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PREJUDICE ? lo this poinl). Since mid-year, college allowance of $1600, ahhough an annual EDITORIAL fees have in most cases risen to about figure, represents on amount of $52 per $28, leaving students below the bread week spread over Ihc 32 weeks ofthe uni- The Editor, line (i.c. right now, this minute). Tlie • , versity academic year. In addilion, a stud- ent may earn up to $1500 without his I was disappointed to read that a fe expected fees next year are about S3I cntitlemeiii being affected. Earnings in male hud been appointed editor (rcss) of a week -so students are not only not 1975 - HERE WE GO AGAIN. the November-Febniary period are disre Semper Floreat. recompensed for the financial difficult garded. Vou may think I am prejudiced, but ies many are at present suffering, bu t In 1975 a detailed re view of the Ter (his is not the catc. It'sjust (hat as 197S they will have to start out next year tiary Education Assistance Scheme will is Woman's International Year, having a struggling from the word go! And 1 can A student newspaper isa little like a platypus - he undertaken. Submissions have been woman as editor is probably not a good assure you Uiat it's bloody difficult lo invited from all interesled bodies includ it can'l quite make up its mind about its own ident idea. I am sick of icadini; angry and prc- fulfil a csiminally heavy semester work ing Student Representalife Councils and ity. Does it deserve a special identity? Perhaps the judiced tirades against males. I hope this load when you're scrabbling to stay fin- individual students. If you would care term is just an elitist daydream designed to ad<^ to will not be your policy. ancial. the store of academic mythology. Maybe your figures are different to 10 pul your views and suggest tons before the Committee, siihinissions may be sent Engineering Student mine, and I'm sure they're a lot more Semper has always fulfilled one purpose at to the Secretary, Committee on Tertiary least ~ keeping one's mind off the mess made by accurate - I'm also certain they won't make the problem disappear. Allowances, Departmenl of Education, student diners in the Refec. But then, editors are Canberra. Come up and see me sometime, ED. Wc were all aware of the recent strike human; they can't please everyone. Often, il seems by Queensland student teachers recently. they can't please anyone! Tlicy were given a substantial rise, quite CHILD CARE So whal do we write about? Where do the pri- deservedly,and yet they were already orities lie? LANGUAGE LOBBY gelling $3 lo $4 more than we do per There are hundreds of causes: children die daily week!! STUFFS STUDENTS The Editor, from malnutrition while we eat cream cakes; whales O.K., so we're students, bludgers on As an unmarrKd molher studying society, or whatever else the masses like are being hunted to extinction while we perfume Dear Semper, part-time on this campus, I want to say our bodies; some governments sponsor campaigns lo call us, but wc all thought thai the thanks for the effort members of the As one who is being discriminated a- Govemmenl and the Department would of terror designed to break the mind and spirit of gainst, I would like to bring to your att Union have put into trying to organise realize the need for the next generation child-minding facililKS. their people, while elsewhere grossly inept politic ention the antics of the 'language lobby' of the teaching, administrative and wel As soon as I can make full-time ians cause promising systems to fall apart because of on the Arts Paculty Board. fare staff of Australia. We're not asking anangements to have my son properly their stupidity. Al the last meeting of the Board, this you to make us rich, but please give us a cared for, I will be abk to finish my dc- The world is such a mess now - maybe the only group (mostly academics from the lang- • reasonable allowance so wc can devote ' gree and make a decent living for bolh uagc department!;) forced through resol less time to penny-pinching and more to thing left isa frantic search for happiness. Caring of us. utions which greatly inaeascd the severity study -1 could be doing an assignnicnt in comes oul ahead, of course, if one is prepared to of the language requirement. Sludenis I won't even resent paying Union sacrifice the present for the future (and we are all stead of writing this. without a Senior language musl now en Which brings us to the Incidentals fees (an economic prejudice) if you altruistic little people around here, aren't we?). rol in a language course every semester allowance. I couldn't find any reference continue to work for students in this What role should a paper play in all this? until they have fulfilkid the requirement. to this in the information sent to me, manner. Do we hammer one principle home n number of Previously, a Senior language or its but I hope they increase substantiaUy. Tliank you again. timesland eventually bore everyone in the process) University equivalent was mandatory lo Even our much-berated Vicc<:hancellor A.S. or should we hammer n principles home once only fulfd the requirements of an Arts degree, has spoken for us on this matter. Union and risk losing them in the crowd? but students could decide when they in fees arc $70, and 'text books' cosl me cluded il in their course. TItanks are also due lo the Crcdie Club Our first obligation is to print University news, over $100 per year. The new rule rcflecls the authoritarian When I sat down in indignation to for work in this area. ED. but il is also importanl to print all types of altern nalure of the 'language lobby'as it greatly ative news (i.e. news not readily available in the write this I realized it would be read, filed limils the freedom of students in planning and duly ignored - largely due to the con DARWIN POLITICS commercial press). However, you won't be seeing their courses. Part-timers arc particularly spicuous absence of thousands of similar any "furry freaks" - horrible little sexist bastards. affected as they may wish to enrol in only letters. Forgive Ihcm for not writing, for We promise you that, at least. one subject pet seraesici, and this thctc- they are just too bloody apathetic, and The Oaks, Incidentally, we're capitalists from necessity up forc means that if they haven't a Sen tor would rather complain bitterly to the Upper Echelon Parade, here. We sell ads in Semper (the lillie articles in the language the .subject is an Introductory corridors and lament into their coffee Ultimate Heights, one. If a student is weak in this area, cups. Australia Day, 1975. heavy boxes) to justify our existence to the'Treas- this practice will drag down his/her I know that the Departmenl and AUS Dear Miss Turner-Jones, urer. If we sell enough ads, we boost our budget grade poinl average and possibly lead to reviewed the student cconomicsituation- It is with some trepidation Ihat I write sufficiently lo bring you such Madison Avenue exclusion. tricks as spot colour and original graphics. You'll 1 filled in one of the questionnaires - but to you on this e.<;pecblly propitious day I would contend that this rule is un what happened?Don't lell me other cam know how we're going by the way we dress up or in the history ofour great nation. necessarily restrictive and this brings us puses arc belter off; Many Sydney stud As the Minister for Erudition, 1 find it down. lo the question of why one should be ents live in places 1 wouldn't keep a cat, necessary from time to lime, lo make my The printed word will probably be around for forced at all to do a foreign language. lei alone people, and university colkJgc feelings known lo various and sundry por some time to come. For example, one can carry a I also contend thai passing a language fees in Qnbcrra are $34. tions of my vast area of responsibility. examination Is no measure of one's abil nevi/spaper around the campus lo browse through How about the proverbial 'fair go*? In these ensuing days after the worst of ity to obtain an Arts degree. during boring lectures, or take it home for thorough . Please, we arc human beings as well as the Darwin disaster, we now sit aside wit There is only one way to change the reading whilst siltiiig on the loo or lying in the bath students, and a basic aura of financial nessing the spectacle of the Queensland present situation • change the opinion of security is essential if we are to get on Premier, among others, stipulating how tub. the Arts l-aculty Board. To facilitate wilh the job. money donated by the residents of Quecn So here we go again. I f people with something this, I urge all sludents to lobby their Please think, deliberate, consider • sland should be spent. Surely the people to say keep writing, and others with something to lecturers. I also urge academics in the better still, please do something. of Queensland intended it for the people Arts faculty who sympaihisc wilh this learn keep reading, the whole thing may turn out of Darwin. Not the publicity funds of the view lo attend Faculty Board meetings to be worthwhile. Yours sincerely, Queensland chapter of the National Party! when this matter is discussed. 'Charily, il fallelh like rain from heav Neale Diaper en' (Somewhere in the Bible). And surely, Yours in hope, Rodney O'SuUivan heaven is still non-poliiical?(You may John Qmpbell, Brian Williams quote mc). Student Rep., William Wyndham. Why then should wc sit aside and see Arts Faculty Bd. such crass selfishness in a time when the STAFF The Department's reply: rest of the nation has demonstrated their sense of unity, brotherhood and respons See 'Arts iMiiguage Requirement'articles A basic premise ofthe T.A.S. scheme ibility to a city of ours in distress? at various spots throughout this paper. is that there sliould be a parental con-K As a Government Minister, I felt it my iribuiion, where financially possible, to duty lo fly immeduitely to the ilisaster wards the costs of their children's tertiary zone. We were able lo procure, after very EDITOR Jan Turner-Jones educalhn expenses. Living alto wance little haggling, an Air Force Hercules to T.A.S. earty my pood lady wife, and my son, to ASSISTANT EDITOR Anne Draper therefore is intended to be a contribution towards the living and education costs the dcvcstaied city, ll was pitiful to sec of students. people clamouring to fly back with us. Copy ofa letter sent to the Department EDITORIAL CO-OP. Both the level of benefits and the means Alas however, though we would have been of Education: Activities Heather Ross arc reviewed each year. Account is taken able to scat 300, wc could only fly back of changes in the Consumer Price Index those in the official party (mles and rcg- International News Peter Murphy "^ Dear Sir, and other econom'-' factors when Ic wis ubtions, you know). LiflDul CounsellinB Services Wlien I received delails of llic Terti are being determined. Benefits have been Such interest on my behalf, however, Senior Journalist Julianne Schultz ary l-klucalion Assistance Scheme in Ihc only serves to illustrate the intense intcrc'l mail today, my apprehension became regularly increased and the means test Union News John Campbell my colleagues in the Party have sliown. horror. Ircfer lo the new maximum liberalised. I would iioiitt out that the tax free Tiiough wc fmd it hard to understand the living away from home allowance of Queensland Prcmkr's attempts to shine the ASSISTED BY Vicki Noble $1,600 per annum. black light of partisan politics inlo the John Stanwell As I hope to point out, ihis is not an arena, wc in our Parly have remained aloof Julianne Schwenke improvement, but a comparatively lower of sudi selfishness and proceeded purpose income than we arc receiving this year. Laurence Gormley fully to gel on wilh (he job in hand. The basis of whal constitutes a fair CAMPUS PHARMACY Special thanks to David Franken I myself am presently on vacation with minimum allowance is, I feel, the aver Shopping Centre my good woman and family, but the mom age cost of living in a university college. University of Queensland ent our leave is over, wc shall dash back COVER Noel Hill Students I have discussed the hialicr. ST LUCIA by VIP jet to the Capitol and do what wc with generally agree that this Is a fair • Telephone- • - 70 1509 feci has to be done by a responsible, but standard. Ttie poinl is nut whether most non-poliilcal group as my colteogues in llie PUBLICATION SEC. Maureen Oakley students do or do not live in coUcgcs^ (Intemal 6882) Party here in Government are, doing what but that this form of accommodation is PROMPT PRESCRIPTION SERVICE spcclllcally designed for students living AGENT FOR is best for the people of Ihc nation in tiiese BUSINESS MANAGERS Deborah Schwenke troubted limes, and ignoring the pettiness Julianne Schwenke away from home. Please forgive mc for PERFUMES COSMETICS boring you with the obvious. of the Queensland Prcmter. Faberge Revion Finally, I should like lo wish all your Tills brings us to the point that up tu Dana Cydac readers a very happy Austr..alia Day from PROCESSED by CPL/CAT Lanvin Steiner mid-1974,average college fecslal Ihc us ail in tlie Party, particularly those who 10 Bailey Sl., West Iind. Ph. 44 6021 University of Queensland) were $26 a Lancome Max Factor are old enough to vote. week ur more - k:uving u studcni on PHOTO FINISHING full allowance tlie noble sum of 90c a 24 Hour Black end White Very sincerely, • Prompt Colour Service.' Copy deadlines for issues 2 & 3: week lu clothe and entertain himself and Jim Crighton-Jotgcnscn, 21st February and 7th March. buy textbooks und equipment lI'll return Minister for Eiudldon. semper floreat 3 SNIPPINGS MONEY FOR STUDENTS PROGRESSIVE!!) HISTORY Despite the decision by the Federal DEPARTMENT Conference of the A.L.P. to exclude tertiary students from receiving the dole In this year's departmental hand • during vacations, when they cannot find book in an effort to keep up with the work, A.U.S. has received legal opinion times, the history department decided which states that students are entitled to to assign the title Ms to its female receive this money during vacations. The staff. As worthwhile as this move is it opinion was given by Sydney barrister falls rather short when the male staff Mr. C. Einst'jin, who cited a 1908 British are listed not with the customary Mr compensation judgement which, in his but rather with their initials - once opinion entitled students to unemploy again distinguishing between equally ment relief if they covld not find work qualified individuals. during their vacations.
A.U.S. is prese-^tly appealing to the Director General of Social Security to PLEASE TELL SNIFFINGS YOUR review their dole application, and Mr. Einstein said that if this is not successful STRANGE STORIES OF THE the matter should be taken to the courts. LEGENDARY UNI. POLICE HARASSMENT? From THE AUSTRALIAN, 6Feb. 1975 KGB ALIVE AND WELL IN With the start of a new year of SEMPER ADMIN MAIL SORTING Is there any student who has suffer we want to hear from as many as possible, OFFICE ed unwarranted and/or excessive inter ference at the hands(?) of the Queens relating your strange and interesting - Not to be reported for shirking in stories dealing wilh the university and it.s land Police Force? If so it may be well their duties, staff of the mail sorting worthwhile making your problems ineptness(and excellence) in as many bureau in the admin have been going fields as possible. These stories need not known as the Union of the University beyond their call of duty. All illus of Queensland is collecting informa of course, only deal with the uni, but tration stories such as the following can relate to anything which you may tion/evidence on incidents of this na one must be told; A member of the ture with a view to hassling the police 1974 SEIVPER EDITOR: regard as being somewhat strange or academic staff towards the end of last MS JAN TURNER-JONES irregular. force if necessary - using the channels year put a large quantity of mail in of the media and possibly prosecution. Anyone with stories of this nature, the departmental mail box - some of AT AGE FOUR IN TUTU would you please call in and see sonieoni.' Action of this sort, it is hoped, will these letters were official and some mean a decrease and possibly a cessa FOR DOLLY SHOW,. from SEMPER(first floor union building) were private, being sent both inter tion of these activities. Anyone with SUPPOSEDLY THE FIRST & LAST or phone 711611 and ask for SEMPER. state and overseas; The letters were any such information should contact PHOTO TO BE SHOWN TO HER Hoping to hear from lots of you, not marked with a return address, the Public Rights Committee, by leav READERS IN '74. and could not therefore be lin'ked to ing a message at Union Office - as SNIPPINGS (SNIP to friendsi any particular person in any particular soon as possible after the event. department. However, several hours ^^pL ^^^^^V^^^^^^H r^^5 after depositing the letters the staff member returned to his own office, 1 •••gji and found some of the letters which' he had posted deposited on his desk - accompanied by a note from Bruce Green - Assistant Registrar - stating LIBRARY BUNGLING that personal mail must not be sent in ^^P Hli«^. ^^^^H P COUNTRY COUPLINGS ill •'4God in His Mercy bless our land ed the student that as the book has a They have found that the oversized With its hills and its blilabongs, I am, as you know me and accept my And be with us all when we make our stand soft cover it had been sent down to duck is so heavy it can't swim; It the bindery - and as journals lake • promises and our shared dreams for the To the strains of those 'martial songs'. sinks. future. So arise from your sleep Australia Fair, precedence over books in the bindery Your days of decline are o'ra. il could be anything from six to ni.ne - From Georgia ShvighL The tyrant's chain that was always there months before it appears on the lib If you,do wish to have your own un Shall fetter your brow no more. • rary shelves. So a book which was LIFTED FROM DIGGER. ccnsored civil ceremony with few restrict ordered in June '74 will probably not UNTIL RECENTLY, BANNED ions, Margaret Baxendcll, Secretary of John Finucan be available before June'75. How IN QUEENSLAND. . the Qld. Humanist Society is the ideal often does this sort of thing go on? WE SUGGEST YOU READ IT.. person. She can be contacted by phon For thij politlcaiiy naive, "tyrant's chain means ing: 901624. commetcla>l;.m. 4 Mmpir fioKTMt australian Union of Students
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Certainly, distances in Australia limit the direct el supposedly representing student interest at A.U.S, ectron of executive.members, but there is a need for more of a direct student say in the composition of Yet another example of A.U.S.'s lack of profession MAUCE in student delegations. alism is indictative in the January, student fee rise. The supposed fmancial justification for this rise, (from $1.50 wonderland A.U.S. is dominated by the New South Wales and to $2.50 per student per annum) circulated to all Victorian campuses, both at Council and in senior Unions and Student Representative Councils would not executive positions. The James Vaighese affair is an have satisified a first year secondary school bookeeping student. It was either veiy inefficient or inept, or a "After Annual CouncU, I ara convinced that A.U.S. excellent example of the dominance of A.U.S. by a poor attempt to dupe member unions, - either way it is one quarter ser^ces and three quarters shit". clique from southern campuses. Mr Varghese, a Queens-, lander, appears to have been removed from office as was inefficient. Brian Towler General Vice President because he did not fit within Presklent U.Q.U. the spectrum of ideology, so necessary in order for him The question of A.U.S. finances is an interesting one. to work efficiently with the ruling clique. The very popular area of A.U.S., Aquarius, a cultural, and activities section was dropped in the January Mr Towler's statement epitomises a strong feeling The consequence of his removal is that A.U.S. has budget. This was a blow to the smaller campuses who among many members ofthe Queensland student Union, shown itself to be patronizing in its attitude to racial are not politically motivated on many issues; Aquarius A.U.S. as a national body does offer some very worth issues, and subject to emotional but highly emotive had represented value for money to them. while services to its members and its existence as a nat speeches. This displayed attitude is as dai^erous to the ional body, operating to serve all tertiary level students cause for racial equality as is outright oppression. ' Meanwhile Race Relations maintained a high prior needs no justification. A.U.S.'s greatest disadvantage, A.U.S. has supported the cause of Dennis Walker, an ity. This as such is not a bad thing, but so many people and as a consequence, its disadvantage to those it re Aboriginal, against Jim Varghese, regardless ofthe form supposedly active in this field at A.U.S. level, are the presents, lies in the empty and irrelevant political man er's lousing up of the Black movement in Brisbane, phonies - pseudo-blacks who pseudo-intellectualize. oeuvres which form the milieu in which every A.U.S. simply because of Walker's close association with Uie They are not campus based, any activity on this campus Cotmcil is held. Smash tbe Acts campaign. Varghese has been sadced for black rightsha s been initiated by local concemed and Walker progresses yet another step toward his final people, not the A.U.S. professionals with theur fashion Indeed, A.U.S.'s problems seem to be twofold. goal - that of martyrdom. ably-new, but false Gurindji accents. At the risk of Firstly, the student politicians from every different sounding cynical, it would appear to me that A.U.S. faction - the trots, maoists, revolutionary left, social Jim Varghese's removal was typical ofthe superficial should be concentrating a great deal of effort in Queens ist left, socialist revolutionary left, the Communists and and doctrinaire approach to issues adopted by those land .where conditions are considerably worse than in the many other ideol(^cally pure people. They all Southern states. espouse their philosophy with the tenacity of broken gramaphone records - all loud and all tinny. The local secretariat probably deserves a few com ments. Rjssibly the nicest thing one can say about it in Many are people who seem to be more intrigued 1974 is that it was irrelevant and almost non-existent. with the complexities of student politics than with Any work or oiganization on. campus seems to have student problems. Indeed, many ofthe A.U.S. politic been produced from the Area Organiser's office rather ians, especially at the executive level, have been removed than from the local secretariat. If this does not cliange from the student way of life with its particular problems in 1975, the University of Queensland Union's signifi for two, three and even four years. TTiese 'professional' cance in the body of A.U.S. will be located somewhere student activists have lost their touch with grass roots close to the bowels. student politics. The problem of the incestuous elite in A.U.S. is further accentuated by its total and appall It is a pity, iildeed, that a body with so much potent ing lack of democratic elections. Of all the delegates ial is in danger of splitting wid^ apart in a few years to A.U.S. councils, only one is elected for that purpose time. The explanation is simple, A.U.S.'s strength lies by student member.-! - the local A.U.S. secretary. in its unity as a spokesman for tertiary students, and the'many smaller and ostracised campuses will not put This is especially appalling when one recalls that up with doctrinaire philosophy in lieu of services and a these delegates elect the executive and office bearers more flexible body politic! D for twelve months and control an annual budget of approximately half a million dollars. ! Laurence P. Gormley'
ference, a national newsletter edited by a different region each time and a national campaign revolving THROUGH around the following issues: mainly for the services provided, not for the rich variety (a) Economic status ofwomen of its political bullshit. Unfortunately, the Quecnsland (b) Sexuality, sex education and abortion law a looking glass constituents do not receive much in the way of health reform. A student vrandered mto the Semper office last week and insurance benefits, so the only real service the (c) phild-Care and asked if there was any difference between the Ad average student gets for his money is the travel concess (d) Homosexuality ministration, the Union and A.U.S. Perhaps he can be ion. (e) Sexism in education. foigiven (after all, he was wearing shoes and socks) but The Aquarius tours have an appeal to the whole for starters for the benefit of other innocents in a sim student body of each constituent. Now, however, many If you want any further questions answered, iliar state of bliss, here are a few coUected thoughts small campuses will never even have the opportunity to harrass the local A.U.S. secretary, Alan Grieve. He's about A.U.S.: hear counter-culture artists like Jeannie Lewis, Because sitting in his office in the Union Building just waiting the film circuit which was part of Aquarius has gone to see you. (You may even get a game of Monopoly EASY UNIONISM too, many ofthe non-commercial, socially and politic if you time your visit correctly). A.U.S.: Australian Union of Students . - ally relevant films will never reach our campuses. MEMBERS: Approx. 217,000, from various tertlaiy Why? Simply because we have insufficient funds, ANNUAL COUNCIL(S) institutions. and thanks to A.U.S. we no longer have any national Like most student politics, these are usually fiick- ANNUAL SUBS: $1.00(7^ $1.50^4/7^, $2.50^^ cultural representation, co-ordination or services. ups - both literally and figuratively - but the delegates SERVICES: The Travel Programme is probably the attending the various sessions work bloody hard to earn biggest selling factor. The Health Insurance Scheme was INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: There is a solidarity their fare there. not very successful last year - lack of people to co-ord day for some cause or the other approximately every Some important resolutions are written and passed inate the programme and Queensland's free Health second day - mainly P.L.O. at the moment. National U before A.U.S. returns to its slumber, and infrequently, Schcincs will probably saturate us with world gossip once again. one of these resolutions actually bumps against the PUBLICATIONS: National U. - What can we say? RACE RELATIONS: What! A.U.S. is channeUing outside worid. (But don't hold your breath waiting Cold Comfort, - A worthy attempt to cover education monies into all sorts of black causes trying to educate for announcements of the same). al topics, but a flop last year due to hdk of support, blacks already educated about poverty mstead of both moral and fmancial. Alternate News Service, - working on Ignorant white trash A FINAL WORD the useful source of information for newspapers tike WOMEN'S ISSUES: (Its Women's International Year Students do need a national lobby - especially Semper. if yo'j weren't already aware ofthe fact.) students isolated up here in the North Kingdom. We CULTURAL ACTIVITIES: None. (But remember also need a national publication (preferably not fdled Nimbin.) See following text. note from Mari Anna Siaw (Union Secretaiy, U. of Q.)' from cover to cover with international news) to keep At the 39th Annual Council, a series of motions was us reasonablywel l informed about the wider campus note from Heather Ross (Activities Director, U of Q.) passed which survived a commission, plenary and the scene. For all the many references in the A.U.S. constitut •fmal budget and finance session, and a Women's depart In short, we need A.U.S. for the services and liaison ion about providing cultural activities for the students, ment has now been established. it should provide. D A.U.S. has abolished its only department, Aquarius. TItere will be a Women's organiser, a policy comm Perhaps they've forgotten that students join A.U.S. itte based on regional representation, a women's con- Jan TurnerJone s • floreat CRVItVGE Z>' THAT YOU ARE NOT A BLACK STUDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA
If you were a black student in South Africa your parents' average wage would be $146 per annum or $12 per month you would be excluded from white schools you would have only $20 pa spent on your education as against $285 pa spent on the' Qm the white man speak for me? education of white students can he feel my pain when his laws you might not be able to find a school to go to at all tear wife and child from my side you would probably leave school like 70% of your friends to start work to support and I am forced to work a thousand miles away? your family you would have only a 0.1% chance of going to university does fie know my anguish as I walk his streets at night If you were a black student in South Africa my hand fearfully clasping my pass? you would be excluded from white theatres and cinemas you would be arrested for going to white cafes or restaurants is he with me in the loneliness I of my bed in the bachelor barracks you would have no TV with my longing driving me to mount my your home would probably have no electricity and no heating, no telephone and brother? no running water
will he soothe my despair you would probably have to share two rooms with your parents, brothers and sisters, as I am driven insane by scmps of paper permitting me to live? and perhaps grandparents and aunts and uncles you would be excluded from white buses, trains, and taxis Can the white man speak forme? you would be excluded from white parks, playgrounds, and beaches.
If you were a black student in South africa It is said that poets write of beauty you would not be allowed to come to the cities of form, of flowers and of love you would probably not be allowed to get training for skilled jobs but the words I write you would be arrested if you did not carry your pass at ail times after you turned 16 are of pain and of rage you would have to take orders from any white woman, man, or child I am no minstrel you would never have the vote or any say in government who sings songs of joy mineakment.
I wail of a land hideous with open graves waiting for the. slaughtered ones AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE' Balladeers strum their lutes and sing tunes of happy times I cannot join in their merriment my heart drowned in bitterness with the agony of what white man's law lias done
I know fear. Fear is the knock at the fourth hour after midnight when the house is hushed in deep.
I know terror. Tenor is the feeling that htmsyour body limp as they drag you from your bed
I know desperation. Desperation is in the reflection seen in the eyes of your womah as you think of imprisonment without trial
I know acceptance. Acceptance is the realisation of electrical rods and mental torture the breaking of body and mind
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"It is worth pointing out that a pensioner makes $31.00 per week out of the welfare system; the social worker mvestigating the^^^^ makes about $150.00 per week; the professor teaching it makes $380.00 per week; and the Minister approvmg it »57U.uu per wecK.
PARTI want to avoid. Children are stUl stigmatised by living This identification with established power ensures REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL WORK in places separated off from the rest of the community that social workers are rewarded, both as a profession and as individuals. By being good at putting govemment I felt angiy about social work when I left university by large signs like "Alkira - Salvation Army Home for Boys". Old people are forced into small and large insti policy into practice Ihey gain promotion, preside, higher at the end of November 1974. I had felt angry for some tutions (which the rest of us dread) with names like salaries! Social work educators similarly gain from train time, some years, and so was surprised at the strength of "Resthaven", "Eventide", "Sunsetholme" - names ing recruits for the system; there is personal investment feeling in November. Why shouldn't I have felt, instead, which suggest that life is almost over. In such places, it in supporting dominant values. The dominant values are ' a sense of relief? is obvious that death wUl be part of everyday experience. conservative, materialistic and competitive, and are not ^ I was angry at the failure of social work. created by the govemment of the day but by forces - '' Most social workers seem to ignore these gross ineq including economic forces such as multinational com Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the sadness in the ualities in Australian life, to say nothing ofthe even panies - often outside the control of governments. worid. Only this morning (January 10th, 1975) there is greater inequalities on the world scene. Australia, like a report from Cambodia about children dying of mal U.SA. and other westem nations, uses up a comparatively This investment in established power would'account nutrition; a child of three with the weight of a nine- vast proportion ofthe world's resources even though- for the almost total absence of social workers from Abor months-old baby; doomed to die in the next few days. they represent a very small percentage of the world's iginal protests, their lack of support for client organisa Hundreds of chUdren die each day in Cambodia - and in population. tions, their sUence about many questions of oppression. many other places - because they cannot get enough to It is a sad fact Uiat over and over again there are ex eat. amples of "radical" social workers who decide to con Children die while we worry whether our steak is rare form when they get the chance of promotion; or be or medium; whether the wine is satisfactory to our sen come heavy with psychiatric patients who want a normal sitive palates. While social workers worry about unresol sex Ufe; or who rationaUse that they wUl in some way ved oedipal conflicts, object relations, social systems necessarily more use by others if they spend a few years theory, transference and counter-transference. getting higher degrees. •Social work merely reflects the values of a selfish (In the National Times, January 13-18,1975, Paul materialistic society which continues to create oppres McGuinness points out die anomaly of more and more sion on a worid scale, a cultural scale and on a national social workers being appointed in the U JC. at a time of scale. One would have hoped that social work would high unemployment.) work to change these values. Instead, it often seems ir relevant to the worst human problems. We live in a competitive society, in which profits are made by exploiting those who are in some way weaker. Other 'helping professions' are the same. I was amaz Those who cannot compete successfully (in terms of ed to hear Professor Saint, Dean of Medicine, say a few society's dominant values) are the ones who get low months ago that the medical profession has always been wages, pensions, the sick (or the "sick"), crippled child a leader in social reform, and he instanced what doctors ren, the aged. had done for Aboriginal health! Aborigines -with one of the highest Infant Mortality Rates in the worid, with Social workers preoccupation wUh the psyche, with common maladies of deafness and blindness which are individuals, with microcosms, is a political act. It is preventable! Many health problems amongst blacks and action which diverts attention away from the social- poor whiles need basic health care, belter diet, improved cconomic-poUtical processes which produce oppression. living conditions, routine prophylaxis. But the medical To overcome these oppressive forces needs, not the ac profession, instead of using its undoubted political cepting, "non-judgemental", let's-all-be-friends attitude powers to achieve these, uses itto gain better pay for of social work, but a clear commitment to the side you doctors who mostly work in metropolitan suburbs and are struggling for. hospitals, and to oppose a national health service (as (The psyche, the individual, the famUy, the local the medical profession did in the U jC., U.S.A. and community, are not unimportant: but they jieed to be Canada). understood in the poUtical context.) Similarly, die social work profession is a conservative r force, in spite ofits raison d'etre being work with the As long as we live in a competitive society, there is oppressed. Social workers do not actively campaign no point assuming we can avoid conflict to stimulate gainst reforms - in fact very few actively campaign for change. or against anything - but they support the status quo by It is becoming clear to me that "self-help" groups will not actively striving to'change it, even though social achieve far more by organising themselves and pressing work clients are produced by oppression in the system. for a greater share of resources than the same people can achieve by individuaUy approaching social workers 1 do not want to deny that there are refomis from Mainstream social work and other professional helpers. Mental Patients Unions, time to time. For example, the mentally retarded people What is mainstream social work doing instead of being Claimants Unions, Prisoner groups, and others are al at Challinor Centre get a better deal now than they did a vanguard in the struggle to abolish, or even reduce, ready doing this in U.S.A., U.K., Germany, to a small some years ago, and this is because of developments oppression and deprivation ih its many forms? extent in Austialia, and elsewhere, More basic groups, urged by social workers, doctors, psychologists, nurses, It is looking inward, contemplatii^ Us navel. It is Uke trade unions, tenants organisations, ethnic societies,' teachers, occupational therapists, and otheis. worrying about the internal psyche^ and fmding psy- can probably in the long run do much more. chogenetic reasons for life's problems. It is trying to Nor do I want to deny that there are social workers make the society a Utdc more compassionate to the in who are wiUing to become unpopular, or risk Ihcir per The whole emphasis needs to change from depend dividual who is in distress; it is trying to make small sonal-political reputation in struggling with oppressed ence on professional helpers to self-reliance, and group- communities work a little more efficiently m doing the people. John Tomlinson, in Darwin, is someone with reliance, as far as this is possible. same things as they have always done. this kind of courage and determination. There are others, but very few. It is feeling guUty about the world's problems, but Ultimately what is needed is not a society based on not guilty enough to take action which wUl disturb competition - which by definition produces "faUures" By and large, however, social workers use their work usual Ufe-styles, create discomfort, lose prestige, income, - but one based on cooperation. If resources have to with "clients" as a stepping stone to a respectable,mid or promotion prospects. (Except, to some extent, in be fought for, some are going to miss out - as they ob dle-class life-style, whUe at the same time being comfort time of disaster, for a brief period.) viously are in Australia and the world today. ed by the feeling that they are doing good. The advan tages that individual clients gain, or the smaU improve Guilt is a luxuiy we can Ul afford. What is needed is Until that time comes, the role of the social worker ments here and there - which have usually taken many action. There ^ould be no prizes for hanging around is to get alongside his "clients"; the oppressed, ahd fighl years to accomplish - continually hUnd social workers doing nothing but feeling guilty. with them for their rights. as a body to the gross inequalities that exist. Why does this paradox exist? It should be clear from this that I am not saying that because social work has failed in many respects it should It is probably still a surprise to many people that 10% Although becoming hackneyed now, it is nonetheless be abolished. I am saying that it diouid analyse human of the Australian population live in poverty (according true that the only explanation is that social work, far problems In a societal-political perspective, ralher than to the interim report ofthe Henderson enquiiy). In from being an identification with the underdog in his an mdividual-psychological perspective. It should make Quecnsland, 25% live under or just above the poverty efforts to win frecdoni/liberation, is part of the state's a clear political commitment, however unpopular, to the line, which marks an hicome sufficient for survival only. system for deaUng with "deviants". That is, controlUng victiiris of society, which includes channeUing resources The proportion of Aborigines in poverty by this criterion them, punishing them, using them as a deterrent in order directly to those people lo a far greater extent. It may is more Uke 50% In^Brisbane. to reinforce the desirable mode of living in society: being weU be that recruiting Into social work should be on a Psychiatric patients are stiU frequently herded into in a youi%, healthy family In which you are looked after difierent basts (e.g. accorduig to experience of hardship, laige institutions, which those of us, with choice would as long as you.produce a lot and consume a lot. radier Uian of academic merit.) Minper floreat 7 by harry throsscU
PART 2 THE UNIVERSITY work it is necessary to accept conventional explanations; self or only to others); (U) personal hardship seen as that if (s)he sticks to untraditional ideas, or has political caused by faulty personal relationships in the past or The fonmer remarks were based on 20 years in social goals different from the dominant ones, (s)he is regarded present; (iii) action to eliminate suffering therefore work. The last nine of these were teaching social work as "deviant" or suffering from unresolved psychological concentrating on overcoming the'noxious effects of at the university of Queensland. compUcations. these bad relationships. Implicit in this approach is the In discussing my experience of university, I have to Most social work teachers are - perhaps unwittingly assumption that the structure of society is essentially focus mainly on the particular department I worked in. - an influential part of tlie socialisation process which sound and benign; and also that if people followed This department (social work) is a microcosm of (a) the determines that new recruits fit uncomplainingly into models of behaviour defined by die social work (and social woric profession, and (b) the university. the social welfare system, with neither the tools nor the other therapists) as "proper", "normal", or "healthy" - will to change it. but actually merely middle-class conventional - they would be alright. Those on the Right do not acknowledge lAiiversity department as microcosm of the profession that that is where they are and deny dieir political com As far as social work is concemed, the university de mitment because they regard their activities as apoUtical. partment is the main socialising agent. Professional social welfare activity could be summarised as a system The lack of debate or even explanation on these which keep oppressed people relatively content, and non- differences is a political act. Because there are always revolutionary. The Social Work Department has two "more important" (usuaUy business) matters to attend related functions: (a) it trains recruits in methods of lo, the discussion about basics is pushed aside. Thus pacifying, so that exploited people remain content and the status quo remains. This tends to push tlie Left - non-revolutionary; (b) it ensures that any revolutionary usuaUy more interested in fundamental issues - into the fervour in students is psyched out of Uicm (again, with a role of aggressor. few exceptions). (As I write,J fear diat my remarks wiU be seen as To achieve (a), the "educational" project is concen an attack on people, rather than as part of an on-going trated on doing two things. First, it examines the way debate.) individuals famUies and smaU communities produce pro Much of the "knowledge" in the social sciences is blems for themselves. (Indeed, the whole question of speculative, a matter of opinion. It is therefore part how "problems" are defined would fill a separate long icularly important that students are engaged in debate, article.) Little attention is paid to poHtical processes amongst Uiemselves and with staff. However, often and the nature of competition. The assumption is that students feel trapped: they want to discover life, and everyone is cooperative, the social system is benign, but Uieir perception of reality for Uiemselves, but they also something has gone technicaUy wrong. The status quo sometimes find that a difference of opinion with a lec is given, has to be understood but not changed. Pain, turer is viewed not just as that, but as evidence that they anxiety, unhappiness, are perceived as indicative of a lack insight or have not come to terms with "reality" fault in die system. The social worker is equivalent to . (someone else's). So too many choose die easy way out a mechanic, paid for his skiU in putting the system right again. - telUng teachers what they want to hear, not what die student thinks (this happened with me, too). Secondly, the process of learning, or gaining know Students are too often put down for independent ledge, is fragmented. Students learn a bit of intro-psychic thinking. A student who dislikes his practical placement theory.here, a bit of sociology there, chUd development tends to be seen as having emoUonal problems (rather now, a smattering of philosophy then. This is a problem than for example, the supervisor having problems). One for the social sciences as a whole, but the result if frag Particularly discouraging is the lack of straightfor student (very successful academicaUy) was critical ofa mentation of the person, and of society, leading to be ward open debate, with student (or stafi) arrivmg at a seminar group, which seemed lifeless, unproducUve. wilderment. There is no sense of meaning about the conclusion as a result. Instead, there appears to be a When she discussed it with tlie staff member she was knowledge, no real understanding in historical or phUo correct line reflecting the mainstream of Ihinking and treated lo a discussion of her personal inabiUly to gain sophical terms of why we have current problems and covert political commitment over the years. Any devia fiom die group - which protected die staff member why tliey are "problems". tion from this is not really considered worthy of serious fiom looking at deficiencies in teaching skills, or group discussion but rather as disloyal, or subversive. problems. Students are often trapped in a small-scale Most of aU, social work education assumes the COT- poUtical hierarchy. rectness of what Is given - the society, the social work There are clearly "right" and "left" wings in social system, social work practice itself - and is very reluctant work, as you would expect with issues which are essen Sometimes students'disagreements with a lecturer to examine it criticaUy. It is very striking that when tially political. There are differences about the goals are interpreted as not really representing their own students are given the opportunity to analyse, in basic for which society is aiming, how "social problems" are ideas (an invaUdating manoeuvre); or even as a personal phUosophical terms, the social welfare system, or some defined, how they are caused, how they could be elim - and therefore unfair - attack. part of it lUce die psychiatric services, they frequently inated, about the language in which to describe them. Of course, there are also many instances of honest, come to die conclusion that it has as many destructive There are even differences of opinion about whether open discussion, but the kinds of ploys for getting stu features as constructive, and needs radical alteration if differences exist. hot aboUtion. dents to accept professional dogma need lobe explored The Left is characterised by (i) suffering being defin and demystified. Too often students feel there must be Referring to (b) - eradicating revolutionary, or even ed by those who suffer it; (ii) personal hardship seen as something wrong with Uiem for having different ideas; strongly critical, ideas from students - it is common to the end result of exploitation and oppression; (iu) ac or because there seems littie possibility of full explora find that a committed student has lost her/his enthusiasm tion to elmimate suffering therefore being clearly poU tion they give up, take the easy way out, and do the for change by tlie end of the four years training. One tical, aiming to change society structuraUy from one minimum for academic survival. would not object to this if the change occurred by die based on competition to one based on cooperation. Thus, the profession gains new recruits who are often force of inteUectual aigument. Those on the Left acknowledge that that is where they frustrated, exhausted by their "education", and wiUing are and do not deny their political commitment. However, the pressure to change is more subtle and to fit meekly into the system. covert. Students often feel that open exploration of The Right is characterised by (i) suffering being de- , In a second article, I wiU discuss die question of ideas is not reaUy encouraged; that in oider to get fined by others, those in authority (with a consequent recmitment into a university-based course, and make through the course and be seen as suitable for social confusion as to whether the person is a problem to him some comments on university processes. D
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FirsUy Uie A.B.C.B. have given simUar permission only once In the following plan these definitions wiU be under- before, tothe Music Broadcasting Sociely of N.S.W., stood: who in tum, some months later, received AustraHa's 'Music' - refers to a combination of hard rock, prog first F.M. licence. Thus It is a useful means of proving rock. Rhythm and Blues, Country and Westem etc., to the Board our technical competence in seeking a unless otherwise stated. full licence. Secondly it wiU provide a very useful 'News' - current headline and alternative news. exercise in producing twenty hours of high (technical) 'Student News' - refers to announcements, meeting quality programming and experience to-the on-air notifications. University events and other items of staff. Thirdly we hope it will generate Interest in the specific interest to tertiary sludents. exciting potential of F.M. stereo radio and in our 'Information' - refers to alternative, interpretative station itself. "tiioufih not necessarily current news with greater deptii coverage. The Media Committee has already applied for a fuU 'Documentaries' ~ fifteen minute to hour programmes F.M. stereo licence, and is extensively lobbying for uniform perspective. Consequently, despite supposed produced by interested groups of individuals. support amongst Federal Cabinet. If successful the station's studio offices will be located in the old Sports competition between the commercial news services, Monday to Friday - Programmes Union offices (i.e. upstairs in the Union Building) with their bulletins are often identical in content and form. 1,6.00 a.m.-9.15 a.m. •• 'Breakfast Show'(Music, a cable link to the transmitter and mast on Mt. Coot-tha. News, Student News, Time Calls, Information). Two full-time station employees plus a group of 2 9.15 a.m. • 12 noon ~ Music, News, Information, volunteers from the University's JournaUsm Department Documentaries, access available only to groups specific will provide an houriy news service for the 'Breakfast Set out below is a part of the submission dealing ally concerned with women's issues, e.g. The Women's session' (6.00 a.m. - 9.15 a.m.), together with news with programming. and information slots from a variety of alternative news Community Aid Association, C;A.R.P., Children by Choice. GENERAL AIMS AND PROPOSALS and information sources throughout the day in peak hour limes (defined in die "Programming" section). l/Hnoon-2,00 p.m. ~ Community Access Time (a) The general purpose of establishing an F.M. stereo (e.g. Conservation groups, consumer groups etc,)' t Broadcasting Station in Brisbane is to provide an alter (c) FinaUy we will play a role as a community access 4/ 2»00 p,m, -3.30 p,m, - Music, News, Information, native broadcasting source to the commercial stations Documentaries. for the tertiary and secondary student population. As station. Access rights will be given to groups of special interest to students. These groups have been defined by 5^ 3.30 p.m.-4.30 p.m. - Music, News, Information this group is scattered throughout Brisbane and Us Access timejivailable to groups specifically interested suburbs we wish to transmit to the whole Brisbane the Union as (a) all tertiary and secondary students; and (b) groups wUh specif interests in education, con in secondary education. Metropolitan area. The station wUl aim itself at the 13- &/ 5.30 p.m., - 7.00 p.m. - General Access Time and 30 age group as the student population lies roughly servation, consumerism and community action. student news, f within this category. Unlike the frequently illogical, contradictory and 7, 7.00 p.m. -10.00 p.m. -• Evening Show (music, news disparate nature of some community access station student news, specialized music programmes, e.g. jazz, Tertiary and secondary students are considerably programmes, this radio station would provide access to folk, etc.). dissatisfied widi the existing commercial stations' res groups with related interests, thus resulting in a greater ponse lo the sophistication of their musical' tastes. Internal logic and coherence. Saturday and Sunday - Programmes 0;'r aim is to provide a station which will address itself V 7.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. ~ Music, News, Student News, li this audience without the limitations (necessary or Public access guaranteed rights wUl be mainly oper Information, Time calls. self-imposed) of commercial radio. Examples of the able in off-peak times (see section on Programming). 2, 5.00 p.m. -10.00 p.m.- Specialized music pro limitations of commercial radio are their reliahce on the Individuals, groups and organisations are guaranteed a grammes, e.g. jazz, folk, etc. , documentaries, news, two to three minute disc to accommodate advertising minimun of ten minutes and a maximum of Ihirtj' information, three hours available for general access demands; Uic use ofthe 'top forty' and Us consequent minutes on-air access time per appUcation per montii. time, -j- disregard of music trends indicated by album sales, These limitations can be extended at the discretion of t (Thus a possible 44.25 hours are avaUable for 'access concerts, rock films,etc. ; the censorship by commer die Station Management. radio', however, where this time is not being utilized, cial stations of songs with controversial social or poHt music will be substituted.) ical comment; the artificial promotion of certain! artists, record companies, concerts, etc., evident at PROGRAMMING PLAN various times. It is proposed that the Broadcasting Station wiU INTERESTED PEOPLE operate between the hours of 6.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m. -Anyone interested in technical aspects of the The station wUl also attempt lo cater for a broader, seven days a week, (i.e. 16 hours per day; 112 hours station or any part of programmuig, publicUy, etc., less linear, musicaUy-oriented audience with a variety per week). contact Media Committee, Old Sports Union ofiice, of'hard rock', 'prog-rock' (English Progressive rock), upsiairs in the Union Building. RhyUun and Blues, Country and Westem, foUc, jazz The daUy programme wUl be defined on a working- and classical music. In doing so, we hope to break the basis of 'on' and 'off peak ratmg hours, ouUined as continual monotony of'top forty' programmes. We follows: wUl also aim al giving opportunities for local artists Monday to Friday *Basically F.M. is Hi-Fi radio. It is capable of stereo (musicians, composers,etc.,) lo broadcast live, and thus transmission, and a much -wider frequency range than feature groups and individuals largely ignored by comm I 6.00 a.in. • 9.15 a.m. peak rating hours (morning) existing A.M. radio. Because nf this you will hear deep ercial stations. ^ 9.15.a.m,-4,00 p.m. off peak bass notes (drums, etc.,) and high treble notes (bells, ^ 4.00 p.m.-5.30 p.m. peak rating hours (afternoon) etc.,) which fust sound blurred in A.M. If you buy a radio in the near future make sure'it has F.M. Also (b) While the central emphasis is on music, we wUl also ^ 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m. off peak ^ 7,00 p,m, -10.00 p,m. peak rating hours Evening) make sure the F.M. section is in the international F.M. aun at provkling an alternative news service lo the band 88-108 MHz. One end ofthe dial will read 88 and commercial stations' services. the other end will read 108. For Orientation Week we Saturday and Sunday will be transmitting at 93 MHz. ^ These established services frequently trivialise news, I. 7.00 a.m. • 5.00 p.m. peak rating hours avoid controversy and disseminate information with a I, 5.00 p.m, • 10.00 p.m. off peak Jim Beatson TAX FREE EMPLOYMENT QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY REGIMENT Walcott St., Behind International House
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RADICALJOURNALSFOR EVERYONE! JOURNALISM The Science courses in general do not encourage com The New Journalist, Aust., a radical perspective on ing to terms whh social issues with the result ihat slu Behold! lest you are led into the paths of boredom, the media written by people working in the Australian dents seldom develop a social or polilical consciousness irrelevency and^falsehood in lectures and assignments, media industry. or even an awareness of the relationship between society here is a guide to journals which present alternatives. and technology. One does not merely become a geologist: They provide critiques of the syslem in the tradition of PHILOSOPHY one becomes part of Ibe whole syslem which values tech social relevency and action, rather dian academic "ob- * Daedalus (formerly American Acad, of Arts & Scie nological expansion and huge profits for mining com jectivity" and inaction. Some are I^arxisl, New Left, nces) AS36.A4 panies and ignores the questions of aboriginal land rights, even liberal journals with occassional radical contribu * Diosenes AS4.DS long-term resource planning, for example. Likewise, a tions, others do not necessarily incorporate a social * Ethics BJl .16 doctor is not realty coming to terms with social reality - critique e.g. ecological journals. * Inquiry, Oslo BI.154 unless he/she understands the class nature of sickness - * New Hungarian Quarterly higli infant morlality rate amongst aboriginals, occupa Two musts - if you wish lo keep abreast of radical * Philosophy and Public Affairs, U.S, BI .P558 tional accidents for the working class, addiction lo tran- thinking in a broad spectrum of areas - political, sociol- quiliscrs for women al home, heart disease for business ogical, economic, literary, ecological - read Ramparts PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK men etc. and New York Review of Books. Ramparts is the more An important area, but unfortunately the library general: New York Review is more academically oriented. Most of the journals are ecological and they are listed carries few anti-psychiatry journals. Case Con and Red according to the libraries in which they are available. To use the old cliche, which still Holds true, "Ifyou're Rat should be available shortly. not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." Ecological issues have largely become trendy causes for * Journal of Marriage and the Family, U.S. HQI .M28 So become aware of the important social issues of the die middle classes, hence their availability, but there arc * Journal of Social Issues, loccasionali good issues oilier crucial issues. The whole relationship of Ihc scie day aild pari of their solution. HN51 .162 nces to capitalist economics needs analysing and alter * Rough Times, prev. Radical Therapist RC4S5 .R68 natives proposed, for example,lhe use of allernative ARCHITECTURE, TOWN PLANNING * Social Policy U.S. HN5I .SS4 technology based on public usc.not private profit, the (More journals and articles wanted) SOCIOLOGICAL agricultural and developmental needs of the Third Worid. Ecological Society of Australia, Proceedings, Vol. 7 If you know of journals of even articles which deal with "The City as a Life System" Many of these journals would be also useful for stu these issues, please notify Union Office of your find. dents of Economics, Government, Philosophy, Social Progressive Architecture 720 PRO Work. BIOLOGY LIBRARY ECONOMICS * American Academy of Political and Social Science, Advances in ecological research, London, abo in Many important radical critiques of the economic Annals especially Sept. 73, March 74 issues. HI .A4 Vet. Sc. library S74.S ADV system appear in journals which are not specifically econ * The Center Magazine, U.S. JC421 .C4 Ambio, Stockholm QH540 .A23 omic, because critiques of the capitalist economic system * Dissent, Aust. HN! .DS Annual Review of ecology and systematics, Calif, necessarily encompass attacks on all aspects of cultural, * Dissent, U.S. HXI .DS8 QHS40 .AS3 social, political life which are governed by Ihe economic * The Insurgent Sociologist, U.S. HMI.1S2S Ceres. F.A.O., Rome, also in Vet. Sc. lib. HD9000.1 .4 system. It is essential for serious sludents to keep track * Journal cf Marriage and the Family, U.S., sometimes Eco Info, Brisbane S900 .E25 articles on sexism and women HQI .M28 of journals of philosophic, political science or sociological Ecological monographs, QHS40 .E28 * New York Review of Books Z1035 .AIN46 bent wherein radical analyses of the economic system The Ecologist, London QH540 .E295 * Politics and Society, U.S. HI .P83 Ecological Society of America, QH540 .E29 appear e.g. New Left Review, Ramparts, New York Re * Praxis, Yugoslavia, BI .P7 Ecological Society of Australia QHS40 .E293 view of Books, Marxism Today, Journal of Contempor * Radical America (on order) Ecology. U.S. QHS40 .E3 ary Asia. * The Radical Therapist, N.Y. RC455 .R26 1971 Ecology Today, U.S. TD172 .E34 * Science and Society U.S. (Marxist) HI .S33 • Economy and Society, Brit, HI .E2S Environment, U.S. (quite good) TDI72 .E498 * Social Forces HN51 .S5 * Intervention, Aust. (not yet available) Environmental Control, Brisbane TD189 .5 * Social Policy, N.Y. HN51 .S54 * Journal of Economic Issues, some radical contribu Environmental Research QHS40 .ES6 * Social Praxis, The Hague, HI .SS tions HBl .J63 Journal of Applied Ecology, Oxford S3 J86 * Social Problems, U.S. HNI.SS8 • Pacific Research, U.S. HI .P3 The Journal of Ecology, Cambridge QHS40 .J86 * Social Research, N.Y. (liberal) HI SS3 • The Review of Radical Political Economics, (New Natural Environment Research Council, London * Social Theory and Practice, U.S. HM33 .S6 Uft approach, usually non-Marxist) HClOl .R43 S900 .N3 * The Socialist Register, Brit. HX15 .SS9 • Science and Society, U.S. HI .S33 New Sctentist, London QI .NS2 * Transaction, U.S. HI .T72 * Social Research HI .SS3 New Zealand Ecologist Society QHS40 .N414 Oikos, Copenhagan QHS40 .03S2 Once a year die American Econ. Assoc, conducts dis WOMEN'S STUDIES Operculum, Qld. Litoral Society S900 .06 cussions of both mainstream and radical issues which are Physiology and Ecology, Kyoto 574.1 PHY Of value to all students of social science as well as usually quite valuable. They are published in the May The Soviet Journal of Ecology, N.Y. QH540. S68 social workers, and to all women whatever your faculty. issue each year (Papers and Proceedings) of the American Tropical Ecology, India QH540. T7 Economic Review. * Acta Sociologia HMI .A3 * Journal of Social issues HNSl .J62 OTHER LIBRARIES EDUCATION * Ramparts AP2 .R19 * Refractory Girl * The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist 539.7 BUL (Central) * Chemosphere, Oxford, QH540 .C48 (Chemistry) Dr. Ted D'Urso ofthe Education Deparlment has * Women: A Journal of Liberation (on order) * Oceologia, Berlin QHS40 .03 (Botany) compiled an excellent comprehensive bibliography which * Women's Studies, London HQI 101 .W65 * Ramparts, Calif, excellent {
creational. Takes up great chunks of your time, if you t. CIGARETTES let it - psychologically habituating, even if not physic Common Names: Smoke, fag, butt, cancer stick; ally addictive. Sometimes feels like 'a high for all sea coffm nails. sons' diough. Chemically: Nicotine. Origins'. Grows in the ground, gets harvested, chopped 3. AMPHETAMINES up, refined, adulterated and oUierwise plasticized by Commonly: Speed, Meth,etc. cigeratte companies. Chemically: Methedrine,Dexedrine,Bcnzednne,etc. Ddstribution: The straight capitalist way. Big com Origins: Synthetic. Drug companies make it and are pany production, mass advertising of different versions behind much of the iUegal sales. of die same thing. Rip off prices. Distribution: A littie by prescription, but mamly the black market racket. Hard to get consistently in Queens land. Consumers: Truckles, examinees, journalists gomg for a deadline, all sorts of people who feed on tension. Opponents: Doctors, pigs, people who live with speed freaks. If you take it: You can talk, Uunk, write, study, draw for days and weeks witiiout food and sleep. Wrecks nerves and appetite; all types of depression, psychosis, Consumers: About half the population. It's easy to paranoia, violence. You get very solidly hooked and BEAN get sucked ui, especially if you like Stuart Wagstaff. will probably last four or five years. Opponents: All types again, particularly headmasters and medical researchers. If you take it: Mild relaxation, excuse for socializing, CHAIRS phallic satisfaction, reduced breathing capacity, bad taste in moudi, bad breath, lung cancer. If everybody took it: Lung cancer index would jump, govemment revenue increase. Good Combination: Cigarettes and alcdiol. Cig If everyone did: A (crazy) fucked society vwdi veins arettes after sexual activity. of tension throbbing in the main streets. Murder and Typical Users' Sentence: (While taking friend's insanity; a little brilliant (but unfinished) creative work. cigarette) "I gave up four limes last week," Good Combinations: Hard to say. Don't mix with Opinion: Hollies are much cheaper. Feel unfit. Gets alcohol. Can be used to get over die long come down you throu^ exams and most things. Ditdi it by 35. on acid. Typical Users' Sentence: "Well I went dovwi town 2. MARIJUANA (LEAVES. RESIN. not because I was late but the clock wasn't working and EXTRACTS OF RESIN) I was unemployed so the school and the school's learn ing and the school's idea and the school's people weren't Commonly: Dope, Grass, hash, hash oil, roach. Other interesting before I started work 1 hadn't been to bed names are dated (e.g. weed) or becoming trendy again for twice as long as the needle pulled out underneath (pot), and should be avoided. die skin and 1 was white I didn't go to the beach ' Chemically: Cannabis Sativa. Opinion: It can sometimes get you through the deadline crisis, But speed kills.
4. ALCOHOL (BEER, WINES. SPIRITS) all sizes Commonly: Piss, booze, amber fluid, plonk etc. CliemicaUy: Etiiyl alcohol. Origins: Hops, grapes, barley and other natural good ies that change chemically under fermentation. Culti vated, refined and bottled commercially Ihough the odd Origins: Grows wild, unproves quantity and quality home-brewer is stdl qierating. to cultivate it. Some background production but mainly Distribution: Big company distribution, A bad rip m hands of big growers. off; a lot of it goes to die govemment in sales tax. lowest Distribution: Illegal. Grower, dealer, transport, Consumers: Virtually everyone at one time or anodier. metropolitan sub dealer, sub-sub dealer, consumer who'll A sizeable muiority several times a week (about 10% of buy an ounce. The closer you get to the source the less the adult population is regarded by social workers as you'll pay, but really the only way to avoid being ripped ' alcoholic", i.e. wth a drink problem of greater or prices off is to grow your own. Don't buy from cops, they lesser magnitude). rob you and might bust you as well. Opponents: The disappearing wowser elenient. The Consumers: Apprentices the highest users, followed dedicated dope freak. Children whose parents drink a by. students. Usage expanded enormously in the last lot. two years; die most unlikely people smoke dope includ If you take it: Yougetloose,sodalize, aggress, talk uig politicians and police. Trendy academics and young a lot, escape somethhigs sometimes. Headache, digestive professionals are right into it. upsets, sweaty exhaustion, impotence, brain damage. Opponents: Politicians, pigs, priests, parents, brewers. Addiction. People who've g^ven it up. If you take it: Relaxation, mcreased perceptual powers, peace, concentration, spasmodic and inconsis tent mind excitement, sleepiness, mcreased imagination, loss of memory. It depend »bit on what exactly you're .coking, but generally dope enhances and emphasizes whatever state your body and mind are in. If everybody did: Most people get vety lazy with too much dope, and who would want to pick up the rubbish, eh?
If everybody did: A bit more carnage on the roads. Good Combinations: Wilh dope, as above. Have your dope first, or just have a littie at the end of a drink- uigbout. Typical Users* Seiitence: 'Suck more potatoes; strain die piss; diunder the fenret; exercise hi the old Paciacsea." freeform factory Opinion: You develop a tolerance to the stuff, but unlike dope its always possible to get really smashed if showrooms you have enough - i.e .booze doesn't lose its kick witii constant use. And when you're sick ofthe others, it's the standby. But it makes people, stupid, and physically AT ill. Good if there's notidng better to do either wiUi . Good Combinations^Beer and grass. Spirits and dmgs or a clear head. 70 high street, toowong. grass or hash (tiryTequiia ~ that's brilliant). Dope and' acid; which brings a trip on agahi ^en you're comhig 5. TRIPPING (LSD, "MESCALINE". 1322 logan road/ down. , • MUSHROOMS) Typical Users* Sentence: "Have you got any papers?' Commonly: Acid, Mes, Magic Mu^es; various broad mt. gravatt. Opbiion:' Nice,but subtiy degenerathig. Hard to work names such as English clearllght, Californian sunshine, properly on anythit^ but the best grass; really only re- purple hare (the last actually an ' >D/1 , uixHi re and MmparflorMt ill rather dangerous - PC? is a monkey tranquilizer). 6. COLOUR TV :' demand, heroin, in money terms (diough illegal) is tiie' Chemically: D-Lysergic Acid Dietfiylamide; Commonly: The white elephant, Uie rip-off, tiie"bi g largest import item in the United States. Cocaine is even 3,4,5-Trimetiioxy-phenetiiylamine; 3 (2-Dimentylamme); more expensive; not neatly as much gets sold though. EthylindoM^ldihydrogen Phosphate. Heh, heh. con. - the lounge room light show. Chemically: Prettiuspictirus onasillius littieboxus. Consumers: Junkies? Come from all walks oflife - Origins: The design studies of evil big TV-companies, more likely to be young dian old, however. Il must be admitted that quite a few smoked dope and tripped be who dedded tiiat the black and white box wasn't suck fore hitting, sniffing or smoking narcotics - but then ing you in enough. Yes? No! Aesthetic, sensitive tech most of die people who smoke and trip won't gpt into nicians icseaiching mto better ways of adding to your junk, ever. The 'association' between dope and narco sensory experience. tics is diere, but only because they are distributed Origins: Mushrooms grow after sun and rain,espec Distribution: (At insane prices) By people who can ially in summer, m two main varieties - Goldtops and persuade you it's a 'meaningful' status symbol. By Blue meanies. Don't take chances. Try one to two benevolent art connoisseurs. Tnediura-sized ones at firstAcidi s synthetic and can be Consumers: The masses, at an exponential rate. No, laboratory produced fairiy cheaply if you can gel hold the lucky ones. ofthe chemicals. Mescaline in its real, organic form is Opponents: The politically aware. The fucked-up practically unobtainable and synthetic mesc is too ex ideologies. pensive; what is sold as mescaline is usually acid mixed If you take it: A rapid deterioration sets in; you with other, more dangerous substances. develop vegetable tendencies, including severe eyeball Distribution: Big black market business down the fatigue and the appearance of being glued lo the seat. dope dealing cham; also some backyard production. ' Ah, but..,....you see lots of pretty colours and nice Bodi are of extremely variable quality. Apart from effects when you fiddle with die dials. mushrooms which you pick yourself, die psychedelics If everybody did: Then colour TV would have taken are vety unreliable -don't believe your dealers; there's over. Slowly the worid would crumble as everyone sat more sales hype widi acid dian any odier drug. Genuine staring at tiieirscreens . Buildings break, cities starve, clearllght is about die safest bet. populations die of disease. The survivors would exist "Are you In a rush for this?" Consumers: A scattered cross-section; particularly on canned food, placed within an arm's reach of their tiirough die same outlets (tiie same dealers) and thus, drop outs and students. The acid craze is well over now, permanent positions. The human being in the past share the underground. If you legalize dope, you break but it's recentiy regained popularity in die U.S. and could always adapt to new stimuli as it evolved, but ties between it and narcotics; the latter canbe isolated.... we'll probably follow in Australia, as usual. Mushrooms colour TV would be too strong now. Food production if this is desired. have a bigger public, particularly among surfies and. Australia is getting a lot more junkies (tiiere'Il be a Victorian visitors at Noosa. Junk scene at Queensland uni by die end of this year). Opponents: Almost everyone else. Tripping changes This is because there has been a great increase in the the human personality fundamentally, and this is amount of heroin imported in the last six monlhs. The seen as a threat. big Asian markets are coming here. If you take it: Hallucinations, extremely sensitive Junkies are pretty fucked. touch, taste, smell,hearing. Try fucking. A million new Bui all die narcotics are great highs, and provide a ways of looking at everytiung, all simultaneously, IcniptaUon to many. And some do try it once or twice, hicreased ego. Loss of ego. Self acceptance or transcen say "great" and quite happily never touch it again. They dence. Freak outs (maybe 5% of trips, diough some don't hooked. people never get bad ones at all); ego destruction, psy Question mark, Question mark. che exile; increased cultural awareness, detachment; Opponents: Non-junkies, except for those who've burnout. tried it a bit and stopped diere. If everyone did: If acid was dropped in the water If you take it: You've got a good chance of getting supply jnass freakouts. If everyone wanted to trip hooked, loss of appetite, overdose, death; needle scars a crazy society - materially deprived (though you can and hepatitis (heroin, morph); slow destruction of gums, do most things quite competenfly when tripping, you fmgers and nose (cocaine); endless husding for money don't usually choose to bother), perhaps artistically and using peopk^ till tiiey're dried out (all tiiree). fascinating though bizarre; widespread psychosis. would stop, the ams gradually run down. One thing If everyone did: We would have a poorer sophistica Unstable. only would be maintained - power for the TVs them tion, a smaller world population. The main crop would selves. Footpedat generators would be set up in each be heroin. This would result in a new social cuUure. In Tm no square, mani" home lo power tiie receivers; tiietransmitter s would run a new heroin-based culture for instance, an overdose m on a roster system - Imagine people doing their shift ecslacy would replace, for everyone, our own deaths in at die station, shifting (bigger) pedals up and down, all pain. Pethaps death would be thus made attractive, the tune keeping their eyes on the 120" screen placed of course it wouldn't last all tiiat long, in tiiat case. on the roof above. Good Combinations: Heroin and various pills. If Eventually one man and one woman would be left. you get hooked, ask your pusher which pills to use - Siltuig in front of tiie box still; peddling rhydimicaliy. hell know. See how thin they are, how weak and emaciated. Their Typical Users' Sentence: "No, it's 80% pure, 1 tell final baked beans were 18 days ago; they are in dieir you". Good Ck)mbinations: Tripping/dope, tripping/ last moments - the last moments ofthe human race. Opinion: Unsure, as I said under 'consumers'. But speed. Mushrooms and acid together are interesting, And what is on the screen? Ads. indined away, to a degree, at the moment. once. Marxism and acid. Good Combinations: Colour TV and blinkers. Or, Typical Us«s' Sentence: "Wow!" Also, "What tum down the sound, put a synchronized tape on and time is it." look at the pitcher. Opinion: Handle ti-ipping very carefully indeed. Typical Users' Sentence: Guggleguggle-glob-glob- Some people shoidd never trip at all, odiers can handle glob-gobble-gook. a fair number of tunes but virtually everyone has a limit Opinion: What? What!!?? Hang on, I'll tum down (even Tim Leary stopped, after 650 tabs). Try small the sound for a moment dosages at die beginning. Trip infrequendy and keep a 7. NARCOTICS (HEROIN, MORPHINE.ETC.) dose watch on its effect on your personality - the dan ger is disorientation and bum out. Mushrooms are Commonly: Junk, dope; smack, blow, white lady safest - you know what you're getting - but tiiey are (heroin); morph, the bottie on die top left hand shelf poisonous in very lai^e quantity. Medical evidence on you noticed last Ume you were in the chemist's (mor tripping is conflicting, but it may cause chromosome phine); coke, blow (cocaine). damage. It's an enormous buzz and can open you up, Chemically: Diacetyl-Morphine (Herom); Morphine Final Opuiion: You have both sides (mixed up), on perhaps worth trying once. If you do so, be positive in Sulphate (Morphine); Methylester of Benzoylecogonine certain drugs - whedier you should take them is up to your attitude to the drugs, too much fear causes bad (Cocahie). you. Yes, botii sides die world can't always be seen trips. There is more doubt about tripping than any Origins: Plant life (nature can be nasty). Refined, in dualities, but the adversory mediod served this article other drug experience; pros and cons are bodi very packaged by big crime empires, die Turkish Govemment well. Myself, 1 don't know what lo diink about drugs; strong. in Turicey's case. I change my mind all the time Distribution: The biggest rip off of all - because ils U's a lot of fun (and thus shouldn't be seen in serious always a seller's market. Because ofthe prices and the terms) but it gets a hold on you (which is serious). Which person is really sure how much sway fun should have in the ideal life? O Simon Maiginson > > > < I ) I
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From time to time, the Union prints Union News, often for (he specific purpose of providing information The Senate. - Conlrary to some opinion students happen to be The Senate is the governing body of the University persons with ordinary human feelings and experience on some important topical matter, but also to provide details of forthcoming events. with power to act in accordance with its decisions as like the rest of the community. This university of ours to what best .serves the interests and purposes of the compnses a large body of people who, in David- Ries- Members of the Union, Executive are at all times ready to deal with relevant problems, give explanations, University. Among its 33 lo 35 members are the Union man s words; experience themselves as 'the lonely President and two other students elected by the students crowd'. You may have felt this when you first arrived and so on. You have Faculty Representatives on Union Council. four elected staff members and three ex-officio (includ here, or you may be feeling this right now as you read ing the Vice-Chancellor), eight elected members of Con this printed word. One way of getting to know people Their names are available at Union Office. There are also vocation (the body of graduates), 11 appointed by the is to find a group of persons with whom you can share Area Reptesentatives on Union Council and a Part-Time Governor in Council and three church leaders. a conimon interest or concern. The Counselling Ser Vice-President. vices can assist you in this matter because one ofits To assist the Senate there are over 100 regulariy You are entitled to attend (but not, unless you arc a constituted committees which submit reports and rec concerns is with the setting up and providing of group Council member to vote at) any meeting of Council. experience. ommendations through the regular committee structure. The Senate has a Committee on Improvements to the Any proposal requiring a change in rules and statutes, The radical change for some students.first, in leav University which welcomes suggestions for improving and most requests involving substantial expenditure ing home and coming to board in Brisbane or live in the quality ofthe University's functioning. Any indiv MUST be approved by the Senate. College, and second in substituting a fairly-ordered idual student, or group of students wisliing to make a Many proposals, and especially those involving school life for a less-ordered university life can be quite suggestion could leave their suggestions at the Uni changes in course rules, have been so carefully consider bewildering. You may find that you have to be around versity enquiry office. ed eariier by other committees that their approval is a here for a while before you know what university life formality. However, the Senate at times refers matters is all about. 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What not to do until your lawyer arrives
The scene is a normal suburban house just waking up on a normal week-day morn The rightsofth e uidividual in such a crucial situation (a criminal conviction can ing. Tiiree ominous figures appear at the door - " drest in a little brief authority ". A affect a person^s career or future employment) cannot be safe-guarded if a laissez- half-dazed face peers out the part-opened door. At once the face crumples with guilt faire appfoach lo police practice is allowed. Society has an obligation to ensure that and when the gentlemen deliver their famous arrest lines - "You ore under arrest", the . a person has an adequate chance to defend herself/himself against aJl charges that intimidated victim confesses all. Another victim signed, sealed and delivered. Confes may be levelled at him. The position of the defendant is further weakened by the sion admitted, they are dragged offfor further questioning and fmally brought before invariable bias of the Courts in favour of police testimony. the court with little avenue for legal defence because of self-admitted guilt. For the above reasons, the following guide of what to do and what to expect if arrested was prepared with the help of the Vice-President of the Ciwl liberties Assoc The above is not a script from "Homicide" as quite obviously the gentlemen forgot iation (Queensland), Frank Gardhier. their lines "You have die right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent. Aiiything you say will be written down and may be used against you as evidence." The above If approached, you are required to ^ve only name, address and occupation. If incident is a living memory in die mind of a certain member of Union Council and is further questioned, you do not have to answer, but can ask if there is any charge. If not at all a-typical of tiie ignorance concernmg civil liberties. the police take you forquestroning but refuse to specify the charge.go with them but The episode inspired the Public Rights Committee to write this article to enlighten try to make It obwous diat you are being taken involuntarily. Try also to get someone students of their rights. This is part of their general aun of providing legal advice to to make a note of the incident so that it can be further mvestigated. This could be students. A solicitor will be available for consultation at a time to be arranged. Any difficult, but would strengthen any further action taken. All abuses of your rights one requiring legal help can reach the Committee through Union Office. It is to be should be reported to the semor officer at the station to whfch you are taken. Also noted also dial students te^eiving a Tertlaiy Allowance can now seek legal advice with report the abuses to the duty soUcitor at the court whereyou come for a hearing, and the Australian Government Legal Aid Office (M.I.M. Building, phone 29 2994). to your own solicitor. As Mr. Gardmer stressed, the fear of bad publicity Is a deterrent agahiiit police misusing their authority. Ask for legal representation as soon as a charge Many people who have been placed in the position of being questioned by the pol IS laid or as soon as you are taken to a station. If you are questioned at the station you ice, or who have been arrested, will attest to the often intimidating nature of the pol still have die right to remain sdent. The officer m charge of the watch house will enter ice approach. Past demonstrations (Springboks, Freeway, for example) have shown the chajge and take your personal belonguigs. Note everythuig - particularly any abuse of personal rights which can occur. Sociely excuses police action readily as it money, when it is taken. If a statement of any kind is given to you to sign the best seems important for Uie institution of autiiority to be maintained. For instance, thing is to refuse to sign until consulting your solicitor. ' . where a confession is gotten involuntarily ^ dial is - a person not knowing that, s/he can remain silent. It Is often considered all part of the process of catching crbniftals. A final advice - don't be intunidated by the police (or you will be your own Whether the person even understood the charge, or had prejudiced his or her worst enemy)and don't be afrakl to seek legal akl. defence, Is a secondary consideration.
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transportation. Specially budt monster trucks have to travel the normal highways from all parts of America with their extremely lethal cargo, thus providing excel NUCLEARnightn,are? lent opportunities for hi-jacking but alone accidents of terrifying consequences. It was not until recently that One of the many by-products of the Arab oil embar perfect. The present value of Plutonium (S 10,000 per laws were passed to ensure even minimal security for go is the search by Westem industrial nations for alter kilogram [2.2 pounds]) makes it an attractive black these trucks. It is estimated that by 1980,150 truck native energy sources. In the vast majority of cases this market commodity therefore making tiie possibility of loads of deadly material will be on the road each year in has meant coal and, increasingly, nuclear energy. The nuclear terrorism even greater. the United Stales. Comrnon Market Countries are al present planning a A characteristic of nuclear power generation is that These dangers aside, the possibility of disaster at the massive increase in nuclear power plants, which helps components of the nuclear plants have to be replaced sites of Nuclear Power Plants themselves is also quite explam Mr, Whitlam's ready welcome by those coun regularly, requiring the highly dangerous used-parts to possible. The recent spate of natural and man made tries, ' be decontaminated. This involves the transporting of disasters in Australia demonstrates the susceptibility of In fact if the woild continues to increase ils use of these'contaminated parts to specialized processing Nuclear plants to random and unavoidable accidents. uranium at the present rate, Australia and a few other plants and as there is only one in America this creates Replace Cyclone Tracy with a massive earthquake and countries, will very soon be in a similar situation regard problems regarding the safety of the products during think of the disasterious consequences it would bring if, ing uranium as the Arabs are witii oil. However, many as is probable, the station blew up. It is obvious the environmentalists hope we never reach the daunting siting of Nuclear Power Stations is going to be a very possibility (imagine Malcolm Fiascr as a latter-day King hotly fouglu issue in the future. Faisal). Tlie reason for this is that the production of Some optimists have suggested that as a solution to nuclear energy car'ies with it immense problems which the problem of nuclear wastes, ihcy be loaded on a unfortunately have no apparent solutions. Saturn rocket and shot into the Sun. This suggestion One problem is the fact that the products of nuclear may sound plausible until one-considers die possibility fission such as Plutonium are extremely dangerous. On of it exploding in the atmosphere and the destruction the scale of lethal doses Plutonium is at least 20,000 such an occurancc would bring (possibly the evaporation times more toxic than cobra venom ot potassium cy of the ozone layer). Tliis therefore means that thc-waste anide and 1,000 times more toxic than any modern ner will have to be guarded, possibly by an international ve gas. Different radioactive Wastes are lethal for up to force, 24 hours a day for the next quarter of a million a quarter of a million years. years. So, for a long period in the future (assuming that humankind survives dial long, which is a highly dubious Apart from the possibility of contamination ofthe proposition in itself) there is the possibility of disasterous environment, materials such as Uranium 235 and Plut accidents or terrorist atrocities due to die hasty dec onium 239 will have to be under constant surveilance as isions of this generation. these wastes can be used to make atomic bombs. Only 22 pounds of Plutonium is needed to make an A-bomb, it seems obvious that Governments, including the arid tiie technology is definitely available to any enter Australian Government, are criminally disregarding the prising individual or terrorist group who wish to make a dangers and misinforming the public. This is because bomb, one doesn't even need a nuclear physicist. These they are desperate for alternative energy supplies and facts are rather distressing when you consider tliat in can see no alternative. In the short term this may be 1965 a company that manufactured fuel for nuclear warranted but in the long term solar energy is the only reactors reported to the United States Atomic Energy solution. It is essential that the major priority of our Commission that il could not account for over 200 national power source, research and developmeni pro pounds of higldy enriched Uranium, enough material gramme should be in this direction. It is imperative to make a half-dozen or more A>bombs. It said the that action should be taken to prevent the Whhlam material was probably lost with other waste but could government allowing Uranium mining and processing in not be sure. Australia. A campaign for this purpose is being planned nationally and youi support is requested. D Recently in America there have been cases when John Campbell employees have successfuUy stolen small amounts of Plutonium proving that Nuclear Plant security is not (Joint) Local AUS Environment Officer
New Zealand was surveyed as a potential site for the base and because of massive public opposition was OMEGA: navigation or forced to drop the scheme even before the New Zeal and govemnient was officially approached by the U.S. Tliis was primarily because of tiie danger of losing their nuclear missiles ? independence to the U.S. and because any civilian nav igational aids would be lost due to the size of New The possible establishment of an Omega navigational teck.onil^g equipment are accurate within the range of a few hundred feet. However, these devices can only be Zealand. The Omega signals cannot be received wilh base in Australia could become one of ttie big-political any stability within a 600 mile radius of the base. issues of 75 - assuming public'opinion is not sidetrack used in specific areas and at particular times, whereas the underwater propagation at the very Low Frequency The civilian advantages have probably been stressed ed by challenges to (he govemment and a deteriorating because Department of Transport (Minister, Mr. C. economy. This is mainly because of die division of Omega waves, would mean unlimited use, witiiout de tection. Jones) has been one of the most fervant supporters of opinion as to wheUier the base wouli.be used exclus die proposal. The other reason for diis stress is probab ively as a navigational tracking station, or primarily as a Such checking of die dead reckoning equipment made necessary by the errors which accumulate in the ly that the ratiier shaky federal Labor government was navigational checkpoint for nuclearmissde submarines. afraid of stirring uppubUc opinion against American Those Ul both factions are becoming increasingly vocal scheme require adjustment every few days The second major advantage of the scheme to supp bases in Australia, diercby potentially jepardizing their in their support and opposition. Tius has been induced already politically unstable position. by the "Pailiamentaiy Joint Committee on Foreign orters of it, is that of search and rescue. As the Omega The issue has recently been made current by two Affairs and Defence on die proposed Omega Installation system will offer worldwide coverage, all aircraft and British aviation journals which reported Omega signals in Austialia" which received submissions in 1973, but ships can be equipped with a small, inexpensive unit, coming fiom Australia, possible from Queensland. In now seems lo have been shelved. which when turned on emits radio waves which can be detected by the Omega base^ thereby directing rescue response lo litis. Senator Bishop, (P.M.G.) ordered a The majorily of these supporting die proposed base, squads to a grounded plane or sunk ship. Dr Crouchley 24 hr. check to ensure that a base was not operating view it exclusively as a navigational base, being of pri said: "This would mean that such rescue operations ' without Australian knowledge. Dr. Croucldey said that maiy aid for merchant ships and aircraft. In tiiis sense which presently take up to weeks, could be completed "these signals were probably due to a combination of it is quite essential for Australia to have a base, to com in a few horns. Because ofthis alone, I feel thai a signals from Hawaii, Japan and North West Cape. plete tiie world wide network of bases. These bases are base in Australia would be justified and especially when Although North West Cape does not operate on as in Hawaii, Nortii Dakota, (U.S.A.) Norway, Liberia, the civilian navigational advantage is considered." low a frequency as the Omega stations, in combination Japan, Le Reunion, and Argentina. Aldiough ships and Those opposed to die system, view it exclusively as with two others under certain condiiions a signal could planes in die Australian region can receive signals from a navigatipnal aid for nuclear missile submarines, declar be picked up". Japan, Argentina, Le Reunion and Hawaii, they are not ing that it is not of sufficient accuracy for ships and Tliis was furtiier complicated by statements by Joh sufficientiy predictable; and as an accurate navigational aircraft. Supporters however claim tiiat the 3 mile acc Bjelke-Peterson stating tiiat' "Queensland would accept aid this is not satisfactory. uracy for ships is sufficient when the present dead a U.S. Omega communications base ...(Qld) would Those supporters of die scheme whd regard the base reckoning system can accumulate errors of up to 100 welcome anything which could assist the U.S. as allies exclusivejy as a navigational aid, discount die potential miles. in war or peace". use of the system by nuclear missile submarines on the Despite this assurance, Queensland geograplucally basis of accuracy, Because, although signals can be re Tlie olher arguments of the opponents are related to would not be suitable for such an Omega station. To ceived by submarmes at a depUi of 30 feet, an antennae the potential use of the syslem for nuclear missile sub- provide maximum navigational support it would have can be used, allowing die submarine to'remain even maYines. This they claim would make Australia more to be further soudi. The proposed situation is in the deeper. There are yJready navigational checking devices vulnerable in time of nuclear warfare, as an Oniega base Riverina, between Kerang and DeniUquin, about 100 for such submarines which give an accuracy in the vic would be attacked by "die enemy" because ofits value mdesfroni Albury. inity of 100^^ of feet; to the other side. Because of its use ,as an aggressive base, Australia is Understandably this site has been opposed, because Dr. Crouchley, Senior Lecturer in the Physics Dept once again endangered in time of war. if il is able to be used as a navigational base for nuclear who prepared a submission for the pariiamentary This argument dierefore hinges on Auslralian in missile submarines, it would endanger Sydney, Melb enquiry, supporting die scheme pointedout that: "As ourne, Canberra and the area (and people) in between. a check for the dead reckoning devices used by such dependence. However, Dr. Crouchley, regards this It is now an issue which should be watched with submarines, the Oniega system would be accurate only exclusively as a value judgment which he summed up by interest by Australian citizens, the issue basically boils in die range of a mile; which may mean correcting a saying: "Why cut off your nose to spite your face", and down to whether Australia wants to add another U.S. 500 foot displacement by a mile, thereby Increasing the as he regards it exclusively as a navigational base this base to the 30 or so already In the country, D error. The Loran C and Transit Global System present argument Is quite valid. The Australian Government is ly used by nuclear missile submarines lo check their dead quite unique in pressing the civilian uses of the scheme. Julianne Schultz 14 , lempwflOTMt INTERP^ATIONAL
Kissinger Escalates Oil War Debate
"Let's try the low-cost option-war," suggested a told Middleton tiiey opposed Kissmger's views, ex note circulated at the Camp David meeting of Presid pressuig feare over the effect of unilateral U.S. military ent Gerald Ford's energy advisers ui mid-December. action on die already shaky NATO alliance. Just a few days later, Secretary of Slate Heniy Kiss Despite cunent Pentagon reservations,conting inger for the first time explicitiy suggested die poss- ency planning and traming for Middle East inter ibility of U.S. miJifary intervention to seize Middle vention reportedly have been underway since the East oil. October War and die resultingoi l embargo m 1973. The U.S. press reported last fall dial marmes have In his widely publicized interview with "Business been training for desert warfare in the westem part Week", published Jan, 2nd, Kissmger said aldiough he of die U.S., and last week, following Kissinger's considered mililary action on oil "a very dangerous statement French television reported that the Pent course", he would "not say Uiat there's no circum agon has been testing out die terrain of tiie Mcdlter- - stance where we would not use force". Kissmger ranean. r., added that he was thmking not of a dispute over oil prices, but of "some actual strangulation of die ind "Has Kissinger tiie gunboat diplomat succeeded ustrialized world". Kissmger the Nobel Peace Prize winner"? a French TV newscaster said January 7tii, inti:oducuig a film Kissinger's statement set off an inunediate domest clip showing a recent landing exercise on a Sardhiian ic and hitemational furure,but it received full support beach mvolvmg 1,000 U.S. marines from die Sixtii from President Ford, hi an mterview with "Time" Reet. "The implication", the "New York Times" magazine published January 12th, Ford was asked to reported, "appeared to be dial the marines were clarify the term "strangulation", which critics charge practicing to land in Arab oil-producing countries". is vague enough to justify intervention at ahnost any time. The President said only, "Strangulation, if you While some top Pentagon officials may be re translate bto terms of a human being, means that you luctant to joui die Kissinger-Ford-Sdilesinger militaiy are you are just about on your back". Two days action team, the fqrce option is being strongly supp later, Secretaiy of Defense Schlesmger expressed his orted by other administration strategists. "In the concunence with the admiidstration portion that the backr^ms 'of Washington", columnist Jack Anderson U.S. would use force if strangulation of die Westem reported Januaiy 6th, "alarmed policymakers are industrialized world were threatened. calling for a showdown with the oU*producmg count ries before it is too late. They want President Ford, The Slate Department sought to downplay the lo serve notice upon the oil potentates that present sij^ificance of Kissinger's origmal comments to oil prices are ruining tiie Westem wotld, and, there "Business Week", and some columnists and editorial fore, constitute hostile action ... If a peaceful settie- writers portrayed tiie secretary of state as simply stat mcnt cannot be reached, they believe nulitary inter ing the obvious. Kissinger himself complained in a vention will become inevitable". CBS television interview Januaiy 17tii, tiiat his remarks had been taken "totally out of context" and tiiat he had been referring to a confrontation that was "started by die producers".
Nevertiieless, the Kissinger-Ford-Schlesinger tiireats reportedly come from die Pentagon. "New York Times" niUitary correspondent Drew Middleton report of militaiy intervention have been taken seriously The sources quoted by Anderson called for an ed Januaiy lOtii, that "Senior American and Western around die world-from Europe where tiiey aroused "early diowdown" to reduce die risksmvolve d m European militaiy officers consider the seizure of anxiety, to die Arab states, where they have met with piilitary intervention. *TTiere has been muttering selected Middle East oilfields militarily feasible but anger, to die U.S., where tiiey have intensified the inside the NATO policy councils against U.S. moves in politically dangerous." The military men consulted, already growing debate over whether the U.S. diould the Middle East," Anderson reported. Consequentiy, Middleton reported, "recoiled from the idea of 'force' lake military action to secure Middle East oil-and if the backroom strategists believe that "If the U.S. because ofits political impUcations". so, when. should side with Israel m a new Middle East conflict, the allies likely would close their bases to the U.S. "We could do it all right", one U.S. general told There has however, been oppoation to die military and die 30-year, post-war Westem alliance would Middleton, "but would tiie country stand for it? I option within the administration. Despite Schlesinger's break apart". D endorsement, the coolest response to Kissinger's sugg- . doubt it. The *no more ^etnams'.trauma is still very estion of military action against the oil producers has powerful". Top European generals and admirals also International Bulletin
U.S. AMBASSADOR THAILAND
Notes President Ford's nonfinee for U.S. ambassador to A two day protest headed by Thai students forced Venezuela has come under sharp criticism hi Caracas former mUltary dictator Thanom Kittikachora into for his prior diplomatic service ui the Donunican Re exUe for die second time on Decenioer 29*. Thanom BOLIVIA pubUc and Chile. The nondnee, Harry Shlaudeman, had returned to ThaUand allegedly to visit his aiUng served in the Dominican Republic just after U.S. mar father; Ten thousand miners began a four-day strike on . ines landed there in 1965 and was later second in Januaiy i3th, to protest the shutdown of four radio command of the U,S. embassy ui ChQe just before the As a result of his role m die killing of seventy-two stations in Bolivia's central nunuig district. One station overthrow of the AUende govemment. civiUans durii^ a shidentJed revolt in October 1973, belonged to a Catiiolic order and the other three were Thanom is considered Uie "Number One Crinunal" of operated by the mmeworkers' union. Bolivian troops Shlaudeman's nomination last month was immed Uie country. The revolt led to Uie overUirow of his took over the stations in a pre-dawn operation on Jan iately attacked by left-wing poUtical parties in Venez- govenunent and his first exUe. uaiy 13Ui. The govemment charged that Uie stations ula who accused hhn of beuig a CAA. agent and play When it was learned Uiat Thanom had reappeared in had waged a campaign of subversion to discredit the hig a dhect role in the coup against AUende. Last week, Bangkok on December 27Ui, students demanded Uiat militaiy regune of Hugo Banzer. criticism of Shlaudeman spread to aU ofthe countiy's he be tried for the murders and sentenced to deadi. major poUtical parties, including die Social Christians However, die Sanya regime cited "poUtical considerat A govemment spokesman called the stations centres and rank and file members of the ruling Action Demo ions" as Uieit reasons for deporting Thanom instead of of poUtical agitatton and subversion and said they viol cratic Pirty. bringing hhn to trial. D ated a govemment decree issued in November outlaw ing all actwity that does not contribute to "social Shlaudeman was deputy chief of mission hi Santiago peace". He raaintahied however, that the government's from 1969 until a few montiis before the September action does not mean that it has lost respect for freedom 1973 coup. He has been described as one of the most Dr. HAN SUYIN of the press. hard-Une opponents ofthe AUende.govemment then The leading Westem Autiiority On CWna serving in the U.S. embassy. At one of his hst appear Accoidbigto'the government, the Catholic station ances before a congiesdoiul coounittee in June, l^laud- crrv HALL was the only one broadcasting legally, since the other eman denied any U.S. connections wiUi the right-wing 17th FEBRUARY, 1975 it Span. three were oflficially dosed in November when all mUitary coup in ChUe. Since then, it has been revealed ticksu — labour oigaidzations were outiawed. The stations have tiiat C.I.A. dhector WUUam Colby hhnself has adcnow- BOB BROOK »l-ao (ttudents) served as a voice for miners' social and economfc de ledged major CIA. hivolvement in efforts to "destabil Saerntary Auitralia China Soc. mands under a number of Bolivian governments. • ize" Uie ^ende govemment. • P.O. Box 360, Nth Quay. tempor flortat
the Larrains, the bourgeoisie as a group faced tremen dous problems in recreating a society that would once again respond to ils exploitative interests. The workers' struggle to create a socialist society had severely crip pled the economic, social and ideological power of the bourgeoisie. Due to the UP's* socialist policies on the one hand, and the U.S. economic blockade on the othei, Chile had loosened its ties wilh the capitalist worid. U.S. and western European banks closed their doois lo Chile, thereby cutting off much ofthe finance and trade that fed the bourgeoisie and capitalism ih Chile. After the coup, the reintegration of Chile into the capitalist fold became the immediate imperative facing the bourgeoisie. To do this it proceeded on several different fronts. First, the bourgeoisie dismantled the country's poli tical structure, Under Allende, the parties of the Popul ar Unity coalition had used the Chilean political system to further the interests of ihe workers and to threaten the privileged position of the upper class. The bourgeoi sie realized this, and moved quickly lo crush die very institutions which it had created decades ago. Thus, the The U.S. Government contuiues its intervention ui This is especially crucial given the growing awareness junta abolished Pariiament ahd banned or placed in re Chile, Now, though, instead of spending mUlions to of U.S. dependence on other nations for raw materials. cess all ofthe Chilean political parties. "destabilize" a democraticaUy-elected govemment, it Latm America in particular supplies the United Stales Along witii this, the bourgeoisie attempted to destroy spends mUUons to "stabUize" a repressive mUitary govern wilh many key minerals, as well as providing the third working class organizations and consciousness. During ment. The effort calls for new tactics, new operations, largest market in the woild (after Canada and the Euro the Popular Unity government, the workers and peasants even some new operatives; but the basic apparatus has pean Common Market) for U.S. exports. As John Dun became increasingly aware dial the principal enemy changed Utile since 1970; can, president of St. Joe Minerals and former head of standing in the way of their own dignity and well-being W.R. Grace's Latin American operations put it in For The July-August NACLA Report* and newspapers was the Chilean bourgeoisie aUied with foreign capital. tune magame: over the past month carried stories with detailed infor To contain tiiis growing consciousness, the mditary after mation about U.S. activities in support of anli-AUende The U.S. is becoming a have-not nation, and the Latin September 11 murdered thousands of workers, outiawed forces in 1970-73, The story leaked on to tiie front Americans are haves. Our relations with them wiU die central labor confederation, and imposed new labor pages on September 8 with die news that CIA Director become more important to us out of self-interest, laws that lengtiiened the work day, denied die right to WUliam E. Colby admitted to the House Armed Services quite apart from history or sentiment. It wUl be im strike, and did away with much of the protective legis Special Subcommittee on InteUigence that the United portant to have access. lation won in previous stiugglcs. States had spent some $11 mUlion on covert activities Kissinger's Chile poUcy, and now his so-caUed "good Ideological control and blatant repression ofthe work designed (1) to keep Allende out of office; and (2) once partner" poUcy are aimed partly at avoiding the possib ing class are not sufficient to compeltely reintegrate he was elected, to get rid of him. The money went most ility of blocs of commodity-producing nations which Chile into tiie capitalist system. The Chilean bourgeois ly to anli-AUende middle class strikers in their efforts might foUow the example set hy the petroleum export- ie itself must receive nourishment from abroad, from the to create economic chaos and force the military to inter mg nations and form cartels in an effort lo increase pri flow of foreign capital. Historically, tiie bourgeoisie has vene. As one source put it, "There were a lot of people ces. In fact, there have been three recent examples of always looked to foreign investors for assistance, espec in Santiago on the far rightwh o were essentiaUy dedica- attempts to organize such groups: representatives of 7 ially in developing the mining and industrial sectors. By tii^ their lives to the overthrow of AUende - it was like bauxite-producing nations met in Guinea in March 1974 1970, virtually all of Chile's leadingTinancial groups and a holy war. These people were increasingly seen at the to form a producer group. The world's four largest cop families possessed links of one form or another wilh embassy in 1972 and 1973." per producers (Pera, ChUe, Zaire and Zambia) met in Austria in May to discuss long-term mechanisms for sup international capital. Conscious of the critical role of Overseeing the covert activities, as well as the U.S.- porting the price of copper; and seven banana-producing foreign capital, aftei^the coup the bourgeoisie reaUzed sponsored credit blockade of ChUe, was Henry Kissmger, nations recently formed an oiganization to seek higher that il musl reopen Uie flow of capital from abroad it it then assistant to the president for National Security prices for bananas. were to survive and flourish. Affairs and head of the "Forty Committee" which is So far, Kissuiger and other poHcy makers have used But the task of attracting foreign investors is espec supposed lo regulate the CIA's covert operations. "He both the "hard" and "soft" appioach in dealingwith ially difficult at this moment in worid history. Cor personally chaired - for maybe as long as 10 or 12 weeks the Latin American nations in this time of increased U.S. porate executives in the United Slates and Westem - a working staff group deeding with economic sanctions," need for their raw materials. Clearly, the coup in Chile Europe may wish their class aUies in Chile success in one source told New York Times Reporter Seymour and the recent appointment of hard-line ambassadors to their efforts to revive capitalism, but the world trade and Hersh. Another source added ... "Kissmger, in effect, Mexico (Joseph Jova) and Argentina (Robert C. Hill) financial crisis facing the multinational corporations became a ChUean desk officer. He made sure that policy represent one approach. Nations which threaten U.S. forces them lo be extremely cautious in selecting liew was made in the way he. and the president wanted it." interests will be dealt with, as always, harshly. investments. Moreover, three years of expropriations There is UtUe reason to believe the situation has chan The "new dialogue" or "good partner" policy re and the signs of growing Resistance make the foreign ged much in the year since theco^, though now the presents the soft-gloved approach, the recognition that investor exceptionaUy wary of Chile. To overcome the funds go to "stabflize" junta-raled Ohile. Indeed, sym; the United States wiU have to give on some points that reluctance of international capital, the bourgeoisie must bolicaUy and objectively, ChUe is more important than don't really matter in order to win on ones that do. Thus, provide exceptionaUy attractive temis for foreign invest ever to tiie U.S. rulmg class. in meetings in Mexico and Atlanta, Kissinger and the ors. Through the return of foreign-owned industries, the Latin American foreign ministers have met to discuss payment of compensation to Anaconda, the abolition of Like Vietnam it seems destined to play a central role such thorny issues as the Panama Canal and Cuba. The leftist political parties and neariy aU unions, and the at this point in histoiy for the foUowing reasons, among United States is prepared to yield a little ground on both repression of die workers, the bourgeoisie hopes to de others: these issues; since the alternative might encourage anli- monstrate to international capitalists that Chile will be (1) The coiip in ChUe, and the current rescue opera U.S. blocs which could push for more threatening con a safe and lucrative environment for their investments. tion, should be seen as part of the post-Vietnam "imper cessions. The recent appomtmcnl of WiUiam D. Rogers Thus, die needs and the imperatives guiding U.S. ialist counter-offensive", where tiie United States tried as assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs policy makers and the Chilean bourgeoisie complement to make up for economic and poUtical losses incurred should also be seen in this light. A former deputy U.S. each olher. While Kissinger in the post-Vietnam era is during the long Vietiiam War. In the world ofthe 70s, coordhialor of the AUiance for Progress and former de carrying out an imperialist counter-offensive aimed at the United States has to fight for economic survival; puty assistant administrator of AID, Rogers is a "Ken isolating and eliminating insurgent threats in their early the rapprochement with Uie Soviet Union and China, nedy liberal" who supported die termination of die AID-, sponsored Public Safely Program, which once funded stages, the Chilean bourgeoisie is using all the tools of and the tough new international economic poUcy moves repression to try to control the Chilean working class. of 1971-72 reflected this reality. Put whUe accepting the training of Latin American police officers; he also supports ending the blockage of Cuba. As one Washing And al a time when Third World nations are forming the fait accompU ofthe Soviet Union, China, or even cartels to charge the United States dearly for its raw Cuba, the United States could not sustain further losses ton observer put It, "HeU keep Kennedy off Kissinger and RockefeUer's backs whUe they call the shots". materials, the Chilean bourgeoisie is pleading wilh - especially in its own back yard. Thus the U.S. govem multinational corporations to open up new investments ment helped overthrow AUende and now plays a key And so the imperatives of empire dictate continued in ils mineral-laden counlry. Together ihc U.S. ruling role in a counter-revolution meant to pul an end once U.S. supported for the junta. However, there are con class and the Chilean bourgeoisie form two sides of the and for aU lo the tiireat of commum'st insurgency in the tradictions facing U.S. policy makers that will make same coin; each needs ihe olher as they attempt to stem southem cone of Latm America. As we shall see, the their job impossible. First, they face in Chile an organ the tide of class waifare and revolution. D United States is fighting a losing battle. ized Resistance that dms to wage war against the junta (2) As a leader among Latin American nations, and and ils U.srGackers. Second, the policy makers face •This article is reprinted from the October 1974 NACLA Report as an important'producer of raw materials (mauily cop tremendous opposition to their rescueprogram s in Con per), Chile receives special attention from U.S. policy gress and in die U.S. public. •UP - Unidad Popular - the coaUtion of political parties nutkers. The possibUity of a successful "Chile model" THE NEEDS OF THE CHILEAN BOURGEOISIE which won the 1970 Chilean presidential election. (Including tiie nationalization of natural resources)unde r Allende was especiaUy threatening to U.S. corporate These, then are the mipeialWes and contradictions • elites. Furtiier, they know tiiat now they must help dial guide U.S. policy towards the junta. Within Chile, prove that Uie pro-U.S. semi fascist Chilean re^me this policy complements die needs of the group that has "works", dial the junta can sell out its countiy's re been restored to its old position of economic piemin- sources and StUl promote economic growth. In this ence - the Chilean bourgeoisie. Tiiough the military way, tiiev hope to make Chile a model (lUce BrazU) for proceeded to restore industries and lands to old, wealthy the raw materials producers of the world. families such as die Edwaids, the Yarurs, the Mattes and 16 s«mperflorut 1 LOVE SPORT BECAUSE I lOVE by YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO I IFF'
One of the little-known facets of Yevtusketilio's background is that he nearly became a soccer player instead of a poet. The day after his first poem was published - in Soviet Sport - he reported with a hangover for his initial session with a famous coach. "I explained that I had been celebrating my poem, and was abandoning sport as a profession," Yevtuskenko recalls. "The coach said,'You wiU be a great poet.' I asked why. 'Because,' he replied, *to sacrifice the career that I promised you, you have to be a fool, and all fools are poets.*"
The well-known formula, "in a healthy body a heal For me, our great poet Pushkin was the supreme em famous goalkeeper ZhmeUiov, of die Moscow Spartak thy mind," is a highly dubious one if applied universally. bodiment of such harmony. He was a briUiant and cult team, who was a scout at the front line, was noted for In the normal view, a healthy mind is, above all, a kind ivated man. But be was always able to wash the dry dust his abUity to catch enemy sentries without making any one. But Hitler, for an example, spared no expense on of books off his lips whh bubbling champagne. He was noise. He would creep up on a sentry and make one of the physical education ofyoung people, with aims quite the philosophical focus of his epoch, and yet he was his famous leaps. His goalkeeper's grasp served him weU. other than the development of kindness in them. For aU capable of looking al the worid with the eyes ofa chUd I have read diat John F. Kennedy, an athlete in his stu his genius, puny, sickly Nietzsche could not have imag who has escaped from the supervision of his strict nurse: dent years, was able to swim for hours once during the ined that his abstract idea of a superman would bear ' History. war, cariyi:ig a wounded comrade with him. Sport, sinister fruit in the splendidly trained muscles ofthe SS which had been only a hobby for him, helped him in a and Hitier Jugend. A healthy body was not much use Even whUe Pushkin was stUI alive he stood on a gran real fight for his own and another person's life. for phUosophizing but it was extremely useful for tor- ite pedestal of fame created by his own efforts, but he luring and killing. Cruelly was reckoned as a sign of a was always able to gel off that pedestal, jump on his When the Ukraine was occupied, the Naas arrested healthy mind, and kindness as a sign of spiritual weak waiting horse and ride right up to the porch of his wait almost the entire Kiev football team and proposed that ness, "Healthy cruelly in a healtiiy body" was the way ing mistress. And he adored sport. He was a boxer, a it play a match against a German army leam. The invad the formula was written for these young wolves. fencer, a marksman, a swimmer, a horseman and a hunt ers let it be understood that if the Ukrainians were sound er. In the biting cold of Russia (as low as 50° centigrade ly beaten, they would receive their freedom; but if they 1 do not want to make any offensive comparisons, below zero), he would emerge lobsver-red from his bath, won, it would mean a buUet in the head. The Ukrainian but it seems to me that while the actor Sean Connery leap out into the snow and roll around in it, shouting footballers agreed to the match. When the news of this (certainly a nice enough fellow), worn out by his hyster with delight at the joy oflife that filled hun to over spread through the town many people called them trai ical fans, dreams romanlically of playing the lofty part flowing. He always carried a heavy iron rod with him, so tors. The stadium where this historic game was lo take of Hamlet, his own James Bond, rippling his steely bi that his arm should not grow weak and so that his pistol place was fiUed with noisy Nazi soldiers and the silent ceps, demonstrates and propagates on the screen the should not falter if he had lo use il. It is true that on populace of Kiev. For the Ukrainian foolbaUers victory seductive cruelty ofthe modern superman - an anti- one occasion the pistol did falter, but that is another would be the equivalent of a death sentence. Every ball Hamlet. Hamlet's question is: "To be or not to be?" story. shot at the opponent's net was a bullet aimed at them Bond's question is: "To beat or not lo beat?" And selves. Nevertheless, the Ukrainians annUiilaled die Nazi pimpled youths fidgeting on sweaty seats in packed team. After the match they were executed. Peopi'j theatres bum witii the desire: yes, yes, we ought to be who saw this game said that die Ukrainians played as like Bond, just as strong - stronger than anyone else in never before. For them die game was an expression of the world. And they lift weights, and learn judo and Iheir hatred of the enemy and a way of raising Kiev's boxing, infected with tiie disease of a "supermanism" morale, which had fallen after the destmction of the that stimulates their vanity. city and its occupation. Had they ever thought how. dearly bought a victoiy on the football field could be? Fine if this stage passes away with adolescence. But Sport helped them show the enemy and themselves the what if it faUs to pass? What if throughout your life spiritual strengtii of their people. your chief instinct is self-preservation, leading to tiie doubtful goal of superiority over others, sometimes by I could give you many examples of how sport has 'Walking over odier people's bodies? The instinct for helped men in dire situations. BuUders ofthe hydro self-preservation is often a deceplive one, the more so electric station al Bratsk used to go aqualung swimming if it is SpeciaUy cultivated. When you are perpetually in the Angara River - as a hobby, naturally. But when ready to hit out, this readiness sometimes makes you the filters became blocked in the dam they had built, expect a blow from someone who has no intention of the men risked their lives by going underwater with aqua altackuigyou. From a broader point of view, many lungs to clean up die filters. Thus they managed to save nations have begun wars only because of a delusive in whal they had created, A Moscow policeman who was stinct for self-preservation. a weighllifter in his free time once saw a bus full of peo So one of the dangers of the cult of the healthy body ple roUing downhill and realized that the driver could not as superior to the mind is its transformation of man into do anything about it, since the brakes had given vyay. beast - sometimes a beautiful one, a delightful one, but Catastrophe seemed uievitable. The policeman picked a beast nevertheless. Another danger is a kind of athletic up a large stone and, tiirowing himself at the bus, mana narcissism, which leads to the most extraordinary stup ged to ^l the stone under a wheel. The policeman died, idity. PbysKal-training fiends with Iheir chicken-sized but Ihc lives ofthe several dozen passengers were saved. Pushkin was short, poorly proportioned, ugly. But So body helped mind, and mind, fortified by body, help brains and idioticaUy hi^e pUes of muscles impress me he overcame his own ugliness, both tiiroUgh his aware ed to save people. as pitiful and unfulfilled human^beings. How pathetic ness ofa trained mmd and through his awareness of tlK is the basketball player who, at his first sight of the strength of his body, a physical strength cultivated by I myself look up sport relatively late in Ufe, 1 grew Eiffel Tower, can see in it only a basketball net tumed his mind. up in a peasant famUy in a Siberian settiement called upside down. How pathetic is the tennis player for Zima, and for people who spend all day dragging heavy whom, as for a prisoner, the world is dwlded into little If we are to believe our sources, Pudikin's contem porary, Uie English poet Byron, who was lame, heroica sacks and felUng ships' timbers it seems funny to streng squares, because he sees it only as if through a tennis then one's physical condition through special exercises, racket. lly swam the Hellespont.'in spite of his physical disabUity. Old age is also a kind of disabUity, and Leo Tolstov 1 remember once when a visitor from Mosocw came to Of course, i do not mean that it is obligatory for every overcame old age by going oul riding every morning till see us. In Uie morning he begaii to behave in a strange boxer to read Hemingway. Even studying Hemingway the end of his long life, gray beard fluttering in the wind. way for one of his solid years. He went out into the and learning the whole of him by heart is not going to yard and began jumping up and down and waving his help a boxer who has no talent. But if a talented boxer The feeluig of one's own disharmony makes a person hands around, without any rhyme or reason. At the does read Hemingway, he will, in my opinion, be an suspicious, jealous and spiteful, and such malevolence lime 1 did not understand that this was known as gym even better boxer. The former coach of the Soviet foot crushes a person's inner capabilities. Often physically nastics, and I Uiought Uiat our guest had gone out of ball team, Boris Arkadyev, used to tell this story about a strong people behave unpleasantly because ofa feeling his mind. My grandmother thought the same. She certain young footbaU player: "Once at a training ses of mental inadequacy and, conversely, people whose superstitiously made the sign of the cross in the direction sion, we were standing looking oul over a riveran d minds are well educated sometimes behave unpleasantly of our visitor and, attempting to expel the devU from watching the sun rel. It was an incredible sunset. 'Well, because ofa feeling of phyacal inadequacy. Only a har within him, whispered: "Begone, evil spirit!" how about it?' I asked the player. 'Does it do anything mony of the two elements leads lo kindness, and kind to you?' 'What do you mean, do anything?' he asked. ness is the fullest expression of one's humanity. Thus Uie concept of sport was unknown to me in my 'The sunset, of course - docs il do anything to you?' ChUdhood. It's tme when I was a child I used to ski for For that reason I am a most fervent supporter of 50 or 60 kilometers at a time, but not for fun. My ' 'Why should it do anything? Whal do you think I am, sporl with a capital S, and I pity people who are not a pri or something?' friends and I used to break off cones from Siberian ced fond of sport, as 1 do people who are mentally undeve ars in Uie hungry war years, and look in the snow for ' 1 had to axe him from the team. There was not much loped. After aU, sport helps to uncover not only physic cranberries and whortleberries, made the sweeter by Ihe hope of making a real footbaUer out oi him if he was al potential but mental potential as well. In the 20th frost U's true that v\»n I was young 1 was taken hunt- such a fool that a sunset did not have any effect on htm.' Centuiy the mind has a hard lime, and in difTiculi mo mg, but, once again, it was by no means a leisure activi- ments the body can help the mind - and the other way ty. It was a necessity of life. We used to hunt squirrels, The composer Shostakovich once told me a story around. sables and bears. Even now, when 1 see bears in a zoo, about a certain musician: "Yes, that man has gol some I feel vaguely guilty. thing, 1 think - but he is a peculiar fe!low, you know. How many people ui Nazi concentration camps were saved by physical exercises, which they did in rpite of He once asked me^if it was tiuc that I was fond of fool- As a'boy, 1 worked side by side with grown-ups, all difficulties? It Is an interesting fact that In particular ball, and I said yes, I enjoyed il. 'Well', he said, 'I never floatmg laige logs down the shallow Siberian rivers. Of ly strict camps exercise was forbidden. The guards knew would have thought it!' Now what kind of composer is course, this was heavy labor, but, at the same time, it that some people survived only because of it. A certain he if he is so scornful of football?" I agree with Arkad was a sport, a remarkablybeautifu l sport for those who yev and Shostakovich. Physical and spiritual shortcom Soviet pole-vaulter was a prisoner of war in a camp sur were fearkss. How much athletic skiU you need to guide ings arc equally pathetic and ugly. If ihereis anything rounded by electrified wire. One night he broke offa the rafts bciween the menacing rocks rushing toward that we shouM be striving toward, it is the harmony of long pole on which a Nazi flag had been flying, and with you, cloudy with spray! Your legs grow into the raft, our whole bdng. its help leaped over tiie lethal wire and escaped. The your arms into the rudder, and you and the raft together semper rtoreal 17 dance, whiri and leap on the swift current, playing with Russian comes lo visii them and drinks all their wine bepn placing the ball riglit, left and centre, cutting it death. Yes, it was a sport, since true sport is always a and now he goes and drowns. I sank my nails first into and hitting unexpected shuts. In brief, I realized I was jduel: a duel, with nature, with one's own fear, with one leg, then into the other, until the blood came. What pitted against a first-rateplayer . one's own fatigue, a duel in which body and mind are saved me was my long fingernails,whic h my wife scolds But Moscow vs. Cambridge having been declared, I strengthened. But I had one shortcoming: I could not mc about. Tlic cramps stopped, and 1 gol to the shore, had to keep my end up, come what may. The room had swim. I carefully hid this from my friends, and in the saying nothing to my hosts, of course. From that time meanwhile filled with students. They appeared to be ;>4cariy morning, the victim of vanity, I would go down to on, I have never cut my nails too short, just to be pre cheering me on, and that gave me confidence, Bui the the river and try to teach myself to swim. 1 tried to pared for anything. But it is much better to keep a pin olher boy was simply unstoppable. He won almost every learn all the styles according to the textbook - the in one's swimming trunks. point. I became wet through, took off my shirt and shoes breastslroke, the backstroke, the crawl, but the only and played in socks. But even my striptease was no help. one that came to me readily was the dog-paddle. In the In any case, 1 love the water and everything connect ed with it, if wc exclude drowned people,'cramps and 1 was hopelessly behind. Tlicn I noticed that my oppon end, life itself became my swimming instructor. sharks.. ent had weakened his shots and was yielding lo me some When 1 was 14 I worked on a geological expedition in what. Evidently he felt rather sorry for me, and, in ad What else do I like? I like the snow arid the ice, and the Altai Mountains, One day, while cariying heavy dilion, traditionally English politeness was playing its all kinds of winter sports. Wlicn I am tired ofthe rou * rucksacks full of geological specimens, we were walking- pari. Admittedly, I lost every game, but by a respectable tine cares oflife and feel that I am growing pelty and along a mountain path above a river. One of the geolo score - only a difference of one or two points. The empty, I put on skis and go into the forest. The forest gists slipped and fell inlo the river. He tried to struggle students noisily acclaimed my honourable defeat as if it fills me with its stern beauty, which is not subject to ^ against the current but was unable to get his rucksack had been a victory for me; apparently, this quiet boy mundane cares. There I can think about things, as if I off, and the weight of it pulled him down. I did not was the champion of Cambridge.. were in a white church built by nature itself. In the stop to think. 1 took oul my hunting knife and leaped forest I always think 1 am about to glimpse through the uito the water to save him. I got to him and with my snowy branches a princess from a Russian fairy story, knife cut through the straps ofthe rucksack. Then 1 asleep in a crystal coffin. helped him back to shore. It was only al this point that 1 remembered I could not swim. I also learned to use Alpine skis. How fine it is to fly along on Ihem over the glittering snow, clad only Nowadays lam on the friendliest terms wilh water. iri shorts! 1 came lo love the unexpectedness of turns, ^ I can swim 10 to 15 kUomelers without stopping. 1 the steep drops and especially jumping. In some ways, prefer the breastslroke. In Yugoslavia I learned to water- being a writer is like being an expert on Alpine skis: ski; it is one of tiie most splendid of sports. I lilce to after a dizzying descent or a jump, one must climb back hold onto the bar, lean backward, almost touching the up again and again in order to achieve an even more water widi my head, and see the sky and water mingle dizzying descent or even more terrifying jump. Petliaps in one whirling, foaming mass. In the Crimea I learned this comparison of art with sport willseem .somewhat to swim underwater with a spear gun. Truth to tetl, I crude to literary snobs but, after aU, art, like sport, is a do not so much shoot as enjoy the remarkable beauty combat, and, above all, a combat with oneself. Real of a worid that was previously concealed from me. art, too, needs strong muscles. It is not insignificant Under the surface one has the feeling of being within a that our great poet Blok said of his writing of the poem ^ quivering, multicolored worid of mystery. Retribution: 'All the movement and development of 1 enjoy rowing, particulariy canoeing, but the one the poem became closely linked for me with the deve water sport that 1 think is altogether beyond my powers lopment of my muscular system. ^ is surfing. Last spring in Australia 1 stripped all the skin Allegorical verses are like dribbling and feintiiig at footbaU off my belly trying one ofthe damn things. I could a ruse to lead the defenders astray. never manage to stand on tiie board and keep my bal When, as a youngster, I began playing football, a bundle ance. Perhaps my total inability to maintain a balance of rags served as a ball, or sometimes a tin can. But 1 invited them all to my poetry reading. "Well, 1 in life was betraying itself. Incidentally, while I was en later on the real thing, made of leatiier, appeared on the don't really know much about poetry", modestly mur gaged in my fmitless struggle wilh the surflioard, some scene. I would play truant from school to meet my mured die table-tennis player, but he came along any one on llie beach said something several times in English friends on some empty lot, and we would play for hours way. And that was how 1 happened to give a poetry into a loudspeaker, and all the swimmers hastened to al a time, untU we were exiiausied. The goals were usu recital al Cambridge while soaked with sweat. After my ward the shore wilh unanimous alacrity, hi the inno- ally constructed from a pije of school briefcases, the reading the Cambridge champion came up to mc and *• cence of my sou! 1 Uiought il was the sacred lunch hour. exercise books lying idle within. I played on a team said with a smile, "Well, you won this lime, perfectly Westerners, despite being - from the Soviet, point of from our block, one that later produced many well- fairly. And I wasn't giving in easily." Since then I have view - undisciplined psychologically, nevertheless have known footballers. I certainly never guessed that 1 begun to play proper tennis. I am still an amateur at il, ^ extremely disciplined stomachs, I alone remained in the would become a poet, and could only foresee a future though, an amateur who tries very hard. sea, scornful of the herd instincts of Western stomachs, on the football field. Rock-climbing is also a sport I enjoy very much. I until a patrol boat roared up beside me and 1 was hauled I.played football until I was 16. I reached the first like the feel ofthe rope binding me to my comrades in, togetherwiih my ill-fated surfboard. "Shark, shark rank and had a briUiant future in sports piophesied for somewhere near the clouds. 1 like to feel the sensation you bloody bastard!" the infuriated steersman yelled at me. But, as it turned out, my first verses were published of conquering the sky, although, in the final analysis, il me. !3y that time my appreciation of the English lang at that time - as a matter of fact, they were about sport always wins the victory over us. uage had reached the point where 1 had a clear under - and my life moved from the expanse of the football standmg of die words "bloody bastard," but 1 thought Of the so-called intellectual types of sport, 1 once field to tlie narrow, smoky corridors of publishing hou "shark" was some kind ot Auslralian argot for "lunch", enjoyed chess, although I liave stopped playing it now. ses, where, incidentally, my experience in weaving and 1 resented this forcible attempt to make me eat at a Lenin is supposed to have said about chess: "For a game around defenders and in stopping penally kicks, as well set time. After a whUe I discovered the meaning of the it is too serious, but it is too much of a game to be taken as that unforgettable handshake, proved to be of use lo word "shark" and reaUzed diat I had nearly beeti some- seriously." Perhaps that is true. I once asked one of the me on many occasions. > body else's lunch. challengers for the worid championship, Boris Spassky, It somehow happened that from the society of ath "Tell me, don't you sometimes find that as a result of letes 1 fell into a society where the only sport was card- playing chess you have acquired the habit of working out playing. From 16 to 181 played cards for money pract in advance .all your moves in life, too? Doesn't that in ically every night but, fortunately, 1 managed to gel out terfere wilh life's spontaneity?" Spassky thought for a of that particular company, and I consider cards one of whUe and answered, "Well, yes, perhaps that does hap the most repulsive and soul-deadening occupations. Alas, pen. It's true that I am sometimes too calculating in a newly acquired bad habit remained with me from these certain situations in life. But life is the sort of opponent card games: smoking, which I am still unable to give up, who occasionally niakes such unexpected moves that no no matter how often 1 try. matter how much you want to, you can never think up a reply to it in advance." Later, when I was a student al the Institute, I skated and played voUeybaU and basketball. I relished cycling As 1 said eariier, I was amazed as a child at our strange and spent quite a bit of time on tiie bicycle track. 1 Moscow visitor who indulged in gymnastics. But now particulariy liked riding out on my bicycle in springtime gymnastics has become my trustiest ally. If I did not to look for wild cheiry blossoms. 1 would tie an enor do physical exercises, I should certainly never have been mous bunch of the cherry branches lo my handlebars able to keep up the appallingly hectic- tempo of my and ride back to Moscow with my face in the bouquet. life. No matter how tircd*l may be beforehand, no mat ter at what hour I have gone lo bed, no matter how much For several years 1 played table tennis,avidly, and in I may have drunk the night before, every morning I make that 1 also reached championship caliber. Some people myself do some exercises. Regardless of the weather 1 have a prejudiced attitude toward Uus sport, but they go out in the street with my black spaniel, Fedka, and are wrong. Table tennis is a splendid game, with a tre the two of us run for two or three kilometers and roll in mendous psychological as well as physical tension about the snow together in winter. Afterward, I go back home, it. The fairly small area ofthe table and the lightning and for about 40 minutes I work out with two small movement of the tiny baU provide marvellous lessons in Indian clubs (I have a long way to go before I can match concentration. Even now, when 1 am in a bad mood, 1 Pozhenyan's magical dumbbell). I usually accompany take a table-tennis paddle and play for several hours to this wilh music. Then I start wjorking. . Once 1 barely escaped drowning. I was staying with knock any nonsense out of myself and be able to con FeUini al his vUla not far from Rome. It was late at centrate again. In summary, I love sport because I love life, and sport night, and 1 love to swim al night. You feel as if you is one of the basic joys of life. Life is not very generous At Cambridge University, 1 had an amusing experience. are pushing the stars aside with your body. Despite the with its joys - they have to be seized by force. And lo There was slill an hour before I was due to read my verse protestations of GiUlietla and Federico, I went into the seize things by force, a sound mind and sound muscles in front ofthe students, and, as I wandered about the sea. 1 had swum about 30 yards from shore when I sud are needed. Symbolically speaking, had I not been an universUy, I came upon a table-tennis game. I asked the denly felt a cramp in my lefl leg. 1 had no pin wilh me athlete, I would have succumbed long ago to the many students if 1 could have a try, and they graciously agreed ""to jab into the cramped muscle. I tried to massage my blows that lifcsooner or later deals out to everybody. to let me have the next turn. The boy who was my op leg, but the pain did not subside. 1 started to swim to But 1 have a good abdominal press, as they say. ward shore using only one leg, but that leg, too, was sei- ponent seemed lo me not a particularly good player - ^zed wilh a cramp. 1 thought my end was near. Perhaps his style was defensive, without any strong attacking Even unsymbolically, the same is true. Laic one ''you may think this is a contrived afterthouglit, but, as moves. He proposed that wc keep score. I looked at the night a year ago I was walking home ihtough the dark God Is my witness, all I could think of was how awk- clock and agreed (o play a three-set match. "Moscow alleyways of Palermo when three nice fellows attacked ward it would be to drown in front of Giulietta and vs. Cambridge," said the referee jokingly. Wc started off, mc with not-so-nice Sicilian knives. Had I not been an Federico. Such nice people, I thought, and this uncouth Suddenly the unimpressive youth was liansformcd. He athlete, you would not be readingm y story today. • Jtt Samper floreat REVIEWS dead-pan delivery "Heroin"is a masterpiece as it swoops The Who are still in business and rock music wouldn't and dives, builds and drops, reaching back into the dark be the same without them. Quadrophenia is another est recesses of the brain. "White LigfitjWhite Heat" one of Pete Townsend's gems. It is definitely challeng .would have to be the tougliest song around and the ing and decidedly not background music. Since it is a instrumental work oul on "Rock and RoU" is a delight. concept album it must be listened to in that frame of Throughout, Reed's vocals have the tone of a detached mind. observer, making his lyrics all the more poignant. This Ostensibly, llie album deals with problems in the musl be the rock and roll Ihat saves your life. life of one Jimmy, a mod. However, Junmy is not near One of the most interesting and surprising records of ly as removed from us as he seems. And folks, as an last year was Aquashow by a young and little-known added bonus this album is full of great rock music, artist called Elliot Murphy. He treads the same ground which is always the case with The Who. Jimmy's mod as both Dylan and Reed, (in fact, his harmonica playing scene is still with us. Been to the beach lately? is more than similar to Dylan) and yet he retains his individuality. .Where Reed writes about city life, Mur So flow come the other tickets look much better? phy concentrates on the suburbs.* "Hangin-Out"vmA Witiiout a penny to spend they dress to the letter. "White Middle Class Blues" zzc particularly good in deal How come the girls come on oh so cool ing with problems common to us all. His literary pre Yet wlien you meet 'em, every one's a fool. tensions come through in songs such as "Like a Great ("Sea and Sand") Gatsby " and "Merilyn ". But his songs always woik, Between Nothingness and Eternity, the live recording and he says things about Marilyn Monroe that Norman of the first Mahavishun Orchestra, contains music wliich MaUer did not. The question of identily is continually FRAGMENTS OF CONVERSATIONS; is savage to say the least. Energy is the only word that being raised, but especially in "Last ofthe Rock Stars." REMNANTS OF DREAMS. comes to mind as the band blasts its way through the Who is the last of the rock stars three pieces on this album. "Dream " taking up all of For many of us, music is a very importanl branch of and me and you? side two, floats and soars, dazzles and races, and generally entertainment (or art). Being veiy flexible and adapt Rock and roll is here to stay. tears your insides out. BiUy Cobham drums incessantly, able, it can mean what you want it to mean and it can But who will be left to play? swiftly battling with McLaughlin's speed guitar. supply whatever you need. Even if it's only a little The concert by the new Mahavishnu Orchestra was peace and a good feeling, that's definitely soniething. The musical backing is always driving, yet remains subordinate to Murphy's vocals (reminding me of High the best I've seen so far. ("But was about ) With 1974 wasn't a spectacular year anyway, but there way 61 Revisitedj. Belter than either Planet Waves or brUtiant improvisation and extraordinary technique were a number of records 1 enjoyed hearing. The choice Sally Can't Dance - catchy tunes, intelligent lyrics and they made most other bands look as though they don't of those I'm about to write about is based on a com most important it's entertaining. even try. Their latest album. Apocalypse, while it is promise between personal taste and a nebulous concept only the bare bones of the concert, is stiU very good of importance in the worid of rock music. Which reminds me of my own description of another indeed. The music is more complex and classically record. Steely Dan's third album Pretzel Logic. Although oriented, due to the presence of strings and the London Bob Dylan is one of the few artists who deserve a it would be easy to describe Steely Dan's music in temis Symphony Orchestra. "Vision is a Naked Swotd" is the hearing no matter what your tastes in music are. His like "catchy" and "amusing", their simpUcity is decep best piece McLaughlin has written to date, always mov live release last year. Before the Flood, is most interest live. Their songs are subtly and delicately constmcted, ing on and suifacing at new levels. Not as intense as his ing indeed. Is il just a replica of the concert that none each one containing the most amazing guitar work. On previous albums, but more beautiful. of us could see? Is it a collection of Dylan's personal fav- a technical level the band is perfect. ourites?Or, even worse, is it Dylan being forced to give Another band whose concert I really enjoyed was us whal he knows we want lo hear?l think it is probably More interesting-StiU are the lyrics. For what it's Focus. I was disappointed widi their last double set. all of these and more. Whatever U is, it's great. worth, Steely Dan get their name from WiUiam Bur- Focus UI, but Hamburger Concerto is veiy much a re rough's novel The Naked Lunch. And whUe they are not There are no repeat performances here, and it would turn to form. "Harem Scarem " is a pounding rocker, direct descendants of Burroughs, tiieir songs display a fuU of surprises, and a more than adequate follow-up be ridiculoust o expect them. Change has always been definite weirdness, woven out of American place names, necessary for Dylan. Each song, brUUant in the original, •to "Hocus Pocus". Perhaps one of the most exciting fragments of conversations and remnants of dreams. 1 Uiings about their music is that it is quite unique, and a is reinterpreted by the '74 Dylan. Tlie most notable thought "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" was the best feature is his amazing vocal attack. He comes down on piece like "Birtii" defies description. The title track, single of 1974, and more than one person has said to beautifully perfonned in concert, is the highlight of the his lyrics wiUi a previously unheard force and bite. me that Pretzel Logic was die best album. WhUe not always successful, it is a clever tactic. album. The name "Hamburger Concerto " is a bit of a My favourite record of last year was Stranded, by joke on tiie obviously European flavouro f the piece. "Most Likely You Go Your h'a>'"is a forceful state English group Roxy Music. Bryan Ferry and his group ll is definitive of Focus music, displaying bolh their menl of Dylan's independence. "Lay Lady Lay ", once are pushing rock music into new frontiers. Their music technical virtuosity and their many influences, ranging a gentle plea, becomes a direct imperative. "Highway has progressed beyond the "progressive rock" of groups from 19th century classical composers to tiie Beatles. 61 Revisited" is given a new perspective and becomes a such as Yes, King Crimson and Jethro TuU. Ferry's All of it fused inlo a piece of music that is really good. new place altogether, whUe "Blowin' in the Wind", re music is ambitious, but he'retains full control at all Australian artists are up to some interesting tricks moved from die early '60's protest scene, achieves uni times. versal (and disturbing) relevance. And "It's Alright Ma", these days. Groups like Skyhooks, Ariel and Sid Rumpo perhaps the best performance of the set, is simply fero The band themselves are all great musicians and the are lop class. But a record 1 particulariy played often cious and yet somehow sustamhig. This approach is, music is always top class. Ferry himself plays some last year was Open Fist, the second album from John J. however, somewhat disappointing on old favourites Idee beautiful piano,'espccially on "Sidnset", but it is his Francis. Side one has seven of his songs, all stamped "It Ain't Me Babe " and "Just Like a Woman". vocals.which are truly astoundmg. He delivers his own with his individual touch, drawing on his own personal lyrics with obvious style and relish, savouring each word. experiences and observations. MusicaUy, he is both The musical backing provided by The Band is superij. He has a mastery of language whicli Dylan used to have. ambitious and progressive. He is not afraid to experi Listen to the guitar and keyboards on "Rainy Day Tracks Idee "Street Life" and "A Song for Europe" are ment with sounds, but always remains in control. Women" which really rocks. "Ballad ofa Thin Man " " nothing short of brUUant. The poetic concert displayed "Countryside Angelas" is especiaUy good in this way. is even sicezier and more pointed than the original. in "Sunset"and "Justlike You"is bothamusinjg and It overtays a sunple melody vrith various sounds of tiie Robertson's own songs on the album achieve new signi moving. And "Wofftero/fear/" is a classic. This is Uie' countryside and the resuU isbreathtakingly beautiful, '' ficance wiUiin the context of Dylan's material. "77ie real music of the '70's. Can someone be too clever? The music on side two bears comparison wUh Mike Shape I'm In " is tibe perfect sequel to "It'sAb-ight Ma" Oldfield's work, but it is more expressive and contains and "Stage Fright" is definitely Dylan's song: more feeling and conviction Uian either Tubular BeUs ' Y»-^^^*^^*»»»% »•* %»^^*^^*^»»%»»%^^^ See the man with the stage fright or Hergest Ridge. This album is a landmark in Austra Just standing up there to give it all his might, lian music. He got caught in the spotlt^t TOOWl Finally I'd lUce to plug two of my favourite guitarists. But when we get to the end he wants to start all over Leo Kotdce plays exceUent acoustic guUar, whUe Rory again. Gaucher is best heard electric. What they both have in TRE Yet, despite all I've said, this album is often disturb common is Uieir perfect control of the guitar as a mus ing. This version of "Like A Rolling Stone " is a com ical instniment, and the way they both continue to ex pletely different song. I'd never imagined it to be an pand and develop Uieir art. AU Kottke's albums are anthem or a joyous celebration. And I can't help fccUng good and his '74 release, Ice Water, best described as sometimes that Dylan is spitting his songs al us, contem TOOWONG MUSIC countiy music, is a delist to anyone who enjoys guitar. ptuous of this dredging up ofthe past. How many times CENTRE Gallagher has recently released a double live set entitled must he say it? Wsh Tour •74, containing the best material from his last 51 Sherwood Road :: Toowong two outings, Blueprint andTatto(^ as well as new tracks. h would seem dial 1974 was a good year to exchange (Opposite A.N.Z. Bank) old lamps for new. On Rock 'N Roll Animal Lou Reed One side with 'Walk on Hot Coals" znd "Who'sViat gives us live versions of a number of his old songs, main Phone: 70 9935 Coming" is a stand-out from start to finish. Both these guitarists reach out for and get exactly what they want. ly from Velvet Underground days. His compositions Quality Reconditioned Pianos, New Yamaha lose nothing from the new context. However, it is not Pianos, All Instruments Guaranteed, Whatever your tastes are, music is a handy Uttle • reaUy his songs which make rae like this album so much. Student Guitars,. Ukeleles, Melody Bells, thing to have around. Can anyonef pare me an adjertive, Melodlcas, Chord Organs, Harmonicas, It is the exciting performance dial makes it aU worth I seem to lave run dry. D whUe. The searing guitars of Steve Hunter and Dick Jaws Harps, Etc. Wagner are inspired. From the ''Introduction " lo the- Good selection of Full Price and Budget Records, Casselles, Cartridges. Richard Smykowsky end of "Rocf( and Roll" Uiere Is simply no break In theU FULLY AIR CONDITIONED attack. The relenUess chord work on "iSivec/ZflHe" pro vides the perfect backing for Reed's caustic lyrics and. MIUPOT nOTMt ^9 would ensure his fame. The Wateigate Tapes. These was won by Australian Patrick Wute - an event of were not the only books or articles on Watergate, but obviously some importance. He also published another two ofthe most significant. The transcripts sold wcU of his ever^raassive works, The Eye of Uie Storm. As in because oif gossip-value, and out of cunousity, but could all his other works. White explores relationshipsan d hardly have been easy, or even worthwhile, readmg. environment. You might protest that Uiis is any novel Hansard is difficult enough, and that is people at their ist's job, and i have told you nothing about White's best, al least trying to be comprehensible! peculiar gift as a writer. True, but part of White's great I suppose jdie nearest thhig we have in Australia to ness is that ill a world of fashions, he honesUy approach uiteresting political writuig is Oakes and Solomon's Grab es his craft as a way lo deal widi serious philosophical for Power: Election 74, and their caller The Making of questions. The only way to see what else comprises An Australian Prime Nfinister. fkst of Vipers by Nicho While's greatness is to readhi m for yourself: his nar las Whitlam and John Stubbs looks lUce proriding a simi rative, characterization, and style are so individual, so lar fare for this year: it has Uie necessary ingredients successful, and so capable of complexity and subtlety as of scandal, scholarship and familiar names. to be indescribable. He works best on a large canvas, in a novel. He has also recentiy pubUshcd his second vol Women's Lib seems to have reached the second stage ume of short stories, but these, though in no way lacking, of its fight to adiieve its goals, and continues lo be one wfll never be as popular as his noveU. ofthe issues affecting Uie campus. Mass publication of Women's Lib material is no longer confined to polemic In fact his novels remain popular for years - he picks and theoty, but has reached the handbook stage. In . op readers gradually, and retains them, simply because other words people (appear to) have stopped Uieorizing he is a writer of real talent. The Eye of the Storni is an and started doing. Wlien any movement reaches this example of this, since it was in fact published late in stage, an attack of some substance is bound to be mount 1973, but will certainly continue lo get new readers for ed. For Women's Lib, it came late in the year wlUi the a number of years yet. How very difierent from a cou books ple of other very popular reading choices in 1974, which first big (paperback) circulation of The Female Woman, THROUGH THE PAST LIGHTLY; by Arianna Stassinopoulos. Whether Uiis book wUl out will soon be thankfully forgorten! WHAT WE READ IN 1974 live its promotional period to become the spearhead of The books I refer to are of course The Exorcist and the attadc that is sure lo come, wc wttl have to wail and JonoUian Livingstone Seagull. Sales were mighty, even 1974 was a good year for films, and for Uie books see. amongst university students, and of course veiy success associated wilh them, but on the whole, the basic book By far the biggest literary news was the Solzhenitsyn ful films were made from them, but just what.did the has not fared too weU, In 16 issues. Semper Floreat affah, in which an ageing writer of tremendous courage books offei a reader? reviewed 23 publications, and in addition to theatre, was able lo assert his rights,an d expose the fact that The Exorcist purported lo offer a serious examina cuiema, recordan d concert reviews, cartied articles on a others m die Soviet Union had few or none, agamst the tion of evil, but never got beyond merely cataloging hor number of writers, e.g. Kurt Vonnegut. hi spite of this, combined force ofthe Soviet government. The Gulag ror and repulsion. True, evil is never to appear inviting, it does not review many books of significance to the rest Archipelago, parts 1 and 11 of which were pubUshed last but then again, only the symptoms of evil are examined, of the readingpublic . There are two reasons for this, year, is "an experiment in literary investigation", a series and never the causes. The book (and the film) made FirsUy, none of the review staff (myself included) is em of quietly understated memoirs of veiy often horrifyuig money oul of fear value, and I am not arguing that peo ployed fuU-tune, and so none had the lime to read the events during his own imprisonment. Solzhenitsyn's ple should be able lo gel a thrUl if they want to - many publications Uiat normally are a reviewer's lot, nor understatement is often so muted as to be almost satiric though they could ride a roUer coaster instead. What I to tty lo predict popularUy. Secondly, university students -but his writing always contains hope. He knows from am saying is that this book may have had a pernicious are a heterogeneous but discrete group of readers, not nec experience both the dcgiadalion of humankind, and the effect on its readers by concentrating on the symptoms essarUy with the same reading habits as those outside. hope within its spirit. He is dial rare combination, a of evil, and so drawing attention away from the cause: Our concerns are often different from those who read Christian writer with credibility to non-Christians. This often the greatest danger from evil comes precisely be books to get to sleep, or only as entertainment. My con is because he writes out of theory tested by experience, cause we don'l know whal ils cause is, or where il comes cem m this article is not to rewew the best or most pop not merely tested by other theories. His ability as a good from. In the final analysis, Blatty, for all his claims, ular books of 1974, but to combine an examination of writer is unquestioned, his imagination and style are does not deal with evil as deeply and fully as Solzheni their value as books, with a look at what made them bolh undgf his control. He publ^hed this book not out tsyn does, even though the later uses no horror descrip popular. This article is not a final say on the_quality of . of greed, but because his hand was forced into premature tions, none of the devices of melodramatic pulp. Ditto any of the books mentioned, but it does hope lo be help release. And the "sequel" to this volume will not be a for the film, apparently. ful to those still wanting to read some of these books, cashing In on popularity, but a controlled and'premed- or those who want lo know why certain books were pop itated poUlica|, literary and historical act. The film of Jonothan Livingstone Seagoon (sorry) ular, and not others. Because I am as often concerned Seagull may have been a great technical achievement, with die reader as^wilh die writer, I do not need to have The poUtical interest he has generated has meant an and an enthralling experience, musically and visually, . read aU the books 1 mention. However, 1 wiU not make increase in readership of his earlier works, which some but these were triumphs of fonn, not of content. The a literary or content judgement on a book unless 1 have companies have reprinted in their entirety. The chief of books does not even have successful form to recommend read it. these. One Day m the Life of Ivan Denisovich, has been it. I judged cortectly when I refused to pay $3.00 foran particulariy weU leccived, and has also been made into a hour's reading, and borrowed my copy. U is merely a Most of die books reviewed in last year's Semper very restrained, well-organized and credible film. 1 keep slop of popular mysticism, in the language of sentimen Floreat were of political, social or controversial interest: coming back to Solzhenitsyn's credibility. This is not talized home-truths. Oscar Wilde fiUed that role extre there were only half a dozen works of fiction, fewer just a literary quality, but a personal one. As weU as mely well, in much tighter language, and with a great than in metropoUtan or national magazuies. And yet, being a writer of quality, he is a man of conviction: deal more wit than Richard Bach. Bach has had some although Watergate was on our mmds, we omitted to these have combined to give him the credibility tiiat was ideas, and in the joy of discovery, has been more con review two significant books: Bernstein and Woodward's part of the reason he was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize cerned for their originality than their truth. Mere top All the President's Men, which precipitated the invest- . for Lilerature, which he was unable to accept untU his icality, Which this book had, is the bait an audior uses igation of Nixon and his co-conspirators (and the sub expulsion from the U.S.S.R. last year. sequent desanctificalion of the American Presidency), continued page 21 and the transcripts of the tapes which Nixon hoped Meanwhile, the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1973 lasagne spagetti LAW & COMMERCE pizza Staff and Students
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This will be Miss Cilento's fint appear; Robin (Dhector of the Old Tote Theatre !;nce in Quecnsland and will be part Company in Sydney until recently), of the QTC's celebration markuig has been keen for some time to the 5lh year of fuU-time profess direct EQUUS which he considers ional activity. Miss Cilento is a to be one of the best new plays. many faceted personality. As well as being a director, Not only has she appeared Robin has also shown great in plays, films and TV pro talent as designer. In fact ductions, but has also his first offlcial connection shown extraordinary wilh the Old Tote was in talent as director and designing THE IMPORT novelist (two best selluig ANCE OF BEING EARNEST novels, 77ic Manipulators at the beginning of 1964. and Hybrid). She is best Probably his most recent known for her appear accomplishment, after just ances in the films The having been awarded the Admirable Chrichton, OBE for services rendered to Tom Jones, Rattle ofa theatre, was a London season Simple Man, The Agony and of his production of the David the Ecstasy, and Hitler - The WiUiamson play WHAT IF I Last Ten Days, Tbe Case of Lady DIED TOMORROW. Sannox. Her talents as a stage Taking into consideration Robin's actress have been noted as outstanding experience during the last 30 years in the productions of 77ie Big Knife, Arms in Australia, England and the United and the Man, Tiger at the Gates, Orpheus States, Brisbane can look forward to a Descending and The Collaborators. most extraordinary opener for 1975, 1975 at the QTC EQUUS by Peter Shaffer A surface thriller with a serious undercurrent. 12 February - \- March
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RING QUEENSLAND • THEATRE 213861 COMPANY FOR DETAILS SGIO. TURBOT STREET s«mp«T flo«»t 21'' Whenit comes to theatre there are so many types of BOOKS (con't) 'best" - from die 113th revival of die Desert Song, to a re-enactment of St, Anthony set in the Queensland to attract readers: but an author also needs the hook of Railways Lost Property office. So you will have to veracity and artistic merit to catch readers. Here, top settle for a list of the ten plays I enjoyed most in 1974, icality is die central mollvatmg factor of the book: in Gulag it serves to introduce die reader to die deeper Firsl of all, Arts Theatre. Most of their shows last Isssues involved. Thus, GuU^ will not suffer when its year seemed rather uiept in production and suffered topicality has worn offi" What better reference docs a greatly from unevenness in casting. Only one show book need than veracity? The veracity that Bach's book seemed to rise from this mire - and the public did not lacks, is. ironically enough just what readers were after, go to see it anyway. Gary O'Neil's produclion of Fings and what dicy will move on lo olher books lo find. Aint What They Used To Be was bloody good fun and What I have said of bait and hook applies to the art the only music^ in Brisbane last year anywhere near of the carioonist also, not least of all, that of Leunig of worthy of the name -- and in that is included Godspell. Nation Review. Penguin released a collection of his mat- »erial late in 1974, at quite a reasonable price for a col Twelfth Ni^t Theatre, though beset by financial ovies lection of graphics. Ixunlg's cartoons are not the blud troubles, did manage to fotge the strongest ensemble of geon of political malice, rather the scalpel of exploratory actors in town. Trouble was, the plays they were trap surgery. His characters are not public figures wilh their ped in just did not catch the public. No wonder — t^ey VIEW FROM THE STALLS "^weaknesses lampooned, but private faces, common peo were a pretly dismal lot. The only one to really sparkle Sergio Leone's movies always seem to get butchered ple in uncommonly revealing situations, either probable and to show the abilities of the actors was Absurd by his distributors, and A Fistful of Dynamite is no or fantastic. The fantasy Is sometimes difficult to inter Person Singular, a good piece of commercial theatre, exception. However, the version shown here is his most pret, less so than the out of date topicality dial plagues extremely well done, and with more than pretentions approachable work and probably more consistently most collections of cartoons, but not this one. Prudes towards social comment. But, Twelfth Night did house entertaining than his Once upon a Tune in the West. may be offended by some cartoons, but I am not claim one of the most stimulating theatrical events of the de Certainly his humour here is less bizarre and annoying ing this as their best feature. Leunig is a cartoonist of cade in die National Theatre of the Deaf pxodMction Uian in his three Clint Eastwood westerns, which are so the moral sphere, and so seeks to reveal moral inconsis- of Candide. The main problem here is to rave about il painful to watch today. Leone flew Peter Bogdanavich ^'tency, not to exploit it. as much as 1 would like without being patronizing, so to Italy to direct this movie under the title Duck, you 1 will keep the rave to myself. For those who missed Those who like equally incisive cartoons in a slightly Suckers, but the latter recoiled ui horror at Leone's il - Brisbane should have ils own Theatre ofthe Deaf different style, and more straightforward, will be pleased production methods (shooting started before the script by die end of 197S. t that a collection of Ron Cobb's material is appearmg was rinished)'and Leone took over himself. The brutal later this year. humour owes something loThe Wild Bunch, but Leone's By contrast to the necessarUy commercial product direction is a more creative exercise, still his Suice we're discussing lighter works, we ought to ions more normally found in Brisbane theatre, a most direction is less reslramtd than Pechinpah's and results in mention the various pieces of Goon and MUligan mater uncommercial production was found on Brisbane streets a riot of arresting and even daring effects. I advise you ial dial have been released over the past 18 months. for a couple of weeks in May as part of our very own to see it now before it dales as badly as the dollar west • These paperbacks are entertaining, but a bit pricey, esp- (so you didn't notice it either) Brisbane Festival of the erns. *ccially since there are so many volumes of them: better Arts. It was Star Trick, a political satire mixing up our to borrow, and then to select which you will buy Still, glorious political leaders at state and national level, The Sting- shows us the Hollywood factory at its this type of material retains its popularity With campus with Star Trek, the T.V. series, and set around the slickest. Here George Roy HiU has achieved the lightness audiences. Federal Election. I can only hope that Albert Hunt is of touch that he struggled so unsuccessfully lo capture \ able to return to Brisbane to help develop more stuff in die cloying and grossly over-rated Butch Cassidy and And 1 hope that this time next year, another reviewer in this line - the world round here is desperately short the Sundance Kid. He will Aever be a first rate director, wdl be^ able to say the same of Monty Python's B^ Red of fringe-type theatre. but at least this time round he has a first rale script to Book (special hardcover edition), which is in fact a big work with, and he seems to have leamt at last that blue paperback, You either revel in it, or are revolted where his actors arc such old pros as Ncwma'n, Redfotd, by it, but il is sure to sell. , The newly fomied Gallery Tiieatre piesented amon gst a few also-rans two good productions in the two- and Shaw, it's best to leave them alone. Marvin Ham- So that was what we read; fiction by the giants and hander Alpha Beta, beset in the mires of marriage, and, lisch really oughtn't to have tampered with Scott Jop- the pulpers, humorous material by the volume, poetry even more fun for me, Scrooge - meant for children - lin's musical arrangements, however. , that we did not buy, but a preponderance of "politically- and they did like; it was superb entertainment. 1 saw My favourite movie of the year is American Graffiti. committed" fiction and non-fiction, and works of con it twice by borrowing a lot of kids as an excuse for the Apart from George Lucas, the significant name on the tinuing social interest. There were more popular fdms second ^dewing. credits is visual consultant Haskell Wexler. Seldom has than diere were popular books, and I dare say diis trend the cheap processing of Technlscope been used to better \ wUl probably continue into 1975. And university slu TTie Queensland Theatre Company. No need to effect. Here it perfectly captures the sleazy slick surface dents will most likely remaui a fairly discrete but still despair, they did manage a superb production of quality of the B budget teens^e movies of the early six heterogeneous group of readers - that is, having their Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Nearly makes me ties. George Lucas's control over the movie's tone is own interests, though not entirely divorced from the non- forget some of their other productions for the year. best seen in his brilliant handling of Paul Le Mat in the univeisity reading public. At least that appears fo be the James Dean role. This actor's performance is far more case, judging by what we read m 1974. D Repertory Theatre lake the prize for top company intelligent than Dean's work, which relied so heavily on Ross Clark with their shows in my top ten. In chronological onler instinct. However, he and Lucas playfully throw away we have Captain Midni^t V.C. Maligned by critics, a couple of scenes just to show us that we are not neglected by audiences this was a slick, fast moving and meant to swallow the hokum of die movie's comic strip at limes scathing satire on race relations in Australia. content. This is a worthy successor lo die same direct Full of guts from an enthusiastic and variably talented or's THX1138, vrith which it has more than a little in cast die tiealmcnt this production received from the common. local established critics had me li'dd with rage. Then Lamont Johnson's Stock Car Hero is one of die many latjr came Stretch of the Ima^nation by the same wordiwhile movies to receive only drive-in or suburban author Jack Hibberd. Tills time widi only one charact releases in the past year. It is based on some articles er Monk O'Neill as lonely old man reminiscing his fan by Tom Wolfe (its overseas title was The Last American tasies (and vice versa). Barry Otto had the audience in Hero) and it is a smartly written and directed little the palm of his hand from go to whoa ~ and Uien some. movie. What makes it noteworthy, however, is a daz zling performance by Jeff Bridges who, after Fat City Finally a pair of Pmter one act plays ~ The Collect and Bad Company, shapes up easily as die best young ion and Silence. Grippuig, eerie, and swirling back and actor to emerge from Hollywood in ages. Valerie Per- forth in pace and memories evoked these plays seemed rine is very good too. This is a movie whose limited re to arise in my sub-conscious radier than to have been lease has made it hard lo catch up with, but it is well performed before me. worth the chase.
So, folks that's it - for this dme anyway. Comments Serpico is a movie that I grudgingly include in this libellous or otherwise are welcomed. D list. Its undistinguished surface appearance did nothing for me but I found myself caught up in its script and Dick Freeland. performance, especially diose of Al Pacino and Barbara S^c Eda-Young. Kill Charley Vanickis up to Don Siegel's usual stand UNI QUE presents ard, which makes it better than the work of most other THE BEST OF 74? directors working in his field. Not as good as IHrty Hany, I'm damned if I know what "best" is all about. and nowhere near the heights of Madigan, which is per Trevor Smith haps his most complex and professional work, it is lillie more than a re-working of his usual themes, but widi tn some of die best shots and best edited action footage of THE HER MAJESTY'S the year. NATIONAL THEATRE Nightly llth ts ajnd Feb. Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation niakes the at I p.m. M«tln«e Sei. list because it looks so elegant in die sleek European THEATRE OR Had at 2 p,m. style. Surprisingly, it was made in California. It's a COUNTER SALES kaspar little too much of a "message" movie for my taste. INDONESIA NOW OPEN Frederick Forrest has a mealier role in When die Legends AT THEATRE the breathtaking .,., directed by Arthur Frame Die, which is well worth a visit. PRICtS: A KM. SS.SO B R«(. $4.30 So much has been said about Ihe Discreet Charm of 40 colourful and ij Tittjt Mimbtn $4.30 A R*t, the Bourgeoisie that I'll mention only the director's Ptnilantrt/Studfiitt, exciting dancers, // Chlldmn undtr 16 CEMENT BOX $2.50/ SlSOstudaife name, Luis Bunuel. A Bunuerpiovie is obviously the $2.40 end $2.» most important and accomplisned movie of the year. .actorM AUSTRAUAs Nan EUZAeETHAd artistN THEATRsE (jL faity Bookingi ANJUKTSUIANElQABETHANfflEXTRTliUSTPIIEStNlAriON E ** t Ph. ais-oii 8.15 Wed. to Sat. 19th Feb - Bth March Mill Kewnlan Company fly Sinflapote Alrlin«» tt Ansett and sun. 2nd March ' continued page 22 22 wmpcr floreat more obvious than^in the non-cultural, non-inspired and pasta dishes, especially die spaghetti marinara. MOVIES (con't) suburban areas around the University ofQueensland. It's not licensed, but the R.E. bottle shop is just However, in every desert diere must be an oasis or down the road. . Finally, the surprise of die year. The Great Calsby two, and there are a few pleasant eating places that threatened to crumble under the weight ofits own pub- are not priced excessively and do not endanger the PADDINGTON FISH AND CHIP SHOP, licily and this tended to make il the most underrated cater with ptomaine poisoning. A popular selection Caxton Street, next to CaxtOn Arms pub.) movie of the year. 1 should have guessed that with includes: One of the best Osh and chip shops around. It Jack.Qayton directing (hisThe hinocents is one of the has an unusual variety of beautiful fish,; often ' most visually beautiful black and white movies of die PASADONNA, 174 qarence Road, Indooroopilly. including Sweet Li^Ban-amundl and Coral Trout. past decade or so) it would be well worth a look. In The 'Pas' is an unpretentious but comfortable place Certainly, the place for fish and chip connoisseurs. fact, for its sheer physical beauty, it is unmissable. In lo get a cup of coffee and food. Various meals are addition it has three outstanding female performances available at reasonable prices, but the best feature of TOOWONG, TARINGA, ST. LUCIA FISH AND and another good one from Robert Redford, as well as the menu lends to be the wide variety of pancakes. CHIP SHOPS. an intelligent script. People who allow excessive promo This is one of the few places that are open until about Of these, Toowong is certainly the best-usually tion to put them offa movie will be agreeably surprised 1 a.m. on this side of town. if they see this one. D Brian Watson of a good quality with large pieces of fish. St. Lucia is rather hit and miss in ils standard. Taringa is repu CLANCY'S, 207 Moggill Road, Taringa. ed lo have excelled chips. Situated beneath the 'Turn ofthe Century' shop in Taringa, Clancy's offers a variety of fairly traditional meals. Patrons pay a set amount and can have various SPAGALINIS, Milton Road, Auchenflower. main courses and an excellent choice of salads, buffet style. Offers an amazing range of good pizzas at reason able prices (18). Gieaper than most pizza places wit large pizzas in $2.00-$3.0O range, and a special vegc DAVID'S, St. Lucia Shopping Centre, Hawken Drive. tarian pizza. Numerous Chinese and Australian foods, aldiough the latter can be obtained most places. The Chinese main dishes average somewhere betwwn S2-3.00 ALOUETTE,409 George Street, City. each, and are quite well prepared.. This is an excellent A little far nfield but offers good value for a meal place for dining in a horde, and is also licensed to in town. Pleasant atmosphere and nice people. Meals make the occasion more congenial. One if the best are usually under the $2.00 mark and a good night features is their take-away food, perfect for quick, out can be had for $3.00. tasty meals, and cheaper than dining there. Farther afield, there is reputed to be a very good MONA WASHBOURNE'S PIZZA PARLOUR, and equally expensive French restaurant apparently Bebcath Newsagent, Hawken Drive. operating on Milton Road, and a Chinese Restaurant/ Mona's main assets are good drinks, pleasant atmos Take Away on Milton Road, Auchenflower. Of cour phere (a la student) and long hours of opening from there are always the chain food take away stores at 5 p.m. untd I ajn.. The pizza's are quite tasty, aldi Indooroopilly. ough dieir value for money is good only in comparis Murray Proctor. on to the cardboard creations of the Indooroopilly Pizza Hul. (Brisbane seems to have very few decent pizza makers.) union shop DE ANGELO'S, AMP Building, Sherwood Road, feed your particukir habil Toowong. Angelo's offers satisfactory pizza's to eat there or * sweets, tofTees and many other goodies take away, but dieir best food doesn't usually come * f^ and 'bacci HANDY EATING PLACES from the pizza ovens. The variety of Italian dishes * news'rags' and magazines is not huge, but of good quality. You pay around * Uni T-shirts and souvenirs Brisbane has always been notorious for its amazing $3-4.00 for most main dishes. For a less expen (opposite Union Office) lack of decent eating places. Nowhere has this been sive but very edible meal, try Uie smaller spaghetti more anguage. discussion ACADEMIC STALINISM? FURTHER DISCUSSION This year, many hundreds of Arts Meetings are being held by repre students will be compelled to complete sentatives of the faculty of Arts, the 20 unit points in one of a number of language departments and students - earn languages offered by the language depar tore-examine the faculty's language tmen ts of this university. requirement, because of complaints Unlike every other Arts-type faculty, which have arisen over the past years. in Australia, this university retains the requirement ofa senior kinguage, or stud The main reason supporting the ies up to that level upon entering the uni retention ofa language as a prere versity, before a B.A, can be .given. The quisite for entry into the Arts faculty extra is that "a language puts another dim mosi recent attempt to abolish this req uirement was early last year, when a ension in the lives of Australian stu vote of 49-36 votes defeated a motion dents, encouraging a recognition of moved on the Arts Faculty Board that the english enthocentricity of Austra would have deleted this requirement lian society - which is ridiculousbot h entirely. in the context of the diversity in the Many arguements were given for both worid, and the large proportion of sides of the debate, significantly those of non-english speaking migrant groups community benefit, international under Ul Australia." standing and academic standards given There are a number of counter by supporters ofthe requirement, whilst arguments to this proposition. The hardship, unfairness to students and un first being that if a genuine multi in spare time fair emphasis on certain courses were cultural society is to be achieved in the main points given by the opponents Australia, language education should of it. Toward the end of the meeting, be promoted in pnmar/ and secondary the more basic role ofthe requirement schools - raUier than leaving it until in keeping language departments classes students reach tm: rather artificial fiill in the university and secondary society of the univenity. orover schools (not to mention plenty of jobs for language department graduates and The second objection to this argu personnel, of course) became more ob ment, is that if a language is important vious. in the context of Australia's ethno- Although it received good support, centricity, then all students at the the motion was lost and we still have the university should be-obliged to study vacations requirement. These compulsory courses a language, and not only Arts students. particularly effect part-time students, The two other major objections to (who may do only one subject per sem the language requirement are firstiy ester and who are often forced to spend ' that because of the compulsion to their whole first year doing a knguage) study a language the valuable aspects and all students generally, by making of its are lost because of the resent failure and exclusion more likely, and ment which may develop. their courses less related to their inter It disadvantages older students be TRAINING PROVIDED FOR MALES AND FEMALES ests. cause ofthe increased difficulty of I believe that this requirement should leaming a foreign language at a later TO BECOME BAR ATTENDANTS. have no place in an institution where all stage Ul one's life. This has been other requirements in the faculties are shown to by fact by a number of tests MANY POSITIONS AVAILABLE. related to the students abilTty to under and surveys. take and complete hisjher course succ essfully. If certain departments are so Although the Union representat sure of their community support, then ' ives (speaking) for die students), do PHONE 294923 OR WRITE: they will surely be able to fill their clas not believe in any compulsory lan ses by competing for and attracting stud guage requirement, Julianne Schwenke H. DEY AND ASSOCIATES ents in the same way that all other dep- - Acting Union President, who has artments.do. Acatiemic conscription attended the meethigs - said: "It is 501 ADELAIDE STREET has no pbce in a university. unlikely that any black or, white dec Murray Proctor ision will be reached, it is more likely BRISBANE Q 4000 Union Education Officer and. that a form of .compromise will be Student Member, Executive necessary." ". „ „ . ,. of the Arts Faculty BoanJ.- Julianne Schultz stmpy (loraat 23 UNION ^"5
'i. NEWS ART'S CROCKERY DEPOSITS IN REFEC Any full-time student hi the education, LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT Payments.of deposits on crockery and social work or physical education depts, is eligible to nominate for this position. At the beginning of this semester, malted milk containers is part of a new some students were confused by the scheme for the Refectory in 1975. The language requirement of the Faculty The scheme, developed by Treasurer y5iU.JJ(ECin:iVE.I975' NONVOTING POSITIONS of Arts. Alan Fowler and former Chairman of Union House Committee, Laurence Gor PRESIDENT: Brian Towler ' FINANCE OFFICER, CLUBS and This confusion arose because ofa mley, is intended to eliminate the vast GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT; SOCIETIES STANDING COMMITTEE. mis-interpretation of the faculty amount of used crockery left on Refec • Julianne Schwenke GUEST SPEAKERS CONVENOR. handbook. This meant that some tables often for long periods waiting for PART-TIME V.P.: Bill Abraliams Nominations for these two positions students thought that those who had deaners to remove it. ST. LUCIA V.P.; Cathy Rae should be submitted to the Union sec not satisfied the Art's language requi The Union will also re uitroduce soft TURBOT ST. V.P.: Richard Olive rement of passing at Senior level a drinks in returnable bottles: apart from retary before 5.00p.m. ,19th FEBRU HOSPITALS AREA V.P.: ARY,1975. The elections will lake.pl- foreign language, must complete the environmental aspects of abolishing Michael O'Shea twenty points of an introductory soft drink cans from the refectory, there ace al the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the is also a considerable price reduction for SECRETARY : Mari Anna Shaw language in 1975. It was understood TREASURER: Alan Fowler 64di Council on 20th FEBRUARY, that this was not only to apply to botded soft drinks, in some cases up to A.U.S. SECRETARY : Alan Grieve 1975. those first enrolling in Arts in 1975 seven cents a bottle for the same volume UNIONOFFICERS. Any student member of the Union is but also fowards those continuuig of contents. ^Alan Fowler said:"The syslem will CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE COMMITTEE; eligible for either of diese positions. Alts students who had not initially operate so that when students buy a satisfied the requirement. This Bruce Dickson Nomination forms for ALL die above meal they will be charged an extra five positions are available from Unioii Offi caused some confusion as contuiuing cents for the crockery and an extra len EDITOR OF SEMPER: students without a senior standard cents for the mdk contauier. Then at JanTurner-Jones ce. language had previously been directed the end of dieir meal Ihey can return it ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR: Notice is hereby given dial the SECOND to complete the twenty points of to the refund centre, which will be est Headier Ross ORDINARY MEETING ofthe U.Q.U. hitroductory language sometime ablished near the corridor, in the main A.U.S. AREA ORGANISER : Council will be held on THURSDAY, within their degree. refectory. At these points students will Peter O'Connor Professor R. Milns, Arts Dean has stated; be given their refund and the crockery 20th FEBRUARY at 6.30p.m. in the 'Students who were admitted to will be stacked for washing. The milk J.D. STOREY ROOM in die Union the Faculty of Arts prior to 1975 shake containers wUl be returned to the NOMINATIONS ARE CALLED FOR buildmg. without a Senior standard foreign milk bar where the refund will be given THE FOLLOWING VACANCIES ON and the contamers washed ui the new Notice u also hereby given that die language have to satisfy the foreign THE 64th COUNCIL UNIVERSITY language requirement: sometime washing machme. BUDGET MEETING of UNION COUN before graduation. They are not The main advantage of this xystem QUEENSLAND UNION. CIL will be held on TUESDAY,25di necessarily requhed lo enrol for a is that considerable labour time and FEBRUARY at 6.30p.m. in die J.D. language in 1975. Students who are wages are saved, because fewer people STOREY ROOM in the Union building. admitted to the Faculty in 1975 wUl be needed to cle.'ir the tables, even VOTING POSmON without a senior standard foreign if only 80% of the containers are return FULL-TIME EDUCATION Notice is also hereby given dial die language are however, required to ed. And also the area will remam clean REPRESENTATIVES THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of die study twenty points of foreign er because of the smaller number of dis Nominadons open die IldiFEBRUARY U.Q.U. Council will be held on THUR language in 1975.' posable cartons in the area, this will :ilso SDAY, 6di MARCH at 6.30p.m. in the cut down on the number of bins needing 1975, and should be submitted to the Therefore those students who enrolled J.D. STOREY ROOM in die Union under this misapprehension and to be emptied. As far as costs are con Union secretary before 5.00p.m. on the would like to change their enrollment cerned, they wiU be cut quite dramatic 25th FEBRUARY, 1975, when nomin building. D for 1975, should do so as soon as ' ally and the capital costs should be re ations close. The election will take pla couped within the first month or so. possible. D ce during the 3rd Ordinary Meeting of As far as the long range use of the Mari Anna Shaw the 64lh Council on the 6d\ MARCH, Also see pages 3 & 22, for more inform' scheme is concemed.the procedure will UNION SECRETARY 1975. ation about language requirement. be a trial basis and if it doesn't work, it will not be continued."D Ja.S.
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/ jl . ^"^ THEATRE QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY ASSOC. OF STUDENT TEACHERS needs those . CLASSIFIED ADS who intend to follow teaching careers; CONCERTS 'KASPAR' produced by Unl-Que & offers a focal point for people with a com THE YELLOW DOOR CINEMA directed by Arthur Frame. In the mon interest; Cement Box Theatre 8,15pm alms to improve the lot of student teachers Rock group QUASAR, .'pm 17th Feb, 19th Feb.- eth March Students S1.50 Forum area. 1.00 • 2.O0 p.m. (Cinema located through the yellow door at university through educational, inform ative and sociat activities on campus. Coronation House, 109 Edward St. City) •MEDEA'-produced by the Classics Sydney (oik iirtlst GLEN TOMASETTI HELP by becoming a memtrer (SOc per Dept. by popular request. year) Telephone Kendal Yates 502552, singing anti-war and women's movement t DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT Thurs Feb. 20 8pm Able Smith Peter Bradford 480312 or write to QUAST songs. Organisated'by Women's Rights YIPPEE. Sat 22nd Feb, 8.00 p.m. Fri Feb. 21 Ham Lecture c/- Union Building, St Lucia. Tues 18th Feb, 1.00 . 4.00 p.m. Uke t TIDiKAWA AND FRIENDS (Qld Theatre premier) Fri 22nd Feb, 8.00 p.m. Country Blues. BOB IRVINE, OUL- CIMA, BOB & MARG SASSO. Wed i THE NOSE & AIRPLANE GLUE 1 19tt) Feb, ] 2.00 - 2.00 p.m. 'Forum. LOVE YOU. Sat 8th March, IVlld- WANTED night. Activities Rock concert Stiow. 12.00 t UNSTRAP ME & SONATA FOR PEN Enthusiastic aspiring potential journal p.m. MOONLIGHT, 1.00 p.m. RAY ists fo Interview and write for Semper. BURTON SOLAR BAND, 2.00 p.m. PEN BRUSHES AND RULER. FrI 14th March, and Sun 16th March, If this appeals to you please come up to SHEARWATER Thur 20th Feb, 1.00 - Semper and see JULIANNE 2.00 p.m. Forum area. 8.00 p.m. BOOKINGS 21.0987 (Seating limited) C^W MflTCH50X DISPLAYS THE / Audio-Visual display. On political WORKSHOPS prisoners of ttie Tliieu regime o( South FOR SALE Vietnam; and video tapes on the recent and Holden EH wagon, Excellent engine, no UNI QUE DRAMA WORKSHOPS visit by student representatives of tlie Mon 17th Feb — Basement (Union) Provisional Revolutionary Government rust. $490.00 Nine months registration phone— 56-2076 T- improvisations, experimentation Pon fllorriSovN of South Vietnam (P.R.G.) with Greg McCart. 10.30 • 12.30 p.m. Mon 17th Feb 1.00 J. D. Story room Tues 18th Feb 2.00 J. O. Story room Open rehearsal of KASPAR. Uni Que's ivion 24th Feb 1.00 p.m. J.D. Story. FORUMS 1st production for 1975, directed by Arthur Frame. 1.00 - 2.00 p.m. Cement Open forum on WOMEN AND SEXUAL Box. DOINGS ITY with BETTINA ARNDT editor of Forum magazine and sex psychologist Workshop — Introduction to acting Yoga 10.00 a.m. • 4.00 p.m. The Cell, 12 - 2 p.m. Tuesday 18, Forum Area. (Don Bachelor from English Dept) 17th -aist February (Union Building) 2.30 • 4.00 p.m. Foyer, U.G. library.
Bahai Society, coffee shop—free films, Dance Workshop — with Patricia Rey guitars and sing-a-lpng, discussions, HELP nolds. Tues 18th Feb, basement slide programmes, Informal music, (Union Building) dancing, discussions. 9.00 a.m. - 9.oo CHILD CARE CO-OPERATIVE would UNION NI6HTS p.m. THE ROOM 17th • 21st Feb like people able to volunteer sometime Play Reading - NO EXIT by Jean Relaxation Block. for childmlnding. Please contact Wom«f>'s Paui Satre. Followed by coffee & Rights Committee, Co Union Office. discussion. 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.Cement Box "%\\Mt^ STUDS' People's Market Ail day every Wed Anyone requiring childmlnding contact you are invited :oselt candles, 2nd the above. Technical Workshop — sound — Mark hand clothes, Jewellery etc. rent and ' Doherty (La Boite) Ughting—John \ 'llie '^QM :Bu^on Solar ^pand* commission free, phone Heather Ross Watson (QTC) 2.30 • 4.00 p.m. Foyer 711511 Union. Forum Area. U.G. library.
4ZZ F.M. RADIO. Rock Bottom MEETINGS Drama Workshop — Peter Clark 7.30 - Broadcasting ttirough Union Complex 12.30 p.m. Basement (union building) ?pm. rgiDfly ^ist fe6t?i^flgy UNiQr^ C&jfVlflgX 17th -22nd February. initial meeting of committee against Foreign Actlvitites in Australia. J. D. Play .heading —NO EXIT Story Room, Thursday 1 p.m. To co EMTERTINGLEMEKT ordinate activities against threatened construction of Omega Base in Queens H 'The. ^o^M ^y'l'o*^ &ola>r'B'aM' land. Enquiries: Union Office. Drama WorkshQ)s — Yvonne Hooper. ROCK 'n ROLL ROXY'S starring 7.30 - 12.30 p.m. Basement (Union) THE SILVER STUDS ana the ELECT RIC EXCURSION. Sound Show Spect acular. Fri March 7th Union Coffe Shop Workshop Acting Techniques —Joe odmltance SO cents. McColum, (QTC) 2.00-4.00 p.m. ^pm Sgiurda;?'?jnd^TebruQr^VJW|oi^ 60MP£g/ POETRY Foyer, U.G. library. DANCE. QUASAR, PEOPLE' MOTH There will be poetry reading of Sylvia ER'S LIGHTS. Sat 8th Marcti Griffith Plath and Diane Wakoskie by Or. Carole University. Ferrier and Lindy Henry as part of Worn GRAND OPENING "ROXYS" en's Rights International Woman's Year Bob Irvine — Country Blues eel ebrations, 1 - 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18 Union Cultural Activities is the department of the Union spec- Bob & Marg Susso, Dulcimer Puppett by the lake. , ifically responsible for organising concerts, union nights, Roxy's, Show, folk, fllm, food and lotsa (uni! INFO B.OO p.m. -1.00 a.m. admit. SOcents People's Market, art exhibitions, workshops, filmfestivals , touts, Wed 19th Feb, Union coffee Shop etc,etCjetc.... (every Friday night). SEMINARS THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE This year we are starting a People's Market every Wednesday EXHIBITIONS ECONOiVliC POLICY OF THE LABOR GOVERNMENT J. D.Story Room in the Forum area. Anyone at all may set up a stall, rent and Art Exhibitions by the THE HALF (Union building) 11.30 Monday, Feb 17. commission free, to sell items like jewellry, second-hancl clothes, DOZEN GROUP .•.RTISTS (Paintings old books, candlijs, flowers, fruit,' etc, etc, etc arc for sale). Foyer, Schonell Theatre Education seminar on THE DIFFER 9.00-5.00 p.m. dally. ENCES BETWEEN SCHOOL SYSTEM JOHN DARNELL COLLECTION AND UNIVERSITY 11.30 -1 p.m. Mon On this page in each issue of Semper we will keep you up to 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. daily. 1st floor. February 17, Forum Area. John Darnell Art Gallery, Main Building, date with our activities programmes as well as those of the region. LESBIANISM AND MALE HOMOSEX Workers, suggestions and enquiries (and warm friendly faces) UALITY 11 a.m. Thursday, February are always welcome. 20, Relaxation Block. FILMS Contact us in the Activities Office (upstairs in the Union Bldg) FREE! WAKE IN FRIGHT Schonell or ring us at 711611, Theatre, Monday Feb 17, 11 a.m. SPEAKERS Wednesday Feb 18, 3p.m. TOM BURNS Tues 18th Feb 1.00 - Heather Ross INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN 2.00 p.m. Forum area. BEYOND SUSPICION Schonoil Theatre Cultural Activities Director Monday February 17thll a.m. & THE BRIAN MCCARTHY graduate of Yoga POST-WAR WAR (Irce) institute ol Bombay. 1.10 p.m. The - Cell, Union Building. LITTLE MURDERS Schonell Theatre Tuesday Feb 18th 11a.m. (free) The RAY BURTON SOLAR BAND Playing with him in the band are Greg Named after Ray Burton who is weim /'I DONT IHINKN I'LL EAT IT FOR BREAKFASX/