BADEN BADEN POWELL group like Community Volunteers why they, P. P. 13 P. 6 P. P. 8 P. 11 P. P. 5 Executive should go out and fritter away HAT I am advocating is not that the your money, nor even that they should ADIO ADIO MANUKAU might be seen a as similar case. request A made,was in toorder establish a community-owned and con­ '‘regretfully’ '‘regretfully’ dont come up to scratch, the HART LABOUR HIPPIES SPAIN VALUES With With the year effectively one tjiird over Perhaps it theis Orientation skylarks, which I I concede the limitations of these two groups, Finally the clincher thatwas ‘looking at what on earth they do intend to do with the tain that both of them have done, or are in the with spending wisely. If they do not have such process of doing considerably more for communitythe and students thanmanaged yet.the Executive has of grace it might feel due it, they are chronically $7,000 they have been allocated and charged after they were elected they should at least have Community Volunteers (hear hear). especially exciting cases, or particularly rough FRANK STARK already, and the Executive pastwell any period underspent on their projects This andscarcelyis activitiesgood budget.economics, in fact, it’s give it give away to people just for the asking. Rather of themselves hard-working,as level-headed sorts and produce somd sort of programme of a programme of their own, some seven months the decency to stop selling their constituentsshort, and stop insulting such groups as ward spiral to debauchery and indifference. and did not choose them because they were barely Muldoon-level stuff. We are more than the Executive should uplive to their opinion Perhaps it onis constitutional amendments which justice. However it would not be hard to main­ spend in order to keep functioning as an Association efficiently is simply foolish. have the Even squirrels sense to eat enough to stay alive. adequately budgeted for reserves and the like seem destined to follow Capping on the down­ lems. Perhaps it in is the careful computationof every minor outgoing, in the face of a com­ and to ti*y andto to up save ti*y money which we need to pletely unchecked catering deficit. The Executive Who knows?finds it hard to say. are always an engrossing way ofavoiding prob­ R W Executive are quite clear what notis a priority, they have much more trouble finding what is. was askedwas to help meet it. The refusal was Moreover, other people are supporting Manukau,Radio so the Student Associationbother. need not and expenditure are going to be placed this based on a feeling that Radio has B quite enough that one radio station muchis like another. our Executive, with its skills and diligence have mustsome reasonable idea where their energies year? It seems not. the While members of the ing ing through all the correct channels and AUSA trolled radio station in South Auckland. great A spent on it already. The Executive obviously felt priorities, Radio Manukau is not firstlist onof needythe projects’. Once frontedagain we are con­ with the bogy of priorities. But surely RADIO MANUKAU deal of money neededis in the process of apply­ more’. Students Association has to be able to pomt to its own programme of activities.and say, ‘You ^ITY HF AIIPllI A&krô16 *ow on our*ow ^ A&krô16 HF AIIPllI so many^ITY thingsIftave in train Ur T MULftU\tf I which ol concern P us arities, because we 15 MAR 1977 1977 15MAR GENERAL LIBRARY GENERAL These sentiments, and particularly the latter The final reason extracted thatwas the Next, there thewas statement that ‘it was they were a front for I was metSCM, with (and this very was inarticulate) the Association all setwas to go out and change the world itself. might justifiable.seem But so far as I can see, in Community Volunteers were not really appropriatean ‘sort’ of cause for us to contribute shouldn’t spend its money on others, when it two schools ofthought, are representativeour level-headed ofExecutive’s attitudes, and they order to be morally able to sit back and tell a SRC or General Meeting. orSRC No such piece of legis­ Precedent, the Executive might well have felt to. felt ’Twas that becausethe some ofworld thehas therest misfortuneof notat toAuckland be University,enrolled they don’t helpdeserve fromany us. (Perhaps, though,fearfully if unlucky,they are we shouldso oblige outfeeling ofof noblesse a oblige.) The otherthis particularside of coin theis feeling that really, Students Association, and that the Executive on the good, old Common Law principle of itself bound to follow in the footsteps of last on policy established where it should be in - lation has come to light yet.as In fact, operating year’s Executive, which unmurmuringly allocatedsome $1,000 to Education Action Day. But no. I I might point out at this stage that the Executive doubtless knew this and simply was drawing not policy’ to outgive sums as large as $750. has no power to determine the policy of this members know about. indignation, bewilderment, and derision ively. respect­ It seems there no is connection that the Whafis Inside

HERE seem to have been three major rationales for declining this request. first and Themost straightforward of the conviction these was that the organisation was being

HE HE current Student Association Executiveprides itself on its approach‘level-headed’ to its business, and on the harmonious in which it conductsway itself. Most members of

Now Now these two motions were discussed at When I suggested When to the three members or CARRIED RN RN 152/77 WRIGHT/JENKIN THAT thisTHAT executive regretfully declines CARRIED Abstention: Gibson RN RN 150/77 WRIGHT/BRIGHT THAT THAT this Executive do regretfully decline I I propose to take two innocuous Executive The The number of members towilling enter into

knuckles on die purse strings diepurse The letterThe from the Community Volunteers Mendaces sine discriminente or even cognisanceeven or of, the Student Christian ‘pushed by’ or‘pushed frontwas ‘a for’, the Student Movement.Christian The Student itChristianMovement, agreed, was did very nicely, thank Student Paper 1977 way theyway did. To try to unravel their reasoning Movement - - butMovement the Executive knew better. apparently contained no claim of affiliation with T I asked asked twoI of our staff reporters to the principalsspeak in toboth cases, and make brief summary of the apparent grounds for the associates ofassociates Community Volunteers that you outyou of the Second Hand Bookstall proceeds. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS COMMUNITY requests and the rejection. obviously obviously felt quite justified in acting in the Auckland University some length,some I presume, and the Executive March March 14. Vol 5l, No. 3. Manukau. support their application to the Tribunalcasting new forBroad­ a warrant to run Radio the the request for funds by Radio Manukau to service. motions from the meeting of two weeks ago. Workers for Workers funds for training and backup of all theseof all skills over the last few weeks. To wit: To the request of the Community Volunteer

in our in elected representatives, but the philosophy lying under­ which has guided the exercise W hite

What I am aboutWhat to take issue with noneis these attributes,of which are undoubtedly desirable Crattum preparation and lobbying for those debates. considerable amount of time and effort into ever been, ever and I suppose that they must put a debates at Executive meetings as large is as it has which studentwhich politicoes can lumber themselves with. Executive meetings, and generally getting through

the potentially immense load of boring leg work T correspondence files with avidity, staying awake in large numberslarge in right to the bitter end of the Executive this year have displayed quite a remarkable capacity for work, reading the

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Dear Readers, velocipede to the railings on the actual concourse itself, only to be warned that I risked the li J e t t e r s I have never been much good at tennis, pro­ confiscation of my vehicle by one who, by bably because I was twenty-one before I could his assurance and bearing, appeared to the be see over the net. I don’t even think that I know the Head Custodian of the Library Building. very many tennis players. But still, I figure that His explanation was that of a good servant there are probably quite a lot of them about this of the University (as opposed to the people place, and that they probably reckon on having of the University). He claims that it is his duty Preg. Help? as much fun (in a tennisy sort of way) out of to keep all walkways and concourses clear, Orientation as anyone else. both for convenience for pedestrians, and in Trouble is, some tennis players didn’t have case of fire, or earthquake. Further, he ex­ Dear Frank, much fun out of thêir wine and cheese evening plained that the bicycle racks are the result of last Wednesday. Instead of standing about a generous concession on his part (i.e. if he I thought that the content of this year’s first nibbling their gruyere, they had to get down on went strictly by the book, there would be no “Craccum” was good, but one of the advertise­ their benders and scrub the floor, and the walls, racks at all). His response to my plaints for ments requires critical comment. and probably the ceiling too. And the mess they further accommodation for the most energy- were cleaning up ? Ah ... well, now we get to the efficient method tof transport used at the If any women readers should be, or should point of the whojq letter. University, was to recommend an approach to become pregnant and need help, they should be This mess was left lying about after a ‘harm­ the Students Association, suggesting that the warned of what is in store for them if they con­ less piece of fun,’ at lunchtime that day, which Students Association, in turn, should approach tact Pregnancy Help. If a woman is certain sure coated the whole building with shit, a bit of a the University to provide further bicycle that she wishes to continue her pregnancy then lark which still stinks this morning, a letting-off accommodation. perhaps these people can help her. If, however, of steam which covered most of the windows of As he said - he’s ‘just doing his job’ in im­ she has any doubts about whether to continue even the second floor. And the mess was put pounding ‘mis-parked’ bicycles. Could we, the the pregnancy or not, and wishes to discuss her there by those fun-lovers, the Orientation cyclists of the University, have some approach problem with a counsellor who will help her organisers. Whoever threw the eggs, whoever to the University from an Executive member decide for herself, then she should avoid poured water down the stairs, the blame rests of the Students Association to provide bicycle Pregnancy Help like the plague. firmly on the idiots who decided to try to racks in a much larger area. Pregnancy Help was set up by the Society for recreate something which was a bit of a lark Today, Thursday 10, bicycles were, at noon, the Protection of the Unborn Child, and women three years ago in Christchurch. piled up to four deep along the walls of the who do not know this, and who mention the The same people were out in the Quad on bicycle enclosure, after the racks meagre as possibility of abortion to Pregnancy Help Monday - you might have noticed them - they they are were filled. counsellors, receive the standard anti-abortion were drinking your beer. A few free drinks for line in all its emotive glory. A woman who went Orientation - and why not ? It all helps to Yours there recently and suggested abortion was told lubricate the wheels of jollity, eh ? Alasdair Bowie things which were both untrue (that abortions Now, most have you have been ripped off frequently make you sterile) and open to dispute twice this week - the poor tennis club (and all (that abortion is the same as murdering a child.) the dozens of others who made some attempt Dear Frank So if you have no doubts about abortion as a to restore order), the fee payers who are going valid moral choice, do not go to Pregnancy Help to pay the extra cleaning bill, the registration Please .publish the following information ini and expect them to respect your beliefs. If you buyers who provided a few beers out of the your newspaper so that I can get some penfriends: do have doubts, and would like help in sorting profits. And most of you will never know about Name: Osbert Ling them out, without being pressured in one way or it. If you have read this far, and do feel warm Male, law undergraduate, with general the other, you would be better advised to ask enough under your caftan neck, why don’t you interests, would like to correspond your G.P. for a letter of referral to the do something about it ? Doubtless in a few with females Auckland Medical Aid Trust Hospital. weeks the Executive will be congratulating Address: 198 Doncaster Ave Although the hospital performs abortions, itself on a well-run Orientation. Just perhaps, Kensington it does not perform them on unwilling women, just perhaps you can dent that self-confidence a NSW 2033 and its counsellors are unbiased. It is their job to little bit. Australia make sure that the woman being counselled Well, they’re down tormenting Matthew Yours sincerely understands what having an abortion is like, and Connor again, so I’m off to sulk somewhere O Ling that she has legal grounds for having one. They quieter. do not tell a woman that she should or should not have an abortion. By listening while a woman Yours fitfully, expresses her thoughts and feelings, and by Frank. answering questions of fact, their aim is to help Dear Frank, a woman understand herself and make up her own mind. Unlike Pregnancy Help counsellors, I am aware that an era is about to pass in who consider that they have failed if a woman Dear Frank Student affairs on this campus. I have resigned does not accept their advice (and they pester a as Senate Rep after three and half years on the client with phone calls to try and find out what Concerning the bicycle accommodation job and 12 other Senate Reps. she intends to do) Medical Aid Trust counsellors question raised in last week’s Craccum. On I feel qualified to make some passing do not feel that they have failed if a woman several occasions, when the bicycle racks comments on the structure of the University and decides to continue her pregnancy. On the con­ adjacent to the library have been full to the Students Association: trary, they are pleased that she has thought it overflowin g, I have attempted to chain my Power is concentrated in the hands of Pro­ out for herself and made up her own mind, fessors and Heads of Departments - this because they know that she will be happier unfortunate condition (often for life) makes with a decision made freely than with a decision same men exert their already dictatorial tenden­ made under pressure. Counsellors at the Medical cies. Aid Trust Hospital accompany their patients to Students may make changes thru a lot of the operating theatre and stay with them during noise, or skillfully constructed arguements that the operation, so that eleventh hour changes of emphasise the worst attributes in mankind ie mind can and do happen, without blame or greed, self-interest, fear of disclosure etc. censure. The Vice-chancellor really is a nice bloke Obviously the Medical Aid Trust counsellors (with an iron fist in a velvet glove) who does his are themselves certain that abortion is morally best to keep out of Academic infighting - studass acceptable. But they are not in the business of is but one factor. forcing other people to comply with their moral The staff/student consultative committees beliefs. They want women to have a choice, and have no power and little consultative value. they must be free to choose what they believe is They exist as a concession and to dampen down best. If they choose to believe that abortion is revolt. wrong, then their belief is respected. Pregnancy Studass alas is a puppet that dances to the Help, on the other hand, does not believe in free University, I say that as a fact. The sooner - choice. Its counsellors not only believe that It is a great adventure to a young lad to student politicans realise they are asking for abortion is wrong, but they want all their clients seek out a girl for himself. Sometimes he something they won’t be given, the more to believe that abortion is wrong too. There is likes to show her off before the others as a effective they will be in their sobriety. Unfort­ nothing wrong with that - most religions, sign of his manliness, in other cases he prefers unately the majority of students couldn’t give political parties, etc., operate on the same to get her all to himself. Don’t think this a dam about studass: a fact that encourages principle. But I believe that it is dishonest for unnatural. It is all in the course of Nature. incest, backstabbing and ego-tripping among such a group to advertise itself under an As I have said, it is in accordance with the student politicos who basicaly lack identity, and innocuous name and thus mislead women into law that governs animals as well as man. don’t know how to search for one. thinking that they will receive unbiased assist­ But in the case of man there is this I have enjoyed working with the many ance. If Pregnancy Help were to openly state in difference. He has a mind and intelligence administration and academic people, and its advertisements that it provides what help it which the animal does not possess; he sees conclude that most are sincere, helpful and does because it is anti-abortion, and that women romance in selecting a mate to whom he can willing to give the individual student a square who wish to consider the possibility of abortion give his admiration, love and devotion. These deal. The trouble is - the University as a social need not apply, then there could be no object­ are far above the mere animal lust; and the system. It brings out elitism and small minded ions. But it does not (and I leave readers to higher he raises himself above the animal instinct the less he is of a beast and the more politiking that is the characteristic of impersonal ponder on its motivations for not doing so). So he is of a man. bureacracies anywhere. ■t am put to the trouble of writing this letter to Down with all bureacracy .... on with the inform women of its true intentions before any A main step to happiness in this direction business of living ! more approach it in ignorance only to find that is to select the right kind of girl. There are “Help” has a very limited meaning. women and there are dolls. Love Michael Kidd. Yours, etc, SIR ROBERT BADEN- POWELL BART. Christine Dann CRACCUM, MARCH 14 PAGE 3

During enrolment students were questioned about their musical abilities, and over 200 The club usually meets Tuesday nights in indicated a desire to participate in Chamber room 223, but, thanks to unprecedented interest, Music, so the Chamber Music Society should this year we are putting on a special demon­ start its life with a large membership. stration evening for new and prospective The University Chamber Music Society members. Anyone interested in learning this (U.C.M.S., pronounced Uc-ums) will hold its unique game should turn up at the Exec. Lounge first meeting on Tuesday 15 March during at 7 pm on the evening of Tuesday 15th March. lunchtime (1-2 pm) in the Executive Lounge, First Floor of the Student Union buildings. The Women main purpose of the meeting is to sign on The appointment of Sue Glazebrook as members and to elect a committee and office CANWAR SEMINAR Women’s Rights Officer this year marks a pro­ holders. If you can’t get along, or are reading mising development of feminism on campus. It’s this after the meeting, ring David Jayasuriya So you don’t like gazing at nuclear warships a timely appointment: last August NZUSA form­ (679-322) for further details. from your front window? You don’t find ed a Women’s Rights Action Committee made up any reassurance in the names ‘Enterprise’, of delegates from each campus to co-ordinate STUDY METHODS WORKSHOPS ‘Truxton’, ‘Long Beach’, either! Well, the information and action throughout the country. Campaign Against Nuclear Warships (CANWAR) Support at constituent level, however, is vital to Popular last year, and effective for most is organising a seminar for Easter Weekend, the effectiveness of WRAC. participants - these workshops are held to give April 9 and 10 in the Capital. Accordingly, much has been planned to make students a chance to evaluate learning behaviour For $3.00 (students $1.50) you can register women’s rights a strong issue at AU. A Women’s and to use this to their advantage academically. for the seminar - forms available from Craccum - Resource Room has been established in the old Two workshops are to be held, both in Choral which includes a lunch time protest march, House Committee Room, just by the Women’s Hall 2, Alfred Street, from 1.15 to 1.55 pm. protest films, theatre, folksinging and seminar Common Room on the first floor of the Student Topics included in Workshop A: Selected Study sessions and discussions. Union Building. This is to provide a centre for Problems, will be held on the following dates; The weekend leads off on Saturday with a women who wish to find out more about Behaviours Correlated with Success in Study lunchtime march through Wellington streets. feminism, or to discuss with other women the (March 15th), Note Taking in Lectures, Seminar Following a General Introductory Session problems they face, as women. An archives group Production (March 22nd) and Essays and Other with speakers from FOL, NZUSA, and an MP, is also being formed to build up a good collec­ Written Assignments (March 29th). you’ll see a CANWAR film, Mururoa. and then tion of material on women - newsletters, research Workshop B involves reading behaviour, two adjourn to the best fish and chip shop in NZ papers, newsclippings and so on. sessions are to be held, on April 6th and April for tea. Theatre and folk singing supplement Also planned is a publicity campaign, a 13th. Students interested in attending should Saturday’s evening discussion: ‘Superpower feminist festival and the formation of groups for see David Simpson at the Counselling Service, Contention - the SALT talks, ANZUS and day care work, abortion action, lesbian women 54 Symonds Street, before March 11th. Detente’ with officers from Foreign Affairs and for working against sexism within the various In case of numbers exceeding the workshops’ contributing. Saturday night will be given over professional schools. The establishment of a capacities, these will be repeated in the 2nd to another CANWAR film followed by folk Women’s Studies course is another area of Term and admission to the first workshops will singing* and social get together. concern. be based on selection. Discussion continues on Sunday April 10: There are vast possibilities for feminism on ‘The Struggle for Disarmament ’ (speakers from campus this year - and even greater is the mostly ! CND, Quakers, Watersiders Union, Environmental untapped potential of women. Much of this Spokesman) and a seminar: ‘The Pacific’ with womanpower is needed to bring these possibili­ personnel from Foreign Affairs, South Pacific ties into being, and on Tuesday, March 15, at 1 Action Network (SPAN) and the Pacific Island pm, a general meeting is to be held in the Community. Women’s Common Room to muster up as much I For the f ull weekend seminar program- of it as possible. For anyone at all interested in I April 9 and 10 - call into the Craccum office or women’s rights, this is an important meeting. write to CANWAR, P O Box 6651, Te Aro, Wellington.

DOCTORS IN TROUBLE University-based research in NZ may suffer OUT OF A STONE considerable setbacks if greater support is not given to senior students, said the research officer On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this of NZUSA, Mr Peter Franks, in Christchurch. week the New Zealand Blood Transfusion He pointed out that research students contri­ Service will be based in the Lower Common buted $100,000 to research out of their own Room for a repeat of the annual orgy of blood­ pockets in 1975, but that the university has letting. From 9 am to 5 pm you will be welcome attempted to increase PhD fees and has not to drop in and donate a vitally needed unit of supported the move for greater bursary blood. Tea and biscuits a-plenty will be pro­ assistance and adequate wages and conditions. vided for the faint of heart. This increase is $70 for exam fees and means a 60% increase in fees for a student in the final year. Mr Franks said that the final year is already too expensive for students. The mean WOMBLING ON cost for thesis preparation is $322 for PhD students and $500 for Social Science students. On Friday March 18th Lincoln Galleries is THE CREDIBILITY OF CHRISTIANITY holding an all-day “spectacular happening”, in ‘As usual, the rather arrogant gentlemen who On Tuesday 15, David Burt will be speaking sit on the Vice-Chancellors’ Committee have > the form of street action painting. Frank failed to consult NZUSA on these proposals,’ Womble (no relation to Uncle Bulgaria), an at the University on ‘The Credibility of Christ­ he added. Mr Franks pointed out that the American who has been in New Zealand five ianity’. David has lived in Spain for the last ten University refuses to support the giving of STB years, plans to complete three collages outside years, working with the University Bible Groups to students without other assistance. the Victoria Street West gallery. His interest in there. The exact venue is as yet unknown, so 30% of PhD students rely on casual work ecology and re-cycling is reflected in his work interested students are advised to keep their eyes as their sole source of support and students which involves the use of paint and printed and ears open for further notices around the who work as lab demonstrators etc have no material. Audience participation is called for as Quad. trade union representation or sick pay. And Womble intends using in the collages any printed their rates don’t cover the time needed for matter brought along. class preparation and marking. Mr Franks told the Canterbury research students that they had to unite to overcome SOCIOLOGY SOCIETY the ‘shabby way’ they were being treated by the universities. The lesson of history was GO The first meeting of the Sociology Society for that people had to t fight together for any 1977 will be held in the Executive lounge, 1st real advances. The Go board, with its grid of intersecting floor Student Union Building, at 1.15 pm on lines, may first have been developed as an Thursday 17 March. If there are any inquiries, arithmetic calculator designed to cope with the please contact Clint Baker, 30789 ext 7l, and BRANDY OF THE DAMNED ? duodecimal system. If so, its purposes were members of the public, staff and students are all soon perverted by human nature - the same welcome. Musical amateurs - Hell is full of them accord­ nature that adapts IBM’s finest to play chess ing to Shaw, yet for one society on Campus the and Startrek. The rules of arithmetic were re­ more the merrier. The University Chamber placed by the rules of war, and the game of go Music Society is being set up this year to enable was born. students and staff from all faculties to play The abacus has long since outmoded the HELP AT HAND ensemble music together. Before now not every­ board as a calculator, but the game has survived one has been able to participate in Chamber and evolved, and has spread from its home in For those local arts groups struggling to Music, and this new society aims to enable any­ China to Japan, and now right across the world. get off the ground, or to survive for lack of one who plays a musical instrument reasonably Even to New Zealand. In fact, right on campus, financial support, assistance is available through well to join a Chamber Music Group. There will we have the Auckland University Go Club, three schepies. not only be traditional groups such as string which is affiliated to the New Zealand Go The Northern Region Arts Council offers quartets, wind quintets etc, but also medieval and Society. Members of the club receive a regular grants and guarantees with the purpose of en- . experimental groups as well. The groups will be newsletter and are able to buy go books cheaply; couraging increased competence and the de­ graded so that musicians of all abilities will be the club also organises tournaments, and most velopment of activity in fields such as work­ able to take part. importantly, regular playing nights. shops, schools, commissions and touring PAGE 4 CRACCUM MARCH 14

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PORTRAITS engagements. This assistance is available through­ JIM BURDETT & CLIVE STONE out the year. Applications should be made to SNAPS the Northern Regional Arts Council, P O Box 1425, Auckland. t wo man exhibition currently showing at A second body offering assistance is the SNAPS GALLERY, and which will be Cultural Facilities Scheme which is aimed at on until March 26th, is comprised of CRACCUM is registered with the Post Office as a promoting the development of arts facilities. A newspaper. It is published by the Craccum early 20th century plates by an unknown Administration Board for the Auckland University Category 4 of this scheme provides for assistance photographer, and a series of portraits by one Students’ Association, Private Bag, Auckland; in the purchase of permanent new fittings and Jim Burdett - his first public exhibition. typeset on the Association’s IBM machine; and equipment. In money terms a subsidy of one The unknown photographer’s negatives have printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews dollar to every two raised is offered with a a curious history, almost ending up as panes Agenue, Wanganui. Opinions expressed are not maximum of $333 placed on equipment costing for a glasshouse until they were discovered necessarily those of the Editorial staff, and in no up to $1,000. under a house in Helensville ten years ago. way represent the official policy of the Students’ Application for category 4 may be made The best of them have subsequently been Association. all year and should be addressed to the Secretary, printed up by Clive Stone to provide a fascinating Cultural Facilities Scheme, Department of record of the formal dress of the period, as well Internal Affairs, Private Bag, Wellington. Details as an indication of how studio photographers of the complete Cultural Facilities Scheme must have operated - backdrops, lighting, re­ for 1977, which includes major subsidies, are touching, etc. They are not all brilliant by any to be announced in the near future. means, merely records of another era, scratches Thirdly, your local authority is coming to the included, dropped into our laps without rescue with grants and subsidies aimed to comment. Editor ....:...... Francis Stark assist a wide range of artistic and cultural Assistant Editors...... Louise Chunn activities. This includes specific activities, Jim Burdett’s portraits are another matter. Jill Ranstead improvement of facilities, equipment, etc. I feel that they are a sincere attempt to show Don Mackay Closing date for applications should be checked the viewer the private relationships between Technical Editor...... Rod Macdiarmid (usually mid-year); application may be made the photographer and his subjects - mainly Photographer .v...... «. Jan Geary to your nearest local authority which provides female. However, his approach is pretty much Advertising Manager...... Anthony Wright its own application forms. uniform - anxious, pinched faces peering out of the frames, composed elegance, and so on. This being the first week with all our helpers in If this is the nature of the photographer’s evidence, I am hard-put to it to actually assemble a comprehensive list of credits this week. Rod insists CROSSWORD SOLUTION. relationships with his subjects, then he has on having his name in lights - so ROD succeeded admirably. MACDIARMID took the Magic Mountain photos, However, one photograph in particular - Sally Hollis McLeod, drew the knuckles. Dover ‘JJnIS 4ZZ 4Ī2 ‘^pojg ‘02 ’suiaapay a naked girl kneeling on a bed staring sullenly publications provided us with a palm tree or two ‘81 -s?aoduii ‘ox uaisioqdn ‘5 l sjatneQ >x -deaip at the camera - reminds me too much of the while Sue Stover made up the black marks which W <3 ‘ 8 1 4 UEST>aj ‘6 -Auaajtn ‘l ‘9 'a S p u ^ B j ‘5 typical camera club sententiousness to be surround Rod’s photos. Suzanne worked all day Thursday, at all the worst jobs. The Twilit World sP a a N ‘f 4«aAL ‘8 'UlSnefsuo ‘2 uaipeag ‘1 :n M O ( 3 able to take the photographer too seriously. article was produced from and old CANTA by •sunojai SuidaaMg ‘Q2 ’aa^srux ‘fZ ’S JaxoiH A mixed bag of a show - not one of their Nigel Baumber, and Dulcie turned up trumps with ‘8S 'PROS ‘2S -s-iaipeaij ‘ex 'iaipg ‘^x qaitbax'ui better ones. ‘91 ‘tortf PUWD ‘xq *P!§ĪH ‘2 Ī ‘asuoiiexs ‘ I I ‘iaeaH the films. Besides that, there were a huge number OX uau^B j 6 ‘a-iaisnv ‘8 'lexidteo luqeoig ‘x :SS0R 0V of people who came in for a few minutes to do some proofing, reporting, letrasetting, or some­ GEORGE BALOGHY thing. And Judy drew the Womble.

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Full banking services at the Bank of New Zealand L.M.V.D. WHITES YAMAHA Downtown M.V.D.I. Campus Branch, 115 Beach Road, City Specialised Motorcycle Services phone 379-679 Old Student Union Building. CRACCUM, MARCH 14 , PAGE 5 they will each do what their manual tells them over-identification with the mother or father or and then say goodbye, priding themselves on both. One interesting theory claims that insecur­ that they have never betrayed any real emotion. ity makes the woman want her vagina engorged Twilit world Perhaps they will meet again and repeat the or the man wants his penis sheathed. Perhaps process, perhaps not. some engaged in their first heterosexual acts as a N this enlightened frank age we must all The “marriage ” is a much more bizarre form form of rebellion and then, guilt-ridden, felt face the fact that like it or not, heterosexuals of practice and one which is far too complicated they were trapped in the heterosexual world make up a sizeable portion of the population. to describe here. Briefly considered it is an forever. SinceI by their very nature heterosexuals are agreement between two heterosexuals to live One thing is certain. The problem will not go furtive and deceptive, no-one can say for sure together for the rest of their lives and never away by our pretending it does not exist. Nor exactly how many there are but psychiatric relate sexually to anyone but each other. Though will making heterosexuality a crime deter those estimates run from five to twenty per cent in jwe might think such a strange arrangement might men and women from seeking each other Out England and America, slightly higher in Europe. at least produce some degree of honesty, the and arranging their secret liaisons. We who are We have no figures at all for the Orient, since opposite is often the case as the heterosexual more fortunate must learn compassion for those inscrutability added to furtiveness makes it compulsion to project totally false images be­ who cannot help themselves, who do not choose impossible to judge. comes more and more obsessive over the years. to be this way (though many will exhibit a While many people naively think that HORMONAL IMBALANCE reverse stubborn pride). If we do not close our heterosexuals are easily recognised, the reverse is What causes a woman or a man to stray so far eyes, if in fact we devote more extensive very often the case, for in reality very few are from normal development?To date, medical research into the whole range of human sexuality the close-cropped snarling man or the simpering authorities have not developed any comprehen­ then perhaps we can eventually release the passive woman we see in the movies. Many lead sive theory. While some doctors claim a hormonal diverse sexual elements in all of us and restore outwardly normal lives and the gentle boy next imbalance, many psychiatrists consider it an these unfortunate people to society. door, and the tough competent girl down the street may have more than a passing interest in each other. What then is heterosexuality? Simply put, it is the inability to love your own sex and the subsequent turning for sexual release to the opposite sex. Many hardened heterosexuals will ' attempt to turn it round and insist that hetero­ sexuality is the ability to love the opposite sex. Hot Air Rises Thick But if this were true, it would have to be an ability that grew out of a complete homosexual fulfillment - for it stands to reason that you can’t Jan Geary love something different to yourself unless you HE annual national conference of HART can first love people the same as you. And most was held in Palmerston North on March heterosexuals are incapable of a true homosexual T5-6. It opened with a report by National relationship. Chairperson Trevor Richards in which he spoke STRANGE RITUALS of his recent tour of Africa and cleared up the The claim that heterosexuality involves love confusion many people were feeling about falls apart when we examine the nature of whether or not the African boycott of New heterosexual activities. There are two forms of Zealand would continue. He said the O.A.U. heterosexual union, the “affair” and the decision in Togo a few weeks ago was firm and “marriage”. In both the sexual activities them­ clear. The boycott would not only continue selves are mechanical non-feeling unrelated to (till N.Z. government policy changes) but it the individual couple, and prescribed in advance would be extended to include all countries who according to the strange rituals of the hetero­ play with N.Z. He said Muldoon’s attempt to sexual twilight world. The man has certain things speak with two voices (one to the Africans and he is supposed to do in a certain order, and the the other to the N.Z. audience) was not fooling woman likewise. It is difficult for the healthy the Africans but only further alienating them. homosexual to grasp how alienating heterosexual He thought the N.Z’s Government’s stand on the “love” really is, but perhaps we can glimpse it boycott was one issue which had as much poten­ when we examine that curious artifact, the sex tial to wreck the Commonwealth as had the manual. These are books, and the heterosexual Southern Rhodesian question. Richards saw the world abounds with literally hundreds of them, main test of government policy coming up in the that actually describe, step by step, the actions proposed trip to N.Z. of a South African squash that heterosexuals are supposed to perform team in April and the visits of Gerald Bosch and when they “make love”. Ian Robertson shortly after. He said it was the It is hard to say whether the “affair” or the task of the Anti-Apartheid movement to contin­ “marriage” is more artificial and restrictive. In ue applying pressure on government and on the first, the man and woman will meet, perhaps sports bodies to get them to come out clearly in in the notorious “cocktail bars” with their cold favour of the sporting isolation of South Africa hushed atmosphere, so different from the lively and to back up their words with action. He saw gay bars most of us know. Then they will “chat”, this task as being more crucial now than at any a process which consists of talking inanely other time in the eight years HART has been in about any subject so long as they do not reveal existence. any part of their personalities. In fact, the The rest of the first day was concerned with entire “affair” consists of projecting a false discussing policy and tactics. It was reaffirmed image. many times that HART’s major concern was the When the proper time has elapsed the man sports issue but that it actively supports groups Anne Newnham: “Any letting up at this time working in other areas to eliminate apartheid in and woman will go off to a special hotel main­ could be fatal to our cause.” tained especially for heterosexual liaisons. There South Africa and racism in N.Z. Strategies were worked out with regard to putting pressure on the Government, sports bodies and third parties (e.g. companies trans­ porting South African teams) It was also decided that although the Squash tour would probably be confined to the Waikato, groups in other Presuppositions areas would organise local protests in support of HART Waikato (they will almost certainly be Much of what we are taught at varsity, inspiring order and design in creation), and arriving at Auckland Airport and we will be especially in the social sciences, depends upon lacking an infinite and holy God there is no demonstrating there) the presuppositions made about life. The absolute as a basis for morality and knowledge. The second day saw discussion on the struct­ Christian begins by accepting the idea that there We believe, therefore, that the Christian pre­ ure and financing of the organisation with no is a personal God, who has created man in his suppositions about life are far more reasonable real changes being made. The aims and own image and for his own purpose (to live in than those of contemporary humanism. objectives of ‘AMANDLA’ were discussed and fellowship with him as his own people.) If this is Either way each of us must take a step of reaffirmed as being to educate supporters on the true then this is where the study of man should faith and accept one or the other of these pre­ nature of apartheid and to assist in organising begin. suppositions. We cannot simply sit on the fence. HART activities in opposition to apartheid The basic presupposition upon which most of We must either live on the basis that God exists sport. our study is based, however, is that there is no or on the basis that he doesn’t. As Christians we In the final session Trevor Richards and Mike God. Man, (including his mind and consciousness) have taken a step of faith by accepting the risen Law were again elected National Chairperson is just chemicals, the result of a long process of Christ into our lives as our Lord and Saviour. We and Deputy Chairperson unopposed. natural evolution. If this is true then no person now know that God is real because we have All of the main resolutions passed reflected has any real significance. Words like love, beauty, entered into a relationship with him through the majority feeling that it was important for friendship, and freedom have no real meaning or the Lord Jesus. The promise remains :- HART to continue with the same objectives and importance. There is no ultimate basis for judg­ “Seek the Lord while he may be found, tactics as it had over the past eight years, and ing something to be right or wrong. Yet those call upon him while he is near; that although we had had some important who hold that there is no God live inconsistently let the wicked forsake his way, victories in the past year we should not be with their convictions as they still fall in love, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; fooled into dispersing our energies over a appreciate beauty, have friends, and value their let him return to the Lord, that wider area with the mistaken idea that our freedom. They are the first to cry for justice he may have mercy on him, original aim (to halt all racist tours) has been when someone steals from them. and to our God, for he will nearly achieved. This is not the case and any We believe that to be consistent you must abundantly pardon.” letting up at this time could be fatal to our accept the Christian concept of an infinite, holy Isaiah 55.6-7. cause. and personal God. Without the latter we cannot explain the fact of man’s personality (or the awe­ This article was provided by the Ecumenical Union. ANNE NEWNHAM PAGE 6 CRACCUM MARCH 14 “ Too young Children of to retire,not Sharpeville N Friday March 18 a demonstration is being held to commemorate Sharpeville O Day and declare our solidarity with the struggle of the oppressed majority against old enough apartheid. “Sharpeville - Soweto : the struggle continues” proclaims the poster advertising the demonstration. The protest will be demanding “Majority Rule Now - let the oppressed decide” “End the Repression - Free All Political to write your Prisoners” “End NZ complicity with apartheid - Cut all sporting, diplomatic and commercial ties”. On the morning of March 21, 1960, a crowd m em oirs” of about 5000 Africans, men, women and children, gathered outside.the Sharpeville police AST Wednesday saw the second of a series station to peacefully protest against the “pass” of Labour Party lunchtime lectures. The laws. Telling the police they had left their L first of a series featured Messrs Hunt and passes at home and that they would no longer Lange, this one was fronted by former bright carry them, they offered themselves for arrest. young hopes Moore and Bassett. Both spoke Similar demonstrations were taking place in rather generally about the state of NZ politics many towns in South Africa on that day. The and society. The speeches were obviously South Africans hoped, that the white regime oriented towards the converted and consequently would be unable to imprison them all because although occasionally entertaining, they offered there would not be enough cells; hence, the little in the way of enlightenment to the un­ breakdown of the pass system was foreseen. initiated. Dr Bassett, late of our very own His­ Throughout the morning Saracen armoured tory Dept., appealed for people to become cars and police moved about Sharpeville, an involved and accept the political challenges African township near Verenging in the province which lie ahead of us. Quite what these chall­ of Transvaal, and at one point, aircraft flew enges were, however, he never got around to backwards and forwards, diving over the crowd saying. He expressed dismay at what he saw as in attempts to get them to disperse. Armed the lack of fighting spirit evident in the public’s police and Security Branch Officers moved into aquiescence to the depredations of the PM. Sharpeville commanded by Lt. Col. Piernaar. “Many of yesterday’s liberals are knocking at Whatever happened next, the fact has never been the knees so loudly that the conservatives could disputed that the police opened fire, killing 69 mistake the sound for clapping,” he said. Africans, wounding 186. Post-mortem enquiries Almost-Mangere candidate Moore followed established that 7 0 percent of the victims were very much the same theme. Although fluent and shot in the back - that is, as they were running witty, his speech had, if anything, less substance from the gunfire. There is no evidence that any to it than Bassett’s. He violently denounced the African carried a firearm. innately conservative traits in NZ society. “We Ever since Sharpeville, the world has been have got a perverted sense of values” he proclaim­ waiting for its sequel and what was surprising ed, and referred to “neo-Fascist attitudes” afoot about Soweto was not so much that the riots at the present. However, while conceding that began on June 16 1976, in the way they did, Labour had problems at the present he expressed but that the Sharpeville sequel had taken so his faith that, after a period of soul-searching, long in coming. the Party would pull itself together and again become the government. At another point he There is a very real sense in which Soweto is simply described the return to power of Labour the natural heir to Sharpeville. The ‘kids’ at the as “inevitable”. heart of the Soweto protests are essentially the Replying to questions, both speakers agreed children of Sharpeville: born about the time of that they would be opposed to Labour reaching the shootings, they are the first generation of an electoral arrangement with Social Credit. black South Africans educated wholly under Neither felt that SC had anything to offer Bantu education, the corner stone of apartheid. Labour in such a deal. Dr Bassett lamented the This fact, more than any, makes the troubles in fact that the Values Party was not interested in Soweto so significant and indicates that the such an accommodation, and rather incredibly, sequels to Soweto will be considerably more attributed this to some abiding hatred he ima­ troubled, and will come sooner than Sharpeville’s gines the VP feels for the workers. Also evident consequences. was a certain twisted attitude towards students It was hardly surprising that the troubles on the part of retired boy-wonder Moore. He is, began in Soweto. No area in South Africa today/ it seems, firmly convinced of the utter moral better exposes the bitter reality of apartheid. A degeneracy of all people not fortunate enough to vast conglomerate of boxed-up townships, be born into poverty. Nonetheless, the home Soweto houses white Johannesburg’s workforce. crowd seemed to derive a quiet masochistic With an official population of 650,000 its thrill from his lashes. probable population of more than a million All in all, the fans seemed to go away happy blacks is served by hardly a dozen cinemas, a and, after all, that is the most important thing. scattering of community halls and men-only beer One gets the impression that the LP seems quite halls. Less than a quarter of the houses have happy to let policy-oriented talk alone for the electricity; even less have hot running water; time being, and is chiefly concerned with streets are seldom lit; public transport is crammec bolstering morale by appeals to their sympath­ and expensive. Soweto is a concentrated com­ isers’ prejudices. In fact, the whole thing, plex of frustration, anger and deprivation - on complete with tasteless quips, is very the edge of, and constantly servant to, white reminiscent of the type of rabble-rousing that Johannesburg’s affluence and plenty. Muldoon used to pull together an equally The first student protests that began in the shattered National Party after the ’72 election. Black city of Soweto June 16, were specifically/ directed against the imposition of Afrikaans, the DON MACKAY language of the Boer section of the white population, as a language of instruction in some Black schools. Photos by Jan Geary The language issue, however, was only a detonator that touched off a deep rage among the Black population as a whole against the entire system of apartheid. The 10,000 were confronted by a group of police who fired directly into the crowd, killing at least two N e x t W eek students, one of them only seven years old. The murder of the students enraged the POPE PAUL entire Black population of Soweto, many of SIR KEITH JACKASS HOLYOAKE whom took to the streets to express their anger against the entire apartheid regime. Ohe JONATHAN HARDY Mike Moore: “if I smile a little, (top) they might AND DOZENS OF OTHERS common slogan was ‘Amandhla!” (Power). In an forget Mangere. No ? Well how about the reason effort to teach the Black population a “lesson”, able approach ? (centre) Still no luck. I guess I the police attacked the demonstrators in force, might as well give up and go back to imitating using helicopters, armoured cars, automatic Sooty the Bear” (bottom). 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the country. By August 20, more than seventy Black townships, near every major city in the country had been swept by massive unrest. In August and September two general strikes hit Soweto and other townships, including Capetown, where coloureds form a majority of the working class. This growing unity among the CONSERVATORIUM CONCERT different sectors of the Black community has MUSIC STUDENTS been a notable feature of these protests. The few OLD MAID ion is extra rights and privileges enjoyed by the Indians •peville and Coloureds have not prevented them recognis­ F the first Conservatorium of Music Friday ing that they too are part of the oppressed Black ith the majority. lunch-time concert on March 4th is an nst Imdication of the year to come then the year’s struggle The strength and determination expressed by concerts should be well worth attending. ising the Blacks in these uprisings, forced the regime to The concert began with Bach’s Sonata No. 3 nanding make a few token concessions in an effort to in G Min, with Anne Draff in (viola) and Douglas I decide” defuse the Black anger. These measures were Mews Jnr. (harpsichord). The difficult viola part il coupled with a broad witch-hunt against Black was handled admirably. The Adagio had poise partheid - organisations and individuals.By the end of and beautiful phrasing while the Allegro was ercial October, more than 4,600 Blacks were known to strong and firm even in the tricky fast passages. have been arrested, including more than 400 held Douglas Mews gave his usual very competent a crowd under the country’s various security laws which rendering of the continuo part. ind allow indefinite detention without trial. Josef Suk’s Un Poco Triste and Quasi Ballata ille police Virtually every Black leader in South Africa from Four Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 17 e “pass” known to the regime was seized in Vorster’s are unpretentious, romantic works and a good teir dragnet. Eighteen blacks have since died in police test for any violinist. > longer custody. They are routinely described as having Peter Scholes showed understanding and r arrest, fallen so many storeys while trying to escape mastery of his instrument in Malcom Arnold’s ice in during questioning. Torture is widespread. satirical Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano. He and ly. The Alison Ramson (piano) worked as one to give a ;gime The anti-apartheid movement in NZ has tight performance of this rythmically difficult )ecause rifles, and machine guns. According to the recognised the necessity to step up its campaign piece. the official death toll, 174 Blacks were killed in the in solidarity with the liberation struggle of the first few days of the Soweto uprisings. Estimates Mention must be made of Mr Brian Sayer who seen, Black majority, to demand our government cut seems to have the stage-mangement of these moured by Black community figures placed the number all ties with the racist Pretoria regime, and press several times higher. By November, the concerts down to a fine art. If late-comers had e, an for the immediate release of all political prison­ been restricted to entering the theatre only province official toll had climbed to nearly 400. ers. Sharpeville Day is a fitting time to initiate 3 such a campaign - be there Friday March 18. between movements or works, this concert flew In the face of this fierce repression, the might have been near-perfect ! ie crowd protests continued to spread to other parts of med MICHAEL TREEN HATCH >ved into rnaar. lever been Hing 69 enquiries ms were funning that any been LAST OF THE KNUCKLEMEN JOAN ARMATRADING & prising JOHN POWERS BACK TO THE NIGHT e riots MERCURY THEATRE JOAN ARMATRADING y did, A & M (through Festival) 3n so EAVEN knows it’s an old trick but it something which they can approach with gusto, always works if it’s well-done, and this Last of the Knucklemen is very little short of a H time it certainly was well-done. In the triumph. It is short of that achievement largely HERE are a few women who really succeed )weto is central portion of this threeact play, after an through the inadequacies of its plot. Dialogue T in the music world, if success can be gauged- ls’ at the amusing, but rather slow start, all the principals and delivery are well-nigh impeccable, and the not merely by record sales and sell-out ially the of the play - a weird mob of miners from North casting remarkable for its conviction. concerts, but also by the calibre of the product. time of Western Australia - play out a game of poker. Too often in the recent past, the intrusive Joni Mitchell’s achingly personal lyrics have ion of Eventually it comes down to just two players: ‘professionalism’ of the Mercury’s structure and increasingly overpowered the simplicity of her under the ageing Methuselah, staking the $1000 he has staff have spoiled a simple, varnacular play like music; Linda Ronstadt’s new “Torchy Rock” (a Dartheid. saved to go out with a bang; and the big-talking this one, but I would rank this production close Time Inc. label) has robbed her of much of her rnbles in Pansy, the inveterate gambler inured to near- to those of the Australian Performing Group original appeal; and most of the others are t the misses, broken systems and small stakes. (aka Pram Factory 1 which toured New Zealand specialists, though not at the top, in one more As the hand is played out, the tension on stage, for Arts Council in 1975. I can only hope that, particular field, be it rock, folk, country or jazz. tarpeville’s and in the auditorium is extraordinary. Finally, looking at the success of Well Hung and Last Now, rising from the labour of three year’s the cards are down and the play charges back of the Knucklemen. the Mercury will finally extensive touring, and as many recording ibles into life with an energy which has been missing eschew the West End and Broadway for Port sessions, comes Joan Armatrading. She does not ica today/ i from the stage of the Mercury for far too long. Headland and Pukekawa. adequately fit into any of the pigeon-holes - theid. A Whether it is the direction of Australian hupey though it may sound, she defies definition, ips, Jonathan Hardy (see next week’s interview) or FRANCIS STARK except to say that she is good. orkforce. simply that the choice of play gives the cast Her second album, Back to the Night which its was originally released in 1975, is in for a re- llion release on the New Zealand market, principally nas, a due to the success of last year’s ‘Joan ■only beer Armatrading’ album. In conjunction, the two have As Dorothy Parker Once Said provide an insight into the peculiar brand of rater; Alannah O’Sullivan song Joan Armatrading writes, plays and sings. s crammec New Independent Theatre Back to the Night is in many ways a half- d com- completed version of what the Joan Armatrading m - on N an attempt to cash in on the success of album was to become under the direction of white New Independent’s lunchtime programme, producer Glyn Johns. It features a large number Ithe Mercury are coming down from France of West Indian influenced jazz-rock numbers in the St to produce the first of this term’s mid-day (not to be confused with reggae) but it is in her cifically/ entertainments - ‘As Dorothy Parker Once Said.’ more melodic moods, as in Let’s Go Dancing and :aans, the This selection of short stories, articles and poems, Dry Land that her vocal range and way with a written by the infamous, acid-tongued Dorothy guitar are given adequate if not full, voice. A few te Parker, was compiled by Alannah O’Sullivan, the of the rockier numbers are marred by messy in star of this one-woman show. backing featuring an amazingly powerful bass For the uninitiated, Dorothy Parker was a and drums, and so tending to obliterate the y a among leading intellectual light in the “beautiful young” piano and moog. Nevertheless the power of her the America of the late ‘20s and early ’30s. Even voice, which can soar like Ms Mitchell’s and at were more than her literary talent, however, it was her the next instant would be reminiscent of Patti •ed cynical wit that made her the darling of her age Smith, if the woman could sing, rings through ;wo and able, when all others paled, to strike out ‘Back to the Night’. The album too does not old. with fierce humour. An example: on learning suffer from the material (all written by Joan that Calvin Coolidge had died, she said, “How Armatrading) as even the most over-done of could they tell ?” song-writing topics is strangely original, ;he ‘As Dorothy Parker Once Said’ commences surrounded by her constantly tempo-changing ly of sound. :ir March 16th and will play Wednesday, Thursdays e. One and Fridays at 1.10 p.m. through to March 25th. It is in Joan Armatrading however that the er). In an Admission is 7 5 cents to students, with soup and woman really shows she means business. That is lesson”, toast served before the performance. not to say that the album is without flaws, but i force, atic LOUISE CHUNN “Ash Doroshy Parker once said PAGE 8 CRACCUM MARCH 14 I i The organisers had taken a very common homemade stage and movie screen. And ' W k M ■ sense attitude towards waste. Holes were dug around to the west was the ‘pottery’ r a and labelled ‘organic’. Bags labelled ‘inorganic’ half-house where we sat on an ex-toilet i were fastened on to fences at convenient places and spun wool, talked about the town planning And at the gate into the paddock beside the restrictions on communal development, and the Magic vege garden, there was a sign ‘Feed the earth Health Department’s phobia about organic and love it always’. Around the edge of the toilets, and afterwards, I learned enough about paddock was a series of meditating heads making cheese to decide that it’s complicated. sticking up above the hessian cubicles. The Aerial Railway was the hub of the There was one technologically advanced Celebration activities. That railway was the sort commode - one campground-style outhouse. of ingenious contraption that frightened Mountain The rest of the facilities consisted of holes building inspectors must dream of when they in the ground, with boards across (to keep hear that a hippy is going to build. It was tall, us from falling in), and a circle of waist-high askew, charming! Straight out of Dr. Seuss. hessian (to please the modest). It even had a cascading net from the second The setting for the celebration was pretty storey where the kids climbed and swung and important. a ‘Moehau Street’ streetsign acting as a flag. For the weekend of 25 - 27 February, the Moehau Community opened its farm at Sandy Bay for a ‘Celebration o f Alternative Lifestyles’. SUE STOVER was one of 1500 persons who successfully crossed the dusty gravel roads o f Coromandel to reach Sandy Bay...

EARLY ten years ago, America was reeling under the joyous impact of the Woodstock festival. Last month, New Zealand had Moehau - we’re still waiting to see if New Zealand starts reeling under its impact. Both Moehau and Woodstock were large gatherings of young people on farms. And both had rock music. Woodstock had the faint scent of Vietnam and politics, and an aura of heavy drug use and escapism. Moehau had an aura of simple living - composting, spinning, meditation, hangi food. It also had a more pervading political statement most people arrived at the celebration aware that their $7 (in advance) was going to support the Campaign for Non-Nuclear Futures. Moehau was almost casual in its fundamental objections to the mainstream New Zealand lifestyle. Rod Macdiarmid The Celebration atmosphere had been Val and Josie bathing. building up for weeks beforehand. I’d seen posters in Christchurch months ago and up here in Auckland, word had spread so that nearly For one thing, Moehau was hard to get to. Around the railway there were rows of everyone I knew was talking about Moehau. The roads were hot and dusty and winding. noticeboards with daily happenings - discussions Pre-celebration publicity stressed that the Perhaps this encouraged those with strong on nuclear power, natural dyes, Sufi chanting, weekend was not a rock festival. As a result hearts (and strong cars) and discouraged those yoga every morning ... many others. Moehau seemed to attract a lot of mellowing who lacked both or one of these assets. A mini-learning exchange was operating - people - reincarnated ‘hippies’ - many married We were all camped in the level river valley people with ideas or knowledge to share used that forms the living area for the Moehau the noticeboards to find other people of with kids, still long haired, anxious to keep community. Behind the valley were the similar interests. spreading the good news of alternative lifestyles. rugged green hills of Coromandel . In front In a circle around the railroad were the Of course, there were plenty of people who was the sea and in the distance - Great Barrier. public tents... the folks from Mushroom magazine came for the nightly music and the daily sunshine The festival itself was also interesting the political tent with the non-nuclear guff, the and there was no pressure on then to get excited viewing. On Sunday morning I climbed up Hare Krisna tent, the Wilderland coal-powered about Alternatives. But ‘alternative’ education the hill behind our tents and looked around bus parked beside their ‘kai’ stall. was found in subtle ways. Below me were the tents, the wispy trees, the Of course the weekend wasn’t all wonderful. For example, the system of waste disposal - clean stream and people skinny dipping in Sometimes it rained. Sometimes the music that was an educational experience. I’ve never the bathing hole. faded because of the power strain on stage. seen such a tidy gathering. Away in the cow paddock there was the The Moehau-Mommba truck fell down a slope when the bank collapsed under it. Luckily, the driver was okay, but it cost $800 for a bulldozer to come from Colville to pull it back up to the road. An appeal around the Celebration collected $300. Another uncomfortable thing was the presence of police. As far as I know, there were no arrests for dope (it was there, but only blatant at the concerts). But the police took a lot of people’s names after they were caught red- handed - so to speak - swimming in the nude on a public beach. And there was a short but startling fight on stage which helped to sustain the strained atmosphere during the Saturday night concert. That atmosphere was due in part to a 90 minute film on eastern religions which was tediously long and out-of-place for those people who wanted to dance. When it was all over, about $5,000 had come in ticket sales. About half went to cover expenses and the remaining money went to the Campaign for Non-Nuclear Futures- The Celebration idea grew out of a plan for Mommba, Moehau’s band, to give a private concert on the farm. Moehau people say that the arrival of the nuclear-powered warships last year gave them ‘a kick in the pants’ politically and the private concert evolved into a weekend public celebration. As a result, a lot of crowded cars left Coromandel with bright new bumper stickers - ‘Say no to nuclear power’.

Rod Macdiarmid' Some of the celebrants lend a shoulder to float SUE STOVER the ferry off the beach. CRACCUM, MARCH 14 PAGE 9 Bursary Blues

ITH today’s skyrocketting inflation facing an “unprecedented onslaught on their question of “Where is the money to come from?” students are suffering due to the in­ standard of living”. is answered by this example particularly as it is W adequacy of the present bursary allow­ “In the current economic climate, access to these companies which benefit most from our ance. It is almost two years since the bursary was tertiary education is becoming more and more training as skilled “intellectual” or technical increased to the present level of $13 per week restricted to people whose parents can make up workers. plus $11 for those who have to live outside their the difference between Government assistance Anomalies in the bursary regulations make parents’ home town. It is five years since the and real living costs,” she said. them a farce. Experience of the operation of the Labour Government promised to introduce “a Women students are particularly hard hit due standard tertiary bursary in 1976 showed that standard bursary system” to provide “adequate to the difficulty of finding jobs that pay reason­ the abatement of the bursary unfairly penalised living allowances” for tertiary students. It was ably during the vacation, if they find jobs at all. different groups of students and did not allow the Government’s own Education Department Last year the numbers of women students and any flexibility in dealing with the individual that recommended in August 1974, that the older students increased significantly because of needs of students. For example, orphans over 21 standard tertiary bursary should pay students a the more liberal allowances. Failure to increase years of age are automatically abated because rate of assistance equivalent to the basic social the bursary level this year has seen the process their place of residence is considered to be their security benefit (now $36.22 a week). They reversed as students realised the inadequacy of “home”. PH.D. students are not eligible for the recommended that this bursary be paid to all the bursary level. Only 5% of the students at S.T.B. whether or not they receive a scholarship. eligible students whether they live at home or university come from families whose major bread­ An estimated l/3rd of PH.D. students receive not. Moreover they recommended it be indexed winner is in the unskilled or semi-skilled sector no financial support. In addition, part-time work to compensate for movements in the cost of of the workforce. This sector comprises 40% of is restricted by the PH.D. degree regulations to living. In 1975 the National Party announced the population and pays an equivalent percentage part-time tutoring and demonstrating. These jobs they would “replace the standard tertiary burs­ of the tax revenue. The only way children from are severely limited and the latter is particularly ary as soon as negotiations would permit with a such families can gain access to tertiary education badly paid. new reformed bursary increased to take into (assuming they have overcome the barriers of In March 1975, and July 1976 thousands of account costs and thereafter to adjust it their disadvantaged position in secondary students demonstrated for a living allowance. annually”. A Government conference on schools) is a bursary that can support a student National have promised to announce their “new Tertiary Bursaries in December last year fully. The present system based on “grants in reformed bursary” in the Budget this year for recommended an immediate increase in bursary aid” mean the poor subsidise the rich. The introduction in 1978. If we are to achieve what values and the removal of the boarding abate­ absurd restriction on working hours is a further we need a major campaign, needs to be launched ment. We are still waiting ! barrier to such students. It means that only to demand: Since the general wage order, students remain students from wealthy families can attend A cost of living bursary the only group in the community who have not university. No abatement been compensated for increases in the cost of The tight fisted attitude of the National Automatic cost of living increases living. Despite its election promises the National Government to Education spending is not It is likely that this campaign will culminate in Government has yet to agree to the principle reflected in their attitude to their friends in the nationwide demonstrations at the end of this that the bursary should be regularly adjusted to major corporations. Last year Tasman Pulp and term. If you want to help, contact the Education fully take account of inflation. The President of Paper made $12 million profit and paid NO TAX- Officer or Resource Officer (myself) at the the New Zealand University S tudents due to various tax concessions. Unless we Studass Office. Association, Ms Lisa Sacksen commented that campaign vigorously for our rights, these com­ students along with wage and salary earners, are panies will continue to rule the roost. I think the MICHAEL TREEN AWEf/TU RES or AARON / r p T m

MU The Front -««if«tows» THE FRONT MARTIN RITT CINEMA 2 laughed. I cried. The Front is one of those clear, direct films that hit right to the heart Iand make you walk out afterwards feeling like you’ve just fallen in love. All the people out­ side on Queen Street don’t even know what they’re missing. Maybe they wouldn’t even recognize it if they went. Most films are so full of so much “audience-attracting” garbage (and like blow-flies the people pour in and gorge) that honesty could almost be passed off as an m m unsuccessful gimmick. For The Front is honest. Director Martin Ritt and writer Walter Bernstein tell a story that has no padding or concessions. Its subject is the black-listing of directors, writers, actors suspect­ ed of being communists or communist sympath­ isers in the McCarthy era of the United States. If you know the political background you admire the perspicacity with which the film depicts it; if you don’t know it The Front will leave you wondering why you didn’t. The publicity blurb sums it up: Woody Allen as Howard Prince “ What there were a list, a list that said that .... our finest actors weren't allowed to write, our funniest comedians weren't allowed to Information’ committee and eventually commits i-u ?Jftect.ive story, comedy, pyschological make people laugh" suicide, is based on an actor who did commit thriller - its all there. And in case thats not The fear of a communist conspiracy in the suicide, with bits of Zero Mostel added in for good measure. enough, Stephen Sondheim (A Little Night, entertainment world led to a massive “cleansing” Music) has composed a ditty for the music- of the media. People like Danny Kaye, Humphrey Richard Schickel, a smart-arsed reviewer for lovers and Oswald Morris (Director of Photo­ Bogart, Gene Kelly, Arthur Miller were listed - Time magazine wrote graphy) has filmed a train sequence that, up black-listed - red-listed. They lost their jobs. “Many of the incidents used in the story are until the action starts, would thrill any follower Unless they swore they had no left-wing affilia­ taken directly from history ... they are never of New Zealand National Film Unit Documen­ tions, and if necessary indicted those who had, fully developed as they might have been in a taries. There are allusions to Conon Doyle’s they could not be re-employed. documentary film, nor as fully digested as they Holmes stories, references to Shakespeare, For many actors and directors little could be should have been by any first-class dramatist.” Stradivari us, Schnitzel. done; for writers there was the possibility of a He misses the point. The Front is not concern­ The sets are beautiful, the lighting superb. “front”, a man who could be legitimately ed with the tricky intellectualisms Schickel What more could anyone want? accepted as a writer, who would pass off black­ admires, it simply tells a story. The personal Perhaps a film that wasn’t so trivial. listed work as his own. A front would attend experience and obvious concern of the product­ story conferences, make public appearances and ion team gives authenticity and honesty that Oh, but you should go - watch for the in return get a commission of 10% or 15% or the most makers of documentaries and “first-class phallic thermometer on Freud’s desk. honour and prestige of the writing credits. Some dramas can only dream about. This applies to men fronted out of friendship or goodwill. the detail as well as the main themes. Ritt and D.S. In The Front Howard Prince (Woody Allen) is Bernstein both worked on live T.V. shows, like a cash register operator and small-time bookie the one Howard Prince “writes” scripts for, with a generous nature and an eye for opport­ before they were black-listed. The accuracy unity who becomes a front for three television shows. AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY FILM SOCIETY writers. His short “career” is the story of the sirlce11958 when they were finally cleared of film. the black-list shadow, Ritt and Bernstein have HE Film Society have got away to a flying The^Columbia Pictures publicity describes it as been determined to give their view of the start this year with a programme of films a film “about character assassination, about Communist Conspiracy”, in a film like The T guaranteed to fill any culture gap. Last hypocrisy, about inquisitors, about fanaticism, Front. It took until 1975 for studio resistance to year, film Society, hampered by misunderstand- about the price at which a man will sell his self- give way. Thank God it did. Its a good film. See mgs, took a while to get organised and when respect .... his reputation ... and his friends”. it. “Jfy «nally did get going, were too late to be That reads like a stunning piece of copy-writing, effective. Their main hassle was the confusion sure, but it completely avoids the warmth and DULCIE SMART between the activities of Film ’76 and those of humanity that raise this film above the mire. the society. Film ’76 was established with the Those who made The Front cared. The final PH^P9se co-ordinating films on campus and scenes of the film are powerful but it is when the utilising the facilities of the Maidment Theatre. end credits roll up that the real punch comes. Problems arose last year when Film ’76 began to function on a voluntary basis run by Film The director, the writer, many of the actors THE 7% SOLUTION were blacklisted themselves. Society members because of Ray Waru’s and HERBERT ROSS Blue Horn’s administrative relationship with Martin Ritt, the director, said in a publicity AMALGAMATED interview “It was a terrible, terrible time .... The Because of the University’s demands blacklist killed some people. I know of two cases that the theatre must show a profit and that of suicide, a lot of broken homes; careers were f seems that good old Sherlock Holmes , everyone m ust pay destroyed and financial ruin fell upon many... Iioing a bit of gutsy detective work doesn’t ‘everyone must pay’ the type of film shown Its a terribly important film to finally be able to offer much in the way of box-office success of Film 76 and now ’77 have to be of an make”. Ritt and his colleagues count themselves these dtiys. So the big film men in the sky (in extremely commercial nature for the venture lucky to have survived. this case Director Herbert Ross and screenwriter to make anything. This year no such connection Indulgence could easily have dictated their Nicholas Meyer), unable to come with an alter­ exists. style in making the film. It does not. The native idea, spice this one up a little. If you T$k student Film Society aims to provide a quality, as well as the subject matter make me can call cocaine and vanilla essence ‘spice’ that selection of new artistic films and not often agree with Ritt: It is an important film. The is. The result is a fine example of inconsequential seen or appreciated commercial films, thus en­ screenplay blends reality and romanticism in a excess: The Seven Per Cent Solution. Solution? suring another ‘oasis in a desert of downtown very agreeable combination. Sometimes they are Its so crammed with audience appeal, its solid. cinemas’, that are catering wholly for the very indistinguishable. Woody Allen has a lovely Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson), suffering commercial films. Opportunities to see these an addiction to cocaine, follows a trail of vanilla off-beat non-commercial films are severely comic scene in which as Howard Prince he essence to the Viennese consulting rooms of restricted in Auckland and under the direction refuses one of the scripts of a writer he is Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). He finds there of David Blythe and planning of Dave Buchan, fronting for. It plays like a screen-writer’s not only a cure for his addiction, but also an delightful invention, but in Newsweek the Society is providing such an outlet Oedipus complex, a contrived little psychological This year the programme has been designed to magazine, Walter Bernstein explained that it was kinship between himself and Freud, and the rest permit as much participatory influence by based on a real incident. of an all-star cast (most notably Olivier, Vanessa “One of my fronts really did turn down a members as possible. It is hoped the society will Redgrave, Joel Grey) embroiled in a plot as otter much more to its members in terms of script of mine .... It was a comedy and the thick as Dr Watson’s adenoidal voice. The front said ‘I can’t send this in. Its not funny cinema-orientated events than previously and so enough. I have my name to think about.” Most whodunnit which survived the glossy opulence will remain largely flexible and adaptable to of the characters are built up from real people. °f Murder on the Orient Express: survived that members ideas. A start-of-year meeting is to be Hecky Brown, (Zero Mostel) a black-listed actor and comedy too in Murder bv Death, in The held in the top common room at 7 pm on the Seven Per Cent Solution can but die a fulsome 14th March. who spies on Prince to appease the ‘Freedom death. SUE SHEPHERD CRACCUM, MARCH 14 PAGE 11 <-Que pasa en Espana?

Jan Geary David, and Margaret Burt have been living in Spain over the last ten years, working with the influential left. University Bible Groups there. JILL RANSTEAD Another element of the Spanish situation is spoke to them about their observations on the the rot of its bureacratic system. Burt explains present situation. that the bureaucrats have such a hold on the old system that the new regime is seriously hampered in making its reforms. And there is T one point in our conversation, David speculation that if truly democratic reforms Burt looked up and said, ‘You know, a lot were to take place, some 15,000 employees and Ahas been changed in Spain - and yet it is a large number of official dignitaries would very little.’ This is possibly the essence of what stand to lose their jobs. It is an area, too, which has been happening there over the last year. is closely related to Spain’s middle-class popula­ The first indication of any change came soon tion and it seems unlikely that they are going to after Franco’s death, a little over a year ago. be willing to uproot themselves from these Franco seemed to have the political processes positions. nicely tied-down - his successor, and the forty men of the Council of the Realm had been hand­ They are not the only reluctant reformists. picked by him before his death. Parliament, the ‘When you have had forty years of dictatorship,’ remaining sector of the governing body, was says Burt, ‘nobody is going to have political made up of one party - Franco’s - and voted for power unless they have this vested interest in by l/3rd of the population. the old regime.’ And indeed, many of the new ***** cabinet have close ties to major industrial and So it was somewhat of a shock to the system mm banking concerns. for the new king, Juan Carlos, to announce It is perhaps this that has influenced the intentions of working towards a western-style democratic leanings - the EEC has barred Spain democracy. And so far, says Burt, these inten­ from its ranks until such times as it decides to tions seem to be taking effect. The country is play at being a democracy. A deteriorating now in the situation where, in a couple of economic situation has worried those holding months time, there will be open political Spain’s purse-strings and it is believed that by elections for the first time in forty years. joining the EEC, many of these problems would There have been repercussions and under­ be solved The fear of worker discontent is also currents, though, many of which seem to be great: ‘A large percentage of Spanish workers pulling in vastly different directions. ‘The were in other European countries, and now, government is walking on a tightrope,’ according because of the economic crises there, they have to Burt. ‘If it goes too far towards opening up ‘The government is walking on a tight-rope” all been sent home. The unemployment benefit the country so that all left-wing political parties there is small, and very difficult to live off.’ become legal, there is a danger of a coup from It can be seen, then, that while the legislative the right. And if it moves too slowly, there is a officially presented its papers to the Supreme steps towards democracy are being taken, very danger of the left causing chaos at grass-roots Court for approval.’ little is, in fact, changing. It seems to be a ievel.’ It’s a dicey game. Some would call it political situation of weighing up who stands to lose ‘It is a difficult situation for the regime. It amorality, and it’s one where no-one wins most by doing what - hardly a good enough started off very weakly because it had no force straight out. The government seems to find it basis for a democracy. to fall back on. If there was a rebellion from the desirable to let the democratic political parties Whatever the intentions of those in power, it Army, they could do absolutely nothing about have a legal existence rather than have them is difficult to avoid the impression that the it. If the Catholic Church decided to get directly fester underground, yet it is unwilling to fully Government is trying for a different structure involved in politics and declare itself against simply by loosening the .screws on the old one. the regime, it could do nothing about it. So the recognize the interests of these parties. There seems, too, to be a curious relationship between They plan to clean it out after a democratic Govt, had to make sure of their support before the armed forces, the government, the general system has been established, yet these same it could move in any direction at all. Rumour population and the left. For example, a referen­ structures are hindering the development of such has it that the present prime minister, Suarez, dum was held last December to see whether the a system. actually met with the heads of the Army, Air people approved of the Government’s measure Which brings us back to the question of Force and Navy, and put his cards on the table to create a two-level house of parliament. The liberalisation’. Is this enough to bring any long­ and said, ‘Look, we know that you can intervene referendum was held not so much for the term good to Spain?Can a reform programme of. whenever you want - if you are planning on approval of that particular measure, as to gauge ‘controlled democracy’ succeed in making the intervening, please do so now, rather than wait­ popular support for the regime as such. This was radical changes needed?Burt’s observation was ing until we have brought the country along an overwhelming. Meanwhile, the police, on their that a lot of people are marking time, to see how irreversible path to democracy, and then inter­ own initiative, moved in and arrested those left­ the Government is going to handle the situation, vening.’ And apparently they committed them­ wingers who boycotted the referendum. Simil­ and in the meantime it was an open question as selves to supporting the regime in their moves arly, a member of the Executive Committee of to whether Spain would move to a fascist state, towards democracy.’ the Communist Party was arrested merely on the western democracy or popular front government. The Government, then, is anxious to maintain grounds of his existence as such. It seems un­ Something will have to be sorted out soon. the power support of the right-wing forces. Not likely, then, that the Government is going to get surprisingly, this has had its effects on the over­ very much support from the politically- all political ‘balance’. The 24 parties which have so far been legalised are all from the moderate centre and the right. ‘One of the policies of the present Govt was to say, ‘We will allow the formation of all parties that are not totalitarian.’ K C £ This was a sort of a sop to the right, who F K ^ interpreted this as, ‘We will allow the formation of all the parties except the Communists.’ The right is scared stiff of the Communists, but they are not so scared of the moderates or the Pa/yrlemu',"C A socialists. Therefore the Govt has said that it • Burgos will not allow any totalitarian party. It is all Jj \ 'n I/ very ironical, because there is no party more •Mt\nrrsq/> totalitarian than Franco’s old party - that still in

The Government though, is still in a bind. A vila . During Franco’s time, the left stood behind the o Ortd o , O v ~ j?•f} MADRJDJ Communists as a bloc - though the moderate LS C astellan Sr' 'Toledo ■ * eft may not have approved of them - and refused ------''/An ft)*,0 S ^ dt la Plana V, to let itself be legalised until the whole thing ‘Cdceres Guadalujae ^ was thrown open. This has happened in part, yet h Valencia»^ the Communist Party is still ‘illegal’. It would be "i O ' cV. O fJ Aadajrrz, ^ Valdcjienas jL Candia- difficult for the Government to ignore the Party i - it has been estimated that it would gain 10 - 0 ^ 15% of the vote in a general election. M icantc- ‘So now it is assumed in Spain that the Ubeda. Murcia. regime will find some way to legalise the A L Communists or allow them to stand for elections /Seville without having to pass such legislation through a A right-wing dominated Parliament. This is sheer speculation on my part, but I think that they V will allow the formation of some party that does not call itself ‘communist’ but has some completely different name, and will act as a front for the Communist candidates. I under­ iM a stand that just last week the Communist Party PAGE 12 CRACCUM MARCH 14 Defining the Battlelines ‘imperialists’ who hide behind slogans of democracy and peaceful coexistence.’ The atmospheric fallout from nuclear testing on Bikini Island in 1954 has also had its effects. Crops were, and still are, being contaminated, which has made it necessary to rely on supplementary food imports from the US. Also disturbing are the more recent develop­ ments there. Along with Japan and Iran, the US is planning a supertanker port at Palau Island for the storing, refining and supply of oil. There has been strenuous opposition to the concept of Port Pacific, as it is called: a petition has been BOUT 500 miles east of the Phillipines lie signed by the island residents and the Palauan A the Micronesian islands. One of the largest High Chief Ibedul Gibbons has spoken out of these is Palau, with nearly a third of the against it. The reasoning used by the Americans overall population of 140,000. It has had a long to justify their plans, though, can perhaps be history of foreign influence: first the Spanish, in seen in a statement attributed to one of their the early days of the Great Explorers, followed Navy Commanders: ‘You realize there are by the Germans. After World War I, Palau millions of people in Japan and only 14,000 Island became a Japanese mandate, and then in people in Palau; we may have to sacrifice those 1947, it became part of the Trust Territory of 14,000 people.’ the Pacific Islands administered by the United It has become apparent, too, that Japan would States. want a US military umbrella if it is to become So what of the Islanders themselves ? involved in the oil enterprise. The US seem to be Isaac Soaladoab is a member of the Tia Belaud willing to oblige. Mumblings from American liberation movement in Palau Island and last military leaders over the last year or so would month he visited New Zealand to speak at the suggest some eagerness in using a supertanker International Convention for Peace Action, des­ port as a base for their latest protegee, the cribing their situation. Trident submarine fleet. Since Palau became a trusteeship of the US, he The US is supposed to hand back the Palau says, the American dominance of the island has Islands to its people in 1981. But Soaladoab crept to alarming proportions. There is, first, the thinks that by then the damage will be done. economic situation. The people of Palau have Already, he says, the culture invasion has had traditionally worked the land and fishing res­ its insidious effects and too many Islanders now ources for their living. These, however, have have much to lose in any struggle against their slowly been eroded, and he has clear ideas on oppressors. just who is responsible. He came to New Zealand to make the situation ‘The battle lines are becoming well-defined. known and to appeal to Government MP’s. Their The masses are on one side and on the other are reaction was not encouraging: ‘It is not possible the three sharks: the plantation owners - the for us to interfere in what seems to be a demo­ Unilevers of England and Holland, the Brewers cratic process,’ he was told. Their views may of white Hawaii; the blackbirding merchants such have been influenced by the American develop­ as Burns Philip and Carpenters of white Australia ments in Palau Island: the establishment of and white New Zealand, the Mitsuis of Japan; Pacific Port would certainly make a convenient and thirdly, the land destroyers such as the min­ oil supply base. Soaladoab sees the liberation ing of the racist, Zionist Rothschilds who control from the US as one and the same thing as Le Nickel, and of the Rockefeller-Kaiser group liberation from any other country involved in famous in America for massacring the wives and the oppression of the Palau Island people. New children of striking miners in Colorado. Only Zealand cannot afford to ignore him. slowly and painfully have we in Micronesia realised that these sharks are what are called Isaac Soaladaob, of the Tia Belaud Movement, JILL RANSTEAD Palau Island.

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propagating the same basic policies, and in Britain and Tasmania, are apparently considering adopting the name Values. Although the VP is in touch with these overseas groups Margaret did not seem impressed with the idea of a Values EMEMBER the Values Party ? Remember foremost a political party. Consequently it International as such. election night ’72, Gentleman Jack became necessary to guard its policy rather Margaret Crozier was the VP candidate for R Marshall on the TV blithering about some more jealously. Whangarei in ’75. However, as recently as the complete nobody called Dreadon who had got Margaret has also noticed a change in public ’72 election, she had been involved in canvassing 1650 votes against him without even holding a attitudes towards Values over the last year or so. for the local Labour Party candidate. She soon public meeting ? Remember ’7 5 ? all that fuss People are now less likely to treat it as a curious- became disenchanted with a LP which appeared when Shadbolt nearly stood against Muldoon in ity and more inclined to enquire seriously about no longer capable of assimilating new and import­ Tamaki, and all those car stickers of little dogs its policies. This has been particularly evident as ant ideas. For her, the policy of the VP and the with bladder infections ? Remember, the lot the regards Economic policy. At one stage it was means of arriving at the policy are inseparable. Nats called Commos and the Labour trendies fashionable, although never entirely fair, to The internal organisation of the Labour Party is • called Fascists ? accuse the VP of having no economic policy. characterised by the same centralised bureaucracy According to Deputy Leader Margaret Crozier, Now, Margaret reports large numbers of the which threatens to prevent the country from who was on campus recently, they are alive and public are keen to enquire about the details of avoiding the social and economic regression that well and living just about everywhere except the policy, as applied to particular areas affecting face it at the moment. Auckland. Not only is Auckland one of the them personally. Ms Crozier also resents the “middle class Party’s intrinsic weak areas but the problem is Furthermore, it seems that interest is not smear” which is often thrown at Values. She accentuated by the difficulty which Margaret, confined to NZ. Groups in several countries are believes it is obvious that those people involved and Leader Tony Kunowski, a Christchurch in fighting for political change cannot be the resident, have in getting press coverage beyond most repressed members of society since they are the areas in which they live. So in fact, Values by definition totally concerned with securing the has not faded from the face of the planet, but necessities for survival. She does believe, however, has just been lost in the crowd around Auckland. that the Values party has an appeal to working In fact, Margaret seems confident about the class people and as an example quotes the VP’s prospects for the future. She points to A nd instance of a group of Northland union officials the gains made in the last election in those seats accosting the local Labour candidate with a copy which had a candidate second time around, and of the Values manifesto and demanding to know this would appear to be a continuing trend. In when the LP was going to do something about particular, she pointed to the VP’s performance K unowski worker participation in management. This of in the Nelson by-election last year. In ’75 course the LP is unable to do since it would Values candidate Ms Struik received 1231 votes undermine the current trade union bureaucracy out of a toteil of 18,540. In the by-election a which allows the LP to buy the support of work­ year later she got 1,583 out of 17,404. There are, ing people without having to give them value for of course, advantages for a minor party in a Too money. by-election as opposed to a general election. The AST week AUSA was also visited by Values Crozier also believes.that Values policy has an most important of these is that the big parties Leader Tony Knuowski, who was in Auck­ innate appeal to small farmers working family cannot evade the restrictions on expenditure per L land to assist with the party’s campaign in farms. She points out that Northland is a depress­ electorate by putting vast sums into nationwide the Mangere by-election. At a very poorly ed area and contends that the failure of success­ advertising. Also, of course, the more limited advertised meeting attended by no more than ive governments to inject sufficient finance into resources of a Smaller party can cope more a couple of dozen people and a TV camera crew agriculture is a prime reason for this. Values adequately with a one seat contest than with a he spoke about the need for a new approach to economic policy calls for the emphasis in the full general election. j economic problems. He was harshly critical of economy to be returned to farming and away Confidence is also high for a good showing in the present Government and said that NZ was from manufacturing for export which has failed the coming Mangere by-election. A poll of voters in worse shape than at any point this decade. consistently to earn as much as it has cost in taken by the party several weeks ago indicated The Government’s ‘balancing the books’ terms of the imports necessary to sustain it. At that at that stage Values would have received approach was, he claimed, found inadequate present she maintains “people are mugs to invest 14% of the vote. However this was before Colin back in the ’20’s. He described its social policy in food production”. However it is here that NZ’s. Moyle withdrew and Labour made the rather as virtually non-existent. The Government was efforts can be most efficiently directed and shrewd choice of David Lange as their candidate. relying upon the persecution of scapegoats should be directed. Some gain does seem probable, however, since in such as HART, and Polynesian immigrants to The vulnerability of NZ’s trading position ’7 5 Mangere was one of the few urban seats divert attention from its ‘the economy first, she says, makes it imperative that we become where Values was beaten home by Social people second policy’. He also accused the PM as near as possible to self sufficient and precludes Credit, a performance that is not likely to be of using rather dubious manipulations of costly adventures into areas of manufacturing repeated. inflation statistics to make his policies appear which we cannot efficiently undertake. Regardless of such short-term goals, however, more successful than they in fact had been. Comparing our situation with the rest of the Margaret Crozier is under no illusions as to the It is, he contended, necessary to acknowledge , world, she concludes that ‘NZ has the best magnitude of the long-term task facing the VP. ‘the limits of growth’ if New Zealanders were chance of making major breakthroughs in She stressed that Values has got to develop a to preserve a worthwhile way of life. adapting to the crisis resulting from the depletion more outgoing attitude and be better prepared to of the world’s scarce resources.’ One of the areas take advantage of situations as they occur. This DON MACKAY is happening at present with Values members (continued on p. 15.) involved in numerous causes on both a local and Jan Geary national level. However, because of the danger of appearing to be jumping on other people’s bandwagons, these members are often adopting an excessively low profile. A degree of caution is warranted in this area to avoid the sort of cred­ ibility problem which many Labour Party people have brought upon themselves through lack of such tact. On the other hand, Values is becoming more and more sensitive about what it rightly or wrongly considers to be the poaching of its policies by other parties. This is partly the result of the manner in which many politicians have adopted a “pseudo-Values” rhetoric, bandying around words like “conservation”, “ecology” and “environment” with gay abandon. As Margaret pointed out it is quite wrong for established politicians to imagine they can undermine Values in this manner. It is not only such areas of concern that mark the VP off but also the methods by which it is proposed to implement them. As she said “Values is not prepared to accept the old centralised authori­ tarian approach”, regardless of what policies it is aligned to. The other reason for the firming up of Values - position flows from the increasingly political orientation of the party. In the early days it was not uncommon to hear talk of Values being a “social movement” rather than a political party. However the Conference held at the beginning of ’76 decided that Values would henceforth be PAGE 14 CRACCUM MARCH 14

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FREE WELCOME DINNER AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING GIVE BLOOD SECOND HAND BOOKSHOP The Autumn General Meeting of the (OLD BILLIARDS ROOM) Auckland University Students' Association Inc has been called for Wednesday 30 6.00 pm THURSDAY 17 MARCH BLUDDAYS March 1977 to be held in Room B28 of the Library Block at 7.00 pm. COME AND MEET SOME FRIENDS Weds 16, Thurs 17, Fri 18 March If attendance is not sufficient to form a quorum, the meeting will be postponed until Thursday 31 March 1977 to be held AUCKLAND CITY ART GALLERY Lower Common Room at 1.00 pm in the catering complex.

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In Join dressed in ermine coats, would wedge rubies the Bovs and like Fire it is difficult to believe between the lips of beautiful boys. that it is not Stephen Stills thrashing away, but then she starts in on Love and Affection and one So this is how it goes realises that she can play it all. 10 Back in Mesopotamia „ The backing of this, her latest album, seems Remember Tangier far better suited to all of her styles, varying .BUMS And all the friends from the humorous Water with the Wine (warn­ Who flew away , but we're ing against alcohol-induced passion) to the hard­ best These Ziggurats hitting People. The deep bassiness is retained Are too large for conversation. - come in but without detracting from the power of Jerry tur old Donahue and Graham Lyle’s guitar work, and The trans-Siberian train transported Mr limited orchestration is introduced in several Williams, a writer, past bleak landscapes. He HANGE songs, where it works only to the advantage of 19 was deep in thought while, outside, unknown Vlagic Bus) the entire album. villagers were deep in snow. In writing he would Although criticism has been levelled against search for some new form of expression, some­ Joan Armatrading for her similarity to Van thing exceptional Morrison (whom she is reported to idolize) and 23 others, her music strikes as a new, if not totally - like a harpsichord in a bomb crater LUB original force. It is true that she lacks the power - like London fog in the Sahara of the “greats” of this world, but who cares 25 - like strange bone structures in/ when she can sing such pretty songs. Spanish cathedrals Mr Williams’ train clattered away - like an/ a c r o s s : NICHOLAS DORSET epileptic typewriter 1. Is it buoyed up by liquid assets? (8, 7) 8. Grave without luxury! (7) You brought me a necklace from Brazil VALUES PARTY. (Cont. from p.13.) 9. One is to dance with one’s spouse! (7) I thanked you and returned to Tokyo. 10. The innermost part is in the side. (5) RCH 11. Flight helps us to rise. (9) in which NZ is currently failing badly is transport 12. Stiff drilling installation - I’d complete it. (5) * shadow of Venetian blind on whitewashed / Ms Crozier points to the continued emphasis 14. Excellent body of men in an American court? (5, 4) office wall j on petroleum fueled road transport at a time * electric fan slices hot air ENDS 16. Transform a tongue. (9) ‘ when the life expectancy of such modes of 17. Liquid of knockout value! (5) * man in panama hat strokes a rubber plant transport is not more than twenty or thirty years. 19. Their addresses are improving. (9) He is a movie director. He plans to film a The magnitude of the crisis occasioned by 22. Compact, so the cover follows. (5) waterfall in Paraguay, then a death in Madrid. the depletion of vital resources is such as to 23. For an unruly group, to err is weird. 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MTURE Crozier claims, to try and adapt in advance d o w n : Our orgasm lasted over Tibet. (this is the object of the bulk of VP policy) and thus ensure that the remaining resources 1. Fear the mutilation of part of the bird. (7) 2. Laughs - and not about attack! (9) Eric feared the stars, he could not put them are shared fairly and used wisely. She sees in 3. Initially, the regular payment for a river. (5) down on his white canvas. A sense of emptiness the economic policies of the present government 4. Requires the French to leave the sewing gear. (5) haunted him and he often vomited up the black the seeds of the rather less pleasant alternative. 5. Game part for an elevated stretch of land. (9) bile of infinity. Eric had camel hair brushes and Muldoon is using the increasingly dismal 6. Heavyweight gave the first half to a Pacific island. (5) oils imported from Milan, but all of his paintings economic situation as a lever to foist on the 7. Legally, it’s to steal the term. (7) were of airport terminals. majority of the population a lowered standard 9. Lowly fellow with vegetables for the worker. (7) of living and restricted civil liberties while 13. How topsoil is sold? (4, 5) A concrete parachute and the impact of tears allowing an elite class to entrench themselves 14. Strange type of gems. (7) I received an erection in a position of privilege. Consequently, 15. Not down to carry a gun - to provide stuffing! (9) 16. Devil descending, or holy man rising. Our country Like a stranger coming out of the mists, .MS Ms Crozier predicts that ‘None of the existing needs them. (7) To scatter flowers over far horizons institutions can expect to survive the decade 18. Saves using a pawn ticket? (7) Jism over plateaus of flesh without change, for better or for worse’. 20. Points out the stick to wear away. (5) Your back a runway 21. Mythical beast can make trays. (5) Your sighs the distant echoes of disappearing jets. DON MACKAY 22. Prepare a bird, and eat gluttonously. (5) star RICHARD VON STURMER ie Sundance Newsweek @] THEATRE CORPORATE m EARN WHILE YOU LEARN wanted GALATOS ST PHONE 74237 SELL NEWSWEEK SATIRE FOR CAPPING BOOK DAILY AT 1.10 pm DAILY AT 8.15 pm You'll earn good money good experience —-ar>d a chance to make fnerds— LEAVE AT CRACCUM OFFICE as a Newsweek campus rep-es^niative N o experience necessary !o operate this STRANGE SISTERS OFF TO THE LOUNGE sm all and profitable business SECOND FLOOR S.U.B. W n te today lor loll details Also at 11.00 pm Newsweek Education Department Workshop Newsweek International March 18 & 19 Production Carlton Centre, 55 Elizabeth Street, SYDNEY 2000 Deadline for contributions: 18 March 1977 it re ALL BOOKINGS: PHONE 74-307 JRDAY ».15 pm

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THE SILVER ACORN DEREK WARD all his dealings were conducted in great secrecy and he himself was rarely seen: it became his It happened that in a large metropolis teeming custom to wear heavy disguise whenever he with beings of a human kind there lived a certain appeared before any other than his few most moderately successful businessman whose custom trusted associates. All the while deep in hisi it was to recline upon a large couch after his most private vault within a secret safe within a noonday sustenance. On this particular day secret wall within a secret safe he kept his tiny his recline was lapsing into doze when he heard acorn of silver. a tiny tapping coming from high upon the wall - Eventually his wealth grew to such proportions he looked up and saw nothing, he peered from that he was able to realize a fantastic dream. his office window and saw the same bustling Calling together the finest architects and eng­ millions; the tapping persisted and he began to ineers he caused to be constructed a monstrous search methodically for its source, which he skyscraper of silver in the shape of an acorn - duly found - for perched on the top of the so tall that it could be seen from neighbouring curtain box was a 60 millimetre high naked man states, its fantastic stalk towering above the very of fine bone and feature regularly striking a mountains; and at the topmost part of the stalk small silver acorn with a small silver hammer. he had his penthouse. The moment the businessman saw him he Now as it happened he arose one day from his stopped his tapping and turned - then tossing recline to call his private secretary and found no his tiny tapper into the air he tumbled after it answer - perplexed, he called the assistant to his and disappeared 2 centimetres from the tip of secretary and again received no answer - presently the nose of our merchant friend - leaving behind he discovered that the huge acorn was devoid of the silver acorn. Gingerly picking it up the personnel. Sitting bewildered at his silver desk businessman observed that it was so exquisitely his eye was caught by what appeared to be a wrought that were it not silver he would have monstrous toe, and rushing to the patio of the taken it to be real. penthouse he saw that indeed it was - attached And from that day our businessman had the it seems to a monstrous foot - his eye followed most extraordinary fortune in the world of a huge body up into the clouds. The upper half commerce. Every business project he embarked of the giant was lost in the fleecy fog, the arms upon blossomed forth in showers of money and hung at its sides; and in its left hand it held a success. Indeed he became so well known that gigantic silver hammer......