anti-editorial DAK OUT OF STEP (as well)

In presenting a student newspaper one would expect the editor to act impartially and fairly if an event divides the campus. Mr Kirkpatrick has been incapable of that. The irony is that he even attacked the media for 'their' bias. May I remind Mr Kirkpatrick that: 1) What I have been doing has received a lot of support from students not only at Auckland University but throughout the country. 2) His views as editor are generally irrelevant. It is a student newspaper not a David Kirkpatrick newspaper. 3) A newspaper is a vital mode of communication and that as editor he had a duty and obligation to allow me to fairly view my opinion. Instead he has engaged in vicious and unnecessary attacks against not only what I have been doing, but also against myself. Many of his comments have been nothing but downright lies. The tragedy is that Mr Kirkpatrick will be President of AUSA next year. I presume, after observing his editorship this year, he will ignore any student opinion that does not coincide with his own. I congratulate David Faulls on being editor of Craccum next year. After, talking to him, I understand he will attempt to bring Craccum more in line with a fair Student Newspaper, and give the agenda and results of various student meetings - something Craccum just didn't have time for this year because of their preoccupation with the Springbok Tour. And finally, if Mr Davies and Mr Moodie get to read this, I would like to apologise on behalf of most students for our President's most irresponsible letter condemning the police. Mr Davies - our Association is not out of step with the community at large. It is just a few of them who represent US.

Yours sincerely, Brett Buckmaster

P.S. Miss (or whatever) Austin. Your mixed-up reply doesn't warrant my reply. However I hope you won't be too disappointed when I say that I'm not terribly interested in your marital status.

CRACCUM is registered with the Post Office Editor...... -____ David Kirkpatrick as a newspaper. It is published by the Craccum - Technical Editor...... David Faulls Administration Board for the Auckland Advertising Manager...... Jason Kemp University Students' Association, and printed Assistant Editor...... -...... Paul Grinder by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. Opinions Distribution M a n ag er...... -...... Graeme Quigley expressed herein are not necessarily anyone's, Typesetters...... -...... Darien Pearce including the Editorial Staff, and in no way Raewyn Green represent the official policy (should there be Artists...... -...... William Mcllhagga any) of the Association.

catering notebook

W ell here w e are - the last 1981 issue of Craccum and time to say best of luck for your exams and after they are over have a great holiday. As there are still a considerable number of job vacancies about at this time of the year, CAS will put out a JOB BRIEF on Tuesday 27 October & Tuesday 10 November. Call in to collect or come in and leave one (or two) stamped addressed envelopes and we will forward the listings to you when they come out. In between times feel free to come in and go through the HOT current job vacancy files - we're open 8.30 - 5.00pm daily. If you intend to participate in CAREERS WEEK activities and have done nothing about it - get cracking - jobs will not wait about for you.

BREAD PREPARING FOR INTERVIEWS Graduates are, by definition, holders of pieces of paper. Any job-seeking graduate can provide an impressively long list of subjects studied for and the results awarded. There is some feeling of ordered security achieved by enclosing a successful university record as the mainstay of your job application. But do you really want employers to hold such a limited view of you? Think of ways to project yourself as a person: - many graduates fail to realise that their involvement in study, social activities, casual & vacation employment and other pursuits provides a wealth of experiences from which to draw evidence of job-related abilities and aptitudes. These activities can provide evidence of initiative, ability to perform routine tasks, ability to fit in with other peoples schedules, ability to plan personal time etc. The experience on sale of having worked on sporting/social/study committees can be cited as developing awareness of the problems of working with people with differing views, co-ordinating activities of a group, administration, making decisions etc. A little forward thinking will pay off - GOOD LUCK and we look forward to seeing you in Milk Bar Careers Week. ADDITIONS TO CAREERS WEEK Unfortunately the following Thursday 15th with.high quality junior programmers who have companies participating in Careers sufficient experience, skill Er self motivation. Week were omitted from the The training is set in a commercial data supplement. processing environment Er comprehensive October resources are available to support the scheme. BURROUGHS Friday 20 Selection criteria will be based on:- personal Interested in graduates from all disciplines qualities, recognised achievement, but especially those with Accountancy Et programming aptitude, reasoning ability, Marketing leanings, for a career in the communication skills and previous work Computer Sales area. experience.

FISHER & PAYKEL Monday 16 & Tuesday IDAPS COMPUTER SCIENCE (NZ) LTD 17 M onday 16 Seeking suitably qualified, personable grads Have established a training scheme f o r tor Acctg, Engineering, Marketing Er Personnel programmers. The aim is to provide employers areas. W ould like to meet students/grads

2 CRACCUM October 13 1981 n o tic e s

AN INQUIRY INTO N.Z. RACISM LEFTHANDERS' CLUB - MAIDMENT ARTS CENTRE • ••••••• •••••• ••••••• • • • « • ••••••• •••••• •••••••• • • • • • •• • A 24 hour live-in learning for Pakehas Check our noticeboard for everything about LITTLE THEATRE • •• • • • • covering local issues and dominant institutions, an Orientation camp, and suggestions for • i Wednesday 14 October, 1pm • ••« with forums and working groups. possible Orientation activities. W e also hope to • • "U TO P IA S U PA -C ITY " is a lively action • I Saturday 7 November 11.00am, stay have an SCSP scheme going over vacation so • • packed dramatic presentation formulated with overnight - Sunday 8 November all day. A t the check that out too. HOLIDAY :£ blood, sweat and tears by 5 members of the Merry Christmas to all leftwingers - good Te Tatai Hono Marae, Burleigh St. - off Khyber company over a 10 week period. This 40 luck with those unmentionable events over the Pass. minute show deals w th contemporary issues of 1 Cost to cover food and expenses about $10. next few weeks. i WORK ; relevance to both young people and adults Bring: bedding, personal gear, money. alike. Issues such as the direction of growth of Further information: Margaret Arthur - BARBEQUE AND BARDS our cities and the increasing effects of 607-404, Lesley Smith - 485-566, Ulla Skold - The English Society is having a barbeque on technology on the lives of ordinary people. m $ 1 0 H R I 762-468. 0 • • I • • • I Sunday November 15 at 3pm (after examsl) - Admission, $1. Door Sales. Auckland Committee On Racism & (Sorry suitable guys only) •*•*•*• Beer, wine and salads provided, but B.Y.O . Discrimination Box 47-155. meat (I). Also provided - local poets for your Thursday 15 Friday 16 October 1pm. entertainment and edificationl All English "PHONETICS" Ever experienced a crossed :•% PHONE M MOTORCYCLE & GOLF CLUBS department staff and students are warmly line on the telephone and wondered what the FOR SALE invited. (Place: Rudman Gardens). If you want person on the other end was like? This is the situation in "PHONETICS", a humorous study 885-651 :j& Honda CB100 for sale. Good condition, to read just bring some poemsl in personal relationships exploring loneliness, cheap transport, $295 ono. frustration and the inability of young people to Golf clubs for sale. Bag/trundler, 12 clubs, 8a.m. to 11a.m. POST EXAM PICNIC communicate. Admission $1. Door Sales. $150 ono ...... f • • I Do you want to go to Long Bay on • ••••••• Phone Andrew Brennan 32-618 Newman Hal "UTOPIA SUPA-CITY" and "PHONETICS" are #••••••••• • ••••••• Saturday 14 November for a picnic? If you do, • •••••• •••••• i presented by the Mercury Theatre-in-Education • ••••• • • • t • and you are willing to help a little with the Company. SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY organising etc, see Bob Lack at StudAss as Following the Cultural Revolution of 24th soon as possible. MAIDMENT LUNCHTIME FIRESTONE TYRE SERVICES September, the S.F. Society now has a new MOVIES The Strand Margot St. format and approach, and hopefully a wider ANTI-TOUR PROTESTERS Monday 19 October, 1.05pm Parnell Ph. 31-262 Epsom Ph. 501-052 appeal to the S.F. community. At a meeting of the Welfare Panel on "THE GODFATHER" A great finale to the A .U .S .F .S . will continue its meetings 1/10/81 it became apparent that, while the season starring Marlon Brando in an exciting TYRES - RECAPS - BATTERIES - MAGS through the summer months. All new and old Springbok Tour was over, the physical and Mafia struggle. Academy Award Winner. TRADE PRICE members are advised to keep watching our mental repercussions are not. People are being Admission $1 only. $6 For Retreadable Cases. notice board below W.C.R. for details of arrested for alleged offences during the tour. events and discussions. People are being victimised for having STUDENTS AGAINST RACISM participated in anti-tour protests. Many Are you concerned and committed enough FOR ALL YOUR TYPING REQUIREMENTS CALL:- members of the university community have to fight racism in New Zealand? faced injuries resulting from protests. Others Are you interested in why Waitangi Day face charges from the police and psychological 'celebrations' are better known for the effects from the anti-tour protests. protests? There is help available through the university W ould you like to take part in a workshop welfare services. John Ker (in Room 10, behind on racism? * Wide range of typefaces *'IBM Selectric machines the Upper Lecture Theatre X495) has a list of If so join Students Against Racism and take * Prompt, efficient service * A discount to students friends who are prepared to help people. Brian part in the campaign for 1982. Lythe in the Counselling Service (above the TELEPHONE LYNNE OR FAYE ON 32-987 & LET US BANG YOUR Give your name and phone number to BNZ and POSB) and Kevin Sharpe in the Students Assoc. THESIS INTO SHAPE. Maclaurin Chapel have also offered assistance ALPHABET BUSINESS BUREAU LIMITED to people. FLATMATE WANTED P.O. Box 5965 1st Floor Victoria House, 2-4 Lome Street, Auckland 1. Friendly Mt Eden flat needs female flatmate. Phone: 32-987, After hours: 663-164 Tony Reynolds Rent $18p.w., kitty $11p.w. Semi-vege. Ph Welfare Officer 602-081.

majoring in Acctncy, English, Mech. ASSISTANT TRAVEL OFFICER - DEPT. writing, planning admin. Er P.R. Details and Management Information Systems or related Engineering, History, Law, Marketing, Pol. TOURISM Er PUBLICITY application forms may be obtained from The areas such as EDP Auditing or Corporate Studs Et Psych. 2 positions Wellington/Auckland. Graduates District Manager, P.O. Box 39, Hawera. modelling. Applic. should possess good from Commerce/Admin., Economics, undergraduate qualifications in an area FELTEX Wednesday 18 Geography and Languages (or other disciplines SENIOR DISTRICT SCHEME appropriate to this position, pref. with a higher Recruiting grads from areas of Acctncy, with supporting commerce or relevant subjects DEVELOPMENT OFFICER - RODNEY degree together with relevant teaching or Engineering, & Marketing who are interested in encouraged to apply) 2-year training COUNTY COUNCIL professional experience. making a career in Management in a large programme in all areas of Govt. Tourist Bureau Objective of this position is the effective Further details CAS. Closing date - 20 marketing & manufacturing organisation. operation. control Er management of the District Scheme November 1981 Selection based on ability to prove that development function and responsibilities starting at the bottom is no barrier to success include conducting a rolling review of the MARKET RESEARCH - TOURIST Er and hard work is the key. Applicants must District Scheme Er Staff Management. PUBLICITY DEPT. JOB VACANCIES appreciate that educational attainment plays a Selection emphasis will be on candidates who Position is esp. suitable for a person with tertiary qualifications with commercial RESEARCH ASSISTANT/SENIOR minor role during the training period. However, have several years local authority or similar orientation - Economics, Marketing, Business RESEARCH ASST. GRADE I MACQUARIE on completion, opportunities for advancement planning background Er who are eligible for Admin, with some interest in the social UNIVERSITY - CENTRE FOR are unlimited and tertiary qualifications will membership to N.Z. Planning Institute. sciences and languages. A knowledge of ENVIRONMENTAL Er URBAN STUDIES provide an added advantage. Copies of the job description Er conditions of survey analysis packages (SPSS, SAS) would Graduate in Environmental Sc., Economics Apply direct to: appointment may be obtained by phoning Mrs be an advantage. Position ideally suited to a or related area reqd. to participate in a M r Peter Gulliver Osborne, HBC 65-169 person with 2-3 years experience in a multi-disciplinary research project on the Staff Training Officer commercial environment, or alternatively, the development of an integrated anergy-economic Tourist & Publicity Dept. SENIOR PLANNER (SOUTH position could be filled by a recent graduate or -environmental model for Australia. The Private Bag CANTERBURY) - MOWD. CHRISTCHURCH near graduate interested in a management programme wil focus on a generalised Wellington Position exists in the Tow n Er Country input-output model of the Australian economy Planning section of M O W D rfo r a mature Er career in the Department. with regional modules to explore environmental B.T.P. GRADUATE - DEVELOPMENT capable planner to look after the department's Further details CAS. Closing date 14 impacts of energy developments & PLANNING Er RESEARCH TOURIST Er town & country planning responsibilities. October. Form PS17A. vacancy no. 5826, Staff environmental quality management strategies. PUBLICITY DEPT. Senior position - appointee will have high Clerk, Tourist Er Publicity Dept. Private Bag. Further details CAS. Closing date 23 October Wellington position. degree of self-motivation and initiative, have Wellington. 1981 W rite direct to: had at least 5 years work experience as a M r Peter Gulliver qualified planner, be completely familiar with FINANCE CAREER - Major Auckland company seeking young VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH) Staff Training Officer statutory planning and have a good financial accountants. Qualified BCom or ACA. MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY - CENTRE FOR Tourist & Publicity Dept. understanding of the regional planning process. Contact Tilley Dunstan, phone: 792-492 ENVIRONMENTAL Er URBAN STUDIES Private Bag The ability to communicate orally Er in writing Chemical Engineering/Environmental Wellington. is essential. Engineering - to assist in the development of Contact: PhD RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS. JOHN an integrated energy-economic-environmental Town Er Country Planning Section CURTIN SCHOOL OF MEDICAL model for Australia. Experience & qualifications CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY - HAWKES Ministry of Works & Development RESEARCH AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL preferred in industrial environmental control BAY Christchurch UNIVERSITY techniques, especially those associated with Opportunity for qualified accountant wishing Applicants would have, or expect to have on the coal-electric fuel Cycle. The applicant to make a career in a progressive Hawkes Bay SENIOR PLANNER - MOWD. of the following qualifications - BSc, BVet. would be a member of a multi-disciplinary farming area. Clients include large proportion WELLINGTON Sc., BAgSc or their equivalent, at the std. of team. of farmers, but there is a sufficient range of Position of Senior Planner (Regional second class honours at least MBBS or MSC. Further details CAS Closing date 13 businesses serviced to provide a variety of Planning Er Special Projects) in Town Er Further details CAS. November. work. Successful applicant would be expected Country Planning Div. Wellington District to prepare financial statements to the final Office of MOWD. ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT: VISITING FELLOW (RESEARCH) - stage and-carry out other senior work an Position involves liaison with Govt. Er the CUTLER-HAMMER NZ LTD MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR experience is gained including client contact. five regional planning organisations, Er the tw o Subsidiary of multi-national gp. based in ENVIRONMENTAt Er URBAN STUDIES Applications giving full details of maritime planning authorities and control of U.S. wishes to appoint BCom. Appointee will Computer Programmer/Systems Analyst. qualifications and any experience should be special planning projects. Minimum report directly to Co. Secretary. Experience in computing & simulation addressed to qualifications reqd. are suitable planning degree Responsibilities varied. EDP experience an modelling, pref. in ecology, economics or Mr Little, Hames, Jonasson & Little, plus extensive knowledge of and experience in advantage tho' not essential. environmental systems is reqd. Applic. would P.O. Box 122 regional planning. Contact: Mr N. Misra, Company Secretary, be a member of a multi-disciplinary team. Waipukarau Enquiries can be directed to Cutler-Hammer NZ Ltd, Private Bag, Avondale. Further details CAS. Closing date 30 Mr. M.P. Weir, October. PLANNING ASSISTANT - HAWERA District Planner, CHEMIST-ANALYTICAL: NZ FARMERS' DISTRICT COUNCIL DEPT. OF PLANNING MOWD, FERTILISER PURCHASING OFFICER: BUTLAND Er DEVELOPMENT Wellington BSc or MSc grad, for position reporting to INDUSTRIES Applic. should hold a recognised planning Phone: Wgtn 723-070, ext. 616 Chief Chemist alongside a formulations Seeking graduates for the manufacturing qualification and have wide practical chemist. Work primarily analytical, working on side of the business. Interested in graduates in knowledge Er experience of planning to enable LECTURER IN ACCOUNTING - pesticides & herbicides - both manufactured Er Science, Chemistry, Economics Er him/her to carry out the duties Er MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF residues. Management Studies. For further details call responsibilities of the position. He/she will be ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL STUDIES Contact: Mr Peter Clark, Personnel Manager, CAS. expected to have proven expertise and report Preference will be given to specialists in NZ Farmers' Fertiliser, Ph. 33-709 ------] CRACCUM October 13 1981 3 n o rth

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES Brett Buckmaster

On Thursday October 1, I met our Executive, and I forwarded to them j the following proposal: That students are given a form, to take the form of a referendum, on enrolment day stating - "Should students have a SO YOU referendum whenever the Executive, in pursuit of AUSA policy, wishes to fou students have to do is finis) spend more than $200 in total, it off and ram it home. Votevoie andana i whether directly or indirectly or get your referendums on financinc^ through an affiliated club, on a 'political matters'. WANT A JOB | political matter. 'Political matter' is defined: Power to the Students, 1) in the AUSA policy booklet Brett Buckmaster r | under International and National. THIS SUMMER?? | following section should be excli | a) overseas students, If you were part of the six sign-posted. You can register here jand/or thousand plus students who needed whichever district you live in and they i 2) any r (Abridged for reasons of space.) vacation work last summer you might will post your form off to Manukau or recall that things did not run smoothly. Invercargill if that is where you want The staff of the campus a job. You can also register at your Employment Bureau searched hard local Labour Department office. and found over two thousand jobs by 3. If you think you may need Christmas, but many of these were financial assistance then at the time for short periods only. you register with the Labour The Labour Department staff Department ask for Social Welfare worked hard under considerable from ES11 and take this along to the pressure, but delays in finalising Social Welfare Department on the procedures meant that many of the third floor at their Wakefield Street subsidised jobs did not start until office. mid-December. 4. Sit your exams and keep looking The staff in the Department of for a job yourself. If you can't find Social Welfare worked hard dealing one then you may be referred to with an unprecedented number of one by the Department of Labour. If 5nd meeting students in need of emergency you are lucky this will be an ’on the advice of som financial assistance. Something over unsubsidised job and you can start ibers of Executive, I seconde one thousand students had to draw whenever suits the employer. Those litchell's motion and then amende the Emergency Un-employment students who can't be found it. That meeting - who knew what Benefit to tide them over after unsubsidised work will be matched j was going on? Point of order here, exams. with vacancies on approved S.C.S.P. point of order there. In fact, I failed The Labour Department advises projects and referrals to these will to get my motion even on the floor - that the employment situation in start about 16 November. If you are | and the absurdity of it all - 1 voted Auckland is improving, but there referred you do not automatically ] against Mitchell's motion (as could still be a shortage of jobs for have a job - it is still up to the unpractical). students. Do not fear, though, efforts employer to consider those students The third meeting - an SRC are being made: referred and to pick the ones best meeting - was where the new editor suited. You may have to go to a | for 1982 of Craccum got elected. He "Shirley Bayliss already has some number of interviews, but if the ] got voted in by 40-17. Hey yeah - summer jobs available in the campus system works the way we hope you j seriously. A great representative Employment Bureau, and she will should be accepted by an employer ample. The fact of the matter was shortly have extra staff working with by 27 November. You can then vote jdy knew that this very her to keep the office open for longer in the General Election on 28 influential position was hours and to liaise with potential November and start work on 30 JA/here was the To clarify and correct M r employers and encourage them to November, this being the earliest accum bother create jobs for students. Buckmaster's statements about SRC starting date for S.C.S.P. jobs "electing" the Craccum Editor: the (unless you are in a supervisory job in Editor o f Craccum is appointed by "The Labour Department has the which case you might be able to start the Craccum Administration Board Student Community Service as soon as 16 November). (CAB), and that appointment must be| Programme organised and ready to 5. If you wish to propose a project provide subsidised work for those ratified by the Student for consideration under S.C.S.P. then Representative Council. No election who cannot find unsubsidised jobs. pick up a copy of the Labour takes place. Once the Editor's A.U.S.A. will be employing someone Department's leaflet from the to encourage employers to propose appointment has been ratified, Department or from the A.U.S.A. projects. Executive approves a suitable reception desk. This should be contract between AUSA and the completed and returned to the Editor. The Editor may be removed #The Social Welfare Department is Department as soon as possible, but by means of contractual clauses to making special arrangements to cope you will need to find a suitable that effect and the agreement of a with students in case large numbers sponsoring organisation. Before Genera! M eeting. require financial assistance this year. completing the form it might be a good idea to discuss it with Frank Keaton at the Department of Labour What do I do? in Hobson Street or with Bob Lack in 1. Visit the campus Employment the A.U.S.A. office. Bureau (on the first floor of the 6. If you require further information Student Union) and fill out their about S.C.S.P. then pick up a copy Men (18-35 yrs) enrolment form (so they know what of the Department's leaflet or contact skills etc you have). Keep an eye on Frank or me. wanted to model for their job lists for something suitable. prestige pin-up calendar 2. If you can't find a job through All the officers of the various your own efforts or through the organisations are doing their best to Bureau then register for work with ensure that the system works this Must have pleasant, outward-going personality, ' the Department of Labour. This year year without the problems that were personable good looks and athletic figure. Excellent fees you do not have to wait until you evident in 1980. You can help this by for talented applicants. Enquiries from all areas welcome. exams are over but can register as following the steps outlined above, Apply now, preferably with recent photo, by writing to soon as forms are available. The and by registering early with the The Manager: Department will have an officer on various bodies rather than leaving WHITE CLOUD PUBLISHING CO. campus from next Monday (19 everything to the last minute. P.O. BOX 5843, AUCKLAND October) for two weeks specifically to accept your enrolments. This person Good Luck! will use an office somewhere in the Bob Lack .r n^rrry.’v Union and we will make sure it is well

4 CRACCUM October 13 1981 Those who follow after Muldoon will be worse. Any other points you'd like to make? Yes, this: for twenty-six of the last thirty-two Although people tend to point the finger mainly at years New Zealand has been governed by the him, he actually hides the emergence within the National Party. That length of time in power should Clark National Party of a very hard line right wing which, give any political party ample time to plan for the particularly in the last 3 years, has been very future, to guide a nation's destiny. If what New vigorous in chopping through the public sector. Helen Clark is a determined woman. Zealand represents today is the outcome of their Their new leadership will cut the links with the Determined to have her say in how New plan I don't really think we want to see much more welfare state that the more pragmatic present Zealand is run - after the General Election. of it. If New Zealand was to give the Labour Party National Party has retained. II When she's elected by the voters of M t the same kind of chance, I'm sure we'd see a Albert, a safe Labour seat formerly held by vastly different society - one which was a lot more Warren Freer, she'll be the first woman M.P. And as opposed to the National Party, Labour socially just. the Auckland region has sent to Wellington will...? The major difference between us is our since Mary Dreaver (Waitemata) in 1941. A And if any student wants to get involved, determination to close that gap, and commitment to full employment... the question is, of course, how to achieve that. We know it won't politically... especially the gap she sees between people, Well, they're faced with those choices again - be brought about by the Think Big option. Our politicians and policies is the natural outcome pressure groups, or party politics. I tried the way will be to encourage investment in the of her long-term interest in things political. pressure group way myself - for two years I busied job-creating sectors of the economy - mainly via She has lectured at Auckland University in myself demonstrating against the establishment of agricultural primary products and industrial political studies for the past eight years - Omega tracking stations here and New Zealand's processes based on them. This we believe will mainly on the functions and operation of New involvement in the Vietnam war. And after those encourage job growth. Zealand Government and New Zealand politics two years, the National Party was re-elected. I felt generally. Curious to know how the world as though I'd been wasting my time; I realised the Iboks to one about to emerge from the And Students under a Labour Government? The major area of concern - for students, and only way to defeat them was to get them out of political chrysalis, Craccum went to see Ms. office, and all the other time I'd spent was really Clark in her office... political parties - would surely have to be that worthwhile employment is available to them when on a diversionary course. The strong Anti-Tour protest was important - but Given that to be politically effective, in the New they graduate. So we see that Labour means more it's even more important that those who were Zealand party system you must have actually job opportunities in a broad sense - at the moment, involved do something positive now to defeat this belonged to, and worked for, "The Party" for at the only students certain to have jobs to choose Government - or else there'll be another tour. The least ten years, what other politically effective from when they leave here are Accountancy problem won't go away if this Govt, is re-elected. options are there for rather less patient people? graduates. The Labour Party need people right now - there are It's true - the Labour Party does prefer to know Our policy with respect to Tertiary education is four National-held seats in the Auckland area that you rather well. I think if anybody's seriously that we will move to restore bursaries to the real interesting in a political career, they have to join a level they were at in 1975 - about $47 a week. We Labour can win. The key to winning, especially in Hunua and political party. It's a mistake to think you can will immediately begin negotiations with Student Eden,will be getting all the people in flats on the change New Zealand Government policies by Associations on other types and levels of funding. actively working within pressure groups. We'd like to see a system of indexation evolved roll and out to vote. whereby bursaries were cushioned from inflation. Would you like to comment on the Brett Why do you say that? Traditionally, we've put lots of emphasis on Parties become Governments. Pressure groups pre-school education, but I personally am Buckmaster phenomenon? As I was saying, seven years ago someone like are always on the outside looking in, for example, convinced that tertiary skills are vital if N.Z. is to him wouldn't have got a look in - he would have WEL, which would like to see more women in become a competitive and innovative trader been regarded as belonging to the lunatic fringe. I Parliament. But the only way that women w ill get internationally. New Zealand businessmen need to think the vote he organised was in a sense a into Parliament is by joining a political party. We're understand the politics, the language, and the shameful thing - roughly equivalent to the situation really talking about two types of action and, in my cultures of other nations - as do our top Public view, one is - long-term - more effective than the Servants - and these skills will come from our in 1951 when students were organised to help break the '51 waterfront strike. He reflects the other. Universities. social situation at the university. How relevant do you think political parties are to If / asked you who's going to win the election, young people - say eighteen to twenty-five - today? Well, I joined the Labour Party when I was you'll obviously say Labour - so - why will Labour twenty. It seemed relevant then, and still is today. win? In three of the last four elections (except 1975 Political parties, really, are talking about futures - which should be more important, in fact, for the which was exceptional) Labour has picked up under-thirties. The alternative futures before us seven to eight percentage points from the September polls through to the election. In fact, in now are very different from the ones that confronted us when I joined. There seems to be September 1978 we were further behind in the opinion polls than we are now. This time, we're in every reason for young people to be even more a much better position to close that gap; for two interested now. reasons. But is Labour in particular getting that message The first is, we're better organised. We've had across to young people - that they are relevant? two and a half years to modernise what was It's hard to know. We're actually a very young really a pretty old-fashioned Labour party party. We have many active young people, such as organisation. We're a lot more sophisticated; the those who are helping me. I suppose Labour has as publicity material is the best we've had for years. good a chance as any of getting through to young The second reason we're going to close that gap people but it's difficult because while the future is is that the Government is now on a disaster vital to them, they're also the group who are least course: Why have they given the Fitzgeralds their likely to recognise that. Political awareness usually Marginal Lands Board loan two and a half months comes about as a result of economic realities; the before the election? It's the same kind of thinking first mortgage, or the first child... the young are that raised the Harbour Bridge toll just before the cushioned from that, to some extent. There may East Coast Bays by-election. And there's also a lot be changes or shifts in awareness as a result of of petty corruption within the National unemployment over the last five or six years, but Government. For example, Muldoon's advertising the results of unemployment on young people's Have you noticed any changes in the agency man getting a free ride to Melbourne at the political attitudes arq doubtful - they could well demographic profile of the students over the last taxpayer's expense. There's a leak from the become more bitter and sceptical of politics few years? Housing Corporation which says that their research generally rather than become determined to change They're a helluva lot more conservative. They unit is spending half its time costing the Labour the Govt, responsible for our present plight. seem to be drawn increasingly from upper-income Party's housing policies. In addition the growth I think this election will be critical in two major homes, which means the social mix here at strategy on which the Government's credibility is aspects. The first is that it will decide whether we university is correspondingly narrower. I think based is falling around them in ruins. Birch said it's eliminate the welfare state - or rebuild it again. The that's a very sad thing. In my classes, for instance, quite common for a company to pull out of a National Party has declared war on all welfare state a very narrow range of social experience was venture in its early stages - but these projects are institutions - Education, Health, Housing, Full represented. The students are predominantly from not at an early stage. They were virtually signed, employment. And if there is no change in the middle-class ghettos - which means they have little sealed and delivered. The known cost escalation Government in November, it will be extraordinarily comprehension of how most New Zealanders live. for Aramoana and the Mobil synthetic plant is difficult to rebuild the system again. The unfortunate thing is that they will become the horrific. An awareness of these disasters is building The second major aspect is that if this employers and decision-makers of the future. up. Then there's the Birch affair - his explanations Government is returned, we will be bound into a They'll be making decisions for a society that they have very little credibility with the general public on future dominated by foreign interests, one in which don't fully comprehend themselves. So that's just top of McIntyre and Young being quoted — New Zealand's interests are not paramount. The one reason for increasing bursaries, to get a better "extremely unwise” . And finally there's Ben Couch Think Big option is a recipe for a new era of social and ethnic mix among students. on telly. Cabinet's all-round credibility is at an colonialism, permanent unemployment, and a gross all-time low. redistribution of wealth to the rich... very few Can we talk about the M t Albert electorate now? people will actually benefit from the Think Big It's a Labour seat - and its going to stay that One last question - what's the topic of your scenario. way. The age profile of voters is the most elderly maiden speech going to be? of any Auckland electorate and Labour has very Undoubtedly it will be on inequality in N.Z., a How much of that do you think is linked to strong support among the elderly. We've been commitment to rebuilding the welfare state and Muldoonism as a phenomenon versus the National campaigning vigorously, and I think we'll get a thereby restoring policies aimed at achieving social Party as an institution? good result. ______justice for all N.Z.ers.______

CRACCUM October 13 1981 5 In Nicaragua there is a lot of support from the Nicaraguan people, not just the Junta ruling there but the people themselves, for the liberation They wo movements in El Salvador. During the second taking part FEAR & LOATHING IN anniversary celebrations of liberation of Nicaragua not just a ( there were a lot of expressions of support for the whole syst people in El Salvador, and certainly the refugee material cc camps that I went to in Nicaragua are far better the States, EL SALVADOR than any of those in Honduras or within El biggest sui Salvador itself. The Nicaraguans work directly with There w the United Nations Commission for refugees, and I sense of tf Part Two »< '" ." J ftom 0 when refugees enter Nicaragua they are the govern immediately given social welfare facilities, medical would hav facilities and so on. Of the 25,000 or so refugees in about and Nicaragua only a few thousand are in camps, but would bei those who are in camps are very well cared for. In are propos Honduras the government very reluctantly agreed to take refugees only because of pressure from the international agencies. There are something like ls there 70,000 refugees in Honduras and about 20-25,000 have enou of those are in camps and are volunteers. get the we llllls Americans working in the camps said that they are continue t W w c more designed to keep the refugees under control elections? ■ rather than to protect. I think t The Honduran military are working very closely support, is with the El Salvadorean military despite the fact any other, that for 11 years they were at war with each other governmei until last year. On two occasions at least the seen as de Honduran military have stopped refugees crossing the negoti the border into Honduras and forced them back opposition into the border rivers at the same time as the El 1 with the J PPr Salvadoreans have been chasing them and there they recoj have been massacres in the Rio Lempa and the Rio San Paul, where many refugees are massacred because the El Salvadoreans were lobbing hand You have Just returned from El Salvador. What it certainly is very widespread. grenades into the water as the refugees were trying are the conditions like and what do they think is Anybody who shows any kind of leadership to cross into Honduras and were being forced going to happen in the future? capability, takes a leadership role, or works with back. There are terrible stories, which I gather are EDI There is a facade of normality but under the the poor is threatened. Another Baptist Pastor I true, of babies being tossed in the air and spiked surface there is still a lot of violence, and all the met had his 17 year old brother killed, not too long on bayonets and things like that from the refugees assassinations take place at night, during the RUI ago, because he was a Sunday School Bible Class crossing. There is an American priest and an curfew hours. I only spoke to Church people leader, and he had worked with a group of poor American woman working the camps (not the Have ^ because I went in under the auspices of Church and he was assassinated. So the violence is very camps I went to, ones further on) who swam into future? people I'd met at a World Council of Churches very widespread and indiscriminate. The Human the river to try and help these people and they said Well, | Conference, but talking to them I was able to Rights Commission have made it their job to that the most terrifying thing was the bombs that with exa gather what is happening. document as much as they can of this political were dropping on them were American. So there shadow Only 5% of those arrested ever appear before a violence and they get the details and try to identify isn't a lot of sympathy from the Honduran you try t tribunal, the rest are either still imprisoned, who is responsible. I counted up at least 7 different government for the refugees. They have taken your mei disappear,or their bodies are found on the streets. police forces in the country plus about 7 different them under pressure from the outside agencies. said on « The Human Rights Commission, which has taken a death squads who have combined together to form Of the other countries around, Mexico, although you're bi severe battering since the assassination of a secret anti-communist army. So the job of it's not officially part of Central America, is the at the ye Archbishop Romero in March 1980, is still identifying those responsible is very difficult. most influential of the countries in the region, and worthwh operatingtand in spite of threats to its own Last year the death squads published a death list recently Mexico and France have both given official come. T members it goes out every morning and which included Archbishop Romero who was support to the FDR, and I imagine that that will be struggle< photographs all the bodies that are found in the assassinated; the man who was head of the a real boost for them because I was in iNicaragua be there streets of San Salvador. There are about 10-15 on Human Rights Commission and whom I met in at the time that the French Foreign Minister came back alle an average night and if there has been a special Mexico, Robert Qualler; and another priest whom I through and gave official French support to waiting 1 operation there could be up to 40 of them. These met in Nicaragua and who had worked very closely Nicaragua and that was really something to the unsuspe are bodies of people who have been arrested either with Archbishop Romero. Early this year the people there because there is an American boycott trip alon that night or a few days beforehand. The military military themselves published an official death list against Nicaragua, an economic boycott and a campus. or plain clothes death squads come to the houses and that's very little different from the death news blackout, so to have official support from Yes, s at night and take them away during the curfew squad's list. another country, particularly a European country leaf thro hours and these are the bodies that are found. gave them a real boost and I imagine it would do wide-ey( They are tossed on the side of the road or into What are the feelings of the people in those the same for the FDR. opened rubbish dumps around the city. They're supposedly countries about what is happening in El Salvador, dangers guerrillas but there was an instance just before I and the general interference of the foreign powers What do the people you met see as the solution to experien arrived in El Salvador, for example, of a football in the area? the situation in El Salvador? It's tir team that was wiped out, assassinated with their At a World Council of Churches Conference that The one thing they all called for was the you can families by a group of army people who they had I attended before going to El Salvador, the big withdrawal of American military support#because had a dispute with a couple of days earlier at an it. Wher question there that people saw was the they felt if the Americans continued to support the take ten army check point. They had a fisticuffs fight and internationalisation of the war in El Salvador. The Junta there, then this mayhem and bloodshed impressi two days later these army peoplefcrrived in the country they saw most likely to be drawn in was would just get worse. They felt that the guerrillas took this village and wiped the whole lot out. Honduras. Guatemala, which is the northern border didn't have the capacity to resist increased the stafl I came across a couple of instances in the short of El Salvador, is in a state which is nearly as bad American support4mainly because they can be presents time I was there of this violence, even amongst as El Salvador itself. There is apparently nearly one starved out and that is the biggest danger in the your gei Church people. In the Baptist Church, there was a third of the country embroiled in civil war and that hills». If the Americans would withdraw their military course, Pastor I had met at the World Council of Churches third of the country is an area where 58% of the support from the government troops then the to the c Conference and wh~ • v~nt to see him in El population is located - the highlands area where government would be forced to negotiate a Calenda Salvador he was liftin g house every night the indigenous campasinos are. There are similar political settlement and that is what the opposition This sor because he had h, .. iother Baptist Pastor staying assassinations, right wing death squads - even with are calling for. The Government say they won't with him, whose wife had been arrested the the same names as those in El Salvador - White negotiate a political settlement, but all they're carefully well-bal; previous week. This man and his daughter had Hand#and so on. The Guatemalan military are interested in are the so-called elections next year many pi taken shelter with this friend of mine and the police reinforced by the Americans in the same way the which will 'solve' the country's problems. It is had arrived at 2am one morning and taken him El Salvadoreans are, but it is felt that they were less interesting that the U.S. Senate has actually Do yc away and they didn't expect to see him again. He likely to be the force which intervened in El supported the opposition line because they made the laml was left virtually with a 6 year old orphan on his Salvador because of the problems they have got in one of the conditions on continuing any kind of slaughtc hands and there are apparently tens of thousands their own country. military aid that they must hold free more of them from circumstances like this in El There has never in the past been a lot of elections, and thay must be willing to negotiate an Darryl 1 Salvador. This friend of mine was shifting house publicity really about what is happening in El equitable peace solution. That was what people c /o A ll every night in case the military came back again. Salvador besides what Amnesty International put saw as the short term answer to it. In the longer Private Two days later I went to visit an Episcopalian out, mainly because until refugees start leaving our term, the whole question of agricultural reform, Auckla Church, and while I was there somebody put their country it doesn't really come to the international must come up because there is no way that the head around the door and said that a woman who media. Most of the people who are affected in whole problem could ever be settled while that or dr< worked in the legal office wouldn't be in that day Guatemala are indigenous people who have their extremely unjust economic structure exists, because Christm because her life had been threatened the night own language in addition to Spanish and they are that is where the source of the whole problem lies. lambs c before, and we have since had a letter saying that reluctant to leave their own area where that pasture: she was assassinated the day after I was in the language is spoken,and it is only in the last few Would the simple withdrawal of American forces office. So even in the small number of people I months that things have got so bad that they are enable them to hold free elections? Wouldn't those met, and they certainly weren't anybody from actually leaving the country and crossing into 3,000 names that appeared on a list still be a death political parties or Unions or Campasino Mexico and into Honduras,and I think if this builds list even if there wasn't American support? Organisations or anything, they were just Church up people will get to know more about what is people, there were two instances of violence, and happening in El Salvador and Guatemala. continued.. out of internal refugee camps and putting them in They would have to change the qualifications for New Zealand has got a policy of supporting the American position. What can people in New these fortified villages, which I was told look more taking part in the elections for a starter. But it is like concentration camps than anything else, the not just a question of American forces it's the Zealand do about that, in particular, and what can they do about the situation in El Salvador American 'advisors'; there are a number of parallels whole system of American aid. All the military with Viet Nam and that is the sort of thing people generally? material comes from the States, if not directly from are really afraid of, and I think it is something we the States, the money comes through there. The It would be nice to think if we could put pressure on the government - enough people - that ought to be aware of here so we won't get drawn biggest supplier of arms is Israel. into it in the same way we did in the past. There would have to be free elections in the real they would listen but I don't know that they will. It is important I think that people be aware of what is There are practical things we can do in terms of I sense of the word, not under the conditions that just straight aid - the United Appeal for El Salvador the government is willing to hold them and they really happening in El Salvador because one of the big problems that people saw there is a deliberate is going to raise money to send to refugees would have to be ones that the FDR felt confident because there is a desperate need for basic foods. about and were willing to take part in and that campaign of misinformation. It is necessary I think Caritas, the international Catholic Organisation, would be something very different from what they to read between the lines of what does come out, said there is mass hunger in El Salvador and if are proposing at the moment. to recognise that a lot of the news we are getting is coming via the U.S., and this is one of the big something isn't done, there will be mass starvation, problems that people saw in that area. They were so we can certainly help out in a practical way there. There is also working in the refugee camps ls there any confidence that the Junta doesn't extremely surprised and pleased when they finally particularly in Honduras - not just immediate relief have enough of a stockpile of weapons or could worked out where N.Z. was to find people coming but longer term projects with a view to % I get the weapons from somewhere else in order to from another side of the world, from a country reconstruction of the country so that when people ' continue the fight against the FDR without the they had never even heard of being interested in what is happening because the whole question of go back, particularly uneducated poor which is elections? what the majority of the refugees are, that they I think the only real support they get, direct solidarity with their struggle is very important and can go back with more knowledge than they came support, is from the USA and nobody mentioned that is something I think that people can do - out with in order to help out with reconstruction. any other. It is acknowledged by America that solidarity committees raising awareness, educating There are programmes for self supporting governments they support stay there, so they are people as to what is happening there. People saw cooperatives in the camps, education programmes seen as definitely the power behind the throne. In a big danger in the area of there being another Viet for self supporting cooperatives in the camps, the negotiated political settlement that the Nam and that is not just a nice slogan - there are education programmes, health education, basic opposition want they want to negotiate it not just so many parallels - the whole agricultural reform sanitation and we hope to be able to put some with the Junta but with the US as well because thing which didn't work, the fortified villages where money into just the basic education type project. they recognise where the power lies obviously. military forces within the country are taking people

EDUCATION RUMINATION Have you ever thought about the future? Well, perhaps now is not the time, with exams casting their awesome ABOVE shadow on all your swot notes, as you try to drag up from the depths of your memory just what the lecturer said on June 18th. However, while you're busy casting a wistful glance at the year that was 1981, it is worthwhile having a care for those to j come. Those papers that you have struggled through this year will still be there next year, lurking in the back alleys of the ivory towers, waiting to spring upon yet another unsuspecting generation as they gaily trip along the leafy arcades of this campus. Yes, so innocent are they as they leaf through their Calendars, wide-eyed at the possibilities that are opened before them, oblivious to the dangers that YOU have just experienced. Remember how it was? It's time those days were gone and you can help to do something about it. When the big exam rush is over, take ten minutes to write down your impressions of the papers that you took this year. Talk about things like the staff, the course content, it's presentation, the assessment and your general impressions of the course. Try to give a certain insight to the course that the University Calendar doesn't or couldn't give. This sort of information, if it is carefully considered and well-balanced, can be invaluable to many prospective students. Do your bit to sharpen the teeth of the lambs as they go to next year's slaughter and send it to:

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CRACCUM October 13 1981 7 a q u a tic s Engineer Bligh Strikes Back! For A On Sunday 4 October the hour was nigh, resulting in six For a Ic just up fr< engineers scored a crashing victory remaining in true loyalist fashion. Airedale 5 over both Alt's Imperial Army and the To ensure a mutinous show hangout f mutinous crew of the Bounty at however a truce was negotiated students, Princess Wharf. between Major Tom, the engineers* old style i Hearing on Sunday morning that fearless leader, and Alf. Thus we gave the Alt's Army was preparing to attack joined forces, our 40 plus their 6 and who oper the Bounty at 3.30pm that day the the Bounty crew was easily up to its i engineers flew into action to organise overwhelmed in a colourful 20 minute a counter-attack. The scene of the battle. the ACC, p.19, issu battle to be was surveyed by two The attack was in two waves, the Now C members while the rest rallied around first, led by Major Tom, creating building £ and prepared for battle. havoc on board the Bounty and the £ co-operal The plan was for a few of our second systematically gaining full * rehearsim members to assist Alf's Army, control of the ship. | operating traditionally our esteemed enemies, to Flags of the Imperialists and the 5 front, an< overwhelm the crew of the Bounty. Engineers were raised and Alf,finally in the big Then when control had been gained boarding to join the battle in leader. University Engineering Society Origins to meet and spearhead the traditional imperialistic honour, This afternoon the Auckland Executive High Command. provide d engineers’attack to ultimate victory proclaimed a victory for his Army. University Engineers Hit Squad Beware in future all foreign nuclear for the ey On arriving at Princess Wharf we However Major Tom,suffering from gained a crushing victory over the w ar ships• but now stealthly traversed the length of the minor injury from battle, informed Alf mutinous Bounty crew and Colonel lunches, wharf in true engineer's style, ziggy, that the Bounty was under control of Alt's Army at the Battle of Prince's Having shown their immense and soup ziggy, ziggy, - oi, oi, oi, etc. to the engineers, ordered the Imperial Wharf. The Valiant Engineers hoisted superiority the engineers helped well, the confront Alf and his so called flag lowered and showed Alf the their colours and made Colonel Alf return the ship to a state of calm and getting a Imperialist Army. We came upon a plank. Alf refused to walk the plank walk the plank to be undisputed moved on to plan for greater or exhibi standoff between the Bounty Crew so was unceremoniously thrown possessor of the ship. The old crew triumphs walls anc and Alf's mob, still on the wharf. The overboard to cries of mutiny. has been retained but strictly on a by the T< Army's eyes widened as they looked The following press release was subordinate capacity. Orders will be Engineers Rule The pi for somewhere to run^assuming their then issued by Major Tom our heroic issued hereforth from the Auckland Jim well rede

dirt? why it had taken them so long. The gas devi In early 1980 the Government "rosy" future that was seen in 1979 producti changed from it s original decision to had collapsed in 1981. Up on Cripple Creek 150,000 extend Marsden Point, from a It seems doubtful that Fletchers or manufac Catalytic cracker to a hydrocracker. CSR will find another partner, governn This decision was based on the Reynolds Metals has been picked as a rather si development of a Mobil process which iikely contender but this seems number produces only petrol, a Hydrocracker dubious. Australia has two smelters by the ii produces more diesel and avtur out consortiums in the Hunter Valley who This giv of a crude oil feedstock, the trouble have been looking for partners to jobs froi being that it is more technically supply the needed technology for foreign complicated and has a higher cost. over 6 months. Australia has the departnr Back in 1980 it was only seen as an advantage of having large bauxite "...this economic alternative if a hydrocracker reserves (we have none), and 'cheap' employi was run at maximum capacity, is it coal fired power stations. How can in foreij then still worth it? Doubts are also the Government save face and admit with cai expressed as to where New Zealand that the project is well and truely Labour is going to get oil to run the refinery. dead. overlap' The oil producing states are also The question that should be asked Doub building refineries so there will be less at the moment is whether we do and Str straight crude oil to go around. Could really want a smelter? Should we Uni vers this growth project be just another dam the unique Clutha valley at a 1980-85 (and springing plenty of leaks) White Elephant? cost of $1200 m? Should we dam the report p You are not wrong if you get the lower Waitaki and build another large that "b Over the last two-to-three years the projects. Will the Governments feeling of deja vu. Remember the coal fired power station in Waikato? will do National Government has made clear growth strategy really work? Synthetic petrol plant which was Do you remember that Huntly was reducin that it would be fighting the 1981 supposed to cost $350 m, then $500 supposed to be commissioned in 1978 is some election on a platform of large energy Think Big takes advice m, then $750 m, then $1 billion... at a cost of $235 m, it is now going the pro intensive projects. National pushed The week started with doubts Who knows where it will end. It to cost well over $500 m and still deleted growth as, independence, jobs and raised over the final cost of the seems like a game, with the hasn't been commissioned. The Jobs the end to balance of payments extensions to Marsden Point Oil government pulling figures out of a trouble with large one off projects is problems. Refinery. The cost was estimated last think t box. that they tend to be affected by large permar The cornerstone of the package year at $500 m, but now figures escalations in price. They are nearly capital was the Second Aluminium Smelter, are being cast around as high as Alusuisse flies home. always delayed and have unreliable means Independence lay with the Synthetic $1300 m. Even Birch stated that the As the price of aluminium steadily service records. permar petrol plant and the Marsden Point cost could be $750 m, or a 50% dropped throughout the world, investe Oil Refinery expansion. Or so Muldoon increase in price in one year; as yet a Alusuisse made its "shock" decision Growth to unemployment? of $40, and the National Party said. The more accurate figure is not known. to withdraw from the Second The Government has claimed that $75,001 events of that last few weeks have No more contracts are being offered Aluminium Smelter. Was it really so through its growth projects it will must a cast larger shadows over these at the site. Will the project make pay surprising, van Moeseke wondered create 410,000 jobs: 79,000 in oil and highly $ CRACCUM OatqJW'M AW For All Your Afters For a long time the Island of Real, for one covered by drapes which can just up from the Town Hall in be drawn back for a glimpse into the Airedale St, was a well known heavy-graffitti era of XS) have been hangout for all sorts of Bohemians, sand-blasted and the wood work ill students, and those who valued an refinished. There are tables and chairs old style cafe. Then Charlie Gray (obviously) as well as bean bags, gave the trade away to Brian Staff, backgammon sets and a communal who opened the XS Cafe, which lived piano. With the offer of "bottomless up to its name, incurred the wrath of cup" coffee, the hope is that clientele the ACC, and was closed down, (see will treat the place as somewhere p.19, issue 5 of this year). they can spend a lot of time. Now Christine has taken over the As well, the stage space is building and is running it along available for anyone who approaches co-operative lines, with a band the management with something to rehearsing upstairs, a TEP project perform, or a person can hire one or operating out of the office in the both of the rooms for private front, and, most importantly, a cafe functions. The overall aim is to in the big rooms downstairs. encourage participation in the cafe, Originally the idea was just to not just patronage. provide desserts and cater exclusively So, if you're down in the town, or for the evening and late night trade, if you're sickened by the cafe here, or but now the place is open for bored with the Wynyard, trip on lunches, and provides delicious salads down to Airedale St and meet the and soups at reasonable prices. As people in Just Desserts, have a cup Susie & Bob's well, the management is keen on of coffee with them, and try one of getting artists of all kinds to perform their delicious cakes. Say next year's Cookery Column or exhibit: there are paintings on the editor sent you. walls and coming soon is a concert Just Desserts 7 Airedale St by the Topp Twins. Partnership does have some For filling you could use bought Tues-Fri 12-2 & 4-midnite The place has been extensively and problems. You see I was going slowly fruit mince if there was any that was Sat 7pm-2am well redecorated: the walls (except through Daryl Wilson's puzzle page not all suet and juice, but for better and rather enjoying it. Challenging - I results make your own - again mean urubu and syzygy and crwth Edmonds has a good recipe - just were easy enough, but what on earth make sure its not too wet. is "a combination of letters which Why this sudden reliance on recipe forms eight words"? The alphabet is books? Well why not? I can certainly a combination of letters which forms never remember the right proportions at least eight (possibly nine) words, for an apple crumble topping (4 of but he must mean something more flour to 2 of sugar to 1 of butter) so specific than this.... provided you use books as a resource Anyway, I was pondering this rather than as holy writ they are very problem and leafing idly through the useful. If a recipe doesn't work the rest of the paper when I came on the first time try to think out why and cookery column where, I found, I change your approach the next time - was promised to write on Christmas and if you hit on a formula that treats. Other than Daryl Wilson on works for your oven and your top of a tree, that is. interpretation of "1 'A breakfast cups" Well, its true that an organised then scribble it in the margin - just household would be worrying about which is the "breakfast" cup in your Christmas cakes and puddings in cupboard? mid-October and it is sure that in a To keep you going over summer few months I shall be making we recommend the following basic pavlovas and glazing hams, but recipe books: somehow I imagine students are Edmonds - A whole range of more interested at present in passing recipes, and they don't double the gas developments; 56,000 in Metal shortage of fitters, turners and amount of baking soda to sell more. production; 25,000 in pulp and paper; welders. Since those presently exams than in soaking dried fruit overnight in ginger ale. So this is not Every home should have one. 150,000 in Agriculture and 100,000 in unemployed are young and mainly "Cooking in a Bed-sitter" - A manufacturing for exports. The unskilled the opportunities created are a Christmas column. Susie requests a token recipe - Penguin by Katherine Whitehorn that government attains these figures in a negligible. assumes you have no equipment, no rather strange way, it divides the In a paper for the New Zealand okay - mince pies. I am sure I mentioned flaky pastry some weeks skill, no money and a single burner number of workers in New Zealand Planning Council, Eric Haywood gas-ring. Simple but excellent. by the imports of goods and services. found "that the large scale projects ago - if you can't find that Craccum use the recipe in the Edmonds book "Food for Flatters" - Michael This gives the "magical" figure of 160 will not have a lasting effect on the and remember to use cold butter, to Volkerling's private reprint of a book jobs from every million dollars of growth rate; the effect is probably of keep your hands out of the mix as first published by A.U.S.A. many foreign exchange we spend. The shorter duration (1985-88) and less much as possible and to leave it to years ago. Some simple and delicious department of Labour has stated that than most people believe" I have stand (in the fridge?) for at least an meals. "...this method of assessing the searched without success to find Aunt Daisy - If you can pick you employment impact of a net increase information to back up National's hour before using. Find the patty-tray and clean it. way between the Red Cabbage Pickle in foreign exchange must be viewed claims. It seems likely that There is one in every house-hold, but and the Prune Cakes there are some with caution..." Even the Minister of unemployment will continue to student flats being what they are good things in here - like how to Labour has stated that "there is some increase until at least 1985 under the yours is probably in the wash-house make yeast or to re-enamel a bath. overlap". National Government! strategy. No and it is probably rather a mess as Mrs Beeton - Again there are lots Doubts are expressed by Philpott one accurately knows how many the earth left over from when it was of good basic hints in here (like how and Stroombergen of Victoria people are presently unemployed, at used for planting dope seeds has sort to make baked cauliflower cheese, University over the impact of the least 50,000 and probably over of mingled with the remains of an how to truss poultry, how to manage 1980-85 energy programme. In a 120,000 so how many in 1985? effort to mould little flat candles in it. the servants), but I must advise report published in 1980 they found Clean it! Then butter it! against following her that "by itself the energy programme Growth to Where? Find a couple of cups or mugs or cabbage-cooking instructions - boil will do nothing whatsoever for It seems likely that if National wins glasses, one with a diameter about rapidly for 20 minutes for fresh young reducing unemployment. Indeed there in 1981 the shocks in Growth Projects equal to that of the holes in the tray, cabbages or 30 to 40 minutes for is some evidence from analysis that of the last few weeks will continue. and the other a bit bigger. Roll the large ones, drain through a colander the programme is, if anything, Unemployment and our balance of pastry out flat and press out as many and serve. Ughl deleterious to unemployment..." payments deficit will continue to rise. circles as you can. Put the big ones If this column has been of any use Jobs provided by the Governments In the long run we have to pay for these projects either through in the tray, put about a teaspoon of save up your recipes over the think big strategy amount to 6,767 summer and we might write them up permanent jobs in 45 projects with a powerbills or taxes. New Zealand mince on each, run a wet pastry brush or your wet finger around the next year. Thanks for listening. capital cost (1980) of $7529.5 m. This can't afford uni-directional policies edge of the pastry, do the same to Have a good break - and don't means that on average,for every entailing large losses if Government the smaller tops, then press gently in forget to dump the tories in permanent job created/ $1.11 m is hopes are not realised, which they November. invested. Compare this to an average never are. Only in 1981 can we stop place. Cook at at least 400° until the New Zealand from going the rocky pastry is golden. When cool sprinkle of $40,000/job in fishing or Love road to sink big! with icing sugar and eat. $75,000/job in the meat industry. It Bob and Susie must also be noted that the jobs are Barry Weeber highly skilled and may infact create a CftACCuM Gctober Ta iSiBl 9 the fourth dimension

< rx z d o n 't e x a c ts drpp Prisoners of BOMgs, x j u s t RElsa&e: The PLO Are them IN Mlp-A IK A N D Conscience Week LSTC tOP PeapE\Mt4££E Amnesty International is a Comingl THEVFA l L. n s A REUCklOQS worldwide independent Human Rights organisation which works on In recent months the Palestinian behalf of men and women imprisoned Liberation Organisation has been anywhere for their beliefs, ethnic responsible for origin, language or religion provided - machine gunning Austrian Jews they have neither used nor advocated entering a synagogue violence. These people are known as - bombing a hotel in Kenya Prisoners of Conscience. Amnesty managed by a Jewish couple further opposes detention without - throwing a grenade into a crowd trial and the use of torture and the of Dutch-Jewish school children death penalty in all cases without Nobody in their right mind could reservation. It is an independent and claim that these attacks were impartial organisation which has no anything other than racist murders. association with any political, Unfortunately there are people on ideological, economic or religious campus who see this sort of activity groups. < as political rather than racial, with the The organisation is made up of result that a club called Friends of both individual members (of which Palestine have affiliated to AUSA, in there are 1500 in New Zealand) and blatant violation of its constitution, adoption groups who each work for which forbids membership of racist the release of two or three Prisoners groups. of Conscience, largely through letter But far more important is the writing campaigns to the relevant impending visit by a PLO authorities in the countries representative. He will be toured concerned. Our Auckland University around NZ at our expense and Orientation 1982 Group is at present working for three sometime in the first term will arrive prisoners in Indonesia, Grenada and on this campus. Orientation next year will be run around a festival the Soviet Union. If you are interested in preventing atmosphere. Orientation is the logical place for raising student Every year a Prisoners of this, either by direct or indirect Conscience Week campaign is action, we would like to hear from awareness and getting together and raging before heads have organised to draw attention to the you on 603-789, ask for Peter or to go down and the “realities" of university life hit you. plight of these prisoners throughout Stephanie. We hope to involve many more groups in '82 and to this end the world. A number of cases (15) have budgetted megabucks to subsidise any club, group, or from various countries are particularly P. Bubendorfer individual who works to put on any event somewhere on highlighted during this week. This years campaign commended with a campus. noon vigil outside the C.P.O. on We want to involve other age groups more so will have a October 11 and continues until bigger emphasis on theatre, jazz and other performance acts. October 18. An information display But also we plan to have lots of ragey dances catering to all has been set up on the first floor of tastes from the Meemees through to Herbs and plan to have the Auckland Public Library and one large concert/dance outside the university as a main focal posters are displayed in a number of places around the University. point. Each adoption group has been We plan the festival to be a multicultural one and involve all asked to publicise the case of a ethnic groups around campus who are interested. particular prisoner during this week. There will be a number of workshops such as Tai-Chi, self Our group at the University has been defence for women, so that more small group and personal allocated a prisoner in Indonesia. Her name is Sudjinah and she has been in involvement is possible at the start of the university year. detention in Indonesia since 1967, We also plan to reopen the Coffee Bar late at night for serving 8 years before charges were smoky intimate conversation and drinking. brought against her. At her eventual One thing we want to hear is SUGGESTIONS, so if you feel trial in 1975 Sudjinah, an activist in you have a good idea or have not been catered for in the past Indonesia's largest womerfb movement at the time of an give us a ring. attempted coup in 1965, was Bill 864-736 sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. * R 4 Q O Heather 769-041 It was alleged she had helped publish or put a suggestion in the suggestion box at the Studass an illegal bulletin and acquired false SCOUTING Office. I.D. cards in an attempt to contact former friends in the movement. She Oct. 16-18, 1981 24th J.O.T.A. Also we'd like lots of helpers. This is a great way to get A is now due to be released in 1983 involved. Anyone is welcome to contact us. (the first 8 years of her imprisonment Remember the Jamboree on the having been included in the Air is starting soon. Refer to last Viva la Revolution! sentence). She was adopted by week's Craccum, p.8, for details of Amnesty as a Prisoner of Conscience where and when. Bill & Heather in 1972. Your support and contribution SUMMARY TABLE OF NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY TERM DATES 1982* could result in the eventual release of AUCKLAND WAIKATO MASSEY VICTORIA CANTERBURY LINCOLN OTAGO people such as Sudjinah. For enquiries regarding membership or Enrolment 22-25 Feb. 22-25 Feb. 25-26 Feb. 17-25 Feb. 22 Feb. 25 Feb. 22-23 Feb. further info on Amnesty and its work Term 1 begins 1 March 1 March 1 March 1 March 1 March 1 March 26 Feb. contact Alan Davies, Secretary Graduation 6-7 May 16 April 6-7 May 28-29 April 5-6 May 7 May 8 May Auckland University Adoption Group. Term 1 ends 8 May 7 May 7 May 8 May 4 May 6 May 8 May Phone 892-126(evenings). 1 Sfk MO*. Ti>tjS__ WET TMJR< S'*” Term 2 begins 31 May 31 May 31 May 24 May 26 May 24 May 31 May , r FK' Mid-term break 5-10 July 28 June-2 July 21 June-3 July 3-10 July 19 June-10 July i " i$4 lr !' (examinations) i 13 August 6 August 21 August 17 August 20 August 7 August Term 2 ends 14 August '? ‘ . . ---- v ------Term 3 begins 6 Sept. 6 Sept. 30 August 6 Sept. 6 Sept. 6 Sept. 30 August ]i LAST" 1 1 FRlbAV Lectures end 8 October 8 October 9 October 9 October 22 October 9 October j i . i ■ i (approximately) '!_____ 1 ! ! 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economic theories and a more recent, operation o f the smelter. Even the Why Vote? orthodox, right wing, conservative Chairperson o f Alcoa Ltd has stated that philosophy with an emphasis on small there will be a glut of aluminium on the It only encourages business. world market in the late 1980s. This view is Major Douglas’s basic economic principle backed up by a 410 page study by Australian Mineral Economics Ltd. them is called the ‘A plus B theory’ . He came to New Zealand is supposed to be a the conclusion that workers’ incomes (A) From an overall perspective New Zealand democracy where the people tell the were never enough to meet the cost o f goods can look forward to increased electricity politicians how they want the country produced. This gap he called (B). Most prices with a huge amount o f resources run. You could be excused for important in his argument is the claim that ‘locked into’ an inefficient programme. thinking that the reverse is the case. all or more of ‘B’ is made up of payments to Increased inflation and unemployment and a badly dented international credit rating Perhaps it is worth noting that the bankers. From this crude analysis he w ill compound New Zealand’s present National Government has faith in the developed an idea that there was some sort problems. electoral process, or so it would have us of ‘bankers’ conspiracy’ which causes the believe, with comments to the effect that ‘ If world’s problems of unemployment and It is up to you the New Zealand public disagree with our inflation as the interest rate also put upward It is up to you to determine for yourself policies (eg the Aramoana Smelter and the pressure on prices. if the above analysis is indeed correct. The National Development Act) they can vote us His cure was to gradually increase facts, figures, and analysis is drawn from out o f power at the next election’ . incomes without increasing costs by using impeccable sources. The game now is to Fair enough. The electoral process is very cheap state credit and national present it to the National Party for supposed to provide a safety mechanism dividends to fill gap ‘B’. This involves the explanation. whereby the individual can register a protest nationalisation of all credit creating institu­ D on 7 let Labour and Social Credit off against a Government it doesn’t like. If tions such as banks. To get over the problem the hook though. They must come up with enough people don’t like that Government it of inflation Douglas proposed to tie this a viable alternative. is voted out. Alternatively, the opposition increase to the rate o f increase in party(s) can be voted in. Simple really. production. (In practice something which it is impossible to do.) ______Don’t underestimate the value of your Think Big vote. In a marginal seat, such as Kapiti, it could mean the difference between victory Sink Big and defeat for a candidate. It would not be Aramoana There can be little doubt that the overdramatising the 1981 Election to say Smelter Skelter ‘Think Big’ strategy adopted by that the result w ill have a profound effect on National is an imaginative attempt to the future o f New Zealand, at least until the The Aramoana Smelter is a good case overcome New Zealand’s present end o f the century. There are some study o f the way the ‘Think Big’ strategy economic ills. There are fundamental significant differences between the works or doesn’t work. The first point to questions raised by ‘Think Big’ which economic strategies promoted by Labour, note is that this project has been rushed must be answered, however. National, and Socred to get New Zealand through with very little opportunity for public debate. Secondly, there has been a There is a wide and respected body o f out o f the present economic recession which opinion which calls into question the viability is characterised by both high inflation and constant litany of opposition to this project on purely economic grounds. Thirdly, a veil o f the strategy. In particular, the Aramoana unemployment. The result of this Election Smelter has come in for severe criticism as ill will determine what type of country New o f secrecy has shrouded Government costings for the project. Most people know conceived, and based on a false assumption Zealand will be for your children and their as to a continuing substantial demand for children. there are plans to build a smelter at Aramoana, that it w ill create a few jobs, aluminium which w ill keep prices buoyant. There are a number o f questions raised in that environmental groups are upset about If there is a glut of aluminium on the world this Election Broadsheet. Some background it, and that the Government says it will earn market then the price will fall, and the inform ation is given and the responses o f export earnings desperately needed by New Aramoana Smelter w ill become the major Parties to a series o f questions. Zealand. uneconomic. There are indications that one Those responses are based on policy as at of the partners in this undertaking, the A close look at the Aramoana proposal October 4, in the case o f Labour and Social Fletcher-Alusuisse-Gove Consortium, now reveals that the smelter will operate at the Credit. In the case of National intelligent has serious doubts about the viability o f the margin of efficiency (ie a small drop in the guesses had to be made as to their policy project. The withdrawal of Alusuisse from world price of aluminium will make the because it had not been released at that date. the project is a serious blow to National s This Broadsheet raises the questions - it is Smelter a bad business proposition). The other variable in this equation is the price of ‘Think Big’ strategy. up to you to get the answers from published There are other indications that the policy and at election meetings.______the electricity supplied to the Smelter. If the price at which electricity is supplied to the Strategy is foundering: the Synthetic Mobil smelter is reduced the project becomes more project in Taranaki remains a highly The Parties viable and therefore able to withstand drops dubious venture and was recording massive in the world price of aluminium. cost overruns even before development had Is there really any difference begun; a major question mark hangs over Present indications are that there will be compromise between workers and big the future o f the New Zealand Steel between Labour, National and an oversupply of aluminium on the world business. Labour’ s track record in the field expansion proposal at Waiuku; the Marsden Socred? market by the time the smelter comes on of industrial relations and civil liberties Point refinery expansion, originally costed The answer to this question depends on stream. This will force the price o f shows a lot o f room for improvement. at $500 m illion, is now being costed in some who you talk to. You w ill have to look at aluminium down and the smelter will be Party policy and decide for yourself. A bit The National Party as we know it inefficient. Already plans for two smelters quarters at $1300 million. o f history will give you a guide. today was formed in 1936 as a result of a in Australia have been shelved and The National Party is committed to ‘think merger between the Reform and Liberal Aluisuisse has bailed out o f the Aramoana big’ and has introduced the necessary legisla­ was born out of The Labour Party (also known as United) Parties. These two deal. tion to make sure it gets its own way. The the trade union movement in 1916. The National Development Act, controls on parties led by Massey and Seddon had For the smelter to be viable the Fletcher- earliest leaders were prominent trade Trade Unions, and so called ‘restructuring’ dominated the Treasury benches since 1890. CSR-whoever consortium must screw a unionists. Some advocated socialism in New of the economy to eliminate inefficient In response to the rising young Labour reduction in the supply price out of the Zealand but as they elaborated their policies industries (remember Mosgiel and Rixens) Party they formed a Coalition government Government. Any reduction in the present in the 1920s it became clear that the Labour are all part o f this plan. ‘ Restructuring’ also Party had abandoned any notions of in 1931 and merged after a heavy defeat in supply price will result in a further the 1935 General Election. Whereas Reform substantial burden on the New Zealand involves a shift o f resources from the social ‘socialising the means o f production’ and welfare sector to provide subsidies for the represented large farming and rural taxpayer. opted instead for the welfare state. private sector, especially large corporations. interests, the Liberals were based on At the moment the taxpayer is paying for The real differences that once existed The public sector has been suffering commercial urban elements. Ever since, the the infrastructure associated with the between Labour and National have long National Party has looked to these interests under a “ sinking lid” policy for a number vanished. Perhaps the one thing which smelter such as dams, roads, wharves, etc. as its key political and economic base. The cost o f this infrastructure is estimated at o f years, where civil servants who leave are distinguishes Labour and National for this not replaced. Other examples o f public The ‘Think Big’ strategy adopted by $1500 m illion ($750 m illion will have to be Election is their strategy to overcome the sector cuts is the dim inution o f Housing National as the key to getting New Zealand borrowed overseas). The consortium will present economic recession. Corporation staff from 250 to 50 by 1983, out o f the present economic recession is only contribute $761 million. The the 1% cut per annum in total health Labour has recently announced ambitious aimed at big business to the apparent consortium is already receiving subsidised expenditure, and the well publicised policies designed to boost the role o f small detriment of National’s traditional power power - the real cost o f power supplied to business in creating jobs and increasing base. the smelter is 4.2c/unit whereas the education cuts. production. Labour has also announced a consortium will pay only 1.4-1.7c/unit. Yet aid to the private sector is increasing. policy of tax reform and other minor The Social Credit Political Instead o f export incentives the consortium Large companies are the chief beneficiaries reforms in an attempt to reach a L eag u e has its origins in the unorthodox will receive a tax concession o f $56 million Tasman Pulp & Paper have been supplied economic.ideas o f M ajor C.H. Douglas who as a lump sum, and $13 m illion per year lumber by the Forest Service at 10% o f its W H O DID IT developed a theory in the first half o f the thereafter. true cost for years. In the six months to 30- century to overcome the problems of Anyway the New Zealand taxpayer is 9-80 Fletchers made a pre-tax profit o f This supplement has been published by $33.9m, but its profit after tax was $39.2m, economic depression. fronting up bulk bikkes for a project with the New Zealand University Students implying a subsidy from the taxpayer of Association. Content was prepared by the U ntil recently Socred has not achieved the prospect o f receiving very little in return $5.3m for a six month period. Another General Vice President, Colin McFadzean. consistent outstanding electoral success, and except for a very expensive smelter which Thanks to Wendy Walker, Ian Powell, the has gone through a number of idological will probably be inefficient by the time it result o f this policy, besides a stifled public Coalition for Open Government, Stephen sector and soaring unemployment is the schisms. Today Socred has two MPs and comes on stream. If the smelter craps out A’Court, Fergus Barrowman, Paul van shifting tax burden. Income tax is now the unprecedented membership numbers. New Zealand will still have to repay the Krimpen, Kathryn Irvine, the TTANZ highest source o f government income (53% Heavies, and a cast of millions for their Socred in 1981 is well organised and, debt, the balance of payments situation will cf 36% in 1969). And salary and wage help. according to the polls, controls a significant deteriorate, and the overall economic earners now pay 63.3% o f all income tax (cf Typesetting and layout by Salient. section of voter opinion. prospects w ill be very bleak and depressing. All correspondence should be addressed to 49.3% in 1971) while companies only pay The modern Social Credit ideology has A ll this to create 285 new jobs for Dunedin NZUSA, PO Box 9047, Courtenay Place, 15.4% (cf 29.2% in 1971). Wellington. (Phone 856-669) two basic strands. M ajor Douglas’s people during the construction and PAGE 2 NZUSA GENERAL ELECTION GUIDE OCTOBER 1981 Will your party, if elected to government Education Social Labour National Credit

• Do you acknowledge that the basic level of the present tertiary bursary scheme is totally inadequate in meeting the needs of students? . YES NO YES

• Will you abolish means testing of all monies available for t e r t ia r y b u r s a r ie s ? ( F o r N a t io n a l S u p e r a n n u a t i o n ? ) ...... PARTLY NO YES?

• W ill you alter the basic rate of the tertiary, bursary in line with m o v e m e n t s in t h e C o n s u m e r P r ic e I n d e x ? ...... YES NO YES

• Will you extend the period of time for which a student may h o ld a b u r s a r y ? ...... YES NO YES

• What will your party do to bring about a system of open entry to universities for all, regardless of sex, race, class, country of origin or sexuality? ...... ? ? ?

• Will your party abolish the outmoded ‘grant in aid' concept for tertiary bursaries and pursue the concept of a living allowance? ...... ? NO ?

• Will your party restore the full 100% subsidy of tertiary tuition ? f e e s ? ...... YES NO

• Do you consider the tertiary sector as part of the mainstream ? o f t h e e d u c a t io n s y s t e m ? ...... • YES NO

• W ould your party initiate affirmative action programmes in the education system to remove inequalities, particularly for Maori and Pacific Island people and women? What sort of ? ? p r o g r a m m e s d o y o u e n v i s a g e ? ...... ?

• W ould your party change the structure and content of the education system to reflect the needs and aspirations of these groups, and would you engage in promotional campaigns to ? ? encourage more positive attitudes towards education? ...... o General

• Introduce subsidies on basic food items ...... YES Q NO YES

• Set wages or taxation levels by order in Council ...... NO NO NO

• I n t r o d u c e p r ic e c o n t r o l s o n b a s ic c o m m o d i t i e s ...... YES Q NO ? NO POLICY

• Make hearings on applications for price increases of basic c o m m o d i t ie s o p e n t o t h e p u b l i c ...... YES NO YES Q • • R e m o v e t h e s a l e s t a x o n r e c o r d e d m u s ic , in c l u d i n g p o p u l a r m u s i c ...... YES NO YES Q

• Implement the provisions of the Working W om en’s Charter ...... REFERENDUM NO NO

• Establish a programme for extensive investigation and consultation with all interested parties before the introduction ------—— of new technology to ensure its ultimate benefit for all New Zealanders . YES NO YES Q • Provide that the full accounts of New Zealand companies • Introduce a programme of retraining at full pay where jobs are utilising foreign capital be open to the New Zealand public.. d e s t r o y e d b y n e w t e c h n o l o g y ...... YES Q NO YES • Provide for a full public enquiry into government subsidies tdj • Adopt a household method of assessment for unemployment figures ... YES NO YES industries operating in New Zealand including investigations!] into export subsidies, tax incentives, subsidies on raw • Introduce/continue subsidised work program m es ...... YES YES YES materials, and regional development subsidies ...... 1 ...... • Continue the Student Community Services Programme ...... YES YES YES • Introduce planning procedures allowing for complete public 1 • I m p o s e a n y s y s t e m o f w a g e r e s t r a i n t ...... NO POLICY YES NO access to relevant information, mandatory environmental and | social impact reporting and opportunity for appeal ...... |...... • I n t r o d u c e a m in im u m liv i n g w a g e ...... NO POLICY NO YES • R e p e a l t h e N a t io n a l D e v e lo p m e n t A c t ...... • Take action to overcome the present shortage of rental accommodation YES YES YES • Establish and adequately fund Regional Planning Authorities ...... N • M a k e f in a n c e r e a d i l y a v a ila b le f o r r e n o v a t i n g e x i s t i n g h o u s i n g ...... YES YES YES • Develop Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Methanol as • Introduce legislation to provide for security of tenure for tenants ...... YES NO NO POLICY preferred m otor fuels by subsidising conversion of motor vehicles to CNG and Methanol and improve the availability of • Introduce legislation to provide for the use of a standard form CNG by extending existing pipelines ...... tenancy agreement which sets out the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants in non-legalistic term s ...... YES Q NO NO POLICY • Introduce program m es to allow local bodies to (re)introduce e l e c t r ic p a s s e n g e r t r a n s p o r t ...... N • Establish a procedure for the payment of bonds by tenants to an independent third party to hold in trust who shall have • Remove import restrictions and sales tax on bicycle j u r is d ic t i o n t o d e c id e d i s p u t e s b e t w e e n la n d lo r d a n d t e n a n t ...... YES Q NO NO POLICY c o m p o n e n t s a n d a c c e s s o r ie s , p a r t ic u la r ly it e m s o f s a f e t y g e a r...... N

• Repeal any or all of the following Acts: • Charge New Zealand Smelters Ltd and all similar projects for electricity at the marginal cost of production ...... • Public Safety Conservation Act 1932 ...... YES NO REVIEW • E c o n o m i c S t a b li s a t i o n A c t 1 9 7 6 ...... NO POLICY NO REVIEW • Release all relevant economic, social and environmental 0 • F i s h i n g I n d u s t r i e s ( U n io n C o v e r a g e ) A c t ...... NO REVIEW information pertaining to the proposed Aramoana Smelter imr

• Maintain the Human Rights Com m ission ...... YES YES YES • Introduce programmes to ensure that New Zealand fisheries enclosed by the 370 km econom ic zone are developed and • Support the establishment and provision of financial support controlled by New Zealanders for the long term benefit of New f o r n e i g h b o u r h o o d la w o f f i c e s ...... YES NO YES Z e a la n d p e o p l e ...... • Amend the Om budsm an Act 1975 to include universities • Repeal the National Parks A ct ...... w i t h i n its a m b i t ...... NO POLICY NO NO POLICY • Oppose the use of Antarctica for military purposes ...... • Abolish the power of the police under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 and Amendments to enter and search premises without warrant... NO POLICY NO REVIEW • Oppose any foreign military presence in New Zealand, eg t r a c k in g s t a t i o n s ...... • Decriminalise the possession of cannabis for private or p e r s o n a l u s e ...... NO POLICY NO NO • Oppose the introduction of youth rates ......

• Lower the drinking age to 18 ...... NO POLICY NO NO POLICY • Oppose all mining activity in New Zealand unless it can be shown that such activity is in the long term social and • Develop freedom of information legislation incorporating open econom ic interests of New Zealanders and that all access to all government information except in cases of environm ents affected by such activities are rehabilitated by s e c r e c y ( d e f in e d n a r r o w ly a n d s p e c i f i c a l l y ) ...... YES NO YES t h e c o m p a n ie s i n v o l v e d ......

• Provide the individual with access to a l l personal data held by • Stop the construction of the Aramoana Sm elter ...... the Governm ent with the right to correct inaccurate inform ation ...... 9 NO ? v YES' • C l o s e d o w n t h e S o u t h A f r ic a n C o n s u l a t e ...... • D i s b a n d t h e S e c u r i t y I n t e l li g e n c e S e r v i c e ...... NO NO NO • Support the creation of a nuclear weapons free zone in the • Allow persons convicted of Marijuana offences the right of S o u t h P a c if ic a n d I n d ia n O c e a n s ...... immigration or visitors permits to New Zealand ...... NO POLICY NO NO POLICY • Oppose the dumping of radioactive waste materials in the • Introduce programmes of positive discrimination in favour of Pacific Ocean ...... Maori and Pacific Island people ...... YES YES YES Q • Oppose visits by all nuclear powered, nuclear armed, and • I n t r o d u c e l e g i s la t i o n s i m i l a r t o t h e M a o r i L a n g u a g e B ill 1 9 8 0 ...... YES NO NO POLICY nuclear freight-carrying vessels (except for medical and • Oppose further alienation of Maori land ...... YES YES YES r e s e a r c h u s e ) t o N e w Z e a l a n d ......

• Impose constraints on foreign controlled industry in New Zealand ...... YES NO YES • Increase overseas aid to at least 1% of New Zealand’s Gross N a t io n a l P r o d u c t ......

• Give CORSO tax exemption status ...... WHAT THE RESPONSES MEAN notes: 1. These questions have been formulated on the basis of current NZUSA policy which is • Condem n the continued illegal occupation of the United YES presumed to reflect the areas of interest of students. Nations Territory of Namibia by South Africa and support NO 2. The Labour Party and Social Credit Political League provided the responses listed NO POLICY m o v e s t o w a r d s in d e p e n d e n c e f o r N a m i b i a ...... have obvious meanings. However, there are often qualifications to some of these above whereas the National Party refused to do so on the basis that it had not released its election policy as at 4 October 1981. The National Party responses are based on an responses, intelligent reading of present National Party policy. • Support a total sporting boycott of South Africa ...... YESQ ... means agreement in principle; yes but qualifications as to detail; or, yes to most of the 3. The questions and responses indicate areas and lines of questioning. elements in the question but not all. 4. The accompanying questions and responses are in no way definitive and you should • Stop future tours of New Zealand by Springbok team s ...... ? seek further information or clarification from the relevant political party where ... means difficult to answer, complex question, refer to detailed policy; or, maybe but no appropriate. • Condem n the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and call for the definite policy; or, difficult to determine from policy - especially for National. 5. The parties are listed in alphabetical order to avoid allegations of political bias. withdrawal of all foreign troops ...... YES/NO? ... means that their main tendency is towards/away from our direction, but there may be • Withdraw New Zealand from ANZUS some conditions/situations which qualify that trend. NZUSA GENERAL ELECTION GUIDE OCTOBER 1981 PAGE 3 '

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• Condemn the French Government for continued testing of c o m p a n ie s n u c le a r d e v i c e s in t h e P a c if ic r e g io n , in p a r t ic u la r a t M u r u r o a A t o l l ...... YES YES YES ealand public... Y E S Q ? N O P O L I C Y • Support a call on the Indonesian Governm ent to allow an mt subsidies tJi independent international enquiry into East Tim or to assess investigations t h e s i t u a t io n t h e r e ...... ■ • ...... N O P O L I C Y NO Y E S Q s o n r a w ? ? YES • Take a liberal and sympathetic attitude to the immigration to N e w Z e a la n d o f S o u t h A m e r i c a n r e f u g e e s f r o m r e p r e s s i o n ...... YES NO YES mplete public 1 ironmental and • Support a trade ban on Chile ...... N O ? NO NO ) p e a l ...... YES NO YES 1 YES YES YES • Condemn the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea ...... YES NO YESQ • A c t i v e l y s p o n s o r t h e i m m i g r a t io n o f V i e t n a m e s e r e f u g e e s ...... Y E S Q ? N O P O L I C Y ? ling Authorities ...... N O P O L I C Y N O P O L I C Y • Grant political asylum to overseas students if they are likely to Methanol as s u f f e r f o r t h e i r p o lit ic a l b e l i e f s o n t h e ir r e t u r n t o t h e i r h o m e c o u n t r y ...... N O P O L I C Y Y E S Q ? )n of motor ie availability of • Allow overseas students to participate in student affairs and Y E S ? YES Y E S Q s t a n d f o r p o s i t i o n s in N e w Z e a la n d s t u d e n t o r g a n i s a t i o n s ...... N O P O L I C Y YES YES

o ( re ) in tro d u c e • Reinstate the 1976 level of first year entrants from overseas to N O P O L I C Y ? YES N e w Z e a la n d u n i v e r s i t i e s ...... N O P O L I C Y NO N O P O L I C Y

lic y c le • Abolish the discriminatory $1500 fee on overseas students ...... YES NO Y E S ? i s o f s a f e t y g e a r...... N O P O L I C Y ? Y E S Q • Allow the holders of current New Zealand student permits to ? ilar projects for u n d e r t a k e p r a c t ic a l w o r k a s p a r t o f t h e ir c o u r s e ...... YES YES YES NO YES • Allow overseas students to remain in New Zealand for their ironmental g r a d u a t io n c e r e m o n y ...... N O P O L I C Y YES Y E S Q )ana Smelter imir...... YES YES YES • Condemn the decision of President Reagan to approve the aland fisheries b u i l d i n g a n d s t o c k p il in g o f n e u t r o n b o m b s ...... N O P O L I C Y YES YES jveloped and • Support moves towards independence in New Caledonia as m benefit of Nevu YES NO YES soon as possible ...... YES NO Y E S Q

YES ? ? • Introduce legislation removing distinctions between men and women in the sexual offences section of the Crimes Act j o s e s ...... YES YES YES guaranteeing that women will not be penalised any more than u n d e r t h e c u r r e n t p r o v i s i o n s ...... N O P O L I C Y NO N O P O L I C Y Zealand, eg Y E S Q NO YES • Introduce legislation removing all distinction between heterosexual and homosexual acts under the Crimes A ct ...... N O P O L I C Y NO N O P O L I C Y .... \ YES NO YES less it can be Women’s Rights o c ia l a n d a t a ll \ • Does your party support affirmative action programmes for ehabilitated by women as a way of balancing the present secondary position Y E S Q NO YES of women in our society? ...... YES N O P O L I C Y N O P O L I C Y t e r ...... ? NO YES • ls your party prepared to repeal the present Contraception, YES NO ? S t e r i li s a t i o n a n d A b o r t i o n A c t ( C S & A A c t ) ? ...... REFERENDUM N O P O L I C Y N O P O L I C Y

;e zone in the • Does your party believe contraceptives and contraceptive Y E S Q YES YES advice should be frqe? ...... YES Y E S ? N O P O L I C Y

terials in the • ls your party prepared to endorse the implementation of YES YES YES human relations and development courses within school programmes? — YES YES ?

■ arm ed, and • ls your party prepared to amend the present Maternity Leave e d ic a l a n d a n d E m p l o y m e n t P r o t e c t i o n A c t t o b e a v a i l a b l e f o r o n e y e a r ? ...... Y E S NO N O ? YES NO YES • W ould your party be prepared to provide state and local Zealand’s Gross council subsidies to meet the full running costs of existing 0 .7 % NO YES a n d f u t u r e r a p e c r i s is c e n t r e s a n d w o m e n ’s r e f u g e s ? ...... Y E S YES N O P O L I C Y

YES NO Y E S Q • W ould your party be prepared to change S 128 of the Crimes Act so that a husband’s present privilege to rape his wife be abolished? ...... Y E S NO N O P O L I C Y the United and support • Does your party support paid retraining schemes for women YES YES YES returning to the workforce? ...... Y E S YES Y E S ?

i c a ...... X YES YES Y E S Q • Will your party review the present Equal Pay Act and take steps to make sure it is being enforced in all occupations; and o k t e a m s ...... YES NO NO that job reclassification is not being em ployed to avoid equal p a y i m p l e m e n t a t i o n ? ...... Y E S N O P O L I C Y ? and call for the YES YES YES • Does your party oppose the use of sex role stereotyping m a t e r ia l in a ll e d u c a t io n a l i n s t i t u t i o n s ? ...... Y E S YES Y E S ? NO NO ? PAGE 4 NZUSA GENERAL ELECTION GUIDE OCTOBER 1981 Energy Intensive Industries Vs Job Creation leaver statistics exceed those o f the males positions? Will you advocate this within but as we follow the age groups through it is your Party? Jobs C ost C ost/Jo bs noticeable that the female rate of 9. What steps will you advocate and/or your unemployment falls. This is probably a Marsden Point Refinery Expansion 200 500m $2.5m take to establish permanent full time labour product o f the system o f data collection Mobil Synthetic Petrol 250 750m $3m intensive (rather than capital intensive) rather than a true reflection of female Methanol Plant 85 150m $1.8m industries - both upstream and down­ Comalco (Third) 350 — — unemployment. Married women are unable stream? Second Aluminium Smelter 950 2100m $2.14m to collect the dole if their husbands are 10. Will people who undertake retraining Ammonia Urea Plant 100 90m $0.9m working. Registering at the Labour Depart­ Lick M e i schemes be assured o f fu ll time permanent Oamaru Cement Plant 120 . — — ment therefore becomes an exercise in employment upon completion? The S m e fu tility. There are also other constraints on working women eg lack of daycare facilities. 11. Will people employed under a job 1 S tiff Labi creation scheme be assured o f full time technology - its advantages and disad­ The dispropor­ • Maoris and Polynesians: permanent employment upon completion of Think Big vantages. tionate appearance of Maoris and other Hey mar their temporary employment? that sound The world's most expensive job • There should be a fully consultative, Polynesian groups in unemployment creation scheme? participatory approach to decision­ statistics is an indicator in other countries o f man, but li making, regarding the introduction o f the other oppressed minorities. Unfortunately people witl statistics on M aori and Polynesian “ Here is the comparative cost o f creating technology, especially in regard to more abou unemployment rates are the result o f guess­ a new job. In the fishing industry, the figure unions. Popular Misconception work rather than well founded research. people is b has been put at $40,000, for the meat Questions Figures released at the beginning o f 1981, Some popular beliefs about the causes of people out industry, $75,000 and for the large energy 1. At a point when an employer is estimated that between 12,000 and 15,000 unemployment are undeniably wrong and Tune-In Bi projects a staggering $1.3 m illion a jo b .” considering the possibility of introducing Maoris between the ages of 15 and 19 could indeed dangerous. Chief among these is the Daddy be- (Ian Shearer, Minister for the Environment.) ‘dole bludgers’ error - a belief based on the new technology will you and your Party try be unemployed. This represents almost half in on this ' “ It should be noted that the energy to ensure that s/he must thoroughly consult o f the M aori youth population. theory that we have unemployment because projects o f themselves are not intended to the majority of unemployed do not want to 'in', I reall) with the employees and the Union • Unskilled: A glance at the occupations o f categorical create large numbers o f jobs.” (Bill Birch, concerned? work. Such an ‘explanation’ neither squares Minister for Energy.) those who are unemployed reveals that the with the known facts about the attitudes and my little sc 2. W ill you and your Party work to ensure single largest category is that o f unskilled job seeking efforts o f the unemployed, nor Future Directions that no employee should lose his/her workers indoor and outdoor. Other 'out'. Y'kn with the fact that after many years of full don't snap The lack of growth in full time permanent position or suffers a decline in conditions, categories with high figures are transport employment there has been a sudden and music in a employment positions has already been earnings and/or status as a result o f the operators, farmers and agricultural dramatic escalation in the extent o f unem­ noted. More recent statistics reinforce this introduction of new technology? workers, clerks and bookkeepers, personal ployment. brotherhoc pessimism. It is part time employment, and other service workers. \See? however, where the increases have been • Regional Differences: Certain parts of the Anyway profound. In particular women workers are country are more vulnerable to the strictures mean any\ being pushed into the part time rather than Youth Rates o f unemployment than others. The hardest anyway th full time workforce. This reflects a process The Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon, said in hit is the Northland region (Whangarei) Of casualisation o f the workforce, typified a recent speech to the RSA Dominion where official statistics show 7.09% o f the Women in the stric by trends in the retail industry, which Conference on 8 June 1981: labour force unemployed. These figures A woman’s place is in the were origii involves loss of potential earning capacity. “The Government's job, and we are have to be looked at in conjunction with the house (of representatives) which whi In order to overcome the loss of earning doing our best, is to try and create job knowledge that while Invercargill and a cool 78 i capacity and rising unemployment the union Dunedin have the lowest unemployment In the 1976 census women comprised 33% opportunities, and not just for youth. We of the labour force but, according to the seductive movement is counterposing the strategy o f a do have a number of schemes going with figures the population in these cities is seductive, subject to northward drift. There is no National Youth Council, in 1979 they made reduced working week (35 hours) with no which you are familiar, but these are at use to spii loss o f pay. The Engineers and Drivers are best palliatives and the situation will not effective way of measuring internal up about 60% of the unemployed. Of the in the forefront of this campaign. migration but it undoubtedly has a total female labour force 26% are part time after all m correct itself until the country has compared with 5% for the total male labour recovered economically. ” significant effect on unemployment figures. but it did Questions force. r.p.m., an 1. With rising unemployment and an Despite this admission, members o f the There is a strong sexist tendency to blame, might like increasing expansion o f part time Government are still advocating such things in part, rising unemployment on the mittens or employment, what is the attitude of you and as youth rates as a solution to the unem­ increasing entry o f women into the labour your Party to a reduction of the full time ployment problem. Allowing young people Go Get ’Em force. Likewise there is a sexist demand that your hot I working week? only a proportion o f the adult wage directly Fear and flatulence on the married women should return to the home so meant to 2. If you support this perspective then counters one of the principles of democracy campaign trail males can take their jobs. In other or philoso would you ensure that no worker suffers a - “ equal pay for equal w ork” and there is words, women (especially married women) theft, alth In sum New Zealand’s method o f reduction in income? no guarantee that even one more job would are being used as the (or a) scapegoat for recording unemployed numbers is it's an ab< be created, should youth rates be introduced rising unemployment. 3. If you do not support positive answers to into more awards and agreements.______inadequate and out of touch with other the above two questions what steps would OECD countries (eg United States). The Aside from the above factors very little is you take to ensure an immediate absorption only counter-balance is the census but that is known about female unemployment. The of the unemployed into the full time only every five years and is quickly outdated only women who are counted in official OT workforce and no decline in income or Unemployment by the speed o f events. Furthermore the statistics as unemployed are those who are , earning capacity o f those people currently breakdown according to particular groups unemployed and seeking full time work and employed? — ______Everyone knows someone who (especially ethnic background) is who voluntarily register at the Labour is or will be unemployed inadequate. Department. These represent only a small ,,~rcentage o f the total number o f women Through the 1950s and 1960s and into the Labour is committed to a household who at any one time are looking for work or 1970s New Zealand sustained a condition o f survey (as in the United States and many New Technology who would like a job. full employment. From 1975 on the other OECD countries). However, it needs Probably the single most important factor situation has deteriorated. Unemployment to be tied down to specific details. National The effects o f the contraints and pressuring the job market is the so called has increased rapidly and dramatically and is slowly moving to this position but argues disabilities which women suffer are ‘new technology’ . shows no sign o f stopping. that it is too expensive and has to be seen in demonstrated by the overwhelming concen­ tration of working women in the The impact o f technology can be two­ It is widely recognised that the context of other priorities. secondary o f the labour market ie in unskilled, fold. On the one hand the implementation unemployment has serious personal sector Candid questions for candid dates non-career, temporary/casual, insecure, of micro-computer technology can be consequences for those out o f work and 1. Do you as an individual and your Party as part time, and thus, low paid jobs. In instrumental to sound economic growth and serious social and economic consequences a whole support the principle of a household contrast, men occupy most o f the positions improvement in the quality of life. On the for the country. There is a glaring lack of survey (organised in the same way as the in the primary sector o f the labour market other hand, however, for labour intensive data on the ‘real’ level o f unemployment. census) in order to get a more accurate which contains relatively secure, skilled industries and structurally weak industries Currently 47,596 people are registered with measure o f the total number o f unem­ career posts with better rewards and an increase in unemployment is highly the Department of Labour as unemployed ployed? prospects. The following statistic illustrates likely. while another 24,201 have been placed on this point: in 1976, the median annual income “ Go A special feature o f the Department of job creation schemes representing a total of 2. Do you as an individual and your Party as o f working women in New Zealand was only Labour journal, 71,797 people unable to obtain unsubsidised a whole support the immediate introduction Labour and Employment 60% that o f working men. G azette examined, based on overseas ordinary (public and/or private sector) o f a household survey to be organised on a studies, th^ possible effects o f micropro­ employment. This is however, not the regular monthly basis? (NB Currently the Taking into account all these specific cessors. It noted that some 100,000 jobs in complete picture. The number o f registered Department o f Labour collects and features o f women’s work and unemploy­ finance and banking may well disappear. If unemployed (the official figures) cannot be publishes its data on a monthly basis). ment (and earlier comments made above) it the potential for job creation by micro­ equated with the total number o f people 3. Would you as an individual and your is clear that the present system o f measuring processor technology is not fully exploited unemployed. The only incentive to register Party as a whole endeavour to ensure that unemployment in New Zealand is utterly there is likely to be large scale, long term with the Department of Labour is to such a survey would include comprehensive inadequate. We need a measure o f unem­ unemployment. establish eligibility for the Unemployment breakdowns to cover age, sex, ethnic ployment which can clearly distinguish between women’s domestic and workforce The economic achievements that the new Benefit paid out by the Department of background, regional distribution, roles: between the role o f housewife and the technology has enabled must be balanced Social Welfare. education bckground and employment experience with adequate computer facilities condition of being unemployed. The Census against the personal and social disadvant­ The official unemployment figures for prompt cross tabulations? question on employment status is unsatis­ ages. indicate an unemployment rate o f 3%-4% 4. Do you and your Party believe youth (and factory in this respect - it relies on the The new technology deskills occupations. of the labour force. However, Brian Easton respondent to ascribe a status to herself and school leavers) have a right to the As knowledge and skills are centralised into recently estimated that the actual unem­ she may thus choose to categorise herself as opportunity for a job? computers, traditional employment and ployment rate could be between 7 V2 °/o - ‘housewife’ or ‘unemployed’ , because these craft skills become redundant. 10% of the labour force - twice as high as 5. W ill your Party ensure that school leavers are not mutually exclusive statuses. It assumes that the New Zealand economy the official statistics. have guaranteed employment? If your Party Questions is expanding and creating new jobs - cannot give the assurance w ill you still “L something that is patently not true. In fact advocate it? 1. Do you believe that all married women, regardless o f the status o f their spouses, the growing technology will substantially 6. If there is such a guarantee but with alter many aspects o f the work place. Who is Unemployed? specified time tags, what steps will you and should be eligible for The Unemployment Librarians, freezing workers, proof-readers, There are certain groups who are dispro­ your Party take to ensure that young people Benefit? accountants, typists, cashiers, mechanics, portionately represented in the unemploy­ are not left on the scrap heap after the period 2. W ill you and/or your Party urge and assemblers, telephone operators, all have ment figures. has expired? support the establishment o f special training the potential to be displaced. • Youth: O f the 46,676 people unemployed 7. W ill you urge and your Party develop schemes for women in ‘male’ dominated occupations where there are already ample To oppose the new technology would be at the end o f A pril 1981, 29,500 were under programmes and counselling for unem­ employment opportunities? futile and counter productive, but it is 25 years old, ie. approximately two thirds of ployed youth designed to maintain self- necessary to make a careful, well thought those who are unemployed are under 25. confidence and self esteem? 3. W ill you and your Party actively oppose out approach to its introduction. • Female: Women (and particularly young 8. What im m ediate steps will your Party any suggestion that women should pot undertake full time permanent employment • There should be extensive public women) are more inclined to be in the take to create or initiate a rapid expansion in and/or return to the home? education on the implications of the unemployment figures. The female school the number of full time permanent lis within LLJ

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retraining Lick Me Under The Head >ermanent The Smegmatics er a job Stiff Label. full time pletion of Hey man, I mean, hey people, well that sounds a bit different from Hey f man, but like with us men, I mean us people with penes having to think more about the way we talk hey ption people is better, dig it? Crazy! Like causes of people out there in Happy Listening /rong and Tune-In Bug Land, your famed m hese is the Daddy be-Pop is gonna like vibe you WKÊÊ >ed on the in on this 'in' sound, and when I say ■ « * 1 it because - A at want to 'in', I really mean 'in'. That's a categorical alternative (contrast NOT % m i L a er squares | .i itudes and my little schnappskins opposite) to oyed, nor 'out'. Y'know, when I say 'out', like I irs of full l 4 1 don't snap the chords which bind i , idden and music in an international o f unem- % w, m i m * m ^mMĒĒBĒĒÊ& % \ brotherhood, I mean siblinghood. ■wMm ’ __ __ ' See? 4 " '' Anyway, well not really ANYway, I m I f l U i t mean anyway as in 'however', but , ■ m§ 1 - ■< anyway this album, though not album in the strictest sense, since albums ■ I M I W H i \e were originally like books of records, which whizzed and zapped around at ) a cool 78 r.p.m., which in its own irised 33% elucidate the statements, which can be the cause of great woe and ing to the seductive little way, well not really casts certain moral value-judgements spring forth from these orchestrated injustice, accurately, since they made seductive, it's a word I occasionally on the case of the mittens and that 'orchestrated' implies some form of 5d. O f the use to spice up these stories and sort of deliberation is not really fingers. I don't use the expression 5 part time after all musicians DO have feelings, befitting or relating conducively or 'orchestrated', well not really an plurality, and yet the words 'fingers' iaie labour but it did zip or zap at circa 78 otherwise to an arts critic report on expression, more of just a word, a are plural, although they are r.p.m., and it is an album, well you this said, that is written album revue. cute harmless word on its own, controlled by a single mind, however i to blame, might like to get your hot little The Smegmatics are like wow, you although it may not always be single does not imply any marital t on the mittens on it, but when I say to get know hip-dip, cracker bonzo. It has harmless, since it is a commonly state, although it most certainly does the labour known fact that all words in the NOT imply it since it is true, but :mand that your hot little mitten on it, it is pot touches of a semi-quasi-thingyish meant to infer any theory or practice whatsit, with you wrong (used loosely, that is, liberally, implies some form of unified state. lie home so The album is a load of shit. In other or philosophy of the abomination of know-thingy-ma-bob. I think that I that is, without specific connotation, E. Jack U. Laotian. :d women) theft, although I shouldn't really say elucidate myself, well not really that is unjudgementally) context or Critic Extraordinaire. pegoat for it's an abomination, because that elucidate myself, but hopefully phraseology or syntax, so to speak,

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Caught by R.U. rehearsing in his small flat in Pahia "The Masked Faceless" who has been setting Ak. music alight recently. No-one knows who this man is but he handles his guitar as if it was an extension of the lute. Seen at the Rumba Bar last week his large repertoire of semi-punk- jazz-rockabilly-country-upbeat-heavy metal-middle-of-the-road-elastic rock had the dance floor crowded. His first single "Bandaid Scratch" on the independent Splunge label is expected to be released early February 1985 and is sure to be a fitting following for no other singles. An L.P. is strongly rumoured for 1992 and this is assured to make "the masked faceless" an overnight star.

Centre left: Sid Vicious In an exclusive interview M rs this was the story that was left on coast of the Isle of Man it was found Fotheringham, Sid Vicious' the desk of the editor of a small that there was sufficient doubt over mother, told R.U. by a phone in our pretentious British music paper (we the identity of this particular cadaver. office of her dead son's demeanour. shall call it N .M .E .). He subsequently An order for exhumation was asked It was recently leaked to the public thought that it was hard to interview for by the court. Unfortunately that Sid Vicious may in fact still be the person involved and immediately M.G.C. (Malaysian Gymnastic Circus) alive and well and living in sunny got in touch with an editor of a large was out of town but when they Bognor Regis. According to sources illustrious N.Z. music paper (Ript Up). arrived the digging began. close to the source a K .G .B. agent Just before going to print we learnt from Bognor Regis may have taken that there were moves by the author The day was cold, overcast and the responsibility for the killing of Sid of "Notty goes to the sharks", Enid wet as the people in overalls began to Vicious' girlfriend (we shall call her Blighton, to have the grave of Sid dig away at the earth covering the Mary). Mary was stabbed in her Vicious exhumed. In a will written body of Sid Vicious. Three hours lonely N.Y. flat and Sid subsequently just posteria to his death M r Vicious later the sharp sound of a pick-axe died from an overdose in a lonely made a plea that if anybody wanted piercing skull shattered the afternoon N.Y. flat. his body in future his grave could air. And it was proved by his In the turgid political climate of the only be exhumed by members of the dentures and prickly hair roots that it U.K. the death of an anarchist Malaysian Gymnastic Circus. was no-one else but Mrs appeared to strengthen the hold of After a court case that was held in Fotheringham's son. Sid Vicious is monarchy and the K.G.B. stepped in. a secret district court just of the still dead. Long Live Rock'n'Roll. Zorro sings Sinatra

E.L.O. before going into the studio M antovani since her fiftieth birthday to put together their latest "B est and told R.U. "I was nervous but O f..." album, they were in New when I met Jeff I was able to relax Zealand searching for a new member, and relate perfectly with his geriatric with what they describe as a approach to hit material". "mature" (disco) sound now they "When I", A gatha continues "first were looking for a person that would recieved the phone-call informing me not make Jeff Lynne look as old as of my acceptance I was so elated I my mother. had a period". The quest for this string section has taken our shocking symphony Agatha was an emigrant to N.Z. the world over and it was in N.Z. that only six months ago it is great to see the perfect solution was found. our musicians making it in the world ISinclairsoundz Agatha has been a keen fan of of music.

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exchanges will be overloaded and probably be the most catastrophic All of a sudden, the ground was BEFORE DISASTER rescue, medical and other services )ulled from under his feet and a large disaster economically possible. will be gravely affected in their ack appeared barely a metre ahead If White Island were to erupt anew, STRIKES efforts. Auckland would receive only 8 Make sure everyone in the him. He hurriedly threw himself 3. Contact your neighbours - they jackwards, regained his balance, and minutes warning of a related tsunami, household knows where you keep the may need help. or seismic tidal wave. Tsunamis can 1) first aid kit and first aid book rned to run for the nearest 4. If you need help or can give help oorway. Buildings were collapsing travel at 1000 kmph and reach a 2) battery-powered radio - contact your nearest Warden Post. ie length of the street as the height of more than 35 m, and 3) torches, candles, matches 5. Sightseeing is forbidden - you rrifying shaking continued... become even more dangerous when 4) spare torch and radio batteries will only hinder essential work and they coincide with tide movements. 5) tinned and dried foods (enough traffic and endanger yourself. The gas spread slowly, insidiously, In May 1960 there was an earthquake for several days) 6. If you have to go outside wear hrough the city. The quiet warm in Chile. 16 hours later, 20 m waves 6) water-container to be filled warm clothes and sensible footwear. weather was no help to the citizens hit Okinawa, in Japan, causing 7) warm clothing (in case of rying to gather their more precious widespread damage. Since records sudden evacuation) If you have to evacuate: ortable belongings together before have been kept, 13 tsunamis have hit WHEN DISASTER 1. Turn off electricity, gas, central ley were evacuated... New Zealand. heating oil, lock the doors and This may all seem a terribly morbid OCCURS windows. Put out all fires. The heavy rain was nearly and pessimistic view of things and Follow these simple rules: 2. Take with you food, warm lorizontal as the winds whipped the they do seem unlikely. But what was 1. Listen and remain tuned to the clothing, personal and family white horses on the harbour into a it everyone said before the Napier nearest operating radio station documents, any essential medicines oaming sweat. Roofing iron spun and Inangahua earthquakes, the serving your community and carry and infant care and personal toiletry razily into the air and scythed Wahine storm, the Abbotsford slips, out any instructions given. (A items. hrough unshuttered windows, the Gisborne tsunami... "It'll never transistor radio may be necessary - 3. Carry some means of ending long dangerous shards of happen here"? identification. lass towards cowering inhabitants... power may be off). 4. Follow all instructions and do In the day to day life of a 2. Do not use your telephone for anything less than for saving lives. If not attempt to return until The children were playing on the community many situations arise this warning is ignored telephone authoritative advice is received. ugby field when the smoke became which are dealt with by local visible. Their parents were cheering authority, police, fire, and ambulance hem on as it billowed ever more emergency services. It is only when a hickly over the strangely dark city. situation arises that is clearly beyond "he students were hard at work in the capacity of these services, acting he library, swotting (!) for finals, alone, that there is a need for extra when the first cracks in the roads emergency relief measures. Civil )egan to widen and fill with an Defence is the control and orangey boiling substance... co-ordination of these emergency ...The sound of Civil Defence measures. Rather than being some 2. Tape up large picture windows. sirens split the abnormal calm. special separate service, it is an In the event of: organisation to make the maximum When it hits: EARTHQUAKE 1. Stay indoors and shelter in Impossible? Pure fantasy? These use of existing services, voluntary IF INDOORS strongest part of house events could take place here in organisations, government 1. Stay inside. If you run outside 2. If roof begins to lift, open Auckland next month, tomorrow, departments, ad hoc services, and if you may be hit by falling debris. necessary, trained voluntary groups windows on sheltered side. 3erhaps within the next ten minutes 2. Take cover under a door frame, and individuals, to overcome the as you read this article. Unlikely as table, desk or bed. VOLCANIC ACTIVITY they may seem, Auckland's Civil effects of a major disaster. 3. Keep away from chimneys and 1. Find shelter but not in a building The purpose is to reduce loss of Defence controllers have had to plan windows. with a low pitched roof if heavy ash for all these phenomena and more - life, injury, and personal distress to Afterwards if damage to the house is falling. Avoid basements and they are considered very real threats. the people of the affected is suspected - confined spaces where gas may Coromandel's fault-line is the most community. 1. Put out domestic fires and accumulate. The only practical way of doing likely cause of an earthquake in heaters. 2. If you have to move in an ash Auckland. If the epicentre was within this is to ensure that as many 2. Turn off electricity, gas and shower, wear substantial covering 150 km of the city there would almost individuals as possible know how to water at mains, and central heating over your head and body. Breathe prepare for an emergency and how to certainly be some damage and loss of oil. through a handkerchief, carry a torch life. An earthquake is potentially the act in a crisis. Any organised group 3. Conserve water in tanks, even in daytime, move quickly to a can volunteer for training, without most destructive natural disaster cisterns, etc. ridgeline if in the open. Avoid possible. having to fit into a rigidly organised 4. Do not use a match or open shoreline of large lakes. Not all disasters are natural though. Civil Defence service. Because they flame if leaking gas is suspected. Man has built an ammunition depot already have their own authority and Leave the house after turning gas off FLOOD If you are likely to be affected: at Kauri Pt. in Birkenhead, there communication structure, these at the mains. Open all doors and groups can readily adapt to many 1. Act on any warning and could be a toxic chemical spillage, windows. instructions given over the radio or b an explosion near the Freemans Bay Civil Defence tasks. 5. Leave fridge and freezer shut as civil defence officials or the Police. oil tanks, or an LPG accident like the University groups could be involved much as possible if power is off. 2. Disconnect electrical appliances one in Canada a few years ago, with providing food, clothing and 6. Free dogs and cats. 3. Move all valuable personal and which caused the evacuation of shelter for the homeless, helping IF OUTDOORS household goods, food, clothing, etc 250,000 people for 2 weeks. We've injured, operating radio-telephone 1. Keep clear of buildings, high out of likely reach of water as these had an F-lll in the Hauraki Gulf and a networks, carrying dispatches, or walls, electric power lines and 4. Remove weed killers, Friendship in the Manukau Harbour - acting as mobile teams to survey dangling electric wiring. insecticides etc. out of likely reach o why not a Jumbo on some city damage and carry out rescue 2. If caught beside a big building, water as these could cause suburb? In peacetime a nuclear operations. seek refuge under archways, dangerous pollution. hazard would only arise from an Anyone can help in a disaster if door-ways which offer protection accident on a nuclear powered vessel they know what to do before they from falling debris. TSUNAMI (SEISMIC SEA WAV or from returning space debris. have to do it. If any group would like 3. Do not re-enter badly damaged If you are in a low lying area next Luckily Skylab hit the Australian to be trained to cope in an large buildings. emergency or at least find out a bit to the sea and you hear a warning outback. 4. If driving, stop off the road and signal - five or more siren or whistle We would only need slightly faster more about Civil Defence, they can remain in your car until you can blast^each lasting 4 to 6 seconds, o winds than have accompanied recent phone assess damage around you. are warned by the Police or your loca storms to cause damage and death. Auckland's Civil Defence officers: civil defence organisation by any Storms may change direction, speed M r I. MacDowel 794-420 MAN-MADE DISASTER other means: or 1. Follow any instructions over or intensity within a few hours. 1. Go to higher ground or at leas There is documental evidence that M r G.H. Michael 792-020 radio 600 yards (about 550 metres) inland Rangitoto was active as recently as No, those who volunteer aren't 2. Co-operate with evacuation team 2. Keep away from streams flowin 1820, but new vents are more likely being goody-goodies or showoffs - STORMFORCE WIND OR into the sea. to erupt, in some hitherto they want to have a lot of fun, CYCLONE 3. If the sea recedes, do not go unsuspected area. There would master a new skill or three, and know Before: down to the beach - the water can probably be some time of warning, what to do to help all the 1. Secure any loose boards, return rapidly. but evacuation would be necessary as non-volunteers in an emergency. But corrugated iron, rubbish tins or any 4. If time permits, act as for a gas and smoke could be lethal. A if no-one volunteers there won't be other potential missile* flood. volcanic eruption in Auckland would anyone to help us, will there?

CRACCUM October 13 1981 19 \

THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (INC) A N N l

4. SOCI> This is an abridged report on the Association's activities for 1981. / have During the May holidays a 'Coup' was staged by the ruling elite. This divided the areas of activity into the following headings: was comprised of the Triumvirate - David Kirkpatrick, Darryl Carey and Tom Orientati Basset, ably assisted by the puppet President - Robert Young and the go to Davi 1. Political notorious Graham D.B. Technical < 2. Educational During the second term A.M.S.S.A. and A.M .S.A. united their two Capping 3. Social organisations. We received news of Bobby Sandi death in Ireland and from and Phil IV 4. Sporting that date a series of 'H' Block articles appeared in CRACCUM, and there events whi 5. A dm inistration has been much controversy over the ten deaths that have resulted from On the 5 the Irish prisoners*stand against British rule in Ireland. increasing 1. POLITICAL The visit of Philomena Horsley was closely followed by a visit from dances in The members of the student Executive Committee for 1981 were: Donald Woods and his speech in the Recreation Centre was very well away at th President Wayne McIntosh attended. We also had a visit from Jonathan Hunt to talk about Labour caused ou Administrative Vice-President Richard Foster Party policy but this tended to fade into obscurity once the Ben Couch Controller Education Vice-President Heather Worth interview on Newsmakers hit our screens. We also received a visit by the Clubs and Treasurer Jonathan Blakeman American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig. for a mucl S.R.C. Chair Peter Shearer Close to the Maori Language Week on July 27-August 1, the Springboks this conte; International Affairs Officer Shale Chambers arrived. An Executive meeting in the Cafeteria to consider a petition from during the National Affairs Officer Sara Noble Mr Brett Buckmaster was held. Some of this meeting was recorded by the origins Sports Clul s Representative Robert Young television and a lot of media coverage resulted. resignatior Societies Representative Shila Bhashkar Prince Charles was married around this time. The Winter General replaceme Cultural Affairs Officer Edwin Simperingham Meeting put the Association fee up by $6 to $37, after a rather boisterous Kevin Bor Welfare Officer Tony Reynolds SRC meeting at which Mr Buckmaster failed to call a referendum. Education Overseas Students' Officer Kenneth Wong (1st term) Meanwhile the horror of the 1981 Springbok Tour dragged on and campus w Ah Tea Toong (end of 1st term on) analogies were made with, for example, Carl Stead's "Smith's Dream" major dan Womens Rights Officer Jenny Renals (to June) which was made into the film "Sleeping Dogs". During term 3 a new From Ji Sue Wynd (from June onwards) political campaign was launched to replace Education Fightback Students success ai Publications Officer John Broad in the Elections. It is hoped that students will be able to ask searching Bob Me Environmental Affairs Officer Michael Baker questions of candidates before the November 28th General Elections. Secretary Bob Lack We also faced an increase of police presence on campus and this is in 1981 was a particularly politically active year for members of the direct contravention to the agreement reached between the Assistant 5. ADM Executive for many reasons, and it is to Commissioner of Police for the Auckland District - Ted Trappitt and the credit of the current Executive members that so many of them were Registrar of :he University - Warwick Nicoll and myself as President of the During re-elected either to their current or to other positions on Executive for 1982. Students' Association. was set u The composition of the Executive for 1982 is: show qui1 President David Kirkpatrick 2. EDUCATION needed tc Administrative Vice-President Tom Bassett employed Education Vice-President Darryl Carey includes t Treasurer Jonathan Blakeman The year began with a continuation of the 1980 Education Fightback Caterin S.R.C. Chair Richard Foster Campaign. There were many areas for debate in the education field. sharply in International Affairs Officer Paul Sutcliffe Hardship applications seem to arrive back with an arbitrary 35% completely for Cateri National .Affairs Officer Trish Mullins turned down; in other words students received nothing. Many STB and | face of tf Womens Rights Officer Karen Bos Hardship articles appeared in CRACCUM the most important of these was 1 end of th in the 5th issue of CRACCUM showing the gross anomalies in the current Publications Officer John Broad | There \ system. We received from Don McKinnon, an assurance that as Chair of Societies Representative Shila Bhashkar ’ most of t the National Government! Caucus committee on Education he would Environmental Affairs Officer Michael Baker Travel Se be trying to implement the Vice-Chancellorsfsubmissions on a new three Sports Club Representative Robert Young carried oi tiered bursary system which would be implemented as part of government Cultural Affairs Officer Sara Noble left early policy. As events were to show in the budget, which increased the bursary Welfare Officer Sue Wynd also life n Secretary Bob Lack by $4 to $27 per week the money that was needed to make the Vice-Chancellors *committees6submissions work was not provided. April 8th The Sti Early in the first term the Clerical Workers Union including the Clerical was National Education Action Day and we saw a particularly successful since 197: workers in the Association went on strike in sympathy with the striking rally in Albert Park organised by the Education Vice-President. The March 1990's. Q workers at Air New Zealand. I was forced to use the delegated Executive up Queen Street on that day was also a large success. Princes S authority vested in me as President to rescind a motion paying members of During the 2nd term, as part of the sit-in protest at the Education Dept, will have the Association who had gone on strike. Almost all of the workers made up Heather Worth and two other students were arrested. Heather, as A Studer their lost time. Also around this time there was the Tania Harris March. This Education Vice-President spent the night in the Auckland Central cells and set up to was taken, I think, as an "after Air New Zealand strike" or Anti-Strike received much media coverage for her stand. We had calls by the am pleas* March and there was a lot of strong feeling early in the first term during Vice-Chancellor which were printed in the Herald and repeated in the Maurice i Orientation about Unions and the role of the Students' Association with University of Auckland Council meetings for an increase in the bursary and the state regard to the strike. these were designed, I believe, to support the Vice-Chancellors?call for a Halfwa I hosted a Forum with John Minto on Racism and The Tour and at that new improved bursary system as outlined in their submission to the compute stage of the year, which was during Orientation, we had very little student Minister of Education. substanti response. Things were to change dramatically as the year progressed. New Relations with N.Z.U.S.A. were particularly good throughout 1981 with a as the Ui Zealand Insurance and South British Insurance joined forces and NZI was excellent President in the person of Deryck Shaw leading this organisation. year. Jol soon to sell its South African interests. Coupled with the amendments to As a member of National Executive I was pleased to see that the current main are the Trespass Amendment Act very few students turned up to the first Education and Welfare Vice-President, Brian Small, was elected to the meetings statutory meeting of the restructured organisation. position of President for 1962. This will ensure strong representation on and was Quite clearly Sexism and Sexual Harrassment on university Campuses Educational matters at the National level. were pre played an important part in determining AUSA's policy. This was an area Back home the Deans'Committee initiated a move to abolish terms. This \ thanks t< that was highlighted by the visit of Philomena Horsley from Australia. There can only be seen as an advance as terms were initially used when many Conclu was a referendum on Abortion on the 7th and 8th of April and there were students were examined and marked overseas. The Students*Association many articles in CRACCUM from students who were quite concerned about also presented a draft for rationalising student representation on University There the abortion debate. The results of the referendum on abortion were - the committees, especially in the Senate and Senate committees which directly Smelter first motion which called on "AUSA to affirm its support for struggle to concerns the educational standards and requirements of the University. will be a repeal all abortion laws as a vital step towards obtaining the rights of staff anc women to control their reproductive lives and believes abortion should be 3. SPORTING throughr readily available in publically financed clinics" was lost. While 864 people with son voted for it 885 people voted against it. The 3rd and 4th resolutions in the At the Easter Tournament held in Otago Auckland competed but did not large ha> referendum were in fact won. These stated that AUSA should reject the win the Tournament. We also competed quite creditably at Winter that the Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion Act and that AUSA and Womens Tournament at Victoria University in Wellington. From these and other Through Rights Action Committee in conjunction with other interested groups endeavours we awarded Blues which are the University's sporting awards the stud* continue their campaign against this legislation; that AUSA and WRAC The Sports hep - Robert Young - was re-elected for a further term and of CRAC offer their full support to REPEAL and SOS and the Abortion Law Reform this will be important in the light of the developments with N.Z.U.S.U. One also a di Association of New Zealand and that AUSA supports further moves is thay they are adding Lincoln College as a Tournament Host and secondly the Stop towards the establishment of public clinics in N.Z. to at least allow present they wish to employ a full-time administration officer. In my view the documei legally eligible women to gain abortion rapidly. extension of activities, administrative continuity to N.Z.U.S.U. is vital only to 1 The closeness of the voting throughout the four resolutions showed that especially when one considers that we are now entering the stage of Affairs C there was strong feeling on this issue as well as another issue which was to sponsored tournaments such as the N.N.Z. Sponsorship of Victoria's National completely overshadow all other activity for a large part of the year. Winter Tournament and the financial control necessary for this scale of thanks t The $1,500 fee remained in 1981 for overseas students and Kenneth operation will require additional administration in the future. carried c Wong, Overseas Students Officer#was forced to resign and in fact soon « areas of returned home. In reply to a letter I had sent to him Mr Merv Wellington COMPUTER SCIENCE SOCCER the Education Minister, acknowledged that entrance of overseas students MATCH SCORE to N.Z. Universities was in fact part of our overseas aid programme. Students: 15, Staff: 8 . Power to students!

20 C R A C C U M O ctober 13 1981 THE WINNERS: — A N N U A L REPORT 1981 (In terim ) D .W .'s 1st Prize ('/2 box chocolate fish) - Allan Blackwell (15 errors out of DAZZLING 248 clues) 2nd Prize (1/4 box chocolate fish) - Craig McCullough (19 errors out of 4. SOCIAL PUZZLE PAGE 248 dues) ANSWERS TO PUZZLES: Orientation for 1981 was both a financial and social success. My thanks CROSSWORD: boobs, ie a boo-boo with where 34 began. I accepted Across: 1. Good King Wenceslas; 8. Eucalyptus tree; 11. 'perceptible' for 42 and 'refurnishable' for 50.) go to David Benson and Kevin Hague as Co-Controllers, Jenny Puller as Aden; 13. It; 15. Under their guidance; 16. Al; 17. I.L.O. (Int. THE INCURABLE N.Z. MALADY = STUNG Technical Controller and to Tony Reynolds as Alcohol Controller. Labour Org.); 19. Strand; 21. Kirk; 22. Le; 23. Can t see; 25. Pu; 28. At; 29. Tarnished ego; 33. To the limit; 35. Wizard of BY THE BEEHIVE. Capping this year faced some problems. The Co-Controllers, Ivan Sowry Oz; 37. Armed invader; 39. Me; 40. Rt; 41. Redrain; 43. Ta; and Phil Mayo and Craig Halley attempted an ambitious programme of 45. Pleb; 46. Hoyden; 47. Lei; 48. Id; 51. Mutual masturbation; 53. El; 54. Aver; 55. Steadfast alibi; 56. The Feast of Stephen. WORD POWER: events which I am sure was enjoyed by many students. Down: 1. Greenwich Mean Time; 2. Once upon a time; 3. 1. Banana, anagram, parallax...; Recede, defended, On the Social side we have faced great difficulty in accommodating the Nephrite; 4. No third pize; 5. Energy; 6. Sad sack; 7. Conical; perverse...; Illicit, picnicing, misgiving...; Usufruct, cumulus, 9. Lido; 10. Ugh; 12. Lilth; 14. Telecommunications; 18. La; urubu, urucu; Syzygy. increasing number of students and outside members of the public for 19. Seth; 20. Antiwar; 24. Sated; 26. Untardy; 27. New 2. Crwth = 6-stringed violin, now called a crowd, the plural Zealandish; 30. Amid the tears; 31. Sod; 32. Effed; 34. Eon; of Crwd. dances in the Cafe. This has resulted in hundreds of people being turned 36. Omen; 38. Ideals; 41. Relapses; 42. I.e.; 44. Adulate; 45. 3. Strengths (+ straights [+ throughedl). away at the door and when the situation arises there is a lot of damage Prudent; 49. Castle; 50. Pica; 52. Ref. 4. Raze (not 'raize'), raise; I also allowed mien and mean, which is partially correct, 'though not strictly so. caused outside of functions. The Association hopes to employ a Social WORD ARITHMETIC: (other methods are 5. Untie(-d), unite(-d). 6. Snowing, sowing, swing, wing, win, in, I; Patters, patter, Controller to further co-ordinate the Social activities of campus for the possible): Z is zero. 1) I — I = G, G -G = G: G = Z; Ox LARGE = LARGE: 0 = 1; if pater, pate, pat, at a; Plaster, paster, paste, past, p«.t, at, a; Clubs and Societies and for other activities but quite clearly there is a need Z - E = H, 1 must be carried, R - 1 = 1, but also l-R = R (and others). 7. Reviver, deified (Redivider at 9 letters is rather cute, but is for a much larger venue in the order of 4,000 or more people on campus. In (2R = I): R = 9 Ef 1=8; of the remaining 2 to 7, Ex E = H, so if E = 2, H = 4, or if E = 4, H = 6, but since E + H = 10, the latter is not Oxonially included; notwithstanding that, I did not mark it this context the Recreation Centre's public hall licence was also revoked true: E = 4, H = 6; 9 + 6 = N, N = 6; L + L+1=5, L = 2; A = 7; wrong.) 8. Coversationalist (-ism), conservationalist (-ism). during the year and the Auckland City Council's reason for this was that D = 3. ANSWER: Goldenhair. 2) W - U = W, U = Z; W x K = Z, W = 5 or K = 5, but since 9. Abstemiously, facetiously, (abstemiously is possible, the original public hall licence was issued by mistake. We also saw the E x K = K, W is even, E is odd, K = 5; if R - O = Z, and 'though rare; apreviously does not exist - yeti) 10. Ailurophobia, myco-/mucopobia, elephantomania Z -5 = R, R = 4, 0 = 3; 5 + 4 = E, E = 9; 4-3=N , N = 1; resignation of the Artistic Director in the Theatre. Ros Refoy-Butler and a 9 + 3 = W, W = 2; 2 + 31 + 1 carried) = A, A = 6; L = 8; B = 7. (accept elephantiasis), helminthophobia, manteiaphobia replacement should be working but not until February of next year. The ANSWER: Unworkable. (portentophobia is a no-no), plouto-/plutomania (cupidity is 3) T x T = T, T = 1, 5 or 6, but Cx 1 = 0 not C, T is not 1, if covetousness in general, so is not correct), chio(-no-)phobia Kevin Borich Dance early in the year lost money as did the second T = 5, then E x Tmust = T or another letter which is Z, yet (nixophobia is bastard Latin prefix, Greek suffix, yet is Education Fightback Dance. However, the majority of social functions on C x T = still another letter, so T is not 5, T = 6; A - 1 = C, and becoming common so I marked it correctHpron. kee'o/kee C -1 = E: ECA, 6 + 6 = E, E = 2,C = 3, and A = 4; 0 + 0 = 6, on'o), pneuma(-to-(phobia (no) bromidri(-so-)phobia is not the campus were both a social and financial success. This extended to many 0 = 8; 3 into 3888 = 1296 = RENT, R = 1 and N = 9; 8 + 2= P, fear of breaths, it's the fear of smelly sweat), naphthaphobia P = Z; 8 -l = Z, 1 = 7; U=5. ANSWER: Precaution. (M.O.W. is a very accurate description), satyromania, major dances during the third term. xenophobia, proctomania (sorry, 'Daryl' is not the abstract From June 11th to 20th a Women's Festival was held which again was a OVERLAP: noun, it’s the agent; if the guy who put sodomophilia would 1. Homespun; 2. Uniform; 3. Formidable; 4. Blemish; 5. like to see me, I can show you the technical differences), success and it is hoped to continue such a programme next year. Mishap; 6. Perennial; 7. Alkali; 8. Lilliput; 9. Uttermost; 10. dipsomania. Bob Marley (aged 36) died. Osteopath; 11. Thesis; 12. Sustain; 13. Incognito; 14. To and 11. FILE (Daydream, dream is anagrammed to Armed, fro; 15. Rodomontade; 16. Devious; 17. Sampan; 18. Dog's life, life to file); CAR (Max Factor, factor runs an Pandemonium; 19. Umpteenth; 20. Throttle; 21. Leonine; 22. estate, Screwdriver, driver runs a car); ADAM (Bookmark, Ninety Mile Beach; 23. Chloroform; 24. Formica; 25. Candy; Mark married to Anne, New Year's Eve, Eve married!?) to 26. Dynamo; 27. Monopoly; 28. Olympic; 29. Piccolo; 30. Adam); VISION (Omnibus is to Omnipresent, as Telephone is 5. A D M IN ISTR A TIO N Loudness; 31. Sombre; 32. Breath; 33. Haste; 34. Telepathic; to Television); ANTHELMINTHIC (Treestump, stump is 35. Cherub; 36. Rubber Stamp; 37. Ampere; 38. Reunite; 39. corrected by a Prosthetic, Bookworm, Worm is corrected by a Ten year; 40. Arrogant; 41. Antipope; 42. Perceivable; 43. Anthelminthic). During the latter part of the year an Administrative Review Committee Lemonade; 44. Degrade; 45. Dearest; 46. Stockade; 47. 12. ACERST is the largest, 'though not the only: acters, carets, caster, caters, cartes, crates, reacts, recast, traces was set up to look at the Association administration. The results of that Desire; 48. Replica; 49. Calibre; 50. Replenishable; 5l. Legality; 52. Tyrannized; 53. Distich (NO romanticide is not the answer (EIPRST has 11: esprit, presit, priest, repits, respit, retips, show quite clearly that the current administrative and managerial set up to 15. I accepted all mistakes around 34 since I made two ripest, spiter, sprite, stripe, tripes). needed to be revised. A Disabled Students' Resource Officer will be employed in 1982 to aid the 40 or so disabled students on campus and this includes the permanently and temporarily disabled students. Catering faced a difficult period with rising costs of purchases as well as sharply increasing labour costs and it has been a particularly difficult time for Catering in terms of maintaining a reasonable choice to students. In the face of this the Functions part of catering appeared to do well towards the end of the year after a slow start in the early part of the year. There were major problems with the Student Travel Bureau. Thankfully most of these appear to be sorted out now and a new company - Student Travel Services will be operating and maintaining most of the new services carried out by STB. Sharon Alexander, who worked in the travel service, left early in the first term and received not only AUSA life membership but also life membership of N.Z.U.S.A. for her services to students. The Student Union Development Review Committee has for the first time since 1972 looked at the future development of the University into the 1990's. Quite clearly the projections for 1990 of 15,000 students on the Princes St site means that the catering and Union/Common Room facilities will have to be expanded. A Student Community Service Programme Co-Ordinating Committee was set up to improve the liason with the Labour Dept for this summer and I am pleased to report that our relations with the Labour Dept through Maurice Cervin and Frank Keaton are far better than they were last year and the state of organisation of the Labour Dept is also much improved. Halfway through the year the Association decided to purchase its own computer facility and the projected savings of this purchase will be substantial over the next few years. Harold Phillips joined the Association as the Union Manager, standing in for Jay Clark who went on leave for a year. John Bates replaced Chris Gosling as the Resource Officer whose main areas of activity are in the fields of policy as set down by general meetings. The receptionist, Fiona Cameron, left half way through the year and was replaced by Felicity Hope. For the first time the annual accounts j were presented to the Winter General Meeting in the first term and my thanks to Graham Bowers for making this possible. | I ■! Conclusion VOTE There were many other areas of student/ectivity such as the Aramoana I j Smelter Debate. These will be dealt with in detail by the full report which will be available for student distribution later this year. My thanks to the ANDERSEN staff and especially to The Secretary, Bob Lack, for his hard work FOR throughout the year and to the Executive Committee who have been faced with sometimes intolerable demands by students. The Catering staff by and S ' large have performed extremely well and it is a credit to the Association TAMAKI that the Functions side of catering has grown to such a large extent. Throughout the year we have seen increased professionalism in many areas of Don't change the Government, just get rid of the the students Association activities, not the least of which is the production Prime Minister! of CRACCUM, which has not only shown a versatility of presentation but Give Ben Couch a chance of promotion, piss Mike also a distinct style with regard to content. I have not dealt at length with Minogue off no end, and show Bill Rowling that the Stop the Tour activity because I believe this has been fully documented throughout the year. However, my thanks in this area go not Socialists can come out. only to the National Affairs Officer - Sara Noble and the International Swing to the SUP! Give your vote to the Revolution! Affairs Officer - Shale Chambers, but also to S.R.C. Chair (and 1980 Vote Andersen for an end to porcine tyranny and National Affairs Officer)- Peter Shearer, for all their hard work and my thanks to the other members of the Executive who have to a large extent farmyard politics! Don't bring home the bacon! carried out their functions with, at times, very little support from other (Other revolutionary slogans available on request) areas of the Association. W.K.D. MclNTOSH This political advertisement was not paid for by anybody. PRESIDENT 1981. What more can you expect from Communists? GRAGGUtyl Octpfcer 1 3 1981 a rts

The Postman Always Rings Twice sex scenes are violent. Lange is Century Theatre suitably seductive with her hair Running time: Too Long hanging over her face yet not quite After Jack Nicholson's superior messily enough to be credible. performance in 'One Flew Over The Nicholson acts sparingly, the script Cuckoo's Nest' I was interested in leaving him almost speechless. The viewing The Postman Always Rings plot thins to ridiculous lengths as it Twice, his latest. Arriving five thickens with the murder of Lange's minutes late at the Century picture husband. The rest is laughable. theatre is suicidal. One finds oneself The title to this film, with its lost in the formidable blackness of obvious sexual innuendos, seems this slimy little fleapit. After groping almost sensational. Jack Nicholson's around in the dark for a few minutes talent is wasted in a movie that is full I was ready to watch a rather of Hollywood's all too typically disappointing film. undeveloped emotions. Once more Jack Nicholson plays the rather the Americans replace their unfulfilling role of a scoundrel at a inadequacy at being unable to portray loose end. Employed by a Greek real feelings with shock treatment. garage owner during the depression The Postman Always Rings Twice years, Nicholson takes an immediate is full of brutal overtones, violence interest to the fat Greek's wife. As and sex and it emerges from its soon as the unknowing husband unbelievable plot and script quite disappears off to town one day, directionless. As a film that proudly Nicholson and Jessica Lange spouts passion and sex as its core, succumb to the burning passion that The Postman Always Rings Twice is exists between them. Passion, a terrible anti-climax. advertised as the film's forte, is its ultimate downfall. For there is no basis for the vigorous couple's passion. Their love is as empty as the Stephen McGlashan

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Every publication in a continental sandwich advertising for radius of the Corporate warehouse performances. Y es has been taking a different "angle" Darien was also a member of the We are on Campus and publishing stories on Darien Living Theatre Troupe which was Takle. In "Broadway" language based at the Old Arts Centre. Living Darien leapt into stardom with a Theatre did a lot of campus ASK ABOUT OUR booked out season of "Piaf" earlier performances as well as touring EQUATION ACCOUNT this year. beach resorts and the like. Pam Gem's play of the street With prompting from Elam (for the * FREE CHEQUE ACCOUNT queen of the chanson was the right reasons) Darien attended the answer to a life-long dream. One of N.Z. Drama School going straight * FREE AUTOMATIC the projects that has been close to into the Wairarapa as a shearers PAYMENTS Darien's heart was her own show of cook. Piaf but Pam Gem's play became 1973 it was back to these hallowed * UP TO $300 available. halls and hollowed roads for her final INTEREST-FREE Darien is a product of Ak. year of Elam. It was eventually on to BURSARY OVERDRAFT University partaking in the almost the Mercury and now Piaf for the legendary first year B.A. units. In an second time. equally predictable fashion all this For Darien Takle there are definite proved not enough and down to the parallels between her life and Piafs. hallowed halls of opossum urine This return season is a rare Discuss it Darien went. According to reliable opportunity to see a seasoned actress with the sources Darien Takle in this same with energy and enthusiasm to spare. year designed the costumes and set, Manager and said two words in the first to see if Summer Shakespeare production. you qualify After taming the Shrew and lots of Dada-ish lunchtime theatre Darien W MERCURY THEATRE FRANCE ST. NEWTON- decided study of the literary kind was not for her. For four yrs in the Fine Arts school called Elam Darien created Canvas sculptures. However never did drama take a MANAGER — JOHN ROBERTS p h . 33-924 backward seat. As well as the "Elam Magic Show" which featured anything from an entrance fee of one Auckland Savings Bank leaf to moldy oranges. The ukelele Mon & Thurs — 6.30pm. Tues, Wed. Fri. Sat — 8.15 BOOKINGS: Phone 33-869 duo that is in fact, I am assured, still ^ fp trOsteebank in existence and was used for

22 CRACCUM October 13 1981 a rts The Maori in European Art Earle and Frances Hodgkins. Lesser Leonard Bell figures are not ignored. The author Reed examines psychological aspects connected with paintings and refers The subtitle reads: 'a survey of the to studies of comely Maori girls representation of the Maori by where the chief protagonist is never European artists from the time of painted - the spectator, white and Captain Cook to the present day.' male to whom the work is really The numerous illustrations addressed. predominate in this work and are There are chapters on early suitably chosen. The accompanying European contact, history and text is concise but perceptive, sure to mythology, French artists and the enlighten the student and satisfy the portrait; there is a glance at Russell scholar. The origins of Clark, Dennis Turner, McIntyre and Maori-European art can be traced as Woollaston. The bibliography far back as Isaac Gilseman who sailed includes some exhibition catalogues. with Tasman and Parkinson, Hodges Author Leonard Bell is a senior and Webber who accompanied Cook. lecturer in the Art History department The work of well known artists is of the University of Auckland penetratingly assessed; George Angus, Goldie, Lindauer, Wright, Jim Burns

BOB DYLAN With Ron Wood and Ringo Starr guesting on Heart Of Mine plus SHOT OF LOVE Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers elsewhere, the album sets high ST Uf Like SLOW TRAIN, SHOT OF standards of muscianship throughout, even though the emphasis is on the LOVE is raw, rough hewn apocalyptic (/) rock drenched in the more opaque passion rather than the performance. songwriting he is famous for, rather Bob's arrangements are simple but than the unsubtle cliches and jargon effective, ragged but spontaneous 9* that limited the effectiveness of and at times deliberately minimal so iV SAVED. as to leave the listener to fill out the He now seems more comfortable in inherent harmonies (Lenny Bruce). his new lifestyle and this self The strong melodies of In The assurance is reflected in the less overt Summertime and Every Grain of Sand O references to his faith in standout provide a sufficient counterpoint to songs like Lenny Bruce, already the aggressive rock of Trouble, quoted by one critic as "steering Property of Jesus and the title track. clear of Dylan's faith altogether." To the critic s Bob sings, "he's the (D Maybe. However I prefer to think property of Jesus, resilient to the that particular song simply uses the bone, you got something better, You Left to right: Errol Cross, Accountant, BNZ; Andrew Campbell and David Faulls Lenny Bruce story to illustrate got a heart of stone." Questions Catherine Croucher, prizewinners; Noel Austin, Manager, BNZ. Someone else who "didn't play it by anyone? Craccum thanks the BNZ for their sponsorship, Dr Gary Boire for judging the entries and of course all those keen writers who submitted the rules...showed up the wise men stories. of his day to be nothing more than Jason Kemp fools". SHERCURYTHEm RE I f FRANCE ST. NEWTON SECOND NEW ZEALAND PLAYWRIGHTS4 WORKSHOP 10-16 May 1982 Director: Mervyn Thompson Georges. 7) Feydeau! ML m PLAYSCRIPTS ARE INVITED FOR WORKSHOP SICK as a PARROT E xtended - O ctob er 17 Approximately six plays (preferably full length) w ill be selected for 161 Richmond, Ponsonby. # “ A funny French farce” workshop treatment by professional directors and actors. Writers of all (Cnr Richmond & Lincoln) _* scripts selected will have their expenses paid by Playmarket to attend We want to buy literature Mon & Thurs 6.30pm. Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat — 8.15 the Workshop, which w ill be held at the New Zealand Drama School, & A rt books & Science Fiction BOOKINGS: Phone 33-869 Wellington. Fair Prices paid for good stock For further information and application form which must accompany Ph. Richard 763-974, Les 606-910 each entry, contact:

Playmarket PO Box 9767 - Wellington Closing date for scripts: 18 January 1982 Application forms are also available from Mercury, Theatre Corporate, U.B.S. Centrepoint, Downstage, Circa, Court and Fortune Theatres. (Organised by Playmarket with the support of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand) Remember-There is life after exams! The University Book Shop will be open right through the SOCIALS, holidays, with a wonderful selection of 21st PARTIES gifts for Christmas. Books, wall calendars, Unicef cards, 9 - WEDDINGS, diaries, stationary, book tokens and CONFERENCES gift sets. The A.U.S.A. Functions Dept, has NB:The 1982 A.U. Calendar is expected in early December. fully qualified, professional staff for all your catering requirements. Please phone Jill Cable on 30-789 ex 64

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THE GANG OF WORDS Jonathan Blakeman Victoria Kennedy TO SUCCESS & BACK NEARLY TEN Gary Stewart Louise La Hatte Victoria Thorpe Sara N o b le David Kirkpatrick Chris Gosling K e ith H ill Susie Collier Craccum's year in review David Faulls Fliss Hope Warwick Sven Jordon Brian S m a ll Jason Kemp Heather Worth Catherine Eleanor After twenty four issues and one "extra", five hundred and fifty two S c o t t V . Paul Grinder Kevin Hague Gail Kidd-Stewart Leonie M o r r is pages, more words than anybody would want to read on a sunny Thursday Graeme Quigley David Benson Mike Waghorne Martin R u m s b y afternoon, let alone count, it's time to look at what we managed to achieve William Mcllhagga Philip Bishop S . P a y t o n Kate O'Malley this year, and what we didn't manage. Mr Buckmaster has already had his Julie Downie Daryl Carey Julie, Steph, Colin McFadzean Raewyn Green Jim Burns Muriel, Taria, Ross say; now you can listen to mine. Norman Tuiasau Darien Pearce Wayne McIntosh and June Mathews We produced a full colour cover, a technical accomplishment no student D. Watkins Phil and Craig and Ivan Dean Parker Paddy Driscoll newspaper has ever done before to my knowledge, and for which David GRAPHICS Ray Murray Dermot Cooke John Bates Jenny Renals Jane Sutherland Faulls and Leo Jew deserve lots of congratulations. We produced a Philip McKibbon Tony Reynolds Bruce Cochrane James Bladewood Muccrac in a day, a journalistic accomplishment which was made possible Geraldine Oliver Denese Black Vicki Harraway M .C. Corballis Julie Downie by the dedication of those who gave up their Sunday to help. Those were James Sanders Stephen McGlashan Damien Jones William Mcllhagga the two high points of the year for the paper and those who worked on it. Alistair Kay Elizabeth Newton D a v is P.R. Ian Powell A.K. Grapefruit Alison Green We also had a go at our colleagues: Tuesday News had the Sunday R.I.P. Paul Stockley Chris King Peter Shearer News on the phone, where they couldn't see that our collective tongue was Danyel Simich Bob Lack Guru Krisnasamy Florence Bagsley-Smythe Peter Tanczos very firmly in our collective cheek; the Listen'ere issue was close to the Keith Hill Catherine McGeorge K e r r G ra c e Brillo mark; and of course the Coup took in the TV News People and poor Kaaren Mathieson Tom Bassett P a u la K in g Elizabeth Leyland Yolanda at the Star quite completely - unfortunately the bank might have Grant Duncan N. Young R . K a y John Robertson Robert Young Simon Klippel Grant W hite been taken in as well. Richard Dale Robin Arthur Martyn Nicholl Erik Anderson' We got a few choice tit-bits: the Governor General's Rolls outside a Charlotte Fisher Heather McKenzie Priscilla Pitts Susan St. Clair Peter Shearer massage parlour in Manukau Rd; the stoned goat in "Fear & Loathing in Marie Bicheno Charlotte Fisher Brett Buckmaster Mike Ryken the Wasteland" ( a true story); and the Moebius Comic Strip. Shale Chambers John M. Ker Fiona Cameron Stephen McGlashan As far as stories go, the Springbok Tour dominated the middle of the J.E.B. Kevin J. Sharpe Liz Stronge Jim Woolnough John Tanihere Andrew Campbell year, something which led to my introduction to Mr Buckmaster. PHOTOGRAPHS Murray Beasley C. Lechtenberg C.A.S. Craccum's bias against the Tour was obvious, and stemmed from the David Faulls Carol Lechtenberg Philip Ross Bruce Cronin attitudes of the editorial staff. However, I am disappointed that, despite Evan Bloomfield A . G .T. Riemke Ensing Anne Stevenson invitation, nothing was forthcoming from those people who were in favour Chris Small B. J. Andrew Smith B.R. Davies of the tour beyond a batch of letters. Still, from a journalistic point of view, Leo Jew Brett Mason Suzanne Kendrick R.A. Moodie Shiralee Saul Daryl Wilson the tour sharpened Craccum's reporting and photography, and some of our Jeremy Bartlett Barry Weeber Paul Barton Brett R. W hite Catherine Croucher Fine Arts Students material held up against anything in any other paper, and from an ethical Ray Therklesoh Paul Barton Robert Thode Catherine Brown point of view I believe we did what we had to do. David Robie Jill Dick Southon Ia n M c L e a n Two other affairs occurred during the year, one related to the tour, the Martin Rumsby Russell King Peter Lee Peter Tanczos Robert Moore-Jones Et last & least other not, for which the paper was criticised: the series of articles/letters Ray Therkleson David Baker Mark Scanlar. Stephen Lillis Brett Buckmaster from Brett Buckmaster during the latter part of the year, and the Grapefruit Elizabeth Leyland Philippa Mills Michael Baker correspondence with associated anonymous letter writers. As far as the John Durkin David Rose Wendy MacDonald Agent and his cronies are concerned, I should have started cutting their Michael Heath-Caldwell Lyn H. Anet Kate letters sooner, but in any case they tired of the joke about the time Julie Downie 6 .A.M. Richard Dale Jenny Renals Gloden Scott everyone else did. As for Brett, his anti-editorial surprises me, and I would Tim W alker James Blackwood Sharmila Haque Hugh Wright appreciate him listing the "downright lies" I have said to him or to anyone Jamie Griffen James Griffen Sean Tuohy else, but for the rest of it I gave up trying to argue with him long ago. His Gil Manly Stuart Bugg Kerry Harrison contributions have almost invariably been printed, often without being corrected as to the facts, and I have attempted to assimilate his arguments but haven't done very well. His successor appears to be even less likely to put up with me, so.... I think if people really care about the content of Craccum they should take steps to change things, from writing articles to simply dropping ideas or tips into the Craccum pigeonhole at Studass. Craccum is an editorial paper, that is, most of the articles are written with the emphasis on analysis and opinions, and not on straight news, and so has the scope to accommodate many things which the straight papers will not print. Students should make use of the fact that Craccum is available to give them a means of getting their views to the wider Student audience, both in Auckland and in the other Campus cities where Craccum is delivered and, by many accounts, avidly read. An excellent example of this is the left-handed issue , the result of a suggestion by the leader of the left-handers*club, or the folk supplement, done by the president of the Folk Club. Craccum is also a paper that depends on its volunteer help. To everyone in the list, thank you for helping get Craccum through its fifty-fifth year. Best of luck to David and William next year. May their Thursdays go well. Cheers, Dak

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Hi there! I missed class again, but managed to sneak in later. Next year Craccum By Number: 1. Raewyn Green; 2. David Faulls; 3. Bob Lack; 4. David Kirkpatrick; 5. Paul will be bigger and better, even though we have a hard act to follow. Dave Faulls, Grinder Ft Friend; 6. Leo Jew; 7. Sara Noble; 8. Shiralee Saul; 9. Fiona Cameron; 10. Julie Jenny Renals, William Mcllhagga, Paul Grinder and myself will be working even Downie; 11. Kaaren Mathieson; 12. William Mcllhagga; 13. Anne Stevenson; 14. Philip Ross; harder to present a professional and readable Craccum - with your help. 15. Bruce Cochrane; 16. Susie Collier; 17. Jane Sutherland; 18. Vicki Harraway; 19. Stephen If you have any ideas, articles or constructive input please come and see us. McGlashan; 20. Russell King; 21. Sean Tuohy. Absent (by mistake): Daryl Wilson and Jason Remeber, Craccum exists for your benefit, so don't lose by default. Kemp. Jason K em p

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Century critical inclination to trace the work CHANGE THE WORLD Squad are vicious, psychotic animals. The way REMOVE THE INVADERS they get their collar-bones broken is that the back to the author for interpretation. Dear DAK, Dear Dak, My aim is to stir emotions, as many different ones behind them are so eager to baton people Hello, this is Richard here. Just thought I'd The last few months have seen events that that they accidentally hit the shoulders of the ones as I can, even if they are irritation with & will change many lives. I would like to take this drop you a little note. If the Space Invaders contempt for, my poems or me. I don't want people in the front line. Red Squad had been Machine is not removed from the Coffee Bar, I opportunity to make some comments and to be 'understood', and I don't wish to be forced to retreat by the street kids in Patu, and will remain aloof. That's about it really, yeh, express some of my feelings about the Tour. I intellectualised, although I guess that that is it seemed that beating up the Patu people in ah, hey hey baby it's a groovey scene. Leave it will start with what may be an unexpected unavoidable when I publish in University the Police bus and batonning people, who had I at that. observation - 1 am glad the Tour came here. I nowhere to go, up Marlborough St. in their magazines. On the other hand, I do value am glad because of the profound learning 'stylistic' suggestions & critiques, and any speed-frenzied rage wasn't enough "revenge" Richard experiences that people went through, I am for them. There was no need for riot Police, emotional reactions to my poetry. glad because middle-class, white New there was no need to clear the terminal. It was I'm really glad that you told me how you felt Zealanders have been exposed to violent and P.S. Mormons can't handle intellectuals. like letting the dogs tear the fox apart once in about my poems - now that you've reacted abusive policing, and I am glad because people towards them, they're your poems too, even if a while. have shown the courage and depth of Well the Springboks have gone now and they mean something different to you. I don't conviction to stand up for what they believe to ART know what you'll think of my repy (probably sometimes I can sleep through the whole night be right. now, without awakening from nightmares of Dear Editor, think I'm full of shit), but I'd love a reply to my Virtually everybody said that they were riot cops smashing peoples faces up. I've Recently I received a letter concerning my reply. opposed to apartheid. There was no real doubt calmed down a bit now too, and I don’t spend poems from a person named 'Nadia' who I hope more people will read my work and that if the Tour were to go ahead without the whole time raving at people about what asked for a reply via the letters page of react to it, either positively or negatively, and strong and vigorous opposition, then the happened. But racism is still here, and I hope Craccum, and I would appreciate it if you give me feedback on their reactions. There's a apartheid system would be strengthened, in that the people who fought the Tour will could publish the resulting scribble in blue sheet of my poems around the various line with the South African Government's remain involved. Join CARE or ACORD. Learn accordance with, I assume, 'her' wishes. Universities at Student Union offices, or at policy. The question that the Tour really posed about W aitangi and land issues. Boycott South Firstly I must say I am pleased that my bookshops on Campus (e.g. Auckland Varsity to New Zealanders was whether or not they African products (Rothmans, Corbans, Guavas, poems have had a reaction from someone, Bookshop) & I'll leave some at Craccum's cared enough about apartheid to do something Apricots etc.) When you've started to tackle albeit mixed. In fact I'm outrageously delighted office. They're free and may next booklet, about it. racism, take a look at sexism, discrimination even though it would seem that you (Nadia) 'Arnold the Frog meets Proteus', which will be I will limit discussion of the Government's against homosexual men and lesbians, and the are not the audience I was aiming at. 'My available in November/December should retail role to saying that a democratic government rest of it. Changing the world is easy once you Canary Drinks Meths' (the poem) is an attack at about $1.00 - how many other people put should follow the wishes of the majority of its books out at that price? Even a jug at the pub start. on people who narrow their appreciation of life citizens. This government acknowledged that In friendship, by refusing to accept anything that they don't costs morel most of its citizens opposed the Tour. It also Kevin Hague like, anything which doesn't conform to a entered an agreement saying that it would take P.S. Anybody who can touch up someone preconcieved set of values. Then again, maybe Cheers all practical steps to prevent sporting contact it is for you. Incidentally, in which publication Warwick Sven Jordan with money should get them to donate it to with South Africa. At the last election, the Defence Fund, via the Studass office. did you first read it?' PO Box 13-060 National said that the issue was credibility. I The dissatisfying poems criticising such University of Waikato note that they've chosen a different one this things as pollution, television etc... Are older H am ilto n time. HOW CAN I STUDY WHEN THE poems (as are virtually all the poems of 'M y When government fails to action the wishes WORLD'S ABOUT TO END? Canary Drinks Meths' - the booklet), and not P.S. Nadia, why didn't you put your address of the people, the people must act themselves. part of my present 'line'. The booklet was of a on your letter - did you think I'd put The judges say that this is all very well, but Dear Editor, hydrochloric acid in your milkbottles? I gave very mixed standard, ranging from immature that protest must not breach the boundaries So help me!! that up years ago. Midday report (6.10.81) has just quoted the and abysmal to good, and was really a search set by law. I disagree. One of the fundamental latest outrageous pronouncements of the for a beginning, something which I am now precepts of the Nuremburg trials was that the Reagan people in the USA: the justifications closing in on with the help of letters such as law may rightfully be broken for reasons of for the 180,000 million dollar programme for yours. I agree with most of your criticisms HOW MANY ANGELS CAN morality. Right from the beginning it was our the B-1 bombers, the M X , Trjdent and Cruise concerning both style and content of earlier DANCE ON THE HEAD OF A PIN? intention to break the law or interfere with poems, however I must point out that I feel missile systems and new 'communications' Dear Dak, other people's civil rights if this was necessary that you are trying a too intellectualised systems. That is all it is going to cost to I was pleased to read last week's article in order to make an effective protest. I approach towards them, rather than emotional, escalate the arms race from 'overkill' to written by the Christian Club on the subject of acknowledge that people have the right to which is what I seek. I don't always try to give 'DOOMSDAY' for the whole planet. The idiot! Mingling. Although you left out about half of attend a football match, but I consider this answers in my poems - particularly those on The maniacs! They're going amuck! the original article, it should be clear to the right to be trivial compared with the basic religion and death - I try many different The Reagan official stated that the 'USA' readers that the Bible reveals that we and God human rights which are denied to more than 20 approaches to the same topic (e.g. mental was aiming to close the last "w indow of can be mingled as one. However, I was million black South Africans. health) with emphasis on the attitude Er related vulnerability" meaning of course, "WE SHALL amused and surprised at the picture you put It was that thought of so many people with limitation, and my poems often don't conclude BE INVULNERABLE". The devils! The fools! with the article - it looks like a goofy Peter nothing that kept demonstrators going. I don't because they are meant to overflow into the -The rabid, cracked, delirious lunatics! They say Pan. As your own invention, it expresses your know anybody who wasn't very scared, consciousness of the reader, to be that they are preparing for an "extended unregenerate concept that to experience God particularly towards the end. You couldn't reinterpreted by him/her. To quote Craig nuclear war" after the first exchange of nuclear one has to be like an angel. I'm not angelic, witness the Red Squad silently mouthing "I'm Simmons of Waikato University 'There are no destruction with the 'Soviet Union'. The but I am enjoying being mingled with God I It's gonna fuckin get you" as they picked their answers, only questions'. fanatics! The imbeciles! The hallucinating, a pity that your strange idea stops you from target, or people being batonned for no good Why should I have a consistent point of unhinged, insane, raving fuckwits! enjoying this too. reason, or the vicious assaults on view? So that you can conveniently label me The incredible escalation in the arms race You also deleted some very good quotes demonstrators at Hamilton without being afraid and put me in a slot on your shelf? M y work has finally shot its bolt: The Reagan people regarding Leviticus 2:4 which says; 'And when for your life. I am proud to have been seeks to evade confinement to ideals, seeks to glibly rationalise their plan as the ultimate thou offerest an oblation of a meal offering associated with such courageous people, who dig into the personal rawness beneath the deterrent to a 'Soviet first strike'. The days of baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes literally laid their lives on the line to help all surface facade, or to rise above it. Labeling me M .A.D. (mutually assured destruction) will be of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened those people on the other side of the world. as a 'middle-class frustrated youth whose obsolete. We are now entering the era of wafers anointed with oil.' I appreciate Thomas Above everything, the Biko balloon floated on parents don't communicate' is again rather GLAD (global assured destruction). In fact, this Newbury's discussion of this. 'The 'fine flour' the light breeze. The calm, inner strength of restrictive (not to mention amusing). I do have is the ultimate in terroristic tyranny: a 'third is emblematic of the pure, holy humanity of those who know they are right. a middle-class values background, as do most strike' programme to deter a Soviet the Son of Man, the woman's seed, the I have made enemies on this Tour. People I NZer's, whether they care to admit it or not, 'counterforce strike' to an American "first virgin's Son... Mingled with oil... as every have known for a long time refuse to speak to strike"? New Zealand will not escape. but I'm not anti-middle class. Shocking for you particle of the fine flour was saturated with oil me, or just abuse me. But I have also made may be the fact that my parents get along very In the interest of our survival and security, so every thought, every feeling of the man many friends, whom I have grown to love and we must immediately negotiate with the US well together, talk a lot, and communicate just Christ Jesus was pervaded by the Holy Spirit. trust. Somehow I feel that the friends I have fine with me. I am not 'frustrated' by any class Government while immediately applying He was in every respect tru ly human but in no made are better than the ones I have lost. sanctions. Cancel mining and energy privileges structure, and am happy with my situation, one respect merely human; it was, if we may I will never be able to trust the Police ever related to war materials like aluminium, copper which evades labeling. I find I am very cynical so express it as a spiritualised humanity.' And again. I have been arrested with excessive and especially titanium. Immediate withdrawal towards society and it's people, be they middle now, since I have believed into Christ, I have force before, but that was nothing compared from the ANZUS military-industrial alliance and class, university students, or any other group been joined to Him and now I am one spirit to what I saw on the Tour. I have heard them reformation of a Pacific anti-nuclear alliance for of generalisations (although I'll admit a pet with Him! lie through their teeth in the witness box peace, justice and genuine cooperation. All hate towards fat, moustachioed businessmen, before, but that was nothing to what I've political candidates should be aware of the as you'll read in my next collection (of far S igned, heard in the springbok trials already. There are danger which overshadows planet Earth with superior standard to my last) out later this Alex Lanning obviously some cops who are O.K., but how Reagan's version of 'think big'. It deserves to year). Having said that, I also find a lot to love can you tell which ones they are? People keep be THE election issue. and admire in people, and I try to reflect that saying that there were excesses on both sides. Now, pray like a bastard and get back into in some of my poems - usually the one’s that MARION ADAMS SIGNS OFF This is true but it is misleading because it the library and good luck for your exams. people like, or call 'the nice ones'. ignores the facts that the demonstrators' When they are over, do not rest until we have Your biggest mistake, I think, is that you see WITH A HOPE OF BETTER excesses were entirely minor compared with defeated Reaganism in our own land. Together only middle class people as 'conformists' and THINGS those of the Police, the fact that the we can make it through. 'narrow', and imply that the middle classes are Dear Dak, demonstrators' excesses occured as part of a a dirty word. While I don't defend the middle Many of us had hoped that the end of the hopeless fury of reaction to what the Police Yours in trust, classes, I feel that they are a convenient tour would See the laying aside of such items had been doing, and the fact that the Police 'Seek First the Truth' scapegoat to vent frustrations on, and no as riot helmets and long batons, but it seems are supposed to be beyond reproach in their worse than a lot of other pretentious groups this is not to be the case. task of maintaining law and order. To say that P.S. And they wanna know why my I'm proud of my parents, despite having Dr Moodie, for example, has recently been there were excesses on both sides is to excuse late. different values from them and disliking many quoted as saying that a strong and well the Police. W e must never forget what of their attitudes. Your stance reminds me of a equipped police force is the best way of happened at the 3rd Test, and those who only common occurence with young guys who'll NOT A CLUCK maintaining law and order, and that hence the know of it through the news media have a see someone do a wheelstand on a motorbike Dear Ed, riot gear should remain in use. duty to find out the other side of what & say 'what a wanker', and later on they'll do May one respectfully suggest that in fact the happened from the people who were there. To demolish our beautiful old mansions, out the same themselves and think that they're best defence of law and order is a population There are often people crying in the studios , and expect us to take a fibrolite box neatl They might be on different motorbikes, which has faith in the legal system and is International terminal of the airport, but on as a "temporary substitute" is not only an but otherwise what's the difference? Think willing to obey the laws and uphold the courts? September 13th, when the Springboks left, I insult but reduces us to little more than battery about it. And that the use of more offensive weapons wasn't crying because they were leaving, but chickens - and what happens when the year is Yes - I am inconsistent, and I revel in itl To by the police will not restore respect for the because I had psyched myself down from the up? Where do we go then? talk of consistency in regard to my approach to system but will rather decrease it further. day before, expecting that the nightmare of the world is futile because it is not in my We will not be moved. Perhaps Dr Moodie, Mr Davies et al might confrontations with the Police was over, character (although I am trying to create a care to read your piece on escalation and except that the Police didn't see it that way. I consistent style within my poems). My poems might care to ponder that as those saw two people (out of more than a hundred) are written with, and for, the feeling of the EVEN MERV'S UPSET professionally entrusted with upholding the law who had any protective gear. We were happy moment and, like Proteus, I am constantly Dear Ed, the next step for de-escalation is up to them. because the Tour was over, and we'd seen it changing. Therefore the poems I write must be W ell, pull me nostril hairsl Do they really And that that step is the restoring of some through from start to finish. We were chanting considered separately, instead of being think they can come in here and calmly semblance of civilisation, restraint, identity and to hasten a group of South Africans on their approached as a unified whole. They may be bulldoze down our studio's without even a individual responsibility to their forces. way home, when Red Squad arrived and drove clustered in related groups, but their unity whimper? Huhl good luck buddiesl One can but hope. us out of the terminal with their fists, knees really lies only in their connection with me (as and boots. Some people got crushed in the author), not in their meaning. However you Love M. Wellington doorway, others were trampled underfoot. Red must appreciate them without the Twentieth Marion Adams Monster of Education

CRACCUM October 13 1981 25 * le tte rs A STORY BEFORE YOU GO TO THIS COULD BE FOR REAL LUDICROUS ONANISM P.S. Mr Muldoon I'm proud of you and will help you to fight communism and subversion BED Dear Sir, Dear Sir, Every week my son brings home a copy of I would like to take this opportunity of in N.Z. Dear Sir, P.P.S. I know all loyal STUDENTS will join This account came into my hands recently of CRACCUM . I must say that its standard is replying to Agent Grapefruit. me in extending a gracious welcome to Her a mighty battle waged on Campus. The author, most impressive. The initial reaction to the Dear Agent Grapefruit Et True Blue Kiwi Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of NZ and concept of a student newspaper is generally Student, a Mr J. Sw-ft ( I style him thus in order to wishing Her Majesty a Successful, and Happy, preserve his anonymity), being of a retiring closely linked with the opinions remaining in Thank you very much for your letter to me visit and stay in N.Z. nature, desired me to destroy it. But perceiving the minds of the public after reading Capping in Craccum of 29 September. Magazines. I am glad to see that this is, in I want to ensure you that I have this its profound moral value, I ignored his claims MATTHEW BIDS FAREWELL to have written it as a jest, and submitted it to fact, not so. subversive clique on the student executive Dear Sir, this worthy publication. Certain points, I feel, warrant mention: under the closest scrutiny. You also know that I must warn the Reader to beware of (1) Colour was not used sufficiently - no I am gathering information on these people and I wish to reply to the article by "A 6th applying to Persons what is here meant only of doubt from budget problems. their subversive traitorous affiliations, I am Generation NZer of Neutral Mind". Why don't Bucks in the most literal sense. The author has The last colour issue was a marvellous doing this with the help of loyal students who you publish your name? Got something to altered the names of the protagonists in such a spectacle of technical and editorial journalism; are passing information to me on a regular hide. You say that Craccum shouldn't publish way as to conceal their identities and at the my compliments to all I basis. my letters, but then why should they publish As soon as I have collated this information, same time reveal their true natures. (2) Certain letters need to be cut down, the garbage you wrote, simply because the which I might say, is coming from extremely Thus: namely Agent Grapefruit, Brett Buckmaster, Editor is democratic, more than I can say for Buck Master - who wishes to be Master of and real or quasi-Matthew Connors. Even the reliable sources, I am going to hand this you. As far as being mad, well it takes one to the Buck. world's greatest newspapers and magazines (I information to both the Prime Ministers office know another. Buck - signifying small but valuable portraits have worked on Time at the London office for and also to the Director of the N.Z. Security I will continue to oppose the Communist of the Queen, hereafter styled simply $ five years, and on the Sun many years back for Intelligence Service for the appropriate action. traitors in N .Z. and I will also rise to become Engineers - known as such because of the eleven years) have a policy of ignoring letters I can assure you I'm going to destroy this Head of Government in N.Z., don't mechanical operation of their spirits. These by those who constantly beckon for attention. disloyal cell because once I really start on them underestimate my abilities. hydrothermal engines contain a dangerous To have a letter published is a privilege, not a you'll see them scattering in all directions Anyway I must go now but remember my combination of the elements of Fire and Water right, bestowed by the Editor should s/he find trying to run for cover. shoe size is still big enough to give you a good (abbr. Fire-water) which if not maintained in them publicly advantageous. An Editor must I'm doing this for the good of all those loyal swift political kick right up your Communist strict balance precipitates a violent catastrophe find letters to fit the space, and not space to fit students who are sick and tired of this backside. You may be 6th Generation NZ, known as Letting Off Steam. the letters. Communist scum on the executive, who have personally I couldn't care less, but you Referendum - an ethereal being, formerly an Each of these characters has, at some stage, had their way for years, but now that their little certainly are a 1st Generation Communist, Angel, who periodically becomes incarnate and offered reasonable arguments for and against apple cart has been upset they don't like it. that's for sure. solicits on Campus. certain ideas. However, their constant In relation re speaking in the Quad, no, I To the Editor of Craccum and staff and all Executive - a mighty God, ruler over Campus* bombardment of your columns creates the have made up my mind not to speak in this the loyal students of whom many are my Justice - son to Executive, also a G od. feeling: "Oh, God, what on earth is he raving chaotic atmosphere, however, I will consider friends, I want to wish you all a Merry Xmas Examinations - an even mightier God whose on about this week?" It is not even to their any invitation to address students in a proper and a Happy New Year and all the very best in following becomes expecially numerous during advantage to be (un-) read so often. controlled and organised mass rally preferably your examinations. Spring. (3) This does not reflect CRACCUM as much inside. Now read on fellow students and discover as it does a member of the University staff. For If you feel that something like w hat I Yours in the Cause of Anti-Communism, for yourself the disastrous consequences of a number of years, I held the position of suggested could be arranged then you can Matthew Eugene Connor following False Prophets and the promise of Secretary of the Inner-London Professional and contact me by writing True Blue Kiwi eternal life to those whose faith in the One Amateur Literary Association. Every year we N.Z. Anti-Communist Political Expert True God remains steadfastl had short-story competitions, along with a M . E. Connor Future Prime Minister of New Zealand. variety of other forms of contest. Four others Poste Restante R. Smith and I judged from an average of Chief Post Office Auckland. ANOTHER WITNESS two-hundred-plus contestants. When I saw the Dear Sir, CRACCUM has a similar contest, I was thrilled Let me assure you of my wholehearted A Full and True Account of the W ould you be so kind as to publish this and and expectant to read the winners. But I was support in this fight we are waging against Battle of the Bucks by J. Sw-ft. contact me should it produce any response? most disappointed. The winning entry by Ms. International Communism and their disloyal On September 12, at the corner of This Quarrel first began when Buck Master, Croucher was ".abysmal; it contains absolutely agents in this country. I am going to annihilate Marlborough and Raleigh Streets, I saw a formerly a follower of $#wanted to restrict his no literary merit, whatsoever" - my apologies them. constable strike a man with a long baton, then, freedom to go wherever he wanted. to a lad, whom I overheard in your lower while he was lying on the ground, strike again Now as it normally happens on Campus, the cafeteria, if my quoting embarrasses you - and Yours Sincerely In the Cause of with such force across the top of his (very followers of opposing parties, being of such a I agree. It was a "lesson on playing the flute, Anti-Communism bald) head, that the baton broke. volatile nature, are confined to separate with the occasional reference to puberty," to Matthew Eugene Connor I was appalled, but realised afterwards that premises, or Faculties#by means of a quote him again. All of the three stories which True Blue Kiwi the baton must at the same time have struck mechanism of chains and ropes known as followed would have been more worthy of the N. Z. Anti-Communist Political Expert the ground, or the man would not have On-Course Assessment. Unfortunately, this winning place. Personally, I found the story Future Prime Minister of New Zealand^ remained conscious. device not infrequently proves to be even difficult to finish reading. The incentive to I stepped forward to read the constable's ineffective, whereupon the inmates escape. continue in the literary world needed to have P.S. Let no student be under any allusion number and he threw the remaining end of his Usually catastrophe is averted by participation gone to people who had some initial literary about my resolve and determination. I won't baton into the jumbo bin behind him, then, in ritualised battles, sometimes taking the form character to develop. Mr. Boire should have stop until this rotten Communist bacillus is while the man was lying on the ground being of Raft Races, Haka Parties(or the famous considered that beforehand, as I believe that destroyed. clashes between Alf's Imperial Army and the Ms. Croucher has no future to offer that world, treated by one of the first aid team, I went to Engineers. unless her style changes rapidly and find a bystander with a pen so I could record This time however, Buck Master foolishly dramatically. STARS & STRIPES the number. offended the Great God Executive, patron of $ If any of your readers knows a man with a This may seem to some to be rather an odd Thank you for your letter and support. and Defender of Right. His son, Justice, shiny head with a dent in the top of it could thing to put in a letter, but I believe that giving Welcome my American friend to this having seen that Buckmaster wished to prevent they please tell him that I would be happy to people false hopes is something which needs beautiful country of New Zealand. May your $ from fighting for His cause, went straight act as a witness for him should he be laying a to be kept in check at all times. It is quite stay be a joyous one. way to His Father and demanded that complaint about this matter. In fact, I would simple: some people make better flautists than As you are aware, we are concerned about something be done. Almighty Executive like to pass on my belief that it is his duty to writers, and delusion is merciless. Furthermore, the Soviet buildup in the Indian Ocean, and the considered the possibilities. A bolt of pursue the matter as I don't believe a constable in this day of political yo-yoing, there are Soviet Navy which in recent times has made lightening? No, We must conserve energy. A who could act so violently towards a lone, plenty to write on those lines, but few frequent forays into the South Pacific Waters. flood? But it would not be just to punish all unarmed and unarmoured person should be interested in "the finer things." It is essential therefore that we continue our Humanity for the sins of a mere man. No, it allowed to wield a weapon. CRACCUM's future looks good, despite close liaison and friendship with the United was time for that Great Equaliser, that Mighty certain criticasters, and some would-be States of America on whom in a major conflict Instrument of Judgement, Forum. Executive Yours Margaret. worker-heroes, who try to rubbish you: wait we would depend on for our security, may this rallied the Angel Hosts and summoned Buck until they get out into the real world, where friendship grow more stronger. Master to explain himself. After listening to DECLENSIOUS PRETENSIONS? opinion is always backed by money, in fact There is a group of disloyal subversive traitors him they reached their judgement, but thinking Dear Dak, opinion is money. in this country, who would side with the it important to temper justice with mercy, they Your editorial has the following: mortuerus Good luck, and may Thursday nights/Friday Russians tomorrow if N .Z. were invaded. let him go with his life. te salutat. Presumably this is a spelling error, mornings ever be profitable. Personally I'd like to see these traitors Oh unhappy dayl For Buck Master had a for moriturus te salutat. You are quite correct hanging by the neck from the gallows, till they secret ally, Referendum.Having once been an in assuming that referendum should not be Yours faithfully, be dead. Don't worry, the day of reckoning is Angel, Referendum was cast out of Heaven declined as a 3rd declension noun, since it G.A.H. Browne, M.A:, D.Litt.(Oxon.), coming, when accounts will be settled, don't when the Deities discovered that he was not should be declined as a 2nd declension neuter Ph.B.IBirm.) say you weren't warned. impartial - he would make judgement not on noun anyway. It is a gerundive, by the way, Look at the atrocities committed at the the basis of any Higher Moral Principles, but A HINT OF WHAT'S COMING not a gerund: there is a difference - and Berlin W all and inside the Iron Curtain upon being bribed with small pieces of paper. Dear David, gerunds don't have plurals anyway. Be But so magnanimous was the Omnipotent Countries - you don't find these traitors I'd just like to give a word of advice to all of marching and demonstrating about that^io pedantic if you wish, but at least be correct Executive that He had not condemned this your listeners who are going overseas for their you? It makes their motives appear somewhat and pedantic. Fallen Angel to External Darkness, allowing summer holidays. The non insects, non crustaceans of the him occasionally to become Flesh and beg suspec^doesn't it? When buying your duty-free FM receivers Thank you President Reagan for deciding to Classics Dept. Classics Rules O.K. among Mortals. make sure that you DON'T get the Buck Master had but to invoke the name of step up Production of the Neutron Bomb as a FREQUENCY SYNTHESISED type. They're the Carolyn Anderson this ferocious creature, whereupon a mighty counter to Soviet expansionism. We are ones with a digital display of the frequency, Lyn de M ontalk Battle arose. Great was the confusion of grateful to you. perhaps you may have seen them advertised in J.C. Morris those unfortunates caught on the battlefields. Let me tell you our alliance with America those glossy American magazines. Anyway, Andrew Jack Mighty was the clashing of Pen and Paper. under a National Govt will be strengthened. these particular types won't work properly in Scott Mataga Bravely Buck Master roamed about among the We will allow Nuclear Powered Ships into our New Zealand because the frequency spacing is huge Armies, trying to muster his troops, while Ports. We will honour our commitments to different. I have issued this warning because I P.S. You did ask us to inform and correct panicking warriors hastily tried to protect A.N.Z.U.S. don't want people to miss out on all the neat you I - themselves by scrawling the Sign of the Cross I w ant to make it quite clear that as long as I music that's going to be coming out of your Thank you. / will sleep easier now that / on pieces of paper to feed to the insatiable live/^ommunism as an evil anti-christian FM radio s. I hope you all get the message. know. Referendum. Then, as suddenly as it had philosophy will never get a foot hold here. New begun, the Battle was ended. Referendum Zealand is a great country and we have I remain returned to the spirit world to consider the wonderful friends in the Americans. Yours sincerely verdict. Remember if it wasn't for the U.S. Marines M ike Brady What infamy I What corruption! What being here during the Second World War, we Radio B Station Manager catastrophel Buck Master had wonl But it was may not be enjoying all the privileges w e enjoy to be a hollow victory. Justice, the Great today. God's favourite son, had been fatally wounded. WAR V. MACHINES I salute you Stars & Stripes The victorious warriors, realising what a dark Dear Dak, I salute the United States of America day it was for Humanity, returned to their W e are sitting in the Coffee Bar. W e cannot I salute New Zealand. Faculties, there to renew their devotions to the hear our own munching. We hate that bloody One True God, Examinations, prostrating machine - it hurts our brains, remove it or we Yours sincerely in Anti-Communism themselves at His altars in repentance for their will exterminate it. Matthew Eugene Connor folly. And it is there that they may be found to True Blue Kiwi this day, basking in the everlasting grace and Yours in pain, N.Z. Anti Communist Political Expert You're an asshole Dak, you're an asshole Dak. mercy of that Great God. Daleks against machines. Future Prime Minister of New Zealand

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CRACCUM October 13 1981 27 SWINGTIME!

Election Pendulums are LABOUR SEATS NATIONAL SEATS supposed to tell you what will Pahiatua happen in the event of a S. M aori 73.7 36.0 Rem uera W . M aori 71.2 33.6 uniform swing from one party Tam aki E. M aori 60.9 > 30.3 to another. They are fairly N. M aori 57.0 28.6 W aikato simple models in the case of 28.5 W allace M angere 45.6 two parties, but in this year's 27.1 M atam ata Avon 44.4 election Social Credit has T a ra n a k i, 25.1 entered the fray, and so I have Sydenham 35.6 22.9 North Shore Christchurch 35.6 21.2 Papakura tried to accommodate their Auckland C. 32.1 20.5 Otago presence with a smaller Otahuhu 30.6 18.2 King Country pendulum (under the main Tauranga W est Coast 29.2 16.9 one). The seats in the major East Cape Eastern Hutt 28.5 15.3 pendulum have all got Labour A shburton N ew Lynn 24.4 14.3 or National in first or second Rangirui Porirua 21.6 13.7 Birkenhead place,* and the seats in the Pencarrow 20.1 13.2 12.6 Taraw era minor pendulum have got Dunedin Cent. 18.7 11.2 Hauraki Social Credit or National in first St. Albans 17.2 11.1 H aw kes Bay or second place. Papanui 16.2 10.4 Ohariu Apart from East Coast Bays Te A tatu 16.0 10.2 Pakuranga (won by Social Credit in Heretaunga 15.0 10.0 Fendalton 15.0 1980), the pendulums are W anganui 7.5 A w arua 14.8 based on the 1978 General M t A lb ert 7.4 Clutha 14.6 Napier 7.1 M an aw atu Election, and ignore St. Kilda 14.4 7.0 Hamilton East subsequent By-Elections in Dunedin Nth 14.0 SWING TO SWING TO NATIONAL LABOUR 6.7 W aitaki Christchurch, Onehunga and M an u rew a 13.9 6.7 Selw yn Northern Maori. The simple 12.6 Palmerston Nth I 6.3 justification for this is that 11 8 Rotorua Nelson / 62 General Elections are more A07 / s 6 Helensville accurately comparable with AO 3 1 5-5 U/L / other General Elections and not T\ro®tUvet® * S a , • 0 with By-Elections. Other factors which can be taken into account in examining the x% \ if'c diagrams are the possibility of I p ^ VP . %% Mana Motuhake winning a Maori seat, and Social Credit

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