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*^»***********»t****»^'***^ dom of the Press I wish to COLLEGE remind the new editors that rights provided by the above The Teachers' Training College is the one place where teachers are grouped together, the one place where there should be some possibility of ideal shall not be abused. bargaining with the Department over such problems as the arrangements for Therefore I propose that the paying long vacation pay, the pay rates and the unpalatable secrevf by which following types of article be exam, results and official estimates of teaching ability are kept from students. banned: In order to prevent this, the® ~—— Those that are: Department set up a "Stu-j 4/f enf lOJl, LdW/erS Blasphemous, libellous, seditious, dents' Union Council." The unhealthy, unsound, worthless, ultimate authority of this As a service to its many mean, low-minded, loul, evil, sinful, body rests with the Principal. legal readers, "Semper" pre- immoral, amoral, naughty, sugges 8ent6 the lollowing competi tive, turpiludinous, abominable, ab So, as a Union, It Is a tion :~ surd, harmful, wrong, wicked, fraud, it is more akin to a gloomy, feeble, deficient, abnormal, or A is charged with hav imperfect, diseased, decayed, school prefect system. Admit ing attempted to murder tainted, defective, hutifui, ner- tedly, the Council organises a B, Crown evidence is that nicious, dangerous, mischievious, The Wonderful Results of full and successful programme improbable, hypercritical, hypocriti a bullet was fired through cal, unpropitious, unfortunate, dis- of social activities and ar B's window, wounding him i /jfiitoui, annoying, flagitious, ranges theatre concessions. slightly. A ballistics expert rude, ignoble, intJccent, in Being Unbearable (It can do this easily because famous, vicious, corrupt, malicious, gives evidence that the shot dissolute, depraved, uniust, dishon T.T.C. students, unlike Unl. was fired from a rifle belong est, disreputable, unpleasant, brutal, This is the tale of Dr. Bert students, are a fairly homo ing to A. A admits that the i malevolent, false, treacherous, re geneous group). actionary, revolutionary, conserva Whose party always lost its shirt. rifle has never left his posses tive, liberal, radical, bad or anony But all Initiative and Inde sion, but says he was mous. Although he was a man of learning pendence Is denied to it. It "framed." He is unable to ac -A WELL-WISHER. And fiercely with ambition burning. must never suggest improve count for his movements on /, Ephraim Pigsmll, having ments in facilities, There is, the night of the alleged crime. Three qualities our Herbert lacked— for example, no dining hall of Would you say A has a case for too long endured the pattgi Humour, humility and tact. any kind — only a drink and to answer? ; of Bohemian hiisulcncsx, candy window. Something ; "BE WELL ADVISED \ When lawyer Bert appeared in court Send your entries to "Sem i do hereb}} io/cmn/p smear thai may be done some day. Per per" enclosing a donation of He always with the Judges fought; haps. £100 to the Establishment De I / D'JV/ support ihc Union Bar- \ BY THE M.L.C. M.4N" \ And when the Judges threw him out, The composition of the fence League. The prize will ^g,. »,/; Q^Mes ti'/ioic ulifa- He challenged Bishops to a bout. Council is interesting. The be a copy of the report of a ' *-''^'"'cs. ii'/io3c tiiHa- Principal is represented by a Royal Commission whose modern hairalorhim is s'lluated J. S. FRASER Now, Bishops, whether wrong or right, staff-iincmber whom we shall name escapes our memory. | ^, ;/„ ,<,^, „y Sl. Lucia Rc- Are always ready for a fight. call the Director. This man's LIFE ASSUR.\NCE job is to ensure that the Union The Students' Union of the Uni-1/<^<^'<")'• ""f' "'''<' P'OCtiscs the Though dignified, they move quite fast, versify of Louvain, Be oiuni. and the /• ./ / I. .,1 .• .. r n dabbles only hi harmless fields Louvain Student Corps and And Bert was thoroughly outclassed. and to turn the Council into a t'o- boycot•- -t fou- r- -restaurant haves decided;/"'which c aft of barbeiing /roni 9 So Bert sent off some telegrams sounding-board for depart wish to raise their prices. After a a.m. io 2 p.m., at}d from 2.30J FIRE, GENER.-IL INS.; mental propaganda. general strike of three days, the p.m. to 6 p.m. dailif, and uittil And landed Into still worse jams. restaurants will be picketed allcr- \ M.L.C. BUILDINGS, BRIS, \ Council elections are con naffly- >e., on a certain day at 8 p.m. on Tuesda\) and Then, feeling he'd not done enough. trolled entirely by the authori 11.30, a half dozen students will \ Telephone 311101 { picket one of the four restaurants Thwsda\) evenings. So help He even wrote to Molotough. ties. .Some lecturers run the without having notified the res election of group representa taurant beforehand. me Clarl(. He followed this with other capers tives In a fashion reminiscent Which filled long columns in the papers. of the Ironworkers' Union in And so, when preference votes were cast, pre-Short days. Electors put his Party last. UNSUITABLES The Party moaned with grief and woe. The election of the President And swore together: "Bert must go! is more open. This sometimes causes the Director some We're b y foolish to have kept worry, but he always succeeds So long as boss one so inept. in putting a safe man in the at the job. His sacrifice must take place NOW." Before each election, the —But then arose the question "How?" Director points out that an UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAlSfD "We cannot sack the man outright; "unsuitable" President will not be allowed to do very much For the convenience of students, the Bank of New South Wales 'Twould fill the Groupers with delight. and that his duties will be Agency at the University provides all up-to-date general and savings He can't be made a diplomat— e-sercised by members of the banking services. The Liberals have control of that. staff. So the President re mains a figure-head, a stooge, CHEQUE ACCOUNTS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS We must find him a decent Job and a bosses' man. Where he can earn an honest bob. Tlie tinee qualifications Among (he many advantages of a cliequ« Start saving now. Regular deposits, For common things, he's far too big; necessary for a person to account ar« the time and trouble saved with intarest added, soon amount to Milk Boards and such are infra dig." graduate from T.T.C. are (in ID making payments, the safety of paying sizeable sums. Saving is a good habit order of importance): by cheque rather than by cash, and the and you will never regret it, Then said Bob Heffron, standing near, 1. That he have no known complele and permanent record of pay- critical attitudes towards the Interest on savings accounts Is paid "I think I have the right idea." Department. menu provided by your cheque butts He whLspered and they all agreed; 2. That he potter round at and bank statements. yearly at current rate. At present, "That sounds the sort of thing we need." Kelvin Grove for a year on a this is:— few pounds a week. In addition,'the following services They went to see their learned chief. 3. That he humour the riv are available to all general and savings %% p.a. from £1 to £2000 And said, "Dear Bert, we will be brief. alry of the various College de- bank customers:— With you as boss, we have no doubt partment.s — art, needlework, Deposits to your Savings Account speech, etc. — by playing ball Travel scrrlc*. The "Wales" will may b« made at any branch or agency. Our Party always will be out. with each of their "collect-it- plan and arrange your travel anywhere When faced with this, our language falls- and- paste- it- in- a- book" in the world, Withdrawals can be made at the Go back and judge for New South Wales!" manias. branch or agency where the account ii Oh! Its a great life. Tnivcllen' cbeqttes and li'tlcrs of kept at any time, and may be made al PAPHNUTIUS. —PED.4G0GICUS. Cfcdit provide the safest and most con any other branch or agency, if previously (Apres Belloc) venient means of travel finance. arranged. I •**< f,»«#S»S»'#^S/S»^S#s#S#S#S#S»#S»^^^*^»*'^'*''*'^*^»'^'»'»#^-r#^^»^^S>| Girt Chequcji enable you to give the You may authorize payment of divi« Student Discipline most acceptable gift — money — in an UNION MEMBERSHIP CARDS dends, bond interest etc., direct to yovit ,-,^ Student Discipline Committeo attractive form. Oitferent cheques are account. (SOC) will be set up by the Slu- dents Council of McMaster Univer available for weddings, birthdays, jp Don't forget that they must be stamped sity in Hamilton (Canada), for an Christmas and general purposes. LOCATION AND HOURS cxpcrrmDntal period of 12 months. afresh each year. The committee will consist of five Sending money. You can send money The Agency it located In the Admiai« senior students, including at least siration Centre of the University at one junior, at least two of each quickly and easily by mail, air mail, For your own convenience and to reduce sex, and if possible, at least one St. Lucia. , from each faculty of the Student telegram, or cable anywhere in th« the chaos In Union Office hand your old card Linion. Complaints will bo sent to world (subject ta exchange control HOURS: Mondays, Wednesdays the defendant by registered mail to the Secretary of your Faculty or Depart not more than eight days after ac rcguludoni). and Fridays 1 p.m. to 3 p.ia> ceptance by the committee and all mental Society for forwarding to Union Office. principals will be called not more than five days before the actual Consult and use date of the hearing. The production of Union Membership A defendant shall be entitled to croiJ-examine, call witnesses, argue Cards Is essential before gaining admission to on his behalf, and acquire the ser BANK OF vices of a defence counsel, who Union Social functions and may be required must be a member in good standing of the Students' Union. Both tho to gain admission to the new Union buildings. decision and penally imposed shall NEW SOUTH WALES b« reported to tho appropriate dean. In the case of extefiualing circum QUEENSLAND'S FIRST BANK J. S. CARLISLE, stances, the Dean may request tho S.D.C. to review the penally, tho Hon. Secretary. penalties will be in the form of i: fines, payable to the Student Union General and savings banking University of Queensland Union; and/or suspension of student privi leges, (The Silhouette, Hamilton). (iNooaroRATio M Niw wviu WAUI wtru LUUTIO UAiiunt) Page* lEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960 Two Views on the BushmanTh e Modem II Leon Urls: EXODUS. . , ,. , , William Kiinber, 27/6 WO of our staii men, John Helman and that N Its cover EXODUS Is described as a novel about the Stale of Israel, but It soon O becomes obvious to any reader of this marathon, iB30 page work that It Is more than freckled whelp, hag-born, Caliban, went to that. What Urls attempts Is to record the history of the Jewish people al! over the world, r sometimes going back as much as 3000 years. In a weaving, torturous path, he takes his reader from the misery of the Russian Pale to the horror of the NazI-besIeged Warsaw see Lawler's new play, "The Piccadilly Bushghetto, and from the Hving-hell of German concentration camps to the primitive life of Jewish communities in the Middle East. man." And here is what they thought of it... • • 1> It seems clear that Urla ls<^- a firm believer in the saying that truth is stranger than As Caliban saw it... As Helman saw it,.. fiction, for it is only against this authentic historical PEECH is one of our national obsessions. It is Ray Lawler's new play, *'The Piccadilly Bush the one subject on which every Australian hoids background that the novel is Figaro S man," wiU probably not be the great overseas suc interesting and well worth and is prepared to express strong views. Each year, reading. Thus, the first 200 it causes gallons of printer's inli to be spent on cess that the "Doll" was; and It will probably not pages of pure fiction are not By Way of Introduction very Impressive, either in letters to editors' and thousands of tempers to be be made Into a film. The "Doll," for aU its Austra "Write something for us," lost. Mimicry is probably our favourite form of matter or style of narrative. lian flavor, dealt with human problems and frailties But In a work of such pro they said, doubtfully. "Some Insult. portions this is perhaps ex thing smart, intelligent, as comprehensible in Warsaw as in Wagga Wagga. I suppose that It was Inevit habitually behave like cari cusable, particularly as Uris something with personality." able that this subject would catures. There is an old Dare we say it dealt with Universals? makes no pretentious claims Which brings us to the to a polished literary style. point. This Is not going to bob up In Australian dramli^ friend of the Rltchles, Grace The "Bushman," on the entertaining comic circumfer sooner or later. Now that it Cllve, who doesn't matter ence, there is a correspond What impresses about the be a personality column. I ha-s. let's hope we've heard much, since her only function other hand, despite Its super- book rather, is its simplicity am willing, In writing it, to flcially more international ing Increase in the effective the last of It for a while. is to talk about old times. ness in the writing and of style, tempered with the be anything opinions can spirit, presents problems The Piccadilly Bushman Last, but most certainly rendering. John Gray, as author's passionate love for make me — a crank, a prig, could have been a fine play. and unfortunately not least, which are essentially paro Douglas O'Shea the Austra his people, and the country a snob, a bigot; but not a The theme basically Is an comes Doa?gle O'Shea, an chial. This difference Is per lian author, was notably suc which they fousht to reclaiin personality. Important one — the search | Australian author. Given to haps best demonstrated by cessful. Unhappily, even he as rightfully theirs. Opinions have nothing to for national Identity, for i homespun philosophy, myth- pointing to the difiference in was given some ingenious but Yet, despite his obviously do with personality. They "belon.singne.ss," for "com making, Inverted snobbery the use of humour in the two rather tedious moralizing to partial standpoint, Urls never are an irrelevant necessity — mlttment." But t-o be suc and. above all. talk, talk, talk, plays. The humour of the do on the state of the Empire. sacrifices historical truth for the dust-bin lid that Health cessfully treated, a theme he bestiides the play like a "Doll" is merely incidental to It is rather a pity that the sake of more exciting Inspectors insist on. Those like this mu.st. firstly, be papier-mache colussus with a the largely tragic theme of Australian authors have to fiction. One of the inost set in authority over us have made incarnate In real people gramophone for a brain. He appear to be serious all the dramatic passages in the often said to me, "You must human disillusionment. The time — especially those, like In a real situation, and, Is obviously Lawler's idea of humour of the "Bushman" novel is a day-by-day, have opinions. Don't sit on secondly. It must not be ob Lawler, who are capable of the fence. Learn to think how the dlnkum Aussie (especially in the portrayal of country-by-country account scured by the particularities writer should behave. I writing such good "theatre." of the 1947 U.N. Conference for yourself." So I have In which it manifests itself. suspect that he is also Law those Australian Anglophiles, But perhaps comedy is after which voted for the creation painfully acquired some the Lew Leggats) Is more es all too local and too topical In this respect, Lawler'u ler's attempt at self-portrai of the new State of Israel. opinions: ture. But I am satisfied that sential to the play, marking to be quite quite respectable, Another Is the history of how latest play forms an Interest or politic. I don't like people who are ing contrast with "The his brush must have slipped as it does Its greatest achieve the new state of hardly one aggressive. Summer Of The Seventeenth dlsastrou.sly. The author of ment. In the Leggats we have —JOHN HELMAN million people survived the I don't like people who are Doll." "The Doll" was con "The Doll" could not possibly the beginnings of an Austra war against some fifty mil self-righteous or too forth cerned with real characteis be such a bore. lian Comedy of Manners, a lion Arabs bent on Its right. In a real situation. Their The play begins fairly well. comedy very difficult to trans destruction at birth. I don't like women who problem was a universal one At the end of Act I, I had late. EXODUS is a novel for dress in tweeds and terrify —the Impermanence of youth, the feeling that something both the Jewish and non- the Vicar. the futility of fantasy. The Important could and should Most comedy of necessity Is Jewish reader. For the I don't like people who play was a good one because follow. With Act II, however, local and topical, and it is former its values are obvious. clutch rule-books and assimie of this and because of very difficult to see how over the rot set in. Even the seas audiences could appre For the latter it is a great dictatorial airs. Lawler's very renl sympathy Leggats become caricatures of help in understanding the I like small, happy, pleas and Involvement with ciate the subtlety of the Leg his caricatures. This act, judici gats (Who were ably played by Jews both as a race, and now ant people who believe in characters. ously cut, might have made a Gordon Glenwrlght and as a nation. And for the making life pleasant for other Involvemenf fairly good Philip Street Laurel Mather) except in the world at large it serves as small, happy people. sketch, but absolutely noth rather academic way in which a warning, for in a brief I like idealists who are not It is quite obvious that ing could be done with Act Australian audiences would passage Uris reminds us of a cranks. I like sensitive people Lawler is equally Involved in III. It is an Incoherent, enjoy <'TBrtuffe." truth we seem once again to who are not weak. I like "The Bushman." but he is mr.ss, which should never be forgetting: "Jew baiting is books, most people, and involved in a different way. have left Lawler's desk. imperialism an Incurable disease. Under living. certain democratic conditions He is involved, not as a •The Bushman," then, Is a Unfortunately, the basically This column will be about sensitive human being, but failure, but It Is an interest it may not flourish well. these opinions of mine. humorous situation of the Under other conditions the merely as a participant in nn ing one and for that reason Anglophiles becomes en But my personality Is not acrimonious argument. A.s a it is worth seeing. In addi .germ may even appear to die, In them; nor In my at tangled with some "deep," but it never dies even In the result, he loses sight of the tion, the acting Is excellent. but largely late-Vlctorlan, titudes; nor in ' my reac universal aspects of his The entire cast does as well most Ideal climate." tions; nor in my hopes; nor questions of Imperial re —B.J.G. theme and "swims about on as the .script allows. Diana lations. This constitutes the In my fears; nor even in my the superficies." His play is Davidson as Meg is partic background to the "richer" imaginative reveries can it mere allegory — and not a ularly impressive, and Guy emotional embroidery of the Support the A SURVEY conducted by It be found. The key to very interesting allegory at Doleman as her anglophlle play. "Cherteeli" shoms that oHer 60 per personality — the bidden that. cent, of this year s freshmen at spring that makes one husband Is only slightly less Tlie central tragic figure Is As you would expect, the so. Gordon Glenwrlght and Union Barber; Oxford have gone up straight from cranky, or wistful, or stub an altogether unreal and dis school, an increase of 30 ptr cent, born, or happy, or stupid— characterisation is particu Laurel Mathew perform well agreeable, but (we are told) larly weak, Ritchie, the ex as the abotnlnable Leggats ooer previous years. Of these Is not to be found In any successful Australian actor, I didn't and more than a quarter mil read written thing. A column Is patriate actor and his and John Gray does his best Alec Ritchie, who luxuriating neurotic wife Meg, begin as to make O'Shea seem cred In his English success and scientific subjects, 85 per cent, not a human being: il is real people, but very soon ible. evidently equating England look what hap teill be supported by some kind of just a string of words; and with Mayfalr and Australia grant, and 54 per cent, irttend to we must not expect It to tell shed their humanity to join The real star, however, Is go Io Church al least once a week. us more than words can in the allegory with the rest Desmonde Downing whose with "Yangoola," finds that pened to me. (The Cown, Belfast). of the lay-figures — And set is as good as everj'one has he prefers the former and reveal. what a gang of them there Is! said—a lavish, over-decorated despises the latter. He has, There are two* English film room, straight out of House in short, done an International men, Allingham. and Frank and Garden, contrasted with Faust — or at least a Burgess lin, Immaculately dressed, a backdrop of the Harbour, and Maclean, albeit legally cold, dignified, Oxford- executed in varying shades and with everyone's approval accented—two national typos, of blue. Well, almost everybody. Mrs. as flat, as uninteresting and To sum up: Worth seeing if Ritchie twho drinks) prefers AS false as the average Eng only to find out what a mess Australia to "Home" — and lishman's linage of the un a good playwright can make from this circumstance flows couth Colonial. Tliere Is a when he loses his temper. a goodly slice of domestic his comic servant who also comes Anway — and here my trionics. Guy Doleman and straight out of the catalogue. national pride flares up like Diana Davidson seldom suc There Is a couple named the aurora austral la — It Is ceed in bringing this rather Leggat, who are rather better, considerably better than the wooden situation alive. for these are wealthy, lion- average Imported West End As we move away from the hunting snobs — people who success. emotional centre of the play —CALIBAN towards the quieter but more mm & (0. JOHN COPLEY (A. and E. Bright) F.B.O.A. (Hon..) 181 EDWARD ST. B 4824 Optometrist For all requirements Old Town Hall Arcade for Engineers, Sur 68 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE veyors and Architects \ OPEN FRIDAY EVENINGS i GOOD WATCHES, CLOCKS! AND JEWELLERY Plione 2 3952 or 48 1350 "And now, in keeping With the modern trend , . SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, I960 PagaS semper SUPPLEMENT
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Remetnher^ students^ thou art hutexatn fodder A unto exam fodder thou shait return. SEXtPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 19fiO Pagfl 6 SVPPLEMENT "STAFT DrSMlSSH) IN SOUTH AFRICA Eight members of staff at the University Col lege of Fort Hare in the Cape Province of South lliiliiiiiiiiili Africa have been dismisseci by the South African The students of the wise it will remain closed. Government. This is the S.A. Government's latest Teacliers' Training Colleges In the face of this clear move in its campaign ior Universify Aparfheid. of the Stale of North Rhinc- ! alternative, the Student Fort Hare, which was, prepared "to permit a penny Westplialia have protested Representative Council founded some forty years ago i °^ °"y ^""^s of which I have against the plans to reduce (AStA) of the Institute ...„,„ control to be paid to any per- the lack of teachers by short of Technology has ad MASSEYS as an Independent institution | ^ji^ . . . ^ho are known to ening studies al the colleges vised the striking stud for the higher education of be sabotaging the Govern- ents to discontinue their offers specialised service Ihe African peoples, with fln-'i "1^"^'^. PO»cy "f apartheid, by one semester. Ihey dis 1^ ,/, , , I which is what is going on in approve of shortening iheir action. — (Student Mir ances provided mainly by the , this Instance." in supplying studies and are of the opinion ror Special Report.) & churches, is to become one| n is clear, therefore, that that this would considerably * * * the sporting needs ol the new state-controlled j opposition to government lower the level of Vheir edu Recently a London College girl, colleges for the non-white! »""'=>' ^"" "?* ^f "girded cation. The student represen Marie-Louise Coulouris of the Sladc of both clubs as grounds for dismissal in School, appeared at Marlborough tatives wish Io reserve them Street Court on a charge of using peoples as from January 1st, these colleges and that the a microphone in Oxford Circus to and players 1960. • members of staff di.smissed on selves further protest measures. announce arrangements for the last ! Aldcrmaston march organised by the ' this occasion are the first vic- —(Westdeulsches I ageblalt. Campaign tor Nuclear Disarmament. Those dismissed are the'tims of the political control The Metropolitan Police Act, under Registrar, the Professors ofiof university institutions for Dorlmund.) which she was charged, dated back • Footballs and all equipment H- * V to 1839. Printiarily drawn up as « Geography, Politics, Law,, non-white peoples. means of controlling the Chartists, (all codes) • Hockey • Ten English and History, a lee-1,4..! , »i. L « ..i. The student restaurant it states that any person (other turer in Botany and he Uni- , " ^ «>'"' f^f "^ ^^^} ^""^ of the Darmstadt Insti than Guards and postmen) "who nis • Fishing • Golf • verslly Librarian. All are i shall blow any horn or any other 'Africaeventuallny Universities will tute of Technology was noisy instrument" in order to an Fencing • Cricket • Indoor Engllsh-.speaking and all dis become mere In- nounce events, sell goods, or collect approve of the Goveramenl's doctrinating Institutions, closed after It had been money, is guilty of committing an -Games and Hobbies • Cycling racial policj'. boycotted by a large part offence. Mrs. Coulouris was given « complete discharge on the grounds • Baseball. of the students, because that a microphone is not in itself The dismissals were car Prize Poem a noisy instrument, but only » ried out by Mr. W. A. Maree, according to them the means of amplifying sound. (Pi, 0 hali YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY COACHING Fees Refunded IF YOU FAIL — But you must enrol for the First Lesson, starting next week (7th March) Enquire for details: PURE MATHS. I PHYSICS^ I (Medical) APPLIED MATHS. 1 PHYSICS 1 (Physiotherapy) PHYSICS IB . ZOOLOGY I (all Faculties) 2 8200 2 4708 HUBBARD ACADEMY 62 CHARLOTTE STREET ^NVVSSWVV «<«3«$C>««««S«««5««J«J«S«««^^ SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960 SUPPLEMENT Page 7 No Pressure Cooking . "SBmp«r" this w»ek begins * ! she has explained a phenome feature which will intereit our intellectual rcaderi ~- exccrpti non, yet really she has ex. from our contemporaries. Our plained nothing. In fact, Ihis tint offering is ^ book review by intrusive "hence" truncates that renowned authority on pollllcat science and damn near what is otherwise a carefully- everything else -^ Henry Swayet. observed, but not very pene It Is reprinted by permission of trating, catalogue of those as the editor of "The Absurdcr." pects of her subject which COOKERY BOOK; any common observer pos Mrs, Bceton. sessed of the time, money and inclination, could be guaran /"\NE of the saddest tWngs teed to swallow, if not assimi ^ I have to encounter in late. There is fruitful maii.vi,il the constant procession of here for a dozen lines of re earnestly-writlen books pre search, but, for Mrs. Beetcn, claiming confidently that to I they are nothing but inttrest- make an omelette one must • ing facts. first break one's eggs on the A truly scientific study of side of the frying-pan. The I cookery is ar\ urgent ni-ed. new edition of Mrs. Beeton's I Books such as this one by Mrs. unimaginatively titled Cooltcry Beeton are, however, of no Bool( is, alas, no exception to j help at all. What is required the rule. I of an author who sets out to Of Hungarian Ghoulashj a ! write such a book is a wide ex- dish much neglected by many ! perience in social analysis and "cookery" wiiters, Mrs. Bee- [ an ingrained unwillingness to ton gives what must be called agree with anyone else. The painstaking analysis. She says, writer we are looking for is for example— ' one of an extremely rare race. Probably, such a rare combina "Cut meat in cubes. Chop tion of the scholarly virtues up onion and fry in a large will be found only in some sauce-pan until golden-yellow, versatile genius who manages then add paprika, meat, salt, to combine such diverse acti and peppercorns; cover and fry vities as lecturing in Govern for 10 minutes, or until meat ment and reviewing books for begins to stick to saucepan. the fortnightlies, Then add a very little wafer, cover and simmer for ij HENRY SWAYER hours, together with tomato and green pepper." This is true enough as far as it goes, but it does not go ZAGREB far enough. To write of Hun garian Ghoulash without men At the 14th Conference of tioning the persistent struggle the Students of the Unlversiiy between tho mutually antagon of Zagreb, the Chairman of istic interests of which Hun the University Committee of garian "society" is "com the Yugoslav Union of stud posed" is a preposterous error. ents. Divjak, pointed out that Mrs. Beeton's trouble stems it is necessary to educate from her naive belief that students to be responsible cooking is a matter of "stir socialists and not ju.st to af ring", "boiling", "slicing", ford them with knowledge in and all the rest of the tradi their special field. He re tional palaver. She neglects proached the professors and entirely the social significance university administration for of food-preference and recipe- not having any contact with content and their relationship the students, not knowing to fhe demands (disguised as their problems, and not mak ."tastes") of dominant power- ing any effort at all to attain etites and to the tastes (dis the goal of a well-rounded guised as "demands") of the education. In order to ac emerging, militant, power- quaint the students with the seeking have-not groups. responsibility which awaits them in their profession, it Of braised noodles with was proposed to introduce a chicken, Mrs. Beeton remarks: "The type of noodles used to course for "Social Develop make braised noodles is dif ment in Socialistic Construc ferent from any other. They tion" at every faculty, in Africa Ban are fried and spread in a large treating the instruction re GALLUPPING cake and then dried; hence form. Divjak said that the Al the last Council ^eelin^ reform in higher education, of the National Union of Stu the different cooking proced ure. The Chinese name for started in 1959, is only (he be dents at London an emer- KING'S ginning of a long-term plan. g^eucy motion was passed that this type of noodle is "Mun During the last week of Ye Min'." It has been calculated that the N.U.S. Council supports Novemhei- "King's News'' held Yugo-slavia will need about the National Union of South a public opinion poll In Col Note that word "hence": one million people with higher African Students (N.U.S.A.S.) lege. Three hundred people Mrs. Bceton has neatly con education by 1980; this as in their attitude to the boy* were stopped In the coiridors veyed the impression that sumes that about •10.000 will cott of certain South African and asked to give their goods, as a protest against the graduate annually from the South African Governmenf.s an.swei's to some questions institutions of higher learn extension of the University concerning their life in King's Student Politics ing in the coming 20 years, Education Bill, and therefore: College. On the question why Instruction will experience people were there at all, it At the Autumn National basic changes In the coming appeared that 44 per cent, Council of the Scottish Union 1. Requests members of of Students SUS at the end years; courses will become N.XJ.S. to cavry out an indi wanted a University educa more specialized, and above tion, preferable with a de of November, differences ol vidual boycott of these eoods, opinion on the inlernational all. the decentralization of the as a practical measure to re gree, while 35 per cent, were university is to be carried on move racial segregation in there merely to get a degree. policy of the union led to a further. According *o figmes blgher education; Three per cent, were there walk-out by the delegation from the Office of the Rector for the fun of It. When ques from the University of Edin of the University of Zagreb, 2. Instructs the Executive, tions were asked to ascertain burgh. Tlie Edinburgh dele subject to satisfactory legal gation held that the "apoli about 65 per cent, of all' the advice, to prepare and pub how well the Union onicers first-year students studying are known 70 per cent, did BEWARE! tical" pasitlon of the national in accordance with the new licise a list of proprietary not know the name of the union at international con goods which shall be included ferences has lowered the pres principles reached the stttdy in the boycott. The voting re Vice-President. An interest goal, i.e., admission to (he ing sidelight was that 38 per tige of the national union sulted in the passage of the Don't let this happen to you. and hampers international co third semester. In trying to motion 101 :17 : 72, The large cent, thought that the Union find the answer for tliis fail was a clique, Another point operation between the SUS number of abstentions was not and other national unions. ure of one third of the stud due to any Indecision on the was that over 50 per cent, Renew your bus pass! ents, It is again and ngairt pari of the delegates, how patronize two or three clubs Directly after the return of established that the .student.'! ever there was considerable and societies regularly, one the delegation to Edinburgh, The University, the Brisbane City Council, an extra-ordinary meeting of take their studies too lightly doubt as to fhe legality of the per cent, attend as many a.s the Union, Bus Conductors and all manner of and think that their .successes measures Incorporated in the six while nine per cent, do the Student Representative in the examinations are no motion. not belong to any at all. One other high and mighty potentates look with c*- Council was called, at which one's business but their own. result was rather unexpected. treme disfavour on students who attempt to pay the withdrawal of the dele jSonie even feci that their per- This showed that 32 per cent, concession fares without having bus passes, or to gation at the council conven tion was unanimously ratified. : sonal freedom Is being re- iiriiHiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiun!: lived at home. This compared use out-of-date passes or passes belonging to Upon this, a motion was .strlclcd when they are told with 30 per cent, in Halls of someone else. to take an examination after WANTED f Residence, 29 per cent, in digs moved that Edinburgh dis a certain period of time, since and nine per cent, in flats. affiliate from the national I BUSINESS MANAGER I Application forms tor passes are available union. After extensive debat every .student costs the state —(King's News. London.) at the University enquiry offices. 250,3(15 dinars annually, the I VOR I ing, this motion was de slate must also be Interested I GALMAHRA I He who Is falling into the Fill one in as soon as possible. feated by a one-vote margin (27-26) with eight absten- that his education be punct I PHONE DAN O'NEILL I maelstrom notices not that his It will save you money, bother, and em ually completed,—(Studenlskl socks and tie do not match. tion.s.—(Student Mirror Spec List, Zagreb.) I 97 3326 I —Old Slavonic Proverb, barrassment. ial Report.) riiHiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiij«iiiiiiiHiiiimiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiitiiHiiiHwii'7 SEMPER FLORBAT, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960 Pige 8 SUPPLEMENT BACK TO THE BUILDINGS Buildings, buildings, buildings are springing up all over the place. Union Building (or Nick Clark Mansion) is the messy pile arising behind the Chemistry building. P AT LEFT are dia- J ; • BELOfP" ARE TWO OF THE FIRST DETAIL PERSPEC- gram plans of the t 'JIVE SKETCHES OF THE UNION BUILDING. MAIN Union Buililing's first * y\ , stage, including J ! SECTIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY JULY. N ^ offices, Council room, j :^ refectory and dance t AoMlftlSTRATlOft BLOCK i floor. { UfttON CEKfRflL nfAti fftTRArlCE fNQuKY COONTr« ENTRANCE ADMINISTRATION BRISBANE DEMANDED LONEI EXCLUSIVE OPEN AIR BARBECUE OF WORLD STANDARD IN • ATMOSPHERE THE • SERVICE PELICAN • CUISINE Sli Puts Brisbane's Night Life on TAVERN European and London Standards SPECIAL TABLE RESERVED FOR STUDENTS •k Dine In comfortable and congenial surroundings. ^ Choose from an array of delicious and favourite food delights, "k Dance to the mellow strains of Top Hi Fi Recordings. ic Special catering for organised functions. k Liquor available with meals if ordered. -k And remember — No Cover Charge. FOR SUMPTUOUS DINING IN A SETTING OF NEW ELEGANCE vi.i, .he PELICAN TAVERN 52657 I ST. PAULS TERRACE, VALLEY, NEXT TO JUBILEE HOTEL 5 2657 SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, MARCH I, IMO Page f Semper looks al GALMAHRA §lainfyMf»SMc REVIVED The State of the Union In the earl^ ^cars of this In orientation week, 1,000 freshers were orientated, initiated, vaccin ceuiur}), before "Semper Baroque music school ated and possibly irritated, and the student population rose to 8,350. We floreal" arose, "Calmabra" suppose that we should feel glad about this great expansion In our Jubilee was. Year, but we don't. "Was what?" you a-sk. Was, in Armidale There seems to be no gene what hafi unavoidably hap as its aboriginal name implies, BY JOHN ATHERTON YOUNQ ral agreement on what Is the pened. "spokesman of the tribe". The optimum size for a University, What Is to be done? We tribe was the University of A^ January, at the University of New England, but there can be no disagree Healtk Service ment over the fact that don't intend to preach to the Queensland and "Galmahra" 1 Armidale, an event, unique in the World of Queensland has passed it. En University authorities. That's was subtitled, for the colonists, not our Job. We can, how "The Magazine of the Univer Music outside of Germany, took place. This was rolments of about 200 for Eng ever, preach to the students,, For. .University . j , . the holding of a Baroque Music School. lish 1 and 1,000 for Physics, sity of Queensland." Until the to take only two examples, One suggestion we make is a j. An important development days of "Semper", it appeared 'pHE school Included among the school some eight public make the task of both lecturer radical re-constltution of the i.'" University life is the estab- Union on Federal lines. Power Ushment, this year, of a Stud each term; then, gradually, as -*• its teachers;— concerts were given. Some of and student well-nigh Impos ent Health Service at St. "Semper" took over the more the works performed were sible. should be decentralised by the 1. Dene Barnett. who setting up of faculty Unions, Lucia. Dr. Murray Williams, ephemeral of Its interest.^. It brought with him his own Bach's Brandenburg Concerto the medical officer in charge, No. 2, two of his Cantatas, The corporate spirit of the each of which will be a mem became an annual, printing Harpsichord and a Dolmetch University is dying. Contact ber-body of the U.Q.U. with will be available lor consulta articles of literary and general Spinet. and a number of his chamber tion at St, Lucia and the Medi- works for solo wood wind. between students and staff, representation on its Council. interest. 2. Peter Richardson, an ex between students of one j cal School, and he will provide Other composers whose works Freedom It spoke in a voice of varied pert on 18th century flute were used Included CorelU, faculty and those of another, a free diagnostic service for quality and vigour, rising oc playing. or even between students of all types of Illness, injury and Vivaldi, C.P.E. Bach, Lolliet, It may be objected that this casionally to great Individual 3. Seman Harris — whose L. Mozart, W. A. Mozart, different departments within other relevant problems; stu- heights, especially in the post speciality was History of Telemann, Hotteterre, Bois- the same faculty. Is becoming will lead to an increasingly . dents will be referred for war period; and failing at Music. mortier, Handel and PurceU. increasingly difficult. Initia narrow departmentalisation treatment to general practi- times to great collective 4. Dr. Vincent Shepherd, tive to pursue independent of student life. But this hasj l'o»\eis or consultants depths, as in the year when who brought with him a This appointment is in line BRISBANE BAROpUE lines of study is very rare. happened already. Even if I the editorial promised a new Dutch cabinet organ (made ; Student life, as evidenced in with more recent trends in interest because "of all the In 1790) and a clavichord. such a move did Intensify de-, lyOW that these performers ' the Union and the societies, partmentalisatlon, It would at. overseas universities, particu Mss contributed, nothing has 5. Martin Long, Australia's •'-' have returned honw we ] is at its lowest ebb In years. least help corporate life with-' larly In England and the been rejected." Eventually in leading exponent of the lute, have in Brisbane a number The problem is one of loyal in the faculties. Inter-faculty ; United States. 1950, for a complex of reasons Aiid of enthusiasts who aim to ties. We must be loyal to the contact would still be avail-: Dr. Williams graduated that was probably at heart In- 6. John Manifold, also with form a Baroque Music Society. small battalions, but whei'e able through those clubs i from the University of dilTerence, "Galmahra" ceased a lute, who amongst other Initially anyone who can play are the small battalions? The whose activities cut across j Queensland Medical School in publication. things, lectured- on the re any musical instrument in use University ie no longer a com faculty boundaries 11951 and he has recentl. y re^- lation of folk music to more up to and Including the time munity to which one belongs, I turned from three years work Now, ten years later, the formal musical works and the of Mozart will be welcome. but a set of buildings where Tliese, In turn, together i ^t the Adolescent Unit of the tradition is being picked up j^rt of Improvising divisions (Recorder players should have one studies along with 8,499 with the Union as a whole' children's Medical Centre In again. Galmahra will appear kier a ground. achieved reasonable compet would be greatly strengthened Boston, U.S.A. Dr. .Williams during Commem. week. Its other Individuals. strength will depend on you. f/Students at the school ence particularly in the mat by the setting up of the same ; considers that the term "adol- Impersonality system as exists in other Uni- escent medicine" covers all If you have any interest, lit- fabout 30 in number) in ter of intonation). The ability erai->', political, social, histori cluded three flautists, three to read at sight is probably versities with regard to stu-; complaints of patients in the With the growth In popula dent facilities. Control o\er j age group between childhood cal, scientific or other, that oboelsts, violinists, a 'cello an essential. A public meet tion, the University adminis can be rendered either intelli player, continue players , a ing will probably be held at refectories, etc., c ould be' and maturity, and that this tration and the Union have handed over to a bod)' repre- | js becoming recognised as a gible or entertaining to a dis number of good recorder the Conservatorium in the become impersonal, remote cerning public, do not hesiiale L'ayers, and Victor Boffinger, near future. In the mean- senting Senate, students and i fertile field for the practice bodies—not the government staff. This would free the I of preventive medicine and to contribute. Token payment p.'really fine guitarist. In ad lime a number of items will with which we are vitally con will probably be given to all •be performed at the Univer Union Council from tedious mental health, dition, the resources of a cerned, but the government book-work and allow its mem- \ Students. wishing to make articles selected. Especially chamber music school, a sity during Orientation week which "should do some thing" needed are fiction, satire and under the auspices of the hers to spend more time on, use of this service should en- choral school and a trumpeter about variou-s things, but thelr studies and on student' quire at the Union Office or matter of humorous bent. were made available as re Orchestral Society, which, otherwise, does not in life as it should be lived. at the Department of Social Contributions should be quired. terest us much. Pi-ofessional But we will have more to and Preventive Medicine at Dune Barnett, the principal Those interested In hearing typewritten, double-.spaced on recorded examples of 18th administrators in both bodies say on this in the future. the Medical School, one side of foolscap-sized tutor, began the 14-day are rapidly taking the places course by Proving (using quo centuiy composers whose pages. Tliey should be ad works have been decorated by of academics qua academics dressed to the Editor, Gal tations from' 18th and 17th and students qua students. century literature) that a the performer, cannot do bet mahra, c,/o. Union Offices, St. ter than listen to the D.G.G. This is not to be construed University Exchange Plan Lucia. Baroque composer writing so- The Supervision Committee of the Inter called "classical" music in Archiv 12" LP of three Oboe as a personal attack on any If you have any further en tended the performer to fill concerti of Handel. These are body. It is a statement of national Student Conference recently confirmed quiries or wish to offer any out the work with improvised performed by the Berlin the appointment of Mr. Magnus Gunther as Re asjstance otherwise than by Bach Orchestra (Director decorations — in short, to search Director for the International University writing articles, ring 97 3326 make the music as florid and Carl Garven) with Hermann Archaeological (a.«k for Joe). ^uberant as Baroque afchi- Tottcher playing oboe. Tliey Exchange Fund, The Exchange Fund research ^fccture. He then proceed to are great works, especially the project has been sponsored under the UNESCO third one, Opus 3 No. 3, beau news show how it was done — at system of Associated Youth Enterprises. the end of the fortnight most tifully decorated and orna r\NE night last December, CORSAGE of the students had mastered mented. " three intrepid mem The Idea for an Inter- [ obtained from some 20 Nat- SPECIALISTS the principles sufficiently to Tlie concert! are backed by bers of the "Semper" staff national University Exchange j lonal Unions of Students on BOUQUETS Fund was first proposed some I the exchange .schemes they give tasteful and florid per a recording of the Fireworks formed an expedition to ex fro formances of slow movements Music — like Its sebling the plore the uncharted wastes years ago by the Union Na-; organise and more informa- m )nd not a few students could Water Music I think it sounds of our office at St. Lucia. ional des Etudiantes France Itlon is slowly coming in. At (UNEP). Although the idea | the same time the Research •lio the same with the faster best when heard over water— After hacking their way ones. During the course of way, way over waterl was enthusiastically sup-1 Director is busy on the ques- London- through the thick under ported by all the National j tion of equalisation of de- growth of correspondence, Unions of Students participat- ' grees which will have an im- old blocks and mouldering ing in the International Stud- j portant bearing on the plan- ytmerlcan piles of last year's Commem. ent Conference, it was not I nlng of the Exchange Fund's issue, they reached a cabinet until 1958 that UNESCO ' activities. Jlorists of lockers, built, it is believed, promised to support a pro- It is expected that the em by some vanished race of the gramma of research into the I'HONES: pre-Clarkean Age. phasis of -the Fund will be on possibilities of establishing the exchange of students from 312821 One locker was still locked. such a Fund. under-developed area.s. While The awed feeling of being in The Fund, once set up, will potential donors to Exchange Afl(.>r n Confound their Man of Independent Mind Politics "T AM on my own. Every man's hand is against me and mine rPHEBE are three things -'- (supposeclly) which are is against every man. They can fight me any way they . dear to the student heart- elioo.se—nnder Qiieensberry Rnles or under dog-and-goauna sex, alcohol, and politics. The first is rather hard to nilcs—and I'll fight hack the same way. What's more, I learnt get if one Is particular; the second is more readily the second way from the gieat Mr. Rafferty himself." obtainable but requires hard fpHIS was how Mr, Torn! Mr. Alkens says, is public^ 2. The House divides. cash; the third, ah! there •'• Aikens, M.L.A., described apathy. "People are Just not j ..^he bells ring all over the by hanjrs this tale. his position as an Independent | interested. They're quite pre- House—in the bar in the lib- Of the four recognised member to a meeting organ- i pared to vote for a man rary, in the place you thought political clubs operating with ised by—of all clubs — the • whose first worry is endorse- j ^^^^ going to say Then in this University, the Poli Liberal Club, at the end of;ment, and doesn't care ajjust at the last moment, In tical Science Club has just third term last year. .roasted peanut what his elec-: they come-you can see the claim to be the most active, According to Mr. Aikens, :f<'""i'"''°^,^'"'' J^ey have. ^^ip-marks on their backs- imparting political discus the Independent MXA is^''° '^'^o*^^ between two evils— wiping the sleep from their sion directly to the student. more important than 'the^ "''^'^^V.^""f T^.^ l^'T'' eyes and the froth rrom their In • keeping with this line party man because he must hack. This is the first step lips. They shelter their eyes tradition, the Political Science work harder. "He cannot rely to dictatorship. from the glare to see where Club arranged a Parliament on the machine to support 'The Party to which I be- their colleagues are sitting. ary Debate as its Orientation hini. He must watch over long believes that Members; They don't know what they're Week function for Freshers the Interests of his electors. Attention! Med. Freshers who this year will overrun should be free to speak and|-£ °^",,„%irtSe tt If an Independent spent his TPHIS year the Faculty of