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National’s ‘revolutionary’ industrial relations policy Page 2 rfiffldit i ------U W I l P ions, we are forced to conclude that the osition to the Bill. 10 ED UCATION O F F IC E R - responsible dances etc are a risk to the safety and sec­ “ It is incredible that any right-thinking for all matters concerning education. Editor - Mike Rann urity of Students Association property people could seriously suggest, as some (your $28.00 worth). If we are to contin­ MP’s did, that the Bill would lead to the 11 INTERNATIONS AFFAIRS OFFICER ue providing these services either the van­ breakdown of New Zealand society or to - all matters concerning Internation Technical Editors - Malcolm Walker • dalism must be prevented or the Executive a disasterous fall in the country’s birth Affairs. and Jeremy Templar. will have to close down the facilities at rate,” Mr. Blincoe continued. “ And for night until it stops. MP’s to talk paternalistically of their com­ 12CULTURAL AFFAIRS OFFICER- Advertising Manager - Paul Gilmour There has been damage to the pool passion for homosexuals yet deny them responsible for the co-ordinations of room also at night and this has forced the legal right to be what they are is sheer the creative activities of all clubs. Reporter - Rob Greenfield the closing of the pool room after 7 p.m. hypocrisy.” Thanks to Raewyn Stone, as was the case in 1974 when damage Mr. Blincoe said New Zealanders should PUBLIC LIAISON OFFICER Ruth Butterworth, Bob Mann, Ann from outside the campus was also high. be able to expect much better from their Wilkes, Roger Horrocks, Clare Ward, We regret the need to shut down our elected representatives. Applications are being called for the pos­ Anne Chambers. services but it is a case of obtaining the Mr. Blincoe pointed out that the Select ition of Public Liaison Officer on the greatest good for the greatest number Committee considering Mr. Young’s Bill Executive of the Auckland University possible. If the actions of a few are pre­ had attracted some 150 submissions from Students’ Association, for the remainder venting the good use of our facilities we a broad cross-section of the community of 1975. Nomination forms are available are forced to take preventive action. and from Government departments. The from the A.U.S.A. Office. k t U n t e f d submissions had heavily favoured homo­ Nominations, which should be in a sealed Yours, sexual law reform. envelope addressed to the Association Michael Walker, Mr. Blincoe asked how Parliamentarians Secretary and accompanied by a photo­ Admin. Vice-President could expect people to have faith in the graph, and brief biographical details and so-called “ proper channels” of reform if a policy statement, close at 1 p.m. on a Bill could be rejected in the face of evi­ Friday 18 July 1975. f l dence so overwhelmingly in its favour. The applicants will be expected to attend Dear Ed, “ Such a rejection makes a farce of partici­ the S.R.C. meeting at that time where the One of the things I thought I could be patory democracy” he said. position will be decided. proud of in this University was the Stu­ Mr. Blincoe concluded by predicting dent Health service. that pressure for homosexual law reform Sharyn Cederman When I decided that I needed to see a The Editor, would continue to grow. “ No amount of ASSOCIATION SECRETARY doctor I naturally went along to the Stu­ Craccum. wishful thinking by Parliamentarians will dent Health. But I found that the Student make the issue go away,” he said. Health service is sicker than the students Dear Sir, who use it. Sicker also than the students Mr. Frey, following Descartes, starts John Blincoe who need it but are politely told to buzz from a position of systematic doubt but General Vice President off and go and find your own doctor unlike his distinguished predecessor gives who will charge about $3.50 for 10 mins, no reasons. If he or anyone else has grou­ just because they have the misfortune to nds or evidence for a belief that the pre­ be living with their parents. sent examining procedure has resulted in ELECTIONS I’m bloody amazed, astonished and an injustice or may do so then he should brassed off that this discrimination goes write to the Registrar. This is also the Nominations are called for portfolio pos­ on here. If Clare Ward or any of her procedure a dissatisfied examinee should itions for the 1976 Executive. Nomination colleagues read this then it’s about time follow, whether concerning papers or a forms are ava ilable from the A.U.S.A. they made the Student Health available thesis. Office. to students, all students. I would welcome a discussion with Nominations, which should be in a sealed Mr. Frey, or any other student, should envelope addressed to the Association Sincerely Yours, he care to come and see me. Secretary and accompanied by a photo­ Tortis Berkeley graph and brief biographical details and Yours sincerely, a policy statement, close at 5 p.m. on H.A. Montgomery Friday 25 July, 1975. Elections will be held on 11 and 12 August, 1975. The following are the portfolios and their duties as described in the Constitu­ tion : SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Brian Talboys, the Deputy Leader of Dear Editor, 1. CAPPIN G C O N T R O L L E R - responsi­ the Opposition, demonstrated his clear Having been in the Phillipines six COMBINED DEAN’S LECTURE ble for the organising of Capping. understanding of foreign affairs to a months, and observed psychic surgery meeting of Auckland University students directly, I am most concerned about rec­ in association with the Auckland Medical 2. B U SIN ESS M A N A G ER - responsible a week ago. Mr. Talboys told his attentive ent articles published in some New Zea­ Historical Society for the business management of all audience that “ South Africa is a democra­ land papers, by those who are blinded by publications published by A.U.S.A., tic nation” . Pressed to explain his incred­ societies conditioned attitudes. The next lecture in this year’s series of of Capping and all Arts Festivals and ible insight, Rob’s right-hand-man told Psychic healing is not a magicians Dean’s Lectures will be : Tournaments, shall assist the Treasur­ us that South Africa was democratic be­ trick. The psychic healers are sincerely er and shall also act as Treasurer to cause it had “ representative institutions” . concerned with the welfare of their “MEDICAL TEACHING AND TEACHERS Theatre Workshop. Representative for whom, Brian ? fellowmen. Free of conditioned thoughts, - THEN AND BEFORE THEN” unlimiting their minds, they become 3. SOCIAL CONTROLLER-responsible channels for the universal healing power. Dr R.E. Wright-St. Clair for the management and control of all I have visited Mr Terle, a 70 yr old social functions held by A U SA or the Once a year I venture a peep at Robert healer, watching him heal for hours on Assistant Medical Superintendent, Waikato Executive including Benefit Dances. Gilmour’s “ Give and Take” column in end, watched the much publicized Ant­ Hospital. Dr Wright-St.Clair will discuss Saturday’s Star. How about this little gem: onio Agapoa, also had psychic surgery. the historical development of medical 4. SOCIETIES REPRESENTATIVE- “ ..... Sue Kedgely looking incomparably In the future I hope to be visiting all heal­ teaching from the early years of the Otago supervise the affairs and safeguard the more feminine - and fulfilled - than some ers in Baguio, Lawlands and Manila. I Medical Faculty - 'then', and between interests of all affiliated bodies except of the bleak freaks with whom she shared would be glad to write of my observations 'then' and the days of Hippocrates - 'before sports clubs. platforms” . for those that are interested in the simple then'. I think I’ll wait two years next time. truth, free of mental prejudices and fear 5. SPORTS CLUBS’ REPRESENTATIVE of societies scorn. The lecture will be held in the RO BB - supervise the affairs and safeguard - T H EA T R E, Basement, School of Medicine. the interests of all sports clubs, chair­ Kareenne Ebdon person of Sports Council, and Sports Homosexual Law Reform Debate (B.A. student, Auckland ON : Wednesday 16th July 1975 Committee and Tournament Commi­ University 1974,1973) A T : 1130 hrs. ttee and a member of the Blues Mr. Paddy Blanchfield (Government - Committee. West Coast) warned that Mr. Young’s M.A. Robinson fill might be a step on the way to ‘zero ASSISTANT REGISTRAR 6. STUDENT LIAISON O FFICER- population growth. Child molesters, he Liaison between Executive and stud­ said, would be encouraged by the ‘green ents and shall be particularly concern­ light for homosexual relationships to be ed with the welfare of students not carried on with a minimum of public PRESS RELEASE living in Auckland and of non-Euro­ resentment.” Dear Ed, pean origin. On Friday 4th J uly at about 10.30 pm CRIMES AMENDMENT BILL The Minister of Police, Mick Connelly: a group of itinerant vandals came through 7. HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN- “ Homosexuals needed medical treatment, the Union complex and ripped out seven The New Zealand University Students’ the committee which looks after not a change in the law” of the eight free telephones rented by the Association has deplored Parliament’s re­ common rooms, first aid room, news­ Students Association. Further, taps in the jection of Mr. Venn Young’s Crimes Amend­ paper room and all noticeboards. Runs Mr. K.R. Allen (National-Tauranga): Theatre were turned on flooding it mean­ ment Bill as a “ disgraceful display of stup­ Blood Day and assist returning officer. “ It is not a recognition of homosexuality. ing that the floor had to be ripped up. idity and bigotry.” Mr. Young’s Bill sought It is a licence to commit indecent acts.” This causes unnecessary costs and delays. to decriminalize private homosexual rela­ 8. PUBLICATIONS OFFICER-manage­ We have been issued with an ultimatum tions between males of 20 or over. ment and control of all matters relat­ Mr. Phil Amos, the Minister of Educa­ from the Post Office to the effect that the The General Vice President of NZUSA, ing to Association publications, in part­ tion, abstained from voting on the bill. free phones, which have now been repair­ Mr. John Blincoe, said that his Association icular Chairperson of Craccum Admin­ He told the Auckland Star that legislation ed, will not be repaired again. This is due had supported Mr. Young’s Bill as a prog­ istration Board. had “ no place in the bedroom.” That’s to the difficulties arising from getting re­ ressive though modest step towards social funny - we thought Mr. Young’s bill was placement parts and the continuous van­ equality. He said that he had been appalled 9. PUBLIC LIAISON OFFICER-publi­ a step towards that end. dalism going on. As the damage has often at the shallow and reactionary arguments cise outside the University the activi­ occurred at night around weekend funct­ used by many MP’s in justifying their opp­ ties of the Association. Page 3

Immigration Act which says that a person Immigrants sentenced to jail as a re­ who has been in the country for up to five sult of offences committed in New years can be deported under certain cir­ Zealand may be deported home if Nation­ cumstances, ahd, at the request of a Judge al becomes the government at the end of to the Minister of Immigration... Both this year, usually informed services indic­ National and Labour Ministers have used ate. this power in about equal proportions.’ A ‘tough line’ immigration policy is Mr McCully added that Cook Islanders expected to be announced by National are N.Z. citizens - and , as such, were in within the next few days. a special situation. Deportation provisions, And last week National leader Rob he said, didn’t apply to Cook Islanders. Muldoon had private talks in Auckland Asked whether he would support a with 30 Cook Islanders. change in the Law relating to Cook Islanders, Three Opposition members of the Cook thereby making them eligible for deportation, Islands* National assembly - including McCully said that he would not support any Leader Dr Tom Davis - were present at the change in the Law in this respect. meeting. No representatives of the ruling Mr McCullysaid that he would support “ Cook Islands Party” were present. changes which would enable Cook Islanders The meeting - held in St Stephen’s - resident in N.Z. - to vote in Cook Island Avenue, Parnell - was apparently organ­ elections, without returning home. He ised by local representatives of the Cook ‘couldn’t recall’ whether such assurances Islands’ Democrat Party. were made to Cook Islanders at the meeting. Accompanying Mr Muldoon were Mr Me Cully described the meeting as a general Jack Luxton the Opposition M.P. for ‘get-together’; He said he didn’t know who Piako, and Mr Murray McCully the had been the organizer. National Candidate for Auckland Central. Richard Prebble, Labour’s Candidate for National’s attitude to the deport­ the Auckland Central seat, said that he was ation of convicted immigrants was concerned at the emphasis that National was bought up at the meeting. placing on deportations. ‘They are creating The Opposition’s Immigration policy the impression that immigrants are frequent expected to be announced at the end of offenders. As a lawyer who practises in the this week, is likely to spark off a serious Criminal Courts, ! can confirm that immig­ controversy. rants on the who:c ve^v rarely offend. Several leading members of the Island National’s ^titude only gives respectability Community maintain that while it is to prejudice. fair that temporary visitors can expect M U L D oon : /yo c o m m i t ‘Any suggestion that National intends to to be deported for Criminal offences, make rook !s'?"r object to deportation which allowed Cook Islanders in this were many offences under New Zealand they believe that people who have been makes all Cook Islanders, who are N.Z. country to vote in Island elections- law, for which a convicted person could accepted as New Zealanders (Residents citizens, second-clasi citizens, it is a basic this would probably result in the defeat be jailed. ‘No-one’,-Mr Luxton replied, though not yet naturalised) would be principle of our system of justice that all of Mr Albert Henry’s ruling Coo'fc goes to jail in New Zealand unless the placed in a very insecure position. citizens are treated in the same way. Island Party Government. offence is very serious. At present judges have discretionary ‘Cook Islanders’, Mr Prebble said,* are Mrs Ingram said that the the Is­ powers to recommend the deportation Mr Luxton said that he didn’t know who very law-abiding people’. landers were told that only immig­ of Convicted immigrant*to the Minister organized the meeting. Questioned about rants convicted of criminal offences Mr Prebble said that he was concerned of Immigration, it is felt that any man­ would be deported. She said that the presence of three Cook Island M.P. s at that a ‘deal’ may have been made over the datory provision regarding the deportation the meeting also discussed the issue the meeting, Mr Luxton said that he Cook Islands Elections issue - in order to ation of immigrants would serve only ‘didn’t know they were there’.‘All I know of Cook Islands'Independence.Such persuade Cook Islanders in N.Z. to vote to incite racial antagonism in New is that I was asked to attend.’ National. Zealand and do irreparable damage to a move, the Islanders were reminded; Craccum then rang the Leader of the would cut the Cooks adrift from New ‘While it does seem unjust ’, Mr Prebble race relations. Opposition, Mr Muldoon. Asked if he was said, ‘that N.Z.ers in the Cook Islands Zealand. prepared to comment on the meeting, The meeting was held at the home can vote in N.Z. elections, yet Cook Islande- of Mrs Poko Ingram, a leading Cook Last week Craccum contacted the three Mr Muldoon replied ‘ No, I don’t think so. ers in N.Z. cannot vote in the Cook Islands Islands Democrat. Mrs Ingram told Our immigration policy will be announced National representatives at the meeting. soon . — this is a serious constitutional question.’ Craccum that Cook Islanders living as far First we rang Mr Jack Luxton, the M.P. for National’s candidate for Auckland Central, away as Wellington attended the meeting. Piako. ‘ The proper way to resolve the matter The discussions, Mrs Ingram said,were When asked whether National intended to Mr Murray McCully, was more forthcoming. would be a conference including both Govt He confirmed that a meeting had taken place, and Opposi’ion leaders of both N.Z. and not confined to Cook Island Democrats. ‘toughen up it’s policy on deportation,Mr the Cook Islands. Constitutional questions However, Mrs Ingram told Craccum that Luxton told us that his party would release and that Opposition Members of the Cook should not be settled by party political the National Party had contacted Dr it’s policy ‘in a week or ten clays’. Mr Islands'Assembly - including Dr Davis- had been presenrt. secret deals’, Mr Prebble said. Tom Davis, the Leader of the Cook Luxton said that the meeting was not open Mr McCully said that the meeting was ’If a National Gov* interfered in an inter­ Island Democrats, who had asked he to the Press."We went there to get ideas, he nal Cook Island election, N.Z.’s reputation to arrange the meeting. said, “and we seemed to get general agreement called so that ‘ We could discuss matters of concern affecting Cook Islanders’. He added • in the Pacific and the United Nations The meeting, it is understood, was and approval on each of the issues we went that he didn’t know whether or not any told that if National had been the through’'. Mr Luxton said that some Cook would be irreparably damaged. members or representatives of the Cook Government at the time of the Islanders at the meeting “made it clear they After a week of buzzing rumours members Islands'Party were present. recent Cook Islands’ election, provision were very Labour in their thinking”. of Auckland’s Cook Island community,not Mr McCully said that he personally would would have been made for Cook Island­ Mr Luxton confirmed that the question of present at the Parnell meeting, are worried not support a ‘toughening up’ of the pro­ ers living in New Zealand to vote. National’s atttitude to deportation was over speculation op whether or not National visions relating to deportation . ‘I am quite Political pundits predict that if brought up. intends to change the status of Cook Islanders happy with the requirements of the present constitutional changes were made We pointed out to Mr Luxton that there Islanders. Page 4

mead I think it’smargaret pretty useful to talk about So, the new generation is growing up As the world changed we moved from were coming in. We built bridges that no­ the “ Generation Gap” , because people in a different world - this doesn’t mean people who learned from their grandpar­ body could get across. are mistaking it all over again for a gap a gap between parents and children as ents what it was like to be old - to people We were appalled at the numbers and between parents and children. You know, such. It’s a gap between everybody. who are learning from their peers - other we stopped counting. We are paying the people say : ‘children always rebel again­ There are no teenagers on the same teenagers on what it is like to be a teenag­ price for that in many places today. st their parents, parents have always had side of the gap as their parents anywhere er. You know what they say to cranky trouble with their children - my father in the world. And we’ve got a very shallow culture old men : “ Weren’t you ever young. Put didn’t get on with his father’ and so forth. So, it’s probably the worst age in hist­ on the whole, where young people learn yourself in the kids’ shows” . But one And people who have lived as immigrants ory to be a parent. And it should cheer from young people. They learn just what thing we want to do now is to keep the in a new country have had a lot of experi­ up all parents to know that it’s not their young people know - and not much else. older people out of the kids’ shoes. It ence with children having a different mo­ fault. If you are going to teach today’s child­ doesn’t do them a bit of good to put ther tongue to themselves. But there are now young parents and ren you have to realise that they are ano­ themselves there. But what we are really talking about their children who are on the same side ther kind of children. When we talk to An old man used to say to a boy when we use the phrase ‘generation gap’ - of the gap. There are secondary school today’s children we have to realise that “ Young man, I’ve been young just like a bad phrase - is the gap that occurred teachers and university lecturers who are they are a different kind of person.. And you - but you have never been old.” The about the middle of the 1940s - when on the same side of the gap as their stu­ the only way you can find out that they young man should say “ You weren’t the whole world became one. We got dents. The cut off point is about 28 or 29. are different is to talk with them and young in the world that I am in and I’ll airplanes which could travel very fast ac­ Now people keep saying “ is the gap listen to them. never be old in the world that you are in” . ross the earth. We got television, the nu­ closing” - just as you might say “ is the We can’t close the ‘gap’. It’s like the Now, this is not a new thing - it’s happ­ clear bomb, space travel and mass comm­ Grand Canyon closing” . The gap isn’t Grand Canyon. But we can learn to talk ened in places before over and over again. unications. closing and it’s going to be thej;e until all across it. Take the first landing of the Maori in New For the first time in human history all the people on my side grow so old that So we are in a new world. And some Zealand. The people on the canoes were the adults had grown up in a different there won’t be a gap anymore. curious things have been happening. In used to being warm and needed few cloth­ world from the world their children were Everybody who is left will have grown the sixties - when the first of the new es. They must have thought that it was a going to grow up. And for the first time up in a totally different world. generation reached the universities - we pretty cold and terrible world. And there in human history all of us on my side of It takes a great act of the imagination had trouble all around the world at once. was probably a great gap between the the gap had to realise that there would for the young to imagine what life was They looked at the world around them adults who remembered the islands and never be any people like us again on this like for us and for us to imagine what and they were appalled. Quite justifiably the children that grew up here. planet. The world we grew up in has van­ life is like for them. appalled. They looked at a world that had The same thing happened with the first ished. Our mother tongue is very differ­ But it never happened to everybody been built for and by another age. pakeha : the people who remembered ent to the mother tongue of the young at once and that is the peculiarity of the Bombs were being piled up which could life in England - and their children who people who were born after 1945-46 and world that we are living in. We are all destroy the same city a hundred times grew up here. have grown up in this world. They’re linked. over. Anyone who knows any maths should This sort of thing happened in places practically blase about it Even in the mountains of New Guinea find it difficult to fathom why they would all around the world - as people spread I n the U.S. we hear 14 and 15 year the people in the jungle have heard that want to destroy the same city a hundred out and settled the world. olds saying “ I used to be interested in the white man will give them a hospital times over. But it doesn’t worry the milit­ Young people were very upset. The space when I was young” , and “ Ever and a school. When they come out of the ary one bit. What is important to them is ones who had grown up with electric since I can remember I’ve been interested jungle, someone may hand them a trans­ having more bombs than the enemy. lights were the most upset Because the in inner-citv affairs” . My five-year-old istor and they can listen to the Beatles. But the kids said : “ What are you go­ rest of the world had at least to find the grandaughter for instance, is primarily in­ Right around the world you have this ing to do with the other 99 bombs” They matches before they lit something. And terested in pollution and is very intract­ curious gap and it has changed the nature looked at the way we couldn’t count, for people of my age all had to find the mat­ able about it. I explained to her that we of the world. In the past things changed we had almost lost the ability to do so. ches. I don’t know whether any of you need factories. She said “ they pollute” . slowly. When the Peoples Republic of China had to find the flint. Then I explained to her that we can do There were enough old people who was established, their first census found The kids grew up in a world where something about the smoke stacks - to remembered what it was like to be young, 100 million more people than they knew they just pressed a button on the wall change balck smoke to white. She says and there were enough young people to they had. That’s 30 times more people and the room was flooded with light And “ they pollute.” I explained that we can watch the old people as they grew old. than live in New Zealand. And we couldn’t so they thought they could fix everything move the factories out into the country. We had a great deal of continuity in build fast enough. We built airports that at once. And she says “ they pollute!” life. weren’t big enough for the planes that Right around the world we had all 5

these young people who were going to This approach has made a change be­ and harmony. I think this kind of meeting is import­ fix it. cause it has enabled everyone right around Sometimes women are rigorously excl­ ant for the people of New Zealand be­ Now people say youth has changed the world to think about the same thing uded from what is said publicly, but the cause you have always thought of your­ that youth is apathetic, interested only at once. men hear all about it at night In the small self as a long way off. in studies. Every Government has to do something village it’s very difficult to keep women There isn’t any reason for New Zealand But what has actually happened is about it. When there is an international from knowing what’s going on and from not to regard itself as a centre, an innova­ that the ‘generation gap’ isn’t in the first Conference everyone wishes to go, so we having a voice in what’s happening. tive place in the world. year of College anymore. They have mov­ are gradually creating a new climate of Throughout human history houses have Not a place most remote from the ed up - gone through law school and med­ international opinion. been built for women to live in. Clothes English-speaking world, but a centre of ical school. Now they are out and making I think we are just beginning to move were made that women could wear, and the English-speaking world. a lot of trouble for the lawyers and the from a period when everybody was talk­ food was looked after in ways that made That has happened to some extent in medical profession. ing about their rights and how badly they sense for the women - who had to pro­ the United States. vide for it’s distribution, cooking, and They haven’t changed. They are just had been treated. They talked about New York still thinks it is the centre in a different spot. youth power, woman power, black power caring for the young. and doesn’t believe there is anything west But now everything has changed - part­ Meanwhile, the young people of today and brown power. of the Hudson River. icularly in the last hundred years. Almost have decided that university may not be The emphasis was heavily on what each Most of the things that are innovative all those decisions are made somewhere the best place to bring about change...... group was wanting. Each group was out are coming from California. else. that sit-ins in the Dean’s Office won’t for itself. The students wanted a different Many of the inventions Americans use The clothes you are wearing, you didn’t save the world. world, different kinds of curriculum, were developed in the past 25 years in design them. Nobody asked you if you So they decided to study instead. seats on the boards of Governors and co­ California, the furthest point away from wanted them. They turn up in the shop, When we ask young people today what ed dormitories. New York and Washington. and you can’t find any others - so you they believe in, we find they are more At the beginning of the present femin­ We know now there is no one else but wear them. interested in changing the world than ist movement there was a heavy emphas­ us on this planet. they were ten years ago. But they have is on what women wanted for themselves The shoes that are ruining your feet Up until World War II we thought decided to go about it another way, and from men. were designed and produced somewhere there might be some low level forms of they have to learn things first. It was different from the earlier fem­ else. The chairs you are sitting on were humans or some marvellous people like In the United States an enormous num­ inist movement, where they were working probably designed in Czechoslovakia. those on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, ber of young people have decided to go to to prevent child, working for peace and Food has become either a commodity or and then there was the Abominable Snow­ Law School, but not to study law in the abolishing slave labour. a weapon. man possibility. traditional sense. What women are talking about now is People’s decisions have been taken Now we know that there is no one They are studying to become environ­ not what they want for themselves - but away from people all over the world. here but us, the whole idea of the broth­ mental lawyers, urban lawyers, public what is necessary for the world. Young people are dropping out of er-hood of man which was advanced for advocacy lawyers and many other special­ Likewise, young people are no longer school at the fourth or fifth form because centuries by our great religions leaders ist types of law. sitting in the Dean’s Office demanding the courses are not relevant, only to be was an act of faith. So, the world looks quieter - and it what they want for themselves, but are branded as failures for life. We didn’t know much about the has lulled some people including many looking at what is necessary for the whole Whether we look at the military situa­ different ethnic groups in the world from New Zealanders - to sleep. When I was a world. tion, the industrial scene, or at education the pygmies in the Congo forest to peo­ child New Zealand was the most enlight­ We are moving from a period in which all over the world, we’re living with inven­ ple like Chinese sages. ened country in the English-speaking wor­ almost everyone found they were opp­ tions which were great in their day, but Only in the past 50 years have we ld. You gained universal suffrage a very ressed in some way - to a period in which are no longer suitable for what we need known that energy resources for human long time ago. You haven’t done a thing almost every group in the world are de­ today. use are limited and must be conserved. with it since. manding participation. We’re going to have a period of at We must not use our limited resources We’re moving now into a new phase of People are beginning to look at the least another 25 years where all the peo­ so lavishly as we do in the United States, history - a phase that perhaps first began world as it is and ask - what price are we ple in power all grew up in another world. where they cannot be replenished. when I met your Mayor, Sir Dove Meyer paying by excluding any group from deci­ Older people are immigrants in a new We have only recently realized how Robinson at the Environmental Confer­ sion making ? What price are we paying world, immigrants in time instead of large the world population is and the need ence in Stockholm. by excluding women, as we have done all place. to control its growth. That was the first United Nations Con­ over the world, from the decision making We have moved into this new world All this has been realized only since ference dealing with a human environ­ process ? and we are slow in deciding how we are this new generation started to grow up. ment. Later there was a conference look­ That’s what happened when we moved going to live in it. ing at human population problems, then from the village level - where women all The recent national women’s confer­ the oceans and this year International over the world have both voice and ence in Wellington was a miniature of Women’s Year. influence. The Maoris, for instance, let what is happening in Mexico City at pre­ Next year we will be looking at human the men make decisions on the Marae sent where women from all over the settlement and decisions have got to be when they talk about war, and the wo­ world are able to hear from place to place made on future areas of concern. men talk in the meeting house about peace what is happening.

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W i t h w h i t ē - c ô l l ^ r c r i m e w h a t i t r s t o Ts>Ay 7 WAS W 0 W W K J N & Page 6 BID FOR PEACE John Male - President of the N.Z. Foundation for Peace Studies

One of the long term aims of the New student bellies. Nor has Peace ). Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies establishment of a Chair of Peace at a The N.Z. Foundation New Zealand University. In a talk I gave on the 30th June in the The New Zealand Foundation for Peace Students^Association Winter Lecture Series, I emphasised the long term aspect Studies is the latest arrival on the scene. ..for several reasons. Chairs of Peace re­ Since this arrival has apparently gone quire not only a university receptive to more or less unnoticed at A.U., I draw the idea and glad to give it hospitality, attention to our Manifesto (reproduced not only a fair amount of money to set herewith) which gives in rather general­ it up, but a student body which is also ised language a fair picture of our aims receptive to the idea. and objectives. Our Patrons include U Thant, Anglican Archbishop Johnston, The minimal turnout at the lecture con­ Catholic Archbishop Delargey, Mrs firmed the wisdom of thinking in long Betty Holt, Mrs Mira Szaszy, and Sir Guy perspectives; it certainly helped me get Powles. U Thant, to whom I wrote my own priorities sorted out. And it also about our Foundation late last year, left me with an unanswered question: gladly agreed to be patron, a gesture he Flow many at A.U. are (a) interested in rarely made. He died soon after, but we the eventual establishment of a Chair of shall continue to list him on our letter­ Peace; (b) interested, at least, in the sys- head. tamatic study of problems related to the oi pisal inn and maintenance of peace Our officers include a mixed bag of in jje world ; and (c) fundamentally con­ representatives of peace organisations cerned about the human race surviving such as the Campaign for Nuclear Dis­ the present frightening arms race? armament, the Women’s International Perhaps, because of the help our foun­ League for Peace and Freedom, the dation has had during our slow, careful Quakers, the United Nations Association, organisational stages from many people University Faculty members... and in and around the University, I had been concerned individuals. expecting too much. For while taking note of the arguments of Foundation For our inauguration in May, we brought supporters who insisted that we must down from Canada Dr Norman Z. not be university-centred and must be Alcock, president and founder of the seen to have our roots in the community Canadian Peace Research Institutue. at large, I persisted in thinking of the He gave what we designated the first University, in a sense, as home base-and Norman Kirk Memorial Peace Lecture, the student body as potentially one of and spent a busy ten days of interviews, the structures on which to build support lectures, radio talk-backs, teach-ins and and membership. general “ technical assistance” to our Foundation. I still think so. Perhaps the lesson is that there is as much “ missionary” work Dr. Alcock, a nuclear research p'hycisist to be done in the University as outside. who fifteen years ago, became terrified at some of the implications of his Perhaps we should have got busy at word Peace had seemed pre-empted by major or minor courses of peace A.U. some time ago, when there were the Soviet Union and the Socialist coun­ studies. trade, is a compassionate human being whose public stances varied from deep more activists around. Now the times are tries, and the cold war was deepening. In a sense, all of this may be regarded pessimism about the future of the world more critical and the need is greater,but But before long the psycholigical war­ as providing a substantive backstop, as to a determination not to let the situ­ where are the activists? Flave the Tim fare boys discovered that Peace was too it were, to the work of the United ation go to hell by default. (I suggest Shadbolts joined Rotary? powerful to be rubbished, especially as Nations, which remains after a ll. . . you refer back to Craccum of 5 June for men and women everywhere still had its weaknesses and crises of confidence fresh in their minds the untold suffering one glimpse of him). A NEW CLIMATE notwithstanding... mankind’s most that World War Two had brought. And determined effort yet to organise glo­ As requested by our public inaugural soon no President of the United States bally and to avert the threat of war. meeting, the Foundation is now at the About peace studies in general, and of America would think of delivering a stage of organising itself and establish­ about organisations such as the New State of the Union address to Congress, (Parenthetically, I have been appalled, v ing a programme of work and priorities. Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies. or speaking to the General. Assembly of since my return to New Zealand at the The job is just beginning; here are just Not so long ago, believe it or not, Peace the United Nations, without referring to apathy, not to mention cynicism, I have some of the things we aim to do.: was a dirty word. I remember the time God, American motherhood...and Peace. found among the general public, inclu­ well, for I was living in New York (I spent The aforesaid pshycological warfare ding the universities, about the work of the United Nations. We shall organise annual Norman Kirk spent eighteen and a half years as a United boys probably work that way. Memorial Peace Lectures, bringing to ed Nations official, working at the storm In any event, over the past ten or fifteee On the governmental level, New Zealand New Zealand internationally known centre of the world). years or so, not only has Peace become a is doing a conscientious job of carrying figures in the peace movement. Not only Peace, but organisations work­ respectable concept, but the emergence out its obligations under the U.N. We shall commission the writing and ing for Peace were under constant harass­ of organisations, study courses, instit­ Charter. Our parliamentarians generally, publication of pamphlets on aspects of ment and attack. utions of all kinds devoted in part or in and certainly our Department of the organisation and maintenance of The New York Daily News, eastern out­ whole to the ststamatic study of problems Foreign Affairs, are away ahead of peace which are of significance to New post of the Patterson-McCormick press, related to the organisation and mainten­ public thinking. poured out a contant stream of vituper­ ance of peace, has been nothing short of Zealand e.g. the establishment of a nuclear-free Pacific zone; the potential ation against us. Day by day the New York phenomenal. Among the public at large, the United peace-keeping role of New Zealand’s York public was reminded that there was A 1973 UNESCO “ International Rep­ Nations Association struggles on; with­ armed forces. a bunch of dangerous do-gooders and ertory of Institutions for Peace and out its devoted hard core, it would subversives working away over there by Conflict Research” lists 149 organisa­ disappear overnight We shall work on curriculum revision the East River, and the sooner Washington tions, under categories “ Institutions for And on an academic level. . . in the and augmentation, especially in pri­ took the advice of the Daughters of the Peace and Conflict Research” , “ Institu­ development of norms of international mary and secondary education. There American Revolutoon and got the U.S. tions partly engaged in peace and law, as a straightforward piece of the may be a need for an expert committed out of the United Nations-and the U.N. conflict Research” , and “ Institutions political science scene . . . the United in this field, to prepare a report, with out of the United States, the better. Supporting or Promoting Peace and Nations cannot be shrugged aside, But recommendations in the Foundation’s The reason for all of this, apart from Conflict Research” . In the United as far as I have observed, the need to name to the Minister of Education. remnants(in America) of xenophobia States of America, in addition, some strenghten and support the United and isolationism, aws no doubt that for We shall train and organise peace fifty colleges and universities offer Nations hasn’t I it half a dozen fires in a certain period of time, the use of the DOOMSDAY FEARS lecturer?, and make them available to NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION FOR PEACE church groups, service clubs, trade STUDIES unions, P.T.A.’s, countrywomen’s groups etc. MANIFESTO Like most people who have become involv­ ed in Peace movements, whether on the In cooperation with the Auckland Uni­ The general purpose of the New Zealand (c) general and particular aspects of the theory international level, as at the United Nat­ versity Centre for Continuing Education,, Foundation for Peace Studies shall be to pro­ of conflict and its non-violent resolution, ions, or on the national or local level, I mote in the broadest sense, and as a matter of we shall organise a short lecture series including the history of the origins of war myself swing between cosmic pessimism urgency, a climate of peace in New Zealand, and of non-violent action for peace; for 1976, possibly built around the 1976 and hope. Pessimism when, as happened together with a public comprehension and aw­ (d) the development of international law in the other day, a handful of people turn * Norman Kirk Memorial Peace Lecture. areness of the mutual, peaceful interdependence the organisation and maintenance of peace; out to hear the message; hope when I We shall organise peace libraries, possibly of all countries and all peoples. To this end the (e) ideological differences as a source of Foundation shall aim to stimulate education at conflict; remember the strength of the bond of first as sections of university libraries, every level concerning the organisation and (f) decision-making processes as they affect common concern about Peace between us city and suburban public libraries, the maintenance of peace; to act as a clearing house international relations; and many people in other parts of the Country Library Service, and secondary in New Zealand for the exchange of ideas and (g) the effect of economic pressures on inter- world. school libraries. information concerning the organisation and . national relations; maintenance of peace; to provide tangible assist­ (h) disarmament and arms control; But why worry ? Why be alarmist ? Dr. We shall establish close liaison with ance to any group of people in New Zealand (i) the relationship between social problems Spock says, O.K. we are naturally aggre­ churches, trade unions, service cli^jps, and national conflict; which has similar objectives; and to act as a ssive, and the power drive cannot be era­ adult education groups, student associ­ focal point for the eventual establishment of a (j) public opinion and international relations; dicated from human nature. (Though he ations etc. with a view to encouraging Chair of Peace Studies at a New Zealand uni­ (k) the foie of peace-keeping forces in the adds that we must insist that we be con­ and actively assisting summer schools versity. settlement of disputes. scious of our individual and group power and weekend exercises and conferences Accordingly, the Foundation may : Emphasis shall be placed on aspects of these 1. Co-operate with universities, adult education matters related to New Zealand's external rela­ drives, be honest about them and discip­ to take up peace-related themes and organisations, churches, trade unions, em­ tions and possible role in mediation, peace­ line them to serve the genuine needs of topics. ployers' organisations, service organisations making and peace-keeping ; society.) And as for peace being the ab­ and other groups in organising, sponsoring 5. Conduct and promote specific studies of We shall encourage and where approp­ sence of war, a European foreign minist­ or assisting conferences, seminars, study New Zealand's role in regional and inter­ er, speaking a couple of years ago at the riate organise opportunities for public courses, meetings, etc., which are devoted national organisations and conferences, and United Nations General Assembly, noted discussion of major issues related to to any aspect of the organisation and main­ in bilateral and multi-lateral arrangements, that at the moment Europe was enjoying the organisations and maintenance of tenance of peace ; regional or otherwise, as well as of the evol­ peace. Exceptionally, the Foundation Z Co-operate with like-minded organisations ution of New Zealand's overall foreign the longest period of peace in its history. may itself take positions on such issues, on both national and international level policies ; But for my own part, I believe that just though only where clear unanimity with a view to the collection and dissemina­ 6. Act as consultant, as appropriate, to govern­ now it takes either great courage or com­ exists among members and supporting tion of information relating to the organisa­ ment institutions, and to political and other plete stupidity not to be alarmed. groups. tion and maintenance of peace, and consult organisations; mutually with such organisations on aspects 7. Evaluate and interpret to the public devel­ Every day brings fresh documentation We shall pursue the objective of estab­ of conflict technology relating to policy opments in conflict technology; of the current arms race. Horizontal determination in this area ; lishing a Chair of Peace Studies at a 8. Establish links with such United Nations proliferation of nuclear weapons as 3. Co-operate with educational institutions at organs as the United Nations Institute for New Zealand University . . . as an more countries join the nuclear club. all levels in developing peace-oriented curri­ Training and Research (U N IT A R ) and important long range target. We shall cula in, for example, such areas as the social UNESCO; with the International Peace Vertical proliferation as the scientists liaise with possible host universities and political sciences ; Academy in New York, and similar organis­ work away at more sophisticated weapon­ and actively seek public and private 4. Conduct and promote multi-disciplinary ations; and in due course with the inter­ ry and techniques of delivery. The crim­ sponsors. We even dare to hope for study and research into such peace-related national university being established by inal arms trade (all major powers are the support of student bodies. fields as, among others, the United Nations. guilty here) with the third world. A few As a continuing function we shall liaise (a) international organisation, on both inter­ hard facts : with similar organisations in other parts governmental and non-governmental levels; NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION FOR PEACE (b) specific problems before the United ST U D IES, CPO BOX 4110, A UCK LA N D . of the world and collect, collate and dis­ * The governments of the world are at Nations; tribute information about the peace the moment spending something like movement and peace-related problems. $US 210,000,000,000 every year on arm­ aments; a fraction of this amount on hea­ “TEACHING PEACE” lth, education, welfare, aid to the poor • countries. How would a Chair of Peace Studies It may be expressed through military, pointed out, this sort of enterprise takes * Something«like $US 25,000,000,000 function and what would it teach ? political or economic means, or through not only money but a hospitable univers­ to $US 30,000,000,000 is spent annually - Perhaps the designation should be modi­ injustices in the social system. ity and a receptive student body and on military research; a fraction of that fied; perhaps we might wish to call it a “ It follows from this definition that a community. amount on, for example, medical research. Centre for Peace Studies. In^any event, study of peaceful and unpeaceful relation­ The Social Welfare Committee of the we have plenty of experience, and poten­ ships has many levels from the interper­ * The Pugwash scientists have estimated Auckland City Council has already had tial expert advice, here and overseas, to sonal..... to the international, and will that there is a one-in-three chance that before it a report from one of its Comm­ draw upon. include the examination of inter-group nuclear weapons will be used in a war, unity Advisers relating the programme The University of Bradford’s Postgrad­ relationships, including the relationship somewhere, before 1985; a fifty-fifty of the Foundation for Peace Studies to uate course in Peace Studies and its Und­ of war, as well as those which may be de­ chance that they will be used before the the problem of violence on Auckland’s ergraduate Honours Course in Peace Stud­ fined in terms of race, class, religion, turn of the century. A few months ago streets. The report recommended that ies provide prototypes. language, ideology and so on. they moved the hands of their doomsday “ Peace” , the University observes in the Council give its unconditional supp­ “ It also follows, of course, that the study clock five minutes closer to midnight, this connection, “ is taken to mean some­ ort to the Foundation’s aims and contri­ is inter-disciplinary..... ” and time was already running out. thing more than the mere absence of war, bute $10,000 towards the establishment of a Chair of Peace Studies at the Univers­ because, although war is the greatest The first year of Bradford’s Undergrad­ * Unimaginable new weapons are now ity of Auckland. One Councillor, in en­ scourge of mankind, this does not guaran­ uate Honours Course is divided into three being hinted a t ---” more awesome than dorsing the idea, suggested this be condi­ tee that human beings necessarily live in main blocks: “ Theories of peace and con­ nuclear weapons” as Mr. Leonid Brezhnev tional upon the Government and the tolerable conditions; under peaceful con­ flict; The idea of a just society; and Rele­ put it just the other day. Lay writers are community each adding $10,000. ditions they may indeed be treated unjust­ vant topics in the social sciences.” The now speculating.... can they be laser wea­ ly and oppressively. second year, students may concentrate pons, sub-nuclear or anti-matter weapons, The Government, by a letter earlier this By peace (or peaceful relationships to the harnessing of “ natural forces” , envir­ on either intrasocietal relations or inter­ year from the Prime Minister, has indicat­ use a more precise term) is meant a posi­ national relations; or they may take any onmental weapons (modification of ed its warm support of the Foundation. tive combination of justice with a lack of approved combination of the two. (The climate, interference with the ozone layer violence, enabling two groups or nations headings under “ Intrasociotal relationships” “ FirSt, may I say that the Government or the polar ice caps); or perhaps some to achieve together what they could not are highly relevant to the New Zealand is most sympathetic towards your propo­ cunning refinement of biological warfare ? have done separately. By contrast, an un- scene : “ Dominant and less dominant sal, which is of course closely in harmony peaceful relationship is one in which one groups; class; labour relations; social with our own general policy” , Mr.Rowling Small wonder that some scientists, like or all of the parties concerned suffer change; local and national government” ) wrote “ I was also struck by the specific Dr Alcock of Canada, fear that their grand damage. The damage may be directly phy­ Under “ International Relationships” the and practical nature of the topics you have children, or any grandchildren anywhere, are not likely to survive the turn of the sical (as in oppressive or exploitative sit­ emphasis is on “ The rich nations and the set for study and their relevance for the uations where one group is denied ade­ poor nations” , independence movements; conduct of our foreign policy..... I can century. quate access to health services, food or international negotiations; the internation­ assure you that if the Foundation is able other vital resources), or psychological al system.” to undertake work of this nature, I shall by JOHN M A LE (as when a powerful or privileged group So the models are available, though there see that every encouragement is given to creates a sense of humiliation or inferior­ it.” is no need to follow them slavishly. As I ity in others.) presidential

Do you think you are experienced and C. Perhaps one of the weaknesses of this C. If Mike Walker was elected President capable enough to do this? year has been that we have not had strong what personal ideas and concerns would you like to see implemented. M.W. I have come form the bottom of chairmanship of meetings. Do you feel Student Politics - I spent a year on staff that you can be a strong chairman ? M.W. I have probably 4 issues this year. Students committees and was successful One is the Assessment issue and the ed­ in getting two exams abolished. Now as M.W. I managed to chair a rather contro­ ucation we receive generally. Another is U ’P’ I have many dealing with University versial General Meeting last year without Race Relations - I have a long standing “ heavies” . I have managed to make the much difficulty. One of the main reasons involvement in work in the community transition. At present I am dealing with Clare has had difficulty is that she is con­ £ for improving Race Relations. O the Registrar over the Library Security cerned that people are making their con­ As a Zoologist I am accutely aware of issue. tribution to the utmost. My own opinion if and when I become President is that I Enviromental Preservation and Conserva­ tion to our future in Auckland as a City. C. What are the main faults you see in will do my best to ensure that Executive C As a student body we can through policy -a the University system here? members tie up their duties before the o meeting so that the actual meeting be­ and publicity and submissions be a strong o? voice in the cause of conservation. M.W. Continuous assesment is what comes more of an approving body and The 4th one is to do with the Union it­ got me into University Politics. I discussion is restricted to important iss­ self. With these new buildings opening have tried to set up realistic co­ ues like policy. we must foster a spirit to ensure student ordination of A.U.S.A.’s Education interest in these facilities. One thing I mike Committee. We now recieve , for C. How does S.R.C. fit into this - it would work to do would be to have the the first time, all minutes of the Staff seems at the moment to be an ineffective Gym open in the weekends. Likewise Student committees. We now have rubber stamp. v other facilities. There is a demand for enough information to start a genuine good facilities open to students in the walker inquiry into University teaching and M.W. S.R.C. is probably the more import­ weekend. Craccum, examining. The philosophy department ant body. Possibly one of the reasons why controversy was initiated by this sort it had no hard work to do is that things Mike - why are you standing for president? C. What do you think of your President­ of work. have run so smoothly. Compare it with last year when there was the bugging. ial opponent. Mike Walker, C. Has A.U.S.A. been slack in creating S.R.C. should do a lot more in regard to Because a number of people have asked awareness of University’s structure ? the Policy field in the Association. M.W. Well, Bob has been around a long me to. Among these was Clare Ward time and is a very experienced and clever who believed I have shown an honest M.W. Yes, it has. C. One of the big issues coming up will person. He has taken it upon himself to concern for student. I have been working be the cost to the student body of the be a student politician and as far as I can virtually full time for the Association C. Studass Presidents invariably nomin­ theatre. Conservative estimates put it at ascertain he is quite happy to stay that for nearly 8 months now without any ate their successors. Russell Bartlett nom­ around $13,000 per year which means a way. He ran a good Orientation, is a return at all. I have definite ideas of inated Haysom, Haysom backed Clare fee rise of about $1.30 per student. satisfactory administrator and is currently my own particularly on educational Ward who is nominating you. ls such a member of the senate. To pass judge­ issues. dynastic succession bad ? M.W. This theatre report came out of a ment it would be unfair to call hinvan sub committee of Union Management easy opponent to beat as I know he is M.W. It does have a function. The Presi­ C. Did you know Bob Lack was standing They dreamed up the proposals which not. I have really got a fight on my hands dent is elected to represent students and when you put in your nomination. have not been accepted as yet for appoint­ to beat him. do what they see fit and carry out the ing the 4 staff. We are paying for 50% of M.W. Yes. functions students require. The President two salaries. In my opinion the deal is C. Do you think this is really a case of is required to do this for over a year. fair. The question is whether we need to tweedledum and tweedledee with the C. Was this a factor in your nomination When the President feels that there is a employ those people at all. There is a students having really no choice between M.W. No, because my decision was taken need for student aspirations and object­ current,belief we can go ahead with less what are two progressive students. Where over a time, in consultation with people ives to be treated with responsibility then staff. As far as the cost goes I am already are the essential differences. who believed I could make a good obviously there is a need that work start­ involved in work to hold costs for when President. ed is completed in a responsible and hon­ the theatre comes in. I accept the fact M.W. As I-said before my reason for com­ est way. that there may be a fees rise. ing to Varsity is to learn and to study. C. One Criticism is that you, unlike Bob My involvement in Students Association Lack lack long experience in Studass C. Do you feel A.U.S.A. should become C. The other area which uses up large has until this year been secondary. To my affairs. more introverted in what it considers and sums of money is that of the food out­ knowledge Bob has not graduated even M.W. I have sufficientexperience after concentrate on predominently campus lets. What do you see is the problem here. though he has been here 8 years. I have almost 8 months full time work. Having and university issues. already graduated. I am here to do a job, served on Association and University M.W. The traditional one of us to provide I am here because I have a belief in cert­ Committees, I have done almost every­ M.W. No I dont. There has been a consid­ a service at minimal cost to students. It ain ideals and I also want to continue on thing there fs to do around the Associ­ erable amount of introversion over the would be very easy for us to make mass­ the work Clare has done because I believe ation. The fact is that I am young and last two years. Vietnam and South Africa ive profits but the students would suffer. it is important for a President to set out keen. On top of that I am also a success­ have been non issues up till the last few to do a particular job and have particular ful student, here first to learn, second to months. Clare got elected on a Social C. What role do you think Auckland aims. I have those and I want them pass and third to be involved in.students Concern plank. We cannot isolate oursel­ should play in N.Z.U.S.A. achieved. welfare. ves from the community. If we do this C. The A.T.I. Students Association has by publicising certain issues not wholly M. W. We are the largest constituent and recently had a petition from 1,000 of acceptable to the public we must still have the most votes. Auckland could its members , asking for ‘optional* member this as we have a job to do. On the local make N.Z.U.S.A. if we chose them. We membership. Do you think A.U.S.A. is scene we are only just starting to regain could almost take them over by being a viable body that people should be credibility on this Campus - thanks to organised and having our ideas thought compelled to join Clare and others. out / M.W. Yes, look where we are now, we C. Some other Campuses such as Victoria C. So under your Presidency Auckland have a 1.5 million dollar complex give all their office holders an honararium. will be playing a more positive role in operating. We have another 2.5 million Would you support this for Auckland. N. Z.U.S.A. dollars of facilities under construction. M.W. Yes because it is my belief N.Z.U. These facilities by, for and of the M.W. This was something brought up by S.A. is becoming a hydra headed monster. students. That to me is progress. the previous A.U.P., who tried to move Par-timers have genuine difficulties, that future A.U.P’s receive an honorar­ C. What role do you think senate and but if you look at the greatest good for ium. I voted against it then - as I would Council Reps should play in relation with the greatest number, Auckland has the now. I could have got away with a lot the President. best and cheapest students facilities in less work and concern in voluntary dut­ the country. ies for the Association. I do believe how­ M.W. We must point out these students ever in cutting back the immense work are student Reps and therefore they C. You as president will have to load of some of the Portfolio holders. should be able to have close association. negotiate and liase with the University. The Reps do in fact have some consulta­ tion. candidates

B.L.: I have changed my views on this studies. Then I think we can achieve B.L.: Certainly. We could do with quite a lot over the years. I have come to a lot. Perhaps this comes back to the another person on Council. I do not the opinion that the major role of the question of payment for this vital think that we necessarily need vast Association must be to work for the position. numbers of people on these bodies. It is welfare of its members. I am personally more important to gain representation, far more interested in getting into the C : What is your attitude to the new on bodies that we are at present ex­ University and trying to change some of buildings arising on Campus such as the cluded from, In particular the Appoint­ the strange situations we have in the theatre and the gym. Do you feel that ments Committee, and the Deans Education structure, continuing to press the cost to the Association is an unfair Committee. Also I am not satisfied £ for improvements in Bursaries, working one? It is estimated fees will have to O that we are making adequate use of the for the welfare of students in the rise at least $1.30. rpresentation we have now, particularly accommodation field and the like. at the departmental and faculty level. Certainly there is a place for us especi­ B.L.: It is an unfortunate political CD e ally in local government. We have amongst fact that the amount of control over C : Looking at the A.U.S.A. structure "O students here people who can make worth­ these is going to be reflected by the 0 do you feel there are pitfalls in the way &5 while contribution to say, the future of amount of Studass money in them. I we seem to have got ourselves into a the Auckland transport plan. am not happy at all about the proposals situation with bodies like S.R.C. which coming forward concerning the theatre. are toothless. There is now going to be C : Are the days of the great Student It is desirable that a University should a Theatre Sub-Committee plus committ- - marches over then? ls this a good thing? have a theatre but that the students ees for the new Gym. ls the place be­ should be asked to raise their fees by robert B.L.: Well we do voice our interes in coming a big bureaucracy? $1.30 (which inevitably will increase overseas affairs but apart from issues as wages rise) I am not happy about that effect New Zealanders closely B.L.: Yes there is a deal of truth here - at all. The Gymnasium is a different such as Nuclear Testing and relations I am certainly most disturbed about matter - the sooner we have one the with South Africa, I fiankly am not lack these proposals that are coming forward better for all. The theatre has become particularly interested in them as far as for the theatre with yet another committ­ very much of a white elephant. I am Craccum : What are your reasons for A . U.S.A. goes. I certainly feel we ee. As for S.R.C. I think that really has concerned about the amount of standing for President this year ? should support such student groups as at as many teeth as the members want to student money going into it and are willing to work for them but the five it. If the members care to give time presumably students and student Bob Lack : Basically because I reckon organisation as a whole should devote I can make a fair fist of the job. in researching subjects that concern groups are not going to get much use itself mainly to the welfare of the them then I think they can achieve quite out of it. members. Obviously the days of student C: The A.T.I. Students Association has a lot - it has not always been a toothless marches in International Affairs are recently had a petition asking for non rubber stamp. I think some of the C : Yet it was you who moved the over - we have not had any for the last compulsory membership. Do you meetings this year have indicated a fair motion last year to raise fees. year or more. Whether it is a good thing think at Varsity that Compulsory deal of concern in student matters. This I am not sure. They were certainly an membership is a valid requirement? business of taking.up of peoples time B.L.: I dont see there is anything at indication of vast enthusiasm and concern is very relevant, especially with the ever conflict here. I dont have anything on the part of the students. I just hope tfw B.L: Well it was something the students increasing workload these days. The wa< against fees rising providing the money they have been replaced by a more con­ themselves decided upon, and obviously way the structure has grown up is under­ is spent for the benefit of students. I structive form of action rather than by presents problems if we dont have standable but with the vast number of object to the large amount going into the dreaded apathy. compulsory membership. As the fees committees people have to sit on they buildings which students don’t get full rise with the current rapidity we just can’t do this and a decent academic use of. There is approximately $20 per C ; How would you assess the perform­ obviously must look at the matter of course. I think that there is a lot to be student going into the Union annually, ance of the Vice Chancellor and your reduction for part-timers who can’t said for trying to prune the structure as but I hear regularly stories of students not chances of working in with him. make full use of the facilities. But much as possible. being able to use facilities when they want certainly I think membership of the to. When student are paying this sort B. L.: Well I did not,witness his pre­ Association must remain compulsory. C : Victoria have a system whereby the of money obviously they want to be able Executive members get an honorarium. decessor at work so this is not a comp­ to make full use of the facilities. arative statement I have been very C : Do you think the average student Would you be in favour of all Exec impressed indeed by the Vice Chancellor’s is getting his moneys worth out of the members receiving a ex gratia payment C : The Cafe is probably the area which political abilities. I do not know if it is Association? for their work? gets the most criticism from the students so much a case of working in with him as themselves. How much should the student B.L: I tend to doubt it. B.L.: Not all members, but certainly the to trying to avoid being pushed into every­ body subsidise those who use it? Vic Presidents and the Education Offficer. thing he wants, but I think l.’ll have a fair C : After 8 years here, there has been At ther moment we have the situation chance of protecting the Associations B.L.: It is for the students themselves to some criticism that you are too much in where the President can be full time and independence decide how much to subsidise it. I think the system to become a good president- can devote 40-60 hours a week to the the pricing levels are too high. Some of are you? job and all other Exec members not only C : What do you see as the role of the the problems that are unique to the cafe have to apply themselves to Academic University and the role of A.U.S.A in should be considered more when making B.L : Well obviously \ feel you have to studies but also have to keep themselves. trying to implement its aims and ideals? criticism. The problems of high over­ have a fair knowledge of the organisation The amount of money involved would heads, of keeping senior staff on, over before you can do anything in it. I be insignificant in comparison to the B.L.: Presumeably the University’s role non-productive holiday periods, the high don’t know that I am “ in the system’’. wages we are paying at the moment, is to advance the “ sum of human know­ staff levels required because the cafe My vies tend to be unpopular to some and to the benefits that would accrue. ledge” or some such fine phrase. I feel is very much a peak thing. One peak people round this place? it is vital the Association shows a very at lunch and another at dinner, and so C : How do you regard your type of deep interest in the methods of teaching C : Perhaps one of the most important on. Certainly it seems ludicrous that Presidency in relation to the other port­ and learning within the University. The things of any President is#the negotiations a filled roll should sell at 30cents and folio holders? Association of University Teachers have and consultations with the University. still make a loss - but if it means increas­ been holding discussions on the whole How important do you think this is and ing the subsidy to lower the prices then B.L.: I think Russel Bartlett showed that concept of University assessment, and I so be it. how capable of handling this aspect are a President who is prepared to devote feel it speaks volumes that in fact the you? the time and effort can achieve a lot Association has not been taking the C : Do you thin N.Z.U.S.A. is providing single-handed, but it is obviously much initiative in this area. a service to Auckland students? B.L.: This is indeed a matter of some easier if the executive are working to­ importance, particularly with the in­ gether. I shall try very hard to ensure C : Do you regard some of the Studass B.L.: Well of course it is. Any student creasing complexity of the structure and that there are a range of competent structures such as the Education Portfolio can get his money back by taking one the legal ties with the University. I like candidates offering themselves to the at fault? to think I have reasonable abilities in this plane ride.^ I have a lot of respect for other positions, and I have no doubt direction certainly in such University the people in N.Z.U.S.A. at present. Michael would do this also. B.L.: I dont think the structures are im­ Committees I have served upon I think The competance has grown tremendously portant- it is more a matter of ensuring I have made a fair contribution. over the past few years. Arts Council C : What are some of the issues you are that we have a whole group of people, is now running well and the submissions interested in with regard to the Inter­ not only the Education Officer, but his from N.Z.U.S.A. officers do in fact have C : Do you think that there are gounds national fields and how important an committee as well who are willing to quite a major effect on some Government for increased representation on the emphasis should they be. work hard and give up some of their legislation. It can be criticised in a Senate and Council? CAN YOU F jn o Th e " RE5 7 OF THIS !NT£R V/Evy ? 10 keeping an eye on it * W Brent Lewis

With the advent of TV 2 Cyclops has One recalled complaints from Mike Moore gained a new eye. about the difficulty in getting cases throu­ We’re used to the first. I wonder how gh the Immigration Department and I we’re going to cope with the second. remember him saying that “ the govern­ It’s going to be difficult because, whe­ ment may have changed but the civil ther we acknowledge it or not, television servants haven’t ” influences us a lot. The ‘telethon’ showed And it isn’t just governments that are that. experiencing niggling frustrations. Sever­ It's true to say that too often our rela­ al people have mentioned to me the arro­ tionships with television are one-direct­ gant way Labour Department officers ional. Because we have not mastered the treated them when they went to see medium, the medium’s mastering us. about jobs. Others have complained about This is easy proven. There are progra­ the Social Welfare officers brusqueness. mmes we watch on television because it One person told me-of a case where a is such a passive medium that it can ecli­ social worker sent a guy home, without pse our emotions and responses. Many an unemployment benefit even though television adicts often experience a sort he had no money, because he had filled of mental catalepsy. In this limbo they it - his form out wrong. The guy was a seem to almost be extensions of the Polynesian with little knowledge of electronic medium. In this limbo their English. responses are dictated. Yes, one could think of cases of minor If this trend develops then the result tribulations inflicted by those who were­ would be totalitarianism. Society would n’t even meant to legislate. Then one have come full circle back to a tribalistic remembered the town planners pronoun­ worship of a totem. cements about paternalism and one real­ Such a Pavlovian situation need not ised it really was an in joke. be. Indeed it is doubtful whether our in­ But then I recalled John Bluck’s term, stitutions could cope with such a radical “ spiritual frustration” and that really change. seemed to sum it up. When I could speak The alternative is to ensure that tele­ to aware and educated people and their vision is properly democratised. To do response to the stock question “ and this we must become constructive critics. what of Auckland’s future?” was a com- j This means assessing our own viewing bination of anger and despair because patterns. If we’re watching what we sub­ the structures that were meant to be cop­ jectively feel is trashy and irrelevant then ing with the problems were too tentative we’re really letting television dictate to us. then I became angry too. Just like newspapers, people get the Still it did seem to me that the people television they deserve. If we’re apathetic were finding their own channels. ‘Telethon’1 then our television’s going to be equally obviously exemplified this. It succeeded ; apathetic. To that extent it’s a gauge of because amidst frustration at not being the level of community sophistication. able to act there at least was something So if we want an exciting and imagina­ that could be done. There are other indi­ tive television then it’s not enough to say cators too. Youthline has had more peo­ in a broad sweep that televisions pathetic ple wanting to be counsellors than ever or getting worse. Criticism without defin­ before in its history and we read in last ition is really a misnomer. is not to be side-tracked. Do that and you be demolished for a motorway (or a lud­ Tuesday’s ‘Star’ that over 300 volunteers So come up with alternatives. If for cop out. icrous thought for Kentucky Fried offered their help to help in Carrington example you’re interested in Latin Amer­ What you’ve gained through that little Chicken) being ushered out of the town Hospital at a meeting. ica (as I am) and are appalled by our non­ raz ma taz with Big Brother is to establish planning office with a bright young The trend that is developing is that existent coverage then why not pressure a principle and that’s that you as an ordin­ town planner explaining “ we can’t really people are bypassing the rather ossified for at least some time a week to be devot­ ary viewer don’t need to settle for second- listen to you, you’re far too biased. But establishment institutions and working ed to it. best unless you’re really keen on it. if you want the facts, and facts are ob­ in grassroots ones. Our society is still small and intimate You’ve also taught the programmer that jective, as to why you are being relocated..” This however has its limits. The comm­ enough for one individual to have some his tastes are arbitrary too. He’s always Back from the future into the present unity committees, for example, have only impact. All he needs is advocacy and assumed that people were more interested the planner was explaining - that the advisory powers. They cannot enact or persistence. in Northern Ireland than in Peru but may­ functions of a local body must be essent­ rate. But better than an individual is a group. be now he’s not so sure. ially paternalistic. Likewise some of the interest groups All you need to do is to get the support Too often we’re inclined to let people It all seemed like a grim charade. And tend to overlap. of a group you belong to and you really make decisions that affect us without yet it happened. I know because I took Although these defects may be reme­ hold an ace. This is because programme challenge. Or maybe we don’t know how the notes. died the real battle is to make the city’s decisions, such as not covering Latin to work the system. This point has come My impressions were confirmed by institutions accountable. America, are made by a programme to me over and over during the last few others. Community advisor, Ian Shirley So be your own ombudsman and ask selector. weeks because I’ve been working on an told me that he thought that “ the town Ralph Nader’s stock question to all who Programme selectors are bureacrats article, for another publication, on the planners are isolated from the people. For presume to decide for you ‘where is the and bureacrats, like the rest of us, don’t future of Auckland. a country the size of New Zealand we have real justification for the decisions you like hassles. So if you get your group to­ It was New.Citizen editor, John Bluck too many super-planners whose idea of take.’ When you get a straight answer to gether and start ringing up a talkback who remarked to me that he felt that community participation in town-plann­ that then we’ll be half way there. show or writing letters to the papers pro­ there was “ a kind of spiritual frustration ing is to go out and interview the intelli­ Television, like many other things, is testing about lack of South American in Auckland because people were feeling gentsia.” increasingly becoming a confluence of all coverage the chances are that he’s going angry because of their lack of ability to One wondered just how much arrog­ sorts of tastes. This is how it has become to get pretty flustered. shape their community.” The frustration ance there was in our civil service. I rem­ democratised. The chances are that soon he’s going he said could be creative if only it could embered reading a ‘Nation Review’ article But just as you, as representative of to be ringing up one of the other select­ find a channel. once called ‘the Ruling Servants’. I refound one minority taste, have a right to dem­ ors and say :“ Hey Joe, I reckon it would­ About the same time I spoke to two it and one passage is worth quoting: and a time-slot you have no right to n’t be a bad idea if we ran this programme Auckland City Council town planners, “ When Labour (in Australia) ministers demand more than that. Then you say, we just got in on what’s happening in one of whom told me it was ‘‘really im­ took office, they soon found out about despite the time-slot, I’m still ending up Brazil.” and Mac says, ‘‘Funny you should possible to get an idea of what the public the great power of the public service board with a choice between ‘Ironside’ and say that Joe, ‘cause I was just thinking the wants.” and the small network of related perman­ ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ and what same thing.” They then made a remark which I ent heads. It took Tom Uren the best part sort of choice is that ? So everyone’s happy. Mac and Joe thought was deprectory and showed up of nine months to get the staff for his Fair question. The easy answer: .because they made the right decision and the falseness of their position ‘‘We only Urban and Regional department, which switch off your set. You shouldn’t be the lobbyists because they got the pro­ get those here who have an axe to grind” . was part of the platform that the Whitlam affronted by what you don’t choose to gramme. One could visualize people in the Government was elected on.” watch or perhaps you think that Pat Bart­ The secret to any successful lobbying inner city whose homes were about to So it was a pretty universal problem. lett really had a point after all. Page 11 Cracrum Supplement ZIONISM AND M IR T H

the case against israel “ The Palestinian Problem is a dispute armed forces from territories occupied, a fear of outside aggression? over a homeland. Any Jewish person the termination of all claims or states Several other of Hadawi’s statements is entitled to go to Israel while V/2 of belligerency, and respect for and fell hard upon attendant Jewish ears. He million Arabs are in Refugee camps. One acknowledgement of the sovereignty, spoke of the inequality of civil rights problem solved - one created” territorial integrity and political inde- within Israel, the Class conflict, ie 3rd Sami Hadawi’s lectures, radio, TV pendance of every stat in the area, and class Arabs, 2nd Class Sephardic (oriental) coverage and informal meeting have been its right to live in peace within secure Jews and 1st Class Ashkenazim (western) well attended - a source of awakened and recognized boundaries free from Jews. All is not perfect in the promised curiosity, sympathy, and hostility too. threats or acts of force” . land - despite the pro-Jewish propaganda Various reactions to him include: The Palestinians feel, Hadawi said, in World Press. A Jewish Member of University Staff that the Israeli desregard of such Regarding this pro-Zionist attitude, “ propagandist and emotionalist” . To a recommendations, their continued Sami Hadawi argued that it particularly non-commital observer, “ he was a good construction activities in occupied suits Israel to focus on the Israel/Arab speaker” or “ a likeable person with a territory is simply “ biding for time” . conflict rather than on the Israel/ cause” , to those who identify with the And certainly in the face of statements Palestinian problem. In the first case problem, “ Hadawi’s plight, (as a Palestin­ such as made by General Moshe Dayan the loss of International allies (because ian without a Homeland) is one which this would seem to be true, of the oil influence of the Arab block) deserves internation attention” . eg. 1968 “ Our fathers'/ Hadawi cites makes it possible for Israel to retain the Dayan, “ had reached the frontiers §§' image of herself as a persecuted minority, Hadawi’s midweek lunchtime lecture which were recognised in the Partition in need of all possible economic-military at University centred on the problem as % Plan; our generation reache the protection. a local one. He urged for “ a dialogue on frontiers of 1949, now the six day war In the terms of a closer focus, the the basis of humanity - ideologies should generation has reached Suez, Jordan Israel/Arab conflict, those persecuted come second” : This is not, he feel£ and the Golan Heights. This is not would surely be the 3 /2 million Arab a problem for the super powers. (What Sami Hadawi the end. After the present cease fire people who have lost ehir homes and did the American military force achieve In fact, it cannot be denied that the lines, there will be new ones They status by the establishment of “ the in Vietnam?) justice must be found in Declarations of the U.N. Security will extend beyond Jordan - perhaps Chosen People” in “ the Promised Land” . the establishment of a secular state with Council have often been ignored by the to Lebanon and perhaps to central Syria The Palestinians blame Zionist Policy equal civil rights for all. Hadawi argues Israelis, Hadawi says, following the as well” for repeated negative response to U.N. with supporting evidence that the danger June ’67 war, for example the council Hadawi questions the justification for withdrawal and disengagement declar­ of Zionism is openly expansionist declared that “ acquisition of territory the massive militarization of Israel today. ations. They condemn also the United policies! Cries of “ necessary defensive by force is inadmissible, an that territories Can Israel be called the policeman of States (even Ford and Kissinger recently) positions (eg. Golan Heights” ) were thus occupied must be restored” . Also the west? Must an army be sustained... for failure to effect settlement during subdued by Mike Treen. resolved was “ the withdrawal of Israeli by a belief in territorial expansion or the 27 years of conflict. The Universal

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This interview with Israel Shahak was conducted this February in Jerusalem. separate school systems in Israel, a Heb­ Shahak, the chairman of the Israel League for Human and Civil Rights, came rew one and an Arabic one. They are sep­ to Israel in 1945 as a refugee from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. He arated in statistics, as I said before, but was a supporter of Zionism until his views were changed by his experiences in they are also separated in other things. the army during and after the June 1967 War. First of all, the Arab school system is heavily discriminated against in every Since then, Shahak has played an increasingly prominent role in defending material area : no buildings, or bad build­ democratic rights inside Israel. ings, almost no laboratores, bad teachers, bad teachers-aides. Question. In the mass media in the Uni­ The most important discrimination is ted States and in most West European in the area of schooling itself. The Arab countries Israel is portrayed as a democrat­ students have to leam an enormous am­ ic society. What is your opinion ? ount of Hebrew literature - including Answer. My opinion is that this is the Hebrew religious material, the Bible, the greatest deception of the twentieth cent­ Talmud, and so on - as well as Zionist ury; and I am not speaking about hidden literature, both in Hebrew and in Arabic matters, I am speaking about completely translations. The Koran is taught less official matters. Israel is about as aparth­ than 10 per cent of the time allotted to eid as South Africa in reality. It is simply the Old Testament. All Arabic literature more hypocritical and more able to shape written after the year 1800 is prohibited. United States public opinion. Even from the older literature there is For example, take the official statisti­ a very heavy concentration on poems cal abstract of Israel for 1974, which is praising the beauties of nature and so on., issued by the Israeli Bureau of Statistics. All poems that can be interpreted as nat­ If you open it at any table, let’s say the ionalistic, even in a remote way, are pro­ table of births, deaths, infant deaths, and hibited. Most European literature and all so on, you’ll see that officially in Israel Asian literature - the literature of classi­ there are no Israelis. This is the first dec­ cal China, for example - is also prohibit­ Israeli soldiers guard a group of Arab at an ider eption. When the New York Times or ed. They have to leam Hebrew literature ' occupied Arab territories. other United States papers use the word instead. And of course they have to pass Israeli, they are lying, because inside examinations in it. If they do not pass Israel there are no Israelis. There are Jews, sign a declaration that he is against the them they are prohibited from going any and non-Jews. Arab students having a committee of further. When Israeli statistics report how many their own will not receive a subsidy for Q. What is the situation in schools in the infants have died in Israel, you will not his housing or any other social needs. I big cities where there are both Arab and find any statistics about Israeli infants. think such an open declaration would be Jewish communities ? You will find Jewish infants and you will impossible in New York. A. Completely separated. There is a school find non-Jewish infants. Sometimes you Another thing is that every Jewish stu­ for Arabs, and there is a school for Jews. will find a total or a grand total. You will dent who can bring proof that he is from Jews are completely prohibited from send­ never find Israelis. a family having more than four children ing their children to Arab schools, but And it is not only for infants. If you immediately gets an almost total deduct­ Arabs can sometimes obtain permits to look, for example, at the statistics on Is­ ion of his fees. But an arab student, even send their children to a Jewish school. raeli potatoes, you will see potatoes from if he can bring proof that he is from a Not in their own area, however, but in a Jewish farms, and you will see potatoes family of twelve or fourteen, will never different area, especially to a school in a from non-Jewish farms. There are no get any sort of deduction. Family deduc­ different village, where there will be one Israeli potatoes in Israel. This is the def­ tions are applied only to Jews. And this Arab in a class of about a hundred Jews. inition of the Jewish state. is done openly, not secretly. Even this needs very special permission. This isn’t the only thing. If you go any And a third thing : The university op­ Q. What about discrimination in jobs ? place where there are so-called twin cit­ enly uses a negative quota against Arabs A. Here the discrimination is like that in ies, like Nazareth and New Nazareth, you in many faculties. In some faculties, for the United States. There is no legal dis­ will see that the old Nazareth is an open example, geography and geology, Arabs crimination, but you will find hardly any city. Anyone can come, and by buying are completely forbidden to enter. In Arabs in what are called the nicer jobs. or selling or by agreement can dwell there. others only a few are allowed. Again op­ The Israeli Arabs predominate in three But in New Nazareth, the so-called Upper enly. And the number of Arabs who can kinds of jobs. First, unskilled agricultural Nazareth, to obtain a flat you have to life in the student housing project is zero. work. Second, unskilled or semiskilled bring proof that you are a Jew. The same thing goes for municipal construction work. Third, the lower- A society in which such a thing is re­ grants. Every Jewish municipality receiv­ paying jobs in services, such as washing quired for more than 90 percent of its es a government grant of about 140 to dishes. inhibited areas has no other name than 150 Israeli pounds per year per inhabi­ Q. When the Arab people protest against an apartheid society. Exactly the same tant. The same grant for Arab municipal­ these conditions, what oppression do proof is required in Johannesburg. The ities is from 7 to 20 pounds per year per they face ? only difference is that people know inhabitant. The Druzes receive around 20, A. Inside Israel the oppression of Arabs TEL AVIV slum inhabited by Oriental Jews:iliicized face about Johannesburg, but not about and the rest of the Arabs receive 7 to 10. takes several aspects. First of all, one has Nazareth. Again it is open and legal. to remember that in the so-called sole driver, and the truck he operates is from iere then I s This goes for many other areas too. We are on a much lower level than democracy in the Middle East we still the town of Acre. A few months ago he hat generat For example, you have now an official Blacks in the United States because there have the defense regulations of 1945 by received an order forbidding him to leave i oken. plan in Israel for what is called the “Jud- is no recourse. No one can even do the which the military authorities can arrest, his village, so of course he cannot operate you give an aization” of Galilee. This means that the same sort of job that the NZZCP does in imprison, exile, or limit the movement of his truck. He cannot even go to Acre to i tion suffen Government thinks there are too many the United States. There is no possibility any Israeli. However, these regulations are bring it back home. He has six children I [In Tel Aviv Arabs in Galilee, so it has decided offic­ of bringing any case about discrimination, employed solely against Arabs. No Israeli and now has to live on the charity of his lly active ra ially and openly to confiscate some of even the most blatant, to any court, be­ Jew, including those who advocate terror, neighbors. All this not only without a tudents, an d their land, convert it into pure Jewish cause in Israel there is no law forbidding will ever be, let’s say, exiled or imprison­ trial, but without a charge. There are ression w ere land, and settle only Jews there. discrimination against non-Jews. On the ed without trial. But many Arabs who literally thousands of such examples. ree mem bers Q. A few of the key areas where the opp­ contrary, all discrimination against non- advocate cooperation with Jews, or who Q. What recent developments do you |i{ on one o f ression of Black people in the United Jews is completely legal. are leftist, are imprisoned or exiled with­ think are important to note ? ■ere su dden ! States is most readily apparent are jobs, Q . What about in the cities ? What evid­ out trial. A. The most important development is 'were orderec housing, and education. What is the sit­ ence can you give about housing discrim­ For example, when an Arab friend of the growing radicalization of the Arab- jants in th e uation of the Arabs within Israel in those ination ? mine began to just sympathize with a Israeli youth, especially the students, but to a building areas, in comparison with that of the A. Cities in Israel are of two kinds. There Trotskyist group he was arrested without also other young people influenced by ;and b e a te i Jewish citizens ? are the bigger cities, like Tel Aviv, Jerusa­ trial and given thirty-five days in a punish­ the students. I mean now people who because th e A. It is much worse than the situation of lem, Haifa, and so on, which are built on ment cell in complete isolation without were born in Israel, who know Hebrew, I initals. The; the Blacks in the United States, because private land. There each landlord can books or reading material. I should point who are socially integrated into their nd w arned the oppression and discrimination here is discriminate or not as he wants. out that punishment cells in Israeli corresponding Jewish groups. ctive in th e legal. To say it.s legal means that the But there is another category of cities, prisons are especially horrible. The size This is the first time that there has similar tre a system of quotas against the Arabs oper­ those built on land owned by the Jewish can be something like one yard by two been a significant number of Arab stu­ ther case ir ates in complete legality, without any National Fund, in which everyone has to and a half yards, which means that the dents in the universities. Now they are i nted a big h legal recourse. discriminate. In Upper Nazareth, even if bed or lying space on the floor takes up organizing, as I mentioned in the case of | ietto o f Tei About ten days ago, for example, I there are landlords who would like to nearly all the cell. The place where the the Bar-Ilan University. When they are hey are pro read published protests from Arab stud­ rent a flat to an Arab, they are forbidden man has to make use of the toilet is also persecuted they take their case to the dent h o u sir ents from the Bar-Ilan University. It’s a to do so by law. And if they do it in a inside this cell. village, or to the little town they come [area in i t.r religious Jewish university near Tel Aviv. hidden way, once it is discovered they are Practically every Israeli Arab who be­ from, and ask their people in the village every ten d i The Arab students complained that the taken to court and heavily fined for break­ come sympathetic to any leftist group to defend them. morning. T1 secret police prevent them from forming ing their contract. faces something similar. For example, As you know, in the 1950s the older i go down ir a committee to represent them. They Q. What about discrimination in the area take what is happening right now with generation of Israeli Arabs was persecut­ i lderpants c said that the university has openly decl­ of schooling at the preuniversity level ? another of my friends - Naif Salim - a ed even more. For every man that is jstand abo ared that any Arab student who does not A. First of all there are two completely poet in the village of Pekyin. He is a truck arrested or limited or imprisoned now, i be identifi HID AS SOUTH AFRICA

of the winter in Israel and it is quite cold). the population would say they’d vote for he wrote a letter in my support. There The investigation is of course accompan­ Yasir Arafat. It amounts to the same were also interventions from England ied by slaps on the face and insults. thing but - and I say it in criticism - with and France. In addition, activists among the stu­ the recognition of the PLO goes a very As things stand now, a committee of dents are called in for talks with the sec­ great amount of personality worship. officials from the Ministry of Justice is ret police and threatened. When the Q. Has this led to an increase in the re­ still looking for legal evidence of my trea­ “talks” are not successful, their parents or pression in recent months ? son, but they decided not to confiscate their uncles or their cousins are called in, A. Yes, very much so. There was a horrible my passport or take away citizenship, and they are threatened. So every student wave of repression at the end of Novem­ “so as,” and I am quoting the minister of activist knows that because he is active ber, and it still continues. For example, the interior, “not to make a martyr” of in the student movement, an uncle who several hundred people were arrested in me. Well, I am willing not to be a martyr. might, for example, work for a Jew in the Jerusalem neighborhood alone during I want to add one thing - that the uni­ th$ neighboring village can be dismissed. the last week, and many people who versity administration was extremely fair. Again, there is no legal recourse. were not arrested were taken out of their The rector, the dean in American terms, Q. What about the situation in the occu­ homes in the night, and as you say in defended publicly my right to free speech pied territories ? America, “roughed up” a little, sometim­ and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem A. It is much worse, because there the es half-naked, and returned home. Given is completely firm in defending my right people have no rights at all. In particular, what they call a “lesson.” to speak anywhere on any subject. But they have no right to organize. At least Q. Have Israeli Arabs been subjected to the danger from the government still ex­ the Arab students in Tel Aviv still have a the same repression ? ists, and whether it will decide to sacri­ committee that is active. All committees, A. Oh no, they are treated much better. fice me to the right wing remains to be parties, organizations, trade unions, and First of all, they are citizens and cannot seen. so on are completely prohibited in the be exiled. They can therefore shout back. So far I have been speaking about occupied territories. Any political activity When the three members of the Arab official pronouncements. Mr. Begin’s even closing the shops in protest, is pro­ students committee were beaten in Tel party actually called on the Israeli radio hibited. Aviv, they immediately did a great deal for my execution. I can give you the very The number of people being arrested to publicize it. They have Jewish allies, date - on December 2, 1974. So the real is really enormous. During demonstrations too, and not only us. We helped publicize danger is that the Israeli government group of Arab at an identification center in the in the conquered territories, Israel occu­ the case, because we still have some free­ might sacrifice me to some movement of pation authorities are quite capable of dom. national unity. Well, I can only say I will arresting 10 to 20 percent of the adult In the conquered territories the repre­ give them a tough fight. male population. This was done at the ssion is so strong that you really have Q. What is your opinion about the gener­ end of November in the town of Jenin, great difficulty even obtaining the names al political situation in the Middle East where 15 percent of the adult population of those arrested. The very first thing that today, particularly the intentions of the (meaning from fourteen years on up) the family of the arrested person is told Israeli government ? were arrested and kept in prison for some is that if they dare to tell the non-Israeli A. I am almost certain that the Israeli days. lawyers or human-rights activists like me, establishment - 1 say establishment, not A second thing is that people in Israel their boy will be tortured. And many of the government - is preparing with open cannot at least be exiled from Israel; they the families, especially the mothers, suff­ eyes for war. When I say “establishment” are exiled from town to village, or from er in silence. I mean that in Israel decisions like this one village to another village. But in the Q. You have come under bitter attack are not taken by the government; they conquered territories, everyone knows from the Zionist officials and press for are taken by some more or less informal that the delegates of Israeli democracy your defense of the democratic rights of body like Golda Meir’s famous kitchen can come to a family in the early hours, the Arab people. What are they saying meetings - gatherings with influential gen­ at 2.00 or 3.00 o’clock in the morning, about you, and what are they threatening? erals, ministers, and personal friends. The their favorite time. They can take the A. Well, I will begin with the official decisions are then announced by state­ father, give him literally half an hour to things. There was a debate about me in ments and articles in the press. Therefore pack, and then take him to the Jordanian the Knesset, in the Israeli Parliament, in when (Premier Yitzhak) Rabin declared or Lebanese border, exile him from his which I was officially described by the in the summer and more or less hinted family, and forbid him ever to return.. minister of education as a notorious mad­ during the last month that war is unavoid­ You see, unification of families applies man. The minister of justice also made a able, that is exactly what he meant. As only to USSR Jews. It doesn’t apply to statement about me in Parliament, saying far as Israel is concerned, war is unavoid­ Palestinians. And as a matter of fact, that I am a traitor, and that a special able. Palestinians have no rights to be reunited committee is assembling evidence against Based on what I have heard the spokes­ with their families here. me. You see, I am a traitor first, legal evi­ men for the Israeli establishment say to A third thing is that the brutality of dence comes afterwards ! their cadres, at meetings, in homes, and the police, the military police, and the There were also calls for assissinating in many other places in which more or army units is far greater in the occupied me. The Jerusalem Post, the English-lang­ less important Israelis meet, there are two territories than with Israel. In Israel, even uage Israeli paper, called for putting a reasons, political and financial, why they if there are beatings, they would be usu­ bomb in my laboratory. Or alternatively, say war is inevitable. Israel’s financial sit­ ally short. The people in the occupied to imitate the Soviet methods and put me uation is horrible. Even with all the supp­ territories, to the best of my knowledge, in a madhouse. ort from the United States it’s becoming r Oriental Jews: idicized face of the "promised land.1' are horribly tortured. Apart from this, there were attacks on even worse. And Israeli official policy irates is from rere then I suppose twenty or Q. What has been the impact among the me by the so-called Zionistic liberals and makes no effort to alleviate the situation. jnths ago he lat generation was to a great ex- Arab people, both those who are citizens Zionistic doves. This only confirmed my According to official Israeli date, the g him to leave i nken. of Israel and those who live in the occu­ belief that Zionistic doves are the worst Israeli external debt will reach $8 billion annot operate you give any current examples of pied territories, of the recognition of the type of Zionists. They proposed that my in 1975, requiring payment of $1.25 bill­ o to Acre to ! ition suffered by Arab dissenters ? PLO at the UN ? passport be confiscated, that I be dismiss­ ion a year in interest. Now the support six children In Tel Aviv University there is an A. It had a very great impact in both cases ed from my university post, that perhaps of the United States to Israel, the official iharity of his lly active radical committee of but a different one. Israeli Arabs know my citizenship should be taken away. All support, is only $2.5 billion yearly, per­ without a Indents, and the following means quite well the realities of Israeli society. of those things are possible under Israeli haps a little more. This means that half of There are rcssion were employed against them, They know that Israel is still a very strong law. But all those laws, like the defense it will go merely for servicing the debt. ixamples. rte members of the committee while state that has a very powerful army and regulations, are usually employed only Israel is approaching bankruptcy fair­ ts do you igon one of the main streets of Tel very powerful support from the United against Arabs. It would set a precedent if ly rapidly, and the only way for it to be 2 pere suddenly stopped by the police, States government. Therefore, in my opin­ they were employed against a Jew. saved from this is by waging a successful ‘lopment is were ordered to strip down to their ion, their hopes weren’t aroused very So in the first place, it is this Jewish war. That would restore the flow of capi­ •f the Arab- Mats in the middle of the street, much. In the conquered territories, how­ racism that has defended me. For example, tal, not to mention the possible spoils students, but to a building that is not a police ever, there was a big wave of hope among a cheat and a hypocrite like Uri Avneri from occupying the oil countries. luenced by ;and beaten. I would call it torture, the great majority of the population. They who began by abusing me and saying that The reason for the onrushing bank­ ;ople who because they were beaten around thought that this United Nations business I “poisoned the wells of peace” in the ruptcy is that until October 1973, there dw Hebrew, : initals. They were then turned would immediately cause the Israelis to Middle East, and that I make Palestinians was an enormous flow of capital into into their ad warned that if they continued retreat from the territories, which of cou­ more “extremist” than they should be, Israel. Most of it was “black” capital - s. ctive in the committee, they could rse didn’t happen, and in my opinion finished by saying that nonetheless my Mafia money, money from all kinds of there has similar treatment in the future, won’t happen for some time. passport should not be confiscated be­ shady businesses in Europe, Iranian f Arab stu- ther case involves Arab students A second difference is that in the occ­ cause if they begin with Shahak, who illegal money, and so on. This flow has w they are i nted a big house in the so-called upied territories most of the people liv­ will be next ? completely ceased since the October n the case of I ietto of Tel Aviv University, be- ing in the villages are not yet very consc­ The second reason is that I am well war, but could be restored after a »n they are hey are prohibited from living in ious politically. In many areas, such as in protected from abroad. And not only by victory. ase to the ident housing, or are allocated only the south of the West Bank, in the Heb­ friends in leftist organizations, but by the Three other reasons are political, or they come [area in it. The police visit this ron area, the hold of the feudal leaders is good relations I have with parts of the let’s say military and political. First of n the village every ten days or so at 2.00 o’clock very strong. establishment in various Western count­ all, in the present situation, Israel keeps norning. They order all the stud- Nevertheless, in spite of everything, ries. After all, I testified before the Amer­ an enormous number of people under Os the older I go down into the courtyard in 99 percent of the population in the con­ ican House of Representatives, and I must arms. The number of people in the stand­ vas persecute i iderpants or night attire and force quered territories now regard the PLO say to the credit of the chairman of the ing regular military service was increased. n that is )stand about for an hour in the as its complete representative. Or rather, committee I testified before, Donald Their pay was increased to such an ex­ loned now, i be identified (it is now the middle not the PLO itself, but the majority of Fraser (from Minnesota, if I recall), that tent that a private soldier, or a private soldier in the border guards - the unit used to *Continued Page 14

SHAHAK CowTiK/ueO paper of the Israeli trade unions, the Hist- adrut, and also of the Labor party, the patrol the conquered territories - receives ruling party of Israel. The article was wri­ almost the same pay as I do, a professor tten by Dan Bavli, a well-known adviser with twelve years tenure. to the military authorities ruling the con­ In addition, a part of the standing army quered territories and to the Ministry of - that is, the regular soldiers, Israeli young Foreign Affairs. Records re\ people, from the ages of about twenty-one Now Mr. Bavli has no doubt that a war to thirty-five - are called up for reserve .i 4' %»* against Syria, at least, has to come, and he Richard CU service. Something like an average of six­ also suspects that this will not be the last albun titled ty days a year would be a low estimate. ‘i nufmmu fmi What can y war. Therefore he coined two phrases: If they are from “crack” units, they can a name like very easily be called up for 80 days, for itMtu 1\mah Jeu “The next war, and the wars after the voice sounc 100 days, and even more. There are stu­ WSORNrtftMlira next.” He urged that Israel exact the greatest who writes dents of mine who were called up this year it better th; after the mobilization in April, and who m$ « w in profit from the next war. Now yhat is wmM m this “profit” ? Mr. Bavli is very sure that guitar emb< had already served 80 to 100 days. Now of some un I ask, How long can a society stand this? during the next war, as he puts it, Israel Everyone a And there is a third reason. As they mel is norm Hkm has to smash the Syrian army completely. He’s hac put it, the Arabs are becoming “uppish,” 'iMTREimTHE® But what would happen if the obstinate of, prior to they are becoming “impudent.” They Syrians, after their army is smashed, con­ tablished b, mean Arabs inside Israel or the conquer­ prtc* “ftEm’Tm tinue fighting a guerrilla war ? To prepare "Richard C ed territories. And if the Arabs are becom­ for this, Mr. Bavli proposes that Israel It would be ing impudent, more soldiers are needed to begin now to make some political overtur­ album folic keep them in order. The burden is becom­ dream - a dream, let’s say, of a nice summ­ fact that Israel will make a war as soon as es toward the Syrian minorities - Druzes predecessoi ing more or less impossible, so Israeli off­ er, or something like that. They just want possible. It will try to move as heavily as and others - so that they will continue to can’t see it icials hope that a smashing victory will to restbre the “good times” of before possible against the north, against Syria, fight for Israel after this. again restore the situation. October 1973, and they think that a war for very obvious geographic and other In a country in which a government Maybe s So far, that’s what they explain. I will can restore it. Therefore, to a great extent reasons. paper can publish such an article - with­ will realise add to this that the major part of Israeli at least for the first week or two, they To show you how openly this is dis­ out a challenge, by the way - you can experience, society is now in a psychological bind. will find willing cannon fodder. cussed in Israel, I will just quote an article well understand in what direction the Failed mus They are like children who are reliving a In my opinion, all this adds up to the published in Davar, which is the official wind is blowing. setters mos Richard the songs o A group erf men and women in Auckland with luck a concerned with the situation in the Made Cultural E> T H E H O L Y C IT Y ? East in general and conditions of the Pales­ him over hi tinian people in particular, met on 4 July, is somethin 1975, to consider how best they could it seems th cause of suspected uprisings. In fact no­ I decided to go to a book shop for Jerusalem is the Holy City. It is sacred serve the Palestin cause, and nelp bring shorter enc thing happens. On Saturday in the New some peaceful browsing. Israeli Tourist for the Jews, Christians and Moslems peace, with justice, to tne M ade East and Beech City all is shut for the Jewish sabbath books reveal photos of many facets of alike. Tourism is Israel’s main industry Still, I heai (Shabat) and then on Sunday Christians the new and old Israel. Talmudic scholars, and all tourists make it to Jerusalem. 1) To support the Palestinian people in "Rock‘n’R of all the denominations (including many gallant young soldiers, new cities (e.g. The Christians trek along the Via its demanas for tne restoration of the Years of M Arabs - in case you were thinking they Beersheba) being forged and of course Dolorosa to gaze at the stations of the Palestinians human and political rights August to i are all Moslems) flock to their respective the outstanding achievements of the Cross, and then across to the Mt. of intnedr homeland, Palestine. In its Ban - Roge Olives. The Moslems visit the El Aksa Places of Worship. Kibbutzim. support, tne society will be guided by guiding ligl Mosque (3rd in importance after Mecca I was staying in a French Convent in The only photos pertaining to the Arab the principles of tne Universal Declare and Madena) and the Jewish tourist the Old City - a peaceful enough place residents are the romantic camels, Bed­ tion of Human Rights whicn provides makes his way to the Israeli Museum, the one would think. During the week there ouins in the desert type thing. Not a single in Artide 13(2) tnat ‘everyone has the, Lou Reed Knesset (Parliament) and to the Wailing was a hell of a rumpus in the streets. photo of the ‘Modern Arab’. O f course to rignt to leave any country, indudeng next. Reci Wall at Sunset. What the hell is happening ? I asked a buy a propagandist book like ‘The Pale­ his own, and to return to his country;’ concerts th Even the Dear Old United Nations school teacher as he passed. stinian Resistance’ by Gerard Chaliand •virile Article 17 (2) stipulates that has a strong-hold there. Many is the time “ Well, you see, he said slowly, the Arab one must first find a bookshop that has No-one snail be arbitrarily deprived of "Rock'n’R who like tl that it has been said that this city should students in secondary schools are protest­ escaped the strict Israeli censorship. his property’. be declared an International Secualar ing about their unequal rights of Citizen­ A Holy City with a whole heap of pro­ compared State, but either the United Nations has ship and Education and about the way blems. Problems of equality, problems of If you wish to aid the work of the are instant not had the power, or Jewish fervour has the Israeli police are putting the pressure identity, or ideology. There are many who sodety write to Friends of Palestine, of Dick W; proved too strong. The baffling combin­ on them - interviews etc." would like to see some peaceful resolution C% Auckland University Students ’ a large par ance so ele ation of the Old City, the Arab Shuk, “ In fact” he said sadly “ I shall probably ..... but as the British said when they clear­ Association. first solo a (market) Convents, Churches and Mos­ lose my job because being an Arab teach­ ed out in 1948..... ‘there is going to be [ j I wish to join the Sodety "Walk On ques lies alongside the new Israeli estab­ er I will be held responsible for instilling trouble’ and there has been and will be. Endosed is $...... for the Ma lishment of Businesses, Hospitals, and rebellious ideas into their heads.” If one asks the question - ‘What are $5 single, $6 Couple,$2 Students ground da massive housing constructions. The'demonstration passed. On this you (i.e. Jewish or Arab) ? ..... Song” froi I was there in November, a turbulent occasion the pojice merely used flame The Jewish person answers with pride [ j I wisn to receive further informatioa Lou Re time. On Fridays when the Moslem throwers and made ‘a few’ arrests; noth­ ‘ I’m an Israeli ’ the Arab shrugs and ultimate a Arabs go to the Mosque and the old walls ing presumably to compare with the inci­ smiles and says ‘ I’m a Human Being ’. echo with the wailing of the Koran, the dent in Jenin the week after where nearly Name...... to his posi the real na Police Guard on the City is doubled be­ 15% of the male population had been taken. Ann Chambers than plasti Address...... Alice Coo| merely ba< HADAWI CONTINUE 0 Declaration of Human Rights (to which It can be said that the admission last indeed. L I BEIRUT 1 Israel is a signatory) states: Article 13 (2) year of the P.L.O. to the U.N. as an work’s rat I [S )a n o n ;DAM-ASCUS Everyone hase the right to leave any observer strengthens the presentation Lou and tl Jewish State under the 1947 A.Syria country, including his own, and return of the Palestinian case. United Nations Partition Plan to his country. Article 17 (2) No one There has been very little said by "Play Dor [ Territories taken by Israel shall be arbitarily deprived of his the leading figureheads of Israel about from the i in 1948 and 1949 mJ 1:1 l L property. Too many Palestinians, any compromise of co-existence, (ie Ronson. - | Territories taken by Israel Ben Gurion, Theodore Herz) and "Slaughte in June 1967 both outside Israel and inside Israel are guilty of violation on both counts. Cham Weizmann is quoted as saying Porter” w ‘ideally’ the Palestinians should be given “ there was a country which happens that I’m a "Girl Can’ the choice to return to their land or to be called Palestine, a country with­ Mediterranean Sea otherwise be compensated, says Hadawi. out a people...) the title ti Ronson “ I iD eutl Sen Obviously there are differing view­ If the possibility of a secular state points on these problems. The Jewish (including all Israelis at present settled "White Li quote the Arabs as wanting to “ chase in the Holy Land and Moslems, Druids ground st; ’ El A rls h ’ them into the sea” and the Arabs Christians etc.) is to be realized, it harsh and quote the Jews as wanting a homeland must come from the Israeli initiative. throughoi (k “ extending form the Nile to the No one would deny the horrors of promises s anti-semitism, but Hadawi point to a in isolated Egypt •Jordan Euphrates” . One talks of “ purchasing land, the others of “ land stolen” . tragedy, when a race which has been of both al h persecuted for centuries, now wins than the v r | There are likewise different stories of who a homeland, and in doing so denies the maintains Um Reshr i Aqcibo started which war. ElofhJ rights of another minority. a more de On both sides there have been acts of Ronson st terrorism. The Irgun and Stern command­ own man oes (The Jewish Underground) which Egypt Hunter, ft Saudi emerged in 1948 employed tactics P.S. should see Arabia against both British and Arabs which Re the Press: cannot be described as other than extreme­ Like the reception of Nan Bailey (Amer ly violent in nature. Many would say (American Black Feminist - visiting in Lynyrd SI that Palestinian groups, like the P.L.O. April) the Star refused to interview Sami early last - and the Popular Democratic Front, do Hadawi. The Heral Reporter cond­ and good, not strengthen their case by the continu­ ucted a lengthy and testing interview. record the ation of violence and acts of terrorism. So far nothe has been published. initial raw fore subse their soun ms, the Hist- >arty, the cle was wri- svn adviser ing the con- ministry of Records reviewed by Jeremy Templer. professionalism. Former Deep Purple )t that a war vocalis Ian Gillian had much the same :ome, and he Richard Clapton has recenty released an idea when he produced Nazareth’s first 1 I; be the last albun titled “ Girls On the Avenue” . album. i phrases: What can you say about someone with By “ Second Helping” Lynyrd after the a name like that, an Australian whose Skynyrd’s raw energy had been diluted voice sound like that of Van Morrison, but was still forceful. “ Nuthin’ Fancy” the greatest who writes very good pop/rock, plays is better than their second album, the w prhat is it better than most and adds brief pace a little hotter, the band more ry sure that guitar embellishments to the playing confident and not awkwardly defending ts it, Israel of some uncredited backing musicians. the South against the words of an out­ completely, Everyone a winner. sider, Neil Young, as on “ Sweet Home e obstinate He’s had two albums, that I know Alabama” . Artimus Pyle is the band’s lashed, con- of, prior to this. Both are firmly es­ new drummer but Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ? To prepare tablished bargain bin favourites. brand of Southern rock, closer than all iat Israel "Richard Clapton” and “ Prussian Blue” . the other Southern rock groups, with tical overtur­ It would be sad indeed to see this the possible exception of the Allman es - Druzes album follow the same fate as its Brothers Band, to the essence of Southern continue to predecessors but, unfortunately, I life, remains unchanged. A strong single can’t see it doing anything else. “ Saturday Night Special” has already vernment Maybe some enterprising deejay been taken from the album. icle - with- will realise its potential. But then, from “ Nuthin Fancy” is just that. Southern you can experience, deejays are rather a dim lot. rock that comes well-recommended. :tion the Failed musicians and would-be trend setters most of them, it would seem. Stealers Wheel is still very bitter about Richard Clapton has written all the whole stardom/overnight sensation the songs on “ Girls On the Avenue” and biz and the songs continue to reflect it. n in Auckland with luck and the Australian/New Zealand “ Right or Wrong” , the title track of their in the Middle Cultural Exchange Scheme we may see third album, is no “ Star” and this album s of the Pales- him over here. The exchange scheme suffers because of it. The original creat­ let on 4 July, issomething I’ve long advocated although ive energy behind their debut album has hey could it seems that at present we’re getting the since been dissipated, the rest of Stealers nelp bring shorter end of the deal. Split Enz, Dragon Wheel having disappeared to go their dale East and Beech and all they’ve given us is Hush. separate ways. Joe Egan and Gerry Still, I hear that Kevin Johnstone (he of Rafferty as Stealers Wheel haven’t yet n people in “RockVRoll” , I gave You All The Best ration of the surpassed that first album despite an Years of My Life” ) will be over here in excellent solo album from Gerry Rafferty political rights August to open for the Roger McGuinn stine. In its and the presence here of Egan’s nasal Ban - Roger McGuinn being the former vocals. He is a copyist without equal be guided by guiding light of the Byrds. veraal Declare who can sound like both Dylan and ONE OF OUR MANY SATISFIED CUSTOMERS hicn provides Lennon yet remain convincing and do ary one has the. it all without a twinge of conscience. Lou Reed and “ Lou Reed Live” comes ry, includang Stealers indeed. next Recorded in the same series of ) nis country;’ concerts that produced last year’s classic lulates that “ Hearts” , America’s latest and fifth ily deprived of "RockVRoll Animal” . I know of those album is really too fey and precious and who like the studio albums but when without the instant likeability of its compared with these two albums they predecessors. America used to by Crosby ark of the are instantly forgettable. The guitars Stills, Nash and Young imitators par of Palestine, of Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter are excellence but that was summed up and Students ’ a large part of what makes the perform­ dispensed with on “ Hatrick” . With the ance so electrifying, “ vicious” from the following album “ Holliday” and now first solo album, “ Satellite of Love” , “ Hearts” , America is in the process of "Walk On the Wild Side” , and “ Waitin’ defining an English “ pop” sound more for the Man” from early Velvet Under like that of the Beatles and the post- >2 Students ground days, and “ Oh Jim ” and “ Sad Beatles imitators (Badfinger and, to a Song” from “ Berlin” . lesser extent, the Raspberries, Stealers lformation. Lou Reed still stand as rock'n’roll’s Wheel and Stories). ultimate anti-hero, propelled by a cult It’s no coincidence that George to his position as the develish prince, Martin, once producer for the Beatles, the real nasty. Much more authentic is behind if not a guide for America’s new than plastic imitation of the prince, lease of life. Alice Cooper, the synthetic stance, “ Sister Golden Hair” is the single from merely bad taste. Only Women Bleed the album. An instant classic of master­ admission last indeed. Lou was there first. Cover art ful and economic production. No un­ U.N. as an work’s rather nice, the glazed stare, necessary guitar solos, everything is oresentation Lou and those shades. geared towards the complete statement. The sad thing is nothing else on the "Play Don’t Worry” . A second album ttle said by album comes close to matching it. This F Israel about from the former Bowie guitarist, Mick is in deference to “ Holiday” , an album istence. (ie Ronson. A minor improvemen on full of potential hit singles with only one “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” . “ Billy jrz) and filler track. d as saying Porter” with insane scat backing vocals There’s no sound of those moroccas ch happens that I’m a sucker for every time. A frantic that were once cogniscent with the ountry with- "Girl Can’t Help It” . These along with American way of life. That’s the cost the title track an a leftover from the Bowie not necessarily of progress but certainly ecular state Ronson “ Pin-ups” sessions; the mystic of change; a reaction to the cynical "White Light/White Heat” , a Velvet under resent settled derision of those critics who regard stems, Druids ground standard, work best. Ronson’s America as the makers of nice and pleas­ alized, it harsh and fast guitar work is evident ant latin samba rythms for the masses. :li initiative, throughout. As with “ Slaughter” Ronson They certainly are vulnerable to such e horrors of promises so much but, as yet, except criticism but I can’t help but have a bit i point to a in isolated instances within the context of respect for America and for Badfinger :h has been of both albums, he fails to deliver. Rather too. For they’re perfectionists where now wins than the varied approach he at present perfection is by no means the norm, ! so denies the maintains he would be better off adopting along with the Hollies they play with the y- a more definitive and original style. belief that their music is part of a pop­ 1T INCLUDES Ronson still hasn’t got used to being his ular art form - the art of the three THE WHOLE SUMMER PROGRAMME OF FLIGHTS own man but his partnership with Ian minute hit single. TOURS ETC...... OFFERED BY STB TO ASIA, Hunter, former leader of Mott the Hoople Jeremy Templer. should see him doing better. EUROPE AUSTRALIA,USA AND THE PACIFIC. \ Bailey (Amer t - visiting in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first album released interview Sami early last year was loud and brash, rough ******** rter cond- and good. Al Kooper ahd the idea to STUDENT TRAVEL TOP FLOOR lg interview, record the band while they still had the STUDENT UNION OPEN 11-5p.pi. olished. initial raw and amateurish energy be­ fore subsequent recordings could dull their sound underneath a sheen of press films and this represents an act of cult­ because the pro-censorship forces are ural politics. The R16 certificate for more active than the anti-censorship To mmy is a typical example. forces. A few days ago, Bartlett pre­ Thirteen Festival Rims Some film-goers may argue that sented another petition to parliament cutting is acceptable, so long as containing more than 20,000 signatures. ‘artistic films’ are left intact. But how Those who protest against censorship are are we to draw the line between ‘artistic’ mostly the same people who have been Censored films and ‘lurid commercial films’? doing so for many years, such as The I’m sure that when the censor cut Federation of Film Societies. Psycho, he regarded it as a lurid commer­ Without minimising the value of their realise that many film-goers are bor­ at the Wellington screening of Mouth cial film, and in one sense it is. It is efforts, I think that a lot of new faces ed stiff with the subject of censorship. Agape and Celine and Julie in their in­ worth noting that The English Depart­ are needed for the campaign to have Censorship is easy to ignore because its complete form. Michael Thornhill, the ment syllabus is full of plays and novels any impact today. It is necessary for details are kept secret. But those who director of the Australian film Between which were once regarded by some highly ‘the average film-goer’ to make his import or exhibit films know that cen­ The Wars, was present at the Wellington cultured people as lurid money-spinners dissatisfaction clear by writing letters sorship is very much alive in N.Z. Festival, and he is said to have made a for example, Moll Flanders, Don Juan and telegrams and petitions, by setting The censor’s annual report - released personal protest against the Censor’s dec­ or the Gothic novels, to say nothing of up picket-lines or by thinking up new this week - announces that a total of 807 ision by restoring the material cut from King Lear and the violent Jacobeans. and imaginative forms of protest. cuts were made last year. 40 per cent of his film. Apparently the Wellington It will be difficult to bring about a all feature films were cut, and 42 films audience cheered this restoration, just as major change in N.Z. film censorship Roger Horrocks. (short films or feature-films) were totally they booed and hissed the censor when banned. More feature-films were cut or they recognized his cuts in The Cars That banned this year than last year. Ate Paris. It is not yet known whether In terms of censorship, N.Z. seems to Thornhill or the Wellington Festival will be getting more and more out of touch be brought to court because of this with the rest of the world. Only a few incident. The Classic Cinema countries such as South Africa have film Usually it is impossible to obtain in­ Attendances at the Classic Cinema arre Berkeley sequences as Ann Miller’s censorship as severe as ours. Once, Aust­ formation about the censor’s cuts, but on have dropped off lately, so we should all dance in a landscape of musical instru­ ralian censorhsip was tougher than ours, this occasion I have been able to collect a remind ourselves that we are very, very ments held by disembodied arms, or but today the only films banned or cut few details. lucky to have a cinema of this type in Esther William’s dive from a high trapeze in Australia are ‘hard-core’ pornographic Almost all the cuts made in Festival Auckland. into a geometric arrangement of swimm­ films. films seem to be aimed at “ naughty words” At present the Classic is presenting a ers. The film historian Arthur Knight has Occasionally a film becomes a contro­ in particular, the words ‘fuck’ ‘cunt’ and series of four films by director and chor­ said of Berkeley that he created ‘the versial issue in a state such as Queensland, ‘prick’. The word ‘fuck’ seems to be cut eographer Busby Berkeley. purest combinations of sound and vision but taken as a whole, Australian film cen­ by the censor whenever it occurs, with no To assemble a group of films by one that had so far come from any American sorship is now very relaxed. Australian regard for the context. It is cut even when ‘auteur’ is the son of intelligent pro­ studio’. filmgoers are now asking ‘Why not hard­ it has no direc*: sexual connotations. For gramming that no other Auckland cine­ The Classic is presenting two double­ core porn?’ and this is a valid question. example, the four cuts made in the ma attempts. The films themselves have features : Hollywood Hotel (1937) and Hard-core porn seems to me generally Canadian film Ordinary Tenderness appear great appeal, as comic-book-style enter­ 42nd Street (1933) until Friday July 18, more honest and interesting than the to involve remarks about the weather such tainment, as ‘high camp’ comedy, or as and then Dames (1934) and Gold Digg­ ‘Carry On Smirking’ style of soft-core as ‘it’s fucking cold today’. a fascinating slice of film history. ers of 1933 from July 19 to August 1st. porn promoted in N.Z. 1 remember seeing Such snipping may seem too trivial to After the introduction of sound in Berkeley directed the whole of Hollywood an “ Erotic Film Festival” in the student worry about, but it can have a disastrous the late twenties, the musical Became Hotel and ‘staged and directed’ the musi­ Union Building of New York University - effect upon local Film Festivals. Most with films selected by Roman Polanski, Overseas producers and directors are now among others - which showed me how demanding that Film Festivals refrain from joyous and amusing hard-core porn could screening any film that has been cut. ■ Next be. year, both the Auckland and Wellington But even the soft-core variety is still Festivals will probably adopt this policy - cut to pieces in N.Z. One of the most dis­ indeed, they will probably be forced to do turbing features of local censorship is the so by the film-makers. If the censor cpts fact that it operates in secrecy. A cut film a dozen films again next year, then there is presented to the filmgoer in such a way will not be enough films left to make up a that he believes he is seeing an authentic Festival. version. Even if he learns that a film has I have devoted most of this article to | been tampered with, he has no way of Festival films, but the general run of knowing whether any particular transition censorship is just as alarming. In recent in the film is the result of a decision by months the censor has banned such the film-maker or a decision by the cen­ interesting films as Heavy Traffic (a sor. brilliant animated cartoon about a young This year the censor interfered with artist in New York), Le Grand Bouffe thirteen of the films presented by the (which won an International Critics Auckland and Wellington Film Festivals. Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival) a key area of film-making. During the cal numbers in the other three films. Both Festivals are established cultural and a film biography of comedian Lenny depression years, musicals grew more Hollywood Hotel is perhaps not as institutions, and the films that they Bruce. Also, the Appeal Board has upheld and more elaborate, and provided spect­ interesting as 42nd Street, which ends sponsor can scarcely be regarded as worth­ the total ban on Last Tango in Paris. acular escapist entertainment. with a particularly spectacular musical less or frivolous. Both Festivals attracted Teaching a film course in the English The most imaginative dance numbers sequence. strong public support (15,000 attendanc­ and Art History departments this year, were those staged by Busby Berkeley, The musieal sequences represent the es in Wellington and 25,000 in Auckland). I have been frequently dismayed to find who liked to arrange hundreds of danc­ high-point of each film, and elsewhere Not impressed by these facts, the Censor that many 16mm prints are ‘corrupt ers into geometric patterns, use mirrors there is a great deal of corn and hokum, tampered with thirteen films. texts’. They are ‘corrupt’ for many to create a maze of reflections, place his but the audience is in no danger of fall­ First he informed the Auckland Festir reasons, but clumsy cutting by the censor camera on a crane and swing it up and ing asleep because of a fascinating parade val that The Family, a feature film from is perhaps the most disturbing reason. If around the dancers, alternate camera of well-known stars, some sly Hollywood the Netherlands, could not be screened I give a lecture on montage, for example, shots rapidly in counterpoint to the mus­ style eroticism, a very rich assortment of in N.Z. I have not seen this film myself, and illustrate it by screening some famous ic, and experiment in many other ways plot stereotypes, 1930s hairstyles, fash­ but I notice that it received a glowing montage sequences, I discover that the to transform his dance numbers into ions and Art Deco effects, and also a lot review from Peter Cowie in the 1975 censor has done some clumsy cutting in sensuous extravaganzas. of ingenious camerawork. International Film Guide. Cowie remark­ the middle of these sequences. For Those who saw the film That’s Berkeley revealed one of the secrets ed that the film was reminiscent of Genet example, the shower murder scene in Entertainment will remember such biz- of his success in a 1962 interview : “ I and Beckett, and that it was full of Hitchcock’s Psycho, a virtuoso example ‘brilliant’ dialogue and camerawork. In of editing that has influenced many film­ all, it was ‘a stunning debut’ by its direct­ makers, has some shots missing. It is aj or, Lodewijk de Boer. true that some cuts of this kind are m■m The censor also cut six of the feature made not by the censor but by the dist­ films screened during the Auckland Fest­ ributor - for example, the shots omitted ival : The Conscript (one cut), It’s Either from the famous ‘Odessa steps’ montage You Or Me (2 cuts), Slipstream (at least sequence of Battleship Potemkin appear 2 cuts), Monkeys In The Attic (2 cuts), to have been removed by the original The Cars That Ate Paris (several cuts), Russian distributor. (I don’t know of and A Stranger Carne By Train (8 cuts). any print of the film in N.Z. that is Two other feature films originally intact). But though the censor is not intended for the Auckland Festival were our only problem, he is still responsible also c u t: Celine and Julie Go Boating for a large number of the cuts that and Ordinary Tenderness. In addition, the create a serious problem for New censor tampered with two short films Zealanders who wish to study the art screened at the University during the pre- of film. Festival season : Cold Night (at least 1 N.Z. Censorship has two functions: |-cut) and Whistling Smith (6 cuts). (1) grading films according to age groups, I have used the word ‘cut’ in each case and (2) cutting and banning films. The but in some of the films the Censor may second of these functions ought to be have adopted the tactic of ‘bleeping out’ abolished. The first function does have words on the sound-track. some ‘redeeming social value ’, although Two other Festival feature-films which the censor often seems out of touch with were screened in Wellington but not Auck the youthful audience that constitutes land were cut by the censor: Between the most regular group of film-goers. Wars and Mouth Agape. The French Con­ For example, he has often given sulate subsequently expressed its concern restricted certificates to ‘youth culture’ '42nd Street' (the chorus line) ces are still shoot with only one camera, just as It remains to be seen whether Auck­ Bashford as Katherina matches his bait­ Lee Strasberg quote for budding dir­ orship I did when I started in 1930. I still edit landers have enough interest in films to ing with suitably passionate rage and sulk­ ectors. “ A director’s job is to unfold, not :tt pre- everything in the camera. I give the take advantage of this opportunity. iness. Their wooing scenes together are mould a character” . liament cutters only as much as I want, and all notable for some fine choreography work, Roger Horrocks * * * * * * * * * ******** signatures, they have to do is put it together.” It’s a which provides an often needed visual sorship are remark reminiscent of Ford or Hitchcock. explanation of some of the more antiqu­ iave been If Auckland had a real film culture, FILM SCREENINGS ated witticisms. If lunchtime Theatre at New Independ­ as The instead of the chaos of un-informed Lesser parts are also handled ably. ent’s still on, do go and see it. Gerard enthusiasm that exists at present, there July 16 (Wed) : Catch 22 and Darien Takle as Biance provides a very Bonk directed some of Darien Takle’s ue of their would be full houses every day at the Little Big Man in B28 at 7 p.m. amusing picture of the favoured goody- plays using university people. Paul Went- ;w faces Classic, and plenty of excited arguments two-shoes sister of the shrew with John ford says that among other characters about Berkeley’s visual style, his male Atha (as father of Katherina and Bianca) he’s playing Mr. Plod ! ! Sounds interest­ 0 have July 17 (Thurs): Truffaut’s Bride ;ary for chauvinism, the evolution of the musical seeming well-puzzled by the diverse modes ing ...... from Dames to Tommy), the politics Wore Black in B15 at 7 p.m. of behaviour his differing daughters con­ e his ****************' 1 letters and the sociology and the semiology and front him with. There is some hilarious July 23 (W ed): Olivier’s version y setting the Freudianism and every other goddam low comedy from Roger Oakley as Gru- Perhaps there should be a “ Most up new aspect of these films. So what, if most of of Richard III in B15 at 7.30 mio, the manservant who’s antics seem Theatrical Member of Staff’ award. est. the discussion happened to be pretentious hopelessly concerned with his manhood ! First nominee is Nicholas Tarling who or unintelligible — it would show that July 24 (Thurs): Blow-Up in Last but not least there are the usual evidently marched round out of a lecture there was some energy in our passive and B15 at 7. fabulous costumes and an effective set. theatre (side door) whilst describing a inarticulate film scene. So ! An evening of thoroughly profe­ Chinese invasion. The Classic Cinema is trying hard to ssional fur-and pearls entertainment. Why And on Sunday July 27 there will He came back in after Manchuria was create this sort of ferment. I’m not think­ then did I enjoy the University Theatre be an all-day Film Seminar at the taken. ing only of the Berkeley season, but of Workshop’s production of “ SM A C K” so Classic Cinema, organized by Noel much more ? I assure you it was not out ia the Classic’s whole approach to programm­ Evans. Details are available from ing, to giving its audience a sense of film of blind loyalty, or any desire to ingrat­ the University Bookshop, or iate myself into the cast’s hearts. Nope, i Miller’s history through a fine choice of films and GERARD BONK I instru- the printing of background information from the Classic Cinema, or from I just found it far more pertinent, far ns, or etc. Box 5419, Auckland. more thought-provoking (and that’s a I was born in Australia in 1951. My gh trapeze hopeless cliche!) than the Mercury’s father was a refugee from Czechoslovakia. ?f swimm- ‘Shrew’. It is a very savage play, hitting He came to Australia in 1949 at the age Knight has hard at the New Zealand values We trea­ of 19. He married my mother a year or d ‘the sure, hitting hard at the way we lead'our so later. I have two sisters and a brother. and vision lives; yet I didn’t find it an ugly play, or I am the eldest child. I love my family. I American an insensitive one, there are some very went to Catholic Schools till I was 14. I poignant, even lyrical passages in there was taught by nuns, Brothers and lay- o double- amongst the four-letter words. It was teachers. I then went to a State school 937) and given a very luke-warm reception by the for the duration of my education. I left press, a reaction I can’t really understand Y July 18, school aged 18. I hated the last seven old Digg- unless it stemmed from the idea that any years of school. ugust 1st. play written here must not, can not, mea­ Our home had been in an outer sub­ f Hollywood sure up to one by an overseas playwrite, urb of Sydney. I left home at 18. I then ’ the musi- or it may be that a play concerned so spent two years living in the inner city of explicitly with drugs and sex is not every Sydney. It was an intense period of ‘free­ man’s cup of tea. Anyway, it was disapp­ dom’ for me. I had quite a few jobs lab­ ointing to receive such a half-hearted res­ ouring, cleaning, psychiatric nursing etc. ponse from both the erstwhile Star and and I became involved with drama at the Herald critics, and also from Auckland’s ‘Wayside’ Theatre Kings Cross. I acted in very own university students, for ‘Smack’ mainly Australian plays. I performed is so obviously a play for and about ‘the professionally in Sydney during 1971. I angry young men’ of N.Z. (Next time then went hitching around Australia for walk the hundred yards down the road 4 months. and buy a ticket!) The plot concerns perceptive, frustra­ ted Quinn, and his attempt to make a dope deal with a Napier bank manager. As the play moves on, a tangled web of relationships is revealed and the reasons for Quinn’s frustrations and his derisive attitude to the bank manager begin to unfold, evolving finally into a climatic killing scene which has shattering imp­ e films, act. ps not as ‘SM AC K’ hinges on the character of lich ends Quinn and Ross Sell wood gave a sensitive ir musical and powerful performance, coping admir­ ably with dialogue that leapt from the (resent the crudest bawdry to Old Testament rhetor­ jlsewhere ic. The bank manager also, crumbling in­ nd hokum, to disbelief before the maddened Quinn, ger of fall- was well played by Chris Neilson. ating parade Although written Originally for radio, / Hollywood the verbal rather than active nature of sortment of ‘Smack’ was more than compensated for tyles, fash- by fast-flowing pacy dialogue and plau­ id also a lot sible acting from the whole case. Well chosen music and an effective set also the secrets helped. view : “ I Berkeley directing a shot from So why didn’t you bloody go and see GERARD BONK 'Gold Diggers o f 1933' it ? ? ! I’m sure that what Mercury has in terms of finance and experience, Uni­ I came to N.Z. in Feb. 1972 with a versity theatre (and ‘young’ theatre gen­ friend from New Zealand. I went apple • erally) makes up for with energy and en­ picking and I performed for the Auck­ thusiasm. Sure your seats here are harder land Festival Society. and you can’t buy crunchies during inter­ Theatre Column I went home in June 1972. I visited val, but you are also shown a refreshing my family and worked and travelled to lack of complacency, the feeling that Queensland. I then came back to N.Z. in Well, well, two pieces of exciting a Lord of the times (later to play Petruch- ‘we’ve got a long way to go, but we’re io), capturing a besotten drunk, dressing November 1972 to be here when my theatre in as many days ! All a bit mind- willing to try and get there” . Over rom­ him as a Lord, and then permitting a com­ boggling innit ? I mean, from our very antic perhaps ? I don’t know. It just seems daughter was born. She was born in pany of roving players to perform the own ultra-grotty Arts Centre to plush a pity that what should be a centre of December 1972. Her name is Summer. story of the ‘Shrew’ before this transform­ Mercury seats .... (complimentary at bubbling creativity, hasn’t even started to I was offered a part in Biggies at . ed drunk. The real Lord becomes enam­ that!) It’s enough to make a girl sink in­ simmer yet. Central and then two years bursaried to a trembling heap of student culture oured of the actress playing the Shrew, Yes, well what other news.... ? ! studentship at Mercury (1973-1974). I shock. Still a diverse and stimulating and steps into the players’ play to perf­ left Mercury after Cabaret (Dec 1974) range of theatre experience was had, and orm as Petruchio. ******** * $ * * * * * * and went to Tauranga’s Gateway Players now the benefits of such fruits come to It all sounds very complex, but when to perform as John Middleton Murry for you on Craccum’s pearly page.... Enough, seen, it works beautifully with some Brian McNeil in-his play the Two Tigers. enough, forsooth - down to business! clever interaction between players and Adrian Kiernander’s had to scrap his I returned to Auckland to play in ‘Ham­ And Mercury’s done it again. A slick, played upon. The ‘theatrical’ nature of plans to produce “ The Knights of the let on Ice’ and Coralie Landsdowne Says superbly produced and innovative pro­ such a situation is exploited to the full, Round Table” (Cocteau) because hardly No for Central Theatre. In July I will be duction of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. and the ‘unreality’ of the ‘reality’ we see anyone turned up to audition. making a television film with Reynolds In a very creative fashion Tony Richard­ on the stage is well revealed, with use of Oh w ell..... guess enough’s been said television for T V I. son has seen fit to include the often cut masks, puppetry and stylised movement. ’bout apathy...... I became interested in Dariens plays opening scenes of the ‘Shrew’. This means As Petruchio, George Henare gives a when I performed in her workshop pro- that the play moves on two levels - a play virile and energetic performance, alive ***************** comiNUzo or/ p a g e z i ? chorus line) within a play, for the opening scenes show with lust and a cheeky arrogance. Jan need a soi LOOKING THROUGH THE sense, cor these qua they weai iscohesic men and nity.” RIGHT END OF A Transl is what oi

"I don’t I MUNICIPAL DRAINPIPE’ fattest” - There ween wh; what it d< The Sw Not in 1 perceivin than Nev omed a n outgrowt policies. Aiwa distinct resisters ia and Cl diplomat it has su: prosperii growth c gives the rality cai from nat For the alternati’ For insta Bank Sw ing to giv (like Tan in an equ Bank for Saigon re alternative foreign policy North, ai ing credi Poovana a Oopa. We must just hope that invocation of the treaty is completely ships with developing nations. The world in Chile, “ Neville Chamberlain saw foreign policy these mistakes don’t result in New Zea­ dependent on the ‘constitutional process­ we want to belong to, the world of the same ? through the wrong end of a municipal land’s Dien Bien Phu being in the streets es of the member nations’. In the US that future, doesn’t approve of American, drainpipe” • Lloyd George of Papeete or off the Mururoa atoll. means approval by Congress..... which Russian or Chinese sugar-daddies. "The tasl The nuclear testing issue was New seems mildly uncertain in the wake of Neither should we. but to m, New realities are what we need in our Zealand’s chance to come to grips with Vietnam.” foreign p foreign policy. Living in the past has one the aspirations of the indigineous people La ter Costigan states “ Bluntly, Ameri­ thing in its favour, it’s cheaper.' It is also of the South Pacific. These locals were “ We are not a second-class nation” - can interests in A N ZU S mean Australia. Norman Kirk. limited and parochial and has proved its echoing Arnold Toynbee - “ no annihila­ Forget New Zealand.” Co-ope failure. tion without representation” . We turned In the rest of the article Costigan puts Surely as a nation it is time we reached a deaf ear and listened instead to the this interest in Australia in perspective : It is attractive in a society as isolated out for a foreign policy that had a wider siren call of trade in perfumes and truffles. “ the fact is that AN ZU S means precious and locked in affluence as New Zealand base than that of an avaricious grasping In Ocean Island, one of the Gilbert little to America” . So who’s being pro­ to believe that the struggle is someone for American and British markets. and Ellice group, the inhabitants called tected ! else’s. Indeed, we hear calls like those for independence. Having helped in the from Manufacturers’ President, Lincoln “ there is always something absurd about exploitation of these people by taking “ I don’t make jokes. 1 just watch the Laidlaw, that New Zealand develop self- the past” - Max Beerbohm. phosphate from their island for our government and report the facts” - sufficiency and isolate itself from the farmlands it would be expected that we Will Rogers. world. would have some sympathy to their Our foreign policy however, we believe, Our foreign policy in Asia has now in suggesl obviously disintegrated. We followed aspirations. But when they called on is not built on the hoarding of resources But A N ZU S isn’t our only weapon in Institute America’s manifest destiny to die with Britain for reparations we were silent. but of the sharing of them. In a world our arsenal of absurdity. There’s the five- relevant t our buddies in the paddy fields of Viet­ ls it a case of where Britain scuttles power arrangement up there in Singapore that is becoming increasingly interdepen­ and ecolo nam. from, we scuttle also ? - it’s just a pity that three of the other dent, isolationism is a dead proposition. aged. In f In his book “ Living With Asia” Jim »ln Micronesia the moves by the United powers have left us alone with Singapore. Alvin Toffler had his own comment United N, Cairns attacked Australia’s involvement States to annex the Mariannas, reported when he was here. He saw change accel­ Like Colonel Blimp we remain there, ly-founde by Philip Soljak in the “ N.Z. Herald” on in Vietnam. “ We are not only involved in determined to soldier on alone, fighting erating and although he felt that a socie­ ways of fi Vietnam - we are involved in history. We April 3, have not been opposed by the for yesterday. ty like New Zealand could insulate itself The N. Government. By omission we have taken are taking sides in history.” Apart from being deserted by our allies, from the outside world he was sure that roots pari a stand here, and it is a stand against the i Like the old union song, “ Which Side the situation up there has become even such an attitude would create an insular cussion hi Are You On ?” , it is obvious to the future. and apathetic society. more embarrassing because the man we’re public am Third World which side we are on. Norman Kirk saw this too. meant to protect, Harry Lee plastic-sur- bi-lateral Prince Sihanouk put New Zealand in a Kirk’s views, crystallised in foreign “ one way to recognise error is the fact geoned into Lee Kwan Yu, has said he Sweden e policy and were summed up in a simple category along with ten other nations that it’s universal” - Jean Giraudoux. really doesn’t care whether we stay or non-aligm phrase: “ we are not a second-class that he sees as hostile to the Royal Govt. not. Why then are we there ? No one ' The N< When AN ZU S came into being we nation” . He asked for recognition before it reoccup- seems to know. has a lessc He spoke of New Zealand’s journey to icd Phnom Penh. Our answer as usual was hadn’t forgotten Pearl Harbour. And we tion like t too little too late. \ had current phobias too. We really bel­ nationhood. ‘ A ll too often, ” he main­ strategy. > “ and everyone thought the emperor’s We showed a similar tardiness in re­ ieved in the Red Menace in 1951 - we saw tained, “ we have heard policy announced idea simpl new clothes were beautiful” - Hans cognising the PRG. Another wrong it in the Korean War. in New Zealand with an American accent suggested Christian Anderson. side chosen in the historical perspective. Twenty years later the hysterias have accent.” need a col But it’s not as if we just confine our ebbed, but AN ZU S remains as a watch- So we re-fathomed our objectives. as a nucle tower against the evil spirits that lurk mistakes to Asia. In the South Pacific we A belated understanding of reality is For all this he believed that New Zea­ ific. Here have followed the same consistent mis­ outside. better than continuing the masquerade. land was and always will be a member of What we Even for the paranoid, AN ZU S offers Masquerades, though, can last a long time. taken pattern. the Western world. Despising rhetoric sanity rati Take the case of Cardinal Mindszenty. He In the South Pacific again we failed to little solace, though. In a report in the which distorted made him cautious and a healthy was the last warrior who fought on after see that there was another indigineous “ Auckland Star” on April 26, from Peter reluctant to discard alliances. So we tudes rath the war had ended. When he came to population wanting to control its own Costigan in Washington, we read the remained in AN ZU S and the 5 power that way. Auckland last year he was still fighting future. We found it easier to support the following: arrangement and refused to recognise “ Of all the hundreds of treaties America his lost crusade of anti-communism. status quo, and once again history is the PRG. Our pacts have become like his crusade “ Trails of proving us wrong. has signed in its 200 years AN ZU S is the He had a vision that he could articulate. - symbolic gestures of defiance that are of victory In French Polynesia we have chosen most tightly written and appears in its He thought of Asia after his trip there completely irrelevant. Cardinal Mindszenty to ignore an active local liberation move­ substance to make the clearest declara­ and visualised how it could become “ Such died last month but his sentiments are still ment. We failed to seize our chance to tion of American military support for a society,” he wrote, “ may not necessar­ Through 1 alive and well and living in New Zealand. support them over the issue of nuclear any of its allies who come under military ily be socialistic in form, though it will twisted in Mindszenty would have approved of testing. We failed to make contact with attack...... be, it seems to me, in spirit. Its leaders inspiratio the Ho Chi Minh of the South Pacific, But as the preamble to AN ZU S states, ANZUS. These pacts impeed our relation- a price. It Piage 19

need a sound grasp of facts, common Our Vietnamese intervention distorted ording to Foreign Affairs, is that we are bureau in London which comprises six sense, compassion and goodwill. Given our relations with Asia. Even now some understaffed at the U.N.) journalists). these qualities I care little what labels take the view that insurgent nationalism We already have two great forums to In television and radio there should be they wear. Labels divide : what we need is something that must be grudgingly participate in - the United Nations and full-time correspondents sent overseas. is cohesion in the human family, with all accepted rather than enthused to. the Commonwealth. With non-alignment The broadcasting systems should have men and nations of equal worth and dig­ Even now they fail to realise that in we could also attend non-aligned Confer­ their own men stationed in Haifa and nity.” Asia the Asians dictate the terms now. ences, which at the moment are helping Havanna. Ian Fraser’s brief encounter with Translating those ideals into tangibles Even the Americans are having to to shape political opinion in much of the the now deceased Saigon and Joe Cote’s is what our foreign policy should do. change their perceptions. For years the world. illuminating glimpse of Papua-New Guinea domino theory gave them a simplified Policy such as these would help to show that we can do it. and composite picture of the Third World create what President Nyere has defined The internal media needs examining. ‘‘I don’t believe in the survival of the which confused myth with reality. They as “ Human Co-operation for the common The paucity of newspapers in New Zea­ fattest” - a thin man. used napalm to perpetate the myth. good.” land is limiting the flow of information Force of arms is never enough ; the dest­ We have not spoken here of Socialism, and this has becomê aggravated by the and yet the desires of Co-operatism are There is no bill of divorcement bet­ iny of Asia could never be determined by closure of the Sunday Herald which Socialist ideals. An internationalist stance ween what a nation does internally and intervention as Indo-China has proved. provided the best feature writing and can come only from a society committed what it does externally. Even our labels lack relevance. We used comment of our three Sunday papers. to equality. Its belief in equality will pre­ The Swedes have shown that. to arrogantly categorise nations as pro or Not only that, but guaranteed markets determine its view of the world. Not in the Asian hemisphere and yet anti-communist but now even people like and a concentration of news ownership Marcos are sneaking into neutrality. The A humane Foreign Policy is an exten­ is dulling the paper’s investigative roles. perceiving Asian aspirations more keenly sion of a society that is in touch with than New Zealand., Sweden has fath­ dictators know that they must align them­ selves with social change or be destroyed elemental feelings. Loss of community, omed a neutralist alternative which is an “ Freedom of the Press means nothing by it. the aggregation of material needs over outgrowth from its humane internal spiritual or consciousness - changing ones unless you own the Press” . - H.L. Mencken policies. With the regional framework of forward creates a society that is narrowed in its Always prepared to help peoples as defence gone, we, unlike them, face outlook. The Corporate State which distinct from bovernments (like draft exciting alternatives in our foreign policy. A national newspaper would provide results allows for any excesses in pursuit a third view. It is a viable proposition, as resisters and refugees from Czechoslavak- Have we the imagination to seize new of gain over involvement. When our proven by the Herald Tribune in Europe ia and Chile) Sweden has used active conceptions; the capacity to replace quest becomes a way to increase G.N.P. circulating through over a dozen count­ diplomacy to further co-operation. That monologue with dialogue. Only through rather than ensuring its equitable distri­ ries, with a circulation of only 120,000 >§it has sustained 140 years of peace and non-alignment can we do so. Perception bution, this taints our relationship with and making almost a half million profit prosperity while giving a lead to the of the rights of small nations characteris­ each other and with the outside world. a year. growth of internationalist organisations ed our policy in the Thirties. Conscience, Writing in Playboy four years ago, Competition would improve the stan­ gives the lie to those who say that neut­ hot cost-accounting, dictated our stand. William Douglas, a Justice of the U.S. dard of existing papers. The best news­ rality can’t work or that it is an escape Updating our principles is what is need­ Supreme Court in an article, “ Points of papers in New Zealand were in Auckland from national responsibility. ed. Our answer to Italy’s claims to Abysinnia was non-recognition of them. Rebellion" noted : “ There is, I believe, during the newspaper war between “ The For the Swedes neutrality is a creative (We didn’t unfortunately show the same a common suspicion among youth Star” and “ The Sun” in the 1930’s. alternative. attitude to Lon No. 1, even when he only around the world that the design for Television, like newspapers, is depend­ For instance, as a member of the World controlled the perimiters of Phnom Penh.) living, fashioned for them by their ant on American base sources for news Bank Sweden has criticized it for refus­ It is by our action that our ideals are politically bankrupt elders, destines coverage. The Americans own the satte- ing to give loans to developing nations confirmed. A Development Aid Tax, them for either the nuclear incinerator lites and will sell us only their stories. (like Tanzania) which wanted to use them which was suggested by the U.N. Comm­ or to a life filled with constant fear of it.” This is why General de Gaulle insisted on in an equitable fashion. It castigated the ittee on Development Planning, could be Douglas must have been hitting close to France developing their sattelite progr­ Bank for giving aid to the now-defunct, put on luxury items such as colour tele­ the mark. That article led to impeach­ amme - he did not want the world of the Saigon regime and not granting it to the vision sets and large cars. The tax would ment proceedings against him. The im­ future to be a choice between Washington North, and condemned it for withhold­ go on development projects. peachment demand was lead by Gerald news and Moscow news. ing credits from Allende’s government Aid for disaster relief, which salves Ford We need to support Third World eff­ in Chile. Why can’t New Zealand do the consciences rather than aids development, The vulnerability and questioning orts to establish their own news dissem­ same ? shouid be seen for the sham it is and of youth has turned to paralysis. Indiff­ inating programmes. terminated. erence has replaced committment. Our media has decided that certain Herbert Marcuse has provided his sol­ large parts of the world like Latin Ameri­ "The task is not to express alienation The emphasis on our aid programmes ution. The answer he says is a new defin­ ca are not within the interest of many but to make free institutions work in should be on the sending of personnel ition of freedom. “ Thus,” he writes, New Zealanders. There has not been one ; foreign policy” - I.F. Stone. which can help towards self-reliance rath­ er than the shipment of foodstuffs, or “ Policital freedom would mean liberation programme on television to do with the clothing, which increases reliance and of individuals from politics over which overthrow of Aliena. On the other hand, Co-operation in planning aid policies, perpetuates colonialism. they have no control.” European news services, particularly in “ Where once priests and kings decided Scandanavia and the Netherlands, realize and in the U.N. with the other Nordic what the populace would hear, the Countries, has enabled the region to that to be civilised one has to be inter­ “ If people behaved the way that nations proprietors of the mass media now contribute a distinctive collective brand nationalist, and they do not show this do they would all be put in straight decide. Ben H. Bagdikian.” myopic approach to the news. There is a of thought to international relations. jackets.” - Tennessee Williams. How to start such a society ? The need for public representatives who can Consultation is the key to reconciliation. answer seems to me to lie in democratis­ make suggestions on programme plann­ Such a strategy reconciles estrangements ing communications. As Ben. H. Bagdik- ing, on questions such as this. and repairs divisions. If we are to follow the Swedish example iam in his book “ The Information The best way to break down barriers Johan Galtung, founder of Osle’s Peace and help peoples as distinct from govern­ Machines” writes: “ News is the nervous is to see people in their ordinary situations. Research Institute, echoes such attitudes ments then we should remember that system of the body politic.” Until we We should be importing series from Japan, in suggesting that organisations like the just as we have skid row bums, so we democratise communications then we West Germany, Sweden, Latin America, Institute which are non-territorial and have gypsies. Societies are inevitably have little chance of acting on our ideas and so on, which would give us Internat­ relevant to the problems of peace, justice, judged by how they treat their minorities. of Foreign Policy. ional fare. With two channels the scope and ecological balance should be encour­ A compassionate foreign policy tries to Our forms of communication in New is enormous. All we need is imagination. aged. In New Zealand greater aid for the help the dispossessed rather than demand Zealand are still basically colonial. We are Importation of Third World films United Nations Association and the new­ cross-referencing. dependent on our versions of what is should also be made, for political attitu­ ly-founded Peace Institute are practical Refugees are gypsies of a sort It if not happening overseas from sources which des are influenced as much by images as ways of fulfilling this aim. for us to judge the politics of those who are biased towards the American view­ ideas. The Nordic encouragement of grass­ ask us for sanctuary, as exile humbles point. This can mean that overseas repor­ The present monopoly preserve of roots participation in foreign-affairs dis­ everyone. ts are incomplete, simply because the nat­ Kerridge-Odeon and Amalgamated has cussion has helped create an informed A quota system should be established. ional security of another nation is involved. meant that many films have been unable public and helps to explain the Swedish In a situation where refugees are created One solution is obvious - to develop to receive screenings. These films would bi-lateral approach to (Foreign policy. In through the toppling of a government we new sources. In newspapers this means, provide graphic insights into other social Sweden even the Muldoons support should accept a set figure, no matter an extension from Associated Press, Reu­ realities. The abolition of the Film Lic­ non-alignment. what we think of the government itself. ters and U.P.I. to encompass Agence encing Appeal Board will bring in more The Nordic co-operative foreign policy That means that,we accept refugees from . France Press and the New China News cinemas which hopefully would show has a lesson for us. We need an organisa­ Allende’s Chile of which we approved, Agency (which the Herald has used a films like “ Battle of Algiers” and “ The tion like the Nordic Council to plan joint and also Saigon of which we did not. little of.) The answer is not as many news­ Conversation” . * strategy. An Anzac Council isn’t a good Surely we can realise that in a totali­ papers seem to think the occasional junk­ We work on the assumption that an idea simply because Sir John Marshall h'as tarian state all are victims. We can afford et paid for by some friendly government. authenticity of image can help shape suggested it. It’s a good idea because we goodwill, for goodwill is our best safe­ This creates a conflict of interest for the perceptions of the world. need a collective approach in areas such guard and is a way of making our inter­ reporter as his credibility often suffers as Nor should we exempt our other ag­ as a nuclear free zone in the South Pac­ nationalism mean something. With a non- his weight increases. encies of social change from scrutiny. ific. Flere conflict is destroying our case. aligned foreign policy our armed forces Last year the Herald despatched one In education the emphasis on creating What we can learn from Sweden is that can be phased out through a progressive J.C. Graham to Chile. Mr. Graham, who attitudes should be at the primary school sanity rather than slogans is what shapes reduction in defence allocations and non­ fluctuates between writing the Wine level. For 80% of learning takes place in a healthy foreign policy and that atti­ recruitment of cadets. The sector of the Column and being the Herald’s roving the first ten years. Every primary school tudes rather than pacts is what keeps it G.N.P. allocated to defence can be trans­ diplomatic correspondent, wrote articles child should learn a foreign language. This that way. ferred to Development Projects and arm­ which emerged as a soft sell for military is basic communication and casts the child ed forces personnel with skills can be sent junta. They intermingled half-truths with outside its environment. to help in a civilian capacity. Sending "Trails of trouble ; roads of battle; paths distortions and put blinkers on the facts. At secondary level, teacher exchanges trained personnel to various branches of of victory we shall seek” - Dylan. The more important solution is to in­ with other societies would be particularly the United Nations can help to promote crease the number of journalists overseas. valid. And there is no reason why, with a and advertise our new policies. And there The fact that we have virtually no New foreign language background, pupil ex­ Through the sixties our conscience was are several committees like the Committee twisted in the pursuit of trade. Lacking Zealand journalists outside Australia work­ changes shouldn’t also occur. It is only on Decolonisation and the special Comm­ ing in Bureaux means that our sources through broadening the school process, inspiration we decided that everyone had ittee on Apartheid that we could join. a price. It was the politics of failure. are often slated. (It is interesting to note that “ Abstract subjects” like foreign (The only reason that we don’t now, acc­ that the “ Sydney Morning Herald” has a affairs can attain relevance.

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ity contains the creative people who cutive as a whole. lead and develop new eras. I guess I The major part of my job will be the beverley want to be an instrumental part of it. processing of needs and wants for specific petty, menial, time consuming, adminis­ PS. I apply the term ‘creative’ to mean budgets, such as Capping and Orientation, which I feel, especially orientation, are trative tasks, like phoning thirty-eight all creative thought, be it processes, vital aspects of the year. Another of my different suppliers of a product to methods, idealogies, technology, etc. austin obtain the lowest quote, making posters, in engineering, the social and applied major headaches is going to be that of The Auckland University Students Ass­ delivering and collecting posters from sciences, architecture or the arts. grants to affiliated clubs and societies. On ociation is a “ Big Business” operation. Its a printer, trecking across the city to this aspect of student funds, I will be hon­ current basic income is in excess of quart­ obtain a coil of rope, a bucket or a Beverley Austin. est to the students, and my feelings are er of a million dollars. paint brush. It is little wonder exec­ that the amount of finance made available It has ‘big’ assets; houses, the Colling­ utive members resign and the student for certain people should be partly based wood flatting complex, the union build­ body feels they are useless, they rarely on the number of students who will, in ings, and the soon to begin Tamaki Sports have time to action their policies for some manner, benefit from the grant. Centre - all of these incur large mainten­ they are too busy addressing envelopes, I hope that if I am a member of the ance costs. The catering outlets have an alan Executive next year I will be able to put folding paper, and doing the hack work. average fourteen thousand dollar turn­ This is exceptionally inefficient and forward the wishes of the students, and over per week, before outside catering. unproductive use of potentially able in conjunction with the other executive The theatre opens for next year and the and creative people..... (akin to members I will endeavour to make the recreation centre the following year. We parliament actually). dick campus “ more alive” than it has been for may soon see a general purpose discount I sense students are beginning to POSITION - TREASURER 1976 a while. My first year at this establish­ shop on campus and then there is furth­ rejuvenate after a couple of years in At present I am 20 years old and I am ment was really terrific. (I am a member er union expansion to come. Thus we hibernation. We need individuals pre­ studying accountancy for my third year. of the Social Committee at present, which are effectively talking about a million pared to participate in a new era, a new During the past portion of 1975 I have has just been formed, so watch out). plus business operation. awareness. Society is growing out of become involved in student politics, and Finally I ask students to bear with me The Association could be far more it’s nostalgia phase and perhaps using I now hold a position on the ‘Student if I am treasurer next year, and that if effectively managed as a business new facilities, we students could be Representative Council’ for the Commerce they are interested in what happens to their money and want to find out, that operation than it is currently. The the vanguard of something new. I faculty. As from the start of the year, I they put their names forward next year remedy to this is partly vested in an don’t want to see those of you who have been a member of ‘Contact’, and at to become members of the finance comm­ acceptance of the fact that the Assoc­ will herald this new era frustrated ... present hold the position of treasurer ittee. iations variety of involvements and that can kill the crative idea...by menial for them. very size renders it a business oper­ and bureaucratic administration. I believe that through the knowledge ation not a tea party. Essentially „ It is vital the President and execu­ I have gained and will gain by January’76 the Association is wallowing in a period tive portfolio holders are free to use that I will have a good background in of administratively inefficient bureau­ their opportunity to accomplish the student policies and the running of the cracy. policies they put forward in their Students Association. The Association is essentially a election campaign; and not be cought I sincerely hope that if I am elected voluntary service organisation, heavily up in routine day to day administrative to the office of ‘Treasurer’ that between dependent on voluntary Student aspects of the union. my election and the time of taking office Labour in order to carry out these Me... I’m twenty-three, enrolled in Fine that I will obtain a vast amount of inform­ services. Voluntary students being free Arts Honors and stage three management ation through discussions with our pre­ to come and go by choice provide little Studies, worked in various occupations sent Treasurer and from other executive continuity to proceedings, once they prior to University, plus along route a position holders. By the time you students have learnt something, they leave, and few years of Administration for Arts read this statement I will have been co­ thus stories and things go round in ever Council. Have been associated with opted onto the ‘Finance Committee’. repeating cycles. Staff become some­ Students Association off and on for some This committee is really the governing what Laissez faire as they explain some­ years, two exec’s, theatre management, body of the associations 'Financial Politi- thing for the 35th time and the student staffing, publications, SRC. etc committ­ cies’ and through this committee many becomes antagonistic. ees. I have the all-pervading and hope- of my ideas may well be thrown out. To frequently the ‘human’ exec, full feeling that a new era is on its way Finally, however, all policies that we make members become bogged down in the in society and that by and large a univers- must be ratified by a meeting of the exe­

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The Third World, those who lie outside SONIC 3 - Sponsored by Radio New Zealand Sunday 20 July 1-5 pm the paralytic influence of the Great Powers, must join in a coalition of non-alignment. Sonic 3 is a festival of contemporary New Zealand music and associated This will create new perceptions. The re­ sound environments. There will be concerts of chamber, choral and wards are that we will be aligned for once electronic music, gamelan, dance and environmental music in tne follow­ on the side of history and that we will ing areas: University Hall, Maclaurin Cnapel, Lower Lecture Tneatre look at our foreign policy through the and several rooms in Old Government House. A mobile audience of right end of a municipal drainpipe. about 2000 is expected. Admission by programme (covering all events) 50c. are on sale now at Tne Corner, and also in tne foyer of the Clock- Brent Lewis - tower on 20 July. GERARD BONK attendance never rising above nine of the with minor amendments and Kiernander sixteen members - as traffic flowed in and was ushered out protesting that the con­ duction at Fay Dunaway and when I saw out of the meeting. Maidment Theatre trol of the Theatre would be monopolised her performances in Body Band KHOO policy was only one decision taken in by the University. Few on the Executive (with co-body Derek Ward). I love an atmosphere that ranged from long sil­ seemed to worry, and the meeting settled Dariens work. ences to sharp exchanges of cynical back into the evening’s business. I am much more interested in local TORTURED witticisms. Ward was appointed by her Executive drama than most European drama. We “ You’re not going to commit us to onto University Council as the sole stu­ are not in Europe. Theatre must reflect supporting a tour of South Africa next dent representative, and Publications the way we live. New Zealanders must Khoo Ee Liam, the Malaysian Student year ?” asked President Clare Ward to Officer Sue Stover was appointed a stu­ think of supporting their own playwrights who was the central figure in the massive one of the appointed NZUSU Sports dent rep on the NCC Chaplaincy Trust and actors and work towards establishing wave of protests and demonstrations delegates, Murray Osmond. Board. The pile of ironmongery and theatre here as a art form. that swept across Australasia in the last “ The tours policy is only committed to telegraph poles between the Studass There are too few N.Z. plays being per­ few months, has now been imprisoned Australia” was the reply from Osmond, Union and the Physics-Maths Building formed particularly in Auckland, and for more than a year. who will represent Campus sports clubs (the “ Gavin Dench sculpture” ) worth it is the responsibility of theatre directors Recent reports received from Malysia with Jane Skeen in Wellington next week. fifty dollars was shifted, and Ward report­ and administrations to consider stimulat­ (via Australia) confirmed speculation Presenting a report on the staffing ed that Galah Day had lost about two ing and encouraging local drama. The relating to the atrocious conditions under needs of the Students Association, Os­ hundred dollars. Q.E. II Arts Council shouldn’t be expect­ which Khoo is being held. mond noted “ Most of the comments I’ve Approval for a rise in fees will be ed to accept sole responsibility. N.Z. The report received late last month received are directed against the report, sought for next year at the Winter Gen­ theatre can and will develop its own reads: in fact they all are !” He’d been directed eral Meeting next month, because the forms of theatre, acting , directing, de­ “ ...Khoo has been subjected to to convene a committee to look at alter­ present Cafe subsidy isn’t sufficient to signing and if N.Z. theatre natives in managing the Union complex severe physical and mental torture and hold losses down. is encouraged to grow. Then there will but his report back was criticised as a step is undergoing great suffering. In addition But at eleven o’clock in the evening be a tru e N.Z. theatre backwards and the result of a personality considerable pressure has been placed on few Executive members are prepared to conflict between the Association Secre­ his wife and family. Very reliable reports discuss anything other than when the tary and some Executive members. received this week say that he is having meeting would end. Only the dedicated Osmond says in reply, “ If you feel the serious psychological difficulties and is tend to remain : Ward, Austin, Osmond, Students Association is one that should­ now close to a mental breakdown” . Chew, Mike Walker, Ramona Rasch, Pet­ n’t hum but only stutter along in some “ Last Month” , the report continues er Goodfellow, David Dean and Dave areas, lets keep the structure we’ve got” . “ while being relentlessy interrogated Pointon. And strangely enough, they’re His Committee proposes an organic man­ and tortured, Khoo was told by the the most hardworking members ! agement structure with full control vest­ authorities that they would give him one ed in the Student Union Management last opportunity to ‘admit to his past Fraser Folster Committee and chaired by the President. mistakes’ ” . The current Association Secretary’s job would be down-graded and the Union Khoo had no alternative but “ to — 1 add his signature to a fabricated state­ Manager’s upgraded. “ The Union Mana­ OLD GOVERNMENT HOUSE ment drafted by the Special Branch” . ger” he says “ should be managing not UNIVERSITY GROUNDS The ‘statement’ explained that hearing gripes from students - this is one SUNDAY AFTERNOON JU LY 20th activity that could be cleared up.” ENTRANCE FREE Khoo’s motives and actions were due PR O G RA M M E 50 cents to his being “ mislead” by progressive The Executive decided to defer the matter and ask the Committee to report From 'SC R A T C H ' will perform two rhythm local students in New Zealand and Austral­ sessions at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. in support of i ia. next meeting on an amended version of the original recommendations. TE ROOPU OTE M A T A K IT E and the Despite this exaction, the recent re­ Forthcoming March of Maoris on Parliament ports indicate that Khoo is still being Vice-Presidential candidate Beverley to express protest over the continuing aliena­ tortured, in an obvious attempt by Austin tabled her Capping Report. tion of Maori Land. Malaysia’s Special Branch to exact further Some extracts : “ You all know Capping Music outside - weather permitting In Senior Common Room if wet. self-denigrating and false statements Mag could have happened only no-one wanted to edit it or contribute to it.” Anyone is invited to come and participated DARIEN TAKLE from Khoo. these sessions. Bring something to drum on And : “ The Bavarian Banquet wasn’t The inhumanity of Khoo’s treatment Rattles, Shakers, Scrapers etc ! ! nearly as bad as the 1972 effort where History of a writer of rather absurd reflects the Malaysian Government’s GIVE 'MATAKITE' MORAL & or eccentric plays. A beginner. strong, paranoid desire to discredit and they had to scrape the food off the floor.’ FINANCIAL SUPPORT Darien Takk. destroy the Overseas Student movement On this basis the Banquet may be consid­ ered a success despite the fact nearly a Elam school fine arts 1966 to 1969 which has been so vocal and active in hundred paid up ticket holders were turn­ Q.E. Arts council Drama school 1970 its support of the Student movement ed away without meals ! 1971 1972 Freelance Acting.... Amamus in Malaysia. But Austin had worked hard in the theatre group, (doing our own document­ The news of Khoo’s torture and mental cultural areas that fitted into her concept ary plays), Unity Theatre, New Theatre breakdown reaffirms the need to be more of Capping, and she showed her admini­ and Downstage Theatre, a National film determined than ever in resisting the strative efficiency in her next report to unit. During day was Nola Millars harassment and surveillance of Malaysian the Executive on administration of the ‘right hand man’ and was a dreadful citizens, both at home and abroad, by Student Theatre. secretary and took some drama classes the Malaysian Government. for her. Mid 1972 with cat, baby and This report will determine the final When it was learned that some of the negotiating position of the Students typewriter (about 50 years old) took off charges bought against Khoo related to CAREFULLY! for the outbacks Wairarapa and took pos­ Association representatives on a joint activities during his studies in Australia Student-University committee determin­ ition as shearers and shepherds cook. and New Zealand, a campaign against Thought it ideal time to gain knowledge ing hireage and maintenance of the the political surveillance and intimid­ Theatre. For much of the discussion, half of the farm side of N.Z. Wrote plays and ation of overseas students by the cooked mutton then in 1973 returned to the Executive members present sat with­ Malaysian Government was organised out a copy of the main draft Report in Elam to finish Diploma. It was here I in many centres. The scope of the started my own Theatre troupe ‘Elam front of them ! campaign widened to include all political “ At some stage we’re going to have to ABORTION UNNECESSARY Magic Show’ and wrote endless little repression in Malaysia, and to demand scripts, masks etc and thanks to a lot of do scm ething about this (draft) Report,” FOR CONTRACEPTIVE ADVICE the release of all political prisoners. help from the lecturers was allowed to Ward said. So the Executive spent nearly This year the campaign in New CONSULT YOUR FAMILY perform in the lecture theatre at Elam. two and a half hours discussing ti clause Zealand has entered a rather low-key It was these small scetches I presented by clause during which time three Execu­ DOCTOR, STUDENT HEALTH but even more important phase - with for my art History project at same time tive members left, one entertained with a SERVICE OR FAMILY PLAN­ emphasis placed upon fostering being able to write a lot of mini plays. piano accordian, and according to Kier­ greater public awareness. NING CLINIC. There is no reason why a play should be nander the student interest in the Theatre more than 5 minutes. Joined Mercury was sold short. N.Z. FAMILY PLANNING ASSN Coming Soon. Theatre end 1973 and have been here The Report provides that the absolute INC. ever since. Toured with living theatre minimum charge for use by student clubs The ‘Malaysia Conference’ Wellington Troupe. and societies will be ten dollars, presum­ August 29-31 For N.Z. playrights still a hard road. ably for lunchtime meetings, and forty Not enough workshops for prospective dollars for evening meetings. These re­ “ Solidarity Week” a Nationwide Public “[Reason — not Superstition” T.V. writers. Case of battling in the dark. commendations were endorsed by the Education campaign. Plenty of N.Z. writers, thousands of no­ Executive, despite strong argument to Tne N.Z. Rationalist vels in bottom drawers but not enough the contrary from Welfare Vice-President Details to be announced in Craccum soon. & Humanist professional help on construction etc. Mike Treen. Even in the arts a woman is still under “ We have to make some charges other­ suspician if she writes or produces. She wise its not ethical, or logical,” explained 64 Symonds St., is not offered work. She has to offer her­ Austin. But Kiernander was unhappy, 375-131 self or start her own Theatre. Its worth it. EXECUTIVE particularly as student users will have to N.Z. Woman arise ! ! ! ! pay power, light, heating and possibly Come and visit us and help promote even cleaning costs in addition to the hir­ the cause of Rationalism. REPORT eage fee. We hold Wine & Cheese evenings with “ I can’t help feeling that what we’re discussion every 2nd and 4th Friday “ Students are being sold out by their doing is taking the Theatre away from nights from 6.30 on. Executive” says Adrian Kiernander “ and the students” he commented. “ For ex­ No holds barred. it’s pretty appalling” . Kiernander is a ample by hiring a Technician to take Sometimes we have a “ Party” - with Student Association representative on the charge of the equipment, students won’t the necessary ingredients - on odd Sun­ University Maidment Theatre Planning even get near the place. And by the ex­ day nights. subcommittee, and he left last Thursday’s tending the Theatre’s availability to out­ Come join us and communicate. Executive meeting with mixed feelings. side groups is directly against the student For most of the evening the quorum interest.” .Everyone’s future depends on all of us. tettered on the brink of collapse with The Executive adopted the Report Page 2 2 For efficient banking services LABOUR you name it... BNZ has it on campus! PARTY

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compared with overseas, and the large Bennett’s discussion was praised by support at Mr. Muldoon’s meetings is seen Labour’s Regional head John Irwin as a not as a result of electoral disatisfaction realistic analysis and he advised his audie­ with the performanceof the Party - but nce not to pay too much credence to pub­ by well organised stacking to create that lic opinion polls and the media which he impression. claimed don’t reflect the feeling of the Few political observers believe the people in the electorate. With Irwin’s en­ Labour Party will lose in November and dorsement of the validity of Bennett’s Bennett said the crucial question is not overview, a picture emerges of how the who will win but by how many seats will top echelon of the Labour Party sees its the Labour Party win by in 1975. Bennett tasks to date. seemed prepared to settle for ten or even To buttress the fortress, Labour must five - but in the same breath decided that sustain what Bennett saw as a growing list it was more reasonable to assume that in of accomplishments: “ a low unemploy­ a House of 87 seats, the Opposition would ment rate, a reasonably contained rate of find a majority of twenty-three impreg­ inflation, the maintenance of a reasonable nable on first challenge. relationship between wages and costs, and The analogy used was that a fortress, the Party’s performance in the field of but this fortress has to be rebuilt from its industrial relations.” foundations every three years, and if the This is an admirable aim if the Party supply of bricks is cut on reconstruction, wants to stand solely on its record over h r Lorne $t. h. 370-317 the fortress becomes more vulnerable to the last three years and can successfully assailants. sell all these as genuine achievements. d were, opeo Enter stage left the devil in the form It appears to have been Labour’s strat­ aWdavs 9-30* I of the state of the economy. Bennett egy to date to combat Opposition claims thought Labour could hold all of its four­ of failures with claims of successes, to teen “ marginal seats” with majorities of fight figures with more figures. But some­ 1300 or less if there was no great catast­ where in the process of battle the Party rophic downturn in the economy between has lost its visionary appeal of the type now and October, and the calibre of the of society it wants to create almost by members in those seats was revealed. He default to Values. was confident that the container port This fortress strategy is also second­ issue wouldn’t affect the chances of Lab­ hand. It was used by the National Party our M.P.s in South Island marginal count­ in 1972. ry seats, and predicted that Labour would capture Rotorua, Mirimar and Raglan. Fraser Folster An evening at the Auckland University rack, under someone’s Mexican Hot Pot. that the apple pie reminded him of some­ Cafeteria last week proved to Les and I Les found his fish deep in his batter, thing or other irrelevant (I didn’t catch that the art of fine cuisine (cooking) is and made no bones about it. He found it it, because I told him not to speak with not yet dead. a trifle dry and hard to eat and was forc­ his mouth full). On our arrival at the establishment, ed to enlist the aid of a passing customer After-dinner coffee came from a affectionately known to its regular clien­ to help him dissect it, but unfortunately machine situated on the dance floor. The J tele as “ the cafwe were immediately the fish shattered, and Les decided to only couple we saw dancing all evening struck by its pleasant setting. Situated settle for a vegetarian dish. were in fact trying to get their ten cents - between two construction sites, the caf, My Mexican Hot Pot, which brought back from the machine, as it wasn’t work­ of the big barn tradition, has a pleasingly back memories of a visit to the Hikurangi ing. modern decor. swamp some years ago, was rather hot, My only gripe (apart from Les) was the The imaginative use of half a carpet, and several customers seated nearby were lack of wine facilities. I brought this matt­ strikingly set off by bare concrete walls, amused to see me frantically trying to er up with one of the girls at the buffet- gives an atmosphere that can only be cool my breath (they even jokingly sugg­ style servery, who told me where to find compared with the gaiety that was Stalin­ ested my dish was the previous night’s the cold drinks machine. ist Russia. This effect is emphasised by beef curry, which was the previous night’s Les had a Chateau Coke , which he the refreshingly cold draught which sweet and sour beef, which was the pre­ found to have a full flat flavour, and a affects every table. vious night’s beef casserole. I must say bouquet like Mangere Sewerage Ponds on Les and I were rather disappointed at that 1 have always found the study of a still day. I settled for a Champagne-style the service, and after waiting at our table geneology interesting. Chateau Schweppes sparkling lemon, for a waitress for the best part of an hour, Both Les’ and my own meal were which I found to be a dry sweet wine we decided to seek out the food for our­ served with beans (courtesy of Para with a strong but unassuming flavour. selves. Rubber Co.), carrots, and potatoes (a la No entertainment was provided at the The wide menu offered such dishes as Winstones). caf, apart from one group trying to extri­ roast beef (it’s amazing what they can do For dessert we chose apple pie from cate a drink from the machine. with cardboard nowadays), sausages, fish a rather limited range of sweet that in­ All in all, the evening we spent at the and Mexican Hot Pot. I plumped for the cluded nothing else. The deliciously caf was a pleasant one, and Les and I Hot Pot, and Les plumped for the serving soggy pastry was lovingly covered by spent the latter part of the night dancing girl, but after a stern look from me pick­ plasti-custard (a new milk pudding devel­ to the strains of a kitchen radio, and to ed the fish. oped by caf technicians and possessing the rather bewildered gazes of the mainly We chose a table next to the dance the qualities of both custard and glad- student clientele. floor after searching far and wide for wrap). LES AND SONIA LIVER-SALTS cutlery, eventually finding it in a drying While we were eating, Les was saying Ewen Marjoribanks 71= M AA RAM A

We’ve got this magazine. ually quite nice for English students). Well, we’ve got this idea for a maga­ And now all we need is ? ? ? ? contri­ zine. It’s a magazine (just one) full of butions from inspired members of the ? ? ? ? ideas . university community. Preference will We’ve got the money for it (yea, be given to student submissions, but all StudAss !) contributions are welcome (really !). And we’ve got a warm name for it Contributions - poetry? short stories? (Maarama). graphics? ideas? should be sent to the And we’ve got a technical editor for Publications Officer StudAss Office as it (Rod Macdiarmid - he makes all those soon as possible .... like tomorrow. NZSAC posters). Are you hiding under a bushel ? And we’ve got an editorial board to select the material (Alan Bell, Jasmine Sampson and Peter Webster - they’re act­ With International Women’s Year over which has inbuilt sexism and what can we concepts which need a great deal of osed lesbian underground which is suppos­ halfway through and with the United do to change that society at the causal thought and discussion in order to build ed to have been sheltering fugitives includ­ Nations’ focal point of the year, the con­ level, rather than just dealing with the a comprehensive theory and base for an ing Patricia Hearst. ference in Mexico City, having ended in symptoms. ongoing movement. They were frustra- This is the country where some State disarray it seems time to ask how much Symptoms are easier to deal with than tated by the demands of non-feminists governments fund anti-women “ right-to- closer we are to any of the lofty goals set bothering with the causes of the problems. who wanted to know - what do you girls life” groups and do their best to prevent down by the United Nations when it pro­ A recent audience at Auckland Univers­ really want. safe, cheap medical care for women. Des­ claimed the year in December 1972. ity was probably fairly typical : a large Then there were also those who have pite all these kinds of things the aware­ The U.N. resolution outlined the aims group mostly of older women, with few recently become aware of feminism and ness of the politics behind conferences of the year as : students, listened attentively and clapped want to do something about it. They such as this one in Mexico City remains (a) to promote equality between men very enthusiastically at the end of Ros were frustrated by an inability to make very low. and women, Noonan’s speech. But they laughed at the contact with a group which could fulfil Women I talked with in the USA were (b) to ensure the full integration of particularly outrageous examples of sex­ those needs. planning to go to the non-Governmental women into the total development ism given by the Speaker, and the mur­ So the convention was filled with conference in the touching belief that it effort, especially by emphasising murs of concern at particularly discrimin­ women with many varying needs and would be more feminist than the Govern­ women’s responsibility and import­ atory practises seemed merely perfunctory. goals. Little effective effort was made mental one and that real feminist issues ant role in economic, social and However, some good points were to fill these various needs and many wo­ would be discussed by women from all cultural development in the nation­ brought out by Ros Noonan, Organizer men left the conference frustrated and over the world. Some were more realistic al, regional and international levels for IW Y in New Zealand. She dealt with angry. about what the conference could be particularly during the Second Uni­ the lack of response to feminism from From the reports which have come expected to be like but decided to go any­ ted Nations Development Decade, the universities - both staff and students. back, the conference in Mexico City was way, reasoning that anywhere there is a (c) to recognise the contribution of wo­ Apart from providing meeting rooms in similar, but on a wider scale. Women, who large gathering of women is fertile ground men to the development of friendly the early days, Auckland University’s optimistically thought that this event for feminist propaganda. Women with relations and co-operation among contribution to and interest in feminism would be a great setp forward for women’s specific programmes such as the self-help the States and to the strengthening has been disturbingly low. rights must have been disillusioned by the health women would have more chance of world peace. Or to put it in sim­ Feminists trying to sell Broadsheet on bickering and politicking that went on. of making the trip worthwhile. pler terms - the goals are equality, the campus have met with a complete Cynics like myself found it all quite development and peace. lack of interest - it’s easier to sell them in predictable. In New York earlier this year AT THE CONFERENCE Are we any closer to achieving these the pubs. Students seem to imagine that I attended a meeting of over sixty wo­ goals ? Are these goals even achievable, sexism doesn’t affect them. Even this men called to plan action for New York’s Women from Third World countries especially over a period of one year? Was year, attempts by President, Clare Ward, celebration of International Women’s felt that sharing the economic spoils of it sensible to set such goals for a one year to set up an IW Y committee on campus Day. the world was of more importance than financially limited programme ? have met with little support. But sexism Until then I ahd found much in comm­ the role of women. Feminists find it diff­ Most politically aware feminists felt permeates this campus as it does every on with feminists in the USA and had felt icult to cope with that demand. Or with rather cynical right from the beginning aspect of our lives. that feminism did transcend geographical situations like the Israeli woman who» about what the results of International There are the obvious issues - like the boundaries. But this meeting really open­ couldn’t understand why the Arab and Women’s Year would be. The cynicism fact that women students cannot earn ed my eyes to the differences that there other Third World women walked out was reinforced when the lack of money anywhere near the same amount in the were amongst women all calling them­ when she spoke. became apparent. vacations as male students. There is also selves feminists. Most of the women were Too often the response is a simplistic The United Nations gave it the lowest the almost total blackout on women as an there representing a group of some kind, bleat of ‘Sisterhood is powerful’ and budget for any designated year in recent integral part of the subjects being studied. all of which had different goals and prio­ avoidance of dealing with the question of times and member countries made only I’m doing a paper in Organisational rities, particularly about IWD. different goals and priorities. token payments towards it, both to the Studies this year and there has been no A patient and careful Chairwoman So what is really wrong with Internat­ United Nations and internally. Most count­ mention of women at all - in only one eased many of the conflicts but even with ional women’s Year apart from inadequate ries also left planning until the year had text have I found any reference to women. firm chairing the meeting seemed to me a planning, finance and administration ? begun, with predictable results. Australia They are indexed under “ minorities and chaotic jumble of conflict. Every small Well it really comes down to the goals is a notable exception to all this. It’s final special problems” . None of the case stud­ step proposed brought disagreement, and the impossibility of setting three goals internal allocation of funds is expected ies have included women as participants usually strong, from some corner of the / which will really have relevance to all to reach $6m. and the only time they have been men­ room. women. And we have to remember that In New Zealand, with the seal of app­ tioned in the lectures was an assertion Tolerance of less radical viewpoints these goals were not even set by women. roval from the United Nations and then that there are two groups in society who was very low, and conflicts over what The Year wasn’t thought of by women, from the Government, the way was open have very high leisure hours which can­ seemed to me to be trivial points was it wasn’t planned by women and it isn’t for the setting up of committees at a not cope with - retired people and house­ heated and lengthy. However out of that having many benefits for most women. regional level. The general pattern was wives. painful, slow and frustrating groping for It is another effective diversion of women that the Mayoress of a large city was At least the women students there did a consensus eventually did come a strong in general and feminists in particular from asked to set up a committee to initiate not let that assertion go unchallenged. If march and rally on March 8th. But the their goals of total change of the male and action activities for the year. that lecturer could spend one week as a difference here was that they had one power structure. In some centres feminists have been housewife with a couple of pre-schoolers, common, obvious and achievable goal. And in that way it has undoubtedly an integral part of the committees and he wouldn’t be asserting that housewives Unlike the United National Conference been a hugh success - it has diverted have had a significant role in the activi­ were cracking up because they had too in Mexico City, where the diversity of thousands of women from their attempts ties and plans. However the Auckland much leisure and didn’t know what to do women was even greater and where they to challenge and radically alter society Committee felt rather intimidated by the with it. I’m sure that there are many, many did not have one common, let alone into stupid and time wasting paltry schem­ feminists. Soon after several feminists more examples of sexism within this achievable goal. es whose end results will be of little sig­ were elected to the Committee, backroom university. The highlight for New Zealand Small wonder that there was so much nificance to women’s struggles. We find a action began, ending with the removal of was to be the United Women’s Convention conflict at the conference. The wonder is few women being appointed to positions anyone who was likely to create any dis­ - conveniently for the IW Y people who that anyone came away feeling good about ‘because it’s IW Y ’. The odd radio pro­ turbance - or want to do anything radical. have claimed the event as their own. When it at all - and according to the news media, gramme or story in the written media Not all the committees have been as the convention was planned two years ago some did. “ because it’s IW Y ” . A token to keep dismal as Auckland’s, but the overall eff­ no one had any idea that 1975 was going them quiet. ect has not been beneficial to the cause to be International Women’s Year. Women were there representing their It’s also an excuse for belittling wo­ of feminism. Too many women, whose The Convention undoubtedly summed governments, many not understanding men’s efforts - well it all happened goals are the glorification of the tradition­ up much of the conflict in the whole year. feminism at all. It was a political confer­ “ because it’s IW Y ” you know. Men pat- al role, are involved and influencing the On the one hand there were women there ence - not a feminist one. ronisingly helping out Mum’s with the groups to promote activities which cele­ for whom it was their first contact with To the feminists in the USA it was an dishes, “ because it's IW Y .” And on it brate the present status of women. Many any form of feminism apart from the nor­ IW Y conference and that naturally meant all goes. of them see IW Y as an opportunity to mal distortion that appears in the media. that it would be a feminist one. They And what’s going to happen when the have one year of Mother’s Days (to steal Some of these women felt uneasy about could see no reason why they should not year is ended ? We can imagine how a phrase from Elizabeth Reid). their role, others were distinctly unhappy go and become involved. There is an extra­ quickly it will all be turned off - It’s not However sometimes a polite grizzle about it, while others felt that all that was ordinary naivety about many USA femin­ International Women’s Year now, dear, about somethings which are an inconven­ necessary was to somehow increase the ists when it comes to politics. they’ll say, you can go back home where ience are allowed - as long as it doesn’t in status of the present role and refused to And yet this is the country where rad­ you belong, we don’t need you any more, any way upset our masters. see that there are any problems apart ical groups are infiltrated and spied upon 1976 is Human Settlements Year. Large numbers of women are attending from inadequate women - “ the problems in a routine way, and where right now How quickly all the token women will meetings and hearing speeches about what are in your head, dear not in society.” feminists and particularly lesbians are be­ be quietly dropped and pushed back out is wrong with society and how they are On the other hand there were women ing taken before Grand Juries in some of sight discriminated against. However the react­ who were involved with feminism and travesty of justice which denies them ion is, well let’s fix up those things, rather who hoped to get together with other even basic civil liberties in order that the SHARYN CEDARMAN than asking why do we have a society feminists to explore some of the many Government may find out about the supp­