iiiiiis^ SEMPER HOREdl Registered at the O.P.O., Brisbane, tor THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959 transmission by post as a periodical. VOLUME 29, No. 1. Week begins quietly after all-time high in enrolments

RECORD ROLL-UP AT ^ Men's Club Finances ORIENTATION Suspended UEENSLAND University's biggest-ever intake of nrmS year's "shoestring - Freshers was welcomed at St. Lucia on Tuesday in a •*• budget" Union Coun­ Q day of smoothly-planned, incident-free ceremonies. cil Executive has made its first move in the The 9 a.m. opening of Orientation Week was attended by battle for economic sur­ 700 of this year's estimated number of 1300 Freshers. vival. In brilliant sunshine, they were addressed by the President of the Pro­ At a meeting on Feb­ fessorial Board (Professor F, J, Schonell), Students' Union president (Anthony ruary 15, it unanimously ^^Morton), secretary (Nick Clark), and Sports Union '. suspended finances of president (Guri Duro), j the Men's Club on a pro- Thought for Freshers were then conducted on University and I visipnal basis. Faculty tours, lectures, and to injection rooms. j Union president (Tony Morion I said tlie club no the week ... Now Freshers face a fully-booked week of assimilation lec­ longer liiid a justifiable rea- HOUGHT for the week: tures and social engagements. .son for its existence, T "Well, I say this. There Jan Pollard replaced Betty decision (by males) that is certain of the little, of the CROWD of fresh-faced Fresherettcs crosses the quad- (All male nieinbeis of the L'Estrange as Orientation "women were responsible for Univeisity are automatically indices that look that way, Week director in mid-vaca­ the decline in chivalry." rangle on Tuesday morning before the welcoming addresses. but just as one swallow members of the Men's Club, tion, when Betty resigned be­ which in the past, has been doesn't make a summer, I am cause of ill-health, To-night, the University of certainly not going to take, Queensland Dramatic Society criticised for its "drunken show that a slacking off of Htiwever, officials congratu­ will stage "Bell, Book and orgies" at Union expense,) the new applications for un- lated Jan on her smooth- Candle" in All Saints' Hall, St. Lucia lab. to be ettiployment insurance and all working arrangements. and the Architects will hold a DIsbandment that sort of thing, that those dance in the Tennis Pavilion. It is believed that a strong do not yet, to my mind, war- THE PROGRAMME faction within the Executive rant a flat predictioii that we Australia's largest will urge the complete dis- are now on the upper leg. Only conljjlaint (from two Ibandment of the Men's Club "I want to see a few more third-year students) was that at the first Union meeting of things happen. I say that we Freshers were forced to stand USTRALIA'S largest Iiigh voltage electrical laboratory is the year, on March 11. are u'eathering' it well, and I in a broiling sun while wait­ A under con.struction at St. Lucia. ing to fill In matriculation It is expected that, when ™,, I - , . , „, , ,, I Seven e.TCCutive member.? believe that the prior boom forms. ,L'!^L','"^"L.''""*.!^:.."'^Utteiided the February 15 had a great deal, had a lot to the laboratory is completely j West End, BrLsbuiie, firm of meeting. do with the recession. Now I The Debating Society, in a equipped over the next tive • Freighter Industries (Qld.) think it has largely spent its lunch-hour symposium on years, li will have cost about Pty. ttd., in four sfclions, The Executive agreed to force. I certainly pray so." Tuesday, passed a unanimous £100,000. ' each of which opens inde- provide hundreds of chairs. It will rcBlacc the evislinir pendently for case In hand-; a"^.. students to help with u will replace uie evisiing ^,^^ parking arrangements, at the small laboratory at the Un( ' . , opening ceremony of Women's ilBiillili^MliBiB versity and will be used for The firm, winch is doing all I College in March. "Advice begins to trickle from the profs. higli voltage transmission (he structural steel work for, problems. the laboratory, has delivered The lon5 vac. wanes; the slow swot starts; the room Dr. T. Parnell of the Uni­ all the sections. Groans round with many voices." Jan Pollard versity's electrical engineer­ Dr. Parnell said that the Paris Billets Thus, in lighter mood, the cnange of ideas, by dialogue ing faculty said that trans­ first 20K. inside the labora­ The Australian Embassy ad­ poet Tennyson. Thus also, in and discussion. Other outstanding points in mission of electrical power tory will be acoustically B very short while, us. But In this context, along with the week's Freshers' pro­ was being continually stepped treated to minimise the ter­ vises that it lias secured addi- before we hurl ourselves institutions such as the De­gramme are:— up in Australia. rific noise of the electrical . tional accommodation for madly into that academic and bating Society, the student •'The new laboratory will be equipment. i Australian students wishing to • Oxford Union Debate the largest high voltage elec­ "Initially the laboratory | ^t^dy in Paris. social jungle, let us stand newspaper arises spontane­ (to-morrow). silently a moment, and reflect. ously. trical installation in any will be fitted with a one-mil-1 The Director of the Malson Why do we do it? It fulfils the function of • Newman Society social Australian University." lion volt transformer and [ Du Canada, one of the oldest What is the benefit of the initiating and channelling at Vic. Park (Saturday "Eventually, when addi­ two one-million volt impulse of the colleges which oflered University life and what, more these forces; it becomes the night). tional proposed equipment is generators which have been j accommodation to Australian particularly, is the use of this clearing-house of opinion and • Engineers' Dance, Vlc. added over the next few ordered from Germany," Dr. I students in Its early days. Is paper in that life? comment. Park (Monday). years, it will be the largest Parnell said. | prepared to accept two Aus- To enter the enquiry HEREFORE, in con­ • Revue Society's dance, in Australia." He said it was hoped that trallan studenls from next thrnigh the front door: Our Vic, Park (Wednesday). The 56ft. square building lhe German equipment would ' October. country is one that develops T trast to the papers will be 60n. high and will arrive about August, and that | Further information may be .socially, not only with slngu- to which you are accus­ And, of course, the Fresh­ have a massive door weigh- the laboratory wculd be in | obtained from the Common- liir Independence of Its uni­ tomed, it does not feed ers' Welcome will be held at Ing three tons, and measur­ operation before ne.vt Novcm-J wealth Office of Education, versities, but almost without greedily on "news," but Cloudland to-morrow week. ing 40fl. square. ber. Box 3879, GP.O., Sydney. premeditation. Very little thinking is de­digests it; it does not voted to basic political issues; merely Inform but at­ there are few educated poli­ tempts rather to educate Debater's A.G.M. ticians, and expediency Moyian wins National and provoke to discus­ THE Debating Society an­ abounds. On the whole we sion. nual general meeting for the are proud to "muddle election of ofllcers will be held through." Thus, even at the risk of outraging the pusillanimous In the G.P, Hut, St. Lucia, at OW, the peculiar and the conservative, it must 1.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Union Executive Post March 4. N value of university be critical in tone. FROM NICK CLARK life is that it affords a It must employ every Freshers and other stu­ chance of regarding this weapon from direct attack to dents who are interested in fLTELBOURNE.—QueenslancJer, Bernie Moyian, was eiectecJ Hon. Secretary- rollicking satire In order to debating with Q.D.U. fixture •'•'-*• Treasurer of the Nationa! Union of Australian University Stu

t'*''^^^^^'*- •!- 'L1^ • • • • ^^,*.».».«.*^»^P»» Cartoonist Ed. McMahon looks Variations on the Here and at the Queensland floods ow the fresher, having been duly orientated. Initiated, inoculated, and thoroughly be­ N wildered, carries his brand new brief-case A^(ow with a jaunty air and speaks in blase tones of 9/ it... profs., tutes, and the refec. 'THE disease then spread to For example. If you are late Now the lecturer once more begins to recite his reper­ -•• Queensland. In 1956, Mr. for your 9 a.m. lecture, you toire of jokes, bringing delight to the freshers, and despair Morris warned the electors can always blame the Chalk- to everyone else. against the Evatt - Gair- Moriarty trains, the Groom- Bukowski Party. In the self­ Now we all decide, for the After mentioning two for­ Binns bu.ses, or the Morris- first of many times, that less search for more and bet­ Bischof-Risch traffic lights. mer followers of the old re­ ter hyphens, this organisation there is really not much point gime wlio are now supporters ' Then, if November is as un­ In starting study yet. shortly afterwards sub­ of the Communists, the re­ divided (rather like an pleasant as it usually is, go Now the freslierette takes viewer goes on to say; amoeba or star-fish) into the ahead and denounce the her first tentative pufi at a "Professor Fitzgerald sees Bukowski - Evatt - Duggan Mahony - Thomson - Cooper Rothmans Filter, not realis­ no reason to doubt that' Party and the Gair-Walsh alliance or the Shaw-White- ing that by the middle of sec­ Cliiang Kai-Shek too would Party. Lavery combination or what­ ond term she will be smoking get no worse punisiinient than Mr. Duggan then produced ever it happens to be. And, of Black Russians like a veteran. the Chinese equ.'valent of a course, don't forget to sit Now last year's freshers as­ life peerage if he stopped his a new and hitherto undreamt­ "Residents carried on as usual," of combination — the Gair- around the quadrangle criticis­ sume the usual sophomoronic dangerous antics." ing this O'Neill-MacAulav rag. —A.B.C. flood report. pose of infallibility, and, if I hope that General Chiang Nicklin-Morris conspiracy. they live in one of those in­ reads Professor Fitzgerald's Hyphens have remained stitutions humorously known book. He would certainly find popular ever since, but it as colleges, proceed to display it extremely interesting. I seemed as if after this Dug- their maturity by insulting doubt, however, whether it ganian gem there were no tlieir juniors by one year. would make him decide to new combinations to be made. Now the senior student, hand Formosa over to Com­ It was fitting that Dr. Evatt gazing in horror at the new rade Mao. should be the one to prove arrivals, tries to convince him­ that we had not yet reached He probably has no ambi­ that point self that he was never as tion to join Lord Nagy and objectionable as one of those. Lord Maleter in the Com­ His "Menzies-Maniiix Axis" Now a Seniper writer solves munist Hou.se of Lords. is brief in comparison with Student queries discrepancies on the problem of how to begin The article mentions two some of the more flamboyant his column by stealing and other books on contemporary examples quoted above, but horribly mangling an idea of China. As one might expect, for sheer word-music it sur­ De Quincey. neither criticises the Mao re­ passes any of them. deferred University examinations Try repeating it to yourself Now, in sliort, it is first gime unfavourably. rjEAR SIRS.—There are some questions which the it; but then most people will term. at difTerent speeds. The moral apparently is It is dilScult to see why this J-^ Chancellor should be asked concerning the go to see a particular film for •k -k -k that there are no flies on strange idiom is so popular granting of deferred examinations at the end of the similar reasons, and surely STUDENT who Cliina and it is only silly old that Is not snobbery. capitalist fuddy-duddies like and so effective. last academic year. A spends most of his Tliey suggest mysterious I should say Uiat an over­ John Foster Dulles who sav They are: often Faculty Boards, witliout whelming majority of Uie time at George Street there are. meetings in dimly-lit cafes, lurking figures with hats (1) Why was the member reference to the Senate, re­ audience goes to see the play tells me that he got a pulled down over their eyes for the Federal seat of More- ject applications from even­ as a play. rather nasty shock the * • * ton (Mr. D. J. Killen) granted Just take a look around the TT/HY is it that two sur­ and pistols in the pockets of ing students who claim that other day. their trench-coats, messages deferments for examinations pressure of work during the theatre during a crucial names connected by a last year in second year law moment in the plot—for ex­ He saw the.rare vision of hyphen have such a sinister ill code, murder on the Orient day prevents them from pre­ the Hon. William Power wear­ Express and all sorts of skull­ subjects? paring adequately for an ex­ ample, when Roo destroys the ring? "Seventeenth Doll" —and I ing what appeared to be a duggery. (2) Did the Law Faculty amination. U.Q.U. tie. I am not referring lo com­ think you will see why the pound surnames (although to I should like to point out, Board recommend that Mr. The reason Mr. Killen gave audience is there. It turned out to be not a however, that the idiom has a Killen be granted deferred for requesting deferments the nit-witted inverted snob If I have mistaken your U.Q.U. tie at all, but one very these are sinister enough), but number of possibilities which examinations? was that in the weeks before have not yet been e.xploited. (3) Is it not true that very the e.vamlnalion he was meaning I beg your pardon. If to one of the many verbal not, then I suggest you lake habits of our politicians. called on to take part in his election campaign. a look at the audience next Instead of critici.sing Mr. time you go to the theatre— Snodgrass and Mr. Fother- Surely this is no more than on a last night. ingay and Mr. Shugglebotham Houndup... the equivalent of what many evening students sometimes they will rise in wrath to de­ BY TEX CUMMINS J. J. AXDREWs, Eng. IV. nounce the Machiavellian have to manage to do while machinations of the Snod­ FRESHER denotes an initiate. It unfortunately working during the day and (The Editors showed Mr. grass - Fotheringay - Shuggle­ connotes a certain freshness or brashnes.? acquired studying at night. lioivhotluim the htier primed botham alliance. Why was Mr. Killen given above, mid ashed if he would during school hero-worship. special treatment? I know of like in reply. Mt, Rowbothum I do not know who origina­ It would be an ad\'antage if at least two students—one in mill lie preferred nol to ted the practice, but I am wise, and a really killing punch­ this freshness could be chan­ line at parties—"that's the way iVlediclne. the other in Arts— comtiient.) fairly sure that it owes its nelled into new bursts of o'.is- who applied for deferments present vogue to Dr. Evatt. the mop flops." Well there inality inlo the Univer.sity was only one Mark Twain. on Uie grounds of ill health tlie source of so much that is with the annual freslier in­ during the exam preparation bright and beautiful in Aus­ take. Originality that moves period. tralian political life. D D D away from stereotyped Both produced medical cer­ Daeiell It will be remembered that apatliy, towards brilliance in WHAT price fame? among tificates; the medical student in October, 1954, the learned liumour and pranks that can the extra-curricular talents HON. WILLIAM POWER was ill on the day of one Doctor discovered that the only come from people not developed at a university his exams and was unable much like it—tory-blue stripes cause of his making an abso­ immured in past practices rapid imbibition of ale or against a background of lute ass of himself in front of guzzling grog, holds no mean sit. that have stifled fresher orig­ Not only were they not Q.L.P.-maroon. the Petrov Commission was inality. place. Several senior niembers Just the same, he says, the the underhand strategy of the of two revered student facul­ granted supplenientarles — thought of the Hon. William "Santamarla - Keon - Mullens ties are still smarting over their letters requesting defer- Florists as Member of the Union left Group." D D D their unexpected publicity in ' ments were not answered. him in urgent need of a "WOrs in a name," C. J. a national pictorial magazine Why the discrepancy? The group so-named were Dennis said via his sentimen­ tranquilliser. soon speaking bitterly of the not long after Commem. last Surely the day when this tal bloke, and the same ques­ year. Senate feared the possible in­ - B6270 • • • • tactics of the Evatt-Cain fac­ tion must arise when new tion in Victoria and of the They still threaten murder fluence of politicians has long HAVE not yet read arrivals at these hallowed to the photographer who since pa."5sed. Hotel Daniell lt„i|(ii„g Evatt-Calwell-Ward Party. halls realise tliat they are 1 Professor C. P. Fitz­ As the battle grew fiercer, caught them with their glotti (The writer of this letter, a unionists—according to their down and it is unfortunate bona fides student, has asked FOR CORSAGES, gerald's latest book, hyphen was plied on hyphen, enrolment forms. NAMES the Editors to withhold his and soon we were hearing of that the publicity could be "Flood Tide in China," only, to most that shepherd detrimental to fellows who name. BOUQUETS, rlc. Uie Santamarla-Joshua-Keon- their union affairs and will be but, if we may believe a Mullens-Burke Party, the have brought distinction and thrust before the student pub­ created a great deal of awe in HAVE read David Row- review in the A.L.P. Evatt-Bukowskl-Egerton gang, lic — Decline (of conversa­ ft'e deliver lit Colleges and the Manning-Kane splin­ Southern universities on inter­ I botham's article in Free of Cost paper, "The New Age," it tion) uinm Paul; Nicholas— varsity tours over the years. must be a riot of humour. ter group. czarrish clerk of the union; tlie 1958 third term and tlie Hon. Tony Morton- • D D D A.U.P. supplement; I Mr. President. would like to ask him a t BOOKS, FOUNTAIN PENS, STATIONERY i ONE of the best stories of BE fPEU. ADVISED *t nan recent times recorded by an question. t All Students' Kcquircniciits '<\ MARK Twain, noteaAtneri- American ncw.smagazine con­ Referring to the Elizabethan t B\ can humorist, had surprisingly cerns the death of a former Theatre Trust, he says: "But t THE MJ.,C. MAN" \ from 0 enough a theory about humour. saxophone player of the Chi­ the Trust is giving far greater t * PHONE B2921 BOX 872 L, G.P.O. j This was that if a joke, how­ cago jazz days, one Boyce satisfaction to those in society * ever feeble, was told repeatedly, Brown, who left the red-hot who practise, not literature, "Qiioenslnnd's Best Bookston" ; J. S. FRASER * the hearer was bound to laugh. reeds of the Chicago Jazz bands but what Aldous Huxley caJLs * This theory he bravely tried out for the fluted way of monas­ 'cultural snobbery'." LIFE ASSURANCE * tery life. As.Brother Matthew t t at a lecture and it worked. Now, Mr. Rowbotham, are i t The same may not be said of he retained liis saxophone you implying that the major­ t and * those individuals who inspire and, to quote tliis newsmaga­ ity of people who watch the t ^. McLEOD I zine, (he) "sometimes jammed i rashes of jargon among the Trust productions are "cul­ JFIRE. GENERAMNS. * 107 ELIZABETH STREET, BRISBANE ji avant garde of students who with fellow friars. 'Alleluia tural snobs?" Stomp' with Brother Matthew \ M.F.C. IIUILDINCS. BRFS. t uud Kockhiunpton !; will be offering such catchy Granted that many people phrases as "that's fhe way the doubling on tenor and will go to see a play because J Tchpttoiie :ii noi J cookie crumbles" —-1 Freberg chimes." , . . their friends are talking about i*»*^,..-^,^x. : SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959. PAGE 6 More static tutors^ io deieai the failure rate? The crisis in our Universities The Despised — thoughts towards a solution Arts Faculty VER since universities have existed so has the BY POLITICUS E Faculty of Arts. It is by gradual additions to this nucleus that the other faculties have been ERHAPS the two biggest problems facing Australian universities at the brought under the academic wing. moment are those of finance and the failure rate amongst their population. For this reason it is strange arises perhaps from tliree P The first was investigated at great length last year, and resulted In the Murray to nnd that In Australian uni­ main sources: versities, arts-students are (1) Contrast between the Report and a certain amount of action from the Federal and State governments. universally ridiculed under liberal studies which are the every term of abuse from pursuit of arts students and However, very little real action has been taken as regards the second problem — which is an acute "bohemlan" to "loafer." the practical knowledge sup­ one in all universities, and particularly in our own. The only use or the faculty, plied by all the other facul­ as they see it, is to produce ties for future doctors, law­ I do not propose to produce any statistics, mainly because I do not want to discourage all the teachers. yers, dentists, and so on. Freshers, just as they are about to start the race for that elusive prize — the Degree. This intolerance Ior the The phenomenal material Suffice it to say that failure rates of up to 50% in some Faculties and Departments are not unusual in this place of purely impractical pursuit of progress of our civilisation has learning, and that the Senate, Staff, and even the usually apathetic public, have expressed their concern from time to knowledge for its own sake induced among niembers of time —not to mention us poor undergradautes. '^ —— • profeslonal faculties the belief that theirs are the only rpHE big question relating to and no amount of advice socially useful studies. this problem is: "Just why from the Guidance Officers (2) The peculiar Australian exactly do so many students will make them. An inside view Outlook which is the residue fail?" The idea that a student of the provincial and pioneer­ At .school the student is fresh out of school is a re­ ing days of a society of squat­ compelled to work, for his sponsible adult when he gets ters, gold diggers and labour­ here is ridiculous and un­ on drain pipes master is constantly at his ing convicts — a society busy back, driving him on with realistic. about basic tasKs with no time either a real or Imaginary A Fresher is still a school­ or inclination for the intrica­ whip. boy—the only difference Is cies or refinements of the At the university, however, that he was able to have European tradition of which the student is regarded as a three monlhs vacation last they were merely trans-Pacific mature adult, and he Is ex­ summer. Instead of the usual order. pected to work for himself, two. having now become fully "re- HE problem Is how to HAS IT PASSED? Kponsible," and no one will T make the student work, and making sure that he does Culture, Literature, Art, are force him to do so if he does still equated for the majority not want to. the work. The simple solu­ tion is: HOMEWORK, or, for of Australians with affected Naturally, many students those to whom the word is accents in drawing rooms, cannot adjust themselves to repulsive—ASSIGNMENTS. lackeys, scented fops, and this new idea—particularly And this work must be cor­ bohemians. the Freshers, and the univer­ rected. However nowadays the only sity authorities, being aware This arrangement is to be remnant of this rugged cul­ of this, have set up a Guid­ found in some Departments ture is tlie mistaken belief in ance Panel, to help them ad­ already—such as the German its continuance, for it is just Ihcmselves to the new and French. rapidly being replaced by the way of life. But In a big Department "Wanna rent an L-sliape pipe, mate?" American-inspired mass-cul­ But many others find the like English (there were over ture of relatively low social life of the university 150 sludents in English I last standard. very much to their own taste, year), there are not enough (3) Tlie third reason for nnd as there is no controlling lecturers to make this (Or, how to beat the this aversion to arts-students authority till November feasible. (which has prevented tlie (when it is too late!), they What ia needed here is growth of a wide intellectual SIMPLY DO NOT WORK! more slaff. middle class) Is the arts stu­ Housing Problem) dents themselves. For too few of them have The ilr Hi .«tiiinl>liiis^ liltiek INCE this Is the State's Centenary Year, I think it appropriate to write a few done anything to show that HIS University needs TUTORS badly—in almost S words about drainpipes. they take their studies seri­ every Faculty. They are needed not only for ously. T As any of the more Civil of the Engineering geoise, thereby giving them Hovever, against the few correcting the suggested assignments, but also as lads can tell you, a drainpipe is a pipe made of pos­ something else to talk about sincere scholars in Arts, there advisor.s to the student—people to whom he can go besides tax, teenagers, and sibly reinforced concrete or cast iron, and possibly The Good Old Days. are many who attend lectures with all his troubles, and who can give him extra used in a drain. and pass exams, merely to help if he is lagging in his work, or if he finds the No, the proper approach to tack two more letters on an Now before a drainpipe can ably walk over to it, crawl in, One's drainpipe demands a L.L.B., to get the extra money work too difficult. be incorporated in an actual spread your bedding, and lie professional air. You give the that goes with teaching in a The first year is tlie biggest examined on the Tirst half drain, it must first be trans­ down. pipe a hearty slap on Its side, secondary school, to acquire a slumbliiig block—the Fresher year's work. If he fails, he ported to the site of the pro­ If so. you have mnde a bad criticise the excavations into jingle of avant garde chit­ needs all the help he can get, will have had timely warning pose. d drain, and there it may mistake. which the pipe will eventu­ chat as another accessory for nnd the tutor can give it to —an Indication that he is not remain for several days on In the first place, you ally fit, and then crawl into cocktail parties, or to fill in him. working well. end—Australian industry and should not dream of sleeping it as though about to Inspect time before marrying Into workmanship being what it is. in a drainpipe until you are it. The Staff could well give STUDENT who falls In society. their First Year students a A (Of course, when I say on so weary tliat your limbs are There we have one of the These unworthy arts stu­ few ".^ample lectures" — I.e., end, I do not mean that the lead. many uses of the drainpipe, dents lend point to the criti­ fault if he so desires. He can drain is stood on its end like give them r. lecture on a get the help of his tutors. Secondly, In walking over to and I will say In conclusion cisms levelled against the selected topic, make them a chimney. I mean the other the pipe, you have probably that It may not, except in the faculty itself. As it is, a student who fails thing.) take notes, and have a few of in November has no remedy- made your intention only too rarest contingency, be smoked. them read their notes back to Without further preamble, I clear to the watching bour- JOHN FOGARTY —JACOBO. tlie lecturer. He could then it is too late. will now demonstrate one of point out to them the weak­ If he had a good pass in the uses of the drainpipe. The nesses of their notes, and how June, and failed by a margin fact is, when the pipes are they could do better. in November, the average of left on the site for days on THE FUTURE LEADERS MYTH ALSO, he could show the stu­ the two would give him a pass end, they may be slept In at dents how to pick out the im­ for the year, and vice versa, night. T'HE disillusionment of Freshers starts very early In their careers—during Orientation Week. portant parts of a text book, But It Is no good talking PRECAUTIONS In fact. by he himself reading out a about them in the committee Por example, in the course dents, especially Freshers, as It is a shock, then, to dis­ portion of it, and pointing out rooms. SOMETHING MUST This proves very u&eiul if It Is raining. I would point of this festive period, many future leaders of Australia. cover that the University of the important parts to them. BE DONE! — and SOON. I speeches are thrust at them. Queensland is a training in­ "How lo Study" lectures in would not dare suggest a out though that it is necessary Even a superficial examina­ to take a few precautionary Anyone paying attention to tion of society reveals a spar- stitution where the sole jus­ first term are useful but In­ lowering of standard, which these will have added to his tification of your existence Is sufTicient. by many is regarded as being measures before attempting to. sity of varsity (as our Ameri­ use the drains In this manner. store of knowledge the follow­ can friends would say) gradu­ the attainment of a degree. too high for the "average" ing facts:— The fresher also sees the PURTHER, there Is the student. First and foremost, I would, You are here to pass ates among Its leaders. •*• problem of the November suggest that you check on the ridiculous pose adopted by the But the age of laissez faire exams. However, the greatest shock older students—that of a re­ CKaminntions — which affects is over. pipe's stability. You see, pipes a fresher receives is the guad- us all. are usually round, and If they You pass exams, by study­ spectable, middle class busi­ While the Freshers are left ing hard. ual revelation of University nessman. November is the be all and are at the top of a hill (oh, life as It really is—the sliat- to their own devices in their you have the Idea already - There is extensive social life the end all for all of us, and here at the University. tering of delusion after de­ One would think that in a this surely has an adverse flrst year, an unnecessarily then?). bourgeois and provincial so­ large number of them will Nevertheless, a balance must lusion as the impressions p.sychological effect on many. Should there be a selection be maintained between gained as an outsider are ciety such as one finds in under these circumstances keep on failing. Something of pipes available, I would proved false by actual experi­ Queensland, a University must be done; it is no good this and study. even the best of students can suggest you give preference to As future leaders of Aus­ ence. would be a hot-pot of re­ do badly—especially if he is a waiting for the spark from the pipe nearest 36 inches in actionaries determined at all Heaven. tralia it is your duty to Fresher. diameter. make the most of your Many freshers, I believe, costs to retain their identity One solution, it Is suggested. Queensland badly needs Pipes of this size nre suf­ stay at the University. Imagine a University conform­ and not to merge with Is to have TWO EXAMINA­ more graduates—and the Uni­ ficiently large so as not to Of this body of facts, tiiere ing to one of two types: (a) mediocrity. TIONS—the usual one In No­ versity Authorities realise It. cause claustrophobia in the is only one which Is not blat­ the British, where poets and Yet the students of to-day vember, but anotlier also In Any action taken towards occupant, and the curvature antly obvious, because. it is scholars live in an academic ere courting the mediocre, the middle of the year this goal this year would not Is not too severe; nor Is It so not true. fog, or (b) the American, welcoming it and ushering it (around the end of June), and only be a lilting centenary commodious as to admit the where chic gols and crazy into their midst. make the pass for the year an present for the State, but also wind and weather. The falsehood (which Is guys buzz around fn gay an­ average of the two results. for our University, to mark its Now you have selected your perpetuated to this day) rests tique cars, all having one heck A future leader . . . ? In June the students can be jubilee. drainpipe, you would prob­ In addressing University stu­ of a time. —JOHN FOGARTY. SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959. p^GE j

Im devastated," says top-ranking Society Columnist It was simply too too, dears^ > By Clolhildc de Faugh ARLINGS! Don't you think it's simply the most heavenliest -at the D thing that ever happened to poor, neglected Brishane. The Royal Ballet, I mean. You know, we're simply starved for culture up here. Of course. I don'l mean thai with our meagre we haven't Ballet Then, of course, there was the suspense they played the done lhe utmost. Oh dear me, no! I would be the last to that mad rush for the foyer overture absolutely alleg:retto dhparagc. and a cigarette. vivace, none of this ma non But, do you know, the most troppo nonsense. But I do think it's divine Oh, but it was divine just amazing thing: they were to have these overseas per­ And then, we saw the In­ to be there and feel the won­ actually giving cigarettes ternationally famous New sons coming here to show us derful dancing permeating away, but definitely on the how. Zealand born Rowena Jack­ one's soul and syphoning house, dears, son and her husband Philip through one's inner being. One must remember that All you had to do wns saun­ Chatfield and Bobbie Help- these people have been in It was just as if a heavenly ter up to this blonde creature mann — a positive orgy of direct contact wilh the Rus­ rain of expensive perfume and take one from this box celebrities. sians, and the Russians, my were falling on some vast affair slung over her shoul­ desert, if you see whal I Right from the start the dears, are le dernier crl when der. internationally famous Row­ it comes to ballet. mean — but darlings, you Old-Hand Jazz must know what I mean. But you balletomanes won't ena Jackson danced a pas de So you can see i was all be interested in all that. deux with her husband. agog for this big experience And the too, too excruciat­ You will want to know Just So .you can see that not a and practically prostrated by ingly divine music The what everybody thought of for the Amateur the time the curtain went Meyerbeer composition (par­ moment was wasted in get­ the ballet. ting down to business. By BRUCE WILSON up. ticularly the Constant Lam­ I'm afraid you will have to There is definitely some­ bert setting) always reminds And then we had dear FTER thinking about it, I find that the main be disappointed, however, thing, don't you think, about me of dariing little elephants, because no one was talking Bobbie, looking rather like a A desire I have in mind in this column is to write a big theatre — although Her jumping up and down and about it. fish, which I thought was so it more for the amateur in jazz, than the old hands. Majesty's is possibly un peu running around and having quaint. intime for a big theatre— such fun on the banks of the Everybody must have been It is very hard to infiucncc understand the joys of so devastated and shattered Every time he came on, when all the lights are going Zambesi or Amazon or he'd pretend to trip over old hand.s' opinions, since Johann Strauss. something. by it all that they wanted to they have been listening to Both these are serious mis­ down, and all one can hear is keep it to themselves. You something and we all had to the murmur of conversation, I can just see thcni romp­ laugh, it was so funny. It was jazz long enovigh to get their conceptions. Jazz is not ing around. But, of course, know, like nylons during the minds so confused that any­ rock'n roll, for in rock'n roll and rustle of chocolate boxes, war. like George Wallace in the and the beating of one's own the danseurs (the French, I good old days thing coming from my equally is none of the very core of still feel, have that soupcon confused mind will be super­ jazz—improvisation. This im­ little heart. And then those dear, dear I mean, here was this or nuance that is so expres­ fluous. provisation is to jazz what a sive of the ballet) were not peasants who are in every­ For those people who do not cadenza is to a concerto. simply immense performance thing. They came in and did about to take place; well, it in the least like that. know jazz, but are music Also, jazz IS not a music for They were more like dear what peasants usually do, lovers, here Is a word. If you was enough to give Oliver and it went on in that vein intellectuals, although cool Cromwell palpitations. little fairies (even Donald are a classical-music lover, do jazz could often be thought to Britton, although he stands with just adorable dancing not look upon jazz as a form And besides, it had cost riglit up to the very end be. And jazz prooably has a fortunes just to get as far as about six feet) who had come of music somewhere below lot more to it than any Strauss down from their heavenly And I must tell you about your intellectual stature. CC row, practically a year's waltz, at which even serious supply of lipstick. bower just to dance for us this simply ethereal pas de The fact is, jazz is an art music lovers sneer. that night. deux which the internation­ form which is very young. It I hope I have made my That's CC row downstairs Well, they kept coming in ally born Rowena Jackson is also an art form which has point. Try to listen to jazz—if by the way, dears, which is and going off all the time and her husband did. sprunj; from folk-art, as did you dislike it, stop listening. the second row from the back. from this sort of indoor-lake the music which is bundled I wish you could have seen But try. Unfortunately, from back affair and in the end bits of it. together by the word "classi­ Every issue I hope lo have there I was straining and paper began to fall from the cal." a look at two or three new craning just to see the dan- roof, and everybody came on FOOT IN TME AIR Jazz had its birtli from records on the jazz market, seurs' faces (the French is so and the music went "bom- negro music, and this Is wliy and give a few of my own much more to thi point, don't boma-BOMP-bom," and that She stood on one foot while it has a pronounced beat. It own ideas on them. you think?). was the finish. he walked around, and she was, basically, the muisic of a stuck her leg up in the air- sensual people; more sensual but I mean right up, standing than the European influences on one toe and the blood whicii gave birth to "classical" Griffith, a^hayseedHitler'' in '''Face never came to her face once. music. In between times, of course, Nevertiieless, after America we returned to the comcdie adopted jazz as its own, it has The whole atmosphere was humaine and free cigarettes followed the pattern of all In the Crowd,''supported by fine cast in the foyer. folk-music. To-day it is verg­ one of relief from intense HERE are not many American film directors who have learnt the differ­ emotion. However, 1 think I might ing more and more towards a make a tcensy mention of a very .serious art form, with ence between realism and sensationalism—Ella Kazan is one who has. After a bit, warning bells T began ringing, so we all gentleman who actually was many of the same character­ Kazan, with "A Streetcar tics aud literally creates a This is an ugly uncompro­ talking about the ballet, even istics of "classical" mu.sic. scuttled for our scats to get Named Desire". "On the Presidential candidate from a mising film whoso only con­ ready for the big piece of tlie If It was in rather a veiled Tiiere may not even be a Waterfront", "Baby Doll" and stufly old-timer. cession to optimism is Rhodes' way. future for jazz as such. It is evening—Coppclia. others already to his credit, Finally Marcia recogni-ses final fall. This was in three acts, so He was telling this busi­ Impossible to even guess what has come up with another "In the end some of us get ness executive type that: "... jazz will be like In 50 years. the truth and destroys him. tliat will give you an idea of shocker in "A Pace in the The film ends with a ter­ wise," .says the script writer how tremendous it was. And, tlie daughter goes in for these So to serious music lovers, Crowd" at the Rex this week. as he gazes up at the gro­ things in a big way. She's my message is to listen to jazz rible scene in which Rhodes of course, we were all in a The film, a grim commen­ stands on a balcony and raves tesque figure on the balcony. positive sweat of anticipa­ been nine times already." with an open mind. Probably tary on the corrupting influ­ Tlie more ambitious of our tion. most serious listeners will find at an imaginary audience in Which goes to show just ence of power, has little of the banquet hall which was to university politicians should Well, you know, I think the how sensational the ballet modern jazz more acceptable the physical violence usually not miss this one. to them, but at least try to have been the scene for his orchestra must have sensed reftlly is when someone can found in Kazan's work. ultimate triumph. PETER COLE-ADAMS. this because just to relieve be such a positive fanatic. regard it not as an illegiti­ It also hes the advantage of mate son of European music, a flne cast of comparatively I believe I forgot to men­ but as a form of art in its new film faces. tion, too, just how divine the own right. Stars are Broadway actors GIBBS' GLIB NIB PIPS FRED Dcllbes music was. Some­ And now I will have fright­ times it positively tinlina- Andy Griflith and Patricia EAR Lunkhead,—Just finished Sir Phillip Gibbs's new book, "How now, ened off forever those who are Neal. With them are Walter bulales, and at others it de­ content with hit parade music. Matthau, Anthony Franciosca D England?" (Uni. bookshop, 21/-), finitely roars; but at times The tendency with the man and Lee Rcmick. with a notable exception or as Prlngle's "Australian Ac­ it's so diabolically appro­ in the street is either to think Perhaps I'm meeting this two, "mosters of mass psy­ cent." priate. We flrst meet Lonesome kind-hearted, lovable ola jazz envelopes rock'n roll, Rhodes (Griffith) as a guitar- chology" flatter "the lowest The conclusions are pat­ Well, then it was all over popular music, and heaven umptogenarian at the wrong common denominator of the twanging drunkard in a end of his ninety-odd books, terned, too conventionally and how we applauded! Tlie only knows wliat else, or as a small-town gaol. public mind—the most frivol­ moderate, that is. internationally born N.Z. fonn of music with no pattern but I got no kick out of this ous, the most sensation-lov­ Here he Is discovered by a one. It's a sort of commentary As your eyes shovel what of built Rowena Jackson re­ to it, for p-seudo-intellectuals radio reporter. Marcia Jeff­ ing." ceived a bouquet and we who are mentally unable to on English social and political the waffle they flnd worthy ries (Neal), who sees the life, written In a garrulous "Sex, crime, scandal and gos­ into your tiring mind, you be­ simply had to applaud again. possibilities of his boisterous vein, discussing the Welfare sip about Royalty—any back­ come gradually aware of the "countrv boy" philosophy and The curtain was just State's maybe illusory pros­ stairs gossip—are the key­ constant contrapuntal whlniiy oscillating from roof to floor FOR ADVICE OR i;put s his foot on tiie ladder up. perity gained by soaking the notes of their editorial orches­ in the soul of its mundane Assisted by a tired, Idealis­ rich good, the character of prose, the rocking-horse while we went wild (but I SERVICE ON tration." don't mean hke those teenage tic script-writer (Matthau) England's youth (hopefully), Secondly he puts his'finger mockery of "while on the and a young man with ideas the growth of violence (gen­ on the strong apprehension other hand . . , yet on the people, dears). LIFE ASSURANCE (Franciosca), she makes him uinely concernedly), the In­ felt in Britain, America's other hand .. . but. of course, Then this person with a the idol Of New York tele­ flux of West Indians which atomic outpost and Russia's on the whole ..." goatee beard, and drooping consult vision. might prick racial squabbles presumable bull's-eye, about moustache came on, and we There Is something f rlghten- unless moderated (troubledly), the nuclear future. Unilateral Pair drives you up the wall went wild again. ingly credible about Rhodes' If you don't watch .It, If you the emotional remnant of the disarmament has Its support­ Finally, they had to play IKENNETH A. lEMONJ meteoric rise, the ease with Empire (emotionally), and so ers all right. must read It, Lunkhead, you which he wins the hearts of on (prosaically). cultural swine, get It from a "God Save the Queen" to A:M.P. SOCIETY common men. "I'm not just an Despite these occasionally library, and follow up smartly quiet us, and the lights came entertainer," he shouts. "I'm Nevertheless two chapters of nottoobads, however, the book with n stiff whisky. up. and we went out Into the Telephones: a force, a power!" it are worth reading. First, generally lacks depth, Insight, cruel world to swallow simply I; FA 1980. FA 1981 Grlfflths's iiayseed Hltier the one on the degeneracy of the "feel" for a nation's soul Yours superiorly, quarts and quarts of collec Box 1404R, G.r.O. the British Press, wherein, that distinguishes such books FRED SURD. and recover. ll.*4>##«-.^^^>t^^****f*f*^*t****. I next laughs his way Wto poll- PAGE 8 SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1959. Council will employ research man ^liliiliiiliiM to investigate student affairs From U.Q.U. secretary, NICK CLARK. TV/TELBOURNE.—At one of its most worthwhile Council meetings, N.U.A.U.S. macde (de­ cisions of great importance to Australian University students. Castro was an ex-student leader Council decided to employ a full time education research officer to conduct surveys on such items as student living costs, failure rates, and to produce statistics to the Commonwealth Depart­ The student role in ment of Education for revision of the Scholarship allowances. In part, National Union was walked out of the meeting prohibition of the NUAUS wide Faculty Associations was responsible for the recent in­ when a motion was passed, Constitution that the Union ensured. Batista^s downfall creases in these allowances. that had the effect of making shall "in no circumstance .... Travel concessions on all COSEC Newi Service However, a major split de­ the National Union a political directly or indirectly support forms of transport on produc­ veloped in the political field. body. any political or religious creed tion of a Student Identity HE world press has for several months given wide In a statement issued to the tt • Card might result from T publicity to the struggles going on in the meeting, and widely reported Council gave further sup­ approaches now being made Cuban Republic, against the dictatorial regime Walked out in the Press, the delegates, port for the continuation of by the Travel Director to the The East Coast delegations who represent 18,000 of the such activities as the Drama major airlines and the Rail­ headed by General Fulgencio Batista. thought that tlie National 34,000 Australian Students, Festival, to be held in Queens­ way Commissioners. One of the aspects which His successor, and other Union was not competent to claimed that such action was land this year, the Debates The U.Q.U. Council at its has not received the attention students, were assassinated by formulate policy on behalf of unconstitutional and would festival and the Art Exhibi­ meeting next week will con­ it merits is that of the part police a few days later. all the Australian University lower the good name of the tion. sider the report of ils dele­ played by the courageous In 1959 a new era was students on political matter.?, Union with outside bodies. The extension of Australia- gation at this Council meeting. Cuban students. initiated for the Republic of and for years the Constitution The immediate causes of The Federaclon Estudiantll Cuba, when on January 1 has been rightly interpreted the split were motions from Universitaria (PEU) — the General Fulgencio Batista was as prohibiting such discussion. Melbourne and West Aus­ highest body of Cuban stu­ forced to abandon power In a dramatic scene, the tralia calling on the Com­ Professor advises dents — declared immediately which he had exercised for University of Queensland monwealth Government to re­ after the coup d'etat in 1S52 seven years through repres­ Union delegation, together lax the Restrictive Immigra­ that "We must make it clear sive measures. with the Sydney and Newtion Acts. cutting of lectures now and forever more. We do The first public speeches of South Wales delegations This was despite the specific STUDENT MIRROR REPORTS not defend the interests of the new President Dr. Manuel any political party, nor of any Urrutia, were made from the UT as many lectures as possible," advised Pro­ group in particular. We de­University of Oriente, and V fessor Lionel Elvin, Director of the University fend only the Constitution, then from the University of Reds lower tertiary status of Institute of Education, at a reception popular sovereignty and civic Havana, where he was heard held recently at the Guildhall, Westminster. propriety." by the Cuban public and uni­ This declaration and the versity students. THE new form of commun­ Uie depreciatory handling ot He was addressing 250 sec­ ity life introduced in China, educational affairs in general. cent, even give financial aid for demands of the students were Students turned over the the "Communes", takes in not ondary school students about the support of dependents. placed on the list for repres­ arms which they possessed only the millions of workers meTf^h'^'^^m';h.ol'lft^hv to become undergraduates • • •* sion by the later General Ful­ and which they had used dur­ and their famiUes, but school SingThe^S "egini^ with Middlesex County unt gencio Batista. ing the dictatorial regime to children and students as well. was able to announce that ^'"'^'ty S^f t^- „„ , , . The Supreme Council of Thus, the University of the new government in order A phenomenon connected 93.9'-; Of all school-age chil-, As to the amount of work the United Arab Republic Havana was touched directly that peace would bring about with the Commune Movenient dren were attending primary ^n undergraduate should do, (tJAR) Universities has de­on 13th February, 1953, by the the normality essential to per­ is the creation of an excessive schools. Figures for the higher Professor Elvin said that he cided to make military train­ first university killing, that of mit them to take up their number of provincial "univer­ schools and universities have thought five hours a day ing compulsory in universi­ Ruben Batista Rubio, during books again. sities". doubled since 1957 (excluding, of course, time ties. It also decided that a student commemorative de­ so that Uie new institutions spent on lectures) was ade-students who showed distinc­ monstration. Although these institutions will be at least similar to the tl"»te. , ^ ^ tion in their training would Most awards are called universities, they former ones, students at thei Overwork probably meant be exempted from fees. Alternative seem to be little more than "universities" must perform, getting only a third-class de­ THE Australian Govern­ elevated primary schools. The fer the time being, manual I Bi'ee. Over - specialization, The only alternative re­ ment made available to Asian finance department of one of labour. | the speaker warned, was maining to the students and students 2,286 Colombo Plan these commune universities These measures also serve • "shocking". One hundred and twenty-six professors of the Universities training awards up to June, gives instruction on "the fin­ refugee Chinese students in of Havana, las Villas and 1958. This was the highest the goal of "educating" those Hong Kong have issued a mani­ ancial ni.inagement of the students who, last year when • • • Oriente was to cease academic total of awards by any mem­ commune", in other words, First issue of the new Hei­ festo asking the Free World to endeavour until "a return to ber country of the plan. It I open criticism was allowed, help them continue their stud­ simple bookkeeping. Students expressed their discontent delberg (Germany) student mag­ the normal institutional life" was followed by the United in the industrial department azine "Co-ed" contains a statis­ ies. The manifesto describes iu Cuba was permitted. Kingdom with 2,075 awards; with the existing regime. their reasons for leaving Com­ learn to drive tractors, others Like Khrushchev, Mao Tse- tical survey of the situation of With expulsion of the dic­ Canada, 940; India, 718; and to smelt iron and steel. university women. munist China, and their current New Zealand, 552. tung believes in the efficacious situation in Hong Kong. The tator as a common aim, ex- E\eii Communist Party effect of manual labour on The survey shows that a students state that they were student leader Fidel Castro meinbcrs have expressed their tiiose do who not know how to quarter of all women sludents unwilling to remain in a coun­ and tlie students' Revolution­ concern over this devaluation appreciate the advantages of in West Germany receive no try that has deprived its people ary Directorate formed an Commonwealth of the university status and the new society. support from home. Five per of all freedom. Now, however, agreement, under which Cas­ they do not have the means to tro landed in December, 1956, Dental Supply continue their education, which witli his armed forces and was interrupted by their flight. went into the Sierra Maestra Coy. Pty. Ltd. iiMiiijiiWM^ The students are now forced to area, where he carried on a live under worst conditions in guerilla war. I chiires available at above meetings. EET Peler Knhn. 22, a B.Sc. City Bldgs., Edward St. Studrrils insjr buy classlfli^d Be In the swim at BurlclBh! from Sydney University, this Hong Kong. For its part, the Revolution­ adrrrlMnK .spare at thr rate MSaturday night at the Canberra ary Directorate attacked the (opp. RolhwoUs) of M. a word, or 7/f! per ilnfle OK sale; White Tuxedo In good Hotel, room 72. when he will talk • • • Presidential Palace in Havana column Inch. Under tlnlon F condition. Apply Sports on "One World, One Faith." for Undergraduates — 650 of and occupied the Radio Reloj rrKulatloim. clubs and societies Union olllce. the National Spiritual Assembly ot LEADING inijr have free adrertislnc Bahal'l In AU.stralia, For Informa­ them — caused traflic jams station in March, 1957, when space, but site at these adi. REELING like this already? tion, ring Mr."!. W. J. Rodwell, ot when they arrived to take in subsequent encounters with will be al the Editors' discre­ School Road, Yeronga. (JW 1302). SUPPLIERS OF tion. I'honr. write, or call with free seats at a London film the police, -FEU President jrour claisUled lo "Semper" OTICE Is hereby given that the premiere some weeks ago. Echeverrla was killed. DENTAL office. St. Lucia. N Annual General Meeting of the University of Queensland Australian The students, from Cam­ Later, Echeverria-s will was STUDENTS' Football Clitb win be held on bridge, competed for a £100 found which said, "It is right nOOKS Ior sale—guaranteed to Thursday. Sth March, at 8 p.m. In the Women's Common Room, George prize for "the most unusual to maintain alive the faith in REQUIREMEiNTS be In excellent condition. D, Street. arrival at tlie theatre", and the revolutionary struggle al­ v. Slilne, C- Commonwealth Bank. Nominations for the position ot St. George. Queensland. Pure President, Hon. Secretary and Hon. It was one of the city's most though we leaders may all Advice given on locutions Maths. I: All these books *rc brand Treasurer must be In my hands by startling ever premieres. Un­ die, for there will never be a for Prttctico, Purchase of new and may be obtslnetl at a S p.m. Tuesday. 3rd March, and fortunately, no further de­ reai^onable discount: Elementary must be signed by the proposer and lack of capable men to occupy Practices, Locums, elc. Calcalus, T. Bounnan: A Concise seconder and endorsed by tht tails are yet available. our places." TriRonometry. S. a. Brown; Pro­ nonilnee. jection Methods and co-ordinate J. CAPPER, Oeomctry of Two Dimensions, H, (Hon. Sccretaryi 6 1225 K. Powell (all unused). Economics. EMEMBER—One of the out­ Baby buggy pushers ~A11 In excellent condition: Social R standing features of Univer­ CORSAGE and Industrial History ot England, sity lite Is the Revue, presented at Tlckner. 2S/-; The Economic pat­ the Rialto Theatre In second term. SPECIALISTS tern. Renwlck and 8lmp.son-Lee. On Wednesdoy night next, we're achieve world record BOUQUETS 16 -. having a social and you're all In­ Australian Banking. Oltford. vited to turn up nnd enjoy your­ ipiNLAND University students have sen a world record for from Wood, and lleilsma. 45/-; Outline selves. •*• baby buggy pushing. of Australian Economics, Walker what you need li FRESHERS WEL- It you want to be in with an and MadRWlck, U/-; Money. Mill COSIE. CLOUDLAND, Friday. enlhuslasllc. fuH-lovlni; stt, join and Walker. 10/-: Economics, March 6. Admission. 3/-. single. the Revue Society. Watch uut for Their time, 170 hours, beat Loadon- Sainuetson inewl, 55/-; Economic* notices of our activities and re­ for Commerce. Olfford, 30/-. HEREBY call tor nominations the former record held by for the followlnR vacancies on member we're always on the look­ University of Nottingham by HERGA & (0. I the Council of the Oolverslty of out for new talent. All interested KVANTiEHCAI. UNION.—All fresh­ plea.se ring Kay PoUock, 0 1334. 100 hours. American er..! and other students are Invited Queensland Union:— (A. and E. Bright) lo the tlQEU. Freshers Welcome.— Qeorge Street (Day and Evening) ANTED by the Women's Table Huffel tea in 81. Lucia Refectory, Vice-Presidents; Councillors: Agri­ Tennis Club—(1) Large num­ The Finnish students, from Wetlnchday, March 4. at 6,30 p.m., culture iEvenlng). l" Rep.; Archi­ berws of players lo help win Inter- 181 EDWARD ST. Jlorists followed by a film and an address tecture (Day and Evenlngi, 1 R• .• ., SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959. >AGE 9 From Madagascar to "Thrown Into Exist­ ence," by Constantin Nairilivoiiy. New Montmartre York, Schumann and • Genius in Hemner, 1958. the gutter F I were to say that I had just read a new novel which was comparable in quality to any of the great novels of European literature, people would I smile cynically and pay no more attention, for such statements are as commonplace as they are usually meaningless. In this case, however, I am speaking sincerely and after full deliberation. "Thrown Into Existence" is when he won 25,000 dollars in existentialist philosophy. a great book by a great man. a TV quiz. Last May, he attempted to Nairilivony is a 28-year-old He then left America for organi.se an anti-Gaulllst native ot Madagascar. At the Paris where he put his coiv meeting In the Champs age of 18 he won a scholar­ siderable musical talents to Elysees. In the riot which fol- ship to Iowa State College use by forming a jazz en­ lowed, he was knocked uncon where he received a "summa semble in a IVtontmartre cafe. scious by a champagne bottle cum laude" degree in Music- It was here that he met wielded by a chorus-girl from ologj' and Semitic languages. Jean-Paul Sartre (whom he i the Folles Bergere. calls the "cock-eyed Socrates") • While convalescing, he wrote FTER he graduated, and became interested in ', "Thrown Into Existence." A he found himself, so he tells us in the preface to his novel, in a state of acute perplexity. The story begins: "It was not," he says, "that I was afraid that I knew no­ AIRILIVONY'S hero, Brett McKeever, is also a thing. I knew a lot and could N vagabond, a seeker for something indefinable prove it. The trouble was that and unattainable. all I knew was known from the outside. I wanted des­ He knows nothing of him phrases from this mono- perately to get iniside, to know self, except that he has come logue recur continually the whole of life hy experi­ all the way from America to ; throughout the remaining 337 ence as I already knew great a gutter in Paris to search for pages of the book chunks of it by ratiocination. something, but cannot re­ In construction, the novel The search for "passionate member what. becomes a series of episodes involvement" led him to re­ He finds 200 francs and an strung together on Mc- fuse the offer of a junior posi­ American passport in his poc­ Keever's determination to find tion on the staff of his Uni­ ket, but feels somehow that his own identity, and yet versity, and instead to become they must be forgeries. Nairilivony is so skilful a a sort of intellectual vaga­ While he is sitting on the craftsman that the overall bond. kerbstone, he is joined by impression is one of unity. For a while, he wrote copy three strange figures who en­ He has, too, a complete for an advertising agency. gage him in conversation. mastery of language, ranging After that he became a lab­ These are Jean, an escaped from a crisp, taut mono­ ourer on a tobacco farm. convict, Antoinette, a prosti­ syllabic prose to a subtle, tute, and Francois, a homo­ crepuscular quasi-poetry. "AT last, I was almost sexual. The book end.s in a mood of •^ in touch with some­ He goes off with them on a utter despair. McKeever, thing—the stink of sweat tour of the slums, "searching drink-sodden and verminous, for the sweet .sordidness of feels that he has "risen as far mixed with that of the truth." as he can to the beautiful cow-dunged earth, the He soon develops an inlcnse | depths of degradation." obscene language of my hatred for his companionsIS,, T-r N seeming answer to this fellow - labourers, tlie and then realises "witli a sud- , .1. intuition, a mysterious flourishing fields of po­ den, stabbing shock of en­ stranger appears and tells hini lightenment" that not only do that his passport is indeed tentially cancered lung. they hate him in return, but forged, but that he has proved "But it was still only poten­ they also hate each other. him-self woi thy of knowing his tiality, still only the outside." Pilled with this exultation real identity. He left the tobacco farm of mutual revulsion, they plan With that, he h'aiids him a after six months and travelled a hiurder. They lay their plan i sealed envelope to New York, where he be­ carefully, and in fact succeed ..McKeever's trembling Rn- came a writer of pornography in mortally wounding their I g^rs, poised, balanced, on the for a clandestine printer. victun, a policeman. ; opaque paper. Then from all This job lasted for only a But, with his last ounce of • around there came a white month, after which he was energy, he draws his pistol blinding flash of more than arrested and sentenced to and fires. lightning, and a black deaf­ nine months' gaol—"the exact Only McKeever escapes un ening roar of more than length of a normal pregnancy. hurt. thunder, and the untorn en- Probably symbolic, but of 1HEN follows a long,; velope and McKeever and the what?" .stranger and Paris burst into exquisitely written the flash and the roar aud After a year of despair and monologue in which he then into tlie void near-starvation, he found his way back to New York and meditates on the last A brief epilogue follows. was contemplating suicide words of Antoinette. This consists of an American radio announcer reading out an urgent news item: "A hy­ drogen bomb has been OUR BRAVE BOYS AT WACOL : dropped on Paris and war has I been dec " , ] He does not have the op- ', [portunity of finishing the sentence. "Was it worth it?" asked Nairilivony of the effort he liad put into writing this book. I, for one, agree with his answer—"If anything is worth anything, this is." It is a crying shame that I shall probably be the only Australian to be able to an­ swer the question either way. My copy was sent to me through the post. I am sure, however, that consignments addressed to the bookshops will not be so for­ tunate. How much longer are we going to endure this tyranny? Is it any wonder that our BATTLE-toughencd, lough-mlnded crack troops, the own literature remains paro­ cream of Wacol, squat during a diflicult, top-secret defensive chial and unimportant when endurance test, after a few hours relaxation with several rifles, we are forbidden to read any tanks, and things. At left is Emmanuel inmate Robin Ells- work which happens to offend more, at right Arts H student-Gil Court, of Alderley, and some petty public servant? centre, "Chook" Hart, of Bundaberg. H.C.K. SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959. PAGE 10 Commotion Recollected in Passivity "T.S. (Gawd help 'em) Eliot, the cerebrated English I Pessimist and Influence, will get a swift kick in the AN AUTOPSY ON posterity for some of his half-versed curses; but one at least deserves a certain immortality and a fame. THE STUDENT BODY For here in sunny old U. of Q., we severally and bodily perpetuate that dependent speaker. bodies, which is the business |"Q0," you will vulgarly The large residuary aggre­ of the Union. ij thin-lipped insight: "We are the hollow men." ask, "what?" Just gate of yes-men didn't even I And over the last two years ; unless you relin- bother to speechify their re- ' the clubs and societies have I ^"i^; Onr conviction of tliis comniunal and evisccral not been^w^ifpatronlsed. Our i quish this comfortable luck |!;rcw iijion lis and slrcngllmnod over a reflective lentless agreement; they merely reflected inwardly and efforts this year will be passivity, this paper must vacation iinlil finally we identified the trouble tliua- held their voting hands aloft. humbly bent to their urgent forgo that critical spirit •wUv. the sludent body has lost the sludeni spirit. But if Union Council de­ revival. which has been its im­ That former ornament of these corridors is fled and is clined, Union Office (home of So then, thus at the memorial keynote. now replaced by a gnattish assortment of attitudes we may the executive) streamlined It­ moment it stands. A great Inclusively term The Bourgeois Outlook. self into prominence, father­ dichotomy rends the fabric of For how can we attack a ing and fostering the slightly student life. mediocre society if we our­ We are too prone to regard took dogged and obstinate re­ ridiculous concept of Union's oh the one hand are those selves exemplify its morl- the University as a sort of in­ action, refused to be belted "dignity". (too annually persisent to be bundity? Our criticism would cubator in which we respond with tlie argument of the While this grotesque deity explicitly excoriated herein) be hypocrisy, our continuance with the becoming passivity cudgel, and Inviting in seven deliberated, "Seniper Ploreat" whose middle-aged minds an enduring contradiction. of eggheads to the process apathies more terrible than interpreted docilely for the [ preserve a steady and sterile ordained by Society to turn itself, settled further into the faithful and declared the polygamy with a harem of So then, cemetarlans, now us into efficient money-mak­ slough of its own unregen- future glory of the Union in lecture rooms and a library; is the time to cast off your ing functions. erate sloth. all the colours of the spec­ on tlie other are those who corpsehood, now is the year of the renaissance, 1959. We exist here only as mere Then, archangelically, there trum. iiirt superficially with the bar­ shadows cast on the present descended from Galr's politi­ ren problems of a thousand Let the debaters hold forth, by the "successes" of the cal paradise the Appeals expected, but in the rapid HERE was verily no student affairs. the players strut energetically shilling future; embryonic Board legislation. The staff growth of the Union Neurosis, Tgod but Union, and The traditional alliance of and fret; may the Liberals be doctors, judges nisi, engineers rose against it. with its nasty little twin, the knowledge and refined flam­ liberated and the Pol. Scien­ Mania for Public Relations. Semper was its prophet. in process of construction, we The student leaders sup­ Salvation was piously ex­ boyance is largely scorned. tists cease to be polite. have suspended our meagre Soon the notion of "sell­ While the files of Union ported the staff; and lo! the ing" the university was pected as soon as we gained May the bush be ceaselessly animation for tomorrow. student body woke to a .sound a student representative on oflace quiver to the ministerial walked and may the Oenl- sprinkling the dailies with flick and the library's lending Noting the thousand signs as of trumpets in its collec­ frequent varsity news pars the Senate. When this hap­ philists conduct their poly­ tive ear, plonked itself bulkily pens, perhaps, we will eventu­ cards flutter in a high wind of syllabic and doubtless ob­ of this corpsical state the and tit-bits for the prole­ scholarship, the campus turns scaliiel mind is disposed to Into meeting halls, and paus­ tarian packs; at times the ally have our aquiline in every streperous affairs in the most ing only to vote in angry trash-can but our own. brown in its lengthy drought. fitting manner. probe the facts for the "Telegraph" could have come Bookish and bureaucratic rea.sons. unanimity for anti-govern­ out as the University Hand­ But the studens community, Let the clubs and societies ment motions, scampered on as distinct from its "political" avoid it alike, and the fringe Why are we (i.e. you) such book, no questions asked. of bohemians cross it only at flourish 1 Otherwise may the its thousand willing legs all formulation in the Students' Black Bug blight your beam­ a septic dull and lifeless over suburbia, invoking peti­ Indeed so urgent and con­ Union, will still be lifeless, night on the way to the in­ crowd"? Why is every intake spicuous did it seem to be, For the real student life is evitable debauch. ing eyes, may Usury seize tion signatures from the your fortunes, and a murrain of freshers turned stale be­ ignorant or the unafraid. tliat a cynic might have been the energy that finds expres­ So the spirit of bourgeois fore a year of this foetid and excused for thinking that the sion in the clubs and societies, Brisbane, hated of our pre­ confound your posterity and fatal atmosphere? object of public relations was not in the necessary but for­ decessors, invades and con­ their cattle. LL this in the cause to claim the public as our rich mal organisation of these quers us with confidence. D O'N. Tho last student-like year of "academic free­ uncle. was 195(3, Waller was presi­ A dent; Union Council was still dom." Meanwhile, the Union was occasionally a repository of It has been doubted in the hitting the big time as if it Women's Sports Union representative power, a show­ ebb of that revolutionary up­ were a big drum, but the case of sporadic eloquence. surge whether that revered crescendo was not climaxed until 1958. This papcr rellected and liberty had been at stake. is after new team blood injected the student mind For, either way, the stu­ For last year a panel of OU are invited to a Fresher's Welcome evening at the Women's Basketball frigid virtues such as Accur­ under the guiding hands of dents had at last arisen like Club President, Shirley Shaw's home, Eighth Avenue, Kedron, on Sunday, Hayne the satiric, and the a frame refleshed. "Apathy," acy and Efficiency ruled the Y debonair Persse. Tlie clubs it was hooted from gob to long meetings of an execu­ March 1st at 7 p.m. and .societies filled dinner complacent ear, "is dead!" tive led Council. There will be movie films and slides, showing the highlights of last Inter- hours wilh good things. All, Forged in the fire of our bril­ About the only voluble "op­ in short, was right with the liant political failure, wc were position" from tlie floor came Varsity in Perth. a,m, and at Toowong Station Practices are on Sunday at world. unified at last. Or so the from a small half-hearted Practices will be held on 10 a.m. on the St. Lucia Vol­ story ran. Sundays at 10 a.in. at St. BUS Stop at 9.55 a.m. If you Then next year the rot set and perhaps occasionally ley Ball Courts, starting half-witted section of coun­ Lucla, commencing March 8. miss the lifts, there is a in; and nowhere was rot Harmonising life chugged Members will collect those Swann Road Bus (No. 14) Sunday, Sth March. We meet more conspicuous tlian in cillors of anii-bureaucratic at Grey Street Bridge on through the veins of the pre­ bent, and from the rare In- without cars at A.N.A. at 9.45 which leaves King George tlie.sc ephemeral pages. "Stu­ viously disparate university: Square at 10.15 a.m. and goes Coronation Drive at 8.45 ajn. dent Apathy!" was the cry. and in the spring of 'S7 the to the St. Lucla Shopping Ring Brigid Lowe, at 74563 But no one thought to promise of a new birth, the Centre. (Duchesne College). wonder why the hordes were gestation of a n«w attitude, Hockey Riding High on Fixtures are held on Sat­ • • * apathetic. had begun. urday afternoons at New We would be very pleased Farm Park. It is expected to hear of any woman In the So that against the edi­ However, it had isisup not the Inter-Varsity Wave that fixtures will begin at torial clamour the apathy In the renaissance many of u.s University (Freshers or OCKEY, as a sport, is one of the fastest ball games played about Easter time. otherwise) who would be In­ H in the world. It is a particularly popular game in Aus­ Inter-Varsity this year will terested In playing Cricket. tralia and especially within the Universities. be held In Sydney from 24th- There is no Women's Cric­ 28th August. We propose to The Queensland University previous years and will be ket Club in the University LES GIRLS!... send a team of 10 girls to at the moment, but we hope Hockey Club enters five teams again this year in an effort to Sydney. HE University of Queensland in Brisbane flxtures, played gain a little pre-season con­ to start one. You don't need TWomen's Sports Union welcomes on Saturday afternoons dur ditioning; it is also an oppor­ • • • to know one end of a cricket Freshers to the University, and to ing Winter. Of these five tunity for the "little boys" to IF you can't tell one end of bat from the other — we will teams one is entered in A meet the "old boys" and all a Niblick from another and if see that you receive coach­ many new fields of sport. Grade, giving promising play­ club members are invited. you've never executed a Mashie ing. You now have an opportunity to play prac­ ers an opportunity to repre­ The social programme is shot — this is your chance to The season is from mid- tically any sport you wish: to compete In sent the State, and (as Lou also a wide and varied one. learn, Those of the fair sex who October to March. Metroixjlltaii and State Championships: to Halley has in the Olympics Socials, barbecue and groggos are itching fo join must attend If you'd like to Know more travel Interstate with Inter-Varsity Teams. Leith Fraser and in Now Zealand) to rep­ are held throughout the fhe Golf Club's General Meet­ about Women's Cricket, see The Women's Sports Union 11 a.m. on Thursday, 26th resent Australia. season. A very important part ing at George Street Women's Evelyn Matthew (Physics Js the organisation within the February, Highlight of the year is the of any sporting club actWltles Common Room on 4 th March, Dept.. St. Lucla) or ring her University w h 1 c h controls Inter-Varslty contests are Inter-Varslty. this year to be Is training. Club practices are beginning at 7.30 p.m. at 75676 (after 5.30 pjn.). Women's Sport. Once you one of the most enjoyable held in Melbourne. This is a held every Sunday at 10 ajn. The execulive of this club is •k ie ic have paid your University fees aspects of the University trip which leaves with a on No. 1 Oval. bursting with energy and en­ Freshers here's your op­ you automatically become a sport. These contests are held player the most enjoyable The flrst meeting of the thusiasm and has arranged fort­ portunity for the fun of a member of the Women's annually in one of the Capi­ memories of his University club will be held on Friday, nightly free Golf lessons on really lively gaiiie — and a Sports Union, and are thus tal Cities with the home State career. 13th March, at 7.30 p.m. in the Saturday mornings at Victoria chance to keep in top form entitled to join any of our acting as hosts. One other Last year in Perth Queens­ George Street Refectory. All Park — a swish Country Club at the same time. Growing constituent clubs. aspect of the University land was fortunate enough to Freshers are cordially invited style Barbecue and Dance for Squash Olub membership There are 15 Women's Women's Sport in Inter- win the Synie Cup, emerging to attend. later this term — Inter-Faculty last year has lead to the Sports Clubs at the Univer­ Paculty competition controlled from the Carnival undefeated. and open Championships — hU-lng of an extra court this sity, namely Athletics, Bad­ by the Sports Union and So outstanding was the team, and a small fund to help defray season — we play at the new played mostly at week-ends. that six of its members were expenses of our representatives courts at Newstead, 4-6 p.m. minton. Basketball, Boat, B'ball gaps Sundays. Fencing. Golf. Hockey, Inter­ The Wonien's Sports has an selected in the Combined at Inter-Varsity in Sydney dur­ Universities Team. HE University of Queens­ ing the May Vacation. Racquets and balls are national Basketball, Judo oHlce at St. Lucia opposite land Basketball Club is Soflball. Squash Racquets, the refectory where Miss Mc­ T For information ring Marion provided by the club and OTHER TRIPS the only Basketball Club Arnold at M2841, or Jenny coaching is also free, so all Swimming. Table Tennis, Caffrey the permanent secre­ which participates in three Tennis and Volley-Ball. tary may be found every day other trips conducted dur­ Maruff, Duchesne College, St. you need Is a pair of sand­ ing the season include visits competitions In the one Lucia. shoes and lots of energy. During the next week or two from 9-5. Further Informa­ season. mo.st clubs will be holding tion can be supplied by the to Armidale. Lismore, Too­ -A- ^ ^ The club participates in General Meetings. You will Honorary Secretary Helen woomba, Maryborough and The Club runs its own A The Women's Volley Ball weekly fixtures, and we have be welcome at any of them. Russell. J 5531 (Phys. Ed,) and Bundaberg. and B Grade Intra-Varsity Club has Just been estab­ high hopes ot an Inter-Var­ Detailed information about by the President Leith Fraser These, as well as the re­ competition, participates in lished, so why not become a slty later In .the year. these clubs will be available M4093 (Social Studies). nowned seven-a-slde games, the Inter-Varslty competition Foundation Member. President" t>ehlse Barrett at Sports Union Office and are often held in conjunction and enters a team in the Bris­ The first general meeting (Raymond Court, Raymond you will also have an oppor­ LEITH FRASER, with the Women's Hockey bane Competition which is will be held on Wednesday, Terrace, South Brisbane) or tunity to talk with members President, Club. conducted by the Queensland March 4th, at 7.30 p.m. at Secretary Nlta Young (61771) of the various clubs. The wel- University of Queensland A. trip to Tallebudgera at Amateur Basketball Associa­ George Street — for election will be glad to give any fur­ ,^. come, will )3e. 4\^^l0v.^n. B9 >»* ^W^omenX.. §P9rt« Ui\lon. Easter has been undertaken in tion. of officers. ther information. SEMPER FLOREAT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1959. PAGE 11 Down in Athletics Club has brilliant F the Freshers who enter the University this O year only one in five will take an active part the Well winning season in a University sporting club. .T'HE University of Queensland Athletics Club has LET'S Start the year off We feel that those who do , to attend this Annual Gene- •'• again completed the Q.A.A.A. summer Inter- not play sport are missing out | ral Meeting. conventionally by wel­ club season undefeated, winning both the Metric ; on a very enjoyable part of i At the moment everything coming freshers to our and the English competitions. University Ufe. ' is orgaiiLsed for you, but in a university, and this Whatever sport you wish to . few years time you will run column. The examinations fell approximately In the play there is a University club : these clubs for a new bucoli Welcome, freshers. Poor middle of the Inter-club season and certainly do to cater for you, and as you ' of freshers, things, by the time you get to not make our task any easier. are now a student, you must Sport gives some cohesion compete for this University to this widely scattered Uni- reading this you wtll have Once again the star ot the i betters the previous National been told so much of what's unless you can obtain permis-: versity. going on in this great estab- season was our popular Club time of 3 min. 19.8 sees, held sion from Sports Union Coun i VOU will have to try and lislunent that you must be , Tony Blue. Tony by Sydney University. cil to play outside. ! -*• strike a balance between wondering what everything is went to Melbourne in Janu- Conditions were not good The Sports Union Is a Fed­ two extremes. On the one about. ary with David Fraser and ^o'' «• record attempt, as re- eration of University Sport­ hand you have the .student competed in V.A.A.A. Inter- cent rains had made the track ing Clubs. All clubs .send dele­ ob.se.ssed with the fear of Yet we all mean It—we are gates to Sports Union Council all glad to see you. club—he ran 1.51,1 for the s\ov/. The team expects to failure, who is terrified to en­ half (the fastest this season ' better their time by the Inter- which meets once a month gage in outside activity lest it , D D n in Australia at the time. Varsity Titles in 1st Vacation. during the academic year. The ! detract from his concentra­ LAST year there was a re­ On Foundation Day, at the I" order, with unofficial Sports Union Council allocates ] tion. cord number of 21 clubs in Centenary Sports at the Ex- ' times, the runners were finance to the club and de- I No effort will be made to the Sports Union. hibition track he ran the I Eraser 50.3. Malouf 49.G, cides sporting policy. cajole you into joining any of This year there have al­ quarter in 48.1 (again fastest Barnett 40.9, Blue 48.4. A Council has an Executive. the sporting clubs. The bene- ready been moves to form two this season). Tony gave Herb The 4 x UO yards resulted of which the President and j fits of .sport arc there but you more — an archery and a Elliott one of the toughest; in anotlier win for tlie club Secretary are elected by the will have to take them for water-skiing club. races of his career in the Vic- team of Dempsey, Malouf, whole student body. It .sup­ your.sclf. To join, you liave The two together shouldn't torian 880 yards champion- ' Hall and Barnett, in 4^.2. ports a fiiU-linic Secretary and only to ring the Secretary of cost us much more than we ship, Herb snatching victory' The National Track and Treasurer lo carry out its the club concerned. I hope can get our hands on. by the slender margin of Field Titles will be held in functions. you do. Inter-varsily grants have half a yard in 1.51.6. Hobart this Saturday and The Sports Union is an.so- always been too big, any^vay. lulely independent of the On tlie second day of the , March 2nd. Four club mem- University of Queen.sl;md Stu- , Stato Championships Tony]bers have been selected to Tony Blue dents Union, and I.s iwra- | Boxing trainers D D D held off a strong challenge represent Queensland. They' IN December 1957 Sports on Sunday evenings. mount ill its own sohere of '• THIS year — I959, Queen.s- from Dave Foote in the great I are Tony Blue (Captain)— I The Freshers Titles and Sport. • I land Centenarv year is Union put two and two to­ time of 1.50. only .7.sec. outside 440, 880, Medley Relay; V. gclher, couldn't solve the pro­ • Club Champion.ships will both NIVER,SITY Sporiing Pl«""ed to be the greatest Elliott's Australian record of, Liga—Javelin. Discus;"' M! ' be conducted, in 1st Term. blem, and broke away from the 1-49.3. Malouf—220, 440, Medley Re- U Clubs compete in local j •™''"" "' l^oxing this State has Union. j A club team will go to fixtures, and each year .send a i ^'^'-'"' Now Les Girls have tried Other stars '^^^_', '^' ,^"'^'•'•'^^""off—Javelin . . , I Maryborough at Easter for the team to compete in the Inter- i ^^^° ''^'^ Australian Varsity putting two and two together, The club is anxious to at- [ Country Titles. At the Perth Varsity contests; this is held ; '^i^'^s will al.so be held in say they get four—and want to Former Club Captain Lloyd tract and coach Freshers. mter-Varsity Melbourne can in the various cities in rota- Brisbane in August, Donald.son came down from Training is held on the No. 3 expect a very determined tion. I The club now has a very break away completely from Townsville for -tlie State Oval, St. Lucia, from 4-6 p.m. i challenge to its supremacv the men. It offers keen competition, a ' ^'"e trainer in former Aus- Titles. He put up a most trip away and most import- ti'alian champion. Mr. Bill It will be a shame to see the creditable performance in the dears go, but they say they are antly the opportunity to make Potter, who will probably field events—he took the Shot lifelong friends amongst your. train the boys in his gym. at big girls now and can look after and Discus titles and was Swimming clubs to hold themselves. competitors. | Spring Hill Baths, or at Dick placed in the Hammer, The officers of an indivi- i Cullen's Railwav Institute We wish them luck, and Other stars of the State hope for their sakes it won't combined meeting soon dual club are elected by that All Interested boxers are lake them too long to realise Titles were Julius Guerassim- club at the Annual General asked to contact either Lance that this is not the time for off (new Javelin record). nPHE University of Queensland Swimming Club Meeting. These meetings are Potter, 2 9364, or Ray Lan­ them to start off on their own. Bruce Barnett (440) and A will be holding a combined meeting of the Men's advertised in Seniper and ham, 7 5011, regarding a David Melzer (2 mile walk). should you intend joining a meeting of the club which They must become autono­ On the 14th February, the and Women's Svi'imming Clubs in the second week mous. They will become auto­ of first term. Time and place Ls to be posted on club you would be well advised will be held In March. nomous, but they must bide State Relay Titles were de­ their time—the time when cided at Lang Park, The Uni­ all notice boards soon. All new members and others breaking away will bo of most versity team in running 3 interested in joining the club are invited to attend minutes 19.2 sees., set up a The University Water Polo r«„„„.,ei„„-i « * «, . value to them. —SPECULUM. Team will cnmnete in Queensland Amateur Water new State record. This also icam compete ni p^jp fixtures every Thursday night for the next 5 weeks at Two teams 9.15 p.m. TO cater for the number Tennis fixture practice starts A second team will be of students who were turned •T'HE University Tennis Club ,/ * O , 7 formed if there are enough away last year because they i- is one of the largest Ten- tfllS OatUrCtaY players interested; no previ­ couldn't get a game and the nis Clubs In Queensland. Por ous experience is required, expected Influx of new mem­ the information of those in­ Saturday and Sunday after­ only keenness. Those inter­ bers, this year, the Austra­ terested, here is a brief out­ noons commencing on the ested contact the President, lian Football Club is plan­ line of Club activities. 28tli February and both men D. Thiele, M5105, or the ning to field 2 teams in the The Club caters for players and women players interested Secretary, A. Dowling, Brisbane 2nd 18 competition. of all standards and enters are invited. UX2802. Coupled with the fact thnt numerous teams in Winter The University Tennis The club will hire the Too­ No. 4 oval ~ for the exclus- i fixtures. Badge, Badge Re- Cliampionships are conducted wong Baths from 5-6 p.m. on MASSEYS OFFER • ive use of this Club — is now serve, "A", "B" and "C" by the Club during first and dates to be posted up on the completed, this means that Grades in the Men's Section, second terms. Entries are notice boards. Anyone i.s SPECIALISED Australian Football is quick­ and in conjunction with the called for early in first term. welcome to come along and enjoy yourselves. ly becoming a force to con­ Wonien's Tennis Club mixed The Annual General Meet­ tend with. teams play in Pennant, Pen­ ing of the University (Men's) Interstate Trips ATTENTION TO For any Information re­ nant Reserve, "A", "B" and Tennis Club will be held in garding this club rmg; J. "C" Grades. These fixtures the Tennis Pavilion on Thurs­ This carnival will be held THE SPORTING Capper, 61225; W. East, commence in April and finish day, I2th March, 1959, at 7.30 on Monday, March 23rd at 7 4359; E. Gray, 67 2878; N. in July. pjn. 7.30 p.m. at the Langlands NEEDS OF BOTH Henry, Emmanuel College; or Practice for selection of fix­ Park Baths. The MacTag­ contact Sports Union Offlce. ture teams is to be lield every Further information may be gart Cup Is awarded to the obtained from: John Moore, swimmer scoring the greatest CLUBS AND Phone 79 1454; Adrian Smith, number of points, and pen­ 79 1273; Cliristine Walmsley, nants are awarded for cer­ INDIVIDUALS 48 3836; Judith Clark, 9 3624; tain individual events. or from the Secretary, Ray There is an Inter-Faculty Poon, 23 Carrington Road, In­ competition, and this year • Footballs and dooroopilly, 7 1566. the programme includes Equipment (a I I It is important that intend­ many invitation events. ing Fixture Players either at­ Many intra-state trips are codes) • Hockey tend practices or contact one going to be arranged this • Tennis • Fish­ of the above before 15th year and these trips are March. well worth making if only ing • Golf • Fenc­ RAY POON, for the social side as well as ing • Cricket • In­ Is fllwaqs betfer Secretary. the competition side. when bouc|ht from door Games and HELPS BrG CRICKET Hobbies • Cycling EVERY Sunday afternoon Favell, Ian Craig, Bob Simp­ • Baseball, from April to August your son, Jack McLaughlin and Chas. Whatmores University Club fields teams thou.sands ot others have in all Q.B.A. Grades—you can benefited — why shouldn't make one of these teams. you? wm & mmicAL CBNTHE This sport Is fast and inter­ Watch the Notice Boards for APUAIPE ST. OPK ANIAC SQl/AHl esting. the A.G.M, and commence­ If you have an arm we'll ment of practice. BICYCLE & SPORTS DEPOT Improve itl If intorested contact: If you haven't—we'll make J. O. Harris. MU3266 201 KlJZABKTIl STREKT, HKISB.\NE. one! (Work). 562840 (Home); Every great fielder in John Roberts Eng,, 56 382B; Phone 2 2091. /3> Cricket has been developed by Don Spencer, U 2868: John Baseball—Ken Archer. Neil Holmes Med., 7 5694 (St. ff'holcsiile Itnd Itvlitil Distriltiitors. Harvey, Norm O'Neill; Les John's)'.' '• •.;•.,. 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Y name is Mary. I I'M Marl-Anne, and I've been I'M Ann, and I write long 'AI le nom, Marianne. Quite A T the moment, my name Tl/TY name is Mary—such a like Shakespeare. ^ at the Smedley Second­ •*• psychological novels. One J simple, n'esi pas? I can't •^ is Marlon, but I'm rather •^'•'- change from these com­ M ary School for Giris for two has to do something to imagine how people get con- attracted lo "Merdlebuf." Il's mon exotic names, don't you I was a Witch and a Sec­ years. It's just too heavenly counteract the ghastly nega­ fuse. I've just movire into my the latest from the West think? My fiance Think of some and we shall assist them other alternative. Mel. Mclnnes was one of trip­ ing musically the dulcet tones 21, Baseball, Melbourne; May Sports Union Council Meet­ lets, both his brothers were of "Rule Britannia 1" while with their seating, parking 25-29, Basketball, Adelaide; ings: March 18, April 15, May As for the former. Mr. and other problems. August 25-27, Boxing, Ken­ Biscliof would only liog the fourth year dental students. O'Neill's chief fame lies in his 13, June 17, July 16, Septem­ were shared by all spirited advocacy of free beer The University will be sington; May 25-29, Fencing, ber 23, October 16. headlines again, being Out­ making a.contribution to the Sydney; May 25-29, Golf, raged, and saying We Won't bowlers. The dentists wel­ for all Irishmen. Special Meetings: Estimates come all freshers and especi­ Men are gazing at this State's Centenary Celebra­ Adelaide; May 25-29, Gymnas­ Meeting, April 15; Sporta AulhorlM-a by D. P. P. O'Neill ally fresherettcs to the Uni­ moment upon the first per­ tions this year and our En­ tics, Melbourne; August 24- Union Annual Dinner, August Kiid £) .1. MncAulay. cA U.Q.U.. versity, and wish them every petration of their sorcalled tertainments Committee will 28, Hockey, Melbourne; May 31; Blues Meeting, September Unlv.T,slt.v. St. Luclii. Printed by minds. Others, liiey assure us be quite busy helping to ar­ 23-29, Judo, Kensington; May 'Trutli" and "SlK)rl!.nian" Ltd., success. 22; Annual General Meeting, Brunswick St., Valley, Urlsbnne. —DOLOR DENTIUM. stridently, will fpllow. .• range' our part of this.' 25-29, Rifle. Melbourne; May October 10.- '