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the doctors \NZ confer jr cafe's - student > s breakfa backlash ned in the much to rin of the ;r, John Ag armed the e organist! ordered br unions unlikely having broi 5. Thirty# ip. The or; they wouli not to bei medical s| irest Kleet remaining Anderson ( le ft) — "It's the Agnew (right) — "If it :onsumed i bosses we're trying to get means getting food into my oiled sausa at, not the public." caf . . . I would go out :old scram into a paddock and shoot a cow."

Editors r applical sis for whi The resolution to hold the SGM was passed by a thin called its Union leaders unanimously agreed in the weekend that majority. Among the dissenters were some who felt that the in the event of the Students’ Association having to take action anti-unionist faction on campus was bigger than the pro-union amusemeo! to prevent strikes from hampering the normal running of faction, and the SGM could result in a decision to support > was only the catering facilities, no pressure would be brought to bear scabbing when a similar situation arose again. nd he di by the unions to prevent students from obtaining holiday In the event, the SGM was badly publicised and poorly ill. employment. attended. It moved into committee soon after it began, and in the end it was decided to defer the matter to the first The only slightly dissenting voice was that of Mr G. Arm­ Rudman did not want SGM — now SRC will decide. strong, secretary of the Hotelworkers’ Union. The Hotel- meeting of the SRC. Since the meeting was held in Com­ 'ormer pri workers’ Union includes members of the students’ cafeteria Mr G. H. Andersen, the union allows retailers to “collect their mittee, Craccum is unable to report any cf the proceedings. the Auckl, staff. However, it is understood that much of the arguments >arty whoi own stuff” when an industrial dispute disrupts the supply of “We would have to take action against any students in favour cf the motion revolved around a fear that students a donation goods to shops and retailing agents. “It’s the bosses we are ‘scabbing’, and make no mistake, it would be effective would find their holiday jobs in jecpardy if the Executive de­ airman of trying ot get at, not the public,” said Mr Andersen. “I would action”, said Mr Armstrong. cided to indulge in “strike-breaking” . Some speakers ad­ in a city personally regard any disagreement between students and “I wouldn’t like to be more specific than that, we would unions as a friendly contradiction,” he said. The Northern vocated consultation with the union involved in the event cf have to treat each case according to its particular circum­ Drivers’ Unicn was not trying to do any student out of a meal. an industrial dispute impeding the normal running of the stances, but I can assure you the students would not emerge “However,” he said, “each union has a different policy Association. It was felt that this was the only way that the with their reputations untarnished.” on the sort of action it would not tolerate.” Association could refrain from taking a political stand. » month: i Asked whether such action would be aimed at preventing After the Northern Drivers’ Union dispute had been brought Oaccum’s investigations shew, however, that alienated announce Si students from obtaining holiday employment, Mr Armstrong to the attention of the executive, a Special General Meeting of unions are unlikely to retaliate through the Action Committee S.E. Asia1 said the trade union movement tried to help students as far on Unemployment to prevent students from getting holiday moving to the Association was called to decide what sort of policy the as possible. He would not be more specific. jobs. fter all. Association should follow in the event of future industrial dis­ “We all know you’ve got to earn a bit of money during putes disrupting the proper functioning of the cafeteria. Mr A. Russ, secretary of the Committee, said that it is the holidays, and that’s fair enough,” he said. Man Vice-President Mike Law felt that action by the stated FOL policy to help students as far as possible if they Two cases recently have highlighted the vulnerability of Association which led to the breaking of a strike could seri­ need holiday jobs. the catering facilities to outside strike action. Late last year ously jeopardise the chances cf students getting jobs during “But where a strike is in operation,” he warned, “the best an industrial dispute involving the catering staff had forced the vacation. In the past, Auckland trade unions have co­ course of action would be to get in touch with the union in­ AS some members of the executive and committee-members to operated with Studass over Christmas through the Action volved and see if any action by the Students’ Union would iese two temporarily take over in the place of the staff. However, Committee on Unemployment, an organisation comprised of compromise students with regard to jobs in the holidays.” 'ectly reas the dispute was soon resolved. trade unions. The last word in the matter must go to Catering Manager by stud* Then again, earlier this month, the snack bar was closed The debate at the Executive became heated after Bill John Agnew: “If it means getting food into my cafeteria,” versifies t for a time during a strike by members of the Northern Drivers’ Rudman and Administrative Secretary Vaughn Preece spoke he said, “I wculd first go out and stock up on tinned meat, ger and ni Union. against Law’s motion, which advocated the calling of an SGM and when that ran out, I would go out into a paddock and According to the secretary of the Northern Drivers’ Union, to formulate Association policy. shoot a cow.” vants to I cog in individual, e and att sity teache of the ne\ .ities, the i S.A. DEMO Monarch Life s over bai INSIDE student, a Just how concerned are we, as students, about the issues we don’t real iat they h THIS WEEK debate and argue on? 1 to the sit • Does Labour Party Tomorrow ( Friday) is the anniversary o f the Sharpeville shootings want students out? ... 3 in the Uni • International Stu­ and to commemorate the event, the Maiori Club, along with others, is ore compi dent Movement organising a march in the city at lunchitime. rejection bankrupt ...... 4 the univei • Israel's future...... 5 The march has, however, another important function. It will be ated by i • Near riots in Hong i the Ne; a bid to persuade the Government to prevent the sending of an All Kong University 6 Black team to South Africa. Arthur E. Mahy • Brutus on Apart- 7 falling oi heid ------7 mit Negri Introduces its new • Orientation run Apart from the moral side of the isssue, the New Zealand Govern­ ies and c flexible policy for down ...... 8 ment may have to answer to the Unitecd Nations if it sends a team to iat they ; single men and girls • Festival News ...... 12 :ious, but South Africa. Last year the General Asssembly voted 98 : 1 ( Portugal) • Highet — a naive This new flexible policy is specially ission ot to break sporting contact with South Alfrica. politician ...... 13 designed to suit the particular heid in needs of young people— Maidm Although South Africa has not insiisted that no Maori players be providing all of the normal bene­ m their« included in the New Zealand team, tine New Zealand Rugby Union fits plus a special “PREMIUM ;nd dem REMISSION OPTION” at a has been advised not to send a team thiat could cause embarrassment time selected to suit the Policy­ and st holder’s own convenience, to either side. e.g. upon marriage, establishing a business, undertaking advanced After the recent visit by Dennis Bnutus, and the address he gave, study or travelling overseas. OONAN it is hoped that the majority of students will turn out to support STOP PRESS! tomorrow's march, which will leave the Student Union Quad at 1 p.m. Sharpeville Day anti-apart­ heid March 1.00 tomorrow. .

2 ____ CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 EDITORIAL LETTERS Labou to be secondhand bookselling service. effect cf Administration actions magazine — one that would Society Most people seem to agree was to create an impression of of considerable interest Apartheid arid Us that textbooks are not usually obscurantist bigotry, and ling­ students, as well as the gene bought until after the first lec­ ering suspicions that the ban public. Two of the lead Doe and slugs ture in a unit when lecturers was politically motivated. articles are written by sen The day after Dennis Brutus exhorted students to oppose — G. W. Fischer. lecturers of Auckland Unive Sir, — So, once again we have state which bocks they will con­ a New Zealand Rugbv tour of South Africa, an item in the ity, the remainder contribu: been informed cf the deadly centrate on and use as basic Herald announced that a man and a woman were being by both students and w war Kulaks with their "ideas of texts and these which will be prosecuted in Johannesburg for unlawful sexual intercourse. Editor's qualified members of the p functions; the fragmented in­ regarded as reference bocks. A surp They were man and wife. The man was Coloured, the wife lie. telligence; the anti-psychology" These latter can consequently ment by 1 was European. "Miscegenation” in South Africa is a crim­ Wishing to advertise t and other ideologies of medi­ be read in the library and not Pleas of the New inal offence. magazine on the Cafetei ocre stillbirths. So what ? bought. The saving to students Sir, — New Zealand News­ Party c Nothing could more dramatically illustrate the immedi­ beard, I approached the exei Will such poetic denuncia­ per bock in many subjects can papers’ refusal to print “Crac­ branches a acy of M«- Brutus' case. In South Africa, communication is tive and was refused perm tions serve to stir the “abori­ go as high as $15 to $20. cum” reveals an attitude that October IS proscribed between so-called "races". Ironically, South sion on the grounds that I « gines cf the Kulaks" from their Why is it therefore that buy­ reflects, to a degree, the atti­ the words African law recognises only two races, "European" and not a student. No attempt« official in > apathetic contentment? For ing cf books was only possible tude of the community towards "Coloured"; yet genetically, these two cultured groups con­ made to examine “copy”. . of a hue a the “average” university stu­ in the first three days of term? liberal and interpretive jour­ stitute at least in South Africa^ Iwo of the greatest racial In an institution dedicat Party meml dent is well contented, happy, Why is it that when the .Students nalism. conglomerates in all human history. to the enlightenment of t of all this industrious and creatively dead. Association Executive granted One would expect the Uni­ The situation would be comic if it weren't so tragically community, this action horde simple stati Alas, that the “average" stu­ SCM permission to operate the versity to co-operate with any inhuman. Apartheid is nothing less than a cruel excuse for on hypocrisy. One of the pi Annual Co dent should exist at all; in the stall that mere care was not responsible movement aimed at the domination of one "race" by another. Advocates of mary reasons for the form Party was t circle-mist of higher education, taken in defining the terms of stimulating public awareness apartheid say that the "races" would develop separately, tion of a students’ executii week begii to be “average” should be a appointment thereby rendering of the problem. Unfortunately, in "apartness". But the development is one-sided. Bantus- u'as to eliminate unnecessar 1969. deadly sin. Has intelligence the best possible service to such co-operation is confined, tans housing Africans in South Africa are in fact cultural bureaucracy, not to perpetual and ability no greater aim students? almost entirely, to administra­ In the pas prisons isolating them from hope of development. It is no it. than to be “average” ? The shortness of selling time tive and student levels of soci­ ference has wonder that self-styled pundits like Noel Holmes and Tom — Tony Ryan, And so, despite the poetic has had two effects. People ety. first week o Pearce find themselves unable to comprehend the Southern Editor, "Imprimatur denunciations of Stevenson and have not had the opportunity I am attempting to publish a and Universi African's situation. The African may appear to be content of buying books and many re­ with his Government-provided lot, but only because he knows Brunton, the future of the The first i “average” university student quired and wanted books were fC Party memb no other; he's not allowed to, anyway. carried away unsold on Mon­ The only significant contact that New Zealand has with is clear: continuing along the New Catering established hi master blueprint, with ten toes day and Tuesday, March 10 and its consiitut South Africa is on the rugby field. In the past, tours of one 11, or are now on the high seas Manager country by the other have been popular, and highly profit­ precisely on the line, until the exclude youi pit of brain-washed social ap­ heading to the University of the the Party aft able. But the dark shadow of South Africa's racial policies South Pacific. Secondly students No major price increases has always been over them. Now, the South African Gov­ peasement is reached and Conference a labelled as the great lifelong now have to resort to the are expected this year in ernment has made a major if cynical concession; it is to the cafeteria, said the new goal. Eight thousand new con­ grubby deals transacted Letters of allow Maoris to tour and play with the All Blacks. catering manager, Mr verts for the robot society, through notice-boards, cloak­ mediately s It is now incumbent on the New Zealand Rugby Union rooms and whatever. recently. and the New Zealand Government to ask the South African produced by Auckland Univers­ ity. My contention is that if the Government to clarify whether the touring Maoris will be Students’ Association is to run given the status of "honorary whites", as has occurred be­ No, it is not only the student himself who is at fault; to be­ an efficient secondhand book­ fore with other non-European sports teams. If so, the stall and leave this to SCM then Sir, — I know many M.P’s South Africans' offer should be rejected as a grotesque insult come creatively alive, one re­ either or both of these bodies cannot live on their parlia­ to the people of New Zealand. quires stimulation — a stimula­ tion almost wholly lacking in should ensure that the best mentary salaries, but isn’t this opportunity possible is accorded taking supplementary employ­ the teaching faculties, boasting Mr Muldoon of their MA’s and PhD’s, as if to students to buy and sell ment too far? academic achievement is high­ books. — E. Prebble. lighted by the possession of This has not been the case such letters, proving the bearer this year. students’ welfare at heart. “educated” and “enlightened”. — Anand Satyanand. — Agatha Pinchworth, Sir, — I can’t think where The university is already “a Secretary, Campaign I’ve seen the new catering Against Stabilised Prices Teach-in Education ghetto of the Kulaks” — it is manager before, but anyway, ruled by them — and with (CASP). Bigoted he is obviously a man with the them must lie a large propor­ Cont. page 13. tion of the blame for the mass R The texts of the speeches at the Seminar on Tertiary apathy. “For if the blind lead Education in New Zealand reported in the last issue are A dm in the blind, both will fall into the soon to be published by the Students' Association. It is im­ pit.” Sir, - The University Admin­ at t perative that the debate on University growth should be kept The task at hand is crawling istration marked the beginning going. out of the pit; a search for cf the 1SG9 university year with It would be instructive if NZUSA could organise a Teach- worthwhile direction: a shaking an unfortunate display cf in on University education, preferably sometime before the bigoted paternalism, by refus­ THE 332A QU off of the feudal mediocrity. two major political parties present their manfestos to the Down with the Kulaks and their ing an affiliated society the New Zealand public. Such a Teach-in should be attended degree factory! Surely the right to distribute political Inte and addressed by all interested parties from the Government university is much more than pamphlets on campus during downwards — or upwards. Education is fast becoming as Hai this. Surely a degree is only enrolment week. The excuse hot a political issue as Vietnam was three years ago when UNIVERSITY incidental to the real tasks of offered by the officer respon­ this Students' Association organised a similar Teach-in. enlightenment and involvement. sible for enforcing the ban was Phone The Seminar reported in the last issue was hardly de­ No, not even creativity is that students should not be signed to appeal to a mass audience. This is no slight on enough; the artist is nothing weighed down with unnecessary the speakers who undertook some of the most thorounh re­ if he is not involved. The almost paper material certainly an BOOK SHOP • c search ever engaged in on the subject of University growth. hackneyed plea: the world’s a admirable sentiment to find Having set down some of the answers to apparent objections mess — please come and help. coming from the university • T to University growth, Students' Associations should now The fragmented children of bureaucracy, and one that I try to publicise them as widely as possible. The public Vietnam will not be pieced to­ would be loath to discourage. • P booklet will go some way towards this but not far enough. gether by the cult of alienated But it would be even more artists. pleasing to find that Administ­ — Mac Price The Alpha has long since ration credited students with for 1 0 % passed; the Omega is near; we having sufficient judgment to can at least make a start be­ accept, refuse, or accept and to 5 fore the end. . .. Mass trans­ discard a pamphlet as they fusions are required to give to see fit. PAPERBACKS each a soul. The Kulaks would As it was, members of the make you a Faustus — security, society (Vietnam Peace Soci­ social acceptance, material ety) continued their leafiletting prosperity — you have to saci i off campus, in Princes Street, CRACCUM fice but one thing — your soul. and the great majority of stu­ and They would take it, inflate it dents willingly accepted a copy and put it on display; and men cf the pamphlet. The cnly EDITOR; Mac Price would kiss it, salute it until it Technical Editor: C. Moir Advertising Manager: drifts away. Sub Editors: John Laird, Ross Stevenson “Mobilise the intellect" no Stud Ass MAGAZINES Russell Wells Arts Editor: Bert Hingley longer a mere spectator but an News Editor: Pip Evans Politics Editor: involved spirit; a soul with true Reporters: Jim Bentley, Chris Smithyman Graham Franklin-Browne, Contributing Editors: direction; revolutions are first Notices Denis Byrne, Farrell Bill Holt, Richard Rud­ fought and wen in individual Cleary, Terry North, Ste­ man, George de Bres hearts. phen Chan, Sadha Rana- Sports Editor: Sc this is just another plea singhe. Graham Thorne for you to play a part. HM ACM ACM Illustrations Editor: Secretary: Sue Powell — Stephen Chan. Max Oettli Circulation Manager: Photographer: Tim Haslett John Latta ACM ACM ACM • All reporting staff are expected to attend a Craccum meet­ Bookstall ing at 5 p.m., Thursday, 20 March. NOTE: We have special reduced rates for • Letters and contributions must be typed, double space and on one side of the paper only. Unsigned letters will not Bolluxed Annual General TIME and NEWSWEEK and are negoti­ be accepted. Length of unsolicited articles should not Meeting exceed 350 words. Sir,—I have in the last two or ating with New Statesman for a similar three days canvassed the opi­ Students' Association student concession. c/o. Auckland University Students' Association, Private Bag, Auckland nion cf some 30 or 40 students Phone 78-793, ext. 67 and must now draw some atten­ tion to the bollux wrought by WED., MARCH 26 the Student Christians over the CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 3 Labour Party conference to be held earlier that would interest as the gene: ’ the lead Does the Labour Party ;ten by sen HAVE YOU PROBLEMS? dand Unive er contribu ts and w want students out ? ’S of the pi A surprise announce­ GO TO CONTACT’ organisations to Head Office The best explanation, supplied ment by the Head Office and representatives of the latter by a high-ranking Party officer, advertise t of the New Zealand Labour were called upon to justify the was that the Head Office The Students’ Association has will fulfill this aim by acting have the means to deal with ;he Cafetei Party circularised t o announcement at electorate genuinely wanted to hold Con­ recently set up an agency to as a “referral agency”. The them,” said Mr Coster; led the exei branches and affiliations in meetings. ference earlier in line with its deal with any problems which staff will not generally try to “At the moment, we have in­ fused perm October 1968 provoked in The number and variety of decision to prepare early for may face students at Univers­ solve problems themselves, but formation on such things as ids that I w the words of one Party explanations forthcom­ ity. will refer enquirers to the per­ bus timetables, accommoda­ o attempt it official in Auckland "a bit this year’s elections, which are ing sparked off further specu­ crucial for Labour’s survival as This agency, Contact, has an son best able to help them. tion, secretarial courses, coun­ a “copy”, of a hue and cry" among lation. office on the top floor of the For example, Contact has files selling services, V.D. clinics, ion dedicat Party members. The cause a political force. Candidates have been selected earlier and Stucent Union administration of staff and students who are dubs and societies, and so on. ment of t of all this agony was a Conference has blocx, where the staff are in willing to help in academic If anyone wants to know where action bordt simple statement that 1969 the 1969 provisional manifesto important role is well on the way to comple­ attendance all day during the matters, and an enquiry on to find anyone or anything in ae of the pi Annual Conference of the The 1969 Conference will play tion. University year. anything related to University the University we should be r the form: Party was to be held in the a major role in determining The Party also wanted to Under the terms of a recent courses would be referred to able to help them. If we can’t its’ executii week beginning 21 April, Labour’s policy for the 1969 hold Conference ahead of the Executive resolution Contact is one of these people. answer a question immediately, unnecessar 1969. General Election and, it was “to attempt some means of When asked what sort of we will find out.” to perpetual FOL Conference but the FOL In the past Ihe annual con­ said, the Party established insisted on holding their Con­ expediting communication be­ matters he envisaged Contact At the same time, students ference has taken place in the wanted to avoid any embar­ ference earlier. Party officials tween those students desirous, wculd deal with, secretary John often have personal problems a n , first week of ihe May school rassingly radical decisions, and admit that several explanations or in need of, assistance and Coster replied, “Anything at much deeper than a mere in­ 'Imprimatur and University vacation. retain their positions in the were given and the truth prob­ those agencies capable of pro­ all.” formation service can handle. The first reaction of many annual elections of officers. ably is that in the decision to viding this assistance.” “We are trying to envisage Contact's training and selec­ Party members was that Ihe Against this however, there hold Conference earlier as in Education Officer Peter Stall­ what sort of problems, major tion scheme will give staff some established hierarchy was using are two points: other decisions several factors worthy, who is responsible for or minor, are liable to beset insight into such matters, so its constitutional powers to • Students would find it easier were involved. Contact has explained that it students, and to make sure we that they can be referred to exclude younger members of to take time from lectures more specialised bodies like the Party attending the Annual than other Party members Student Health and the Student Conference as delegates. would find it to take time Counselling Service. from work. During enrolment and Orien­ Letters of protest were im­ • Younger delegates — mostly tation, Contact ran the Informa­ mediately sent from Party students — have dismally tion Booth in the Union Con­ failed at past conferences course. The number cf students to obtain liberal decisions WRIGHT who used this service testified cr oust any of the estab­ to its usefulness. SUIT HIRE lished hierarchy. The first explanation to issue forth from the Party’s Head Overseas Aid SERVICE Office — that the Wellington Are you willing to give one • NZ's best selection Town Hall (the venue decided per cent of your income earned • Lounge and dinner suits upon by last year’s Conference) during the long vacation to aid • Top quality latest overseas development? Stu­ styles was not available for booking • Moderate charges at the usual time — was re­ dents will be asked to support at heart, ceived with scepticism: the this idea at the Annual General worth, HUGH WRIGHT’S Party has had a booking for Meeting on Wednesday. impaign the first full week in May for The Overseas Development Phone 32-180 J Used Prices the last 20 years. Action Committee is approach­ Other explanations, seme ing all students in New Zea­ e 13. emanating from the Party’s land. The committee, which is Room Head Office, began to circulate. composed of representatives One reason given was that the from SCM, Cath. Soc., and the usual date would clash with the youth section of CORSO, met the top National Development Confer­ in Wellington last weekend to ence meeting. plan its campaign. Another reason given — that the Party wished to hold its No — not a 332A QUEEN STREET Conference before the FOL’s private eye! . . . . conference to avoid any sug­ International gestion cf FOL domination if Paul Oestreicher preaches at the two Conferences passed a University Service in the Hairstylists similar remits — failed, to co­ Maclaurin Chapel on Sunday, Y incide with the fact that the 23 March, at 7 p.m. Phone 378-626 1969 FOL Conference was to be Afterwards he speaks in the held earlier also, in fact, the Chapel Hall on Student Revolt. week before the Party’s Con­ Studass President, Bill Rudman, • CUTTING ference as usual. will chair the discussion. )P Apart from the Lunchtime Power struggle • TINTING only rumour Lectures he will also be con­ Any suggestion that the ducting a series of seminars • PERMING bringing forward of the Con­ for senior students in Political ference is the product cf a Studies, History, and Philosophy. power struggle which necessit­ The Lunchtime series will be ates excluding younger dele­ in the Lower Lecture Theatre on 10% Discount gates frem Conference can be next Monday, Tuesday and Wed­ dismissed as a rumour which nesday at 1 p.m., on "Man in to Students serves only to exaggerate the Revolt". influence of younger delegates.

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Simply com- nilar ' plete this form and MONEY I hand it, with remit- NAME (PLEASE PRINT) I tance, to the ADDRESS I UNIVERSITY I JT YOU SELL ADS FOR POSTCODE I BOOKSHOP CITY STATE YOU APPLY AT CRACCUM * CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 NZUSA must now look ISC & IUS to Asia for international IN CHAOS student movements Time and events have caught International Students' up with the International Stu- Conference I 1 dent Conference. Death is By 1950, a number of the been great, now became over­ and conservative middle roa often ironic, but the irony of western-orientated and more whelming. Britain and the attitudes of many of the Eure the ISC demise is particularly practical, i.e. less idealistic, Scandinavian unions promised pean national unions. bitter. unions had set up a loosely- to find finance for the 13th ISC While political divisions an The first international student structured organisation called which was to have opened last introspective selfishness deter cc-operation movement was the International Student Con­ month in Austria, but at the mine student interest and act conceived by the many students ference. last minute were unable to do vity there is little hope of an; whose participation in World In one major sense unfortun­ sc. display of the idealism an War II on the side cf the Allies ately, the supporters of the So the ISC was bankrupt. internationalism which marka Financially and politically the original International Unio; left them determined that the Cold War took over the ISC sR lack of a student conscience to which, as was later learned, W bankrupt. of Students. fight the causes of war in the obtained its finance from the 1930’s would never again exist. American Central Intelligence International Union N.Z.U.S.A's place in Asia And death has come because Agency through a number of of Students In all this, however, the student activism both in Eur­ front foundations. Meanwhile the IUS has had Asian region has remained in­ ope and the United States in the International student activity its problems and would appear tact. And NZUSA is taking The S past 18 months has turned in the late 1950’s was marked to be in no position to step the initaitive in attempting tt public opinion against the ideals — or marred — by competition in and occupy the vacuum form an Asian regional studen; of the student conscience, has between the Soviet-sponsored which the ISC leaves in many movement. deeply split national student IUS and the CIA-fiinanced ISC parts of the world. - As NZUSA President Peter movements, and has refocused for the membership of the stu­ A history of world commun­ Rosier says, New Zealand is student attention away from dent unions of the newly- ism in the past 20 years is al­ inextricably a part of Asia ant somewhat idealistic internation­ emergent nations. most accurate as a history of the Pacific. “This is our im­ alism towards more introspec­ The first real split in the ISC the IUS. Never critical of the mediate sphere of interest.” tive and mere selfish demands. Soviet Union, the IUS has had NZUSA was expelled from the came at its meeting at Quebec Per Partisan political activity has in 1962. The “Cold Warriors”, no qualms about treating its Asian Region (along with Aust caused the major splits in both less Moscow-inclined members ralia) in 1966 after an appareir achieved f led by the national student In 1964 the International In 1966 the ISC was held at the International Student Con­ with the same delicacy the betrayal of the Asian unions June 1967 union of the United States, Student Conference met in Nairobi in Kenya. Something ference and the International Kremlin showed in Hungary over the election of the IS blocked a move by the remain­ Christchurch. Hindsight sug­ cf a split was evident between coast was Union of Students. ing Idealists to seat Puerto or in its attitudes towards Al­ Secretary-General the previous gests that this rather remote a group Jed by England, the bania, for instance. year. The IUS was formed soon Rico as a member of the Con­ location was chosen in order to For after the war to manifest the Scandinavians and India and But the recent Russian in­ Both countries were eventu­ ference. allow an informal screening of a number of unions centred on was n< widely felt need for a student vasion of Czechoslovakia has ally accepted back, but onli Seeing this as a defeat of delegates to be made. South America, the United or coi conscience. their symbolic struggle against left the IUS divided so deeply on trial. Peter Rosier believes NZUSA may have been aware States and Germany. that it is itself struggling to that New Zealand has now bee survivj As the memory of the war “American colonialism” the that the decision was aimed at 2000 ] faded, however, idealism also The former group won sup­ avoid extinction. acquitted and that there is nr 27 unions of the so-called stepping radical - or trouble­ port from unions who were de­ strugg diminished, partisanship was on “Progressive Minority” with­ longer suspicion cf our motive making unions from attending termined to identify USNSA All this means that until in showing interest in the Asia nationl the up and the communist bloc drew from the Conference. or being effective, but it cer­ they I students eventually came to with Johnson’s policies. some peace is restored to stu­ region. The “Progressive Minority” tainly did net knew that the But the real troubles for the dent movements in Europe and they control the IUS. remains idealistic. It condemns To this end, NZUSA is at pre New Zealand government would ISC started with the revela­ the United States, then it is sent negotiating for an Asiai keep i The Idealists were disen­ American policy in Vietnam fail to honour an earlier pro­ tion in February 1S67 that the unlikely that any moves to­ Regional Student Conference k The chanted by events which high­ and South America, reviles mise by refusing visas to an lighted the communist control CIA had been providing much wards student internationalism be held later this year, pcssiblj too well apartheid and Ian Smith, wants IUS delegation. cf the organisation’s finance. can be made. (for example, the Yugoslav co-operation amongst all stu­ in Malaysia or Singapore. years; The Christchurch meeting When the ISC expelled Amer­ Mr Rosier says it is import straight Union cf Students was expelled dents, especially the ISC and produced a charter for the ISC. The extreme left wing syn­ ica’s student union it also cut ant that NZUSA and New Zea were dc when Tito and Stalin fell out) the IUS, and has come to see Its membership previsions dicalism of Danny the Red and off its lifeline. land students are involved fled fre and began to withdraw from the ISC as a collection of con­ alone showed the ascendancy of Tariq Ali is in no way com­ The Conference’s financial internationally. grems. the IUS. servative yes-men. the “Cold Warriors”. patible with the more moderate troubles, which had always — Richard Rudman, has doi easily f Israel - Home - sists or and sur The 1 VARSITY EXAMS - A GAME the Six- possibili "Examinations are a sort of team game . . . Both educators and state BOOKS No Ion have to draw on the same pool of talent in selecting their teams — parents, artillery employers, teachers and so on. Not, be it noted, children — they just lie butzim down so the rest can play their esoteric games all over their recumbent bodies." east of had dor Dr Ruth Butterworth, lecturer and the teaching which is sense control its outputs irre­ BOOKS in Political Studies, was speak­ oriented towards the examina­ spective of the performance of Solutio ing at the Education Seminar tion was becoming increasingly the economy.” Of a held over the weekend. irrelevant. Dr Butterworth questioned Jordan “The examination game is a Answering Mr Muldoon, Dr what Mr Muldoon regarded as TEXT BOOKS Six-Day sub-game or ay, which can be Butterworth said that his state­ the “less important areas of recognis ments imply “compulsion by that I i *fri either attacking or defensive. education.” But concentr ation on the exami­ indirection — if you don’t want “If, for example, the teach­ respecte nation game means a skewing to be a biologist, son, you can’t ing of classics is regarded as iers ths of education,” she said. be a physicist.” ‘less important,’ it turns out BOOKS REQUIRED in Jeru In today’s conditions of an “The statements imply also that the best computer experts ' their E| explosion of knowledge hap­ that the education system whilst just happen to have degrees they ha pening largely on our tradi­ it must be subject to the vag­ in classics. tional subject boundaries, this aries of the national economy, “Mr Muldoon has been saying " Heights ol meant that both the education must also in some mysterious that it ought to be possible to BOOKS FOR EXTRA READING arrive at a national scale of ■ priorities by analysing current shortages and projecting na­ tional needs. “In these terms, faced with BOOKS a choice between a reactor and a new marine biology station, the university authorities would choose the latter. But to make such a choice does nothing to provide the necessary staff or students.” Mr Muldoon faces a problem faced by every Minister of Finance in every country at whatever stage of economic de­ velopment. In every advanced Paul’s Book Arcade country in the world, educa tional expenditure has ex­ 49 HIGH STREET, AUCKLAND panded in the last decade well ahead cf the increase in econ­ omic growth. Phone 32-203 .. 4 # “Unlike New Zealand, ad­ vanced countries have steadily VICTORIA STREET, HAMILTON increased the proportion of the Gross National Product de­ Phone 40-916 voted to education. CRACCUM — March 20. I960 5

middle roa of the Eure ons. livisions an hness deter est and acti hope of an iealism an hich market ttional Unioi e in Asia Dwever, the. H'TafeThe State of Israel Today ttempting tt ional student , *. 20 YEARS WITHOUT SECURITY Zealand is * ■tr: BUT PROMISING FUTURE interest.” lied from the g with Ausl Perhaps the most important thing that the Six-Day War of June 1967 an apparer achieved for the Israeli people was the real chance for security — for prior to sian union j une 1967 every curve of her border, with the exception of a short Mediterranean of the IS coast was surrounded by hostile Arab nations. the previon they hoped the Israeli govern­ tude of the Israelis toward the Israelis are increasingly 'ere events For the Israelis the war Above le ft: On the old ment would treat the West captured territories, and this sceptical of the ability of U.N. k, but onli was not one of expansion Israel - Jordan border in Bank with special consideration. seems to me to be the prevalent to deal with any problems sier believe or conquest, but one of Jerusalem. Above: Mount However, this area creates a attitude, is that — when, and- brought before it. According survival and security. For Zion, with its many holy as now bee unique problem for Israel, an­ only when, Arab governments to a poll conducted recently there is m 2000 years the Jews have places — Christian, Muslim other 750,000 Palestinian Arabs recognise Israel’s existence, by PORI (Public Opinion Re­ our motive struggled for this ( for and Jewish. and refugees live there. they will be in a situation to search of Israel), only three in the Asia; nationhood) and now that they have achieved this, Opinion in Israel is divided start demanding the return of per cent of those interviewed Nov. elections as to what to do over the thought that the U.N.O. could The recent change in Israeli SA is at pre they are determined to captured territory. The Is­ West Bank; one section, a min­ solve the Middle East situation; leadership and the forthcom­ r an Asian keep it. raelis see existing Arab officers ority however, believe that 46 per cent said that the U.N. ing elections are no doubt of conference ti as merely returning to the The Israeli remembers all Israel must keep all of the was entirely unsuccessful in its nar, pcssibh situation of pre-June 1967. vital importance to Israel. The too well the persecutions of 2000 West Bank as of right . . . talks and 31 per cent said that youth support Moshe Dayan, gapore. years; many of them came a cultural and historical right; the international organisation but this tempestuous leader is t is import straight from Nazi camps or Israel will use force others believe that an inde­ The Israeli attitude to pre­ was not succeeding “very not greatly supported by the d New Zea- were descendants cf those who pendent Palestinian state should sent Arab strategy is well well”. In fact, 13 per cent Labour Party. Dayan has e involved fled from the European po­ be established under Israeli summed up in a recent state­ expressed the view that U.N. said that he will support Golda groms. History and what it guidance, but this, most Israelis ment made by Dr Yaakov is often a hindrance to finding Meir if she is nominated for rd Rudman, has done to the Jews is not agree, is not likely to please Hertzog (a member of the a peaceful settlement in the Prime Minister in November, easily forgotten and now that the Palestinians, who are un­ Prime Minister’s offi(ce) who Middle East. and for many Israelis this Israel — the Jewish National likely to live under any sort said, “the present Anab strat­ Nor do they rely on America. would be ideal since many Home — exists, the Israeli in­ of Israeli rule, however easy egy was based on the assump­ An Israeli to whem I spoke re­ have greater faith in Dayan sists on his right to security it may be. tion that by forcing llsrael to cently, thought that the U.S. as Defence Minister than as and survival. One concept that has received keep a large standing army, had reached a stage where it Prime Minister, and this com­ The borders resulting from much favour was put forward incurring a crippling arms realised that its interest in the bination would certainly add the Six-Day War offer greater by Yigal Allon. He proposes burden and disrupting the Middle East was initiated by great stability to Israeli gov­ possibility for this security. that all the West Bank, with the economy, Israel’s econromic and the desire for prestige and ernment. No longer can the Syrian exception cf the Old City of political advantage, and that it Whatever emerges in Novem­ artillery fire down on the Kib­ social fabric would crack.” Jerusalem, should be returned With the lone excemtion of must convince itself of the ber will be the prevailing de­ butzim and other settlements to the Palestinians, and that Tunisia, the openly prroclaimed true reason for its activity in termination of the Israelis as a east of Lake Kinneret as they a series of paramilitary Israeli view of all Arab goveernments this sphere. He added that whole. Determination to keep had done for 20 years. guard settlements would be has been and is: deestruction he, and many other Israelis felt their right whatever occurs; established in the hills border­ of Israel. that the Russian intentions in the determination of 2000 years Solutions for Jordan ing the River Jordan, thus giv­ If there is little hhope for the area were also motivated cf self-preservation; and a Of all the Arab nations, ing the Israelis some guaran­ by the desire for prestige. determination that Israel will Jordan suffered most from the settlement, the Israeliss opt for tee of security. However, physical security, however Russia, in other words, wants continue to exist and flourish Six-Day War and the Israelis Israelis do not see the Allon tenuous, and if thiss means to keep the Middle East in with or without the recognition recognise this. Israeli soldiers plan as the ultimate solution using force as retribuation and conflict so that the Arab of her Arab neighbours. that I met told me that they rather that “it might work to nations will need her help. — Mike Johnstone. respected the Jordanian sold­ deterrent . . . then Issrael will control the area until there is use force.” iers that they fought against a peace settlement. Once in Jerusalem because, unlike Many Israelis believe that the there is peace, the plan would present policy of retaliation their Egyptian allies in Sinai, be ambivalent.” they had fought well and that will pay, at least in tthe short SHORTERS What emerges from this atti­ run. Many, howeveir, don’t " Heights of Gilboa " — an Israeli agricultural-military agree, and realise tihat such Are Buyers and Sellers of QUALITY USED CARS outpost. acts must postpone amy settle­ ments; though many also be­ and DISTRIBUTORS for lieve that a real settlem ent is JAGUAR, SINGER and CITROEN CARS fast becoming a fantaisy. The real paradox is, an Isrraeli who took part in the 1967? w ar in both Syria and Jorcdan and ALL MOTORISTS CATERED FOR new working in New Zeealand on an exchange scheme, told me, Petrol, Oil, Lubrication, “that short term actions which are imperative for survival, Tyres, Batteries, are opposed to any long term plans for peace; amd most Spare Parts and Accessories Israelis recognise thiss.” The real problem is where to Car Washing and Parking draw the line, and as; Yitzhak Rabin said recently, “Israel le wants peace, and to help the Shorters Parking Station Arab nations, but is mot going LIMITED. to lose any Israeli blood for L.M.V.D. Hussein.” Arab terrorism , which has provoked Israeli 55-57 SHORTLAND STREET, AUCKLAND retribution, is openly encour­ Phone 30-145 aged and supported by the Arab governments. 6 CRACCUM — March 20, 1969

Dennis Br c exit visa froi work. He is a SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN u working under Aid Fund for R London. As a racial discrin R C SANROC (The Sport). In this E 0 in intern atiom N that South Afi George de Bres describes 39 points M As a resul T placed under M neighbouring c on Robben 1st E term there he drawn up at a spontaneous meeting N Africa and is n T for reform in Hong Kong University __

At 5.30 p.m. on January 30, having drawn up a list of 39 by beautifully printed white on 1969, 400 students filed into points. green posters. “Evolution not the Jordan Memorial Library Revolution”, “Construction not The student demands in­ at Hong Kong University to Destruction”, “Be your own cluded equal student repre­ attend a Student Union Cur­ judges, don’t be led by sentation on Senate, Council, rent Affairs Commit tee others!” , they exhorted, sitting Faculty and Department Where Forum on "University Edu­ rather uncomfortably next to Boards, the publication of ing a luncl cation and Society". In the “Rotten Lecturers Go Home” Quadrennial Plans to allow small elitist university (2000 — a concession to the more New Zeala student discussion on develop­ students), which has a tradi­ spontaneous earlier efforts. ment (this was granted tion of student apathy, such Margaret Ng, a sociology within a week), higher and The decision numbers were unexpected, student, analysed the reaction more equitable bursaries, he proposed ti and the Forum later had to of the student leaders in Under­ permission to see marked me which mu: move to the larger Loke Yew grad: examination papers, frequent ill New Zealai Hall. It was there that stu­ " It is clear that active par­ talks on current affairs in all Irutus. And it dents were to defy their stu­ ticipation, while not difficult departments to create in­ vhich must ani dent leadership and draw up to find when there is a real formed, critical opinion mown to all I a series of 39 demands for issue, is very easy to stamp among students, and a re­ out. It is easy to hint that rhe tour, he pc reform which became known )e seen in a wi consideration of current cur­ all active people are leftist. as the "39 Points". han just that ricula with reference to com­ It is easy to convince a Reds- munity needs. .ports contact For five days before the sensitive populace that the Forum, discussions on the func­ \frica. The next morning 20 volun­ most important thing is to The tour issi tion and nature of the univer­ teers came back to the Uni­ prevent the Reds returning to sity had appeared in local penciling New ! versity to type out and stencil power. for the Union to insist on for­ nents in the newspapers, on TV and on the the findings of the discussion. “It is also easy to shoo the Respectable posters on the library door. radio, following the resigna­ malities and ‘correct chan­ drum against Signature stalls were set up to frightened public under the nels’, to take this matter of ipartheid with tion on January 25 of Dr Paul mandates and say ‘the rest Representative, even repre enlist further support from protective wings of the Gov- university reforms upon the Robinson, a lecturer at the keep out’. sentation on the Senate was iav^our- students, and makeshift posters ernment. Likewise, it is easy Exec, and Council and their University, who resigned in “In short, ‘The Union is right, in danger of being dropped were pasted up all around the the Union is might, the Union Tour Confers protest against the policy of university asking for help. The altogether ! the University Authorities. will fight — for you.’ — and To support 1 first and second Extraordinary anyone who still insists on The Student President and firstly "confer It was the interest aroused General Meetings in the history among students by this incident other forms of participation his Executive may have sue- on the aparthi cf the Hcng Kong Student and puts forward more heated ceeded for the moment in re white South Af that brought 400 of them along Union were called, to endorse to the CAC Forum. The meet­ arguments and radical views storing respectability to the Africa, and se< the 39 Points and to discuss must be a leftist or a faction- student image, but it is diffi- to give South ing began quietly, with speeches the behaviour of the Student by four student leaders, but alist.” cult to imagine that the stu- in internaticna President respectively. These dents, having once had a taste saying that in these were followed by heated Respectability were both called for the 7th cf participation, will be so in theory, oth discussion from the floor. February. At the Extraordinary General Meeting, following the Red- easily knocked back into line, operate with S scare and pressure from par­ The meetings of the last Asked about Chaos begins " Leftist " Accusations few weeks have drawn unoeneficial exam At about 7.50 p.m., reports ents, the 39 Points were rejected Over the next few days, dur­ dreamed of attendances. In (rated New Ze the student newspaper Under­ and a “respectable” Commis­ ing which the student de­ 1966 and 1967 AGM’s of theScuth Africa, M grad, a student from the floor sion, comprising an unwieldy mands featured prominently Union could only d^aw 73 and hat if one loo moved to extend the Forum 60 representatives, was set up in all the local papers, activity 40 members respectively. Now:crd” of abou for 20 minutes “for the purpose to draw up a new report. on the Campus reached an they have had a record attend-;ports contacts of drawing up a statement”. unprecedented level. Special The result is a much- ance of 1300 students for an Africa and Nev The Union President moved an issues of the student news­ wafered-down version of the EGM. The student newspapers “a steadily di amendment deleting the words paper were issued, keeping original demands. In fact, has been deluged with letters f opportunity f “for the purpose of drawing students informed on develop­ but for the fact that by pure full of suggestions for reforms, nen”. With the up a statement”, claiming it ments. chance they ran into an ex- if injunctions i was unconstitutional for a The spontaneity of the “re­ Auckland University Senate cont. page 7 ion an integrah public forum to do so. The volt”, its independence frem .earn is unlikel original motion, however, was the official Students’ Associa­ .hite South Afr passed, whereupon the chair­ tion Executive, led to discom­ or their own r man of the Forum and the fort among student leaders and ior is it likely Union President denied the also among the Press. By the hey need haA legitimacy of passing motions third day after the Forum, BRAND NEW ieeking a solut at Forums at all. newspapers were talking of On the ether 1 A general fiasco followed. A suspected leftist leadership. .aid, political vote of no confidence in the The next day student leaders Chairman was proposed, the took over the signature stand President ordered a student Portable outside the Canteen, and on the who spoke without permission fifth day posters written by from the Chair to leave the hand by a group of enthusiasts ILENCI hall, and when the 20 minutes were tom down and replaced were up the meeting was ad­ Typewriters journed. Two hundred students, how­ .nd articles h ever, decided to remain behind only ike Margaret T to continue the discussion. The ect the pateri President lost his temper and tudent Union a ordered the students to leave laternalism of the hall. But the only people luthorities of tb that finally left were himself $49 and the Forum Chairman. iilence is NO Whatever the Reform measures present discussi The meeting was taken over 12 MONTHS GUARANTEE ing of January by the chairman of the SRC, students a tast Mr Christopher Loh, and a ence. They h former Union President, Mr that silence is David Faure. Written sugges­ Telephone Auckland 883-947 Raymond Liang tions were invited from par­ in a letter to Ui ticipants, and these were dis­ for inspection. cussed, and, if objected to, “It was indei voted on. After a further four hat will go dow hours of spontaneous discus­ B)f HKU. We d sion the meeting adjourned, President out ai CRACCUM — March 20, 196» 7

Dennis Brutus is a coloured South African on a one-way exit visa from his country, because of his anti-apartheid work. He is a school teacher, poet and sportsman at present working under the auspices of the International Defence and Aid Fund for South Africa, which has its headquarters in London. As a sportsman he was particularly concerned with racial discrimination in sport and became president of SANROC (The South African Non-Racial Open Committee for Sport). In this capacity he strove to have South Africa outlawed in international sport, and it is largely through his efforts that South Africa was banned from the 1964 Olympics. As a result of this and other anti-apartheid efforts he was placed under house arrest in South Africa, escaped to a neighbouring country, returned, was shot, arrested and placed on Robben Island (the prison for political prisoners). After a term there he was offered a one-way exit visa from South Africa and is now working from London.

THE 1970 RUGBY UNION TOUR WILL CONFER RESPECTABILITY ON STH AFRICAN APARTHEID

Where racialism is at issue there can be no question of not taking sides, said Dennis Brutus address­ ing a lunchtime crowd in Union quadrangle. M r Brutus, an exiled South African, has just (Finished a visit to New Zealand to campaign against the proposed 1970 All Black tour of South Africa.

The decision for or against the Olympic Games is one such of human conduct such as set in New Zealand can be brought Max Oettli he proposed tour is a moral home meaningfully to white instance. down in the Olympic charter, me which must be made by South Africans. He cited the By continuing the tour, even we allow the white South to their own rules. They are by our example, since we ill New Zealanders, said Mr Prime Minister’s refusal in though we "play to the rules" Africans to continue playing Brutus. And it is a decision 1967 to allow a team to go to most unlikely to be influenced don't seem to object very vhich must and will be made South Africa if discriminatory strenuously to theirs. mown to all South Africans. selection procedures were used. To sum up then, how does Hie tour, he pointed out, must But Mr Brutus also pointed WHERE WILL THE MAORIS GO? Dennis Brutus and his plea for )e seen in a wider perspective cut the recent appeal of the new decency in human relations han just that of continuing South African Consul to New rate? sports contacts with South Zealand for New Zealand’s \frica. friendship. South Africa, Mr Reasoned Dialogue The tour issue involved re- Brutus contended, would use Firstly, his oft-expressed de­ xnciling New Zealand’s state­ our respectability internation­ sire for a “reasoned dialogue”. ments in the United Nations ally to win her more friends. This is both his greatest door. drum against the system of New Zealanders must be strength and his greatest weak­ ipartheid with her actual be- en repre- aware of the hypocritical light ness. For students and most enate was our actions may be seen in. white liberals his reasoned and 3 dropped In his introductory talk, Mr reasonable approach, his will­ four Confers Respectability Brutus had noted that there ingness to see both sides of the To support the tour would was “nothing unique about New question, allied with his record sident and firstly "confer respectability" Zealand’s humanity”, and that cf dedication to the idea of have sue- on the apartheid system for cur ideas of how well we had justice draw a ready response. nent in re white South Africans in South solved our racial problems But he is weakest here be­ tv to the Africa, and secondly continue might mask “seeds of racialist cause his opponents, in South it is diffi- to give Souih Africa a lever attitudes”, especially where the Africa especially but also here, it the stu- in internaficnal relations by protecting of even quite small have no intention of entering lad a taste saying that in practice, if not privileges was concerned. into a dialogue. Their position /ill be so in theory, other nations co- is not based on reason but on e into line, operate with South Africa. Support For Apartheid some faith or fear. These con­ ' the last Asked about the possibly But several times during his servatives, reactionaries, etc., drawn un-beneficial example of an inte- lecture tour of New Zealand, have adopted a policy cf action, ances. In (rated New Zealand team in he added, he had been faced which suggests that there is no d’s of theSouth Africa, Mr Brutus replied with support for apartheid atti­ alternative but action. If the •aw 73 and hat if one looks at “the re- tudes. In Christchurch there possibility of compromise is vely. Now:crd” of about 50 years of had even been organised bar­ absent, the alternatives are ord attend-iports contacts between South racking from right - wing frightening. nts for anVfrica and New Zealand there extremist supporters of Smith, Secondly, it is as well to re­ newspapers “a steadily descending curve Vorster et al. member that Dennis Brutus is vith letters! opportunity for black sports- The most important question a South African. In part his or reforms, nen”. With the present system of the lunchtime meeting was case involves us on general if injunctions against integra- of course what can we do to humanitarian grounds, in part 5 7 ion an integrated New Zealand protest most effectively against it is a problem indigenous to am is unlikely to suggest to South Africa, and in particular South Africa. hite South Africans a solution the 1970 All Black tour ? However, there is one aspect or their own racial prcblems, Again Mr Brutus pointed out of our own race relations which ior is it likely to suggest that that to be most effective we his visit has again brought into hey need have no fear of must condemn apartheid in focus: if we are one nation, eeking a solution. ways which come home force­ no matter what colour, race or On the ether hand, Mr Brutus fully to white South Africans. creed, we have an obligation to aid, political decisions made South Africa’s exclusion from our society to see that New Zealanders no matter where are treated equally, and not WHEN the Maori All Blacks arrivee in South Africa, they will be faced with two insulted with the tag “honorary entrances to the airport. Can thee South African Consul in New Zealand really white”. ilLENCE IS NOT GOLDEN guarantee that some unknowning poll Iceman will not treat some of the All Blacks in the — Chris Smithyman same wily that he is used to I treating: his more long-suffering “Coloureds?” Continued from page 6 S.A.. Demo: Page 1. nd articles have appeared, ing where freedom, love and ike Margaret Ng’s, which re- unity dwelled, where people ect the paternalism of the volunteered to buy food, sweep tudent Union as much as the the floor, take up different re­ laternalism of the University sponsibilities and most of all, luthorities of the Government. sit together and sincerely dis­ HOTEL INTER-CONITINENTAL TELEPHONE 373-242 cuss about the future and wel­ iilence is NOT golden fare of the students and society until after midnight. Friend­ SAVE ON Whatever the results of the ship and happiness glowed in present discussions, the meet­ everyone’s face while they ap-j GET SET H A IR SPRAY was 89c NOW ONLY 69c ing of January 30 has given plauded for declarations like students a taste of independ­ ‘We demand equal student SAVE ON ence. They have discovered representatives in the faculty that silence is NOT golden. board, university council board POISE ROLL-OiN DEODORANT was 85c NOW ONLY 65c Raymond Liang summed it up and in the Senate’.” in a letter to Undergrad: As Ihe 'Undergrad' editor, “It was indeed an evening Miss Winnie Chan, summed PRESCRIPTIONS DISPENSED PROMPTLY hat will go down in the history up, "A new era of free dis­ f HKU. We drove the Union cussions and teach-ins has resident out and had a meet­ dawned in our University." H CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 * ORIENTATION 69

Orientation '69 was the best in living memory. It had the advantage of being able to use more freely the new student union building, and the natural amphitheatre of the quadrangle proved the ideal place for everything from big beat bands to Dennis Brutus. Only one peeve: if Orientation is to be such a Big Event from now on, it needs much tighter organisational control. Although most of the activities were well-planned in themselves, there was not enough co-ordination between the various clubs and societies presenting them. Not enough clubs took advantage of societies day to present freshers with a truly representative cross-section of student life. All this points to the need for a special Orientation Committee, and a properly functioning Societies' Council.

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When the Declaration of the Rights of I Man was written, two important rights were omititted: the right to contradict oneself, and the righht to leave. — BAUDELAIIIRE. 10 CRACCUM — March 20, 1960 South Auckland Winter Prayer

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Over shoulder and shoulder Summer will kick the magic the long tunnel's spray potion from the winddog's of bulbs leapfrogs teeth and boast the insanity that is till Autumn flecks > e s p i t e the a single shadow and kills her >py, exciting r ce Same's "Jo; Faded denim men Hidden in this word frustrated p are burning furniture this lung the kiss ins. Visually sick rubble thrown builds naked light the most excil down and raped though you go >ear for a Ion w ith fire through darkness swinging birc /inces for swii From the narrow cow skull From your nobility swinging frcn THE SLUG & THE SUN and bolted brain like Hinemoa run vice versa ui two licks of blood the parental gauntlet pregnant, heat fork one red tongue live with me forever provinces and across the stone in poverty and joy s an excellen t-standard cin< In the warm scoop alter Lassall of these vulvate hills iera avoids dirkthrust and shellburst The O riginal' Sun Blues Band isiness of the ' old memories clutch “Mulberry E on the air f be gloss but Literary Society & the Slug Ophelia

The sun has b uilt you an autumn and a green day for you The Gliding Star to cherish Films. Across in the mist of leaves the carpark desert under sly waters CLASSI Poetry (Raves). with its fishrib where tomorrow broods lines and under the tavern Booze. even the faint way S p is closing Peoples DZART REQU within the black tent of your hair Soloists H< absolute kingdoms Morning Becomesvonne Mint fall dash ivies, and Gei Cafeteria Twenty-eighth of March th the John all hope or pride Smell green blood , i d the BBC Sy storm axed leaves . Show .. , , .. estra under ( the eye s heritage pHS Come the dog's parturition in cameo — flo« ^ s -'hiii record wo. and lift each accent drops diligent for revieu & attend scent and seedsemans L t i A of the straight bolt into a lie ,, . y be purcha Uneven ground streams^ street Jtc or divert in the sun and morning, ., . deliberate waterways . • t would be dif becomes a silence drying , .. then brand . I . . . _j i,e a better rec< the night and the salt . 4U ... a peace ... rk than this sp libation , t-T. because the earth .. . ease from Phi the motion that was . .. , hangs too long liquid in the sober tree's cupLS mig. . in distance )ir, soloists a awaits solidity ,, c , , without great tongue ’! all first rate, BOOKS the moonlight wrenches each Catkin blessed clothing1 with sp! day out and hard stains , .. , . building citadels are daylight s cenotaph ■ , into dust mystery . „ FRENCH REVOLUTION 1968 walking into the dark™ ,avls> • . Over the gliding star and finding nobody had prev,ousl and soft fall of our voices The panic of wind Patrick Seale & Maureen McConville. (Penguin Special, 238 pp., illustrated, midnight's tall mark has ceased in suicide BLU1 price 85c) walks and turns by rivers parks and solitude------an eye when morning troughs The 1968 French Student re­ Apart from this limitation, “Violez votre Alma Mater” secret life wakes. and treads the innocent worm JDDY GUY: volt was probably the most however, the book is excellent (Rape your alma-mater - A Man and th< significant student uprising any­ and well worth reading. Be­ shades of the American student ^uard). where in the world to date. It cause of Seale’s and McCon­ , IE TROUT: group “The Up-Against-the- savagery and punch. behind. With the participation probably right when they sa>The Trout (M ( sparked cff a nation-wide up­ ville’s obvious admiration for Wall-Mother------ers” !). “The Beaux-Arts, like so much of the workers, and then cf the “When the revolutionaries acjecords supp, heaval which led to a violent the idealism and (in their Anybody, workers, profes­ of French education, was dull, political parties, a national cuse the Communist Party o^a{nable at Beg rejection of authority, paterna­ opinion slightly misdirected) sional people, housewives, fossilized, hierarchical. Here, political crisis developed. betraying the ‘Revolution’ i^uddy Quy ig lism and centralisation in al­ enthusiasm of the students, it scholchildren, was free to par­ too, there were grands petrous, The last chapters of French is like deaf men talking to eacLag0>s urban most every section of French is not difficult to read between ticipate in these activities at stifling the studious with the Revolution 1968 reflect this other. Modern states are ne)usjy society. It led, in the opinion the lines and to capture some recorded the Sorbonne, and it seemed weight of their prestige. May change in the nature cf the as vulnerable to the Cohi^j c-f Patrick Seale and Maureen of the real revolutionary spirit (who app that the concept of the degree changed all that. Where once Revolution. The emphasis shifts Bendits of this world as C ilulated t0 th McConville, to a temporary which characterised the month­ machine had been destroyed a few dozen students came to to the political parties and the dramatic nature of the barn,, music_ muc, state of revolution which was long occupation of the Sorbonne and the concept of the univer­ work, the “occupation” brought stagnation of the “adult” re­ cades might make one suppose^. like a “breath of fresh air” in and the universities throughout sity as the social centre of at least a thousand who, in volt. Seale’s and McCcnville’s Indeed, every fire lit in the' a country which had stagnated France. critical awareness, education teams of about two hundred, analysis of the crisis is streets is a vote cast for the1 after a decade of Gaullist rule. The picture Seale and McCon­ and learning had been tem­ worked day and night. The thorough and adequate. But to Right in the next election.” Seale’s a n d McConville’s ville paint of the student life in porarily recaptured. And the output was prodigious; at least a young reader the change At the same time, this form book, French Revolution 1968, the exciting days of the occupa­ ultimate failure of the venture 10,000 posters were run off from shows how the revolution failed of provocation is part of a CRAO is an interesting, perceptive and tions opens up new vistas of may have been due as much to some 350 original designs. They as much through the unimagi­ widespread experiment by the reasonably fair assessment of what the university could be­ lack of facilities as it was to are rapidly becoming collector’s nativeness and political oppor­ New Left (also seen in the U.S. the events of May and June come if it was no longer the disorganisation. Anyway, you items.” tunism of the old as through the and Germany), which is basei last year. Perhaps it is even a slave-producing slave of the could hardly expect the Gaul- The amazing thing about the inexperience of the young. on the belief that the exposure little too fair. It is an un­ late-bourgeois industrial state. lists to like it! French Revolution 1968 was The political wavering of of the latent authoritarianism orig ashamedly “liberal-bourgeois” They describe the marvellous Fine Arts students did their hew everyone responded to the Mitterand, the lack cf revolu­ and fascism lurking behind the interpretation and thus has the blend of organisation and spon­ own bit to make the Arts more students’ attack on authority. tionary fervour in the French farcical mask of Western demo disadvantage (for the student taneity which was the key to relevant to society. “The Ecole Seale’s and McConville’s book Communist Party (which has cracy may ultimately open the reader) of being slightly con­ the students’ initial success. Nationale des Beaux-Arts”, say describes the excitement of the degenerated into something like way for a better alternative. descending about the student Students and many staff mem­ Seale and McConville, “from people as they rediscovered the British Labour Party, as For New Zealand students, a revolt. One would hope that a bers participated in long de­ the moment of its occupation their critical faculties and the Seale and McConville point out) knowledge of these develop,, student interpretation of the bates, films were shown and on 14 May, was transformed freedom from -their work, from and finally the conservative, ments, of which the FrenclT0 ^ mUo uprising will sometime reach people had the freedom to into a semi-clandestine, insur­ student riots form an important machines, from the “system”. sordidly anti - “communist” page o New Zealand so that we can express themselves in any way rectional poster factory. The The impersonal nature of tech­ part, is essential. And Seale’s they pleased. There was a campaign of the Gaullists all make a more relevant assess­ most active young painters of nocratic society disappeared point to the emptiness of and McConville’s book is as ment of these events which con­ splurge of graffiti, of course, the Ecole de Paris became the and total strangers stopped and “representative” democracy in good as any if you want to stitute a landmark in the including such lines as “Je suis Bert Hin iconographers of the Revolu­ discussed in the streets. The advanced Western industrial capture some of the crazy, development of student acti­ marxiste tendance groucho” . tion, covering the walls of movement grew so rapidly that states. idealistic, inspiring spirit d vism. “l’Anarchie c’est je” an d Paris with cartoons of great it soon left the students far Seale and McConville are the French Revolution, 1968. i — George de Bres CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 11

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Crazy, disjointed, swinging

3IC JO A N N A is turned on to say “whatthehell, All is con­ to Fellini, the final scene is Respite the attractive, able mod milieu. North African fusion”, but I fear his con­ amusing, even endearing, but >py, exciting romp that ls landscapes, too, provide him fusion is more one of inexperi­ it does little for the film. te Same's "Joanna", sense with a very sympathetic sub­ ence. In capable hands there A word though must be said frustrated purpose re­ ject. is nothing wrong with mixing for the casting. Genevieve ins. Visually this is one Rod McKuen’s music, even past and present, real and Waite plavs crazy, cheeky the most exciting films to if a little over-sentimental at imaginary, but in Same’s heavy Joanna — who comes to London >ear for a long time, times, enhances the film’s and wanders from bed to bed, swinging bird leaving the visual appeal and likewise the hands overediting results in who seems somehow built by /inces for swinging London mellow tones of Scott Walker sequential chaos. Many of his nature to wear mini-skirts, who swinging from bed to boy do not detract from the mood. chronological juxtapositions, his doesn't understand anything vice versa until she ends The disappointment of this back edits, his super-imps, are much, and is yet somehow pregnant, heading back for movie, however, lies in the dis­ cleverly and tastefully done but lovable — as if the character provinces and daddy, pro- jointed, haphazard construction. the feeling remains that per­ was modelled on herself. s an excellent setting for While there may be a point in haps several others were in­ Her colloured girlfriend and i-standard cinematography, net attempting any moralising, cluded simply for the sake of lever hawe little depth but in alter Lassally’s capable the film suffers from a conse­ including them. this settimg can only be des­ iera avoids the artificial quent lack of coherence: no And the end result is that the cribed as complementary. The isiness of the “Touchables” one theme is ever clearly viewer never attains much rap­ pick of thne supports is Donald “Mulberry Bush” ; there stated. port with the film; he is con­ SutheHaned as the incredible / be gloss but it is accept­ Perhaps Mike Same is trying stantly frustrated by over-kinky presentation. With due respect fatalistic ILcrd Peter Sanderson whose performance almost overshadows that of Miss Waite herself. you In conclusion then, “Joanna” green ECORDS cannot be rated a complete >r you success but is deserving of commendation if only for the ves visual experience it provides. CLASSICAL — Malcolm J. Calder broods Mozart Requiem two though the quartet work in the record is magnificent. Spectacular Choral Piece The only other reservations I have concern the recording DZART REQUIEM K.606 suspicious of claims made shortcomings. Davis’s response quality. Although Phillips, Soloists Helen Donath about his exceptional ability, to the dramatic elements in rather mysterious Duosonic J O m e S v o n n e Minton, Ryiand since the recordings with which the music is not paralleled by process is capable of handling ivies, and Gert Nienstedt, I am familiar — the K.491 and a corresponding respect for its the huge frequency range of , , th the John Alldis Choir reen blood , lL _ 499 piano concertos he does delicacy in, for example, the this polyphonic music ade­ , , d the BBC Symphony Or- ixed leaves . . _ „ with Ingrid Haebler, for exam­ Lacrimcsa, Hostias and Agnus quately, it seems to distort the , , . estra under Colin Davis. ple — seemed to lack the drive Dei passages. When the choir s n e n ta g e ^ ,^ PHS 900160 Duosonic. tonal qualities of the music by and vitality for which he has lacks the discipline of powerful producing a disturbing extra­ .... 'his record was made avail- been praised. ps diligent for review hy Beggs_ rhythm he seems unable to neous resonance. Yet it is his spirited direction compensate for it in his con­ t and Se€(lsemans Ltd, Auckland, and This is not as bad as the in this recording which more ducting as the best of the . y be purchased at their Haebler recording I mentioned id streamseen street store than anything else is the reason choral conductors such as Karl earlier, which sounds rather as for the record’s immediate Richter do. morning^ WQUj(j difficult to ima- if it were recorded in arj echo impact. Entries and articulation be­ chamber, but the e^hoir does 1 cTthr^m^e a better recording of this He instils tremendous rhyth­ come rather untidy and the tend to sound disconcertingly 1 i i 6 ^ a rk than this spectacular new mic vitality into the choir — lack of tonal contrast between heety, especially cn less expen­ ,libation ease from , Phillips. nu-ii- most noticeably in the Introitus, musically different passages sive stereo equipment. FOLK | tree's aT 15 be expected, the Kyrie and Dies Irae — support­ tends to make the performance This, hiowever is a minor ree ?. j.UP)ir, soloists and orchestra ing them with a driving brass seem a little unrelieved. objection. All things considered, S SO 1 1 ^ all first rate, and they play and percussion accompaniment Nevertheless the total effect for lovers; of choral music, this , , . i sing with splendid convic- which really makes Mozart’s is outstanding, and the choir record is not to be missed. Following Dylan , . But what truly distin- rather conventional fugal music and orchestra respond magnifi­ Performaince: Brilliant ar s aiHughes the performance is the live. It is an exciting and cently to his direction. Of the ceno apn ltrj^u^on 0f ^e conductor Recordings: Good mystery. _ . powerful performance which I soloists, soprano Helen Donath Stereo Quiality: Satisfactory ' j / in Davis. have never heard bettered. and bass Gert Nienstedt tend Time: 53 lminutes. without Feeling tg nobody had previously >**" rather Yet, inevitably, there are to have the edge on the other — Mike Volkering of scope yet Mekler uses only ic of wind DAVID BLUE: insipid and repetitive keyboard in suicide BLUES These*23 Days in September and percussion backings. He d solitude■ Chicago Urban Blues almost ruins the best song on g troughs (RS 6296). Scales for a Window ent worm JODY GUY: Guy here fronts his own band, often they’re not). Music which blues traefcks is superb — a very the record, Record supplied by and Thief by tastelessly adding pon­ A Man and the Blues (Van- which includes saxophones, lives on an attitude is insincere. clean sounnd, carrying his own available at Beggs-Wisemans. rhythm guitar and Otis Spann’s Take, for instance, the preten­ peculiar sisinging/crying quality. derous drumbeats. ______.gua rd). Several years ago E’ektra 4E TROUT: piano. He is one of the finest tious and rather sad album by Otis Spannn on piano gives him records released an album en­ David Blue, like many other ien they sayThe Trout (M G M ) blues guitarists today — un­ “The Electric Flag”^— a tired inspired sisupport — particularly titled The Singer - Songwriter “ex-folk singers” is still trying tienanes ac^ec0rcls supplied by and spectacular, but one listens to Mike Bloomfield trying to hash on One RRoom Country Shack. Project. One of the artists to sing rock (Eric Andersen, ist Party oifainable at Beggs-Wisemans. what he plays, rather than the up several styles and pass them Seme of t the tracks are light­ featured on this, Dave Cohen, Arlo Guthrie et al.), a musical evolution ijj^y Quy js a procjuct 0f manner in which he plays it. off as creative music simply by weight ----Mary had a Little has since changed his name to genre for which he is simply Iking to eabjcag0>s urban blues. Pre- So much rock/blues music is calling the whole thing “Ameri­ Lamb, Juust Playing my Axe, David Blue, recorded a bad not equipped. Today’s folk-rock ites are no'Jusjy recor(jed with Junior revered simply because its but a lot of fun, and effective. can music”. There is no feeling rock LP, and recently, a more the Coh^jjs (wbo appears to have admirers can’t penetrate be­ here, no real joy or sadness, “The Trlrout’ ’is a new group is too good to be captured in a “folky” record, entitled These °r ^ %i tula ted to the glamour of neath the superficial “sound” — two bnrothers and a girl — few studio sessions by a singer most important, no humour. 23 Days in September (RS if the barrio m u s j c> much to his detri- to discern whether the musi­ whose mnusic turns out to be and a band who have never These people just can’t laugh at 6296). one suppose int} cians are creating anything (so themselves. James Baldwin slightly c different from what played together before. Groups ; lit in the' like Earth Opera (Elektra) (discussing white and black their cower picture suggests. Bob Dylan illustrated that a cast for thf"™™"™ have all bht perfect folk-roci music) remarks: “In all jazz, They lockk like a rather serious voice didn’t have to be pretty election.” and as a result songs like and especially in the blues, country ODr folk-rcck group, but in order to successfully present David Blue’s The Fifth One CRACCUM ARTS EDITOR there is something tart and inside onne finds just another this type of music. It was more ironic, authoritative and double pop groupp. There are, however, sound badly dated. nent by the important to transmit to the edged. White Americans seem a few ggood songs here. The listener the mood of the song. , m the m welcomes to feel that happy songs are Trcut feahtures varied styles — Though David Blue’s vocal Several of the cuts on Thes< ich is basec 23 Days in September ar happy and sad songs are sad berrowinggs from the 30’s quality is similar to that of he exposure • • ■ ■ and that, God help us, is exactly (Worst CDay I've Been To), country influenced and may oritarianisir 0 1 * 1 0 1 1 1 0 / COP fTI DU tlO H S Dylan he lacks Dylan’s feeling the way most white Americans from thhe Swingle Singers have been successful had it nc l behind the \ for his music and thus, a cold sing them — sounding, in both (Understanding Who I Am), been for the subsequent releas; ?stern demo and hesitant vocal delivery cases, so helplessly, defence- and a deblivery that sounds like of Music from Big Pink, ely open the tends to obscure the sensitive lessly fatuous that one dare not a mixturre of “Harpers Biz­ record which has lifted coun temative. images of his songs. speculate on the temperature of arre”, “FFifth Dimension”, and try music to “a whole othe students, a Like Phil Ochs he over em­ the deep freeze from which “Spanky and our Gang” . Ra­ phasises the fact that his songs level” . the dFmncr°Py must be double spaced, on one side of issue their brave and sexless ther too ggimmicky in places — are built around very basic little voices.” a bit corrny in Carnival Girl — patterns by bending the pitch David Blue has ability, bu judging from this record it i: And"Seale’! Pa9e o n ,Y' si9ned and addressed to Guy’s voice is light but he and generally too electric to be of his voice at each chord can generate a lot of excite­ memoratole, this is nevertheless going to be some time before book is as change, thus turning simplicity ment on the faster numbers a fresh scound and the album as into monotony. Gabriel Mekler’s he finds a musical style capable du want to gert Hingley, Arts Editor c/o Craccum and a lot of feeling in the blues. a whole is certainly not dull. arrangements are no help of adequately presenting his the crazy, 3 1 His guitar work on the four — Michael Michie either. David Blue’s fundamen­ gentle songs. r, spirit of — Rene Wilson ion, 1968. I tal guitar rhythms leave plenty ge de Bres CRACCUM — March 20, 1969

First Reports Graceful restained from Arts Festival but motiveless brideeffersc

Originally a reviewer on One simply does not go tollew Lil Cahiers du Cinema, and then lengths of revenge; the n Arts, Truffaut’s first film — Truffaut gives us is a form I I ; 400 Blows — ensured him a Neither do we sympathise1 IQ llOU prominent place amongst the any character, victim or rising New Wave directors of deress, except possibly the the late 50s, including Godard, bachelor, whose only criroir, —This year Chabrol, Rivette, and Rohmer. his miserable way of life’s modern librar Formerly a relentless critic, Truffaut, in other vrs hours cf servic Truffaut's views became more doesn’t accomplish what her old minimum, moderate as he shouldered the fesses to. Yet, he has accckland students director’s burdens. plished something. On its convenience cf Because of the enormous the film is entirely consiseir study to fit 1: amounts of money involved, It is subtle, witty, gracefnile in America Truffaut now says, “I don’t a virtuosos if not a vital te is made cf a think a film should address a film-making. :e in some libr; limited audience. I also have As in Fahrenheit 451, Trathe library pers preoccupations which are not creates a powerful and uniijt the new librar shared by the majority of my sense of unreality. The sd things cannot audience,” he says. track is muted, restrained;;il it is establish He believes a film should be sets are deserted, ghostly;my will use the disciplined so that “it becomes colour photography is exrwhat hours. Bu complex and has more than ticnal — faintly washed h its carpet, one level of meaning”. with a predominance of w! Thus we have the Cahiers critic eerie, controlled; the editin, and the New Wave director slow and sensitive; even Hi with a strong audience orienta­ backs lack the characteri tion and a definite artistic com­ “flash”. Rooi mitment. Bearing in mind his There is an abundance open admiration of Hitchcock, floating images — cloth we are confronted with The flutters gracefully, a silk st at the Bride Wore Black. wafts to the ground, an This unique film evades a liner floats past — all corn) David Weatherly and Roderick Horn in Roy Hope’s production of “Rosencrantz simnle criterion and is there­ ing to give the effect o|32A QUEEN fore difficult tG aproach. Firstly, and Guildenstern are Dead,” currently playing at the Mercury Theatre. tenuous grip on reality, it doesn't fit into any estab­ rhythmic dream. Internatk lished category such as ‘gang­ T he enigmatic figure ster film’, ‘western’, or ‘sound Moreau (perhaps overdone, Hairstyli TWO DEAD NOBLEMEN ideas, images. A metaphysics cf music’. And its treatment is at least humourously — not such that, on Truffaut’s own in Tony Richardson’s “Sa: To begin with, consider Berg- right. As much as one enters question cf the double in from repetition. The obsessive Phone 37 call for Heads, the syllogism cf terms, it dees not stand up, from Gibraltar” or “Sumr nan, for that’s where the litera- into Hamlet the interrogative modern drama because Stop­ probability. for I found the film neither Fires”); the lack of moti ure appears. The Magician was (I mean it begins with a ques­ pard is writing about the inter­ particularly profound nor likely the total lack of concern an actor perpetually enrolled as tion that is repeated until it is dependence cf he who exists ' Uncertainty is the normal • CUTT state." to appeal to a general audience. showing exactly how Mon a fantastication of himself. It is obsessive) one is led to a con­ and that which he exists for — Briefly, the film concerns the It is a point about Wittgenstein: finds her victims, or e • TINT] a burlesque you see like Don cern about reality. or perceives, or accepts as the bride, Jeanne Moreau, and her knew who they were, the Quixote which is the point of It is a question of meaning. point for defining the limitations the language usage here “is meant to bring into prominence deliberate murder of five men, realistic murders (particula Rosencrantz and Guildenstern It is the theatrical experience cf his existence. Here the two all cf whom are at least partly the push from the balcony) • PERM IVre Dead, the quest for a cloud the fact that the speaking of that demands of its audience a elements are Ros/Guil and responsible for the death cf result in a sensitive and humped like a whale. It has to blind leap into faith but what their confusion as to which is langauge is part of an activity or cf a form of life.” her husband on her wedding strained film, slightly maca Jo with a type of character are we to expect when the which. There is here no “pata day. Playing with a rifle at a but really more witty, the e 10% Dis !cund in the convention of both It is in this drama a reduc­ Player offers his audience four physical logic” such as in stag party, one of the five ing being particularly clever Bergman and Cervantes: the tive process. Language both players) a re-enactment of the Ionesco and you knew about his drunken cronies unintentionally even if it is anticipated. to Studi elevation to hero within the limits (definition) and extends Rape of the Sabine Women waifarc against fossil language. guns down the groom on the With the exception of a !■ structure of a character who (connotation). It is therefore (who is a lachrymose minor Pep Artistry not only because steps cf the church. (Lots of scenes which are just p!fc is the object of ridicule, in a confusion of arrangements, called Alfred caught always of the John Lennon (and titillation a la Manchurian corny (Moreau on the terra comedy the self-deceived, fre­ of time. A language of exist­ amid skirts) but more to this throughout the p'ayt hut also Candidate through telescopic in a white tampax adverti; quently pedant, but, for the ence meaning and connotating participation, in either part the element of quotation in sights), and they scatter in ment dress — “this fresh, tl tragic purpose, a hero: Rosen- only Death (inevitably). (which is where the sodomy juxtaposition (which is Pop terror, vowing never to meet- cool” ) or cinematic cliches 'rantz Guildenstern. But neither can a porcupine came in). For actual precedents A t). Language is also gesture again — a suave playboy, a very bad taste (the flash-ba All of which is a long way have its mate when its spines in the art of innuendo you will and read too The Real In­ balding and quite pathetic to childhood in slow motion rom Bergman but both feel find such badinage in the spector Hound in this case are hackled all and so you may ask of the play (and this) what bachelor, a smug bourgeois sort of junior-tampax sequem lomething of which we call the mustachioed craft of Groucho farcical. So that gesture alone father, an artist, and a crock. this film will appeal stron; Shakespearean moment, where Marx but the tradition is of is pantomime and when Ros’s should all this fire, misfire, and crossbow of language add up We don’t learn the motive for I think, to an audience t •cdomy of body and spirit are course that of cross - talk trousers fall down you know for the revenge, however, until the appreciates a graceful, sei pined to the language. My vaudeville. — humour being one the moment whereabouts you to? Well: expect to see a drama about two minor lords elevated third murder, and thus there is tive, restrained and witty •■atiocination looks absurd. It should like to state in all cer­ are (Godot . . . Macbird). to heroic status but a madly a certain element cf mystery. of sophisticated but incor s. Absurd. That is. But you can tainty the experience of the Identification is dependent on The problem is that, unlike quential entertainment. lardly claim for more. To ask drama (the joke being cathar­ gesture and the total of these comic pantomime, for it is a Hitchcock, Truffaut dees not — Sam Pillsbi vhat is about Rosencrantz and tic). In this way Stoppard’s gestures is the drama. Stop­ comedy, albeit the most literate of the decade. Their minority involve the audience. The film Guildenstern Are Dead is a plays are about theatre, acting pard's point is that words are dees not take sides, it is almost non sequitur but the mood is (Genet perhaps). Th£ whole gestures and create thoughts. is the point but the clown’s act conceals a horror of death. devoid of suspense, surprise, OPEN Stoppard is an exceptional blood, melodrama, violence, Joint the staff of dramatist because he seeks action — indeed, we enjoy it CRACCUM— answers obligatory to the struc­ simply because it is so ridicu­ The Progressive Enterprii ture, Rosencrantz And Guilden­ lously unconvincing. Free Portrait Sitting Even when the motive is dis­ stern Are Dead. — Alan Brunton closed, it is quite insufficient.

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Highet, M.P. for ay of life’s modern library opens, but about making sure one got a other w hours cf service remain at Remuera, who recently returned from a week's tour seat. of non-communist South Vietnam. "Keep the good sh what he; old minimum. Why should The library personnel claim ie has accckland students have the that extension of library hours work going," said Mr Highet to Tran Van Huong, g. On its :cnvenience cf curtailing would be uneconomic. Longer civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam. ■ely consisir study to fit library hours hours mean more money for ty, gracefaile in America worthwhile extra staff. As it is the lib­ dictatorship, and that they t a vital ls is made cf a 24-hour ser- M r Highet was present­ rary say they need more staff ing the National Party realise the necessity of “gov­ :e in some libraries? to cover the present hours but ernment by the pec pie fer the it 451, Tnfhe library personnel claim viewpoint at the A.U. Viet­ are restricted by lack of fin­ people.” jl and unifjt the new library is on trial nam Peace Society lunch­ ance, although this deficiency The military situation as ty. The sd things cannot be changed time meeting on Monday, is seldom apparent. It can be Mr Highet saw it, with the as­ restrained;;il it is established just how 10 March. Dr M. Finlay, argued that if more money sistance cf General Abrams i, ghostly; my will use the library and M.P. for Waitakere was were available it should be and Air Vice-Marshall Ky, was >hy is extwhat hours. But the library also there to present the spent on more books. that by 1972 there might only j washed h its carpet, comfortable Labour Party's view on the be a few U.S. troops in South ance of w! But it is the students’ work Vietnam situation. Con­ Vietnam, that is, the burden the editin, that is suffering. It is dis­ sequently both of them be­ of the fighting will be borne ■e; even flj concerting to have to start gan by saying that their by ARVN with the possible character; studying in some inadequate or opinions did not necessarily exception cf “some air and Room makeshift place without the reflect those of their artillery siupport” provided by abundance necessary reference books and parties. the Americans. — clot! then at 9 a.m. to pack up, move The civilian government of 7 , a silk st at the top and start again in the library, South Vietnam was “honest ound, an and it is equally annoying to A suave politician and decent”, Mr Highet began, Dr Finlay began by saying — all coral be stopped short at 10 at night. and was “doing its level best that he would have liked to It seems that it all comes effect o*32A QUEEN STREET for the people cf South Viet­ have made Vietnam one of the n reality, down to finance and if there nam.” He then claimed that key issues of the 1966 elections. was sufficient pressure or International “fully 75 per cent cf the South But the Vietnam debate, he c figure necessity then the finance would Vietnamese have confidence” in claims, is “today a non-issue” overdone, Hairstylists probably be met. The need for P.M. Huong’s government. He — “it is however far frem be­ usly — not longer hours is Obvious and later admitted that this gallup ing non-event.” Ison’s “Sa; there is no reason why this Phone 378-626 pell had been supplied by the He charged the American Higet's naivete greeted with derision. or “Surar need should not be met. New Zealand ambassador government with having k of moti — M. Jones. there. “manufactured” changes in concern • CUTTING ; Hfewever, Mr Highet did ad­ count the wider significance of cause if we didn't contain the how Mon the nature of the war with such mit that South Vietnam was things as the Tonkin Resolution the policy as government communists there we would is, or ei • TINTING also a military dictatorship. policy. have to fight them here. vere, the Don’t drop litter which led to the “escalation” Yet he believes that there are of the war. (particula on Campus— young civilian professional men Conclusion : Highet naive and : balcony) • PERMING In reply to Mr Highet, he in South Vietnam who will form The “debate” raised some incompetent tive and said that a stay of any length the nucleus cf a new civilian in South Vietnam can produce interesting points regarding On what grounds was Mr htly maca Go to second hand party for the next elections. politics in this' country and the Highet selected to visit South ■itty, the e 10% Discount evidence to support any prior He said he also believed that Vietnam issue, and politicians’ Vietnam? His knowledge of arly clever views on the situation there. Bookstall. Thieu and Ky know the in­ response to student audiences. the dimensions of the conflict dcipated. to Students He challenged Mr Highet’s security of tenure cf a military opinion of the government of Mr Highet was too dramatic is limited and inaccurate. He ;ion of a h seems to have derived little e just pi* South Vietnam by claiming in his presentation and too politically postured, i.e. a “poli­ benefit from his visit in terms l the terr; that it was a “ completely un- tical” performance without any cf increased sophistication of ax advertii viable govarnment”, and could politics. Dr Finlay was poli­ argument in favour of inter­ lis fresh, ti not survive without the sup­ tical in that he seemed to be vention. Or is that position tic cliches port of the U.S. government. talking on equal terms with new untenable? he flash-ba The Paris talks will end the audience, although his What is more disturbing is ow motion AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS in peace, D r Finlay believes, his set cf underlying political >ax sequen; “logical inferences” and related because there is no military and philosophical assumptions. teal strain courtcraft did not seem to be solution to the Vietnam crisis. First he seems to assume that ludience « all that necessary. But he The bombing of North Viet­ did communicate. the situation is readily under­ aceful, sei nam proved to be "counter­ standable in terms of the New nd witty Mr Highet’s opening address productive", and is therefore Zeaalnd political experience. but incor was greeted with howls of unlikely to be renewed. Such Secondly by what right does ment. laughter. Briefly here are decisions w ill lead, he feels, some of the instances which a back-bench parliamentarian m Pillsbt to "ultimate American with­ aroused student derision. First from New Zealand tell the SAVINGS ACCOUNT drawal". he referred to Great Britain civilian Prime Minister of as being “neutral” on the Viet­ South Vietnam what to do. It OPEN YOUR CHEQUE ACCOUNT Dr Finlay raised the most displays a frightening arrog­ :aff of nam issue. Certainly the Brit­ ccntroversiial point cf the ish government is in an anoma­ ance (even racial arrogance) M— meeting by suggestnig that New lous position, since it co-spon­ and real ignorance of a coun­ Enterprii Zealand should retain an “un­ sored the 1954 Geneva talks on try ruled by an inefficient obtrusive presence”, in terms Indo-China. But it has sup­ military dictatorship, and with cf military equipment, in South ported, if not materially, the a war-tom economy. Vietnam. This seemed to con­ American stand in Vietnam. In the opinion of the writer, tradict the position cf the Secondly, he admitted that the fact that the government of NOW AND BUILD A VALUABLE BANK CONNECTION Labour Party on the issue, as he had met few Vietnamese New Zealand allowed a back­ most people understand it. Dr during his visit to the country. bencher, inexperienced in the FOR THE FUTURE Finlay expanded his remarks Thirdly his illustration of cor­ field of external affairs, to in­ by saying that so long as the ruption was really an illustra­ spect at first-hand what is per­ conflict rem ains “purely a tion of inflation in a war econ­ haps going to be the gravest military cine” , and so long as omy. Finally he admitted that crisis in our external relations the negotiations continue, we our troops were making an in­ for the latter half of this cen­ 'S should not make any precipitate significant contribution to the tury, displays a cavalier atti­ moves whiicb might alter the military effort, but that our tude to external affairs. “status quuo” . presence was necessary be­ — Chris Smithyman,

BANK AND SAVE BNZ — THE BANK THAT UNDER­ Party policies During his address and in STANDS STUDENTS’ NEEDS. following cquesticn-time Dr Fin­ lay refuseed to predict Labour STUDENTS Party pollicy for any future Remember developments in the Vietnam situation. Thus he refused to give an uinaualified assurance that shoulld the Labour Party 10% DISCOUNT become thee government it would Use the BNZ office in the old student Union Block alongside the lead to a withdrawal cf fight­ Goes on all Winter Clothes ing troeps from South Vietnam. University mailroom. Mr Highet was asked if the at— National P arty would change its policy on Vietnam if the New Zealand public chose to reject our present participation in Vietnam at the next elec­ tions. He replied that of Bank of New Zealand course the government must pay attention to the people, but it mist also take into ac- 14 CRACCUM March 20, 1969 S.R.C. ELECTIONS

NOMINATIONS ARE HEREBY CALLED FOR THE FIRST STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIV COUNCIL

10 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF ARTS 2 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE

(est. roll 3,500 plus) (est. roll 117)

7 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE 1 REP FROM THE FACULTY OF MUSIC

(est. roll 2000 plus) (est. roll 7 l)

5 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF COMMERCE 1 REP FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS

(est. roll 1000 plus) 1 REP FROM O'RORKE HALL OF RESIDENCE 4 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING 1 REP FROM INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (est. roll 600 plus. N.B. Pros only)

1 REP FROM NEWMAN, JEAN BEGG, 4 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF LAW NORMAN SPENCER HALLS (est. roll 700 plus)

3 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE N.B. — Architecture and Engineering intermediate students (est. roll 370 plus. N.B. Pros only) vote in the Faculty of Science.

2 REPS FROM THE FACULTY OF FINE ARTS

(est. roll 131) N.B. — Hostel residents and overseas students vote for their faculty reps as well as their special reps.

Nominations Close on March 21 Election Procedure Elections will be held on March 28 The Association will conduct elections for the Arts, Science, Candidates must be nominated on the official forms obtained Commerce Faculties and Overseas Students Reps. All other from Studass Office. These must be handed in by 5 p.m. on elections will be conducted by the appropriate faculty or Friday, March 21. hostel association.

The Composition of the SRC is as follows:

EX OFFICIO: —The Executive; the immediate past Executive; the editor of Craccum; . • N / 1 student members of the Senate Liaison Committee.

Representatives from faculties and hostels on the following basis: — 1 Rep - 1 -1 0 0 2 Reps - 101-300 3 Reps — 301 -5 0 0 1 Rep for every 500 or part thereof over the first 500. CRACCUM — March 20, 1969 15 Craccum " Star " Sportsman 4th YEAR STUDENT JOHN LE GRICE W INS NZ 3 -MILE TITLE

John Le Grice, 21, recent winner of the NZAAA three-mile title, is our "star" for this issue. John, who is a fourth-year Arts student, has represented Auckland University in four tourneys and been chosen to tour Australia last year with New Zealand Universities.

John, who has never won a thought up a training system work. New Zealand title before, attri­ which fitted into Tohn’s swot­ John also feels that the tour buted his success to the train­ ting timetable. This training, he got with NZU helped him ing methods he has adopted — mostly short runs of about eight and here can be seen the ad­ is increased. That John was due to University work he has miles a day during the winter, vantage of running or playing helped by an NZU tour is self- not been able to follow Lydiard increasing to early morning for a University club. With evident. training methods and with his jogging after exams, repetition NZUSA sending teams to Aus­ Craccum wishes John well coach Bob Hamilton, the ex- running up the hills in the tralia every year, the chance in his quest fcr more titles N e w Zealand half - miler, domain and quite a bit of speed of getting experience overseas and more units in 1969.

John Le Grice — outstanding A.U. runner. Photo : N.Z. Herald Hopeful Forecast for Tournament

The main event on the Auckland University sporting scene at the moment is Summer tournament, this year being held in Christchurch from April 5th to the 8th. Remembering last year's Tourney which unfortunately was dampened by the Wahine disaster we are hopeful of a good weekend's sport in 1969.

Auckland University is being Yachting with McNaughton t Athletics, with John Le Grice, represented in Athletics, and Weir should win here but Roger Clarke and Wayne Mad­ Cricket, Gymnastics, Rowing, unfortunatey Kepple and Wal­ den running well could help Surfing, Swimming, Water Polo, ker, who won brilliantly for AU but Otago will probably Tennis and Yachting. Auckland in 1967 have dis­ win here. The girls’ team is This year Rowing is the gla­ banded. quite weak though and life mour sport with women’s four Swimming, as usual, will be could be hard for them. 1-1 in the betting to take the led by Gary Gotlieb but Gary Tennis have Don Turner still title. Lesley Keys, a great stal­ is now concentrating more on but have lest Ann Stevens to wart of University rowing, and water polo, which will weaken Otago University and will have one of the most experienced the chances of swimming. Stu to work hard. women rowers in New Zealand, McKenzie, the hard - working All in all the 1969 Tournament will have Loris Monzari and Sports Rep. will, we hope, re­ locks like being an enjoyable Liz Cato to assist her here. peat some of his 1966 form. one. The men’s eight, this year Cricket,, which has Pat Mal­ — Graham Thorne. without Craig Ashby, will still colm, the under-23 ND rep., as be strong with Bob Fairclough, well as such stars as Paul John Parnell, Pete Scriven and Bartley, John Porter, Bob Tim Richardson to the fore. Laing and Pip Recorden, could Opposition in the eights will go close this year to give AU GOLF CLUB come from Canterbury and Vic­ their first cricket title since toria. I960. LOOKS FOR MEMBERS The Auckland University Golf Club, one of the go-shead clubs, is keen to get members. For the student who wants to play the odd game during the year a membership costs but one dollar and for nominal green fees on “open” days four or five days’ golf is guaranteed. Contact John Moody, ring OH-67-453 for most information.

If this is as far as Student Power goes at Auckland Newmarket it might as well not have started. These pointless signs which have been spattered all over the Uni­ Squash versity grounds are thought to be the work of an offshoot of a Communist group who appear to have too much surplus paint and not enough sense. Centre (Public Courts) 238 Broadway, Newmarket. Student Rates: This DON'T PLAY 35c per person coupon between hours: 9 o’clock - 12 o’clock. is THE WAR GAME 2 o’clock - 4 o’clock. worth Register as a Conscientious Objector! Equipment $ 5 .o o available on hire. For information write or phone: Coaching CHRISTIAN PACIFIST SOCIETY OR SOCIETY OF FRIENDS for beginners. 81-489 606-834 COULiS SOMERVILLE WILKIE LTIL 27 Lloyd Ave, 115 M t Eden Road, Enquire Now DUNEDIN CHRISTCHURCH WELLINGTON AUCKLAND PALMERSTON NORTH INVERCARGILL HASTINGS HAMILTON Auckland 3. Auckland 3. Phone 52-418 Student problems in­ clude relations with the opposite sex; absence of any control; ven­ ereal disease and alco­ hol and . . . Students living away from home are ill-prepared to face their responsibilities Students living away from home for the first time are often faced with perplexities and problems which they are often ill-equipped to face, according to the director of student health, Dr W. S. Auburn. Dr. Auburn, in his annual he or she was granted far more it appears on paper. Students came to the city to report on student health to sexual license and freedom “One crucial fact of which find the individual was more or Senate, says many students are than ever before. the general public is not aware less anonymous and found they in a state of flux and far more “This applies especially to is the increasing resistance of could get away with more than are living away from home. those people who come from the germ causing the most they could at home. “There are many major small country areas where common form of veneral dis­ These students tended to problems,” he admitted. everybody knows what every­ ease, gonorrhoea, to penicillin forget their responsibilities both “First, there is a great body else is doing. and other related drugs. to themselves and to the com­ change in their relations to “A further problem is the “Anothe” condition which munity. members of the opposite sex exposure to alcohol, often in defies most forms of treatment The students, male or female, . . . and to a certain extent to quantities to which they are ls known in medical circles as who lived in flats or shared their own sex. quite unused. NSU (non-specific urethritis).” houses faced these difficulties “Students find themselves “To overcome these prob­ Another and equally serious far more directly than those suddenly exposed to a complete lems, some form of vigilance danger was that of drugs, but living in hostels. freedom to which they are not and control must be practised Dr. Auburn said further pub­ “The hostel itself provides a accustomed. . . . and it must come from licity of this danger would background of stability which “The restraints which would within the student. serve no further purpose than is completely lacking in flats normally apply at heme no “We (the student health ser­ to a~cse the curiosity of poten­ and shared houses. longer bound the student and vice) nor the university can tial drug users. “A student who lives in a supply this control. After all, The acute impact of a move university hostel, lives among cur own private lives are our from a small country com­ his ‘peers’ and he must earn own.” munity to the “big city” was their respect to be accepted by Dr Auburn — Director, Student Health. muccrac One danger which students a problem in itself. them.” knew little about was venereal T^DITOR tells us he will at- disease. tend SRC meetings but will “V.D. is very common in not take an overly conspicuous Auckland and the problem is part in their deliberations. Ac­ very widespread. tually, he’s entitled to two SRC WILL CURB EXEC “The problem is larger than votes: as Editor of Craocum. A major change in the gov­ for their own personal rea­ for the affiliation of cli and as an immediate past erning of the Students’ Associa­ sons.” and societies. executive member. We don’t tion will come about on Friday The SRC will bridge the • The SRC will consider t think our democratically- with the election of the Stu­ distant gap which now annual report and accou minded SRC planners quite dents’ Representation Council. exists between the Exec, of the Association and m counted on that. Representatives will be and students. All sectors of recommendations t o t elected from each faculty, and the student body will be rep­ Annual General Meeting, the SRC will also consist of the resented, and faculty rep­ Provision has been m present Executive, the immedi­ resentatives should be that no member of the Ei, Y I7U O would have thought ate past Executive, the editor active in assessing student may serve as chairman of " that Martyn Finlay had of Craccum, a representative of opinion, and be more ap­ SRC. The chairman is to personal opinions contrary to overseas students, three hostel proachable to students than elected at the first meeting the party line on Vietnam ? As representatives, a n d student the Exec, is at present. The SRC will meet e a matter of fact, we have our members of the Senate Liaison The SRC, as Mike Law en­ month during the acaden own pet theory. We wonder Committee. visions it, will take a major year. whether Someone Higher Up It is envisaged that the SRC share of the workload from At present, the functions a may not have put him up to will alter the power structure Exec., which will initially be responsibilities of the SRC a it. within the Association in the dealt with in committees of somewhat hazy within t ☆ ■£ ☆ ☆ ☆ following ways.— the SRC. Responsibilities, structure laid out. The init t • It will be the prime policy and demands on Exec, have meetings hopefully will answ A ND while Martyn Finlay formulation body, with grown enormously with the these questions. Mike Law, w was busily muddling his Exec, dealing mainly with increasing size of the Uni­ has taken a prominent part; party’s position on Vietnam, administration. In the draft versity, and the move to the the organisation of the the Herald came up with the stage of the creation of the new Student Union. would like to see it play wildest scoop of the year: the SRC, it was suggested that The SRC will have the power comprehensive a part as FOL will try for its own radio SRC decisions on policy of questioning previous Exec, sible in student affairs, station. We kid you not: Tom should be binding on Exec., decisions, and will no doubt belief: “To work effectively Skinner is alive and living in but a special interest meet­ be an influence on Exec, SRC needs student co-oj Remuera. ing of students last year members to get down and tion. Because of the attacks ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ rejected this. Decision of the do their jobs efficiently with Universities, the need to fij SRC will therefore be recom­ a minimum of fuss. for the continued existence "TWER heard of the News— mendations, and not bind­ The SRC will elect replace­ autonomous Universities a paper Proprietors’ Associa­ ing. But it is thought that ments for resigned Exec, unrestricted entry, means tl tion ? Probably not, we guess. Exec, will have few or no members — a more repre­ Students’ Associations must Thev had their conference in occasions to go against SRC sentative method than the come a viable education Auckland at the Intercontin­ Corsetry manufacturers beware! An expert glance recommendations, since present system and more pressure group. The establi ental last week. You won't be­ round the Caf. reveals only 40 per cent of girls Exec, will take part in their practical than by-elections. ment of the SRC is a ma, lieve us, but their meeting was wearing bras — this is a world trend. initial formulation, and since The SRC will be responsible step in this direction.” closed to the press. the SRC has the power to call a Special General Meet- ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ing of students. Under the Record library Constitution, decisions of WE PASS WITH HONOURS! TMLLY the Id, Sell-your-Soul- -open to students general meetings are for-a-Song Graham stayed supreme, and the whole in the Intercontinental, too. Not For less than the price of one LP, students can borrow Exec, can even be thrown w.™ ourSPECIAL d isco u n t only that, he booked the entire records frem the Library Record Collection. out. state suite, and was escorted This year, many newly imported records not normally • The SRC will be a much AND STUDENTS abound by his three personal available in New Zealand are being added. Students broader representation of 0N BATTERIES bodyguards. So much for rich interested in seeing what records are currently held can student opinion than the men not being able to hit it on consult the last four drawers of the Library catalogue. Exec, is at present. Man Phone or Call the Kingdom of Heaven scene Two records may be borrowed at any one time and Vice - President Mike Law, the loan period is 14 days. who was on the draft com- iz ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Annual Subscription: mittee cf the SRC, said: Students - - - - - $4 “The committee would hope Auckland Battery Services TITE were looking through our Music Students - - - $3 that the occasion would not LIMITED " dusty files the other day. Staff and Graduates - - $5 arise when the SRC and the We discovered that in 1957 the (This is the only payment needed; there is no lending Executive are at odds . . . 49 NAPIER STREET, PONSONBY. Ph. 761-404 University administration ex­ charge per record.) Subscriptions can be paid at the there seems no need for any pected the student population Lending Enquiries Desk, Circulation Department, during conflict to develop and this to reach 8000 by 1975. 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