Volume 53 Issue 16 |uly 9 1979
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ialand id social s. Fora and N.Z. Spatctaka ATTENTION!!! NOMINATIONS SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
Students are warned that Craccum Nominations are now open for the positions on the Association’s Executive Notice is hereby given of a Special believes that in the past few weeks Committee. The term of office in each case is from 1 January 1980 to 31 December General Meeting of the Association to be several members of Auckland’s notorious 1980. Nominations close with the Secretary at 5.00 pm on Friday 20 July 1979. held in the main hall of the Recreation Drug Squad have been operating from The positions are: Centre on Thursday 19 July 1979 the downstairs coffee bar. This fact has Cultural Affairs Officer commencing at 1.00 pm. been brought to the Editors’ attention at Environmental Affairs Officer least three times by different individuals International Affairs Officer AGENDA and I have no reason to doubt these National Affairs Officer students honesty (as opposed to that of Overseas Student’s Officer ‘That the Executive Committee no longer the Drug Squad). Craccum advises all Publications Officer has the confidence of the Association.’ students to avoid talking about drugs but Societies’ Representative As this is a Special General Meeting no if they must (and who can resist!) then Sport's Clubs’ Representative other business may be discussed. This to do so in furtive whispers. The open Student Representative Council Chairperson notice supersedes the previously given smoking of dope or any other form of Welfare Officer notice of intent to hold this meeting in illegality should perhaps be best left for Women’s Rights Officer Lecture Theatre B28. some other quiet spot (the Craccum Treasurer office is ideal !). This is not the first time Nominations also close at 5.00 pm on Friday 20 July 1979 for the position of : R.W. Lack that narcs have ventured onto the Treasurer Secretary Auckland campus or indeed any campus The term of office in this case is from the date of election to 31 December 1979. for that matter. At Massey University All candidates for the position of Treasurer (for either term of office) must have GAY BIKE CLUB recently a student was busted by an passed Accounting I. Now there’s a gay bikers social group undercover narc who operated out of Elections for all these positions will be held during the last week of the second term. for you! Contact Box 1008 Auckland. their coffee bar... the student in question was not ‘done’ until several months had R.W. Lack ELECTION FORUM elapsed in order to preserve the under Secretary cover Cop’s identity. You are warned. And if any of you are curious enough Candidates for the positions of President to wonder just what undercover narcs 1979 and 1980, Education Vice-President actually look like then they are usually 1979 and 1980, Administrative Vice-Pres conspicuous by their immaculate ident 1980, Women’s Rights Officer 1979 grooming, (ie black shoes, blue shirts etc) have their chance to be harangued by the and their feeble attempts to appear ‘with student masses and achieve ten minutes of EDUCATION FIGHTBACK. THE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION instant fame. Election Forums will be it’ by reading a copy of Craccum (usually held in the Quad on Thursday last weeks issue) upside down. Dark sun Thursday July 26 will be a national day of action to protest against cuts in glasses are an optional extra. Other speaking venues in the various hos Education spending. At the moment activities on campus are being planned and so far tels as well as the medicine and engineer If anybody spots a person whom they we have come up with street theatre, cultural displays by overseas students, forums, a can present evidence is a Cop sitting in ing schools have yet to be finalised so concert, march, dance and movies as ideas. At this stage the success of July 26 will watch norice boards for further deatils. the coffee bar then rush up to Craccum depend very much on how many students get involved in the planning and and we will endeavour to print a photo organisation. If you have an idea or would like to help please contact Studass. graph of said person in next weeks issue. On Friday July 27 there will be a public march and meeting to discuss the state SRC SRC SRC SRC SRC SRC SRC They have been warned, too ! of the education system in New Zealand. We have booked the Town Hall, published WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY posters and leaflets, and contacted educational groups in Auckland. We need your WINTER GENERAL MEETING help to man stalls in Vulcan Lane, distribute leaflets and posters, and raise funds. If 1PM 1 PM you would like to help, please contact Studass. This will be a tremendously important If you have some yearning to have some meeting because the education system as we know it has been attacked by the Government. Only by uniting community efforts to oppose this attack will we be able burning contentious issue discussed by Student Christian Movement the general student populus then the Winter General Meeting is just for you. Thursday 12th July; 1 - 2 pm The Agenda has been opened for any Room 143 (beside the T.V. room) matters - this is especially important if Does the SCM have a future ? you have constitutional changes in mind Mitzi Nairn, 685-192 for details. which need two weeks notice. So get to it — General Meetings are fun and made Trade Aid Stall all the more merrier by a selection of /any motions. Exact date and time of the Friday 13th July in the Quad WGM will be given later. Quality Third World products available. All money from sales goes to Corso. ANOTHER ATTENTION !!! Martyn Nicholls, 689-529 for details.
Female students arc warned not to Indo-China Refugee Action Group wander too far o ff the beaten track after dark around the Old Arts Building. A meeting will be held on Tuesday July Because the lighting is inadequate the 10th at 8 pm in the Cafe extension to place has become a prowling ground for continue work and discussion of the muggers, perverts and god knows what ICRAG on the Indo-Chinese refugees. else. Reports of two recent attacks on women students recently only bear this Recreation Centre point out. We understand that the Free Student Dance Classes University is taking immediate steps to rectify the lighting situation which may Monday Beginners, Modern, 6-7.30pm help matters considerably. Tuesday Beginners, Modern, 1-2.30pm Tuesday Beginners, Ballet, 6-7.30pm Wednesday Beginners, Modern, 6-7.30pm HEAD OVER HEELS AGAIN Thursday Intermediate, Modern, ‘Head Over Heels’ are still looking for a 6-7.30pm bass player. Someone with a musical car. Friday Childrens Creative, 4-5pm Talent would also be an advantage if Friday Beginners Jazz, 6-7.30pm you’re interested. All Movement Theatre Tutors Phone 760-530 (Noel or Mark) FOLK CLUB Tuesday 17 July — ‘The Law and the Child’: Ms Pamela Ringwood, Law and Announcing : The group ‘Nonesuch’ will Sociology Departments, Auckland be performing in the WCR on Wednesday University. J uly 11 at 7 pm. Come and see what folk Chip Douglas, the Head Reporter for ‘Whitaker Street’, the Elam Students Tuesday 24 July — ‘Community Action music is all about. This very talented trio, magazine, came up to the Craccum Office the other day. Apparently their bloody Heather, Judith and Mike, sing and play in the Inner City’: Dr Bruce Hucker, publication is due out once again to fill these hallowed halls of academica with smut, Sociology Dept, Auckland University. a mixture of both traditional and filth and undeniable poor taste. Because of this Craccum unreservedly supports our contemporary folk. (They are each Tuesday 31 July — ‘What Children Think Elam counterparts in their efforts and provides this plug for them free of charge. singers in their own right but together About the Future’: Professor Marie Clay, ‘Scoop’ Douglas informs me that the next issue goes COLOUR !, and that as an they have a rare sound). Education Dept, Auckland University. example of his literary prowess he offers the well-known gem that you can perv into Naturally we will be LICENCED P.S. Russell, the men’s sauna from down in the Quad. You’ll probably have to read ‘Whitaker again. This should be well worth INFORMATION OFFICER Street’ for exact details. Hope this keeps him happy. investing a night in. CRACCUM J ULY 10 PAGE 2 The Beavis Jiff? Babble The Craccnm Bhub Ever since the world-wide wave of Just a short and sweet editorial this poor. But I suspect not somehow. This back campaign. The sentiments that they otests against the Vietnam war, week. For a start, I wish to welcome you place is buzzing a fair bit nowadays, what express are true to a point - this year many iversity students have been reluctant to all back to the brain factory, hope you with the Education Fightback Campaign, executive members failed to take an active t involved in issues that are not of enjoyed your mid-term break and that the elections and the Motions of No Con role in the particular bursaries demonstra ect interest to them. The classic excuse things are not getting you down too fidence coming up. tion held on Junc19. But any such acc t is given for apathy and non- much. I know how it feels. usations couldn’t be made at the executive Which leads me nicely to the second Ivement in Studass is that the issues For a change, I’ll talk about the two for their actions the following Friday, topic of this editorial (for want of a better tare discussed do not affect the most important events coming up in the June 23, when 58 students got arrested at word). The motion o f No Confidence rage student. Here now is the next two weeks around the Students’ the sit-in. With one or two exceptions is due this Thursday week at an SGM rtunity to reverse the trend. The Association. Firstly, the elections for Executive members were present in force being held in the Recreation Centre. This irsary cuts affect students directly and President and office-holders 1979 and is very important — far more important and performed a very worthwhile liaison is students who should be active in 1980. This week as part o f our coverage even than the moves that removed Roth with the police. otesting against them. If you don’t » f this extravaganza we present the policy from office earlier this year. -test, nobody else will. The Education (statements o f the candidates as well as I think it is important that students ightback campaign has now been re {their little mug shots so you know who to So, I disagree with the motion and since realise that the Executive as a mass are not alized with the appointment o f a new throw darts at during election forums. I’m in such an expressive mood I’ll tell elected to lead demonstrations, get l-time Co-ordinator and though it’s I’ve refrained from comment at this stage you why. Firstly, let me say that I can sec arrested etc. Certainly the Executive as likely that there’ll be any more sit- but next week I’ll go over the positions the reasons why both groups concerned a whole has a part to play but responsibil wn protests there are all sorts o f other one by one with a vengeance, the Stud have moved the ir motions. The haste ity for lack o f action lack of involvement, tivities in the pipeline. But planning by ents’ Association can ill afford weakness in which the referendum was called did lack o f success more often than not falls if is not enough and we need people (or incompetence at this stage and it ’s im effectively disbar students from voting — not on the shoulders o f the elected but help carry out the activities. If you portant that we look closely at the generally perhaps part-time students who more on the shoulders of the electors. nt to get involved get in touch with an policies of those who are standing. Also have as much right to vote as anybody With the Education Fightback campaign ec. member and ask for further next week we interview Kevin Hague who else. This is a matter o f serious concern, in full swing, and the massive cuts formation. !is the sole candidate standing for President one which will be changed when the con announced in the Budget concerning Last week the executive established a for 1980. While not detracting from stitution gets the once-over but one which, student bursaries the campaign needs mmittee to review the constitution, Kevin, I’m sure that even he would be given the majority and size of the vote greater student involvement and FAST. he AUSA Constitution is not a 'happier if there were more people stand which removed Janet Roth from office On the opposite page is a rave from Colin eument which sets out basic rights ing for the top job with Studass. So does not warrant the removal of the Exec McFadzcan, the Association Resource I duties as does the U.S. Constitution don’t forget to vote next Tuesday and utive by a motion of No Confidence. The Officer, who until recently was bearing the ■t is a body of rules which sets out a Wednesday, we’ll be publishing the hours other group o f students who have moved brunt of the workload. Please get involved, nework within which the association that the various polling booths will be the motion have accused the Executive of you essentially have no excuse. Complac erates. Everyone agrees that the topen, in next week’s issue, so you have lack of leadership and participation in the ency is to the Government a sure sign of ciation is in bad shape but there are jno excuse if this year’s voting turn out is running of the Bursaries/Education Fight- acquiescence. Sign up now. inflicting ideas on just how it can be nproved. There are a few areas where Merritt -.mediate changes in the constitution :required in order to remedy ficiencies, but any holding action of is sort must not obscure the fact that whole infrastructure has become craccum rfficient and will have to be redesigned. The thorny problem lies in designing Editor ...... David Merritt Far o ff in the distance a vague form was Eugenie and Fiona were the next to workable constitution to implement Technical E d ito r...... Brian Brennan slowly taking shape. As it got closer, move . Boldly they approached the big changes which must inevitably be Advertising Manager. . . Anthony Wright features became more distinct, the silvery hulk. ‘Bounce o ff my head, would de. To do this, the new committee Arts Editor . .*...... Eugenie Sage sunken eyes, hollowed cheek bones, run would you - take that’ said one. The jst undertake a thorough review of the Photographer...... Elizabeth Leylana ning nose.’ Help me'eried the feeble other prodded it with a ruler. Mike the ent constitution and should also look Distribution Manager .... Matvey West figure, whose emaciated features res Ryke had had enough of the suspense. ely at the constitutions of other Music Editor ...... Alex James embled those of a dromedary...... With deft movements he splattered the •dents’ associations around the country, Legal H ack...... I Don Meanwhile, back at home a small group object with a 0.8 Rotring, obliterating tleast two other universities (Massey Typesetters...... Barbara Amos clustered around a smouldering pile the lettering. He motioned Comrade * 'Otago) have recently set up their ...... Sarah Brown of last year’s Cantas. Suddenly a match who letrasetted the words ‘THIS IS iconstitutional review committees, flared in the darkness, revealing a Ha*>»ci feirWxJou...... FTon a. Careeron OURS AND WE WON’T GIVE IT BACK 1 it would be advantageous if there ^ Qj C3 cohola \^uc«> lighted carrot being passed from one TO ANYONE WHO WANTS IT ’ - all in -re to be a close liaison with them so ors j person to another. Music blared from 48pt American Typewriter Bold Caps. at there could be a ready exchange of a hidden source Overhead, Skylab Quickly a plan was put into action. as. began its downward trek. As well as analysing current practice, Craccum is registered by the Post Office It was the normal Thursday night scene It's a pretty boring job, sitting in NASA ■ new committee should also draw on as an official letterbomb and is transported in the Craccum office this week. People control all day watching this thing bleep ; vast pool of experience that exists up here weekly by the Turkistan-Siberian stooped over the layout, others ran over your screen. Week in, week out, , the form of past executive members Railways, all the way from far-off from one important task to another. Hank had been sitting in the same ) are still at university. These are Wanganui where the sodden mess is Wax was waxed, Ictrasct was Ictercd, cruddy spot, watching the same cruddy ;plc who have experienced the Printed by the kind people at Wanganui copy was copied. Layout was laid. bleep wing its way over the Southern rkings of the present constitution Newspapers. Published by the Craccum Scalpels were wielded with amazing Hemisphere. Then with a final dcs i many of them will have good suggest- Administration Board for the Auckland proficiency and skill. A faint mumble pairing ‘blip’, the bleep stopped. Kaput. nson possible changes. I would suggest University Students’ Association, Private o f conversation reached the cars of the ‘It’s down Sir’, he shouted, ‘somewhere at the committee should contact as Bag, Auckland. Bless their cotton socks. SIS men whose ears were glued to sticky in New Zealand.’ ‘ Launch the pursuit ny of these people as possible and headphones down in the ASB Building. teams’, cried Hank’s superior and the aside times when hearings could be SUDDENLY!!!!. With an almighty roar skv was black with B52’s. d so that they, and any other a large, round, metallic object hurtled in crested people, could come and give through the roof. It bounced o ff the ; benefit of their ideas. heads of several people, smashed the It is quite likely that the constitution editorial collection of Ming china and ill be radically altered as a result o f the finally came to rest within inches of the nmittee’s findings, and so it is vitally goldfish bowl. portant that the committee should Distracted from their work, the Craccum ct at a time when it can deliberate in masses gathered around in silence, clearly calm fashion and reach sound dazed by the events o f the previous nclusions. To attempt to do a rush job 5 seconds. ^cr pressure would be counter- Emblazoned in large, stencilled letters ductive. Nevertheless the matter were the words “ Property of the US Id not be left to fall by the wayside SfST&l hAAV (yefitiC H M be. Government — Please return at once” . hopefully the new constitution will Yes folks! this was the week that the ready to come into effect by the dreaded Skylab paid us a visit. 'nning of next year. Finally, Brian broke the silence.1 It’s Skylab’ he said. I nodded in agree hn Beavis ment. Everybody else nodded as w ell- S is t e r except Adam who started to argue Hollows the crucifix. the point. I. Don rushed back to the /9/UO /} (3//q/jr On the air, the smell o f wet earth, Law School, keen to be the first Breadfruit and mango, person in the world to register a law SIKI f - Ct i R The sweet rot o f the fertile sun. suit against the United States Govt What is happening? Who is Hank? What has the ^ The rain thunders: under cover, for personal injury. (His was one of the emaciated figure mentioned at the beginning to do with all this? Why are people smoking Flesh bends to one race o f night heads which it bounced off.) He now carrots and buring last year’s Cantas? What 4V 1 AO? In a single bed. resides in the Bahamas, the recipient plan which the Craccum team were putting of $57,000,000,000 and a ten year into action in line 49? ls there an end to this Hugh Cook teaching contract at Harvard. story? MORE NEXT WEEK. CRACCUM J ULY 10 PAGE 3 THE ELECTION THINS President 1979 RODNEY DISSMEYER - PRESIDENT GREG PIRIE - PRESIDENT 1979 1979 The Students’ Association is in need of the My policy is to stop all persecution and down firm and forthright leadership that it has lacked grading of aardvarks. When I become President for the past eighteen months. I can supply that this university will be a place where all aardvarks leadership. Without co-ordination and direction can study freely, without the fear of retribution. by neither President nor SRC the Executive is Each and every aardvark shall receive a $30.00 divided and indecisive. Characteristic of this a week bursary and those who need more can trend is the amazing number of resignations put it in writing. either talked about by Exec members or To all students who know nothing about submitted and then later withdrawn. policy-making, voting, executive meetings etc, This year there has been an apparent move you now have the opportunity to appoint a by AUSA to place its prime emphasis upon President who knows nothing about policy its role as a voice for students in society at making, voting and executive meetings,etc. large. Nobody can deny that this is a valid Apart from my policy on aardvarks I have function for AUSA. However, I believe that none so I ’ll be open to nearly all suggestions. our first responsibility is to matters that Anyone wishing to contact me can do so immediately concern students on campus. We by making an appointment at my office, require a re-ordering of our priorities, not to located in the milkbar third table from the end exclude the political voice of students, but to between the hours of 1 and 2 pm. first act on their behalf at home. And this is where the President’s interests should lie. The CHRIS SULLIVAN - PRESIDENT 1979 Executive and SRC should more than adequately satisfy the political functions of 1. Better education for students on issues AUSA, while the President, your full-time affecting society, attacks on democracy, representative, concentrates on the everyday persecution of minority groups, the future development of society and how we can affect hassles of students. In line with these beliefs there are some it. 2.. I think that students lack real representation specific matters that I would like to acton, once elected. in the Students’ Association. Many students AUSA’s CONSTITUTION are reluctant to participate in their Association. The Association’s Constitution has received I would set aside specific times and places to a lot of valid criticism this year. While it is meet students with any problems. I would try obviously in need of a technical overhaul to to attend as many meetings of student clubs and remove a variety of ambiguities and anomalies, societies as possible to find out what students some more pertinent questions are required are thinking and what some of their problems to be asked of it. The relationship between the are. Exec and SRC is ill-defined and creates The increasing workload over the past continual confusion. I favour SRC being given few years has reduced student involvement a the power of direction over Exec, in addition to around campus. Pressure should be put on the Faculties to reduce the amount of assignment recommendations. The problems of how far work without decreasing the proportion of in this power should extend, ie to financial course assessment. questions or not, and how much like a General 3. Bursasry cutbacks are naturally detrimental Meeting SRC should become will be solved by to students’ education. With a strong campaign a Constitutional Review under my direction. in this area and support from other groups like A STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION the Trade Union movement, I believe we have Bringing Studass ‘back to the students’ every chance of reversing the bursary cutbacks. does not simply mean ‘more social life on campus’. It means actively demonstrating ROSS DAVISON - PRESIDENT 1979 DERMOT COOKE - PRESIDENT 1979 AUSA’s support for students in all facets of university existence. I firmly believe, for If elected to the position of AUSA President example, in the desirability of a Student I will pledge to undertake the following As a trendy lefty right wing liberal middle Senate, composed of all people who represent policies to the best of my abilities. Firstly of the road bigot, I pledge that upon becoming AUSA and students to the University. This though, I must point out that I will use the President I shall fight for better lighting on would include our reps on Council, Senate, all position to further my political views, and will campus as the sun will undoubtedly be their various committees, Faculty, and Staff- continue to do so, even though student opinion blotted out by flying pigs. Student Committee reps. Such a Student may be against me. Financial assistance to the tune of $500 Senate would provide not only a forum for the II elected I pledge to provide better wall will be extended to those students who, as affairs and difficulties of the student-AUSA- surfaces to attract a higher class of graffiti, and bounty hunters can provide scalps of University relationship, but also a concrete will also strive to gain higher bursaries for feminists, engineers, young socialists, young measure of support for those students who musketeers, Weymouth students and other - nationals, law students or Craccum staff. attempt to mediate within this relationship. deserving citizens. Card tables will be provided I further pledge to toally abuse my position MONEY in the Milk-bar as well as gold-nlatcd drinking by issuing inflammatory statements to the Although removed from the interest of most fountains in the Engineering school. Dart Press (at the rate of three per week) which are members of the Association, AUSA’s finances making lessons will be held for ignorant Arts totally unrepresentative of general student are a crucial part of its existence. I do not students, as well as a redesign of the quad and feeling. As President, I would welcome and think that, with a membership of over 11,000 the Gym to get better air currents for darts. As possibly second any motion of No Confidence the Exec will ever avoid criticism of unfair this is such a responsible position, I will also in me. Remember a vote for me is a vote lower my consumption of strawberry thick- down the drain. financial support of affiliated groups, let alone shakes and marmitc sandwiches.______outside organisations. However it is possible for a more equitable distribution of students' fees to support reasonable clubs & societies on the basis of demonstrated need, rather than The leaflet entitled “ Roth Barred From who manages to stack grants committees. Standing” implies that the AUSA Exec, Preparation of the 1980 Budget requires more decided to prevent Janet Roth from re than the hit and miss arrangement of previous standing. In fact years. Although areas of expenditure such as standing for the Presidency. In fact, Rule 1 (b) catering and the theatre are easily pinned down, of the Second Schedule of the AUSA Con the Exec’s ‘Student Activities’ budget is where stitution states that all candidates for the pos your money is most easily wasted. Once again, ition of President “shall have been a student at a preparation of realistic estimates for the next the University of Auckland for at least one year twelve months is required - not a random immediately preceding .... nomination.” division of the lucrative cake. In addition the As there was some question as to whether this whole question of financial aid to non- would apply to Ms. Roth, the Association affiliated organisations is unclear in the solicitors were consulted on the matter in ac Constitution. It can be argued that all such President 1980 cordance with Rule 62 of the Constitution grants, donations, etc have been made illegally. which states that any dispute as to the inter This needs clarification and the inclusion of KEVIN HAGUE - PRESIDENT 1980 pretation of the Constitution “shall be deter definitive direction in the Constitution. mined in accord with the-ruling of the Flonarary My aim, therefore, is to set the Association I am making no promises except one — to Solicitors of the Association.” The Associat back on the path of its stated objects: try hard. The President must be an ion Solicitors ruled that Rule 1 (b) meant that to further the interests of the University and \ administrator, a political figurehead and, above any nominee for the Presidency must have been secure the co-operation of students in so doing all, a person who is involved with individual a student for the 365 days immediately prior to represent and act for the members in students and student groups. to nomination and hence Ms. Roth was ineli all matters in which the members as a body are The policy of the President, is the policy gible to stand for re-election as she had not bee interested. which you make. I believe that I can execute been a student for that period. BIOGRAPHY that policy, and carry out the job competently This is my sixth year at Auckland The original purpose of the rule was simply to and responsibly. I feel that I can do the job University. I am aged 23 and am completing a stop first year students from standing because well, otherwise I would not stand, but now ! BA in Educational Psychology. I have been of the belief that no first year student could need your support. YOUR vote is important to involved in AUSA affairs for four or five years possibly be qualified in such a short space of me. and was on the Executive as SRC Chairperson time to do the job of the President in a com in 1 977 and 1978. I presently represent the petent manner. It was not designed to apply in Association on Library and Audio-Visual the current situation and will be reviewed by Committees. the Constitutional Review Committee so that its meaning is clear. John Beavis. CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 4 A V P 80 DAVID ROSE - AVP 1980 T 1979 ANMARIE WILLE - WOMEN’S RIGHTS OFFICER 1979 I see the job of AVP as concentrating on ; in need of the the A. (as in Administrative). Obviously I have hat it has lacked I intend to be an active Women’s Rights my own views on most topics, but I see the can supply that Officer, encouraging university women to be smooth (?) running of the Association as the on and direction more aware of women’s issues. My policy is : AVP’s main concern. I think for the AVP to ne Executive is 1) To encourage women to be active in have a definite political policy is rather a eristic of this campus politics. r : waste of time, as AUSA policy emphasis is resignations 2) To be a strong liaison between university constantly changing and, as I see it, AVP’s imbers or and feminist organisations. position is one of supporting the President in rawn. 3) To continue my support for Repeal and operating current policy and, in fact, workiog apparent move Gay Rights. on admin. phasis upon 4) To look at the university creche situation i society at carefully to see how the Students Assoc, can iis is a valid help support it without threatening the I believe that university administration funds to the creche. tters that 5) To work for the inclusion of more papers on campus. We related specifically to women. orities, not to 6) To re-cycle feminist literature on campus. E V P 80 tudents, but to STEPHEN MITCHELL - EVP 1980 e. And this is GARY THOMASON - WOMEN’S My policy will be to campaign against should lie. The discriminatory fees imposed on Overseas re than RIGHTS OFFICER 1979 Students as well as the overall restriction on functions of In the past the position of Women’s Rights their numbers. I shall fight against the - ur full-time Officer has been viewed by many people to be abolition of the unabated bursary which allows l the everyday just a political convenience. I am standing for for no distinction in need between students at the position as I can see that a non-political ere are some home and students living away from home. appointment to the position of Women’s Rights Generally speaking, i shall campaign for ke to act on, Officer would best serve the needs of women. bursaries being made compatible with the New A series of political appointments to this Zealand standard of living. As an Exec member position has resulted in an alienation of a large I will push for the use of Student Union tion has received portion of the women-on campus, and an r. While it is funds to assist students suffering hardship. I apparent disregard for the needs of women. al overhaul to will represent to the Government that money This series of political appointments has s and anomalies, spent on University buildings (e.g. the Human focused entirely on some political right of s are required Sciences building) and facilities (the tunnel women while overlooking the needs of the ship between the to run between the Student Campus and the same women. d creates Engineering School) would be better spent on These needs encompass such disregarded SRC being given students who need it. Buildings can wait. issues as - the fact that women on campus are ie interest of most MJSA’s finances YEAR election ice. I do not o of over 11,000 from Oulu makes it all possible "After a couple of days in Salt Lake City Your Student Travel Centre and similar we both found jobs,as a waitress in one case, student organisations throughout the world and working in a department store in the have devised the Exchange Visitor other. We sfayed three weeks in Salt Lake City. Programme. We then spent four weeks travelling This allows you to explore life in a along the East Coast of the United States different environment with maximum before returning on a Greyhound bus to the freedom and at minimum cost. West coast. 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The closing date for applications for the includes programme administration, airport There is 10 to 50% discount on entrance Exchange Visitor Programme is Friday 14th CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 6 .fin a n c e d F r e sh - Unable to attend Executive meetings Executive tossed around the idea of meetings. But while he was CAO he’d of history may be in order. As you all the due course of events by a Thursday excluding the public from these events gone on two trips south, one to Wellington realise the Association operates a number ghtprinting deadline, it was a rare but International Affairs Officer Frank and one to Christchurch and was seeking of catering outlets serving choice -/.asion for the erstwhile Craccum Doogan made the point that this would payment for some,of the costs he gastronomical delicacies to students. And Jitor to venture into the inner sanctum, tend to imply that it is always the public incurred on these Association junkets. every year they manage to run at a loss ,eholiest of holies, the Council room which was responsible for any violence at After listening to his case Executive which varies from $500 some years to hilean executive meeting was in AUSA functions - a fact which simply decided to reimburse his full-fare (as $40,000 in others. One of the main Jgress. isn’t true and ignores the somewhat opposed to student standby) trips on Air reasons is that the Association is its owm As you will probably be aware the animalistic behaviour of some students. New Zealand. Then came the matter of biggest competitor, with one outlet ecutive is under some pretty heavy Into the fray entered Welfare Officer $ .... he had racked up in taxi fares competing against another. Take Fresh- _rkfrom students at the moment, Barry Flook who astounded all by a around the place. A motion to reimburse Up for example. It’s sold in the dairy 'ingtwo motions of no confidence candid confession that at one time he him half of these fares was lost on the downstairs and now the Recreation ming up at a Special General Meeting had been employed as a securityman for chairs casting vote and Taylor left the Centre want to sell it as well. Immediate iJuly 19 and also a general feeling from wrestling matches. Exec dissolved into meeting somewhat pissed off. As a competition. But unlike other AUSA ,e masses that they are perhaps not hysterics as everybody tries to visualise consequence it was decided that in future outlets, the Rec. Centre is run by the ..forming their duties as competently Hook doing this. Bob Lack, the Secretary all exec members should be reminded that University and so any profits from sales is possible. But more on that later. If states that even if the public or when they travel around the country they would accrue to the University and not to j’ve never been to an Executive ‘undesirable elements’ were to be are to do so as cheaply as possible and the the Students’ Association). So having put eting, (and most of you never have) excluded from functions this would not indiscriminate spending of money in the you all in the picture, let’s get back to en I can personally recommend them stop trouble occurring outside such as in belief that ‘the Association will pay’ is the Executive meeting. It was moved that an event which is packed with intrigue, the walkways or the downstairs toilets. In not to be tolerated. the petition be referred to Catering Sub- amaand the occasional doses of the end after more deliberations about Committee but this motion was amended jmour. the role of the Association custodians in by the addition of ‘AUSA’s support for So in we bowled at about 7 pm and matters of security, it was decided to ask Rowing Club Cleans Up continuation of sales’. The amendment was carried on Bcavis’s casting vote and :meeting was already well underway the SUMC (Student Union Management The University Rowing Club was next then lost when the whole amended motion Jdiscussion had reached that nebulous Committee) to clarify existing security and why not is all I can say. They were was put. Hook, the mover of the amend [sections called ‘Visitors’. This is where measures and to possibly suggest improve-' seeking $7000 from the Association to ment and a staunch supporter of Fresh-Up .cple can come along and in person ments. It was also decided to help the purchase a new ‘eights’ shell from the then stormed out of the meeting. In the kthe executive to take some course of boys in blue with their enquiries concern auction of equipment left behind after end the matter will go to Catering tion as opposed to just writing them ing the English Club matter. the World Rowing Champs at Karapiro Committee after Hook returned later in letter about it. First up was a complaint earlier this year. Oh!, how they dallied the meeting with yet another petition. oncerning security at functions held and hummed and hawed until sports The sorry case of Russell Taylor and the ■-thin the confines of the Union officer Monteith moved that they be This time it was resolved that ‘AUSA jilding. Apparently at the recent taxi fares. given a special grant of $100 and a two recognise the need for drinks in the nglish Club social there were some ugly Next up in the visitors half hour was year loan of $6000 (at no interest). After Recreation Centre other than ‘fizzy aments and one of the club members former Association Cultural Affairs assurances from the Rowing Club drinks’ and suggests that an amicable id come along to see what could be Officer Russell Taylor. Taylor was Treasurer and President that repayment agreement be formed between the Rec. ne to prevent this sort of thing removed from office earlier, after he had was quite within their reaches, the motion Centre and the Catering Sub-Committee opening again. For a while the failed to attend three consecutive SRC was carried. to continue sales of fruit drinks.’ At Last !, The Constitution gets the once-over. Roth raises the Hackles Brian Gray, token Californian With nary a moments pause the Environmental Affairs Officer, brought Executive then instructed Beavis to up the matter discussed at the last write something for Craccum concerning Executive meeting of a Constitutional Ms Janet Roth’s latest leaflet entitled Review Committee. Both Gray and ‘ Roth Barred from Standing’. Executive Acting-President Beavis stressed the were upset that the Roth supporters urgency of this matter if changes were.to had chosen to blacken the executive be made before the end of this year. The over this matter which was really out of composition of the committee was their hands as it is quite clearly set down discussed at length. Barry Hook wanted it in the constitution that all Presidential composed of constitutional lawyers but candidates had to be students for the tudent this is met with general cries of scorn. prccccding year before-standing. This Editor Merritt spoke at last - ‘it ’s like Ms Roth was not and so the Socialist employing nuclear physicists to look at Action League in one fell swoop lost ways of getting mud o ff boots - you want their chance to propagandarise the cause students, not bloody lawyers’. So Brian any more. Pity. Bcavis’s statement Gray is appointed Chairperson of the appears elsewhere in this issue. Review with powers to co-opt members oans onto the committee. It’s envisaged that the committee comprise of reps from SRC along with one or two from from your on campus bank Executive Backs Student Demonstrators executive - old timers such as Lack, Greg Pirie and Merritt were suggested. Merritt y o u need a little help and advice on Executive has decided that the Hiking vour moneygo further it's there declines, claiming Craccum as his chief Association solicitors should represent >rthcaskingTrom the Bank of New concern but promises to make sub any student arrested at the sit-in if he or ealand. We're right on campus and missions just like an ordinary student she requires legal aid. And not to leave it :ad\ to help, (which he certainly isn’t). So.watch out at that, Executive, following SRC’s tudent loans for notices about the review in this weeks recommendations, endorsed the protests he great thing about these is their Craccum and get your ideas down on by students who sat down in Queen Street exibilitv. From just a few days to tide paper. as part of the aims of AUSA as set down nu over a rough spot or long-term so in the constitution. And bloody good too. iat you can plan ahead over the years Tenancy Conference Later in the meeting the Executive also mi're studying. Interest is charged at a NZUSA, that wonderful organisation taicessional rate. decided to support all students engaging 'vau'd like to talk over \o u r money in Wellington, besides organising the now in passive, non-violent protests, whether roblems with people who understand twice annual Bursary demos, is interested arrested or not, directed against the ionev and how it w orks call into the in other things as well, jim Brown, the recent cuts in education. The motion was ank ol New Zealand on campus and General Vice-President has played 3 major later amended so that AUSA’s support rrange a time for a chat. part in the organisation of a National would only be extended to ‘approved’ Tenancy Conference in Hamilton to look protests. This means that if you or your isk lor Henry (irimshaw. at the present Tenancy Law and tenants mates wish to go o ff and protest, sec iniversitv of Auckland Branch rights. Barry Hook and National Affairs Frank Doogan, the Education Fightback 'hone: 774-024 Officer James Gilderdale will represent Co-ordinator and obtain his blessing AUSA. A report on this meeting will be in before hand. a later Craccum. ' And that was about it. For an executive meeting it wasn’t’ too long, The Great Fresh-yp Scandal. (2y2 hours) and the range of topics ^ Bank of New Zealand The Executive had received a covered was extensive. And to make Here when you need us - on campus petition from students requesting that things even more rosy it was a good ‘ Fresh-Up’ (as advertised on TV by John meeting in so much that the executive Walker) be sold in the Recreation Centre. has finally decided to handle administra Why should such a small matter as this be tion competently and leave policy a matter of such concern? (Perhaps a bit decisions to SRC. David Merritt CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 7 Three Stupid Reasons For Accepting The Cutbacks In thp the BudgetRnrlppt two1 wo weeks ago,aeo. —mi ■!■■****' ~ 'I " ~ i n —m m ■ m-r Mr Muldoon presented us with his govern ment’s ‘Great Leap Backwards’ - a $3 X. million cut in funding for universities, and the ‘Standard Tertiary Grant’ intend ed to ‘supplement student holiday earnings’ (?!?), which effectively cuts the Bursary for most people by $7 and 4 introduces a means test and 25% Fees charge. The future for universities (and / \ A, educations general) now looks very grim. But over the last few weeks, trying to mobilise 11,000 students and the NZ / public to register their opposition to the t l Education Cutbacks vociferously and even militantly, I’ve come across a hell of a lot of students Doing the Standing k Still. And when I ask them why they’re not up in arms, getting arrested, or march ing in the streets, the same few arguments emerge in defence of the cuts. Same with people in the street, taxpayers at parties, salary-earners on the bus. They’ve all /, 7 fallen for the same old heroin, peddled by j Mr Big and the Gang. But when you really look at the arguments used, they fall apart in your hands. What’s needed is to lay them out for analysis and show how patently stupid they are. And then all you gonks should get o ff your chuffs and join the Fightback campaign. Because no one should fall victim to these fabrications again, least of all university students. Here they arc then - and you can tell you’re a gonk if you accept the cutbacks because you think - Three One under $2,500 a year (roughly, $1,200 1. We need to cut government spending, article ‘The Myth of the 3 M illion’ in 3. ‘There is a lot o f fat in the universities’. Bursary, $800 holiday jobs, $500 gifts and everyone, students and universities Craccum 15. Incidentally, Professor — This one’s straight from the mouth and loans). That’s about a quarter of included, has to take their share. Brownlie, whom Ian quotes at length, is of Our Nation’s Leader on Budget night. what most members of the work-force - - Even if the first part’s true, which is not only Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury And it’s perhaps the most fatuous/ earn. If we don’t have many economically debatable, this ignores the University, but also a noted economist idiotic. Because the cuts aren’t solving ‘ Responsibilities’, it’s because we can’t crucial difference between most govern and a Govt economic adviser. So his that issue at all. These cuts don’t select bloody afford them. Our spending as ment activities and Education. As they remarks are to be taken very seriously. So the loafers and departmental spendthrifts, consumers is incredibly low, kept telling us in Telethon, children arc too is the contradiction between Merv they just CUT. Indiscriminately. Even if comparatively speaking, and we are our future. And the way our society’s Wellington’s claim that the cuts are to be there are staff members who aren’t pulling therefore very cheap members of the constituted, Education is the essential made in non-salary areas, and the Vice- their weight, it’s more likely to be the society. The country’s economic problems investment in that future. It’s not just an Chancellors’ statements that the ones who are flat out setting up new, are basically balance of payments issues, Optional Extra, it lays the groundwork universities have already done all that- experimental courses and small special but we spend almost nothing on luxury for the nation and society we will have in thcy’ve little room left to move there. ised units (eg in languages) wh-o’l1 be goods, and very little on non-essential 20, 50 and 100 years. Deny the kinder worst hit, not the departmental coasters. items (half that $2,500 goes on rent, for gartens facilities, the schools their staff, Likewise, many keen but non-affluent most people). We make very few demands and the universities their research grants, students will be denied varsity, while the on the country’s finance institutions, we students and equipment, and you arc children of the rich keep driving to the patronise public transport extensively, ultimately removing the country’s ability caf in their Fords and Honda Civics. . and we pay taxes on holiday and part- to fulfill its opportunities and develop its time jobs (if we can get them !) Yet much needed human resources. And if we T u r n Muldoon has the cheek (shot !) to tell us arc to solve our energy and social — Again, it also ignores (deliberately ?) 2. We are too dependent on the Social there’s too much fat in the universities! problems, and improve our agriculture the fact that the universities have already Security System and the Welfare State. It’s a fact that you’d save the country and industry, we must have trained cut back expenditure in non-salary fields — The problem with this argument is more by halving the Prime Minister’s personnel and expertise, research grants like energy maintenance, and there’s not that the Cutbacks are doing absolutely salary alone, than you would halving the and facilities, and a wide range of courses much else they can do there, except stop NOTHING to change that. The govern bursary of 50 undergraduate students. open to anyone, not just the affluent, ment hasn’t made the slightest suggestion being universities. And what does ‘too who wants to make use of them. But all of an alternative system - all it ’s done is much fat’ mean if they’re already 20% By now, these arguments, and the these have been severely jeopardised by just deny this one the funds needed for it under-staffed ??? cuts themselves, look PRETTY DAMN this government. to operate properly. A lot of people talk STUPID. Yet you hear them all the time - — Which makes you wonder what the — There is also a myth abroad in the about the American university system - from National Party voters, the affluent hell this so-called government’s up to ! general public that most people at what they ignore is that there vast sums middle-class, the beleagured workers, Muldoon keeps talking about ‘restructur university are lazy bums onto a good of money are invested in the universities and students themselves. In reply, your ing the economy’, and we’re told to thing. Astonishingly, no one’s ever by private enterprise and trusts in place students’ association, NZUSA, and the ‘develop for the future’ and to ‘exploit attacked thaC But I sec no evidence that of government spending (while most universities have mounted a very the dountry’s potential’, but all this is so there are any more slackers at varsity than students emerge as graduates owing comprehensive campaign to put our much political pretence and eye-wash if there are in government departments, literally thousands of dollars). If the case to the country and to oppose the company offices, shops & businesses, or the government, and by implication out- National Government is really concerned cuts. THERE IS SOMETHING THERE for that matter Parliament. But I don’t society (that’s you, Mr/s Taxpayer !) about the system, it could be encouraging FOR YOU TO DO - whether it’s writing see the government cutting those people’s isn’t prepared to put its money where its private contributions to the universities letters, being arrested at a sit-in, or pay. Most o f them got tax cuts in this mouth is. It’s a feature o f this government as it has done with several Arts grants, organising departmental protests. So (which even members of the National which it co-sponsors with companies like Budget ! What I do know is that most of my friends have worked bloody hard for how about it. You can see the hogwash Party criticise it for) that it has no real ICI and Choysa. Whether this is desirable used to justify the cutbacks - next year concern for the country’s future, and is another question. But let’s not pretend their degrees and I don’t like the idea of you’ll feel it in the bank -- unless you offers no clear-headed, far-sighted and that the Cutbacks are a constructive curb their having their bursary cut from under stop being a gonk, get out now, and show stimulating plan whatsoever for the on our Welfare State dependence. For them because it’s alleged they’re slackers. the government that 50,000 students decades ahead. Nothing makes this more students, it just means that you’ll be If a boss sacked a whole workforce can’t be conned. obvious than the cutbacks ! If wc want to restricted in what you can do, and most because one kid misbehaved, there’d be solve our problems for the future, our will need to have parents who can help a public outcry. But that’s the principle Chris Parr Education Budget needs to be extended, support them through varsity - in short, being applied here ! And the irony is, not decreased. entrenched social stratification. For the most students are too ‘busy’, or asleep, — This argument also ignores the fact universities, it will mean a reduction in to get out and object to i t !!! ' t * * £ >|o£ % ■ , that in the past few years the universities the quality of the education they offer, % have already made considerable which may never be recuperated. Again, — As far as economics is concerned, the reductions in expenditure. If you want our future is being sacrificed to save a few Bursary cut is a very misdirected attack. proof of this, re-read Ian Powell’s short-term bucks. Almost all university students live on CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 8 TheNew Bursary That Nobody Wanted In the 1975 general election the It is evident that the Government is National Party, then the Opposition, 1979-80 endeavouring to establish a parallel system promised New Zealand university and 1 1978- 79 Voted Expended of grants and loans. Restricting the grant technical institute students that once entitlement is the means o f achieving this. office it would introduce a regaining Bursaries, Scholarships and boarding A system o f supplementary assistance in ‘new reformed bursary’ to replace the allowances $39,151,000 34,087,000 33,131,000 the form of loans is being investigated Standard Tertiary Bursary (STB) of the for introduction as soon as practicable. It Labour Government. The following figures show the distribution o f students on the abated and unabated will include provision for ‘support’ for National Party publicity gave students rates throughout the seven universities. students not eligible for tertiary study the very real impression that its scheme and/or fees grant assistance. would be brighter and better than the RETURNS FOR NUMBERS OF STUDENTS RECEIVING STANDARD TERTIARY FEES STB. BURSARIES IN NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITIES IN 1978. When discriminatory fees for private Three and a half years later the ‘new overseas students was announced by reformed bursary’ was announced by ABATED % UNABATED % TOTAL Mr Muldoon in May, it was predicted by Prime Minister Muldoon. However, as NZUSA and constituent student leaders outlined in the Budget, and subsequently AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY 3704 62.4 2230 37.6 5934 that following the British experience, elaborated on by the Minister o f Educa WAIKATO UNIVERSITY 426 33.2 859 66.8 1285 this would set a precedent for the paying tion, Merv Wellington and the Department MASSEY UNIVERSITY 363 13.1 2401 86.9 2764 o f fees by New Zealand-born students. of Education, there is nothing to suggest VICTORIA UNIVERSITY 2143 65.1 1150 34.9 3293 Currently University Entrance entitles that in any significant way this new CANTERBURY UNI 1904 49.3 1964 50.7 3868 students to a Fees Bursary which pays for scheme is an improvement on the STB. LINCOLN COLLEGE 142 13.8 888 86.2 1030 all tuition fees. This applies to both full Whereas despite its many inadequacies OTAGO UNIVERSITY 994 22.2 3492 77.8 4486 time and part-time students. (such as the failure to keep up with Under the new scheme the Fees inflation and the abatement) the STB was Year Abated Unabated Bursary will be replaced by a Tertiary definitely an improvement on its 2 Required Level Actual Loss Required Level Actual Loss Fees Grant which will meet 75% of predecessor this cannot be Said for the tuition fees. In 1979 this would have new scheme. 1-3 $ 28 5 39 16 amounted to students paying ' The new scheme is intended to be 3+ 31.50 8.50 42.50 19.50 approximately $50 in fees. With the implemented for 1980 and will be called erosion of university funding, however, the Tertiary Study Grant. The underlying it is quite possible that fees may increase motivation behind this new scheme is to THE MAIN IMPLICATIONS FOR in the future. cut expenditure on bursary assistance. STUDENTS There is an income restriction on The Tertiary Study Grant should be seen THE BASIC LEVEL eligibility for the Tertiary Fees Grant. in the context of a recommendation of In reading the Budget to Parliament of a personal income o f over $3,000 per Students arc not eligible if they have a the Cabinet Expenditure Committee that Mr Muldoon made an initial misleading annum. The amount of the grant will be ‘personal gross annual income’ from any $5 million be cut from the STB. comment when introducing the new reduced by $2 weekly for every $100 or source’ in excess of $3,000. It is unclear scheme. He referred to a $40 grant. part thereof over $2,000. For full-time An initial glance at the Estimates for whether the words ‘from any source’ However, in reality it is a $23 weekly students holiday earnings may be Vote Education (1) would suggest that apply to supposed parental or spouse grant for the academic year. disregarded. an extra $6 million has been allocated to assistance. This represents a significant change bursary expenditure. THE HARDSHIP PROVISION MEANS-TESTING from the present STB. Instead of four In addition to the Tertiary Study Even though the National Party rejects I However, in considering this three different levels there is now only one. Grant of $23 there will be a means-testing for its pet Superannuation factors should be taken into account. Years Abated Unabated Supplementary Hardship Grant up to $17. Scheme it is nevertheless prevalent IT This could be merely misleading 1 -3 $19 $30 This will be available only for those in throughout this new bursary scheme. accountancy expediency to hide the real 4+ $22.50 $33.50 receipt of the Tertiary Study Grant and Essentially there are two types of picture and to provide the Minister with Obviously the group of students who who would be unable to study full-time means-testing - parental (including spouse) political capital. suffer the most are those on the without additional financial assistance. and income (of the individual). A mix 2. The Minister has himself acknow unabated rate. They represented, in In the current STB there is a ‘frozen’ of the two is also possible. ledged that comparing expenditure for 1978, about 57% of all STB holders and difference o f $11 between the abated and Parental means-testing will be applied items from year to year is very misleading. will suffer weekly reductions o f either unabated rates. That is when there was for single students under the age of 3. In the original draft o f the Budget it $7 or $10.50. (See (2) an increase it was applied equally to all twenty. In applying for the Supplement was intended to place teacher trainees on four levels. ary Hardship Grant this group o f students the STB or its successor. However, this At a minimum at least one-third of However, there is no guarantee that in will have to make a joint application with STB holders will suffer a direct cut at each was changed at the last moment. But this this new two tier system this will be the their parents or guardians. About 53% of only means that the decision has been campus. The effects are most severe at case. There is every reason to believe that all students arc under twenty. One of the postponed and not necessarily rescinded. Massey, Lincoln, Otago and Waikato. when future increases are made they arc greatest faults of parental means-testing Thus it is quite conceivable that the The position of unabated students more likely to be for the $17 than the is that it assumes a uniform willingness by Estimates have not been altered. This shows how farcical the Minister’s claim $23. parents to contribute towards the costs would help explain the extra $6 million. that the controversial abatement had A comparable example is in Sweden of university education. been ceased is. Rather than abolish the where a two-tier grant/loan scheme As stated earlier both the Tertiary HOW THE SCHEME WAS DECIDED abatement (which has been a demand o f operates. When the Swedish scheme was Study Grant and the Tertiary Fees Grant In a post-Budget press statement on students since its implementation in first introduced in 1 964 the basic grant arc income tested - The problem with Saturday 23 June Mr Wellington made 1976) Mr Wellington has abated all represented about 25% of the total income tested is working out a fair and the following comments abou t how the bursary holders. assistance package. By 1968 it was 22% equitable system in which to do it. One * decision to formulate and implement the Superficially one would expect that and in late 1975 it was 1 5%. way is to base it on the previous year’s Tertiary Study Grant was made. income. But this falls down because both 'This is part o f a continuing policy, in the abated students would have reason ENTITLEMENT AND LOANS to be content. There is little effective personal and general circumstances can /977 and 1978, Conferences were held One of the most severe changes has vary considerably from year to year. by my Department and were attended by change for those on $22.50 but on the been made to a students’ entitlement to Another way is to base it on assumed interested groups and organisations to surface those on $19 get a $4 increase. bursary assistance. At the moment a earnings for the coming year. However, consider financial assistance for Post However if a conservative estimate of student is entitled to the STB for two undergraduate degrees and one graduate assumed earnings arc not easy to assess in School Study. a 10% annual inflation rate is added to a advance and the result can invariably be a In April 1978 my predecessor $1.50 needed to take into account the degree. significant discrepancy between assumed established a Steering Committee on tax changes announced in late 1978 as In 1980 a student will be only and actual earnings. financial Assistance for Post Compulsory well as the extra fees that students will entitled for assistance for a maximum of OVERALL ASSESSMENT Study which has made three interim have to pay then that $4 soon disappears five years or for two recognised courses which ever is the lesser. The proposed new bursary scheme reports to the Minister o f Education. A t and the net gain for this group of students This effects many students who is nothing more than a crude method of the same time both my predecessor and I is nil. Given this perspective then ordinarily would be entitled to assistance. reducing the purchasing power of students. have met with student groups, teacher students on $22.50 will actually lose Students doing longer undergraduate de It is not a positive improvement o f the organisations and other interested parties about $3-4 in real terms. grees, such as law and medicine, will be STB. This cost-cutting will be done in and sought their views. The above formulation is a very con limited in their ability to complete four ways. j The new scheme announced in the servative one and actually misleadingly their courses let alone post-graduate 1. Reducing the basic grant'to $23 Budget is an outcome o f this review o f portrays the real losses of all students. In work. Many students take four years to 2. Reducing the entitlement the present system o f assistance for February a Department of Education complete their Bachelor’s degree. Their 3. Means-testing which is a very effective | tertiary students. ’ confidential document was leaked to ability to do post-graduate work or a and secretive way of reducing This claim of the Minister is a complete Wellington’s Evening Post. That document second undergraduate degree will be expenditure fabrication and is totally misleading. revealed that in order to restore the STB impinged. It is also a discentive for 4. Fees increases NZUSA has representatives on the to its real value in 1976 for 1980 it students who would like to do a two year The overall effect is two-fold. On the Steering Committee and at no stage was would have to be increased by $9 per masterate involving research for a thesis. one hand it is a further erosion o f the [the Tertiary Study Grant discussed and week. This $9 was made up of $7.50 for Even ‘academically successful’ students principle of free tertiary education. erosion by inflation and $1.50 for tax nor were its main features part of the will be hit. They could be eligible for On the other it erodes the principle of two (not three) interim reports to the changes (see (3). only four years assistance. For example, if universities being educational institutions Minister. Furthermore the meetings Returning to the new single level it is students completed their Bachelor rather than simply being qualification between NZUSA and the Minister never also misleading to state that $23 is the degree in three years and Honours in one entered institutions. (discussed the scheme. At no stage was basic level. In fact there is an income they would not be entitled to bursary ■ NZUSA invited to comment on the restriction on this. Students are not assistance for a fifth year to do a Ian Powell, proposed Tertiary Study Grant. eligible for the $23 if they are in receipt masterate or diploma course. 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The camera pans onto , Y ^ weVave 1 OOphones^up here at the B 'g ' > front up rndsundupallyou^eph-'suwho aren’t getting calls. Most of the SsSSfiSwthe lines are being used. “ And it ’s all happening down at the Big I” says Sinclair, as the focus leaves the stars at SPTV. In fact, nothing whatsoever has happened since the camera last left us. You don’t miss what you don’t see. There were a dozen primary school children there, representatives o f their fellows who had formed some sort of dragon o f a few hundred, ankles roped together, mambaing across the playground ‘for telethon’. These kids had been waiting five hours to do their piece. While they became more and more sleepy, hungry and thirsty , Peter Sinclair and Andy Shaw had been playing ‘personalities’ back at the main SPTV studios, acting the fool for the masses, playschool hi-jinks without the love. But these kids didn’t even raise a whimper, the sense of the solemnity of waiting for their 1 5 seconds o f fame leaving them in awe. I try and bludge a cigarette from a couple o f girls and end up getting involved in banter for five minutes as to whether I should go and give a donation first. All things are judged by your giving power. The widows mite comes into its own. “ ...... » "s '"y H"vne, wumng Tor you to call ilm Festival Supplement Over the past few years Craccum has As assistant to the festival director all of them featuring, naturally enough, definitely bore some teenagers. But you published a supplement at the time of the might be suspected of commercial intent strong women in principal roles. These might be surprised. film festival which has been, effectively, in preparing these opinions - let me assure are Nine Months, Games of Love and The trend for European directors to an alternative brochure. you that this is not the case. I was asked Loneliness, and Paradise Place. Servant make films in English is continuing, with The supplement you have in your to do it in the absence of any obviously and Mistress, too, although directed by a Resnais and Herzog making English hands is intended to be read in conjunct qualified person willing to commit man, has a strong women’s influence from language debuts with Providence and ion with the official festival programme. themselves to what is after all a fairly co-author Dominique Fabre and photo Nosfcratu respectively. Otherwise I have written from the point o f view of formidable task, and I was delighted to grapher Etienne Szabo, and seems to me dialogue is in the language of the one who has an altogether excessive undertake it out of motives of personal to cover ground of special interest to country of origin with subtitles in English. enthusiasm for films and who has done satisfaction. To a certain extent it must feminists. Tattooed Tears and Juvenile Unfortunately some films turn up what many of you would do if you had be considered a service to students by Liaison were made by a man/woman dubbed - the only one we know to be in the time; adding to the references the Festival Society, as some o f the work team, but I can’t see that the subject this category at the moment is Hunting accumulated as the films were selected, I was done during working hours with the matter holds any particular relevance to Accident, let’s hope there aren’t too scoured both the main libraries and the willing encouragement o f Elaine Beadle, women as such. There are some films many more. collections of friends for every the director. We really believe that made by men that do, however, and As of writing, Tattooed Tears looks reference that I could find to each film. students must be given every opportunity these are Iphigenia, That Obscure Object a little uncertain and may have to be In some cases these were numerous to make informed choices, due to their of Desire, L’lnnocents and Melody in replaced. There is one addition to the and I almost feel confident to essay, as financially disadvantaged situation. I Grey, particularly the last-named. programme - a sixty minute NZ film John Trenwith has done, a ‘review’, but think it will be obvious in the reading Political activists will find Tattooed entitled The Sadness of the Post in most cases there were not more than that these really are the plain and Tears and Juvenile Liaison, Peking Duck intellectual Art Critic, which at this two or three opinions to go by and I have unvarnished opinions o f myself and Soup, Sun of the Hyenas, the Chant of moment is still in the editing room in just tried to set out in an accessible way John Trenwith. I hope they are of use Jimmy Blacksmith, the Last Supper and Sydney - no-one has ever seen it, nor the range available. to you in selecting and watching the possibly to a lesser extent Bread & will there be any opportunity for anyone In a very few cases there was nothing films. Chocolate and The Lost Paradise to preview before it screens, in fact the at all that didn’t come from the distribu Having got all that o ff my chest, I will interesting for one reason or another slightest delay will necessitate its tors and I have made no attempt to now get down to business. I don’t feel (slavery, tyranny, bureaucracy, racism cancellation. It is also a first by the conceal these lacunae, referring you qualified to identify the most important etc). director/produccr George Rose, so there principally to the brochure. or significant films from an academic 'Environmental issues are apparently o f is nothing to go on except the script and very little concern to film-makers; there some stills. From this material I can say And finally, with all this considered, I point o f view, but no serious student of was One Man last year and nothing this that it definitely has the potential to be have come up in almost every case with film needs that done for her anyway. year at all. Heads in the sand ? No Maori, worth seeing - it all depends on the an opinion which is nothing more nor What I will do is indicate those films or person concerned with Maori identity handling. It will be screened with less than an expectation, an entirely that may appeal to various interest The should miss the Sons of Tu-Mata-Uenga Shout. personal feeling about each film that has groups, as this is not always apparent (by the looks of the bookings, which arc Bookings have been as heavy this grown out of working with, hearing and from a quick skim of the brochure. heavy, they aren’t about to). A rare year as last, so you arc advised to make reading, a constant flow of remarks, There are four films that feature a foreign perspective. your bookings as soon as possible - reviews, little stories etc.etc.ad infinitum. homosexual as the principal character - There are no children’s films this year. remember that one card : one concession ( It should be apparent from this that three earnest studies are in A Year With As for teenagers, I would say take them per session rule for student concessions. with one exception neither John Trenwith Thirteen Moons, To An Unknown God to anything you would like to see and Censorship ratings arc still coming in, nor myself have actually seen the films. and The Consequence, and Outrageous is they can get into, with the proviso that and up-to-date information on this can So please be kind if it should happen that a gay film in both senses of the word. films like In A Year With Thirteen be obtained by ringing the Festival you see a film and disagree with my It is a good year for women, also: Moons and Providence, Left-handed Society on 33-629. assessment of it. three films by solo woman directors and Woman and Paradise Place will Good viewing ! he Films... - Christopher Hegan THE LOST PARADISE THE CHANT OF JIMMY BLACKSMITH HALLOWEEN Het Verloren Paradijs AUSTRALIA 1978 122 minutes U.S.A. BELGIUM 1978 94 minutes Friday 13 July 5.15 pm and 8.15 pm Friday 13 July 11 pm only Friday 13th J uly at 11.15 am only D irector: Fred Schepisi Director: John Carpenter Director: Harry Kumel Festivals: Cannes and London Festivals: Cannes, London 1978 This is one for the horror freaks - The Australian film-goer, by and large, nothing supernatural, mind you, just The brochure notes are from the is not a subtle animal (is her N.Z. straight death stalking the night with a London Film Festival Programme, and counterpart ?). big knife and rubber soled shoes - and is that is the only information available to ‘Jimmy Blacksmith’, by critical just the right movie to be rolling as me. I’m afraid you will have to draw your consensus, is not a subtle film ; when midnight strikes on Friday the 13th. I own conclusions on this one. Schepisi wants to make a point he waves don’t think I’ll be there myself, as both hands and lets rip with a piercing apparently John Carpenter knows what drover’s whistle. Interesting to compare he’s about and scares the living daylights this film with ‘Camouflage’ from this out of everyone - no light relief, no point of view of subtlety; both are doing obviously fake bits to help keep things at well in their countries or origin, but wry arm’s length. and subtle comedies don’t exactly slay them in the antipodes; vide ‘Nashville’, The talc of a young maniac, escaped for example. after fifteen years in an asylum, and Jimmy Blacksmith. Reading David Wilson in Sight and returning to the scene of his first killing Sound is amusing - it is literary parallel of on the fateful night o f Halloween, which that common situation where refined in case you don’t know is when American Englishman meets six-foot-plus brash kids dress up in creepy gear and go and leathery Aussie, recoiling at first and around scaring each other. having no difficulty finding fault, but gradually discovering that the Aussie is ‘Oooh, that knife looks so real ... What not a bad chap, not bad at all. arc you doing ? ? AAAAAGGHH ! ’ Some quotes - Hack, hack, chop chop. — In a prologue, Schepisi has indicated Not for me thanks. (sign-posted rather - not for the only time in the film the antitheses are telegraphed) .... — The contradictions accumulate, signalled in Schepisi’s script with perhaps too close an eye on the balance of the narrative. (The several close-ups at butchered meat, shorthand premonitions of the bloody violence to come more blatantly betray a certain literalness in the script.) And again - In the last of the film ’s too frequent ironies.... SUN OF THE HYENAS Le Soleil des Hyenes NETHERLANDS/TUNISIA 1977 100 mins Sunday 15 July 11.15 am RED MOLE ON THE ROAD Director: Ridha Behi NEW ZEALAND 50 minutes Festivals : Moscow, Cannes, Montreal, Saturday 14 july 10.45 am Cairo, Mannheim, Taormina, Tehran, D irector: Sam Neill London 1977 Whoopee-doo, here’s fun ! Our favour A first film by Tunisian director Ridha — People of China, one more try at being ite jesters, presently garnering a spot of Behi, with a lot of help from a number of revolutionaries !) is a slight paraphrase of O.E., captured on celluloid by no less young European idealists, I think this the title of a de Sade pamphlet. than the redoubtable Sam Neill, enfant film is a must see for its depiction of the Mao is to French leftists what terrible of the National Film Unit. grossest form of neo-colonialism. Joan Abraham Lincoln is to American liberals, Recently caught the N.F.U’s answer to Cohen in the London Film Festival pro and the film caused emotional breakdowns O ff the Edge and was knocked out by the gramme found it ‘exquisitely photo and fistfights when it was first shown in camera-work, and the narration was graphed and effectively and naturalistically Cannes. superb - no, here I’m being facetious, it acted’, but for someone not particularly Peking Duck Soup is the obvious was as naive as ever, but what was interested in its political aspects and successor to ‘Idi Amin Dada’ and I would conspicuous was Neill’s winin'',ness to let more interested in seeing first class encourage all those who have friends who the camera do the talkin ,. films as such, perhaps this one might not are bores on the subject of how amazing !, Originally, this was conceived as half a come up to scratch. David Badder in the how fantastic !, life is in China today to film, the other half to be the life o f a Monthly Film Bulletin found it flawed: buy them a free ticket and shout them Red Mole on the Road. conventional professional theatre like ‘Attempting to criticise tourism and an ice-cream besides, just so they should Mercury, or the Court, but Neill found the ways in which it warps an under see this film. that the footage suggested a complete and developed society, ‘Soleil des Hyenes’ How dare I be'so effusive about a film integral narrative structure that left no ends by being too loosely constructed I haven’t seen ? Check out a sampling of room for comparative excursions. Let us and too wayward in its satire. Beginning the critical reaction: hope that he is not indulging himself. quietly with a convincing depiction of I imagine there are enough Mole village life, Rihda Behi gradually allows — It overturns values and turns the truth devotees around to fill the theatre our sympathy for his theme to be ' of official Maoist history on its head, regardless of filmic worth - Red Robes frittered away by a series of incidents exposing the lie behind its idolatry, and in the Sunrise, and watch out for the crudely designed to highlight the worst the cynicism beneath its disingenuous simplicity - Louis Marcorelles in Le foot-long cigarette holders. aspects o f tourism: the ludicrous arrival Monde (Paris) of the German capitalists entirely misses followed by — It would be interesting to see what the its mark, for example, by being accom directors could do with a less esoteric panied by determinedly satirical martial GAMES OF LOVE AND LONELINESS subject - Variety (Hollywood) music and by being shot with a frenzied, SWEDEN 1977 100 minutes — The film must be prevented from hand-held camera and wildly distorting Saturday 14 July 10.45 am only being shown - L’Humanite Rouge (Paris) lens. Equally troubling is the treatment of Festivals: Chicago 1977, Sydney, — Peking Duck Soup has raised bad taste the holiday-makers: we first see them Melbourne 1978 to the rank o f a critical method .... I sunning on the beach; in centre-frame cannot adequately convey the sense of is a camel on its haunches with a grossly The director is a Norwegian woman joyful release the film communicates, its obese man on its back; as the camel best known in New Zealand for her film ferocious bleakness notwithstanding- starts to move, the man’s trembling fat is WIVES, which was on the Film Society Simon Leys in L’Express (Paris) intended to prompt audience laughter, circuit two years ago. Her new work is — Brilliant polemical documentary ... from a best-selling novel by Hjalmar such frequent slips in taste and style are additionally regrettable because elsewhere so strong and absorbing that its length is Soderbcrg, who wrote the book of deceptive ... Nobody who talks about Drcyer’s last film GERTRUD. The story in the film Behi indicates a striking pictorial flair and a genuine concern for China or who visits it should neglect concerns a love affair in i 897 between ... Vienet’s work - P.P. McGuinness in a journalist and a woman - who soon his exploited villagers. Rather than settling for the cheap laugh (as exploita National Times. afterwards marry two other people. But — An object lesson in insolence - Michel ten years later they meet again...... tive, in its way, as the subject which the film is criticising), one would have wished Ciment in Positif (Paris) that he had included more o f the dry wit — Worth the effort for anyone interested demonstrated in the sequence showing a in what is really happening behind the crew filming a beach commercial: ping pong ball - Martha DuBose in scantily clad girls are posed in front o f Sydney Morning Herald. — So far as documentation is concerned, THE BAKERS BREAD Das Brot des A WEDDING palm tree, specially provided and being held upright off-camera by a group of there is no denying that ‘Peking Duck Backers U.S.A. 1978 124 minutes Soup’ thoroughly and convincingly villagers.’ WEST GERMANY 1977 117 minutes Saturday 14 July 5.15 pm and 8.15 pm exposes the palace intrigues of the last Saturday 14 July 2.15 pm only Director: Robert Altman th irty years of the Celestial Empire: D irector: Erwin Keusch Festivals : London and New York chapter and verse is given at every turn. Festivals : Berlin, Chicago, London 1977, In presenting the cruel history o f the Sydney, Melbourne 1978 What ‘The Loved One’ was to death PEKING DUCK SOUP People’s Republic in the idiom of a cheap It is hard to imagine what Erwin and funerals, ‘A Wedding’ is to the great FRANCE 1977 115 minutes western, Vienet is merely expressing his Keusch is going to do for an encore - the American matrimonial industry. In ‘The Sunday 15 July 2.15 pm stated conviction that ‘So long as we still son of a baking family, he has carried the Loved One’ we had Liberace as Directors: Rene Vienet, In Qing-Ming and have teeth we must bite, and so long as message of his father’s hands triumphantly Mr Joyboy, virtuoso mortician - ‘A AI Perrault we can still laugh we must use humor as to the world, and we arc not spared the Wedding’ gives us the incredibly talented Festivals: Cannes 1977, Chicago, Los a weapon in face of the most gruesome details; the correct way to break an egg, Geraldine Chaplin, seen last year in ‘Cria Angeles, Montreal, Sydney 1978. realities. - Philippe Nourry in Le Figaro if you please. Everyone liked the film - Cuervos’ as a lesbian wedding director, I wouldn’t miss this for all the tea in (Paris) John Pym in Sight & Sound found it staging the matrimonial consolidation of China. Rene Vienet, founder o f the — To the Chinese the makers of ‘Peking ‘compelling’, and Geoff Brown in the slightly faded good family stock and prestigious ‘Centre for Asiatic Studies’ in Duck Soup’ have applied the Chinese Monthly Film Bulletin had this to say : hastily polished nouveau riche. Paris (not a Cl A front, dears, but a leftist method o f criticism. - P.P. McGuiness in ‘The pace is leisurely, the running Their wedding is a chaos of hilarious organisation) and possessor o f what is the Sydney (Australia) National Times. time two hours; the events, covering excesses and intrigues - no less a probably the largest single collection of — In the current anti-Chinese campaign several years in the early Seventies, are personage than a bishop pronounces the Chinese film and political iconography it is Vienet who takes care of the dirtiest sectioned o ff with dates and titles holy lines and being totally senile, outside the CIA and the Kremlin, is also jobs -- the jobs so filth y plenty of others suggesting a Brcchtian lehrstuck (‘Un forgets them; the humble photographer is possessed of a formidable sense of are scared to soil their hands. With his learning a Trade’, ‘The Bread Bakes the replaced by a full film crew, and everyone humour. He uses it to make a serious latest film the mercenary Vienet is Baker’), And as in the best epics, there is is falling over themselves to conceal the point. literally rolling in the muck. The English title is taken from a something obsessive about the leading fact that the grandmother, played by The nauseous stench given o ff by this Marx brothers’ movie (puns within puns) characters, who pursue their chosen paths silent movie star Lillian Gish, is upstairs film is reminiscent of the foul exhalations and the French title (Chinois, encore un no matter what fate or history puts in breathing her last. o f fascist and Nazi anti-Communist effort pour etre revolutionnaires ! their way. But unlike most epic characters propaganda of the ‘forties. The film must Keusch’s people avoid the grand gesture And so it goes on, beyond all credible be prevented from being shown. - and the master plan: Baum and his eager bounds but nevertheless making most of L’Humanite Rouge, daily paper of the apprentice merely want to bake the the critics laugh - they mostly compared Marxist-Leninist Communists of France. perfect bread and prepare the perfect it to Nashville rather than Altman’s — An anti-religious film. - Charlie-Hebdo cake and to do it all with their own earlier and more explicitly humorous (Paris) hands. It also soon becomes apparent M.A.S.H., principally because he has taken — In ‘Peking Duck Soup’, Rene Vienet that there are firm ideas sustaining the that every body-tal king-at-once sound makes images “ speak,” and speaks story. The Brcchtian echoes prove to be track technique used in Nashville to its constantly about them, until we are no anomaly, for Keusch threads through extreme lengths in ‘The Wedding’. overcome by malaise. Frenetic, remorse his slight narrative an analysis of the less, the film hacks away at icons with A specially rewarding movie, therefore, workings of competitive society and the jackhammer blows and then, not content for those with a quick ear for the pressures on the individual - the baker’s with icons, it slams out at everyone else: syndicate with its fully automated pro American patois. Those who have seen only ‘Three Women’ and arc looking for a Le Monde, Joris Ivens, and of course all duction methods versus the traditionalist the “ greats” of recent Chinese history. Baum, who uses as few machine aids as film o f the same calibre arc going to be disappointed, I think - this is Altman It overturns values and turns the truth of possible and no selling gimmicks other official Maoist history on its head, expos than the quality of his product. But the cracking gags and staring rudely at a class o f people he obviously dislikes, and ing the lie behind its idolatry, the analysis remains pleasurably implicit, and cynicism beneath its disingenuous it’s indicative of the film that the one should go along only if one is prepared to join in the fun. simplicity. - Louis Marcorelles in Le character of Georg, Baum's college son Monde (Paris) who spouts Marxist economic theories at — Too many Chinese names in too short every step, remains at the periphery. The Wedding. - a time.-Variety CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 2 PROVIDENCE THE SHOUT FRANCE 1976 106 minutes GREAT BRITAIN 1978 87 minutes Sunday 15 July 5.15 pm Monday 16 July 11.15 am & 5.15 pm Director: Alain Resnais Director: Jerzy Skolimowski Festivals: Sydney-Meibourne 1978 Festivals: Cannes, New York, Sydney % i p . Resnais’ first film in English - much 1978 more open to a multitude of interpreta tions than, say, Stavisky. I’m afraid I Jerzy Skolimowski was at film school found Gilbert Adair’s review in Sight & with Polanski, and thereafter wandered ; try at being Sound so dense with allusions and Europe turning out varied work, including araphrase of parentheses as to be impenetrable. et. the successful ‘Deep End’. •-V- /hat Sample: Philip Strick in Sight & Sound had i Alain Resnais is, in every sense, a this to say : ican liberals, «recious artist, and much of his ‘work’ al breakdowns ‘Bounding back from a period of (Tintin, Mandrake, The Adventures of st shown in apparent inaction, Skolimowski has Harry Dickson - a project so invested with turned into The Shout with ease and kality that were it actually to turn up, a )bvious ingenuity. As with Deep End, he ^Jegendary ‘lost film ’ in some dusty and I would preserves the accents and accidents of (archive, one would not be too astonished : friends who the national character with unarguable Uand The Inmates, with American ow amazing !, ] authenticity and then proceeds to under aa today to hrtoonist Stan Lee) belongs in a*rare mine it at every turn: the cricket match aout them bhantom filmography. From the first involves members of the local insane they should [tracking shots around the w riter’s estate asylum, whose behaviour, while seldom |*ith its Selznickian plaque to his son’s totally disruptive, seems to infect the Days o f Heaven. about a film Irive through the now American, now whole event with dislocations and non glish city, past facades of houses that sampling of sequiturs as their spokesman, Alan Bates, SERVANT AND MISTRESS [might be haunted by Lovecraft (on whose THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE talks of a man with the power to kill FRANCE/SPAIN 95 minutes FRANCE 1977 : 88 minutes Resnais had hoped to make a with his own voice. The film wanders Monday 16 July 2.15 pm & 8.15 pm Tuesday 17 July 11.15 am and 5.15 pm ns the truth documentary and be, perhaps, the from the game to the story and back; Director: Luis Bunuei Director: Bruno Gantiiion its head, Baudelaire of that second-rate Poe) and, both seem impossible and both, in due iolatry, and ghost of a ghost, Harry Dickson, what is course, seem real. Stunningly shot by As David L. Overbey observes in Sight I have been unable to find any ngenuous fascinating about Providence is,that it Mike Molloy (who formerly worked with & Sound, Bunuei has not only survived, references to this film at all, and do not :s in Le accords him an unexpected chance to Roeg on Performance and Walkabout, he has prevailed. All seem to agree that know Gantillon’s work, so I have nothing exploit his most personal mythology: one and with Kubrick on Clockwork Orange Obscure Object is a masterful performance much to add to what is in the brochure. > see what the feshioned out of (a rough sample) and Barry Lyndon), it ’s an encounter on the Bunuei, although Gilbert Adair The acting appears to be the outstand is esoteric Lautreamont, Roussel, Jules Verne, with the cumulatively unexpected, a has become so used to these displays that ing feature, and the subject matter, added d) iBreton’s Nadja, Cocteau, the populo- film of implications which, again like he was left unmoved - he asks ‘What is to the strong women’s influence - co :ed from fantastique of Gaston Leroux and Deep End, never quite seem to be the point any longer of Bunuei upsetting scripted by Dominique Fabre and louge (Paris) fantomas, photography, comic strips resolved. In his story, Bates invades the our expectations if that is exactly what photographed by Etienne Szabo - should ised bad taste and 20s avant-garde. When Feuillade, the home of John Hurt, fascinates him with we expect him to do ?’ make it an attractive film for feminists. hod .... I artisan, the Douanier Rousseau of a demonstration of the ‘death shout’, All the well-established elements are Looks good. he sense of surrealist cinema, discovered his gains arrogant control over his wife there - production by Serge Silberman, aunicates, its vocation in urban poetry, he at once (Susannah York), and is finally carted o ff scenario by Jean-Claude Carricre, the standing - reconciled Lumiere and Milies. In by the police. A t the cricket match, inevitable Fernando Reyjeven the quasi aris) Providence Feuillade in turn is reconciled perhaps, the shout will be heard again.’ surrealist poster. Bunuei has certainly nentary ... Lith L’Herbier, the aesthete who despised The sound track promises to be lost the savagery of Viridiana and Chicn t its length is. [liim and whose mastery o f form might be spectacular and of particular interest to Andalou - as Gilbert Adair remarks ‘What ilks about compared to Resnais’ own. electronic music freaks, as one o f the surrealism there is .... is o f the Monty d neglect Though he himself would repudiate the protagonists is an electronic musician and Python rather than the Andre Breton uinness in m,and though on the credit titles his we get to see and hear him at work, and variety, as if the once terrifying Chicn iwn name never appears before the as well as that there is the Shout itself. Andalou were wagging its tail and sitting ence - Michel lest ‘misc en scene de .. .’ at the end, Skilimowski says : up on its hind legs.’ nais is indeed an auteur, an — ‘This was where I used the Dolby But it must be said that Adair appears one interested essional artist, less in terms o f out- system; it had to be applied just at the to have a slight bias against humour, behind the n thematic consistencies o f time and right moment so that we would be and most critics were entranced by this 3ose in mory than plastically, in his sense of hearing something special. The shock of latest barbed attack on bourgeois infallible eye for architecture as a the sound is not a question of loudness or hypocrisy, an attack which is the latest is concerned, eptacle of mystery, and its deployment stroke in Bunucl’s lifetime crusade. richness - it is sudden and it is DAYS OF HEAVEN king Duck an almost ‘serial’ conception of To quote a few: complex, because the human voice is AMERICA 1978 95 minutes incingly tage. That eye, as witness the volume helped on forty or more tracks by all — a brisk black comedy ..... - Phillip ; of the last photographs Reperages, is drawn Tuesday 17 July 2.15 pm and 8.15 pm the things that came into my mind that French in the International Herald Director : Terrence Malick Empire: veall to the very origins of modernity, might be helpful, the Niagara Falls, the Tribune. t every turn, the past’s notions of the future (which, launching o f the Moon rocket, everything. — this hilarious send-up of traditional Having been completely knocked out ary of the |pVerne, constitutes for us the real flashback narration.... - ibid But over the top is the real human voice by Malick’s first film ‘ Badlands’, and om of a cheap tastique), to that curious transitional — Concita (christened Concepcion and of a man shouting like hell. further being a devotee of Nestor xpressing his period, half nineteenth, half twentieth daughter of the sly Anunciacion) is Gordon Gow in Films & Filming was Almcndros’ cinematography, I am ong as we still tury, half fin, half debut de siecle, played by two actresses, Carole Bouquet very impressed with The Shout, finding tempted to run o ff at the mouth about id so long as ich the Eiffel Tower appropriately to represent her cool northern side, Skolimowski’s uncanny e>e and ca: this film, so I will let others do the use humor as itrides, and which in the cinema is Angela Molina her earthy Mediterranean rivetting. But he did think that Bates’ talking. st gruesome teloquently commemorated by over- aspect; and it is a tribute to the old performance was not his best and he also Richard Combs, in Sight &. Sound : in Le Figaro j railways, lifts and other nostalgic surrealist Bunuei that after a mere couple thought that it was a little long for its *To the extent that a director’s second ^cessories of the industrial revolution. of appearances we have come to accept subject, although at 86 minutes it’s not a film often proves a greater stumbling ers of ‘Peking However, he obviously liked it, and the capricious duo as a single person. long film. block than his first (especially if the te Chinese lyserious student of film will not miss Miss Bouqct is the one that gets the Here’s Peter Cowie in International latter has been any kind o f critical or McGuiness in under any circumstances. Personally I water over her, Miss Molina the Concita Film Guide : commercial success), then Days o f Heaven tional Times, ie the sort of film that you can turn who returns the compliment or insult. Filmed in Devon, The Shout makes must be accounted a particularly lese campaign ound and around before your eyes and While the affair goes on, terrorist outrages marvellous use of the natural landscape audacious gamble. It is now some six of the dirtiest over endless facets - ‘What really occur all around them - bombings, (behind the credits, Crossley staggers years since Terrence Malick made enty of others pened’ in Providence seems destined kidnappings, assassinations - masterminded through the dunes, hunched into the Badlands, one of the most remarkable ds. With his be debated for a long time to come. piercing wind like a wounded animal), by the so-called ‘ Revolutionary Army of ^/ienet is directorial debuts in American cinema, and of the preternatual calm that hovers the Infant Jesus. The world is falling loosely based on the real-life killing spree k. )AN UNKNOWN GOD A un Dios at the heart o f English cricket. Ordinary apart and Mathieu’s mad obsessions arc as conocido R16 of two teenagers across the Dakota bad en o ff by this incidents assume a surrealist tinge. absurd, irrelevant, and obscure as the lands in the late 50s, but turned by oul exhalations PAIN 1977 108 minutes Anthony, Crossley’s victim, spends his activities o f the urban guerrillas and the day 15 July 8.15 pm only Malick into a complex reappraisal o f the ■nmunist spare time experimenting with sounds. expression of similar repressions. This is social and mythical terms of the cinema’s The film must irector: jaime Chavarri Skolimowski records them in huge close- hardly a profound statement, but the film rivals: San Sebastian, London 19J7, many romantic odysseys since then. In iown. - up; the battery of noises, simple in source that contains it is an undeniably attractive ijney, Melbourne, Berlin 1978 Days of Heaven, only his second film, he japer of the (a fly buzzing against a mike), bizarre in little artefact - cold, glittering arYd deadly, : has risked the charge of" repetition by ists of France. like a Faberge hand-grenade?- ibid impact, undermines one’s resistance. So reshuffling many of the elements of Ican find no additional material about — ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ is Charlie-Hebdo when Crossley’s ‘shout’ at last breaks Badlands: hapless youngsters on the run; sfilm except passing references, all hilarious and splendid - a salute to folly loose, it bears an unearthly power, and a picaresque narrative wrapped in a fily favourable. Perhaps the fact that from an old man who has made that Rene Vienet Alan Bates, looming over the camera like blandly distanced commentary; an iēreare unsubtitled parts made it subject the study of a lifetime. The Nation d speaks some malevolent crow, seems to echo those ‘ecstatic’ flow of imagery which begs our fficult for critics to provide a complete Obscure Object is based on Pierre itil we are awesome paintings of the primal scream sense of wonder. Even more dangerously, ssment. Scrabbling about among the Louys’ novel La Femme et le Pantin, ietie, remorse- by Munch and Bacon. he has increased the distance between the oken pieces of my early education, I and has been filmed four times before, it icons with The director’s Polish temper is much levels of enchantment and the levels of ithe title in St Paul’s address to the most memorably by Sternberg (1935) en, not content in evidence. A black hearse glides meaning. Visually, Days of. Heaven henians, who worshipped an Unknown as The Devil is A Woman with Marlene everyone else: incongruously around a street corner, seems to have set oul to be more seductive d, just to be on the safe side. I strongly Dietrich and most forgettably by d of course all and patients from a mental asylum caper than Badlands, while in terms of theme, pect that Chavarri is making a Julicn Duvivicr with Brigitte Bardot, after nese history, demented in the rain as their cricket game character and even plot, it is more jointed reference to the often discussed Bunuei had turned it down. As a matter of rns the truth of collapses. Yet Skolimowski shows in diffuse, dispersed and secretive. lent homosexuality that underlies the interest, Michel Piccoli, one of Bunucl’s its head, expos- The Shout that he is also acutely In a collage of highly coloured and kual repressiveness of the orthodox regular team, does not appear in the film, try, the sensitive to the nuances of English almost wordless scenes, Malick (and Jlinculture: their unknown god, whom but his voice is used to dub over Fernando genuous country life (the ritual of Sunday dinner, cameramen Nestor Almcndros and joy all worship. St Paul came to the Rey’s Spanish. elles in Le for instance, is adroitly caught). One Haskell Wexlcr) have conjured, pointillist- Jienians to bring them news of who It all boils down to the question of leaves the film yearning for his next fashion, a beguiling landscape, both nes in too short loir‘Unknown God’ really was. Hector work; one can’t help feeling that, like whether or not you like Bunuei - if you harsh and magical: the huge wheat- jterio won the Best Actor’s at San Crossley’s shout, he is worthy of even do, then you will not be disappointed by growing area of the Texas Panhandle, to bastian for this one - remember him as more substantial tragedy. Obscure Object. [philandering father in ‘Cria Cuervos’ ? CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 3 which in 1916, a pair of young lovers, literary flavour, not surprising perhaps Abby (Brooke Adams) and Bill (Richard given his invocation of What Maisie Knew Gere), and the latter’s young sister Linda as a model for Linda’s commentary, but (Linda Manz), are driven from the certainly a unique way of containing the urban squalor of the North. But Malick visual superabundance of the film . In is as dramatically spare as he is visually another sense, Malick may not be so far ornate. Days of Heaven develops as a from the cinema: the significant ‘silences’ relatively simple tale of triangular of Days of Heaven suggest a relation, in passions - Abby becomes involved with a terms o f subject and structure, to the wealthy young farmer (playwright Sam movies of (roughly) its own era as strong Shepard), in an initially mercenary as the interplay of 50s teen-movie scheme which turns into a romantic mythology in Badlands. In making what complication. But the human content of he has referred to as almost a silent film, the story seems to be buried somewhere Malick has found an apt context for beneath its telling, while its manifestations his own dramatic processes and a (the wheat harvest, a flying circus, a strikingly original way of incorporating locust plague, a fire) are spectacularly his sense of cinema - although in the more than satisfying.1 category of more conventional hommage, In ‘Days of Heaven’ Malick uses a one must include a lonely Victorian farm sparse and fragmented technique of house out of Giant, stranded in the midst conveying the meaning of the action. of the Texas plain. C.P.R. writing in Films in Review thought The gamble Malick has taken is that the dialogue was simply insufficient (he audiences will be safely transported over also didn’t like the acting) but Combs the silences and lacunae by the fairy-tale says : atmosphere - which to judge by the re — ‘The narration here is even more views that have willingly succumbed to tangential to what one might take as the visual enchantment, seems to have the main events, and the fact that it is paid o ff.’ Tattooed Tears. provided not by one of the central lovers There arc a number of very strong but by a child emphasises that we are to factors in favour of this film : Malick won be allowed little privileged information. the Best Director’s award at Cannes for it What Malick has done, however, is much this year, Nestor Almendros, who is more radical than supplying a child’s- Truffaut’s cinematographer (how were eye-view of some strange adult drama. those visuals in Adele H?) won an His film is split between the much that Academy Award for the photography. we see and the little that we know, and Music is by Ennio ‘Fistful of Dollars’ what we share is not so much the perspec Morricone and Leo Kottke, the world’s tive of Linda, our informant, as her greatest 1 2-string guitarist; it ’s probably piecemeal acquisition of knowledge and worth seeing just for its huge collection experience. of working pre-World-War-1 industrial and Malick’s narrative method, in fact, agricultural equipment, and last (and has more to do with this selective probably least) maybe Brooke Adams accretion of detail than with telling a will wiggle her eyeballs again, the way story or developing a set of characters. she did in the ‘ Invasion of the Body THE TREE OF DESIRE Natvris Khe It is a method which has a peculiarly Snatchers’ ! USSR 1977 108 minutes Wednesday 18 July 11.15 am BREAD AND CHOCOLATE D irector: Tenghiz Abuladze ITALY 1977 110 minutes Festivals: Tehran 1977, Berlin, Cannes, Wednesday 18 July 2.15 pm and 8.15 pm Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Sydney, Director: Franco Brusatf Melbourne, London 1978. As a former foreign worker in Once again, there is not much more I Switzerland, I will be making sure that I can add to the brochure. Here’s Derek get to see this film. It seems to have Elley in Films & Filming, reviewing the passed the critics by, except in America - London Film Festival : Time magazine gave it a rave, and Archer — ‘ From just across the border, Tengiz Winsten of the New York Post considered Abuladze’s The Wishing Tree (Drevo it the ‘best foreign film of the year' as did zhelaniya), from Georgia, represented the the New York Film Critics’ Circle. USSR, proving once again that most of Almost certainly good for a few today’s interesting work in Soviet cinema laughs. is taking place outside the central Mosfilm and Lenfilm studios. Of the two other THE HUNTING ACCIDENT Abuladze works London audiences are USSR 1978 105 minutes familiar with, The Wishing Tree resembles Wednesday 18 July 5.15 the picaresque humour of Grandmother, Director: Emil Lotianou Marion, llliko and Me (1963) rather than Festivals: Cannes, 1978. the allegorical folk-epic style of The Invocation (1968), despite the fact that This is the only Festival film I’ve the film is suffused with folkloristic actually seen. Lotianu is a competent elements. From a web of interweaving enough workman by my lights; despite the tales and picturesque characters there iiterary origin of the screenplay, The slowly emerges the dominant story of a Hunting Accident is what would be, in hopeless love between a beautiful young Russia, a commercial film. woman, Marita (Lika Davtaradze), and The story is told in a straightforward Gedia (Soso Dchachviliani), a love manner, the acting is competent, convinc confounded by Marita’s arranged wedding ing and there is plenty of action. It is to the rich and brutish Shete (Sasa quite a compelling tale in its own way - 1 Kolelichvili). The young couple’s love have to disagree with Robert Kitley in i y ’s answer to )ohn Cleese? Nino affair is related with fairy-tale delicacy ‘ Film ’, who thought the young girl was infredi, scriptwriter and comic star Marita’s serene beauty having a numbing in pursuit o f eternal love. I perceived her 'Bread and Chocolate’. effect on the local male population), and motives as being extremely mercenary; < contrasted with the faded dreams of the she came from very lowly circumstances FelIiniesque Fufala (Sofiko Chiaureli, and essential to her dream of love was the scarcely recognisable and in magnificent provision of all the accoutrements of form), who wanders the district in tatty wealth, and in her naivete she doesn’t splendour with parasol and clown-like even have the sense to conceal the fact. make-up, regaling the townswomen with She flits from one man to another, stories of her old lost love Shiola. trifling with the affections of all three, Beneath the warm comic exterior of depending on where she sees her best the film there runs, however, a current of advantage to lie. Some of the most tragedy: the opening image of a white moving scenes in the film occur when the horse dying in a sunlit field of poppies narrator and main protagonist is making prefigures the grim finale of Marita’s love to her and keeps bumping uncomfort public humiliation and death from a ably up against her mercenary ambitions. broken heart. ‘Three things are missing So I would, myself, describe The in this world,’ comments the joke Hunting Accident as a classic tale of anarchist loran (Kachi Kavsadze), ‘a three aristocratic friends’ obsession with stairway to the sky, a bridge over the sea - a simple and extravagantly beautiful and justice’. Tradition finally crushes young gold-digger. beauty in Abuladze’s elegiac film-poem.’ The photography is lush and crystalline The legend of the wish-fulfilling tree if somewhat unimaginative - very easy to is very important in Tibetan mythology, look at, though. and it is fascinating to me to see it The Hunting Accident has unfort turning up unchanged in the Soviet state unately been dubbed, although of Georgia - comparisons can also be moderately well, I must say. It didn’t drawn with Ygdrasill, the world-tree in actually get in the way, but naturally Nordic mythology. Which is all pretty detracted a little from the power of The Sadness o f the Post-Intellectual A rt Critic. much by-the-by, of course. the acting performances. CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 4 OOED TEARS are made audible, gradually merging into THE CLOSET CHILDREN Les Enfants 1978 85 minutes a general babble of fear. In the same way, Du Placard 'ay 19 July 10.45 am later in the film, the father’s lamentation FRANCE 1977 105 minutes ors: Nick Broomfield, Joan after he has beaten his child senseless to Friday 20 July 11.15 am hill. instil obedience is taken up by other Director: Benoit Jacquot ■ls: Edinburgh, London 1978. voices : father and son are not alone; Festivals : Fortnight Conner 1977, across the hills and across the country the London 1977. NILE LIAISON same oppression prevails. Gavino’s 84 minutes moment of enlightenment comes from This is Jacquot’s second film - his first, iiy 19 July 10.45 am music: a couple of tattered accordionists L’Assassin Musicien, has not been ors: Nick Broomfield, Joan stray by his flock, and a Strauss waltz, distributed internationally, but attracted sounding in his cars with the volume of a considerable attention in France, and he symphony orchestra, arouses him to has excellent credentials, having worked viously very strong meat, and both delirium. Padre Padrone. with Marguerite Duras. There is no doubt eal with a subject that is of As a postscript it might be noted that that he takes his work very seriously, and 5concern in this country, namely this splendid film, abounding in Tim Pulleine, writing in Sight and Sound, jnterproductivity of a police- originality and energy and surprise and found the film very satisfying from a “l-penal system that is very human optimism, was made on a budget technical point of view. lively exacerbating problems that raised by an intelligent collaboration - For instance, he liked the way in supposed to eradicate. between Italian television and the cinema, which the natural world of trees and -ticularly now that Alan Nixon is and negligible in terms o f an average gardens is kept out of the film until the iger with us, it behoves all Hollywood all star mediocrity. appearance of Juliette - they meet in rned people to make an effort to — ‘Shot in grainy, slightly bleached 16mm the Luxembourg Gardens, and keying a close eye on developments in this colour stock, and subsequently enlarged that visual release from Nicholas’ seamy to 35 mm, Padre Padrone is, in keeping world to the arrival of his sister, and the -nGay, in Films and Filming, with its subject,a raw and unfinished work, subsequent use, or denial, o f natural LitTattooed Tears was the best of jumping without entire success between settings to make statements about the documentaries shown at the a number of styles - realistic, fantastic, protagonists’ feelings, is very skilfully 7i Film Festival last year, even lyrical and operatic - and in the end done. than Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Sinai leaving a number of questions tantalisingly This is just one example out of several Mission’. We have seen examples of unanswered. Made originally for television I could quote - the use o f colour and an’s work in the last two film the film lacks a visual breadth (Gavino’s texture to good effect, the suppression of ..shere, and know him to be a isolation being repeatedly emphasised by overt drama in a highly charged . of the documentary form; a booming knell on the soundtrack rather situation, the dream effect created by cd Tears must be something than by a pan across the mountain), showing Nicholas’ head in frame as he special. Rather than taking the which is one factor that reduces the sits through a sequence of Fritz Lang’s I, impersonal point of view, story from the epic scale which the ‘Moonfleet’, and others, all working to field and Churchill move in close directors, the brothers Paolo and Vittorio make a significant and compelling whole. 'take us through the horrifying Taviani, clearlv intended, to a series of The Closet Children appeals at the ences of just four of the 200 cramped, inward-looking episodes, often level of plot, too - because of their •iduals crammed into the institution most uncertainly spliced together. For a unresolved and unrcsolvablc childhood •estion, giving us a taste of what it is story which spans some twenty years, the passion for each other, both Nicholas and stand before a Parole Board, to spectator gains very little sense of the Juliette have in a sense taken refuge from ‘your rectum searched, and finally passage of time (in fact the fourteen years life, each in very differing circumstances. -strapped down on the floor of your of Gavino’s isolation are bridged by a The film covers the period in which they hastate of terminal despair, single over-obvious linking cut), almost meet across the gulf that now separates jhope that a lot of people gb and see nothing of the social structure of Sardinia' them - finally they fall back into their [films - they are most unlikely (on which the reason for Efisio’s tyranny former positions, but with a heightened Smain in the country for further pivots) and indeed very little sense of awareness o f the meaning of their flings. Gavino himself - his aspirations, his situation, which bodes no good for cither feelings about his years of solitude and of them. about his mother and the younger siblings There is no question that The Closet ;e p a d r o n e for whom his youth was sacrificed. Padre Padrone. Children is a serious film, and a significant V1977 110 minutes What the film does very clearly por one, and although it isn’t one of the ay 19 July 2.15 pm & 8.15 pm tray is the rigour of the life of a obvious stand-outs of the festival, it ;ors: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Sardinian peasant family: the necessity should be a film that enthusiasts will *ls: Best Film, and International for constant vigilance, how this has bred make an effort to see. sPrize, Cannes 1977. an almost instinctual distrust and an acute responsiveness to nature (Efisio’s THIS SWEET SICKNESS adrone made history at Cannes cars are so finely tuned that he can hear Dites-lui que je I’aime being the first film ever to a snake beneath a stone), the impossibility FRANCE 1977 1-5 minutes ie first prize Golden Palm of ever scraping more than an existence Friday 20 July 2.15 pm only :ernational Critics Award for from a harsh, infertile land. One cannot D irector: Claude Miller m. It was a highly contentious but admire Gavino, by the end o f the Festivals : London Film Festival Choice iote what The Times had to film, for having overcome the constraints 1977 of the life into which he was born - even ire Padrone’ written and directed though, ironically, it was by bending so Claude Miller’s second film - the first brothers Paolo and V ittorio studiously to another set of illiberal rules, was ‘The Best Way to Walk’ which we itook the Grand Prix for the best those of the Italian army. The film also saw last year. the Cannes Festival in May. It was conveys a clear sense o f the indestruct Like ‘The American Friend’ it is rly contentious decision, and ibility of the rural poor: when snow kills adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel, who were on the jury insist that the olive grove that Efisio has bought but whereas the book is a murder thriller, lent controversies contributed to from the widow of a murdered relative with police, bodies to be disposed of and set of the heart attack which and which he hopes will free the family cases of confused identity, Miller has Roberto Rossellini, the jury from the life of landless shepherds, there concentrated entirely on the psychologi :nt, barely a week after the festival. is a subtle and touching scene in which OUTRAGEOUS cal history of a man who has fixed his d the large amount o f critical the family - led by Gavino’s mother - CANADA 1977 96 minutes passions on his childhood playmate and ion generated by Padre Padrone I makes the best of the cold by eating Thursday 19 July 5.15 pm treads a path to murder and madness that the contention is between frozen sheep’s milk sweetened with D irector: Richard Benner trying to lock her up in a universe built students of film technique, who syrup. Festivals : Berlin, Edinburgh, Sydney, for two. This despite the fact that she deficiencies in that area, mainly Gavino Ledda has described the Melbourne 1978. has been married a couple of times already to the fact that the film was composition of his autobiography as a and is about to marry again. lly made for television, and the ‘liberating experience’; and the Tavianis’ It is hard to know without it to what Miller has worked with Bresson and run of reviewers who were film likewise expresses the exhilaration of extent Outrageous will transcend its role Truffaut as well as other French timed by the epic qualities of a intellectual liberation. However, so much as a vehicle for the genius of Crag directors, and is a highly capable film J tale powerfully told, else remains worryingly repressed and Russell and succeed as a narrative, and maker, but there is a problem with the basis for comparison, here are the unresolved (Gavino himself, who appears as a statement. Our anonymous columnist film that he acknowledges himself : the its of The Times’ reviewer (I am in a prologue and epilogue, is last seen in the Times felt that the film stood up main character, David, is not particularly at the fragment I have does not rocking backwards and forwards, still as a whole; he says : likeable, but Miller is very concerned that name) and those o f John Pym, apparently scarred by his childhood — ‘To the credit of Richard Benner’s we should sec things from his point of in Sight & Sound. memories), that one is left mainly looking writing and direction, as well as to the view, and we as an audience may not feel Tavianis’ film sustains an intense forward to a sequel. Ledda’s second book, performances, the virtuoso fireworks, of like doing that. Worse, the only really excitement in this heroic which he is in the process of completing Russell’s stage act do not, as they could likeable character is the woman who iation through enlightenment. It is not a straightforward continuation of easily have done, throw the balance or loves him, Juliette, and he resists her in ;itement that cannot be contained the first, ‘but an exploration o f the man flatten the cake with icing. The ultimate a way that is going to make us ly realistic terms; and the who, having acquired the code of and enduring and encouraging quality of unsympathetic. But Miller wishes us to e is for ever exploding into language, makes use of it to describe this endearing film is its respect for understand, and this is probably the main ty. The great silent solitude of the what surrounds him.’ Sardinia itself is people and their oddities.’ point of the film, that sexual choices are Gavinos mother warns him when Ledda’s new protagonist: ‘ Its men, the ‘impenetrable, illogical’. goes out, bears on the eardrums old shepherds who struggle to communi Fortunately Hollis McLaren seems to We may be further provoked by the tolling of a passing bell; and this cate their myths and traditions.... the be a very strong supporting actress, and way Miller has David’s friend Francois, tpressive sound overwhelms the monsters they carry inside themselves.’ came in for considerable praise as the trying to rape Juliette, and then shows all /hen at the end he finds himself This is the intriguing and enlightening haunted schizophrenic befriended by three of them drinking together after id his domination gone, story behind Gavino’s struggle. Padre Robin, the hairdresser, played by Russell. wards. But Miller says that life is like sheep, more cunning than their Padrone is the story of how Gavino But surely the main reason for seeing this that. He says ‘ .... that may be not hepherd, engage in spoken learned to express himself; just what he film is to see the work of Craig Russell, normal in terms of narrative conventions 2S with him. When Gavino is taken has learned to express remains to be who lived for nine months as Mae West’s in cinema, but I think it ’s quite normal chool, the other boys’ inner revealed. ammanuensis and who has raised female in life.’ I know people who would that soon it will be their turn too, John Pym impersonation to the level of artistry. question that. CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 5 JACK WINTER’S DREAM NEW ZEALAND 59 minutes Saturday 21 July 10.45 am D irector: David Sims I have yet to see a National Film Unit film that did not contain a dozen or more arresting images that stayed with me longer after. The composition within NOSFERATU The Vampire R13 the frame was beautifully balanced, the colours just so, the movement within GERMANY/FRANCE 1978 : 96 minutes the frame dynamic and forceful. For Friday 20 July 5.15 pm and 8.15 pm years, the N.F.U. showed New Zealand D irector: Werner Herzog to New Zealanders, and yet often within Festivals : Berlin that context there would be powerful Werner Herzog makes a deep bow to images - coalminers, jet boats, a child’s F.W. Murnau, who made the first ever face. More recently Three Women Dracula film in 1922 and was promptly would be among the finest study of three and successfully sued by Bram Stoker. residents that I’ve seen. The sheer This is a loving remake and Herzog seems simplicity of the camera angles and to have done passably well with the economy of shots, the long takes that obvious difficulty presented by the fact let you feel your way into the frame, and that aspects of the original that were the film ’s ability to convey a sense of genuinely horrific are now well- more than just a picture of a period piece. established cam^giggles. He gets around And in this tradition comes Jack this mostly by overwhelming us with Winter’s Dream. majestic, funereal beauty - Klaus Kinski Baxter wrote the play in 1957 ‘... a is a reptilian but frail spectre, Isabelle form midway between the campfire or Adjani is just out and out gorgeous. But bar-room yarn and the objectified drama there are scenes that he almost plays of the stage’, he claimed. Such a midway for laughs, which has a slightly unsettling position could make an exciting film. The effect according to Philip Strick in Sight flexibility lends itself to an ‘opening out’ and lets Sims have a fairly free hand at & Sound. Herzog stated that one of his main purposes was to depict bourgeois selecting a style that can reflect the poignancy of Winter’s situation and society disintegrating under stress - golden days of nostalgia. Any one remember that Dracula sends plague remembering the N.F.U.’s film on coal back to civilisation - and for this purpose THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN ness o f the Post-, miners will recall the powerful use made THE SONS OF TU-MATA-UENGA filmed on location in picture-book ever-so Die Linkshandige Frau of sound and image, the flowing between A Pilgrimage Cruise by the 18th Maori proper Delft in Holland. He set up his present and past, past and future. WEST GERMANY 1978 119 minutes Battalion of New Zealand crew, which lives communally, in a big Saturday 21 July at 2.15 pm only I expect great things from the N.F.U. Sunday 22 July 10.45 am house and tried to film scenes with D irector: Peter Handke D irector: Michael Havas They have a lot of talent, an ability to 11,000 live rats. The result was a pitched Festivals : Cannes, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, capture tone and mood, and a' battle with some of the local citizenry in Antwerp. tradition o f letting the image on the There is no precedent to go by on this which several people were injured. But screen speak for itself. The final word one - it was made by Michael Havas as his the scenes did get shot, and the result should go to Baxter perhaps: ‘There is A first film by the prize-winning masterwork for the Prague Film School, must further Herzog’s reputation as one German poet, novelist and playwright, and produced by a Swiss production of the great image-makers of our time. one notion that lies behind the play, and in a sense accounts for i t : that the who has worked with Wim Wenders. His company using an international crew, We get to see the famous novelist and literary work is characterised by a mostly Czechs, Swiss and New Zealanders artist Roland Topor as Dracula’s assistant, shedding of blood christens a place, makes it part o f the soul and the imagination o f devotion to detail which some find banal (including Geoff Steven, director of Skin in a performance that Philip Strick found and others exquisite - it should be Deep, on camera). What is vitally excessive. ‘Nosferatu’ won the ‘Best man; that the natural world shares in our guilt, agony, redemption. fascinating to see how this technique important is that it is a rare and valuable Colour’ and ‘Best Set Design’ Awards at translates to film. foreign, or at least partly foreign, Berlin, and is Herzog’s first film in - John Trenwith Interesting, too, to see Bruno Ganz perspective on the vexed question of English. and Edith Clever, the couple in Rohmer’s Maori identity. The programme notes are NINE MONTHS ‘Marquise of O’ working together again. taken from publicity material for the film KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE which seems to indicate an attempt to U.S.A. 83 minutes HUNGARY 1976 : 93 minutes Saturday 21 July 10.45 am penetrate to the deepest levels of meaning Friday 20 July 11 pm o f the pilgrimage to perform the tangi. Director: John Landis D irector: Marta Meszaros Festivals : Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, One can only hope that they succeed, London 1977, Critics Prize (shared) and that the Sons o f Tu-Mata-Uenga Can’t quite make up my mind about succeeds as a film. Cannes. this one. It features 22 of the best Followed by sketches from the Kentucky Fried Theatre in Los Angeles : all reviewers With the inclusion of Nine Months in agreed that some scored high, others not the programme, we have an opportunity to keep up with the work of a particular INSERTS RFF THE CRAB DRUM Le Crabe Tambour so high, and some not at all, but how it U.S.A. 116 minutes FRANCE 1977 : 119 minutes will work for any individual will depend interesting director, one who represents the feminist voice in a Communist Saturday 21 July 5.15 pm & 8.15 pm Sunday 22 July 10.45 am on his acquaintance with American Director : John By rum D irector: Pierre Schoendoerffer culture and receptivity to the parody and country. Those who saw Adoption last year will be pleased with this film - satire genre of wacky humour. Meszaros worked with many of the You want spectacular camera work, The French equivalent of the Deer The Kentucky Fried Movie is the same people to make it, and it seems Kubrick’s lyricism, Fellini’s richness ? ? Hunter, on a smaller budget. One of two predecessor of National Mampoon’s they may have surpassed their previous Don’t come to ‘Inserts’. How about an films in the festival made by a director Animal House, and appears to be at least effort ; David Rogers, writing in intriguing central idea, an unusual setting, also, and perhaps principally, known as a as competently made as that movie, so Sight & Sound felt that Nine Months a wifty, dramatic, erotic, thought novelist (the other is The Left-Handed if you saw Animal House you will have represents a peak in Meszaros’ career. provoking screenplay, and some excellent Woman by Peter Handke). A couple of something to go on. The 11 pm Friday performances ? Interested.... good ! Oh, quotes from French sources should cast night slot calls for the unusual and the What is really exciting and extra ordinary about this film is that Lili you're a voyeur ? Never mind, who a little light: entertaining, the kind of film you want to isn’t; the film is erotic but never porno — ‘ For those not fascinated by the cult see with your friends after the pub Monori, who plays a pregnant woman going it on her own, was actually graphic. Better luck next time. of the leader or military grandeur and closes, and I guess KFM will fill that bill John Byrum’s piquant script, clever obligations and for those not interested pregnant, and the birth scenes are real. admirably. Sketch to watch out f o r : close quarter work, some raunchy playing in the mentality of disappointed That has to be a pretty solid indication of The Bruce Lee sequence ‘ For a Fistful of keeps the film from being verbose. The adventurers, this laborious study is the level of commitment Marta Meszaros Yen’ which ends in an ingenious shot-by film is about dedication, star desire, and mortally boring. feels herself and is capable of inspiring in shot recreation of the finale o f ‘The just plain money-making that have made ‘And yet the photography is beautiful. others. these characters unreal in real life and a A few shots of shipwrecks, symbols of very competent Veronica Cartwright those destinies of soldiers fascinated by (Cathy in ‘The Birds’) goes way beyond failure and the uselessness of lost causes, the limits o f the material and flings her will remain of this “ Crabe-tambour.” self into the role of the dissolute - Tele 7 jours romantic manner of Jeanne Engels; — ‘They may reproach Schoendoerffer nervous, quicksilver, dominating. Dreyfuss for enjoying the nostalgia of colonial wai is all coiled disdain as a once great and their lost soldiers. This interpretatic director now afraid to venture out of his would be partial and insufficient. “ Le mansion. Jessica Harper does very well as Crabe-tambour” is, in fact, a lyrical the shrewd innocent. If the film has a farewell to the romantic nature of youth. weakness at all, it is that it ’s somewhat Close to 50, Schoendoerffer rejoins the ; too superficial despite its possible age of his characters. Their dreams are allusions to rightly fictionalized real behind them, finished, obsolete. And Hollywood ’30s types. the captain dies just as the American warl But once in a while a film comes along in Viet Nam ends with the fall of Saigon. that confounds popular theories and Schoendoerffer well knows - and his defies categories. Pauline Kael would actors, all admirable, makes us realize- never approve perhaps - nor would your that a time comes when the chase for j mother ! Moby Dick can no longer be continued, no matter what one does. ’ - John Trenwith - Jacques Siclier, Le Monde Obviously a film with appeal for the military mind. The Sadness ot me rosi-irnencuuui /~w < v.. — CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 6 PARADISE PLACE SWEDEN 1977 112 minutes Monday 23 July 11.15 am & 5.15 pm Director: Gunnel Lindblom Festivals : San Francisco 1977 Sydney, Melbourne 1978 Paradise Place is an idyllic summer house in the Stockholm Archipelago where a family of four generations traditionally spends its vacations. But this year, things are different. Two out siders, less privileged, arrive in this middle class situation and begin to pose i f * 1 .1 uncomfortable questions: Are we all h ' m y creating our own paradises at the H |p. expense of the less privileged ? Arc we sacrificing our up and coming generation in oUr frantic quest for materialism ? Clearly such a ‘plot’ outline does little justice to the quality o f the acting, or to the photography. Bergman’s movies are always formulated with the lyrical statement in the midst of desolation; the powerful image composed through the balance o f shape, lighting, or blocks o f colour juxtaposing each other, ‘Cries and Whispers’, ‘Seventh Seal’, ‘Virgin Spring’ come to mind. And from the same stable comes ‘Paradise Place’. Above all, this is a woman’s film, and the different perspective adds an excellent dimension to the Bergman film concept. Not that Lindblom cannot stand on her own merits, but if one has a producer like Bergman, one could expect influences to creep through, and it is in ness of the Post-Intellectual A rt Critic. the alteration of these influences and TA-UENGA their rc-intcrprctation that ‘Paradise the 18th Maori Place’ could prove to be exciting viewing nd for Bergman fans. - John Trenwith it to go by on this THE GREEN ROOM La Chambre Verte ichael Havas as his FRANCE 1978 : 94 minutes gue Film School, Tuesday 24 July 11.15 am & 5.15 pm is production D irector: Francois Truffaut national crew, Festivals : New York 1978 id New Zealanders i, director of Skin In 1973, Claude Chabrol went on t is vitally record as saying that Henry James was the rare and valuable only author who interested him as a y foreign, source of plot for films - he proceeded d question of to put this into practice by filming two gramme notes are of James’ stories - “ dc Grey” , and “ The aterial for the film Bench o f Desolation” . They never made : an attempt to it onto the international circuit, t levels of meaning unfortunately. At that point, Henry form the tangi, James was virtually unknown in France, hat they succeed, but he is now being quite widely read -Mata-Uenga and it is not surprising that Francois BHOUR Stunde Null PASSING THROUGH THE AMERICAN FRIEND Truffaut has continued the two strains [GERMANY 1977 108 minutes U.S.A. 1977 105 minutes WEST GERMANY/FRANCE 1977 of literature and obsession evident in If22 July 2.15 pm Sunday 22 July 5.15 pm 127 minutes ‘The Story of Adclc H’ by making a : Edgar Reitz D irector: Larry Clark Monday 23 July 2.15 pm & 8.15 pm film based on two o f James’ stories, as e Crabe Tambour : Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Festivals : Special Jury Prize, Locarno D irector: Wim Wenders well as including elements from the minutes Madras, Filmex Los Angeles, 1977, FUmex 1977, Edinburgh 1978 Festivals : Cannes, Berlin, Edinburgh, writer’s life. am \andMelbourne 1978, Silver New York, London 1977, Sydney, Richard Roud, in Sight & Sound, endoerffer \ German Film A wards. Melbourne 1978. thought ‘The Green Room’ was one o f Truffaut’s ‘very best films.’ But he did lent of the Deer Reitz, author and director, is There is not too much to add to the Until now Wim Wenders’ films have not think it would make much money. tudget. One of two [the few remaining creative forces brochure here - the interest lies in the been critical of their time; they arc Why ? ade by a director an new wave of the sixties. His portrayal o f the black, jazz milieu in psycho-sociological message pictures, — ‘Because it is about.... death cipally, known as a irks were intellectual, now the America, filmed from within - as Ken dealing with the dcracination of an conceived o f as selfishness, the refusal rhe Left-Handed fcshas shifted to a more forcefully Wlaschin described it in Films & Filming: individual, his descent into a hostile ever to let go of what once belonged to ike). A couple of ;level. In ‘Zero Hour’ (Stunde — ‘A highly convincing and excellently environment, and his attempt to escape. one; the refusal to accept love and ources should cast (describes a critical movement photographed study of American black This film, originally entitled ‘Rule friendship unless the lover or friend is : of the people of Cen tral jazz musician sub-culture.’ Without Exception’, also has this safely dead - and therefore totally cinated by the cult iy.The film is full of little savage But David Wilson o f Sight & Sound existentialist motif. It presents the perfect manageable. ’ ry grandeur and particularly its climax. A small was turned o ff by the unsophisticated nightmare. Doesn’t exactly sound like much fun, ose not interested pity awaits anxiously the arrival hammering of the point about black jazz A frame maker from Hamburg (Bruno docs it ? Both the main protagonists sappointed can and Soviet armies, a little men being exploited by ‘nasty white Canz) who is suffering from an incurable arc wrapped up in a cult of the dead, and rious study is ngboy decides that he will entrepreneurs.... A voice so shrill’ he disease, is approached by gangsters to they fall out over whether or not one (ahoard of treasure hidden by writes, ‘will go unheard’. murder their opponents in a Mafia gang. particular departed soul is worthy of igraphy is beautiful, is,and will attempt to buy his The framer is tempted by the money (it their funereal esteem. Such an issue I I of his situation. Filmed in black ecks, symbols of | will support his wife and child at his would find hard to get involved in, but iiers fascinated by j , the film ’s starkness is affected DOSSIER 51 death) and the prospect of lengthening Truffaut, the master, takes us into the lobbies of humour that come .ness of lost causes,: FRANCE/WEST GERMANY 1978 his life, and agrees, thus sealing his fate. hearts of his characters and l have no rabe-tambour." ’ j i,and the sense that all o f those 108 minutes The friendship between the framer and a doubt we arc in for a sober but exalted |ommunity are born losers. They Sunday 22 July at 8.15 pm only professional killer hired to help him, 94 minutes o f superb cinema. ch Schoendoerffer their fate, trying to come Director: Michel Deville becomes the fascinating theme of the film. — ‘The tones arc sombre, it is always ilgia of colonial war swith their military defeat, yet Festivals : New York 1978 As in his earlier work Wenders docs raining, and the cemetery, dank and . This interpretation! Loyal to what they believed in, not stress the psychological implications overgrown, is shot in an absolutely insufficient. “ Le nan warmth and cosy well-being. I’m particularly interested in this one but allows his often breathtaking English shade of green. The esteem fact, a lyrical because Michel Ciment, who writes the dramatic narrative to unfold before the Truffaut has always expressed for itic nature of youth, film has a delicacy of purpose and FRANCE section o f the International cold, gigantic facade of capital cities. Bresson is more visible than usual, oerffer rejoins the ine balance between character, Film Guide seems to regard Michel J stances, and a warm rich Wenders creates his own world, an image especially in his own performance. It is Their dreams are Deville as a mysteriously neglected great fin the midst of, yet almost out of the interior and exterior bareness of a real performance - not like the one he I, obsolete. And talent. He spoke favourably of his with events around them, our blank, impassive era. ‘Brilliantly gave in ‘Close Encounters’ - but it is a is the American waH L’Apprenti Salaud in 1978, and singled produces the climax, fear and faithful to Highsmith as far as it goes, very distanced and distancing one. He h the fall of Saigon, out Dossier 51 for unstinting praise in ion while concentrating on letting but really an imaginative transposition in speaks abruptly, almost telegraphically. snows - and his • this year’s edition. Deville belongs to no jeters come to life. ‘Variety’ saw which Tom Ripley (Hopper) becomes the He (and the other characters) arc often makes us realize - '< recognisable school of cinema and the [as 'one of the breakthroughs in quintessential Wenders hero in search of seen through panes o f glass or in mirrors. en the chase for j treatment of a main character seen always [cinema’. It could be seen as an a human landscape for himself, and the Distance, again, in the chapel scene, nger be continued, through a technological filter seems to Kto all stuffy history books ! film becomes a repository for a film where the wroughl-iron grill separates loes. ’ me to be saying something very pertinent nTrenwith buff’s memories, dreams and nightmares’. the actors, from the camera - and from .e Monde about the times we live in. Sight & Sound. us. vith appeal for the Could be a real off-beat beauty. - John Trenwith - Richard Roud, Sight and Sound CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 7 IPHIGENIA GREECE Tuesday 24 July 2.15 pm & 8.15 pm D irector: Michael Cacoyarwis It is a personal triumph for Michael of the pressures still being brought to mm Cacoyannis to complete his trilogy, after bear on women. having gone into voluntary exile and The message is given added power by struggled against the colonels during the the ironic counterpoint between the years of the junta. What could be more sufferings of Orin and the exquisite significant than that he was able to settings of 19th Century Japan. This m film was the runaway success o f the 1 978 4 ' 1 j a g mobilise the army and navy to provide ijflflL the thousands of extras needed to make Asian Film Festival in Sydney - I am SJF Iphigenia ? hoping that Shinoda may be one o f the I have been unable to find any critical young directors we look for to follow comment, as the film was released only the great Japanese tradition of Kurosawa recently, but Cacoyannis occupies a and Ichikawa. Those who were around i m unique position as the cinematic inter for the 1975 Festival may remember his preter of Euripide, and I assume that ‘Himiko’; ‘Double Suicide’ and ‘The f Iphigenie, as Electra, and Women o f Vroy Silence’ have also been seen here in the before it, will be considered definitive. past. THE CONSEQUENCE Die Konsequena THE LAST SUPPER Ultima Cena WEST GERMANY 1977 100 minutes CUBA 1977 120 minutes Director: Wolfaang Petersen Monday 23 J uly at 11 am & 5 pm Festivals: Berlin 1978 Director : Tomas G. Alea Festivals : Moscow, San Sebastian, A powerful piece o f docu-fiction making London 1977, Chicago, Berlin, Sydney, an appeal for gay freedom. Melbourne 1978. Petersen is quite open about standing In A Year With 13 Moons. on a soap-box and trying to change Occasionally an educative socialist opinion with this film. In the handout film comes along that rises above the (NOTE : WATCH OUT I THOSE 'FOLLOWED BYS’: TWO OF we received he states : ‘Possibly by necessary simplicity of its genre and THEM, ON PAGES 23 AND 30, WEP these means we will be able to change transcends its didactic purpose. Last things for some people. That is the hope, Supper appears to be just such a film. The INSERTED BY WELL-MEANING BL the proposition; whether it will be the MISGUIDED PRINTERS. THEY DO Monthly Film Bulletin observes : case, I don’t know.’ NOT INDICATE DOUBLE FEATURE — ‘What makes the Last Supper so Given these straightforward interesting, for the non-Cuban viewer at intentions, that the film has been so well least, is the director’s sometimes almost received seems a good indication. joyful ability to play the Devil’s advocate. The Count and, to a lesser IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS extent, Don Gaspar.... are as intriguing WEST GERMANY 1978 129 minutes - as character studies - as the diverse Wednesday 25 July 2.15 pm & 8.15 pm portraits of the twelve slaves.’ Director : Rainer Werner Fassbinder The notion of a beggars’ banquet Hurt Feelings Festivals : Berlin 1979 seems to hold a continuing fascination In Roger Horrocks’ article about the forthcoming Auckland International Film for artists - cf Bunnel’s Viridiana & the Festival (Craccum June 19) paranoia triumphs over accuracy - a paranoia with an A now well known director at the Stones’ record - and I must confess to obvious explanation. It is interesting that among the host o f questionable Auckland Film Festival, Fassbinder has being irresistibly drawn to this movie out information set forth by Mr Horrocks, most conspicuously absent is the plain fa presented us with a variety of different of some similar fascination. that he was a member of the disbanded Film Committee, and has every reason to film experiences. In 1977 we had ‘ Fox be dieting on sour grapes as a result. This is quite understandable and to a certain and His Friends’ and earlier ‘ Fear Eats THE INNOCENT extent he has my sympathy, but to hover about the Festival thrusting his bitter the Soul’. The former is closer to yet ITALY 1976 125 minutes feast on all who approach is an activity that Mr Horrocks should find inconsistent another o f his films, ‘The Bitter Tears of Thursday 26 July 2.15 pm & 8.15 pm with his dignity. That he does not may give the thinking reader some indication < Petra Von Kant,’ in that it is very Director: Luchino Visconti why the Committee was disbanded. Those stalwarts who have helped the Filrrn artificial in style and less realistic than Festivals : Cannes, San Sebastian, Sydney Festival through a number of organisational changes are still around this year, ‘ Fear Eats the Soul’. Melbourne 1976, London 1977. lending their assistance once more for the good of the filmgoer. Fassbinder is one of Germany’s That Mr Horrocks’ ‘critique’ was contrived in an excess of acute personal pique j leading film directors, but his style is I want to draw your attention to this can be readily demonstrated. An example: Throughout the years that he was sometimes a little heavy handed. How film ’s opening s h o t: we see a novel called ‘fighting for a high standard o f projection’ as a member of the Film Committee,! ever, his movies are alive with sly nuances L’lnnoccntc lying on a table. There is a public’s complaints flowed steadily. The fact is that the argument over modes of and expressive details; one almost crawls zoom-in to get a closer look at the cover, projection is a refined one and probably not capable of a definitive solution whicl into a Fassbinder movie and explores it. a zoom-out, and a gnarled and yet frail pleases all. The only certain way to eliminate all faults is to project in the standard His style owes a lot to traditional hand enters the frame and begins turning commercial ratio which tends to cut o ff people at brow and knees. The Projectio Hollywood films (I am thinking of the pages. The hand is reputed to be that ists Union take pride in their work and Mr Horrocks’ comments as to Douglas Sirk) but this quality is so of Visconti. It is the hand of the film ‘unprofessionalism’ indicate how little he knows about the problems formalized and mixed with irony that it author, an old yellowing hand, an old associated with the actual presentation of the large numbers o f films of varying becomes something original. His movies yellowing book, the two perhaps ratios over the two-week period o f the Festival. Now that he is no longer at the are highly wrought artifice and the real contemporary. What we are about to see centre of this controversy which I fear will always be with us, rather than enlighti brilliance of his work lies in the therefore is not just a film of a book, but people as to the pros and cons o f the situation Mr Horrocks prefers to stand in continuing dexterity with which he implicitly a restoration of a common wings and encourage you to throw tomatoes. juggles styles within the framework of a past. Another example: The films from the Wellington Festival. Mr Horrocks knows] single film. The film is a triumph o f decor, theo full well that Lindsay Shelton has negotiated for a number o f films on our behalf j retical and ‘set-ish’. In the matching of for many years, and it has been an excellent arrangement for all concerned - it MELODY IN GREY (BANISHED) sets, costumes, scenes and compositions extends his range and consequently your choice of film and in his years on the JAPAN 1978 : 115 minutes are allocated one dominant colour. A committee Mr Horrocks never previously showed concern. He also omits to menti Wednesday 25 July 5.15 pm only tonal unity. Such settings form a that there are 12 films in the Auckland Festival not showing in Wellington (10in D irector: Masahira Shinoda concordant part o f the ‘rules of the game’, 1978). Festivals 1978 Asian Film Festival a game which Tullio plays until destroyed He evidently has a short memory of just how many films over the past years I by the intrusion of an alien element into come to the International Film Festival from major film distributors. We refer, in j Following last year’s ‘Sandakan No 8’, it. fact, to practially all of the Fellini films, the Pasolini’s, the Bergman’s and the ’Melody in Grey’ is another beautiful Who is Tullio - an empty d’Annunzian Bertolucci’s. The fact remains that these films are now deemed so important, an Japanese film dealing with the superman - a salon Nietzchean whose in most cases, so expensive that huge advance guarantees require that only major consequences of sexuality in a formal indifference takes the form of stylishness, film distributors can afford to acquire them for world wide or regional society. Set slightly earlier than Sandakan, masking an inability to decide his fate. distribution. Melody In Grey describes the fate of a He is not immune to destiny, but Mr Horrocks fears that the Society is reluctant to spend any money on pre- young blind girl who joins the nun-like destined to be playing the same routine. Festival activities: this is absolutely not the case, and although we no longer hav order of travelling blind musicians, her Devoted to women, but his problem is his the benefit of his services in staging these, we are offering what I believe is an only alternative to becoming a prostitute. relationships with men. Essentially Tullio equally appealing proposition this year in the form of five lots of thirty tickets i As a protective measure the order of is an enigmatic character, often lacking for the best essays in any medium on the subject of film. This reflects our policy ‘gozc’ enforce celibacy among their explanation, his motivations unclear to assisting students as much as possible, as we believe that they are the least members, and when Orin is virtually him and to us. The point of the film is financially advantaged sector of our audience. If Mr Horrocks has a serious raped she is thrust from their midst, not to sec it as that of a decadent constructive suggestion as to what we might arrange in this area for next year notwithstanding that some of them society, but rather as decadentist litera would be quite happy to give it consideration. practice a little prostitution on the side. ture, providing the rules of the games The comment that we have reduced the number of double screenings is quite Message: If you’re going to be raped, you that Visconti considers. The strength of accurate - there were 36 feature films in last year’s Festival, 42 this year. Faced should try to be discreet about it ! the film is that it never resolves itself in with an embarrassment of excellent product the Film Advisory Panel agreed tha She is repeatedly exploited by men one way or another. If you liked we should show as many films as possible. until she is latched on to by a young man ‘Breaker, Breaker’ you won’t like And it is true that the concession system has changed - only students can obt who puts her on the proverbial pedestal, ‘ L’lnnocente’. Visconti’s upper-class a discount this year. We hope they will take full advantage of it and will take th which is not much to her liking at a ll.. Marxism has never been better. trouble to tell us their views of the Festival after it is all over. The fellow’s insistence that she is some - John Trcnwith sort of plaster saint eventually brings P.S. Attention all Wertmuller fans. This Roderick Biss tragedy down on their heads. is your first and last chance to see what Chairman Obviously this film is a must for the entirely different talent of Visconti Auckland Festival Society feminists, depicting as it does in a will do with the one and only Giancarlo. heightened and allegorical manner many - C.H. CRACCUM FILM FESTIVAL SUPPLEMENT PAGE 8 IE PASN NOPRTD 6.3 LOS LBO OGOG $0: IE AEN OEO 80 BB AK 38: ... LS FN $7.45: FUND SLUSH F.O.L. $3.87: LACK BOB $850: POKENO TAVERN BILE $600: ONGAONGA OF CLUB LIONS $65.23: INCORPORATED PEARSON NIGEL 1 9 7 » EVn Wê decide to head o ff t *ff main studios. A la r ^ r f f ° Wards the M outside in the rain t l Z ° Wd ^ Ueues 3 am hopeful•eruis t0 the inner sanctum T h8 l ° be admitted constantly harr^c T' They are We go over the road ft0 u'VC donat'ons People. The idea of Z t ’ very fevv the supposedly unselfish J narl out in ship r i^ n g to ^ t? trailerdecked as the ‘Spirit oSfA§dvenr eS “ P ānd down donations from the 3 a Ure Crevv so,lcit few are still T o u t Z n -Crovvds■ A fair through the rottina •,ndlng tdeir way rubbish. Farther un rh6S ofsodder> year old girl is being sh6 3 seventeen head. 8 shot through the The Otara Stormtroopers ran a Disco and raised $3000, which they d-livered with some ceremony the next day For hRem’aS/ ' th everyone else, it was good J ? ; g od advertising, people temporarily boot St° rieS ° f §UnS m 6Very P°llcemans Christine tells me that when the first collectors came down her street she was struck by the ‘come out into the street and rejoice’ aspect of it. When the next, less flamboyant crowd came along the novelty had worn off. In this mammoth amateur day, some of the professionals stood out. Lauren Bacall, as token Hollywood Star, took the whole thing with a bemused grace. However, the obvious happened. Middle- aged barman: ‘I have $306.50 here, but I ve never been kissed by a Hollywood star.’ Andy Shaw: ‘But Peter Sinclair isn’t that kind of guy.’ and so on. Camera pans on to Ms Bacall. A look of Call this a hoax ? extreme distaste passes across her face. Live television at its best. Split Enz, usually ultra-professional came o ff very badly in the rushed atmos phere o f the affair - maybe their motives weren’t right? Norman Gunston performed immac ulately.... already a past master of amateurism, he set the tone for many of the activities. Michael tells me that in a pre-Telethon warmup harangue in the middle of Queen Street he was attacked by one of our citizens for being a ‘fucking Aussie’. , All rrty friends who are students or varcity educated seem to treat telethon with some disdain. Perhaps it is a middle- lower class exercise. But I found that lor all its strange notions on charity Telethon is still an extremely potent and infectious occasion. Perhaps it is another example of the hold television has on our lives, or maybe it is an indication of the way we like to think of ourselves. It probably does us no good to think too much Fishing for loose change about it at all, but it certainly has more to do with indigenous New Zealand culture than the Film Festival. PHOTOS: PETER PARKER So back to the saga, the NZI meetinc It’s not everyday that ! find myself at a shareholders meeting for one of the last Tuesday. I’ve been to three meetin largest companies in this country — namely of Insurance companies over the past the New Zealand Insurance Company. few years (South British Insurance wasi Many of you will have read the accounts singled out as well) and at each of those! that the two Auckland dailies gave of that meetings, anti-apartheid protestors hawf Police, been polite and well-mannered and meeting last week and their coverage was, to be brutally frank, poor indeed. achieved absolutely nothing. Because! Exactly what you’d expect the weak the low numbers o f shares we hold, kneed straight papers to portray. And the usually somewhere around 1-3%, the other media were not that much better Board o f Directors can simply yawn; either. Below follows an account as politely ignore us. accurate as I can remember, taken from Protesters Last year saw a new approach - ift not only my own observations of the ignore us when we are reasonably well meeting, countless photographs and behaved, what have we to lose from no discussions with other people there. acting quietly? Nothing. Tactics for l *********** meeting varied considerably from pre meetings and the level of organisation! The New Zealand Insurance Company superb. All thanks for this must go to & Goois National Anti-Apartheid Council’s was singled out a few years ago by the National Anti-Apartheid Council as an Insurance Companies Campaign which] example o f a prominent and respectable ensured that as many people could get company which had financial interests in into the meeting as proxies or shares' South Africa. Each year these investments allow. I for example went to the meetiil |after 2pm , a g return a profit back to the parent as the proxy holder of AUSA - most itherostrum at I company somewhere in the region of people were in that situation but one or I dopened the me $10 million. This is despite the fact that two individuals who actually owned thej that the m ee ting New Zealand is a signatory to United shares took the time and trouble to con jeerned w ith the Nations moffons aimed at stopping up to Auckland from as far south as I ■by the C om pany foreign investment in South Africa. By church so they could be there in person! {discussing a p a rt no means is New Zealand the worst offen Sorry, sidetracked again. To the meetin iat foreign inves der — other Western democracies (and itself and the events. We all am» S to n y si now even China) trade with apartheid and down atTrillos where the meeting was j meeting. Sud the monies that flow into South Africa being heidjat about 1.30 on Tuesday af Jacacophony of go to further reinforce the economic, soc noon and one by one, after our proxies p try and get up < ial and political suppression of blacks were checked, filed into the meeting; ^klaxons, horns, by the minority white Government. took seats at predetermined spots dotti >e blown o r bea If there is one thing which blacks „ around the main hall o f Trillos. The ifmaking all no rn within South Africa are clear on though, •; surroundings were plush to say the least| He and the a m p ii it’s the fact that economic sanctions are J — mirrors, wall to wall carpet, chandelij ! a faraw ay the only way with which to bring apart- ' the works. All very intimidating for shere that the f heid to an end. The blacks know that the • rabble demonstrators but in which the eprotesters le t t withdrawal o f foreign investment will < predominantly blue-rinse set and busin ,/erostrum, ( n o t , mean loss o f jobs and possible human men fitted very well. Well before the jothparties) and I suffering but if the world was really serious advertised start o f the meeting it becan r N Z I on about ending Apartheid (instead of paying obvious that this time NZI were takingi oseparatc occasi it scant lip service) then sanctions are chances concerning security. Police- jstrators as w e ll or: the few peaceful options that we have both plain clothes and the norm were in) ^goons k ic k in g , left. Nobody wants a bloodbath in goons which the company had hired fori gany dem onstr; South Africa. But one day it will come the meeting in order to maintain control foiutes al I was c with such scale that the world will be Later both these two peacekeeping tlremained a t £ revolted. And then it’ll be too late. groups were to initiate violence. confusion a t t f i{protesters speak l W land Ross, th e C f Lout by sound c |led to speak, o ardto recall h o \ [ LeftR jv.'tfc, "T h e R P)T -fHRT NQfrlBVT , OIM ~n/£ 'B'R.tGpC. . 0 I saw one pei ~ d a r e ' s « “ ] c Being pulled b y tv a ra te b»3 X ip c goodie 'T oaddn !\ jontohim were J !! c notesters (in c lu d i !C i * all formed a rii c nprevent m ore p c ■tfiey got h im , tc Iback with us all O X 7 toted that he war ‘Niifc ■■they just w ante I’ He was releasee {minutes la te r fc «reinforcement ,thes. They lite r jt of the pro teste pled down in fre People v\ font at random . * smade we clos L a o u ^ l .1 flrying to stop th metimes we suc< rjobviously we & i — liU - g . v V° met get punches lying on the gro A ^ \ jtely by se cu rity iwas pushed the i shareholder (yes , tioR . \ [’members o f tl ;«represent (ie o t jdthe police o n , s md most when nts like, ‘serves t eyotj ever beer (\ Shi! slniK' o K ! Tct^e lupidity'of th is a i < \ \ urn tc&e h itvaiivc 'nctlonYi pj ■, , ^ Do we have tc ! VU action.. ‘jOLf fWCCL/l | * r-iJJnG ybefore we car c-osmo^ retpinq , P^loQit^q cmcl rVrj ^ tame situation.) hdrQ’jJd “ ' orOjQmzir) q 1 J g c \\o , M 0 Zoo-tf. ^ UJ a Puckle1,! ]] => C L T\o’SSef] Chambers d id fhid CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 12 THEATRE CORPORATE © Gaiatos St Newton Ph/74307 Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, 8.15pm Mon. & Tues. at 6.15; Wed. to Sat. at 8.15pm Thurs, 6.30pm $4.50 & $6.50 $1 off seat prices for students with ID THE SONG O f A new play by Brian McNeill JO H NNY M USCLE By Simon O’Connor. Mvcic by Phillip Oxonhom I ga, the NZI meetin, THE NAVAL OFFICER jen to three meetin SPONSORED BY COOKS NEW ZEALAND "The story of a hoodlum who tried to find his way — lies over the past WINE CO LTD the devil and the law conspired to make him pay.' itish Insurance1 I OPENING MONDAY ~ CONCURRENTLY ind at each of tho. JULY 9 Wed to Sat. 6.00 pm teid protestors haw Three new plays by Michael Morrissey -mannered and ABIGAIL’S PARTY Devised by Mike Leigh nothing. Because( EXORCISMS — The most devastating and hilarious shares we hold, — Aspects of a relationship under siege iround 1-3%, the party you will ever attend an simply yawn; $4.00 Phone 33*869 ew approach - iff re reasonably well 1 0 a m - 9 p m we to lose from no hing. Tactics for l « derably from prev WE ARE el of organisation' :or this must go tol EVERYWHERE heid Council’s :s Campaign which y people could get oroxies or shares'. 2 went to the meeti I after 2pm, a group of protesters For the hour or so while the bulk of of AUSA - most (the rostrum at the front o f the the arrests took place, Ross and the other situation but one or] (opened the meeting. They members of the Board sat quite still, with actually owned |that the meeting, instead of stony expressions on their faces. Finally : and trouble to con erned with the proposals put it ended. Ross opened the meeting amid n as far south as« [bythe Company directors, should another outburst of sound. Alex Shaw, d be there in person (discussing apartheid and the a former President o f NZUSA (1975) gain. To the meetin at foreign investment had on the moved that the meeting adjourn. A vote € p > * We all arriv nthere. Stony silence from the was taken. While they were counting the re the meeting was :meeting. Suddenly the room 6 million or so shares, Shadbolt and Dennis 1.30 on Tuesday aft iacacophony of noise as the Rockell, (the Secretary of the National e, after our proxies 5try and get up on to the rostrum, Anti-Apartheid Council) stood up and into the meeting; ^klaxons, horns, megaphones, spoke to the shareholders, explaining srmined spots dotti [areblown or beaten with the why we were there and the conditions I of Trillos. The (making all normal conversation for blacks and coloureds in South Africa. Hair Estabiishmeni lush to say the least (Ieand the amplified voice of the Shadbolt offered the megaphone to the BY APPOINTMENT ONLY ’all carpet, chandelia ! a faraway shout in a gale, other shareholders. ‘Come on — we’ve ARE OFFERING TO STUDENTS intimidating for ' shere that the first violence occur- had our say, let’s hear why you support •s but in which the sprotesters let the directors up apartheid.’ Nobody took up the offer. A 30% DISCOUNT ON ALL HAIRDRESSING -rinse set and busir crostrum, (not after some shoving Adjournment motion lost - 40,000 vs 6,000,000. Ross shouts above the din I. Well before the pth parties) and I saw a member Discount does not apply after 5pm ie meeting it becan . and moves through the motions for ,ard of NZI on at ne NZI were takingr [separate occasions take swings consideration by the meeting. Except security. Police- istrators as well as some o f the there is no consideration, no debate; nd the norm werei ygoons kicking, pushing and It went like this.... ‘ I move that resolut npany had hired for) gany demonstrator within reach, ion five be adopted.’ Seconded cries r to maintain contro [minutes all was confusion. The one of the grey men next to him. Any o peacekeeping ielremained at an unbearable discussion? (Sometime not even this ate violence. econfusion at the front remain- formality). All those in favour raise your [protesters speaking over mega- hands. Against. Carried. A poll of and Ross, the Chairman, being shareholders will be taken at the end of (out by sound every time he the meeting. Resolution six.... ’ j to speak. Try and picture the scene. About 70 TAe$ , Iiardto recall how the first arrests demonstrators, some scruffy,others in I saw one person on the ___ ( J ta ?! Zifa, suits and ties, blowing whistles, letting (eingpulled by two policemen, loose mice, stink bombs. The fire alarms ie p tocidoktI jontohim were at least three go. One person, who just happens to be protesters (including Chris Gosling) standing near one by the microphone gets pall formed a ring around the accused by Ross of deliberately setting it pprevent more police arriving. In off. Police, acting on Ross’s accusation, PHONE 375-900 371-042 (they got him, took him arrest him. Later I saw two goons near 74 ALBERT STREET, AUCKLAND CITY [back with us all following. The the alarm where he was standing. What bated that he wasn’t under were they doing? ftheyjust wanted him for ‘quest- By the time that resolution six had 1 He was released only to be come up, some of the conventional share (minutes later for ‘assault’, holders had had enough. They had seen [reinforcements arrived, mostly motion after motion rammed through STUDENT DELEGATION/TOUR TO THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC Hes. They literally waded into by the Board with no debate as well as tofthe protesters who were the ugly scenes involving the police, the kited down in front o f the rostrum, OF CHINA. protesters and the goons. People were seemingly lout at random. Each time an Alternating with protesters they spoke >made we closed in around the against motion six - the most authoritarian [trying to stop them dragging people of them all. Simply it gives the Chairman A tour for up to twenty (20) students is being organised to China metimes we succeeded — of the Board, Ross, the power to close any sobviously we didn’t. I shareholders meeting down which becomes this Year. The tour will depart Auckland on Sunday 12 August for net get punched and kicked, one ‘unruly or disorderly’ and conduct such Hong Kong. Following a three (3) day stopover in Hong Kong the ;on the ground was trampled unfinished business at the Board’s leisure. tour will enter China on Thursday 16 August. The tour will visit itely by security men, another Pretty authoritarian — speaker after ■was pushed then kicked by an speaker condemned the resolution, yet the cities of Guangzhou, Beijing, Changsha, Shanghai Suzhou and [shareholder (yes!). Other ‘right- none of the Board made any moves to Guilin before leaving China on Saturday 01 September. The tour l ’members of the community explain why they were putting it forward. will depart Hong Kong for Auckland on Sunday 02 September [represent (ie other thanqorotesters) Finally, the speaking order ran out and the arriving in Auckland the following day. (the police on, some swore at motion was put. Carried of course. [and most when talked to expressed Later, as they handed around the voting A ntslike, ‘serves the blacks right’ papers, for the resolutions we tore them up. : i-/1 Leyo\) ever been to South Africa?’ The final symbolic protest - the tearing The estimate tour cost (given currency movements) will be about ro jc iria n s (pidity'of this argument is so up of voting papers at a shareholders $2000. Those interested in applying should contact their nearest jh o rOQhr\ ftjl Do wd have to have lived in Nazi meeting where the shareholders had just ky before we can hate facism? Student Travel sales office immediately as booking close soon. p iljajt'nq on cl voted away any powers that they may lame situation.) have had. la oiaus. ,, ‘ a p ic k le ! ! David Merritt CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 13 Arts MICHAEL MORRISSEY - AN INTERVIEW Conductor : Donald Thulean Curled uncomfortably in a battered leather would tonfuse me too m uch.....the poet ‘Exorcisms’ is, how very equal the m Auckland Town Hall July 2 armchair Morrissey professed to be still usually writes about himself, in drama and woman in the relationship are, h somewhat insecure and unsure o f him you’re writing about a situation.... My idea differently they regard it ‘.... and he The Symphonia of Auckland is playing self. Referring to the writing award which of theatre is people like Strinberg, their frustrations with each other an under the baton of the American he won in 1977 for the year 1977-78 he Tennessee Williams, Eugene O ’Neill, Pin with the relationship are fairly at cr conductor Donald Thulean for the second said, ‘People seem to think you’ve made ter.... a fairly intense psychological sort purposes.... they both end this mon time. He is resident conductor of the it if you win one o f these awards. You of theatre.’ ‘Exorcisms’ he sees as not in the middle section by saying “ I’m Spokane Symphony Orchestra of get a fair amount of publicity but it’s a being, ‘like a real life situation, it’s been ing to myself.” They both fear thatt Washington. The Symphonia’s resident very temporary thing, it only happens stylised.... mannered psychological realism haven’t got through to the other per conductor, Juan Matteucci, is en route to for six months or a year then you’re kind is the result of originally just trying to His view of human relations as Utah where he is to help judge an of back where you started.... ’ Neverthe be realistic and then looking at it from the images of frustration and conflict, wh international piano competition. less there seems to be an air o f satisfied writing point of view and slowly paring it stemming from elements of Monday’s concert began with Weber’s self-confidence about the man, perhaps down, concentrating it.’ He does hint ‘emotional turm oil’ in his own life, is ‘Der Freischutz’ Overture, performed due to the recent encouragement that, because of this he may be making Morrissey emphasises, a complete and with much warmth and a new richness of Raymond Hawthorne has given him in too many demands on the audience. ‘In and total one. Rather he is victim to tone, encouraged by Mr Thulean’s staging ‘Exorcisms’. ‘Getting this play or the middle section, “ Mirrors” , there’s a tendency for people to write about i sensitive direction. The entire programme was actually far more exciting than those very long very mannered kind of mono unhappiness rather than their happir was conducted from memory - quite a awards that I got.... I never imagined my logue.....No one knows exactly how long ‘There’s something rather boring abou feat, especially considering the com plexity self as a playwright, I am a poet and I im this person is going to talk.... You just hearing a description of someone’s pie of Hindem ith’s ‘Mathis der Maler’ which agined myself as a short-story writer and have to sit there and endure it.’ And he ant day at the beach.’ followed Delius’s ‘Walk to the Paradise a novelist.....I started to get this feeling admits to making the demand in ‘an old Going down to Christchurch t* Garden’. The Delius, a quiet, peaceful that I ’d like to write a play about three fashioned way’ by asking people just to up the fellowship at Canterbury he work, is an intermezzo from his opera years ago and never did anything about it follow the words. ‘I think most people a happy coincidence with his own ‘sort ‘A Village Romeo and Juliet’. The piece and then I sort of got into it from short today, quite often when they write a explosion’ in writing. As to his artistic is built around ideas, introduced by the story writing. My short stories always play feel they have to use music.... It’s the technique he says, ’ Rather than assidu: winds, which are extended and taken up have a lot o f dialogue and they’re usually most seductive and soporific of art forms ly studying writers for their content or by the whole orchestra. Every section in a very present, tightly focused situation’. and it ’s amazing how people will accept and technique, I have a sneaky glance at th performed the long legato phrases with Morrissey commented that some of the and be lulled by quite bad music.’ an impressionistic reading. I did reccn' grace and precision. ways in which he twists dialogue and the Jokingly commenting that the ‘ideal read the latest play by Pinter.... but at Hindem ith’s ‘Mathis der Maler’ way in which he begins arc a bit ‘Pintery’. audience for the play should be over thirty moment I think I’ve got quite a lot bi (Mathias the Painter) followed. It is a ‘.... instead o f taking a big theme like and unhappily married for ten years, round in my head and I feel fairly hapr . symphony taken from an opera of the feminism or some historical thing.... you because it ’s sort of Strinberg terrain.....I trying to sort it out on my own terms.’ same name. The three movements are said just.... begin in an existential way.....and wrote the play “ Mirrors” just before read At present he is trying to complete thr to be musical impressions of three of take a situation, a very particular situation ing ‘The Stronger’. It seemed to be quite plays and is amused at the continual q Mathias Gruncwald’s paintings. The work with only a couple of people and you start a similar thing.... In “ Mirrors” , one person ions as to the state o f his novel. He involves some interesting texture listening to what they say to one another. is addressing the other, who is not replying confessed to not having touched it for contrasts and highly complex rhythms. It means listening to parts of your own and it ’s about a relationship and as the per ages. Instead he seems happy enough Extensive use is made of brass and brain and as you do that your own obsess son talks more and more is revealed ....But carving out a niche in the dramatic fie! percussion. The symphony finishes with a ions start to build it out into something he’s not quite talking to her. The product He secs New Zealand drama as sufferit powerful fanfare using both o f these. so that by the time you get to the end you ion has done this extremely skilfully.... deficiency of serious comedy and psy. The highlight of the evening was a may have said something large.’ Quite often the man talks to these images, logical drama or tragedy, due he feels' compelling performance of Dvoraks The path to success seems to have had memory images up on the wall.... A couple too great a concentration on satire and symphony Number 8 in G Major Op. 88. a few bumps and hollows though. In rel of times, when she turns round in her historical drama. ‘I keep thinking there Dance rhythms and folk melodics are ation to ‘Exorcisms’, Morrissey sent in chair to face him he suddenly looks back so much to write about going on right i treated elaborately yet still retain their three short plays, to one of which Corporate to the image again. It’s as though he can’t in Auckland.... there’s Bastion Point, th emotional power. didn’t like because ‘.... it didn’t seem to bear to face her.’ Morrissey disclaims any Black Power confrontations, the way th This varied and challenging programme fit into the pattern the other two were intention to propound ‘a simple message middle classes live.... I would like to see was presented at the unusual time of making.’ Two other alternatives were .... one of these fairly fashionable kind of more people tackling the present, 1960 6.30. Perhaps this, combined with the also rejected before a compromise was left-wing or counter-culture sort of notions fo rw a rd s .... There’s just ton$ of material! bad weather, kept people away. Pity reached in the form of an adaptation of .... like lunatics are actually saner than the to grapple w ith.... usually people do it they did stay away: it was a really good one o f Morrissey’s earlier short stories, rest of us.’ The dominant impression he satirically but I’d re a lly like to see pcoj concert. s.s. overflow into his writing o f plays, ‘ It wants the audience to take away from trying to do serious stu ff." Eugenie^ Buchanan, Vivieaere & MacLeod Little Theatre June 18-22 There arc two significant traps in the most effective way of selling - but little, if at all. Under any system where an sometimes alarming way. contemporary New Zealand painting-the should he defy the dealer system and artist must sell to gain recognition MacLeod’s offerings were nothing landscape tradition and the dealer gallery hang his own show the artist runs into quality becomes more im portant than new: competent and clean realist city system. We have reached a stage in the a number of significant problems. Firstly otherwise, thanks to a whole gambit of scapes. Some were most effective in their! visual arts where these can now be space; he must find it and enough of it. capitalist ethics. Once again the loner use of architectural elements forming | challenged. The landscape has lost much Three artists with a total of about sixty loses out - he hadn’t the advantage o f a abstract areas o f colour. The small scale of its old magic as more and more local works exhibiting in a lim ited area like the specialist set-up for his exhibition; he and subtle colour of MacLeod’s artists turn from the obvious to the Little Theatre suffer restrictions of space, hasn’t the presentation expertise contribution meant that they were implied, and equally the dealer gallery works had to be hung one above the other offered by a private gallery, the framing swamped by the more obvious power of system’s place as patron and purveyor of from knee-height to well above head- service, the special lighting or the the Buchanans. To be fully appreciated the arts is be ing q u e stio n e d . height which naturally made viewing arranged atmosphere. The show in the the MacLeods too needed a gallery to 1 The dealer system reached New difficult. Secondly clientele; the advant Little Theatre was just that, an themselves. Zealand in the early 60’s and for fifteen age of the dealer galleries in terms of exhibition in a theatre. Buchanan, Jim Vivieaere hung a collection of 1 years provided a true service to artist clientele is their practice of keeping Vivieaere and MacLeod could only book small but forceful works in various media_ collector and viewing public by increasing mailing-lists of regular gallery visitors, the Little Theatre for a week, another Small and gloomy they were a most IP sales, gallery space and exhibition - and although not all arc collectors most disadvantage considering the standard e ffe c tiv e c o u n te r p o in t to the large numbers; but now, when established are of sufficient means to be able to buy fortnight’s hanging for any show in a brash Buchanans. Vivieaere had limited 1 private galleries arc charging artists 40 per the occasional piece. A show like that of dealer gallery; and no dealer gallery is himself mainly to the figure and what 1 cent commission on sales, it is obviously Buchanan, Vivieaere and MacLeod, going to hive plays and meetings among co u ld be described as ‘social commentary^ time to rethink. without mailing-lists and contact with the the paintings during lunchtime, the busiest and there were some lucid insights And rethinking there has been. The buying public, are therefore financially time for visitors. despite dirty colour. landscape tradition is on its way out and disadvantaged. A show on campus is also Buchanan, Vivieaere and MacLeod are The power, size and masterful more and more young painters arc turning less lik e ly to a ttra c t buyers, stud ents to be applauded; not only for their guts s im p lic ity o f th e Buchanans meant that \ away from the dealer galleries to hold and academics being notoriously thread in ‘going it alone’ but also for the high it was e sse n tia lly his show , w hich could their own shows. bare. Thirdly, and perhaps most calibre of the show they hung, despite have been billed as Buchanan and others For the week of the I 8th - 22nd of significantly, an artist of any integrity the handicaps. Even the least sensitive of at the Little Theatre.’ It was a damn goodj June the Little Theatre in the Maidment has little or no idea of what his paintings visitors must have left with some brain show unnecessarily disadvantaged by its Arts Centre housed a show by three local are worth. If he shows in a private gallery damage, such was the power of the works detachment from the dealer n ill. Shows I painters - Buchanan, Vivieaere, and the prices will be fixed at a maximum by hanging. Dean Buchanan’s dramatic such as this need to appear more 9 MacLeod - a conscious removal from the gallery staff (for obvious percentage camouflage and light pattern works frequently and to attract much more r world of the dealer. They organized and reasons) and the buyer can be helped dominated the limited space and really patronage if they are to survive as an hung their own show, arranged their own with time-payment schemes. Not so the needed a gallery to themselves. The alternative to the private galleries opening and sold their own works. The loner exhibitor - he sets his own prices camouflage treatment stems from conspiracy, and if the dealer galleries are works themselves were as powerful and (often unaware of the true monetary Buchanan’s earlier work involving patterns to receive the kick they deserve and as saleable as any one might find in a value of his work) which must be high of light through foliage, the treatment where it will hurt them most. Only a private gallery and yet they did not sell as enough to show that he respects his own is therefore three-dimensional, profound kick in their wallets will haul the private well. Every artist has a right to make a work but low enough to tempt buyers. and at times hypnotic. Also hanging were galleries o u t o f the p a ra sitic complacency living out of his work if he chooses to The difference between a dealer show sixteen o f Buchanan’s photomontages; into which they have recently sunk. m ake it o f e co n o m ic, as w e ll as o f and a loner show is solely financial, the equally dramatic War/New Deal images personal, importance, and exhibiting is quality of the works obviously Varying juxtaposed in a sometimes funny, Winston Smith CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 14 y equal the man tionship are, hov Exorcisms ig ifis it *.... and how Michael Morrissey each other and Theatre Corporate re fairly at cross June 26 - July 21 end this monolc P i l l >y saying “ I’m Michael Morrissey’s first contribution >oth fear that th ■ I to the theatre shows a fine artistic sense the other person’! and sensitivity to the human character. an relations as His short story background (he has had nd conflict, whilej - s eleven published to date and won num its of erous awards for his efforts) shows in the his own life, is i preciseness o f expression — there is- a complete and nothing superfluous in his style, but at he is victim toi the same time he misses no opportunities. ) write about the m their happine The three plays are three views of the- her boring about once-intimate relationship between the two characters (a man and a woman) from )f someone’s plea different distances of time. They meet in a neutral environment - never quite Christchurch toi explained to the audience — and battle it anterbury he se out verbally. But, as will always happen /ith his own ‘sort< when two completely different world As to his artistic views fight there is no real interaction ther than assiduc — they never really touch and nothing their content or is resolved. The only possible winning 3aky glance at would be of them both together - winn ling. I did rece Pinter.... but at ing over their differences, but as they ot quite a lot buzz just battle each other there can be no Elizabeth Hawthorne in 'Exorcisms. ’ I feel fairly hap v ic to ry . t my own terms.1' The drama flows with almost musical ; to complete thr elegance - tension is built and resolved : the continual with wit and artistry - holding the attent his novel. He io n of.the audience well but without >g touched it for over powering. JVe see, in the first- play, s happy enough the relationship nearing its end, but the dramatic fie with a touch of softness and sadness - no N.Z.S.O., Conductor Henry Lewis drama as suffcrir fierceness yet, but we get a glimpse of Piano: Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich :omedy and psyc his self-despised dependence - ‘I wish I Town Hall June 27 dy, due he feels could be free of women’ and of her ion on satire and rather cold tenderness towards him - This concert of three strongly ->ep thinking there’! trying to help, but only from a distance. romantic compositions began with . it going on right i The second is a bitter and slashing battle Richard Strauss’s ‘Death and Trans . Bastion Point, the in which their inability to really interact figuration’, one of his earliest symphonic ations, the way the is shown. Morrissey uses the image of a poems. After a rather shaky opening both would like to see m irro r - the man sees the w o m a n as lik e a the orchestra and American conductor the present, 1960 val Officer mirror - cold and hard impenetrable and Henry Lewis put their all into this ist ton$ of material jlcNeill leaving him, ultim ately, alone with nothing demanding work. (ally people do it 'July 4-August 4 but his own reflection. She claims this is Henry Lewis clearly displayed the ly like to see pec necessary and deliberate - a protection qualities that have enabled him to trans .u ff. Eugeni? have sufficient mental abilities something. The cast throw themselves from his insistence and pushing when there form his own orchestra, the New Jersey gme an erotic film for the Manawatu vigorously into their roles, unsure o f its was no real feeling between them - ‘and Symphony, over his eight years a$ its illery, or a documentary film on- seriousness they play laughs for all that it was always a sexual act, never an act musical director. His podium technique ifor the New Independent,‘The can be wrung out of them, but they are of love’. She held herself as a m irror in is very energetic (he lost his baton during [Officer’, from the same pen as those predictable punctuations of a tediously an attempt to show him himself. Mean the second section of the first movement) finable classics will not give you too wordy play. while, the room around them is hung and authoritative: his musical understand jeause to stretch them. It documents Good Boys*Own stuff this, the brave with photographs of themselves, both ing is indisputable. He handled the simple vay. Iramatises the events leading up to the J immy and -his slavering crowd of worshi together and separately, to which he esp oboe childhood m otif and the climactic gs were nothing yage of the first New Zealand . ppers, not to mention the little woman who ecially addresses his vitriol - as if to a transfiguration with equal case and style, clean realist city* D. McNeill states, ‘When Ian Mullins who sits at home sprouting babies each mirror of another time - rather than face and the orchestra, with few exceptions, ost effective in their! jested the idea of Cook to me.... year, and, in an oh so poignant moment his flesh and blood antagonist. tackled the difficult passage writing with lements forming : iup my hands in horror, James > with Jim recalls the little ones who,as is its usual skill. ur. The small scale Jwasnot Thomas More;’ and the play so common in those days are ‘Safe in the In the third play the atmosphere is Stephen Bishop-Kovaccvich was the MacLeod’s again more calm, although little progress I'Man for all Seasons’, arms of Jesus’. Cook is not so lucky in soloist in Schumann’s A minor piano hat they were has been made. He still shows his depend irsing a freshly semi-decapitated the climax o f the play (no Waterloo this). concerto. He seemed ill at case for the e obvious power of ence in his unrealistic, covert hopes for a ’flu and feeling tired listless and He gets consigned to the brine, wrapped in first quarter of the first movement, but 3 fully appreciated ' ;in energy I was, frankly, under- a flag. Mrs C doesn’t get the insurance, reconciliation, she claims happiness with once he had adjusted his scat to the right eded a gallery to 1 ed. But D.C., my erstwhile corn- but a fine portrait and the memory of a another, but we find out later that she height he played fluently, giving the is actually happily alone — she has the diverged little from my own fine man. PJus, as the man delivering the rhapsodic cadenza a distinctive intimacy g a collection of 1 ns and kindly nudged me when J wind-up informs us, loses the rest of the independence he wished for at the beginn and clarity. His treatment of the short )rks in various media I snoring. Cook progeny. Sob. The other women ing. However, she is unable to give him intermezzo was exceptional, and he ey were a most at sombre serious figure so beloved arc a suitable variety of Boys’ Own Her even the show o f tenderness he makes a evidently enjoyed the gentle poetry of nt to the large s Buchanan and a generation of oines, Martha Ray, the daffy mistress of bid for, and although she claims to have this movement. The long third movement vieaere had limited \ ird three social studies teachers, strides Montague, Suzanne Burney, awaiting her lied because ‘he’ wouldn’t have believed I provided evidence of Kovaccvich's 3 figure and what j he boards of the Mercury in an lover and weeping copiously — they had could be happy on my own’, perhaps prodigous control - he can be dramatic i ‘social commentar ptby McNeill to bring o l’ Jimmy fidelity in those days. these are because of her insecurity. The without ever being crude or thumping. mirror is still there - she tries only to help lucid insights |lifeand within grasp of the twentieth The last scenes in Tahiti and Hawaii Rachmaninov’s long second symphony from a distance, the warmth just is not audience. Warwick Slyfield has with its dancing venereal infested maidens, in E minor occupied the whole of the there for the closeness and affection that id masterful enviable task of infusing some life long, lithe lissome native men in Y fronts second part o f the programme. This is a he really needs. She is caught in the bind hanans meant that I [the character of Cook, who is not the and leopard skin bring the play to its well-constructed work, which nearly show, which could of her mother - a sense of responsibility Jdazzling of historical figures.... ‘The grande finale. McNeill pulls out all stops always sustains interest through its and desire to help the other without the uchanan and others st combination o f seaman, explorer, here, with native chants, two scenes on hour-long length. Lewis and the NZSO love to carry it off. ! It was a damn good) ptor and cartographer the world had the one stage, Mrs C receiving cosmic vib handled the luxuriant melodies and lisadvantaged by its en.’ Also one of the most poorly rations all the way from James’ Last Stand As well as this being Michael Morrissey’s rhythmical passages with taste, never 3 dealer mill. Shows ented as far as personal details go. plus imaginative lighting and props. Yet first play it is also the first appearance at descending to the sickly sweet inter appear more [ill did 12 months research, but in my there is such a melange o f confused action Theatre Corporate o f Michael Wisher - an pretation which can come all too easily tract much more i more freedom with characterisa- — Cook’s murder comes as quite a sur actor with extensive experience in Britain to Rachmaninov interpretation, especially ; to survive as an ! |ispossible; imagine a fascinating study prise, it’s not actually committed on stage in both the theatre and television. He and in the hackneyed Adagio. vate galleries esCook, dipsomaniac, manic dep- (I don’t think). Elizabeth Hawthorne made a faultless All in all this was an excellent concert. e dealer galleries are »or a host of other approaches.’ Lovers of historical romance might performance of the first night, she with her It is always a pleasure to hear the NZSO; ley deserve and -me the production never quite lost find this a worthwhile evening’s entertain her almost unnerving intensity of feeling, one of the only world-class artistic em most. Only a ality of a National Programme ment, or those with an interest in visuals, and he with his refined, well balanced groups that New Zealand can boast. Let will haul the private ast to schools.... This is your Heri- the set and lighting are utilised to provide technique. Aucklanders are lucky to us hope that short-sighted accountants arasitic complacency] |New Zealand!’ maximum effect,and the costumes are have such an addition to the already in Wellington will not have their way - in 3 recently sunk. idney Jackson in the role of the elegant excellent, but I don’t give this production outstanding company at Theatre this time of National gloom we need to jSandwich is appropriately lordly and a rating o f compulsory viewing. Corporate. see more of the NZSO, not less. nt, this man has seen a few BBC rical serials, or the Onedin Line, or Sara Lewis Mathew Dart Q.C. Maxwell-Jackson CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 15 Gladys Knight & The Pips Trillos Downtown 6.00pm & 10.00pm Monday 16 July and Tuesday 17 July M usic So it’s the middle of winter, and you’re still wondering how to finish spendingy- Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti last bursary cheque. Well I have the answer! Go to Gladys Knight and the Pips. G* CBS food, good wine, excellent music, Gladys Knight is a luxury you can afford. Now only 32, she began her career over 25 years ago as a child Gospel vocalist! Biting satire and a wide variety of teaming up with her brother and two cousins to become professional as ‘Gladys Kni moods characterise Zappa’s new double and the Pips’. In 1961 they had a No. 1 rhythm and blues h it with ‘Every Beat of album, his first release after signing with My Heart’, an excellent ballad if you can find it. In 1967, after a move to Tamlal CBS. Playing with mostly unknown sides town they hit again with ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine’, a No. 1 smash and on men (only Terry Bozio and Napoleon my favourite all time soul records. Murphy Brock survive from previous line In 1973 a move to Buddah gave them six consecutive Gold Discs, including the i ups) and using an impressive arsenal of ‘ Midnight Train to Georgia’, plus a couple of Grammys. In 1975 they first visited: effects and gimmicks, Zappa continues neck o f the woods, receiving rapturous reviews. They recently moved to CBS, whe to tantalise us with songs and arrangements Gladys has just finished a solo afbum, due for release about now. that almost (but not quite) fall into So what you will be getting for your $ 1 8 is superlative soul from a team w ho have distinct commercial categories:-for inst been playing clubs, concerts and cabarets for twenty-one years, professionals at the ance the track ‘dancing Fool’ could almost of giving the public their best. Gladys herself is one of the greatest female soul sing' make it as a single, but a cleverly sprung Nik Cohn, author o f Wopbopaloobop'says o f her, ‘Of all the Motown female singers. rhythm makes it undanceable between Gladys Knight sings the best blues.’ Charlie Gillett, in his ‘The Sound of the City', verses. says of her work with the Pips, ‘Dense, tense harmonies by the Pips seemed to box Greg Kihn Gladys Knight in, so that her sudden flights up and out were exhilerating, while und The album kicks o ff with ‘ I Have Been Next of Kihn neath the rhythm tugged and pulled.’ All this for the price of a weeks aoated bursa In You’, a tasteless and endearing dig at L36653 (thru Festival) nine singles, two albums. the Peter Frampton album, ‘I’m in You’. Joining her on stage will be the Pips, a 23 piece orchestra and a 5 piece rhythm Uncalled for? Well, the last New Zealand Greg Kihn can write very good section. This is one of those concerts it’s a joy to hear, silly to miss. Yeah, let’s saw of Frampton, he was kissing pink rock’n’roll songs. He can also write go nightclubbing. plastic tambourines and throwing them extremely weedy pap.'Next of Kihn* to a frenzied pubescent audience; perhaps strikes a balance between the two, with that’s asking for it. Next up is ‘ Flakes’, a couple of his efforts being up to the an intricate and angry piece about lazy, best in the American anglophile pop/rock greedy repairmen that includes a slick line and the others lyrically inept drawn impersonation of Dylan, singing about out selfconsciously ‘rock’ muzik. money, complete with authentically Kihn (pronounced kin) is on the ghastly harmonica breaks. You won’t hear predominately faddish Berserkly label, a the next track on radio - with a title like company with imaginative marketing ‘Broken Hearts arc for Assholes’ it ’ean’t ploys, a refreshingly left-field approach even be announced, let alone played to pop (which with them usually suffers (‘You sniff the reeking buns o f angels/ from a distinct lack of balls) and one and act as if it was cocaine’). ‘ I’m So genuine bona-fide classic album to sell Cute’ closes Side 1 with what I can only (Modern Lovers 1st). His brand of rock assume to be a Perc Ubu parody -- the can be good but is seemingly aimed at voice is anguished and tuneless, and the building up a cult following, a mugs game music spectacularly disintegrates into in any language. chaos towards the end. With a world vinyl Anyway, the curtain goes up with shortage, do we really need Pere Ubu ‘Cold Hard Cash’, machinegun drum riff parodies? leading into a short sharp 100% excellent rock’n’roll toon. Something Sides 2 and 3 arc a disappointing ragbag of tracks, ‘ Dancing Fool’ being the only called ‘Museum’, alive and with a really strong number. ‘ Rubber Shirt’, memorable hook I’ve since forgotten, a bas^ guitar and drums duct, is intriguing follows. Leading t o ...... some nicely but hardly worth ploughing through the derivative piece of waffle. Oh well. other tracks for; ‘ Bobby Brown’ and CUE.... the intro to Egyptian reggae ‘Jewish Princess’ arc tasteless without and as good a piece of epic being particularly amusing, a trap ( or per mooninjooniness as I’ve heard in a haps a deliberate paradox) that Zappa has while. Side two reaches no such heights opted for before, particularly on ‘Apost until Kihn kloscs with a guitar rophe’. 'ls Frank trying to persuade us oriented ‘Secret Meetings’. Of such that scorn is the only real emotion? I things legends are made ? Not really. Just suppose if it makes sense to compose some of the best rock/pop I’ve heard in over people’s heads (Zappa’s own claim) a while, (I think Kihn made the right then there is some validity in occasionally turning a while back when everyone ■ composing under them too. The rest of else went o ff the tracks), and some of these two sides — particularly the Icad- the ordinary. guitar-messiah indulgence of ‘ Rat Tomago’. He has a fair bit going for him; a ‘Trying to Grow a Chin’ and ‘The Sheik good band with some excellent w Yerbouti Tango’ will only appeal to drumming , some help from the produc hardcore Zappa fanatics, who would tion (Berserkly seems to find a good probably rave over an album o f Frank’s clean garage type sound for their - farts. recordings of essentially garage type Side 4 saves the set, even makes it bands type thing). BUT .... he does worth buying. ‘Wild Love’ opens the side, insist on writing these long, slow and a tightly orchestrated spng with lots of basically wet songs and I tell you good people.... the use of too many long close vocal harmonies. This breaks into words has totally destroyed my ‘Yo Momo’, a 12 minute live cut with an attention span. As I always maintain, almost symphonic feel, moving from wait for the single. Steely Dan-style verses (‘You ain’t really fame. Yes toots, famous people abound made for being out in the street/ Ain’t They scan like 'I ’ve been told there on this album, meaning zilch. much hope for a fool like you/ Cause if Adam G ifffford a tLorn in every rose/ I found out I die Now don’t think I’m prejudiced or you play the game, you will get beat’) want to know / you wrote me, I never something, but I can’t abide this LA through three interwoven melodic sections, saw you go’ or the clichesville....'gotta Night spawned now let’s have a reggae track to get a move on/ looking for a good time building in space and power to the final Planet Records PL2 (thru WEA) resolution and reintroduction of the main show we got our chops togethaaa man rockin down the highway/ I’m so glad theme. The stage announcements at the Night arc a bunch of session musicians and I know this dude lotsa coke and a you’re mine.’ Would you believe it? end of the track come as quite a surprise and suchlike who, as many of them do, real cool songo man and careful with One good thing though, the single painstaking attention to detail and flaw suddenly wake up one morning and dec the mix eugene type shit and where would ‘ Hot Summer Nights', written by Waite less playing has taken Zappa’s studio ide to go into business for themselves. California be without Neil. I don’t think Egan and a current radio joy Co-voca techniques on to the stage with more With predictably dull results. I need to talk about the playing.... as Stevie Lange can’t hold more than two clarity and precision than I have ever Of particular interest for all you pat expected not a note missed. The songs notes, the lyrics are bad and cliche ride heard before. When ya gonna tour here riots out there (wasn’t Telethon wonder though.... aah, the songs. and her vocals give the whole thing a again Frank? Huh? ful) these bozos feature Mr Billy Kristian, Chris Thompson writes the sort of Shocking Blue flavour. of Max Merritt (yes, he is related) Chuck lyrics rock is all about. Shooting fish in a Now and then these type records gc Berry and Ian Carrs Nucleus fame, and barrel time again. Most o f them are o f the gold and zinc and that sort of shit. Bu Chris Thompson, last seen with Manfred (and I almost quote) gotta gotta gotta they never overcome the uselessness of Mann of Mighty Quinn fame. They’re get me a lotta lotta lovin babe/ honey/ the exercise. The real LA (impossible on (and produced by) Richard Perry’s chick/ whore/ ‘cos I sure gotta lotta lotta Raymond Chandler) is on the B52’ssir Planet label, of Pointer sisters ‘ Energy’ etc etc type thing. Me, I’m from OngaOnga man. (the real) Adam Gifford CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 16 YHELL, MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE!!! WANTED: 4000 STUDENTS TO COMMIT ANTI SOCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR ONE HOUR. to respond to some aspects of your But I now think that grotty assessment pro Dear Dave, he State of the Union’ (June 19th). cedures, while they can be modified, arise out This fine Saturday morning, over my tea and of fundamental faults in the university itself. toast I peruse that bastion of truth and justice, ■with Roth when she claims that The university can be a fine place, a good the New Zealand Herald and see on page 3 is the issue’. It is not. I doubt very experience, and has a lot going for it. However, that a few hundred students sat down in imajority of students are racist, I it is also patriarchal, elitist, meshed economically Queen Street and that 58 were arrested for that I hope that they are not.’ into the status quo, racist, western and a whole action. This demonstration was supposed to ^ould like to think that the majority lot more — ists and — isms I can’t be bothered demonstrate to Merve, Rob and the general -tsare not racist, and I am sure that listing. In a word, a lot becomes clear about public that the student body is/was irate. :ity don’t want to be racist. In the university if you analyse it as a Great Indeed from what I can gather a vast majority 'term s, this would mean that they Colonial Hangover. of students are less than happy with the T.S.G. -[without prejudice based on racial 4000 students voted in the ‘ Roth Referendum’ ■pes: and most of us would like to be The university in New Zealand was developed on the issue that she was not (allegedly) ’;of person. However, while most of us by people who thought and spoke of Britain representing student opinion and, as we know, Ibedevoid of the crudities of bigotry, as ‘Home’. It was based on the universities of this heinous crime saw her expelled. Oh !, what -eliminated the grosser manifestations Britain, in particular ‘Oxbridge’ and Edinburgh. joy if the 4000 who voted in that referendum Jicefrom our behaviour, I think it is The subjects studied, methodology and had the intestinal fortitude to sit down for an -that we are as unprejudiced as we curriculum, were based on the Western hour or so in Queen Street. It wasn’t necessary "ke to be, because this would mean academic tradition. New Departments, when to be arrested - only 58 out of a few hundred had moved a long way outside our they have arisen, have followed in the wake of were. But if 4000 students sat down and I 000 tion. Overcoming one’s socialisation is such disciplines gaining acceptance in other were arrested in support of a matter that Li$ly difficult, even with a conscious European universities. Of latter years, the couldn’t be more representative of student li e have almost all been raised in a influence of the USA has been identifiable. opinion or closer to a student heart, wc may with a colonialist history developed However, of recent years a far stronger have made the front page and given Merv and -period of expansion based on white influence has been the economic and business Rob something to think about. I think that -istassumptions; we have been sector, as the universities in New Zealand have student priorities need reassessment and 4ted in a monocultural, dominant value striven to justify their staggering budgets by perhaps a few will be able to stop carrying the nd we have succeeded very well in a their ‘usefulness’. rest of the bludgers. Ttural education system, G.P. Bradburn ingsme to a point where I want to As to staff, NZ universities have always Students are more likely to major in physics personal to discuss the institutional. appointed disproportionately few of their and chemistry for a combination of reasons. 3 of the hypothetical personal racism own graduates to staff positions. In order to be 1. Having to study them at Stage 1 anyway. WHERE HAVE ALL THE RADICALS GONE ? ,ts, I contend that the University is a demonstrably fit for such appointments, 2. Having done well in them at school. 'tution, and any radical critique of the such graduates have been required to provide 3. Chance of going overseas - graduate scholar Dear Ed, (which, it seems to me, you are seals of approval such as postgraduate degrees, ships, jobs as ‘scientist’. Over the last three months I have seen the calling for in this and your previous preferably from high-ranking English universities. 4. Chance of joining large department staff. demise of the Student Hierarchy and the about the university) will have to deal This h as ensured that methodology and 5. Status of the subject. growth of Student interest in what the hell’s i as one of the basic issues. You are curriculum remained pure, rather than being Furthermore, of course the UK and USA happening around them. Excellent I say. For ; the same problems as were overly contaminated with a local flavour. only want a limited number which they skim the first time in three years at Varsity I start to ■in the sixties (Ah the golden years of In the Arts, Philosophy hasentiredly disregard off the top. That leaves the NZ market flooded feel that at last I have discovered that it’s good to get the adrenalin pumping round the body hatever happened to the crispy ed Maori, Polynesian or Asian philosophical with pretty good graduates in Physics and used to get before the war ?) - traditions. English has had such a stranglehold Chemistry. A few of these, the next best, arc and dare I use the word - I even feel sometimes t, workload, student apathy, that, not content with being the medium of absorbed into research and industry. The rest like a ‘radical’. I hope this is just the beginning standards, course relevance, instruction, it has been a compulsory subject become - wait for it - teachers of Physics and of a new era in student politics. I think that it’s : of education to society (reflected for many years. This has meant that, with so Chemistry. This ensures that schools maintain just what Auckland University needs to take ■levels and education budget), many students, it has become a big and these departments and emphasise them, them into the eighties. the world outside the university, and powerful department. Languages, for many especially encouraging the top stream pupils The sit-down in Queen Street was the first ;w think that these are symptoms years, meant European languages, both dead into them, thus sending along to the university good piece of action taker in years. What we .only be dealt with at the systemic and alive. The treatment of Maori language by a steady supply of eager young students of need now is a powerful executive and President the university has been itself instructive. Only Physics and Chemistry. About now the whole to realise that Students have come out of one example : Assessment. That was the tenacity of the Anthropology Department process gets a bit circular ! The university has hibernation ready to fight. But first the efew ‘problems’ identified in the late has led to its grudging acceptance: we are a number of these self-maintaining sub-systems. executive must be built up into a strong driving ichactually achieved ‘success’ in the currently witnessing the introduction of It is already true that if your parents attended force which supports a President and which 'change’. Assessment in 1979 is Masters papers in Maori. Other Polynesian university you arc more likely to attend isn’t ’split’. from assessment in 1965. It is, languages, which should also be flourishing in university yourself. If you are male you are But this must be done as soon as possible .hard to say whether it is better or Auckland at least (so much for ‘the largest more likely to attend university. If you arc before students slip back into their usual state lean safely say that present assessment Polynesian city in the world) are sidling in pakeha you are more likely to attend. With the of unconsciousness. it the originators of the change had after many years of neglect - once again via the Education cut-backs, all these things become They perceived their present assess- Anthropology Department. Ironically, Asian more probable; in fact it is quite likely that Here’s hoping, ijtion as oppressive, ineffective, and languages have had an easier passage, because soon only the children of professional people, Your local radical, ?Jy unsound, but they sought of the 'business’ aspect, which made wealthy people, will be able to afford to attend. Nigel Eilcnberys. loanon-oppressive assessment method, Japanese appear ‘useful’ for trade, and Another effect of the cutbacks will be to make P.S. Thought of standing for President, Dave ? : which was equally, or more, or presumably for explaining fishing limits. It has the university more ageist and conservative, as (I’d like to be /’resident as m uch as I'd like less oppressive. In that struggle, time taken History a long time to relinquish its fewer and fewer new appointments are made, another hole in m y head - I d) the oppressive, status quo aspect of Eurocentrism; and Geography, which directed and the staff, virtually a closed set, cling to rsity. That side had power, enhanced its attention towards local matters somewhat their jobs rather than face unemployment - ' and continuity. The 'change side’s’ earlier, suffered consequent low status. and who can blame them ? Intellectual UP HEATHER'S NOSE IN A BIG WAY I in their enthusiasm, conviction, Law, Commerce and Engineering have also stagnation, always a problem, looks like a and ability to generate mass support, presented western patterns, and despite a certainty in the next decade. As unemployment Dear Craccum, akness lay in the student lifecycle, few whirls of flirtatious liberalism, have among the ‘educated’ begins to bite, the way Once someone told me about this place called ;nt a high turnover of participants, groomed the majority of the rather conserva the patriarchy protects its own will become University, see, and how it could help me -.tinual draining of resources away from tive students they attract for their place in the increasingly clear. understand the world better and help me !e towards maintaining their side, patriarchy as handmaidens of the status quo. Maybe then, a group of the unemployed might understand my fellow man, and what makes iquo side is self-maintaining. Applying Trendy Business Administration also caters to form a co-operative to restructure the him tick and so I thought, ‘gosh’ (‘gosh’, I falternating reflection and action, it the ‘usefulness’ demand, as does the Applied university in a more just and democratic way. thought) that sounds interesting and so one day Aatreflection led to action which led Research Office. ‘The autonom y o f the university is surety not when I grew up I became a BA student on, OK. But by now a number of the ia question o f corporate privileges. Actually the (alright so perhaps I didn’t grow up) and I felt oup had moved on, replaced by others The colonial heritage is particularly clear in the w estern-style university has very lim ited proud because I was doing something that I not participated in the original Science faculty. The hierarchy of sciences, with autonom y because it is strictly bound to the wanted to do and not something that a man process, who were not always pure and physical at the top, the grubby econom ic and political order o f a class society in a black suit (with contrasting lie) has said n board very thoroughly. Meanwhile, natural science with their regrettable tendency .. Academ ic criticism and dissent cannot would get me lots of money when I graduated of the university change process was to examine the local creation some way below, becom e politically relevant as long as the and I looked around at all my money-grubbing ■ig its toll. This involved a few people and the hopeless applied social sciences at the relations betw een University and its environ fellow students and said ‘tut-tut, that’s not the ' of boards and committees: so a few bottom, was accepted and established, with m ent rem ain socially one-sided .. T h e r e f o r e , purpose of higher education’. :re developing expertise - familiarity no consideration as to the appropriateness for the University will gain autonom y only But now - and this is the scary part for all edures, relationships with key people, the New Zealand situation. Therefore every through the presence o f social forces other than those with faint hearts - ‘ Usually Silent Heather’ ^ngskills - which they did not have time science degree had to contain a little of the those actually dom inant.' tells me I should feel guilty because I am not ■«n: and they were also being divided real tippy-top science in it - physics or ' (Mario Miegge, in a paper on education and the willing to become prepackaged factory/officc/ -group by the amount of time they had chemistry. Which gave those departments a lot Italian workers’ movement) laboratory fodder !!!! 'on the committees and bodies they of students, which gave them the power of a Although I think students could play a vital Well guess what ? I don’t. I ’M DAMNED 'access to on behalf of the change side, large staff, large facilities and expensive plant part in university restructuring, I feel the lack PROUD OF THAT FACT. I have as much right me the first changes the original group and research grants (which enabled them to of continuity could work against that kind of to be here as anyone. Litappeared, none of the original group maintain compulsory status). Therefore one of participation. Also of course, students are more ‘U.S.H.’ and I arc in agreement on one point nd to evaluate them. Nor was there a NZ’s major exports for years has been some of likely to be activated around immediate issues however. That is wc should ask ourselves ‘arc ith sufficient continuity with that its most intelligent young people, packaged as whose pressure they feel directly. Furthermore, we going to do anything for this country, to group. In other words, the praxis broke ‘scientists’ - nuclear physicists, X-ray crystallo- many of them are beneficiaries of the present help others ?’ Why, just the other day this guy cause nobody predicted the effects of graphers and the like. There are not many system, and really identify with the interests I met says to me ‘When I get my degree, I’m scale on the group. Therefore the openings in NZ for people to make a career of of the winning class. gonna do something for this country to help it changes bogged down at about bombarding gold leaf with electrons. NZ does Well, Dave, this has turned into a longer letter others’. Only trouble is, thanks to the powers 3of the reflection/action alternation, not need many nuclear physicists and inorganic than I sat down to write, which just shows how that be (and a few I wish wouldn’t be) this in being developed further by an research chemists. However, the First World Craccum has got me thinking (Oh the pain but can’t afford to stay next year so its back ■praxis which could evaluate and seek does, and the classic pattern of colonial power of it !) to slicing salami in the family delicatessen. Oh well, he makes terrific coleslaw. Adjusting changes. continues. Mitzi Nairn (Craccum chocolate fish aw ard for letter of the Yours, w e e k - E d ) Lyn Holland CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 17 More Lettuce [HE SO FUCKING I LOVE THE EXEC, No. 1. GAYS IN A NUTSHELL AUCKLAND REGIONAL AUTHORITY REVIEWERS SLATED AGAIN David, dear, Dear Dave, Regional House, Dear Ed, ingthe current lev* Yet another letter.....There seems to be a I’m not gay myself, and I don’t know many 121 Hobson Street, I am writing in condemnation of the second- j by other letters popular current trend, known to the initiated, gay people. Despite this, sometime during Gay AUCKLAND 1. rate ragout that passes for critical reviewing > how many peopl as ‘ Exec. Bashing’. In fact, some people have Pride week I felt compelled to write this letter. •in the pages o f ‘Craccum’. Presumably everyo yincrease, and how gone so far as to propose a motion of ‘ No Gay pride strikes me as being a particularly BRIAN STOP THANKS FOR THE COPIES has the right to try his or her hand at f. The reason fo r ti Confidence’ in the Executive. They say that worthy cause. Gay people are perhaps the most OF CRACCUM STOP LOVED THE REVIEW reviewing - but the permanence of print entails| ll feeling a n n o y in j Exec, members are not doing their job, but I severely repressed, discriminated against, and OF DYLANS NEW LIVE L.P. STOP SHOWED certain responsibilities. Condemnation of a a hypothetical be would like to know which ones ? To the best persecuted minority in our society. They are the IT TO DYLAN WHEN HE POPPED IN FOR show, performed or exhibited, is no small jrarise in th a t some of my knowledge, all of the executive are doing most repressed and persecuted group because COFFEE LAST WEEK STOP HE SAID WHO matter, neither is obviously amateur and ill- lit,and against a rise a fine job for which they receive few thanks and they, above all others, are a group whom it is THE HELL IS THIS BRIAN BRENNAN STOP considered praise (it is possible to kill with Kople who don’t, a much criticism. still socially acceptable to shit-stir, snigger at, kindness). Not only is a rational and consider! f burden the econoi To start at the top with John Beavis, John has (perhaps even beat up) and generally give a REGARDS STOP THE LONE RANGER STOP approach necessary, but a reviewer must also jnple of the people selflessly stepped into the breach as acting- hard time to. have some command of the English language Keven the b u rs a ry ,: President, and brought a great amount of From childhood we are taught to regard and an understanding of at least the basics of tain a reasonable le maturity, experience and a sense of responsibil homosexuals as evil, twisted people often the discipline on which he or she is writing. pt, movies etc etc etc ity to the position. What a pity he cannot be found lurking in public toilets just waiting to What I am saying is that enjoyment (or any Ā LETTER FROM THE LIFE OF IVAN SOWRY loften adds up to m persuaded to stand for President, but after six molest any fresh-faced youngster headed in reaction) is not enough. [īhen there’s the lai weeks of abuse who can blame him ? John has their direction. I wouldn’t be surprised if many Take, for instance, this passage from one Dear Demerit. >, sports gear ($45 worked extremely hard over the years for the homosexuals did develop personality problems Eugenie Sage’s review of New Independent's I convey my thanks to all the students who limy test-books (1 Association (without financial renumcration) the way society treats them. In my experience production of G.B. Shaw’s ‘Overruled’ have turned out on the various Education y etc and co u ld ' and we need people like him. At the moment, however the few gay people I have met have (Craccum 19 June) — Fightback protests of recent weeks - you’re a ^ Jlivefree at hom e ( ’ in fact he is filling four posts - those of struck me as being perfectly healthy and ‘Gregory Lunn may have been afraid of his great bunch of people. And may all the ju t 6-7 dollars (av ‘normal’, perhaps a little kinder and more conscience, striving to live by his mother’s President, Administrative Vice-President, apathetic assholes who leave the work for the K|get for w orking in 1 sensitive than most. admonitions but even he was persuaded to Treasurer and Education Vice-President rest of us but are prepared to accept the p||y 6-8 weeks a yea There should be no stigma attached to being apply moral standards to one’s conduct over for which he deserves our respect and gratitude benefits of our labours be sentenced to a three «above p retty w ell gay. All that gay people want is to be accepted which we ‘have no control’ rather than to one's! Phillippa Poole is a competent and conscientious hour conversation with Merv Wellington. *alittle excess on t as individuals in their own right. Just as others person or principles.’ Perhaps there was an member who puts a lot of time and effort into Education Fightback needs people with ideas. gme with som ething have a right to be accepted regardless of their editorial or compositorial cock-up, but I her position. The same can be said of James The Muldoon Government takes no notice of the vies,plus tu itio n b ill religion or the colour of their skin. For a more suspect not. What does it mean ? Whatever, it J Gilderdale who is not only a pleasant and usual forms of protest (petitions and marches). pvery nice (!) b u t th free and caring society ! a devious way of hiding an opinion. And then likeable chap, but is also frequently seen Any novel suggestions as to how we can get pit. Ridiculous !! there is the evanescent ‘Comrade Strange’ who around the University at 7 am helping with Rob and Merv to sit up and take notice will be mtee there are o th ( Yours sincerely, words on Louis Malle’s ‘Pretty Baby’ were leafletting and all those other boring tasks no- welcomed. Just drop in at the Studass Office I,so just how m am limited to a plot paraphrase (albeit confused) one wants to do. Tom and ask to see Frank, Colin or me (Ivan). None with no credit to the film ’s creators. jitinuously being tc It seems that some students have seen fit to of us go to lectures so we’ll usually be around The cardinal responsibility in critical *de la creme o f the castigate Peter Monteith for his non- somewhere. We also want to see people from t Ed), but ju st as a reviewing is to know what you’re talkingabou attendance at bursary marches. He was elected the clubs and societies on campus. Education «into Govt for mo the second is to say it in a way that others can] as Sports Officer, not to fight education cut Fightback is for all students and student Cthe ‘working class r easily understand. New reviewers (and the backs, and he performs the job he was elected groups, so if your club wants to do something attendant new insights) are sorely needed litis also filling the p to do very efficiently and he also docs a great for education here’s your chance. Suggestions land what happens ti AT LONG LAST, A REAL LETTER FROM everywhere, and naturally they must practice. deal of work out of the public eye on things from faculty staff will also be well received. ■out that the ‘everyi THE PUBLICATIONS OFFICER But the pages of ‘Craccum’ are not a suitable like the Catering Committee, for which he A quick glance at the Association notice board place for practice; that needs to be done in j rtion of us ???? We must be commended. last Friday night confirmed my suspicion that i 77 Dear all and sundry in Craccum, private and within easy reach of a waste-paper' ten me Trank Doogan and Brian Gray have both been Mr/Ms N.O. Confidence is my only competitor I feel that it ts time that at least one of the Exec basket. If prospective reviewers do not use conspicuous on the political front, and if the for the position of EVP. It is amazing that at a Bin darkness, utive members of this Association made public their waste-paper baskets surely ‘Craccum’ amount of material thev produce is anything time when the future of education in N.Z. is once and for all their feelings on the matter of to go on, they will continue to be so. A.T. can be expected to use theirs. the recent street demonstrations on June 19 and being threatened to an unprecedented degree \only hope the Budi Toong worked very hard during the Overseas that only one nomination for this position 22 in an attempt to cease the ‘witch-hunting’ Yours sincerely, )mates announced r Students f ees campaign and continues to work should be received. An election with only one that has been going on with respect to the Winston Smith WLtter- arsehole. for the welfare of overseas students. Barry candidate is what I expect of the Soviet Union, attendance or not of Executive members at Hook similarly docs a lot for student welfare not of a participatory democracy such as these incidents. and puts many hours of his time into attending Studass purports to be. Students need an EVP Firstly, it is my personal belief that the Educ to the little day-to-day problems of students. more desperately than ever before. So my ation Fightback campaign is the most important I can’t say anything about the work of Tom nomination stands, and unless N.O. campaign undertaken as a joint venture between Bassett or Grant Ellis because I don’t know students and public for a long time. Confidence campaigns hard I’ll soon be another either of them, but I’m told that they arc at THE STUDENTS OF TODAY PAY THE Secondly, I feel it is imperative that this cam target for the Exec-bashers. least competent. All in all, the present Exec, NATIONAL SUPER OF TOMORROW paign be publicised as much as possible so that Speaking of Exec-bashers, I have been told arc a hard working group of people who are [UP A N D S E E M E we get the maximum amount of public support, that the label has been pinned on me in recent endeavouring to keep things running smoothly Dear Vege’s, as well as getting large numbers of students weeks. Well, I guess I have thrown quite a bit in a very difficult period. Just remember one I am ashamed to class myself as a student Man of the Month, involved. In this respect, I would support any of shit at Exec recently, but I consider this to thing, all of you who criticise them: - these ‘peer’ and would much rather forget the -o pure (as There legal protest which would achieve this end. We have been justified. The performance of Exec people are volunteers who give up many hours has been pretty dismal this year. I have, incident whereby an ignorant small percentage^ active females fr< cannot afford to lose ANY public support by «immunity who ha of their time because they have the sense of however, seen a marked improvement over the of you students meandered down Queen St carrying out an act which aggravates them. I frr husbands, (or e\ loyalty to their Association - and that is some last couple of weeks. It is a pity that it has (probably because you had nothing better to will not support a deliberate attempt to break thing which presently seems in short supply. do), protesting about your ‘meagre’ bursary { tence of doing a I the law, and hence will not be present at such required a petition for No Confidence in Exec How many of those who condemn them have to achieve this. allowance. When are you going to wake up and ay, what we are ac demonstrations as a demonstrator. The breaking put themselves forward for the vacant I would, of course, be under delusion if I stop being breast fed by society, you must lain about is the da of the law will not endear our cause to the executive positions so that they can provide believed that all is now wonderful with Exec or realize the consequences and difficulties you Not only do we public, and numerous comments from the pub some positive help ? We have no President, with the Union in general. It will probably impose on other people by being tied by a i es are usually or lic heard at the intersection of Queen and Well E.V.P., treasurer or Women’s Rights Officer require major consitutional changes to achieve financial umbilical cord to them. I shall atte iday periods whei esley Streets, such as ‘Serves the bastards right’, and no nominations were forthcoming for the this - possibly payment of honoraria to Exec to point out a few to the ignorant :- What we would li and ‘ juveniles like that don’t deserve to get any 1980 positions of AVP and treasurer. So what mempers and a clarification of the functions a) Why should the taxpayer be burdened with edances when it money from the Government’, substantiated about it ? and hierarchy of Exec and SRC. Even then it the responsibility of earning your living for persons travelling h this. would still be possible to get some inept half what have you done so far to earn his dances are the bes The reason for my absence from the Customs Love wit elected to Exec under the same circum confidence, what right have you got to bludge spective partnei Street ‘sit-in’ was that I had an important Susie Collier stances as I am standing (the desperate need for from him, don’t you think being a vegetable land it is hard for g exam (10%) at 3 pm that day, and at I pm P.S. I think that our secretary is not only someone to fill a position and a lack of until the end of secondary school is long I was consequently doing as much study as I lovely but it’s believed that he takes his pants competition for the position). But it is likely enough ? ratio at Aucklanc could, while having a short break from being off in trains. b) It’s your free choice to go to Varsity. If yott the majority being part of the Association activities. On reflection that more competent candidates who could know you can’t make it with your present that we should bi though, I suppose that being an Executive mem give the time required to perform their duties financial position, go and work for a year and ia at lunchtime o> ber means that one must forego all academic properly without worrying about their personal then put yourself through, working won’t kill see we have to kee| activities, and slave one’s guts out to be the study/ finance situation would be attracted you (although looking about me, I think there would be easier w leaders of the sheep. Sorry about that. and elected. The student body would also have might be some exceptions). I attended the Queen and Wellesley Street fewer qualms about rolling an incompetent c) The bursary you’re claiming has to come ( of us recently had i tar ‘sit-in’ as a liaison with the police. Having per Exec member if (s)he were paid rather than from somewhere, maybe the government will sent to DR625 C formed this duty on Pub-Crawl, I can see the working on a voluntary basis. tax the taxpayer a bit more, or perhaps you’d Id do was watch need for some Association members to be At present Exec is hampered by an inadequate prefer to tote up a few more million in our j he Dog Show’ wh DO YOU DISLIKE ALL OTHER MEDIA THERE, whether to talk to students, or to constitution and the reluctance of some of its balance of payments deficit. Another way I’m icky Fried Chicker placate the police. The senior officer in charge members to commit themselves to the student sure you’ll find just as ironical as I did, that is _ Ed) but if we h Dear Craccum, on Friday was heard to say, ‘Should put a bull cause. These individuals, fortunately a minority, overseas students get charged their $1500 n’t be chicken pie As more Janet Roth propaganda clutters the dozer through the lost of them’, and this attit are therefore warned. The No Confidence which will in turn be fed back to you, ie, your (noticed handsorm garbage cans I am moved to ask myself ude cannot be tolerated. Hence the importance motion at the upcoming SGM may be amended questions about the role of the President of to refer to them specifically. (Does this get fellow students will subsidize you to attend itybut we find it d of some Exec members to be not involved in the ithem. We wouldn’1 AUSA. - the Flackmail of the Week Award ?) university. protest but to be seen actively supporting the ring student and We don’t need a President or do we ? So how about it, apathetic students and non- Anyway, just a couple of points to note, how students themselves by talking to police and (gofor you, Eddie If ‘ No Confidence’ wins the election the committed Exec members ? Let’s pull finger , many of you are spending your last bursary then warning the protesters of the possible con lease, when times a wagcs/salary of the Presidents position could for your own sake if not for the Association’s. on furthering your education, or does a mid sequences of their actions. I stayed with Tom iderus so we don’t be donated to pay the Court fines of those It’s been ten years since Jim Morrison wrote term ski-trip or to register your vehicle sound Bassett, James Gilderdale and John Beavis up at students who are at least attemtping to act on ‘they got the guns but we got the numbers’. It’s a better deal ? itime. Central in case there were any hassles getting their beliefs on behalf of all students. All I can say is that those who marched area people bailed out. still true but were still making fuck all use of There seems to be no clear ideas on what the it. selfish and irresponsible lot, (that includes you Hope this clears up some queries on my . President or Executive should do — maybe Janet Roth, the Socialist, who’s more interested ^nt stance on this matter. I really do care, but will lesley Turnoff Gloi we need a forum on this - or a discussion in Ivan the Terrible in helping herself than society as a whole). I T " not support an Illegal demonstration. wishes readers Craccum. P.S. Apologies to John and James for the thought Varsity was meant to broaden your Ktraint it takes no Luv to you all, inaccuracy in my letter in Issue 1 5 .lt seems education !! ftive after letters / J.K. Phillippa Poole, that they were talking with the police ten P.S. I don’t like propaganda. (Publications Officer) minutes before I arrived at the station. J. Hamlin 5 -Ed) CRACCUM J ULY 10 PAGE 18 HESO FUCKING LUCKY ! ! ! ULTRA-VIOLENCE ON KAMPUS AGAIN fig the current level of bursaries, and Dear Master Merkit, I by other letters on this, I would like I would.like to take the opportunity to use the how many people really need a pages of your pamphlet, ‘Crappy’, to publicly increase, and how many even need a thank the bastard (s) who broke and .The reason for this train of thought is subsequently killed the sapling outside the am feeling annoyingly ambivalent Chemistry Block in Symonds St. iahypothetical bursaries rise. That is, I Shit, this place is enough of a hole without arise in that some people definitely do you stuffing it more !) it,and against a rise in that there are Come on, whoever was at fault, lay off the opIe who don’t, and that it would trees, eh. If you must annihilate mindless burden the economy, vegetation, send a Lettuce Bomb to Merv nple of the people who don’t need the Wellington. u j W a even the bursary, springs to mind - Me. c a K * - - ■in a reasonable level of expenditure on Thanking you, movies etc etc etc and run a bike, Malenky Bratchny ften adds up to more than 10 bucks a -P.S. Dear Dave - is it true that you think \Then there’s the larger expenditures like Carless Days is a Spanish Guitarist ?! Dear Sir, .sports gear ($450 plus lately) .... (A in ’t we smart w ith old jokes ? Have you The week before Mid-term break I put a note on imy test-books ($120 this yr), been watching the Muppets or Something - Ed) the Notice Board offering a space in my car etc and could well afford tuition down to Matamata to anyone who wanted a Jlivefreeat home (with parentals) and NOT TONIGHT JOSEPHINE lift. At that time I was under the delusion that jt 6-7 dollars (av) weekly, plus what- Dear David, I would be helping a fellow student. Jgetfor working in the holidays, A gentleman calling himself ‘Dave Williams’ Just a note to tell you about the NODDY OF 1y 6-8 weeks a year, responded and I agreed to collect him at his THE YEAR election. All this week in the above pretty well balances out, with address 198 Mt Eden Rd on Friday morning. quad, we want students to vote for the NODDY. a little excess on the savings side. This I discovered that there is no such address as They can choose from a number of candidates ^mewith something like $850 in 1 98, or 98, or 168 Mt Eden Rd. It could have including Rob Muldoon (an anagram for ,plus tuition bills paid. I admit that been 1 198 but that is nowhere near Valley Rd is ‘troubled moron’), Merv Wellington, Chris V e ry nice (!) but the point is, I don’t it Mr Williams ? Goslingr Colin Maiden and David Merritt. it. Ridiculous !! Well ‘Mr Williams’ the jokes on me and I do Voting will be with money — 10c being one vote itee there are other people like me have a sense of humour but I will be loath in and a graph will be drawn up each day to see so just how many are there ???? We future to do a good turn. -jii ^ who’s winning. The winner will receive a gilt- rtinuously being told that we are the By the way ‘Mr Williams’ with your moronic edged NODDY certificate. All the money goes de la creme of the economic community sense of humour, it was rather scraping the to the EDUCATION FIGHTBACK campaign, Ed), but just as continuously ‘we’ are barrel, do you think that Auckland University so come and vote - it is all in a good cause. into Govt for more !! Of course this - 3 ^ is the place for you - perhaps the A.C.C. the working class man’ but my concern is Love, compost dump is more your line. iisalso filling the pockets of everyone Josephine od what happens to our selflessness if it Lynnette Morris out that the ‘everyone else’ is a large tion of us ???? Well ? Can anyone NICE ONE ! ten me ?? Dear Sir, ; in darkness, I am amazed at the audacity of Chris Bilham in read the first edition of the Auckland Star, writing a letter (Craccum No 15) explaining only hope the Budget that your National May 1. It is not the first time a major newspaper how students should vote at the forthcoming 'motes announced recently makes you has been mis-informed. student elections. It would seem he has no arsehole. Ed) If the latter was the case, I am very surprised more than two neutered neurons holding hands the Bilham family, with its three-storey ivory- v between his ears if his letter is at all serious. tower in Remuera Rd, (the gutters there arc His naivety that democracy exists in this paved with gold) would allow their impression country is astounding. R.D. Muldoon and Co. able child to read the Star. are in power with a majority of less than 45% I apologise to Mr Bifham for that outburst. I of the votes cast in the last election. Democracy find myself resorting to his ill-informed tactics. ‘went wrong’ a long time before Janet Roth Perhaps some members of He Taua (here’s a took office. new name for his collection) have got out of So Janet Roth polled second to the ‘no UP AND SEE ME S O M E T IM E...... ? FOOLS RUSH GLADLY WHERE ...... the gutters of Mangere and Otara and perhaps confidence’ option. Perhaps the ‘no confidence’ he and his family do not live in Remuera. I will option on the voting paper should be changed Man of the Month, Sir, give him the benefit of the doubt. to ‘have not bothered to find out anything 1 two pure (as Theresa would say) young To Elizabeth Leyland and Paul Barton and The ‘filth ’ (He Taua) Mr Bilham refers to have about the candidate(s)’. iractive females from a distinctly distant whoever else was involved in putting ‘Two received the active support of the New Zealand Mr Bilham uses the phrase ‘she has admitted in community who have come to Varsity to Suburbs’ (Craccum 15) together. Maori Council, (traditionally the most so many words...... ’ Perhaps, instead he should lor husbands, (or even boyfriends) under What about all the bloody trendy, middle conservative group of Maori ciders), the lienee of doing a BA. have said ‘I think she stood only to ride her class restaurants in and around Ponsonby Auckland Council tor Civil Liberties, ACORD, *jy,what we are actually writing to own political hobby-horses.....’ Politicans tend SWEETHEARTS ? It’s so bad that I cannot the Auckland Trades Council (to name a few) to use seven words when two would do when 'ain about is the dance situation on tell whether I am in Ponsonby or Remuera - it’s they are not sure of their subject. and the support in principle of three Auckland Not only do we not have partners but all the bloody same; and is thus quite contrary Anglican clergymen. His choice of word would ,cesare usually on the Fridays before Janet Roth ‘indulging her obsession with to your selective photography and the therefore seem inappropriate, highly racist abortion to the full’ ? Doesn't Mr Bilham really :‘iday periods when we are returning impressions you wish to convey. and inflammatory. What we would like to suggest is that mean indulging in a policy seeking justice (is One who lives there, Ms Roth is accused of misconduct before and there any left ?) and equality for minority ave dances when it wouldn’t interfere David Tolich, after the ‘haka party incident’. It seems persons travelling home long distances, groups which have not achieved a right to Political Studies Dept. everyone but Mr Bilham is aware she was the dances are the best opportunities to freedom from social oppression, as well as trying (Tut, tut, Mr Tolich, your political underpants victim of a power struggle within the prospective partners and in a big city like to fulfill duties as student president against a are around yo u r knees. The presence o f those association’s executive and became the nd it is hard for girls like us to find a background of massive student apathy and a 'trendy, middle-class restaurants' in scapegoat of self-righteous middle-class (let’s factious executive. If she was so single-minded Ponsonby are only kept in business by trendy, bury our heads and keep the status quo) ;ratio at Auckland University is 60:40, on abortion, how was the largest forum held in middle-class Pol. Studies s ta ff like yourself students who lost sight of the real issue - why 'the majority being males, it does not this university in the last decade ever who seem to feel a p art o f the proleterian organised ? a group of people had to go to extreme that we should be sitting alone in the consciousness by living in a nice little villa, measures to stop a degrading prank. Can Ms Mr Bilham is worried about Ms Roth’s 'lack of ,-ia at lunchtime over our diabetic jellies (no doubt with a brick patio, White paint and Roth be blamed for 25 years of racist y e we have to keep our figures trim representative-ncss’. Of course she doesn’t brown trim. Drive a Citroen do we ?) You say ridicule and a century of cultural intimidation ? would be easier with a steady relation- represent the majority of students on this i t ’s all the same - do you mean to im p ly that campus. When has an AUSA President ever, But Mr Bilham has something of value to say there are no rich and no poor people in this to us, though it is nothing new to state ‘the been able to truthfully claim this ? Until now, ofus recently had a birthday, (Presents country ? How many Polynesians do you see real culprits in this whole sad (and those sent to DR625 Craccum) and the best no one seemed to be too worried that the ‘no living in Remmers, darling ? How m any saunas/ crocodile tears ?) affair arc.....the nine confidence party’ has been the strongest group aid do was watch ‘Offerings’, ‘Blind Love’ Ihousand or so students who couldn’t be pools/Jags/$200,000 houses/Private schools/ during student elections. he Dog Show’ while we nibbled our are there in Ponsonby. Tish, tish. / suggest that bothered to vote last year.’ You are right, Half way through his letter, Mr Bilham moves cky Fried Chicken (Rat more bloody you get o ff your comfortable little bum and Mr Bilham, though you don’t know it. Student J- Ed) but if we had a choice it from being a naive fool to an obnoxious racist your well paid job in the University to go walk apathy is the epitome of our society where wc Vt be chicken pieces we’d nibble at. while still retaining an incredible ability to be on the wild side o f life for a while, just don't all worry about getting on with our own lives un-informed. If he had stopped to think, before noticed handsome young men around and to hell with anyone else who cannot keep talke about it but actually visit Porirua, Otara, displaying his ignorance, he would have Pbut we find it difficult to inter-relate Mangere and then go to y o u r seemingly so up in the rat-race. Wc can’t be bothered and 'them. We wouldn’t even say ‘no’ to an realised that, if indeed, a group of precious Remmers, Epsom, Khandallah. Tm wc don’t want to know unless it affects us. rring student and we’re so desperate we ‘Stormtroopers from the gutters of Mangere surprised that the Pol. Studies Dept even keep Then we react by seeing someone to blame. 'go for you, Eddie, and Otara’ (sic) were involved in a premeditated you on if you're still so politically naive to The Kiwi Conspiracy strikes. e, when times are set for dances, attack with weapons’ then, I suggest, the believe in the 'great classless New Zealand’ My humble advice to Chris Bilham is to *rus so we don’t go-home empty-handed families of at least half of the engineering m yth. / thought people stopped believing that occasionally read between the lines of his [time. students’ social group would now be mourning ages ago - Ed) for their little darlings. newspaper, be more careful with his choice of words and instead of urging thousands of Does Mr Bilham know the name of only one people out of their complacency, make a start ;nt and Secretary, gang in Auckland or did he put the names of all himself by becoming better informed before ;ley Turnoff Glory Box Association the gangs he could think of in a matt black he writes on a subject he knows so little about, ’ wishes readers to know ju st how much helmet and run a lottery ? ‘The lucky gang gets otherwise he may find the people he wants to traint it takes n o t to write anything to be named in my letter’ (??) Perhaps he only kiss his arse may end up kicking it. tive after letters like this. Good luck -Ed) Yours without hope Peter Boyle CRACCUM JULY 10 PAGE 19 kland University I g b U C X T tO N [ fL FGHTSACK | FINES SB t §§ Rock Series 1 Q I Wed. tL July - Toy L ove 1 ith e h a id n e n t Wed. IS July ~ Appa loosa 1 lu es, ZH- Ju ly - Head O ver Heels 1 ! . ® ii f t - S O 1 M A tP M Ē N T F*? ” 1 THEATRE ® wtp if ^ > t e \ I X p jn . 1 [uncht»ne W yS\ ~f re.cooYnsxj ■ TELEVISION @ne 'UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE' MEMBERSHIP OF AUCKLAND'S TEAM FOR 1979 IS OPEN TO ANY STUDENT WHO HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY APPEARED ON TV IN "UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE". FILMING OF THE PROGRAMME WILL TAKE PLACE IN DUNEDIJNI FROM 15-20 AUGUST ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSPORT PROVIDED AND PAID FOR BY TELEVISION ONE. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT THE WINNING TEAM MAY REPRESENT NEW ZEALAND IN THE U.S.A. 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