Volume 49. Issue 4. Tues. Mar. 25, 1974.

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do very well in the exams at the end of moral reasons. But it was all a joke, the year, unless he has in some way made wasn’t it? the knowledge contained in those essays Peter Keeble. his own. It is, after all, one of the fun­ Yes Peter, it was a joke. Your comments ctions of exams to provide a forum for ^CRACCUM Volume 49, Issue 4 however, only lead me to conclude that students to show what they know or perhaps those broadcasting officials were T( T uesday March 25, 1974 believe without the marker having to justified a few years back in deciding that worry about the probability that what he New Zealanders weren’t quite ready for is reading has been copied from someone satire. The author of this “anonymous am else. In many departments questions scurrilous article” was Bill Ralston who, ne differ .sufficiently from year to year to like you and me, is a Masters’ student in expose answers that are mere regurgit­ the Political Studies Dept. His ‘anonymity ation of someone else’s work with no 0 0 0 was neither requested nor intended - and Whether by real appreciation of the facts or argu­ Articles for CRACCUM are cunningly results from a “ technical error”. Ed imperialist de< ments involved. As for swopping essays squeezed out of their contributors by trade, aid, anc l with friends who have covered different Mike Rann, who is also the editor. This towards Tong, week, he conned the following people Dear Craccum Editor, aspects of the course in order to learn benefit rather more my only comment would be; what into writing : Brent Lewis (features), For those who don’t believe your NZ and impoi Paul Halloran, Father Eugene O’Sullivan, article “ Survival of the Slackest” take is cunning (and therefore illegitimate) Tonga ever tig about that? Anne Wilks, Dave Francis (Gardening heed. It works. parasite grip;; Editor), Dr. Carolyn Gerster, Tim Shad­ You omitted to mention the “helpless 3 conditions in bolt, Allan Bell, Dave Colbourn, Roger little thing” technique especially good for What about the claim that ‘male vast unemploy Horrocks, Mark Williams and Mike Walker. women. The advantage of this is that it students should find their tutor’s ideo­ Dear Ed, Since the r< CRACCUM was designed and laid out doesn’t matter how stupid a question you logical stance on certain issues and always As a part-time Arts student I resented is tapped for f by Chris Brookes, who in addition to his a$k, you should get sufficient in the ensure their work takes that particular having to pay $28 in Students Association Tonga is becoi own vast talent (guess who wrote this answer to provide you with an essay. Esp­ stance.? Doesn’t credit tutors with much fees. Whilst I appreciate the facilities (cafee of cheap coloi week’s credits, folks------right again !), ecially if you ask it about one of the intelligence does it? When a tutor marks a gym, coffee bars, common rooms etc) In short, Tong was able to call on the special abilities of essay topics. essay he is not concerned with whether and benefits (student travel and accom­ Bantustan. Virginia Smith, Robert Garney, three Yoga Never forget “ I’ve got to work every he agrees or disagrees with the writer’s modation service - and fruit and vege. This is the ■ Club people (Julia Merritt, Barry and night this week, it’s the only job I could conclusion but with the quality of anal­ co-op) that the Association offers studenti|d rawn from fi­ Marilyn Eccles), Mike Daniell and Anne get, I’ve got to do it or I won’t eat next ysis which led to that conclusion. Thus, wouldn’t it be fairer .to levy differential liation ‘How Chambers. week” for essay extensions, especially if if an essay writer attempts to agree with fees for part timers. Many students, like Bres. j Reporters were Rob Greenfield there’s a party the night before it’s due a tutor’s ideological stance without taking myself, are on campus for only 1 hour- For a start, ;(“ Chief” ) and Rob Greenfield (“ Number in. account of the reasons for that stance 3 nights a week. Incidentally, is there any getting poorer Two’’). The simplest way to avoid a seminar is to and without supplying his own arguments legal Compulsion for me to pay my fees. have doubled ; Advertising was once again relentlessly arrange with the rest of your tutorial that in favour of it he is not going to do very J.L. eased by 33%. pursued by Paul (“ Fingers” ) Gilmour, they don’t turn up that day. Then you can well. This point also serves to counter visible trade d< sometimes called “ The Singing Gnome”.) tell the lecturer its only in note form and claims made by the annonymous author Ed— According to the University of neat 400%. Sit Photographs came from a wide variety that you’ll write it up as an essay for later that it is necessary to be in accord with Auckland Calendar (1975), Section 48, from NZ it is 1 'of sources, but those on pages 8. 9 and in the week. the Labour Party (which part of it?) to of the University of Auckland Act 1961 and more in di were taken by Murray Cammick, But remember! Not more than two make progress in the Political Studies gives the Council of the University power Nor do N Z : CRACCUM’s resident photographer, dead grandmothers per lecturer per year, Department to “ impose and collect from time to appear to be d i Finally, the graphics or cartoons (or please. Finally, it may be worth pointing out time from students of the University or problem by sa whatever) on page 2 were flung together that if Mr Amos believed the attitudes from any of them such fees as it considers sufficient and jin a great hurry by that fiend o f the A. Thick. B.A. manifested in last week’s article to be reasonable for the benefit of any assoc­ ries. NZ’s tarif media, Chris Brookes. common amongst students there prob­ iation or organisation of students of the shipping servic .(Not this guy again . . . (Yawn!) God, ably wouldn’t be any rise in bursaries for University, and to dispose of those fees fully against ai ♦what a bore!) quite some time, for both political AND accordingly.” home industry H O -H U M ...... 1966 (the late #• were available 2* expansion of i Items may be freely reprinted from only agricultui CRACCUM except where otherwise stat­ Dear Sir, VOX POPULI one industrial ed, provided that suitable acknowledge­ I must confess that it is difficult to increased its la ment is made. CRACCUM is published know whether the annonymous and Student Reps on Senate Student Reps i on Union Management ,by the Craccum Administration Board scurrilous article on Cunning as a strategy ifor the Auckland University Students’ for gaining degrees printed in last week’s Edward H a y s o m ...... 281 Byron Ballan \ ...... 364 Association (Inc), typeset on our own Craccum was meant to be taken seriously. Robert Lack ...... 397 Dennis Gubb ...... 136 jl.B.M. typesetting machine, and printed However, the fact that it contained some Peter Neilson ...... 137 Simon Hayman ...... 167 :by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews extremely doubtful and potentially damaging Richard R ow e...... 318 Brian Humberstone...... 145 ;Avenue, Wanganui. opinions, stated as though they were matters Gregory Taylor ...... 176 Susan Still ...... 347 of fact, does necessitate some sort of . Michael Tyne-Corbold...... 159 No Confidence ...... 103 reply. The following remarks are made from Invalid votes ...... 53 UNIVERSITY SERVICES Kaye Turner ...... 486 the stand point of a Political Studies’ No Confidence ...... 31 i Every Thursday, at 1.10 p.m., during Junior lecturer who knows some of what Invalid votes ...... 17 I hereby declare Byron Ballan and Susan ithe academic year, there will be non- goes on with regard to the assessing of a Still to be elected as Student Representa­ denominational services held in the student’s performance and who has not I hereby declare Kaye Turner and Robert tives on the Union Management ; University Chapel. yet forgotten what sitting exams is like. a Lack to be elected as Student Representa­ Committee. : Speakers will be from on and off Firstly, let’s have a look at the claim tives on Senate for a full term, and Rich­ 831 votes were cast. campus, including Protestants, Catholics, made by the nameless author that, ‘By ard Rowe to be elected for the remaining Liberals and Conservatives. The first borrowing essays and assignments from period of the casual vacancy. Michael Walker . three speakers will be The Rev. Dr. R. people who did the same course the year Acting Returning Officer I Thompson from the Baptist Theological before you can probably halve your work - j College, The Rev. Dr. K. Larsen, a Roman load....and gain top marks.’. This sort of ! Catholic priest teaching in the English thing does probably go on to some small : Department and The Very Rev. O. extent However, it is worth remembering vox d e i? : Baragwanath, Minister of St. David’s that while someone doing this may get Presbyterian Church. good marks for his term work he will not i It is intended that Christians from town will join with University Christians* * in expressing their common allegiance and common search for greater comprehension of the religious dimension. A time will be i set aside during prayers for making known i areas of need. A light lunch follows the Service. Type setting ?

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See Tina at Students Office. all a joke, Fourthly, they cost nothing to main­ tain or reproduce. The N.Z. economy ter Keeble. doesn’t have to pay for their education, our comments housing, health or old age. They come conclude that cheap and work cheap. TONGA: Finally they are innocent. They don’t g officials were in deciding that join unions; don’t make demands; and can uite ready for be ripped off by landlords - 19 Tongans ‘anonymous am to a room at $ 10 a head. Ralston who, new Zealand's bantustan Such exploitation is every capitalists ers’ student in dream. Cheap labour, bonded labour. His ‘anonymity Labour which can be liquidated when not needed. Labour which can be used to de­ intended - and Whether by accident, or by some grand For Tonga’s basic raw material as far :rror”. Ed imperialist design, it is obvious that NZ’s press wages and frustrate the unions. And as NZ is concerned is human beings. labour which can be ripped off on the trade, aid, and immigration policies It’s obvious really. Population explos­ towards Tonga, are geared solely to N Z’s side. You see. ion plus virtually nil expansion of industry Nor does the exploitation end there. benefit rather than Tonga’s; are enriching plus tariffs plus poor shipping services NZ and impoverishing Tonga; are tying Taxes on wages which Tongans send home equals unemployment And between 1956 are the Tongan economy’s main source of Tonga ever tighter into dependence on N Z’s and 1966 about 75% of Tonga’s potential parasite grip; and are exacerbating those income. Worth far more than any of its labour force were ‘not economically exports. The Tongan economy can’t do conditions in Tonga which created its active”. without such wages, ls geared to being a vast unemployment problem. source of cheap labour to N.Z. Can only Since the reservoirs of unemployment And that’s one vast reservoir of poverty survive as a source of cheap labour. dent I resented Ijs tapped for N Z’s benefit at N Z’s will, stricken labour prepared to do anything And more. When the cheap labour re­ ents Association Tonga is becoming an impoverished source for a bit of brass. ie facilities (cafe of cheap coloured labour for N Z’s industry, turns to Tonga it takes with it an acquired l rooms etc) In short, Tonga is becoming a NZ Well, N Z’s tapping of this reservoir is taste for N.Z. consumer goods. Since there el and accom- Bantustan. brilliantly done. For a start only employers are no industries to invest in, and no point it and vege. This is the only inference which can be prepared to provide a job can bring Tongans in trying to develop any, the cheap labour n offers students drawn from the recent CARE-SPAN pub- into NZ. When labour is in demand the spends its wages in Tonga on N.Z. goods. vy differential lication ‘How Tonga Aids N Z ’ by Joris de About 55% of Tonga’s imports were N.Z. students, like Bres. bosses send for Tongans to keep down consumer items during the last half of only 1 hour- For a start, Tonga is a poor country and the price of labour. When there is a shortage last year. illy, is there any getting poorer. Since 1959 its imports of jobs no Tongans are sent for which d pay my fees, have doubled and its exports have decr­ reduces unemployment Thus we bring ‘em N.Z. not only gets its labour cheap. It eased by 33%. Over a similar period its in or send ‘em back entirely as we dictate, gets back what it pays as orders for N.Z. visible trade deficit has increased by a entirely for our own ends. And we don’t goods. And Tonga goes more into the red Iniversity of neat 400%. Since Tonga imports mainly have to worry what such uncertainty does to N.Z. Becomes more dependent on N.Z. ), Section 48, from NZ it is to NZ that Tonga gets more to Tonga’s economy. It is a beautiful circle of exploitation. land Act 1961 and more in debt. by 2%. Quarrying, manufacture, power, Secondly, the Tongans is bonded to niversity power Nor do N Z ’s aid programmes to Tonga transport, construction. All these decrease whichever boss brings them out and to It is a circle which stunts Tonga’s >m time to appear to be doing much to help the debt or stagnated in this respect whatever accommodation he supplies. He development Puts Tonga in debt to N.Z. University or problem by say, making Tonga more self If two aims of imperialism are to gain can pay them what he wants and they Forces Tongans to work cheaply in N.Z. js as it considers sufficient and promoting home indust­ markets and to prevent competition then can’t leave. Its a disciplined work force. Boosts demands in Tonga for N.Z. goods. of any assoc- ries. NZ’s tariff barriers and a very poor NZ is an imperialist country. By discour­ Thirdly, since Tongans are desperate Puts Tonga more in debt to N.Z. And tudents of the shipping service to NZ militate success­ aging equal two-way trade NZ is forcing for work they can be sponsored by forces Tonga to be even more dependent of those fees fully against any such development of Tonga into economic dependency. employers paying the lowest wages and on being a source of cheap labour to N.Z. home industry. Thus between 1936 and If a third aim of imperialism is to gain offering the poorest conditions. They are It is a circle in fact which makes Tonga, 1966 (the latest year for which figures cheap raw materials then NZ is certainly cheap labour and as such, mean bigger ■Jwere available) there was virtually no an imperialist country. For in exploiting profits. They also prevent N.Z. workers New Zealand’s Bantustan. expansion of industry. In terms of jobs, Tonga’s main raw material NZ shows a from successfully fighting for better wages only agriculture, forestry and fishing - skill sufficient to make one wonder if and conditions in those low paid jobs. David Col bourn one industrial group out of a listed 13 - NZ is seeking to rival South Africa in this Thus Tongans are useful in depressing the increased its labour force and that only field. N.Z. workers standard of living. Management

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Just as it has been smoked Comment in almost every Junior lecturers home in Rl New Zealand or just as it has been smoked in almost every trendy NZBC home in NZ.....because they come from mostly by Tim Shadbolt nuclear families, don’t usually have a lot Dr. Caroly of close and intimate friends, are com­ ittee, repli) peting with each for promotion (as are Abortion / most civil servants) and because they read Ms. Star is n newspapers which usually insinuate that like catechis Well the old fellas back again, and when communards and hippies live on drugs and and if an uni Owen Gager sees the likes of me and Chan sex orgies with a little pilphering and believed. and Lack still hanging around he trembles dynamiting in between to break the mono­ She allege in his boots, looking sideways at his six­ tony. women has I teen years as a student N.Z. record. Mike Anyway the point is that the Long Louis time in her I Law had him worried for a while but his Commune has been raided five times 1000 womei 6 year burst fell victim to the political even though not one single joint has ever from botche quicksands of Cloak and daggersville...... been found on the place.. These are of C. city .... Put that one in your civil liberties pipe number is ac Well I'll be honest, lay it on the line so and smoke it, if you like but whatever you data derived to speak and 'admit that although I love do with it the message will come out the mostly forei communicating with students in fact some same. The Police and Local authorities aret Sanger I of my best friends - real middle class ones are opposed to the Commune/Ohu York slum a at that - I do have another motive - its movement. Have a chat to Matt Rata about writing practice for another book which Anyone of r the response to Ohus by local authorities question a c< I’m finally going to re-write after my last if you have any doubts on that one. Well group of urb manuscript and notes were completely the battle continues with the council tive contract burnt. This event not only enhanced my issueing a demolition order with mono­ American w< matyr complex but is an excellent example tonous regularity about once a week at There are of how much I really suffer. Yes behind Rawhiti while things carry on as normal from New Y that smiling face is the great N.Z. tragedy. on the long Louis. Most of the members Choice: The Oh yes by the way I’m also very sensitive, are more interested in making music than arrived at a 1 shy and modest. they are with making War so they’re tions in the Well any way after Bell’s great SA. on letting the bureaucrats play their games.Of abortion law the erection and fall of Western morality course the newspaper boys have been hav­ Ms Star’s I thought I’d better, as Galilieo once said, ing a ball. First the baddies arrived at the year dying fi ‘Get my A.... into gear’. Well I wandered Tim Shadbolt commune and said that the hippies were abortions is into Craccum thinking I’d have a chat to within the force as the Promotion Squad. ation got permanent brain damage from violent anarcho hell bent druggy killers pro-abortion Brent Lewis but he was down the Star Stomping on Hips, Unionists, Bikies or bargain basement polio vacinations. and then the goody feature writers said that ranged i office playing snakes and ladders with Polynesians is a sure way to success within Like Thalidomide and why it happened. they were really good underneath that What are Big J-2 you know what, which is a bit the NZ beaurocracy. The judges will Like the seventh wonder of Good Health hard exterior. A bunch of family 1000 womer mean but he’s the sort of guy who can quickly rap the cops over the fingers if and Hygiene....Hexachlorophene. Like orientated organic gardeners carvers and abortions (le take journalistic snide with that great they attack the liberals at a Medical Aid lead in Petrol. Like Alcoholism and the very sincere. At one stage it was a P.R. miscarriages) winning smile of his and still say “ Hi”. Centre. Even I couldn’t understand the effects on the health of the family. Like war. But theat’s all part of the war so The U.S. Dei Well that’s the story of how I got to be cops for making that mistake . . . must be Cigarette smoking. Like DDT 234 preser­ let’s get back to the music. tabulated 12 writing this column. So now I’d better something to do with high ranking police vatives and artificial colouring in food. Some drifter passes through the has dropped write something about the Commune Catholics . . . not that I’ve got anything Hokianga went on a bum trip and fefelings to 30 per ye; movement in NZ. The two communes I’d against Catholics in fa c t. . . Anyway lets And when the Great NZ Health Depart­ with the locals got bad, when he broke time, deaths like to concentrate on are the Huia Comm­ get back to the Knight in harpic shining ment with its Stamina Gumption and zeal some church windows. Actually news­ (There were une, otherwise known as the Titanic, and armour. I think . . . and I would like to has finished dealing with Industrialists, paper men and cops are very similar. Supreme Coi that well-known Hokianga health resort - add at this particular point that this is Hospitals, Farmers, Chemical Companies, First they send the baddy into your born child ol the Long Louis Commune. only my considered opinion , , , But I Breweries, Land Lords and Petrol Com­ cell who does a meany aggro scare scene until birth), The Long Louis Commune has been in think that every active enthusiastic health • panies then by all means they can run and slaps you around a bit and then the missive abon the news a lot lately because its nikau inspector in NZ should be transferred to around mountains looking for Nikau Huts. goodycomesin and says look son I want The loss c huts have come under notice of the Health Auckland and Wellington. In Ponsonby Because let’s face the medical facts to help you, now let’s talk this over tragic, but in Department. It seems that the authorities - we have hundreds of houses festering and about the Long Louis. The local doctor • Well the Long Louis folk played the from legal an big hearted people that they are - are rotting away beneath us but they are own­ for example claims openly that the people game and it became a media war. The aneous misct worried about our health. ed by landlords so an inspector never goes are extremely healthy and well balanced in media filled in the gaps between the ads were struck; Just a few words on the philosophy of near them. Just one example is my friend’s every way. The children are strong and in and were happy as pie. They were really America and Communes. They are just part of the right house in Grey Lynn. No hot water, holes excellent health in every way. And Society pissed off when the Protest movement to death on i for freedom and survival .. nothing special. in the walls, children getting sick. Land­ is sick, really sick and it really needs help and eased off. Though they hated us it was the unborn child An attempt to beat the Mortgaged solitary lord and health department don’t give a the health department won’t do nothing old love hate scene. They really loved all Surely this is confinement Cell or Landlord deathlock. damn. The grafton house I once liv»»'4 ! .. because helping the people means attacking the exciting copy we gave them. The NZ Next Ms S People who live this way are Humanist raw sewerage was flowing across the t the big boys, The power freaks, and the Listener still regularly squeezes out a that women Socialist types, religious Spiritual types lawn. Solo mothers with three children. Health Dept is gutless. cynical analytical bleat about the protest rather than a or drifter lumpin anarcho types. They often Rang landlord no action. Rang health So it seems to me that the authorities movement but the other papers content She complaii are mixtures as we all are. Nothing is that dept. Said they would look into it. Two in general are opposed to the entire themselves with winging about our dis­ effective me; clearly defined. They were initially oppos­ weeks later ... nothing. Mother’s friends philosophical concept of the Commune or appearance. They are now looking to the no 100% safe ed by Communists and Liberals (see P.V. dug soak pits. Called health dept, again ... Ohu. They are using the by-laws to pros­ Commune Movement for the next stage of I Aspirin cause or National Youth Council Statements) Still no action. Finally called in own ecute a way of life that they are basically social sensationalism. However, the The Social reformers and revolutionaries plumber and landlord refused to pay the opposed to. For example if the local As any Communard knows if you more sophisi thought they would lose their front liners bill. Health dept still hadn’t arrived. authorities were opposed to the concept freak the locals they can make your life ception than ... and they have for a few years. But the of land lordism that could investigate hell. You got to make it with the town at any time ii Communes will soon develop as strong And when the harpic hero has finished every house that is being rented and or you probably just won’t make it all. holds and bases, food Growing Centres, cleaning up Aucklands Slum lords he can demand repairs. Every flat I’ve ever been Well to balance things they painted the The real ti Free Schools, Communication Centres start on our harbours. in has a bare wire or rot in the foundations local marae and then the elders let them can be seen ii for Underground press, Sancturies for or a leaky toilet or a bedroom with a have the Marae for an Easter Music abortion as a those who get bombed out and need a Swimming was prohibited in the 7ft 9in stud or evidence of vermin. Just Festival. The Huia Commune Identity as abortion is ception” , the rest, hostels for movement etc. They are Manukau last year. There’s been an examine for example the amount of Crises and Nervous Breakdown Band follow a resp going to become thriving centres for New outbreak of typhus traced to the shellfish. hepatitus in Ponsonby. and Travelling Road Show has been gramme. A si Ideas. Auckland’s harbours have been given a Well back to the front line on the invited to do a number so we are going fornia among Now I’m not opposed to good health D rating which makes them potentially Long Loqis. They have been not only up in a bus. There's a few spare seats (despite wide or even to health inspectors as such in fact open drains rather than harbours. The subject to pressure from local authorities still if you want to go on a groovy trip. raception) an some of m y ...... its just that theres a Mangere sewerage ponds are flooded but the vice squad has also moved in thus Those with musical experience or agers in New wierdo cat in the Hokianga whom I won’t beyond breaking point because of precipitating a rumour that they are the appreciation preferred. The whole trip reveal that, o name or Craccum will be persecuted for Industrial waste. So when the Janola kid thriving centre of a massive drug circle even costs 5 bucks (food, accom and travel) slightly less tl telling the truth under the libel laws, but has finished with the Slumlords he though they live in almost total poverty. Tickets on sale at People’s Union group attemp you all know the type of person I’m could re-educate the Industrialists into I suppose they could have secret Headquarters, 15 Ponsonby Road. tion. referring to . . . they conform to a set becoming responsible for their own filth accounts in Switzerland although the See you later brothers and sisters. pattern . . . fairly long hair,got breadwinn­ instead of dumping it into the harbours. rumour hasn’t said that yet I thought I Make your life good, live on the sunny Ms Star sa er neurosis responsibility blues and got a And if the Health Crusaders have could give it a shove into the realms of side - will see you in next months, hierarchy has career and got caught up in the snakes and any energy left,...and they must have a lot improbability because that’s where that Commune Comment but may also drop that say worr ladders game. of energy to run around mountain ranges rumour belongs. They’re the killer diller in for the occasional rave. Love and Peace only and thai Similarly all the ambitious cops join the looking for Nikau huts then they could do rumours that spread not only falsehood and Good Health — engage in this Vice Squad which is commonly known a little research work. Like why our gener­ but paranoia and cancer and other Tim. be prepared t - Page 5

>y the ot get too int with :he spot from quite the dreaded ABORTION USA has been mune or lestion. This ves to police raid, persecute DR GERSTER iune or Ohu >t to close it jpposed to any en smoked ers home in REPLIES been smoked Thorne in m mostly y have a lot Dr. Carolyn Gerster, vice-president of the U.S. National Right to Life Comm­ , are com- ittee, replies to an article in Craccum by Jessica Star, of the Women’s National on (as are Abortion Action Committee. use they read Ms. Star is not known to me in the U.S. but her rhetoric is familiar. The words are repeated iinuate that like catechism by a vocal minority of women. Ms Star is an expert in the art of propaganda, on drugs and and if an untruth or distortion is repeated often enough and loudly enough it will be ring and believed. eak the mono- She alleges that one in four American Right-to-Life workers infiltrated the women has had an illegal abortion some last National Association for Repeal of Long Louis time in her life, and that an estimated Abortion Laws meeting in California. We ve times 1000 women in the U.S. died each year recorded particularly the suggestions made )int has ever from botched-up or self-induced abortions. at the workshop for pro-abortion speakers. These are oft-repeated figures. The first They were urged to attack the Catholic liberties pipe number is actually an extrapolation from Church. They were instructed to attack whatever you data derived in a study of 10,000 women, the hierarchy but to express sympathy for ome out the mostly foreign bom, attending the Marg­ the Catholic woman. luthorities aret Sanger birth control clinic in a New As a Protestant, I resent very deeply e/Ohu York slum area during the late 1920s. this appeal to religious bigotry. I can att Rata aboui Anyone of reasonable intelligence would remember the dark days of Europe in the il authorities question a comparison made between this iat one. Well 1940s when Hitler’s genocide was revealed. group of urban women in an era of primi­ e council Many persons at that time condemned the tive contraception and the whole of ivith mono- Pope and the Catholic Church for not tak­ American womenhood 50 years later. ing a firm stand when the mass extermina­ e a week at There are more reliable studies. One n as normal tion programmes were known. Why was it from New York City (“ The Terrible he members right for the Catholic Church to “ impose Choice: The Abortion Dilemma” ) in 1968 lg music than its morality on others” in the matter of arrived at a figure of 160,000 illegal abor­ > they’re genocide of 6 million Jews and yet wrong tions in the U.S. prior to the permissive their games.Of for them to do so over more than 6 abortion law. lave been hav- million unborn babies ? Ms Star’s estimate of 1000 women a arrived at the Pro-abortion speakers have also been year dying from botched-up or self-induced hippies were advised to discover how many of their abortions is actually quite modest for a uggy killers audience have seen the slides of develop­ pro-abortionist We have heard figures writers said ing intrauterine life and the pictures of that ranged up to 10,000. neath that aborted babies. It became obvious to our imily What are the facts?Actually a little over opponents that this was the single strong­ ; carvers and 1000 women diedlin the U.S. from all est argument to try to refute. The word way to New Zealand. The “ merchants of pathology reports are not feasible. was a P. R. abortions (legal, illegal and spontaneous went out last year, through all pro-abortion death” have indeed infiltrated your count­ Without records it is impossible to have he war so miscarriages) prior to the antibiotic era. speakers bureaus, to discredit the slides. The U.S. Department of Vital Statistics Ms Star again follows the party line. ry with an almost missionary zeal. any real appreciation of the morbidity of the procedure. igh the tabulated 1231 deaths in 1942. This figure Many of our slides and photographs And then Ms Star makes the usual ref­ has dropped in an orderly fashion by 20 p and fefelings were obtained from New Zealand’s own erence to opinion polls, stating that in We hear much about “ victimless crime” . to 30 per year to 133 in 1968. From this n he broke Sir William Liley, who is regarded in the 1972, before the Supreme Court decision, Abortion is not a victimless crime, but time, deaths remained fairly constant lally news- U.S. as the “ father of fetology” and is 73% of Americans (including 56% of rather a crime with two victims, the moth­ (There were 140 in 1973, the year the t similar, undoubtedly the most renowned neonata- Catholics) believed abortion to be an er and her unborn child. The last vestige Supreme Court decided to strip the un­ ito your logist in the world today. Many are from individual choice. The only reliable opin­ of shared male responsibility for the sex­ born child of all protection under the law, > scare scene Lennart Nilsson’s beautiful portrayal of ion poll is that of the voter as he or she ual act has been stripped away by permi­ until birth). This is prior to effect of per­ intrauterine life in Life magazine several walks into the voting booth. The year ind then the ssive abortion. missive abortion law. c son I want years ago. One can hardly accuse Life 1972 was indeed significant, but not in ls this the long-awaited “ freedom of The loss of even one human life is this over magazine of any vested interest in the pro­ the manner in which Ms Star would like choice” ? You see, once pregnant, a wo­ tragic, but in 1973, when 140 women died played the life movement Another of our photographs you to believe. man doesn’t really have a-“ choice” . She from legal and.illegal abortions and spont - i war. The of a 16-week-old intrauterine baby, In 1972 the people of New York State, will deliver a baby. The only option is aneous miscarriages, some 400 persons veen the ads appeared on the cover of the U.S. edition after two years of permissive abortion whether she will deliver a dead baby or a were struck and killed by lightning in i were really of Newsweek a few weeks ago. that had brought a network of abortion live one. Of course, the boy friend may America and some 4000 persons choked movement The abortion slides were all taken by clinics and third-party referral agencies accompany her to the abortion clinic and to death on a piece of meat. Over 1 million sd us it was the physicians and all reproduced with per­ into the state, with shares in clinics being hold her hand in the waiting room. If he’s unborn children were destroyed last year. ally loved all mission and under affidavit of their auth­ bought and sold on the New York Stock a real gentleman, he may even pay the bill. Surely this is over-kill. hem. The NZ enticity. The photographs withstood the Exchange, succeeded in repealing their But it will not be the male whose legs are Next Ms Star challenges the argument :zes out a scrutiny of Attorney-General Robert K. permissive abortion law - only to have the strapped in the cold stirrups. He will not that women should resort to contraception jt the protest Killian, who introduced them as docu­ repeal vetoed by Governor Nelson Rocke­ feel the sharp pain of the sunction mach­ rather than abortion for familv Dlanning. pers content mented scientific evidence before the Sup­ feller. In the same year, two American ine. It will not be the man who recalls She complains that there is “ no 100% safe jut our dis- reme Court of Connecticut The slides states held referendums and abortion was “ anniversaries” of the abortion and counts effective means of birth control” . There is ooking to the have been in widespread use in the U.S. conclusively defeated in each 63% to 37% how old the child would have been that no 100% safe effective drug of any type. e next stage of1 for over four years and have never been in Michigan and 78% to 22% in North year. I marvel that abortion has not been Aspirin causes countless deaths in the U.S. challenged by any authority, medical or Dakota. Ms Star would like you to believe exposed for what it has always been - the However, the fact remains that we have ws if you legal. We have gone to great lengths to that this issue is a Catholic issue, but the ultimate male exploitation of women. more sophisiticated knowledge of contra­ ike your life present the size of the developing baby Catholic population of Michigan is 24% In spite of what Ms Star suggests, it h the town ception than we have had available to us authentically, often by means of a well- and of North Dakota only 12%. Far more was the intent of our constitution to pro­ make it all. at any time in our history. known object such as a finger, hand, coin significant, the black population of De­ tect the rights of all persons, the weak as painted the The real tragedy of abortion on demand etc. in the photograph. The terrible thing troit’s Wayne County comprises 40% of well as the strong and the defranchised as iers let them can be seen in Ms Star’s advocacy of about the photographs is not the pictures the population - and Wayne County voted well as the powerful. The 1973 Supreme r Music abortion as a “ backup measure” . As soon themselves but the fact that they repro-. 70% against abortion, reflecting the grow­ Court decision finds parallel at only one ie Identity as abortion is regarded as “ backup contra­ duce, with the critical, cold eye of the ing uneasiness of minority groups with the other point in our history. In 1857 the wn Band ception” , there is less and less incentive to camera, exactly who dies and how he or ethic that unwanted persons are expend­ Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott las been follow a responsible contraceptive pro­ she dies. able. decision that the black man was a non­ /e are going gramme. A study at the University of Cali­ Ms Star says “ U.S. women have won a Perhaps the most shocking of Ms Star’s person. In the words of the Chief Justice, >are seats fornia among students who had abortions very important victory” on abortion. This distortions is that the Supreme Court “ slaves are property and property rights ;roovy trip, (despite widely available methods of cont­ “ important victory” was won with literally decision has “ wiped out entirely” the are protected under the constitution” . raception) and a study of pregnant teen­ nee or millions of dollars of foundation money - rackets of criminal abortion. The illegal It took eight years and a Civil War to agers in New York State in 1974 both whole trip from the Rockefeller, Ford and Playboy abortionist hasn’t been put out of busin­ correct the court’s error. A 1973 Court reveal that, offered abortion as an option, and travel) Foundations, to name only three. It is ess. The Supreme Court in fact legalised declared that the unborn baby was a non­ slightly less than 50% of women in each Jnion interesting to speculate on the reasons illegal abortions and the backroom abort­ person and the property of his mother, group attempted any form of contracep­ Road, that led the leaders of the women’s rights ionist has moved into the front room. and hers to dispose of as she saw fit tion. id sisters, movement to form a coalition with Hugh By forbidding any interference by the This decision was forced on the Ameri­ ithe sunny Ms Star says: “ The Catholic Church Hefner, whose very name symbolises the state government in the first 12 weeks of can people by 7 men - 7 men who decided lonths, hierarchy has been putting forth ideologies sexual exploitation of women. The Hop­ pregnancy the Supreme Court has in effect for 210 millions. But there is a road back ay also drop that say women and sex are for procreation kins Foundation has spent money not prevented the State from even protecting for us in America and momentous strides .ove and Peace only and that any woman who is going to only in the U.S. but in England, France the health and well being of the mother. have been made toward a constitutional engage in this dirty little activity ought to and Australia, and we have no reason to With the widespread practice of abortions amendment which will protect for all time Tim. be prepared to pay for the consequences.” believe that this money has not found its in doctors’ offices, adequate records and all human life. Page 6

Fin. In small quantities, obviously not. There are more problems with alcohol than with drugs. Chad. As far as road tolls are concerned J m w n t n : there is no comparison between marijuana and alcohol. A Q. Then why are the marijuana laws so photos by P stringent ? Chad. Alcohol has been with us for 4 or 5000 years whereas cannabis is only a ALTE recent advent in New Zealand. Our attempt T h e qu< to prohibit alcohol was unsuccessful. It within Ne> D rug A b u s e is now an increasing problem. Do we want ignored, oi another problem ? buried,unc Audience : Replace alcohol with marijuana! and furthe □ Fin. People in Holland can publicly buy egalitarian marijuana and the abuse charges have gone down. This is the same as Denmark with H o w e v e their liberal pornography laws. Only the Party’s Yo foreign tourists buy it. at the Te 1 Chad. Very rarely is anyone ever jailed on given consi marijuana charges. Dealers are usually back shown in t JULIE PENDRAY on the streets in two or three hours after growing di being fined. I only know of one person Kiwi lifest' Last Thursday’s “ Drug Abuse” forum might have drawn a larger audience if it hadn’t who was actually jailed and that was after T h e m o been advertised as being held in three places at once. The principal speakers were Dr. his third offence. subject wa Duncan Finlayson, Director of the Student Health Service, and Detective Inspector Q. There shouldn’t be such a stigma Studies De Chadwick - a former member of the Drug Squad. attached to a marijuana conviction. I demon st ra Inspector Chadwick outlined the roles Finlayson, Lack , Chadwick mean it affects your job .... Culture dif of the Police - ‘preservation of law, preven­ Chad. How does it affect a job ? European i tion of crime, detection of criminals, pro­ Q. Well people get to know. When you that indivii tection of property, and of persons unable travel overseas you have to fill in a form the learnin to care for themselves.’ It was because of which asks you to state any previous system, he these roles he said, that it was the police’s convictions.... the situatic duty to pick-up any one caught using, Chad. I’ve never heard of this (to audience) arrival o f t dealing or selling drugs. Such a person is Does anyone else know anyting of that? located, apprehended and brought into Q. Oh of course you do! I had to do it U p t o tl ‘compulsory contact’ with professional m yself! imposition persons, who decide what is to happen to Chad. I agree with a lot that you have to economic < them. The main aim of the police, said say but try to come up with some practi­ Maori o f h Mr. Chadwick , is to seek out the dealers cal solutions. b ro k e n u p and try to cut off the supply. Q. How widespread is marijuana smoking? compelling Inspector Chadwick said that there Chad. I think it is very widespread. I sub-cultui was a growing concern at the number of think it will go to a ‘H IG H ’ and then come larger Eure people charged with drug crimes. In 1966 down again. change wa; 28 persons were charged with committing Q. You and Dr. Finlayson disagree on the one m o v e ; drug crimes. Last year the number had type of person who takes drugs. Dr. general ter risen 1535. Chadwick said that when he Finlayson says the drug taker comes from orientated joined the force safe-breaking was the ‘in’ a wide range of backgrounds and you say itants. Hen crime. Now, the safebreaking skills are he has a personality defect or is a criminal Ngati A w a being combined for drug trafficking. ‘type’. ‘sort o f pe< Trafficking is a very lucrative business and Chad. I didn’t say that. tribal and I dealers could afford the best homes, the Q. You certainly implied it best cars, and more importantly, the best Chad. I said he often has a personality lawyers. defect and usually comes from a certain What is Drug Abuse ? Inspector Chad­ the ‘phase’ will pass over. He considers it QUESTIONS :- type of background. wick said that the Narcotics and Alcohol similar to the ‘grown-ups’ trying to keep Q. Do you think the average smoker falls Q. Mr. Chadwick, if you were to walk out Act of 1963 applies to any person to whom up with the Joneses.’ And after all, he into the category of a criminal? now and see someone stealing your car and drug addiction, like alcohol addiction, says, why should we put drug users in a Chad: What do you mean by the average on the other side of the road a guy standing causes harm to health. different category to general offenders? ‘smoker ? rolling himself a joint, who would you ‘Dependency’ is a state of intoxication Dr. Finlayson seemed to have student Q. Someone who just sits down with a attempt to arrest ? produced by continuous use of narcotics backing all the way. He began by saying group of friends, say once a week, to have Chad (afterthoughtful pause),WelI, I think - which would result in intense physical he doesn’t think we have a drug problem a chat and a smoke. I’m pretty fast on my feet. I’d try to catch disturbance if the drug was withdrawn. at our university and he is sick of hearing Chad. Over the years the pros and cons both. people suggest that all university students have slowly merged together as they will What is the cause of drug abuse? sleep around, take the pill and use drugs. gradually with abortion, until we get an Chadwick argued that the drug abuser (Almighty cheer from the audience). He area of overlap which is considered neither developed from a result of his upbringing, defined drugs as substances which cure, “Very Harmful” or “ Not Harmful”. or from a personality defect i.e. the same alleviate or prevent disease. The main causes the same ‘type’ as the average young groups are :- Fin. criminal. He said the taking of drugs is a S E D A T IV E S - These are the most common­ I’d just like to add that perhaps there isn’t Need fashion or trend, especially among the ly used in society, e.g. tranquilisers. Barbit­ a problem with the casual smoker here but young ones who feel the need to conform. urates now have a bad name so doctors when he goes overseas there may be. You Drug abuse is both a legal and medical don’t like using them. see what we call the T.H.C. content in problem. ST IM U LA N T S - Amphetamine and ritilin. cannabis is very much higher overseas, than Under Section 9 of the Drug and Alco­ Amphetamine (speed) can’t be prescribed it is in New Zealand. Money? hol Addiction Act 1966, a relative, police in general practice so is only available Q. If marijuana was legalised there would officer or any other reputable person through the hospital board. no longer be any association with a dealer. (Chadwick felt an indecision amongst PSYC H O D ELIC (Hallucinogens) - L.S.D. Wouldn’t there be less incentive to try audience as to whether a policeman was and cannabis. harder drugs. Ask the National. such a person) may make application for O PIA T ES - morphine and cocaine Chad. Cannabis leads to harder drugs If you need a loan, or simply a little financial the detention and treatment of a drug Dr. Finlayson said that there were two types because of contact with the dealer, but advice, call at your nearest branch of the addict Section 8 states that the addict of dependance : physical and psychological. also because after a while people become National Bank. T h is ha; can make voluntary application through Psychological dependants may be with­ immune to the effects of marijuana. They W e've helped hundreds of students complete ‘us-them’ r the use of a probation officer. In this case drawn without any dreadful experiences. want more kicks. their studies with a simple, flexible loan this situati the charge is usually dropped and he is Disagreeing with Inspector Chadwick , Dr. Q. Have you read, your boss, Connelly’s scheme which provides assistance wheh you need it most. recognitioi sent to a hospital or institution. Finlayson said that he believes that drug- report ? If you're working to a tight budget, open a traditional If the police didn’t try to help and to users come from all walks of life, a wide Chad. No I haven’t yet. cheque account with the National. It'll make established enforce the law, Chadwick argued, who range of personalities, backgrounds and Q. Well it’s a load of bullshit payments easier, and give you a record of b a c k g ro u n would? After all they are a 24 hour service. classes. He ended by saying that one man Q. Dr. Finlayson, can you say that mari­ your spending - for about 15 cents a week M aori b a d In his eyes the law has done as much as it had once told him that the only drug juana is more harmful in the same propor­ on average. people in t can, encompassed by these acts. He hopes ‘problem’ is adequate supplies. tions, as alcohol? W e specialise in banking for undergraduates, so choose the bank that wants your business, T o b u m nationality AS THE FIRST STEP PHONE DON DAWSON as one ‘pec AT 32649 OR C A LL AT AN Y OF OUR BRANCHES in the past

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Lisly not. alcohol oncerned n marijuana Aphotos by MurrayVisit Cammick to 1e Tira Hou Marae a laws so HELEN TELFORD is for 4 or > only a ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES Our attempt The question of cultural elasticity :essful. It within New Zealand society seems largely Do we want ignored, or at best shrugged off and buried/under attitudes of ‘she’ll be right’ th marijuana! and further shrouded in the mists of the alicly buy egalitarian myth. es have gone mark with However last Saturday at the Labour , Only the Party’s Young Socialist Youth Conference at the Te Tira Hou Marae, this topic was 'er jailed on given considerable airing, and the interest usually back shown in this discussion purports a lours after growing dissatisfaction with the traditional ie person Kiwi lifestyle. at was after The most eloquent speaker on this subject was Mr. Hone Kaa, of the Maori tigma Studies Department who gave a lucid ;tion. I demonstration of just how the Maori Culture differs from that of the imposed i ? European culture, and using the supposition fhen you that individual identity is attained through in a form the learning process of one’s cultural evious system, he pointed out in simple terms the situation of the Maori since the (to audience) arrival of the European. ig of that? to do it Up to three or four years ago the imposition of European social mores and ou have to economic conditions has stripped the )me practi- Maori of his traditional way of life and broken up his tribal affiliation, thus na smoking? compelling him to seek identification as a read. I sub-culture in direct opposition to the d then come larger European monoculture. This change was neatly executed in virtually igree on the one move; i.e. the application of the The Ohu is a scheme sponsored by the . ;s. Dr. general term ‘Maori’ to diverse clan Minister of Lands, Mr. Rata, and has comes from orientated groups of indigenous inhab­ parallels with the Israeli Kibbutz system. Tenants itants. Hence the individual Ngati Porou or nd you say A group of eight people with New Ngati Awa was lumped together as a is a criminal Zealand citizenship can form a legal ‘sort of people! and stripped of his entity — such as a Company — and tribal and kin type affiliations. Protection apply to lease an area of Crown Land with the aim of setting up a soft sonality technology, low environmental impact l a certain system of communal living. Association to walk out At present, as reported by Keith Langton The probability of a student becoming a tenant in the next few years is very high while your car and and Bruce Marks of the Ohu Advisory the probability of him or her knowing much about the tenancy game is very low. As a i guy standing Committee there is only one Ohu in consequence most of you will become victims of the unfair practices of landlords and )uld you Operation with others applying for most of you will turn to TPA for assistance. It is for this reason that I write this article land before the District Commissioner’s and I hope that when I have finished you understand more about TPA and what part you .Well, I think Land Office. Lack of feedback from can play in its activities. 5. Ensure that tenants are not thrown out I try to catch this group has meant that definition of actual operation remains vague. What is TPA? on the street once their notice to quit It is an association of people who have expires. For the benefit of those ready to at least one thing in common - they have 6. Help tenants who have been thrown criticise the Ohu as a communal cop-out all seen or experienced the inhumanity out on the street this simply is not the case. An Ohu is and injustices of the landlord/tenant situa­ This list is not exhaustive but I hope* a legal entity and as such is taxed and its tion. The problems transcend all class that you get the message that there are a to be remembered that the people involved barriers and as a result we have among our lot of injustices and plenty of work. are employees within the rural community. members workers, housewives, lawyers, Who do we deal with ? For these and other reasons the Ohu is school teachers and students. It has a * All sorts. In being well brought up as most definitely not out of contact with strong Committee led by Betty Wark who you all are I feel that it is necessary to dis­ the rest of the society. is President She is a social worker in pel the popular misconception, that many This Conference has pointed out that Ponsonby and has herself experienced the of you will have, that tenants who have passive acceptance and possible frustration loss of a home. The Secretary is Phi! But­ hassles with their landlords are probably with the status quo need not be the lot ler. He is the son of a one-time landlord. bad tenants. In the two years that I have of the average Kiwi, and has outlined He is a lawyer but at present is employed been with TPA I have come across two future action and brought to public as a painter. The policy of this Committee bad tenants and with the market situation attention a reminder of the right to choose. is to extend the activities of the associa­ as it is who can afford to be bad. tion so that it becomes very much a Where do students fit into TPA ? little financial Bruce Marks people’s movement nch of the TPA needs your time and help. We Where is TPA ? need people to man our phones as advisers fents complete This has been the root of the whole Because of a lack of finance and a lack - you need do no more than half a day per ible loan ‘us-them’ racial problem. Fortunately of active supporters TPA has been with­ week. We need people who can be called ince when you this situation is changing with the out an office and a phone for four months. on when man power is needed. We can recognition by Maori and Pakeha that During that time the pressure was sustain­ always fit you in somewhere wherever get, open a traditional culture should be re­ ed on landlords as members worked from your talents lie. nal. It’ll make established within the educational their homes. This situation could not be “ I can’t help cause I know nothing” a record of background of the individual to draw the maintained so TPA has been given an off­ Syndrome ents a week Maori back to a sense of importance as a ice in the Citizen Advice Bureau building This excuse designed by Kiwis for Kiwis people in their own right. in Queen Street From here TPA will co­ ndergraduates, i just doesn’t hold with us. It is more than ordinate an extensive campaign against your business. To bundle up all New Zealanders as one likely that you don’t know anything about Landlord malpractices. this business but I assure you that you will DON DAWSON nationality is one thing, but to lump all Why is there a problem ? soon learn. There is no chance of you : OUR BRANCHES as one ‘people’ has been a major mistake in the past. There are two main reasons: ' being thrown into the fight without being 1. The laws are so general and their en­ briefed on the rules : you will be provided Frustrations within New Zealand society forcement so expensive that the owner with written materials and if there is a IBank extend beyond the dissatisfaction of other of the property is, in the true sense of demand we will have group sessions. L IM IT E D cultures to those individuals who have the words, the Lord of the Land. Conclusion !ANK expressed concern at the narrowness of 2. The market situation being as it is with We need you. I can assure you that if accepted lifestyles. A prime examDle of demand exceeding supply, the Lord of you want an education in living then get this was James K. Baxter, as was pointed the Land is less obliged to be polite involved with TPA. For those of you who out by Keith Langton of the Ohu Advisory and fair than had the market situation are known for talking well here is your Committee. been the reverse. big chance. However, underway at the moment is What does T PA do ? Volunteers ' a movement to provide concerned 1. Advise tenants as to their rights. If you would like to give a hand out New Zealanders with an officially 2. Attempt to conciliate where necessary. with TPA work then ring the Queen St recognized alternative, and this is H one Kaa 3. Try to get back bonds. Advice Bureau 73313 and leave your name. 4. 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....PENAL REFORM FATK to crjme; the culprit is given an opportunity The Univei to^pay off the debt he owes to society, and see it as all w ■ * W■ is able, under superivision, to work out optimist Ic his own salvation. the Univer Apart from this overall consideration gion and fz of the legal trends in the justice system, Mr found it a Howard seemed mainly concerned with to be a bel minor reform in legislation, such as belief, the - allowing liquor within prison walls, which ious Depar in its own way, presented a very down-to- versity leat 0 m earth and humane view of the prison standing o1 situation as it exists today. of God anr ' ♦’ - t - * Mr Simon Jefferson, representing‘In One do< Care’ was also explicit in presenting these academic, basic points. Firstly, prisons do exist; mics whos< ...... —... secondly, inmates are ordinary people and maturity o are therefore amenable to ordinary the insight: influences, he argued, should be increased become a f so that prisons do not become ‘alienating religious b< institutions’. They h< Although this is a valid point, he over­ the sociolo looks the fact that prisons will always add to or a alienate because of the very fact that they veyed eith< exist. The point is a good one. and Eve, oi It is hard to believe, Jefferson says, that theological things such as mail censorship, little home years. It is leave and restricted visiting procedure lead find that n to anything but degradation. Thirdly, the cal theory public must be educated, although the are all con< problem of achieving this needs further the meanir investigation. ment each Perhaps what can be concluded from An exar one short hour is that there is a great need point Prev for wider adoption of attitudes based upon have used \ factual information, rather than on politics the nature and prejudice. it as a mon Crime and punishment, and the subseq­ various Chi uent penal policies are of course open to stressed dil comment from the public, whatever its alternative viewpoint and circumstance. But, as has the church The criminal law is based on the propos­ Credit must therefore be given to both This seems essential, as a study of his­ been shown in the Paremoremo controversy leadership. tion that punishment or the threat of tory has shown that deterrence by punish­ speakers for their ideas of strengthening a those who actually formulate penal policy While tf punishment tends to prevent crime. Orient­ ment be it prison, mayhem, or death - has trend which could develop eventually into will be best helped if there is greater under­ may deny ation’s Forum on Penal Reform attempted not greatly affected the march of crime. a system of penology based outside an standing of realities of prison life - and its ure or forn to test the validity of this statement. The justification for sending people to institutional setting. aftermath - along with more constructive sees social The speakers were Dr. Martyn Finlay, prison, as they are likely to offend again Mr. John Seymour, a Senior Lecturer ideas on a better, yet no less effective, unstructun M.P. Minister of Justice, Mr. Wilkinson, in a major and serious way, is negated - in Law, presented a slightly different Mtm method of penal administration. particular 1 M.P., Mr. John Seymour, Senior Lecturer Mr. Wilkinson argued - by the fairly con­ point of view when he said that prison ediately on in Law; Mr. Howard, of the Howard Penal sistent percentage of recidivism. Dropping could represent an important interlude Anne Wilkes. some form Reform League, and Mr. Simon Jefferson the idea of reform from penal policy in a person’s life. He expressed concern be the chai from the student body. would, however, have a negative effect on about the proposal for a medium security Dr. Finlay, opening the discussion, prison officials. prison at Paremoremo. The justification introduced some of the prevailing theories Mr. Wilkinson seems to dismiss the idea, for this, in the rhetoric of reformation is of punishment to answer his leading people would agree that this is a very that it should not be done on this site, question as to the purpose of imprison­ idealistic concept considering the limita­ he said. However, he did allude to the ment. Theories of retribution, vengeance tions of cost and research. self-defeating nature of prisons - but sees and expiation are not sufficient to justify But I believe this concept must be given a new concept of prison life in semi cust­ ai the penal system. Yet, the idea of prison equal consideration if only because reform­ odial measures. for the purpose of reform requires consid­ ation in an institutional setting is an imposs­ Mr Seymour stressed the need for a eration. ible task. You are dealing with attitudes more positive view of imprisonment, Dr. Finlay, however, seemed to have formed early in a person’s life, then you arguing that excessive use of short-term no great faith in the argument that prison deprive him of his liberty - and expect him imprisonment has the effect of “ cluttering er serves to rehabilitate criminals. He sees to co-operate. It was Durkheim who said: up the system.’* HELP! Mr Seymour hits on a basic principle the trend towards the reduction of penal­ “ When one creates an institution, one is In the in the idea of penal reform, when he says: ties as healthy, and has stated his concern creating an abnormal situation to deal with DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A About for the security of the community, and a normal situation” . “ it is not what we reform, but the way we PROBLEM ? small sew the security of prison personnel. In these circumstances, is there much reform” . But despite this, his argument, Whangap; like that of the first speakers, still centred “ The more secure the institution, the point in trying to assess success or failure Senior Students of the A.U. Law Bay, quit* on reforming institutions instead of aiming less-likelihood there is of any real rehabili­ rates, or trying to answer the question of School will help you decide if you Althoi tation being carried out within it.” Dr. rehabilitation - as Mr. Wilkinson attempts essentially for enlightened control of need advice; they will refer you to been prin prison life. Finlay suggested, as an example, that the to do ? If one takes the view that penal Solicitor who is in attendance on by law, it less dangerous criminals in institutions institutions can never reform, then treat­ A warm reception was given to the Campus. or objects such as Paremoremo could be housed in ment programmes become of little use. banality of Mr Howard of the Howard Now tl minimal security arrangements. Mr. Wilkinson suggested there was room Reform League. He was extremely explicit COME AND SEE US large publ Dr. Finlay’s statements implied that for improvement in the occupational in his view of the lack of justice in New Beach in j you could not reform and punish at the sphere of prison life, pyschological, mental Zealand courts. “ It stinks” , waalhe WHEN: Mondays, Tuesdays, 13th. Peo same time. This is where discussions on comment. and dental services. But the need for mor­ Thursdays. Noon - 2 p.m. attend. P1 improving the penal system run into an Having spent seven days in prison for al programmes still remains. during Uni Term. resident’s inherent conflict If you mix punishment This idea was brought up in discussion contempt of court, Mr Howard believes WHERE: Legal Referral Service a beach fr with beneficial or constructive influences, that courts should stop manufacturing when an ex-inmate of Paremoremo asked: Office, 2nd Floor (near reporters the two will become associated - this is criminals. They must wipe out petty laws “ Should we not look after the personality Judo Room), Student just aboul aversion therapy, it seems, the wrong way such as those set against abusive language and social failures of individuals as well as Union Building. Whangapa round. their mental and physical deficiences V — “ it’s bloody ridiculous” he said. HOW: Best time to come is \ynole of 1 Mr. Wilkinson brought up the theory of Mr Howard is right about the fact that He argued that there will always be social before 1 . 1 5 p.m. If you he said. deterrence as a valid instrument in penal failures, and thus recidivism will continue courts must become more aware that have hitches with timing A few 1 policy. He believes, however, that the so long as penal programmes fail to cope although institutional treatment is some­ phone 30-789 during reported 1 effect of deterrence is far from clear. Even with them. times inevitable, it should be a last resort. above hours Council sf if one concedes that the deterrent effect Both M.P.s applauded the trend to This is necessary to lessen the cost of keep­ OR leave a note with the Arkles Ba of imprisonment cannot be measured, one narrow down indeterminate sentences, ing men in prison and to avoid inherent A.U. Students Association posed plai still cannot say that it doesn’t exist. and stressed the importance of further difficulties in rehabilitation. This, especially receptionist before noon pipeline r< Perhaps Mr. Wilkinson could have development of probation and periodic with a first offender, has the additional on the day you want to a public r< suggested that a greater challenge still lies detention in strengthening the relation­ motive of minimising contact with the come. Meanw in the field of prevention, in formulating ship between inmates and the community. criminal ‘sub-culture’. Thus, the concept of Council c\ prediction techniques, in marking the pot­ Dr. Finlay believes there is a risk in this P.D. probation, and fines is an attempt to B the Heralc ential offender and steering him on a new but it forges a bond that is far more rehab- show that the law is moving away from the con trover: course. iliative than any previous penal reform. simple “ deterrence and retribution” approach LIVING WITH YO UR G O D FATHER EUGENE O ’SULLIVAN n opportunity The University is like the chessboard; some the group may appoint someone, or One must readily acknowledge that the practical consideration. Although there is > society, and see it as all black with a few white spots, an various people will attempt leadership. Christian sacraments and rites fulfil a no Department of Religious Studies in work out optimist looks at it differently. Some see But something of the sort usually occurs. similar function within the Christian Auckland, it is in fact possible to study the University as a constant threat to reli­ The sociologist helps you to understand community which is the Church, as do the many of the major questions of religion isideration gion and faith. For myself I have always that it is nonsense to be afraid of struct­ rites of passage of various societies describ­ within various Departments of the Uni­ ;e system, Mr found it a highly stimulating place in which ures or to regard the development of com­ ed by anthropologists; and one can learn versity at present Besides obvious units rned with to be a believer. Rather than destroying plex structure as necessarily a sign of the a great deal about the meaning ofJ3aptism, like Biblical History and Literature there ich as belief, the specialised studies of the var­ loss of the original vision. Confirmation, marriage or the Christian are papers offered on the Philosophy of walls, which ious Departments and faculties of the Uni­ At the same time sociology can make rites for the dead by studying what anthro­ Religion, and on the Sociology of Religion; ry down-to- versity lead to greater insights and under­ you soberly aware that the most idealistic pologists say of these as rites of passage. anthropology offers papers on myth, on prison standing of the content of our knowledge group can quickly fall victim to Parkinson’s Rites or rituals are a sort of language ritual, on ethos and world view; associated of God and the Church. law, and lose it’s strength in bureaucracy common to a group by which the group with the Asian Studies department there renting ‘In One doesn’t have to be sceptic to be an and “ bricks and mortar” . In fact, histori­ expresses its meaning - system or the are papers on Buddhism, Hinduism and snting these academic. In every field there are acade­ cally, we notice how each generation tends status of particular people within the Shinto; the English department studies the lo exist; mics whose belief-system has reached to build its model of the church on some group. Medieval mystics; the History department y people and maturity only because they have allowed current model of society, and instead of The Christian community is involved offers papers on some principal formation inary the insights of their own discipline to being a critic of the weaknesses of society in the constant effort to grow in the periods in Church history; the Spanish be increased become a frame-work for examining their the church is always a danger of being understanding of the central event in its department studies the 17th century Span­ ; ‘alienating religious beliefs again. trapped into being one of the props of the meaning-system which is the death and ish mystics. They have to ask how the insights of establishment The establishment then de­ resurrection of Christ, and then of seeing Up to a few years ago the French nt, he over- the sociologist or scientist or philosopher fines the task of the church as that produc­ the practical implications that this has department studied the writings of the I always add to or are critical of the insights con­ ing conformity. Some of the South for life. This is what the Christian sacra­ priest-scientist Teillard de Chardin. Per­ ict that they veyed either in the “ myths” of Adam American Bishops or James K. Baxter are ments are about haps all that is required is that the com­ and Eve, or the history of Jesus, or the healthy reminders to us of where the church By the way, this also implies that there plex system of pre-requisites be adjusted son says, that theological ideas of the intervening 2000 should stand in relationship to society. should be no qualms in acknowledging in order to allow students to take advant­ , little home years. It is far from wishful thinking to Another enlightening concept is the that there is no point in Christian rites age of what is already a very impressive ocedure lead find that myth and metaphysics, theologi­ anthropological idea of culture, and its of passage for people who are not really spectrum of papers dealing in one way or Thirdly, the cal theory and anthropological discoveries relationship to ritual. The non-anthropol­ interested in Christianity. One has to opt another with the notion of religion. It ough the are all concerned with expressing views of ogist probably thinks of culture in terms into Christianity freely and stay in freely. would seem that in this regard student ds further the meaning of human life which comple­ of violin lessons and acquiring a taste for A church wedding for someone who is interest could get the machinery operating ment each other. the theatre, or blue-cheese. The anthropol­ concerned only to do the socially respect­ which would enable what is in effect uded from An example may help to illustrate the ogist uses the term to sum up the way of able thing is not a Christian rite, it is part quite a satisfactory programme of religious a great need point. Previous generations of Christians living and world-view of a whole group of of the ritual and rites of passage of a parti­ studies to be made available. Rather than is based upon have used various models to understand people. cular western sub-culture which has about lobbying for an unobtainable Department an on politics the nature of the church - some have seen Human groups and societies commonly the same relationship to Christianity as of Religious Studies or of Comparative it as a monarchy, some as a democracy; have rites of entry, or various rites of has voodoo in Haiti. Religion in Auckland, as there is in all the other New Zealand universities, it might d the subseq- various Christian denominations have passage as one assumes special roles within Perhaps that is the point I want to make be more satisfactory to arrange that these rse open to stressed different aspects, each leading to the group. There may be rites by which - anthropology can make you aware of how papers could be made available within a latever its alternative views on the kind of structure the community regularly reflects on the easily religion can slip into syncretism - a single degree. But, as has the church should have and what sort of meaning of its world view. Perhaps Wait­ mixture of bits of everything. A knowledge 10 controversy leadership. angi Day is becoming such a ritual for of anthropology can help to identify the No extra lecturers would be needed, no extra expense would be incurred by penal policy While the Quaker and the Pentecostal New Zealand, as July 4th is for Americans essential again. greater under- may deny that their group has any struct­ or Bastille Day is to the French. These are It might seem that my two examples the university, but nevertheless we could life- and its ure or form of leadership the sociologist points at which a Nation’s “ myths” are have been rather “ churchy” , but one begin to fill a major gap in our areas of instructive sees social patterns even in such apparently celebrated. The myth (which in each case could readily give others on the significance study, and do it in an interdisciplinary sffective, unstructured groups. They have their own sums up what is basically an historical of prayer and meditation or on our ways style which has itself got not a few advant­ an. particular type of structure. Almost imm­ event) epitomises what it is to be French of thinking about God. Neither is it only ages. ediately on the formation of any group or American. It expresses, for example, the social sciences that can help clarify We end where we began. A university some form of leadership emerges, it may how the Revolution is at the hearts of the one’s ideas of religion. is not at all a bad place in which to think about the meaning of religion. It’s being be the charismatic person who stands put, or self-identity of Frenchmen. Perhaps this brings me to an important done very well already all over the place.

These arguments, although partly true, are misleading, casting conservationists in a Thoreauean ‘back to nature’ mould. an approach to The same attitudes that have enabled society, and particularly technology, to progress at such an amazing rate in some areas, have also allowed casual dismissal of many of our most pressing problems. The problem is one of fragmentating or environmental matters compartmentalization of concerned; the failure to recognize all the aspects of any In the summer of 1973, I was living at Stanmore Bay, 30 miles north of Auckland. H AVE A This is instanced in the South Auckland undertaking. To be sure, the ability to About January 10th local residents became aware of the imminent construction of a power-station site argument. The site is dissect our problems has proved enor­ small sewage treatment plant, which was to serve a new hotel and a block of shops in changed from place to place. In each case, mously successful in Western Society, but Whangaparaoa township. Treated effluent from the plant was to be piped into Stanmore local residents object to the particular it also facilit dtes the dismissal of the A.U. Law Bay, quite close to the shore. siting, with good cause, yet an overall “ unimportant” aspects. scide if you Although notices of proposals had it down the other side, it would be only solution is not forthcoming. We place great importance on the ease efer you to a been printed in the newspapers, as required half the distance.” More disturbing is the hypocrisy of and convenience of private transport and idance on by law, it seems that no-one had noticed all proportion” and claimed that “ the ignoring certain aspects of conservation less importance on traffic congestion, use or objected. effluent from the plant would be purer while proclaiming loudly on others and of resources, contribution to environ­ Now they were extremely angry. A than seawater” . the paradox of conservation stickers on mental degradation and a high death rate large public meeting was held on the The Council, he said, had no intention cars. And while residents on newly in private transport users. We aspire to Beach in glorious sunshine on January of abandoning the plant. “ We know exactly “ developed” subdivisions complain about owning a section with good amenities and esdays, 13th. People drove from distances to what our obligations are and we intend to runoff and drainage problems, the devel­ outlook and ignore the destruction of loon - 2 p.m. attend. Parking was at a premium. The carry them out” . oping companies which work on supply undisturbed land, increased runoff, erm. resident’s spokesman, Mr W.A. Subritsky, The situation, although more complex, and demand are never short of customers. possible erosion, changed local climate al Service a beach frontage owner and lawyer told was simplified by both sides, which is As the mayor of East Coast Bays patterns and social impact on surrounding ?loor (near reporters that people were concerned not common when environmental problems expressed it: “ You can’t have your cake areas. , Student just about Stanmore Bay, but about all the occur. It is fairly clear that neither side and eat it too.” Residents buying onto Thus Mr Subritsky of Stanmore Bay can ng. Whanj*aparaoa beaches. “ They realise the was totally factual. new estates and ignoring ecological side- object to fouling of his beach frontage and come is vynole of the North Shore is in danger” , History relates that the plant was effects should apparently expect a few seriously suggest the potential fouling of p.m. If you he said. called off, a comprehensive sewerage teething problems. someone elses. Thus also the County with timing A few days later Mr Subritsky was system for the Whangaparaoa peninsula The notion of ‘a little give and take’ is Council chairman can ignore a potential 9 during reported again suggesting that the County was planned and after an environmental eagerly employed by developers like environmental abuse by considering only Council should run the pipeline into impact report was prepared, the General Electric Co. (GEC) NZ Ltd’s his ‘obligations’ to the residents or the ote with the Arkles Bay, which was closer to the pro­ Commission for the Environment finally argument in an interesting advertisement developers. ts Association posed plant site. Noting that the proposed recommended that the system was un­ which boils down to: (1) If radical con­ The whole gamut of mis-statement, before noon pipeline route to Stanmore Bay ran through desirable at that time (mid 1974). servationists had their way, there would justification, countercharge and propaganda ou want to a public reserve, he suggested: “ if they took be no progress. Therefore everyone should makes resolution to environmental prob­ Meanwhile the Waitemata County One of the more striking, and unfort­ do things our way, and progress! The lems rare. There is no united front on Council chairman, Mr A.R. Hughes told* unate aspects of approaches to the public is also often warned that radical either side, but the balance of power is the Herald that the sewerage plant environment is one of “ I don’t care what conservationists overstate their case and usually on the side of environmental controversy had been “ whipped up out of you do as long as it isn’t here” mentality. should be ignored. misuse.______Robin Watts j Page 1 2

dailies till he reaches rock-bottom clutch­ the next song would be “ Boom-ah-boom-ah an image that is meant to suit a certain ing to his bosom The Sun. This last is a -boom-ah-boom-ah-boom.” At least, that audience. You only need to listen to lusty young tabloid run by Australian is the gist of what he said, the exact word­ local radio in another city to know how Rupert Murdoch on the policy that no­ ing has somehow escaped me. stereotyped is our image of what radio body ever went broke by underestimating I don’t dispute other people’s right to should sound like throughout New Zea­ the taste of the general public - on either like this stuff. But I do question the land and overseas. side of the world. N ZBC’s policy of broadcasting it on the Or nearer home: it’s uncanny how But the New Zealander takes his cereal National Programme alongside what is naturally Radio Bosom has fitted its DJ and toast withoutthe quality of The Times patter and news style into the same mould presumably thfc public corporation’s most L ast w or the popularity of The Sun. His table is as other stations which broadcast the same complete and authoritative news service. companic spread with the uniform cautiousness of I am not talking here of the NP’s jazz kind of music. Cyclone j the Herald. Or with the Cautious uniform­ The Auckland breakfast menu sounds sessions, daily concerts and the like, but of things, ity of the Otago Daily Times. If you dis­ about its service music. This ‘light’ music varied. But perhaps the hosts could try a essential 1 like the local morning paper, shift to selects mainly an older audience (average few more daring combinations of the hard S H E L T E another city at least a hundred miles off. listener age 49). If you can’t stand the rock, the medium rare, the sweet and the don’t like Then you may be in another daily’s terri­ music, you will take both your music and solemn. . _ A\\an best to gr tory, Or wait till evening brings the Star. news from elsewhere. A ‘National Pro- and hide cbo?co v®cxs Don’t waste your eyesight on the daily gramme| should be aimed more widely * Unfortun paper. Instead feed your hungry ears on than such a narrow sector. so the ne the sounds of Auckland. We boast 5% But two cheers for the opening of the ion yours radio stations - as many as London. And YC network breakfast session from April against a the styles of these stations sort New Zea­ 1st, with a programme of news and a west, you landers out almost as efficiently as the wider definition of good music. At last GOODIES ☆ no protec national dailies stratify Britain. there may be something I really like list­ Auckland Recipe for a radio station. Take many ening to. However the NP’s service music then plan records, a stack of commercials, a few should also be ‘good’, and the decision The Auckland Regional Authority has along the newsmen, and an announcer. Mix togeth­ to open the YCs presumably means that agreed to give university students half­ JJ pretty ha er in the smallest space available. A n d ..... Y A music will continue on its flabby way. fares on buses. A spokesman for the A.R. bumble b Radio is sound. Music is varied and At the other end of the scale, I see no A. told Craccum that the discount will be crop of b continuous sound, and music is the staple available from April 2nd. good reason why the rock music stations don’t forj fare of radio. A station sets its image and A t present only full-tim e Technical - average listener age about twenty - should provide si draws its audience by the kind of music it Institute students are eligible for the 50% give such an unashamedly sketchy news in the grc broadcasts. Music is what half Auckland’s reduction. The new scheme w ill cover all service. ‘If you want more news, tune else­ build a fe stations are all about - Radio Hauraki good where’ is no answer. The unstructured full-tim e and unpaid tertiary students. O gas, 1ZM all-hit music radio, and 1YC for programming of Hauraki and 1 ZM is des­ The Student Travel Manager, Ms Sharyn the part-time elite. igned to hold the listener round the clock. Corban, said she was pleased that the COMPAN For the other three stations music is News provides such time-slots as the for­ A.R.A. had paved the way in recognising For va the special needs o f students who are with­ extra wel And how would you prefer your break­ largely what happens when there are no mat has, so that you do not tune to an­ out a permanent income. certain ol fast session, sir? Our menu offers you five interviews, no news, no commercials, no other station for news and then come To qualify for the concession students repellant ch o ice s : talkbacks. The breakfast session parades a back to your rock diet. must be full-tim e and possess a current Radishes Hauraki rock (well-done) station’s service music. Try flicking down Take music as the main ingredient, International Student I.D. card. carrots is NZBC rock (hard) the kilohertz sometime from 1590’s middle then mix in an announcer/DJ and a few Ms Corban said that the New Zealand you’ve so pop and patter, garnished with spider -of-the-road stuff, through grades of rock news bulletins. Experiment sometime by at 1480 and 1250, through the pitter- moving up the dial through the styles University Students’ Association had plant rad (o v e rd o n e ) repeatedly urged New Zealand Railways where to sweet music and sour news patter sound of total 1 ZB, to National from 1 Y A ’s well-bred ananymity, to the fo r sim ilar arrangements - with no success. up - this i rock (with roll, medium soft) Programme kitsch on 1YA. mid-New Zealand chattiness of 1 ZB, to A 50% discount scheme w ith N. A.C. weeks. G Your Englishman eats breakfast with A good word, ‘kitsch’. Invented by the Hauraki’s ersatz intimacy. Even doses of has been available to students for a number Some car his eyes fixated on a newspaper. If he Germans to refer to anything which is National Programme music may be pre­ o f years. wears a black su«: and works in the city, saccharine, gutless and grating - like the ferable to the sick slick taste of the 1 ZM International Student I.D. Cards are then he will r« id The Times, or even better Osmonds, Helen Steiner Rice, and Manto- DJ who began his news bulletin: “ Now available through the Student Travel the Financial Times. And as he slides down vani’s variations on a theme from The for something completely different - Bureau on Campus. Those students who the social spiral to boots, overalls and No Sound of Music. Kitsch was a winner on more than thirty people have been killed already possess I.D. Cards should contact Notting Hill Gate, he w ill pass the Tele­ the YAs at 8.50 am the other day. It was in an air crash ...” Student Travel to have their cards over­ graph, the Express and other national only ten minutes from the finish line, when News, music, announcing, advertise­ Robert Taylor solemnly announced that ments blend to build a station’s image, stamped for the A.R.A. bus concession.

during the “ New Year” . It is argued by the amendments proponents that this does away with the common situation of a person being elected to a position in September and deciding not to return to University - thus making it necessary for someone to hold office to only part of a term. However, this year only one executive member has resigned and ausa then not until March. There are also proposed amendment to streamline the Executive and its functions. They particularly relate to a new position of Information Officer, a move which was mooted as long ago as two years by Bob Lack. Under the proposals the present port­ folio’s of student liaison officer, public liaison officer and House Committee Chairman will be replaced by the new Information Officer. While replacing 3 positions with one general may be an ambitious move to be effective there is considerable merit in the proposals. Student and Public Liaison are portfolios which have gradually been taken up by the duties of the President and the Vice Presidents in particular. It is these Executive members who issue the bulk of Press statements and look after student hassles. The House Committee is fast becoming an empty shell. Duties such as enquiries, lost and found, distribution of publications and dry cleaning which it previously had have to a a s : meeting large extent been upsurped by Contact, the Custodians and other bodies. This is not to say these portfolio holders have an easy year, rather it is that much of their workload has resulted because they are members of the executive. This point is taken up by President Clare Ward who strongly opposes the proposed change. They will she states place an unfair burden on other Executive members with the result that the Executive It is time again for one of the great Constitutional necessities of the Assoc­ will not bQ able to cope with the workload it presently has and the present incumbents ir iation Year - the Autumn General Meeting. If it follows its normal tradition these three positions have all proved to be busy and useful. it will probably be a rather boring exercise in futility. However it is import­ It may be necessary to reassess the roles of these portfolios but a drop in the number ant. It is the one opportunity of the year for Association Members (i.e. all of Executive members strongly decreases the involvement with the Student body by the Executive. 10,000 of us) to question and assess the actions and decisions of the CULTURAL AFFAIRS Executive and its standing committees. There is a continuous murmuring The other major proposal is to institute a Cultural Affairs Officer and a Cultural about Cafe Prices, allocation of money, Association flats etc. et al. This is Council. This would partly replace the position of Capping Controller which if the the opportunity to question and air dissatisfaction. It will be interesting too, proposals are accepted will be axed. There is merit in the proposals. Capping, on the to see how President Clare Ward handles her first full A.G.M. One of the official level anyway is becoming more of a Festival than a “ Naughties Week” . There is main criticisms levelled at Clare that her capabilities are not suited when she also an abundance of Cultural Clubs springing up such as Creative Living which need is the single figure under fire. stronger association support and encouragement. ■ There is of course doubt over whether this A.G.M. will actually not lapse. At a BUILDING LEVY '• ■ ■ •- /sr'--'; Special General Meeting last year those intrepid residents of Symonds St - the Engineers The other Constitutional amendment of note is a move to make all students be ■ liable for a Building Levy. At present a student shall only pay the levy for five years. got so incensed by the raising of fees by 58 persons at the Winter General Meeting that M i they successfully cut the rise by half and quadrupled the quorum to 200. It is a rare event This has always seemed a reasonable provision. After 5 years of paying the levy a when A.G.M’s have attendance of over 100 people so this one may as many others have student has’well paid his contribution to the buildings. Also most 6th year and beyond in the past lapse for want of a quorum. This is perhaps ironical because it means the students are Post Graduates who seldom use the Association facilities as much as under­ running of the Association for the time being reverts back to an even smaller group of graduates. students - the 13 Executive members without any effective checks by the Student body. POLICY PROPOSALS ; ■ ,. Constitutional Changes There are two of these on the Agenda. The first relates to the present Foreign The major discussion on Wednesday night will centre around a series of Constitutional Language requirement in Science degrees. The second moved by Robin Watts calls for Amendments carried forward from 1974. These were supposed to be referred to an the establishment of an Environmental Officer. Watts sees the position as enabling the Executive Sub-Committee but this has not been done. officer to report to the Executive on University Environmental matters, to lias with The first set of amendments relate to a change in the Association Year. At present the Environmental Campus groups, to encourage and educate the masses on Association year runs from the Winter General Meeting in August/September to the Environmental matters by way of forums and information releases and to get as a focal ■ t% following Winter General Meeting. The new proposal is to make the Association Year the point for submissions and demonstrations on environmental matters. same as an ordinary “ year” i.e. from January 1st to December 31st. The reasoning So if enough of us are concerned enough about the number of important issues on behind it is to simplify the situation and to enable officers to be responsible to the same the Agenda and turn up it could be a unusually constructive meeting - so be there. group of students. Under the amendments it is proposed that officers hold their office Rob Greenfield t a certain listen to i know how vhat radio t New Zea- NOW LISTEN ’ERE. CARROT... nny how itted its DJ e same mould Last week I said I’d be looking at bit), and what’s more, it keeps the dcast the same companion planting, but since then unwanted bugs away. Cyclone Alison has made a hell of a mess <» i nenu sounds TALKING TO THE PLANTS of things, and reminded me of another ; could try a This is a very fashionable subject, and essential for good gardening..... ns of the hard people from Lyall WAtson to Reg SHELTER: As plants feel the cold, and weet and the Chibnall have supported the cause. It don't like being Knocked over, it would be sounds a bit like black magic at first, but best to grow things which are able to run then virtually everything now accepted and hide when the going gets rough. was once revolutionary in some way. It Unfortunately there ain’t no such plant, means that plants have some sort of so the next best way is to provide protect­ “ consciousness” , and should be treated ion yourself. If your garden is say, up as individuals. But then is that really against a hedge or fence to the south and anything new? People who have made west, you’r half way there. But if there is a lifetime habit of association with no protection to the east (which is where plants may appear to be a little mad to Auckland’s gale force winds come from) outsiders, but they do care for their then plant a double row of broad beans uthority has ■ arF greenery in the same way that new mothers lents half- along the eastern boundary. They are care for their offspring, i.e. although not for the A.R. pretty hardy, and if there are enough totally dependent, there is a mutual :ount will be bumble bees handy you should get a good awareness that an understanding of the crop of beans in early early spring. But needs of both will benefit both. So when Technical don’t forget the lime. Another way to ambling through the productive rows, for the 50% provide shelter is to leave the corn plants try to imagine yourself as a plant. You vill cover all in the ground after harvesting, or to don’t really like having your leaves students. build a fence. knocked off by burly beer drinkers, or the carrot seed with a few mm of sand these two plants share soil micorrhiza, \ e r , Ms Sharyn your best sprouts chewed up by hairy ensuring that the seed has a good chance- but I reckon they just like to keep each that the COMPANION PLANTING caterpillars. Some avid greene’s even tell of getting up, and also making the final other wami at night You end up with recognising For various reasons, some plants do me they can see a definite response in their product easier to pull. Ah yes....I started better beans AND potatoes. who are with extra well when in close association with plants each time they strike up a conver­ off talking radishes....When these are ready Corn and peas: This is one for next certain others, as well as being bug- sation. Well, why not? to eat, the carrot plants will be 4-5cm spring. 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Each phase has its own particular problems, which require special types of assistance. Some film-makers would appreciate help in all three areas, others in only one. The Institute could give assistance and advice A Film Institute for in the following ways : During pre-production, it could help with script advice and development funding; contacting talent through Actors’ Equity, New Zealand? ROGER HORROCKS National and local theatre groups etc.; liason for equipment hire; setting up co­ Film, unlike the other arts, has been left almost entirely in the hands of commercial Assisting local productions with funding: production agreements with television or Lesbiar interests. In last week’s ‘Craccum’ I discussed the way in which this has limited the range Assistance would be available to film­ with the Film Institute itself; and finding the sense 1 of films available to New Zealanders, and spoke of the need for city or government spon­ makers from all sections of the film art- studies and locations. describe, t sorship of theatres, along the same lines as sponsorship of libraries, art galleries, and industry, including independent art and/or During production, it could help with our experi orchestras. “ personal” film projects, school and crew liason (contacting the personnel political si An Auckland film maker, Geoff Stevens, ies and University circuits. These Theatres University film projects, short subjects or available in N.Z. both professional and label whic has already researched this idea in detail, could be self-supporting. features, - films made by individuals, groups amateur); production management me­ as one of the many possible activities of a The Institute would co-ordinate the or companies. Features would range from thods; insurance and legal advice; obtain­ It’s the fe; New Zealand film instituted. Geoff, who setting up of 'Community Access’ Video the lower budget 16mm type to the large ing special equipment such as camera stepped oi helped set up Auckland’s film co-operative, centres. These centres would supply hard­ scale more commercial 35 mm ventures. cranes, dollies, or underwater equipment; want we v Alternative Cinema, bases his ideas on ware and expertise to community groups Financial assistance could be given through and liason with public facilities such as the bite. personal experience. The idea of a film wanting to make Video tapes and films either of two separate funds: National Film Unit laboratories. (Some institute has gained strong support within for educating and informing local people (a) Applications of up to $10.000 would N.F.U. resources such as labs, sound the film society movement, and publicity and organisations. The Australian 'Access’ come under a creative film fund facilities or editing rooms could be made Condit by the recent report of the Film Industry and the Canadian ‘Challenge for Change’ similar to that at present administ­ available at reduced rates as a form of Working Party of the Queen Elizabeth II systems should be studied for working rated by the QE II Arts Council. assistance to suitable productions.) Women ar Arts Council. models. Financial assistance would be in the During post-production, it could pro­ they are g The organisation, which Geoff envisag­ The Institute would publish a N.Z. form of non-returnable grants. vide editing equipment (via film co-ops or just differ es is similar to the Film Institute’s operat­ screen magazine, or support some other Educational grants, study trips, the N.F.U.); distribution advice; useful into accep ing in other countries. It would operate group prepared to do so. This magazine Research funding, co-op and group contacts in N.Z. and overseas; exhibition taught tha theatres, promote film education and assist could be financially independent. equipment would also be covered by assistance through the National Film penis envy film makers with money and information. this fund. Theatres, and joint arrangements with Education ality inade Geoff also suggests that a “ film bus” , (b) For applications over $10.000 finan­ commercial distributors, the Federation expects cc equipped with projectors and video equip­ cial assistance could be given either of Film Societies and the university cir­ ssion of be ment - could travel to schools and small as straight non-returnable grants or cuit; promotion advic?;and legal advice on oppressior towns holding film days, introducing The Institute would liase with the Educ­ in the form of repayable loans, fin­ copyright and distribution contracts. coming ou people to equipment, and so on. Geoff’s ation Department on film appreciation in ancial guarantees, or under-writing The information and expertise needed tinue to hi proposals seem to me so timely that I’m primary and secondary schools, supplying deals. The fund could also invest in most of these areas are presently avail­ ing our ow going to devote this week’s film page to material and information. It would co­ money in a film as a producer and able in N.Z., but they are spread between is the indie them. ordinate sending film-makers to schools take a percentage of that film’s box- many different individuals and groups. their term; for demonstrations, screenings and talks. office takings. This could generate The Institute would facilitate access to New Zealand film institute honesty w It could possibly supply Super-8 and/or finance to assist less commercial this information. Most film producers, We break i productions. Compare the Austral­ Video equipment to certain schools as individuals or groups, working on either nise our o| ian Film Development Corporation’s special assistance programmes. It could simple or ambitious projects, would bene­ nalise it 1 investment in the Barry McKenzie provide information and material, and fit from this resource centre. sive but is Ideally an organization separate from film. Assistance from this fund would generally assist liaisons between the univers­ sexist com the Q.E. II Arts Council should be formed, be granted according to different Structure ity Art and English film courses and the rest Anyc with a fully professional staff administer­ criteria from those of the creative working N.Z. film scene. will be obi ing a budget of between one-half and one It would sponsor lecture tours by local film fund. million dollars. What follows is an outline and overseas film people, arranging tour Possibly within this larger fund a sep­ Because a number of the services provid­ of its main areas of involvement. promotion and management The Curricu­ We war arate amount could be budgeted as a ed would consist mainly of the processing lum Development Unit of the Department between w Community “ New Features” fund, from which young and supplying of information, a small of Education has expressed keen interest strength at directors and producers could receive staff would be sufficient to get the Institute in these ideas, and considers that such want worn assistance for their first feature film. established. We estimate that the above services would be of great assistance to men on all They would be lent a portion of their film’s program could be initiated by a staff con­ The Institute would organize an annual the Unit. individuals N.Z. Film Festival, in conjunction with total budget (say, 70%) to be repaid to the sisting of a director, assistant director ideology. S the existing Auckland, Wellington and Existing organizations Institute after all other parties with finan­ (project officer), and two secretarial assist­ just remov Christchurch festival groups. cial commitments in the film (including the ants. It would also employ part-time advis­ minds and ers and consultants (e.g. legal and financial), It would eventually own theatres in grant recipients) have had their investment women-sla (say) Wellington and Auckland, for use by returned. The aim of this separate alloca­ and would make contracts with lecturers another er The Institute would arrange with the tion would not be primarily to get the Film Societies, Cine and Film Clubs, Film­ for tours and workshops where necessary. every won National Film Unit the appointment of a money returned but to give promising makers Co-operatives, special educational The organisation could be set up under a other won liaison officer within the N.F.U. who would people the opportunity to produce their groups (such as audio-visual seminars) and board, or council consisting of representa­ ards. For i assist small independent film groups in first feature. similar organizations. This would become tives from the art-industry. Ideally the consciousr their dealings with the Unit. Priorities of assistance would have to the local film centre, and could include a Film Institute’s offices would be housed We war The Institute would help to keep the in one of the National Film Theatres. coffee bar, reading room, etc. The Institute be examined regularly, and project applica­ society tha commercial theatre distributors and the Geoff Steven would also arrange ‘seasons’ of notable tions would be judged with this in mind. basis of se; two T V channels aware of the importance films which - could also tour to smaller The Institute would be able to create an (Next week’s film page will be entitled: of good film in general, and in particular over-all perspective for N.Z.’s film ‘Are You Getting The Film You Pay For? centres by arrangement with Film Societ- good New Zealand film. It would award a development - a Consumer’s Guide to our Cinemas’. New Zealand film prize for both cinema and Television. Other forms of assistance The Institute would discuss with the Federation of Film Societies the possibil­ A scene from Marcel Orphuls ‘A Sense ity of a joint working relationship. The Making a film can be divided into three of Loss’, a film about conflict in Ireland Federation has expressed extreme interest distinct phases : pre-production (prepara­ today, to be screened by the Auckland in the Film Institute proposal and has said tion), production (the actual filming), and Film Society (323 Queen Street) on April it would support the idea in full. post-production (editing and distribution). 2nd and 3rd. (q Onal and label which holds every woman in line” . and work at what comes, fixing at no one lent me- level. It is part of our oppression that we ;e; obtain- It’s the fear word that says a woman has do not know how much we do not know. amera stepped outside her sex role; when that’s We cannot say what freedom will be like .. quipment; want we want to do, the label loses its we do not have a programme. A new soc­ such as the bite. iety of aware people is very much a vision >. (Some still. But we can say certain things. We do ound not condone any manifestation of the i be made Conditioning as a woman begins early. ideals of monogamy or the nuclear family orm of within our own relationships. We believe •ns.) Women are deluded into thinking that that leadership is destructive, power is ould pro- they are getting as good a deal as a man, sexist, and as we aim for a leaderless soc­ n co-ops or just different Lesbians are not conned iety so we work in a leaderless group. And ;; useful into accepting their situation but are we attack the power basis of sex; m in jxhibition taught that lesbianism is a product of existing institutions. We work through I Film penis envy, arrested development, person­ consciousness raising to free our own ts with ality inadequacies, hormones. Society heads. We work through zap actions and jderation expects concealment of us. To the oppre­ demonstrations to raise the consciousnesis rsity cir- ssion of being a woman is added the of others, always bearing in mind that il advice on oppression of concealment This is why ê m confrontations may open people’s eyes, tracts, coming out is important While we con­ f t it may also alienate them. We do not ise needed tinue to hide from society we are accept­ Lesbianism : a valid choice? groove on militancy but adapt tactics to ntly avail- ing our own oppression. To become visible other irrespective of gender. But we recog­ only receive the automatic oppression of situations. But we do not shirk confronta­ d between is the indication that we no longer accept nise that at the time and in this place being female in a patriarchal society. tions, knowing that our silence oppresses groups, their terms. We widen the range of our women are just more likely to be able to There are professions traditionally allotted our silent sisters. Our existence is an argu­ ccess to honesty with each other and all we meet form relationships with other women than, to gay men, but there’s not even a patern­ ment in itself. Not only poofter bashers iducers, We break down our isolation. We recog­ but a whole society oppresses us, so direct­ on either nise our oppression and refuse to inter­ ness is the best tactic. ould bene­ nalise it To say that Gay is Good is divi­ sive but is necessary in reaction to our We want more than equality. We want sexist conditioning. We will not let society Revolution. Male power, embodied in the rest Anyone who wishes to disapprove male institutions of our present culture, will be obliged to do this to our faces. a lesbian is aggression. To ask for equality is only to with men, if our criterion is warmth and alistic hand to women. Gay men have get into that - into ruthlessness and non­ fices provid- We want to overcome the division honesty. We know our relationships are their heroes - Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde - caring, so forget about that concept of processing between women - to touch, relate, to give natural. “ The only sexual perversion is a while ours are suppressed - who knows power that talks about collective feminist a small strength and validity to each other. We relationship based on exploitation and that Florence Nightingale and Joan of consciousness, about development as : the Institute want women to be able to relate to wo­ dishonesty” . Arc related to women? Flomosexual men people in strength and love. “ Lying in he above men on all levels. We want to relate as have always had the option of compromis­ the arms of the individual solution.” a staff con- individuals, not as elements in a correct We understand that our oppression ing, of receiving approval by being worth­ we won’t get anywhere. So we want to director ideology.Sleeping with another woman stems from a sexist society. We recognise while citizens. Women aren’t supposed to establish our own alternative feminist Jtarial assist- just removes one more barrier in our our oppression as women. We understand act for themselves, they are the power culture. We want a distinct feminist t-time advis- minds and enables us to learn to love our the specific threat that our living without behind the man. So a lesbian, logically, community where we can learn to be/act nd financial), women-slaves in another woman. It is men poses to the institutions of mono­ has no place at all in the patriarchal soc­ ourselves as people. We are not going to i lecturers . another eradification of oppression. But gamy and the nuclear family, institutions iety. At the same time this makes us freer be seen through the eye of male culture. ; necessary, every woman who likes and works with which are the basis and the training schools to act against it And there’s no point in conquering male jp under a other women is “ gay” by society’s stand­ of the patriarchy. This is why we organise culture when we can create our own. representa- ards. For us, gay consciousness is feminist as gay women apart from our gay brothers. We see all oppression - capitalist/ N.B. Everything is a paradox. ally the consciousness. worker, white/black, imperialist/third oe housed We want a genderless society, that is a Gay men, though oppressed, do still world as sexist, that is as based on male Authorised by Women’s Liberation and eatres. society that doesn’t differentiate on the receive the automatic benefits of being power. We identify with the struggles of Gay Liberation. basis of sex, where people relate to each male in a patriarchal society. Lesbians can all oppressed groups, not as different entitled: ness, the man who acts over the poet who Blood filling your eyes and the children iu Pay For? abstracts. screaming ? inemas’. “ One of my failings perhaps has been In that rush of bright green foliage a fear of doing things consciously.” ^ That flood of grey earth pouring through Islands Spring 1974 P321 the windscreen But Stead is still only striving towards Didn’t we life the commonplace of a ls ‘A Sense writing a poem that is not self regarding. . landscape in Ireland The problem is too often stated explicitly Whose beauty never for a second faded uckland or implicitly. Whose birds never for a second lost their st) on April heads.” Self- QUESADA "N ot to need by Not to believe I’m needed The intellectual exploration is held in C.K. STEAD Not to look into mirrors check by the nearness of real physical r Pub. by Not to look into eyes death and loss, “ All my pretty ones” . The the Shed But into trees language is really superb, genuinely mus­ Conscious? Into the sky beyond them ical. And we are reminded once again that Firstly I must confess to considerable people” vis a vis nis poetry in New Argot Into the heart of the park” only man abstracts himself from life, difficulties in writing this review. Quesada ibid.) regards from a distance his involvement in is an admirable volume of poetry. It con­ Stead is always a very formal poet even Fifteen Letters from the Zebia Motel living and dying. The landscape and its tains little that is mediocre, much that is at his most personal, direct, lyrical. could well be taken from Baysting’s The birds do not have to try to be self suffic­ impressive and much that is truly effective. “ ...... Do good poets Young New Zealand Poets. ient, but man and particularly a poet It seems an impertinence then to isolate Make bad professors?... The sonnets, like Baxter’s Jerusalem se­ cannot avoid it It is possible to write of what I consider its one flaw. begs the question. But Steau u ^ 0 d quence, deliberately keep the formal direct, personal experience with an inten­ My one reservation is the extreme self- professor, a good critic and a good poet. structure to the background so that the sity that embarrasses, yet comment de- consciousness of Stead’s art, a well worn The problem remains: does being a good discursive, reflective, first person voice of tachedly on that experience at the same criticism granted, and in many respects the poet sounds confiding and authentic. time. invalid. Of course a poet must be a self critic inhibit his ability to write a certain But even in Quesada itself, which Stead Stead is too conscious of his self conscious craftsman. But in trying to type of poetry? He so obviously knows helpfully suggests is less austere than his consciousness. achieve the type of poetry I believe Stead all the rules, is hyper-conscious of all the poems of the sixties, the themes are Mark Williams difficulties, aware of tradition and its is aiming at in Quesada, an unresolved ten­ formal, the subject matter of his art is art UNIVERSITY DANCERS sion is created within the poetry as a whole themes. Y e ti feel that in Quesada Stead itself - “ the opaque equities of our world” AUDITIONS between the poet as craftsman and the is trying to be direct, honest, spontaneous Versus “ the translucent hyperboles of art” . man as he painfully, honestly reveals him­ before being a good craftsman. What is successfully conveyed is a per­ for MAY production. self. sona of Stead the poet viewing with Wednesday 26th March 7.15pm “ Often I think of a poem as strongly “ Poetry, second best sympathy and irony Stead the man. Under emotional to the point where I feel em­ It represents...... ” the Sun illustrates just how effective this Freemasons Hall, Princes St. barrassed by it and troubled by i t ” Crossing the Bar can be. (Opp. Intercontinental Hotel) Stead in New Argot May 1974 P 15 The recognition was there in Crossing For further information ring “ detached and clinical” the Bar. Stead asserts the primacy of life “ Would Provence have noticed had we all Susan Jordan Bell 601-116. (Stead referring to the view of “ a lot of over art, self sufficiency over self conscious­ t&ed in that ditch ______Ask that Mountain With support Dick Scott from the Queen Elizabeth 2nd Arts Council

That “ Ask That Mountain” can only be published now without fear of being suppressed and vilified as an attempt to stir up racial trouble is a sad commentary on this country’s race relations. It is also worth noting that, in the expose of the land grab in The New Zealand Students' Taranaki last century, the Government and the Pakeha Colonialists are condemned by Arts Council presents their own hands. trial, executions, rape and pillaging,* failed, The book deals with the struggles over open war was declared. Unfortunately land in the 1880’s and 1890’s in Taranaki for the invaders who banned all reporting and more particularly with the charisma­ of the rape of Parihaka, newspaper report­ tic religious leader, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, ers got there in time to observe the"brave” and his methods of mass Pacifism. colonial mercenaries stormed the village The research is based on official records FOUR NEW ZEALAND of Parihaka, finally burning it. which are unusually honest as they were Although all the land at stake went the the only records kept with no fear of pub­ way the rest of this land has gone the lication or exposure, and the oral history triumph of the movement over all attempts POETS of the Maoris of the area. to suppress it is I think the major point Until the mid 1950’s Te-Whiti-o- of the book. Parihaka is today still a force Rongomai was dismissed by all publica­ among Maoridom with its own economic tions as a religious fanatic. In 1954 in an and cultural base as well as the beliefs earlier study, (The Parihaka Story) Dick which have held since many years before Scott brought the truth into the open either Ghandi or Martin Luther King. * SAM HUNT with an expose based on previously “ Ask that Mountain” is written with­ suppressed records. In “ Ask That Mount­ out so much of the anger of the Parihaka ain” he expands on this with a far greater Story, but is much more complete. As *HONETUWHARE amount of previously unpublished well as the major issues covered it also material and information. shows the mockery of representation The book also analyses the source of of the people made by the four Maori Te Whiti’s strength - he was more than a Parliamentary seats. +DENIS GLOVER religious leader, he was a political leader It also points up the iniquity of the as well as a spiritual one. All other meth­ Education System in turning the people ods of warfare against the all powerful against themselves with the example of . white colonialists had been tried except Sir Maui Pomare, a son of Parihaka *ALAN BRUNTON political warfare and it was here that brought up in its ideals, who rose to Te Whiti built himself a strong political greatness only to be turned on by the With Compositions from base against which all attempts to supp­ people for turning to Pakeha goals in ress and oppress his movement failed. denial of the aspirations of the people. The many vain attempts by various The book is compulsive reading and Alan Smythe and Wystan Cumow Native Ministers, Prime Ministers, the media is, I think a must for those who would and the colonialists to wipe out Parihaka have old land grievances forgotten in are publicly recorded and analysed for the the light of modern land grab tactics. As first time. The simplicity and effectiveness well as being a good' historical background sat. march 29 Tlpm public reading mercury of the tactics used by Te-Whiti to thwart of race-relations in New Zealand, it them make fascinating reading. When points out that there is a long way to go th e a tre legislation and political suppression of Te yet before true harmony can be Whiti through Pass-laws, deportations,' achieved. fri. april 4 at 12.30pm & 8.15pm in cafe mass imprisonments without charge or Michael Walker BOB For efficient banking services HALDANE you name it... MOTOR BNZ has it on campus! Complete banking services are available to all students, through the Bank of New Zealand Campus Branch in the Old Student Union Building. Cheque Accounts, Savings Accounts or a handy combination of both. Facilities for withdrawal on demand throughout New Zealand. , BNZ has more branches and agencies throughout the country than any other bank. Safe keeping of documents and valuables. BNZ Education Loans. Free consulting and financial advice. Full travel services. All these services and more, on campus, and available to you through the BNZ Campus Branch. Never underestimate what the Bank of New Zealand can do for you! If you'd like more information on any financial or associated matter, call at the BNZ Campus Branch, and arrange time for a chat A full range of tyres at prices students can afford and we will fit them FREE - while you wait STUDENT DISCOUNT 157 MANUKAU RD. Bank of New Zealand Campus Branch, EPSOM Ph. 601-369 Old Student Union Building.