Ajejii|U&Jc but Never Heard; Efficiently You'll Graduate in Dull on Predigested Tidbits of Solemnity
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5c-A* ^f^ He wants a brave new University, Forget your songs, runs the Wh(jr e undergrads will all decree be kept In cages; — Students should be seen And there they will be fed >ajejii|u&jc but never heard; efficiently You'll graduate in dull On predigested tidbits of solemnity. the wisdom of the THE U.Q.U. NEWSPAPER Now "Gaudeamus" is de- ages. dared a dirty word. Regtstered at tl>e C.P.O., Brisbans. lor Friday, April 28, 1961 transmission by post as a periodical. Volume 31, No. 4 Atithorised by J. Fogarty and J. B. Dalton, c^^nlversify Union Offices, St. Lucia. Printed by Watson, Ferguson and Co., Stanley Street, Soulh Brisbane iiiiiMi^iMiriiiiiG: Mr. Bishopp said that pranks he considered in "I'll really fix things for us," he said. bad taste were squirting policemen with a solu "I'll issue the force with new orders. No tion of chewing guna and arsenic, or sinking arresting Varsity men. If any cops are sprayed American ships. with bubble gum and arsenic they must stand still He said that the until their flat feet develop tinea. first mentioned prank "No interfering with any pranks at all by was "shocking" as the Varsity men. Anything is allowed at the proces poor policemen's flat sion. Smut, nudes, politics, smut — say maybe feet were glued to the we could do a float on the joke about the old priest and the young priest. "Just so we'll be safe I'll get all the bodgies ground with the gum/ rounded up for the week. arsenic mixture which "Come on, let's go and paint hymns on the then penetrated the C.I.B. roof," he said, as we left the cfiUs with feather and gave the flat our soles uplifted by the chewing "gum/arsenic feet tinea. mixture. The second prank had hurt millions of Americans because the ship sinking had reminded "Frankly. I think all students ought to be them of the terrible days o^ Pearl Harbor. cast . You're from the Press, are you? ... Oh, in that case, as I was saying, I think all students Ju5t the vr\ the phone should be cast in as lenient a light as possible rang, and ge tting off his with respect to their actions on Commem. day. knees, Mr Bishopp Police Commissioner (Mr. Bishopp) said answered: "^ 4rster Schon- this yesterday, during a Press Conference In his nell — whoi ' Oh. you're ascetically furnished cells. a University student. Oh, the VICE - CHANCEL- Then, on the steps of his residence he "When you con LOR. well h ow are you delivered this stirring oration to a deeply affected sir. sider how much the crowd: "You'll what? Why "For, brethren, it is meet that on this Hay we future of not only certainly, Pre d is it? Why should not restrain our youthful sp'Pts. We should the learning they are acquiring and the extent yes Fred old man can unburden our minds of all the clutter that fills to which that learning must tense them up during fix that. them throughout the year. the year then it is only natural that they should let off steam," he said. "You say that I'll get an Honorary Doc "It is expected of us to display our criticism torate of Criminology. and mistrust of all formality and infringements of However, as he scratched his ton<;urft, Mr. our liberty. How better, then, can we do this Bishopp warned that this did not mean that than by a wild procession through the street: students would be able to let of steam irrespon wherein we act without caution or heed of the sibly. pettifogging restrictions imposed on us by the priggish mentalities of professional paragons. "And if we should affront these petty dig nities it ^•s not a stain on our character, but at, "O.K. if that's all you want I'll send four expression of our rebellious spirit, the spirit that of my toughest men over to police the parking has fired all movements of revolutionary reform regulations at the Uni." he said. Mr. Bishopp then grinned at us cherubically over his white collar and explained in joyous tones that we were confreres. He was now a Varsity "Of course when they let off steam we man. expect them to let off steam Intelligently. Mr. Bishopp then barkened back to his "The General Public and I can appreciate a original subject — student pranks. Pressing his palms piously together he asked good honest prank, such as putting chalk marks "Sing your bawdy songs, drink vour linuor whether he could maybe come along on a prank on police car tyres,, but when they transcend gluttonously, and follow your obscene procession, the bound of good taste nobody appreciates their as he was now a Varsity man. —^ and make the world take note that all attempts so called attempts «t^BMiuuiXhe said to stifle your freedom of expression have been in vain." SEMPER GOES MAD PAGES 8 & 9 PAGE 2 SEMPER FLOREAT, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1961 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PUT IT IN BLACK & WHITE, - IT'S A RIOT (Dr. eWQERD) some of the actors arc not College, or oven Kruschev, alas, jubilantly colebratlngr, Therefore, let us make 19SI the year In University studonta. Why should they be? forgets that It was our methods, which in- which wc take the Initiative by organising The name has no legal or binding signific 8plro<l them to beat the Yanks. Kennedy ourselves, as a student body, and thus ance. Some College students have gained blooding, has not yet hatched a plan. making a real contribution tov/arda Com diastciicil nason by the venture. Uy v/hat law, ethical or Mcnzles refuses help, as wo denounce mem Day. Dc.ir Sirs, of the Union, Is Mr. Nason rcfiulrcd to apartheid. C. CRUD. I ciavc sp.icc in your columns to correct extend his benefits to nJl College studonta? Wo ask only for help to put down this an injujiticc: Semper Floreat docs Itself and the stu Insurrection, It Is an attempt at aggression! An article on COLLKGR OPKRA, by dent body harm in printing personal abuse A revolution of the masses! They must bo _ ^. i "An Ob.tQrver" (ScniFicr March 20, lOGI), without checking the facts on which this restricted to their 20 per cent, of lake area. llCai* glI*liS both Rtalc.i and ImplicH that sonic .sort of abuse is founded. An Editor may dissoci Private enterprise must have freedom lo tyrannical monopoly is wrestling from a ate himself from opinion, but the meticu operate! Wo must act! And wc must act Dear Sirs, company of students, all eager to sing lous caro that went Into reporting the re swiftly! Although unquestionably generous in Gilbert and .Sullhan, the rit'ht to come cent controversial Union Council meet —IX)VBR OF LIBERTY. certain respects, it cannot be said that tho alonK and do so. The bnpUc.atlon la that ings in the same issue might well be ex P.S.—It fair jjlves mo the bird!—[mo loo] average Uni. girl is other than tight-fisted a cllfiuo cxLst.s, headed hy liiyan Ka.son. tended to other matters. Far more hclp- and Inconsiderate, financially speaking. A •which haa cornered wliat should be a com IcMly that the President of the Union, Mr. cnslomc with ancient beginnings, the pur mon sludoul posse.si-ion. N.af-on. Ls at the n\crcy ot an attack siich gi'adnatc crud suit of tho fairer sex, to-day occasions no Tho facts arc these: Up to and Includ- as "An Observer;" small expense. The limited finances of tho majority of male students lmi)oses budget Infr 1958, no G. & .S. waa being done by —EUXICn IIAXGKR, Dear Sirs, restrictions which exclude expensive out any Union or IJnlverHily Kroup. In 1059 English Dept. In a few weeks' time It will be Commem. ings. Mr. Na.son, acting in a. private capacity, This is the llinc when we join with tho bullied and cajoled a number of peisona, Graduates in celebrating the end of quite Considering the financial positions of mostly but not o.xelti.sivnly, from John'.s a number of years' of study. Tho llmo both parties. It woulrd he only reasonable College, where ho was resident, and the •*on ilie hcaclies..." when the giaduates leave the University to ixpect a cei-tain sharing of expenses cn- Women's CoUegc.n, Into singing In hIa pro and enl'.r society; and also when the stu tnllrd In .such an outing. It must, how- A VLKA I\)n PO.SITIVE ACTION' cv<u-, seem beyond reason to most Uni. glils duction of PATII:NC1;. HC v.orlted like Dear Sirs. dents' Indulge in a little revelry, partly as a. slave, put his own money and thuc Into an expression ot their own enthusiasm, becuu.se if this particularly endearing Once again communistic subversive thought enters their heads It Is quickly dis tho vonttn-e, diHcipllned his cast as few and, perhaps, more importantly, as a action threatens lo undermine the .sacred carded in favour of more mundane material. University dramatic gronp.s have been dis .social structure of our glorious bourgeois tribute to those who have graduated before ciplined, and got onto the .stage an attrac thcrn. Some students. In an endeavour to Im- <iemocracy! I refer to the piteous plight prcs.s, of thlnklne they are martyrs to tho tive production which played to capacity of us native residents of the main campus.