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Production Manager Elizabeth Leyland The AUSA adasPre Sub-Editor LACK OF Neil Morrison utive he Contributors ciation Fiona Cameron, Robert Leonard, Ellen Phillips, Karen sident al Edmonds, Heather Worth, John Bowden, E.H. McCormick, 1 to worl Carmel Williams, Lisa Glazer, Kirsty MacDonald, R. utive. S French-Wright. agement Newsbriefs Meet had 1 Jo h n B ates 1982 E: ation. Photography | LACK OF Sarah Westwood, Gil Hanly, to uni Elizabeth Leyland ct of i Cartoonists HELP!DUCK! he 1 Courtney, Carmyn Bear SWOOP! LIA R!... FASCIST ! W A P... BLOODY FEM INIST ! CRASH ! contra» SPLAT! as givei Layout Assistant The mud is certainly in mid air and everyone is throwing it at everyone. ‘Facts’ are a joke around Lisa Glazer rested here with very few agreeing on anything. The Auckland Star this week published the lovely rumour (INC0MPE Proofreaders that feminists were distributing a pamphlet describing the illustrious Mr Ross as a member of the ad has a tt Ivan Sowry, Arnold Snarb National Front. Hearsay travels fast and even the ‘proper journalists’ are getting in the act. Talked [to rep» to at least three papers this week, a radio station and TV’s are on their way. Wonder if they’ll get sity c Typesetters the ‘facts’ straight... Barbara Hendry, Raewyn Green lAUSAr See, the problem lies with time and involvement. I spend well over forty hours a week here, I’ve [ Associate Distribution got my opinions on the workings of the exec, the need for a Womenspace, WRO and of course, the sCentennis Shale Chambers worth of CRACCUM. But it m ust be different from those who come, study, leave. I don’t envy you] have trying to get involved in all this debate. Yet I urge you to give it a go. aints, Advertising Try to wade through the barrage of information that will no doubt come your way. Listen at the, Jeanette Winters strativ j SGM to the arguments, weigh up who is moving the motions, question their motives. In some ways onsequ: Extras it’s asking you to grasp all of AUSA’s politics and politicos in a few hours. Give it your best, it's | [Executive Kaaren Mathieson, DAK, Karen Bates, worth it. Too many things are at stake. ir, Five cur Robert Leonard, Sara Noble I spoke with Messrs Ross and MacCullough last night and decided we just didn’t see the world in lamongs the same way. He calls himself right wing, advocates free enterprize, freedom of decision. It seemed their i strange to me that he feels he can tell women on this campus what they need or don’t need as the i as P r CRACCUM is a source of free expression and case may be... Discussion ranged for quite a while and I feel some learning took place. Just what I’m] information for the Auckland University community and utive hai hoping will happen at the SGM. ortant ] is not an official publication of the University or On a lighter note, we had an Open House here the other night, well attended, lots of fun. ELAM Association. ance ' stole the show as they sent NINE presidents over, fair enough. Some new faces came around, wi Ding of the Send all mail to CRACCUM, AUSA, Private Bag, had some good suggestions. Bring back Susie and Bob’s cookery column? More arts, Maori news] ven basic Auckland. CRACCUM is published by auckland an d lan g u ag e section ? Broad University Students’ Association, Princes Street, It’s been a good couple of weeks of production. More people are working than ever before WE] Auckland, and printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. 20 ithe 1985 Drews Ave, Wanganui. HAVEN’T STAYED UP ALL NIGHT ! ove his p Phone: Editorial 30-789 ext 67 Anyways, the conflicting reports in this issue should keep you busy for a while. Think about] [you to v» Business 30-789 ext 66 them, and read between the lines... indent at tl 7 n New Zealand, if you have any passion, that's radical' - L t - Merata Mita PRESIDENTIAL COLUMN SRC ROADSIDE AGENDA

Within the next few days on Thursday June 9th smear tactics some of them have indulged in «students of Auckland University will be called conduct which lead to the damaging of my personal ether for a Special General Meeting in the property, and this under the guise o f a capping AGENDA FOR A MEETING OF THE S.R.C. TO ation Hall to decide whether or not I am to stunt. BE HELD IN THE S.R.C. LOUNGE ON THE i as your elected President. The time has come when you must decide 8TH JU N E 1983, COMMENCING AT 1pm. I There have been many attempts throughout the whether you want the Association run by a half of the year to unseat me, all of them democratically elected and effective President who P re s e n t: b Characterised by a degree of underhandedness is prepared to stand against anything that may Apologies: seems to have dominated AUSA politics in harm the interests of the students, working co­ M inutes of the Previous M eeting That the Minutes of the SRC meeting held on the 27th April operatively and efficiently with the Executive be taken as read and adopted as a true and correct record. All of these time-wasting attem pts to change the rather than with a negative group of people That the minutes of the Executive Meetings held on 11th iident have been dominated by w hat are known determined to obstruct whose motives for action May, 17th May and 25th May 1983 be received. (“hangers on" (former members of the AUSA are cloudy to put it mildly. M atters A rising from P revious M inutes: Elections: ative who have often failed academically at Upon my winning a confidence vote then N om inations will close and elections held for — niversity but still remain around the Students members of the Executive have said to me that S ports Officer ciation purporting to be authorities on they will resign. They are the same members who SRC Representative on Publications Committee dent politics while holding no official position) campaigned against me in the ’82 election, tried to SRC Representative to the Executive Room Bookings get me to resign as President-elect and are Com m ittee 1 their supporters on the present Executive who SRC Representative on the Campus Radio Complaint 3 never accepted me as their elected President, responsible for many of the Executive difficulties Com mittee. ey have used many techniques: legal ones, experienced within the Association in 1983. The POLICY: ut recently, which were m ost unwisely other remaining members of the Executive have all 1. W om en’s R ights Policy. nceived and therefore doomed to failure (read agreed to carry on working with me as President in 1. SRC recognises that women suffer oppression on the basis of their sex and that the struggle for the liberation of women is it week’s ‘Broadside’). They have tried to the interests of the students. As for the staff, none fundamental to the struggle for the liberation of all oppressed icken as undemocratic the attempts made by me have expressed to me their intention to resign peoples. Thus, SRC fully supports women’s groups fighting for How students to have a more participatory role under my Presidency. liberation. Itheir Association when I called a Special General C u rre n tly : SRC recognises that women suffer oppression on the basis of ting to decide the Centenary Boycott issue, their sex and that the struggle for the liberation of women is hey have raked up irrelevancies from the past an integral part of the struggle for the liberation of all border to make me appear as unsuitable to be an oppressed peoples. Thus, SRC fully supports women’s holder in the Association. As wellas these J O H N B R O A D groups fighting for liberation. 2. SRC recognises that the oppression of and discrimination against women in our society is fundamental to the overall economic exploitation inherent in the structure of our society. Currently: SRC recognises that the oppression of and discrimination against women in a society is an integral part of the overall economic exploitation inherent in the structure of our society IXEC’S ANSW ER SGM AGENDA 3. SRC recognises that Pacific Island and Maori women and women from other ethnic minorities in New Zealand face particular problems on the basis of their race and sex and supports any action to eradicate that discrimination. TO BE HELD ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE Currently: The AUSA Executive has no confidence in John SRC recognises that Polynesian and Maori women and ad as President for the following reasons:— RECREATION CENTRE ON THURSDAY 9TH JUNE AND FRIDAY 10TH JUNE AT 1.00 PM women from other ethnic minorities in New Zealand face lack OF ACCOUNTABILITY: The AUSA particular problems on the basis of their race and sex and ative has the responsibility of running this 1. THAT AUSA has no confidence in John Broad as supports any action to eradicate that discrimination. ciation of students — not the President. 26. THAT AUSA, while supporting the right of women to 12,000 undertake night and shift work on the same basis as men, sident alone. John Broad has consistently 2. W ILSO N /TU R N ER (a) THAT the students of AUSA have full confidence in recognizes that this often results in severe exploitation, for I to work with or account for his actions to the John Broad as President. example in cases where a woman had dual roles of ative. Sufficient doubts over whether his (b) THAT the students of AUSA insist that their m other/housekeeper as well a s paid worker. agement of the Coromandel Stamper Battery representative co-operate with their President to promote C urrently: the expressed interests of a majority of students and SRC believes that women should be able to undertake shift ct had been proper remained in the minds of work on the same basis as men and in the case of night work 1982 Executive for them to call for his further insists that any representatives unable to so co-operate should resign immediately. adequate protection for women should be provided at the ation. 3. THAT AUSA has confidence in John Broad in his em ployer’s expense, given the existing social conditions. ^CK OF LEADERSHIP: John Broad has capacity as President of AUSA, and therefore, AUSA 43. SRC condemns attacks on women and young girls in the to unite the Executive, or to inspire the has no confidence in those members of the Executive who form of sexual molestation and intra-family rape, and believes are unable to work with the President. these stem from and perpetuate the oppression of women in our ct of its members. When questioned or society. he has delayed, walked out of meetings, 4. ROSS/MAC CULLOCH THAT the editorial staff of “Craccum” are to be C urrently: p contradictory and incomplete information. immediately dismissed. SRC condemns attacks on women and young girls in the given no direction to AUSA staff, been 5. ROSS/MAC CULLOCH form of sexual molestation and incest, and believes that these stem from the subordinated position of women in our ; a joke around THAT pursuant to Rule 63 of the Constitution, the Interested and left them isolated. society. lovely rumour eleventh schedule of the Constitution be amended by the ((COMPETENCE AND DISINTEREST: John 5l. SRC pledges active support to the Rape Crisis Centres, member of the deletion of Rule 2, and its replacement with: ad has attended Executive meetings erratically 2. “ M em bership” Womens Refuge Centres and other feminist orientated women’s centres. the act. Talked I to report back on Council, Senate and other The Administration of “Craccum” shall be the Currently: er if they’ll get sity committees, removed inwards mail responsibility of the “Craccum” Administration Board. Members of the Board shall be: SRC offers its support to the Rape Crisis Centres, Womens iAUSA records, and caused embarassment to Refuge Centres and other women’s centres. veek here, I’ve [Association over incompetent organization of (a) AUSA Media Officer, ex officio, who shall be chairm an. 58. THAT SRC deplores the practice of genital mutilation and 1 of course, the believes it to be a gross violation of a womins right to control ntennial Champagne Breakfast. The AUSA (b) AUSA President, ex officio, or his permanent her own body. Further SRC recognises that genital mutilation is don’t envy you have frequently been obliged to take nominee (who shall be an Executive member) a feature of international misogyny that crosses cultural (c) Current “Craccum” editor, ex officio. plaints, explain away his absences and boundaries. i . Listen at the (d) AUSA Treasurer, ex officio. strative failures. 59. THAT SRC recognises the particular problems facing (d) AUSA Advertising Manager, ex officio. . In some ways ONSEQUENCES FOR TH E ASSOCIATION: lesbian mothers especially as regards custody disputes. (f) AUSA Clubs and Societies Officer, ex officio. your best, it’s 2. Environment Weeber [Executive members have resigned so far this (g) A U SA S ports Officer, ex officio. (i) THAT A.U.S.A. stop selling Granny’s Special Sweets as , ir. Five current members of Executive, some of (h) Two SRC appointees.” they are produced by that exploitative, anti-union group *ee the world in It should be noted that the number of elected members is i amongst the longest serving members, have Zenith Applied Philosophy. at all times to exceed chosen members; and that a sion. It seemed their intentions to resign if John Broad (ii) THAT A.U.S.A. oppose the granting of a mining licence to maximum of two members of the Craccm staff shall be n ’t need as the Kauri Deposit Surveys Limited and I.C.I. Ltd for the i as President. The serious problems within members; and that the Board shall not have the power to . Ju st what I’m Kaimaumau Wetlands. Further, THAT A.U.S.A. believes ative have taken members’ time away from co-opt members as “it shall see fit”. that these wetlands should become a reserve due to their ortant portfolio work. John Broad’s 6. ROSS/MAC CULLOCH unique ecological values. of fun. ELAM THAT the room currently kno^vn as “Womenspace” shall ance has seriously hindered the smooth (iii) THAT A.U.S.A. support the proposed Bay of Plenty immediately revert to its former name, the “Women’s m e around, we Hing of the Association — he has failed to carry National Reserve which will include the Kaimai-Mamaku Common Room” and that the room shall resume its ts, Maori news Forest Park, Rotorua Lakes reserve complex, virgin state ven basic administrative responsibilities. former status as a general common room. Broad has repeatedly given assurances to forests in the north-eastern Mamaku plateau and southern Mamaku plateau and two state forest areas currently leased /er before. WE 7. ROSS/MAC CULLOCH ithe 1982 and 1983 Executives that he will to N.Z. Forest Products Ltd for clear felling and conversion THAT pursuant to Rule 63 of the constitution, Rule 20 ove his performance. He has not done so. We to exotics. e. Think about i you to vote No Confidence in John Broad as (ii) thereof shall be amended by the deletion of the Executive position “Women’s Rights Officer”; and that 3. Royal Tour Sutcliffe/Weeber dent at the upcoming SGM. the remainder of the Constitution shall be amended THAT A.U.S.A. recognising the sycophantic and wasteful Karin Bos, mutatis mutandis so that future Executive shall consist nature of the British monarchy, boycott and denounce any -L.R. of one fewer members than at present. In addition the Administrative Vice-President Royal tours in this country. Jonathan Blakeman National Affairs Officer shall take over responsibility for Treasurer “Human Rights”. 4. Sports Club Affiliations Speaking of the Grants Committee - Research Committee was told recently that U. assessors will be visiting Auckland on CAMPUS That being the day of the general meeting it be that they have come to assess the mood of NEWS students? PASSING OUT ► A statistic to cheer the down-hearted. Of all papers which students enrolled in at f EXPENSIVE HISTORY ► University last year 12.9% were not sat, lfl The University has asked the U.G.C. for a were failed and 76.2% were passed. further $120,000 for developing walkways around the History and Education buildings. We have MONEY FROM WHERE ► previously reported grants for a History - Human As m ight have been predicted the Unive Sciences bridge, History building upgrading and applied for money from the Education ‘Precinct Development’. If this latest request is trust to help pay for the new Music SchooL approved the total spent around the History hope the Council and the Students Association Department this year will be $486,500 — plus cost satisfied that the U.G.C. will not take this over-runs. Isn’t that area due for demolition if the precedent, for if all future academic deve new Law School is ever reinstated in the building used part of this trust there would be very lit programme ? for a swimming pool, more common rooms, i accommodation and useful things like that. T H A N K S ► Praise where praise is due. The Works SO A P ON H E R FA C E ? ► Committee has resisted attempts to expand the A tutor in Environmental Studies medical empire (or car-park) into the Boyle assured her students that she always uses Crescent properties. Council has agreed that the her automatic washing machine, even the houses which had been under threat will be SLOUCHING TOWARDS K-ROAD ► machine’s manufacturers specify detergent retained for student accommodation. very laudable - but don’t automatic mac Ever wonder w hat those traffic cops are actually about five times more water than is n€ AV4U ► doing out in front of the Chemistry building every Perhaps she’s learned from the toilet cistern The Audio-Visual Department is facing a minor early morning? Yes, gazing at the pedestrian and put a brick or two in it. crisis. Its staff level is frozen at an already low crossings so, according to today’s officer, they can level, the use of audio-visual aids is increasing ‘Keep you all alive in there.’ No comment as to GERIATRICS, YES... ► throughout the University, and it is expected to whether the underpass is putting his job at risk. Council has approved the establishment service the 40 A-V equipped rooms in the new Thanks boys. Chair in Geriatrics, wholly funded by an i Arts/Commerce building from its existing source. Fair enough, if someone wants to buy resources. They could of course take on another WORKING IT OUT ► Chair in Geriatrics why should we object ? We staff member if the position was ‘self-funding’: First our apologies for last week’s error. While told, though, that the discipline was don’t be surprised if at enrolment next year you are the Works Committee was not consulted the University’s suggestion. Is geriatrics really asked for ‘film fees’ or ‘slide fees' as well as ‘xerox Council had in fact given prior approval to the first priority for a new academic develc fees’. On the other hand if they could hire academic immediate start on the marae complex. Since the Why not Environmental Studies? Wo- staff to teach the broadcasting students, the staff so generously donated their parking fund it Studies? Was the Academic Committee technical staff currently lecturing could be released seems that the University Grants Committee will at all? Who are the rich and generous dc for technical duties - or is that too simple ? not be making any contribution. W atch this space...

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NEWS Do you think that Womenspace is a good idea? Why? NZUSA’s May Council has decided to m ake unemployment - and youth unemployment in particular - its priority Margaret Van Zeist David Sands B.A. Ed. A Anthro. Science for second term activities. Recent Very good idea. To have a Yes. Why should women Government policy announcements make place to escape and talk to just have it? You’ve got to this an even more urgent area for action: other women about how you have somewhere to get are getting on. A place to together - everywhere else is get support, not feel pretty male orientated. We The extension of the Freeze until next February threatened and have need more women orientated privacy. ^ interests that males can go has been deliberately timed to ensure that those to generally. students who do get jobs next summer are covered. February 29 is the day that university students go back to their studies in 1984. This \ means students will be trying to save money to pay | M i for the costs of studying and living in 1984 on the i same wages they would have received a t the end of 1981. Since then prices have already increased by m over 16%. ^ Michael Jones Debby Smith A B. Com. A rts The Minister of Labour has announced that Depends how it’s used. As Excellent idea. A spa educational institutions and hospital boards will long as it’s for all women all w om en on campus, I now be eligible for a weekly $50 subsidy for each and not abused. Not for women to breastfeed, i people to gossip and smoke lesbian literature to be extra student they employ next summer. This will but to get counselling ^ display. Where women result in only a handful of extra jobs because these have a break from men bodies have already been hard hit by Government funding cuts - and don’t have the funds to pay extra wages for student employees. Last year the same scheme (PEP: Student Modification) was available to localbodies and community organizations and resulted in only 678 jobs while over 10,000 students went without full-time mimmer jobs. It is no substitute for a fully-funded community work scheme. Carol Jones A John Macdonald ^ Law I n t A rts Find out about NZUSA’s campaign against Yes Nice atmosphere. Yes I suppose so. I don’t unemployment - your campus students’ Women can talk with each know what women do there. association is involved, and your summer job could other without having to depend on i t ! think about anything else. It would be fair to have a Robin A rthur menspace too. rD THE ISSUE IS... G.M. ROUNDUP

! Special General Meeting to be held this week will deal with a number of issues have caused a fair amount of antagonism and ill-feeling on campus. This article hopefully provide some of the background needed for debate to have some depth, do this it will be easiest to separate the motions on the agenda into two groups. The groups focus on two quite different issues and voting one way for one should not nee the way one votes on the other.

- first three motions on the agenda stem from forward to a General Meeting of the Association. :n of no confidence in John Broad, the However Ross/MacCulloch’s third motion does not :t of AUSA, moved by members of the appear to me to be the way to go about L've. This conflict has been simmering since streamlining the schedule relating to Craccum. year. After numerous meetings, held to create Rule 26 of the constitution states that “The on which this year’s President and powers conferred on the Executive do not extend ve could work together, it was finally to the affairs of Craccum...” Yet this amendment 1 that the attempt should be made. The air would give Executive members a majority of 5-4 st, however, was never fully cleared. Both over other members of the Craccum of this debate are presented on page 3 of this Administration Board. This would effectively destroy the independence of Craccum, allowing the last four motions on the agenda have been Editor to be overruled by Executive members. 'by the CRACCUM Reform Group. To quote It seems that the movers’ desire for ‘friendly’ Broad: “All the motions [motions 4 to 7] are a control over Craccum outweighs his concern for ' n of the difficulty experienced by many freedom of the press from political interference. is in accepting the vigorous tone adopted by I also fail to see the relevance of including the feminist lobby on campus. It is an educative AUSA Clubs and Societies Officer and Sports It is now so much what they say but how Officer on the Board, other than to boost the are expressing it.” You may disagree with numbers of non-Craccum staff members. ’s explanation of the reaction to feminist Increasing the number of elected members over but the point made is clear: these motions those chosen may be an admirable aim, yet the the concern felt by some students over the member previously elected by Craccum staff has nent of women’s politics on campus. been removed (and anyone can join Craccum staff). ■ the past few years the number of women's Increasing the number of SRC reps would have on campus has increased markedly. also achieved this aim. Although they support the :’s groups in theatre, writing, video/film and This motion is poorly constructed and ill- areas have been established. There is a considered’. idea of having an Overseas ’s Rights Officer on the Executive, and this Reaction to the SGM amongst the University Students’ Officer and a a Womenspace’ was created. This feminist staff has ranged from “What SGM?” to “No has not been confined to the student comment” to informed and reasoned points of Maori representative on on, the University itself has been affected, view. are now a number of papers being offered in The Vice-Chancellor and Registrar would not Exec, they do not support s studies. The Engineering Faculty now comment on the SGM, although their defense of a policy of encouraging women to take the Centenary Celebrations lay in showing their having a Women’s Rights ; and they are endeavouring to eradicate determination to make the University responsive of the faculty being a bastion of male to the needs of women and Maori students. Officer. sm. year the Editor and Production Manager of On the dismissal of CRACCUM staff the JM are both women and stood for election ‘It seems that the movers’ CRACCUM Reform Group said: ‘The Group feel a policy of increasing the coverage of issues desire for ‘friendly’ control the present editorial staff of Craccum fire simply ,-g women. This has lead many people to not prepared to accept the fact they are editing a them for having a “to narrow editorial over CRACCUM student newspaper that is paid for by all students. J’. At the Autumn General Meeting held A large amount of money is involved in the this year, this issue was reused. The meeting outweighs his concern for production of Craccum and therefore the editorial 1 against demanding that the editorial policy staff have a heavy burden of responsibility that we Concern over having a women- freedom of the press from believe they have not accepted’. paper, Women’s Rights Officer and Their policy on Womenspace is: ‘The CRACCUm ice’ was not alleviated by the outcome political interference’. Reform Group cannot accept that “Womenspace” General Meeting. has a proper place on our campus. We do not see it Prof. Meyer, the Dean of Engineering, said that as a room for women: as far as we are aware, few it would be inappropriate for him to comment on use it, and at least one woman was requested to .. I can only see the the actions of a small group of engineering leave the room because her views differed from students, he said that he was aware of the motions those who run the room. We therefore consider the ison for this more as to be put before the SGM and had spoken with room to be a room permanently allocated to a club, some of the students involved. He reiterated his the University Feminists.’ ;ing an objection to the faculty’s policy of encouraging women and And on the Women’s Rights Officer they said: commented that CRACCUM’s coverage of the ‘The position of Women’s Rights Officer is nothing ■rests of women being women in engineering issue had been fair. more than a representative for the University Ms McLeod from the English Department, when Feminists. We quote the feminists blurb in the presented so effectively aksed to comment on the SGM, said: ‘This year is 1980 Orientation Handbook — “... The Students’ on campus.’ the first time in the past 13 years I have been Association kindly allows us a women’s Rights teaching at Auckland University that CRACCUM Officer...” We do not think a Women’s Rights is giving full coverage of women’s issues. These Officer is necessary. We are sure the remainder of CRACCUM Reform Group is spearheaded issues have been presented tactfully and not in an the members of Executive are responsible enough MacCulloch, a Chemical and M aterials overly aggressive way. This year CRACCUM has to ensure the Students’ Association follows its student doing 3rd Pro., and Phillip been more readable than in past years and the policy of sexual equality. Again, we think students studying the 3ame subject but taking a Literary Supplement was especially well deserve the right to decide whether they think a of 2nd and 3rd Pro., papers. presented. I am disappointed to hear that there is Women’s Rights Officer is necessary. We think a a move to have the Editor removed and as the Human Rights Officer, not specifically responsible 5, if passed, will change the make-up of quality of the paper has been so good, I can only for women’s rights, but everybody’s rights, is an ICCUM Administration Board. Jon see the reason for this move as being an objection acceptable alternative. , this year’s Media Office*, who chairs the to the interests of women being represented so Although they support the idea of having an CAB and who would also chair the effectively on campus.’ Overseas Students’ Officer and a Maori i Board comments on the motion: Hopefully the SGM will allow those involved in representative on Exec, they do not support constitution of this Association is an women’s groups on campus and those who are having a Women's Rights Officer. On being convoluted document and I have weary of feminism to discuss their differences and questioned about this distinction they could not considered possible amendm ents to be p ut arrive at some form of understanding. provide an explanation...... — Neil Momson NEWSBRIEFS ANOTHER 5 YEARS OF THATCHERS’ BRITAIN? ► Margaret Thatcher has been riding a high in HERE'S OUR STRW6&Y TOR m y Ti&HtEN SECURITY MV popularity since the Falkland crisis, and although VHCARA6UA- s j ~ \r« v squelch wssent... it is now on the decline, the pollsters are predicting we run covert «7 _ Ttte repress\oN d ^ that she will hang on to her lead for long enough to One 0 OPERATIONS TO v i j p i Fuels unrest... win the June 9th election. The second most likely co-ordin option seems to be a hung Parliament with the Student SDP alliance holding the balance. A Labour co-ordin victory runs a poor third. This is in spite of predictions th a t unemployment Chaplain's Chat the prol will remain at 3 million for the near future, that the me peopie Rise up... OF COURSE, BASED ON Falklands garrison is becoming more of a liability, ‘Comm THE 6CNeRNN\ENT^/^~N OUR EXPERIENCE and that already decimated social services will THERE AIN’T NO the momi WITH receive more cuts. This paradox has apparently no local s something to do with the law of survival, i.e. if SUCH ANIMAL AS campus you’ve got a job you don’t really worry too much PROGRESS strength* about those who haven’t, and if you’ve got money campuse; you won’t worry too much about cuts in social How timeless the university is. officer a services. This is borne out by comparing the poll Things change here only superficially over the At NO! results. With a majority of one recent poll naming years. Only arrogance has increased, visible in the of inexp unemployment as the most important issue, 39% petty name-calling, mudslinging and derogatory transfer thought Labour had better employment policies as labelling of individuals and groups (e.g. letters to! participai opposed to 22% for the Conservatives, while Craccum and at the S.G.M.). It would be benefic OF DOMINOES AND REALITY ► voting intentions revealed 36% for Labour and skills wc for the ‘Democratic majority’ to remember that! Congress The above cartoon reflects opinion on predictions 46% for Conservative. being in the majority does not necessarily mean discussed Obviously other issues are being seen as deciding currently being talked about around Washington th at one is in the right. with t h e : that the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua will factors, and probably the most important one is Plainly evident is that people in our society attended that it is only in the last few months that Labour fall by the end of the year. This prediction comes in (university included) are not heard, and to be been up i the wake of reports that the American-backed have appeared united after three years of energetic heard, there must be a c t i v e listening by the problems in-fighting. Popularity is much harder to maintain rebels are about to launch a big offensive. audience. Often, the m ajority (democratically facing. when your energies are being used elsewhere. In neighbouring El Salvador U.S. intervention is chosen of course) have not actively listened, retire I Many c The most optimistic prediction that I can offer is seen as assistance for a legitimate Governm ent- behind collective anonymity, and will never overseas that Thatcher will not gain an absolute majority, reasoning which falls flat when compared with understand minority opposition. Campus action in Nicaragua. To detract from those who that the British will realise that they cannot afford Similarly, who can rightly blame God for the | students point out such inconsistencies the Reagan her policies and will reject her authoritarian mess our lives may be in, if we do not a c tively npaign approach. Beyond that, the question is, can the administration is heightening its campaign to l i s t e n to w hat God is saying to us. bind due convince Americans that the fate of Central SDP convince the public that they will moderate If we intellectualise our emotions, inhuman | the $150 America is their fate — the domino theory lives on Thatcher’s policies if they gain the balance. That propaganda and social evils may be sold to overseas even if the only ones that are falling are the people belief will keep Labour on the Opposition benches. under the guise of progress. though ū of the region. Fortunately the U.S. congress is The Polls in Britain have been notoriously wrong anger and putting up resistance to Reagan — the other side of in the past and I believe that current predictions of P.D. for the University Chaplaincy NOSAC the domino holds memories of Vietnam. a Conservative landslide will not be proved correct. support students: about N( NOSAC 1 the co-i JOHN TANNER communii the co-ord This y e HIFI LTD | in which t ith e B u i year a i 4* and i % a iwill, ndents A60 Amplifier i Pacifi M i l Zee xempt fi ther te: pre rged a sibilitj spe ■ “ w ” m 1P j I give c io ld sto OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS A&R CAMBRIDGE HAVE BEEN Iwill a] CONSTANTLY RESEARCHING WAYS TO IMPROVE THIS chcam i ALREADY HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL AMPLIFIER. Emele 1 I her s i THIS LATEST VERSION, NOW IN STOCK, REPRESENTS THE on an CULMINATION OF THIS RESEARCH AND THE END RESULT IS liversit) AN AMPLIFIER WHICH MOST PEOPLE CONSIDER AUDIBLY b a d SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER IN ITS PRICE RANGE. ig 1 The A S B ’s Cashflow m achine is now re­ woi THIS SUPERB UNIT IS NOT AVAILABLE JUST ANYWHERE AND located from the Engineering Block to the leducat IMPORTS ARE FAIRLY LIMITED. UNLIKE MANY OTHER woi even handier central Campus. BRANDS WHICH CHANGE THEIR STYLE EVERY NINE MONTHS Welfare c Get your Cashflow card and be into ready (LEAVING YOU WITH A HEAVILY DEPRECIATED LAST-YEAR'S ile she cash, seven days and nights a week. MODEL) THE A&R AMPLIFIER HAS A CONSTANCY OF STYLE AND PERFORMANCE WHICH WILL LAST THE MUSIC LOVER ties t< For all the details, see the folk at ASB’s chelor < FOR MANY YEARS. THEY ARE RARELY AVAILABLE SECOND University branch in the Engineering Block. HAND WHICH INDICATES JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE FALL IN For h er LOVE WITH THIS UNIQUE UNIT. th e ctions THE A&R CAMBRIDGE A60 AMPLIFIER IS AVAILABLE IN w ork TAWA, BLACK OR AMERICAN WALNUT FINISHES AND SELLS rithcami FOR $767. ______becar sas m ore verseas JOHN TANNER HIFI LTD ontact w EADY'S M ALL, 57 HIGH ST. PH 735-102 lerstc (20 YARDS FROM VICTORIA ST CARPARK! NEW DIRECTIONS FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS One of the duties of May Council is to ratify the appointment of a new co-ordinator for NOS AC. The Co-ordinator is actually elected by the International Students Congress but is an officer of NZUSA. CRACCUM asked the new co-ordinator, Emele Duituturaga, about her work as NOSAC Co-ordinator and about the problems which face overseas students in N.Z.:

‘Commitment is what is needed for NOSAC at the moment. Most of NOSAC officers have little or no local support in their Students’ Association and campus groups, so the first thing to do is to strengthen the campus level activity. Most campuses do not give the overseas students’ officer a place on Exec, recognition is also sought. ficially over the At NOSAC, many delegates expressed a feeling ed, visible in the of inexperience and inability. To enable the and derogatory transfer of skills and knowledge between >s (e.g. letters to! participants NOSAC is going to hold twice yearly >uld be beneficia skills workshops. The International Students remember that j Congress is the main work of NOSAC and this was lecessarily mean discussed in detail at council. Emele was concerned with the number of students at ISC as only 30-40 s in our society attended this year when in the past there have *ard, and to been up to 300. This is a reflection of the many istening by th problems which overseas students’ officers are jpsgpi (democratically] facing. y listened, retire Many campuses gave no travel subsidy to their and will never overseas students wishing to go to ISC. Campus awareness of issues facing overseas me God for the students is low so there is less contribution to do not actively npaigns and many overseas students are in a due to their difficult time commitments and “To struggle through the system as a black )tions, inhumanI the $1500 fee that many have to pay. Many y be sold to us I overseas students are also politically vulnerable woman is difficult and it takes time to finally though in some cases this does promote more realize that there's nothing necessarily wrong anger and extra strength to fight. rsity Chaplaincy NOSAC is concerned with getting ground level with you.” support at the moment - involving overseas students in their own struggles. Many don’t know — Emele Duituturaga about NOSAC. In the past the character of NOSAC has depended largely on the personality of She believes that awareness of her struggles has exists between their generations. She believes both the co-ordinator. Often there is little been brought to the surface through her degree must compromise. Most students go home and Communication between the campus officers and studies and other involvements. “To struggle demand more privileges in Western ways but she he co-ordinator so capacities are limited. through the system as a black woman is difficult believes tolerance is the key. This year NOSAC is organising a speaking tour and it takes time to finally realize that there’s Emele recognises that she has assimilated i which the NOSAC co-ordinator will be speaking nothing necessarily wrong with you. Effecting western concepts, such as that of opportunity, and i the Bums Proposal. This paper came out almost change in white institutions is never easy, let alone mannerism. While her bicultural perception has year ago and essentially is about selling New for a ‘non-white’, ” she commented. many advantages it also has negative effects. She ind education overseas. Turning education She hadn’t planned to run for NOSAC Co­ believes it will be hard to return home and feel a commodity contravenes international ordinator as her local commitments are very heavy whole. She feels dispossessed in both places as iwill, will create strife among Pacific Island but these will be compromised so that she can all facets of experience go to make up our identities udents and will enhance class discrimination in finish her degree this year. and so she never feels total in either place. In New iplifier , Pacific Islands. The Cook Islands and Nuie as Emele notes that it is an opportune time to put Zealand she is seen as a Black Woman rather than Zealand subjects will automatically be what she has learnt into action. At present she is human, and at home she is a Western educated empt from any fees imposed which will build allowed to stay in NZ ’til May 1984 when she woman rather than a Fijian woman. ther tension. graduates. But she feels that she can’t go back to Fijian women students returning home are more At present, Southeast Asian students are Fiji yet as her degree has given her completely assertive, vocal and challenging, which she sees as rged a $1500 fee to study in NZ and there is a Western models of helping people - it has focused a part of a wider international womens struggle, sibility that this will be increased. on crisis intervention set in New Zealand. Cultural but she still feels a responsibility to follow many of The speaking tour, which runs from June 13-24 relevance must be found to include indigenous the traditional customs. Culture enriches and gives Fill give detailed information on these issues. It is peoples. The relevance of land and its spiritual identity. It comes back to cultural relativism, mold story but will be attacked from a new angle significance and the role of the extended family finding out what is culturally relevant or md will also enable Emele to spend some time with both must be found a place in her analysis before appropriate. She sited an example of the differing each campus officer. she can feel confident doing social work in Fiji. attitudes to hair. ‘It is insulting to touch other Emele has been in New Zealand for 6 years. She She feels strongly that changes must be made in peoples hair in my culture. People come up to me I her sixth and seventh form years at school in Fiji to put the people first. Fiji is being sold off to and say they really like my hair and touch it. At I THE on and then, determined not to go straight to multinationals and she believes in the importance home they’d turn around and punch you in the face HILT IS liversity with no idea what she wanted to do, she of the people holding onto their land. ‘A look at if you did that. It’s just a cross cultural BLY went back to Fiji in 1979. She spent that year Hawaii, North America and New Zealand shows misunderstanding.... Who cuts my hair in New Working with people at home and decided that what can happen to indigenous people who part Zealand? ... Only my mother or my sister is allowed jocial work was what she wanted to do. There are with their land.’ to cut my hair.’ All the same, she believes it is a ERE AND (education facilities for social workers in Fiji as Emele believes that she must relearn how to unique experience to be able to make it in both work is a new concept. There is a Social communicate with her ‘own people’ in their terms cultures. 10NTHS Welfare department, but it is under developed, and even then she knows she will find it difficult to She likens her experience to an extent with that YEAR'S bile she could have gone to Australia to study go back. Taking back her middle class clothes and of the Maori people of her generation. She sees STYLE ties to New Zealand made her decide to do a aspirations will no doubt create some difficulties. similar cultural conflicts, but the Maori has been OVER chelor of Social Work at Massey University. She plans to try to stay in New Zealand for a few stripped of their cultural identity. ‘Their identity iCOND For her first 2 years at Massey she was involved years longer to work with young Pacific Island now is a brown skin and perhaps a marae or a tribe :ALL IN nth the Pacific Island club helping to organise people here, to help them overcome their feelings of name. The Maori has no home. At least I have ctions etc which gave her some background to hopelessness. She also intends to travel to other claim to my piece of land at home. They have to work now which requires considerable work developing countries to see their welfare systems. N struggle on so many levels, they have cultural lith campus Pacific Island groups. In her 3rd year Then she will return to Fiji. political and identity strggles. Then there is the } SELLS became busier with social work placements, When asked about the pressures on her when she struggle of Maori women.’ more involved in the students association as returned home she said that she has western She believes that a lot of our problems could be is students officer and had considerable educated parents and believes that will help her overcome by developing ‘ethnic sensitivity’ - ntact with the Pacific Island communities in adjust. However, she sees that interpreting things learning to take your cues from the other person lerston North. in a western way widens the gap which already not from what you assume about them. — Sara N oble CALLING IN FOR MEN: “MENSLINE”

Womer die tl Tertiar Perhaps the idea of a men’s line is a little wierd mtinue and unorthodox, after all, this is New Zealand mate, not San Francisco. I must confess that my iddle-cl pics lik first reaction was somewhat akin to that of your people asked ‘Why not a “support line” for men?’ up the receiver and make a phone call. Menslineia full-blown average kiwi sceptic, but after talking to - a telephone number that men can call if and when also intended to be of service to men who simply a couple of people involved in setting up this Women 1: they need to talk things out, whenever pressures wish to talk about issues confronting men in extern telephone service for men, by men, I began to think are building up and no-one with a sympathetic ear society today. ‘Well, why not? I t’s a good idea, we should support at Ne' is around to talk to. Having talked things out with a trained ophy it.’ But the service is not intended solely for those counsellor on the phone, callers, if need be, will be undoes For the moment the whole thing is still just an men who fear that they might hit their encouraged to get in touch with Youthline, the Sexual ha idea, but with a bit of luck, backing and finance, it girlfriend/wife/kids again. There are a lot of solo Hum an Relations Centre, M en’s Centre, or lalizati should be underway soon. Likely as not it’s a fathers in Auckland who are struggling to bring up whichever organization is best suited to help dents, ai service which isn’t going to make the headlines of families and who are facing problems many have further. Any referral however comes second after Kjght of the daily papers and doubtless will have to just never considered. If you can’t afford outside the chance to talk. The organizers are reluctant for ^ the way struggle simply to survive, let alone gain help it’s a tough life working all day and then Men’s Line to be seen simply as a referral agency, mortant, recognition of its existence in the Auckland having to come home to the housework as any solo Of course something like this doesn’t just ^Uectual community. mother will also tell you. When do you get to take a happen overnight and although the ball so far has §eXllal 1 In August of last year, a certain John and Doris holiday or even a five minute break? Talking about been rolling quite slowly, it is starting to gather -yasive, i Church arrived here in Auckland, from it helps - it’s not the answer but it can point momentum. Finance is the big bugbear, as always,! Btrol ove Christchurch, to set up a battered women’s someone in the right direction. but already the Mental Health Foundation has ;ther endu support group, and as part of this campaign aired Then there are those men whose spoken positively about support and there is real Vantage, their views on a Radio Pacific talkback marriage/relationship has fallen apart or is hope for a grant from this quarter. The Waitakere fell(y programme. From the ensuing discussion with proceeding to do so. We’ve all been through it to Licensing Trust and community service groups whterso those who phoned in, it became clear to some at differing degrees but some take it harder than such as Lions and Rotary have all been mourles; least out there in radioland that, while there are a others. If your mate is out of town and the Kiwi is approached. 1 Weknow number of agencies and support groups caring for closed for the night you can get pretty depressed A t last word there was also likelihood of a council ^ ones those on the receiving end of domestic violence, no just sitting there brooding about what might have house being set up as a ‘Men’s Centre’ (the name*"*our essays, one bar the police is particularly concerned for been. Simply being able to pick up the phone and has been approved) and negotiations were o seek apj those who frequently perpertrate the violence: talk about it can soothe the savage breast or put underway with the Auckland City Council and the older and ii men. the lid on any suicidal tendancies. Youthline has Housing Corporation on this matter. mistake a Believing the old adage ‘prevention is better proved that. oval - \ than cure’ to be particularly apt, a number of However you don’t have to be desperate to pick — R. French-Wright itdow ! child! " f her mark These tyj ■nificar jnposed by ssue is no OUTSKIRTS ower and ipe,amai iith physic rce. In s over that success iled term: Quote of the Week: ‘A working definition of feminism: To a won idepender The collective empowerment of women as autonomous, value, otice of tl self-defined, independent human beings who shall have at [omen mi junterpar least as much to say as men about everything, in the he econo arrangement of human affairs.’ er i — Bettina Aptheker

Intro to Feminism More Harassment At the University of California at Santa Cruz, In the latest episode in a continuing campaign of Tania Eber aged 9. Bettina Aptheker, daughter of a leading intimidation and harassment, South African police theoretician in the American Communist Party, raided the home of Winnie Mandela Jan. 7 in the lectures weekly to over two hundred students on remote town of Brandfort, to which she was feminism. The course features lectures on the banished six years ago. Rape Statistics ? interdependence of Black and Women’s liberation The police raid occurred while Mandela, a Black movements, the role of women in the labour activist, was being visited by two white liberal Recently the New Zealand Police Depc movement and lots of material on racism. T don’t members of Parliament, Helen Suzman and Peter released figures which said that 72 per cent prioritise oppressions. I put women’s experience, Soal. The police charged Mandela with breaking rapists convicted in Auckland in 1981 were Ma women’s lives, at the centre - but women come her banning order which prohibits her from being or Polynesian. These statistics came from a total« from different classes and races,’ she stated. in the company of more than one other person at a only twenty-two rapists convicted th at year, The course is open to both sexes. Mark Cassell a time. They also spent three hours searching the police should have said is, ‘We can catch i student in the class, commented that ‘Ironically Mandela’s home and confiscating some of her convict more black rapists in proportion to wh it’s men’s lack of understanding and experience possessions. rapists.’ In this society, white men have mo that makes the class so valuable for them. The The raid on Mandela’s home coincided with an power. Most white people would be more incli class enables men to understand feminism and intensified South African campaign against the to believe the white woman who says she has 1 sexist oppression as women perceive it. It tests the African National Congress. In early December, raped by a black man than the white woman ideas and attitudes that men have formed over South African troops launched an assault on says she has been raped by her white boss. Yet i many years of patriarchal brainwashing, and Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, killing 42 South fact the rapist is likely to be of the same s* makes men conscious of their own part in the African refugees, including women and children. economic and racial group as the rape victim. oppression of women.’ ( B i g M a m a R a g ) (Sue Lytollis in Self Defence for Worn: HY SEXUAL ARASSMENT AT NIVERSITY Women students not only face discrimination at university, but must learn to idle the power relationships that exist within the system. Tertiary institutions were initially created to educate ‘ruling class’ males, and ontinue in this function to the present day. One only has to look at the white, liddle-class orientation of university rolls, and the domination of their experience in opics like history to recognize this. call. Menslineis men who simply Women have ‘infiltrated’ tertiary education to ronting men in extent. We now make up 44% approx of the at New Zealand universities. But the basic vith a trained ophy and the structure of the university need be, will be im does not accommodate us. l Youthline, the Sexual harassment at University stems from the n’s Centre, or alization’ of women-students by fellow male suited to help idents, and male academic staff. Women are not nes second after ght of as students, but as ‘women students’ are reluctant for the way they look, dress and behave can be as eferral agency, irtant, in their success at university, as their is doesn’t just tual and academic achievements, ie ball so far has al harassment of woman students is arting to gather live, and act as an effective means of social jbear, as always, trol over women.We cope as best we can by Foundation has r enduring it, or manipulating it to our own and there is real tage. We sit through sexist jokes, comments *. The Waitakere t fellow women students - even join in the service groups ter so as not to be thought ‘over-sensitive’ or have all been lourless’. We know which lecturers door to leave open, and ihood of a council h ones we visit in pairs when we go to pick up entre’ (the name essays. However we are also taught as women, gotiations were seek approval, especially from males, who are r Council and t and in some form of authority over us. If we er. e a sexual invitation as an expression of “M ost of the girls don't seem to mind ival - who can blame the woman who does not what's your problem?!" 7rench-Wngh\ it down. Not only has she been trained for this ice childhood, but she fears retribution in terms dher marks for assignments or exams. AW/A These types of sexual demands, no matter how significant they appear, or whom they are imposed by, are an attack on our livelihood. The jsue is not sexual pressure but the assertion of ower and dominance by an authority figure. In a TACTICS ape, a man overpowers a woman, threatening her nth physical harm or subduing her with physical e. In sexual harassment, the weapon is the er that the male holds to thw art our attem pts Women who are being or have been sexually harassed have often complied with the 9 success and independence - a low essay mark, demands made upon them because they are fearful of retribution — failing a course, C terms, a poor degree. lower marks etc. To take direct action which may identify them as the victim is often To a woman, education is critical to her economic not an option. idependence. Rather than taking her abilities at te value, most male employers will take more Because sexual harassment is not seen as a sexually harassed by one particular lecturer, or jtice of the pieces of paper with her degree on it. problem, and because of the nature of ‘staff want to complain about things like sexist remarks 'omen must still perform better than their male solidarity’ and an unwillingness to trust the word and jokes directed at women in lectures, then you wnterparts in order to achieve the same benefits. of women students, what may seem the best form can start a petition to the Head of Department, ie economic pressure on women students is of action - to refer the problem to the head of and try to get some reaction by weight of numbers. reater as well - ranging from higher department - is not always successful. You can write anonymously to the lecturer (employment over the summer vacation, to a At best, the lecturer will probably be ‘warned off’ setting what the offensive aspects of his behaviour j^ier level of graduate unemployment. making further advances at worst you will be are. The myth that women ‘ask for’ and enjoy the Thus women are forced into a position where laughed at or disbelieved. If disciplinary action is sexual attentions of any male is so firmly ingrained f j become afraid to rock the boat. On one hand taken, the real reasons may be concealed - ie, the in many males minds that to find that his ley are told that if they are successful through offender may take a sudden overseas trip. Unless attentions are unwelcome may be an unpleasant King their sexuality, they will not have come by it you know that the person you are complaining to surprise for many. If you don’t want to write ooestly’. On the other, the objectification of will be sympathetic this is not always the best personally perhaps you could get the womens ber aged 9. oman students into sexual beings may force avenue of protest. group to write on your behalf. pomen to ‘use’ their sex as a selling point. Even if One professor's response to a woman who had If you wish to expose the lecturer publicly, you is does not occur, few women will feel free to been repeatedly rung at home, invited out to dinner should use means such as graffiti in toilets, stating oert themselves in term s of objecting to sexist at the lecturers home, and finally sexually the lecturers name, his department, and how he «? ahaviour, or sexual remarks because their assaulted by him as she left the library one night harasses women, rather than leafletting or ooition as an ‘honorary male’ that they must gain was ‘Yes dear, we know he’s a bit of a playboy, but publication of his name, as these methods are too ’olice Depi order to get ahead within the male structures of most of the ‘girls’ don't seem to mind - what’s your easy to trace. at 72 per cent er will be jeopardized. problem! This is fairly typical and reflects the lack In a way, sexual harassment is a problem for all a 1981 were Mat id harassment typifies the type of practices of serious interest in the problem. women, and if we are harassed and ignore it, we ame from a total i are used to ‘keep women down’, at first at However, if you fail to get any action through may be making things more difficult for the women i d th at year. iversity, then in the workplace. Sexual official channels, there are other means that you who follow us. Some campuses already have We can catch ment undercuts our potential as women for can take. What you choose to do depends largely support groups against sexual harassment. A roportion to wl and economic equality reinforcing Society’s on the degree of support you can get, the amount group like this can help to dispel the feelings of i men have that despite our capabilities, desires and of other women who face the same situation, and isolation and guilt that being harassed in this way d be more incl our primary role within society is as whether you want to publicly expose the harasser, can create. i says she has objects, and this role predominates over and or just stop harassment in the short term. All forms of sexual coercion - whether they are white woman es any other we may seek to create for The problem with m ost forms of exposure is th at sexist innuendoes, academic rapes, or violent white boss. Yet Ives. they involve the woman in a situation where she crimes against women are acts against all women af the same st can be liable for prosecution for ‘defamation of because they rest on assum ptions about the nature ! rape victim, —Jane Warwood character’. «of all women. We cannot fight back until we fight fence for Womt Women's Vice President NZUSA If there are a large group of you who are being together. STEREO 1 F.M.l THE ARRIVAL !

ERE I S aum i iR angaui So ! At last New Zealand joins the modern world with the introduction of FM. Kouhora. | swampy Right now 2 stations are broadcasting on the dial previously used for listening to -amp, th taxis. Let us take a brief look at the history of FM and the climax of permanent ram u . stations. aunu h East B ei The arguments and debates have continued for Tony Amos sums it up in three words. Music and. 20 years now. Continually attempts of comes first. Both stations need only to play music lie wetla: introduction have been stifled by the cautious and still beat AM hands down. This is power that dune de attitude inherent in New Zealand’s political and can be abused. neenarei bureaucratic systems. The real history of FM Magic 91 FM has exploited this employing only commences at the commission of a report on the as many people as it takes to play music and sell effects of FM commissioned by the National ads. Government after pressure from groups stating Their news service is provided. They need not the government had not fulfilled election promises employ anyone to add programme inserts making from years hence. Consideration was made on an Auckland identity. Their music is Billboard’s many superfluous aspects of broadcast which were favourites. Magic’s only quality is that they’re mainly politically based. That is, Government FM. This quality will still send them laughing all wishing for the best deal for public owned radio. the way to the bank. This station is the object Government departments tend to scratch each lesson on how to launch a low budget low key low other’s backs. effort station capable of a monetary coup. The final upshot of all this for Auckland 89 Stereo FM has at least tried. They boast the residents was the decision for the introduction of a best news service, the best equipment and the ‘best’ people (Well the good old boys of NZ radio or large commercial popular music station (in fact and input. is it the good guys) in the industry. Tony Amos, two) to be followed by a classical non commercial Both stations have been handed an immen programme director, claims they’ll play no shit station and small alternative radio operations ie power, large enough to allow the taking of a fe music. Music that he, his friends and those people Access, Ethnic and Information stations. risks. However, both are playing it incredibly safe. So let’s look at the first stage of FM. The 2 with an Auckland lifestyle can really get into. He stations in question were both granted an claims that 89 will not thrash music. Pity about It was interesting to see an article by Fr Sian L ; Pukeicafta extremely large output power. To combat the their 5 hour rotate of singles. They seem to provide Botica (I didn’t know he could write) in Metro < problems experienced in Australia with Mickey a token alternative song each hour however then- the introduction of FM. He wrote criticising th Mouse power limitations I believe. Coverage music is still as predictable as any other station. 89 blandness of NZ broadcasting and how all will I ranges from Whangarei to Hamilton which gives does score with a highly competent copy team in solved with the introduction of FM. He was wrou these stations immense power and responsibility Hugo Walsh, Sue Everett, Ian Watkin and Derek (or manipulated). FM in Auckland is no better th Wail never before given to a private station. They cover Payne capable of producing great commercials AM . It just sounds good, that’s all. Give me th over a 1/3 of NZ’s population. This power also (rivalling Campus Radio’s) and skits. YC’s in stereo any day. guarantees a sound quality beyond imagination in Both stations claim to hit at the Auckland the Greater Auckland Area. This is the first thing lifestyle (especially 89) however with less talk and you notice. The signal is beautiful, glorious even. more music it’s very hard to find the Auckland — A n drew Dicken It is this factor that has determined the identity. Basic complaints centre on the bland Station Manager, Campus Rc programming. Stereo FM’s programme director muzak and notable absence of indigenous music iT IS IMAUB iin r physical. The culture is “quaint” but only in nt com r lemic en< tourist terms. Weapons and greenstone articles THE SOUVENIR TRADE c he v eg e have “mana”, their own history, and are associated PUKE ALUMINIUM STICKERS rcommv with various ancestors. Yet these objects are Wet sw Debasing A Culture stylized and plastered over all manner of sparse souvenirs, trivialising the culture and history of sphagm Outreach the Maori people. f t Drier The insensitivity and racism goes on and on. An exhibition with a difference. ACORD umbrell Pakeha tourist trade is in the act of making the lYounge (Auckland Committee on Racism and Maori people cultureless by bastardising and Discrimination) put together a collection of some with so: trivialising their culture and their values. Cultural bracker products from our Pakeha tourist trade for an genocide is being committed every day by our (Older d exhibition that was held at Outreach last week. tourist trade, and the tourist industry is booming. Called ‘Debasing a Culture’, the exhibition was Dracop Trained Maori carvers cannot find employment hakea. aimed at highlighting the racist, offensive and and are told to look at means of increasing their insensitive nature of a great number of objects productivity in order to gain more of the tourist being sold as souvenirs of this country. dollar. Maori culture is being used by the uM DANGI Exhibits ranged from tea towels, postcards and Pakeha to make money. It must stop. Bumai aprons to door knockers and dolls. These souvenirs Spokeswoman Titewhai Harawira gave Ejered consistently depict the Maori people in a racist manufacturers and retailers of the offensive O Lycopo way. They are made with no consultation with the souvenirs 24 hours from the opening of the contain Maori people, with no regard to that which is exhibition to remove the offending material from endang important and sacred to the Maori. the shops before more action would be taken. If Thelypi The head in Maori society is considered tapu, this is not done then souvenir merchandisers will I impact and yet the head of a chief is made into a wax be confronted with their racism and be told in no \ V > i its dist: candle to be burned, printed on a handkerchief to uncertain terms that they are to stop selling as bein W./V.! blow your nose on, and shown on a tea towel to dry souvenirs which are offensive. §*- land toe site so r your dishes. Food has the property of undoing or Captain Cook was the earliest tourist souvenir negating tapu. It is therefore highly offensive to /•'A to a rul hunter and collected various items including “five contain depict the head or any other part of the body where wooden, three bone and four stone patta pattows... it will be in contact with food. Utricul one bundle of New Zealand weapons” (in a letter to bladder Maori women are depicted in a sexist, offensive Secretary Stephens 1771). The Maori culture was manner in many souvenirs. They are displayed as [only be seen as having curiosity value. The morbid 0 been co sex objects for white men’s pleasure. fascination for the primitive dove to low depths The stereotypes shown in souvenirs are m [ Cyclosi when trade in shrunken heads blossomed in the ■frost f continually negative. Many portray Maori people nineteenth century. „ as lazy, happy-go-lucky, stupid, musical, or very reducti - ACORD, F.C. AIMAUMAU PRESERVATION ’ETLANDS 1DER FIRE

ERE IS IT ? aumau wetlands lie on the western head of jRangaunu harbour north of Kaitaia and south louhora. The wetlands consist of 3000 hectares rampy ground comprising, the Motutangi amp, the Waihuahua swamp and lake ramu. The area is bounded on the east by aunu harbour, on the north by the foredunes East Beach, and on the west and south by and. wetland has been formed principally by an idune depression, which produced a gradation en areas of standing water and dune tops, aaumau is the third largest wetlands in the i Island and is the most untouched example in and. The larger Hikurangi swamp, north of garei, has been drained and cleared for and, as has an alarming number of wetland ats throughout New Zealand. North Island Fernbird, Bowdleria punctata vaeleae, and chicks.

aNieach j \ SuRarloM.Ts| tourism has endangered this fern. In 1977 a W HAT’S PLANNED FOR IT ? 'iP^Kprated Pt Staffa Rt N^toipapa Pt Taum ataX a\Pt CV^ large population was decimated when a Kaimaumau is crown land administered by / 5 HouhoYa Ray RANGAUNU BA Y M araew hiti Pt <-~v popular tourist resort was landscaped on the Lands and Survey. This department had initially Stanley KARIKAR1 PENlNSjUj-Av Waipahihi Stream. Taupo. planned to convert the area to farmland, but recent •'PerbendicJhti IRuakourlf)' 5) Cryptostylis subulata — is a very rare Karikari/êay A'3 surveys see the need for preservation of at least (seemingly self-introduced from Australia) tall 700 ha. The more immediate threat comes from a Ntalutara VRoftk&_~ and colourful orchid. Its presence is highly proposal by Kauri Deposit Surveys Ltd and ICI to Blackney Pt( ided an imme Raupo lia* ■1/ \~H/ ' -' Rangiawhia significant from a biogeographical viewpoint. mine 2,200 ha to extract waxes and resins from the r\_“ Maori Schi ie taking of a .Rock » 2 ^ *yX°tokawju f The two ferns, bladderwort and lycopodium peat. h»n*a Boy*.Rangiputa / ff , it incredibly i Atejulapgi "okerau occur in the wet swamp areas dominated by The environmental impact assessment produced Motuiartgi Swamp ,L Waiporohiu. Wathuohua Swamp' Baumea. The orchid lies in drier depressions. by the company in 1979, which was poorly i article by Fr Span L £-±) KuakaPt ENDANGERED ANIMALS m te) in Metro PukekaKar researched, described the area as a ‘wasteland’. The kaumaumau wetland has high wildlife Even with more recent surveys showing the areas 3te criticising Waihararaj nd how all will values and contains a number of rare animals. important wildlife and plant values, the company 'M. He was wron Neochanna diversus - the rare black mudfish whose still believes that ‘the project will improve this Rdngaunu Harbour I Lake distribution has been affected by swamp undeveloped tract ‘(sic)’. Again short term profit d is no better th. Waiharanr ) Ohio drainage and which Kaimaumau remains a motives are affecting the viability of a wetland. all. Give me th Kaikino S* Auret major habitat of. New Zealand has vast areas of farmland but Fernbird: a bird with limited powers of flight, very few areas of large wetlands It has only been whose numbers continue to decrease as through public pressure that the Ministry of T ekeraui swamps are cleared and drained. Kaimaumau Energy has delayed the granting of a mining ndrew Dicken Ng akapua) may contain the largest fernbird population in licence. Further surveys are to be carried out but Campus Rc {T IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT Northland and one of the largest in the Worth they should have been conducted before a water Island. IMAUMAU? right or planning approval was given to the aumau contains a wide variety of wetland Kaimaumau also contains a major stronghold of project. nt communities which contain a number of the Australasian bittern in Northland. The Originally only 100 ha reserve was proposed but lemic endangered species. foredunes at East beach also contain a small but this area excluded all Lycopodium, Cryptostylis he vegetation can be principally divided into significant breeding population of the rare endemic and bladderwort plants. The Wildlife service and NZ dotterel. r communities: the DSIR have proposed a reserve of at least 700 Wet swamp vegetation of Baumea rush with ha. sparse raupo with clumps of wire-rush and With the drainage and clearing of wetlands, few sphagnum. areas exist that sire comparable to Kaimaumau. Drier depressions containing manuka-. The whole area should be preserved as an example umbrella fem-scrub-sedgeland. of wetlands that once covered large areas in (Younger dunes supporting principally kanuka Northland. Even mining of a smaller area is likely with some Manuka, and patchy distribution of to lower the water table which is important in bracken fern and wattle. maintaining the integrity of the wetland. (Older dunes covered by Manuka, mingimingi, Kaimaumau meets several criteria for a wetland j Dracophyllum with introduced gorse and of international importance determined by the hakea. International Union for the Conservation of o < ? Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN); by ’ 'h ? * supporting rare, vulnerable and endangered / Y J / . ^ UAiNUE/imiUJANGERED PLANTS species, and maintaining the ecological diversity of /Jp’V* imaumau wetlands contain five rare or the region. It should be reserved. lingered plants: Lycopodium serpentinum - Kaimaumau WHATTODO? “ ^ contains the largest recorded population of this Now is the time to act to save Kaimaumau, write ndangered Lycopodium. to the Minister of Energy opposing the granting of ■j Thelypteris confluens - This fern shows the : impact that the loss of a species habitat has on its distribution. In the 1870’s it was recorded Now is the time to act to save Kaimaumau. \ as being fairly common, by 1930 it was rare W rite t o : I and today it is endangered. The last recorded 1) The Minister of Energy opposing the granting u 1 site south of Auckland near Kawerau was lost of a mining licence. to a rubbish dump in the 1960’s. Kaimaumau 2) The Minister of Lands seeking permanent \ contains the largest population in this country. protection for Kaimaumau wetland, m Utricularia delicatula - a very rare species of V ' . 3) The Minister for the Environment seeking bladderwort, insectivorous plant, which has ■■ permanent reserve status and requesting at only been found in Northland and has rarely least a full Environmental Impact Report been collected. before Mining commences. Cyclosorus interruptus - A fern which lives in / frost free or geothermal wetlands. Habitat — Barry Weeber reductions due to geothermal development and Cryp tasty l is subula ta. Environment Affairs Officer OUT IN THE COLD by Greg McGee Theatre Corporate

Bui The latest of Greg McGee’s ‘What I Did tive. 1 Before I Became A Playwright’ plays is Fast wi well worth going to see. Although it has obvious similarities with ‘Foreskin’s many 1 Lament’, this play has its own character. is vol wife Strawberry. That’s the character. Marvellously played by e v e n n Geoff Snell, Strawberry is offensively demented, giy. f< we think. But with the fatherly help of Porridge company so that she gets sacked. But then even he Still, that doesn’t detract from an fore t h f (Paul Gittens) and the shock tactics of Stump recognises that it is not ‘men’s’ work they are performance by Judy Gibson. She gives the (Judy Gibson), we see Strawb in his real agony of doing - the conditions they labour in are inhuman, real aggression, not for show but because it’s th ati hopelessness, for which dementia is merely a and all of them are only there because they have and that intensity carries her through. The U smokescreen. nowhere else to go. In their pathetic situation they that Stump and Strawberry create makes You see, Stump is actually a woman who is have equality. subsequent* resolution all the more mea driven to work in a cold store in order to support The scenario is obviously ripe with political even if it is awkwardly expressed. ultane

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ijection Overruled’ adds new and challenging dimensions to New Zealand theatre, are the use of black humour and the coercion of the audience to participate in way that it is they who determine the fate of the ‘accused’ and thus the ending play. Bum’s play is bizarre, hilarious and it is easier to have no feeling at all. The sketches of problems and still acknowledge the potential of it. jtive. It operates continually at many his life include scenes with his parents, childhood Each of the actors must switch between a Fast witticisms contrast sharply with the friends, adolescent friends, priests and his wife. number of roles in this play and in general the our. The audience too are involved at The forces at work gradually remove his passions changes were well handled. Kate Hood gives an many levels. The central character, the and instill in him the same devices for handling excellent performance as Court Registrar, compere is volunteered from the audience by his relationships that have caused his parents so much of the show, and childhood friends. She handles the ie wife supposedly attended the play the misery. Patterns are repeated from one generation difficult task of liaising with the audience superbly. is evening and decided to offer her husband, to the next. David Letch plays a wonderful judge and uses his jgly, for this performance. The implcation This production of ‘Objection Overruled’ has the authority to create hilarious priests. The lawyers, ifore that a wife in tonights audience will do court and its attendants double as an eccentric Dorothy McKegg and Bruce Allpress were at from an ex for tomorrows. Thus the feeling is ‘This Is Your Life’ team. The Court Registrar is times hesitant in their role changes but presented She gives that it could be any one of the audience on also a glamorous, frivolous frontwoman. The punk very credible parents with very credible problems. ut because it’s tl T. and in that sense everyone’s life is being judge sits at his podium underneath the flashing The husband and wife team acted with the naive hrough. The ten PV, T„In addition ^to this identification with lights of the ‘Clapometer’ which determines in nervousness one would expect of audience- create makes ised the audience must be jury to the trial response to audience clapping, the verdict of the participators. The witticisms and fast puns of 3 more meanin accused. This farcical portrayal of the judiciary Burns’s script were tossed back and forth with ed. lultaneoulsy be the guests to the ongoing iow ‘Is This Your Life?’. Burns credits the system adds further punch to Burns’ poignant great merriment and frivolity farther parodying er is in no positiof*1' ice with intelligence and allows them to comments on New Zealand society. the lack of concern shown by the judiciary for its w many and ie in the directing of the play. For once they The pacing of the script does not allow the victims. *e to write at. In led to earn their seats and this is exciting, audience to gradually develop a picture of the The play ends with the Court Registrar laughing is enough that the play is written, it is set in a courtroom accused as the passionless man his wife describes. at the bewilderment of the husband. She reminds e moments an unwilling husband is forced to stand trial. The sketches showing his making or unmaking do him that after all, it is only a show and it can not _ n charged with the crime of living. As his life not flow so much as jerk from one unrelated change his life. If Burns is making a comment on , lit between birth and death) is examined and incident to the next. They are, at worst, a the effect she imagines her play will have on our examined, the members of the court, distraction from the task they should be serving. understanding of those conditioning processes in aid and wife, all slip into the characters of his This results in a premature climax. The supposedly New Zealand then it can only be hoped she is It unfolds that his conditioning and emotionally-blocked husband launches forth into underestimating the insight and potency of her ‘PLIES iences in New Zealand taking him from extremely moving explanations for his behaviour work. Participate in i t ! 10d to manhood have left him devoid of without sufficient provocation to warrant such an bn and feeling. In rugby he learns to forget un-blocking. But in the face of the overall value of — Carmel Williams linand remember the game. In life he decides the play, it is easy to excuse these teething

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“ W E ’RE H Ê R E TO meet some old friends and make some new enemies” , said the late Denis Glover, no doubt with a wicked glint in his eye, at a reading on the Four New Zealand Poets tour in 1975. N The former journalist, lecturer, lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy, printer and poet, D. uses i Litt to boot, was in the company \V of Sam Hunt, Hone Tuhwarc and age the da Alan Brunton. ment of a vig s a i New Zealand arts scene, Their mission, and the mission of rated the NEW ZEA LA N D equation: artist + organisi iday STUDENTS ARTS COUNCIL audience. who organised the tour, was to The ten years of the STUDE tôtiOII, “ take poetry directly to the A RTS CO U N CIL have se iy t h e community” . Arrcf it w&jfked. outpouring of vig( gmmen “ Mobile Rhyme Team Lets Rip” innovative and ^ ,ption. hollered Palmerston North’s artlortns and artists. There v ‘ Evenitig Standard’. “ Scrubbed, been an energy, raw and rei 8 Oil t scoured and sand-papered, it which has characterised jll H10I could |ust be the sort of musicians, poets, dancer! very entertainment Television One is actors who have toured M looking for’’ scowled the literary Council. Occasionally then trasting reviewer of the ‘W aikato Times’. been eloquence froth these at a lot ( The tale of this four poets tour, but mostly They Have roj falthou$ and the stories of numerous other punched out their music, Jetowa tours of actors, rock musicians, messages | | | ti sweaty univi dancers and mimes, will be common rooms and union i *uav p .recounted over the next six weeks cramped art galleries and crq home , nc as the • N E W H ZEA LA N D courtyards. ;ies. T1 STUDENTS’ ARTS COUNCIL The artists who have to'urec choice. dips into the social and cultural the Council have usually lis band history of your campus. young, in need of touring , It’s the tenth anniversary o f the performing experience and, ®v0 lP STUDENTS’ ARTS COUNCIL importantly, in need of of its pa. this year, and a seriesj^ ,p h oto audience. Yesterday’s and loi iwere al features and articles which survey students have been that audio ly befoi the activities o f the.last decade T H E FA CE O F campuses in stage ac have been prepared for your is quite different to that of:! iere is HC student newspaper . Students have had the fina is mere There will be a look back to the and academic screws ajj ibehav( time when students wore long tightly, and there is precious igto a 1 hair, beads and muslin dresses, time for tomorrow’s decs [tend t< went on protest marches add makers to explore their per" not co: studied anthropology, a time and cultural environment, gon tl when no one thought too much week’s computer science about jumping on a train to go to incut has taken priority, j act in tffilim ual universities arts festival climate o f retrenchment! ize th to ‘get into the groove of meant that what the STUDE! ^ s o r* spontaneous action and rajTfbr a A RTS CO U N CIL has beend while over joints and jugs’. from 1973 to 1983 may hav There will begfsfories about th # change, and student politii ell I’d lU group, once described as “ the and Council officers lindividi Oxford University debatings|eam discussing this at the moment; also on acid” , the group.yyho askfE for Whatever the Outcome,! rstandir “a crate of leibfraumilch, 3 invitation is extended to you] chickens, 40 ham sandwiches, side back for ten minutes each! salads and fresh coffeC in each over a cup of coffee in the< dressing room. Failing this a and to gel back ‘into the grow FOR Edited by Brian Sweeney Designed by Jane-Marie Hodgeson. For the New Zealai couple of bots the floor; the radio hardly worked O riginal graphic by Derek Cowie for the 1977 Students’ Arts Council, P.0, Students' Arts Festival. of DB will do.” (all noise, little signal); the 9266, W ellington. w Their name? Split windows wouldn’t lock or touring New Zealand artists to Enz. wouldn’t open or were draughty student audiences from Auckland There are on- or leaked; the roof leaked; petrol to Dunedin. There is a brief, if the-road stories, confiffnption was enormous; the, necessarily earnest, story to tell at like this extract from petrol gauge was faulty and the beginning of this series, which a tour manager’s unpredictable (three times ran dry is a summary of the how and what P.0. Be report: “The on three different petrol and why of the S T U D E N T S’ rmr^s)! Cotnmef® was every­ readings); the rear vision mirror ARTS COUNCIL. fell off and smashed on the road thing you would expect The organisers o f the universities fj? r ^ i a Com met up be. The arts festivals in the early 1970s saw ashtray kept falling out T H E R E A RE M ANY stories to the possibilities of a national and spilling fag ends on tell from ten years on the road touring circuit around the

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Sounds like a good deal. Get all the details, applications etc from your Students Association office, STS sales office or from any branch of the National Bank. RTH, DEATH AND CONTRADICTIONS A RTHDAY ARTY t 4K uses would en age the de\ inent of a vi| same week ‘the university' aland arts scene. rated their centenary saw ‘the : artist + organist for very long. I would hope people would rather see who are totally morose, mundane and grotesque. iday party’ also in town for us for a slightly shorter time than not see us at all. The reason we write these songs is because we’re years of the STUD rations of a different kind. Needless I would hope people don’t expect anything interested in basically human nature and people O U N C IL have Si iy the latter weren’t invited to Old predictable from the Birthday Party and not who express themselves in a far more extreme way ng of vig eminent House for cocktails and expect a really physical show. People expect Nick than other people. ve and india ition. Instead we find them in a Cave to grab you by the collar and poke you in the The human race, in case you’re unaware is a and artists. Then on the wallpaper concrete block chest and you can poke him back and he’ll poke you slightly ugly little tribe and all these things are energy, raw and re a little bit harder and he’ll headbutt you in the face extremely real and go on every day so it’s not as if has characterise ell monolith masquerading as a hotel, ■ or something or so that Nick Cave can dive into the we are writing about anything unusual or s, poets, dancers very antiseptic and wonderfully audience and swim around a bit. newsworthy because it’s something that’s actually ho Have toured wi mundane.’ Occasionally then sting with the band, I would also hope people are slightly interested 4uence from these# a lot of people like to hate the Birthday in whether we are playing music with some kind of H ow im portant is it to the B P to p u t the dynam ic stly they have r f although I did meet someone who claimed to sincerity.’ back into m usic? out their music to wake up to them on the Walkman in the B u t is it sincere ? ‘Well it’s the entire point of the exercise ... to put - in sweaty univi ‘Well the songs we write are really personal the dynamics back into lyrics ... the whole point of rooms and union thday Party are not psychotic Aussies away songs to us. We usually write when we are in a our group is for the group to express their art galleries and crq iome nor are they bizarre muppetts parading state of emotional desperation. Some kind of personalities as much through whatever they do ds. les. They could be somewhere in the middle, tension. A desperate need to write. There is no and to do it in a forceful manner and to have a sts who hav#? to’urei choice. My own impression is of a very contrived situation of sitting down and thinking — record which affects people emotionally and mcil have usually is band with an apreciation of theatre and I heard something in the news today about El physically to the point where it can make them feel in need of touring sity of performance that is more than the sum Salvador - that’s a worthwhile cause so I think I’ll nervous, tense, happy or whatever. I would love to ng experience and, write an El Salvador hit song. That’s exactly the make a record that would also make people feel illy, in need of of its parts. able to speak with Roland S. Howard way we don’t write.’ ecstatically happy. I’ve no preference for making . Yesterday’s and u people depressed or tense, when I’m really happy I have been that audi y before the concert. He was asked about These followed some discussion of recording stage act: techniques and questions about Nick being the don’t have the need to write. It is only when I’m .01: OF' campuses ii depressed that I have to write a song, so most of different to that of re is nothing in our group that’s a stage act. f r o n t m a n . have had the I'in merely the way the personalities in the ‘Birthday Party is the most aggressive parts of them tend to be about depressive subjects but not ademic screws aj ibehave when they’re put in the situation of our personalities pushed forward and Nick as the necessarily in a depressive way.’ md there is precious; .g to a live audience ... when we do play, Nick most aggro emphasizes that.’ W e then asked about his reading habits. I w anted r tomorrow’s dod tend to operate on a purely intuitive level, Do you m ind? to know if he was aware of Janet Fram e at all? H e :o explore their pe not conscious of what dance step we might ‘I do, but it’s not something I’m going to sit here w asn't but as it so happens - ural environment, lg on the expression on our faces. There is no and weep about in interviews coming across as ‘There is far more influence in our music and our computer science j some pathetic moaning character riddled with writing from books than from any other groups. as taken priority, act in the Birthday Party and I cannot asize that strongly enough.’ worms of jealousy. ’ One last quote: o f retrenchment A lot of writing about Birthday Party em phasizes at what the STUDElfrf sort of effect would you like to have on ‘We are the Birthday Party. Everything O U N C IL has been ? the death im agery. in the Birthday, Party is contradictions ‘Both Nick and I share a certain fascination of 73 to 1983 may ha* anyway which is why nobody can ever dying for a start, and also people who for some and student politj ’d like them to react understand us because of course we’re all .found! officers individuals and not as a mob and reason feel the* need to kill. It’s just basically g this at the moment also like them to have some kind of things th at interest us .... what you’re asking me is individuals and you get four different r t Fie Outcome, rstanding of the fact that we won’t be playing why does Samuel Beckett write about characters answers to the same question.’ n is extended to youj ■ ten minutes each — Jason K em p up of coffee in the a back ‘into the uroc FOR ALL YOUR TYPING REQUIREMENTS CALL / Brian Sweeney. i by Jane-Marie •n. F o r th e N e w Zeal USA ’ Arts Council, P.Q. The Exciting Way e llin g to n . * Wide range of typefaces * Electronic Memory Machines 100,000 miles of tra ­ * Prompt, efficient service * 20% discount to students vel is yours with PHONE PEGGY ON 32-987 & LET US G reyhound’s AMERIPASS. BANG YOUR THESIS INTO SHAPE Go where you want, ALPHABET BUSINESS BUREAU LIMITED when you want, in P,0. 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Dear Secretary, Dear Editor, Now we re back into the swing of things. After another Unemployment is now affecting over 110,000 people, 49% of wasted 3 weeks of doing sweet F.A. I did some part time work New Zealanders regard unemployment as the main problem in student newspaper is to explore current issues which affect* around mmpns, and I must say that students are the grubbiest society, and last summer 7,500 students were unemployed. The and those such as feminism, racism, and various political lH«n pack of bastards rve met. We have rubbish bins, they use the New Zealand University Students’ Association is conducting a are important and deservedly occupy space in Craccum. St ground, we have good toilet facilities, some even shit on the campaign on unemployment over the next eight weeks, (and I am sure this has been said before), fanatical diatribes lawns etc. Quad area after students lunch break looks like a focussing on Youth and particularly student unemployment. embittered zealots only serve to further alienate less i brotheL The Coffee Bar has just been painted up. But it was a The aims of the unemployment campaign are: persons. Surely the authors of your more zealous r proper w aste of rim e Som e w anker will w rite sh it on w alls as per usuaL • to educate students about the causes of unemployment appreciate th a t blinkered thinking (which th ey seem to be itfc And the coffee bar is always like a pigsty. Sometimes I’m - to involve students in their association of) on these issued (sexism, racism) is what caused the |3)TheCi - to support unemployed groups ashamed to be a student. and racial prejudice which unfortunately pervades aspects of sitsow No wonder we get treated like shit sometimes. Look at the shit - to highlight the need for government action to curb society today. I cannot help thinking that if we could read i' i infer. 1 we leave behind us. unemployment. these issues from articles w hich w ere less hinged irepres impassioned, then many students who now do so, would (support T he campaign will include forums, drama, educational leaflets Signed I.F. and so on, culminating in a mass mobilisation of students during diosinclined to p ass th e su b ject m aterial off a s tren d y bullshit nt wa; the week 15th to 22nd July. The Auckland University Students’ Anyway, enough moralising. If I give the Ihei Association will be setting up an Unemployment Action of Craccum's recent rhetoric has offended my middle Committee to co-ordinate participation by Auckland students in O.K. GUYS male sensibilities, then I will be happy. Still, I am sure that the campaign. is hope for C raccum y e t - th e quality of th e new sprint at least a |4) We th The first meeting is on Tuesday 7th June from lpm to 2pm in D ear Sir, middle of the road - too flexible to make darts with, and yet not 140 minu the Executive Lounge (first floor. Student Union Building). This We write to seek your assistance in the m atter of one of our soft enough to wipe your bum with. (I have asked around). meeting will give a general background to the N.Z.U.S.A. street A frame advertising boards which disappeared from its campaign and discuss the initial action in the campaign. All position at the comer of Kyhber Pass and Osborne Street, Yours with completely brutal and utterly frank sincerity, rpress r other meetings are Tues lpm in Council Rm (ground floor) Newmarket on Wednesday 4th May. A ntony Jam es Mathew] “ rtl As a way of involving your club in the activities we would While we are not sure that it was removed by students on P.S. - all good Craccum letters have one of these. encourage at least one representative of your club to regularly their usual procession around the city’s favourite watering attend these meetings. This contact will hopefully allow co­ holes, it is in this case in a strategic position just outside the ordination of activities and maximise student involvement. Carlton Club Hotel. We would like it back and would appreciate NO HARMSE DONE? it if you could please put our request on your students notice Y ours sincerely board or wherever. If it did appear we would be prepared to shout Dear Craccum, J . G rady A. G ibson the deliverer lunch for two with no recrimination. H ow odd of J or gen H arm se to beg a n apology of me. After all A C T IN G E V P UNEMPLOYMENT ACTION he did specifically utter the words ‘sexism doesn’t exist COMMITTEE Yours faithfully, because... ’, and thus I am a little confused at what he takes ism I GIGIS at: He was reported accurately. nt \ EXPLANATION PLEASE OLD, BUT WISE ? If I appeared to proffer ‘lordly contempt’, as Mr Harm* J i campus. quaintly declares, perhaps this was because I was mat] I at tl Craccum, Dear Editor, surprised that any white, male person shouts, stands up I was one of a large group of former Exec, members who Well, I have to admit to being a first tim e le tte r w riter. T his is advise wom en th a t sexism does not exist. H e was, of course, the wandered about the Students’ Union on Saturday 7 May in the not to say that I am a new student - having been here six years - only speaker, out of many, to assume this somewhat shaky | cold wind, looking for the re-union function to which we had w hich is long enough to rem em ber w hen Bob L ack had m ore hair stand. M ost debate concerned, instead, th e n atu re of sexism. been invited. Although no notice was posted and no student than bald patch, and when I did not have one at alL Anyway, I Mr Harmse’s assertion that no one argued with his stand 1 official appeared, we eventually realised that the re-union was a have finally been moved to write by some recent articles in m akes m e w onder if he noticed he w as th e la st speaker at tha,[ non-event — much to our disappointment, as we had looked Craccum. To call them one eved would be the understatement SRC. forw ard to seeing old friends and to m eeting som e of th e present proverbial. I mean unless you are non-white, communist, I mentioned Harmse’ indiscretion, as pertains to the chair, a»j students’ executive. Those who had in their day contributed Maori speaking (pronounced Maowri for you dilettantes out an indication of his perception as to the course of th e meeting. time and money to planning the buildings, were especially sorry there) womin, who does not shave her legs, and who eats spit Mr Harmse at least made some people laugh (hyst not to be able to look around the complex they had helped to roasted penis for tea, then what does Craccum hold for you? with his little talk. He made others feel slightly sick. build. Some were from out of town and would not have another Advertising you say? Well maybe. U nfortunately for H arm se, he h as indicated his views an | opportunity. I’m not sure what point was being made by such However, the evidence points unerringly to the fact that most unchanged. Perhaps women everywhere should demand an rudeness. I for one felt ashamed. Can anyone explain ? students think the content of Craccum is grossly biased (I have apology from him. asked around). Now, without question, one of the roles of a Yours, with eyebrows aflutter, Mary McMillan (Woodward) Students’ Executive 1943-4. John Pagan I

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Don’t the Engineers have their own common l Had it been voted on at 2.00pm, when double the number of ssues w hich affect mi room? (We have been told to leave your space...) various political j •w ere present, the motion might have been passed. 4) Didn’t see you at the celebrations, mate... ace in Craccum. The Craccum editorial staff have broken ALL of the i Canons of Journalism. This clearly indicates the state 5) The cartoon is in no way slanderous, all we were saying is fanatical diatribes! that your right wing proposals put it in league, so to speak, with alienate less ii f competency of the editorial staff and their blatant disregard strange bedfellows. As for the rumour of L.O.R memo I have no r proper journalism. I wonder just what sort of a person more zealous ideas. adeis this years Craccum the best in a long time. th ey seem to be j It is a bit early for ‘springcleaning’, sounds more like the hat caused the i 1) The Craccum reform group considers no single club should winter of your discontent... tervades aspects, s its own representative on Exec, not women in general as r. This year there were six women on Exec, which is a if we could read i ◄ RUST OR BUST ► ;re less biased J representation. W e believe th a t wom enspace does n o t have now do so, would L (support of most women. We know of a case where a women D ear Sir, ff as trendy bullshit nt was asked to leave, and told not to return unless she It’s all very well crying out for the United States to disarm, REMOVED DUE TO give the impr 1 her ideas on w om ens role in society; on leaving she w as but we mustn’t forget that there are two competitors in the ded my middle l a considerable distance. W h at so rt of w om an hangs o u t Arm’s race. If the United States were to bow to pressure and 11, la m sure that I mspace? cease developing its weaponry, while Russia continued, te new sprint at leasts 14) We think there was more debate in the Centenary S.G.M. unharassed, to arm , we would have, n o t th e peace we all long for larts w ith, and yeti ,40 minutes than there h as been in Craccum articles A LL but, domination. Russia must be rubbing its hands in glee at the 3 asked around). prospect of peace movements forcing the United States to |P)Besides being slanderous, I find your cartoon reference to remove its troops from Western Europe, as ‘an American THREAT OF LEGAL itterly frank sir j press release on behalf of the group personally insulting, withdrawal is exactly what Moscow has been trying to achieve itony James Matl ■sally the ‘League of Rights’ innuendo. I was not even aware since World War II. *’ Inadvertently the western peace these. f the groups existence until I heard a rumour going round in movement is proving an ally to Russia, because, as long as it I supposedly handed some L.O.R. document to the pressures the United States to remove weapons from Western i staff. Europe, Russia does not need to meet the United States half­ E? I strongly urge all students to attend the S.G.M. on Thurs way. • 9th. It will be the most decisive and crucially important If the United States were to withdraw from Western Europe it ; A.U.S.A. has ever had, the repercussions of which will would be naive to believe that Russia would just sit back, while ACTION jology of me. After afl, t for many years. Western Europe was inadequately defended, and wait for its sexism doesn't exut At least we have a President who is not in the game of billions of dollars worth of arms to rust. Russia has maria nc at w hat he takes ism 1 his own political hobby horse. At last we have a secret of its intention of creating a communist world. ‘The Red at who has the guts to stand up to the pressure groups Army is so superior to Nato in conventional weaponry that it p t\ as Mr Harmsei irumpus. We students owe it to ourselves to rally behind John could probably conquer Western Europe in a few weeks. Only because I was I at this S.G.M. and see that A.U.S.A. gets a long, long the U.S.S.R’s fear that America would use tactical nuclear ihouts, stands up i • springcleaning. weapons against Soviet tanks has prevented this. A nuclear H e was, of course, t Nato has thus been the real guarantor of peace *’. this somewhat sfa John MacCulloch We may shudder at this statement, but we m ust face up to the e n atu re of sexism, Craccum Reform Group fact that disarmament will only work if both sides co-operate. trgued with his sti Even now, as we protest at the number of nuclear weapons ie last speaker at t iITOR’S REPLY: I don’t think an hour is sufficient time to America has it is important to remember that ‘while the United issues which, in your own words, will have ‘repercussions States devotes 5.9% of its GNP to military spending, the ertains to the chair, will be felt for many years’. I hope other people will also Russians spend an estimated 12-14% on theirs *’. Imagine th e urse of the meeting, the gravity of the motions and let the discussions run power the one would have, without the other to hold it in check. le laugh (hysl ir fullest. The ideal solution would be to bring this absurd race to an end ghtly sick, 2) What are the ‘American Canons of Journalism’? Do they but to do so both competitors must pull out of it, and not just dicated his views an qity in New Zealand? Your reasons for dismissing me and my one of them. e should demand an gtff fluctuate daily. F irst i t ’s because I haven’t accepted Yours faithfully, pgything that’s come in, next it’s because of the feminist Susan Nisbet it (see letter from Chaff in Issue Eight). Now it’s because wiren’t ‘proper journalists’. If we were proper journalists John Pagani

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22 Lome St behind 246, ph 30-689 3 Lower Albert St, beneath Trilio's, ph 790-987 St Kevin's Arcade. K Rd, ph 734-232 LETTERS \0 T S M IT H SA Y S Dion Fortune exposed the folly of American occultists lo 10% MAJORITY? at Egyptian traditions while ignoring the indigenous Ac D ear E ditor, Indian culture and ethos. Donna Awatere highlights the pov So the organized right-wing has finally arrived on campus, D ear Craccum, of New Zealand intellectual thought divorced from ‘land i under th e guise of th e C raccum Reform G roup they are ab o u t to I write concerning ‘K’s’ letter in the issue 31.5.83. Surely she shakapapa based sp iritu ality ’. BEER AN take the stu d en ts back to the 19th Century. finds it slanderous when/if she is told that the majority of Donna Awatere looks to a positive future, in which all as[ Phillip Ross, the leader of the group, has been known for many women are heterosexual, and when/if she is assailed by of thought and life are seen as one. The Maori vision is oneo [Friday lOt years to have ultra-right ideas. He is a fan of Milton Friedmann, publications asserting that heterosexuality is really the ‘natural’ broad and deep spiritual expanse. , Showing fi is against social welfare, supports apartheid, calls Pacific form of sexuality for the ‘thinking’ woman; as I do when I think your correspondents should look and think i ’ about sc Islanders ‘queer Rastifarions’. He and his cronies want to get rid lesbianism is thus pressed on me. It is ludicrous to think that again. t All welo of the Women’s Rights Officer, Craccum Editor, the Executive. the stigma once attached to lesbianism has not really been WRO - his reasoning here is quite amazing. He says that the destroyed, merely shifted on to the shoulders of the heterosexual Yours sic WRO only looks after one club - Unifems. W hat rubbish!! Since female. Sexuality, or rather sexual preference, is a product of Thomas Ma LITTLE this position has been established we have seen a raised experience, environment and personal inclination. Perhaps consciousness on campus for womens issues, the WRO looks Cathy S. does not so much find lesbians themselves disturbing, I Toes 7 June 8] after all women’s rights, fights for better lighting, running as the assertion th a t lesbianism is ‘rig h t’ for all women. E X E C ’SID E usical Gui sexual violence campaigns, womens self defence, has written ne in numerous articles for CRACCUM, presented a women’s view on Yours sincerely, D ear Louise, LAlbenizH all issues of Exec. She is involved in other issues such as Paula Morris H aving ju s t read the B roadside in last weeks issue of abortion and childcare. EVANGE] we find it to be both a gross abuse of the privilege of i This I believe has contributed greatly to the raised awareness Presidential column and an unjustified attack on our about women in faculties including engineering. Overt sexism 5 out you SNAPPY QUESTIONS Executives’ integrity. and harassment of women by lecturers has declined, women’s Peter Ph It makes the following factual misrepresentations: content in courses has increased. ‘Livin D ear Exec, 1. The vote of no confidence in John Broad passed | Unifems is only a small part of her work and not necessarily d' Tues 7l Could you please answ er the following questions: Executive was sparked off by more than 5 months experiencM even under her jurisdiction. J o h n ’s failings as President, n o t by th e C entenary SGM alone, | Womens pace - says Ross is the Unifems Club Room. This is 1. Who was on the AUSA open day committee or why wasn t 2. This vote is being taken to the students. Prof Se p aten tly untrue! W o men space is for and is used by m any women there one? ent. ‘L: 3. Had John Broad not given a bogus excuse for who would not even consider themselves feminists and are 2. W hat did the Centennary Committee do for open day ? Campus’ 3. W h at are they doing for the centennary ? AUSA for several days he would have known what was | looking for a quiet space to be on their own or with other women. on. ons Loun The Craccum Editor - Ross wants her dismissed. Why? 4. Why did the clubs receive no information on open day, and 4. The solicitors ruling was legitimately obtained. , Because she doesn’t print everything offered - no matter what encouragem ent to particip ate ? WOMEN 1 solicitors also advised that had we remained aware that Jt literary quality. Or is it that he doesn’t like her politics? 5. Why was the Environment Group down in the programme jINEERI Broad was not a member of AUSA and taken no action t The Editorial Staff - again, they must go! Does he not like even though they were never contacted a b o u t it? 6. Who was supposed to have arranged the ‘Nuclear W ar’ film? would have been acting improperly. their politics either. Does he even know who they are? 5. The Constitution, which any President should be fa™ ! will be a Craccum AdminBoard - Ross wants to replace the Board with Who put it in the programme? Why was it not cancelled earlier? ntific w 7. W hat happened to th e C ham pagne B reakfast? with, clearly states that the solicitors rule in cases an Exec dominated one. How stupid to put the press in the constitutional disputes or uncertainty, which this was. hands of the Exec. If Craccum wants to excercise freedom in 8. W hy did th e last W ed exec m eeting go on so late A G A IN ? IWe are kickir 9. Who authorised the Vice-Chancellors tickets for the Revue? 6. T he E xecutive acted according to th e solicitors r ^ , respect to commenting on Exec it must have an autonomous not their own opinions. Members abstaining from or opp*» 1 cal get-toge board. If freedom of the press is wanted, this is just the How did those tickets come to be removed from my office i Thurs 9th the no confidence motion supported the actions of Executive. situation to avoid !! without my knowledge? Why were they brought back after the V-C arrived? 7. During the two weeks after the passing of the moti The Executive - Ross wants to get rid of Exec. What have they acting on the solicitors ruling, the Acting President dealt i done? Hve they failed in their portfolio work, have they 10. W hat makes the President think he can promise ball tickets om 143 St to people? W hat does he think a booking system is for? the Presidents’ work, represented AUSA on the relev misappropriated student money, or is it that they are sick and committees and was accepted by staff, the University , Iflounge). tired of dealing with an incompetent, secretive autocratic f anyone is i Paula NZUSA as such. Until the rescinding of these motions this i president. Or is it their politics too? the proper and only practical w ay to deal w ith the situation. Mr Ross is setting out on a time (dis)honoured course of red­ hwith: AWATERE DEFENDED In conclusion we would comment on two other statement!) i Lewis Ph; baiting and feminist baiting. the column. John described Executives’ actions in following t Who will go next? Associations’ lawyers advice as a “ludicrous sequence i Rennie D ear Louise, Speak out against it. Next it could be you!! ab su rd ities” . If anything is ludicrous or absurd it is their sea f Helen Reyn I am compelled to defend strongly Donna Awatere’s moving ruling, which was that once you have paid to join AUSA for < Dt Susan Smith and brilliant article regarding Western and Maori intellectual year you remain a member forever. It is only because of i CULTUH thought (Craccum May 3) against the appalling insensitivity ruling th a t Jo h n B road is still President. ME shown by the writers of two letters to Craccum (May 31). ◄ ON BOYS MAKING NOISE John also expressed a willingness to “get on with the wo nt nc Craccum this year is a well-informed, entertaining and I t is a p ity th a t he has never done th is before. d clubs. 1 stimulating publication rising far above the tired conservative Dear Editor, Karin 1 in the efforts of other media. It distresses and infuriates me that two (doubtlessly white, A dm inistrative Vice-I 7th Jur middle-class) young men have the audacity to put their motions Its high point has clearly been Donna Awatere’s article. I was Jonathan Blaken 1 activiti (in every sense of the word) to an S.G.M. profoundly moved while reading it, and urge anyone who has not us this te yet done so, to obtain a copy. For the first time in their comfortable little lives there is a t up a grou place that is not specifically for them, a newspaper which Mainstream Western intellectual thought is in a quagmire, jsted cult questions the validity of their exalted place in society and a shackled by the chains of logical positivism and its sterile r activities representative whose long term relevance to them they cannot successors. Donna Awatere offers a ‘positive, realistic, GO TO COUNSELLING SERVICE ► icised i see. They see this as oppression and the mere idea of that sends reasonable’ solution to this status. Western intellectuals must | as a Cultu them running around the campus (and the Kiwi*) with their stop confining their thinking in narrow, specialist channels. Dear Abbie-Louise, e interests petition in a hysterical tan tru m . They must establish contact with the spiritual nature of the I t cost m e 40c for a sm all soft apple in the Cafe. I want ch happt Have they no idea the day to day oppression suffered by land, and with the vast network of ideas, events, myths, loves and there ain’t none. I can’t learn how to castrate men un* e come alo women in our patriachal and racist society? Obviously not and lives of the past, a past out of which the spiritual nature of go to Med School. My lecturer told me my essay was mudd Cultura because they cannot cope with (a) views of the oppressed (as are any human being must grow. It’s always raining and I can’t afford a raincoat. There’s a i i 113 (first 1 diligently expressed in the student newspaper), (b) a single Your correspondent is correct that ‘you can’t change history’, c at living in m y house. I hate cats. I feel like a hamburger Vl e30789 spokesperson for the oppressed majority (the women’s rights (real history, that is, not the winners version) but this does not taco at lunchtime and have to settle for a 40c small apple officer) and (c) a single room that is a sanctuary from make the past irrelevant. Far from it. The present oppressive already said that ... The letters page is boring and political, SIX DAY om nipresent males. nature of our society, and the archetypes and forces extending what do you advise? Should I leave my boyfriend? Is suiddi back to the dawn of the world, come from the past. The present answer? All I can do is moan, groan, whinge and gripe... is t film I Yours sincerely, has no meaning in the absence of the past. hope? W ill crunchy apples be back in season soon? _ginl97( W . M urphy Our roots in the specifically New Zealand, Maori and Pakeha, Yours in wi cutive Lour * I understand Mr MacCulloch is too young to be in pubs, so history and culture are vitally important. The great occultist snt Assn perhaps he is ignorant of the law as well. lay 13th Move: je 16th is th i momentoi CAMPUS RADIO Modern Music to munch to & h African Student Information. COUNSELLING ssted 1XB Auckland 1404 kHz 7pm Gig Guide - in and around did hap Telephone 32-236. Auckland tonight. SERVICES TUESDAY 7th & WEDNESDAY SUNDAY 12th AW/A MINUTE! STUDY SKILLS 8th. Wed 7.05 Campus Radio 7am Music from the other side of COUNSELLING SERVICE - TINGO 256 RECORDS Alternative Top Ten GROUPS TO BE HELD IN Resource Person — David the charts. Iadminist Phone us between 5 and 6.30 to 4pm. A certain Jazz - multi T E R M II Sim pson 1 Individual Help with Study vote 32236. directional new music, fashions, : J. Bar Problem s Transmission starts 4pm. News fads, and trendiness. 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University Buddhist Club. 1793-954 or l 7pm An Alternative breakfast • UNI [OTICES can occultists 1 indigenous Ac lighlights the pov orced from ‘land i KENNETH MAIDMENT TYPING ROSELIE BERTELL CHINESE STUDIES CLUB e, in which all t BEER AND POLITICS THEATRE AGM & PARTY aori vision is one of J Thesis typing or any other typing i Friday 10th June Rms 202 & Speaking on Sunday, June 12 at Fri 10 June 1pm ‘Friday at One’ Ring 817-6908 Mrs R. Jordan. 2.30 at the Freemans Bay 6.30pm, Wednesday June 8th, k and think (and I . Showing film ‘The Workplace Music for Today featuring a $' about sexual harassm ent of C om m unity Centre. Exec. Lounge. Admission free on programme of 20th century paym ent of $1 m em bership fee. l All welcome. SOWETO DAY - FOOD FAIR composers. Admission free. F ri 17 S a t 18 Ju n e 8pm ‘T O PP Yours sin CRACCUM STAFF Thomas Macau LITTLE T H E A T R E To mark this day, and to raise SECRET’. A stunning, new show ‘WHAT HAPPENED AT by those two acclaimed, money for the Southern AFrican Staff meetings Mondays 1 pm. 17 June 8pm H O R ST B altes - Scholarship Fund, the various WAITANGI 1983?’ irrepressible personalities The Topp Musical Guitarist. Extensive We’re planning an issue on law and Twins. The enormous success of this overseas students’ clubs are one on medicine so anyone in these ne includes works by Published by the National Council hilarious entertainment derives organizing a Food Fair in the Quad fields would be specially welcome - LAlbeniz Handel and Paganini. at 1.00 on Thurs. June 16th. Be of Churches. Available from the from their talents which are McLaurin Chapel Secretary, $3.50. as well as anyone else. Layouts are there - to e a t ! distinctive fresh and spontaneous. reeks issue of Cr on Thursday nights and we can evangelical u n i o n You’re in for laughter and a great f the privilege of i alw ays use proofreaders then. night out as you watch. Joots, A.R.M. SOCIAL & FILM SKIING FOR DISABLED 1 attack on our 5 out your faith’ Series Lyuda and the egg survive the evil EVENING TRITON ELECTRONICS Peter Phillip from L.A.M. machinations of this espionage - 3entations: Fitness classes are underway once r ‘Living out your faith w ith Friday June 17th at 7.00 in the ‘drama’. Bookings at the Comer. )hn Broad passed I again for disabled people wishing to We repair all brands of stereos, Tues 7th 1pm Functions Executive Lounge. Come along and Tickets $7.50. Students $5.00. ) months experie try snow skiing. Fitness to music radios etc. Half normal trade rates. meet nice people, drink some nice ntenary SGM alo classes are held every Wednesday Prof Seber Mathematics drinks, and watch some good films. snts. evening at the Royal New Zealand WOMEN’S RIGHTS OFFICER ent. ‘Living out your faith We’re showing the most recent anti­ MADMENT LUNCHTIME jus excuse for leavj Foundation for the Blind Social AND EDUCATION VICE Campus’ Tues 14th 1pm apartheid film • ‘The Dispossessed’ MOVIES nown what was | Hall, Parnell. Able-bodied people PRESIDENT :tions Lounge. which is about the exploitation of are alw ays welcome. Mon 13 June 1.05pm ‘Lawrence of black labour under the aDartheid Nominations are invited for the nately obtained, WOMEN IN SCIENCE & system in S.A. All Welcome. There Arabia’. Acclaimed as the greatest lined aware that Jol following positions:- Women’s achievement in the history of NGINEERING - W.I.S.E. - will be a small door charge to raise SPECIAL CENTENNIAL ART d taken no action \ Rights Officer and Education Vice- cinema it portrays the life of T.E. money for the Southern African AND CRAFT EXHIBITION President of A.U.S.A. for the i will be an informal group for Scholarship Trust so come along Lawrence in the Arabian sub Hit should be f; rem ainder of 1983. | scientific women who wish to and p u t your m oney to a worthw hile continent. Starring Peter O’Toole. s rule in cases A n exhibition of selected w orks of Nominations foisthese positions Eton a level. cause. Alec Guinness. Only $1. ch this was. artists and craftspeople in the will close with the Secretary at 5pm We are kicking off th is term w ith s solicitors University community will be held on T uesday 7 Ju n e and th e positions FOUND 1 get-together. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON Jig from or op^_ between 15th August and 26th will be filled by means of a by- I Thurs 9th June (wine ( food RACISM WORKSHOP Lons of Executive, August 1983. election to be held on W ednesday 15 A Bible has been found in the ssing of the mo Any person in the University and Thursday 16 June. Student Health Clinic waiting- The Anti-racism movement is President dealt community wishing to exhibit their room. Would the owner please Haim iom 143 Students Assoc, (near organizing a workshop session, run AWARD IN INDUSTRIAL 5A on the best efforts in ceramics, jewellery, it. by the anti-racism group ACORD, DESIGN the University glassware, sculpture, weaving, .anyone is interested and can’t for 10.00 Sat. June 18th. This tese motions this printmaking, leatherwork, or lilong please sign below or g et in workshop has proven very An industrial design award for th the situation. photography is invited to WOULD-BE COLOUR ihwith: enjoyable and successful in the past, final year students is again being ) other statement, participate. If you want further PHOTOGRAPHERS lidaLewis Physics R510 x 8833 in getting people to think about and offered by an Auckland-based tions in following information and wish to contribute Helen Rennick Engin. Lib x 8130 discuss their attitudes about manufacturer. S atu rd ay Ju n e I I iicrous sequence contact Felicity, Secretary at Photosoc. Repeat Colour Printing Helen Reynolds M aths 3rd yr racism, and the many ways it is The award will again be surd it is their Counselling Service (ext. 7895/6). Course. Top Common Room 1.30. found throughout our whole society. There will be a meeting on administered by the New Zealand > join AUSA fora * nt If you’re interested in this Society of Industrial Designers. The A fternoon tea provided. nly because of th CULTURAL M O SA IC Thursday 16 June from 1.00 - workshop, please contact Cathy winning design will attract a grant T uesday Ju n e 14 MEETING 2.00pm at the Counselling Rooms Flynn P h 30789 ex t 72, or 864675 or exceeding $6000 which may be used Club Meeting in Advanced on with the work" Important notice to all anu any (above BNZ Bank and Post Office), Darkroom Techniques. Top come up to Rm 113 in the Student for travel overseas for further fciral dubs. There is a m eeting a t to discuss details of organisation for Common Room 7.30pm. Supper Assn building. the exhibition. study, to gain professional Karin Bo (Opm in the Council Room on experience abroad, or to develop a provided. itive Vice-Presiden bes. 7th June, to decide w hat ANTI CALENDAR design concept for production. fonathan Blakemaa jtural activities are happening on CAMPUS RADIO The award is open to senior (final Treasun mpus this term. W e’re try in g to Nominations are invited for the year) students enrolled in the design i up a group of reps from all Is looking for alternative News position of ‘Anti-Calendar’ Editor. courses at the Wellington ANMESTY INTERNATIONAL Krested cultural clubs, so that This is a paid position which News News and student Polytechnic, Carrington Technical (AI) er activities can be co-ordinated involves the collation of Information Information Institute, and the Elam School of EtVICE ► | d publicised as a cultural activity Information. Anything you know information, layout, and production Fine Arts at the University of Monday June 13 l-2pm. Executive d aa a Cultural Mosaic activity, that everybody should; publicity for of an alternative Calendar which has A uckland. Lounge, 1st Floor, Studass. All ithe interests of encouraging more your club or society; reviews or a particular focus on Stage I papers. Entries for the 1983 award will welcome to help us gain the release Cafe. I want ch al happenings on campus, films, plays, anything and Nominations for this position close in mid-November with judging of our two ‘adopted’ prisoners of astrate men i come along, or contact C athy everything. Come up and join our close with the Media Officer at 5pm and the announcem ent of the w inner conscience in Berin, West Africa essay was mu „ Cultural A ffairs Officer in new enthusiastic but at present on 30th June, and an appointment in late November early December. and in Turkey - a trade unionist. coat. There’s a l. 7l3 (first floor S tudent Assn), will be m ade soon after th a t date. skeleton staff - Top Floor of Studass Contact for further information: ke a hamburger c. 30789 ext 72 or ph 864675. Contact: Paul Hitchfield 495-542. Further information is available at Campus Radio. Peter Hamling, Tel: (09) 792-631 i 40c small apple. from the M edia Officer. 'ring and political. SIX DAYS IN SO W ETO ’ NOMINATIONS: Friend? Is suiddet" ENVIRONMENT GROUP/NFAC s and gripe... ist film about the Soweto THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL - MOTONUI, MEETING soon? The following paid positior i are „^in 1976 will be show n in the MANUKAU open a t Cam pus Radio: Yours in waiti Mtive Lounge (first floor above Assistant Station Manager There will be a joint Environment mt Assn desk) a t 1.00pm on Technical D irector Group and NFAC University 13th June by the Anti- W hat is the controversy over M otonui ? Advertising Manager branch meeting on Thursday June Movement. Since Thurs 9th starting at 7.30pm. W hat does it have to do w ith the W aitangi T ribunal ? If you are interested get your 1 16th is the 7th anniversary of In fact - w hat is the W aitangi T ribunal ? nomination to Media Officer Jon There will be a talk by Tony i momentous shooting by the What will the new pipeline across the Manukau mean in terms of the Barker at Room 111 of Studass or Hughes complete with slide b African authorities, you may Tribunal ? just have a chat to him or Station onWhirinaki. Tony will put forward sted in finding out just Auckland Workers Education Association have organised an evening Manager Andrew Dickens about it. the case for preservation of did happen. All welcome! FORUM which will examine these issues from a Maori perspective and their Nominations close June 15th, 5pm. Whirinaki podocarp forests. New m eaning for the A otearoa of tomorrow . Zealand has less than 5% of dense podocarp forest remaining and MINUTES O F T H E 8TH Speakers: Dr Ranganui Walker, Bill Tapuke, Nganeko Minhinnick. W hirinaki m akes up 2% of this. ,JING OF THE CRACCUM Date: Tuesday June 14th, 7.30pm. STUDENT CHRISTIAN For further details contact Barry DMINISTRATION BOA RD Place: Trades Hall, auditorium, 147 -151 Gt North Rd. MOVEMENT (S.C.M.) For information about this and other forums and courses contact W.E.A., 21 Weeber 789-608. Princes St, Auckland Tel 732-030. _ f: J. Barker (Chair), E. Ley land, L. MacLaurin Hall 5.45pm. Tea and ‘H A IR ’ il.Sowry, J. Winters, j the bloody meeting open at 2.23pm. Discussion, Tuesday June 7 with DISABLED STUDENTS 5 OF THE LAST MEETING: WINTER LECTURES 1983 Peter Derby, a St John’s College ACTION GROUP Society is proud CHAIR student. (At present Peter is filling lovie ‘H air’ in the kTthe minutes of the last meeting of the General Title: THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY in for the Chaplain, Kevin Sharpe Next meeting - Monday 20th June T hursday June 16 ■ be taken as read and as a true and 1 record. while he is on leave). All welcome. l-2pm. In the Orange Room, ground freshments will tUED Wednesday, 8 June 1983 Contact: M aria Kobe 602-246. floor Old Choral Hall. Mrs Port the admission cl , m chair Speaker C.E. Beeby, Formerly Director-General, Department (Parking Controller) will be '0. On the foil ■T payment of $1060.66 to Wanganui of Education, Wellington. ■ipere for the 9th issue of Craccum speaking. All welcome. For details h t (23 June) we will 4 May 3rd be approved. Topic: ‘Is the University a Part of the Education System?’ contact Heather Brockett, A.U.S.A. sin Cousine’. J1IED (30-789). ■8/83 CHAIR Wednesday, 15 June 1983 |KT Staff payments totalling $146 for work Speaker Professor R.E.F. Matthews, Department of Cell ton the 10th issue of Craccum be LOST! Biology, University of Auckland. \A TIO N CLASS IIED Abstention: Sowry Topic: ‘The University, Science and the Community’. Wed 8, 9, 10 June 1pm. i closed at 2.28pm. One Paua triangle earring. Very ‘FORTUNATELY PAST / at 1pm, Room precious — (mostly to me!) 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