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Sub-Editor Neil Morrison }RC Contributors Fiona Cameron, Robert Leonard, ENT) Rangi Chadwick, Sara Noble, Karen Edmonds, Kirsty McDonald, Heather Worth SPECIAL GENERAL Newsbriefs In attendanc John Bates |y debate < tennifd celel MEETING of the most i "he Centenai Photography ring the mot Sarah Westwood, Gil Hanly itions and ^ Elizabeth Leyland THURSDAY 1PM — REC CENTRE ther endorse ither refem d and Mat Cartoonists lamed that Courtney, Carmyn Bear A motion that the AUSA will participate in the John cited the petition as an indicator of stut jnistrative Centenary celebrations has been put forward to be interest, although many students were ill infoi and always discussed at this Special Meeting. Layout Assistant of the SRC policy. John, of course, has perst fcty^she Lisa Glazer As stated in the SRC and EXEC reports the stake in the decision. He feels, however, that tory to the issue has been hotting up for weeks. Despite three average student will benefit from AU^®‘itionoftl weeks notice in CRACCUM, the instigator of the involvement. ‘If a V.C. from overseas comes Proofreaders it elements Ivan Sowry, Arnold Snarb petition, President John Broad, feels that not and is impressed with students, New of about t enough student input has been heard on this issue students may be able to attend there. This will Maori w and that a SGM is the only way to decide such an usonthemap.’ with the p: Typesetters important motion. After the SRC Wednesday, And what of the students already on our ity wou Barbara Hendry, Raewyn Green John drew up the petition and circulated it, and Maori and women students who feel tional exp Distribution gathering over 500 signatures by that evening. institution is a sham as regards equal rights? oppositi Shale Chambers Any SRC policy can go to SGM if there is a ‘This will send ripples throughout iination of petition of at least twenty signatures, and a special University, they will think we are being while the i Advertising SRC can be called with only ten. Is it a case of although the reasons behind the boycott are was no Jeanette Winters lity’s hi: tough bikkies? petty.’ he said. a total boy CRACCUM is a source of free expression and Janelle Grady, SRC chair, has commented that ‘I To the question of what student input is in pation in information for the Auckland University don’t think it will make SRC redundant. I am celebrations, John cites the Christian groups, inie’s argi community and is not an official publication of concerned that a student politician can exercise his choral society, and the field club as examp] who add( the University or Association. power base to overturn a decision made by other achieve student involvement. was reful students. If students are prepared to debate, and Heather Worth, mover of the original motii Send all mail to CRACCUM, AUSA, Private claimed tl Bag, Auckland. CRACCUM is published by the five hundred students prepared to come, that is boycott the celebrations, feels that ‘The public Auckland University Students’ Association, fine, but I am not so sure.’ students that attend SRC’s and SGM’s the bei appr Princes Street, Auckland, and printed by John Broad defined his reasons as being in the it is more democratic. What I find offensive is ,te the mol Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. 20 Drews Ave, seven, •xest interest of the students. ‘Past graduates, a president races down to the typists office ssion of Wanganui. present students, and future students. The reason Phone: Editorial 30-789 ext 67 types a petition calling for an SGM. Mi was defei Business 30-789 ext 66 I typed and distributed the petition was because I students who signed the petition were unaware er club a wanted a SGM. I do not think that 67 students the debate on the issue, hopefully they will be SA at the r ints’ Socie ‘In New Zealand, if you have any passion, that's radical' should decide policy for the whole university, it is aware of the importance of the boycott through attached t not a decision reflective of the whole student body. SGM.’ using the - Merata Mita The SGM will be a test to see whether I am right.’ ECUTIVE ICTION requiring capital expenditure were referred to Finance Committee for further consideration. A long and acrimonious debate occurred on a */ lo&K relatively trivial matter, the waiving of functions T5 controversial items on the agenda for J— room hire charges for the International Student Wednesday’s meeting of the Executive \ \ % Congress. The Executive eventually decided to that debate would be lively and heated, / authorise a transfer of the hire fees from AUSA’s members used this as an excuse to allow the \ ■> \ , political budget to its catering budget. This to degenerate at times into an exercise in r*") * m decision was met with various profanities uttered lAL and personal point-scoring. The order of % l r by International Affairs Officer Paul Sutcliffe. ,s was altered from the agenda on numerous Executive made a number of appointments to isions with the unfortunate result that several I * K 5» various positions within AUSA and to University tors who were asked to attend the meeting for committees. These included former Sports Officer |dfic items of business were required to wait up Robert Young as Winter Tournament Controller, o hours after the time their business was to be Heather Worth and Bob Lack to Student Union Management Committee and Jonathan Blakeman and Karin Bos to Theatre Management Committee. Vacancies still exist on Student Union utive took it upon itself to elevate .S'; Management Committee, Library Committee and ion of SRC’s resolution to boycott the Catering Committee. versity Centenary celebrations, scheduled to be Hamish Foote Other decisions made by the Executive were the Elast item of business, to an early stage of the refusal to send a representative to the Australia ining’s business. The confusion which and New Zealand Student Services Association ompanied this debate reflected the lack of time conference, the allocation of $130 for a forum and a mbers had to think about the issue. To motion: ‘That AUSA participate in the University protest about sexual violence and the refusal to nplicate matters, requisitions had been received Centenary celebrations’. A subcommittee of receive what purported to be a set of minutes from both a special SRC meeting and a Special Executive was established to investigate a meeting of Welfare Committee chaired by former _jeral Meeting of AUSA to further discuss Centenary-related contracts and in the event of the Welfare Officer and Sports Rep hopeful Neill Reid. ISA’s participation in the Centenary. The latter General Meeting motion being lost, to decide which A proposal from Student Christian Movement to been organised by President John Broad, an of these should be cancelled. donate $500 to the Auckland University Student ion for which he was accused by several Executive’s decision of several weeks ago to not Refugee Education Fund was deferred. mbers of acting in direct contradiction of and grant the use of Room 237 of the student union for -LS. wing contempt for SRC. use as an interim marae came up for Quotes of the Meeting: , further complication arose from Executive’s reconsideration. This was raised by National [ of knowledge of the existence of contracts Affairs Officer Trish Mullins who had previously T can’t remember what the committee is but I ting to Centenary events. AUSA’s non- voted against this use of the room but who had know I'm convenor of i t ...’ rticipation in the Centenary would require the changed her mind after an extensive study of room — Barry Weeber icellation of any such contracts. The meeting usages in the Union. Trish also presented to the mtually decided to adopt the SRC policy of non- meeting several recommendations designed to ‘You can tell what the time is without looking at ■rticipation but to not action it until after a make more meeting rooms available for student the bloody clock. ’ facial General Meeting to be held this Thursday peak-time use. The marae proposal was passed — Jonathan Blakeman fchtime. This General Meeting will discuss the without dissent and the recommendations (about 12.30 am)

RC REPORT subscription. Speakers in favour of this condition being imposed 50. SRC believes that the legal definition of rape of a woman or NTENARY DEBATE argued that the Law Students society was in a unique position girl should be: in having its subscription collected by the university from all a) penetration of vagina or anus of a woman or girl by a foreign students during Law Faculty enrolment and that was object against her will tantamount to compulsory membership of the Society for Law b) sexual intercourse with a woman or a girl against her will students. c, penetration of a womanfe or girls mouth or anus by a penis attendance of over a hundred and forty together with a The meeting closed at 2.45 pm, making it the longest for the debate on AUSA’s participation in the University against her will year to date. This week’s meeting, which will discuss d) a married woman being forced against her will to have sex ^innini celebrations made last Wednesday’s SRC meeting modifications to SRC’s policy on women’s rights, will be held in with her husband. ^ofthe most interesting this year. the SRC Lounge this Wednesday at 1.00pm. SRC believes that consideration should be given to the fact that lie Centenary debate was kicked off by Heather Worth force may constitute threats or mental/psychological lying the motion: ‘That due to the University’s record in race -LS. intimidation or coercion and not necessarily involve physical btions and women’s issues SRC recommend that AUSA violence. pher endorse nor participate in the Centenary celebrations’. SRC further believes that a woman’s past sexual experience Ether referred to the disproportionately low number of E»n and Maori students attending Auckland University. She should not be admissable evidence in a rape trial. Currently: SRC condemns the existing rape laws, especially Eained that throughout the hierarchy of the academic and the failure to include anal and oral rape, the use of foreign Wstrative structure of the University, women and blacks ^ator of stui objects and rape within marriage. SRC further believes that a and always have been, under-represented. She claimed that woman’s past sexual experiences should not be admissible rere, ill infon# V institutional racism made the celebrations a farce. The B, nas persaErergity, she argued, was presenting only one aspect of its SRC AGENDA evidence in rape trials. vever, thatEory to the public during the celebrations. There was no Wednesday 20th April, lpm, SEC Lounge 51. SRC pledges active support to the Rape Crisis Centres, from Amognition of the darker aspects of the University’s past. ' in favour of the motion spoke of the racist and Womens Refuge Centres and other feminist orientated women’s eas comes sPeakers ™ favour of the motion spoke of the racist and centres. \J rftst elements of the celebrations themselves, noting that only 1 7 ELECTIONS: SENATE (2 positions) Currently: SRC offers its support to the Rape Crisis Centres, New Zealuff of about thirty guest speakers were women and that an Nominations Received 7 Carolyn Anderson Womens Refuge Centres and other women’s centres. •e. This will __Maori welcome had been cancelled because it did not fit — Suzie Collier with the programme. Speakers also explained that the The remainder of the women’s policy is available from the — John Rattray receptionist at Studass. ly on our ity would reveal no information about the costs of the — John Roger try and they feared that money was being diverted from POLICY: WOMEN’S POLICY /ho feel tional expenditure to the Centenaiy. ENVIRONMENT il rights? j opposition to the motion was led by the unlikely 60. THAT AUSA recognizes that the word ‘sexism’ is often Weeber — •oughout jination of Leonie Morris and John Broad. Leonie argued misused. Sexism does not only mean discrimination of one sex 1) That AUSA stop selling Granny’s Special Sweets as they are e being while the record of the University in issues of racism and by another. Sexism is also about the power of privilege as it is produced by that exploitative, anti-union group Zenith Applied oycott are was not all it should be, there were elements of the deployed through social, economic and political institutions. Philosophy. „jity’s history which were worth celebrating. She argued Because these institutions are male created, male defined, and 2) That AUSA oppose the granting of a mining licence to a total boycott of the Centenaiy by AUSA would preclude male controlled, men as a group have power over women. Kauri Deposit Surveys Limited and ICI Ltd for the Kaimaumau input is in( ipation in positive activities during the celebrations, Women organising together to fight against their oppression is Wetlands. Further AUSA believe that these Wetlands should an groups, 1 nie’s arguments were echoed by John Broad and Mark not sexist as women do not have power over their oppressors. become reserve due to their unique ecological values. is examples ( who added that they felt a boycott would be ineffective, Therefore to exclude men from womens group meetings, rooms, 3) That AUSA support the proposed Bay of Plenty National achieve little publicity and would appear petty. This activities etc or to organise Womens Officer positions in student reserve which will include the Kaimai-Mamaku complex, virgin _ was refuted by further speakers in favour of the motion bodies or departments is not sexist. Further AUSA recognizes state forests in the North-Eastern Mamaku Plateau and final motion claimed that a boycott would be much more effective in that sexism is related to racism and classism. Southern Mamaku Plateau and two state forest areas currently at ‘The public awareness of the issues involved than the leased to NZ Forest Products Ltd for clearfelling and conversion M’s the bet! _ 1 approach of Leonie and John. After over an hour’s 49. SRC recognises that rape is a tool through which all men to exotics. ffensiveist ,te the motion was put and carried by sixty-five votes to keep all women in a state of fear and believes that the fear of ROYALTOUR •seven. rape and the act of rape itself seriously affects women’s freedom Sutcliffe/W eeber — ists office i .assion of proposed alterations to AUSA’s women’s rights and control of their lives. SRC further believes that women That AUSA, recognising the sycophantic and wasteful nature SGM. Mai r was deferred to this weeks SRC and the meeting moved to should have freedom of dress and action without being of the British monarchy, boycott and denounce any royal tours ire unawa club affiliations. In all fifteen clubs were affiliated to construed as provocation of rape. in this country. >y will bei JSA at the meeting. One of these, the affiliation of the Law Currently: SRC believes that rape is a deliberate act of Merry lees/W eeber — _ents’ Society, created a degree of controversy. A condition violence against women which, through fear of rape, restricts That SRC recognise and support the struggle for self- Dtt through! attached to the affiliation of this group precluding them their freedom. SRC believes that women snouia nave ireeaom of determination of the West Papuan people and condemn the using the university as agents for the collection of their dress and action without being construed as provocation of rape. United Nations acceptance of the Indonesian annexation of West Papua. « °

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In previous years the University has can OF lectures on the Friday of Capping Week, year they have also cancelled them wu Thursday because of the Centenary Celebrate Those students and staff who object to celebrations will of course be conducting vo GOVERNMENT SERVANTS OR classes on the day in question. ACADEMIC SALARIES ►

We have made previous mention of the PUBLICANS MAKE LUCKY government decision to declare that all University ESCAPE ► administrative staff are government servants for the purpose of establishing employment The Students’ Association’s decision conditions. It has been revealed after the event participate in the celebrations will have con that this decision affects one group of university relief to Prof Tarling. He had previously j employees who had been thought to be exempt - attempting to dissuade the Capping Coil those administrative employees who are employed from running a Centenary Pub-Crawl which 1 on academic salary scales. This group includes the have involved upsetting the patrons Liason Officers, the Recreation Officer, the Head hundred Auckland hotels and taverns. of the Computer Centre, the Director of Welfare Services and similar senior administrative/welfare ACCOMODATION AND staff, and they are presumably employed on RECREATION MEETINGS HOCKEY AND FOOTBALL NEW$PLLREII academic salary scales because it is felt that the am stand University will benefit if they are eligible for the CANCELLED ► perquisites of academic positions. It is difficult to Football and Hockey players were worrie £ y parti imagine that when, for example, Dr Finlayson days ago that bad weather might delay the sti Jand * I se retires, a replacement of similar calibre will be Despite the continuing problems in their the season. In the event the storm of Frid tinue to d attracted to a position involving a forty-hour week, respective areas the first Welfare Committee April cleared up overnight and games were pi also wish three weeks annual leave and no opportunity to meeting and the second Recreation Committee on good pitches all over Auckland. Except a R0b ^ apply for sabbatical leave to keep up with their meeting for the year were cancelled — and in University Sports Ground at Merton Road I feel specialty or to visit overseas institutions. It is of neither case were the student members of the all games were cancelled because the Univa gtitutiona course debatable whether all of these positions committee consulted. With the pressures on was unable to arrange for the pitches to be ma ct that a justify ‘academic’ ranking, but that debate is one Accommodation Office staff which are becoming out on the Saturday morning. Perhaps idents Ass which should be able to be conducted entirely evident since the staffing level was reduced we do student users were allowed some voice Bctly to Sp within the University rather than around Treasury hope no one is contemplating cancelling next weeks management of Merton Road such things v »p:n2 gD0 tables. Accommodation Committee meeting. not happen! tending —E h I shall orts gets ih is not »t did y< AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPRO little. It thow thinj your poli you wi WORK rtain percc ent on e TURKISH TRADE rcentage? CRACCUM’S NEW PROCESS there ar CAMERA IS AVAILABLE TO lents wh UNIONIST HELP YOU with all types of PJSA fund photographic reprinting, altho reducing, enlarging and listic. screening. With the release last year of the varsity groups’ Soviet prisoner of Conscience (a woman imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for her religious beliefs) and the recent release of our Grenadan prisoner (Norman De Souza, who was involved in the pre­ revolution government, the University branch of Amnesty International has only one prisoner at this present time.

He is Kemal Akar, a Turkish trade unionist. groans, they kicked me on my kidneys and beat me When the military took over control of Turkey in severed times on my head’. September of 1980 one of its first actions was to The D.I.S.K. trial started in Istanbul on the ‘close down’ the Confederation of Progressive twenty fourth of December 1981, and is expected trade unions. (D.I.S.K.) to continue for some time. This involved setting up trustees to dispose of Kemal Akar and the other officials qualify as D.I.S.K.s assets and property and temporarily prisoners of conscience, because although they are detaining over 5,000 members of DISK for various charged with having used violence there is no periods of time. evidence of this. And the 817 page long military Criminal proceedings were started against fifty prosecutors indictment does not specifically accuse two officials involved in the administration of the defendents of using violence. D.I.S.K. Kemal Akar was on the auditing It appears the D.I.S.K. officials are being committee. D.I.S.K. officials were charged with prosecuted solely because of their trade union j having attempted to change the basic law of the activities. Turkish Republic by violence, an offence which On the seventh of January 1983 eight D.I.S.K. carries the death penalty. defendants, mostly regional directors were Many of the defendants alleged they were released conditionally. In light of this news, REASONABLE RATES, tortured during interrogation. Abdullah Basturk, Amnesty groups working on the D.I.S.K. trial 3NBARK the president of D.I.S.K. stated when he appeared have been requested to step up their letter writing QUALITY WORK. ledia O in Court on 30th June 1982. and publicity campaigns. PHONE 30-789 ext 67 ntion for ‘During those six days I underwent physical and Those interested in Amnesty, our next meeting listrat mental torture, incessantly and continuously is on Monday May 2nd 1pm in Room 237. yeen E: listened to other tortured detainees cries and1 ipus Ra< co-ordini — EXEC ELECTIONS— VOTE: APRIL 20 & 21

ENTEM and grants to other AUSA and club clubs to share their knowledge and education spending. I will publications. I’m not a well run-in experience with other students. The strenuously resist any attempt by SPORTS student politico looking for an easy C.A.O. should be ready to provide the university to off-load its way back into Exec. Rather, I ’m resources, assistance and financial problems onto students by sity has OFFICER coming in from the ground up. I ’ve information to these clubs to ensure doubling or more of the Welfare Fee. ig Week, spent a lot of time up on the third that their culture become an I will begin liaison with groups d them od| floor of Studass over the last year, important and vital part of outside campus who are suffering ry CelebratiJ working in both Campus Radio and everyone’s university career. the effects of the government’s 10 object toj Craccum, so I have a good idea of wn %.....| pp policies etc the Combined ducting volt their respective abilities and Beneficaries Union and the requirements. Auckland Unemployed Workers’ I see the ‘established media’ as Union. I will pay special attention to being largely responsible for the way the welfare problems of those who :k y in which we view the world as well as suffer extra difficulties - womin, attempting to enforce the status disabled students and students who quo. University should be different. suffer the effects of racism. Its your last chance to dance Do you think the position has any d ecisio n (mentally) before the ‘real’ world power? Is it effective? 11 h a v e cod comes up and jumps on you. When Many of the decisions affecting the previous!] the Herald starts simpering over welfare of students lie in the hands >ping Cod Craccum and Hauraki feel no threat of University committees that have rawl which l from Campus Radio, then we’ve very little student representation on p a tr o n s failed badly somewhere. them. The Welfare Officer has 3m s. I’m an anti-sexist anti-racist therefore little strength as regards second year Arts student. If you working through the universitv want a new face on Exec with new bureaucracy. I think that direct L L NEWS^ILL REID ► ideas (and new cliches!) then get out action may be the only effective way am standing for the position of and vote for me on the 20th and of improving the conditions of Officer, because I have 21st. students. were worrieiKvejy participated in sport all my What is your opinion on the delay the sti and i see this as a chance to current debate of CRACCUM’s JOHN HABER ► orm of Frici to do so. editorial policy? This is my 3rd year at Auckland im ^ were pi ^ ^gh to carry on the work I personally support the stand that University and before that I spent a id. Except at ere R0b Young left off. To this the editor has taken. This year’s couple of years at varsity in the >rton Road» j feel that there should be CRACCUM has been a very high States. My experience in relevent ® Ujrôi istitutional amendments to the standard and the current campaign fields over that time has been quite hes to be ma ^ that a certain percentage of against the editor is basically a broad (no pun intended John). Last Perhaps if I(jents Association funds be given witch hunt. year I was organiser of a successful ^®lce ô Ktly to Sports at this University, and profitable social programme for tch things Aging Sports Officer also means Scotch Club and this year I was a tending Executive meetings, at CULTURAL member of the Orientation team and ______Ech I shall endeavour to see that am currently the Capping orts gets a fair deal, something Controller. I have also been an ch is not happening at present. AFFAIRS AUSA rep on the University’s iat did you achieve as Welfare Public Relations & Cultural icer? OFFICER Activities Committee, an SRC rep ry little. It took some time to find on the Radio B Administration how things were done in AUSA. Board and a Societies Council rep on your policy statement you say the Grants Committee. it you will attempt to have a On the organisational side the tain percentage of AUSA funds CAO must enlarge on the minimum it on sports, what sort of required (the Cultural Nosaic) and rcentage? — offer a range of social and cultural JOHN RATTRAY ► :e s s there are approximately 5,000 events with the aim of making I am a 4th year student who has E TO adents who play sport, 45% of University more than a collection of been involved in the welfare o f JSA funds should be spent on lecture theatres. committee for about 18 months. although this is probably This committee is responsible for all Stic. the basic welfare work around campus as well as such things as WELFARE school visits. As I see the-job of Welfare Officer it involves 3 things. MEDIA OFFICER The first is the organisation and motivation of the Welfare OFFICER Committee. This committee in addition to doing the grass roots work like staffing the information office should both lead and be led by the W.O. CATHY FLYNN ► The second is liaising between I’m a 4th year law student who students and A.U.S.A., and the thinks that there’s a lot more to life University and University Welfare than just getting a degree - like services. The idea here is to try to getting involved, and learning about ensure that welfare services remain what’s going on around you. relevant and well funded and to One of the constitutional encourage the University big shots requirements for a C.A.O. is to to put students and student needs organize a Cultural Mosaic. In the before such things as new carpets past this has been a series of 3 for government house and $600,000 nights in the Maidment, where all underpasses. the interested clubs have provided entertainment. But, if elected, I hope to make Cultural Mosaic an What action will you take to stop ongoing and up-front occurrence the proposed increases in the throughout the year, where any, and COLIN PATTERSON ► Welfare Levy? fc BARKER ► all, cultural clubs are encouraged to I am a 3rd year BA student I do not believe that direct action [Media Officer is a new Exec do what they like, when they like. majoring in History and Political would be effective due to the dtion for 1983. I see it as an We should take this opportunity to Studies. difficulty of motivating a large linistrative position liaising learn, experience and see more of the As Welfare Officer I will join with enough number of students. veen Exec and Craccum and various aspects of life while at the Education Vice-President and Therefore I would work through the jipus Radio management, as well varsity. This can be achieved by the National Affairs Officer together existing committee system of the co-ordinating the operation of, encouraging the various cultural with NZUSA to fight further cuts in University. NEWSBRIEPS

SOLIDARITY IN PEACE While Britain promotes movies to discredit the Peace movement and the U.S. tries to label protesters as some sort of collective anti-Christ, the organisers of the Russian, ‘Group to Establish Flii Trust between the USSR and the USA,’ are facing continued harrassment from their government. he sex There are now people in all three countries who have served, or are serving jail terms for protesting not op against the continued insanity of nuclear weapons. cult to i While the governments are persecuting opponents W o to nuclear w ar’, proclaims cTMoscow protest march. im a stud and escalating the nuclear arsenals, the peace been esl ilested b< movements are finding renewed energy in their Prime Minister’s reforms are the ultimate in joint purpose. that an undesirable Communist goverami •ls who h* change.’ Phnom Penh will be the result of Sino-Soviett one. As Incidentally, Hergen Jensen was expelled from a possibility that was brought into greater fjfcudents o Zimbabwe for his report on the massacres in by the recent non-aligned nations’ decision eans tha JOURNALIST ATTACKED IN S.A. Matabeleland. His so-called prejudice in that issue postpone discussion of the Cambodian issue, ctims of is now being highlighted in S.A. to justify their power-plays may yet create a Cambodian soluti aland stu The Newsweek article on South Africa which was present attacks against him - although the dually a quoted in Craccum (29th March) has drawn flak S.Africans have used such reports to justify the omeone t from the Government and press of that country. continuation of the Apartheid system. notherreli The stage is being set for the article’s author, Holger Jensen to be ostracised and perhaps LEFT FOOT ► ^ strej expelled from South Africa. CHINESE AIM FOR CAMBODIAN [though tl It seems that Jensen has admitted that details SOLUTION V While the NZ Labour Party moves ever do ther not t within his story were inaccurate, but a list of his to the Right, their British counter-parts h motional { alleged transgressions does not really detract from The first glimmer of hope over a settlement to adopted what is being described as the most I buse of c the thrust of his conclusions. Some of the the Cambodian issue is appearing from an unlikely wing policy the UK has seen since 1945. A Whether or criticisms in the S.A. newspaper The Citizen were: source. China and Russia have been engaged in covered document entitled ‘New Hope for BriJrhether fu that Jan Christian Heunis should be Jan normalisation talks since last October, and China outlines how Michael Foot’s Labour Party w ■tiediffer Christiaan Heunis, that pass arrests have nothing is advancing the Cambodian question as part of embark on a programme of nuclear ;im. to do with ‘national security’, that ‘no houses are these talks. Although Asean is anxious for a withdrawal from the EEC and increased Within tl being built for blacks’ should have read ‘too few solution and Thailand seems to be adopting the spending to cut unemployment to below a is in houses....’ attitude that a China-Russia solution is better than within five years. Given that unemployment sts him, A more enlightened comment on the state of none; Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore are around four million by the time the Labour g the Apartheid appears in the same attack on Mr worried that they will be left out. This has led to gets the chance to become the Government, lything a Jensen: ‘We do not defend apartheid, pass arrests some Asean members taking a more positive is every likelihood that the British electorate ,t there i or detentions without trial. We do not say that the approach to Vietnam and Laos because of the fear embrace such policies. the fa icult foi up n riences 1He saic mustn't remembt Mum fo OUTSKIRTS didn't w trouble c anyone, The night symbolises the constant darkness, years aft oppression and fear in which all women live, Ocker Mentality ? whether or not they are aware of it. This symbolic The socii RECLAIM THE night prevails, whether or not the sun is in the sky, sexual asst and represents the way in which women feel In Brisbane recently a Supreme Court injuncti loesn’t tal NIGHT MARCH trapped by societal conditions and their was granted to the sire of a foetus, preventisi taboo and t consequences. Because of societal beliefs, women pregnant woman from having an aborti this serve are virtually locked away at night in order to Conception took place as a result of a ‘one ni| icreases h avoid rape, which is obviously not the answer. stand’ and the father seeks no relationship with Many of us have asked why it is women who are woman nor does he want the child — he tal objection to his genes being ‘destroyed’. imprisoned, when it is men who do the raping. Every woman has a right to feel safe, and it should The Brisbane Supreme Court will now dec RA make no difference whether it is night or day, whether to institute compulsory motherhood, oi street or home. respect the right of a woman to control hero Women are safe at NO TIME. Since we body, and thus her own life. Whichever way decision goes, what is most astounding is ast shouldn’t go out at night, many women intern aga ourselves in our homes, often on the advice of State’s arrogance in implementing such an on (Lot's Wife) women (f males - police officers, for instance. But even this is Miriam no guarantee that we will escape harm, since Rankines studies have shown that from 60-80% of sexual Miriam attacks happen in the home. Even during the day from her the streets are hardly safe places to be. Every day truths su women have to contend with minor assaults, for A Quiche For Your Thoughts of violem example, wolf-whistles, or other forms of incest an objectification. Phyllis Schlafly, labelling lawmakers backing) their owi When we say we want to reclaim the night, we documeni are challenging the code which makes us a hunted Equal Rights Amendment as ‘wimps’, sent quit to the 53 Senators who re-introduced the measa She th species during the day, and prisoners at night. molesting Because of society’s current views on what does, in early February. Shlafly had the quid delivered as a takeoff on the bestselling book I Some vie and does not, constitute ‘correct’ feminine were duj behaviour, we are fighting in particular for the Men Don’t Eat Quiche. Each of Schlafly’s quid Thursday 21st April, 6.30pm, corner of. rights to the hours of darkness, which are very had a label that said, ‘Real Men Don’tvDr Usually Karangahape Rd & Ponsonby Rd. A women's Women’ abuse, wl much in male hands at the moment. the child i march against violence against women. Bring a This is a march for women against The amendment has also been introduced ags torch and/or candle. Creche staffed by men. in the house, where it had the backing of moret Ms Sag Transport to be arranged. The focus of the NZUSA violence against women. We want to half the membership campaigr campaign against rape and violence against reclaim a life without fear of rape and let an a women is ‘Reclaim the Night’. Taking back the male violence on the streets and in our instructir night is symbolic of retaking our right to freedom homes - so women come and march their mol of movement, our bodies and our safety. flak from together. approach

6 ►CRACCI 10LENCE AGAINST WOMEN EXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN

y Fliss Hope

he sexual abuse of children is a subject that is ‘The fact remains that sexual offences against man’ stereotype. Sexual abuse occurs in all kinds not openly talked about. For this reason, it is children are barely noticed except in the most of families, and is committed by all kinds of men, [cult to estimate how high it’s incidence is, but violent and sensational instances. Most offences with no distinctions of race, class, or personality a study done by the Kinsey research team, it are never revealed, and when revealed, most are type. The effects that sexual abuse has on a victim been estimated that one out of four girls will be either ignored or not reported. If reported, a large vary, but a report from an incest survivors group tested before the age of eighteen.1 The ratio of percentage are dismissed for lack of proof, and includes: feeling dirty, guilty, frightened, sick; ■ls who have been sexually abused to boys, is ten even when proof can be established, many cases feeling different from the other kids, feeling one. As women make up forty percent of the are dropped because of the pressure and vulnerable to other sexual advances; feeling that idents of this University, statistically this humiliation forced on the victim and family’* they must have done something to cause what that ten percent of students here are The usual image of ‘the child molester' is of a happened: _ of the sexual abuse as children. A New stranger lurking around the school gates, hoping to M y main feeling at the time was one of id study indicates that eighty-nine percent of entice a child with a bribe of money or sweets. As powerlessness, and also guilt, knowing it was dually abused children were molested by the figures above show, this is not usually the case. wrong, but not being able to do anything about bmeone they knew, their father, step-father, The offender is usually someone known to the it, as I grew up I didn't value my body as my mother relative or friend of the family.2 victim, and not someone fitting the usual ‘dirty old own property, I started sleeping around, saying Rncest’ is defined by Webster’s dictionary as no didn't really occur to me, and I cut off my [sexual relations between members of family’, feelings from sex, it was easier to cope with if I hough the law treats sexual violation by a step­ M l didn't let myself feel bad about doing it' * >ves ever per not as incest but as ‘abuse of authority by a if* Other women report similar feelings - self-hatred, iter-parts ictional parent’. This is why the term ‘the sexual worthlessness, shyness, difficulties with s the most ise of children’ is used, rather than ‘incest’, relationships, and with sex e.g. dislike of certain se 1945. A iether or not the offender is a blood relative, or sexual advances, distrust, fe&r or hatred of men, ope for Bril rhether full sexual intercourse occurred makes feeling that men are only interested in sex. ur Party [e difference to the effect that this has on the The mother of a victim of father-rape is put in a ...... t,im. very difficult position upon discovering what has lcreased pul Within the family the father (step-father, uncle happened to her daughter, and the reaction of the below a mi] tc.) is in a very powerful position as the child mother could be to blame herself for not knowing doyment wiS rusts him, and accepts his authority as parent, V to blame the daughter for ‘seducing’ her husband, e Labour Pg i^ing the situation impossible for the child to do or to deny that what happened was true or that it remment, th nything about it without outside help. The fact was any more than ‘harmless fun’. The mother is in electoratei hat there is a social ‘taboo’ on the subject, coupled the position of having to protect her daughter, but ith the father’s position of power, make it very she is also tied to her husband emotionally, legally ifficult for the child to tell anybody. Many women and economically. If a mother is not aware of the row up never having told anyone about these fact that this situation occurs in many families iperiences: other than her own, she is less likely to accept it 'He said what we were doing was bad, so I and to realise that her daughter needs support mustn't tell anyone or I would get in trouble, I rather than punishment. If the mother, or anyone remember asking him what would happen if else the girl may confide in, blames her for the Mum found out, he said she'd hit the roof; I incidents this reinforces the feelings the girl didn't want to get Mum mad at me, and to get in already has of guilt and shame. trouble and be sent to a girls home so I didn't tell The victim herself may also blame the mother anyone. I did tell Mum when I was fifteen, three for failing in her duty as protector, for not years after it stopped happening'* H i knowing or failing to do anything, even though the The social taboo against talking about rape and assaults were probably set up so that the mother lexual assault works in a vicious circle, the victim i would not know. What can she do if she does know loesn’t her experience because of the /ourt inju m - short of calling in the authorities and disrupting s, prevem aboo and the taboo is strengthened by this silence, the life and security of the whole family with little an aboi is serves only to protect the offender, and chance of conviction - even then the man will of a ‘one ises his power. often come back and the assaults begin again, onship with perhaps with a younger daughter. ild — he tal Everyone else is taking the blame except the fed’. offender, when he is the one responsible, he is the rill now ded RAPE SEMINAR ON CAMPUS one that consciously abuses his daughter, niece, )therhood, oi neighbour’s daughter, he is the one responsible for ontrol her u his own actions. The sexual abuse of children is the :hever way! result of an abuse of power, male power, the same funding is t ast Thursday a seminar on Sexual Violence Hilda Halkyard talked to racism and the rape of power that is asserted by the rape of adult women. such an ord against women and girls brought over fifty Maori land and culture in Aotearoa. She grounded The power to dominate and violate others: women women (few men) to the library basement to hearher analysis in the colonial rape of Maori land and children. LMiriam Saphira, Hilda Halkyard and Jennythrough missionaries, the rape of the language, the The sexual abuse of children is not the result of a Rankine speak to this issue. Treaty, and land theft. She spoke of the hostility few sick old men bribing young girls, but rather a Miriam Sapphira spoke first, giving examples and anger which has, and has always, arisen from result of the way our male-dominated society from her research on incest about the myths and the powerless position pakehas have tried to allows men to have power over women, to abuse truths surrounding this oft not talked about form enforce on Maoris. this power, and then protects them by keeping the slights of violence. Half of the women who suffer from Jenny Rankine, from the Rape Crisis Centre, topic ‘under the covers’. Only by speaking out incest are attacked in their own home, many in affirmed that all the emotions Hilda spoke of were about sexual abuse, as children and as adult rs backing____ their own bed. 11% of the incidents which she the same for victims of sexual rape as they were for i women, by teaching children that it is not OK for >s’, sent quit documented were on victims under the age of six. the victims of cultural rape. The role of Rape Crisis I someone to touch them where they don’t want to 3d the meas. She then explained the ploys used in child was defined, and Jenny dispelled some frequent be touched, and that it is OK to tell someone about the quid approaches under the guise of ‘playing’. myths about rapists: most have sexual relations it, will we be able to break this silence, and take the Hing book R Some victims were directed to comply, but few available, rape is not about sex, but power and power over our sexuality for ourselves. Jafly’s quid were duped by the myth of bribe techniques, control and violence. Most rapes are planned. Rape (1) From Saphira ‘The Sexual Abuse of Children’ l Don’t Dn Usually this ensued after a period of constant limits where we go, where we work, what we do and (2) From Saphira ‘The Sexual Abuse of Children’ ' abuse, when the man needs to keep the interest of where we live. (3) Florence Rush from Susan Brownmiller ‘Against Our Will’ ♦ Quotes from a victim of the sexual abuse. Produced a® relationship, The spectrum of rape was defined, from jokes igofmoreth Ms Sapphira has instigated a ‘Knicker Sticker’ about rape to sexual harassment to going along campaign with stickers instructing children not to with sex when you don’t feel like it. ‘If you support let an adult put their hands in their pants, one aspect of rape, you support them all’ she said. instructing them to go to the authorities or to tell ‘All women have experienced some sort of rape or We are hoping to start an Incest Survivors their mothers. The campaign has brought much sexual harassment, and we are afraid. Talking Group on campus, probably next term as the flak from groups who feel that this is a ‘smutty’ about it is the first step to action. Speak out, get holidays are so close. I f you are interested in being approach and too open a campaign. angry, when we get angry enough things will a part of this, ring Fliss a t399-487. change.’ ASKING FOR IT Maidment Little Theatre

18-22 April 1pm and 6.30pm (Thursday and Friday 6.30 shows, women only)

enee Taylor’s new travelling roadshow Asking For It literally sent shivers up my spine, certainly a rarity for a revue-style cabaret Rproduction. The show is fast paced, funny, fresh. Using five women, all of outstanding musical and theatrical abilities, the show examines ‘colonial mentality’, the taking over of land, bodies and lives by those in powerful positions. witn Asking For It refers to the opening song, and the c underlying theme of the production. Instead of sri looking at the root of the problems women face, i.e. h earner the patriarchy, history has always blamed women. The medical profession is ripped into with a turn and demand, ‘What's the matter, lost I wa ‘We’re always asking for it, asking for it they particularly funny rendition of ‘Doing the pokey- dog?’ membei say’ sing the five, and then cite examples of how; pokey’. ‘You put your speculum in, you take your All of the women come from strong perfo expr going out after 10pm - asking for it - going jogging speculum out, you put your speculum in and wiggle backgrounds and their competence at han s ol - asking for it - going to the shop for mum - asking it about.’ Skits which cover everything from many different accents and characters should on -1 for it. ‘Hormones' to clitorodectomy are included, and applauded. Bernadette Doolan does a Mul ’ and, The show gives an overview of the institutions Hillary King does Freud with believability and which is hard to match and Margaret d ‘I’m that have affected women’s lives. Through skits, guts. credible playing a Scottish clergy or an En llectual the women portray the sick humour behind the Through the production there is the refrain ‘If we colonizer. Jess Oakenstar’s guitar accompa suit© witch hunts, the Christian whore or madonna roles, say it didn’t happen, didn’t happen, didn’t happen, blends with the five voices to produce iugh th and missionary mentality. The signing of the then it didn’t ... happen.’ By re-writing our past, amazingly powerful harmony. studei Treaty of Waitangi is re-enacted with the British Renee Taylor is overturning the authority of The roadshow will be playing from Kaikohe m the cl representatives cohorts in the conspiracy to steal traditional history. Invercargill in the next two months, and I can oil It strucl Maori land for the Crown. When one asks the other Towards the close of the production, the tone feel that the country will be changed. See it. tradition h what about the long term effects of such a fraud, he turns. ‘Sometimes you have to be radical’ they the old ho replies that ‘the future can look after itself.’ sing, and a whistle on the street makes one woman - L. Raft, rooms, the tall look© — " ..... ■ - iet. How r on that wi Chaplain's Chat iva-lava’s SURVIVAL ’83 eritage, : tudents \ atellectua IMPERIALISTIC CHRISTIANITY ie shade eculiar N Is the Christian religion imperialistic hildrenw contemporary New Zealand as the transnations rho don’t, big-thinking gobbling of New Zealand’s resource Anna Ki The Motunui outfall is a fine example. The Ms inAucklar counter-argument appears to centre on one oft wrote an c few remaining shellfish reefs in the area being op glanders to pollution. B ‘on inc But that is not the only reason. Water is sacre [own the j There would at Motunui be a spiritual pollution! hops that water. Any connection between food and hum meat pies. waste is a cultural and religious anathema. w e p t g o \ It is interesting that the arguments revol to be the around questions of pollution when a deeper iss theatres, festers. We tend to dismiss such objections exhibition superstition, such is our religious imperialism, termed cul Christianity over the ages borrowed much fr« I Well, th The university pays for the overheads as the the religions of the indigenous peoples into which feast. Thei E Y E TO E Y E ? only costs involved are the charges for materials, spread; the celebration of Christmas is an obvioi stranger e (although there may be a few changes to costs example. This did not happen in New Zealan Do the stu shortly, due to the rising number of people coming Christianity here is still firmly Europe-oriented. or the Che in from outside the university). Students will Could Christianity be less imperialistic an they do no continue to be subsidised as much as possible. The respect or learn the truths in the faith of the Maoi and unles So you don’t see eye to eye with your main ‘clients’ are students, but outsiders aren’t you're as optometrist’s bills? turned away because they provide a broader KJS for the University Chaplain between ti Forking out money for contact lenses and variety of ‘cases’. Altogether about 2000 people go around thi glasses is enough to make anyone’s eyes start through the clinic each year, and it continues _ the chores smarting, but paying for services on top of that running through the holidays, as well as starting a Forty y< gets them positively brimming with tears ! few weeks before and ending a few weeks after the ring of tn However, the optometry clinic on campus offers university calendar year, stopping only when SITUATIONS VACANT: we apply a much cheaper alternative to registered optometry exams are on. CRACCUM’S looking for a assume -1 optometrists and is just as ‘professional’. Contact lens fitting and dispensing of all few good reporters. Ferret university The clinic’s main function is to act as a training appliances such as spectacle frames are done, as out stories with far reaching then we w ground for optometry students, where they can well as routine examinations and check-ups. The implications, suss out of student gain practical experience and learn to abide by the only hitch is that they might take longer than scandals that will sear the Yet there optometrist’s code of practice. This doesn’t mean examinations elsewhere, although this probably souls of the great and university that patients are guinea pigs subject to getting means more care is taken. powerful. Come by the has often i their eyes poked out - on the contrary, most of the If you’re having any visionary troubles look in Should ‘acting optometrists’ are final year students and in on the optometry clinic in Havelock Ave, between CRACCUM office for student li addition to the four students on duty is a staff the Human Sciences and History buildings. details... story coi member to oversee all examinations. competiti* K.E. TE MAATAAPUNA

•N LITERARIA ...

few years ago, while an undergraduate, I witnessed the reaction of a Queen Street ipping crowd to a capping march, to the Town 11 There were well-wishers, friends and family irith cameras - but they were outnumbered (at least atter, lost yArhere I was standing on a closed-off street comer) iy members of the public with puzzled, blank, or ong perform! ngry expressions on their faces, ce at hand! Cries of ‘What’s the hold-up?’ were most cters should »mmon - followed by ‘Bloody students protesting aes a Muldt gain’ and, as the marchers came into view, a very irgaret Blay oud ‘I’m not waiting for a bunch of fucking or an Engb itellectuals.’ As if on cue, the impatient three- accompanimlece-suited driver of a red Honda Civic drove o produce through the file, sending black-cloaked professors ind students cattering across the road like bats om Kaikohe from the clock-tower belfry. , and I can oi It struck me then how alien is the academic 1. See it. tradition in Auckland - that odd medieval tower, the old homes converted into offices and tutorial - L. Hafi rooms, the heavy gowns with yellowing fur edges - it all looked so artificial, so temporary, like a stage ------—- get. How much more fitting it would have been if, on that warm summer day, they’d worn leis and ava-lava’s, or ceremonial cloaks reflecting a Maori ieritage, far more important to New Zealand students than imitations of Oxford. The anti- ^ ">v< 'TT AMTTv intellectual strain in New Zealand goes deep. I t’s • 1 IAIN In shadow side of egalitarianism; like that V - - , eculiar New Zealand word ‘skite’ — applied to nperialistic hildren who get good marks at school by children - (V , transnationa prho don’t. id’s resourcei Anna Kavan, a much-travelled writer who lived nple. The Mai in Auckland at intervals during the 1930’s and 40’s Gil Hanley e on one ofH wrote an open letter about New Zealand and New irea being op Zealanders, describing towns and their inhabitants creativity? The token gesture of a poetry selection identifying the nature of the national problems. as ‘an inchoate scenario... People wander up and twice a year in which poems are scattered like The writers do not provide identifiable characters Vater is sacra down the main streets staring into the windows of indigestible Bonny doggy chunks across the page? and events, with perhaps the exception of Smith’s lal pollution shops that are full of agricultural implements and This year, there are signs of the increasing Dream.’ od and hum meat pies. Everything's shut, there's nothing to do fertility of literary culture - a new creative writing He also asks ‘... why New Zealand literature does ;hema. except go to the pub or the cinema; or, if it happens course in the English department, a resident not play a more central part in the public and ments revoi to be the right day, to the races. No music, no writer, a woman writer's collective, many new private life of the country, why its creative writers a deeper issi theatres, no pictures, except an occasional publications by members of staff, a body of and critics do not have a higher profile (to use an objections i exhibition of local talent, no magazines of what's student writings and contributions to Craccum awkward and awful expression), why the perialism. termed cultural interes t ' from outsiders. Perhaps this reflects an increasing government does not quaver in its boots when a red much froi Well, that may have changed in Auckland at literacy in our society at large - 1 don’t know. novelist or a poet runs on to a rugby field during es into which} least. Then she moves on: ‘ What happens when a To quote from an essay by Norman Simms, (of anti-Springbok Tour demonstrations, why the s is an obvioJjtnznger enters what's called intellectual circles? Outrigger Publishers and editor of Pacific appearance of an author in court does not send New Zealan Do the sturdy Colonial intellectuals care if Einstein Quarterly Moana) published in the journal entitled shudders of resentment through the literate public, >e-oriented or the Cham of Tartary is in their midst? Brother, ‘Is There Life After Katherine Mansfield?’... this is why a prime minister can pen an awful, banal, >erialistic u they do not care, they do not wish to hear from you, the paradox... how can there be a small, intimate, pompous book about himself three times and not be ti of the Maor and unless you can speak louder than they can society where just about everyone, if he or she does shamed into well-deserved oblivion?' Xju’re as good as dumb... I don't like the set-up not write him or herself at least once in a while for. I don’t know the answers - but I do think the ty Chaplain between the sexes either, the men getting together some small magazine or the radio, at least bei questions worth raising. around the bottles and the women getting on with married to, go to school with, or know casually! the chores.' some published author; and at the same time be a — Briar Wood Forty years later, her observations still have the country which is so manifestly anti-intellectual, so E ditor ring of truth. The question is, do they ring true if inarticulate on its own behalf in private and in Te Maataapuna iNT: we apply them to our university? If we could public, and so indifferent to the state of its for a assume - but I don't know that we can - that our language, its literate education, and its cultural 3rret university is a microcosm of New Zealand society, integrity? hing then we would have to assume that large numbers What we have is a country where an enormously of students simply are not interested in literature. large proportion of the public write and read out literature. But while so literate, the country is not the Yet there is literary life in and around the university, although in the recent past Craccum yet literary. Except as random individuals, New and has often failed to reflect this. Zealand writers do not engage with one another the Should we perhaps let the sleeping dog of here, or with overseas intellectual currents. Even if Te Maataapuna: the source of the spring, for student literature lie? Stick to the usual short familiar with this or that current New Zealand story competition, in spite of the fact that writing, the public does not find it apt, as quotable, ever bubbling, not drying up. competition is anathema to the idea of literary as defining, as useful for decoding, unriddling, TE MAUNGA Te maunga of ngati whatua ' r, ■sir Sunday because she stands so proud w r was stolen many years ago afternoon, C.K. to seige a war, so they say WĒK« ‘P rofes Tho it’s over the government won’t hyde park, prim ar Return it to the people This is but another ruse of the Sydney multi-nationals they have taken 1978... the 1st stand was made so bold the prostitute down Lead to mass arrests untold....222 from her soapbox I n sp Disruption of the genteel system for fourlettered words the made the Judge eject them. and too much poetry thought t This i Now our Amazonians... it’s time but the fat man preaching been ini stand up together we’ll fight world socialism remains studyin; this bloody rotten system... it’s our right 9 A icecream in hand It has We are the people of this land yelling to the clouds and trees: contem] Our tupuna cry out... make this stand. ‘the fat of the capitalists says thf Our land where sweet Joanne lies the blood of the workers’ be ‘don< Held in the arms of Papatuanuku accident Our Land, let them not take it. a preacher gathers a crowd the Viei For without we are nought.. •/ (people like being told political Awhitu, Raglan and many other Bastions Such i * r the lord is going to Aue Aue & strike them all down) their rel but in the park on Sunday 1981, w Progress, progress the white man say the only thing that would revealed They don’t care upon whose land they dwell Zealand Jan Harkness strike you down is The spirits of the past surround us a baseball or a beercan strong Don’t sell, don’t sell, don’t sell us out imagina Make this stand, be proud, be black - richard happy Unite, unite together we fight. KA WHAWHAI TONU MOTOU ARE ARE ARE! — Grace Robertson

I remember Nietzsche said that man can be superman, He puppet masters, magicians, fire-eaters, Africa Of cou meant no harm by it. drum groups, people playing the guitar, and peopl universi I slipped my kiss into your naked mouth. My who sold plastic birds that flew through the know th hands tightened on your buttocks. I could not with loud flapping wings. Sometimes there was for C.R. deny. In London, I used to get on the Victoria Line at cowboy who ate razor blades. And cigarettes! Yei Stead lil Finsbury Park and get off at Euston Station. You I remember Paris. and does could hear the trains from far, far away, steel except t At first, the birds had white feathers. I remember. thundering upon steel with a roar that, at times, if 11 very tin I remember how excited you were when we first you were in the mood, could seem quite I remember Paris, and I remember the birds, areas cai went snorkelling. Real fish! Hanauma Bay was the magnificent. The first thing to be seen was the remember so many things in such perfect detail In ear best; the fish were so tame you could reach out and lights approaching through the darkness. Then: The memories are structured with precision, lM writer. touch them. I remember other places, other times. impact! Thousands upon thousands of tons of steel the workings of a watch. In my memories, vehicle* concenti I remember Atele Beach and the island of sliding past, sliding, sliding, faces, blurred faces, move along the roads; in my memories, planes take produce Tongatapu; I remember the reef outside the hotel screaming brakes, faces coming into focus, faces, off and land at the airports; in my memories, there is theref at Fiji; I remember the ghost crabs on the beaches hiss as the doors opened, blank British faces with are tens of thousands of people in the streets of tie prose - of the Gilbert Islands. I remember the birds. The no eyes staring at nothing and nobody. It was a great cities. I remember you liked reading Another birds had white feathers, and they flew between way of life. You got used to it, in the end. And the Bloomsbury, and you always took one spoonful o|| negotiat the blue sea and the blue sky. good times were good, whatever anyone says. sugar in your coffee. Apart work re 8 12 you are 1 I remember he said it was not in the public interest I remember London. I remember you. I remember At first, the first had white feathers. They fleJ Droblem! _____ LI______1 LI__ A — .1 ! * ' to release the report. A tragic blow, but his your body, and the touch of your naked lips. I between the blue sea and the blue sky. An elegaal courses1 conscience was clear. They checked the viability of remember that at first, the birds had white machine counted away the minutes. I remembJ you.’ T1 the scheme. Of course the Government was not feathers. At first, the people had faces. At first, the Paris, I remember London. I remember otherll reasonat involved. The public and the press were barred garage had a sign which said this station holds less places, other times. There was no militanH new area from today’s meeting. Any questions would be than fifty dollars. Your arms went a little red, but, significance. I slipped my kiss into your naki This y< answered in due course. The installation had no thanks to the suntan lotion, you didn’t burn. I still mouth, and I remember - Course military significance whatsoever. The first shot have a list of the Arabic words we tried to learn in Universi was reactive. The bullet tasted his kidneys but Morocco. Policemen with moustaches and with 13 been con decided it preferred his liver. I remember that the pistols in holsters. Nous cherchons un hotel, Impact! Thousands of tons of steel sliding past|| least ten Government had a clear conscience and that monsieur. Could his father-in-law help anyway for sliding, sliding, sliding. The sun - nobody was to blame., run it. I the sake of his own daughter. At the moment I universit cannot think of how to help him and he has been so 14 went coi good to me. The sun becomes the sun. In France, south of Chartres, the land was flat. writing s to take tl Roads stretched away into the distance. We stood 15 by the roadside trying to hitch a ride. Vehicles It is to In France, south of Chartres, there were military At first, the birds had white feathers, and they flei success < travelled through the flat farmland. Many of the vehicles travelling in convoy. So many convoys. between the blue sea and the blue of the blue sky, vehicles were military vehicles travelling in far. The, Maybe something was happening. We had no Then the sun became the sun. Heat became stimulus convoy; there were so many military convoys radio, and we had no way to know. Light became light. Their feathers began to bun travelling along the road that I thought maybe more tin The birds were on fire. They turned to cindftrs less of a something was happening. We had no radio, and 10 they fell. Steam rose from the surface of thi we had no way to know what was happening. more into I remember that in Paris, the trains of the Metro lagoon. There ] were much quieter than the trains of the London exhaust! Underground. The trains ran on wheels of solid 16 At first, the birds had white feathers. They flew they do i rubber, and were much quieter. Do you remember I remember she liked reading about Bloomsbury human t between the blue sea and the blue sky. I slipped my Paris? Do you remember the Pompidou Centre? All and she always took one spoonful of sugar in kiss into your naked mouth. I could not deny. work in through the day, in the big square outside the coffee. becoming building, there were actors, students of mime, an intrus — Hugh Cool sensitivil C.K. STEAD PROFILE

C.K. Stead, Professor of English at the University of Auckland, prefers to drop the ‘Professor’. Not out of false modesty - but because although a full-time lecturer, his primary sense of identity derives from his work as a writer.

n spite of the fact that his best known work is the novel Smith's Dream, he has always Ithought of himself as a poet rather than a novelist. This may come as a surprise to those who have been introduced to his work - as many have - by studying Smith's Dream at school It has certainly achieved status as a classic of contemporary New Zealand literature, although he says that he did not envisage it becoming a text to be ‘done’ in school. It was, he says, ‘sort of an accident’ and evolved from general thoughts about the Vietnam War, and the New Zealander as a political animal. Such thoughts seem to have become sharper in their relevance over the years, particularly during 1981, when the divisions of the Springbok tour revealed the extent of latent violence in New Zealand society. Smith's Dream tapped a very strong nerve in the New Zealand popular imagination. ... the divisions of the Springbok tour revealed the extent of latent violence in New Zealand society. iters, Africal Of course, those who have been in or around the ar, and peopll university, or have a general interest in poetry will rough the ail know that there has been life after Smith’s Dream there was thl for C.K. Stead - both as a published poet and critic, garettes! Yesl Stead likes working in the university environment and does not find it prohibitive to creative writing, except that the work as teacher, lecturer, critic is very time consuming - and time spent in these areas cannot be spent on his own writing. In early years as a lecturer, he vanished as a writer. This may be one of the reasons for the concentration on poetry; it takes less time to produce a completed poem. His approach to poetry is therefore more systematic than his approach to prose - which he thinks of as an experiment. Another novel has recently been completed and negotiations for publication are progressing well. Apart from being time-consuming, university Karl Stead with Keith Sinclair in 1968. Photo by Marti Fried lander work requires high-energy input, particularly if He does feel that criticism must spring from a you are to avoid what he sees as one of the biggest ... sometimes people are personal response to literature - and that the problems of university teaching - ‘repeating system in general - perhaps by paying too much courses when the answers are no longer a puzzle to deprived of their simple attention to secondary material can generate an you.’ There needs to be a balance between a responses to literature - unhealthy emphasis on theory. The aim should be reasonable work load and the desire to move on to to create an atmosphere in which the most new areas of interest. which are after all, the only important relationship is that existing between the This year, Stead is teaching a Creative Writing reader and the primary text. The most effective Course - the first of its kind at Auckland sound bases on which to criticism is that which arises from a thorough University. Although the English Department had personal knowledge of literary tradition, combined been committed to a creative writing course for at develop literary criticism. with an attentive sensitive approach to the work least ten years, no one felt sufficiently qualified to under scrutiny. run it. He attended some sessions at Australian possibility that your criticism is misguided - or just j And for the budding writer, his advice is to read universities, and last year, during a trip to Canada, plain wrong.’ Managing the sessions requires tact, widely. In response to a question about whether went continuously to senior and junior creative maintenance of an open mind and a continual there is a need for literary reference in both writing writing sessions, returning to New Zealand ready balancing of his own opinions and criticism against and criticism, Stead made this reply: ‘My poems to take the plunge. those of the students. would have literary elements whether worked in a It is too early to make any judgements about the In general Stead says he has always worried university or not - and so do all good poems. If you success of the course, but he is happy about it so about the teaching of literature within the go back through the history of poetry you find far. The group is a talented one and appear to find university system. He has a feeling that sometimes every poet of consequence in our tradition was stimulus in working together. Though he finds it people are deprived of their simple responses to highly literary - full of the classics (much more so more time consuming than other courses, it seems literature - which are, after all the only sound than I am) and of references back to previous less of an effort because it’s new, more exciting, bases on which to develop literary criticism. poets. This is so not just of Milton, Dryden and more interesting. It’s not that he does not believe theory to be Pope but also of Shakespeare and of the great There are difficulties - how to vary the format of important - although he does think it dangerous to Romantics - and on of course to Pound, Eliot, exhausting three-hour discussion sessions so that write poetry out of theory. He maintains that New Auden, Stevens etc. This is because poetry is an they do not become repetitive - and, above all the Zealand lacks the balance of the strong tradition of art - a continuum - a tradition. It doesn’t exist in a human things - how far you criticize someone’s literary journalism in Britain, which forces vacuum, nor belong to one person - it’s a self­ work in front of a group of people without academics to address themselves to a wide literary generating thing passing through the mediums of becoming destructive, and how far any criticism is audience, enforcing a kind of sanity and preventing the poets. If you’re serious you read and the an intrusion. ‘It’s not just that you may offend the jargon and cult language from dominating literary reading sticks. Those who think they can do sensitivities of the writer; there’s always the discussion. without are soon forgotten.’ > * - i" ,r : , ,IT1 Conversation X i On the Matisse painting Conversation 1909 m Is she the Mother the lover or both? Do they talk about the view or to each other? V lCCUJ Does she look at him and he at her? Do they talk of love or preparations for dinner? jartm e Are they inside or outside the room? iiblished. aps we < The room is in space or in the sea, think tl The view is a picture iuced They are paintings, not people, m '*■ - r . ag Co Too stark, too Pristine, en I was Wooden like dolls the poer How can they converse? (located fc V f ithe ’81 The room is at the bottom of the sea. i were in'' They are fish who blow bubbles at each other wm fes, I toe They have no blood, white skin, Henri Matisse lot ol Brown skin, no red, no passion. bod in Blue flower-beds, blue sea, This Perfect Day very li Blue pyjamas — blue, blue, blue, ed and 1 Blowing bubbles not conversation at each other. Wanting it to be that way iry and I demand ‘This Perfect Day’ less ha She is like death, anguished Snails and Tails by Lou Reid’ itened t Black dress, black hair, with a 20 cent coin ly. An Black brow, furrowed brow, Boys play video games and a push button code perhaps White deathlike hands, cold Boys ride bikes on the bleach rthougl He is angry, striped like an inmate, Boys drive big fast cars coffee, cigarette edl w Stern. Telling her... telling her... Boys get pissed in the pub. The cool scene setting is set ien I sti What? boman< I don’t want to be a boy baggy black sweater, tight black pants home eit No, you cannot sleep with me tonight, dear, I don’t want to have a tail in front the perfect setting for a New Romance ’t had I have a cold, you are ill, you should rest. I don’t want to be a boy the gorgeous peoples night is on its way t time — No I will not be in for dinner, Boys will get their due in due time. as I demand ‘This perfect day’ place, I I am eating at the club to put n Please don’t wait up for me, Boys make laws But I’m not waiting for a stranger happ I will let myself in. Boys break laws in hip clinging levis connect Have an early night. Boys fuck whores and I’m not looking for danger h with f< Boys cause wars. not looking to be lost in anybodies eyes been tea Her head sinks into her chest. iys felt t She is trapped inside a wooden doll Behind their tails they rant and rape I’m looking for a chance irt with Sitting in a blue chair, Amazon war to end romance ly felt s With no future outside her room. We’ll all escape. I want both eyes open tognise all He is her custodian. both feet on the ground ople came Carmyn Bear I don’t want any shiny armoured knights around He binds her with coldness, So I did a With his unbending will, I’m a woman in wanting gman acti His plans for her life I’m not dressed in lace ie from E And the shape of her connexion to him. I want a space of my own with all s( an on-my-own space t poem. 1 - Judy McNeil Yes I demand such a perfect place. itory froi — Bidge ppening o iman diar gland — liking thre (Kind Am ppened is PLANNED PUBLICATION mb my owi

So many women write prose and poetry. What happens to it? I suspect most of it smoulders in shoeboxes underneath beds. Only to be thrown out in a mood of anger, or resignation, or despair on some grey day when the bills, an unexpected pregnancy, or the daily grind, have made creativity seem like a bad joke. Until very recently, compared with men, only a creative writing here are badly limited by the times for other women who have submitted few women writers got published. Most ‘ordinary’ constraints of competition. work to read. This is so that when the day comes women reveal their creativity only by chance if In the Craccum Short Story Contest only the for selection we will all be equally familiar with FOFtrZ someone reads their journals when they’re dead. winning pieces are ever published. Only about a the material proposed for the journal. G.I Shared thoughts along these lines have dozen students annually will be accepted for the 5. We will arrange a day long meeting; which only H2 encouraged a group that’s part of the Women Stage III English Creative Writing paper. women contributing work can attend, to Students English Collective, to undertake to Perhaps personal journal writing; an option collectively discuss work for publication. publish a journal of womens writing. We think available only in some stage III and masters 6. And selection will mean reaching consensus on women need a forum for their original work. papers; has done most to foster women’s writing. what goes into the journal after supportive and Virginia Woolf believed that without a room of However journals are usually only read and constructive discussion. ones own, and an independent income, creative assessed by the lecturers. 7. We want as many standards, styles, and forms writing was doomed to failure.Today money seems Our publication collective believes women need of writing to be represented in the journal as as unattainable as ever to most women; even those to share their writing with each other. And that there are women to create them. of us privileged enough to be at university. women writers should be encouraged rather than On April 20th W.S.E.C. are holding a poetry However for those few women who are at graded. The journal will contain the work that the reading at 7pm in the Womenspace. Bring your university, most of us fulfil Woolf’s second contributors believe in. There won’t be a top clown questions and ideas about the journal to this requirement and have a room of our own: perhaps editorial policy. evening. Or just come and listen if you’d raher, for the first and only time in our lives. It seems a 1. Above all it is important to us to have a Women will be reading their own work and that of pity to waste that advantage. selection process for journal contributions, that other writers that appeals to them. Beer, wine And yet, is the university a place that fosters is nonhierarchical. juice available. (BRING YOUR SHOE BOXES) womens writing? In essays we concentrate on 2. We ask women to submit their own work. analysing other peoples ideas. And most of the Poetry, Prose, Essays. books set for us to read are written by men: men 3. Material may be placed in our locked box in the who do not know about women’s lives. Womenspace. Watch the W.S.E.C. noticeboard in the The few formal opportunities that do exist for 4. All contributions will be made available at set Womenspace for further information. ITERATURE AND LIFE RIEMKE ENSING ON TOPOGRAPHIES’ RACCUM went to interview Riemke Ensing, poet and tutor in the English apartment at Auckland University, about a new poem ‘Topographies’ — soon to be ublished. erhaps we could start at your beginnings. Ī think that I always wrote. I wasn’t really produced to poetry as such until I was at lining College, here in Auckland. I came here jen I was 12, from Holland. That does come out the poems. I think I’ve been feeling a bit jlocated for quite a while here — I think it came ith the ’81 business, on the streets, on were involved in the protests? Yes, I took part, and it brought back to me a hole lot of things which had happened in my [dhood in the thirties; ’39 to ’45, and although I i very little then, the physical impressions iyed and later, of course, they were filled in with itory and people talking about it. So when that giness happened in ’81 I think I got a bit ightened and worried — yes, I got paranoid ually. And I thought it was a bad place to be d perhaps I should clear out and go home. I had r thought like this before because I had always led I would stay here. What about the title, ‘Topographies'? A re-enactment of what exactly? n I started thinking that the place where I Well, it’s interesting because Karl Stead’s just Well obviously — New Zealand — as Bill Pearson bom and spent the first 12 years of my life was brought out his Geographies. I put this one has said in Fretful Sleepers — is a very formal home either, and there’d be lost of things that I together, before that came out. I was sitting there society; a very mentally restricted society, and Idn’t hack there. What with my father dying at with maps of Anawhata and districts, and Piha — because of that you eventually must have t time — and a whole lot of things didn’t fall and you have topographical maps where you look explosions. And because it’s so authoritarian, place, I thought the one way of sorting it out down on hills and ridges and so on. I had a couple there is a tremendous amount of violence — to put myself in touch with Dutch writing and of maps like that of Holland — and I thought whether physically manifest or not. ?s happening in Holland, writing to people, ‘Topographies’ is nice because it also opens up the Does the violence come through in your poems? connecting again with family whom I’d lost sense of place, and being precise about things and The violence is there for you to pick up, by the ich with for ages. It was quite amazing, because making connections. In fact, printed at the physical images, verbal connections — for example res been teaching New Zealand literature and I’ve beginning, I’ve got all the dictionary definitions of that bit about the door: iys felt that I had an intuitive and instinctive ‘topography’. I was hoping to put that in — ‘ ... stripped pport with it, but when I read this Dutch stuff, I historical references included — so in that sense its it/ ripped its vestments off it illy felt so at ease and so at home. I could surfaces which are covered; maps — not just one/ by one ... cognise all the places immediately and all the geographical locations but also the implication of — that could be quite a harsh line. And then the ople came to mind. I was totally shattered by spiritual and mental locations — like a big map of ‘scream of the thirties’ — you have a visual ghts around jg the world that you look down on. impression of the kind of violence which is there. So I did a sort of history — Tasman and 1642 — That bit you see on the wall in Ponsonby is actually gman actually came from the same place that I How are you viewing time in the poem? quite nasty. But when you see it you do laugh. If me from By this time my mother was filling me I t’s almost as if at that one moment at some you think about it, it’s horrendous. with all sorts of folklore — so all that goes into comer of the street where you where shouting and And what is the translation of the French? poem. It’s really an attempt to merge my marching, at the same time you have this mental Oh, that’s from Rouault. ‘It is through their itory from the war years with what was image of things happening in ’39 and ’45 in another bruises that we are healed.’ He must have got it Bidge opening on the streets here in ’81 — and the part of the world, which is almost identical. There from Isiah, Ch.53, v.5 — ‘But he was wounded for gman diaries — discovery of Australia and New almost has been no lapse — it’s just as though all our transgressions, he was bruised for our gland — and Marsden and people like that those horrendous moments in time are iniquities, and with his stripes we are healed. ’ Iking through the bush, and the Maori legends simultaneously acting. Things seem to me never to Not very hopeful is it ? ound Anawhata and Piha. And what has happen in isolation — what happened here in ’81 Well — it is in a way. He’s being optimistic in ppened is that it’s thrown up so much material was simply a particular kind of re-enactment of saying that out of these violent times will come 3m my own self that it’s going on. what happened in the 1930’s. positive times.

I have bought maps and books. From District Schemes I try to page Two Extracts from some sense of geography. FO FI Gi TOPOGRAPHIES the direction itself a map In our time / now we come ‘est par ses meurtrissures que nous e submitted back to scale and a door sommes gueris’ ie day comes the blank squares are sea. we’ve made a poem / going straight amiliar with fO to the heart of it / hard Kauri Boarded windows through endless surfaces barbed wire 1. C.I the sections of the map are joined on 2 lines. of grime, enamel. Stripped batons ” which only M it / ripped its vestments off it Biko boards attend, to I’m beginning to get the idea. one / by one revealing (All) Blacks tion. history? Something about mythologies onsensus The tramping guide is adequate legends, folklore perhaps. I carry an umbrella against the mood only. I have the names of tracks, On the panels, the first surface of winter / and just in case. sportive ani a key to symbols as to where in letters and words tell their own things are. Story. The usual. Graffiti. Thus threads are tied, connections made, s, and forms landscapes traversed and read quite easily. e journal that bird in flight is SS a waterfall K K K ‘I was conscious of what was happening fascist in the streets’ Federico ng a poetry that little hat a beacon. quarda / pistoles Bring your All the yellow is NO ENTRY The scream of the thirties echoes sangre nal to this and at this point I am still round the sitting rooms muerto 225 metres above sea level. and Edward Munch is alive and well despedida you’d raher, and hiding out in Ponsonby (Farewell) : and that I note we are at LAT. 35° where someone has painted Beer, wine, LONG. 174° a message / also to make you laugh A page of figures to by filed BOXES) which means nothing to me Away who-knows little about maps ‘Littler than Hitler but not so smart’ not having learned. Coastlines In these gray times I can tramp. Directions Here the boot boys and brownshirts Don Quixote de la Mancha draw, being there. took to the streets in ’81 help us. and Rouault’s clown lies I know where WEST is bleeding in the bright hedge because the sun is going down. of winter Riemke Ensing still” Echo 1oetry, Student at the Gates 'iited by Elsie Locke, Whitcoulls 'romei loes, G< Publishers, 1981. $13.95. pros ider ] more in snt, bj ies, th !. Dona than th In this ‘Centenary Year' it is interesting to note j there is c that few are actually looking in the history of the don’t get University itself. This short book gives a much collect needed window into the tradition of the| as son institution, its philosophies, political actions, and be in j its relationship with the community. It is a Written in 1981, about her experiences at A.U. in Zealani the late twenties and thirties, Elsie Locke ises a d successfully weaves her personal narrative in to >nt and the social, public history of the time. Coming from line and Waiuku, she begins by recalling the small town iture ope mentality which didn’t favour intellectualism. Her with a family was poor, and much of her university time mst was spent scrapping for money to keep fed and hich the warm. She describes the many homes she boarded' lew Zealai in, her work in the city and university libraries, and ise it ha her awareness that her one country dress wasn’t up to par with the other women students — many at university to catch husbands. Locke’s political awareness is fully documented, from her shock of the depression to her commitment to socialism, feminism, and gives a first hand account of these men (and some stances (pro-Russian scholarship) was a s communism. Cuts to education, AUSA politics and women) who went on to form New Zealand literary realisation of the history of the university academic freedom are all issues that reflect the tradition. CRACCUM is frequently quoted, and alignm en t with the status quo. university at its 50 year anniversary and point to editor John Mulgan (later author of Man Alone Locke intersperses her narrative with ao similarities today. cited as revolutionary when he came out against of tramping in the Waitakeres and trips to In 1930, AU carried over 1,300 students, with the ‘special’ training of students on campus to country, making the book fast-paced and lr most of these part-time. The literary journal, the fight the unemployed in street strikes. The red I t’s a book which gives a well needed insight Phoenix, was at its inception, with James Bertram, scare years of the thirties are also explored. The Auckland and the university, perhaps read R.A.K. Mason, Bob Lowry, and Allen Cumow at dismissal by the A.U. Council of professors lieu of joining the Centenary celebrations. his colli the helm. Within the literary scope herself, Locke Anshutz and Beaglehole for their anti-government posthui L. 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While their way through what is often an artificial and Nietsche in the Afternoon’ for instance, seem to university and afterwards he engaged in a obscuring diction. He uses such phrases as ‘on have provided a powerful and particular subject, ety of occupations, including working at occasion’ and ‘would look well’ in preference to and really challenged Maher’s own feelings. ‘Poem [ley Psychiatric Hospital and as a hand on a ‘would look good’, and his syntax is unnecessarily for Sue’ also emerges as the result of something ing trawler. He was listed ‘missing at sea’ off mysterious: sentences are often incomplete and presently directly to the poet’s senses and he took trawler in April 1980. The collection represents grammatical subjects either indefinite or simply up the challenge to ‘get it down’, apparently first half of his entire works, the rest of which not matched with any predicate. Not that I’m having gained some confidence in his writing’ he to be published under the title ‘Taste of Salt’, advocating any strict formality, I just feel that has realised he need not make explanation or he poems in ‘Talking to Johnno’ are arranged in informality should serve some other purpose than exposition. ‘The Eyes and the Ceiling' is another of onological order, and span nine years of effort, to produce a poetic-sounding ‘tone’. these poems with confidence and a sense of an that the development taking place in Maher’s In the poem that opens T can imagine an Oakley individual voice. Its title is a little heavy handed ting over that time is shown to advantage, patient crying out/Yes, there is the multiplication for my liking. Titles .should be clues as to the japs a dozen of the poems had been given titles of confusion...’ Maher’s self-consciousness has poems direction, not just a re-emphasis of the ;he author, the rest are headed by the initial reached the stage of being aware of an audience as significant images. Constant hammering of ‘the ird or line. The first few at least, might better he writes. He leans on the emotive reaction any sad bits’ starts to feel like emotional blackmail. gone untitled, since they barely outweigh thinking person will have to ‘Oakley’ but thereby It is most unfortunate that John Maher died somewhat ponderous handles. These first few invokes a prejudice that works against and not when his personal poetic diction was beginning to simply explorations of the liberty that comes with any point he was making. The poem becomes emerge. I look forward to reading the second i writing unsupervised; they could still do with one side of a dialogue with an indeterminate volume of his poems, to discovering how far he had impetus that a set subject provides, or perhaps audience trying to convince them that he has a tale gone in developing control over that satisfying t a tagline on which the poet could set his to tell, because he lost our interest in the first line tension between what the reader expects and what its, to help him forget that he's engaged in by confirming a preconception. the poet wants to say - the principle on which poets jducing Poetry. As the collection progresses, however, the self­ sail home. lary with Catherine Croucher ealand PARALLAX An advertisement for myself id by With a mixture of pleasure and relief, I would like to announce the A Journal of Post modern Literature and forthcoming release (February-March, 1983) of my first book of poems, lordon published by Lindon Press. 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BANK IT AT BNZ AND YOU CAN APPLY FOR BNZ CAMPUS PACK Bank of New Zealand ◄ ALTERNATIVE NEWS ► recipients who survive on the vast financial contribution that the above mentioned individual nobly endows upon the state in TTERS Dear Editor, the form of taxation on his extremely profitable (quote) I could not help but notice the notices which spring up around ‘Christmas earnings’. the campus last week calling for your dismissal and for Craccum The same individual in his infinite wisdom cast his benign ◄ SALT ‘N’ VINEGAR ► to be - politically neutral. They were issued by the Craccum gaze over South Africa and pronounced it a ‘paradise’ for the Reform Group (no names shown) who are no doubt the same blacks who reside therein. Mr Iommi, may I humbly differ from 'tor, people who tried (and abysmally failed) to convince the AGM to your emminence’s exalted opinion and propose that apparently a couple of points: my turn at joining this debate about limit editorial restraint (or increase editorial excess) to such an you will believe you have attained paradise when: ’8 editorial policy. Any intelligent reader — let’s just extent that almost everything submitted, no matter how a) You are regarded as an inferior human being assumption that most of Craccum’s readers have an irrelevant trivial or boring, would have to have been published. b) Subject to massive legislative restriction in all spheres of -ge I.Q. — should be capable of reading the paper Not surprisingly this piece of foolishness was rejected but the existence ' of salt. Or several tablespoons. A lot of the stuff you advocates seem not to have heeded the lessons and are trying c) Denied any chance for fair socio-political and economic i’t agree with at all, some I agree with in part, and I once again to make fools of themselves. advancement. t by being exposed to some of the opinions (in some For a start much of the information contained in their leaflet is If this is your idea of paradise then I am moved to humbly opinions passed off as facts) expressed by your inaccurate and wrong. For a start they say if you do not like comment that even though aware of the vagaries of masochism tors helps the formation of my views on some current ‘Time’ or ‘The Economist’ you simply switch to an alternative surely others do not need to be involved in these spectacular - many of which would not have occurred to me to think magazine. What crap ! For example if you don’t like ‘Time’, fantasies. 'ore. Anyhow, forums like the Letters pages give the ‘Newsweek’ may be even worse. But both are much of a Yours in mirth, or the enraged the right-of-reply — Long Live the muchness -’ both US based, pro private enterprise and of course J.P. Sukhdeo page! pro US magazines. Just because there is more than one is a little disappointing when a case of bias (editorial?) publication in a category does not mean that a reader has a ◄ NO CONFIDENCE ► to creep into an article where it is unexpected. (I choice of what he reads and if I don’t like the NZ Herald or the you can expect digs at the Pakeha system in an article Auckland Star I have to go without a morning or evening Dear Louise, by the Maori club). The example I give is on page 3 of newspaper, something which the Craccum Reform Group I would like to reply to Chris Gosling^s letter in which he 12 issue. In the last paragraph of the AGM report, conveniently overlooks. implies I have a simplistic analysis of communism. My basis for Ross is CATEGORIZED as a bogey-man — he’s an Why should Craccum be politically neutral? Are the C.R.G. the one sentence in my letter Chris is referring to, was that as well as candidate for the editorship of this paper, seriously suggesting that the ‘Star’ or the ‘Herald’ are neutral? oppression and exploitation can not be destroyed until the met the gentleman, and I don’t support his petition, Both are upholders of the present system which allows them to capitalist mode of production is destroyed. This surely is the it’s a free country for those who wish to take advantage make profits and against any change in the system that would base line for any communist. By stating this I do not disagree fact) don’t you feel that just by mentioning those 2 facts threaten their position. Anyway it is impossible to be neutral: with the need for a political struggle which will be based on gave me at least a possible reason for his petition (as one always has interests that one wants upheld as someone has progressive policies, in fact I don’t consider that the two can be doubt intended) but a tiny insight into your character? said: sitting oil the fence is not being neutral because to do that separated. thereof? one must believe that the fence should exist. Chris appears to be implying in his letter that ‘individual No editor, even that of the New Zealand Herald could operate responsibility’ should be the basis for the struggle against Roberta Morgan, Grafton Hall. under the shackles that are proposed by the CRG. A newspaper oppression. This supports the bourgeois ideology that people in chains cannot be a free source of student expression. If the nave control over their lives, are responsible for their social CRG have complaints about not having material published they position and can change it easily. This ignores all the socialising ◄ DAMES AT SEA ► should discuss them with the editor, rather than by distributing aspects of society, Marx calls these the means of mental a petition. I would also suggest that if the CRG are really production which are controlled by the bourgeoisie. (?), interested in reform they should change their name to the The position of communists is explained by Engels in his Lange’s position on visits by American warships is a Craccum Deform Group and give students a better idea of their pamphlet ‘Socialism: Utopian or Scientific’ - from this point of i piece of political fencemanship. I object to visits by real intentions. view the final causes of all social changes and political i warships on the grounds that it makes me a target for revolutions are to be sought, not in people’s brains, not in weapons. Even if Mr Lange obtained assurances that Colin Patterson people’s better insight into eternal truth and justice, but in visiting us were not nuclear armed, this would be changes in the modes of production and exchange. : unless the Russians believed it as well. I am not sure ◄ I’LL TAKE THE BAG ► On the subject of next weeks Executive by-elections. I would Rew Zealanders would trust the Americans to keep their like to bring to people’s attention Neil Reid’s performance at can we expect the Russians to? A wishy washy verbal Dear Craccum, todays S.R.C. He gave a totally inept speech and to an > is not enough to point those missiles away from New This is in regard to Tony Iommi’s letter that was published in interjection of ‘you’re sexist’ he admitted that he was. 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SCOOP PURCHASE ON THIS PLL FM/AM TUNER $350 JOHN TANNER HI-FI LTD EADY’S MALL. 57 HIGH ST AUCKLAND 1 (20yds Victoria St Car Park). PHONE 795-102 MORE LETTERS Already some students are stating that CRACCUM is only to accept their sexual normality and perhaps c a u s in g presenting one point of view. At a recent meeting between doubt their own sexuality. CRACCUM staff and concerned students it was felt that A more recent concept I have been confronted with is ◄ A.H. ABORTIONS ► CRACCUM was not a vehicle for ‘free expression’ and that sovereignty. Sovereignty means, ‘Supreme and uil. anything not in line with the editor’s opinions was not power.’ This concept is therefore inherently racist Dear Louise, published. The editors stated that CRACCUM was not a forum meaning ‘the belief that races have distinctive I am rather concerned that the article headed ‘Freedom of for debate, but that differing opinion could be expressed in the characteristics determined by hereditary factors and t!> Choice’ on the effects of the C.S. & A. Act, may give the wrong letters section. endows some races with an intrinsic superiority’). impression to those contemplating an abortion. While I have no I agree that if a letter is racist, sexist or in gross bad taste it The belief that I should ignore my rights as a full ci" wish to overpublidse the situation and thus increase the ‘anti’ should not be published. However, an article which does not fall New Zealand and give them over to a militant minority of pressure on them, the Auckland Hospital Board runs a very into those three criteria, which is well written, and offers a claiming a fraction of Polynesian blood is anathema to satisfactory day clinic which performs ‘free’ abortions where the different viewpoint, should. Being shoved into the letters one will ever convince me I am not entitled to full rights pregnancy has run for under 12 weeks. In my experience, the section, with its length restrictions, is hardly giving the other New Zealander or attempt to make me believe they 1 process involves - side a fair hearing. greater love for this land than I have. 1) A referral from your own doctor When there is debate occurring on campus it should, in my It is unfortunate that some people reading this may see~ 2) Ringing the clinic for an appointment at which the opinion, be the responsibility of the editor to seek out articles on anti-Gay and racist. I have known some homosexuals: procedure will be fully explained. tbe various viewpoints. respect as people but I do not, nor ever will, accept their : 3) A full day at the clinic during which there is an assessment In New Zealand, where debate is lacking, I believe it inclination as normal. I know of many others who feel thi* by a very kind woman counsellor, a meeting with a certifying important that student newspapers not just present alternative too (although I wouldn’t invent a statistic.) consultant, blood tests, and an extremely wide ranging views but are also a vehicle for debate. As for justice to the Maori, I am presently studying demonstration of contraceptive techniques. CRACCUM is 70% funded by students and therefore they land rights in an effort to formulate my own opinion. I am 4) The following morning the procedure is carried out under should have more access to publishing their view than through to reasonable, even passionate discussion or argument. ToJ local anaesthetic. the letters column. bigotry (either way) I am not, although it is my desire thatjj The moral of the story (if it can be called that) is, if you It is a certain contempt for students that feeds an attitude of not reduce my striving for justice and truth. think you may be pregnant, have it confirmed by a doctor as ramming your own views down others’ throats and presenting Yours fai11 soon as possible, and ask for a referral to the A.H.B. clinic if them with a fait accompli! B. Fotherr this is not suggested (if you so wish). Yet ‘democracy’ has now become a dirty word. A popular Hoping this may help to relieve some apprehension. argument is that ‘We have democracy in New Zealand and just ◄ PIN STRIPED STRIKE ► what has it got us?’ I agree that we may have a form of Yours faithfully, parliamentary democracy but because of vast social and Dear Editor, Been There, Done That ! economic inequalities our democracy is severely limited. I wish to express my heartfelt disgust at the so-called: It is important that the Students’ Association strives for real in your last issue (April 12). Students were apparently" ◄ OPTIMISM ► democracy. The major obstacle is student participation, but this whether they felt any allegiance to the Royal Family.; won’t be overcome with the growing trend of dictatorship from the survey’s name (‘voxpop’, from the Latin vox populi,\ Dear Editor, the top. opinion of the people) I find it hard, nay impossible, to' A disturbing attitude towards students and the role of Janelle Grady that, if a reasonably large number of students, still student leaders is emerging. A common view is that student number of the public at large were surveyed on this qu: leaders should make decisions on behalf of students with no ◄ THE 10 PERCENT SOLUTION ► vast majority would be so adamantly opposed to the role; attempt to involve them in the decision making process. Recent by the Royal Family. Such was the general opinion pu examples of this are over the issues of ‘women’s space’ and an Dear Editor, ‘Voxpop’. Only four replies were published, a pitiful atf interim marae. I have become increasingly concerned about the insistence of reflect a widespread survey, and of those only one, the I Some people are arguing that it should be the executive, a writers of various literature supporting ‘Gay’ rights that ten anywhere near supporting the Royals (and ambivale total of 15 people, who make the decisions for the rest of the percent of the populace is homosexual. (Gay Rights — we are that). Although I readily admit that I am an ardent roya1' 1 2 ,000, without allowing them to make educated and informed everywhere; Orientation Handbook No. 3). While I was at the argument is not with those whose opinions were pub decisions for themselves. University of Canterbury in 1981 I remember reading some Naturally, they have every right to their beliefs. Rath It seems that they may be running scared of the opinions held writing on a pink triangle stating ten percent of New Zealanders tirade here is directed against an iniquitous case of: and fear that if alternative views on these issues were to be are homosexual, with ‘You are the tenth person to read this’ journalism at its worst. I would appreciate a higher d* published in CRACCUM or debated at SRC then they would be written underneath. professionalism if such a survey is conducted in future. defeated. I see this as a slight on all students as reactionary and This incredible statistic is unsubstantiated, certainly not conservative. being based on fact. Yet some people insist upon using it as Lindsay Di; However, this empire building is taking place on very shaky such. I can see two possible reasons for this. Perhaps it is used (Editor's note: We sent a cub reporter out to ask the quei' grounds. Surely any decision on policy is only as strong as the to help convince themselves (the authors) that they aren’t really and, as every week she asked the first people she came u; number of students who support it? very different or they see it as a subtle way of influencing people that bias?)

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It really hurts me to find such statements of bad taste and Tonted with is jib response to ‘Slates' letter of 12.4.83, I would like to say Dear Louise, insensitivity in a supposively enlightened newspaper for the me and unresbCyou are not alone in finding the scurrilous behaviour of Dr The letter in your last issue from Judith Hill displays all the following reasons: ently racist |r£tafson extremely offensive. financial accumen that I would expect from a first year arts (1) I am tired of being assumed to be heterosexual (and in its distinctive cu) veil of ‘humour’ did not disguise the disrespectful, student or Roger Douglas. grossest form - the rapist) Factors and that mrteous tone of his ‘story’ which was obviously just a By a combination of double counting, mimindftrfltnnding and (2) The statements are blatent lies. If the definition of rape is »rity’). de for his own misogynous dogmatism. Humour should be misrepresentation Ms Hill misses the mark by a distance wider a) penetration of a vagina or anus of a woman or girl against her ts as a full cit to liberate not reinforce prejudices, and those in the than the EVP. Our net worth is about 1/3 of what she calculates will etc (as reported in Craccum Apr. 12,1983); then clearly, not int minority of p tnce who laughed are guilty of aiding and abetting this it is, and our administration cost as a percentage of turnover is all men rape and it is a lie to state that they do; anathema to nt cceptable form of sexual harassment. about l/30th of her calculation. (3) I also find it difficult to stomach the narrowness of __ •_ 1*------A. — J a / » 4 i / v * i 4-1%a 4- a a 4-« is limited direct action that a student can take in such a definitions that these ‘truths’ are promulgating, eg If a woman believe they 1 a fact which Dr Gustafson must surely realise. That Jonathan Blakeman gets a penis (or foreign object) stuck in her anus or mouth gvertheless, chose to use his position to deliberately affront Treasurer against her will - that’s called rape; if a man gets a penis (or tgthis may see i sour the temper of those on less advantaged ground can P.S. what's wrong with a bare-footed Welfare Officer? foreign object) stuck in his anus or mouth against his will, homosexuals be seen as the pernicious principles of a bigoted mind. ◄ KUDOS FOR COLIN ► what’s that called? Fun? 1, accept theirs r a person entrusted with an educative positon in society I guess what I’m trying to say is that while recognising the ers who feel ioutrageous show of illiberality is to be deplored — loudly. this Dear Editor, excellent way many people and groups are recognising their H , , . ◄ HAIR TODAY - Not amused- This week’s by-elections for Exec are very important; the rights on campus and standing up tall and demanding them; ntly studying) r Welfare Officer election is crucial. With various government groups that try to advance their cause by putting other people n opinion. I am „■ T /)1]|Q . 0 attacks on students, unemployment problems and no positive down, stereotyping them, or just blatantly lying and abusing Jf k only thing that I could discern in ‘P.J.’s letter of the 22nd achievements from ex-Welfare Officer Neill Reid we must have others (especially other minority groups), sickens me. I ask you 1.1 sire at.: ^ ^ approached validity was ‘Men shave, but are someone dedicated and capable in the job. to consider that sexism does work two ways; that discrimination government subsidised?’ It didn’t achieve validity I believe that Colin Patterson is sincere and determined in his works against and impoverishes both the discriminated against Yours fait! the writer didn’t consider all aspects of the statement, promises to pressure the University to preserve welfare and and the discriminators, and that true liberation works toward B. Fothe it important being that — ‘MEN DO NOT HAVE TO fight government policies. the emancipation of all people in truth; (and not simply the tVE! ’ It is socially acceptable to wear a moustache, beard or . All we hear from Mr John Rattray is a wanky promise to have attempt to win power games) l The appearances of, for example, John Cleese, Billy committees. He refuses to see the political and governmental ly, Ringo Starr and our own Prof. Tarling bear witness to origins of welfare issues and fight them at their source. He gives Yours etc No one objected to actors in the recent production of only a qualified promise to work with Executive members Human-and-proud the so-called III having additional faded props in the form of clipped concerned with welfare. ED NOTE: In the Domain, at midnight, who's got privilege ? re apparently In fact beeirds, moustaches etc have at various times in On Sharpeville Day, in the quad, he declared his support for >yal Family, apartheid! ◄ EGO ‘N’ POLITICS ► i vox populi, been considered as ‘eiids to manly beauty’, emd also Can he really be concerned about welfare?! npossible, to itly, sexy — eg Magnum P.I., Jeremy Irons. Dear Editor, ■er, it is definitely not sexy or even the slightest bit ents, still less if| ◄ BOYS WILL BE BOYS ► Ted After having recently attended a meeting of the SRC where a ly acceptable for women to do the equivalent (as P.J. d on this qui motion was put forward and carried - that the Auckland to think it is) of growing a beard. Any woman who }ed to the role Dear Louise, University Students Association, boycott the 1983 Centenary to discontinue using some form of menstrual protection opinion pi I think it absolutely stinks that the President won’t support Celebrations because the Centenary and Student participation automatically become socially unacceptable and every , a pitiful ati the boycott of the Centennial Celebrations voted on at SRC. I in it, will only be endorsing and glorifying the ‘sexist, racist and lly one, the t would be made to ostracise her. realise the only reason he stood for Prez was to go to the elitist aspects of the University’s past and its present’ — I ’t object to an airing of P.J.’s views but the rationale nd ambivalei Centennial pissups, but I didn’t think he’d go as far as would like to ask those members of SRC who spoke and voted in them could do with an airing. Long may CRACCUM a ardent royi disregarding the voice that students have — the SRC. favour of such a boycott for these reasons, how many of them me to enable ‘free expression to rule O.K.’ Those ons were publii would be prepared to boycott the capping ceremonies and refuse beliefs. Rati lible for the theft of large numbers of March 15th issue ◄ ALLEGED RAPE ► S Smith to accept their degrees, the symbols of institutionalised elitism? to go and see ‘Missing’ once for every copy they stole. On >us case of It would be interesting to see how deep the convictions and Dear Editor, e a higher di thoughts, perhaps not, it might give them more ideas. the contempt of these people are, and how prepared they are to Yours, Le Carefree (?) Raseur din future. In a recent issue of Craccum there was a statement by one of use the University’s endorsement of their intellectual elitism < SORRY ► your regular contributors: ‘All men rape all women when and if they some day leave the confines of the University Lindsay Dig (Womenspace); and more recently, in the SRC motion agenda and student politicing, and attempt to get a job. ‘Rape is a tool through which men keep women in a state to ask the qua rCraccum Co-operative, all all I agree that there are valid reasons for some kind of student of fear.’ >le she came urn you very much for your (genuine) good wishes, protest, such as in education cutbacks, but also feel that these ver, in the interests of precision I would like to point out I find these two statements grossly offensive, and while reasons have been magnified out of all proportion by the more I am not an ex-Senate ReDresentative. I am a currently perhaps acknowledging the obvious hurt behind these vocal element of the students association for reasons known [ Senate Rep. My term of office does not finish until 30th statements, recognise them to be inaccurate lies. I also find it only to themselves and for the pruposes of inflating their own gross that any group of people supposively on about liberation ego’s. Love, of sex and against sexism should once again hold up the (excuse Catherine Coakley Susie Collier

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WINDSURFING CLUB MONTY PYTHON INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AJMUBJI.I.CA. MACLAURIN CHAPEL APPRECIATION SOCIETY CONGRESS , been operating for four weeks Will be conducting a live TUESDAY 7.30pm ‘Confronting and already over 70 students DANCE April 28th in S.R.C. The International * Student dungeoneering expedition in the the Future’ (6) - A proper wived. With only two days Lounge. Live band ‘Mutual Congress is an annual gathering of tunnels on Waiheke Island over Stewardship, Human responsibility the first social event, Groove’, with beer & wine available. all the Overseas Students from the Anzac Day weekend. to nature. Professor J. Brown and an Windsurfing films, $3.00 non-members, $1.00 various N.Z. universities, but it is Prospective victims (clerics, Mr R. Lewthwaite. Contact: Chapel ht lots of students. There are members. open to all interested students. It is fighters, magic users, monks etc) Secretary Ph 792-300 Ext 7731, or to go as a group to a ‘fun’ three days of stimulating see RAF or JWB at Studass by 20 Ph John Ker 275-8919 (Home) in Tauranga. A meeting to discussions on areas of interest to April or ring 789-771. for this will be held CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR overseas students; films; cultural Trip Fee $20 members, $24 STUDENT CHRISTIAN 19th in the Old Grad Bar DISARMAMENT MEETING items, and of course, socials. This non-members (includes sub for MOVEMENT year it is being held in Auckland year). /« will be putting out a CND next meets on Tues 19th April from May 13-15. Tuesday April 19. Tea and ;ter of events, and news, as at 5pm in the Exec Lounge. The theme of this year’s congress LOST Discussion, 5.45pm • 7.00pm. All aa offering a ‘For Sale’ column. Discussion will include Helen is ‘Women and Development’, and welcome. Contact Maria Kobe 602- sue (534-3856) for details, Caldicott’s tour, Rex Rumakiek’s topics include domestic racism, T1 59 Calculator between Library & 246. e will be giving free windsurfing talk on campus, and what we as a women in South East Asia and the Rec Centre Thursday night (7.4.83). organizing races and club should be doing from now on. South Pacific, and Samoan women. Substantial reward Ph M.A. Rassie TUITION other social events as well as Tea & coffee will be served. All Some of the speakers are Ripeka 836-7995 evgs. to get discounts for students welcome. Evans, Helen Clark, Marilyn French and Italian tuition offered. [learning to build your own Waring and Luisa Crowley. By native speaker, also jazz guitar UNIVERSITY BAHAI CLUB Beginners and advanced The registration fee is $25, or lessons available. Tel Christian 732- are welcome, as well as $2.00 per session or function for 862,36 Carlton Gore Rd. E N - TERTIARY STUDY GRANT You are warmly invited to two |y who is enthusiastic about part time attendance. PAYMENTS lectures on the Bahai Faith and its ttURS j. Contact Coenraad for more . For further information, or if you PHIL. SOC relationship to the peoples of the i,J501-205. want to get involved in preparing ILL IOP/4 Cheques will be available for world. Guest speaker: Professor for the Congress, contact Kuinivia ‘Poverty Party' Thursday, 21st collection from the Hall, Old Arts Jameson Bond - senior Leasuasu, Overseas Student April at 7.30pm in Rms 143 & 144 IL L -t PM Building on Wednesday 20 and anthropologist from Canada and CRACCUM STAFF Officer. of Student Union Building (behind Thursday 2 1 April. This will Hedi Moani - a much loved friend - TV room). Dress to reflect your constitute one third of the annual speak on the Islamic, Babi and rtings 1pm Mondays. All financial condition. Members: Free total. Any queries should be made Bahai Faiths. Thursday and Friday come. A.U. AVIATION SPORTS (don’t forget your membership at Tertiary Grants, Room 10 2, - B10 - 1pm April 21st and 22nd. Registry. SOCIETY DINNER & FILM card). Non-members: $1.00. 0FFE££4 EVENING flatmates w a n t e d PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT GROUP AGM SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY Inviting all current and prospective (A.U.S.F.S.) ' 7 6 2 43 share faded Parnell mansion members to attend a Dinner & Film Tuesday 19th April. Repeat Black i large group. Food, bills and The Environment Group will be and White Film Developing Course Evening next Wednesdy. This will Thurs 21st: Writers’ workshop S41 p.w. Phone 792-287. holding its AGM in the Executive starting in Top Common Room at be a good chance to meet other 7pm Lounge (1st Floor Student Union 7pm. All welcome. Supper provided. members or find out more about the Fri 22nd: Organisational meeting reclaim t h e n i g h t Building) on Wednesday 20th April Society. See the Aviation Sports lpm ING at 7.30pm. noticeboard for further details. WINDSURFER 4 SAIL oen march against violence The AGM will consider the Mon 25th: Games as usual 7pm Note: A questionnaire has been inst women. Bring a direction and future of the DELTA WINDSURFER, great rig. e/torch - Thurs 21 April, Environment Group. Also a slide circulated regarding meeting times A.U. AVIATION SPORTS 5m2 sail. Less than a season old. and activities required by m, cnr Karangahape Rd and show on ‘Antarctica’ produced by SOCIETY SKYDIVING ! $675.00. Contact Louise at isonby Rd (creche provided). If Friends of the Earth will be shown. members/intending members. If 19 CRACCUM. interested, see our noticeboard. oen want to go up in a group, Barry Weeber 30789 or 789-608. Try the most thrilling sport inthe jathering in Wominspace world. Aviation Sports now has a n 5 o’clock’til 6 p.m. WOMEN’S SELF-DEFENSE CLUBS YACHT CLUB MEETING course running for those keen to try TUESDAY 19th With Sue Lytollis; Fridays 9-11, skydiving. But hurry because places Choral Soc, Record Club, NATAS Womenspace. $17 each for 4 are limited. Sign up on the Aviation Appreciation Soc, Student Life. a r m . m e e t in g Squash court lounge, Rec Centre sessions. This course does not start Sports noticeboard or for any Could an officer from each of the a (not club room as advertised) l-2pm. until Term 2 because of time enquiries phone Lesley 686-273. above clubs please contact the All past present and prospective very Monday, 1.00 in Exec, COME ALIVE - SKYDIVE ! mge (2nd floor of Student arrangements etc. Put your name on Societies Rep, Rm 1 1 1 . members welcome. ociation) come along and get the list in Elaine’s (W.R.O) office (in Womenspace). PROGRESSIVE CLUB dived in fighting racism! TENANTS’ PROTECTION PROGRESSIVE CLUB All women welcome. Ill those with petitions to have ASSOC. Meetings held every Tuesday, Interested in what’s happening racist plaque removed from the 1.00 in Rm 144. Come along and PERSONAL around you? Got any ideas to icks Wall don’t forget to get Ph. 760-392. Wants to hear any find out what’s happening in the filled in and back to us as soon complaints about flat finding world. improve or change it? Then come Magpies, Bears, Banannas, and along to the Progressive Club ible. Cobras rule, O.K. agencies. meeting on Tuesday, 1 .00pm in Rm 144. .

BEER & POLITICS ADVERTISEMENT paid for by F.C.S As always, in Rm 144 at 4.00 on SPECIAL GENERAL Fridays! Come along with your favourite bug-bears & questions! MEETING All welcome! DOES THIS MAN CARE ABOUT SPORTS, WELFARE, STUDENTS, ANYTHING...?? EDUCATION WORKSHOPS lpm Thurs 21 April, Recreation Centre. Making the system work for you. The Education Fightback To discuss the question of AUSA’s participation in the Committee is organising a week of Centenary Celebrations. activity on education issues. The most important issues facing students are the inadequate bursary If a quorum is not reached by 1.31 a special SRC will be convened to discuss and student unemployment. The r v ;^ this issue. week will be concentrating on these topics and also teaching skills. The workshop is open to all students and will be particularly useful for class reps. Workshop Timetable NEILL REID HAS RESIGNED AS WELFARE OFFICER TO STAND Unless otherwise specified all FOR SPORTS OFFICER. DURING HIS TERM AS WELFARE OFFICER HE DID NO WORK FOR STUDENT WELFARE.ALTHOUGH HE HAD workshops will be in the Executive DECIDED TO STAND FOR SPORTS OFFICER WELL BEFORE Lounge, 1st floor student union EASTER TOURNEY HE PLAYED NO ROLE IN ITS ORGANISATION. building. 1 THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS THAT HE WILL DO ANY MORE FOR 20% OFF TO STUDENTS MARCH/APRIL SPORTS THAN HE HAS DONE FOR WELFARE. Tues 19 April 1.00pm - 2.00pm Lobbying and the Structure of U niversity/AU S A 3.00pm - 5.00pm Public Speaking and Poster Layout VOTE NO Wed 20 April 11.00am - 1.00pm restaurant Lobbying and the STructure of For Natural Foods University/AUSA Thur 21 April 11.00am - 1.00pm Sit down or Takeaway Public Speaking and Poster Layout ONFIDENCE 1.00pm - 2.00pm Assessment and Mon - Thurs 10am to 9pm the Role of University in Society (in Fri 10am to 9.30pm Bistro Bar, 1st Floor, Cafe) Fri 22 April 1.00pm - 2.00pm Sat 5pm to 9pm SPORTS OFICER Student Financing and 50 High St, City, Ph 34-599 U nemployment 2.30pm - ? Social (Room 237, Top 20,21 april Floor, Student Union) 19 April — 25 April MEDIAT A\V/A\V/A\V/A\V/A\V/A\7>

Serie Noire (directed by NEW VISION Alain Corneau, France, Prints by John Fosti Tue 19 1979), 8.00pm, The Works h Ik m m * ' J n H A rt 7 May. (Devonport), for members of Paintings by Rose” Milestones, 6.30pm, B15, for the Auckland Film Society ' Campbell, until 1 May,] members of the Auckland only. AUCKLAND CITY ART Film Society only. GALLERY The Fantastic, until 24 NITE SITE AT THE f Peter Siddell, Sylvia Siddell, April. AND FIRST CAFE and Warren Viscoe will talk Auckland Walk, The Gordon Walters: A Miscast in the Role by about their work; 8pm; Esplanade. Retrospective, until 24 Gavin Chilcott, until! University Conference Herbs, The Windsor Castle. April. April. Center (22 Symonds Street). Alastair Riddell, The I The Harlot's Progress and Gluepot. Before and A fter by William Hogarth, until May. Theatn Wed 20 A Late-Night Experimental THE LITTLE THEA Prostitute (directed by Tony Cafe Evening (with fringe DENIS COHN GALLERY Garnett, UK, 1980), 5.30pm music, an open stage, and New Paintings and Sdkinh got iy (a poli" revue of themes on and 8.00pm, Unity Hall, for coffee), 1 1 .00pm - 2 .00pm, Drawings by Martin Ball, members of the Auckland Play-space (157 Symonds until 22 April & racism, written and Film Society only. Street), tele 778-694. directed by Renee Ta' and presented by Broadsheet); 6.30pm 1 The Tokyo Quartet will Friday-at-One (songs f t # . ' THE MUSEUM perform Beethoven’s Photo-Forum until 25 April. April, 1.00pm 18,19, performed by Rosalind Salas 22 April Quartet in C Minor, Op 18, and John Ferguson), 1.00 No 4, Berg’s Quartet, Op 3, pm, The Maidment Theatre, THE MERCURY 0 and Brahm’s Quartet in A No Charge. OUTREACH minor, Op 5l, No 2. The King and I (wri New Works by Women 1983, Rogers and H until 6 May. A concert (presented by until 14 May. Students at the School of Sat 23 NEW INDEPENDE Music), 1.00 pm, The PETAR/JAMES Maidment Theatre, No THEATRE Auckland Walk, The GALLERY LIMITED Charge. Swan Song (written by Esplanade. Stephen Bambury, until 29 Bruce Mason and Herbs, The Windsor Castle. April (note: gallery hours: by Tony Forster), un Thu 21 Alastair Riddell, The Wed-Fri 11.30am - 4.00pm). May. Gluepot. Hongi (written by B Auckland Walk, The Mason and directed Esplanade. REAL PICTURES Forster), until 7 May, Herbs, The Windsor Castle. Andrew Bloodworth until 22 Ghosts (written by Alastair Riddell, The Sun 24 April. Ibsen and directed by Gluepot. CHARO OQUET Winer) until May 4. Auckland's Young Gays' RKS ART THEATRE CORPO Group will meet, 2.00pm, Paintings by Charo Oquet, The Trial (based on' Fri 22 Just Desserts. PAINTINGS until 30 April novel by Franz Kafka).

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