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Crisis at Elam 'nat, unimaginative, unintelligent, pompous Auckland University Student Magazine Volume 53 Issue 4. uction of ity area 4 Students on the main campus rarely year ? With the high first year intake there torway aranything about their counterparts certainly isn’t the extra space to expansion r Elam, the Fine Arts School. And accommodate the extra students who bat Alfred many ways it ’s not surprising. Their pass on to the second year. This will lead 7 open as lysical remoteness from the University to increased competiveness amongst >wn by the motorway in what’s left of students putting more emphasis on ?y moton^ afton Gully has a lot to do with it, grading and taking it away from the js place pled with the fact that Elam students students personal attitude to his/her work. king eithei d to stick together as a homogeneous It is not the function of the A rt School ed Street, sdown at the School and rarely to induce conformity in the students onds Stre future onto the main campus except for work by an obsession with grades. nd then ^occasional A rt History lecture/ The work in the first year is generally Itorial. f I don't But Elam has always had a history of of an unresolved nature due to the short eration. ble between the administration at duration of each session. The qualities letter: school and the roughly 145 students being assessed in these sessions are in the oare studying towards Batchelor and student’s attitude and approach to their work and not in the final ‘art’ 's rates uf, ter of Fine Arts Degree. These disputes produced. ur motor- e been over a number of issues such as re m y next isorsh:p, parking facilities and some of CRISIS AT Here are the comments from a second staff members but the perennial year student which very much reflect plain that seems to surface year these trends. ter year is the question of marking or dents / ding an artists’ works. ‘My experience from last year indicated ers or to me that, more often than not, students g Council, Much art involves self revelation, who tried to experiment and move in t Alfred ereas.a maths assignment may be ELAM their own directions were failed, while nt/y. ally impersonal, a painting is very often students like myself who produced safe I. And I w piece Pa'nter- From the students’ . mediocre work designed to satisfy tutors excitementintof view, assessment o f his work is I requirements were passed. ted Bill tsessment of himself. A failure in ‘art’ is ; It is therefore dear to me that tougher zwspaperr fiore complete and less redeemable than i assessment w ill not produce a higher failure in anything else. To the staff, j standard o f work at Elam. In fact the bey do th \ lost of whom have gone through the ! opposite is ture. In a highly competitive zm. I just ime unpleasant process, assessment may i atmosphere students are forced to don’t bequally upsetting. If a student’s values produce 'safe ’ mediocre work. The uestion in nnflict with those of his assessor, you essential need for students to experiment lit a broil ft what amounts t0 a war of validity. and try new directions is lost when ’ M his has been a recurring story in the students feel pressure to produce work istory of art. Aucklanders might now that will satisfy tutors. ’ , door 4 aveavague appreciation of what was uvolved when the surrealists held up to What perhaps is more strange is that idicule the academic tradition which the high failure rate of students did not bs dominant at the beginning of this seem to follow the basis of the true quality entury. The surrealists, in the course of of the work presented. In fact one o f the successful challenge, saw many of their most incongruous results of the tougher ports than eretical criteria turn respectable - they marking appears to be that the standard ng has beer «reabsorbed so completely into the. | of work submitted by those who passed , influence nain stream of tradition that the recent in some instances was considerably lower irst time urrealist exhibition in Auckland attracted/^ than some of those who failed. This jp o f Amer- ccord crowds to the city §allerV- F iftY c would give rise to the natural assumption > a crimim! W ag° jt would have attracted only * that some students were failed not on the QQ in on the m >ridicule and disbelief, basis of their artistic performance but on * reported But for every batch o f students the In the first year o f study at Elam a during the year and the students final some other form of assessment such as endant stall pe conflict takes place. The real ‘provisional’ grade is given after a session assessment. perhaps the ability of a student to get at kind of inovators are inevitably upsetting to their lasting 4 weeks in each of the various In other departments at the University, along with his/her lecturer or tutors. If fess the roo: asters, and are declared heretics.... departments - sculpture painting, photo­ term grades have a set percentage weight this is the case then all we can say is that ided, - 1 was hich means that they don’t get diplomas, graphy, printmaking and design. This towards the final mark which is stipulated it seems a strange set of standards to adopt >y bad fori eschool has the highest dropout rate of grade is determined only by the tutors ;and set in the university calendar The in evaluating a student’s artistic credibility. in the various departments that a student lack of consistancy in the marking is a oy ride." the faculties. The situation this year is effectively has been involved in and it is not until serious disadvantage to Fine Arts students ;ised by his Last year, 1978, saw a great increase the same as last year although the the end of the academic year that the Any grading must have relevance and easures the number of first year students who weighting o f provisional grades has been whole staff look at a student’s work meaning to students so they have a guide »n”. He ere failed - about 47% did not pass changed. The definition of ‘provisional all together. It was stressed by the staff at to their progress through the year. This ended sen- ompared with a fairly constant up to grades’ (ie indicative of a student’s the beginning o f 1978 that provisional obviously is not what happened at be "trans- in previous years. Although the staff performance) however still stands. This grades would give a fair indication to Elam last year. he dilemna ave stated that this increase was due to year student pressure on staff should students of their progress in the various This year there has seen a larger than in Mao. ie poor quality of work submitted, the hopefully result in a more realistic grading normal intake of first year students at tudents feel that they were inadequately departments. But what has happened is system. iformed during the year about how that a wide discrepancy has emerged Elam. Does this mean that there will be a ieir work was to be assessed. between the ‘provisional’ grades given high failure rate again at the end of the LIZ MITCHELL, DAVID MERRITT Would the person who put the sign on the C 3 STUDASS noticeboard concerning the presence of American nuclear missiles in New Zealand please get in touch with Craccum urgently, and I mean as soon as possible. Q. When is sexism not sexism? jon’t forget tc iresentative Cc Nominations are re-opened fo r the Notice is given that the Autumn [meeting o f th position of Association Representative on General Meeting o f the Association will Inesday at 1 p the Audio-Visual Committee. be held in University Lecture Theatre lfloor above tl An appointment to this position will be B28 commencing at 1.00 pm on issue of Cracc made at the SRC Meeting to be held in Wednesday 28th March 1979. ;isms of the e the SRC Lounge at 1.00 pm on Wednesday Notice is also given that if the meeting [place where c 14 March. Nominations close at that to be held on 28 March does not obtain a jibe raised and meeting and all candidates should attend quorum or if it otherwise fails to deal WOMEN IN I. re about them. from 1.00 pm. with all business on the Agenda the SRC is also the Autumn General Meeting will occur or NEW ZEALAND [Students’ Ass< R.W. Lack, will continue in the Student Union I actioned. Thi: SECRETARY Cafeteria from 1.00 pm on Thursday jitical significar 29 March 1979. Photographic Competition jida - abortion APOLOGY Notice o f motions for the Agenda for idge dispute. this meeting should be handed to the For women only. For a long time women photographers have been in the shadowpnce ^71 the The Craccum editor wishes to apologise Secretary by noon on Tuesday 20 March but now things are beginning to change. Women’s A rt is becoming a strong and vigorchad policy in to all the election candidates in last save in the case of motions proposing a form. To encourage this, the Women’s Rights Action Committee of the New Zealand iga woman s i weeks election owing to the late appear­ constitutional amendment. Notice of University Students’ Association is organising a nation-wide photographic competitio ^ 611 rea^ rm< ance of the Election Broadsheet.
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