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CRACCUM Volume 54, Issue 14 VOTE FOR NODDY OF THE YEAR Candidates include Kevin Hague, NOTICE BOARD Rob Muldoon, Merv Wellington, Stephen Mitchell and many more. NOMINATIONS ARE INVITED THE GUMBOOT COMETH SPORTS BLUES COMMITTEE One coin for a vote. All proceeds FOR THE FOLLOWING Education Run. Don’t forget from MEETING to EDUCATION FIGHTBACK. POSITIONS : Sunday 6th July to Friday 11th July - The The Sports Blue Panel will meet THIS Each day in the Quad, 12 pm till Wednesday, 2nd July, in the clubrooms of A.U.S.A. Representative on the University’s EDUCATION ‘Gumboot’ run is on. If you Library Committee are interested in running or helping don’t the Recreation Centre at 7.30 p.m. Sports Selectors are requested to attend from A.U.S.A. Representative on the University’s hesitate to contact Heather at the Studass Audio-visual committee office or after hours Ph HBC-8769. 7.45 onward to nominate students for Sports Blues - SUMMER Sports only. All KENNETH MAIDMENT THEATRE Nominations for these positions close at SUPPORT THE EDUCATION RUN. Thursday 3rd July 1pm. ‘Oxford Union •nominees must be currently enrolled 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday 2 July and SHG APPEALS Debate’. Admission $1 Sat 5th, Sun 6th H u ded nts. appointments will be made at the If you received less Supplementary July. ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Purcell, Wayne McIntosh, AUSA Sports Rep. Executive Meeting to be held in the Hardship than you need you should produced by Don Stevens and presented Council Room on Thursday 3 July. appeal. Write to: ENVIRONMENT GROUP ACTIVITIES by the combined Birkdale and Rangitoto Candidates are invited to attend this Grants Appeal Authority, MONDAY 30th, 1 pm Committee Meeting Colleges. This 17th Century English Opera meeting from 7.00 p.m. Tribunals Division, Exec. Lounge. is accompanied by full orchestra and Private Bag, TUESDAY 1st July 1 pm, Library B10. Film chorus. Tickets $3, Students $1.50. For he Bursary’s go Treasurer Postal Centre on composting, plus others. bookings, Phone 439-039. S.R.C. Chairperson Wellington. THURSDAY 4th, 1 pm Exec. Lounge. His now alm os Appeal straight away; just write Simon James is back to give valuable LITTLE THEATRE enew system o The term of office for these executive notifying them that you wish to appeal. information about herbs and their Monday 30th June to Sunday 6th July, (dents - the Ter positions is from the date of election to 31 You can make your full appeal later. While beneficial qualities. nounced in the you’re at it write to: 8.15pm. The Violent Theatre Company December 1980. Nominations close with The Centenary Committee has begum presents ‘Themes of Desperation’. Door dve months ha the Secretary at 5.00 pm on Thursday 10 Hon. M. W ellington, Bis a notable i preliminary planning for the Centenary of sales only $5. Children and Students $3.50. July and elections will be held with the Minister of Education (Cuts(, Auckland University in 1983. At this stage Patrons are requested to be seated by Ivacy, govern me elections for the 1981 officers on 22 and Parliament Buildings, pst-cutting, com| the Committee is anxious to receive 8pm. The stage premiers of ‘Adams comes 23 July. Candidates are advised to submit Wellington. (dents needs, a comments on these suggestions or any down to Earth’ by Max Radcliffe; ‘Waiting You don’t need a stamp for this one. reaucratic foui- a policy statement with their nomination other ideas that students or others wish to for the Ferry’ and ‘Songs of the Field’ by and to make a Dhoto available to Craccum. APOLOGY Before looking offer. These might also include Christopher Hansard, all one act plays. Candidates for the position of Treasurer In Issue 10 Craccum reported that at solute failure o suggestions on a possible centennial The plays deal with inner realities, must have passed the papers which make M ay C ouncil 10, 1980, ‘S TB did not note the fo llo w project and also confidential suggestions challenged by the realities of the outside up Accounting I. manage to front up with their accounts, The TSG does r on possible honorary graduates, although world, and the tense, humorous, sad and due to the refusal of the auditors to sign on assistance t these will have to go through the usual desparate means of how characters in them.’ This statement was incorrect as the mdard Tertiary A NATIONAL BICYCLE processes. The committee would be each of the ree plays fail or succeed in STB Limited Accounts for the financial ulble money ai ASSOCIATION is to ye ar ending M arch 31 1980, although grateful if comments and ideas could be bringing their inner and outler worlds be launched at a meeting in Wellington on forwarded to one of its members, or together. ‘Themes of Desperation’ is cess to that mo produced in draft form by the company’s B had been tiec July 12th. Details concerning the discussed with them, at an early date. directed by Christopher Hansard. Special accountants (Wilkinson Wilberfoss), had ax (as was the association and its inaugural meeting can not been audited by the company’s Current committee members are: Professor Sunday Show for all theatre workers. be obtained from Keith S alm on (489-233) N. T.arling, Professor B.R. Davis, and Dr Monday 30th June, Tuesday 1st July 1pm. are most other auditors (Hutchinson Hull & Co)., at the amployment be or Bill R obertson (654-934). W.H. Cooper, together with Mr W. Nicoll ‘Bob and Nancy’. Australia’s top dance date of NZUSA’s May Council. At no stage s year be Mr Matiu Rata - and Mr B. Crimp. and comedy team. Tickets $2, Students $1. COME AND HEAR did the auditors refuse to sign the excess of th irty speaking on the Mana Motuhake accounts and Craccum apologies for the ing in the sam e movement - the prospects for the 1981 FOOD CO-OP PRICES FROM Wednesday 2nd, 1pm, Free lunchtime inaccurate statement made to this effect. excess of fo rty elections, Wednesday 2nd July, 1 pm in 3-6-80 show presented by the University folk (side of their pa the Algie Lecture Theatre on the sixth Early last week we received our 35 bundles Beetroot, 8c each; Broccoli, 10c/49g; C lu b e dream. Even floor of the Library Building. of CRACCUM from the Railways as usual. Brussel Sprouts, 10c/100g; Cabbage, 12c jcation recomn Much to our merriment, however, we each; Capiscum, missed out this week; Thursday 3rd, 1pm, Free Poetry recital SR SOCIETY meet every Thursday and STB level be ii Frida y in room 144, 1-2 p.m. and T u e sd a y learned that we are no longer described as Carrots, 10c/700g; Cauliflower, 32c each featuring Tony Green and Wystan Curnow. a newspaper, but as ‘50 cartons pet food’ pectively (this \ nights in room 237 at 7.00 pm for SF & F (smallish); Celery, 40c each; Garlic llington) and th board and role playing games. All Having said that, C and D Webster, who 10c/100g (virility assured); Ginger Root; SPORTS COUNCIL MEETING the pet food was meant for, must be Notice is given that we will meet on July dged to restorii w elcom e. 10c/33g; Kum ara, 10c/260g; Leeks, 23c ition adjusted wondering what they have done to deserve each; Lettuce, 21c each; Mushrooms, 9 at 7.30 p.m. in the Clubrooms of the STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT money and h< 35 bundles of newspaper (even if it does 10c/27g; Onions, 10c/320g; ParSnips, in Recreation Centre. It is right in the middle Th u rs d a y Ju ly 3, 1-2 p.m. R oom 143, 1st owhat has the somewhat resemble pet food). Good ol season; Potatoes, 10c/518g; Pumpkin of MID-TERM break, so PLEASE don’t floor, Studass. Contact Peter Shearer, naled about the Railways strike again! Crown, try butternut instead; Pumpkin forget. President, Ph 542-617. Ie that student Butternut, 21c each; Rhubarb, 10c/stick; Wayne Mcintosh, Sports Rep and ups (notably th Silverbeet, 10c/620g; Spring Onion, Presidential Candidate. w already. The expensive; Swede, in season; Tomatoes, their criticism s 10c/95g; Apples, 9c each; Bananas, following in fo missed out this week; Oranges, 10c each; i CLASSIFIED rveys of 570 stu CATERING CO. Pears, available, order more; Tamarillos, 4c jversity and 331 each; Mandarins, 10c/212g; Parsley, WANTED: A rod handbrake for a 28 inch iversity. 10c/64g; Kiwifruit, 15c each. bicycle and red rear rare glass reflector. •The scheme is Phone Sarah 370-156. dents surveyed A brand new FOR SALE: Brand-new T.l. 57 the SHG becau programmable calculator, never used. iki. Catering Service is being ' $130.00 or near offer. Phone Florence •Thescheme ir CRACCUM Volume 54, Issue 14 32-236. eaucracy: Ovei offered during CRACCUM is registered with the Post A South Korean university student theSupplemen Office as a newspaper. It is published by wishes to correspond with a New Zealand Be applications the Craccum Administration Board for the university student. llington. M any i Auckland University Students Association, Her name is Yoo Inho, in the junior ployed by the C MID-TERM BREAK Private Bag, Auckland; typeset on the class of the Dong-A University. Her Wellington and Association’s new Compugraphic address is: •The scheme in machine; and printed by Wanganui Ra Dong 206 ho Sam bu Apt students and c with the opening of the Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews Avenue, 870-20 16/4 Hadam dong certainty: Of sti Wanganui. Opinions expressed are not S eo ku Ekland 9% had Coffee Bar/Milk Bar necessarily those of the Editorial staff, Busan City lies by June 18. and in no way represent the official policy Republic of Korea dents had been of the Students’ Association. She met a New Zealand student visiting EKS ! Over 47°/ E d itor...... Katrina White South Korea who has forwarded this Auckland waiter Technical Editor...... Paul Barton request back to me, and I would rTWELVE WEE COFFEE BAR Advertising Manager..... Anthony Wright appreciate if you could place the ad. She nths! Fully 8 4 °, A ssista n t Editor...... Mark Kerly wrote in part, “Please, I wish you would | not been n o tif Arts Editor...... Daryl W ilso n introduce a faithful girl student of New lend of the firs t Legal A dvisor...... D on M athias Zealand or Australia to me.” jthrough the a< Extended hours Photographer...... Elizabeth Leyland I The result of coi Distribution Manager.... Brian Gray Thanks very much for your help. pertainty for stu lebtedness. The T yp e se tte r...... Barbara Amos Lost: 1 Tissot Aquastar Regate Watch in of 9.00am — 7.00pm aments receiver the area of the Rec. Centre. Reward vey condemn th The All-Star International Craccum (substantial) no questions asked : Paul offering the normal food and drink Intention the fii Credits... 276-5304. ‘First mention must (of course) go to Wed. service plus additional hot foods Nikki who came in for a free cup of coffee. Lost: Dark Brown sports jacket from ha letter to the Next in the billing must be Dermot - a G eneral Library. Reward. Ph G L E 7304 I year Merv W ei like chips teenager no more, Headings Kid and For Sale : C om puter - 4K Ram , 8K Basic, Letrasetter Extraordinaire. Thirdly, real expandable to 48K, two mini floppies, real LIVE Exec, members: Ivan, Bhaady, Dak, time clock, colour, hi res. graphics, and John. Will wonders never cease ? As printers etc. N.Z. user group already in for the lesser mortals ... well there was existence. Comes with power supply and M IL K B A R Daryl, anthony, John, Ian, Tony, Biddy, video modulator. Plug it into your TV and a Paul, Mark, Don, Barbara, Helen, Julie, cassette recorder and ready to go. Ph. Eugenie and Jason and Katrina (who Mark, 37-2217 after 6 p.m. DOES eat shellfish patties). Not to forget Wanted/Needed: A female person to share Brian and bicycle, and JGB. And last in an abode in this case a semi-house with Open 10.00am - 4.00pm the line up is Simon Wilson, here for a jet two male persons and a female person. set stopover on his way through to exotic The rent is only $13 a week each and it is Hamilton. Never before have so many ...’ zoned as one for buses and in a pleasant Official Disclaimer: Craccum does not ‘Vim ’ residential area. When interested Chefs Special Meal will be served necessarily endorse or support the phone ‘us’ at 689-785 or 68-9785. policies/actions/propaganda or publicity Wanted: Person with capability for as usual on the mezzanine floor stunts of the notorious Mollusc Party. repairing upholstery on site and sewing curtains, cushion covers etc. $5.00 per hour for skilled person. Contact Headl Custodian, Student Union. Phone 30-789. Page 2, C R A C C U M , Ju n e 30 THE YEAR vin Hague, illington, nany more. I proceeds BACK. for excrucidtin. 12 pm till hardship

HEATRE £ 3 ord Union , Sun 6th reel I, presented Rangitoto lglish Opera tra and 1.50. For Bursary’s gone, but it’s not forgotten’. applicants should be informed by mid Students Under 20 are screwed by TSG makes it harder to hold onto ‘A’ and (with apologies to Neil Young) April. Early indeed ! Only 8.5% of is now alm ost e xa c tly one ye ar since parental meanstesting: The overall effect ‘B’ Bursaries and shortens the amount of applicants surveyed had received a reply new system of assistance for tertiary of the TSG is now clear. It has attempted study you can receive bursary for. by the end of April, and of these, 6% had to transfer much greater responsibility the y 6th July, nts • the Tertiary Study Grant - was The TSG is a farce - Scrap the TSG: applied before Term One even started. onto the parents of students to support time has now come to make our point om p any need in the 1979 Budget. Th a t This massive delay is totally them. Students under 20 have been strongly on the TSG. It must be scrapped ion’. Door months has revealed that the is a notable monument to invasion of unacceptable, it makes life hell for particularly badly affected. Some students and a reformed Standard Tertiary Bursary Jdents $3.50. y, government ineptitude, expedient students who are forced to run up debts, surveyed had been unable to apply for the introduced next year. Don’t just moan, do sated by Utting, complete disregard for without any guarantee that they are going SHG because their parents would not fill something. Write to your MP, write to Merv dams comes rnts needs, and most of all to huge to get any Hardship Grant anyway. The out the means test. Students under 20 Wellington (you don’t need a stamp), fe; ‘Waiting iueratie foul-ups. delay cannot be avoided under the new generally fared worse in grants than those appeal if you haven’t already done so, go e Field’ by ifore looking more closely at the system. There will always be a massive 20 or over. Students under 20 who choose for a reassessment of your case if your ict plays, lute failure of the TSG it is important number of applications, a huge amount of to go flatting are penalised by receiving circumstances have changed, write to the ties, :e the following points. personal information requested, and the less grants than students 20 or over. The local newspapers. :he outside TSG does not provide potentially need to give each application considerable Government is simply attempting to force Next week on Wednesday July 2 you s, sad and careful attention. It is physically assistance than the original students under 20 back into their parents’ have the chance to tell the Department of icters in lard Tertiary Bursary. It provides less, impossible to cut down the delay. There is homes. Many applications were rejected Education what you think of their icceed in only one way - scrap the TSG. ble money and completely denies on the basis that parents could (and bureaucratic scheme (it was an official of w orld s to If the The system is riddled with anomalies: should) give more assistance. The student the Department who first thought up the ion’ is that money as of right.’ had been tied to the Consumer Price The survey conducted at Auckland did not ends up as the meat in the sandwich. scheme). There will be an all-day ird. Special {as was the original intention, and ask for the details of applications so no Some of the comments we received demonstration outside the Department of orkers. most other sim ilar paym ents - statistical details of irregularities can be include : Education in Gillies Avenue Newmarket. st J u ly 1pm. ployment benefit etc,) students given. However a vast number of students A student w h o received $17 ... ‘O ne o f We want to get hundreds of students out jp dance this year be receiving AS OF RIGHT commented on anomalies. Students my flatmates who is in a worse financial there telling the Department that the TSG Students $1. :cess of thirty dollars per w eek (if flatting with other students particularly position received only $11, but her is not acceptable. noticed a strange variation of grants given in the sam e city as their parents) or parents’ earnings were high in proportion If you have your own transport, vans or nchtim e although circumstances were almost sity folk ixcess of forty dollars per week (if living to mine. I really do not think that the Govt cars please see Chris Gosling at Studass iside of their parent’s city). This is not a identical. The following are just some of can expect parents to suffer the burden of urgently. Transport will be leaving the adream. Even the Department of many comments received about their children’s education’. Quad every hour on the hour from 9 a.m. anom alies. ucation recommended early in 1979 that A student w h o received $5 ... ‘I’m to 4 p.m. and return transport will also be y recital A student w h o got $12 ... ‘d id n ’t expect stan Curnow. iSTB level be increased to $28 and $39 completely disgusted by the whole provided hourly - From noon till 1.30 p.m. pectively (this was rejected by Merv to get anything as I had savings and was business. I have a sister who is in exactly buses, vans and cars will be leaving from llington) and the Labour Party is getting paid for demonstrating. A Brother the same situation as I am - she received next to the Rudman gardens regularly. A TING who is much worse off than me but has a meet on July dged to restoring the STB to its former the full $17 hardship grant only because special pushbike demonstration will leave car on which he still owes $600 got s of the Mion adjusted value. The TSG means she is over 20.1 do not receive support the quad 1.10 pm. Bring ypur pushbike, nothing - he needs the car for MSc work.’ the middle money and harder to g e t! from my parents. I need the money skateboard, rollerskates. If enough people >E d o n ’t i what has the last twelve months ‘Many students receive Hardship who are desperately - 1 work hard at varsity and want to, a march can be arranged. ealed about the TSG ? Actually, very not as needy as some who don’t.’ feel I deserve it. I do feel we should not Support Education Fightback. Join the A student who got $12 ... ‘how do they and le that student and other education expect gratuitous education, but when I picket Wednesday July 2. The TSG is a tups (notably the universities) did not calculate what you need ? i.e. a flatmate see how unjust and iniquitous the system Farce - Scrap the TSG. ow already. The test of time has proved was awarded $17 and we put down almost is ! I receive $2 less than I did last year the same amounts...’ their criticisms to be absolutely valid, and the Govt have certainly spent .more Taking It To The People following inform ation com es from A student granted $17 ... ‘Other friends than $2 paying for all the paraphenalia wys of 570 students at Victoria with similar circumstances to mine, have attached to this new system ... such waste A vital part of the Education Fightback iversity and 331 students at Auckland not received the full amount which seems occurs and those truly in need don’t get Campaign is to get our message across to totally unfair.’ r a 28 inch iversity. help’. “... this parental co-operation should the public. We must show them that the A student who got $17 ... ‘I feel lucky to s reflector. ^The scheme is confusing: Over 10% of not be obligatory in order to get a mere issues that we are concerned about vitally dents surveyed at Victoria did not apply get it as I know of others in the same subsistence income.” affect everybody in our society. If we can the SHG because they didn’t know they position as myself who got considerably As for the appeal procedure, well !: A s convince the public then we are halfway to less.’ of two weeks ago the Department of er used. K' convincing the government. In the past, The scheme involves a huge A student w h o got $17 ... ‘Flatm ate in Education in Wellington reported that they students have tended to try and draw :lorence similar (slightly worse) financial position ie mcracy: Over 14,000 students applied had received over 1500 appeals. That public attention to their concerns through I have a job during the August holidays represents over 10% of total applications student the Supplementary Hardship Grant. All the media by having demonstrations. and he does not, got only $12. A Friend and there are bound to be more to come. ^ew Zealand 8applications were handled through Although this is still an important part of hgton. Many extra staff were with less financial assets obtained only The number of appeals itself clearly shows the campaign it is now important to get $12. Another friend with far greater ie junior ployed by the Department of Education the unsatisfactory way that the TSG has directly to the public. savings than any of us received $17. A operated. Most importantly, these 1500 /. H er Wellington and by ail the universities. A number of activities are planned for The scheme involves massive delays warden at one hostel (Waikato) received appeals are being handled by ONE this term, designed to our message to the $17 and he has no board to pay.’ ‘RETIRED CIVIL SERVANT’ in Wellington. i bu Apt students and consequent stress and people in the street,.but we need your dainty: Of students surveyed in A n d to sum it up. ‘It ail seem s ve ry That is the appeals authority, one person. help. Yes, that’s right, you. Our first long arbitrary.’ land 9% had still not received final This person must acknowledge your activity is taking place next week, mid js by June 18. Three of these There are many more examples. Many appeal, get the relevant information from term break. Throughout mid term break dents had been waiting over TW EN TY students asked what the criteria are. Only the Department, send this to you for students will be visiting selected suburban EKS ! Over 47% of students surveyed the Department of Education knows. They comment, get the Department to comment areas and distributing a leaflet designed ident visiting are completely secret. That is one of the led this Auckland waited or have been waiting on your comment and then make a to show the public how education cuts, greatest dangers of the new scheme. The decision. It is absolutely ludicrous. If you li Id rTWELVE WEEKS. Nearly three affect everybody. This is a huge job and nths! Fully 84% of students surveyed Minister could tell the Department to find out in June that you have been has not been tried before in Auckland. We the ad. She tighten the criteria at any time. Nobody yo u would |not been notified of their grant before granted nothing and then appeal, who need at least fifty people and ten cars for lend of the first term - one third of the would ever know, and the money would knows how long it could take ? Even with the whole week for it to be a success. nt of New just stop ! (through the academ ic year." many'extra staff it took the Department Nobody should have to work for more than he result of course is terrible financial The scheme encourages abuse: It is about three months to tell most students half a day. help. clear from many replies that students felt :ainty for students and major at Auckland what they will be getting. If you can help please, please contact they had to falsify their details to get a te W atch in tedness. Th e vast m ajority of Could it be the third term before many Ivan Sowry or Chris Gosling at Studass eward nts received from students in the decent grant. In fact they were quite right. students find out how much money they straight away. Alternatively if you are ;ed : Paul condemn the delays in the scheme Some students complained that they had are getting this year ? ! willing to distribute leaflets around your told the truth and received much less mention the financial difficulties that Don’t forget the other faults in the new neighbourhood during the next three grant than they needed. It is disgusting at from system: Remember the fees you had to weeks, on the week-end or after varsity, that students have to lie in order to get a 3LE 7304 i a letter to the President of NZUSA pay at the beginning of the year. They come and collect some leaflets from Ivan decent allowance. i, 8K Basic, (year Merv Wellington said that early were introduced along with the TSG. The or Chris at Studass. floppies, real phics, already in su p p ly and THE TSG IS A FARCE ■ SCRAP THE TSG yo u r T V and a o go. Ph. rson to share ALL DAY PICKET ■house with e9u/- * A lie person, ach and it is Department of Education n a pleasant Gillies Avenue, Newmarket. nterested „ Quan 0'» ’85. V? ity for \\o& Wednesday July 2, 9am-5pm m d sewing $5.00 per Pushbikes, rollerskates, skateboards, feet leave the Quad 1pm. act Headl none 30-789. TELL THE BUREAUCRATS THE TSG STINKS

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On Thursday June 19, Gilles Kati, the will fight.’ without recognition, without rights, and to beaten up, and possibly shot. Southern Africa Scholar for 1980, spoke on Gilles went on to outline the situation be suppressed by a minority. We blacks ‘Soweto and the massacre that followed The Minister o campus about conditions in South Africa facing Blacks in South Africa and feel our obligation and determination to was not the first, and will not be the last, lllngton) plans and his native Namibia, and about his Namibia: how they are confined to the fight for our human rights. The struggle is But we have the stamina to fight on. There paying teachs personal involvement in the Namibian ‘Homelands’, overcrowded and infertile on in S ou th A fric a ’. is a determination in all the youth of South I have a detrin liberation movement. tracts of land well removed from the cities; The liberation struggle of Namibia and Africa to fight for their rights. ‘We cannot New Zealand, Gilles Kati is a member of SWAPO, the how they must get permission from the South Africa is facing a regime which is stomach this racial segregation and he Scheme will South West Africa People’s Organisation, authorities to travel outside their specific heavily armed, and fired by a religious discrimination any longer.’ Allow only th< and has been in exile for the past 7 years. Homeland, and must carry a pass book determination to maintain their racial T h e rule of apartheid has international ckgrounds, wh His involvement with SWAPO began when designating their name, age, ethnic group, domination. The Calvinistic doctrine of the ramifications: irental/spouse s he was at school, and took part in student where they live and where they are to Afrikaaners' states that the negro races ‘By maintaining diplomatic, trade and iter teachers cc demonstrations. He was picked up by the travel to, the name of their employer, at all are inferior to the European, and that the sporting links with South Africa you are It will bribe sc police on suspicion of supporting the times. If they are picked up by the police Afrikaaners are a chosen people of God actively supporting the apartheid of that iching who are liberation movement, and suffered without this, they can be fined or jailed. who have his support and guidance in country. It does give m oral support to The Minister ta beatings and ‘terrible interrogation’. On Wages for Blacks are minimal, and most their rule. While oppression and South Africa.’ structure of tl his release he reached the decision that families live on an income which is less exploitation of ethnic groups can be If S outh A frica is to change, it will need place the prese the only way for Namibia to achieve than subsistence level. They have no right documented in almost every country international pressure to do so; the only well he may, majority rule and racial equality was to to negotiate with their employers over around the world, South Africa is the only way to achieve this is to isolate South frequent and fight. He began working within the military wage levels. And then, of course, there is country where this is institutionalised in Africa diplomatically, economically - by during its plan wing of SWAPO, the People’s Liberation the segretation, with Europeans, law and punitively enforced. putting trade links - and culturally - by held stroi Army (PLAN). Coloureds and Blacks required to use The black students of South Africa and cutting our sporting links. linees’ Assoc ic ‘Our aim is not war as such, but to separate restaurants, post offices, Namibia who go out into the streets to ‘New Zealand must come out and The Teaching £ liberate Namibia is imperative, and we will schools, trains, park benches, public demonstrate know that they will be facing openly condemn the apartheid regime. I set by regulati do so by any means. If South Africa is toilets ... the heavily armed South African police, And this means that New Zealanders igotiating rights willing to talk, we will talk, and if not, we ‘It is painful to live in your own country that they are likely to be at the least should pressure their Government to bcea id. Teacher trail its links with South Africa.’ (ligations as otl (Government f i its word to tre Teacher trainee gulations and s time or vacal The Kids Are Alright? erefore they rel; muneration as 1 In a recent publication, a cartoon for them...” the new mood engendered by the triumph Government. A ‘stooge’ replacement fegotiation R showed two kids looking at an IYC poster “Bantu Education... of FRELIMO and the MPLA, from the council was ’elected’ in its place with In order to recn pinned to the wall of a broken down tin Downfall of the Racists” {accumulation of African bitterness overr a 6% voting turnout. rge of backgroi hut. They were asking: “What happens to i.n his book, Naught For Your Comfort the years and, finally, from the growing A future of Oppression and nuneration mui us when we grow up?”. Although a simple published not long after the introduction crisis of unemployment. Its results were Struggle adjusted ac statement, this expresses clearly the of ‘bantu education’, Fr Trevor Huddleston self-confirmatory, self-reinforcing. For The choices facing the young leaders of secure in term separation between many International predicted the inevitable outcome of that blacks and coloured alike now had the ‘disturbances’ of the mid-1970’s have fch it is paid. F Year of the Child activities and the educational philosophy. “Bantu education hundreds of fresh deaths, thousands of not been easy. Many, to avoid harassment ^rs n0 guaranti problems facing children in the real world. will mean the downfall of the racists”. And new arrests to add to their swelling score and arrest have follow ed the well-trodden lapply. The on Much of the publicity for the IYC, he is being proven right. The young people of grievances.” route to Swaziland, Botswana and Tanzania wrnment is so including that from overseas, has failed to brought up under the Bantu Education Act Both sides learned from the battles of - some to refugee camps, some to join the nditions of serv look at the causes of the problems and know where they stand in the eyes of the 1976. The South African police and army liberation movements. mplete control has raised only superficial, band-aid white authorites; they see clearly their role were caught unawares and over-rected. At home, following the black mice. The only solutions. in the economic machinery of apartheid. It Many white South Africans had believed consciousness movement bannings and afford to take t It is interesting to compare the publicity is these school-children, some as young the professions of stability and confidence Steve Biko’s death, the Azanian People's »se from well o and Government activity given to the IYC as 9, 10 and 11 w h o unleashed their anger they read in their newspapers. Now they Organisation was formed. Within a very iup is not repre with the scant attention received by the in 1976. The parents of these children, could no longer ignore the deepening short time, its leaders were also arrested, immunity. previous year’s “Year Against Apartheid”. brought up under the era of mission tensions. The students also learned, but so m e h o w the organisation managed to The Minister ha And the slogan adopted by the South school education have found it difficult to though somewhat slower at first than the survive. A recent m eeting in Soweto was c incentive’ alii African government - “Did You Hug Your relinquish a belief in patience and forces opposing them. Blacks and attended by around 1,000 people. Curtis 1 ability allowanc Child Today?” - adds further ironies when peaceful resistance. The young people coloureds were ready to take on the Nkondo, the leader of AZAPO is a Soweto *e ,0 attract 9' we consider the very deep and bitter have fewer illusions. education system and even ‘majority rule’. student leader of 1976 who was also condary service divisions in that country and the rough Tsetsi Mashinini, Soweto student leader, Eventually it was seen that mass detained early in 1977. He follows the ] subjects that a road ahead for all the children of South expressed this clearly at a press demonstrations gave the authorities black consciousness philosophy of Steve ,chers int0 9e°! Africa, black and white. conference in London late in 1976: “In our opportunity to kill and arrest at will. The Biko, w ith a stronger em phasis on the (‘unpopular’, Soweto: A Turning Point schools we have no social studies or focus was turned to smaller economic base of the South African J Motives-: Ul Any focus upon the ‘child in South philosophy. Socialism, capitalism, demonstrations, memorial services and struggle and the need to work through the workable' Africa’ would be quite justified in drawing imperialism ... I know nothing of these attacks against school property. The education system and the trade unions. ] not have < attention to the poverty, health and' ’isms. But I know who Mr Vorster is, and I unrest continued. In a two month period While much that is going on within the L , wiM be f0i education problems of the majority of know the Ford Factory down the road: towards the end of 1978 there were 33 school and student com m un ity is positive, JJJives. qenuin children in that country today. But a far and I know they are both my enemies.’ ‘incidents’ of this kind. From 1976 to the the young people of South Africa face ^ e subject < more important emphasis is to look at the end of 1978, 8823 young people under the severe odds. Inflation and unemployment age of 18 were arrested, 5946 were major reason political role developed by South Africa’s have seriously eroded the already The subject ailc young black people in the 1970’s. Why did Convicted. During the same period 5111 subsistence level living standards of the were detained. ited number of it happen? What is the significance of the majority of the black people. The social not all-comme new wave of unrest for the future? These protests have not been confined conditions in many black townships breed to Soweto. Children have been deprived of give it. There w T h e events in S ow e to in 1976 w ere the crime and disillusionment, and take nuneration betv culmination and breaking point of a their South African citzenship and particular toll of the children. deported, along with their parents when ictly the same number of important tensions. The two key Mr H. M akurine, of the South African dying the princi factors in this were firstly the measures not economically useful, to their so-called Council of Churches has given the taken by the white regime to lock the ‘ethnic’ homelands. School children within follow ing description: “S om e of the black work force into a narrow and the ‘homelands’ have also managed to children - those who live at home but controlled range of jobs, fodder for the disrupt the education system. In Venda for spend their d a ys on the streets - maybe developing industrial base of South Africa,, example, a demonstration of 5,000 in 1977 school ‘pushouts’ (who) haven’t the money: and second, the development of the forced all the 35 secondary schools to for books or uniforms ... There are child: specialised education system through close. whose parents try to look after which this workforce was trained. Boycotting schools was one of the them , but they w ork long hours; they One of the most important pieces of major original forms of protest. As late as cannot supervise the children and have no legislation in the whole period of mid-1978 school attendance in many areas idea that they are on the streets and not at] establishing the framework of apartheid was only 50%, although attendance school.-There are children who beg after the N ationalists took pow er in 1948, improved when police patrols and house because their fam ilies are in desperate was the Bantu Education Act of 1953 searches were used to round up the financial straits. Some children who which came into force in 1954. This Act children. Police patrols were also present normally go to school are tempted by the expressed in the Christian Nationalist at schools to ensure that all went prospects of earning money at golf philosophy that education should be.> smoothly. Since 1978, students have courses. There is a truck that comes into based on ‘love for one’s own people’ and drifted slowly back to school, mainly for the township and recruits them. The truck the development of ‘race-consciousness’ political reasons. First, some normal d o e sn ’t bring them back. Th e n there are on narrow and exclusive lines. Control of education is seen as better than none at all. children whose homes are little more than schools for Africans was given to the More importantly, the students are then in shelters - a place where life is hell.” Native Affairs Department and not the one central area which facilitates It is the children, raised in these Education Department. The whole purpose organisation. When the Soweto Students conditions, and facing these odds, who of the Act was to attack the liberal trends Representative Council was banned in will lead the struggle for the new life of the mission schools and to root schools 1977 along with 17 other black expressed in the following passage from for ‘bantus’ in the type of education consciousness groups, the Soweto ‘Sechaba’: “Let us unite to fight for the needed to fit African children for a students were able to reorganise preservation of the future of South Africa, “subordinate” position in South African themselves quickly and form the Soweto our children. Surely a stop must be put to society. Student League. The major campaign of the waste of human resources by the In the debate surrounding the Act, Dr the League has been opposition to the regime. Concentrate all efforts in the Verwoerd, then Minister of Native Affairs New Education and Training Bill which common struggle to make South Africa a and later Prime Minister, stated: “There is introduces only cosmetic changes to the happier place for all children regardless of no place for him (the Bantu) in the old concept of ‘bantu education’. race, colour, sex or creed. History will European community above certain forms A further ramification of Soweto has never pardon us if we actively or passively of labour... For that reason it is of no avail been the harder line taken by parents. In condone the genocide and total brutality for him to receive training which has as it 1976 a student ultimatum forced the conducted by the regime against our aim absorbtion into the European The Events Following Soweto Soweto Bantu Council to close. The children - whose only crime is that they community...” And “When I have control of The events in Soweto and other South ‘Committee of 10’ elected in its place are not born white.” native education I will reform it so that African urban centre in 1976 added a fresh continued the development of the ‘black natives will be taught from childhood to impetus to the African’s struggle. “Soweto consciousness’ movement until seven of Phil Griffith and Kathy Baxter realise that equality with Europeans is not had sprung from complex causes - from its members were banned in 1977 by the December 1979 Page 4, CRACCUM, June 30 lubber Boots, Rubber Bullets.. hot. ere that followed The Minister of Education (Merv equal work. Trainees will have to apply training if they do not teach following ibe a percentage of people, who once in not be the last, ington) plans to introduce a scheme training. Under the new scheme, they will and be selected for this ‘extra’ allowance, the classroom recognise that they are not to fight on. There paying teachers during training that before entering teachers college. Since be bonded for everything they are paid suitable. The selection process for entry to ie youth of South 1 have a detrimental effect on education trainees will be selected on ‘merit’, the during training, over and above the teachers college is not perfect, it cannot hts. ‘W e cannot New Zealand, success in receiving the allowance could Tertiary Study Grant ($23). This will result be. There is no good social economic or jation and he Scheme w ill: well become an indicator of future in teachers who have undertaken a three f year teacher training course being bonded educational reason for forcing people to Allow only those from ‘comfortable’ success, even before training has begun. teach, they will only do damage to for $6192, and if they received a mobility ts international ickgrounds, w ho can rely on The subject allowance is based on the themselves and the children who have the or took a five year course would owe irental/spouse support during training to principle that some subjects are more misfortune to be taught by them. atic, trade and iter teachers college. valuable than others, no person Involved in $15,020. Africa you are It will bribe some teachers into education can support that principle. Clearly, levels of bonding such as these Meanstesting artheid of that _thing who are undesirable. The only means of having a guarantee will be a deterrant to people in terms of Finally, the scheme the Minister has il support to The Minister takes full responsibility for of empioyment under this scheme, is for a undertaking longer courses of teacher proposed, offers some ‘mature’ teachers «structure of the schem e, w hich w ill trainee to be accepted as part of the quota training. Rather than taking a with dependants, a supplementary mge, it will need place the present allow ances system , of people who are to receive the ‘mobility comprehensive teacher training cdurse, hardship allowance. Meanstesting is not fo so; the only well he may, for he took no heed of allowance’. This is a bribe, the carrot of many potential teachers will opt for a the best way to provide for those with solate South e frequent and vociferous objections to employment being dangled over trainees’ university degree, followed by a one year special needs, negotiation is. nomically - by during its planning. Those objections heads. Recipients of the allowance will teacher training course, where the Meanstesting seldom help those who are ulturally - by estill held strongly by the Tea ch er have to apply for positions in schools commitments will not be as high. One year genuinely in need, but those who are good ainees’ Association of New Zealand. at filling out forms, and dealing with ie out and The Teaching Studentship levels are to educational administrators from a theid regime. yset by regulation, despite the historical distance. The meanstested assistance the Zealanders ygotiating rights employee groups have AIN.' Minister is offering will probably be ernment to break i. Teacher trainees have the sam e IHAVE^KTtS>A unavailable to those without dependants, digations as other state employees, but A'OVrtWTjSWP this will markedly decrease the number of (Government has frequently gone back people from the 23 to 30 year age group, its word to treat them as such. without dependants who presently make a Teacher trainees are constrained by valuable contribution to teaching, as a gulations and short holidays in gaining AND WE LFARE result of their wider experience than time or vacation employment, school leavers. efore they rely almost entirely on their Conclusion jneration as teacher trainees. The Minister of Education has eplacement «gotiation R em oved introduced a scheme for paying teacher :s place with only border to recruit people from a wide trainees that is based on punishment and nge of backgrounds to teaching bribery. The problems he is hoping to ion and nuneration must be set at a living wage solve, such as distribution and retention adjusted according to inflation, and will not be solved. yo u n g leaders of secure in terms of the conditions under * Mr Wellington has an obligation to mid-1970’s have ich it is paid. Regulated remuneration teacher training, and to the taxpayer. He avoid harassment ers no guarantee that these conditions has fulfilled neither by the introduction of this scheme. the well-trodden apply. The only reason this vana and Tanzania ivernment is so keen on regulated The major steps the Minister must take som______e__ to join ! • ..the pditions .JUUno of OArwisNAservice io is Iholthat U it can have ^ to solve difficulties related to teaching mplete control over those conditions of staff a re : black ivice. The only people who will be able To encourage teachers to ‘unpopular’ t bannings and afford to take the risk of training will be areas by providing in service (not pre zanian People's pse from well off backgrounds. This service) incentives. For example offering . W ithin a very mp is not representative of our special support services and resources in ire also arrested, nmunity. which are facing staffing shortages. Some post graduate courses have come under these areas. This has worked successfully ration managed to Tie Minister has built into the schem e of the effects of this are : ‘young’ attack for many years, as being an in Porirua already. I in Soweto was incentive’ allow ances, a subject and a inexperienced teachers will be placed inappropriate means of training teachers. * He must attract people with specialist i people. Curtis ability allowance. He hopes through under immense stress; the staff they are However, the pattern of teacher training in qualifications back into the teaching A P O is a Soweto aseto attract graduates into the working with will not have the time to offer New Zealand which is at present service by offering competitive conditions ho was also condary service who hold qualifications the support necessary; bad early teaching considered one of the best in the world of service with private enterprise. e follows the subjects that are short staffed, and experiences will lead to teachers either will certainly move in this direction, such a * He must retain teachers already in the losophy of Steve ichers into geographical areas which leaving the service altogether or moving move will not be in the interests of teacher service, which will reduce the need for ohasis on the 'unpopular’. out of the ‘shortage area’ as soon as training or teacher quality. training large numbers of teachers uth African possible; a high turnover of Punitive bonds have two other major annually, therefore reducing overall costs, centives-: U nfair and and protecting the taxpayers investment. work through the orkable Many teacher trainees ‘inexperienced’ teachers in ‘unpopular’ effects. People from lower socio economic e trade unions, areas will be unsettling to permanent staff groups will be deterred by the possible * Negotiable, secure and equitable odo not have sufficient financial conditions for teachers during training ng on within the (port will be forced to apply for these and children. threat of having to repay such huge nu n ity is positive, Another principle at stake with the amounts, to many ethnic communities the must be provided, to ensure a entives; genuine desire to teach a representative cross section of the th Africa face ortage subject or to be mobile may not introduction of this policy, is that of idea of being ‘in debt’ to this extent is d unemployment employing the best person for the job. contrary to their culture. community are attracted and able to enter major reason for application. teaching. e already The subject allow ance w ill be paid to a Those who have received the mobility To some teachers, even the most able itandards of the (ted number of graduates for example, allowance will be guaranteed employment and dedicated, classrooms will appear as 'Pie. Th e social not all-commerce teacher trainees will over all others, irrespective of their actual expensive prisons. While it would be nice Iona Hoisted abilities, strengths etc. ; townships breed ive it. There will be a differential in to think that every person who is accepted President it, and take to teachers college is goping to be a nuneration between people undertaking Expensive Prisons Teacher Trainees’ Association of New jren. satisfied and good teacher, this is not the Zealand ictly the same course of study, thus At present teacher trainees have to South African ’ nying the principle of equal pay for case. Although dedication is genuine on given the repay to the state $200 for every year of entry to teachers college there will always om e of the at home but streets - may be haven’t the money| Th e re are childri < after ! hours; they Idren and have no I EDUCATION FIGHTBACK streets and not at| in w h o beg e in desperate hildren who e tempted by the ney at golf BENEFIT DANCE ; that comes into s them. The truck | . Th e n there are re little more than] life is hell.” ad in these lese odds, who Spelling Mistakes ■ the new life ng passage from to fight for the e of South Africa ) op m ust be put to j 8 pm FRIDAY >urces by the efforts in the ke South Africa a dren regardless of | d. History will liv e ly or passivelyj 4th JULY IN CAFE nd total brutality 3 against our im e is that they

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Page 5, CRACCUM, June 30 Three years ago the World Forum of B allistic M issiles (ICBM ’s) betw een Tuvalu Peace Forces was held in Moscow and I and the Solomons caused great concern attended as the sole novice representative to delegates from the South Pacific. For from New Zealand. With about 450 the Marshallese in the North Pacific, and delegates from over 50 countries particularly the people from Ebeye Island, attending, it was an impressive event, with who live permanently beside a missile stirring speeches, discussion groups practice site, the news was received more The Pacific: covering many facets of the peace issue calmly. Kwajalein Atoll, with the largest and a strong indication that those sincere lagoon of its kind in the world, in 1961 and dedicated people had a real desire for became the target area for US ICBM’s launched from Vandenburg, California, and peace. Afterwards, a brief visit to Leningrad strengthened this feeling that the Kwajalein Missile Range (KMR) was the average Russian citizen wants peace established. In 1964 the people of the Kwajalein islands were relocated to the A . N uclear very badly, and is working very hard to small island of Ebeye in order to create achieve it. the KMR restricted missile corridor. Today However, after hearing so many speeches, liberally sprinkled with words the disease infested slum of Ebeye, with a like ‘aggression’, and ‘imperialism’, M arshallese population of about 8,000 condemning the Western world exclusively living on 70 acres contrasts starkly with Nightm are for all the world’s ills, and realising that a neighbouring Kwajalein Island, (900 acres) similar peace forum in the West would with a population of 3,000 Americans bring out the same cliches, I left Moscow living in air-conditioned luxury, who staff with a feeling of deja vu. The Western the KMR. With the Soviet Union also mentality of Russia being the aggressor, testing their ICBM’s in the Pacific, with Russian submarines prowling the inhabitants of the region surely must have Pacific sea bed, seeking confrontation and a slight feeling of insecurity - or are threatening our basic freedoms was no missile technicians and launchers Elaine Shaw of NZ Greenpeace different to Moscow thinking. The ANZUS infallible ? partners are at present egging each other One of the immediate aims of the reports on the Nuclear Free Pacific on to buy more and more war machines, Conference, to be implemented by the with even more expensive warheads, the Japanese delegation is to survey and treat Conference held in Hawaii, May 1980. better to kill their fellow human beings, the victims of the Marshall Islands, who while our friends in Moscow are planning have suffered severely from the results of the same. It seems we have learned atmospheric nuclear tests carried out in nothing in our modern, civilised world, their territory during the 1940’s and 50’s except how to destroy. and the Tahitian delegates will try to It was therefore most refreshing to gather information from the Tahitian attend the recent Nuclear Free Pacific people on their return home. Continued Conference 1980 held at Camp Kaiiani in underground nuclear tests carried out by Hawaii this May, where threats of the French at Muroroa is causing unknown aggression from invading hordes were not harm to the people of French Polynesia, mentioned, and long speeches on abstract as medical records are kept secret and concepts of peace were missing. This was their environment is being permanently an action-packed week-long meeting of polluted by radioactivity. activists from within the Pacific and Some of the direct actions proposed at Pacific Rim countries. About 55 delegates the Conference included recognition of with over half being the indigenous Bastille Day (July 14) as an international peoples of the Pacific discussed the very day of protest against the French tests, real problems facing all of us, and they with sit-ins, wearing black arm bands, etc. came up with some very interesting and The possibility of a protest boat sailing to challenging action proposals and Muroroa was suggested, and is to be resolutions. It was a week of shared investigated. The need for educational experiences, emotional responses, and m aterial such as slide sh o w s and audio increased understanding of the complex visuals was stressed by the Tahitians as a and very serious abuses perpetrated upon way to give their people inspiration and Soviet count the peoples of the Pacific, in the name of courage - a way to bring them into the alarming esc defence - progress - defence - improved international movement in the Pacific. strategy, as standard of living - defence .... With news that France had finally reduce the ‘s New Zealand’s valiant attempts to stop admitted to testing two neutron devices at 'balance of t nuclear warships from entering our Muroroa the entire conference boarded a Powers have harbours may have blurred the fact that bus en masse to Honolulu, where they willing and a our peaceful Pacific has become a region were met by 100 Japanese peace activists from re c e n t' where the entire nuclear cycle is carried and m any local H aw aiians, to participate noises remin out by governments and transnational in an impromptu demonstration and seems they « companies. From the mining of uranium to ‘die-in’ outside the French C o n su l’s At least if NĪ the storage of nuclear missiles, to nuclear offices. Unfortunately, the Consul himself games betwe power plants, to finally dumping the w as unavailable to accept the statement ostensibly th nuclear wastes in the ocean - it’s all here which the two Tahitians wished to present could solve ( in our backyard, and the experimenting to him. unemployme and expansion is gaining momentum. The The three delegates from Palau put a One sugge next two years, until the next NFP very strong case for support in their Auckland Pe Conference, will be a testing time for all efforts to get their Palau Constitution taken up mo: the delegates who now have to get the ratified in July this year, as the first step Conference message out to as many people and on the road to independence. This sailing via th groups as possible, to assist in the work Constitution which was ratified last July9 Bangor in tin of making the Pacific an independent, by 92% of the vote was subsequently launching in nuclear-free and oppression-free place to declared null and void, and revised by a submarine. L live. The previous two conferences, in 9-member body appointed by the Palau encouraged < Suva in 1975 and Ponape in 1978 had the Legislature, with the US military in mind. support and major task of drawing all the threads from This revised Constitution was turned down given to the < the various movements - anti-nuke, b y the Palau people, w h o are determined Tied in wit independent and autonomous, together, to stand by their original ideals of an is the missile so that by 1980 we now have a strong independent nation, with the first nuclear Point on Oah united group of dedicated people, and free zone in the Pacific. The Palau Islands and MX miss speaking personally I found it a unique, are the western group in the Carolines, Pacific, there heartening experience. situated about 500 miles east of the stop the nucl An important consideration for the Phillipines. After World War I they became Hawaii highli delegates was the Treaty for a Nuclear a Japanese mandate, until captured by the diabolical da Free Pacific, which had been drafted at US in 1944, and in 1947 they became part of Hawaii: fo the Suva Conference, and reaffirmed in of the Trust Territory of Micronesia, radioactive si Ponape. It w a s decided to adopt it as a administered by the US. With its excellent discharged ir Peoples’ Charter for a Nuclear Free harbours, Palau is seen as an ideal Trident 1964-1973 the Pacific, on which an intergovernmental base - gjven that the US still has control gallons of ra< treaty would be based. This concept over it, hence the need for strong support Pearl Harbou follows the tradition of other peoples’ from the entire Pacific region to ensure installations declarations throughout history, including that the US does not interfere in anyway 25% of Oahu the Magna Carta and the UN Universal to obstruct the Palauans’ democratic right situated on, i Declaration of Human Rights. Two to choose. A strong movement was to the purpos recommendations were also added to the initiated at the Conference, to give Smith, on O a Charter - that governments of the region maximum attention to the problem. Pacific (CINC impose an immediate ban on the transit, Throughout the whole conference, an weapons and storage and disposal of nuclear waste in insidious theme began to emerge - the operations th the Pacific: and that Hawaii, Japan and Coming of Trident, with its attendant need includes 50% the Phillipines be included in the nuclear for forward bases, and the need for it to 2/3 of the woi free zone. be deployed in the Pacific. The US Navy’s nuclear-powe Some of the actions need immediate latest ‘toy’ js to be tested in the Atlantic home-ported attention, as there is at present strong about now, and will be arriving in the than 3,000 nu pressure being put on Pacific people to Pacific during m id-to-late 1981, armed with Oahu (althoui give up their land - a Land Rights Trident II missiles which have a 300 ft confirm nor d Agreement formulated by the US is asking accuracy over a 6,000 mile flight. Because weapons are the people of Palau to give up 32,000 of its great length (560 ft) this monstrosity over resident! acres of their valuable land, rent free, for needs a very deep anchorage, very large these same r< military use. Another island in Micronesia harbours and (preferably) very friendly knowledge of with a great future is Tinian, the island hosts who will not object to their visitors you don’t kne airbase from which planes took off in 1945 radiating their sea waters, and who will Airport is situ to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US accept w ithout question a technological Base, and coi plans to build a $300 million airbase and marvel with a first strike capacity, which space with m ^ supply centre, with possible storage for could launch its host country into the which is a mr nuclear weapons on this island of about world’s first nuclear war - possibly bunker and m 1,000 people. accidentally, by a faulty computer.... 1 within one mi During the week at Camp Kaiiani, news B ecause of this ultim ate first strike take-off paths of Chinese plans to test Inter-Continental capability, the Trident submarine and its landing runwe Page 6, C R A C C U M , Ju n e 30 makes you fe» ietw een Tuvalu jreat concern i Pacific. For h Pacific, and ) E b eye Island, e a missile received more h the largest >rtd, in 1961 US ICBM ’s , California, and e (KMR) was opie of the >cated to the der to create corridor. Today Df Ebeye, with a about 8,000 s starkly with and, (900 acres) Am ericans :ury, w ho staff Inion also Pacific, urely must have :y - or are m etiers

ms of the inted by the survey and treat Islands, who n the results of carried out in I40’s and 50’s will try to e Tahitian

ns proposed at acognition of i international French tests, arm bands, etc. t boat sailing to md is to be educational iws and audio ie Tahitians as a ispiration and Soviet counterpart, the SS-20 represent an landing procedures in your Air New ie m into the nuclear power plant within the US since 1975. alarming escalation in the nuclear overkill Zealand DC 10, on your holiday to a Greenpeace Directors in London, giving the Pacific, Disposal of wastes from these plants, strategy, as their pinpoint accuracy will Pacific paradise ! Honolulu International them their full support for their trail, and lad finally the dirtiest and least solvable of all the reduce the ‘stability’ of the existing Airport has been given a red star rating, condemning the dangerous practise of problems besetting the nuclear industry, iutron devices at ‘balance of terror’. In effect, the S uper with warnings of a black star rating transporting nuclear spent fuel by sea. remains a scientific nightmare, so jnce boarded a Powers have finally adm itted that they are because of its heavy mix of commercial, A quiet Benedictine nun, Sister Aida i, w here they present official thinking is to reproc ess it, willing and able to start a nuclear war, and military, inter-island and private aircraft. was one of the three delegates from the store it«or dump it until a solution can be a peace activists from recent world events, with threatening Airport officials have said it’s not a Phillipines; another has been banned from found. >, to participate noises rem iniscent of the C old W a r Era, it question of whether, but simply when, a his country because of his work against ration and seems they are just dying to have a go ! collision occurs. And the most obvious place for all these the inhumane Marcos martial law options is, of course, the Pacific Ocean. At i C o n su l’s At least if N Z becom es em broiled in w ar In February and March this year, a dictatorship. The concerns of the present, spent fuel from Japan is C onsul himself games between the US and the USSR, drastic change in Japan’s military stance Phillippinos are many, but are mostly transported via the Pacific Ocean to the ; the statement ostensibly through our A N Z U S alliance, it occurred, with scant mention in our news connected with US and Japanese foreign UK and France for reprocessing, but fished to present could solve one of our problems - media, and hardly a ripple of public investment in their country, with an unemployment. Join Up ! Join Up ! Japan has been insisting on getting its enormous gap between rich and poor, and interest. The ‘Rim of the Pacific Exercise’ own reprocessing plant, even though m Palau put a One suggestion initiated by the or RIMPAC has already taken place seven a resulting need for the US to prop up the art in their costs are high. So there are strong Auckland Peace Squadron, which was times since 1971, with the participation of regime. One of their more immediate Constitution taken up most enthusiastically by the suspicions that Japan’s desire to problems is the $1.1 billion Westinghouse the ANZUSZ Treaty countries, plus reprocess her own - and other Asian is the first step Conference was the voyage of a vessel Canada, but 1980 signalled Japan’s debut nuclear power plant being built on the ice. This countries’ nuclear wastes - is to possess slopes of an active volcano, Mt Natib, sailing via the Pacific Islands, to reach into this large-scale military arena. itified last July9 Bangor in tim e for the attem pted plutonium, which is obtained from which is situated on an earthquake fault, After World War lj the Japan/US Security reprocessing, and thus be able to produce ubsequently launching in 1981 of the Trident Treaty was signed, and Japan’s and last experienced a tidal wave in 1971. d revised by a her own nuclear weapons. However, to submarine. Local actions w ould be Self-Defence Force (SDF) was set up as an Sister Aida said, “There is no need for I by the Palau encouraged along the Trident route, with stop such devious designs, the US has such a plant, for a country like the armed military unit to defend Japanese plans to turn one of the islands in nilitary in mind, support and the widest possible publicity territory, or, at most, to carry out military Phillipines, which is poor, and we have Micronesia into an international centre for was turned down given to the action. operations near their o w n territory. In 1952, alternative sources of energy”. It will are determined Tied in with the whole missile operation spent fuel storage. Palmyra Island, south certainly not be the poor who benefit from .the day after the Japan/US Security of Hawaii was mentioned at last year’s ideals of an is the missile tracking system at Kaena Treaty was signed, the ANZUS Treaty was this plant, but the multinationals who keep the first nuclear Point on Oahu, Hawaii, so with the Trident South Pacific Forum as a possible storage the poor in their place. We all shared in created specifically because of possible site - an idea unanimously condemned by he Palau Islands and MX missiles to be tested in the Japanese aggression. the sorrow of the Phillipino people, as they the Carolines, Pacific, there is an even greater urgency to all the South Pacific independent Heads heard at the conference of the murder of S o now, in 1980, our brave A N Z U S of State. east of the stop the nuclear spiral. This link with forces, with Canadian collusion, have been one of their leaders at the hands of the far I they became Hawaii highlights the very real and Both the US and Japan have in the past military. A letter of sorrow and anger, exercising for nearly a month with our old dumped quantities of radioactive material il captured by the diabolical dangers faced b y the residents enemy, in the same region where their addressed to the American people, and into the ocean, but with a permanent ley became part of Hawaii: for example 2,200 drums of navies fought 35 years ago - the central signed by the three Phillipine delegates, licronesia, radioactive solid w aste have been directly solution no nearer, and Japan fast running and endorsed by the conference was sent Pacific Ocean. This time, they have joined out of storage sites, the race is on. Vith its excellent discharged into H aw aiin waters: betw een in operations such as jamming enemy as a protest at the licencing of the US s an ideal Trident 1964-1973 the Navy dumped 4,843,000 Recently the Japanese government Westinghouse nuclear to the Phillipines. electronic equipment, and integrating announced plans to dump low-level still has control gallons of radioactive liquid waste into anti-submarine torpedo and counter-vessel A first positive step towards »r strong support Pearl Harbour; there are about 110 military radioactive wastes in the northwest implementing the various actions is the actions. Such jolly Boys Own adventures Pacific by early 1981. Such wastes, gion to ensure installations in the H aw aiin islands, and will have alarming consequences for Pacific Concerns Resource Centre w hich hazardous for up to 240,000 years, must be rfere in any way 25% of Oahu, the island Honolulu is Pacific peoples, as there are strong is being established in Honolulu, to act :- kept isolated from the environment. democratic right situated on, is controlled by and devoted suspicions that these RIMPAC exercises 1) As a Communications and Information Fortunately, we are assured, the dumping rnient was to the purposes of war. At Camp H.M. are aimed at gaining control of the Pacific transfer. is only experimental. Unfortunately, the :e, to give Smith, on Oahu, the Commander-in-Chief, Ocean, by Pacific Rim countries. And 2) Develop Educational Resources. Japanese Government has no plans for 3 problem, Pacific (CINCPAC) controls all US nuclear Japan, with one of the world’s largest 3) Co-ordinate Actions. retrieving the cement containers which will conference, an weapons and directs all US m ilitary navies, w ith a 200-vessel fleet and 150 4) Co-ordinate Fundraising. be subject to extreme pressures at 13,500 > em erge • the operations throughout an area that airplanes joining in as an active The Centre has a steering committee of feet under water. There is also no plan for ts attendant need includes 50% of the earth’s surface, and seven, from the various regions in the participant gives credence to this belief. monitoring future leakage from the e need for it to 2/3 of the world’s population. Twenty-three To gain such control, valuable and Pacific, and initial financial pledges of c. Th e US Navy’s cannisters. The dumping solution was $31,000 were made for the setting up, nuclear-powered submarines are historic islands such as Kaho’olawe in common knowledge in Japan and the US 1 in the Atlantic home-ported at Pearl Harbour, and more Hawaii are being used for military operation and programme of the Centre. •riving in the early this year, and formal protests were (The six NZ delegates pledged $5,000 as than 3,000 nuclear weapons are stored at bombing practice - NZ naval frigates issued by several nations, including Palau, 1981, armed with Oahu (although the military will neither happily bombed ancestral Hawaiian burial an initial goal, the first $2,500 to be sent have a 300 ft the Northern Marianas and American by A u g u st 1st, 1980) Th e w hole action confirm nor deny their presence). These grounds on Kaho’olawe earlier this year. Samoa. But it was not until late May that le flight. Because weapons are transported through and Which raises a whole host of moral and proposal is to be reviewed in two years I this monstrosity the NZ Government became aware of time, at the next NFP Conference, which over residential communities, although ethical issues, including the breaking of Japan’s intentions, and then only through rage, very large these same residents are denied any the Japan/US Treaty agreement, in will be held either in Tahiti, or Vanuatu very friendly the Australian Federal Government. NZ (the New Hebrides). knowledge of what is happening - what response to these alarming problems, the had not been consulted or informed t to their visitors you don’t know can’t harm you ! Honolulu conference delegates have formed a If the problems outlined here so far 3, and who will j officially by the Japanese Government at seem a little far-fetched and Orwellian, Airport is situated right next to Hickam Air RIMPAC network, with representatives all. a technological Base, and commercial flights share air from all participating countries, including they are only the tip of the polluted capacity, which Spent nuclear fuel from Japan got a iceberg, and many have not been space with military hardware. West Lock, NZ, to increase our knowledge, and plan mention from an unexpected source jntry into the actions against such exercises. mentioned at all. Twenty-six resolutions which is a major nuclear weapon storage during the conference. Last March the - possibly Japan has 21 nuclear power plants in and actions were approved, covering the bunker and maintenance facilityJs located Greenpeace organisation was involved in. com p u ter... ] operation, 7 under construction, and 7 whole nuclear spectrum, plus many human within one mile of the approach and an action against the shipment of spent te first strike more being planned. The US is trying hard and land rights issues. There was a feeling take-off paths for one of the principal nuclear fuel to Europe - an action which bm arine and its landing runways at Honolulu - kinda to sell more to the countries of Asia, as at Camp Kailani that as a united band, resulted in a court case in London in May. makes you feei secure while preparing for neither Westinghouse nor General Electric, together we could beat back the swords because of domestic pressure, have sold a The delegates sent a telegram to the three into ploughshares. But we need your help. 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Aarrch... but ls it Art? Pictured at the Architecture/Art School Party: Gayle, Professor A.A. Back: Gary Shuker, Patrick Hanly; Front; Ashley Haywood, Marie Shannon, Alan Moyes, Wild, Sid Vicious. Miss Anastasia Noble, Jenneke Vandenberg. ELECTION TRIVIA Well, it’s soon going to be that time of same with mucn tne same result. Kevin Fiona Cameron is this years editor of Finally, that supposedly redundant the year again. In three weeks time the Hague is the present incumbent. Wayne TITWTI and also edited this years position, Treasurer. We have two elections for President, Administrative McIntosh is this years Sports Club Rep. Orientation Handbook. Mark Kerly is this nominations, namely: Vice-President, Education Vice-President, Mark Schofield is the official FTS years assistant editor at CRACCUM and is Jonathan Blakeman and Treasurer take place. After the apathy candidate. (Incidentally, for all the strongly rumoured to be a member of the Bhaady Miller of last year we seem to have an newcomers to University, FTS stands for Mollusc party. Peter Simonovich is yet Jonathan Blakeman is a newcomer and abundance of candidates. Fuck The System, an organisation another FTS c andidate, so that leaves no-one seems to know much about him. For President, we have : dedicated to ruining everything, including Michael Webber. This is one area where Bhaady Miller, on the other hand, is this John Broad themselves.) Ivan Sowry is this years EVP No Confidence appears to stand a good years Cultural Affairs Officer, our Gavin Callagher and is very strongly involved with chance. representative on various senate Education Fightback. Dermot Cooke EVP could prove very one sided indeed. subcommittees and a fourth year Of the serious candidates we at Ross Davidson This years candidates: Commerce student. What more needs to CRACCUM feel it is best to remain be said ? Rodney Dissmeyer Stephen Mitchell impartial. Their records speak for Kevin Hague Grant Robbins So that summises briefly this years themselves and I feel that it is best that Wayne McIntosh Heather Worth candidates. For detailed policy you read their policy statements, with a Mark Schofield Stephen Mitchell is that well known statements, photos and C RACCUM’s grain of salt, and choose from there. Ivan S o w ry all-purpose candidate. He has stood for official stance you’ll just have to wait for There are one or two well known names many positions in the past three years and our election special coming out on July AVP next. With four newcomers this there ! John Broad is this years has never been elected. Perhaps people 21. H.R. Haldeman International Affairs Officer and a promises to be an intriguing race. Note: At present there is a further Candidates: just don’t like him. Grant Robbins is representative on Senate. Gavin Callagher believed to be yet another FTS candidate, nomination for the position of President, is the official Engineers candidate. Dermot Fiona Cameron that of the Triumvirate, which is awaiting a Mark Kerly so the only really strong contender is Cooke is running on the Mollusc ticket. Heather Worth. Heather has worked in the Solititor’s ruling as to its validity. Tom Peter Simonovich Ross Davidson ran last year without area of Education Fightback and has also Bassett, Daryl Carey and David Kirkpatrick Michael Webber success. Rodney Dissmeyer did much the attended Exec regularly, s o ...... strike again! ‘OFFICIALLY DEAD’ Jorge Videla, Lieutenant General and In February of this year, Amnesty disappearances of students from President of Argentina arrived in New ' International took testimony that has ^universities in Argentina. At the moment I Zealand on a warm Wednesday morning to since been cross-checked and found to be have a list of 25 students all of whom have the sound of a N.Z. army band and a accurate from two men who escaped from Ibeen associated in some way with 21-gun salute. The day before his arrival secret detention camps in Argentina and Auckland University. Contact can no he was described in Parliament during an who described the pattern of systematic longer be kept with them as they have all address in reply debate as ‘a fascist torture and brutality culminating, they ‘disappeared’. dictator under whom human rights did not believe, in death for most of the people In particular it was pleaded, exist’. Met by the acting Prime Minister, they met in the camps. They told of torture in the letter, for the release of Gustavo Mr Talboys, the Chief Justice of New done under the supervision of a doctor, Westerkamp who was studying economics Zealand Sir Ronald Davison, deputizing for who checked blood-pressure and reflexes. at the University of Buenos Aires. the Governor-General, and other ‘We’re not going to let you die before time. Confirmed reports have reached this dignatories, the President inspected the W e’ve got all the time in the world, and campus of his ill-treatment; since being guard of honour before being whisked this will go on indefinitely.’ When the seized he has been given electric shocks away to the Town House Hotel, where he victim was on the verge of death the and beaten on the genitals with chains. It was to spend a 31 hr period of rest, a torture stopped and the victim revived. The has been established that at present he is stop-over on his way home from a State doctor injected serum and vitamins, and held at Rawson Prison in Argentina visit to China. when thê victim had more or less without charge or trial, under inhumane General Videla heads a junta which recovered they began torture again. conditions. toppled the Peron Government in a coup On the night of June 10 the day before I spoke very briefly to Mr llmas, the in March 1976. Since then economic the General’s visit began, Auckland Argentinean Minister of Information. Due conditions within the Argentine have University students organised banners and to a bomb scare at the Inter-Continental at improved, the military strength of its leaflets for a protest demonstration at the the time of our meeting, we managed only armed forces incresed, while human rights airport. The next morning 8 students to exchange a few brief words. When have been demolished. travelled to the airport, joined by 7 pupils asked of the situation in Argentina he Since the General’s coming to power from Selwyn College, and protested the e xpressed ‘no vie w ’. more than 15,000 men, women and General’s visit. It wasn’t a big protest; at Students are often criticised as being children have disappeared. In September first thpy went to the wrong airport stirrers and for poking their noses into 1979 the regime introduced legislation that terminal (the President’s International political arenas which do not directly declared all missing persons as ‘officially plane arriving at the Domestic Terminal), concern them. They should be, it is said, dead’. Campaigns within Argentina to and had to run to the right terminal. at University to study and study alone. The p*ress the authorities into giving details of Security didn’t bother with them and there fact that they are involved in being the fate of those who have diappeared were few people to give leaflets to. More educated means that they should be more failed. The last attempt was to petition the members of the press were present than aware when education comes under Argentinian Supreme Court, which ordered The total absence of left-wing violence university students protesting. But the attack. the Court of Appeal to investigate. This during the period of the 1978 World Cup point was made, some New Zealanders Education is international. There are no court upheld all applications' of habeas held in Argentina tended to confirm that were opposed to the visit of the General political divisions; when it comes under corpus for 100 persons, declared ‘officially the Government had adequate control over because of his disregard for human rights. attack anywhere in the world then we dead’, but found to be held in prisons at the country. It also heightened the Amnesty International held 2 hour vigils in should show our disapproval. General the disposal of the executive power. The anomalous fact that right-wing violence- the lunch hour on the day of the General’s Videla is responsible for the tortures and court was overruled. Amnesty International abduction and murder have continued to arrival in New Zealand. They stood silent, extermination of students, not New intervened on behalf of 100 other persons flourish unchecked. The appearance of 12 holding symbolic burning candles. Zealand students but students just the who had been abducted, securing their bodies which were washed ashore in I took a letter written on behalf of the wme, and that is why we have to make a release. Foreign governments have offered December 1978 at a seaside resort of students of Auckland University, to the stand against such people. visas for political asylum to over 4000 of Santa Teresita revived fears that many hotel where the General was staying. It Jo h n Broad the ‘officially dead’. Few were granted. ‘disappeared’ prisoners are murdered. expressed concern over the International Affairs Officer Page 8, CRACCUM, June 30 FOR THE CIVIC MINDED

Craccunfs Guide To The 1900 F in Festival

Movies. For those of us who live for them, the fortnight in July, when the Festival Society parades forty odd for our edification comas 8 the proverbial oasis In something of a cinematic desert. For those who get off on prancing around muddy paddocks in tlaht black society’s young offenders in Borstals, but horts, or jumping out of planes hangino from a sheet, the idea of closeting oneself £ a blackeSou hall to? half ozone’s wak no hours it states its case so vigorously that it can probably seems tKe height of madness. Perhaps. But when you can sink Info a seat and \SSS%& a t^ th e cinema ffs to hSd hardly help looking like sensationalism.” - some magic for you. SS Gordon Cow, Films & Filming. «■■■v i v w i w i w w i i v h i 19 saw IV99 OOI^ ______Interesting™ 8 C tand f £ Iona £ IZSawaited lfiB titles G to &puzzle S Sand ttS exult & over. S r “ "Ul0ld hun(w dw""™ «'«" **■ ■“ * • — on... There .re m,„, ectors of the fl RohmeH. ‘PercweTVnd FirteblnSr'wiih'fF»h T he MartaMlrf'Mert'aViwln",TM arriaor______h_____ ^ la«,al8one_____ from directors of h«. prominence^! nole,am ent 0 ..» ,.« .',•Owningnlng Night’,N ig h *sSSchlondorff’s liS S K T h e Tin OOutuV yYour™ ’" " ' " Handkerchiefs , Wolfgang Petersen s Black And White Like Day And Night’, Relnhard Hauff’s ‘Knife In the Head’ Valerio Zuriinl’s ‘DoseDesert Crying Woman France 1978 Director Jacques Doillon Saturday 12 July at 11.15 a.m. i&re.ton™ S U L R SO Bka S Z r» . . . . . i i 7. I. lJLlh8-?,,OAl ? y .m°.nif!- d But u i iiIf festival rime«Im. isl a a , causeceua. rorlor celebration, It should also be a time for reflection ■ ^specifically reflection on the vagaries of film marketing and distribution. Last year, the Festival ‘‘J hx® plot is !ami'liar. A man of about raised this year.Whateverr^ha hnlii!!? V«J[en8 criticized In these pages on a number of points; It appears that these could still be thirty-five, a painter who is beginning to The point I want to makeA is simply this: t why is t It, that n when so many r of the mfilms are'obtained through* « K a^ocal' . then,..distributor...... and make a living at it, loves his wife and their w aequ n yreeea commercally anyway, the merits, would be much better small daughter, and sees no reason why showcased a. a cinema tha.5 5 ^ tS B S S , In M * . ' i l f l E , . ' he should not be able to move back arid forth between women, depending upon MM, «fat w!e7o!if .Ming *’ roUnd' ,,,n“ ,rom 0,h w coun,ries Probab|y couldn’t male « "o n a Queen where he is - country (wife), or in Paris _ For r;although • tha . concept" V r ofT a U Y . l ^ioooiiia of film__ .______bom around tlw world. It should not m e.n.ha, anythin, no. In (mistress). While the mistress is willinq to English (or even a lot of product that ls), ls Immediately fair game. A case In point is ‘Dear Inspector^bv Phiiiooe de Broca An accept the situation, the wife cannot, and mornioualy enjoyable end undoubtedly talented director, d e Wroca a makesmake. filmsfilm, of an accessibleacw sfileflS (i.e. . commercial)co m m eX enough nature to it is she who is the ‘crying woman’.Doillon — theatre manager taking a gamble with it. has taken his shopworn material and cut it a time slot that might more rewardlngly be filled by the into small, revealing pieces of narrative number of films. A festival is a showcase for films that Me gives us fragments of conversations brief scenes of cooking, painting, making lightweightS85ietoh?aKlīn^?-,f trifles (In order to guarantee 8peak.8 1,1 commercial 0f the cvrnt success) at the in expense of thaM the Festival’s h™ ^ avowed aims love - all of which are in chroriologicaf order, but none of which are immediately ortTi^’o^d sequential. Therefore, one must pay more as always • commercial conalderatlona (specifically big Bucks) com before the cinemagoera Interests ° ■ 00 ,ha* ' * than ordinary attention in order to make the necessary connections. Doillon has said that his method came from wanting theThla little gukt91. booklet organized which haYr»strirt«HT*«Ai# . . «ornethlng ot . aupplem.nt^urn-.ltetn.tlve to,u the o»«ciaiofficial programme,programme. itIt snouidshould be read inIn conjunctionconlunclton wltfwith luoc IcHiiu n u o iio M n - ifti res,r,cteo Itself largely this year to plot resumes. I have assembled as much alternative critical comment as to concentrate on the emotions and states

wss readily available, making no comment myself on the merits of the films to be shown. HooefullvFW.AA..J what K IIH I thislino auide^UIMO willw ill doVIV, 19is sunnastau yu o o i ot mind of the characters rather than possible worthies. Of course, for censorship certificates and changes to the p rM ra S the Festrestival vi Society will have to ! be ’ consulted. “ merely the story of dissolving That said, welcome to the wonderful world of cinema. ^ ' resuvi relationships. Much of the dialogue is improvised; a good many of the situations John Carrigan are based on the lives of Doillon and his admirable cast of newcomers. Perhaps the , P10^ Pleasing thing about the film is its honesty, its toughness, its refusal to take the easy way”. - Film Comment l. ‘Jacques Doillon, France's latest rising Opening Night ta ent, presents the breakup of a U.S.A. relationship with none of moviedom’s I usual melodramatic hysteria”. Director John Cassavettes Friday 11 July at 11.00 a.m. The Night The Prowler "*** Stunning performances ail round Australia 1979 as John Cassavettes uses the rehearsal of Director Jim Sharman a play to confront the theatre with his own Saturday 12 July at 2.15 p.m. cinema verite, and to explore the Stanislavsky/Brecht acting mystiques from “The British-born novelist and every possible angle” . - Sight and Sound playwnght Patrick White has spent much “John Cassavettes is a strange and fm r ch‘ldhood and adult life in Australia beautiful and haunted improvisational a milieu his work depicts with often American director, at best one of the devasting accuracy.He won the Nobel Prize best”. - John Coleman, The New for literature in 1973, though on the Statesman. "Despite the overall skill of Cassavette’s W nTL® of thif film’ scriPted by himself t n « hSkOWT Short st°ry, jt would be hard as director, some of his adjuncts to to see why. Technically inept, appallingly realism verge on the precious: for 8Rn?2vMnd direDcted Jim Sharman - of instance, the emphasised presence of Rocky Horror Picture Show’ fame - like a Peter Falk and Peter Bogdanovich in the M-^karu dream that won’t go away ‘The first night audience, and the deafening Night The Prowler’ runs an uneasy course roar, as of an avalanche, when the film ho overt ^parocly (at least I took it to cuts from an interior to street traffic. The be parody), naive social comment and cast, however, is entirely admirable, with Freudian-Dada symbolism ... engaging performances from Joan “Jhe whole thing is obviously a put-on Blondell as the playwright, Ben Gazarra as and the final joke may be on me for not the director, and Cassavettes himself as appreciating the satirical nuances to the an actor who has to share with the star full, but from where I was sitting it looked her most taxing scene.” - Gordon Cow, like such an unprofessional job that even Films & Filming. the funnier moments began to look accidental. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs “Sharman himself describes the tone of France 1978 the film s later stages as ‘mythic and Director Bertrand Blier serious’. Well, I have news for him. It is Friday 11 July at 2.15/8.15 p.m. neither. But, on the other hand, the film does, in a very strange way, have a “Though unpalatably sexist in its r 1 tendency to fascinate. The conception of the female character (Carole unexpectedness of the events, the curious Laure), a generally engaging if basically compulsion of seeing (and hearing) a cast old fashioned comedy. Director Bertrand that can t act its way out of a paper bag Blier takes Godard’s conceit from ‘Une putting back the New Wave in Australian Femme et Une Femme’ - a man ‘offers’ his cinema to the years before ‘Whiplash’ and girl friend to a total stranger - to its Skippy and a director, who drops in ;il)lopical conclusion.” - Sight and Sound flashbacks and subliminal fantasies like “The nuttiest film in some time - and tombstones in the desert, make the film one of the more high and low surreal enjoyable in spite of itself.” - Julian Cox, cinematic occasions - proves to be a Films & Filming French piece of dressing: and am I ever surprised ? Bertrand Blier’s ‘Get Out Your Autumn Sonata Handkerchiefs* is a laugh a minute, a n/eep the next, a groan the next. It’s one of West Germany those get-together movies which harks Director Ingmar Bergman back to a very strong and interesting FLOE and lies* tw o husbands Saturday 12 July at 5.15/8.15p.m. French tradition of cinema, the easy, d‘f8Ct0d * BRUfW BARRETO * A Carnaval/NewYorker companionable Renoir courtyard stuff: but “ Ingmar Bergman’s recent film’s such with that zany difference which is all too as ‘Face to Face’ have seemed more like likely a reflection of our zanier, less genial clinical explorations of his own conflicts times.” - John Coleman, New Statesman and anxieties than works of art. With ‘Autumn Sonata’ he is firmly back in the Scum situations violence is less a choice than a “ *Where the banned BBC-TV version of world, looking at other people with that Britain 1979 necessaity; as such it ranks with ‘Scum’ sailed close to the wind with its merciless compassion that marks his work Director Alan Claike Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’.” - Sight and approach to Borstal abuses, this film at its best. ‘Autumn Sonata’ is the best Friday 11 July at 11 p.m. Sound. reworking loses much of its credibility by Bergman film in years, filled with his “ If there is a case for censorships stereotyping the characters and lingering liberating mixture of violence and "Unrelentingly violent, the film within a democracy, ‘Scum’ is it. It’s a far too lovingly over physical damages. tenderness that is the sign of emotional documents the rise of Carlin, a new arrival brutally and pruriently made study of life Roy Minton’s script, however, retains its truth. And while giving us his best, to the position of ‘daddy’, the unofficial ’ in a British borstal, and it links its outrage and the key central duologue Bergman restores Ingrid Bergman to her boss of the (Borstal) institution. But Scum’ authority figures and juvenile offenders in between warder and inmate, its proper place as one of the finest of screen does definitely succeed on one level that an unbroken circuit of violence and socio-dramatic power” . - Sight and Sound. actresses, teaming her with the superb Liv has received little attention: as a sadism which makes it hard for an Ullman, in a pairing that simply must not unaligned audience to take moral sides” - “ No doubt ‘Scum’ is intended to be a be missed.” - Jack Kroll, Newsweek. presentation of the unpalatable and watchdog movie, throwing conscientious problematical truth that in certain Cinema Papers. “ It is sombre, heavy going: overloaded doubt upon the validity ot incarcerating dicing with family failures. But, to turn the M ovieM ovieM ovieM ovieM ovieMovi phrase, on tt.j face of it, a very great deal Man of Marble Viva Italia works. Ingmar Bergman brings Sven Poland 1977 Italy 1978 Nykvist’s camera in perilously close on Directors: Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, faces, and the gamble comes off again. Director Andrzej Wajda Tuesday 15 July at 2.15/8.15 p.m. Ettore Scola One is used to Liv Ullman (outside of Wednesday 16 July at 2.15/8.15 p.m. Hollywood) being nothing les than idlers Of The Fertile Valley “ The most succinct way to describe superlative, here a rancorous, gentle, Greece 1978 Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto raging and smoothing ugly duckling with a ‘Man Of Marble’ is as an East European Director Mikos Panayatopouios ‘Citizen Kane’. Thematically, Andrzej Sordi and Ugo Tognazzi star in some of muddled parcel of accusations to unpack. these nine stories by three Italian The triumph, therefore, turns up in the Monday 14 July at 11.15 a.m. Wajda’s film is concerned with the mechanics of mythology: it explores the directors, all of whom take a bitingly vibrant, glowing, speaking while mute face satirical look at contemporary Italian life of Ingrid Bergman.” - John Coleman, The “ A satire on the culture of the wealthy. apparatus whereby a public image is A family of four men go to a country created, modified and demolished, while and attitudes. New Statesman. “ A picture deserving the highest praise. “ The explicit tone of directorial estate to live off their inheritance, simultaneously pursuing its own equipped with a main to take care of all investigation into the reality behind the Excellent performances, and direction that paranoia, which provided ‘The Serpents cannot be faulted.” - New York Post. Egg’ with such a powerful subtext, is their needs. Their idleness gradually official myths. Like ‘Kane’, it is concerned invades their lives until they take with the power of the media to manipulate “ Gassman, Sordi and Tognazzi again evident, but in the new film it has to represent for Italy, the richest comic a large extent been both dissipated and permanently to their beds. and even manufacture truth; but whereas Panayotopoulos’ moral tale is mildly Welles was conducting a many levelled resources in the cinema today.” - Andrew brought under control Bergman has often Sarris, Village Voice. reconstituted his themes in unexpected amusing for a while, then becomes enquiry into the power of the press, the new forms, yet the strong impression increasingly soporific.” - Cinema Papers. medium with which Wajda is centrally gained from ‘Augumn Sonata’ is of a twice concerned is that of the motion picture. Tattooed Tears told plot and a mode that is itself second His film, even more than ‘Kane’, becomes U.S.A. 1978 hand: as though Bergman had for once Insiang a technical demonstration of his subject Directors: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill simply set himself a task. Philippines matter: its virtuoso style has a total Wednesday 16 July at 5.15 p.m. At the end of the film one does not feel thematic relevance” . - Jan Dawson, Sight as one did at the end of, to take two Director Lino Brocka and Sound “ Every shot - and every choice of shot - recent comparable examples, ‘Face to Monday 14 July at 2.15 p.m. “ It would not be enough just to say that treats its subject with intelligence, insight Face’ and ‘Scenes From A Marriage’ - that the film is made in a documentary style, and compassion.” - Film the character’s have been substantially No more information than is contained that it includes footage from Polish “ The makers spent three months affected by their experiences. (For) at the in the booklet is available. newsreels of twenty five years ago, arid wandering unrestricted through a end of Autumn Sonata, when Ullman that it provides a panorama of Californian prison. The film explores the writes that she will love her mother contemporary Poland. Wajda has also routines and the agonies of prison life; despite everything, somehow the proposal Black And White In Colour written a human drama, about the from the daily round, of meals and cell lacks the inexorability of the similar relationship between the individual and inspections to the sudden, sporadic moments in the other two film’s. Bergman France 1976 society, the dialectics of history, itself. It is eruptions of violence or rebellion. The has not this time established the absolute Director Jean-Jacques Annaud up to the cinemagoer whether he gives material is so vivid and virulent that the necessity for love as the only solution to Monday 14 July at 5.15/8.15 p.m. credence to the dramatic whole or just to mind almost bends before it in the otherwise doomed human one of its many elements.” - Ryszard all-believing awe. But not quite; scepticism predicament.” - John Pym, Sight and “ Annaud never seems in any doubt as Koniczek, International Film Guide stirs. Are the prisoners and wardens really Sound. to what he wants to say and how he wants behaving as they would were the camera to say it. His sense of farce complements “ After the melodramatics of ‘The not on them ? Are the guards always his sense of irony and vice versa, so that unfailingly patient ? And do the prisoners Serpents Egg’ Ingmar Bergman returns to even when his players are doing comedy, Movie, Movie the area of enclosed and intense always answer back with such racey they don’t upset the essential mood, U.S.A. fearless repartee ? ‘Tattoed Tears’ seems psychological study that typifies so much which is one of understatement. The Director Stanley Donen of his best work. Sven Nykvist’s less and less, as one watches, an exercise disadvantage in this approach is that Tuesday 15 July at 5.30 p.m. in cinematic truth, more and more an cinemetography establishes a deceptively while it has produced a film rich in comic quiet mood in shades of brown, while the essay in multiple self-propaganda.” - detail, it has also meant a lack of dramatic “ Stanley Donen’s affectionate, parodic American Film two leading players, each at her best, high points. Where there ought to be a ‘Movie, Movie,’ taking off from a nostalgic bring a powerful emotional range to their climax, there is one very good joke, and backlash on foresight, surely inspired by a portrayal of a needful yet impossible you come away feeling that although lot of decent and rubbish stuff being relationship. Perhaps the film tends to sag much has been said and said in an resurrected on the telly, is exactly what it a little around its centre, giving one time interesting and entertaining way, Annaud claims to be - movie, movie: a double bill. to doubt whether the two pathetic souls might have punched things home more The two pieces have been written with a are really deserving of all this attention, forcefully than he has without doing any diabolically good ear to the oldies by Larry but the moment passes and the urge to Mouth To Mouth damage to the films stylishness. It is as if Gelbart and Sheldon Keller. I had a Australia 1978 watch and indeed to sympathise grows he is so pleased at the atmosphere he has notebook of quotes - but why spoil your strong again: it is hardly surprising, with created and so keen to produce a fun.” - John Coleman, The New Statesman Director: John Duigan such experienced and superlative talents well-rounded work of art with a discernible “ *A recreation of the cheap Thursday 17 July at 11.15 a.m. at work.” - Gordon Cow, Films & Filming message gracefully conveyed that he has programmers of yesteryear, in which x * deliberately damped down his own George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Eli Four unemployed teenagers set up house ■^feelings, and as a result, the film often Wallach and others act out an in an abandoned warehouse, where jigijseemed laboured. Yet it is a supremely inspirational boxing melodrama and a survival becomes a matter of dole cheques SSclever production - and a very funny one. A backstage musical. Director Stanley and cunning. true political comedy, and they’re rare Donen gets the balance of parody and “ Honesty and concern combined with The First Time enough.” - Sandra Hall pastiche right, but the script is heavy p;erceptiveness, satisfying dramatic France “ Black And White In Colour is the handed.” - Sight and Sound structure, and a visual quality that would Director: Claude Berri punning title of a gently satirical film be admirable in a film with four times this Sunday 13 July at 11.00 a.m. about race which is all the more one’s extraordinarily modest budget, they persuasive for not being doctrinaire. A wry ...... are a cause for rejoicing.” - Cinema jsjg Papers. “ According to the press handout this, cautionary tale which owes a lot to Claude Berri’s seventh film, was one of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s skilful handling of The Trout France’s major hits. I don’t understand the tone.” - Gavin Millar, The Listener “ This is one more neatly enclosed little ■v' Spain 1978 why, but perhaps it has suffered from the Director: Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez Channel crossing. The theme, adolescent parable, like ‘King of Hearts’ and ‘Generals Knife in The Head initiation into sex, is no longer fresh and Without Butlers’ and others, to tell us how Thursday 17 July at 5.15 p.m. certainly has been presented more silly war is. In West Africa, 1914, a French West Germany 1978 garrison and a German garrison are on the Director Rernhard Hauff “ Totally different, a stylized black entertainingly in films like ‘You’re A Big comedy. In a smart restaurant an Boy Now’ and ‘The Graduate’... best of terms. Belatedly, news of war Wednesday 16 July at 11.15 a.m. “ If you are intrigued to learn how arrives, and we get a burlesque of World exclusive angling club is about to have its War One, fraught with unbearable “ A hospital provides the principal annual prize-giving lunch. A rioting crowd Claude Bern lost his virginity, see this breaks through the police cordon and film; if not, don’t bother.” - Jenny Craven, ‘character’ touches. A scholarly young location for the latest film by Munich Films & Filming Frenchman turns out to be a born military director Reinhard Hauff. ‘Knife In The invades the restaurant. By the time they leader, better than the mildewed garrison Head’ stars Bruno Ganz as a bio-geneticist are cleared out, the kitchen staff are on Dear Inspector commander. So there. Everything turns out who receives a bullet in the brain during a strike and the guests, impatient and ‘humain’ and ‘gemutlich’ at the end. police raid on his local youth club and, hungry are imperfectly entertained by France Jean-Jacques Annaud, co-author and rendered totally amnesiac, has painfully to three women playing classical music. (But) Director Philippe de Broca director, has an undeterrable eye for script reconstruct both his past life and his when the staff are finally persuaded to Sunday 13 July at 5.15 p.m. and visual platitude. He has exactly the language. The police - if only for self cook and serve the trout, the fish stink ..." justification - are determined to - Cinema Papers. “ Philippe de Broca, a while ago, was a cast to suit him.” - Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic reconstruct him as a dangerous terrorist; “ An effective and almost Bunuel-like French director some of us had hopes o f: surrealistic story about an elegant dinner “ ‘Black And White In Colour’ is one of and the film might well succumb to the ‘Dear Inspector’ - wilfully misusing Annie unsubtlety of its moral indignation were it where rotten fish begin to poison and kill Girardot and Philippe Noiret in a nonsense the best movies to be seen in Britain this and the guests ignore it.” - Ken Wlaschin, year. It is artistic, it has pathos, humour not tor Ganz’s magnificent performance.” - about a lady police inspector and a food Jan Dawson, The Listener. Films & Filming inclined professor of Greek - fights for and subtlety and, most important, it is a “ A socio-political allegory with more brilliant expose of the senselessness of “ •Abandoning his forthright style, charm, scattiness and loses steadily.” - director Reinhard Hauff shadow boxes than a touch of Bunuel’s ‘Exterminating John Coleman, The New Statesman war and the people involved in it.” - John Angle, Films & Filming. with another ‘conspiracy’ tale set in a Angel’. It is black and wild and funny and “ Philippe de Broca’s ‘Dear Inspector’ is strait-jacketed West Germany. Bruno Ganz, has a memorable performance by the a rather silly film - silly in the French a geneticist deliberately/accidentally shot incomparable Argentinian actor, Hector tradition of friskiness - but it is to be seen Alterio.” - David Robinson, The Times on account of the brisk comic by the police, harrowingly portrays a man performances by Annie Girardot and reduced to a near vegetable state pulling Philippe Noiret.” - Penelope Gilliatt, The himself back to life.” - Sight and Sound The Inheritance New Yorker “ The film becomes something of an Italy 1976 existential thriller, interweaving an “ This quite.delightful film, dealing Stevie Director Mauro Bolognini mainly with the relationship between an individual’s quest for his own identity with Thursday 17 July at 2.15/8.15 p.m. efficient but vulnerable lady police Britain a more generalized quest for a political truth. Its development has something of inspector (Annie Girardot) and a cuddly Director Robert Enders “ A glowing example of how a filmmaker teddy bear of a Greek professor-cum- Tuesday 15 July at 11.15 a.m. the conventional chase film, but with the can maintain a literary quality about his amāteur chorister (Philippe suspense element deriving less from the work as well as a filmic quality... “ An absorbing and delightful film” . - uncertain outcome of a conflict between Noiret) works both as thriller and romantic good and evil than from an overall Impeccably tailored period drama, comedy. It is very funny, very French and Derwent May, The Listener. supported by a convincing scrutiny of “ •Stage bound transposition of Hugh metaphysical uncertainty about exactly thoroughly disarming in the way it guys who is standing on which side of the class and society. All the creative and the basic theme of ‘Illustrious Corpses’, Whitemore’s play about the life of Stevie technical details are practically flawless ” Smith, notable for Glenda Jackson’s spiky, moral barricades.” - Jan Dawson, Sight - Variety. not to mention puckish references to'Blow and Sound Up’, ‘Rear Window’ and other recent immaculately spoken rendering of the poet classics, and satirizes with real affection of Palmers Green. The real triumph is “ ‘A Knife In The Head’ talks of many of the cliches of the form.” - Julian Mona Washbourne, splendidly, terrorism while actually discussing a more Fox, Films & Filming. humourously leonine as her unlettered elusive crisis of moral identity. Even ‘Lion Aunt’. ” - Sight and Sound. though its denouement reveals a little bit Beiung There “ Indiaenousely English, literate and of the terrorist in each of us, its whole The Changeling U.S.A. 1979 articulate, ‘Stevie’ is among the very best dramatic thrust, and the emphasis on the British films of recent years. It comes to isolated individual hero versus the medical Canada 1979 Director Hal Ashby and legal authorities, maintains the Director Peter Medak Sunday 13 at 2.15/8.15p.m. grips with a heart and mind of considerable quality; quirky, opinionated distinction between them and us, heroes Friday 18 July at 11.00 p.m. utterly human.” - Gordon Cow, Films & and villians.” - Jan Dawson, Sight and Replaces the porno flick ‘Shame Of The Filming. Sound. “For reasons known only to the sort i Jungle’ which has been banned. Hal people who concoct movies like this on Ashby’s highly thought of adaptation of a middle-aged man (George C. Scott), Jerry Kozinski’s novel.

Page 10, CRACCUM, June 30 vieMovieMovieMovieMovieMovieM shattered b y the sudden loss of w ife and everything looks delicious. Yet maybe the child in an accident, decides that the very Polish elements, and there’s a nice scene reason is that one’s mind tend’s to wander (though no better and a thousand times The Dessert Of The Tartars place to reconstruct his life is an ancient from more important matters, which are and gloomy mansion. Of course, the bigger than the old British newsreel jape France/ltaiy/West Germany/lran related in a style that is both distant and of cutting the goose-step to the Lambeth minute he starts to rattle around in this flat.” - Richard Schickel, Time 1978 real estate agents’ nightmare, it starts Walk) when Oscar’s drumming disrupts a (Director Valerio Zurlinii ‘‘Claude Sautet’s ‘Une Histoire Simple' Nazi rally. But as a whole, this is a gross rattling back at him - also creaking and is a new manifestation of his complex Sunday 20 July at 8.15 p.m. thumping. O b viou sly, it is trying to tell fiim film, promising more in some imposing talent. Centering this time on a group of early scenes than it ever manages to something - and not just that there is a women, Sautet shows the close links “ ‘Desert Of The Tartars’ has lots of deliver”. - Penelope Houston, Sight and p rodu ction details g oin g for it: w eird little ranch house, a steal at the price, between private life and social life, Sound available down the road. Does our hero unemployment and existential problems, Iranian locations, intelligent cast, a quickly throw a change of socks and suicide and maternity etc. His vision is all spooky sound-track by Ennio Morricone underwear into a bag and take off for the embracing, his script interlocks with and magisterial panning camerawork by nearest Holiday Inn to think things out ? utmost intelligence and pragmatic flair the Luciano Tavoli. Like the mysterious Not a bit of it. He is always grabbing a subterranean connections that relate a Tartars who never quite appear over the flashlight and poking around in the group of people in society, while his style frontier, the film hovers on the brink of stairs closets - usually in the w ee hours and direction of actors retain the same Del Mero Corazon/ consciousness about its real subject: that f windy n ig h ts ... vitality, the same humour, and the same Chulas Fronteras is, the repressed aristocratic relationship “There are a couple of amusing scares, deep moral seriousness. His portrayal of of its all-male society. Its ‘tiqht-arsed’ mostly of the ‘don’t open that door’ Romy Schneider as a woman of forty, U.S.A. metaphysics, however, finally disappear variety, but director Medak devotes an refusing to have a baby, and at the end Director Les Blank like an Indian rope trick.” - Cinema Papers. unconscionable amount of time to vistas accepting to keep another one, of her Sunday 20 July at 11.15 a.m. of long dull corridors and high angle complex relationship with men as well as shots, which proves nothing except that women, confirm Sautet as one of our “An hour long documentary on the they just d o n ’t build 12 foot high ceilings major directors and the only one perhaps music of the Rio Grande Valley, ‘Chulas anymore. Too bad they don’t revive that in France who consistently reconciles Fronteras’ (which,is valley slang for -t art and give up on this antique kind of popular success and uncompromising ‘beautiful borders’) is one of Blank’s most viemaking.” - Richard Schickel, Time dedication to his themes and his art.” - exciting and important films. By Die Laughing “There is something vaguely dishonest Michel Ciment, International Film Guide interviewing agricultural workers and Canada ut this picture. At its core, it has not Tejano disc jockeys, Blank explores the n well enough constructed to offer Director Anne-Clair Porier The Marriage of Maria Braun i strong political underpinnings of the Monday 21 July at 2.15 p.m. ch more than a rehash of some of the West Germany 1979 music. By taking us through back room hic-suspense genre’s most tortured recording studios and home made record Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder “Interviews with Suzanne (the rape liches, and no amount of spectacular Friday 18 July at 11.15 a.m. and 8.15 p.m. pressing plants, he traces the route production is really able to com pensate. A through which the music reaches its victim) are cut with clips revealing other composer (George Scott) loses his w ife aspects of female sexual abuse from “The script, by Peter Matthesheiner and audience. And by filming the musicians in clitoral ablations in Africa, to child Jean Marsh) and his daughter in a car !Pea Frolich, is good ironic Fassbinder a variety of settings, including dance halls, „ash in upstate New York. In his grief he molestation in Montreal. The result is a material: Maria’s wedding takes place in clubs and private parties, he shows how powerful portrait of rape, revealing in no ccepts a teaching post in Seattle where an air raid on Berlin and lasts one night; music fits into their daily lives. ‘Chulas he soon meets a woman called Claire Fronteras’ provides magnificent C terms how *t continues to reflect man and wife are separated, firstly by his the domination of men over women” - Norman and moves into a neglected old years posted missing at the front, then by introduction to the most exciting mortena Cinema Canada mansion. The mansion is possessed.” - a jail sentence for killing Maria’s wartime musicians working today.” - Take One. Cinema Canada lover (she actually did it herself), finally by “A truly significant achievement... an absence mutually agreed to by Maria’s successful in capturing the spirit of La Kingdom of Naples rceval new, rich, dying lover and benefactor. All Raza as well as documenting the rich Italy/West Germany 1978 obstacles finally removed, they are just musical and cultural tradition that is nee 1978 embodied in the tunes”. - Louis Torres Director Werner Schroeter ^ton Eric Rohmer about to proceed to a proper Monday 21 July at 5.15 p.m. ay 18 July at 2.00 p.m. consummation and enjoyment of their legacies when a gas explosion does for Nambassa “Follows the life of a Neopolitan slum “The film has been criticized negatively, them both. The elements - Hanna New Zealand 1980 community, focussing on the fortunes of occasion, for its relative flatness, its Schygulla’s performance, the exactness of Director Philip Howe one family and their neighbours... k of searing drama, and its overt the period atmosphere, Fassbinder’s Sunday 20 July at 2.15 p.m. Recreates fifty years of the history, artificiality. All these criticisms are true, customary precision of staging - are fine; politics and daily life of Naples. The film and yet invalid: they are criticisms of the but a new diffuseness and overweight As this is a first time showing, no comprises sixteen episodes, most of them era not the film. For most audiences, the seem to affect his work.” - David information or critical consideration is based on true stories.” - Lynda Myles, sensibility of the tw elfth century is Robinson, Sight and Sound available. Edinburgh Film Festival Programme. perhaps a difficult one to enter, due to the “Evokes coherent moments of the -nssive cultural changes which took I The Second Awakening Of history of N aples since 1943. Schroeter has chosen brief familiar incidents w hich ce in Europe some three hundred years ? d ter, and all but erased the medieval way • Christa Klages IJF he fits into a larger context, avoiding the thought. It is easier to take in : West Germany 1978 picturesque but using the folklore of the ’ionalized, romanticized form, but Director Margaiethe von Trotta song... Schroeter’s best film” - Freddy mer has chosen instead to recapture it The Pedrables Killer Sunday 20 July at 5.15 p.m. Buache. its own terms, in all its naivete, piety, Spain 1978 “The film is one of the delights of the Has a certain Tautonic kookiness, as if d blank credulity, in a film whose Director Gonzalo Herralde festival (Adelaide). The intriguing plot a Vittorio de Sica film as been remade by imary excitement lies not in drama, or Saturday 19 July at 11.15 a.m. concerns Christa Klages, a young mother Erich yon Stroheim. An incoherently ion, or intellectualizing, but in a who has already broken from an politicised pageant of the Napolitan lower drous, child-like, and deeply authentic “Thoughtfully complex documentary unwelcome role as wife, and who, though depths from 1943 to the present, it lashes point.” - Naomi Wise, Film Quarterly probing a virtually inexplicable double willing and able to act freely as her own out left and right at demogogues and “Eric Rohm ers ‘Perceval’ is absolutely murder. Interviews with the convicted agent, has yet to learn through experience dogmas, idealising myth symbolic unique. Radical in style, philosophically murderer and old associates raise many to act to her best advantage. She and her characters and glossily simplifying the conservative, it is a C atholic intellectual’s questions, without pointing up many casual lover, Werner, rob a bank with a solution.” - Cinema Papers. loving attempt to illuminate the chivalric answers, about crime and punishment, view to saving the progressive heart of the twelfth century by retelling social values and responsibility.” - Cinema kindergarten with which they are involved, A Dream Of Passion Chretien de Troyes famous Papers from financial collapse. On the run from the police, and unable to put the funds to Greece 1978 mance-in-verse about the Arthurian “This unique documentary film is about Director Jules Dassin ight, Perceval of Wales. Rohmer, whose a particularly savage killer and yet the use, they shelter with an old friend who is ‘Ma Nuit C hex M aud’, ‘C laires K nee’ and film manages to raise questions about the also the victim of an ordinary but Monday 21 July at 11.15 a.m./8.15 p.m. hloe In The Afternoon’ adhered to a fate of the disturbed man who freely unfulfiillng marriage. Meanwhile, a key eye­ rupulously realistic mode of cinema, admits to slaying his employers... Gonzalo witness to the robbery searches for “When Jules Dassin plays with the rns his back completely on realism in Herralde and his crew were given Christa, but her motives are unclear classics, somebody’s bound to get hurt ceval’, producing a film of jo yo u s permission to film inside the prison of Engrossing and suspenseful to the last Moviegoers still shake their heads .«tricality. shot.’ - Cinema Pappers memory of his trendy Heusca and Cerveto talks with amazing 1962 version of ‘Phaedra’. Now, in ‘A “ft might seem at first glancest glance frankness about his life, his crime, his "The audience’s sympathy is directed to more than a charm ing pageant Tull of philosophy (“for me, all the psychologists, these fugitives whom a naughty world Dream Of Passion’, writer-director Dassin utiful w om en and quaint stories, an criminologists and pedagogues are prevents from sowing the seeds of their has come up with another dynamite gimmick to team up his wife, Melina ificial exercise in style. It is delightful nothing but garbage”). The result is a good deed; while its indignation is turned ' even sexy) but it is more than that: it disturbing and compelling film which full beam onto the police, whose Mercouri, with his old pal Euripedes. But Rohmer’s testament of faith, a raises as many questions as it answers.” sophisticated technology gives the what Dassin does to Medea, Oedipus lebration of the alm ost forgotten debutant criminal nothing like a sporting wouldn’t do to his father... lities of honour, hospitality, cou rtesy Bastien, Bastienne chance and who, indeed, persist in “(Of the cast, Ellen) Burstyn works hard courtly love. With bold and France tracking down the guilty couple just as if to breath some truth into the story, but her histicated simplicity, Rohmer they were the sort of people who robbed efforts are undone by the luridly schematic tivates the audience b y returning us to Director Michael Andrieu banks at gunpoint. W hen Werner is design. It would be nice to report that this roots of storytelling, and he brings to Saturday 19 July at 2.15 p.m. spotted trying to steal a car and shot gaseous concoction achieves camp tale a quality one least expects from down after failing to stop when hilarity, but any giggles are scotched by is most cerebral of film makers - the Again, another pciture on which no challenged, it’s almost impossible for the the sight of Burstyn taking the knife to her lity of passion.” - David Ansen, more information is available. ^ audience to avoid the conditioned reflex children. The moment is powerful and sweek reaction of ‘police brutality’. But while it powerfully repellent: like everything else in Dassin s Medea’, its climax has been “ ‘Perceval’ by Eric Rohmer, the most The Tin Drum would no doubt have been possible for the excited policeman to shoot less lethally, it reduced to a ghastly charade.” - David original, with Alain Resnais, of present West Germany 1979 Ansen, Newsweek French directors, is impressive in its Director Volker Schlondorff would not have been possible for him to meticulous reconstruction of a MiddleAges Saturday 19 July at 5.15/8.30 p.m. know what we know about the Fnri^iHSin'-S A Dream of Passion’ respects that looks like a miniature painting with harmlessness of his target. Werner’s death Euripedes in several ways, but in the stylized sets and ‘reconstructed’ language. “This film could have been merely a of course reinforces audience sympathy course of its increasingly elaborate The fact that I found it un convincing and re-statement of the familiar view that for Christa, who thereafter rapidly screenplay it ties itself in a positively even at times boring does not diminish my Nazism’s rise can be traced to the discovers that German society offers no C3ord|an Knot such as even the fearsome ladmiration for the consistency of its style, poisoned soul of the German bourgeoisie hiding place for outlaws.” - Jan Dawson histrionics of Melina Mercouri cannot 'its utter audacity, and the obsessional immediately after World War One. But that Sight and Sound untangle.” - Derek Elley, Films & Filming. immensity of Rohmer’s pre-occupations.” - reckon’s without the artful response “The film concerns the overcoming of Michel Ciment, International Film Guide Director Schlondorff has made tov isolation, the self-assertion*of women, but Grass's epochal novel. He has resisted the also the realization of how far to go when A Simple Story temptation to make another showy display on the defensive. The three female roles of the allegedly guilty German conscience are so well played that the spectator France/West Germ any ... From the interplay of literary conceit experiences a strong empathy with them. Director: Claude Sautet Night Hawks and hard-edged, artfully compressed Tina Engel portrays Christa with courage, Britain 1978 Friday 18 July at 5.15 p.m. observation’s of a very real world, he has sensitivity, and that kind of desperate created a film that has the dislocating determination that leads to violence. Silvia Directors: Ron Peck, Paul Hallam “The latest French contribution to immediacy of a nightmare that anyone, Reize plays the young woman with the Tuesday 22 July at 2.15 p.m. “ fcudo-seriousness is Claude Sautet’s ‘A anywhere might conjure up. It is a bleak failing marriage, who finds in the pnple Story’, which is not so much and unsparing vision. (But) unlike most art companionship with Christa, a release “ ‘Night Hawks’, written and directed by «simple as simple minded.” - John Simon, that sets out to examine a so called big from her frustration. Katharina Thalbach is Ron Peck and Paul Hallam, is an honest The National Review. subject, this is a quick minded, even captivating as the bank clerk ... low budget movie, an exploration of part ?This is yet another of those French occasionally witty film that is, despite its “Margarethe von Trotta’s film is of the homosexual world, made and movies whose true subject - no matter size, paradoxically light on its feet.” - constantly being discussed among young staffed largely by homosexuals for all of what the script says - is eating and Richard Schickel, Time people; but an older generation also us. Its makers evident and expressed drinking. About the only business the “Some of the film is remarkable, seems to be showing keen interest.” - concern not to deal in the usual gay actor’s do while exchanging dialogue is particularly the sense of Danzig as a place Edmund Luff, International Film Guide S!ewreP types has resulted in long stretches prepare food o r con su m e it. A t least and a reality, torn between its German and of didacticism and dreariness. At the end of It all, one couldn’t help reflecting that

P age 11, C R A C C U M , Ju n e 30 ovieMovieMovieMovieMovieMov without being lyrical. It is an honest film. board visually interesting, employing a there are hundreds of thousands of independence into nationalism, and slowly tracking camera (no zooms) which ‘straights’ who lead not dissimilar lives of eventually came to accept the perversions Pehaps best of all it is a constructive, positiveiitiv< film which makes one feel good creeps around the players and glides over drifting sexual relationships, grey days lit of fascism. As usual, he mixes historic faces, clocks, instruments. Bruno-Ganz (in by the odd bright night”. • John Coleman, allusions and inventive anachronistic about being alive and human. A life- The S.O enchanting shout of joy, it is a breath of the lead role) brilliantly conveys the mama The New Statesman. details, to create a personal vision of love, of the long distance chess player, which Centre stand c “ ‘Night Hawks’ has attracted a certain humane or tortured, past or future”. - Mari fresh air in the asphyxiating atmosphere two old cottag of French cinema.ma.” - Take One. finally leads him to the antiseptic hell of a amount of adverse criticism for failing to Kuttna, Screen International psychiatric ward. Petersen makes some Road. When I present a more optimistic picture of gay “Jansco deploys again all the familiar wry comments on how the staging of shown into the elements of his pageantry: the horses and life. This is to my mind unjustified: the chess tournaments can be exploited by room which fu film presents, without sentimentalizing, naked girls and shirtless men, the torches the media and draws some excellent, area and a coi the reality of many men’s lives, and the troops of soldiers and peasants detailed performances from his supporting examines the crucial question of what is moving in counterpoint to the moving A quick glar cast, notably Ljubo Tadic as Ganz’s gaunt, Mich are cove involved for someone working in a job camera. There are, certainly, formal dedicated opponent, constantly wearing where acceptance of homosexuality variations between the two parts which The Apple Game him down by his steely composure and prts and not cannot be taken for granted. It is, in my would repay analysis. And if you took Czechoslovakia 1977 concentration.” - John Gillett tactfully worde opinion, a film which stands as an almost any ten minutes in isolation, you Director Vera Chytilova “Ganz’s performance is total in its every if tacit respons important independent production in its would find images of power and Thursday 24 July at 2.15 p.m. dimension, yet another illustration of his mural reads th own right, rather than as a purely gay filmi resonance, like the scene in which a right to stand in the front rank of the great [nan is like a fi funeral pyre is set ablaze on the still lake. for ghetto audiences.” - Allan I. “Despite its fundamentally serious film actors of Europe.” - Canberra Times, Wondering h Sutherland, Sight and Sound. But the total effect, for me, is one of subject, ‘The Apple Game’ is fun and it is only to find that life is probably not a almost stupefyina monotony, as though difficult to see why anyone should bith the male | “ ‘Worthy’ is as withering a critical one were sitting fout wom en’s rendering of Buchner’s play: a meeting of and innovative film, which is inspiring in up the table with a time bomb. Petersen Salles’ excellent photography the best sense - it gives not only the lets his theme develop its own cool logic compensates.” - Derek Elley, Film & To provide i minds so perfect that one would almost iccess to inforr swear it must be a Herzog original.” - feeling that something new has happened, and even finds a way to make the chess Film ing. Sight and Sound. but that other things are becoming cdies with em “For all the jagged construction of his possible in feminist filmaking and feminist medicine and si play, Buchner uses the character’s aesthetics in general. ‘Rapunzel’ works To promote growing sense of betrayal as his prime with the pleasure we get from stories (and challenging the motive for murder. Herzog leaves it unclear from fairy stories, the most elemental of lem starting all); and on the peculiar pleasure we get as to how much Woyzeck knows or To raise the guesses about the adultery, so that one is from hearing stories repeated. The Rapunzel story is narrated several times, Ith workers. left again with a protaganist carried away To learn abe by mystical forces, with a social context in several different ways, using different adduced as an afterthought. Mainly by film genres and presenting the events fferent ethnic casting Klaus Kinski as a fiercely frenetic successively from the different points of tyles, to em Woyzeck - rather than the dolefully view of the main participants - the prince, antre caters fo accusatory character one would expect if the wicked witch, and the fairy princess.” - To give sup he had followed his original intention of Cinema Papers. mg to work v\ using Bruno S. - Herzog avoids the The Glass Cell ting system indulgence of simply remaking ‘Kaspar West Germany 1978 The WHC em| Hauser’. He has, more successful! than ini iroach to hea "Nasferatu’, accomodated his own dies. A nat personality more to the original author; Director Hans Geissendorfer recently ar and if it is less than exploratory, the film Wednesday 23 July at 5.15 p.m. works finally as a canny holding the centre. A| measure.” - Richard Combs “A psychological thriller based on a e with a w o Patrica Highsmith novel... exceptional and iventional m< Hungarian Rhapsody fascinating in that it looks at the ment thera motivations of murder and its effect on sions are he Hungary 1979 people’s lives outside the context of for emotio Director Miklos Jansco accepted morality and values... a brilliant se. Tuesday 22 July at 10.30 a.m./8.00 p.m. film.” Filmnews. There are clas Why Not? ning which a “Has the flavour of being a spiritual France 1978 If confidence autobiography of Jansco himself, of his Director Coline Serreau h strategies co-author, and perhaps of their entire Wednesday 23 July at 2.15/8.15 p.m. e classes it generation. It shows the emotional and litical analysis intellectual process by which Europeans “Scenes of sexual intimacy handled The centre ak had turned their early movement for with consummate taste, frank without being clinical, ecstatic and relaxed by turn nselling for i ny sort. Info ding sexua A.U. Debating Society h, contrace LEOTARDS Igynacologic P r p ^ p n tQ lotherhood, chi & i...Quite an , H2 women wt OXFORD UNIVERSITY ctive respoi TRACKSUITS (health centrt ned few wh FROM THE FACTORY VS .Small wonc (constantly c Special made-to-measure i own casualit; service AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY shard to keep iv’ve burnt the iiHMiiiiiiii m h All styles, all colours Maidment Theatre I on to furl 14 6AUJDS ST. NEWTON Bookings ph 774 387 Nylon & Lycra specialists Mon and Tuea at 6.15: Wed lo Sat at «.30. LIMITED SEASON 1 pm Thurs July 3rd For these reas AT ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL. PARNELL I the women w Seneca's FIGARO , Its activitie Students $1.00 fined as the w , Activities PHAEDRA Public $2.00 nen's imagin A tragedy of an ail-devouring iove. 48 Stoddart Rd EXTENDED SEASON — WED to SAT at 6 pm | At the centre < Kafka's Booking 12 - 2 pm Tues & Weds ated with gei Phone 699-207 uld include ‘j METAMORPHOSIS. he woke to find himself transformed into a gigantic, insect. Team enquiries welcome Maidment Box Office ural, psychol inotional activit Page 12, C R A C C U M , Ju n e 30 ploying a oms) which 1 glides over uno-Ganz (in OMEN’S HEALTH ys the mania The S.O.S. and the Women’s Health It is important to its members that the lyer, which Centre stand abreast of one another in WHC should not be regarded as an ptic hell of a two old cottages halfway along Ponsonby institution because as they change so ikes some Road. When I arrived at the centre I was does it. Curiously though the centre is at iging of shown into the informal and cosy front times bound by its own red tape - No men ploited by room which functions both as a reception allowed, not even the photographer! cellent, area and a counselling room. The WHC is open from around 9.30 - s supporting A quick glance around at the walls 4.30 every weekday, and operates on a Janz’s gaunt, which are covered with a plethora of ly wearing halfday roster system. If possible two of >sure and icharts and notices, and half of my the collective are there everyday to answer tactfully worded questions met with blunt telephones give information on health il in its every if tacit responses. Next to the centres services, make appointments, coffee or ition of his mural reads the sign ‘A woman without a just lend a sympathetic ear to anyone who ; of the great man is like a fish without a bicycle’. wants to come and chat. There is a erra Times, Wondering how on earth they’d cope separate room available for private ly not a with the male photographer following counselling or quiet reading. sine, a close behind on his 10 speed, I began Two noticeboards line one side of the to certain reading about the centre in a large hallway. One advertises up and coming ut romance”. scrapbook - the official ‘Herstory’. events, the other accommodation. I The Auckland Women’s Health Centre A log book is always kept on the desk in Husbands was born of ideas associated with the the main room, along with the minute Council for the Single Mother and her book and agenda for meetings of the I and the Sisters Overseas Service in collective which are held every Monday r»./8.15 p.m. * 1978. A few women started putting night. ogether ideas on women’s health issues. Anyone is free to browse through the is - neither These were later to form the basis of the filing cabinet which holds the centres mm rid-out centre’s resource files. resource files. There is also a small sy, and with At the time the CSMC and SOS were collection of books which can be he working borrowed at any time. operating from a house in New Street, but stor Barreto An average of about 20 calls are 3 in the first is more space was needed to set up the received each day; the number has st modishly Health Centre so the search for new h< s 3ma of premises began. 63 Ponsonby Road was doubled in the 18 months that the centre has been opened. irs the found and work began to make the house th on the look attractive and welcoming, Although theoretically it aims to cater rn, but the for all women, in its early days the centre Dona Flor nthusiastic volunteers offered their skills ind labour. preached largely to the converted. It has in re of fact been criticised for scaring off a >nia Braga), Early in 1979 the Health Centre was ings and lunched with publicity and a fund raising majority of women because of its strong feminist orientation. a dull Health food banquet. Today it shares the n at night lame house as SOS which offers However in more recent months the oed by the jounselling and a referral service for number of Polynesian and older women ble to all but portions, the CSMC and Rape Crisis. visiting the centre has crept steadily film upwards. uelian Along with old press clippings and photographs in the Herstory is pasted a The lime green pamphlet advertising the snriched the WHC contains a brief summary of services isert a few 1st of the WHC aims and philosophy, v and then fhese are: translated into 5 different Polynesian ituation languages. These are placed in the To offer alternative health care for Citizen’s Advice Bureaux. Advertisements the wmen. To publicise facts throughout NZ appear in Broadsheet and the centre has tfaurilo ibout women’s physical and mental health previously been given space in the | To provide a place where women have women’s pages of the Star and in the Film & Inner City News. iccess to information about their own todies with emphasis on preventive Sue Fitchett, the only remaining medicine and self help skills. member of the original collective speaks To promote feminist principles while on a radio talkback show once a week. jllenging the existing health care Sue is a trained psychologist who opted item starting locally. out of the system when she became To raise the consciousness of existing disillusioned with the institutional health care that she saw being offered. One of DEBATE jlth workers. To learn about the health needs of her main objections is to the treatment of ierent ethnic groups and alternative any deviant as though s/he is criminally or mentally ill. She could see areas of festyles, to ensure that the health care entre caters for all women. psychology fast modelling themselves on the medical profession. Oxford Union ) To give support to individual women lying to work within and change the The medical profession has too long dsting system. been omnipotent in areas of health and illness because it monopolises the The WHC emphasises a wholistic knowledge associated with these areas. vs. ipproach to health through natural «rnedies. A naturopath, masseuse and The alternative health care and the services offered by the WHC are an itil recently an indologist have practices attempt to vie such power. The centre the centre. Appointments can also be made with a woman doctor trained in promotes natural remedies such as New Zealand conventional medicine. Dance and nutrition, reflexology and homeopathy in the belief that everyone is capable of movement therapy classes and one to one healing and helping themselves and lessions are held. These involve body N.Z. team: others. Their problem is, unlike the iork for emotional expression and medical profession the WHC has very little •lease. money. Chris McVeigh There are classes in assertiveness lining which are designed to develop The centre’s future is never secure as it Jim Hopkins tlf confidence and self-esteem and to struggles from month to month on a ’so far so good’ basis relying on grants and each strategies for dealing with the world, hese classes include the social and donations. Secondhand clothes stalls are A.K. Grant olitical analysis of women’s roles. held, and T-shirts and badges printed in an The centre also offers support and effort to raise funds. The 3 or 4 burglaries at the centre since it opened haven’t Chairperson: Paul Reeves counselling for women involved in a crisis helped matters much. of any sort. Information is available igarding sexual difficulties, lesbian This month’s rent is being paid by the Committee on Women. Applications have malth, contraception, drugs, menstruation Topic: Bdgynacological problems, birth and been made to the ASB for donations and to the Medical Health Foundation for help Btherhood, childcare and so the list goes It’s all in the way you hold your I ..Quite an awesome task for the in the training of counsellors. So far neither has replied. 112 women who form the voluntary Elective responsiblity for the running of There are also problems maintaining a mouth rY full medical staff. Patients are only me health centre. It is the energy of the firmed few which keeps the centre on its charged a nominal fee according to their means. So, in spite of their committment let. Small wonder then that the collective to the centre there necessarily comes a Trillos Downtown, July 3, 8 pm ia constantly changing body not without time when the doctors will move on. Last town casuality list. Some have worked year’s application for a TEP worker was ity Dhard to keep the centre open that Adults $5.00 ; turned down but they were lucky enough Ky burnt themselves out. Others have to have a Massey social worker trainee >ved on to further their cause in other Students or Groups of 10 or more placed at the centre full time over was. Christmas. For these reasons the WHC is defined $4.00 ythe women who are in it at any one In spite of the set backs that the me. Its activities can be as broadly Womens Health Centre has had to Book at Trillos ifined as the women involved wish them contend with, the prevailing mood at No. ibe. Activities are only as limited as the 63 is still one of optimism. The centre omen’s imaginations and their pockets. stays open as long as there’s enough money to pay the rent. Interested ? If At the centre a woman’s health is SPONSORED BY /eds bated with general wellbeing which you’re in the area, abandon your bicycle and drop in for a chat. jould include ‘positive social, spiritual, Jural, psychological, intellectual, and UNIVERSITY BOOK SHOP motional activity’. Deborah Telford Page 13, CRACCUM, June 30 O FLICKS Macbe BOOKS Howicl The Cement Garden The Cement Garden is squalid and Quadrophenia As far as the language went the use of until Ji by Ian McEwan (his first novel) sexual, the story’s growth is through St Jam es the word ‘Fuck’ a reported 539 times did a newish Picador (Now at the Jack’s eye. He is captured and held by his Directed Franc Roddam not offend me when one considers the Over t bookshop) own mind, development hampered by amount of subjective time the film covers. personal $4.73 roots nurtured in stone. Time is not really there in that the film when I w The image is repulsive, but is handle^ “Mods, Mods, we are the Mods.” could cover any thing from a month to a producir delicately and without shame. The reality The whole impact of the film gasped < The children had buried her. She lay, week in subjective time. So if you were to is simple and honest. A poignant Quadrophenia is the question it poses as count the number of times you heard the the polis their long suffering mother twisted at the comment on the impact of childhood on to the real control that the peer group has word in question in the space of a i wavering foot of the cellar stairs, deep; within the adult that has a truth for everyone and and the relative one of. the independence fortnight the reality of it all seems pretty God ki darkness,m a body entombed, planted in cannot be quickly forgotten. of the individual. Macbeth the concrete garden they had prepared for meaningless. Still some people could be Quadrophenia is the state of being offended. concept her. Rodnie twice the condition of schizophrenia, or a The most interesting outcome of this nothing' Jack is sordid. In erotic fantasy he dives doubly split personality. Jimmy the ‘hero’ alienate swimming within his older sister Julie, film could be the overnight development of of the film is really a mod Hamlet in that a mod underground in NZ, and considering I was tre helpless and drowning. Sublimely unaware he aparently is an indecisive and acting, a Julie, in suede thigh-boots is floating out the Bootboys think they are the rockers in somewhat fickle character. It is too easy NZ, will we see scenes of mass brawls at lighting. the door through the cement garden, their to accept this generalization, but the The m father’s barren paradise - a sour desert of such resorts as Blockhouse Bay whole point of the film is the beach???????? were all thick grizzled sculpture. She is silent, consideration that adolescence is the clearly di chosen silence that manifests a detached basic symptom of Quadrophenia. In other Philip Bishop would tal beauty. Younger Sue is shielded by a CONCERTS words, Jimmy is both an individual and a But so fortress of books, but Jack does not need mod, but this split is further complicated McGrath to conquer her castle. Six year old Tom, by his own rejection of both his parents and casu protected by wig and mini-skirts is with a Auckland Symphonia and his friends only to find that he is moods o friend. Friend plays Jack. Tom is Julie - to The Masters No. 2 utterly dependent on the world for all that CONCERTS too mucf be a girl is so much safer. At seventeen Town Hall June 7 he needs. Vocally h Jack lies unwashed amongst stained The climax of the film comes when the start and sheets, dreams of his body, wallowing in Poetry Reading Less people. Better music. Why better ? mods go to Brighton for the weekend. The Macbeth’ self-annointed manhood. Little Theatre June 25 Because Beethoven says so much more result is a re-enactment of the mod-rocker away be You see, their father had never liked than Greig or Tschaikovsky whose works clashes of the sixties in the British coastal could hai people. His world was solid and removed. opened the series. The greatness of the resorts. This part of the film is handled Dressed in black, Rossetti Profile, red did Roy S The cement garden around his home ‘Eroica’ is such, that it should be played. masterfully by director Franc Roddam, in lips the Pre-Raphaelite muse Michele locked out threat. This made his wife sad. Scotland, Often. And if they play it well, it’s even that the violence (and indeed throughout Paterson opened the recital. Her aesthetic harder to They had a party for Sue once, but the better, like last Saturday. If the Symphonia the rest of the film) builds up to a clash flowers spoke of God, love, Vincent van children were not ordered like the tulips in handled 1 want people to come and appreciate the between mods and Police and the violence Gogh and black centipedes. Her delicate always th the garden, there wouldn’t be another. But “Great Masters” then they should play runs concurrent to Jimmy and Steph and playful vocabulary created poetry push and he was dead now, and so was their music like this throughout. And they do it making love in an alley, that is, the scene amusing and subtle, with an aftertaste of of Roy ar mother. In illness she had passed from well. Juan Mateucci ably conducted a shifts from Jimmy et al to the mod-cop sadness. I was s their lives as simply as an odour fanned warm response from the Symphonia. punch up and the switches get faster and Ken Grace was very ‘amusant’. His a newcon through the open windown. Now she was Vaughan William’s ‘Fantasy on a Theme faster until we reach the climactic point of “Autobiography” was quite a courageous much, I s gone, everything that had told them they By Thomas Tallis’ and Manuel de Falla’s both. The relationship between sex and attempt to set down emotions and a valuabli were children was gone also. ‘Nights in the Gardens of Spain’ more violence is strongly brought out in the film memories which cross the mind. Rather blood. An Psychological adulthood. It was a shame, familiar, than great were also given good and is one of the more interesting like automatic writing. As is much the Shakespe that with the coming of spring the cement performances. Falla’s work is all colour revelations in the film. fashion, he also read a few “bits“ any. garden flowered the sweet scent of her and is very reminiscent of Debussy’s own Drug use is confined to pills and thus dessicated embryos which smack of Lady M decay composition for piano and orchestra the whole thing is pretty irrelevant in that epigrams one can never quite remember. looked fo Theirs is an isolated kingdom, a ‘Printemps’. The soloist, Jeanetta McStay, the characters don’t show any after David Chan’s poetry ran like waterfall, a and Mrs. sensitive, seductive creation, its fragile played this glittering, Orphic seduction effects and eventually the whole drug veritable lexicon of emotion and imagery. maddenei existence built on a dependence upon brilliantly. And that nostalgic resuscitation thing begins to lose its meaning. In a way It sounded very nice, as did Chris Parr’s, itself. Outside contact would remove the of Tudor austerity, was truly moving. A I suppose it is all relative to your view of who was dressed like a crow and looked grey veil, lay them out bare and vulnerable pretty good night for the Symphonia. the drug world in general but the film is like a parrot. Charnel to the ‘ordinary, real world’ that they have not really about drugs as far as I could disregarded. A. Busser see. Walter Crane Friday ' Frank F Wednes The Litt

W ithin i the origin two differ Quite und Q e t v small and did draw t ^ \ \ W V ° uv Garden lu night calc \OP® shows am fcocVc N»s\on ^ energy ne W&H The Che \cr\o^ s W i V ' \o&ea show of re \o \js|a^ using the \|s|a^ each poss juggling, p The w hole breaks am ranging as 4 all-expenses-paid days in Dunedin in August holidays whether it pointednej “ Cabare group that WINNING TEAM $300 EACH satirical si and aroum versus Eve Specific subject knowledge not as important as general knowledge suffered rr though the the Chame full-time students only the origins with bright lighting an varuied am AUDITIONS: MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AT original so flute and s backgroun THE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION RECEPTION DESK sketches v\ interesting satirical mi very clever of glam our the stylisec Both she did need si dance rout this, the be UNIVERSITY the confine assurednes Unlike th theatre as ’ Cabaret co theatrically flatters nor CHALLENGE' is well worl Chat Cafe m m w m m Page 14, CRACCUM, June 30 ON STAGE Macbeth goose-pimples over me. It is a pity that Howick Little Theatre her own theatrical ambition was not as until July 19. strong as that which she portrayed here. If it was^then she would be performing for Over the last nine years I have been the Royal Shakespeare Co. That is how personally involved with the HLT, and strong she came across. Excellent. when I was told that they would be Shailer Cottier, as the comic porter, had everyone in stitches. Mr Cottier has producing their first Shakespeare, I gasped a little, Even my own confidence in performed throughout the world and was a must this part. The comedy and his the polished acting of the theatre was wavering somewhat. personality go hand in hand. James Wallace did a good portrayal God knows why I thought that! Whereas Macbeth was not performed in the total also as Donalbain. And Peter Webster as concept of the Shakeespearean time, Malcolm, son of King Duncan and brother nothing was done, as many theatres do, to of Donalbain created a very authoritative, alienate the play from its period in history. fierce part. From certain self-revealing I was treated to some exceptionally good speeches to powerful lines as the new acting, and some magnificent sound and King, there pervaded authenticity. There lighting. were parts when he had been directed to The madness, the anger, the jealousy move when he shouldn’t have, and were all there. All the characters were so subsequently lost some power there, but not doubt that will right itself. clearly defined that a character analysis would take forever. By far the best performance, however, But some obviously stood out. Dennis was by Terry Donovan, who as MacDuff, proud and warlike, mournful and McGrath as Macbeth had a very powerful and casual air and handled the changing shattered, almost made me, for the first time in years, feel like crying along with moods of the lead well, although he relied too much on certain eyebrow movements. him. His superb acting covered many a Vocally he was easy to listen to at the possible flaw, and is a valuable asset both the play and the theatre. start and rather painful at the end as Macbeth’s character was slowly eaten I could carry on forever. I could have sworn that ail the younger members had away be his guilt. A good vocal piece, but been acting for years, their confidence could have done more with his body. As was so good. ti Profile, red did Roy Simpson as Duncan, King of e Michele Scotland, the authority of a king was BUT, a special mention must be made . Her aesthetic harder to portray than many think. They of Sid Yarrow, who is at present involved Vincent van handled the authority alright, but not in a course with Stuart Bethelson-Smith, . Her delicate always the authority OF A KING. A slight of the Maidment Theatre, for technical ted poetry push and those already good performances people. It shows. The sound and lighting n aftertaste of of Roy and Dennis could be spotless. was marvellous (about 34 lights used, about a hundred different lighting I was surprised by Dave Church, virtually sequences and I have no idea how many sant’. His a newcomer, as Lennox. Not expecting sound effects, like a horse galloping a courageous much, I saw him deliver lots. He portrayed ins and a valuable sincerity as a nobleman of royal across stage by a three-speaker system). I mind. Rather blood. And such a clear voice in did find, however, that a light pulsating 3 much the Shakespeare is as valuable an asset as through the whole of the second half was a little distracting. “ bits" any. But it’s a brilliant show, with few smack of Lady Macbeth (Adele Taylor) is always ite remember, looked for with anticipation in the play, enough faults to make it worth a trip to like waterfall, a and Mrs. Taylor did wonders. Her Howick/Pakuranga. l and imagery. maddened scene sent surges of I Chris Parr’s, Daryl Wilson & Friend w and looked Chamelon Circus Phaedra Friday 13th Seneca Frank Players’ ‘Cabaret Desire’ Theatre Corporate, at Wednesday 18th St Mary’s, Parnell The Little Theatre RECORDS For hundreds of years texbook critics Within a week there was true cabaret in have said Seneca was unstageable. The Malice in Wonderland good, however, that they were dispersed the original French sense presented by mystery remained as to why the amongst the really well-made majority of two differing groups in the Little Theatre. Elizabethans, including Shakespeare, Nazareth tracks, so that the typical Nazareth pace Quite undeservedly the audiences were valued Seneca so highly. Theatre Vertigo (thru Polygram) small and polite but I am sure those who did not seen to die for too long. Corporate’s superb production in the old I don’t really know what kind of did draw themselves away from Rudmen cathedral, Parnell, presents Seneca’s I have always been a Nazareth fan, recording facilites are available at Garden lunch-time chat or Wednesday “ Phaedra” with operatic intensity which helps this critique. This is the sort Compass Point Studios in Nassau, night calculated television enjoyed the balanced against an austere sense of of band that you have either heard a lot of shows and appreciated the time and ritual. Seneca’s “ Phaedra” goes to or none at all. Pity if it’s the latter. Bahamas, but a certain holiday-resortish feelish comes through. Producer Jeff energy needed to present true “ cabaret” . Oriental extremes of ornate literary and Nazareth has produced some fine works of Baxter doesn’t have many neat, tight The Chameleon Circus presented a dramatic ritual to portray sexual passion beaty rock ’n’ roll, and this is no starts and ends, so that the whole feel is show of relaxed controlled enjoyment as both bestial grovelling and cosnriic exception. using the wide range of skills that they Dan McCafferty, described as a Nysse one of a pile of musical friends getting calamity. That Theatre Corporate can now together and just making nice music. each possess whether it is comedy, stage “ Phaedra” with so much conviction singer on the cover, tends to overload with juggling, piano-playing or magicianship. his singing (his voice is too characteristic This is not the album to convert anyone may say as much about the modern world to Nazareth, try one of their earlier ones The whole show flowed without annoying as it does about the Romans. too often), but musically the beat and breaks and the humour was as wide atmosphere of the album is nothing short like “ Close Enough For Rock ‘N’ Roll” or Seneca was tutor to the Emperor Nero “ Playing’ The Game” , but for all those ranging as the sketches themselves and forced to commit suicide after being of ‘get up and go’. whether it was grting satire or the subtle McCafferty also had a go at solo already familiar with Nazareth or their kind implicated in a plot. His nearly 2000 year of R & R, then it’s a must. pointedness of their songs’ lyrics. old play is based on the even older Greek writing, and it didn’t work, not on a group “Cabaret Desire” was performed by the album, anyway. Only one of his works, P.S. It has one of the most interesting drama of Euripides. While Theseus (Grant covers I’ve seen in a while. group that earlier in the year performed a McFarland) was away cavorting in the “ Showdown At The Border” was any real satirical street theatre in the university Underworld his second wife, Phaedra, contribution to the whole album. It was Daryl Wilson and around town called “ Tentanculus played by Marijke Mann, set out to seduce versus Everyone” . Their cabaret probably her stepson Hippolytus (Chris White). suffered most from a lack of publicity but Rejectged in horror she cries rape and the though their show lacked the rightness of returning husband curses his son to a the Chameleon Circus they were closer to dreadful death. It’s not the broken and the original French night-club atmosphere bleeding body that shocks the audience with bright custumes dim coloured but the lechering, necrophiliac kiss. lighting and a band whose music was Movements become stark, ritual varuied and clever and within a very signs. The humming of the chorus fills the original sound. Everything from electronic hall with half tones resonant in the high flute and saxaphone and saw was used to beams of the old cathedral. Sometimes we background the whole show. The lose the meaning of words as unfamiliar sketches were kept varied and speech echoes but the pattern of sound interestingly clever whether it was the prevails in a kind of ululation. Punctuated satirical menage a situation comedy or the by drums and gongs the musical effect is very clever strip parody colmpietely devoid enhanced by the hypnotic swaying of the of glamour, traditional music backing or chorus. Naturalism it is not but stunning the stylised dance of it’s K’Rd neighbours. theatre it just as certainly is. Both shows were full of ideas but they The wrestling is very well stage did need some polish especially in the managed (far better than On The Mat) and dance routines and, forgive me for saying suggests a homosexual dimension to the this, the benefits of professionalism, with strenuous chastity of Hippolytus. the continuing tightness and refined Testimony to the erotic quality came in a - assuredness that comes with it. loud whisper from the white haired old Unlike the conditioned acquired taste of lady beside me telling her companion. theatre as we know and accept it, this “ That’s a beautiful body” when Lani Tupu Cabaret confronts the audience with a entered. Powerful set, good costumes, theatrically based assortment that neither great theatre. But don’t be late - doors are flatters nor challenges our intelligence and locked at starting time and there’s no is well worth experiencing. interval.

Chat Cafe John Ghent Page 15, CRACCUM, June 30 GIGS movement, but I was expecting copulation Mi-Sex Concert at any minute (keep it up, lads !} perhaps Logan Campbell Centre they are just good friends, but whatever June 21st, 22nd. the excuse, it added to the wonderfully overpowering sense of physical presence. Mi-Sex are consistently playing what I w After thousands of expectant call “ wrap-around” , that is, no hole where compatriots were held outside for another instrument could be, no spaces in three-quarters of an hour after the official a melody where a descant could be thrown opening time before the doors were even in, and a feeling that is just pouring out opened, after finding that the support and swimming around you. band, The Swingers, had started playing They’ll all be back. They claim that they well before you got anywhere near the are still New Zealand ambassadors f door itself, after finding thousands of overseas. If they still fell like Kiwis, they’ll seats in place to restrict the amount of be back. No-one could do a concert as dancing attainable, after all this bad powerful as that as a once-only. And when management, then I settled down to one they come back, I know I’ll be there, of the most amazing rock’n’roll concerts I comps or not. have seen in a long time. I was rather disappointed by the Daryl Wilson Swingers at one stage, when Phil had some difficulty with his guitar, and while things were being made right Buster gave us a simple tap-tap-tap on his drums. Here Hopefully each week in this space, I’ll was an opportunity for someone to show be able to let you all know some of the MM. the anticipating audience what they could really good gigs on around town. Of Bob and Nancy are a couple who perform original juggling, mime and nonsense do outside the songs they have composed. course tonight (Tuesday if the railways are pieces, generally in the streets. They perform “ interacting theatre” in discotheques, A drum solo, for example, would really on time) we’ve got Rory Gallagher live adults-only theatre cabaret shows, secondary school shows, and younger persons’ show off Buster’s talents. Still, eventually That’ll be a good rock ‘n’ roller! If you show. They are one of Australia’s top duet entertaining pieces. They will be on they got going, and set up a raging can’t afford to get there, or he’s not your Monday 30 June, and Tuesday 1 July, in the Little Theatre at 1pm. Students $1.00. show that delighted everyone. Songs like cuppa, then at the Gluepot Tavern They will also be performing at the Gluepot on Monday evening, 30 June, and at “ It’s All Over Town” and “ One Good Tuesday and Wednesday in Ponsonby a Limb’s Studio on July 2, 8.00. Compliments of Students’ Arts Council. Reason” had to turn up, and were group called Tramp are playing. They’re a well-received. I, personally, was carried fairly interesting bunch, with some good away by “ She Can’t Say No” . It was an numbers; there’s a new one called Poetry Reading his idiomatic and free-structured work excellent lead-up to Mi-Sex. Reel-to-Real at the Windsor on Tuesday Globe Tavern gained much from a wry and humourous And when they did turn up, the hall I’ve hot heard them yet, so I’ll probably go Tuesdays at 7pm presentation. shreaked like ^.«million locusts - the and have a look: there are quite a lot of Guided by a most civilised new Time is set aside before the main audience was ready - so was the band. It interesting new groups around. On management, The Globe has switched reading for any local poets present to is gratifying to know that the art of the Thursday there will be Pop Mechanix at from its former live entertainment of stand up and read their work, and a good concert is not dead, and Mi-Sex the New Station Hotel in Anzac Avenue. punk-and-roll-em bands to poets and number of polished and originals certainly proved it. The music went on and They’re on also on Friday and Saturday, thespians. With the energetic unknowns came forward. In many senses, on, never wavering for a moment from the but I’d settle for the Thursday, coz at XS co-ordination of David Mitchell, a series of the Globe was abundant with poetry that level of energy spent on it. The band must (ex Island of Real) Friday’s showing the guest poets read their works every night. have spent hours at yoga beforehand just Crocodiles, and Sat’ is the Valentinos, Tuesday evening in the upstairs bar. The For students, David Mitchell has to have charged batteries sufficient to both’ll be great. Sunday at XS brings the beer and whisky flow free, from the last. organised a regular Meet The Poets Swingers, who gave a pretty good opening obliging barperson at the back of the session at 5.30 on Tuesdays, in the Staff I think that the Australian competitive to Mi-Sex apart from a little flaw, but room, and as they recite beneath a large Common Room of the English Dept. Wine, scene must have helped to polish the act they’re great rockers. The only info I’ve got canvas of Arthur Rimbaud painted by cheese and chippies, and the chance to till it shone. There isn’t enough beyond that is for the Station: the Crocs Dean Buchanan, the poets are matched by talk with poets from outside the Auckland competition in Enzed to develop that sort again. They’re doing some really neat gigs a ribald and appreciative commentary from area all for free; so head along there any of gut attack. lately. Next week I’ll have more since a lot their audience. Tuesday, and then wend your way up to Personally, I was amused and delighted of the places didn’t have info handy, but if The night I went Ian Wedde from the Globe afterwards for one of the most at the most heart-warming sexual exploits you like gigs then that should be a pretty Wellington was reading some of his recent relaxed and rewarding poetry evenings that went on between Steve Gilpin and interesting week. poems. Quashing the more rowdy you’re ever likely to have. Kevin Stanton, the lead guitarist. I know elements in the rooms with the revelation that the body as a whole gets into the Daryl Wilson of a Superman T-shirt beneath his parka, Katherine White THE APOLOGY THE COLORISTS SOCIETY does apologise to the COLLECTION Student Travel Bureau Near new clothing for defacing their advertisement Brighten up your wardrobe on Page 19 of Craccum dated with interesting and collectable June 16th. clothing MONACO MODELS LTD 118 Jervois Road (Just down from Curran St.) Manufacturers of Ski Wear. Factory Shop open to the public MARXIST BOOKS FOR SALE! at 10c East Tamaki Road RATHER sadly, it seems likely that Progressive Hunters Corner Books may close down after long years of service to readers of working-class literature. Tribune will be Papatoetoe sorry to see this happen. Phone 278-1656 However, this material will still be available from SPECIAL 5% DISCOUNT FOR Socialist Publishing Company Limited, 64A Symonds Street, PO Box 1987, Auckland. STUDENTS WITH THIS AD. 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The Plight of Student X - A You Got Your Troubles, I Got One On the whole I feel that newspapers clarification Sir, have relied too much on second-hand Mine Perhaps this could best be described as Dear Craccum, (N.Z.P.A. etc) or one-sided information I write this letter to protest at the a ‘correction’ of the picture presented of ITEM: it is easier to play the piano than to (correspondents based in Port Vila rather presence of British troops in the Pacific - a poverty-striken student X in last week’s imagine playing it. than Espiritu Santo - rather like an presence which is inhibiting a native issue of CRACCUM. Howsever, I feel it is ITEM: it is harder to write a poem than to people's right to self-determination. Auckland resident writing about the South in the interests of Student X that the imagine writing a poem. Island seperatist movement). Most reports It is surely the right of people in any students at this university be made aware ITEM: this is the best cup of coffee I’ve free country to reject a Government which I have read on the New Hebrides have of the following: had all day. they feel does not represent their interests been superficial, appealing to popularity 1) Student X knows nothing at all about ITEM: I am capable of murder. held views and with no real attempt to - especially a Government formed within a this scheme to improve his standard of ITEM: ITEM: ITEM: ITEM: ITEM: ITEM: investigate the deeper issues. framework considered acceptable to the living. What conclusions can you draw from the former colonial regime. I singled out the New Zealand Herald 2) The couple is not expecting a child above ? Perhaps you’ve spent too much I protest also at the style of reporting by simply because demands on my time have year according to the latest reports from time at university, time at university, time, your newspaper of current events in the prevented me from writing to every news Student X’s wife (25th June) time, time. New Hebrides. outlet in the country. The Herald, having a . 3) The poverty implied in this appeal is ITEM (anag.)... TIME 1234 (anag.) 2143 you The New Zealand Herald has depicted wide readership seemed the best choice to relative to the standard of living know my number, look up my name, the people of Espiritu Santo virtually as get my point of view across to as many previously enjoyed by the couple in New yours never, spear throwing former bulldozer drivers people as possible. Zealand. In Paris, where the cost of Johnathon Headpressure. with a limited command of the English For the Herald,! would say that at least living is very much higher they cannot SpokesMAN ^•guage and as being manipulatged by it allows a small section for reader’s views afford to dine out, are restricted to one Imaginary Friends of the Silver Lion French and American business interests. and the editor was good enough to see me movie and one ‘cultural’ outing (theatre, Cosmic P.S. I am going home now, I shall It seems somewhat strange to me that if and tell me why my letter was not being ballet, opera) per month. lock the door. these ‘rebels’ do have extensive capital published. The reasons given were they Student X is on scholarship which •eking then, as alleged, that they choose my letter was too long (the Herald only allows (1) year of foreign study. That Real Shitty Fan Club Letter to defend themselves with bows and aaeepts ledtters of 150 words) and too Dear Katrina, arrows. year is up in September 1980 at which general. With such a big subject point he can be expected to return to The nature of the New Zealand media’s however, I find it difficult to see how one I have just finished reading your issue New Zealand to complete his doctoral (with the possible exception of some of reporting of the moves to self government, can be economical without resorting to thesis. for Espiritu Santo and Tanna has mislead the general. Mike Rann’s ‘efforts’). The technical Now, how did this fund-raising drive, the New Zealand public to the point where Martin Rumsby standard was non-existent. Layout was based, as it is, on a gross they will allow, without protest, the British very poor indeed. Too many different types misrepresentation of the factgs, get off Government to send commandos onto Hoc Simplissimus Est of writing. Feeble headlines. Bad the ground? The intentions of the those islands. I see this action by Britain Dear Editor, letrasetting. In fact only pages 3 and 6 are coordinator were strictly honourable but as being no different from the present I tried to go to the second performance of the standard that I have come to expect were based on a misinterpreation of from Craccum. Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. of Antigone, but by the time I got there If, as seems likely, the British there was no standing room left in the information gleaned from correspondence The standard of the articles this year from Student X to yet another commandos go onto Espiritu Santo and theatre. If the sneering ‘open day’ has also been inferior. With the exception acquaintance. Tanna, under the jurisdiction of laws columnist was there, I wish he had come of a few, the general standard has been The idea behind the appeal is sound, hurriedly passed in recent days, without out and let me in. very poor indeed. I suggest that you start that is, if you have an extra dollar burning protests from New Zealanders then our He says it was- irrelevant; notice what showing some interest in the paper. You a hole in your pocket then by all means media will have been partially responsible this means. It means that he can’t relate it have been the most anonymous editor of donate it to a needy student. However, for New Zealanders sactioning such to what he already knows. It’s a dangerous the six it has been my experience to read. actions. word to use about classical civilization, bear in mind the fact that there are many Get involved or resign now before Martin Rumsby because it implies that one either doesn’t students in your own university far more Craccum 1980 becomes too painful to 17/6/1980 know much, or can’t make connections. needy than Student X. Therefore, I suggest read. Yours sincerely, that money already donated to Student X Yours faithfully The accompanying letter is not meant John Cronquist, be redirected into a Student Welfare Fund David Nicholls as an attack solely on the New Zealand Exchange Lecturer in Philosophy or if that doesn’t suit then demand a Dear David Nicholls, Herald - but on the stance taken by our refund. media on the situation in the New At 2 a.m. Dermot Cooke jumped off I feel the same about True Confessions. Bill Book Why don’t you try writing an article or two Hebrides. Indeed the Herald has Grafton Bridge after attaining the age of surpassed many other papers in its M.A. Sociology instead of moaning letters? 20. Dermot lived fast and died young. The Editor coverage, with both a special education Molluscs the world over are currently in supplement and a feature article mourning. 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Ask for Henry (irimshaw. EPSOM University of Auckland Branch Phone: 774-024 MEATS 51 Ranfurly Rd (opp.Epsom entrance to IHC) Page 17, CRACCUM, June 30 LETTERS The big 1 Who ls R.J. Stuart ? respect for human life. You have no Well, here Dear Katrina, respect for the life of Mary who faced being stoned to death because of her THE ! Dr R.J. Stuart’s article ‘A Christian ‘A thrilling Dear Katrina, Doctor Reflects on Abortion’, can only be ‘embarrassing situation’, you have no At Last !! A genuine Kevin Hague Why is it that I have to constantly respect for the life of a suburban Catholic Letter A.U.S.A., the seen as an attack on Wominkind. The Executive, pr replace notices on our noticeboard ? I housewife with six children who has a Dear Kate, article is a denial of the ‘humanity’ of other things. mean, at least three or four times a week husband who beats and repeatedly rapes I feel constrained to reply to the lettter Womin; he continues to see Womin as BUT FI RSI our noticeboard is stripped naked of her, who has no money, and is told that contained in last week’s issue from Wayne they have been seen from the beginnings open-day arti absolutely all the communications which the Pill will destroy her conscience and M.c.K.i.n.t.o.s.h. in relation to my of the patriarchy - as an empty vessel, Exaggeration are very important to a group such as that abortion is murder; you have no candidacy for the 1981 Presidency. The ready to be sown with the seed of men. journalism, b ours. respect for the life of a Womin who would letter contains a number of distortions of Only by control of Womin’s bodies can to beat A.U.S It becomes very frustrating when some rather place herself in the hands of a filthy fact. Perhaps (assuming they were men maintain dominance and create the A.U.S.A. a sti narrowminded bigot chooses to pick on illusion of their own immortality. They back-street abortionist than commit the accidental) these say something about the IMMORAL ACT OF BRINGING AN generally qui our noticeboard. Do we have to have all identify with the fetus, because they see it author’s concern for factual accuracy. our notices set in concrete to stop people UNWANTED CHILD INTO THE WORLD. I am painted as a latter-day George III, the Executive as controller of the mother, co-possessor displays were from destroying them (even that wouldn’t Attitudes such as yours Dr Stuart have who has spent many years in student of her energies. As Mary Daly said in the SRC Lou i stop this prick!). All I can say to whoever created more suffering, and have resulted politics, and in my heyday has made a GYN/ECOLOGY, ‘Males do indeed deeply well-signpost you are, you great rip-off artist, is you in more destruction of human potential great contribution to A.U.S.A., but is now identify with ‘unwanted fetal tissue’, for difficulty find better watch out !!! than any other religious or psychological completely dotty, seeing attacks from all they sense as their own condition the role Architect’s fa N.K. Pearson of controller, possesser, inhabiter of phenomena in the herstory of Wominkind. sides, but unable to perceive of anybody University Gay Liberation In Sisterhood, else who can take his place. that purportei womin. Draining female energy, they feel EDUCATION Jane Paviour. At the time that I wrote ‘HAGUE’S ‘fetal’. Sinced this perpetual fetal state is actually of a : At last, someone who agrees with fatal to the Self of the eternal mother RAVE’ I had not heard of any candidate that I thought competent to do the job the structure us ! (Hostess), males fear womin’s recognition same lack of Dear Editor, of this real condition, which would render irivolved. Such a candidate has now come forward, and if he were elected, I would at apparent in tf I found the article on Auckland them infinitely ‘unwanted’. For this Dear Editor, speech about restaurants very interesting. I would like to attraction/need of males for female It seems very bad taste to include a 4 least rest relatively easy in my political grave. prospects for add a few comments to the review of the energy, seen for what it is, is necrophilia - page spread on Restaurants in Auckland. As the auth Yamato Restaurant. not in the sense of Love for actual At a time when students are still I first became interested in working with A.U.S.A. in mid-1978. At that stage I present for th Over the past three years I have eaten corpses, but of Love for those victimised desperately awaiting their hardship grants. stretching jou at the Yamato three times. The first time into a state of living death’. Perhaps an article on ‘cheap’ represented A.U.S.A. for one meeting of the National Education Action Committee. far in commei was very pleasant. We had a dish cooked This denial of womin’s Self is the restaurants where you can get a good people listene at the table; the waitress frequently came central concept upon which Dr Stuart meal for a student price; would have been I became a member of the Executive last year, and, thus, this is my second year on watched the r and checked that everything was going bases his argument. -He perceives the more appropriate. certainly the r well. She was friendly as well as helpful fetus as more ‘alive’ than the mother. He Yours the Executive - hardly ‘many years of service.’ many more pe and made us feel welcome. We were exposes his womin-hatred in such Heather Worth have heard it. offered seconds, too. We all enjoyed that It is claimed that I have lost touch with the issues related to study that students A.U.S.A. - pub meal. The second time we also had a dish into the eighti cooked at the table. The service was not face. Frankly, I find this also to be quite absurd. I have studied full-time for three FIGHTBACK c quite so good but still OK. I think we were University guf offered second helpings then, too. The years in several faculties (sceince, arts and engineering). I am well aware of the members of tf third time was just last month. We waited FIGHTBACK s 15-20 minutes after we were given the pressures of assessment, poor lecturing and so on. business. Nea menus before I went and asked for Needy Studen someone to take our order. Since this was I find it disturbing that a member of the 1980 Executive could be so politically container that about 6:30 pm they were not at all busy Of course we - and there was no conceivable excuse for I naive as not to appreciate the threats facing students from the Government and EDUCATION F them forgetting us. This slow and do enough. Th apparently unwilling service went on all from the University. The Presidency is not with your repo night. We even had to ask for our bill so a game of musical chairs. The catch-cry of ‘time for a change’ rings hollow in the as a whole did that we could get away from the place. financial hards Meanwhile the waiting staff was all over context of the political and financial bad it right - tf any Japanese tourists who were there. reality that students find themselves on'. My worry i Their treatment of us was quite in. If I might be permitted to comment walked away tl deliberately insulting and we will never go briefly on the letter from Ravetime’s over :- have all the m< there again. The Yamato used to deserve your points are taken ahd I will endeavour should have ta its good reputation as a restaurant but to ensure that the ‘Rave’ meets up to your write the articl now (for ordinary New Zealanders, anyway) expectations. It has been my aim to keep it is distinctly overrated. the ‘Rave’ on a personal level and as light ! ...MEANWHIL M. Nuttall as possible. If this is not what people I believe tha want, then obviously I will have to change responsibility t things. Thanks for your comments. functions. Yours sincerely, First and for Let’s all Ju m p up & down, 1,2,3 Kevin Hague. political/repres G o.... represent the ii Dear Katherine, The ‘particular person* replies as a group or g This letter may end up sounding like yet both inside ant Dear Editor, another moaning, whinging one, but I Inside the Univ I write in response to a letter by really think that I have a valid point here form of commi ‘Ravetime’s over’ in last weeks Craccum. .... Once upon a time there used to be an with the Univer adage that went something like ‘‘The While I wish to pass no comment on the It means politic content of the letter I must protest customer is always right” . Although I can jetting our poii strongly at the use of the term ‘particular see that this might be a little unfair on the public, and rep poor old, often maligned shop assistant, I girl’ to describe myself or any other co-ordination a womin. The patronising and offensive tone can still not see that the use of rudeness NZU.S.A. displayed in this letter leads me to and crass stinginess will engender The big prob conclude that this person could only be goodwill, good business and customer have to represe male. Using ‘girl’ in this manner is similar fulfilment (all of which I would presume AU.S.A. officer to the executive boss-type male who calls any shop owner or manager would want). based on decis the womin in the typing pool ‘my girls’ I would like to tell you a little story ... made by more 1 last Friday night I went to a certain despite the fact that some of them may well be older than he himself. A male at least 95% of Chinese takeaway bar at the top of play a part in p< equivalent can be seen in the white Symonds Street to buy some dinner. In the can contend, ol aristocrat calling his elderly negro servant process, I bought a can of lemonade procedures for ‘my boy’. Oppression is everywhere. With which I duly opened only to find no representation i my strongest protest recorded I must bubbles, no fizz, nothing but sweet, still Constituion anc liquid. I informed the teenage schoolgirl finish this letter with a little proverb ‘A womin without a man there is nothing who had served me but was told that haven’t much ti because I had opened the said can, it was incredible statements as ‘... an abortion is I think he actually meant ls like not merely the destruction of a potential A fish without a bicycle’ wankery and I f now mine and that I had to accept pissed-off.... is left with the < responsibility for it’s flatness. How I was human life but a HUMAN LIFE WITH Yours in sisterhood POTENTIAL’, ls not a Womin’s life a Dear Katrina, Jill students are supposed to tell that it was flat before I I would agree with a pissed (aren’t they unaware of tf opened it, she couldn’t explain. ‘HUMAN LIFE WITH POTENTIAL’ Dr Stuart ? And surely that potential can only be all) BSc student about the parking of cars J. Jonah Jameson Fan Club meral Meetint Shops have access to manufacturers for in two wheel parking only zones. From the Strikes ... them more? - si refunding dud produce which the ordinary realised if the life is qualitative ? Neither a child or its mother can ever reach their full Craccum window I can see large numbers Dear Katrina, ■(interested in consumer does not have. I was potential if that child is unwanted. of such four wheeled vehicles parked in What a pity that such soured cynical (unfortunately s understandably (I think) pissed off and front of the Engineering building. I am representative s made as nice a fuss as I could, thinking You are a very privileged person Dr students as Jamieson and Parker bothered Stuart. Very privileged in that you are a complaining that there were no gaps long to come to Open Day at all if they were that the fault was not really the girl’s, but enough for me to fit my Chevette in this she still refused any sort of refund and middle-class male. Don’t presume to know interested only in rubbishing other what it is to suffer in a Womin’s body morning. I hope all those offending get people’s efforts. told me that ‘they’ (presumably the family) parking tickets. had opened another can out the back and under the patriarchy. You can never I can’t imagine they were volunteer R. Douglas (A BCHB student) helpers, were they ? that it was exactly the same and that I possibly know the pain and terror of unwanted pregnancy, the negation of Self, — And why not slides of Egypt and should write to the manufacturer - no P.S. for those who are wondering why a apology was offered. I have done this but the total isolation that comes only with Roman coins ? We do have students of unwanted pregnancy, the crushing weight Chevette is a two wheeled vehicle, I say Classics and of Archaeology, and the still think that this sort of thing warrants a have you ever had a good look at my mention to the general public, I don’t of complete responsibility for another whole idea of Open Day was to show the person. You betray your ignorance when Chevette ? It is a pair of two two-wheeled public some of the teaching and research know what the legal situation is but next vehicles held together by rust. time the product may not be worth 53 you refer to the plight of Mary, ‘— she was that goes on up here. beginning to wonder how she would cope All the comments from visitors that I cents but 53 dollars. Previous to this P.P.S. I would prefer to be towed away incident, I always bought my Chinese food with this rather embarrassing situation of heard were favourable and enthusiastic. being pregnant before marriage’. If you every so often to risk having my If you’re still here in 1983, Jamieson and from this place, I never will again. They suspension wrecked in the Student’s have engendered a lot of bad feeling over see unwanted pregnancy as an Parker, offer to help instead. You might ‘embarrassing situation’, Dr Stuart, then I carpark (always assuming you get there enjoy it more. a petty case of no benefit. early enough to get in) Thwarted Lemonade Drinker put it to you that is YOU who have no ‘Student Helper’ Page 18, CRACCUM, June 30 Over the next two weeks watch for on The big ‘k’ gets writers cramp what our policy would be if we had some, the galloping turf Doctor Syn, Toujours, Well, here it is finally:- to meet the demands of a new situation. Purcil, Belle Myth, Rabalam, Mr. Hickey, THE STATE OF THE UNION Complaints from students about A.U.S.A. Motor Way and London Trader. Willie our ‘A thrilling insight into the role of policy and the way it is actioned have guest selecter this week likes both Stevie i The Executive Meeting of 26th June was A.U.S.A., the performance of the been few and far between (and practically Wonder and Hoochy Couchy Henry at one of the dullest and most boring on Executive, prospects for the future, and non-existent this year, to the credit of the Avondale. Two worth following at record. It picked up a little after an other things.’ current Executive). Washdyke are Double Days and Sounds adjournment for tea and biscuits though, I BUT FIRST....a comment on the The political role of A.U.S.A. is two-fold, Good - probably at good odds. with discussion on whether three people open-day article of last issue. and this is mirrored in the functions of its Our account is $11.50 short with two could stand asone candidate for the Exaggeration is certainly a useful tool in political officers. A.U.S.A. must be both bets outstanding. This week we have $15 position of President. journalism, but it is not a stick with which representative and educative. A.U.S.A. to spend with John Tudor not starting last Points of order flew about like confetti. to beat A.U.S.A. (Neither, of course, is must represent students on specific time so it is $5win and $10place on Sample. McIntosh: ‘I’m supposed to rule A.U.S.A. a stick to beat exaggeration). I am issues which affect them as students or Double Days. on that right away and...urn...I reserve my generally quite pleased with the effort that which affect particular groups in society Martin our trackwatch from Te Awamutu decision.’ So»ry: ‘I move a motion of no the Executive put in, and a number of that are reflected in the student populace. mentions two horses that might be worth confidence in the Chair.’ McIntosh displays were very successful. The films in The educative function is served by following during the coming weeks, responded by throlwing a half-full cup of the SRC Lounge were well-attended and informing students about political issues. namely Tarbela and Impressive. The latter coffee at Sowry. Well say no more. well-signposted (if people still had This frequently takes the form of inviting I saw race at Ellerslie last month and was The Education Vice-President is going difficulty finding the place, it’s the speakers, distributing leaflets, posters etc. quite taken by his looks. Longer distances to launch a fundraising drive for the Architect’s fault, not ours!) A photograph The representative and educative and wet tracks will probably suit Education Fightback campaign. He says, that purported to depict my second functions are often inter-related. Impressive better and should be worth ‘As you are p;robably aware, Education EDUCATION FIGHTBACK speech was The other major concern of A.U.S.A. is p;unting providing he gets conditions to Fightback is a campaign of opposition to to provide services and resources for its suit. cutbacks in Government spending on actually of a second advertised address on B. Gamble the structure and function of A.U.S.A. This members. One broad group of services is education. Because of the heavy demands same lack of responsible journalism was covered in the broad category ‘student made on the finances of AUSA by this apparent in the discussion of my real union’. This encompasses common rooms, VOTE FOR NODDY OF THE YEAR campaign it has become necessary to speech about ‘Universities and their billiard tables, pinball machines, T.V., launch a fundraising drive for the prospects for the eighties’. theatre, recreation centre, theatre and Candidates include Kevin Hague, campaign. We wish to place the issue of As the authors of the article were not catering facilites. The provision of these Rob Muldoon, Merv Wellington, education funding before the general present for this speech, I feel that they are services is a topic of considerable debate, Stephen Mitchell and many more. public by leafleting letterboxes in central stretching journalistic license a little too and they warrant some further discussion. One coin fora vote. All proceeds and suburban Auckland.... In order to run far in commenting upon it. Certainly fewer A.U.S.A. has always held the position that to EDUCATION FIGHTBACK. the letterboxing drive we will require to people listened to the speech than these student union ‘facilities’, like the raise at least $2000 to cover printing and watched the martial arts display but Welfare services, are an essential part of a transport costs.’ He is calling for certainly the message got through to university education, and, therefore, are donations to help finance the campaign. many more people than would ordinarily the responsibility of the State to provide 1 And now a word for Law Professional have heard it. Large numbers of the through the University. The University students. You may not apply for probate A.U.S.A. - published ‘Auckland University administration basically agrees with us. within seven days of the date of death nor into the eighties’ leaflet (EDUCATION However, Government, who provide the for letters of administration within FIGHTBACK disguised as official funding, basically disagree (hence the fact fourteen days unless by leave of the University guff) were distributed to that a strong recommendation from Court in each case. Once Probate is members of the public. The EDUCATION Government [threatending legislation] has granted you must have it sealed within FIGHTBACK stall in the quad did excellent come to the Universities to substantially two months. If you do not apply for business. Nearly $100 was raised for the reduce their expenditure on welfare and Probate within twelve months you’ve had Needy Students Fund (not counting the studion union- probably meaning a $10 for it, Trev, and must explain your dilatoriness container that was STOLEN from the cafe). every enrolling student next year). to the Judge. Of course we didn’t do enough for This has resulted in a compromise The meeting closed with the Chairman EDUCATION FIGHTBACK - we can never solution whereby A.U.S.A. and the apologising for his incompetence and do enough. The point on which I can agree University jointly manage the Student thanking the meeting for bearing with him, with your reporters is that the University Union area and the University funds and the meeting telling him he really as a whole did not emphasise the certain items in the Union budget. There wasn’t such a bad chap after all. financial hardship that it faces. The title have, however, been some anomalies. A bad it right - the University was ‘putting it third of the cost of the theatre came from J.G.B. ion’. My worry is that the public will have the A.U.S.A. building fund yet A.U.S.A. walked away thinking that the Universities never gave permission for this to happen. have all the money they need - perhaps I A.U.S.A. is paying half the cost of the Rec. should have taken up the offer to help Centre and Government is paying the rest. ; write the article. The Rec. Centre is basically self-funding (although any loss is met by the CAMPUS TRAVEL ...MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH... University) but the University has a I believe that A.U.S.A. has a majority on the committee that is Watch this space each week for news from responsibility to perform a number of responsible for management. The your student travel centre * I functions. University has traditionally had minimal First and foremost, it is a interest in catering (catering has political/representative body. It must traditionally lost money hand over fist). represent the interests of students (both These are all covered in a Deed of as a group or groups and as individuals) Management. There isn’t one at the both inside and outside the University. moment. The last one expired in 1975 and Inside the University this largely takes the was written before the Theatre and Rec. EXCHANGE VISIT form of committee work and negotiation Centre were built. The biggest anomaly of with the University administration. Outside all, of course, is that while our building it means political action, persuasion, fund was used to p;ut up the buildings, HELP ! getting our point of view across to the they are the property of the University. public, and representation and The other ‘services’ that A.U.S.A. Billets/homestays are required co-ordination at a national level through provides include social events like N1U.S.A. orientation, capping, sporadic dances, for 13 Japanese students The big problem is the policy which we Jazz Night Club (soon to be a permanent visiting Auckland between have to represent. The policy which feature of Tuesday nights in Old Grad Bar), AU.S.A. officers have to represent is and Grad Bar Groval (soon to be a 18 and 20 August; if you can based on decisions which are seldom permanent feature of Tuesday and offer a bed and hospitality, made by more than 500 people i.e. usually Thursday noon - 2.30p.m. starting 1st July). atleast 95% of A.U.S.A. members don’t Publications include Craccum, Orientation contact Student Travel as soon play a part in policy-making process. One Handbook, Anti-calendar (I want to can contend, of course, that since the consider scrapping this) and the Discount as possible. procedures for policy-making and Booklet. A.U.S.A. provides a Student («presentation are laid down in the Information Office, a short information Constituion and they are being met, then programme for first year students before NEW BUS CONCESSION there is nothing to worry about. Frankly, I enrolment, visits to prospective students haven’t much time for such constituional in Auckland secondary schools and the wankery and I find the argument trite. One opportunity to give blood twice a year. The Whenuapai Bus Company now offers student is left with the conclusion that most Grants for clubs and societies, cheap concessions on its city routes to those students holding a students are xerox, gestetner, typing etc. and A.U.S.A. 4 unaware of the existence of SRC and resources are some of the services current ISIC that has the ARA overstamp. See STB for 6eneral Meetings (How can we publicise provided to groups of students. further details. Vtem more? - suggestions please!)’ (interested in what A.U.S.A. does mfortunately students are a good The State of the Nation was more than the lepresentative sample of society at large) back page of Craccum could cope with, HOW TO GET AN ISIC or and Kevin’s rave will be continued in next cjthat most students are happy with what weeks issue due to shortage of space. I University students will need: AU.S.A. is doing and, hence, do not feel a would like to point out that Kevin need to take part themselves. attributes the length of his rave to the fact - 2 recent passport type photographs (of yourself). Probably these factors all play some role. that he was home, sick in bed (but not - ISIC application form (from Student Travel on campus However the question remains - ‘Do the delirious!) and had the time to write it and then: elected representatives of A.U.S.A. have a before Thursday night - the Editor. mandate to action policy that is made by - fill out application form luch a small proportion of its membership?’ - have form and photographs stamped and signed at some I believe that they do. They are time by Student Travel and then: «presenting decisions made by those students who are interested in what - follow simple instructions on back of ISIC form. AU.S.A.’s policy should be. There are also occasions when they have to interpolate STUDENT TRAVEL BUREAU - Top floor Student Union Bisting policy, in an educated guess as to 11.00 am — 4.30 pm dally

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“I had noticed that there was a public close up. contradiction between those people who The Gallery itself is just one large took their art seriously and its-display, and conCrete-floored area. It is actually only also between the person who is 99.4m2 but who’s counting? It has walls inbetween, that is, the dealer. There of 4.25m2 (14’ for the uncovertables) and seemed to be little co-operation. These the apex of the roof is 8.1m (26’ 7”). inbetween-people work from two These dimensions, plus a balcony, afford viewpoints. 1) a pure business the Gallery much room and utility. One of exploitation, where the artist’s works are the biggest cries from the art world is not nothing but potential for a financial gain, necessarily for facilities but just “Give me not that I’m directly knocking that, it’s space”. So here there is plenty of it. “This their business, and they have to employ . has it’s own advantage for the Fine Arts people; and 2) is an indifference to the ' students around, whose works don’t just arts, where someone owns a facility that is ! hang on a wall... there will be paintings by being used and has no real interest in Dean Buchanan, shortly, and an what actually goes on there.” ‘installation’ by Judy Millar, and one by They were the frank words of Frank Mary Louise Brown, who are both from the Stark, who is the owner/manager of the Fine Arts school... I would really like it to newly opened 100m2 Gallery which has be used to cater for a certain sector, I recently shown Richard Von Sturmer’s mean, every gallery works on somebody's “The Green Lion”, an an exhibition Dy a prejudice, someone has to say, ‘well, we’d new, and talented John Reynolds. like this to go on in our place, but I think One of the reasons that Frank wanted to i that this is not quite right, or something’s to open this form of gallery was because he gone too far. Like, The Great Lion is about was so disappointed with the excessive i as near to straight theatre as we will get. class difference between the artist and the 'There are going to be some interesting presenter. “While a person uses my things from Sally Hollis McLeod, and the gallery, it is theirs as a partnership with guitarist Ivan Zagni” (who did an amazing the owner. I think that an artist must be ‘recital’ in the Little Theatre earlier this more and more aware of presentation, year). “Places like the Closet Artists himself. When people get into places like Gallery wants to be warm and cosy, but the Barry Lett Galleries, so often most of mine is cold and white.” That means that the presentation work is done by other if somebody can go to a cold, white place people.” with a concrete floor to see something The actual site (at the Wyndham St end then they are genuinely interested in its of Federal St, at no. 51) is an old brick presentation in Auckland. building, “which may very well fall down in And that interest is there. The the next earthquake” and is leased off a attendance at the Gallery is far beyond private citizen for about twenty-something expectations. If attendance keeps up, then dollars a week. “All I do is charge $30 a 1 the 100m2 Gallery will become the •week, for the artist to use the place, and I recipient of a $1500 per year grant, which take an across-the-board 10% of taking, will really only cover the rent on the place. whether it is a play or an exhibition and But this will mean that the $30 per week sale of paintings.” For most of the other . fee to the artists could then be dropped, galleries around the artists are paying out leaving only a 10-15% commission as commission of about 33%, because of everything that Frank Stark gets. many more overheads in the form of Certain financial difficulties (like the wages. small fact that Frank is broke) will mean “When I had originally applied to the that he could have to get a job in Auckland City Council for somewhere to Wellington, as sub-editor of the NZ go, they had in fact rejected my Listener, but “the gallery is sort of application within a few days, and I wasn’t self-running. It has been set up and that is told for months. And that was only the hardest bit. My leaving would not because the Director of the Art Gallery, necessarily mean the closing of the who was in favour of my idea when gallery, because of the fact that the everyone else was against it, phoned me people presenting stuff would do most of up personally and told me.” He might still their own work and set-up, anyway.” Each be waiting for his reply otherwise. “The generation must find out from amongst people who are using the place at the themselves about itself and about its peer moment are already known to me from my group support. We need many outlets, and initial batch of supporters, and eventually we need to be able to manipulate these people will just come in, though I might outlets ourselves. “You can’t do a have to say that their work’s no good for consensus, you’ll either bore everybody or here. Somebody has to edit what please no-one. You have to create few happens.” expectations, and you have to serve a Frank Stark is very well-known around certain number of tastes.” the University. He joined in 1972 at the age The next happening will be paintings by of 18, gained a BA; he was on our Dean Buchanan which opens on the 30th Executive in 1974-6 as Social Controller and runs for a fortnight. By the time you and Cultural Affairs Officer. In 1976 he will read this, the opening will have been was the Chairman of the New Zealand over, but there is still another thirteen Students’ Arts Council, and the Editor of days. Dean exhibited in the Little Theatre Craccum (you’ve probably heard of it!) in last year, and at present works as an 1977. And during the 1978-80 period had exhibition technician at the Auckland City the position of Director of Campus Arts Art Gallery. (He also used to be the lead North (who are this year doing that CAN singer in the Dentists). This year he has a Opener Festival). So there is no doubt that work in the Benson and Hedges Finals. Frank is well-equipped to work in the arts Remember you will find the 100m2 Gall field. “Because there are no wages or at 51 Federal Street, next to the Alexandra salaries, so no pressure commercially, m Hotel, and it’s open every day from noon then this sort of set-up breeds more trust till 5.30pm. and co-operation, and so the gaps between the artist and presenter and Daryl Wilson CROSSWORD CLUES:- 44. Ill-warning 13. Openly resisted ACROSS: 45. Annul a law 18. Misses out on a quality 1. Cunning 48. Originated from 21. Pixie 4. Enfold 50. Submerge 24. Small 8. Iranian emperor 51. Musical note 25. Less polluted 12. Secretly observed 52. A number 26. Scrape off 14. Throw 53. Rub dry 27. Kind & nice 15. Neap & Ebb 54. Trick (slang) 28. Sheep (pi) 16. Flavour 55. Make assured 36. Person in charge 17. Mobile stairs 59. Re 31. Removed 19. Skill 61. Group or set 34. Clad in a hood & gown 20. Body parts used as measures? 62. Highland Gaelic or Irish 36. Type of fish 22. ls able 63. Nutty (slang) 37. Ceramic square 23. Exists 64. Consumes 38. Wept for 65. Venison 24. Prepare soil 39. Handle a situation 25. Parcel. 66. Choose 41. Top, lid DOWN: 29. Relaxation to a need 42. Expose 31. Frona Asia Minor 1. Few & far between 45. Tear 32. Shfpfront 2. Column of items 46. Add up cost 33. Finish 3. Still 47. Fuzzy ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S XWORDS 34. Deck 4. Moving circle 49. Individual articles 35. Fish eggs 5. Metal decay 50. One who does 64 Across: 1. Passage of arms; 10. Adornment; 11. G 36. Remain 6. Part of circle 53.Sapient 12. Tithe; 13. Kerbstone; 14. Rattling; 16. Cutter 1 38. Enclosed waters 7. Posters of cardboard 54. Fowl-run Ensure; 20. Deranged; 22. Perpetual; 24. Netta; 25 39. Rascals 8. Smelt badly 55. Past tense of 64 26. Lime Grove; 27. Life-preserver. 40. Concealed 9. Rap 56. Ocean Down: 2. Apostates; 3. Sense; 4. Gherkins; 5. Otte 41 Frolic 10. Fuss 57. Feline animal Angostura; 7. Mango 8. Battersea Park; 9. Free-t 42. Staff 11. Of that woman 58. Another form of 23 area; 15. Large bone; 17. Tight-rope; 18. New lame 43. Beer 12. Step 60. Half a sob? Butler; 23. Radu; 24 Niger. Page 20, CRACCUM, June 30