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at the door, rag", and told BOB LACK ON THE PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION to o k a tampai leeding it. 'spurned'', Over the last couple o f weeks you may have heard tarted. portfolio holders: for such a situation it may have been “ elected” Student Representative Council, with General various derisive and slightly obscure references to “ Bob satisfactory, but we now employ over fifty people and Meetings o f the Association (quorum 50) as necessary. Lack’s Proposed Constitution” . Since you will shortly be if a national the vast majority o f Executive decisions are of a general This years SRC is shewing sings o f doing a little asked to vote on it, here’s the guts — you can get a copy nany students rather than a specific (portfolio based) nature. Hence we constructive work (for the first time in years) but it can of the document itself from the Association office. It is a d d y f ie l d s of propose that apart from the President and Treasurer the in no way claim to be representative o f student opinion the result o f about six months o f discussions between a / r e f e r e n d u m Executive members should be elected as such by taking simply because none o f its members are in any way Stephen Chan, Bruce Kirkland and myself, our readings a l i s t o r naive, the most successful candidates in one open election. This responsible to anyone for how they vote. General of the rules o f about a dozen Australasian Associations have attended would mean that each Exec member would have large Meetings are invariably badly advertised, are usually held and our beliefs that the present Association structure re somewhat measure of student support as an Exec member and not in obscure lecture theatres and are often at night. We m iddle aqei does not provide for the representation of the students just as (say) a Capping Controller, and it would o f course propose that this system should be scrapped and that all id-bloodshed as a whole, that student politics does not have to be a eliminate unopposed elections. policy decisions should be made directly by the students se n t situation strict aping of the national establishment and that the We also propose to reduce the size o f the Executive through General Meetings held at lunchtime in the quad 5. V ie t n a m e s e Association could live up to its long held claim to be a le a n peaceful, — with our numerous employees there is no longer any to which the Executive must report at least weekly — we "viable welfare organisation and socio-political pressure ive to offei need for a fifteen man Exec to spread the workload, and have of course included proper safeguards to ensure that group within the community at both national and local that many people can’t sing in harmony let alone work any substantial item for discussion must be properly level.” that way — we believe the present system guarantees an advertised first. By holding meetings at lunchtime in the Our proposals are in two basic parts, the first being Executive that will spend most of the time fighting quad you are guaranteed an attendance o f at least a an overhaul o f the Executive system: at present there are 6.72) that an amongst themselves to the detriment of the Association. thousand, which can properly claim to be representative, ;a and Laos" fifteen separate portfolios elected individually with the The objection to an Exec small enough to work together but recognising that some Association business may still /are that Laos usual result of four competent experienced people is of course that it might decide to take over the place: have to be transacted at night we have specified a for use b) contesting one position and at least seven other members there is no danger o f this financially with our present Laotians or quorum of three hundred which would effectively elected unopposed (including about three who stood for accounting system, and politically we believe this it is Vietconq prevent the “ stacking” which has occurred in the past a joke without knowing what was involved). This system objection is met by the second part of our proposal, to (except perhaps for the Engineers, but they sadly seem was designed when the Association had no employees • N ALTMAN. overhaul the policy-making apparatus of the Association. to have lost the inclination). and all its work was done through or by the individual A t present policy is decided by a 60 member (Continued on next Page) interests. The fact that those best interests may not Meeting decisions shall be adopted and which ignored, but also what shall and what shall not be referred to the I’d like to reply briefly to a few objections I have coincide with the interests of the established student students. An efficient “ Parliamentary Reporter” is not heard: “ We need an Executive to decide trivial matters” politicians, or even the established “ rebels” is irrelevant. enough — there must also be an easy and immediate — O f course, that’s why we have retained one, but we method for any student to publicly question any also need an Executive so constructed that it has a decision of the Executive. Also I regret to say that chance of doing something more than deciding “ trivial students don’t have the knowledge because Executives matters” and fighting amongst itself — like trying to (as such, not just the present one) are willing to mislead enact the policies adopted by the students in General us and even lie to us to maintain their control. Meeting, and building this Association into an effective We are not pretending our proposals will Dear Heather representative of student opinion. : “ It will result in revolutionise the place overnight — to be totally government by the loudest voice” - We think not, that Can you effective they w ill require an increased involvement by is practically what we’ve got at the moment, the omitted front all students, an honest Executive who want to make “ politician” who can build the best image is the one who tout the on them work and the continuation of a reliable must be right — the Craccum debate was a fine example to be undersi independent newspaper. We believe that each of these is where nearly all speakers ignored the facts and tried to tanks fo r th also necessary if the Association is going to achieve its gain votes with emotional rubbish (though I must in been doing a aim o f speaking and acting with authority for all fairness admit that the Muccrac was pretty accurate). We students. We also believe that a system such as we have certainly agree that to work properly our proposal outlined will encourage the development of these would need an increased level of student interest and features, and that each o f them is an embarrassment to LOOPHC awareness. “ But the students aren’t interested” — the present system. Bullshit! The students are interested : they keep coming We don’t know whether it will work or not — similar Dear Sir, to Forum, they vote in elections, they even pay their schemes seem to be doing okay in Monash and Victoria $24 without too many complaints, all in the hope that it In a recent — but we believe it can work and will work if you are by Mr Anthony might do some good. That there is a general lack of prepared to make the effort, and that the potential Law, wherein I interest in General Meetings and the SRC only indicates benefits make the effort worthwhile. I suppose it may deal with speci that.these meetings achieve nothing and are seen to seem a frivolous note to end on, but in all seriousness, tax-free capital “ But the students don’t have the knowledge” — No, achieve nothing. We are convinced that when the power why not try it? — it couldn’t be any worse than what This statem because the Exec meets late at night in a mahogany in this Association is handed to the students they will we’ve got, and it could be enormously better. fact that M r h respond and use it responsibly in th e ir' own best room and decides for itself not only which General axation and e - BOB LACK •inance wheth* isked the M inis "How man prosecuted FROM THE PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION hours I was acting as a pusher, I received $16, & Tax A c t 19 at least 80% of the students I met took a copy & made a d o n a tio n . A lto g e th e r , th e d o n a tio n s to t a l­ on “all pr disposition GENERAL MEETINGS ed $75, which paid for the printing and indicated that executive pressure on Craccum can be answer­ for the put 10. ed by an independent publication. Students are punishment willing to act on a principle. They are not as m u ccrac The Minister re easy to push around as exec members must have . im agined. “The secti< 00 A General Meeting will be held at least fortnightly provisions during term, the time and place of such meeting to Generally, I can only see the university as an extention of a crapped-out money system - a income. I t be fixed by the previous General Meeting. Each grandiose employment agency where free enterprise are taken. T meeting shall receive a report from the President and bue.ll, -fLe («xsF wel is god and free speech is dead. But obviously "none.” may discuss any matter raised by any member. students can speak and act for themselves. It is The C ourts T, fy-Ovv. 3^10 *■£. A Special General Meeting may be called to discuss all very hopeful. Students may even realise that no capital j any specified subject at any time during term by the they have the power to make the university a good p la c e . such propei Executive or by a General Meeting or by a petition of JOHN MILNE within the at least fifty (50) students. pattern of (iv) “ On receipt during term of a petition signed by at To. a ll those people who helped MUCCRAC with dona­ the propert least twenty (20) students requesting a special tions, thanks a lot, and here's an approximate Generally, General Meeting to discuss any specified subject the costing so you can see how the money was used. It can only be approximate as we have not yet receiv in pursuing Secretary shall call such a meeting, this to be held ed the b ills for some aspects of the work. clear cut ca within three (3) days of receipt of the petition.” Nevertheles Typesetting (labour only - no charge) continually N eg a tiv es 11. “ Any resolution passed by a General Meeting in 9.00 transfers to Plates (Materials and Exposures) 6.00 accordance with these Rules shall be binding on the Paper 20.00 instances o1 Association, the Executive and the Association’s Printing (Mechanical costs, ink etc) 15-00 from subdh Officers and employees SAVE THAT outside the Should, ho1 Academic Year the Executive may suspend any $ 50 .0 0 prosecution General Meeting resolution and act in contravention Act, for wil of it PROVIDED that any such action on the part of Donations totalled $ 7 5 - 0 0 property de the Executive must be referred to a General Meeting Total to be shared between the two I feel I need within two (2) weeks of the recommencement of e d it o r s (n o t p aid fo r Craccum question: D id I s su e 14), John Miller (not te rm .” paid for Issue 14), Paul Carew, the existence Outside the Academic Year these policy-making Kepa Pou and John M ilne 25.00 speculators has powers shall rest in the Executive. Thus for a week's work, each person Yours fa ith l Any decision of a General Meeting shall be binding receives approximately 4.16 on the Association, the Executive and the Association’s Officers and employees.

(iv) The following matters may be discussed at a General Sir, Meeting only if at least seven (7) days notice of the P e r m i t m i m eeting and the to p ic has .been given, Get your own Affairs O ffice a) Any proposed amendment to this Craccum, Issu Constitution. Medical A id C (b) Any motion to remove from office any University Cuff Links has hardened person elected or appointed under this It*s heartening to be around when the "apathetic committed ag constitution. students" phrases are only cliches. Students Cambodia. It supported Muccrac and the temporarily deposed 12. (i) Each General Meeting shall elect its own Chairman Craccum editors with such decisiveness that all knows the fat from among those present, any member acting as the old Craccum ideals seemed to be coming true. Scarves against the V Chairman for this purpose. Remember way back to March when Heather w rote her N O T E N D a s (H) The Chairman shall have complete control over the p lea fo r stu d en t in volvem en t? Remember th e s ig n s the invaders. of panic among the bureaucrats at the sight of meeting and settle any dispute as he sees fit C lifton, Mclnnes and,Shadbolt? When Tiny Tim and T shirts C o l l e e n F o PROVIDED that any member may at any time move left, not with a bang but a whimper, it looked as 1971. Up to a motion of no confidence in the Chairman and such if Heather and Gordon would be easy to dislodge. t r o u g h o u r motion shall have precedence over any other matter However, Presidential aspirant Russell Bartlett north o f m ed mode it clear that he was mainly concerned to get then under discussion and shall be resolved before rid of Heather. Barty the Brave rides again! from the Great Supply at m siderably o the meeting proceeds to any other business. From the attempted railroading I'ose Muccrac and (iii) The quorum necessary for a General Meeting to Jean-Baptiste Piggin. The paper the executives commence or continue shall be three hundred (300) had feared all year didn't arrive until the members present. editors were sacked. Both the Piggin issue of Craccum and the renegade Muccrac humiliated the executive. The sackings, as Piggin wrote, were FREE UNIVERSITY hasty and clumsy. He was being unduly kind to call it a "tragic mistake" - they were a-tactic­ ally pathetic attempt at a political assasination. T uesday 11th July. extensively by big business Most people should know by now the "reasons" for Dear Sir,— AUTHORITY AND THE and authoritarian groups to th e sa c k in g s had not been checked and were la r g e ­ I am writin; COMPUTER. obtain a compliant ly based on incorrect evidence or lies. But me. After givi Opening Speakers: Graham conditioned society. On the Piggin's fairness mad^ the exec, look worse, and NOW that I w ant to White, Nick Gurr. oth er hand the use o f the he convinced many people that Gordon and Heather O u r aim is to underline the above as too ls as to aid had the integrity and ability to deserve reinstat I was born danger inherent in the fact individual orientation in ernent. in January, 19 that both the computer and society on a contributory I was amazed at the depth of support for Gordon In trying tt t h e to p products of authority (demoncratic) basis and Heather. The Muccrac Collective at no stage New Zeal an de Behavioural Operant is v irtu a lly n il. thought that almost all of its poorly printed Psychology are being used M uccracs 'would a ttr a c t d o n a tio n s. In th e two from Holland to New Zealand was meaningless for me. I do not want to be considered a Dutchman, nor do I want to be called a New Zealander, but I would like to be officially recognised as a ignored, citizen of the world. id to the I realise that at the present time it is not possible to register as is not such and I am writing to suggest that a bureau be set up where i mediate those who wish it can lodge their applications for world ion any citizenship. say that Nationalism through the centuries has produced war, famine (ecutives and misery. The Second World War is a clear example of the ) mislead consequences of unbridled nationalism. A t the present the peace of the world is continually threatened by nationalistic tensions in the Middle East and in Vietnam. als will Dear Heather and Gordon, A few people with whom I have discussed this matter of world ! totally Can you please find space to mention one fact citizenship have raised the objection that in abolishing ment by omitted from the recent Craccum debate? Namely that nationalism those things which are valuable in our different to make ibout the only items in the current Association budget cultures would also be destroyed. reliable to be underspent are Handbook and Craccum, and that However, I believe that if many people join in a movement for “ He was conscious of a strange figure sitting on the inkstand.” f these is world citizenship, national rivalries will gradually lose their thanks for these must go directly to Paul Carew who has DEMOCRACY your paper demands for all will not be :hieve its meaning and a well-established and lasting world peace will come been doing a marvellous job under extreme probocation. given a moment’s thought. for all into existence, with its opportunities for a new and probably Love, 4. Replacing the present South Vietnamese we have beautiful culture. BOB LACK. Government by a Communist dictatorship will result in of these I hope that in my lifetime the name United Nations Organisation will be altered to the Organisation of the United inevitable repercussions. Just remember that any traces sment to LOOPHOLES FOR LAND SPECULATORS People. of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia were immediately People are requested to send their suggestions, objections, purged when the Russians invaded. I dare not imagine — similar Dear Sir, comments or support to my address in brder to give my idea a what the relatively unsophisticated North-Vietnamese I Victoria In a recent issue of “ Craccum” you published a short letter concrete form, for I intend to send a petition to the United will do once they gain power. On one hand, f you are by Mr Anthony P. Molloy, a part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Nations after having gained sufficient support. “ Peace” -marchers vehemently denounced the Russian potential Law, wherein he stated that there was legislation sufficient to invasion, yet now virtually advocate an identical se it may deal with speculators in real estate because they were making Yours faithfully, occurrence for South-Vietnam. P A U L J. B O U W M AN . riousness, tax-free capital gain. Too often this magazine gives a heavily biased This statement astonished me. Nevertheless, accepting the han what viewpoint on this and other major issues failing to fact that Mr Molloy was a lecturer in law who specialised in D e a r S i r , axation and estate planning, I decided to ask the Minister of A lot has been said over the years about language being present any form o f balanced criticism. Lord Nelson BLACK :inance whether what Mr Molloy stated was true. On 15 June I included as a com pulsory part o f Stage / English. So I ’m saying it could turn a blind eye to events and it appears that isked the M inister of Finance: a l l a g a i n . “ Craccum” has adopted this habit in neglecting OTHER “How many people over the past five years have been Literature tutors w ill tell you som e o f their students fail the equally VITAL facts—such an unbalanced approach is prosecuted under section 88 (1) (c) of the Land and Income w hole course just through the incapability o f understanding the synonymous with HYPOCRISY. d $16, & Tax Act 1954 which provides that every person must pay tax scientific operation on w ords. So, I challenge you and your paper to devote some copy & on "all profits or gains derived from the sale or other B ut w hat students are bitching about is not that they find the s to ta l- small space to this alternative Student point of view in ndicated disposition of ... property ... if the property was acquired course im possible but that it is in fact com pulsory. If people your next issue, and convince at least me that there is nnswer- for the purpose of selling ... it ...,” and what were the want to do transform ations then let them , but for Christs sake nothing to fear by a rapid American withdrawal. t s are punishments imposed?” offer it as an option to the student. - A. RUTHERFORD. not as The Minister replied: N ow at the m om ent this is the opinion of 100% o f students / have . Dear Sir, “The section referred to is part of the general income have talked to about this (about four), which is not enough I am a Law student and wondering why. I once hoped that provisions o f the T a x A c t categorising w hat is assessable opinion to get the bastards to change their fucking course, so law school might attract or arouse young people who were not income. It is not one under which prosecution proceedings w hat I’m calling for is authorised student opinion, so that w hen prepared to believe that there was equality before the law or that are taken. Therefore the answer to the Member’s question is we have a faculty m eeting we can put forw ard that say 70% or terprise a law degree was simply a licence to make money by advising ously “ none.” w hatever are at present against com pulsory language and w ant a rich clients to get richer. It seems that those students attracted . It is The Courts in New Zealand have made it clear that as there is change So what / want everyone to do is to keep a thum b on to the law tend to be naturally conservative, rule oriented with a ise' that no capital gains tax in this country then profits on sales of their class reps because if m ore and m ore people get up and say flair for mental gymnastics. I once hoped that there might be law y a good such property as shares or land will not be viewed as coming nasty w ords about Language, then they w ill be forced to hold a graduates who did not want to become company or real estate lawyers and who might be prepared to make a real economic within the section unless there is an established and clear m eeting in B 28 at 1pm som eday in a w eek or two. sacrifice and open law offices in the slums or the ghettoes, taking L o v e , pattern of dealing or the circumstances leave no doubt that the law to the poor, advising them on hire purchase contracts, th dona- the property was acquired for more or less immediate resale. Row an Keith landlord and tenant law and offering advice in marshalling imote Generally, therefore, Inland Revenue has been unsuccessful community action to aid welfare recipients and pensioners, used. It in pursuing assessment of profits on property sales in all but t receiv S i r , organising tenants strikes, forming consumer action groups and clear cut cases. / agree with NZUSA’s opposition to racism on an fighting racial discrimination in housing, job applications, etc. Nevertheless, it is a function of all senior inspectors to international scale but feel uncom fortable about a certain corrier In the law school itself, the teachers are often still teaching continually look for these patterns particularly of land of the association’s ow n backyard. N ZUSA and at least one of law exclusively from appellate court decisions which has an air of unreality about it, because much of this knowledge Ynay be 9.00 transfers to see if the section can be applied. There are many the constituent associations (VU W SA) offer life assurance 6.00 useful to eminent counsel but has little relevance to the 20.00 instances o f land developers’ returns being assessed on p ro fits services w hich discrim inate against Polynesians. M aoris and situations which a young lawyer is likely to (or wants to) 15-00 from subdivisions and other property deals. Islanders are expected to pay higher prem ium s than Pakehas in encounter in everyday practice. We have 4th and 5th year Should, however, the Member be referring to the numbers of an equivalent or even inferior state o f health, because these tw o students working in offices providing a cheap labour force and 50.00 prosecutions taken under the general penal provisions of the groups o f people have shorter life expectancies. perpetuating the static habits and traditions of the legal Act, fo r w ilfu l evasion o f tax involving assessable p r o fit sfrom If life assurance is based on anything other than assessm ent profession. 75.00 property dealing, the answer again is “ none” . o f health and life prospects on an individual basis som e kind of There is no indication that the law school sees its role as one I feel I need add little more except to ask Mr Molloy one stereotypy, be it statistically contrived or not, is being brought of law reform but rather as training lawyers to perpetuate the question: Did he know that the Minister’s reply would indicate into play. In this case the stereotypy is one o f race and therefore system rather than change it. There seems little hope of changing this view so long as law students are only interested in making the existence of a giant loophole through which all land to call the assurance com panies, N ZUSA and VUW SA racist is money from company or tax law, so long as the profession speculators have been able to leap, and if not, why not? 25.00 justifiable. dictates the terms of legal education, so long as the legal Yours fa ith fu lly , To have Polynesian ancestry undoubtedly alters the profession prohibits students from appearing even in the lower 4.16 Jonathan Hunt probabilities o f certain genes but to equate this, as the assurances courts and so long as the students themselves are prepared to be M.P. for New Lynn com panies do, w ith disease is unw holesom e and unacceptable to tools of the system for their own material advancement. Lawyer the m ajority of university students, if not New Zealanders in like to talk glibly of the majesty of the common law, of the general. It also neglects the fact that shorter life expectancies are glorious heritage of freedom and justice dating back to Magna S ir, related to low er standards of living and other socio-econom ic Carta and of equality before the law. When law students finally Permit me to congratulate Colleen Foley, International f a c t o r s . realise that this is mostly rhetoric, then we can expect legal Affairs O fficer, for her statem ent, “Change our P olicy” in S i n c e r e l y , change and some groping toward social justice. Craccum, Issue 12. It corresponds to the thinking o f the N.Z. Paul Burns. As for myself I am trying to decide whether it takes more guts to throw it all in or to keep going and see if this ship of Medical A id Com m ittee, N L F areas, and its supporters, w hich fools called the Law Faculty can’t be attacked from the top. has hardened over the years since the US and her allies “ Craccum” (June 15th) presented a very one-sided Harvey J. Wilson committed aggression against Vietnam and latterly, Laos and viewpoint on the Indo-China War, and neglected, or Dear Sir, Cambodia. It is surely obvious to any objective observer w ho rather refused, to recognize some OTHER facts about knows the facts, that the war o f aggression being conducted The copy of Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar the conflict. against the Vietnam ese people—and now , all Indo-C hina-w ill that is kept in room 004 of the old Arts NOT EN D as long as there is a m an or w om an left alive, to fight 1. The North-Vietnamese themselves have blatantly Building has gone missing, could you please invaded neighbouring Thailand and Laos. They conscript the invaders. help us find it? It was last seen on Wednesday labour from the countryside by Press-Gang Tactics Colleen Fo ley’s figure o f $1,770.00 was for part o f the year of the last week o f the first term at 2pm. As 1971. Up to date the New Zealand people have provided, subject the inhabitants to a regime which is both harsh through our British counterpart, approxim ately $15,000.00 and totalitarian and do it in a manner identical to the this large volume is o f no use to anyone else north of m edical supplies. S upport for our cause has increased Fascist tactics of Nazi Germany during the early years of but Stage 2 Ancient History students we It :onsiderably over the last five m onths. World War II. Yet it is the Americans and their allies that would welcome it’s return. We realize that Yours etc., are branded as FASCIST PIGS — your contributors to any student interested in things ancient may (W . Jerm yn) your magazine happily ignore this. have accidentally removed it, having become CHAIRMAN 2. Numerous examples have been cited o f engrossed in the mysteries that are revealed in 2 1 Blythswood Flats, Communist troops being chained to their tanks and guns this tome. We Egyptologists are concerned for Cnr Willis St-Aro St, — if they believe in their cause, as your magazine the welfare of this book. Would anyone 1 Wellington, New Zealand. suggests they would fight willingly and not need any knowings the whereabouts of Gardiner’s such “ Persuasion.” Does this magazine honestly support Egyptian Grammar please return it to room Dear Sir,— this violation o f Human Rights which it so vigorously I am writing to you about something that is very important to advocates is the right of all? The opportunity for FREE 304, or contact Mr Cowlin (office in the back me. After giving the matter considerable thought I have decided SPEECH is not the exclusive right of Demonstrators. of the Lower Lecture Theatre) or the Ancient that I want to become a world citizen. 3. Only the very naive will believe that the History Stage 2 rep., Alan Walmsley. I was born in The Hague, Holland, on February 2, 1950, and Yours sincerely, in January, 1971,1 emigrated to New Zealand. withdrawal o f Allied troops will stop this War — Saigon In trying to decide whether or not to become a naturalised would be a suburb o f Hanoi within hours o f such an Bronwen Mason — on behalf o f Stage 2 New Zealander, it occurred to me that to change my allegiance event: OCCUPATION will be permanent, and the Ancient History, Egyptian option. NOTICE NAUSEA

CANDIDATES FOR POSITIONS OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETINGS PRESIDENT, ADMINISTRATIVE VICE PRESIDENT, & WELFARE VICE PRESIDENT IN QUAD OR B28 IF WET

NO TE: There has been no nom ination received for the Tues. 11th July to discuss AUSA policy on equal payfor position o f Treasurer. staff. PRESIDENT NGAHUIA VOLKER1NG Wednesday 12th July to discuss proposed new N o m in a te d R.W. Lack constitution of AUSA. S e c o n d e d Stephen Chan Kaye A. Turner Thursday 13th July to discuss policy on the PETER ROTHERHAM amalgamation of NZUSA and STANZ. N o m in a te d Matthew Robson S e c o n d e d Brigid Mulrennan Wayne Laird RUSSELL BARTLETT N o m in a te d B. Kirkland S e c o n d e d L.H. Chan The Students Representative Council Clare Ward requires a Secretary to record minutes (no typing required) because under the WELFARE VICE PRESIDENT constitution no SRC member may be ROBERT LACK Secretary. Fortnightly on Thursday nights. N o m in a te d Stephen Chan We need you. See Miss Macky at the Stud S e c o n d e d Ngahuia Volkerling Ass Office. Kaye A. Turner DAVID HOPKINSON N o m in a te d Brent McConachy S e c o n d e d Russell Bartlett Richard Gyde A MEETING HAS BEEN CALLED IN B28 ADMINISTRATIVE VICE PRESIDENT ON THURSDAY 29 JUNE, AT 1 P.M. TO STEPHEN CHAN CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING MATTER: N o m in a te d R.W. Lack 12 THE S e c o n d e d Ngahuia Volkerling THAT $5,000.00 be donated to the Vietnam Medical Kaye A. Turner Aid Appeal GEORGE MYALLS N o m in a te d Larry J. Summerville Margery Macky, S e c o n d e d Mike Major ASSOCIATION SECRETARY David Hopkinson NEIL NEWMAN N o m in a te e d Brent McConachy S e c o n d e d Ross Sellwood STUDENT AID Andrew Gough PETER VERNER There are 10,000 of us here. For many o f us contact N o m in a te d P.C. Rotherham with the rest o f Auckland and our knowledge of those S e c o n d e d Ian Westbrooke with difficulties is limited. Some of us are pretty much S.J. Hoare engrossed in getting a degree. With the aim of encouraging students to think about other people in A uckland we talked to a lo t o f people already working APPLICATIONS ARE CALLED FOR in groups and visiting hospitals, prisons, childrens’ homes and c orphanages. Pretty soon it became evident that we didn’t need to THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS ARTS FESTIVAL: see. l BILLETING: set- up societies of our own. We heard stories that sounded melodramatic. Most times they were true. ami J 2 positons for the Craccum Administration Board. For instance Eusthenasia is most definitely frowned on by back 1 position for the Union Management Committee. . As you are aware, Arts Festival is a New Zealand society, but putting old people into homes until they die is arms 1 position for Senate. Universities event. We are expecting a good proportion apparently acceptable. of those attending to come from out-of-Auckland. This How can a person, mobile or immobile live out the rest of his Th These applications close at 5.00 p.m. on Thursday, 13th leads to a little problem. We will probably have 3,000 life in one of these homes? Some have neither relatives nor have July. students to house. The organisers will follow precedent friends and consequently have no visitors and restricted contact was in basing their accommodation problems on a billeting with other people. Fren system. There are no plans for student villages as the It is no exaggeration that there are a lot of people around The successful applicants will be appointed by SRC on Lvtt( that night. consequences would be impractical in an inner-city who need and want assistance and help and someone to know. situation. What we would like you to do is to think about your position Having decided on the strategy, we must now appeal to all and see if you cannot go part of the way to filling in the big gap. MEANWH HOUSING students to offer their houses, homes, flats, whatever to There are loads of different things you can do depending on (1) Studass has some money accommodate the expected number of people in August. The the kind of time commitment you can fu lfil, for example as part We needed (2) Money devalues of a group you can provide one night’s entertainment, you can and New I (3) Property does not dates are August 20 - 26 which is the middle week of the write letters, you can take up hospital or prison visiting on a threatening There are a group of us who would like to see this money August vacation. You will be expected to provide floorspace weekly or fortnightly basis, you can spend an afternoon taking After a wh invested in houses for students to live in. The rents could be fair only. There is no obligation to feed or entertain visitors although kids out. You can choose the kind of institution you want to be issue. and would pay the mortgages. We would like to buy houses close this may be arranged in your own way. The shi to varisty and gradually accumulate several adjacent properties involved in. If you can help with secretarial work or driving you For your information, a sleeping space is approximately 6’ x Greenpeace so that when several generations o f students have lived in and will also be particularly useful. 4’. On this basis you are likely to get 12-14 people in the average aim to stop left them the land can be cleared and student villages, or flats o f Perhaps you aren’t sure how to go about visiting or room. It is essential to think in terms such as this if we are to to give in whatever is wanted and needed can be built. helping. We have information about places such as: — make up the numbers. number o f To do all this we need — OAKLEY HOSPITAL: From past experience, Arts Festival has not wholly been the raised a vigc * People to see houses and check that they are habitable. Games evening: table-tennis, badminton, and indoor bowls. scheduled programme. Rather it was the fact that you lived with * People who can arrange finance and can tell a good buy Visiting: ward visiting when they see it. 9 other people in a room, blew a few joints and talked all night. Friday, Ju Entertainment: anything you can provide. occupying 1 The organisers would appreciate your immediate response in this (Expatients society entertainment also). with plaincl matter. CORNWALL GERIATRIC HOSPITAL: n a y f- h U6S. v \ Patticulars can be left in the books at: Saturday, J (a) the Contact Office Visiting: Ward visiting of the Frei CONTACT next door to UBS (b) Students: Association Office Entertainment: anything you can provide exhibition i Can help with almost any (c) Arts Festival Office expose the problem and if it cannot will find PAREMOREMO participatin someone who can. or by contacting Visiting: (one to one), Entertainment, Reform, Letter Environmei Clare Ward 78-047 W riting Brent McConarchy 73-982 hour they \ Howard Reform League: Sue James 83-204 The sar FOOD CO-OP Thursdays 12 — 2.30pm Quad. Prisoners’ Aid and Rehabilitation Society hundred pe Come and buy and help WANTED URGENTLY! Ponsonby Panthers If you know where to buy cheap Students for Prisoners’ Aid Tuesday, Ji food or can lay your hands on strike o f u MANGERE INTELLECTUALLY HANDICAPPED some cheap scales come and tell For the production of SEXUS, a mixed media event (not called o ff. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: us or tell it to C O N T A C T happening!) in Arts Festival, ONE STAGE MANAGER, By and Being available to look after the children on various group However, h EXPERIENCED IF POSSIBLE. Also required, ONE PETITION outings. Entertainment: political pa (To Free Rod Davis at LIGHTING OPERATOR, experience not as essential as a Studass Office) MT. EDEN Same hi Paris for Ji good sense of theatre. Visiting: Group visiting — basketball (Information at CONTACT) public opin JACK BODY Maori Culture Group Prisoners’ Aid and Rehabilitation Society. WANTED a student or group of students to entertain some old people mid Barry Humphries IS coming to Arts Festival! If you want to help or just want further information you can Please coni July. ask at Contact (next door to the University Bookshop.) France m m “The principal defect of the industrial way of life with its ethos of expansion is that it is not sustainable. GS Its termination within the lifetime o f someone born today is inevitable — unless it continues to be sustained for a while longer by an entrenched minority at the cost of imposing great suffering on the rest o f mankind. We qual pay for can be certain, however that sooner or later it will end (only the precise time and circumstances are in doubt), and that it w ill do so in one o f two ways: either against posed new our w ill, in a succession o f famines, epidemics, social crises and wars; or because we want it to — because we wish to create a society which w ill not impose hardship y on the and cruelty upon our children — in a succession of thoughtful, humane and measured changes.” “ Radical change is both necessary and inevitable because the present increase in human numbers and ‘per capita’ consumption, by disrupting ecosystems and depleting resources, are undermining the very foundations of survival. At present the world population of 3,600 million is increasing by 2 per cent per Council year...... ” tes (no “The combination of human numbers and ‘per capita’ :r the consumption has a considerable impact on the environment, in lay be terms of both the resources we take from it and the pollutants we impose on it.” nights, “ . . . .consumption in the developed countries in higher even te Stud with their smaller share of the population, their consumption may well represent over 80 per cent of the world total.’” “ There is no sign that an eventual end to economic growth is envisaged, and indeed industrial economies appear to b-eak down if growth ceases or even slows, however high the absolute B28 level of consumption.” “ Indefinate growth of whatever type cannot be sustained by .TO ‘finite’ resources. This is the nub of the environmental rER: predicament. It is still less possible to maintain indefinate 2 THE EVENING POST, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1968. ‘exponential’ growth.” am Medical “ The environm ental predicam ent has come upon us so suddenly its solution requires urgent and radical measures, many of which run counter to values which, in our industrial society jery Macky, we have been taught to regard as fundamental.” CRETARY “We depend for our survival on the predictability of ecological processes.” ‘Strong Men Really Sick “ Unfortunately, we behave as if we knew nothing of the environment and had no conception of its predictability.. ..” .. .We tremble over our wheatfields and cabbage patches f us contact with a desperate battery of synthetic chemicals, in an absurd ge of those attempt to impede the operation of the immutable “law” we have just mentioned — that all ecosystems tend towards stability, retty much After Working On French therefore diversity and complexity, therefore a growing number of different plant and animal species until a climax or optimal ; about other condition is achieved. If we were clever, we would recognise that eady working successful longterm agriculture demands the achievement of an homes and CHRISTCHURCH, Today (PA). — “1 artificial climax, an imitation of the pre-existing ecosystem, so id n ’t need to that the level of unwanted species could be controlled by those hat sounded sec really strong,young men going away anil I see them really sick when they come that did no harm to the crop-plants.” “ Instead we have put our money on pesticides,. . .. ” iwned on by back. They have skin peeling off their "We know, however, that the combined effects of pollution I they die is arms and their hair is falling out.” and habitat destruction menace the survival of no less than 280 Atom Sites’ mammal, 350 bird, and 20,000 plant species. To those who :he rest of his This description of Pacific Islanders who regret these losses but greet them with the comment that the relatives nor have worked on Frcnch atom bomb sites survival of ‘Homo sapiens’ is surely more important than that of icted contact was given by Mr Charles Rrotherson, a an eagle or a primrose, we repeat that 'Homo sapiens’ himself Frenchman, of Raiatea Island, to the depends on the continued resilience of those ecological network eople around Lyttelton Rotary Club last night. of which eagles and primroses are integral parts. We do not need >ne to know, to utterly destroy the ecosphere to bring catastrophe upon 'o u r position ourselves: all we have to do is to carry on as we are, clearing 1 the big gap. MEANWHILE BACK IN FRANCE... forests, “ reclaiming” wetlands, and imposing sufficient lepending on quantities of pesticides, radioactive materials, plastics, sewage, ample as part We needed Greenpeace Foundation, of Vancouver, B.C., Canada and industrial wastes upon our air, water, and land systems to ent, you can and New Zealand watersiders to start organizing against the make them inhospitable to the species on which their continued visiting on a threatening nuclear tests France in planning in the South-Pacific. stability and integrity depend.” rnoon taking After a while, however, French pacifists are moving in on the issue. “ By now it should be clear that the main problems of the u w ant to be environment do not arise from temporary and accidental r driving you The shit started to flow when Ben Metcalfe, director of Greenpeace, was busted on Paris airport Orly with the obvious malfunctions of existing economic and social systems. On the aim to stop the press conference he, and others, were supposed contrary, they are the warning signs of a profound risiting or to give in paris. The press conference did take place, and a incompatibility between deeply rooted beliefs in continuous number of outstanding religious, academic and political persons growth and the dawning recognition of the earth as a space ship, raised a vigourous protest against the bust. limited in its resources and vulnerable to thoughtless idoor bowls. mishandling.” Friday, June 2. 1972. Eight Canadian guys & girls start The above are a series of quotations taken from “ A Blueprint occupying the Paris cathedral, Notre-Dame. The priests, together for Survival” published in “ The Ecologist” January 1972. with plainclothes police, kick them out in no time. Malcolm Patterson Saturday, June 4. Some 40 people chain themselves in, in front of the French Atomic Energy Commission at the Environment exhibition in Paris. They want to protest at resuming Tests and expose the hypocrisy of the French government which is participating at the same moment in the U.N. conference on arm, Letter EXERCISE Environment in Stockholm. After occupying the place for an AESTHETIC FEAT OF THE YEAR AWARD hour they get busted and taken to the cellar of a police station. The same day in Montpellier, in South France, about a By the way, we've got a new front-runner for the Aesthetic YOUR LEGAL RIGHT hundred people hold a meeting in the downtown area. Feat of the year (the Supreme Court Bomber must take second place, I'm afraid — but nice try, though!) Tuesday, June 6. A 54 year old guy, John Neko, starts a hunger Of course I'm referring to the fire-bombing of the UTA Register as a Conscientious Objector strike of unlimited duration, until the Pacific nuclear tests are ) ICAPPED French airlines office. As an artistic event, it has presented us called off. with at least a dozen spheres of experential meaning, whether By and by we are gaining support and the struggle intensifies. For information write or phone political, metaphysical, humanitarian, aesthetic, to name a few. arious group However, it can’t fully develop unless the leftist and ultra-leftist What impressed me was the totality with which the Act was Christian Pacifist Society,or Society of Friends,. political parties decide to mobilise. Which is not the case now. 12 Frost Road, 18 Ely Avenue, Same holds true for the big demonstration that is planned in accomplished. It's a surprise to find such a meticulous and Paris for June 24. It should raise interest and participation of fastidious technician amongst us not to mention an aesthete and Auckland 4. Auckland 5 public opinion, providing the political parties get into it. humorist as well! The charred and blackened burnt-out office — 695-541 545-109 even now as it is being repaired — has opened up an entirely new dimension in temporal sculpture. :ion you can Please contact M.D.P.L., 143 rue Raymond Losserand Paris 14, It will have to take a strong combination of imagination and 3.) France opportunity to top this. MORE NAUSEA

STATEMENT FROM THE CAPPING DEAN’S LECTURE CONTROLLER DURING MY SCHOOLDAYS I WHS HIPPOCRATES OR HYPOCRISY? CONTRARY to the statement by M r Chan and the T H K A 5 H £ D EMB .RV DAY /^ND Against the background of the Hippocratic Oath and its im pressions given by other speakers at the S.G.M. on ^AIJOYE-D IT ■ implications Kingsley Mortimer will discuss the present day Thursday June 22nd, I was not, and never intended to position o f medicine, from a personal point o f view. He will offer m yself as a fatted calf on behalf o f the Executive. attempt to indicate what medicine in the modern world can My whole policy, and that which I shall pursue do, and what it has no hope of doing. In the same context regardless o f m y ow n political future, is to take m ajor he will discuss the present medical course, its virtues and its decisions regarding association policy out o f the hands failings. o f sm all pressure groups (Exec, Craccum , A dm in Board, Professor Mortimer w ill review medicine as “the Subcom m ittees and Pushy Societies) and in to the hands impossible profession” , lacking, as it is currently structured, o f the student body. I am not prepared to sacrifice m y any implicit commitment to the philosophical or the future for any person or group, but I am prepared to do religious dimensions o f mankind. In this regard he will so w ith the aim o f establishing a policy precedent that I touch on the morality of prescribing, the difference think w ill be o f great benefit not only to the U nion as a between MEDICINE and DOCTORS, why people are whole but to individual students w ho w ould otherwise “ cured, but no better” , and the abuse of discovery. These play no part in student affairs. I still hold that the only criteria underline his view o f the ‘mountain o f useless means by w hich students can be encouraged to inform therapy.” them selves about m ajor issues is to m ake those issues as Mortimer js a University Gold Medalist in English contentious as possible so that the subsequent reaction Literaure and Ethnology, and graduated in Anthropology, results in w ide p u b licity o f all sides o f the case. Education and Medicine. He describes himself aditionally, I m oved the m otion solely for the right to speak first, as an “ amateur theologian.” and I hoped to clarify the background of the action, leaving the case proper to those m ore qualified to give inform ation. I hoped to avoid the resulting clash of Place: Gold Lecture Theatre, Medical School swords between rival factions, I hoped to avoid the Date: Wednesday, 12th ju ly Time: 11.30 a.m. personal attacks and recrim inations that came out, A FE offered to us as logical argum ent for and against. I hoped CIVIL RIC to avoid blatant lies being offered as facts in the case. water m ain I crapped out. rendering a Needless to say the whole affair was a shameless workers NZPA-RE farce. I’m glad that Gordon and Heather can now PA. A 7 : i - -A INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL The Durable reported: ‘ operate w ith the “confidence” o f the student body — REINSTATEMENT OF POLICY FOR THIS SCHOOL ON Editors: Heather Mclnnes extremist w ith all that entails. I’m sorry they had to lose their pay TOPICS WHICH ARE NOT OPEN FOR DISCUSSION IN Gordon Clifton community to achieve this, but it’s a sm all “ price to pay for free THE CLASSROOM. on Ulster w s p e e c h ” . 1. SEX either directly, or included in other activities, ie Photographies: When Everyone over-reacted shamelessly. | John Miller Hair and Germaine Greer. Paisley an It was a good show , wasn’t it. ^ e A ^ - 2. RELIGION-other than statement of the religions of Volunteer I can’t apologise — I prom ise to do it again, w hatever Advertising: James Sloane various peoples of the world as part of their lives. Be very organisation h a p p e n s . sentenced — Neil Newman. careful you do not reveal your personal bias. Treat Technical Editor: Jim Laing evolution very cautiously. Reuter and 3. POLITICS—governments of the world may be studied COPY FOR THE NEXT ISSUE MUST REACH US far from si I but be sure your sources of reference are those that would TODAY, TYPED AND DOUBLE SPACED. was senten THE LITTLE RED RIP-OFF be accepted by the majority of parents in this school. December —and be very wary about studying, closely and Published by the Craccum Administration Board for the the IR A w proprietors, the Auckland University Student's Association Things are looking lucrative Exercise Book which printed 1970) pub for Little Red School Book for four pages of the LRSB at certainly with any bias, systems that are inimical to and printed by the Wanganui Chronicle Co. Ltd., at the and Little White Book a time. It was given away free. our basic existence as a democracy. printers' works, corner of Campbell and Wicksteed Places, of London publisher Alister Taylor. Four And in Sydney the book has N.B. This society that our pupils live in and the society ol W anganui. violent th a editions of the LRSB in NZ been reprinted in tabloid form the world they live in, is so full of positively useful topics Home O ffii (75,000 copies) and an intial and is being distributed feely. that there is no need for academic arguments about T h e 3 printing run of 80,000 in Some radical groups deserve shattered b y Australia should clear at least credit for making it easier for doubtful topics. $50,000 for Taylor according those to whom the book was We will not muzzle our pupils but will guide them to the and th e N Z to conservative estimates. directed - school children - wealth of postively valuable topics available for discussion. responsibilit' In Adelaide some people to get the book at a realistic REMEMBER THESE PUPILS ARE STILL (who best remain unnamed for cost. According to some WANTA MOTORCYCLE fear of Taylor's legal prowess) estimates Taylor could have ESSENTIALLY CHILDREN. published the Big Red produced his LRSB for 50 Parents have a right to a say in the influence brought to look no further cents retail. bear on their children in the largely ‘captive’ nature of the AMS. classroom they learn in at school.

Laurie Summer Ltd for the best line of CENSORSHIP AT THE HERALD Kawasaki and Honda bikes from Mini's HOSPITALISED to Super bikes The Sunday Herald (the people who brought you Germaine Greer) had the idea of bringing South African (non-racial) Rugby Beware when you get old, ill and on the pension and in need of union president Abdul Abass, to this country. The invitation was hospitalisation. For you will find that you are not eligible for free issued by CARE secretary Tom Newnham - and Mr Abbas said hospitalisation (admittance to Cornwall) if you have more than the he’d be glad to come except that a conference of his union grand total of $300 in the bank. If you do happen to have more would have to make the final decision. then the only alternative is to enter a private hospital at which the All models always vn stock Who The Sunday Herald said that they would be glad to pick up fees are not Government controlled and vary between $32 and $70 world the tab if he did decide to come. But twelve hours later, Mr per week. When you run out of savings you might be asked to sell Lowest terms available values, Michael Horton who has recently taken over the reigns at the your car if you still have one and put a mortgage on your house Good selection of used bikes priced Herald abruptly cancelled the tour. before being eligible to squeeze into over-crowded, understaffed from $200 up, empha: We h To impress his point, Horton ordered that neither paper Cornwall Geriatric. 3 month guarantee on majority of would give the invitation any publicity. Not a word appeared Many doctors that practise and include private hospital visits ‘feminit used machines. although it was big news on local radio stations. have financial interests in the private hospital that they recommend Zealand Alternative News Service. to their patients. We live in a Welfare State. Worshij All models always in stock What a who ha than tl special notice charach one we to asses A.U.S.A. has an Insurance Scheme. preoccu N.Z.U.S.A. also has an Insurance Scheme. assume Both claim to provide Life Assurance "at favourable style of rates". LAURIE SUMMERS LTD image, A it there's quite a difference! someho 83 M t Eden Rd. (Ph 74320) is the t( For quotes, ring 74-197. No charge, no obligation. 275 Queen St., Onehunga (ph 666-249). by the implical Oldpark, Dundonald and Lisburn Road, and the fatal blast at a Catholic pub in Durham Street, could all be silly mistakes by the IRA. So also could explosions at a Catholic school and many Catholic homes in Belfast be accidents or errors. Wellington’s EVENING POST (July 29, 1970) carried a NZPA—Reuter report on the bombing of homes belonging to the Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ulster and a Protestant High Court Judge. For some curious reason it claimed that ‘Last night’s were the first to have been set off at the home of prominent Irishmen’. Curious, because the homes of many Ulster citizens—prominent by THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH standards—were bombed or destroyed by fire in the previous m onths. On April, 29, 1970 the home of Mr Richard Ferguson, Oath and its Protestant champion of Civil Rights; ex member of the Orange : present day Order: ex member of the Unionist Government, was destroyed /iew. Hewill by a bomb. The previous October Mr Ferguson was hounded out of Parliament because he had resigned from the Orange Order rn world can out of sympathy with the Catholic minority. Mr Austin Currie, ame context Catholic M.P., lost his home to a terrorist bomb (March 9). Like rtues and its Mr Ferguson he had received numerous threats to his life from the Ulster Volunteer Force. The previous month (February 9) ie as “the the home of Miss Sheelagh Murnagham a former Liberal M.P. / structured, was bombed. The NZBC report of this outrage inferred Catholic deal or the guilt, the four men who went to jail for the offence were ;ard he will supporters of Mr Paisley. ; difference In an editorial on the terror bombing THE BELFAST people are TELEGRAPH, a liberal Protestant paper, an illustrious paper, >very. These wrote on February 4, 1970: ‘Once upon a time every bomb outrage in Northern Ireland was automatically attributed to the l of useless IRA. It was universally acknowledged as a self-defeating cowardly form of protest which did more to unite people in in English opposition to terrorism than to advance the anti-partitionist ithropology, cause. Today, the picture is very different. Four blasts in Belfast iditionally, since the New Year are plainly the work of extremists on the other side of the fence, demonstrating in a crude, criminal and equally senseless way against the forces of moderation and fair ol NORTHERN IRELAND p la y ’. A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN Ulster hit the world headlines the water mains serving Belfast were blasted by dynamite, rendering a city prone to arson—open to destruction. NZPA-REUTER (DOMINION 26.4.69) and the NZBC reported: The attacks have been widely blamed upon extremist elements among the minority Catholic community’. THE DOMINION, May 3, carried an article network news 7pm November 3, reported that ‘a caller with an When Right Wing Unionists called for internment of on Ulster which fixed the blame on the IRA. Irish accent warned of the bomb’. British papers carried the Catholics following the murder of the three British soldiers in When Samuel Stevenson, dsiciple o f the Rev. Ian alleged claim by the IRA, they also carried a claim by the ‘Angry March 1971, THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH, in an editorial, Brigade’ claiming responsibility for the bombing. THE TIMES Paisley and self-styled Commander o f the Ulster bluntly said (March 15) that internment of suspected IRA (London Nov. 2) differed from the NZBC in that it reported “ a should not be introduced unless ‘it was applicable also to the Volunteer Force—an illegal extremist Protestant caller with an unidentifiable accent warned of the bomb.” Ulster Volunteer Force.’ organisation — was found guilty (December 5, 1969) and It is interesting to note that at that time two central figures The fact is that there was no terrorist activity by the IRA sentenced to twelve years imprisonment for the crime, in ‘The Angry Brigade’, Jack Prescott, an Englishman and Jack from October 1968 when the trouble began until June 1970, Reuter and its outlets were strangely silent. (They were Purdie, a Scot, were standing trial on charges of terror bombing when the Conservative and Unionist Party - to give it its official far from silent a few weeks later when Bernadette Devlin in Britain. A few weeks later Prescott was sentenced to 15 years title — grasped the reins of power in Britain. was sentenced to six months in the same courtroom. imprisonment for his misuse of high explosives. Our news-media (Mr Heath and his junta then sold out to the Orange Tories of December 22.) New Zealanders were told, ‘ Police think were strangely silent. Ulster, just as surely as they recently sold out to the White the IRA were responsible’, THE DOMINION (Sept. 10 NZPA-REUTER did however report that McGurks tavern in Tories in Rhodesia — with virtually the same results). 1970) published an article on the alleged IRA invasion Belfast in which 15 Catholics were killed ‘was blasted by a Over the past few years Catholic homes, schools, churches, guerilla bomb’. ‘Gallery’, as a backgrounder, resurrected the IRA of London, ‘ But now that it is here, it is much more business premises, pubs, offices, have all been targets for the of half a century ago. What failed to emerge is the fact that violent than anything expected by Scotland Yard or the terror bombers of the Ulster Volunteer Force. Liberal scarcely a Catholic owned hotel or licensed premises is left Protestants and non-secretarian organisations have also been Home Office, and could grow more violent still! standing in Belfast, after three years of terror bombing and arson hammered. The 32 nd floor of London’s Post Office Tower was by supporters of the world’s most reactionary Tories. We were BY IRISH CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (NZ), BOX shattered by a bomb on October 31 last. The NZPA-REUTER told the bomb was intended for an IRA target, but went off 1595, AUCKLAND. and the NZBC gave massive p u b lic ity to an alleged claim o f accidentally in the tavern. The October bombing of a Catholic responsibility by ‘The K ilb u rn Branch’ o f the IR A . N ZBC T V off-licence at Ardoyne like the bombing of Catholic shops at

pattern. Such legislation leaves little room for personal altruism, broke the rules of human prejudice and befriended an ostracised or for unprejudiced human communication between different and alienated woman. Jesus ignored those factors which make types of people. for human discrimination; he was not content to see the woman Obviously, man has always been prone to judge by association at surface level but went beyond externals to the real person. and appearance. Certainly we all do it, often without thinking or Simultaneously he was able to interact with those at the other recognising it. But we can so easily and wrongly assume an end of the social scale-the self-righteous, the aristocrats, the identity of motive and outlook in personal attitude simply by religious and political leaders, the legal experts-he was able to taking people as we find them in initial confrontation. In a meet freely with them without being cramped by the prejudices depersonalised society where the increasing emphasis is on that dominate our attitudes. Certainly, he did at times condemn material values, a natural consequence is that people lose the art their hypocrisy; but he knew and understood people. So often of relating to each other in a meaningful way. We are so we condemn people merely from what we see or hear in first dominated by the pressures of time and ‘necessary’ routine that impressions, we condemn without knowing the real reason. THE ABSURD we never take time out to get to know each other; we know only We need the love that Jesus gives today to govern our the superficial person, the facades, the image, the half-person. Who would deny the reality of the absurd in our relationships and attitudes. We need to withhold superficial Consequently we pass inaccurate judgments on one another, judgment on other people and learn instead to love and world today? We are involved in a society of distorted simply because we don’t know each other. values, unbalanced perspectives and superficial appreciate and criticise constructively. Criticism without love is We damn a man because he wears an R.S.A. badge and has a self-defeating. Lcve must be our sole motive and inspiration for emphases. picture of the Springboks on his mantelpiece. Obviously we do there is no authentic revolution until there is a revolution of We heard the words of Sir Roy Jack recently, as he upheld not agree with some of his convictions, but there must be more love. A loveless revolution is necessarily divorced from the needs feminity’ (of a strictly physical nature) on the ‘Miss New to a character than those beliefs. We should learn to appreciate and aspirations of the people. Zealand Show’. He unnecessarily criticised those girls who each other despite our differences and where conscience calls us There is no way, but to live in the love of the self-giving Jesus. Worship at the altar of scruffiness and go in demonstrations’. to stand apart, we must do so in love, not in bitterness. If only This is essence of real revolution and life. What a narrow and superficial judgment, categorising those girls we could have a beautiful and emancipated society where we - NATALIE YULE. who happen to give priority in their lives to something other could all interact joyfully, regardless of race, class, culture, age than the female stereotype of a judgmental society! So and political conviction. One can see this ability in the historical characteristic of a materially-orientated value system such as the character of Jesus-an unselfconsciousness of spirit that enabled WORK & BOARD OFFERED one we live in, is the tendency of all people, both young and old, him to move freely amongst all classes of people, despite their One or two girls interested in free to assess others purely by what can be seen externally. We are life-style or belief. See him, for instance, as he breaks down all accommodation in return for some light preoccupied with the physical and for some reason, we seem to prejudice while in conversation with ‘the woman at the well’ house-cleaning and clerical work (4-5 hours per assume that a person is wholly and accurately reflected in his (John 4:8—32). Firstly, she was a Samaritan whilst Jesus was a week), the work to be split between them. style of dress and personal appearance. Society says ‘keep up the Jew. The races were enemies, but Jesus broke the racial barrier. image, conform to the norm’ and then miraculously, we Secondly, she was a woman, Jesus was a man, and they lived in a One girl must be able to take care of young boy somehow become ‘decent’ people. One of the curses of our day, culture of imposed female inferiority-Jesus did the ‘indecent’ during August holidays, wage to be agreed upon is the tendency to damn people by association. This is illustrated thing and rose above the walls of sexual discrimination. Thirdly, for the holidays. by the thought behind "Gill’s Bill’ of last year, where the the woman was a moral and social outcast, for she had had five If you're interested Write to P.O. Box 6589, implication is that anyone associating with a drug-user is husbands and the one she was living with at that time was not Wellesley Street. necessarily exactly the same breed of character and behaviour her husband. JeSus did not commend her behaviour, but he

On The Discovery of Cancer Cells in the Body —a short story by M YKE JOHNSON THE FILE ON GRAFITTI I am confronted with absurdity and decay. Objective knowledge of this does not, howevei, This file on graffiti is terribly biased: being female I it.” answered with expert wit by a soul who quips “ Not a baby facilitate any relaese but rather prevents it. I anyway.” That is truly magnificent that one, a proper gem, bang have only had the opportunity of analysing the creations therefore overcome by a powerlessness which holds on even. found in the Ladies’; being to some degree a creature of here and precludes movement. Alternatives narrow to A deep cogitator has inscribed: I will make sacrifices for no habit I have only concentrated on the block of loos that I one and likewise I will not permit anyone to make sacrifices for vanishing point and leave me stranded within frequent. I did take a sample look at one loo on the me: this is called rational egoism.” (you better believe it). confines of a single probability. mezzanine floor of the library and another near B28 but A sensual type declares “A good *uck is the answer to What fascinates me at the moment is the man sitting opposi the offerings were very meagre. Further to all this, I admit everything” (* = f) A smarty-farty pleasure-killer had to chuck me. We are alone in this place w ith its red and white tiles, sterf to being biased in my choice of what to record in the file, back: “ Except the population explosion.” (witty I’ll admit but effect windows and the featureless doors of the lifts. He so baby if your little intellectual gem was overlooked I I’m a poor carpe diem hedonist) A freedom-lover suggests: sitting, as I am, on a steel red-cushioned chair in the awkai suggest you spice it up a little. “ Liberate yourself, Love everyone, male, female or bored posture of a man waiting. He has a clean gauze patch By now I imagine that you have been teased sufficiently to be hermaphrodite” (uh-duh yeah I saw one a vem in Fellini’s one eye. It is strange for it looks as if all the intensity of his landed with the data, namely the actual site and choice spots for a Satyricon) A good ol’ generaliser declares: "M illions of little good has been transferred to his good eye, which, when fixed on good read to pass the time. After reading this I imagine that the people cause more harm than a few big bad people.” (which of object pierces it ... I cannot describe this but it makes mefi block of loos in question will be inundated with callers, male and course can be taken how you please, even boiling down to your uneasy. female, prudes and voyeurs alike, fighting to see in living print idea of such vagueisms as ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘big’ ------‘harm’, ‘little’ I would like to spend time describing the relationshi some honest-to-goodness creativity. Oh what rapture! The Jeyes and of course the term ‘people’). As expected this declaration was between this man and I fo r it seems to have significam company will need to set up shop in the corner. countered: "How can you say that, in the face of evidence such as determinded the quality of this particular patch of time in whidi WAGE L THE ACTUAL SITE: the block right under the U.B.S., just along Stalin, Hitler, etc.” Needless to say that at time of typing this up we both find ourselves prisoners He is sitting too far away fro® from the rear entry to the milk-bar. no counter-attack had been launched by the initial writer, so I here for me to be able to speak to him naturally. I would haveto THE CHOICE SPOTS: in the left row, toilets 1,2,3, 4, (as fo r 5 I won’t say it. raise my voice and this would seem too strange. Perhaps I could Tired o1 don’t know, I’ve never seen there cause it’s too far to go when Last and least to be mentioned concerning loo no. One, is a get up and go and sit in the chair beside him (in fact the and elsewh you’re in a hurry). The row on the right side is pretty mild in heavily scrawled comment done in green thick-tipped felt pen, situation seems to require such an act) but this would be bott example ai comparison. Perhaps the toilet row one frequents is evidence of making a connection between Craccup and Father Mao. Go take a too friendly and too revealing, although once it were done I an nauseating, political sympathies, anyway the right (Conservy) side can really peek if you’re bothered. There’s little to differentiate between the sure it w o u ld ease the inevitable tension between us. In factw by Marx only boast of having two loos worth a sit-in — numbers 1 and 5. last two on the left side—namely numbers 3 and 4. Both would both feel that peculiar embarassment that cannot be overcom Engels, as f (note to eager-beavers ready to storm the loos that the numbering probably earn a 3.5 2 star rating. But I’ll start at 3 cause that’s by risking further embarassment, despite the fact that what Wage L conversation we could have would be comfortingly predictable system used here denotes the first loo you come to as number 1 where I made a dazzling contribution. propaganda The only solution to this problem is for a white polite, anti the ones nearest the mirrors as number 5) Well now for some You see, someone had plastered the door with “ The only hope writings sh titillatingly tantalizing titbits. A warning to monors that some of professional figure to emerge from one of the small doors to the is dope.” and this jammed in my head awhile—the words not the and contra these pieces are outrageous, scandelous, depraving and altogher dope, and somehow my righteous mind wronged the rhyme and it left of the lift and call one of our names. In this case we will place, prov helluva good reading, so don’t throw down the paper at this came out: “ The only dope is hope.” What wit I thought, and so on what little we have which is only the unspoken agreement that the interes crucial moment. returning to number 3 I shot an arrow over to the dopey declar we are both waiting for this to happen. Perhaps he feels none of these things. What we share is purely given name what we lack. A coincidence of time and space soon to be concepts w fo rg o tte n . Engels sa , I am now sitting here alone. I do not feel comfortable. I keep workers, foi staring at the empty chair he once occupied. most diffici "educated f Sitting behind a desk across from me, his face as smooth and insoluble thi as^taut as the stretched skin across a boil, sits the doctor—clinical intellectual < starched white shirt, pink linoleum. H sits in a brown leather a grain o f ti plush chair while I have a stainless steel (hollow tubed) red confidently cushioned chair, and this fact alone seems to give him command account of This is obviously going to be a set piece The room is small, tody, uneducated unadorned, functional (like his face). His face is serious but I do himself w itl not object. I am quite prepared to acquiese to any props or to appears to any framework he wishes to erect. workers are My detai I would like to go back and have a look at the other room to aimed at e: see if any of the configurations have changed, but that would be persistent d totally inappropriate. support the I sit here like Lot’s wife. who is alway He is talking circumspectly, w ith cautious optimism. Between Engels ac sentences his jaw moves tensely sideways as if he is searching for logic—a seri< a word, the right phrase, or trying to recall the next partofa "What is t well rehearsed speech. I appreciate his tact. It allows me to grasp tampering c the worker, the full import of what he is saying w ithout having the facts too cost of pr brutally laid before me. His manner is totally in keeping with the production < situation he is creating and I am grateful that he is taking the "Accordi We’ll start with the left because good o l’ biased be says so. And and penned my version. Soon both sides evoked response from the tim e—in such a situation he must be the ringmaster and I the commoditie: here each loo will be listed in order of merit, although I realise generally mindless majority. The dope-pusher was informed “ Wait dw arf. prices corn that this pinpointing of places will result in enormous queues of till you have a bummer, I know.” and “ Which is too dopey and "You understand the treatment will be continued.” contained ir gawkers. The best on the left is undoubtedly NUMBER TWO (no. only for dopeys.” I was praised with: “ Yeah I’ve been on the dope “ Yes, of course." which clearl 2) (duo) (duex) (zwei) Got it? ? ? ? trip sister, and I tell you, it’s a dead-end trip.” (encore for those I feel certain now that this interview is the culmination point capitalist’s assertion; hi And this delightful little gallery starts boldly with: “ Liberate hard at hearing—“ it’s a dead-end trip” — but then so is driving if of a long series of abdications The interview will confirm, present” (p( love from the chains of sexuality” to which someone replied: you’re’going to the cemetery, joke get it?). formalise, officialise. I begin to feel a sense of relief, l am invited and in effec “That's difficult, you need help with that.” and another said: to relax. “Thank you for graffiti.” is the expression of a simple, process he s “ Right on sister! Sex without mutual respect and love is about as wholesome being, “ ls lesbianism unfettered.” questions an “ Every Monday and Thursday—in the afternoon.” as “ ... the exciting as wiping your ass.” But the original writer returned to undecided Sappho or a hetero interested in a new deal. It is the ritual of hope. Lie down here sir, put your head back work experi restate her case, which both commenters had in different ways “ The meaning of life is the celebration of it.” another hedonist ™d relax. Incantations are made, switches moved. The infected On page misunderstood, saying: "What I mean—as far as your comment declares herself and creates in the toilet as part of her never-ending area is bombarded by thousands of tiny particles that exist in a produces all goes (arrow to first reply) is that love anyone-regardless of their party. Last and quite cynical, from number 3 either is an apt series of magic formulas in the high priest's equations. If you executive, a sex, though I agree with this.” (arrow to 2nd reply). Then there’s summary of graff or just light comic relief: “ And they opened strain you might hear their distant thunder in the whir of all as invest value of his “ We don’t need a bullshit press,” (who said we did?) and “ Say it their mouths and speaketh forth crap.” One more is a line in a circuits, although I have not heard them. When I get home I pin but as any s> loud, Gay is proud” (catchy) and one mixed-up soul who writes "I critique written by Cleanth Brooks on Eliot’s Waste Land. The garlic across the door and wear a cross for I am terrified of death Engels r< know that I also share the guilt through writing on here but this person who inscribed it cannot, claim originality but good taste: wageworker does not mean I condone it. What other way can I say just “ Love is the aesthetic of sex; lust is the science.” Like candles under soft breath the doctor's eyes waver and by revolutic this—we’re not children anymore.” (try that one for size). Number four, last on the list for the left, has an unparalleled finally flicker to the other side of the room. I understand that a capitalist s Imagination is displayed in this beauty: “ You’re only treated comment to boast of: “ Sally M ------is gorgeous.” Wowee if ol’ response from me is now called for. “property” like a reproductive machine if you act like one.” A devotee claims Sail is alive and still plodding the concrete on campus she ought to "M y wife . . ." in my situation it is better to leave sentences remains tha "Sex satisfies the body. Jesus satisfies the soul. Acid satisfies be ecstatic at such praise. Right on Sail!! Send us a photo of your unfinished for it allows the other to more fully perform his role. shares in ir both,” which was countered by: “ Jesus hooks you to help you. gorgeousness. “What is the point of mobilizing?” writes "She knows.” T.A.B., tha: capitalism. What about acid” (I can’t help feeling here that we humans are Bewildered. A true rad answer is supplied: To demonstrate.” Of course I have known for a long time — hints, whispers, Marx cla pictured rather like fishes chasing bait). Somewhere in the upper A lesbian newly spurred to ignore the critic and be proud hard looks, prepared faces—the patient always knows yet the utopia unt left hand part of the door is this one partly obscured: “ There’s beams forth: “ I am a lesbian and I love it.” A disgruntled hetero elaborate deception goes on. I beilieve that leprosy, contrary to counter-rev< nothing wane than a female who writes on toilet walls.” A curious assumedly, replies “Why broadcast it—other people don’t popular opinion, is contagious. presents re' kitten asked "Why female” to be told “ Because I’m a male” (ah-ha broadcast their tendencies.” A sympathising hetero adds; “ I’m He offers a narcotic to ease the pain. That would be very reform, so t wonders will never cease.) But meanwhile an enraged female not, but good luck to you anyway sister.” A Sapphic comrade nice. I sense for the first time an uneasiness in him, a possible make refor blasted the initial statement with: “ F-ing rubbish. What about our invites: “ See you at a gay lib meeting then dearie.” Wonderful sense o f fa ilu re S om ehow it has fallen on me to p u t him at his makes good males who rape and kill.” communication made possible by the courtesy of a handy toilet ease. I am at a loss. reforms do without wai Near the bottom of this wonderful door you’ll find: “ If you d o o r!! He rises to politely signal that the interview is over. From Marx arj think you wilt enjoy the role of housewife, never doing anything And that’s it from the left. As I said, the right is a dry side, one him there floods a sense of relief. I shake his hand which is clean worker’s lat else, read T h e Feminine Mystique’ and think again.” (s^und door over there has’nt got a lock, and it’s so dim over there that and kitchen soft. I must leave the mechanics of these last few of the work advice coming from either a sincere sister or a shareholder in the you’ll strain your eyes and hafta wear specs like me. Loos one and interactions to him with the trust that it will be done simply and the class o publishing firm .) Last, but far from least, in fact it’s close to most, five are worth a one time scan, but I won’t go into details now. with courtesy. enough fo r cause this one got the most replies, so get set, bite your tongue, Perhaps a right-winger would like to do a comparative file. Oh and In the waiting room I hesitate, as if something has been than enoug go: “ Join me—you can be the man and I'll be the woman.” A let’s hear something printable from the gents, if they dare let out forgotten. The room is empty. Through the window, in the west, replace tho: delighted reader sent in this reply: “ Ooo yes please.” A disgusted any of their trade punch-lines. the gorged yellow sun. Late afternoon light with its odd and frail population population prude spat out: “ Ignorant bitch”. A scientist added “The only This file comes to you by sweat of one unvociferous maureen luminosity has softly lit the white wall to my right. For a than enougl satisfying position is woman superior.” A frustrated observer thompson, who after meekly suggesting at Forum that a graffiti moment I am bathed in a pure silence which lifts me from this refutes Mar wailed: “ Ofc come on you have missed the point.” and I had a real time and place The room seems incomplete, as if I had half wall be arranged, was heartened by the great interest (at least 30 “ The ex picnic reacting Loo Number Two (2) II etc. (Five Star ayes in the vote) but found that walls are beaurocratically expected to find my previous companion sitting awkwardly in capacity to recommendation). Next best is number one on the left side. This ordained to be nude, concrete unpretentious and walls. Many his old place. The simple certainly & n o t the haunt of our most prolific radicals but there’s thanks for the interest. Hearty reading to yuh all and be lenient on There is no reason why he should be there. their own some true frm s there, so it gets a four star rating. Here we got the Jeyes please. I am confronted with absurdity and decay yet am case. Some then: '‘Lode thy local lesbian. Who knows who/what may come of maureen thompson. reconciled. exists. *" ft • Marx po y /SON of subsistence to replace those he consumes, and refers to this as not referring to the interests of absolute material well-being. He d decay, “ noble reproductive power.” In what sense is it notably noble? is referring to the interests o f relative wages and p ro fit, which are not, howevei Just what does it mean to say that the worker “ surrenders” this diametrically opposed by definition. The rhetorical significance o f this lies in the connotations o f social status which is, it seems, ents it. power to the capitalist and thereby has “ lost it for himself” ? (p82) Certainly the worker surrenders time to the capitalist, but also an intrinsically relative and competitive matter. Usages vhich holds i the power to produce remains so long as the worker is fit, well suggesting this significance are: (p87) “ the social gulf that ies narrow toJ and employed. To admit that this power is dependent upon separates the worker from the capitalist. . ” , “ the more rapidly ed within employment is not to say that it is lost to the worker—one could the worker increases the wealth o f others, the richer w ill be the just as well say that the power is given to him by the employer. crumbs that fall to him .. and “ The material position of the “ The interests of the capitalist and those of the worker are worker has improved, but at the cost of his social position.” The n sitting opposit=| . . . one and the same, assert the bourgeois and their term “ interests” used by Marx is misleadingly vague, fo r all his white tiles, stertq economists.” (p82) Marx elaborates this point and says, ‘. . . the statement seems .to mean is that an increase o f the social status the lifts. He i better business is, the more workers does the capitalist need, the o f capitalists entails a decrease in the social status o f workers. r in the awkard more dearly does the worker sell himself.” This means simply Given Marx’s dubious assumption that capitalists and workers gauze patch over] that the price o f labour may rise above that o f the necessary are the only significant groups in society, and a relativistic ensity o f h is s measn of subsistence, when the demand for labour is definition of social status, this result is itself a tautology. Towards the end of the pamphlet Marx questions the vhen fixed on ar| high—which is obviously true. However it contradicts Marx’s assumption that wages do increase as profits increase. I assume it makes me fed previous assertion that ‘ the price of (the worker’s) labour will, therefore, be determined by the price o f the necessary means o f he means real wages here. As mechanisation develops, subsistence.” (p79) I take ‘determine” in the absolute sense, so productivity increases and fewer workers are required (assuming the relationshii that if B is any quantity then ‘ A determines B” means that other suitable jobs are not created). Real wages may fall, as ave significan nothing other than A affects B. Less rigid relations should be workers prefer a reduced wage to unemployment. This can o f tim e in whidi WAGE LABOUR AND CAPITAL - A CRITIQUE expressed by terms such as “ effect” , ‘ influence” , “ largely happen and apparently did happen, particularly in Marx’s own 3 0 far away from determine” , or ‘determination of range of variation” . time. He catches the human tragedy in the sentence (p92) “ Thus . I would havetc Lawrence Southon On closer inspection we find that Marx is using “ determine” the forest o f uplifted arms demanding work becomes ever . Perhaps I could Tired of encountering Marxist effusions in Craccum in a different sense, which I will show to be untenable in this thicker, while the arms themselves become ever thinner.” case. Marx’s usage is shown in the following quote (p78): ‘Wages M arx’s mistake is in presenting this as a necessary part o f a iim (in fact the and elsewhere, I have at last been motivated to take an w ill rise and fall according to the relation o f supply and demand capitalist economy. Whether workers displaced by redundancy s would be both example and show just why I find it so intellectually .. . Within these fluctuations, however, the price of labour will can find new jobs is a function of the overall balance of workers : were done nauseating. The example is “Wage Labour and Capital” be determined by the cost of production” (of the labour power.) and jobs at that level of skill, the availability of retraining :n us. In fact we by Marx himself, together with its introduction by It is clear from this and other similar passages that Marx believes programmes, and the workers’ ability and willingness to be lo t be overcorn! Engels, as found in Selected Works pp64 93. to be determined is not actual wages (or prices—the same retrained. A valid task for economics is to inquire into variables fact that what Wage Labour and Capital was published as a argument applies), but the mean o f average about which the such as these, and to discover just what can be done to minimise unemploym ent and maximise real wages. igly predictabli propaganda pamphlet for workers. I believe that such actual wages fluctuate. This usage could be tanable only if this a white polite, mean were well-defined, which it is not. It could only be the Referring back to the last group of quotes, it does seem to be writings should be lucid and clear, free from confusions nail doors to the mean of actual wages over some period of time and, given actual true that many employers, particularly in the past, have treated and contradictions of all kinds. Emotive rhetoric has its workers without regard for human dignity, and this certainly case we will lose economic trends, this means will vary according to the length of the period considered. Actual economic trends are, of course, must be changed. Today at least some employers have changed agreement that place, provided it is supported by rational argument. In the interests of clarity new concepts should always be irregular fluctuations of varying duration superimposed on a and do attempt to foster good worker-employer relations, but long-term, varying increase in wages and prices. their efforts tend, I suspect, to be hampered by the firm belief of e share is purely given names which distinguish them clearly from familiar many workers that all employers are ogres. ace soon to be concepts with which they might be confused. Again, it is true that people who are wageworkers tend to Engels says (p65) '.. . how vastly superior the uneducated have a lower social status than do people who are employers. lfortable. workers, for whom one can easily make comprehensible the Perhaps the difference in status can be reduced. Let us however most difficult economic analyses, are to our supercilious realise that the only completely egalitarian society must be one “educated people’’ to whom such intricate questions remain e as smooth and where everyone is reduced to the level of the lowest. We don’t insoluble their whole life long.” I do not share his belief in the expect utopia, but we do expect something better than that. d octor—c lin ic a l intellectual superiority of uneducated workers. There is however The Marxist contribution to the situation is to give workers a i brown leather a grain of truth in his assertion: while an educated person may permanent grudge against employers, a self-righteous resentment ow tubed) red confidently reject “ the most difficult economic analysis” on impervious to facts, which can only hinder any efforts to involve him command, account of the muddled thinking contained therein, an “ To say that the interests of capital and those of the workers workers in realistic reforms for the good of all. n is small, tody, uneducated worker may not even notice this and will content are one and the same is only to say that capital and wage labour serious but I do himself with understanding the clear message that, whatever are tw o sides o f one and the same relation. The one conditions my props or to appears to be the case, employers always exploit workers, the other, just as usurer and squanderer condition each other,” workers are noble, and all their demands are just. (p83, my emphasis) Marx is here trying to blur over the simple My detailed comments on Wage Labour and Capital will be economic fact that, when business prospers and increases the 3 other room to aimed at exposing its muddled thinking, factual errors, and demand for labour, wages usually rise. This blurring-over leads t that would be persistent distortion of the most obvious economic facts to into a passage supporting the demand of workers, not so much support the myth of the worker who is always exploited and for better wages and economic conditions, but rather for social who is always right. status. The story o f the little house and the palace makes this mism. Between Engels accuses the economists (p66) of tampering a little with very clear, as does the statement (p83) “ Our desires and is searching for logic—a serious charge—in their attempt to answer the question, pleasures spring from society; we measure them, therefore, by next part of a “What is the cost of production of labour?” The alleged society and not by the objects which serve for their satisfaction. Because they are o f a social nature, they are o f a relative iws me to grasp tampering consists of finding instead the cost of production of the worker. Yet Engels quotes Marx (p68) to the effect that the nature.” To this point we will soon return. ig the facts too cost of production of labour coincides with the cost of Marx distinguishes three concepts of wage: (p84—5) jeping with the production of the worker. So why the accusation? Nominal wages: “ The money price o f labour” . ie is taking the "According to the assertion o f classical economics, Real wages: The amount o f commodities that can be aster and I the commodities are, on the average, sold at their values, that is, at purchased with nominal wages. prices corresponding to the amount o f necessary labour Relative wages: This is the ratio o f nominal wages divided by led." contained in them .” (p67) Engels discusses a numerical example the sum of nominal wages and profit. which clearly shows this assertion to be false as it neglects the However such clear definitions of new terms are not to Marx’s mination point capitalist’s p ro fit. Engels however does. not question the taste. He prefers expressions like “ Wages are, above all, also assertion; he uses it to argue that the labourer “ has to make a determined by their relation to the gain to the profit of the w ill confirm, present’’ (p69) to the capitalist of a portion of his day’s labour capitalist—comparative, relative wages.” (p84) This is not in the }f. I am invited and in effect, that the capitalist has no right to any profit. In the form o f a definition at a ll—it purports to assert some empirical process he slips in an occasional highly emotive expression, such relation, without clearly saying what the relation is. This is n ." as“. .. the worker begins to drudge” . (p66) The quality of the typical o f Marx; it is unfortunate that he could not have been our head back work experience is irrelevant to this particular argument. confronted with the incisive criticisms of C. Wright Mills, who, . The infected On page 69 we find *.. . it is the working class alone which introducing one of his devastating “ translations” of another that exist in a produces all values.” Apparently the capitalist, as administrative “ Grand Theorist” , wrote “ In particular, I shall attempt to sort ations. If you executive, as personnel manager, sometimes as clerk, and above out statements about something from definitions of words and l the whir of all as investor in a risky enterprise, contributes nothing to the of their wordy relations. Both are important; to confuse them is value of his products. This may be one way of defining “ values” , fatal to clarity.” (The Sociological Imagination Pelican 1970, get home l pin but as any sort of factual statement it is quite untenable. p35) rified of death Engels refers (p70) to " ... a large, propertyless class of The last quote from Marx contains a troublesome usage: “ . . . wageworkers” as an essential evil of capitalism, remediable only also determined by their relation to . . . “ To make sense of this it yes waver and by revolution and a new social order. The conditions of our own is necessary to abandon the absolute sense o f “ determ ine” , fo r lerstand that a capitalist society prove Engels wrong. Even if the term this sense is exclusive: if A determines B, then nothing else can "property” were restricted to the means o f production, the fact affect, let alone determine, B. Normally we think of A as itself jave sentences remains that today’s well-paid workers are free and able to buy independent of B but this too must be abandoned: in this case A •form his role. shares in industry. If they happen to prefer new cars or the is the relation between B (wages) and a third factor (p ro fit) and T.A.B., that can hardly be blamed on the intrinsic structure of as such is dependent on B. Marx is, apparently, saying no more capitalism. than that wages are affected by their relation to profit. Being in nts, whispers, Marx claims (p71) that “ . . . every social reform remains a the process o f explaining distinct concepts o f “ wages” , he nows yet the utopia until the proletarian revolution and the feudaiistic carelessly uses the undifferentiated term "wages” . Perhaps he /, contrary to counter-revolution measure swords in a world war.” Here he means nominal wages; this would give the sentence some presents revolution as a necessary precondition o f all social empirical content but fails to account for the words rould be very reform, so that the working class has a humanitarian mission to “ comparative, relative wages” attached to the end of the m, a possible make reform possible, even at the cost o f a world war. This sentence. If he does mean relative wages the sentence loses all >ut him at his makes good rhetoric but bad sense. The simple fact is, that social empirical content, for relative wages are, by definition, the Just in from Paris, the Inter­ reforms do occur and have been occurring fo r a long time,, relation of nominal wages to profit. national Edition of the Herald without waiting for revolutions. The concept of relative wages seems to be closely related to s over. From Marx argues (p79) that wages, which are the price o f the social status. A fter describing a change in which real wages Tribune. Also some cracking good vhich is clean worker’s labour, equals “ the cost of existence and reproduction increase but relative wages fall, Marx says (p85) “ The power of American magazines: Art in America hese last few of the worker.” He applies this not to individual workers but to the capitalist class over the working class haS grown, the social Astronauts and Aeronautics, ie simply and the class of workers on average, thus many workers get not position of the worker has deteriorated, has been depressed one American Education, The Annals enough for existence and reproduction while others get more step further below that of the capitalist.” This concept of ng has been than enough—and presumably reproduce just sufficiently to “ power o f the capitalist class” needs investigating, fo r it seems to of the American Academy of Poli­ i, in the west, replace those less fortunate. This is clearly a description o f zero be suspiciously useful in Marxist rhetoric. The preceeding tical and Social Scince - Ameri­ odd and frail population growth enforced by low wages. However, since the sentence is “ With the same capital, the capitalist commands a population o f workers does increase, they must be getting more greater quantity of labour.” (since, in the change described, can City. right. For a than enough for existence and replacement reproduction, which nominal wages have dropped), ls this all that is meant by Iven some magazines that don't me from this refutes Marx’s thesis. “ power” ? I can find no greater meaning than th is , y e t even start with the letter "A", that if I had half "The existence o f a class-which possesses nothing but its “ commands” is an emotive overstatement: the simple fact is that Ls - Fortune, Current History. wkwardly in capacity to labour is a necessary prerequisite o f capital.” (p81) the capitalist employs labour and, if nominal wages d ro p , he can The simple fact is that workers do own things—most own at least employ more labour for the same amount of money. Shorn of COME IN. BROWSE OR WORK. their own furniture, and presumably this has always been the their hairy embellishments, the bald facts are much less sy yet am case. Some workers even own shares in industry. Yet capital rhetorically useful. IT'S WARM AT U.S.I.S., ABOVE THE exists. When Marx claims that “the interests of capital and the WYNYARD TAVERN AT 27 SYMONDS ST. Marx points out (p81) that the worker must produce means interests o f wage labour are diametrically opposed.” (p8 6 ) he is to the eye. The magic. interesting singers to surface in recent guitar-picking and winged line-endings. Grafton Notebook series. Hoa 4. — C’mon Everybody — Rock months. Interesting — because her The last track on this side, Summer’s (especially the line “the avaricii sheer rock - relentless - breaks into a work looks back to the ‘moon-june’ era Coming Around Again, is interesting, court/is entertained”) and RECORDS 12 bar that is so heavy - the Stones of, say, Peggy Lee; while at the same only in that it is an archetypal effective poem. rock and sock it. time, displaying a fierce individualism, ‘seduction song’. With her voice There are three prose pieces and 5 — Old Time Feeling — acoustic which combines some of the crooning cliches like a smoky clarinet little historical sketch, but the pa blues that has everything - mandolin, ingredients of the past and the present over a non-descript jazz backing, it dominate this issue. dobra, guitar, piano, mouth harp into something quite new. conjures up mental images of soft EDGE (Number 3) Worih | etc... always was a good mixture, Her voice has shades o f Carole lights, red wine, sheepskin rugs and seventy-five cents just for the & yehzzz, what good blues. King, Laura Nyro and James Taylor in other such slush. Synder poem. Good to see one of 6 -3 0 Days in the Hole - STONES it, but is mostly Carly Simon. At times Side two opens with a dramatic original so-called American “beats" - the venom o f Jagger - rock slammer is assumes a slightly wicked, deep, variation on the Day-of-Judgement the fifties alive and well and writi - beautiful rhythm section - a bass throaty, bar-room roll and this, to me, theme called Share The End, cast in a such positive, joyous poems in' that drives you, grinds you down into is one of the most distinctive aspects of style somewhat like a modern opera. seventies. little pieces the record. The coin is flipped and the next track, Edge continues their policy 7a & b - Road Runner - Uses the But unfortunately, the refreshing The Garden is a breath-taking glimpse overseas writers and one of these, 12 bar - blues - a melodic beat that feminist outlook evident on her first of the after-life, with a Vera Lynnish Michael Yates, has a radio play wor strikes and retracts - the water torture album, which tagged her as the chorus. This is followed by a fairly working through to its depressing with intermittent organ screams as a ‘Germaine Greer o f Rock ’n Roll’, ordinary, (but still quite reasonable) vision. result of the incessant torture seems to be largely absent on love song called Three Days. Julie Reviews of poetry included. Layi Anticipation. Direct references to the Through The Glass is an ode to a and paper excellent. Another issue 8 - 7 Wonder - Marriott contorting Smokin: ‘new woman’ are hard to find, as most new-born infant, with a gentle be out by arts festival. again on a slow blues piece - how the Humble Pie o f the lyrics are romantic in the ‘rock-a-bye-baby’ - style backing ARGOT (Number 27) Layoutvt guitar sympathises - there’s pain in SAML 934509 conventional sense. I can’t decide if provided by Carly on piano. The album much improved (except they rants this song - the bass makes the key S727 track four on side one, The Girl You closes with a rendition of Kris stanzas of my poem together, muni rattle on our wall - it’s as goon as has Humble Pie are yet another super Think You See, is tongue-in-cheek or Kristofferson’s 7’ve Got To Have You. mumble) but still suffering from been done, if not better - beautiful group. Super? Super? SUPER The not, but sounds like an excerpt from So, on the whole, this is a getting the best of available copy, guitar and harp - lots o f expressions - album is super to the extent that it The Sensuous Woman: worthwhile and enjoyable recording, its still the cheapest at thirty cents, how superfluous are terms like contains musicians of a quality not “I’m not necessarily the girl you which improves with the listening. But Following South Island mags»il tightness, production, and the rest of often matched. Steve Marriott, late of think you see I think to get a fuller picture of Carly overseas contributors. Best of the bullshit — this is brilliant. the Small Faces, who dominates the Whoever you want, is exactly who Simon, you should listen to her first Bruton Conners with his haikus. 9 - Sweet Peace - Yes - sound with his relentless guitar, harp, I’m more than willing to be album as well. She is a writer-singer There is more prose than poetr heavy shifting rhythms - exhausting - and keyboard work; Greg Ridley, late I’ll be a Queen with a great potential, as a live and the editorial has the right phia screaming guitar solo on tape echo that of Spooky Tooth, whose tireless bass A foul-mouthed marine performer as well as a studio artist, as for it: “the quality of the four pieces comes deep from within the speaker playing provides the basis of an Your Mary Magdalene her brief but impressive appearance in by no means even.” boxes - is this not the best rock I’ve excellent rhythm section with fellow Just to please you.” the film, Taking off, displayed. The editors are very frienly peop group drummer, Jerry Shirley. Other ever heard ? - yes, say I, in a state of But to criticize a song because I don’t - , SUE BARTON. and include their telephone numbers; names sported are Clem Clempson, exhausted submissiveness - is it like what it’s about, is scarcely a valid their editorial with an invitation to Alexis Korner, Maedleine Bell, Steve possible to be by a sound? Can evaluation, as it merely reflects my them if you are passing throuj Stills and so on .... Essentially the you have an orgasm in your ear and in own bias. LITERARY CORNER Wellington. album is rock. Hard, heavy, and rather your mind. But I read somewhere (N.M.E. to It’s the year o f publish and be CAVE (number 1) Impressive overpowering, i it leaves you fatigued (Turns the record off). be exact), that her co-writer, Jacob damned. New literary magazines have effort, done on a 1914 flat bed press; after a good session. So ends the worlds most honest Brackman, who sometimes writes the appeared, and at the last count Dunedin. Also has reviews of reces record review. __ something like fourteen poets look like publications. Short, sufficient, andfi (For a spontaneous reaction to this - MABEL SMITH. lyrics, writes the ones that are •group, please see attached notes.) specifically about or by women, and having their own volumes out before assessments. Attached notes: the ones Carly writes could be “sung 1973. Excellent long poem by Peter Ob Track 1 - H o t V Nasty - this is equally well by a man”. Unfortunately, In the meantime, a quick look at and a delightful short poem about rock - good stuff - sledge hammer there are no indications on the record the small mags that have appeared so drinker by Arthur Baysting stand stuff - Marriott certainly has his itself as to who wrote what. far this year. More of a Blake Once again the poets dominate 4 influence - this is to be the all-time You are probably all familiar with yea-saying run-down this, than any issue. But very good essay by Du rock album - guitar good — key board the title track, Anticipation, which is carping in-depth criticism, due to space Long about “Found Poems” gaveme; excellent. one of those songs which problems and the writer’ inclinations. clear idea at last as to exactly wk 2 - The Fixer - ROCK - Marriott surreptitiously finds its way into ones MATE (Number 20) Getting away these are, and whetted my appefe vocals superb - guitar riff - Head bathroom repertoire. It has a catchy from the traditional and ethnic content sufficiently to chase up music - the angelic Marriott is superb tune with plenty o f variety, surging this issue. A development for the recommended publications of tk. at this stage, as is the rest of the group forwards under a driving beat, better. Lot of younger writers comparatively new form - phrasing with traces o f Zappa? - accentuated by effective percussion. included. That’s it. Good reading. great. Legend in Your Own Time, is a One previously unpublished poet. Barry Southam 3 - You’re So Good to Me - well-written tribute to a contemporary G.F. Brown, has a chilling and nicely Beautiful - beautiful - beautiful as whom Carly won’t identify - (James crafted poem about a dead school Stills can be - Marriotts contorting Taylor, perhaps??). Our First Day chum he had to identify at the city Cop Notes: When dealing with do vocals - Madeleine Bell appears from Anticipation together was apparently improvized in morgue. persons, shoot first and ask question nowhere - breaks into rhythms that Carly Simon the recording studio. It is soft, And Murray Edmond is really later — ha ha ha. Also, be courteoa tear at you then recede into the EKS 75016 beautiful, and rather reminiscent of “right-on” as the politico-activists to the blind: they can always hear y« religion of a plea that will bring a tear Carly Simon is one o f the most Joni Mitchell, with its semi-circular would say, with number four from his laughing.

original). Paul and Grace see themselves as part well to hold onto a rare tightness and discipline, After such a heavily committed album as of something bigger and amidst all the so it builds and builds like the mighty bricks in Sunfighter the second album in this package The Fbul and firebrandishings o f Blows against the Empire the Sphinx and never loses the current summit from Grunt, Hot Tuna’s Burgers, comes as they placed A Child is Coming, all about how with glottal excess. And the words are startling somewhat of an anticlimax. Jorma and Jack the stork was due to call. to say the least: “Throw down all o f your silver from the Airplane seem to be on some sort of Well the kid’s here now and we can all spoons - eat all o f the raw meat with your aesthetic head-blues trip with Papa John Creach admire here, China nee god, is one of the easiest hands / Pick it up piece by piece . . . Shove it in and Sammy Piazza on drums being dragged Grace and babies on the planet to bill and coo over right your mouth any way that you can.” along merely for company. The vocals sound now because the Blows lovebirds have put a big Brother that’s primeval, and, with their like a pair o f unconvincing door to door colour pic o f her square on the front o f their insistence on simplistic political imperatives and salesmen after a hard day and even the lyrics new album. The title refers to the kid, implying imagery derived from the elements and can’t compensate for this. Papa John Creachs’ Grunt pack that she’s a child of destiny and its only a mammals, Paul and Grace manage to get next violin is often reduced to a merely background matter of time before she comes down on you, to something very basic that penetrates easily fill-in along with Sammy’s drums. About the government man. And the album takes off just and almost but never quite, touches you in a only thing that pulls the album through is the exactly where A Child is Coming, left off, with strange place the Doors used to try for - the dues they pay to the Airplane. On Sea Child, “And we walk in the sand my lady and me / snarling, smiling peristaltic Mammal in you. and Sunny Day Strut Jacks’ bass and Jormas’ And we watch and see and see the child grow.” Check Paul’s When I Was a Boy I Watched the lead guitar incorporate all that was musically There has always been an element o f sheer Wolves, the best song on the album and inspiring in the Airplane and more, soaring juggemaught rock and roll thunder in the possibly Paul’s best writing to date: an eerie together in crescendoes of riffs that are the Airplanes music, most often laid to Jorma and flashing riff that builds with perfect precision calling card o f their playing. Their electric Jack, but with the inescapable desultoriness of to a furiously driving floodtide, and: “When I sound is more rivetting than their acoustic m Bark and the relative vigour of Blows I’m was a boy I watched the wolves run/ . . . till the work, which, on this album, falls well below par beginning to wonder if the balance of energy in morning sun/ And as I grew I soon Found the for the course. Hot Tunas’ Burgers (hot tuna the band hasn’t shifted. It’s not so much that wolfpack grow on me / Laser bright feel the burgers?) is, at best only just palatable. Sunfighter is an appreciably better album than Lunar light cornin’ down on me / . .. No light The third denizen of the Airplane pack Bark, as that even in its excesses and lyrical shines on the fang neglected / Run with the worth checking out in his solo bow is Papa embarrassments it seems to have more of what Wolfpack.” John Creach, the old fiddler who added a few you originally came to the band for. The guts That’s not just wierd, that’s the stuff of bone fills to Bark and failed to resuscitate Hot Tuna. ■V: ' ' o f the album is as incendiary as ever, with a and stone and blood, drawing imagistically on On his own he’s a spry, sly delight, and * 3* . s*-, two-part song about the Weatherwoman, Diana what remains of nature outside the fences of surprisingly turns up as one of the few " ' G - Oughton who died in the bomb factory blast man while retaining the big piston drive of the musicians to be able to take on a passel of m s a i ..K last year a s . well as Pauls expected city in its rhythmic guts. Which is why Grace Superpassengers and still sail his ship straight : X - See-my-people-come-together anthemics, but and Paul make it and all those bucolic hippies and true. You wouldn’t even know that Jerry they have a much firmer grasp o f their materials singing about planting cannibis seeds by Garcia and the other peripatetic palaverers were than on Blows, more time has been spent on country roads don’t. Not everything is that there. Papa John has a way with the fiddle the album and the material itself is mostly far committee of course. I snickered at Titanic one distinct in this day, a facility for playing Sunfighter superior, real songs with sense and structure as of those Moog-and-electrosmear abysses you straight gospel blues and making it sound Paul Kanter / Grace Slick opposed to amorphous rants, seemingly ‘ can’t dance to, the first time I heard it, thinking somehow classical, and a rare and subtle sense Grunt FTR 1003 adlibbed in the whirl o f titanic rushes like Mau it would probably flip me out if stoned. Several o f humour, as when he begins W.C. Hardy’s St Papa John Creach Mau Amerikon. playings later, and under the influence of Louis Blues (and when was the last time you Grunt 1003 Try Silver Spoon which isn’t about cocaine various substances it did. A little something for heard somebody do that?), with a riff straight Burgers like you thought but about prey and everybody. out o f Hungarian cum Bela Lugosi atmosphere Hot Tuna consumption in the cycle of life, with a bit of This album in infinitely preferable to the music, or selects Over the Rainbow o f all songs Grunt FTR 1004 cannabalism thrown in for seasoning. involuted, introverted sortings of varying in creation, and turns you round by not only Structurally its tight as an aboriginal bongo, strands o f navel lint indulged in by several other making: it palatable but actually, with his First it was groups, then it was solo artists, with stark block piano chording and Grace chart-toppingJ heavies I’m not gonna get in courtly sweet phrases that seem to never quite now all of a sudden it looks like Couples. The delivering her patented model, droning vocal ^rouble by naming again. At this point, I’m lose their jive thread, a lot of fun to listen to. Apple couples started the whole thing off with style with more success than she has in some anticipating the next Kantner-Slick opus with Which is pretty damn rare said o f any record their somewhat introverted mumblings about time. The innate fury and passion that is Grace far more interest than the Jefferson Airplane these days. how its so great to be together (as if it was at her best comes searing through, managing as album that could conceivably never arrive. - SIDEWINDER k series. Hon ; “ the avaricia le d ” ) and prose pieces and Something to GRUNT about! tch, but the pm

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Patrick Hanly did the heat-sealed And wanting it, I his kite as year drawings, which fit well, except that vinyl suit Desperate, ■coming old after one which goes with laughing with th with disposable hands Stepping, deliberate.” ity six, year Taniwha (it wasn’t that funny). and removable feet It is true nightmare, ruled by Mitchell doesn’t dance or sing; he - ANDREW SHARPE who goes on a long nightmare ride irrational where the same object cab {I Presse<* / n1 talks, and Words shows it. towards his own disintegration with his' either benign or malignant, imagi :'1S vein 1S The book is less a collection of mistress (“Cassiah with the lilac eyes” come fast, change abruptly but there tj song abou poems - though it is - than a coherent — is she real or just a figure a feeling o f dream-suspension, conversation in poetry about loving remembered from a photograph?) house o f mirrors is the dominant im$ a.^am , women, being a clown, seeing fear, and slowly and expensively rotting away in and the key one, wherever one tuns ’^e a. ox taking refuge in words. It begins with the back seat. wherever one runs one is faced only ^ mecity li Words, then three sections follow: “Cassiah Cassiah with refracted and distorted reflection ^ . Odalisque, Harlequin, and Laughing Your flesh is deliquescent of the self. This feeling of horror tin Braa^lc to 81 with the Taniwha and ends with Gerder’s medals are burning bright” exists outside time is beautifull] my wat Silences, a poem which incorporates, L This from “hoardings” which is, I expressed in another poem. Zed.” and elaborates on Words. The book think, my favourite poem in the book. ' “Cronus devouring his children , , stands, and stands very successfully as The frenzied pursuit of illusion, by a in a land of stone ' / L l a whole. figure who is himself unreal, made up beyond the blue-green curtain.” ' Ve,ry w Naturally, not all the poems are of only of expensive accessories ends in Some of the later poems in ti and mon' equal merit. They share an aura of death that is at the same time sexual book are less hectic. “The Walk l “poetic” mystery, that kind of union, coitus between corpses. It is Garden” the title poem is concern resistance to immediate penetration dream, but at the same time a glimpse again with the power o f illusion, got jeen a good fil which - in good poems - attracts, into the heart of a civilization hell bent spinning through time and space to ea look, or just rather than repels; and they almost all IMS and obsessed with manufactured in clasutrophobia. |y not review Pipe Dreams in Ponsonby start off well. Sometimes the mystery desires. “I can cross the garden in this be thrill of se David Mitchell; proves impenetrable or not worth the Russell Holey Many of the poems carry the mark Paces i Copy shot Published by Stephen Chan for th piercing (in Heavy Habits especially) of a childhood spent in wartime What is real are the walls” )ced and, if ] Association of Orientally-flavourec but when the poems work, the mystery The Walled Garden England. Bombed-out cities and the The imagery is light and dark, eartl of the book Syndics. proves to have been that which does Russell Haley corruption that war throws up, the and rock and the tricks that the rain , photo in. surround particular people or places The Mandrake Root ever-presence of death are the source plays the possibilities it opens to itsel [your efforts, Mitchell gives a hint on how to read (Sepia Tint and Sick Fool). As for the of much of the imagery in the book. If only to realize that there is no escap his poems in Words: poems which start off well and end Russell Haley, David Mitchell and many of the poems are from the self. The garden is man ^or ^eces “who badly they’re not worth naming since Sam Hunt are possibly the best of the European-oriented it is because New things, Paradise garden, the ruined ho Account seeks wisdom in words the reader will discover these easily younger generation of New Zealand Zealand has remained untouched by place, undiscovered planet and final seeks best first enough. poets. All three have recently true horror. Our myths are of a and inescapably the human mind. th signs And there should be readers in published collections'of their work, all different kind. Many of the poems “As we move fiank ^ass’ * below their bland faces plenty. Because the book tells many put out by small presses. Of the three refer specifically to the war “Belsen” , the garden moves with us.’ , & fascinating stories; detailed and Russell Haley is perhaps the least “Inventory of a Gone War” “The Refuge, paradise and prison. ^ an s °°ok between the lines” delicate about people, and characteristically “New Zealand” poet, 39/45 Restuarant”. The best of these is “Night Flying With Hanly” anotheAlor C0Sent It’s a hint only, because “th signs” appropriately contrived and indelicate also the least obviously personal using “Spanish City” where an English fairly recent poem has this tranqu ®al deve^°P remain mysterious and unspecified in about proto-people (I mean th ballad as he does dream images, cities of the seaside town becomes a frightening quality. Again the interest in theEs ^0!116 0 °° the poem. But if one listens for the of rosy crochet especially here). The mind populated with grotesque sideshow of terror. The main figures in that appears in “The Walled Garden' ':U sourcf speaking voice o f the poet, quiet and rhythms are those o f the speaking freakshow characters. this are young boys - a boy running in with its Ara bic images. Kite flyj reason. Ak bending with the rhythms of Mitchell’s poet, and the words - well they tell Harry Lurber, the masturbating th e crazy house o f mirrors, takes on something of the mysti ;en at the st intonation - neither English or things about people .... diagonal lift man propositioned by a pervert, a boy experience. ing it Uke Australasian, yet suggesting both - the Take: until she knows & owns th ache Mary the terrible tree drowned (who bloated fuses with the “ . . . the deep hum of the rope nt of view, poems reveal themselves as wistful ‘can this be love?’ / admitting The Boss of the balloon factory image of a surfaced U-Boat) and finally Unking the man and the kite— |e and compl elegies on spending one’s youth in then, that she may never see “Before we presented him with a boy reconciled with his father. It is a this voice says nothing ihtical science Auckland. Words then says: again his coronary diagram of the war years, with the and yey everything” task is t ly of rational | of domestic f defining am paths in a In the coi ans definin For All Insurance rought about secession a Life which kept book begins Ojukwu as m represent! Fire nulitary gover o, Mr Akps ter and by r i’s head of & Burglary ly to the exe on in that p ion of secess e classic cons (Inducluding personal affects) ion-political ] ief executive others did just Sickness tint factor in t iy carried on, I, seeing as fa mentation Accident res. They did ie act of sece constitutional 4 despite the Motor Vehicle Insurance iwas progress! Hues that gatl ower humm 4 Ojukwu, fee Consult A U S A Insurance Office falsifying infc and paying ofl end, of remaining col Enquire Studass Counter or Biafra; but h outset, w> viability evi dilemma as ol Capping office, 2nd Floor stkient Union In politics r< more often tl jive action; ii tj resignation (1-2 pm d«i<;) as moles t H>ect, there ilation - no ‘ unbaised personal service all enquires as likely tha erous officials tasks of welcomed highly competetive rates legation as ii in larger num icollapsed nea If only . . . ” i no obligation the academic I» after the SAM L 9 3 4 5 0 9 amts had rece if they a A&M Records. Phone 30789 - Studass office ans, elected i ething more 1

- RU n it all ended. 1 :ar of the boy J gentle humour as well by a chile at Hanly (“Everyone into a death-» realized/ from the and a bear will p the material/ he was (i image) and at Haley who, [his kite as a girl decides ☆ ☆ (coming old geodesic means the shortest distance between two points on a is1 Li :1 te.” ft six> mathematically derived surface iare, ruled by t) thus a deodesic sphere is an approximation to a sphere composed^ of straight lines same object cuf". ?ressed m1tt?,the IlNCt Nit) l I l ABorf nalignant, imai vein is "Mister Zed’’ a and a geodesic dome is a section of that sphere ruptly but ththere e re song about an old friend SOME DOME POEM. n-suspension, With the contemporary interest in the writings and projects o f R. ie dominant in n , Buckminster Fuller a group of us have decided that it would be a herever one tun ^ '^e a.k°* good idea to have an exhibition of some sections of the mans Me is faced» f 'hec“ > ' a.p,^,.pSfI work. shake off the rats. Slightly A 40’ three frequency dome will be erected to serve as an storted reflect» magic to give too environmental theatre, there will also be several other smaller ing of horror th models put up around the campus to fulfil various e is beautifu#1™ my w atch and he gave undifferentiated functions. What we want is as many different poem Zed.” examples of domes as we can possibly muster. Domes that can g his children and buy “The Walled house the multitude of informal, spur of the moment activities it’s very well worth the that an Arts Festival will produce or domes that exist just for reen curtain." ie and money. And it even their inherent beauty. er poems in t| :ic. “The Walls j oem is concen A film, made by Australian film maker Mick Glasheen, called “A r o f illusion, { enagood film or play, read Teleologic Transmission from Spaceship Earth” which was made i and space to ok, or just bought a new during Fullers 1970 trip to Australia. |y not review it for Craccum Also there is a very strong possibility that we will be able to get ! garden in thi ! thrill of seeing your name out a publication on the exhibition which will become a Copy should be typed comprehensive cover of the dome building scene in New e walls” and, if possible include Zealand, - a potential dome builders bible. ht and dark, [of the book or record so we The important thing at the moment is that anybody who has Bank of New Zealand cks that the min [a photo in. Thanks, we’d built a dome, domes or dome models or in fact anybody who is s it opens to its hyour efforts. interested in such an event get in touch with us as soon as EDUCATION LOANS and there is no escapj possible. Action - to quicken our minds and brighten our garden is gle For Secession 1966-1970. financial CONSULTING SERVICE fantasies. You can contact me, either thru the Arts Festival n, the ruined 1 Account of the Nigerian office ph 372 925 ” K E R R Y FRANCIS olanet and final for Auckland University students uman mind. [frank Cass, 1972. 4th AUCKLAND FILM FESTIVAL - 1972 ask for your leaflet at the with us.” BNZ University Office adjacent FREE FILM SCREENINGS AND TALKS AT THE nd prison. Jtpan's book is not to be to the University Post Office :h Hanly” anoth i for cogent analysis or clear UNIVERSITY & has this tranqgl fical development, though it and mailroom A series of talks and film screeenings will precede the main iterest in the ] [some of both. Nevertheless Film Festival season at the Regent Theatre (July 14—27). These ! Walled Gardes source book for one are free both to students and to members of the general public. sages. Kite flyjn treason. Akpan was on the (ten at the storm centre itself The location is room B28 in the Library Building (enr Princes St o f the mystic it like it was” from one and Alfred St), except for the evening programme on July 5th nt of view, he points up the which will be held in Lower Lecture Theatre. n of the rope Get your Bell’s Whisky id the kite— and complexity o f the task Program m e o f pre-Festival activities ditical science. hing 26 June, Monday, 1-2 pm, ‘MODERN GERMAN CINEMA’. task is to enhance the A talk by Peter Verner, recently returned from post-graduate I of rational behaviour in the studies at Hamburg University. A number of German films will "'CKYCAR*T m | of domestic and international be included in this year’s Film Festival. Mr Verner will discuss I defining and illuminating the them and German film-making in general. saths in a maze o f human 28 June, Wednesday 1-2 pm. ‘JEAN-LUC GODARD’. A talk In the context of Nigeria, by Robin Scholes, lecturer in Art History. Godard’s film ns defining the processes ‘WEEKEND’ will be included in this year’s Festival. STICKER iught about the declaration of 29 June, Thursday, 8 -1 0pm. ‘NAZARIN’ (film). The print is i secession and isolating the rather old, but Luis Bunuel’s film is still deeply impressive. WH Msuunfu J yHHISKy | which kept the secessionists 30 June, Friday, 1 -2 pm, ‘LUIS BUNUEL’. A talk by Roger Horrocks of the English Department. Bunuel’s film ‘TRISTANA’ |book begins with the entry of will be included in this year’s Festival. The talk will include the Jjukwu as military governor in screening o f film examples from ‘NAZARIN’. representative o f the new M ID-TERM BREAK FILM SCREENINGS: ilitary government. An Ibibio 3 July, Mon., 12 noon to 2 pm., then repeated at 8pm: FREE “ , Mr Akpan became shortly ‘MEXICO THE FROZEN REVOLUTION’ a feature film ler and by normal promotion directed by Raymondo Gleyzer. (A profound analysis of Mexico is head of civil service and G RAND PW ZE’ uniidav for TWO persons today, comparing it with the period of revolution in the 1910s. i to the executive council. He First prize at the Locarno Film Festival and prize at the | on in that post even after the to s u r f e r s 5a«dile. Plus $200 spending moneV Mannheim Festival, 1971.) Plus short films: LIVING on of secession, attempting to (experimental film by Fred Zwartjes of the Netherlands), DRUG eclassic constitutional function ABUSE (USA), and THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH (70 MONTHLY PR\Zt: coeCial Bell’s W hisky. l-political principle adviser to \S) minute film from Australia: ‘An anthropologist discovers a jef executive. That he and so cocoon which he falls in love with and from which, in his hers did just that was surely an imagination, an ideal woman is born. . . The story is told by nt factor in the prolongation of means of time shifts and shifting planes of consciousness.’ Directed by Dusan Marek.) (carried on, keeping the wheels swan elimination sw senes sSS; ... sset-js _ remaining live a , seeing as far as possible to the 4 July, Tuesday, 12 noon to 2, repeated 8 to 10pm. ‘THE receives a case ol wonderful Bells vvmssY ^ (n hal D e n t a t i o n of authoritative GREAT CHICAGO CONSPIRACY CIRCUS’ (A fantastic zany consolation prize, in November ALL numb 9 10 sendup of every courtroom drama you have ever seen, and at the They did so despite the fact lor a linai draw along similar'"co^iemtime) plus $200 act of secession removed any same time a profound comment on recent political events. An nstitutional imperative to do outstanding success at both the Rochester and Chicago Film I despite the fact that their own Festivals.’ Directed by Kerry Fletham of Canada.) Plus short ta-jsswss» v*rr- lhe [was progressively less heeded as films: NOMESDALE (53 mins. Australian film about a party of ues t h a t gather around any man six guests at an exclusive hunting lodge. Grand Prix at the m hummed and bumbled Australian Film Institute festival.) Plus: INTERCHANGE lOjukwu, feeding his ego and his (Swedish film about a musical jam session by intellectually ice sifying information, feathering handicapped children), to be shown only at Tuesday’s 8pm F o r C 3H 03r t l C i p 3t 6 [paying off old scores. session. I the end, of course, Akpan and 5 July, Wednesday, 12 noon to 2 in B28, and Wednesday 8 to aining colleagues could not 10 in Lower Lecture Theatre: ‘A CITY’S CHILD’ (Australian r Jiafra; but had they all resigned feature film directed by Brian Kavanagh, ‘a dramatic treatment I^ l f you prefer, of the problems of loneliness in a big city - Melbourne.’ Has outset, would the myth of sticker at won several Australian prizes.) Plus short films: CATAPAULT : K ^ c a r s t i c k I r ' i viability ever had been bom? It I HUSHES & CGoomh liu, (Australian film on pole vaulters with some unusual slow-motion ima as old as the concept of Wholesale Wine & Spirit k,a. • Newmarket. Auckland. shots), THE CAT (Yugoslavian version of an Aesop fable - I Union In politics resignation is an ego Merchants, Khyber Pass Rd, ...... Venus transforms a young poet’s cat into a girl), ‘SNOW, SAND I Newmarket ore often than it is a publicly . . . your Auck- AND SAVAGES’ (Award winning Australian film about a rfqo [live action; in the civil service a (I land Provincial Distributors ADDRADD esc ...... I famous photographer, Frank Hurley). for Bell’s Whisky. Cbb...... J resignation is as likely to effect ■ Ms** *s* ___ _ LATER FILM SCREENINGS TO BE ADVERTISED |^N o t applicable to motor cycles ...... I as moles are to fly. Even in LATER. ct, there is no romantic Mion - no “ideal moment”, for quiresj| as likely that the dedication of ous officials in Biafra has eased asks of reconstruction and rates ration as it is that if they had numbers secession would ollapsed near its outset, All the best-dressed only . .. ” is a fruitless exercise; lie academic analyses which will after the flood of Akpan-type its had receded will be valuable1 if they assist our collective bottoms wear them ns, elected and appointed, to do lg more than keep on keeping - RUTH BUTTERWORTH JEANS I he air leached an There are Indochina, March. In | bombers aircraft carl three to si] from 1 5 ,( The sta| described Littauer, a| [war condul

W hilst men fight their wars and go their various ways m any uncaring for others and unbelieving that any great change could ever come to this Earth, which they o ccu p y by Devine consent - though some would even the services which are rendered by your brothers and If I would describe a spacecraft to you, you migh: deny this — great activity is taking place in the cosmos, and, great revelation is being given to chosen channels in sisters from so-called outer space. , say “ I have seen something like that, it is rather commor d iffe re n t parts o f the world. The consummation of the ascension of the Planet in our skies these days.” And so it is. There are 1,03(i The |enclosed message is part o f this Cosmic Earth is most important and some of you will have your different types of our craft operating in your atmosphere and above it. Most of them are invisible to Revelation, and / ask you to p rin t it in your newspaper part in this. And some of you in your minds are already asking—“ What does he mean by the ascension of the your sight. They take on various forms from the so th a t d ll may read it - whether they are truth speakers o r n o t. Please return if no intention to print. Planet Earth? Know ye that, as well as the eventual helicopter, the conventional airplane with 2 wings, or 4 wings, or without wings; round, oblong, square Peace and Truth be with you, Ernest Knight. ascension of every lifestream on the Planet, the Earth itself is designated and on its way to make its ascension. cylindrical; you name it, we have it. This will take many forms. Now, why are there so many? It is to circumvent the I am Azuba, my flagship is stationed not so Firstly, the complete straightening of the axis of the curiosity and possible interference from those who very far away. There are 21 craft directly under Planet and then the spiralling into a new orbit to take would, at the drop of a hat, fire upon any craft which my com m and. the place of the Planet Uranus. This is somewhat of a was not conventional or identifiable. Many of our craft The serious world situation in which you are now mystery to most of you, but I desired to bring it to your are like your planes and are thus not detected. We are engulfed does not escape us. We of the Space Command attention to amplify that which has been given by obscure and can also in these types of ships Snake are ever alert and watchful 24 hours of every day for beloved Lord Michael i.e. that you have now fallen heir ourselves invisible or violently glowing in rainbow events or manifstations in all parts of your world which to the greatest heritage that has ever been bestowed colours, at a few seconds notice. might ential immediate action from our command. It has upon man in the sordid history of your Planet. We are rendering to Planet Earth indispensible been anticipated by beloved Ashtar, under the direct Therefore I must ask you to strive religiously for services, and I tell you frankly that were it not for such, from Crac supervision of our Commander-in-Chief, Jesus the Christ, your final goal. You ask, what is your final goal? The and the love and light of the great Ashtar Command and now known as $ananda, that there may be before the presidentia goal of every lifestream on the Planet is their final our beloved Commander-in-Chief your Wayshower, your A t the year 1972 is out, much opportunity for us to go into ascension in the lijht. Perhaps we should define Planet would not be a planet tonight, and many of you editors, immediate action. The details of course even we do not ascension. What is meant by ascension? It is not rising in wouldnot be in the flesh either. And so give us a little publicatic know as yet, for man does have his so called free-will, your physical body from the Earth and disappearing into credit for our efforts. We do it because we love the formatio- and the inhabitants of the Earth may elect to change the heavens, as beloved Jesus, your Wayshower did people of Earth; we love the people of the Universe; we of Cracct their ways for better or worse. centuries ago. That was a very special ascension and one love all of God’s creations. * m last Exe< which will not be repeated again in the history of your Do you love us and them enough to dedicate your apologise L am not a philosopher, I am a pilot. However, I have Planet. Your ascension will not be a sudden one but a lives, all that you have - not particularly your money- students been assigned the particular responsibility of a segment gradual one. but your servies, your opportunities and your talents to effect' v\ of one and a half million craft which have now been The first requisite of your ascension is the complete the service of the great Hierarchial Plan, coniposed of the agen assembled in a legion of service to the Planet Earth. And renunciation of all evil. What is evil? It is the negative the Ascended Masters, the Space Command, the up at E these have been recuited from not only your own Solar qualities in ever lifestream. You know better than Archangels, the Elohim, Helios and Vesta of your Sun, discussic System but from many other Galaxies. For the call has anyone seise what they are in your own individual lives. and Immanual and Immanuella of the great Central Sun, Mr Win gone out to bring much to bear upon the earth-plane, You know what your temptations are; you know what and then on beyond to the Creater of all. Will you, this and th not only on the consicousness of its inhabitants, but you are inclined to do, and then regret afterwards’. You night, dedicate your life anew, and all that you have, to editor i upon the Earth itself. I do not have time, nor would it must learn to renounce the lower self and follow the the service of the Great Masters of Light? knowle be profitable perhaps, if I had the time, to delineate all I am Azuba, a Captain under the Ashtar Commanc higher Christ self. student