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Semper Brisbane's Independent Newsmagazine Contents VOLUME 48, NUMBER 10 $1.5 Million Spent To Stifle Civil Rights 3 GREASEPOT might be argued that aU After all, it b hardly the How much money we spend to deny ourselves the right- DEBATE DRAGS ON films depicting Nazi at­ New York Times. It has a rocities against Jews should smaU circulation, is cheaply to free speech. be repressed for fear that printed and b brought out As a law of liberty one such material could en­ infrequentiy and irregularly. can only view with concem courage racbm. It may in­ It has a positive function Rona Joyner's Handvwriting the evenb sunounding the deed be the case that Ul that it provides amuse­ alleged sexbt and racbt examples of abstract sex­ ment It b abo written An impartial analysis of what characteristics show up in our conunenb in the bm and racbm do encour­ entirely by students. Not favourite campaigner's writing. publication called "Grease­ age concrete instances of too many campus pub­ pot" (Semper, VoL 48 No. sexbm and racbm to some Ucations could make that 6). It b indeed the case degree; but, in my opinion, claim. Secret Report on Powerhouse Costs that thb partkular episode to arge for repression on The W.R.C. maintains demonstrates the bitel­ any grounds b to be ob­ that Greasepot contains de­ Premier's costing claims thrown out the window. J lectual degeneracy charac- jectively pro-fascist poli­ grading references to the terbtic of most present day tically. Under fascbm, of female body. Have they ever University radicals. couise, racbm and sexism read Henry Miller? The 11 Any true intellectual can are institutionalised, and m point the W.R.C. seems to Matt Mawson order to criticbe fascbm it only condemn censoiship mbs b that the material A look at the work of this incisive Brisbane based cartoonist andi in any form, and so the b necessary to discuss such in Greasepot b tongue-in- miuority decbions of the issues as racbm and sexbm, cheek. To a large degree social commentator. student Union Council con­ which can only be done it b a satire on AustraUan ceming Greasepot must be by making reference to male attitudes. Certainly I condemned. What needs to abstract presentations of don't know anyone who Brisbane's Living Guide be realised in relation to racbm and sexbm, so that takes it seriously. such issues as sexbm b that it b reaUy quite self-de­ In my view the decision others are trying to copy it, but there's only one genuine a theoretical dbtinction feating for miUtant femi- to ban Greasepot was un­ comprehensive guide to what's on. needs to be made between nbts to seek to repress fortunate. There were al­ abstract sexism and con­ aU examples of abstract ternatives: the Union could crete sexbm, which means sexbm. have dbsociated itself from Review Section 17 that censoiship cannot be However, in my op­ the pubUcation, condemned absdutely condemned. position to the majority it, or cut part of it As it Read our reviewers' comments on music, films, plays, books Thus, if, for instance, decbions of the Union b tiie W.R.C. wiU now be and food. for the purposes of profit Councfl, I would dbso- known as a bunch of book- so-called snuff movies which ciate myself from the banneis and we won't be featured the actual rape- reactionary oppostion of any closer to eUminating The Full Quid 24 murder of women were pro­ Paul Rackemann, who pre^ sexbm that we were before. duced (suice these would sumably b stiU a "Uber- I beUeve that the resdu- necessarily be more tarian capitaUst" (a con­ tions of April 13 til should authentic than merely play- tradiction in teims). I am a be rescinded, the W.R.C. actuig, and so more gra­ Ubertarian anarchbt in the should say exactiy what m^ tifying to the pornographic tradition of Max Steiner. they think b wrong with connobseur), then it would -LEONARD AMOS Greasepot, and that the be morally justified to uni- Wynnum. W.R.C. should Ul future vereally condemn such pro­ confine themselves to basic mundanity of with Greaser's rule: "If ductions, since thb repre­ leadership by example and GREASEPOT: (FINAL engmeering, as viewed by they're old enough to bleed, sented a blatant case of refrain from counter LETTER) the extemal populace, they're old enough to concrete sexbm, to say the GREASEPOT productive punitive precludes the viabiUty of breed." The Union has set least; of course, in relation DEBATE (2) In response to your caU measures. the notion. Raging b great a necessaiy precedent for to the print medu, one for ophiion re the "Grease­ -CHARLES PERRY but "Great AustraUan Mate- deaUng witii extreme cases, can imagine a situation of pot" saga (Semper Issue 6, ship" shits me. but caution must be exe^ concrete sexbm in which 1978), I tender my thoughts Recendy the Union U. of Q. Union's action cbed to maintain a pomc^aphic magazine for pubUcation. But fiist- voted not to fiind the en­ in withdrawing funds for peispective in defining was published for snuff some ancient hbtory. I gmeering students' magazine the pubUcation of 'extreme'. movie buffs, which featured enroled for the B.E. ui Greasepot on the grounds "Greasepot" b justifiable. stories and pictures of 1972; graduated hi 1975 -ALAN EDWARDS that it was sexbt and racbt Concemed Engineering actual' rape-murdeis. Of A PARRY FOR THE and am presentiy studying I beUeve thb decision was Students (Semper, Issue 6, couise, the actual exhibition for my Ph.D. My associa­ an over-reaction that wUl LIBERALS 1978) protest that E.U.S. The editors of Semper wish of such concrete sexbm in tion with, and observatioiis be detrimental to the long* should have the oppor­ to terminate the debate over public should not be con­ of engineering students "Greasepot", "Donna Lacey", term interests of the Union tunity to use affiUation fees demned if such an reveal that the malaise with and attacks on Women'sRights and die Women's Rights It's nice to know Uiat as it sees fit Fair enough! exhibition was purely for which we appear to be Committee. Committee. Both of them Mr. RusseU Parry's ob­ But why use those fees pub­ educational purposes, al­ stricken, b participated m We feel the bsuet have seem to Ignore the fact jection to compubory Ushing "Greasepot" (with though the commercial by a large pereoiUge at been more than adequately that popular movements unionism (Semper 26/4/78) its present content) when a media could be expected to some stage during their covered In the paper. So no depend on popular sup­ is based on the beUef that quick huddle over the more letters concerning this abuse such a privilege to course. The 'syndrome' b port "extreme groups of the Left drawing board wUl acquaint topic please. some extent by nc means unique to the Greasepot b read by and die Right wUl fight those who wbh to know. -EDITORS faculty—in factj the con­ However, a pomographic hundreds of male-and thb legblation for purely (More Letten Page 4) movie which featured the female-enguieering stu­ selfish reasons". currence of behaviour of a acting out of a rape- dents. Many who were pre­ grotty pubUc bar and a murder would be a case viously sympathetic to the In a recent conveisation smoko is complete, but for SEMPER STAFF Vol. 48, No. 10 of abstract sexbm, and, aims of the»W.R.C. have to me. RusseU Parry the size of the pthering. The symptoms dbplayed whfle it could be con­ now become openly hos­ indicated that hb career lay EDTTORIAL BOARD: Bruce Dickson, are reasonably typical when demned on the grounds tile toward it. Staff-student in poUtics. Having hb name Jamie CoUfaa, Marie Blanch, SaUy-Ann in the paper as a union males are lumped together. of poor taste, there b relationships have abo un­ Tennent, I^ob Cameron, Mark Plunkett, basher should ensure en­ That farcical facade of certainly no moral jus­ happUy been strained. The David RusseU. tification for repressive pubUc image of tiic W.R.C. dorsement Ul a safe Liberal "Great AustraUan censoiship in thb regard, has deteriorated. Does the seat It seems that certain Matcship" invariably TYPeSEITBR: Marie Blancb The basic argument agamst W.R.C. reallyneed enemies? young Liberals can do as appeals, and the powerful BUSINESS WANAGER: Rob Coneroa such abstract sexbm is that There are abo wider im­ tiiey Uke with other undertones of competition AbDRESS FOR OORMSrONDENCE: it can in fact give rue to pUcations. The W.R.C. has peoples' rights for Uieir own are reflected in high tales of c/- Univeisity of Qld Union, St. Luda, instances of concrete sex­ now estabUshed itself as a purely selfish reasons. prowess, be it with a glass or QM. 4067. (371 Ull A.H. 371 1821) bm. Thb does not make It b indeed sad that Mr. a penb. Add to thb the powerful semi-official cen­ LAYOUT: Jamie CoUhu. Bmce Dfekion, any sense to me, as it sorship body operating Parry has resorted to cloak of anonymity and the Silly Tennent, Judy Brand, seems to logically entail under a few clear guide­ govemment intervention to result b various articles in that there should be an lines. Media peisonnel ui bring about the virtual des­ "Greasepot" etc! . COVERS AND GRAPHICS: Matt Mawson absdute repression of all general resent thb kind of truction of student union- Unfortunately, the ARTISTS: Matt Mawson, David Tyrer.

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