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HIE WARS WITHIN ng CONTENTS EDITORIAL Hiya, Vicki here. . R e g u l a r As Head-Editor of Issue No 6 of Craccu myth-u se o f e I have experienced the usual strains ind ] l facts f o r SU] Academic ...... 6 ed by an impending deadline. My once-loi WILE. Agenda...... 5CRACCUM is a source of free fingernails are ample proof of this.Bi expression and information for enough of pleasantries. lyear over 16,000 NZe A rts...... 8, 9 Auckland University Students An Editorial, so I believe, is a comment young, 16-25, m a Banqueting on a Bursary...... 5 and the University community. society. So here goes: [of them will be wear CRACCUM is not the official Too many people in this world rui bing more than a jo in Brad’s Barysphere...... 15 publication of the Auckland : will have been subj University Students’ Associa­ around, only concerned with their getti : Police beforehand Camelcomicality ...... 10 tion Inc. or of the University of from point A to point B. More often than m RENTED to being \ Auckland. Both bodies may not they aren’t even aware of the time thi sent to a search - yc Chaplain’s C hat...... 21 endorse or agree with opinions spend in between. Later they will probal enting, more th a n h i expressed within CRACCUM. do you not consent Cheep E ats...... In 5 fact the Editors may not, wonder where their time went. Hence Classic C ars...... 18 themselves, endorse or agree or familiar feeling that ‘gosh this month BACKGROUND even have read what is express­ fast!’ This also makes for a lot of 1975 - M .O .D . Crossword ...... 19 ed within CRACCUM. And did necessary anxieties. Worrying about tl is so much fallacy From the Archives...... 20 you know that CRACCUM is future won’t change what will happen. I! it should be called th 6l years old? only ACTION that will create change. a law been so misund Gig Guide...... 14 Address: 2nd Floor, A.U.S.A. Postal: CRACCUM, c/o Why not enjoy the present and let tomoff!011rch you that (or just f a startsPohc€ Horrorscopes ...... 20 A.U.S.A., Private Bag, row come... tomorrow. ! and let them? If I Auckland. me a look in your Maori Column...... 17 CRACCUM is published by the This week Craccum takes a medical ap tretogo. You would On the P lo t...... 18 Auckland University Students’ proach and looks at the disease AIDS you would be m ore Association. Other features include You, drugs and th chy°u> (because he > Out There...... 4 Phone: 390-789 ext 840 (when Police; Luis Palau; and an interview witha ihasno ^ore9n8ht to the phones decide to go). Not the President’s Report...... 11 Editors: David Ward, Victoria ex-Craccum Editor. Also watch out forth Jiifhesays^eisnoo Turner, Patrick Stodart, Ewen new-look Polly Ticks page. L saying that doe! Polly Ticks...... 11 Smith, Kerry Hoole, Derek Enjoy your week...' Kh you - unless of c Readable Lettuce...... 22, 23 Craig, Rachael Callender. only way they can Advertising Manager: Wendy V icki Tumi rch warrant and with Religion ...... 21 Lawson, Ph 390-789 ext 841. searching you under Typesetting: Barbara Hendry mse Of Drugs Act IS Sports ...... Printing: Print 19 Corp, Tauranga. .*------1 | search now but hav< Womin’s Page...... 17 O'Uirt' but t0 the Con ' ve’ search warrant, or cm cw CS)^ igned by Parliament D & e w W 'J K e a c t ’. It was not me Features assing ‘likely lookinj ^ rh e n challenged, tl out between one anc Helpers and contributors: AIDS: The Wars W ithin...... 12, 13 Wayne, Carl, Sasha, Miriam, drugs last year b ut ( Vicky, Gort, Wendy, Droid, gtly for ‘hard’ drugs Caption Competition...... 4 Alexa, AU NORML, Yatz. iver to ‘briefly’ detail Hugh C ook...... 7 t is all (and not inte Luis Palau...... 16 Muslim...... 21

The Kiwi Tavern...... 4 CRACCUM staff meetings You, Drugs and The Police ...... 3 every Monday at 1 pm in the “Publications” Office. Any in­ terested creatures are welcome.

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We are recording cases of Police misuse of their comment ( J be young, 16-25, many will be students and nearly Tell them to get out of your car (you should have locked authority (especially M.O.D.) and want to hear from you. [of them will be wearing a criminal conviction for it). Make it very plain to them that this attempt at a search If you know of anyone else who has had their rights abus­ ng more than a joint, roach or a car full of smoke, has NOT got the authority of your consent. ed, get them to contact us, please it is very important. world rui will have been subject to an ‘unwarranted’ search If we are to show how widespread it is we need documen­ heir gettii . Police beforehand. Just about everyone will have WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS STAND UP FOR tal evidence. The Auckland Council for Civil Liberties is ten than n< RENTED to being searched (99.9%). Nobody has YOUR RIGHTS also compiling a complaint list so you could contact them e time tl sent to a search - you have a choice! If people stop It’s been ten years since the Police have had M.O.D. 18/3. as well. rill probat enting, more than half of these busts will stop. ‘So In the last three or four years it has been their mainstay NORML meets on Campus every Monday at 1pm in the i do you not consent?’, read on. for their ‘on the street’ interrogation. The Police have got student council room and information is available from . Hence tt into some very bad habits and it will take some massive, Graham (AUSA President) next door anytime. Our month w( BACKGROUND ON THE MISUSE OF DRUGS continuous effort to retrain them. Unless you get off on Bustline is now answered 9-4 weekdays or ansaphone Ph i lot of i 1975 - M.O.D. fascist trips it is your moral obligation, your duty to do (09) 389-206. g about tl is so much fallacy and myth concerning this Act your utmost to stop this violation of your civil liberties. happen, should be called the Myth-use of Drugs Act. Never If you think ‘I’ve got nothing on me, why hassle, I’ll let GET PSYCOACTIVE - JOIN NORML a law been so misunderstood. Are you under the im- them search me then you are a mug and a wimp. A mug, change, on that if a Policeperson says that they want to because you may very well have something on you that Sensimelliarlly Yours . id let toiD( h you (or just starts doing so) that you have to stand you have forgotten about. Lots of busts are for a seed or and let them? If I came up to you and said ‘Hey, a roach. Don’t wimpout, stand up for your rights me a look in your bag’ you would tell me exactly everytime. It’s not always easy, sometimes the Police can medical to go. You would be a fool to let me search you be very overpowering, really intimidating and it’s difficult >ease AID! you would be more of a fool to let a Policeperson to hold your own in an argument but stick to your guns P.S. A.U. NORML’S HARVEST RAGE IS ON FRIDAY 'ugs andtl hyou, (because he wants to bust you). A Policeper- Annie, and keep questioning and challenging their powers. 24TH OF APRIL IN THE CAFE. BE THERE OR BE view with has no more right to ask you to consent than I have, It works, 9 times out of 10 the Police will give up and STRAIGHT. |rhy let them? go and find someone else. li out fortl if he says he is ‘looking for drugs!’ So what - aren’t ! Saying that doesn’t give him any legal right to WHAT YOU HAVE TO TELL THE POLICE rch you - unless of course you consent. If you are driving a motor vehicle, in a pub, on or about nly way they can search you for drugs without a a customs wharf or suspected of a criminal offence you Vicki Tumi ich warrant and without your consent is by saying T have to give: 1. Your name. 2. Your age. 3. Your occupa­ [searching you under section 18 subsection 3 of the tion (not your employer). 4. Your address. suse Of Drugs Act 1975’ - this provision means they If you are not driving a car, in a pub or on a wharf then k search now but have to justify its use, not to a J.P. ask the Police if they suspect you of a criminal offence. Judge, but to the Commissioner of Police. It is a ‘retro Ask for details and write them down. They usually make ive’ search warrant, on no account to be abused. It was something up like ‘there’s been a burglary in the area, a tied by Parliament to catch big time smack dealers car like this has been reported stolen’ etc. Ask them ex­ 1 toe act’. It was not meant for justification to go around actly where, what, when, who is their commanding of­ lassing ‘likely looking lads’. It is statistically unlikely ficer, get on THEIR case. It works. It when challenged, they will invoke the act. They car- NEVER EVER EVER SAY ANTHING ELSE except out between one and two hundred thousand searches to deny all knowledge of whatever it is and to ask for a drugs last year but only invoked the Act 635 times - phone call, lawyer or bail (if you are arrested). itly for ‘hard’ drugs. If they do, then they have the |er to ‘briefly’ detain you for the purpose of search, [k is all (and not internally either). . r ' in YfnfilD J&X let * ,*«ll ttfts 0 »11 -fetfKe*/, o*e by ' Vv/ «te- \

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SCENARIO: Policeperson = Pp You = U Pp ‘Ullo ullo ullo, what ave we here then?, c’mon, give OJZ& / A l f y - us a look in your bag now’ starts to look. U grabbing bag back, ‘Stop, what are you looking for?’ (so they can’t later change their grounds to offensive i /VT*).' weapons or firearms). Pp ‘Drugs! c’mon let’s ’ave a look now’. U ‘Officer 6082 (call them by their badge number) I am NOT CONSENTING to a search, do you have a search -aveffO T warrant?’ Pp ‘Lad, I don’t need one, now let’s ’ave a look now?’ l f \ U ‘I know you don’t need one but you must have some legal authority - are you invoking S 18/3 M.O.D.?!’ Pp ‘Listen smartarse, empty out your pockets now or I’ll do you for obstruction’ U ‘Officer 6082, I know my rights (take out pen and write down badge number) and if you continue to harass me, I will report you to the Minister of Police!’ At this stage PP realises the game’s up, swears, curses, TELEPHONE771 869 threatens and then disappears to find some mug who doesn’t know his/her rights.______APRIL 6 1987 CRACCUM ► 3 HHH O U T T H E R E

CANOE CLU CAPTION COM PETITION First prize: 2 dozen Kuhtze Lager. ited in learning tc Submit captions to CRACCUM to know how to r by Friday 10th April. is now commei ■training sessions (Results out on 22nd April). r. If you are interest Club and come irn these essential ch may lead you t< er paddling. Be at each session is up quick. For de loticeboard, next ian’s office.

A N D R E W , Part-time G R E G , 1st Pro Eng. RAFTING On Luis Palau: Typical bigoted, self- On Luis Palau: I think it was good to righteous, arrogant, pro-American, have a Christian viewpoint on campus. Auckland Un South American, freak. On AIDS: I find it threatening because j Club will be or; O n A ID S : I think it’s really bad that there’s no cure. No foreseeable cure in cond rafting trip d people hold AIDS against homosexuals. the future and NZers are not taking jiro River in the1 I feel that it has been used as a weapon much action about it. pril 11-12. If you against minorities like drug addicts and in this thrillin homosexuals. It’s become a political, [•the Canoe Club < rather than a humane issue. I .. .S' pr the trip. Half t nparable commer .vicethe fun!! Foi .he Club noticebot 'Jlh he custodians offi( TIME FORA

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C H R IS , 1st year Arch. Int. R A C H E L , 3rd year BA On Luis Palau: Interesting, but he got On Luis Palau: If people really grapple a bit carried away and exaggerated the with what he says, they have to agree it’s role Christ plays in our everyday life. true. O n A ID S : It’s something that people O n AIDS: I am not feeling threatened should take precautions about. But it personally, but with the rising degree of doesn’t mean they should forget about visible homosexual activity, there is an the other diseases. Just because AIDS is increased risk for homosexuals. here, it doesn’t mean that herpes has gone away.

THE KIWI COLLECTIVE TI

Since time immemorial, the Kiwi has been the haven for Locatii those thirsty students who like to relax in the local bar atmosphere of a seemingly student orientated pub. Admittec That is until recently, when increasing pressures of a yup- There is n py orientated Auckland caused the revamping of a great judging fi student stomping ground into what we now loosely know world, the as the ‘lounge’ bar. Not surprisingly, jandel and jean wear­ better. An; ing students soon became a scarce sight in the not-so- the choice posh-as-abbeys barscape and not surprisingly, the ter or for \ patronage of the new-but-not-so-improved lounge bar ly dark afl declined sharply. sign of hu John Farrel, the current proprietor of the Kiwi, has ap­ a reasonal proached the University with the burning question ‘How was greete< can we make the Kiwi better for students?’ and the reply we were in came back ‘the Kiwi collective’ and that’s about where (Waiheke r we are now. tually thou the obvioi The mem ,V> s' delicacies guests eat CARE FOR A PUB? something It had an £ Here’s your chance to have a say in the design of agination < Auckland’s first truly student bar. We will "ry to assimilate HOURS: 11M -1D M W N - TW m tie dining i all your ideas into a basic plan for John and the architects. Chippie bi Give us your ideas on colours, layout, decor, food, enter­ H A M - 1 1 M H Z - S A T in its plasi tainment, lighting, security, anything. Feel free to continue All in all on: other paper if there is not enough room here. pace of cit; on the ne\ 1) Do you go to the Kiwi occasionally? frequently? never leave?

2) What do you like/dislike about the Kiwi? u r n 3) What would you like to see at the Kiwi?

CRACCUM APRIL 6 1987 PREMIERE TOAST TREASURER WANTED IN CANOE CLUB MONDAY MOVIES CHRISTIAN FOCUS Today: Police Academy III. MacLaurin Chapel Hall, April Let it be widely known that to­ rested in learning to canoe? Next week (April 13th): Ex- 10th, 1pm. ‘Love and Marriage: day, on the 31st day of March, The Auckland University Soc­ it to know how to roll? The calibur. $2.00, 1pm, at the A Christian View’, with Doug 1987, at 8.05am, a strange and cer Club needs a Treasurer to ;C is now commencing its Maidment. and Elizabeth Mansill. unprecedented phenomenon keep track of it’s funds. We |-training sessions for this took place at International have a couple of qualified ex­ If you are interested, join House. This phenomenon be­ treasurers who will lend a hand, Club and come along, ing, the availability of HOT, but we need someone on cam­ rn these essential skills, WOMAN COPING ARCHAEOLOGY SOC. soggyless toast, on which the pus to co-ordinate things. Not ch may lead you to white- WITH CRISES butter actually melted, This too much work, but it’s useful ir paddling. Be warned! Strategies for Self-Help April 7. Rm 704 HSB. 7.30pm. event has astounded experts in experience. Please ring Bob at each session is limited, Caroline Philips on ‘Fieldwork the field and rocked existing Lack (32269 work, 486339 up quick. For details, see Family crises, W ork crises, Per­ at Karikari’. theories. Believe it, or not. asil home) or Paul Priddey noticeboard, next to the sonal crises woman cope with T. (762-227) home. ian’s office. them all, BUT, when one more is one too many, WHERE can WOMANLINE Poetry Evening CLASSOC RAFTING we GO FOR HELP? How can we help ourselves? New training course, starts mid- May. For women run by Tonight (Mon 6th), 8.00pm in Auditions for Hippolytos: A Auckland University Greek Tragic Play. Anyone in­ AUCKLAND COLLEGE of women. Training to include: Shadows Club will be organising terested in performing or help­ EDUCATION, 60 Epsom Ave, listening skills, assertion, per­ Featuring:- md rafting trip down the ing behind the scenes in this iro River in the weekend Mt Eden. sonal growth. Contact us before Kim Blackburn May 5th. Ph 764-506 or Sandra Bell production, please come to iril 11-12. If you are in- Room 143 of the Student Sunday 12th APRIL 1987, 8.45 765-173. 63 Ponsonby Rd. Alex Staines tcd in this thrilling sport, Union. - 3.30, cost $10,00, bring lunch, WOMENS HEALTH Piet Nieuwland ie Canoe Club and sign Thurs 9th April 10am to 12pm refreshments available, some CENTRE. John Pule r the trip. Half the price Frid 10th April 2 to 5pm iparable commercial trips food for sale. Proceeds to Nicaragua Relief Fund. Sat 11th April 11am to 4pm Swice the fun!! For details, If you would like to find out Key Speaker - Barbara Good­ UNIVERSITY WOMEN Club noticeboard, next more about the play contact man. Chairman, Odyssey AGAINST ie custodians office. DRINKING GAMES Graham Ley at ext 7421 or House Trust. Trustee, Womans PORNOGRAPHY EXCHANGE Hillary at ext 7042. TIME FOR A PINT? Refuge Foundation. Over Twen­ ty workshops all introduced by Next meeting: Tuesday 7th Send game(s) with com­ lg blood is saving lives, experts. April, l-2pm. Women’s plete rules and origin. CRACCUM NOTICES days are on again and a Resource Office, Room 136. We’ll send you games from turn-out by donors is A summary of the days conclu­ abroad. It’s fun! Send to: Anyone wishing to submit ed. We sure ourselves and sions - plus agency contacts ad­ Senee International notices for this page, please rs when we give blood, dresses will be sent to all AU NORMAL 22 Navy Street, Suite 107 hand to the Craccum office port blood days. Give registerants. Venice, California 90291 (3rd floor, S.U. Building) or )d: Lower common room, Club meets every Monday at USA the Craccum pigeon hole. sday to Friday, 7th April to Forms available from Doctors 1.00pm in the student council Include International Notices must be in by mid­ April. Waiting roms or write to ZON- room. Come and get response coupon. All sub­ day on Monday’s, for the TA P.O. Box 5197, psychoactive. missions are property of following week’s issues. AUCKLAND 1. Senee Int.

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Location: Moa Ave, Blackpool, Waiheke Island. 800g stewing steak 3 Tbsp vinegar 3 Tbsp flour 3 Tbsp dry sherry Admittedly students are thin on the ground at Waiheke. 3 Tbsp sugar 2 Tbsp tomato sauce There is no reason why this should be so however, and salt, pepper 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce judging from our reception on Auckland’s unknown 2 tsp curry powder Vi cup water world, the more students that can infiltrate the place, the 2 tsp tumeric Vi tsp mustard, ground better. Anyway, on Waiheke even a student must eat, and ginger and mixed spice. the choice is rather limited. McDonald’s is absent, for bet­ ter or for worse. Saturday night on Waiheke is a decided­ Cut the meat into bite-sized cubes. Combine the flour, ly dark affair, with very little street lighting and even less sugar, salt, pepper, curry powder, tumeric, mustard, ginger sign of human life. One establishment which is open at and mixed spice. Mix well. Toss the meat in the mixture a reasonable evening hour is ‘The Fig Tree’. Our arrival and press the seasonings into the meat. Stand at least two was greeted with a joyous silence, and for a while it seemed hours. we were in an ‘Islanders Only’ establishment, as regular Place the meat into a heavy saucepan. Pour in the remain­ (Waiheke resident) visitors were cordially welcomed. Even­ ing ingredients. Simmer over a low heat for two hours, tually though, a staff member was despatched to deal with covered, or until tender. W the obvious city intruders. Alternatively, cook the curry in the oven, at 375°F. (You The menu included fillet steak, lamb kebabs, and other may need to add extra water). delicacies in a ‘cottagy’ atmosphere. During busy times Serve on top of rice. guests eat at^tables out in the courtyard, but there was You could also add extra goodies on top of the meat at something rather freaky about the main eating room too. the end, like tomato wedges, sultanas, coconut, onion It had an almost unreal atmosphere, and with a little im­ slices, celery, cucumber and pineapple. agination one could imagine oneself to be in an old cas­ w a s tle dining room in a lonely English village. The Chocolate Chippie biscuit I ordered was charmingly presented still w in its plastic wrapper with a plate all to itself. All in all the ‘Fig Tree’ is a definite change from the fast- pace of city eateries, yet Waiheke is only half an hour away on the new ‘Quickcat’ ferry.

LAWSON/WARD

APRIL 6.1987 CRACCUM ► 5 . ‘The whole area of training allow­ intensive to industries that, And although the submission date ances, benefits and grants is beset with beginning are knowledge inte on one of the reviews has been extended EDUCATION inconsistencies and anomalies’ said the Responsiveness to those from April 15 to the 1 June, the pressure 1985 Interim Report of the Government needs has been a concern of g- on education groups is enormous. REVIEW Transition Education Committee. ‘The industry and the institutions t The situation for universities and major bench marks, the unemployment ‘The annual increment to related groups is further exacerbated by benefit and the tertiary assistance grant ing pool of technological sk^ The government has recently an­ a major ‘internal’ review by the Vice- are clearly out of kilter .... there is an ob­ generated by our educational nounced two major reviews of tertiary Chancellor Committee (V.C.C.) vious need for an integrated approach to tiary training programmes education and training. Submissions to that review, the most payments for those in post-compulsory regarded as falling well short But while welcoming the reviews, thorough since the 1959 Hughes Parry educaation! quirements’, concluded a 1986 many educational groups are angry at the report, closed on March 13th. And while A view supported by the Employ the supply of technological s' short time for submissions. NZUSA much of the research is also relevant for ment Conference in 1985, ‘most people changing economy. Vice-President Dean Carroll the two government reviews, Professor agree on the need for a uniform set of Perce Harpham in the backgrounds the issues. Holborow’s ominous warnings of the allowances for young people in post­ Business Review noted ‘a Les Holborow, B.A., B.Phil, Vice repeat of the hasty, poor decision­ school education and training.’ mismatch between the skills req' Chancellor of Victoria University stands making on the UK varsity system still The New Zealand University the skills available in many up to speak to 100 students. rings true. Students’ Association has been for some The restrictions on course He warns the smallish t>ut attentive This is especially true, for as Vice time advocating a living wage for both computer science, accountancy, aucience, that while universities welcome Chancellor’s Committee chair Wilf unemployment beneficiaries and tertiary business studies, while at the s change and welcome accountability, the Malcolm points out, the present govern­ students. The viability of such a scheme an unfulfilled demand by ind barrage of reviews, submissions and ment reviews will finish before the final must, however, in the words of the New these graduates illustrated the discussion documents on our tertiary in­ V.C.C. report is collated. Zealand Planning Council, ’on the one The recent Beatie report or stitutions does not make for good One of the main objectives of the hand ensure equity is maintained and the and technology also observed government. Effective decision making. two reviews is to simplify a complicated, young people be encouraged to under­ ming mismatch’ between jobs One week later at the ‘official’ and often cumbersome, training take training’, and on a more ominous and suitable graduates to launching of two of the most wide rang­ allowance system. note, ensure public expenditure is vacancies. ing documents on tertiary education and At present students at technical scrutinised and abuse of public funds be The universities have been training, ‘Tertiary Education in New institutes, universities and teacher’s col­ prevented! point out that while they have Zealand’, and ‘Further Education and leges receive the Tertiary Study Grant of The desirability of a unified train­ much as possible, given Training’, the Minister of Education, $41, and if eligible, an accommodation ing allowance must be set off against the resources, to fulfill ‘market d Russell Marshall faces a cool reception. grant of $37.50. need for the government to balance their funding restrictions and cu The normally sympathetic audience This is paid through the Department budgets. decreased their responsiveness, angry that the provided six weeks is not of Education. An accessible and equitable tertiary rush to fill ‘market demands’, long enough for groups to collate com­ Trainees on the ‘Access’ schemes will education system that allows an equal major trap which both the go prehensive submissions. be paid on the formula worked out by chance for students from all groups to and tertiary institutions thJ The process is repeated later in the the Department of Labour for the pre­ study is a further aim. could be falling into. week at a special meeting called by the sent Training Assistance Programme ‘There is a particular concern that One of the key require" Education Department to work out a (TAP). They will receive the unemploy­ students in the tertiary education system today’s society is a flexible, bnr ‘consultative’ process with the various ment benefit plus 10% and be paid are not representative of the various education and training. education sector groups. through the Department of Labour. social groups which make up the New The New Zealand Vocatio Suspicion is only confounded by That unemployment benefit stands Zealand society’ according to Russell ing Council recently identified the fact that the ‘Tertiary Education’ at $94.07 for people aged 16-19 years, Marshall. for a more flexible workforce, document, we are told, was drawn up in while people over 20 receive $116.05 net The generally low participation rates table and transferable skills. less than a week. per week. This benefit is paid through at universities of Maori, Pacific ‘With our current rapid Groups as diverse as the Vice- the Department of Social Welfare. Islanders and students from lower socio­ change in industry, the average Chancellor’s committee, the Vocational In addition, the Department of economic backgrounds has been of con­ must expect to have three Guidance Council, the Employers Maori Affairs sponsors a number of cern for some tipie. careers during their working lifcj Federation and the Teacher Trainees vocational and pre-apprentice training Only 2.2 of Maori school leavers Harpham of the National Association repeat Professor courses, who receive the same allowance intended to go on to university, and Review. Holborow’s message. as trainees on ‘Access’ and TAP 10.4% on to further study, compared to Bob Jones hit the nail ont They welcome the long-overdue programmes. 13.9% and 25.2% respectively of the when he stated his preference for reviews of the post-compulsory (beyond This mish-mash of programmes and Pakeha counterparts. and philosophy students over fifth form) education/training system, differentials of payments has been tants and economists. they baulk at the haste at which the criticised by a number of recent govern­ While the 72% of'University Already in the United Stat stream of reviews are being taken. ment reports. students come from the professional managerial anfl technical backgrounds is a shift away from purely ‘vo course and degrees, and Brians _ 3 ta/ r° m the OECD shows that on 46.5% of young people went to tertiary a lecturer at Massey University, education, compared to 60% in tht trend will be reflected here tl Australia, 70% in Sweden and 87% in down the track. the United States. To undermine the ‘critical knowledge’ and the broad base n at a time when Sweden spends qq Butterworths Bookshop 9 5% °f its GNP on education, the jects such as classics, philoso" United States 6.9% and New Zealand social sciences would be disastr ability of tertiary institutions to First Floor, Johns Building, 21-23 Chancery Street, City. way down the table at 5.4%. ‘There seems’, according to NZUSA a genuine education. Phone 399-171 President Bidge Smith, ‘a direct relation­ An education, the very peor ship between participation in education, are at present calling for more r and the importance the nations place on to ‘professional’ course, will be education in training, and the economic ding for in later years. Hours: Monday-Friday 8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. performance of a country! Whatever happens there is ‘Those who put most into develop­ be a major change for most uni ing a well-educated/highly skilled flexi­ in the next year or so. The pr ble workforce earn higher incomes and no doubt been sped up by our have a better standard of living! ‘Those yearly election circus. SEE US FOR YOUR who rely on an unskilled are relegated The public demand things' to being poor and backward! only to be done, but also be seen PRESCRIBED & RECOMMENDED National Party spokesperson on done. One wonders if it is, for us, change for change’s sake. L A W B O O K S Education Ruth Richardson is more hard-headed - ‘quite simply, education There are obviously many is the most hard-headed investment a na­ wrong with our present u tion can make,’ she said to a recent stu­ system. Many things, that we as dent meeting. could see improved. Even the 1985 Economic Summit But if our universities are concluded that ‘investment in develop­ the demands of government, s ing the skills and abilities of all our peo­ industry and society, and are ex ple, is as important as the management plan for those changes 25 years ot our material resources! vance, any reviews must thoroughly and well. d c ^ 18 ,mUSt be increasingly so, as P.KDucker m the Spring 1986 edition As any government knows, y of Foreign Affairs put it, ‘we shift from get a second chance. industries that were primarily labour-

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Professor Tolkien also had an affinity for old language and poetry, (S ir G a w in and the Green Knight was also a 14th & Hugh Cook in person is much like his century poem). work - he imparts detailed information For approximately seven years Cook rapidly, clearly and with intensity while was extremely interested in poetry, he somehow managing to increase interest still is, but despite publication in ‘L a n d ­ 3» with each word. A feeling for what the fa ll’, he came to the conclusion, at age audience wants to know is all part of it, 25, that it was an economically impossi­ he feels no need to leave questions ble profession. However the interest can unanswered. still be seen in his works; ‘Wizards and In 1978 Cook spent three months as Warriors’ first draft contained a large assistant editor of ‘CRACCUM’. In 1979 amount of poetry, but Cook realised he he won third prize in a ‘CRACCUM’ But Morgan Hearst rode out that night, Through dewse a vyle rode he, was indulging himself and removed short story competition judged by Pro­ much of it. fessor M.K. Joseph, whose story ‘D es­ Along the hygh pad to the mount: Maf he called it he. Cook likes to work in blocks of time, cent to the S h ift’ had been very influen­ labouring at jobs for six months and tial on Cook. Now in 1987 that same then research and writing for the next six short story has been developed into a full He girt no shield, he girt no sowrd, But strength walked strong with he, months. However he also used every length novel - ‘The Wizards and the spare moment. According to him anyone W a r r io r s ’ published in England, For strong his teeth and wide his smile: A grin he made it he. who watches T.V. for half an hour has America and New Zealand, having half an hour to use. He believes that a already sold 30,000 copies it now goes A man of men, a menner man, No fear he had it he. living can be made from writing if you into a first reprint. have the self-discipline. Writers block is In 1985 Cook was placed in the No pannam had he none, no none of pek, a lack of this discipline. Another of his Jonathon Cape and Times of London beliefs is that ‘You start out as a failed Young Writers competition with his As climbed he height on height Till he was from the ground too tall to towre. writer’, and have to prove yourself, novel ‘A fte r A d v e n t’, now published as besides the discipline Cook also admits ‘T h e S h ift’. His first novel was publish­ pushiness and persistance are assets in ed in 1980 - ‘P lagu e S u m m e r’, a tale of Draugon glymmar lit the cave: N A draugon lay it there. becoming a writer. foot and mouth disease in New Zealand. Plans for the near future revolve Exactness and research are a strong Now beast of beasts a draugon is, A scream would tell him well. around completing the series of fantasy part of Cook’s makepup. He used the novels, ‘Chronicles of an Age of Chronicles of Froissart, a 14th century Darkness’ that ‘The Wizards and the courtier for details on custom, weaponry Warriors’ began. Divided into four etc. for ‘Wizards and Warriors’. In other groups of five novels, with each group details he is also as exacting - for in­ detailing the same chronological period stance the wording in poetry is as but using different characters and places. authentic as possible. The following ex­ The second in the series - ‘T h e W o rd - tract for instance uses 13th century smiths and the Warguild’ is due out in criminal slang, (It’s a tale told in a November. The third, ‘Women and the deservedly disreputable tavern in W a rlo rd s ’ is timed for early next year. ‘Wizards and Warriors’) With each new novel Cook will be at­ tempting something different, for in­ stance in ‘Women and the Warlords’, he will bring women center stage - a place he sees that they rarely occupy in this genre, all part of bringing reality to the scene. And in the long term - Hugh Cook plans to rewrite the oldest adventure story of them all. A new epic poem on the Trojan War to stand besides Homers ‘Illia d ’ and ‘Odyssey’.

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HESS SPEAKING AT TOW N HALL ... while historical accuracy is in Hess, close friend and deputy to Hitler WHAT WAS HESS’ REAL MOTIVE for the plays authority, HESS is as leader of the Nazi party, flew to AND AIMS BEHIND HIS DEFEC­ tended as a documentary nor si: Scotland in 1941; at the height of the TION? There has been much specula­ a character study of a failed tota1' war, on a self-appointed mission of tion and discussion, but it seems that no Both are ingredients, but the mi; peace. He was immediately imprisoned one will ever know the truth. arrogance, self-justification, and later convicted at Nuremberg on From the Author’s foreword - twisted logic blindness, and per charges of ‘Conspiracy for War’ and ‘...in writing HESS I was conscious of with which HESS is characteriz ‘Crimes against peace’. several motives, not the least of which play allowed me to touch at He was given a life sentence. was to write a play which would stimulate, entertain, move, and, perhaps wider issues. HESS is being sponsori This is the setting for the New Zealand best of all, provoke ideas and questions which would remain with the audience Auckland’s newsest professional Premiere of Michael Burrell’s one man company - ARENA THlf show Hess, starring British actor for some time after they had left the COMPANY. Richard Wasley. theatre. There have been recent reports of HESS’ contribution was subtle and in Hess’s declining health, and in March he some ways more dangerous and more was admitted to hospital with culpable. He gave anti-Semitism a quasi- pneumonia. respectabvle cover, and many who would It is now forty years since a panel of have known better acquiesced or ac­ judges from the four powers - the United cepted it as a result. States, Russia, Britain and France - ...HESS is generally a very taciturn sentenced Rudolf Hess to life man, walking away from conversations imprisonment. he dislikes and often simply not bother­ He was convicted for the role he played ing to reply to questions. I needed, in the Third Reich before his historic therefore, to invent a situation where it The play opens on April 3rd at! flight to England in 1941: - helping to was likely that he would want to talk. continues at the Town Hall consolidate Hitler’s power, the annexa­ Confronted by a group of strangers Auckland, until April 16th. He tion of Austria, occupation of silently looking at you is a situation over the Easter period (17th, T Czechoslovakia, and the attack on where I think most individuals would 19th) but reopens on April 20th; Poland in 1939 that triggered the war. feel inclined to say something, especial­ tinues until April 26th. Despite please for his release on ly as time wore on. And for HESS of On SUNDAYS and MONDd humanitarian grounds none of the four course it would bring back memories of show begins at 6.30pm. TUES; powers that sent him to Spandau have other platforms on which he stood in SATURDAY 8pm. Tickets are! relented. palmier days. So, I thought, lets suppose bookings only door sales. HESS is now 93, and since 1966 has that HESS has been spirited by sym­ been the only prisoner in the huge Span­ pathisers from a MILITARY dau Prison - a 19th century jailhouse HOSPITAL to the theatre, and there he originally intended for around 600 comes face to face with the first crowd inmates. of people he has seen since the Tribunal at Nuremberg.

THE RETURN OF RADIO NEW ZEALAND W ITH PICTURES! PREMIERE Last night saw the return of Radio Morris admits that RWP will have to With Pictures. But due to printing fight to regain its audience. ‘We’ve got deadlines a review will have to wait, but to start from scratch after two enormous THIS FRIDAY here is what we have managed to glean breaks, which were interrupted by a pro­ from TVNZ; gramme of exclusively local material’. Radio, Books, T V and now live on St Expect a few changes to occur in the The biggest problem is a reduced rock’n’roll stratosphere this year when budget, which has limited TVNZ’s in­ RADIO WITH PICTURES returns to volvement with the making of video clips the screen on Sunday April 5. for local bands. Most, it seems, will have A jazzy new intro, a change of pro­ to be sponsored by record companies, ducer, more outside broadcasts and a but Morris hopes to get cameras to more strong selection of videos and specials concedrts so that the audience can view look set to win back an audience that is the music as its being made. still reeling from the video deprivation Host Dick Driver is back, and will be caused by last year’s video dispute and taking an increased profile in the show, the long summer rock layoff. both as a frontman, interviewer and Producer Simon Morris temporarily backroom role. takes over where Brent Hansen - who is The RWP team already have sevral on a six-month European jaunt - left off. specials lined up for the programme, in­ Morris, who infused RWP with a cluding a Paul Simon documentary on humorous touch earlier in the decade the making of the hit album ‘Graceland’ before moving on to comedy produc­ (April 19), a report from Jools Holland tions like ‘Between The Lines’, has a of ‘The Tube’ on New Orleans (May 10), notable part in NZ rock history himself and a 60-minute documentary on the (as guitarist and singer with a number early days of the British punk scene, in­ of Wellington bands) Morris maintains cluding rare footage (May 31). The first that RWP’s ‘patch’ is clearly defined as programme features an interview with the ‘breaker’ of Next Big Things in rock New Order, and an item on up-and- music. coming phenomenon the Beastie Boys, ‘What the audience construe as being and the second programme will include horrible, thoroughly offensive now... two an interview with Billy Bragg, who MUSIC AND LYRICS BY years later everyone will like! found an audience with PM David KEN HOW ARD AND ALAN B1 Lange on his recent tour of NZ. While three years ago bands like Sim­ DIRECTED BY JOHN BAN AS ple Minds and The Pretenders would Animation fans will enjoy the new have been right for a ride on RWP, now opening sequence for RWP, which was they have proved their worth with created by musician/artist Fane Flaws. MAIDMENT THEATRE populist appeal... and thereby dis­ Flaws has directed videos for some of the qualified themselves from RWP in the big Australian bands, and played with N ightly at 8.15 pm process. several of NZ’s more important groups, For the programme to truly work, says including Blerta and The Crocodiles. M atinees 11,14,15,18 at 2.00 pm Morris, the audience must be prepared Special $9 Student saving only $20.50 to HATE half of the programme con­ (inclusive B/Fee & GST) tent, but stick with it nevertheless. Bookings at the Corner or 1 hour prior at Maidment 'REWEW

accuracy is imp( ‘Bouncers’, Mr Walker says, is unique ority, HESSisi BOUNCERS AT theatre unlike anything presented to nentary nor sin Auckland audiences in the past. Set in )f a failed tota [BS TH EATRE a disco, the show examines the bouncers, its, but the mi] the male and female patrons and their rstification, ;4 a unique touring eatre company ar- lives beyond the Friday and Saturday iness, and pert Ves in Auckland next week with its in­ night excursions. Descried as a comedy is characterized ,gUral production ‘Bouncers’, to play of social and sexual manners, ‘Bouncers’ to touch at It the Limbs Theatre. scratches the underbelly of eighties The New Zealand Actors Company, street-life in Thatchers England, and ng sponsors uprising four professional actors and delves behind the lights and egos of its st professional! uee production workers, was establish- disco-club setting. RENA THE] | at the beginning of the year and is Described as ‘pop’ theatre, ‘Bouncers’ lidway through a six month national is slick and fast combining acting, mime, our. choreography and video into an evening The company has collectively raised the of superb entertainment. apital necessary to purchase a technical ‘It’s up to the people who come and see ig, (Lighting, and sound systems), the show who decide our future really. sually only associated with a large com- Establishing a touring company is not lercial venture. The ‘Bouncers’ tour is the sort of gamble you can take every ot sponsored by either the business sec- year - its too hard on the heart,’ Mr Dr, or the Arts Council. Walker says. The play ‘Bouncers’ premiered in NZ The season runs from April 3rd to May at October at Centrepoint Theatre in 9th. ’almerston North. It was a box office Performances: Wednesday to Friday n April 3rd at 8p f an(j ajso WOn ‘Best Production for 8.30pm, Saturday 8 and 11pm, Sunday Town Hall I from Wellington critics. Company 6pm. k.pril 16th. Hess )jrector and former artistic director at ‘BOUNCERS’; left to right, Mark Wright, William Limbs Studio Theatre, corner of Brown Walker, W illiam Kircher and Peter McAllum. ieriod (17th, Ilk entrep0int Theatre, William Walker, and Fitzroy Sts, Ponsonby. $16.50 with on April 20th as ^ Auckland is ripe for a new, energetic Student I.D., free if you can be an usher, 26th- nd vital theatre company, (limit of two a night). and MONDT* '.30pm. TUESD i. Tickets are Slj >or sales. The Seventh Symphony of Sibelius PHILHARMONIC opens the concert. Written in 1925, it is ------1 S O F T C O P S ORCHESTRA his last symphony. It takes the form of a large single movement and is regard­ Manacles, thumbscrews, a scaffold... S O L D O U T ! ed by many critics as one of his most !Has anyone got a rack in their garage?’ successful works. [Softcops by Caryl Churchill, (Of The colourful ballet suite P e tro u c h k a loud Nine’ and ‘Fen’ fame), is set in by Stravinsky concludes the pro­ leteenth-century France and pinpoints The first concert of the Caltex Master- gramme. The exotic and energetic or­ asic attitudes, assumptions and works Series of the Auckland Philhar­ chestration portrays scenes in the life of ilosopies regarding law and order. A monic Orchestra has sold out two weeks the puppet Petrouchka. This is the se­ :me that is both familiar and recurrent before the performance. cond of Stravinsky’s famous ‘Russian’ dally to this very day. Commenting on the sell out, Ballets for large orchestra written for the With our own police force bent on Christopher Blake said: ‘We have been Ballet Russe in Paris in the early 1900’s. :rengthening it’s position with medieval delighted with the response to our ten- Principal conductor John Hopkins yle riot gear and tactics i Theatre concert International Season subscrip­ directs the programme. Workshop has chosen a play that lends tion series. Demand for tickets has been I historical view to crime and punish- extremely high and very few seats re­ e o n Si ent with a wicked sense of humour, main for any of these concerts. The Or­ .'vjs dis humour is exploited to the full by chestra now eagerly awaits the opening he student cast in multiple role se- of the Aotea Centre. The additional ences. Meet the nineteenth century seating will help us to accommodate all w S E S Z L jrmer Jeremy Bentham and learn the those presently wanting to attend our tide story on Roses! concerts.’ ^Wherever else but in the Little Theatre The concert on April 9 in the Auckland April 7th to 11th. Town Hall at 8pm presents visiting % f And don’t forget the singing chain gang Bulgarian violinist Minco Minchev in his ■on collars couldn’t hold them down! second appearance with the Orchestra. ; ; -•> _ He will perform the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. H5#

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know that the average student will appreciate that this cea sedti report is not the President’s but there is always one ex­ ception from the other 13,499 and for that person’s REFERENDUM understanding the above has been provided. My loyal subjects, minions of my domain, friends and INVALID countrymen (I can’t help but attune myself to royalist dogma as they don’t have to go through the bothersome bother of defeating their vastly inferior, professional pim­ EXECUTIVE W ON’T ple popper, opposition and the question of squalid sub­ jects such as salary, bless your diamond choker with mat­ BE PAID A FTER s °ne and ching ear-rings, never come up). I have spent most of this iknown? ] week furnishing a report, in coral pink and muted greys ALL decor, which quietly hints at a very small degree of op­ position, well not actually opposition, more shall we say Last week’s ‘Polly Ticks’ reported that the referendum contrary opinion to the government who are a terribly to pay executive members had been carried. The students swell bunch of chaps and the meals at Bellamy’s are awful­ had their say, and the decision was made, carried by one ly good and well subsidised. I mean issues of tertiary vote. But on the 27th of March the referendum was in fact education importance must be bought forcefully to the declared INVALID. The students’ voice has been nullified fore, that’s what I say, between mouthfuls of seafood crepe through technicalities. where possible. I believe as a true investigator of human It seems that the Executive omitted to declare the pay nature, having watched Dallas and read several Harold issue contentious, which means they aren’t bound by the Robbins novels, that we must change the system from result. Admittedly the margin in favour of paying the ex­ within. This can be a very gradual process and may in­ ecutive was small (one vote), but it was a majority never­ volve constant liaison with it’s maintained i.e. games of theless. Strangely someone in the executive disagreed with golf, cocktail parties etc and one could grow old waiting. the result, and sent it for a legal ruling, which returned Nevertheless, this life synonomous with martyrdom must with the ‘invalid’ verdict. be chosen by someone. I will hoe that road, that garden, Referendums held without being declared contentious that beach and never surrender. Well at least this is the by executive have no binding result, and can be ignored plan. See you on the beaches and do remember your Piz by the executive. Buin tanning lotion, remember smart yuppies are always The executive is also the body which must declare tanned. something ‘contentious’, so either way their approval must I AM NOT A CROOK be gained. Students don’t have as much say as we are fre­ NOT THE PRESIDENT quently told, when student decisions must be approved by the executive. It seems that the whole referendum has been a mean­ ingless waste of time and money, because the executive never approved the referendum in the first place.

craccum Every minute of every day wars rage within our body. The attackers are viruses, so small that HOW SERIOI about 200 million would fit on a pinhead. The New Zealand, the fii defenders are the body’s own specialised cells, fg4. Official Health E devoted in their task of seeking out and destroy­ ■Clinical AIDS (4.2.8 ing the unseen enemy. Usually these attackers To are overcome, or they may catch our defenders unprepared and we may catch a cold or the flu. But nowadays a particular virus called HTLV 3 or HIV has crept into our lives like a nightmare. ider: male - 36 This is the virus which causes the disease we call female - 1 AIDS. ; Group: 0-9 ■ 10-19 SO WHAT IS AIDS AND WHAT CAUSES WHO IS AT RISK? 20-29 IT? Everyone is potentially at risk but at present the highest 30-39 AIDS is the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It risk groups are: 40-49 does not actually kill you, but the virus destroys the im­ - homosexual and bisexual men. 50-59 mune system which protects us against diseases and, - drug addicts who inject drugs. 60+ -( without this protection, even common diseases are fatal. - prostitutes. §k Groups: homosexi The illnesses which patients may have, as a result of be­ - sexual partners of these people. homosexi ing infected with HIV (the AIDS virus), are becoming haemoph more numerous. Because the HIV virus is changing its AVOIDING AIDS - SAFE SEX transfusi< characteristics, it is creating some difficulties in the AIDS is not easy to catch but it can be spread by people unknown preparation of a vaccine (as in the case of the influenza who seem perfectly healthy. It is up to you to make sure |uiical Diagnosis: virus, the vaccine for which needs continual change). Note you do not put yourself at risk. Opportui however at present there is no cure for AIDS and it is You are safer if: Kaposi’s unlikely that one will be developed in the immediate - you are in a stable relationship and both you and your * Opportu future. partner do not have sex with anyone else. Other Not everyone infected with the HIV virus develops - you or your partner use a condom. This is probably the most important precaution to take as it will reduce the AIDS immediately. When the virus enters the blood, the nfirmed AIDS ai body makes specific antibodies against the virus. These risk of getting aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. Number Positive antibodies can be detected generally after a delay of some It is important no matter what sexual orientation you may ider: male weeks. This is sometimes called the ‘window period’, be; heterosexual; homosexual or bisexual. female - you avoid anal intercourse. This is not limited to the Gay because any antibody test made in this period will not not stated show up positive. Community. Heterosexuals, homosexuals and bisexuals t Following this, there is an incubation period which may also practise this. It would be better just to alter sexual Jccording to the Wo: range from a few months up to many years. During this habits and avoid anal intercourse. 1.87) the AIDS total period, there may be no tell-tale signs to suggest a person - you talk about sex with your partner. Society runs on rise by 1,766 over is infected with the virus. fear and ignorance when it comes to such subjects. If peo­ few Zealand is in a gc ple are better informed then they can make informed Next, early symptoms of AIDS may develop. AIDS because we < These may include: choices about sex and it’s risk of disease. :r countries where - swollen glands, particularly in the neck, groin and It is not simply the number of partners that is impor­ tant, although the more partners that you have, the more sorted case was in 19! armpits. terves credit for beir - extreme and constant fatigue. likely it is that you come into contact with the AIDS virus. pe New Zealand AID - frequent fevers, chills and night-sweats. More importantly, it is the type of sexual activity that !. The Governmen - rapid weight-loss for no apparent reason. determines whether or not you become infected. It is still ide like France, wh - white spots or unusual blemishes in the mouth. possible to have enjoyable sex and not exchange any body JDS sufferers have 1 - diarrhoea. fluids that may contain the AIDS virus. Therefore the risk will be greatly reduced by changing sexual habits. |*rve to be treated ^ - frequent headaches, forgetfulness, difficulty member of our s< The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has produced a concentrating. ■emment to suppori All these symptoms DON’T specifically indicate AIDS, series of pamphlets which classifies sexual practices into would be a disaster but when they all occur together and for an extended three categories: safe; potentially unsafe and unsafe. ity were pushed period of time, it may indicate infection by the AIDS AIDS AND HEALTH sct for their respo virus. control of the sp People are not diagnosed as having AIDS until their im­ A strong immune system is maintained by good health. mune system has become very weak and they have begun Bad nutrition, physical and psychological stress, heavy use to suffer from opportunistic infections. Opportunistic in­ of prescription or illegal drugs and repeated infections fections are diseases which are not usually fatal but can (especially sexually transmitted diseases) all depress the f become fatal in an immuno-depressed person (ie one who immune system. Stay healthy by eating well, exercising, N INTERVIEW has a weak defense system due to the HIV virus). The and getting plenty of rest. GLER (Head < two most common diseases are: Blood transfusions are almost completely safe. All 1) Pneumoncystis carinii (a rare form of Pneumonia). This donated blood is screened for the AIDS virus. There is Auckl is a lung infection which is caused by a parasite, and is the very rare case that the AIDS viral infection may be the leading cause of death in AIDS patients. in the window period phase, in which case it will not show 2) Kaposi’s Sarcoma. This is a form of cancer or tumour up antibody positive. This risk is now negligible due to of the blood vessel walls. In the past, this has been very the self-exclusion principle that the Blood Transfusion rare and almost always non-fatal. There are other oppor­ Centre maintains. tunistic diseases which may be viral, fungal bacterial and They use a set of four self-exclusion categories: parasitic. 1. Any male who has had sex with another male since !CCUM: What is tl 1977. This includes any male who has had occasional or ises ward? even single sex experiences with another male. This in­ S-P: We take all s< HOW IS AIDS SPREAD? . AIDS is an infect When a person has the infection, the virus is found in cludes homosexuals, bisexuals and trans-sexuals. 2. Anyone who has used injected drugs not prescribed by ie have tended to t his or her blood or semen. Another person can become IS patients - enouj infected only if this blood or semen gets into his or her a doctor, since 1977. 3. Anyone with AIDS or symptoms of AIDS. increase, there’s n body - not just on the skin, but into his or her lople who get referre bloodstream. 4. The sexual partners of any of the above since 1977. (If you have been in Africa in the past three years, please Betimes they alreac AIDS can be spread through: By don’t have symptc - sexual contact with someone who already has the virus. let them know. There is no risk by giving blood, as everything is ■JtACCUM: symptoms, What we jus s< - drug addicts sharing needles and/or syringes. This is ptional way. They cc because blood from one person is passed on to the other disposable. E-P: The vast ma nerehave they some may infecte< be wit in the needle or syringe. iDblems. - transfusions of infected blood (very small risk nowadays) rJoco ptACCUM: To what - an infected mother to her baby. q frU &l>ous What about other ways? AIDS? AIDS is NOT spread through ordinary day to day con­ E-P: Very variable tact with other people. You cannot get AIDS from just think they know being near someone who has it. (Remember that some U §tant bits wrong; sc infected blood or semen has to get into your bloodstream right across. But for you to become infected with the AIDS virus). (us do know a fair n w y There is no evidence that AIDS can be spread by talk­ ,J M / J 1 / ing to people, social kissing, sharing cups or glasses, or CCUM: How d in swimming pools. e a r , v - u c? E-P: We will refer There is NO evidence that the AIDS virus can be spread J p * through situations such as sharing razors or toothbrushes; there, or we will mouth-to-mouth rescusitation; earpiercing; tattooing; horoe Bey would like tc electrolysis or acupuncture. (Provided proper sterilization w ithout your ■ica l system and th has been used). ~~fclinic. The Clinic No-one has ever caught AIDS from toilet seats; door pa* knobs; second-hand clothes or badly washed cutlery.

12 ◄ CRACCUM APRIL 6 1987 HOW SERIOUS IS AIDS IN NZ? I MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED ... THE BURNETT CLINIC New Zealand, the first case of AIDS was reported in If you think you could have been exposed to the virus, The Burnett Clinic provides a service for people who are i. Official Health Department figures: and think you may have some of the symptoms mention­ concerned that they may have had contact with the AIDS ed previously, remember these are all vague symptoms virus. The Clinic provides: Clinical AIDS (4.2.87) which can easily be caused by some other health problem, - an opportunity for people to get information about Total number of cases to date: 37 even just a cold or flu. It is only if these symptoms last AIDS, the AIDS antibody test, and how it relates to their Annual notifications: 1984 - 3 a long time, are severe, and go hand-in-hand with increas­ health. 1985 - 11 ing general illness that there is any possibility that they - an opportunity to have a complete medical assessment. 1986 - 19 are caused by AIDS. If you are worried about your health, - an opportunity, where necessary, to take the AIDS an­ 1987 - 4 see your doctor. tibody test. The test is available free of charge from The nder: male - 36 If you are quite well, but may have been exposed to the Burnett Clinic. female - 1 virus, you may be wondering about the AIDS antibody The counsellors use a holistic approach, where they look e Group: 0-9 - 0 test. This test checks the blood for the presence of the at the whole person as a total package: physically, 10-19 - 0 AIDS virus antibody, the protein which the body produces spiritually and emotionally. They see a need for change 20-29 - 5 in response to the presence of the AIDS virus. in sexual practices and this is only achieved through an ie highest 30-39 - 19 The AIDS virus antibody test is available through doc­ awareness of ‘safe sex’ and an enhanced motivation for 40-49 - 9 tors, VD clinics and The Burnett Clinic. change. They emphasize that condoms MUST become the 50-59 - 4 I would urge any person wanting to have the test to go major form of contraception and pro-phylaxis (disease 60+ -0 the The Burnett Clinic because they ensure complete prevention). k Groups: homosexual - 29 anonymity. Anonymity is crucial because there is no If a person is infected with the AIDS virus, The Clinic homosexual and IV drug user - 1 opportunity to discriminate against a person by using their provides support for them and will make them aware of haemophiliac - 1 medical records. what measures they can take to avoid further transmission. c transfusion - 1 (Hospital Board records are now available for anyone to All contact with The Clinic is ANONYMOUS. You are by people unknown - 5 examine). known by a name and a code which cannot be traced to make sure nical Diagnosis: you. The test takes two weeks. There are 13 very friendly Opportunistic Infection - 27 staff at The Clinic and they are only too pleased to have Kaposi’s Sarcoma - 6 NEW ZEALAND AIDS FOUNDATION a chat - it’s best to have an appointment though, as they i and your * Opportunistic and Kaposi’s Sarcoma - 1 The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is funded by the have very tight schedules. Other - 3 Government for its workers’ salaries and its education There are two counsellors: Dick Johnstone and Sue Mar­ Dbably the programme. The Foundation administers three AIDS shall; and two doctors: Dr Mike Pohl and Dr Alison clinics in New Zealand one of which is the Burnett Clinic, Copeland. reduce the Confirmed AIDS antibody positive test (9.2.87) (in the Wallace block of the Auckland Hospital). The Burnett Clinic is open Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm, :d diseases, ll Number Positive Tests: 208 in you may Saturday 10am - 1pm. (Phone 395-560) nder: male - 191 female - 8 to the Gay not stated - 9 l bisexuals Iter sexual ccording to the World Health Organisation (Herald, .87) the AIDS total is now 42,704 in 91 countries. This ty runs on rise by 1,766 over the past month, VICKI TURNER cts. If peo- ew Zealand is in a good position to prevent an epidemic : informed AIDS because we can learn from the experience of her countries where AIDS appeared sooner. (The first t is impor- sorted case was in 1981). The New Zealand Government e, the more serves credit for being the quickest to act in the world, My thanks to : VIDS virus, ie New Zealand AIDS Foundation was set up in March Dr Rod Ellis-Pegler, Head of Infectious Diseases, ctivity that 85. The Government did not adopt an ostracising at- Auckland Hospital. ;d. It is still ude like France, which has only recently changed. Professor John Scott, Department of Medicine, Auckland ie any body dDS sufferers have been victimised by society but they University. tore the risk erve to be treated with dignity and compassion, like Warren Lindberg, Director of N.Z. AIDS Foundation. labits. r member of our society. It is necessary for the new Tony Hughs, The Burnett Clinic. produced a Yemment to support the Homosexual Law Reform Act. Dr Wilma Grant actices into KNild be a disaster for AIDS control if the Gay Com- Leonie Meredith i unsafe. nity were pushed underground again. They deserve Timothy Gregg pect for their responsible behaviour in the prevention John Turner d control of the spread of the AIDS virus. »ood health, ss, heavy use d infections depress the l, exercising, AN INTERVIEW WITH DR ROD ELLIS- EGLER (Head of Infectious diseases at CRACCUM: What can you do for an HIV infected CRACCUM: Do sexual habits change easily once so­ ly safe. All person? meone knows they are infected with the AIDS virus? rus. There is Auckland Hospital) DR E-P: We just arrange when the patient would like to DR E-P: Most people are incredibly concerned about the :tion may be see us again. They don’t have to if they don’t want to or people that they’re fond of, as you might expect. That will not show ACCUM: What is the main function of the infectious they might want to meet every six months. Most we see isn’t just limited to women, it’s exactly the same for male igible due to ases ward? every six months and we would see about 25 to 30 people homosexuals. They are terribly worried about what they Transfusion E-P: We take all sorts of infectious diseases from all that often. might have done to someone else. ■ AIDS is an infectious disease by any definition and gories: we have tended to take it. There are not a great many CRACCUM: So what happens when they get one of the CRACCUM: Is there a risk for heterosexual people? ;r male since DS patients - enough for us to easily handle - but it opportunistic diseases? DR E-P: No question of it. Africa is where there is more 3ccasional or increase, there’s no question about it. Many of the DR E-P: We see them and make a diagnosis as to what infection than anywhere else in the world. It seems to be iaie. This in- >le who get referred to us are just antibody-positive. we think they’ve got. Then we can make a decision about predominantly heterosexually spread there. As for exuals. Betimes they already have symptoms and sometimes a particular treatment. For example: if someone is known heterosexuals in New Zealand, in terms of what we know prescribed by » don’t have symptoms. Whether they do or don’t have to be infected with the AIDS virus and gets thrush, this about, there’s not much infection. I think heterosexuals symptoms, we just treat them in an absolutely con- is something which is easy to fix. For a more serious il­ are less at risk than homosexuals in this city right now. DS. tional way. They come to our usual Out-patient clinic, lness like Pneumoncystis pneumonia, which can be fatal If you lived in Africa, it would make absolutely no dif­ e since 1977. ere they may be with people with all sorts of different to an AIDS patient, we can get them better. In fact, we ference: the risks are the same, whether you are a : years, please >blems. haven’t had anyone die of it in Auckland. We must have heterosexual or a homosexual. But as the gay people had 10 or 12 patients with this form of pneumonia and themselves stress, and they are right to stress it, it’s the everything is ACCUM: What sort of patients are admitted here? they have all done very well indeed. But that’s not to say activities rather than one’s intellectual set about what you F-P: The vast majority have been homosexual, but that they don’t get something else later on, and die from are. lave some infected patients who are heterosexual. that, I’m afraid. But at least they get over the pneumonia, and that’s the sort of thing we do here. CRACCUM: What effect does treatment by ACCUM: To what extent are these patients informed chemotherapy have on the immune system of an infected out AIDS? CRACCUM: And for those people who get AIDS proper? person? E-P: Very variable actually. Some know a great deal; DR E-P: We talk about these things with the individuals. DR E-P: We have used it very infrequently. It depends e think they know a great deal and have got some im- The truth is that we can’t do anything to alter the underly­ on the sort of tumour they get. It does add an extra strain rtant bits wrong; some really know very little at all. It ing infection, but we can help things so they don’t feel on the failing immune system. With some of the 1 right across. But most people, by the time they get so awful and are more comfortable. Often we link in with chemotherapeutic regimens they have given people, it s do know a fair bit about the subject. a GP who may have a particular interest in the illness. seems to have made some aspects worse than before. While the drugs have interfered with the tumour, they have [ACCUM: How do you work in with the Burnett CRACCUM: How do their families relate to the situation? so much trouble with the complications of the chemotherapy, that often it’s certainly not worth it. We Die? DR E-P: They are quite happy to help. It’s mainly nurs­ E-P: We will refer patients to the Clinic if they haven’t ing things that they can do. 99% of families have been have been very gentle with it. We discuss it with the in­ in there, or we will discuss it with them and ask them incredibly strong and powerful. For a lot of them it is dividual, and they decide that sort of thing themselves. hey would like to talk to some people outside the tough because maybe they didn’t know that their son is Some, after talking about it, have said no and died; others ical system and then we would put them in touch with a homosexual. So they have to face up to the fact that have said yes but still died in the end. It just gives them Clinic. The Clinic sometimes refers people to us too. he is a homosexual, which is difficult enough in Auckland, extra time - some of which is good time and some of as well as the threat of AIDS. But people cope. which is not good. You can’t predict which way it will be, so it is difficult to advise people. ______APRIL 6 1987 CRACCUM ► 13 *■ .« o O cd c.<««^o£0o> .9 o - t! cn £ o — 0 0ca £ o'D JC CL— C m X35o ^ I c h*cofl£c«>r (s53 •c CO T3cOO.aJCO.S2:=.E.cE< CT> . w 1 2 •

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12.00 to 6.00pm - Pips' 1 Q « 7 Various Events Festival of Island Light 8.45am onwards - Women Grey Lynn Park Coping with Crises. Presented by the Zonta 8.00pm - Shriek back 8.00pm - Shriekback Club of Auck 1. $20.60 Galaxy $20.00 Galaxy CRACCUM APRIL fi KUHTZE No ordinary beer. KUHTZE No ordinary beer. M 14 Wt/L uvyy H+Gf -w " 0 ^l* + & 0 * i * v b ; - _ i -? t ^ Brought By to you Talks m m and Charley Grey’s, and how they are making ends meet. ends and Charleyare making they Grey’s,how and two of Auckland’s Independent Theatres, The The Academy Theatres, Independent two of Auckland’s tion of mainstream Cinemas. Charley Grey didn’t have have didn’t Grey Charley Cinemas. mainstream of tion without the Cinema that new up law a a of set g up tin to h fig setting the years disallowed bureaucracy Seven Cinema. ent Academy Governm against Academy has survived five years against the competi­ the against years five the and survived end has the in Academy won they But approval. Government the circle of the old Capitol. Downstairs, which used to to used which Downstairs, Capitol. old the of circle the for Big Screen Perform ance in Auckland and compli­ and Auckland in ance Perform Screen Big for Capitol, for what is Charley’s theatre used to only be be only to used theatre Charley’s in is up what the of set for part to Well Capitol, chose Capitol. the he theatre, for up, existing analready setting hassle much as be the stalls, is now being converted into a shopping shopping a into converted being now is stalls, the be dependents in Auckland and aims just to break even even break to just aims and Auckland in dependents et ah te i te aeil hy show. they material the in other each ment demand in gap definite a filled have cinemas mall.Both s t s upre b h Hr’ fl dsrbto com­ distribution film Hart’s the by supported is it as and ‘Queen City Rocker’ to the Moscow Film Festival Festival Film Moscow the to Flats’ Rocker’ City ‘Footrot ‘Queen and Films Zealand New the They Pacific. areeven taking the throughout films distribute panies,who Auckland. living out of his theatre, and to do that and to succeed succeed to and that do to and a theatre, make his to of have out living does however, Charley, year. this later in showing the alternative cinema that he does he has has he does he that cinema alternative the showing in had to build his audience’s confidence in him . For For . in him in known well not are shows confidence he that films the of many audience’s his build to had It took Heather & John Hart seven years in a struggle struggle a in years seven Hart & John Heather It took for going are things how out checked Brad Thisweek h Aaey har ws h fr o te in­ the of t firs the was Theatre Academy The ▲ Independents i . m m m m

m ed. Then he sold that and mowed lawns for a year year a for lawns mowed and establish­ that it sold getting he ground’ Then the ed. into himself ‘Ran and expand the theatre, to add a bar and coffee shop and and shop coffee and bar a add to theatre, the expand before starting work on the cinema. He’s planning to to planning He’s cinema. the on work starting before is also planning on introducing some real alternative alternative real some audiences. his to He introducing run. films on to theatre planning also suburban is another offered been has costs $4.50 for students with I.D., the Academy has two two has Academy the I.D., with students for $4.50 costs coming Russian Film Festival there will be a 20% dis­ 20% a be students. will for there Festival count Film and Russian up the for coming and I.D.) (with $4.00 of with students 4.00pm at to cost a Saturday and Friday on sessions special et ek Shriekback Week: Next Charley, with a partner, started the First and Last Cafe Cafe Last and First the started partner, a with Charley, Both Theatres have a Student Discount; Charley Greys Greys Charley Discount; Student a have Theatres Both I I or Loig owr t Friday to Forward Looking Yours s i RD M. BRAD HI I B I S P A L A U California. cumulated support from the grass roots He is a totally charismatic speaki Luis Palau joined Overseas Crusades and that’s the most exciting thing for me. speech mesmerizing in its intensiti Inc., Santa Clara, California in 1961 for ‘This mission did not come about by an has great respect for women ando special ministry to Spanish-speaking exchange of formal letters and meetings Latin charm. people. In 1966 he held his first with leading Christian administrators. It His schedule in Auckland hast» evangelistic crusade in Bogota, Colom­ came from ordinary New Zealanders and one word HECTIC. Elizabeth P bia. A year later he was named field now involves them by the thousands! (from the Evangical Union) wasta director for Overseas Crusades in Latin ‘When you witness events such as so to his Press Manager the only America and began forming an interna­ many people turning up to a local church American on Palau’s New Zealand L s hear no more c Ijority of vomem tional team of men and women. in Mt Eden to volunteer their services to apart from his son previous to mt The Luis Palau evangelistic team this mission - that they block main traf­ with Palau. j l education has be became a separate division within the fic routes, it becomes very exciting! Miss Paton asked him why Palau k was the commen mission in 1971, and in October 1978 the his entourage had been so formal iand Herald when Luis Palau evangelistic team left tired when he spoke to the Studei Er the first woman Overseas Crusades to form their own few Zealand Univers Rudman Gardens on 30th March. whole of the British organisation with headquarters in Por- Nobody outstanding Before speaking to us all at Rud talnd, Oregon, and today there are Alan Wood insists that he is not the he had spoken to Henderson her degree in 187 regional offices in six other countries. principal force behind this Mission. School students and after us he was Lv of Auckland Ui Lcated-Kateacqi The proposal remained dormant for ‘Thousands have been stirred into cat­ ing some bishops. two years until in 1984, several members ching the vision and making it a reality. ‘We didn’t know how you guys dn • before-the Auckl of the Palau support team renewed their When Luis Palau brings the Christian to meet Noo Zealand Bishops! L ,a r School was f acquaintance with Alan while holiday­ word to Auckland, it is that message I mentioned the fact that I tha Us the official Ur ing in New Zealand. people will remember - not who con­ B.F.M. playing Pneumatic Drill m End it enabled ma Theo and Shirley Lynds, fellow tributed what and how much! on and off during Palaus^peech n fctain the higher e D r Luis Palau, international members of Alan’s church, St Chad’s, Louis Palau did translation work for quite cricket. Lately needed too evangelist Meadowbank, gave Alan encouragement Billy Graham the famous American ‘It wasn’t that bad. In Switzerland Eted and response to continue talking with people in the Evangicalist and they are good friends threw eggs at us. Your Radio Station F In 1874 the Ui At 52, Dr Luis Palau has now preach­ Christian community. His wife Daphne, although their ministries are totally nothing! Sand Act’ was pas: ed the Christian gospel to more than six who has always been his greatest sup­ separate. Luis by the way is pronounced Then we got to see Palau in Perse Eced the system million people in 40 countries, and to porter, encouraged him to press forward. Lewees. Over coffee he elaborated on thesp Ekland Grammar hundreds of millions more through radio She arranged a dinner at their home I must admit I had preconceptions he made in Rudman Gardens. Eland College and television broadcasts. which attracted 26 people. about Luis Palau being just another This interview will be published K>1) which allowec Luis Palau sensed a personal need for ‘That was the breakthrough,’ he said. Redneck Yank Evangical Weirdo but on week. a Ker B.A. m 1877. further bible training and through the ‘There were a number of leaders of meeting him in person I was deeply im­ Lion was awarde encouragement of two American bible various Christian denominations at that pressed with his apparent sincerity. Lois prepared to ms teachers, he attended Multnomah first meeting. We had several more JUniversity level- School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon, meetings and the numbers kept increas­ L University ot r completing his graduate studies in 1961. ing - people from all areas of the Chris­ mally opened on th K May 1883 at a In 1977 he received an honorary doc­ tian community. torate of divinity from Talbot ‘It was a ground swell of support which a message of hope? L ed Choral Hall ( Theological Seminary in La Mirada, made this mission a reality. It just ac­ itoday on the cor Ends Streets), mam Jervois, maa Jessed the gathen Lid be available to {Adless of their sex.

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= O Te Whare Waananga O tamaki H Makaurau H ‘toi te kupu, toi te mana, toi te Kate Edgar |Ē whenua’ After her garaduation in 1877 Kate us hear no more o f the intellectual §§ Kia Ora koutou e nga iwi o te motu! Edgar went on to become First Assistant iority of women. For generations at Christchurch Girls’ High School education has been neglected.’ ^ This represents Nga Tauira Maori’s (where Helen Connon, the first woman was the commend from the New j= ‘regular’ column in Craccum. Its main in the British Empire to take honours nd Herald when, Kate Milligan H purpose is to keep maori students in- degree was principle). In 1882 Kate went r, the first woman to graduate from = formed of various activities and events Zealand University (or indeed in on to graduate as a M.A. from Canter­ = that N.T.M. organise or are involved in. bury College. Kate Edgar, Helen Con­ ■hole of the British Empire), obtain- S Also it is envisaged that this will serve non and J. Bottom (who graduated with degree in 1877. Although the H as a platform to facilitate the airing of er a B.A. in 1880) soon gave Canterbury of Auckland University is rather = Maori news, views and opinions. ry College a reputation as a centre for plicated - Kate acquiring her B.A. six S With the first month of the term over, women University students. After her i before-the Auckland College and = club in all its facets is well underway, and "mar School was formally recognis- success in 1882 Kate became Principle of jjE we hope that all maori students are ad- the official University of New Nelson Girls College until 1890 and in S justing well to university ‘life’, and that 1894 returned to teaching in Wellington and it enabled many other women H study is not keeping you too until 1912. utain the higher education they so H pre-occupied. Kate did much to inspire the intellec­ crately needed to compete for highly H In preparation for the opening of our tual respect of women not only in the ted and responsible jobs alongside = new marae, cultural practices have begun on which we are engaged - placing the eyes of men, but in their own minds as In 1874 the ‘University of New = twice weekly: Friday l-3pm, and Sun­ advances of a University education well. Kate’s lifetime achievement is *nd Act’ was passed. This Act in- i l days from 4-6pm at Rm 237 (our Interim within the reach of every man and recognised not solely as being the first uced the system of affiliation, =j Marae) situated at the top floor of the woman in Auckland - is one the impor­ woman to graduate from a university in ikland Grammar School became tance of which it is almost impossible to H student union building to the left of the dand College and Grammar the British Empire, but also by her H quad. No reira, Nau mail Haere Mai! over-estimate! valuable contributions as a feminist . ;1) which allowed for Kate to ob- dedicated to the promotion of the her B.A. in 1877. This system of af- H Te Whare Waananga o Waikato ion was awarded to secondary women’s franchise (right to vote). Kate = An upcoming hui which promises to be ls prepared to instruct and examine also took a leading role in the ‘Women’s = a great event is the Waikato Maori Christian Temperance Union’, and the = students visit; planned to take place dur- niversity level. ‘Society for the Protection of Women University of New Zealand was S ing the lst-3rd of May (subject to and Children’. The first women to lly opened on the evening of Mon- Ê! confirmation) graduate from a university in New 21 May 1883 at a ceremony in the H Activities include sporting i.e. Mens vs Zealand were Kate Edgar, Helen Connon ^ed Choral Hall (which is still stan- H Womens Netball, a N.T.M. social various and Kate’s sister, Lillian Edgar. Kate’s today on the corner of Alfred and = cultural happenings and a lot of mutual degree hangs in the Auckland universi­ onds Streets). The Governor, Sir = korero. Arrangements are yet to be ty library on the Mezzanine floor, by the am Jervois, made it clear when he = finalized, and your tautoko for this door to the stairway. -sed the gathering that education = would be greatly appreciated. d be available to all who desired it, S For further information, attend our less of their sex. (quote) ‘The work Joanne Priestly H N.T.M. meetings, (every Thursday l-2pm S Rm 237( see Wiremu Te Aho, or the Rm H 237 noticeboard. ANNOUNCING: H Later on in May is Te Huinga Tauira (held this year in Poneke) this will be a RNATIONAL INTERN- of WILPF: contributes ideas and resear­ - the promise she shows for initiating im­ gathering for representatives of all maori IP FOR WOMEN OF ches information needed for the im­ aginative and realistic programs and pro­ students throughout Aotearoa. DISARMAMENT plementation of WILPF’s human rights jects relating to peace, justice and disar­ Offered here is a chance to strengthen programe, and prepares occasional ar­ mament issues: links between maori students, to par­ Women’s International League for ticles and other materials for publicad- - her skills in written and oral com­ ticipate together, culturally, socially and ind Freedom (WIPLF) offers an tion by WILPF: In addition the intern munication and her fluency in English; politically. Here our links between maori hip for young women interested assists in the daily work of the Interna­ - her long-term commitment to working students will be strengthened, fulfilling rking with an international tional Office. Typing and office skills are for peace and justice; our hopes and aspirations for Maoridom. A list of all those interested i’s peace organization and in gain­ required. - her maturity in dealing with other understanding of the issues in- people. is up on our noticeboard, as an estimate in the work for disarmament at SEPTEMBER TO MID-DECEMBER All recommendations will be kept con­ of numbers is needed by 24th April, Nau ernational level. AT NEW YORK, USA: fidential upon request. mai e hui e. iternship is for women in recogni- So don’t forget we are situated at our the fact that they are notabvly ex- In September, the intern travels to New DEADLINE Interim marae (Rm 237), feel welcome from positions concerned with York to follow the United Nations to discuss any of these activities which >ns of foreign policy and interna- General Assembly, in particular its First The essay, recommendations and interest you, or come up anytime to eat relations. Priority is given to Committee, and other disarmament resume must be submitted not later than lunch, talk and make new friends. l between the ages of 21 and 35. meetings and developments. She com­ 30 April of each year for the following No reira, noho ora koutou, kia kaha y in oral and written English is plies information on the disarmament years program. tatou kei te whai i te matauranga a te resolutions adopted by the General All applications should be sent to: Pakeha engari, o taatou ngakau ki nga Asembly for publication in the WILPF WILPF Internship Program C.P.28, 1 taonga a o taatou tupuna! Kia Ora! Na Maatou, ‘E PROGRAM handbook series ‘Focus on Disarma­ rue de Varembe, 1211 Geneva 20, ment’ and alerts the International Office Switzerland. Applicants will be inform­ NGA TAUIRA MAORI internship runs from mid-January to developments needing specific ed of the results of the selection by 15th Diary of Upcoming Events d-December. It focuses on the role actions. August of the year in which they apply. W eekly N.T.M. meetings every Thurs ternational organizations, such as l-2pm, Rm 237. Cultural practice, Fri PF: in promoting and strengthen- HOW TO APPLY FINANCIAL AWARD l-3pm, Sun 4-6pm, Rm 237. Gym book­ the U.N. and it’s disarmament ed, Fri 3pm onwards. All applications must be submitted in WILPF pays for the intern’s travel from Te Whare Waananga o Waikato English. Selections will be made on the her home country to Geneva, from Te Wa: May lst-3rd, 1987 TJARY THROUGH AUGUST AT baiss of: Geneva to New York, and from New Kei: Te Whare Waananga o Tamaki EVA, SWITZERLAND: 1. A resume indicating education, rele­ York to her home country; accommoda­ Makaurau vant past activities and experience. tion and a small stipend to assist with Te Huinag Tauria item follows human rights ac- 2. A 1000-1500 word essay giving reasons living expenses. Health insurance and all Te Wa: Fri May 15th-18th 1987 it the U.N. and within the N.G.O. for wanting to follow the internship pro­ other health related expenses are the in­ Kei: Te Tumu Herenga Waka nity for the International Office gram and ideas on how the experience terns own responsibility. 46 Kelburn Parade would be used in her future work. Whanganui-a-Tara 3. Two recommendations. Persons WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL writing recommendations are asked to LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND indicate their relationship to the appli­ FREEDOM cant and to evaluate the candidate accor­ C.P.28 1 rue de Varembe, 1211 Geneva ding to: 20, SWITZERLAND. A PR IL 6 1987 CRACCUM ► 17 Mention all UNIVI us, mascots and he season opens u j April 4. But on [ 5pm in the Auckl iunge, First Floor This week we have a student favourite |SA Building, tl to review. It’s a 1970 MINI 1000, a car .1MITTEE will 1 FIXTURES that can be seen in droves down in the client forward att student carpark. We test drove the MINI support, Hello Happy Harvesters to get an overall impression of the beast. fyou can trap and We took it out on to the motorway to ortems, acquaint; see how it performed. The start was I communal drink flawless firing over first time, it was then you. This week we move into the practical that I noticed that the gauges gave pret­ side of the exercise. ty meaningless readings, temperature, oil f the way: - Playe As fluorescent light is the most effec­ pressure and fuel gauge all seemed to re­ lo you want to pi tive and efficient source of artificial light main constant no matter what happen­ ,re you in a playir which is readily available to the home ed. My driver pointed out that this clue what is happ grower. wasn’t too much hassle as his hands on Le you feeling gui The lamps (tubes) require a fixture the steering wheel blocked any view of at subscription y< which contain the lamp sockets and a the gauges anyway. This also meant he ontact us : Lorrai ballast (transformer) which works as couldn’t see that the indicator was still Sam f normal 240V. on (it wasn’t self correcting). The car Sharn Tubes come in many lengths and sizes, soon warmed up with a good heater, Alternatively leave but the most common and suitable are though it took a while to get it sussed oticeboard. four and five foot lengths. Smaller tubes since the switches all had meaningless jemember:-1. To d emit too little light for vigorous growth. symbols on them; we’re not even sure >leted our BA’s in h The overhead space must be sufficient what several even did. The car showed I PRACTICES v to hang and easily raise the light through good pick up at any speed, and my rirst and fourth div a height of a t least six feet (we hope) as driver enjoyed the handling ability, jnior A and B, in the plant grows. similar to a slot car according to the YOU THERE!!! The tubes and their fixtures are driver as he squeezed into a gap that available in several wattages. A four tube should not have been there. As we has about 40 watts and a five foot tube powered onto the motorway the engine has about 50 watts. The amount of light noise became quite apparent drowning you supply and the size of the tubes out the radio and any civilised conver­ determine the size of your indoor sation. Not something you’d want on a garden. long car trip. Our plant will grow with as little as 10 A quick look around the interior show­ watts per square foot of growing area. ed a typical student car, tastefully But the more light you supply the faster decorated with the old lounge carpet, and larger they will grow. and the back seat was buried under piles When sunlight is refracted by raindrops of junk/books/shoes etc. A heavy the light is separated according to shower of rain showed up some of the wavelengths with the characteristic col­ MINI’S biggest downfalls, the single ours forming a rainbow. Similarly, the speed wipers couldn’t cope with the white light of electric light consists of all water, turning forward visibility into the colours of the visible spectrum. Elec­ something similar to looking out of tric light differs in the amount of light a goldfish bowl. When all the traffic in they generate in each of the colour front of us breaked harshly to a stand bands. This gives them their still and our MINI coasted gently toward characteristic colour to ie or degrees of the bumper ahead, I turned to enquire whiteness. Sunlight has such a high in­ if the driver was taking it all a bit too tensity that it can satur, ite the plants in casual. But one look at the white the blue and red bands, though most of knuckles that were clutching the steer­ the suns’ energy is in the middle of the ing wheel told me otherwise, the break spectrum. had in fact been planted firmly on the Artificial lights operate at lower inten­ floor, but the four drum brakes had just sities, so the best lights for plants are failed to do anything, it was only the those that emit most of their light in the frantic gear change down that stopped w blue and red bands. Therefore Gro-lux us getting a close up of the exhaust pipe V o t e d T op S alons - tubes will appear light purple. These ahead. We then proceeded with a good Mens a n d L a m lights are manufactured fo r plant forward gap, and the driver muttering in­ growth. These Gro-lux are best used with sults to the designer who conceived such 4 y e a r s r u n n in g ordinary fluorescent tubes. a suicidal set of brakes. This little inci­ M e t r o reader The common screw-in incandescent dent also showed that the extra low front (household) light produces light main­ seats were excellent for getting whiplash, toss ly in the red, orange and yellow light for they only came up to the base of my Relies (7) spectrum and can supplement your shoulder blades. Though the low seat did DO W NTO W N «CITY Cast (5) lighting. allow me to slide right into the back seat 790-987 Succeed undete< An example of lighting is: Use 1 blue to close one of the back windows that (3,4,4,2) fluorescent popped open on its own accord. Suspension of 1 ‘Daylight’ K’ROAD • CITY I also noted that the mil&age counter 734-232 (5) ‘Coolwhite’ - standard fluorescents with had stopped at 87,000 miles and no one Distinguished ( two or three red tubes. seemed to know how far it had travelled Most recent (6) Natural white - standard since. As we parked up the Domain l o r n e s t r e e t * c it y Weighing mach Gro-lux - grow tubes. another horrible fact became obvious as 390-689 Put forward (7) By using a household lamp as well as I collected myself off the ceiling, I realis­ Province of S. a red and a blue tube, all the light spec­ ed that the springs were excellent but the TAKAPUNA VIUAGE Unintentionally trum is provided. shock absorbers were nonexistant. So we 1^ 493-132 Blustery (5) N ex t w eek ‘Construction and setting proceeded to hop and bound through Slim (7) up! potholes and generally got shaken to pieces. A final look over showed that the P.S. How are the seedlings going? paint has begun to die, fading in the sun. 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REFUGEE SOCIALIST CLUB PROBI recent Listener, th< STUDENTS FOR m the Islamic religic It is not yet known what college these During the latter half of the last term to interview her. slam’ was the headli N.Z. young men will attend. security police searched through the stu­ The two men arrived and | |jng pictures of Oma Paulay and Sziranyi fought in World dent roll in the executive office and copied a list of names which they iup of dangerous War II in the Hungarian Army. At the noted the names of requisitioners of the displayed on the Socialist Helm fanatics, noticeboard, asked Mrs Chisho f article itself SC FROM HUNGARY end of the war they entered St Imre’s special general meeting over the College, one of the leading Catholic Emergency Regulations and the names the addresses of the persons nening. It spoke of TO NEW ZEALAND University centres of Hungary. of members of the Peace Society and signed the requisition for the upon women, of When the Communist Government Socialist Club. general meeting. Mrs Chisholmfc or holy war Here, after Red Terror and was established it soon began to make For some time there have been routine conferring with the registra cated to wiping ou War things hard for Hungarian Catholics. checks by the Police Department into the Kirkness, allowed them to fevers, anywhere Paulay was elected president of the Col­ activities of foreign students, especialy through the Student Association |jm religion as lege student body, and ran into Com­ concerning their academic progress. get the information. itical. Many of the On September 11, two refugee munist pressure on all sides. The Com­ However, while the waterfront strike * The special general meeting before, Hungarian students, Tamas Paulay and munists wanted to impose their own was on police activity intensified. held without, so far as is knoii Istvan Sziranyi arrived in Wellington by choices as leaders of student activity, but * A special General Meeting of the member of the police being pre the Wanganella. With them were the students refused to have them. students Association was requisitioned, * Some days later, the police | I Paulay’s wife and young daughter. After the arrest of Cardinal Mindszen- mainly by members of the Socialist again. This time they asked racist and biased sta This is the climax to a year of negotia­ ty the Red campaign intensified. Club. The motion called for the im­ names of the persons who had tions with the International Relief Sziranyi was arrested by the police but mediate repeal of the Emergency Regula­ sored the formation of the Peact K Organisation and the New Zealand managed to escape. He and Paulay suc­ tions. Before the meeting, some ty. After asking several questioi * artic*e was based c Government. The I.R.O. paid their ceeded in escaping from the country. members of the executive asked the as whether the ‘Morelle’ in Rj an<^ Qu0^e<^ on^y passage-expenses. Now they are in New They lived in Germany since then, in secretary to inform the police of the in­ Morelle Smith had one or twol P°hn Baffin, recen Zealand they will be helped by the misery and poverty, unable to continue tention to hold the meeting. caller gave the impression that I an^ Pr°fessi°n University Catholic Society which was their studies or to provide a decent home ♦Mrs Chisholm did this and was thank­ satisfied that the Society was subject, mainly responsible for bringing them to for themselves. ed by the police. Later they phoned her subversive organization. khough forced to c New Zealand. and asked if they might send up two men Since then there have been only; 2use opposition checks of the type mentioned a racism, he managec w Zealanders with — istchurch, Wellingtc ing that ‘New Zealai ance of Islam is a s |g news, if true. Mr |urer in Asian langi 6 By teaching a Conti ©RR©R©p€© be on ‘Understand]' oesn’t think so, he ener thought ‘racisl lements’ like Mr L; int. -J. Let’s say you’re discussing the subject Spot the Libra I is not true that j of calling cards. Should people use them Then again, there are people») Slims should wage today, is it old-fashioned, and what afford calling cards. If it’s a strai prepared to convert should they look like? Take a fast flight budget, they aren’t really n< there are referi around the zodiac. Pretend you’re in the HANK IS SUCH A SLOB - Looking at the other side of it had to see it same room as twelve women (If you’re w is h i c o u l d HOUSETRAIN) I can’t help feeling the beauty ;round’. ,,- a man that should be quite a pleasant THE GUY, PEGGY' of yesterday is missing in toda; van Rejn goes o l supposition). The discussion would run / SENT JOCK TO pace, so it might be money wi *uys of Mohamm something like this: OBEDIENCE I suppose they should be engi between the small 1. Don’t need them. I use the telephone. CLASSES AND NOW it’s true that something differi the rest, largely ] 2. It’s rare that I go calling. People visit HE JUMPS WHEN reflect the individual persoi it says that Musli I TALK ' ! me. creative person could design id themselves wh 3. Calling cards! Who has time for call­ But such individual cards it becomes bold ing cards? misunderstood by very social lissible to def 4. I’ll have to check Emily Post and see know? I mean, the Rockefelli it those who reft exactly what she says. think it was gauche. On reflea not, Mr La 5. Well, if they were really wild, and im­ calls on the Rockefellers? Yc itimate the pow pressive looking - friends would love your being ilamic fundamei 6. My God! You mean people still take but plain engraving is probably are a minority, I time for that junk? ceptable. At least I think it si ible influence. 7. If they’re not at home, they miss me. But still - well It’s their loss not mine. Well who was who? The ai Civil Wars large 8. I wonder if it’s raining outside? I PL given below. by the United J «3 thought I heard thunder. 9. Cards are so impersonal. I’d rather write a note. these people arc 10. I always sense when people aren’t Rejn, ‘it is becai there, and I only call on them when I get i in slum areas. Th a subliminal message they want to see jrists come fi me. you CERTAINLY l e a r n ground. That < 11. The custom is perfectly proper. But SOME USEFUL STUFF AT A stinians who hi there’s no point discussing the design. If WOMEN’S GROUP1 jxou siqi jnoqu paun by all parties it’s not engraved, it’s not a calling card. 1JIM 3JOJAI mSJOA BSIA pUB U3UI0 up in such a pi 12. Well, it all depends. If you want to 95ji| LuoP tmtuoA\ ssuy -uauil are willing to t do the correct thing, you should have in g -paidaoxa snipuj03 ptitj ties. Laffin thr them. It’s a charming gesture. On the ‘n jq n 9>1H LU0P I ssanS Xbuii lie religion and other hand, using them might seem p| ry developme pretentious today, and the modern oqM B jq n ’Z \ ujooudB3 -j| ;d, he says, it woman is too busy to bother with them. *01 J3DUB3 '6 snuBnby ie victims of \ Of course, you have to consider the -joss ‘L snuBiiiSBS 9 oaq •$ | i France, Engla reason behind the custom. > iuiui3Q •£ sminBjL i Jnited States years. 20 ◄ CRACCUM APRIL 6 1987 2

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*OB] recent Listener, there was an arti- ‘The artificial states in the Middle East in the Islamic religion. ‘The Sword were drawn up by Western diplomats [jam’ was the headline, above some and politicians. And the civil wars go­ arrived and 1 |jng pictures of Omar Khomeini and ing on between them are largely kept oup of dangerous looking young alive by the United States. The more ten­ :1m fanatics. sion, the more people depend on ed Mrs Chisholl article itself seemed equally America’s money and weapons to fight Mr van Rejn says, similarly, that even the persons wl itening. It spoke of atrocities com- each other. They sell weapons to Egypt if it was true, ‘many backward countries CHAPLAIN’S CHAT sition for the edupon women, of an international and Israel, to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and have become Islamic at least superficial­ Mrs Chisholm or holy war organisation Iran’ ly. There is a great difference between ABUSER PAYS the registnjcated to wiping out infidels - any John Laffin says that Islam is expan­ Islamic law which was fixed centuries L ed them to | lievers, anywhere. It presented the ding mightily through active missionary ago, and the local practice especially in Kia ora e nga tauira katoa e mahi ana ent Association lim religion as aggressive and work, especially in Africa. places like Africa’. The status of women mo te matauranga pai! on. j heal. Many of these things, we’ve Ayesha Ben-Fayed will tell you that varies from place to place. Conditions With all this talk about ‘useer pays’, I ierai m eeting^ before, ‘there is no equivalent in Islam of Chris­ discover I’m something of a Rogerian far as is kno* tian missionaries forcing converts. purist. I find myself wanting to take the >olice being pre I Muslim religion has nothing like the hallowed principle one step further than er, the police | I same human or material resources’. Never as a rule used violence even the great guru himself. My e they asked I racist and biased statements. If it were a fact, she says, that all to force people to convert to reasoning: irsons who had | Islamic people are directly hostile to Is la m . If you use something that can be ion of the Peace everyone else, you would not find the replaced, you should only have to pay several questioi ft article was based on one man s opi- large Christian populations you find in for the replacing of it. But if you use up ‘Morelle’ in Rj an<^ Quoted only this one man - a the Middle East. forced upon women in areas such as something that c an n o t be replaced, you ad one or two! John Laffin> recent visitor to New Morocco are different from those in the should be charged according to the loss upression that! fetid and professional public speaker Terrorists come from a very large urban centres. you cause to all present and future ie Society wasjhc subject. poor background. But even regarding ‘unbelievers’ they generations. ization. hough forced to cut short his tri never as a rule used violence to force Many firms and enterprises today use have been on! use of opposition and accusatk ‘There is a concept’ says Eric van Rejn, people to convert to Islam’ And the idea up vast quantities of the earth’s ir­ pe mentioned ,cism, he managed to alarm m;- called the that all Muslims are fanatic and that ho- replaceable natural resources. They burn Zealanders with his speechef ly koE jP l^^iT nerstone of Islam, he its fossil fuels, mine its minerals, erode church, Wellington and AucJ slims, becat ly untrue, although a its topsoil and degrade its forests. They g that ‘New Zealand in its ive believed it. ‘use up’ the gene pool by causing the ex­ ranee of Islam is a soft tap tinction of countless species. They use Eg news, if true. Mr Eric var^ up our atmosphere by polluting it ir­ turer in Asian language! reparably; they poison our rivers and jy teaching a Continuing] Luslim s transmute our lakes into ponds of per­ rseon ‘Understanding IsJ Islam is a vast civilisation, spread out manent death. oesn’t think so, he woi ?ver half of Africa at|&|the w^Jie Mid­ Their nuclear industry pumps radiation tener thought ‘racist, uns lie East. Sj^ty million Muslims ir Laffin into the ecosphere, filling it inexorably cments’ like Mr Laffin*# wi^'fit ip&nd Pakistan. OhWti\kidi iders, he says, wf into makir ich racist with levels inimicable to future life. Can a cost be put on these things? Can is not true that all Islam ipion and China. urse, F can’t prove aJjjjblng. but their value be seen in dollars and cents? ere are people , glims should wage war on eye van Reijn wants to know, thereforf I would like to see us attempt a few rds. If it’s a strai prepared to convert. In t§rêp such*6 general statements ^ fit be that he is funddflpy some es or organisations w| k> wish to calculations. iren't really n< dam there arc references to jihad, but Statements like: Then it will be obvious who the real other side of it «had to see it in it», historical ffcan’t opt out of Islam. You can’t feration of these stereotypes?’ alist Christians will, he says, users are, and that they should certainly ng the beauty at Icground’. like Oft another religion without the risk pay! nssing in today*! van Rejn goes of implat in of llliSlfyour life’. h a ^ ^ ^ J these stereotypes of aggres­ it be money we days of Mohamt wds ten- sion. BuUwenty percent of Palestinians are Christians, mainly Greek Orthodox, Ray Galvin ^ should be engrai between the small hluslims for the University Chaplaincy nething differed the rest, largely pagans. and they suffer too. lividualividual persoiperson^) it says that Muslims are allowed to ‘A lot of people don’t know that. They Islam stresses the fam ily and could design themselves when attacked. And think all Arabs are Moslems, and for having children. vidual cards it becomes bolder and says that it that reason backwards and fanatical. oy very social pec remissible to defend the one God What makes it so easy for people like Mr the Rockefeller! inst those who refuse to accept it. We A World Health Organisation statistic Laffin is that the average reader knows iche. On reflect» [t not, Mr Laffin warns us, concerning female circumcision is given nothing about either Christian Arabs or Rockefellers? Yc restimate the power or the influence - eighty-five percent of Muslim women. Muslim’. ove your being slamic fundamentalists. Although Ayesha Ben Fayed, a New Zealand Ayesha Ben-Fayed claims that forced /ing is probably are a minority, he says, they wield woman who eight years ago converted to conversion is traditionally against ast I think it shr able influence. Islam, claims this is quite untrue. Islamic law, that it is not up to them to ‘Ninety percent of Muslim women have force people to convert. Although peo­ who? The ansi never heard of it. He’s implying that ple broke this rule, it is against Islamic Civil Wars largely kept alive teachings. She emphasizes acceptance of by the United States. Islam has suppressed women and that’s not true. What suppresses men and Islam - from the heart. women is ignorance and poverty, not But it’s not Mr Laffin that worries Eric van Rejn. He dismisses him as ludicrous. f these people are fanatical’ says Mr knowledge and practice of the religion as it is’. To him the point is, why the deputy Rejn, ‘it is because they have grown Editor of the Listener thought it fit to in slum areas. These little groups and reproduce after Laffin had left the •orists come from a very poor country. rground. That certainly applies to The Average Reader knows ‘The idea of this international con­ tinians who have been hit on the spiracy of Muslims organised from one siip jnoqu paun by all parties in the area. If you nothing about either Chris­ tian Arabs or Muslim. headquarters sounds like the Nazi t usia pun uauic up in such a place, it is no wonder ‘Jewish Conspiracy’. The same kind of mvK.e iom Sony -uauij are willing to be used for terrorist Female circumcision, she says, is a pre- unfounded statements, plus racial s n ip u j03 put j ies. Laffin throws on one heap the stereotypes about one particular group Islamic practice limited mainly to North- ‘To me. religi ->n is a state of mind ... ap i sssnS Xmu i ic religion and recent political and are so dangerous because they are taken developments in the area! East Africa and the Middle East. It is Z *P i in happily by the average reader. ujooudn3 j| :d, he says, it is these people who barely tolerated and only in its most minor form. What is behind this, I don’t kndw. *6 snunnbv ie victims of Western aggression - Maybe just a total ignorance’. Mnd of like mental illness.” jjtSns‘9 oaq $] France, England, Russia, and now ‘These women can often become in­ fected and sterile. Islam stresses the : snanni -j nited States - over the past two Alexa Walters years. family and having children! - APRIL 6 1987 CRACCUM ► 21 READABLE LETTUC YEAH, RIGHT ON right to information etc, but it does lit­ count book ‘sham’ *(12) on Executive’s of any physical contact with him tle good to abuse this by using it to part. This years discount book had a cir­ a b h o rre n t. DISTAI MAN... shelter a damaged ego. culation increase of a few thousand *8 Words past this point are ei CORRESPO Dear Editors, All students are invited to any meeting copies (it is probably more widely read the 200 word letter lim it for lei I noticed in a recent issue a headline of the AUSA Executive, with a special than this wet rag) *(13), it cost less than as a special treat for the Pi ‘President physically threatens CRAC­ invitation to Mr Ward of CRACCUM. in previous years, and it offered more shall let his letter run on. CUM editor’. The article was full of bias, Accuracy and freedom of information student discounts than in any past year. *9 Here begins a second letter Pat, Derek, a blatant abuse of Editorial control. The reigns. Get it together - find some real scandal. from the President at the samt rge, Ewen, Kerr chance to give the other side of the story *(9) It is with regret I write to inform - You claimed Executive was interfering *10 The title ‘Not the President’s otten someone) an was not offered *(1). How can students you of some of your recent in the affairs of CRACCUM. Student implies that anyone EXCEPT expect to accept your paper as shortcomings. politicians harassing the sacrosanct dent writes it. I’m sure the avi ids. I’m writing to authoritative reporting when those in­ - By moving your copy deadline to Mon­ media. Boring. Executive every year dent will understand this. Dunedin (which isj volved in the issue supply the details day (rather than Wed or Thurs as in past discusses the contracts between Ex­ *11 The President over-estimai he moment, becau *(2). That sort of propagandizing exists years) you have sacrificed speedy repor­ ecutive (ie the Assn) and the CRAC­ portance. This column sai have just had a in many one-party states. ting on student news. Tuesdays have CUM Editors (ie our employees)*(14). Presidents, with M r Reagan ole days of fine v For the record - the media per se was forums and General Meetings, Executive has the right and obligation mention last week. \ n’t poured down at not ejected. Only one of the seven editors Wednesdays SRCs and Executives. (as trustees of student monies - you are *12 It was ‘blunder’. When the Students Assn subsidises your getting paid) to discuss technical aspects *13 Have you seen a copy of the rs’), during which was, as he refused to stop having a p in Auckland, ur private conversation while an important publication to the tune of $40,000 the of your contract. We have not however, bo o k? matter was being discussed. As chair, I least you could do is facilitate respon­ as was implied, taken any interference in *14 Absolutely incorrect. TheedAtf my room ^ U( called him to order a couple of times. sive (sic) reporting on the many activities your editorial policy *(15). Stop sensa­ elected in the same way the PresSB>reys above the groi of the Students Assn. After all, CRAC­ tionalising - maybe then people would We are certainly N O T employe» ūme I’ve ^een ^ov Those who breach order are required been on the constitutionally to leave *(3). The CUM is a student paper and students begin believing in their newspaper. executive, and we are chosen V s Tienever the cvold r meeting only needs to vote on it if a deserve to know what their represen­ I began (sic) this year deciding to give students. member disagrees with the chair *(4). No tatives and money are doing. you people the benefit of the doubt. You *1 5 W ro n g . T h e P resident hascAfarnous south-wes one did. Donald *(5) Ward refused to Your shift of deadline has meant I can­ have the potential - do something about editorial policy during ex»>nder what it will b not submit an up to date account of my it. Review your deadlines, and the quality meetings. jinter comes - like, \ leave. He refused to stop talking. Tto an ice-block wf activities as by the time it is printed it of your reporting. There is (sic) plenty I then informed him he would be round everywhere < physically ejected, and as I walked will be of little current relevance. I have of things happening on Campus - ripe noticed your correspondents inserting a for being transformed into accurate and ieces? toward him he ran away *(6). That is my oickily everything supposed temper tantrum. I was not go­ mildly entertaining piece in place of my informative articles with a bit of jour­ ally marvy. Orients ing to hit him, but merely lift him and column. My only objection is that you nalistic maturity. Ee Union Hall wa: his chair outside the room*(7). breach journalistic ethic by implying I Following Easter I will begin to supply eking Man - I ca Any egotistical nuisance who wastes write it *(10). A disclaimer would be you with a Presidents column, although handy: By all means feel free to harass the news may be stale. I do this as a lany were at their A Executives and students*(8) time they jncert last year, car me *(11), but please the watchdog will positive move to encourage a more will be ejected - regardless of whether ou, students politic they attempt to justify any right to re­ lose credibility if fantasy not activity is responsible attitude on your part. main under the guise of ‘media’. The criticised. WORDS OF W ISDofc^XTht holiness of the media is important, their - You mention in a recent issue a dis- Graham Watson lembers actually President AUSA Ed’s note: 1 don’t particularly relish the ther. prospect of the Editorial reply, but due Anyway, the whole to the many factual errors in the above to let you know th letter I have no choice. iie h I am sure you h enjoying it d *1 This chance WAS offered, in the form mit, I have been a reader of rone up there is of the long absent ‘President’s Report’, Occasionally the standard oftl but remember which the President has managed to sub­ ^ | S T is such that people look forwjJ to get degrees, o mit only once this year. CRACCUM appearance. 1981 was such aye idging. congratulates the President on at last 1983. 1986 was an unmitigatedi rediscovering his enthusiasm for writing. best forgotten. *2 As in the case of the above letter. This year, for the first time fo *3 This is wrong. The constitution states years, I look forward to the BIRTHDAY? that a Motion must be passed to expel Craccum each week. The layoi som eone. reminiscent of Chaff 1981, buti INGLE’S I *4 Incorrect. tent evidences a lighter de If you are having a 21st party, or any sort of *5 Here the President gives the wrong thought. p a r ty , c a l l P0WERS0UND. name. Does he actually have any idea In short, congratulations so litors, who or what he is talking about? best wishes for the future. ithan Pringle’s * 6 1 left the meeting only when the Presi­ md society (‘Cr P0WERS0UND has New Zealands fin est range of dent had arrived at my seating position, ch) seems to exte powerful stereo systems, D.J. systems and band and when it was apparent he was ignor­ own male world. Jonathon concert rigs; ing calls from other executive members. Mr Pringle to p ALL d e liv e r e d FREE *7 I was not prepared to risk guessing l’s opinions, th just how the President would physically what he define ALL using todays technology express his outburst. I find the thought ful’, Rachael Ca ALL at sensible prices column of IV sfies his criteria, Good partys NEED good sound systems, so don’t ver, if these oj risk your important party with an inferior “ SOFTCOPS” le’s position as sound sy ste m . C a ll P0WERS0UND. ley seem to in th IRREVERANT? then he has tl CERTAINLY! 150 WATT STEREO SYSTEM $ 7 5 .0 0 opinions as ‘i Pringle’s probl 250 WATT D.J. $ 2 2 5 .0 0 DISGUSTING? 500 WATT D.J. $ 2 7 5 .0 0 alone. As me - T O S O M E . ling women’s pl« lain in control 300 WATT 5 CH. BAND RIG $ 9 5 .0 0 ARE SUBVERSION, Cl ihy, verbal ab 600 WATT 12 CH. BAND RIG $ 195 .0 0 AND LAW AND ORDERl nolence. FUNNY? aying that wor A ll p r i c e s INCLUDE GST, thing that haf - search me, child bearing see the play. ibers of womer faculties, we n POW ER SOUND LITTLE THEATRE 7-11 AP responsibili 6 .3 0p m Jonathon, it < 7-10 April 1pm $6 & 8 8 4 - 5 3 2 tuate. men must rea: je and stop FREE DELIVERY Theatre Workshop ting into th t o ilaces and ir defined. The

22 ◄ CRACCUM APRIL 6 1987 dominate in these areas is proof only of seem far more scandalous if Christians DISTANT our success in organising towards our d id n ’t claim the way to salvation, since CORRESPONDENT own benefit and for the exclusion of they follow Christ who said He is ‘the MORE ON PRINGLE women. Way the Truth and the Life! As Lens gave no reasoning against following Christ, it Peter Limbrick seems his indignant proclamations were Dear Craccum, a little ill-judged. Just wanted to take the bait from Lens then proceeded to paternalistically r Pat, Derek, Vicki, Rachael, Jonathan Pringle’s letter on oppressed gather the tender first-years round his -rge, Ewen, Kerry (sorry if I’ve women. It’s nice to know tht Jonathan feet and fell them in no uncertain terms otten someone) and anyone else who BONK-WASTE worked ‘damn hard’ to get his ‘well-paid’ to have nothing to do with Christians. job and Commerce Degree. ‘Don’t even listen to them’ is the warn­ Kids. I’m writing to you all from sun- Difficult as.it may be for some to Dunedin (which isn’t actually sunny ing ‘because they are ‘narrow-minded’. Fortunately Lens is not. understand, there do exist people who the moment, because it’s night time). Dear Craccum, (for reasons other than lack of brains or Lens closed the expose with two have just had an amazing three I agree with Environmental Affairs Of­ motivation) don’t even make it past iole days of fine weather (read - ‘it ficer Grant Simpson, that the proposed curiously drafted arguments outlines, in essence, as follows: School C, let alone get a Law, Com­ sn’t poured down at all in the last three Bonk-Space is a waste of time and merce, or Engineering Degree. Argument one: Some so-called Chris­ vs’), during which I often thought I money, when more pressing issues of ac­ Choice is a concept largely determined in Auckland, until I remembered commodation and financial pressures on tians committed atrocities in past centuries. by outside factors e.g. education and ex­ my room in Auckland is not four Students should have top priority. pectations. Ultimately, a woman student Therefore many Christians on campus ys above the ground. For the rest of The cost of this structure in the region does now have access to the Engineer­ .time I’ve been down here the weather of $20,000 is exhorbitant and if ‘will stoop to any level to seize you for conversion’. ing School, and a small number of been on the whole abysmal. anything, because it comes from the women students have shown that it is not (Following this reasoning and delving Whenever the cvold rain comes with the Building Fund, should be used on impossible to emerge with an Engineer­ appropriately into history, many famous south-westerly change, you upgrading A.U.S.A. buildings. ing Degree. However, for your average Muslims, Jews, even Atheists and Com­ ^nder what it will be like when the real Frankly the instigators of this proposal Josephine Bloggs, an entire upheaval of jter comes - like, will your flesh turn are just on ego trips and the whole issue munists must similarly proselytize fearlessly on campus). our values, education etc. would be ^to an ice-block which you either lug should be treated as no more than a few necessary before any real choices can be Dund everywhere or smash into tiny students stirring. Argument two: Lens didn’t enjoy one made. Ces? How can students be expected to be particular social event of one Christian group. As for Dr H: Boring. Uickily everything else down here is taken seriously in the Universtiy’s, Are you a Commerce or Engineering Therefore N o first-year should attend dly marvy. Orientation was good, like Governments and Tax-payers eyes, when student? Perhaps this might explain the any social events of any Christian group. Te Union Hall was virtually full for this idea of a room for sex is being lack of women students in these iking Man - I can’t remember how proposed. Not content to inflame us with his jour­ departments. ny were at their Auckland University nalistic prowess, Lens has seemed equal­ ly eager to baffle us with his skills as a ncert last year, can you? (Pat?). Mind Sally Thomgon Vivienne Crawshaw i, students politics down here doesn’t logician. I remain unmoved. :k like a good spectator sport - no-one ues about anything, and all the Exec John D. Snodgrass mbers actually seem to like each EXEC HACK her. LIBRARY BLACKMAIL? ‘ nyway, the whole point of this letter Dear Craccum, Dear People, LENS AGAIN to let you know that I’m still alive, for On the 21st of March I received a recall Dear Editors, Miich I am sure you are all grateful, and I dropped into an Executive meeting card from the Science Library dated the enjoying it down here. I hope 25th March, on my way home from the In his warning to new players, the nor 13th. I also received a SECOND recall Dryone up there is having a good time library. OH THE DEJA VU!! There mally astute Lens appears to have faller card for the SAME book, dated the 18th, but remember you’re there first of were Paul Gourlie and Graham Watson somewhat out of focus. which informed me that fines of 50c per I to get degrees, otherwise please stop brow-beating the Executive on some He seems to imply that the chief merit day were accruing. "udging. convoluted argument about TISA card of a group, be they political or religious, What is interesting is that BOTH cards Yours etc, and discount books, just as they have would be to keep their beliefs or convic­ were put through a stamping machine on Julian White done at regular intervals for the last three tions to themselves. Anything more than the 19th and BOTH were franked at years. that is apparently ‘blasphemy, assault 3.30pm on the 20th. Perhaps now the Executive understands and emotional blackmail’. Is that the i have always felt threatened by the why the old hacks have consistently ad­ spirit that has produced ban-the-bomb Library’s power to claim fines, even if INGLE’S PROBLEM vised A.U.S.A. not to deal with TISA protests, the push for female liberation, you never receive their recall notice. They card or with Paul. Paul’s a lovely chap, environmental protection and anti­ can even hold back your degree if you but what’s best for him is very rarely racism movements (all supported by fail to pay! Nevertheless, I feel that the Editors, good for A.U.S.A. many Christians)? University si going too far in trying to -athan Pringle’s analysis of New If we Christians have something which make a 400% return ($4 income for 80c land society (‘Craccum’ Letters, 23 Marion Adams we believe to be beneficial to society then postage) from a penniless student, by .h) seems to extend no further than ‘THE OLDEST HACK’ to keep it to ourselves is sheer dishones­ sending a recall notice and a ‘fine due’ !own male world. ty and selfishness. notice on the same day. Mr Pringle to pay any attention to MYOPIC LENS But the plot thickens. The book was Den’s opinions, they must correspond Yours, recalled by ME! I was making do with Dear Craccum, Iwhat he defines as ‘sensible’ or Sharon Larsen a 1st edition, after reserving the 2nd edi­ ul’, Rachael Callender’s ‘Womin’s I was disappointed with Lens’ column tion. I clearly specified 2nd edition on column of March 9 apparently in Craccum, March 23. It was not that the reserve slip, but no, the book I had 5sfies his criteria. Lens attacked Christian groups on cam­ ANGRY GETS BORED was recalled for me! Jjwever, if these opinions question Mr pus (although I don’t know why Youth Kiddies, Is this a new income scheme for the le’s position as a man in any way For Christ was included among these) I went along to the much unfabled University - when a student reserves a Jhey seem to in the March 2 ‘Womin’s but rather that the article was tainted book, recall a DIFFERENT book they V) then he has the power to dismiss with unsubstantiated accusations and Autumn General Meeting last Tuesday, and found that students really do care already have, and fine them at the same opinions as ‘illogical’. fallacious reasoning. time??? J Pringle’s problem is not particular The tirade against Christian groups about what their association and money is doing. Well, 35 of them do anyway... As far as I can ascertain, all figures alone. As men we are constantly began with Lens seemingly about to un­ quoted include G.S.T. ling women’s place in terms whereby cover a new Inquisition on campus. If, What about the other mega-thousand of you? I bet you wouldn’t dance to Remain in control - through rape, por- as Lens believes, Christians continually I remain, iphy, verbal abuse and other forms act, not just ‘badly’, but ‘insufferably ‘American Pie’ either. I’d condemn all students to be a lost cause, but for their 853346 (to the University) violence. badly’ towards other faiths on campus, Wayne W. McDougall (to humans and : saying that women have choice over then it is imperative that such outrages one redeeming quality: Wayne McDougall. Wayne was the only student Cactus Juice) Tything that happens to them, be it be publicly chronicled. Alas, though P.S. People who write PS’s obviously child bearing and rearing or the writing as one well-informed, Lens was in attendance precisely at 1pm, and since he obviously cares about AUSA far more haven’t shown the forethought and plan­ ibers of women enrolled in Univer- unable to detail even one such ‘insuf­ ning that a letter to Craccum deserves. faculties, we manage to avoid tak- ferable’ act, to support this otherwise than the executive, I would like to sug­ Jiny responsibility for the oppression baseless assertion. gest that he be given all the powers of Jonathon, it does exist) which we Clearly no mean journalist, Lens also the current executive. ‘uate. managed to scoop ‘an appalling moral E D s note: Dr H, your letter has been men must realise the extent of our scandal’, this being that Christians Yours disinteredly, pulled due to its offensiveness. 'ege and stop blaming women for believe Christ provides the only way to Angry of Rudman fitting into the categories, values, God. Unfortunately the moral code E D s note: J.W. your letter has been pull­ places and institutions which we violated here was not made clear by ed pending legal advice. defined. The extent to which we Lens, nor was its origin. Indeed it would

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