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The Community (% o — 8V2 Decline and Faults Advertising is not simply TO’ is considered by many people This week, I hope to find out whether you’re dead, or just perpetuating an image held by to be the worst sexist advertising asleep. With great damage to the Craccum staff, we bring you society at large, it is the champion of campaign being presently an image of women that serves its conducted. the Craccum Readers’ Survey. Please wade your way through own end. One of the most lucrative Lion Breweries have been pushing the silly questions on page seven but bear in mind that this is a advertising myths is the sex sell, really hard to get through to a serious survey. As you will discover, your replies will be where beautiful women are used to student audience, especially via completely anonymous — please detach the page, fold it up and sell everything from toasters to cars. university newspapers. Lion’s pop it in one of the bins in either the Library Foyer or The Quad. I t’s exploiting womens’ sexuality, sponsorship of the Easter Sports Only one survey form per person, sorry. supposedly to play havoc with a Tournament held at Waikato male machismo which the University recently, caused quite a I hope to see you all out on the streets in your best rags this advertisement deliberately furore on this campus. The SRC Thursday — it’s in your interest and in the interest of those who challenges. meeting held three weeks ago will follow you through the Education System. Lion Breweries ‘score yourself a resulted in a motion passed designed See you there. 10’ campaign is exactly this. With to aid Waikato Students’ Union in callous, cruel and blatant disregard breaking its contract with Lion for the effect of this campaign on the Breweries. Through this motion, lives of women, it has instigated a AUSA offered to reimburse hard sell advertising programme Waikato Students’ Union any costs specifically aimed at men, especially that would have been incurred by white, middle class sporty types. this eventuality. The slogan is full of innuendo - the However, Waikato’s Executive connection is easily made to Bo did not accept the offer. They felt Derek, most beautiful woman, chic, that it would not have been well sexy, provocative, ten out of ten. received by students, and the legal Some of the ads carry a picture of a ramafications would have been too woman, tantalizingly dressed, much to cope with. seductively poised, next to man So Tournament happened and standing stoic and oozing virility, Auckland University won overall - Small Thoughts twinkle in eye... ‘look chaps, if an which meant a prize of $250 worth of Some students believe that In Britain, NUS (UK) chalked up a ugly boring fuckwit like me can sports equipment from Lion international contacts and work on significant victory in 1980/81, also stand in my bland ex-grammar Breweries. This however has not international issues are irrelevant to over a proposal to introduce a school football jumper, next to this been accepted by AUSA Executive, students here. They would rather student loans scheme. They beautiful chick, like this, you can who instead have decided to take NZUSA had no policy or defeated it in favour of a grants too, just drink some 10 beer eh?’ money from the projects fund to involvement in the area. This is a scheme and, given the ideological (yuk). ensure that the sports clubs do not shame, for the experience of fervour with which Thatcher’s The woman is there, solely to miss out. students overseas is rich in lessons governmet pursues its policies, it appeal to the male beer consumer, It is good to see that our for us. It is also a view that is likely was a major blow for the Tories. and thereby to sell the beer, Executive has realised the to evolve from a lack of knowledge. Although both AUS and NUS although she has nothing to do with significance of this campaign and is In this context, I’d like to briefly (UK) are national unions of students the product. taking as many measures as discuss the struggles of two student i.e. they comprise teachers college, The ad reinforces an image of possible to be seen not to condone or unions from countries with which university and technical institute women in society as appendages to endorse any form of sexist/anti- New Zealand students share a students (there is a separate union men; there for male self-indulgence woman advertising. common history. They are the J .R. for each in New Zealand), their work and pleasure. Australian Union of Students (AUS) is of vital importance to us. The and the United Kingdom National National Government here, for Union of Students (NUS[UK]). We example, often takes its lead from have regular contact with both of developments overseas. These two them, but particularly AUS, with unions can correctly be described whom we exchange observers to then, as NZUSA’s “front line” each other’s annual conference. against fees and loans. The most noticeable aspect of the Both of them win their struggles work of each of the three student for specific strategic and tactical catering notebook unions is the similarity of the battles reasons, but the most important they are fighting. general principles followed are: AUS last year launched a massive • A strong committment to student campaign against a huge series of unionism, conscious of the education cuts which were strength and unity of purpose recommended by a senate deriving from it; Don't spend all committee known as the “Razor • Effective mass action and active Gang” (a term tht some New involvement by the membership; Zealand journalists have also • A good analysis of government your bursary applied to our own Cabinet objectives in attempting to cut Expenditure Committee which is expenditure and the heigtening of attempting to institute the 3% cuts). educational inequalities that The Australian Razor Gang’s brief results. at once. was to achieve similar arbitrary • Imaginative use of the “cultural” levels of savings in government weapons in the student’s arsenal expenditure. They recommended e.g. theatre, the visual arts etc. Save a little for the reintroduction of tuition fees, I cannot stress enough to you that the replacement of their bursary these principles are also the key to a system with a loans scheme and successful Cost of Learning a Restaurant closures of over 30 teacher’s campaign. colleges. AUS’s “No Fees, No If you’re not already involved, Loans, No Closures” campaign won why not contact your student union wide support and saw thousands of officers and find out what you can Smorgasbord students out on the streets in do to help this week. There’s still marches, rallies and pickets from plenty of work to be done before Perth to Sydney. The end result was Thursday. Remember to be out Lunch or Dinner the defeat of the tuition fees there with your friends on April 22. reintroduction (government MP’s crossed the house to vote against Brian Small the move) and severe setbacks for PRESIDENT $5.00 buys you the loans proposal. a main course and dessert. ISSUE 7 CRACCUM VOL. 56 1982 Lunch 12.00 - 2pm Editor........................................... David Faults CRACCUM is registered with the Post Ofice Technical Editor............... William Mcllhagga as a newspaper. It is published by the Dinner 5pm - 8pm. Advertising Manager.................Jason Kemp Craccum Administration Board for the Assistant Editors..........................Jenny Renals Auckland University Students’ Association, ............................................................ Paul Grinder and printed by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd. Typesetters................................Barbara Amos Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily ...........................^ ................... Raewyn Green anyone’s, including the Editorial Staff, and in Photographer................................ ...L eoJew no way represent the official policy (should there be any) of the Association. 2 • Craccum April 20 1982 Presidential Campus News One of the items not considered at relations and “links with present or the recent not-the-AUSA-AGM was future business, professional and Chatshow last year’s hastily retitled Annual political leaders”. Success to date is they may print. Which happens, and Report. The rules call for a report actually negative - none of their Back to some semblance of reality is wrong. from the Executive, but having read graduates are important business or here. Some of you may not consider Maybe I ’m too sensitive, or too the final draft, that body refused to professional leaders and their only sloths and armadillos to be proper paranoid, to accept that money’s have anything to do with it and a political leaders are active in left material for a chatshow.

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