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. The proposed constitutional amendments must on the subject o f ‘Women in New Zealand’. If you have been waiting for a chance to iyears- *n co£c reasons for the delay in its production are be handed to the Secretary by noon on have your work recognised,-then this is it. Photographs should be 8 x 10 ins and blac ant that the St explained elsewhere. Mea Culpa, mea Tuesday 13 March or they may not be and white. All entries must be in by Friday, 4th May. Further details available from ’ve^ °PPps®d '< culpa, mea culpa. discussed at this meeting. your Women’s Rights Officer or local Students’ Association Office. ther restrictior 3...... ■ C. t ■ abortion and h SITS VAC CONCERT oups in pushing jntraception, St islation and otl Nominations are opened for the position Featuring MISEX direct from Sydney s. The reasons of Social Controller. Nominations close at and ‘the Dudes’. Venue, Old Maid Theatre, rly obvious. A the S.R.C. Meeting to be held on the 14 Tuesday March 20 at 6 and 8.30 pm March. $2.00 Students ich affected as $3.00 General Public difficulties in The closing date for nominations for the Book at Taste Records from 13th tion in New i position o f Capping Controller is extended. The Students’ Nominations now close at the S.R.C. MOTORCYCLE CLUB AGM. SRC to lend its Meeting to be held on the 14th March. an Internationi Elections for both these positions will be Time : 7.00 pm Thursday 1 5th March lied for March • held at this S.R.C. Meeting, and applicants Place: Rm144S.U.B. ked by p rotes should attend from 1.00 pm. The meeting Let’s have a club this year, even R.D’s are icluding New Ze will be held in the S.R.C. Lounge. allowed !! nt to play an a stm^t MARY GE&RCHAN&^ a b id in g IN the day, come ting on Tuesd LOST : A T^JPor LWDfJl U t > ) uesday) at 1 pm SBC flunge. Navy blue (long-sleeved) sweat-shirt with POOH SOCIETY’S inaugural meeting of Anyone who is seriously interested in Apartheid or key figures in other [ Another issue ‘Training’ printed in white across the the year (also our A.G.M.) will be on how the Students Association works (or organizations whose activities are contriangere Bridge d chest. Wednesday 14th March at 7 pm in the doesn’t work depending on your point of to the policy of the SRC. Once you hatfthe site have b — Lost or more likely ‘taken’ from the Old Grad Bar. All Druids, Gnomes, view) will save themselves a lot of time your resolution passed by the SRC youIveral months nc Club Notice boards in Quad on Fri 2nd Wombles and other interested persons are and trouble if they buy, beg, borrow or might feel you would like some financilatstudents con March. Phone Lisa 448-937 or hand in to invited to attend and plan this years silly steal a copy of the AUSA Constitution. assistance to action the policy containations, for it is th Studass Office. Thank you. activities e.g. Heffalump Hunt, Eeyores You can purchase one o f these tomes in your resolution. There exists the ‘SR(j Birthday Party etc... from the STUDASS Office for the modest Policy Action Fund’ for this purpose. sum of 75 cents. So much for the sales This year there is $3,500 in the Fund. I talk. way to get your policy passed by the Sl| E.U. MEETING BADMINTON CLUB Sections 38 to 41 of the Constitution is to stack the meeting. Also, if the . Tuesday 13 March, 1 -2 pm in the SRC Every Saturday 1-6 pm and Tuesday deal with matters relating to meetings of Executive have been doing things you Lounge. David Stewart speaks on ‘The nights in Rec Centre. Everybody welcome the Student Representative Council (or don’t like then the SRC is the place to | Cost of Committment’. especially LADIES. Coaching available SRC as it is known for want of a better raise the matter. for beginners on Saturday at 10. The fees name). Section 42 deals with the powers SRC is the official policy making bo are a paltry $5 for students and $10 rest DEANS LECTURE and function of the SRC. The important of the Association. Within the Associat of the world. Rumour has it that there is things to know are that the SRC must there are four levels o f power. A t the ‘Drugs and Society’ by Professor a social in the offing soon but don’t tell meet at least monthly during the lowest stratum is the Executive, above M.J. Rand, University of Melbourne anyone as news of it will grace this,spot Academic year, that a quorum is formed this is the SRC, then there is the policy! Pharmacology Department. Robb Lecture in Craccum. by 50 members of SRC, and all members General Meetings, and finally referendum Theatre, School of Medicine, Wednesday of the Students Association are members policy. The theory behind this is thatt 14 March, noon. STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT of SRC. Also, the SRC has the following Executive makes day to day decisions, powers and functions: they are controversial they are discussed AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL S.C.M. is a student Christian group with (i) the consideration and passing of at SRC and if necessary SRC can calif: a difference. SCMers are not a group of resolutions on any matter raised by any a General Meeting or Referendum. Our first meeting for the year will be spiritual navel-gazers. We work with member including the making o f appro­ The first SRC meeting of the year wi^ on Monday March 12 1-2 pm in the Corso, Amnesty International and the priate recommendations to the Executive. be held at 1 pm on Wednesday 14 Mari Executive Lounge, Student Union Auckland Anti-apartheid Council.... We (ii) the consideration of matters arising in the SRC lounge. All students areur; Building. All are welcome. also run the Second Hand Bookstall and from previous Executive meetings includ­ to attend this meeting. Remember thatilj A.I. is a world wide human rights have discussions on religious themes. ing the power to recommit such matters you intend to do battle in this august organisation with 170,000 members in Our first such regular discussion will be to the Executive. forum that you will be at a distinctdis-j 107 centres. If you are concerned about held on Tuesday March 13 1-2 pm in (iii) the affiliation of clubs and societies. advantage if you are not familiar with those people that are detained and often Room 143, (beside the T. V. room) of the If you haven’t given up on this rave meeting procedure and I once again urge tortured for their political/religious Student Union Building. Everyone is yet you will now receive your reward. The all students to read the Constitution] beliefs, colour or ethnic origins - then welcome to attend. For further details on SRC can be used as a tool to further your hints on this and other interesting topic* see us at this meeting. For further details * SCM contact: Mitzi Nairn 685-192 or own humanitarian causes such as demon­ please contact Paul 874-503. ' John Newberry 686-377. strating against the visit of supporters of Colin McFadzean

PAGE 2 CRACCUM MARCH 12 The Craccum afEotti Blurb )on’t forget to go to SRC (Student will help win for us better conditions in EDITOR SOUNDS OFF Craccum went o ff to the printers in iresentative Council) this week. The our jobs both in the holidays and when Craccum received the following letter Wanganui on time noon Friday and we all A jA tmeeting o f the year will be this we leave University. Students and workers last week. went home and collapsed into bed after inesday at 1 pm in the SRC Lounge, have many interests in common - in the working for two days solid w ithout any \ tfloor above the cafe. I notice that the past unions have joined us in our demand Dear Sir, sleep and little nourishment. issue of Craccum blazoned forth with for a living bursary, and we too can lend On the front page of your third issue you Brian (the Technical Editor) laid the rubbish the AUSA exec for failing to move on a B icisms of the executive - well SRC is support to their campaigns. election broadsheet out on Monday to go place where criticisms such as these More specifically, I think we should, number of important issues. Yet in your same issue, although mentioning the fact that to the printers in Auckland on the I be raised and if supported, something give our full support to the Mangere elections are on for various executive positions following day. Trouble was that when he oe about them. Bridge workers. The facts behind the (via Janet Roth one of the Executive !) you took it into them early on Tuesday SRC is also the place where policy o f dispute are outlined in an article in this fail to inform us who is standing or what their morning they said that it was too big [Students’ Association can be made issue - they show very clearly that the policy is. despite the fact that it was exactly the dactioned. This week two issues of workers have been given a raw deal. The This failure on your behalf has meant myself size they had told us it should be. ifcal significance will be on the employers have refused to enter negotia­ and others, are unable to cast informed votes. Calamity. After an hour of frantic I f l U E l ftnda - abortion and the Mangere tions with the unions concerned for a I cannot understand, if you had the policy ringing around other printers, it was idge dispute. realistic redundancy agreement, resulting blurbs, as I am told you did, why they were not published. I hope that next election time obvious that due to the possibility of in the shadov- Since 1971 the Students’ Association in a lockout. And the workers have been strike action by the Commercial refused unemployment benefits while you will not fail those whom you set out to rong and vigor had PolicY in support o f abortion help . Printers Union, most were flat out doing e New Zealand fig a woman’s right, a stance which the employers have been paid $30,000 a other work and could not do the broad-, >hic competitio ^een reaf f 'rmecl time and again over month for bridge maintenance out of Yours sincerely, sheet in time, or printers who could do it or a chance to years- *n concrete terms this has taxpayers money. John Davies on time would charge a kings ransom 10 ins and blacint ^a t Students’ Association has So, consider the facts and come along because it was an urgent job. ivailable from ively opposed any attempts to place to SRC and express your viewpoint. ther restrictions on the availability To change the subject - last weeks Firstly I’d better explain to comrade More panic. Another editorial . )^rtirtn and has joined with other Craccum had a number o f letters Davies and any others o f you who are decision, this time to send the broadsheet cups in pushing for the repeal of the complaining about catering, most notably wondering just exactly what Craccum is down to Craccum’s printers in Wanganui. ntraception, Sterilisation and Abortion the tea and coffee service. The reason and what we are bound to do. For a start, A phone call to the manager and yes, islation and other repressive abortion for the changes being made in the first we are not the official newspaper of the they could do it and we’d get it back mid «. The reasons for this stand are place was that according to budget, the Auckland University Students’ Association Wednesday morning. So away it went. rly obvious. A woman student is as catering operation stood to lose about executive nor the returning officer, nor Wednesday morning arrived clear and ich affected as any other woman by $21,000 this year, a cost which would anybody else. Craccum is a student news­ bright but was immediately clouded [difficulties in gaining safe legal have had to come out o f the money you paper funded by students out o f their following a phone call to A ir New Portion in New Zealand. pay in Students’ Association fees. The Association fee and produced for Auck­ Zealand (who were freighting it from [ The Students’ Association will be asked catering committee therefore looked at land students. Incidents in the past where Wanganui back to Auckland) that the tSRCto lend its support again, this time ways of cutting costs without hopefully the executive tried to meddle in the Safe A ir flight had been delayed and an International Abortion Action Day, affecting the service provided to editorial policy of Craccum resulted in the would not be in till 11. Bad luck, but lied for March 31st. This day is to be students. While most of the changes seem setting up of a body called the Craccum nothing we could do about it. Well, the larked by protests throughout the world, to be working, the tea and coffee is one Administration Board who oversee day plane got in eventually and we rang up lcluding New Zealand. All those who which wasn’t, so accordingly the tea to day running of Craccum. It comprises Air New Zealand again (for the umpteenth ant to play an active role in (organising and coffee servery has now been opened of a majority of Craccum staff workers, time that day) and asked if it was on that jr the day, come along to a planning up for longer hours. If students have some ‘average students’ and a couple of plane. No, they said, we have no record feeting on Tuesday 13th March (this any other complaints about catering, the executive members. Craccum is directly of it. lesday) at 1 pm in the Executive Union Manager Jay Clark or I am available accountable to CAB for any matter. The More calamity. jounge. to talk about these. Alternatively, if any only other body we are directly account­ About 1 o’clock, after ringing in other Another issue to be raised at SRC is the student wishes to play a greater role in able to is firstly SRC where Craccum can Wanganui, our carriers in Auckland, the ities are contrJangere Bridge dispute where workers decision-making about catering, they be discussed and recommendations made railways and Air New Zealand, the Once you ha* i the site have been locked out for can always stand as the SRC representative (which we can choose to ignore) or parcel(s) were eventually located behind ' the SRC you feral months now. It is important on catering committee. ultimately a student General Meeting. a few tonne of assorted stuff. Horrah we * some financii at students consider issues raised by cried, we’ll come out and collect it olicy contains dons, for it is the trade unions which Janet The Roth straight away from the airport. exists the ‘SR§ Frantic scenes ensued of the editor :his purpose and lackies running around trying to in the Fund.l extort some form of vehicular transporta­ issed by the $ tion out of people. No luck. Ring back Jso, if the. airport, tell them to put on the first ig things you courier van going into Auckland (we s the place to ra ccu m were getting pretty demanding by now). Would you believe that Craccum has ob This was about 2 in the afternoon. The icy making boi a almost reached completion stage before- goods arrived from the airport at 2.45 pm n the AssociatiJ the pumpkin hour of midnight? This 1 but after inspecting one o f the bundles )wer. A t the sublime achievement was only made the Returning Officer declared that they cutive, above possible by an extensive back-up crew - So back to your letter. From the were all Chaff (the Massey University e is the policyl including Catherine McGeorge, David -g above you can see that Craccum is under Student newspaper) and went looking for lally referendum Beach, yourself, Eugenie Sage, Susan 3. no constitutional compulsion to cover my blood. I hid for an hour or so and d this is thatl Cairney, Bob Lack, Barry Hook, Sarah ■a anything that the students association wept while more minnions rang up all the lay decisions, Brown, Amanda X, Fiona X, Ian Neil, "* ever does, only a moral one. And yes, we same people again (including the printers). >y are discussed Sally McDonald, Richard X, Liz Mitchell, did put in a notice saying that the Resigned to my fate at the hands of IRC can callfoi Frances Stark, Julian Dixon, Mark elections were on and where you could outraged candidates and prospective erendum. Thompson, Tara X. and Greg Pirie and vote and what time the polling booths voters I cringed in the corner of the i of the yean /olume 53 Issue 4. Kevin Hague for their unflinching support were open (Splurge page 22). Craccum office until dinner. Whilst on esday 14 13 March 1979. Not to mention a whole bevvy of name­ Now in last week's issue I had left a full my second cup of coffee, this sudden Lidents are urgi m less (but not blameless) thousands. page to cover all the candidates blurbs desirability to read Chaff overcame me emember that! Craccum is edited by David Merritt, as well as their photos. Alas, at three or and I strolled (or rather skulked) into the i this august rian is the Technical Editor, Biddy takes four o’clock on Friday morning I Studass office and lo, Chaff was not to a distinctdis-1 lepikkies, Alex James did the music, realised that it was not big enough to do be found but on the floor was the bundle familiar with Storey got the ads, Matthew brought justice to all the candidates. So in an of broadsheets which had been sitting once again ur& tall to you, Katrina hummed and haaed instant editorial decision I decided to there for three hours unopened. The day onsti tution fori ;r the Arts, Barbara and Victoria type- leave out the elections altogether and suddenly brightened and, yes, later on teresting topics itand the lovely people at Wanganui produce a special election supplement to in the night I even managed a wry smile. re really ultra for printing it. This has come out on Wednesday morning. Fair in a paid announcement. enough ? I thought so anyway. Dave The Merritt

CRACCUM MARCH 12 PAGE 3 Alan Coren appears in Craccum courtesy o f Punch Magazine, Copyright. Coren From Christopher Robin Milne's recent “ How sweet to be a cloud, ‘But surely it was fun, if nothing else?’ “ Get away from that girl, you / expected Ra autobiography, it turns out that life in Floating in the blue ! I said, ‘Wasn’t the Milne household full Hun swine !” it cried. de Union hea the Miine household was very different Every little cloud of laughter and gaiety and —’ ...... Jshort on idee I he black-hearted fiend who had \famjly man, ' from what millions o f little readers have Always sings aloud.” “ A.A. Milne,’ Pooh interrupted, ‘was been crouched over the lovely Phyllis t onjst- in that been led to believe. But i f it was grim for That kind of junk,” said Pooh, ‘may suit an Assistant Editor of Punch. He used to turned and thrust a fist into his evil L //J5 w^y pa him, what must it have been like for Rolf Harris. Not me.’ come home like Bela Lugosi. I tell you, some o f the others involved ? / went down ‘Did you never sing it, then ?’ I if we wanted a laugh, we used to take a mout*1- IMangere Brid] to Pooh Corner — it is now a tower block, enquired. stroll round Hampstead cemetery.’ “ Mein G o tt!” he shrieked, “ Es ist Iiant struggle a above a discount warehouse - for this ‘Oh, I sang it,’ said Pooh. ‘I sand it all Desperately, for the heartbreak of Edward Bear, MC, DSO!” Ices of big. bus, exclusive interview. right. It was in the script. Dumb bear seeing this tattered toy slumped among “ With one bound, our h ero.... ” fright wing pr comes on and sings. It was in the big his emotional debris was becoming un­ Pooh snapped the notebook shut, hen months. A Milne scenario. But you know what / endurable, I sought an alternative tack. ‘What’s the use ?’ he said. 7 wrote w e}^an 0^°.C£7 wanted to sing ?’ ‘But think,’ I said cheerily, ‘of all the you know. After Milne packed it in, I Ininvolved in ‘I have no idea,’ I said. millions of children you have made said to myself, it ’s not too late, I knowW^ed His little asymmetrical eyes grew even happy !’ where the pencil-box is, I shall come \)MjnsaFy ®avi glassier, with a sadness that made me He was not to be shaken from his like Sherlock Holmes, a new image, a.,flona' ^ 0V^ rn, WINNIE-THE-POOH is sixty now, but look away. gloom. took it to every publisher in London. Wthem back looks far older. His eyes dangle, and he ve taken a tun suffers from terminal moth. He walks ision by the ( into things a lot. I asked him about that, went o f unet as we sat in the pitiful dinginess which ■kers invo/vec has surrounded him for almost half a vnts to an ai century. torkers and thei ‘Punchy,’ said Winnie-the-Pooh, ‘is \ tactic remind, what I am. I’ve been to some of the best ladies Strike i int of the day people, Hamley’s, Mothercare, they all say the same thing: there’s nothing you fade it an offen p the striking W can do about it, it’s all that hammering you took in the old days.’ [ Ail the Mangt monable red, Bitterly, he flicked open a well- thumbed copy of Winnie-the-Pooh, and >e them a meat read the opening lines aloud: bs. This is a ju. \e erratic and u “ ‘Here is Edward Bear, coming down­ stairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the iilding industry ykers have to back of his head, behind Christopher iring the perio, Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only bs. Contrary t< way of coming downstairs” . ’ He looked in workers ha\ at me. ‘The hell it was !’ he muttered. wlike nearly al ‘You think I didn’t want to walk down, like normal people ? But what chance vent) and this c did I stand ? Every morning, it was the Nation for wo same story, this brat comes in and grabs tempt by the \ me and next thing I know the old skull is ■idge to get a f id their familie bouncing on the lousy lino. Also,’ he ttack. This is a barked a short bitter laugh, ‘that was the I democratic co, last time anyone called me Edward Bear. I Here is what A distinguished name, Edward. A name w Wednesday 2 with class. After the king, you know.’ \istoric struggle I nodded. ‘ I know,’ I said. ‘But did it suit the Milnes ?’ Pooh Could you pi hurled the book into the grate, savagely. ^ground to t, ‘Did it suit the itsy-bitsy, mumsy-wumsy, ispute ? ooze-daddy’s-ickle-boy-den Milnes ? So I \To fully expl was Minnie-the-Pooh. You want to know hgo back to Ju what it was like when the Milnes hit the >ou talk about i sack and I got chucked in the toy- Urting a couple cupboard for the night ?’ wr first submis: ‘What?’ I said. fester Builders ‘ It was ‘‘Hello, sailor!” and “ Give us a ‘Body and Soul, ’ murmured Pooh, ‘is ‘I’d rather,’ he grunted, think of all “ Yes, very interesting,” they said, "v labour, to rene; kiss, Winifred!” and “ Watch out, Golly, what I wanted to sing. Smoke Gets In th,e bears I’ve made miserable. After the about putting in a bit where he gets his ,0.L. redunda I think he fancies you!” , not to mention,’ Your Eyes. Or play the trumpet, possibly. Pooh books, the industry went mad. My paw stuck in a honey jar, how would ill 977 they fell o and here he clenched his sad, mangy little It was,’ he signed, ‘1926. Jazz, short people came o ff the assembly line like if he went o ff with Roo and fell in a 978after we vs fists, ‘the standard “ Oy, anyone else skirts, nightingales singing in Berkeley sausages. Millions of little bears marching swamp, and while you’re at it, could he (ere redundanc notice there’s a peculiar poo in here, ha, Square, angels dancing at the Ritz, know towards the exact same fate as my own. sing a couple of songs about bath night: (ere at last infc ha, ha !” what I mean ? A world full of excitement, into the hands of kids who’d digest the He fell silent. I cleared my throata Juilders would ‘ I sympathise,’ I said, ‘but surely there sex, fun, Frazer-Nash two-seaters and Milne rubbish, millions of nursery tea- couple of times. Far off, a dog barked, hem 8 months were compensations ? Your other life, in everyone going to Le Touqet ! And where parties where they were forced to sit a lift cianged. I stood up, at last, since hat we decided the wood, the wonderful stories o f ...... ’ was I ? Hanging around with Piglet and around propped against a stuffed piglet there seemed nothing more to say. enegotiate ther ‘Yeah,’ said Pooh, heavily, ‘the wood, passing my wild evening in the heady in front of a little plastic plate and have ‘ls there anything you need ?’ I said Land Davies and the stories. The tales of Winnie-the- company of Eeyore ! The Great Gatsby some lousy infant smear-their faces with somewhat lamely. greement. Schmuck, you mean? Which is your came out that year,’ said Pooh, bitterly. jam. “ O look, nurse, Pooh’s ate up all his ‘That’s all right,’ said Winnie-the-Poo Wesubmitte favourite ? The one where I fall in the ‘The same year as Winnie-the-Pooh. ’ cake !” Have you any idea what it ’s like, ‘I get by. No slice o f the royalties, of leens'gned just gorse bush ? The one where I go up in the ‘I begin to understand,’ I said. he said, ‘having marmalade on your fur? course, oh dear me no, well, I’m only his was the Wi balloon and the kid shoots me down ? Or ‘Why couldn’t he write that kind of It never,’ and his voice dropped an the bloody bear, aren’t I ? Tell youwhi bout400% be1 maybe you prefer where I get stuck in thing about me ?’ cried the anguished octave, ‘happened to Bulldog Drummond. though, if you’re going past an off-licer: bilders agreerr the rabbit hole ?’ Pooh. ‘Why didn’t I get the breaks ? Why ‘I’m sorry ?’ you might have them send up a bottler ouanaccumu ‘Well, I - ’ wasn’t I a great tragic hero, gazing at the Pooh reached for a grubby notebook, gin.’ edundancy aft ‘Hanging from a bloody balloon,’ green light on the end of Daisy’s dock ? and flipped it open. ‘I’d be delighted to,’ I said. irm for 20yea muttered Pooh, ‘singing the kind of song Why didn’t Fitzgerald write Gatsby Suddenly the door burst from its He saw me to the door. I With the Ma you get put in the funny farm for ! meets a Heffalump and Milne The Great hinges, and the doorway filled with a ‘Funny thing,’ he said, ‘I could never ou get one we Remember ? Gatsby. huge and terrible shape. stand honey.’ ou’ve been wi

PAGE 4 CRACCUM MARCH 12 t girl vou filth]lexpected Ray Bianchi to be a typical the street. This is certainly not a down A \ grading job but when you consider that ’ % Union heavy - strong on dialectic \ \ .. J short on ideas. However, Ray Bianchi \ carpenters have done a 5 year appren­ lend who had [family man, worker and Trade ticeship to get their skills and their lovely Phyllis L njst . jn that order. This probably X \ trade, and then they have to revert to into h is evil L , ^ vv/7y Ray and his fellow workers V sweeping roads it seems to be a waste of \ Mangere Bridge have p u t up such a training. sked, “ Es ist Ijant struggle against the combined We accepted that as a part o f the attack .w \ rces of big business, government and \ by the government and the employers to r h e ro ” L right wing press for a period in excess try and force us all back to work. tebook shut, hen months. Mangere Bridge is much Eventually they forced quite a few o ff .aid. 7 wrote w e ^ an a ^oca^ industrial dispute. The the benefit but we continued with our acked it in I w involved in the dispute have faced a m \\ struggle. >o late I know weeded campaign by the coalition o f They claimed that because I went to I shall comebjilkins and Davies Construction, the W. a job in jeans I wasn’t interested in :y . new image a fional Government, and their puppets \ getting a job. They said I should go well ier in I nnrlnn" w them back to work. Recently events dressed. So last Friday when I went London, p ^ q m r s e ^ ^ down to try to get some money for the icision by the Government to stop the kids I put the ‘whistle and flute’ on and kment o f unemployment benefits to $ \ they still weren’t impressed. No matter what you do you still can’t impress them trkers involved in the dispute. This \ \\K founts to an attempt to starve the v SJ — it ’s a farcical situation. trkers and their families into submission w\\ X* What was your reaction to the decision [tactic reminding many people o f the by the government to stop payment o f fiarfies Strike in 1951 when the Govern- the unemployment benefit to workers I w it of the day went one step further and who had been employed on Mangere Bridge ? fde it an offence to even give sustenance V \the striking Wharfies or their families. In October o f last year they decided to I All the Mangere Bridge workers want is change the Social Security Act. We feel ireasonable redundancy agreement to that it was changed for one reason - to L? them a measure o f security between try and force us o ff the benefit and back k This is a justifiable demand given to work. We accept that as part of the ie erratic and unstable nature o f the fight. We accept that the employers are lilding industry and the fact that in the Governmenfs pocket and that the orkers have to support their families government will do anything to help the iring the periods when they are between employers and nothing to help us. Now bs. Contrary to popular belief construc- they have stopped our benefit but Wilkins in workers have no security o f tenure & Davies is still getting their benefit. If inlike nearly all other types o f emp/oy- ■ the Government stopped the payments to it) and this creates a d ifficult Wilkins & Davies within a month, within iation for workers with families. The and if you’ve been with the firm for 18 the construction workers throughout a week Wilkins & Davies would be around tempt by the workers on Mangere months you get 2 week’s redundancy pay. Auckland and which was covered by the the table discussing a return to work on ridge to get a fair deal for themselves If you are there for 5, 1 0, 1 5, 20 years press - we got quite good coverage from that bridge. id their families has resulted in a vicious you still only get that 2 week’s.redundancy the press on this one occasion. We handed They have cut o ff our benefit and last tack. This is a paradoxical situation in pay. a letter to the Master Builders Federation week we took some of the wives and kids democratic country. We feel that it is unjust for construct­ again asking them to renegotiate the down to the Department of Social Here is what Ray Bianchi had to say ion workers to have to cop this sort of a Master Bui Iders/F.O.L. redudancy agree­ Security and they offered to give us $25 n Wednesday 28th February about this deal when people working across the ment. They accepted the letter but told each which we gladly accepted. If it had istoric struggle: road are getting a max of 23 weeks us there was no way in the World they been $10 I would still have accepted it \ Could you please give me some o f the redundancy pay and all we can get is a would renegotiate it.. because I think that the precedent of ■Aground to the Mangere Bridge maximum of 2 weeks redundancy pay. / understand that you had a few them breaking away from their stand orr ispute ? So in February 1978 we again asked problems with the Department o f Social giving us nothing is more important than To fully explain this dispute you have the Master Builders to reneg through the Security in the period immediately the amount we got. I have just been in go back to July of 1977. Usually when F.O.L. and we also submitted a house following your dismissal by Wilkins and touch with Mr Holden from Social Secur­ )u talk about a dispute you talk about it agreement to Wilkins & Davies. Flowever, Davies ? ity and he has stated that there will be no arting a couple of months ago. When Wilkins <& Davies said that they couldn’t Yes, after the march we went down to benefit paid to any worker or the wives or first submissions were made to the deal with us and immediately handed the the Department of Labour and registered family of any worker on Mangere Bridge aster Builders through the Fed of matter over to the Auckland branch of as unemployed. They told us that from this day onwards. This government they said, “ wii; ibour, to renegotiate the Master Builders the Master Builders Association who in because we were sacked through our own has tried every trick in the book to knock here he gets his .O.L. redundancy agreement in July turn handed it over to the National office actions that we wouldn’t be entitled to us down and we know they will continue r, how would it 77 they fell on deaf ears. In February of the Master Builders association. any unemployment benefit. We appealed to use every trick in the book. We accept and fell in a '78 after we were definitely told there We again waited and at the beginning against this decision and a couple of days that as part o f the fight because we e at it, could he re redundancies ready to go o ff we of May 1978 we got an answer that there later we were told that we would be on appreciate that a Tory govt must work to oout bathnight e at last informed that the Master would be no negotiation of the Master a 6 week stand down period before any this system. id my throat a ilders would not renegotiate. It took Builders F.O.L. redundancy agreement. benefit was paid. We accept that fight and if they want :, a dog barked, m 8 months to answer us and after We again asked Wilkins & Davies for a You must remember that we were to hurt us fair enough lets have a fight a, at last, since t we decided that if they would not house agreement To force our issue we sacked and that we had no redundancy man to man - the government against the lore to say. egotiate then we would go to Wilkins started rolling stoppages — one section pay to live on. Some workers went 6 workers - but leave the wives and kids out iu need ?’ I said, d Davies and ask them for a house of the job would go o ff one day and weeks, some went as long as 12 weeks of it. If they aren’t going to give us any ment. another section of the job would go o ff waiting for their benefit to be okayed money at least give the kids and wives I Winnie-the-P( We submitted a document that had another day. by the government. Eventually most of money. We don’t want anything for our­ ; royalties, of n signed just a few months previously, Eventually Wilkins & Davies decided us got the benefit but some didn’t selves - we’ll battle on without anything. , well, I’m only is was the Winstones agreement - it was that the rolling stoppages weren’t good because their wives were working. We If we have no money for food we can’t I ? Tell you wfa 1400% better than the Master enough for them and they told us that if can’t see what that has to do with it send our kids to school because I’m not past an off-lice Iders agreement. That agreement gives we weren’t good boys and stop these because the wives work for only one going to send my kids to school without :nd up a bottlei an accumulation of approx 23 weeks shenanigans they’d give us 7 days notice reason, and that is because they can’t lunch. If I don’t send them to school I undancy after you have been with the of dismissal. live on the wages that their husbands end up in the can because it is against the for 20 years. We refused to stop the rolling stoppag bring home. law to keep your kids away from school With the Master Builders agreement es and on the 30th of May 1978 Wilkins No sooner had we got the benefit than unless they are sick. We can’t stand for could never get one weeks redundancy pay if & Davies sacked us all. The next day we the Labour Department started offering our kids being starved out and that is ve been with the firm for six months had a march which was well supported by carpenters for instance, jobs o f sweeping what they are trying to do. They are try- IRSDAY 15 M / QUAD - HEA IKERS G IV E ! THEIR STRUG RYONE.

Aing to starve theBRIDGE wives and kids into TOO FAR snts for the kid: They won’t even come to that ball game. payment - it would work out to could be changed. We believe they osity o f those submission to try and get us back to work What we want on the bridge is a fair approximately $400 each. But if you are VIengineered Igll the LI IV UIJ|dispute7 UL^ toVVJ CLa UVgIVVdegree toIU . i • l but our wives and kids are right behind us. redundancy agreement. Not one that is working a certain section and it is not get this extra time but now it has got: ‘.ers5 ose 1. ing because I c( They have been for 10 months and tied to completion dates where if you are completed by the date in the contract of hand because the Company didn’t they will be for another 10 months if not finished by a certain date you get no then you would not get anything unless realise that it would get political. Wilk the situatio need be. you could get an extension. Extensions & Davies must actually be laughing redundancy payment or where Wilkins w have the wi & Davies have the right to put men o ff as are granted on 5 bases. One is if the client because although they are not workin| The Social Security Act was amended ituation ? last year - would you comment on that ? they feel fit and bring in sub contract which is the Ministry o f Works, agrees to the bridge their profit has actually , . The Social Security Act was amended labour. it. Another is if the weather is worse at increased during the period o f the disp tisa hard situa in October of last year. The amendment Wilkins & Davies claim that there is that time of the year than it was in pre­ They are on the best unemployment t0^ H?6 wlves ai states that if any members of your Union approximately 6 weeks continuous work vious years. The one we don’t like states benefit in the world. ^ 3 or * "?or is on a strike which is affecting your work for the riggers and then approximately that if the sub-contractor is o ff the site Y°U had some problems negotmm of the w then you are not entitled to any benefit a month of slack period then approxi­ for more than 2 days at a time then the your award didn t you ? “ and seem a lot mately 3 months of continuous work. Company will give us an extension. So if Yes the Master Builders refused to if you are laid off your job as a result of they were prev the effects of that strike. A perfect Because there is a month of slack period the Company doesn’t want to make the negotiate the award because o f the itmas party for example of this is the people who batch Wilkins & Davies want to put the riggers redundancy payments all they do is tell Mangere Bridge dispute when we first also the Huntly ready mix concrete. They are members o ff and bring in sub contract labourers. the sub-contractor to come on alternate wentVWIIC to IU Wellington. VWIIIIIgLUII. We VVV went WCIIL to IU the U 1C . , r I of the Labourers Union and if they go on They kindly said that we can quote for days so that he is o ff the job for one day arbitration court for a ruling on this an !l(v a^ u° r_ 2 bt the work. Well I’m the Vice President of at a time but not more than 2. All he they declared that it was both illegal strike for any reason whatsoever and there ai and-families — a Union and it would look nice if I priced does is one day at a time and this slows immoral for the Master Builders to hoi is no concrete coming out of Certified the kids, prizes, work and started working for myself on the job down completely and you have up the award for a local dispute. They Concrete (where there is only 2 batchers) leque. This was a labour only basis. We couldn’t accept no show of getting any money. It’s all using every device at their disposal to then the employers could put every itly Workers So* those conditions, this is one o f the main a jack up we couldn’t accept. frustrate our claims and force us back! building labourer in Auckland out on the ealot to bring streets and no chance of getting the dole. hold ups with the settlement at the They also want the right to dismiss work. Every time things don’t workou moment. who they want. We have always accepted for this Government they change the Ite. This is a political move to stop the pay­ [he kids are geti The funny part is that Wilkins & Davies the principle o f first on last off. They law - which they did in October of last ment of the benefit. y my kids ai Industries have the same board of want to pick who they put off. If a man year with the Social Security Act. Could you tell me something about the go to school a organisation you have set up to continue directors as Wilkins & Davies Construction, has been there for 3 years and he says How do you think other trade umoi |Ut Mangere Brie the dispute ? to the man. We have a copy of a something out of line he just goes out feel about recent action by the Govern (jj|e ago and I h; redundancy agreement signed by Wilkins with the next batch of redundancies. If The first point to make is that we were me1 l‘ van. When I gol locked out. A t the beginning we thought & Davies Industries in April o f last year, we did agree to this the fellows who have My personal opinion on tiiis is that |acup 0f tea. N the dispute would go for 5 or 6 weeks. just before we got the sack, which is as been out for 10 months would be the through the inadequacies of the Nation 0f a noise outs We knew that we couldn’t sustain 142 good as the Winstones agreement. Wilkins first to get kicked out. Government they are cementing the tra dsand all their people through donations and all the rest & Davies Industries signed a fantastic I told Wilkins & Davies that if after union movement together. They are dri street. They ha of it for that period. We told the men that agreement with the Engineers Union, 6 weeks they have no work we will accept ing the unions together because before |they were man Storemen and Packers Union, and Hotel redundancy on one condition. After the if you can get a job and you’ve got mort­ they have always had the right and the street in front < Workers Union which gives a maximum work picks up again we want first chance gage payments, especially if you are left to deal with. Their actions now of 'DAD WANTS of 23 weeks redundancy pay. of refusal to go back on the job. They married, go somewhere outside and get hitting the families are only driving the at the neigh bou said no way - we are going to get sub­ another job. We can’t give you the money With the nature o f your work / trade union movement together and in how have you r contractors. There is a basic trade union and I’d hate to see anyone loose their suppose that it is quite important to opinion this is for the good o f the trade

PAGE 6 CRACCUM MARCH 12 flRSDAY 15 MARCH AT 1 PM IN QUAD - HEAR MANGERE BRIDGE IKERS GIVE THE LATEST NEWS [īHEIR STRUGGLE. THIS CONCERNSl RYONE. Mare W ellington improvement in his initial lieve they tents for the kids. If it wasn’t for the Two weeks ago an article appeared in occur on occasions) to questions that ^ B ^ ^ e d a distinct impro\ three years there, he is certainly not ) a degree to I ’osity o f those unions and other Craccum entitled ‘Windy Wellington’. It revealed an obvious desire to seek out real brilliant in this sphere. There again there )w it has got ;ers those kids would have had portrayed Merv Wellington as being some information. A quick perusal of Hansard are few who could be placed in that ipany didn’t ling because I couldn’t afford to sort of inane person, incapable of perform­ in the middle months of 1978 - the latest category. Any deficiency in that part of jolitical. WilJpy 6 kid.s anYthing. You can ing at even a reasonable degree of copies I could lay my hands on - would his responsibilities is more than compen­ e laughing |gine the situation some o f us are in. competence as a Member of Parliament. reveal this to most readers. It is hardly sated for by his excellent performance e not workin] w have the wives and kids handled The vision conjured up in the writer’s worth printing a series of excerpts since ? in other spheres. s actually filiation mind seems to be one o f Wellington - the they are hardly of great moment. Suffice At the moment it is hardly fair to od o f the dispj1Itisa hard situation but fortunately puppet-like figure - being totally to say therefore, that Wellington learnt speculate about how he will cope with mployment |of the wives are involved in it now. controlled by Muldoon. from his three years experience in the first 3 or 4 months were hard because While an article on a current M.P. is House. the responsibilities of the portfolio given _.. wives couldn’t accept the situation. almost always at least partially subjective The greatest failing o f the previous him, seeing he is in the process o f learning 9° ,a lni rn10st of the wives accept the situa- in its approach, subjectivity is normally article though, was its total lack of the ropes. Apart from the fact that he has compensated for by the amount of object­ comment on Wellington’s handling of the advantage of being a teacher as efused to andseem a *ot c*oser to dispute recently as 3 and a half years ago, his use o f the F eY were Prev'ously- • think the ive research carried out and presented on his constituents’ affairs. Surely his that particular person. It is in this regard efforts in this regard warrant consideration personal qualities>such as his ability to /hen we first ttmas,pa,r;y f ?r the |‘ids helPed a lot work hard, to listen to people and to /ent to the a'so tkie ‘-*unt'Y workers put on a that the previous article falls down totally. especially when so many cynics believe learn from the inevitable errors o f judg­ ling nn thio. licdaY for us down there- We al1 went The authors base their wonderful that the vast majority of M.Ps are in both illegal! "by bus - 2 busloads of us with the Parliament purely in an attempt to ment makes me feel that he could prove conclusions solely on one aspect of to be one of the better members of the uilders tn U and'families — and they had races Wellington’s performance as an M.P. - his accumulate personal power ? It is in the helping of his constituents that Wellington cabinet. lispute They k kids’ prizes’ bags of loIlies’ and a efforts speaking in the house. Such an It is hardly sufficient to condemn the r d is n n ^ l tJ ,eclue- This was paid for out of the rates very highly. approach might well be expected from man - as the writers of the previous While he has been in Parliament I have orce us bach ltly Workers Social Fund* This has those who know little or nothing about article seem to have done - on the basis lived in a neighbouring constituency to ion’t work oniealot t0 bring people closer to the the duties or responsibilities o f an M.P. of either his conservative philosophy or the one which he represents. In that time- change the' r e'.., ...... No mention is made of Wellington’s on a series of questions asked by him in performance in either constituency affairs span it has considerably surprised me to ctober of last fhe klds are gettmg mvolved to°- the first year of his stay in Parliament. His rity Act ually my kids are brilliant because or as a committee man. The mistakes hear the high regard in which people y ’ ygoto school and tell the teachers all worth as a constituent M.P. has been made in the treatment of the subject in generally - not solely those of the e rt[ a^ uni01 wtMangere Bridge. We had a march proven many times, it now remains to be that article are further compounded by National Party - hold him. I have heard 'Y the Govern- ^jig ago and I had all the placards in seen whether he will prove to be an the narrowness of the period examined convinced Labour Party supporters couch van. When I got home I went and equally worthwhile Minister of with one exception all the excerpts from their opinion of Mr Wellington in flatter­ acup of tea. Next thing I heard this Education. Donald Macleod Hansard date from July to October 1976 ing terms. Indeed I came across people o f the Nation*0f a noise outside and there’s my who switched their allegiance in the last it was made abundantly dear at the lenting the tn i^an£j a|| their mates from all round - all well within Wellington’s first year as an M.P. election either because of what he had start o f the article that any conclusions ey arf ^fstreet. They had all the placards out It is in an effort to present a reasonable done for them personally or for what were reached solely on the basis o f acause before (|they were marching up and down picture of the man - although still subject­ they had heard he had done for others. Mr Wellington’s parliamentary perform­ right and the street in front o f my house chanting ance. The article did not attempt to ive of course - that this article is w ritten. The other major aspect of an M.P’s tions now of If DAD WANTS WORK ! I don’t know evaluate his effectiveness within his It is not a piece of National Party propo- Work is that connected with the ly driving the latthe neighbours thought. constituency or in committee. Those ganda - I’m one who prefers the Minogue respective Parliamentary committees I gether and i \How have you managed to make ends aspects o f his work fell outside the scope branch of the Party - but rather an can only touch on this point briefly since d o f the tradey over the last ten months ? o f the article. attempt to give credit where credit is due I do not profess to know much about Mr Things are pretty serious because the If Mr Wellington’s performance tiook o f the and thus hopefully, enable readers to Wellington’s endeavours in this field. ? w u stability and uncertainty o f the draw a clearer picture o f the man improved during his stay in the House the e ‘ _ ° ^ /dyotl|ation make it difficult to work out a However, as Chairman o f the Social concerned. Services Committee in the last Parliament­ improvement was not easily discernabie r 6 .Tl^pekeeping system to make sure the in August 1978, Mr Wellington showed o have been Certainly the easiest aspect o f an ary session, apparently he had the " " are clothed and fed. that his days as an active party lackey had o f politics! M.P. is prowess or otherwise, that can reputation of being a good chairman. People with things on hire purchase not passed. He proposed the following Bridge are be judged in his performance within the l l never be able to make up the ten Clearly this article has been somewhat substanceless, time wasting, cheap, party, House. Wellington by no means set the ^fwths of lost payments. As yet no one subjective in its approach although hope­ point-scoring m otion: y that the Iasi world alight in this respect, when he i.Lpm * r ■IlflUfliiyuimgshad anything iwpuwvwvu.repossessed. I Iiuvchave cxa fully, that has been compensated for by a ‘ I move that this House congratulates entered Parliament. Indeed the excerpts in couple of redeeming features. What the the Government for providing a sound tim or%f f circum-lr'irr!!!tus'n8'oan fr ° m State Advances and I Craccum from Hansard in 1976 are entdown there last week and told above blurb was especially concerned financial return on Post Office activities.’ industrial indicative of that fact. However, em they wouldn’t be getting anymore with initially was the violating of the Remember the increased postal rates ? Wellington soon realised that this approach oney. When I explained the situation various functions performed by an M.P. Finally, Mr Wellington was not earned him little kudos and so he markedly being used as them they said that action might be and subsequently the judging of condemned because o f his conservative changed his manner in the House. By the ck to work! |ken against me. I said to let me know Mr Wellington in view of his abilities or philosophy. He was criticized because o f end of his initial three years term his singly I think lenyou come around to kick the kids lack o f them in these various fields. his vicious, emotion-laden attacks on his questions had moved from a mere seeking s cementing |iton the street. One fellow went down It is to be hoped therefore that opponents. His endearing trait o f labelling r. of confirmation from appropriate Social Security yesterday with his readers will have a more balanced view of the opposition as, ultimate o f insults, Ministers for the seeming purpose of that even the ■ent book and bills. Like all o f us he is the man if they knew little about him ‘Socialist’, remains. pay behind in paying the lot o f them, aiding National Party publicity of a previously. It has to be admitted that particular subject (although that still did i around and jjcial Security told him in no uncertain while his performance in the House show- David Beach i only thing larms to get out. This is the sort of thing J do now are up against. I’ve got bills that gislation they§iouldhave been paid months ago. Now W izard c£ ID cted by the just put them on the dart board and een cared for ow a dart and pay that one if I’ve got ing in ? §fewbob. owje m b LASTM lNO Te ) 100 kids All my savings went long ago and now CAF& OF &LLY- F-OF. quite heavily in debt. There’s no THE NEPHEWS nas we had a pU7T Y ,,/rW 0 SAHP thing as steak in our house. We live ANP /siIBC&&. iched our R 4 lL £ l„. F£?UP the same sort o f food as if we had gone >r a kids party COLOKIUG BOCKS .Atthe moment there is nobody _abourers Uni ing although the kids are not getting a h p a wbtty- poo Carpenters r nourishment. Our families have POLL were donatii us support when things have been and we itical. solely to the How long do you think you can hold :ver went ii The City As long as need be. donated by trbequeand Colin McFadzean CRACCUM MARCH 12 PAGE 7 THEATRE

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PAGE 8 CRACCUM MARCH 12 UcLayDcpe his document...... we couldn’t believe Well. We thought perhaps what the when we read the section on dope... government should have adopted was the \e medical arguments particularly. The situation where you took away the need, iternational commitments we could the fiscal rewards offered to the nderstand. But we could refute every trafficker, and instituted a system o f state ne of the medical arguments with reports, run clinics where registered heroin addicts apers presented by various commissions would come and live with withdrawal various parts o f the world, by treatment on methadone. This would dividuais, by private research; all o f eliminate the need for the trafficker cannabis. business interests controlling the alcohol imes down to the observation at the and tobacco empires in this country. The being proved that they had in fact been Multitudes of dope smokers have jid, that as far as the committee has been moral guilt of the men at the top, many derived from dealing in Class A and B presented the Legislature with a fait le to ascertain, no'country in the world of whom have been knighted, is certainly drugs. Now that is a danger for a drug accompli which it is steadfastly refusing taken so liberal a view of marijuana to no less than that of the unfortunate pair trafficker and this particularly applies to to accept. In so doing it is creating a vast, How it to be legally sold and traded, even of cultivators who now face jail sentences. the so-called ‘ Mr Bigs’ .. Not just does he subterranean (since despite Sunday er licence. Why then does the law distinguish in this or she lose his liberty but also he loses the newspaper sensationalism indulgence is \e put down the countries that now do, drastic fasion between cannabis and the assets that he’s accumulated as a result not accompanied by visible side effects) t were doing so even at the time the legal drugs, alcohol and tobacco ? The of his trafficking over a period o f time. criminal class, who must flout the law to rt was written. obvious answer is that the distributors of Now coming to the particular proposal support a habit no more socially un­ ah, I’m conscious o f that observation, that you felt was appropriate, the obvious desirable than tobacco or alcohol legal drugs have a vested interest in jt perhaps one should qualify it by example you’re thinking of is Great consumption. More significant than the preventing the legalization o f any ying ‘countries’, of a type similar to Britain. In fact the British experience fact o f this law’s existence, under its substance which might encroach upon pw Zealand. has not been successful. It’s interesting provisions the sanctions of the Criminal their market. Especially a substance which can’t be readily assimilated into ... look at America. You’ve had that they still have heavy penalties for Law are being imposed upon offenders. their drug empires because o f the ease ’criminalisation there in several states. drug trafficking and they still have Other crimes which patently do not with which consumers can cultivate their But not as liberal a view as many massive examples o f major drug import­ reflect community consensus, such as the own supply. K)uld advocate, and that I think is the ation and illegal use in the country, prohibition on indecent language in a But even if the motive exists, do these iportant thing. despite a system of the type you outline. public place, are allowed to lapse into In other words, registering heroin addicts, desuetude through the exercise of police companies have the power to effect their Well let’s just look at decriminiiisation giving them free drugs, weaning them o ff discretion in bringing prosecutions, ie the purpose ? The answer must I think be yes. er than straight legalisation. Do you the drugs while that may be one of the constabulary will probably turn a blind The tobacco and alcohol companies are hk that will come to New Zealand forms of treatment in any event.. (we eye if you take care not to direct your in themselves institutions of great wealth. ntually? Do you think public opinion stopped short of passing judgement invective at them. The police do not Also their is considerable overlap of blic views on marijuana generally, have between various types of treatment), however gaze in this myopic fashion at representation on the Boards of ged ? you still have people dealing in drugs cannabis related offences. They haul into Directors of the major New Zealand No, not generally. I don’t think they . despite the treatment procedures in the dock with monotonous regularity companies. A brewery’s director might ve. I say that as an M.P. who’s tried to Britain. those who fall foul o f the Misuse of Drugs also sit on the board of a newspaper. In pretty close to public opinion. I Act 1975 as amended by its 78 supple­ this way the wealthy elite of the country Well, is the solution still harsh ’t believe that it has changed to the ment, which enshrines the cannabis taboo. are bound into a community of interest. measures, if it hasn’t worked in Britain ? ee that you would seek, or to a Nor does the magistrate, embarrassed It is a simple equation translating wealth People still import drugs. The thing is ee that would justify a change. But in that such a case should appear before him, into influence. Influence, through the to try and get rid o f the demand for dition to that there are still some strong discharge the defendant with a gentle media, of the people. Influence, through these drugs. ments against the legalisation of remonstration. The standard accompani­ the lobbying of Government by wealthy business interests, of the law making ijuana. Oh indeed ! The thrust o f the report ment to a judicial reprimand is now about process. I see... The Misue o f Drugs Act. We is not just in the area of the punishment 150 dollars for possession of cannabis for e disappointed with that because it of the offender. There is emphasis on personal use. But the wicked weed does But of course one can only speculate med to us that the harsher measures for education, rehabilitation, treatment. not miraculously materialise in those whether the nation’s business community are in fact behaving in this manner. It is fficking, supply and importation and All those areas were given prominence. It’s plastic sachets. First it must be sowed, only possible to look at the known facts. ngs like that, particularly the life obvious that a change in the penalties and reaped and dealt. Practices which the The large numbers who use or support tence, didn’t seem to break the link a change in the law achieves the greatest Criminal Law regards with greater the legalization of cannabis. Its illegality. Ween the financial rewards offered by publicity. But that shouldn’t be severity. An enterprising couple cultivated The benefits which the tobacco and selling of hard A-c/ass drugs and the allowed to obscure the very valuable work the prohibited plant on Waiheke Island. alcohol interests derive from its illegality. itive measures taken against it. For that I believe the committee did as a group Even more enterprisingly the police staked Their ability to maintain the law in its pie, a person would be more likely to in those other three areas as well. out the plot. Come harvest time and the. present state. People are free to draw t a constable i f he kno ws he could heavy hand of the law descended upon whatever inferences they like from the away with the same crime o f man- This article was transcribed by Eugenie the hapless pair. The maximum penalty above data. ■hter as he would i f he was caught Sage from an interview conducted by for cultivation is 7 years imprisonment. eking. David Merritt. The magistrate, remanding the defendants David Beach.

CRACCUM MARCH 12 PAGE 9 NOTHING 1 As an extract from the interview with failure to have done the right thing in the depressives and sedatives apparently did not the Minister o f Justice dealing with the past. The failure of the committee to need to be dealt with for up to two years. Caucus Committee Report on the Misuse fulfil their mandate as presented by the The implications o f a society dependant for o f Drugs shows (see previous page), the Government in the its smooth running on a conditioned Minister firm ly stands behind its findings respect of prescription drugs and alcohol behavioural basis, with a government and recommendations. This is the first has some peculiar corrolaries. One is that legitimising the indiscriminate distribution half to an article which might well be ‘terms of reference’ now means of prescription drugs with behavioural called 'The Craccum Taxpayers’ Guide to ‘provisional terms of reference’: a set with more hazards than to Misuse o f Caucus Commitee Funds’. redefinition of dubious value. advantages for the individual, and society Mr Me Lay, are you ready for this? « as a whole ? Can we do without the tran- quilizing of a substantial proportion of Another more important corrollary the population ? No one seems to care. THE REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT is the continuation of the popular myth, In presenting a dramatised history o f the CAUCUS COMMITTEE ON THE MISUSE long discredited, that alcohol use is an rise of heroin use in New Zealand, the OF DRUGS IS MATERIALLY IN­ acceptable social habit, the drugs provided Committee indirectly shows that some of ACCURATE, DECEPTIVELY AND by your GP are safer than all illegal the blame for the escalation in heroin DELIBERATELY BIASED, AND POSES drugs, and that none o f this is concerned trafficking must lie with the legislation A SUBSTANTIAL THREAT TO PUBLIC with narcotics such as marijuana and aimed at eradicating the importing of HEALTH AND POLITICAL STABILITY cocaine, which are dangerous, addictive buddha sticks.... . IN NEW ZEALAND. IT IS CHARACTER drugs. This blatantly self-serving example ISED BY A WHOLESALE DISREGARD of accidental misinformation (annual ‘As police and customs methods OF MEDICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL revenues from the sale o f beer alone improved and responded to the realities REALITIES AND SERVES ONLY TO benefit the government by $50 million) of the drug market.... it became more RUBBER-STAMP APPROVAL TO THE is not only misleading, it is downright difficult to import buddha sticks because DEMANDS OF A HANDFUL OF dangerous: by any criteria, be they of the bulk of the product. Accordingly, ALREADY INFLUENTIAL PRESSURE medical, pharmacological or social, heroin came to be a replacement import GROUPS. YOUR TAXES PAID FOR IT, ALCOHOL IS A DANGEROUS AND offering greater profitability for lesser AND CONTINUE TO PAY FOR ITS ADDICTIVE DRUG and habitual use of bulk .... in the meantime the absence of IMPLEMENTATION. YOU HAVE BEEN prescription drugs that affect behaviour buddha sticks stimulated the local RIPPED OFF. is a grave social problem. Any one marijuana market and packaging became tempted to doubt this should consider the more sophisticated following : Alcoholism is a major factor in 20% of admissions to mental homes, over 25% ‘of medical and surgical hospital admissions and over 60% of fatal road accidents, and plays an undeniable part in the majority of cases of murder, suicide, battered wives, neglected children, My first impression on reading this Report deformed births and domestic accidents. was a new total disbelief that not only These figures only apply to out and out should such a compost of unsupported alcoholics (alcohol addicts) and do not allegation, repressive bias and material take into account those drinkers who inaccuracy should be presented as the , though not addicted occasionally get report of what should be the most roaring drunk and behave with if anything efficient fact finding committee in the even less co-ordination and native wit country, but also that such a potentially than a seasoned alcoholic. Alcohol D £ T r controversial report was not published directly attacks body cells, literally for comment or criticism. corroding the brain and the rest of the UNTIL AFTER THE LEGISLATION nervous system, the liver, the digestive ENACTING ITS RECOMMENDATIONS tract and capilliaries in organs throughout the body. Alcohol is by far the largest TO THE LETTER HAD BEEN PASSED. N The complicity of a government whose single law enforcement problem in this country, with approximately 60% of all members pushed through the Misuse of '/**C Drugs Amendment Act with a minimum offences being related to it. In comparison 4 of debate reflected how little true heroin is relatively innocuous - in itself interest in human and civil rights was in it has no harmful physical or social both main parties. The implications o f an effects that cannot be more easily act permitting, say, undercover police attributed to its high price, the police officers to contravene the Dangerous harrassment and imprisonment attendant Drugs Act in order to secure convictions in its use, the lack of quality control in would doubtless stir some controversy if its production and the lack or regulation publicised prior to its legislation - and in dosage. If taken in stable sterile doses this might necessitate tiresome rounds of it produces no ill effects other than the submissions from the relevant medical need for a daily shot. Addicts with access As the rest of this section goes to It is perhaps too easy to point toth and social authorities, with concomitant to a regular or cheap supply, as happens explain, the importers were now strictly committees own statistics on the con­ delays in its passage - a frightening in countries where heroin has been big-time operators, due to the high cost tinuing and increasing popularity of at possibility. legalised, are capable of holding steady of buying and importing heroin. They types of drug-taking, the commensur The brief of the Committee was jobs, raising families, and making useful contributions to society: a sharp contrast proceeded to use their financial muscle to increases in penalties, police and cus to the average alcoholic ! finance and package locally grown funds, the above example of intensifi “ .... TO INVESTIGATE AND REPORT marijuana which they then withdrew enforcements nudging dealers up-mar AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO Barbiturates, besides being Controlled as from the market, substituting cheap and deduce that far from effectively THE CABINET ON THE NEED FOR well as Prescription drugs, and despite their heroin. If this story paints a true picture being enforced, the law has become ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGISLATIVE abuse probably representing the most then the start o f New Zealands major more and more meaningless in practi ACTION TO CONTROL THE MISUSE widespread addiction problem in the heroin problem was undoubtably the terms and increased efforts at enforce AND ABUSE OF DRUGS” INCLUDING country, were similarly dismissed increased restrictions on cannabis imports ment will continue to deteriorate in CONTROLLED DRUGS, PRESCRIP­ because a working party consisting of imposed by the authorities. efficiency. Passing laws will never pr TION DRUGS AND ALCOHOL, four senior doctors began a programme people from taking drugs. Concentra in practice the committee considered only in early 1977 to educate the public about ‘The committee was agreed that drug on suppliers and dealers ignores the Controlled Drugs (Opiates, Hallucinogens, barbituate abuse, a programme which is dealing will never be stamped out obvious fact that dealers arise to mee Cocaine and Marijuana) effectively due to finish in the 1980’s. (The Caucus entirely, but to contain the problem, demands o f consumers; however par making this a piece of Dangerous Drug Committee reported back, to Cabinet greater efforts and resources must be our legislators may feel, the ‘hard se Reform, though reform is not a popular in August/September 1978) Pressing concentrated against the trafficking of does not apply to drugs - for one thi word with politicians; it smacks of problems of overprescriotion o f anti- drugs.’ would increase the risk of detection

PAGE 10 CRACCUM MARCH 12 SIR constantly faced by the dealer, to a point The committee noted that the work of the Act may be contravened by the where he would have to be armed and undercover police officers (commonly operation referred to is inhibiting protected by body guards, this situation referred to as ‘undercover agents’) in investigations, so that any doubt as to does not obtain in New Zealand. Drug particular was fraught with difficulties the legitimacy of the operation should smuggling is profitable not because and danger. An undercover agent be removed. people are easily pressured into drug may be required, for example, to smoke a The committee has a clever procedure taking, but because there is a ready cannabis reefer being passed round the for removing doubt as to the legality of market of people wanting to alter their group which is the subject of his invest­ police contraventions o f the Act: Instead moods without using alcohol - which as igation, or to provide drugs from the of reviewing the doubtful benefits of we have seen has physically and mentally supply with which he has been equipped such action, it just simply proposes that deleterious side effects. for the purposes of that investigation. the police action be legalised. In these circumstances, the agent may This neat legislative convenience The investigations can be seen to only effectively makes undercover officers extend to asking the relevant authorities either accede to the request, and thereby immune to penalties for drug dealing; so to name how much it would cost to do commit an offence against the Act, or that not only are they provided with whatever they wished in the field o f drug decline the request, thereby damaging his drugs and the use of premises and law enforcement. Heres what they did get, cover and exposing himself to the added risk of physical violence. For the most vehicles for trafficking, they can only be Customs : part, the agents are adept at avoiding this prosecuted at the behest of the Attorney Dogs, infra red night tracking equipment, dilemma, but there are occasions on which General. Complaints from the public radios, launches, X-Ray sets and telex they are unable so to do. about the actions of undercover police links. (Total cost: $280,000). 33 extra Similarly, an undercover agent may be officers are likely to receive scant staff for prevention and detection duties, required by the group which he has attention, unless the complainants have and 8 clerical staff (wage bill undisclosed) infiltrated to lend his premises or vehicle the ear o f the Attorney General who is, The committee has strongly supported for the purpose of facilitating some needless to say, a busy man. these measures.’ contravention of the Act. Again, if he The recommendation of the Police: agrees, he commits an offence, while, if committee regarding protection of 39 extra drug squad officers, at an annual he does not agree, the success of the undercover agents is...... that no cost o f $443,000. Vehicles ($280,000) operation is immediately placed in Radios for vehicles ($19,000), 21 UHF serious jeopardy. radios for surveillance ($44,800), cameras and binoculars for surveillance In fact, thanks to the committee, a ($10,000), an INCREASE of $20,000 (to police officer can now use a controlled an undisclosed total) for payments of drug, possess it, buy it, sell it, import it, informers; $10,000 to undercover agents grow it or supply it to maintain his cover’ to spend on whatever they need most, as long as his action ultimately results in not to mention the money needed to someone being arrested. The ethics of The financing o f drug traffickers who maintain a Police/Customs ‘Policy Officer’) undercover operation have yet to come are themselves immune from prosecution at the New Zealand Embassy in Bangkok. under official scrutiny - it is by no means is a matter o f serious public concern. The A t a minimum this represents an certain that convictions obtained using great majority o f police officers believe expenditure of $1.5 million, $1 million of undercover officers, with their necessary in what they arc doing and perform which will have to be anually-recurring ex- compliance in the commission of the honestly and conscientiously. But how denditure for things like wages and informer offences, would be upheld if all the facts that can be any guarantee in an operation informers’ payoffs. of the case could be presented. As the now costing an additional $10,000 per Law stands, entrapment is a legal means year, with informers fees increased bv of obtaining a conviction - anyone $20,000 a year, that abuses will never occur? persuaded to buy drugs from one under­ What seperates the efficient undercover cover police officer and sell them to officer from the successful freelance another undercover police officer can be trafficker? Answer: one of them knows successfully charged with trafficking. he is a policeman, and that he will not This manoever is illegal in the U.K. and in under ordinary circumstances ever be America, where the prosecution must charged with a drug offence. quite rightly demonstrate that a crime Many people approve such laws and would have been committed even if the practices, of course, on the grounds that undercover officer had not played an the “ drug evil” must be stamped out at active part in it. any cost. The Le Dain Commission (Canadian Government Report 1973) and An analogous problem arises where a the most recent and comprehensive study supervising police officer supplies of drug use on a national scale points controlled drugs to an undercover out that the cost is very high: constable for the purposes of the latter’s “ During the initial phase of our inqu[ry, operation so as to enable the cover to be we have heard bitter complaints and critic­ ) kept. Such a supply of Class A or Class isms of the use of entrapment and physical C violence to obtain evidence. We have not > B drugs clearly contravenes section 6 of the Act. verified the particular circumstances of Undercover officers must not only these complaints and criticisms, so that we pose as drug trafficers, they must be drug make no charge of any kind at this time traffickers. I can conceive o f no situation but we deplore the use of such methods where drugs should be supplied to police to the extent that they may be resorted / officers unless they are taking an active to on occasion. We believe that such part in the commission of a crime. methods are not only a serious violation of respect for the human person, but The difficulties produced by the fact they are counter-productive in that they that the Crown is bound by the Act are create contempt for law and law enforce­ i not limited to the police. For example, ment. The price that is paid for them is while officers of the Post Office and far too great for any good that they may Customs Department have powers to do. open mail and seize the contents, it We recommend that instructions be may frequently be necessary, for the given to police officers to abstain from purposes of criminal investigation, that such methods o f enforcement, and that those contents should be reintroduced the RCMP use its influence with other into the mail and forwarded to the police forces involved in the enforcement addressee. o f the drug laws to try to assure that - it appears from the memorandum there is a uniform policy in this regard. addressed to the committee by the The emphasis here is in the original. Minister of Customs that the fear that

CRACCUM MARCH 12 PAGE 11 Reviews Another Metamorphosis Kickoff University Dancers Franz Kafka Little Theatre phonia of At Also at Theatre Corporate. March 5 it Conductor ‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one Dance is essentially the physical Fa° morning from uneasy dreams, he found expression o f an idea or an emotion,^ Ma!C1 3 himself transformed into a hideous Unfortunately, the University Dance i f insect.’ So begins Franz Kafka’s tragic first performance o f the year kicked e"> .non® , tale o f a young commercial traveller, on the wrong foot for me by provoki 1tajlon has!? overworked as he tries to support his neither a strong emotional nor a men 'r family, at a turning point into unreality response. ie’and‘You - the rest o f the story is a reaction to dealt up sorr this initial shock. have more ‘r e most of yo So, is this stage production successful j ugh your lov in preserving the story’s many e of the more dimensions ? Emphatically yes, beyond Ini braved 1V. my wildest expectations ! Metamorphosis 0 J 0 folding-like s is easily the most vital, arresting piece of iphonia play dramatic art I’ve experienced in Auck­ ic to the peo land in a long time. Berkoff has added ; we should h at the beginning of the play an ominous , jit the seating scene backgrounding the daily stress and ' lewers of ‘Har toil imposed on Gregor by his dependent ,, '/ lit was the st; family and his employer in which little ^ /ever, it was devices, such as erratic freezing of The conductc movement and sound, keep the audience AJ ducting the c unnerved and therefore in a state of M heAustraliar apprehension o f what is tp come. Such W assistant cone is the threat that pervades the atmos­ era on the 23 phere, that I noticed the audience Variety was t reacting similarly with awe in moments gramme, whi of comic absurdity - such as when V the com menl Gregor tries to co-ordinate his insect ore each p ie c body. Perhaps the irony of the situation iou that d id r didn’t occur to them. Similarly the a programme other characters behaved absurdly at Free ! repeat performance times: the three strange boarders Wed 14th March, Little Theatre 1 pThey began w behaving as if of one mentality, and with Cardboard Construction Theatr m the opera ‘ I Mother’s and Greta’s fantasies of wealth, it piece, this for example. Technically the programme flowe|dPassaSes ^r( Steven Berkoff chose to highlight a proficiently from start to finish, interf stririgs had a theme, that Gregor’s transformation can persed with acts from the witty Card#ic |n Kelly Johnson as Gregor, C liff Wood as Mr Samsa, Elizabeth Hawthorne as Greta, and Theatre Construction Company andJupational Sylvia Rands as Mrs Samsa, in Metamorphosis, Theatre Corporate. be seen as a punishment for his family - he becomes physically an insect - he has jazz pianist, Jeff Smith. phe Symphoi Metamorphosis already been subjected by them to a The dancers loomed larger than lifpying of Gabri Franz Kafka daily life o f insect-like toil. the cramped Little Theatre, but madtjartet played f good use of this disadvantage in the la Theatre Corporate March 2 - 31' The tables have turned - Gregor is number, New Wave Up, where the Since his death in the 1920s, the short us with a most disquieting and repugnant totally dependent on the family he used menacing flavour of the dance was; stories of Franz Kafka have achieved a species o f insect. to support. They are forced to stage a more effective at close range. widespread and lasting interest; his night­ Much of the blame for Gregor’s plight, symbolic metamorphosis. Their concern But the choreography ? marish tales have in some respects come to and the tragedy of the fam ily’s situation, ebbs gradually to indifference, resent­ Obviously an amateur group is li be seen as premonitions of many of the is laid on the father - a harsh, intolerant ment and ultimately hatred. to a large extent by the technical at dilemmas that haunt man in the twentieth man with a capacity for self-pity that is Now to the accolades. The perform­ of its members. But surely that doesn' century. And Metamorphosis, adapted for not found in the warmer natures of his Overseas ph ances o f all the actors are excellent. The affect the group’s creativity and imagi the stage by Steven Berkoff, is no excep­ wife and two children. At times he smooth timing and synchronisation of tjon? 1 £ePted as an tion. This is the depiction o f what happens appears closer to the menacing stereo­ energetic verbal exchanges and move- ' University Dancers simply reiterate l a ; to a diligent commercial salesman who types of the lodgers and chief clerk than ment around the stage are a credit to old themes and failed to impress new ftte ^ l. ? works hard to support his ageing parents to the humanity - sometimes dignified, director Paul Minifie and the actors. The ones. Five different choreographers-I ^ uch and younger sister, and who wakes up one sometimes pathetic - of Gregor and the part o f Gregor, the Son/Insect, must be not five different styles. Always dana ?lāne Ar -ui morning to find he has taken on the form two women. incredibly demanding, both physically on the accent, never through the musi a^cessl of a gigantic insect. A fantastical, unreal And while the setting of the play and mentally, for actor Kelly Johnson, and always to much the same tempo. IfL, t0 ?tr. situation - but this is one of the most remains firm ly in the period o f Kafka’s yet he manages to lend a chilling realism The one exception, a lyrical dance F r y ne' compelling and immediate productions I life-time (rigid bourgeois family life, and to his insectile movements and utter­ performed and choreographed by Liz ach 0t m° ‘j have seen. pre-Welfare State working conditions that ances. The other actors all seem to cope Piggin, was notable for its elegant »py-snaP Much credit must go to director Paul come close to Dickensian), the techniques faultlessly with their characters’ quirky simplicity. Minifie for the fine sensitivity and force used to Convey this are modern - and the self-contradictions. Sylvia Rands, as the It was a pity the jazz pianist, who P " ’ fhoug , he has brought to the play. Metamorphosis concerns of Metamorphosis are strikingly Mother, sheds a new light on the looked slightly uncomfortable in the “ ndiscern is a powerful mixture of extremes and close to our world today. Gregor point and si character for me, a more sympathetic ferocious spotlight, couldn’t have bee styles, masks, mime, melodramatic Samsa still has the thoughts and sensibili­ A the respon one than Kafka’s original . employed to jazz it up with the dancei conventions, amplified music and even at ties of a man, but his physical exterior itermines a d ‘Metamorphosis’ seems a good as a relief from canned music. one point stroboscopic light, are skilfully (that o f an outsize Dung Beetle) makes to judge c complement to the concurrently-running Perhaps the University Dancers shi managed and combined to produce a him abhorrent to his fellow man, unable be able to p Ibsen play ‘A Doll’s House’, in that both pilfer some theatrical tricks from the rivetting whole. What could have been an to communicate, or participate in human iewing masse? have an ‘individual rights’ sort o f theme, Cardboard Theatre Construction Co.- exaggerated hotch-potch is saved, and society. And the cause o f his disgusting inions and \ of how dependence can suffocate their first and last dances, both chori becomes a vivid and disciplined projection. conditions is quite simply stated as the individuality and reason; even though in graphed by Marilyn Eccles, fared beti jve years ago Even the set, a black scaffolding intolerable pressures society has placed this play it*ends tragically from the with the audience for this reason. lusively to construction, was put to remarkable use on him. The anguish of this situation hero’s point o f view, it ends hopefully And please, next time, give us a as Kelly Johnson, playing Gregor the itness Max 0 should be immediately perceptible to all! from the family’s with their burden of straight programme with an explanati Beetle, clambered over it; indeed, with no libiting in tl A sombre piece, but well worth seeing. dependence lifted. of each dance. Wynyard 1 more bodily disguise than two very red- occur coloured eyes, Kelly Johnson presented K.G.O’W. Selwyn Osborne R.G.J. In 1 9 7 5 th and photc PAGE 12 CRACCUM MARCH 12 Dancers torephonia of Auckland Reviewsthe Student Health building, and the sett­ “ The sole disappointment has been the it Conductor: Russell Channell ing was ideal for these three 16th cent, BRIGHT BUT INVISIBLE rather disconcerting impression gained, ly the physical Q112^ pieces, very reminiscent of Henry VIII that there exists what amounts to a stigma attached to student poetry. This derog­ i or an emotion, laV March 5> 5 Pm or something similar. The ensemble was Jniversity Dance i good and the overall effect was magnifi­ atory view is held not only by members of the public but by a considerable pro­ the year kicked ,ell> none o f Vou can saV that cent. I would have been interested to hear >r me by provoki ,tat'on been varied this year !! what it sounded like from the LLT though portion of STUDENTS THEMSELVES.” tional nor a met foliow'on from thin§s like ‘The The string section was slightly smaller You bad, bad, biased students. le’and ‘Young Frankenstein’, they than usual, but acted as an excellent Another preconceived conception dies dealt up something for those o f us backing to the solo violin in Vaughan with a startling imitation of a succulent ' have more ‘moderate’ music tastes. Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’. The solo fart. n emostofyou were still sitting part was taken by one of the orchestra To wit. The poetry, it is good. It is ] ugh your lovely 5 o’clock lectures, members, no looking outside the difficult to select the best. T. Rissetto’s ■of the more eager ‘culture vultures’ orchestra for soloists I’m glad to see, ‘Poem’ and ‘Tragedies’, Charles McGhie’s oi braved 1V2 hours o f sitting on those Ms Anne Stokes. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll ‘ Poem’, Greg Lascaut’s ‘Shoreline Dance’, a olding-like seats to hear the provided some light amusement for the Kerry Harrison’s ‘Kawhia Lady’ and nphonia play in one of their ‘bring the audience with Russell Channel I’s Michelle Paterson’s ‘In the Madhouse lie to the people’ concerts. I must say comments on the piece. Written by BRIGHT BUT INVISIBLE Gardens’ stand out. None reminisce the twe should have been warned though Wagner to cheer his wife up after the Auckland University Literary Magazine academic’s hysterical introvert emotions v 'jf|Jt^ e seat'n8- The main thing the birth o f his won, the conductor said that Available Everywhere For $1.50 for which students are reknown. They iewers of ‘Hamlet’ seemed concerned he knew how she fe lt! Defendant : Jeremy Bartlett are unself-conscious, perceptive, articulate Sjlit was the state o f their posteriors ! assessments o f life’s grubby meanderings A Haydn symphony, the Drumroll, Smirk lever, it was well worth it. expressed personally and powerfully — took up a large chunk of the programme, Sniggersniggersnigger. (/Theconductor, Russell Channell, is but o f course I’m almost bound to be which was finished with a set of Student Poetry. Snigger. 3 ^ducting the orchestra here, courtesy biased and certainly bigoted. Rumanian Dances by Bartok. These had Emotional. Jhe Australian Opera, for which he is The bock is well laid out — one begins some very good solo passages, enabling Self-conscious. W assistant conductor. He returns to the to feel one has reached saturation point the players to show some of their Abstruse. iera on the 23rd. only to find a series of photographs to expertise. Flatulent and verbose. Variety was the keynote o f the titillate one’s torpid gaze. Some are sen­ To those of you wanting more of the Sniggersnigger. igramme, which was made interesting same, the next concert you can hear the timental — but John Gillespie, Trish Le yptAfO— [he comments the conductor added Gal and Bruce Foster exhibit effective Symphonia playing in will be on March Oh yes we all know about Student ‘ ore each piece. Very useful to those and attractive prints. Then there is more 15, a Mozart concert at Symphonia Poetry. Besides everyone, but everyone, ——______jfou that didn’t pay your $1.50 and poetry and a couple o f short stories. I Hall, Dominion Rd. All in all, it was a very knows one can’t conceivably be considered mance a programme, read the short stories, I enjoyed the short enjoyable concert and top marks go to a poet, not even a bijou poetette, unless ttle Theatre 1 pThey began with Rossini’s Overture the orchestra and their management for stories in my animal way, listening to the one has spent numerous years in Porirua pretty sounds. I even thought about them istruction Theatrjmthe opera ‘ Barber o f Seville’. A very finally bringing the music to the masses — or it ’s salubrious surroundings. Why it ’s -jjht piece, this was excellent with some but I didn’t immediately comprehend P.P.S. (Don’t ask me what happened to the as essential as Bacon or Shakespeare or them. Maybe they were in code? -ogramme flowecbdpassage from the wind sections, P.S.) To Jonathon B whocomplained that Shakespeare to Bacon. Essentially it is a well-presented, artic­ rt to finish, intejitririgs had a few mishaps with their Radio B did not play any classical music, Thus bourgeois, biased and bigoted I ulate and stimulating booklet, full of i the w itty Cardiff m slight breeze - one o f the I hope that you will be content now that turned to ‘Bright... but Invisible’, the works by equally well-presented, articulate 1 Company andippational hazards of playing outdoors, you had the opportunity of listening to AUSA Literary Magazine of 1978, only and stimulating poetettes. And it’s only th- The Symphonia brass shone in their your beloved Wagner,.... live no less !!! to find cunning Mr Bartlett, (editor extra­ $1.50 ed larger thanlifiyingof Gabrielli’sCanzonas. This ordinaire) had beaten my bias in his heatre, but madeprtet played from the battlements of F.C. reproachful introduction. Claudia Perkins ivantage in the Ip, where the :he dance was a >e range. Phy ? J5& teur group is lin he technical abil Snaps G allery T urely that doesn1 she is completing a Masters degree at Elam, pretty picture. The difficulty she encounters ativity and imaj Overseas photography has long been to the public with the founding of the :cepted as an art form, in New Zealand Snaps Gallery by Glenn Bush in Airedale where initially her interest was encouraged as a commercial gallery is the attitude of and assisted by John Turner who also people about buying photographs. In Amer­ ; simply reiterate 'i52^ 611655 j s growing, as is demon- Street, whose aim was stated to be ‘Not started photo-forum. She speaks of him ica much support and encouragement has to impress new lrated ^ Interest given to exhibitions just a gallery but a place where people can been given to photography- it is bought and horeographers-i Ph°tograPhers as Edward Weston meet and ideas can be exchanged ... a as being a photographer dedicated to his regular place to exhibit and view and we art, at the risk of sounding obsequious it is admired like painting or sculpture. Here es. Always dance P'ane ^ r*?us- l1 's seen by some as an attitudes must be changed; it isn’t aided by hrough the musi asily accessible art, the basic pre-requisites hope will promote a greater understanding apparent that this dedication has affected the way we are bombarded with the photo­ he same tempo, produce an image being camera of photography.’ her. Anyone who can run a gallery in which the exhibitions change every three graph as a slick commercial product which , a lyrical dance ,d ne'tber of which are beyond the Before any of you aspiring culture- weeks, work at night, as the gallery can can be manipulated to suit advertising or any )graphed by Liz most' ^ ut as anyone perusing the vultures or those with a modest interest in only support itself and not pay any wages, other purpose. Yet the range o f uses is t its elegant ippy-snaps of an instamatic freak can tell photography leap on your tricycles to go plus be a student at masters level must be amazing, from the technical and scientific ou, there is more to it than meets the eye! and catch up with this phenomenon, a dedicated. to fine art. zz pianist, who P101^ critical non-photographer word o f warning, it is no longer there. The artist/photographer approaches her lfortable in the an djscern ^ t anyone has the capability And don’t be too hasty in beating your Gillian Chaplin hopes to extend Snaps and shows her their work; from there if it is >uldn’t have been Df0,'nt anc^ s,100t> it is the image produced breast and bewailing the death of another to the extent of having overseas exhibitions, acceptable it goes onto the gallery walls. but never losing sight of what we owe to ) with the dam the response o f the viewer which homegrown cultural enterprise, SNAPS is What is looked for is work obviously of a New Zealand artists. She hopes to get into d music, irmines a definition of artist. To be alive and well. April should see the re­ high standard technically, but not at the the historical aspects of photography, and sity Dancers she e to judge one’s success it is important opening of Snaps in a new location in sacrifice of the image, which is paramount. proposes workshops and seminars for aspir­ tricks from the be able to put your work in front of the Federal St, known as the old school house, All the work is for sale, but commercial ing photographers, who are limited by lack instruction Co.- ing masses and await their sanction, which was built around the turn of the viability is less important than the commit­ of knowledge of techniques, and need the ces, both chore linions and whatever else may emerge. century: its high ceilings and large windows ment of the artist, and ‘a deep involvement stimulation of sharing ideas. All this lies ccles, fared bett are ideal for exhibiting photographs and ve years ago there was nowhere devoted of the people who care about their work” . ahead; for now the Federal Street premises this reason, offer more scope for developing the funct­ clusively to the showing of photographs, Ms Chaplin has almost a mystic reverence are being prepared and readied, to hopefully me, give us a ion of Snaps. ess Max Oettli, a Swiss who started for the power of photography to seize the go on showing Auckland the products and ith an explanati hibiting in the auspicous atmpsphere of Gillian Chaplin is the co-ordinator/ moment in time, and imbue it with perman­ development of photography in New Zea­ (Wynyard Tavern. director o f Snaps. I spoke to her about ence and meaning, but she does not just land and the world. In 1975 the way was opened for New what she does, how she got involved and look for anything that is visually attractive; iland photographers to show their work her aspirations for the future. A t present the photograph must be more than just a Sarah Lewis

CRACCUM MARCH 12 PAGE 13 X X X Woni ra n v ~ f umer \ - L_J X X grounds Thomas has been tried and convicted by The latest in the steady stream of This week the auspicious eye roves forensic link between Thomas and the rst it was Ho two juries. Undoubtedly the facts do not material pleading the innocence of Arthur Crewe murders. He argues that due to towards the southerly isle, and thatsPl ‘"'I speak for themselves and the juries cannot Alan Thomas is a report written by Rob­ crime investigation developments police liberal learning and culture that is 0, „ sde8 ri, have been immune to the public controv­ ert W. Coombridge, who claims to report evidence must contain some physical church, where the theme song for Ma * f ersy at the time o f the trials. The jury, facts never revealed before. He has diffic­ indication that Thomas was present at the appears to be cant and recant. To sa| ?°- t th \ particularly in the second trial, was made ulty in fulfilling this claim but does scene o f the crime. He quotes Professor nothing of whistling blind. Booby pF1 m 0 - century. For aware of inconsistencies in the Crown’s approach the case from some interesting of the week (may this particular trem Alaister’s theory of interchange which ise revolutioi evidence. Yet two juries have failed to choke in his morning meusli) goes to angles which give the report a certain demonstrates that there can no longer be shy paperbac give Thomas the benefit of the doubt. measure of originality. Tom Moore, who has been permitted such a thing as concealment of crime. ‘It Real Story’ Why? Was it because of a stunning The report contains a curious chapter is almost impossible for anyone to go to run rampant over the front page with You About I classic blunders as: prosecution counsel, negligence on the on similarities between methods Thomas the scene o f a crime without either leaving shave been n some trace o f his visit behind him or part of the defence counsel, and unconvin­ was alleged to have used in carrying out ‘I’m not a sexist — it’s just that menig,natural cer carrying away, all unsuspectingly, some cing or unpleasant defendant or were his crime and methods used in the murder better..... ’ pie three sere trace which links him with the place.’ they certain o f his guilt? of Sidney Eyre at Pukekawa in 1920 and ‘I’m tired of the usual scribblings off each day. The Crewe murders have attracted a Coombridge brings the full force of this the murders of the Lakey couple in Huntly usual dregs o f society: the dregs that tof age- theory into his report and uses it to legion of amateur crime analysts. Some on the evening o f October 1933. university seems to attract...... ’ ie change fre of the most impelling arguments presented substantiate his claim that Thomas is ‘... despite Brian Easton (Social Ecom inghas not * in this material in support of Thomas’ innocent. He points out that, ‘when — whatever that is) telling us studentseven now ce innocence is briefly summed up in the the police searched the farmhouse, they ‘below the breadline’, most studentssPea^ following points. found no clues whatsoever to link Arthur Allan Thomas with having been at the have something to spare. I intend toi<,so ^ Thomas trials has been thrown into ques­ ment ogre of Standard Tertiary Bursa*ess presses c tion by extensive investigations carried bloodstained clothing to link Thomas with the scene; there were none of his foot­ to being the Student Travel Bureau wl ifthe proleta out by Pat Booth and a DSIR scientist, is headed for total self destruction alo rman Ma.°’ h Dr Sprott. prints at the scene; there were no hair with perhaps your union fees. When tedition of t The bullets found in the bodies o f the fibres, wool fibres, tyre tracks from his take my holiday on winter shores I’m llogue ,n ever ^Crewes were .22 calibre of pattern 8 and car. There were no fibres from any part damned sure that I won’t avail myself p thousano were fired from a rifle with 6 land, right of the materials taken from the Crewe their services ...’ hessmen orde hand twist. The Thomas rifle was of this farmhouse found on any clothing in the possession of Arthur Thomas. There were ‘The NZUSA seems to be the only use*before goinj type. The Crown’s case used two cartrid­ if to prove never any suggestions at the trials of cause to fight because it hurts each ini ges, one (exhibit 343) found by Detective mer Revolt Arthur Allan Thomas that he might have idual student in the pocket and destri Sergeant Keith in a Thomas farm shed dopted nev disposed o f bloodstained clothing, if he students’ reputations by giving them; and the other found 132 days after the ng a remark; were the murderer. There was a finger­ line ...’ murders by Detective Sergeant Charles in ican foreign print discovered in the farmhouse, but the the Crewe garden. — Very nicely put, Tom; and nowj ed the struj police failed to show whether it was made The Crown alleged that both cartridge don’t you put on your gumboots, le for liberal by Thomas. cases were consistent with the bullets to your sheep, and you mind your busj the border t found in the Crewe corpses. This meant Coombridge also dwells on the argu­ we’ll mind ours. jadent supporl that both cartridges were produced by ment that is often raised to support Canta’s preoccupations with mone,Fe' 'n an aCt the makers CAC before the 13th October T ornas’ conviction. This o f course refers ilished diplo and reds under the bed, is also broughf 1963. However since the second trial, to the fact that two juries have found in this w itty little piece by an enterpri separate and joint Sprott and Booth Thomas guilty and therefore he must be. tax reformer. The brave new plan isfj research has shown that the type of cart­ However Coombridge reiterates the taxing copulation, to be known as a St i ridge found by Sergeant Charles was not claim that Thomas was convicted on cir­ Enjoyment Tax (SET) operating unde| produced until after 13 October 1963 and Evidence cited during the trial of Wil­ cumstantial evidence almost all o f which PAYS (Pay As You Screw) plan. therefore could not be connected to the liam Bayly accused of murdering the failed to stimulate an inference of guilt bullets found in the Crewes. Booth and Lackey couple also referred to a .22 without simultaneously arousing an alter­ ‘Additional inspectors will be appoint Sprott based their evidence on the fact that calibre cartridge found in a flower garden. native inference of innocence. He succe­ by the Dept of Infernal Revenue from the Charles case could be distinguished by In Bayley’s trial it was alleged that Bayley eds in persuading his readers that guilt ranks of ex-SIS and Police employees, its lettering as coming from a production had taken a watch from the murder site can only be established when the alternat­ Salaries for the inspectors is expected! cycle which did not use no. 8 bullets, used and a jeweller was summoned to establish ives have been satisfactorily dismissed come from bribes and commission on I to kill the Crewes. A t the last Court of identification. In the Thomas trial a thereby eliminating doubt. photographs taken as evidence ...’ Appeal Referral, the judges stated that the jeweller also gave evidence in identifying He avoids the temptation to castigate ‘The aims of SET are to encourage zerl Sprott theory was in all likelihood correct a watch which the Crown used to connect the jury system but quotes from the Right population growth; to tax the only th®Gou8h but added that they could not discount Thomas with the Crewe murders. Both Honourable Sir Malcolm Hillery P.C., left that the present government hasm the possibility that a combination of a so far taxed.’ in Gough Thomas and Bayly were said to have Judge of the Hight Court o f Justice who in jnmits his ear no. 8 bullet and a cartridge case made knocked their female victim unconscious 1946 wrote,“ A jury is twelve ordinary after the 13 October 1963 existed and ry before shooting them. Three dinner plates citizens, with probably little or no training mits Van G< may have been used by Thomas. To were found in each of the respective farm in consecutive thought. They will be whom they were giving the benefit of the houses where the murders were committed largely if not entirely swayed by emotion. doubt. and were used by the Crown to indicate But remember that in all probability they •a — Both Vivian Thomas and Peter Thomas, the time o f the crimes. do not think so. The less training or cap­ ze-Frames Arthur’s cousin, swore on oath that s m . The trial o f Samuel John Thorne, com acity for reasoning they have, the more Thomas did not leave the farm on the For the record — a Canterbury Orii ;irl and a boy victed murderer of Sid Eyre also contains certain it is they will pride themselves on night of the murder. The crown denoun­ ation ticket costs you $4.00, and inclui tiding hands f( obvious resemblances to the Thomas trials. being susceptible only to strict logic and ced their evidence as lies which makes impervious to mere emotion.” such salubrious delights as an advertii [an upstairs ro them both accomplices to the crime. The reconstruction of the Eyre murder dle-age Coombridge’s report provides insights ‘VERY WET LUNCH’. If imbibingali also cited a fatal shot through an open ating to ware into the Thomas case which make up for olic beverage is your forte then this — The police alleged that the axle found window. The crown contended in each dogs in hea the lack o f technical detail already cover­ could be the event for you.’ and ‘Davi 1 under the body of Harvey Crewe had orig­ trial that a rare type of ammunition was Id woman ed so extensively by David Yallop and Pat Ford’s Lecture on Alternative Life Si inally come from the Thomas farm tip and used in the crime. Coombridge suggests — All You Wanted To Know About png potatoes was used by Thomas to sink the body of that ‘certain investigators concerned in Booth. His references to other cases and back­ Beans But Were Afraid To Ask.’ plusa dirt starves Harvey Crewe. However the axle was the Crewe murders inquiry, got their heads ‘BARN DANCE — Ballroom, with the J on a bicyc taken from the Thomas farm in 1965 by together and compiled a case against ground material on the legal system and his coverage of investigation techniques Bull & Bush Goodtime Band. A realotl king a hypod some vintage car buffs of the district. Thomas by using a number of methods ! hang-man h make his report a valuable appendage to good time leg slappin hooly.’ used by the Crown in two earlier cases! constructic — Bruce Roddick saw a fair haired woman the volume on the Thomas controversy. 1 Hey momma, looks like we reallyhit| ster: outside the Crewe house on the Friday The emphasis of the Coombridge report the bigtime now? ... after the killings. This elusive lady has is on the fact that police and prosecution lend of the I never been connected with Thomas. counsel never established an unquestionable M- V- Beynen I sky: K.G.W-A nillion times

PAGE 14 CRACCUM MARCH 12 IOI L6 P B c o c n l aSi testliW ish. Eesults ^ k lp UanH th T l51'1 was Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse Carter government and have even promised language. ‘The Peking Times’ still prints ENVIRONMENT AL AFFAIRS OPEECER. ^ ' atSi*and the great yellow peril, but as the Taiwanese that if they decide to a Chinese crossword and it is rumoured ulture that is Ch morseless river of time takes us all to rejoin the mainland government then that plans are afoot for Radio Outer eme song for Ma BRIAN! GRAY ea of destiny so has China been China will not wipe them o ff the face of Mongolia to broadcast in Chinese one id recant. Tosai the earth. It must be a comfort to this hour each day. blind. Booby p ^ int0 thFe blazing glory f ‘ he brave little nation to know that even in The need for China to move with the OVERSEAS STUDENT OFFICER. s particular tre “ ntury,' f ormer heroes o f th® . . Ise revolution are now immortalised these troubled times they have not been times was explained to us recently by meusli) goes to shy paperback novels - ‘Ho Chi Minh forgotten. Minister to the Crown and Congress A.T. TOGNG been permitted Wung Ho. ‘We realized that all this crap Real Story’ and ‘Things They Never To trace the new revolution to its front page with about freedom and revolution through the You About Mao Tse Tung’. Paddy beginnings one need only look back as power of the proletariat was just a line SPORTS OFFICER , have been resown with health- far as the then President Nixon’s visit to that had been fed to us by a few jumped s just that men g, natural cereals and at the Peoples’ China in 1972. ‘He is a great man’, said up intellectuals across the border. With )le three screenings o f ‘Grease’ are Mao after the visit, ‘I never knew that PETER MONTEETH the help of Nixon, Carter and the neutron scribblings ofPeach day. Yes; China has finally electronics was such an exciting field.’ bomb we came to see that even if capital - the dregs that ! of age. It was only a matter o f weeks before many .SRC CHAIRPERSON, ism would make us slaves at least we’d ttract ie change from Oriental to Western of Mao’s political rivals were to be be rich. Besides I’ve always wanted to on (Social Ecom ;inghas not been a quick one. In uncovered through new investigation visit Yellowstone National Park.’ RUSSELL BARKE ;lling us studentsleven now certain reactionary techniques. , most students>nts speak o f ‘the people’s struggle’ The official name of the revolution Naturally the speed of the revolution are. I intend tol t'classless society.’ But as the red is the Great Leap Outward, although has induced a degree of culture shock WOMENS* RIGHTS OFETCER. capitalism...’ lisappears slowly over the border Great Leap Westward would seem more throughout China as many struggle to m being the govt Russia, so the inevitable march of appropriate. It has been given the official grapple with the intricacies of credit CHERYL GWYNN d Tertiary Bursai ess presses onward into the everyday seal by Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping’s cards and chewing gum. However in an Travel Bureau 4 »fthe proletariat. 'Thoughts of visit to Washington early in February. effort to play her own part in the STUDENT UNION f destruction ala man Mao’ has given way to the ‘The Chinese people are eager to build a ‘awakening’ o f China, Britain has taken MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. ion fees. When 11 edition o f the Sears Roebuck new global society in which all people’s a leaf from the history books and is /inter shores I’m logue in every family library. Every can live in close harmony, without fear of paying for Chinese goods with opium on’t avail myself tin thousands of bars Chinese war or poverty, and in which, with the aid ANTHONY WRIGHT instead of money. Now instead of having nessmen order their double saki and of the United States, we can finally grind to remove the unsettled element from d be the only ust 5before going home. the Ruskies into the ground’ said Teng SENATE» society the Chinese government reports ; it hurts each in is if to prove their loyalty to the new smiling benevolently as he stepped onto that the hospitals are full of ‘deliriously ocket and destro sumer Revolution, Chinese leaders the tarmac at Washington. JILLIAN EREWUI happy vegetables.’ It is this broad vision of a unified by giving the ma[adopted new political strategies JOHN PALMER ing a remarkable resemblance to Undoubtedly the face of China is world community which has been irican foreign policy. They have changing. But a culture thousands of lacking for so long among our greatest Tom; and now, wec| the struggle o f the Vietnamese years old does not disappear overnight leaders, ls this the beginning o f ‘one small THEATRE MANAGEMENT r gumboots, go! (|efor liberation by sending troops and traces o f the old order remain. Many step for man; one great step for mankind’ ? COMMITTEE >u mind your bui border to maim and kill the schools still offer Chinese as an alternative Will Coca-Cola and Hollywood be the ident supporters of the communist to English and, in fact, advertisers are uniters of our world ? Or perhaps there is BHAADT MILLER compelled by law to subtitle billboards in something significant for the Chinese in tions with mom ne'1(1 an act of selflessness they have DAVID ROSE what still remains to many, a first 1979 being, for them, the year of the goat. d, is also bmugS blished diplomatic tieS With the AUSA BYE-ELECTION RESULTS. ce by an enterpri Ken Grace ave new plan isfi These axe provisional at the be known as a Si moment. P u l l details next issue ) operating under | :rew) plan. 5 will be appoint! al Revenue from olice employees, tors is expectedl A I commission on evidence ...’ to encou rage zeri In The Open Cages > tax the only thif Gough BludDay overnment has nil The birds at track and field n Gough The needle drives deep: jnmits his ear to history Scream anguish, anguish, anguish, Each muscle clenched in competition An innoculation cry Strictly for the conscience. limits Van Gough. As they flog the breakneck records from dawn to dusk. And in the walls and fields and holes, the rats The first freshet of blood Seethe with fear and acid as they chase the seconds home, L.-VS Turning five times an hour to the face of the clock : Sprints from the vein. ze-Frames The plastic sac Homage to the lord ! rr ^ Bloats with black ink. Homage to the lord ! :erbury Orier |irl and a boy The heart’s chamber Dldinghands for public inspection >0, and inclu_. „ And the swift fish gill and plunder, Sucks the circulation from the brain. an advertised an upstairs room, Swarm upon swarm, lie-age Hot tea. Sweet biscuits. Iron. imbibing ali Destroying the bounty of forever then this iting toward failure, / With the jaws o f one generation . .. The act of health is over, i.’ and ‘Davii dogs in heat, m - And we return to the identikit streets tive Life S d woman »And the land of sickness and casualty >w About ing potatoes - Ask.’ plusa dirt starves her tapeworm. m, with the on a bicycle iThe Fish id. A real tf ;ing a hypodermic, y.’ hang-man having lunch Hamstrung by shallows, construction site. pA fin in the sun. : we really hiJ ,jster : I killed it to eat. tend of the Dow-Jones index is nigh, L\ Dead, it was so beautiful s sky: rao I left it as spoiled meat. nillion times over-exposed. ■4ul

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point out to o NAME : PHONE NUMBER : !was voted in ; womens lib. n For Sale: Yacht OK Class with a new Wanted To Buy: Double bass bow. Must For Sale: Suzuki 80 cc motorcycle, 1975. mast and sail. With a road trailer $800. ;t that the total be reasonable condition and cheap. Will Good condition, $450 ono (including jibered by the r Phone 493-238. consider cheap sturdy cello bows also. helmet), Phone Chris at 558-264,______show the conf Texts For Sale: Zoology 38.102 Chapman Phone David, 768-635. Bicycle Wanted: Ladies bicycle wanted. towards her. aside, much o1 & Barker; Wells — Lower Animals Biology Tape Deck For Sale: My name is Bruce. I Preferably 3 gears. Must be very cheap and in relatively good nick. Phone Sue, ig for Ms Roth 39.101 Central Concepts — Baer, Hazen et live with Brian. I have an Akai CS33D Hvarious actior al; Math 26.181 Hoel Elementary Stats. Dolby tape deck for sale at $210 and it is 548-454 or 30-789 (Craccum). Playing White, Karpov overran est‘gripe’ Ms Phone Jeremy, 601-129. in good nick. Phone 762-263 evenings. Tuition Wanted: Student wants to learn Black defences from the diagrammeiLomens day M position with that Ms Roth Wanted to Buy: Upright dining chair, tenor saxaphone. Would like to progress 7. Rd 7 ! ntand concent wooden, ie. chair to go with desk. Phone Motorcycle For Sale: Flonda XL 350 quickly with emphasis on technique. The beautiful point is that if the roofs. Katrina, 30-826. $1050 o.n.o. Phone 604-31 8 after business Phone Matthew Flynn, 547-440 evenings. hours. captured mate ensues e.g. 1 .....Bd7; sition o f presid For Sale: (1) AIWA compact cassette/FM For Sale: One Lady Stylist tennis racquet 2. Qf7ch! Rf7; 3. Rf7 mate. Nor caul rsonal beliefs multiplex/multi-band/Stereo radio recorder. Synthesiser: Korg micro-preset, only 7 with press and cover. One year old—never Black bolster the defences of his kins r ulai| ytr c^ months old. Hardly used, $495 new, (2) CASIO fx-102 scientific calculator. been used. $25.00. Phone Julie Thomas, ’ Re7; because o f 2. Re7, Ke7;]*Su,e'letthat interest her he" Phone Robert Lim, 863-829. sell for $400. Phone Grant, 597-387. 481-614. ch. Kf8 (otherwise the rook is lost); n’should be ke Precocious Dqr Records Wanted: My name is Debbie, but 4. Qd8 mate. Instead Korchnoi was WtS Of. Lost- they call me ‘Young Deb’ because there are compelled to move his rook over to two Debbies here. I also live with Brian. queen-side In order to make space fo: I am after the album ‘Waves’ by the now king (the mate outlined in the first defunct band Waves. Must be in good variation is still threatened). c nick, eh? Phone 762-763 after 6 pm. 7 ..... Rb8 2. Nf7 Bd7 If 2.... Ke8; 3 Rd8ch wins quickly uomoetiuon 3. Nd8 ch Resigns Black must part with most o f his ari as king moves are answered by 4. Qj mate.

SUBTLE STRATEGEMS (SPONSO BY CLASSIC AND HOLLYWOOD CINEMAS)

■ WM 'WM ‘Wish we’d been born joined at the wm m i shoulder instead’ was thah winnah this week, submitted by Mike Ford. Congrats mate. The rest of you, shape up! We need more. You’ve got till 5 pm on Thursday to get the buggers in to us. Real ultra like, eh? j t h e r c o m p l ,

Mr Editor, Ud like to publi jnt book’ put l, and MTISA. h I must ad mi seems to be a QQ In this week’s problem White is to )n to the cost c play and quickly achieve a decisive irehase. 3Q, material advantage. Solutions should, tampie the o tf handed in by midday Thursday at the' done on a pe The devotion and enthusiasm o f some o f our readers never Craccum office. The first correct the discount ceases to amaze. One aspiring wit carefully accumulated five MY CAPTION IS.. solution drawn out of a hat wins the was closest ai st discount rat whole copies o f Craccum to enable him to submit his five pithy prize of a double pass to either the Classic or Hollywood cinemas. txhorbitant fe< titles. The Captions’ basket wasn’t exactly overflowing this week id • despite th and although none o f the entries had anyone squirming helplessly ***•...... The solution to last week’s probl Id point out t on the floor (the gunge all over it may have p u t them off), a was 7. Qe7ch! Ke7; 2. Rg7ch. Ke8;. >rs that you r couple elicited a few wry chuckles from the mirthless mob up NAME Last week’s winner was G. Rissm ing at stores \ here. So keep dem entries coming ! They add little rays o f iat have low sunshine to our days and the mere act o f dropping one into the Tickets can be picked up at the w it even sav Craccum office incurs cherubic smiles from the Editor or any ______Craccum office. is, other that other bods around. PHONE NUMBER :t! David Beach This weeks winner is — Mike Ford | Pearson f

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seeming crowd, w thwarted writers out there, lurking in the quad, skulking round the cafe, do not despair. CRACCUM cares, we are only too delighted to p rin t your little, or big, letters on ° \ forest to your heart. Or give vent to your frustrations and write about those nagging grievances that eat away at the very core o f your existence. Our policy is to try and signed to cater all letters we receive. It would, o f course, be nice i f you would translate your letter from the Sanskrit before you send it in. As we at Craccum all suffer from a severe dim- hetic palates, 'our ocular faculties, be kind and write your letters neatly, typing not necessary, double-spaced and only use one side o f your vellum manuscript. Keep those letters pouring from the Karpol'j the way we like it, we ’re a masochistic lo t! impionship matf Phillipines. can be posted to Craccum, c/- Auckland University Students’ Association. Or you can venture up to the Craccum office, top floor, Studass building and deliver your epistle \d, Or there are always the discreet little boxes in the Cafe and Studass building foyer.

|RST GRIPE OF MS ROTH ALAS' IT LOOKS LIKE LOVE UNREQUIRED LIBEL PROCEEDINGS ANOTHER VIEW OF NAMBASSA

ive, Dearly Beloveds, Dear Sir, WHACKLOW FUTTLE & CRUN - to read as far as the 2 nd page of To think merely sending a Valentine card rates a In the three views published in your first issue COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS ^erary masterpiece before putting pen mention from you jn Craccum ! It ’s almost too there seemed to be some general agreement on 1 much to bear.... we simply can’t go on meeting a few points - that the ‘alternative culture Harbottle Soonge Ba. point out to our ‘esteemed’ president like this.....So you have a suspicion, follow it experience’ at the festival never really came off, Dilly Pickwithington Bsc. was voted in as a student president, through - merely writing of love and devotion is that there were too many people (who were Phool Cronk BE. womens lib. rep. not enough anymore, it’s not satisfying, not only interested in the music), that the majority that the total of her vote was far fulfilling. ‘The path of true love never does never took the trouble to investigate the Rm 408 Rip Off Bldg, ibered by the no-confidence vote would run smooth’ they say - oh great City Council alternative lifestyle, or if confronted with it, Prof St, show the confidence shown by most Workers of the Sky, get off your shovels and were unresponsive to it. Other points: the over­ Remuera. stewards her. smooth the route. Can’t /ou see that this commercialised nature of the running of the aside, much of the reluctance many had passion is no joke - pie? e don’t shower your festival, the large police contingent, the actions The Editor, igfor Ms Roth stems from her involve- scorn, contempt and derision on the lower of many festival goers, which you could not ‘CRACCUM’, various action groups. echelons of society, for it is heartbreaking and neatly place under the ‘peace, love, and irpov overran cl- A.U.S.A., '|est ‘gripe’ Ms Roth can make is related not worth of your wonderful, warm and understanding’ label. Private Bag, the diagrammedomens day March I would like to generous personnages. So this correspondence Auckland 8/3/79 that Ms Roth resign her position as must end .....parting is such sweet sorrow, but ■ v y |tntand concentrate on her various other the lack of physical contact can drive one Dear Madam, is that if the roo|fc. insane. It has been brought to our attention by our a ’4y, :s e.g. 1 .....Bd7; Bsition of president is not to broadcast Farewell friends - maybe one day we’ll meet in noteworthy client, the area known as Romi 7 mate. Nor canpersonal beliefs but to represent students, fitting circumstances.....until th e n ...... Patel recently purchased at public auction by fences o f his kinlticularly to create interest in Student Radio B, that there may be Libellous material Sure, let her make comments on those Unrequited love (sob) in the March 5th Issue of Craccum. f 2. Re7, Ke7;3, We wish that you should stop this naughtiness Ftfiat interest her but the ‘President’s (Oh, woe. What have we done ! Please forgive he rook is lost); (in’should be kept free of this SHIT which at once and rectify the situation. I believe our Brian and I fo r we knew n o t what we were i Korchnoi was client has already written explaining the truth \1 puts of. doing. We are so sorry. Please,.....please...... lis rook over to of the matter. If a public apology is not forth­ don’t stop this correspondence now. Every ;o make space fo| coming, or a similar situation should manifest moment of the day we wonder whether that 7 p a itself once more we will be forced to foreclose ned in the first person or even that person is you. Please do n 't on the allotment known more or less as atened). deprive ageing editors o f one of their few Craccum which will mean bad things for you ?8 remaining pleasures in life - Eds) 17 and yours. I think these criticisms are fairly made, in that h wins quickly \AWtr Y'OO M6AN, ORVStUAL RUBBISH they make up a true description of the festival DCSK»N," WHITE M a n ? Yours threateningly, (there were many other aspects to the festival Dear Sir, High Fees MD as well). Certainly the sheer size of the crowd ?signs Commissioner for oaths, utterances, fruit and I agree that we need more rubbish bins. The contributed to the way things turned out. Fifty l most o f his arm only one I can remember seeing in all the time cnewing gum. to sixty thousand is literally a city-size swered by 4. Qfj I have been here was one down by the Caf population, and it would have been difficult, somewhere. under any circumstances, to repeat the AT LAST, A POSSIBLE LIBEL SUIT ? friendlier, warmer atmosphere (so I’ve been Signed: told) of the previous year’s festival, when the EMS (SPONSORS^) Dear Editperson Ferrit, Litter laden lepidopterum attendance was about fifteen thousand. ^LLYWOOD *** I am in the process of checking out the legal I think that most of the people who went had P.S, I just found three more in the Science implications of your statement in last weeks a good time, and for those who wanted to find concourse. issue concerning the level of my achievement out about an alternative lifestyle, the opport­ in that out-moded middle class ‘ white boys’ unity was there - but you had to look for it, it examination called School Certificate. Oh great YET ANOTHER CAFE LETTER ! wasn’t presented to you. By that I mean that Bwana, us boys what a comin from de back- you could have spent the entire three days blocks do’n know nuthin but please give us Dear Sir, there, and without trying too hard you could I would like to complain as quite a few others credit. It was DNS. See you in de dole cue (or have left knowing little or nothing about what are doing, about the Caf this year. is it queue) the people of Nambassa were really into. Firstly I find it piss-poor that there is no I wonder how the festival organisers looked at it. coffee or tea on sale at the proper place from Romi As it turned out, the festival made quite a the proper time 8 .0 0 am P.S. EEfin you dont hear from my lawyer, mr | tHER COMPLAINT profit and this will be used to further the Secondly, I know you guys need the money', High Fees LIB 1 may send the boys around. building of the community. The organisers but why can’t less financially well off students Mr Editor, probably anticipated that most people would buy hot water, as last year. pld like to publicly complain about the come for the music and the good times and* Lastly, I also find it piss poor that we can’t nt book’ put out by AUSA, ATISA, that proportionately few were seeking an buy things singly at the Caf any more - why and MTISA. education on alternative living. It seems that not ? Imustadmitlamgeneralising.lt . the organisers, in recognising this, pushed the seems to be a discount book. No guide Dear Daviddd, music side of the festival (the pre-festival Signed, n to the cost of anything we might like Biggies is a wanker. I saw him in the ‘cock’ - pit publicity seemed to be stressing this - ‘don’t Alderboran Carabadok jase. of his moth pulling his joystick back. miss the bliss’, etc) I don’t think that those [example the other day I went to get some behind the festival decided to forsake the jsdone on a personal belonging. I decided AT LAST, A REALLY GOOD LETTER Algy (Biggles’s’s ‘frend’) promotion of alternative lifestyles for rock the discount book and went to the shop concert and a huge profit, (although tye might was closest and incidentally offered the Dear Ed, have), but that maybe through the concert and discount rates. I still had to pay a Should present trends continue, then by term’s Dear Davidd, the profit, they could see a more effective way orbitant fee for the small service I end the sole remaining patron of the hot servery Magic Social Exceptionally high standard of of aiding their cause. id-despite the discount ! at dinner time will be paying a zillion dollars Vintage lighter fluid. I flopped my cabbage Of course they might not have made a profit, 'd point out to other would-be discount for a roil, cup of coffee, a few chips and a lamb crate right down onto the old Stu-U roof don’t but the ‘name’ bands they got to play at the _ that you might save more money by chop visible only through the world’s most ya-know. Nearly brought it over Albert Park. festival, and the fact that this was going to be :ng at stores with the lower discount powerful electron microscope. However he/she Bally trick upcurrent wet. Can’t stand here the last festival for three years, suggests that that have lower overall prices. Who knows, will be able to sit down to the meal with the bally talking all day. they felt pretty confident about it, and that .teven save more money by shopping latest issue of Craccum, crammed cover to cover, instead of worrying about organising three s, other than those listed in the discount with letters protesting the deterioration in cafe Biggies more annual festivals, they could concentrate et! services. P.S. I’m not a wanker on the community. Yours, P.P.S. Anyone interested in joining Alfs Pearson Peter Haynes ■ Imperial Airforce ? Simon Mercep

CRACCUM MARCH 12 PAGE 17 Mare Lettuce A BOGUS L GOSH, ANOTHER GOOD IDEA ! ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE A. JAMES I CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS LET! HATE CLUB rx c- ie’n’ Brian, Dear Dave, Dear Sir, Dear Sir, Count me in on that large group of students Although I like Craccum’s new format, find lots As I was in a happy and lighthearted mo r e ° earmt (0.003%) who actually dare to put pen .to to read, and am impressed by the transparently afternoon, I thought I would take yourp ir| | am refe paper. No, I’m not going to complain about enthusiastic and sincere editorial approach of and settle down among the trees at theb • .. , koffee, or Kevin’s petition! Or Alfred St ! (But the paper, one thing does annoy me. It is of Old Government House and read it. ^owfor a f; I agree about judder bars) Instead, it’s about course, your ‘Serious Rock Music Critic’ and It really was a lovely day, you know, sun ‘n° febr GRAFFITI. What’s happened to ‘ Middle Class editor of the music pages, the lamentable Alex Vk flowers, pretty girls, I was even lookingf ot y°The rea Showground’ and others ? And I don’t mean James. It was his review of Pere Ubu’s to a lecture coming up. 'to io n a l f those grotty little drawings in the bogs, I mean ‘Dub Housing’ that initially aroused this Srr, I realized tha as I read the pages oh d h i„ good quality stuff. Where’s our sense of self irritation. I happen to have this record and 1 mag. and especially the lettuce , a black hoots ar expression ? How about a graffiti board, or a think it’s really quite a gem. Naturally I looked settled on my heart and I became quite ^i me $0 n patch of white washed concrete wall, (better forward to hearing what your reviewer would depressed, for a while. Do you realize^, an, than 100% dull grey walls !) No wonder Kilroy have to say about it. As Mr James so pointedly it is within your power to cause quite all r. borj isn’t to be seen on campus. keeps reminding us that he is a ‘Serious Rock depression, despair and probably even ha r seem to Music Critic’, I was doubly interested. Perhaps ?au-P?S-u. . and biting s Yours, he would mention the way the frenetic vocals, I think this is reflected in the invective»! . unjmagin Q.O.C. meandering saxophones and eccentric guitars often displayed in your ‘lettuce’. How mi ? ’ P.S. all strain against each other to make an MORE GOOD IDEAS are you and your paper responsible dear!; (i) ‘ ls there intelligent life on Earth ?’ apparently anarchic surface which somehow, Sir how comes it, that we, out of all the! (ii) ‘Yes, but I ’m only visiting !’ magically, manages to all hold together produc­ Dear Exec Persons, of people in the world are capable of Wfit||son (imitat P.P.S. ‘True wit is nature to advantage dress’d, ing something new explosive and exciting. Yes, Carpool is a great idea - except for the problem letters, furthermore of having the opporti r What oft was thought, but ne’er so well even out of such amusing and unlikely that the two other car-owners I was invited to to communicate with others through asti express’d’. material as “ What shall we do with a drunken pool with fell into two categories : one didn’t newspaper. How is it then, that this abilit ANYONE U sailor” reflected in "Caligari’s Mirror”. Good have a car; the other had an almost nocutnal abused and degraded by the foul language AHHHGGGHHH !!!!., FOUND OUT. Heavens, I wouldn’t have minded if our Serious timetable, whereas mine operates within the sorry images so often exhibited in Craccii iear, Rock Music Critic laid bare Pere Ubu’s obvious normal daylight span. Sir if this sounds like a lecture, no apolog always consie Dear Sir, connections with some currents in contemporary I wish to suggest the ‘ U-card’ scheme which Sir, it really is not such a bad old world,! able intelligei Whilst perusing the pages of your worthy jazz or patiently extolled its virtues or faults operated at Canterbury Univ. some years ago is so much to enjoy and live for and weai rfidence has journal, what did I discover but a prime example in the light of its glaring neo-Dadist (and probably still does). lucky, even blessed. >ver my bodil of that literary ‘Crime de la Crime’ - plagiarism ! orientation. But what did we get ? Exec prints off thousands (or maybe hundreds) You obviously have talent to be occupyims, dear, I hav I refer of course, to the cartoons you saw fit I quote, ‘ Peru Boo ? Natty plumbing - Peevo, of cards bearing a large ‘ U’ with space below the position you do. I would like to enjoy im. I simply c to ‘borrow’ from the English satirical magazine Revo, non, no you’re right, when B u t!’ — for car-owners and/or non-car owning talent, this year, if I may, through Craccui y letters. urhair is'nice ‘Private Eye’. May the guilty party suffer the and so on for 32 lines until Mr James claims to participants to write, boldly, the suburb for slings and arrows of outrageous readers ! For have swallowed the record. No doubt this was which he/she is headed. Cheer Up, ank-you intended to be a good-humoured impression or Love Phil O’Connor m’t thank me ’tis nobler i’the mind to cook your own Irish Thereby, students waiting for buses/hitching/ imitation of the L.P., but unfortunately our (Stop calling me Sir - Ed) nand fool yo stew than to steal somebody else’s caviar. In walking to Uni or Home know which cars carry other words - use your own bloody cartoons in Serious Rock Music Critic only sounds as if he in anticipate has been drinking too much fcin in a hot bath. student drivers prepared to give lifts; they k Kelly (not future. can carry their own U-cards in their pockets Normally such shallow smartness ought to be four paper is and hold them up for drivers to see. Truly not yours, overlooked with a smile, but when lazy RAPID RAIL LIVES ! im. pretention is combined with the smug, An impoverished Finance Committee might N. de Plume prefer to suggest students make their own (Yes - / agree. As soon as Craccum can b u ild up patronizing tone of his replies to last weeks Dear Sir/Madam/Thing, letters, (do read them again - pp 15 and 19 - identifiable U-cards, to make the scheme cost- Whilst wending my merry way across this a solid, core o f cartoonists and graphic artists free. then we'll be doing more original stuff. Until how revealing they are even in their sheer delightful lil’ole campus, I came across this length) then, my word, it is time someone As to fares, it doesn’t seem unreasonable for amazing fact. It is a damn long way fromo then, the odd Private Eye/Punch is still O.K. passengers to make a silver coin donation to By the way if you want to see what real reminded him that he is not on cloud nine end of the Uni to the other, (ie from the the student driver, especially those living on the History Dept, to the Music Dept) If I have IS THIS RIG hum our is all about we’ve got copies o f Private composing encyclicals of taste and instruction for we lesser mortals. A Serious Rock Music Shore - say 10c towards bridge toll, 10c make a habit of this I am going to turn inti Eye up here fo r you to peruse - Ed) Ed, Critic ? Perhaps, but evidently minor, minor towards parking and 10c to petrol. It’s Fresh-up-swilling-athlete like John Walker, cheaper than bus fares and usually more been amazee — lrtVo<^oct o a league. not asking you to try and rack your tinylii^crarccum h convenient. C^ocokx-fe. Yours Conventionally, Editor’s brain (all of 2.8 cubic centimetres! r,|| the paper *3 Alex Calder come up with a solution, but I am at my» I horseshit w Helen E.M. Cullen **■ ,l°9 3 end !! (It has been put to me that Execshi ^ispaper is O E>ear Crock’um, organise a Rapid Rail system !!!) But plea» articles, lette (FRENCH) LETTER TO THE EDITOR I am at present faced with a problem, nay a LET’S SHUT ALL THE ROADS ! help me or else I’ll have to turn to my P. js ’ ||jn, rollerskates.. like to get rif Dear Kickem, parodox ! I wish to complain about that Dear Sir Merick, Greetings ! This is my first letter of the year so pseudo-record reviewer of yours. I refer to that ■*.. s. Another th I have been reading with interest letters in the I thought I ’d spice it up a bit with a little intellectual vacuum Alex James, of course. As is recently tre last issue of Craccum. European flavouring i.e. C’est bien, oui ? That’s an ex-record reviewer familiar with the Virginia Rowbottom PhD iminalise, wha Those letters about the traffic situation in all for this week, for those of you who wish nuances of musical reviews I know that in rd. Wouldn’t Alfred Street. It appears to me that those to continue your French education at a later fairness to the product, a reviewer should bed. Ten reas degenerates who wrote the letters to you must date I can usually be found writhing under a approach it with an open mind. To automatically ised: be both lazy and stupid. I have successfully WATCHOUT, THERE IS A SWINE AB0U1 kbad for yoi table at one of the various soirees (more !) wipe out disco, punk, or any other style of negotiated said street in two years at Auckland going on round the place. Actually, I really only music is nothing but egocentric. But enough of mokingdope and it appears to me that if you can’t be Dear Sir, - here wouldn’ wrote this letter so I could see my name in intellectual bullshit. To return to my first bothered walking up some steps to the over- This letter probably doesn’t concern you-i L'ds’ would bold print.... STEVEN C ...f... aah, that’s better. sentence, l am faced with a paradox: How to bridge, you should be prepared to wait for a gap due respect to your moral fibre - but the I ’ll finish off with a modern (??) variation of an complain without the idiot twisting it into the useless in the traffic. who ‘removed’ my navy blue sweatshirt | old joke. recognition of his contentious ‘reviews.’ Just ng to moan ; Symonds street on the other hand, is much Training’ printed in white across the chest) “Once there were two homosexuals living in a who does he think he is ? Does NZ need it’s tacts with worse. I know that a walkway is planned to from the vicinity of the Clubs Noticeboari flat in Symonds St. One, called Mike (names own Tony Parsons. Does Craccum need shit- and Alice I Engineering school but there is (as far as I i the Quad on Friday 2 March. Quite apart have been selected at random, so stiff shit if suckers like the idiot ? ls there life after ,s of incorm know) no such thing planned for the Human from the fact that it was a favourite jersey yours appears !) went to Uni while the other, Muldoon ? Will you print my letter ? wouldn’t be Science building. This building is used for although I only had it 3 weeks ! — it wasa called Pete, kept house. Johnathan Livingston Meatball Psychology, 1st year medicine, and also some special gift. at is the use At Uni one day, while at the Craccum stand, science papers. A large number of people cross I don’t suppose you’d have the courage to is the forma Mike ran into a very spunky guy, they got to Gentlemen: it is precisely because punk and this street from the Zoology department it to Varsity anyhow - rather embarrassing ,ign, with a talking and next thing you know Mike had disco are products, manufactured and merchan­ directly opposite, running the risk of being you if I spot it, — and I would ! and I ask al asked him home. Grabbing two copies of your dised as such, that / criticise them in their knocked over by traffic-light-beating speed If you had any decency, you’d realise that re to write student newspaper, i.e. Craccum (one for Pete) stylistic entirety. fiends - the nearest crossing being at Alfred street. another student surviving on STB and you't illiant idea, they headed for home. I f / had bought Dub Housing / too would be How about complaining about this instead. return it (soon). Ph 448-937 or hand into r neighbo Pete let them in, Mike says ‘ Hi sweetie, I ’ve keen to read a sycophantic review of it to Studass Office (anonymously). and then s reassure m yself that / had n ot wasted m y money brought Dave here home’, and heads for the and a drugge kitchen. Opening his bag he sees the 2 student on trendy garbage. The frenetic guitars etc. Signed Aldorboran Carabadok Yours hopefully, newspapers and calls out ‘Hey Pete, d’ya strain against each other, w ithout musical or P.S. your photo on the back of the last Craccum lof NZ Greer Lisa Capon wanta Craccum ?’ Pete calls back ‘ No, you go lyrical resolution, throughout the album. Lazy looked like bullshit to me. I wouldn’t mind ar Hoover. P.S. Thanks to Craccum for the blurb on first dear, you brought him home. pretension? All right, here's an unembellished betting that those cars are stopped. Tramping Club. Good stuff. four paper t review: Dub Housing sucks sewers. I f you liked (Not true ! Caught for that 2000’th of a second P.P.S. Tramping Club Square Dance is on Fr| We don’t t; Ha, h a,... I ’ll be back later it so much, why didn’t you write a review o f it? by Katrina's roving eye on Brian’s SLR, even 16th in the Cafe, 8 pm. ke them ’c S.C. Or can you only criticise criticism? Alex time looks like it's standina still

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ven More Lettuce News From STAND THIS LET! A B0GUS LETTER TA, VERY MUCHLY ROMI PATEL GETS A HATE CLUB LETTER INDUSTRIAL WASTE POLLUTION Regulations banning the discharge of ie'n' Brian, Dear Ed, Dear Sir, industrial wastes into the country’s inland Just a qujckie to thank Rachael and Sarah for I grow tired of the foul mouthed letters that md lighthearted ma like t0 comPlain at the number of student officialdom publish in Craccum in reply waters have been gazetted. This prohibi­ you ers aPPearinS in Y °ur grotty rag their Orientation marathon. We actually to honest, if not reasonable suggestions and tion, contained in the Environmental ng the trees at the I ^ 1 am referring to those spurious enjoyed the films and the films and the films Jse and read it purportedly written by one ‘Kevin and didn’t really get sick of them - honest ! criticisms made by we mere peasant students. (Sewage and industrial effluent) Regula­ In such a huge place its not always obvious who tions, 1 979, also ban the discharge of day, you know su« inow f° r 3 f3Ct that ‘ Kevin Haig’ is 3 to direct suggestions to. A letter to Craccum I was even looklnef, of your febrile ima8 inations and your Yours, effluent and sludge on land without also gives others an opportunity to support or ^ 8 iens. The reason that ‘ Kevin Haig’ was (or for that matter, Dave, anyone’s) written permission from the Director- Big Cal oppose your ideas. I read the pages of,as National AffairS ° f f 'Cer W3S beC3USe Romi Patel’s reply in particular in last weeks General o f Environment. Factories and he ‘lettuce’ a bl k anifested himself in lecture theatres Craccum prompted this letter. He need only individualsseeking to have the regulations nd I became quite 8umboots and aswandri. He certainly . ool me. So, in the interests of an interest- GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES have stated that a Classical special is coming waived may apply to the director-general .. uo you realize^ jjhtening, and entertaining rag, please up, and classics don’t fit in well with current will consider carefully the effects of er to cause quite allgh . . u »rite any boring Haig letters. They are Dear Ed, (not to be confused with the music. He says that ‘we are always open to waiving the rules before issuing licenses. id probably even h f 16 any b° ring Haig letterS‘ They 3re y n you seem to think, a clever attempt at famous talking horse) suggestions (rather contradicting the tone of Adequate steps should be taken to After only two weeks here I have a major the rest of his letter) but see us rather than enforce these regulations which would :d in the invective »i[and b itin 8 sati.re * dul‘> writing .... letters’. Well I did dare to go up to ur ‘lettuce’ Ho Ial’ unimaginative, unintelligent, pompous complaint. Orientation promoters don’t seem otherwise be rendered useless. ° Wm ing. No more please. to realize that there are more people here than the studio and make a suggestion, and was er responsible dear they realize. You bloody imbeciles, can’t you accused of ‘trying to tell us our job’ in a rather UNION TROUBLE AT MAS t we, out of all thelf aggressive tone. I trust the attitude of the count ! I have spent a lot of wasted time going The Airways Employees Union (AEU), station manager does not typify the rest of his T h a v in g ’6 ° f Wr" Uson (Imitation Affairs Officer). to the entertainments provided (some of which 't having the opport are worthwhile) only to find they are full up. staff as I shall keep listening to my favourite representing most employees o f the state- others through asti [ After organizing such stupendous (?!) station on 1404. owned Malaysian Airline System (MAS), then, that this abilitj ANYONE UNDERSTAND SWAHILI? entertainments why must they persist in I don’t wish to criticise only Mr Patel but called for a work-to-rule last December. It by the foul languaji, putting them in rooms no bigger than match would like to see all our student officials write has resulted in the sacking of 11 members exhibited in Craccu iear, boxes, eg Debbie and the Dum-dums in the reasonable rational letters. Maybe all the/rest of of the AEU, the suspension of 221, the a lecture, no apoloialways considered myself to be of Little Theatre. us will follow suit. After all why should a deregistration from union membership ;h a bad old world,table intelligence. Similarly my parasitic letter to the editor be sprinkled with f- - k just of 874 and the issue of a notice to the id live for and weaijnfidence has been known to secretly Very shoddy, because its Craccum and not the Star. Oh for bver my bodily charm (know what I mean); AEU itself to show cause why it should Disgruntled. the archaic past when gentleness were just that not be registered. The crunch came ilent to be occupying dear, I have one hopelessly stifling and ladies were...... oops I’m rambling now. Bye. would like to enjoyfcm. I simply cannot write good endings suddenly with the cancelling o f all MAS lay, through Craccil letters. Signed, flights and the arrest of 18 people, bur hair is" nice Dear Ed, Another self confessed ‘obnoxious son of a including 10 union officials under the lank-you One evening in the wee small hours I did happen cockroach’. wide powers of the Internal Security Act i’t thank me, than k...... upon the well known garden of delights (and P.S. I welcome equally sane replys. for alleged sabotage on the 14th Feb and fool your friends), other sexual fantasies) of the Craccum office. 1979. The president o f the AEU Haji in anticipation, We are open to suggestions. Not demands o f a Mohammad Flussein who escaped the Ē What an education indeed — here was I throwing haughty nature as yours were. Come and see us myself tremulously upon the ground (everyone police drag-net has gone underground. Kelly (not my real name) again. The confrontation started o ff as a hour paper is a thankfully frenetic in Craccum wears brown jandals and takes part routine re-negotiation of a wage contract. ■m. in a toenail growing contest) (this is an observat­ ion not a generalisation), offering my services to The employees wanted parity o f pay ;rry way across this the so-called voice of the educated few — as a with Singapore Airlines, which the js, I came across this mere proof reader. But alack and alass a single management consistently denied. When mn long way froma bin carrying the label ‘to be proofed’ contained the talks broke down in December, the Jther. (ie from the all of one singel virgin sheet of unabused paper... Labour Ministry tried to mediate but not IS THIS RIGHT-WINGER? lusic Dept) If I have “Tis content not quality we need”, they cried before the workers began their work-to im going to turn inti (desperately) Ed, “ We need more letters” Dave exclaimed rule. te like John Walker.,r; fcbeen amazed over the years at how the ind rack your tinylii (expressively) BUT NOBODY EVEN MENTIONED The government has now dug in for a 0 .. . - 1 of Craccum have managed to so consist- “ Here have some coffee” said someone else LECTURING STANDARDS tough stand. As one government official in h m centlmetresi fill the paper with totally unreadable and (kindly). said: ‘If we give in to airline employees’ 1 ’ “ thTc* my* Khorseshit written by eloquent poofters.. Dear Sir, demands, what is there to stop other t 11 h R ^ec,sl" this PaPer is Obviously lacking are any After such emphatic persuasion the like of which, While I realise that paper such as yours no statutory and quasi-government bodies e to t t Ut P ea artic,es> letters> drawings etc about drugs. has not been seen since the rise of Hitler in Nazi doubt feels that it has an obligation to uphold, ° Urn ° my [this appalling particularly when so many making similar claims ?’. The implication Germany, I felt inclined (but not very) to at I would like to point out that this is not like to get ripped out of our tiny little least attempt a verbalize. OK it’s not a very necessarily so - although with certain reserva­ is clear, the government will not L Another thing I find very disheartening good letter but then letters in Craccum rarely tions. I appreciate that you concentrate and hesitate to take any harsh action against is recently trendy movement to legalise and are, are they? And now dear reader you too give wide and deeply-based coverage to media such industrial action under the name of finalise, whatever, good old dope. It is can say you know why. and issues and contemporary affairs and trends- ‘internal and social security’ of the U. Wouldn’t it be bloody boring if it were such as they are at this point in time - I feel country. The notorious ISA, with its jsed. Ten reasons why dope shouldn’t be Signed lovingly, Dave’s mum. that you adopt too large a high-profile stance unlimited power, has always been used IS A SWINE ABOlt for you. on questions of moral suggestiveness and by the state machinery for such purposes, PS. I do wish you’d get your hair cut, and matters of dubious ethical provenance and invoking dope wouldn’t be trendy any more. where union leaders who stand up to please do something about your toenails. sauciness and other issues too. As an instance wouldn’t be any money in dope, protect the just demands of the workers , [here of this, in point of fact I would suggest fuck esnt concern you- Le WOuld be out of jobs. are very vulnerable to indefinite A LETTER POSSIBLY NOT FROM KEVIN which is a word of which I do not generally >ra i re - but thepe ||| the useless NORML bastards would have detention. HAIG approve although I am not a prude - except y blue sweatshirt(* |jngt0 moan about. Meanwhile, 12,000 port workers from Dear Dave, in a limited sense which I will define in due - 1 ~.a?ro?s the ctlest'Contacts with the really good things like course as a part of the argument which I am 4 unions demanded the resumption of 5 Clubs Noticeboari and Alice D.would become scarcer, Why the Hell doesn’t someone write to vlarch. Quite apart Kraccum about the price o f ‘food’ in the currently propounding at the moment. One pay talks between MAS and the AEU and oss of income through fines to the Govt, must consider the public image which such the withdrawal of the government’s is a favourite jersey wouldn’t be fun anymore. Milkbar. Last week I had a milkshake which 1 weeks ! - it wasa was so fucking bad that the f i M M M n immoral behaviour and dirtiness (I hesitate to threat to deregister the AEU. The dock hat is the use of legalizing it? What I pro- also at 40c say smut although it is a word of which I do workers threatened to stop work for one lave the courage toi lis the formation of a Keep Dope Illegal you think that the Studass (or is that not disapprove as much as fuck which I don’t hour daily unless the government met its like - however this is by the bye) will cause 'ather embarrassing! tign, with a regular column in your shitty Studassholes ?) would be making the corner- ’demands. 30 trucks load of troops were when it will become well-known and would ! rand I ask all you honestly useless bastards gold mine cum dairy profit at the expense of sent to the port by the government to (there to write in to Craccum in support of appreciated, especially with bursaries being ', you’d realise that) the contributing students. I thought that ensure that the port workers ‘behave’ ng on STB and you’df Brilliant idea. Write in and tell us how you Studass, being a communist organisation, a contentious issue which it is. Although I will 5-937 or hand in to | pur neighbour’s four year old daughter wasn’t supposed to rip people off. In short I refrain from stating the obvious which is themselves. It seems the use o f force apparent to all concerned who care to involve lously). land then seduced her. I wait in apprehen- call for a general price decrease of 2 0 % in the and state machinery are the only means and a drugged stupor. dairy, and having ID cards. themselves with question of public naughtiness the government know of in ‘solving’ any Another thing, I didn’t know that the Cafe was I must respectfully deplore this state of industrial dispute. of NZ Green, allowed to B M M B B H H Vunder the guise of affairs such as it is at the moment. JJgar Hoover. Source: Asia-week 23/2/79; FEER food. 23/2/79, ST 17/2/79 | Your paper’s still fucking useless. Yours in self-appreciation. We don’t take drugs for the effect — we Yours sincerely, Rolfe Gladwin FEER- Far Eastern Economic Review (projected virgin-martyr) jtake them ’cos they’re there. Kermit ST = The Straits Time X- C lW c U M MARCH 12 PAGE 19 Well folks JW Fet again .... That An advertisement in the personal column marvellous collection of wierd, whimsical, of the London Evening News invited wacky and wertherian facts that the young ladies seeking adventure to meet a Craccum lackeys have picked out of the well set up gentleman with honourable mountains of edifying literature which intentions. When four or five thousand passed over our dear editor’s desk this women turned up at the rendezvous at week. Why spend hours researching that Piccadilly Circus, police had to be called essay, striving for originality when the in to control the crowds. inclusion of a few judiciously placed and sufficiently obscure bits of miscellania The first war in which wounds took a ■ '*1 will have your marks soaring ? Send your greater toll than disease was probably the lecturers scurrying to find the latest and Russo-Japanese war o f 1904-5 greatest version of the Britannica as they seek to uncover the source of your mind- thrilling contributions to the great chain A Nuremberg woman was taken to hospital of human knowledge. So read on people, with suspected brain damage after trying read on ! ! to smuggle a frozen chicken out of a super­ market under her hat. She fainted at the Dolphins used in striptease shows have check-out. their task o f removing the young ladies’ bikinis made more appetising by the Your brain uses about as much power as a ^ garments being soaked in liquidised fish­ 10-watt electric bulb. § meal. c; It could change the way you think you Surgeons opening the abdomen of a three- feel about this type of magazine. month old Syrian girl, thought to have a ? tumour, found three developing foetuses cgi inside. in 1972 a medical student in Marseilles decided one o f his tutors was not up to scratch, so he shot him. ‘He was a hind­ Most contraceptive pills are made from rance to my medical career'’ he explained substances found in the Mexican yam and Soot1 afterwards. the urine o f pregnant mares. Recognise this boorish fart pictured attention. He would leap about doin A notice outside an Amsterdam strip club To find the best spot in Baghdad to build above? O f course! The Wizard, whose funny-man act, and as a consequencel promises ‘ No erection - money back’ a new hospital, Rhazes, a tenth-century antics in the Quad left everyone with the students would stand around and lauji Persian physician, suspended bits o f raw impression o f some poor old deluded fool instead o f going on a demonstration. Ferret can catch human colds. meat on a variety o f sites. He chose the whose only pleasure in life is to provide place where the flesh took longest to free entertainment for the masses by Thus most o f the demos and prote\ I f you pulled the plug out o f an 11.5 stone putrefy, reasoning that this ground must raving about such diverse issues as were poorly attended because this eSi man and drained all the water out o f him, have the healthiest air. women’s place in society, the Imperial lishment joker would put on a sidesh he would reduce immediately to 4.75 British Conservative Party and a down competition — every time. stones. outfit affectionately called A lf’s Imperial An Indian woman wore 400 metres o f sari This happened time and time agaii Army. But perhaps it might be a good at her wedding. til eventually the students woke up§ More female suicides, accidents and crimes idea to enlighten you about the darker what was happening and made thinA occur during the first few days of the men­ side o f this fool and just what he repres­ hot for him. He then moved from sit strual cycle. A long playing record Of sounds from ents. to state in Australia until there wasi inside a mother’s womb became a best­ Few people would have realised that the where left for this goon to find an an Wizard, otherwise known as Ian Chal/oner, Air hostesses have the lowest divorce rate seller in Japan after it was shown to willing to listen to his ravings. was formally a paid employee o f the Univ­ among working women soothe crying babies. In tests it stopped every one of 403 babies crying in an ersity o f New South Wales. What happen- Finally he came to New Zealand average of 41 seconds. ned there was that every time students set up base in Christchurch. No Ion You have got approximately 2,500,000 organised a meeting or protest march, no working for the bosses, he makes his sweat glands. One mate doctor in 50 kills himself. matter what the topic, out would pop the money by peddling tricks, gags andst Eating a lo t o f liquorice can lead to high Wizard to do the job he was apparently rubbish. Let us only hope that his \ blood pressure. A popular medicine in the 1830 was paid to do: disrupt and divert student to Auckland are few and very short. Dr Mile’s extract of Tomato. The recipe Inadequate sleep can slow a child’s growth survives,only today it is known as tomato rate by up to two-thirds. ketch-up.

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