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CRACCUM: FEBRUARY 25 1974 page 2 STAFF Editor.....................Brent Lewis Technical Editor................Malcolm Walker Chief Report ......... Mike Rann r o b b i e . Reporter................Bill Ralston Typist............. Wendy / am grateful to Brent Lewis, the Editor o f Craccum, for the opportunity o f Record Reviews............. Jeremy Templar expressing a few thoughts at the beginning o f a new University year, in Interview............... Ian Sinclair particular, I have been asked to express some opinions regarding present day youth. Advertising Manager ............. Graeme Easte Distribution ...... God Willing Legal V ettin g ............. Ken Palmer As far as I am aware, most University students take their studies seriously. At the same time, it is normal, natural and desirable, that they give expression Valuable Help Rendered B y ................ to youthful exuberance, provided this is within reasonable limits. Steve Ballantyne, Colin Chiles, Phyllis Connns, Roger Debreceny, Paul Halloran, John Langdon, Old Mole, Mike Moore, and Murray Cammick Also ran, Adrian Picot and Tony Dove. My experience with young people has demonstrated that in the main, they Items may be freely reprinted from Craccum except where otherwise stated, are responsible and recognise that society does not owe them a living, and provided that suitable acknowledgement is made. Craccum is published by the they must accept responsibilities in return for privileges. Criccum Administration Board for the Auckland University Students' Association (Inc), typeset by City Typesetters of 501 Parnell Road, Auckland, and printed by What we have to recognise is that .the technological, social and economic Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews Ave., Wanganui. changes that are always occurring, are now accelerating to the stage where it is difficult for the average person to keep up with them. Young people, especially, are under great pressures from special interest groups with an axe to grind, particularly, sexually, economically and socially. It is natural that young people are under very strong biological pressures, and the freedom offered by University life for easier social contacts between young men and women, intensifies the natural attraction that exists between LETTER them. Dear Sir, « I regret to say that the subject of I would not like to express an opinion in this article regarding sexual this letter is one with which students relationships outside of marriage, because this is a subject that would require a full length article on its own, but I have mentioned it because it is one of have, over the years, grown all too the facts of life we must face up to, and I have never been an advocate of familiar. I speak of the Association's HOI#* refusing to think seriously about these important matters. catering facilities. I am not one of those who would complain about the On the other hand, I would not be presumptuous enough to offer 'boring caf food' even if the caf were gratuitous advice. Nevertheless, we should recognise that people living in selling Tournados Rossini for sixty Auckland enjoy many advantages not shared by people in less fortunate cents with Beluga Caviar on toast cities or countries. Melba for an entree, but I do feel compelled to speak out about the It seems to me that by using wisely the special advantages we have in Auckland life can be enjoyable, even though our eyes should be continually nasty plastic bottle of fermented pas­ fixed on the ultimate target of achieving academic pre-eminence in one's sion-fruit juice which I bought for chosen field of endeavour. twenty cents and which the woman behind the counter refused to replace, May i conclude by wishing both new and continuing students a successful the rare T-bone I ordered in the University year, and assuring all of my interest in the University and my restaurant during one of their less desire to co-operate to the best of my ability. busy periods which nevertheless took half-an-hour to arrive, and the machine-prepared fizzy orange drink (SIR) DOVE-MYER ROBINSON, so dilute that it had the colour of MAYOR. baby's urine and tasted little better. These complaints are mostly occasioned by failures in the food What is wrong with Patricia Bartlett artist in a society is like having a rival preparing systems StudAss uses, rather is as someone said: That she has sex government. Therein lies the point. than by inadequacies of personnel on the brain, and that's a bad place to The politican, too, has always rec­ (except for that woman who sold me have it. Moral crusaders have a ten­ ognized the truth of this. As long ago the soft drink, but perhaps it is too dency to talk against the windmills of as 1913, Woodrow Wilson on view­ much to expect someone to run a their own creation. ing Griffiths' "The Birth of a Nation" milk-bar and be polite as well), so it Why +s it though, that films have could exlcaim that it was like seeing may be that the time has come for a been prurience when'Truth has history written in lightning. fresh look at those systems. More fres* comment existed for over 50 years on a diet of Cinema is a far more potent force quent servicing of dispensing lurid sensationalism without having now that artists truly understand the machines, more care to see that sup­ The criterion for film censorship, if been prosecuted? nature of the medium in which they pliers are delivering fresh goods, and indeed there need by any, should be Surely a sophisticated society work. They are thus that much more a complete revision of the restaurants on the same basis of book censorship should be self-regulating. This was the susceptible to forms of political con­ ticketing system would make a fine as a first step. This' is what Frank hope that Orson Welles expressed in trol. start. O Flynn, Q .C., and the government an interview with "Playboy" when he Orwell's vision of 1984 concerned Yours sincerely member for Kapati suggested at last suggested that "artists should not be a society which had no artists to Michael Swinberg ' year's Labour Partv conference. censored, but I do think they should articulate ideals and opposition to that But, as Sir Kenneth restrain themselves in order not to ottalitarian regime. Ultimately then, if t o ka/j bfefcw r U e d b J Gressom, former Chairman of the weaken the language of their art." It we accept censorship in a so-called Indecent Publications Tribunal, sug­ is not the role of the politician to k o 'i U tr Côt^rfUAQ MQiAdpy. "free" society, we accept the rights of gested recently, surely mature adults adjudicate on the artist. Solzhenitsyn's bureaucrats to regulate our thought * Gt&xJ M&dc M&I a &U should be able to read what they recent treatment validates the state­ patterns in the guise*of public want to. ment he once made that having an M O r e * s m { 7 ( £ . (QUfyjfc. g u fc decency and order. Brent Lewis vent your Presidential powers? INTERVIEWER— "I see. But surely NEDDY— Er-yes-well (pausing to Your Excellency if these matters * by our political correspondent ... comb hair)—er-Well you see — I was directly concerned Mr Abdul's por­ deeply disturbed to discover members tfolio — it seems strange that there "A STAR IS BO RN " of my Workers Assembly feasting should be any objection". Last week, the imaginary Presi­ within the boundaries of the Presiden­ NEDDY—"I can understand how dent of the mythical Tibetan tial suite . Under section 4, parag­ misinformed individuals might see it Republic of Vanitalia (a sort of raph 9 of our Constitution — the that way. However its all a matter of Civil Servants’ Shangrila), broke parking of refreshments in the legisla- • Constitutional precedence. I mean — with tradition to appear on the tive assembly is a forbidden act — would the Queen allow her Corgis to popular television current affairs punishable (by Presidential decree) by replace her on postage stamps. epic ‘‘Face the Nation’’. the sealing of the offenders' office Besides I'm applying for a job in a o n Undaunted by probing interviewers windows on extremely hot days. toothpaste ad. You know what they our Neddy spoke of a crisis that INTERVIEWER— "I see. However I say . any publicity is good publicity. was facing consensus govt in his understand that another crisis rocked Next week Our Neddy at the Hall the formerly tranquil land . Here’s your administration last week". of Mirrors how the interview went. NEDDY—"Yes . I stumbled—er P.S. The characters in this sketch are hill INTERVIEWER— "My Seaweed . (pausing to comb hair)—across my fictitious. Any resemblance to persons When did you first realise that ele­ Aerospace Minister being interviewed living or dead is unintentional and ments in the lower echelon of your about matters which directly con­ purely coincidental. administration were trying to circum­ cerned his portfolio. CRACCUM: FEBRUARY 25 1974 page 3 INTERNATIONAL MEDITATION SOCIETY ls an international (understandably) non-profit organisation existing to teach Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) and it s theoretical aspect, the Science of Creative Intelligence (S.C.I.) as brought into the West and taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. You may have heard the name but may not as yet understand about this simple, natural technique of T.M. and its wide ranging implications. The technique is quite ancient and was probably taught in various parts of the world (only they probably didn't call it transcendental meditation) it is now being taught in its original simple form, this giving it its surprising were 40 trade union officials degree of effectiveness.

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