IN S ID E : L.A.T.O.S. Tested. C u o rtro o m s Considered. AUSA Acounts Endurance Marathon. Page 1, CRACCUM, March 24. NOTICE BOARD

AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING TREASURER AUCKLAND MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE RICHARD MAPP STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION one o f New Zealand’s brilliant young Notice is given that the Autumn General Nominations are now open for the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING pianists - a graduate o f the University o f Meeting of the Association w ill be held in Executive position of Treasurer of the DATE: 29th March 1980 (Saturday) Otago - Until 19 the Main Hall of the Recreation Centre on Association. Candidates are required to Time: 2.00 pm MAIDMENT THEATRE, SUNDAY, 30 to study in Thursday 27 March 1980 commencing at have passed the papers which comprise Venue: Room 237, Union Building (top MARCH, 7.30 p.m. university c 1.00 pm. Should the business of the meet­ Accounting I and are expected to 'super­ floor) (Ex-Judo room) Beethoven - Edwin Carr - Chopin - Ravel - In the late ing not be completed on Thursday 27 vise the financial affairs of the Associat­ All members are strongly encouraged Scriabin crease in th March the Autumn General Meeting will ion'. commence or will continue in the Cafeteria to attend the A.G.M. as matters concern­ Details and tickets from University coming to f The position carries remuneration ing formation o f N.Z.U.M.S. will be fact that At on Friday 28 March from 1.00 pm. equivalent to the Tertiary Study Grant Conservatorium o f Music. Students $2 ; discussed. Come along to exercise your Senior Cit. $3; Others $4. numbers of An Agenda for this meeting appears with full hardship supplement. This is rights in electing the new executive Nicaragua Talk In 1970 the elsewhere in this issue. currently $40 per week (after tax) during committee members o f the Association. Lyn Jackson, who has recently visitied Students A< STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL the Academic year. Notice is given that the second Ordin­ Contact: Chor Keah Ph 766-314. post-revolutionary Nicaragua, wilj be giving was set up. Nominations close and an election will ary Meeting o f the Student Representative Joggers Club a talk at 1pm Wednesday March 26 in University ( be held at the Association's Autumn Council for 1980 will be held in the SRC NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL lecture theatre B28 (under the Library). provided a < General Meeting. This meeting w ill be Lounge on the first floor o f the Cafeteria MEETING : She will be describing how the Nicaraguan these applic held on Thursday 27 March in the Recre­ building at 1.00 pm on Wednesday 26 Would all those people interested in people overthrew the US backed dictator ingly. The n ation Centre and/or in the Cafeteria on March 1980. joining a club whose main interest is Somoza and how they are rebuilding the still decided Friday 28 March. Candidates should The SRC is empowered to pass resolut­ furthering the sport o f jogging for pleasure socialist Nicaragua. send the fig attend the meeting from 1 .0 0 pm and are ions on any matter o f concern to students and self-benefit, please attend. Regular French Film B10 7.30pm Auckland U invited to submit a written nomination and to refer back for reconsideration any weekly jogs o f varying distances, times Monday 24 March the role is al and policy statement by 5.00 pm on Wed­ decision of the Executive Committee. All and amount o f puffing, will be decided to Admission: Free nesday 26 March for distribution at the members o f the Association are entitled to suit members. 1980 membership fee is Appreiti Salaud: 1976 - Colour - An overs meeting. attend and vote at meetings o f the SRC only $1 .0 0 . FILMS LATOS bef< RADIO 'B' ADMINISTRATION BOARD S.R.C. Club Rooms Rec. Centre: 1 - 2 pm Screening o f films on healthy foods a place at a Notice is given that the Agenda for Nominations are invited for four posit­ Tuesday 25th March. with useful information about the choice Application S. R.C. meetings will close at 10.00 am on ions as members of the Radio 'B ' Admin­ SWIMMING & WATER POLO CLUB and preparation o f vegetables. Tuesday July and the the Monday preceding the meeting. Any istration Board. The Board is responsible Thursday 27th at 1.00 pm in the 25th March, 1.00 pm in B 10. Screening country. It i business for the meeting should be handed to the Executive for the proper running Clubroom at the Recreation Centre, is the of the controversial ‘War Game' film which this test was to the SRC Chairman, or to the Stud Ass and administration of Radio 'B', and the S. & W.P. AGM. This meeting will also depicts the consequence o f nuclear war ensure th a t: Reception desk, before this time. No four people who are appointed will serve determine teams for Easter Tournament followed by Bob Mann and Caril Cowan knowledge c business received after this time will be as representatives of the SRC. at Massey. If you wish to swim or play speaking on nuclear weapons and New dealt with until the following meeting Nominations close and an election will water polo (or both), then please attend. Zealanders today, Wednesday 26th March, From wh except at the discretion of the Chairman. be held at the meeting o f the SRC to be All welcome, especially ‘clubbies’ and 7:30 pm in B 28. 1971 until 1 The Agenda will be published in held on 26 March in the SRC Lounge, and new members. (NOTE: Different venue and time) D grade in t to NZ unive TITWTI issue of the week of the meeting. all candidates should attend this meeting LABOUR CLUB is holding its A.G.M. on WOMEN & PSYCHOLOGY standard wa Tenders are invited for the purchase of from 1 .0 0 pm. Tuesday 25th March at 7.45 pm in Top An all-day seminar presented by the cation of th the large yellow Reception Desk which Tuesday March 25 at 7.30pm. Common Room. Speaker: Bob Tizard - Women’s Studies Association. Sunday, standard wa was formerly in the AUSA Reception Area Women’s Common Room — Students Everyone welcome. 30th March at the Auckland Secondary ion. and has of late been in the Union Quad. Union Building. UNIVERSITY HART AGM Teachers’ College, 60 Epsom Ave. Tenders close with the Secretary at Kibbutz Evening! Film showing Friday 28 March 1pm Room 144 All women welcome. Dear Mr Gand 5.00 pm on Wednesday 26 March 1980. I am writing t< Kibbutz life. Israeli food (pita and (behind TV room). Members, $1; non-members, $1.50. Bring Highest or any tender not necessarily felafel), Israeli song and dance. your contribution to a communal lunch. of secondary c accepted. Everyone welcome. VARSITY FOLK CLUB Inquiries: Hilary Haines, 438-722 ‘D’ grades in tl Free lunchtime concert Wed. March are not eligible (University ext 8520), Alison Jones, Zealand univei 26th, 1-2 pm, Little Theatre. Clubnight 760-462. later, at the magical hour of 7.30 pm in a ‘D’ grade wa; HUMAN RELATIONS GROUP Many of these the WCR. Resource Person : David Simpson passes and in n CATERING CO. ROTORACT Dates and Times: Tuesdays 5 - 8 pm, 18 in the high fift Fellowship through service. Meeting March to 6 May. The most unfa students were Watch this space each week for news of the Students' Association Tues 24 March, 7.30 pm, Old Grad Bar. Place: Counselling Rooms, above Campus Speaker: Mr Meadowcroft on the Moonies’. Post Office grade would ne Catering Service — your co-operative Catering Company.. See our noticeboard for details. This group is aimed to facilitate self- means that son examination and self change, in a support­ to return home Sho-Te Kai Karate Club if they are re-a Beginners lessons at 6 pm on Monday ive atmosphere. THIS WEEK WE FEATURE THE the LATOS tes and Wedncsdat in the Martial Arts Studio If you would like to find out any Yours sincerely of the Rec. Centre have already begun. further information about the group, Don Carson RESTAURANT Club membership is $5 plus tuition please telephone 792-300 ext 595 or 596. Ir ' fees, which are not due until after the TO A LL STUDENTS who use New * Continued Quality and Variety of Meal first few lessons. Zealand Railways buses from Manurewa/ I * Quiet atmosphere EVANGELICAL UNION Papakura into University. * Where else can you enjoy a free drink TUES MARCH 25th at 1 pm in SRC We can arrange a student concession on j lounge. David Strickland talks on fellow­ NZR buses on these routes if we submit with your meal? ship and evangelism. Bring your lunch and names o f people, plus addresses, plus * Lowest prices in town friends and listen to an interesting anc where they will be getting o n/o ff the bus | challenging speaker. LUNCHTIME RESTAURANT at Manurewa/Papakura. This will be a Would the nurd(s) who mistakenly took?/ saving o f a number o f dollars. Please give | *Due to popular demand the Restaurant picked up?/ mislaid?/ absconded? the names and addresses and phone numbers 1 is now open Lunchtimes 12 - 2pm University Feminists white cards, please to JILL FREWIN, WELFARE OFFICER, * Try somewhere different for your lunch return them to the pigeon hole. AUSA. She has a pigeon hole inside AUSA UNIVERSITY FEMINISTS Main reception or ask receptionist to take \ once a week If you put your name on the University the message. * Prices from $1.75 to $3.50 Feminists white cards, please leave your PROSE AND POEMS WANTED * Includes vegetarian dishes name, address and phone number in the for the forthcoming AUSA Literary Publication. If you know you’ve got * Take that "Someone special" to lunch Women’s Resource Room, or University Feminists pigeon-hole in Studass. The talent, put it in print! Drop your stuff in I in your Restaurant white cards have disappeared so FOR US to the pigeonhole at Studass, or Room 222 TO CONTACT YOU, we need YOU TO or address to Litmag c/- Craccum. CONTACT US. Club secretaries are advised that they may 1 ENVIRONMENT GROUP ACTIVITIES obtain copies o f the Clubs and Societies THIS WEEK Handbook, which includes Affiliation Mon 24th Room 237 1 pm Form, Grant Application Form, Club Committee Meeting. All welcome. Assets Form, Clubs Cheque Signatory Tue. 25th Room 810 1 pm Form etc, from the Receptionist. Films about Health Foods Only affiliated clubs are eligible for Wed 26th Room B28 7.30 pm grants, room bookings, van hire etc. Contraversial ‘War Games’ film , followed All affiliation forms, accounts, grant Cold Servery : by Bob Mann and Cavil Cowan speaking applications etc must be handed into the on nuclear weapons and NZers today. Fruit Pie Portions (apricot, boysenberry, apple) receptionist by March 31. Thu 27th Room B10 1 pm David Benson 35c reduced to Z O c ZAP debate between Dairy Board rep’ Clubs and Societies Rep. Hot Servery : Katherine Saunders and Roger Wilson o f International Abortion Day Friends Of The Earth Portions of Fish 40c reduced to Monday March 31st Mon 31st Room B10 1 pm Open forum to be held in the Old Grad I Another committee meeting as above Health Food B ar: Bar at J pm. Guest speaker Janet Roth, Tue 1st April Room B10 1 pm talking about the abortion situation in Apple & Boysenberry Juice 34c reduced to 3 o c Films on pollution: ‘The Water Cycle’ and N.Z. All welcome to attend. ‘Shadow of Progress.’ CORSO/NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY Any person who is on the Domestic COMMITTEE Purposes Benefit and studying at Univer­ Combined Meeting SUPPORT YOUR CATERING COMPANY sity who would like to discuss their fin­ Venue : B28 (Library Basement) ancial or enrolment difficulties please Time: Wednesday 26 March 1-2 pm contact Margaret, ph 687-501. Page 2, CRACCUM, March 24. t young liversity of Until 1971 any overseas student wishing Dear Mr Carson, ACADEMIC Hansard No. RACISM 13, 1976. to study in NZ would apply directly to the You wrote on 28 January about the problems Brian Lythe, overseas students counsell­ NDAY, 30 16.Mr BRUCE BARCLAY (Christchurch of overseas students who failed the English or at Auckland University believes that university o f their choice in this country. Central), on behalf of Mr MARSHALL competence test LATOS. many students are not gaining places at >pin - Ravel - In the late 1960’s there was a massive in­ (Wanganui) asked the Minister of Immigration, The LATOS test is administered by the Univers­ universities in NZ, in spite of their good crease in the numbers o f foreign students Why has the Government reduced the quota of ities Entrance Board, an independent statutory coming to NZ. This was partly due to the private Malaysian students coming to New academic performance. This he says is ersity body over which I have no jurisdiction, but I fact that Australia was restricting the Zealand ? simply a wastage o f human potential. Fie idents $2 ; have discussed the matter with the Chairman, Hon. T.F. GILL (Minister of Immigration)— quotes the case o f a Fijian student at an numbers of students they were taking in. Sir Alan Danks, who offers the following The Government took the decision because at Auckland School who gained a B bursary. In 1970 the New Zealand Overseas comments: university level the vast majority of places avail­ This student had got 65% in U.E. English ty visitied Students Admission Committee (OSAC) 1. All marks of candidates who performed well able to private overseas students were being and 58% in Bursary English and failed , will be giving was set up. As a sub-committee o f the in the University Bursaries Examination have been taken up by Malaysian students. This is not in been reviewed. Only three gained an ‘A ’ Bursary LATOS. Another was dux of an Auckland ch 26 in University Grants Committee (UGC) it keeping with New Zealand’s aim to give priority and fourteen a ‘B’ Bursary. For each of these we College and had a B Bursary with the highest e Library), provided a centralised system to receive to the educational needs of persons from South set down a LATOS mark, an English mark, and English mark for his school. He failed e Nicaraguan these applications and grant places accord­ Pacific countries. The purpose of the restriction an aggregate mark for the Bursaries examination. LATOS. His fellow students only need ked dictator ingly. The number o f places available was is therefore to ensure that the admission of 2. Seven candidates were allowed to resit U.E. to be able to attend a NZ university. )uildingthe still decided by each university who now private overseas students is consistent with New LATOS a third time, having previously sat at Brian Lythe says: - ‘To me this means that send the figures to OSAC in Wellington. In least once in Malaysia in 1 974 and in New Zealand’s overseas aid objectives generally. The [the language exams (LATOS) must be Auckland University, for example, 5% of Zealand in September 1975. Six of the seven decision was taken on the basis of a recommend­ ation of the inter-departmental committee on being used to eliminate numbers of stud­ the role is allocated for overseas students. were successful and have been offered university places. private overseas student policy. ents. There is no other way to explain it.’ An overseas student is required to sit 3. The balance who were not offered a third It appears, he says, that there is a prior our — The number o f students placed in NZ LATOS before he or she is considered for chance to pass LATOS were rejected on one or determined allocation o f numbers. more of the following grounds: either their universities from the South Pacific count- thy foods a place at a New Zealand university. LATOS mark was so low that even resitting the ries decreased by 25% from 1975 to 1978 Since 1978 overseas students intending t the choice Application must be before the 1st of September 1975 test would be unlikely to result to go to a technical institute must pass Tuesday July and the test is sat in one’s home OSAC figures showing numbers o f overseas in a pass, or their Bursaries English mark was not LATOS. Until that time LATOS had been . Screening country. It is a three hour test. Originally students placed including bi-lateral aid students. in the near 50 category, or finally their aggregate solely a test for students intending to go ie ’ film which this test was to be a ‘low key’ screen - to mark was such that their chance of securing a to university. That an overseas butchery u cl ear war ensure that students coming here had basic university place was slight. 1975 1976 .1977 1978 student, for example, requires a higher aril Cowan knowledge o f the English language. 4. The real problem was that there were seven standard o f English than his fellows to do and New applicants for each engineering place and five for each commerce place and many had necess­ a practical course seems ridiculous. ' 26th March, From when LATOS was introduced in Total 599 arily to be disappointed. 657 408 327 1971 until 1976 - students who gained a Malaysia 436 546 293 221 5. In these circumstances the use of a research As during the 60’s, the number o f over- time) D grade in the test were permitted entry Fiji 55 62 63 49 proven discriminator such as LATOS was absol­ Tonga seas students applying to come to NZ in to NZ universities. In 1976 however, this utely justified. 4 1 0 ' 2 standard was raised to a C pass. No notifi­ Western Samoa 23 9 9 the ’70s was increasing. The limitation to ted by the 6. The ‘ D’ category in LATOS was always 11 cation of this adjustment o f acceptable a set quota o f Malaysian students in 1976 . Sunday, labelled ‘provisional’ and its continuance was standard was given, prior to the examinat­ NZ LISTENER, June 23 1979. showed the government interfering to cut Secondary dependent upon research evidence becoming ion. available. When this research revealed that the the numbers. Universities until recently Ave. failure rate at university for the ‘D’ category These students might have gone to the have been independent bodies and not Dear Mr Gandar, was four times that of those in the A,B and C University o f the South Pacific or the controlled by government. They were I am writing to you with regard to the number $1.50. Bring category, it was discarded. University of Papua New Guinea. These meant to make their own rules in response unal lunch. of secondary overseas students who have gained Yours sincerely, other local universities offer only a limited ‘D’ grades in the LATOS test. These students to given situations. In response to the ■722 L.W. Gandar range o f courses, not those specialised $1,500 fee imposed on private overseas are not eligible to apply for entry to New Minister of Education. Jones, Zealand universities even though in the past studies which we can offer the skills o f students, the question was asked: Did a ‘D’ grade was accepted as a provisional pass. which are needed for developing countries the government have the right to do it UP Many of these students have A and B bursary legally ? ls it allowed ? The universities pson passes and in many cases have English marks In October 1976 the government set This coupled with the limited numbers previously had the authority to set fees - 8 pm, 18 in the high fifties. limits on the number o f Malaysian students of Malaysian students and the $1,500 fee and costs. Muldoon announced this scheme The most unfair aspect of this case is that the coming to New Zealand/Up to this time now levied from all private students results in May 1979 and regulations were drawn )ove Campus students were not even notified that a ‘ D’ there was no restriction o f students on the in a substantial cut-back in the number o f up in September. The levy was legalised grade would not constitute a pass this year. This basis o f nationality. The system was a self­ overseas students we are taking in. Clearly by way o f the Education Amendment Act means that some students will be forced whether ilitate self­ regulating one controlled by the number the government wants to cut down its aid 1979 in November-December. Now the in a support- to return home or to return to secondary school, of places offered by each university. The if they are re-accepted, with the hope of passsing committment in the Pacific as well as in universities levy fees from the students the LATOS test the following year. reason given for this decision was that a Asia. This unwritten policy is expressed and the government grant is paid minus )ut any Yours sincerely, majority o f places were being taken up by through LATOS. By raising the pass level the amount collected locally in the form e group, Don Carson Malaysian students when NZ’s educational to C instead o f D less people are now of fees. As well as raising the fees, the |r>------— I \r.— W7 IICA : 595 or 596. priority was the South Pacific. eligible to enter a NZ university. grant to universities was diminished. e New Manurewa/ The $1,500 levy for fees does not apply to South Pacific students. But, they still - ;oncession on have to sit LATOS in spite of the fact that we submit these students sit NZ exams and their >es, plus whole education system is the NZ system. /o ff the bus For this reason Brian Lythe feels that will be a LATOS should not apply to the South . Please give Pacific. ne numbers l E OFFICER, j L . A 1 2 S This all adds up to a diminishing aid inside AUSA' A(M{ zj 6 /55 commitment to the South Pacific and Asia. onist to take The government has a very short sighted z a N view o f this problem. The use o f LATOS ED as a means to control numbers is obviously iterary a u s c h v it z ! the result o f growing concern by the i ’ve got authorities at the increasing cost of our stuff in , universities. Rather than increase grants to or Room 222 universities, all recent legislation in this cum. regard has been passed to discourage potential students from attending univer­ iat they may sities. This applies to NZ students as well d Societies as those from overseas. It is a pity that :fi liation overseas students are being affected more m, Club adversely than New Zealanders wishing to ignatory enter a university. The government does list. not seem to realize that only positive igible for things can come from educating overseas re etc. students. Some o f the most formative ints, grant years of their lives are spent in our coun­ led into the try. They learn about us and we learn about them. It might stop us from being so parochial and narrow in our outlook, to get to know people from other countries. Also this interplay brings great advantages for New Zeajand foreign relations and future he Old Grad trade. let Roth, According to Brian Lythe, students jation in from the Pacific almost immediately after they leave NZ, slot into important positions DARITY back home. Someone for example with at masters degree in commerce from Auckland might soon be back as top negotiator for nt) a plan o f regional committment in the -2 pm Pacific. The knowledge o f NZ can only aid

Page 3, CRACCUM, March 24. The test is biased towards an English This test is a poor instrument. language educational system. A student 1. The sections are timed tests, introducing an element quite separate from the avowed purpose from Singapore for example will have a of the test - to test language competence. better chance o f succeeding, because o f 2. Items are not graded in difficulty so that H t V - l T 'A U 6 + 4 T the high standard of English language education in his country. This bias means even if results were made available to university IT W U Z . that those countries in greatest need o f staff, they would find it hard to use results to aid through education are less likely to help students. TA »Mwossr»Lt/ have students accepted to come here. It 3. Only a few of the sections actually test may also be said that study o f scientific vocabulary, skills, and language structures nec­ ow es pAsseo/ subjects often does not require the excep­ essary for university work. Most of the items tionally high standard o f English profic- r resemble the now abandoned usage and vocabu­ iency which LATOS demands. Mr Jack lary section of the old time U.E. and S.G. Caldwell, head o f the University Grants English examinations. w s a s r Committee continues this in the following 4. The language of the test is too often poor 5 M A * . t ASS i- article. itself: it employs bad grammar, and strange and unusual expressions (‘a high-order job’). Ail answers m Test Booklet WELLINGTON. Today 5. The questions are often poorly framed: no PA — Many senior secondary pupils find answer seems clearly correct in some multi­ Below each q English irrelevant, the secretary of the Universit­ choice questions, some of the question cues are [ fully and the ies Entrance Board, Mr J.R. Caldwell says. misleading, sometimes the question’s vocabulary not be penef Three-quarters sitting the university bursary offers more problems than the test item itself, will be based examination took a mathematics and science some questions are poorly expressed. i For each qu course he said. Ninety per cent included, 6. Some of the tested vocabulary ought to be I have chosen English. taught at university; e.g. post-graduate, preroga­ | erase the cr ‘ To require a 50% pass in English, would tives, under constraint, oscillation, factor. prevent a good many able students from going , Here is an r to university’ Mr Caldwell said. 7. Some of the content is objectionable rubbish, Auckland Star, 4/8/78. notably a comprehension test based on dated and snobbish notions of intelligence.

8. Layout is often poor, notably in the cramp­ ls LATOS a competent test o f English ed tables of the comprehension section. language skills ? Because the test is kept secret - it cannot be taken out o f the exam goo a foreign relations, trade and commer­ However like the handling of the overstayers The test comprises several sections: room - there has been little opportunity cial dealings, as these people often become issue in 1976, New Zealand administrators are vocabulary, reading comprehension, proof read­ to study a LATOS paper for linguistic ing, listening comprehension, sentence struct­ attorney generals, economist>, and treasur­ showing their unique inability, to handle a multi­ culture society. features, and its accuracy standard of ures. There is no opportunity for the student’s ers - important government officials. The The cori own writing to be assessed, for this test is a lazy Answer Prime Minister o f Samoa for example has testing. Bernard Gadd, English teacher at The Observer, 28 Feb 1980, Samoa. Hillary College has part o f a copy o f marker’s delight. answer a law degree from Victoria University. He it is a secret test, for students have to hand LATOS, on which he based the following has friends here and knows the place. If According to Peter Sharpies the Maori their papers back. But there is little indication here ar article f or the educational journal ‘Multi tell we cut o ff these and other foreign students, and Pacific island student generally takes that it is in fact based on controlled New Zea­ Iwill Cultural School’ 1978. |questioi only New Zealand will suffer. We know longer over a degree than his European land research. Nor is it clear whether scaling is used in the marking or whether the raw scores , earli< already that Samoan students can go else­ counterpart, due to his lifestyle. These where - they did this year. Eight students This test must be sat by overseas students put a student into university or keep him out students he says, develop socially and who wish to attend a New Zealand university in But the fundamental question remains - turned down for study in New Zealand physically earlier, and academic maturity the following year. Success in this test is a pre­ whose interests is this test designed to serve ? due to failing LATOS, were accepted at and discipline comes later. LATOS in this requisite of admission. New Zealand students, Australian universities on the basis o f a way is culturally biased as it is geared to whether originating in the island territories of NZ has an aid commitment to Asia New Zealand U.E. the European standards and priorities. New Zealand or not, do not have to sit this test. and the Pacific. LATOS is being used The test is ethno-centric in intent, conception as a device to get out o f that commitment j The Race Relations Tribunal is looking and design. Of course the government is glad to have i into the matter o f LATOS in terms of 1. The intention is clearly to cull out students a secret and poorly designed test. It does possible breaches o f the Race Relations LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT who do not meet the demands of the test upon a better job for their purpose. And what their English language. The test is not employed A c t “ Anyone who has legal status to be TEST FOR OVERSEAS do we get out o f all this? Nothing. In to diagnose language difficulties with a view to in this country in terms o f higher education STUDENTS (LATOS) short — LATOS stinks. and has a visa must have NZ laws applying helping the student, but simply to prevent entry to them when they are here” , says Peter of certain students to our universities. Sharpies, Executive Officer o f the Race 2. The tests are based upon the vocabulary and concepts of the educated person brought up in Relations Tribunal. This particularly refers 1. If you fail LATOS (i.e. do not achieve Grade C or better) you cannot be admitted to any European society. to students at school here on government 3. The major purpose of the test must be to scholarships, who have NZ U.E. but are course in New Zealand. 2. LATOS results are checked before release »td remove from university lecturers any obligation being turned down for university on the there is no provision for reconsideration. to learn how to teach in a multi-ethnic society. grounds o f failing LATOS. A NZ citizen For this reason the test’s employment does a gets the right automatically, but the From ‘Guide For Overseas Students applying to signal dis-service to New Zealand tertiary qualification does not mean the same for enter a New Zealand University in 1980. education. overseas students, who must pass LATOS to persuade our authorities that they have the relevant skills to study at our universit­ ies. This can only be seen as a double LATOS standard. 5.1 The Language Achievement Test for Peter Sharpies was in Samoa recently Overseas Student s has been prepared for discussing these matters. The Prime Minist­ administration to students whose mother er of Samoa he says, is upset at the high tongue is not English and who are seeking number o f Samoan students being refused admission to New Zealand universities. The test is designed to measure the ability entry to NZ universities because of failing of such applicants to use the English language LATOS. If the N.Z. government wants to at a level that will be required for successful cut down the number of students Samoa study at a New Zealand University. should be informed, he says. The whole Samoan education system is geared to­ wards NZ, and this would have to be The term ‘mother tongue’ is an ambigu­ changed, ous one. Even students who have been educated from the age of 5 in the English A major row is brewing in New Zealand, language must sit. There are exceptions to over the language test that is being administered the rule. If you are from the Nuie or Cook to all foreign students entering New Zealand Islands and are therefore a NZ citizen, if universities, Mike Field reports from Wellington. your parents are in the diplomatic Corps, The hardest hit national group appears to be Samoans although Tongan and Asian students or if you are ‘ordinarily resident’ in this have also suffered. country - you don’t have to sit LATOS. Criticism being levelled at the secret-test is that it is being used by Government to cut back The purpose o f this language examinat­ on the number of overseas students universities ion apart from selection, is to test the have to take. language competancy o f overseas students. The test is also being attacked as racist From this, it is said, an informed conclus­ because the language test is not imposed on ion can be reached about the students’ New Zealand students. likelihood o f success in university studies Last week Prime Minister Tupuola Efi was in NZ. Much emphasis is placed by the quoted by Television New Zealand as saying he was extremely annoyed at the New Zealnad authorities on success at university in the handling of the test. minimum amount of time. Teachers are particularly outraged because Not only NZ has a language proficiency the test is secret and it is not possible for them test for overseas students. England and to prepare the students, for the questions. Germany have language tests. These are And they have hinted that many European students would find the test difficult. not used as a selection device but rather as The test questions, are particularly difficult. a diagnostic device to test levels o f compet­ One for example ask the meaning of ence, to see whether remedial courses are fanatiscism; exaggerated excitement, awesome needed. There have been calls to restruct­ outlook, joyous celebrations or fanciful ideas. ure LATOS on these lines - to make it a None of the definitions provided on the multi­ diagnostic test where areas of weakness choice paper coincide with the dictionary can be pinpointed and remedied. These definition. have been ignored. Page 4, CRACCUM, March 24. itroducing an vowed purpose Craccum Competition ietenee.

Ity so that Craccum proudly presents extracts from an undated copy of the LATOS exam which we received. Prizes will be given for the ; to university most neatly printed answers submitted (typewritten answers will not be accepted). Note that this does not mean the correct se results to answers- nobody knows what they are. YOU COULD WIN: entry to the New Zealand University of your choice, OR a one-wa

ually test ticket to Ki^ala Lumpur, OR free chocolate fish from Craccum. Hurry now, while university places last!! ructures nec- )f the items »e and vocabu- md S.C. ■^STRUCTIuNi.

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Page 5, CRACCUM, March 24. the University has to lose perhaps 40 people.Theprevious years this has generally lasted all lasted has generally yearsthis people.Theprevious perhaps40 lose hasto University the Welfare Services are under the threat of threat the Services Welfareunder are

Erin is another and students, the to help dual W h e n I N e e d You d e e N I n e h W night on some nights, rather than than rather nights, some on night closeat to back havebeencut reduced been has already staff library The by two which is why the library hours hours library the why is which two by freezing-of-positions basis; people are not not arebasis; people freezing-of-positions shadow over her position. The current current The position. her over shadow being replaced when they leave their jobs. leavetheir they when replacedbeing a on mainly this isdoing Vice-Chancellor overseas universities, and that the student student the that and overseas universities, Over Service. Counselling the concerns htal ra eaigt tdn es ! fees, student to areasallrelating that years five next the for Grant Quinquennial cut-back in non-academic staff means that staff non-academic in cut-back The year. every areincreasing numbers to intolerable levela at isalready ratio number low ridiculously a academicstaff, University Auckland years five next the special skills to assist the two counsellors, two assist the to special skills her contribute to use,sucnable being a en rsial rdcd Ti means This reduced. hasbeen drastically when you consider that our staff to student student to staff our that consider you when iswhat staffing The grants. their in ations, Studying, Public Speaking andSpeaking Public Studying, ations, lot of the workload o ff their shoulders. their ff o workload the of lot cadaaei tf r en u ak ^ back cut being are staff academic andic ^ non-academ- and grants, equipment income, Aloma where is This weekends. or times available to both students and staff of the the of staff and students both to available students — about 450 this year. There is There year. this 450 — students about nvriy sc scussi Hmn Rel­ Human as such coursesin university, the of members all to open are which Service Counselling the by courses run are seto, ed n h vnns lunch­ evenings, the in held Assertion, will be allowed to employ another 36 another employ to beallowed will and needs, with the staff there. Two Two there. staff problems the their needs, with and about confidentially talk to come to welcome are people atmosphere which hasto afriendly It universitity. also a part-time worker who gives consid­ who worker alsoapart-time overseas help to specifically employed Page ! K E E W THE F O PIC full-time staff are employed to give indivi­ give to areemployed staff full-time ih niiul oneln, ahtr r term bach counselling, individual with Lorna McLay and Brian Lythe and take a take and Lythe Brian and McLay Lorna otOfc n h aps n isaservice and campus, the on PostOffice University is situated in sunny rooms above the the above rooms sunny in issituated University erable help with group work and also assistsalso and work group with erablehelp Colgan the part-time counsellor, is of isof counsellor, part-time the Colgan Shuttered at Night o f the Shades last Saturday: Gwyneth Phillips and Andy Kularatne. Kularatne. Andy and Phillips Gwyneth ShadesSaturday: last the f o Night at Shuttered The Counselling Service o f Auckland Auckland f Serviceo Counselling The However, there is an ominous ominous isan there However, 6 , CRACCUM, March 24. March CRACCUM, , , , n „ , . 8 pm at at pm 1 1 pm. pm. -r, evc a ed tdn Fn. In Fund. Student has Needy Service a the cut-back knife also. In the area of areaof the In also. knife cut-back the otemdcl service. medical the to haveaccess overseas will from or Auckland of out from come who only students those meanthat could this Health Student financial difficulty, the Counselling the difficulty, financial would have serious effects. Aloma Colgan Aloma effects. haveserious would students such as fees-payments, it is as it such fees-payments, students expensesadded on with year, This year. estimated that the money will run out by out run will money the that estimated dieo utatl r increasing.are atalk just or advice the second term. second the Cutbacks in the Counselling Service Counselling the in Cutbacks extreme in students those help To The numbers o f those coming for for coming those f o numbers The CRACCUM tf,adti ol ms iey mean likely most would this and staff, r » irs F counsellor, would be required to do do to required be would counsellor, overseas the students’ Lythe, Brian that bea would There time. f space o short cut, and a group session is one o f the best the f sessiono isone agroup and cut, be have to sessions would group the of n E his workload is not markedly decreasing. markedly isnot workload his —reality in him from seek help to students more have many caused worries financial additional but isoverseasdropping students full-time the on workload greater mcuh relatively a in people many helping of ways CDHPETTIQN SHORT STORV would mean a severe curtailment in the the in meanasevere curtailment would students. 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Mny Hatherly |Mandy I will oppose that to the last. the to that oppose I will goes up and down, is an object o f ridicule. f o isobject an down, goesand up falls, like a ship on the ocean, as the fork fork as ocean,the the on ship a like falls, slightly to it, but the person who risesand who person the but it, to slightly in some way, and the Students’ Association Association Students’ the staff and way, somecut in madeto be will however, attempt seemsan It certain, that April. until Welfare to cut-backs about definite any statement to yet himslef committed the mouth, there is no harm in bending bending in harm no is there to mouth, the food lifting pressure.When additional students, excluding the the excluding students, 6,000 per personServicehas 1 Counselling Services, and is not expected to do so do to expected Services,isnot and h ru ore,ad odn hm The them. holding courses,and group out the working in involved isalso time the the Theseareonly length. in hour anon not put the index fingers forward to gain to forward fingers index the put not counsellors try to give each person aneach persongive to try counsellors the and now, each day in arecoming individuals who are coming in; a lot of of lot a in; arecoming who individuals averages which appointment unhurried trying hard to be correct in your behaviour. your in becorrect to hard trying but do not let people know that you are you that know people let not do but yourself justice. See to it that you do not not do you that it See to justice. yourself do to becareful else; therefore anywhere break any o f the accepted rules of eating, of rules accepted the f o any break Lorna McLay estimates that 24-30 people 24-30 that estimates McLay Lorna from the table. Both positions are wrong. are positions Both table. the from to leave the chair an inordinate distance inordinate an chair leave the to cause may you it or up, squeezeyourself table. Nervousness may lead you to to you lead Nervousness may table. KATRINA’S that it is a reasonable distance from the the from isreasonableadistance it that Table Manners: In arranging your seat, see your arranging In Manners: Table HANDY The Vice-Chancellor has basically not not hasbasically Vice-Chancellor The Hold the knife and fork lightly, and do and lightly, fork and knife the Hold Manners count more at the table than than table the at more Mannerscount INTS 0 0 0 2 staff. an over-crowded rabbit warren. anrabbit over-crowded llightly seedy and scruffy,with the air of of air the seedyscruffy,with and llightly seemsplace whole good the justice, was built in the early 1900’s and while the the while and 1900’s early the wasin built marble edifice doesn’t necessarily make for for make necessarily marbledoesn’t edifice expensive an of pompsplendour and Court The space.and pushed time for

Magistrates’ Court people look harrassed, look the at people Magistrates’ down Court But corridors. like along the museum­ echo blue in menthose the of Lawyers justice. of air of a contemplative Biddy Ley land wood and elegantly curved arches, curved woodelegantly and changes Comm­ Royal suggested the by flit like bats, their sure footfalls and surefootfalls bats,their like flit more peels,there’s still though paint the where the architects have been a trifle havebeenatrifle where architects the ission on Courts come into operation. into ission come Courts on more generous in their use of polished polished useof more their generous in Courts will become District Courts as Courts District become Courts will lmt. nta aete Magistrates’ the date that On climate. sticky Auckland’s in aryencumbrance additional status and dignity by cloaking cloaking by dignity and status additional 1 April on court-gowns black new,them in Court. Attempts then to give the the give to then Attempts Court. the in place f o allseemed out it somewhat but judgearbitrator, as independent an aitaeo ugsa hy il becalled, will magistrate asjudges they or the about neutrality and auraisolation of preservethe necessary be mayto enters magistrate the feet when asstand people to wear jackets and ties, the shuffling of of shuffling the ties, wear and to jackets dingy surroundings o f the Magistrates’ Magistrates’ the f o dingysurroundings ings are imbued, the necessity for counsel for necessity ings the are imbued, stare. uncomprehending an with met respect’ of mey entered the courtroom’. ‘As a mark mark a ‘As courtroom’. the meyentered sanctity of the Court with their their with Court the of sanctity sterile the sidersviolate appearto presence. Someone asked me why ‘the ‘the why measkedpresence. Someone There’s a concession to the possible the There’s to aconcession at the back of the courtroom and the the and courtroom the of back atthe benches, sometimes with cushions which which cushions benches, wooden with hard sometimes f o form the in public, presence of uninvolved members of the the of members presenceuninvolved of awaytime. the parts of the building. People find seats Peoplefind building. the partsof various to ff o wander cardstheir and nurse or handing out magazines to while while magazinesto out nursehanding or to baby stray a badges Court attracting Magistrate enters to a token silence. atoken Magistrateto enters cold, babies cry, there’s an instant drink drink instant an there’s babies cold,cry, and isdraughty wait people sometwenty wander around with their Friends at at Friends their with wander around Meadowbank or Remuera ladiesfrom The area outside the court-rooms where court-rooms the The area outside battered into submission. Kindly faced Kindly submission. into battered slide floorwards. Generally few out­ few Generally slidefloorwards. the rain drifting gently through the trees the through gently drifting therain f greyness o the and peeling is walls onthe far the faces contemplate silent stolid, machine but it has to be kicked and kicked be has to it machinebut lawyers nodded to the magistrate when when magistrate the to lawyers nodded trampled underfoot, a couple of children children of acouple underfoot, trampled laugh and abuse each other while a row o f f o row a while laughabuse and eachother Court Magistrates’ the Wander A Through in the park creeps through the passages. the creepsthrough park thein wall or the shabby brown lino. The paint paint The lino. brown shabby the or wall tse lgtyfria n n unnecess­an and farcical st seem slightly NG H D ES EDG THE T A G IN Y A R F Up the hill at the Supreme Court Court Supreme the at hill Up the The formality with which the proceed­ the which with Theformality 2.1 Opm. The policemen put away put policemen The Opm. 2.1 os ae ot-l magazines lie Loosemonth-old pages f o different kinds, victims of an uncaring uncaring an of victims kinds, different closure seems to indicate that Victorian that indicate seems closure to bourhood Law Office and its threatened threatened its and Office Law bourhood solicitor. But there are instances of solicitors solicitors of instancesare there But solicitor. single, unemployed and on benefits of of benefits on and allweresingle, unemployed they but different were Their offences cells. holding the of one in girls, the f o any help wouldn’t inside Time system is to keep people out of prison. of out people keep isto system something scheme,seemsbeaid getting to eetdbt vrteGe Ln Neigh­ Lynn Grey the over debate recent of a bargain — if the generalldea o f the f o generalldea the —bargain a if of esol $01 e perne So $10—15appearance.per getsonly asked for about $50 for an on the spot spot the on an for $50 about askedfor home and social environment. But the the But environment. socialand home the government here and with the legal the with hereand government the resolution o f the case and another case the another f and o resolution be will him for appear to hasasolicitor seen seriouschargesaduty unless they’ve sals basicfacts. establish business. While the private client who who client private the While business. money-making a not It’s pressure. financial because of out drop to having on defendent the from pleaa accept well-established. isnow but yearsago few if ā remand is asked for, a duty solicitor solicitor duty a isaskedfor, ā remand if to back-tracking time spend to having Magistrates for example now refuse to to refuse now example Magistratesfor point often result in a messy trial, the Court Court the messya trial, in result often point this at available facilities inadequate the in or here upon acted and givenbeing he nnte erod Polynesian year-old nineteen three garbled, areoften Instructions record. ious prev­ address, name,and charge f o details bustling foyer outside the courtroom. The The courtroom. the outside foyer bustling changed places and went back to some to back went placeschangedand for deliberately shoving her. The solicitor solicitor The her. shoving deliberately for people a day with barely time to scribble to time barely 40 with to day a people 34 see They about scribbling. rapid she said, from being pushed around by the the by pushedaround being shefrom said, boys the night before. She harangued him him Sheharangued before. night the boys dress spotted, her interviewed, being sexual atrans­ past brushed policeman astairs client is non-existent. The police leave police The non-existent. is client h orit h el passage cell to the open into door the and solicitor between confidentiality solicitors on duty each day, takes place in place takes each day, duty on solicitors the cells or on the stairs. Privacy and Privacy stairs. the on or cells the the interviewing done by the three or four four or three the by done interviewing the the But clients. interview areto supposed pressure on space is such that much of of much spacepressureis that suchon with two desks where the duty solicitors solicitors duty the desks where two with still an air of musty dankness. musty of air an isstill there but obliterated were obsenities hn wt apeCrsms an o. The job. paint apre-Christmas with shiny on or the toilet to visit. The place isplace The visit. to toilet the or on hr’ nyawoe bnh ocr up curl to bench wooden a only there’s an attempt to prevent the inhabitants from from inhabitants the prevent to anattempt most of the day awaiting a hearing, a awaiting day the of most but property, Majesty’s Her defacing aebe de otewlso ec in each on walls the to havebeenadded Blackboards each sex. for one cells, two who are arrested and held overnight are overnight held and arearrested who Police Station at about 8.30am. There are There 8.30am. about at Central Station the Police at cells the from down brought People building. the f o core central the in deep dungeon-like found cells, epa y n htshpeig O the On happening. what’s on keepeyean there’s no chalk and if you’re here for for here you’re if and chalk no there’s h ceewsol mlmne a implemented schemewasonly The Beside the cells there is a small room room isasmall there cells Beside the The problem is worst in the holding holding the in isworst problem The $20 $20 attempted to take it from her.Although her.Although from it take to attempted h ernstk pae n h more the in place take hearings the could he asif looked boy,who old year stern tones for possessing a flagon of of possessing aflagon for tones stern discharged. and magistrate the by anded informal arena o f the Childrens’ Court, Childrens’ the f o arena informal er n bsn oiea we he when policeman a beer,abusing and same the in discharged was all while the old,grinning years girl,15 Another,a the Police Offences Act).He wasreprim­ Act).He Offences Police the public place (an offence under s.41 of of s.41 under offence (an place public judicial system lies with Parliament.By Parliament.By with lies system judicial the f o leastaware those generally before the court for being drunk in a in drunk being for court the before hauled unnoticed,was pub’ apass into otiuesmtigmr hn 1, a $15, than more something contribute offenders,victims of high spirits,or too too spirits,or high of offenders,victims the involving by service- police the and offences Act,trivial Offences the Police solution the of off.Instead,part getting Star, courts(Auckland the up clogging the court as quickly aspossible. asquickly court the weekend morning,when Monday aon ejiminated. be could - prevention than court the both f o time the waste which assuch statutes amending or repealing overworked an of problem the to chancesof their and issues involved are aid get who those But 14.) March indefensible,thereby the defend the sessions of “ instant justice,” common common justice,” instant “ sessions the of detection,rather crime in more latter much alcohol,are shunted in and out of of out and in shunted alcohol,are much to f clients haslegal o encouraged aid availability ready the believesthat Perhaps then there would be fewer of of befewer would there Perhaps then He 1970. in set admittedly figure getting legal aid in criminal cases to criminal in legal aid getting Justice Minister.Mr McLay wants those wants McLay Minister.Mr Justice taxpayer $10—14,000 ayear. $10—14,000 taxpayer and year a million $55 about chewsup Legal Aid scheme is under attack. isunder scheme Aid Legal annual subsidy needed to keep the office office the keep to needed subsidy annual govern­ The system. the bedevil still open when the Justice Department itself itself Department Justice the when open keeping a man in Mt Eden costs the the costs Eden Mt in manakeeping eti ubln bu h $ the about isquibbling ment retribution with justice equating notions In the Childrens’ Court,one sixteen- sixteen- Court,one Childrens’ the In Penny pinching also means that the the meansthat also pinching Penny 000 0 0 ,0 0 2 within the court. the within those from seemedfar-removed which facts erod,nfligfu o h a,il be law,will the of foul falling year-olds,in heard. that people such as those three nineteen- asthree suchthose people that schemes neighbour­ asand suchlegal aid case was argued in terms o f the offence and offence the f o caseterms was in argued retrenchment involves the pruning of of pruning the involves retrenchment Government edges.If the around tattered relations remains,but it ’s getting a bit bit a ’sgetting it remains,but relations social regulating asexistence meansa of E.Sage hood law offices, then it’s less likely lesslikely it’s then offices, law hood of the arguments before him to arrive at at arrive to him before arguments the of and divided another case into its logical logical its case into another divided and counsel and the court as a whole seemed as whole a court the and counsel parts,cutting through the mumbo-jumbo mumbo-jumbo the through parts,cutting hc n fterflossme up summed fellows their of one which incisivenesswith the wasreassured by pearls.one glasses her But her fingered over peeredand air supercilious slightly barely aware of the accused The asthe person. a of aware barely noise,defense as background a court the daddy figure gently corrected counsel’s counsel’s corrected gently figure daddy a current o f impersonality surfaced. With impersonality f o acurrent under­ party,to one assassinationfrom the f o nature academic and sterile the relations,whatever human exercisesin as appear trials the accused.Assuch firmed at first. A paternalistic,grand- paternalistic,grand- A first. at firmed machine recording all the evidence before before evidence the all recording machine stenographer’s the of tapping staccato the character at attempts degenerate into system adversary the statute.Although the f o non-observance his by committed have to accused was deemed offense,the bumblings as his counterpart,with a ascounterpart,with his bumblings mine the credibility of the other,elsewhere other,elsewhere the of credibility the mine the high-bench as representatives of of asrepresentatives high-bench the occupying quo status the of supporters means that the proceedings at times times at proceedings the meansthat a verdict which took account of the of account took which averdict unemployed circumstances o f the the f o circumstances unemployed hot-headed notions about stuffy old old stuffy about notions hot-headed hssadi o aetl control. parental for by stand-in this authority f o exercise one-time the of effect or value the at wonders one society’s upper echelons, seemcon­ echelons, upper society’s So the intrinsic reason for the system’s the reasonfor intrinsic Sothe Back in the more public Police Courts, Courts, Police public more the in Back ae7 RCU, ac 24. 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The Russians may be still holding fast in path through the thorny conflicts which them, such as mining experts, are contract­ Afghanistan, the hostages stuck fast in await him. He has promised ‘democracy ed to multinational companies, and so will Teheran, but the colonial supervisory for without discrimination’ to the whites, and be staying on regardless. One thing the forces are back from Rhodesia, and Lord urged them to stay and work with the country is desperately short o f already is Soames is going home. Which leaves the new regime. 'Stay with us, we are not doctors; it is hoped that the missions can new Zimbabwe strictly for the Zimbab­ animals’, he is reported to have said at a provide some relief there. weans. But will Zimbabwe, the latest to pre-election rally. He has also announced Another possibility, especially from join the group o f fledgling Third World that he hopes to be good neighbours with what might be termed the ‘fringe element’ socialist states, enjoy the happy media South Africa, whose insistence on main­ of the white community, is a refusal to anonymity of Nicaragua, Mozambique, taining troops on the border at their main accept the black rule that they have Angola? Or will the activities o f terrorist access point to Zimbabwe throughout the resisted so long, and a continuation of blacks in a former colonial paradise contin­ ceasefire cast a faintly ominous note over the fighting in outlying areas. They are ue to figure in the Western press. proceedings. well-organised, heavily armed, with a As the election-at-gunpoint approached, White Zimbabweans can rest assured that floating mercenary sector whose lives are the prospect o f a ZANU-PF victory bec­ that the new government will make no geared simply to killing blacks. And the ame more concrete, but their total of 63% infringements upon private enterprise for Independence Constitution appears to give of the valid vote, or 57 out o f 80 black some time. Of primary importance is sights of citizenship to everyone within the seats, surprised all but the most optimistic simply to get the economy running again: country. Mugabe supporters. The other component Zimbabwe already has, inherited from the ZANU itself blready possesses a . ZANU has pledged to resettle people of the Patriotic Front, ZAPU let by Joshua Smith regime, a highly state-controlled considerable body o f economic analytical in collective agricultural villages on land Nkomo won 20 seats, while Bishop economy which needs little change. Prov­ work and skilled top-level administrators. acquired from the private sector; the Muzorewa only managed to collect 3 seats, ided Mugabe can follow a consistent line Much o f this has been achieved in ZANU constitution requries that all land owners which says a lot for the previous ‘demo­ at the upper administrative levels, all the and joint ZANU-ZAPU seminars organised be paid compensation for their land. As cratically eledted government’. economic indicators are good. Gold prices through UNCTAD (the UN Commission it is estimated that only 40% of white There were numerous reported violat­ are high, and copper prices are rising. The on Trade and Development), while the farms are efficient enough to generate ions of the ceasefire by all parties, and lifiting o f sanctions has freed up capital and departure o f whites in the past few years an income high enough to attract tax, and any group could have claimed that the business confidence. To avoid slipping into has meants that a larger number of blacks considerable amounts o f land have been elections were not valid because of the the debtor-nation position of many African have found their way into skilled positions abandoned by white farmers, this may terms on which they agreed to hold it. countires, Zimbabwe will need to diversify in agriculture and administration. And, not be as much of a problem as it first Muzorewa used government planes to production — amove which would well be as has been shown in the Congo in the appears. More difficult to deal with will drop propaganda across the country, the welcomed .by the indigenous white popul­ early ’60s, the black population, for a be the land sharks (often American or PF had intimidating pamphlet material ation — and sort out priorities for invest­ long time confined to semi-skilled occup­ West German) who have been buying up confiscated by Lord Soames, Mugabe ment and developmental aid. This could ations, is capable fo rapidly augmenting land since 1977, when the white exodus supporters announced they would contin­ well provide a major testing ground for their knowledge to take up responsible began in earnest. ue fighting if the elections went the wrong ideological differences within the Govern­ positions. This gives Zimbabwe, a belated The agricultural base of the country way, and everyone seemed to have a go at ment. arrival to independence, an advantage which lmust be set into gear again. Zimbabwe beating up and threatening the odd Whether the whites, who fought so few other African nations had in their has a population which is 83% rural village. determinedly to retain their last colonial first few years. and agricultural, and ordinarily it exports Nobody is predicing an easy time for paradise, will be content to accept black The most pressing requirement for the the transitional Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. food to Mozambique and Zambia. Both majority rule is a matter which has been new government is to settle the problem countries have suffered, heavily during Mugabe, in his swift ris8 from ‘Marxist much speculated upon. There have been of land. The better 50% o f land in Rhod­ the protracted Rhodesia-Zimbabwe war, terrorist leader’ to Prime Minister o f the predictions of a large scale exodus (to esia was reserved for white farmers, much with troops and bombing raids across national Government will have to reconcile countries o f a ‘similar’ background and of which has been farmed at grossly ineff­ their borders on numerous occasions. his own highly mobile young radicals, a outlook on life such as Australia and New icient levels or else simply abandoned in Ironically, Zimbabwe can expect some highly armed and heavily resistant white Zealand). This might create problems recent years, while large sections o f the immediate assistance in agriculture from community, and the large underemployed for New Zealand, but a large white migra­ agrarian black population had been shifted South Africa. Some o f their animal and and displaced black population. He has tion is not likely to upset the Zimbabwe from their farms into ‘protected villages’. vegetable exports are transported through invited ZAPU-PF leader Joshua Nkomo economy. Many o f the white people there There are large numbers o f black unemploy-’South Africa, and so a reliable standard to join him in a national government, do not possess the skills which are strictly ed crowded around the cities — refugees o f pest control in the region is essential along with white MPs from Ian Smith’s necessary for Zimbabwe, and those that from the clashes between the Rhodesia for South Sfrica, which donates animal Rhodesia Front Party. do — agricultural experts, those with indiv­ Security Forces and guerillas — or else sprays and pesticides to the entire south­ By all appearances, Mugabe is doing his idual administrative and planning skilly from the impoverished and overcrowded ern region. best to steer a moderate and conciliatory teachers — are likely to stay. Many q t Tribal Trust lands. Katherine White CRECHE BENEFIT HOP!

Jose Satyadharma is a Canterbury student What is the NZ Government’s decision? who is threatened with imprisonment or Mr A Malcolm, Under-Secretary for DAHCE worse should he return to Indonesia. Jose Immigration, has given Jose until February has applied twice for political asylum and to leave New Zealand. This date has now when he was refused, he applied for expired so that Jose risks deportation to permanent residence on humanitarian an Indonesian prision. The Government grounds. He received support from both has been given every opportunity to Geoff Palmer MP and Russell Marshall MP. respond, and now it seems public pressure '.Why is Jose’s life at risk in Indonesia ? is the only chance for Jose’s safety. There are two reasons — firstly, he Overseas students should not have to s t u t > E S refused to gather information for the face threats of persecution from their we Indonesian Military Attache on fellow home governments because o f thejr politic­ Indonesian students, and Canterbury al activities in the freer environment o f University students opposed to the Indo­ New Zealand. The New Zealand Govern­ nesian invasion o f East Timor. The Indo­ ment must not shirk its responsibility bec­ s te a m m ista k es nesian Military junta is well known for its ause o f its diplomatic relations with the ruthless political repression and persecut­ Indonesian government. Government ion against its critics especially the stud­ should safeguard the security of a person ents. Amnesty International reports of who faces persecution because o f his FabAY MMOt 2S* political prisoners in Indonesia confirm refusal to spy on fellow students and his this fact. Secondly, Jose has been involved criticism o f repression in Indonesia. We in political activities while a student in must not allow the Indonesian Govern- . Indonesia and in New Zealand, has taken ment to intimidate its students into spying CAFF fy* part in Christian groups which actively on fellow students and New Zealanders. oppose Indonesian Government repression. His outspoken attitude against his govern­ SUPPORT JOSE’S PRINCIPLED STAND. ment is known to Embassy officials, and SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN FOR HIS S r u b e w s .- yj-so (t.b .) provide concrete ground to his fear of POLITICAL ASYLUM. persecution and even for his life if he returns to Indonesia. How can I help? Pueucfs-60 How has the Indonesian Embassy indicated By signing the petition at Studass their hostility to Jose? Reception desk or Craccum office. Subsequent to his non-compliance, they By writing to the Minister of Immig­ Stiffoer ne wovens/iY CfecMe witheld his passport for over one year, ration, c/- Parliament Buildings, asking and returned it without explanation. him to reconsider Jose’s case.

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Page 9, CRACCUM, March 24. Viva La Revolucidn ing over the running of the farms to them. On July 19, 1979, one of the most were also nationalised together with all participation in the political, economic, Small landholders are being helped by a brutal dictatorships in Latin America was the mines. and social life of the country.' loan and technical assistance programme overthrown. The workers and peasants of * Government control on the export of * An ambitious 'national literacy crusade' and an end to debt foreclosure of small Nicaragua, under the leadership of the all major cash crops (coffee, cotton, sugar) aimed at teaching some 867,000 Nicara­ landholders. Sandinista National Liberation Front, and on all internal trade in basic food guans to read and write by the end of INTRODUC One of the outstanding features of the toppled the U.S. backed dictatorship of grains and agricultural supplies. 1980. Nicaraguan revolution has been the The docume General Anastasio Somoza. * Nationalisation of the health-care * Repudiation of all the Somoza regime's immense participation of women. Every printed for y Among the many progressive measures system, with free care being provided in arms debts to foreign lenders, along with the announcement that the rest of office in revolutionary Nicaragua, from Constitution taken in all fields since July 19 by the most cases. 17 (i) Ai * Adoption of a Statute on the Rights of Nicaragua's $1.6 billion external debt the government ministries to the Sandin­ revolutionary governmeht in Nicaragua, ista Defence Committees present in each wi Nicaraguans that no only guarantees would be carefully studied with a view the following stand out: neighbourhood, have women in positions fo * Confiscation of all the industries, land­ fundamental political liberties - such as toward renouncing payment of loans that of responsibility. ed property, real estate, and other holdings freedom of the press and the right to were made through corrupt dealings. I have attem It is with good reason that the Nicara­ of the Somoza family and its top partners assembly : but also upholds women's * The Nicaraguan Institute for Agarian activities the equality and states that 'It is the duty of Reform has been set up to administer the guan revolution is called 'the youngest, expect the A and supporters. most female revolution in history'. About * Nationalisation of all Nicaraguan banks the state to use all the means at its dis­ more than 1 million hectares confiscated material for 30% of the guerrillas fighting the Somoza and thought and tight controls on the operations of posal to remove any obstacles which im­ from the Somozaists, with the aim of dictatorship were women, of these about made at the foreign banks. All insurance companies pede real equality of citizens and their improving the life of the peasants by turn- half were involved in combat and half jn apology for i other poltiical and organizational tasks. 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Page 10, CRACCUM, March 24. ms to them, Iped by a rogramme GOODBYE GARFIELD STREET ! of small INTRODUCTION tures of the The question is, of course, has the SRC grown into the 'dominant role’ envisaged three years ago i.e. has the membership of AUSA grasped the opportunity to personally contribute ? Perhaps the answer n the The document entitled ‘Annual Report of the Auckland University Students’ Association 1979’, lies in the number of times a meeting of the SRC has lapsed, or never opened, for lack of fifty members ten. Every printed for your edification below, has been written in response to the following requirement of the to provide a quorum. Or perhaps in the items of business that have been resolved upon at one meeting, Constitution : jua, from only to be rediscussed and, often, revoked at a following meeting where the composition of those he Sandin- 17 (i) At some time before the end of the year the President shall prepare a report dealing briefly attending has been more anti than at the first. jnt in each with the activities o f the Association during the Association year this to be presented to the following Autumn General Meeting. n positions We were all outraged when a past President seemed to be responsible for ensuring that over three hundred engineering students attended a meeting to discuss financing an activity that had been decided I have attempted to construct the Annual Report as a base of factual documentation of the span of the Nicara- upon previously. However it was membership involvement! If it was truly a minority who assured the activities the Association engaged in, overlaid with my personal viewpoint. Although it is unrealistic to z'oungest, success of the proposal earlier, then no-one can argue against the right of the majority to their view expect the Annual Report to be read by more than a few enthusiastic types, probably hoping to find also. ory'. About material for a few last shots, I have also written in a way that I hope may stimulate rational enquiry the Somoza and thought amongst the Association’s members. I see no point in detailing each and every resolution Yet we are all left with the undeniable feeling that the SRC is not successful. Essentially the problem :hese about made at the multitudes of decision-making points in the Association’s bureaucracy so I make no is the lack of membership involvement - the oft-quoted ‘student apathy’. As was the opening of and half jn apology for the omission of facts some o f you may see as vital and worthy of inclusion. membership to all, a number of proposed changes to the Association’s Constitution to be discussed in >nal tasks, 1980 are attempts to alter the mechanics of the SRC to make it a more attractive proposition to the n the army. It is my intention to record and comment upon those events and trends of significance to the Associat­ individual. 1PRONAC, ion as I saw it in 1979. Thus there is, for example, no mention of our relationship with the NZ janization University Students’ Association (NZUSA), the national organisation o f which A USA is the largest Will making the Executive obey the resolutions of the SRC stimulate widespread interest ? It is hoped constituent Despite the fact that the Association contributes a large sum of money to NZUSA it does so but I fear not. I believe that the growing irrelevance and impotende of the SRC will be a mini-crisis d play in not play a major part in the day-to-day affairs of the President and Executive. tegrated into the Association will have to contend with over the next five years. he military In reading the Annual Report, should you decide to do so, keep in mind that in 1979 the membership n should be of the Association was 10,600. Remember also that each of these students had no choice in their THE EXECUTIVE be there.' membership and that, to them, it cost $35 each. Read on ...... towards the tres, health THE PRESIDENCY The following members of the Association held office on the Executive for either all or part of 1979: Ah Tea Toong (Overseas Students Officer) rnment are This year saw, for the first time in immediate memory, the removal of a President by a resolution of Michael Baker ( Environmental Affairs Officer) Russell Barke (SRC Chairperson) specific no confidence. Arising out of the so-called ‘Haka Party incident’ the removal of Janet Roth from office was effected by a referendum held on June 6. This followed a SGM of the Association, attended by an Tom Bassett (Cultural Affairs Officer) n Nicaraguan John Beavis (Administrative Vice-President) ivernment unprecedented number of students, called to discuss the motion of no confidence. Due to the difficulty of accurately recording the votes of the estimated three thousand or more students present, as well as Gary Cheyne (Treasurer) the impossibility of preventing double-voting, the meeting resolved to decide the question by Frank Doogan (International Affairs Officer) nperialism referendum. Grant Ellis (Societies Representative) imination James Gilderdale (National Affairs Officer) >men as I was elected in mid-July to hold office for the remainder of 1979. This too, logically, appears to be Brian Gray (Environmental Affairs Officer) g them prost- something of a precedent. It is impossible to assess whether or not such an unexpected mid-year change, Cheryl Gwynn (Women’s Rights Officer) eing objects without regard to the individuals concerned, was of any harm to the Association. None has yet been Kevin Hague (National Affairs Officer & Education Vice-President) Robert Hay (Treasurer) o care for demonstrated. Barry Hook ( Welfare Officer) rertise Julian Leigh (Treasurer) such as liquor Peter Monteith (Sports Clubs’ Representative) Phillippa Poole (Publications Officer) building such Ivan Sowry (Education Vice-President) lave no Francis Strange (SRC Chairperson) Russell Taylor (Cultural Affairs Officer) in themselves Michael Tyne-Corbold (Education Vice-President) forward. They Anne-Marie Wille (Women’s Rights Officer) lized way, Peter Wilson (International Affairs Officer). dace in the men and women must xos, so that against ideal- ipearance in o, when the rrection made r a while, iin disappeared surprising University of Detroit International Intercollegiate ests lie behind Turtle Tournament 1961 ies and our As appears to have been the case in many past years the President is the focal working point of those students elected to administer the Association. For some time this has, of course, been recognised by out' about p e payment of an honorarium to the President, reflecting the justified expectations of a full-time t aid to re- [Input. No-one but the President, and senior Association staff, appreciates the diversity and strength of from decades jthe demands made upon that individual. It is unfortunate that such an exciting interesting, yet demand­ loody civil war, ing and unrelenting post has been attracting candidates of declining quality and number over the years. ttees have d. In Auck- ■ has been unrealistic for the President to expect significant concrete support from the majority of the ty Committee hembers of the Executive. They are, after all, students primarily and have their personal committments CORSO to work upon. However, accepting this particular state of affairs, it is still more than a little annoy ing for one to receive criticism and complaint from those who have little appreciation of the President’s >uncil, can be (workload and circumstances. 1 980 will, hopefully, herald a major change through the introduction of Auckland 1. honoraria for the two Vice-Presidents and the Treasurer. As a statement of the Association’s wish for a icaragua are greater input from these persons these honoraria should result in a^team approapbrityi^^cted.students . ^ .. . / . rv-m at the Association’s helm. It must be said at this juncture that the work of the President could not have been completed without the immensely able assistance of the Association’s Secretary and This year required a total of tvyenty-three people to fill fourteen positions over the twelve months. In Accountant and of the Assistant Registrar (Student Union). some cases, e.g. Treasurer, quite some time elapsed with the position unfilled.

THE STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCI L It is quite likely that the difficulty of remaining in an Executive position for the full term stems from a lack of realisation as to the requirements of the job. Those students, who do find the inclination to In his report on the Activities of the Association in 1977 Bruce Gulley made the following comment stand for election, encounter, once successful, perhaps more than they had bargained for. There is no regarding the SRC: easy solution to this problem as one cannot gain an accurate and reajistic picture of the task of an I "Now that the SRC is more established it is hoped it can play the dominant role envisaged it would Executive position without experiencing it. Our advice to those with Executive aspirations can only be L play in the Association.” for them to minimise their academic load, as the two can not be simultaneously explored fully.

I The “dominant role” that Bruce and others believed the SRC should be playing was the role o f a voice bf the Association’s membership. It was felt that for too long the Executive had been too removed and Unaware of the thoughts and wishes of the Association’s members. Critical feedback to the Executive was always been minimal, with the exception of one or two specific issues. THE UNIVERSITY

n its original form the SRC was to provide a balance to the Executive through the opinions of elected One of the objects of the Association is stated in our Constitution as : representatives of all Faculties. However ail too often this body was dominated by the current and “ To further the interests o f the University and secure the co-operation o f students in so doing.” immediate past-Executive, all of whom were aiso members of the SRC. The SRC soon became as ivorced from member thought as the Executive. It seemed to dwell on the issue of human versus non­ Although there is no analogous statement within the University of Auckland Act it can not be denied man coffee dispensors more than anything else. that the existemce and activities of the two institutions are intimately intertwined. Each is important, though not essemtial, to the functioning of the other. It failed to provide the guide to the Executive that it’s architects intended. As only the Association can authoritively represent the students of the University to those who n short the SRC was hoped to be similar to a General Meeting o f the Association, w ithout the cost govern and admiinister, it is vital that the Association be present at every possible part of the University’s ■ d restrictions. In an attempt to overcome the shortcomings of the SRC it’s membership was opened decision-making process. All non-student members of the University must realise and accept the role b all members o f the Association. Rather than a supposedly representative group o f individuals speak- the Association should be playing. If there were no students there would be no University - an institut­ K on behalf of ten thousand others, the SRC now gave all that ten thousand the opportunity to con- ion whose prim

Page 11, CRACCUM, March 24. particulars of student representation to be re-discussed. The existing model stems from the 1969 Report This leads me to my comment about the inability of the Executive to administer the Association’s ill seems as i of the Committee on University Government and is due for overhaul. The discussions that will hope­ finances. Whilst not intending to offend any individual member of this year’s Executive, I have been xmtinue to 1 fully follow our overtures should encompass the view that students must be involved not only on those forced to this conclusion. I believe the following all contribute to the Executive allowing themselves iown, let us bodies that can be demonstrated to affect them directly, but also on many others. , to exceed budgetted expenditure: - An inability to say “ no” to all but the most outrageous requests for money, especially if the rhe Associat It is fallacious to suggest that because no direct effect of the decisions of a committee can be shown request is made in person; ispects of Ur upon student life then students should not be part of that committee. We experience University life - The impossibility of such a diverse group to intelligently decide whether or not an issue is worth idvocated oi as much as any other member of the University and should have full rights to participation. deliberately exceeding the budget; tudy-related - Not being intelligently economical in activities involving Association funds - this is the ‘it’s not myLe ASSOCjat During 1979 the following members of the Association represented students in the governing system money’ attitude that results in the Executive never asking: ‘Will this amount achieve the desired results, the §RCo of the University: or can it be done for less ?’; Vssociation a Tom Bassett (Theatre Management Sub-Cmte of Student Union Management Cmte) - The underlying assumption, often unconscious, that the Association is sufficiently affluent to ;et their Asst John Beavis (Student Union Management Cmte) survive any level of expenditure whatsoever. Jill Frewin (Senate & Academic Cmte of Senate) on. To date Kevin Hague (Audio-Visual Cmte of Senate & Student Union Management Cmte) Much has been made of the deficiencies of the mechanics of the Association’s accounting systems this Barry Hook (Senate, Discipline Cmte of Senate, Welfare Cmte of Council & it’s Student Accommodat­ year. This has been a very convenient scapegoat for deficiencies elsewhere. In 1980 the Executive ENVIRONM ion Sub-Cmte) should receive every month, by courtesy of some solid state gleaming marvel, an exact statement of New Zealand Peter Lee (Student Union Management Cmte) the Association’s finances, with regard to Student Activities in particular. valuable and Julian Leigh (Student Union Management Cmte & It’s Theatre Management Sub-Cmte) jn those issu Carolyn McGinley (Senate & Discipline Cmte of Senate) members’ aw Wayne McIntosh (Recreation Sub-Cmte of Student Union Management Cmte) But will the knowledge that they have spent 90% of the budgetted expenditure by only 50% of the Peter Monteith (Student Union Management Cmte & It’s Recreation & Theatre Management Sub-Cmtes) year prevent them from spending 126% by December - as they did this year ? I do not believe that any In the past ti John Palmer (Senate & it’s Safety Cmte) form of accounting technique or information will alter the reasons I outlined above. There is no answenuclear genet David Rose (Student Union Management Cmte & it’s Theatre Management Sub-Cmte) other than an increase in group responsibility and maturity amongst those who run the Association, jut on in alii Peter Shearer (Senate) Environment Michael Tyne-Corbold (Senate <& it’s Academic Cmte) iither for pul Peter Webb (Theatre Management Sub-Cmte of Student Union Management Cmte) Anthony Wright (Council & it’s Education & Works Cmtes, Student Union Management Cmte & it’s \ major subr Theatre Management & Recreation Sub-Cmtes) THE ‘HAKA PARTY’ timulated a i he Associate Of special importance in 1979 were the negotiations between the Association and the University’s The so-called ‘Haka Party’ was a group of some thirty to forty students who appeared during Capping The Associati Council over the occupation and management of the Student Union complex. The land and buildings Week dressed in mock grass skirts, heavy boots, and daubed in paint, usually in a variety of slogans. ;he NZ Govei are owned by the Council and occupied by the Association within the terms of a leasing agreement - Their activities, in the main, revolve around taunting and intimidating other students in lectures and )e involved it the Deed of Management. This document specifies the conditions of occupation and use by the the Student Union. In addition they ‘perform ’ their version of a Haka. avour of red Association and also the areas of financial responsibility of both the Council and the Association. is a World Sc In general they are abusive to all others and in particular their behaviour is derogatory and degrades an The Deed of Management under which the two parties are currently operating expired in HTS important aspect of Maori cultural indentity. In short they are boorish and offensively ethnocentric. 1. Attempts to renegotiate it’s terms over the past few years have achieved little. In 1977 the basis of the It is unfortunate that a large proportion of European students who observe them seem to find their pTERNATh Association’s stance was to persuade the Council to accept full financial responsibility for the operation behaviour amusing, until it directly threatens them. maior dis of the Student Union, including catering. Bedevilled by conflicting opinions within the Association, Although the this platform faded away. 1978, of course, saw little change from the de facto operation of the Deed. For many years there has been some opposition to the ‘Haka Party’ from not only the Maori Club buteferendum’ 1 - i also from a variety of individuals both on and off the campus. These feelings are partly expressed in (^uca^on *n ^ resolutions of the SRC opposed to and condemning the ‘ Haka Party’. rom tbe Assc This year a great deal of progress has, I believe, been made in clarifying the question. A special Yior to the f< Committee of Council met with negotiators appointed by the Executive and have discussed at length 1CRAG) thr< This year the opposition took a very real form with the confrontation between members of He Taua a number of options for management of the Student Union. Based on the premise that the existing and the ‘ Haka Party’ in the School of Engineering. This was followed by a public statement by the ther Student Union Management Committee can do little in the face of the Executive, the alternatives Apartheid wa: President strongly condemning the ‘Haka Party’. This provided the basis of the following upheaval in revolved around the concept of a managing body not responsible to the Executive. ng in the NZ AUSA. Meetings. The The draft Deed produced by the Council’s Committee proposed a Board existing entirely within the ome NZ spor I wish only to make the following points: Association’s structure responsible only to the Association in General Meeting, upon which the Richards was Association would invite University representation. As a number of points required alteration, from a) Ms Roth's behaviour did not fall outside the bounds of acceptability for a President of the the Association’s point of view, to more adeqauately define the relationship between Council and the Association. She did not exceed the Association’s existing policy in her statements. It is unfortunate IATIONAL / that Presidents before her did not take a similar stand. Association and also questions of finance, discussion should continue in the new year, despite the "he position c Registrar’s over-reaction. b) The Executive displayed a definite moral weakness in their response to the ‘incident’ and to Ms uffered a cha Roth’s actions. They exist to execute the policy of the Association no matter how distasteful that may Die as a voice be to them individually. lany trends c c) The entire debate was a convenient avenue for the middle-class who wished to remove Ms Roth S members o from office because of her politics and her stated sexuality. She had done nothing to justify a ecision-maki resolution of no confidence, without the Executive being similarly implicated. lowever the « The Association presented a submission to the Human Rights Commission’s investigation into ‘ Racial if mass feelin FINANCES Intolerance in New Zealand’. Its central point was that students and their response to the ‘Haka Party1 iur own thou reflected the patronising ethnocentricity of European New Zealanders that is the strong legacy of this I will restrict comment on the financial aspects of the Association’s operation in 1979 to the Income country’s colonial history. leated discus & Expenditure Account, which covers the following : irotection of Ad ministration indertaken by Student Block Expenses if bonds recei Student Activities PORTFOLIO REPORTS yassupportec Accommodation Rentals hake a more < The Old Maid CULTURAL AFFAIRS Unds. Catering There was an unfortunate lack of co-ordination and bringing together of cultural clubs this year. The j Cultural Council provides an opportunity for clubs to mix and so collectively enrich the cultural lifeoffrade Union e The overall account shows a deficit of $74,000 for 1979. It is not my intention to produce a list of an often very sterile campus. This obviously requires an enthusiastic Cultural Affairs Officer prepared he Mangere E definitive reasons for this figure. No-one will be able to pin down an explanation for every cent. What to work at bringing students together. This was not the case for the early part of the year. Government’s is required is comment on the desirability of deficits, whether in budgets or accounts, and on the general trends that contribute to such deficits. Our second CAO provided a previously unseen energy and worked hard on some projects. The Culturalfhe question i Mosaic went well and hopefully may have done something for cross-cultural understanding, at a low ial mission fr< The budget adopted for 1979 was a deficit budget - to the extent of $24,000. Three areas of expendi­ ebb this year. eportofamc ture contributed significantly to the variance of accounts from budget ($49,000). These were Catering, vhich our ‘rep the Student Union, and Student Activities, for which the variance from budget was respectively: The two Arts organisations that the Association is concerned with, Campus Arts North (CAN) and thejesolutions of $10,000; $6,000; $38,000. The difference between these figures and the total variance from budget is NZ Students’ Arts Council (NZSAC), provided a contrast in energy and efficiency. It is hoped that theiRC. due to income being greater than budgetted by $1 2,000. guidelines that the Association was active in getting CAN to adopt for programme planning will be reflected in 1 980. It is embarrassing that a large part of CAN’s difficulties can be seen to be the result financial assis Catering has always been the white elephant of the Association’s accounts. Many of us still believe that of the non-contribution of the Association’s first CAO. he film ‘A Fa it is possible to : upported CO a) Achieve a break-even, if not profitable, state on the consolidated catering operation; The Old Maid has long proved it’s desirability as a cultural centre for the University. The variety and J b) Maintain a lower-than-average price range; quality of the many activities that occurred in both theatres is pleasing. The Association must not JVERSEAS S c) Retain full control of catering within the Association. forget that this is very much a student asset, financed in substantial part by the Association. The major issu noves by Gov With the appointment of a new Catering Manager at the end of this year I believe the next two years The vitality of the Maid’s two Artistic Directors during 1979 and the willingness of the University’s nost dramatic should see significant progress made towards achieving these aims. Stability of senior staffing has been Administrators to see the success of the Maid played no small part in its life. Our new Artistic Directoipdents. a recurring problem for a number of years, not surprisingly in the light of our ‘economic’ salaries. bodes extremely well for 1980. “ Hello boys! Hunting boar ?” However the introduction of measures to rationalise many aspects of the catering operation should The move by Radio B into well-planned and designed studios on the top floor of the Student Union ^cdve rePrese assist new staff in maximising economies and exploring new avenues of revenue. 1980 should see a represents yet another upgrading and ‘professionalisation’ of Association activities. The constitutionoifeSSure tbrou dramatic increase in noti-Association use of the facilities and thus a greater subsidy of the prime aspects a Radio B Management Board late in the year has provided a now-needed supervisory body. The fresentation o of Catering - those designed for the benefit of the members of the Association. Association’s financial investment into Radio B has not been small and so it has become necessary forly- The Assoc the Executive to have a channel of communication and participation in managing Radio B’s affairs. # pointed t0 1 The Association, like so many other commercial enterprises - as the Association most definitely is in so potential of more frequent radio transmission by Radio B makes this doubly essential. ee demonstra many ways - is subject to the inflationary activities of the rest of the community. Thus the costs of >y some brigh operating and maintaining the Student Union are largely beyond the control of both the Association During the year the Association was offered the sub-lease of premises in 25 Anzac Ave. At the time ^ 6501^ 'nst’ and the University. Rubbish removal, cleaning, toilet necessaries, energy costs, etc, are all difficult to these were used by the University Book Shop Ltd as office and warehouse facilities. After negotiation*ancellors’ C predict oyer twelve months. with the building’s owners the Association took up the sub-lease and made space available for use by 8Sal basis of h the Maid, clubs, and societies. Already it has proved its value as a workshop for theatre activities, asa ^ islation thrc ‘Student Activities’ is synonymous with Executive expenditure. Although authority to expend storage area for clubs, and, in the street-fronting office space, as a small gallery for the display of work] Association monies lies soley with the Executive, a great part of that authority is inadvertently dele­ by students. listening to th gated, with the result that the Student Activities portion of the budget is the only area supplying the or the Prime I Executive with day-to-day money. t how men of fealand’s Govi I believe that there are essentially two factors contributing to this year’s variance from budget. These EDUCATION lew Zealand ji are an inability of the majority of the Executive to responsibly administer such a budget and the oiced its proti impossibility of accurately predicting the sort of activities the Association will want to spend money 1979 was dominated by ‘Education Fightback’ - the campaign that will run until the next election, andtg limitation: on over twelve months. perhaps beyond, to try and convince the New Zealand public and its Government that its attitude to [ Education is short-sighted and unintelligent. The gradual reduction in financing of Education, ’UBLICATIOI Examples of the latter are the General Strike and Education Fightback. As the Executive supported especially at tertiary level, seems intended to restrict access to educational opportunity to a small Le Associatio the principles being espoused by the strike it approved payment of our staff’s wages for that day. economic elite. This is unacceptable. although suffe Obviously no-one could predict in November-December 1978 that a General Strike would occur nearly verall effect o a year later. Also with the long-term campaign against the Government’s policy of reducing the Vote: Education it was impossible to predict the moves of Government and thus the Association’s response. In conjunction with NZUSA and many other concerned organisations the Association undertook manjitver sat'sfV'nl Let nobody suggest that the Association should have remained silent on the question of a $1500 fee activities to publicise this message. In particular we focused on the financing of NZ’s universities, the Important fun< for Private Overseas Students simply because it was not a budgetted item. new proposals for financial assistance to tertiary students, and charges to overseas students. At times itpmidate stud(

Page 12, CRACCUM, March 24. Association’s :ive, I have been ill seems as if Muldoon, Wellington, and their 'user-pays’ philosophy will win out. However we must xmtinue to fight, for, as ex-Minister of Justice Martyn Finlay said at Council “ If we’re going to go Both the Editor and I will miss the conferences which kept our two arms of the Association’s business wing themselves burning. lown, let us at least go down screaming !”

ecially if the The Association also played an active role through its representatives within the University on many Once again the Association assisted a number of clubs and societies with publishing newsletters, ispects of University functioning. Our representatives on Council and Senate in particular strongly magazines, and journals as well as publishing its own Capping Book and Literary Magazine Total an issue is worth idvocated our viewpoint on issues ranging from academic appointments to assessment and charges on expenditure on publications other than Craccum was $7319. tudy-related supplies. SOCIETIES 5the1 d e s i r e d ^ s u T t s ^ ^ nded.f ss's^apnce t0 ; wo ° ther stude"t groups this year. Financial grants were made o the SRC of the University of Papua New Guinea and to those student attempting to form a Students’ Again a huge number of clubs and societies were affiliated to the Association, their stated activities covering an amazing range of possibilities. No doubt the extra-constitutional activities of many helped tly affluent to r ' at'°" ! .e Manukau Technical Institute. These students have been struggling for some time to broaden this range even further. let their Association off the ground but are severely restricted by a repressive and childish administrat­ o r To date they have managed a ‘Manukau Students’ Club’ with only voluntary membership. The Sports Council was an active body as usual under the able chairing of the Sports Clubs’ Represent­ nting systems this ative. It is pleasing to see affiliated groups prepared to play a role in the Association that is not only the Executive ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS their parent body but also the source of substantial financial assistance. The Societies Council for non­ ct statement of New Zealand is ripe for environmental activists as authorities seem determined to destroy all that is sporting clubs, has not played such a role for some time. /aluable and beautiful. The Association sees its role as twofold. Firstly we can act as a voice of protest »n those issues that are environmentally detrimental, and secondly we can attempt to increase our Grants to clubs and socieites in 1 979 totalled $33,298. nembers awareness of environmental questions. nly 50% of the SPORTS ot believe that any In the past the Association has been vocal on such isssues as the aluminium smelter at Bluff and The Association hosted the NZ Universities Sports Union’s Easter Tournament, which was won by There is no answenuclear generation of electricity. This year the Whirinaki Forest was one issue the Association spoke AUSA on overall points. The Association gained a Second in the Winter Tournament hosted by Otago the Association. ,ut on m alliance with the Native Forests Action Council, Royal Forest & Bird Society and the tfforts were made to raise funds to send a team to the World Student Games environment Conservation Organisations. Support was also given to a number of like organisations #ther for public education or direct protest activities, such as the Environmental Defence Society. The University’s recreational facilities have continued to grow with the completion of tennis courts and commencement of installation of floodlights at University Park. The Association participates in \ major submission was made on the National Development Bill, alas to little avail. However if we this development through representation on the Recreation Sub-Committee. timulated a few New Zealanders to consider and question the direction their society is taking, perhaps he Association can feel it has achieved something, worthwhile. The following members of the Association received awards for significant sporting achievement: !d dur’n8 CaPP'ng The Association spoke out on two environmental issues of international relevance. Firstly in support of .ety of slogans he NZ Government’s stance at the International Whaling Commission. While unfortunately unable to Helen Klisser - Sportswoman of the Year s in lectures and * involved in more direct protest the Association was pleased to hear NZ’s representatives argue in Wayne Knightsbridge - .Sportsman of the Year Blues : avour of reduced quotas. Secondly AUSA lent its support to the concept of establishing the Antarctica is a World Scientific Reserve, protected from any exploitation, ry and degrades an j. Table Tennis - David Jackson ■m W fin d 'h et INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Women’s Hockey - Jan Martin, Chris Hutton, Jane Goulding Athletics - John Bowden Ihe major discussion concerning events overseas this year was in regard to Indo-Chinese refugees. Harriers - Chris Alley, Shane Marshall Although there are many aspects to the question of voluntary refugees, the SRC decided through a Rowing - Shane O’Brien he Maori Club but eferendurf» that the Association should provide some support to refugees wishing to undertake Motorsport- John Palmer tly expressed in ducation in New Zealand. To this end a trust fund was created from donations and a contribution rom the Association. It received insufficient support to reach a workable level and its future is unclear. Soccer - Graham Redding, John Lipscome, Ross Thorpe * Netball - Anne Segedin, Lily Tuioti >rior to the formation of AUSREF assistance was given to the Indo-Chinese Refugee Action Group Rugby - John Drake ibers of He Taua ^RAG ) through money, services, and use of meeting rooms. Basketball- Dave Dowsett, James Penfold, Inia Rademakers, David Neutz Gail Tanner wing upheaval in ^Partheid ^ as discussed in relation to a number of spheres. The Association again used its share-hold- Vo'uevbaH6 VI/1 KI,SS®r’.jan^ e.J ,eland» Be" Nanasca, Jon Wardrope, Juan Cipriano ng in the NZ and South British Insurance Co’s to have an active protest present at their General Volleyball - Wayne Knightsbridge, Alan Knightsbridge Meetings. The Association also joined the protests voiced at Danie Craven’s tour and the actions of ome NZ sportspeople in accepting invitations to play in South Africa. A speaking tour by Trevor WELFARE >ident of the dchards was supported, as was the Auckland Anti-Apartheid Committee. fetat^ re of th® Association’s involvement in the welfare of students on campus in 1979 was the deliberate decision by Government to enforce its 'user-pays’ philosophy. When the universities It is unfortunate jaTIONAL AFFAIRS sTedfi^ri hv TY m yCar t0 rCdUCu eXpenditure in 1 979 hV *3 million, student welfare services were cident’ and tn he position of National Affairs Officer is relatively new to the Association and was another that specified by Treasury as one area where they expected to see reductions. listasteful that ™,!jffercd 3 cha"ge of occuPant duri"8 the V™ - The Association has long considered itself to have a mā o!e as a voice in society. Both in its own right and through NZUSA the Association comments on As a result the University looked at how savings could be made in this area. Through its representative remove Ms Roth iany trends society ’s development. It is important that the Association articulates the thoughts of on Council the Association was directly involved in these discussions. i iustifv a S members on t0P'cal issues as students are entitled to the same opportunities of participation in j jusi y a. ecision-making processes as any other group. r t ! ^ « ltSh 'f*the exercis®.W£'re 'ncreases in creche charges, reduction in some services, and, primarily

Jowever the statements promulgated by the President and Executive are rarely derived from indications ation into 'Racial if mass feeling. As the vast majority of students are active members of the silent majority we only have 0 the ‘Haka Party’iur own thoughts to base the Association’s statements upon, c Z t 1980 ° " iy' ,o * *■“ °f « - ■»»*** - . ong legacy of this , leated discussion was generated by the contradiction between the Association’s support for greater !hodir r 8RS°thWl ha|e|taCti^ accepted the ‘user-pays’ approach, albeit indirectly instituted. We had no irotection of the rights of tenants, including opposition to the concept of the bond, and the practices choice. Both the University and the Association were forced into a corner by the Government. indertaken by the Association as a landlord. Efforts to find a third party to act as a neutral custodian if bonds received by the Association have met with little success. South Pacific Television’s ‘Telethon’ ether thron g f h . ' W“ ^ ° ptimistic hope that by 1981 such a contfibution won’t be necessary. vas supported through the withholding of charges for hire of the cafe. Efforts to persuade the SRC to Either through public pressure or an act of god the Government may provide sufficient finance to ' nake a more substantial contribution were unsuccessful. Radio B conducted a ‘discothon’ to raise are an no u need"1 V StU Th,S wi" be known when details of funding of the next quinquennium unds. ibs this year. The WOMENS’ RIGHTS the cultural life offrade Union events were brought to students by a visit of representatives of the workers involved in 1 Officer prepared he Mangere Bridge dispute and through discussion, culminating in a resolution of opposition, of the OffirPr iVaTtShty F.emif!'StS again acted as a stron8 support group for the Association’s Womens’ Rights ; year. Government’s use of the Renumeration Act in the settling of the Drivers’ Award. £ A h°tUg a Ch3Ale occurred mid-year in this position also that did not prevent the Association from being active m an Abortion Action Day and Womens’ Suffrage Day. >jects. The CulturalFhe question of foreign investment in New Zealand was discussed in relation to the visit of an indust- anding, at a low ial mission from West Germany during the year. Craccum published the contents of a confidential It is clear that as in so many other areas, the Association should be more active in what it is trying to eport of a meeting between the mission and NZ Cabinet Ministers. The revelation of the extent to do, ,.e. alter the perceptions and attitudes of New Zealanders towards women. Perhaps Je a r e S a n t to openly accept that as a goal of the Association. nes.tant vhich our 'representatives’ are prepared to prostitute New Zealand was horrifying. In addition rth (CAN) and theesolutions of opposition to the discussed areas of potential German investment were adopted at the t is hoped that theiRC. lanning will be :n to be the result -'inancial assistance was given to the Community Volunteers Inc. and to CORSO for the production of he film ‘A Fair Deal’ for television - subsequently banned from broadcast. The Association also SUMMATION upported CORSO in its fight against Government repression later in the year. . The variety and The final year of a decade is a traditional time for waxing eloquently about past trends and their ition must not )VERSEAS STUDENTS implications for the future. To do this with the Association one could only identify the decreasing jciation. The major issues confronting the Association in regard to Overseas Students in 1979 were the various interest of the majority of our members in the Association’s existence, let alone its affairs, and the noves by Government to regularly reduce the number of students admitted to NZ universities. The growi/ig gap between those members and the few on or around the Executive. the University’s nost dramatic step in this process was the imposition of a $1 500 fee on all but a few private Overseas w Artistic Directoltudents. To ask what this means for the next decade one can answer with two pictures: either (a) the number of people prepared to give their time and energy to the Association, despite the spread of ‘honoraria’, e Student Union ^ctive rePresentation on Council saw the seeking of a legal opinion on the legal basis of the fee-setting, will decrease and the response of students to Association activities will dwindle further until the The constitutiono:iressure throu8h the NZ Vice-Chancellors’ Committee on the University Grants Committee, and the Executive will no longer bother with the pretence of representing student opinion; or (b) there will be y body. The Presentation of a submission to the Education Select Committee on the Bill giving the fee legal author- a violent response by students against the Association, similar to the reaction to Janet Roth, that may ome necessary for^- 7be Association was heard at all phases of Council’s deliberations, including having the President result in the abolition of compulsory membership or even the winding-up of the Association. adio B’s affairs # pointed t0 the Sub_Committee created to prepare Council’s submission. The episode o f the $1500 ia|. ' ’ ee demonstrates most clearly the ineptness of the Minister of Education. The concept was dreamed up Does the Association still have anything relevant to say to students, or is it simply not recognising ty some bright spark and ended up as a Cabinet decision without referral to any of the involved which of the many things it says are those that are relevant? We. At the time ,artiesor institutions. A combination of overt opposition from nearly all the universities, the Vice- , After negotiation'hancellors’ Committee» student groups, covert disapproval from within the Dept, and the suspect ailable for use by sgal basis of its original introduction resulted in the Government bulldozing the appropriate itre activities, asa f*'s*at'on tbrou8b* ;he display of work! . . „ .istenmg to the Parliamentary debate on the Bill one could not feel anything other than total contempt or the Prime Minister and the collection of toadies who followed his line. I never cease to be amazed t how men of such small intellectual stature as Muldoon and Wellington get away with heading New Zealand’s Government.

lew Zealand joined Australia in a general tightening of access for Overseas Students and the Association Greg Pirie, Diced its protest. This country has a poor record for aid generally and developmental aid in particular, PRESIDENT. e next election, anc-he limitations on Overseas Students does nothing to improve New Zealand’s performance in this field iat its attitude to | Education, UBUCATIONS nty to a small -he Association’s major publication was generally ably produced by a team headed by Dave Merritt. although suffering one or two lapses, especially in keeping tabs on impulsive over-expenditure, the verall effect of Craccum this year was good. Publication of a student newspaper inherently involves an undertook mantrver sadsfy*nS a^ people all of the time. 1979 saw a good balance between the two most s universities, the mportant functions of Craccum: to inform students of the activities of their Association; and to tudents. At times ill*midate students to consider and question contemporary issues in society.

Page 13, CRACCUM, March 24. AGENDA FOR THE AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING OF THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION TO BE HELD IN THE RECREATION CENTRE ON THURSDAY n) the deletion of the words ‘Treasurer and’ from Rule 2 of the Twelfth Schedule. 27 MARCH 1980 COMMENCING AT 1.00PM. o) the deletion of the words ‘either the Treasurer of Administrative Vice-President from Rule 2 of the Twelfth Schedule. 1. PRESENT: 2. APOLOGIES p) the amendment of Rule 3 of the Twelfth Schedule to read ‘The Administrative Vice-Presii 3. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS: ent shall be the Chairperson of the Committee during his/her tenure of office as such.’ 3.1 TH A T the minutes of the Winter General Meeting held on 9 and 10 August 1979 be taken as q) the deletion of the words ‘Treasurer’ shall mean ‘The Treasurer of the Association’ from read and adopted as a true and correct record. Rule 2(a). 3.2 TH A T the minutes of the Special General Meeting held on 2 and 4 October 1979 be taken as MITCHELL read and adopted as a true and correct record. 10.6 TH A T Rule 63(1) of the constitution be ajnended by deleting the words ‘a majority of at least 3.3 TH A T the minutes of the Special General Meeting held on 13 March 1980 be taken as read and two-thirds of those present and entitled to vote’ and substituting the words ‘by a simple majority of those voting.’ adopted as a true and correct record. Note: This rule relates to the procedure for amending the Association’s Constitution at a 4. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS: General Meeting. 5. ACCOUNTS AND BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1979. MITCHELL/ TH A T the Annual Accounts and Balance Sheet of the Association for the year ended 31 10.7 Notice of motion in the event that Resolution 10.6 is not carried: December 1979 be adopted. TH A T Rule 63(i) of the Constitution be amended by deleting the words ‘a majority of at least) 6. APPOINTMENT OF AUDITORS: two-thirds of those present and entitled to vote’ and substituting the words ‘a majority of at TH A T Hutchison and Hull and Company be reappointed Auditors to the Association for 1980. least two-thirds of those voting.’ 7. APPOINTMENT OF HONORARY SOLICITORS: MITCHELL/ THAT Sheffield Young and Ellis be reappointed Honorary Solicitors to the Association for 1980. 10.8 TH A T Rule 20(ii)(a) o f the Constitution be amended by the inclusion after the words ‘a Wo 8. ANNUAL REPORT: Rights Officer’ o f the words ‘a Human Rights Officer’, TH A T the Annual Report of the 1979 President and Executive be adopted. AND TH A T a new Rule, 36(xiii) be added to read: ‘36(xiii) The Human Rights Officer shall responsible to the Executive for all matters that concern the Association that are connected w( 9. ELECTION OF OFFICER: Human rights.’ Treasurer 10. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: 10.9 TH A T Rule 8(i) of the Constitution be amended by the addition of the words ‘AND PROVIDlj MITCHELL/ that in the case of a member who is enrolled for one or two papers no subscription shall be 10.1 TH A T the Constitution be amended by the deletion of Rule 1(b) of the Second Schedule; payable,’ AUDITORS Note: This rule reads: ‘All members shall be eligible for nomination election and re-election AND TH A T Rule 8(ii) of the Constitution be amended by the addition of the words ‘AND for any position provided.....(b) that in the case of the President he shall have been a VID E D that in the case of a member enrolled for one or two papers no subscription to the student of the University of Auckland for at least one year immediately preceding his Building Fund shall be payable.’ DERRICK/ We have exa nomination.’ the books an MITCHELL/ 10.10 Notice of motion in the event that Resolution 10.9 is not carried: 10.2 TH A T the Constitution be amended by the addition to Rule 8(i) of the words ‘AND PROVID­ TH A T Rule 8(i) of the Constitution be amended by the addition of the words ‘AND PROVIDFonsiciered n ED that in the case of a member who is a student in her/his first year at Auckland University that in the case of a member who is enrolled for one or two papers an annual subscription of : twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) shall be payable.’ *n our °P'ni( such fee shall be optional.’ Note: This rule specifies the annual subscription which shall be payable by members. AND TH A T Rule 8(ii) of the Constitution be amended by the addition of the words ‘AND December, 1 PROVIDED that in the case of a member who is enrolled for one or two papers a sum of MITCHELL/ AUCKLANC 10.3 TH A T Rule 32 (ii) of the Constitution be amended to read: ‘When a vacancy occurs outside six dollars ($6.00) shall be payable towards the Building Fund. the Academic Year in respect of a position on the Executive then the EXECUTIVE shall have ROSE/ power to, and may, summarily appoint any member of the Association to fill such vacancy until 10.11 TH A T Rule 55( ii) of the consitution be amended to read ‘Each member of the Executive shall - ^ Januar^ the commencement of the next Academic Year, at which time a casual vacancy in respect of be entitled to purchase from the Association on eExecutive badge upon the commencement such position shall be and shall be deemed to be created.? of his first term of office as a member of the Executive and to wear such badge on all occasiorcNOTES TO MITCHELL/ during his term of office.’ 10.4 TH A T a new Rule, 24(iii) be added to the Constitution to read: ‘24(iii) All members of the Note: This Rule currently reads ‘...shall be entitled to receive free....’ 1. Statemen Association shall have speaking rights at all meetings of the Executive.’ OTHER MATTERS: * (a) 10.5 SOWRY / MITCHELL/ THAT the constitution be amended by: 11.1 Notice of motion in the event Resolution 10.8 is carried: a) the deletion of the words ‘a Treasurer’ from Rule 20(ii)a. TH A T an election for the position of Human Rights Officer be now held. b) the deletion of the words ‘The Treasurer’ from rule 28(ii) MITCHELL/ c) the amendment of Rule 31 (i) to read ‘The President and Vice-Presidents of the Association 11.2 Notice of motion in the event Resolution 10.8 is carried and Resolution 11.1 is not carried: (b) shall be elected by means of a general and secret ballot of the members to be conducted accord­ THAT the position of Human Rights Officer be filled by means of a by-election. ing to the Rules contained in the Second Schedule hereto.’ EILENBERG/STUART De d) the deletion of Rule 36(i) with appropriate renumbering of subsequent Rules. 11.3 TH A T students should be able to use their own tea and coffee in the various coffee shops on e) the amendment of Rule 46D(iii) to read ‘The Administrative Vice-President of the Association campus. shall at all times be permitted to inspect the books, papers and accounts of the Body and shall SOWRY/ be deemed to be Auditor of the Body unless the Body elect in General Meeting an Auditor 11.4 TH A T RN 15 of the 1979 Winter General Meeting be rescinded and that the AUSA support who shall be approved by the Administrative Vice-President.’ the right of any individual or organisation to publish and distribute any literary material they f) the deletion of the Rule 1(c) of the Second Schedule with appropriate renumbering of subse­ wish. Re quent rules. Note: This resolution read: ‘TH A T AUSA support the publication and distribution of all literary material.’ Ca g) the deletion of the words ‘and Treasurer’ from Rule 2(i) of the Second Schedule. SOWRY/ h) the deletion of the words ‘and Treasurer’ from Rule 12 of the Second Schedule. 11.5 TH A T AUSA is opposed in principle to the payment of bonds by tenants because this practice i) the deletion of the words ‘and Treasurer’ from Rule 1 3 of the Second Schedule. places tne tenant in a aisaavantaged position and reflects on the integrity of the tenant j) the deletion of the word ‘Treasurer’ from Rule 3(iii) of the Third Schedule. SOWRY/ k) the deletion of the words ', and either the Business Manager or Treasurer’ from Rule 1 (iv) 11.6 TH A T cigarette papers and cigarettes not manufactured or distributed by Rothmans or by any of part II of the Sixth Schedule. company in which Rothmans has a shareholding be sold in the Coffee Bar. l) the deletion of Rule 2(iii) of the Tenth Schedule with appropriate renumbering of 12. GENERAL BUSINESS: subsequent Rules. This Func Note! Should the meeting not complete the business on this agenda on Thursday 27 March the m) the deletion of Rule 2(f) of the Eleventh Schedule with appropriate renumbering of sub­ University sequent rules. meeting will continue on Friday 28 March from 1.00pm.

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On Friday 28th March, the Auckland Gay Movement is having a that this is not just dissent by a small group of discontented rabble- University

protest march leaving from Aotea Square (beside the Town Hall) rousers, but an angry and determined protest by a proud and power­ As at Decf at 8pm. The march's intention is to continue the pressure put on ful minority who will never lie down and be rolled over. the Associ rep resent ii the Police and the Government over the harassment and arrests that the provisi have been occurring in the Gay community; and to direct attention There have been many Gays that have said we will eventually get Contributi to the need for complete protection of Gay people's Human Rights. our rights, our freedom, by keeping our heads down and showing that we are good, responsible members of the community. But that Further nc The march is part of a continuing campaign, a campaign that Gays approach has achieved nothing. The open, proud and aggressive are successfully winning, and one we must continue to win. The Gay visibility that emerged in the 70's is what won Gay people the community's loud and angry response to the Police raids on the first significant advances in 2000 years of oppression. Public protests Salaries - S Sauna, the OUT! offices and to the harrassment of people on the following Stonewall stopped Police raids on New York Gay bars. streets and in their homes has successfully forced the Police onto the Vocal and very visible protests stopped proposition 13 in California. Mortgage defensive. Since that raid, the ball has been firm ly in our court, with all the sources that are in contact with the Police suggesting that it The choice is clear: get off the pavement and onto the streets, or The repay i will be a long time before the Police attempt similar raids. constantly live in fear of arrest, sacking, violence and all abuses resulting from the denial of our rights. If you cannot be sprung ( WE MUST MAKE SURE IT IS NEVER! And on of the best ways that you as a member or a supporter of the Gay community can you can still make a powerful and effective protest alongside the jEollingwood help in that objective is to march. It is you that will make the point rest of us by wearing a mask. Masks will be provided. FRIDAY 2» MARCH AOTEA SO. 8P.M

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We have examined the accompanying Balance Sheet and Income & Expenditure account, together with the books and records of the Association and have obtained such information and explanations as we CONSOLIDATED INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FORTHE YEAR ENDED 31.12.79 rds ‘AND PROVIDfonsidered necessarV- al subscription of 1978 1979 In our opinion these accounts present fairly the financial position of the Association as at 31st ~ r - December, 1979 anJ “------! ' " . . . $ :he words ‘AND December>1979 and the results of its activities for the year to that date 52944 Net Surplus (Deficit) - Administration (33510) tpersasumof il.,.,, llir> K1 , Union; Student Activities UCKLAND, N.Z. Hutchison, Hull & Co. 5520 Plus Surplus (Deficit) on Rentals 10526 58464 the Executive shalf"thJanuary 1980 Chartered Accountants (22984) Add: 2 : commencement m (25199) Deficit on Catering idge on all occasioitNOTES ^0 ACCOUNTS: (31377) (13274) Deficit on Theatre ) (14392) |. Statement of Accounting Policies 19991 Net Surplus (Deficit) for Year before special items (68753) Prior Year adjustment | ( 3790) (a) The general accounting principles recognised as appropriate for the measurement and report­ Loss on Sale of Disposal of Assets - Garfield St ( 5262) ing of results and financial position under the historical cost method have been observed in $19991 Net Surplus (Deficit) for Year the preparation of the accounts. $(77805)

.1 is not carried: (b) The specific accounting policies adopted in the accounts and which have a significant effect ction. on the results and financial position disclosed are : INCOME- EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FORTHE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER 1979 is coffee shops on Depreciation of Fixed Assets i 1978 INCOM E : Depreciation is calculated to write off fixed assets other than land over their expected “ r $ e AUSA support economic lives in equal annual instalments. The principle rates used are as follows : 543 Billiard Tables 1383 rary material they 60977 Contribution from University 69457 Rental Properties - Buildings 2 1A% 2791 Discounts Received 42 tribution of all Furniture and Equipment 10 % 240008 Fees 248212 Catering and Student Block - Furniture 15 % (36) Food Co-op 402 Equipment 10 % & 15 18938 Interest 13070 iecause this practice Stock Valuation: 1060 Locker Rentals 1788 f the tenant Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value. 1256 Other Income 4627 (c) The above policies are unchanged from the previous year. 696 Rents loth mans or by any 344 Theatre Workshop 2279 Special Fund 326627 TOTAL INCOME 341260 This Fund is derived from rental income paid by the University Bookshop (Auckland) Ltd. to irsday 27 March the University of Auckland and administered by Student Union Management Committee. LESS A D M IN ISTR A TIO N EXPENSES:

1979 1978 893 Advertising $ $ 2316 Audit Fees Balance 1st January 23426 7200 682 Bad Debts Add: Rental Income 8860 25982 Computer Expenses : Funds distributed by Trustees 24624 1606 Depreciation 155 Election Expenses 56910 33182 324 Employment Bureau Less: Authorised Expenditure 44326 9756 2062 Executive Expenses Balance 31st December 12584 23426 2916 General Expenses 507 General Meeting Expens' Further authorised expenditure o f $141 7l (1978 $15774) was committed as at 31.1 2.79 for the 342 Insurance Bulk Store, Administration Office and Photo Studio. 145 Legal Expenses 3914 Printing and Stationery 4522 Contingent Liabilities (1480) Provision for D.D. . 356 Postage 569 The Association has contingent liabilities in respect of a guarantee of approximately $5000 (1978 607 Repairs and Maintenance $5000). 402 Staff Procurement 1737 4531 Telephones 3 rabble- Limited 3865 1259 Typesetter ( 209) id povver- Van . . As at December 31st, 1979, an amount of $23188 (1978 $45947) was held by the trustees in whom (536) 39164 the Association’s investment in the University Bookshop (Auckland) Ltd is vested. This amount Wages and Salaries 47408 ( 1021) representing accumulated Income from the Investment was held by the trustees in accordance with Xerox (1376) the provisions o f the Trust Deed and was not available for the general purposes of the Association. 59278 ly get 70951 ow ing Contributions from the University of Auckland LESS STUDENT BLOCK EXPENSES B ut th a t Further non-cash contributions otherwise not shown within the accounts are as follows : 27841 ssive Cleaning 33086 1979 1978 3561 the Depreciation 3076 $ $ 1179 General Expenses 1440 c protests 616 Management Committee (House) 652 Salaries - Student Block and General 21000 19000 68 Insurance ' bars, 447 - Theatre 23000 20000 1145 Laundry 735 a! ifornia. 11055 Light, Heat and Power 12809 Mortgage 2942 Night Security 3826 2284 Rates (Water) 3756 sts, o r The repayments and interest terms on the mortgages are : 12246 Repairs and Maintenance 15702 uses 2567 Rubbish Collection 4598 1979 1978 Interest 1970 Telephones 1184 -ung $ $ Rate 2875 Toilet Supplies f 5380 ie th e Collingwood S t: Current 1422 1422 7 1/2% 26516 Wages and Salaries 31695 Term 174803 176225 96865 118386 field St: Current - 194 7Vi% Term — 9406 176225 187247 The notes annexed hereto form part of and are to be read

Page 15, CRACCUM, March 24. THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) LESS STUDENT A C TIV ITIE S EXPENSES \ 1 CONSOLIDATED CATERING PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 .12,1IN 195 Assistance to M.T.I.S.A. 270 1978 INCOME . ' Arts Festival 3565 A fast mo . A.U.S.R.E.F. 2 for 1 Donation 2745 510018 Sales 1051 Capping 6635 266736 Less Cost of Sales ose in me, 1103 Cultural Affairs 3450 March 10 - Disorientation 664 243282 Gross Margin before special items 242711 omen’. Tht 27829 760 Education 5492 28261 Income from Functions ade such g< - General Strike 1567 2061 Surplus on Vending Machines 1564 seeping assi 120 26970 Grants to Clubs 33298 2112 Sundry Income akes me m< 3903 Honoraria - President 4660 To begin ' 224 275716 Gross Margin 272224 116 International Affairs ragraphs, s 37104 Levies and Travel Expenses 54806 vision of 0 (NZUSA, NZSAC, NZUSU, CAN) LESS EXPENSES 1369 Executive Travel 3060 at they are Cleaning and Rubbish Collection 19878 636 National Affairs 2319 22334 ings. In do Depreciation 11226 2366 Orientation 4579 10147 y possibili1 13013 1912 Property Expenses - Anzac Ave 1012 11183 Light, Heat and Power ,and even: - Grafton Rd (411) 26627 Other Expenses 24551 lilosophies Repairs and Maintenance 17556 18548 Publications - Craccum 31406 19231 After havi 211393 Wages and Salaries 217377 237 - Other 7319 38725 at this is th 92 361 Resource Centre 300915 Total Expenses 303601 i to suggest 364 Societies; Sports Rep Expense 463 ese groups 1405 791 Social Functions ($25199) Loss Transferred to General Account ($ 31377) i extreme i 6809 Student Liaison - look at hei 4528 3515 SRC oas being 9001 9470 Tournaments MAIDMENT ARTS CENTRE PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FORTHE YEAR ENDING 31.12.7!:ributing tf (40) Blues Dinner 716 an her own Welfare 2568 1978 INCOME M $ $ je in view c 117540 185433 22692 Hire Charges 20794 scribes, qui 4109 Other Recovery 5605 tders as bei 273683 Total Expenses 374770 6709 Contribution from University 9090 d out to sa quote. Sue $52944 Net Surplus (Deficit) transferred to Consolidated Account ( $3351o; 33510 35489 ggles as to sires may b LESS EXPENSES :ount quali SUMMARY OF RENTAL ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER 1979 1389 Advertising r equal wor 771 Cleaning my body,, 1978 . 1 221 153' Depreciation ; free of th $ $ 1182 General commonly Insurance men, as be 1138 Marlborough St 1594 516 4828 Light, Heat and Power sire. If, and (410) Browning St 1818 Medium 264 Garfield St ( 3020) 893 pear to beh Postage 547 Williamson Ave 1825 ituation de Posters and Publicity 552 Grosvenor St 232 we would r 1110 Provision for Doubtful Debts 1473 Islington St 1679 go away as 5015 Repairs and Maintenance 1975 Brown St 1706 it is that to 1004 Security 1717 Wanganui Ave 1905 jer which 1 400 Set Up Costs (1736) Collingwood St 2787 1521 Stationery Inite and e 1809 Telephones The seconc $5520 Net Surplus transferred to General Account $ 10526 Tickets rect) assun 21 Toilet Supplies 11 strongly 26172 Wages and Salaries women ar< omatically Total Expenses 49881 46784 Jelines set $(1 3274) Net Deficit transferred to General Account $( 14392) I by the pai The notes annexed hereto form part of and are to be read in conjunction with the above Account. to which t nrw annKT.Awn TTNTVERSITY STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) Jelines set BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 ST DECEMBER 1979 Cost ist purpose or Accumulated Book 1979 1978 FIXED ASSETS Valuation Depreciation Value 1978 ASSOCIATION FUNDS 1979 jelines for 8 8 t $ 8 $ 8 Christ, and 8 ♦ 142460 67476 74984 315730 Accumulated Funds l/l/79 497773 67819 Plant - Catering (at Valuation) vn by men — 223772 157699 66073 0 no doubt 151798 Replacement and Development Reserve 34508 Plant - Furnitre and Equipment (at cost) e interpret 10234 Add Assets Financed Through Special Funds 44326 STUDENT ACCOMMODATION ertheless w hin the nar 19991 Add: Surplus (Deficit) for Year (77805) 329195 45838 .283357 346129 Buildings (at cost) e-dominat< 497773 Accumulated Funds 31/12/79 464294 Furniture and Fittings (at cost) * 55504 55504 61829 Land 750931 271013 479918 TRUST AND SPECIAL FUNDS 510285

23426 Special Fund 12584 INVESTMENTS(at cost) 326 Theatre Activities Fund 431 15000 15000 Shares: University hookBookshop iTICE: WH 20000 (Auckland) Ltd 22000 Athletic and Cultural Trust 508 0 ? 287 NZ In s u ra n c e Co. To expounc 45752 33015 575 650 South British it the inter Insurance Co. 25265 can certair MORTGAGES 49265 Loans (at cost) who ? Who 176225 41548 If in New Z 177647 Housing Corp: Collingwood St 65202 utter of An 9600 Garfield St TRUST AND SPECIAL FUNDS ing? "he present 187247 12584 23426 Special Fund :ed moves 1 431 er structur CURRENT LIA B ILIT IE S 326 Theatre Activities Fund 20000 ie National 10925 Clubs and Societies 10584 22000 Athletic and Cultural Trust >mes increa 330151 power w Sundry Creditors and Accrued Charges 53936 45752 63972 ;rs) place ir 1427 Locker Deposits 2500 FIXED DEPOSITS t . 38000 reat concer 23947 BNZ Current Account 42635 Bank of N.Z. 38000[ with whic CURRENT ASSETS :p objector 654 • feet and 11 100271 109655 454 Cash on Hand 9032 y feel that 3723 Clubs and Societies 87641 tion to act 157350 Sundry Debtors and Prepayments 35479 he views ar 37268 Stock on Hand ile - the pe< 4508 2224 Rents Receivable ;sents! 4590 Provision for Tournament Recovery he law syst 2901 Income Receivable >r in any G 46103 Labour Department (SCSP Scheme) i control o 8785 1909001,5. 200804 J d a y ’s law 4 785189 $~8?104? ■ - - l i nt statute 4 831045 instantly, t

Page 16, CRACCUM, March 24. R ENDING 31 .12.1WOMEN OR ROBOTS 1979 $ A fast mounting anger and frustration 549170 I find it a little baffling how in one has and does continue to interpret it, 3 0 M 5 9 ose in me, as I read Lorna Jenkins’ article paragraph Ms Jenkins asserts and upholds consider the situation in which women in March 10Craccum titled ‘Christian that Jese’s attitude towards women was the church find themselves today. They 242711 omen’. The extent to which she has i unparalleled in his day in his acceptance are still very much the minority figure; if 27829 ade such general presumptions and of them as worthwhile and capable people, a woman becomes a minister it is still 1564 seeping assumptions (no poetry intended) 120 and then in the following paragraph goes something special, tand definitely the akes me more than a little worried. on to support Paul’s obviously biased exception rather than the rule. If women 272224 To begin with, in her opening two teachings, and attempt to rationalise them ragraphs, she suggests, through her strict do survive the training in very often male- away. I am afraid the excuse that Paul was dominated institutions, they are then vision of Christian women and,feminists, quote ‘understandably concerned lest the at they are two essentially different usually sent to work in institutions such freedom for women should scandalise the as prisons, still keeping them nicely out ings. In doing this, Ms Jenkins excludes local community’ does not quite gel. Jesus y possibility of a woman having interest of the mainstream o f Church society. Two did not allow the possibility o f scandal thousand years is a long time; yet even , and even some belief in the ideals and and disbelief deter him from living out his lilosophies o f both groups. now, many of the attitudes Christ may beliefs, radical and upsetting to many have had towards women have been care­ After having so matter-of-factly stated though they were. Why then should the at this is the case, Ms Jenkins then goes fully repressed and forgotten. It seems to church be exempt from doing the same ? me that the church is still too worried 303601 i to suggest that the opinions of both ese groups o f women towards each other about scandal 2000 years later, a worry ($ 31377) ; extreme and unfair. Perhaps she ought which should be unfounded in this so- look at her own cold division of the called liberal day and age. A prime example o f repression by R ENDING 31.,2.f..aVbein8 infd.isPu“ b|y separate before jibuting that label to opinions other Church Authorities occurred to me last an her own. This would be especially year, when the pope, while giving a speech, \m . stated that he was against all forms of $ ie in view of the way in which she scribes, quote ‘Womens Liberation oppression. A very short while later, he iders as being strident and aggressive, was quoted through various media sources d out to satisfy their worst desires’ - as saying that he totally disagreed with quote. Such strong w ords! My mind women becoming Priests. Such blind 35489 ggles as to what these dire and dreadful contradiction in a person’s thinking; sires may be. I myself cannot on any especially a person in his position o f :ount qualify such desires as equal pay power cannot help but have adverse - equal work - the right to be in control effects on those women who believe in my body, and the right to live my own and belong to the Roman Catholic I cannot experience, and see and hear j free of the harrassment and oppression Church. the situations such as wife-bashing, incest commonly cast upon me as a woman The third major assumption made in (child raping), persecution of gays, men, as being a terrible or unreasonable Ms Jenkins article that seems more than harrassment o f women by employers, and sire. If, and when feminists leaders do little unrealistic inlts attitude, is that the many, many other instances o f oppress­ pear to behave ‘aggressively’ it is because until we as women have ‘found Christ’, . ion and disrespect that we suffer, without ituation demands such behaviour. Just and are living the fundamental faith that deciding to take some action, however we would not sit politely and ask a fire I mentioned earlier, we will not be ‘truly’ small and seemingly insignificant it may free. go away as it burnt its way towards us, appear to be. it is that to fight against the injustices Firstly, if we are to be Christians in the I am society: society is me. Until I der which women suffer we must take sense she is talking about, we will be sub­ make my stand as a woman, and in doing Inite and effective steps. mitting ourselves to dominance and oppre­ so encourage others to stand with me, ssion by males in a form that however patriarchy will continue to have it’s hold The second major (and I believe in- The explanation put forward by Ms subtle and disguised, will undoubtedly on women. My personal beliefs must be­ rect) assumption made by Ms Jenkins Jenkins suggesting that Paul was talking affect our image o f ourselves and our place come my political statements; only in this 11 strongly challenge, is that all Christ- about an equal relationship when he des­ in society. way will I, along with my sisters, achieve women are going to be fundamentalist; cribed how the marriage union works, Secondly, no amount o f bible-reading, lasting change. Regardless of whether my 49881 omatically accepting and living out the does not convince me either. In comparing prayer meetings and quiet times are going spiritual beliefs be Buddhism, Christianity, delines set for them by both the bible the husband with Christ and the wife with to bring about a sudden and miraculous Hinduism, or of no conventional form, as $( 14392) ! by the particular church or organisat- the church he is clearly and obviously change which affects the position of wo­ a woman my first and foremost loyalty to which they belong. Here I say the comparing the role o f a superior leader men in society. There comes a time when must be to protecting and fighting for the delines set by the church rather than by figure to that o f inferior submissive figure. we must stop blaming the anonymous ist purposely. The time has come I rights we have and should have. Time and time again I have heard this outsider for our fate; - be it God, Society, Book 1979 ieve, to challenge how many o f the The Christ whom Ms Jenkins worships attitude reinforced in many and varied or whatever, and begin taking responsibil­ V alue delines for Christian women were given ‘Christian’ environments. If Paul had really said in his book ‘he who is not for me is I * Christ, and how many have been laid ity for ourselves, through being aware of against me . So it is, that each woman 74984 been suggesting an equal relationship he vn by men throughout the centuries and working towards changing the injustic­ who continues to ignore the injustices could have easily used the love and respect es which exist in our everyday life. These 66073 d no doubt sincerely believed they that one church would have for another, under which she labours each day, is e interpreting Gods’ will, but who injustices are too damaging and far-reach­ surely working against herself ultimately. rather than that which the church had for ing to be brushed over in a couple o f ertheless were thinking and writing Christ. Wake up Ms Jenkins, the sand is getting hin the narrow framework of an overly sentences as Ms Jenkins did, with the wet. .283357 To further emphasise the difference e-dominated society. promise o f ‘she’ll be right once we all get between what Christ taught and how man religion’. Virginia Parslow folding The Scales iTICE: WHO IS WORKING FOR and never-ending task. Despite calls for and prejudicial. To some extent this feeling can see what is wrong with the whole 0? law reform, the whole situation is made has arisen due to the ‘responsible govern­ thing, seldom will they make moves to do To expound anti-government doctrine iridiculous when the Government tries to ment’ attitude, where attempts (and not anything about it - UNLESS they are it the intent in writing this article, but implement laws which are totally unwork­ necessarily feeble ones!) are made to legis­ ■directly affected can certainly wonder who is working able. It was once said that if Government late according to social and moral pangs There is so much spite in the New who ? Who has the right end o f the passed all the laws it wanted to, it would (eg Drugs, alcohol). Zealand political scene one may well 413481 jn ncw Zealand politics ? Or is it just eventually out-law itself! What government and society at large wonder where all the intelligent, thinking itter of Animal Farm tactics in a local Laws do have a very great impact on must realise is that there are limits to how people have gone to. (Overseas!) ing? every aspect o f our lives; economically, much the individual can be controlled: Tie present government has made re­ We’ve had enough shit ! A revolution is politically, culturally and socially. In past that the individual is an irrepressible force at hand! ed moves to strengthen its centralised experience the primary function o f a law o f expression. History has shown that the Who are you working for ? Will Justice er structure through such means such was to offer protection, particularly so, down-trodden and persecuted always win be justice enough ? ie National Development Bill. One as far as civil law is concerned. In the field out in the end. Will you give your support ? Or will >mes increasingly aware o f just how of civil law and the protection of civil One such group o f people at present 33015n power we (the electors and tax- you be that conscientious non-objector ? rights much progress has been made to fighting for the freedom to lead their i ■ srs) place in the hands of the Govern- weed out injustices which were previously /lives as they wish, are Gay Rights cam­ Nigel Pearson _ L built into the system. For example when paigners. You don’t have to be Gay to see reat concern for many is the adroit- women were given the suffrage vote. Civil the misunderstandings, the prejudice and 380001 with which politicians are able to Law reform is an on-going process as in­ the injustices gays are subjected to. In the ip objectors, rightly or wrongly, o ff justices are recognised - particularly as same token you do not have to be gay to THEATRE ■ feet and under the covers. Certainly society changes its ideas on morality. be a Gay rights supporter. y feel that it is not the Government’s ls the process o f law reform in New One could say the same for any number CORPORATE tion to act in such a way as to write- C a A I _____ a . _ r \ i m i Zealand to be relied upon ? Are people of minority groups in the country, each Galatos St Newton PH774 307 he views and opinions o f so many being given their due rights in good time? with their own cause to call. FINAL WEEK **« * T“* *< 6.15; Wid to Sat it 8.15 pm ile - the people who it supposedly ls the reason why there are so many ©.. ______Moliere’s ______It is ironic that m in ority groups do ;sents! minority groups in New Zealand crying not band together, to share common he law system is a most important for recognition, due entirely to the tardin­ ground and see h o w they can best assist >r in any Government’s term, since it l A P I l l f K ess of law reform ? each other. It is silly fo r each to be com­ i control on the nation and its Many feel that at present, law in New A savage comedy — hypocrisy revealed. Osrecteo py 19090^5. peting with the othe r fo r political gains, Raymond Hawthorne. An Auckland Festival attraction. Zealand restricts people living their lives when they could fu rth e r each others cause _.__Iday’s law books have so many re- Concurraatly, Wad and■ Tkars «»at v. 6.15: 1 v. 111Frt ana and oatSat miat u6.15 . i «i anaid 10.30. freely. That rather than defensive and with a little co-operation and support. ; . ' - l i nt statutes, and laws are changing DARIEN TAKLE protective in manner, the justice system What causes m ost strife in this country sings instantly, that revision is a daunting BRECHT in New Zealand is fearsome, oppressive is that although people can see injustices, With music bv Kurt Weill

Page 17, CRACCUM, March 24. Biddy Leyland N STAGE ON 7 & 8 March8 & 7 Red Mole RecCentre Wh don' w oa Swannee f o t e u d a do we 't n o is d hy one 'W which to as arguing are birds Two 'Fin e', says the other. the says e', 'Fin television screens, it might have been the havebeenthe might screens,it television 'R ight', says the first, 'I'll sing a n d you d n a sing 'I'll first, the says ight', 'R the Rec Centre, where home grown loonies loonies grown home where Rec Centre, the as fact, noufikrin close As home. efoeerto upt. u i ant Ide i a rwas it Indeed wasn't. it But Muppets. a similar vein. asimilar in show whole aandabove the of authors last week. This subversive group were the the were group subversive This last week. formances in the past. This was partly the the partly was This past. the in per­ formances lacklustre with contrast by orable, Red Mole gave two inspired performances performances inspired gave Mole Redtwo good acoustics - quantities lacking in earl­ in lacking quantities - acoustics good result of increased space and reasonably increased reasonably space and of result control over material in the show. the in material over control hti a fe eg nte self-indul­ the vergeon often can it that ier venues. It was also the result of tighter tighter of result wasalsothe It venues.ier gent. These four imbeciles stand up on a on up stand imbeciles Thesefour gent. themselves enormously .... while the aud­ the while .... themselvesenormously enjoying stageeachother, atrave and hsbre ewe pitdesad point­ and pointedness between border this on occasions, of number averged show on the show by and large, benefited from from benefited large, and by show the tighter control over material than has-, than material over control tighter ience quietly goes to sleep. Though the the sleep.Though goes to iencequietly lessness - especially in the early first half - half first early lessness the in -especially been evidenced in the past. the in beenevidenced the future of New Zealand and the dev­ the and Zealand New of future the the one where the jilted wife explains her explains wife jilted the where one the ecn it rgadcinad conse­ and addiction drug into descent quent salvation, were masterpieces of of masterpieces were salvation, quent little long, a trifle loose, others, especially especially others, loose, atrifle long, little wasaperhaps proletariat iousnessthe of England, Germany and America debated debated America and Germany England, economy. ed by an excess of material, the other other the material, excessan ed by of sharper. hence and wastighter direct more being Mrce n Manila' in'Miracle Cicada Press each Price- $4.95 et S. Cartmail St.Keith his second volume of poetry, attacks New attacks poetry, of hissecondvolume Fancy Dress Rachel McAlpine divorced from life." In this volume he has he volume this In life." artificially from divorced therefore and apre­ minority, by tentious affected thing literary 'precious' Zealand poetry for being "often a "often being for poetry Zealand Page 18, CRACCUM, March24. Page CRACCUM, 18, andanger liberal his placed often too osiul ece gis hsad hasand this against reacted consciously going to sing a song. a sing to going hop in'. hop River, ' says one. says ' River, If it weren't for their absence from our our absence from their for weren't it If BOOKS atwe' hw eeepcal mem­ especially showswere Lastweek's It is in the nature of Red Mole's theatre, theatre, Mole's Red of nature the isin It Thus though the skit where Japan, where skit the though Thus The one had its satirical impact blunt­ impact satirical its had one The St Cartmail in the introduction to this, this, to introduction the in Cartmail St

that Red Mole put on a well balanced, balanced, awell on put Mole Red that deserves special mention for a first class first a for band deservesThe mention special effect. for cleverly juxtaposed sketches satiric and numbers musical done, the nicely items new and old of reper­ toire Their show. professional thoroughly effort. of the Auckland Festival. On the strength strength the On Festival. Auckland the of as part show new entirely an performing Wintergarden— Domain CarriganJohn this should make pretty exciting viewing. exciting pretty make should this Centre, Rec the at viewing weekslast of March 18 Red Mole to a mere (but not insignificant) four actors, actors, four insignificant) not (but merea to Reduced Overseas Experience. of years two from return their heralding Mole's Red is autoprecis, Such reality'. even 'alternate the role of Red Mole as a spokesvehicle for as for Mole a Redspokesvehicle of role the xetta vn naWie abt Puppet Rabbit aWhite in even that extent political comment still remains, to the the to remains, still comment political be lamented ('Who is this Ayatollah Ayatollah isthis ('Who lamented be can Iran Shahof the passingof the Circus Khomeini?'). weather-questionable day, but in ain but day, weather-questionable the not-so-child. Although the show show the Although not-so-child. the rang­ tastes, of avariety for cater needto a was clearly there setting, beautiful aon 100, about of audience an to Playing Red Mole is the versatility of the group. group. the of versatility isthe Mole Red h ait fat biul impressed actsobviously of variety the ingenious colourful, the audience, the of adults the at aimed directly wasmore of those to child the of those ingfrom the children. the masks, the costumes, the puppets and puppets the costumes, masks, the exploitation of the talents of the the of talents the of exploitation brings with it a new format, and a fuller afuller and format, new a it with brings from the actors themselves, and adventures adventures themselves,and actors the from f* rr nfton fall chnrt t r n h c l l a f n o t f n tr»rv ■fr* the above relevance" "social for desire singing more with , group the of members into such spheres as mime/ballads and spheressuchas mime/ballads into need for poetic merit causing his poetry his causing merit poetic needfor f Invariably he falls far short of Vincent Vincent of poem agood short take far he 'I falls - Invariably critique hO'Sullivans f deserves. The poems are divided into into deserves.poemsare divided The to be - an image which has the freedom to to freedom has the which image-be an to among New Zealand woman poets with with poets woman Zealand New among her of some reach in verse however does that wants it said.' it wants that sections with an introductory poem called poem introductory an with sections she recognition placeof securethe her isto sure and further reputation enhances her book this volumes, two first her voices strongest the emergedasof one stand as quite distrinct from the impulse impulse the from distrinct asstandquite om 'ulvn tnad Having standard. poemsO'Sullivans That said though, it must be observedbe must it saidthough, That Later on this month, Red Mole will be will Mole Red month, this on Later 'Outdoor political satire' he called it, it, hecalled satire' political 'Outdoor One of the principal virtues of of virtues principal the Oneof Red Mole's return to New Zealand New to return Mole's Red Rachel McAlpine in her third book of of book third her in McAlpine Rachel

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Cafe from variety different a f substenanceo as subsequent as well comment, social and uneducated slobs to get o ff your swollen swollen your ff o get to slobs uneducated was extremely enjoyable, and well worth worth well and enjoyable, wasextremely Circus Puppet Rabbit White the anceof actors reflected theri idyllic and utopian utopian and idyllic theri reflected actors Street, enjoy some pointed entertainment entertainment pointed some enjoy Street, bloody good reason for all you socially socially you all reasonfor good bloody Theatre Lunchtime Independent New Pioneer Women reality' it may be, and it is a reality worth worth isareality experiencing. it be,and may it reality' 'Alternate south-westerly. the braving Paula Mann behinds and stroll up to Upper Queen Upper to up stroll and behinds dreams which were rudely shattered on shattered rudely were which dreams the best in the volume - volume the in best the arrival in New Zealand, and the harsh the and Zealand, New in arrival 'Serenade for Sappho' which is one of of isone which Sappho' 'Serenadefor child-like quality to some of her work. work. her someof to quality child-like poetry. enhances her which surerhythm different tones within her poems ranging poems her within tones different all represent different social attitudes, attitudes, social women eight different The represent all life. pioneer of reality from anger to perplexity to amusement amusement to perplexity angerto from one o f Bishop Pompallier’s nuns (who (who nuns Pompallier’s Bishop f o one wrong. and uses these to attack what shesees what as attack usesand to these mono-syllables which give an almost almost angive which mono-syllables mostly conformist with the exception of of exception the with conformist mostly Her short lines are often stacked with with stacked areoften lines short Her a blow by blow account o f the decline decline the f o account blow by blow a her ff o —course flings of —figuratively and fall o f a con-woman). f o fall and and Maoris the she help can sothat habit comment, reflecting the narrow-minded­ the reflecting comment, stems from a curious mixture of these two these of mixture acurious stemsfrom especially in their disdain for the Maoris Maoris the for disdain their in especially ness of the woman’s Victorian attitudes, attitudes, Victorian woman’s nessthe of with their extrovert and allegedly allegedly and extrovert their with Service imitation). GREAT VALUE for for VALUE GREAT Forest imitation). Service Heke’s Hone on quaintly reflections (with ironic life of way ‘primitive’ Te EveryWeather Girl’ ‘The when Tina comes on to read the weather weather the read to on comes Tina when telly the before fidgeting sits who souls actresses the them­ by servedafterwards e IndependentTheatre New gill ? Perhaps you’d rather put a bullet in bullet a put rather Perhaps ?you’d gill Invercar­ with Dargaville confuse she’sto going that know just because you report, selves. her head. her sherry free the all with especially $1.50 SimonCarr arn DavisDarren ment of NZ in The Every Weather Girl Girl Weather Every The in NZ of ment All in all, however, Red Mole's perform perform Mole's Red however, all, in All This play representing the attitudes attitudes the representing play This of capable itself has shown Mole Red igy asof lc moth o m black ft o s a u yo sing A sung prologue by the eight woman woman eight the by prologue sung A sa ui t all a ith w i tu a as shining fern tree a as m y te e th ....' (W om an a t th e Store) e th t a an om (W ....' th e te y m 'wish o i n h and ghts y sk t h ig n d n la b the in e rid to hr h aecod r fowi ....' g in w flo are clouds pale the where 'Y o u saw when saw u o 'Y Her style is compact even sparse with a evensparse with iscompact style Her McAlpine has the ability to create create to ability has the McAlpine All in all it was piercing social waspiercing it all in All Are you one o f those sympathetic sympathetic those f o one you Are Funnily enough Simon Carr’s treat­ Carr’s Simon enough Funnily / / oul sn o, a y lad you, sing ld u co / / was tender was

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Unfortunately Unfortunately stardom. of tinsel the and Petersas Cind) Cathy journalist. television and the oversimplification of her charade her of oversimplification the and motherhood f o joys the between istorn h xgeae wn fhr ra accen broad her of twang exaggerated the fCny h e ete ilad Davetand girl weather new the Cindy, of while loathing a country that hasbeen that acountry loathing while who, intellectual over-articulate placed, clashes o f the television staff. television the clashes f o De Grut as Dave is well cast as the mis­ cast asasthe Dave iswell DeGrut eftapdwti t eiciy Dennisl mediocrity. its within trapped self h es dtr Jc aly dsie | despises Walley) (Jack Editor News the him! finds depression, the by lobotomised rsns i w abuse makes any grossness own his f o criticism ineffective. criticism Dave’s limpness as an interviewer. But the! But asDave’s limpness interviewer. an ovcin r o ae-oord Harol| water-coloured. not are convictions oso hthseoin n pltcl | political and emotions his that show to fed up with trying to perfect tired old old tired perfect to trying with up fed when,courageunabashed Cindy’s admire a ‘real maggoty forecast.’ maggoty a‘real tonot impossible is It politician. locating isn sspr stepgha, circum- pig-head, as issuperb the Kissin bromides about the weather shedeals outweather the about bromides worth seeing. Wellworth humour. sense of kiwi l’ foro much good say that doesn’t it wit, playful than The PrimaDonnasThe Thursday 13th in The Dome The in Thursday 13th Deborah Telford arms, one dressed in red, the other in other the red, dressed one arms,in eachothers within cradled stand women white. They are shrouded by a ‘plastic’ ‘plastic’ a by areshrouded They white. series of phrases - boys will be boys, girliboys, be a will phrases forth seriesboys - of howl women two the afterwards placenta. A birth takes place. Shortly Shortly place. takes birth A placenta. gins the powerful piece of feminist tnean feminist of piece powerful ginsthe by Charlotte Wrightson and K it Snoid. it K and Wrightson Charlotte by sexist world, ‘The Prima Donnas’ go ontgo Matthews-ir Donnas’ Prima ‘The world, sexist of structures Matthews the perpetrates Cand reflects and women to conform to some sort of f sort some to conform to women and men pressures upon placedmdaythe examine March as a language that has been fostered by tfhasbeenas fostered alanguage that noted t that where world A Theseego system. concephallocentric boys must be boys and girls must be girl» value must girls clinand boys be must boys aracy Wieoepit nsalt tallyamateuiscarlet on paints one While patriarchy. a macabre, if one sided view o f asexuallicert f o view issided one a woi if macabre,a to become too self-evident. When sheWhen doself-evident. too become to - is h te rpial ecie ncentrations describesa graphically other the lips, But such pressures are not always as always subtr pressures such not But are ayears sub: aebeo te araemre. hSymphony market. marriage the saleablemoreison her rendering clitoris concert’swoman’s a nof performede isstill that orchestra aoperation barbaric erse wrd I etfligagrd jectangered, heavilyu felling left I repressed world. touch and poetic voice to carry it throug it js ’carry t^e njgh to voice poetic and touch u. ut ipyti sago volume,is good a this simply Quite ful. and Kaha' was £,orassuch poems 'Te in m( abilities in parts of Africa. It involves the removaltle the involves It Africa. ragged. 7of parts in although with a number of weaker poem weaker e fj, of ^ number a j Lec| with although np ftengt h ucm ispowei outcome the night' the of 'nape join hands, suggesting a possible solutionathersuggestinghands,possible a join hysteri nefs e ne ihhrpei conce poetic her angerwith her interfuse Brecon herself she allows times at and (feminist) from its abruptness and raw treatment olymphony,treatment raw and abruptness its w from it does have the strength and sorenessand strength doesofhave the it e arusl little Deborah Telford wasJ;essentialllldylla’ by what to conviction added subject matter. The starkness of the setolved. the of starkness The matter. subject gie mc) :hestrarose 1 much). (gained The play is set in the current affairs affairs current the in isset play The . BondA. oku,acnih ic ok So work. f o piece acuntish cock-up, The story centres around the aspiratioi the around centres story The _____ ti id h ial re Daveurgeson finally who isCindy It A satire more memorable for its vitriolits for memorable more satire A Beneath a bloodred spotlight two two spotlight bloodred aBeneath Having exposed a language that both languageathat exposed Having dow n the c lif f o f m y sleep y m f o f lif c the n dow one day one '.... This brief performance gained muchgained nducting, performance in brief This / / , . . ks any of the . . . . remajnjn| ^ Heranger is essentially feminine ,, Finally, the two women reach out anjndout reach h women a little two the Finally, ____ shall sp eak' (Bliss) eak' sp shall I s h cmitar scim the is e h ___ __ t-C t-C / / shall be ashamed be shall

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But it also deals with what the director sees as the essential immaturity, not only .of the characters (especially the males), GALLERIES but o f the whole myth at the heart of the political system. It is still a game for so Terry Stringer many o f these pople - who can reach the Michael Smither People: Portraits 1970 - 80 top o f the heap first. John Leech Gallery athetic and Peter Webb Galleries And o f course it is about the consequences o f this for Tynan’s family. The JOHN LEECH GALLERY in the rrent affairs Terry Stringer’s retrospective It is here that this theme is most clearly City has a Festival Exhibition of new work \Z. One half of exhibition,currently being mounted at pronounced. Tynan seems never to have by Michael Smither. For Smither the work other half is the the Peter Webb Gallery(cnr o f Elliot and outgrown the patterns of his childhood. displayed here represents a 'coming out or the personal Wellesley Sts.) shows him to be the master If he did wrong he had only to trun to party' where he consciously turns away aff. of many media.ln addition to sculpture mummy and weep and promise ‘I’ll never from the 'coteries of elitists and stylists nd the aspiratioi in bronze,wood and painted polyester do it again’ and everything was all right. resin he does painting,oil on wood and and snobs and propagandists' created by Rewarded at home he goes into politics r girl and Dave! the contemporary art scene, to produce i Peters as Cind) board,and water-colours. doing the same thing and as he meets 'a few simple harmonious linear patterns': f motherhood Despite this not inconsiderable range with success, so he is increasingly motiv­ 'I want to give people an alternative vision Unfortunately of techniques,his work remains essentially ated towards it. Now he has a wife and what McCahon would call 'necessary pro­ ier broad accem unsatisfying - sterile technical exercises two kids. And a number o f powerful tection'. ' of her charade iiLexploring form in space. The great senators to placate. The inspiration for his motifs, his t times. Bruce failing of the artist's work is the absence On the one hand the seduction then is linear patterns lies in his attempt to give st as the mis- of a feeling of urgency,commitment - any a good thing; on the other, a bad. In that visual representation to music. This is jllectual who, emotion whatsoever.Work becomes an at last his lust for power is enabling him clearly outlined in the zeroxings of a hat has been academic diversion,devoid of any to overcome this behaviour as regards his musical score placed next to one of the ssion, finds him meaning or real significance. senatorial colleagues - much and all as large panels, and in some of the designs diocrity. Dennis This is not to say that his works are he still wants to be all things to all men for completed work also on display: on I ley) despises not successful insofar as they go,or And retain their friendship — he is at one is written '2 cellos 4 violins 1 trom ­ rviewer. But tf that one medium is better suited to last fixing things about himself that bone'; on another: 'As time is constants, ; makes any expressing his concerns than another; he had in the past managed to avoid. aesthetically,his work is essentially we must alter pitch to obtain interest in But the change is a best superficial, pleasing. the passing of time'; a curved line is for he still treats his wife as he probably urges Dave on drawn between the words 'life ' and 'death' , and political But a work like “ dance movement” — treated his mother. In taking them both an oil o f a figure, with a swivelling arm and next to it is placed the word 'Taranaki for granted, their constancy in love, he •coloured. Haroli hence, the exhibition's title. -head, circum- attached to the painting by a hinge abuses them and relies on his charm, on exemplifies Stringer’s academic con­ Be that as it may, the paintings are his knowledge of their love to win forgive­ ipossible not to remarkably effective. Smither employs i courage when, cerns without offering or exhibitting ness. any real artistic commitment. simple motifs of bright, clear colours on He probably does this unwittingly. But ect tired old large backgrounds of either black or white ier she deals out The bronze bust,” Frank Sargeson” the scathing conclusion the film comes to also reveals a humourous side to his Painting (3) is a large panel with a black is that this element is at the heart o f the background across which waves of two ble for its vitriol work;the tricks’ perspective and angle way Americans behave. Their most play on the proportions of features— blue and two orange lines ripple horizon­ cherished illusions about the democratic ’t say much for tally in determined patterns. The other f humour. Well one side grotesquely emphasised, process are no more than elaborate fictions sharply abbreviated behind.His long panel likewise has a black back­ to hide the truth from themsleves. painted resin sculptures all feature this ground; scattered across it are patterns of In the last scenes, Barbara Harris, superb exaggeration. small triangles of bright colour (red, blue, as the Senator’s sensitive wife, announces orange, yellow, green, and so forth). The It’s also interesting to see how the Joe Tynan’,as a distinctly American two framed paintings (patterned motifs on artist has changed over a decade,The film will in some ways prove elusive to a white background) are also very striking. depth being provided as it can only be, NZ audiences. But the truth o f what it me in a retrospective. Moving from painting The crayon drawings use similar motifs says is such that themessage cannot fail to to sculpture ’though his concerns and colour (in both m otif and background)' register. It is also good entertainment but, although still effective, they don't Otlight two "Katherine Mansfield' at Menton" bronze remain the same.lt is in retrospect then, with all that that term implies,and it work quite as well, possibly because of the hin each others ky Jerry Stringer from his exhibition a pity that while his art has moved on satisfies on any level you choo'se to view it has not matured. medium. it. the other in "People-Portraits 1970-1980". Peter Webb I by a plastic 10-28 March, David Forster ace. Shortly Ian Johnston ohn Carrigan ;n howl forth a ill be boys, girlii j o f work. So b< f feminist theati nd K it Snoid. CONCERTS ;uage that both r ^ —— he structures of Matthews Chamber Orchestra Galapagos Duck The Rose Donnas’ go on Matthews-in-the-City Auckland Festival It is not often that students are able to Mark Rydell iced upon men inday March 16 Rec Centre hear such fine quality music at such a price Cinerama to some sort of L Tuesday March 11 ($1.50 as opposed to the public concert . A world where These concerts have to be about the price downtown of near $8.00) and in Rather than being a cross of a large tor­ Bette Midler steps into the film medium iris must be girlsgt value in classical music around, at $6 some ways it was disappointing that more it always as subif a years subscription. However, it must toise and an aquatic bird, Galapagos Duck with an impressive performance as a did not attend. However it was their loss. superstar in Mark Rydell’s ‘The Rose’. en fostered byt noted that this type of orchestra, being is in fact one of Australia's best jazz groups. This is the story of a performance for a This being their first trip to New Zea­ Loosely based on the tragic life o f Janis ints on scarlet tally amateur does often lead to odd land it can only be hoped that Galapagos y describes a ncentrations o f instruments in parts of student audience in the Rec Centre last Toplin (while including some o f the details Duck liked what they saw here and will of Midler’s own career,) ‘The Rose’ de­ s still performed^ orchestra and the playing becoming ai Tuesday. After blasting off with an energetic ren­ return. Their music is in a world of its picts her rise to stardom and the mammoth lives the removal ragged. This was rather apparent in own. ideringher morels concert’s main work, Beethoven’s dition of the theme from 'Sesame Street' commercial and public pressures that go with it. market. n Symphony. The strings tended to they brought their audience to a standing Fiona Cameron ien reach out anjnd a little hysterical, but then this is ovation in one of the best live concerts Midler’s performance as Rose, runs the gamut from the frenetic to the touching. possible solutiorather hysterical symphony. Still, the seen (or heard for that matter) on this [She demonstrates an amazing emotional :hestra rose well under Brecon Carter’s campus. range in a totally convincing portrayal of :e gained much nducting, in a warm performance of The music was of the first order and emotional collapse. raw treatmentoymphony, where all the tensions are the range performed catered for every FLICKS kness of the setolved. whim and fancy — from Stevie Wondpr to She is aided in this performance by the it was essentialh‘Idylla’ by Janacek which opened the Louis Armstrong, from some superb blues- superb Frederic Forrest, who brings warmth and strength to the part of the iew o f a sexualfncert is a work which relies for its jazz to classical jazz. Any band that can The Seduction o f Joe Tynan AWOL sergeant who befriends the batter­ Hing angered, get heavily upon the traditional mode play 'Danny Boy' with such feeling and Jerry Schatzberg ed Rose. Forrest realises a sense o f inte­ string serenades ie. Dvorak and Tchai- beauty, then switch to the West, 'Fire and Wintergarden vsky. It exudes a recognisably Slavic Rain' and play with such quality in both grity in his character that is almost out of place in the world o f rock stardom. irm, though it is by no means an cannot fail to impress. Another American filmmaker, this time Alan Bates though, seems wrong for “ ‘“^eptional piece. It completely The soloists played in a form of profes­ with a reputation based on something less this movie. He wanders through rock-dom ks any of the bite o f Janacek’s later sional jazz that is not often seen in this elusive than a long gone one-shot, is Jerry y feminine like Alice in Wonderland, looking awk­ k, remaining firm ly within established country. They enjoyed themselves and Schafzberg. With two Golden Palms at he allows herself] ward and a little unconvincing. He was not s. Brecon Carter drew a sympathetic threw their all into the performance. Co­ Cannes to his name he is one o f the nt. When she d helped by some rather inept editing that I. ordination between the group worked as better known American filmmakers in her poetic turned some o f his ‘entrances’ into mo­ ch’s concerto for Violin and Oboe in a team with solos played and transferred Europe, though his product (and name) s 'Te Kaha' and ments o f celluloid hesitation. inor was more uneven. Listening to with ease. The saxophonist impressed receive less recognition at home. utcome is poweij Mark Rydell’s direction manages to set can be like riding on the waves o f with his versatility and sheer verve. Falling His latest film, ‘The Seduction of Joe a good volume, the pulse racing with an immaculately ction, if the perfect tempo can be movie screens didn't deter him for a sec­ Tynan’ is, in fact, unlikely to do his of weaker poe Filmed final rock concert, but the main ed. The first and third movements ond. reputation among obscurantists much and soreness of excitement comes from Midler herself, a little rushed, but reaching the right The use of the Rec Centre as a venue good as it is much more accessible than o carry it thro whether hi-jacking cars, storming around is the nightmare o f any music, worked well. People sat on the floor, and his biggest previous success, ‘Scarecrow’. all-male saunas, or throwing herself into a lent. And the third movement was the atmosphere was informal and as intim ­ And this is a pity because the former is / carry tremblii group drag session with other ‘idols’ memorable, with Stanley Jackson ate as one can get in the Main Hall with its much better than the latter, being more sleep Barbra Streisand, Mae West, and Diana ng the oboe, and Brecon Carter, the lofty ceilings. Few technical hitches were unified in both feeling and approach. Ross, the effect is magic. n. This was a pleasing concert experienced, the band played on regardless ‘Joe Tynan’ is Schatzberg looking yet am ed Bette Midler has demonstrated her - there can be few more pleasant during a momentary lighting power failure. again at the American way o f life, this musical diversity and ability as an actress. ys to pass a sSunday afternoon. Nothing too major to distract from the time as exemplified in the arena of polit­ No doubt ‘The Rose’ is the beginning of a ics. The seduction, o f the title, involves band but co-ordinated so as to supplement promising movie career. I. the music. Tynan’s gradual sacrifice of principles for the achievement o f power. Ian Comyns Page 19, CRACCUM, March 24. ON THE TOWN RECORDS

Violent 24-28,31/3 His Majesty’s Theatre 8 p.m. warn Sax solos are something I’ve always sex and vie The National Opera of New Zealand pre­ mtamimm “ Concrete Jungle” and “ Blank Expres­ adored and these are tastefully executed troupe fori mm sents ‘La Boheme’ with the Symphonia sion” relate to this.“ Concrete Jungle” by ex-Redeye, Dennis Mason. Christophe WOHKBtwMt is a very strong track with something of Auckland. [pmiiiMC onu There is unfortunately a danger that Prast and ( 24-29 The Violent Theatre Co. presents Siam interesting musically happening all the Sharon O’Neill may become the ‘Colin establish, a 'Songs of the Field’, directed by Christo­ time. McCahon’ o f New Zealand music though; audience, t pher Hansard at the Real Pictures Gallery TOC MUCH TD0 “ Where did you get that blank expres­ sort o f overated and trendy. Time will tell at the same Nightly at 8 pm. Admission $2.50. umifficif sion on your face?’ A bit more imagination could have directly in .24-28/3 Town Hall Concert Chamber. The single “ Gangster” is written for gone into the album cover but this was ‘Violent ‘Laughs For Lunch’ $2 Admission. all the people in the music entertain­ compensated for by a lyric sheet with Hansard hii 24/ 3-3/4 Barry Lett Gallery.'Surveys and ment industry who want to exploit and excellent lyrics thereon. And thank good-nature of tl Observations’ on exhibition by Robert manipulate musicians.lt was written at the ness we can’t hear Jon Stevens ! er it is the i Ellis. time when they were having management to elicit an problems with the then Clash manager, 24/3 - 3/4 McGregor Wright Gallery. The Specials A. Papaspiropoulos audience, Bernie Rhodes. (ANZUS House, 95-101 Customs St. East) Festival hope to dra A special invitation exhibition o f paintings The Special belief is that people tself, that I should be going to concerts to have by twenty of this country’s leading artists. Recently there seems to have been a the actors 1 fun, not to make trouble.They dedicate 25, 27/3 Milan Sladek - Mime. A 5 man reggae revival of sorts - “ o f sorts” the events i "Message To You,Rudy” to the rough troupe of Europe’s top mime artists. because what we have been hearing is Perhaps guys at concerts,saying that if they are Centennial Theatre. 8.15 p.m. not true Rastafarian reggae. Reggae eatre’ ca there for trouble they’ll get it and end 25 - 29/3 Ballet., nightly 8 pm at the Glen itself was o f course popularized by Bob bet we up in jail as vocalist Nevill Staples did. Eden Playhouse Theatre. ‘ Peter Pan’ Marley and Toots Hibbert,and its recent opposed The album,produced by Elvis Costello staged by Glen Eden Ballet. $2 adults, $1. influence can be seen in the music o f a of theatre ’ is infectious,irresistable. Roll on more of children, $5 family. number of rock bands - the Police being eaudienc 26 - 29 /3 Titirangi Drama Group presents the obvious example.However,what are the same. not wh Peter Nicholl’s ‘A Day In The Death of emerging now in Britain are Ska bands. shown up Andrew Topping Joe Egg’ produced by Lindsay Nash. Ska was the original Jamaican music a si MacAndrew Hall, Titirangi. of the early sixties distinguished by a whid 26/3 -19/4. The Howick Little Theatre strident,powerful offbeat utilising piano’ ‘aspects o f; Tom Verlaine presents ‘The Loves of Cass McGuire’ by or brass.Ska mellowed into Bluebeat Sharon O’Neill may sound WEA Brian Friel. which in turn became Reggae.The Specials Sharon O’Neill ealingonly 26/3 Unity Theatrette, Queen St. Film are making a return to the basis of Ska, CB.S. ‘deeper real Unfortunately Society presents a special screening of but what we are presented with is a fusion ort o f albumexpressed e that does not, wi Clint Eastwood film d - High Plains Drifter of their beat with rock ’n’ roll rhythm. I first heard Sharon O’Neill’s second he air play it the audienc deserves. It is un&] (5.30 pm) and Breezy (8 pm) The band established their own album while t rying to get a pair o f trousers cause it is F The best certainly the best 27/3 Town Hall 8.15 pm. The NZSO record label “ Two Tone” and this is on ii^ H H ^ c h a n g in g room. I must um so far this Theatre Co. presents a concert o f Ladd, Mozart and /hat I heard, (but my year. In point o ff; could be the best upcoming p central to their whole philosophy.The one this year. Richard Strauss with Hungarian soloist, label,record covers,and all promotional Trousers on were alas, Tom Verlaine, ed his career with Deszo Ranki and guest conductor Franz- material including video clips .are in Pr»til HprL’pr the band ‘Tele; which produced Y black and white.The Specials feel there Ipins of the record I [d that this young lady’s classic albu ;n split to the sorrot 28/3 Town Hall 5.30 pm. NZSO with . are two cultures in urban U.K.,these ie time ne |ger/songwriter is on par of dedicati Ranki and Decker again, this time present­ being British and Jamaican,and they * Barry Jenkm. ■ '« W in g t Liisl^ftoverseas artist. She Verlam eared from view to ^ ing a programme o f Thomas, Saint-Saens, have gone back to the roots o f Reggae bodies with song ex-Televrsron ^ what Liszt, Delibes and Massenet. and British Rock,to develop a sound foot and Jay Dee D augherty ti 28/3. The Festival Society presents which is new but familiar.Their music H e r foi i Smith. The whole « J g * * * , * pianist Andre Tchaikowsky in concert. has an irresistable “ moonstomp” d 2 and produced it really i . 28/3 Real Pictures Gallery (3rd Floor, beat which is popular with the deve p l l p j fasure Ê tenen to. Butbut it doesnaoesnit t stopEstoff ^ 7. re|atj0 His Majesty’s Arcade) - ‘ Four NZ mod movement. lean it gets so good that of Photographers.’ The Album encompass quite a Mso o f American, going to wind down 28/3 Outreach. Nine Artists. selection o f music from basic Ska le. Th< iru town’ to it gets better and 28/3 Peter Webb Gallery. ‘People: songs with a definitely punky edge people are i trate his guitar Portraits 1970-80’ by Terry Stringer them.There are cover versions o f ~ ig climax on Ufaircofa. catchy and 28/3 Denis Cohn Gallery. Garth Tapper Blue beat standards,notably “ A V (which IS the besjnitially, th< /ou continue drawings and oil paintings. To You,Rudy” which opens the •bum). field is gooc cat from thf 29/3 Town Hall 8.1 5 pm NZSO with and a pile o f instantly appealing fight be, but he doesr#tijch have Franz-Paul Decker as guest conductor, of which “ It’s Up To You,” th^ [os he always leaves y^an it is jus presents Mahlers 3rd Symphony with “ Gangsters,’’“ Little Bitch,” aj \so cold and morbid [oppression, soloist Patricia Lawrey (Mezzo) and the Much Too Young” would listening to the cratheir attituc Dorian Choir (women) and the Auckland sonal favourites. change that it becorjn excuse fc Boys Choir. The music of this b* 8/4 Auckland War Memorial Museum. ; The Man quite personal.The ‘Cups That Cheer’, a survey o f drinking than a fanta live amongst the vessels from a great variety o f places in He falls in l< Coventry and powerfi time and space. et check-ou Fingers Gallery (Lome St) ‘Precious When their I Little’, an exhibition of jewellery in ■changing lasted o nly; conjunction with the Auckland Festival. New Independent Theatre. Simon Carr’s ‘The Every Weather G irl’. Also con­ currently ‘Pioneer Women’, the lunchtime UIGS >reat crowd were a pretty high energy band. ONIy presentation on Weds, Thurs, Fri and Sat at pi jnnetts members o f the original line-up from till the 29th o f March. The Gordon Bennetts fuld not jly. As Flight 77 still remain, one being Jeff Old Grad Bar ieir name inc band, Clarkson, lead vocalist. They began as "writing original1 jy Flight 77 in August o f 1978 and renai You may No one present at the enjoying themsell many themselves Flight X-7 in January 1979 ever happem terribly impressed with tl flaws and would d? with Jeff Clarkson — lead vocal, Paul fear, the ans ess o f the Gordon Benne, through the bar-chor Jamieson — lead guitar, vocals, Warrick t0lyou. Craccui technical disability, coi should be ironed out Keay — bass guitar, Mark Stanton - keylmong 0thei lack o f professionalis ience their ages afford boards and Tim Powles — drumSjpercussLart time wr band seemed incapabl deal more practice. and vocals. Lj|or> ‘‘Going Back” audience and gaining This is definitely a band that wants t£ y^hatdid jxper- Little Theatre support or response, Peter Chalmers recognised as a New Zealand band. UnlilMonths o f e. Mon,Tue,Thu, Fri : 1pm ience was obvious in ites so many other bands that head for Oz, Jjy ^ we t Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu : 7pm when the drummer, red a making it big and then being known as *minn hr.rk with lusty blow to a cym Flight X-7 Australian, Flight X-7 feels that if they | rselves on These are three ‘memory plays’ in the shock and embarrass] cymbal Kicks can make a big enough impression on { t workjn reflective form o f theatre from Pinter: and stand crashed si lid the din, Thursday 15 March the New Zealand market with a first offl ^ $ weetwc “ Night” and “ Silence” , and from Beckett: to the floor. they may be able to overcome the obscu \ course W€ “ That Time” . Directed by Daryl Wilson, Their music is hai It in the new- I’m sure lots o f you have beef ity associated witf—.new - «-■*—b j — ...... owers™ ltouratthe k wave vein, with the Efront mem- situation where you’ve just wantJ remain a distinct!, ,NZ band who has had some ten years’ theatrical bers sharing vocals or not they disappear instantaneously for a mj Unfortunati >r A F Ii t X-7 fans experience in several professional and , . Touring ? had in mind utilisi iblern shared; minutes and carry on where you U lid not managp t< s e ^ f f m amateur theatres throughout Auckland. nd reportVou,reachie, problem halved’ p iebatable as well reviewing Flight X-7 was on^ ieir performance! A must for people studying Pinter in mo\!'™ ’‘pod look ar certainly no delic light serenade, On Thursday last, the band si? fanmhas not cl this is done in English). No elaboration ePJ °'.re> rkingholi However, the ly it is largely record contract with Polygram at Kic "A gootk^lance bani and watch L.,u.re‘ ota( has been made on set,or cast, or such ori their to the end that the characters them­ th ;m to be g< selves are emphasised. A very enter­ bat’s what f taining work to go and see.

PZ M3JEVM ‘KinDDVaD ‘0Z Jumping The G un Violent Theatre: no its not full o f remember some isolated features, like the g I’ve always sex and violence - well not much. I t ’s a fact that he had clean fingernails. Both o f Tully executed troupe formed in late February by these affairs were extremly fragile - like son. Christopher Hansard and starring Simon lives around these unstable bases. It is a a danger that Prast and Gillian Gould. They seek to play about two private worlds coming ■ne the ‘Colin establish, and make aware to their together, and the conflict which arises as d music though; audience, the origins o f conflict, while a result ly. Time will tell at the same time involving the audience As can be seen, conflict is the prevalent i could have directly in the production, element in the play, which is written by r but this was F ‘Violent Theatre’ is a phrase coined by Hansard. The play is intended to be mov­ c sheet with Hansard himself, which aptly expresses the ing and shocking (but like ‘Violent’ the knd thank good-nature of the word — a physical act — rath- term should not betaken in its vulgar Jvens ! er it is the way in which a play is presented sense), and apparently it has had this to elicit an emotional response from the effect on audiences in the rehearsals. audience. Through their presentation, they Rather than being outrageous the hope to draw the audience into the play ‘shock’ involved is to bring the audience jitself, that by identifying themselves with out o f themselves and realise what’s e actors they can, as it were, experience going on around them. jthe events in the play first-hand. Perhaps the essential nature o f ‘Violent The actors adapt to their characters and it is their relationship with their eatre’ can be simply stated as an exper­ ience between the actors and the audience, environment which is intended to pull the opposed to the more traditional concept audience into the pjay. Hansard .envisages communicating, or more the the point of theatre where the actors play a scene and getting across to, people who have never e audience experience only what they been to the theatre before, thus the e, not what the actors feel. The contrast shown up between the one which only emotional involvement o f actors and nveys a superficial impression and the the audience should be a very real thing. It is hoped that the audience also identif­ ‘other which, in Hansard’s words, shows 'aspects of a deeper reality’. This itself ies with the New Zealand flavour o f the play itself, being, as it is, written by a may sound meaningless and aimed at app­ New Zealander with this in mind. ealing only to intellect, but in fact his ‘deeper reality’ refers to ‘perceptively’ Hansard plans to present a version o f ort o f alburaxpressed emotion — and its conveyance to ‘Macbeth’ later in the year which will, e air play it the audience. however, examine the play from a differ­ cause it is [ The best example o f where the Violent ent angle — the approach exemplifying urn so far this Theatre Co. is aiming is to refer to its ‘Violent Theatre’. It will focus on the ould be the best upcoming play, ‘Songs o f the Field’. The inner conflict o f Macbeth. Hansard cites ay concerns two characters — a woman his walk along the moors — what is he his career with n her early thirties and a man in his early thinking?; why is he rbere m the first ich produced tvt enties. It appears that they were at place?; what are the motives o f his wife? split to the sorrol ie time neighbours, with a vacant field Certainly, one may object to such an arry Jenkin. J 0Cparating their homes. examination o f Macbeth as being o ff the d from view to } The field is in fact the focal point of the ppint — that is debatable — but there can ex-Television play. What is initially examined in their be little doubt that Hansard knows from ay Dee Daugher! Thp h I . respective attitudes towards the field. which angle to examine his own play. a a -+ ii 'Attitudes’ in the case o f these characters ,duced it really ,1 us with relationship, and their Hansard is a writer who does not tit it doesn t s to ^ , rela,i0 nShips with the field are the identify himself with being concerned with ts so goo at resu|to f their relationships with other any one literary form - he is concerned g to win own Wopie. These relationships with other with all three: poetry, drama, prose. He t gets bet er are jn both cases love affairs, though was examining the essence o f human What’s Up At affairs of a differing nature and intensity, experience and as a result o f this is work­ (which is the besjnitially, the woman’s relationship with the ing towards ‘Violent Theatre’ (which he CAPPING REVUE ’80 NEEDS YOU m)- field is good to her, it represents the things sees as having the bases o f Shakespeare, SCRIPTS - SCRIPT IDEAS - ONE t be, but he doesrLhich have gone right in her life. For the Ibsen, Chekhov and Brecht) rather than LINERS - MONOLOGUES - e always leaves yiman it is just the opposite — a symbol of having already achieved it. He sees the HUMOROUS SONGS - old and morbid «oppression. And it is this devergence in theatre as a new (or revived) medium for CONTACT ROS REFOY-BUTLER IN tening to the cratheir attitudes towards the field becomes society at large to idenify with — a revival THE MAIDMENT THEATRE FOYER ,nge that it becorm excuse for them to come into conflict. to take the place o f religion, which Han­ CAPPING REVUE AUDITIONS sard sees as dying. And it is his concept JUDO ROOM 237 [ The Man’s love affiar is nothing more of the theatre to take away the ignorance Tues 25th 5.00-7.30 than a fantasy but still something very real. o f people from within. His intends to Wed 26th 5.00 -7 .3 0 He falls in love with the girl at a supermark­ WORKSHOPS IN DANCE DRAMA be a theatre o f immediacy, and comes Thurs27th 5.00-7.30 et check-out counter and weaves his fantasy MIME & MOVEMENT, VIDEO/POTTE down to individuals — the audience as STUDENT DRAMA WORKSHOP 1980 When their hands come into contact with an extension o f the cast. exchanging money. The Woman’s affair Exhibition users. t Arts Centre, Little Theatre, lasted only a few weeks. She can only Wednesday lunchtime users. every Friday 6.00- 8.00 pm Charles Boday Course Fee $20.00 per term. Festival of One-Act Plays 17th - 21 st Aug. See Artistic Director M.A.C. More information available from Artistic Director MAC. gy band. ONIyt I line-up from ne being Jeff They began asth e Last W altz amt;- Ynn max/ havp ast-prl vnnrcolf . Hnu/i 978 and rename! You may have asked yourself - what- However, as the track record shows, received a no. o f good offers, but America l January 1979 * er happened to ‘Hello Sailor’. Well never moved on. But it just didn’t happen like the chances o f NZ bands in the States beckoned and o ff they went. Instead the that. id vocal, Paul feaF) the answer is about to be revealed to aren’t too good especially if they don’t album was released in June o f last year vocals, Warrick y0U Craccum was able to put this question • have the support of a record Co. As the and was for the band out o f date - as a unit New bands interest Harry and he’d like k Stanton - key |mong others, to Harry Lyons ex-Guitarist, companies, when they do pick up an act, it had moved on. ‘We virtually had to re­ to lend them his experience. He’s also — drums,percuss art time writer and vocalist for Hello spend a lot of money, it’s a quarter million surrect some o f the songs to play. Also it interested in management but how far that Sailor. dollar investment, they’re not about to do takes most Kiwi bands at least 6-12 months involvement goes, he is not sure. I don’t and th at wants to) ^ at ^ $aj/or jn tfjejr /ast q it at the drop o f a hat to get anywhere in the States anyway.’ want to have to rely on a band for a living £ a I ’ n months o f existence ? The only way to break any scene is to Harry’s tastes in music are broad - they at the moment, but I don’t want to go at head tor Oz,, ^ ^ we fQurec/ jn Aussie w /f/1 p hj/jp do what we did - arrive on the streets range from 20-30’s pop to present day solo either though I ’d like to see an album taming back in to the lin e u p . We m anaged looking for work. You can get work alright rock’n’roll. A stimulating range, they have of my songs recorded. As for management, eels tnat it they our5ejves on the road and just generally as NZ bands are good enough to compete the disadvantage o f being absorbed and you see so many bands getting done. Not impression on ,ept working. Then we came back and with homegrown product overseas. Basic­ then almost forcing ideas out as a con­ being ripped off. It’s just that the industry •X with a Tirst ott 5 weetwaters - b lo o d y g o o d gig. Then ally you just do show case gigs which pay sequence. A lot o f the Sailor sound came here is not of age, it’s only starting to !r“ ™e fmme wefished off, virtuallyafter a short nothing - the dream o f becoming from the guitars o f Dave (McCartney) and produce professional managers and road overseas) gurat the Windsor. an overnight sensation is just that, a dream. myself but the way we played had more crews. When we started there was nothing. In America we worked quite regularly for to do with the lyrics than the music. As to my future, well producing also ; Touring ? it ’s OK as long as you feel about six months and did some really Q. Why did the band break up ? interests me though I’d have to get more 'ou’re achieving something. I t ’s great - good gigs with ‘The Knack’. So there were A. Well we didn’t break up because none technical-engineering experience. I pecially when you’re overseas - to have a plenty of opportunities for the right o f us were interested any longer. I think it wouldn’t mind getting a band to do odd ad look around. It can be just like a people to see us. was just because nothing was coming o f things now and then - not weekly, just rking holiday. But it can be a drag if And what about missed opportunities ? what we were doing. We hadn’t recorded iu’re not achieving anything - you just Well, Sailor had the chance to go to occasionally. Just generally let loose and for 18 months. Anything that was being relax with a few friends. im to be going around and around, Aussie in the summer o f ’78 when their written should have been recorded, listen­ it’s what happened to us in Aussie. album was still current and they had ed to and then musically we shouli have Brett Mason

Page 21, CRACCUM, March 24. CRACCUM CL' CRACCUM is registered with the Post Yes! Mo Office as a newspaper. It is published by to CRA( the Craccum Administration Board for to us,typ Dear Daryl, Dear Katrina, Dear Craccum, the Auckland University Students' Assoc­ by Mond OUCH! Your letter in Craccum March 10 I am the small boy that you mentioned in (Really, it’s got nothing to do with anything, but CRACCUM's meant to be an outlet for iation, Private Bag, Auckland; typeset on publicati was rather scathing, to say the least. I am a your last issue ‘Standing on my fathers car acne eye longstanding Christian (9 years) and in some student frustration and all). Honestly, how can the Association's IBM machine; and print­ holding up the placard - Who is going to pay for with my ways I was hurt by your letter whilst other parts my education.’ I would like to say here why I anybody expect to live in Pakuranga! Buses cost ed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 of it left me feeling a good deal of sympathy for went on the Protest March. Although I am not 80c each way, and only run erratically every Drews Avenue, Wanganui. Opinions For Sale you. It is in this light that I would like to reply yet five I do go to the university - the creche. I 2 hours or so when the driver remembers (or so expressed are not necessarily those of the One pair it seems); they are always crowded out and to you with what I believe is the Christian point would like to come back to university after I Editorial staff, and in no way represent 101/2, brai takes hours to get to town. After about 6 pm of view and attitude to Gay Liberation. have been through school, but the way the fees the official policy of the Students' Assoc­ For Sale First let it be said that just because a person are going, I really don’t think that in thirteen they practically cease altogether. It's like Siberia out there, jobs are miles away, libraries iation. Draughtsi is a Christian, it does not mean that automatic­ years time I or anybody else will afford to be justabk ally everything they say and do and think is able to go to university. It is a shame really are miles away, people are miles away. I know the question: why live out there if it's so im­ (TGN) perfect, or even correct. Christians make as because all those nasty people who are putting This issue is dedicated to our dictionary possible - Because: I can't live away from home For Sale: many mistakes as anyone else. They are not the fees up are those who got through without Kand our calculator. Casio mon amour... super-human. What they say can be totally paying very much. Do you think that’s fair also ? on the government pittance I get and with 8 Motobeca wrong. Many times I have tried to help people papers, I don't have the time or energy to X Vitus 172 only to fall flat on my face and make the sit­ Shane McKechnie commute the 2 hours each way between a job derailleur: uation worse. Please don’t condemn a whole P.S. That wasn’t my dad’s car I was standing on, and Pakuranga. ^rear; 14 x The whole place lacks the sense of any dis­ world of Christians, or even one who gave you he’s a student and he can’t afford a 1979 x V (i.e. really a hard time, just because they came on strong or tinctive identity, essentially it's a suburb of Holden Sunbird. //trade, rinj made a mistake. commuters who spend their lives in transit. Why W. " r * For Sale: All I say is that you consider this point What Dear Ed, my parents moved there I'll never understand I would you do if you saw a person whom you This is just a short note to say how much I It's still uncivilized, the Public Services are non- " * All Excell believed was doing something that was going to enjoyed this year’s Orientation, and congrats to existant, three-quarters of the pop. is under 15, Q ° y desk $40 J cause thdm great harm ? Wouldn’t you try to those involved. From the printing of timetables and there is nothing for them to do except hang type $25C help them; even stop them ? Get them back on (much easier to see what’s up), to the Five Buck around the shopping centre, looking for trouble. Records f their feet and going again in what you felt was a Card (AU’s version of VISA ?), to the quality The place is just an affluent slum with every­ Story of 1 better way ? of some of the acts ( Red Mole, Mime ‘River’), thing on Hire Purchase.All you ever heard Nightmar This brings me to a point which is the centre to the time-killing flickathons (sure filled in about Pakuranga is true, folks - it's a wasteland. at 600-18 of the problem and must be stated. God (the some of those between-lecture blues during the Wanted - Tara Christian one whom we believe is the only one) first week), to the summer-carnival atmosphere condition is categorically against Homosexuality. For of Super Sunday (even some of the public of Wanted - i instance, take the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Dear Craccum, Auckland came to have a look!) and more ! similar sizi (Genesis 19. 1-28) Lot’s house was besieged by Orientation was a real break, especially this It was a shock to read in your illustrious headlight: Homosexuals wanting to have sex with two year, what with forking out a fortune in fees, pages words, which, when strung together in a angels but the crowd refused the offer. In reply, the usual chaos of enrolment (with the added specific order, Implied that Radio B played Purebred < God struck them all with blindness with the spanner-in-the-works of the Fees Grant queue), ‘The Knack’ by choice. excellent 1 exception of Lot and his family. Thus, they the patience testing 2nd Hand Bookstall, mind- Such is not the case (Thank God!). During /home. Ow were able to escape and God destroyed the boggling amounts spent on texts..... our recent broadcast you might have heard ELO, ^ cannot prt town. A very plain statement of God’s attitude Thanks to all those who helped organise etc.. Supertramp and even the Commodores, but VN help (no n to Homosexuality is given in Leviticus 1 8. 22. Had the best Orientation fortnite yet. Hope to don’t worry, it made us puke as well. please ring “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with Unfortunately, it can’t be stopped. Idiot see some of the acts back on campus during the Craccurr womankind: it is abomination.” wet winter months. jocks play idiot music. That might sound like ^ Co-op mem An important fact to realise is this. In God’s I’m condemning a lot of people; I hope it does prices in Ma sight, all sin is the same. To his eyes Homo­ Y. Poon because some of our members haven’t been as sexuality is the same as swearing or getting responsible as they could have been. All I (we) Food Co-o drunk. God condemns Homosexuals no more Dear Craccum, ask is that you be tolerant because as well as the Beans, than anyone else, myself included, had I not Wherever did you get that Dermot Cooke from? odd bit of crud you do get good stuff like received his pardon. What is that anyway? A personal deodorant? Wreckless Eric and Spizzenergy. ECCHH! You must be really scraping the O.K. That I believe, is God’s attitude toward If any of you were offended by any of the ( d e f a r t ) cucumber, bottom of the barrel for writers this year! I Homosexuality. What of a Christians attitude ? songs that we’ve played then we’re sorry (if linger root Christians should not, and DO NOT condemn mean shit, what an asshole! Like, who the hell only we could say it wouldn’t happen again). 5gms; le anyone, whatsoever they do ! But, as I tried to does he think he is anyway? I mean fuckj E d itor...... Katherine White Outraged Taxpayer onion, 10c point out previously, Christianity isn’t compos-: Loving You Always Technical E d ito r...... Paul Barton PS. I bet the bastard wrote this himself. 290gms; pi ed of gods in miniature; just common ordinary Mike B Advertising Manager.... Anthony Wright people. People who like anybody else can let P.S. A famous Orientation Controller takes the pumpkin b Assistant Editors...... JohnCarrigan what people do get in between them and the prize for being the only brekki jock ever to be silverbeet,. other person. I ask that when someone gets Dear Katrina, late for work...... Daryl Wilson 105gms; sv your back up, try to forgive them and don’t let I was surprised to see that no one last week Legal Advisor...... Don Mathias 118gms; e it grow between you and the other person and took issue with the earlier article 'Christian Photography...... Elizabeth Ley land 5majj 32c; what they stand for. I try to do this, often un­ Women’. I consider myself a Christian and am Distribution Manager.. Brian Gray courgettes, successfully, but I try to. Please be patient, God not keen to argue publicly with other Christians Typesetter...... Barbara Amos sprouts, ca has not finished working in my life, nor any but I feel a reply is needed. other Christians, yet. Just what the article was saying about women "parsnips, s’ Christians do not condemn you, NEITHER is not easy to see. But its main suggestion seems HAS GOD DONE SO YET ! He has left his to be that the liberation of women is a side-issue warnings for you, but he has not condemned and that all that women need to be free is pers­ you. He still loves you; still cares for you. Wants onal forgiveness for sin. Along with this it to help you. However, neither he nor any seeks to rationalise and paraphrase Paul’s Christian will (should) force you. He has given position on women, particularly by an unjust­ to every person a free choice to do what they ified retranslation o f ‘submit to’ as ‘trust’. want to; to accept him or reject him. He has Presumably then; as men are not instructed to spelled out the consequences and left it to YOU. ‘submit to’ their wives, they are not, in the words You obviously feel that Christians are out of our translator, expected to ‘trust’ them. to exterminate all Homosexuals, and to Paul has played an important part in interpreting ‘imprison all Gay people’. You also claim that for Christians the meaning of Christs life. Christians have driven some people to suicide. If However, in many ways he was bound by the these allegations are true, then I agree with you, culture and age in which he lived. This is some­ and somebody had better take a good hard look thing almost all Christians (EU included) tacitly at what they are doing and stop. Now. recognise by not following his ideas that, say, We are not trying to squeeze you or anybody- women must cover their heads and remain silent else. I pray that Christianity has not made in church. But a degree of double think creeps ‘things too hot’. All we are trying to do, is point in when the traditional position of male domin­ out Gods opinion, his EVENTUAL judgement ance in society is seriously threatened as the his attitude toward you (which, if I haven’t article shows. spelt out clearly enough, is one of very great Christ’s attitude to women as seen in the gospels love and concern), our attitude to you (the same is not that of Paul. No particular statements of as Gods), and the way to avoid Gods eventual his about the role of women are recorded, but judgement. his actions and statements consistently identify You mentioned that you felt that Christians him with the oppressed and poor, against the had made things too hot; this I believe is caused oppressors. It is one of the tragedies of the past by people forgetting the last line. There IS a 2000 years that the Church has largely ignored way of avoiding God’s judgement. This is best these implications of Christ’s message and shown by quoting a man who knew jesus (God) supported the status quo from self interest and personally. He said, “ For God so loved the fear for its own survival. Our task as Christians world, that he gave his only begotten son, that today is not to dismiss, as the article does, whosoever believeth in him should not perish, women’s liberation and other struggles for but have everlasting life.” (John 3.16) freedom as irrelevant, but to act out the full You obviously dislike Christianity. (I hope meaning of Christianity in bringing freedom to not Christians.) I dislike Homosexuality. (BUT an oppressed world. NOT HOMOSEXUALS !!!) Should this stop us Peter Shearer from being able to communicate as worthwhile people ? If you wish to do so, you can drop me a line via the Chemistry III common room. In closing, I would like to leave you with the best that I can. The best I can ever give you is God’s blessing. Not as an insult, but as a real ROSS desire for God to give you the best that he can. Out of this May God bless you. 1. Law Schc se 18. a hil Yours in Christian love, . Dorianmc Robert Douglas . eight day;

Page 22, CRACCUM, March 24. ;u M classified /ith the Post Yes! More and more people are turning s published by to CRACCUM’s Classified Ads.Get them to us,typed and double spaced,maann, HAGUE’S RAVE on Board for by Monday afternoon the week before So far there has been a good response S.RC. Students' Assoc- by the level o f hardship being granted, we The first SRC meeting o f the year publication,and you too can break the to the proposal for continuing Grad Bar and; typeset on could reasonably expect a relatively fair attended by approx 1 0 0 people was open­ acne cycle.Imagine,me in CRACCUM,me Grovel and Jazz Night-club on a regular :hine; and print- level of assistance when we go back to a ed in an efficient and professional manner with my acne problem... basis. Probably these will start soon. ars Ltd., 20 non-silly system like the STB (minus by SRC Chairperson Tom Bassett and Opinions For Sale : More importantly, it is essential that all abatement) IF WE FIGHT FOR IT NOW ! throughout the meeting he managed to ily those of the One pair of John Walker training shoes size students eligible for a Tertiary Study To this end, there will be a march on maintain the order that is usually so lack- way represent 10J4, brand new, $55, ph Tim at 478-6474. Grant should also apply for A HARDSHIP APRIL 16th (mid-way through health ng in the weekly polemic. Students' Assoc- For Sale GRANT, BEFORE THE END OF MARCH week) to demonstrate against the TSG. The meeting commenced with elections Draughtsman’s swivel high chair, strong, Forms are available, along with a guide to Make sure YOU come along. for the associations Education Sub- ■■adjustable seat and back $50. Ph 817-5578 filling them out, from both the Registry On a different tack, we must also resist I Committee and keen interest was shown t jj(TGN) and the Students’ Association. Once you dangerous moves from within the Univer­ with 4 candidates standing for the two our dictionary have filled out the form, you should mon amour., ^ | For Sale: sity Administration. Colin Maiden, the positions. Let us hope this continuing \Motobecane Grand Jubile, 23 in. frame, arrange an interview with Student Liaison, Vice-Chancellor, has stated in the press interest is a good omen for the future of ^ Vitus 172 DB tubes, Cyclone GT who are currently situated in the Old Arts that Auckland University has done well Education Fightback. Besides a few derailleurs, Normandy hubs, gear ratios - Building basement Applications must be out of the quinquennial grant, while at administrative motions,the rest o f the in this month. y rear; 14 x 32, front; 40 x 52. As new the same time library staff and hours are meeting comprised o f policy motions and f (i.e. really new, approx 60 mi). Sell or Even if you don’t think you need a cut, vacant staffing positions are frozen, recommendations to Executive.The most 77 trade, ring Brian 604-268. Hardship allowance, you should apply to and the University slashes at Student contraversial motion was the recommen­ r <7For Sale: help defend the right to a free education Health and Counselling. The staff/ dation to provide $800 from the Speakers #/f * All Excell. cond. - stereo $90.00, Oak for all. The system causes huge administ­ student ratio will also worsen over the Fund to go towards a proposed NZ-wide desk $40.00, bedsettee $40.00, Elect rative hassles, both for the University and next five years. DON’T TRUST THEM tour o f Isabelle Allende,the daughter if type $250.00, ph. Judy, 493-222 for the Education Department If as many AN INCH ! THEY ARE TRYING TO ex-President Salvador Allende.The Records for Sale: ‘Who Are You’, ‘The students apply as we have predicted then KEEP YOU UNAWARE UNTIL ALL THE motion survived an amendment to Story of the Who’ dbl., ‘Welcome to My the Government will probably have to CUTS HAVE BEEN MADE! reduce the sum to $500,and provided Nightmare’ - to highest offers. Ring Jim scrap the scheme. However, because the Education Cuts D on’t Heat. Exec' acts upon the recommendation the (l at 600-182. Govt is admitting that students need tour organised by various NZ Chilean and Wanted - Late model motorbike - damaged around $40 p.w. (in most cases) indicated Kevin Nicaraguan workers groups will be closer condition - ring Patrick at 775-960. to actuality. More information will be Wanted - Seat for Honda 175 (or one of forthcoming later. similar size) also speedo to fit CD 175 Other motions recommended to headlight setting. Ring Jim at 600-182. Catering Sub-Committee that hot water Purebred German Shepherd, 6 yrs old, systems should be provided in the Cafe excellent temperament requires temporary and Coffee Bar to give students the facility home. Owner can feed and exercise but to make their own tea and coffee for a cannot provide fenced yard. If you can SCRUM \puNT,NGThe Interdominion Grand Final should small fee, a service available last year but help (no matter how short the time), see Locarno, Pure Steel and Frosty Imp The last Sports Council meeting before axed this year. However don’t pin your please ring Brian 604-268. fight out a close finish. This will be broad­ we head o ff to Easter Tournament at hopes on this because rumour has it that I Craccum would like to apologise to all Food cast on the radio as were all the heats. Massey is Tuesday 25th March in the Club certain administrative forces in the Assoc­ Co-op members for printing the previous weeks Trots on Saturday night at the Park but Rooms, Rec. Centre 7 pm. iation are not wholly in favour o f the prices in March 17 issue. We’re sorry ! this meeting is an on-course tote only. Remember if you are a keen competit­ idea. We also contributed $200 to help Food Co-op Price Guide from 20.3.80 Some trotters to follow are Antrim Lad, or in the undermentioned sports your towards Gay Lib’s National Offenders * Beans, 10c: 56 gms; broccoli, 10c:80gms Game Folly, Hoatu, Frangipanni, Hurri­ eligibility forms must be in to the Sports Day march on Friday 28 and sent congrat­ v l ptbbage, 35c: ea; capsicum/apples, 5c:ea; cane Glen with bet o f the week being the Reps’ office by 3 pm Friday 28th March ulations to the NZ Army for the part it ‘Harrots, 10c:950gms; ~ celery, 55c:ea; Purdon trained Recount. Awapuni races at the latest. Transport will leave on played in the Commonwealth Monitoring ( 6 e i A . i l ) cucumber, 16c:ea; garlic, 10c:75gms; this Saturday are the main feature and Thursday 3rd April from outside the Cafe Forces in Zimbabwe, Rhodesia. jnger root, I0c:18gms; kumara, 1 0 c: some horses to follow are Tang, Schenley, in Princess St. Team sports are: athletics, J.G. 85gms; leeks, 20c:ea; lettuce, 18c:ea; Magistrate, Penny Dee while two promis-* rowing, cricket, snooker, swimming, water atherine White onion, 10c: 1144gms; potatoes, 10c: ing maidens to watch are Catena Gold polo, shooting, tennis, and volleyball. A lul Barton 290gms; pumpkin crown, 36c:ea; (relation o f Battle Heights), and Fair Sue. full report of the EasterTournament and nthony Wright pumpkin butterhut/bananas, 7c:ea; Bets of the week are Anderil, Eye O f The )hn Carrigan how the Auckland University teams fared silverbeet, ,1 0c:300gms; spring onion, 10 c: Wind and Azan one for longer odds. STOP against the rest o f the N.Z. Universities aryl Wilson 105gms; sweetcorn, 8c:ea; tomatoes, 10c Last week Armbro Wings was highly will appear in CRACCUM later in the on Mathias impressive in winning the Derby after .. , , . . 118gms; egg-plant, 2 0 c:ea; watermelon, term. izabeth Leylandsman> 32c:ea; pears, 4c:ea; possibles: going three wide for one round. Also an nan bray courgettes, rhubarb, grapes; dear: brussel impressive winner was Dillion Dale who Wayne McIntosh, won the youngsters race very well so he Last Thursday s student Executive ^ ^ ^ s p r o u t s , cauli; not avilaable: marrows, Sports Rep. 1 ’parsnips, swede, oranges. will be worth following. meeting felt like New Y ork’s Grand Central Station during rush hour. B. Gamble A t one stage Chris Gosling, the Studass Resource Officer, refused to report to the meeting on the matter of the NZUSA CROSSWORD budget, -saying he believed the meeting was incompetant to judge the matter. This was in part due to the abse ice o f AVP David Rose, but his response was also gov­ CLUES erned by the ‘mood of the meeting’. From this point on, the meeting began to settle Across down. 1. A book Adam might kiss thrice (5,5,2,3.) 7. Eton scribble ?(4.) The Executive amended SRC’s 8. Cuts up bodies of fired MP’s (10.) recommendation to allocate $800 from 11. Sounds like you know the United Nations (1,1,1.) the Speaker’s Fund for the tour of Ms All- 12. Not forgetting a possible mending of 8. (11.) ende. Only $500 was given, an option 13. Here tics the hanging infidels (8.) which was discussed and rejected at SRC! 14. Last plank of wood (4.) David Kirkpatri ck moved and Tom Bassett 16. Catchword not possible (4.) .seconded the amendment on the grounds 17. Wrong delivery, baby ? (8.) that $800 would too greatly deplete the 19. Equalitarian ? (11.) fund, creating difficulty in financing other 20. Cracker! (3) speakers. (Two other allocations were 21. Leg-bangers (5-5) 23. Mail in Africa (4.) made at the meeting, totalling $300). 24. Friday night’s reward you won’t tire of (8,5,2) Members Sowry, Broad, Baker and Frewin unsuccessfully opposed the amendment Down on the grounds that Executive should by 1. Insincere, dangerous way to talk (6,2,5) policy adopt SRC recommendations. 2. Irrational comparison (5.) Sports Rep. Wayne McIntosh moved 3. Consumed ? (3.) that President Kevin Hague be censured 4. Cut out make-up to lift face (8,7.) for abuse o f his power in directing memb­ 5. Sea-ears (6.) 6. Always a teen rally (9.) ers o f the Recreation Sub-Committee to 9. This clue is a doubtful idea (7,6.) vote for Anthony Wright as Chairperson. 10. Brother, he’s french (5.) Kevin defended his action, saying it y/as 13. Wait! Does loitering deserve this punishment ? (4,5. within his power, and that it was important 15. This fruit will keep you running (5.) to AUSA to have a student as Chairperson 18. Watch a slang heart (6.) on this sub-committee. Following this, the 20. Philatelic foot-down (5.) meeting resolved to proceed to the next 22. Foreign salt (3.) business, and the motion to censure the SWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CROSSWORD President lapsed. • kCROSS Ivan Sowry introduced a motion opp­ Out of this world. 6. local residence 9. aye DOWN osing th’e cuts of University Library hours, . Law School. 13. egret 15. detsissa 16. roman 1. onomatopoetic 2. translation 3. farthing and it was decided to hold a ‘work-in’, ise 18. a hillside 19. Lemonade 22. stone 4. Hesiod’s theogony 5. wheres 7. cars 8. eyes Students are invited to stay late in the I. Dorianmod 24. did 25. cephaloid donor and no hook 10. eta 12. Lee 14. Girls in Love library on Friday, April M, in order to i. eight days a week. 18. add 19. L.S.D. 20. mode 21. new hat stop it closing at 8 pm instead o f 11 pm.

Peter Maher

Page 23, CRACCUM, March 24. THINK TWICE A spectre is haunting Auckland Uni­ Historically, one of the first, and poss­ Along with these specific aims we seek respect them both, and the possibilities versity - the spectre of polygamy. All the ibly the greatest Twicer of all time was a generally more enlightened community for boredom and frustration, sexual or powers of the old Establishment have Solomon the Wise - he was a Thousander. and to that end we must endeavour to dis­ otherwise, are necessarily limited in our entered into a holy alliance to exorcise In those more enlightened times twicing pel the popular mythology that surrounds marriage. We are all happy. this spectre: Chaplain and Chancellor, was apparently common practice, condon­ the twicer and his or her lifestyle. Male twicers are NOT all sexist domin­ Philosophy Phd students, Young Nationals ed if not actively encouraged by society in We are not ‘Satyrs’ and ‘Nymphos’. We eering egomaniacs. I know one or two and Ladies Keep Fit Club. general. With the advent of Christianity, are no more or less promiscuous than the twicers who might fit that description Where is the Executive Officer who has harsh laws against Twicing were envoked. monos and the oncers. Rather it could be but like most twice marriages, my own not been decried as polygamous by marriage is an equal partnership. There is stirrers of SRC ? Where is the Executive no room for the Master-Slave syndrome Officer who has not nurled back the brand­ to rear it ’s ugly head in our marriage. It is ing reproach o f polygamy against Craccum largely due to media stereotyping that staff as well as against that Officer’s react­ these images persist. Ours is not a harem, ionary adversaries ? but where is the Twicer marriage that is Two things result from this fact: depicted honestly on Television, in books, I Polygamy is already acknowledged by at the Theatre ? ls it any wonder, that fed all Establishment powers to be itself a on pictures o f lust-crazed Arabs and sultry power. eunuch-supervised harems, we - the Twice II It is high time that Polygamists should Community - are so misunderstood by a openly, in the face o f the whole world, non-twicer society ? publish their views, their aims, their tend­ Similarly female twicers are not domin- encies and meet this nursery tale o f the atrixes by definition, bondage and sado­ spectre of polygamy with a manifest re­ masochism are not compulsory in twicer presentation from polygamists themselves. marriages. Sexual behaviour is purely a To this end, Polygamists o f various matter o f personal choice for twicer and nationalities have assembled in Herne Bay non-twicer alike. and sketched the following representation An equally destructive stereotype is to be published in the English, French, that the twicer ‘has it made’. This stereo­ German, Italian, Flemish and Danish type is merely an extension of the ‘grass Languages. Or in Craccum. being greener on the other side o f the As with virtually everything in life, a fence.’ Twicer marriages have their own few clear-cut definitions and guidelines special problems attached to them. Con­ would not go amiss. First and foremost: sider if you will the daunting prospect of Polygamists are normal human beings who having two mothers-in-law, a problem have for their own personal reasons, elect­ dreaded equally by male and female ed to cohabit simultaneously with more twicers alike. Some neatly sidestep the than one partner of the opposite sex. problem by marrying does from the same From this arrives my second point: Poly­ family and encounter new problems gamists are essentially heterosexual and stemming from sibling rivalry. should NOT be confused with Engineers. I chose to face the prospect o f two sets Thirdly, we can be found in all walks of of in-laws, not as a matter o f convenience, life and do not all live in Titirangi. but because the two women I fell in love Part o f the problem lies in the names with were not sisters. I might as well tell which are forced upon us by an uncaring you about our marriage while I’m on the and even frightened Monogamous society. subject and yes, I realise that three into For this very reason, we have adopted our sixty-nine goes perfectly. own vocabulary. All of you strictly mono­ I had no idea that I was even remotely gamous people who can see no further twice until I met Kirsty and Sarah, (or than one partner in life - we call you should I say Sarah and Kirsty ?) and it ‘monos’. Those o f you who have not yet was love at first sight. I was lucky that committed yourself one way or the other not only did my wives know each other, are known as 'oncers’. In our community they were best friends, a factor which has there are those who choose to live with contributed in no small way to the stabil­ two partners, and those who choose three ity of our relationship. I have been spared or more. Among ourselves we might make the anguish o f trying to mediate between it known that we are thricers, or even two quarreling does. Hell hath no fury, sixers, but to the monos and oncers we and that goes double for twicers. A sur­ present ourselves as a united group: The prisingly large percentage o f twice marr- Twicers: I iages are formed between same-sex best I am a Twicer. I call myself ‘Twicer’ friends and an opposite-sex partner, thus because I am capable o f responding avoiding or at least minimising the risk of emotionally, intellectually, and sexually These antiquated notions have remained argued that our lifestyles are more con­ quarrelling does. to more than one member of the opposite „ to this day, forcing twicers to leave the ducive to fidelity than the old monogam­ I am not ashamed o f twicing - I walk sex. I have two wives and am thus literally, church and to hide their twicing in a web ous relationships. To put it another way, down busy city streets, a doe on each ar as well as figuratively, a Twicer. My wives of fabrication and hypocrisy. Among the do you think Solomon the Wise had any quite openly. We brave the lewd comme because each lives with only one husband aims of the Twice community are: a need for extra-marital sex when he had a from the men, the shocked looks o f the are not strictly Twicers. If they wished to system o f laws which permits legal marr­ thousand Does ? Even when the spark of women. We feel the envy o f the would-bf be labelled as anything other than my iage with more than one partner, an en­ love had died, on a one nightly basis, the twicers, the hatred of embittered oncers and do not flinch. We love and are secure wives, they could be labelled ‘does’. The lightened Church which will allow Twice most obnoxious o f spouses would only in our love. ‘We are twicers, we are proud term is not peculiar to the female sex, as marriages to be consecrated before God, need visiting once every three years, and and we are everywhere’ you might think, but derives from the should the partners wish it, and a Tax even then could be included in a three­ french ‘deux’ meaning ‘tw o’. Thus there Department that will allow us twicers to some. Bluebeard are male does and female does but in _ claim more than one Doe as dependant A t a more realistic level, my wives and general, many are happy just being known spouse should the need arise. I remain scrupulously faithful. I love and as ‘husbands’ or ‘wives’.

Another Orientation Rave

SOME MORE ON ORIENTATION band o f helpers had too much to do. All them. G: And that the $5 bargain o f the decad Gene Nicolson agreed to be interviewed in all, though, they’d make a good song N: Positively not. The biggest drawcard was a big put on ? by himself about his 1st 2 weeks (as a full­ writing team. was the biggest let down. Split Enz being N: Yes. time student) at Uni, ie Orientation. G: Back to the films. How did you find double-booked. G: And you won’t buy an orientation ca Gene: Hello Mr Nicolson. them ? G: So you think not enough promises were next year ? Mr N: Hello Gene. N: By accident or not at all. fulfilled ? N: On the contrary. I’ll be back queuein G: To get down to business, what were G: You didn’t have the time ? N: Yes. up with 5000 other students. your impressions o f orientation? N: Plenty o f time. But it was a typical advertising stunt. N: Orientation ? NEW INDEPENDENT LUNCHTIME WORKSHOPS G: You know. Fifty films for five bucks, G: First advertising, now advertising ? etc. N: Never was so m uch.... 14 Upper Queen Street, Auckland 1 N: A rcod example of alliteration. But G: I know the one, but the films. - Phone 796-370 that’s about all. A typical political state­ N: Yes, the films. And no, the films. I’m ment. a bit suspicious when someone says ‘Sorry, G: Politics ? the film was not returned by the previous N: Yes. Never was so much fo r so little people’ or ‘did the Orientation programme PIONEER WOME promised by so few for so many so and so’s really say that ?’ .... And the reproduction Weds, Thurs, Fri March 19th, 20th, 21st; 26th, 27th, 28th at 1pm and so on. qualtiy or lack of it. and Saturdays 22nd, 29th at 2pm G: You mean Dave (cousin of good) G: What about the daily dome thing ? Merritt, John (no relation to Robt) Page N: What day was that on ? Students $1.50 & co. G: Let’s move on to the dances. Now you (This price includes Victorian Refreshment after the performance) N: Yes. Poor chaps. They and their merry must have something positive to say about Page 24, CRACCUM, March 24.