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^ \H V u T C , EDITORIAL PREZ SEZ — AUSA

Varsity’s certainly a hive of activity at ly, however obscure, is outstanding — the moment, with the Engineering and Sugarcubes, The Chills, Redhead Kingpin sociation scheduled for next Tuesday and Arts & Commerce Ball, and the Ar­ and last Friday’s Faith No More concert Wednesday. I look forward to a healthy chitects’ Mannerist Ball this Friday tak­ (from which my hearing is just recover­ turnout as this is your opportunity to ing care of the social, debaucherous side. ing!). Judging from the numbers turning have a real say in the decision making New Zealanc Then of course there’s Portfolio elections up, commercial radio will find no option process of your Association. s . Service A brc this Tuesday and Wednesday, so once but to play more ‘alternative’ music, and We’re also holding the Women’s Mus- overseas an d again you can get bombarded by Forums, more local music in response to public ic Festival on campus next week with spe­ is VSA and < leaflet drops, and especially those posters pressure. The Quota Bill continues to cial gigs in Shadows on Monday and that catch you everywhere, in the quad, at struggle through the sea of red tape, and Tuesday, a music video and drinks night Do you fancy the cashflow machines, in the dunnies... its objective, to ensure more kiwi music in the Lower common Room on Wednes- in Thailand, ba As with the major elections two weeks on the radio, thus aiding sales and the ar­ day, a Womens Forum in the Quad on iBotswana, o r ti ago, it is vital that you get to one of those tists themselves, is not helped by stations Thursday and a party in the Functions Tanzania? Perh polling booths and vote. Those candidates such as 89FM playing two to three hours Room on Friday. All events are open to« like to help wit! that are voted in make up the Executive of NZ music in the graveyard slot on a men and women and I hope some of our j ing in the Himal next year — your Executive. It’s that com­ Sunday night, that being the lowest au­ friends from the Tech wander over tol toraf projects f mittee that is ultimately in charge of the dience time. join in. New Guinea wads of money you give them, so read the The Auckland Area Health Board Teenaa koutou katoa. I hope you are studies in the Sc spiels in this issue and hear ihe candidates shows what a caring, sharing institution all geared up for the portfolio elections Entries for the Great Bunyip Ract land? Whatever speak at the Forum on Monday and make it is with the proposal to close the Otara being held this Tuesday and Wednesday. down Queen Street on August 11th cloa there’s a chance a decision that will help AUSA to run ef­ Spinal Clinic. Figures of around $3-4 mil­ Have your say and register your choice. next Wednesday — I’ve extended an in­ needed somewh fectively next year. lion are quoted as the cost of running the There are a wide range of candidates so vitation to the Tech and Teachers Col­ time. To Alison and Jo, who are the only two establishment. Surely this is a pittance the election should be an exciting one. lege so it should be an exciting event and VSA, which standing for Craccum Editor next year, when considering the outstanding job My best wishes and good luck to all all proceeds go to Telethon 1990. I have only one thing to say to you — served by the clinic to its some 90 short 1962 and has s candidates for showing enough interest than 1300 volunl YOU’RE MAD! It’s a job that requires and long term patients. The recent Budget in student politics to actually stand for Come and see me or Simon Coffey our patience, hard work and a touch of in­ allocation of $2699 million to area health seas, places New a portfolio. ner Social Activities Officer if you want ers in reponse t< sanity. To anyone that thinks getting es­ boards makes the closure seem even more more information. That’s all folks. from developii says and assignments in on time is a crazy. Is it too much to ask that authori­ On the student politics front we have Ka kite anoo, e hoa maa. p i . u -tries. Right now hassle, then try being editor. Getting the ties such as the AAHB (and there are our Winter General Meeting of the As- wia Henr|¥olunteers> mo, rag out on time makes course work pale others) be totally devoted to the welfare in comparison. of those under its care? year assignment Well done to everyone at BFM for the Mark Roach over the globe h concerts they’ve brought to Auckland in P.S. Dave, you now owe us 7 jugs — PREZ SEZ — ATISA and experienci recent months. The number of gigs late­ each! cultures. VSA h reaction and then action after conten a major recruit, tious issues are in place. and VSA staff r “Too late” she cried and she was dam rated Auckland CREDITS right. Institute to talk We know most of what is coming [organisation. Editors: Mark Roach, Wendy Newton, Peter Gray in the employment and education are Features Journalist: Max Chappie [Tel: (09) 390-789 Ext 840] All the info is available to any stud Technical Editor: Tony Bell who cares to actually read Craccum < ^ irp .M in r look at noticeboards. Service rvu Technical Consultants: Independent Media Services [Tel/Fax: (09) 524-6162] Maybe I could offer some incentiveU s recru Marketing Manager: Joe Babich [Tel: (09) Ext 841 Fax: (09) 303-2236] students to turn up for meetings or voic selection co- Printers: Rodney and Waitemata Times Ltd their opinions through the office. I mui iCarolyn Mark Typesetting: Teresa Platt, Stephanie Wormald, Susan Bilk, Tony Bell talk to Doug Sadlier about that says a lot Distribution Manager: Martin Gill seems to have some interesting ideas jet involved in Contributing Writers: Ross McLeod, the E-Team. Anyway I’m sick of banging my heat sation because General Assistance: Lion Red on this particular wall. motivation. She Gossip Columnists: Susan and Mel This week at the Kiwi II you need New Zealander be there on Thursday for the excel! inunity minded ‘Earthbound” earthy, blues rock. “They see VS On Saturday, (yes, they are _ of doing someti Kia Ora, katoa. Saturday’s now) there is a double bill with but also as a > CONTENTS This philosophy of students should be the Warners and Mother Morphine. Ge sonal self dev a compulsory subject studied in all ter­ your ID card down there to A-Block ,she says. Cover: by Mark Roach ...... 1 tiary institutes. join up or if you have a B-card just b Other volunt Editorial and Presidential C o lu m n s ...... 2 The effort involved in force feeding there. volved because Feature: Volunteers A w ay! ...... 3 students important information is some­ Anyway someone just told me that, traction of tra Feature: D .I.Y . B e s tse llers ...... 4 what equivalent to using elephants to you need to rule the world is one goo “For a lot of crack eggs. Publick E y e ...... 5 idea. idea of learn Although I’m generalising it is frustrat­ Now there’s an idea another cultur W in e ...... 5 ing when students only seem to go into Voting Seriously ...... 6 David Rhode people - not j tourist but livii T e le v is io n ...... ,7 two years and Student Elections ...... 8 of the commun W om anspace ...... 12 Treaty T r e a tis e ...... 13 AUSA NOTICES S p o r t ...... 13 L e t t e r s ...... 1 4 Different Ligl Notices ...... 15 PORTFOLIO ELECTIONS Mark says th 31st July & 1st August they go away wii * attitude, aim Polling Booths in the Quad, Library Foyer, ISA’s returninj DISCLAIMER ters say they got Human Sciences Building, Engineering [f their experie Craccum is published by the Auckland University Students' Association Incor­ ley gave. Most porated, but ATISA have been very nice and sort of indicated that they'll go to Foyer, Medical School and Creche. changed perso prison for us if it's the tech stuff at fault, which we think is very good of them, iome extent and don't you? By the way, the views expressed in Craccum do not necessarily lew Zealand in a represent those of the Auckland University Students' Association, the editors, ight when tht or anybody, so there! Opening times of booths will be posted on the AUSA Reception area. tack. i “They don‘t al The following positions on the 1991 AUSA Executive Committee will be con- ^g/they not te s te d . j Zealand a. DEADLINES Treasurer, Clubs and Societies Representative, Cultural Affairs Officer, Environ- mental Affairs Officer, International Affairs Officer, Media Officer, National Af- more J°a. fairs Officer, Overseas Students Officer, Sports Officer, Students' Representative *°p f SeCT ° Articles Midday Tuesdays Council Chairperson, Welfare Officer and Women's Rights Officer. l irush an eem to spend t Letters, Notices Midday Wednesdays There will also be an election for the position of Craccum Editor for 1991. Leir families.”

2 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 next Tuesday and j ward to a healthy' VOLUNTEERS ir opportunity to decision making ew Zealand-based international development agency Volunteer in many parts of the world “They’re quite difficult quality VSA looks for is to be had. but for the right people iation. Service Abroad (VSA) is on the lookout of skilled people to send skill. Applicants have to they’re really good. have a useful trade or he Women’s Mus- overseas and give aid to developing countries. So what in the world Back in Time They’re literally on the profession, a qualification lext week with spc- VSA and could you be useful? Max Chappie reports. Volunteers most in de- mountainsides; there’s no and at least two years of on Monday and electricity, heating is by a work exoerience. o and drinks night Do you fancy teaching Not Easy wood-burning stove and “The countries where we Thailand, baby care in Room on Wednes- Mark says expectations cooking is by a kerosene go want people who are I Botswana, or tutoring in m in the Quad os of what it’s like are dis­ stove. It’s almost like turn­ still learning their craft,” f in the Functiom Tanzania? Perhaps you’d pelled quickly and life in ing back the clock.” she says. events are open to] like to help with harvest-- some parts of the world is Health workers are also VSA prefers volunteers ! hope some of our ing in the Himalayas, pas- no bed of roses. in demand — doctors are between the ages of 23 and h wander over to| toral projects for Papua “A lot of them seem to needed in Namibia and 65 and likes single people New Guinea or social have their highest highs physiotherapists in Africa. or people with partners | studies in the Soloman Is­ and their lowest lows when Nurses are less in demand who also have a skill. Chil­ reat Bunyip Raa land? Whatever your skill, they’re a volunteer.” than they used to be be­ dren sometines travel i August 11th dost there’s a chance you’ll be cause many contries are overseas with their volun­ ve extended an in needed somewhere some­ localising their training teer parents, but VSA The lowest points come md Teachers Q time. programmes. often can’t afford to sup­ when you’re by yourself, exciting event a port them while they’re VSA, which began in she says. A Kiwi school lethon 1990. abroad. 1962 and has sent more teacher who went to Bhu­ Irrigation than 1300 volunteers over­ tan in the Himalayas Other volunteer posts Simon Coffey our seas, places New Zealand­ )fficer if you want caught disentry soon after are available for builders, Expenses ers in reponse to requests he arrived and had nobody / agriculture and forestry hat’s all folks, from developing coun­ VSA volunteers do get a maa. to comfort him and make workers and occupational return air fares, accommo­ tries. Right now about 100 him soup. But things did therapists. People are also Ella Henr Volunteers, most on two dation, a living allowance get better and the commu­ needed to install water of between $200 and $800 year assignments, are all nity slowly got to know supplies and irrigation sys­ over the globe helping out a month depending on the him. When he was sick the tems — projects Mark country, gas and electrici­ and experiencing other following year the whole says are particularly re­ cultures. VSA has just had ty bills paid and a payment village came by to wish warding. of about $3500 on their ction after conted a major recruitment drive him well. “Those are really good ace. and VSA staff recently vi- return. positions because you can As well as their profes­ 1 and she was dam (sited Auckland Technical really see the work you’re Institute to talk about the sional skills, volunteers doing. When you arrive at also need personal quali­ what is coming \ organisation, Intense a village it mightn’t have a id education area ties like emotional strength Mark says people’s per­ tap.” able to any studei and a strong sense of iden­ sonal expectations of If those experiences tity, says Mark. They y read Craccumi ^ryjce-Millded volunteer work are often sound tempting, they should be resourceful, could suit you. But there :r some incentivet VSA’s recruitment and not realistic. There are adaptable and have perser- often frustrations with the are more applications than verance. >r meetings or voic selection co-ordinator, Carolyn Mark, VSA positions and before h the office. I mui Carolyn Mark of Welling- level of resources in other they’re sent packing volun­ ;r about that. H ion, says a lot of people communities and the way If you want to see teers have to pass through interesting ideas. let involved in the organi- other people do things. mand at the moment are whether you can be in­ Mark has not been on a a stringent selection pro­ f banging my hea< sation because of a service volunteer posting herself, teachers, particularly for volved in VSA, contact the cess which covers a variety ill. motivation. She says many “People who think but says from talking to Africa but also for the Pa­ organisation’s Auckland of areas. jwi II you need t New Zealanders are com- they’re going to change the others that being a volun­ cific, and primary teachers contact, Ginny Silva, on y for the excellei cunity minded. world have to realise they teer is a very intense and for Bhutan. Mark des­ 524-6734. Otherwise you , blues rock. “They see VSA as a way aren’t and they shouldn’t powerful experience. And cribes the Bhutan assign­ Useful can write to VSA, PO Box 's, they are opct °fdoinS something useful be either.” there are many experiences ments as ‘amazing’. Mark says the primary 12-246, Wellington. is a double bill with but also as a way of per- her Morphine. Ge sonal self development,” ere to A-Block an she says. \ re a B-card just h Other volunteers get in­ volved because of the at­ ust told me that traction of travel. You Know They world is one goo “For a lot of people the ea of learning about die if you ;a another culture interests David Rhode people - not just being a tourist but living there for dorit turn two years and being part of the community.’ them o y e r ,

Different Light Mark says that while iey go away with a serv- ^attitude, almost all of ISA’s returning volun- ters say they got more out if their experience than hey gave. Most say they changed personally to- iome extent and many see fiew Zealand in a different ight when they come tack. “They don‘t always like ihat they see, either, } con things they notice about Sew Zealand are that it viron- ms more materialistic, jple seem to be in such rush and people don’t «n to spend time with [their families.”

Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 3 The 'Do It Yourself' Book of

Writing a Bestseller BY M AX CHAPPLE I Having wa Mission Bay Daydreaming about one day writing the great New Reading little le s s t h a i Zealand novel? Auckland writer John Cranna, whose short His capacious appetite for literature as a child has glee th e ir de story collection V isitors recently won the New Zealand given him a firm ground­ a place to f u Book Award for fiction, has some tips for beginners... ing in language. And he the edge o f t says that reading is one of remaining m John Cranna has been memly dull and boring his most valuable ex­ the most vital ingredients ing out th e c part of a rough work gang town.” periences; experiences in a good writer. sweating under a harsh which would inspire him a g la s s . sun in the Kaimai Ranges. Structure to write stories like ‘Cast in “My advice (to would- Glass’ about a glass facto­ be authors) would be to. He has worked as a care­ Once inside, He later attended Wai­ ry worker and his enchant­ read as widely as you can taker in a run down area don turned tc of central London, slog­ kato and Victoria Univer­ ing mental capture by a local and foreign authors need which had sities to gain a BA in glass furnace and a dead and don’t confine yourself ged it out at the furnace of [he reinstatemei psychology and sociology mosquito called Bill. to American and British a glass factory and settled team’s tradition and do an honours year in “I have worked in a writers.” That may mean sometimes fiery housing transport. Let psychology and political glass factory and I’ve exploring French, Czecho­ disputes in downtown been pouring ir science. It was there that worked in factories — I’ve slovakian, Soviet and La­ Wellington. But sitting in elusive address i his cosy Grey Lynn home he says he picked up valu­ done a lot of manual tin American authors. able lessons in structure and from there writing fiction, says Cran­ work. Most of my time in “And to begin with copy forwarded to tl na, is the hardest thing he’s which would later help London I spent doing him in creative writing. them, imitate the great from women of ever known. manual work in really writers,” he says. “To ask “When you have to ety the world quite grim circumstances.” a fledgling writer to having heard c Awards write an honours paper of Before he moved to produce something origi­ chanical catasti six or ten thousand words London, Cranna worked John Cranna (36) is a nal is foolish.” fered by the and you have to order for the Wellington Tenan­ writer of distinction. His your thoughts... it’s good Cranna says a certain cute, but discc short stories have been cy Union and has found rapid English ca training for short stories. himself in the centre of amount of writing ability published in New Zealand fered consolatic I’m almost certain that I large cities overseas. is born into some people and Britian and in the in­ couldn’t have written these but once they’ve got that ter still, direct ternational anthology Best stories had I not done that there is a tremendous their bank acco Short Stories 1987, and in structured writing.” Violence amount they can learn feet repairs. M 1989 he was awarded the Apart from this techni­ from other authors. ing of all was a 1 New Zealand Literary cal advantage, though, He says his experiences Elle MacPheri of a human being living Fund Writing Bursary. Cranna says his university “The trick is to imitate had earlier sta under conditions of ex­ Five of the stories in Vi­ years helped him little in first until you can take borrowing the sitors have been prize­ terms of experiences for treme emotion, and the your own synthesis of the quick shopping, violent situations which winners or finalists in na­ the content of his stories. m aterial... and transcend she was truly ast evolved, have affected his the writers’ work.” tional awards and one His time at university was its awesome ou writing. John Cranna scooped an international generally spent in isoation The Water prize. His stories have won from people. “Always I’ve ended up Empathy fords a nice vi< prizes in the 1986 Stand living in inner city areas Many of Cranna’s sto­ wyn Domain where pretensions are sitors. But in each case it’s emotion. Cranna’s story­ International Short Story Experiences ries in Visitors involve course, the Award, the 1985 Ameri­ stripped away from hu­ morbidity and depression lines are often bizarre but death and Cranna has had Unfortunately,; can Express, 1984 Gordon He is now in Auckland man interaction and you with a purpose and ex­ they’re feasible and the close friends who have of year, the vie\ and Gotch, and 1984 New working on a novel, but see people at their most pressed with a disturbing people who toe them are died. But he says an dimmed rather t Outlook national short Cranna did all the writing raw, angry and cruel. I sharpness and surrounded chillingly real. author need not have ex­ evening, but story Awards. for Visitors in London, think that it has definitely by sometimes choking at­ perienced something in enough light t despite the fact all the sto­ affected the character of mospheric description. Cranna was born in Te Humour order to write about it. road and imme Aroha and grew up in ries bar one are set in New my writing.” The stories in the book roundings. Spin Morrinsvile, where for Zealand. Morbid and depressing are of social conflict, sex­ Not all Cranna’s stories “What makes a good agining himsell years he read a book a day But it was in places like could be other words for uality, madness and death are gloomy. They all con­ writer is the ability to use bicycle repairr “because it was an extre- London where he gained some of his stories in Vi­ and bite at the core of tain a humanness which their own personal ex­ seen attempting begs the occasional smile perience and to empathise and one in particular, with the experiences of ‘Huia and the Angry others.” Earth’, is downright Cranna is adamant that, funny. together with reading, the Ihe In it, Huia, a child who most important factor in is one of just two human his writing has been trav­ survivors of an earth­ el. He recommends As w e s a i quake, dons a nun’s habit prospective writers get out cover pinot n saved from the ruins of a of New Zealand, see the nationally th i convent and forms a new world’s great centres and one with sheep as her con­ from w h ic h E experience the cosmopoli­ gregation. Led by her in­ ly, h o w e v e r, tan colour or other people nocence and advised by a and other cultures. outside o f N cripple called Martin, she struggles with nature and And that doesn’t mean In New Zeala moral philosophy. taking the Greyhound bus. counts for only It took Cranna four It means living and work­ 138 hectares of g years of writing before he ing amid other peoples ugs (1989 figu produced a story he and in other cities. [here has been a thought was even half way “Seeing the world’s crease recently. 1 adequate and says writing other cultures gives you a is better suited ti is still the most difficult much sharper interpreta­ climate, produci thing he’s done. His nov­ panding partic el, which is nearing com­ tion of your own culture," he says. Canterbury anc pletion now, has taken far South as Ol nearly three years and Visitors is one of sever­ rest New Zeak sometimes it can be a al books published under loir currently month or two before he the Heinemann Reid Pa­ tomes from N attains the right resonance cific Writers Series. Others ough in the Wa in his writing to be able to in the series are The continue. Frigate Bird by Alistair Pinot noir is d “But it’s not something Cam pbell, Earthly a red wine. A g< that can be rushed — it’s Nick Hyde ('Earthly Delights'), Alistair Campbell ('The Frigate Bird') and John Cranna Delights by Nick Hyde nen is soft and an organic, almost natur­ and The New Land by Bill ind is slightly : ('Visitors') at the launching of the Pacific Writers Series in April of last year. al growth.” Manhire. «1d. If you

4 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 The Boys from the PUB-LICK EYE Brown Stuff

X C H A PPLE THE WATER JUMP - MISSION BAY Having walked the not inconsiderable distance from university to sampled. There is inciden­ Mission Bay the E-team, whose previous athletic feats have been tally, a restaurant next little less than startling, felt uncharacteristically tired but noted with door which is part of the >acious appetite same establishment and glee their desire for a drink and immediately searched the area for ire as a child has apparently quite good. a firm ground- a place to fulfill their needs. Spinner M, hallucinating badly, sat at The interior, as previ­ lguage. And he the edge of the fountain and tried to order a pint of Red, while the ously mentioned, is not eading is one of remaining members, having considered the implications of point­ extensively furnished and vital ingredients ing out the error, rus away to the Water Jump to hide behind the plants and exposed writer. a g la s s . wood floor tended to Ivice (to would- make the place feel cold, rs) would be to I although this could be the idely as you can Once inside, conversa­ the saddle of a young la­ they did, it wasn’t while on desirable effect during summer. Tables and chairs foreign authors tion turned to the dire dy’s ten speed. It was the job, and other than be­ confine yourself need which had arisen for unfortunate, not only that ing a little more obvious were of standard format but had a little more can and British the reinstatement of the E- the bicycle was being rid­ than necessary, the staff That may mean team’s traditional mode of den at the time, but that M performed very well. finesse than usual. Light­ French, Czecho- transport. Letters have failed to notice the ap­ The clientele was almost ing, like the company was , Soviet and La­ been pouring in to an ex­ proaching policeman. exclusively early to late dim and flattering, with can authors. clusive address in Biarritz, Remaining subtle and 20’s and could be descri­ minimal reflection off the and from there have been decorous, the E-team or­ bed as normal in the sense windows, so that even late > begin with copy forwarded to the E-team, dered several rounds, not­ that they weren’t of­ at night it was still possi­ titate the great from women of high soci­ ing with due admiration fensive, but weren’t really ble to see outside, where he says. “To ask ety the world over who, that the happy hour was exciting either, although several policemen were ing writer to having heard of the me­ indeed a genuine happy someone did point out a wrestling a strange man ;omething origi- chanical catastrophe suf­ hour and lasted from 5.30 flashing array of blue and into the boot of their car. PS. The E-team apologises lish.” ratings were; fered by the somewhat till 7.00. That the drinks red lights approaching fast All too soon it was time for the missing rating on . says a certain cute, but disconcertingly were half price was not im­ from the western end of to leave and the E-team re­ last week’s review of the if writing ability rapid English car, have of­ mediately obvious, sug­ the township. The E-team flected on its stay and felt London Bar. Excuses are ito some people fered consolation and bet­ gesting, correctly, that glanced up at the SKY the Water Jump was a nice not necessary but it is ru­ they’ve got that ter still, direct access to they were normally a little equipped TV, but immedi­ place for a quiet drink. moured that it may have a tremendous their bank accounts to af­ expensive. Prices are ately realised that this was The decor was pleasant, been due to a complex deal they can learn fect repairs. Most touch­ certainly higher than aver­ not the place one visited to the view interesting and involving a local lingerie er authors. ing of all was a letter from age. but fortunately the watch the television. It was the people acceptable, manufacturer and the Elle Macpherson, who surroundings are quite also noted that the bar although the stairs can be American Defence ick is to imitate had earlier stated, after pleasant, though some­ seemed fairly quiet which tricky to negotiate on your Industry. 1 you can take borrowing the car for a what minimalist. The would normally be un­ way out. It was also felt synthesis of the quick shopping jaunt, that range of beverages was usual for a Friday evening that this bar was probably .. and transcend she was truly astonished at very good and for obvious but could probably be somewhat seasonal in its s’ work.” its awesome output. reasons the bar carried attributed to the fact that appeal. THE E-TEAM RATING The Water Jump af­ sizeable stocks of the a conscious effort is During the Summer y fords a nice view of Sel­ drinks of the moment. The required to go to the months it is probably one of the better located bars }f Cranna’s sto- wyn Domain and of E-team was impressed, Water Jump as it is so far /n 'l.Y v w ^viiVys ftsitors involve course, the water. transferring its attention from the city. Normally in Auckland, although the Nice Cranna has had Unfortunately, at this time from the street below, one simply arrives at an in­ people who tend to fre­ ;nds who have of year, the view becomes where a policeman was be­ ner city bar without any quent the Waterfront, Location it he says an dimmed rather early in the ing assaulted with a bicy­ idea of how it happened. especially on weekends, :ed not have ex­ evening, but there is cle pump. At this time a menu was might reduce the appeal. Dudes something in enough light to see the Service was very effi­ delivered to our table and During the week, as a v; W' write about it. road and immediate sur­ cient and remarkably was found to contain place to visit after work on roundings. Spinner M, im­ friendly, although there numerous interesting and a fine evening, we expect Happy makes a good agining himself to be a was some concern that the well priced dishes, al­ it will be very popular and he ability to use bicycle repairman, was staff might tend to indulge though, as we planned to for those of you on a limit­ (SUMP Hour n personal ex- seen attempting to adjust in a little self-worship. If eat elsewhere, nothing was ed budget, the happy hour md to empathise experiences of

I is adamant that, with reading, the The Unpretentious Little Wine Column >ortant factor in ig has been trav- recommends As we said last week, we are going to out — it’s well worth the of our all time favourites perhaps in Martinbo- ve writers get out cover pinot noir in this w eek's column. Inter­ trip. That’s where we got — Vidal’s 1987 Private Bin rough) compared to 1990 Zealand, see the nationally this grape is one of the great reds, ours and it cost us $9.50. Hawkes Bay pinot noir, which is considered to be and it’s a beauty. In some ;reat centres and from which Burgundy is made. Unfortunate- You may have to hunt a bit patchy. So when buy­ around to find it in wine places you can pay up to ing ’89 reds see if you can :e the cosmopoli- ly, however, it has not been a great success r or other people shops but give it a go. $13 a bottle but we saw it restrain yourself and hide r cultures. outside of Northern Europe. in Super Liquorman for a few under the bed for a Another pinot noir that $11.95. We really recom­ few years, so their full iat doesn’t mean New Zealand it ac- cabernet sauvignon as we recommend comes mend you spend the extra flavour has time to ; Greyhound bus. s for only 3.1% or plums, then pinot noir is from the Weingut Siefried — it’s a very drinkable develop. living and work- stares of grape plan- cherries. If you find the vineyard in Nelson. We wine. For the price it’s one 1 other peoples (1989 figures), but cab sav a tad too much to bought their ’88 for $11.50 of the best wines of any ther cities. has been a large in- start your wine drinking from Wineworths in Hob­ type that you can get, it’s To finish off, we have ; recently. Because it career with, pinot noir will son Street. This wine is very clean, richly fla­ to say oops we blew it and ig the world’s in our first column too. Itures gives you a :er suited to a cooler be a lot easier. Since there soft and easy to drink but voured and has no bad te, production is ex- is not a lot of pinot noir Last week we recommend­ arper interpreta- a little thin and not strong­ after-bite. It’s lovely with grown there isn’t a heap of ed an ’88 Delegat’s Estate our own culture," ng particularly in ly flavoured. Go for the mushroom stroganoff. :rbury and even as wines that we recommend Pleasant Valley if you can Dry Red. We tried it at the 3Uth as Otago. The in the under $12 range. find it. We thought we’d say a vineyard and liked it so rs is one of sever- New Zealand pinot bit about vintages this bought a bottle. We drank i published under currently available Pleasant Valley is a Another pinot noir we week. New Zealand has an the bottle after we wrote iemann Reid Pa­ s from Martinbor- small Auckland vineyard tried in the course of pre­ extremely variable climate the first column and ters Series. Others in the Wairarapa. whose 1987 pinot noir is a paring this column was the which affects grape grow­ frankly it’s a bummer. Lily series are The good example. Pleasant Matua Valley Waimaukau ing. What might be a good had a dreadful headache Bird by Alistair iot noir is delicate for 1 Valley produces a good Estate pinot noir ’88. We season for one grape can the next day. ell, Earthlf wine. A good speci- range of reliable wines at found this wine harsh and be disastrous for another by Nick Hyde is soft and not harsh reasonable prices. At the unpleasant. and vice versa. 1989 was Next week it’s sauvig­ New Land by Bill s slightly sweet and vineyard they are happy considered to be a boom­ non blanc. Bottoms up. If you think of for you to try their wines Wine of the week is one er year for reds (except Lily B and the Baron

Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 5 The Formation of the McGillicuddy Serious Party [IS WEEI The jacobite cause lay ?ht crime ii dormant in New Zealand until 1979, when Clan Gyver (Sun, 7, pMcGyver! Yoi McGillicuddy discovered the i by making a be [nose hairs ani spirit of the Royal Stewarts s, the man who reborn in one of their 20 Iranian t< just some fiv number, Geoffrey John yoghurt and a -ting is back. Wh Duckett. He was hailed as illets to beat the Bonnie Prince Geoffie, and is m you’ve got ii Modern in fact an indirect on your si descendant of Scottish e all the clever ices he builds, Royalty. emost interestii ut Richard Although fiercly war­ confirmed candidates. in the t like, the McGillicuddies (Our views on proportion­ his inti are not a violent people, al representation are obvi­ iigmatie acting and our frequent territori­ ous.) For anyone doubting hich lies somew al and patriotic battles are our seriousness, this cam­ (teen Steve McQi of a highly complex ritual paign is costing the Party ibadly stunned m and festive nature. over $20,000 in electoral When it became clear fees alone. UJump Street (Si that the NZ armed forces Vote seriously this were not prepared to en­ election. Fresh faced c gage us in a winner-take- ddercover in cri all contest where the con­ The Fife of Balmoral hUS high scho trol of the entire country The greater Auckland The McGillicuddys illy, none of t rested on the display of su­ region, in terms of this solved look clo perior theatrical style year’s election, is to be Back: Vince Bamboo Tarini, Steve Bussey, John Way, Gort lunder - but lu (rather than superior kill­ known as the ‘Fife of Bal­ Middle: Alan Martin-Buss, Droid, Stephanie Capper, Kit Boys rage age of a i ing power), we turned our moral’. It encompasses Front: Craig Young, Paul McQuiban, Kerry Hoole an America] attention to the realm of electoral districts from chool is about politics. M.S.P. Central Policy: iy. I remember Papakura in the south to Regressionism, or The McGillicuddy Seri­ Albany in the north. For i when I was The Great Leap Backwards ous Party was formed in purposes of this election, poto College the The multitude of global 1984 to contest the Gener­ Northland is overseen by it of the year v social ills that plague us in al Elections, wrest power the Auckland branch, lebody decide< all today’s society continue from the Silly Parties, and bringing the total to 27 ylie Minogue’s to withstand the most vig­ install Bonny Prince Geof­ seats. Of these we have of a lift by t orous efforts of politicians fie the Reluctant on the confirmed candidates for common rooi the world over; far from throne of New Zealand, to 22. the balcony. > being solved, these pro­ secede from the so-called A complete list will be ji for several d blems continue to grow British Commonwealth released upon its com­ ifortunately more profound with each and become a self-govern­ pletion. ip and Holly ing Monarchy. passing year. to materia In the 1984 elections we culprit had to 1 Further information Unemployment, crime fielded three candidates; in about the McGillicuddy High more con 1987 we fielded 19. We and violence, overseas Serious Party (Fife of debt, housing shortages, means (ie. aboi gained 2.6% of the vote in :nt people na Balmoral) can be obtained poverty, environmental the seats in which we from: but I digres stood, beating the Silly pollution, depletion of New Zealand Party in six Fife of Balmoral Branch natural resources and the nuclear arms race are inex­ der She Wroi out of seven seats co-con- Chairman (Orator): tricably interrelated and 8,1) tested. Adrian Holroyd, 60 Burn­ What’s life with are an unavoidable part of In the 1990 elections we ley Terrace, Mt Albert. excitement y plan to become the first Phone 896-744. modernisation. The MSP political party to break the Fife of Balmoral Branch recognises the fact that a century barrier, with the Secretary (Wee Scribe): far more dramatic solu­ intention of fielding 101 Vince Bamboo Tarini, 107 tion than ever before is re­ quired to avert New Zea­ candidates. At the time of Western Springs Rd. writing, we have over 50 Phone 863-543. land’s headlong rush to its doom. CUTTING AND BLOW-WAVING

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6 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 TELEVISION WITH TRAVIS BRICKLE

HIS WEEK: A guide to those brave men and women who ight crime in the mean streets of TV land (marks out of ten).

tGyver (Sun, 7.30, 2) Well I’ll tell you: it’s est in the sociology of mo­ “McGyver! You saved Murder She Wrote. If you dern policing. It’s interest­ i by making a bomb out enjoy watching this then ing to note that with [nose hairs and spit!” you’re either taking the Crimewatch, Cops and the es, the man who can out- wrong drugs or are an ex­ People's Court we now it 20 Iranian terrorists tremely boring person have a complete system of jsmgjost some five month (sorry you had to read it TV justice — a situation d yoghurt and a piece of here). (0) that should breed some png is back. Who needs amusingly paranoid cryp­ (lets beat the baddies Magnum PI (Thurs, 9.30, to-fascist conspiracy the­ fben you’ve got ingenuity 2) ories from wet liberal Modern Home A Hawaiian private types in the near future. aence on your side? De- investigator and his cheesy (7) t all the clever little de- moustache battle villians ces he builds, though, wearing the most hideous t most interesting thing floral shirts to be seen this ut Richard Dean side of Hatfields beach. The Bill (Wed, Thurs, erson in the title role Why does Higgins 8pm, 1) still his intrigingly summarise the plot each Solid British Drama at the Sun Hill nick. The Bill It's been said that Shark In The Park's portrayal of the police vs stu­ ligmatic acting style, time he speaks? (“Mag­ is often praised for its rea­ rich lies somewhere be- num, I know you’re trying dent riots in Dunedin lacked a certain realism. Judge for yourself ieen Steve McQueen and to track down big Ralph listic docu-drama style ap­ from this photo. badly stunned mullet. (3) the international jewel proach (ie. the director tells the single camera man thief who you first met Hardball (Sat, 9.30, 2) Shark in the Park (Fri, especially the laws of pro­ to wobble around a bit Jump Street (Sat, 8.30, when he double crossed bability, fashion and the during the chase scenes), Charlie is a hard boiled 8.30, 1) you in Vietnam and who Much hyped local en­ roadcode and (in JL “Fat­ although I personally old school cop. Kaz is a Fresh faced cops go you just lost sight of in a renegade cop with a Bon trant currently living up to man” McCabe’s case) — doubt whether so many jrcover in crime rid- car chase, but do you have Jovi haircut. When fate its publicity (see next most of the laws of dieting quaint cockney manne­ US high schools. Ac- to spill beer on the car­ week’s column). (7) as well. JL bears an amus­ risms really abound in the makes them partners they Jy, none of the cops pet?”) Why does Rick ing resemblance to an an­ London Police force. En­ suddenly discover that un­ /olved look close to 18 wear flares — is he a closet Jake and the Fatman gry Big Mac when he puts joyable nonetheless, if a der adversity they have under — but luckily the acid house freak? And (Mon, 9.30, 2) bit predictable of late. (7) more in common than on his Hawaiian shirt, lit­ rage age of a teenager why does Tom Selleck they thought. And who Jake and the Fatman tle else diverts the atten­ an American High have such a high pitched could possibly have are willing to break a few tion. (0) chool is about 23 any- voice — is he a closet you- guessed it? (IV2) rules to get their man — ■ay. I remember back in know-what? Sadly, these Crime Story (Thurs, 9.30, H7 when I was at Ran- crucial issues are never 3) poto College the criminal tackled. (4) Dennis Farina, who tent of the year was when plays the lead cop, used to rmebody decided to give Cops (Sat, 10.30, 2) be a real life policeman vie Minogue’s career a Fly-on-the-wall docu­ and Dennis Farina who i of a lift by throwing mentary about the pro­ plays the lead crim, used THE FUTON COLLECTION t common room stereo fessional and personal to be a real life felon. The ffthe balcony. We wait- lives of real police officers producers seem to think ^ for several days but in Broward County Flori­ this adds something mean­ ifortunately Johnny da. Its producers say Cops ingful to Crimestory, but Let us introduce you to our coflection of unusual designer furniture. lepp and Holly Johnson provides a vital social in my book, it’s just tak­ Made from solid rimu, it’s stylish, practical and remarkably nled to materialise and comment about the under­ ing method acting a bit too rculprit had to be found lying realities of life on the far. The sixties setting, inexpensive. rough more convention- beat. This is a bit of a fib (courtesy of the people Restwood beds specialise in bedroom furniture. jmeans (ie. about 80 dif- really, as everyone knows who brought us Miami mt people narced on people watch Cops for the Vice) is original — which Discover the sensation of sleeping on a bed of pure cotton and you’ll voyeuristic thrill of seeing is more than can be said but I digress.... (6) understand why the Japanese have been doing it for centuries. hysterical prostitutes and for the cliched storyline. der She Wrote (Wed, stoned gang members be­ Just another title in the All our beds are complimented by a designer range of bedroom ing duffed over in front of vast mosaic of stupidity 0,1) furniture. What’s life without a lit­ a TV camera rather than that is the crime show he excitement you ask? because of any keen inter­ genre, really. (3) The RIMU frame and slats have been treated with Danish Oil to keep the “Natural” look. 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Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 7 ELEC ELECTIONS 1 9 9 0 H ] Cracc Alison C o r Treasurer

Alistair Shaw I am in my fourth year allow the real potential for Kevin Lowther The students association I have had a few years’ studying Economics and cheaper prices. needs good financial man­ experience involved in Law, I have also done As an Executive member I agement. As Treasurer, I clubs and societies at the more than the required believe in more access for would ensure that the as­ committee level, as well as amount of Accounting students do what is hap­ sociation has enough mo­ practical experience in papers to qualify for this pening within the power ney to do what it needs for financial control, and position. cliques of the Student Un­ its members, that it does hence feel I am a suitable As Treasurer I will be ion. I shall insist on a not run out of cash, and candidate for the position. committed to diligent column in Craccum to in­ that it does not unneces­ Also, as a Commerce stu­ maintaining of AUSA ac­ form members of where sarily overspend (e.g. dent, I have the formal tivities to ensure that their money is being spent Orientation). I would also theory to assist me. budgets are kept to. Wi­ weekly and endeavour to assist the association in thin the current income promote student interests maintaining policies such I also have concerns structure efficiencies can over the dominant groups as the reduction of fees for about student welfare and be made, and with restruc­ on Executive. Hi. My name is Kevin J. fourth year students and am positively against the turing in the long term a There seems to have Lowther, and I am stand­ above. ridiculous tuition fees. 1 real decrease in union fees been a lack of interest in ing for Treasurer of One of the principal hope my input will provide is possible. There is obvi­ the position of Treasurer AUSA. I am a 21 year old, aims of our association is further benefits to all ously concern about cater­ over the recent past. I am third year B.Comm stu­ to maximise the benefits students. Hello thei ing, Shadows and the committed to representing dent. This year I will fin­ of the co-operative i.e. here. I’m runs adminstration of our Un­ students on Executive and ish my degree in Account­ useful application of the prestigious p ion in terms of the cuts ensuring members in­ ing and Finance. Next association fees paid by This is a serious posi­ Craccum Ed they make into our fees. A terests are upheld. So get year, as well as the inten­ you. And I believe, as an tion, and I am a serious This year I an Hello. My name is rationalisation of the way out and vote to show your tion of becoming your effective Treasurer, I can candidate, as it takes more student, finis Alistair Shaw and I am these areas are accounted interest and — Vote Treasurer, I will be doing encourage and steer the as­ than the ability to balance and continui running for the position of for will display the cross Alistair Shaw for AUSA some post-graduate stu­ sociation to continue to do your cheque book to be a which I will co AUSA Treasurer for 1991. subsidisation present and Treasurer. dies in Finance. this. Treasurer. Vote for me. time next yeai

Why do I th Environmental Affairs Officer the job? Preset duction of Cra Scott Neilsen happening to our environ­ Simon Holroyd fact I probably know more ven’t noticed anything or­ just the logging of native ried out by ment, our environment about what’s going on ganised by, and involving, forests but the extremely people; the Ed and our furry and around here than any of students throughout the wastful use of huge quan­ by you) and se1 feathered friends. the other candidates for whole of this year. Of tities of native timber for including a te I am concerned about any position, in this course this may involve chipboard; not just plastic tor, advertisii this — but I’m also realis­ election. you giving up some of milk bottles but the whole and a features tic about it. On the academic side of your precious time (or question of recycling. If I’ll try and do my bit to things I’m currently finish­ even worse, money) but if you don’t want NZ to be Worm help towards this, but I ing, part-time, a BA in you want to continue to a dump on a desert in think EAO’s responsibili­ Anthropology and Geog­ live in a country famous sterile pond then make a Joanne M< ty lies with ’varsity. raphy, and next year will for its clean image then step towards prevention - EAO should be con­ be starting an MA in Ar­ you might just have to it is cheaper and easier Womens Rig cerned with the environ­ Greetings all. My name chaeology. I have been in­ make an effort to keep it than the cure. is an importa ment we have to work, is Simon Holroyd (though volved with mumerous that way. There are Vote for me as EAO campus. With eat, socialise and general­ just about everyone knows clubs over the years and numerous issues which we and I will make sure that students on Ca ly goof off in. me as Gort) and I would also with various Orienta­ as students can make a the students voice will be women, it is t EAO should be looking like to be your Environ­ tion and Capping events useful contribution noticed by the powerful!?) have an intei to improve the surround­ mental Affairs Officer for since 1985 (before I came towards remedying. Many and ignorant, and at the motivated V Sick of EAOs who do ings and environment we 1991, and think I am qual­ back to Varsity!!!!!). I of them are not only same time give you some­ main objective nothing when they are do this in. EAO might not ified to represent you pro­ was also captain of the damaging our environ­ one on Executive who without hostili elected to the position — be able to help you enjoy perly in that position. I Auckland University ment but are also poten­ knows what they’re talking tend to make I am. So I’ve decided to do going to ’varsity but they have had considerable ex­ Challenge team which tially detrimental to our about and understands aware of won something about it. But can certainly improve the perience around AUSA in came second (we were future economic situation. how your Association regardless of ] I’m not going to give you conditions you go to ’var­ the last 3 years (Craccum robbed!!!!) This does not mean just operates. This has not ferences. a dripply, bootllicking, sity in a great deal. co-editor 1988, CAO latter As EAO I would like to driftnet fishing but the been the case with many of For men anc sucking up speech about So if you want to see a half of 1989) and I know see more involvement other larger problem of the people you have put be equal requ how concerned I am with realistic, Ecology- all the people it’s impor­ from students in environ­ the wholesale pillaging of there in the last few years. standing and e the world today and the majoring BSc student as tant to know around the mental issues. I don’t New Zealand waters by Vote seriously, vote effec believe a posit horrible things that are EAO — vote for me. Students Association. In know about you but I ha- Foreign fishing fleets; not tively, vote Gort. towards won everybody else Sports Officer Cultural Affairs Officer essential for Joe Babich when party organisation is would like to and John Smit called for and also the or­ other member: ganisation of the more tive to see that business orientated side of Darren Kearney & Andrew Wickers Nicole Humphries 1) I will take as much things. money for my friends and Our most urgent project I as is humanly possible. Tonya Gre as we see it involves the \ ' 2) I will get my friends tidying up of ‘Shadows’ organise events. In ordi and the eating facilities to encourage them I will around campus. ’Shadows’ host competitions to see lost $20,000 last year who can lose the most and we see the prime cause money in a single event of this as being the reluc­ My name is Darren Outside of University I 3) I will make my office tance of students to drink Kearney. I am running have been on various com­ smell like a pair of gym in a dive. with Andrew Wickers for mittees in several sports at shoes. In order to aid this AUSA catering is in a the position of Sports local and provincial levels. process I will decorate it similar state. Our Univer­ Officer. My interest is to see that along the lines of the ill Hi, our names are Joe sity can be made into an all University Sports Tour­ fated ‘Bonk Space’ from Babich and John Smit. We attractive pleasant place Since beginning my naments are accessible to 1987. are standing for the posi­ which doesn’t need to rip studies in 1987 I have all sportspersons who may 4) I will eat as many free tion of Environmental Af­ us off simply to break helped to administer the wish to compete, from student meals as is possi­ This is our t fairs Officers because of even. Waterpolo Club as well as elite to social levels. I am ble, and I will encourage Auckland Un the keen interest we both We see wider environ­ competing at all Easter opposed to moves to make In my years at Univer­ my friends to join me. j Catriona, an have in the university and mental issues as also being Tournaments. these Tournaments open sity I have studied the stu­ 5) I will take all opportu­ Italian and La the surroundings. We have important and where prac­ This year I helped An­ only to serious competi­ dent politicos, and I am nities for free trips to Wel­ also in Law 1 limited experience in tical will provide an effi­ drew with the organisation tors in an attempt to des­ basing my campaign on lington so that I can attend will finish my university politicizing but cient student voice here of transport to Easter troy the fun times had by what they did (as opposed the Students Arts Council ical Studies th both have ample ability also. Thank you. Tournament. social sportspersons. to what they said). Meetings. « A A n Fa

8 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 ELECTIONS 1990 ELECTIONS 1990 ELECTIONS 1990 Craccum Editor Alison C om er President of International philosophy on life — I Jo M a cka y have a place. I want to House Resident’s Associa­ strongly believe in in­ cover everything from the tion and Treasurer of dividual rights for free­ arts (theatre, music) to po­ had a few years’ Field Club this year. In dom and free speech. I do litical issues, to the essen­ ce involved in 1987 I was the Editor of recognise that it is neces­ tial kultur of common i societies at the the IH’s annual magazine. sary to edit extreme offen­ student intemporances :e level, as well as Additionally I have skills siveness in a paper as (pubs, food and other experience in in data processing and broadly serving as Crac­ lusts), all with a liberal l control, and Computer use and exper­ cum, and would not hesi­ dose of humour. I aim to 5l I am a suitable ience in filing systems and tate to do so, preferably provide something worth ; for the position, organisation from library on consultation with the more than making a dry a Commerce stu- work. writer. Other than that, I seat in the quad with when tiave the formal In 1989/90 I was a would like to see as much it rains, something to di­ i assist me. member of the CAB and variety in Craccum as pos­ gest with your hot chips, in that position I was sible (as contributed in to laugh over, to inform have concerns made aware of the many other words). People can I’m Jo Mackay and I’m you, and a paper in which ident welfare and problems that are likely to choose not to read some­ standing for the position any student can be in­ ively against the beset a Craccum Editor. thing they are not interest­ of Craccum Editor for volved. s tuition fees, Often a lack of material ed in, but it is important 1991. As for experience, I input will provide and faulty equipment led that the material is there I’ve loads of ideas for a know how AUSA runs benefits to all to a late or low quality of for them to decide on in humourous and informa­ and who runs it, having Hello there. Alison who are employed by the issues, but indirectly a bur­ the first place. tive paper, with a high stu­ been on Exec all last year here. I’m running for the Craccum Administration eaucratic system must Finally I’d like to say dent involvement. and a student for 4 years. prestigious position of Board (CAB) directly (in­ hold a lot of the blame. that I’m a fairly aproach- Craccum is the only con­ I have been involved in 5 a serious posi Craccum Editor 1991. directly, of course, Execu­ I would like to see some able and easy going person tact a lot of students have contributing regularly to i I am a serious This year I am a full time tive have the final word). changes made. Specifical­ who recognises that every­ with the student union’s Craccum in the past, and ;, as it takes more student, finishing a BA The role of Editor in all ly, more use should be one has their own opinion activities, and so I believe have experience in organ­ ability to balance and continuing a Bsc, this is to oversee all the made of the computer at and as such I generally get it really important that it ising and initiating activi­ que book to be a which I will complete part- parts and to pull everyone Craccum, relying less on on with everyone and have return some value for mo­ ties as diverse as Easter r. Vote for me time next year. together to produce an the incredibly expensive a wide range of friends ney and provide informa­ Tourney, women’s dances entertaining and informa­ typesetting machine. Effi­ and contacts, in and out of tion on AUSA and on the and student elections. My Why do I think I can do tive paper. Hence the po­ cient and intelligent use of the tertiary education University — on how to aim is to provide as many the job? Presently the pro­ sition is orientated very available technology is a scene. I’m keen on produc­ use the system, make com­ students from as many dif­ duction of Craccum is car­ much towards adminis­ powerful tool in produc­ ing a Craccum next year plaints, locate the welfare ferent groups as possible. logging of native ried out by a team of tration. tion of such a newspaper that is well-organised, services, form a club, find I have a lot of energy, »ut the extremely people; the Editor (elected In this respect I feel ably and has been neglected by entertaining and informa­ a part-time job... you ideas and enthusiasm and lse of huge quan- by you) and several others, qualified. I have been Craccum Administrators tive. If you like that idea name it. Any issue con­ am willing to listen to native timber for including a technical edi­ involved in many organi­ in the past. too, vote for me on July cerning students, be it rug­ others. Please vote for me d; not just plastic tor, advertising manager sations in the past few My Editorial policy is 31 or August 1. by, Christianity, being and a new Craccum for ties but the whole and a features journalist, years, including a term as much the same as my Cheers. green or whatever will next year! of recycling. If ’t want NZ to be H Women's Rights Officer | Welfare Officer on a desert in a Dnd then make a Joanne McIntyre stead of only a few regu­ Paul Pa'u absolutely no experience in Association’s lack of con­ irds prevention - lars. Problems such as student politics, nor do I sultation with students to eaper and easier Womens Rights Officer harrassment and discrimi­ have (unlike other candi­ find out what they want). cure. is an important job on nation are still widespread dates) any really clear cut •Be more accountable to for me as EAO campus. With half of the on campus, and these need election policies (some call the students. 11 make sure that students on Campus being to be eliminated by mak­ them bribes). •Upgrade and modernise ents voice will be women, it is necssary to ing women aware that they But all that I can student facilities (eg pur­ >y the powerful!?) have an interested and can get help through many promise, it that as Welfare chase of more books for >rant, and at the motivated WRO. My channels on Campus. Officer I will try my the library, U.G.R.R.). ie give you some- main objective is equality I am a feminist but not hardest to effectively and These are just a few of Executive who without hostility — I in­ a radical; I believe in total efficiently provide for the my ideas. hat they’re talking tend to make all people eqiiality without aggres­ welfare of all students on But I want you all to ind understands aware of womens issues, sion or hostility, and I be­ Talofa Lava!!! My Campus. The only way of know that as Welfare >ur Association regardless of gender dif­ lieve I can do a good job name’s Paul Pa’u and I am achieving this in my opin­ Officer my main concerns . This has not ferences. as WRO. I’m only doing standing for the position ion is to: will be your interest and case with many of For men and women to two or three papers next of Welfare Officer for •Frequently consult the expectations, whether )le you have put be equal requires under­ year to finish my BA and 1991. student to find out which you’re black, white, Sa­ :he last few years, standing and education. I you’ll probably see me First, just a bit about issues they see as impor­ moan, European or iously, vote effec- believe a positive attitude around campus, so feel myself. I am an extremely tant, what problems they Martian. ote Gort. towards women’s (and functions are organised free to come and talk to unambitious Samoan first see as needing attention So when you go to vote everybody else’s) rights is that involve both sexes, me. I have heaps of time year BA Student whose and what they want done this month, vote for a stu­ essential for equality. I and to encourage the use and enthusiasm for what I only real concern at the about them (the thousands dent who has your in­ would like to work with of ‘Womens Space’ as a see as an important job, so moment is to get to stage of dollars lost at Orienta­ terests at heart. Hopefully other members of Execu­ place for all women to re­ vote for me on Tuesday 2. tion and the Graduation you’ll think that student’s tive to see that more social lax and have a coffee in- and Wednesday. To be honest I’ve got Ball are examples of the me. 11 take as much Dr my friends and umanly possible Tonya Greenway & Catriona Gordon the women at university. Greg Solomon student union for the good back to the lecturers. I be­ get my friends to We would like to intro­ of students. lieve this will enable stu­ events. In order duce women-only weight- In a term of office, my dents and lecturers to irage them I will -training times at the gym objectives would be to cre­ work together to make im­ npetitions to see and provide ground-level ate more creche space by agination, rather than i lose the most baby-changing facilities in negotiating with commu­ regurgitation, the core of n a single event the Quad area. We also nity creches for student what we’re doing here at make my office want to invite speakers places, to arrange pharma­ university. I see that this :e a pair of gym from the wider communi­ cy discounts as an exten­ can only work to make l order to aid this ty to address women and sion of student health, to students more employable I will decorate it men on matters relevant to devote time to attracting and higher paid, both ie lines of the women in society. We employers to Student Job when they graduate and onk Space’ from want to see more women Search, and to increase the while they’re here. To me, utilising Womenspace and employability of students. employment is the answer eat as many free other facilities offered on Hi, I’m Greg Solomon, I’d like to do this by to many student money meals as is possi- This is our third year at Law degree. Both of us campus. We do not wish and I’m doing Stage II working with the Educa­ hassles. I will encourage Auckland University. I, have three more years to alienate men; rather we Maths and Physics for a tion Vice President in I feel that these are all ids to join me. Catriona, am studying ahead of us at varsity and would like them to become BSc. gearing up the student issues the student union take all opportu- Italian and Latin and am we want to get off the side­ more at ease with fem- I’m standing for Wel­ representative system to should be thinking about. • free trips to Wel- also in Law 1. I, Tonya, lines and get involved in inisim. fare Officer because I be­ encourage students to be I’d encourage you to vote, o that I can attend will finish my BA in polit­ Student Politics. As main­ So get out there and lieve I have the enthusiasm critical of what they’re and also to use the services ents Arts Council ical Studies this year and stream Feminists we feel vote for us on Tuesday and ability necessary to learning, and to ensure of the people you have put s. then go on to complete a we can better represent all and Wednesday. fully use the powers of the that the criticisms make it into office.

Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 9 International Affairs Officer | Studer al Affairs Officer, and should I be elected to this lieve that it is important and render assistance tute of International Af­ Michael-Garnet Robert Bern Holt those who do, know that position, I will undertake for students to become towards international situ­ fairs (Auckland branch). it’s normally a complete to perform the tasks of aware of the world and its ations that affect students In offering myself as a waste of student money on I.A.O. as described below, issues. at AU — for example, Ti­ candidate for your selec­ telephone, office space, and should it be pointed 2) To fully assist interna­ ananmen Square. tion as I.A.O., I am giving etc. out that I was failing in tional organisations that 5) I have lived and taught you the option of someone Frankly, the fact that this regard, and with just­ have branches on campus English overseas and will who has no hidden agen­ there is an I.A.O. benefits ification, then I will as well as representations centralise available infor­ da, who actively supports very few students on cam­ resign! of current human rights is­ mation to assist AU stu­ nor opposes no particular pus, and this is mostly due sues on campus. Obvious dents who may want to group on campus and who to the fact that most can­ 1) To fully cooperate with examples of these are Am­ consider doing the same. wants to take a genuine in­ didates for I.A.O. view it all clubs and societies on nesty International, 6) To perform other Ex­ ternational interest one as a cushy office for their campus that have an inter­ Greenpeace, Radio Sandi- ecutive functions in an step further. mates to lounge about in. national flavour so as to no and others. honest, impartial and con­ I earnestly plead with Not Anymore assist them to exhibit their 3) To bring speakers and siderate manner. every student to vote on 16,000 students don’t culture or politics to stu­ organisations onto cam­ Next year, I will be the 31st and the 1st, hope­ care about the I.A.O.’s dents. This would include pus so as to present their completing my major in fully for me, but at least personal politics (unless to helping them to use all views to students. Politics and Korean for someone. You’ll only My name is R< extreme), but they should available AUSA services 4) To form a sub-commit- Studies. I was briefly have yourselves to blame nett and I am n expect to get some value to which they are entitled. tee (as required under the, I.A.O. in 1989 as a result if you allow apathetic ex­ S.R.C. Chair. Most students reading from the holder of the po­ Regardless of the persua­ AUSA Constitution) to as­ of a bilelection and I am ecutive to get on through The S.R.C. C this probably don’t know sition. sion or extremity of a sist in the above, and more currently a committee apathetic voting. duty to stimul AUSA has an Internation­ I hereby state that given group’s views, I be­ importantly, to consider member of the N.Z. Insti­ Thank you. taining, constr languages. Because I feel from overseas, we need to Francisco da Gama and Victoria ,Logan discussions. bate on all is Auckland University keep up with develop­ b) Action motivators - effect students i should have more contact ments overseas so as to be provide a forum for dif­ the future. with overseas universities I more prepared!!!!! ferent international in­ The whole un intend to invite speakers Having been on ex­ terest groups on campus. perience, not jv on to campus to initiate change I want to ensure For example encouraging make an e student exchanges so as to that other people have this articles to Craccum and S.R.C. as the s share information and chance. I will also support organising cultural, social rum for debate ideas and encourage the any clubs on campus who events etc. concept of a global com­ want to promote aware­ We’re Francisca and ent solidarity groups in Generally we aim to H Nation munity. As an enthusiastic ness of overseas events as Victoria and we’re stand­ Auckland. We have also promote student aware­ supporter of the ‘Green’ the International Affairs ing for the position of In­ both travelled overseas ness of overseas issues as Vangelis V Movement. Officer should be there to ternational Affairs Officer and realised that New well as to let others know I think it is important to encourage these activities. for 1991. Next year we’ll Zealand has a lot to offer what is happening here in ‘Think Globally and Act As the only Greens Candi­ be doing part time studies and learn from other New Zealand. Locally’ in all issues as well date running for AUSA I to finish our B.A.s in countries. Our main ob­ We are experienced and as environmental ones. As have a broader perspective Spanish and Political jective as IAOs would be: capable for this position so many of the changes the and a true interest in inter- Studies so we’ll have time vote for us on July 31st My name is Jennifer Labour Government has naitonal affairs. The Earth to devote to this position. a) Educational — to invite and August 1st. We want Marshall. I am a 3rd year made eg... increased fees can’t vote but you can, so Our interests stem from guest lecturers to speak on your contribution now student in marketing and which have been copied ‘VOTE GREEN.’ our involvement in differ­ campus, have videos and and next year. | Clubs & Societies Representative From the co gave you Plato, Alan Newman Nicholas Pullar numerous things that both bureaucracy of AUSA Aphrodite, Ale however, has been in as­ I, and AUSA can do, to from the inside, as it were. Great, Achille sisting AUSA to cope with help you run a successful I have also been involved course, Con the the financial losses which Hello, many of you club. This has been a with the Grants allocation comes Vangeli: were revealed to the Ex­ know of me already. My major problem in the past, procedure this year, and am standing in ecutive halfway through name is Nick Pullar, and and I intend to see that it therefore have knowledge coming electio the first term. This was I am running for the Clubs is rectified. In addition, I of the workings of that done by presenting a list of and Societies Rep for shall endeavour to keep particular aspect of the proposals for loss preven­ 1991. For the many of you regular ‘office hours’ so Clubs and Socs job. A vo­ Barry Kirker tion to the Treasurer and involved in the activities of that you can always con­ cal Atheist, some of you his Finance Committee. one or other club you will tact me in person. As well, may be wondering how I The best of these were the know how important this as many of you will be can keep impartiality, with proposals that Shadows position is. aware, the Grants alloca­ so many Christian groups should not be permitted to If elected to this posi­ tion this year has been a affiliated to AUSA. This repeat its 1989 loss of tion for 1991,1 will, work­ farce, and I intend to do is simple, while wearing $20,000 and that Crac­ ing off this year’s my utmost to see that each my Clubs and Soc’s hat, it cum, which had already experience, seek to im­ club gets a fair grant. will be my job to be fair. been give an increased prove the mechanisms that A final word about my­ Since my views are so well Hello my name is Alan Affairs Officer and since budget in order to employ are already in place to as­ self. I am a third year known, I can hardly be ac­ Newman and I want you that is a light portfolio, I a professional journalist, sist club-Executive com­ Philosophy major, and cused of having a secret to elect me to the position have undertaken a wide should not be allowed to munications. In order to next year will be starting agenda! of Clubs and Societies range of general duties. I run over budget. These achieve this, I will, if elect­ my Masters. Last year I Vote Nick Pullar on the representative. Since I re­ am student representative propositions, and a num­ ed, ensure that every club started my own club 31st and 1st: for a fair, tired from the workforce to Senate, Discipline Com­ ber of other manipulations will, on its affiliation, ‘Freethinkers’, and there­ honest, and capable rep, to come to University in mittee and Academic invented by Wayne, receive a detailed package fore know how it feels to with YOUR interests at | M edia 1985,1 have been actively Committee, where I have brought over budget blow­ from me detailing the be involved with the heart. involved in the Debating spoken out in favour of out under control, and set Jarrod Beni open access and low fees. the stage for the accoun­ Society, the Tramping zy?”, I hear you ask? tive, make new friends, 3rd year B-Cor tant approving a $50,000 Club, the old Labour I have successfully forced Because by taking the and become involved in C.A.B. rep 199 Commerce Faculty to re­ overdraft for Sports, Pub­ Party Club, the New office I will be giving my­ activities that personally Pub. Grants C< Labour Party Club, and view a plan to raise the lications, and Clubs self the massive task of interest them , be it the Scuba Diving Club. mathematical entry stan­ grants. Without these con­ helping AUSA get rid of religion, drugs, or butter­ I have been Treasurer of dard. I have been an active trol measures, which the the problem of student fly collecting. two of these clubs, and member of the Education Treasurer described as ‘un­ apathy, by making stu­ I am well qualified for Ross McLec membership Secretary of Action Group which or­ heard of for any Executive dents more aware of what the job having been in­ 3rd year BA St one of them. ganised the march down in his memory’, the over­ AUSA can, and does do volved in heaps of various Media Officer Queen Street, and I served draft for grants would for them. clubs at university since SUMC Rep 191 I am systematic in my on the sub-committee have been so imprudent as Clubs at University I’ve been here (two years), Pres. Auck. Ui approach to work and which reviewed the posi­ to have been impossible. form an integral part of and can count on the full Society have the organising abili­ tion of Social Activities So I claim credit for the the non academic (i.e. support of my mother, ty to make sure that the Officer in order to appoint fact that you have got Hi. My name’s Brendan FUN) side of campus life, Nellie the Elephant and administrative side of the someone who is compe- grants this year, which is McLachlan, and I’m crazy and by giving the club’s a Doug Sadlier; so why not Clubs and Societies job tant to run orientation at why you should elect me enough to be applying for higher profile I will be giv­ give me your support as Gidday, our runs smoothly. a profit rather than a loss. as Clubs and Societies the office of ‘clubs and so­ ing students the chance to well and make 1991 a year Jarrod Bennett I am currently National My main achievement, Repersentative for 1991. cieties’ next year. “Cra­ become more socially ac­ to remember. McLeod and w<

10 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 ELECTIONS 1990 ELECTIONS 1990 ELECTIONS 1990 | Students' Representative Council Chairperson [•national Af- its part in the process. In - and branch), Robert Bennett possible in one swift orgy Angus Oglivie providing entertaining de­ cern to all. The position of my letters to Craccum this of refurbishing and res­ bate on any issue of con­ S.R.C. Chair is what the g myself as a A year I have tried to en­ cern, relevant or irrele­ >r your selec- tructuring. Inefficiency in Chairperson wants to courage debate. To this these areas is mostly at­ vant. It has been in the >., I am giving make it. But it does need end I have occasionally tx-. >n of someone tributable to high staffing past, and can be in the fu­ a lift, guest speaker invit­ pressed views with which I ture, more than just a hidden agen- levels. Said levels are set ed to speak on a matter of do not totally agree. As an mundane, routine meeting vely supports down in awards negotiat­ interest, committees estab­ S.R.C. Chair I would con­ in the Quad every Wednes­ lished to look into issues no particular ed by past executives tinue to promote debate. npus and who wanting to ensure that the day lunchtime. of importance, and make Along with the S.R.C. student body did not ex­ ; a genuine in­ Both Robert Bennett, S.R.C. what you want it to Chair portfolio goes the interest one ploit the workers. The my opponent in this elec­ be. privilege of an Exec posi­ overlgenerous awards saw tion, and myself, are quite I am already one of tion. The responsibilities y plead with to it that the workers ex­ capable of chairing a your representatives on of Executive are to rep­ it to vote on ploited the student body. m eeting. But I want Senate, and I have been resent the interests of stu­ the 1st, hope- The only way to reduce I am a fourth year arts stu­ S.R.C. to be more than President of N.O.R.M.L. dents vis-a-vis the Univer­ staff levels is by negotiat­ but at least dent, and my decision to just another meeting. We for two years. I am also a ;. You’ll only sity, the Government, and ing the award which is stand for the position of can use it as a forum to member of the Maidment | My name is Robert Ben­ Ives to blame our employees. To this protected by law. S.R.C. Chairperson was lobby politicians on any Arts committee. I believe nett and I am running for apathetic ex­ end I am committed to: Renegotiation needs Exec made on a number of number of issues. We can that I can understand the S.R.C. Chair. it on through •Student Autonomy members who are in Exec grounds. For those stu­ use it as a check against variety of student opinion •ting, The S.R.C. Chair has a •Free Education for the long haul and who dents that have been here potential excesses of pow­ of campus, even if I can’t u. duty to stimulate enter­ •An end to Union exploi­ have interest in the law. I for a while, we can all er by our association ex­ always agree with all of it. taining, constructive de­ tation of students. am such a student (law remember this campus as ecutive. But most of all, But for an S.R.C. Chair­ bate on all issues that and with a B.A.). This a fun place to be and we can all be involved in person to be effective and notivators - effect students now and in Every candidate year I played an important spend our days. For stu­ making decisions about appropriate, that chairper­ arum for dif- the future. promises to make role in negotiations and a dents arriving in 1990, it our own lives at Universi­ son must be able to take mational in- The whole university ex­ Shadows, Catering and personal grievance hearing must have been a disap­ ty. I want to ‘market’ student concerns to Execu­ s on campus. perience, not just classes, the Administration run (nine hours long!) with the pointment to arrive at a S.R.C. to students as a tive without personal bias. ; encouraging make an education. more efficiently and even, association’s solicitors. I university lacking fun and meeting where there is en­ This I can promise you, Craccum and | S.R.C. as the student fo­ to make money. Such im­ have the necessary ex­ entertainment. I know the tertaining debate, and and with your help, we can ultural, social rum for debate must play provement are just not perience. Vote for me. potential of the S.R.C. in contentious issues of con­ all change this place!

we aim to National Affairs Officer udent aware- seas issues as Vangelis Vitalis position of National Af­ is currently sorely lacking. The theme of my cam­ ion has been the loss of Many students are una­ t others know fairs Officer. (N.A.O.) As The second priority, as paign is accountability. To large sums of money. I ware that Exec members aening here in I see it the position of Na­ I see it, is for students to this end I will be placing a feel a reason for this state enjoy free meals at the Un­ d. tional Affairs Officer has have available to them, at notice on my office door, of affairs has been the lack ion restaurant. Who pays? perienced and two interconnected sides a moment’s notice, infor­ should you elect me. On of informed decision mak­ You do. This must be his position so to it. One’s role as mation on the govern­ this notice will be times ing. If I am elected I will stopped. The Exec should on July 31st N.A.O., and the fact that ment’s and opposition that I will be available to be urging the Treasurer to not enjoy special priviliges 1st. We want one has a voice on the Stu­ group’s policies as they af­ listen to students. I will al­ produce a regular (say ev­ at the cost of the rest of ibution now dent Executive. fect students. I will write ways be available to listen, ery two months) budget. us. I can tell you I will not ar. If I were elected to the to the various parties ask­ not simply when I am in This will be made out in be doing this, and will position of N.A.O. my ing them to place me on my office, but around plain language, so that I, urge the Exec to stop as From the country that first priority would be to their mailing lists. Thus campus, at Shadows, at and the Exec can make well. gave you Plato, Aristotle, get in contact with the whenever a student wish­ lectures and at my home. more informed decisions. To conclude then, ac­ r of AUSA Aphrodite, Alexander the other National Affairs es to know about some na­ My home phone number I will further support a countability and availabil­ ide, as it were, Great, Achilles * and of Officers at other universi­ tional issue, I will have will also be on my office motion that minutes of ity will be my watchwords. been involved course, Con the Fruiterer, ties. In this way there that information for them. door, should you elect me Exec meetings appear in In the immortal words of ints allocation comes Vangelis Vitalis. I would exist greater coordi­ The other focus of the as N.A.O. Craccum. This way stu­ Con the Fruiterer, I will be his year, and am standing in the forth­ nation among the student position of N.A.O. is that One of my major con­ dents will also know what ‘working, working, work­ ve knowledge coming elections for the unions, in a way that I feel of having a vote on Exec. cerns with the Student Un­ their elected reps are up to. ing, w orking...... ’ Icings of that tspect of the ocs job. Avo- Barry Kirker Ciao, I’m Barry Kirker students ideas by having a continuing fight against fare. As NAO I would Through better feasibility some of you and I’m keen to be 1991 very open door and ap­ the fees, in particular actively and effectively do studies I feel that the idering how I AUSA National Affairs proachable personality. I making sure that pressure my job of representing wasteage of money that aartiality, with Officer. 1991 will be the would keep prominent the is maintained in order to and safeguarding student occurred this year can be ristian groups last year of my B.A. in importance of Education ensure that (if National are interests. prevented from reoccur­ AUSA. This Psychology and Politics. itself; as what brings us all elected) the Minister of As a member of the vot­ ring. I feel that the time vhile wearing 1990 has been a year in together, and as some­ Education’s promise to ing executive I would try I’ve spent at both Canter­ id Soc’s hat, it which I’ve followed my be­ thing which we should be wipe the fee in 1992 is to bring about more effec­ bury and Otago Universi­ ob to be fair. lief that university is more able to excell in without kept. There is likely to be tive use of the union fees ties, as well as my visits to :ws are so well than just a place to study, too many obstacles. As a number of domesic is­ that you pay, I would like the other four ’varsities, l hardly be ac- it’s a lifestyle. If elected I National Affairs Officer, sues and Government poli­ to be able to show students has given me a good per­ iving a secret would push for a better under a probable Nation­ cies arising in 1991 that a tangible relationship be­ spective on the N.Z. campus feeling and social al Government, I would be will be detrimental to stu­ tween their fees and the university scene. Vote Bar­ ; Pullar on the atmosphere, drawing on strongly involved in the dents’ educattion and wel­ benefits they receive. ry Kirker. t: for a fair, capable rep, t interests at | Media Officer

Jarrod Ben net dia Officer collective this Karen Ball Officer for 1991. Unfor­ ...I will maintain my ex­ new friends, 3rd year B-Com Student year. If elected, we will tunately I am a tad plonk­ treme belief in the power 2 involved in C.A.B. rep 1990 seek to work as smoothly, ed and have lost the of the press. The media in­ iat personally Pub. Grants Comm. Rep and assist the Craccum number of the dude who stead of working against hem, be it 1990 Editor, as the collective called me so I can ask for you will work with you lgs, or butter­ has this year. As to the advice. Nevertheless my and for you. My manipu­ s' role as a member of Ex­ brain is still intact and lation of the media with qualified for Ross M cLeod ecutive, we want to see the cause is not lost. I do as the help of the Prez will ring been in- 3rd year BA Student Association continue to will you, see the need for bring you deserved atten­ aps of various Media Officer 1990 work towards becoming a me to be your Media tion. We can stop student liversity since SUMC Rep 1989 better service organisa­ Officer. Not only will I fees, high bar and cafe re (two years), Pres. Auck. Uni. Cricket tion, and an effective stu­ competently cope with ad­ costs and regain student mt on the full Society dent voice on Education ministrative jobs such as unity and antilapathy feel­ my mother, issues. We have no politi­ squeezing resources at of ings through publicity and Elephant and cal wheelbarrows to push It’s Monday night I’ve unthinkable avenues, pressure. ;r; so why not ing for Media Officer for on Executive either. We decided, in response to a meaning that our Eds for I’ll see you when I ur support as Gidday, our names are 1991. Both of us have would greatly^ appreciate phone call by Des some­ Craccum will have the relieve you from your ke 1991 a year Jarrod Bennett and Ross knowledge about the job, your vote, thanks for your body to have a spiel about tools required to give you boredom and have a rave :r. McLeod and we’re stand­ and Ross is one of the Me­ time. my ambitions as Media guys vital information but in your lecture.

Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 11 WOMANSPACE SPACE Intc

“The pornography in­ women. To remain silent — and then later on she 1 and health problems. The either way, we can’t dustry depends of sexual about the porn industry tells the other man how majority of anorexian and win...!!!! A n in te r violence for its existence. and those who work in it, she enjoyed it. bulimia sufferers are THE ‘NEW’ PORNO­ ‘Hard’ pornography de­ is to collude in their op­ women — intense pressure GRAPHY of W a ita n c picts women or children pression and our own.” d) Lying about women’s to be slim has been at­ Over the past ten years or at A u c k la r being raped, beaten, vio­ Ref: 'Spare Rib' — British sexuality. Many porno­ tributed as one of the main lated by animals, mutilat­ Feminist June 1990 graphic books, magazines, causes of both diseases. so, the treatment of wom­ Professor la ed and murdered. All the Magazine film and videos have so- For coloured and han­ en in pornography has got QC, ChilcheU a lot worse. This theme of children, and most of the called lesbian love’ scenes. dicapped women this pres- of public inten men’s power over women women who are depicted DEFINITION OF POR­ The ‘lesbian’ are portrayed I sure to ‘fit in’ and ‘look at Oxford Ur is very blatant. Women in pornography have been NOGRAPHY as enjoying rough and I right’ is even worse. Black delivering four coereced by violence or often violent sex, without women are at the butt of are shown as being beaten the theme of “1 peverty or both. Many are a) Showing woman as any care, emotion or racist comments. Many up, having hot irons held indigenous pe< injured in the cource of mere sex objects. For ex­ respect for her partner. black women try to to their breasts and vagi­ His general j na, meat hooks through producing the pornogra­ ample, the pin-up in Truth Lesbian sex is shown to be achieve a ‘white’ standard the Treaty of phy. Some are killed. The is included in the a preliminary to the ‘real’ of beauty, a standard their breasts; bound in that it creates ] murderers shown in ‘snuff newspaper for men to leer thing. which is virtually impossi­ chains. Women today in well as solut films are real not fantasy. at, to judge the women’s ble to achieve. How often pornography are not only important he In the discussions and breast, face, body etc. It As well as portraying does a Polynesian women shown treated in the most place the Trc debates between feminists does not respect the wom­ women and children in win the Miss New Zealand ruthless of ways — but are context of mo< about pornography there an as an intelligent, fully these ways, for material to contest? shown enjoying this treat­ ‘man —handled,’ raped ments creati: has been an emphasis on functioning human being. be pornographic it must ment. One video legally abused: we are shown to rights standarc the effects of pornograph­ She is degraded to a ‘body’ also endorse the above Fashion generally for available in Wellington, be masochisticm that is en­ binding on thi ic imagery, rather than the for men reading the paper messages. For example, women is designed to res­ shows a women being vio­ joying pleasure through land governmi nature of the production to enjoy. the Canadian film ‘Not a trict our movement and lently raped. She is bashed pain, whilest men derive He is supe of pornography. This has b) Showing women and Love Story’, a film about our bodies, and to show semi-unconconscious and pleaseure through inflict­ doctoral resear tells the audience, T been problematic in a children as avcailable to be pornography, has many off as much of our ‘figure’ ing pain. Zealander at C figured it would happen to number of ways. It has abused or terrorised. explicit scenes taken from as possible. For example edict Kingsbu] a girl that lived the way I helped contribute to the Many films etc. play on pornographic magazines, skin-tight jeans and skirts Susans Brownmiller’s international myth that feminists oppos­ the ‘bad girl’ image, which videos and live sex shows. that women virtually have did’. As she is raped she Against Our Will: Men, of the Treaty. ing pornography are at­ tells the audience the cer­ However, the film does to hobble in to move. It says she is ‘beyond caring Women and Rape, first As well as tc tacking the women who tain women are ‘asking to not condone the way was a known fact that — I realized that only this published in 1975, em­ Professor Bn man could give me what I work in the porn industry. be’ raped of ’disciplined’ women and children are tight corsets which were phasised the role of por­ member o f the wanted.’ Then, ‘I felt his This has not in fact been by boyfriends etc. Quite being treated. In fact, it the fashion eighty or so nography in promoting with a heavy p] hands around my neck — the case. often this involves women uses those scenes to teach years ago caused major rape. She says: ternational la Those who support the workers, secretaries, people the horror of por­ liver and spleen damage. I was being strangled. I “ It is no accident (for done professi ‘right to produce pornog­ nurses, etc dressed in nography. So, rather than We got rid of the corset — was being punished — if what else could be its pur­ for some 26 st; raphy’, including some ‘provocative’ clothes, who being pornographic we see but seem to have traded in only I had chosen a differ­ pose?) that females in the ing advocai ent road.’ The camera then feminists, have argued ‘ask to be’ sexually this film as an excellent in for other types of pornographic genre and international 1 moves to a shot of her face that sex workers make a harassed. educational tool. clothes instead!!! depicted in two cleanly At the Mac choice and must speak for — mouth open, eyes delineated roles: as virgins ley pipeline inc glazed and then over to themselves. c) Showing women and Ref: Women Against While many men disire who are caught and he made subi This notion of ‘choice’ is children as willing to be Pornography 1984 — women to wear these sorts her breasts and crotch. ‘banged’ or as nym­ behalf o f the E complex, and can only be hurt: enjoying pain; want­ W ellington of ‘sexy’ clothes, when we And so the video ends with phomaniacs who are never from the Cant the rape and murder of a discussed in terms of ing to be manipulated and do we are frequently told sated. The most popular woman. But if doesn’t tell women’s economic, polit­ exploited by men. One HOW DOES THIS EF­ we are just waiting to be and prevalent porno­ the viewer that raping and ical and social situation. video available in Welling­ FECT US AS WOMEN raped or sexually haras­ graphic fantasy combines Clearly, it is a priority in ton shops, is about a sed. One clerical worker, killing women in wrong; the two: an innocent, un­ the struggle women wage young ‘girl’ — a woman Most women feel in­ who had been seriously on the contrary, it tells the tutored female is raped viewer that women enjoy / against the sex industry, dressed as a school girl — credible pressure to con­ harassed at her work, took and ‘subjected to unnatur­ being beaten, the women that those women who are who speaks as though she form to society’s standard the case to the Union. The al practices’ that turn her enjoy being raped, and directly involved in that in­ is nine years old. She is of beauty. We are cons­ Union fought the case, into a raving, slobbering that certain women de­ dustry speak for them­ kidnapped by a gang of tantly being subjected to seeking compensation nymphomaniac, a depen­ serve to be killed. It also 32 selves, and are ensured two men and a woman. advertisers telling us how from her employers. At dant sexual slave who can C W teaches men that rape and access to the platforms to Although she is held cap­ to look, how to lose the Arbitration Court the never get enough of the O3 J5 m • do so. However, although tive, she is portrayed as weight, smell right etc. For employers argued that ‘she murder is not a crime, but big, ample cock. a turn-on. Q o = pornography most direct­ having a good time. There many women this continu­ wore provocative clothes There can be no ‘equli- <« ly affects those women is one scene where she is al pressure to look ‘right’ to work — it is obvious ty’ in porn, no female Ref: Women Against equivalent, no turning of who work in the industry, raped — she is shown results in lack of self es­ that she enjoyed the sexu­ BE £ Pornography — Welling­ the tables in the name of 3 C -O its effects are felt by all struggling and protesting teem, severe depression, al attention she got.’ So, O Ē c ton 1984 bawdy fun. Pornography, (D •* o05 05S’ (/) L_ "O like rape, is a male inven­ ■OQ_ C To quote the British tion, designed to de­ ft u O 03 O 4-0^“ group, Women Against humanize women, to C br c/D Violence Against Women: reduce the female to an ■0<03-5 ‘kl

power — men’s power to free sensuality from C ^ — over women. In it we are moralistic or parental inhi­ O C seen as vulnerable, help­ bition.” Q3C/D less, open, submissive and C • longing to be violated. Ref: Pornography, NZ At However the woman is Report of the Ministerial f portrayed in porn, whe­ Committee of Inquiry ther as enjoying or resist­ 1989. ing, the purpose is to give men pleasure and to in­ The latest in New crease their power over us Zealand check out the re­ ... the central themes are cent Listener’s article on the domination, control, the controversy surround­ humilitation, mulilation ing the new Bendon add and even murder of wom­ with ‘The Body’ Elle en. Porn is dangerous and McPhearson. deliberate propaganda for men, legitimising and en­ User Friendly Pornog­ couraging their view of us raphy Computer Porn, he as mere objects for their can slip in the disc during use ... The images of his lunch break at work. women portrayed in por­ ‘Why are men so ob­ nography are a true sessed about sex that they representation of what have to plug in in all the 64 Hi men think female sexuali­ time.’ Telepl ty is. We like to be Jill Norman

12 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 International Perspective on the Treaty

An international lawyer from Britain will explore Treaty of W aitangi issues in the 1990 Sir Douglas Robb lectures at Auckland University next month. Professor Ian Brownlie west. He was counsel for Sometimes a joker sees something that leaves him breathless. Those Elle McPher­ QC, Chilchele professor Greenpeace International son billboards are in that category, and so was the performance by the All Blacks of public international law in the arbitration with in the first test against the Ockers. Ho, ho, ho, they sent those sons of sheep- at Oxford Univeristy, is France arising from the delivering four lectures on destruction of the Rain­ stealers away from Lancaster Park with their tails well and truly between their legs. the theme of “Treaties and bow Warrior. By Jingoes, they played tainly turned the table on day, then Lynn of Tawa indigenous peoples.” He was one of the coun­ a ripper. They had a clear the Aussies too. What was should start giving elocu­ His general approach to sel and advocates working dominance throughout the thought to be an NZ tion lessons and Roger the Treaty of Waitangi is for Nicaragua in the case match, and it was only in weakness was turned into Douglas would make a that it creates problems as brought by that country the lineouts that the Aus- a strength. Those two great social worker. well as solutions. It is against the United States sies looked anything like tackled hard all day and It was sad to see the important he believes, to in the International Court competitive. The Kiwi made some telling runs up Manly boys go down to place the Treaty in the of Justice over the mining loosies had a dynamic per­ the centre. And JK was the Newcastle Knights. context of modern instru­ of Nicaragua’s harbours formance, with Mike Bre­ back in top flight as well. Sad to see Ridgy Didgy get idled,’ raped ments creating human and the covert war there. work: Group rights and wer leading the charge. He injured, but I guess the ; are shown to rights standards which are He is currently involved in He was right up to top best team won on the day. self-determination. really answered his critics, sticm that is en- binding on the New Zea­ three cases before the pace when he took the ball I’m gonna put the kiss of August 7 — Indigenous repeatedly being first to asure through land government. International Court. One, the breakdown of play and and beat Campese to death on the Sea Eagles brought by Nauru against peoples: A relevant jst men derive He is supervising the making some scything score his try. Crowley and now though, and pick doctoral research of a New Australia involves a claim concept? hrough inflict- tackles. He didn’t have a Fitzy played good games them to win the Winfield Zealander at Oxford, Ben­ for the cost of rehabilitat­ August 9 — Waitangi: lot of competition from as well, though by neces­ Cup. I just hope this pre­ edict Kingsbury, into the ing the worked out phos­ More a problem than a his opposite number but sity in differing styles. diction doesn’t ruin their international law aspects solution? Brownmiller’s phate land in the period Crowley showed pace chances too much. And, The lectures are in B28, ya can’t take anything ur Will: Men, of the Treaty. before independence. away from him — he pla­ when he hit the line and I’m making another pre­ As well as teaching law, Professor Brownlie 57, Library Building,'5 Alfred id Rape, first yed like a man possessed. looked good in defense. diction too. I’m picking Professor Brownlie is a has written several major Street, starting 8pm. 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Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 13 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NZUSU EX ELECTION!

Craccum welcomes letters to the editor from readers, on subjects of concern. These may be sent to us, or delivered Nominations are (as indicated). Letters should preferably be typed (or written the following po neatly) on one side of the paper only. Short letters are DELIVER TO POST TO FAX TO Executive Comr preferred over long ones. All letters must include name, Craccum, 3rd Floor, Craccum, Craccum, New Zealand address and telephone numbers of the writer, even if a non- Student Union Building, Auckland University Students Association, Auckland University Sports Union (In de-plume is used. Obscene language may be deleted at the Auckland University. Private Bag, Students Assoc Inc, I President editors' discretion, provided this does not appreciably alter or ATISA Office, ATI. Auckland. (09) 303-2236. Vice President the intended meaning of the letter. Treasurer 3 Committee M< ticles 'Rating Famous Men's it does not cause sexism. Any­ can live happily ever after. They , FESTERING BOIL REUBEN RUBBISH MATE FOR LIFE Interested partie Bodies' and 'Build your own one with a open mind can ap­ can be fed on a diet of milk and Dear Eds Dear Craccum Eds a curriculum vita Bondage and Discipline Cham­ preciate a Playboy centrefold, liverwurst sandwiches. It will "If voting changed anything I am writing in response to Greenies are pathetic mind­ Executive Direct ber' (Cleo, March 1990, pages a Rubens, a Cosmo centrefold allow for better domestication It would be illegal" what 'Reupen P Chappie' wrote less dweebs. This country is NZUSU 74 and 75 and 118, respec­ or Michelangelo's David and of a pet yak. - Anonymous bog-wall artist in the Craccum on the 16th of being thrown into Third World PO Box 28-200 tively). still appreciate women or men Also, I believe that everone Fester Knicely, being the July. status by ignorant trendies that Wellington Under most of the previous as human beings. Sexual in­ should be capitalist - a theory cunning slime that he is, got his I don't know if I am being don't realise they are being correspondent's definition, terest and respect are not which big Roger Pym is against. by Wednesday naive, but I hope he is joking, manipulated. The Coromandel hand stuck in that hole above these could be rated as sexist mutually exclusive. Sexual You are a large fat cigarette ash Nominations will especially in the last section of Watchdog hierachy is a group the urinal in the men's crapper - but they're not. It's sexy. identity and human rights are containing marshmellow. Why ted from the flo< up in Shadows, couldn't get his this letter. I don't understand of ex-Aucklanders who screw­ Sexism is a personal state of tied together, and it is our don't you run back to mummy? ter General Meeti nomination in for the Portfolio why he has to be so over the ed the system in the late 70's mind, an attitude. I have no responsibility and right to be bye! be held at the Officers Election (probably due top with his labels - surely and early 80's. They now live problems with the above men­ able to focus on one part dents Union on V that is simply being childish. It as part-time hippies in a semi­ to its size) and the end result is tioned articles. I would not without ignoring the rest that is Yours in Slime August at 6.30p makes me wonder if something alternative lifestyle with their that now he may never be able have a problem if the sexual the human whole - for men, The Great Grey Slug said often enough by a person BMW's parked behind the pot­ to prove the above assertion target was females, for and women of all sexual orien­ PS: RM Bennett sux twice as eventually becomes what they tery studio. Their guilt for their correct. heterosexual males' excitation, tations. much as he did last week. Fester may be (and have) a believe, even if it started off as behaviour before they moved or males, for homosexual males Playboy is not sexist. Neither PPS: I am still a liverwurst a 'joke'. into the Coromandel region and AUSA ELEi lot of things but he is certainly excitation. is Pink Triangle. Neither de­ sandwich. no quitter. Accordingly, I wish A few things that he said are, their concern about mining RM Bennett's and Nichole grade the sexual interest. NMG PPS: I am now 1 .38624 pints The AUSA por in my opinion, true, but the way companies lowering Real Estate to announce that Mr F. Knice­ Humphries' statements in the could do, if it was taken seri­ of slightly rancid banana elections will be ly is putting himself back in the it was presented, wrapped in prices are the only forces that 16 July issue that (Pink Trian­ ously. I suggest that Nicole flavoured milk. 31st July and W rubbish, discredited the entire drive these selfish people to race for Extraterrestrial Officer. gle) "is printed by gays for Humphries, RM Bennett and PPPPS: Slugs unite with corn­ August. A schec thing. mount a propaganda campaign Since this position doesn't ex­ gays, no other group is involved Rhubarb get off their High flakes to kill an Egyption corset booth locations In future, would it be possi­ against mining companies. ist, yet, Fester has asked that there fore no group is degrad­ Horses and find some Common posted in the AU ble to put letters that contain Anyone who supports Coro­ 1,000 of his supporters add his ed” is riduculousl! Are you say­ Ground. along with a lis nothing of interest to anyone, mandel Watchdog is a mindless name to any of the portfolio po­ ing that the depiction of nude Hopefully, this will be the last didates. except perhaps to the writer dweeb who is being manipulat­ sitions on the ballot form and men for men is OK, but the I will have to say on this mat­ FREE GIFT FRAUD!!! I and a few friends, into a differ­ ed by greedy people with guilty that the remaining 15,000 sup­ depiction of nude women for ter. Depending on the Dear Editors Reti ent section? This would mean consciences. porters use their forms to fill men is not? Please, use some response, I may propose For weeks (now drawing into that letters responding to cur­ Wake up you long haired that bloody hole in the toilet mental floss!! The purpose is another simple solution to months), I have been eagerly rent issues could be read to­ over-fed gnomes and take res­ wall. the same, it is only the sexual another problem. awaiting for someone to pro­ gether, instead of being buried ponsibility for the catastrophe For those who are unaaware orientation that changes. Yours in Open-Mindedness, vide the other 51 of your free PENPAL in pollution. you are creating. of Fester's extensive ex­ I have no objections to Pink Dudley Storey III gifts to complete my new deck Yours sincerely I don't want to freeze in the perience, the following short re­ Triangle, as a medium for the of playing cards. N Larsen Dark Ages. sume may be of assistance. opinions of gays, similarly, I B u t French student •4 years basketweaving have no objections to Playboy, POETIC SLUG AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! Yours in Disgust wishes to have • 1 year general studies lecture as a medium for heterosexual Dear editor some joker must have printed M.A.T.E New Zealand. in Engineering opinions, and I cannot see why Here is the slug's poem. In them all with invisible ink be­ Please write to: •6 months growing specialised SEXY VS. SEXISM both cannot be sold at the reply to the "I'm so seriously cause I couldn't see a single Anne-Laure Jaoi pot plants Dear Editors university bookshop, as they deranged” obscure science card anywhere. MINING 20 rue de la dec •2 years periodic detention Firstly, thanks very much for are everywhere else. Playboy is student. Are you a Rheineck- It gets very boring playing Eds F-29480 Le Rele •10 years Senior Lecturer in the improvement in Craccum. not pornography. It is erotic as drinking gay-liking student, you snap with a deck of one. If you'd give anything to see FRANCE Organic Chemistry and the It's this improvement, and the well as a bunch of interesting filthy orange, yoghurt contain­ But when I tried smuggling mining stopped, start here: Law. increase in quality of articles articles, designed for male ing, digital clock? So here's the 51 more of your free gifts into Plastics, heating, silverware, •Now a student in psychologi­ and thus correspondence in it, hetrosexuals. Even Attorney poem. my last poker game, the other iron, medicines, shop fittings, cal pottery. which has inspired me, for the General Edwin Messe (the man players accused me of magnets, batteries, railing, oil, You have it all and more so first time in my four years of in charge of Reagans 'anti­ Hello little girlies it's the great cheating!!! electric cable, electric compo­ vote knicely, Vote Fester. this university, to write a letter smut' brigade) recently admit­ grey slug. Please help me...... nents, roofing and siding, elec­ Yours after two jugs to Craccum. ted that he reads Playboy!!!! I like to drink Lion Red by the Sharkey tric power, electric appliances, Flossilda MacMarino There seems to be a number Penthouse and alike are bor­ jug rail transport, motor vehicles, of hard-headed people around, derline, I will admit. But any But Rheineck's okay telephone cables, plumbing, with little to do but repeat their open-minded person can tell If you are gay. pipes, water tanks, textile print­ PROTEST MARCH? hard-line opinions ad nauseum. the difference between Play­ RM Bennett is a chromium ing, windows, nails, nuts and STUFF THE OLDIES Dear Fee Paying Students of They have not learnt the most boy and Penthouse. And again, Crowbar bolts, timber preservatives, di­ Auckland's Tertiary Education basic lesson this University no one is forced to model in or To a Father amond drills and tools, wire Establishments, teaches a little open- buy the magazine - it has free If you are a gay Why do you read Craccum, drawing dies, coins, satellites, Thank you all very much for mindedness and responsibility rights and free speech. Then stay well away you oviously get some kind of ink, cans, transport equipment, your amazing display of apathy makes a better human being. Finally, 'Married with Chil­ You can keep your boy mags kick from reading it, otherwise farm and factory machinery, at last week's (Thurs 19th) To sort his confusion out, and dren' is brash. So is 'Knuckles You bloody great fags you wouldn't become so emo­ ducting, paint, printing, solder, Fees Protest March. One thou­ to promote a 'Live and let Live' the Maleviolent Nun'. So is RM Bennett is a bent Chromi­ tional about what you read. radiation shielding, fertilizer, sand people; dear me. Even the attitude, I will make my first: 'Nude Motorcycle Girl'. None of um Crowbar You may be right, that some bricks and tiles, aircraft, stain­ cave dwellers of Otago Simple Solution No.1 these are meant to be taken day we will look upon our writ­ less steel, photographic film, IF managed five friggin' times Re: Sexism — 'Nude Motor­ seriously. They are satire, I like a blonde Babe ings and realise our foolishness, developing paper, jewellery, that. How concerned you all cycle Girl' vs. 'Pink Triangle' vs. which some people find hard to If they're of top grade but at least we aren't as narrow steel, radios, tin plate, TV, ra­ c must be. 'PlayBoy', etc swallow. If a majority opposes If they have a great tan minded as you, and we are hav­ dar, most chemicals, die casts, v- And Craccum, congratula­ I think people are getting it (and I personally found NMG Then the slug is your man ing fun writing serious and sil­ rubber, cosmetics, steel coat­ S tions on your article titled “ The confused with 'sexy' (Erotic), in questionable taste), then it RM Bennett is a bent studded ly material, most of which ing, petrol, kitchenware, tyres, Big March” . As it happens, my 'Sexism' and 'Pornography'. should be disposed-of, partic­ Chromium Crowbar. Bad luck. nobody takes to heart. mirrors, soap, glass optical willie is bigger after swimming The depiction of women for ularly if that majority pays for So There!!!! I can safely say that should equipment ...... in Lake Taupo in mid-August. the purposes of the sexual exi- its production. Beware, how­ I become your age and be as These are just a few of the Yours disappointedly bition of men is nothing new. ever, of the excesses of Fascist I would now like to put forth senile as yourself, I would things we'd all have to do Ted the Neon God. It's been going on for thou­ Germany, Stalinist Russia and a unique theory to continue rather be dead. without if there was no mining. sands of years. Recently, with Christianity almost every­ world peace with my previous Yours But if you're adamant that min­ P.S. Best ye do print this so as the new liberalism, new groups where. unique theories. Rodney ing should be stopped, begin by to get some explanation, reac­ have emerged, and depicted So, sexism is a state of mind. W e should build a large PS: I'm pleased to see that your cutting demand for mining pro­ tion, apology from the caring their sexual interests for the It can be reinforced by sexual­ swimming pool on the moon correspondence with Craccum ducts. That's if you can. bastards who didn't turn up. purposes of sexual titillation - ly stimulating media, particular­ filled with banana flavoured is finished. You bring the stan­ Mining - Life's essential P.P.S. Cheers to those who did as an example, Pink Triangle, ly of the more brutal, explicit milk so that all the little fishies dards down. element. 25i bother to turn up. Playgirl, and Cleo's recent ar­ sorts (Penthouse and her ilk) - that are getting caught in nets PPS: Trev Bold is a degenerate. M.A.T.E PI

14 — Craccum, 30 July 1990 NOTICES il NZUSU EXECUTIVE CAPPING A.U.S.A. WINTER C LU B S A N D AMNESTY CAN BANK ELECTIONS SWEATSHIRTS GENERAL MEETING SOCIETIES ON INTERNATIONAL Drop your home/varsity aluminium cans into the bins in Still a few left. Only $35. Notice is hereby given that the CAMPUS the quad. Make your contribu­ Nominations are now open for Phone Wendy on 390-789 Winter General Meeting of the University group meets on tion to saving the world. the following positions on the x832. A real collectors' item so Association will be held Mondays, 1-2pm in Rm 138 Executive Committee of the don't miss out... but now while Applications to the Clubs and in Room B28 (next to Student Job Search). New Zealand Universities stocks last! Societies Grants Committee are Tuesday 7th August 1990 Everyone interested in human Jniversity Sports Union (Inc). commencing at 1.00pm. now open. rights issues is welcome. Assoc Inc, If any club wishes to apply to EDUCATION President If the meeting does not obtain 36. the committee, forms are avail­ Vice President THE NEW AGE a quorum or is unable to com­ ACTION GROUP able at AUSA reception. The Treasurer plete the business before it on CHAPLAIN MOVEMENT closing date is the 10th August Education Action Group meets 3 Committee Members 7th August, it will commence (5pm), allocation of funds will NOTICES Tuesday, 1pm, room 138 (be­ OR LIFE Interested parties should send It offers courses such as: or continue in Room B28 on take place during the second hind TV room). Come along and a curriculum vitae to: •improving study methods Wednesday 8th August 1990. •setting goals & achieving week of the third term. Friday, 3 August, 1pm. be as subversive as you like... are pathetic mind- Executive Director The business for this meeting them Kia ora. Maclaurin Chapel Hall. Christi­ help save education. s. This country is NZUSU will include: •maximising your potential Pare Panapa an Focus. Dr John Bishop will For further information see n into Third World PO Box 28-200 1) Declaration as to the election Club/Soc Rep speak on "How to be a Chris­ Roger Pym, Education Vice iorant trendies that Wellington But do these things actually of the Executive Committee for AUSA tian without believing in Scrip­ President - AUSA. e they are being work? Hear one man's ex­ 1991. by Wednesday 8 August. tural Inerrancy." I. The Coromandel perience. 2) Any business which may be Nominations will also be accep­ Everyone welcome tea/coffee lierachy is a group brought forward for which spe­ ted from the floor at the Win­ Monday 30th July, 1-2pm, and biscuits served at the con­ inders who screw- cial notice is not required. 1 9 9 1 W O R L D ter General Meeting, which will Arts Room 209. clusion. jm in the late 70's be held at the Waikato Stu­ Evangelical Union 3) Any matters as members REWARD OFFERED STUDENT GAMES 3's. They now live dents Union on Wednesday 22 may bring forward. CHEF DE MISSION ! hippies in a semi­ August at 6.30pm. Any member wishing to pro­ For the return of a white- lifestyle with their pose any motion at this meet­ THIRD covered looseleaf folder con­ Applications are invited from in­ :ed behind the pot- SUBVERSIVE ACTS ing is invited to give written taining 80 pages of the final INSTALLMENT terested parties to manage the Their guilt for their notice to the Secretary by 5.00 A collection of short stories by layout for a new book PEACE New Zealand Universities con­ lefore they moved pm on Wednesday 1st August BOYCOTT NZ women writers. Submis­ EDUCATION: THEAOTEAROA tingent to the 1991 World Stu­ omandel region and AUSA ELECTIONS 1990. sions for the above anthology - NEW ZEALAND WAY. This dent Games, to be held in im about mining The AUSA portfolio officer to Dr C Dunsford, R.D.2 A full agenda for the meeting manuscript with photographs Sheffield, England from July 14 owering Real Estate elections will be held Tuesday If you are paying by install­ Matakana, Northland. will be available from the As­ and artwork was last seen in ments and wish to participate to 25 next year. ie only forces that 31st July and Wednesday 1st Deadline October 31 1990. sociation's office in due course. Lecture Theatre I, Old Choral in the boycott, please come to Although the composition of selfish people to August. A schedule of polling Stories may be subversive in Deirdre Nehua Hall at 6pm on Wednesday AUSA reception and sign the the team has yet to be finalised, paganda campaign booth locations and hours is terms of content, theme, style, Secretary 18th July after an Education boycott book. There is vital it may involve athletics, swim­ ing companies, posted in the AUSA reception, language etc. ming, waterpolo, volleyball and /ho supports Coro- along with a list of the can­ lecture. It has chapters on information we need to get out Maximum length 4000 words. Building Self-Esteem, Commu­ tennis. chdog is a mindless didates. SOMEONE STOLE to you. Don't boycott on your Send stories now. nication Skills, Improving the The Chef de Mission will also is being manipulat- Des Amanono own, join us now — sign the Please send SAE for return of M Y DOG School and Classroom Environ­ be involved in the planning and 1 people with guilty Returning Officer book. Further information see work. Dear Editors ment, Resolving Conflicts and Roger Pym, EVP. co-ordination of the New Zea­ you long haired Last Friday (20th) someone Building Cultural Awareness. land effort and will be appoin­ omes and take res- came to our house and stole The manuscript represents ted at the NZUSU Executive or the catastrophe PENPAL our dog, "Joe." Joe is a three many months of work for a W A R PO ETS Meeting to be held on August ating. QUEEN FANS year old English and Stafford­ team of writers and is urgently 20th. The Cuban War Poets Album ant to freeze in the If you would like information on shire Bull Terrier and has been needed for completion so it can For a job description and further release party of Saturday Au­ French student (F) aged 22 a NZ Queen Fan Club, uniting part of our family all her life. be published for students, details please contact: gust 4th 8pm. At the Coffee Y o u rs in Disgust wishes to have penfriends in NZ fans through a regular She's a spayed brindle bitch teachers, parents and School Executive Director Lounge (above Cafe at Uni) NZUSU M.A.T.E New Zealand. newsletter, exposing members and very loving and friendly. Board Trustees. The editor, with 2nd Child and the Mai Please write to: to a wide range of related info We are very sad Joe has gone John Buckland, Social Studies PO Box 27-200 and would love to have her Department, Auckland College Chicks. $7 entry or $15 entry Wellington Anne-Laure Jaouen and products, write to: home again. If you know any­ of Education offers a cash re­ plus album. Telephone (04) 851515 20 rue de la deuxieme D.B. Royal Magic, one who might have suddenly ward and copies of the final F-29480 Le Relecq Kerhuon 95 Kawiu Rd, got a new dog that answers book for return of the manu­ ive anything to see FRANCE Levin. Joe's description please phone script. Please phone 4184-566 iped, start here: us on 360-0246, or the Police or write to 16 Gretel Place, Bir­ ieating, silverware, or SPCA. kenhead 10, URGENTLY if you ines, shop fittings, RENT A WASHER Thank you. can help in any way. atteries, railing, oil, Toby and Jordan Arohanui, John Buckland WORRIED ABOUT DENTISTRY? le, electric compo- ng and siding, elec- NEED A DENTIST? electric appliances, MEDITATION CLUB rt, motor vehicles, Meditation and Yoga Club. Old UNITED cables, plumbing, Arts Building Rm 033. Every THEATRESPORTS WE CAN HELP r tanks, textile print- Thursday at 1pm. Free. ns, nails, nuts and Every Sunday until Nov 25 at Ask for special student rate! rr preservatives, di- 8pm,Maidment Theatre Is and tools, wire Ticket $15 Concession $12. is, coins, satellites, NO MORE REPAIR MEN'S NETBALL Bookings: The Corner, phone ansport equipment, BILLS TEAM WINTER 303-3206 actory machinery, int, printing, solder, NO MORE TOURNAMENT T.A . 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CITY nere was no mining, na, 302-0470; or leave a note e adamant that min- at Sports Officer's office at Rec GAY STUDENTS >e stopped, begin by Centre. Women's netball is also land for mining pro- available but first priority is Social Meeting, Fridays t's if you can. given to club members of the 4.30pm-7 .30pm. Present this coupon at your next visit - Life's essential RENT-A-WASH LTD 250 Dominion Road, Mt Eden University Netball Club. Two Exec Lounge, AUSA Rm 137. All gays welcome including ATI Ph: 605-945 A/Hrs: 615-148 teams are going. Ring as above M.A.T.E for details. gays.

Craccum, 30 July 1990 — 15 Entries are new# being called for the Telecom Centres and wherever this poster

1991 Auckland Region Telecom Art Awards. is displayed* These very special awards

The winning entry of this prestigious are open to everyone living or working in

awrard * he spirit and lifestyle of the Auckland region, hut particularly artists c: the region and take pride of place on the who are not content to languish in obscurity.

cower of neat yearfs Telephone Directory. Entries close on October 29th, 1990. Entry forms are available at ASA Gallery, ART AWARDS

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16 — Craccum, 30 July 1990