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)UGH BILL FOR RAPE ► leafleted, picketed and visited by women with magic markers and paint for five days until the offending kick around section was withdrawn. -O u tw r ite . T h e soccer] [Presumably in response to the publicity being given it’s a great | i recent v icio u s g a n g r a p e s , th e P a p u a N e w G u in e a PICKET OF PORNOGRAPHY ► ;he natior iremment has endorsed a new bill. This provides for ;rend? Why] • castration of rapists, and hanging for pack rape or On the 24 June the Six Month Club, above Cook mders. Is it ie where m urder is involved. Street M arket, will be featuring live pornography, an life less! Jnfortunately this proposal assum es that rape is advertised as a ‘men only’ evening. The Top Cat Revue „>tivated by sexual desire, and not the desire of men consists of Debbie Dans, Penthouse ‘Pet of the Y ear’, (have power over women. By not addressing the real stripping for customers. to muster i uses of rape may have the effect of just When the show appeared in Wellington ising th e v io le n c e . Berr demonstrators threw blood over men going in, and JRNOGRAPHY DISGUISED AS ART’ eight women were arrested. A picket is also being organised in Auckland, to rlier this year London women suceeded in closing m e e t a t 6 . 0 0 pm outside Cook Street M arket. W omen part of an exhibition by artist Tomi Ungerer, and men welcome. Contact Bidge, W omen’s Rights i speciality seem s to be extrem e m isogyny. Officer, for further details. _rt of Ungerer’s exhibition depicted women in The picket draws links betweer pornographic gitions of sexual humiliation and torm ent, wearing depiction of women in shows like this, in magazines leashes, and reduced in some cases to merely lik e P e n th o u s e , and elsewhere and attitudes which sts an d g e n ita l. make physical violence towards women acceptable. [The venue, London’s Royal Festival Hall, was

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1 I£«< PACIFIC ISLAND YOUTH This paper hopes to provoke strong thoughts - are politically naive and ignorant and discussion leading to ACTION! - lack political incentive, m otivation and drive - have not had a background of political PREAMBLE: GENERAL STATEM ENTS As a people brought together and labelled discussions in family, peer or comm unity to [The 6 main groups of Pacific Islands people in ‘Pacific Islanders’ by the statisticians and educate them as such Victoria St .including a small number of others from the officialdom, the peculiarities of each ethnic group - lack the required debating, researching ability details (3 S Be, make a significant section of the NZ m ust be kept in view while addressing the question and capability to enter the political arena with of political awareness of their young. The levels c o n fid e n c e ilitics, in relation to party politics - the and degrees of political interest clearly depend on - are not encouraged to become politically t advertisir bying of M P’s and Government officials; the political climate and diet one has been exposed in v o lv e d th e mornir ating fo r c h a n g e s th r o u g h p e ti ti o n s a n d to in family, peer and com m unity settings. - are unwilling to become involved unless there is lissions: engaging in local, national and other A significant development perhaps worth a direct personal relevance and return urns • in my opinion has been the perogative of quick mention is the confidence that has emerged - are content to let their papa’a/palagi C hurch Ha ! Samoan people. The only vocal and forth-right from the Pacific Islands women in the past 8 y e a r s counter-part stride away from them politically ion of the Pacific Islands community of NZ, or so, as they recognized and accepted their - see no place for them in the political system s of Samoans allow themselves to become potential as change-makers in NZ. This can be seen local, national and party machinery onably involved in this area. They are in all spheres of the Pacific Islands and wider - have an obvious disinterest in an area that has al Day of! 'ident and fearless in the NZ setting despite community life, and at all levels. I believe this little relevance or immediate reality for them [•backs that come their way. They deal with development has had some impact on Pacific - express opinions on current, topical, and/or ations and issues in a manner almost in I s la n d s y o u n g w o m e n ! controversial issues for the sake of conversation eping with ‘fa’a Samoa’ which at tim es cause and academic exercise rather than with the hope 5 den Pg sion amongst themselves, and confusion THE PACIFIC ISLANDS (PI) of affecting change ongst observers and interested others, YOUNG PEOPLE: - continue to be excluded from real iter.) 'iationalism to the Samoan is like w ater to the I take YOUNG to mean ‘mid-teens to mid­ decision-making areas in family and community dy. Without it, it is nothing! The community tw enties’. In the main these young people fall into life s with vitality through the life-line of national 3 broad categories:- The above statem ents can be reversed to allow ie - of being Sam oan, even on foreign soil!! 1. the NZ born and bred this potentially powerful political group of people Cook Islands community appears content to 2 . the Pacific Islands bom, reared, then came to of the Pacific Islands world being utilised to the «' /$sue op others make decisions on their behalf. In NZ. 5lViN6 6 weN| full. It need only be accepted by the current leaders g .../ ral, they are unwilling and see no benefit in 3. the Pacific Islands bom, then came to NZ at a of each ethnic community that much can be very young age. TISCO'C Dining involved with issues affecting other achieved by our young people given the chance to ST T * £ ions of the Pacific Islands world, e.g. the W henever they are confronted with the question perform and take part in decision-making, if we OOFS i'll stayers’ issue of the late 70’s concerning the of identity, the first and third group of Pacific 6 AA- H llv help them learn now, and if we allow them room to noans, T o n g a n s a n d F ijia n s . T h e n e e d a t t h a t Islands young people often see them selves as New m o v e in. to give moral support did not surface in the Zealanders first, then as Pacific Islanders. The is of the Cook Islands people, nor the need to second group on the other hand has less difficulty Fanaura K Kingstone ent a united Pacific Islands front to the rest of identifying with their parents’ ‘hom eland’ interests Community Development Tutor , especially to the bureaucrats and G overnm ent, and involvements. W AIARIKI COMMUNITY COLLEGE /thing, more interest and energy is directed to The preamble statements come from ities back in the Cook Islands, in particular, observations spanning the past 10 years. Having Pacific Island Students Forum litics, in c o n tr a s t to p a r t ic i p a ti o n in N Z . said that, the following presumptions and Tuesday 18 June be Tokelauans and Niueans appear to be more assumptions about the political awareness of Functions Room led with maintaining the status quo. They Pacific Islands young people are given, keeping in 1 p .m . not wish to rock the boat and give the mind the intention of this paper - Pacific Island speakers from the community AH'- W W pression of being content w ith their lot in NZ. discussing with us TO PROVOKE N 'T WC ► Departm ent of Pacific Island Affairs tsr ruT be Tongans and Fijians appear to pick up the LIVELY DISCUSSION AND ► The Pacific Island Network ■evJ Pii-ts of social justice when the issue at stake has ACTION!!! 'S A U B N l' :t and immediate consequences and ► Pasefika Youth Society (Inc.) lications affecting their circumstances, )- 0 NÊ U TÊ COLLECTIVELY, PACIFIC ISLANDS ► Overseas Students Collective, and e p sionally, one senses an under-current of other projects here on campus. YOUNG PEOPLE ’CAM'S. PAAŪ ithy for other fellow Pacific Islanders, flow i this group. JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM Artists on Air June 22 4am f.lu « u a « n 9 pulso is reinf°fced. varied and decorated freely throughout the light of day Any number of drummers and all manner of drums and access

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an S h ip g o o d , is artist in re 1 be found in ■ Rec Centre e ur of N ew Zea is f r o m Rotorua, wh< 116 h e w a s a nin the P a k e h a e t introduction r mcle's g a r a g e , iataiaha (wea| I group he Wc e wood and in ! eared. This year’s event - 4 am (NZ) time on Saturday June 22 - marks the 4th global hile later he fo i radio event in real time, as part of ‘Solar Plexus’, the annual dawn to dusk solstice Course heli drumming event in Maungawhau crater (Mt Eden), - Auckland’s largest natural and w a s o m sound parabola. (73 applicants, Campus Radio BFM will be broadcasting the event live as it happening from New send of 1982 Lr York City, Manhattan Island, the Medieval City of Ghent in Belgium and Auckland aworksoutof City in the South. Pacific. w i not to sell, ( t of m o n e y ), b u t will really The International Radio Solstice Celebration is co­ commission from the city of Ghent to de„ i has q u ite a f e ordinated in New York by Charlie Morrow, an event com position for the tow n carillion as part of the*] A t the bottom of the crater its another worfd ... , him on display maker associated with New Wilderness, an Solstice radio event. The carillion town You couid be on another planet, especially when sandakoauau ( organisation that fosters and prom otes the interfacing consisting of 52 bells, is one of the everyone's drumming and there's nothing to remind aditionally us< of traditional and contem porary audio and performing instrum ents i ever m ade in hum an history. Its l, you of the city anymore. on. M o s t o f 1 arts, events and rituals. and oldest bell - the giant Roland - w as cast in 13 in b e e f be The impressive sounds of the carillion will be heard symbolise freedom and autonom y from the tyr r than the tradi in surprising new ways. The bells will be 1 is hard to g et unconventionally activated, and the vibrations and H ere in Auckland, w h e re S o ls tic e event nyone caughi gentle reverberations picked up by transducers and P le x u s ' h a s b e e n c e le b r a te d a n n u a lly in Maunga can r e c e iv e amplified for transmission across Europe, New York Crater since 1971 as a large scale collective, . A small p ie c State and Auckland City. The Logos Duocomposition coordinated by Phil Dadson of F r o m Scratch, to 2 w e e k s t o is dedicated to the sun as part of the European M usic years celebration will feature the Harmonica 1 c re a te Ian Year and will be broadcast by Belgian Radio across H arm onium and Soloists, vocal chorus and drun ij is they m a k e Europe as a part of the Solstice Radio event. A n ensem ble of around 30 participants will bro 1 himself an d direct out of Campus BFM studios and con hands o v e r t spaces (possibly the Quad). 5 of the w o r k , In New York, Wendy Chambers, a A score plan for the 3 location radio link has I an's M a o r i b composer/performer has devised a score for a 30 designed this year by Phil D adson but he is dubic nt feature of strong Trumpet orchestra. The New York event is to how strictly it will be adhered to. ‘The event i 1 who created relayed to Charlie Morrows W est End Ave recording of spontaneity and surprises - some compk th e ir w o r Studio, the mixing centre for signals received from unexpected... and in some w ays the more the bettj 1 uses th e ir t e c l downtown M anhattan - twelve oclock midday on June the event then takes on a truly real tim e atmosph / remember the time when radio contact around ntemporary \ 21st (New York time) - Ghent ( 6 pm, June 21st) and live radio comm unication.’ the world was scheduled for midday and 12.05 there I good w ay of Auckland ( 4am, June 22nd). The three locations are , in N e w Z e a l received and mixed live and returned to participating was still no signal and the technicians were pulling ... unately Logar locations for sim ultaneous live broadcast. their hair ou t and suddenly an American voice cut through the confusion.. 'Are you there M t Eden, Tune in the Campus BFM at 4am on 1 Z ealand er's d< 3 towards M ai In Ghent, Belgium , the Logos Duo, Moniek Darge come in M t Eden' .. and everyone started drumming Saturday the 22nd...and later celebrate i 1 it is still se en a: furiously.' and Godfried-Willem Raes, have received a day, drumming from crack of dawn to k up on a sh elf ir croak of dusk in Maungawhau crater. n o t w a r n cial s c e n e his w o r k IS JOE DOLE HOME MORE/SON'S LO/VO LOST Sf/SSJA/O COOS/// ? IF NOT, WHY HOT =? THEY MADE ME ! to see and .MAKE /I VIRTUE THE STORY IS THAT M R THREE OF US BE 9AN a n d what n m ass p r o d SLOTH " THEY W A D I DOES h E ^A M W ORK JOQTTHEK QVTT/NC, / 7 ^ 5 BRUCE ON ot m e a n t o 1 a living, he THE CAME ^ HERE AT THE INLAND ON A PE.P. S C H E M E . s t r e e t m i ship and cc ON SATURDAY / } R B V E N U E 3 D AYS A ty . YOU'D T H IN K H E 'D W E OP WORK 5/7 and to go 1 ------^ TODAY t TOLD HIM TO H E E L IONS ? nment w ork s< ,1 T H A T A t i e /5 C O M P ' I YEAH. 0 PAPER - 1 it easy to gai r ULSQRY ATTIRE. HE ft " ■'A A ^RUSHERS EQUI/IL tion as a cai /♦". . * e x c e p t io n ant to Assembly lit, it doesn't rm f i r UNE WORK'S HE you have to CALLED IT, . ere in the A rt f people in Nev\ P/\ that he's do 1^ ,: u n r e c o g r 1 has been li P i et Shields, I nt for quite A L O T i'J > m a d e it p o K N O W A B O U T o w n m u l J O E D O L E LA. & IT to o p e n o . As m any p I & 1 have been

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BAN s h ip g o o d because besides wanting the here, but as he says, what better place made me wonder just how good or tin Residence Auckland recognition, Logan is hoping to go to to go than the country where they well known you have to be before the Art School in Florence next year and it have a long tradition of this art? So public accepts your art as bonefide ! to 21 J u n e is only people who have access to large now he just awaits word from Italy, here in N.Z. entre Foyer amounts of money who can sponsor and any kind offers of sponsorship. On arrival one is greeted by a larger- him or make scholarships available for What of his future? Logan will than-life size portrait of Andrea painted an Shipgood, a New Zealand his tuition overseas. definitely return from his overseas by Kathy Erickson. She exhibits 6 I, is artist in residence this year One large work will feature in the travels - and hopes to be able to teach portraits and all demonstrate her i be found in the upstairs foyer exhibition which Logan is to gift to the anyone interested with his new found genuine talent. Kathy's use of Rec Centre as part of his 12 Beehive. This is a two tonne sculpture skills. However, he's a man who is very watercolours is caring and sensitive to jr of New Zealand universities. made out of a 3 tonne block of sociable, likes to do lots of different her subject especially the portrait of is from Whakarewarewa sandstone from Oamaru. Logan things and doesn't want to restrict his Pam (which has a striking resemblance Rotorua, where from an early became aware it was sitting around in future to what he's doing now. He'd to our own Craccum 's Pam). The faces 16 he was a penny diver after Wellington. He was given the use of like to try fashion design, T.V. work, are all so real, so sensuous, as well as ithe Pakeha education system. the stone and for 6 weeks carved out and last year he made a short proud and defiant. She has portrayed 1 introduction to carving came He Tangata, Ha Tangata, He Taniwha, documentary film. There's a lot he w o m e n w h o are women, and in the mcle's garage. Logan needed to H e Taniwha on public view at the wants to do with his life, and even portraits of Maryanne (I, II, III) h e r u se taiaha (weapon) for a Maori Coastlands Mall in Paraparaumu. He though he may have failed in our of red, green, or blue hair does not I group he was in so he found has photos of this jrk in the Rec Pakeha education system, there are a detract from Maryanne's fierce ood and in 2 weeks a taiaha Centre. It really looks powerful. Logan lot of avenues open to him in his independence and beauty. reared. likes to include politics in his art and fu tu re . Gregory O'Brian uses stark matt hile later he found out about the this piece demonstrates his feelings So go up and see Logan have a chat, acrylics and his / never lived at Berowra Course held in Wellington, about today's society. It shows two buy him a drink - he's looking forward H om age to Margaret Preston (an and was one of 16 accepted taniwha wrapped around and grabbing to discovering Auckland while he's Australian painter and champion at f 73 applicants. Tw o years later, each other, representing oppression, here - and hoping that students will aboriginal art forms) struck us as his send of 1982 Loaan creates small power, greed - everything that Logan show an interest in what he's doing. best work. He is imaginative, using •works out of bone and ivory, eooc in tnriav's society. He says you Don't miss it - it's really beautiful work. aboriginal designs and simplistic forms j not to sell, (unless he's really can t get away from politics in art, and on the uneven canvas to portray his t°of money), but for people w hom for him art is a good medium to messages. Faith Adams exhibits a will really appreciate them. express politics. collection of etchings, all of excellent i has quite a few of these pieces His plans for work in Italy is to move YOUTH EXPRESS quality displaying static geametric \ him on display including trinket into realism, to carve the human figure forms, with Japanese titles. The _and a koauau (bone flute) which - it's a step forward he says for himself An Auckland Arts Centre Director's etchings are perfect - her work exudes ("traditionally u s e d fo r la m e n t o r rather than for Maori Art. He wants to Network touring exhibition Youth a sense of delicate beauty. ition. Most of the smaller pieces rather than for Maori art. He wants to Express opened this week at the Anne Hill's large canvas murals are ekes in beef bone or deer antler Maori ancestors (as they were, say, Uxbridge Centre in Howick as part of painted in muted mixed tones. It took a r than the traditional w hale ivory 2 0 0 yrs ago, rather than do traditional the International Year of the Youth while to feel comfortable with this i is hard to get (besides the fact meeting house carvings), the same 1985. media, some of the pieces being so nyone caught interfering with way you see European's sculptures of The exhibition features 7 artists and large and dominating, yet even though can receive a fine of up to their early ancestors. There is no one surprise surprise 6 of these are wom en. her style is fairly uniform each one has )). A small p ie c e m a y ta k e L o g a n to help Logan with that sort of thing The work is of a high standard and a separate quality. yto 2 weeks to com plete. Logan Emma Wild exhibits pastels and _Ho create larger works (out of photographic works, incorporating ijasthey make it easier for him to very effective use of shimself an d o n lo o k e rs c a n ru n xerox/photographic collage and hands over them gaining the coloured pencil. Her photograph 3 of the w o rk. # ■ K 'Neopolitan' is a great advertisement an's Maori background is an for Mercer cheese - what fabulous > nt feature of his work. Like his looking cheeses! In contrast to these i who created the art of carving artists, Avril Harris doesn't seem to their world as it was then, have developed her technique to such i uses their techniques to express a high standard, I felt no attraction at ntemporary world. Carving is all to her framed working sketches and i good way of making his culture although her free forms of 'Stacked ti, in New Zealand and overseas, Manuka' and other mixed media were unately Logan fe e ls th a t m o s t 1 i = 1 innovative enough she has some time Zealander's don't have a good to go before she develops her style. . 3 towards Maori art. For a lot i Lastly, Jenny Dolezel strikes again. I it is still seen as som ething tacky, , x * k You may have come across her works i * X i (up on a shelf in a souvenir shop, before, especially Looking at Pictures (does not want to get into the (a photographic screen print using 1 1 1 w i cial scene - it would not i H bright pink and yellow). Jenny likes to his w o rk . H e c a rv e s fo r ■ emphasise unusual hair styles or odd # J ® : ! to see and appreciate his art, • ■ side profiles in her screen prints and mass produced scales. This . meticulous etchings. I liked K n o w Your m ^ s '' jpiot mean to say that he can't • J Personality By the Shape of Your Head ia living, he manages to gain (unfortunately I couldn't work mine ship and c o m m is s io n s fo r his out) and her excellent woodcut and to go on the occasional B a th n ig h t that emphasises the nment w o rk s c h e m e , childhood dread of bathtime. easy to g ain a c c e p ta n c e a n d Youth Express emphasise the large nition as a carver? For as Logan amount of talent that is contained in , it doesn't matter how good you the 'unknowns' of the NZ art scene have to be known to get today. I only hope that our young i in the Art world. There are a artists don't have to wait until they're 3ple in N e w Z e a la n d d o in g th e old or dead before art buyers are at he's d o in g , b u t th e y a re prepared to buy or appreciate their i, unrecognised, work - for some of them I'd dare to say has been lucky in this area, as demonstrate more of a sense of talent et Shields, MP has recognised than a number of our older artists that nt for quite a while, and now we revere right now. And at last here is made it possible for Logan to an exhibition that is not frightened to own multi-media exhibition i, 'M exhibit mainly women's works - this to open on June 27th at the must be a first! As many prominent figures as L o v e ,, ! have been invited - and this is Colly W obble JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 5 Logan Shipgood how any band can be allowed to retain lives. One really neat moment in. their earlier credibility w ith lyrics like - video is showing the kids of lesbian! 'I know, you know, you believe in the mothers talking amongst thems..., you w a n t MUSIC ard, doesn't it? land of love' about how they feel about lesbianisn is really quite amazing, and all praise w hat they think of their mum's lover'] t the thing th a t must be alloted to the people who a n d h o w th e ir s c h o o l frien d s react to i at have th e y g MEAT IS MURDER market New Order, ie themselves, for all! have th e y c in N ew Zea T h e S m ith s pulling off one of the great recent rock The video also shows lesbian! rip o ffs . Perfect Kiss is nothing new, women learning self-defence which ( done to est< Blatent vegetarianism references different or even interesting, but it is as one woman said 'just another ^ sion industry i aside, most of this album is quite New Order, and the formula continues of gaining control in my life.' A Bit er all! stunning. Previous releases by The in all it's senselessness, making the lesbian woman talks about the trip money isn't Sm iths have been inconsistantly good most of that indefinable quality which oppression she faces, but as the vid ask the Bea No ambition with tendancies to relying on standard attracts people to this band. For that I producers themselves have rock riffs for songs (checkout This suppose they deserve all the money acknowledged, the video is prima. Charming Man) b u t o n Meat is Murder and fame they haven't yet managed to focused on w hite middle class women. they've finally developed a sound squeeze out of their followers. W hat this video wants to show isi distinctly identifiable as being that of the really neat positive things it me The Smiths. Beautiful vocal phrasing Allan Gunsburg to be a lesbian, despite all the has. with abundancies of acoustic guitars prejudices and shit people heap oni. and lush song arrangements typifying BREWING UP WITH ... So what does lesbianism mean this as one of the strongest released by Billy Bragg us? In Jess Hawk-Oakenstar's a British band this year. Album w o rd s highlight is the epic How soon is now. Music that's both moral and 'IT'S AMAZING!!!' ls no one left But the rest is not far behind it. Buy aesthetic, an album of restrained without being depressing - (which is nent, w ith < this album. brilliance which at times struggles with quite a feat). K. Thomp. to produce goot the limitations of naivety. The brilliance Bragg in fact deals mainly with love, This video will be shown at 1pm ( has T V N Z PERFECT KISS of songs like It Says Here w ith hitting the mark most of the time, Thursday 20th June at Womensp Inside Straii New Order, 12" single a pertinance to our newspapers, (something must have obscured his A discussion will follow if enc ty, Billy T. Jar "where politics mix bingo and tits/in a visio n o n From a Vauxhall Ve/ox), in women are interested. All won blood. Som ec W hy New Order bother to play live money and numbers gam e/ particular St Swithens Day a n d Love w e lc o m e ! to brighten t\ is escapism beyond even the most where they offer you a feature on Gets Dangerous. y are dominated y mediocre of imaginations. Pitiful stockings and suspenders/ Not a bad brew in all, due in part to fuddy d u d d ’ singing and concerts of little over an next to a/ call for stiffer penalties for the number of cooks. accountan hour really stink for the ticket prices, sex offenders.' I who d o n 't k r but for any doubters there is some Restraint is shown in only adding Paul Casserly redemption in the occasional New backing instruments on 2 tra c k s i make no m is t Order recording. (trumpet and organ) so what you get is Years is nothin Perfect Kiss is New Order at it s Bill the Man and his guitar coming to dressing! I most forgetful. It's little more than a terms with the social and personal BREWING UP WITH BILLY BRAGG ny people to < New Order synthesizer sound bed with problems of a working class British le're all too w it a few inane words and some male - he does it well, articulating , We've sat 1 interesting stereo effects. However, memories dragged forth from his past - LESBIANS: AS WE SEE ummer nights

OURSELVES I we be any i another tw e r 7 thought that Lesbians were these ake an even people that lived in Europe' - o n e [fifty? Probe lesbian recalling her former thoughts i reason for I on lesbians.

Prior to 1984, no film or video was available in New Zealand made by or about Lesbian W om en. Early last year THIS WEEK FEATURING some of the Auckland Lesbian HE A Community began work on this video, the first of its kind in N.Z. 50 minutes IN THE COI T U E S 8 p m v lo n g , Lesbians: As We See Ourselves PRIMITIVE ART AcGee is a wide-ranging work - everything GROUP i Theatre 19th from interviewing young lesbians, to $5 students/be showing Circe a lesbian softball team W E D

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you want to hide in the DRAMADILLO ON TOUR cast of professional and amateur actors Micheal and the scene is set for the 3rd, doesn't it? Little Theatre are reviving the play under the impending trial. : the thing that gets me the most Wed 19 - 29th directorship of Murray Lynch who The Caucasian Chalk Circle is at have they got to be proud of? A d u lts $8 , students/beneficiaries $6 , recently directed the Torch Song Trilogy primarily two plays within one another. have th e y d o n e to a d v a n c e children $5. for Theatre Corporate. Tickets are The second internal play is the story of in New Zealand? W hat have Mon 24 students V2 price night available between 1 2 -2 p m a t th e Azak, a drunken scoundrel who is done to estab lish a th riv in g Maidment Booking Office. made Judge in a sham-like fashion iion industry in New Zealand? Dramadillo, for the uninitiated is an after he unwittingly saves the life of the rail! Auckland based touring theatre THE CAUCASIAN CHALK fleeing Grand Duke. money isn't all there is to it. company founded in 1982. It was CIRCLE The two tales converge when ask the Beatles). There's no created to fulfil the needs of the Bv Bertolt Brecht Grusha and Natella are brought before No ambition. TVNZ is stale! 'individual involved to create vital and Theatre Corporate Azdak to determine who is the rightful interesting forms of theatre as well as Director: Roger McGill mother of Micheal. But after much to fill a void in the NZ public for direct, In many ways, Bertolt Brecht is the arguing Azdak cannot make up his immediate theatre. It is a theatre of the father figure of Twentieth Century mind and thus elects to find the proper unexpected! drama. His influence is widespread and mother by means of an old ritual - The The group aims to encompass these the innovations he introduced are now Chalk Circle. Micheal is placed within a ideals by employing techniques and so common that they are often taken chalk circle and Azdak proclaims that ideas which have led to labels such as for granted, such as the sparse sets whoever pulls him out of the circle first 'alternative theatre' and 'pure that Theatre Corporate have used so is the rightful mother. However Grusha theatre.' The group always tries to often to such great affect. The relents because she does not want to concentrate on the people and ideas no one left with insight and Caucasian Chalk Circle w a s firs t hurt the child but Azdak gives her rather than the text for their nent, w ith a n a lm o s t s e x u a l presented in 1948 but was written by Micheal because she obviously loves productions which are often the result (toproduce good television. Brecht in 1945 and it has lost none of him, unlike Natalia who in the of a long process of teaching and has TVNZ produced lately? its immediacy or relevance in the beginning left him behind but took her learning from each member of the Inside Straight, MacPhail St current production. best dresses. Brecht asserts that things company. As a result they have f, Billy T. Jam es. TVNZ needs Brecht founded the movement of should go to those who can make the developed skills incorporating mask, blood. Someone like Vincent Epic Theatre. He believed that the best use of them, this applies to the dance, acrobatics, mime and to brighten things up. Instead audience should not be emotionally Russian peasants' fields as well as improvisation. Major shows in this iare dominated year in, year out by involved in the play - that they and the M ic h e a l. tradition included The R aven a n d M r fuddy d u d d y s , g e r ia c tr ic s , actors should be kept at a distance. As usual with Corporate the acting Fingers Apocalypse Circus. accountants, civil servants. Thus he set up barriers between the and commitment was virtually These shows were all well received ! who d o n 't k n o w a th in g a b o u t two because he believed that the flawless. So I don't want to single out and headed by reviewers as statements playwrite did not have the right to any one actor because they all gave of 'physical commitment laced with make no mistake. This Twenty impose their opinions on the 'helpless' their best and stood out. But apart comedy' and 'an imaginative, original, (Years is nothing but sales hype, audience. (Literature is, after all, a very from those already mentioned, some total theatre.' The talent of the group dressing! Not that I expect persuasive medium). However, his who deserve credit include Harry has been recognised by the QEII arts ny people to get sucked in by it tactics tend to backfire. The audience Sinclair, (Kazbeki, the Fat Prince and council which is funding three major i're all too wise to their bullshit finds itself being drawn in to the the drunken monk) Edward Newborn projects of the group. Dramadillo on (The Princes nephew amongst others) v, We've sat through too many emotional dilemmas of characters like Tour is the second of these and l summer nights with nothing on Grusha like nails to a magnet. and Kenneth Prebble (Various 'old comprises the two talented The Caucasian Chalk Circle is b a s e d peasant/innkeeper' roles). performer/directors Juliet Monaghan I we be any further down the on an old Chinese fable about justice. Theatre Corporate are to be and Nick Blane. Juliette has a BSc in I'm another tw enty five years? W ill It is presented through the device of a commended for their very effective use Economics and has studied in a ake an even bigger fuss about folk singer, Arkadi Cheidze (Micheal of their limited resources and even diploma of drama. She has also ! fifty? P ro b a b ly ! W e ll, th a t's Hurst) who tells the tale of two groups more limited space. Somehow such worked extensively in television and ireason for having the bom b. of Russian villagers who argue over limitations seem to lead to inspiration theatre as a director, which has used and John Parker's designs work Stephen Jewell land. 'Can it not be shortened?' Asks her training in music, drama, classical the Expert from Moscow (John wonders. The all important music is and modern dance as well as mime and sharp and finely textured. Watson) who has a pressing aerobatics. Nick has a diploma of fine commitment in the city. 'No', ls the Musicians Elizabeth O'Connor, Brett arts in stage design and painting. He barefaced reply 'It will take a few Morris, Miles Taylor, David Aston and also has worked extensively in theatre hours.' See this as a warning to the the Company deserve congratulations EATRE both in the community and electronic audience. The tale is about a peasant for a fine performance. media. His experience also includes 2 IN THE COLD girl, Grusha (Alison Bruce) who The Caucasian Chalk Circle is o n th e years of study in Paris which he puts to programme of 18.101 (Introduction to j McGee abducts the heir to the throne after an use as a University drama tutor. Twentieth Century Drama) this year i Theatre 19th June - 30th uprising forces the Governor and his Together they have put together and it would be invaluable to any such i students/beneficiaries wife, Natella Abashvilli to flee the Dramadillo on Tour which consists of a capital. Grusha is hunted down by the students to see the play live. For range of acts divided into two parts - Brecht does tend to come across end of a freezing works town Ironshirts (Miles Taylor, Ross the first 4 skits and the second explores rather dry in the text and it takes a fine ping tour o f O ut in the Cold w ill b e a McKellar) and is forced into marrying a myths - products of collective performance like this one to flesh it ; of performance here in Auckland, supposedly dying man, Yussup (Simon imagination. The source of this piece is out. And even if you don't take this r has received full houses and rave Prast) who makes a 'miraculous' the myth of Eros and Psyche. paper, go anyway. For New Zealand s, and according to the Union recovery when he discovers that the For a dose of theatre that can theatre needs your support. W e have atWhaketu 'it's funny'. He also war is over. Thus Grusha is placed in a amuse, stun, surprise and exhilarate an extremely high standard in this nted that although it caught the terrible dilemma when her former don't miss Dramadillo. country, especially considering some sre of the freezing work's floor Peter Chapman fiancee, Simon Chachava returns from of the circumstances, and theatres workers didn't 'swear that EQUUS the war and on top of this, the need your custom if they are to thrive. fig m u c h . by Peter Shaffer Ironshirts captures Grusha and young play concerns a solo mum who Maidment Theatre 19-29 June, 8 p m Stephen Jewell i to get a job at the freezing works i enough money to buy a car. She Peter Shaffer's worldwide success with herself as a young male Amadeus, has almost eclipsed the earlier receives a job, and then has to success of his play Equus inspired by a vith Stawberry - an archetypal NZ real life case. The play examines the )n. And that's enough to whet primal forces within us and questions our etite. standards of normality. cast are all very experienced and The main plot concerns the conflict worked with Theatre Corporate. between Alan Strang, a boy who blinded flcGee has m a n a g e d to c a p tu re th e six horses and his psychiatrist, Martin xities and unpleasantness of the Dysart. Using various ruses, Dysart nale within the framework of reveals that Alan has developed a private sion and comedy. The female cult with the horse as its godhead. W hen works mainly due to the energy Dysart's detective work unravels the McIntosh as the text is often full conflicts in Alan's life, he is faced with the jes of information - a bit like the dangers of destroying Alan's deep seated »rs in Tooth and Claw. F o r th e beliefs without having any replacement to of the real N Z a n d a fin e o ffe r. jnce don't miss Out in the Cold It is 10 years since Equus was produced in Auckland. Now Theatre Workshop, a

Megan Edwards and Simon Prast (Doctors) in Caucasian Chaulk Circle JUNE 181985 CRACCUM ^7 Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays The Greenpeac l-tfb itlE h FEAR HOMOSEXUALS, NOR ARE Oti arrior’, has CHILDREN THREATENED BY THEM. Dated the pc J in the Mar A further m yth that the opponents to the ] ^ home 150 kn Hug perpetrate is that if the Bill is pa jEbadon Island HUG was the inspiration of Stephen Jacobs. He homosexuality will run rife. It is not sometl Rongelap was took the initiative in setting up this organization that can be bought at the superm arket or caug ation from b< several weeks ago because he resented the m assive the schoolyard. We should not be asking wo | and 1958 an attack being mounted by right-wing Christian and men to deny their sexuality on the basis t had to turn groups upon homosexuals. The first two meetings .J U iJ i- l c h i l o £ m ravings of a hysterical group. them to me were publicized by word of mouth and It is vital for all supporters of hum an rightsj nuing delays approximately 50 people attended the second ispeak out. To remain silent is to condone | athorities. I meeting. It became evident that there were many victimization of 300,000 women and iounting to $U supporters of Homosexual Law Reform in the Christians who are not of the Q I this year community, yet these people had no platform to fundam entalist ilk should speak out against] I well as for a r voice their support. HUG was formed to fill this fundamentalists who have been successful in un-christian views and behaviour of Keith Hay ondition that role. It’s name was specifically chosen to point out seizing media attention. They are highly organized his gang. Anti-tour supporters who are keen] nation with that it is not just a two faction concern: ie and m otivated in their fanatical belief that they are obtaining human rights for black South Af agreed to heterosexuals versus homosexuals. Keith H ay and the moral guardians of the New Zealand family. should look in their own back yards as nds people, his followers do not speak for the heterosexual Their view of the family is rigidly defined and they W omen need to be vocal, too. W e should reco npact is a clai community - rather they speak for the lunatic believe in returning this institution back to the the privileges accorded to us as heterosexua \ Marshall Isli fringe who are busy disseminating lies and ‘straightjacket’ - a patriarchal head of the fight for the right of every woman to have I i sue over the misinformation to the uninform ed public. household ruling suprem e where the women clearly privileges. If the bill is defeated, the Cl j of blackmai HUG supporters feel very strongly that the know their place, and where sexuality should be fundam entalists will w ithout a doubt turn I at the islande whole issue centres around human rights. It is treated with caution and only allowed expression attack to women’s issues, like abortion, r with over t quite simple - 1 0 % of our society are being between married couples, preferably for crusading zeal will be harder to check. rticle below poi deprived of their human rights. This society proceation. This is not the sort of family the Thus, ensuring that all New Zealanders ac, refuses to acknowledge the existence of Lesbian m ajority of New Zealanders want. basic hum an rights is the chief aim of HUG j Nuclear G u in e a women. As an invisible group they are oppressed These defenders of the family fail to point out recognise that we cannot m uster the econoi by the heterosexual community. The constant that the nuclear family, where it exists in NZ, has resources of the anti-HLR campaigners, : On March 1, 1? strain of having to hide their lifestyle, doubtless harboured incest, rape within marriage, and wife obtaining maximum publicity to counter the I ded a 15 megal i ‘Bravo’, at Bi battering. This institution has ensured that these put forth by opponents of the HLR, places unnecessary stress upon these women. If ‘Bravo’ wa they refuse to ‘hide’ they are liable to verbal abuse, problems were able to continue under ‘a conspiracy supporters hope to help achieve the passage i ded by the US physical attack by our macho upholders of of silence’. These m oral guardians also do not point bill, without amendment. Our energies will | _ j on Bikini in 1 sexuality, and victimization by landlords, out that it is heterosexual men who rape women poured into certain key areas. HUG’s camp * 0 megatons. Altc | nuclear bombs in and commit child molestation. To claim, as they strategy will be outlined at our first public me employers and other bureaucracies. The picture is Enewetak in much the same for Gay men except that their do, that homosexuals can’t w ait to get their eager to be held at New Vision Gallery, His Maje en 1946 and 1 existence is acknowledged. hands on children is to completely disregard the Arcade, June 18, 7.30pm for Homosexual iergy report ac The major group advocating the denial of hum an facts. Many HUG supporters are parents and as Reform supporters only. in the north liate range f such, we wish to loudly proclaim that W E DO NOT HUG can be contacted at PO Box 6 8 rights to homosexuals are the Christian _e megaton range t< Newton. A ,. \ The inhabitants i A thinal _e evacuated fron I the nuclear test fallout lap, Utirik an p Marshalls were HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE FLATMATES w exposed to higl o' test, as weh i previous and This week we’re having a couple of quick, easy, llese believi filling dinners that are reasonably cheap too. Both 1 as 'guinea pig these dishes should be served with a green 3 accidental, vegetable or salad. t in the winds’.

In 1982, a forr i made public t Bernard’s Mum’s Fish Pie orities had of to the test Boil up a whole lot of rice according to the _ 1 inhabited is directions on the packet (but leave enough room to irican weather r Atoll, jus get out of the kitchen - remember rice doubles in time of the size when it’s cooked). Put it in a baking dish or ‘The x casserole. Open a tin or two of fish-tinned smoked ht at us for d fish fillets are good, or the real stuff (flaked and ^ straight a ^ht at us after deboned) if you’re rich - and spread it on top of the The inhabitant rice. abited islands t Now, make a white sauce. r explosions M elt about a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan - , the tests wer > they told wh, don’t burn it - and quickly stir in a couple of e in case of expc f c i tablespoons of flour. Stir vigorously for 20 seconds he fallout fror or so and then add slowly a bit less than half a pint ople on Eon of milk - keep stirring until it’s sm ooth and thick. of Bikini, wi Althov Add some curry powder, grated cheese and of the fallo npt to evacu pepper and stir until it’s all mixed in. Pour the i than 48 horn sauce over the fish. Top with grated cheese, e evacuated to buttered breadcrumbs, sliced tomatoes or test, howev anything you like and heat in a hot oven for half an el were sei _j radiation r hour or so. 1 the islanders Serves 4 or more. n h 20 minutes 1 as to how from the Potato Kugele « ». utions coulc radiation bi Fry 4 rashers of bacon or the equivalent in bacon l later. It has been e bits until crisp and crumble or dice it. G rate the received d raw potatoes and roll them in a tea towel to dry. although ir Mix quickly with the bacon, a chopped onion, 2 have sugges beaten eggs, 2 tbsp flour, salt and pepper. Put it i higher than symptc into a shallow casserole greased with the bacon nausea, fat. Bake for an hour at 180°C until the top is i burning of th< b r o w n a n d c r u s ty . 1 from skii S e r v e s 4. , and lost n 8 ► CRACCUM JUNE 18 1985 MARSHALL ISLANDS EVACUATION

The Greenpeace boat, ‘Rainbow ,rrior\ has successfully nated the people of Rongelap J in the Marshall Islands to a , home 150 km to the southeast lEbadon Island. ongelap was contaminated by ation from bomb tests between I and 1958 and the people there had to turn to Greenpeace to - v | f c them to move in the face of ______..- > V - , , jtinuing delays on the part of US -'fry " ’ thorities. Finally, grants unting to $US 3.5 million were i this year to help them shift, I well as for a radiological survey, than possible that they were in fact British navy personel who were ondition that a compact of free used as guinea pigs during the bomb ordered to stand on deck wearing Roi Namur atoll where radar ciation with the United States tests and their health was of concern ‘antiradiation suits’ during the equipment used in the Star Wars , agreed to by the Marshall to the US authorities only in so far Christmas Island bomb tests. programme was painted with peace a jds people. Contained in this as the health of guinea pigs is of Allegations of handicapped people slogans by the crew. Previous to re npact is a clause which deprives interest to the scientists and of Aborigines being similarly that, Rainbow Warrior called at the j Marshall Islanders of the right experimenting with some new treated at the Woomera test site in Kwajalein Atoll where the US fires I gue over the nuclear tests. This poison. In recent years similar Australia have also been made. its MX test missiles. Greenpeace j of blackmail is not the worst of instances of people being used have The latest news we have of left a banner, it read; WE CAN’T at the islanders have had to put emerged, from testimony by soldiers Rainbow Warrior is that it is on its EVACUATE THE WHOLE with over the years. As the in the Nevada tests in the fifties and way now to Kiribati after calling at WORLD — STOP ‘STAR WARS’. tide below points out it is more

Nuclear Guinea Pigs? weeks. Since 1954, these people have suffered of the northern Marshalls conducted by the • Shortly after the people of Rongelap were high rates of thyroid cancer, leukemia, US revealed high levels of residual radiation axposed to high levels of radioactivity from stillbirths, miscarriages, and children have on Rongelap atoll - in some places even higher the Bravo test in 1954, Brookhaven National March 1, 1954, the United States been bom deformed of retarded. than at Bikini itself! Residents were advised Laboratory began a monitoring program to ded a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb, code • The Rongelap people were returned to their that the northern islands in their atoll, which track the effects of the fallout on the people. 1 ‘Bravo’, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall islands in 1957, in spite of the fact that then- they had been using regularly for gathering At the beginning of the program one of the ‘Bravo’ was the largest bomb ever islands had been continually dosed with food, were too radioactive to be visited. They scientists stated that ‘the habitation of these ded by the US, although other bombs fallout from nuclear tests during then- were advised of this unfortunate fact 22 people on the island will afford most valuable j on pikini in 1954 yielded 6, 9, 11, and absence. No ‘cleanup’ of radiation was ever YEARS AFTER THEY HAD BEEN ecological radiation data on human beings.’ j megatons. Altogether, the US exploded conducted, unlike at Enewetak, where the US RETURNED TO THEIR ISLANDS WITH The Rongelap people are convince they have | nuclear bombs in the atmosphere at Bikini government spent millions on clean-up ASSURANCES THAT THERE WAS NO been used as ‘guinea pigs’ by American Enewetak in the Marshall Islands operations. In 1979, an aerial radiation study DANGER FROM RADIATION. scientists. The ‘monitoring’ program _„oen 1946 and 1958. A 1978 Department conducted by Brookhaven continues today, I Energy report admitted that 14 different Eniwetok Bikini but the people are given no real medical help in the northern Marshalls ‘received J T f ^Rongerik ^ utirik of advice as to what has actually happened to diate range fallout from one or more of them. The health examinations appear to be e megaton range tests. ’ more for the benefit of American scientists ae inhabitants of Bikini and Enewatak Wotho ! Likiep 4 Ailuk than for the Marshallese who continue to i evacuated from their island homes prior % suffer from the effects of radiation exposure. j*lhe nuclear tests to avoid exposure to MARSHALL » Wotje This perception has been strongly reinforced ictive fallout. The inhabitants of ISLANDS -Maloelap by the attitude of the scientists who have lap, Utirik and other northern atolls in been studying them. I Marshalls were not so fortunate. They Lagoon joposed to high doses of fallout from the Today, the people of Rongelap feel that then- ivo’ test, as well as unmeasured amounts return home in 1957 was premature, and that i previous and subsequent tests. Many ^ C hi\Majuro Ailinglapalap sails ^ ^ their islands should have been ahallese believe the Rongelapese were decontaminated before they were permitted to 1 as ‘guinea pigs’ to study the effects of from return. They love their islands, but they love --- WWit/m human populations. The AUSTRALIA Jaiuit^, here ^ „„a accidental, causeu u f ai. —r , — their children even more, and have taken the t in the winds’. The facts tell a different. decision to try and find some other atoll in the Marshalls to live on. In 1982, a formerly classified document from ‘Greenpeace ’. made public that stated that test site Since World War II, Micronesm — orities had official confirmation hours FROM THE DIARY OF BILLIET EDMOND, administered by the US under a United to the test that winds were blowing SCHOOLTEACHER ON RONGELAP DURING THE “BRAVO” TEST Nations Mandate called a ‘strategic trust’. , J inhabited islands to the east. A senior The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands rican weather technician stationed on March 1, 1954 includes the Marshall Islands and the i __i Atoll, just to the east of Rongelap at At about 4:00 in the morning, I got up and started home. Even the children who were accompanying me Federated States of Micronesia. Under this time of the test had the following cleaning ... it was between five and six o'clock when on the way were playing with it They ran through is, and mandate, the US is given strategic control the first flash w a s noted. Unfortunately, from all that they tried to catch it as if to see who could collect the ait: ‘The wind had been blowing overwhelming and most frightening event, I w a s com ­ m o s t.. . and military use of Micronesia, and is obliged: ht at us for days before the test. It was pletely oblivious of my surrounding, and I couldn't even As we approached the dim foggy sunset - it was (1) to protect the inhabitants against the ig straight at us during the test, and think to look at my watch. Neither did I care whether about six o’clock - the once innocent and unviolent loss of their lands and resources; falling ashes took effect on the islanders in a sudden IT.cht at us after it. The wind never shifted’. I had one at the moment. (2) to protect their health; The magistrate also joined me and my family to ob­ and most suffering way. An unusually irritating itching The inhabitants of Rongelap and other serve that frightening but impressive episode. The punished the islanders in a most agonizing situation (3) to promote the economic advancement labited islands that were downwind of the lightning and its illumination did not last long, although Grownups were too old to have cried, but the kids were and self-sufficiency of the region; and it lasted longer than any natural lightning I have ever violently crying, scratching, and more scratching: explosions on Bikini were not warned kicking, twisting and more, but nothing could we do. My (4) to guide the territory towards ; the tests were going to take place, nor experienced in my life. Soon, an even more agonizing independence or self-government. episode burst out in place of the former. As the one-year old son was worse than everyone else, at least t they told what precautions they should lightning faded out, a huge and fiery-sunlike object that was what I thought. Of the eleven UN Trusteeships created after e in case of exposure to radioactive fallout rose up in the western part of the lagoon. It was a sun M arch 2, 1954 for It was round, but it w a s much bigger than our sun. It he fallout from ‘bravo’ began to land on March 2nd, 1954 w a s more pleasant. At least it was world War II, Micronesia was the only was a sun fo r it was illum inating and giving o ff heat like ‘strategic’ trust and it is the only one that people on Rongelap, which lies 100 miles the sun, yet its intense heat was far greater and not as dreadful as the preceding day . . . school was of Bikini, within four "hours after the invincible, and much brighter, which left every islander called off, and almost all the island’s organized activ­ remains a trust today, Micronesia seems ities came to a complete halt at about nine o clock, I sion. Although American authorities aghast. beaded for a permanent economic dependence As the terrible fireball completely rose above the had a funny feeling - nausea. It was mild, but steady, , of the fallout pattern, they made no and after a while all food and water I tried to consume of the US if the Compact of Free Association western horizon, its upper portion erupted and a passes Congress this year. npt to evacuate the Rongelapese until combination of blended particles spurted out and was bitter. My boy was even worse - he had vomited e than 48 hours after the test, when they upward, burning . . . None of us could move, but quite frequently. His mother was affected with the During the 1940’s and 1950’s, the US spent e evacuated to Kwajalein. On the day after everyone stared at the fireball without a word. In just a same sickness, too... eventually all the islanders were 82.5 billion on its nuclear tests in the Marshall fraction of a second, the queer looking fiery object affected. Along with that, some cases of diarrhea test, however, radiation monitoring developed with the young children and a few elders Islands. 3000 Marshallese have filed lawsuits became a giant mushroom, and then another one, and in US courts seeking $7 billion in damages .jel were sent to Rongelap by seaplane then another one, and still another grew upon another M arch 3, 1954 , »radiation measurements. They merely the whole atmosphere turned bloody colored, and resulting from those tests. Under the d the islanders not to drink any water, and the heat! The heat was very threatening. It stung and Very early in the morning of March 3, an American Compact of Free Association, the US has warship, a destroyer, made its way through the south 20 minutes later, without offering any burned our exposed skins. I could see some signs affered the nuclear test victims a $150 million of movement as everyone withdrew from the terrible pass into Rongelap’s calm blue lagoon, and headed as to how they might minimize the toward the main village at the main island . trust to settle these claims. In exchange for „ from the radioactive fallout. Such The explosion! Louder than any 100 World War II Through an interpreter, we were told that we were the trust fund, the Marshallese government strongest bombs bursting together at the right time, moving out from our home as immediately as possible. has agreed that its citizens would be barred .utions could have lessened the severe We were under orders not to take anything at all be- radiation burns these people suffered the ever-frightening sound accompanied by a tornado- from seeking further redress in US courts, powered wind swept through our land, twisting coco­ I sides our bodies and our clothes . ■ ■ i later. nut trees, uprooting bushes, smashing windows, Like a military invasion, the evacuation w a s co n ­ 3 ven if the delayed effects of radiation doors and overturning one house. My ten year old ducted in a most dramatic and forceful fashion which axposure cause further cancers and genetic has been estimate that the Rongelap caught the people in a surprising situation Everyone £ received doses of approximately 175 boy w a s knocked down . . . John, the magistrate, my mutations in children; even if radioactive wife still 'clasping our son, and myself were force­ was oblivious of what w a s really happening Everyone aonta ruination cannot be removed from then- , although independent analyses of the fully pushed against the wall. Thatched roofs of most was in a complete state of shock. How could it be i have suggested that it may have been houses were blown out. Fortunately, the Invincible otherwise when they were still afresh with what they islands, water and food chain. Ji higher than that. The Rongelapese had sound and its destructive wind with a hundred mile- had experienced during the past two days? I, for one, ’ Some of , the Marshall Islands have been an-hour speed swiftly passed through . . had seen that flash, I s a w that fireball, I s a w the fiery declared offlimits indefinitely; and delayed the symptoms of severe radiation mushroom, that storm, and I had seen and been . . . at 11:30 the classes were dism issed . . . the affects of radiation exposure are even today e: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, itching students and I went out and were greeted by powder- showered by that fallout. I had seen, and I absorbed oing of the skin, eyes and mouth. They like particles as they began to fall on the land... it did them all. I was, like other islanders were, waiting lor causing cancers and other health problems in J from skin bums over much of their not alarm the islanders whom I met on my way back what would happen next. . ." survivors of the American tests in Micronesia. , and lost much of their hair within two JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 9 ! 'W LESBIAN VISIBI

our own experience and reality to analyse our present condition and our future possibilities. We Lesbian Feminist Politics apply a growing lesbian conciousness to the issues Reclaiming The Past which touch our lives, and the sharing of insights among lesbians leads to a wide ranging body of While men were writing about them Patriarchy is a protection racket in which we knowledge, wisdom, ethics, and ideology. W e are w o m e n a n d w o m e n -lo v in g w o m e n w e re living give up our power to the man in exchange for developing a power resource of self nurturing loving and working and dying. Despite reprr protection from the man. It is a pyram idal system women with a new understanding of power, and restrictions imposed by a male dom' of social constructs in which a father figure at the heterosexism, nurture, communication, and all of society women continued to survive and top has power over those beneath him. It is a larger the institutions which control our lives. their own lives. Sometimes in defiance of s expression of the patriarchal family, in which the There is an inherent imbalance of power in any but m ostly in the shadow of society. children of the mother, and the m other, become the heterosexual relationship, while in a relationship Because of the relative unim portance (to men) property of the father. Allegiance is owed to a big between women a power imbalance is the result of women’s lives much of the evidence we have daddy in the sky, in a palace, in parliam ent, in an different class, race, status, or other institution of women’s lives is in fragm ents; letters and dr executive suite, or the back room. By taking power the patriarchy. In examining these power household accounts, mention in law books over individuals, patriarchy ensures their differences we learn how power operates and how records, county and parish registers alienation from their real work, their real lives, to begin to regain our own. We are taught by occasionally in history texts. their real experience. society that power is power over, a n d s o w e Those women whose stories we can Oppression occurs where one person’s or group’s experience it in the institutions of the family, the together tended to already be privileged by reality seeks to distort another person’s or group’s schools and the communities in which we grow. of economic or social circum stance. Women w reality. Differences between groups or individuals Woman’s place in the power structure is a daily lives were a struggle for survival had _ do not equal oppression, but denying or putting heterosexual privilege-it is determ ined by the men leisure and less freedom. W ith no recognition value judgem ents of differences is oppression. It is she relates to and how she relates to them. As little recompense women made a m the nature of oppression that the oppressor is feminist lesbians we learn that there is a different contribution to society’s productivity. Wo dependent on the oppressed for survival. kind of power, a power resource, which we w e re r e s p o n s ib le fo r th e fe e d in g a n d clothing Heterosexism is an institution of patriarchal experience as we become ourselves-by giving up themselves and their dependents. They tr oppression. It is an ideology which tells us that our places in the power structures of society. We dairy and farm produce for essentials they men and women are naturally attracted to each experience the possibility of a society in which not make and sold their labour in both rural other, are complimentary, and that the only true individuals relate to one another w ithout giving up urban environments. Their wages were a frac expression of sexuality is heterosexuality. It their power resource to someone else’s power over. of m en’s for the sam e work. teaches us that women are incomplete without a The lesbian experience of heterosexism as it Until the 17th century relatively few wo m an and can only live fully in relationship to men. operates to deny our existence, shows us that it is were literate (this applied to the rest of an institution that controls more than our population as well). As a result poor and illite sexuality. Heterosexism, teaches us behaviour women did not leave their own record. With onl patterns that are unrelated to our needs as self­ few exceptions economically underprivih defining, women loving women. It institutionalises women did not speak w ith their own voice until our child bearing and nurturing capacities into industrial revolution. restrictive motherhood, where we become mere It was during war and its immediate after custodians of our children. Heterosexism restricts that women gained snrcp -wmi women o our awareness of possibilities and realities and ^^Uxxicu mil responsibility for the manage patterns our behaviour ir» «os tnan whole and running of their own and their depende liv e lih o o d s . D u r in g th e y e a r s o f th e crusa Our experience of becoming ourselves teaches us women were responsible for business and to begin to think wholistically and in terms of transactions while their husbands, fathers processes, rather than definitive states and sons were absent. In the periods immedia dualities. We recognise that the m entality which afterw ards women often retained this autonomj tells us that our bodies exist to service the a result of population imbalances but this fertilised egg is the same mentality which inevitably followed by periods of repression presumes that the universe exists to service the increased control by a male dom inated society. needs of the industrial world. We recognise that In the M iddle Ages women fought for their i patriarchal power over has turned the emphasis guilds and the right to ply trades. It is Feminism is the recognition that the reality from the verb to the noun-so that leaders become recently that it has become illegal to refuse wo which society describes for women is not the more im portant than leading, art more im portant credit because they are women. Obtair reality which women experience. than creating, medicine more important than economic autonom y was/is one of women’s har Lesbian. A woman who stands outside of society’ h e a lin g . society’s ’ b a ttle s . Our experience of men tells us that they are In the 15th century the few literate wo definition of woman, and gives her primary incapable of experiencing power as anything other pushed for education for women. Christine commitment to women. than power over - that they have a will to dom inate Pisan was one. In pre-industrial Europe wo Consciousness Raising (CR) is a process of which precludes them in taking an active part in fought for wages and food. The bread rioti becoming aware of the assumptions, philosophies the redefinition of hum anity and a restructuring of France before the revolution were worn and values which determine behaviour patterns the world. They appear incapable of a wholistic expression of outrage at the price and scarcit and power relationships. A lesbian conciousness is view of the world and their history of woman-fear their basic commodity. It is also in pre-indusl a pattern of mental functioning developed through and woman hating is visible everywhere and is E u r o p e t h a t e v id e n c e o f w o m e n ’s collec relating to society from a position outside of its increasingly documented in feminist literature. activities emerges; in peasant communities definitions of women. Feminist lesbian How women might ultimately share this planet also in the middle and upper Glasses. It is du conciousness m aintains an awareness of the power with them is a question still open to debate but we this period that evidence of women’s str relationship between men and women in society remember that is is in the nature of oppression that attachm ent to each other for m utual support AND operates on the assumption that women are the oppressor is dependent on the oppressed. emotional fulfilment begins to be documen capable of self sustaining,- self nurturing, self As more and more women reject the patriarchal Mademoiselle de Scudery, a privileged woma determination. lies; as we take back our own power and learn to the 1600s, wrote of love and friendship, rejec Lesbian Feminist politics go far beyond a live on the rim of this self destructive society, it m arriage (an option not available to most wo demand for equal rights for women and an end to becomes clear that feminist lesbians cannot be calling herself Sappho in a hovel of that time. sex role stereotyping, to a vision of and a demand integrated or co-opted into patriarchal society. W e It was not until M ary W ollstonecraft (born 1 ' for an end to patriarchy. They are the true politics will challenge its m yths and power structures and that women’s economic dependence, lack of experience. Feminist lesbians examine our own we will refuse to support and nurture its opportunity and the repressive society were c lives, question and challenge our understanding of corruption. JILL LIVESTRE

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Lesbians of Colour Marching against the Tour it may seem that racism is a distant beast that lives in South Africa, but in fact racism is real and it exists here and now in New Zealand. M ai Ling is a Chinese law student. She is a New Zealand citizen and has been living here for at least ten years. M ai Ling is also a lesbian, the Talking about oppression as a woman, as a coloured woman and as a lesbian may sound rhetorical and turgid, but as Mai Ling points out living w ith oppression is a day to day reality. As a woman I experience injustices of a male- dominated, society, and as a lesbian I also experience injustice in a society in which heterosexuality is the norm. A s a Chinese I also the source of their oppression and recognised as face racism. i, yet like many others M ary W ollstonecraft Like sexism, racism is about power, in childbirth. The suffrage movement which In sexism you have the power a man has over a lved much more than the vote, was the first woman. In racism you have the power one race has that women across social and economic lines over another. The political, economic and social e together to challenge the status quo. power in New Zealand is in white hands and based Lesbian women’s heritage is not just those on white values. So the norm is white and en who can be recognised as Lesbians but all everything else is seen as a deviation from it. nomous women - women who were prepared to Racism is expressed in different ways, in an estion the society in which they existed and go overt form and in a more subtle, covert form. M ai -st social codes to be themselves and Ling has experienced both. Some people block off rmine their own futures. Lesbian heritage is while she is talking to them because of her accent, those women who survived w ithin a repressive others mimic her. In job situations the distinction restrictive environment loving other women, ■ is also apparent. ng some sm all space for them selves. There was an incident recently at the factory where Pink Triangle Publishing Collective. I work. While I was arguing with one of the boys who also works there he turned around and said - W hy don't you go back to your own country. I hate n ip s - then he slanted his eyes with his fingers. People in professional, middle-upperclass positions express prejudice in less blatant forms. For instance, in the search for law jobs, M ai Ling received less job offers than her fellow students, Rather than attem pting to change or regularise even though she has the same qualifications. As lesbian Demands the definition of ‘unfit’ mother to specifically s h e s a y s - exclude lesbianism, it is thought that a test case to set a precedent, will be the best way of achieving You can't discount the fact that Law firms prefer to Four basic demands were formulated by the custody rights. have white people working in the white legal bian Political Action Group which developed s y s te m . the Lesbianism and Feminism Conference 3. Lesbians at Work: We demand an end to More blatant forms of racism expressed by bourne 2 1 February 1976). discrimination against lesbians in the workforce. working-class people, but they only make explicit are: We should be free to be open at work without fear w hat is implicit through the whole of New Zealand End Heterosexism: We demand an end to the of intimidation, rejection or dismissal. society and all its institutions. station that every person will seek out the You look around you, not only is everything Almost all lesbians have to work (being on the other sex for all emotional, sexual and economic dominated by men, and expressions of dole is still part of the workforce) and although it partnerships. heterosexuality, but everyone is white. When you appears to be rare for a lesbian to lose her job turn on the TV, people who announce the news are To quote Charlotte Bunch ‘heterosexuality is an firectly because of her lesbianism , the threat of fear all white, except in specifically M aori program m es tution and an ideology, that all people in of this happening is vey real. The phrase Yet about 20°/o of the population are coloured ety are supposed to adopt and live by. ‘unsuitable for the position’ is usually used as a Generally the only time coloured people appear on Heterosexuality is one of the m ethods of keeping euphemism and needs strong union backing to TV it is in the context of stereotypes. That Apple women in our place and tying us individually to fight. All this results in varying degrees of advertisement for example, with a M r Wong who men and to the system of male suprem acy.’ paranoia which act to keep lesbians as a speaks with a really exaggerated accent. The whole [l Lesbian Mothers: We demand the right to conservative authoritatian group within the w o rk fo rc e . joke is in the accent, and the fact is Chinese people ! bringing up children whilst openly living as don't speak like that lesbians. | It is felt that a women’s trade union, with the specific platform of supporting lesbian rights may To me that feels ju st as unjust as discrimination in Many lesbians hide their lesbianism because of be more effective than attem pting to change the jobs and being told to go back to your own country, threat of fear of losing their children on male dominated unions or infiltration the in the exclusion that you are m ade to feel ' orce. T h is s i tu a t io n m a k e s i t e s s e n tia l t h a t ultraconservative female dominated professional The Lesbian community is not immune to racism bian mothers have the same custody rights as u n io n . either, although Mai Ling has not personally rosexual women. 4. Lesbian Sexuality: We demand that accurate experienced any displays of racism from other It is not considered relevant to this demand information on lesbian sexuality be freely available lesbians. However, being a lesbian does not mean a ther the children of lesbians will become to all women. We demand an end to the treatment woman has got her act together politically. osexual, nor whether lesbians m ake better, the of lesbians as sexual deviants. ‘Lots of lesbians do not sym pathise with Maori e or worse mothers that heterosexual women, people about their loss of land. They can see their ese arguments against lesbians having custody Freely available, accurate inform ation on lesbian oppression as lesbians, but not all of them can see hts, but are value-laden and basically sexuality will probably only appear when lesbians the oppression they inflict on the M aori people.’ esolvable. write it, just as information on women’s The sense of exclusion, the awareness thajt you What is considered as relevant is that in our psychology, sexuality, etc has had to come from are seen as a deviation from the norm, is also ent society, given that the biological parents women. We m ust be prepared to supply accurate present with other lesbians. ve custodial rights over their children until they information when we make this demand, especially ‘As a lesbian, in m any ways I identify with white ch a given age, that lesbians have these rights as heterosexual writers are presenting lexbianism lesbians because we share a common bond in being hout having to conceal their lesbianism . as an alternative life style of the latest thing in lesbians. But at times I feel quite alienated from That we should consider the whole concept of contraceptives for society’s creative women. them because there are fundamental differences hts of parents over children is especially ‘Heterosexuality is a system giving women between us and because they are benefiting from ant if we ever demand that lesbians also be privilege by staying with a man.’’ (Vashti's Voice the white system .’ en rights of adoption. This issue and the related N o . 14). M aori people, Polynesian people, Asian people, of artificial insemination, while they have We are demanding an end to this system of live with this sense of exclusion and alienation cular relevance to lesbians are seen as maintaining male supremacy and demanding that every day in New Zealand. Lesbians are not only ds affecting all women outside a Christian heterosexual women and lesbians withdraw their excluded they are also unacknowledged. You do ~ge s itu a tio n . support from the institution. not have to look to South Africa to see oppression, L iz R o s s look at your own feet and see who you are standing o n . Lisa Sabbage

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The paintings themselves are not especially interesting. Landscapes, composed and coloured in a way that is obviously Eupropean-French rather than English or Italian. Amid the general blandness the occasional effect is charming rather than POLITICS OF P striking: the repeated structuring of colour in tonal layers rather than in more emphatic contrasts. The colours themselves are certainly 19th century- luxurious and over-stated/ sometines achieving everyone has as much of a past as anyone else) but W hen that twisted, torm ented, egotistical! tastelessness but more often stopping just short. an excess of prejudice - the prejudice of the empire- Edw ard Gibbon WEikefield, originally propo The composition is likewise characteristic of the builders as to what may and may not constitute settlem ent of New Zealand, one of the first sL place and time, utterly confident but very narrow, history; the prejudice that they and their heirs have his plan was the exterm ination of the entire i often pleasant, sometimes soothing, never institutionalised in the structure and academic population. The experience of North and demanding or disturbing. There is little directly tenets of our universities; the prejudice that passes America and A ustralia was that this would L spiritual in these pictures. They speak mainly of an for education. While the acceptance of historicity Einyway. Wakefield was probably only thin impenitrable subjectivism whose entire concern is may in the abstract be arbitrary, in practise the that a convenient process would be more dig the representation of the world’s sensuous surface. opposite is always the case: the prejudice that it were m ade system atic and efficient. For re They are the sort of thing that would very well pleases to deny us either history or culture is sleekly domestic expediency the plan was altered, embellish any good home. and smoothly administered to reinforce and justify thing is this: the colonisers were very well) the economic predom inance of the coloniser over the This is not to say that Claude M onet is an entirely that colonisation would radically distuii colonised, the exploiter over the exploited. uninteresting painter. He is the supreme quite likely destroy the indigenous populatio Impressionist. And his absolute subjectivism , while GALLER Y AS MUSE UM if such supposedly ‘hum anitarian’ influencesi expressing an extrememly limited reality, is evangelical movement could prevent nevertheless expressed truthfully. It is this aspect The Auckland City Art Gallery, in line with annilation as a mere expression of policy, ev of his work that later became influential in America. Auckland University and almost every other most quiveringly liberal am ongst them as What we were given here, however, was a publicly funded institution of culture or learning, is absolutely that contact with Europe autor_ haphazard assortm ent of his more mediocre works, organised in accordance with these principles. made the indigenous culture redundant. The drawn either from the remotest backblocks of When we go to the Art Gallery we find a large simply no question but that their minds,. European painting or from the stockpiles of the number of pieces of stretched canvass elaborately Donna Awatere’s phrase, would be cole thoroughly. great American art storing-houses. As such they are smeared with pigmented oil. Because we are at the no longer a living part of the tradition from which A rt Gallery we may reasonably associate these in Thus am ong the M aaori the implements of i. they arose. They are not a living part of anything. fact rather peculiar (and culturally quite distinct) a n d s p i r itu a lity w e re r o b b e d o f th e i r u se andi Those from the backblocks are carefully examined objects with our expectations of ‘art.’ Generally that and bundled into European museums. Likewis by those who know no better while the rest are kept will be to say that we expect these bits of coloured art of writing, arguably the only gift of suh perm anently in the basem ents of galleries who know cotton to assist us in explaining our own experience, brought form Europe to Polynesia, was ate too well and have better to choose from. to be of help in reconciling ourselves with our prim arily at first by the evangelical missions, a weapon in the system atic suppression of Artistically, the Claude Monet, Painter of Light immediate surroundings. c u ltu re . exhibition at the Auckland City A rt Gallery was On the other hand, when we visit the M useum we really pretty dreary. W here the pictures belong they find a great m any bits of stick and plank elaborately This was done in part through the applicat. are never seen - yet they Eire here for such a fleeting notched and hollowed. B ut now, because we are at the quite fraudulent and rather ridiculous prii time and are seen so entirely out of context that the Museum, which we know houses thins that are that ‘history’ may consist only of what is uiri public appreciation is less likely to be developed i either exotic or antiquated or in some way detached Quite where and how this idea arose in Eu than bewildered. from ourselves, we expect these items, which Eire have been unable to exactly trace in the short! The real interest of the exhibition lies in how the also quite peculiar (and culturally distinct), to tell us have had to prepare this article. It seems pictures work politically - what is implied in the something of circumstances distant of strange from however that its use was unavailable at least l ‘m entality’ that the pictures encourage; w hat is the o u r o w n . regime, what is the power structure that gets status and prestige out of these pictures? SYMBOLS OF CULTURE At the University of Auckland there is, as is public knowledge, a Department of A rt History. w hat shall Every yeEir dozens, scores, hundreds of Eirt I share with you? We’re historians, some trained to a very high level of technical and academic proficiency, write lengthy, colonial, therefore detailed, perfectly self-serious theses and essays on the thickness, thinness, splatteriness, colouration lack those great qualities of and translucency of dollops of pEunt comprising pictures that neither they nor we will ever clap eyes guilt that get called on. They write these strange manifestos with great tradition; we must make our enthusiasm , often with nothing more to refer to than the bad photocopy of a dull reproduction, own pasts, conscientiously learning by heart the otherwise meaningless symbols of cultures that existed be our his tones. Kmdnck hundreds of yeEirs ago on the other side of the world. Islan ds 33 And, need it be said, this extraordinary pursuit is funded very comfortably and conducted in the He is of course right. He is wrong however to sincere belief that what is being done has some assume that this basic requirement of any immediate rather than purely esoteric value. This is generation in any culture is somehow characteristic the study of a r t we Eire told. This obscure research is of New Zealand as a colony. The mistaken premise the serious study of those symbols and expressions of which this is a result is the servile acceptance of to which we m ay turn for an im m ediate and relevant European culture on term s it sets for itself - rather interpretation of the world that surround us. than breaking it down and restructuring it in term s It might Edso be mentioned in passing that of the relevance its influence has had and continues n o w h e re in Aotearoa is carving or weaving studied to have on people living today in Aotearoa. It is the as an Eirt, although they have existed in this country fallacy that quite naively presumes that history is for as long as humankind have been here, continue something given, like the popular idea of the past to be widely practised, taught and used, and being substantive, unalterable. B ut it is generally although we are uniquely in possession of the richest more helpful to recall th at we choose to call ‘history’ and most varied collections of the form, free to be (or culture) is really quite arbitrary, based either on studied extensively, directly and at leisure. For subjective intuition or cultural conditioning - and anyone interested, Polynesian art is taught at the that historical ‘facts’ (like all facts), in their very Sorbonne in PEiris - where, it would seem, they know formulation and expression, are them selves merely w hat art is when they see it. interpretations of experience. The pursuit of history or culture is the refinement and adaption of that art of interpretation for the purpose of explaining CULTURAL APARTHEID one’s own identity as a conjuction of personal, The list of course is potentially endless, but .VJL social, temporal, cultual and geographic experience. having thus far purposely confused my use of the W hat hampers New Zealand from discovering term s ‘history,’ ‘culture’ and ‘art,’ I feel inclined to valid and useful historical perspectives is not a lack give one more example of the administration of of a past (the world is as old as the world is old and cultural apartheid in Auckland.

12 ► CRACCUM JUNE 18 1985 with pottery you graduate from savagery to the people. It painted and explained scenes from the barbarism. Domestication of plants and animals state religion. It painted public ceremonies, state makes you a stage two barbarian while the division occasions. Quite logically, though ironically, it of labour and production of commodoties at last reached its aesthetic highpoint in France with m akes you civilised. Jacques-Louis David, who painted the public These hare-brained schemas were worked out persona of the great usurper Napoleon I. And it almost entirely in the abstract through the half became most entrenched under the brittle regimes dozen decades leading up to and including the of Charles X Bourbon and Louis-Philippe d’Orleaus, conquest and colonisation of Aotearoa. At that and the shambolical, pseudo-aristocratic travesty point it was possible to deny the M aaori a ‘history’ set up by Napoleon III. simply by noting a lack of the technique of w riting - The Romantics and, much more emphatically, the history consists of written documents just as art Realists, were, however, republican. Throughout the consists of treated cotton dobbled all over with century the degree of official patronage which these coloured oil. That much at least is absolutely artists received, and which was sometimes certain. Nothing could be clearer. It was then an considerable, was traded entirely within the easy matter for the humanitarian missionaries to intricate system of political bargaining. i century • until which time, before destroy the oratorical m ethods and testim onies then Under the semi-constitutional governments of i culture was itself broadly based in existence; for the M aaori culture to be stripped of Charles and Louis-Philippe, while mercantile power was merely regrouping after the retreats that "possibly, with the impetus of the vitality of a momentum in time and bundled, duction, it was used as a m eans of along with its implements and artforms, into the followed the victories of the 1790’s, it was good enough for its political presence to be sym bolised by mj the economic and cultural Museum of European Thought; and for Maaori £ literarily highly developed states of ‘history’, thenceforward based on the docum ents of the Realists in the oppression and suffering of the over the backwaters of North and the colonial administration, to be exercised and poor. It was an evil from which they themselves [The latter paid vast taxes to the controlled in the interests of that same were removed but to which the haute-bourgeoisie | in Rome and subject to Italian administration. could point as representing the wider evil of the in turn exercised and controlled aristocratic governm ent they them selves opposed. .1 the N orth and W est. THE IMPRESSION OF ,/ith this ‘principle’ tw o things are THE NEW AGE' . is that Anglo-Saxon judicial and CLAUDE MONET itio With the fall of Napoleon III and the itions never adapted to the change, So w hat’s all this got to do with Claude Monet? establishment of the Republic, this was no longer iools). To this day in Aotearoa, Mainly, it’s Monet with a sore head. The man necessary. The urban industrialist middle-classes follow th e B r itis h system, these himself, as do very m any artists, lived an uneventful had assumed power and the time had come to • based on oratorical traditions and life. He lived at Paris and at G iverny and only rarely celebrate. The success of the Im pressionists from ny is given only very perfunctory visited outside France. By the age of 40 he was this period on was due to the fact that they had at ,vher is the connection w ith printing, financially successful, an achievement which at any hand techniques and subject-m atter that fulfilled i the obscure m e d i ta t io n s o f G e r m a n time, even in a much more commercial career than th i s n e e d . through attem pts made at painting, is really doing quite well. Their subject-m atter especially, though involving al systematisation by Friedrich A t 2 2 his father supported him at the atelier of only minor modifications of those of the Realists followers, particularly K arl M arx and Charles Gleyre. The standard view of Gleyre is that and Barbizous, was in clear contrast to that of the ls, that it was first thought that ‘he tried in vain to keep him [M onet] to conventional aristocratic Academy and displayed the bourgeoisie piritual v a lu e s c h a n g e u n d e r th e art and away from truth and nature.’ Little could be at its m ost elegant and cultivated- enjoying pleasant ^jiological innovation. It was the falser or more unfair. Gleyre was a mediocre painter lunches, at the races, at the theatre, on the ate of thought that gave rise to the who had a genius for teaching. It was through his boulevards. In their landscapes they portrayed land [evolution - and perhaps it w as only good graces that many poorer artists were able to as a rich city-dweller would like it to be, open, ne that political and cultural gain formal training. aesthetic and refreshing - ‘countryside’ rather than a ‘evoloved’, that history was Among his other students were Alfred Sisley, division of estates, connection with which was a t to system atic p r o g r e s s . Jean-Frederic Bazille and Jean Reniar. Primarily, basis for power. famour essay The Origin of the Gleyre taught them the attitudes and techniques Their colours, developed from those of the I Property, a n d th e S ta te , outlines the that would later be said to characterise Barbizous, were sumptuous and rich, their moods i advancement as though they were Impressionism. He demanded that they subordinate dazzling and enthusiastic - in contrast to the lower i for a course of study. Use of fire style and picturesque arrangement to clarity and tones of the aristocracy and their serener moods of one to stage tw o of savagery, the expression of genuine feeling. He encouraged g r a n d e u r . "advances you to stage three and them to paint outdoors as frequently as possible. He In their stress on subjectivism , traceable both to taught them the academically prescribed technique the Romantic idea of ‘feeling’ and the Revolutionary ■ m of the ebauche. This involved building up a painting principle of individualism, the Impressionists in tonal, semi-impasto layers, each applied rapidly adhered to forms which were personal and private and spontaneously and meant to capture the rather than public and official, and which Y. picture’s ‘feeling’. In technical term s at that time corresponded to the merrry-free-for-all atm osphere such a picture was called an ‘im pression’. (the Post-Impressionist understood it as a terrible In the 1820’s the Romantics gave prominence to anarchy) of capitalist society. Eventually their the impression. They thought impressions were predecessors, being non-Academic and somewhat ‘original, spontaneous and sincere’. It was ‘fringe’, were easily suppressed and obscured to considered a great victory for them when the big make the Impressionists seem hugely inventive, fabulously progressive - the artistic collaborators of state competitions came to be judged, very much the lonely inventors and adventurous industrialists against the wishes of Quatrem ere de Quincy’s Neo- who were forging the ‘New A ge’. These qualities of Classical Academy, on oil-sketches rather than originality and progressiveness were in time finished paintings. enshrined in elaborate myths of poverty and The Romantics, with whom began that long and rejection, partly to better distinguish the glories of pompous debate between Academic and ‘refuse’ art, the new age from the turgidity of the old, partly to were a powerful influence on the two refuse schools provide the suffering of m artyrs on whose faith the that emerged in the 40’s and 50’s. The Barbizous new age could be more securely established. especially made use of the impression’s rough texture. They were much influenced by Constable in their approach to painting through landscapes, and GREEN CIRCLES AND by Claude and Turner in their concentration on RED SQUARES exotic and whimisical effects of w eather and light. To say that any one art form has a greater or lesser value than any other is simply absurd. It is ARTISTOCRACY saying that green circles are more expressive than W hat differentiated the Im pressionists from the red squares. Expressive of what? earlier ‘refuse’ schools (and the dividing lines are so A rt does not exist in a vacuum, as art historians hazy that, for instance, it is all but impossible to with their flat-earther smiles would have us believe. differentiate between Realists and N aturalists and It is not created by lonely young geniuses. As an Eduourd Maney, who is one of the two, is almost expression of experience it is also a reflection of the always categorised as an Impressionist) was the society that conditioned that experience and as such establishment of the French 3rd Republic and, is something moulded by society for its own needs eventually, the European Great W ar. That is, the and in its own image. Its ideals, achievements and final and irreversible end of aristocratic and forms are intimately involved in the power monarchical power in Europe. relationships existing in that society, and in its The painting of the French Academy of the 19th political and economic structures. century in its historical and mythological subject- In conclusion I think I can therefore merely repeat m atter and the so-called ‘photographic’ style with the question with which this essay opens: W hat which that content became hopelessly entangled, precisely are the deeper interests being served by : ¥ ■ expressed, reflected and justified the prestige and the lavish display of status and prestige accorded power of the aristocracy. In many ways it was a the paintings by Claude Monet and exhibited in very public, even collective art. It painted the King recent weeks at the Auckland City A rt Gallery? as an embodiment of the state, a personfication of Leo Schultz

JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 13 Hine tu, hine ora ... Hine noho, hine mate, hine toa t proposal fo r a te, ignored the In the words of Donna Awatere in Part Two of i and benefits Maori Sovereignty Maori womin have built the ation of tl strongest indigenous womin’s movement in the ponadjustmeni world. Despite our common oppression shared with lents are a sig n Maori men through racism it has been necessary j is largely dei for M aori womin to take the lead, because the men lenefits s y s te r still have vested interests in the sexist makeup of ^ tax cuts orb society and are thereby responsible for oppressing ots greatly, us because of our sex. ■«- prime M inis! _ is about the f there's a revolution in Aotearoa it will be t is correct - bu 7 the propose lead by Maori womin' Donna Awatere j Party a n d th< j distrustful of Maori womin had lower status than men in pre- ces. This dist European times and even now on the few marae l for ta x re f where womin can speak men still have precedence. and prison systems as mediums for politicising. matters out to Maori womin in the lis not new. < Men can also be seen to take credit for ‘giving us’ Maori womin activists have been savagely dealt community. On fitness Hilda Halkyard-Ha th a t th e y the right to speak, a right which is ours as Maori with by the court system and yet despite the extra said: ‘Fitness is a political thing for me too. [tax. In respo: on our own turangawaewae. Men have culturally hassles for them they have turned this to then- womin die so early from cancer and a, Force o n blackmailed us for years into taking passive roles advantage by making strong political statem ents problems associated with obesity ..... I wantv 82 report (the or ones complementary to or protected by them, and consciousness raising with womin in prison. break the pattern of an early death rate. Wei ■ of possible saying that we are more vulnerable spiritually and There is now a strong network of political Maori to take our health in our own hands.’ ken on b o a rd as the givers of life are in need of their protection. womin throughout Aotearoa with strong links to As well as the struggle in A otearoa Maori \. incom e 1 Nowadays however M aori womin are resisting this each other, and through the return home of radical are now recognised as leaders in the internati nended reduci as was seen when Titewhai Harawira stood up on progressive womin the struggle has also spread to struggle, through networking with [words, c h a n g i W aitangi M arae in 1980. Since then many others the papakaingas. W omin on the land are to the fore indigenous peoples and m aking links. Maori l i tax than at have followed her lead when it comes to marae in resisting moves by white business interests to have been delegates to hui in places sud . of C ab in et speaking, and also through the development of get in and take over. Hawaii, A ustralia, Phillipines and Huhana l iere spoke o f t! womin’s haka, an outlet often denied womin (thus W omin have also spearheaded positive attitudes and Mei Heremaia accompanied The Pa supressing their anger). Through womin’s haka to Maori health, taking positive initiatives on Peacem aker on its voyage to Seattle in the U.S Maori womin are able to express their aggression smoking, alcohol, drugs and general fitness. At In 1976 Donna Awatere said tha if the and anger, in a way that men have reserved for Black W omin’s hui healthy kai is served, there is revolution in Aotearoa it will be lead by them selves for many years. is good fc minimal alcohol and smoking is restricted. Te womin, M aori womin are proving they areai sneficiaries. Maori womin have increasingly asserted Hauora, a black womin’s health collective, is to be reckoned w ith and perhaps it can event, themselves in all areas; organising up front, concerned with promoting positive attitudes to th at w hat they are doing now is the real begin aggressive action, speaking and using the court of the revolution. health and getting information about health addition, M cC The new i in force an< BEAT THE BURSARY BLUES 1985. T h e own on avo (the unkindest cut!) (to do th is, Have the kindest cut, perm, rea of ind ACCOUNV ded tax as or colour with Cut Above cash coupons [of sales ta x . 1 ) practice w it tic —eiLi: is m oving ! proposals ' pay less < % "#! fou could be notion of a ta : w or harder th 1onjor row's, . l more of th e ir 5 income to inv t principle ta x Etusmess Advisor f company ta: income tai i yet by 1982 period, howe Gosling Chapr n an & C o . is a young of th e ta x [the la st 2 0 3 practice offeri ng a dynam ic career jfwas paid b y w des. w ith strong e m phasis in 1 1 on w ealth a m anagem enti reporting & taxation ! basically e In 1984 thes using advance d cor puter ] [take, ady we c a n technology. ! wage a n d si ; bill. C laim s 2 Graduates who will qualify 1 or BCom or ACA this year contact live, ie th a BOVE the Careers Advisory Servk :e for an appointment with Geoff Walker ) tax than the ] Valid only at and Rowan Chapman. iibt as it a p i Cut Above... 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This study shows that not only will the rich get AXING THE pooR off lightest under the GST, but they are not as hard done by at present as they would have us b e lie v e . Government argum ents for the tax are based on proposal for a G oods PdU o d a j T a x h a s , GST of 10% is introduced, the average rate of tax in households with an income of less than $10,500 assistance to low and middle income earners p, ignored the plight of those outside the through tax cuts and benefit assistance. They and benefits systems. Argum ents for and w ill b e 6 .8 %, but for households w ith an income of expect the public to accept the GST w ithout telling ation of the GST to date have relied over $33,500 the average tax rate will be only us w hat these changes will be. * on adjustments to that system , 4 .6 % . However, for students any changes will be nts are a significant portion of those whose largely irrelevant. On average, students and is largely derived from outside the wages A TftyTKoPZ ' trainees get more from their bursaries than any benefits system. Any compensation given other source of income during the year, although tax cuts or benefit increases will not assist the figure is only marginally more than the greatly. vacation income. Given current proposals, the only prime M inister’s claim that the current increases the university students will get is during is about the GST and not an economic the 14 weeks work during summer, and teacher is correct - but then we have been told very trainees for only 7 weeks. of the proposed ‘benefits’ of the tax. The The effect of a consum ption tax on students will Party and the electorate at large seem to be be drastic. At present, the only significant tax distrustful of Treasury M inisters and their payments are summer income taxes. A recent -$s. This distrust is well founded, NZUSA survey of student income and expenditure for tax reform that has accom panied the has shown that student spending equals student is not new. Often in the past the rich have income. For • students, a consumption tax is that they have had to pay too much effectively an income tax. Tax cuts will have only a tax. In response to a chorus of calls in 1981 minimal effect on students because less than half a Force on Tax Reform was established. student’s income is taxed. 2 report (the McCaw Report) identified a A major item of student expenditure is of possible reforms, m any of which have accommodation, which will be exempt from the n on board by the current governm ent, tax. This does not mean that the GST will not income tax, the McCaw Report affect rents. All the property-owner’s payments ended reducing the m arginal tax rates. In will include the tax and those costs will be passed words, changing the tax scales so the rich on to tenants. tax than at present. Since the election, a Students will also be seriously affected in other of Cabinet Ministers and their caucus ways. Books, the raw m aterial of study, will rise in re spoke of the need to reduce m arginal tax price again. Last year’s devaluation m eant m assive price hikes for books. Now they will go up again. " The effect will be two-fold. Personal texts will increase in price, and libraries will not be able to T is aood for the big companies and good for the rich. GST is bad for workers, students buy as many books or journals as previously. The 1 neficianes. Jr. . Don rnw* t beho soldcrtlH outnut byhv Labour.I ahnur areaSieffect on es^eciaUy journals scienceswill be catastrophic where research in some is moving so fast that books cannot keep up. ddition, M c C a w s u g g e s te d a t a x o n fr in g e University costs will rise, and without any The new fringe benefits tax (FBT) is compensation in funding there will be pressure for in force and the first paym ent is due on fees to rise or extra fees to be levied, ie higher 1985. The Task Force also suggested a the effect on students: course costs. Otherwise the quality of teaching will own on avoidance and evasion - steps are books, journals, library costs will increase continue to fall. ^llcCl on to do th is . (again) . It is difficult to the rate of tax has ea of indirect tax, McCaw suggested a i accommodation costs will be StM48ē£n~āhnounced. It is clear, however, that it ed tax as more desirable than any other will be at least 10-15%. That cost will be passed on sales ta x . T h is re c o m m e n d a tio n h a s b e e n the PrpeSpyrtSgs"to the tenant to students without any compensatory income practice with the GST proposal, — v xiut m I student associations will have greater costs in c r e a s e s . ic a.xa-t—eitner McCaw recom mended or not only through the payment of the tax In addition, costs will be even greater to student is moving. Both the McCaw and the but through the administration necessary associations. To administer GST a full record of proposals will have the effect of m aking purchases and sales will have to be kept. In many to collect the tax pay less and the poor pay more. The cases this may entail employing extra staff. So not ;on of a tax on spending (ie, GST) will hit i all prices will go up but students will only will student associations have to pay the tax, r harder than the rich because the poor receive little relief in terms of tax cuts as they will have to employ extra staff to collect the more of their income, w hereas the rich have less than half a student's income is taxable tax on behalf of the Government; employ extra income to in v e s t a n d p r o f it fro m . students and trainees will be hit very hard staff to do the G overnm ent’s job. ciple tax reform requirem ents are in the The Goods and Services Tax is phoney tax company tax and taxes on wealth. In 1965 by sudden price hikes in 1986 and may not reform. The richer you are, the less tax you pay: it income tax made up 39.39% of the total get compensation until 1987. is a regressive tax. It does nothing to tax w ealth or yet by 1982 it had risen to 60.69%. For the companies. The proposals for tax cuts and period, h o w e v e r, c o m p a n y t a x fe ll fr o m increased benefits will provide employers with of the tax take to only 7.9% in 1982. excuses to grant lower wage increases, as Family the la st 2 0 years more and more of the tax Care did, and thereby subsidise even greater was paid by wage and salary earners and less p r o f its . ies. There has been no consideration taken of the on wealth are alm ost insignificant. W ealth special needs of students in terms of extra basically estate and gift duties, and land assistance. Bursary assistance is increased in 1984 these made up less than 1 % o f th e terms of cost rises over the previous year - take. students and trainees will be hit very hard by y we can see that the low and middle, sudden price hikes in 1986 and may not get wage and salary earners bear the brunt of r v compensation until 1987. bill. C laim s t h a t th e in c o m e t a x s c a le s a r e GST is good for the big companies and good for 've, ie that the rich pay proportionally th e ric h . than the poor, have recently been called GST is bad for workers, students and t as it appears that the scales are not as beneficiaries. Don’t be sold out by Labour. ve as popularly assum ed, <;w us a hf/cK iu r m t k &v . study recently published by Victoria - Malcolm MacLean sity Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) shows Education & W elfare Vice President average rate of income tax is only 27% and NZUSA aming over $48,000 pay one 35% income uch lower than the marginal tax rates In 1965 personal income tax made up 39.39% of the total tx take yet by 1982 it had risen to lation Where low and middle income 60.69%. For the same period company tax fell from 20.66% of the tax take to only 7.9% in y the vast majority of both direct and 1982. es will not be helped by the GST. The During the last 20 years more and more of the tax dollar was paid by wage and salary household income, the lower the rate of earners and less by companies.

IPS study cited above shows that if a

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◄ This year the adequacy of the Acommodation Grant has been further undermined by continuing rent, electricity, food price NEWS increases. The government has so far specifically refused to compensate students for these increases. ◄ Once the level of Accommodation costs for those flatting should be added to the criteria for the Hardship Grant (high STUDENT SUPPORT PACKAGE ► hostel costs are already covered). ◄ Once the level of the Accommodation Grant has been set it ZUSA’s contribution to the Governments should be inflation adjusted according to the Consumer Price Review is the Student Support Package, Index an attempt to inform students as to what the Support Package C r a c c u m e a c h HARDSHIP GRANT is focusing on specific areas of the Package, ◄ There are currently two means tested grants - the Hardship week we focus on the Accommodation and Grant which is up to $11 per week to compensate for extraordinarily high expenditure, and the Special Hardship hip g ra n ts . Grant which is up to $47 per week for students with dependants or disable students. ◄ The Department of Education estimated that 2,000 students -modation Grant 'JSA is demanding that all tertiary students who decide to HINDS would receive Hardship b u t in 1984 on ly 126 received Hardship and 271 Special Hardship grants. iway from their parents home should be eligible to receive vr o w -T ;;mmodation Grant. NZUSA is asking that the two Hardship grants be combined, rently it is not available to students under 20 whose and that students’ actu al deficits be met. s live in town where the student is studying. NZUSA ◄ The criteria must be changed to recognise low income as well this to be unacceptable as some students are therefore as high expenditure eg. if a student has low summer earnings or ' to live at home. Factors like personality clashes with lack of financial support from parents. parental opposition to study or travelling distance and ◄ The levels set for each criterion must be lowered as they are not considered su fficien t reason for a s tu d e n t u n der 20 unrealistically high. ◄ Means Testing must be of the students themselves and not away from home. ‘-ntly the level of the Accomodation Grant is set at $27 a their parents. This didn’t even cover the average rent costs for ◄ It is through expanding the Hardship Grant that the -d students flatting in 1984 let alone food, electricity and government can provide greater assistance to students from low ts. In 1984 Hostel costs at Auckland University were income families, Maori students, and other groups under­ JtJLfcli represented in our universities. i week.

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-n is not in danger of financial disaster sim ply because it itself money.' J? Andrew Mehan proposals, high interest rates, low education funding, funding too high, inflation, unemployment etc. A raft of face our country at the moment, (they have for a while) The Chair generally low income students we suffer. I ’m writing this Regional Management Committee Student Job Search before the budget announcement which will no doubt to itself accept responsibility for statements made on its behalf e if any relief. by an RMC member. It is to be hoped that the Auckland RMC er a few of students major economic problems: Dear Sir/Madam, » I am writing to you as an elected SJS co-ordinator delegate also feels a sense of responsibility towards its co-ordinator r Unemployment - The Bursary is currently based on a with regard to a singularly regrettable incident which occurred employee. She must be protected from unjustified and unfair in Aid’ philosophy, ie you earn money in summer of on the morning of Saturday 8 June 1985, and which involved attacks. It should also be noted that, according to the Auckland much is meant to be saved, the Bursary being a grant to two members of your RMC - Helen Grant, the Auckland SJS co­ co-ordinator, this was the first occasion on which she had been k with your summer savings to sustain you throughout made aware of the alleged lack of confidence on the part of both Each summer however, many thousands of students ordinator, and Graham Watson, the current President of AUSA. Before I set out what happened, I should like to stress that I the Auckland RMC and the AU SA President. -ployed. am acting with the knowledge and consent not merely of Helen We would be grateful if the Auckland RMC would resolve this jry Grants - Inadequate, Accommodation Grant age complaint as a matter of urgency.SJS delegates are of the view "ty restrictions are ridiculous. Hardship low and hard to Grant, but also of all other co-ordinators present at the meeting. I am also acting with the knowledge and suppor of other elected that the Auckland RMC should write to all RMC’s and all co-ordinators (ie all persons present at the National Council ription Levy - Beneficiaries are exempt from the recently SJS delegates. The following account of what happened is based on my own meeting) expressing its strong regret that the comments uced levy of $1 on each prescription item. However, complained of above were actually made in an inappropriate -ts, on lower grants than other beneficiaries, are not recollection of events, as well as on written and signed statements obtained from five other persons present at the context. The Auckland RMC should also disassociate itself in to this exemption. meeting at the relevant time. Both co-ordinators and non co­ the strongest possible terms from these comments. It would _imodation Costs - With the lifting of the rent freeze also be interesting to learn whether the Auckland RMC ever have seen a dramatic increase. Rents in Auckland are ordinators make up our current list of witnesses. Other persons made a note of what was said, and would be prepared to testify, discussed or, ot use a concept often evoked by Mr Watson in the •lly high, as are travel costs compared with most other should this ever become necessary. course of our two-day meeting, reached ‘consensus’ on the “ ity centres. A meeting of the National Council of Student Job Search was opinion expressed on its behalf by Mr Watson. It would also be compensate for increased accommodation costs, the appreciated if Mr Watson would unreservedly withdraw and _ment has introduced a Special Accommodation Grant for taking place on the weekend of 8-9 June 1985. Assembled in the meeting room at the time of the incident in question were about > apologise for the defamatory comments made by him. Many income earners and beneficiaries. However, students are not five co-ordinators, and approximately fourteen delegates or people, including Mr Watson, would be spared a lot of -illy eligible. AUSA, and the University proper in response members of Regional Management Committees. Although the unnecessary time, trouble, and expense, and Student Job MJSA initiatives, has called upon the government to Search could get on with the business of finding work for -tely increase the Accommodation Grant available to National Council was convened specifically to discuss the constitution of Student Job Search Aotearoa, as it is now students. ts. No government action has been forthcoming. In conclusion, it seems appropriate to state that it is high time :al Economic occurrences - high inflation (tertiary grants known, and although the National Council has no jurisdiction where regional disciplinary or industrial problems are involved, for student politicians to learn that they cannot ‘roll’ an not yet tied to C.P.I.) causes erosion of student’s real Mr Watson suddenly and unexpectedly made a far-reaching employee in the same way as they ‘roll’ each other. sing(ie surviving) ability. wh interest rates - many students have to take out loans attack on the professional competence and integrity of the Auckland co-ordinator, Helen Grant, who was present in the Yours sincerely, than the small interest free overdrafts to finance their R.J. Rigg . As members of the community, and generally those room at the time. Graeme Watson enquired what would happen if a Regional (Wellington SJS delegate) crs without the resources to use high interest rates to Management Committee had no confidence in its co-ordinator. dvantage, students are adversely affected. Goods & Services Tax Proposals will have far reaching He then moved from a hypothetical plane to a quite specific Helen Grant Auckland Job Search Co-ordinator for the entire community, again hitting especially the low allegation, and stated that the Auckland Regional Management earners such as students. Students will gain little from Committee, and particularly the Auckland University Students Dear Helen, relief. In the Public Service Association Journal I read a Association (AUSA) and the Auckland Technical Institute Regards my comments concerning yourself at the SJS apt comment ‘.. whether the appropriate response to Students Association (ATI) had no confidence in the co­ National Council Meeting of 8 May. I can only agree, an and tax-dodgers is to hit everyone with G.S.T.? It seems ordinator. These comments were not made in a manner which employer should not make such comments about an employee in like solving the crime problem by putting the entire could be described as off-handed or neutral. They were instead expressed in a manner which is best described as scathing and such a forum. tion in jail. ’ I would like to withdraw those comments, and apologise. on this term we will be trying to organise a march to air suggestive both of strong dislike and strong disapproval. y the above grievances and more. The number of letters The Chairperson immediately intervened and quite properly > Yours, P’s I have written which have actually achieved change is ruled these remarks out of order. Two or three other speakers supported the Chair’s ruling in very strong terms, and the G.P.J. Watson «1. Sure, they do apply pressure, so do press statements, PRESIDENT marches are fun and a good way of displaying actual meeting returned to the agenda. While this ruling was procedurally correct in terms of the brief and the jurisdiction of involvement and concern. week I went to visit the Mayor of Auckland to discuss a the meeting, it meant that an extremely damaging allegation Helen Grant and the clerical staff of AUSA have accepted Graham Watson’s apology. of student concerns. Items most dwelt on were Aotea concerning the professional competence of a co-ordinator had and Accommodation. Last weekend I went to the been made, but this allegation could not be examined or refuted The staff are aware of the enormous effort which the Executive meeting of Student Job Search. I was happy with some in this context. The professional reputation of an SJS co­ as a whole, and Tony Bell in particular, have put in to resolving tions, but generally concerned with the direction in which ordinator has been seriously impugned in the presence of her this dispute. We understand that the Executive worked until professional peers, as well as of delegates and representatives 5am to achieve a result on this matter. Job Search is moving. from Regional Management Committees from all over New The clerical staff would like to thank the Executive for Zealand. sacrificing their sleep in order to avert action which would have This state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue, and must caused inconvenience to students. Kia Kaha be set right forthwith. With respect, it seems most appropriate Graham to SJS delegates and SJS co-ordinators for the Auckland RMC Signed by 13 members of the Clerical Staff

JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 17 ASBESTOS AND APARTHEID \ ora koutou e •Hi i pai koutou k< Black South Africans are not only dying in jail cells. Asbestos, which is acknowledged jigs! I hope ever as a serious health risk, is widely produced in South Africa with little or no regard for the ,.n has started off safety of the black workers involved in production. my last column am (coding and com pof Maori studen! s isn’t really enoc W ith the recent highly publicised efforts of the e to everyone and a Needless to say the Office of the Government ie final return date South African government to defuse the growth M ining Engineer whilst aware of these abuses has aven’t returned y 4/ jm of international condemnation by the institution of initiated no action. K: i ' J in please do it tc da lot of financia partial franchise for ‘Coloured’ peoples and its The high dust levels are not restricted to _ients and commi intention to repeal the Mixed M arriages Act, it occupational areas only. Massive uncovered _utnt so let’s work t becomes necessary to look beyond the legislation asbestos dumps have been located by the mining Mining and ConstructionW orker’s Unio ’e Huinga Rangatahi in order to determine the callous disregard for houses within Black residential areas. W hilst there (BAMCWU) has been engaged in an attempt d the hui, most Black people’s lives that exists within the societal Iced after by our are no official figures regarding environmental educate the South African public about (people of Turanj infrastructure with the condonement of the pollution, a confidential internal report authored dangers of asbestos after having decided that t. rs organised by \ governm ent. The low value of Black lives is evident by the manager of the Penge Mine shows that approach to the governm ent is unlikely to elid lorn, including IV in the deliberate exploitation of Black labour by [the justice syste among the cases of asbestosis reported in 1983 any positive response. The purpose of this prograj jugh many of the d the industrial complex. Little or no attention is were security guards, telephone operators and is to p r o d u c e a p u b lic b o y c o tt o f a s b e s to s produd |lot of work was do paid to the workers’ safety. Even where safety drivers, all occupations which should not normally and thus forcing the m ines to close. W hilst thisi _ [ sense of uni regulations exist, little attention is paid to them. be exposed to high levels of asbestos dust. The cause macK unemployment to rise, ‘either < sion was such th An abhorrent example of the institutionalised L Otakou will bi same report also states that the average age of new leave the m ines - or die (Dr Farouk A svat, AZAF ^enjoyable as this y complicity that exists between the government asbestosis cases has dropped. Given that asbestos- H ealth Secretariat. City Press 14.10.84). feRunganga Ranga and the industrial complex is that of the asbestos related diseases normally take approximately ten However, the BAMCWU’s attempts l despatched to the > are being organ mining and milling industry. to thirty years to appear, the relative youth of new protect Black workers whilst the mines st ts. These hui are Since the 1930’s it has become generally cases could indicate exposure to asbestos prior to operate are being ham pered by the mining houst bother regional take accepted in broadly literate countries that asbestos occupational involvement with the material. w h o w ill n o t n e g o tia te o r g iv e th e m a n y recognitio ved in these hui in is carcinogenic. Many nations have restricted, h with your Nga T (albeit with alarm ing slowness), or even completely Iknow what's happe > organisation of banned the use of asbestos as is the case with A routine inspection of the Penge Mine in Northern Eastern Transvaal revealed asbestos fibre counts as Sweden and Norway. However, with the upsurge ^■way. The hui is ■ high as 134 fibres/ml, a level 65 times the South African limit and 260 times that of the UK. Needless to Ington. If you are of awareness of the life-threatening nature of say, the Office of the Government Mining Engineer whilst aware of these abuses has initiated no action y this hui, then ha\ asbestos in these areas, industrialists have |iround or get in tc relocated their operations in less literate, less i doctors at the hu »for them and t scientifically conscious communities in order to The Sowetan (12.12.84) reports of a Black because it is claimed they are ‘unconstitutional,; 1 student then k. exploit the indigenous population’s lack of secondary school being located within the asbestos S tr ik e a c tio n s ta k e n b y B A M C W U ’s membership |fondraising here in k n o w le d g e . lon't worry about dump of the Kromellenboog Mine. The Black for recognition of their union have resulted in th Such a community was South Africa, now the am etc for the hui Consciousness Movement states children are dism issal of 1700 workers at the Penge Mine, an world’s third largest asbestos producer, and the playing in asbestos dumps. The Rand Daily Mail more recently 25,000 workers at the Durb only producer of blue asbestos, the m ost dangerous (19.10.84) reports the purchase of the De Roodepoort Deep Gold Mine. of the six types of asbestos. W hilst other nations Bewaarkloof Valley by the South African debate the existence of a ‘safe’ lim it for exposure to Development Trust, (described by the BCM as asbestos, South Africa has only recently imposed literally one giant asbstos dump), that it may be a new safety regulation of two fibres per millilitre used as a ‘homeland’ to ‘relocate’ Black people. of air, a figure still twice as high as that of the There are over 3000 asbestos products being I would like to thank the Black Consciousness! United Kingdom (believed to be too high by some manufactured in South Africa, m ost of them being Movement and the Black Allied Mining an yo im portant Britons). Although the National Centre for utilised by the building industry. None of the Construction W orker’s Union for the publicity! held a t 1 Occupational Health (SA) claims that inhaling this population is safe. The Black Allied M ining and material, reports and newspaper clippings th yissed im p o r figure for eight hours per day for forty years is Construction W orker’s Union estim ates that over s u p p lie d . safe, Dr Jonathon M yers of the University of Cape 500,000 people are endangered by the dents. A s A U opriate for n Town Industrial Health Research Group states environmental pollution of asbestos in North A n d rew B. Ju that this is just a mathematical projection; ‘... Eastern Transvaal alone. sidered. there are no safe limits of asbestos. Asbestos Since 1967, 5409 Blacks and whites have been causes cancer which is why perm issable levels keep compensated for contracting asbestos-related dropping.’ (Rand Daily M ail 5.7.84). diseases. These figures only include those who Asbestos in all its forms is carcinogenic, contracted the disease whilst still employed by the milled product is no less dangerous than thei mining houses. In addition 704 have died of material, white asbestos no less fatal than asbestos-related diseases. No effort has been made a s b e s to s . T h e in h a la tio n o f fib r e s (a fib re need on to compensate those Blacks in whom the diseases have a length of 0.005 mm and a diameter i have appeared after their employment contracts 0.003mm) can cause any one of the three followiq M M M M . had terminated and had been forced to return to d is e a s e s : the ‘homelands’. It is also possible that these M ESOTHELIOM A: A cancer of the peritonea figures are artificially low for another reason. The pleural lining of the lung. Its incidence confidential internal report m entioned earlier in the environmental rather than occupational and cant article noted there were 79 new cases of asbestosis contracted after only one day's exposure. in 1983. For the same period, the Penge M ine’s D o c to r (N ° 3 5 M a rc h 1985) r e p o r ts o f incidence i ""i m owners in their annual shareholders report and the mesothelioma in persons ‘whose exposure Office of the Governm ent M ining Engineer claimed asbestos occurred through the work clothes of iternational there were only 13 new cases of asbestosis. household contact.' nber of speak BRONCHOGENIC CARCINOMA: an advan t a variety of stage of asbestosis. Decoloni South Africa is now the world's third largest asbestos producer, and the only producer of blue asbestos, ASBESTOSIS: an occupational disease, and variou the most dangerous of the six types of asbestos. inhaled asbestos fibres imbed themselves in ance was sness and tl lung causing scar tissue which reduces ieme, ISC, N1 operational capacity of the lung. ator and the The most damning evidence of the complicity This argum ent is purely academic for the Blacks ny Davies, the who work the asbestos mines, and indeed for the between the South African government and the A ll three diseases are incurable and fatal ergency Une mining houses who display little willingness to mining houses in their deliberate non-protection of A fter first exposure the diseases' appearance noting the di heed even the old safety regulations. The Rand Black lives lies in Section 107 of the Occupational take between ten and thirty years, although j in both are obtain right: Daily Mail (8.8.84) reports asbestos levels at the Diseases in Mines and W orks Act. Under this Act dust levels may accelerate the appearance of\ Welfare De] Penge Mine in North Eastern Transvaal as being the white worker who contracts asbstos related disease. A t the Barylgil mine in Aust i and thus an average of 4.965 fibres/ml. A routine inspection diseases receives R24,000 (NZ$22,000) asbestosis was being detected in Aborit i as well as t of the same operation by the D istrict Inspector for compensation and R400 (NZ$320) per month for workers four years after mining began. i replied stati the Dept of Mineral and Energy Affairs eleven the rest of his or her life. The com pensation for the nt to deterr er. It is he Black worker is legislated at one lump sum m onths earlier revealed fibre counts as high as 134 t overseas studei fibres/ml, a level 65 tim es the South African limit paym ent of Rl,790 (NZ$1640). I to do case stu and 260 times that of the U nited Kingdom. For the past eight months, the Black Allied i facts that

18 ► CRACCUM JUNE 18 1985 TE KAKANO i ora koutou e oku rangatira. Ko te tumanako While you were all on holiday, NZUSA had it s national hui, May do not nave power as a race over the Pakeha so we cannot he »pai koutou katoa e nga tauira Maori. Council, at Lincoln College. Nga Toki had it’s 2nd hui this year at racist. So it was decided that Pakeha students on campus should May Council. It was 5 long hard days of work for Nga Toki but we combat racist attitudes, structures and practices and that Maori achieved quite a lot. We talked about many take that pertain to students should be liaised with an all action. Nga Toki decided jigs' I hope everyone out there is fit and healthy and th at the Maori students and Maori people in general. Some of the take we that we should do some work on explaining to Maori students n has started off well. Lots of things have happened since I discussed were Maori Language Week, the Survey of Maori and people the subtle nature of racism in this country and to bmv last column and lots of things are coming up too. students, NZUSA’s term II anti-racism campaign, the Runanga heighten Maori student awareness of the issues facing I coding and computerisation of the information from the Rangatahi, the establishment of Marae and Maori students officers Maoridom and Maoritanga. * of Maori students has begun. We have received 420 replies, on campus, the Maori University Students’ Association of Aotearoa So over the next few columns I will be outlining some of the major L isn't really enough, so last week I sent out a final reminder issues before Maoridom. On June 24 a video called Maori - A New iU)everyone and also an extra question. By the time you read and many other numbering more than 30. Your Nga Toki reps on campus will have the full report of our hui at May Council so if you re Dawn and a film called Day 507 will start touring the campuses. j u final return date will only be a few days away (June 21) so if Those films are excellent and very informative and I strongly Eiaven’t returned your completed form yet, and/or the extra interested see them. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Nga Toki, it is the Maori Action Committee of NZUSA. It meets 5 times recommend that you watch out for notices about playing times at „ please do it tonight and get them back to me. We have a year and consists of two representatives from each campus. Nga your campus and go to see the movies, and learn about racism in our i a lot of financial assistance for the Survey from government country. ments and community groups who believe the Survey is very Toki directs my work and formulates action programmes for the benefit of Maori students based on NZUSA policy. There is a lot of Maori Language Week is from July 21-27 inclusive this year, and -nt so let’s work together and make the project a success. no doubt lot’s of things will be happening on each campus.As this iHuinga Rangatahi was held last May 10-14. About 200 people action and work to be done on campus this term, plenty for all Maori students to get involved in. particular column is getting a bit long I’ll leave my thesis on the d the hui, most of who were university students. We were importance of the language until next time. Go along to Maori looked after by our whanaunga at Waikato University and the Club/Association and find out what's happening in your area for this [p eo p le of Turangawaewae. We discussed many take and year's Maori Language Week. reorganised by W aikato addressed us on many issues facing Discussion is taking place on campus amongst Maori students »om, including Maori representation in parliament, alcohol about the proposal of establishing a Maori University Students [the justice system. Waitangi, the Runganga Rangatahi etc. Association of Aotearoa. I wrote a paper on this idea and it was Lgh many of the discussions were not properly finished off and discussed at Te Huinga Rangatahi and Nga Toki and it was decided of work was done, I felt that the hui was good because there that this proposal should be discussed n.y Maori students back on T good sense of unity amongst the participants and the level of campus and some sort of decision brought by campus ision was such that most people could understand what was representatives to Nga Toki’s term II hui on July 12-14 at Massey on. Otakou will be hosting next year’s hui, and I ’m sure it will University. If this proposed association for Maori students is Benjoyable as this year’s. sanctioned then it will be representing and working for all Maori be Runganga Rangathi (Maori Youth Council) proposal paper has students, so please go along to Maori Club or other meetings on l despatched to the regions and at the moment hui for young campus about this proposal and have an input into it s direction. s are being organised in all the major urban areas and tribal _ets These hui are being organised to discuss the proposal and Proverb of the week: [other regional take that need to be addressed. If you want to be I have got untold to do this term and though I contemplated ‘He toa takitini toku toa id in these hui in the area you are in at the moment, then get in writing it all down here for your perusal you can ask your Nga Toki Ehara i te toa takitahi' with your Nga Toki representative on campus and they’ll let reps if you want to verifv that I’m actually working for you all. Just to whet your appetites to know more, some of the major areas [know what’s-happening. for me this term are: the Survey of Maori students, the Maori ‘My heroism is not individual , organisation of the hui for Maori Medical people is well Medical Hui, the establishment of the Runganga Rangatahi, the It is collective’ may. The hui is on July 26-28 now and will be held here in production of posters, stickers, badges etc for Maori Language Ugton. If you are a Maori Medical student and haven’t heard Week, the writing of three submissions, anti-racism work etc etc etc. I believe we as Maori students should be moving towards ytthis hui, then have a chat to other Maori medical students who Unfortunately I have to sleep too so I may not get everything done. combined collective action to help our people, and that is what the bound or’get in touch with me. There are going to be a lot of There are some events coming up that you all may be interested in. Maori Students Association is all about. It truly hope that one day ridoctors at the hui who would like to tell students about what S One of NZUSA’s priority campaigns for term II will be Anti-Racism when we are working for our people as a body that we will be able to ere for them and to give some assistance, so if you’re a Maori work. All of the delegates at May Council attended a workshop on say the proverb above to indicate it is not an individual effort, but Jtal student then keep this weekend free and come to the hui. We Racism and subseauentlv had discussions on actipn to combat this the efforts of all of us, Maori students, for the Maori people. [fundraising here in Wellington to pay for the travel of students, problem because racism is where one race uses it’s power to lon't worry about that aspect. A notice outlining the venue, oppress, or enforce it’s prejudices on, another race. Maori people. Noho ora mai I etc for the hui will be sent out soon. Pakake

OVERSEAS STUDENTS COLUMN are in need of financial help. Subsidised jobs are currently not student commission) with PAAC and NEW AC (National no important meetings over the M ay holidays available to overseas students and work is necessary to open up Education and Welfare Action Committee) which was beneficial held at Wellington and Lincoln which this restriction. Team work amongst overseas students in to further consciousness raising. Lissed important issues affecting Overseas checking on job vacancies at Job Search offices can help in Women Overseas students have long been neglected and their dents. As A U SA ’s representatives to both it is increasing placements. needs have been lumped together with male overseas students and generalised. It was brought up that women overseas opriate for me to detail some of the key areas Jessica Wilson, President of NZUSA related her speech to the welfare needs of overseas students. Prior to arrival in N.Z. little students faced double-pronged oppression ie racism and sexism. sidered. (if any) information is being provided to overseas students They suffer from racism, as male overseas students do but also concerning courses, hostels, lifestyle differences etc (eg Lincoln face sexist attitudes from both male overseas students and male College and their post graduate students). Orientation has not New Zealanders. Within the Overseas Students Commission been provided adequately and generally, any effort so far is and NOSAC, moves are afoot to devise a structure to enable minimal. Throughout varsity life, it is essential to provide women overseas students greaster say in policies affecting counselling and support services to ensure continual adjustment them. Support groups for women overseas students are also to the academic life as well as life in NZ. Provision of counselling needed. to prepare students to life back in their home country is The lack of overseas student participation in student politics essential to ensure returning students are not displaced. Women may be due to the domestic racism and sexism as discussed overseas students face problems quite individualistic from those above and a concerted effort is needed both nationally and at faced by men and this must be recognised and attended to. She local campus levels to make our structure more welcoming to stressed the need for feedback on these problems from overseas overseas student participation. students to enable NZUSA to deal adequately with them. Concerning discrimination faces by overseas students in areas V» A discussion was held as to the election of the Overseas of education and welfare, work will be done on the review of " 1 Students National Co-ordinator. Originally elected by ISC OSAC (the Overseas Students Admission Committee) and delegates, it was brought to the attention of delegates by Loong Governmental Policy on overseas students. OSAC was a body Wong (the current O.S.N.C.) that such election practice could be originally set up to deal with the admissions of overseas subverted by stacking and is in itself not representative of the students to NZ universities but which has recently been acting various campuses. ISC delegates deferred any decision on this to police and restrict the movements of overseas students and left the decision to the discretion of NOSAC (National between universities and courses. Such moves are iternational Students Conference Overseas Students Action Committee). This would be decided at transgressions of their jurisdictions and must be halted. It is May Council as Loong Wong would be resigning within the also necessary to deal with governmental policies which l number of speakers addressed the delegates over the 3 days month due to his job commitments in Papua New Guinea. discriminates between overseas and local students. ne a variety of issues ie Human Rights, Race Relations in ISC was also discussed and it was agreed that it should be In line with the above, the priorities of NOSAC for Term 2 iroa, Decolonisation in the Pacific, overseas students revamped. Delegates passed a motion that in future ISC be were set as being the review of OSAC: the mobilisation of and various workshops on sex roles. Of significant organised by NOSAC and PAAC (Public Affairs Action members and the review of governmental policy. ance was the discussion on Feminism, Black Committee) jointly and would be held at the same venue and at a It was agreed upon by PAAC that they shall organise ISC piousness and the Role of Students in the 80’s, the Summer time as close as possible to May Council. jointly with NOSAC and a working committee was set up to i Scheme, ISC, NOSAC and the Overseas Students National Overall delegates felt that ISC was a worthwhile conference to look into the programming and structure of ISC. linator and the Welfare of Overseas Students. attend due to the high quality of materials and speakers in The election of the Overseas Students National Co-ordinator -uny Davies, the National Job Search Co-ordinator spoke on attendance. 1985 was no exception. would be by ‘single’ campus vote at the NOSAC meeting held at I Emergency Unemployment Benefit (EUB) and subsidised August Council and the term office will be from December 1st to ◄ M ay Council (Lincoln College) noting the discriminatory practices affecting overseas November 31st of the following year. Further, the concept of a its in both areas. Attempts are continually being made to Within the structure of NZUSA, it was realised that there full-time Overseas Students National Co-ordinator was mooted i obtain rights to the EUB for overseas students. The reeked domestic racism and sexism and a great deal of time and and agreed that campuses bring to August Council a decision as , Welfare Department appear to have set no policy energy is needed on these areas. NZUSA and local student to the creation of such a position. jves and thus direct approaches have been made to Ann associations sire pakeha oriented and this reflect mono-culture. In the meanwhile as Loong Wong was resigning, elections i as well as to David Lange to clear the confusion. Ann It is important to address these issues to ensure that were held for a Part-time co-ordinator to fill the term to August i replied stating that before eligibility is ascertained, it is multiculturalism can exist and allow greater numbers from Council and I was elected to the position. nt to determine the existence of financial sources over minority groups to come forth and be represented. A Domestic I will be carrying out my duties from Auckland please contact Bummer. It is however apparent that a ruling has been made Racism Workshop was held and it brought to the stark me should you require my help or wish to get involved. t overseas students do have such financial sources. There is a realisation of participants the extent of racism perpetuated As of May Council, NOSAC will now stand for National i to do case studies and a survey of overseas students to towards maori and overseas students. Resulting from this Overseas Students Action Collective. Arohanui, de facts that show that the majority of overseas students workshop was a joint session for us and Nga Toki (Maori Alex Lee

JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 19 Ever GRADUATE DEGREE STUDY AWARDS East-W est Graduate Student Awards are offe, 'considered each year to New Zealanders or permanent residents! N ew Zealand w ho w ish to stu d y in Honolulu for a career M asters or PhD Degree or part of a New Zealand P|_ 'ERVICE in th e g Degree. Awards may be fully funded or partial 7l funded. The Centre may pay for : Economy Air Travi . u n d e r w o r University Tuition, Center Approved Fieldwort DVISORY Housing in an East-West Residential Hal Allowances for Food, Health Insurance, Books | Incidentals. These awards offer the opportunity 7 AREERS study in a unique multi-cultural community. The East-West Center Institute of Culture ai Communication announces the following awards:- Research Intern Award for study of culture ( j U j communication through film: STRUCTURE OF INTERVIEWS Research Intern Award for a study of Nath, collect together the originals of any references or The ideal interview will generally have three stages: identity and minority policy and Pacific Island other photocopied m aterial sent in with the original recollection of World War II: 1 . Opening: Usually the interviewers aim at this stage application. Intern Award for participation in Program is to set the applicant at ease with open ended consider the sort of person the interviewers will be P erform ing A rts: questions - it is unrealistic to try and assess potential s e e k in g . Research Intern Award for participation in the if the applicant is up-tight The open ended questions . reflect on your strong points and particular m essages program area. may be directly relevant to the position under you want to get across at the interview - draw up a Further information see CAS Office. consideration, or m aybe seemingly irrelevant. The checklist. Job Vacancies interviewers are more concerned to get you to talk at Remember this preparation will pay off In the Computer Science Graduate - Coopers and Lybrand this stage and not necessarily in the content. The interview you will be nervous. If you are well prepared This position involves some compu m im e f e e interviewer will be making an initial assessm ent at this preparation will show. If you are not prepared it is program m ing, m ainly in COBO L b u t possibly rhlG nm o /vrof youvnn asaQ c q norcnnPf'fso^ncludingtheno^verbal inpliininrr f no nnn.irorhoi __most_ _ i unlikelyi m i that , 1 on the . * spur of . the . momxr Jnt tr g,ven some Basic; client support on one or two (USA sub-corn p ack ages in the accoun ting area; installation features - appearance attitude, manner etc. The first y0Ur nerves, you will be able to adequately promote rential su b sc r i testing of communications links and peripherals, live minutes can set the tone for the remainder of the yourself in a positive way ling for su b m ii interview - you are each summing up the other. W here • positions are in Manukau City. Contact: The Nati PRESENTATION ration to low* the applicant is well known to the interviewer this n w u ™ w __ .U1 , ’ . , , ,, Computer Manager, Coopers & Lybrand, P.0 76010, Manukau City. jtions of p a r t-tim stage will probably be om itted. ^ t Clot^-’ eiT °n the part-time st 2 kMiddle fi7 or Probing,Drobimr interviewersInterviewers seekseek toto ascedrtainascedrtain conservatlve t on then Slde- confidently Preferably forget wear about something knowing you that can Physics or Chemistry or Chemical EngineeriJ ! students to c whether you have the qualification and the q u a litie s you are aDDronriatelv dressed Graduate - Fisher & Paykel ners and th e ef: for the position. Remember they are seeking the most ^ f ^ 1 1 . ^ u 1 1 . K suitable applicant for the position. ^ f - aUow yourself at least 5 minutes waiting The National and Allied Products Division of Fis fide services to * ^ time prior to the interview. If you are going to be late and Paykel are looking for a Research & Developn issions sh ou ld 3. Conclusion: At this stage the interview is drawn to a ^ • . • . , . Engineer. Suitable qualifications are a degree ssions can b e m close. It is im portant for the applicant to leave a final f T y°U amVe ,ap° 0glSe physics and chemistry or in chemical engineeri i Welfare O fficer positive impression -. iti , is asoo im portant as M .wthat initial brieflyrrD0f f.' oav0ld _ ..l o n 8r winded ,. „ excusory . , y explanations., j Write to : The Personnel Officer, National & All send of J u n e. A n impression and once again includes the non-verbal as , C° t 'iT are ° / t e " a s k « d Products Division, Fisher & Paykel Limited, P.0,] Patterson, W well as the verbal facets. f°r,thT ‘mtalimpressionsl. Use the time of waiting to 14348, Panmure. get a reel of the place. If you come straight from a v, A U SA . PREPARATION lecture or are carrying crash helmets, umbrella, Planning & Economics Division - NZ Wool Board . . shopping etc leave it with the receptionist. (Grovelling The Board is looking for recent graduates BOOLVISITS - re-read job description, list of duties, conditions of around for all your bits and pieces at the end of the Economics, Business Administrate^ appointm ent, and any other m aterial available about interview doesn’t make for a dignified exit. M a th em a tics/S ta tistic s, C om puter Science, year AUSA the organisation. Greeting - greet the interviewer with a smile; present Operations Research. The positions commence in Ju sits to S eco n c - re-read your application yourself as alert and alive. Write to : The Personnel Manager, NZ Wool. nd area. T h e p jig stu d en ts a sity is like. I f y ihool V isits, pie: or le a v e troductory e v e i nin Rm 237. A umVERSOT D ,organiser(s) fo :;5b. D D

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20 ► CRACCUM JUNE 18 1985 RDS ls are off*, nt residents Honolulu for r Zealand 1 or partial ny AirTravs d Fieldwoij lential Hal Books j STUDENT NEWS pportunity dty. Culture ai STUDENT JOB SEARCH ► student politicians to learn that they cannot ‘roll’ ; awards:- an employee in the same way as they ‘roll’ each f culture an other. Clerical Staff of the Association called a Stop of Nation^, | Work meeting on Wednesday and again on WINTER TOURNAMENT ► ific Islander' Thursday to discuss comments made by The appointment of the controllers is up in the rogram Are| Clerical Staff of the Association called a Stop air at the moment - see Exec report for more Work meeting on Wednesday and again on details. However, the show must go on, and so the on in the art Thursday to discuss comments made by Graham following info is still relevant. Watson about Helen Grant the Auckland Job Date of tournament: August 25 - 29 inclusive. Search Co-ordinator. (See page 17 for more details). People are needed to take on the following However after this apology was recieved there responsibilities: HQ, Billeting, Transport, Social, >d Lybrand were further developments and as we are going to [•TIME FEES SUBM ISSIONS ► Hand Book, Information Pockets, Blues Panel, i comput print it is not known whether the staff will strike possibly Publicity and Records controllers. Each of these tomorrow - Friday 14 June. positions won’t take up much time until the )r two UJSA sub-committee to consider the question The Clerical Staff (which includes the staff of Job tournament is underway. stallation rential subscription for part-time students is Search) work hard and well and are valuable to the Free entry to all social events plus a helpers ripherals, ] Bing for submissions. Submissions should give association. Many of them have been working for : The Nati ration to lower fees for part-time students, us for years unlike numbers of Exec who change party at the end is proposed. nd, P.0. For further info drop into the Students Assn and tions of part-time students; any fees differentials every year. part-time students; adjustm ent in fees for In the words of Bob Rigg- It’s high time for ask to see the tournament controller. Engine > students to cover any loss of fee income from ners and the effects upon AUSA and its ability ision of Fis ride services to all members, Developn issions should be in writing (although verbal Agenda for SRC to be held 1pm June 19th in a degree sions can be made by arrangement), addressed 1 engineer^ {Welfare Officer and must be received by AUSA the Caf Extension. onal & All eend of June. Any enquiries should be directed to ited, P.0,1 Patterson, Welfare Officer or Bob Lack, y, AUSA. - Election of Sports Officer ol Board graduates aOOL V I S I T S ► - Election of Overseas Students Officer inistratio Science, year AUSA organises visits by University (Vacant Exec positions) mence in Ju nts to Secondary Schools throughout the rool. id area. The purpose of these visits is to give - Election of 2 SRC Reps on Shadows Supervisory ding students a student perspective on what sity is like. If you are interested in volunteering Subcommittee. hool Visits, please contact Colin Patterson, 30- - General Women’s Health Policy. 3, or leave a message at AUSA reception, joductory evening will be held on 27 June at - Policy supporting - Women’s Ministry, - funded self iin Rm 237. A vacancy also exists for a School irganiser(s) for which an honorarium will be defense courses.

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JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 21 N G A TUHI M AI ^ r w M F ] S S ^ ~

We sincerely aplogise to Leighton Richard Foster and Bernard Kennelly cone DE STUNT APOLOGY CONTROVERSY IN THE LIBRARY the remarks made in a letter last week by DearP&B, Dear Craccum, Hutchinson. ators of this stur I ’d like to apologise for my letter about Richard Foster, I expenses of $1 On Monday 10th June I went to the Library to see an We do not doubt their trustworthiness Leighton Duley and Bernard Kennelly published last week. Wked up their year When I saw it in print, I was quite shocked at the seeming exhibition of books and photos etc that I knew would be put on honesty in their financial dealings with |to contribute towards intensity of hatred that jumped off the page and hit me! display by the Friends of Palestine. Association and regret and implication to When I arrived, I saw just a few photos, with a small group of leave your donat When I saw it, in print, I was quite shocked at the seeming effect. n or with Mark All* people there, so I thought ‘there has to be more’, walked around to an Educationa intensity of hatred that jumped off the page and hit me! the Library and then came up to the group of people, who I meant it more as a joke, and certainly did not wish to cast informed me, that owing to a complaint made, the exhibition *00 we’ll give you a i doubts on their trustworthiness as far as money goes. was being taken down!!! ^deductable!) I’ve never written to Craccum before and so have never been Feeling rather disappointed and angry, I went with a Please help : I able to look at myself in a ‘written’ mirror. absolute reality - an entity that is far greater than „ ! are also num As Cornelius Stone said, ‘We are all bigots, and not by degrees committee member to see a member of the Senior Library Staff woman. Should I be so bold as to spell God with a capital ‘ >v_i other instance either..’ I will indeed be keeping this is mind as regards what I to discuss it. We were informed that ‘we had not gone through i etc on the Pub 1 say in future. Once again, I meant my letter as a joke, and the proper channels’ to arrange the display, and as the material Yours in the faith-ore ^on does not pay apologise if it was not received as such. was regarded as being sensitive and controversial, it was felt (depending on yo b or just want to help that if only one side of the argument was shown in the M.J. 0’( exhibition, the Palestinian side, it would be seen as biased. A AVP PHONE GNOME ► A.B. Hutchison. suggestion by the Staff member of a ‘combined’ exhibition was JRER made. During the first week of the May holidays, the Executive c Quite apart from the fact that the display was understood by support the Association of University Teachers in their c tions for the posi us to have been granted permission, granted the issue is the Auckland University Rugby Club from using t on Friday June TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER controversial, my cynicism makes me feel that this was a facilities. he calendar year ; political decision and not one based solely on protocol grounds. I __ sted in standi Dear Mr Stone, This ban would have prevented the 200 or so students i cannot see the Jewish Society agreeing to exhibit with us (and have paid fees) to the AURC from using their club jontact me for info In answer to your question ‘Who are you?’ Who am I to oppose anyway - but perhaps someone out there can restore my faith in playing or practising at the University Park at Merton 1 jf the Treasurer, homosexual law reform? I am God’s voice. It is not I, but God, who human nature! In the interest of academic and democratic Graham Watson, Steve Barrilball, Cohn Patterson and! ner Treasurer 19: says that homosexuality is a sin. All true Christians serve God first, freedom which I-fondly imagine we are supposed to enjoy - I this move. and have a desire to love and obey God, although this caused other wish to protest this ‘judging’ action. Graham and I believed that this Executive decision wasc L GENERAL ME people to hate them. At least, if such a display could be shown, we are all, to the wishes of most students, while others argued that i God commands us to love one another. He also commands us to hopefully, adult enough to wish to be informed, at least of a this move was in line with the referendum ‘anti-tour’ given that a obey Him. It is the job of people who truly love God to spread God’s different point of view, no matter how uncomfortable it may of the Associati word. Perhaps it may have been, except that the A.U. Rugby < make some of the students/staff feel. already said they are anti-tour, and were instrumental in j nThursday 4 July ii I know that my friends who are not Christians see the Christian We are here to learn after all, hopefully with an open mind. Auckland Rugby Union to come out anti-tour as well. media on campus viewpoint as not being humanitarian. It is not humanitarian, it is 1 changes to the God-given. To prove our point, we conducted a random phone i Yours in peace three days. Giving all the arguments used at Exec in as fair a i Management C You probably see human sexual behaviour as a free choice, if it Margaret van Zeist as possible, we asked whether students supported the ban o Administration feels right, do it. In Romans, in the New Testament, God describes Friends of Palestine, Arts of appointment His rules for human sexuality. From an initial random selection of 300 f (compiled by Secretary Bob Lack), only 78 people could be contacted j um staff. If you wish to discuss this with me, you are welcome to. Ph 685169 utive requests th; God bless you because many were away on holiday. Of those 78, 59 op Executive decision, 14 supported the decision and 5 didn't k, to the Eleven Yours sincerely THE DARK AGE j of the Constitut Julia Wedding A sample population of 78 is hardly mind-shattering, l SRC (Students’ Representative Council) can decide policy | be considered a Dear Persons, whole Students’ Association (12,500 students) with only 50« i in writing to th< Cornelius Roquentin replies: No you're not. You are not God's I am writing this letter on the (naive?) assumption that you What is disturbing, however, is that at the next Executive! if 7 June. voice. You are mistaken. You are blindly wedding an indivisibly are broad-minded enough to accept a letter from a when I presented a report on the survey, the Executive i fascistic idiocy and calling it love, and its just a little much. ‘fundamentalist’ Bible-believing Christian. One who is actually receive it. They argued that the report wasn’t official" [nominations Believe what you will but don't expect the rest of the Human naive enough to believe that sex before marriage is wrong! A business. When it came down to the vote, they refused I ERS FOR 1986 race to jum p when you say jump. We won't. belief that was almost a social ‘norm’ about twenty years ago. request that the way each person voted be recorded in ther How things have changed - I ’m almost a bit worried that I will the meeting. .tions are invited I be in the category of a socially unacceptable minority soon! And, From the phone survey, most students said they were l i of the Associate INFLAMED EMOTIONS ON AOTEA CENTRE yes, as I see it, homo-sexuality is a pathological state. but didn’t see why the University Rugby Club should be vil 1986 to 31 Deo But before you pick up stones to throw at me - will the real when they have already come out anti-tour. I feel that i a are: Dear Editors, heretic (sic) please stand up! As I see it the real question at reflecting the majority student view, and we conducted at stake is this: Are our traditional Judeao-Christian moral values survey to justify our position. The Executive didn’t want t stive Vice-Presi The centre-fold page display on the views on Aotea Centre ii Vice-President contained several mistakes. based on mere mythological superstition - or, dare I say it, is These people are your elected representatives. Do they r What was a training exercise in studio design by architecture there just a faint hint of a possibility that there is in fact an you? students has been turned into a political slanging match by both j tions must be m An | be on the nomina students and lecturers insistent that their designs are better and Administrative Vice-P e Association offici the costs far cheaper than the Council’s. itions close with tl The town hall was built in 1900’s style and opened in 1911. It y 21 June 1985. E needs earthquake-proofing, and air conditioning inside to name d 24 July. but two essential requirements. It is not suited to modem day >s for the positic acoustics and performances by orchestras, operas, live dramatic j a student of tl works, or professional international singing stars of Dame Joan one year imme Sutherland, or Elton John. The seating is inadequate for a ition. Candidates reasonable return on the huge costs of staging performances on jer must have pass stage today. nse Accounting I. The ‘Mandalay replica’ does not suit nor does it fit nicely over PETER SHAFFER’S President is currenl a car park entrance, apart from the fact that the property is not jus is increased in 1 owned by Council. Furthermore, the one area the students did ecost of hying. Th< not fully research was the most important one - the costs. A city ^ear been paid $71 council has to be responsible for the final costings of it’s major I the academic year capital works programme. A sharp design on the outside is one iry regulations ar thing, but it’s the practicalities of the inside for a project like CAL* i if bursary entit this that really matter, and that is where cost is the vital THEATRE WORKSHOP factor. Practical design and free-flow movement is another. Takapuna has agreed to pay it’s share, and it is confidently MAIDMENT THEATRE 4ING OFFICE I expected that both Waitemata and Manukau will finally come into the scheme once the actual contract is signed and ons for this po; construction work is started. The design is not ten years old, it JUNE 19'29n-2D ai]y i should be ha has been constantly checked, and recently was ‘fine-tuned’ by , And oh yes, it is Australian theatre consultant, Mr Ron Brown on For ALL SC IEN TIFIC and recommendation from the trustees of the latest opening PROGRAM M ABLE CALCULAT0F performing arts complex - that of Brisbane Arts Centre. PORTABLE COMPUTERS The community councils referred to do not exist at all, they are community committees, and not all of the 13 members were FLOPPY DISKS, BATTERIES consulted or represented at the combined meeting held by the and ACCESSORIES city community committee although the claim is that all have agreed. Authorised dealers of Casio, Council fully owns the Aotea square site and can commence construction once the contract is signed, on or before the 20 Hewlett, Packard, Sharp and others June 1985. It would not have that ability if the student architects scheme was a viable alternative, which it certainly is not. If residents and ratepayers are concerned over $63 million cost based on completion in 1989, then I feel they would be Students 1 0 % d i s c o u n t really alarmed over proposed costs of $143 million plus the costs of buying the land and closing the principal street of Greys Ave., off, along with the higher costs due to the delays. Facts have to be faced. It will never be cheaper.

Peter Boys THE COMPUTER CALCULATOR CEN' 27 Lome Street Ph 79C

22 ► CRACCUM JUNE 18 1985 ANUI USA SRC REPS FOR SHADOWS E STUNT Elections this week at SRC 1pm Wed 19th June in the Caf Extension of 2 SRC Reps on tors of this stunt have had to pay The Shadows Supervisory Subcommittee. expenses of $1400 and this has This Committee is a management body, which mucked up their yearly budget. If you basically runs Shadows. Any student who is LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK 17-21 JUNE 'lo contribute towards these poor bods, interested in one of these positions is [ (ggve your donation at Studass encouraged to attend SRC from 1pm. ◄WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE 7pm in Wominspace, 3 or with Mark Allen. (Sure it’ll be a SRC Chair Workshop on Sexuality and the Bill, to an Educational plac^and if it’s For ALL WOMIN. 00 we’ll give you a receipt and it may DYSLEXIA uctable!) ◄THURSDAY 20 JUNE 1pm in Quad Womins Band. Please help : Please help : David Simpson (Student Learning Unit) and are also numerous (previously Margaret Heppner (a student) will be speaking on ◄THURSDAY NIGHT Womens night in Womenspace for all Women, other instances of damage (to Dyslexia and other reading and writing Amanda and Penny, Jess Hawk Okenstar, and more. etc on the Pub Crawl) which the problems. ^cn does not pay for so if you feel All welcome to attend. Tuesday 18th June 1- Snapdragon will have books on display and sale in Womenspace 12-2 Monday to or just want to help please donate to 2pm, in the Council Room (by AUSA reception). Thursday. Further enquiries to Heather Brockett, AUSA (ph 30-789). ◄ FRIDAY NIGHT Social Gathering at Private Home for all lesbians and supporters. RER Phone 764-590 or see Womens Rights Officer for Details. ons for the position of Treasurer N g a W a h in e on Friday June 29th. The position the calendar year and is paid. Would WOMEN IN EDUCATION interested in standing for this position contact me for information about the Next Meeting on Thursday 20th June 1.00pm DISABLED STUDENTS ACTION GROUP: FOR SALE the Treasurer. Sem E.3 Wynyard St. Palmer Treasurer 1985. Next meeting is on Tuesday 18th June, in the Silver plastic suit for Persons from Mars Council Room (by AUSA reception) l-2pm with impersonations or wet weather on bikes. Fit a GENERAL MEETING Politics coffee and tea served from 12.30. Speakers - tall not fat person. $40 but any offer David Simpson and Margaret Heppner, on considered. Why be wet when you can dazzle is given that a Special General Dyslexia and other reading and writing the world. of the Association will be held at It’s a miracle! problems. All welcome. Phone Ian 792-194. Thursday 4 July in the Rec Centre to It’s a breakthrough! media on campus and in particular YES! It’s a meeting of all university teachers, VIDEO KLUB OVERSEAS STUDENTS changes to the structures of the students, electricians, labourers, custodians, B Management Committee and the mechanics etc. who want to form a united ANTI- Will perform as normal, Tuesday 6.30 Kia Ora, Administration Board, and the TOUR-front. V.I.M. (Very Important Meeting). Executive Lounge. At the inaugral meeting of the Overseas of appointment of Campus Radio Media event, etc ??!! Students Collective (COS) on the 10th June 1985 KAOS is back it was decided that COS be set up to ensure that -jn staff. Time: 1.00pm overseas students are not neglected. It is hoped tive requests that any proposals for Date: 27th June to the Eleventh and Sixteenth Place: Old Govt. House gardens. Contacts: Janet Killing is an organised sport. Brought to you that by the formation of COS work can be done in of the Constitution which members Cole, (Studass) 30-789 ex 829, or Mike Hanne by the letters A.R.A. Practice your powers of educational, welfare, political, cultural and social activities. COS will help in providing a link to be considered at this meeting be (Italian) University extension 7106. assasination. A fair day event involving in writing to the Secretary by 5pm murder and survival. For personal between the different groups of overseas HETEROSEXUALS UNAFRAID OF involvement contact Mark Allan Rm 111. students to ensure greater interaction and 7 June. GAYS harmony. COS will also provide a link between the local students and overseas students. Until NOMINATIONS H.U.G. (Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays) is General such time as the necessary amendments to -RS FOR 1986 the name of a new organisation in Auckland to AUSA’s constitution are passed; this structure support the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. will be informal and there will be an Overseas :-ns are invited for the positions of ‘The Homosexual Law Reform Bill is a matter THE VARSITY MARAE of the Association for the period 1 Students Officer who will be from COS. The 1986 to 31 December 1986. These of fundamental human rights. Some of us are Overseas Students iOfficer is not expected to parents of sons and daughters called Kia ora koutou, nga tauira Maori shoulder the workload alone as all members of are: homosexuals and lesbians. Some of us have A hui for fill Maori students .nterested in COS will ensure that the work done and time brothers called Gay. Many of us have friends what is happening with the university marae spent will be by collective style. tive Vice-President will be held in Rm 704, HSB this Wednesday Vice-President who are homosexual. As such, I would like to invite your Club to Usually they’re just part of the human (19th June) at 5pm. Come along and get officially appoint at least one person to represent family. But in the past few months, New involved. your Club at COS. To ensure your members’ ons must be made in writing and Thereafter hui will be held every Wednesday be on the nomination form available Zealanders have been subjected to a barrage interests it would be of great benefit that such an of hate, mis-information and lies. at 1pm in Room 237. Association office, appointment be made. Should your club wish to tions close with the Secretary at 5pm We can no longer stand by and allow these send more than one person, your club is most y 21 June 1985. Elections will be held indignities’. LIFT NEEDED welcome to do so. The organisation is holding' it’s first public 24 July. The next meeting will be on Thursday 22nd June meeting at the New Vision Gallery, His By woman who has broken her leg. From New at 7.30pm. Please ensure that your Club is tes for the position of President must Windsor Rd, Avondale, to and from University. n a student of this University for at Majesty’s Arcade, on Tuesday 18th June at represented at this meeting. This is a very one year immediately preceeding 7.30pm. Her lecture timetable is Mon 9 - 1, Trasill 1, exciting p^od for overseas students as much is -n. Candidates for the position of For further information contact H.U.G. Wed 9 - 3, Thursill - 5, Fn - , happening in the different areas outlined in the must have passed the papers which Athina Reay 796-397, Stephen Jacobs 603- be flexible around these. first paragraph. COS is for you so make COS 292. If you can help please contact Heather Brockett . n i Accounting I. urgently, at Students Assn (ph 30-789). .^ident is currently paid $9,913 p.a. Remember: United we Stand! Divided we fall!! is increased in line with movements cost of liying. The other officers have C l u b s BAMBINA OWNERS been paid $71 per week after tax STAC m academic year. This figure is based Anyone interested in starting up a Fiat CRACCUM regulations and it will probably be STOP THE TOUR ACTION COMMITTEE - Bambina owners support group contact if bursary entitlements are changed meets every Monday 1pm in the Exec anybody in Rm 111 or on ext 826. Lounge. Everyone welcome - you even get a CRACCUM STAFF MEETINGS free cup of tea or coffee!! ING OFFICER FOR SALE If you are interested in helping in any way — TELETHON ’85 The Carlton Gore Rd landmark Bambina. AS layout, writing, researching, or just offering ' •-ns for this position are called for. ideas, come up to the office, 3rd floor, Any clubs, groups and individuals planning is where is. $450 ono. Typical Bambina shape '-n should be handed to Bob Lack by and white colour. Not suitable for large Mondays at one. We’ll also have some tea and And oh yes, it is a paid position. anything to do with telethon or wishing to do bikkies. so, leave a note in Rm 111 or with Mark Allen family. Phone Wallis 792-194. or Pat Stodart. ______

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JUNE 18 1985 CRACCUM ► 23 SHELL BP AND TODD OIL SERVICES LIMITED Do ā Chartered Ac CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR get to the top? ENGINEERING AND FINANCE A lot of them do but it depends on the person and GRADUATES the training.

The training and experience we provide in New Shell BP and Todd Oil Services Limited is responsible for the Zealand and overseas, produce Chartered operation of the onshore Kapuni and offshore Maui gas/ Accountants who do get to the top. condensate fields in Taranaki. If you are completing your commerce degree this We have vacancies for graduates in the following disciplines: year, we would like to talk to you about the training, the work and the prospects in our firm. We will be visiting the university on Engineering Finance June 10, 24, 25, 26. Electrical Computing Chemical Accounting Arrangements for an interview Mechanical should be made with: The Secretary, Careers Advisory Service, Room 14 Company representatives will be on Campus 1, 2, 29, and 30 (Offices located behind the upper lecture theatre) July 1985 for the purpose of conducting interviews. Final year students interested in pursuing a career in the Oil &• Gas industry are asked to make appointments for interviews with the Careers Advisory Office at the University. H Coopers Further information on the company and the nature and C&LI &LyBrand scope of its activities can be obtained from the Careers Chartered Accountants Advisory Office. Auckland, Henderson, Manukau City, Whangarei, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Feilding, Johnsonville, Wellington, Christchurch, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill.

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