so that he sounds like.. . .well, like Goma ther this is an textures them with the fuzz box, breaking them up and then he Piles’ young brother. And he introduces a short solo by T.K. with monotony of extends a chord with feedback-stretching it out and then he’s away “Here’s Billy T.K .-he’s gonna p la y-there he goes”- a real kiwi is old Jiing between again-he never strains, his control is total, and all the time the drums Morry. T.K.’s solo is so far away you can hardly bloody hear it-it’s 2 -insensitive: are going, and the cymbals are crashing into your heart, and further the production buggering things up again.. of this effort back still is the bass, chunka chunka in there . . . they’re not just The other track on side two lasts about 16 minutes and is by far loes let us see making music, they’re building an environment. It’s the total the most ambitious on the album. It’s only partly successful, a dynamically experience. You can’t talk, you can’t think-it’s pure emotion . . . no rambling, loosely structured piece that starts with a slow mystic kind y that is pop really, it is. Some people dance-the other night at the caf an unreal of beginning-a quiet strummed guitar and soft hissing sounds. The thing happened—the band was deep into a Led Zeppelin num ber and bass comes in and the drums, then the bass takes the lead, pushing the > say ‘Critical this young Rent-a-Cop from Central Security found the whole scene rhythm faster and faster until everything reaches a climax of sorts and favourable, too much and there he was, in full uniform, dancing with this chick, then cuts back for the vocals. say. I am also getting into the music—those guys are usually so uninterested, it was The words are indecipherable and then there is a long solo by T.K. cndage to the very weird—but for me, I just stand there and let this great gut which is pretty—well, free form and has some really exhilarating ig which was throbbing flood hit me progressions and that with use of fuzz and echo but what could have ; and glorious The trio centres around T.K. Greer looks flashier but if you watch been was destroyed by the bass which is too loud and repeats over ie critics with them, you’ll see that Greer follows him. and over this riff; doodoo doodoo doo doo doodoo doodoo doo, over ent but Lord In 1965 the Four Fours left for the U.K. Last year two of them and over again until you cease to hear the lead-all you hear is the seems as if he returned-Greer and T.K. and Waide joined them. It is obvious, and thumping. How much more powerful it w'ould have been with either ously. I hope good, that they would have been influenced by w hat they the bass playing closer to him or no bass at all. It is this track which after hearing experienced over there and it’s indicative of their talent that they shows their limitations as musicians. Take Cream . . . now Jack Bruce ita and Frank brought back the results of a real learning and not just a superficial played bass but he wasn’t a bass player-he played bass almost like it the end of it. copying of style gimmicks.The real thing comes from going with high was a lead, very fast, very free-of course he had Baker there to keep dly beautiful spirits and curiosity to the relevant sources. They worked hard and the rhythm going, but this helped to make the Cream sound so fluid. :e long tracks thoughtfully and what they brought.back was their own. This is really This limitation is really only obvious on this last track and was omparison to what they are about, they are totally committed to what they’re accentuated by the lead not being loud or full enough. .. . .although doing, their music is personal, not personalized. . . .more than But this doesn’t matter-it’s the most promising album produced 1 minute and anything they are authentic. in New Zealand by New Zealanders and has rewarded Pye by being larin I was They are all craftsmen, in the best sense of the word, they’ve got the topselling local album at the moment, having sold over 4V2 few artistic pretensions. They’re not really creative, in the way that thousand copies. Bill tells me that they’ve (Pye) promised to send out the Cream or Hendrix Experience were but that is to be expected an 8 track machine and an English engineer who knows what he’s from their backgrounds, in fact the background an environment o f all doing for the next album-look out for it.-F . Bruce Cavell Page 12—Craccum, Thursday,August 13

“By fateful chance the Negro folk-song-the rythmic cry o f the field slave-stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression o f human experience born this side o f the seas. It has been neglected, it has been and & is, half-despised and above all it has been persistently mistaken The blues and misunderstood; but not withstanding it still remains as the singular spiritual heritage o f the nation and the greatest gift o f the Negro people. ’’-W.E.B. Du Bois. “We have no music to speak of, apart from what the Negro has given us’’.-H enry Miller political “I'm not an avid fan o f blues singers or blues. As a Negro I think we have all been sterotyped-that all Negroes like blues. . . . among my friends I don’t think I know of anyone who is a fan o f spirituals or blues”.- Mrs Marion Oldham, a NAACP leader interviewed by Paul Oliver in St. Louis. protest by STEVE HUNTER My purpose in writing this brief outline is not to attempt to produce any definitive statement on sociological aspects of blues music but simply to comment on what I believe are certain important points and to select for special attention examples of more-or-less politically oriented protest blues. I am aware of the existence of a wealth of material I have not had access to and of the somewhat random changes of subject matter in this article. The blues song, we are told, is in essence a protest, but one of the During the 50’s a number o f protest blues were recorded, mainly things which impresses the student is the extremely low political by electric city bluesmen; J.B. Lenoir for example. Several of his consciousness of most Negro bluesmen, or at least the absence of records such as I’m In Korea Blues and Deep in Debt Blues were social protest in their blues songs. Surely, one might ask, among such banned by radio stations in Chicago. downtrodden people many songs protesting against social and racial injustices would have emerged and become popular, the more so as BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS the blues singer is considered so much to have been the voice of his With the rise of Black Power in the 60’s some Negro bluesmen people? The answer lies I think in the fact that most blues singers have become more vocal. John Lee Hooker’s, Motor City Is Burning is were concerned only with matters of the most immediate personal a statement of the position of many Negroes; he personally deplores importance, and by this I mean mainly emotional problems violence but does not care too much if the ugly city (Detroit) is concerning the opposite sex. As Sam Chartens points out in his book burned down. He talks of “sniper-fire” and “petrol bombs The Country Blues even during the Great Depression of the 30’s, few flying” ...... “Motor City is burning but Johhny ain’t gonna do a blues records were made referring specifically to the depression, and thing.” In the same way, I don’t want to go to Vietnam is a direct of those that were nearly all songs trying to shrug off the hardships of statement of opposition to the Vietnam war, and especially of being the time rather than attacking the system responsible for them. sent to it. However a number of “protest” blues can be isolated. The First Some of the records of Juke Boy Bonner describe in detail the MB u I B World War give rise to some of these. A few highly distinctive singers frustrations of ghetto life. had songs expressing their disillusionment with the war. They I t ’s hard trying to live from hand to mouth, considered it to be a “white mans’ war” or a “rich man’s war” and You can’t save no money on your job, can’t afford a decent they expressed this bitterly. Leadbelly and Blind Lemon Jefferson house. . . . spring most readily to mind. Leadbelly's Red Cross Store is a fine You get where I ’m at trying to live on this pay, HIS MA$I LK’S \ OMU example. And your woman has to make a miserable living boy, working as a Released in New Z I told her no, Baby I don’t wanna go maid...... H M V (N.Z.) Ltd. Yes and I ain 7 going down to no Red Cross Store. I ’m backed up against the wall and I ’ve got nowhere to run, His woman comes and tells him of the food and medicine being - I ’m trapped by the big city and surrounded by the slum. (No Place To doled out to the half-starved Negro families at the Red Cross Store if Run) the menfolk enlist in the Army. Juke Boy comes from Houston which has now probably more of a She come down to talk with me a little while. Baby ain’t you gonna living blues tradition remaining than any other city, even Chicago. fight for your woman and child? I told her no...... • In the way of protest much of the bitterness and sense of injustice She came down here talkin' bout the war, I told her babe I ain’t got contained in the old blues has become articulated in the modern nothing to go there for. milsic of such groups as the Rolling Stones, Canned Heat, MC5 and Similar bitter replies arc given to each of the woman’s entreaties. others, and in Negro Soul music, especially in the work of artists like Finally she says, Nina Simone. There is often the same sense of alienation, of bitter They feedin’ off a ham, he replies, Get away from here girl, I don’t frustration with a world made by and for “the man” except that in give a damn. the modern music it is more outspoken. The Rolling Stones’ Street Blind Lemon Jefferson's Wartime Blues partakes of the same Fighting Man is redolent of the tensions of urban life, filled with spirit. protest. It captures something of the excitement of an angry crowd in fossil of history. What do they care if their baldhead-and crew-cut What you gonna do when they send your man to war ? the streets. Incidently, it was banned in Chicago at the time of the elders don’t dig their cave-men mops? They couldn’t care less about Drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log. 1968 Democratic Convention. In the words of one City official; “It the stiff-arsed honkies who don’t like their dances. . ;. .all they know 1 LEADBELLY-SOCIALIST was felt that the song could have had a salutary bad effect on is that it feels good to be moving to body-rythms instead of dragassing across the floor like zombies to the dead-beat-of-mind smothered These songs, however notable, were exceptional. Leadbelly, impressionable people, especially in the crowded South Side area” . Mickey Mouse music. To the youth, the elders are the Ugly particularly had rather an exceptional career for a country blues artist With the existence of highly sophisticated communications and Americans, to the elders the youth have gone mad. (in many ways more o f a general folk artist). He grasped the news media events are brought home forcefully to many people in The open adoption of Negro music has implied an acceptance of rudiments of many political, ideas, in fact his thought could be best widely separated locals. Above all, the increasing expansion of huge racial equality which of course is distasteful to those in power, described as a crude socialism. Witness his Bourgeois Blues a song he cities with culture among the young that can be considered especially in America, but also in many other places. Reaction against wrote in the 1940’s. increasingly international in character has led to an awareness of the “animal”, “barbaric” and “nigger” music has been widespread, with Me and my wife run all over town, ghetto as the flashpoint of interpersonal and interracial relationships; dire prognostications of moral decay among the young in daily Everywhere we go people would turn us down. the representation of city life at it’s most tense and intense, harsh and newspapers and right-wing journals. (Not only right-wing journals of Lord, it's a bourgeois town, vital, ugly and emotional. Thus the music of the Negro ghetto, the course. In Communist countries there has been the usual Marxist Ooh, it’s a bourgeois town, blues, and more significantly, the spirit of it, has become so jargon about decadent capitalist music leading the young astray). t ’ve got the bourgeois blues and I'm going to spread it all around. important. Thus the rock music and the so-called long-haired “cult” of youth His disgust with the whole sick farce of American “democracy” is The idea of bitterness is only one aspect of the blues contribution have become more associated in the popular mind with a liberal beautifully expressed in the lines; which we must now look at in a wider perspective. The increase in approach to many things, drugs, sex, race relations and even with Home o f the brave, land o f the free, popularity of blues, and of blues-derived and blues-influenced music; political racialism and anarchism. l don 7 wanno be mistreated by no bourgeoisie. and the adoption, often unconsciously, by sections of the white We can take note here of the practical difficulties which youth of many ghetto cultural traits can be best seen in terms of a HIPPIES AND GHETTOES confronted the artist, such as Leadbelly, who might want to express In this view, the music of the ghettoes is seen as “underground” in I some ideas of protest. The bulk of Southern Negroes were woefully some way, and it is these “underground” and “jungle” connotations uneducated anti cowed by the whites and the whites were ever on of the music which undoubtedly attracted many young people to it the lookout for what they considered to be “uppity” Negroes. During during the “blues boom”. It is worth noting just how much influence thc'20’s and 30’s the Ku Klux Klan lynched, tortured and maimed ghetto culture has had on the most extreme youth cult reacting large numbers of Negroes. In the North most singers could appeal against the popular culture; viz. the hippies. Apart from the wholesale only to the ghetto Negroes (mostly recent arrivals from the South). adoption of many ghetto words and phrases some of the most obvious j Most middle-class Negroes were embarrassed by, and tended to look being “man”, “cat”, “chick”, “piece”, “horse” etc. Hippie urban life j down on, the blues. Records of a singer such as Leadbelly were styles in America closely parallel those of the Negro ghetto in many [ released largely for a white specialist market, they were not the “race ways; above all in the adoption of a matricentric family. Here the records” of artists like Charlie Patton or Robert Johnson etc. father is often a floating shadowy figure featuring much less the ' Leadbelly played mainly to sympathetic white liberals and leftists in mother in the children’s development. The society is truly | coffee-houses and clubs in cities like Boston and New York, often at “mother-centred” . Work is taken spasmodically with the man driftinj gatherings raising money for causes such as that of Republican Spain. from job to job, and often supported by the woman. Of course, this In the late 1940’s Lightnin’ Hopkins put out a single which was a pattern does not hold for all ghetto Negroes, but there is an incredibly thinly disguised satire on the white owners of a farm in Central Texas high proportion of families officially described as “matricentric”, on which he had worked. The victims of this attack were so incensed Sonny Terry many from which the father is totally absent. And of course, with the that he had to flee the area; he would have been brutally beaten or Negroes this style of life is much more forced on them than with the even killed; and did not return to that part of Texas for some years. search, first and foremost for more valid expression of personal hippies and has roots going back to slave society; but the parallel is Thus we can see that even in more recent years it has not been safe experience and emotion, and secondly an attempt to find new fulness still a most important one. for the Negro in the South to speak out against conditions too in community life. At the beginning of the so-called “blues-boom” of openly. To return to the music; “Soul” music is now the most vital Negro the middle and late 60’s the best white blues imitators were looking folk music form, but as with all music it is erroneous to draw for something that would involve them more vitally and intensely \ ______7 distinctions too sharply. Men such as Otis Rush, Buddy Guy and with their audiences and emotions than much of the popular music of Magic Sam can play, ineed must play, very “Soul” influenced music the day. It is not surprising and indeed it is commendable, that they to make a living in places like Chicago’s South and West Sides and later moved on to develop their own more personal musical styles. Detroit’s East Side, yet still consider themselves to be and are in a ARCHETYPAL DYLAN very real sense, men of the blues. B.B. King is the prime example of EXERCISE the “blues in liberation”, if you like. There is nothing in the least The popular music of today, what we may term for want of a “Uncle Tomish” about him or his music yet it has behind it all the better word “rock” music is overall of an enormously higher standard power and poetry of the blues, and he can generate a tremendous YOUR LEGAL RIGHT than that of the 50’s and early 60’s. Necessarily, much that could still response from both blacks and whites. Taj Mahal is a university only be described as rubbish is still churned out, but the fact remains graduate and has passed through the same sort of process as the that some brilliantly gifted and creative artists are now able to enjoy typical young white musician. He exults in the poetry of the blues, Register as a Conscientious Objector high commercial success and public recognition, at the same time there is a certain amount of going-back-to-the-country nostalgia in his producing fine work. Their music has been greatly enriched by work; and throughout it all there is an aggressive New-Leftist hipster acquaintance with the rich store of human experience of the blues. stance. For information write or phone Most of Dylan’s work (and he is surely the archetypal artist of the One thing is for certain, the process of interchange will continue. Christian Pacifist Society, or Society of Friends, age) has more in common tonally with the blues than any other major Interestingly enough, some young Negroes have become interested in musical tradition. 12 Frost Road, 115 Mt Eden Road, the blues mainly through white music. Playing in Auckland clubs in The 1960’s have seen an increasing demand for honest music late 1968, early 1969 I met several American Negroes, some of whom Who wouldi Auckland 4. Auckland 3. about real people, a demand for emotional depth and a tearing away played instruments and who came mostly from California. They told Liqueurs? Y 695-541 ‘ 606-834 of artificiality. The Brylcream and Coca-Cola college boy image of the me they became interested mainly through records of such artists as stocks aware syndrome of Paul Anker, Neil Sidaka, Cliff Richard and Fabian etc. John Mayall and Paul Butterfield, especially Paul Butterfield. From bottle!) . . . s no longer has the ascendency it once enjoyed. Elridge Cleaver there they had worked their way back to such artists as Robert wholesale al summed it up rather well in Soul on Ice-The white youth of today Johnson, Son House and even earlier and had never before realised the Auckland. L l .. — ...... ^ have begun to react to the fact that the “American Way of Life” is a richness of the music, or even the existence of much of it. CORBANS\ Harp of Erin:2( Onehunga: 2( Craccum,Thursday, August 13—Page 13

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DAVE LORKING, shocked from his conservative apathy by revolutionary rumblings on campus and the arrival back in town of The Jellybean Kid, dusts The forms off some Tory notions. 4... custode!^ea( “. . . . proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most Jndisclosed source ignorant of what he's most assured .... like an angry ape first test informin Plays such fantastic tricks . . . (Measure for Measure) be playing in t of authority isychological warf The point is not usually so well expressed by the raving radicals of the campus revolution. Nor do they always custodes.. ? ie Second Grade con distinguish between the antics of those in authority-usually no more ridiculous than some of their own demonstrations and jeen dominated by utterances—and the more difficult problem of deciding in what respects we just have to have authorities. By Dr L.R.B. Mann ear. The A Sectipn by Rick Howard’s Then we should also examine the received authorities on them: without the laws of chess, football, ōr whatever, you can’t play Soon after the reports of a police “wade-in” at old team, with Engii radicalism and and revolution. They often seem to be read and heard chess or football. Unless you keep your bottles clean, and so on, you anti-Agnew demonstration a meeting was called of citizt equal in second pi: with a rapt gullibility no conservative would offer to any established will poison yourself with your home brew. Unless people-restrict their interested in founding a civil liberties union. There had be lie B Section To authority. more agressive impulses, and do a minimum of housework other reasons for worry in addition to those stemming froors both hold fir /"They deserve better. Marx was once heard muttering with relief occasionally, then living in a Hat becomes unpleasant. that he was not a Marxist. Mao Tse-tung has written important work All These- points are commonplace. They indicate rules which police behaviour at demonstrations. Some people h ,eritio^™ ^Universif on revolution-and good poetry-but is usually represented in anyone will accept as rising out of a worthwhile activity. apparently been held incommunicado without access to baLor decisions of th discussion by a few hackneyed little sayings. (The Christian God They are vastly differ nt from political laws, and any authority peaceful cannabis users were being raided, charges Jn in not allowing appears to have exactly the same trouble,-but that is another matter.) required to maintain them is vastly different from a political disorderly behaviour were being used to repress non-“rigi teams in the S If memory serves, Noam Chomsky became alarmed by some of the authority. campus revolutionaries in the U.S. He pointed out that some of them thinking” citizens, and some police were beginning to cal is hof seem to think Marx should have burned down the British Museum WHY AUTHORITIES? (and fire) guns. A broader view of civil liberties also g# remedy t° this situ. s iund before next sea; instead of sitting in it writing Das Kapital. Herbert Marcuse has argued The anarchist question remains: why have such authorities at all? grounds for concern m other areas, but there s little doutcond Restricted that, whatever their faults, universities are the best places for trying to One pretty feeble answer depends entirely on a remote analogy: that those who came to the inaugural meeting of the ci s 14-6. Varsity did tell the truth. “Yes, dear, well you see the whole country is just like a great big happy family (cricket team, philosophy society, ship’s crew, student’s liberties group were mainly moved by knowledge, or at le; wfds of coach Briar union, university department . . . .) and just as we need [who needs?] suspicion, of restrictions of civil liberties on the part of I jfe their rugby; Tbe GUERRILLA WARFARE f Peter Skerman in the daddy (the captain, Phil, the Captain, Mike, God) to tell us what to police. [ so brilliantly passec Che Guevara, in his excellent manual Guerrilla Warfare, argues that do and stop us from beating each other’s brains out when we want “if a government has come to power through some form of popular more kornics for breakfast . . . .” etc. This sort of cretinous drivel Nevertheless, the attitude promoted by the person who took f-tack Paraha did not vote, whether fraudulent or not, and if that government maintains at presumably impresses nobody except the speaker, and any chair at that meeting, Prof A.H. McNaughton, was that the main I iy points as it should least the appcarencc of constitutional law, a guerrilla uprising cannot particularly credulous 5-year-old children within range. would be to “open up lines of communication” to the police M kicked 11 po: be brought about until all possible channels of legal procedure have So why not settle for the strong attractions of a completely seemed almost as though the police had only to be told about 11. I>er Ribon Bonetti been exhausted.” I am not sure whether the local radicals want to anarchic society?- they would then presumably digest these new-learned facts : ^ opportunist’s ti bring about guerrilla warfare or not. It is very difficult to find out Unfortunately, people do not trust each other to live without refrain from such actions in future. It wasn’t as though the police *be tide of th what they do want. There .were rumours of assassination plans at the laws. This is sad; perhaps we should all try to trust each other more; actually planned and committed 11.45-they just needed to be tail*- time of Agnew’s visit, and perhaps someone was nutty enough to. it probably is true that people act better when they act voluntarily to and all would be well. In order that the civil liberties union notgicond Gold (ex-un think that.might do some good. instead of under compulsion. But people just do not seem to be the image of a cop-hating outfit, we were told that it had be) ta*npd tb®!1 positioi If they feel legal channels have been exhausted, perhaps this is completely trustworthy, and most of us can see plenty of good intended to make the chief of Auckland police a vice-presid^ ,t of tlfrs. *n because they themselves are exhausted. A lot of work towards reasons for fearing and distrusting some of our fellows. There is and union, and only his death (rather than the possibility of the membeil w*n °^er North Sh changing people's minds about politics remains to be done, quite always has been a lot of crime in human communities. Much of it not electing him) had thwarted his line of communication, whic! scorcc t%vo turthe legally, in N.Z. Anyone w;ith a new, political programme w ill have to violent. A lot of people are inclined to neglect their fellows. would have opened up the dialogue of concern. f 12111 his position a scorer in the compete face this work sooner or later, unless he proposes a military coup One reason for setting up authorities, then, is that people w'ant followed by- armed enforcement of his view's on a frightened and to be reasonably sure sonie things will be done. If we want to live in CONSTITUTION reluctant population. We may recall the ancient joke: before the places supplied with water and electricity, some fairly large At the inaugural meeting Professor McNaughton and some friem revolution we had men being exploited by one another: after the organisation has to arrange their supply, and it will want to be presented a draft constitution. Under the impression that the gene revolution this was exactly reversed. reasonably sure of getting paid for them. Similarly, we just do want membership would create the final constitution, some membi Authoritarian people without authority seem to become the most sickness benefits, pensions, and hospitals—without them, societies objected to certain aspects of the draft; but time was short and debal revolting revolutionaries, in all their pure idealistic rage. Once the have people dying in the streets. Some people even want schools for on this was soon closed. An executive was elected, consisting to pure-hearted revolutionary obtains power, he becomes somewhat like their children. It may be very sad, but most of us have serious important extent of well-known city lawyers with good records the young maiden who starts taking the Pill then doesn’t want to doubts whether the organisations involved would be kept running defending civil liberties. waste it. on an entirely voluntary basis. Several months then passed without, as you may have noticed, very controversial or daring stands by the executive. Also there ANARCHISM AND FREEDOM SET PATTERN no general meeting-not until last Wednesday. But when it didco; Most of us sooner or later realize the truth of one anarchist It is bad that people also, for some reason, want these things to the second meeting of the union was very interesting. Hamish Kci principle: no man is good enough to rule over his fellows. In this, be provided according to a set pattern right through the country, gave a brief mind-blowing talk on how wide an issue civil libert anarchists are at odds not only with established authorities, but with and gladly allow to a central government powers which could be really is. He ever wondered whether specific narrow causes like getti the numerous radicals who think that someonc-who cannot obtain kept at a local level. What does it matter if, for example, Auckland defined rules for demonstrating might not just win. concessions whi office at present—K fit to rule. schools arc a bit different from Otago schools? would relieve pressure on the repressive system rather tl It also just is true that the best parts of living arc anarchic. Our Then the other good reason for having political authorities is to thoroughly change it. greatest enjoyments are freely chosen, and not bound tightly by the discourage and if possible prevent actions which are seriously Most of the meeting, however, was devoted to reporting activity demands of time or utility or other people or authorities. If any rules harmful to members of a community . People just are scared of being far and discussing future work. Prof McNaughton read from are required by these situations, it is because they arise naturally from hurt. People in this city are killed, raped, beaten up, robbed, every minutes that the inaugural meeting had decided to leave to year. And it may be unfortunate that so many people are in love executive the framing of the constitution. When one member queriej with their property, but outside small elite societies, social whether this was a true record, Prof McNaughton “re-read” thisitei punishment of crimes against property seems to be inevitable. in the minutes, this time saying that the discussion on I hope nobody pretends our police and courts are perfect. But constitution had simply been ended because of time. Executi they do provide a better chance of justice than lynch mobs, or the member Mr Donald Dugdale (who, unlike ordinary members, does r FORUM sort of vigilante groups that some alarmed Aucklanders were need to ask to speak with the customary “Mr Chairman”) hastened advocating a few months ago. add that the intention of the meeting had undoubtedly been toleai Because of informal complaints that have been So we can have maximum personal freedom within a society the constitution up to the executive, because one has to get on wii received, the Association has been advised to make which gives authorities enough powers to restrict some abuses of the job and not waste time on things like constitutions. Bill Rudm; some comment about the use of loudspeakers in the freedom, as well as compelling all of us to help provide goods which said that there was plenty of room in the constitution Quad. we all want but would-individually-be happy to dodge paying for. amendments. He and Mr Dugdale defended stoutly agams non-existent suggestions that there had been some conscious fiddle. CRITICISMS A member then attempted to move that the subscription shouli Some months back, Kelly Flavel I drew Forum's It remains every man’s responsibility to keep what check he can be more than the $1 stipulated by the constitution. Prof McNaughto; attention to the fact that as Forum could be heard on those to whose authority he consents. pointed out that to raise the sub would entail a constitution: from the street, speakers could possibly be sued by Conservatives have usually seen government as a necessary evil, amendment. This would require a special general meeting, dul which it would be silly to trust. But, accepting the inevitability of announced in advance, with a 2/3 vote of those present. When it wa someone“for either slander or for the content of their political authority, a Tory will not usually seek his first answer in objected that the document to which the change was proposed wa speeches. threats of revolution-or even assassination. He will depend on the still only one draft, which the general membership had not evei This is of course antipathetic to the whole purpose of old principles that political powers should be carefully defined and debated let alone approved, Mr Dugdale informed members thatii Forum and the right to uninhibited free speech. Like limited, and that a close watch should be kept on individual order to incorporate the society in the legal sense, it had beer rulcrs-who should be responsive to criticism. Power is corrupting: required that it have a Constitution. Prof McNaughton assured tie] most students I find it repugnant that we should have the excercisc of power becomes a pleasure sought for itself: and the meeting that the constitution used for this purpose had ban to contemplate rules for Forum, but I am obliged to holding of power becomes a main aim of those who have it-rather essentially the same as the draft. warn speakers of these potential dangers. than carrying out tasks for which their authority was consented to. NZUS Secondly must make some comment about the Unrestricted, unchecked, power-held by anyone-can most quickly NO DISCUSSION attacks that have been made on Association break up a society. That, precisely, is the usual trouble in What all this means is-that the civil liberties union now hai revolutionary situations. constitution which was adopted by the executive on behalf of t employees in recent weeks. Most students obviously A final distinction should be made, however briefly. Authority is members without their even knowing that it had been adopted, :, treat these as harmless, and student politicians have not just power. It really does depend on consent. Some people, alone discussing its content. to expect such abuse. However, Employees o f the institutions, and governments have far more authority than others If a civil liberties union cannot make its own constitution, wht Association can legitimately claim the same rights as with precisely equal powers. Questions of consent and disagreement body ever can? With a pitiful turnout like 30, surely it will not be tool cumbersome to have a thorough, point-by-point discussion of ocher employees and any criticism of them should be by those ruled take us straight into the problem of legitimacy in politics, and conditions for its establishment (e.g. after a something so centrally important as the constitition. There were, after made through the President and the Administrative revolution), maintenance, or loss. Loss of legitimacy, in turn, must all, some objectionable clauses in the draft which has supposedly Secretary. AUSA employs some fifty people on be the justification for civil disobedience, possibly leading on to become the constitution. For example, there was a curious provision whom it depends to provide essential services to revolution. These points certainly require more examination than is for the executive to exclude anyone whom they did not approve, student, and unlike students they cannot be expected possible here. When asked to justify this clause at the first meeting, none of itsj advocates could give any reason for it. Is it still in the “essential! to get up at Forum and involve themselves in student But, with all their faults, it would be exaggerating to say that our present Government have amongst them absolutely no conception unchanged” constitution which has now been arranged for members' politics. of legitimacy! The members don’t know. While Exec, the student press and students have 100,000 always treated Forum as being in committee, and w ill Civil liberties unions matter. The American one has only 100,000 hopefully continue to do so, I unfortunately have no members (a smaller proportionate number than already belong in option but to bring the above points to students' N.Z.) and yet it has to its credit many wonderful achievements on attention. School Day behalf of minority groups and opinions. The ACLU has done this, by nr Michael G Law. President. the way, without shunning what Prof McNaughton says he fears-the School Day will be held on Tuesday (1st September—last image of being the long-hairs’ friend. On the contrary, the ACLU has i week of the holidays). The object of this is to give recognised that it is precisely the unpopular causes which need "MOMENT M4 prospective University students the opportunity to find out protection; and yet the ACLU has not sacrificed its effectiveness. It Consequent up what the subjects offered are like. would never hold, as Prof McNaughton has on behalf of the Auckland Grab yr summer CLU, that there is a compromise necessary between the “conflicting: and application During the day each to get a look at what is offering. civil liberties of the demonstrators ar.d the Queen St businessmen”; responsibility) department will give a lecture .This applies especially to those but is there a shred of evidence that walking down the street restricts | GEAR explaining what their Stage I who have one more unit to go for the shopkeepers’ liberties or even their profits? honoraria, and courses contain, how much will their degree. Scanning items in a typical ACLU newsletter will soon show that Youth Publica' be expected of students and other DESK one can uphold unpopular causes without losing effectiveness: Christchurch, 2 activities or further possibilities in There will be an information “Marijuana Use is No Crime”; “ACLU sues Mayor Daley”; “ ACLU the department concerned. All desk in the quad on the day and aids Timothy Leary in court”. senior pupils in the Auckland area programmes will be posted as The need is urgent to get an active, effective Civil Liberties Union i have been invited but this is also soon as possible. working. How else can recent trends against freedom be reversed?! an opportunity for anyone who is It is important that people Every single one of you should now send $1 to join (P.O. Box 6582,i coming to University next year outside the University who may Auckland 1). You might then consider insisting on a I Guardian Assurance Bldg, enr Queen and Darby Sts and for those here now who are be interested get to know about democratically-created constitution. If the civil liberties union can’t PHONE 370-985 — not sure what to take next year, this new scheme. be democratic, who can? Craccum,Thursday, August 13-Page 15 dejfeads injury blown up i1RCING Undisclosed sources reveal that All Black Manager Ron Burk wrote to the New Zealand Rugby Council two weeks before first test informing them that Colin Mead’s broken arm was healing much faster than was being admitted and that he 'lid be playing in the Third Test. Reports of the seriousness of the break, including X-ray, have been circulated as part of isychological warfare in South Africa. ie Second Grade competition Doctors defeated Toads 35-3 been dominated by Varsity in a willing game. Doctors scored The state of fear. The A Section has been eight tries and gained the 28 by Rick Howard’s ex-under points they needed to win the ade-in” jold team, with Engineers and competition on a count back. Bob lied of citize equal in second place while Barton and Scotty McLeod racing There had belie B Section Toads and played well in the forwards but stemming froFs both hold first place. Toads .had a slight edge in the set Someone made a clean sweep with last week’s column-namely the cleaner. As the editor slept in, Keith McLeod had to drop the ie people h do™inTaTnce . of the play. Ian McDonald and Ray , , ietition by University reflects Tamati shone in the Doctors copy under the door. In came the cleaner, and away went the copy. it access to bl )0or decjsions 0f the Rugby backline. This backline is going to Big news of the week, was the announcement by the Wellington ;d, charges in in not allowing Varsity be a decisive factor in the play-off Racing Club that they are to buy $200,000 worth of Tote ress non-“rigl teams in the Senior A in the second round. Doctors look equipment including provision for the calculation of new forms of etition. It is hoped that very much the team to beat. betting such as Quinellas. Also in the wind is sophisticated gear for [inning to ca Ellerslie. Obviously someone in Government has given the clubs the erties also ga remedy to this situation will The Second Engineers defeated Mnd before next season, Grafton-Muriwai 31-11. Tries by word that the Government will be introducing new betting forms after the Royal Commission reports. As the Royal Commission has re’s little don cond Restricted defeated Pete Radley (3), Dennis Hoy (2), ing of the cis 14-6. Varsity did not, in Geoff Naulls (2) and Mike only just completed hearings, it makes one wonder what the hell was the point of the whole thing. It seems to us that this is just edge, or at lei words of coach Brian Cutting Murphy (1). Tank Roper kicked another example of Racing Establishment-Nat. Party pocket the Dart of I me' rugby. The ball won two conversions and one penalty. Peter Skerman in the lineouts Weir and Urlich played well, the pissing. Iso brilliantly passed by star latter giving a fine final More concerning however is the fact that individual clubs are going to be able to run various types of betting. It’s the jackpot ion who took f-back Paraha did not bring as perform ance before going shambles all over again. Obviously the smaller clubs are not going to hat the main t W points as it should. Graham overseas. Third Blue was defeated 8-19 combination won seven tight be able to afford the equipment Ellerslie is buying, so for a large to the police pt kicked 11 points and Third Gold defeated by North Shore. The score was no heads and Kidd Palmer won a lot told about 11. PPer Ribon Bonetti scored a Waitamata 24-3. Tries by Barter indication of the run of play and of clean ball in the lineout. part of the year Joe Punter is going to continue having to suffer earned facts i tat opportunist’s try which (2), Fergusson Rendell, and Shores total included 4 penalities F ifth Grade defeated a inadequate facilities on the rural courses. and two intercept tries. The depleted Pakuranga side 39-9 Racing would have been better served by central computers igh the police hfd the tide of the whole Ockleford one each. Bramley Franklin-Palmer front row after leading 31-3 at half-time. serving each racing region. With centralised use of courses, each eded to be talk! • kicked three conversions, Lee and ties union not gicond Gold (ex-under 23) Francis set the half-back up well course could be linked with the computer. that it had beeta*ned their position as clear and Mac Fatialofa dominated the This would guarantee some standardization, and would mean e-presid toftrfrs *n their section with a lineouts in his normal fashion. that all clubs could afford to participate. With a bit more long term Skegg and Bramley gave great thinking there is no reason why computerization of T.A.B. facilities ' of the member win ° \ei Noi} h ,Shore' Tim shouldn’t make it possible for the punter to receive same day unication, whic,1 scor^d two further tries to displays while Steve Rendell and League hopes ifitain his position as leading John Gillett were devastating on payouts. Already the T.A.B. offers this facility to holders of phone scorer in the competition with the side row. Roakes shone in one It appears that Auckland will be hard-pressed to retain the accounts. brilliant run. Dolan Cup (symbol of supremacy in University Rugby With the old season over, everyone has been reviewing the deeds of II Tempo, Piko, Rich Return and Co. It was also the season for and some frien League) at this year’s Winter Tournament. jackpots and readers will remember all the racing columnists l that the gene Auckland retained this trophy predicting doom after the Matamata jackpot was struck. We (know some membi last year when they drew 5-5 with Auckland), as well as several alls) said that on course betting would continue to increase and it short and debai the only other unbeaten team, provincial representatives-proof has. Whatever their failings, jackpots have introduced a lot of new , consisting to Otago, in a thrilling rugged indeed that even in the short time people to racing. In addition to this the current inflation and the good records encounter. University Rugby League has subsequent pay rises should mean that racing turnovers will rise by Indications are that the been in existence, it has made a 20-25% over the next six months. nave noticed, as standard of Rugby League at valuable contribution to the But thanks to Muldoon’s devaluation and lack of control on the j. Also there v Massey, Victoria and Canterbury growth of the sport in New economy, costs are also rising rapidly. Last week’s Friday Flash vhen it did com! has risen considerably and there Zealand. carried a story quoting Takanini trainer Cliff Fenwick. His lg. Hamish Kei will be no ‘walkover’ games this Results from Saturday August 1. comments about the small prize money won by B.0 - Jley when he sue civil liberti year. Seniors lost to Mt Wellington finished second at Franklin, have highlighted this seldom considered auses like getti The coach of the. Great Britain 15-18 in a thrilling encounter in aspect of racing. oncessions vvhii team which recently toured New which honours were fairly evenly At Dannevirke a fortnight back, they actually had the nerve to em rather tfc Zealand, Mr Whitely, considers * divided. stage a steeplechase worth only $300. The winning horse receives that the Universities have a vital Reserves lost to Mt Wellington $195 of this which is buggerall after negotiating two miles of orting activity^ role to play in the development of 1-21. Nuff said. steeplechase course. This is again the problem with small n read from tv Rugby League in this country. Third Grade beat previously uneconomic clubs. But the problem is still faced by owners racing in to leave to tl Already University ranks have unbeaten Richmond 6-3 in a tense the richest racing district, the Auckland-Waikato area. member queriej produced one Kiwi (Trevor and rugged match. A good team In the last two weeks, over 120 maidens have lined up at either e-read” this ite; Patrick, Otago) two Kiwi trialists effort. Franklin or Whakatane. Each club held two division racies, and the ;cussion on t (Brian Donnelly and Jim Borrows, Sixth Grade went down total stake was approx $4,000. As some horses were placed twice, time. Executi’ Auckland) and one New Zealand narrowly to competition leaders over a hundred owners received no share of the stake money. But embers, does n| under 23 player (Graeme Smith, Manurewa, 8-9. look at their collective costs. (Using Fenwick’s figures). Riding fees an”) hastened $1400, nominations etc. $700, transport $800, and incidentals such dly been to lea| as plating etc. $500. That’s a total of $3,400 excluding training is to get on wii costs. ons. Bill Rudmi In the South Island of course, the situation is even worse. The constitution fo Karate team recent Grand National meeting made no provision for maidens and stoutly agains owners there have to wait for about three weeks for a start for their nscious fiddle The karate tournament between universities was initiated horses. Their last opportunity was at the Canterbury Hunt meeting iscription shouli1 in 1969, with Auckland representing the Chidokan school at (July 18 & 25). Over the two days 47 maidens lined up for the two ’rof McNaughtOi a predominantly Kykushirkai school gathering. The races. The total prize money was only $800. Admittedly a constitutions nominations and acceptances cost less, but all the other costs are the 1 meeting, dul outstanding success of Auckland’s team has shown the same as those suffered by North Island owners. ;ent. When it wa effectiveness of this, Japan’s hardest school of karate. The So much for the gallops. Last week the real racing season began, as proposed wa overall tournament was a great success also, with a genuine the trotting season. Out we went to the O.T.B. barrier trials to look p had not evei mingling of two different karate schools. at early season form. Cadmus provided a sensational smash when he members thatir came a gutser halfway down the straight. This left only Lands End ise, it had boeij This year, unfortunately, the same team in its entirety will not and Shontelle to fight it out. iton assured lie Apparently Lands End could be going to the States but should pose had ban be going south which leaves out last year’s captain and one of our he stay in New Zealand he should continue with the fine form he BIG D E A L leading karatemen, Terry Hume showed last season. Shontelle looked very fit before the race, and was just starting an for students who has had to refrain from improver’s win when the smash occurred. mion now hat competing because o f a planned Australia Of the two year olds, one by Gentry out of Hewchill (?) was the m behalf of fc geology trip. However, w ith Steve most likely improver. (As we had to take the names from the een adopted, it, Beguily, and Terry White (after finals of course) TO WORK '(Auckland’s karate champion for announcer, we doubt the dam’s spelling). But the honours of the day rested with Captain Hill, a relation to Lumber, who won the institution, wht 1970) we have experienced men OR PLAY seven furlong event in fairly good time. it will not be tco from last year’s team, and with t discussion of $136.00 R T ..... OR ...... the addition of Roger Ratcliff, The only qualifier was the Wolfendcn trained Quona’s Son. At rhere were, after! Reg Rider, Mike Snowden, and one stage he was out by thirty lengths, but he started to stop in the straight eventually getting home by fifteen lengths. Three year old has supposedly STB RM 223 MON-FRI 12-2 Thor Tandy, the team has the curious provision added benefit of new blood and a Fleeting Forbes, failed to qualify but should make the grade within lid not approve higher general standard. the next couple of weeks. ing, none of its! The team has been training Paula made rhincemeat of the loose class trotters, and that was the “essential) together for some weeks now and the day. Howeyer R.P. Norton’s Monsignor has been performing ed for members? with two weeks remaining, well at other trials, and his real brilliance should become apparent invitation meets have been this season. arranged to sharpen up and Best of luck for the holidays, we are going to some of the central improve the standard of the team. districts meetings on the way back from Arts Festival. ias only 100,000 This combined with good fighters Rumour has it that a punters’ society is to be formed next term. ready belong in should put Auckland University -Mike Law, Keith McLeod. achievements on in a good position for remaining ias done this, by the victors. ays he fears-the m o m e n t Science" (6 vols) and go to y, the ACLUhas Studass President Mike Law "Where the fun is:USA". ses which need has been appointed Association Funnily enough, nothing that effectiveness. It “MOMENT MAGAZINE requires a new editor to assume responsibility in 1971. representative on Council. begins w ith Z. B ut there are of the Auckland Consequent upon this change it has been decided to create new staff positions .we things in between like "The the “conflicting and applications are called for the positions of Editor, Publisher (with overall Negro Handbook", "The It businessmen”; responsibility) and Circulation Manager. For description of the positions, Published by the Craccum Encyclopaedia of Space" and ie street restricts "Folk Songs of America". If honoraria, and conditions of employment apply to: The Secretary, Joint Administration Board for the have proprietors the Auckland none of these subjects grabs soon show that Youth Publications Board of the Negotiating Churches, 177 Opawa Road, University Students’ Association ya, how about the "Statistical g effectiveness: Christchurch, 2. Applications close with the secretary, 30 September 1970.” and printed by East Waikato Abstract of the US for 1969" Daley”; “ACLU Publishers Ltd, of Canada St, 100 fe e t o r ''Betty Crocker's Morrinsville, at the printers’ of reference books on the Cookbook"? Ail gripping Liberties Union works, Kensington St, Putaruru. U nited States. T h at is, they stuff. 27 Symonds St, over the >m be reversed? start with "American Men of Wynyard Tavern. (P.O. Box 6582, isisting on a •ties union can’t Page 16—Craccum,Thursday, August 13.______

Paul: Yes. Well. We were in Capetown on several occasions, and after our first visit, on the plane from Capetown to Durban, I met this Indian girl-a “Cape coloured.” I was interested in seeing her again, so Australian on our next stay in Capetown I contacted her and arranged an evening meeting. I left our hotel in normal dress caught a bus into the city and another to the fringe of the coloured living section, where she was waiting for me. We caught another bus, which of course was segregated, so we had to sit apart. . . .she at the back, me at the front. players on After 20 minutes we hopped off and walked to her home. I met her parents, her brother and her little sister, and we talked for hours. They were hospitable and interesting .... her mother was a teacher in Registered for Capetown, and we discussed the problems confronting the education of South Africa’s coloured people. Her father drove me back to the apartheid hotel at 1 am .... a “safe” time in that particular area. The next time we returned to Capetown, I was given a message, through the team management, that my activities in relation to the It was rumoured during the All Black Tour family, and particularly in relation to the girl, “had not passed James Roxburgh Paul Darveniza controversy that some of the Australian Wallabies unnoticed” . Apparently the message had gone from the South African secret police, or whatever they call themselves, to the South African officials hopped out, and the idea was that we should just walk through their homes, without asking their owner’s permission. Wei team, who had recently toured South Africa, were Government, from the Government to the South African Rugby out of 28 blokes on that bus, 26 sat tight. We just were not going tc disgusted by the system of apartheid. Although, like Union Board and from the Board to our management .... and the degrade the occupants by barging through their home. most tourists, they had been sheltered from the more message was that this sort of thing was “to cease forthwith, otherwise squalid results of South African rascist policies, these there would be a lot of trouble” Barry: It was a completely spontaneous reaction. Very embarrassij for the officials, who had no-one to take through the homes. Australians saw enough to convince them that Blackacre: Were any other members of the team involved in similar sporting contact with the white supremists was used incidents? Blackacre: Now comes the $64,000.00 question. Having spent threj to support the regime and that a policy of isolation months touring the country., should Australia send a touring team to would be interpreted by the black South Africans as Paul: Well, its quite a well-known fact, and it is true, that Anthony South Africa again? j Although Abrahams was trailed by secret police. condemnation of apartheid. It remains to be seen if Barry: I say definitely not. The impression we give by doing this—« to c h a r the All Blacks are observant and courageous enough Barry: He attended a meeting that Paton held at Durban, and was the impression the South African Press and Public officials give fi is causing SOUli to refuse any further contacts with the present certainly spied upon there. ^ us-is that we agree with apartheid, we officially endorse racist spoil These Studer government of South Africa. This interview with four We were horrified when, during the tour, the South Africa gach ejor 0 f £ on Wallabies is reprinted from Blackacre, the Sydney Paul: And there were numerous other occasions. He was warned many Pentathalon team was excluded from an International competition . times, usually via anonymous ‘phone calls to the team management, and the Australian team pulled out in sympathy. I orientatecl and . Law School Journal. that:-hc was being followed, and should watch his step. Often at social I courses.” functions people would warn him .... sometimes in the sense of “a The Australian action received wide praise and publicity, with tin The faculty st Blackacre: How did you feel when you first heard of your selection wT5rd of friendly advice” sort of thing .... that he would bring implication that we “understood” South Africa’s problems, that wa Accounting, Peter for the South African Tour? <■„ serious trouble upon the heads of the non-whites he was attempting endorsed her policies. The Petathalon people just don’t know what’she suspected that to fraternise with. We were told that there was a group of South going on in that country, or how their action was used to encouragagoing to be preven Paul Darveniza: Exhiliarated. The particular country we were to pl^y African politicians .... the Hertzog followers .... ready to seize it. You must understand just how big sport is over there-how muchitp commerce degrei in didn’t seem all that significant at that stage. I knew something of*., upop any “incident” for political capital in their crusade to make means to the country’s image, and what a fantastic influence it cam could not ham South Africa’s race policies, but certainly didn’t think they would '-Sduth African life even more racist than it is now. have on local politics. When we were there, the Herzog and Vorsterjcompulsory mathe affect the tour. controversy over whether Maori all-blacks should be allowed into the UNREL/ Blackacre: Did you feel that the warmth of your welcome in South country was the major political issue. Sport is used in South Africa as “The current Bruce Taafe: As far as I was concerned we had been selected to play Africa had a dimension going beyond the football-a kind of a major political weapon-and Australia, by sending teams, is prescription ir, the sport, and politics just didn’t come into it. Before we left, the South reflection of the country’s growing international isolation? strengthening the hands of the supporters of apartheid. ; unrelated to econo African Embassy sent me a wad of touristy literature which was- i On the is pretty impressive and made me feel that apartheid was a workable Bruce, Barry: Yes, definitely. Paul: I will not play against South Africa again. We should not send professional degree policy. teams to South Africa, but if they are officially invited we should not are trying to condemn them for coming. But for myself, I will play against South professional be Barry MacDonald: It’s no secret that Anthony Abrahams had a few Africa neither here nor in their own country. I will certainly not be raduates are qualms .... he had studied the subject pretty carefully. But he playing in their tour next year. professional positie decided against pulling out .... which would have been pointless accounting partn without support from other team members. At that stage I had no Bruce: I have to qualify all this a little. I could play against South business commun idea how unjust apartheid is and the Australian Rugby officials had Africa again, but only if I played against a team truly representative accepting the gradi warned us against discussing it during the tour. of that country. I would not insist on a change in the whole political professional man structure. But I would insist on a democratic selection of team joes not stand Blackacre: What was your first experience of Apartheid-can you members, black or white, from all over the country. professional qualifh recall a specific incident which brought it to your notice, or did you “Consider la’ take it in more as a pattern of life. James: The problem with that view is that there is simply no equality engineering, arch of opportunity to participate in Rugby training and good loca/r professional school James: I was struck by the “blacks only” and “whites only” entrances competition. Most Bantus cannot afford a pair of football bools students over five < to post offices and lavatories, and so on, but really it was the whole anyway. There are just no preconditions, no machinery, to allowa our faculty accept attitude towards the non-whites. We were never allowed to meet them representative selection. I agree with Barry and Paul-I could not play type programm as social equals .... we were taken to gawk at their tribal dances, and South Africa again While apartheid is a way of life in that country. \ He considered l don’t think we were ever served by a white waiter .... but although suppose I was at fault to some extent in going without knowing year course, with they were everywhere, they were always kept “beneath”-' us, as Barry McDonalds Bruce Taafe enough about the country and its policies. But after 3 months in the part-time as a n menials. place I am involved-and caring as I do, I think its wrong to sene training period. teams there. I can’t distinguish between the politics and th< James: Everywhere we went we were given civic receiptions, and each LOST CH, Paul: At the party, on our arrival, all our waiters were black, and sport-South Africa certainly doesn’t. It was the first to mix the tw< time the local mayor would remark how South Africa and Australia Thomas felt tl some of the local whites treated them like dirt. It was this personal were two great countries with so much in common, and how alike our concepts-to run its sports as a political venture. degradation of the black man which hit me like a brick .... and it ideas and policies were. There is no doubt at all that South African was the first example of thousands to follow. officials made use of the tour on this propaganda level, and of course Blackacre: How would you meet the argument that if you refuse t< the infuriating thing was that we had to stand mum. We were guests in play South Africa because of its internal policies, you should also! Bruce: My worst experience in the early days of the tour was a walk the country, accepting its hospitality, so our tongues were tied. refuse to play communist countries? through Sharpeville with the local Police Chief. What came out was his utter contempt for blacks. I disliked the way he tossed a few coins Blackacre: So the South Africans welcomed the tour as an Australian James: I would play against a country like Russia, because its policies into huddles of cowering natives, and stand back as they fought when applied to sport do not involve the degradation of human values Art endorsement of their Apartheid policies? amongst themselves for possession of them. I was amazed that he which is the thing so terribly wrong about apartheid. The civilised really thought this would entertain us, by demonstrating the native’s James: I felt that, yes. world-democratic and communist-seems to accept that humility. discimination solely on grounds of colour is immoral in most Blackacre: Did this embarrass you? contexts, and especially in sport, which should improve human Blackacre: To what extent were you aware of apartheid at particular relations. Yet discrimination solely on racial grounds is the basis of nee South African sport. If Russian policy was to tell other countries that matches; how is the policy manifest in the game itself, quite aside James: Very much. from the discriminatory selection of all-white teams? only card-carrying communists, from those countries could be B’ Bruce: Some South Africans we met were so brutal towards the included in teams to visit Russia, then Russia would be doing much the same as South Africa is doing at present. At a meetii Barry: l suppose the most obvious thing is the special section for blacks, and yet could turn round and be quite hospitable towards us. non-whites which is usually surrounded by barbed wire. I remember Faculty that ai Bruce: I don’t hold with Communism, but I would be available ti particularly our last test at Bloomfontcin, where coloureds were Paul: Mind you, we were pretty unpopular in some quarters...... We Faculty was c< play against Russia if I knew that the teams I was playing against hai allowed in for the first time at that ground, just how minute their were well-behaved .... there was none of the vandalism sometimes made recomment been genuinely selected from the whole country, or locality, distric section was .... and of course it was the worst position, right behind associated with Rugby tours .... but most of us did challenge South etc.,