EDITORIAL PREZ SEZ — AUSA

For those of you who are politically Enough of the serious stuff, on the organise — but it takes an equal if not aware the 1990 election is only seven lighter side of things Shadows is open greater amount of courage and convic­ weeks away. And for those of you who right through the exam time until the last tion to embark on this path. It is shame­ are not politically aware, here is an in­ Friday of exams. So when you decide ful that thousands of students around the teresting piece of information: that you need a bit of a diversion from country must make this sort of sacrifice b y IN, The Tarantula spider can live to be drinking which I know some people find in the hope of being heard by the thirty years old and only needs to be fed hard to do, why not go and sit a paper Wellington power mongers. once a month, now that is the sort of pet or two? a student can afford. Statistics around the country are al­ Craccum had some major problems While I am talking about student ready indicating that we were right - up last week with our typesetter at a funer­ poverty a word of encouragement for front fees results in negative growth of iibrariar al, the technical editor in Australia, an student participation. those of you boycotting the fee and are advertising manager who decided to witholding your last instalment — good /grinning study, a certain person who had a prob­ The very people who are supposed to on ya! Just remember that if you do not lem of apathy of everything except the be ensured a place in the system are be­ the Che pay by the 5th of October nasty conse­ mouth, that the Craccum team all know ing excluded: women, mature-age, eth­ quences like you being prevented from bear on and once again the repromaster is un­ nic minorities and those from low-income sitting your exams may occur. usable causing the always smooth pro­ Teenaa koutou katoa. Congratulations to families. Students around the country and f Remember that Lockwood Smith, duction of this paper to be slightly bumpy all those who are standing by their polit­ will remember the infamy of this gover- National’s Education Spokesperson in places this week. ical convictions by boycotting payment ment and its user pays regime at the bal­ reason, signed a pledge on the day of the student of the third instalment. Many hundreds lot box this year. library's protest march down Queen Street. It stat­ We have received heaps of letter from of you have signed the boycott register ed that if National won the election and dedicated Craccum readers, so many that To all the boycotters everywhere, kia as an indication of your disgust at User kaha, kia toa, kia mana wanui e hoa catalog did not scrap the fee he would resign. we just have not got the space to print Pays education — and you have my While we are on the subject...the Gold­ them all. We are sorry if your letter is not maa. Be strong, be brave, be steadfast has shol heartfelt support. This form of protest my friends. en Orb Spider builds a web one to two printed but we do not know what else to and civil disobedience is at variance with Ella Henry Universit metres wide, imagine coming across that do except maybe have a letter’s supple­ the usual screaming, protest marches we one dark night! ment. (Which we probably cannot and givi Back to the point, student voters are afford). important and can make the difference. Hey! But what has that got to do with For example in the Mount Roskill elec­ the fact that the male hunting spider, torate, (Phil Goff is the Labour candi­ distinctic date) the student population is large Drassodes, captures young females of the AUSA NOTICES enough to have a significant effect on species and encloses them in silken cells until their final moult when he then de­ Phil Goffs majority. cides to mate with them... and you * Better than putting out a F..K off Phil get this properly underway before the Up until nov thought human women need liberating! One thousand students have so far iem within the Goff single. signed up to boycott — withold their election,” Suze said. * Better than marching down Queen St. Sorry, I just could not help putting in system, whose third final instalment. That’s great — it Suze says that legally it doesn’t matter * Better than boycotting fees. those fascinating bits of information and administration is a quarter of the number paying by in­ if the goverment changes as a result of * VOTE PHIL GOFF OUT. I am sitting in anticipation and expecta­ the library nee< stalments. Come on the rest of you — the election because the action would be Let’s show him that students really tion of Steven Speilberg’s latest movie. system and om don’t stuff around — make the bastards agains the Crown per se rather than sim­ mean business. ARACHNAPHOBIA, which uses spi­ wait — pay them late! Thanks to those ply the Labour Government. Ella Henry our current University ders from ... you guessed it, Avondale. who have signed up — if you’re paying “However, the politics of the situation president is also a candidate in the Mount Spot ya by instalments and did not get the letter will be different if National is elected and Roskill electorate for NLP. Wendy from AUSA come into AUSA and get we will need to reassess the court action one. If you’re boycotting we need to if that happens,” Suze said. know who you are so we can give some In the meantime, NZUSA is meeting CREDITS measure of protection. with Don McKinnon, Deputy Leader of And I ask you — why the hell should the National Party and Lockwood Smith, Editors: Mark Roach, Wendy Newton, Peter Gray you pay on time! In an open letter to Lin­ Education Spokesperson, to seek a com­ Features Journalist: Max Chappie [Tel: (09) 390-789 Ext 840] coln students published in the student mitment from National to honour the In­ Technical Editor: T o n y Bell newspaper Caclin, Lincoln student pres­ ternational Covenant should National be Technical Consultants: Independent Media Services [Tel/Fax: (09) 624-3257] ident, Michael James said “We are ask­ elected. Marketing Manager: Joe Babich [Tel: (09) Ext 841 Fax: (09) 303-2236] ing all students who are due to pay the “The Human Rights Commission was Printers: Rodney and Waitemata Times Ltd third fee instalment next term to withold established under a National Government Typesetting: Teresa Platt that instalment. We are asking you, sim­ and the International Covenant on Eco­ Distribution Manager: Martin Gill ply do not write that cheque to Phil Goff nomic, Social and Cultural Rights was Photography: Wendy Newton, Maarten Dijkstra — make him sweat in the crucial weeks signed under a National Government, so we are hopeful National will commit it­ Contributing Writers: Mark Roach, The E-Team, Steve Barriball, before the election. We each have power self to honouring these obligations” Suze Des Amanono, Ella Henry, Ross McLeod, Travis Brickie and now is the time to use it.” The fees are bloody illegal and said. General (in the best sense of the word) Assistance: F lu ffy immoral!! Proofreading: Ellen Hulme (the AUSA Accountant who leaves this week. If this government isn’t prepared tc Bye Ellen, and thankyou.) LEGAL ACTION ON FEES honour their obligations under the in­ UNDERWAY ternational Covenant on Economic, So­ The announcement in late July that the cial and Cultural Rights why should we CONTENTS Human Rights Commission has found bother to honour them by paying the Cover by Sim on Gooder ...... 1 the government’s new $1250 fees to be in third instalment. So if you want to boy­ Editorial and Presidential Colum ns ...... 2 breach of New Zealand’s international le­ cott — sign the book. Feature: Library C o m p u te rs ...... 3 gal obligations came after months of be­ More information contact the Presi­ Success Story: Brendan Turner ...... 4 hind-the-scenes work by NZUSA and dent, Ella Henry, the Education Vice their lawyers, Russell McVeagh McKen­ President, Roger Pym, or the Resource Feature: M ilitary R e b e l...... 5 zie Bartlett & Co of Wellington. Now Officer, Whaitiri. If you’re worried about Feature: Student Job Search Gears Up For Summer...... 6 that the issue is finally in the public are­ not having the money to pay — don’t Feature: Auckland G raduate: Colin Nicholson Q .C ...... 7 na, the Association is preparing the doc­ despair, come and see us — anyone who Publick E y e ...... 8 umentation necessary to bring the case to has identified in the form we sent you S p o rts ...... 8 court. that they would have difficulty will Kiwi II Gets Wings Clipped ...... 8 NZUSA President Suze Wilson says receive information soon. A N e w Student U n io n ? ...... 9 literally pages of requests under the Offi­ Please — you must tell us if you are Aussie Fram e U p ...... 10 cial Information Act have been sent off boycotting and/or in financial difficulty S p o rts ...... 10 to the Minister of Education Phil Goff so we can protect you. Improve Exam Performance — Mind Mapping ...... 10 and Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer. Carry the torch — put the heat on the T e le v is io n ...... 11 “We’re requesting documents and in­ fees. “Get you r formation we’ll need to finalise our state­ Happy boycotting. Cover Story: The M is s io n ...... 12 ments of claim to the courts and we’re Roger Pym - Con thi A r t s ...... 13 requesting it urgently because we want to TTHiw'otinn V irp ProciHant W om anspace ...... 1 4 L e t t e r s ...... 15 with the IE N o tic e s ...... 16 rarian) turne DEADLINES Sed NOTIS (b Integrated Sy DISCLAIMER Articles IVIIUUciy I u e su a y s ied Aucklam Craccum is published by the Auckland University Students' Association Incor­ Letters, Notices porated. The views expressed in Craccum do not necessarily represent those of Midday Wednesdays ^ent. the publisher, the editors, or anybody, so there!

2 — Craccum, 10 September 1990 :qual if not ind convic- It is shame- Cats Infest Library! around the of sacrifice by Mark Roach ird by the itry are al­ right - up growth of librarians are Librarian) pointed out at AUCAT’s offi­ cial opening on August 15. grinning more than “Anyone with a terminal could access upposed to AUCAT,” he says, and states that all var­ ;em are be­ the Chesire Cat they sity libraries could be linked (Waikato e-age, eth- bear on their T-shirts and Auckland already are for instance) low-income although, as Porter chuckles, “What you he country - and for good could do once you found a book, say in this gover- Christchurch, I do not know.” : at the bal- jeason. AUCAT the library's new on-line Changes ^where, kia “The card catalogue system is gradual­ anui e hoa catalogue system, ly withering away,” says Porter proudly, >e steadfast has shot Auckland “much to some people’s sadness.” But des­ pite ‘old-fashioned’ opposition, AUCAT E lla Henry University into the 90's is re-shaping the library’s image. Although the new system will not mean and given the library changes in staffing levels it will change the International way in which the staff works. For in­ stance, Wilson points to the soon-to-be- distinction. installed bar-code sytem. Over the sum­ mer holidays bar-codes will be installed on all books as a means of issuing. This of course would mean the introduction of Up until now, the only automated sys- before the bar codes onto student ID cards, much iem within the library was the IBM 3081 in the same way public libraries are :sn’t matter system, whose purpose was exclusively operating. a result of administration. With the conviction that World First use. A few have been installed in some of Also due in the future will be the facil­ n would be the library needed a computer catalogue With a bit of campaigning and pa­ the fifteen divisional libraries at Univer­ ity to print out information displayed on :r than sim- system and one that would be compati- tience, the Americans eventually agreed sity. Once the network of cabling is com­ the OPAC monitors. The remaining card for the system to be initiated in Auckland, plete all libraries will be linked. Architec­ catalogues and serials will be filed onto tie situation thus making it the first institution outside ture could access Geology, Biological NOTIS within the next couple of years. elected and of the United States to take delivery of Science could access Philson (medical) Walking past the rows of wooden ourt action the software. and so on. drawers, Ken Porter remarks with a wave Deputy Librarian, Chris Wilson, cites The system could continue further than of his hand, “Then we can get rid of this „ is meeting the library’s size as a major factor in that as Kenneth Porter (Acting Head lot.” y Leader of achieving the system. “We are medium /ood Smith, sized,” she states, “In no way are we con­ seek a com- sidered small, even by their (the Ameri­ nour the In- cans) standards.” National be Wilson, who has an array of statistics at her fingertips, also reveals what will be mission was in store for the system and for users of government the system in ensuing months. ant on Eco- “I know of two Australian universities Rights was off-hand that are interested in our sys­ ernment, so tem,” she says, something which values 1 commit it- AUCAT in terms of usefulness. Aus­ ations” Suze tralian interests do not just stop at po­ tential users of the system. At the moment an Australian utility named AMARC is prepared to being used to introduce further entries nder the in- onto AUCAT. onomic, So- Wilson: “Our current catalogues are y should we photographed, then installed onto the r paying the AMARC database.” The retroconversion vant to boy- process will put another 200,000 entries on file, adding to the (approximately) ct the Presi- 200,000 already installed. Figures by the ieation Vice end of the year are estimated to be around he Resource the half million mark. /orried about Day — don’t Long haul anyone who Ask a librarian how long it has taken we sent you to get such a system as AUCAT installed fficulty will and you’ll probably receive a wry smile. John Hayward, head of Lending Services us if you are informs us that as early as 1968 a com­ cial difficulty mittee was formed with the aim to intro­ duce automation into the library cata­ e heat on the logue system. AUCAFs installation started in Oc­ ‘Get your name on him !" tober of last year and finally opened to Roger Pym - Con the Librarian a.k.a students in July of this year. Hayward ice President Ken Porter says reaction to the computers has been “very positive. The staff are right behind |e with the IBM, Peter Durey (Head it.” librarian) turned to an American system So are students. Rough figures approx­ jailed NOTIS (North Western Online To- imate a 30% increase in reserves and an , ! al Integrated System). The system, which average of 20,000 inputs keyed into the esdays nited Auckland’s needs perfectly, had OPACs every day — proof of AUCAT’s , inly one drawback in that it had never already overwhelming success. e S Q a y S een outside the North American con- In the general library on the first floor, llU (|m u iiiii» » t. there are over thirty OP AC’s set up for

Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 3 ATI S uccess Story Turner on Front Burner BY MAX CHAPPLE Colonel D have no prior knowledge ier. Despite He gets a taste of the good life as to what’s in it and you critic of the have to produce say two paigner. M< while enjoying a job full of spice. entrees, two mains and desserts in say an hour or ATI graduate chef Brendan Turner an hour and a half. That’s It was in the quite challenging.” genes. David has a great career on the boil. After two years at the says that even South Pacific Turner felt birth in Califor At 22 years of age, ATI, during which he to date with what’s he could not learn much j: he probably w Brendan Turner is belie­ attained City and Guilds happening in the work more there and broke his I a soldier. ved to be the youngest exe­ of London Institute cer­ place. To a degree, it was contract to become sous I “At the earli cutive chef in New tificates, ended in 1987 hard to relate what you chef at Oblio’s Garden .recall I knew t Zealand. He’s the big when he was awarded the were learning in tech back Restaurant in Ponsonby. be a soldier be< cheese in the kitchen of the Hotel and Catering Indus­ to the workplace because He says that period, where in my genes, conservative Auckland try Training Board’s prize you’re simply not doing he worked under gov­ A breeding a go< Club and despite his age for the most outstanding that very classical style of erning director Stephen £ 1 1 m a race.” has already worked in four trainee. food. It’s very set and Randle, was good for him. The breedin top Auckland eating structured and there’s no duced David places and spent a year “It was quite a good variation. Lots of Scope stretched far b cooking in a Japan hotel. course,” says Turner of the “But I can see that it is “That was great — it ? and produced And as if he hasn’t got ATI training. “It was fair­ important because every­ was a smaller restaurant, it riors. His foref enough of his plate, this ly comprehensive in that it body has to know how to was far more specialised. swordsmen in prize winner is now teach­ involved quite a bit more make the basic sauces and At that stage Stephen was Wiliam the Co ing cookery part-time at than cooking — you did have a base to work right into food and every­ the eleventh c Manukau Polytechnic. hygiene 1 and 2, first aid from.” - body there was really keen their bloody 1 and restaurant service on on everything ... we just Eventually to Turner’s interest in food the food and liquor side.” took such pride in things. of America. and cooking took him Confidence Boost If you had an idea it would lit: pill “They came straight from the sixth He describes the course During his training, be developed and there gland to Amer form at Henderson High as very comprehensive but Turner competed in the was lot of scope.” H involved in School to the kitchen of slightly restricting. National Salon Culinaire During that time Randle take home a goldfish from as long as it’s cooked wars,'fought t the South Pacific Hotel, “I think ATI is great be­ competitions for chefs. He went regularly to Sapporo a petshop. properly.” tionary war, 1 now the Park Royal, cause it teaches you the won two silvers and a in Japan to compete in the “They’d take them out 1812. In ever; where he started training. basics and it’s a really bronze and says the con­ annual show festivals and of the bag and throw them Modification America has f< good grounding. A lot of test helped boost his bring back ideas. on the bench and the thing He hasn’t brought in ra­ been Had people, friends and so on, confidence. “From that I became would just cling on. dical change, which Top Trainee who have done it also, feel “You’re faced with a interested in Japan and They’d take turns at trying wouldn’t have gone down Adventure box of ingredients — you things Japanese — it real­ to tug it off and it’s a real­ His three year course at that it’s not particularly up well in the formal male- Despite this j ly appealed to me and it ly weird sensation to have member s-only club, but one of these things wrap­ paration, F was something quite dif­ modified it into what didn’t expect ped around your arm.” ferent. It was through him he calls ‘international’ career in the an Then came an eye-ope­ that I decided to go to Ja­ cuisine. Enlisted as an u ner which Brendan says pan and work for a year “(Our members) travel a year-old in tl You don't hove to be on and he lined up work for made him see why the Jap­ O f f * - great deal, they’re enter­ World War II. 0 / / - 6 / , me in a hotel there.” anese got such a sadistic taining businesspeople and reputation during World ment kept h; they bring them here. battlefield. War II. Language They want to impress “I was only “They would just start So in late 1987 Turner them, so it’s a modern »ham, bam, 0tl,t0S n ie \ cutting its tentacles off it landed in Sapporo and style of food. I call it in­ ma’am and foi and they would go cutting was the first foreigner to ternational because it in­ doing what I re ° n d G 0 s % work in the Century everywhere without killing corporates a little bit of it first. So I’m screaming do. It was a Grand Hotel. Japanese, a bit of Chinese and exciting ar ‘You’ve got to kill it first, “I went with virtually no — whatever.” rays in airborn you can’t do that. It’s bar­ knowledge of Japanese so There’s no doubt Turn­ do kind of uni it was a bit of a struggle: baric!’ They just pushed er has achieved remarka­ me aside.” Hackworth’ I’d go home at the end of bly for somebody so experience foil each day with a splitting young. He says his age has of the Cold \ headache.” Rice Thrice been a hindrance at times. ras on this gru However, his host fami­ Despite his protests, “It can be difficult, for was bapti; ly treated him very well that was the way things example, employing peo­ madness of th and he was taken around were done in Japan — and ple who may be older. To ■odd years. /■ v and treated like an adopt­ the same went for fish and begin with I found it hard “As a little 1> ed child. The host was eels. to kind of tell them what in Italy, Triest< Yoshiharu Funaki, chair­ He did get used to the to do. It doesn’t worry me Yugoslav man of the NZ Sapporo taste of raw seafood and now. They can either take the Amêri i / r Friendship Association the idea of eating rice with it or leave it.” ed so there wa and a friend of Randle. breakfast, lunch and din­ [found myself The hotel where Turner ner. He admires Japanese Back up foxhole and loc worked had three food cuisine, calling it very As he looks around the front there wi sections — Chinese, Ja­ healthy. plush Auckland Club, regiments of panese and European After a year, Turner re­ whose new premises in Communists c (French). But it was the turned to Auckland and Shortland St cost $6.5 mil­ my hill to tak food of Japan he was joined Hoffman’s restaur­ lion to fit out, Turner irhus to take T 4 r , ., . keenest to learn about. ant in Herne Bay under hasn’t forgotten where he f “My sergeam “The Japanese food is Alison Granville. He says came from. He says his iiing to me and O 0 so healthy, so refreshing Granville and Randle were ATI qualification really ra’re gonna h; _____ - * and I love the simplicity the greatest influences on kick-started his career. here and we’ri which I think is really ele­ him. “I think qualifications going to use the -it; ' ‘ O f / gant. Everything would A year with Hoffman’s are important for any­ that we just lev arrive at the hotel either ended when Turner was body, whatever they’re ivith.’ I said ‘W alive or incredibly fresh.” approached by the Auck­ training at and whatever Ido Sarge?’ H land Club whose food, he they’re into. I think to from your ’ 'deep, if you Octopuses says had a boarding school have a qualification be­ explosion, cov Included in the list of reputation. hind you is the best thing Nith a poncho, new sagent every m onth. live guests were octopuses, “Not that I don’t like out. You’ve always got at the fireball. which arrived in large ordinary food,” he adds something to fall back 15 I became plastic bags like you might quickly, “because I do — on. with the begina

4 — Craccum, 10 September 1990 War madness prompts about face

Colonel David Hackworth is America's most decorated living sold­ boot is definitely bigger.” sky in the middle of Viet sky, the John Wayne, be­ ier. Despite this and 25 years in the army, he is now an outspoken Cong territory because it cause of their frontier Rotten Whore mysteriously ran out of heritage. Everything was critic of the American war machine and an active anti-nuclear cam­ hydraulic fluid. solved with the pistol. paigner. Max Chappie met Uncle Sam's naughty nephew.... Hackworth denounced America’s involvement in “After those events the ‘What, we got problems in Vietnam in a battle-front next thing that happened Black Rock? Well send in interview on US television was (that the army fed the the Sheriff,’ they’d say. It was in the Hackworth Cold War and nuclear star, looked at the two in 1971. media) the line that went And the Sheriff comes gal­ genes. David Hackworth weapons.” star, looked at the one In his just-released book kind of like ‘Well, Colonel loping in and shoots all the Isays that even before his star, looked at the colonel, About Face, which Hack- Hackworth has been in the bad guys and peace birth in California in 1930, Action looked at the major. And worth visited New Zealand battle field over eight years prevails. ; he probably wanted to be Hackworth led the task the major said, ‘The de­ to promote, he writes: “I of his life and he’s seen a “That is part of the a soldier. forces into Berlin and was pots are filled with sea ra­ was 40 years old and I’d lot of combat. He’s been Americans’ reaction to any I “At the earliest possible with the reconnaissance tions and spam from the suddenly realised that the wounded eight times and problem, to shoot first, (recall I knew that I would unit that entered Korea. war’ and it rippled back to US Army, this rotten you know that makes a ask questions later. We be a soldier because it was “I went there a very Ike. And Ike said ‘Enough whore I’d been madly in person a bit unstable, a bit saw it in Vietnam, we saw in my genes. It was like young 19-year-old ser­ — get these guys proper love with for the last 25 emotional. Yes, he did it in Panama most breeding a good horse to geant and came home a food’.” years, wasn’t going to sound off, but you have to recently.” win a race.” very old 22-year-old cap­ mend her ways.” understand the poor devil The breeding that pro­ tain,” he says. Vietnam lies He was hounded into has been through so No Nukes duced David Hackworth After returning to Ber­ So he learned that if early retirement despite much.” He says America has stretched far back in time lin in 1961, Hackworth ar­ something was wrong, all being the nation’s youn­ “I was pissed off at the got to the point where it and produced many war­ rived back at his base in you had to do was bitch to gest ever full colonel (40). deception, at the lie upon simply does not focus on riors. His forefathers were reality, but illusion. swordsmen in the days of “Ronald Reagan was an |Wiliam the Conqueror, in illusion, he wasn’t John eleventh century and Wayne. But John Wayne (their bloody history was wasn’t John Wayne, he | eventually to follow that was a guy named Morri­ of America. son who was a wimp foot­ “They came from En­ ball player/actor.” gland to America in 1632, When Reagan became involved in the Indian President in 1981, Hack- it’s cooked wars, fought the Revolu­ worth was frightened by tionary war, the war of l*M», his separation from reali­ 1812. In every war that ty and decided to try and m \merica has fought there counter it by becoming rought in ra­ had been Hackworths.” involved in the anti­ ge, which nuclear movement. : gone down Adventure “ I had comm anded ormal male- Despite this genetic pre­ ;; nukes, I knew that there y club, but paration, H ackw orth ; were no winners with nuc­ into what didn’t expect to make a lear war, that in fact war ternational’ jareer in the army when he was obsolete. In fact with HEnlisted as an underage 15- that same mentality that bers) travel a .year-old in the wake of was employed in the Viet­ ley’re enter- World War II. But excite­ nam War, that ‘We’ll save sspeople and ment kept him in the this village by burning it.’ them here, battlefield. He was going to save the to impress “I was only in it for world by destroying the • a modern wham, bam, thankyou world. I call it in- ma’am and found myself j “This frightened me to a ecause it in­ doing what I really liked to great point because I saw little bit of do. It was adventurous the insanity of the military it of Chinese and exciting and I was al­ solution in Vietnam, I ways in airborne comman- knew that ... he was a doubt Turn­ i kind of units.” loose canon and didn’t ed remarka- Hackworth’s military _ M m " * "know that he was talking nebody so experience followed years about.” rs his age has of the Cold War and it Kentucky just in time for the boss and he’d fix it. He was the most decorat­ lie upon lie. The generals nee at times, was on this gruesome trail the Cuban missile crisis This worked all through ed full colonel, having were saying ‘Oh well, we’ll Peace Possible difficult, for was baptised to the and his airborne Scream­ his army career, until Viet­ earned eight purple hearts. just bomb the Vietnamese Hackworth who has ploying peo- madness of the next 40- ing Eagles unit parachut­ nam. If he was still a soldier he back to the Stone Age just lived in Queensland since be older. To •odd years. ed into Cuba immediately. “No-one realised the na­ would probably be like we did the Germans 1971, has been active in ound it hard “As a little kid aged 15 When he came back he ture of the war, everyone commanding US forces in and like we did the Japs.’ the anti-nuclear and peace il them what in Italy, Trieste was a city was sent to the Dominican was lying about the war, the Middle East now. But in fact ... the Viet­ movements and supported n’t worry me Yugoslavia wanted Republic and soon the no-one knew how to pro­ “My superiors were namese were already in the David Lange’s nuclear po­ n either take the Americans want- Vietnam War had begun. perly fight that way. It was absolutely blown out be­ Stone Age.” licies when he visited New td so there was a fight. I The Screaming Eagles just one big deception on cause the military officer is Zealand in 1984. Hack- found myself digging a were the first to go. the part of the Western like a very well trained Machines Not Men worth says world peace is foxhole and looking to my Despite being a gung-ho World who’d sent their doberman pincer and they Hackworth says this possible, but only by par­ s around the front there were several soldier, Hackworth never sons.” never bite their master. It’s illustrated the US had no ents showing their children land Club, regiments of Yugoslav blindly followed orders. Hackworth’s concerns a sacred institution for an clue about war, just like that resolution of conflict premises in Communists coming up His questioning of au­ about the army’s approach accountant, for a lawyer, today. is possible without force. :ost $6.5 mil- my hill to take the hill, thority, which eventually to Vietnam were first aired for a banker, for a doctor “It’s locked on the mac­ But that will take com­ out, Turner thus to take Trieste.” led to his remarkable within the machine itself. or for an army officer to hine, it’s locked on the or­ mitment. And many years. ten where he “My sergeant came run­ about face, began early He voiced his worries to ever attack his institution. ganisation. Men win wars, “It’s still very much He says his (ning to me and said ‘Look, on. two chiefs of staff and I violated that taboo.” machines don’t win wars.” anti-nuclear but I also rea­ nation really we’re gonna have a fight “As a kid in Italy, again wrote in military publi­ He says the US lise that in today’s world his career, here and we’re probably 15 years old, my unit was cations. shouldn’t be on the ground there are dangerous people [ualifications going to use the new bomb being visited and inspect­ “Finally my cup ranneth Chopper Trouble in the Middle East, out there. There’s Saddam nt for any- that we just levelled Japan ed by a five star general over when I had seen so The first thing he disco­ especially in the Muslim Hussein, there’s Adolf Hi­ ever they’re with.’ I said ‘What should named Dwight Eisenhow­ much blood on the battle vered which gave him Mecca Saudi Arabia. He tlers, there’s Gadaffis and nd whatever Ido Sarge?’ He said ‘Dig er. Ike stopped in front of field that I sounded off some idea that colleagues says the United Nations there’s a whole bunch in I think to /deep, if you hear the me and said ‘What do you and told the truth about were annoyed with him should have the reigns and the cradle. Until mankind ification be- ! Explosion, cover yourself think of the food?’ I said, the war. And that was the was when he found a live tell President George Bush can eliminate the war gene he best thing with a poncho, don’t look ‘The food is miserable, it’s end of me because when hand grenade under the to shut up and go on by ironing them out in always got at the fireball.’ So at age terrible.’ The five star you kick an institution, an seat of his jeep. A few holiday. some way, we’re going to o fall back 15 I became acquainted general looked at the four institution is a lot bigger. days later his new helicop­ “They see themselves as have war upon war and with the beginning of the star, looked at the three They kick back and their ter came falling out of the the great cowboy of the rumour of war.”

Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 5 SUMMER JOBS? N O P R O B S !

Last summer Auckland Student Job Search placed 6500 tertiary body,” he says. Polynesians, women and tion for a ‘student varia­ students in jobs and they're aiming to match that total this year. “It has everything from others — SJS is also look­ tion’ to work over summer. But Auckland's economic hangover and the thousands of non- working in entertainment ing to see that Auckland venues to parks and gar­ College of Education and students who are unemployed mean finding summer work will be dens and research and polytech students are not Vocational BY M AX Cl more competitive than it ever has been. Max Chappie reports. everything in between. So disadvantaged in their Haana Wilcox, ATI Could you While you may be back fices on the North Shore search for jobs. Students Association employment officer, says at classes recovering from and in West and South “Traditionally they get ing with th< one of her roles in the the August holidays, Auckland, probably at the ■ out of school later which hostel and f summer job rush will be Auckland Student Job polytechnics. I means a lot of the best Colin Nicho jobs are gone by the time placing students, particu­ Search (SJS) is already Sponsor Boost they get out of school.” larly those from account­ (he was a si gearing up for the big SJS’s national market­ In fact, SJS is a service ing, advertising, summer holiday job rush. jj Colin Nichol ing, an important part of for all tertiary students re­ marketing and public rela­ I say that gettin its search for willing turning to an institution tions courses into course- more than a C Summer is the season employers, is funded na­ next year and even over related summer work. when young people gener­ tionally as are most of its summer for seventh form­ “What I would be hop­ subjects was ; ally, and students finan­ regional activities. But ers intending to study. ing to do in the third term valuable time cially stretched by fees in Keaton says SJS Auckland Despite the dreary eco­ is to approach marketing It was time anc could have 1 particular, want to make will be looking for a hand­ nomic conditions, SJS firms and large companies enjoying th hay while the sun shines ful of small sponsors to says its strength is its large with accounting depart­ curricular actr and stack up a few pen­ boost marketing efforts body of able students keen ments and talk about university life nies. It’s the marriage sea­ and help pay for local ra­ to do a wide range of cas­ something like the summer son for thousands of dio advertising to feed off ual and temporary work. internments they have in students and employers; the nation-wide TV “We have a large num­ the United States.” and in may cases, SJS promotion. ber of jobs that are from However, she says her plays celebrant. Frank Keaton worked people like elderly people thrust will be finding full for the New Zealand Em­ or people that are too busy time permanent jobs for ployment Service (for­ to do a couple of hours graduating students. She merly the Department of crash but when it did re­ if there is a possibility gardening every two says there are always dif­ Busy in term Labour) for ten years be­ duce in buoyancy it re­ there, there’s a great op­ weeks, maybe on a regular ficulties in placing stu­ The summer holidays is fore joining SJS. duced significantly and it’s portunity for students.” basis. dents because of the time not the only time SJS’s ser­ An American by birth, yet to recover.” Last year’s job place­ There’s no other recruit­ of year they graduate. vices are in demand and he spent four years in the Figures from the De­ ment total of 6500 is this ment organisation that the new SJS Auckland re­ military before doing a partment of Commerce year’s aim for SJS. But would have the number of Long wait gional manager, Frank Masters Degree in Busi­ show that since 1987 the meeting it won’t be easy. people in their system to “It’s a hard time to place Keaton says much of the ness Administration at the total number of people “One thing we don’t do that nor the set up to full time people because service’s in-term work goes Wyoming and Seattle Uni­ employed in Auckland ac­ have of course is the deal with it. So we’re the firms don’t want to take unnoticed. During July, versities and becoming in­ tually dropped. Commonwealth Games, obvious choice for those on staff and then give for example, the service volved in veterans’ Keaton: “But there are which was a good boost types of jobs.” them holidays, because placed more than 400 peo­ employment. He and his areas that have grown, for Student Job Search And SJS, says Keaton, they have to pay them. So ple in jobs. wife moved to New particularly in finance and and for spin-off indus­ is extremely efficient at it’s usual for these jobs not Zealand in 1976 and ran a banking and it’s an area tries. It’s an equally what it does. He says the to become available until superette before Frank that I’m specifically target­ demanding job to (this average cost of placing January.” But it is at the end of the joined the Department of ing — not for bankers and year) replace those lost each student last year was So to tide them over year that the public is hit Labour. financiers or commerce jobs with something else. just $45. from graduation, which is with national television students but for casual There don’t at this stage “I wouldn’t have often as early as Novem­ advertising (‘Get the best jobs. The difference be­ appear to be any major comparative figures for ber, until the New Year, C out of a student’ has been Market Tight tween industry and job is events that we can tag on other organisations but I Wilcox sends them to Stu­ the jingle for the last few Keaton is enthusiastic significant.” to.” can’t believe that with their dent Job Search. ie began his LI seasons) and SJS’s own about SJS and student Keaton is also looking Adding to the gloom, massive infrastructures She says ATISA i 1954. staff grows from about employment but he is also at the possibility of target­ Keaton points out there they would come close.” Employment and SJS “The universi four to 25. realistic. He warns that the ing local bodies, which he are about 200,000 people Keaton says there are work closely and often ras there, wa Its main office, at job market is still tight fol­ says are now through most looking for work who are opportunities for students, swap vacancies and stu­ ind excellent ir Auckland University lowing the sharemarket of their post-reform not students, so the com­ but stresses it’s not too ear­ dents. If ATISA finds a its size v above the M aidment crash. disruption. petition is tougher than ly for students to start student who need non students. T Theatre, will expand and ever. thinking about what to do course-related work, it iat students h move to the Student Un­ “Auckland hasn’t really Variety for summer and register refers them to SJS and if :rsonal kind < ion Building common experienced the recovery “It would be difficult to Not just Varsity with SJS. It’s also not too SJS finds a full time suita­ Iwith each other; room for the season and, of a lot of the rest of the find an organisation that early for students on stu­ ble vacancy for ATI In addition to its tradi­ [with the counc as it did last year, SJS will country. Auckland was would have a wider varie­ dent visas to apply to the graduates, it gives ATISA tional affirmative action :urers,” says I be setting up satellite of- buoyant longer after the ty of jobs than a local Department of Immigra­ the position. target groups — Maori, on. “Most of lave known, a ight and name HUGE CHOICE ON OPEN DAY all the professor The hardest part on musical performances at machine” produces free Carving and weaving dis­ studies), “Can Machines Television faculties.” Open Day this coming School of Music. plastic souvenirs in main plays, action songs and Think?”, “Moral dilem­ Watch a live broadcast As Mr Niche Sunday, September 16 wil foyer. Exhibitions in all six mas” and “God and Evil” students of to< Commerce haka. being made by the Audio be deciding what not to Engineering Departments, (Philosophy). The Kiwi Visual Television Unit. aot even know see. Computerised multi­ ranging from hydraulics to Medicine garage revealed if all the facul The vast array of activi­ choice quiz on the New power electronics. Research into cot death, (Sociology). Open Day runs from ties across the campus and Zealand economy and asthma and diabetes in 11am to 5 pm on Sunday. Profession at the Medical School can­ economical simulation Languages children, leukaemia, heart Recreation Centre Students (ATI as well as Born in Tun not possibly all be sam­ games at Economics. Chinese cooking (won- disease, arthritis, osteopo­ Fitness assessment on University) are urged to iHauraki Plains, pled. Even visitors for the Marketing advisory service tons and dim sims), dra­ rosis and much else. See an elite sportsperson. Test bring themselves, their fa­ an of a carrier! full six hours will have to at Marketing and Interna­ ma, folk songs, poetry. NZ’s largest single res­ your skill and endurance milies and friends. farming distric be selective. tional Business. Korean dance and Indone­ earch institution ($14 mil­ on the rowing ergometer. This is your chance to Igatea and Tha The free Open Day pro­ sian music. Learn the Rus­ lion raised in last two years Check whether your eating see how the whole univer­ seined likely gramme details what is Computers sian alphabet in 30 in research grants). Free habits are nutritionally sity works. You will not be follow his fathe happening in nearly 60 de­ Hands on experience in minutes. Video films on mini bus shuttle service be­ sound. disappointed. oral service ir partments, where and the new Computer Science recent events in Germany. tween main campus and There is free parking at ;ake up farming when. Meanwhile here are laboratory and in other Mulled wine and ginger­ School of Medicine in Science lower Grafton Road and :oming dux c some highlights to whet departments. Mathemati­ bread at Scandinavian Park Rd. DNA finger printing at the Medical School. [igh School he the apetite. cal and computer model­ Studies. French and Span­ and paternity testing (Cel­ Food will be on sale and take up a ] ling at Engineering ish cafes. Slides on Venice Politics, social and lular and Molecular Biol­ the University creche will id he receiver Art, Music Science. Computer lab and Florence. Maori issues ogy). Laser optics take Children under five lied a “liberal < demonstrations at at O’Rourke H; Talks, videos and an Lectures and discussion experiments in Physics, free of charge. exhibition of New Zealand Property. Maori studies, Marae on green issues and Treaty glassblowing in Chemis­ Bill Williams “That put the art (Polynesian and Pake­ Symbolism of carvings of Waitangi (Law), Wai­ try. Your fossil, mineral Information and public )f being in i ha) at Art History. Cham­ Engineering in Tane-nui-a-Rangi (mee­ tangi Tribunal (History), and rack specimens at affairs Officer vhich is a great ber music teaching and “Injection moulding ting house) explained. electoral reform (Political Geology. Phone 737-698 6 — Craccum, 10 September 1990 jdent varia- /ork over Colin Nicholson Q .C. BY MAX CHAPPLE that students really have to about the attitude of the “That’s what I think the work at their academic office lawyers, Mr Nichol­ basis of a good university Icox, ATI studies far harder and the son was asked for his sug­ education or degree is — ssociation Could you imagine one of Auckland's most eminent lawyers drink­ pressure goes on too early gestions on practical it’s really having the pri­ fficer, says ing with the boys, causing havoc at the O'Rourke Hall boarding and sustains.” training. vilege of being drawn into oles in the Jhostel and pulling capping stunts? He wasn't so eminent then, but “I said I thought it was really advanced learning ush will be fColin Nicholson (now a Queen's Counsel) had loads of fun when Unfortunate highly desirable, it should and good minds, and also ts, particu- be compulsory, that the the opportunity of re­ m account- lie was a student .... Mr Nicholson is con­ students should have search ... virtually all of ivertising, cerned about the feeling j Colin Nicholson used to snooker 1, table tennis 2, the law professors and lec­ public rela- over simply living off cam­ photographs — that’s among graduates that un­ freezing works 3, wharf 4, turers do writing and re­ nto course- say that getting anything pus. To me the most valu­ pretty impersonal.” less they come out with and perhaps a dairy facto­ search of that sort. ;r work, more than a C + for some able thing at university straight A’s or similar subjects was a waste of apart from the vocational Police Concern marks their chances of ry or wool store thrown “That contributes in its uld be hop- in.” j third term valuable time and effort. training aspect was the ac­ As well as serious de­ employment are reduced. own right to society and It was time and effort that tivities at O’Rourke Hall i marketing bate, there was a good He says the fear is realis­ the law, it’s a necessary could have been spent because we had students Broader ; companies share of fun and frivolity tic in a way but unfor­ element, but it also means enjoying the extra­ from a wide range — they ng depart- in Auckland University as tunate. Mr Nicholson is very that they can give a curricular activities which were students in English, I alk about it was in the 50s. The “I think that’s a shame concerned that the rush to perspective to the law university life offered, as think Bruce Beetham was the summer O’Rourke students often because in a way it means specialisation comes too that’s different from the ley have in jousted with sporting that there’s more pressure soon and likes the idea of lawyer that’s just earning ites.” teams from Ardmore or on them at varsity and “liberal educations” popu­ a living day to day.” ie says her Trinity college in home they kind of lose the lar in England and the Un­ Despite the academic finding full and away matches and Mr opportunity to get some of ited States. There, and financial load on stu­ at jobs for 3s. Nicholson was controller the broader aspects of life. students might first do a dents minds, Mr Nichol­ idents. She of sports tournament drin­ I used to say that in some general degree, including son says Auckland is always dif- king horn one year. Stu­ subjects anything more maybe classics, arts and finally beginning to deve­ than a C + was a waste of lacing stu- dents then, as they do history and the vocation­ lop a relationship with its of the time now, received a good deal good time and effort De­ al training needed for a university in the same way raduate. of attention from the law. cause it was overdoing it.” profession like medicine, that Christchurch and In those days holiday law or architecture Dunedin are closely linked “Indeed the police used jobs were not only freely afterwards. to Canterbury and Otago to be so concerned for our available, but they were Mr Nicholson advocates Universities. time to place welfare that they used to well paid and character breadth to education. And “I think Auckland has •pie because almost permanently sta­ building, he says. he says the important 'ant to take come to a bit of that spirit tion a police car outside As a member of the things he took away from l then give of recent years. It’s proud O’Rourke, so we used to Council of Legal Educa­ university were not facts of its university and with ys, because form up in battalion array tion, which is concerned but concepts. every good reason.” iay them. So with groups of say eight lese jobs not students with four ladders. ailable until “We’d march out, re­ them over port to this patrol car, sa­ on, which is lute the policemen and the ■ as Novem- four groups of us would FUTON VERSATILITY New Year, Colin Nicholson Q.C. go to the four corners of them to Stu- the compass. The Police ch. began his LLB studies one of them, there were would be quite bewildered 5 ATISA 1954. as to which group to fol­ and SJS students in architecture, FROM THIS... “The university, when I classics and from all the low, so we had quite a and often The “SAMURAI «as there, was thrilling faculties.” merry dance there.” es and stu- excellent in the sense CONVERTIBLE” couch-to- [SA finds a its size was about bed is another design need non students. That meant Nappies that is practical and I work, it Informal Talks at students had a more Capping stunts, too, > SJS and if The students of functional. irsonal kind of contact “were witty and incisive” Lower the support at the II time suita- nth each other and indeed O’Rourke Hall met every according to Mr Nichol­ night over supper and also back of the divan and it for ATI with the council and the son. Students used to ives ATISA made a point of regularly teturers,” says Mr Nichol­ paint footsteps on the easily converts ... inviting people from the as “Most of us would steps leading into the In­ university, including char­ ave known, at least by land Revenue Department sight and name, virtually ismatic professors like building — wearing shoes ARD Fairburn to come lithe professors in all the on the way in and depart­ ...TO THIS faculties.” for informal talks over ing barefoot. coffee which often lasted As Mr Nicholson says, A double size FUTON /e broadcast until the early hours of the students of today might “We put diapers on that bed. Ideal for overnight iy the Audio morning. obscene, indecent statue at sion Unit. not even know the names guests. The cotton | all the faculties. Mr Nicholson says he the entrance to the Do­ covered FUTON mattress main which was an affront benefitted enormously is comfortably filled with runs from to all that was puritan in Profession from these discussions and on Sunday. our society,” he smiles. either cotton or cotton/ 1 as well as Bom in Turua on the the sense of rapport univ­ Mr Nicholson, one of wool mix. The Filipino ire urged to lauraki Plains, he was the ersity leaders had with the the city’s top criminal law­ Mahogany slats adjust to ves, their fa- an of a carrier serving the students. Oh how times yers and past president of iends. [arming district between change. any weight. the Auckland District Law ir chance to ^gatea and Thames and it Mr Nicholson: “I’ve Society gets a big thrill to­ /hole univer- seemed likely he would tutored and lectured at the day when he sees students 3u will not be ollow his father into the university and I find it a ural service industry or bit chilling the sense that sitting in a fountain hav­ ing morning drinks to cele­ AVAILABLE AT ;e parking at sake up farming. But after there’s a sort of anonymi­ brate caping. He says it >n Road and Scorning dux of Thames ty, even with the students demonstrates zest, youth ical School, ligh School he was urged that you teach. I’m sure and a tasting of life rare in RESTWOOD on sale and so take up a profession that the full time lecturers today’s highly competitive y creche will aid he received what he and professors become world. BEDS n under five Jed a “liberal education” more closely associated at O’Rourke Hall. RESTWOOD BEDS ;e. with the students but even “I think the competition 200 VICTORIA STREET WEST Bill Williams “That put the dimension so you go to a lecture with to get into university to AUCKLAND and public of being in residence, hundreds of students and stay in university and then PH: 303-0262 "fairs Officer rhich is a great advantage they’re just names and to get jobs later means lone 737-698 Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 7 The Boys from the PUB-LICK EYE Brown Stuff The Corner Bar at the by Steve Ponsonby Club Hotel The sysl when you Readers will be pleased dragged out. We still leave ed to the drinking area is limited t< to know that the frenetic most places in an uncons­ where an entire wall is anything f but friendly little English cious state, but more re­ dedicated to a large problem. car is back on the road and cently have found decorative ski report. This can be seen and more of­ ourselves to have tired of part of the bar is also To a large < ten heard, around the var­ passing out on sticky, dirty equipped with high tables, an inevitable sity and surrounding floors and coming to with stools and a few sofas, the of a structu areas. If something small an ear full of someone’s latter being found to be designed 50 y goes by really fast, that’s boot. Carpet is much more chiropratically sound. a campus of i it. We are, once again, comfortable and there’s This is interesting when In those da: much indebted to Elle who nothing like being pinned one considers that sex is members w( flew in at short notice with like a butterfly by an in­ generally accepted as the badge so you a transmission casing as credibly sexy pair of an­ best exercise for the lower tify them, hand luggage. It was not kles in high heels. back. Decor was very plea­ badges are anticipated that she would The Corner Bar looked sant, if not greatly mem­ handed out t assist with the reassembly, clean and inviting, so the orable and didn’t detract As the stu but it soon became evident E-team moved inside. The attention from the com­ tion has £ that she had previously most important aspect of pany or the conversation, countability 1 had a lot of experience this bar, other than it be­ both of which were de­ Because AUS handling tools. The E- ing open is that it is not generating rapidly. ture is out of team was rejoicing and a obvious that it is quite big. Drinks were well priced very hot. If the desired re­ two of everybody, so feel­ on the footpath as we left, the student b celebration was in order. Renovation was carried with adequate selection, sult was that we would or­ ing outnumbered, the E- and seemed to know who no longer beii The Gluepot is probably out early last year and including Monteiths on der several rounds in quick team decided to call it a we were. The blue suit And because most widely renown for its careful design has given it tap. I personally consi­ succession, then it was night. The type of night it looked familiar, but the being inform role as an entertainment a cosy, interesting interior dered its alcholic content achieved, although des­ was called can’t be print­ hat was a bit of an anoma­ make decisiot venue with such events as which even includes a gen­ to be minimal, but later peration drove one unfor­ ed here, but suffice to say ly. Obviously a fan, he er of General the surprise performance uine discontinued tele­ changed this opinion and tunate member screaming that it was good. An wanted all our names and dissolved, t by the ‘Stones giving the phone box. Part of the bar declared its algolic con­ and writhing towards the unfamiliar man greeted us addresses. dents don’t k place a high degree of cre­ has dining tables and tender be mineral. Service toilets for a gallon or so of going on, a dibility over the years. As chairs which are very use­ was very good, with bar water. In the few moments THE E-TEAM RATING trust. a pub, the Ponsonby Club ful when food is ordered staff falling only slightly before ignition of the in­ Hotel has had to face the from the bistro. From this behind in the quest to keep terior of the mouth, the The executi difficult task of meeting area, patrons can view the our table clear of empty nachos were very tasty in­ feet been say the rapidly changing de­ huge-screen TV which has glasses. deed, but the E-team me, we know mands of a suburb on the the compulsory SKY capa­ It was not long before recommends a contin­ doing.” Sadly move. The Vista bar caters bility. During the evening we were all happy little gency plan of preordering otherwise; th for what must be the tradi­ the TV was turned off and vegemites, but the strain at least seven rounds to Orientation 1 tional patrons of the pub a jazz band began to play. was beginning to show and help minimise the effects. ONE of a lonj from the days when Pon­ Up until this point it had sustenance was required. At this stage it should ures in large sonby was a solid working been reasonably easy to Chips were ordered and also be mentioned that the unbridled class suburb and gives the talk, but the volume of the duly eaten, but they were there are a couple of very n ded by a divide impression that little has band made this a little dif­ a little dry and insubstan­ tricky stairs in the toilets, lacking dire changed. Only a short ficult. Prior to the tial so a round of nachos but the facilities look fine, driven by ] time ago, the E-Team, commencement of play by was requested. These arri­ even from near the floor. clashes. that band of merry men, the band, accompaniment ved with a warning that The patrons were an The only i pitched themselves into the was provided by taped they might be a little hot. interesting mix and some the Students nearest public bar and music at perfect volume. This was found to be mis­ concern was expressed Itive Council, didn’t leave until they were The E-team soon relocat- leading in that they were that there appeared to be fa joke. Ignoi cutive, stacke tical ends, it \ telephone boc policy and car Kiwi II bar quorum of a when it rain know they disempowerec So what is / gets it wings clipped of the problen many things a AUCKLAND ture does nc UNIVERSITY The ATI student bar is now open just three nights a week because this. It is: Sunday, September 16 of financial trouble and its manager has resigned. •a political ur •a social club llam-5pm The bar’s management but said they could play if Williams said it was atmosphere of the bar by •a catering set committee has cut Mon­ putting up posters and [OURS DISPL AYS they charged patrons at very unfortunate the bar •a pub days, Tuesdays and Satur- the door. had first opened in April, bringing in potplants. •a theatre 1 At KS VIDEOS ARI days from its previous at the beginning of the “The reason people go •a publisher MUSIC DRAMA six-nights-a-week pro­ Losses cold weather. to a bar is because of its •a business w r.lAR At COMPUTERS gramme and manager Phil Williams said the high atmosphere. People will over of $4,0C HIGH I ECU f QUIPMEN T Dean has left because his costs of staffing the bar on ^ “I’m quite confident actually go to a bar even if year. job is being made a part- quiet nights meant it was that people, as the summer it’s a bit out of their way Experience University -time position. losing ‘a considerable a- months come, will appre­ because it’s a good place to j Isn’t it abo teaching and research. Gary Williams, man­ mount’ of money. The ciate it and that patronage go. But actually, our bar had a say in th Inquire about courses, ager of the ATI Student only other full staffer at at the bar will increase. is in a good location.” this monstros careers, contract research, Association which ad­ the bar, a barperson has Williams said he was about time i consulting. ministers the bar, said a also left because her posi­ confident the bar would made accou We know from the lack of patronage during tion has been made continue to operate next their decisions Free programmes. Shadows bar (at Auckland the second term and high part-time. year and if patronage realistic undei Free parking [Lower Grafton Rd University) that in sum­ staffing costs led to the Williams: “The action increased it was likely the structure. and Medical School]. mertime ... patronage in­ committee’s decision. He has been taken to reduce number of opening nights ’ The existir Free mini-buses from campus to said the possibility of staff to a more managea­ creases between 50 and would also rise. 60%.” has haphazari Medical School. re-opening on Saturdays ble and reasonable level to ATISA spent $30,000 That is not th would be reviewed weekly. ensure that the bar oper­ setting up the bar and has Atmosphere tablish sound i I\i'ln \ Imii ill\ \ i ill la hh Williams said the bar ates at a profit so that it’s agreed to act as guarantor principles. Th would stop paying live not accumulating any fur­ He said ATISA would for an operating overdraft way to establ bands for performances ther debt.” be trying to improve the of up to $20,000. «undent reoi BY MAX CHAPPLE 8 — Craccum, 10 September 1990 OPERATION PHEONIX the beginning of a student revolution by Steve Barriball, Des Amanono and Ella Henry The system sucks. That's the one thing everyone agrees upon W hat is needed is tain the same level of serv­ dual and the Association when you ask them about AUSA. Whether their knowledge of it fundamental reform. ices to the student body. from unfair victimisation Other university student is limited to "w e pay this fee at the start of the year and don't get Don’t believe it? Check it and incompetence. associations have recog­ out for yourself; Student representation: anything for it," down to the President, people know there is a nised this — those with We see the following as Finally a regular clear­ problem. constitutions dating back the areas requiring funda­ ing house where student to the same time as AUSA mental reform. We outline delegates can keep in To a large extent that is That is not the way to get height of such a need (such have already made sweep­ the problems with the ex­ touch, plan and co-or­ an inevitable consequence a good deal from your fee. as an International Affairs ing reforms such as those isting system, and the dinate their activities. Officer), and remained of a structure that was The Medical Students that are being proposed broad nature of the pro­ Service Commitment: designed 50 years ago, for and Engineers have recog­ once that need had passed today. posed changes. Even from Running businesses as a campus of 500 students. nised this and have voted — a useless appendage, this very superficial over­ businesses, services as ser­ themselves reductions and fought for by those with a In those days Executive view, you should find vices and instituting sound members wore a silver refunds. The problems go vested interest in keeping The proposal being pre­ things to make you excit­ financial procedures will badge so you could iden­ further, however. There are a comfortable office. sented follows widespread ed about what can be allow a substantial fees tify them. Those silver other faculties which could Over the years the consultation over the achieved. reduction and better serv­ vote with their wallets in Executive has grown to 16 previous three years. In badges are still being ice to you. this way with just as much individuals — always ad­ this time we have exten­ Club Grants: handed out today. Financial Management: justification. Rather than ded to, never a removal sively canvassed opinions Presently, arbitrary and As the student popula­ Annual budget to break see the complete break-up and recently positions can from current students, ex inconsistent, open to bias. tion has grown, ac­ even, performance based of AUSA, especially at a be held as collectives. A students, student politi­ Under the new system countability has dropped. for managers, creation of time like this when the body of up to 32 students cians of all persuasions there will be strict criteria Because AUSA as a struc­ capital issues to ensure the need has never been great­ make decisions involving and staff. This has ena­ ture is out of contact with giving a clear basis for asset base isn’t eroded. ath as we left, er for a united association hundreds of thousands of bled us to pinpoint the the student body, you are grants. Clubs provide their Policy: to know who no longer being informed. enjoying the support of its dollars. multitude of weaknesses in own grant assessments, he blue suit All policy must be re­ And because you aren’t newed every two years en­ [liar, but the being informed, you can’t of an anoma­ suring that it is current and make decisions. The pow­ relevant. No longer will ly a fan, he er of General Meetings has ur names and representatives be ham­ dissolved, because stu­ strung by old, outdated dents don’t know what is policy. going on, and who to S T U O t y Disputes: [NG trust. A new independent The executive has in ef­ body is to be created to de­ fect been saying, “Trust cide disputes. me, we know what we’re Equity issues: doing.” Sadly the facts say The opportunity to otherwise; the $100,000 ** come to university, suc­ ’honebox m Orientation loss is just GENERAL HEARINGS ceed at university and ONE of a long list of fail­ participate fully at univer­ ures in large part due to Regularly inform students on all sity without discrimination ",ute the unbridled power wiel­ current activities. is a fundamental right. ded by a divided executive, Allow any student to fully question any This has been addressed in lacking direction and Student Delegate or Executive Member the new structure, all such driven by personality on their performance. groups are catered for; 'onteiths clashes. Maori, overseas students, The only real forum, women, gays, mature age, the Students Representa­ COUNCIL OF STUDENT DELEGATES part timers, parents, the tive Council, has become have their say disabled, and other groups vote at Decide Policy. Elect & remove all a joke. Ignored by exe­ Elect & remove most Co-ordinates all action on Education and other Student through their which may arise from time cutive, stacked for poli­ GENERAL Student Delegates. Welfare matters and any other issues Delegates. Faculty structure to time. tical ends, it will vote the BALLOTS being dealt with by University Committees. Faculty groups: telephone book as AUSA ARCHITECTURE The new club grant policy and can’t even get a structure ensures adequate quorum of a measly 50 ARTS resources for these groups, GENERAL COMMERCE when it rains! Students EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Effectively direct on a representative level MEETINGS Executive on controver- ENGINEERING know they have been Elect & remove cial matters via that are brought into the all Executive Members. Responsible for all management and disempowered. Executive Advisory FINE ARTS AUSA structure ensuring So what is AUSA? Part administration duties. Committee LAW their voice is heard. of the problem is that it is MEDICINE Clear statement of many things and its struc­ MUSIC objectives: ture does not recognise SCIENCE Coherent, consistent, because this. It is: JUDICIARY objectives give a clear ba­ •a political union Adjudicates any disputes between Members, Clubs and Committees sis on which to operate. •a social club All expenditure and activi­ )f the bar by •a catering service ty will be dedicated to posters and •a pub fulfilling the objectives. >otplants. •a theatre A Pictorial Representation of the New Structure m people go •a publisher This is more than a pre­ ecause of its •a business with a turn­ full membership, we have Check out some of the the existing structure and AUSA checks these and cis of some of the People will over of $4,000,000 per acted to make the assoc­ minutes. They’ll make a to effectively refocus the must give written explana­ improvements the new 1 a bar even if ' year. iation good value for mon­ decision to spend $100,000 objectives of the As­ tion for variance. structure will bring. In of their way ey, more effective, more in 5 minutes (that is not an sociation. Accountability: next week’s issue we will good place to i Isn’t it about time you responsive and more ac­ exaggeration), and spend 2 What we offer here is a There is no effective explain the new structure. ally, our bar / had a say in the running of countable. hours arguing over $25 or broad introduction. Fur­ accountability mechanism If you wish to examine it location.” ! this monstrosity? Isn’t it As well as those mentio­ who should share offices ther details will follow in at the moment. A new fo­ more closely the AUSA said he was about time people were ned earlier, let’s look at (many, many instances). Craccum next week and rum has been created to al­ office has copies of the e bar would made accountable for some other relics of the Ask yourself — when you will be able to make low frequent reporting by proposal. Whatever you operate next their decisions? That’s not dinosaur age in the con­ have you ever been consul­ your views known next executive members and do think about it, talk f patronage realistic under the present stitution that defines the ted about a decision to be Thursday. For those of student delegates. At this about it and find out vas likely the structure. operation of AUSA: made by your student un­ you who want to know- forum they may be held about it. After all, it’s your )ening nights ; The existing structure Definitions of the type ion? If you’ve been here a more, a full package is fully accountable for their Association and your ise. / has haphazardly evolved. and size of blazers and long time, you may available at AUSA re­ actions. money. We want you to •ent $30,000 That is not the way to es­ ties. 20 pages defining remember the Springbok ception. One tit-bit — we Job descriptions: have an Association that : bar and has tablish sound management committees that haven’t Tour, and then only be­ have prepared a budget Every employee and you feel proud of, one that as guarantor principles. That is not the met for 20 years. Execu­ cause the student politi­ which shows that AUSA elected position will have makes university a fairer ing overdraft way to establish effective tive positions that have cians just couldn’t decide can cut its fees by 45% a clear job description, and more fun place to be. ,000. student representation. been put in place at the amongst themselves. from $91 and still main- protecting both the indivi­ It can be that way again. :h a ppl e Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 9 Stop the second frame

In the m up of Tim Anderson gan screen tation. It f< Another travesty of justice occurred in the sporting world the other suit and tk Tim Anderson is being course, an inquiry could ed incident, endeavours to day. Those dirty, dirty Aucklanders (associates of Lew Pryme) beat on being st framed for a second time not be held while a trial is expose other frame-ups those true, blue jokers from the Bay of Plenty. Although the score­ in a mock by the NSW police. They in progress. Clearly the and corrupt practices. line was a flattering 26-9, it was certainly a bit tougher than that Unfortuna are still trying to smear police are trying to take “Framed” is obtainable on the field. news drew un him with the Hilton bom­ the heat off themselves on subscription from and once again scapegoat from the F< bing and have used the du­ CEFTA, PO Box A737, Zinzan Brooke had a time. The old man always bious evidence of an an innocent victim. them it’ll be tough work. munications Sydney, South NSW 2000, real ding-dong battle with taught us to tackle round anonymous witness to Since Tim’s pardon he Australia. Those Panther forwards and had to r< big Darren Martin. This the bootlaces, and that’s are real tough jokers and amid rumou bring three charges of has actively worked for so­ CEFTA has also pro­ big, raw boned No 8 from exactly what young can knock the stuffing out happy-talk d murder against him and cial justice and reform. He duced a video Frame-up, the Bay is getting better Woodsy did — he grabbed of an opposing side. As was indeed one charge of placing is involved with Aborigi­ Take II, directed by David with every game and to my hold of an ankle and hung Sarah of Whitaker Place various non explosives outside a nal, prison, student, anti Bradbury (1990). mind he’s one of the top 3 on for grim death. He’s building. apartheid, Irish and Latin says, “it’s pretty tough to drugs. But r in the country. He must be one that’s realised that go­ get on top with jokers like This evidence consists American groups as well Frame-up Take II will be had earned a pushing for National sel­ ing any higher on Inga is that.” The Sea Eagles will of an alleged conversation as lecturing at Tranby shown at Carrington critics’ folkl ection. The whole forward about as effective as get­ have to pull out a big one. bizarre par< of 11 years ago in which College. Polytechnic — 12 midday, battle was a tough one, ting David Lange to lec­ The 1990 Basketball lea­ increasingly s Tim was supposed to have We have formed the Wednesday September 12, with neither side giving ture on watching your gue was decided last week and entertaii confessed to involvement Tim Anderson Support 1990, student lounge, Stu­ any quarter. Still, credit weight. Anyhow it was in the Hilton bombing. It and the Canterbury Rams tated nature Group to press the dent Union Bldg. where credit is due, that good to see the basics done seems incredible that such demands: got their back to back ti­ newscasting. Auckland pack made few­ properly like that. tles. It was good to see a serious charges could be 1) That the charges be Auckland University — I mention er mistakes, and used the That Waikato pack has side like Nelson put up news story i laid on the basis of such dropped. 6pm, Wednesday Septem­ scrum-time advantage to certainly looked impres­ such a strong showing and flimsy evidence. 2) That an investigation be Hal Himmels ber 12, 1990 in Rm 114, great effect. Alan Whet- sive of late, smashing held to show how and why hopefully they’ll keep that sion Myth an Prior to the elections 1st floor Student Union ton had a great game for everything before them. John Dowd, the Attorney this second frame up up next year. I was amu­ lean Mind) be Bldg. Auckland While Captain It’s a pity they met Auck­ General promised that the occurred. sed to see that not one Zealand in IS Jesse Ranui and lock, land so early in the season. Liberal Government Auckland side could make presentation ATI — 12 midday, Tues­ Gary Braid in his 100th Having to leave out a play­ the finals weekend - would initiate an inquiry The Campaign Expos­ coming mor< day September 18, 1990, game for the province, er like John Mitchell is into the Hilton bombing. ing the Frame-up of Tim quite a refreshing change farcical. Only Upper Level B Block impressed for the Bay. really saying something Injured policeman Terry Anderson — CEFTA — to see the rest of New Zea­ none of the r Cafeteria. One thing that really about their forward Griffiths has been pressing has issued a regular news­ land get a go. pear to be jo Akoranga Campus — 12 impressed the Supercoach strength. Their win over for an inquiry for the past letter, which also, recog­ The print midday, Tuesday Septem­ was the tackling of the Bay North Auckland was real­ Well, that’s about all for 11 years, recently it seems nising the vendetta against spared little ti ber 25, Students cafeteria. wingers. Young Damon ly quite impressive. now. Hopefully my be­ with some success. Of Tirn Anderson is no isolat­ (All entry by donation). much vitrio Kaui and Peter Woods Well, I was pleased to loved BOP will have many cases) i: were marking JK and Inga see Manly play so well bounced back to beat on and cond the Winger respectively. against Balmain the other those North Auckland trend, with Kaui is a name for the fu­ day — the boys seem to be jokers when this hits the usually being ture and he and Kirwin putting it together at the press. I’ll have more on with the rise were well matched. But right time. That Graeme that next week, but until don followin Pete Woods showed exem­ Lowe is one sharp joker then remember; this is not don. A coi plary tackling skills in and should have the boys just one man’s view, but increasing rel. stopping the usual ram­ fired up. But with Penrith the view of the North Americ STUDENT ACCOMODATION pant Tuigamala every and Canberra in front of Supercoach. audience mani also been cite Television h Passing Exams with Mind Mapping has to plead g American The key to success in exams is your ability to absorb and retrieve charge. Unitec the information required to satisfy the examiner. That's easier said ners were flo\ • 10 minute walk to Uni One Network than done, but there are some excellent techniques available. You senters Richai •Fully furnished centrally heated need to learn how to study. 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In the mid-seventies an independent television station in Los Angeles called KTTV be­ gan screening Metronews, a half hour show that set inimitable standards in news presen­ tation. It featured two anchors, one wearing army fatigues, the other a more traditional the other suit and tie but looking as though he hadn't slept for two days. Both appeared to border rme) beat on being stoned. Together they facetiously wise-cracked their way through the day's news he score- in a mock tabloid style. than that Unfortunately Metro­ otherwise disturbing or and TV3 presenters appear But at least sports is an news drew undue attention overly complex items) and hell bent on emulating the area of news that always from the Federal Com­ their increasingly subtle gimmick-laden, up-beat genuinely benefits from ugh work. munications commission use of facial expression American style, most of TV news’ visual emphasis. forwards and had to retreat off air and vocal intonation (in them are not very good at If you want the lowdown jokers and amid rumours that their Bailey’s case at least) to it. on anything else, buy a tuffing out happy-talk delivery style guide viewer reaction to a Maybe we should be newspaper. g side. As was indeed induced by story. glad of this fact, in a per­ aker Place various non-prescription Across the dial TV3’s verse kind of way. For Quote of the Week: Louise Pagonis (Newsbreak) ... articulate, y tough to drugs. But not before it news has also received a each time Richard Long (From The Days and though has to battle with a slimmer time al­ jokers like had earned a place in TV lot of attention from our looks like a scared rabbit Nights of Molly Dodd) location than she'd get from even 91FM. Her Eagles will critics’ folklore for its American friends. Marcia when left stranded by a Molly: “What happened in news desk is a clever device, however, giv­ t a big one. bizarre parody of the Russell, 3’s ex-current af­ technical hitch, or John the elevator — it can’t ing the impression that she is right on the ketball lea- increasingly sensationalist fairs and news head, relat­ Hawkesby lets fly one of happen again.” i last week and entertainment-orien­ ed in a Listener article his assine quips (“We’ve Moss: “I know. I didn’t case. bury Rams tated nature of modern earlier this year how ad­ got to stop meeting like know where to put my to back ti- newscasting. visors from the (then) this,” he remarked to a legs.” >d to see a I mention the Metro­ shareholding U.S. net­ correspondent he was 311 p u t Up news story (courtesy of work, NBC tried to pres­ interviewing for a second Hype of the Week: lowing and Hal Himmelstein’s Televi­ sure the fledgling channel time on the Gulf Crisis.; Telethon. 11 keep that sion Myth and the Amer­ into modelling its “Wheel out the pushbike,” TVNZ must be was amu- ican Mind) because in New newscasts on those of one when petrol prices rose) congratulated overall for it not one Zealand in 1990 TV news of its similar sized affiliate they fuel a healthy scepti­ running an event that :ould make presentation is also be­ stations in Denver. NBC cism about not just their raised $4.5 million for the eekend - coming more and more of course withdrew its own role but the quality of elderly. But what a pity ing change farcical. Only in our case shareholdings as ratings the items they’re introduc­ chief executive Julian f New Zea- none of the networks ap­ failed to take off as ex­ ing. Namely that they con­ Mounter marred the pear to be joking. pected. But its lingering in­ sist of overly brief — and generous spirit of the event The print media has fluence obviously still therefore necessarily ste­ by deciding to take a 12.5 bout all for spared little time (and not weighs heavily on Night- reotyped — personality- percent levy from the to­ iy my be- much vitriol either in line — a programme that based, action-reaction tal to help cover TVNZ’s Joanna Paul (3 National News, Nightline)... will have many cases) in picking up initially promised a re­ journalism. Even a modi­ expenses — despite run­ : to beat on and condemning this freshing break from Philip cum of issue-based cause ning commercials modestly presiding over a better scripted, Auckland trend, with the decline Sherry-style pomposity, and effect journalism throughout its broadcast less hyped even broadcast than O ne N e t­ is hits the usually being associated but which now often which is in any case for the first time. Equally w o rk N e w s . Pity she now has to share some : more on with the rise in competi­ descends to levels that naturally unsuited to such selfish was their decision of her duties with G ...... W ...... , who only , but until a one shot, attention grab­ tion following deregula­ make Entertainment this not to let any TV3 per­ has one gear (overdrive) however much an ; this is not tion. A corresponding Week seem unreasonably bing medium, would look sonalities they let appear view, but increasing reliance on the deep and intellectual. positively alien if in­ acknowledge where they item calls for a sensitive or subtle approach. of the North American science of Meanwhile, TVNZ’s troduced by the Bobsy came from (anybody catch audience manipulation has decision to screen the twins on One Network McPhail and Gadsby at also been cited. BBC’s 6 O’clock News News. 2am Sunday morning?). Television New Zealand over breakfast time for the The main problem with Once again TVNZ over­ >pin$ has to plead guilty on the duration of the Gulf Cri­ sports news presenters is reacted to their new com­ American influence sis has provided a measure that we see too much of petitive environment. id retrieve charge. United States trai­ of just how far it’s strayed them telling us things we asier said ners were flown to coach from the reserved British don’t need to hear. The One Network News pre­ standards it used to fol­ only point I can see in Comeback of the able. You senters Richard Long and low. BBC anchors Anna Peter William’s daily satel­ Week: inovative Judy Bailey and they still Ford and David Harvey lite report from England The Billy T James Show get sent video tapes of the make no pretence of the during the recent test ser­ Returning this week, pairs’ performances for fact they are reading an ies — even on the days the 7.30pm on TV3 after a six , so by illus- updated assessment. Pres­ autocue; they sound auth­ cricket was rained out — week hiatus. Producer Bill ughts along umably this is the reason oritative enough already was to prove that One Harman says the break al­ brain has a behind the folksy asides without having to resort to Network News has more lowed the cast and crew to chance of they exchange towards the waggling a pen over pages sports news resources (or “regroup and revitalise for Belinda Todd (Nightline)... reigning spray-on ie messages. end of the bulletin so of pretend notes a la should that be ‘sponsor­ the next batch of shows.” Queen of infotainment news under the guid­ l opportuni- much these days (serving Richard Long. ship obligations’?) than 3 Those first four episodes is fantastic ing hand of Night/ine's American producer, to reassuringly personalise Yet even though TVNZ National News. must have been tough. Junday Sep- Susan Baldacci. you want works, you hnique at a ory session r September pm), then u book for nday work- just $50.00. rom all d Polytechs Book in the from the itember, 1- rther infor- for posters liversity, or ew Stott: Richard Long (One Network N e w s )... look­ andra Ma- John Hawkesby (One Network News at Ten) ing and sounding like everybody's favourite 13. Cathy Campbell (One Network News at Ten) ... former it's in the Bag and To p H a lf host, uncle. Watch for TVNZ enterprises to start o you by ... careful diction but lacking authority. written off by the H erald's Andrew Stone as ckland in selling Richard Long dolls in the near future th TMINZ. Looks far more comfortable in her less sub­ a "song and dance man." Lacks credibility (just wind them up and point them at a Tele- dued One World of Sport presenting role. but camera friendly nonetheless. -PROMP-Ter). Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 11 HIT

TOWN Ihe Unstoi Guitarm by Mark Roach Paul Uban O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U\ sicians) created; not only us but you, the It's hardly surprising if you ask someone their opinion on The Mis­ Craig nods, “Yeah, and the thing is it’s people.” Paul Uban< sion that they won't have a clue what you're talking about. So for a Prince song and the video sold the re- Craig mentions how video Nigerian and those that don't. The Mission are a.band of Yorkshire lads with ta­ ord because,” he adds wistfully “she had programmes on TV are becoming popu­ cent and pla a little tear in her eye. And it was a world­ lar because of costs. England’s ‘Top of lent that hit the Town Hall last Friday. The day before I popped along brand of musi wide hit and her albums sold on the back the Pops’ is another sore point. “That’s to Polygram Records to have a chat to bass player and all-round union of Engli of a song she did by somebody else. I the massive one, but you have to be on cool dude, Craig Adams. ic and afro rl Radio One, before you can be on ‘Top musical style of the Pops.’ And it’s so boring. Again After a comfortable wait at reception, of many infli you turn up at 10am and don’t do Adam Holt from Polygram introduces my Hendrix, anything until 7pm — we call it ‘Hurry­ Maarten (the photographer) and I to and even Mui ing up to hang around,’ and it is. It’s like Craig; dressed in jeans and denim jack­ but whatever ‘Hurry up, we’ve got to leave the hotel et. He’s probably as far removed from ces Paul Ut — what for? Because we have to be there the image of a jet-setting rock star as you style is very m can get and as we find out, the music biz — what for ? To hang around...” is really just a load of bollocks. “Last time we turned it down — f**k it, no way. At our last appearance there “I find it very shallow,” says Craig, in was nothing to do except sit around and a luverly Leeds accent. “So does Mick, drink. When it came to recording there we’re just your classic rythm section. was Mick standing on his seat and head Wayne’s the one who likes the business butting the cymbals, etc, etc... end of things.” Wayne, for the uninitiat­ Adam Holt pops his head in the door ed is Wayne Hussey, the vocalist and lyric — time for the next interviewer. We’ve writer who is being “grilled” with Mick been talking for nearly an hour, although Brown (drummer) at 3.45 Live. He is Craig still hasn’t touched his Rheineck somewhat of an enigma amongst the (“Pm waiting for the bubbles to appear”), fans, eternally hidden behind a pair of and with a shake of hands we tell him dark glasses, he takes on an almost we’ll see him at the Town Hall tomorrow god-like presence on stage. “I’ve known night.... Wayne for about eight years, ’cause we were in ‘Sisters’ together,” says Craig in from a success reference to their days in the Goth band THE MISSION, AUCKLAND Sisters of Mercy. (having also < TOWN HALL, FRIDAY 7 39 gig; 6 week “I’ve known Mick for about as long SEPTEMBER. beforehand) because I lived in the same house as him 1988 saw The Mission pull off ‘Best bum is still se and the people from ‘Red Lorry Yellow LP’, ‘Best Single’, Wayne took ‘Best Catch Pa Lorry’... it’s all very incestuous,” he Singer,’ and ‘Best Person’ but more im­ Jones in the Qi laughs. portantly they received ‘Best Band,’ and ber 11, l-2pm The contact with ‘Red Lorry Yellow ‘Best Live Act.’ Little has changed. Lorry’ came in handy when guitarist Si­ Despite technical setbacks (such as all the mon Hinkler left the band one date into David Bowie, who happened to be there, does his equipment still in Mexico City and the to­ the American tour last year. At the time impression of Craig A dams.... tal loss of power 30 seconds into the first a mixed bag of guitarists helped pull the song), The Mission delivered a powerful M band through the tour, including Dave die aged men in suits. You get used to it don’t think I’d like to be in that situation, show that rocked the Town Hall with the Wolfenden (from ‘Lorry’) who is now — they stop us everywhere we go — it’s where the only huge hit I had was a best concert there this year. part of the current line up. so silly but it’s part and parcel of the mus­ cover.” ‘Wasteland,’ ‘Hungry as the Hunter’ “Simon leaving on the first date was bit ic business.” The Mission share a good rapport with and the encore number ‘Blood Brother,’ of a f**ker, but at least he said he want­ And the rough deal for musicians is their fans. A devout group called the Es­ hit the crowd full on, whilst ‘Deliverance’ ed to do it. Instead he could have gone nowhere more apparent than the media. kimos for instance follow The Mish from (the band’s anthem whether they like it on and been very unhappy. It wasn’t a It’s an area The Mission have had plenty gig to gig the length and breadth of coun­ or not) sent them into a frenzy. Quite a nasty thing, he’d just had enough.” of experience in, so much that it hardly tries (“They’re totally mad, ” says Craig). contrast to the graceful ‘Butterfly on OPI “So now we’re back touring again, and matters anymore. “The British press is So how important are your fans? Wheel’ which becalmed the audience to it’s really a matter of getting your confi­ like so easy to wind up,” says Craig with “They are important — I mean they’re an almost respectful hush. THAI dence back. When someone you’ve been a grin. “We sort of instigate these things the ones who put you where you are.” Wayne, forever, the hero of the die­ touring with for 4 or 5 years suddenly ourselves” referring to The Mission and “A lot of people (and papers) say ‘you hard fans, entices a surge of people for­ TheStat leaves then... y’know. So we’ve got Dave Sisters of Mercy’s colourful past in the got fans in to choose the songs for the ward, all hoping for a fleeting touch of lingtorf Wolfenden from ‘Lorry’ and Etch (ex- press. Wild excess, heavy drinking and album, which is not necessarily true. the bare-footed singer balanced on the m ent oj Sisters).” Craig stresses the importance of drug taking were popular stories; taking What we did was get some fans in to feedback speakers. a w ide i bets on who would kick the bucket first listen to the album and write down what Maori Si finding people you can get on with. “Can Political you imagine touring for a year and a half was a popular pastime among journalists. they thought, to confirm that our heads To his right, Craig pounds out bass Busines with someone and finding out you can’t “You can spend three hours with some­ hadn’t gone wild while we’re in the stu­ lines furiously and also plays up to the sion cui stand them?!” one on an interview and spend ten dio. You’re in the studio for three months clamouring crowd. Mick, obscured for vacanci This tour is the band’s first down un­ minutes talking about drugs and sudden­ on and off and ‘are these songs really as the most part by his kit, is a flurry of and Tra der and relatively short. ly that ten minutes is the interview. It’s good as you think they are?’. So we get thrashing arms. “It’s six months — this time we’re tak­ because it’s sensational and the British some fans in to basically confirm what TRAIN ing it easy. Last time it was bloody murd­ Press love ‘sensational’,” Craig states with we had thought should go down on the To Wayne’s left is the double guitar The w o er — we had like one day off in a year.” some distaste. “We were on the front of album.” combination of Dave Wolfenden and and pro Leaving Mexico City on Monday morn­ the major music press before we even had Craig reveals plans to release a mid- Etch producing near studio sound, m ent at ing (unlike their equipment), they arrived a record out.” priced record of ‘B-sides’ — all the tracks spoiled only by the Town Hall’s sound S ector,; in Auckland on Wednesday morning, “It was sort of manipulation by us. that didn’t go down on the album. system. The two don’t take the limelight and cor “After one of the most greivous bodily We’d sit there and say, ‘Let’s tell them “There’s ten songs on “Carved in Sand” much, perhaps because of the stigma of harm flights I’ve ever had. Air New Zea­ this, tee, hee, hee.’ We’d make up some but we recorded eighteen and those eight being replacements for Simon. Neverthe­ land’s got to be the worst airline I’ve tra­ shit story, next day, yeah, single’s gone that didn’t go on are just as important as less, they do an ample job in bringing the velled on in my life! The stewardess says up four places!” the ones that did. Nothing you do is dis­ songs alive. things like:“I just do not want to be on So how do the charts work in En­ carded .” (Well profound). this flight.” And then they come around gland? “We have this really weird radio And what about making videos — After the two hours of solid rock the with those hot towels and she prodded station, situation in Britian. We’ve got “Boring. Terribly boring! We turn up at concert finishes all too quickly, judging Mick in the leg and I thought, “who the ‘Radio One — The Only One,’ and it is 6am, you’re made up by 9am and you sit by the crowds reaction. Two encores and f**k are you?” the only one\ Radio One says who makes there til 2pm then they say ‘Will you do the band are offstage ready to do battle Our airline may be awful but at least it and who doesn’t. If you don’t play Ra­ this’ (Craig does an impression of play­ in Brisbane the following night. customs is no different to anywhere else dio One, you don’t play full stop. And it’s ing bass for ten seconds with a bored With such an incredible deliverance in the world. Two of the band were stop­ all 50 year old men (making the decisions) look on his face), and then you don’t do (no pun intended) it is easy to see how ped and their bags thoroughly searched. who have the power to make or break anything for another hour ... it’s so bor­ The Mish are favourites in Europe. If “I dunno how many bags of heroin they people; it’s pretty sad really.” ing, but it’s a necessary evil — it’s part Friday night’s performance was anything thought we had. It’s ridiculous — you I recount how recently the same style of the process of selling music, which is to go by they’ll be as huge down under want to catch drug dealers look at mid- of high playlist system thrashed Sinead a stupid situation — that we’ve (the mu- as well.

12 — Craccum, 10 September 1990 A RTS N [The Unstoppable Guitarman.... >ach Paul Ubana Jones LADIES N IG H T MINI MARVELS is but you, the The Diploma in Drama There is an opera in Paul Ubana Jones is of students’ second public three acts, dance, a satiri­ how video Nigerian and English des­ The acclaimed new pro­ at a different aspect of the tour. The new production session consists of perfor­ cal look at counselling coining popu- cent and plays his own duction of the successful New Zealand entertain­ looks set to be of the same mances of their “5 minute” techniques, a play entitled and’s ‘Top of j brand of music. A kind of New Zealand stage come­ ment scene. It is the story high standard, with the pieces at the Drama Studio “Lumps”, puppets and point. “That’s union of English folk mus­ have to be on dy Ladies’ Night is to play of the five ordinary kiwi same director, choreo­ from September 14th. The two pieces of drama intrig- ic and afro rhythms. His m be on ‘Top a limited season at the blokes who get themselves grapher, production team students’ assignments was uingly entitled “Sex in the musical style is conscious Auckland Town Hall Con­ soring. Again into an extraordinary and an all new cast of to write and stage the “The 60s” and “ Solo Sex” of many influences: Jim­ cert Chamber. situation because they see some of New Zealand’s Great New Zealand Dra­ amongst others. ind don’t do my Hendrix, the Beatles no other way to get off the leading young actors and ma” in no more than 5 September 14 and 15 at call it ‘Hurry, and even Muddy Waters, Ladies Night is now the dole queue.” dancers. minutes and a programme d it is. It’s like but whatever his influen­ 8pm and September 16 at ;ave the hotel most successful New Zea­ “I suspect that the New of incredibly varied styles 4pm. $8 waged. $5 ces Paul Ubana Jones’ ive to be there land play of the last de­ Zealand public have taken The new cast of seven and topics has resulted. unwaged. style is very much his own. ound...” cade, with over 100,000 this play to heart because men and one woman are down — f**k New Zealand theatre­ it is a well-crafted comedy Timothy Balme, Marton •earance there goers having seen the show that deals with a subject Csokas, Bill Ewens, Mic­ it around and so far. few of us have ever consi­ hael Glavin, Chris Isaac, cording there Written by leading New dered, other than to won­ Glenn McKenzie, Marc seat and head Zealand playwrights An­ der ‘why do people do White and Lottie Ross. etc... thony McCarten and Ste­ that’ or ‘how do they get Well-known Wellington id in the door phen Sinclair, Ladies into that sort of work’?” based actor/director Su­ /iewer. We’ve Night has also played “Through the play we san Wilson is once again our, although extended sell-out seasons follow the remarkable jou­ directing Ladies’ Night his Rheineck in Sydney, Adelaide and rney, that takes five ordi­ and Christina Asher is ;s to appear”), Perth, and is currently pla­ nary kiwis, to stardom in again responsible for the s we tell him ying to capacity houses in a very unusual type of exciting choreography. England. tall tomorrow show biz,” he said. Ladies’ Night opens at As the name of the pro­ Through a finely ba­ the Auckland Town Hall duction suggests, Ladies’ lanced mixture of comedy, Concert Chamber on Night is about the late drama and flamboyant ca­ Wednesday 12 September from a successful US tour, Twentieth Century phe­ baret, we see five men’s for a strictly limited sea­ :k l a n d (having also completed a nomena, male strip shows. prejudices and preconcep­ son. The play then tours 'AY 7 39 gig; 6 week tour of NZ When asked to describe tions about women and until Christmas, perform­ beforehand) and his al­ the unparalleled success of themselves stripped away. ing in Wellington and )ull off ‘Best bum is still selling well. the play, producer Martin Christchurch. Catch Paul Ubana Taylor suggested; e took ‘Best Ladies’ Night was Booking Information: hut more im- Jones in the Quad Septem­ “Ladies’ Night is a play acclaimed by many critics Book at BASS Ph: (09) st Band,’ and ber 11, l-2pm. that takes a hilarious look on its last New Zealand 375-000. ias changed, ;uchasallthe ty and the to- into the first :d a powerful Hall with the r . the Hunter’ >od Brother,’ ‘Deliverance’ r they like it :nzy. Quite a Butterfly on OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATES: : audience to TRAINEE POLICY ANALYSTS AND TRAINEE INDUSTRIAL ADVOCATES o of the die- f people far­ The State Services Commission (Wel­ TRAINEE INDUSTRIAL ADVOCATES Further details about these positions, ing touch of lington) provides challenging employ­ including job descriptions, can be The work involves negotiating indus­ obtained from Shayne Burnet at the meed on the ment opportunities for graduates from trial awards and agreements for State As part o f the State Services a wide range of disciplines including State Services Commission, PO Box Commission's commitment to Te Sector employers, advising on industrial 329, Wellington, phone (04)725-639. Maori Studies, Economics, Law, and personnel issues in the Public Urupare Rangapū, we particularly Political and Social Sciences, and Service and the Education and Health Applications should be made on the welcome Maori applicants. ids out bass Business Administration. 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Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 13 W O MANS PACE SPAOE AIDS is a Women's Health Issue In the US about nine percent of people with AIDS are women. As of September 1988 over 5388 women have con­ tracted AIDS; over half have died. Hundreds of children have been infested with the AIDS virus, or have contracted ot from infested blood products received before 1985. In addition, many women's families, friends and lives have been personally affected by the epidemic In Australia about 9% amounts of blood are also infections. These sym­ female-to-female sexual breastmilk. Pregnancy Nationwide Toll-Free of people with AIDS are shared). ptoms happen because the transmission of HIV. could damage your health women. In NZ about 3% •Receiving blood transfu­ immune system has been Hotline. Auckland There are cases of women, if you are carrying the FEMMO of people notified anti­ sions or blood products damaged. They can last including lesbians, getting AIDS virus. (09) 395-560 body positive are women infected with HIV. Since for weeks or months. the HIV from each other1 If you are considering The hotline provides DOUBLET! and one has died. 1985 this has not been a A smaller group of peo­ through sharing IV nee­ pregnancy and have con­ current AIDS informa­ \ Dear S ir problem, when the blood ple who have the virus will dles and syringes. A wom­ cerns about AIDS, talk tion, medical and counsel­ \ RE: Butch L What is AIDS? banks adopted screening get AIDS. The symptoms an who has sex with both with a doctor who is ling referrals and access to letter. AIDS stands for: guidelines for the AIDS of AIDS include the above men and women is more experienced with AIDS or community groups and Some years ag Acquired (not born with) virus. plus shortness of breath, of a risk through sex with to the NZ AIDS Foun­ public health activities in told us that ' Immune (body’s defence •As a baby, being born to dry cough and pink or men. dation. your area. Leaflets giving rapists." system) woman infected with HIV. purple spots on the skin. more information about They used to b AIDS, condom use, the Deficiency (not working At present most people Poor health habits may What can I do to pre­ Where can I get at lunch in the Q AIDS antibody test and properly) who have AIDS in Wes­ add to risk of infecton vent getting or spread­ more information up to them, suri AIDS and IV drug use are Syndrome (a group of tern countries are gay or with HIV. These include ing the AIDS virus? about AIDS and and madly scree signs and symptoms). bisexual men, IV drug not getting enough sleep, available from the NZ screaming thing; Unless you know that a women’s issues? AIDS is caused by a vi­ users or both. Haemo­ having a poor diet, using AIDS Foundation or the rapists,” they m sex partner is not infected: rus called Human Immu­ philiacs are also at risk if drugs and being under a If you have questions Health Department. and over again. Is • Don’t allow his/her nodeficiency Virus (HIV) they received blood pro­ lot of stress. These won’t that are not answered by At work, at home and they had some f blood (including menstru­ which gets into the blood­ ducts before 1985. give you AIDS but they this article, or if you want with friends many women ed sicko philos al blood), semen, vaginal stream, it attacks certain Of the women who have will make your body less more information about are already responding to monstrate” this secretions or urine and parts of the body’s im­ AIDS in the USA over able to fight off any AIDS and support services the AIDS epidemic. Deal­ least it appealec faeces to enter your vagi­ mune system. Some illnes­ half have been IV drug infection. you can contact: ing with AIDS brings up cal little minds! na, anus or mouth. ses that the body would users. Others have con­ The New Zealand AIDS many emotions. The New chant out this normally fight off become tracted it through sex with Can I find out if •Use condoms for vaginal Foundation Zealand AIDS Founda­ nauseum, hopi and anal sex. HIV cannot problems. male partners. A small I’ve been infected PO Box 6663 tion can refer you to sup­ would make it 1 get through a condom if it Wellesley Street number contracted it from with HIV? port groups and coun­ Some years la How does someone blood transfusions re­ is properly used and does AUCKLAND 1 sellors. that little childre You can get a blood test ceived before 1985. not break. to fear from the get infested with to see if you have the anti­ •The spermicide nonoxy- SAFE SEX GUIDELINES FOR from strangers HIV? Does everyone who bodies (blood proteins nol-9 which is found in which mean that you have "Stranger Dange There are four ways is infected with HIV certain brands of contra­ ficant when coi been infected with HIV) to LESBIANS ABOUT HIV that a person can get in­ ceptive foams, jellies and dangers of home get AIDS? the HIV. If you test posi­ fected. creams may kill the virus These guidelines do not cover all sexually ted. How many So far most people tive, it does not mean that •Having sexual inter­ on contact. Use them in were too scared infected with HIV have no you have or will get AIDS. transmitted diseases. course with someone who addition to a condom, not tion to their d, symptoms and appear to Antibody-positive people The only way that HIV will be introduced is infected with HIV — as a substitute. result of this? Ar transmission occurs be in good health. should assume they are into lesbian communities is through lesbians •If you think you might that piece of illo Some people infected infectious but everyone — through infected blood, be infected, never allow who use IV drugs and lesbians who have un­ on to TV; Telet with the virus will become whether they test negative semen and vaginal secre­ your menstrual blood, protected anal or vaginal sex with men. was all based or unwell with symptoms or positive — should be tions, probably also vaginal secretions, or urine from a femm< including swollen lymph careful. Call the nation­ The practical risk of * Information from the through infected urine and or faeces to enter another worked for a glands (lumps in the neck, wide toll-free AIDS Hot­ infection from lesbian sex­ New Zealand AIDS Foun­ faeces. person’s body. Always use department. The •Sharing intravenous (IV) groin or armpit), diar­ line (09 395-560) for the a condom for sexual inter­ ual activity is very, very dation. Lesbians are invol­ small. shown to be inc needles and syringes with rhoea, severe tiredness, nearest AIDS clinic. course. ved in hotline support and Under normal circum­ information. Phone the feminists manat someone who is infected rapid weight loss, night Know your sex part­ stances, lesbians don’t 24-hour toll-free hotline so many tim< with HIV (because small sweats, fevers, chills and When is a woman ners. Ask questions about need precautions such as managed to C( most at risk for past sexual history and (09) 395-560 for lesbian dental dams and gloves. contacts and all infor­ selves, at least, 1 AIDS? drug use. Be honest about Yes, they ha: your own past. The risk is increased if mation including safe/un- A woman is at risk if there is a transfer of blood amazing double Never share IV needles safe sex details. she has shared IV drug For HIV antibody test­ "demonstrate” 1 or syringes. Some chemists either through cuts, sores needles, or had sex ing and counselling in the we might add now sell clean needles — or period blood. without a condom with Day to day living with Auckland area, ring the enough the fern ring your local health de­ someone who was infect­ someone who has HIV is Burnett Clinic on the hot­ ed interest in pr partment. ed with HIV. Women who perfectly safe. line number or call in to ideas, if only to have had sex without a Can I catch AIDS in If you are caring for the basement, Wallace own cause. Loc destruction the1 condom with IV drug any other way? someone with HIV/AIDS Block, Auckland Hospi­ users, gay or bisexual contact the NZ AIDS tal, Park Rd, Grafton. For But no, that i No! You can’t get AIDS men, or haemophiliacs Foundation for simple support phone the Auck­ In the era of the from sharing food, tele­ since 1977 may have been hygiene guidelines. land Branch 302-1542. Cartwright Enqi phones, buses, towels, toi­ OFF exposed to HIV. People with HIV/AIDS You can also be tested for implications of lets, pencils or swimming A woman may also be need support and love HIV antibody by your judicial oddity, v\ pools. You can’t get it at risk if her sex partner from their communities own GP or at the STD a new campaig from the air or from hug­ has had sex without a con­ more than medical care. A Clinic at Auckland Where does i ging. The virus is not be­ dom with someone at high supportive community is a Hospital. Today the fen risk. ing transmitted by tears, safe one. ware of men w sweat or saliva. • CUTTING AND BLOW-WAVING The more sex partners a male form. The A child with AIDS in Women's Events promote the ide • PERMING woman has had, the great­ er the risk. school cannot give AIDS — Women’s Book Festi­ of women (or, e • HAIR-COLOURING to another child even if A woman using donor val, Aotea Centre, Mon­ Write to us c/- Craccum tures and wome insemination to become they touch, wrestle and day September 15 through dislike) drive m pregnant is at risk only if share lunches. to September 21. Pro­ — Let us know about up­ beat and explc • YOU MUST BRING THIS ADVERT TO OBTAIN coming events for or by women. «* DISCOUNTS the donor is infected. grammes available at your Sperm banks in NZ screen What about local bookstore or library. women (bands, marches, So they repea donors and test the sperm pregnancy? - “Our Work” - Mic­ performances, record allegation enc after a three month qua­ If you are carrying the helle Hine, Juliette Mona­ releases etc). again their flav\ rantine period. AIDS virus, your baby ghan, Slyvia Rands — Give us your ideas for leads them to p iffiO N E A woman who only has could be bom infected and present excerpts from their Womanspace Space. and way-out ide — Give us some feedback. they rant and ra' CUT ABOVE LOCATIONS sex with other women is at become ill with AIDS. The shows, 6.30pm, Tuesday TAKAPUNA PH: 463-132 LORNE ST. PH: 390-689 low risk. There is one re­ AIDS virus can also be Septem ber 18, Aotea cacaphony of DOWNTOWN PH: 790-987 ported case of passed to a baby through Centre. Yet, they have things to say.

14 — Craccum, 10 September 1990 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Craccum welcomes letters to the editor from readers, on 3ve con- subjects of concern. These may be sent to us, or delivered ntracted (as indicated). Letters should preferably be typed (or written neatly) on one side of the paper only. Short letters are D ELIVER T O P O S T TO F A X T O 'es have preferred over long ones. All letters must include name, Craccum, 3rd Floor, Craccum, Craccum, address and telephone numbers of the writer, even if a non- Student Union Building, Auckland University Students Association, Auckland University de-plume is used. Obscene language may be deleted at the Auckland University. Private Bag, Students Assoc Inc, editors' discretion, provided this does not appreciably alter or ATISA Office, ATI. Auckland. (09) 303-2236. Toll-Free the intended meaning of the letter. Auckland were not reasonable at best. FEMMO It's all down to their aversion less about the sensations of cupied by US forces, 1915-24 LA W O F [) The happy half-hours were only onlookers. occupation of the Dominican for facts and for the truth. All DISCRIMINATION e provides DOUBLETHINK they do is twist everything to midly amusing, but the E- You claim that "If a woman Republic and more recently - S informa- Dear S ir suit their own aims. Half truths team's favourite drink was is photographed naked or semi- or have we already forgotten? To the Editor md counsel- RE: Butch Lezzo Femmo and lies rule their minds. available in large quantities. naked for a magazine read by - George Bush sent the US The education system dis­ nd access to letter. Dr Goebbels said: "If you tell Yours intoxicatedly men, then (I)... would say she Marines into Panama, again. criminates and oppresses the groups and Some years ago the feminists a lie enough times, people be­ The E-Team has been exploited." Not so! How much longer is the women of this institution and activities in told us that "All men are lieve it is the truth." While I am convinced that world going to sit back and al­ there are several factors that aflets giving rapists." It all sounds very like the fern economic necessity leads many low the United States to inter­ illustrate this point. ition about There are more female than They used to harass students system to me. WALRUS HITS women to allow themselves to vene in other people's, other >m use, the at lunch in the Quad by running Yours sincerely be photographed (eg. the Thai nation's affairs? It raises the old male first-year law students BACK dy test and yp to them, surrounding them Matt Levin sex industry), there are numer­ question: Quis custodet cus- and they, the majority, receive drug use are and madly screaming like mad Dear EA Chapman ous examples of (male or fe­ todes? Who is policing the a special welcoming reception m the NZ screaming things. "All men are TO N Y A AND I would like to thank you for male) photography which Americans? at the beginning of the year. Large business organisations ition or the rapists," they maintained over CATRIONA DO your letter (3 Sept), (and would exploit no-one. Take, for in­ Malcolm L King tment. and over again. Needless to say have done so personally - we stance, some art photos — or offer, in addition to their open DALLAS? t home and they had some fairly convolut­ have obviously met, as you are the cover of Craccum (28 scholarships, separate wom­ lany women ed sicko philosophy to "de­ To the Editor able to state that walruses find May), which probably would en's scholarships for first-year sponding to monstrate" this idea. Well, at As an Anarcho-Syndicalist me sensual — but I'm afraid I have caused little offence, had commerce students. lemic. Deal- least it appealed to their illogi­ and Insurrectionary Feminist, have no idea who you are). the words, "Editors make a AN ABORTION OF Auckland university is about S brings up cal little minds! They used to I'm planning to take over the Not only does it clearly estab­ clean breast of it," not been su­ A LE T T E R to open its own faculty for wo­ is. The New chant out this party line ad world in the next few days. I lish your positon, but it gives perimposed. Dear Dr Abortionist(?) men's studies in line with >S Founda- iiauseum, hoping repetition was counting on the support of me the opportunity to defend You also assume that people I do not feel I should have to others in New Zealand. you to sup- would make it true! my sisters, but unfortunately mine. with significant intelligence justify my feelings or my state­ A special place exists on and coun- Some years later they told us the new Women's Rights Of­ Naturally I respect that you "make (a) financial and other ments to you or anyone else, campus for females to congre­ that little children had far more ficers don't seem to have a grip do not find me sensual. How­ arrangments to avoid becoming but I would appreciate it if your gate and ingratiate each others to fear from their fathers than on reality. ever, I do not believe that I exploited." Try telling that to would please try to get the company. FOR from strangers and perverts. The believe in a myth of weakened my case "by the prostitutes sold (sometimes facts right. All this discrimination is "Stranger Danger” was insigni­ "mainstream feminism''(sic). A portraying myself as attractive before birth) to Thailand's flou­ 1. I object to anything which sometimes too much for the fe­ IIV ficant when compared to the feminist believes in more than and sensual to men as possi­ rishing pornography busines­ exhibits women in a way which males to cope with, but it is clangers of home life, they insis­ the equality of men and wom­ ble." On the contrary! I object­ ses. By definition Exploitation degrades them. This includes comforting to know they are I sexually ted. How many young fathers en (a truism) but fights "for the ed (16 July) to Penthouse and is not something the exploited pornography, and calendars able to have all-women group were too scared to show affec­ advancement and emancipa­ "Nude Motorcycle Girl" be­ have control over. distributed by Auckland counselling services on tion of women." (Chambers cause they "promote the idea campus. tro d u ced tion to their daughters as a I am not advocating exces­ Motors. result of this? And yes, they got Dictionary, 1983 ed). To be a that a person who wears few sive restrictions on pornogra­ But while thus suffering it is l lesbians that piece of illogical nonsense feminist means a commitment clothes is asking for sex," thus phy, which can have a 2. I outlined my personal dis­ a true sense of wonderment h a v e un- onto TV; Telethon no less. It to dismantling the patriarchal inhibiting people from doing so. prohibition-type effect; nor do gust at the CBS 60 Minutes that hordes of the oppressed t m e n . was all based on some heresay society we have today, the I wrote: "What a pity so few I object to nakedness (weather documentary, which discussed manage to get a degree or two British law in relation to rape against these formidable from the from a femmo lebbo who mainstream, ie, "what is nor­ people will ever catch a glimpse permitting). My point is mere­ within marriage. barriers. UDS Foun- worked for a government mal of standard" (ibid). There of my sensual body stretched ly that "Nude Motorcycle Girl" is, therefore a fundamental out in the summer sun." I took culture often inhibits us from Not Fooled i s are invol- department. The allegation was 3. No, I do not want photo­ particular care to use the word PS. The only barrier to educa­ iupport and shown to be incorrect, but the contradiction in the phrase revealing something very beau­ graphs of pretty women ban­ Phone the feminists managed to repeat it "mainstream feminism"(sic). people because unlike you, I do tiful - our bodies! ned, neither do I want to ban tion is the student fees which everyone has to ay - unless ree hotline so many times that they How can a woman be a fem­ not assume that only men Hoping to hear from you photographs of handsome you are a woman, then you can for lesbian managed to convince them­ inist and support the status would find my body sensual. again soon. men. qualify for a hardship grant. all infor- selves, at least, that it was true! quo? She can't. You say you object to the Betty H word "homophobic" and I 4. I do not belong to a gang. ng safe/un- Yes, they had some pretty In the reactionary age we live Walrus Fan would be the first to defend 5. In my letter of 23rd July I s. amazing double-think illogic to in, there is a fear of radicalism "demonstrate" their idea. Well, which is in actual fact quite un­ your right to do so. However, mad no connection between tibody test- my discussion of sick photos BRAND-AIDS filing in the we might add that naturally grounded. Misses Gordon and it is a measure of your own QUIS CUSTODET enough the ferns have a vest­ Greenway show their lack of homophobia, that you assume and rape. My reference to rape Dear Ed a, ring the CUSTODES? was specific and only related to i It has come to my attention on the hot- ed interest in promoting these involvement with women's my words "As a beautiful wo­ man ..." refer to my attractive­ Dear Eds the above (The connection be­ that the government prints a r call in to ideas, if only to promote their groups (except perhaps a net- own cause. Look at the tragic ball team) when they display ness to men. How long has it been the ac­ tween rape and pornography is health warning on cigarette t, Wallace cepted practice to send recog­ a valid point, but I made no re­ packets. Wouldn't a wise pre­ md Hospi- destruction they do. their irrational fear of As a matter of fact I hold the nised interventionist offenders ference to it). caution be to brand a similar irafton. For But no, that is not the end. insurrectionary feminists. view that all people are beauti­ out into the world acting as the warning on the foreheads of all ; the Auck- In the era of the now disgraced Yes, we're here but you ful and was trying to extend don't need to kick us while Rhubarb Johnson's "beautiful validated police force? Further­ 6. I do not seek power over homosexuals. 302-1542. Cartwright Enquiry and all the women" theme (from a previ- \ more how can this type of ac­ anyone or anything. I have Yours >e tested for implications of that strange we're down - you could have said you'd do Dallas and still ous letters column). I maintain tion be condoned and even much to offer the world and The Wise White One y by your judicial oddity, we are being fed praised by the Western World happen to have a very bright PS. I'm not mad just a little tea it the STD a new campaign. been elected. that beauty has more to do Medusa, for and on behalf of with the mind than the body; when the police, supposedly outlook on life. pot. Auckland Where does it stop? Today the ferns tell us to be­ ASIF and am sufficiently liberated to acting in the interests of the 7. Hatred appears to be your ■ PPS. Death to AIDS carriers. ware of men who like the fe­ (Anarcho-Syndicalist and set little store by traditional world, are in actuality only department. If you remember it They are going to die anyway. male form. The ferns want to Insurrectionary Feminists) beauty ideals. Imagine the no­ protecting their precious was I who signed in friendship. tions they impose upon people booty? 8. If you are so tired of "read­ promote the idea that pictures LETTERS of women (or, at least the pic­ disfigured at birth. I await the America's record is exten­ ing the litanies of hatred" then E-TEAM EXCUSE day when men's liberation sive. It is the commission of why do you? - Craccum tures and women that the ferns dislike) drive men to rape and Dear Leaders takes a firmer hold and men see identical offences to the one 9. I admire beauty in every Craccum has been receiving ’ about up- beat and exploit and assault Your attention must be beauty in their own bodies, in­ they now claim needs policing respect. letters recently with no names for or by women. brought to a small but signifi­ stead of reproducing millions of for which the United States are 10. Why do you consider that or contact phone numbers at­ , marches, So they repeat this ridiculous cant error in last week's E-team copies of the anorexic-barbie- so well known: the 1898 I should give my identity (I take tached. We require this , record allegation endlessly. Once review. The rating got some­ doll ilk everywhere. (Note the annexation of Hawaii, 1898 it that is what you mean by information, as does any other again their flawed philosophy what confused and the matter permanently high-heeled feet!) military intervention in Puerto the incessant use of question newspaper, to establish corre­ ir ideas for leads them to propose illogical should be set straight. The Hill- I also chose the word "sen­ Rico and Cuba, 1903 interven­ marks) when you yourself are spondent bona fides. Unless space, and way-out ideas. Once again crest scored a full five tables for sual." It saddens me that peo­ tion in Panama, 1912-13 unwilling to do so??? this information is given with e feedback. they rant and rave in an endless its facilities as described in the ple are inhibited from lying Nicaragua is occupied by US Yours in eternal friendship submissions Craccum is not cacaphony of mindless fury. text, but received only 3 1/2 naked in the sun, because they marines, 1913-17 General "Butch Lezzo Femmo" (alias [prepared to print them, regard­ Yet, they have no substantial beers because the selection are missing out on a pleasura­ Pershing is in Mexico with US Neilette) less of content. things to say. was not very great and prices ble sensation and frankly care Army, 1914 Vera Cruz oc­ Siberia Editors

Craccum, 10 September 1990 — 15 SPECIAL GENERAL SPORTS GRANTS TICKETS: $8.00 WAGED OPEN D A Y A U C K LA N D MEETING A reminder to clubs that the $5.00 UNWAGED No students should feel exclud­ COLLEGE OF grants committee will be meet­ ed from Open Day on Sunday, Thursday 20th September, EDUCATION ing on Thursday the 13th Sep­ September 16. It is meant for 1pm at the Rec Centre. tember. If you wish to be you as much as for visitors (Teacher's College) A new Student Association, a considered please get applica­ from outside. Do come, with are holding a Hamilton Sports new Constitution, more tions into the sports officer's your friends and family. Exchange: accountability, better access to pigeon hole at AUSA reception a h v ē l s Open Day is your best — When: Wednesday 12th of Association funds for all stu­ before Wed 6 September and perhaps only - chance of delv­ September. All day and night. dents ... or another bureaucrat­ A PROGRAMME OF book an interview slot on the ing into parts of the university Where: Auckland College of ic nightmare!! Come and find 5-MINUTE schedule pinned to the sports unrelated to your own studies. Education. 74 Epsom Avenue out for yourself. DRAMA WORKS officer's door. Do not put Musicians can savour the world (Gate 3) Epsom, Auckland. SHADOWS applications through my door, of engineering, commerce stu­ Sports such as Basketball, Rug­ it will not be seen until 12 Sep­ dents can discover what hap­ by Union, Rugby League, In Shadows this Wednesday tember, thus making it impos­ pens in medicine, scientists Badminton, Volleyball, Net- Bill Direen will perform songs sible for you to be heard by the taste the arts and so on. ball... and other fun but not so from his new Cassette "The committee. Held every three or four years, cereal activities with heaps of Mat" and "The Hat" was re­ We must have 7 days to pro­ Open Day attracts up to laughs like the famous tug-of- corded last year, while Bill Dir­ cess your application. 20,000 people. It lets Auck­ da-war-wid-da-rope and our een was on tour there. Applications close Wednesday landers experience for them­ 'Unisex Beauty Contests' with Bill Direen is probably more well 6th September. Meeting Thurs­ selves the huge range ot 'Sleem fickus Reepling musoss known as the man behind the day 13th September, 6.30pm. teaching and research at New heavy leks da puti of boties in legendary "Builders" and in Andrew Wickers Zealand's biggest University. a liddle barcel' (quote Junior later times "Theatre Dance Sports Officer Prospective students (young Tamati, ACE Sports Com­ Company Soluble Fish." and old) can find out about mittee). Shadows Wednesday 12th MASTERWORKS courses and career opportu­ Then a social that night to fin­ September 7-9. NOTICE nities. ish off and help with expenses. The 57 teaching departments Social starts at 7.30 in the Stu­ G R EEN S OF "A Wedge of Sky." Susan on the main campus and at the dent Centre and is only $4.00, AOTEAROA - NZ Flight, fibre artist. September PRESENTED BY DIPLOMA OF DRAMA 1990 Medical School will be open All Welcome (da whole world) 4-22 at Masterworks, Parnell. SEPTEMBER 14 & 15 6pm Lunchtime - 1pm — Quad, from 11am to 5pm. A massive for the whole day and night. Habitat Courtyard, 251 Parnell SEPTEMBER 16 4pm Thursday, September 13. Hear array of talks, tours, displays, See ya there. Road, Parnell. Drama .Studio, Symonds St, University of Auckland Mike Johnson Greens Candi­ "live" events, videos and Ziggy Rhodes date for Auckland Central. ORIENTATION 1991 SWAPPERS!! equipment demonstrations is TOGA OR KILT planned. 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