CRACCUM, VOLUME 49, ISSUE 11 FACULTY FROLICS STAFF ■ SI SEX SW AP SHOCK RESIGNATIONS EXPECTED PROF TELLS ALL imagined reward, students have meekly This is no cut-aRd-dried scheme. I want become State servants, drawing a Govern­ to meet explorers - and to bring explorers SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING ment salary. What’s independence together to meet each other. demosthenes, compared with 13 bucks a Please get in touch. The Auckland University Students’ week ? The Government will now seek to Dick Southon, Association is calling a Special General strengthen its control over students either P.O. Box 6482, Meeting to be held in B15 on Thursday 19th at 1 p.m. individually ("He who pays the piper....” ) Auckland. or corporately through tighter supervision of the Universities. The meeting will consider the following One is reminded of the fable of the dog constitutional amendments: tftid ite with the meat in its jaws which saw its reflection in a pool; thinking to swap what TH AT Clause 10A (III) of the Rules be SQUATTERS NEEDED FOR RENT it had for something larger, it dropped amended to read :- what it was carrying, only to lose this for STRIKES Editor - Mike Rann an illusory benefit. The relevance of the "A t any General Meeting, one hundred story should be apparent Every week now there are rent strikes (100) members present shall form a Technical Editors - Malcolm Walker taking place in Auckland. Tenants present quorum and if such a quorum be not and Jeremy Templar. (signed) "Mother of Seventeen” a list of demands to their landlord and in­ present within thirty (30) minutes of the form him that he will receive no rent until time appointed for the meeting, no busin­ Advertising Manager - Paul Gilmour he brings their house up to a habitable ess may be discussed or dealt with and the standard. The rent is paid into a bank meeting shall lapse and further, if it be Reporters - Rob Greenfield, Brent Lewis 3 account until the landlord meets the de­ pointed out to the Chairman that there mands. are less than one hundred (100) members Photos - Murray Cammick, John Miller, Dear Mike, Eventually most landlords back down present and if the Chairman*on making I was favourably impressed by our lat­ Tony Dummett. and have the necessary repairs done. How­ a check, finds this to be the case, the est issue. The stories were nicely laid out ever before this happens many landlords meeting shall lapse” . and self-contained..... good for people and land agents try to bully tenants and like me who clip and file. In fact, the whole TH AT the Second Schedule Clause 13 of threaten them with eviction, sometimes format was more attractive than I remem­ the Rules be amended to read :- going to the lengths of moving furniture ber Craccum being for several years. outside and using standover tactics to back The content of the stories was substan­ Nominations for the positions of President, up their threats. With outside support ten­ Dear Mike, tial and the writing style of high quality .... Administrative Vice President, Welfare ants can resist these threats and there have I share with Graeme’s observation on again, better than anything I’ve seen for a Vice President and Treasurer shall close on been very successful rent strikes lately. seeing boarding notices soliciting for long time. Good selection of topics, too. The harassment of tenants is most likely the last Friday preceeding the mid term Malaysian students. However to make a Let me offer my congratulations for a to occur during the day when landlords break of the Winter Term. decision as to whether such notices contra­ first rate job, and my hopes for more. know that only a woman and children, or vene the Race Relations Act, one must A few minor caviats. perhaps no one at all, will be at home. place the intention of the advertisers in a (1) The excellent item on the Labour TH AT the Second Schedule Clause 14 of Therefore, People’s Union would like to proper perspective. While it is fair to say Party and its contrasts to the National the Rules be amended to read :- that not all Malaysian students enjoy good ask students who are available during the Party ("Our cabin boy..... ” was unsigned. impression among New Zealanders, the week at various times to put their names I’d like to read more by that person. The elections for such positions shall be majority of the students share a reputation on an emergency list to be contacted when (2) Those of us who have worked for two held on the Thursday and Friday of the as being good tenants. squatters are needed to support families years to invite, host, and pay for the visrt second week following the mid-term break This aside, many New Zealanders do who are standing up to rack-renting land­ of Dr. Norman Alcock, that is, we in the on the Winter Term. have an overflowing hospitality (or curio­ lords who do no maintenance. N.Z. Foundation for Peace Studies, would TH AT the Second Schedule Clause 17 of sity, whichever you’d like to call it) towards Please ring 765-231 or come round to like to have seen slightly more note of his the Rules be amended to read these students. And I believe most advert­ our office at 15 Ponsonby Road. visit than "D r Alcock, touring N.Z. to help isers have such intention fully in mind. Thanks very much. promote the Peace Studies programme ...” Nominations for positions other than those I personally agree that the wording PEOPLE’S UNION Could the name of the sponsoring body of the officers as specified in Clause 13 ‘Chinese-Malaysian Students Only Should be mentioned, or the fact that his primary above shall close on the Friday of the third Apply’ does appear somewhat disappoint­ purpose here was to deliver the First Nor­ ingly discriminating. I sincerely don’t be­ COMPETITION week after the Mid-Term break man Kirk Memorial Peace Lecture ? Well, lieve it as intended to be racist. Graeme too late now, a^nd your coverage of the Robert Solez presents the first annual can certainly be rest assured that any in­ substance of his message was quite good "BOGUS LETTER TO THE HERALD HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN tention in promoting racism through such and better than any other paper’s save the notices will win immediate distaste from CONTEST”. “ Star” . Thanks. Applications are being called for the pos­ among the cosmopolitan Malaysians. And ition of House Committee Chairman for certainly it is not the policy of MSA to 1. The Contest runs until the end of Steve Hoadley, the Auckland University Students’ encourage such racism. Term II. NZ Foundation for Peace Studies Association. Nomination forms are avail­ Regards, * 2. Contestants must send a copy of their and able from the A U SA office. J.H. Chew, letter to R. Solez, Senior Lecturer President, c/- Craccu m, Political Studies Applicants are to attend the next S.R.C. A.M.S.A. A.U.S.A., Private Bag, meeting where the appointment will be Auckland. made. 3. Prizes. 1st - an LP record voucher 2 2nd - a 2nd hand Nominations should be in sealed envelope 3rd - one authentic Buddy addressed to the Association Secretary and Dear Sir, A Holly and The Crickets 45. accompanied by a photograph, and brief ! When the battle’s over, and the mist is Dear Sir, biographical details and a policy statement, I cleared, and the rabid furor has-subsided, At a recent seminar in University prem­ 10 Consolation Prizes of close on Friday 20th June, 1975 at 1 p.m. \ it is meet to count the casualties. I am of ises a lot of well-meaning people climbed course referring to the Government’s grant Bogus Congratulatory letters from on to a brand-new bandwaggon called the Nominations are being called for the of a cost of living bursary. Those who are H.R.H. Rob Muldoon New Zealand Foundation for Peace Stud­ positions for President, AVP, W VP and first shall be last, and those who are last ies (leader, John Male) and regaled each Treasurer. Nomination forms are shall be first, ancient wisdom informs us. 4. Judges decision will be final and no other with a great many words. available from the A U SA Office. And so does the Government. Much more was said about the need for correspondence (other than from desir­ The cost-of-living bursary is a modern able young ladies) will be entered into. peace than about the need for serious pro­ Nominations should be in a sealed envel­ Trojan horse, hauled into the city despite perly-conducted study of it; and nothing 5. All entrants will be given 10% discount on membership fees for T.K.S. ope addressed to the Association the sage advice of clearer heads. “ O Miseri at all about the need to get past the popu­ quae tanta insania cives ? Timeo Danaos Secretary and accompanied by a photo­ lar assumptions that hold so many people graph , and brief biographical details et dona ferentis.” quoth Raocoon - or back from studying it properly in the first roughly translated, "You blockheaded JOYNT SCROLL - INTER-UNIVERSITY and a policy statement, close on Friday place. 20th June, 1975 and elections will be bloody students ! What the hell are you DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIPS The result was that a lot of well-mean­ held on 21 and 22 July, 1975. doing ? Beware of Finance Ministers, esp­ ing people are committed to furthering ecially those who claim to do you favours!” well-meant propositions based on unten­ Thursday 12th June at 1 p.m.