iVERSITY OF AUCKLAs R A G C U M VOLUME 64, ISSUE 16, 16 JULY 1990 TEL: (09) 366-0413 or (09) 390-789 FAX: (09) 303-2236 EDITORIAL PREZ SEZ — AUSA
After two weeks or so of election cam that there is interest in Student Politics; Government’s attempt to denigrate stu A paigning we have our new President for let’s turn that interest into action. 1991 — Doug Sadlier. The result was a There is no doubt that Doug will put dent concerns by staging the $150 million bit of a shock to some, as Doug seemed life and charisma back into the position handout to tertiary education. THE EX initially to come from nowhere. The Stu of President but there will only be change ACT SAME TIME as our National dent body passed over three major can if students come foward with ideas. Write Week of Action, expecting the public to 1 Aerobic Stud didates with Executive experience to elect to Craccum, talk to Doug and voice your be hoodwinked into believing that extra atinn p p r a newcomer to A.U.S.A politics, some opinions at SRC or, as they say in the places is going to benefit those who can- 5Crea . not afford the upfront $1250 fee. | thing not commonly done. But all credit Marriage Business, forever hold your worrying the to Doug, his campaign was based on the peace. They say this money hasn’t come from lilts and Stafl principles of Parties, Student Welfare and And while I’m on the topic of elections, the sale of Telecom, but next year when on is in sight Campus Spirit and hopefully we will see don’t foget that all the portfolio positions there are no more assets to sell where will some of this next year. come up for grabs soon. The President the handouts come from, or do we only — ■ . ]lf Teena koutou katoa. Let me first ex get them three months before elections? Themaia a Being President of this Association is has a lot of influence, but Executive is tend warmest congratulations to the As not an easy task. It’s not a 9 to 5 job and where the power of A.U.S.A is. Read the Sort of gives one pause for though eh? *university s re^] sociation’s new president, A VP and EVP Anyway, enough of this heavy politi- never' there are always more people ready to blurbs from candidates in the next issue for 1991. I hope they all gain as much find faults than give praise or even help. cal stuff, we’re looking for clubs or in- ff0 .dance' , then get out there and vote. satisfaction from this job as I have. The President must be manager, student dividuals who want to take part in a ^ etlc wo°d-o Of course the other big event of the last Next week we return to the polling Leader, and politician all at once, and week was National Week of Action. Pro Telethon Bunyip Race down Queen St on tte d,eck,t1S^ bal1 booths to select the 1991 Portfolio Ex August 11th. You create the Bunyip of 01111 bU! , ? eA contrary to popular belief, the money and test marches and so on can be very effec ecutive members and I hope we will again perks that come with the job are not ex tive in swaying Governments especially in your choice, find a sponsor to pay your ° ydaifce have the same excellent turnout as last entrance fee and TV2 will film the race. fthe flt danc® cessive. election year, but if we really want change week. It shows students are interested in 1991 is the centenary year of the As for the better we need to keep the pres All entrance fees become the AUSA Tel- aCr° what is happening with their association ethon donation. If you’re interested come ^ t sociation. It will be a big year for the stu sure on and right up until polling day. Ex tion centre r and I am heartened by the number of and see me or the new Social Activitii dent body and Doug in particular. ecutive is shaping up to be a big election s a week. Th< first-year students taking time out to Officer, Simon Coffey. Hopefully any ill-feeling or enmity gener issue, giving all students a chance to get vote. each have betw ated in the campaign can be put aside now their views heard. Unlike A.U.S.A, you Till next week, Ka kite anoo e hoa No doubt many of you heard of or maa. 80 participan so that we can all work for the common only get to call Government politicians to of the sessions were involved in last week’s March Ella Henry good of the students. The high turnout account every three years, so let’s not miss popular ad1 Against User Pays Education. Note the A U S A President (compared with recent elections) shows the opportunity to do so. wake up classes ents bumpinj ig on the mai just small carpi ------CREDITS------PREZ SEZ — ATISA een themselve surface. Editors: Mark Roach, Wendy Newton, Peter Gray Kia Ora. Will Lockwood Smith’s Promise to re Features Journalist: Max Chappie [Tel: (09) 390-789 Ext 8401 We marched on Thursday with about sign should National not abolish the t ms Technical Editor: Tony Bell 1000 Students and assorted bystanders, tion fee still stand if Jenny Shipley and Physiotherapists Technical Consultants: Independent Media Services [Tel/Fax: (09) 524-6162] kids and dogs. not himself is made minister of Edu Ire say the fl Marketing Manager: Joe Babich [Tel: (09) Ext 841 Fax: (09) 303-2236] cation? ocious” and is t Printers: Rodney and Waitemata Times Ltd I got pretty confused when I thought Will Goff ever dare show up to a pub worst problem lic meeting of Students? Typesetting: Teresa Platt, Stephanie Wormald back on the history of education in New victims of the f Zealand. All these issues of Education, Unem Distribution Manager: Martin Gill rate of at least No Government in power seems to ployment and law and order. a week as the Contributing Writers: Vangelis Vitalis, Ross McLeod, Greg Stringer, and have made any massive stand on Educa Although these issues are important to the E-Team. with shin splints tion in some time. me, I will not be voting socially on them. ns and Achill General Assistance: The Big Joke I want to see a contry that is committed injuries. Strip-o-Grams: Andrew 'No Knickers' Wickers and Doug 'Dangler' Sadlier. Yes, Labour’s $10 million Education to the future. I want from my GoverntIt’s the hardness Boost will go down well but they did in ment a committment to the Environment, ioor - there’s no troduce the higher fees in the first place. to World Peace, to Nuclear Disarma Both parties are claiming that their sys ment, to the end of World Hunger by the tem is the best and that student numbers year 2000, to the obligations of the CONTENTS will increase. Covenant of the Treaty and to all the other issues that I feel passionate about Cover: photo by Wendy N e w to n ...... T ATI’s poll increased by 9°7o last year. Yes, these are just my opinions and th; Editorial and Presidential Colum ns...... 2 National are promising to have student is all I have to base my judgement on, Feature: The Wreck C e n tre ...... 3 numbers increase by 4% so are they go So, you are supposed to be intelligei Feature: Access Radio...... 4 ing to decrease the rolls? Are they going voters choose your Government on ALL Publick E y e ...... 5 to claim the natural increase that occurs the issues that concern you and get whoi World N e w s ...... 6 every year anyway? YOU want. Deutschland, Duetschland Uber Alles?...... 7 Television ...... 8 Arts ...... 9AUSA NOTICES Sports...... 10 Womanspace ...... 11 Election Notices Letters...... 13 Notices ...... 15 President Administrative Vice-President Feature: Education M a rc h ...... 16 Robert Bain ...... 39 Steve Barriball...... - - A2 Simon Holroyd (Gort)___ . . . 34 Derek C raig...... Roger P ym ...... 100 Nite Fuamatu . .rr...... DISCLAIMER Susan R a e ...... 303 Aroha Panapa...... Doug Sadlier...... 1 0 8 7 No Confidence...... Craccum is published by the Auckland University Students' Association Incor Andrew W ickers...... 887 NoVote ...... porated, but ATISA have been very nice and sort of indicated that they'll go to No Confidence...... 49 Invalid ...... prison for us if it's the tech stuff at fault, which we think is very good of them, No V o te ...... 30 don't you? By the way, the views expressed in Craccum do not necessarily In v a lid ...... 3 represent those of the Auckland University Students' Association, the editors, or anybody, so there!
Education Vice President Treasurer DEADLINES Bernard Kennelly...... 6 2 8 Ivan K irk ...... Pare Panapa ...... 612 No Vote ...... 2,530 Articles Midday Tuesdays No Confidence...... 366 Letters, Notices Midday Wednesdays No V o te ...... 859 In v a lid ......
2 — Craccum, 23 July 1990 A Flaw in the Wreck Centre to denigrate stu 'the $150 million nation. THE EX- BY MAX CHAPPLE is our National ing the public to Aerobic students pounding it out on Auckland University's hard lieving that extra reation Centre floor are falling victim to injuries at a rate which it those who can- $1250 fee. worrying the centre's physiotherapists. The Physiotherapists, stu- lasn’t come from lents and staff all say the floor is unacceptable but no easy solu- t next year when|on is in sight. to sell where will n, or do we only The main hall floor at it at all,” one physiother before elections? ilience. university’s recreation apist told Craccum. “The for though eh?, . , “We are doing some this heavy politit*"*5 never bu.lt for majority of injuries that thing about it but it’s not dance. The solid are probably preventable a simple solution,” he said. > take part in w0° d '° n‘c°n are aerobics related.” He said the carpet being She said students own Queen St o > (leck,S aba11 Sp° rtS put down in other parts of shouldn’t be exercising on the recreation centre was tetheSuwpo^^dyhaTheaS such a hard floor. being paid for by the uni r illf.lm ftir ijefitnessdancehcraze- Another physiotherapist versity and had nothing to 'etheAUSAT4HS r aerob,St , said fewer injuries would do with the centre. occur if students stayed on e interested come' Hollings said the cen could include some recre realise is not easily solva dents. Some thought low lereation centre runs 37 the carpet square mats S o cial Activities tre’s martial arts floor, ation centre space. ble but we’re working on impact exercises were not (sses a week. The class- provided. But participants which does have thick In the meantime, Holl it.” hard enough, Still said. each have between 40 often strayed, she said. kite anoo e hoa exercise mats, was used ings said, the centre was Hollings said another And 80 participants and where possible hut it only working on a solution for possibility was to use Procedure pi, u fcif of the sessions — the Not monitored had space for 40 dancers. the aerobics dancers. He individual mats but these When asked about her said the main floor could MJSA Presidentrj W 1* , advanCed A recreation centre He said the centre had to would also pose storage monitoring procedure for ^Iwake up classes — see staffmember said the mats satisfy the strong demand not be set aside for aero and maintenance instructors, Still said she Udents bumping and provided for aerobics were for aerobics or else it bics alone and a perma problems. often watched main hall fcding on the main floor pitiful and it seemed iron would have very few nent soft floor installed, classes from a window in Jjhjust small carpet mats ic that students should risk members. because that would Other factors the administration area. §etween themselves and injury on carpet squares compromise the other He said injuries were She said she visited class surface. while new carpet was be Top priority sports played on the floor. not always the fault of the es held in the martial arts i’ s Promise tore-f ing installed elsewhere in Hollings says the uni floor and depended also studio for about 15-20 t abolish the tui-fjctims the building. versity’s recreation Problems on the experience of parti minutes at random times nny Shipley and I physiotherapists at the The staff member clai sub-committee last year Another option was a cipants and the move every three to four weeks. nmster of Edu-Ltre say the floor is med aerobic instructors decided that a purpose roll-up floor covering ments undertaken. Auckland University atrocious” and is the cen- were not monitored and built aerobic studio was its which could be removed An example of the Students Association iow up to a pub- Ijjij worst problem. They could be encouraging stu top priority. However, after each class. But Holl impracticalities of a roll- sports officer Andrew victims of the floor at dents to do dangerous nothing had happened ings said it would be dif down floor was pointed Wickers said a close eye lucation, Unem-Krate of at least two or exercises. since because no progress ficult to store and hard to out by Hollings when he should be kept on instruc order, §ree a week as they limp had been made on negoti put down and roll up. He highlighted the centre’s tors in an effort to avoid are important to nth shin splints, ankle Inadequate ations between the stu said engineers at the uni artificial tennis surface injury. socially on them, tins and Achilles ten- Recreation Centre boss dents association and the versity were working on which the centre rents out “Students are putting hat is committed i injuries. Steve Hollings admitted university administration the technical problems in to other sports complexes. themselves in the centre’s om my Govern- t’s the hardness of the the carpet square mats did on a new student union volved. Despite being less than hands because they’re do he Environment, or - there’s no give in not have adequate res nearby. The new building “It is a problem that I 6mm thick the mat took ing the right thing and all uclear Disarma- 10 people two hours to set these injuries are hap 1d Hunger by the up and four hours to put pening. ligations of the away, he said. The centre y and to all the had only used the mat it Standard •assionate about self 10 times in 15 years. “There’s no national opinions and tl standard for aerobics i judgement on, Spending instructors to pass which is 1 to be intelligent Hollings said the centre a worrying thing because ernment on ALL HAI ROB ICS would spend as much mo people do place themselves you and get who ney as was necessary to in the hands of instructors overcome the problem of and they could be getting the aerobics surface. them to do some terrible Julie Still, the recreation exercises.” centre’s physical recreation Wickers said he could officer, told Craccum the understand that there were floor was not acceptable technical problems invol and the injury rate was ved with getting a new «-President probably higher than it floor surface. should be. “I can understand it but “It’s hopeless. It’s just given that aerobics is so not appropriate for aero popular and there are so bics, it’s not made for many injuries I think that aerobics.” something’s got to be endeavoured. Barefoot Still said some students Popular were not helping them “If it was a commercial selves. Some did as many venture you’d be making as 10 aerobics classes a sure that your most popu week, which was far too lar activity was well ca many, while others exer tered for, was well run and cised barefoot or in poor was being looked after quality footwear. properly .. rather than Still said she had just saying ‘we recognise the written to all instructors problem but we don’t telling them to put more know what we’re going to low impact moves into do about it.” their programmes. In low Wickers said the centre impact exercises dancers seemed blase about what always have one foot on was a serious matter. 2 ,5 3 2 the ground so lessen the “They don’t seem risk of injury. particularly worried... it But this solution is not doesn’t seem like a top seen as ideal by all stu priority.” Craccum, 23 July 1990 — 3 Access Radio Heard and not Seen
It’s buried beneath the Auckland Technical In Now about 45 groups a land’s station truly reflects Working to dead stitute’s B Block cafeteria but Access Radio is week use Access, the make-up of the wider nowing th is m broadcasting in languages making a big noise on the airwaves of Auck Auckland Community. lass w o m en or from Samoan to Spanish ^garments, bi land. Max Chappie reports on a community ra while they give news, “The whole concept of pub review h< dio station on the up and up.... views, and interviews of Access Radio is people e the mornini “Lurching from pillar to continued as it struggled to interest to their people. having their own language id masters, th< post” is how Access radio programme, their news in find studio space. After two A4, typ< staff describe the station’s leaving Herne Bay the sta Access Radio Auck their own language — the j arrowed p history as it struggled to tion broadcast from Auck land’s manager is Leona things that are important establish itself in the mer land University’s student Bresnehan, a veteran to them.” deached to ile t curial world of broadcasting. lowing this hi Initiated in 1986 by iy now help you Pacific Island community id why so many leaders and the Race Rela t o articles get c tions office, Access Radio rambling disjointe Auckland existed on short By now you woi term broadcast authorisa ily have notic tions from the Pacific Is ; article has lands Educational ore disjointee Resource Centre in Herne lost, and you are Bay. predicting it Third station iue rambling m iy. Why? You a: It shared the same aim res. Are our her of its two predecessors — lours the E-t< Radio Access Wellington, m i ious drugs? E set up in 1981 and Wai- was funded wholly from that we will need but wd ive severe inse rarapa Access, established community donations, add those as we emotional 1 in 1986 — to allow com membership fees and the enough money.” to pre and pos munity groups and indiv money groups pay for air it fantasies ir iduals to broadcast. In time. But this year it re Variety cars and old other words, to give them •f ! ceived a $167,000 boost In the meantime, A Is their work! access. The latest access from the Broadcasting Radio Auckland is hoi ting their at radio station BFM and the broadcaster who has cloc station, formed in Febru Improving Commission for operating to a wide variety iherent though Maori station Radio Ao- ked up 20 years in pro ary 1988, is Plains FM Access promotions costs which has meant ad community groups broi illiterate b; tearoa. But early last year gramme production and based at Christchurch co-ordinator Julie Starr ded security and a reduc casting in English Access Radio found a journalism. She says the Polytechnic. agrees. After doing the tion in air time fees. other languages, home in student space at concept of Access Radio is Amon Access Radio Auck BFM women’s show a Access Radio now its programmes are bro land’s shaky beginnings ATI. an exciting one and Auck- couple of years ago, she broadcasts about 30 hours casts from the New 1 t got the “radio bug” and a week on 882AM, from and Tamil Associati 1 says Access Radio is get Friday evenings through five pacific Island grou. 2 ting better all the time. to Mondays, during Radio Friends of the Earth, “It’s an opportunity for New Zealand’s 1YC Net homoeopathy group people to hear their lan- work downtime. well as Chilean, Yugosl guge and their people.” and Spanish groups She says some people get New Console Associate head of ATI’s i involved because they The Broadcasting Educational Resour want to get into the indus Commission grant, and Development dep; try and others because together with a $30,000 ment John Reynolds, they’ve always wanted to donation from the ASB a university hour on Mo give it a go. Community Trust, has al days from 8 to 9am The station third lowed Access Radio to buy ATI programmes on T staffm em ber is Ula a much needed new con days, Thursdays and Fusimaloha, a Tongan im sole which was installed days at the same time migrant who started up recently. The station was Bresnehan says Access Radio Tonga in 1981. He off air for four days while Radio’s following is grow became involved in Access the project was completed ing and more people through a Radio New Zea at a cost of $23,000. becoming involved. land training course of Bresnehan says the con “More people are hear which Bresnehan was an sole allows the station ing about us now instructor. more flexibility and the want to make more pro possibility of expansion. grammes5*wixixuvij ... ••• because uvvauow we’revycId In recent year Boost “It’s a really good start. a volunteer organisation w expensive hal Until this year, Access There are a lot of things we need a lot of people."*'® ^ stU(^ents- t drink and if yc ided anti-free spend an eve: CUTTING AND BLOW-WAVING not wake up PERMING ■What this colun pdo is to introdi HAIR-COLOURING [some wines an< eties (known a |s) that we like ar you will to lough we’d love YOU MUST BRING THIS ADVERT TO OBTAIN jail about the C DISCOUNTS fitte ’65, we can’i ) a bottle and i anyone we kn ve placed a prii | $12 a bottle ; in this colui Ve’re also go k, mainly, to Ns 1 wines, not bee CUT ABOVE LOCATION national chau TAKAPUNA PH: 4 6 3 -1 3 2 LORNE ST. 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4 — Craccum, 23 July 1990 The Boys from the UB-LICK EYE Brown Stuff The London Bar Photos by Wendy Newton rking to deadlines is w hat life's all about, right? maximum, disturbed, con made from the comfort of nowing this may not help in the pursuit of high centrated and load that is your glass. where he stays, serving in A decision was made lass women or aid in the relocation of their un- the genuine worker type and our journey began ergarments, but it does mean that, once more, public bar (not too bad in with a Heineken from pub review has been performed the night be- itself if you don’t feel like Germany, cruising ire the morning after (which is when our lords 1| climbing the stairs). through the original Bud- : ^ id masters, those intrepid C ra cc u m editors call Up the stairs is where weiser from Czechoslova irtwo A4, typewritten, doublespaced, ordered you find the 100 beers bar. kia, a San Miguel from ; ' nd arrowed pieces of reconstituted, dioxin- On entering you find your Manila, various brews ; xt ieached to ile t p ap er). self in a traditional, warm from the pacific and both ly decorated lounge bar. A American continents and food counter to the right finally back to normality Knowing this however, Are they looking for ex knocks up good food at a with a guiness to cleanse iy now help you under- cuses? No, yes, no, no, good price, while to the the palate. id why so many pub re no, a 1000 times no, we left is the business end, the In all 25 different brews articles get off to a just had a bloody great bar and seating for heaps. from 14 countries were ibling disjointed start. night out. A pile of musical parap- sampled, with the stan By now you would pro- Jumping into our mid henalia in the corner punc dard price for a 330-370 ily have noticed that priced, mid sized, Jap tuates the sign informing ml bottle being $3.95. One article has started anese station wagon, an of Jazz playing Wed- outstanding drop, is re disjointed than assault was launched on nesday-Saturday. Grab Tsingtao Beer from, you it, and you are proba- the heart of the city. The bing a window seat lets the guessed it, China. Due to predicting it to con- target, The London Bar, serious ‘people watchers’ the sudden disappearance ue rambling in that also known as the 100 enter their element with a of our interpreter we were . Why? You ask your- beers bar. Situated oppo great aerial view of the unable to determine the % es. Are our heroes and site the Civic movie theatre Queen St/Wellesely St alcohol but were sure it iours the E-team on on Wellesley St, many of intersection. was adequate. We were ous drugs? Do they you probably remember A trip to the bar, which also reminded why Ameri dll need but wel e severe insecurities the London Bar as the you can never lose as you cans can drink for 12 >se as we get $ emotional traumas pubcrawl pub that had a can see it from wherever hours, drive home sober, noney. ” K to pre and post pubes- mobile crop of flesh bloc you sit, began our trip sleep and still wake up with the beginnings of a fish fart in it), trundle itnt fantasies involving king the doorway. This around the world. This with a wicked hangover; 3rd world water induced home in the shopping bas nail cars and older wom- can still be found serving pub has the largest selec Yank beer is shit! hangover (that includes ket and dream of 1 billion neantime, Acces i? Is their workload af- behind the downstairs bar, tion of beers to be found What more needs to be USA). Chinese drinking Tsing Lickland is home xting their abilityfor but due to council by-laws in an Auckland bar. A me said about this bar? The No worries, on the way tao; what a great form of ide variety of oherent thought? Are and some complex equa nu is normally available so toilets, as in most bars are out the door you can stop birth control! ' ty groups broad- they illiterate bastards? tions involving terms like that your selection can be strictly functional, so at the bottle shop and buy Yours internecinely in English when in there you’ll need a bottle or two of your The E-team iguages. Amoi M i to provide your own favourite cure, (E-team PS. Oh yes, they do sell mmes are brot entertainment. Service is style hint: Avoid water as spirits. in the New mS efficient and friendly, nil Associatioi glasses clean and plentiful, ic Island grouj 2' the Jazz is excellent, the The E-Team Rating of the Earth, environment convivial and •athy group it’s close to the E-school. hilean, Yugoslav Basically it’s a damn good The E-Team, in their eagerness to get this fine review to the Editors, forgot iish groups, jjy* spot to go have a beer, run into people you haven’t to prepare the 'E-Team Rat ite head of ATI’ ing’. The usual ‘ratings box’ >nal Resoun seen in a while and gener is included only out of habit. Jopment dept ally get off your face. In It is not a real rating and n Reynolds, n fact, by the end of the does not, in any way, reflect ty hour on M< night, the relationship be the views of the E-Team, n 8 to 9am tween womens undergar either jointly or severally, to rammes on Ti ments and the end of the ward the abovementioned li ursdays and ] world pales to insignifi censed establishment. tie same time, cance when compared han says Access allowing is grow more people are ; involved, people are hear it us now and Ihe Unpretentious Little Wine Column make more pro] - . . .. because we’re In recent years good wines have moved from being you about about how to sav growing areas. On its man (sic), both in Ponson Glengarry’s offer three eer organisatioo in expensive habit of wine buffs, to being affordable recognise a good wine and own cab sav is often a bit by Road. When we wines from further afield i lot of people * ven ^ stU(ients- Wine can be good value as well as great how a wine, made from a harsh so wine makers mention a wine we’ll say that represent excellent va drink and if you stick to the ones that don’t have the particular grape, is likely blend it with other grapes, which shop was selling it lue. Seaview ’87 cabar- ded anti-freeze and don’t do much mixing, then you to taste. frequently merlot. This the cheapest. net/shiraz )$10.95) and spend an evening in a slightly alcoholic, hazy glow Above all, it’s important will usually be stated on Most of the wines we re Chateau Reynella ’87 not wake up with an earth-shattering hangover. that you start drinking and the label. In France, cab commend are blends, but Claret ($9.95) are good ex enjoying it more and more sav is often a major ingre straight cab savs that we amples of Aussie reds and (What this column aims sie and French wines) but and like us, start blowing dient in Bordeaux wines, like are Penfold’s ’87 cab from France, an ’86 Bor ido is to introduce you because it is easier to build chunks of your bursary on sometimes called clarets. sav (Wineworths $10.85) deaux called Sirius is a Dme wines and grape up a bit of knowledge something particularly Cab sav is a great and Babich ’88 (Super Li- good buy at $10.95. dies (known as varie- about them, rather than be nice you see in the local colour, a really deep ruby quorman $11.75). Wine of the week is )that we like and hope totally bewildered about wholesaler. red. For your $12 if it’s a Two real cheapies which another claret, Collards you will too. Al- the huge selection if we in This week, because we’ good cab sav, you’ll get a are drinkable but not great ’88, which we saw in Super iough we’d love to tell clude imports. It’s also a re in the depths of winter wine that tastes a bit like are Lincoln Vineyard’s Liquorman at $10.25. This i all about the Chateau myth that you have to buy and it’s cold and mi blackcurrant juice, has Brigham’s Creek Red ’89 is a dry wine, not too frui ifitte ’65, we can’t afford imports to buy good serable, we thought we’d lots of guts and possibly a (Glengarry) and a Mon ty and would be good with I a bottle and neither wines. However we will in start with a real body war bit of acid. However, if tana Marlborough spaghetti bolognaise. i anyone we know. So clude the odd import that mer — carbarnet sauvig- you luck out and strike a Carbarnet/Pinotage ’87 That’s it for this week, Ve placed a price limit is particularly yummy and non (often called cab. bad one, it’ll look (Wineworths) both at we’ll be back with some pi- $12 a bottle on the a good buy. sav). Reds can take a bit of red/brown, be thin and $6.95. A Claret with trying not noir next column. Re in this column, We’ll also try to avoid getting used to, but it’s might smell nasty when is Selak’s ’88 Private Bin member to open your ye’re also going to the usual wine jargon — really worth the effort. you open it. — $10.95 at Super Liquor- bottle of wine as long as L mainly, to New Zea- no “herbacious bouquet” Most of the well known This week we visited man. A cabarnet/merlot possible before you drink 1 wines, not because we and “gooseberry flavours” cab savs come from Haw- Wineworths in Hobson we recommend is Delegat’s it. national chauvinists, and the like in this co kes Bay but Marlborough Street and Glengarry Estate dry Red ($9.95 at Bottoms up!! tare great fans of Aus lumn. But we’ll try and tell and Auckland are also cab Wines and Super Liquor- Wineworths). Lily B and the Baron
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story nex ieve can THE GREAT iat th ere v linted to GOD RESIGNS! e rm a n y . WORLD NEWS also remarked hear the message subcon- After years of rumour it has finally been revealed today that God jwing anti-Gasta ciously but also a whole has resigned. A spokesman, who would only give his name as Peter, iod and the dist heap of religious people CAPTION els of support 1 said today from the doorstep of No. 1 Paradise Street, Heaven that who had a strange tenden ublikaners (a God had decided he'd done more than his fair share of the work cy to play records back for the past few millenia and it was time he had a holiday. Peter wards would also hear the cist political grc lany. This cor message. “Two for the COMPETITION also read out the following statement from God: the Oder-Neis price of one,” he joked. tstion, the projec “Hey what do you ex “Holidays. Did you ever don’t want to disturb him. Christian leaders from n n ' f t les in inflatio pect? It’s not easy being stop to think that I haven’t “Well that’s all I’ve got around the world says that JT i JT% employment ar omnipresent you know. I had a holdiay since the to say for now. Just God’s resignation would C ?! s these had mean, having to watch Creation. No golf, no sun remember from now on I have no immediate affect seemed like everyone’s disgusting little bathing, no dropping in to haven’t got my eye on you on religious practices. urn the past. habits, tallying up the sins, the pub for a quiet one. so do as you please. Most said that as they The previous and then having to deduct Nothing. I didn’t even get “Byeeeee.” hadn’t had any proof that a few for the odd confes to see the Romans versus One of the first to put God in fact existed in the ever, was not e sion. It can get pretty bor the Greeks Inter-Gods himself forward as a po first place, but worshipped . All this talk ing waiting around for Cup Final. I hear it went tential replacement for him anyway just because ted German} eaten European some old peasant to kark to extra time before Nep God was Old Nick DeVil they believed He did, whe lased on two it just to see if he’s worth tune ripped one past Aph who said that he was the ther or not He exists was letting in up here or send rodite’s left post into the obvious choice having had many’s history irrelevant. This of course AN ing him down to number back of the net. And Al some previous experience would mean that if He did : once it be 666. And then there’s try lah keeps asking me over in Heaven before a minor exist and had for the last UNFORTUNATE led. ing to give people a reli for a game of cards. difference of opinion with few eons the fact that He mf Yet we all seem one thing; Ge gious experience! Some of “So I’ve decided to re God some years ago. He had now resigned need not not cornered th them are so stupid they sign so I can get in on also said it was about time necessarily even be notice in brutality don’t realise anything’s some of this action while people showed some sym able except of course to happened, some think it the going’s good. I’m sure pathy and some taste and those few people go on ich in Algeri; was just an orgasm and the world will carry on to just call him Lucifer as talking to him even if He jtish in India, the more recently a lot of without me for a few he was in need of some re wasn’t actually there. etnam, the Russi mselves are more them think it was just a hundred years, after all it’s straint. He pointed out Sceptics on the other % amples that pro) good trip. Even the ones I self-destructing quite nice that he had in fact hand doubted whether Germans are r did get through to usually ly now, no matter what I anticipated that God God had even resigned at 11 1: managed to stuff it up in do. Of course if anyone might step down and had all. Although they have |y country gui some way. Moses lost one else is willing to step into been encouraging some denied His existence from rific crimes. It of the tablets, Mohammed the breach well fine and musicians to put sublimi the beginning they now This week's caption competition iwever that the G< Tied out their de thought I was someone good, that’s their problem. nal messages onto record say that if He actually says comes to you courtesy of Craccum ions on a much g else and Wally Jamblat Jesus would do it, but he’s albums, adding that this that in effect He no longer tie. Or should I s was captured by an too busy appearing in worked two ways because exists then they have been Issue 25. It was, of course, sup extra-terrestrial before he trees, walls, paintings and not only would the aver proved wrong all along posed to read "A n Unfortunate Ex izis did? This is th defense used 1 logged off the PC. clouds at the moment so I age unsuspecting listener and furthermore if He de perience", relating to an article finitely doesn’t exist (any rmans. id yet is that re; more) then they wouldn’t inside. ? After all the have anyone to deny the elected, they c 1985 existence of and would all However a cock-up between Crac be out of a job. cum and the printers obscured the :h on Berlin (a: j did on Rom< Atheists, when told the word "experience" leaving the news, said “God who?” Hitler confro ised oppositic and went back to the bar. Editors cursing and the general 7 l prepared to fi| Otherwise life around readership confused. of fascism (as the world seems to be tak did). He was e ( 2 f O ing the resignation Now here's your chance to test that not pro) realistically. Even your copywriting skills. Tell us newspaper reporters now Germans or at ijority supporte feel they might have a what you thought the missing ? Many German: chance of getting in to the word (or words) were and be in to they did not ki upstairs afterlife flat win an all expenses paid tour of rather than the basement er’s anti-sem they all expected. the Student Union Building, the it I find very di B Leevinme Quad and the picturesque Rudman ibelieve. If they in 1933 the) Religious Correspondent Gardens. known by No\ )th 1938 with 1 of the anti-, •oms known as icht.’ Of cours< CLASSIFIEDS ans respond t [saying that by i stoo late to resis LOST? LONELY? [t? The resistar liand, France, C igoslavia and 1 b’t seem to think date. It is true DEPRESSED? German resi jups, but why ptthe greatest thr< ler’s life came v Pathetic little weed, aren't you? i clear that Ge Creationism explained. [about to be def
6 — Craccum, 23 July 1990 Dm the makers of asel's Lager comes 5TOAT 5TOUT Deutschland Uber Alles? ? drink with teeth!
are we anyway to set our tional Front movement istory never repeats, it just rhymes/ is an old adage that many people selves up on the flimsy that threatens European lieve can be applied to the present day. In a previous article I argued grounds of history and stability. That is if you be claim that we can read the lieve the French arguments at there were grounds for concern when Germany became united. I German mind? that they use to try to slow inted to the fears of many European statesmen about a united Given the impressive re down the reunification of cord of German demo Germany. ermany. cracy since 1945 it seems As to the increased size also remarked on the to me there is little to fear. of Germany, I believe it ►wing anti-Gastarbeiter The present system in Ger will only solidify West iod and the disturbing many has been in place a Germany’s position at the els of support for the lot longer then the Weimar head of the European ublikaners (a neo- republic. German demo community. This has been cist political group) in cracy is, in comparison to a fact for at least ten years. ION many. This combined the Italian, Greek or Span Thus instead of all this h the Oder-Neisse line ish systems, infinitely bet doom and gloom, the estion, the projected in- ter. Some would argue it is stateswomen and men of s in inflation and fairer than the British one Europe should recognise U M employment and the as well. It is true that there that unification is an issue s these had in the is racism in Germany. But for the Germans to sort seemed like echoes where in the world does it out. The Germans should m the past. not exist? That is not to however provide guaran he previous article suggest we should accept tees that they will not at ever, was not entirely it. The opposite is true. tempt to reclaim old , All this talk that a However the Republika- German territories or seek ted Germany will ners and the anti-Gastar to redraw post World War ten European peace beiter mood in Germany II boundaries. This seems based on two things; are not a patch on their to me to be a far more many’s history and its French equivalents. Le important issue than mak AN once it becomes Pen’s party enjoys a good ing veiled references to the deal more support than ETONATE past. The only way Ger et we all seem to for- the German neo-fascists. many (a united one) will one thing; Germany In response to a question dom inate Europe is not cornered the mar- whether immigration was economically, not militar in brutality. The a threat to France Le Pen ily. tnch in Algeria, the stated it was a ‘mortal We will not be hearing itish in India, the US in menace.’ It is in France the tramp of boots, but we :nam, the Russians on that one can buy that no will be hearing the rustle mselves are more recent torious forgery the ‘Proto of Deutschmarks. The unples that prove that cols of the Elders of Zion.’ task facing the world’s Germans are not the It is in France that a doc leaders is to make sure ! country guilty of toral dissertation, that the that history does not re trific crimes. It is true gas chambers did not ex peat itself, and also that it ist, has been presented. In doesn’t rhyme — at least ipetition iwever that the Germans tried out their deranged comparison then, it is not to the words German Df Craccum ions on a much grander France, not Germany, military dominance. rse, sup- !. Or should I say the with its burgeoning Na Vangelis Vitalis rtunate Ex ns did? This is the corn- defense used by ma- These questions aside, it And the present is a far article Germans. is clear that although Ger more useful guide to the tod yet is that really the many was the principal future than actions that th? After all the Nazis country involved in the took place 45 years ago. Black concern at i/een Crac- elected, they did not killing of the ‘inferior One could go on for ages races,’ France, through the 5 c u re d the :h on Berlin (as Mus pointing out that the Ger lim did on Rome), nor Vichy govenment, facili mans have no real history Mandela negotiations n g th e Hitler confront an tated the extermination of supporting democracy. je n e ra l ganised opposition that campaign. This seems This seems to me, how South African black rights groups are angry they have been left out prepared to fight his ironic given that France is ever, a futile exercise. The of negotiations between the Nelson Mandela-led African National m of fascism (as Fran- the country most con West Germans have lived Congress and the de Klerk Government, a New Zealand university- cerned over the impending to test did). He was elected. in a democracy longer ies that not prove that German unification and it than the very country that sponsored scholar told Auckland University students. l"ell us Germans or at least a is the French who have re claims to be its cradle, issing jority supported Hi- called Germany’s past (es Greece. It has been suggested similar policies to the 83% of the land is in the ANC but PAC and other id be in to Many Germans claim pecially its World War II So hostile are Germans Mandela may agree to a hands of the whites. ANC they did not know of history) as arguments to today to governmental in settlement with the organisations felt there can’t say the land belongs t o u r of Jer’s anti-semitism. halt German reunification. trusion that some of them administration that falls was no basis for negotia to everybody.” n g , th e find very difficult Yet it was the French made it virtually impossi short of one person, one tion with the Government. men who rounded up their ble to carry out a census a vote system and this has Settlement e R udm an lieve. If they didn’t in 1933 they must Jewish countrymen. few years ago. concerned other black Mtshali said PAC was known by November Worst of all they had not The questions being groups in South Africa. Difference not against negotiation as 10th 1938 with the ad- been told to do so by the asked seemed to threaten “A lot of people are not such. of the anti-Jewish Gestapo. Petain carried them with regimentation. happy with the negotia “What we are saying is oms known as ‘Kris- out the ‘round up’ cam As a result the questions Forum tions because it has only that negotiations will be cht.’ Of course many paign without any German had to be substantially re South African student been the ANC that has okay but only if they ad ans respond to that prompting. However we vised. Many West Ger Nonhlanhla Mtshali of the been in them,” she said. dress the pillars of ying that by then it do not accuse French peo mans have supported the black rights organisation Mtshali said the main apartheid.” too late to resist. Too ple today of being ‘ohne mich’ (without me) Pan African Congress difference in policies was She said President de The resistance in collaborators or mass policy of the anti-nuclear informally discussed issues the ANC-backed Freedom Klerk had the upper hand and, France, Greece, murderers. It seems hard movement. It is in West with Auckland University Charter which PAC and in negotiations and had set oslavia and Russia ly fair then to accuse Ger Germany and to a lesser students at a forum re others rejected. their pace. *t seem to think it was mans today of even worse extent in East Germany cently. The charter’s preamble Mtshali said if a nego late. It is true there crimes, as the French (see that the Greens have real She is on a Southern Af asserts that South Africa tiated settlement was not German resistance Debre’s remarks) seem to ly taken root. In the final rican Scholarship Trust belongs to all the people acceptable to most of the ps, but why was it do. analysis we can not know Board scholarship and is that live in it. people PAC would be the greatest threats on The past, then, al if the Germans will hold to in the second year of a Mtshali: “At the mo against it. r’s life came when it though it is a useful star democracy, but then again mathematics degree at ment the blacks haven’t “What we want is de clear that Germany ting point is not that useful there seems little to indi Canterbury university. got the land and we are mocracy, one man, one about to be defeated? a reference to the present. cate that they won’t. Who Mtshali said PAC had fighting for the land — vote,” she said.
Craccum, 23 July 1990 — 7 TELEVISION WITH TRAVIS BRICKLE
The Broadcasting Commission, up and running for nine months, Romance an has the job of coiiecting and then allocating the television licence At the Auck fee. It has just changed its public name to "NZ on Air" and em 5th July-191 barked on an extensive soft sell campaign to advertise its work and *. 4 Admission: I encourage the payment of outstanding fees. However the way that The Democ the Commission is spending its $77 million budget this year has i 1 come under fire from some Auckland critics, with even its very ex I heard th a t. istence being questioned in some quarters. To set the record straight prove this pu I spoke with the Commission's executive director and programme And to defin manager. Democracy, - Walt W Emily Loughnan simply unable to express shirts, flying executives The democral Programme Manager more than a slight overseas — doing what has always beer Licence fee funding has commitment to local pro ever they liked. Now they ing force in Am< traditionally been used to gramming. not only have to account It was free of th fund minority interest pro However there is little for it but they have to ap tism of Europea grammes on television and love lost between the ply for it on a programme «t-r 4 standards. Am< radio and indeed $24 mil Commission and the $26 by programme basis and was the fresh lion of the $32 million million dollar profit mak that’s a really different optimism of W spent on television pro ing Television New Zea environment. We consider man in literatur grammes so far in the land. In his latest each programme individu . Hudson River ir Commission’s first finan Chairman’s report, Brian ally and allocate funds Without the Broadcasting Commission's help, local programme mak These artists cial year has gone to this Corban states that “TVNZ accordingly. We get fi the landscape — very purpose. The Ltd has been unable to nancial and written reports ers too often wind up in the gutter. den of Eden’ — Commission, though, establish a sound working as it goes. We also have able to identify at least one society about the represen say. It’s strengthened the had entered. An charged by the 1989 relationship with the the power to audit any programme (funded by the tation of women and role of news, sports, cur braced the ind Broadcasting Act to commission,” whose ap company anytime we like, Commission) that they en minority groups in the rent affairs and game part of that lan ‘’reflect and develop New proach he characterises as so that’s something we will joyed watching — like Bil community, including shows — no question of I This new exh Zealand identity,” has also “ a cause for concern.” definitely be exercising in ly T, or something that Maori. So we take a rather about it. And on the other connects with 1 made the somewhat con What do you think about the future. So anybody they see real value in — pro-active stance on these hand, those are not pro- don; and to do s troversial decision to begin TVNZ’s public whining who is using the money to like the Deaf News or kinds of issues.” grammes that I personal with the immec funding mainstream that the Commission get soaked up in middle whatever.” What about the possibili ly consume and they’re This past was th programmes. For exam hasn’t given them enough management layers will Ruth Harley executive ty of the Commission certainly not the pro- movement, whi( ple, it is co-funding The money? certainly be found out. director exercising editorial control grammes that the Com exclusivity. T Billy T James Show with Loughnan is singularly But I can guarantee that’s When I ask about the over documentary pro mission is charged with physical impuls TV3 to the tune of unimpressed. “In our first not happening.” sensitive area of editorial grammes that may have making. But at the same floor. There ws $827,000. Loughnan pro financial year they’ve had Loughnan sees the ‘use control I am referred to political content? Can any time the people like it nection with nounces herself delighted $20 million income from less bureaucracy’-style the Commission’s execu of the local segments and you can’t knock what world. It didn’i with the review and ratings the licence fee. I mean it’s complaints kicking around tive director, Ruth Harley, you’re funding for TV3’s the people like. I really be any principle e the first episode received almost double what they in some areas of the Auck who won’t be drawn on “60 Minutes” honestly lieve that. I think it’s quite and says the Commission received before.” land media as being symp the issue of whether fund criticise the government or wrong to sneer at the pub is keen to continue operat Nevertheless, TVNZ tom atic of ing for McPhail and Gads- are there always going to lic taste.” Hence the Com ing in the area of popular would always like more “misconceptions” which by’s sitcom Letter to be underlying strings at mission’s move toward TV. funding because of the exist about the Welling Blanchy was refused be tached to the (indirect) funding mainstream The Co So you’re still eager to small population base they ton-based Commission’s cause of alleged sexist and state funding that the programmes in addition to fund TV3’s teenage soap (and of course TV3) have role — misconceptions racist stereotypes, other programme depends on the minority interest ones E ig h t h I opera, then? (Currently in to work with. that its new $1.7 million than to say that the for survival? (After the in that the majority of its fee pre-production). How much local program PR campaign will elim Broadcasting Act, which terview I turned myself allocation still goes to. “Very.” ming do you think our inate as it takes the NZ on brought the Commission into the Metaphor Police). Do you favour a fee in Make our own version of small local market can Air message to Joe and into existence and sets out “There’s a certain crease? (Both Labour and Neighbours? sustain? Joeline Public. “Hopeful is guidelines, “requires us amount of truth in what National quietly supppon Yeah . Well I went to “Heaps! At the moment ly we’ll get to the situation to have a go at redressing you say. But there are very a post-election rise). Australia recently and got TVNZ say they’re produc where, at the end of the imbalances which are specific guidelines for the “I think it’s inappropri incredibly depressed about ing 2,700 hours a year. year, everybody will be perceived to exist in our kinds of programmes we ate for us to lobby for an how over there every time That’s really hard to quan are funding — and the increase in the licence fee you turn on the television tify, but ... the Common kinds of programmes we at the moment because you know exactly what wealth Games of course are funding are the ones we’ve only been in busi country you’re in. Here would count for a large that enable us to address ness less than a year, so we we’ve got a lot of Aus percentage of it. Now in our objectives under sec haven’t had a chance to tralian, American and Bri terms of drama that’s been tion 36 c (of the Broad demonstrate to the public tish (Programmes) and not on air this year — adult casting Act) which is that they’re getting decent a lot of New Zealand drama not kidult — there’s women, children, persons value for money. So I’m stuff. You have to ask been half an hour or so of with disabilities and not about to go up and yourself the question: Billy T James and four minorities in the commu say, you know,, ‘Just trust ‘What happened to Gloss, and a half hours of Laugh nity, including ethnic. us. We’ve only been in why was that canned? Be INZ on TV3; nothing on That’s the brief we have business for about five cause it was too expensive TVNZ — and we’re up to with 60 Minutes. They can minutes and we’d like to to make. Drama by its na July.” {Shark in the Park make whatever pro relieve you of a lot of ture is high cost television has since begun). “Now I gramme they like in addi money. and it just is never going to think we could sustain a tion to that and we don’t Roger Horrocks, an as be able to commercially hell of a lot more than have anything to do with sociate professor with the stand alone (in New that.” it. English Department and Zealand).” Do you create useless lay “And secondly, once one of the lecturers for the If Yoi The logic is that the ers of middle management we’ve approved a topic we inter-departmental Film Commission’s funding can that simply don’t exist in never see the script, we and Television Studies pa make the difference; media organisations not never see a rough cut — per is on the Broadcasting allowing prime time local assisted by the State? (This we never see anything like Commission’s Board. So if B ril drama (from soap to seri question being a para that. So I think in other you have any compli $ 1 < ous to comedy) which is phrased quote from a cer words the difficulty is ments, complaints or se popular — yet still not tain Metro Journo in last more perceived than cretly harbour a desire to commercially viable here week’s TVWTB column). actual.” make a 16 part documen or necessarily saleable The answer is a firm no. Harley claims the tary series if only someone overseas — to be able to “In the past Radio New Commission’s only interest would give large amounts cover costs. Zealand and the Sympho A scene from the recently screened Je a n — in deregulation is how it of money, then I’m sure UNI Loughnan tells me the ny Orchestra etc, etc, have affects local program Roger will be happy to The Ballet of Jean Batten, co-funded by the commission accepts that got a large chunk of the li ming. That affect being field your enquiries Campi TV3, $46 milion in debt cence fee. And they could Broadcasting Commission and the Gibson ....? (although there’s no neet the year to March 1, is spend it on printing T Group. I think it’s a bit early to to tell him who sent yon)
8 — Craccum, 23 July 1990 F“ ARTS
Romance and Irony in Recent American Art At the Auckland City Art Gallery 5th July-19th August Admission: Free The Democratic Impulse I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle to the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, I - Walt Whitman The democratic impulse unintelligible. The likes of has always been the driv Jackson Pollock were uni ing force in American Art. que, if only for the fact It was free of the conserv- that they boggled the mind tism of European Classical and moved the stomach si standards. American Art multaneously. was the freshness and Thankfully, this trend optimism of Walt Whit has now been reversed. man in literature, and the This collection of paint Hudson River in painting. ings and photographs uses jgram m e mak- These artists embraced all the influences from the the landscape — ‘this Gar America that Whitman den of Eden’ — that they wrote about; but adds the strengthened the| had entered. And also em perspective of late Twen tews, sports, cur- braced the individual as tieth Century eyes. This is Mark Tansey (born 1949): Occupation, 1984 oil on canvas. fairs and game part of that landscape. the ‘Irony’ in the ‘Ro - no question of This new exhibition re mance’ of the exhibition’s A n d o n the other connects with this tradi title. captured by various me John Beerman evokes a These are just two as the democratic impulse is rose are not pro- tion; and to do so it breaks The subjects in these thods; John Bowman’s melancholy in the subdued pects of a collection filled strongly in action through » th a t I personal- with the immediate past, paintings express a ‘hard ‘counter Attack,’ places a colours of ‘Few are the with a wonderful diversity. out this exhibition. This ime and they’re ! This past was the abstract whimsy’; they inhabit the hunting party in a familiar Ears that Hear It.’ The Simple images are con impulse is just about the ī not the pro- movement, which stressed same environment as the setting. However, one wilderness was so beauti trasted with subdued strongest thing American 5 th a t the Com- exclusivity. The meta film’s of David Lynch. soon notices that an indus ful in subject to the 1860’s colours; the influences of culture has going for it, is charged with physical impulse held the They mix the ‘Garden of trial skyline surrounds painters, is present in this Degas and Picasso are in and you shouldn’t miss But at the same floor. There was no con Eden’ with the industria them; the land beneath painting from 1986. In this evidence in this type of this opportunity of sharing people like it nection with the real lised trauma of modern their feet is littered and painting however, it is work. it. can ’t knock what world. It didn’t embrace America. rutted with tyre tracks. more of a lament than an An openness and fresh le like. I really be- any principle except the These paradoxes are Civilisation is everywhere. optomistic anthem. ness exists in all the works; Greg Stringer :. I th in k it’s quite 1 sneer at the pub- ’ H en ce the Com- Ju st A rrived! > m o v e toward CROSSWORD Political Crossword mainstream The C oncise O xford E nglish D ictionary. mes in addition to by Martin Linnet rity interest ones Eighth E dition - The N ew E dition for the 1 9 9 0 ' s . n a jo rity of its fee Solutions on page 15 n still goes to. ACROSS (Domestic) fa v o u r a fee in- I) Minister of Education, Phil 15) Bruce Beetham is only slightly 3) Casper “wine and cheeseburg more interesting than Brian er” Weinberger, Secretary for Both Labour and (5) 4) Fourth Labour Prime ______’s head lice. (5) Defence under Reagan, was q u ietly suppport Minister (4) 17) The finance spokeswoman awarded this by the Queen. (3) ection rise), 7) Compared to the state of our from Hell (4) 5) “The Government must love k it’s inappropri- OXFORD 18) David Lange (3) me because they keep me out of economy the Beatles are pretty work/ they must be saving me for s to lobby for an ------(3) 21) Jim Bolger, M r______(10) something special” sang Eric in th e licence fee DICTIONARY 9) Using his patented Image 23) The only certain thing apart • (4) n o m e n t because The foremost dictionary of current Duplicator, this man is able to from death and inflation (3) English: now thoroughly revised lead a dual existance as both one 6) This century the US has won ily been in busi- and expanded 24) Darth Vader (5) two wars, drawn one and lost of the Easter Island statues and 120,000 entries and i
Craccum, 23 July 1990 — 9 VARSITY LEAGUE Among the many sports available for students at university is Rugby League. An example of just how On a winning streak at the domain. far you can go playing the moment is Auckland’s Player/Coach David sport for university is illus own university league Unasa, assisted by James trated by the nine Auck team, who after playing Monaghan and Willie Ed Ho, ho, ho. At long last the league boys have pulled off a test land University students themselves into 4th place wards have been responsi victory. They always had the class and the ability, but in the third who have made the New in the U23 competition ble for team selection and test against the Poms, they turned it into points. Zealand and North Island look set to defend the training, while an efficient sides to play Australia. championship in this management team headed Australia are here on a year’s Winter Tourney. by President Mike Boss It was never too certain, he deserves a bit of tour beginnings. They put four match tour which in This year’s Winter have arranged midweek with the mistakes reappea praise.” Anyhow, that win up a good fight against cludes two tests and two Tourney, to be held at games and fundraising. A ring at times, especially in will hopefully stand the Auckland though, and the Waikato, will involve successful social which defense. But it was good boys in good stead for the games against a North Is All Blacks will have to amongst other sports 14 they organised earlier this to see that dominant spell Aussie test later on in the watch them. That young land and a South Island selection. league teams. Competition year is to be followed by at the end of the first half. year. former NZ schoolboy rep, Mike Tolich, Executive will be strong this year another on August 3rd. Young Tawera Nikau Another man to stand with the unpronouncable Director on the NZ Uni with all seven universities Rumours that the team played a ripper, unloading out in the test was the name had a good game for versities Rugby League fielding teams in local management have been in the tackles and running Pommie half-back, Bobby them anyway and their competitions or being af like a man possessed. The Goulding. However, he Council and manager of negotiating with current backs looked quite sharp filiated to local clubs. All Blacks to make the other forwards also played was not noticed for his the NZU test team, sees too. Zinny Brooke, the Mike Tolich predicts switch are untrue due to well, and I was pleased to good play. The boy is a New All Black looked NZU’s chances as reason ably good. He says that Auckland (affiliated to lack of sufficiant funds. see Big Brent Todd go pillock of the highest ord sharp as well, infact sharp with New Zealand’s Ellerslie Club) will win the At Varsity it seems you some way to answering his er and he should have been er than a shit-house rat. strength in the forwards trourney as well as finish play for love, not money. critics. Tony Iro played a locked up, when he at He turned on a good the NZU team should be ing near the top of the Sean Mallon strong game, and the rest tacked those jokers at that performance and with able to improve on the U23s. He says the strong of the backs performed restaurant. Admittedly general territorial advan 54-0 loss they suffered to forward pack is always im New Zealand University well also. But what about they were probably yuppie tage, Fox was able to bang Australia last year at Lang proving and the backs are players from Auckland young Matt Ridge? He pillocks themselves, but it over the goals required to Park. gaining more confidence are: played a superb all-round is still inexcusable. win. The try that Auck With only a 26-10 loss with every game. Lone Misikini game, and his kicking was His attack on Gary land scored was superb in the curtain raiser to the The sternest opposition Falima Fiaola just what the doctor or Freeman was totally and that really is what 3rd Kiwis vs Lions test, this season has come from Cyril Milne dered. He’s fitted into the unprovoked, and he back play in rugby is all Pt Chev and Richmond, David Unasa game of league, as easily should’ve got more than about. NZU has already shown a moderate improvement, and Mt Albert has proven The players who made the as Diego Maradonna ten in the bin. It was good and a win may not be far would fit into volleyball. to see him get that shiner to be a hard team. But North Island team are: off. with a regular squad of By jingoes, he’s turned for his troubles though, Anyway it’s time to Feass Sopoaga into a points scoring and it was very thoughtful make like a rock and roll. A win will give NZU the about 25, Varsity has been Mark Silao able to field a highly com Daniel Lilo machine, who just keeps of Brent Todd to give it to I’ll be back next week to confidence it needs for its Efi Efaraimo on raising the touch- him. Anyhow enough said look at the first footie test. 1991 Australian tour, and petitive team for every the 1992 World Cup to be David Unasa (Capt) judge’s flag. about that. Until then remember, this game, practising twice ev held in Brisbane. ery week in the gym and at James Monaghan As Sarah of Whitaker Those descendents of was not just one man’s PI would say, “When a bread thieves have not had view, it was the view of the guy can raise it that often, the most impressive of Supercoach.
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s l u g g i n g ( FASCIST MIND of their own has also escaped KRAZY KENNY away, and I can't even fly) in PYMANENT will see many of its functions Mr RM Bennett CONTROL them. Dear Editors mid winter!!!!! DAMAGE amalgamated within a new The next conservation defence structure. The Torna You are an unmit Dear Editor Well, all you boring old I am concerned about the Dear Bludger Pym bastards, if that's the way you Department worker I see, I'm do would not necessarily be a ofthe highest degr There is this bizzare idea treatment some of my col I have the number of that want to live your lives then going to peck his eyes out!!! suitable class of aircraft in worse than a frencl prevalent amongst many of our leagues received earlier this Swiss bank account you asked that's fine by me, don't stop On the conclusion of this cor these new conditions. ry biscuit on mouli parents that if you do not con year. Due to the over ambitious for now that all the heat's off, me from having fun. That is my respondence I shall be writing 3) The United Kingdom's econ To say "no grouj form to the stereotypical white actions of a facist Customs and the fuzz aren't on your tail ed" by the publishir primary aim in life, and I'm Officer at Christchurch airport to my MP. omy is not the best. Amongst middle class Anglo-Saxon sub anymore. ter's magazine buffered if any of you are go three of my associates are now Yours from Tapanui other things they are building a urban lifestyle, and enjoy fart Phil Goff Triangle is treason, ing to stop me. facing civil law suits for kidnap Kenny the Kentucky Fried Kea new submarine fleet which is ing around with the ARA, to see new Zealanr Join the Auckland Revolu ping. I would like to dispel a PS: Up yours at the Customs not cheap. They had to balance dressing up in gorilla suits, get RUDE FIRST YEAR by the AIDS epid ting repeatedly thrown out of tionary Army, play KAOS, vote few rumours that have been Department one need against another. McGillicuddy Serious. Dear Editor Perhaps inflation worries then encouraging the ac McDonalds and generally hav circulating. Who is Roger Pym, and why Rabbi Delgardo a la Cheese REMAINING too, but its just one of may fac homosexuality. By ing a really good time then you -firstly, I knew of and had does he have a woman on his right .to be gay, m cake Cornucopia Exists Baj- agreed on the planned itinerary UNCHALLENGED tor in play. There is more to this are somehow less than human campaign posters. who are closet ga zheet (the Hooded of the trip. decision then we have dis and need to be periodically Dear Readers and to those Confused first year come practising ga Oesophagus) —Secondly, my intentions cussed. chastised back to normality. concerned practice makes pe were to travel to Hong Kong As for U.S.S.R. Words like 'juvenile', 'childish' Very politely and without this Mr Bennett, wi and 'you're Practically an YET MORE HANDY and then onto Hawaii for a few abuse to you both I must take M ORE FROM They may be keeping their SANTUCCIONE military machine building up in normal New Zeal Adult' are frequently used. HINTS days in the sun. I had not this opportunity to thank you's spreading AIDS. There then usually follows a planned on visiting any com - Dia Uluiviti and M. Fraser for Dear Piglet order to buy time to change Dear Editors their system. They may fear the - Your rubbishing lecture on how lucky we are, Helpful hint No. 103 munist bloc countries. your very attacking works of Did you see Tim Hassall's let is as unjustified an how they didnt have it so easy -Thirdly, I had prepaid for words recently in two separate ter in your 9 July issue? For dislocaitons a cessation of Prevent forest fires, strip production would create. as a fish eating etru in their day, we've got to start mine the Coromandal. the trip, and have since lost issues of Craccum. someone who claims to have Perhaps they fear the on a bush walkthrc pulling our weight and other Helpful hint No. 104 10% of the fare in penalties for My My I certainly felt that four degrees he has a difficult Chinese or the Arabs or even tic. Gays have airea people live in this house too. Stop rhino poaching, Cas late cancellation fees. there was going to be some time getting his arguments the destablisation and liberation on my rights by al They say all they hear about is trate a South African Seal -Fourthly, I am a fully paid very hair-raising and absolute marshalled. premiums on life ins this silly army thing and member of M.A.T.E. and sup contrasting articles coming up. In my previous letter I relat of Europe. Who knows???? today. You don't!!! I will pay. If you wa Shadows and all this fun and Yours port all their anti-green policies. I wonder why you's are creat ed how the Soviet Union was My main two points are:- rage'gayness' keep games and wonder when any M.A.T.E -Finally, I have no affilia ing such havoc to a simple let engaged in a military build up a) The Russian civilian would be warped publicatioi study gets done. The fact that PS Watch out Watchdog!! tions with the Huntly Blind ter of opinion written by one of an extreme scale. While we, far better off if the effort of the the Pink Triangle, farting round with the ARA is Snail Watchers Club. who just so happened to, on in the West, have praised Gor you wanking turd p Can you imagine my disap military build up was diverted infinitely preferable to falling that night, find things going so bachev for removing a few ob keep away from me GOFFAW pointment and anger when I into other areas. asleep in a metaphysics lecture totally contrary to what he had solete tanks and guns from dally keep away fro was rudely awoken from a b) There seems to be a lack of seems to have escaped them. Dear Editor expected. Eastern Europe, nothing has Finally, on a mo The fact that they don't keep I would like to say that my deep sleep (I admit to a mild ad been said about the huge build comment on the Russian mili How many times have you note, the Slug woul on enthusing about how great vote certainly goes to Roger diction to valium) and then confronted a situation which up of Army, Navy and Airforce tary build up at a time when any American build-up gets forward a unique i their jobs are escapes them. Pym. He expresses all my roughly man handled into a you found tasteless and within the U.S.S.R. slug has found a gr card-board box. Further more severly criticised. The fact that we are having a views, and will know how to spewed things like ''Oh f**k Tim reports that in the Unit AIDS. Suicide. Poof they have now dumped me Tim, you are a bit of a non really good time and they are spend the money properly. this is boring''? I hate to say it ed Kingdom Mrs Thatcher's a pain in the arse, somewhere in Southland, achiever. You're obviously reduced to watch Coronation Yours Votingly but heaps. Remember we are government cancelled orders prefers men as c Street as a substitute for lives Phil Goff (where the nearest pub is miles for Tornado Jet Fighters. pretty bright, but what have all human beings who, like me, some of the blonde do make mistakes - right? (Try So what!!! Tim, you've miss you done with your know ledge? great tans in my ecc disputing this). There is nothing ed the point altogether. The tures, they don't Soviets continue to build while You are the embodiment of ideal for me or for you. It seems live. that both of you have some we continue to play blind. What everything Mr Goff complains about in professional students. Yo preconceived idea trapped deep is it with our society which in The Grea inside the core of your brains or sulates it from unpleasant Four degrees have cost the tax payer hugely. It doesn't seem PS, RM Bennett si FUTON VERSATILITY perhaps it is your hierarchy of news? Perhaps it is the habit PPS. I am still a distinction amongst others. supposedly intelligent people they got much for their invest ment in your future; just sandwich. What I was merely trying to have fallen into when they PPPS. I am also a pi say was how can there by a another lay-about. make rash statements uncon na flavoured milk. 'country-social night' (in this Consider if you had been re FROM THIS... nected with the argument at is PPPPS. I am not an case Fiji-$ocial Night) without sue and then in a real quired to bear full cost of your The “SAMURAI education, and I mean tens of just a first year d having a little, just a bit, hear double-think pretend they have Comm. CONVERTIBLE” couch-to- of our own music to add to the correctly solved the thousands of dollars per year, bed is another design fun and din. Otherwise call it challenge!!!! then you'd be working produc tively today. Certainly the tax that is practical and Varsity Social Night, Samoan It is as if I had said 'Many MEDICAL payer wouldn't have been so functional. Social Night or End of Year So scientists believe the Earth's MADNESS cial Night and pack it with Black climate is getting warmer'. disadvantaged by your over- Lower the support at the extravagant 'Education'. You'd Dear Craccum back of the divan and it Box and others alike. Why call Then Tim says' The Antarc it Fiji... when there was noth tic is cold'. have the debt to pay, not the Glitdi doglit Biz. easily converts . . . ing Fijian about the whole pro Correct but unconnected. Government. Ding. Ding, do do gram apart from the familiar Just for your education, Tim, Regards and Humour Rhubarb. Rhubarb faces. here are some reasons why J. Santuccione Rhubarb, rhubarb! By the way Auntie Viti, what Thatcher's government may Hello. do you mean by 'culturally lost have cancelled their order:- PYM-BALL lam not running! ...TO THIS WIZARD executive position A double size FUTON Fijians'. I would interpret you as 1) The Tornado, while a front being just that by putting line fighter today, will be out Dear Sir have no interest in bed. Ideal for overnight modern western, right!! - you performed by the new breed of Why does Roger Pym even fo whatsoever ai guests. The cotton appear to be contradicting fighters (marginally-stable, un bother running for president? give a pint of Rhe covered FUTON mattress yourself - sorry but I have read stable and post stall types, as Who would even consider elec what the AUSA di is comfortably filled with you article over and over again well as VTOL aircraft being ting the dork who possesses either cotton or cotton/ to dig out the point but you readied for deployment). the budgeting sense of a cock wool mix. The Filipino seem to have confused your It may prove extravagant to atoo, and passes the buck GOODBYE S self about the whole deal. spend the cash on these new about his own money misman Mahogany slats adjust to Just because you could be an er types as they become avail agement? One would think that Dear Craccum, any weight. S.A.O or President doesn't able, thusly staying two jumps someone of his age would have My congratulate mean you do things your way ahead of any opposition. just a WEE bit of nouse - who Rite on her electi and go pleasing every Tom, 2) The fact That the United in their right mind is going to 1991.1 wish her an Dick and Harry. Kingdom really amounts to very spend thousands of dollars on new officers the t New Year. I would AVAILABLE AT I am entitled to my opinion little more then a third tier na an orientation dance called 'The and your COMBINED backlash- tion these days. It has a great Acid House Party' not advertise take this opportuni ing wouldn't change my view ly reduced sphere of influence it, then seriously expect people those people who v< REST WOOD at all. and will soon be annexed by to turn up?!? This election campe Now try figuring another way the E.E.C; eventually a 'United I mean really...! Why didn't last action of acti merit in A.U.S.A. BEDS of attacking me. Haah now look States of Europe'. Obviously a he just call it 'The Bee Gees' who's blushing!!!! new military power structure Revival tour,' or 'Bro Come to member of the A: RESTWOOD BEDS Psyde H will evolve in Europe. The Ger Town.'? will continue to s 200 VICTORIA STREET WEST PS: I haven't used any pseudo mans, French and the rest wil Pretty wienyish if you ask terest in its affairs AUCKLAND course continue tc name/identity but to help you contribute much more to the me. What a pity some people PH: 303-0262 out it's spelt as it is for correct defence, the United Kingdom have no brain. involved with the L Dnce again, Thank pronounciation. will have a smaller burden and Interested Ste
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! of its functions s lu g g in g o n A VERY CLEVER FAGGOTY ARTY pression) they're wanting are a 1 within a new Mr RM Bennett Perhaps none of you are aware STORY BY PAUL RUBBISH load of wimpish, scrawny and environment, fees, or anything :ture. The Toma- You are an unmitigated loser of this change in the law. As definitely unblokish "caring else. Re: the march: they necessarily be a of the highest degree. You are Dear Just About Everyone you are against rape, sexual persons" as I think of all these couldn't care less about other s of aircraft in worse than a french Shrewsbu "Hello my name is Pauk," Don't take everything so seri abuse etc, don't you think it is arty hearts bleeding for every students. editions. ry biscuit on mouldy toast. lied Paul. "How do you do” he ously! Can't someone write a against your goals to tell peo delinquent or what have you In fact, most of them actual Kingdom's econ- To say ''no group is degrad continues with an absolute lack letter to Craccum without be ple that they can legally rape like to be called. Whinge, com ly want to pay for their right to ie best. Amongst ed" by the publishing of a poof of interest, "and what exactly ing labled a homophobe, fag someone as long as they are plain, underprivileged persons, education. How very warped. hey are building a ter's magazine like Pink do you think you're doing read got, lazy bugger, filth etc? I married to them? In my opinion, whinge homos, complain, un Yours alternatively ne fleet which is Triangle is treason.If you want ing my personal memoirs?" he don't expect to be labled any this was a highly irresponsible ey had to balance to see new Zealand destroyed added hostilly. "Git face!" thing 'cause no-one knows derprivileged women, more thing to do. J M Cotton igainst another, by the AIDS epidemic, keep But he had pushed his luck a who I am. whinging, underprivileged na PS. Trev Bold - if you're any The lies you normally tell only thing like the Pommie Tory tion worries then encouraging the acceptance of little too far that time and as a SO BUGGER OFF tives and immigrants and even reflect badly on lesbians and MPs, you'll want the Berlin Wall stone of mayfac- homosexuality. By making it all result now had a very bad back. Now .... lets see if I can fin more complaining... bloody radical feminists etc, (whom I back up again. Give me the ere is more to this right .to be gay, many people "OWCH" cried our super ish this letter without resorting hell, don't you feel like taking don't give a stuff about) but n we have dis- who are closet gays may be hero in unashamed agony, to personal abuse. a study break and get in a bit Germans ahead of your 'her this statement threatens the itage' any day. come practising gays (after all, "I've hurt my bloody back. - I applaud Gary Lloydd, of hard, serious, drinking just to well being of normal women, get away from it all? .S.R. practice makes perfect); and Bugger it." Peter Carr, Brendan and Paul and this concerns me. In the fu The thing is, these people be keeping their this Mr Bennett, will affect the Perhaps the wrong thing to Robinson for writing letters (all ture you should take more care just don't know how to have line building up in normal New Zealanders, by say in Chatswood he reflected in issue 16) worthy of publica of the things you say. RHUBARB S RANT tion ... WELL DONE. fun. And it looks like some time to change spreading AIDS. later, but after all life was full R Meyer-Rochow Dear Eds Your rubbishing of Rhubarb of surprises. -J .F Cornflakes midless one's got to teach them. So They may fear the Bloody hell! What a bloody fi isas unjustified and ridiculous "That's clever" thought Paul drivel is the king of rubbish I'd come on all you blokes, let's tell a cessation of asco! $90,000 or more of stu rould create, as a fish eating etruscan shrew re-reading his notes, "I wish I • expect from 10/13 Child these bleeding hearters how to dent coffers already down the they fear the on a bush walk through the Ar had thought of that." Rapists, what a waste of have a bit of fun, by all the SCARFIE SENSE drain! SAO and Poncey Pym ie Arabs or even tie. Gays have already infringed He had. space. Maybe if the letter was Gods and Fred Dagg. Ha! So Dear Editors have been about as useful as a ition and liberation on my rights by affecting the Therefore he was, .... very Funny it would have been there! I wish to make an appeal to male stripper at a footie club. Who knows???? premiums on life insurance that dumb. But this minor draw worth printing. But it isn't ... "We sunk our shafts into Craccum correspondents to try Unbelievably Poncy Pym is still back was more than offset by GET A LIFE heroes and virgins." I will pay. If you want to encou and be less cyclopic in t^eir running for office. wo points are:- rage'gayness' keep supporting his boyish charm and rugged -And the 'Great, Grey Slugs Conan the Bloke scribblings. If you wish to pre Just imagine the amount of n civilian would be warped publications such as good looks. The man at the letter was almost as bad. the PS. G'day editors, thought for sent stereotyped views for hu grog, dirty dories and darts for if the effort of the the Pink Triangle. Piss off - keys chuckled to himself, he last paragraph of his script was the day: More Bloke Magazine, mourous and satirical dart practice on butt fart Ben you wanking turd puncher and was on his way to writing the almost reasonable, but little it's * of the only things worth up was diverted purposes, as I suspect, Piglet nett, the MFC could have eas. keep away from me, and espe best seller of all time - he else. Hey!!!!!!!!! I'm paying for reading in this magazine at the did, then all's well and good. bought with that kind of dough. ns to be a lack of cially keep away from my back. knew it. The omly things he this crap to be published Get moment. But many serious letters All engineers and other nor the Russian mili- Finally, on a more pleasant didn't know yet were; how the STUFFED Mr Slug. PPS. But get another hero, present opinions and generali mal blokes and gals (the rest of i at a time when note, the Slug would like to put book finished and how to spell -Believe me, Betty H., its no someone less wet and more sations that are pathetically un you apathetic pillocks can go an build-up gets forward a unique theory. The 'only' without an'm.' pity. Life will go on without blokish than Dick Huge. Like sound and rather tiresome. If shit on each other) must vote ised. slug has found a great cure for your 'sensual' body. SOD me. The End people thought more about to halt this disease Pym (and ire a bit of a non- AIDS. Suicide. Poofters are just YOURSELF. their opinions and their argu others like it) from gaining of ou're obviously a pain in the arse. If any man (OOPS... that Didn't Go Too HASSLE HASSALL ments they might achieve fice next year or at any other but what have prefers men as opposed to Well)!!! Dear Piglet something. All they are serving time! The only possum I ever vith your know- some of the blondes (real) with Obscure Science Student NO MORE RUBBISH to do at present is to produce reckoned was useful was the great tans in my economics lec PS: I'm not apathetic but I Who is this rat with four Dear Editor of Craccum, bitterness and equally unsound one I scraped off the front tyre e embodiment of tures, they don't deserve to wouldn't care if I was. degrees and no job; Tim I have enjoyed reading your Hassall? and reactionary responses. of my V8 Holden. And Jo Mac lr Goff complains live. Please excuse the abysmal paper this year, but I have got It's Turkey-brains like him T Bold, all cultures have kay, go put your patronising assional students, Yours in slime spelling one or two complaints to make. who destroy the education sys something to offer. RM Ben head under a moving bus wheel have cost the tax- The Great Grey Slug (Thankfully the typesetter can I have noticed that it has sud tem for the rest of us. He got nett, if our society was as op for good measure, won't you? It doesn't seem PS. RM Bennett still sux. spel) denly become fashionable for pressive as you suggest you Anyway enough banter on PPS. I am still a liverwurst his degrees for free and then re :h for their invest people to put profanities into would have been censored out losers and sickos. o r future; just sandwich. fuses to work. He does nothing their letters. Even the ATISA of existence. T Hassall, your re My other gripe is with the ax ibout. PPPS. I am also a pint of banan- at all. Yet he got the luxury of Column in your last issue con BLO K E TH E an education and a free head marks on the flaws of the En ing of mighty Buck Shelford! I : you had been re- na flavoured milk. tained some swearing. BARBARIAN start in society. Where is the re glish are nearly as groundless reckon your Supercoach fella ir full cost of your PPPPS. I am not an engineer - as T Bold's remarks on Maori But why is it necessary? To all warriors and other blokes sponsibility in that? must have been as skocked as nd I mean tens of just a first year doing a No. It is to be avoided surely, as culture. ! Comm. Conan the Bloke again, back No wonder the Government I was when news first broke f dollars per year, By the way Karen (issue 15), it detracts from the tone of the in the thick of things after a is looking askance at funding out. Brewer, AJ and Kirwan e working produc- I and others have also noted magazine. It certainly is a long study break in which I got students thru varsity. They are were extremely lucky to escape Certainly the tax- that beautiful people like to glit MEDICAL waste of space and adds no down to some serious drinking thinking all students are as bad the chop! I reckon the selectors n't have been so ter at each other on the mezza new information of debate of for about a month on end. But a risk as Hassall and will never must have been as blind as the ad by your over- MADNESS nine floor of the library (read, argument or discussion. now I've finished (no hangover, put anything back. MFC was after a night on the Education'. You'd Dear C r a c c u m social club), but for quality Anyone can be profane, but only homos and females get Hassall claims to have saved Nikolai, courtesy of the doctor! at to pay, not the Glitdi do glit Biz. Ding. Ding. conversation and flirting, shop apart from some shock value hangovers) and Lion Breweries money over 20 years. Well, OK, enough rhubarbsky, but Ding. Ding, do do do de do! (and surely that has faded), this elsewhere. just before I make like a ards and Humour have made a small fortune an- what has it cost the rest of the Rhubarb. Rhubarb. Rhubarb. type of thing has no meaning. tax payers? Hassall, you mon Drink and be merry whore's drawers, I'd like to J. Santuccione Rhubarb, rhubarb! dl've got enough wood from all Looking at RM Bennett's con the crates to make all the box key-vomit, why don't you pay 1st Year Scarfie thank the hospitality of the Hello. tribution (is this a real person or PS. BFM is radio on campus, folks of the "Lodge." Their ser LL ing for enough concrete to it all back, the true cost of what lam not running for an AUSA just a nom de plume?); there is why then is MONITOR the sta cover all those silly bloody you have done. If you're so vice to unannounced guests executive position this year. I tion magazine, not available on nothing of value at all, just a grassy patches at university. smart you can afford to give has been very most excellent have no interest in student po campus? Please reply Mr Sta torrent of obscenity. Why Ah, the irresistible urge to take the country of NZ all the money ly good, considering the litics whatsoever and I couldn't tion Manager. Roger Pym even bother with this stuff at all!? If a piece of grass... and concrete it gave you. Then you can start amount of snogging, snoring, ng for president? give a pint of Rheineck about you leave out the swearing in it! to save your own money and chundering and farting that re ven consider elec- what the AUSA does. the RM Bennett letters they But enough of this banter and stop accumulating wealth at gularly eventuates at the Signed BACK OFF BIGOTS k who possesses show up for what they are; on with the letter. Do you other people's direct expense. "Lodge" after a hard night on g sense of a cock- Dr Nikolai CHEAP AND SADLY LACKING blokes ever get the feeling that Then let's see how well you Dear Editors the yik. As my good mate Zig- passes the buck IN ANYTHING TO TELL US. GOODBYE S T E V E the letter section is filled with live; without other people to Re: the clean cut, racist and liano once said, "Two of the n money misman- I They just make no sense. subsidise your idleness. reactionary; take a break. Let most travelled paths in history ir Craccum , just about nothing but com ie would think that There are other correspon plaints? Mort, RM Bennett and Oh, and I suppose you've got them deny these labels (they have been the stairs to the Lol s age would have My congratulations go to 11 dents who do this type of thing, others writing in to complain children too. How much do ' won't) and then justify them lipop and the steps leading up t of nouse - who kite on her election to EVP but the Bennett stuff is the about Society's revulsion they cost the rest of us to (they can't). the "Lodge." mind is going to 1.1 wish her and the other worst. against some of the unnatural subsidise? Are they going to Their whole 'argument' is Yours Informatively ands of dollars on new officers the best of the Please retain your standards. elements found within and get four degrees as well? based on stereotype. For in Rhubarb Johnson (MFC) i dance called 'The lew Year. I would also like to Tell him'NO MORE RUBBISH'. other stupid things,like moan R Smith stance, all BA students are rad PS. I've always thought uccio- arty' not advertise take this opportunity to thank Tell all of them that. Some feel ing for all the people who can't ical, bludging, weird and open lina had a soft spot for the Irish. jsly expect people those people who voted for me. ings may be upset, but it will to remarkable spite. Logical, > ' This election campaign was my be bothered getting a job or GET IT RIGHT mean that anybody sending accepting civilisation or what reasoned argument is notable in lly ...! Why didn't tot action of active involve you mail will end up having to Hey Writers of Womanspace its absence. STILL WANTON ment in A.U.S.A. As a life ever. And then there's the Space t 'The Bee Gees' write constructively and make women! Yes, it's a case of 'enemy WENDY member of the Association I ' or 'Bro Come to it interesting. I think you may have gotten sighted, enemy met.' Being so will continue to show an in By all the Gods and Fred a little carried away with the Dear Wendy Yes. It takes more work, but Dagg, from the way they write superior must be difficult, but myish if you ask terest in its affairs and will of isn't that better then boring old point you were trying to make I think that you take good you'd think we blokes were the these bigots don't want that; pity some people jrse continue to be closely sausages from poison minds concerning women and rape. I photos. Do you have to stand cause of all the trouble in the they want everyone to match on a box to take them? n. Involved with the UONZ Club, and poison pens. just thought I'd point out to you their standards. ice again, Thankyou. world! If they're not lesbians, that your statement in Craccum Just wondering Interested Cheers from the Soap-Box then the sort of 'male compan That is, to conform, in this Steve Barribali vol 64, issue 15, "rape is legal An Admirer Christine Waugh ions' (what a bloody stupid ex- the most perfect of all worlds. within marriage" is incorrect. PS. I think that you are very No need to worry about the cute!
Craccum, 23 July 1990 — 13 NZUSU EXEi ELECTIONS
Nominations are nr the following posit Executive Commil New Zealand U Sports Union (Inc) President Vice President Treasurer 3 Committee Mem FEMALE VIOLENCE conferred by possession of a BOLLOCKS TO about. I recommend Guinea traint because there are people drive cars (funny that!) and that Interested parties; Dear Craccum penis and despite their best ef ROGER Bissau as a role model for so that have some moral stan most of us don't enjoy having forts, they have never quite dards of conduct. to obtain their phone number a curriculum vitae After its apparent permanent cialism. succeeded in growing one. And the other thing is, the from a calendar that exhibits fe Executive Director demise I am concerned to note Dear Editors of the esteemed Nicole Humphries Therefore their feeling of cafeterias are bloody disgusting males as walking boy toys. NZUSU the reappearance of the loathe- Craccum deficiency is externalised upon and I wish people would put I for one will be giving Auck PO Box 28-200 some "Womenspace Space” in Unfortunately I read "South the proud possessors of the ob their bloody rubbish in the bins Wellington your otherwise excellent paper. Africa: No to a negotiated set MORE FOR ROGER land Motors a wee ring in the ject they long for and can't provided. It really isn't that very near future. By the way Serving no useful function, it tlement.” It deserves a truly cri Dear Eds by Wednesday have and manifests itself in at hard! Rhubarb, did you catch the do merely provides a forum tical reveiw, as I do not have To: 'Just another concerned Nominations will ah tempts to denigrate and stig Yours cumentary on 60 Minutes, through which bovine bumton- the space I will only point out Student' (Issue 15, July 9, ted from the floor matise men in specious and Rodney (15/7/90). Something you'd gues disseminate (sic) their some major faults. 1990). ter General Meeting pathetic ways as we have just PS. Poor Trev Bold got a bol probably find most appealing? peculiar propaganda. The Blacks in South Africa Well you blind little maggot be held at the W seen. locking in Craccum 9 July. Sorry, chicky-babes, but con have been fighting the whites breath type person. Have you Although in NZ we have laws bents Union on We Long live the 'Tower of Maybe he will retire as a writer. trary to the implicit 'all men are since they landed, some of their actually looked around you? As that protect women from rape August at 6.30pm Power.' within a marriage, it seems that rapists' in the most recent dia most successful protests were much as the thought repulses Reuben P Chappie the British lads don't think tho tribe, most men view rape with earlier this century (the wom me, you probably do appear in INQUIRY ENQUIRY same way we do. The pro repugnance. The vast majority en lead bus strikes of '43/44 the outside world every now SOCIAL ACT gramme showed two women, never have, never will and have O D E TO A and the anti-pass protests be and then. While appearing in Dear Editor OFFICER no desire to rape. Any man PEASANT ginning '55). Roger claims this the ouside, you may happened Appreciate article on National one of whom had been married 10 years, the other 15. Both Auckland Ur who knows what to do with his Dear Eds phenomenon is new. My se to have walked through the Women's Enquiry; saddened had been raped constantly hand doesn't have to engage in There was a peasant, a wan cond point is that the boycotts Quad. Yes? Well foul mouthed that editors were forced to cut Students forced sex with anyone. The have had a momentous effect. cow dung, have you seen any so much from the original of throughout the marriage and ton and Merry, could not by law lay any ciation incisive article loses any faint In all Yon Hostel twas none The internal and international posters for something called this, which I was also privileged modicum of credibility when protests have lead the 'white 'National Week of Action.' enough to read. It is unfortu charges unless they lessened less Hairy. The person we are statistics provided by the wide regime' to compromise, the This, you undistinguished no nate when this must be done the charge to bodily harm. Both Blest with locks of a pudding- stayed in the situation they would need the f ly discredited Miriam Saphira bowl pressed, lack of international support body, is something which Ro for no better reason than that were in because they were tributes: are cited in support of its He was some twenty years has caused the economy to ger Pym is actively involved in. the paper has insufficient funds assertions. fold. If you bothered to read the en to defend the truth in court threatened by their husbands - Able to providi of age, we gest, with either death or abuse of As the bovine bumtongues Calling Mandela a moderate tire contents of Craccum in from libel actions that the guilty and initiative. For sauceflCm he was, with the children (ie. such things as - Be informed or would have it, violence is a phe eyes narrow, is little more than stupid - stead of just dribbling all over would bring against them in an nomenon exclusive confined to 'moderates' are not locked up it, you would have seen that in effort to bury the truth. holding a cigarette to the child, rary art, cul He was a Lecherous as a tying up, gagging etc). One wo entertainment. the male of the species, and is sparrow. for decades. He inspires the every issue of Craccum, Mr D McPherson man was on one occasion - Preferably ha perpetrated upon defenceless Unfortunate, yet he was cast Africans and can mobilise Pym places a notice, in the no smacked across the face, raped perience as a women and children. Having al To be a peasant 'till the last. them. Roger seems unable to tices section, telling people ROTTEN RHUBARB in every room of the house and student. ready addressed it, we shall ex J & J 1989 accept that the 'masses' may about the Education Action clude the sexual component of not want blood drenched Group and how you could be Dear Craccum beaten so severely that she -Ableto handle e violence, although it is worth streets and fascist socialists part of doing something useful Re; Rhubarb Johnson (MFC) was left for dead. No charge of finances. - Contacts in er mentioning in passing that chil STIRRING hell bent on their way of doing for the student body (that is, if Mr Johnson, I believe it is in rape could be laid. But as an in dren have been sexually abused CORNFLAKES things (not the best way). He you could possibly lower your fact you who has not taken terviewed ex-judge comment industry. ed, "We can't change the law by women. To the Editor insists upon violent uprising, self to join people who are do Craccum seriously enough, and Salary commenj To begin, children are most people have achieved results ing something, not just talking). your waste of Craccum's time, because of a few hysterical qualifications. We shall fight them in the women." often in the direct care and con without dying in the process, if As the entire facts of the space and paper failed to Phone Deirdre Neh kitchen, we shall fight them on I am afraid Mr Johnson that trol of women and it is logical the table, we shall fight them equality, peace, love and hap Orientation 'F-up' (as you so amuse. I missed reading Miss when you are a woman and to infer therefore that the major in our cereal bowls, but the piness can be achieved through eloquently put it) are not wholly Humphrie's letter, but I would physical abuses of children are bloodless negotiations why in available to the apathetic stu like to point out that as another you hear about such things as cornflake shall never surrender. this, when you walk down GAY STUDEf likely to be said women. Yours in the Brotherhood of sist on death, doom and des dent body, you must be quite female Craccum reader, I too Based on personal and relat truction. Foolishly he declares a narrow minded slimey sod to found the cartoon strip "Nude town and see advertisements Social Meeting Breakfasts of sick magazines, when you ed experiences of other men, Winston Cornflake socialism is the only way, bol take as the be all and end all, Motorcycle Girl” offensive. 4.30pm-7 . 30pm women are as likely perhaps locks, no system is 100% and someone's opinion. This university is in fact (I'm hear people (men) make the Exec Lounge, AUf even more so, to be physically some may want a liberal As for Mr Pym running for sorry to break it to you) part of sort of comments about wom All gays welcome ii violent towards a partner. I LU V U democracy or a utilitarian state. the executive position of Presi the 'Big Bad World' where (as en that I have heard (and I'm gays. Although a man hitting a wom Dear Karen In an asinine manner he links dent - there are other candi you put it) "girlie magazines sure I'm not the only one) then an is likely to have a more seri Your account of the mating apartheid and capitalism, dates, you don't have to vote and Penthouse reign supreme.” you start to become very angry ous and lasting physical effect, rituals of library dwelling stu though often linked they are for Roger Pym. I suppose even Quite frankly we don't need and you start to object to things insipid writhing maggots have which you as an individual find this should not obscure the dents was most excellent and two separate ideologies. Apart any of this crap in our lives, CATHOLIC essential fact that if a woman insightful. Your powers of ob heid is the active separation of opinions. especially at a learning institu offensive. Perhaps if you could hits a man the same impulse to servation are impressive and cultures, which isn't inherent Yours in self-righteousness tion such as this. experience this as a woman SOCIETY Nl hit and hurt is still present. suggest a background in sociol ly racist. Capitalists oppose Lizard I'm sure that Miss (Ms?) then you would think again. When the above was related ogy and or anthropology. You apartheid in order to increase Humphries is quite aware (pro It's no laughing matter. Our national mac to a group (predominantly wo Yours in friendship Mustard Seed" is are researching a thesis their profit margins, who cares R O D N EY ON bably more so than yourself) of men) at a sociology tutorial the perhaps? about motives if results are the kind of advertising that ex "Butch lezzo femmo" BA! published. Poems, prevailing female response was I am pleased to learn of your good. MORALITY ists in "the big bad world” PS. See you on the march. terviews etc to: 0 'the men probably deserved it.' interest in physics... a good ex Roger completely ignores the Dear Editors such as, "a buxom beauty in a sity Catholic Socie Imagine the ensuing furore had cuse to speak in terms of posi role of women have played in Pashing in public. How bikini” and as a result she ob Street, Dunedin. C I stated that on the rare occa tions, length, shapes, sizes, resisting the "murderous white unwarranted and disgusting. If jects to such rubbish as nude WANTON WENDY your Catholic Soci sions that I have belted a wom time and friction.' racist regime,” many protests somebody needs a turn on so motorcycle girls. Surely we can Dear Wendy tee ASAP. an 'they probably deserved it' As a (strapping) third year were women lead. badly that they must do it at think up something that ap You are my absolute most fa (believe me they did). scientist, I feel well qualified to There are a few more things university, why don't they peals to both sexes? Perhaps vourite editor/student/woman It can be noted that women give you any tuition in rudimen I would like to know. spend an hour before coming to Mr Johnson would like to offer in the whole world and after in live-in lesbian relationships tary physics you may need. 1. Who are 'the allies?' Uni, screwing to relieve them his services? reading your excellent Editorial Cl have sought crisis help after be I would very much like to 2. Who are the modern day selves of their frustrations for While I'm at it did you know (25 June 1990) I thought I may Across: 1 F ing assaulted by their partners. make the acquaintance of an 'imperialists?' the day. They may get some that Auckland Motors puts out be able to help out my ol' hero 9 Geoffrey PALM Violence is a human phenome astute scholar such as yourself. 3. Who are the 'masses' (and work done and they definitely a calendar with just the sort of by sending you an exclusive 13 Jim ANDERT( non, and attempts by gormless I can usually be found in the do they know who they are)? would stop offending other 'high quality, visually appealing first draft copy of my soon to 18 FAT, 21 f lebbos to label it a male prob Science Library at the table 4. Who will rule this god sent adults as only adolescents are ' advertising that you consider be released personal memoirs, 25 1993. lem are distortions of reality to marked 'reserved.' 'socialist state?' that uncontrolled and hard up. "transpire beauty of the ex to help beef up your already serve an idiot ideology. These Together, maybe, we could Roger, you should try Their pornography highlights treme kind.” I think Auckland amazing publication. Hope I Down: 2 Rona bovine bumtongues perceive decipher the graffitti on the 30.302 'Conflict Resolution in their introduction to sexual Motors have forgotten or make it to the front page. 7 FOSTER, 8 that power, prestige and the back walls. Southern Africa” then you activity. perhaps never really re Love, hugs and cocktails 16 yo, 19 t a : ability to control one's life are Kevin might know what you're on Please exercise some res membered that women also Paul 25 NO, 27JOD
14 — Craccum, 23 July 1990 NOTICES
NZUSU E X E C U T IV E CAPPING A.U.S.A. WINTER STUDENTS 1 9 9 1 W O R L D PACIFICIST ELECTIONS SWEATSHIRTS GENERAL MEETING RECEIVING STUDENT GAMES WARFARING DAY Nominations are now open for Still a few left. Only $35. Notice is hereby given that the STUDENT CHEF DE MISSION To the Denizens and Inhabi the following positions on the Phone Wendy on 390-789 Winter General Meeting of the ALLOWANCES Applications are invited from in Executive Committee of the x832. A real collectors' item so Association will be held tants of Auckland Towne and terested parties to manage the others; An invitation to Pacifi New Zealand Universities don't miss out... but now while in Room B28 All students receiving Student New Zealand Universities con cist Warfaring Day, Sunday University Sports Union (Inc). stocks last! Tuesday 7th August 1990 Allowance are reminded that tingent to the 1991 World Stu 29th of July 1990. About Assoc Inc, commencing at 1.00pm. they must sign a register confir President dent Games, to be held in 1.30pm (lunchtime). 16. If the meeting does not obtain ming their full-time attendance Vice President Sheffield, England from July 14 A battle and pageant of inte THE NEW AGE a quorum or is unable to com at University in order to be eligi Treasurer to 25 next year. resting proportions for the hon MOVEMENT plete the business before it on ble to continue to receive their 3 Committee Members Although the composition of our and glory of the defence of, iny that!) and that 7th August, it will commence allowances. The signing of the Interested parties should send It offers courses such as: the team has yet to be finalised, or the attack against the Auck )n't enjoy having or continue in Room B28 on register will be in the Recrea a curriculum vitae to: •improving study methods it may involve athletics, swim land Museum. ir phone number Wednesday 8th August 1990. tion Centre (Mezzanine floor) Executive Director / •setting goals & achieving ming, waterpolo, volleyball and Bring your lunch and give three ar that exhibits fe- on Monday 23rd July and NZUSU them The business for this meeting tennis. cheers as the many regiments king boy toys. Tuesday 24th July from II be giving Auck- PO Box 28-200 •maximising your potential will include: The Chef de Mission will also of Auckland Towne and other 1) Declaration as to the election 9.00am-4.45pm. a wee ring in the Wellington But do these things actually be involved in the planning and parts besides do battle and of the Executive Committee for Caroline Lynch ure. By the way by Wednesday 8 August. work? Hear one man's ex co-ordination of the New Zea merriment to all. 1991. Senior Administrative Assistant you catch the do- Nominations will also be accep perience. land effort and will be appoin The McGillicuddy Serious 2) Any business which may be >n 60 Minutes, ted from the floor at the Win ted at the NZUSU Executive Party will (amongst others) Monday 30th July, 1-2pm, brought forward for which spe iomething you'd ter General Meeting, which will Meeting to be held on August speak seriously about their up Arts Room 209. cial notice is not required. most appealing? be held at the Waikato Stu 20th. coming campaign and a specta Evangelical Union 3) Any matters as members NZ we have laws dents Union on Wednesday 22 QUEEN FANS For a job description and further cle is guaranteed to be may bring forward. vomen from rape August at 6.30pm. If you would like information on details please contact: witnessed by all that attend. age, it seems that Any member wishing to pro a NZ Queen Fan Club, uniting Executive Director If you would like to know more ls don't think the SUBVERSIVE ACTS pose any motion at this meet NZ fans through a regular NZUSU about this event, then get in /e do. The pro SOCIAL A C T IV IT IE S A collection of short stories by ing is invited to give written newsletter, exposing members PO Box 27-200 touch with: notice to the Secretary by 5.00 Wellington ved two women, OFFICER NZ women writers. Submis to a wide range of related info Alistair Ramsden had been married sions for the above anthology pm on Wednesday 1st August and products, write to: Telephone (04) 851515 c/- Auckland Revolutionary Auckland University 1990. 3 other 15. Both to Dr C Dunsford, R.D.2 Royal Magic, Army aped constantly Students Asso Matakana, Northland. 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Mr Johnson that French, student (F) aged 22 AUCKLAND COLLEGE BALI $832 $1090 e a woman and wishes to have penfriends in OF EDUCATION Jt such things as New Zealand. SYDNEY $340 $465 /ou walk down GAY STUDENTS Please write to: (Teacher's College) i advertisements Social Meeting, Fridays Anne-Laure Jaouen W A N TS YOU zines, when you 4.30pm-7 .30pm. 20 rue de la deuxieme D.B. PARIS $1150 $2040 (men) make the Exec Lounge, AUSA Rm 137. F-29480 Le Relecq Kerhuon to come to one of their Successful Sports Socials ents about wom- All gays welcome including ATI FRANCE 74 Epsom Ave, Gate 3 TOKYO $890 $1465 e heard (and I'm gays. ^ O CO ne only one) then Starts 7.30pm. O ^ CO jcome very angry Cheap drinks, wow soundz NADI $340 $672 5-e°S =3 = T < :o object to things and a good time. an individual find CATHOLIC " Come meet us haps if you could EDUCATION future teachers" ROUND THE WORLD lis as a woman .£> co SOCIETY NEWS ACTION GROUP "Come be check'n'us out" cz • jld think again, Auckland-Hong Kong-Rome-London-New York- ng matter. Education Action Group meets Only $4.00 Our national magazine "The Los Angeles-Honolulu-Auckland >urs in friendship Mustard Seed" is soon to be Tuesday, 1pm, room 138 (be Be there or be rectangular! rzo femmo" BA! published. Poems, articles, in hind TV room). Come along and From $ 2 6 9 5 be as subversive as you like... on the march. terviews etc to: Otago Univer • Prices correct at time of print but subject to change without notice sity Catholic Society, 52 Union help save education. Street, Dunedin. Or pass on to For further information see BOOK N O W J W E N D Y your Catholic Society Commit- Roger Pym, Education Vice UNIVERSITY CLUB tee ASAP. President - AUSA. And get the best deals on our low cost fares, absolute mostfa- Coopers Beer Promotion! the flexibility to change your mind as you go at a price you can atford. Wednesday 20th July. Ask the expert advice of our well travelled consultants. (student/woman And travel with the reassurance of our 120 offices worldwide. world and after Toss the Boss to win a free beer xcellent Editorial CROSSWORD SOLUTION between 6-8pm )) I thought I may Across: 1 Phil PRICK, 4 Norman KIRK, 7 FAB, ) out my oT hero 9 Geoffrey PALMER, 11 Winston PETERS, 13 TDH, 7 / 1 ou an exclusive LOST TRAVEL 13 Jim ANDERTON, 15 FERRY, 17 RUTH Richardson, y of my soon to 18 FAT, 21 POTATOHEAD, 23 TAX, 24 Mike MOORE, Stephen Pastel irsonal memoirs, 25 1993. up your already Will Stephen Pastel please meet ication. Hope I with' the Women's Rights Down: 2 Ronald REAGAN, 3 KBE, 5 IDLE, 6 KOREA, 64 High St - 390-458 University — 370-555 ! front page. Officer at 1pm Wednesday 7 FOSTER, 8 BUSH, 10 MAKE, 13 Yasser ARAFAT, Telephone Sales — 366-6673 Groups Dept. — 399-723 25th July, 3S and cocktails 16 YO, 19 TAX, 20 SET, 22 Benito Mussolini, II DUCE, Paul 25 NO, 27 JODIE This meeting is urgent.
Craccum, 23 July 1990 — 15 T H E M A R C H By Max Chappie
‘F**k off Phil!’ was the message given the fees. Placards held by marchers said Zealand society and we work our butts ment spent 5.4% of its money on tertiary to the Labour Government’s Education ‘It’s okay, I still have $1.85 left on my off at university. We’ve got to be certain education while other countries were Minister by angry students marching overdraft’, ‘I love proverty’ and T lost 10 that the future of tertiary education is in spending 8% and 9%. against tertiary fees last week. stone on the education diet, you can too’. sured, that it’s not going to be a play ‘Education is the way to decrease crime, Close to 1000 university, polytechnic Others said ‘Fees Suck’, ‘Don’t bank on ground of spoilt brats’. to decrease unemployment and to in VOLUM and College of Education students took loans’ and ‘F’Goff Phil.’ Auckland Technical Institute Students crease prosperity,’ he said. to Queen street on Thursday in a loud but Association president David Rhodes A.U.S.A’s new president, Doug Sad peaceful lunch-time protest against the Toast and Beans spoke to the rally with his four-year-old lier, said the protests against fees should j $1250 tertiary fee bought in by Labour One child held a sign saying ‘reduce son Jasper by his side to symbolise that continue until the fees stopped, even if it despite earlier promises to the contrary. Mum’s fees — I’m sick and tired of Toast he was marching for the future of Edu took years. The march followed a 5000-strong pro and Beans’. Another marcher flew a New cation. ‘If we don’t fight the fees now our sons test by Otago University Students in and daughters in the next 20 years might Dunedin the previous day. Both marches M have to pay $20,000 to get a degree and were part of the New Zealand University that’s not on.’ Students Association’s national week of action. V Hunting Anger Lockwood Smith said some peole Auckland student leaders voiced their told him students were not worried about j bitter anger at the Government’s broken the fees. But he said the protest confirmed promise and led students in chants includ they were ‘hurting, and hurting bad’. ing ‘two, four, six, eight, Goffs head on ‘It’s good. It shows the amount of hard a plate’ and ‘no way, we can’t pay!’ ship they face in trying to find this money, They appealed to spectators to get be Its a lot of money for students. hind their opposition to fees to protect the Smith said the Labour Government education system for tomorrow’s planned to increase the fees next year. He children. signed a pledge to resign if National 1 Students sat down four times in the came the government and fees were not busiest inner city intersections and later removed by 1992. shouted down politicians who attempted Mixed to speak to the crowd in Queen Elizabeth This move gained mixed reaction from Square. the crowd — many marchers applauded Shouted Down while others shouted ‘Bullshit’. Eden Labour’s MP Richard Northey Amid booing and hissing Richard was barely audible over the jeering assem Northey took to the stage and tried to ex Zealand flag upside down to indicate that ‘For too long New Zealand has been at bly, which shouted ‘bullshit’ at his at plain why Labour had backed down on ‘New Zealand needs desperate help’. Out the bottom of the Western World. Geo tempts to justify the fees and criticise its no fees promise. going Auckland University Students As graphically we’re stuck here but from an National Party Policy. National’s Educa He said Labour did it to get 8000 more sociation president Ella Henry told educational point of view it’s successive tion spokesperson Lockwood Smith was places in Universities and Polytechnics marchers the user pays education system Governments that have put us here. We also heckled, but students cheered when and 20,000 more people into pre-school was keeping lower income groups out of don’t need to be here and we don’t need he signed a pledge to resign if National education. The jeering continued and at universities and students wanted open ac to stay here. It’s not a question of money won the election and did not scrap the fee. one stage one marcher playfully tried to cess for all tertiary institutions. it’s a question of wisdom.’ Some students came to the march dressed make his dog attack the MP. A banner in rubbish sacks and one wore a towel and Spoilt Brats Spending on the dog’s back said ‘Filthy Phil’s fees braces to illustrate the financial pain of ‘We make a contribuiton to New Rhodes said the New Zealand Govern- mean no food for me.’
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