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THE V.QM. NEWSPAPER Registered at the C.P.O., Brisbane, for transmission by Ettabltthcd In 1932. post as a periodical. Friday, 23rd February, 1962 Volume 32 — Number 1. PRESIDENT N.U,A.U.S, MEN VISIT SOVIET CENSURED The first delegation of Australian students ever to visit Russia left Sydney on January 17 to spend four weeks in Russia studying university conditions. It LHSgrGCB on rVclCOttlQ endeavoured to increase the contacts between Russian and Australian students.
Freshers Welcome will this year be held at Cloud- , Two university students Russia were an Exchange throughout t h e world," land on Friday, March 2nd, and there will be an from Sydney and one from Scheme so that Russian he said. "N.U.A.U.S. is admission charge of 4/-. ' Melbourne comnrised IKP Students can come in large completely non-political, * ' • ^^iDourne cwnpnsea the numbers to Australia and and this delegation is in Sxfueafi6. Behind this simple balls, e.g., the Arts Ball.' delegation, lliey were Australian students go to r e t u r n for a visit by statement of fact there How then can the Union' Stephen Wilson (24), a Russia at minimum ex- Russian students to Aust- and lies a very interesting possibly justify Its desert- i law student at Sydney Uni- Pense. ralia in 1961." story which does little ing its own premises for versity Denis Baxter (11) Their expenses while In credit to many of the the wholly unsatisfactory ,^„''V p,„f„^^ "', p n, ' Russia were met by the (N.U.A.U.S. News Release) people concerned, least of Cloudland? I Iso" of trorcssor j. r. oax- soviet Government; in all to Mr. John Besley, the Since the Council did ter, Vice-Chancellor ot the addition small grants were President of the Union. appoint a convenor of j University of New South made by N.U.A.U.S. and the It would seem that any Charlatan can make a quick Last year Union Council Freshers'Welcome [ (Regu- Wales) an Architecture Australian Government. On Wednesday, February H, ten quid out of the "Bulletin". adopted as policy a motion lation 13C 1(a)] It was the . studen^H,rlf.r,'\tt at- thtU^e Universit i ir..wpr<:,fy „o f ( ^^^^The ^^^niselvesrest the . delegates the Finance Advisory Com I understand that the article sponsored by Miss Coralie obligation of the E.S.C. to mittee met to discuss the ) 952 Jones, the Secretary of the do so and this was not New South Wales and ^^^^g ^ ^^^^^ ^^^ recently published on the con Entertainments Standing done until an emergency leader of the delgation delegation and a spokes- Union Budget. The balancing troversy over the Thai external Fv°!?"l\^,^l.i°.JBf„ S! Sill*l"X ,°/ of f^W5'I Tony Staloy (22), a fiaal man said that there" were of the Union's Budget is always student was written from Mel that all orientation func- February 14. By this tim"e i ""',r;'";' dV""'\" u7 nif nolftical^^mDUcItfonTln ^^^ught with problems as large bourne by someone who has tions. held on Union pre- Cloudland had long been I y^'"' law student at Md- "« Pf^^^X S^^^^^^^^ sums of money are involved not been to Brisbane for some mises, shall be free. The booked and advertised as bourne University. i.Vc; , aeiegauon w ^^^ ^^^^ ^^n^ ^^ ^^^ U^.^,^ ,3^ time. He was paid ten pounds ideal of having all orlen- Jhe venue. But it had been -r^n r.>nrp«^nt-.tiV-r5 ,.f ""^"*- , . , exceed the finance available, for something lifted almost tation functions free could booked by the President! . '•^1° rcprescntamcs ot "We have a large mter- The Honorary Treasurer, Mr. bodily from "Sunday Truth". not be adopted because of who as an ex officio mem- I the New Z,caland Univer- national programme each A. Court, will present this , the impossibility of pollc- ber of E.S.C. has no more sity Students' Association year and send out many budget to the Second Meeting Some one ought to grab the ing the rule. The Medical power than any other and' comDietcd the dclecation delegations, especially in of the 51st Council to be held "Bull-tin" by the Donald Society, rightly, Incurred certainly no right to act of ^ " " the Asian area, but our in the J. D, Story Council Homes. Council'ing for s entrwraty h tob yit chargs 198- 1 his own accord in this; Among the projects that aim is to maintain friendly Chamber on Thursday, March Freshers' Welcome. How, matter. For this alone he j the delegation discussed in relations with students 1st. then, can the Union pos Moreoverdeserves , hstrone informeg censured the, i sibly justify its own ad unofficial meeting of E.S.C. i mission charge? (in January) that if they < A "Scmpar" reporter re This fv/ictfon was held decided against Cloudland '• cently observed to his cost very successfully in 1961 the Executive of thei that the bus fare from the city in the new Union Building. Union would itself re- ' to the University is now 1/5. Any objections then valid book that ballroom. This; This, he says, v/otks at 14/2 are now non-existent, the ihreat Is completely un-; EXAMS. MYSTERY per week for the average main one being damage to justified; there Is simply^ student. "Semper" reminds floors by ashes, etc., car- ro provision In the regu- readers that despite this, the rled In from outside. The lations for this. A sub- i Whatever else, one thing must be said for Briefly it was this: A Thai Lord Mayor IMr. Jones) re Union was built largely as committee or s t a n d I n g ,,- , - ^, „ ...... external student was, in fhe mains a member of the Univei- the centre for the sonal committee of council is Sunday Truth —it sometimes, in its own sen- 1960 examinations granted a sity Sports Union. "My God, pass, whilst the examiner how the money rolls in, rolls JSetWo'SToSrhar.Q, . l ^T5feVe"att''aS!,':"•"••"" ^y^^'-S" «»•> »"« '"V interest- noted poor writing, poor com they been scattered — too scope of the Executive as • ing and facenal material. Recently it stated mand of English, and a barely long had they tolerated laid down in Regulation 3, ( . • adequate familiarity wifh the poor venues. Many outside was completely outside the i st'*'''5'y» a matter of some interest to students. subject. The same student's bodies hire the Union for (1-7), papers in 1960 revealed good I Prof. F. J. Schoncli, English, copperplate script with A Borstal for dogs was re I Vice-chancellor. no sign of haste and know cently established in England ledge of modern U.S. methods i Dear Sir, and it has been claimed by i of accounting, not dealt with. the management that already Obviously you aro quite aware of the fact that a in the course. E.S.C. Failed Brisbane Sunday newspaper ha.s recently featured in its many anti-social dogs have news columns a story which allcpcd some malpractice been cured of their reprehens There was In addition has no power to do this; It was decided to fail the ible habits. I am sure that all In the J961 cxaminatioiw. This, ns you realise, implicated student on these great sus strong disagreement be- so much Is clear. an anonymous Asian student studylnK externally. The postmen will approve. tween the orientation It is reported that Miss picions. However, the Dept. of What possibilities this newspaper concerned .stated that when confronted with External Affairs would have • directors on this matter. Coralie Jones resigned these allegations and others implying pressure brought offers! Such corrective institu When the E.S.C. met on from the position of ES.C. none of this, as fhey main tions could well be opened for to bear by the Conimonwcalth Department .of Kxto"rnal tained that the Thai Govern- ' Wednesday, February 14, Secretary as she had Affairs, you declined lo make any eornment. In addition all types; errant atomic- the general feeling was threatened when the ment would regard it as a bombers and naughty unionists the paper haa reported considerable dissatisfaction on slight to the country since the that Cloudland should be President interferred so the part of many of the academic staff. who won't pay to have Com maintained for a number autocratically In this student was the son of a high munists come herp. But to This Is an important matter and obviously Is of of reasons, although most manner, government official. Since then begin with let's all agitate for great Interest to students who are naturally concerned at agreed that the Union was "Semper" has no perso- there have been reports of con a Borstal for Bob, I'm sure any evidence of irregularity In exaniinations. the better venue. The flrst nal quarrel with any of siderable friction between aca-; Brendan Behan would support of these was that If the the members of the E.S.C. Accordingly I invito you to, make a statement to demic and administrative staff the scheme, or at least drink booking were cancelled the but warns that It expects "gempcr Floreat" for publication in the forthcoming including a noisy altercation in ;t o its success. Union would loose Its good the E.S.C. to act as a re- issue of Ifeb. 22. The administration has an obligation to an hotel. No one at the uni reputatlon with the sponsible body, appointed j the students on this matter versity—or for that matter in ; management of Cloudland by Council, and that its Sincerely Youra, Dept. of External Affairs— memoratlon Ball. The decision should be In the John Carmody (Kditor). could be induced to comment. ; who might refuse to accept best Interests of the U.Q.U. a booking for the Com- This one was not, likewise Dear Mr. Carmody, All of this naturally in The following four plays second was that the neither the E.S.C, nor any Thank you for your lettei- o( 3 3 inst. terested "Semper", so thei were recently being performed President should not be other committee can ex- The Staff Association has not yet considered the letter reproduced below was in London: "Lady Chatterley", embarrassed since It was pect any quarter from newspaper article you mention and conscfiuently I can sent to the Vice-Chancellor' "The irregular Verb to Love", his wish to use Cloudland "Semper" If regulations not make a statement for Semper Floreat. and essentially similar ones to "Guilty Party", "Wildest the Staff Association and the' Dreams", and " 'lis Pity She's for Freshers' Welcome, are agabi violated or Yours Sincerely, Professor of the Department': a Whore". and be had made the duties left unattended, J'^lnticnn, concerned. The replies could booking. This Is kowtow- Mr. Ken Bowes (Hon. rrcshlent. hardly have been less inform There is no truth in the Ing to the President and Sec, U.Q.U.) told a "Sem- v. of Q. Staff A.ssociatlon. can only be vigorously per" reporter that much ative as you can judge for, rumour that this feast resulted yourselves. in a massive influx of immi condemned. The E.S.C. of the earlier action on Mr. J. Carmody, grants which could be halted should have had the fortl- the matter had occurred Editor, i onfy by a Commonwealth tude to stand firm on Its when he was 6n leave" of Semper Floreat, In other words, "Semper" is i Immigration Restriction Bill. rights and obligations and absence for examinations, not satisfied. Surely it would | Dear Mr. Carmody, "llait to Thee blithe Semper, refused to abdicate Its On his return he had do no one any harm to deny Thank you for your lotter and for your invitation Katt Thou never aert . . ." rights to the President. In attempted to have the everything if the whole story is; t« contribute to "Semper". 1 do not propose to niaku addition, the committee position sorted out and the false. On fhe other hand il it j any further statement upon this nmttcr. feared that the Executive regulations abided by. He is true our interest can only. would over-rule a decision had always opposed the Yours sincerely, quicken. This interest Is legiH- i in favour of the Union Cloudland booking, Fred J. Schonell, mate. We have a real right to '• buildings. The Executive Vlce-Chnncellor. know the facts. Sxfudette PAGE 2 SEMPER FLOREAT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962 Semper Floreat Editorial STUDENT HEALTH Medical Den tal CALL A HAIT The University provides for your benefit a free health Students—why le* financial problems ruin your teeth? service. The medical officer may be consulted by apfxaintment, HERE are many things which demand saying and his rooms are situated In the lower floor of the Union As well as having medical treatment available to recreation block. You are encouraged to make use of this students through the Student Health Service, dental treat although they irritate most of the people who hear facility for any type of medical or personal problem about ment is available at the Dental Hospital, Turbot St. Tthem. Ours is a society which prefers "tact" and which you would like advice, and arrangements can be made for further tests or treatment. The services, given by graduate dentists, are avail "mantters" to frankness; a society which prefers Students who suffer fronts any type of handicap which able free to alt students over the age of 21 (however, silence to any annoyance resulting from a firm state may influence their studying efficiency are particularly advised all gold work has to be paid for). The remainder of to make contact with the medical officer. Routine medical students, under 21, can obtain treatment, the fees of ment of fact; a society which denies the phrase, examinations are not compulsory, but it i« worthwhile to which vary depending on their parents income (i.e., a "Great is truth, and mighty above all things". This arrange for a cheek-up if you have never been medically means test is applied.) ,.;• examined. Other preventive measures available include immu University professes to accept this ideal since it has nisation against various diseases, chest X-rays, skin tests for Although work is done by graduate dentists, students, inscribed It in the stone of the Main Building, and T.B., and eye tests. if Ihey so desire, can have their teeth attended to by dental Semper Floreat" also accepts. Never has it been, and A consultant psychiatrist will make regular visits to the students at the (Cental College, Turbot St.—such work Student Health Service this year, with the ofaiect of providing being done under strict supervision. never oughl it be Semper's policy to refrain from diagnostic advice for students referred by the medical officer expression on the grounds that this may be unpopular or fhe student consellors. This is a new facility In line with Any student desirous of these dental services should the accepted procedure in overseas universities, which reflects apply in person at the inquiry desky. Ground Floor, Dental or resented. the importance placed upon the prevention of serious emotional Hospital. disturbancs by early diagnosis and treatment. Students are reminded that they may be covered by As it is hoped eventually to establish a Dental Service This University is too large and there are far family medical benefits subscriptions, If they are vrhotiy at St. Lucia, the numbers of students attending the Dental too many being admitted to it, year by year. dependent, until the age of 24 years; this includes those on Hospital will help warrant such a student facility. most types of scholarship or fellowship. It is worth checking So, unrepentantjcy, I declare that many of you to make sure of your status in this regard; individual medical Maurice J. Coiello, benefits subscriptions are strongly advised for those not other "freshers" simply ought not to be here, lacking as wise covered. Pentittry Councillor. you do not only the intelleciuai ability to cope with and profit from a university education, but also the intellectual curiosity and eclecticism to expand the PROLONGED ADOLESCENCE FOR STUDENTS rather circumscribed horizons of your minds. • Universities are concerned • It is difficult to say with • A study undertaken by R. I • The explanation is largely not only with the brain of the any exactitude what the pre W. Parnell on the morbidity I that the university encourages At a university one should do more than simply student but more and more valence of mental disturbance I of students in Oxford showed prolonged adolescence. Students with his whole person. A Ger is among students. However, ' that, during the years after the remain in what amounts to gobble up facts like a hungry animal; a worthwhile man doctor who works in a in universities that have an i war, the suicide rate among tutelage for long years of study student has something to offer his fellows and can university medical service put efficent ca^-finding system I students was 11 times higher before they can fulfil the role it this way recently: "The i as well as treatment possibili I than in the general population I of adults and achieve social contribute in some way towards an intellectual atmos students I treat will become • ties in which students have i between the ages of 15 and I maturity. Economically they phere within the university. A person unwilling to teachers, doctors, lawyers, j confidence, the percentage of j 24. Of 145 students who I remain dependent, which often judges and perhaps even! psychiatric treatment may be ' dropped a term because of ill- I prevents them from marrying do this is a liability and has no place here. When chancellors. I don't want them i as high as 20. ; ness, over 50% did so because and from reaching sexual the number of students exceeds the optimum, as it to be too neurotic." 'i of mental illness. ' maturity. does here, opportunities are limited and the valuable students lose their chances to benefit by greater attention from .ind mixing with the academic staff. WIDER EDUCATION This, too, is otie of the great advantages of the good WRITE FOR US university. "Semper", being the news When submitting copy' This year the Union is Johnstone (Art), Pryor paper of the Union, i.e., of remomber: j planning to produce the (Classics), Lisner '(Ballet), all the members of the Union, • Type it if you can; at | best series of lectures so Richards (Press), and Dr. is the better for being cos least write legibly; far given. Plans have been Tonge (Forensic Medicine) In addition, quite apart from these more idealistic mopolitan. This is very hard • Write on one side of tho made to sponsor one lec and Miss Joan Whalley considerations we arc rather forcibly confronted with to attain simply because there ture every Thursday at 1 (Drama). are few with an interest in paper only; 1.15 p.m. The venue will i Fill in your empty lunch very practical financial ones. This University is, by the paper. In a practical way I • Send it In early Queensland mass, and rendered quite ineffectual. There is scarcely announced his engagement students. They came from a greater tragedy in any University. We arc descend to Miss Elizabeth Blaydes US.A., Germany and East (an Arts graduate of Syd ing to the very low level of our unimpressive ney). Mr. Ken Bowles who ern Bohemia (letters in community. compiled the experimental Czech and Russian). Any one who is interested I don't know, mate—these freshen look younger Issues wishes to express How do you stand? his apologies to Miss ought call at Union Office every year. Blaydes and Mr. Horowitz, for all details. SEMPER FLOREAT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1962 PAGE 3 POETS 'CORNER? ''"TSE'lior:!" One For The Books The Editor would be glad to he in a position to tnake a "Poets' Corner" a (Mr. Harrison Bryan, M.A.) cataloging as they arrive all the materials use the Library, purely in your own for tho whole system and carefully record Interests, we do ask that you be patient regular feature of "Semper" Apart from It is certainly possible to have a ing the location of each Item. with our shortcomings. library without a University, but no one the fact that this would help student has managed yet to have a University TRAINED STAFF SIMPLE RULES writers by presenting tlieir work to without a Library. Secondly, trained staff arc available at You will be required to conform to a fellow students, a paper which claims to James Bryant Conant, one ot the the Main Library und nt the larger branch few .simple rules of library u.se. These arc be somewhat belter than the daily press, leading educationalists of our age has libraries to help yoti in every way short dcslprncd to protect the Interest;; of the vast «f actually reading books for you; or, mniurfty of genuine nnd rcuAonably cthicnl and we hope, somewhat less ephemiral, put it this way with reference to his except In most unusual ra.ses, holding your own University, Harvard, Bald President students ugalnst tlie Inevitable minority nt ought to concerti itself with poetry as it Conant in effect, the whole of the Har hand while yon read. selfL^h and un.soruputous "book hogs." does with music, books and the like. vard staff could leave and become "SJ*. Now what kind of reading will you have Three things above all arc worth re bookies", all Harvard's imposing brick to do? (And may wc in the Library membering about the Library. Remember This is an invitation. buildings could disappear in the holo express the hope, parenthetically, that this that since the library is there for your caust of atomic war, all the students is not the same as asking what kind of use we cannot tolerate your misuse of It. even could perish from German measles reading will you want to do!) This wilt or hydrophobia; but so long as the four Uememtoer to ask for help If you need It; vary a lot from course to course and from the library staff are anxious to assist but TOOWONG SCHOOL OF and a half million books in the Wldener year to year. During Orientation Week they will not know your troubles till you Library were preserved then the Univer and at other times you will be reminded spill them. Remember, please, that if you sity could and would rise Phoenlx-like that the great break in changing from have complaints or criticisms the library MOTORING from the ashes. .secondary school to University Is that you win do its best to meet them, but again nre no longer "taught" In the formal sense. It must know and would Uke to know first This may seem a tall order to some In some cases this means only that you STUDENTS! students making their flrHt acfjuaintanoe and not at second hand, via lecturers or will still be told tiiitijrs and then left to "Semper Floreat" or even "Truth". with the University. And thetr aceptlclsni decide whether or not to Icam them. In may be strengthened by discovering that others you will find, almost immediately, Your Ubary Is costing we taxpayers about LEARN TO DRIVE the University of Queensland does not have that you are no longer told anything but £120.000 this year. This is a cheap enough a Library of four and a half million books, are given certain leads towards making price to pay for giving the University a and that the Library does not happen to up your own mind about Ihem. Generally heart which, as President Conant pointed be the most imposing building on the St. speaking, the more you advance in a sub out. will keep on beating even if the limbs Phone : 7 1758 Lucla site. ject the less you are "spoon fed." in any are amputated. But it Is money down the sense. A/Hr$.: 7 4484 A little reflection, however, will remind drain as far as your parents are con us that University people, inu.st live by cerned if you do not make some use. any How do you set about making up youi use. of It. Course - £6/10/- books, even If they do not neces.wrily live mind about those things? You read about by the book. Their profession \s know them. In your textbooUs. In the books rc- ledge and knowledge In this super-nmrkcf. commonded by your lecturers, and in any self-service age conies neatly packaged in others you can find that st^eni to bear oa books. The lecturer who must keep up to the subject. Then you argue with youv date In his subject, the roscarcU worker friends about them. The University library anxious to know what is being done in his exlst.T juat to make thl.s process possible. field elsewhere In the world and what U enalilp.s you, in the full traditional sense others have done before him, even the of the word, to I'cad for a degree. unfortunate student; all theso are «prved by, and yet in .some sense are slaves to, Look - this is the printed word. OPPORTUNITY The Library, liowever, offers you more PROCESSED KNOWLEDGE than this. It may exist primarily to serve YOUR BOOKSHOP! stuff and students In this bualnoas of gif But there really is a very liirRC amount ting and begetting knowledge In the fields of thia processed knowledge about and. of the degree courses or the research being like the food market again. It nei w Part of if, wherever SMhr by reading outside your own narrow IHl ONLY BOOKSHOP IN QUimiAND THAT SPECIAUSiS \N i'itid. You witl inevitably spend most of you go in the Univenity. In more than your life in your small corner but we will EVERY REQUlREmUT fOR STVDEHT STUDIES thirty different places; at St. Lucia, at Her all be a lot safer if you have at least a ston, at George Street, at Turbot Street and rough idea of what goes on in mine. af William Street there are branch libraries A cordial welcome awaits you at your own ultra-modern anrf service points. All these have books and SOME STATISTICS Bookshop, whore courteous highly-trained staff will gladly assist periodicals that your lecturers and you will Now to concltidc with some statistics. you in oil your enquiries and tcquircmonts. need to do a reasonable job as studenH. We said earlier that we do not have u great library. But tlmt is no reason to The UN/VMS/ry BOOKSHOP stocks all your requirements Within reason all the items In any of feel unduly ashan^ed of the Library wc do under the one roof. TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS, these librarle-s are available to you wher- havo. By and large you will find, aa STATIONBItY. INSTRUMENTS OR APPARATUS. ever you nmy bo in the iiniverslty. This undergraduates, that there are hooks i« possible hecau.se the Main Library at enough In it already to keep you busy. .St. Lucla acts as a nuelcu.s. ordering and There are In fact more than a quarter of Whatever your Faculty, Agriculture, Arts, Architecture, Den a million and they are being added to at tistry, Economics, Education, Engineering, External Studies, Low, the rate of more than 160 each day the Medicine, Physical Education, Physiotheraphy, Science, University is open for business; one new New Art Centre book, tliat Is, every three minutes or so Vcteiinory. Hiat vou spend at lectures or in the I'nion Harvard Vtiivcrs'tty has commissioned 111 the laboratory or in the dissecting room, ALL FACULTIES ARE CATERED FOR ! Le Corbtisier with the construction of^ oar oven in the Library or one of its ttcw Art Centre. Apart from exhibition braufhes. rooms, the jive-storey btiilding will also Depending on your field of study, or incUide ivork rooms, studios, and the your extra-study interests, you may be interested less In books than In periodicals, UNIVERSITY BOOKSHOP like jor the art stitdents at Harvard magazines if you like. Your Horary Uiiiversity. Every storey is planned as receives regulaiiy the i.-wues of more than (A Department of the University of Qijcensland, ST. LUCIA) a single large room tvith removable par I LiiOD separate • periodicals. Something Brariches: GEORGE STREET & TOWNSVILLE titions tvhich (an be arranged as the like lOfi.OOt) parts art> handled each year. situatiott tieviands. The exterior tvalls Of course, we still do not have enough will be composed of solid construction books for some purposes and we are grow. Ing 80 fast that we have neither the ac materials which are so desigtied to let commodation to contain thom or the staff light in while avoiding direct stinlight. to look after thom In the way that we (Amerika-Dicnst, Bad Godcsberg) would like. So that while urging you to A.B.C. SUPPLEMENT. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962 PAGE 4 Harlem-born^ he began on THEY CALL DIXON "MUSICAL GENIUS y^MERlCAN conductor Dean Dixon has been described by European criticis as "a magnificent musician", "a musician of genius" and "one of the most complete conductors of our time". He was born in 1915 in Harlem, New York Citv. His parents were West Indian and he received a British education in his home. Dixon's musical education was due largely to his • •• And so mother who was passionately fond of music and determined that her son would become a musician. From an early age he was taken to concerts and EDITORIAl is Young operas and, at three, received his first violin lesson Are we to assume that If from his mother. a university Ls a "Place of Banmhohn Dixon played in the phony orchestra at a Har- Light, Liberty and Learn- orchestra at the De Witt lem branch of the Y.M.C.A. nlng" that students of a Clinton High School; when WAS IMPRESSED . university are concerned he graduated in 1932 the Samuel Chotzinoff, the with things of value exter head of the music depart- music director of the NBC, nal to their studies? In ment advised him to con- attended a special concert other words, can we tinue his studies. arranged at the Heclcscher assume that they are pre paring to be able to make He entered the Jullliard Theatre. some contribution to Aust School, and later (from He was impressed and ralia's cultural activity 1936 to 1939) he studied asked Dixon to direct the and future creatlveness? A conducting with Albert NBC Symphony Orchestra .small proportion of Stoessel under a Jullliard for two concerts. students already at this Fellowship, In 1940 Dixon became university can answer He also studied at conductor of the National affirmatively. The Austra Columbia University where Youth Administration lian Broadcasting Com he received a Master of Orchestra. mission recognises the fact Arts degree. In 1948 he received the that students — mainly of As early as 1932 Dixon Alice M. Ditson Award of the University and had formed his own sym- $1,000 for outstanding Teachers' Training Colleges contributions to American . munale orchestras In —form the bulk of the rONCEBT-goers will sit music, and his career In ; Bologna and Catania. Youth Concert audiences in the. presence of a Europe began In 1949 when In 1960 he had the and a not Insignificant genius on May 26, Septem Music lovers he accepted an invitation choice of three major part of other concert ber 22, and October 5 and from RadiodifTusion Fran- musical posts in Germany; audiences. 6—Daniel Barenboim. caise. general music director of Last year the A.B.C. The Oxford Dictionary In 1952 he conducted : the City of Hanover; demonstrated this aware describes a genius as one over 60 concerts in Sweden, • successor to Eugen Jochum ness in practical terras, having "instinctive and including a concert at the I at the Bayrlsche Rundfunk and, on the suggestion of extraordinary imaginative, Stockholm Festival to I in Munich, or Chefconduc- the Honorary Secretary, creative or inventive celebrate the 700 - year ' tor and general music inaugurated a series of capacity." anniversary of the Swedish : director of the Hessische annual free concerts by capital. Rundfunk Symphony This, then, is teenage IN GOTHENBURG Orchestra in Frankfurt. the Queensland Syn;phony celebrity pianist, Daniel Orchestra, the second of For the following seven He accepted the last of Barenboim, touring Aust years, Dixon was artistic these and is now conductor which is to be held In the ralia tills year for the Refectory on March 7th. leader and head conductor , of the 101-member sym Australian Broadcasting of the Gothenburg Sym phony orchestra in Frank- Certainly this concert has Commission. as one of Its functions the phony Orchestra. furt-am-Main. promotion of the ensuing What boy of 19, unless He worked with the Dixon is well known in concert season, but it will he also is a genius, could Gothenburg Orchestra for Europe for his new tech also serve to introduce claim:— part of each year and nique of teaching the many to serious music as To have begun his career spent the rest of his time classics to children as well the schools' concerts. It Is at five. touring the major music as to high schools and hoped, too, that many will To have learned to read centres of Europe. universities. be inspired to develop the music before having His reputation is such He lectures on this tech concert-going habit: again, learned to read words. that at different times he nique on television and It is hoped, to their At seven to have made his has been offered positions radio and at free concerts. advantage. public concert debut. as permanent conductor of He lives with his wife (a This coiicert then has HUGE REPERTOIRE the Salzburg Mozarteum, Finnish playwright), and At nine to be invited to the Brussels Philharmonic, three daughters, in an more than mercenary SIR BERNARD HEINZE loves being with children the Koln Rundfunkorches- ultra modern villa outside motives. If students are to play at the hallowed —particularly when they are interested in music. contribute continuously to Salzburg Mozarteum. tra, and the Teatro Com- Frankfurt. . Brisbane's culture it is At 15 to have a repertoire Here he shows a blind girl how to blow the tuba. important that the new of 250 solo works and 21 generations of students concertos, as well as TO Sir Bernard Heinze has gone popular credit for Came to Sydney are aware of their obliga being able to conduct 70 making Australia a music loving nation. Though tions. These can be trans orchestral works. some mav quibble about this, few will argue that Sir : lated into real terms, in To be the youngest Bernard Heinze has not set out, with single-minded i some small measure, by musician to receive a to be Engineer diploma from the Santa purpose, to make it so. way of the A.B.C. Concert A young man who came to Australia to become an Series. With a discriminat Cecilia Academy, in His visit to Brisbane in audience, 85 people at 1/- ing public they can only Rome. engineer, will be soloist in the first Youth Concert improve, but. obviously And all this, mind you, June will be one of the a head, of 1962 with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, this demands the regular did not turn the child into highlights of the 1982 Now 67 and director of conducted by Henry Krips on March 31. a prodigy. His worldly and concert season. the Sydney Conserva- He is Larry Sitsky, now presence of a public. To Brisbane audiences, torium of Music, Sir Ought you be in the academic education was an established pianist and not jeopardised. who see and hear him Bernard can look back audience? regularly, this bright-eyed, (but he doesn't) to being composer, and at 27, a —John Carmody His father, also his beaming son of Australian decorated by kings and teacher of piano at the music teacher, demanded music, is entrenched in recognised by universities, Queensland Conserva- that Dan was to be a their hearts. Overseas he is rated with : torlum of Music. "complete man" as well as But it was not always so. the great contemporary Ovation a "complete musician". In 1924, after turning conductors, The son of White Professor Enrique Baren- . down the post of concert- However, if one thing Russian parents who fled bolm, as a result, allowed to China during the master of the Dresden stands out above all else '•Russia n Revolution in in N.Z. Dan to practise only one Symphony Orchestra, and in this man's career, it has ' or two hours a day, turned 1920, Larry Sitsky was The resident conductor of posts in Paris, Helslngfors, been his love for children born in China, and came •he Queensland Symphony down engagements worth Budapest, Zurich and Ber- and the way he has used i tens of thousands of to Australia in 1951 to Orchestra, Rudolf Pekarek, iin, to Work hi Australia, that love, and those child- study. has juit returned from a pounds a year, and kept he gave his first concert ren, as a vehicle for Aust New Zealand tour. his son at school. in Melbourne — the ralia's musical future. But it was not to study music, although his musical His tour, embracing eight background was such that concerts, as guest conductor when only 12, he played of the New Zealand Youth Orchestral Diary with the Tientsin Orches National Symphony Orches tra. tra, received universal Sat,, March M Krips—Uirry Sitsky (Pianist) j laudatory reviews. Silt., April 28 Pekarek—Camilla Williams (Soprano) He entered the Faculty Sat., May 19—Concerto and Vocal 0/ Engineering of Sydney The reviews included University, but six months headings such as "Inspired Ciimpctitions Pekarek—Q'land C. and V. Comps. Finahsts ! ' Egon Petri, who, among playing at National Orches later decided that his ! other things, held the dis Sat., June 2.^ Hcin:e—Ernest Llewellyn (Violinist) I future was music. He tra Concert"—"Fine Music Wed.. August 8 tinction of being a pupil with Guest Conductor" — Pekarek—Nancy Weir (Pianist) 1 switched his studies to the I of Buzani. Sat.. September 1 Sydney Conservatorium. "Guest Conductor receives Van Otterloo—No Soloist I In February, 1961, he Enthusiastic Reception". Sat., September 22 Pekarek—Daniel Barenboim (Pianist) *^i! Fjaduation, he ! was appointed teacher at Sat., October 27 Dixon—James Carson (Flautist) studied for two years more I the Queensland Conserva- In San Francisco under I torium. A.B.C. SUPPLEMENT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1962 Page 5 THEY ALL WANT VAN OTTERLOO Where IWILLEM VAN OTTERLOO is one of the world's are they most highly regarded conductors. Under his leadership, the Residency Orchestra of The Hague has now.. ,1 taken its place among the world's great orchestras. Born in Winterswljk, He studied the cello and Holland, van Otterloo !:?!?iP°fi!5'°"„,^^ *^„P„°^t!!^" lyHERE are they now— studied medicine before vatorium "o f Amsterdam*"" "' ""^ , those aspiring young deciding to make music then went Into the cello concert artists of yester his career. E-Dction of the Municipal year's A.B.C. concerto and Orchestra of Utrecht. •- vocal competitions? An unexpected opportu Perhaps Joan Suther Pekarek nity to conduct the orches land is most widely known. tra led to his being made She returns to Australia Praises second conductor In 1934. this year for the first time In 1937, he became chief In 10 years, the most conductor. universally acclaimed Youtli During those early years, singer since Melba. HE resident conductor he studie. d^ conductin^ » v g- ^wit h Another singer, Phyllis T Ralsbeck, is now in London of the Queensland the noted Dutch conduc- doing quite well. Symphony Orchestra, tor, Carl Schuricht. Singer Elsie Morlson, Rudolf Pekarek, considers CAME TO FORE Ronal Jackson, John Youth Concerts most re- . It was after the war that Cameron and Helen Mc- warding. Wlllem van Otterloo really Kinnon have ail had over "These young people are > came to the fore, seas experience. enthusiastic to a tangible In 1946 he was conduc- Raymond McDonald, Neil degree. I can feel their' tor of the Netherlands Warren-Smlth and Geof likes and dislikes, and I, Opera Orchestra, Amster- and from September, 1962. frey Chard have all am never in any doubt as • dam; in 1948 he became will join Jean Fournet as Camilla is "newcomer" appeared in Elizabethan to how a concert has been conductor of the Radio one of the two official con- ,^„ . „,,, Theatre Trust Operas. receiveWhatd kinby dthem, of "musi he csays do. • PhilharmoniHllversum. c Orchestra in ductors of the Netherlands DRISBANE concert-goers arc about to meecapturt a e"new thei'r DIED IN CRASH they like? • " "••I n 1949 he was appointed RadiOrchestro Philharmonia c ** a^ist named Camilla Williams who'll capture thei Pianist Richard Farrell That is the most dlfflcult to his present post with Recent Notices:— hearts and their admiration. She is "ncu" only in the sense that she has never been to Australia. was well-known to London part of Youth Concerts— the Residency Orchestra. "A body of players finely audiences before his death the selection of a pro- Van Otterloo Is one of tuned like a precision in- Camilla Williams Is one velvety texture and aston a few years ago in a car gramme, says Mr. Pekarek. ^ the most sought - after strument ... the glory of of the really great ishing radiance". accident in England. But he adds, he believes • guest conductors today. the Hague Orchestra with sopranos of our time. The great songs of Gordon Watson is active something like 90 per cent.. He has conducted Wlllem van Otterloo Is the Let us look at some of Schubert, Brahms and in London's music life and of young people like to i throughout Europe, in complete unity and purity hej. accomplishments Hugo Wolf are also In her Geoffrey Parsons has made hear music they know.! South Africa_^ and in North of , tone gjv^en, _by ^«J_e A negro, she was the first a name for liinaself as one This Is true not only of, and South America strings." — London Daily woman of her race ever of the world's best accom youths, but of music- In Buenos Aires, the Telegraph. to sing in opera in New panists. lovers generally. Critics' Circle has twice '•The mellow warmth of York City. C'-mers L?ske is on the A telling point in sup named him conductor of the orchestra sprang from Her home town of Danville staff of Adelaide's Unlver- port of this, is made by the year and he will con its fine body of strings; (Virginia) gave her the •^"v Cnrservatorlum, and Mr. Pekarek. duct another .series of their tone has an autumnal key to the city—the first Ma.v Olding on the staff He declares that conduc- concerts in Buenos Aires ((oldenness rather than to receive it and the only of ths Queensland Con- tors know they have only ! this year, just before his blatant brightness, with one so far. .servatorlum, to feature a programme tour of Australia, the emphasis on musician from the romantic period Van Otterloo is highly ship rather than virtuo- In five years, she has made to pack a hall. regarded as a composer in sity. 12 concert tours of BALANCE IS AIM his own country, although 'The disciplined bril- Europe, toured the Car- Mr. Pekarek's aim with pressure of his other work liance of the playing ribean and Israel, made Youth Concert programmes leaves him little time for matched the discipline of a grand tour of Africa, Started in is to give them balance.' composition. fhe conductor's approach. and criss-crossed the He tries In each concert to He instructs every year so that the total effect was United States. the theatre cover three broad periods > at the International course warmly and sometimes WON CITATION —the classical, the roman in ronducfcing held by the even excitingly eloquent." p^j. ^er tour of Africa suggestetoo are -^riarfrod programmem soms e of JAMES CARSON has been tic and the modern. Netherlands Radio Union, The Times. made under the auspices l^c mLt'famous oS fn first flautist in the While talking to Mr. of the International Cul- which she has appeared— Queensland Symphony Pekarek we gleaned a little tural Exchange Service "Aida", *T Pagliacci", "La Orrhestra since 1949. of tK>^ work-a-day world of the American National Boheme" and of course Born l.T Melbourne. of a conductor. A song-writer... and Theatre and Academy, "Madame Butterfly", James Carson became a —For instance, by 9 a.m. ^^-^_ _^ J__-^i,^^_- Vienna, he conducted the she received a Preslden- several of Mozart's student at the Melbourne he has spent at least an ffOTl Cl 11C7TOI Vienna Symphony Orches- University Conservatorium hour pouring over musical ^*^^ir*BiW»*»^r*'^-. jj.^ j^ ^ programme of tial Citation operas are on her selection She has sung for two of Music when still in his scores —those he's using, ' IF you remember the song Australian music—that ol list. too. 'teens. those he's likely to use in ' "Land of Mine" which Alfred Hill and Robert American Presidents at While contemporary White House receptions, music may not be always He studied with Leslie the future, and new works won the National Song Hughes, Barklam, one of the finest always coming to hantfc Contest in 1953, you are , In four tours abroad Eisenhower and Truman. to her taste, her pro Camilla Williams has a grammes are likely to in exDonents of the Instru By 9.30 he Is at rehearsal remembering the music of Krips has taken every ment In this country. and in any one week he Henry Krips. If you've seen opportunity to promote personality of sweetness, clude at least one modern v/armth and gaiety, and to American composer — His first job was In a would work 21 hours with , the Australian films AustraUan music, although Sergius Kagen—who also theatre orchestra, subse the orchestra. , "Smithy;. '£_'"'W|;Vf ireacrinsTanTe'FlVe'Wps ^'JJ^g 15?opean'^critlc, a happens to be her voice quently he became a mem In case any should con- . Matthew", you "wil" l hav"^^e "flowing soprano voice of ccach. ber ^ of a radio orchestra. slder that an easy money heard Henry Krips' back- When he was appointed job, it Is well to remember ground music, to his present post he was that orchestral rehearsals: Yet further afield. If then the youngest Aust are but the polishing pro- i you've seen the ballets Career reads like fiction ralian ever to be leader of cess applied to many hours i "Faust" or "Revolution of \1/HEN it comes to rags to riches stories, few could a section in a major Of individual practice. ' the Umbrellas", or perhaps parallel that of Australian pianist Nancy Weir, orchestra. heard only the music, that He was then only 21. • • too, is the creation of who will appear with the Queensland Symphony Orchestral Henry Krips. Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Pekarek, in Bri,sbanc Most Brisbane music on August 8th. Reminder lovers will have attended THE following arc dates a Krips concert, for he She was "discovered" by British Intelligence Service for your Brisbane ccmes regularly to Queens- sheer chance: launched on during the war. Strong link Orchestral Diary. , land. ^ , ^u « • her career by public de A gifted linguist, she Fri Sat Apr. 13. 14: ! He will conduct the first mand and subscription; served in Tunisia, Italy, with Old. Tziplne, Camilla Williams Youth Concert of the 1982 went from success to Egypt and Palestine. (Soprano) season In the City Hall on success, then sank Into IN THE COUNTRY VIOLINIST Ernest Prl., Sat.. May H, 12: March 31st. oblivion In World War II Her story began in the Llewellyn, soloist with KriDsYs"resident conduc- were primarily to further almost before her public New South Wales country the Queensland Symphony "•"H^. - ... .. UI ...j.„ pnran,. hori hponin townshlp of Lockhart. as °^"' ^''''"' toJ'of^t^^^^^ ,, ^ Orchestra conducted by She had picked away at Sir Bernard Heinze on Fri Skt June 15, 16: Symphony Orchestra. directoHe war s formerlfor Cinesoundy musica;l _Europe^ Todays, leadinshe gis pianistsone of, the piano from early child- June 23, has a strong link /iri^itv^icM Tv>ic man nf nn n v : "^usicai director with the Nancy Weir's career hood, and soon, listening with Queensland. FH qit Jimp 29 30-Ufl^nts does not confine ^Irsova Ballet and resl- reads something more like to a neighbour's piano, she In 1944, while serving H^n^P fnaJoann Sutherland |! hiSs. activitieactlvIt°sS t?oo conducconductt - ' ^^^t conductor with the fiction than fact. was playing Chopln-with- with the R.A.A.F., he Helnze(Soprano), Joa. n sutneriana Inghis , activitiecomposins gt oo r conaucplayingc . . ^^^^^ ^^^^^^jj^^^ g^^^pj^^^^ Among other things, she out having learned a accepted an invitation Fri., Sat., Aug. 24, 25: He is one of Australia's Orchestra. was a member of the single note of music. from the Queensland Gov Pekarek, Claudlo Arrau most forthright unpaid ernment to lead a Queens It was as she was play land String Quartet. (Pianist). ambassadors at large. ing a Chopin nocturne one Fri., Sat., Sept. 14, 15: This is all the more re- iRedUd SHwi^ night that she was All the quartet's concerts Van Otterloo, Rugglero • markable In that Vienna "discovered". A London were free, given mainly in Rlccl (Violinist). I was the place of his birth, Wed., „ Apr. ,,1 8 Camilla Williams (Soprano) examiner who happened to Queensland's music-starved Fri., Sat,, Oct. 5, 6: but Australia Is his country b.it., May 26 Daniel Barenboim (Pianist) be passing through, heard outback. Pekarek, Daniel Barenboim i by adoption—he is natural- Tuc. June 26 Joan Sutherland (Soprano) *^^^ ^^^ was amaxed. He left the quartet to join the Sydney Symphony (Pianist). I Ised, and in fact served In I \v,.,i i.,|„ j. Leonid K.,g.„ (Vi„l,„,^) ,,J/r„craATV? Prl., Sat., Nov. 2, 3: , the Australian forces In l n ^ V „ i Orchestra as concert- Dixon, Pamela Page and World War II. ' ^"•' ^"8- "^ Claudio Arrau (Pianist) ggj s^ll for Germany ai^d master In 1948—a post he Max Oldlng (Piano Duo).' Recently, on a visit to Tue., Sept. 18 Ruggiero Ricci (Violinist) England. has held ever since. PAGE 6 SEMPER FLOREAT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962 PhilospMcal Problems NEW LETTERS FROM SYDNETTOWN By EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD Sydney at the moment is alive with first-class theatre. Whether U is the result of the influence of the University of New South Wales Drama School or "Facing Philoiophlcal PtobUmt". by QuentinGibson. Cheshires 1961; 63p. Price 12/6. in spite of ii I am not sure. The most impressive play on at the moment is The This book by the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the School of Buffalo Skinner", by lonnie Chapman, at the Ensemble Theatre in the round. General Studies AN.U. has been revised for reissue in this edition. For those who This play demonstrates some of the The theatre is intimate with 5 or 6 have done no previous reading in this subject and are attempting the study of finest acting I have ever seen In rows ol seats on all 4 sides ol the stage. Philosophy for the first time it is to be recommended as introductory reading. Australia. The cast Is composed ol young The lighting and sound are controled Problems are posed such as Prefer certain conclusions about the nature of Sydney professional actors under the from above and is superb but unobtru ences In Art; Time; Freedom; and God- the world." It Is a pity that Gibson did directorship of Hayes Gordon. They act sive. ness and then these are discussed tmder not expand this portion of the book without props or scenery; their mime Is The Company Itself has a dis the following headings — Clarification, The last chapter contains an interest perfect, The play itself concerns Good tinguished though short history behind Scientific Solution, Supra - Scientific ing Introduction to the theory of "logical and Evil and their effect on a sensitive it. Two ol Its previous success were (a) Solution and finally Dissolution. positivism", a theory that haa a fairly adolescent male. Not once throughout The Seven-Year Itch; and (b) The In the discussion on Time some of wide following today among philoso does our hiterest flag although, in Drunkard (that Victorian melodrama t^ie problems are: Does everything phers. This short way of dealing with modern tradition, the characters which ran non-stop In Hollywood lor \mlch exists occur in time? Is there a philosophical problems is to consider periodically break off to discuss their 18 years). , , ^ ^ connection between what we call the that some are necessarily true because motivation directly with the audience. Music at the moment is at rock bot 'past', 'present' and 'future', and If so they are tautologies. This will lead to A most impressive performance of a tom. We are ol course suffering the what Is it? Is it necessary to bring an the consideration of the structure of very interesting play. A.B.C.'s Summer Festival. The most In element of stability Into life by the con language from a logical point ol view, teresting music to be heard recently was sideration of time lessness? These are and there can be no doubt that this is Brian Young (a buffalo skinner), Don a recital by the Leonine Consort, In the all pertinent questions and Gibson's Important. The realisation of this Is one Reld (a popular preacher), Lorraine Chapel ol St. Paul's College, Sydney Bayly (a danchig fool), Role Cook (a University. This acoustically perfect approach here is objective throughout. of the great developments of recent would-be whore) and Benlta Collins (a The chapter on Clarification Is par years. Semantics therefore are in the little chapel with its 15th century Dutch front line of much philosophical hymn singer) are young Australians Cabinet Organ, provided a perfect set ticularly good and could well be re-read. who can anticipate great renoun ting for works by Fyrfax, Byrd, Swee- All of us could profit from this as the thought today and necessarily so, as throughout this country In the future. autlior clearly demonstrates the Import without knowing what exactly Is meant llnck, Schulz and Buxtchude. Modern ance of clarity to the understanding of by a problem correct and true analysis The Eensemble Theatre Is an old con works included an interesting Christmas a problem. Many ambiguities could be becomes dlfflcult if not Impossible. It verted boat shed on the water at Mil- History by Hugo Dlstler. This concert, It each problem were clarified a good should be pointed out that the author son's Point (the north end ol the Har alone, deserved to draw an audience out deal more than Is usually the case. does not attempt or Intend to answer bour Bridge). Theatre patrons can into Sydney's inclement Christmas C. D. Broad says ". . . the most fun the problems raised, as this is outside arrive by water If they wish and moor weather. damental task of Philosophy is to take the scope ol this book. Ratyv5r the in their boats at the theatre side foyer. Jan. 23, 1982 the concepts which we dally use In tention Is to draw attention to the common life and science, to analyse various ways of approaching problems them, and thus to determine their pre as they arise. cise meanings and their mutual rela The book has much to recommend it FILMIC MAGNIFICENCE tions." but one complaint must be made. For The section on the Appeal to Self- the size of the book the price appears This film Is a product of the current "HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR" Evidence Is critical of the Intuitive excessive notwithstanding that it has Directed by Alain Resnais. An Argos films, Como hard covers. However, these could have renaissance in the French cinema — the Films, Pafhc Overseas Production. Screenplay by theory about reasoning, and rightly so. Marguerite Duras. Photography. Saeha Vlerni "It is hard to avoid being drawn to been dispensed with and paper covers "New Wave" — a group of dynamic (France) and Michio Tskahashl (Japan!. Art direc wards such pieces of intellectual substituted enabling the price to be re young directors who have appeared tors, Esaka, Mayo, and Petri. Music, Giovanni Fusco duced to a more reasonable level. and Georges Deleruc. Editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine audacity in which the human reason almost simultaneously within the last Cliasncy and Anne Sarroute. Franco-Japanese, Cata claims to achieve at one blow final and J.H.T. three years to infuse new life into the Films. Cert. A, » ... Tlie girl. EMMANUELE RIVA; The Boy. EIJI cinema as an art form. The outstanding OKADA with STELLA DASSAS, PIERRE BARBAUD arKT members of the group are Claude BERNARD PRESSON. Chabrol (Les Cousins), Francois Truf- both musically and dramatically, I have faut (Les Quatrc-Cents Coups), Louis yet heard in a film, and plays a major are you PURE? Malle (Les Amants), Edmond Sechan part in integrating the various facets of (Histoire du Poisson Rouge), Jean- the film's construction. Bored? Jaded? Life has nothing more himself and his friends leaving this luc (joddard (a Sant de Souffle), There are only two principal actors, to offer? Try the Purity Club for ten course with their mental and physical Marcel Camers (Orfen Negre), and Emmanuele Riva and Eiji Okada, who fold relief of tension! capacities for enjoyment increased ten Alain Mesnais, whose "ffiroshima, Mon fold, and as the delectable vision passed play respectively a French actress and The new craze for purity which Is before his eyes, he drooled a little (Into Amour" not only surpasses in quality Japanese architect who meet in modern shaking our sln-rldden nation is also his handkerchief, of course) with anti and insight the work of the others to beginning to shake this even more sin- cipation. And thus was the Purity Club Hiroshima during the making of a peace date, but is one of the very few master film. This casual acquaintainship which ridden University? Yes! A group of born. There was little difflcultv In re pieces of filmic art. brave young reprobates, pathetic in cruiting members, and before long the develops into love revives the woman's their intensity, are setting out to save dream was a flourishing reality. A badge In common with such other great memory of her first love for a German themselves, and, incidentally, the world, was designed—a pure white bottle con by starting a new club known as the taining a vital elixir ol life—and the works as "Battleship Potemkin" and soldier and the dreadful experience she Purity Club. It must be emphasised that Tennysonlan motto emblazoned round "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", this lived through as a girl in her home this club Is not for those unfortunates the badge was adopted as the official amazing film represents an innovation town of Nevens in France. Distress who have been pure since birth (prob motto of the Club. fully she realises that she is forgetting ably quite recent), and wish to stave in film form—the narrative element is off the evils of the world. The Purity Perhaps a few words on the function virtually non-existent, being replaced by against her will this most decisive phase Club is reserved for those with some and activities of the other half of the a lyrical, incantatory quality, dream in her life. experience in worldly matters. It caters Club might be In order. This is the part like in intensity, which has been com At this point, story and symbol for sophisticated, blase people, tem which is concerned in the purification porarily bored with a life of vice and of man-kind, and Is known as the pared to that of a Proust novel or a Paul become inextricably mixed, for the two, dissipation, who wish tc relax In con Purity League to distinguish it from the Eluard poem, and which reminds mc elemeiits of Nevers and modern Hiro genial surroundings of dedication and other part of the Club. The Purity very much of Lawrence Dunnell's work shima combine with the film's horrific Intense devotion to duty. (The Union League consists mostly of ardent young in his "Alexandria Quartet". introduction—scenes of the effects of Refectory may he held up as a shining women, all full of loathing lor the example of such an atmosphere.) For species Man and his vile spoliation of This quality is achieved through the the atomic explosion on war-time Hiro this reason, the Purity Club also wel the pure beauties of Nature. Those use of such devices as lingering lays - shima—to make the film what it ultim comes young envangellcals, provided members of the League who are not dissolves, frequent cuts back and forth ately is, one of the most powerful they are willing to be as dogmatic and ardent young women are ardent old in time, producing at limes the almost utterances yet issued against the evil of narrow-minded as possible In their women, even more full of loathing for mission of purifying the world. For Man, especially that part of it typified simultaneous denoulnnent of up to three war, and a plea for remembrance of some reason, relaxation ol the less by the male sex. They are all lull ol separate lines of thought, and above all, things past: just as the woman finds worthy members of tho community Is enthusiasm for their work, and any through the film's extremely slow pace, she is involuntarily forgetting one of the considerably facilitated by the presence excesses into which they may be led a mesmeric, slow-motion effect which most important experiences in her life, in other people of tense and uncom can be attributed only to zeal. You will fortable devotion to mankind. probably recall the furore created re nevertheless retains a constantly taut so wc today are forgetting Hiroshima, cently by the charging by the police grasp on the viewer's interest. and to prevent further self-destruction, The Purity Club was started this year of a member of the league with In The musical score by Georges Delescuc we mu.st remember. by a literary member of our community decent exposure and Illegal soliciting and Giovanni Fusco is one of the best, JOHN TALBOT. who, while studying a recent edition of after she had paraded through the "True Love Confessions", was startled streets of Brisbane, that purest of cities, to find a quotation from Tennyson. (He clad in the new Purity costume —for knew it was Tennyson because the poet's what could be as pure as the untrod name was printed beneath the quota human skin? She stands as a shining WILL BRISBANE LOSE THEM? tion, Besides, as is probably self-evident, example to all of us In her glorious he is majoring in English.) Thp quota martyrdom. The Purity League also has Brisbane film connoisseurs are very close An example of this appallingly low cultural tion was as follows:— a badge and motto, to losing their only opportunity for seeing standard was provided with the screening of commercially-released quality art films. Bernais masterpiece "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"; "My strength is as the strenRtk oj ten In a recent conversation witli the manager "IF YOU CANT BE PAID, BE Pl^RE." the night I was there, at least three people Because my heart is pure." of the Carlton Theatre, Mr. J. R. Murphy, I learned that some of the very best of recent walked out half-way through the film, while Tctiny-soii, .Mfrcd I.ord. I am sure this short article has overseas releases have been available for re the average daily attendance figure was so The mind of genius at once leapt to aroused the Interests of all of you In the lease in Brisbane for almost a year, e.g., low as to make screening beyond a week work. Jaded by a vacation perhaps over- new Club. Enquiries about the Club may Antonionl's "L'Adventura", Fellini's "La Dolce impossible. long and over-filled with excitement, he be addressed to me via the respectable Vita", and Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" had for some little time been seeking a Editor of this eminent newspaper, and "The Magician". However, it is very As a member of this university, I appeal means of renewing his energy. Now he whose purity Is, of course beyond ques doubtful a I the moment whether these films to all readers of this article to go to these saw It, complete before his eyes! A tion, although not outside the range of will be released here—they simply do not films when they appear, and drag along as quiet, comfortable room, congenial com exclamation. pay! Brisbane people are evidently either too many friends, albeit unwilling, as possible. panionship, suitable refreshment, sweet Nausea Bagwash, ignorant or too lazy to patrnoize the screen Or yet another attempt to raise artistic stan music, and ever facility for the purifi ing of films which offer more than mere dards to a recognisable level in Brisbane will cation ol the cardiac passions l ne saw Dishonourable Secretary. entertainment. fail. SEMPER FLOREAT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962 PAGE 7
ENGLISH FOJt OVERSEAS First Class Facilities GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCE STUDENTS Attention is drawn to the Plenty of Fun in Sydney availability during 1962, of an Fascinate Freshers j evening course in English for rr,^LJl>?^ ^*^^i^'^^^^ *°4 stimulating, do not not only their university Overseas Students. The course As a carious onlooker I watched the milling is to be conducted by the crowd of freshers e^warming through the Barge BuUd- ?T°n 1 ^®Pf . ?* Australian make up a conference and but also their city. Alter Institute of Modern Languages ing--better known as the gymnasium and basketball Rf^iPtfp., Ja/S2^i?«^ ^%^9 ?^ '"S ^«^ P'°- such a short week packed coiu^. They nodded and pried and inspected the ?fS oDfv, T^ J^^^. ?T "^^t^ ^^^ ^ delegates with excitement, meeting at the University, St. Lucia, brand new equipment, were impressed by the spacious Srt;l"iM*° Feb 3rd in with a barbecue, a night fellow students from all commencing during the week surroundings of the court and excelient ventilation, ?.ffi n^„,*Sl^ ^^^^- P^P"^ 2" !'*^P ^^°^ ^^ HarbourV over Australia, we are beginning March 12, f962. the showers and above all by the thrilling exhibition »!£.« W°f^ ^^***° ^^^}^^ J?"^ *?^ * *?"^flc day at looking forward with eager The course is primarily in M^li^rl ^o™a"f>^ 0' ^ Sydney's northern beaches, anticipation to attendfiig tended for overseas students game by our out-of-conditlon members. who have some knowledge of So to alt this milling crowd Armidale in second term to National Association of Of course our night life another N.A.G5. Confer- English, but who desire to of curious freshers I say— Toowoomba. With the Basket- ^TA /lo?P«7 .,^*H^!2l* ^»s not complete without ence. We hope you will be improve htat knowledge, so as Come along and join up. If ball Club within the University (NA.GB.). We feel this an evening at King's Cross, able to Join us In this, to be better bale to cope with you want a sport that condi- of Queensland you can escape conference marked the be- We also had a wonderful (For further information their University studies. The tions you; a game that you can the slothful 80% of students ginning pf cp-operaUon day travelling through the about tlie Geography course will be held twice play summer or winter in all that play no organised sport— ''•17^^"/."^®"^. ^ ,®^^^ Blue Mountains with lunch Society please contact Ken weekly and will consist of leather and indoor or out- you can't study if you are not forty-five (451 lectures, each doors as the weather permits fit. If you think this game state and Increasing In all at Govett's Leap. Johnson through the of one hour duration. The fee you need Men's Basketball, isn't fast enough or skilful ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^P^y- , The Sydney students Geography Dept. or Diane for the course is £7.0.0. Long or short, fit or fat, we enough—try us and see. We Nevertheless, discussions made us very welcome and Krimmer at 7 6078) Enrolment forms may be need you and you need the practise 10 a.m. uSnday morn- alone however Interesting were pleased to show us obtained from the Enquiry Baskebtall Club! Here you have ings at the courts at Sf. Lucia. Office (main building), tfie a weekend game, within the We play at 2 p.m. Saturday Union Office, or the University Uriiversity, with games in afternoons in the gymnasium. WOMENS I Bookshop. Brisbane competition if you are We'll be looking for you, good enough. We can offer Freshers! GYMNASTICS I Those intending to enrol you trips to Townsville at J. D. McEvoy, j should first contact the Tutor, Easter, to Sydney in May, to U.Q.B.C. ' Welcome all Freshers to' ff'J: "• ,^^'T P'^'!?T ^V' the Women's Gymnastics | PfP';""«"^ °' ^"9''^^ St. ,Club, Meetings are heldr"*^'^- f, , - ,, one night weekly, and one ^' • ^2""?"' I lunch hour per week for Kegistrar. Try Basketball , those able to attend. Club TvpiNr: SFOvirrc So you want a sport that's cheap, doesn't involve ; activities include all kinds I TKOCC V !? .A^ a risk to limbs, is easy to play as well as being fast and < of floorwork and tumbling,, ^^'"'VT ^^^^.^^^1- •"i^"' interesting . . . ? land work Is done on the "'^ "^"'"^ T.""'^"^' ^"P''"'^^ BASKETBALL was made for you! 'following apparatus- ri"«- c'^'""^ reasonable Matches are played on ing at 9.30 a.m. on the out- j 1 vaulting box and horse, i ^^nt" I'ln. V^^'Ti Saturday afternoons in the door basketball courts (next to! ! balance beam, paraUel ?" ' T r^.^'^'ou ^^ bars, trampolhie.' Meetings j J^j^^gJX^'hirs^s ^Sn^" Physical Education Gymnasium the tennis courts) at St. Lucia. • are held In the gymnasium ! ^-^^^^^ ^*^^' ^°"'^ 58.2007. at St. Lucia commencing at Both new and old members of 1.00 p.m. Come along this the club should attend these I .in the Physical Education j Typing Services: Confidential Saturday with a pair of shorts as only constant practice can 1 Building at 1 p.m. All new | typing, reasonable rates, call and sandshoes and we will make a skilful player. | One of the few occaiioni when the Diiecton were ipeak- members are welcome. j and deliver if necessary. Phone show you how to play. All freshers, including those I ing to each other. . Opportunity will arise l Z^'?"^- '^^^^ ^^"^rr' ^^ Experienced players will be at colleges, Asians and even- ! IM: NO, please, Elaine not againl 'for inter-club competition,!^'^l'^^ ^^'^'"' ^^^^'"^'• present to take an active in ing students are invited to I Elaine: Men!! Useleti idiotsi and participation in the ~ ~ terest in you. play. Graeme Kidd (954629) ! ! Qld. Championships. Social, WATER SKr CLUB Regular training sessions are witl be happy to give you! i functions will be held dur- • Don't Miss conducted every Sunday morn further information. I • Ing the year, and there I The ; win be a team sent to! VARSITY 5 i Intervarsity. at the Refectory Friday, March 23 Moves are afoot to ' Do come along to our! NOTICE OF MEETING A.G.M. on Tuesday, 27th i All members and intending February at 7.30 p.m. In I members are requested to start a Sailing Club I the Games Room — St. i attend the A.G.M. of the It is proposed to form a sailing club if sufficient i Lucla Refectory Basement. | University Water Ski Club in : You need not have done; the Union Buildings on Mon.. support is shown. ; any gymnastics before. i 5th March, at 7 p.m. Proposals from N.S.W. suggest Intervarsity com petition at the end of thb year, radpg with either Moth Class or Gwen Class boats. Regular racing every weekend pcsalbly in conjunc tion with the South Brisbane Sailing Club at first. Is suggested. (C, OKi ewJOV IT teach yacht construction and sail-maldng, (3) hold social functions, (<) arrange talks on sailing by well-ltnown yachtsmen, (6) hold film and slide evenings of yachting Leader of (he Federal Opposition, Mr. Arthur Cal events, and (6) stage an annual picnic on an Island in well, confronted by members of Sfudent Action. Aloreton Bay. So tlicrc ts no ncc2 C.urnari-oit E.\piditi'>ii •:<"iilJ hi' a party. The Prime Miniiter called them "silly yahoos" and hybrid •if "Mud. Mud. CiiDnuus Mud". Ivxedleiit swinnnJng lu>ie> WCM- \vcic«ni«' tmposters who were clearly too stupid to have matriculated feiitiircs lit Ijotli camp sites. .^ few. bow- and goite lo University. "Tramp, tramp, tramp'', iitid "Si.\lfi'n In this, the (debut of the ever, were ciui^lit with their jumt.* down The Immigration Minister Downer became angry and T'ifi.*". iitlh a ffu '.trll-placrd f.\prr.i- Vertebral Coluoin. it is my in that tlicy ncglre)e hnrrit'.red Irom llu Eiivinrrr.^' trunl »iu\ one ni the vnve, jiniJ Uii- This was ihe atmosphere I In Melbourne, with police as- report the social life of the dcteritiinc how lont; :iborlgtnnlK liad lioiMi unrortuiiiiles hud oitluT to t«»rrow .«4»nic. when student picket lines distance. Student Action or- Medical Society and when llvinj,' In the urea, and to lind any chiinKox one oLse's sliort.s iir wait until ni);litfall for ringed election campaign hails, ganised an airporf-lo-city wel- possible, the private life of whleli hud occiiirvd In thoir way of life tlieir ilally bath. Yoong men and women, youths come to the two Malayan individual members, and To this ond. twD pits were oxcavatcd In nigging proceeded well down to *> feet, jnd girls blackened their faces, divers currently threatened so for a beginning I should like to welcome the I'allii'dral Ciivi'. .sitiiati-d In the ("arnarvoii during which time specimens were col- demonstrated and sang speci- with deprartation. 1 Gor^o .Viitional I'ark and I'l^hl ititloK froni It cted and soil and charcoal .siimples taken ally composed parodies. Jhis jftudent Action Freshers of this year into simul Ihf CWA liut where our hasie camp was where n>'cef-.«iiiy. but al tills level .sandstone was the Student Action cam the Society, and to ask taneously in three States, held e.stahll«hi'd. whieh had fallen Irom thu roof of Ihe paign "on the job". them, particularly, to be down-town demonstrations re cave blocked the way. and number - pit V^haf is it that Sludent come interested in making The eonvoy of eleven vehlelps .set out cently protesting against the WHS <:losed down, liowever. Dr. Tiigliy Action seeks? What is the the year's social pro from St. l-ueia at ISl."i hr.s.. 2« .fan., in" arrest and deportation of three fiiunil a small gat) and continued to twelve aim behind the demonstration, gramme a very full one. WHH two short liy Ihe time we arrlvi-d at young Portugese sailors seek- feet, thereby selling a new (.Jueensland picket lines and gaudy parades? We are striving to organ HCoy. 1 Hyit in Toowoonilia (just aftei- r J .1. -ng asylum from Salazar's Por- ise functions to include eloHinn llnie—drat): Ihe Hlitz had blown a record. 'I'lieii came the laborious Job of First--fo condemn the pre- ^J ^ ^^ j, ,,^3^ ,^,g„ ^^at the both young and older neud fca.sket and had to I'e towed up the tilling ill. which did not begin until nild- sent implementation ot White ^^^erlying philosophy of Stu- niorniy; on Kriday: thus the rear parly Australia" as racialist ("mind students and without an Toll Har by tlie "vvreelier" -15 tons of dent Action is not only anti- enthusiastic response, this tow truck which Is llai out at 4(1 in.i>..h. did not reach Injune until iVMK but there that tan— they might deport racialism but also the defence We found a free show liirned on by the you" is a popular slogan!. social year cannot be and which avera(,'e.s X 10 4 ni.ii.g. of civil liberties, In this sense, successful. local It.'^l. sub-branch—und very welcome Second to publicise that its active participants are the The hllumon road petered out at I-toma. Il wns. There wc also found Ihe Wltz. politicians are lagging behind social conscience oi the com Social Activities: where we spent the next nlfrht. Two iiion- which, anticipating trouble. hay tho lime the However policy is for "control the first S.A. Committee m socials, one with the local tire brlgiide hiid arrived (viz: two not color bar"- Student Action Melbourne contained officers Engineers, the other with Typical of army detornilnatlon and for men ;ind a lire extinpuislier in ii I'lymoulh does not propose "opening the of the Newman society, titude. We not only nmdc II to Injiine; but sulan) the llaines were out. This was where the Women's Club, and so pressed on to lia.se camp, KM miles further floodgates"! S.C.M.. Liberal and A.L.P. to have two or three func the itiitz came in handy—tho hoineloss Third—to oppose racialism Club, Athenian Society, Debat- on. allielt considerably hehlnd schedule; stores were loaded (m lo it. tions each term. there was much sliding around on wot abroad (large and impressive '"9 Society and Nationalist In spite of all delays, however, we rnads and a couple of occasions on which demonstrations took place in society. The only dulis m Two weekend Conven arrived buck jii i. I.ucia at l23:t on Sunday trucks har how In Sydney three demonstrations '"'"^ent direct action as ad- they reached Itoina. involving 3,000 students took venturist and the handiwork May Vac, the third Aust ralian Medical Students place •! to days in a protest o' agent provocateurs . Assoc. Convention will be I'athednil (.'ave can be roughly likened again,- apartheid. Support also comes from held In Sydney. It Is to be tf the Southport and • the Clinical years versus the mystical law which says that It Is The first attack on your hallowed Surfers' Paradise Uiim and Kiiininalive SiK-iely ring the Pre-CUnical years, and the female who provides hte passive finally, there wll be a gala force to hold the Universe, and our ground is the Orientation Week football ing in his ears, the Taverner weighed anchor, split football match, also society, in equilibrium. match against the University Football .mother infinitive and followed the sea lanes north to Clinical versus pre-Clinlcal. However, a wave of unrest has swept Club — and woe betide any male who insi^eci the late.'^i literary ofTerings of sandstoned St. suggests that there is any lack of For those of you who are through the women of the University. feminity in the female team. Lucia. And was delighted lo reassure himself that ihe unaware of the results of This law pre-supposes that there is an , Our next attack will be resented even Song Book was still a most satisfactory selection. .\ this year's elections: equal and opposite force in existence, provided by the male of the species. more. The Women's Club is holding a .\ quick browse served as a refresher course. He President of Society: To our dismay we found that this force Batchelor Girls' Dance early in the remembered that one morning .\dani. as tlie tirst nian, Michael Powell Med. V. term. This venture is Justified, we feel, is pitifully weak, despite the overwhelm by the fact that tradition Is fast dis was tilletted and imroduced to Kve. and recalled ihai Vice-President: Robin ing numbers of men around. We feel appearing at the University. There was Lil was a girl, indeed a beauty. The incident on the that it is our duty to try to preserve the Spork Med. V. mystical equilibrium and to do this we a time nol very long ago, when the tide down from Bangor served to revive the memory Secretary: Jon. Douglas must become more active, until we have women paid for their own tickets to oi the poor but honest victim of the squire's game. Med. IV. stirred, or shamed, the men out of their Commem. But student social life is being Bless 'em all. ble>s 'em all! The folk songs and slowly swallowed and digested by Town Treasurer: John Corbett strange lethargy. Social Life, and this custom is now -oaks' songs and all. Kor an outlay of a couple of Med. IV. A number of the Women's Club Com hopelessly lost. shilling;; the Taverner provided himself wilh a com mittee have discovered latent Pank- The Social Convenor Is hurstian tendencies, and, Incensed by Why not, then, have one occasion In panion which proved 10 be a veritable bible in his Errol Magulre Med. IV and cruel indignities, have at last lost their the year when the women have to buy nocturnal aciivilies. the Sports Convenor is patience. The flrst of these indignities their own, and their partner's tickets? John Drewe Med. IV. was the Women's Club poster at the For the Batchelor Girls' Dance no ticket A SIPKKB investment this Song Btxjk. Krom It remains only to be Jubilee Ball last year -. depicting a will be sold to a male, and we shall number of hens picking at their corn, watch in glee as the men sit biting the I'nion Shop in ihe St. l-ucia Refectory, wheie said that all information, pink elephants have their origin. ruled over by a plump and clucking their fingernails, but trying hard not to however personal, will be hen on the root (we are glad to report appear eager for an invitation. If the .^t aud ca lltus If^itur.' very welcome. that the male responsible for this de Batchelor Girls' Dance is the success sign, an Arts man, hasme t his Just we expect, it can be a valuable means THK TAX KKNKk. ATLAS. deserts). Furthermore, the Committee of preserving tradition. Authorised by J. B. Daiton. Editor: J. Carmody, c/- University Union Offices, St. Lucia. Printed by Watson, Ferguson and Co., Stanley Street, South Brisbane. :an,Hay, ."•ar-:!' 5, 19£2 .Volume 32, I\!D.4 (experimental) Stop Press House Conimittee Approves Improvements Totalling £l550 for Union Buildi.gs
At its first meeting for 1962, Union House Committee Semper Fhreat showed us that the festive season had not entirely passed. Santa Claus Lennon, Chairman of the House Committee, pulled his reindeer into line and dug deep into his bag of goodies to find £1550 available for capital improvements to the Union Buildings in 1962. supplement. So, you literary hacks around tl» University and those who never The House Committee was following recommendations put Galmahra thought they had a knaclc for writing, how forward by the Capital Expenditure Priorities Sub aixiul penning some short stories or committee which consisted of Bob Greenwood and Mr. Bill Uniwrfity of Queenslind Union . MjtJiine poems, or anecdotes, and submit them to Henderson who were assisted by the Union Treasurer, Union Office for perusal by the editorial Dcecutive Officer and Union Architect, GALMAHRA TO BECOME A board of "Galmahra". J?efectory: PHOENIX? Mr. Moyloh in 1959 submitted proposals To cope with the increased load on Refectory seating for the recommencement of publication space especially during the peak 1-2 period, twelve more of the Union's magazine, "Galmahra". Recent discussions on the Activities tables are planned which will be supplemented by chairs Standing Committee of Union Council In this report drawn from the archives of the Union he pointed oul that "Galmahra" the Union already possesses. Some of these chairs will indicate that 1952 may see a new edition be placed on the tiled area outside the Refectory. oi "Galmahra". "Galmahra" is the is locol Aboriginese for "Spokesman of name of the magazine published by the a Tribe". The report went further on A larger stage is planned for the Refectory with steps Ujiiversity of Queensland Union. The to state: "This magazine of the Uni at each end to provide better facilities for evening Union archives have copies going baclc versity of Queensland Union was first and day time functions in the Refectory, Two more to 1927. Actually, "Semper Floreat" published in October 1911, the name spotlights are also planned to provide more effective developed out of "Galmahra", In the then used being the University of lighting for evening features. early days, "Galmahra" v«as published Queensland Magazine, and the cost being once a term by the University Union. In 1/- an issue, the idea being that it was Several hundred pounds are being planned for improvements more recent times it has been an annual to be published once a term. By the for the kitchen. These improvements mainly consist of a publicaUon. Hov/ever, in 1960, the time of its death in 1951 it was a much better layout of equipment which will provide more Uniot\ lost so much money on its then etdait^ed magozine, 80 pages compared efficiency and lovter costs which means that Union members unpopular advertising pocicet edition that with an original 36. It contained no will receive faster service and have to pay lower prices. it was decided not to publish any edition advertisements at all at thts time and was published once a year." in 1961. The annual 1961 Report of the Mrs. Ashton in the Union Shop will be provided with a Union hadaUUleonecdote on"aalmahta" handbasin which win mean more hygienic conditions both v/hich read: "The Union has experienced Between the wars "Galmahra" was for herself and for the people she serves. the hardships of publishing an unpoluVai distributed free for members and the Between the Refectory seating area and the Page Hanify literary magazine. Unliico Consolidated price of Its production included in the Room a sliding door is to be constructed. This is Press, we do not have a Bulletin with General Purpose lee of University important for evening hirings of these two areas which to amalgamate our modest pub students. In 1951 a Referendum killed simultaneously. This will mean extra income for the licaUon." There was actually under "Galmahra". One of the reasons given Union and, therefore, lower prices for students. consideration a proposal to issue for cessation of publication was the "Galmahta" as a monthly supplement lo decision that Ihe money could be belter To supplement the existing screens-cum-noticeboards "Semper" and at the end of the year spent on financing faculty magazines. loaned to us by the University three more are envisaged. lo consolidate tho supplemenl into one Mr. Moylan pointed out "that some day magazine. For publication as a a history of the Union would have to be An innovation which will be welcomed by the various coUeclot's item: A sort of "Best oi written, and in "Galmahra" at least as religious groups on this campus is the small chapel Semper'62". it was in the 1930's will be found notes planned underneath the Refectory. not only on the Union but on Ihe various Relaxation Block activities of the societies of the Union, e.g.. Debating, Drama, S.C.M., and However, il would appear that "Galmahra" Improvements are also planned for the Relaxation Block. will be published as o magazine first sporting. II was a veritable vein of information." and foremost rather than as a newspaper The Women's uommon Room gains a mirror and also a door in the passage is planned so as to isolate women's toilets and the Women's Common Room from the general thoroughfare. Divider screens are also planned for the Women's Common Room. Bowes reveals Administration Blocks Does not conse in for so many innovations. The main ones areJ clubs and societies lockers will be installed in the club rooms in the Administration Block. A phonograph record storage cabinet is planned for the J.D. Story Room.
secrets The P.A. System in the Refectory will be mobilised so as SPECIAL TALK FOR FRESHERS,ON UNION I this unit may be used in the Story Room and the Common Room 8* An idea of the St. Lucia Vice-President's to have the Councillors for the various faculties to be introduced o INVITATION to the freshers has been expanded by the Orientation O Directors into a special talk on How the Union and National Union, work as well as making student rep PRESIDENT and COUNCILLORS resentatives known to Freshers, This talk is to be presided over by the Honorary Secretary and bears the very intriguing title "How to Get On in the Union Would a jl predate your without really Trying", joining members of the Union on the occasion of a free orchestral concert. jXvXi Wot^ti : DEAR READER THIS IS THE LAST OF THE liy courtesy of the EXPERIMENTAL UNION OFFICE "SEMPERS"." BY HUTLAYING £3,300 ^ FGR EQUIPME^'T 40 ISSUES OF THIS STYLE "SAMPER" MAY DE PRL'^iTED FDR Australian Broadcasting Commission Ut. Rudol f Pekarek £750 ( PRESEWT 12 ISSUES ARE PRODUCED AT COST OF SL2,500)J^^ PROPOSED ivill cottdtict the Queenslatid Sym{>hotiy Orcbe<.trPerth University. The Chauve") which was repeated In Its original Italy: Academia Nazlonale d'Arte "Menaechml". The Mitre Players of title is taken from a line in Hindu Mythology: language by the French Club of Canterbury's Drammatica, Rome. Cambridge's Selwyn College played the "All creation is the sport of my mad tvothet University. Victoria University had set Teatro Univetsitarlo dl Bologna. 15th century morality play "Everyman", the Kali". Anouilh's modern version of the Itself the very ambitious task of performing Teatro deH'Unlversita dl Genova. Greek Orpheus and Eurydice story was per Sartre's "in Camera" ("Huis CIos"). The English version of the Dutch original called Teatro Ca'Foscarl, Venice. "Elkerlyc". formed by Melbourne's Dramatic Society. performance was, however, not considered in Portugal: Teatro dos Estudantes da The play, called "Eurydice" with the English the final adjudication, because it exceeded Unlversidade de Coimbra. EXHUMATIONS title "Point of Departure", was performed In the allowed time of one hour. Last year's Sweden: Goteborgs Studentteater. very bad conditions, so that the audience got ^up winner, Massey Agricultural College was Switzerland: Delphisches Theatre, Zurich. the feeling that the performance In Melbourne ,535 successful this time with an uninspired Uruguay: Teatio Universitario de New type itself should have been much better. The pe,forn)ar»ce of Noel Coward's "Family Montevideo. role Of Monsieur Henri (Death) was played ;^ibun,». canterbury University Drama U.S.A. Theatre Group of Mount Mary particularly well by the producer of the play. ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. permits Adelaide University had the courage to play ,^(3^ ^^^^, j^^„ ^^ ..p,^^^^ The Delphiades took place: Jn 1950 in Mainz, HE Manager of ^Jo/c Oscar Wilde's "Salome", which could not ^^ ^^ ^^^„ 0^3^, University terrified the T Transport Depar'<^5/nt, become a success because of the simply audience with Harold Pinter's "The Room". 1952 Verona, 1953 Lyon, 1955 Saarbrucken, BHsbane City Cour^/has pushing aside of the climax: Salome's dance. Two other performances in French were 1957 Geneva, 1959 Bristol, 1960 Dijon and advised that thrJh^sting "University 9d." r.<§^y« siihilar type Sydney University was generally of permit vxjvwhite backing. Highlight of the section of music of the participants of the Eightii Delphiade, Mrs. considered to be the best performer Anne Marie Leyhausen stressed ttie alms of This ar(4h/ Is being* taken of the Festival with Harold Pinter's Festival was the concert given by the to enab'<