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Issue 8, Volume 59, April 30 1985 ckland University Students' Association EDITORIAL
Craccum is edited by Pam Goode and Birgitta On Sunday, 21 April a woman was viciously raped in a manner whi imitated a rape scene screened on TVNZ the previous evening. And all 1 I Noble. The following people helped on this issue: week past, I have been subjected to the sensationalist accounts of first f Ian Grant, Andrew Jull, Karin Bos, Henry Knapp blaming the traffic officers (who would not allow the woman to 1 Harrison, Darius, Cornelius Stone, Dylan home, because of her blood alcohol level and would not drive her home) fori Horrocks, Robyn Hodge, Wallis, John Bates, occurence of the rape and then the PSA excusing the actions of the office Mark Allen & Janet Cole. alluding to the lack of staff. For their contributions thanks to: Bidge Smith, Whilst there is no doubt the traffic officers are partially to blame, thei Jonathan Blakeman, Colin Patterson, Adam Ross, reason for the rape has been ignored both by the press and in the statementi the various people concerned. Implicit in the argument surrounding | Kupe, Cornelius Stone. For photography thanks to Andrew Jull. culpability of the traffic officers is the assumption that the streets are nots And a special thank you to Janina Adamiak and J o at night for women, and therefore the woman concerned should not havel eft alone. But this assumption blames the victim, the woman for assertir Imrie. right to be wherever she wishes. To those of you who announce ‘she asked for it’ by being there - the’ majority of women are raped in their homes by men who are familiar to th Advertising Manager - Rob Ellis Typesetter - Barbara Hendry Many are raped during daylight hours. Distribution - Margaret Shirley Women are not safe from rape at ANY TIME!! They are taught this: birth so that consciously or sub-consciously they limit their behaviour in c to reduce the likelihood of their being raped. This is the reason for rape, the exertion of male dominion over women. By limiting the actions of wo through rape or the conscious/sub-conscious threat of rape, men con CONTENTS women’s lives. Because of this no space is safe for women. Another assumption in the ‘blame the victim’ mentality is that by end Features that women are responsible for reducing the probability of their rape, 1 becomes women’s problem rather than the problem of men - the Maori Herbal Medicine...... 4 perpetrators of the problem. But rape, sexual harassment and sexism are NZUSA: Stick or Split?...... 9 women’s issues; they are men’s problems and all men must take responsibfl CAS Mid Year Campus Visit by acknowledging that they and no-one else are their perpetrators. Wo Programme...... 11,12,13,14 only suffer and they never ask for it! Students In South Africa...... 15 Andrew] Y om Ha-Shoah...... ^
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y does the publicity material for Extremities, y which has been hailed as dealing with the TVNZ CHALLENGED ► "t of rape in a realistic and confronting way, upon the myth that women like, and ask, to be Last Tuesday evening about seventy women and '? men picketted Television New Zealand’s Hobson play’s poster features Jamie Lyn Bauer in at Street studio. They were protesting at the ;tive pose, and the question ‘Did Marjorie television screening of a film The Awakening of lor it? Candra whose portrayal of the violent sexual abuse lit because of the $22.50 ticket price, which is of a woman was mirrored by an actual ‘copycat’ ly out of the range of most student theatre rape the followling night. Both attacks involved a s? Do the promoters think that by woman being dragged by a rope tied around her tionalising the play’s subject matter they will neck. , audiences? The picket was organised by Auckland Women Against Pornography and supported by Men >KING WOMEN’S RESOURCE Against Rape. Its aim was to make TVNZ [RE ► recognise that showing violence towards women on Working Women’s Resource Centre - the television encourages rape and other violent nf its kind in the country opened on May Day behaviour towards women in reality. at the Trade Union Centre Building, 159 The picketters recieved considerable supporrt t North Road, Newton. Kris Bennett, the first from home bound drivers, many of whom waved or worker, started on 15 November. The WWRC Kris’ daily routine varies, but a major part of her tooted in response to a placard ‘Toot for Suppot product of the planning and discussion of the job entails speaking to women in the workplace, The picketters recieved considerable support ;n’s Subcommittee of the Auckland Trades and at stopwork meetings. She is often invited by from home bound drivers, many of whom waved or -il, the Working Women’s Council, and unions to speak to their members, and deals with tooted in response to a placard ‘Toot for Support.’ representatives of the Combined State issues such as sexual harassment disputes. People who would like to see TVNZ taking a more js . They all wanted a centre which would About every six weeks the WWRC shows union resposible attitude in its programming should ride support for women workers (whether in the women’s films like ‘Union Maids’ and ‘Working for write to the Acting Controller of Programming, Mr factory or home), and women members of Your Life’ at pubs around Auckland. These films Chris Bourne, supporting Women Against i and public sector unions. highlight issues such as health and safety at work, Pornography’s stand. WWRC’s aims are: and women organising for change. SAMOAN WOMAN WINS promote and encourage the implementation The WWRC has been compiling a resource file : Working Women’s Charter, which so far covers forty categories relating to SCHOLARSHIP ► promote and encourage the use of the centre women and work. This resource material is Fereita Fuatai, an eighteen year old Samoan focal point for the development of a women’s available for use by anyone, and additional woman, was recently awarded a scholarship worth itive on workplace and industrial issues, material is welcomed. The centre is also making a $4500. She was one of eleven recipients given an o develop a better understanding of labour and film with the help of Artwork on active women award under the Pacific Islands Youth Leadership ined State Union policy, especially as it trade unionists in Auckland. Trust, set up to help Polynesians further their women. On International Women’s Day earlier this year, academic progress. provide education for women workers, unions the centre ran several successful activities. A With the scholarship Fereits plans to study for a He community. special celebration dinner was held, and groups Bachelor of Commerce degree here at Auckland collect, catalogue and distribute educational went out during the day to speak to women University. This is to be a springboard into the ces on women and industrial issues to workers in factories, manufacturing plants and business world with a major interest in Polynesian i trade unions and the community, child care centres. In April, the WWRC will be affairs. wants to bridge the gap between women holding a day focusing on sexual harassment, for Also a winner of the Dux award at Tangaroa d employment and those working in the women in Hamilton. College 1984, Fereita feels there is a greater need so welcomes all women to become involved, Any queries should be directed to Kris at the for Polynesian’s (especially women) to help each rship costs $2.00 and is open to any Centre, Ph 762-156. She would appreciate any help other with difficulties in adjusting to and sted women, whether working or if you have a few hours to spare. The postal interpreting a different lifestyle loyed. address is Private Bag 5, Newton. "JL. A , * air neui graduates in Management Studies or Computer Science
Following corporate policy INTENSIVE SECRETARIAL AIR NEW ZEALAND .LES PEOPLE W ANTED DIPLOMA COURSE is in the process of redesigning its JULY 15 1985 business systems to take advantage of the opportunities offered by modern The five months course is designed for people computer and communications ssentatives needed for training to sell with higher education qualifications and adults technology. ride range of products aiming for top secretarial or personal assistant icants would need to be self motivated, jobs. a genuine desire to succeed, a maturity We are seeking graduates in Management eak with authority. Shorthand, typing, business practises, business Studies or Computer Science to join the uneration is determined by individual communication and bookkeeping are the main teams carrying out this work. subjects taught. Interviews will be held on Campus Phone KEN BEEHRE 545-009 Wednesday 3 July. For information & enrolment; Make appointments with the Phone: 798-542 Careers Advisory Service. GILLIAN INGLIS COMMERCIAL COLLEGE ^ a i r n e w z E a i a n o dential 157 Hobson Street; AUCKLAND.
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MAORI HERBAL MEDICINE Wk.
My name is Maryanne Baker and before I begin, I feel also, like Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). rhizome of the native flax which is a purg I think it appropriate that I tell you a bit about that preventative medicine was practiced as once anthraquinone. myself. the mother and child returned to the village, the Christina MacDonald told me of a recipe \ Our family lived in Kawiti then Moerewa in the ' maternity house was burnt so it wouldn’t be a received from the secretary of the BMA Bay of Islands North of Auckland. I belong to the danger to others. varicose ulcers, marketed as Varex in Austa Ngatihine and Ngatirahiri hapu of Ngapuhi and Another form of medicine, although it is not and employed with success: am also of Scottish descent. known to what extent it was practiced was Zinc Oxide -15% I attended the Bay of Islands College then went anthropophagy, and infanticide. This probably Glycerine - 35% on to Pharmacy School at Heretaunga, graduating ensured high protein intake and control of Gelatin - 15% in 1979 with an internship at Greenlane Hospital. resources by population (although they certainly Water - 35% Thereafter, I worked in retail pharmacy had their spiritual and mental effects). Apparently, it was given to a pharmacist | throughout Auckland and on Waiheke Island and Because the Maori didn’t have a written Otaki by a Maori woman and the glycerine i have attended university part-time and managed language, the pre-European practices can only be pulped flax root. Stage I Bachelor of Commerce). revealed through what has already been written Other remedies noted were those of jJ My present position .is in the pharmaceutical down and any information that exists is probably Johnson, M.D., on the 8th January, 1848 industry, as a representative for Essex with the kaumatua (old people) which is very Rotomahana where ‘we were shown mass Laboratories NZ Limited. This position allows me sacred. Whereby it is theirs to give, not ours to mud, of which the natives eat and con on the other side of pharmacy where I not only take! wholesome’. He also believed the thermal traverse the North Island seeing Doctors and From the time of 1769 when Captain Cook sailed ‘possess valuable medicinal qualities both Chemists but, see people in health and ill health. in, so did the diseases, then V.D. and later, internal and external application, as the I hope to give you an insight into Maori influenze, typhoid , and T.B. were to sail away cure many diseases by simple immersion in the Medicine, but it will by no means be intensive. with a lot of the Maori population. The Maori also Others mentioned to me, and said to be effe Medicine may be defined as ‘any drug or remedy suffered from skin eruptions, due to change of are the employment of worms, snails, cobwebsi for use in treating preventing or alleviating the ‘habit’. the most obvious, lying nude in the sun. symptoms of disease’. Disease is ANY impairment However, the Europeans also brought their 1840 bought influenza and by the late 18 of normal healthful functioning. It is in this knowledge of disease, amputation techniques and some European medications were being disc context I discuss the topic. Maori Medicine, I Christianity.We are aware of Cook using New for those of Maori origin. This was believed to| believe had its roots in the ‘old world’, survived Zealand botanicals (Maori celery, Nau, Puha and due to nationalistic revival by way of the European colonisation and is contemporary. NZ Spinach) successfully to prevent scurvy. movement and Hauhauhism. A new form 1 There is the medicine practised by the pre- Through colonisation, especially Christianity, tohunga emerged. European Maori, the post-European Maori and the Maori view of disease changed to that of either However, the late 1890’s brought forth Ma contemporary Maori. being from Maori or Pakeha origins; and thus trained in both worlds, who were to improve; The lifestyle of the pre-European Maori meant treated them accordingly. Maori health standards; namely (Sir) Apir that they had to exercise frequently and be The user of plants externally was noted but their Ngata, (Sir) Maui Pomare, (Sir) Peter Buck, mentally alert if they were to survive ecologically concoction and use of plants internally as Pukehika. Just as important were Maori Ch and in warfare. They were spiritual, which affected medicinals is conceived by historians, Best and who were made health officers due to their i laws of tapu. ‘Tapu’ was more than sacred or Colenso, to be Post-European. A list of plants used (power and prestige) with the people. These [ religious, it was the basis of law and order and its as medicine, externally and internally by both instigated many things e.g. ventilation of me respect ensured the survival of the Community. Maori and European, may be found in ‘New houses (no mean feat), reforming of the Their responsibilities were to the tribe; an Zealand Medicinal Plants’ by Brooker, Cambie and opposed to its prohibition) and by 1907J extended family concept, such that the Cooper. It is the only authoratitive text available. Suppression of the Tohunga Act. (Apparently t responsibility of child rearing belonged to the Of note is the fact that the NZ koromiko ‘is the still on the books). community. only native plant to have received recognition in By the 1920’s the Maori prophet and faith Sickness and death was believed to be due to medicine overseas, it being listed as a remedy for Ratana came into being. His cure was total fait! spiritual beings as a result of either the desecration diarrhoea in the 1895 Extra Pharmacopoeia. the one and only God, which still has a of tapu or by maketu (sorcery) if it were not due to During World War II the dried plant was sent to following. old age, warfare or indigenous diseases such as the the North African front where it was used Today, a great many people will tell you all t bite from the katipo spider, <• plant or fruit effectively by Maori troops.’ Its action is practices, in some form remain and whatl poisoning, or leprosy (although the latter was antiperistaltic, calming the bowel. happening is the revival of what determines ha attributed to sorcery). In 1979 I collected information from our leader from a Maori perspective. A health hui, at I The remedy was to enlist the services of the the late Mr Dan Whiu, and I know he would be Hoani Waititi Marae last March of which Tohunga. Being the medium of the gods, they were happy if I relayed one of his experiences here. He fortunate enough to attend, addressed this.] very powerful healers. (Although they could take said about 60 years before, they had an attack of Maori view of health is a holistic one where the life if they wished). There were different classes of typhoid fever. The doctor in the Bay of Islands was ‘spiritual, (as distinct from religious) me expert, the highest class being the Tohunga Dr Fraser Hurst who visited them by horseback. family and physical well-being’ I refer you tot Ahurewa who was ‘Scholar, Scientist, Philosopher He told his parents that he couldn’t do anything booklet printed afterward by the He and Theologian’). Each had their own expertise. for them. That night Mr Whiu’s father went 15 Department ‘Hui Whakaranga’, for a n* The Tohunga used karakia to communicate with miles to Owarua near Mangakahia and brought a informative presentation. the gods and effect a remedy. A karakia may be man back who was known to make medicine with One of the recommendations of the Hui 4 defined as a ‘formula of words which was chanted Maori herbs, by the name of Henare Peri Wihongi. ‘support and special status be given to | to obtain benefit or avert trouble, and have been They took the medicine and when the doctor came Tohunga and traditional health practices] known to extend the bounds of religion’. Adult back he couldn’t believe it, and asked what had facilitate their recognition and utilisation in i laymen also knew karakia for simple ailments, but happened. His father showed him the bottle of health services.’ You may think, ‘Isn’t that! the priests karakia was the most powerful. medicine and Dan said ‘It was a combination of concept practiced by the Ancient Maori?’ j With karakia, the Maori was known to use Tamakura and Tatamoa that gave us life! ’ answer is yes, but with a 20th century ‘accent’, i herbals externally: the ashes and charcoal dust of Of fill the plants screened, those correlated with Medical and health professionals must beca burnt tree fronds was used for severe burns (oil medicinal properties are koromiko, Poroporo, involved in the evolutionof total health among! from the seeds of the titoki was smeared onto the pukatea, kowhai, tutu, kahikatea, rimu, matai, Maori. Be aware of the alternative practices oft cut end of the cord after childbirth, a dressing was rengamutu, NZ Manuka and kanuka, patete, New Zealand Aborigine and remember, it evokei made from the innerbark of the lacewood soaked in horopito, NZ coprosma species and flax. Maori orientation to life. titoki oil and daily swabbing was done with flax toe ‘Professor Cambie told me the latest finding is tne obtained by scraping of the flax fibre. isolation of a red crystalline compound from the
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'M y God, it's full of stars'. The film is considerable, there Floyd describes about this film but I think it is an primarily non-verbal, and the entire Americans as shocking linguists and adventure story'. It may be that those spoken word soundtrack spliced end to says he feels almost ashamed of their innocents were not disappointed by end would probably total less than 5 of chauvinism and laziness. Arthur C. John Huston's film of U nder The the films 160 minutes. Clarke, English born and now a citizen Volcano, at least they were not 2010 opens with a discussion of Sri Lanka is well known for his burdened by pre-conceptions as to between Dr Heywood Floyd (Roy activities with both Russian and what the novel by Malcolm Lowry is Scheider), bureaucrat in charge of the American scientists and is equally about. He did not sub-title it with 'One original Discovery mission and his critical of both country's political cannot live without love', Lowry uses Russian counterpart who is organising absurdities. Indeed 2010 (the book) is quotations from Sophocles - A ntigone, c h is a purg a 'go and see what happened' mission. dedicated to Alexei Leonov, a John Bunyan-Grace Abounding For He invites the Americans to come cosmonaut and friend of Clarke's, and The Chief Of Sinners, and a quotation e o f a recipe | along if they can swing it with their to Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Laureate from Goethe- 'Whosoever unceasingly )f the BMA government. Dr Floyd, Dr Curnow, and major critic of the soviet human strives upwards ... him can we save.' a re x in Ausb and Dr Chandra, the creator of HAL, rights record. I guess giving the film to John Huston's reputation as a film join the Russian expedition. From here an American company and an maker rests upon his ability to tell yarns 310 on out a more or less straight forward American director was bound to shift about odd characters (Sam Spade in trip to Jupiter, followed by recovery of it's political perspective. The Maltese Falcon, Charlie Allnutt in r. Peter H yam s the Discovery, reactivation of HAL One thing that strikes me as a likely The African Queen and the characters I City C entre and a number of strange happenings reaction to this film is; it's never played by Sean Connery and Michael C a in e in a pharmacist! , which wrap the film up. fashionable to be optimistic. 2010 is a The Man Who Would Be t h e glycerine i This will be my last science fiction As is obvious from the preceding very optimistic film, both in its King. His favourite character is the It has been a marvellous summaries, both films must rely perspective on the probable outcome man on the edge of civilised behaviour, ! th o s e of jj r erience, four years of my life - and / heavily on factors other than narrative of Russian/American conflict and the for Huston, His Majesties ex-consul in n u a r y , 1848 ave no intention of ever repeating it' ones such as plot to succeed. Both in use of technology, particularly space Quauhnahuac, Mexico, must have shown mass fact endeavour to create a sense of technology. I've never had much time seemed ideal. sat and cor So said Arthur C. Clarke in 1969 wonder, and also one of optimism. for those people who believe that all Malcolm Lowry's largely ie thermal er 2001: A Space Odyssey w a s Anyone who has seen 2001 re m e m b e rs the money spent on space projects autobiographical character, Geoffrey la litie s both eleased six years after the loving attention given to the should be used to feed the starving Firmin, is a man of past brilliance, now on, as the jommencement date. 2001 w a s a detailed creation of a future world. The millions, principally because that is blinded by his own light, incapacitated m e rs io n in the votal m ovie, p e rh a p s n o t th e firs t Pan Am orbital shuttles, the sign in the only a drop in the bucket compared to by his own insight, pursued by his aid to be effe irious science fiction movie, but zero gravity toilet, the flat pad TV military spending. I would like to think hallucinations and tormented by the lails, cobwebs! ainly the tra n s itio n a l o n e w h ic h screens, and similar devices gave one that Clarke's view of the value of space inevitability of his own demise and by h e s u n . lade S.F. movies publicly the impression of life some time into exploration is a correct one, and that solutions that are too late or just out of y the late 18 ectable. It was the first S.F. movie the future. Much of this detail is what we discover out there may make re a c h . *e b e in g disc lich won widespread public missing from 2001 though I suppose us considerably less parochial back In Huston's Under The Volcano w e vas believedi eptance, and also introduced the one can rightly claim we are 20 years here on Earth. If you are interested in are introduced to the alcoholic ex- way of the i-makers of the English speaking closer. Still, flattering as it must be to Clarke's ideas on uses of technology consul (Albert Finney) on what, it A n e w form i rid to the notion that science fiction the Apple Computer Company, the one of his recent books, 1984: Spring transpires, will be the last day of his was not restricted to B g ra d e m o v ie s . It idea that computer technology in the is well worth a look. life. He is a defiant drunkard, ight forth Ma [ opened the way for the wide interest in twenty first century will still be seeing Visually the film is excellent. The magnificant in full flight, still in control re to improve t >.F. film in the 1970's, with films such Apple lie's in common use stretches grandeur of space which we have all of his self esteem as an English ely (Sir) Apir Close Encounters, th e S tar W ars that sense of wonder a little. Dr Floyd's become rather blase about is very gentleman. He is also a troubled man, Peter Buck, gy, and their m a n y im ita to rs . house, with dolphin visitors is certainly evident throughout the film. Views of despairingly sad, wishing for his wife's /ere M aori Ch What then of Clarke's new film , or at impressive, but the soap opera style Jupiter are as realistic as the most up return, and when she does, incapable due to their , t the film based on his novel? ls it a drama over his departure is the low to date information from the Voyager of recapturing their past love. Neither o p le . T hese i vhile successor to K u b ric k 's point in the film. Perhaps the probes can make them. The special Yvonne (Jaqueline Bisset) nor :ilation of me 1 and is it a good film in it's own difference can best be understood by effects vary from competent to Geoffrey's half brother Hugh (Antony g o f th e it? The answer depends very much the statement from Peter Hyams in excellent. In particular, rebuilding the Andrews) can halt his terminal slide on n d b y 1907] | your persp ective. F o r m y s e lf, I publicity material. 'It is a very sets of Discovery from scratch has the Mexican Day of the Dead. (Apparentlyij oyed the film , B U T ! accessible story which explains a lot of been very well done. One small Under The Volcano m a y b e a t, a little background. 2001 the elements in 2001: A Space quibble, where does, the dust on coherent story for some or incoherent let and faith cerned th e p re s e n c e o f a b la c k O dyssey.' Discovery come from, out of the for others. Huston ties the story e w as total fa 3lith in th ree d iffe re n t s c e n a rio s , I for one, am not sure that I wanted a vacuum of space? The only character loosely into the destruction of W estern I s till has a i first three million years in the past, lot of those elements explained of note in 2001 was HAL, the civilisation in the pre-world war 2 days second on the moon in the year a n y w a y . computer. Several well formed by referring to the Spanish civil war II tell you all t 1, and the third in the orbit of The most frustrating thing about the characters are present in 2010, th e b e s t and the rising Nazi and anti-semitic a in a n d what] piter, in the s a m e tim e p e rio d . A film for me was the chauvinistic in my view being Dr Chandra, HAL's politics in Germany and Mexico. The determ ines hei aceship, the Discovery, is sent to attitude of Dr Floyd. A real American's creator. HAL is obviously the doctor's coherence of the largely unrelated ieaith hui, at! amine the monolith in Jupiter orbit, American, what I'd call a smartass first child, and the relationship events of the day hinge on the white :h of which t's on-board computer, HAL, Yankee. The film's setting is one in between them is well presented. Of horse, branded with the number 7, td d re s s e d this.] comes psychotic and kills all but one which the Americans and Russians are those cast members in the original film, which is seen at several crucial points one where the the crew. The last crew member in a hotting up phase of a cold war and all bar the original Heywood Flloyd in the film, on Yvonne's return, during religious) me npletes th e m issio n , e x a m in e s th e Floyd behaves in a very arrogant have been retained. Even the voice of the bus trip to the bull-fight and in the I refer you to! cnolith, and is last h e a rd o f s a y in g manner. The contrast to the book is HAL, Douglas Rain, has been closing sequence of the film. But the b y th e He maintained. And Clarke himself has a viewers perception as to whether John fa ’, fo r a cameo role feeding pigeons outside the H u s to n 's Under The Volcano s u c c e e d s White House, which he describes as as a film will depend on whether he has i o f th e Hui reminiscent of Hitchcock. presented a sufficiently coherent be given to And so to my original question, is narrative for someone who has not ilth practice this a worthy successor to 2001 ? 2001 's read the book or a sufficiently sensitive utilisation ini spaceship was called 'Discovery', is interpretation for someone who has. k, ‘Isn’t that! there a sense of discovery in 2010 ? I Our literary advisor maintains that ient Maori?’ went with a friend who has never Under The Volcano is the most itu ry ‘accent’, j previously seen a science fiction film important English language work this rials m ust be and their reaction was certainly one of century (a view on which he is on safer h e a lth among i discovery. But for me, the sense of ground than his previously reported ve practices oftl awe and spiritual awakening conveyed opinion that A Passage To India w a s ,em ber, it evo b y 2001 has not been enhanced by it's the most boring work ever written). successor. An enjoyable film, but not a Under The Volcano is a complex book major departure in science fiction film which alternates between descriptive m a k in g , passages, the points of view of various Henry Harrison characters and the stream of consciousness ravings of Geoffrey Firmin in the throes of delerium UNDER THE VOLCANO tremens. Put simply - the story in Dir: John Huston Under The Volcano is in the way it is Wintergarden told. Hence without access to Geoffrey Firmin's mind and the deeper aspects A remark which was heard in the conveyed in the manner of the written ticket queue went 'I don't know much work we are left with a story which
APRIL 20 1SS5 CRACCUM ► 5 does not stand on its own. what communist with a dog called all about?' — one well ask. W e are presented with the character Harpo would want to read Thomas the secret in dealing with Beckett is _ o 'c l o c k of the Consul already fully formed with Carlyle a writer not known for any to take him too seriously. little indication of what made him the sense of humour? Thus John Huston's iff i f ...... Act Without Words / shows man he is. W e hear of his war service film has only a tenuous understanding m Beckett is more funny than audie as commander of an armed merchant of Lowry's novel or of the character of nri;*7 take him to be. It is the cruel humour ship which was involved in an incident those friends of Lowry who fought in slap-stick comedy. Jennifer W* with a German submarine, following the International Brigade in the r n , _ ^ Lealand does more than just fall d which 6 German officers end up in the Spanish civil war. Indeed Hugh's in h e r re c re a tio n o f th e sad humour ships boilers. This may be one reason anecdote in the novel refers to, Or Who r td h s p oi T' the silent movie comedians, such for Geoffrey Firmin's drinking but without directly naming, Julian Bell hoiooxubl C uttle Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Lowry does not make such a simple (son of Vanessa Bell - Painter, and she struggles with life's cause and effect relationship between nephew of Virginia W oolf- writer) who PiJL ouj) 7-B-fP ■ disappointments. the two. Yvonne and Hugh are even went to China then to Spain and was Rockaby is Beckett cutting off less formed that the Consul and the killed by a stray bullet before seeing 1 THOUGHTt fragment of life and pushing it into interdependence'which Lowry creates any action. Such subtle ties may be TH£ CAT. COUQH - corner. The performance of between the three characters is lost. only for the academic but if the script i THOUGHT l - 5 / W W o m a n a n d V o ic e (M e g a n Edwardsl The film also does not clearly portray both visual and emotional but with* writer does not understand the book 7H8 AA/Ci - that Geoffrey Firmin's death is suicide he should leave it alone. The extraneous theatrical garbage, rather thpn murder, as Geoffrey has cognoscenti will also recognise that Ai/rKYTHm audience must just sit and confront long recognised the inevitability of his the script steals a line from the comic /S 8AU> h a u n tin g m o n o lo g u e a b o u t loneli arriving at the bar-room of El Farolito, and old age. singer/songwriter Tom Lehrer 'They irW : HBKE ' and does not leave when warned of his had all the guns but we had the best Krapps Last Tape again shows t a t c u te T ir being in danger. songs' off his An Evening Wasted With only the Irish have a tr John Huston's Under The Volcano is Tom Lehrer. understanding of the nuances of not a good adaption and it is doubtful Under The Volcano will be seen by J TQ*Y\ English language. Beckett is at his whether he tells a good yarn. Lowry two types of people, those who have w h e n he is d w e llin g u p o n allitera builds the character of Geoffrey read and cherish the book and those an d w o rd -p la y s , s u c h as 'spo Firman from the inside and not by who have not. The first may see the 'Stools' and Krapps L ast Tape. Ed describing the antics of a drunk. Our novel betrayed, the second will see a Newborn as Krapp should be in running for a 1985 Tony award for criticism is if you want to adapt great performance by Albert Finney best performance with a banana, as Lowry's book for film you must but may think it a sketchy story is not an old man the role is all interpret it and that is not done by without substance. taking the storyline and filming that, c re a tio n . T h e series was devi but it would be achieved by Morris Averill and Richard Bohmer Catastrophe juxtaposing scenes from his past with and directed by Paul Gittens as before-screened-in-this-backwater the events of the Day of the Dead, directing debut. He has shown Beck e p is o d e s . rates them as such as his Youth, Yvonne's past, (The Listener off at his best, with the performan Hugh's past. What Huston has not repeats - they are certainly not. Ask being lifted with imaginative lighti someone who remembers back to the done is make some decision as to what and sparse sets. 11-45 first ever episode concerning cavemen the book is 'about' and present some interpretation of that. discovering fire.) - M orris Avr John Huston may have reached his I envy those smug souls with video recorders. Bad enough the most peak with his film W ise B lood fro m th e classic Star Trek episodes have got QUEEN VICTORIA IS ALIVE novel by Flannery O'Conner, which AND WELL AND SLEEPING sadly got no further than film festival past me unrecorded. screenings on 1981. W ise B lood w a s a ON A BENCH IN ALBERT Cornelius (W here's Zira?) Stone more modest but more successful PARK literary adaption of an equally self P .S . A n u p d a te ...... I s ta n d c o rre c te d . I destructive character as is Geoffrey Written by Rick Loos, directed by think these W ho series have aired here F irm in . W ise B lood is the strange story Russell Shipman before. Anyone? of Hazel Motes, a crazy preacher boy A Theatre Workshop production at from the Appalachian mountains who the Maidment starts his own church - 'The Church of April 30 - May 4 Jesus Christ without Christ'. That film reached the mysteries of Hazel Mote's THEATRE I got inspired to write this play w existence whereas Under The Volcano my flatm ates and I were evicted from is little more than a collection of DR WHO CATASTROPHE flat in Sandringham last year. At anecdotes, some amusing some odd Inconveniently, Friday nights on TV2 time I was researching into but never the strangeness which a t 6 .3 0 Zealand history, and saw a strc Huston would have wanted to portray. Samuel Beckett parallel between the colonial menta Could it be that John Huston and his The Doctor of old is straight Theatre Corporate o f th e P a k e h a a n d th e w a y in which script writer Guy Gallo do not really forward, uncomplicated nonsense. In were forced out of our house so that! understand Lowry's book or the 1930's this day and age of convoluted SF Catastrophe is the title piece for motorway could go through. Englishmen Geoffrey and Hugh are? blah, something so simple and earnest, Theatre Corporate's programme of In the play, Queen Victoria setf The script has Hugh glibly announce charming and clever is, indeed, very Samuel Beckett works. Beckett has a letter to her son, Edward that he is going back to England to join much like a time trip back. Patrick daunting reputation with audiences. Sandringham, which goes missing the R.A.F. as he can anticipate a war is Troughton as the immediate character There is the school of thought which the mail and ends up in Sandringha imminent. Those who have read sequel to the grumpy Dickensonian takes him to be the playwright of the Auckland, 1985. Lowry's first book Ultramarine m a y see William Hartnell is the most delightful Twentieth Century, with his works From there, we find out why Q that Hugh is just a younger version of of the many incarnations. (In fact there defining the existential dilemmas of Victoria was an anarchist; learn Geoffrey and quite incapable of such is nothing left wanting in the first modern life. The other school sees him about life on the North Shore; decisive action, the book has Hugh three). His high spirits and hoboish as the wit of the English language as witness the second coming of going off to take a cargo of T.N.T. to tomfoolery mark him distinctly. And only an Irish born writer can be. W hite Businessman. deliver it to the Republican army when age. The Doctor has got to have age. The four works is the programme In the anarchist republic he knows that their cause is lost. The episodes playing now, 'The shows the diversity in Beckett's Aotearoa, unemployed people have Literary junkies may recognise that Mind Robber' and 'The Krotons' were writing. While he may have an eat garbage out of a trough; pregna Guy Gallo changes Hugh's ancedote made in 1968. The black and white intellectual reputation the Theatre is in - for male and female alike; P! about the communist with a taste for nostalgia, studio bound, shoe-string Corporate production shows him to be Charles and Lady Diana are war* Vin Rose d'Anjou who has a dog called budget and histrionic acting begets a wonderful theatre. about waving at people. Mar Harpo. The script has him reading marvellous sensation of claustrophobia Catastrophe would appear to be the Fletcher, who owns New Zealand, Carlyle in the Madrid library whereas and introversion. Later series, creation of a theatrical character by the d e s p e ra te ly try in g to sell th e place. Lowry has him reading de Quincey. beginning with colour and Jon Director, Assistant and Lighting The central character, Murk, This criticism may be pedantic Pertwee take off into gimmickry and technician. The magic of the dream of blood and violence, literalism on our part but anyone who extroversion. Syndication success to performance is that the person who escapes to the country, has has read the hallucinogenic the States has greatly Americanised Dr says the least has the greatest visual passionate love affair with a moun autobiography of Thomas de Quincey Who to the point where its rich impact, that is the Protagonist (David an d a b iza rre u n d e rw a te r experience. Confessions Of An English Opium 'Britishness' and idiosyncrasy is Mitchell). The title Catastrophe w o u ld The play is destined to become a Eater will recognise a stylistic similarity basically through the floor. Sacking be the key to the satirical intent of the classic. It even deals with the pro b e tw e e n Under The Volcano a n d th a t the policebox concept of the Tardis is work. One can well understand which of old Turks. book. Guy Gallo may have recognised the latest sin. came out of the dark after the that it was an amusing anecdote but It is just good to see these nevedr- catastrophe was over, 'what was that
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V well ask. Bui th Beckett is r e n p u s h e r s iy. s / shows than audier PIECE OF MINE' cruel humouro , California C ooper Jennifer Wart | Trees Press m just fall do 3 sad humour ( Alice Walker, on whose W ild Trees edians, such, w label A Piece of Mine' a p p e a rs , farold Lloyd, _ jn the book's introduction: 'Can h life's trust another w o m a n to te ll o u r ^ for us?' C o o p e r's s to ry m a y b e a t cutting off i artfelt world away from our own, ishing it into! t beneath the facts and colours it is nance of ^ntially the 'same old story' that w e jgan Edwardsli know and can recognize. Cooper jnal but witho every w o m a n s b lu e s - a t o n c e garbage, ;tive and poetic, the streetwise and confrontt 'you know it' resounding about lonelinei ugh her folk ballads. In everyone of stories, o n e w o m a n te lls o f gain shows th „er, sepaking out in the rich, deep nave a tru j of the spirituals, but giving a new nuances of ension to the 'Nobody knows the kett is at hist uble I've seen' idea. Troubles are upon alliterati passed on in conversation, :h as 'spools'! , spilled out to th e re a d e r as g o ssip st Tape. Edv [shouldn't be tell'in this secret, but hould be in can just call me Ms Can'thelpit ny award for! j I just can't help it! I got to tell it!) i a banana, ash as lessons ('Well, say what you ie role is all hi _ nay, you got to know what's goin [around you'), 'old wive's tales' that ries was clevis v lose their p u n c h o r p o te n c y , I Gittens as ever, the sad sto ries o f ru in e d lives is shown Beckei lost rom ances a re s o a p o p e ra he performano that cannot diminish the iginative lightirv /teller's joy for life. Like Billie WM day singing 'I jumped out of the rjig pan and right into the fire/w hen - Morris Avei ost me a cheatin' man and got a no v iint liar' (in 'R iffin th e S c o tc h ') w ith ” ^ J fiparkle and zest that show resilience IA is alive! ■ than defeat, at the end of their > SLEEPING iries, the 'tellers' bounce back w ith a I ALBERT engeance, whether they are d, sympathetic or sceptical. The black women of Cooper's , directed by Dries are for the most part i usewives, tied to th e ir n o n s to p , Fish by D ebra Bustin production at aid employment for all their lives. i can escape; drudgery is w hat they Debra Bustin brought up to expect and accept, i beatings from a husband: 'there's Red Metro Gallery ite this play wh ays a little hell waiting round Campus Radio Alternative Top 10 - April 24 117-123 Albert St, City jre evicted fromd Jise.' They project their positive last year. Ati force through their children and 1. DON'T GO - Left Right & Centre (-) D.B. is out in Style! :h in g into work, making bargains and It was Sunday the 21st of April, a d s a w a stro npromises w ith life a lo n g th e w a y . rather overcast afternoon in downtown co lo n ial mental marriage is ideal just as no day is 2. ROCK YOUR BOX - Sylvester (-) Auckland city, the time at around 3pm. 3 w a y in which mi irfect: 'a little rain drizzling while the There we were, standing in the blue jr house so that! was shining, devil whipping his 3. SLIPPERY PEOPLE - Staple Singers (-) cellophane sea, with paper lobsters nrough. b, you know?' Moreover, marriage nibbling on our naked or holey-sock- \ Victoria send preferable to working outside the 4. IF THAT'LL MAKE YOU HAPPY - Debbie Harwood (-) covered toes, while we delicately E dw ard 'Middy told the white woman sipped our wine, mingling amongst the i g o es missing i worked for after school that she right people, and became immersed in > in Sandringti i gonna get married and was leavin 5. WORLD DESTRUCTION - Timezone (3) the atmosphere at the R ed M etro good. The woman told her she gallery. Wow! Surrounded by Debra id out why Qu ild never be happy married to a 6. LET IT BLOW - The Dazzband (-) Bustin's creations - what an explosion larchist; learn black man, being used as a baby of colour; intricate shape and form. rand slave-worker wom an. Ain't Gaping fish jumping out of the sea, Jorth Shore; 7. NEW DAY RISING - Huskedu (1) i coming of Dmething! ... the only difference giant lilies, spiders 'n' webs on the Bn James and the white woman wall, masks behind wire bars, all ist republic jmakin love!' 8. GO WEST - The Cult (6) manner of encapsulating exhibits. e d people have I Dper has written a fine book of Debra seems to work with vigour, tro u g h ; pregnan X knowing stories. W hether they 9. BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE - Tall Dwarfs (4) and manages to create end-products emale alike; Prin cautionary tales ('Sins Leave that captivate your attention and sizzle s') or swinging celebrations of life your nerve ends. Figures imprisoned in Diana are walkii 10. THROW YOUR ARMS AROUND ME - Hunters & people. Marg Free and the C aged' a n d webbed wire, the hanging man in the s N e w Zealand, i 3ted')l her yarns are homespun - Collectors (8) far corner, or four figures on their sell th e place, and witty. An exceptional balconies. She models captivity and icter, Murk, Bller, Cooper infuses her fiction High flyers: freedom in space. It's myth-like, rather nd violence, the singsong straight-talking of a HEADMASTER RITUAL - Smiths spiritual, and evokes an air of mystery. country, has number, and the unfailing Debra utilises cellophane, pumice, ir w ith a mounts of, say, Gwendolyn Brooks at STIR IT UP - Patti Labelle coral, plastic spoons, bone, wire, rater experience, best ('swing low swing low sweet paper, all sorts of colours and a wine id to become a a Mt chariot/Nothing but a plain cask handle, even further than their s w ith the proble ck boy'), bringing her language alive real potentials. W e revelled in her vibrant, colloquial conversation, broadcast at 7pm. inspiration, the brightness, the has made their story her story, and imaginative style... Walj.|S makes it our story - trust her.
Paula Morris APRIL 30 1985 CRACCUM BRIEFLY.... USA:FREEZE IS NOT ENOUGH
ICELAND JOINS NZ Responding to the Soviet freeze announcement, presidential spokesperson Larry Speakes said:*If they want a freeze, Iceland, a Nato member, has joined NZ in fine, but that is not enough. The next step is banning US nuclear-equipped warships from to move to reductions.’ Deployment of US its territorial waters. missiles in Europe would continue. In an unusual bipartisan effort to improve US relations with the Soviet Union, former NORWAY AGAINST ‘STAR presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford are WARS’ urging President Reagan to offer Moscow ‘a bit more trust.’ They both called on Mr Reagan to resume talks on a nuclear test ban Norway has become the first Nato country treaty, to increase contacts on a wide range of to state publicly that it would not participate non-military subjects and to assume that in the ‘Star Wars’ research programme. Moscow’s stated- desire for arms reductions Although Norway’s was the first such was ‘pragmatic’ and ‘genuine.’ government statement, the Danish parliament has voted against involvement in ‘Star Wars’ and has urged its government to WEST GERMANY: DIVIDED work against it. Australia, among the non- Nato countries invited to take part, has Chancellor Helmut Kohl has declared full declined the invitation. support for ‘Star Wars’ and said West Germany would now discuss joining the project. The Green Party has called for an USSR:MISSILE FREEZE AND immediate halt to the deployment of US TEST HALT missiles in West Germany following the announcment by the Soviet Union that it would halt missile deployment until To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the November. nuclear attack on Hiroshima in August 6, the ‘The US must now prove it really favours Soviet Union says it is ready to agree to a disarmament, instead of trying to fabricate moratorium on nuclear weapons testing. In space weapons, it should negotiate seriously addition, the Soviet freeze on its deployment at Geneva,’ said the party’s spokesperson of SS-20 medium range missiles and other Heinz Suhr. measures taken in response to the installation of US cruise and Pershing-2 rockets in NETHERLANDS Europe, is to take effect immediately. Announcing the freeze, the new Soviet leader Mr Gorbachev said the fate of the freeze after The final decision on whether to allow US missile deployment on Dutch territory will REMEDIOS VARO — The Phenomenon of November would depend on the response from Weightlessness. the US. ‘We are for honest dialogue’ he said, be made in November. The Dutch Foreign ‘we are prepared to demonstrate our goodwill Minister, Mr Van Den Broek, is currently to fall into line behind us rather than find both offensive and defensive. A world I again.’ visiting Moscow. ways to counter what we do? nuclear arms is an ultimate objective to» Paul Nitze, now the coordinator of we, the Soviet Union, and all other nati administration arms control policy, who has can agree.’ had much more experience dealing with Got it? No, probably not, because thi Russians than Gen. Abrahamson, answers the almost nothing there to get. You don’t i DELUSIONS OF SECURITY question in vaguer terms. Here’s how he put it Ph.D. in nuclear strategy to understand tl By Robert G Kaiser of the Washington Post recently:1...We hope the Soviets will come to this ‘stategic concept’ contains neithi see the merits of our position-that it will serve concept nor a strategy, but merely a wish. At the start of nuclear arms talks in their national interests as well as ours.’ And a wish of the most dubious sinc< Geneva, the Reagan administration is But they won’t see that, because it won’t too. In order to achieve a ‘radical redu tending itself into, knots trying to pretend ever be true. The Star Wars program and a stabilization of nuclear forces, I that it has a coherent national security policy described blithely by the president and his Reagan administration is already build that could produce both an American men (well, some of his men) as a benefit to dizzying array of new, often destabili Star Wars defense and a sweeping arms both superpowers is in fact an ominous threat weapons. This buildup has nothing to doi control agreement with the Soviet Union to whichever of them fails to get it first, Star Wars, which would come later. President Reagan’s idea that we can have because it would give its owner an enormous For example, we are now just a few j Star Wars and negotiated disarmament, too, potential advantage in a war. away from deployment of the super-aca is considered implausible by nearly everyone Don’t take a journalist’s word for it, just ‘D-5 missile’ that will carry eight individu; who follows these issues closely from a listen to Casper W. Weinberger:‘It takes very targetable nuclear weapons, and will i vantage point anywhere outside the Reagan little imagination to realize what a vastly beneath the world’s seas on Tridi administration. Superhawks on Capitol Hill, more dangerous world this would be if they submarines. The MX missile gets all | arms controllers, experts and officials all oyer (the Soviets) attained this ability to destroy publicity, but the D-5 is a considerably! Western Europe, senior members of past our missiles, and we did not have a similar important departure for the United State administrations-and numerous officials in the capability.’ Or Weinberger on another will give us an ‘invulnerable’ present American government who are never occasion:‘If the Soviets get stategic defense hideable at sea) capability to wipe out [ heard from in public consider this an and we don’t, it would be very much like the missiles in their silos (because the D-5 \ unrealistic approach. world in which the Soviets had a nuclear so accurate), something neither side ! Why? Because it would require the weapon and we did not. ’ before. technologically inferior Russians to accept an In other words, according to President The existence of large numbers of 1 entirely new and staggeringly expensive Reagan’s secretary of defense, for one missiles threatening the entire competition to build defensive weapons-not superpower to have a functioning missile landbased missile force would put eno just another weapons system, but the biggest, defense when the other did not would leave new strain on the stability of the raid boldest most complex technological enterprise the other at a desperate disadvantage. Yet the balance in a crisis. (Knowing that ever undertaken/by the human race. At the United States proposes to build its defense principal attack forces might be wiped c same time, the Soviets would have to accept first, and brags that the Soviets will have a D-5s, the Russians would always be ten the elimination of a large fraction of their hard time matching its technology. to use their rockets rather than lose i offensive weapons despite the fact that, if The Russians have noticed this But that’s what we’re in for. We areri America succeeds in building a defensive contradiction. Col. Gen. Nikolai F. Chervov, a building new b-1 and ‘stealth’ bombers | system, deploying large numbers of offensive senior official of the Soviet general staff Stealth is meant to be nearly invisib weapons will be the easiest way to counter its responsible for arms control issues, actually Soviet radar), 760 new nuclear cruise i impact. quoted that second Weinberger statement to for deployment on ships at sea, about! Why should this proposition appeal to the reporters in Washington last week. Chervov more cruise missiles to be carried by i Russians, who struggled so long to match or had memorized it. 464 to be based on land, new Perston surpass the United States in most existing Consider the Reagan administration’s road ballistic missiles for deployment in Eu strategic weaponry, and now face a grave map pointing the way from here to the ideal etc. Shall we now conclude that the pron economic crisis in their own country? Here’s world of mutual missile defense. These four ‘radical reductions’ and ‘stabilisation’ is e an answer to that question offered by Lt. Gen. sentences, introduced and often repeated by significant than this hardware, which isr James A. Abrahamson, the Pentagon officer Nitze, are called the ‘stategic concept’ at the now under construction. in charge of strategic defense: heart of administration policy. Read them The Reagan administration isarg ‘Remember that the Russians are afraid of carefully: the best way to get deep cuts m our technology. That is what all this business ‘During the next 10 years, the US objective superpowers’ nuclear arsenals leading I is about. When they see that we have is a radical reduction in the power of existing world without nukes is to complete a i embarked on a long-term effort to achieve an and planned offensive nuclear arms, as well as buildup of offensive weapons, then extremely effective defense, supported by a the stabilization of the relationship between huge new defensive arms race. This i strong national will, then they will give up on offensive and defensive nuclear arms, whether reasoning is not based on secret infon the development of more offensive missiles on earth or in space. We are even now looking or expert knowledge about the esot and move in the same direction. ’ forward to a period of transition to a more nuclear strategy. We’re squarely in ther One quivers at the thought that Gen. stable world, with greatly reduced levels of of common sense. What do you think is ivchivirjLJl vjo v e r ily * i^upiuary v a u v e m e n i Abrahamson may have grandchildren who nuclear arms and an enhanced ability to deter best way to push the superpowers might be asked some day to answer for that war based upon an increasing contribution of lower levels of strategic weapons? By bu assertion. The Russians are going to give up nonnuclear defenses against offensive nuclear many, many more? Or by starting on the offensive weapons they rely on for their arms. This period of transition could lead to current levels, to negotiate reductions? security. Like docile pussycats, they are going the eventual elimination of all nuclear arms, (to be continued next» 8 ► CRACCUM APRIL 30 1985 'ZUSA'
C7 NZUSA: STICK
Thursday at 1pm there will be a /X [ General Meeting of students to le whether or not AUSA should Access to University: NZUSA believes that International Affairs: NZUSA does not hand out idraw from the New Zealand tertiary education should be equally open to all money to the PLO and the IRA, but it is involved iversity Students Association irrespective of race, sex or background. However, in some international matters. Through our N Z U S f l - JSA).This article is written by the University’s own research shows that this is membership of the Asian Students Association we CjDS-AtfNGr TO ents with wide experience in their not so. Only 1.3% of maori attend University maintain contact with other students in the Asian S ftv E 7?ft and national students associations compared with 9.7% of pakeha. Women face sex- region and work on problems pf common concern. \a j o r t To / i believe th a t c o n tin u e d m e m b e rs h ip o f role stereotyping in their choice of education and Thousands of students have marched against employment. NZUSA is pushing for the nuclear ship visits and NZUSA is active in SCIENTIFIC tests JSA is the best course for AUSA, establishment of campus marae and is this year oppositon to these, together with supporting a HMF Pm/Ew that ) WHY HAVE A NATIONAL BODY conducting a major survey on the status of women nuclear free and independent pacific region. N iZ U S A at universities. In these areas NZUSA is acting for Domestic issues: Students are just as much IS THE B E S T Ia) > W _ost decisions which have a direct bearing on those who should be students, as well as those who members of the community as anyone else, and are > education and welfare of students are made in are. often amongst the most active. NZUSA acts on OF FIG-HTIN0 DKfly ngton. The level of funding for Universities, Support for Women: Last year most campuses campus policies on domestic matters when issues IN THF 0K)IV£R9IT level of bursary and its structure are began work on Sexual Harassment Greivance of concern arise. Action is often taken on the SWSTEM nent decisions. If students wish to have Proceedures. NZUSA provided assistance with environment, the economy, and unemployment , into decisions which affect their day-to-day submissions to universities and is coordinating together with more specific issues like gay/lesbian then they need a national organization to law reform and youth rates. a coordinating role. If each constituent New Zealand’s first Stop Sexual Harassment m ciation seperately lobbied government they Conference for people in education institutions. Ibe far less effective, if they were listened to NZUSA has constantly run campaigns on sexual + HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? VZUSA acts as a channel for the views and violence, increasing awareness of those issues and Much has been made of the amount that NZUSA sts of university students to government. It helping women and men to combat these problems. costs. This year it will cost students just under acknowledged by M.P.s, government Childcare has also been a priority and have helped $300,000, of which our share is around 90,000. To tments and the University Grants to gain creche facilities on campus and have put that in context, this is what we spend on cafe worked to make the structure of NZUSA open to wages in 6 trading weeks. It may sound like a lot of littee that NZUSA’s submissions are students who are parents. money but it is actually very cheap when the total _^st the best presented by any lobby group. Perhaps the most important thing that NZUSA cost is shared out amongst the thousands of ZUSA is also our union. It is a forum through has done for its women constituents (44% of NZ students at universities around the country. our voice can be heard on any issue, university students) is to show that its structure The cost to each of us is only $7.22 a year, or ents as individuals have little chance of can alter to incorporate womens’ needs. We now 20c for each week of the academic year-that’s their opinion hears. However when have womens’ self determination within NZUSA, about 3 jugs at the Kiwi or on a weekly basis its SA speaks on behalf of its 58,000 members which allows collective and consensus less than a ballpoint pen. the media and decision makers do listen. It decisionmaking and the right to allocate funds ■4 WHAT HAPPENS IF WE WITHDRAW? functions to bring its collective strength according to women students stated priorities. Firstly, and most obviously we lose all benefits if I any member or members who need it. Education: NZUSA is constantly working on the withdrawing-benefits we cannot possibly make up ) WHAT DOES NZUSA DO? standard of tertiary education and its associated with the money saved. Secondly, NZUSA’s ability ries: In the early 70’s NZUSA won for the services. Current issues include staff-student ratio, to work for its remaining members will be severely , time a student bursary for students. Since funding of teaching aids, field trip costs, welfare impaired. You cannot remove 1/3 of an i NZUSA has worked on keeping the amount services, study skills courses, library funding and organisation’s membership and funding without with inflation, widening eligibility and staffing appointment proceedures. crippling its effectiveness. We are students dng anomalies. A major recent gain has been Student Unemployment: In 1982 when the 3% alongside the students at other universities and we have the same problems and interests. In making Phenomenon of removal of the requirement that students cuts forced SCSP out of existence the government 20 live at home.Earlier this year, at planned to make no provision for students our decision we have to consider the extent to SA's prompting, campuses reviewed their unemployed over the summer. NZUSA was which our withdrawal from NZUSA is to their isive. A world 1 ries policies and these were put into a successful in persuading the government to detriment. ite objective tov al to the Minister of Education by NZUSA. implement the Student Job Search program. If it is change in NZUSA that is required, our ind all other nati e outcome of this is awaited, NZUSA continues to press the government for withdrawal will not achieve it. Using withdrawal as fare: NZUSA is involved in these issues more funding for SJS and the reinstatement of a threat will only arouse antagonism and hinder not, because th rning student welfare: accomodation SCSP. There has also been the implementation of change. get. You don’t i ies, hostel fees, rents, parttime student an affirmative action policy designed to assist Going it alone will not work for us, for NZUSA or y to understand t ’ty for the dole or DPB. facilities for groups such as women, maori, overseas and for anyone else. contains neith students, and an analysis of student disabled students who are disadvantaged in job ut merely a wish, sand expenditure. seeking. jst dubious sina ! a ‘radical redu nuclear forces, l is already buildi vs concerned with general political issues. , often destabil ' 8 f * It has long been the view at Auckland that NZUSA should ias nothing to do i have a Welfare Vice President. It is proposed to replace the come later, General Vice President with a Welfare Vice President, with the now just a few j general political issues being dealt with at campus level, and of the super-acci OR SPLIT? through press statements. rry eight individu At the moment, the Education/Welfare Vice President deals ipons, and will looks to the future, and more effective representation on a with the bulk of the vital education and student welfare issues. seas on Tri National level. Some critics may claim a National Union of Dividing this job into two will permit more effective lobbying missile gets all i Students is unlikely, yet the AUSA President recently received and organisation in both areas. 3 a considerably! a letter from the President of the NZ Tech Institutes the United StaU Association, supporting the role of a national body, indicating OVERSEAS STUDENTS vulnerable’ he thought NZUSA was too political, and outlining the The National Officer who represents Overseas Students is at ity to wipe out i possibility of a National Union of Students. present a part-time position. This officer should be made a full ecause the D-51 In February of this year, members of the AUSA Executive time worker. Overseas Students have many problems not face ; neither side discussed possible changes to the structure of NZUSA. A clear by New Zealanders, and the workload justifies a full time division of opinion resulted from the discussions, with the position. rge numbers of i President, AVP, EVP, and the Treasurer wanting to see changes WHY WITHDRAW RATHER THAN RESTRUCTURE the entire within NZUSA while other Executive members were essentially Many people have suggested rather than withdraw from would put eno satisfied with the present structure. NZUSA change should occur from within. This would take such bility of the nud a lengthy campaign of General Meetings and SRCs, that even [Knowing that VOTING WITHIN NZUSA i feel student money has been misdirected for At present, Auckland has 9 votes out of 42 at NZUSA. This if interested students like ourselves attended a few meetings to night be wiped i gives our students less votes per member than any other change things, the full time politicians who don’t have to study 1d always be ten t years by an elite club of student politicos, would just stack a meeting one time and we are not there, and ther than lose campus. Obviously a completely proportional voting system across Aoteoroa. , would drown out the small campuses like Lincoln and Waikato, overturn it all. in for. We arei so a proposal was made where each campus gets one vote per Numerous attempts have been made in the past to change stealth’ bombers | hursday a Special General Meeting of AUSA (open to all thousand members with a minimum of 4 votes. Under this NZUSA, yet the resistance and opposition to change from e nearly invisib student politicians has been strong. As already mentioned the mclear cruise i s) will be held at 1pm in the Rec. Centre to discuss scheme, Auckland gets 12 votes out of 46 while the smaller SA. The proposed motion is that we withdraw from this campuses are guaranteed at least 4 votes. AUSA President, both Vice presidents and the Treasurer >s at sea, about! All university student associations (including AUSA) sponsored a paper suggesting ways of improving NZUSA-as be carried by i UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS -people elected to express student concerns. Those with vested nd, new Pershin g to NZUSA, and pay a total nationally of $300,00 in ies. Auckland students alone will pay $90,000 this year. There are six elected positions in the NZUSA National Office- political interests apparantly turned round and called them jployment in Eu ,t is with much reluctance that withdrawal has been proposed, a President, four Vice-Presidents and a part-time Overseas conservative-while an understanding of that word means people de that the pron [ the proposers have a certain fondness for the idea of a Students Coordinator. The elections are held at the August who want the status quo and don’t like progressive change. ‘stabilisation’ is i tl Body. The proposers also admit NZUSA has Council of NZUSA where the delegates from each campus vote. We feel NZUSA has not responded to student feeling, by not rdware, which is i «uuted to changes for students over a period of many years, This means that students have no direct say in the election of tailoring itself to such. To make it wake up to this fact, l wish to point out this is only expected when considering the the National Officers. withdrawal is the only answer. Notice of withdrawal does not tration is arguingd t sums of our money being given to NZUSA. As far as we are It is proposed to elect the National Officers at campus level by take effect for one year-giving an entire year for NZUSA to t deep cuts in emed the benefit received is far under-proportional to fees direct student vote, rather than by an elite group of student respond to criticisms, perform, and convince students to rejoin irsenals leading l For NZUSA to quote some of the good things it helps to politicos. an NZUSA which gave value for money. During that year, as an ; to complete a i alternative, negotiations should occur regards a National Union eapons, then /e every now and again, to justify continued ripping off of NATIONAL OFFICERS nts, is just not a tenable line. . of Students, in the case NZUSA does not respond. ms race. This While many people have previously questioned the need for the It should be noted that all other North Island campuses are on secret infon .dulse of the obvious value of having a National Body of having similar meetings later this term, and at least one South out the esoterial i sort, the motion of withdrawal may be amended to include Women’s and the Maori Vice presidents the proposed changes l for setting up a National Union of Students, ie. refer to the GVP .. The GVP deals mainly with National Island campus. Dissatisfaction with NZUSA is being shown by squarely in ther sides, Techinical Institutes, and Training Colleges. and International Affairs. This year, the highest priority for the conerned students nationally. it do you think isj JSA has supported this concept for many years, as such a GVP will be the All Black Tour. Other priorities include student If you are concerned about AUSA’s $90,000 and NZUSA superpowers would be obviously more effective. Withdrawal from accomodation, Gay law reform and the Nuclear free issue. Much please attend the meeting, and indicate your concern by a strong weapons? By bu of the G VP’s work is dealing with student welfare, while the rest decision-withdrawal. • by starting now,| SA is not a rash suggestion without any alternatives, but ate reductions?
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St y m i e ' s c o o p ' s a l a m i L E T VS UAA&INE A On behalf of UMSA membership, I wish to express SrmtEl w h y w ent our gravest concerns over a proposed motion:‘that H e fte , INVe
Your kind efforts will be greatly appreciated THEATRE CORPORATE 1 4 GALATOS ST. NEWTON Sincerely Yoi BOOKINGS PH: 774-307 T.H.] NZ Premiere Presi Tony Award For studeajts Winning RESOLUTIONS: frJO UMUAtjeD, FCfK OTU£% Comedy 1. ‘That this Annual General Meeting direct O V 2 E b J S ... President of UMSA of 1985/86 Executive Committee to convey the message to AUSA 1 NZUSA.’ Mon, Tues, 6 pm Moved from the Chair.CARRIED W ed-Sat, 7.30 pm UNANIMOUSLY. 2. ‘That UMSA executive committee be I'LL -Book requested to consider the possibility to work [bloo}. 'PHôiiE Weds to Sat 6pm together with other overseas students’ group rol y n -tir u Samuel Beckett’s Latest oppose any moves to withdraw AUSA from NZUSA.’ I CATASTROPHE Moved from the Chair. CARRIED v g Plui Krappa Last Tap» and Rockaby UNANIMOUSLY. UtE'sA f 1Aetft/oMarr k nisi
10 ► CRACCUM APRIL 30 1985 MID-YEAR CAMPUS VISIT PROGRAMME DVISORY AREERS
NOTICE TO ALL 1986 JOB SEEKERS PROCEDURE 1. Collect Registration Form and Appointment Schedule from CAS. CAS has now put together the annual MID-YEAR CAMPUS VISIT Fill in Registration Form - write, print or type to give clear precise PROGRAMME. It runs from early June through to mid August and provides presentation. Give careful attention to pages 3 and 4 - this resume should m opportunity for students to talk with prospective employers and gain be as full as possible to give some indication of your personality as well as [formation. your academic skills. Copies of this form will be given to each employer The current restricted market puts a greater pressure on students to that you see. Lyestigate job prospects in greater depth and over a wider spectrum. It is NO APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH VISITING otless to be a passive applicant - it is necessary to adopt a determined and EMPLOYERS WITHOUT THIS FORM COMPLETE. -sistant sales campaign (you are the product!!) R ead through the employer list carefully. D ecide which employers Any application should begin with research. The CAS registration form will interest you and list them on your appointment schedule (using the space pa basic resume. - this form should be neatly filled in as it is photo-copied designated, that is 10 employers maximum.) pd given to every interviewer with whom you have an appointment. Call in to CAS to make appointments - please bring your com pleted First point of research is yourself - make decisions about what you want to registration form and your lecture timetable. with the rest of your life. How well are you equipped for various oyment areas - what do you enjoy doing, and equally important, what do dislike doing. Make a list of your skills and identify career sibilities/altematives. Consider the occupations where you can maximise Literature on most organisations is available at CAS. _ j attributes and,consider the organisations that offer such employment. Company presentations - lunchtime talks and evening presentations are Next stage is to find out as much as possible about these employers - annual open to all interested students/graduates. However, some organisations orts, in-house magazines, financial pages of the newspapers, CAS library, have stipulated that their presentation is a pre-requisite to an interview - curing with people associated with the various organisations. make careful note as appointment schedules will be checked at the With an increased awareness you will be better equipped to approach presentation. complaint to | oyers and attend interviews. If unable to keep any appointment please notify CAS as soon as possible. It is our beliefti By failing to keep appointments you deprive other students of the r the NZUSA1 opportunity of an interview. l subsequently) UNDER: For those of you who would like to improve your interview ree to carry oui technique INTERVIEW SEMINAR - Tuesday June 4th at the discr 1.00pm in the Upper Lecture Theatre (ULT) DO NOT LEAVE IT TOO LATE TO COME AND MAKE Followed by a series of WORKSHOPS. Booking schedule qual instalmem APPOINTMENTS. available CAS.
ich has 1 JLTD: AMP AUDIT OFFICE: CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL (NZ) is students in) 122 July We are looking for highly motivated, Tues 11, Wed 12 June LTD: earned a Abels Ltd. have a fully equipped, modem ambitious people who will be tomorrow’s We seek well motivated, career minded Thurs 4 July; Fri 26 July ulness from atory staffed by 13 chemists. The leaders in the challenging, highly rewarding accounting graduates (or near graduates) On behalf of a small number of our clients atory provides quality control for all profession of insurance. We are offering a interested in an auditing career in the public we will be seeking to recruit accountancy, i New Zealand.1 acts of Abels Ltd. companies which unique business opportunity to graduates and sector. Successful applicants will be self- economics, mechanical, and electrical ir belief that! ude production of edible fats and oils, near graduates preferably in commerce, motivated and able to adjust to a challenging, engineering, management studies and varmth andi_ i foods, mayonnaise etc. The laboratory mathematics and marketing. dynamic environment which offers high marketing graduates for trainee positions in ■ participates in the technical service starting salaries, rapid advancement and a the commercial, finance, chartered rime students! wide variety of work. ademic studies,] to customers of Abels Ltd. The ANZ BANKING GROUP: accountancy, engineering and manufacturing atory includes a research department Mon 24, Tues 25 June LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: 6 JUNE, spheres. ve the energy ( is involved with research on many ANZ is looking for graduates with initiative lpm ULT. Prerequisite for interview. selves many i of fats and oils, and product and proven academic record, who have the COOPERS AND LYBRAND: ten by NZUSA pment. commonsense and a strong desire to accept Mon 10 June; Mon 24, Tues 25, Wed 26 EX HARVEY INDUSTRIES LTD: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND: June ve to weakenj challenges and responsibility. The ability to Wed 12 June Coopers and Lybrand are seeking graduates svitably unden 23 July think analytically and to express ideas clearly, AH1 Ltd. want graduates with a science, both orally and in writing is important. You The Bank needs well qualified people with for the auditing and accounting divisions of ts in New Ze ematics or engineering background will also need to be able to get on well with Management potential and ambition and are our major professional practice. We seek is a chief rev sted in a manufacturing career. The keen to make contact with graduates who graduates with sound academic qualifications other people. Normally we prefer graduates have an interest in business and who see a supported by top level personal attributes ision to with development expected moves through who have majored in economics, accounting, future for themselves in Management. evidenced by involvement in community eatly weaken | blem solving assignments with a mathematics, business administration or ductivity and efficiency improvement computer studies but graduates in other' Graduates are employed for specialist affairs or sporting endeavours. tive to eventual increasing involvement disciplines are welcome to apply. positions or trained for Management EVENING PRESENTATION: 12 June, students in Al manufacturing, factory and company positions in general banking. 6.30pm ULT. Prerequisite for interview. or the influent, ement. DATACOM SYSTEMS: coming SGM L EHTIME PRESENTATION: 23 JULY, ARTHUR YOUNG: BURROUGHS LTD. Tues 18, Wed 198, Thurs 20 June :an have such] i ULT Prerequisite for interview. Thurs 13, Fri 14 June; Wed 19, Fri 21 June Thurs 27, Fri 28 June Motivated, self starting people who enjoy Auditing and accounting positions which ! therefore stro |R NEW ZEALAND: Graduates will be part of a formal training problem solving. Must have a technical „_J3 July involve varied work, with a large and diverse programme which will provide an appreciation of machines and application influence as ele. As corporate policy, Air New Zealand is in range of clients. Considerable emphasis is induction/orientation process into the software. Must enjoy interaction with other us to oppose | process of re-designing its business placed on training, further education and Company. Apart from Head Office which will people. aw AUSA j to take greater advantage of modern career development. Opportunities exist for have a requirement for a small number of liter and communications technology, staff to work overseas through our accountants, our major need is for graduates DELOITTE, HASIKINS AND SELLS: t are seeking graduates with appropriate membership of the international accounting interested in a marketing career or as systems Mon 10 June to Wed 19 June bilities to join the teams carrying out this organisation, Arthur Young Intemat ional. analysts. Both groups will receive training in Our clients range from small private ly appreciated. | EVENING PRESENTATION: 11 JUNE, computer usage and general management businesses to some of New Zealand’s largest DRIDGE PUNTER LTD: 6.15pm ULT Prerequisite for interview. training. Systems analysts work in a variety public companies and subsidiaries of world Sincerely Ya of roles both in technical and customer wide corporations. We are looking for young, ill, Wed 12 June bright, and enthusiastic graduates to assist us T.H.! puter Programmer: An opportunity for AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD: situations, both pre-sales and post sales areas. B. Com graduates majoring in Data Tues 30 July Salesmen will be attached to field branches in our function as Auditors lending credibility Pres sing or Computer Science graduates We are seeking graduates who are and operate within a defined line of business, to financial statements by expressing an wish to start a career in commercial interested in working for a local authority. i.e. Banking or Accountants for example. opinion as to whether they present a true and ling leading to systems analyst, The Auckland Harbour Board is a large LUNCHTIME & EVENING fair view to shareholders. As an Auditor you organisation whose primary function is the PRESENTATIONS: 26 JUNE, lpm & would be responsible for much of the field suit hardworking people who like the work necessary to formulate this opinion. eeting directs ! of the latest technology and system serving of the Port of Auckland. The Board 7.30pm ULT. Prerequisite for interview. i techniques. has a number of departments such as DELPHIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS- Executive Property, Planning, Treasury and Engineers. ige to AUSA I LTONA PETROCORP: CERAMCO LTD: DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY l, Fri 26 July These departments could provide Mon 1 July; Mon 15 July Wed 31 July lAltona PetroChemical is a leader in the opportunities for a wide range of graduates. With our help, can you be a senior Manager Delphic Medical Systems LTD is a software CD lian PetroChemical industry. It LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: MON 29 of a small to medium sized company by the firm developing, marketing and installing graduates primarily from the JULY, 1pm ULT Prerequisite for interview. time you are 35? The Ceramco cadet scheme medical laboratory computer systems in New nittee be ; disciplines: has a long history of taking young graduates, Zealand and abroad. We require a graduate in l engineers AUCKLAND SAVINGS BANK: giving them experience in a number of computer science to join the group. Our main oility to work 1 engineers Tues 23, Wed 24 July Ceramco companies and providing them with growht areas are: udents’ group utrol instrumentation (electrical) We are seeking graduates interested in the formal training necessary to supplement -developing COBAL database software on AUSA from system programming on a variety of experience. Burroughs A3/B1900 Petrocorp would be keen to computers (from micro to main frame). The LUNCHTIME -developing PASCAL software on Burroughs ED graduates from these disciplines candidates should have a basic knowledge of PRESENTATIONS:Accountancy- 27 June, B25 micros for data acquisition from recruiting in New Zealand. Any O.S., data communications and data base, and lpm Ult Prereq for interview scientific instruments. jtes seeking employment with A PC most importantly have the desire to learn and Engineering- 15 July, lpm ULT Prereq for -installing systems for NZ and abroad - a job l need to be willing to live in Australia. take on a challenge. interview requiring communications skills.
APRIL 30 1985 CRACCUM ► 11 CAREERS AD VISOR Y SER VICE MID-YEAR CAMPUS VISIT PROGRAMME
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR: such as control production, metering and FISHER AND PAYKEL:-NATIONAL GUARDIAN ROYAL EXCHAN Mid-July date to be confirmed at CAS design. DIVISION ASSURANCE The Department of Labour is seeking Mon 17, Tues 18 Junke Wed 3 July graduates in the following disciplines: ELECTRICITY DIVISION-MINISTRY Fisher and Paykel are in the process of A degree, with passes predominantly -Economics-Honours level, for work in policy OF ENERGY: expansion in several areas. They will be Grade B or above, is necessary planning areas. Wed 26 June; Thurs 25, Fri 26 July looking for accountancy, marketing- mathematics as a major subject and -Data Processing-Bachelor of Honours levels Electricity Division has vacancies for commerce graduates and electronics possible, including Statistics and Econo in computer science, mathematics, or Assistant Engineers, Accountants, and engineers. The trainee will sit the examinations of commerce for information services. Economists. Assistant Engineers are Institute of Actuaries. -Generalist degrees in arts, social sciences or employed on design, construction and FLETCHER CHALLENGE LTD: These exams are not easy. Applicants must business where underlying ingredients are operation of the electricity divisions system. The Fletcher Group of Companies is one of of-high calibre and prepared for study over investigatory, analytical and documentary Accountants will work in developing a New Zealand’s largest and most progressive number of years requiring dedication skills for multi-disciplinary work within the computerised financial management system. groups with widely diverse business interests. com plete. department. Economists will work on commercial aspects Study leave and financial assistance of tariff setting. It has openings for graduates to join its DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS: organisation. exams will be provided. Thurs 4 July EVENING PRESENTATIONS:Accountancy- 25 June, FLETCHER MERCHANTS: HOGG YOUNG CATHIE & CO: - Computer science graduates for employment 6.30pm LLT Prereq. for interview. as programmers. This company is looking for students in the Fri 21 June - Mathematicians (preferably with post Engineering- 24 July, 7.30 ULT Prereq for following disciplines: Interested in interviewing graduates interview. Commerce-Management Studies, Marketing intend to pursue a career in the Accoun graduate experience) for employment in profession. Assignments would involve Sample Design, statistical analysis ‘model FELTEXNZLTD: Science-Applied Maths, Computer Science wielding’ work. LUNCHTIME PRE SE NTATION :Monday facets of accounting, financial management: -Persons with broadly based research skills- Wed 24 July, Wed 31 July 29 July 1.00pm, LLT Prerequisite for auditing and taxation. We are seeking to introduce into Feltex interview preferably with some mathematics, computer young graduates with potential to advance to science, or other computing experience, management positions. This year most of the HONEYWELL CONTROL SYSTEMS L‘ background in economics, accounting or social FLETCHER DEVELOPMENT AND Tues 30 July sciences also useful. entry opportunities will be in the CONSTRUCTION: accounting/marketing/manufacturing This company is looking for Civil and Honeywell would like to talk to elec' DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND functions.In the accounting function typically Mechanical Engineers. and mechanical engineering students INDUSTRY: the successful applicant will commence in one LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: TUES JULY, 1PM ULT. Mon 5th, Tues 6th, Wed 7th, Thurs 8th, Fri of the Head Office accounting positions before FLETCHER CIVIL AND MECHANICAL 9th August gaining experience in a large GROUP: IBM: The Department is seeking graduates from manufacturing unit or one of the Group’s The General Manager of this company will Details of interviewing programme will .all disciplines, but particularly accounting, smaller companies. In the be interviewing on Campus for Civil and released later. Register with Careers Advi: economics and law. The Department has the manufacturing/marketing function the Mechanical Engineers. Dates to be advised Service prior to evening presentation. task of fostering NZ’s economix welfare by successful applicant will most likely move later. EVENING PRESENTATION: 23 JULY. promoting and encouraging the development directly ot one of our groups or units. During 7.30PM ULT Prequisite for interview. of industry, commerce, and export trade, and the first two years the graduate will have the GILLIAN INGLIS COMMERCIAL officiers are involved in many facets of NZ’s opportunity to identify the particular branch COLLEGE: KIRK BARCLAY: economic life, both here and overseas. of management in which they would like to Fri 2 July Mon 1 July LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION,,Thursday pursue their career. Happy to chat to any students who feel Graduates required for our audit 1st August, ULT, 1pm FERNZ CORPORATION LTD: Secretarial Skills would benefit their job accounting services divisions of our Auckland Prereq for Interview prospects. The July course is designed for or possibly another national office. W Tues 16 July highly motivated adults looking for expert ELECTRICAL SUPPLY AUTHORITIES: Our company employs graduates in provide sound training and the opportunity tuition in Commercial Practice and Secretarial overseas experience after a satisfac Mon 29 July chemistry, and engineering (mechanical and subjects. The Electrical Supply Industry is able to chemical and materials). We have tended period. offer a number of positions for graduate previously to fill positions as they become electrical engineers in 1986. These will be in a vacant, and not automatically take on a GOSLING CHAPMAN AND CO: KMG KENDONS: number of Electric Power Boards and certain number of graduates each year. Tues 25, Thurs 27 June Mon 10, Tues 11 June Municipal Electricity Departments around However as most students will not be seeking We are seeking BCom students with proven Positions available in Accounting Se the country. Such positions could be expected positions until the end of the year when they academic ability and an interest in a Audit and Revenue/Law. Preferably sc to involve graduates in the technical planning, complete their studies, we would be very professional work environment. Our emphasis graduates who will qualify at the end of construction and operations associated with interested in discussing what we have to offer is towards management accounting and year. Successful applicants will demonstrate the industry. There is scope in the industry for at this stage. Our staffing requirements for planning for clients in addition to their consistent academic record and a desire the use of the latest technology in applications next year are not yet finalised. financial accounting and tax requirements. succeed in the Accounting Profession. GRADUATE CAREERS THE DAIRY NDUSTRY
TECHNOLOGY GRADUATES ARE EMPLOYED IN- REQUIRES GRADUATES IN FOR FURTHER
• FOOD TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION CONTACT • BIOTECHNOLOGY N.Z. DAIRY INDUSTRY • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING TRAINING COUNCIL, • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING P.O. BOX 417, WELLINGTON, • MICROBIOLOGY PHONE 724-399. • CHEMISTRY/BIOCHEMISTRY
• OPERATIONS RESEARCH/ PROCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT REQUIRES GRADUATES IN • BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
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1 12 ► CRACCUM APRIL 30 1985 WS ADVISORY SERVICE MID-YEAR CAMPUS VISIT PROGRAMME
L EXCHa» NCE ANDERSON BUDDLE: MIN. OF TRANSPORT MOBIL OIL NZ LTD: NEW ZEALAND DAIRY INDUSTRY: 1 13, Tues 18 June METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE: Accounting students - Thurs 27, Fri 28 June Wed 17, Thurs 18 July rence Anderson Buddle Thurs 25 July Other disciplines - Thurs 1, Graduates in the following disciplines are ; predominantly | The Metereological Service will most likely Fri 2 August required to fill positions in dairy companies, s necessary Anderson Buddle - Chartered recruit two or three graduates at the end of Mobil Oil NZ Ltd is a marketing the NZ Dairy Board, the NZ Dairy Research or subject and j »nts. We are a progressive rapid this year for general metereologists. organisation. The career opportunities Institute and Dairy Division, MAF: ;ics and Econon medium sized national accounting About the first six months of 1986 will be available for graduates are either to Chemical, Mechanical and Electrical «animations of | king for graduates for our audit and spent in training at the Head Office in participate in its marketing. function or to Engineers, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Actuaries. b services divisions for 1986. If you are Wellington, followed by on-the-job training as support the marketing function. Microbiology, Industrial Technology, Applicants mustb ted in top training and challenging forecasters in the Wellington Weather Centre. Sales and Operations Operations Research, Process Control, •ed for study over| i a personalised environment, make an It is likely that the appointees will continue in Departments (the marketing side of the Accountancy, Marketing Business ring dedication ment to see our representatives at the forecasting work with the option of Company) requires Commerce and Management, Economics, Computer r campus visits. transferring to Climatological or Engineering graduates. Statistics and related disciplines. Individual ial assistance ,NG PRESENTATION: 4 JUNE, Research work at a later stage. Accounting and Finance Department interviews with the various representatives l LLT Prequisite for interview. Preference will be given to students (including Management Studies) requires will be arranged at the Wine and Cheese majoring in mathematics and physics. Accounting, Computer Science, Commerce Evening Presentation. & CO: Ancilliary subjects of computer science & and Management Studies Graduates. EVENING PRESENTATION: TUES 16 __ ME BROS (NZ) LTD: statistics would also be useful. Beside EVENING PRESENTATION: 30 JULY JULY, 7.30PM ULT Prequisite for interview. ng graduates win I June, Mon 15 July, Fri 19 July technical qualifications, applicants should 7.30PM ULT Prequisite for interview. NEW ZEALAND FOREST PRODUCTS: in the Accounti iechnies are interested in talking to have good communication skills, as public Mon 5 Aug would involve nical engineering, electrical engineeting relations and other liaison work is becoming NATIONAL BANK OF NZ: ncial managen : commerce graduates interested in increasingly important. NZFP would like to interview final year ng positions with good career Tues 2, Wed 3, Thurs 4 July engineering students who may be interested _s in our capital intensive industry MINISTRY OF WORKS: One of the objectives of our bank is to in employment at Kinleith Pulp and Paper specialised technology. Graduates Tues 16, Wed 17, Thurs 18 July recruit a number of Graduates each year, to Mills. The main requirement this year will be L SYSTEMS LT d have a good academic record, leadershi The Ministry of Works and Development train under the Graduate Training for mechancial and chemical engineers nd a determination to progress to employs graduate electrical and mechanical programme which is designed to equip although the Company is also considering and o talk to electi nt positions by results. engineers at main centres and projects, on a participants for early executive appointment. electrical engineer with a special interest in g students. range of tasks including design and electronic and control engineering. The [\ATION: TUESl NCR (NZ) LTD: company provides a first class opportunity for installation of building services, components Wed 3 July gaining experience leading to registration. & PARTNERS: of hydro and other industrial works, and plant We are interested in talking with graduates Engineering representatives will be 5 June vehicles. Graduate civil engineers may be majoring in accounting, marketing or available to discuss prospects. i & Partners is a four partner city employed at any MWD office countrywide. programme will || Jobs include design, construction and computer science who have above average NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIAL GASES ;h Careers Advisi with a strong accounting services communication skills and who wish to LTD: 1 a small amount of audit work. Staff maintenance in disciplines which include esentation. buildings, roads, bridges, power construction, consider a career involving the sale and Fri 19 July TION: 23 JULY.' jy responsible to partners, and are support of computer systems to the NZ in preparation of financial public health and catchment works. NZIG’s graduate training scheme aims to r interview. Qualifications sought: BE, ME, PhD. business community. build on a good degree result by providing real and tax returns, including some We are also interested in speaking with jobs, broad exposure and the training in contact. The firm operates its own AFTERNOON/EVENING PRESENTATION: 15 JULY 4.30PM FUW accounting students who wish to pursue an specialist skills and management techniques and staff are expected to become accounting career in our firm. necessary to develop top-line managers. We rwith its operation. ROOM, OLD GOVERNMENT HOUSE )r our audit Prequisite for interview. are an Eaual ODDortuntitv Emolover. )ns of our Aucl NZ STEEL: Thurs 20 June, Thurs 27 June NZ RAILWAYS CORP: itional office. V NZ Steel is seeking several graduates in Tues 30, Wed 31 July i the opportunity TRY OF ENERGY - HEAD each of the following disciplines: Engineering The new Railways management structure er a satisfaci (all disciplines); Accountancy; Computer has objectives to research, develop and jll July NEW ZEALAND POST OFFICE: Science, Management Studies; Chemistry. market highly efficient transport services. To «type of graduate we are seeking should Mon 15 July do this we need professional staff with the The Post Office requires people with analytical abilities and forward thinking of . priate university qualification, training in economics, commerce, marketing, University trained men and women. Railways ccounting Ser average initiative and organisational business adminstration, operations research NZPO: are particularly interested in speaking with Preferably se and computers. An appreciation of accounting Tues 6, Wed 7, Thurs 8 Aug accounting, computer sciencem economics, y at the end of t floral and written communication skills, and the use of statistics in the business Engineering Students: Wayne Fisher will be geography, marketing, mathematics, s will demonstrateil ependent and confident personality, environment and some computer skills would on campus on these three days and will electrical engineering (communication, rd and a desire! lity to interact with a wide range of be advantageous. NB: The positions are in interview any students interested in working signalling, building services) and civil Profession. cand private representatives. Post Office Headquarters, Wellington. in the Post Office. engineering students.
GRADUATES D o Chartered Accountants get to the top?
A lot of them do but it depends on the person and the training. M. Com The training and experience we provide in New B. Com Zealand and overseas, produce Chartered Accountants who do get to the top. B. Com LLB.
If you are co m p letin g y o u r co m m erce deg ree th is year, we would like to talk to you about the training, the work and the prospects in our firm. We will be visiting the university on Touche Ross & Co June 10, 24, 25, 26. Chartered Accountants Get in touch with Touche. Your first step to a Arrangements for an interview should be made with: Successful career The Secretary, Careers Advisory Service, Room 14 Auckland Christchurch (Offices located behind the upper lecture theatre) Gisborne, Hamilton Hastings, Napier New Plymouth, Papatoetoe Rotorua, Waipawa, Coopers Waipukurau, Wairoa &Lybrand Wanganui, Wellington. Chartered Accountants
Auckland, Henderson, Manukau City, Whangarei, Hamilton, Tauranga, Touche Ross & Co. Ph 32-645 Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Feilding, Johnsonville, Wellington, Christchurch, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill.
APRIL 30 1985 CRACCUM ► 13 PEAT MARWICK MITCHELL AND CO: PRINCE BLACK AND CO: SHELL BP AND TODD OIL SERVICES VOLUNTEER SERVICE ABROAD: Fri 14, Mon 17, Thurs 20, Fri 21, Mon 24 June Monl7 June LTD: Fri 19 July We are seejubg graduates for auditing and Prince Black and Co. are Members of Monl, Tues 2 July; Mon 29, Tues 30 July VSA endeavours to recruit app. accounting positions in our firm. Considerable International Affiliation of Independent Shell BP and Todd OIL Services Ltd is qualified and work experienced a emphasis is placed on training and career Accounting Firms. responsible for the operation of the onshore response to requests from countries developments. Opportunities are available to We are an expanding four partner firm with Kapuni and offshore Maui gas/condensate Pacific and South East Asia. transfer overseas for further experience offices in Auckland and Papakura. We would fields in Taranaki. We have vacancies for VSA staff visits to Auckland Univ within our international firm. like to appoint two commerce graduates to graduates in the following disciplines: for ‘seed sowing’ with long term rec LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: 12 June, our staff next year. We will provide a wariety Engineering - Electrical, Chemical and in mind rather than direct rec lpm ULT Prerequisite for interview of experience and training in the following Mechanical purposes. areas: Accounting Services, Auditing Finance - Computing and Accounting LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: 19 andManagement Accounting. We operate an lpm ULT. Prerequisite for interview. in-house multi-terminal computer for all office Company representatives will be on campus functions and will provide new staff with for the purpose of conducting interviews. WAIKATO BITUMEN CO LTD: PHILIPS NZ LTD: training in its use. Suitable applicants should Accountants 1 and 2 July; Engineers 29 and Thurs 1 Aug Scientific Industrial Equipment Division be interested in business and commerce in 30 July; Waikato Bitumen Co. is a Tues 23, Wed 24 July general and should be seeking a career in Final year students interested inpursuing a contracting firm specialising in 1. Software Engineer - Complete Chartered Accountancy with our firm. career in the Oil and Gas industry should construction. We manufacture em engineering of jobs in field of data make and appointment with CAS. hotmixes and all types of cold mixes.; acquisition (supervisory control and data PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE CO: graduate engineer would be invo acquisition scada}, telemetry energy Fri 26 July, Fri 2 and Fri 9 Aug foundation investigations, laboratory management, process weighing and process TASMAN PULP AND PAPER CO. LTD: and pavement design. S/he would control automation. Project specification with Representatives to be trained to sell our Tues 30, Wed 31 July experience in contract estimating, se customer to arrive at complete and technical wide range of products. They would need to be Tasman Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd Kawerau and administration. This is all data to enable software engineer to write the self motivated and have a genuine desire to are seeking graduate engineers in the experience for registration.(Civil Eng.) software for the project in question. A succeed. Remuneration is determined by following disciplines: knowledge of computer languages with some individual effort. -Mechanical Engineer (one) application skills would be an asset. LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: 19 July, -Chemical Engineer (one) WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATE lpm ULT Prerequisite for interview. Further details can be obtained when the Thurs 4, Fri 5 July 2. Sales Engineer - Analytical Equipment. At Westpac we are looking for tale The Sales of scientific and analytical RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND: company conducts its careers presentation on: equipment such as electron microscopes, 29 July, 7.30pm ULT Prerequisite for qualified people with drive and ent Thurs 20, Fri 21 June; Thurs 18 July interview who are seeking career opportu spectrometry (both optical and Xray). As this „ The Reserve Bank is seeking graduates Australias leading bank. If you would equipment is mostly supplied for analytical with good qualifications in economics or TOUCHE ROSS AND CO: challenge, we’d like to hear from you. applications, a chemistry background is economics and accounting, who are interested necessary. Mon 10, Tuesll, Wed 12 June; Mon 24, Tues in working in the fields of policy analysis 25, Wed 26 June WILSON AND HORTON: EVENING PRESENTATION: 22 July, (including domestic and international Seeking ambitious BCom Accounting and 7.30pm LLT Prerequisite for interview economic and financial developments), BCom/LLB graduate for challenging Wed 19, Wed 26 June economic forecasting and econometric Wilson and Horton would like to positions in our audit or accounting services and second year accountancy students research. There are also openings for graduate departments. As a national and inernational PRICE WATERHOUSE: accountants. firm, Touche Ross can provide the formal view to recruiting an accountancy Tuesll, Wed 12, Thurs 13, Fril 14 June; Wed training and work experience necessary to December 1985. The cadetship is a 24, Thurs 25 July SECONDARY TEACHERS COLLEGE: develop your skills, whether your future be in position with extensive in-house tra Graduates interested in chartered Division U - a period of full time university the profession or commerce. time off for university study. E accounting career covering all aspects of study towards an approved degree or diploma, prospects. public accounting for local, national and followed by a year of professional TREASURY: international clients with particular emphasis training. ’ Division B - a course of concurrent Fri 5 July WORLEY CONSULTANTS LTD: on auditing, investigations, tax and professional teacher training and part time The Treasury requires Honours Graduates. Wed 24 July accounting. study towards an approved degree or diploma. The Treasury is Government’s principal Worley Consultants Ltd has a economic and financial adviser. To join the graduate engineers to work on their lar Treasury you will need: A good honours established design office in Newmarket DISTRICT PROBATION OFFICE: STRETTON AND CO: degree preferably in economics or accounting the latest computer-based and other Thurs 13 June, Thurs 4 July Fri 25 June though other disciplines would be considered. techniques. The work ranges from Of mature personality, ability to easily Accountancy graduates required for An interest in the investigation and analysis domestic jobs to multimillion dollar relate to and communicate with a wide range progressive provincial practice to attend to of economic and financial proposals in New Zealand and overseas. Recruit of people, ability to assess people, ability to financial accounting, management accounting involving the central Government and at work under experienced engineers in the compare and present well-written and and taxation assignments. Our firm has three times local Government and the private of civil, structural, electrical, mecha succinct material, desire to learn and develop partners, sixteen staff (including six qualified s b c tor geotechnical engineering. in the methods of work used in the Probation persons) and operates an in-house Hartley LUNCHTIME PRESENTATIONS: 5 July, LUNCHTIME PRESENTATION: 11 Service. computer. lpm ULT Prerequisite for interview. lpm ULT Prerequisite for interview
Tawrence ric e Anderson "aterhouse h r u d d le CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS The Professional Challenge The Auckland office of this progressive national accounting practice continues to expand and accordingly we are looking Our firm provides: for motivated graduates to join our Audit or Business Services divisions in 1986. a comprehensive continuing education We are the New Zealand representatives of Arthur Andersen programme & Co and are committed to providing comprehensive guidance and counsellingtowards positive training and challenging work in an enthusiastic career goals environment where performance is rewarded with accelerated planned career progression as a mutual promotion and responsibility. commitment specialisation after appropriate experien.' If you are interested in working for a forward-thinking firm is acquired and would like further information about us, a recruitment opportunities for transfer to Price booklet setting out details relating to the firm and our Waterhouse offices overseas the financial rewards for accomplishment recruitment policy may be obtained from: working with a professional peer group an environment offering variety and Ian Braddock challenge Lawrence Anderson Buddle P.O. Box 701 WE WANT YOUR FUTURE TO BE Auckland Telephone: 31-499 OUR F U T U R E To discuss the opportunities available please Representatives from the firm will be visiting the campus write or telephone our recruitment partner, during June as part of the University mid-year campus visit Lloyd Edwards (telephone 33-439 , P O Box 748, programme. Auckland) or contact the Careers Advisory Office to arrange a campus interview.
14 ► CRACCUM APRIL 30 1985 TUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
cation Policy ost people will know that in South Africa the 'The purpose of Bantu education is to ensure that the are educated separately and differently in to prepare them for a predetermined place in natives will be taught from childhood that equality with Sty. In 1953 the Nationalist Government the Bantu Education Act. This meant that Europeans is not for them'. aspects of African Education were to be Srate from white education:- schools, teachers, Ljects taught and administration. Ten years Dr Verwoerd the Government decided that separate ation systems should be designated for the red and Indian peeoples as well. These All these organisations come under the umbrella Then in October of the same year, proclamations ietely separate education systems were based of Black Consciousness which is an indigenous were issued declaring SASO, SASM, the Soweto * s idea that Africans were to be educated as phenomenon. Students Representative Council and virtually all ers and no further. the other black consciousness organisations to be Black Consciousness Movement ‘unlawful’. tion Facts Numerous state acts of violence and repression, j South African Government believes that the BCM is a movement about psychological including ruthless methods of suppression and of African education should be paid for by liberation. It aims to foster a positive self- proscription of the national liberation and student as, and it has increased their taxes awareness and pride in black history, culture and movements, have eliminated all possibilities for ngly. The government spend about 10 times achievements. It’s about ridding the black people effective peaceful resistance to tyranny. New for the education of white children than for of their inferior status and self-esteem born of Zealand students should recognise that it is the education of Africans. School attendance is apartheid. right of the people of South Africa to revolt against pulsory and free for white pupils, not so for Another major purpose of BCM is to encourage the tyrannical South African regime. people to be aware of their exploitation within the pupil-teacher ratio of 20 to 1 for whites, and system and to reject apartheid-created institutions What Can You Do? to 1 for Africans. More than 70% of African such as Bantustans, therefore fostering self- Students in New Zealand are in an extremely dren are said to leave school after only a few reliance. priviledged position compared with black students of primary school. Only 5% of African pupils Also the unification of all the black people in in South Africa. There are some things that we can ; attending High School in 1975. South Africa, including coloured people, people of do, albeit small, to acknowledge the oppression mixed race and Indians, is a major aim because all that occurs under apartheid and to support black .ersities liberation:- ' the 22 million Africans of South Africa, only t 5,000 are university graduates. Segregated jin colleges were reported to have only Raise Money - To help educate South African :nts in 1979. By contrast, there were over students in exile. For example, to help _ j white university students. i f - : . maintain the Southern African Scholar, who is UNESCO report on apartheid states that at present Makgolo Makgolo studying at h African school books teach the African that Auckland University. .cupies an inferior position in society. White Persuade Education Authorities to provide n are taught that Europeans are superior * j Scholarships and grants to black South t Africans are ‘primitive and barbaric.’ African students.. surprisingly, there have been black student Press our Government to award scholarships Nations formed opposed to the oppressive to black South African students. of apartheid. See that members of the staff of your university do not provide references for ent Movements graduates applying for staff appointments in Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) the all-white universities of South Africa. around 1968. One of its founder members Soweto Primary School See that your canteen/shop boycotts South Steve Biko. It began when the South African African goods. ents’ Organisation (SASO) was formed. At these people are directly discriminated against by Oppose all sporting, cultural and trade time, most Black university students were contacts with South Africa while under an the umbrella of the National University law, and are exploited and oppressed. apartheid regime. nts’ Association of South Africa (NUSAS) BCM has been active in opposing the Afrikaans organisation was predominantly white with language because it is the language of the white few black students and so did not represent supremist oppressors. This was the issue that student issues. People like Steve Biko caused the Soweto uprisings in 1976. t it would be better to have a purely black Although the BCM organisations were left -nts’ Association, hence the formation of relatively unmolested for the first few years of their existence, the Government soon realised that SASO was formed and after it many other the growth of the movement posed a serious threat isations, because white students could not to their racist policies and ideas. for blacks. Hence, the South African In September 1977 Steve Biko was taken by it movement (SASM), for mainly high school political police and six days later he died. The nts, and the National Youth Organisation police claimed he had starved himself to death. .) were formed.
fe should not give the natives an academic education .... we do this we shall later be burdened with a number of demically trained European and non-Europeans, and who do the manual labour in the country? I am in thorough eement with the view that we should so conduct our iooIs that the native who attends these schools will know t to a great extent he must be a labourer in the country'. Soweto Secondary School M rJ.N . le Roux, Nationalist Party
-APRIL 30 1985 CRACCUM ► 15 Fight Apartheid in South Africa
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»Nazi Holocaust is forty years past and only children from Germany. it becoming apparent that the Allies by - 1939-1945. Shanghai accepted 25,000 refugees; to acknowledge the existence of Hitler’s more than those taken by Canada, India, | Solution’ (and therefore refusing to act upon ipy Australia and New Zealand COMBINED. knowledge) probably aided him and The logical place to seek sanctuary was in ^ted themselves in the genocide of six Palestine, but the British closed that avenue of ,on Jews. But lessons are still not learnt, and escape with a harsh quota system. The British horrific sentiments which the Holocaust Navy turned back vessels full of refugees to the ^Jied remain to plague the modern Jew. As 5 % * . concentration camps in Germany. In total, only Qtly as last week, the League of Rights, an 800,000 Jews managed to escape the Holocaust - a oist organisation which attempts to incite figure equivalent to one-in-seven of those who and anti-semitic violence, was selling perished. .phlets in Auckland which try to discredit the Antisemitism in the 1980s, just as it was in Nazi of the concentration camps’ existence. Not to Europe, is active and thriving. As the Christian utdone, Ronald Reagan until recently was not scholar Roy Eckardt put it, ‘Christian , to visit Belsen-Bergen concentration camp 0* ' antisemitism is nowhere more alive and well than being prepared to honour the graves the m Christian__ ___ anti-Israelism.’ If outspoken Jew- iSS in a German cemetary. hatred is socially unpopular (even though - like Ha-Shoah may have passed but anti- other forms of racism - the feeling is still there) the next best way to attack Jews is to delegitimize _ gtill exists. Because of this Craccum has 1 1 p*Jien to print' one individual’s view of anti- their national liberation movement. After two itism and its past and present manifestations. happen? Nazis were not the only ones involved in thousand years of struggle, the Jews have once the Holocaust. Indeed all of eastern Europe took again established sovereignty in their homeland. the International Year of the Youth - the opportunity to rid themselves of their Jews. In Against all odds, they have survived. Israel now , the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of Germany, the Jewish death toll was 125,000.But offers the Jew a sanctuary, a place, that s/he can (Nazi concentration camps in occupied Europe, the toll from western Russia, Lithuania, Poland call his own, free from antisemitism and the years in historical terms is not a long time, and Latvia totalled 4,565,000. Today the number reliance on the goodwill of hostile peoples. yet, how many of our younger generation of Jews in Poland is counted only in the hundreds. Yet even this small manifestation of Jewish r of the Holocaust - the most horrendous act of Yet Jews are still blamed there for the country’s survival - a homeland just on e-ten th the size of j depravity in all recorded history? Could the present economic difficulties. Centuries of bigotry little New Zealand - is too much for the modern l-blooded murder of six million innocent human do not disappear overnight, even though the object Jew-hater. Today the antisemite turns to rs have happened in our own, enlightened, of that bigotry may do so. grotesque distortions of history to satisfy his or „ of-all-possible-worlds twentieth century? But the Allies, of course, did everything they her pathological hatred. The most obscene Urocity on such a staggering scale is hard to could to save European Jewry, didn’t they? They distortion is peddled by revisionist pseudo nprehend. Like the threat of the nuclear bomb, were the ‘goodies’ after all, weren’t they? Martin historians, who claim that the Holocaust is a myth. j scope of the massacre of Jewish lives in Europe Gilbert, the eminent British historian, (and the More and more frequently we hear the innocent "beyond imagining. One in every two Jews in official biographer of Churchill) has shown that far sounding disclaimer: ‘I’m not anti-Jewish, just rope before 1933 had been gassed, shot, burned from aiding Jews, the Allies aided Hitler in his anti-zionist.’ The fact is that all Jews are Zionists. rved to death by 1945. That is to say that a Final Solution. For example, the British certainly To be a Jew is to be a Zionist; zionism is the modern ^jition twice the size of New Zealand’s or half knew of Auschwitz by 1943, but they refused to political expression of a hope two thousand years population of Australia disappeared from the destroy it, claiming that the operation would be too old; the hope to return to Zion - Israel - and there to of the earth at the hands of European difficult. Yet the Royal Air Force mounted rebuild the Jewish nation. Thus an ‘anti-zionist’ sssors. bombing raids on a synthetic fuel plant just a few cannot but be an antisemite, denying the Jewish the International Year of the Youth, we miles from Auschwitz. people their right to national self-determination. 1 remember that two in every three Jewish Throughout the world, countries turned their The racism of centuries which allowed the en were murdered by the Nazis. One third of backs on the Jewish refugees trying to flee Europe: Holocaust to occur just forty years ago still exists Jewry had disappeared up the stinking - 1938, Evian. The nations of the world failed to today. We see it in continuing antisemitism; we see „eys of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthausen, agree to even a partial open door policy for it in South Africa; we see it in the world’s attitude en-Belsen, and the other ‘sanitization’ camps Jewish refugees. Said the Australian delegate, to the Boat People; we see it in the Kurds’ struggle d throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. Under ‘It will no doubt be appreciated that as we have in the Middle East; we even see it in Godzone New ates of Auschwitz, on which was proclaimed no racial problem, we are not desirous of Zealand, where Maoris and Polynesians still face t>it Macht Frei’ (‘Through work to Freedom’) importing one.’ deep and institutionalised racism. t more than four m illion people never to return. - May, 1939. Cuban, Colombian, Chilean & U.S. It is the duty of every responsible person to vs were not alone in their suffering. Two governments refuse to admit 900 German remember the lessons of the Holocaust, and to ^red and fifty thousand gypsies, along with refugees on the ‘St Louis’ at Havana. The ship is teach them to his or her children. Maybe if we can ny Russian prisoners of war and other socially forced to return to Europe. Many of the learn the lessons of history, our world will be a mire’ persons (such as homosexuals) perished in passengers perished in the death camps. place where eventually we will not have to live with ‘death camps. - 1940. U.S. State Department rejects Swedish bigotry. Adam Ross pho was responsible? How could such a thing proposal for joint rescue of 20,000 Jewish
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Agenda for SRC, 1 May Wed lpm Caf Ext.
◄ May Council Delegates (Lincoln University May 21-25 inclusive) People are needed to represent AUSA for the following commissions: Education, Finance and Administration, International, Maori (chosen by Maori Students Association), National, Overseas Students, Welfare, Women, (2 persons for each commission) In addition AUSA may be represented by up to two coordinating delegates plus any number of observers may be accredited. AUSA pays transport costs to Lincoln! Nominations to close and elections to be held at next weeks SRC. ■< Further club affiliations. -^Executive Reports- The follwing Exec members will report on the state of their portfolios-what they’ve done in Term One, what they hope to do in Term Two etc: President, Education Vice President, Treasurer, Overseas Students Officer, " AN ANGEL AT MY TAblE-. Administrative Vice President, Sports Officer, Cultural Affairs Officer. This is a chance for all students to quiz their executive-ask them about all those unfulfilled election promises... Come and see just what Exec members do for students. & 14 -95 ■^Cole-That up to $30 be given from SRC Policy Action Fund to cover the travelling costs of 2 delegates who attended the Palestine Conference at Waikato University from the 26 to the 28 April. ◄ Possible motion with regard to AUSA’s position on General Vice President.
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18 ► CRACCUM APRIL 30 1985 He spoke very briskly! about! how! he! was! very! efficient! assured the meeting this wouldn’t happen again. But, said C REPORT and! although! he! hadn’t! concerned! himself! much! with! Bidge, you said that last yeafr Carolyn Anderson proposed that student-ah-issues! before! he! would! as! NAO! they only be affiliated if they adhered to SRC policy regarding Bruce Cronin, who has a knack of punctuating his mysterious sexism and racism. The question of course is why don’t all clubs 23 April, Cafe Extension silence with biting questions asked: have the same proviso? Eventually Antony Bell (AVP) worked ‘But why should we believe you?’ out a motion that was acceptable to both parties - that the Eng. body who has the faintest idea of what a ‘normal’ SRC Ryan M2 (who has been public speaking since the age of 13) Soc. be affiliated and if they repeat their bpd taste journalism no last Wednesday’s performance was enough to induce exclaimed, because I’m legitimate! I’m legitimate within the publications grant next year. The motion was carried. ■ sbock. To put it simply, large numbers were involved, med school! I’m legitimate with clubs! I’m legitimate election of the National Affairs Officer was the first item, everywhere! The discussion of AMERICA’S affiliation and the delegates to were 2, no 3, no 2 candidates. First up - Gerald Ryan an Gerald Ryan then withdrew his candidacy reasoning that the May Council was tabled until next week. “-ant looking character who has attained some notoriety vote would be split. A few hardy souls were still there to argue whether $30 should figure behind the proposed AUSA withdrawal from Let’s just say that I don’t think it was a set up, but if it was it be granted from the SRC Policy Action Fund as a contribution was a damn funny one. The vote was put and Iri won 134-44 toward the travelling expenses of 2 delegates to the Palestine SA. conference in Hamilton next weekend. The exchanges were the 30 or so engineering students all prepared to go with 7 no confidence votes. Shouts demanding a recount from heated and involved many words not in the everyday language Oi! We want ’im. John Ryan’s supporters were heard but no recount occurred. the usual questions from the usual lefties. John Pagani Iri will be an energetic NAO. of this well brought up girl. No resolution was achieved. a priority of the National Affairs Officer should be Next, Senate elections, 3 candidates - Kirsten Thompson (SRC Opponents of the donation finally used old tactics to dissolve at the prevention of racism, sexism etc and queried if Chair), Steve Barriball (EVP) and Brendan Hall-Walker for 2 the meeting. They all walked out and the quorum was lost. I felt kind of empty all day. 1 likewise. Oh no! said Ryan, student representation vacancies Birgitta Noble issue - & he would do his utmost to represent students - When questioned about his academic qualifications Steve -on or garden variety. But would he take SRC as a Barriball said that when he was elected Education Vice- , asked Mark Allen (CAO). Not on your life mate. President he realised a lot of students would come to him who -'her spoke next, & was asked the same sorts of had failed and he would be unable to empathise with them if he She spoke at length about bursary issues (which had not. So he failed. The sacrifice! I propose a new Exec Ryan was told was the concern of the EVP when he position be created specially for the poor thing - MVP - same) and said she believed in a living allowance Martyred Vice-President. nt to the dole. Steve Barriball wondered if she realised Unable to rouse the sympathies of this rabble, he lost, which had dropped that as a concern. Iri was momentarily caused much celebration amongst the unkempt and articulate. but got out of it gracefully. She went on to discuss her Kirsten Thompson and Brendan both impressed me as in the anti-racism and womens movement and so had thoughtful candidates who will serve well. well with this lot. Club affiliations again - this time the Engineering Society vote was to be put when Graham Watson (who needs trying to camoflage themselves unsucessfully amongst the -nt for severe split personality) requested another others. Bidge Smith (WRO) asked that they be dealt with -te be heard - a med student who had not managed to be separately. Janet Cole (IAO) requested the same of AMERICA. ted in time due to geographic isolation. He’s been living The other clubs were block-affiliated. Bidge then elaborated on great big steel iceberg up the road. This candidate, John her request. It seems the Engineering people publish this-um- turned out to be cousin of Gerald Ryan. manual which is pretty gross. A representative of the Society
At the recent Auckland University Council meeting myself and the other student representative intiated debate on certain <\ aspects of Student Appeals Procedures, managed to get support for a motion supporting decriminalisation of laws against A T S O y homosexual people, likewise for declaring the University a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone. Probably the most important issue for Auckland Students in 1985 (despite less public profile than say ‘the tour’) will be the discussion of withdrawal from NZUSA. A Special General Meeting has been called by the AUSA executive for Thursday are seldom what they seem, skim mild masquerades as 2nd May, at 1pm in the Rec. Centre. Please come along. Gilbert and Sullivan Your national body (NZUSA) takes ,$90,000 a year from Auckland Students. I feel we currently do not get value for money - ask yourself what you get for your investment. In wanting a better deed for students I cannot as yet state whether last night the results of the AUSA referendum regarding withdrawal or internal restructuring would be more were announced. No doubt the figures will be published effective/constructive. My ideas should be crystallized by the -re ^ this magazine, but it you are not aware, by an General Meeting, as I wish to be able to recommend, (on the aiming majority the 3500 members who voted decided basis of intense discussion over the past year, - and my should oppose the tour. The issue of whether we spend experience as a National Executive member of NZUSA) the best or not was close, on the question which suggested we possible solution for those students I have been elected to no money the vote being 1611 to 1664. represent. One group of students especially neglected by —iber of people may disagree with the outcome, yet I ask NZUSA is our large overseas student population. The Overseas to respect the democratic process and the fact voter turn Student National Co-ordinator is only a part-time position - for bS high. There is still one problem, the AUSA executive what in effect is a full time job. Much lip-service occurs, yet we been given the power to authorise reasonable levels of must remember action speaks louder than words. ^ u re on activities in opposition to the tour. Much debate I ask people to read between the lines when viewing the over what activities, ie making banners, or paying fines, inevitable propaganda supporting an NZUSA status quo. Also also what exactly are reasonable levels. I encourage those beware of the claims made by NZUSA about their achievements »ve an opinion on this to convey it by letter to Campus - most claims relate to changes already in the wind, or to which or Craccum , NZUSA was not a major party. y we elected at SRC a new National Affairs Officer Despite my own obvious tendencies to the left (as a political position). After much confusion concerning who was individual) I do not think students should have to financially standing (AUSA slipped up and despite our promise contribute to an organisation committed to being left wing, that t shuttled an interested Med Student here in time - thus sets into ostentatious banner waving. I feel when the welfare, have controlled AUSA for so long, don’t turn conservative, but nations were reopened), Iri Barber was elected. I welcome education, and funds of students are at stake ego-stroking along keep an open mind and get involved bearing the following line 0 her task with affairs such as bursaries, Gay & Lesbian NZUSA’s lines should be left to the individuals concerned, and from Bob Dylan in mind, ‘For the loser now will be later to win, , Reform, and Accomodation. These are important areas their own political groups. for the times they are-a-changing’. | currently tax Cohn Patterson (AUSA Welfare Officer) For all those students who have felt alienated by those who See you at the Rec Centre on May 2nd, jlf. Wally.
This week it’s really a ‘Trish Says’ column as it’s The Stop Sexual Harassment campaign is aimed at improving SS SEZ written by Trish Mullins, the Womens Vice- awareness about sexual harassment and at getting effective procedures established on each campus to deal with cases of President of NZUSA, sexual harassment. The campaign is culminating in a conference about sexual harassment. The Stop Sexual Harassment Conference is the first national Women students around the country have launched a conference on sexual harassment ever to be held in New Zealand. campaign to fight sexual harassment. Years of myths and It is aimed at people in education (students, lecturers, teachers silence about sexual harassment have meant that the reality of etc) and will be held in Wellington (at Wgtn Girls College) from sexual harassment throughout the education system has been 3-5 May. (We’ll finish early on Friday 3rd so people can go on the denied or ignored. Stop The Tour demo.) Just a few cases of sexual harassment of women students are The conference will cover three main themes: as follows: ► the reality of sexual harassment (what is it; how much of a ► A woman went to see a lecturer about her coursework. He problem is it; what effects does it have). grabbed and kissed her. She left the office as soon as she ► how to deal with sexual harassment (procedures to deal with could. cases; self defence etc). ► A male student at a dance grabbed a woman’s thigh and ► how to prevent it (proposed law reform and education squeezed her breast. campaigns). ► A lecturer implied that unless a woman student went out If you’re interested in coming to the Conference fill out a with him, her coursework would suffer. registration form at your Student Association desk. Happy essay writing, ► Women in hostels have had male students break into their Trish Mullins rooms and hassle them. Womens Vice-President
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In the USA, AIDS is most commonly transmitted to infants transplacenta; and in Africa, while data is somewhat minimal, the most likely mode of transmission is * NZUSA WORKING FOR ALL STUDENTS ► pockets into a worthwhile public project of cultural asset for the city. infant-to-infant via open sores. -Offer assistance to volunteer welfare service groups (Colin 3. Your statement that the ONLY way the heterosexual Editors, community can get AIDS, excepting blood transfusion, is from are concerned to hear that some members of your Patterson is bound to have lots of suggestion on this one) -Tree planting or other conservation projects requiring person- gay and bisexual men is also a statement I must disagree with. ' tion have petitioned for the withdrawal of AUSA from AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease, A. As National Officers of an organisation whose aims power. These are just a few suggestions and I’m sure there are many NOT a gay disease. Hence in Africa, the supposed origin of -vities are similar to those of NZUSA, we see AUSA’s AIDS, it is found mainly in the heterosexual community. In wal as a real threat to student unity. Like a trade union, others. Western countries, there have also been cases of heterosexuals A's strength and effectiveness in dealing with the issues The re-direction of our creative energies and resources into such positive action could only enhance the role of the university spreading a syndrome to other heterosexuals. affect students derive from the fact that it is a 4. Your information on the Brisbane blood donor is totally :tically elected body which represents all university in public affairs, not to mention a more sympathetic ear to student welfare needs. erroneous. At the time of the blood transfusion, the person was not aware of having AIDS. I fear you are the victim of a unavoidable for students to be divided over issues, but Thank-you, sensationalist, homophobic, Queensland press. rences can always be resolved within the structure of G.Trass 5. Your statement about people depending on homosexuals not tional organisation. Regardless of these differences, the giving blood is I think, a little misleading. We are all dependent s of NZUSA are united by the very fact that they are ◄ CRACCUM PIGEON HOLING ► on anyone (gay or straight) who has a non-monogamous 'ty students; that unity should not be destroyed by the sexually active lifestyle not giving blood. The way the gay of a small group. Hello there Editors, community' has taken responsibility and immediate action in we understand it, one of the main concerns of the With the abuse of pigeons now highlighted, I think someone telling gay people not to give blood, the actions of the blood ~ts of the withdrawal motion is that they consider that should point out your magazine’s name is in itself transfusion service in trying to screen more carefully its donors, is too political, and that it does not put enough of its discriminatory. and the statistical probability of non-haemophiliacs receiving ' resources into those issues that directly concern How about instead of ‘Craccum’ you have ‘Crap-em’ to give more than one or two donors’ blood, all make our chances of such as education and welfare. the pigeons a fair go getting AIDS from a blood transfusion extremely remote. ional Officers of the Teacher Trainees’ Association of Power to the Pigeons, 6. Although you mention that it is not your intention to blame or -nd, we are in regular contact with the National accuse any group for the AIDS epidemic, your statement ‘its of NZUSA; the major areas of our shared concern being Jade H. thanks to homosexuals that AIDS is a heterosexual disease’ and the National Management Committee of Student seems to be doing just that. The statistics from Africa would -h. We have been involved with NZUSA’s Bursary ◄ AIDS FOG INDEX IS HIGH ► make the converse statement just as true... that it is thanks to Committee because trainees also are affected by the heterosexual people that homosexual people now have AIDS. I However, the bulk of the work on this issue has been Dear Editors, suggest, therefore, that rather than concentrating on blaming NZUSA, and we are grateful to be able to draw on their Re article titled ‘Aids’ issue four, March 26th. the victims of this disease, it is more profitable to help people at rk and greater resources, as our own staff and resources To start with I would like to make some points clear. It is risk, thereby maximising all our chances of health. - all for us to do much of this work ourselves, NOT my intention in this letter to: For this reason, the above article for Craccum was written by often rely a great deal on the advice and assistance of * Blame or accuse any particular group for the AIDS epidemic. the AIDS Support Network, for university students. You •s National Officers, and we are aware that they work * Argue a case for or against homosexual law reform. seemed concerned that the article was not directed more s under a great deal of stress in order to get the best * Moralise or question values in our society. towards gay people. Many such articles have been written by us, deal for students. We are also aware that although work I would simply like to present some facts, and put forward a widened and realistic view, (rather than the seemingly ignorant and are available in the ‘gay press’ for gay people. I would be done on many other issues, the bulk of the National surprised if there is one homosexual in NZ not aware of AIDS ’ time so far this year has been taken up by the bursaries approach adopted) to some points on the subject of AIDS. and its consequences. However, it is precisely because AIDS is The first statement of your article, (best sub-titled ‘The not a gay disease, but a sexually transmitted one, that other issues that NZUSA’s Officers work on are racism defence of Homosexuals’) to the effect:- ‘AIDS is a disease guaranteed to produce emotive reactions’ is sexually active groups - e.g. university students - need to be the problems of overseas students) and sexual informed on how to protect their health. :nt; they also contribute to work being done on the quite true. Originally this letter was planned as a vivid description of my opinion of Craccum, and the mental attributes Finally, it is great to see a person reading our pamphlets and issue and the proposed All Black Tour of South Africa, up with the latest information on AIDS. A.S.N. is a times, their work on these issues must be within the limits of those involved with it. However, now that anger and predominantly voluntary organisation of people concerned SA policy, the same way we are bound by TTANZ irrationality have subsidided, please note I have obtained the evidence used, from the most up-to-date material on AIDS about AIDS, and prepared to do something positive about it by NZUSA’s involvement with these issues stems from the spreading information, practical work, and counselling. If you’re racism, sexual harassment and other issues affect all available in New Zealand NOT from my own imagination and opinions. interested in knowing more or joining us, please phone us on -nders. Students are privileged in that they have AIDS HOTLINE (Ph 395-560). to knowledge and information, and perhaps this The simple most important way for gay people to help prevent the spread of AIDS outside their own community is NOT TO ASN thanks Craccum for helping us disseminate this their responsibility to their community. information. "ies and student welfare affect tertiary students alone, GIVE BLOOD. Nowhere was this mentioned. Even under the Brian Simon Rosser one is denying that students have a right to be concerned heading ‘Preventing AIDS’, the view-point was narrow (for AIDS SUPPORT NETWORK). level of financial support. The other issues affect the mindedly centred around informing people who are sexually unity, of which students are a part. Many students active how to protect themselves. I do not deny that this is views on these issues, and through democratic important, however, in reality there is a wider group of people at SUPPORT FOR JESS^ g, NZUSA can represent these views, perhaps more risk. than could individual students on their own. NB: ‘Children who develop AIDS are likely to have contacted Dear Editor, 1d be seen that NZUSA was concentrating more of its the disease through blood transfusion’ - ‘Facts about AIDS’. I have heard from Jessica Wilson, President of NZUSA that resources on the larger issues, rather than those of The majority of students at this university usually manage to your organisation is considering withdrawing from NZUSA importance to students, there would be cause for tolerate Craccum's sympathetic homosexual stance. But this is because of that organisation’s lack of concern for students and From our viewpoint of day to day contact with really too much. With the exception of I.V. drug users the only their well-being. '3 National Office, we know this not to be the case, way AIDS can be contracted by the heterosexual community is Obviously I can’t speak authoritatively about NZUSA may not win every battle, it may have to compromise through the actions of homosexuals. People in the following functions overall but I can say that I have seen Jessica Wilson issues, but the National officers work to the direction of groups are dependent on homosexuals not to give blood, for functioning on several occasions where her chief and only policy, and always with the interests of Students at their own well-being: - concern was for the wellbeing of students - individually and Believe us, they work very very hard, * Recipiants of whole blood transfusions and their partners. collectively. These occasions have been at the Overseas could face the same sort of criticisms from our constituent * Haemophiliacs and their partners. Students Admissions Committee meeting, at the Australia and if we lose our own particular salaries battle. But, like (N.B. Haemophiliacs are at a higher risk etc. NOT haemophilia). New Zealand Student Services Association Triennial meeting in -es issue, losing is not a reflection on the work we have It is presumed that once a person knows they have AIDS they Hobart in January 1985 and at this University in early March an indication of the political climate in which it is will naturally not give blood. But this is not always true, as this year. On all of these occasions your President has spoken illustrated by the case of a homosexual man who knowing he had vociferously and effectively about the need for students to live real issue is the unity of students in dealing with their the AIDS virus, donated blood causing the deaths of four babies healthy effective lives while studying at University. In the problems. NZUSA has the workers, the ability, the in Australia last year. So in some cases its thanks to several personal conversations we have had I have always been and the time to represent students to the Government homosexuals that AIDS is a heterosexual disease. impressed by her genuine concern for individuals in distress, for country. AUSA’s withdrawal will mean not only the loss To conclude I would like to quote some facts gathered from her rational thinking about how institutions can improve of those abilities and resources, but the loss of student various articles on AIDS. These aren’t intended to scare Student Services and for her lack of politicking for politics’ sake. in the eyes of the Government and the public. NZUSA is anybody, but provide relevant factual information in the I have been involved with Student Services at Otago 1 le to all university students. AUSA is responsible to possibility of any future articles on AIDS, as opposed to the University for about ten years and in that time have had students and to NZUSA. By withdrawing, AUSA will biased drivel presented. continual contact with NZUSA through their publications and ill New Zealand university students, by depriving them of surveys concerned with Student Welfare and other services. : can clearly see to be effective representation, Mike Waghorne, until recently Welfare Research Officer, has hope this letter will be seen, not as interference on our Regards, Anon. often visited this campus and frequently spent time with me jut as it is intended, in support of our colleagues in discussing ongoing research and communicating ideas from ’s National Office, and in support of the aims of NZUSA * Homosexual and bisexual men (who have engaged in a other Universities. ce of all university students. homosexual act in the last 5 years) account for 72% of all I have found the publications concerning the needs and reported cases of AIDS. aspirations of disabled students particularly valuable. I think Yours faithfully, * AIDS cases are more than doubling every six months in NZUSA does a good job in collecting and disseminating Jill Tyler Sydney. There are now 40 confirmed and 20 unconfirmed information about Student Welfare Services and I enjoy my President cases at present. (Feb. 1985) contact with Association’s officers. Don’t underrate what the Helen McNaught * Sydney is seeing a higher conversion rate of people who are organisation does for the well being of individual students. Executive Officer positive for the AIDS antibody test, who then develop ◄ CAP CHANGE ► AIDS. (A positive antibody test does not always mean the Yours sincerely, person will develop AIDS. The virus also takes up to 2-3 Nicola M. Grimmond years to develop to a stage where it can be recognised). This Jraccum, Senior Lecturer in Zoology and is especially the case among Haemophiliacs. Co-ordinator of Student Services isual at this time of year many students are preparing for * People with AIDS are showing much more mental week. A time in which we honour those who have deterioration, brain damage and dementia, than in previous 1 goals that they set out to do some years earlier. It ◄ CAN’T HE MAKE UP HIS MIND? ► a time when students engage in such activities as capping cases. A personal communication from Sydney confirmed the and pub crawls. These activities, we are told, are a rumour that the type of AIDS virus they are seeing there, is outlet for student energy. Yet, they do little to enhance more virulent, and produces worse symptoms than that Dear Editors, ’s view of students at a time when we are seeking generally seen in San Francisco. Since the President is so keen on making ‘Personal’ comments assistance from the public in the form of increased as the President of our Association why can’t he tell the If we expect our voice to be taken seriously surely we students ie us, what his view is on the Tour. I mean rather than display a greater willingness to participate ◄ AIDS SUPPORT NETWORK CLEARS THE FOG ► shooting your mouth off in public, supposedly representing us !vely in the task of improving our society. In this light, why not first, truthfully, represent yourself to us, the people stunts and pub crawls seen better days? Their who voted for you. ers would surely say no but let’s consider a few Dear Anonymous, Thank you for your comments on the AIDS article. As one of Yours the money that would normally go into publicans the co-authors of this article, may I reply to your accusations. Gavin Dobson when each side has ample ability to destroy one another. Rev Galvin so used to unravelling biblical symbolism Dear Craccum, see that the policy announcement refers to a poli Who was the IDIOT who thought up the idea to have Bursary I enjoyed Ray Castle’s ‘The Cry of theBailinglNation(Craccum military strength. ‘... National believes that the only cheques collected on the 1st floor of the Rec Centre. For those 16 April) a lot. Wonderfully mixed metaphors and word-plays, means of achieving nuclear disarmament is by enforces 1st year students who don’t know, Bursary used to be collected all promoting a sense of national destiny and a groundswell of verifiable agreements involving nuclear powers... Effect' from the Classics Hall (in Old Arts opposite Cashiers Officer). popular cultural revolution for NZ. I’m for it. The irrationalism control agreements will only be achieved if the western That was bad enough with one entrance making it impossible to against which this would rebel, and the technological basis of remains firm and united...’ find the right queue and nearly as bad fighting your way out. the ‘informative,1 communal age’ into which we can be Strength is shown in a unity of purpose. A unity of Then I saw the signs up saying that Bursary would be able to be precipitated, are vivid and appealing. However, I was left not in destroying the Soviet people but a unity of pu collected from the Rec. Centre. At last, I thought, they’re going sceptical by the suggestions of apocalyptic, astrological, and defending the freedom of the individual - that moral p to use the main hall with its large floor space and reasonable individualist intervention by which the new millenium is to be which is the basis of our society. The nuclear weapon arc access. Those of us who arrived on Wednesday and found the precipitated. This particular mixture of other worldly religion the world today exist because of this one ideological con collection area on the 1st floor were a bit annoyed to say the and mundane enterprise is as old as the bourgeois revolutions of respect for human liberty and the Soviet Union’s least, I mean that particular area is even worse than the Classics England, America, and Europe, and look where they got us. disrespect for it. Unity then means supporting the one p Hall. When are the people responsible going to realise that shared by all western alliance nations. By withdrawi Bursary payments need good access and a large area. Steve Webster ANZUS we achieved a compromise on our belief in de Social Anthropology because we’ve made it conditional (that is, I will only de Yours, individual freedom if the stakes are low enough). Alan Wilkins ◄ ULTERIOR MOTIVES? ► By comparison the people of the Warsaw Pact will P.S. What’s the bet that next year they’ll have it in an even show a united and firm front (even Roumania, Hung Bulgaria, Rev Galvin) because they 've got a gun to their worse area. Perhaps even somewhere like PLT 4 (Basement Dear Editors, Physics Building) or the T.V. lounge in the Student Union. Make no mistake - the Soviets have no need to make Having listened to the debate in the Quad the other day I concessions if the west appears fragmented because it ◄ WHO’S HAD THEIR FINGER IN THE HONEY JAR ► would like to offer these comments to the discussion regarding strengthens their convictions of the marxist dialectic the way in which we obtain Craccum editor(s). rise to world dominance. Dear Editor, Firstly, any editor, no matter how they are selected, will run Rev Galvin suggests that a deterrence theory is out How many people know that the Shadows Student Club had a the paper in the way in which they think it should be run. Any because first strike strategic weaponry is being built t budget forecast of $6070 for 1984 and actually spent $26,893 in attitudes, articles etc they see fit to express will only represent destabilizing (a favourite word of the peace moveme 1984, This deficit is carried by the AUSA and accounts for the views of a proportion of those who read them. You cannot serving ‘only to undermine the nuclear deterrent.’ To 19.4% of the total deficit for 1984. please all of the people all of the time. So I ask you, is there very this would imply no understanding of the general AUSA 1984 Accounts much to choose between one group of people choosing someone deterrence and detente accepted by the superpowers. Net Deficit for the year after charging $136,900 who they think is competent and another group of people Deterrent theory may not be perfect but what other Expenditure Shadows Student Club $26,893 choosing someone who tells them in an election campaign that exist? 19.4% of deficit they can do the job? Suppose that if without a deterrent system the Soviet So why is it that some people are calling for this spurious (whose expansionist aims are historically documented) in You will be pleased to know that the budget forecast for change. What I observed at the Forum in the Quad the other Shadows this year is only $2126. The question is how much will West Germany what would be the west’s response? T they spend? day was a small group of malcontents unwilling to get involved only 2 options. When I expressed this concern to the President he said he was openly and honestly in the work of AUSA or honest debate. One (1) Accept (as with Afghanistan) that it doesn’t matter concerned too. That makes two of us. However,' he said that it student expressed the view that as he had paid his Students’ democratic self determining nation has been submi was the fault of last years mob. ‘Where is the accountability?’ Association fees the Association was duty bound to express his totalitarianism. views (presumably, no matter what they are!) What this (2) Enter a conventional war which with the Yours attitude expresses is the motion that AUSA is somehow ‘them’ conventional weapon reserves would lead to destruction Judith Eller not ‘US’. Nothing is further from the truth. The permanent staff that of any nuclear exchange. have some specific jobs to perform but basically nothing would Deterrence however means the invading power ◄ IT’S GOT TO STOP ► happen if students didn’t volunteer their time. Students destruction for its irresponsible action, and strategic volunteer to stand for Executive, to work on Craccum and weapons provide the best deterrence against such an Dear Craccum, Campus Radio and to attend SRC, Executive and General scenario. War is only waged.if the aggressor sees a be As a male, I am sick and tired of seeing women write to these Meetings. AUSA is not ‘them’ it is you and me. If we do not gain. Nuclear deterrence removes any such incentive pages complaining of sexual harassment. It’s time something bother to get involved then I don’t think we have much been effective in preventing confrontation between t was done, particularly between us males to stop fuckwits, credibility when we complain. super powers since WWII. particularly male lecturers, making it unsafe for students to be The main theme of the Watson & Co argument seemed to be Rev Galvin says that National policy is at fault here. that an election was more democratic and that this was ignores the value of unilateral disarmament initiatives.’ I, for one, have had enough. Brothers beware! There’s more desirable. As pointed out above the difference is somewhat hardly a fault, merely wise. How Rev Galvin can call N.Z's like me out here, ready and willing to take, action against spurious. If democracy is so wonderful why not make every a disarmament initiative confounds me. What have we harassment, against YOU! appointment an elected position - Association Secretary, - our nuclear capable frigates? Apparently ‘It will creates signed Accountant, Catering staff etc etc. As Mr Lack said, sometimes atmosphere for other countries to reciprocate.’ If this w angry male you’d get good people and sometimes not. why did the Belgians so recently end their morato P.S. Name one fucking thing the university’s done to STOP It is important to try to discern the motives of the proponents nuclear weapon placement and accept their quota of 1 harassment. of each side of the argument. Mr Watson and Co., having run a cruise missiles? P.P.S. When will trendy male groups like Men Against Rape flashy and successful campaign for the Presidency feel they Unilateral disarmament by the west would be an unmi' get off their butts and DO something to help make university have a better chance of getting in their own candidate in an disaster. World War II was preceded by British disar safe! election than through the currently set up channels. The Hitler said in the Reich Star on 21 May 1935 ‘National President, of course, is a prime example of how students can ◄ ACCOUNTABILITY ► Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convi elect a bumbling incompetent. But of course he has a cute smile Germany has concluded aa non-aggression pact with Dear Eds, and many of you seem incapable of seeing past that. The other (and) we shall adhere to it unconditionally...’ Since you were kind enough to publish in a recent issue side of the argument seems to be based on the idea that the The following is a list of self determining nations whi something purporting to be the Association’s 1984 accounts it status quo has worked pretty well over the last few years. I am annexed by force by the Soviet Union: East Germany, P would perhaps be appropriate for you to record the fate of these. inclined to agree with that (though there is no way that I have Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Ro The accounts as printed did not have an audit certificate and agreed with everything that Craccum has printed). No Craccum Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Albania, Afghanistan. in the event the auditors required a number of changes to be editor(s) will ever please all of the 12,500 students. I challenge Rev Ray Galvin to name one significant made before they issued their certificate. These changes did not Students have generally been seen (rightly or wrongly) as a which can be fairly considered to have been annexed by alter the final result for the year though they did change the way radical element in our society. Our student newspaper and is governed by direct authority from Washington in which this result was arrived at. There were some relatively represents that alternative voice. yourself which nation is expansionist and which one p minor changes to the Balance Sheet and the Notes and one item Democracy is non existent without freedom of speech and the greatest threat to our right to freedom. Is ur5 of substance which was the addition of a note explaining that at freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to say what one disarmament by the west so wise? 31 December 1984 the Association had committed itself to likes no matter how offensive. It meajis the freedom to have Rev Galvin suggests > that as a non-aligned nation NZ buying further fixed assets for the Campus Radio FM station to many viewpoints expressed in differing media. This means that affect some real ‘peace’ initiatives. He arrogantly sug an estimated value of $40,000. the Pig Industry Gazette, Craccum, NZ Environment and can mediate between China, a nation made paranoid by Copies of the final accounts and the audit report are available Yachting Monthly etc are all equally important in keeping our Soviet threat, and Vietnam a Soviet satellite which con from the Association Office and these will be laid before a democracy healthy. Craccum puts forward ideas that would not military aggression in SE Asia including the slaug General Meeting to be held on 30 April. get printed in the Herald and if you object to those ideas and Cambodian people. These conflicts have existed for cannot stand to read them I suggest that you stick to reading years. Stop dreaming Rev Galvin. Yours faithfully, the Herald. If all newspapers printed the same ideas as the Rev Galvin’s final paragraph is filthy and smearing, Bob Lack Herald there would be no point in having any other newspapers. extraordinarily close to libel. I can only answer it’s aim Secretary Craccum has probably never in its existence represented the these quotes from the policy announcement: Jim McLa- views of the majority of students but if you are really interested was the purpose of ANZUS: to maintain that peace we ◄ DEAR JOHN► in democracy then you must defend Craccum’s right to print remain in ANZUS’. The Policy: ‘Membership of Dear John G, ideas that you personally do not agree with. Here’s the crunch of provided NZ and Australia with a real influence on the Watson and Co argument - they do not like what Craccum American thinking ... we have now lost that influence. N At the Student Representative Council (SRC) on Wed 20th says and feel they have a better chance of controlling what is March policy was passed supporting: firmly believes that NZ can do no more for world peace ’ 1) The Homosexual Law Reform Bill said if they have Craccum editors) elected. It is nothing to do nuclear disarmament within ANZUS than outside it.’ 2) Sexual acts between consenting persons 16 years and over with democracy, quite the reverse. They are interested principly Cost trade, fallen morals, an increased NZ defence bu 3) Gay Task Force in the suppression of all or most views which threaten their no reduction in arms... That is the consequence of 4) Every individual’s right to determine their own sexual version of reality. That is the difference between Watson & Co ANZUS stand. and me. I can accept that you may have an alternative viewpoint Postcript. Only those parts o f this discussion referred to as orientation free of all constraints. from mine but I do not need to suppress all other viewpoints in AUSA cannot (and does not) act on any issue without are National policy. The rest is my personal view. Copies authorisation from one of the following bodies - order to feel secure in my own opinions. policy are available from National Party Auckland Divis' 1) Executive 2) SRC A.N.H. Andrew 3) SGMs (or referenda) ◄ A REPLY TO RAY GALVIN ► Your outrage would have been justified only if AUSA did not have policy on this issue before actioning it. Dear Craccum, SRC is the main forum for the debate and introduction of I wish to take issue with the Rev Ray Galbin’s slanting of the policy. It meets every Wednesday 1pm Caf Extension. Come National Party’s policy on ANZUS (Craccum Issue 3) and the along and see what policy is being passed. Have your say there. viewpoint he expressed. Don’t make blanket judgments about ‘dictatorial attitudes’ or Rev Galvin’s first error was in paraphrasing in 5 sentences a ‘AUSA radicals’ without making an effort to participate in the IV2 page policy announcement. In so doing he ignored democratic forums yourself. significant points (e.g. National’s firm support for a total test ban treaty) and distorted the policy included. See you at SRC Rev Galvin in discussing ‘Peace Through Strength’ equates Kirsten Thompson strength with nuclear superiority but that would make neither SRC Chair side strong because nuclear superiority is an invalid concept NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT BROADCASTERS AUSA n e r a l Politics The NZASB is the national organisation SECOND TERM PROGRAMME representing the six student radio stations in MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE TOUR SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING [SEPTEMBER 1985 New Zealand and their staff. The Associations MAY 3 broad objectives are to encourage student Notice is given that a Special General Changes - Self Esteem for Women involvement in broadcasting, and to assist the This is an international day of protest against Meeting of the Association will be held on a closed group for women who have development of the constituent stations. this tour. Students meet in the Quad at 6pm Tuesday 11 June 1985 commencing at lpm. a previous group at HELP. Starts Applications are now open for the elected 6.30pm for banner and music making to join The business of this meeting will be to ^■y May 8th. positions o f: the main march as a group. Show that consider proposals concerning the production ‘jdeo Workshops for Women - Sunday CHAIRPERSON 1985 students oppose racism. of an Anti-Calendar and possible changes to 26 May - Womens Community The Chairperson is the elected head and See you there. the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. ^twitting the Doctor - How your body political officer of the Association. The > a ten week course on basic anatomy Chairperson heads an Executive Board of ten NZUSA COUNCIL siology for anyone interested in people and is responsible in Annual General N g a W a h i n e -e control of and responsibility for Meetings to representatives from six Applications are invited for appointment as health. Starts Tuesday May 28th, constituent stations. Duties include - political WOMEN IN EDUCATION AUSA delegates to the forthcoming Council liaison with other Broadcasting organisations Meeting of the New Zealand University Snist Ritual - a six week evening and overseeing the general operation of the Meeting Wednesday 1st May 1pm Sem E Students' Association. This meeting will be -women. Starts Thursday May 30th. Association. held at Lincoln College during the period 14 to The Chairperson is expected to chair at least Education Dept, 3 Wynyard St. ?ng Changes - Self Esteem and All women welcome. 17 May and reasonable travel and for Lesbians - eight week evening four Executive meetings and two general accommodation expenses will be met by Starts Tuesday June 4th. meetings (all in Wellington) during the year, STOP SEXUAL HARASSMENT AUSA. r--t on Cuba and Nicaragua - a one-off and to liaise closely with the General CONFERENCE FOR PEOPLE IN AUSA may be represented by up to two co - seminar and discussion facilitated by Secretary of the Association. EDUCATION ordinating delegates plus up to two delegates iople who have recently been to Cuba The position would suit a senior student or to each of the following commissions: Nicaragua. Date Thursday June 6th, graduate with close and current involvement The first conference on sexual harassment Education in student radio. As the position is unpaid it ever to be held in New Zealand is to be held in Finance and Administration ublic and Effective Speaking - a five will require a very dedicated and enthusiastic Wellington from 3-5 May this year. International Wurse • Starts M onday June 10th. person. It is a national conference aimed at people in Maori i Language (Intermediate) - an eight TERMS: from election until 31st December education (students, teachers, organisations). National r-time course - Starts Wednesday 1985. The conference will be looking at: Overseas Students i, 9 .3 0 am -1 1 .3 0 am . CONDITIONS: It is preferred that the - the reality of sexual harassment Welfare srcen and Health - an eight week day- Chairperson reside in or near Wellington. - dealing with sexual harassment Women course held at Highbury Community POSITION: Part-time - preventing sexual harassment In addition any number of observers may be Birkenhead. Starts Wednesday June HONORARIA: Nil If you’re interested, contact Trish Mullins. accredited. Members may seek appointment ■10.00am -12 noon. Stop Sexual Harassment Conference to any number of positions. Making Changes - Self Esteem for TREASURER 1985 Collective, P.O. Box 9047, Courtenay Place, Applications for these positions close at the L . a non-residential weekend course - Wellington. Ph 850-009 or your local SRC meeting to be held on Wednesday 24 “Saturday 13/Sunday 14 July. The Treasurer is an elected member of the University Students’ Association and we’ll April and appointments will be made at this Women working with Women - Tutor Associations Executive Board. Duties include send you more information. and subsequent SRC meetings. Candidates vy Basic Womens Studies - an eight attending at least four Executive Board Cost: $25 waged ($20 if you register before 21 should attend this meeting from lpm. course plus two Saturdays. Starts meetings and two General Meetings during April), $10 unwaged student. ‘--July 22nd, 7.30pm. the year; overseeing the financial Accommodation: billeting or we’ll provide you REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS TĪie Politics of Childcare - a Saturday management of the Association and assisting with a list of cheap places. # : for anyone interested in the dilemas the General Secretary in the production and Childcare: provided free Nominations are invited for the following urisible solutions to them) facing presentation of budgets and financial reports STOP SEXUAL HARASSMENT - Break positions on University and Joint ■ and childcare workers in the present to General Meetings. The Silence Destroy the Lies. Committees, the term of office in each case Date Saturday August 3rd - 9.30am - The position would suit a senior student or being from 1 May 1985 to 30 April 1986: Creche facilities will be provided. graduate with some understanding of basic Student Union Management Committee - 2 accounting and an enthusiasm for student Clubs positions VLL PROGRAMME DETAILS radio. Theatre Management Committee - 2 SAE TO WEA, 21 PRINCES ST, TERMS: From election until 31st December WINE SOCIETY positions AND 1, OR COLLECT A 1985. Library Committee - 1 position ‘.MME FROM THE OFFICE CONDITIONS: It is preferred that the Chardonnay 1983 Tasting and AGM. Audio-Visual Committee - 1 position APRIL 22nd ONWARDS. Treasurer reside in or near Wellington. 1st May Wednesday 7.30pm Coffee Lounge. Nominations should be made on the form POSITION: Part-time $5 Members, $8 Non-members. $10 to join the available from the AUSA office and must be HONORARIA: Nil Wine Soc. for 1985 and taste the best value given to the Secretary by 5pm on Friday 26 • D STUDENTS ACTION wines you can buy, before you buy. April. Appointments will be made by the Nominations close at 5.00pm on Friday May Executive at its meeting to be held on 10 with: SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS SOIREE Wednesday 1 May. Candidates should attend Tuesday 30th April, l-2pm in THE RETURNING OFFICER this meeting at a time to be arranged. -J Room (by AUSA reception). Bring NZ STUDENTS ARTS COUNCIL Come and Socialise. Shadows Tuesday 7th h. Tea and coffee served from 12.30. P.O. BOX 9266 May 5pm onwards. Share your ideas re info or apologies - contact Heather WELLINGTON activities and events. at AUSA (Ph 30-789). Get together - Get to know. An election for the positions will be held at the AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Inaugural General Meeting of the New DO YOU NEED EXTRA m {WORKSHOP Zealand Association of Student Broadcasters Nicaragua. Moira Lawler will speak on her THE PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT BUREAU on Saturday 18 May in Wellington. All IS OPEN NOW recent visit to Nicaragua and on the human PART-TIME, MAY Et AUGUST 7th May 7.15 - 10pm at the Medical candidates would be expected to attend. rights situation there. Tuesday 30th April HOLIDAY WORK Audio Visual Unit. Fee $4 waged - lpm room 206-second floor of New Arts H O U R S : MONDAY to FRIDAY unwaged (limit 20 people). Payment to For further information please contact the Building. 10AM to 3PM Peace Forum - must pre-register above. Other Amnesty business will be discussed. All 1ST Floor. Student Union Building -y- HOW WOULD NEW ZEALAND welcome. 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