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Jn^Mj/ ^^^^M^^^^mMm^^^^^m COVER COURTESY OF MICHAEL LEUNIG •jj :• t •; ^.,' V; 15 March 1976 Semper Floreat Vol. 46 No. 2 Registered for transmission by post. Category B. EDITORIAL: „ „ u .« * So you noticed that Semper in Seventy-six is somewhat different Or does she |udge 'lust' as harmtul too? i can't see anything wrong with than ill been in the past. The most striking difference, of course, is people lusting over each other. I think a strong case can be made for its size, but this change has implications other than just meaning that lusf to be seen as part of a healthy sexual appetite. you how have a more easily readlble magazine. 2. It is virtually impossible to maintain an overtly Homosexual relation The fact that Semper has changed to a magazine size rather than con ship in present day Brisbane. The 'love and joy' still have to be exper tinue the facade of pretending to be a newspaper does not mean that ienced 'in the closet'. Which seems to me to indicate that the status quo we intend to delete news stories. On the contrary. With the help of a of the relationship between gays and the hetero culture is being main number of dissatisfied journalists and other interested people in Bris tained. That status quo is an overwhelming oppression-even from bane, we hope to provide altemative news (i,e. news ignored or squash such allegedly liberated people as Tina Arndt. ed by the established press) so as to provide Brisbanites with a more balanced view of what happens in this state. ' 3. Because the oppression is so overwhelming I have no wish to denig- rate either the 'love and joy' my gay sisters and brothers experience And it is not to be assumed that we are confining ourselves merely to within M.C.C. or the wori( the poeple of M.C.C. are doing. locally based issued, in the first issue we printed a long article on Timor and next issue thereli be an interesting look at the situation in Angola^ So 111 make the point again: the oppression of homosexual people in Not only political and social issues will be covered in the magazine, but Brisbane is overwhelming. If you want an 'amazing' experience try culturally we offer the most comprehensive review section available in being overwhelmed most of your ilfe. (Gay men I know from the gay any Queensland publication. What we are looking for is a balance of scene don't acknowledge me on Campus). Then conjure up love and information from all sources which will keep you wanting to read joy' and feel that experience. Share our joy, sure. Buy why avoid the Semper. (Or at least to assure you that therell be something readible PAIN of our oppression! to while away the hours in the boring lectures). What we are looking for is a balance of information from all sources Brian Day which will keep you wanting to read Semper. (Or at least to assure you that there'll be something readible to while away the hours in the bor ing lectures). As Semper is funded by Union fees, one of our main responsibilities Is to report on Union activities (which lets you know what's happen ing to the rest of your money). Campus news in general, and scandals with the administration are also allotted prime {pace - as we are, after all, existing to serve the University community. Any writers, journalists, cartoonists, photographers, news tips or ideas are always welcome with open arms. Don't forget to bring up any classified ads, you'd like us to print (10c per line for students and SOc per line for non students). Also we wish you'd get off your arses and enter the Schonell compet ition. I m,ean its not hard and you get a free pass to their film. Non students can easily get hold of this invaluable magazine (I) by sending $4 subscription to the Semper office - which covers the cost of the magazine for a year. ^^r>«.' <i- d^«./€a^v^-o^^• « Semper Floreat Vol. 46, No 2.15th March, 1976. Processed by C.P.L.-C.A.T. (Central Photo Litho. Central Art & Type) 10 Bailey Street, West End, 4101. Ph. 44 6021. Editors & Business Managers: Julianne Schultz Jane Camens Typesetter; Annmaree O'Keeffe Layout: Ron Hastings LETTER: To the ladies who edit Semper: This is a bitch about the article you carried about M.C.C. and gays. 1. It seems to me that Troy Perry denounces lust; and that Joanne in oreparing the article, might have drawn him further on the subject Copy, deadline for the third issue is Monday 15-10 a.m. gCecacfc At the Uni on 2nd March to address students that, while they are RAPED, they request.a was HIshammuddin Rais. Hisham was President review- of their employment status before of the University of Malaya Students' Union in actual retirement takes place. the 17th Council. The U.M.S.U. was banned in Sept. 1974, juit before Hisham was to have This phase of the programme will be known as taken office. In an interview with 4ZZZ he He had thick dark brown hair, a youngish face SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired spoke of the circumstances leading to his ar and didn't seem any older than 20. He was Early Workers). All employees who have been rest and imprisonment in Johore Bahru,forhls quite short, around 5' 4" -sorry I don't know RAPED and SCREWED may apply for a final part in the Tasik Utara Squatter Uprising. He it in metric ... and he was of medium to slight review. said, "1 was trying to stop a police officer from build. I have a suspicion he was travelling in a trying to do his duty, and that was destroying a car though he told me he lived behind a block This phase will be known as STUFFED (Study house." Hisham was arrested under the Internal of flats near the ferry. of Termination of Use for Further Education Security Act. He said that, under this act any and Development). citizen of Malaya may be arrested with no trial, I was too tired to get hysterical and that seem "i hearing, or no charge. ed to make him angry if not frustrated ... A Programme policy dictates that employees may fine mood for his next encounter. If you be RAPED once, SCREWED twice, but can get know anyone who walks this route alone at LIVE IN CHINA? STUFFED as many times as the Management night please pass this on to them. sees fit. The Commonwealth Department of Education is offering six scholarships for study in China. MILKOS & NAKED LADIES MAORIS MOVE IN Applicants must have studied Chinese language All right girls, you know how sultry it's been NEW ZEALAND for at least two years at an Australian tertiary these days. What do you do when you get institution, or have reached a similar level. home? Strip off? If so, how much off? Well, While in Wellington, N.Z. over the vac. I spent the other day I stripped to undies and bare a wet afternoon talking with the United Peoples The scholarships include a living allowance, free feet, then compromised and put on a pair of Liberation Movement of Aotearoa. (Aotearoa tuition, and a return air fare. The scholarships shorts. Several hours later, thus attired, 1 was Is the Maori name for New Zealand.) are offered under the Australia/China student comfortably oblivious of my physical being exchange scheme. Scholarship holders will when rattle, rattle, "Milko!" (Theise daylight The myth of harmonious relations between spend a year at the Peking Languages institute deliveries still have me flustered; it used to be Maori and Pakeha (white) has been in recent studying the language before going on to stu so much better to put out the bottles and months completely exposed, with die Maori dies of Chinese philosophy, literature or lingui money last thing at night and forget about Land s March, traversing the North Islarid. stics. them till morning.) Out I strode to hand over the money as the milkman exchanged my The U.P,L.M.0.A. are a part of the larger fac . Applications close on April 23, - the study empties for fulls. Small talk about the weat tion of Maori Land Marchers. This faction is a course begins in October, tjut a later start may her, the appetising smell of my cooking wafting loose combination of several Maori groups, the' be possible for students who want to complete out towards him, and he was on his way again. divisions between which have become wider, their 1976 studies. I stooped to collect the bottles from the door This development can be illustrated by the step and whoopsi On looking down, my eyes rejection of the U.P.L.M.O.A. of the collective's Applications should be sent to: Overseas were arrested by the sight of my decoratively slogan of "not one more acre of Maori land" Scholarships Section, Department' of Edu brief bra, and I got the giggles. I've never had i.e., to be reclaimed by the Government (echos cation, P.O. Box 826 Woden, 2606. that happen to me before. And I'm still gig. of Aurukun?). They in accordance with their gllng wondering what the milkman said to his socialist revolutionary ideology, demand collec EARLY RETIREMENT offsider as he got back into his ute. tive ownership of all land of Aotearoa.