The Editors a Full List of Semper Editors 1932-1982, Including Year of Editorship, Subsequent Occupation, and Current Residency —

the Editors A full list of Semper Editors 1932-1982, including Year of Editorship, Subsequent Occupation, and Current Residency —

1932 WILLIAM A. MAHONEY - Retailing manager, retired. (Perth) 1952 2ELL RABIN - New York correspondent for Sydney Daily Mirror, Editor E.T.S. PEARCE - Deceased. of Sydney Daily Mirror; now deceased. „ . . 1933 J.P.RYAN - (Brisbane) 1953 WILLIAM DENT - Headmaster, Toowoomba Grammar. (Toowoomba) M.V. FOGARTY - Barrister; now deceased. 1954 ALEXANDER JOLLY-Solicitor. (Brisbane) , .. , ,^ .„ , 1934 J.P. RYAN - (Brisbane) 1955 IAN MOLES - Associate Prof, of History, James Cook Uni. (Townsvtile) M,V. FOGARTY - Barrister; now deceased. WILLIAM HUDSON - Public Servant. (Canberra) 1935 J.RICHARDSON 1956 BARRIE HAYNE - Dept. of English, Uni. of Toronto. (Toronto) M.M. PURSER - English teacher, Bris. Boys Grainmar; Royal Aust, Naval JONATHAN W, PERSSEE -Schoolmaster, Kings School, Parramatta. College; now deceased. (Parramatta) 1936 M.IW.FURSER 1957 LORNA BOLLMAN - (USA) 1937 FRANK W. COALDRAKE - Former Missionary; Archbishop of Bris.; PETER MUTTON - Journalist. (Malaysia) ,., ._ , now deceased. 1938 MAX N.JULIUS-Barrister; now deceased. 1958 HAROLDLOVE-ReaderinEnglish, Monash Uni. (Melbourne) P.W. HENDERSON ANTHONY PAUL - Asian editor for Readers Digest. (Hong Kong) 1939 PETER CONNOLLY - Supreme Court Judge. (Brisbane) 1959 DAN O'NEILL - Lecturer in English, Uni. of Qld, (Brisbane) 1940 REGINALD T. MATTHEWS - Reader in Geology, Uni. of Melb. (Melbourne) DESMOND MACAU LEY - Research officer. (Brisbane) 1941 WALTER B, CAMPBELL - Knight; Chief Justice of Old.; Chancellor of Uni. of 1960 JOAN LYNDON - Lecturer In Fine Arts, Sydney Uni. (Sydney) Qld,; Chairman of Utah Foundation. (Brisbane) A.CW. SPARKES - Lecturer In Philosophy. Uni. of Newscastle. Newcastle) P. DONOVAN - Aust. Ambassador to OECD. (Paris) 1961 JOHN B. DALTON - Lecturer In Political Science, Monash Uni. (Melbourne) 1942 REGINALD T. MATTHEWS - Reader in Geology, Uni. of Melb. (Melbourne) JOHN R. FOGARTY - ABC Computer Operator. (Sydney) C.A. WYMAN - Solicitor. (Brisbane) 1962 JACK CARMODY - Phisiologist and National Times critic. (Sydney) RON ADAiR - Retired Engineer. (London) JOHN DALTON - Lecturer in Political Science, Monash Uni. (Melbourne) 1943 RON ADAIR 1963 PETER MUHLBURG-Stockbroker. (Brisbane) 1944 E.G, LeBRETON - Medical Practitioner. (Perth) JOHN MOORE - Chief of Staff, QTQ Channel 9. (Brisbane) 1945 ALAN CASEY - Civil Engineer. (Brisbane) 1964 HUMPHREY McQUEEN - Historian and Writer. (Canberra) 1946 t\/iARGARET CATT (first woman editor) - Senior Lecturer in Political ALAN RICHARDS Science, Uni. of Old. (Brisbane) 1965 BRIAN TOOHEY - Editor of the National Times. (Sydney) EWEN GILLIES - Journalist. (USA) RICHARD PINCUS 1947 EWEN GILLIES 1966 MICHAEL O'NEILL-Student. (Brisbane) , TREVOR UTTING - (Thailand) MICHAEL ONG - Lecturer in Political Science, Uni. of Malaya, (Kuala Lumpal 1948 ALAN ROBERTS - Lecturer in Physics, Monash Uni. (Melbourne) 1967 DAVID FERGUSON HERBERT CORNELIUS - Special Collections Librarian, Macquarie 1968 KENNETH BRADSHAW - Chief Probation Officer. (Brisbane) Uni. (Sydney) NICK BOOTH - Public Servant. (Sydney) 1949 JOHNO'DUFF 1969 MICHAEL KELLY - Street Poet, (Me(boutne) 1950 N.A. (ALAN) WALKER - Lecturer in Physics, Sydney Uni. (Sydney) TONY MELIUS-(Brisbane) fHALCOLM HAM RON EEDY - English Teacher, (Brisbane) 1951 JOHN H. QUINLEM - Commonwealth Public Servant, (Melbourne) ALAN DAVIES - Advisor to NSW Minister for Energy and Water PETER EDWARDS - Prof, of English, Uni. of Qld. (Brisbane) resources. (Sydney) BRUCE DICKSON - Director, Brisbane Community Arts Centre. (Brisbane) 1970 BRUCE DICKSON ALAN FOWLER - Computer System Analyst. (Glenhuntly) 1971 ROBYN BARDON - Unemployed, (Brisbane) (Number 10, October 18th, 1982) PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: Fleur Kingham, PAUL DAVIES- Independent Film-maker and Script Writer/editor, Crawford BOTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION U.Q. Union Office, Bernadette Hudson Television Productions, (Melbourne) RESEARCH ASSISTANCE: Margaret O'Hagan, 1972 PAUL TULLY - Commonwealth Public Servant; Ipswich Alderperson. (Goodna) EDITORS: Kay Nicol and Bruce Dickson 1973 ALAN KNIGHT - Industrial Relations Roundsperson, ABC-TV, (Sydney) RESEARCH COLLECTIVE: Ross Peake, Fryer Library (Uni. of Old.), Convocation 1D74 DAVID FRANKEN -Television Programmer. (Brisbane) Anne Jones, David Franken, Bruce Dickson, Section (Uni. of Qld.) 1975 JAN TURNER-JONES - Social Worker. (Brisbane) Robyn Bardon, Anne Draper, Kay Nicol, TYPESETTING: Jenni Bird, Anne Jones, ANNE DRAPER - Librarian. (Brisbane) Jan Turner-Jones, Ross Clarke Matt Mawson 1976 JANE CAMENS - Journalist, 'Cleo'. (Sydney) JULIANNE SCHULTZ - Lecturer In Journalism, NSW Institute of Technology. LAYOUT/DESIGN: Matt Mawson PRINTERS: Gympie Times, Gympie (Sydney) LAYOUT ASSISTANCE: Damren Ledwich ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Semper gratefully 1977 MARK WOLFFE - Journalist. (Britain) acknowledges the generous financial assistance ROSS PEAKE -Journalist, The Australian. (Brisbane) of- RADHA ROUSE - Journalist, AAP. (Sydney) Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd 1978 BRUCE DICKSON - Director, Brisbane Community Arts Centre. (Brisbane) MIM Holdings Limited MARK PLUNKETT - Former Qld. Correspondent for the National Times;, University of Queensland Bowen Fund Barrister. (Brisbane) 1979 BRUCE DICKSON - Director, Brisbane Community Arts Centre. (Brisbane) Gympie Times ROB CAMERON - Editorial Assistant for the Forestry Commission of NSW. in the production of this Golden Anniversary (Sydney) Issue. 1980 TIM LOW- Biologist and Writer. (Brisbane) Thanks are also extended to the University KJAZ PERRY - Public Servant. (Brisbane) of Queensland Students Union for their support 1981 ANNE JONES - 4ZZZ-FM Station Co-ordinator, (Brisbane) SHELLEY DEMPSEY -Student, (Brisbane) of the accompanying 50th Year of Publication TIM LOW - Biologist and Writer, (Brisbane) Celebrations and Staff Reunion. 1982 KAY NICOL-Co-Editor of Semper. (Brisbane) ANDREW ERASER - Co-Editor of Semper. (Brisbane)

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It took some time to come to grips with the idea... SEMPER FLOREAT - 50 YEARS OLD! Surely only an aging Aunty like the ABC has been around that long. But, at a gut level, we felt the same sense of pride in its achievements, particularly after we had the opportunity to see what Semper's editors and staff (most often in a volunteer capacity) had put together over all these years. Now, by means of this special edition of Semper, you also will have the opportunity to taste some of the highlights of the past five decades of journalism at Queensland University. Although many excellent articles and historic extracts have been included, the volume of historic research undertaken left us with many a difficult decision as to what should be omitted. A reading of the final result says much about the special role that Semper Fioreat has managed to forge for itself in documenting and reflecting the changing face of Australian society — particularly within the context of one of its major educational institutions. The diverse personal and political interests and values of students (which in reality do not differ greatly from those of the broader community) can be studied in somewhat unique fashion through these pages. Semper's ongoing concern with its role as an alternative news outlet, and with the ethics ana social responsibilities of the media, also surfaces throughout. In any case, we believe the content (if not the style) speaks for itself, so please read on ... -Bruce Dickson and Kay Nicol Editors, SOth Anniversary Edition

TEN YEARS AGO established each week. think that Semper would continue? role was as the prodviction editor." Semper Fioreat was forty years old This was organised by the Business "Ves," he told me, "Especially at the UNION COUNCIL MEI-TING last Friday and its first Editor still Manager at the time, Dave Curlewis - end of the first year." It is interesting to note the follow doesn't know how or why he was now a successful Brisbane solicitor. "It was real fun doing the paper. It ing extract from the ivtly 14, 1932 appointed. Sales were made at the cellars in the was the focus of attention on the issue of Semper Fioreat: But from the humble beginnings of Men's and Women's Common Rooms, campus. It provided a forum and a The report of the staff of Semper a small 4 page weekly costing 8 pounds in the Engineering faculty, and there talking point for more discussion," Fioreat was then received. A loss of to produce each week. Semper Fior were two roving sellers. he said. four pounds was revealed on the first eat has grown in size and quality over The first print was 300 and most And just how did he come to be four issues, but the report went on to the years. students and staff bought their week appointed. show, in diverse ways, how this was to After 40 years. I thought it may ly issue. "I really don't know. I was in my be reduced to ne^jgjble proportions have been quite difficult to track "Semper was merely designed as a first year there and the President at the hereafter, down the first person who put pen to means ol communication. .Although the time; H.F. McGrath approached me. 1 - PAUL TULLY 'paper for this University's student Uni was still very small there was no don't know why I was picked. But 1 did (19 Juno 1Q72, p;i.j.; 141 newspaper. However, I found the first formal means of communication." Mr. the job and 1 really enjoyed it. My main Editor, Mr. H.T.S. 'Eddie' Pearce at Pearce told me. his home in Toowong. Not that It was " It was simply a weekly newspaper. too difficult to track him down. Mrs. The whole object was to provide infor Pearce is now on the University Senate mation about what was on and brief . and well-known in Women's College stories of what had happened and affairs. things people missed." Semper Fioreat had a rather special "The initial reaction was quite ex beginning. At that time, 'Galmahra' citing. That sounds silly I suppose, but was Till: publication of the Union. as I recall it became a topic of convers 'Galmahra' was the publication to which ation, it used to be really great fun." all literary work was contributed. And how did the name "Semper Semper Fioreat was destined at that Fioreat" come to be picked. time to remain a news information "I think Bill .Mahoney may have sheet. been responsible. 1 think it was a bit At the end of April 1932, first year ironic. We weren't sure it would History and Economics student Pearce flourish." was approached by the President of the (Editor's Note: "Semper Fioreat" Union, H.F. McGrath, to help set up is Latin for "May it always flourish.") a campus newspaper. The first Semper And did the young "Eddie" Pearce Fioreat came out on Thursday 16 June 1932. It sold then for tuppence. At the time when the University CHEERS FOR GAMUT was still at the George Street location, four sales distribution points were "Just a line to say that I consider the idea behind 'Gamut' exciting and one which has a lot of potential... _ "With high hopes, (Professor) Henry Mayer S4 WELL SPENT Editor "I am astonished and a little asham Media Information Australia ed. While being very familiar with 'Time (Letter to Editor, Vol 47, No 4 1977, page 2) Out', I had never heard of 'Time Off. "I think it's a remarkable performan ce and would like a subscription, so I enclose the necessary S4 with my SEMPER HAILED congratulations, for what they are worth." 4 Corners, in a survey of student newspapers at the National Editors' "The special Commem. edition of SEMPER FLOREAT, incorporating 'The Phillip Adams Conference in Melbourne, hailed Courier-Wail', 'Yelograph', and 'Trush' was sold to 20,000 people in the streets (Writer/Film Producer) 'Semper' as the best student newspaper before, during, and after the procession. Two of the 250 volunteers who worked Melbourne in Australia. for the Union College Building Appeal prepared the papers for distribution." (Letter to the Editor, Vol 49 No 9, page 2) (Editorial, 23 June 1969, page 21 122 May 1958, page 7)

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SEMPER • SOth Anniversary Issue • Page 3 Quite a fewo f our empkntes war two hats To successtully operate one of the world's great mines, requires a wi(Je range of skills and disciplines... a well balanced combination of mental and physical attributes. Over the past twelve years, almost 400 graduates from a number of tertiary institutions have found employment witfi MIM. Somewhat less visible though, is our commitment to supporting academic endeavour by the provision of a number of tertiary scholarships to both employees and non-employees alike. Some 47 employees have been awarded scholarships over the last six years, whilst since the initiation of non-employee scholarships in 1980, a total of 44 persons in the community have participated in the scheme. The intention is to attract graduates to particular disciplines required by th6 mining industry such as... minirig engineering, chemical engineering, metallurgy, electrical engineering and " production engineering. Tertiary institutions involved include... Queenslarra University, Queen^and Institute of Technology, IVlelbourne University,- XII Commonwealth Games Monash University. Ballarat C.A.E., S.A.I.T.. Sydney University, Brisbane 1982 UniversityofN.S.W,W.A,l.T..andOlago University It's an aspect of our operation of which we feel particularly , First major sponsor proud, based on a simple philosophy of that in order to get something out, one must put something in. ROCK ROLL GEORGE

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SEMPER - SOth Anniversary l«ue - Page 5 tbeThirties

THE GRAMOPHONE SOCIETY . . I strolled into the Union office the These Engineers are funny men, other day and found it a hot-bed of you know. They are expecting to gossip, cigarette smoke and eats. I graduate this year, though so far the suppose I should take this as a sign that long'Suffering professional staff has the Men's Common Room is attempting seen no theses. Judging by the groans to rival the doings of the Women's. from the Arts students last year I An improvement in the former is cer think ihe Engineer's life is certainly tainly needed, so far as comfort is concerned. Have you tried those church the best. \^ (Gertie's Gossip, 29 March, 1934, pews or do you prefer the back seats of Page 4) friendly cars or the amenities of the Domain? (Gertie Gigglesmoke's Column, 6 April 1934, Page 4) Men's Club ANNUAL UNI REFECTORY OPENS At Queensland University we have . , BROOKS NO OPPOSITION recently taken the first step in initiat (12 May 1938, page 2) ing refectory services for students. A DINNER buffet counter has been installed in S5$Sv*SSS^x*::;:;:!y?:$i^^ '.:'.'.•.•.-.'.::'.'.'.•.'.•.'. the Men's Common Room, and light WILL BE HELD ON refreshments of all kinds (pies, foils, cakes, sandwiches, etc.) confectionary, REVUE drinks, tobacco and cigarettes can be Wednesday, July 19, obtained there. The Refectory is open This year the Revue will be held away from Revue will probably include two one act on week days from 10am to 2.30pm the University, on Wednesday night, 1 llh April. plays - most likely "The Bride", the cast of 1933 and from 4pm to 8pm, and also on Tlie Dramatic and Musical Societies are each which includes no men, and "The Bathroom doing their share of the programme. A very Door", which should be interesting for other AT THE special occasions outside those hours good programme is being arranged and with reasons. A number of sketches will also be (e.g., large evening meetings, dances better seating accommodation the Revue this produced. HOTEL CARLTON etc.). The Refectory is open to all year should be of high standard. When it is .Mrs R. Scott, who has undertaken to act students and members of the Univer definitely decided where the Revue is to be as producer of the plays, will be unable to meet sity teaching and office staffs, both held, it will be annovinced ii^ 'Semper Fioreat' the members of tiie Society until after Easter. Subscription : 6s. 6d. and on the Notice Boards around the Univer (29 March 1934, page 3. The Revue was held men and women. Women need have no sity. at the South Brisbane Tech.) fear of entering the Refectory, as it The Dramatic Society's contribution to the 1. O. FBASEE, is fairly well sheltered from the rest Hon. Sec. of the Men's Common Room. (Extract, 10 March 1938. Page 1) (Advenisement, 6 July 1933, Pass 2) Watch These Dates The following are the dates approved of by the Entertainment's Advertising Manager: W.H. Hart. Control Committee for Frist Term:— SEHPSllOa Miss M. Lafconibc, Miss M. Gipps Ptintcts: H, Pole and Co. Ltd., Brisbane ftlIk(1'vb»lUMr^ ^kn'ilMkUffrn FRIDAY, 8th Aprii Athletic Club Dance. Editoral Office: George Street Campus, City MONDAY, 18th April Women's Tennis Bridge Party. EDITORAL POLICY THURSDAY, 21st April Science Students at Home. "The aim of tHe paper is to afford present FRIDAi', 22nd April Men's Club's Smoke Concert. and past members of the university a com mon medium for the expression and exchange SATURDAY, 23rd April Boat Club Dance. of news and views." TUESDAY, 26th April Burlesque. •K (Thursday 16 July 1932, page 1) THURSDAY, 28th April Burlesque, "Through Semper Fioreat, graduates can, keen In touch with their 'aimer mater', and, FRIDAY, 29th April commtin. Ball. as a body our 'Varsity can be brought In SATURDAY, 7th May Women's Club At Home. closer contact with other seats of learning, Women's College At Home. A weekly newspaper can assist greatly In MONDAY, 9th May givlr>9 a University a more widespread and SATURDAY, 14th May Hockey Club Hop. dynamic Irifluence." MONDAY, 23rd May ., Dental Ball. (Thursday 30 June, 1932, page 1) A. McNAB, Planned frequency of issues: Weekly Hon. Sec. E.C.C. Average number of pages: 4 •^iMrin (l*)RJ M Number of issues produced: 14 (31 March 1938, Page 3) Cover price 2 pence EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT — Sport (intervarslty rugby union and Inter- varslty rowing) — Social announcements — Graduate gossip — Club news •Semper Fioreat' was instituted to contain the — University debates matter of purely 'news' value, and the scope — Letteti to the Editor of 'Galmahra' was confined to one large — Union Council Meetings annual Issue ... If 'Semper Fioreat' Is to — Student Apathy and Indifference cover University news, this' must be supplied — Student Ct^rlstlan Movement (SCWl) column by the students themselves. . . . Anything EDITORIAL TEAM — Wider Education Society (WES) column that catches your eye, tickles your fancy or Editors: W.A. Mahoney, E.T.S. Pearce — Editorial welcoming Governor's visit to g^ts.your goad — anything that others might Business Managct: D. Curlewis University •be interested, amused, or exasperated to read " anything that will provoke discussion or even start a fight — It Is all copy. Even should you disapprove of 'Semper Fioreat' Itself, or Its policy, or the paper It is printed on, or anything else about It, write and say so, in prose, verse or free verse."

miMf "» •««» Friday 16 March J934. Paget. SEMPiiJgJI^" "All contributions to 'Semper Fioreat' must be signed, but signatures will not be published unless the authors so desire. Con Jp^ Mahoney and E.T.S. Pearce (Orientation tributors who do not wish their names to 5l«f llitftMm!]} t] ^rrtnbni Stuhmt*' N.totpafn appear should append a non-de-piumc as well Edition) -•Muna >*>*^ n II . .1 —„,,,, ^âuTs •«•*fô ri tr< i-m M_» as their signatures." r\m^ ^ .^^1 Printers: Shipping Newspapers (Qld.) Ltd., Thursday 29 March 19 3fl. Page J. '.^Z-l '•••" j; — ...... '?"" Brisbane IDIIOItAI ••• '.'.'.''.'J',.;'. Format: Small tabloid *ii*r»»»« EDITORAL POLICY Planned frequency of issues: Weekly "Semper Fioreat, for Us success, depends on the personal opinions of the students. Average number of pages: 4 It Is essentially topical, and loses some of Its Number of issues produced: 24 Interest when the week of putjllcstlon Is past" Annual subscription: 3 shillings and 3 pence (Thursday 4 May, 1922. Page 1.) Ji',.~!^ V."r*"'- '^^•- '^ -••'* •• EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT **..*.'...,".'.". EDITORIAL TEAM Format: Small tabloid — As for 1912 and 1933 issues plus; Planned frequency of issues: Weekly Editors: M.V. Fogarty, J.P. Ryan — Gertie Gigglesmoke's Gossip column Average number of pages: 4 Business Manager: C.K. Griffin — Debating Society Reports Subscription Assistant: Miss E. Harwood — University Revue Number of issues produced: 20 — Degree Day Dinner and Dance Printcn: Shipping Newspapers, Qld Ltd. ,^ T.^'.'.^Z^'.V'--^- ttUTSiti ¥»mrr -^- .>'... Cover price: 2 pence — International Affairs EDITORIAL POLICY "., :,'. 'i ."'V ^ • •• •• s ._ . .' -v . tivf>«jt\%iwtm Subscriptions; 3 shillings per year. — Proposed Abolition of Commem Weel< EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT " 'Semper Fioreat' exists to chronicle Procession i-'• r.^.-"-•?.•-'". ••• •: •.••.'I:!•,"-.:••.•.. '.••"•• v";.".';; student activities from week to week. 'Gal — Debate - The General Inevitability of War As for 1932 Issues —plus — Re-Establlshment of the University at the — Apparent student apathy and Us causes mahra', tho University magazine which, until last year, Issued once during every term, St Lucia Site — Sterility and lack of originality of student was not considered completely suitable to — Dissatisfaction with the system of reward thinking contain the record of the day-to-day actlvl- ing University Sporting 'Blues' — Lack of Editorial copy and contributors ties of the student body, principally because — Union Elections — Part-time students' lack of interest In It was desired that 'Galmahra' should devote — (L.ast Issue) > Editorial Review/Critique ••^••IE£i>îH^Bi University affairs the greater part of Its space to matters of EDITORIAL TEAM and Plan for more Student Support and — Intervarslty free verse literary and artistic Intention. Accordingly, Less Disinterest In University Affairs Editors: J.P. Ryan, M.V, I-ogarty, W.A. — Inequality of Employment for Women

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The University, Friday. The Students' in the report of the two delegates to the Ade Newspaper, "Semper Fioreat", is to laide Conference of University Students in undergo an immediate expansion in February last. circulation as a result of legislation NOT THE OFFICIAL ORGAN. passed at a meeting of the Union Council In spite of urgent representations from last night. The changes will not affect the Editor of 'Semper', the Union refused the Union policy with regard to the to make the paper its official organ. editorial side of 'Semper*. They are con They considered that this would tend to fined solely to the financial basis of the stultify the expression ot student opinion paper and to the circulation of the paper through the columns of the paper. The Editor among students. claimed that this need not be so, since southern University newspapers function efficiently as The result, in brief, as students will first official organs of tlie respective student bodies, see it, will be that Semper will be distributed but the Council remained obdurate. 'Semper each week lo all studcitts without cUaigc other l-'lorcat' tiicrefore continues to be the students' than an annual subscription of 5/-, which will newspaper of the University of Queensland, be included in the annual Union General Pur with the Union retaining ultimate control as pose [''cc of one pound one shilling, as at the financial proprietor. present fixed, The jolly spirit that prevailed during the Governor's Address is evidenced by this Photograph REASONS FOR CHANGE. A FURTHER IMPROVEMENT. By kind permission of the "Brisbane Courier" It was considered that the increased cost A further measure adopted to introduce (28 July 1932. page 2) to the Union was warranted in view of (a) the unification, of control of publishing, distribu tlircatcned embarrassment of the 'Semper' tion, sale and advertising in all official Union finances if no change was made, and (b) the publications should show very material bene Editorial - GOVERNOR'S VISIT fact that the new 'Semper' could prove of fits in the future. more value to the students in general and The paper wilf be registered at the General In an earlier issue we commented on to be content with the passing reference: the evening students in particular, Post Office, Brisbane, for transmission through the arrival and reception of the new "The Governor appears to be a charming the post as a periodical, thus effecting a big Governor of this State, Sir Leslie 0, personality and should get on quite well These reforms have been instituted as a saving in postage. Wilson, G.S.C.I. . . . Having nothing on in his new position, providing he shows result of certain recommendations contained (Extract, 29 April 1937, Pago 11 which to base our opinions but lauda due reference to the seat of learning." tory articles in the daily press - not That our confidence in His Excellency was always the most reliable source - we had not misplaced has been shown by his accept ing the invitation of the U.Q. Wider Education Society to address the undergraduates. Sir Leslie has already evinced a keen interest "Bolshevism finds considerable sup in the welfare of the State, both by his official port amongst criminals. The theorists expressions of goodwill and comradeship, and by his personal sacrifice in receiving so many of the Russian revolution, Bakanin and Combed Once^.. boring and conventional receptions from all Metchoeff, and their followers insisted sections of the community. So we are not on closer friendship of the Russian Hair Staysin Place All Day greatly surprised - though our appreciation revolutionaries with criminals. A notori is altissimo - that His Excellency has expressed The Regular Use of . . . his wiUingncss to devote a little of his valuable ous bank robber and his associate, time to us. The following extracts from his Stalin and Litvinoff, now hold import letter to the Secretary of the W.E.S. will inter ant positions of office." est all: "... and I am grateful to the under graduates of the University for inviting me to ir-rom Wider Education Socictv (WES) RETARDS, QUEEN say a few words to them",. ."It will be a great column, 4 August 1932, Page ?) opportunity of meeting the 'Varsity under KMDNESS graduates." We thank him for his kind express MACASSAR OIL ions of friendship - we fee! he speaks not in his official capacity, but personally - and wish ensures to make this a public recognition of our appre THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK ciation. We have no doubt that the students Buy "Semper Fioreat" will recognise what an honour is being conferr Healthy, Glossy, Tidy Hair ed on them, and that the former Government -Don't borrow it House will be the scene of the most sincere and lJuly61933, page3) heartfelt welcome that could possibly be Price 2/- per bottle I accorded to our new Governor. - W.A. Mahoney, Editor (MthJuIy, 1932, page 1) (Advertisement, 25 June 1936, page 5) Editorial - WHINGE ^S^^sbK^lS'î "Semper's" chronic complaint is a lack of would be to reduce the size of the paper. must exercise considerable control over the CxiJ StrvKf paper. These statements are only partially interest among the students. Often in tlje past While there will probably be dispute about .HK-Kf A.^li ~i^^*l','~ •l*JÛ^ correct. It Is true that the Council grants K McLtOD. editions have just been forgotten about while the value of the staffs resignation, it will be <«" UMMTWIV t\ ^\vnNUn* A, MLLEOD. money to "Semper Fioreat", but It also others have been produced in such hot haste generally agreed that the latter proposal, at •' "^ • •*"''**• !kB»nit|' ^1HNP> makes grants to the constituent bodies of that the print has smudged on perusal. least, would be a retrograde step. the Union. Beyond the appointment of the irwt iflnTB editor and one other member of the staff At least 1000 words are requned to spoil i 1 July 1938, Pa9e2) Vim nm MIB of "Semper Fioreat" - by no means the the paper. The editorial staff has always written -••"Tiii^" *Vrttxdfnt 1 }iti*iAie "•T'lî-.'-.-fCir •,M..H«.MH>>s>«M.^ •« • whole of the staff - the Union council appears most of it, and only meagre contributions have *^, ' ••"•, 73^ r ' ' 'Mf "^' '" to exercise no more direct control over the come from the pens of others. But since the paper than over any of the constituent beginning of second term tiiese very welcome Reprinted from Vol. 1 No. I, of the • t Lij.^-i^-'-*. *«*.UM..-^^ tV. » W-• k^ •—> ••iviMr —-, M . bodies. VVIth regard to control and finance, tit-bits have not made their appearance. Queensland University magazine, pub SST- JtZ*'^X-'T!^ "ZTÎJ^ «Z ^•——.••^1^ we can do no better than quote the opinion *,^Li!rr^'^ •ZZ' ^'^"'.^ÎIT -'— - * ^— • "^'•f^T rj^ of a committee recently appointed by the Letters there arc in plenty at times. And so lished in October, 1911, the following Union Council Itself. Clause 35 of the report it is obvious that the majority of students have tonut wm ^^.'T-LrJ'',':'-^r^^r-TT"— ^ fc«**i -itiiM -m of the "Semper Fioreat" Investigation Com sufficient of that little literary ability required is the first recorded lecture joke, in the .-..> ..'..i.'^-. — '^>^M*w* —>'««» '* K. ' i_'..Vr_'l_ mittee states: "The Committee considers to justify the publication of their efforts in History of the University. "Mr." Rich ——'".^^"^^ L •• , . . ^ 1. • •.-• •^1' It «— ' Independence In policy and organisation a Children's Corner. Richards, why did you call that rock :..^ ^, . • "" •*" -~'^.'7Z • -• * ,--,— ,. After all, "Semper Fioreat" has Its own sandstone just now? • -* «":rr'^/"— oainm im '"r.- ' . :-.•..-'Xi.-, Unless a reasonable amount of support > J.-.,.' •.^,"s IM-»*'^-V'>— Budset to balance and the Committee desires Mr. Richards: Because it is sandstone. ••*'* :: ZJ-." : ~— nt Ml to see this accomplished with the minimum is given us in the immediate future, the mass •'--.'••._ _ - — :;•..-,-,—r.-:rr ••rZ"JrJi.--r: • r- resignation of the staff, which has already (29 April 1937, Page 2) .; '.^ of financial assistance from the Union." :.""-u ~r-_C^-; ™ "• "We do not put foward these facts in an been discussed, wilt eventuate. The alternative .; "• endeavour to proclaim complete Indep endence from the Union and its governing body. We fully understand that "Semper Fioreat". which Is essentially a students' publication, must be under the final control EDITORIAL TEAM of the Union Council; but we do vLitiIi ^hiKniH' ^rfr•p•|)tr Social Editress: Miss M. Hunter Editors: Jeff Richardson Frequency of issues: Weekly Sub-Editors: Miss M. De V. Gipps, M.M. Purser Average number of pages: 4 1-" » V. r i»j.. ••»»»• ('•• fXRM P, Henderson, F.G. Coaldrake Printers: Shippmg Newspapers, Brisbane Cover price: 2p, 3/6 per annum Printers: Shipping Newspapers (Q) Brisbane EDITORIAL POLICY EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL POLICY Format: Short tabloid — University staff and faculty appointments — Colleges Planned frequency of issues; Weekly "To those who are about to enter their — international Relations Club address on Total No. of issues: 18 first year of University life, I would like to German motivations In reoccupytng the address a (ew words. Average No. of pages: 4 Rhlneland "You have left your schools and have — sport, Commem, Debates, Religion, as for Cover price: Two pence come to the 'Varsity, in a day you have step ' previous years EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT ped Into an atmosphere that is entirely — Growth in demand for more practical new to you, bewildering perhaps. These education — Freshers years, we trust, will always be a happy mem — Wider education society — Need for transfer of new building to ory. They are yours to make thorn so." St Lucia — Clubs (Saturday, 7 March 1936. page I) — Student Christian movement — corresponence debate over Radical Club's name — Notices "It has been argued tt>at the Union Coun — Burlesque — Social column, "Joan's Jottings" cil finances "Semper Fioreat," and appoints — Diary ot a Fresher — Commem its officers, and that consequently the Council — Sport — University SongbooK

SEIMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue • Page 7 theThirties

UNIVERSITY SCHOOLBOYISHNESS 1 was pleased to see so many women Speaking as a mere male, I really AND THE REAL WORLD freshers at the funfight which always will be glad now that all the Commem. precedes first term. They looked very practising is over. Our Common Room As soon as he read the letters in last pressure which effects these changes should shy that day, but they all managed to seems forever filled with these ghastly be that of persons who have faced the full blossom forth last Friday night. I under week's "Semper" about the naughty females who always manage to overhear boys at the Men's Club dinner and at responsibilities of adults as working members of the general community, not that of a rowdy stand some are pretty 'hot stuff and our private jokes. Comment., our old friend, George Bern quite capable of dealing with enter I had a marvellous time at the revue rabble of half emancipated school children and ard Shaw, broke into print on the very unemancipable pedants. It is true that in a prising dentists. on Wednesday night. It was such a same question. He said:- reasonable state of society this outside exper One well known member of the lec splendid show that the staff could have "Older children might do a good deal ience would do for us very completely what turing staff was seen at a southern sea turned up in greater numbers. I am before beginning their collegiate education. the University docs now so corruptly that we side resort during vacation, but our surprised too, to hear that 'old hands' What is the matter with our Universities is tolerate its bad manners only because they arc that the students are school children, where better than no manners at all. But (lie Univer further remarks were censored by the believe that the old spirit of the 'varsity as it is of the very essence of University edu sity will always exist in some form as a comm editor. However, ask those who were - that everybody turned up to every cation that they should he adults. The funct unity of persons desirous of pushing their there! show — is fast disappearing and that the ion of a University is not to teach tilings that culture to the highest pitch they are capable can now be taught as well or better by Uni of, not as solitary students reading in seclusion, (Gertie Gigglesmoke's Gossip Column, freshers are much too casual about such versity extension lectures or by private tutors Friday 16 IVIarch 1934, Page 4) but as members of a body of individuals all things. or modern correspondence classes with gramo pursuing culture, above all, criticising culture. (Gerties Gossip. 13 April 1934) phones. We go to them to be socialised; to if such persons read and talk and criticise to acquire the hallmark of communal training; any purpose, they must know the world as well to become cirizens of the world instead of as the shopkeeper in the High Street does. inmates of the enlarged rabbit hutches we call And this is just what they do not know at homes; to learn manners and become un present." challengeable ladies and gentlemen. The social (12May 1938, page 1) SOCIAL SPORTS UNION DANCE The dance gjven on Saturday night Miss Billy Batchcn, and Miss Madeline Connor, TOM PEPPER'S PERSONALITIES at Main Hall by the Sports Union was a Mr Atkinson and Mr Thomsett did the organ Once again, how d'ye do? My know great trouble. With wrinkled brows he scanned pleasing innovation. ising. Miss Archibald wore a graceful frock of ledge concerning these things is small, every woman as she entered the room, and tan black lace. Miss Bick dull white satin touched It was very successful, for the rain cleared but judging by the delightful display of his eye up and down every seat and along the up sufficiently to prevent everything from with blue at the neckline and waist, with a wall many times. He then retired to the veran being too disagreeable, and , ocspite a heavy train that probably caused slight trouble in legs in the Men's Common Room the other day, I would suggest that the dah, whether satisfied or not 1 had no means floor, everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. the rain; Batchcn wore floral georgette, and oi judging. And while I am on the subject of The Iceland poppies and gum-tips on the tables .Miss Connor pink crepe. women at least were doing pretty well. Commem. practice I would like to remind were lovely. 125 July 1935, Page 3) Why the male population over-estimated couples that the scat on Walter's verandah is Miss Lorna Archibald, Miss Una Bick, its ability and tried to imitate them I cannot not as dark as it perhaps appears. imagine. However, the women put it all over (21 March 1935, Page 4) them, although one engineer seemed to have the leg kick and snoop done to a turn. Have you noticed the extreme speed with which Commem. couples have, to use Frankie's POSITIONS VACANT LtOD. phraseology, 'clicked' this year? One well- Business Manager: J.K. Newman known seeker of freshers didn't even try to "Excellent opening for young men, Assistant Business Manager: P. Wyche hide his foul designs. I noticed, however, on moderately handsome, with no resem vV.« .- M.-Jual S,U( lUiilJiw •••' Monday night, a dental student who seemed in Printers: Shipping Newspapers, Brisbane blance to *wogs' or 'shrimps', to relieve EDITORIAL POLICY .v.^•.^v.v.^^^^v.^v.v.•.v.^S^X•^^v.^^v.•.•.•.^v.y.^•v.v.•.'.^^^^•.y.^-<•^•.•.•.•.v.^\•;•;•;•:.•.•,•.:•'•.v.•.••;•;•:.•.•.•.^ the conjestion in the Women's Common "important changes In 'Semper Fioreat' policy are under consideration of the Union Rooms. Must have progressed beyond Council, but in the meantime. Semper provid the 'childish' age and the period of es Its usual services in the way ot nevrt, opinion, records, forecasts and humour. irresponsibility. Send penny stamp, Two new series of weekly articles make this office, for free patterns." tt^elr appearance in this Issue. The one, 'Fact and Fancy', serious (more or les$)i the other, (28 September 1933, Page 3) 'Low Browse Column', humorous (equally more or less). "if space permits it is hoped to Introduce at least two more regular series of contri butions, but tor the present, news of clubs and societies and other Union functions DON'T "roUNDATlON STONE LAYING threaten to crowd them out. BE " 'Semper' exists as a means of expression of student opinion, as well as a vendor of stu A dent news, it is hoped ttiat students will Borrower of use our columns to air grievances, propound pet theories, and generally show that they are SPURGINS "SEMPER". Interested In the welfara ol the 'Varsity." BUY YOUR OWN and help to (Thursday 18 March, 1937) Opp Post Office, Format: Tabloid in Qaeen St.. reduce the Union expenses. (25 March, 1937, Page 4) Planned frequency of issues: Weekly (Advertisement, 1 April 1937, Page 4) Number of issues produced: Four EDITORIAL TEAM Cover price: 2 pence Editor; F.W. Coaldrake • EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT Chief of Staff: P. Newman — 'Varsity Activities — Clubs and Cocletles General Sub-Editors: W.E, Cuppaidge, — 'Watch These Dates' column T. AbcU — N.U.A.U.S. EDITORIAL POLICY Social Editress: Miss J.C. Chad wick — Commem ^-iI A. McLEOD£, I ^"^ flarrat "You can undoubtably see that 'Semper' — Student Conferences alms to represent every variety and opinion Sub-Editress: Miss E.S. Cowan — Union Council Sporting Editor: S.M. Green In University life. No idea is too radical or — Sports Notes too conservative for 'Semper*, and you will — Overseas Students Why Do M«n Still Go Subeditor: K. Dagg to War7 ffk^'Engines perhaps teel tempted to tell me, no story or hKk CwiMnI ilS^ Emba letter is too weak or Ill-constructed to be m QUlMOM *•«•'•• Bar printed by us. "This Is part of a dennlte policy. The university publications aim at amplifying the utterance of the softest speaker and of I.... . v«u iba> giving voice to the opinions of every type and ^cmpit fIcreat '^' grade of student. A. M.I.LOI). Sub Editon; C. Gill, P. Connolly "And the publications of a university Social Editor: Miss B. Blair occupy a position which is almost unique in Business Manager: R. Faine the community. They are allowed to express do, Jolly mn.t in. ,., opinions of such violence and unorthodoxy Brisbane's Housing Chief of Suff: R. Priestly that no other paper or magazine could print Problem Cartoonist: H. Ball them with the assurance of reaching a large Sporting Sub-Editors: P. Wyche, M. Evans public This may sometimes lead our l4intets: Shipping Newspapers (Q.) Ltd., readers to imagine that we make a fetish of Ryan House, Eagle St., Brisbane controversy and red-ragging —which could be diMrMV win fer from s true understanding of our alms... EDITORIAL POLICY "A student gets mora of the value of Planned frequency of issues: Weekly academic life from the work which he contri Average No. of pages: 4 butes to 'Semper' and 'Galmahra' than from almost any other part of his academic career." Total No. of issues produced: 23 (Friday 14 April 1939, page;) Cover price: 3 pence r=r| Format: Tabloid Subscriptions: 5 shillings per annum 'Planned frequency of issues: FortnighUy (?) EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT wn«iMciiuiu Average number of pages: 4 — As for earlier years, plusi Number of issues produced: ? (Only two — Dividing of University Into faculties EDITORIAL TEAM — Better conditions for students Editor: Mr P. Connolly available in Records) Cover price: 5 shillings per annum, — The need lor higher regard by the tomm- Sodal Editor: Miss Pen Falconer munity for students role In society 3 pence per copy. Sports Editor: Mr T. Tonakie — Noise distractions bother students study EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT ing In new library Business Manager: Mr D. Murray — Speculation about forthcoming war — Medical students seel< fixed annual grant Sub-Editor: Messrs R. Matthews, from Students' Union — Wider Education society — Conlerence ol Queensland Women's Peace W. RadcUffe,L.Webb . — The Gramophone Society 1938 Movement Sporting Sub-Editor: Mr E.G. Broad — Sport —Notices and Results EDITORIAL TEAM — Religion and Morality Printen: Shipping Newspapers (Q) Ltd, — Letters to the Editor — Self-anatysis of Newspaper Standards Edltois: P.W. Henderson, M.N. JuUus — Students «rKJ the Senate Ryan House, Eagle St, Brisbane Sports Editor: Mr T. Tonakle — "m» there be war?" Editorial Sept 15 p. 2 — Conscription Debate

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It was suggested, the other day, by an interest. honest critic, that 'Semper Tlorcat' devotes But who is to provide it? The editors, or too much space to i"lcctures and meetings the volunteer reporters who have furnished which have passed and which everybody knows copy during the term, arc not in a position to all about". Apart from the fact that University know all that is doing. The suggestion is that activities arc reported for the benefit of evening club secretaries, presidents or members who are and external students, graduates and others anxious to make their functions successful who do not share them but like lo know of might try the effect of a little discreet public them, it must be admitted that this paper does ity, 'Semper rioical' is open to all who care a good deal of backward looking, Forward to use its columns. It always has been. Reason looking would be much better, advance inform able advance information will find space. We ation about forthcoming functions would be wiJl print i! but, ax to providing it - that must welcome to readers and editors alike. It would cause these activities to be discussed before be left to the clubs themselves. They know hand; it would help to promote and foster what they intend doing, (Extract only, 18 May 1933, page 1)

ENROLMENTS FOR 1936 The Registrar has kindly given us details Dentistry 40 of the University enrolments for 1936. Tlic Ivngineering 41 total number of students for this year is 1149 Medicine 74 including 357 day, 389 evening, and 403 Veterinary Science 4 external students. Taking these together the enrolments for the various faculties are as Science (Pure and Applied 118 follows - Other courses, including courses for tlie Diplomas of Journalism, lingineering, and Arts and Law 575 forestry, Class 1,, and miscellaneous students Commerce ]Qg ofall faculties 170 Agriculture I7 19 AfJfil 1936, pane 1)

MANILA "When the number of students at eaclt University is taken into account, and CHINA [ 'Semper' is revealed to be far and away NOT UNDERSTOOD! :: /•',; ,'•"• ( hi:!!!;.;< [ \t.cllir,u ^ the biggest student newspaper in Australia." (Cartoon by well-known Brlsb.3ne artist, Mr Roy Dalnarno, 29 September 1938. page 21 Ttie 2nd Students' F.ducaltonal Tour '; (From Editorial, 1 July 1933. Page 2)

;i, '••:.< . M-;-|.. •, ..• >••. \ ,..!•..)::: (1..- r.l I,-. ••.S..S. TAIIMNf;" ; (ll> DtCIMtll J( I'llll NEW WOMEN'S COLLEGE S.O.S. EQUAL RIGHTS FOR • " • • :••• • '..< •• •. W :,:.- Archbishop opens Duchesne. .:• I . y ••• .. •. • • WOMEN < • •,.:• ..• ! M ' , . "Wanted by handsome young bac ., II.-,,,-,. ,•• ; • . " ".An important advance in the I ...^ .••'.,!• • *'. •.'. . [ ,,'; .!,... J helor, lady with means for Commem. The women of this university are up education of women in Queensland partner. Must be able to ride bike. in arms, and riglitly so, at the barbaric was made yesterday when .Archbishop View friends, mat. Box M, at Office. attitude taken towards them by most of Duhig opened the Duchesne Catholic (11 April 1935. Page 31 the men here. They complain, and their Women's University College. By so complaint is undeniably veracious, that Will.^, Giichrisl & Sanderson Pty. Lid, i doing His Grace completed the final even in the days of the Salic law, link in the Roman Catholic system of women had some of the rights of free jiMi (.11 I I \ .siiu i.T - IIIII.SIIAM: education for its women. citizenship. Their dignity as human . • IS March 1937, Page 3) beings was upheld to some extent. REPLIES TO S.O.S. (Advertisement, 6 October 1932. Page 3). They were not derided, despised and downtrodden as they are in this day "Box M., Dear Sir - Re S.O.S., and age, in the University of Queens 'Semper Fioreat' (11/4/35). Can fulfill land. all requirements. Lidy, sure! Means, Editorial - STUDENT APATHY Oh, yes! Ride a bike, you bet! Friends, In the effort to reassert their in dependence their first move will be to Quite a controversy has arisen out of of course! Mat., we'll see!. Carnivals in a few weeks' time; though even in Yours, claim one of their ancient and tradition the publication of a letter to the Ed. on their case there is obviously insufficient enthu al rights. the subject of Club Dances. All corresp siasm.) The various Societies, on the whole, Box X.Y.Z. (Office) ondents appeared to be agreed on one attract rather small audiences to their lectures, * * * TItey demand life right, sanctified thing at least, that there was, among etc. Tlie Debating Society has small houses - "Box M., Dear Sir- by 'Varsity customs over many years, undergraduates, a deplorable lack of the Dramat. play has fallen through. Then as to pay their own way at Commem. we have been told {nay, as we ourselves have Yes, if yours is! interest in such functions. It is not Yours They will allow no male protests to directly of this that we wish to speak witnessed!) the Social functions of the Clubs have not been the bright successes of former (Mademoiselle) upset their decision. Women, they here, but of the spirit of which this is say, must buy their own Commem. years. This unwliolesonie state of affairs seems Box B.O. (Office). but one development, viz., that spirit to have ari.sen from a mistaken conception of tickets! of apathetic indifference which seems to the utility of the University. We do admit that (l8Aprin935,Page4) have become the main characteristic of ONIi of the_mosi important functions of the i14ApriM939, Page21 bur student body. University "is to impart knowledge, but the buildinc of character is of greater imporiancc' Of the presence of this spirit we have ample still. evidence. In every branch of Sport, teams can only be held together with difficulty, but a Participation in sport docs much to develop comparatively small number attend practices, a spirit of comradeship, determination and per UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S? "B" CRADE IIOCKEV TEA.M. and tliere is a consequent loss of form. (We severance: the intellectual Societies broaden, might possibly make an exception of the the minds of swdcnts and help greatly in the Hockey Teams which are preparing for the attainment of a truly liberal education:and the Social activities provide a field for the acqui sition of all the above, in the intercourse of man with man (and man with woman). The "swot" may object that participation in these activities - really University lite - will not help him in his e.xams, nor obtain a position for him. But whoever got anywhere with mere book Icaring? While on the contrary, how many have risen to the top of the tree by sheer force of character! Several theories have been advanced regard ing the seal of the trouble, and once again the l"reslicrs have been blamed. The injustice of this is obvious, for the Treshcrs, on the whole, will follow Ihe example of the students of other years. Then, too, they were carried away by THE GRAMOPHONE the orgy of Commem, before liiey were at all settled down. No! Undoubtably the fault lies SOCIETY with the third and fourth year students who. whether from an imagined sense of their lofty As a result of Semper's recent poll, it was position and the dignified . composure of most pleasing to the Committee to see tttany inacitivity incumbent tiictcon, or from the requests for opera which will be acceded to in notion tliat NOW TIIEV MUST WORK, have the -near future and for polyphonic music of neglected to set their successors the example the prc-Bach school, Palestina figuring largely which Was set them. among the composers asked lot. Perhaps it is a little too late to sound the From now on it is the intention of the note of reform tor the spectre of 3rd Temi is Society to hold two weekly meetings. even now beginning to hover round; but It is The gramophone belonging to the Society, hoped that this will do something to encourage jvhicli was built Ijy Mr Clancy, will be left those who have been lax in the past, to show a The players' names, rcadliiK from lell to rlihl. arc: ~ Belty Fraser. Wendy Marehall-Jones. Etiirl pennanently in the New Library Building, little more animus in the future. Carson. Ursula Roberts, May Evans, Kathleen Beek, Mer, Broadbcnt, .^larjorle Amos—on "Dinah, the (Extract, 24 March 1939, Page 21 (28July, 1932. page II OlmllJUtive Oarilnc" —"Sundny Mail" Ulack. (8 April 1937, Page 4) J SEMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 9 thelbrties ARE WE OBSCENE?

ly obvious to the oversexed in all aspects A body of students within the Uni of life just as it remains a source of crud versity has evinced displeasure at certain ity to tlic mentally depraved. of the contents of this year's Song Book, We see no reason why sex should be which they class as obscene and sugges avoided in these publications. Wc content tively flippant. that matters relating to sex can be Ihe Sex should be treated as a perfectly subject of a joke without cither sug- natural physical function, but it is a gcstiveness or obscenity, just because .sex regrettable fact that it becomes painful- is a'fundamental, everyday matter*. As an example, compare the following time-honoured joke: 'Wanted to sell, a piano by a lady with carved mahogany Students should take more interest I !cJ- _ with one from the Song Book; J in 'Semper'. If they could only realise wish to inform you that I have given birth it, their newspaper is as valuable to to twins in the enclosed envelope'. Wliile children arc usually told the them as their tongues. former at a very tender age, the latter, They would realise it if, as was because it mentions something con mooted in the Senate last year, 'Semper' nected with sex, is regarded as indecent. Where is the difference? Both jokes rely was banned. *A good when lost is for their meaning on similar types ol con valued most' and that's the truth. struction, both are flippant about the (Editorial extract, entitled 'Your human body. Yet one is considered inno Newspaper, 11 April 1940, Page 2) cent, tlic other disgusting. U:ditorial extract, 14 June 1945, Patie 21

NOT WOT SirE USTA BE! FRESHER TYPES (16 May 1941, page 4)

New St. Lucia Campus Praised

We, the first students in this section of praises given to St, Lucia by overseas the University of Queensland, are more personalities. than a little proud of the unsolicited Two of the most pleasing of these state ments were made by Mr. Anthony Eden Depu ty Leader of the British Opposidon, and Dr. van Stecnburgh, an eminent Canadian scient ist. Mr. Eden, himself Chancellor of the Birm ingham University, said that he considered St. Lucia to be one of the most modern University structures in the world, (31 March 1949, page 1)

THE UNIVERSITY AND MILITARY TRAINING | By R.I. Meyers mm Many students want nothing less than universal training, believing that any voluntary system is unfair, waste ful and futile. Regarding this, attention is drawn to a resolution made by the U.Q.U. Council last year - "That the U.Q.U. Council approves of the desir Top row: Adolescent Alfic, IVIiss R. T. Tipc, Mr. Boll Weevil, ability of compulsory military train Ima Chaser. ing... Bottom row: Mr. Boris Brylcrcem (ex R.A.A.F.), Mr. Hick BuniPffiA. Miss T. Nagcr, Miss Adelaide Intensity. Since military training is necessary, (28 March 1947, page 2) work, sport and play must be modified V."»'.V.*.%".-.V»V.*»%".-»-.-.".». V.V.'.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.' to allow for the military training, and ".•x-X"V':'y.»y..v.;t>A.A not vice versa. (Extract, 16 April 1948, Page 3) (Excerpt, 26 September 1947, page 2) GUERILLA ! YOU mGHT BE ONE IF THE JAPANESE INVADE US. The success of the Chinese in Guerilla tactics makes t:^=^'\ Scniprr JFlcreat ^y^- makes them a good model. EDITORIAL POLICY HEAR Mil. LEO McCAWLEV. B.A., "Last week's issue was a trifle abortive. on This one may not be much better. But, 'UTIAT WE CAN LEARN TROM CHINA'S WAR EXPERIENCE" Semper Fioreat Is gradually getting Into Its NEXT TUESDAY LUNCH-HOUR AT RADICAL CLUB. The Shape of Things lo Come stride. Th« New Slot'l The main thing than Is that the students Univemty should march with It. 124 April 1942, page 21 TaL« fo'ni Educoiign The general practice last year was to L Pfcn«ct limp painfully a couple of horizons behind, that Is, amongst those who bothered to follow at all. A widespread quickening of interest In hit, *mjl.^ N,,, their newspaper 1$ necessary among the students ol this University. Long associat km^t florrat P^ ion with Semper Fioreat convinces one of the Sub Editor: L.J. Webb utter futility of saying that. We shall be for Sporting Editor: L.L. Byth tunate If It does as much as to make less

SEMPER • 50th Anniversary issue - Page JO theFbities Natives Get Shabby Deal

Federal Government Should Recast Attitude

In the following article, taken from the May issue of The Australian Intercollegian' map, but they can be altered or done away six ounces of sugar, two ounces of tea, in nearly Dr. Charles Duguid, of Adelaide, draws the attention of all humane and thoughtful with at the stroke of a pen at Canberra. Any every instance. Working natives, even when people to the existence of a difficult minority problem upon our very doorstep, and to land that is good enough to fatten bullocks is work is not available, are not given rations. regarded by the Government as too good for Further, there is no provision in Federal Law th^fact that we are doing far from our utmost to make reparations to a deserving natives, and wiien goid is found on a reserve for the wife and children of native workers. race which has in the past been savagely wronged. in payable quantity the native is driven forth, Wlien a husband is away droving, Jijs wife Since 1913, writes Dr, Duguid, 1 had been interested in the researches of Spencer and children have no claim on the local pro- and CiJJcn, but in 1930 a missionary, suffering from leprosy contracted from natives N'ATIVF.S BKING SQUFFZF.D OUT lector for sustenance. In the last decade the Warramunga tribe on the northern coast, fired me with a living interest in the aborigines. My conscience Drovers are by far the best paid of native was banished from its age-old home - an workers. They get 24/- a week when travelling was troubled, my sense of responsibility awakened, and I was forced out to see for aboriginal reserve - when payable gold was myself. In the Inland I have examined nutives alongside the townships on the railway with stock and 16/- when returning, but the found thereon. The native reserve is now the rate for other jobs is 5/- per week. Township line, on cattle stations, in logging camps, in gaol, and 1 have travelled along tlie prin Tennant's Creek gotdfield, and the tribe lias woikcrs get 3/- in casli and 2/- marked up in cipal mountain ranges of the interior, mingling with the untouched natives in their been confined to a new area, devoid of sacred the local policeman's books, and wages not natural state. niEaninp, with no permanent water on it and claimed^ for si.\ years are said to 'revert to little, if any, game. This year, 1940, the Federal revenue'. Workers on mining leases have all the Government has outlined a new map showing a 5/- written up and the workers on stations get As a people, they are akin to the Caucasian stead, it was taken for granted they they must large section of the Central Aboriginal Reserve nothing in wages at all if the pastoralist under Stock, and without Mongol or Negro blood. go. "Australia's head-hunters" says the. 'Aus alienated from the natives, and a corridor cut takes to feed the wife and children of the man.' They were first specialized as a race in India tralian Home Annual' of 1933, "have been through the remnant to admit the white pros I once saw the entrails of a bullock handed and they migrated from there to Australia, white, not black. Wlien Captain Tench was pector. In exchange for this it has added new over. Pockets of them are still to be found in tlic sent with an armed party against the natives country to the cast of the old reserve, but it islands that lie between. When they landed in 1790, his orders from Governor Phillip were has nullified the worth of this by eliminating on our northern shores, Australia was tlie 'to cut off and bring in the heads of the slain, the most valuable part - the Ilaast Bluff It should be recognised too, that the em most inhospitable country on earth. It boasted for which purposes hatchets and bags will be mountain with its good feed and water. This ployer has a hold over the native worker that no beast of burden, there was no milch cow, provided '." part has been listed as a pastoral allotment, is contrary to freedom. 'In the country, by and no plant that could be coaxed into a fruit It is impossible to say something that the abutting of which against an aboriginal , payment of a licence fee of 10/- per annum, the tree or a vegetable not one that even twentieth- reserve is in direct opposition to the McFwen employer is entitled to employ an unlimited centuiy scientists have turned to better use. applies to the whole of Australia, for each of the mainland states has its own laws on abor New Deal, In this way the pushing back and the number of aborigines without payment,' says Wc Jiave had to import al! our needs. Yet in elimination of the native goes on without any the Bleaklcy Report; but the employed natives spite of Ihe disabilities of the country these igines, and the l-cderal Government, too, has its set of regulations, which apply only in the determined opposition from the general body are not free to choose their master. primitive people from India struck a balance of the public, or even the Christian section of Tlie fine natives living in their own moun with nature, increased in numbers and spread Korthein Tenitory and Canberra. But overseas countries and people saddle Australia's res it, tain environs arc not dying out. It is our all over the continent. Under strict laws and a e.xploitation of their land that leads to that, and social organisation that was often intricate, the ponsibility to the native on the Federal Govern ment, so I shall deal only with Federal Law, BAD WORKING CONDITIONS if we ate going to continue to allow our natives lived healthily and happily until we came Rations, which are only for the aged, inrirni Government to alienate the natives' country for 15U years ago. Contact between the two races NO CITIZEN RIGHTS and sick, are insufficient to maintain health. bullocks and for gold mining, the end is near. was inevitable, but it was not inevitable that it (Printed on Sports Page, should have been so cruel. The aborigines of Australia arc not ment Tlie regulations slat that rations must not ioned in the Federal Constitution. They have c.vceed, per week, five pounds of flour, one 21 June 1940, Page 4) The mistake that led to all others was that no rights, no voice and no security of tenure pound ol^ sugar, four ounces of tea; but actually we never once soupht their co-operation. In of land. Reserves for aborigines appear on the the amounts given are: four pounds of flour.

•>»>x«? As a University newspaper "Semper" coiitmtffQ SUP.ERsTu. must fulfill the role of historian and prophet while, at the same time, it has to present to the public student appreci Commem.—What a Week! H. H£ 5E£S WCR DtSCOWOKT, Hi.'' VMO A r»3E VCBUS TIKSN PIATII AS ,NN E3k- fBEJSlCN OF UtR GKVTiTvrC, Pl-'iTV 0:r\SENrS TO PE (Editorial extract, 5 March 1945, Page 2) - • - • - KU£- VUE.

NOTICE TO ALL SPORTING CORRESPONDENTS Keep it short. Keep it relevant. Play up victories. Shut up about defeats. - SPORTS EDITOR 15 August 1948, page 8)

AGONY COLUMN I have a confession to make. -ST. AUGUSTINE (14 May 1948, page 51

(Excorpt.Q Apri! 1948, page 61

THIS WON THE COMMEM. PROCESSION OSCAR - "S.S. RED MENACE" 112 May 1949, page 1)

EDITORIAL POLICY ItUliriii ^«' •ll.lI.IFtt "We owe it not only as a duty lo our selves out to posterity lo see that war does not wipe out the finer elements of civilisation ^1 Srmprr flurrat-^f': or ttiat wtien peacD comes we have a repeti i!!imu"u^ ^*^"'*y Sharpshoolers tion of Versailles. jl.t>rit»" XtrtiM^fi EDITORIAL POLICY rttfiutPflJU wfll have iopi JiH^Ty I do not know how previous editors "Consider the Union's voice. Semper. TtllttCi ' determined their policy, but there was no No-one wilt disagree when it is stated that TO COMt... choosing for me. I saw it fixedly that 'Semper' Stormy Scenes at Union Meeting tho voice is craclh« Womtn Win llllir Polnf cKwnm n.vn because wc are passing from one stage to circumstances of time and place mar or make another. our views. Still wc should never forget how to Semper in its earlier days was spiritually laugh. small, personal and individual, supported it is hard to crowd all one's riopes and m n nut solely by student subscription. beliefs into one short editorial. Perhaps, it As It has grown (Just before the war, is easy to be leaving and not having to live up circulation went close to two thousand), to such aspirations, A cynic once said that It so It has had to become more Impersonal, is easier to die for one's beliefs than to live business-like and commercial. up to them. I hand the torch to you for what After the war, Semper will have to grow — it Is worth. It is up to you to pick It up or ••^^_ let It die, but notthor receive or reject It i6>f^tS to cost more — to support more of itself without due consideration, and, above all, with advertisements, to become wider lr\ let not any lethargic or infantile mind treat Its Interests." it with Indifference or contempt." (Thursday 20th May 1943) •Ji«il«> r^ |JtTL'iiM> kxuit (16 April, 1943, Page 2) Format; Short tabloid Format: Tabloid Planned frequency of issues: Weekly Planned frequency of issues: Weekly Total No. of issues produced: 22 Average No. of pages: 4 Avenge No. of pages: 4 Number of issues produced: 24 EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT Price: 3d. per copy; 5/- per annum — Freshers EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT 1943 — Clubs and Societies EDITORIAL TEAM EDITORIAL TEAM — Radicals Run Riot Editors*. C.A. Wyman, R. Mathews, Ron Adair — War Issues — Union Council — War related varsity issues Editor: Ron Adair — 'Things to Come' column Sub Editors: J.W.C. Cuntes, J.H. Green — Sport Business Minagci: A. Robertson — Sport Tanglefoot Adair, E.B. Hargraves — Religion Sub Editor: W. Alderman — Graduate.Ceremonles Business Manager: S. Scott — Med school Sports Editor: Brian Ford — Uni theatre •—University news — college activities Printer: Shipping Newspapers (Qld) Ltd. — tifluslcand film Pttnteis Shipphtg Newspapers, Brisbane ~ Lecture notes

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SEMPER'S WAR POLICY Tomorrow is Anzac Day, the greatest Australian national day, far greater Students with long memories, as sufficient to ensure a revision of our old ways. than any other in its unanimity and its McKenzie wouM say, will recall how Things are dead serious this year, and to be the promotion of a truly national spirit. AGGording to when I took 'Semper' over in 1940 a comparatively carefree drinkers and dancers On this day of rememberance and and fiirtcrs and general money- and timc- violent change came over the old rag, wastcrs wc once were would not be wisdom. pageantry we are united by our sharing Regulations ensuring its popularity with the mob To work, and no doubt later fight, on the of a common tradition and by the and standing on end the hair of a few scale of efficiency that is necessary to defeat realisation that we may be justly proud unduly starchy highbrows. fascism, wc must blow some of the ftotli off of the name 'Australia' EVERYTHING for One of these latter, a humourless yob our living habits and cultivate a more earnest named O'Kcefe, wrote into 'Scz You?' con outlook. The name j^tizac is inspiring - let the Services is ob gratulating me on the "facetious, trillinp, We arc certainly not going to be like those it inspire us all to greater efforts in the scandalmonperinp, deprecablc flapper-rap" I of the white inhabitants of Singapore who, making of our country 'a land fit for tainable at Pike Brothers published each week under the name of'Semp incapable of looking ugly reality in the face, heroes'. er l'"lorcat'. danced and played bridge up to the very entry ... from tailored-to-iiieas- Yoon^' Mr. O'Keck, of course, was e.vajr- into the city of the Japanese. And there is far (Anzac Day Editorial Rxtract geratinp a trifle. "Semper" in 1940. althouj-h more thrill in preparing yourself, or helping 24 April 1947,Paqr2 2) urc Uniforms to Insignia in pcncral tone pretty frivolous and sneery. to prepare your nation, for the fight that is was ballasted with sonic pood, solid stuff. coming to us than in drinking a whole distillery- . . . ail correct according Plenty of people found Ihe mixture eminently full of hooch, or (if you are a woman) swind readable, even if Mr, O'Kecfe didn't. ling a whole university-full of men. UNIVERSITY'S OWN POET to regulations. This year, of course, there will be a differ But enough of the sermonising, I don't ence, i:ven if wo were unimpressionable enoupli have to tell you what you must already vvell The East Coast Vi.si(ed to be ari'octed by the 1942 national environ know. However, what has been said will suffice With tlie arrival from the printers ment the plain animal desire to stay alive is to show you that I atn not going to run this month of one of the first books 'Semper' in the same way as I did in 1940. of poems for the year, an undergrad The new 'Semper' will liave had an icy shower. taken an A.I'.C. downed a glass of orange juice uate of this University establishes Ail students should be interested - and gone without breakfast - i.e., sobered up. him.self as one of Australia's major Ir II IK Is actively interested - in the politics Of course, fun hasn't been disbarred. contemporary poets. of the nation. 'Semper' isn't going into mourning because the "Songs of the East Coast", by Val Brothers Limited fascists arc drawing a bead on us. Headlines Remember, in other countries the will be as saucy, write-ups a.'! snappy, I'sst! Vallis (Angus and Robertson, Sydney) of QUEEN STREET people took to the Universities for Items as scandalous as of yore. But old-timers has an attractive format, a striking guidance and leadership in political will notice the toning down of atmosphere, dust cover and is set lo a fine, clear thought. It can happen here. the injection of a new note of serious enthusi asm, done with as little jo.w as possible of the print, (tditoriiil uxiraci. 11 April 1947 old verve... 123 Auril 19flO,P,iM(n) lAdvi.'rlisi'rniMit, 16V!>ircli 1&44, p,i.:)(e 2! Patio 21 (Editori.il, 1 May 1942,P3(io2}

lR)k^ ^rmprr f lurrat •V ^ ciupcr llorrat^Sg EDITORIAL POLICV official mouthpiece o( the student body and :,:> ei i,Vr?rr' !.iii> through it a public presentation of student "Semper Fioreat Is recognised as the thought is made. It is sobering to remember official mouthpiece of the student body and that in many cases wc are judged on this in many cases wc are judged on this aione. alone. The responsibility (or the content of Pence In Europe The responsibility of tho contents of out MEW ERA AHEAD? - Semper Fioreat lies then with the student paper lies then with you, with each and every ^l..t„.l ^,„:.l. l,.:U...M.i body, with each and every student individual student individuality. ly. Editorial policy this year will be to give Editorial policy v^Ui be in accordance with a true and accurate presentation of student our conception of the function which semper thought, to give all societies equal publicity Floreal might fulfill. We will attempt to and to support the Union in al! its actions. stimulate thought on society generally and We will attempt to stimulate thought on particularly on the University's relation lo it. society generally and particularly on the Our conception of society is that embodied University's relation to it. We will refuse to in Christian teaching, a society, where is pander to vulgarity, as our paper is not for freedom from fear, each man will have oppor the mentally Immature but for healthy- tunity to develop his personality to the full. minded young men and women who ,ire Our stand will be for real values. VJe will credited with an adult discretion. refuse to pander to vulgarity! since our pro On you, and you alone, depends the duction does not depend on having to pro fate of Semper Fioreat, the student body, vide what our readers want. Semper will and the University, Strike upward with contain what is desirable rather than what fortitude, with the zeal and determination apperls to the puerile adolescent mind or the of your leaders, with the mind that failure pornographic taste of the mentally Immature. will be in no part attributable to your lack We are not impressed with our own adult of effort." hood but are rather disappointed that the (IVIonday 5th March 1945) University has been so unproductive of real thought in the past. Our thought af\i -^ Constance Cartoonist: Beris Thclandcr Photographer: Peter St. George lux '•-^ lompulsory Military Training Business Manager: David Batchen nujirr fkimtt"- Business Manager: Jack i-atr Printers: Shipping Newspapers, Brisbane :•.-. l:.:-..,.'./-.v. •••- Subeditors: Bruce Moore, Keith Grcenham, EDITORIAL POLICY John Bennett "Those people who expect to find in a Med. Rep : E.G. Galea (Ilerston) University newspaper a reflection of student thought must be unpleasantly surprised in Wine, Women and Whacko! Sports Editor: A.S. Given the case of (Jueensiand, for our newspaper E)nim« Fvitival S^iow \\\u City Dental Rep: Brian Ford :;•.;_.;! '"77' never seems to become anything more than a Printers; Shipping Newspapers, Brisbane. medium for detailing the activities of sporting I; •^.* ~—'*' -• —_^ ALiOhtMBHlUC and political bodies within the University, EDITORIAL POLICY and an Incomplete calendar of coming events. ("The Union council] ... Is dangerous !.«,« IIXJ .. ,~,'* To admit that the paper Is an Indication turn rmu because it threatens to make "Semper" a yes- of the state of student thought, which must rag; It promises to keep out of "Semper" all therefore In our case be set at practically the healthy ftrment ot different thinking. ''•• • ' '•; nought. Is a conclusion to which one cannot It proposes to estatJUsh a heavy rianded and happily subscribe, no matter how poor an unwlcldty censorship over your nowfSpaper. opinion may be held of University life during Tho motion Is Impractical because it Is • • ..•• :ii -' those temporary 'laws* to which most going to smother "Semper" in red tape, and NATIONAL ART students seem subject. It Is going lo give far too many people a RXHIDITION (Friday I9th April, 1947) | linger in the editorial pie. One word more. Before you pass on to Format: Small tabloid other Items take a long look at this editorial. Planned frequency of issues: Weekly Note well Its Independent air. Its like may Total No. of issues produced: 25 never again be seen in these columns." EDITORIAL TEAM ..'1^ ., ^««i tr^. ua

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In deference to the wishes of the SEALING ZERO Police and Civil Defence Authorities that the University and other bodies Earlier in the year a motion was passed 10th in.st,, I supply the following information. should co-operate as much as possible, at a Council meeting that NUAUS local Australia has jurisdiction over a very large particularly during the present critical Sec.-Treas. be requested to investigate area of Antarctic territory with economic period, in the instituting and strict means of encouraging undergraduate and possibilities in the future. The fisheries are graduate research in Antarctica. One valuable already. In order to maintain Austra observance of adequate air-raid pre lia's title to the territory, Australia must show cautions and other forms of protection, result! active interest in it, preferably by occupation, including brown-outs; should di'scourage DEAR SIR: Replying to your letter of the which counts if only one person lives there. avoidable night assemblies; and should In 1938, I proposed that the Universities should johitly and with assistance from the not add unnecessarily to the anxieties EX SEMPER ED. WALLY CAMPBELL WEDS Tcdttral Government establish and maintain a and already heavy duties and respon base station for research on the .Antarctic sibilities of Wardens and genera! ARP coast. The station would go on year after Deep sympathy will be felt through year, but the personnel or nearly all the per personnel, it has been decided not to out the University at the marriage of sonnel would be chanucd each year. Young grant the use of the University for night Pilot Officer Wally Campbell, which .graduates would then engage to spend one year functions at present. took place at All Saints Church yester in Antarctica, where they would conduct (Commonwr.'alth Govt. ord«r, day afternoon. Lucky giri is Georgina investigations in meteorology, ionsphurics, terrestrial magnetism, geology, glaciology, bi 23 March 1942, Pagul) Pearce. Georgina, as we knew her, must ology, etc., as research work for, say, the M.Sc. indeed be lucky, since anyone who degree. T!ie Avssttalian Navy was to be relied believed half the stories Campbell used upon to maintain and man a suitable vessel to to tell will understand that he had transport personnel to and fiom Antarctica hundreds to pick from. each summer, .M a meeting of the Vice Chan Wally will be well known to all but cellors the plan was favourably received. THERE IS T.B. IN VARSITY! freshers. In 1941 he edited 'Semper' In pursuance of the proposal, I got the Student Examination Imperative until his call up in June, making him .American explorer Lincoln lUlsworth to offer self famous during that period by adroit his vessel Wyatt Earp and its equipment to Tuberculosis, the insidious disease publicity. And with our usual soft Australia for a fraction of its cost. U was acquired by the Commonwealth but the war for which there is even yet no definite regard for former 'Semper' editors, we broke out and nothing more could be done in cure is taking and has already taken its reluctantly say farewell to Casanova the war years. toll of students from the very midst of Campbell, and hello and best of luck Yours faithfully, Eleanor Cooke and Rao Cox as they appeared to sedate, married, Goodman Walter, DOUGLAS MAW.SON in the Cornmefn. play "Shr; follows me about" us here in this University. This stagger ing fact has been revealed already this (19 June 1942, Page 2) (Later knighted) (24 April ig47,Pagri11 (Letter to Editor, 13th September 1946, year in two known instances within Page 4) one faculty - and who else, even you, as you read this, may have already However, it is time the students fallen victim or may yet fall victim to looked to themselves in many matters. this dread disease,.. The standard of student speech is very Last year a student medical examin low - bad grammar, faulty pronunci ation scheme was put before the Senate, ation, slurring, use of slang and pro but it was thorn out upon the grounds fanity, are everyday annoyances to of insurmountable expense! anyone who claims to be even slightly (8 July 1948. Page 1) educated. (From Editorial, 2 May 1946, Page 2}

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX

Dr. Bostock gave the audience hints on marriage. In his opinion, psycholog ically and physiologically the best age at which to marry is eighteen to twenty, but this is very difficult to do in a com munity like ours, since most lads of that age have still several years of study before them. He told the men that they should seek advice when choosing a wife just the same way as when choosing a car Frcsherette: "But why build those things when we will be going to - just similar objects apparently - try St. Lucia shortly?" to guide them firmly, but if they start Fresher; "Good Lord! Didn't you know? Moving to St. Lucia is a Uni getring out of control just jam your versity legend ~ one ol those Dream Homes you hear so much foot down ... about!" (Extract from lecture on sex, arrangesd (News Item: "Temporary buildings are being erected for the use by Science Students Assoc. of .students in the present University groiaids.") 14 May 1946, Page U (15 March 1945, page 1) (23 April 1948, page 5)

u.Q.D.s. -chirto Bcjiini—" „,";,;,;r OtriNlTELY CANCELLED "^ . BOOKS June Symes, Jilt Lipgard, Eleanor Cooke, ^f ni|rr flarrat :ii: Margaret Hislop S^^t, Sporting Editor: Business Manager: Chief of Staff: Ownn Edge Printers: Printers: Shipping Newspapers, Brisbane You're in THE Army Now! EDITORIAL POLICY Culture Comes to Q'ld.! EDITORIAL POLICY "Apathyl Once again our old friend iiTAiH** nr(»iAH>»' Soliloquy on Kidney L*wn I pi«i !»• KU ip- "Old you knov^ that five shillings out rears Its unlovely head. In reminding students of that money you paid as Union fees goes Annual Camp ot this unwelcomed trait earlier In the year, to 'Semper'? And do you want to know .Semper hoped to banish If from our midst. vvhat you get In return? But no! V/hat do we find with our new well, vk'e keep you in touch with Union electoral system? President, Secretary, six affairs; with the progress of our sporting VIc-Prcsidents and at least ten Councillors bodies; with the activities of the social and ELECTED UNOPPOSED!!! V/ords fail us . . . cultural outfits, we let you know what goes How the hell do you expect Union Coun on generally. That's one side of It, cil to tunttlon in future years 11 elections But we also act as an organ of express are conducted In this farcical manner? You ion. You have a pet Idea, a favourite grouch CROWD OF NO-HOPERS! — all right, you drop a line lo write an article Don't Imagine, however, that we mean for this paper, and three thousand students to criticise any of the nominees, for all of know about the said Idea or grouch. The whom we have the highest regard. _ Idea appeal to you? We hope the rest of you feel small!" Frankly, (here we drop into our Man- (October 7, 1949) to-Man, or Discreetly Confidential Manner) Format: Short tabloid — frankly, we can't see how you're getting your five oob's worth unless you sound oft Planned frequency of issues: Weekly in 'Semper' whenever the mood takes you. Total No. of issues Produced: 24 And we hate to see you squandering your Average No. of pages: 8 money." ... EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL TEAM: (Friday 12th March, Page 1) — N.A.U.S. Editor: Alan Roberts Fonnat: Small Tabloid — Commem Sport: Alan McQuillan, Tony Ctaig, Clem Jones Planned frequency of issues: Weekly EDITORIAL TEAM — Club notices Literaiy staff: Charley Cameron, John Total No. of Issues produced: 24 Editor: John O'Duff — Sports clubs Average No. of pages: 8 Sub Editon: Murray Williams, Brian — University financing Durke, Bill White, Daphne Eamswoith, — The {Regiment Eleanor Cooke, Louis Green EDITORIAL THEMES & CONTENT Thomason, Alan Walker — On drinking Social Editress: Rac Cox — Sport Staff: Ted d'Uiso, Peic Burton, Graham — Christianity debate — University activities Windrum, John Emmclt, Malcolm Ham, John — Democracy Business Manager: Bill Rogers — Clubs and Societies — "Communism and Empire" Alt Staff: Joy Roggenknamp, "Nerg" — Education Hall, Dan Cunningham, J. Shanahan, J. Kelly, — "Calwelt and immigration"

SEMPER ' SOth Anniversary issue • Page 13 NOT FOR THEM THE STINKING MOB TWO CYNICS ors rule a school. They appoint the senior For years now students of this Uni staff, they can sack them - Tltcy can sack versity have demanded some form of us. Tliey rule, they censure, they stultify. at ST. LUCIA representation on the Senate. Those de Regularly every orientation wc arc mag mands have been ignored, but they must nanimously informed that we are the embry be continued until this aloof conglomer onic leaders of the community, the thinkers, Dennis Douglas (verse) ation of civil servants, ecclesiastics, and the elite by fortune or btilliattce. We are told Judith Green (illustration) how fortunate we are to be in such a demo academics deign to notice us. cratic institution. The Senate is the constitutional and legally Surely it is blatantly obvious that students appointed ruling body of the University. And apart from Quibbles about its role, as a re should have a voice in their own government search depot, what is a University? It is a - just a voice. body of students. They rule us from their (Extract. 1 April 1955, Pago 1) Olympian heights in the way a board of govern For Union types Union chappies playing politicians Beam a public beam at cheering thtonps Not thinking that the paths of fame lead only To the lewder passages of Uni songs

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U.Q. Dramatic Society Suave socialites who never show \Vlien I die an interest I wish that my Uut in being in the after-curtain binge Coffin may cloak And arty types who constantly refer to An underground soak .Mr J.M. Savage as J„M. Singe. (27 March 1958, page 4) Tlic world is watching YOU OH''MY iL\T! semper fioreat... A Si.\\ UNK hi Itrr^k. , ' faM fcMMl'''* . . . .\ A BETTER PICTURE ru^t hrt? . . . Dnin: rl I>P- •\i'trf'/ rau^f lir rnjovs ha(\" lim X'nliuth ^^-^'^ ^'* FROM EVERY ANGLE an^nrr iiuf^liiins Mich ^^ li;i\r V«l |{ iliiimr »;iltliiii; i >l\' thfM* fvrr> rlav. Jfm. a Chnnnrl « ••iiinl man. rfntt hl\ favt-Inm Council Meddles in Medical Muddles EDITORAL TEAM ttljcrslh* trart \n a nris- hanc hat*rflailrr r^rri CHAIRMAN RU12S U.Q.M.S ECKTIONS INVAUD Editors: Alan Walker, Malcolm Ham IS .vour iliauldT-d ntftht ftvr a iwvcl "titr" Sporting Editor: John Harris Hfslsior jlvlnt troublf? it1\erll*>«nirnt. SvnthroiiiMni! »l«bil- Sail Jlnt: "Thr *e|-»ip Social Editress: Margaret Hislop IsmR nmplititr on (hf \% Ihk I romr Intn llil*> Med. Society Meeting blink? ... when you hat i-hnp 1R buy a y^\. Business Manager: Geoff Clarke Tlicse everyday annoy and b?fnrf 1 Irav^ I an» Staff: John O'Duffy, John Emmctt, Keith ing trouble; of a TV own a MAGIC uiNne lti pkliinc up. Itul Ihr rtl^- jwjy witVi the c«tkod« tube I Inntrr^ «anl In *avp nn EDITORAL POLICY jnd vjltfl. Mifceri irc riftw imiitzini! :}-l) rlarity I Ihrrmt nl Ihr hntbns ttv 3!ii][eT SIreel. wrettling ^filh o«<1)r one pro* j rairne ih^m rtcht in Mit Format: Small tabloid blem—how lo (tt tntttt Ihjn illU'lK'.'i I *hiin." onf lUtic pifturt. Planned frequency of issues: Weekly • Inrluilint |>iirl»h1r r'Hni Average No. of pages: 8 No. of issues produced; 10 available (23 October 1959, page 91 EDITORAL THEMES & CONTENT — University Issues — Notices — Sport and sportsman of the Week photo INAHNOTH: and paragraph. •TtK rust; ^5MiiFmi//i Wliip Cracker: Irene lirbachcr Features: Marion Barry, Maureen Evans, rill Column iiniveisity Wins Two State Titles Barbara llarpham. Rod Witiicrs Printers: Coronation Printery, Brisbane Hectic WMI( Plinned EDITORIAL POLICY Magazine Editor:!oan Palmer "Semper Fioreat Is the only voice ot the —-- Sports Editor: Clive Williams united students of this University, and any Legal Adviser: Maurice Ewing ir\terference In Its Ueedom (has) lo oe Staff: Peter Wagner, Rae Geary, John stopped. Wf 0 )kti f/w H*ttir\i fof tvrad— "We will not allow Semper to become Emmett, Tliora Steege, Maurice Ewing, either a parish report or a political pamphlet. Jennifer Uscinski Too often in the past it has been used to serve Printers: Coronation Printery the Interests of a Particular group, sometimes political, sometimes religious. But we, as EDITORIAL POLICY Editors ot Semper, have no fixed policy, "I don't care what has gone Into Semper unless It is this; that Semper will be left open Fioreat in the past. The new regime Is most to all, as the place where the most varied Intolerant. The main tenets of modern jour beliefs and Interests may find a common Mm%and ht lart tit tht innitabft p

SEMPER - SOth Anniversary tssua - Pa9« 1'4 The Semper/Courier Mail feud con The Changing Legs of the Female Intellectual... TIIK cini («o-ptfce I MfD-sunimer: Bobby.sox nKf-OVEP by fnlverjlly HOT from fashionable Mrl- —THIRD IN A 5ERIE tinued to show up the pettiness of our persnn Imposed on a 20- .dlvm of tlglit leotards. Her .Mylo here eoven Irairie-Iliht red or Remember ihc patent h-iilli Inc Hie stackft-buyln^ ra|[«, "lost youth". Otlicrs smile ^ both Umc and \n. Tlir, ' Is rallier cramprU, tn-caus« ireen »ool ktnrklnti. shoes with the .simi) ucri. Editors to snap at any bait. It is to be She proves her iupertsnty quirlly «hlle slie cliews Kiini. Cliri. ll rea..olulelv the fii.sl I'J •*<• U would arina^l be fnîhlon- j to Iloor-sil SiK'.i fold, but With Vhtst, she cAti alTord Ihe llirle furry things »i that future editors will bury the hatchet, able not lo be seen dead tn I slie's happy. Tliey jaak. snphKtiration so much a^ lo pointed toes ANnwitli a sir lliem. Ttie MKUS »!\n KUratl deny U. .shr'« aho ijuHe jicro'.s Ihc Instep. .Sl'c'.-. i- Our greatest success seems to have nymphnmanlc û^ês. a hand al drama—off-^laje narded as .sensible, and »!' been the attack upon the Senate, which, or on, :ûl she prefers it all. tier shoi'.s do liaM- 1; ciir-itatc; *he tlkex the "in- ln-cSs. Slie's SHIBT, M:d sotu if rumour is to be believed, may soon tlmjte atmosphere". Why limes (r:iRde. und looks bear fruit. That at least would be some doesn't snmrlindy tell lier? U'JI dml't ct'i'-s he: thing positive in our favour. Most popular Semper of the year was the Courier-Coinmem issue of May 7, which in variety and genera! set-up was probably our best effort. THE EDITORS, Zell Rabin - David Malouf (Editorial extract, 8 October 1952, Page 3!

Picture the scene, a smoke-filled dining room at George St., half-filled with yawning men and women. The proper domain of a student At one end of the table sits Presi paper is not in the realm of news cover (29 June 1959, Page 8) dent Broad, whilst in the smoky gloom age but in the realm of thought and at the other end a few nonentities sit opinion. It should not be construed amidst their cigarette butts. Now and from this that a University paper should Semper reporters are wanTed! . . . then the comparative silence is broken be a paragon of objective integrity. It No intelligence is required — very by the martial tread of regimenteers is not now and never will be, I hope. little literary ability is required - only requirement is a bent in Semper's being put through their paces. (Editorial by Lex Jolly, direction. If the debate is long, as was the case 2Ju!y 1054, Page 2) in the receiving of the National Union (5 March 1954, Page 21 Report, the scene changes slightly. The Council room then closely resembles the public lavatories in King George Square; people going inwards and out wards, mostly outwards ... New blood is desperately needed, REFECTORY RUMBLES new blood of councillors who are wil ing to take an active part in Union Merc is an actual photograph of sonic of the affairs. members of Union Council taken at the last (17 September 1954, Page 11 meeting, (17 SRptember 1954, Page 1) ELVIS HAS MANNERISMS, TOO Cinemascope: 'Jailhouse Rot' Unlike Garbo's, mine is a sincere wish. matadors which happens to be decorating the Am I Timon of Alliens? Am 1 a secret tippler set - and then proceeds to wrap her round 'jboiii to cmb'.irk ot\ a full-blown 'loi^p week hirii, smothering his olfactory organs in the end'? nape of her neck, then Anaconda-Clutch No, my dread secret is out , . . my philos lilvis is in 'lerv', and presumably 'all shook ophy of life, is like the police force, to be up' - like his unfortunate leading lady. 'purged of undesirable elements' - I liave If, furthermore, Hlvis stares blankly from discovered lilvis I'reslcy. the screen, then proceeds to assault the last 1 sat nailed to my chair, my body convulsed speaker, then be duly grateful, for you are in apony - at least the airlines provide paper getting your money's worth. Elvis is ANGRY! bags - while betore my eyes ttyrated l.lvis, Again, if Elvis stares blankly from the screen cvcryihinj; moving but his facial muscles. and proceeds to wriggle everything from his I'ilvis's style is simple and unaffected. He corns upwards, then he is about to exercise has his manneri.sms, too. Where others have a his vocal cords, ('lease note the periphasis! The Time? - The Place? - The Commotion? Guessing Competition! distinguishing piirasc such as 'Come wiz me to The lllni is a study in quiet humour. No 1st Prize: One Malley Pie. 2nd Prize. Two Malley Pies. 3rd Prize: Six Malley Pies. ze c-asbali," Ulvis has bis blank stare. scene in the film can be so much admired If lie stares blankly from the screen, then for its quiet Iiumour as that in which Elvis, (23 April 1951, pane 6) proceeds to continue liis squirming face down practising after an enforced laryniml oper on the nearest sofa, lilvis is portraying extreme ation, discovers that 'my voice is as good as it mental anguish. ever was'. On this inharmonious note 1 leave you to UNDER BOYAL PATRONAGE ELVIS IN 'LI'RV your thoughts, Staff: Marion Barry, Ken Townley, Marie If, however, he stares blankly from the BRIAN CONDON Grant, John Greenwood, Darrie Hayne, Ian screen, moves like a Sherman tank towards the 118 March 1958, Page 4) i Moles, Horance Herston, Dan .McGrcw, Zell leading lady - or anything else in skirts or Rabin, David Rocssler. Business Manager: Sam Lambert "Mi Printers: Coronation Printerv, Morningside So This Is Edinburgh EDITORIAL POLICY SKMl'KIl Duke Visitt Univtriity I'l,OKI'; AT "Semper In its constant and unrelenting drive to promote controversy and to com bat students' impassivity, gives you nere- with not one, not two, but five — FIVE Literary Ed: Dave Malouf — seasonable screeds by five prominent Nothing To Lose But Oui Chains Staff: Marion Barry, ZcU Tlabin, Ron Australians. Thompson Nov.' we are going to make a most un usual (and probably abortive) request to you Sports Ed & Cartoonist; Rupe Herd — tnat you READ them ALL, And tor those Business Manager: Dick Barnett tinies who vote, we suggest that in digesting Printers: Cornonation Printery (Momingside) the whole, you will bo helped to approact> the ballot-box with sober-minded objective- Cub Reporters: Marie Grant, Judy Gordon ness — knowing that you Judgement Is based EDITORIAL POLICY on tolerent appreciation ana all round under Format: Tabloid standing. We therefore ask that you read on." Planned fraqucncy of issues: "Semper does (20th May, Page 1) not appear with any great degree of regularity. Format: Tabloid COD HUT It KU>r Planned frequency of issues: Weekly and MMTUMIN Average No. of pages: 8 -Ed. Total No. of issues produced: 11 Fornightly Average No. of pages: 8 LJ^ ^^^-••••:-—:... EDITORIAL THEMES & CONTENT — Campus Orientated Total No, off issues produced: 11 — Council EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT -N.U.A.U.S. — Campus orientated — Sport {Sportsman of the weak photo — Clubs and socltles and story) — Sport -Social life EDITORAL TEAM — Theatre — Theology/religion Editor: Lex Jolly — Politics EDITORIAL TEAM — Philosophy Asst. and Sports Ed.: Alan Demack — Education Editor: Bill Dent — Politics — self-analysis (eg. Qld. Uni, type of people Asst. Editor: Lex Jolly (in July) — Student apathy Womens Sport: Judy Gordon attending)

SEMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue • Page IS POLITICAL THOUGHT DEAD

?:y-T*//v,'S-': Wc wonder, with a pang of remorse, and meetings, until 1952. Economics lecturer what has happened to the many political Dick Stavcly kept it going until early 1953. clubs within this University. Are they Has hardly been heard of since; in fact, it is dead — and if so — why? Is it that no a non-c.xistent as the Liberal Party. body cares any more or have the respect The Radical Qub ive treasurers absconded with the clubs' Was most active until 1953. Held regular funds, thus making it impossible to hold (?) meetings until that year. Had occasional meetings? speakers during lunch-hours. Gave dying kick Let us look at a few of ttie late political at Yecrongpilly when a well-known Com clubs: munist faced the Vet. hordes last term. Wc can only presume the Radicals have gone under Tlic Liberal Qub ground coming up only to write to Semper. Dropped out of existence in 1951, as there Wc look back on the good old days (pardon was only one financial member. Re-formed by us for living in the past) when there was some Jim Byth and David Bray last year. Several tin- thing for somebody every lunch hour. If it suspecting bodies induced to pay their member was not a speaker, wc at least had some lunch ship dues. Held one meeting - the inaugural hour plays, Shaw readings, films or gramo a«*'^;'X meeting. Has not been seen or heard of since. phone recitals. Members petting curious as to where the com The home of learning is definitely de "Swot Vac. - before and after." (18 September 1958, page 4] mittee men had their annual holidays. clining. Everybody seems to study in their •-•.•-» •.•:•-•.•-•:•>:•.' lunch hour now. ^SSS •.•-•»• • • '.• The Socialist Cluh (2 July 1954, Page 2) Was very active, holding lunch hour talks WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?

•i-X'i'i'X-:- Aborigines suffer 'inhumanity, indignity and humiliation' •.•-••.•.•.•.• '•yyyy.-wj During the last few weeks, Semper has heard many disquieting repercussions to Tom Toogood's article on aborigines in the Commem issue. HOW TO BE A SOCIAL SUCCESS Officials of Palm Island and Cherbourg aboriginal settlements have attacked the Semper, ever aware of pressing Social needs, 5. Have a car. article on one hand, but on the other ... has formulated the following eight easy rules 6. Be charming and attentive. Many grave claims and accusations have coiTie into the editors' hands, which, if on how to get your girl. 7. Have a car. one is to believe them, cast serious reflections on the Government's present and 1. Have a cat. 8. Omit rules 2, 4 and 6 if the car is a red future treatment of abori^nes. 2. Be a good conversationalist. convertible. Some of the material wc have received has (23 April 1953, Page 6) 3. Have a car. been ignored; but we cannot ignore a situation 4. Be well groomed. which finds several responsible members of the community confronting us with similar alle gations about the privations of our aborigines: indignity, inhumanity, humiliation. A Semper representative tried to check the truth of these allegations with the Government ^£MbM. J^lcxcaL Department. He was told by a Departmental spokesman: EDITORIAL POLICY 'You'd better not print that unless you want a "In the last tew years Semper has mumbl ed a lot about student apathy. It was so lot of trouble'. TruthorExpetllency?Y J'."' '^ ^7 ", constantly and monotonously emphasised, People with nothing to hide don't talk that that the effect was probably hypnotic. If way. so, you are to be pitied; It not, then you are [ ChertwurgA I .\ Chair (ifOriental Studies still to be Pitied because you did nothing SIGNED STATEMI-NTS about it, Below, we print extracts fiom comments, OMissioNS "' '-— "in those years Semper catered almost letters, and articles sent to us, Signed state AGOVT. STATIONS exclusively for tastes that were still obviously ments from all people quoted are in the editors' at a pre-universlty level. Us wearisome brand hands. of humour was designed to please a class of students that was Imagined to be In the A well-known Brisbane businessman recent go on that you wouldn't dream existed in your maiortty-.yet Semper had noway of knowing ly returned from Palm Island, told Semper he .own country'. — for this particular class raised not a single had .seen about 100 aboriginal cliildrcn being A Dunwich tribal leader told Semper: Pacirism or Pessimism?' feeble sigh of approval or disapproval at what marclied under police guard to a convent 'Something lias to be done some lime. You they were readlrtg. IVi miles from the settlement. can't keep iny people back in the stone age "This year, Semper will refuse to pander West End aboriginal welfare worker, Mrs to the puriie tastes of some phantom student forever'. body that probably existed only In the V.i. Wilding, had this to say: 'I have seen Imaginations ol previous editors. Vour tastes aboriginals refused jobs and accommodation, The Act says this: will be catered for, according as you arc and they have told me of mistreatment that wUltng to Indicate, through vrrltir^g what would shock any person with any sense of The Aborigines Act of Queensland under which exactly they arc. human dignity." our aboriginals are governed, has provisions for: "As tar as this paper Is concerned, stud Semper has heard from many aborigines - PREVENTION of freedom of movement of ent apathy will be allowed to moulder away all of whom decline to reveal their names be individual aborigines. with the pages of its predecessors." A. JVJcLEOD (Friday March4 1955. Paget) cause of genuine fear of 'reprisals.' We are now COMPULSORY movement of aborigines. holding their signed statements. Here arc some IMPRISONMI-NT at the discretion of super of them; Format: Small tabloid visors without right of appeal. A white woman told a young aboriginal REMOVAL of children from parents, witliout Planned frequency of issues: Weekly boy to run down to a shop, but he refused any onus of proof of neglect. Average number of pages: Ten as it was raining. POWERS over marriage of individuals. EDITORIAL TEAM Number of issues produced: Only 9 Immediately the woman summoned the CENSORSHIP of mail. Editors: IJill Hudson, Ian Moles available in Records. policeman in charge of that particular build ISOLATION from outside visitors, COMPULSORY work and low wages. Business Manager: Keith Sloanc EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT ing and charged the boy with 'giving her cheek'. The boy was then 'tried' and punished. HOLDING of wages and management of pro Sports Editor: Lloyd Donaldson — University issues ~ Freshers Other aborigines who have experienced perty without individual permission. Literary Editor: Vic Illich — Sport settlement life said that at Camp X 'things (9Jono1959,Pa9c 1) Staff: Jill Webb, Peter Call, Annette Hill, — Book and Film Reviews Ali Ibrahim, Prein Wecrakoon, livan Phillips, — Short Stories — Ideologies (le Communism, Christianity, Dan BticUncll, Rob O'Rcgan, Keith Hughes, Buddhism) Jocelyn-Ann Orti, Heather McCahon, — College Life Deidre Gault — N.U.A.U.S. STUDENTS & Cartoonist: lanSinnamon. — Overseas Students — international Affairs (Asia, Cold War, THE PUBLIC EDITORIAL POLICY News Editor: Dan Bricknell "You may have wondered, as some have, f*/lllitarlsm, US Foreign Policy) cuwXx or sTUDtHr ».aivrrv Printers: Coronation Printery, 583 Wynnum — Aborigines If your editors had any definite policy for Rd. Brisbane — Music Semper. It was a broad and flexible policy StWuT we thought out this time last year: to use every means that suggested itself to promote your Interest and contributions even If It llV41'tl1 ltIMl» meant deliberately laying ourselves open to Cltr HALL -"- - criticism. QUIET <. . , it Is impractical and Improper that Semper attempt to be a NEWS-paper. Semper should appear primarily to air the thoughts and semper fioreat. feelings ol students about their life and work ^ >-^-.~-^ experiences. Semper goes outside this Univer sity. Its content Is taken as the expression •^^^r^l'Ond »t*.d*"tl ^ri'fif -_-• ot the interests and capabilities ot each and EDITORIAL TEAM every one of you. Editors: Barric Hayne, Jonathan W. Pcrssee I should tike to thank those who have hctUeacT to (keeaweod by Small Maqa (No further details of stafO contributed to Semper this year, and who Printers: Co-operative Press Ltd., I'airfield have given op their time for administrative Skllot Poiddon*, ETtslflS Sindetiti D«tuiidna and technical work on our paper." Krr BwBlls Rd,, Moorooka. (Thursday 26th September, 1957) EDITORIAL POLICY > itmi w M iKtt nm Format: Tabloid *n rwis — s» snrra vs_:i^.^^B£.^<^^^. 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SEMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 16 The Catholic Church then has not the slightest doubt that the Communism Above all, there are on Council of Soviet Russia and of the countries sufficient of those students who for which have been subjected to Com tunately always seem to appear, who munist rule in line with that of Soviet demonstrate that certain sympathy, Russia is of its very nature destructive selflessness and pride in the Union of Christianity. which practically guarantees a Council. (25 April 1955,Pag(i1) (President of Newman Society, 11 March 1955, Page 4)

A GOVERNMENT FALLS The fall of a Government is not a pleasant thing to watch. It is not pleasant to watch men whose aspirations for power are crumbling about them, whose political ambitions are wasting before them. And the failure of Mr. Gair's Government in Queensland last week was of the more distasteful of political demises.

What is regrettable is not so much that the Government fell, but rather the way it fell, One of liie most terrible of all crimes is Last week this paper launched a fratricide, the most terrifying of all wars is a civil war - and the Parliamentary equivalent move for disaffiliation from NUAUS. of fratricide, of civil war, was the final debate We have now decided that it was ill- Sighs of admiration from Southern university press tycoons as Kathie Lynch displays of the 34th (Queensland Parliament. timed; no one appears to know either Semper Fioreat at National Student Editors Conference, Brisbane, It all began in Queensland in 1952. what NUAUS is supposed to be, or is Early in that year a former president of (10 September. 1952) the Clerks' Union (Mr, S.H. Martin) condemned supposed to do. And, apparently, that part of the Labour Party's machinery they couldn't care less... which had dedicated itself to defeating the Disaffiliation is an extremely serious Communist infiltration of the trade unions. matter; Semper has no wish to thrust 1955 marks the commencement of Mr Martin referred to the so-called ALP University capable of being something industrial groups as 'sectarian cells'. its opinions onto a reading public so the second stage in the evolution of more than a collection of lecture rooms. This was the first occasion on which this repulsively uncritical to accept them as the Queensland University ... For it is the College more than any organisation within the Labour movement gospel, or so vulgarly cynical as to dis Last week King's College was open other single institution which sustains had been attacked openly by a prominent miss them as another puny effort at Labour man. ed, next week Cromwell will be opened; or destroys a healthy and vital uni (Extract, 27 June 1959, Page 1) sensationalism. they are both at St. Lucia. At last we versity. 123 April 1953, Page 1) have at St. Lucia the beginning of a (4 March 1955, Page II

:'::::-i':>:':\' .^^^^^ ANOTHER WHITE ELEPHANT? Ever since our university came into existence in 1910 those connected with it have dreamed of the day when it should become a university in fact as well as in name, when its students should be housed together tn premises befitting the intel- lectural centre of the State. In the twenties they began to think about it; in the thirties they began to build it; in the forties they began to use it; in the fifties they left it, a half-finished monu ment to a broken ideal; in the sixties ? Well, perhaps they will find it useful again as a military headquarters, or as a luxury camp for conscripts, or as a practice target for bombers. We exaggerate, but the exaggeration is pardonable; for there is something tragic ally portenous in the abastdonment of this project. To the thoughtful there is some thing final and irrevocable in the apparent decision that the vision of a cultural centre - an essential civilising influence in any community - is to be shattered and replaced by military camps and munitions factories and frenzied preparations for bigger and better wars. However, let us not be sentimental. Let us In 1935 the State Government agreed to state categorically that anyone with any forc- a request by the Senate that it should go ahead sijiht at all should be able to see that a univer with Ihe erection of a New University at St. sity is of more immediate as well as of more Lucia. permanent itnportaitce than preparations lor a On the 6th March, 1937, Mr. l-organ Smith war that may or may not evenluaie within the laid the foundation stone. At this stage 'it was next half-century. Even to the most obtuse recognised that the University as a whole was poliiicians, generals, and recruiting-directors one entity and that llie dispersal of its activities it must have become obvious that nothing is over widely separated sites should be avoided achieved by a war, unless in the peace that as far as possible". Old. Uni. in the early fifties. (5 September 1951, page 1! follows there are leaders with enough know One hundred thousand pounds a year for ledge, wisdom, and tolerance to realise that the llrst five years was to be allocated for the the preservation of that peace is something construction of the buildings, the total pre that transcends petty ideological quarrels, liminary esiimaie of the cost of their com pletion being one million pounds. WHY Tin: STOPPAGE? Building ceased early in 1942 and was re SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS Almost no (actual information is obtainable sumed early in 1945. The expenditure to the on the imntcdiatc reasons lor the abandonment 31st December, 1948, totalled six hundred ARE CHINESE of St. Lucia. Hy the same token, no one seems and eighty-five thousand, seven hundred lo know when, if ever, work will be resumed. pounds. I have no wish to insult the Chinese slaving, and executing of masses of Among University officials, who make no In 1946 a section of the Engineering De people. The subject of my attack is the persons opposed to the regime must be secret of their dejection and disappointment, partment moved in at St. Lucia. system wjiich has been thnist on China, passed over with a sort of selfconscious it seems to be assutned that no resumption In 1948 the Department of Physical Educ and which now maintains its hold on politeness. is likely in the immediate future. ation did likewise. (he people through fear, oppression and Report l)y Grog O'Dwyor (later a well-known The basic reasons are hidden in the web In 1949 most of the Arts and commerce terror. of bureaucracy and in the tortuous, esoteric departments moved in, with Engineering radio personali'v), Deputy Loader of the processes of the minds of 'financial experts'. except for tiie Surveying Section retiirning to It is the same Communism ruling NUAUS Australian Students Delegation to It is imperative if we are ever to have a real George Street. China today as rules Hungry, and it China, (2MaY 1957,Pa9R8) University, if there is ever to be a free and By 1949 it was estimated that the complete secures its position by exactly the same unhindered interchange of ideas between mem project would cost two million pounds. Latest means. Have no doubt about that . .. bers of different faculties, if the voice of the estimate is two and a half tnillton pounds, There has been industrial develop students as a whole is ever lo be strong and (5 Scpienibc?r 1951, Page 1) ment under the Red Government, but united and respected by the public at large, it is rather difficult to see why rapturous that the building of St. Lucia must go on. approval should be given to these activ It is up to us toalfirm sincerely and empha tically our fuitU in the conception of a uni Students of this University will ities - the normal duty of any Govern versity as something more than a scattered tolerate anything. They question not, ment - while at the same time other undisputable facts sucli as torture, en group of technical colleges in crowded, unin neither do they think. spiring buildings. As a matter of duly wc must spread our belief in the vital importance of The Police censorship of Commem. St, Lucia to us and the conimunily of which it Procession, is an insult to student might have been, and may yet be, the intellect good taste. It stultifies initiative. We ual and spiritual centre. can't even throw an egg at Commem. Do Incubator ! ST. LUCIA STORY SO I'AR All that is needed now is for the In 1926 Dr J.N, Mayne and Miss Mayne Belle Vue" to close, and co-education Chickens Love | gave sixty thousand pounds for Ihe acquis fo cease and we shall have lost all Four ition of 223 acres of land at St. Lucia as a site Freedoms. Shall be buck? Not we! for a new University. [Their Mothers?! In 1930 the title to the land was handed J.H.HANTY (Vet. Science IV) Photo of Greg O'Dwyer witli NUAUS Aust over to the Chancellor of the University, Sir (Letter to Editor, 26 March 1953, page 5) ralian Delegation in China. t4 April 1957) James Blair, by the Lord Mayor. • (8 October 1952)

SEMPER -SOth Anniversary Issuo-Pago 17 When a girl happily announces she's a University student she is invariably DO UNIVERSITY WOMEN MAKE greeted by two amazingly conflicting statements. GOOD WIVES? Some will immediately say that no man wants to marry an educated woman By Marion Barry - others that she's only going there to catch one! (According to whether they're up of the implied fact that 'his' brilliant brain Before I am accused of hypocrisy let me your friends or only jealous.) is so over-taxed as to make it impossible to assure you that I don't do this. The ones Let us try to understand tiiis anomoly now wash up after tea... that do still talk to me really know much more (and save your parents second and third term Admittedly, an intelligent wife docs not than I! fees). make up for the fact that you go on a diet of That is the woman's angle, But the question It is the Weak Man who does not want to grills and green lettuce ... or for the corn effect the male students equally. marry an liducated Woman Before enlarging beef that she thought might taste different' on that, remember I am taking the supposition roasted. And Here Is What the that the man is educated to the same intellect Nor does it really excuse your beloved Men Say - ual standard. from thinking Fair Isle was a community (I do not think it particularly wise for a .settlement planned by Russians in the Siberian I handed this section over to two (obviously University educated woman to marry a man Desert ... or from mending an old bed sheet Law) students - and these were tiieir replies. who has not reached at icast Senior standard. with a patch from your best poplin shirt. (Being Law students, slightly curtailed) - Such a marriage could be and probably has But as most girls nowadays - even Uni One said... been, quite successful. But it is essential that a versity women who plan careers - do their There are all sorts of marriages; the econom woman respect her husband, and after a time own sewing and knitting - and make as good a ic marriage, the social or 'family' marriage, the this would become increasingly difficult. cake as your mother if you make as good dough sex marriage, the Christian marriage, and a It is only natural that the UducatedWoman as your father - you needn't be worried about host more. Your humble servant doesn't claim marrying the blonde fresiierette in the second will try to correct the man eventually ... he quite to know what the Christian marriage is, front row. She'll never tell you you don't but since all the others are quite impossible would resent this. .. and an increasing number even need that subject. of arguments will ensure.) affairs, unreasonable, baseless, and in lact Referring to my statement that only weak pointless, this type must be the only one which men do not want an educated wife. This is of 1-realise I have said nothing of the more gives any opportunity for happiness and satis faction - the only one which provides any necessity a generalisation, and consequently. obvious advantages of an intellectual wife - (26 March 1953, Page 3) I am prepared to concede exceptions. such as her ability to entertain suitably etc., Justification for a society whose basis has been But a man who is sure within himself of his to find greater enjoyment in reading to over repeatedly proved, by strife internal and own superiority does not need hours of admir come boredom and loneliness and her better external, to be the home, and the family unit. that when that delightful myth, the average ing (but vacant) looks of wonder as he proudly understanding of both her own and other Somebody still at the University said that man feels the call to settle down and repro expounds his own theory as to why exactly people's problems. Of these the reader should the real object of a University education was to duce in his own image and likeness, he looks for the Electric Light Co. uses so many volts to need no reminder. get a clear picture of things, oi a philosophy of life. But if the picture is already perfectly at least certain qualities in his potential soul- produce such and such (while she just thinks Girls - we've simply got to remember that in focus, it is ridiculous to twiddle with the mate. what a pity the power went off and she missed men thrive on 'showing ofP. Just let them the 251st installment of 'Dickie Darling'.) lens, You have only to look at the married life Firstly he looks for someone sexually do that successfully, and they'll never even about you to realise that the marriage picture [ have never yet heard an otficial backing- notice that you know more than they do. attractive, at least in his own eyes and Love can is Just such a one. be exceedingly blind on such occasions. I'm sure no girl comes to the University An educated man must l«vc for a wife a .'••:.>:.:•;•»: specifically to 'get something worked out' woman who can converse on equal terms with about marriage. If she does make this the ob him of any topic he choscs, A man who lacks ject of her reading, she will probably spend the so-called benefits of education requires a years disposing of a succession of warped spouse whose interest in tltings academic ideas about society, economy, the male, sex is Just as small as his own. Thus for liim a and cliildbirth. And when if ever, she finally University Graduate would not make a good works things out 'for herself, she will find wife. herself with G.K. Chesterton, 'in the ridiculous Of course marriage is one of the preaiesi position of being backed up by all Christen of life's many gambles. This is only too obvious dom', from the sigitt of so many people selecting '3;v>);Vf»>?s'*.- So let's answer the question bluntly. partners with whom they find rapturous bliss Of course University women make good for a few short months or years only to find wives, as do the vast majority of women of all sad disillusionment in some dingy Divorce sorts and degrees, (sec end) Court, If the potential wife does glean any benefit Hence it is impossible to say that Univer from the time spent at a University such bene sity Graduates will make good wives. fit lies chiefly in the opportunity she gels to They are just as prone to human frailties rid herself of the insidious effects of a system as anyone else. However, the point is that they of strict denominational education, a system have a potential capacity and there is absolute which, let it be noted, the only really civilized ly no reason whatsoever why they shouldn't country in the world abolished long ago, make good wives - the rest is up to themselves. (.Married people have to do things with and for one anotlier the motive of which is neither And these said .,. rational nor utilitarian; it can only be spiritual,) STl-VE HOCKING: It's marvellous what a If this precept cannot find Justification from little make-up and other mechanical and scien society as it is, then so many more brickbats tific aids can do, for society; and this writer at least will be SIR GEORGE CRIDLAND: I've never content to stand out with George Bernard married one. (For a future lawyer, [ feel lie Shaw and those other notorious gentlemen has incriminated himself rather badly in the UNIVERSITY MAIDEN EIGHT who get publicity in these pages all too often. face of cross-examination.) CRll W: Cox. S. Barker, Stroke. H. MuUer, 7. G. Brown, 6. R. Davidson, JIM BYTH: 1 am at present engaged on an 5, G. Osbaldison, 4. A. Gaidinei, 3. R Menary, 2. J. Nutt. BOW: E, McKeague. The other said... extensive survey of the habits (eh-ch) of Uni (15 April 1955, page 8) To answer this question satisfactorily wc versity women. Any likely candidate should must consider exactly what goes to make a make application for a private interview at the good wife? People are divided on this funda Union Office, mental point but generally the opinion is held (26 March 1953, Page 3) Semper Fioreat Contributors: Glen Williams, Tony Neavcr- son, Adrian Smith, Geoff Bolton, Jack Lunn, Bill Henderson, Mercutio, W,J. Hudson, Nick Alttt tHlr rtan el waitihg.. Union hat—a tiOMl •npqualilT ol tht a^jura Clark, Max Deacon SEMPER A MAU WINS THl [t v/ . Staff Writers: John Fogarty, John Dalton, Typographers: Leo Chapman FLOREffl sooey PBizt, BUT... «•<< John llelman, G\m Williams, Joan Lyndon, Secretary: J oannc Warren John l-owlcr, Bernic Goldbcrger, Terry Vine, Sports Editor: JcffRohl ^-s UTERARY • Kerry Wanka, Dennis Douglas, J.M. Gcraghty, Printers: Co-operative Press Ltd., Moorooka John Atherton Young, Owen Doyle Caliban EDITORIAL POLICY Secretary: Tanya Yakimoff "V^»e set out at the ijeginiing of this year LADIES LAND LOOT IN LAPS to do sometning for you with this news Kol I mit HI inil '^ Typlstes: Priscilla Wilson, Nina Kay paper. Artists: Rosemary Lcnton, Ed McMahon w>4^M£fcoMnAMwc Union building open We lIKe to think that we have not been Printers; .Mirror Newspapers Pty Ltd, Bris. too or\succcssfuti we know ttiat in doing so EDITORIAL POLICY within next 18 months we have had the full support of the great E=f= imiow J:. majority of our readers. The campaign will ". . . In contrast to the papers to which rfSVr «lw SHOO :: ;• continue. you are accustomed, (Semper Fioreat) does Since the publication of articles In semper not feed greedily on 'news', but digests It; work has begun again on the Tree Theatre it does not merely Inform but attempts at St. Lucia, and extensive new parking space rather to educate and provoke discussion. Bm^ has tieen provided to ease the congestion "Thus, even at the risk of outraging the '^. ilHimm "Ji^.U oel around the kidney lawn at George Street. pusillanimous and the conservative, it must bo We have supported for tho most part the critical In tone. policies of the 1958 Union executive, not "It must employ every weapon from because they were executive policies, but direct attack to rollicking satire tn order to because we agreed with them as policies. break down the wall of compliant silence that ^ too often surrounds the processes of Austra We have tried to Inform you, to entertain lian public life. you. Once or twice we tried to educate you "At times In our chequered past this — and there we failed. If we are to be re mission of criticism has dwindled to a mere membered, we expect It will be for the Itch for the spectacular and the controversial. Commem. Issue, a page of which is repro- duced below. "But at Its best It may worthily appro EDITORIAL TEAM priate as Its motto the words inscrlt>cd above So long ... you slotis. Editors: Harold Love, Anthony Paul the main entrance. {'Great Is Truth and (17th October, 1958, Page 1) Chief Sub-Editor: DesMaCauley EDITORIAL TEAM Mighty Above Ail Things'.)" Format: Tabloid Editors: Des MacAuley, Dan O'Neill (Thursday 26 February, 1959, page 1) Business Manager; Peter Groom Planned frequency of issues: Every 3 weeks Magazine Editors: Dan O'Neil, Peter Assistant Editors: Colin Boreham, Format: Tabloid Average number of pages: 8 Average number of pages: 12 Cole-Adams Daryl Douglas Number of issues produced: 13 Number of issues produced: 11 Sub Editors: Hugh Curnow, Don Marshall, Magazine Editor: Peter Cole-Adams EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT Gareth Evans Business Manager: Jeremy Grant — International student politics Pictorial Editor: Don Marshall — Satire Circulation Managcii Daryl Douglas, John — International politics Sports Editor: Ray James — Black Rights Dahon — National Union — National Union Affairs RcportcTs: Pat Withers, Jan Ritchard, Colin — Student representative on Senate Chief Sub-Editor: Hugh Curnow — Religion Boreham. Kcrnicc Clcary, Brian Condon. — New Union building Sub-Editors: Gareth Evans, Jack Lunn — Union Affairs — Sport — Sport Kctoiial: Don Marshall, David Wright — Many regular columnists: comment, Columnists: Prospero, John Atherton Young, Bruce Wilson, Brian (Tex) Cummins — Clubs, especially Theatre and Painting Artist: Ed McMalion, Rosemary Lcnton theatre, film, uni news — Criticism of Administration

"EMPER • SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 18 the Sixties IS IAN CHANNELL A SPECTATOR SPORT?

'Channel! was here' now emblazons toilet walls. And no-one can deny that this 3-day happening affected the students here. But what was his message? 'Tharunka' has already broadcasted that this lecturer in Anthropology and Sociol ogy at the University of NSW speaks a message of LOVE, and is oilc of the founders of A.L.F. (Action for Love and Freedom), Semper now brings you the words of this man, but warns that any medium subverts this man's rather sub jective message and hopes that response (0 the following restatements of IAN OPINION will be least proporitionate to hlS'Cwn enthusiasm. ON POWER: 'Don't seek after power. People who say 'This is my poem, that is my car' are uptight. Power-seekers get con stipated. Relax, create. These people who seek conflict create another structure. You see, for the last few hundred years, we have been perpetuating the system by revolt against iPhotos by Semper's Geoff Strong of the Sydney production of 'Hni-'', 23 June 1969, page 3) it. Now why give the regime greater f]e^ibility by reacting against it. They already have their defence mechanisms. Bang, bang, bang. Down go the structures. They will shoot you if they have to. Accept your impotence and enjoy HAIR - THE AMERICAN yourself. Get the shit out of your system'. ON KARL MARX: '1 believe the revo lutionary class is not the white collar worker TRIBAL LOVE ROCK MUSICAL \yith his 9-J and his car and family - all screw- edup. Karl ,Mar.\ is being studied by the youtJi of (by Paul Richards) today because he is more relevant - but they don't want a hot revolution, merely to cool The worst critics of 'Hair' are those the situation as it stands. (Ian Channell, 2 May 1969, page 131 from whom time has stolen hair and re- 27 September 1968, Page 17) placed it with wrinkles and a feeling of sexual inadequacy, because 'Hair' ex presses (he drive of youth to assert itself in a world where everything had gone It's not democracy we brought to Why is it that the issue of Civil wrong, For (he young and for those free Vietnam - it's anti-communism and Liberties has united this campus? of hang-ups and sufficiently switched- anti-communism is a lousy substitute . . . Civil Liberties cuts firmly across on, 'Hair' has an impact theatrically for democracy. equivalent to the Beatles on the pop most of our prejudices - whether they (28 July 1966,Pa(!G 14) scene soiwe years ago . .. be political, religious or social. . . . In Australia, 'flair' has been banned by the The fight for Civil Liberties by the on- the lijelke-Petersen Gnvetnmcnt. As a result canipus group has been a responsible in Sydney as in many other places in the world one. we have become a lauciiing stock, firisbane Dressing the statue of Queen Victoria The campus has certainly never be people who are going to Sydney to .see 'Hair' in forty yards of pink chiffon is a prank. will find thai Outensiand is beini'. ostracized fore seen the e.xcitment ami discu.ssion in the arts circles, Pouring a tin of red paint over it is an aes generated by these events ... J predict 'Hair' i<; titudern and young, it h.is encTjiv flietic judgment. that this is only the beginning. and power riithi along with heaiily and truth. (Comm.^m '.Nce^ Proct'ssion - Distiociuishlny, DitccUK Jim fihaiman says that he has had his Accpiabl'? Pranks fro'ii Accused Vandalism, (Micheltf Jorrlann's co'iimn, 2S July 1967, Pi)i,v 1?1 belief in theatre restored as a result of'Hair'. 2 Ap'il 196i,P;ioo 121 Me suys; 'The importance of 'lUtir' is that it turns ilie theatre into a religious event, a icinple of celebration and libetalion."' ll has probably gone back to fundamentals of theatre shunning the drab pretensions of the theatre that exists only for special people. Some where round a million people could see 'Hair' in Australia. If it was to come to Brisbane it community feeling is now at an all-time could restore the joy of live theatre for the low! with more students than ever at the Uni massess and for the involved, "jf" OSCARS "/•• versity It Is a paradox that fewer and fewer students are doing things. U it were not for (Extracts. 23 June 1969, Page 3) the few with a social conscience, community life at the University would be completely dead. The creative minority is proportionately samlier than ever and Is forced to do more each year. The student elite is not being re newed In sufficient number to guarantee an active student body. Today, the historic differences between Printers: Watson, Ferguson & Co. Town and Cown no longer exist In Brisbane; our students are Instead fundamentally com EDITORIAL POLICY mitted to their society, they have accepted it "Semper Is comparable with the public uncritically- The University and Its students ation of any other organisation, just as 'The Q ''^"- '^ '"^Zl-"are no w part of the 'System'. Our student Worker* and 'The Temperance Adovacte' ^i.'-'.v ,.-._...-^;.T.:— body is no longer arrogant; ll is docile and are the voices of particular organisations. 50 submissive characterised by the middle-class Is Semper the voice of another organisation virtues of thrift. Industry and sovricty. Our called the University of Queensland Ur»ion. students now lead and are quite content to Wc are not here to defend or promote lead dull, unhcrolc tittle lives untouched and the policies of Council. The Editors support undisturbed by the major currents of the ^ f Q twentlth century. the Council as an Institution, but that will not stop them from attacking its policies If they ! '1, our University has, In fact, surrendered think it necessary. to the Town; it Is now an extension of subur Semper's primary purpose . . . is to stimu bia and just as complacent and mediocre. late discussion. The task of making Semper The attitude o1 mind, critical and inquiring, worthwhile does not belong to the Editors which formerly characterised the student has and their staff alone. It belongs to each and vanished. We now derive out standards and every student. EDITORIAL TEAM norms of behaviour from the Town, so much This ali bolts down to the slogan which Editors: John Dalton, Jack Togarty so that the average student is scarce distin Semper editors have been reciting for twenty Sports Editor: Kerry (S,M.) Wanka guishable from the man in the street. One six years — "Semper Is your paper". only has to watch students arriving on the It is also the freest paper In Queensland. Sub Editors: Burnic Long, Jack Fogerty nln o'clock bus. sit In the library till one, take It has no board of directors to worry about, John Dahon lunch from one to two, sit In the library from no commercial Interests to safeguard, no Jnr. Asst. Sub Editors: Jenny Holton, two till five, depart on the five days a week, political party to appease. to realise how like a bank johnny counter This freedom is yours — use It, but use ll Pam Netterfield jumper or public servant Is our average responsiblly. Typists; Tanya Yakimoff, Jill Thompson student. The paper boy selling papers in tho evening is symbolic in a way. (Thursday, March 3 i960) Pliotographers: Andre Nurk, Guy Good- Format: Small tabloid riche, Roger Norton t4th August, Page 1) Foroiaf: Wide tabloid EDITORIAL TEAM Planned frequency of issues: Weekly/Monthly EDITORIAL POLICY Planned frequency of issues: rortnightly Editors: Joan Lyndon Total No. of Issues produced: 12 "Times change and students change with them — or so It seems at the University of Total No. of issues produced: 10 Bill Sparkes AvcragcNo. of Pages: 8-12 Queensland. One need not have been more Business Manager: Coralie Jones EDITORIAL THEMES ,\ND CONTENT than an intelligent observer to have noticed Average No. of pages: 10-12 Cartoonist: Hugh Bambrick — University politics that, even In the last four years, the student EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT Sports Editor: John Earwiiker — Soott body has changed and changed for the worse. — Union politics It Is traditional to deplore the apathy of — National politics: Monzles profile, and his Chief Photographer: Guy Goodricke — Commem present students by a comparison with — Catholic action and Mr Truman visit to Uni Staff: John Dalton, John Carmody, Bemie student activity of the 'Thirties or a contrast — International politics: Berlin situation — Religion with tho enormous creative energies of the Long, J.J. Dclahunty. Pete Smith, Dob — International events — University activities post-war ex-servlcomen undergraduates. tSut Commem Harney, Dan O'Neill, John fogarty, Pat -Art one does not have to go back even that for Sport Fogarty, Des Howell, Graham Baines, Vic — IVIusIc to derive standards by which to iudge (and — Theatre Clubs and Societies Young, Ronald Smith, John Hclman condem) the present student body. Miss University — Philosophy: Nihilism

SEMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue - Pago 19 the Sixties

•••••••.v.%\%v.v.".v.v.v.:.V'X«x»X'X'X»:«:'V.-.-.-.-.- ;•:•^^:•^:v:::^:^^^:•^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^w•^^:•^:•:•:•:•^: KVS?S^$S:.:'.:'.'.•.'.::•.•.:'S Here's a welcome reassurance to all masochistic student demonstrators; Ser BEER FOR THE BARBARIANS geant Chalmers of the NSW Police, whilst recently addressing Sydney Uni versity students, was quoted as saying At last I had the privilege of having a look at that jealously guarded tradition - 'i know you will laugh at this but of the male. The Smoko. In the past I policemen love university students'. have beet! fobbed off by various males ('Foray' column, March 31 1969, Pago 61 when I enquired about .smokos. Mutters of 'not fit for women', etc., held me off for a long time. Any mild curiosity 1 might have had was killed by the in describable sounds issuing forth from the 5,000 years ago Moses said: Tick cellar while smokos were in progress. up your shovel, mount your ass or Men don't have to po out of their way to ituard this much-Iovcd institution Iiowevcr, camel and I will lead you to the prom- because any trespassing female runs the risk ised land.' of bcin}! trampled to death. 5,000 years later, Chifley said: My God, what a sipht! A mass of sweating 'Liy down your shovel, sit on your yelling males, maddened by llie snicll of beer, pressing in upon several liardy souls who cast ass and light up a Camel - this is the caution to the wind and dare to serve beer to promised land.' the barbarians. ship, the least wc could do is move the location And now, if you don't watch out Barbarians they are. The atmosplierc is full to some civilized place, set up a long bar that Menzies will take away your shovel, of tension, B,0. and alcohol fumes. The faces won't be knocked over by the barbarian hordes (Arrests in Roma Street following Civil Libert fall into several categories' - imbecilic grins yonr camel, kick your ass and give and at least PRETliND that we're all intelligent sell ies march, 17 March 1969, page 14) on the almost-paralytic; determined frowns people. away the promised land. on those in the pushing and screaming surge P.S. I'm glad I'm an Australian, glad around the keg; good fellowship all over tiic So don't worry that any girls might try to faces of those who are having a few friendly chain themselves to the bar while you have one that I'm free, but 1 wish 1 were a little of your smokos boys. There are some aspects dog - and Harold Holt a tree. beers or throwing grog all over each other in clean fun, or throwing glasses on the floor to of the male world wc don't wish to invade. We (Anonymous, 12 September 1962, page 3) see if they really do break; and an occasional wouldn't waste our time. otrf/tîijk,^, Oiir,^ûMM;<3JU, panic-stricken look on some gentle soul who Though in the eyes of many we may not has blundered into the wrong place. be equal, in some ways wc arc infinitely Oh yes. And the freshers arc there. Those superior. tough he-men who reel around in the much- GASSI'R advertised inebriation after two beers. It helps (Sue Geasor>'s column, 2 June 1967, Page 12) "I am a great the image to throw up occasionally in public. Very masculine. One must prove how manly believer in SEX..." one is even if one only lias to sliavc every Bermuda shorts, long white socks, other day. One sure way of doing this is to suede shoes and a sports shirt (with or roar around in a state of imagined or real cf Mf. KfJCD'oi drunkenness and disrupt everyone else's fun. without tic depending on faculty) for Mr. Kr.ipptof'. It's good sport to yell obscenities at the girls the men; skimmer shifts, stockings and DirdsvtIIc. O'd , loo. They just love it. high heels for the girls vtrite\: One of these days the Union might see fit (G|i|Mii-titiiH.'i *>f ^rilJiix (r)ii nml ' of tlic time, 14 April 1967, Pone 161 |Mi,Miic !'"• "«'»k of **r\. I inn n Krrat lullru'r In known as the cellar. If wc must continue this sv\. :iiii| Jr i- a wimilcrfiil ilihi::. UiM yM'i'k I W"!.*' incredible tradition of good old Aussie mate- *|iirfni: ilir nklit «llli H"* t"i'-( frljilitful imin "rul thrntiriltw III tii\ ttlc ix'v I ItiiMmlii 1 Utui ii KtTiit In (I. U*i\\t'îii. uttrt Uu!»'<•»» t K*'* Ifi A^tJiM^ J^ Û^ it miOAJ ii|> mill tiNik Jiist iitir ><'\ fiiiil uillilii It'll niti)t)Ii-> Ihr t>Ûn lirtil

MA M>H ltAril> UliSlKTS \V>i> ]••:-. "i- 1*^1*- > iJl'nii>: ••ir.A >fi*)ri\» lil-n*"'- n^ l-.i^ii ^Wi.i. w,!i ;.ii: ^••l i.|i*r f> tii-ily with t^-A" ***^ ^ict^w^ oyujty;. iN j/^ .-iir:il'!^ Ilk' S. \ ;;•- '111'it* 'I ;Hi:I ir. \> \y f- "' jnlJii.l*-!< ill. 11:i..l'lpii;i; HK.i.T* an'l \h> V.Utx k'n, .x. \V)i. ll»T > nil I. iv. Ill .1 J.iili., ri'iii.ikLi. tin •.iiriitiNin. tuotlKulic. |Mrii!Mi.' ot^ti' n«MV«.- ur i.t'l^tuLj' fiUl"... SA wiU Kiv*- JdU v:ihr illl.l folllJol 1 III Tlj«- '•jiiiti'-t |i(ishil>!<' Itrnr.

\i III! I'^t !>iLs)v f'.'ivf yoti II mi^'Tablr- u,.l. It: |:.-.J l.bi tf tJ.t -<»M Jiln:i.J> li;iH ii !lirii ffrlii .11..I f.v.i •! v.l'.j.^. j.-n tn l'«-'l ;iinl Hi'tvl for your ,!.,. t'l'. 1.' Ii li. V. !lii rii-lH M jiriil |i:i!iis. liniicvi-r. t;*ko S< \ ulij.ji i;-.** i'ilij;>!» t!i«' fiA.i aril tii^t-H tlir Ur- \.|. .I'-.ifl 1-' :\v tuMiy^ W.inl > assembling and launching of prolectlies for people who hear them. Ours Is a society the purpose of hurling at your favourite which prefers 'tacf and 'manners' to frani<- lecturer can be obtained from your rep. nesst a society which prefers silence to any Mat Wl HHMMtt «llM rr?fr'~^. ;'•"..'"'T-'H .'".*'_'"."T.l **«" I • MSftlNrUnn A MWTOM "— For the purpose of wrapping fish, annoyance resulting from a firm statement of prawns and other aquatic specimens caught fact; a society which denied the phrase, 'Great In the swamps ol the car park areas. Is truth; and mighty above ali things'. This, T:.'mr:iT.'.'"- "^^ I \\tj«\ %\vs ... "— For the purpose of a flare for the mass University professes to accept this ideal' burning of student cards in quad. Also burns since H has Inscribed It In trie stone of the' well with other rubbish In ash trays in the Main Building, and Semper Fioreat aiso refoc, frMMMt IfswM Caattl'i ridiu '- accepts.Never has it been, and never ought It "— For theconceallng of two Inch lead be Semper's policy to refrain from express UUNI NWUfct MUMM1 - -- - pipe for the purpose of the temporary reduct ion on the grounds that this may be unpopu l»M • • - ion In the wailing queue in the bookstiop. lar or resented. "— For the wrapping of 'stinking rogers' This University Is too large and there are and other appropriate herbage for one's far too many being admitted to St, year by' 'lady love'. year. "— For the parcelling of policemen, road So, unrepentantly, I declare that many of. hogs, pedestrians, telegraph poles and other you 'freshers' simply ought not to be here, motor hazards for tho purpose of dropping lacking as you do not only the Intellectual in the river — this will eliminate the need tor ability to cope with and profit from a uni Insurance companies to penalise drivers of versity education, but also the intellectual theunder-25 agegroup. —lams." curiosity and eclecticism to expand it^e rather (V^fednesday 5 June, 19 6 3, page 2) circumscribed horizons of your mind. Format: Wide tabloid (2nd February. Page 2) EDITORIAL TEAM Planned frequency of issues: Fortniglitly EDITORIAL TEAM Fonnat: Wide Tabloid Editors: Peter Muhlburg Number of issues produced: Nine Editors: Jack Carmody nanned frequency of issues: Fortnightly John A. Charles Moore •Average number of pages: Eight John Dalton Total No. of issues produced: 13 Contributor; Humphrey McQueen EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT Business Manager: Ashby Utting Average No. of pages: Eight Printers: Watson. Ferguson and Co, Sth. Bris. Sub Editor: Kerry (S.M.) Wanka — Union Politics. EDITORIALTHEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL POLICY — University Affairs, Student Cards, Review Editor: Henry Thornburn — Union politics and theatre "HINTS FOR A FULLER APPRECIA Commem, Sport, NUAUS, Staff: Max Deacon, John Talbot, Donald — Sport TION OF SEMPER- Union Elections Thornton, June Stanley, Vivicnnc Birt, — iVIusic: classical and {azz "Let's face It — Semper ts free — so why — Music, ABC Vouth Concerts — Miss university read It. The pictues are fun, but seldom the — Philosophy. Marxist Economics Wendy Smith, Shane Lewis, Des Howell, — Overseas Issues: English students, "Africa articles, jo why be a bore and belong to the — International affairs, (Vlalaysta, llURh Bambrick, Shane Potteus, Jonalhon for the Alrlcans" five percent who read the 'high brave' reviews U.S. Radio Base

SEMPER • SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 20 the Sixties BRIAN LAVER: on the Value of Demonstrations Q, What use are demonstrations if diey do not succeed? A. They arc a subtle way to build a hard core of people. Q. Tlie demonstration is necessary for people • who are rcvulsed by the insensilivity of the , . A.Nt> THt world. Docs the demonstration have more than n- a negative escapist function? liALt'i ON A. It has more to do with not having any •'B UOVE A &AHE , power. I have sat in front of a TV set watching OP SQUASH— l.ET'S see JATU«.t5AV S AmcHcan planes bombing and for a person like mc it's hard to take. We need something in TWtNTY- which to express comradeship where people FthbT- come together and arc not just content to sit at home watching TV. Q. Do they come out of righteousness? A. No, anger. Q. What about the ones who come for the sake (Brian Laver speaking at Centenary ParkI of demonstrating? A. They drop away very quickly. They arc no ously for social ciiange. The ones who take value whatsoever to the peace movement. drugs are no good to us, but they find security Q. Do anti-socials have a bad effect? in us because we are also fighting society. It A. Some do, but you can't icl! them to clear is inevitable that we pick up these types. THK AtToa. A&AIN TMuS.4tAy out so we try to get them to work conscienti- (Extract, 2 June 1967, Page 71

Semper is the opium of the intellect uals [Karl Marx]. (Headline, 18 May 1961, Page 2) MOM-DAY^i MAVtS, ^fi.^V^feTOK.. AN"D

'Up (he Left' 'Wreck the Draft' 'Rcadin', Riotin' Rithmettc', 'I Roost at PO Bo.\ 90', '1 am Contemptuous of tlie Administration', 'Anarchy', 'Lynch Bury, Bury Lynch'. (Sarripln of the wording from Sixties Political Badnes, 3 March '1969, Page 5)

(22 July 1965, page 2)

Ah! What power an editor has to indulge his subversive and crackpot ideas. Invest in Queensland's Future - (Fashion photo, 'This Pago, column, (Editorial, 22 July 1965, Page 6) Support Civil Liberties Suppression - 5 May 1967, page 7) It's Government Guaranteed - Matur ing 1984. (Bumper Sticker, March 29, Page 2) Student radicals are mostly bright. of people whose intellectual equipment The notion that they are failures, drop is above average and would - if they outs, unernployables, or lazy layaboitts, cared to use it for the purpose - get is quite untenable. Failures may drift them renumerative careers in the Jesus Christ. Wanted for sedition, into the fringes of the movements but conventional world. criminal anarchy, vagrancy, and conspir in most countries the core is made up {5July196B, Page 101 ing to overthrow the established govern ment. Dresses poorly. Said to be a car penter by trade, ill-nourished, has visionary ideas, associates with common working people, the unemployed and HONOURABLE .PER FLOREAT bums. Alien, believed to be a Jew, Alias! 'Prince of Peace', 'Son of Man', CARTOONING 'Light of the Worid', etc. Professional agitator, red beard, marks on hands EDITOR and feet the result of injuries intlicted by an angry mob led by respectable citizens and local authorities. (Genuine American Army Advert., used as (1960's Poster. 26 July 1968, cover. Vol. 39 No. 12 1969) PapG 3)

MARIJUANA, TIME, AND THE LAW

One of the useful effects of Cannabis is As well as gaining the satisfaction of seeing that it enhances sensory perceptual plicono- 'straight' people going through the machin mcna. Its obvious potential of assisting personal ations of their first experience, you will be sur creative development should be easily conclud prised at tlic frequency of concurrent thought ed after a vivid session. Ideas flow more readily patterns amongst those taking part. A fresh and arc usually of a more imaginative and realisation of the cliched analogy of 'common humorous nature, than usual. Once it is felt wavelength' will occur. that Cannabis effects can be readily control Don't smoke too often, even if your sup led and channelled, break from your intimate plies permit. Two or three times a week is ('Book of the Dead' cover, designed by circle and turn on with people of all types.. plenty for a student. Too much of anything Geoff SImcox, Vol. 39, No. 5 1969) (Secure, cool types of course.) is no good, and Cannabis, like any other drug, can cause unnecessary dulling of the brain if taken in overdoses or witli irresponsible fre quency. Realise that your tolerance (i.c. tliat The fundamental essentials of democracy are the freedom of the people to amount which you need to become pleasant choose in accordance with sound democratic principle the government they desire; ly intoxicated) is often reduced with constant Freedom of speech, expression, and association; freedom of religion, freedom from usage, wliile the opposite is true of alcohol. This physiological fact is tailor-made for want and freedom from fear. frugality. WILLIE For the preservation of the things we hold dear, and for which our ancestors I'inally, a useful proverb to temcmbcr: spilt their blood, we undertake that, if elected to government, we will as quickly as quote Mister Dylan, "Keep a clean nose, watch it Is humanly possible take legislative action to entrench in our Constitution certain the plainclothes, you don't need a wcatlwr- Willie Young, major

SEMPER - SOth Annlvtrury Issue • P«g« 21 the Sixties

•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•••.•.••-••• Man, If they tufitit me, they'll ACID ROCK have to come and get mel With the growth of the hippie movement Underground music has achieved a popu and in particular, the use of LSD, all kinds of larity beyond that of the other underground accessories became available to increase the arts. Mainly because the oudcts (through radio quality of a trip. Trinkets and paintings ('op stations) are more accessible, and because of ait') were the first to appear, followed closely the tradition for youth to support music above by light effects, and a revolution in music. other arts, it has become sufficiently com Tlris came just at the ri^t time to supplant mercial to wanant an entrepreneur import the Mersf-y Beat which had dominated the ing CANNED HEAT for a series of concerts scene for several years, and was starting to in Australia, But arc the radio stations that stale. Way-out blues groups had already been play die music aware of it connotations? producing similar music, but it took the Beatles Much was made of the acid inspiration of the to break the barrier into the wodd of com Beatles* 'Sergeant Pepper's' albijm, yet it still mercial music. People like Moby Grape, Grate received airplay. Similarly, the tumed-on ful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Doors, and so sound of the Doors, Jefferson Airplane and on, suddenly had it made. Tlic Cccam pioneered other are played without reference to the acid-rock-blucs, allowing Jimi Hcndrix to dev state ot mind from which diey derive, and lo elop his famous techniques. Most of this has which they have most appeal. Could it be happened in the U.K. and the States, but the that the DJ.'s arc only too aware and arc foundations have been laid in Australia for willing accomplices in the underground re a similar development, as will be self- volution? evident from reading the following article from the February issue of UBU NEWS from Underground music is slowly taking over Sydney; die local pop scene. Despite regressions by Frank Zappa to the uncool cariy rock style local musicians arc becoming more and more UNDERGROUND MUSIC - SHOWGROUND turned on, and audiences arc tuning in. Changes DANCES BOOM in style are seen in almost all groups - BUly Underground Music, the heady sounds that Thorpe has left the Aztecs way behind. Unlike first gained acceptance on the West Coast of the early rock, underground music requires music U.S. in Haight-Ashbury, is now receiving a ians of talent and imagination. TULLY have good deal of attention in Australia. Radio 2irW long rehearsals and have an extensive know promotes the sound throu^ THOMPSON ledge of music (they are to handle the music THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR UNDERGROUND, Radio 2SMhasan UNDER for the acid-rock musical 'Hair' soon to be GROUND CLUB and UBU's last Underground staged in Sydney). The long breaks and sdos TO CONSCRIPTION Dance at the Sydney Showground attracted that are integral to underground music cannot be handled by faking. Underground music What type of man is the conscientious see him sentenced for two years jail. 1,500 people. U looks as if the audience for Conscientious objectors have been with us such music is much wider Uian the small group has introduced art back into pop. It is no objector? gimmick, rather a new way of life. Is he a coward and spiv as Mr Turner throughout tiiis century and so also have per which used to collect in the Jewish War Memor sons who have despised this form of individual ial a couple of years ago for UBU liglit shows It's gonna happen all over. (Liberal Party, NSW) would have us be protest, they are still ridiculed, not only by the featuring the ID and Black Allen's JUST (31 March 1969, Page 91 lieve or is he an honest, sincere and cour HUMAN group. RSL members with their strong memories of ageous man of conscience - perhaps the pacifism in previous world wars, but by the But so far no record company has seen fit tag which he personally would like to community at large, Otlier extents in World to record any local underground group, and attach. War II seem to have slipped the minds of these TV has not seen fit to start an underground No matter what his objection is based on, same critics, for the Australian citizen and our music show, through die TONIGHT SHOW did whether he is against all wars, a particular war, law courts do not remember that the Nureni- feature (he NUTWOOD RUG for their novelty or just one, or just against overseas service, burg Trials established morally and legally the value. the CO. is possessed with one of the better international decision that individual con UBU launched into the underground music brands of courage. It is this courage which once science overrides state law. These decisions 'field last year with a happening entitled The his mind is made up, helps him to ignore the would appear to have served their usefulness Fint Inle^alactic Festival Li^tshow Concert tremendous pressures exerted by his parents as a means of revenge, however being anti- which featured the music of the ID and the and society itself, it is this courage which makes national, are now ignored by nations, only NUTWOOD RUG. This was foUowed by two hint overcome his fear of not being able to being significant to those who oppose the dances at the Paddington Town Hall which follow the career of his choosing, and finally system - in part of totally. UBU hoped to run at regular weekly events. it is this same courage which aids him in making But the powers that be found the music 'too the initial decision which may ultimately (Extract, 6 September 1968, Page 17) loud' and the dress of the people al the dance i<^^ 'too casual' and UBU was banned. Out of the Paddo Dances emerged two new gioups on the underground scene - TAMAM SHUD which had formerly been a surf band, and TULLY which was a new group with former muso's from Whisky A Go Go. These groups were featured at the first EDITORIAL TEAM showground dance cariy this month, and TULLY can now be heard as the legulat group Editors: Brian Toohey at the new Adam's Apple disco in Oxford From advert for Union Record Shop. Richard Pincus St., City. (29 March 1968, page 5) Guest Editors: M.chael Ong Ron Marshall Staff: B. Baker, W. Lavcrak, P. .McCawley, M, O'Rourkc, I. Lincoln, SdlTH S. Roberts, J. Just, P. Derriman, T., Fogarty, \I"KI(;\N Semper I. Cteltin, J. Campbell, G. Bean, P. Tiffin, Fioreat EDITORIAL POLICY STl DKNT APOLIGA PRO VITA SUA T. Rout, A. Frost, B. Barnes, M. Bugler, I'UKKDOM "Student edltorstilp has tts particular G. Rowlands, W. Wallace, G. Simpson U'l>i:\l.: problems. It Is a fuil-tlmo job to which only EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT part-time service can be given. No amount of — University Activities! Commen, Sport, good-will on the part of the Editor can over come loss ot time on the paper. Scoop, Miss university Semper has a threefold function, it exists — Union: Sex alias NUAUS (Education), as a newspaper. But unlike a newspaper It Vice-chancellor (Sir Fred Schoneil) Is almost totally dapeodaot on other sources — Social issues: Mental health, sex, folk- • for Its news material. We publish what we songs, Brisbane city receive and only what we receive. — Arts and entertainment Secondly, Semper has an opinion-forming — Poetry role. It must form opinions and allow for the — fleilglon expression of opinions. Articles on the arts — International Affairs and on politics will consequently fall into two — IMatlor>al Issues; White Australia policy categories — those which presuppose some knowledge or Interest and those which are designed for the uninitiated. The only reason that there are not more science articles Is because no one Is prepared to write them. QL;I:I£NSLAND UNION Undergraduate humour Is often a term of SEMPER FiOREAl NO SUPPORT FOR - abuse. Yet It has a vital role to play in a Uni ••I.UM.I> UlurMMlUhrMMmMTItH lOMntI Booth, Michelle Jonolana, Lachlan Rutledgc, versity paper. It is also an integral part of our Graham Rowlands, Pat Buckridge, Warwick literary heritage. While no particular piece Gould, John Campbell, Brian Toothey, Sue of undergraduate humour is of lasting value, the continuous process of renewal that Parry, Bole Hamwood, Helen Roolwell, must take place gives It a vitality that makes Lim Mong Seng and Lachie (t unique. EDITORIAL POLICY 1964 ^ Pages on Science and Motoring are plan ned. These have a place in Semper. Pages of "The ratio between the size of Semper EDITORIAL TEAM social notes and fashion do not. and the exhaustion of the staff Is better than Editors: Humphrey .McQueen direct. That between the length of Semper The editor Is quite prepared to publish and the length of tempers, however. Is inverse. Alan Richards any collection of crude cartoons on sexual The eyes boggle, spin and fadej they go out themes. Until the time of going to press he of focus and see double. t-(ence there are Business Manager; Ian McCathie had not received any. Secretary: Mary Callaghan ninety-six complaining letters on our desk (March 31, Page 2) Instead of forty-eight." Sports Editor: Joy Fcldt Format; Tabloid (March 18, Page 6) Review Editor: Henry Thorburn Planned frequency of issues: Fortnightly Format: Tabloid Science Editor: Tony Barry Total No. of issues produced: H Planned frequency of issues: Fortnightly Artwork: Shane Lewis, Shane Porteous, Average No. of pages: 8-12 Total No. of issues produced: 10 Elizabeth Ord EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT Average No, of pages: 12 Photognpher: Ken Fien — Opposition to Introduction of student Cover price: 1 shilling/10 cents Staff: Ruth BUit, Elizabeth Doak, cards emt imam «»r* EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT tKiMiAmnuurmt Rodney Hardaher, Ion Lincobi, Peter — Marxist dialogues — The modern church dc Jersey, Ray McCarthy, Petei — Campus Sport — Student satire McCawley, Robcn Smith, Colin C. — Socialism and Existentialism ' — New university Act Bird (Colin Lamont), — ALP/DLP Split — Against an apolitical student union — Science page EDITORIAL TEAM — Civil Liberty in Qld. and USA Review panel: Coral Howelb, Tanta — Religion Editor: Michael O'Neill, Michael Ong — Students-. Aboriginal scholars and theU Yahimoff, Neil Neckhaus, Tony Barry, — Student Aparthy Ctub future Busineu Manager: AlfNucifora Phillip Richardson, Neil Thornton — Union News —• Police Ban Uni Commem Procession — Cultural reviews Typesetter: Old Type Service — Christianity and Humanism Spirituil advisers: Bob &. Mary Greenwood, -Sex Printer: James Ferguson — Intervarslty Sport Jeff Spender — The Orr Case — Religion and Christianity Printen; Watson, Ferguson i, Co. — Censorship Staff: Sue Geason, Dave Ferguson, Nick -Medieval universities — Union Complex extensions

SEMPER • SOth AnnlvarMry luue • Page 22 the Sixties SQUEAKS AND GIBBERS As a positive — I almost said 'con The variety of bricks donated should ensure crete' gesture toward the Great Hall that no label of 'red-brick' could possibly be Appeal, one of the University's more attached to this building, and would therefore impecunious students has suggested we remove the need for camouflaging it with start a 'Bring a Brick' campaign for the (Iclidon free-stone, or with small grey bricks pretending to be wliitcwashcd Union Jacks. building. I wouldn't dream of mentioning whose idea Interested students should leave small this was - but 1 sometimes wonder what we'd heaps of bricks at their favourite sites - the do if John Fogarty weren't on the staff. bus stop, the golf course, the men's lavatories, the Main Reading Room of the library etc. (11 July 1960, Page 1)

Since the majority of University •• .-J / "1 •; Catholics were the easiest of religions students are supporters qf the Liberal to originally talk into participating in ^1: Party and only a tiny minority sup •r Jr..-.:' homosexual activities, and yet the porters of the A.L.P., it will be easy for Catholic Church seems to be the most the average University student to authoritarian of all religions. '" '•.•^. dismiss affairs in the A.L.P. as comic or (Irom 'Campus Beats' article. the work of nuts. 31 March 1969, Page 10) (Civil Liberties rnoiiting in Botanical Gardens, 17 March 1969, page 9) (7 March 1966, Page 12)

AUSTRALIAN UNDERGROUND FILM- UBU Origins of the New Wave? Several versions of 'UBU History" posed lour of the .American 'under.around' festo' which reads like a filmmaker's Ten exist, varying apparently with the nar imisicians Canned Heal. Other projects arc (>)mmandments and begins: 'Let no one say rator or writer. The latest, fullest and •J proposed cinema which will offer environ anymore that they can't raise enough money perhaps most accurate account appears ment seven days a week, and a contemplated to ntake a film'. One pattern created syntheti in the daring si.xteen-page issue of the move into the record business. cally on film stock causes the optic nerves to latest 'UBU News', UBU's newspaper The advjiUajics to the film makers to join sec colour appear on tiic screen although the UBL; film co-operative secnis obvious, the film is black and white. UIU.' publicity which has survived twelve issues, and t'ilmmakers receive 70 per cent of ihc box states that 'one person in every 15,000 is shows no sign of w.ining. office takinjis from screenings - profits are likely to have an cpilcpie .seizure as a result of This accoLJtu numes Bruce Bcrcsford (now divided amon;: cauttibutors on the basis of Watching this tllni', wiih ilic Uritish I'ilni Insiitiilc) :is the pioneer what percentage ilicir running lime is of the Sheldon Kenan in his book on underground ot Australian Ijidcrcrouiid lilin-ni;ikiiis: and overall programme of each screening. On this films regards this mediutii as one used 'prim I.en Dye as the lirsl Australian to iiiakL- syn i)asjs, hall hour films have rclurnetl to their arily for reasons of personal or artistic express thetic hand-painicd films, as early as 1921. makers as iiuicli as ^300 in six months, which ion'. Tiic 'New .American Cinema Group' issued I'Hl' jtscll was t'oundcd in 1963. Tlic name is approximately double the amount com in its last statemeni, along with rejection liiU' appears to have oris-'inaicti in I'rancc in mercial distributors pay for supporting lilius. of censorship, the declaration thai film is the lS90's in a play of lhi> Parisian 'avantc- The case of 'They're a Weird .Mob' has been 'indivisibiy a personal expression". However i;ardc' nioveiiienl. L'HU is a manit'cstaiioti of cited in which the distributors and exhibitors tiie major flaw in many of ilie IJMJ exhibits tlie absurdity of life and is ihe diseovorer of have received SO per cent of the huge profits seems to be over self indulgence on the pari I'ataphysies, tlic science of jmapinary solutions, so far grossed in Australia. The investors of the filmmakers. These cntluisiasts fail to in wliidi all ihini-s arc eipial. These faciors. have yei to be paid. realize that no matter how involving the subject say the L'lUi founders (whose motto is 'Tech- The types of tmderground films handled matter and ideas are to iheii masters, some of noli)j;y in the Service of Art') sums up tlieir by UUU vary considerably. Perhaps the most iliis involvement must be transferred to the ideals. , startling is (lie synthetic film which utilises audience. L'BU watchers could be forgiven for As ii now exi.sis after nearly four years of abstract expressionist techniijues such aS having at times a feeling of trespassing in the liidin.i; in a Rcdt'crn basement, UIU' is a nliii- scratching, scraping, drawing, biting, chewing, territory of'in-Thoughts*. makt-rs' eo-operalive which liires. .sells and filing, rasping, tearing, puiiu'luring, gluing, screens illnis by independent lilniniakcrs. burning, and even growing mould onto. In MARGRIIiT BONNIN Tlio present iiardcorc of UBl) arc Albie 1968 Uni; printed a 'hand made film meni- 117 March l969,Pa(!o7) Thorns (chairman, director, scriptwriier and 'U15U News' editor). Dave I'eny (lialnin.!:. iitiitiiitiiitiiiiiiiuiiuitiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiDniinnint cameraman), Alc.\ Uoyd (cleeironics expert) V.I.P.. CLUB University of Queensland and Toni Rendall (office manasior). Oi" these DAPPER DISCO only Ajigy and Toni are full lime employees. The L'UU staff in their capacity as under- EVERY FRi. NITE BEER DRINKERS SOCIETY jiround lllniinakcrs in their own ri^ulit, have • THE JUSTUS rcquots produced films shown at Sydney lihn S-"cs- • THE FIVE Ihe plrasur'.' cf year ccmp.iny .it the Annual livals, Cinestud 67, liNpo 70. Montreal I-ilm it RON SAYWELL Commcmcr.iticn Aciu.itic C.irniv.il, lo be held l-cstival, 4lh World llxpcrimcutal l-ilm l"cstival. in she Priv.itc B.ir cf Ihc Trc.isury Hotel, cnr. Besides their activities and fights apainst G'-'orgc ,ind Elirjbeth 'itrccts, Cily, on Friday, ,Vil 2B, al 11.30 a.m. the censor as filmmakers, fiUn distributors (1967 Civil Liberties March, 21 Juno 1968, the UUU executive create li);ht shows for hap Nominationt are called (or Faeulry and College page 4! penings, dances, and advertising promotions; rcprcscntalivcs for sell 'Turn on with UBU' T-.shirts and al present (1) DRINKING FOURS. hope to play a part in Harry M. Miller's pro (Advert., 15 March 1968, page 2} (2) THE DRINKING HORN. So many times in the press you see the phrase 'the N.L.F., the political Como along and sec the champs in action. arm of the Vietcong', that I wondered Chunda* buckets provided I what the reverse situation would be, and '[.is hiih F.diti.rs (•» Sm-.pfr art mtvxins o/ lh{ Q.iftM'umd Ti-!>irfr,:i:i;- ifj^uf. it is :nth rf- the result? 'Cabinet - the political ;>ugv.iii:cr Hull '.ir pmt ikh aiioiii itfrn.—I'ds.} arm of the R.S.L.' and 'Congress - the liiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiMiiiiittittiiiiitiMitiiiiiii political arm of the Pentagon'. (Public Notice, 13 April 1961, page 7) ('Foray' column, 3 March 1969. Page 16)

DOCUMENTATION AND CRITIQUES OF THE COMTEWIPORARY RADICAL MOVEMENT ON CAMPUS.

Scattered amongst the issues of 'Semper Fioreat' from the late sixties to the mid- seventies, were several major articles of great historical interest documenting the nature of the radical movement at Queensland University. These multi-page critiques/ commentaries remain invaluable records of the forces that created a great upheaval in student life. For something approaching a through chronology of this period, examination of the leaflets of the time (see Fryer Library) and a more detailed examination of in dividual 'Semper' issues, as well as the pages of the daily press is necessary. Refer ence to (he booklet 'Up the Right Channels' would also be useful.

A Bibliography of Major Historical and Analytical Features on the Radical Movement Printed in Semper Fioreat The Growth of the Radical Movement by Dan O'Neill (17 March 1969, pp.9-14) History of the Springbok Tour's Univefsity Strike by Roger Stuart (1 September 1971,p.4) The University by Dan O'Neill (Vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 12-1S) A Decade Reviewed - Being Reflection and Prophecy tipon the Long March of the Radical Movement Within the University Interviews compiled with an introduction by Bruce Dickson (Vol 44 No. 16,1974. Pp. 19-26) The Rise and Fall of Student Consciousness by Dan O'Neill (20 May 1976, Page 10 onward) Students for Democratic Action (SDA/RSSA) Bookshop in Old Markets, Roma Street City. The University: Myth and Reality by Dan O'Neill (15 February 1978, pp 7-9) {14 April 1969, Page 14)

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MISS UNIVERSITY SATURDAY 20th April 4.45 Aquatics— Inter college, inter-faculty and Stlck-Up Day. Door-Knock appeal \n the Individual Boat Race suburtis. 5.30 Barbecue SUNDAY 21st April 7.30 First 'Beero' with 17 varieties Beer + jug UnderprWllegetl Children's Picnic Band. Commem. union Night proceeds. REACHES CLIMAX SATURDAY 27th April MONDAY 22 nd April (Headline to article on Miss Uni Quest, 12 July 1961) Mass blood donations start Singing on Treasury Steps —Choir conducted TUESDAY 23rd APrll t>y a Mr. A, Nucifora For (he Miss Uni. oucst is tlic outward Mock Parliamentary Debate Procession .sign of a grolciqucly deformed concept of Talkathon — 24 hours — Finney's store Slosh-O-Ball the university that grips the souls of too many window, Adelaide Street. WEDNESDAY 24th April people on this campus. The notion of de A prank (classified as yet) claring Jill letter than Jane is repugnant THURSDAY 25th April cnougii downtown, but here in the university Solemn commemoration of Anzac Day environment it's unbclievcablc. Opting out of First World 60-mile Relay — Campus to the Another old dear was disgustetl by the prevalent view of Qucenslanil Uni as a coast, finishing at the Surfers Paradise Beer one young lady's mini skirt which be playpen for the bettcr-hcelcd bourgeoisie and Garden. their kids, truly concerned people must sec FRIDAY 26th April came even more mini when she sat Miss Uni as one of tlie rancid, regressive lOam Vintage Outhouse, carry, cram and crash down. 'It's disgusting. It's immoral. 10.30 Sideways Walking Contest forces from which tlicy arc fleeing. It obsesses 11.00 Obstacle Course She ought to pull her skirt down.' half the girls on this campus, indulges their 11.30 Chariot Race bourgeois lust for dressing up. Noon Mixed Sack Race It dis.«pate5 the energies and alone excites 12.30 Women's Dirty Ditty Contest (Commo.nt bv G;iss(!r reg.irdinci Commem. the thorough-going interest of everyone on 1.00 Spaghetti Eating Contest T;)ll

Asst. Ed. and Business Manager: Dave Murr Commem Semper Ed,: Brian Toohey Sports Editor: Wally Xobte Staff: Nick Booth, Lee Wilson, Michcic Jordana, Nicki Ferguson, Sue Geason, Photography: Michael Bower, Peter Kcdit, Alt' Nucilora, Giep 'Vest, Ian Crellin _ 1 Layout and Artwork: Lindy Crofts, Mf Nucifora DCEgss SEDQ'sctssn men .maKtooii V Typesetting: Old. Type Service I'/L Printers: John Nugent & Co. Courier .Mail Printing .Service Fonnat: Wide Tabloid Planned frequency of issues: Fortnightly Total No, of issues produced: 8 Average N o. of pages: 16 EDITORIAL POLICY Cover price: lOcents, free on campus "Words. Few words. Useless words. Here EDITORIALTHEMES AND CONTENT a movement unique. Derivative only in v/ays — Cultural reviews of acting. Radical in that thought patterns — Sport are different, v/jy of life dissimilar to MAJ — Uni revlevifs ORITY. Right, wrong do not apply. MIS — Kath Walker 5Peai

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126 April 1978, psqR 16) AUSTRALIA'S SECRET POLICE A Report on QUEENSLAND'S SPECIAL BRANCH The arrests a couple of Sundays ago of Churchmen for singing bible songs in public protest against the Government's actions at Aurukun and Mornington Island highlight the role played by Special Branch in ensuring public opinion conforms to that of the Premier, Mr. Bjelke-Petersen With the banning of fundamental democratic right of political marches, the Queensland Special Branch is more and more acquiring the public image of the stereotype secret police characteristic of totalitarian regimes. Joh protects us from the evils of communism but the methods he uses have become more and more like the ones he warns about so often. During the right-to-march protests, Special Branch have spied upon, surveilled, investigated, photographed, harassed, intimidated,assaulted and arrested hundreds of what can only be regarded as trustworthy and loyal Australians whose only sub version and crime is to disagree with the parliamentary leader of the National Party. They have disguised themselves at demonstrations, wearing political badges, attended meetings and voted upon motions and tliey have sent spies onto the university campuses. Break-ins of the homes of leading political figures when they were at rallies have yet to be explained. (Cartoon by Disniion Lodvvich, Soptcmbor 1979, pag'; 22) In NSW and S.A, Labor ministers were lie urged Oucenslanders to 'have nothing (o found to have dossiers kept on ihcm unlike I'eur'.' . . . freedoms can be supported only by Ilicir conicrvativc predecessors who were not tirin action aeainst elements seeking to destroy spied upon. Ihem'(Courier .Mail, 3.4.78, p.l8). Queensland is different. Here even National 'Tills (freedom) can be achieved througli easuRinsR I'arty ministers are llie subject of Special strong security, coupled with the ability of Urancii surveillance. police and civil authorities to hit hard wliere The views contained herein are not nec However, ,\1r. Bjclku-Peter.scn's coalition necessary' said .Mr. Knox (CM. 3.4.78), essarily real or those of anyone else but they purlncr, William Knox, leader of the party are necessarily biased and totally subjective. (uxtrnct,26A(jril1978, Page 16) Semper does reluctantly admit to using the that purports to aspire to the principles of reluctant funds of the University of Queens liberalism, has been more vocal than his masier land Union. (Impcralism once more rears Its in support of the Special Uranch. ugly head). Kno.\: '11 people show anti-social behaviour, Unless otherwise specified, all material Ihey .should be checked out.' lie has even i;one in Semper Fioreat Is wide open for general so far as to suggest that 'Police should be theft. However, acl

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"Hey Cab 54, you look pretty vacant, After the second or was it the third LP going to work?" had Ijecn played, and more of the same in Harry stopped staring at the carpet ai^d gested into happy brains and bodies, Harry turned to where his friend Gregg was fumbl suddenly remembered the four wheeled beast ing a set of car keys. with the hail light and radio, and slowly jive talked his way through a Great Australian "Christ, what time is it?" Harry asked, Farewell, to take his place behind the wheel. suddenly aware of the Other World outside. d He drove through the industrial estates of "4.30, better get your act together, the people of Brisbane arc waiting." sleepy Salisbury, and cruised along Bcau- other way, every set of lights red, what's the 'I'm sorry 54, you're correct, nobody dcscrt Road until he reached Moorvale. Notic By the hour of five, Harry had been de ing the rank there to be unoccupied, he did a posited at the cab base, exchanged words with hurry anyway, it's peak hour, that last number likes a smartic do they. Roger and out.' was surely very powerful, car seems to be de Harry look the piris lo the Sunnybank quick U-turn and propped for a while to plot his cab owner, checked all systems and set off, fresh driving strategy. He had been reading his the radio spewing forth multitudes of holding veloping noises like flat tyres and stuffed shock Hotel's Hollywood Room. Along the way absorljers. they talked about each otlier, some girls, Telegraph for about five minutes when a man jobs. approached his cab. Harry checked the guy Bugger the radio he thought, I'll go down to 'Acacia Ridge, driver, off Mortimer Rd, do various boys, their jobs, some more guys, you know it?' the woman's voice was a flat and how drunk they thought they would out. He was about the size of an Aussie Rules the Valley rank. He soon realised this was a ruckman, and it pleased him none when he mistake. The rank was chockablock with house monotone. Nothing incongruous there. Harry probably get by closing time that night, as was sometimes intrigued by armchair sociology. opposed to how drunk Ihcy were the previous hit his head of the roof of the cab upon enter wives holding screaming brats, with their ing. shopping parcels, prams and valium prescrip Why not, in the cab game you get a whole night. Harry was plea.sed they were going to a tions not to mention drunken men clutching cross section of society every night. Meet ali hotel, A good excuse for a beer, lie thought 'Bloody Falcons,' he muttered. The big cartons of beer, being jostled by loudmouthed sorts. of ringing up his friend Dick while he was at man studied Harry. Harry lit a cigarette. And teenagers displaying their own special form of "i'cs, 1 know it, we've got a taxi rank it, 10 sec if Dick knew of any action on Satur grinned. sidewalk bragpdocio. there.' Nothing like giving the passengers con day niiiht, Harry u.sually worked Saturday 'You want a fight mate?' tlic big man sud nights, but felt like a break aflcr si.\ in a row, Harry started to regret having smoked that fidence in your professional ability; Harry denly asked, remembered the time a passenger had some and besides Dick usually h;id lots of different 'It'll cost ya' quipped Harry, 'and only .second joint of MuUimbimby Madness. Now lie drugs, and as another friend of Harry's called was thrust into the world of boisterous bland- what less than total confidence in his driving then if you'll guarantee I'M win.' ability. Told him to stop tlic car, he was getting Tom u.sed to say; what else is there to do in Big Man thought about that for as loni; as it ncss, lie began to hum the words of a song Brisbane but take drugs? written by a cab colleague - out. 'You're a maniac' the man had declared would have taken Iiim to iron Harry out, with 'lie's been an elevator operator/ small time and threw two bucks at Harry. Harry dropped the women off at their little out workini; up a sweat. Ten seconds passed, manipulator/milk man/ gas man and every 'You're a paranoid asshole' Harry had com piece of paradise, and set off lo the noisy "O.K. ciiplain, drive us into town, and try other kind of man/ he's even been a rock "n mented. 'Dig you later, fuckface!" Not bad Saloon Bar for a beer and a quick phone call. to keep the funny lines lo a minimum. 1 haven't roll singer - but now, he's a driver and lie's Harry thou.cht, there was only a dollar twenty 'Hi Dick, it's Harry here. What do you got a lot of money.' gone too many miles in this crazy mixed on the meter. know cobber?' The drive into town was pleasant cnougli. up town.' They ncared Acacia Ridge after a swift 'No! much 1 can tell you over the phone They picked up a couple of cans al Anncr Yeah, Keith had been a cool dude, where was drive along lieaudescrt Road with the peak squire. Why don't you drop over, where arc ley, and discussed their respective car problems, he now, South America, Scandinavia, maybe hour How moving at least 10km over ilic you now?' woman problems, and money probletns. The Siam.dctlnitely not here. Harry had been trying limit. Safely in numlwrs, Harry checked his 'Sunnybank. Great, see you in ten minutes.' big niiin's name was Mike, As they cruised along to iiet out of town physically for a long time, radio and reset it on the right channel. Might Harry grabbed some large cans of Fosters Ihe S(nitli-i:asi Freeway, Mike told Harry lli;it having only gone away in his head. Still here he be lucky and pull another job before drop and zoomed off with a new sense of purpose. he niigiii go to iho disco at the City I'luza and was again, trying, maybe tins time around, ping otT Mrs. Suburbia and little Johnny, He saw his job as having a number of advan look for some woni:in lic'd met earlier in the god where did the years go. i;ot to mention No such job eventuated. Harry sat dis tages, There were always opportunities for di week who said she usually went there on Fri the dollars, the wretched liumidity at this consolate on the Mottimci Rd. Rank. Radio versions. day nights. Dropping Mike off at tlic Adelaide lime of year niakes ii hard to br.;athe, wonder very quiet on Channel One, And not surprisingly for someone with this and George Streets corner, Harry wislied liini if that lady lie met al the pub last week will Reading Rolling Stone, Article on l.indii sort of alliuide, Harry usually managed lo find the best of luck and said he'd buy Mike a beer show up on Sunday afternoon, Chris's party Ronstjdl, just for something completely lots of diversions. Then there was (he nnanfiaj someiime. Sunday night al the farm sliould be gical. different. After persevering the typically noiv aspect. A taxi driver always has money on a It was nearly S.30. The town was pjcked what was lier name again, can't remember inicrvicw, it occurred to liim to drive off to daily/nightly basis. Harry often felt this licld with Friday night siioppcrs. Harry decided names, or thine neopic tell you, RiK'klea and grab a bcor. Throat very dry, one major disadvantage. !i was difficult to that iherc was only one thing for it. Drive 'Where did you say you wanted to go Mi.ulit even l)o some lares on the rank. No. consistently save it. down 10 the rank in Albert Street, and join again'.'' lie asked as the laxi «as heading out better wail a little longer. As it happened, Wiiliin a short space of time, cab 54 was the queue of cabs. God he hated that rank. through Anncrley on Ipswicli Rd. sliit tlic this proved to be a good idea, '^•ou busy parked idly outside Dick's liouse, ils driver Ihii, he figured, if a driver can't gel a larc 'Iral'fu's bad. maybe should have jione an driver'. It was two young women in theif inside tlie coml'orlablc livinii room mixing off tin; Arcade rank al this lime, ii could never disco finery, up ;i taste of sonicthing wliicli probably orig he done. inated from the Ciotdcn Triangle of S.F.. Asia. 'No, not especially,' lie said sitting up (What dues the future hold for Harry on the and taking command of the situation in the Soon the people gathered were cxdianging smooth capable style he had developed over inchoaie thoughts and ideas, si'ratcliing iheit dreaded .Arcade rank? Wait with hated breath the years of practising craft. noses, and passing the odd pipe of luisli. Ah. for the next r.witiiiK albeit a trijie improbably, episode (if '/-'lai; l-'all'. in the next issue.) 'Where do you want U) go. ladies?' isn't life wonderful Willi a little help from 'Hollywood, big boy, wjiere else?' your friends. Friends like Robert Slack and (b April 1979, Pc)'p62-G3) 'I'm afraid that's out.sidc the metropolitan 13()b llopi.'. area, I'll have to got u radio quote . , .(picking up the miko). Car 54 lo base'. 'Yes, Car 54.' 'Can I get a quote please base?' 'O.K. 54, you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the lime, but you can fool all of the time - now for S5,000 in spending money and a trip to Hawaii can you tell me who said that?' 'Sure base, you did, just now,'

« SEHPEBFIOBEAT a Cowan, Angela Hcmpstcd, Karen lladwcn. Typesetting: Lctlcrcrafl (Qld,) P/L U.O.U. Typesetting service Printers: Mirror Newspapers Ltd. NUDE WOMAN (Police Commissiorier Ray Whiirod: 'Thfjro arc no spBcial branch on campus' — Photograph of EDITORIAL POLICY Special Branch police parked beside Oval No. 3, using binoculars to view studonts miKitiny in "Semper tias grown trom a small 4 page Union Fofum Area, 1 September 1970, Page 6) weekly newspaper to a mult-ttiousand dollar ON CAMPUS concern. Semper was envisaged by it founder as \m naniKmsEiD a medium tor the exchange of student and IWL HSWB sta« opinion. Ttie very first editorial ot Semper was and pertiaps still fs the most Alan Davies, Denis Reinhardt, telling. Dick Frecland, Peter Murphy, Rcnce Lowe, i 'The aim of this paper Is to afford present Nina Johnson, David Meredith, Bill Michael, and past members ot this university a com mon medium lor the expression and exchange Nick Booth, Dan O'Neill, Matt Foley, of news and vievrt. So among its contents Col Moore, Wayne Price, Terry Gygar will be lound detailed descriptions ot sport Typesetting: University of Qld Union ing events. Reports of activities of the various societies and clubs, information about our Printers: Roiaspccd Press, Marrickville, NSW graduates and about other universities, EDITORIAL POLICY announcements of coming events, etc. etc. Format: Quarto/tabloid Have you any grievances to air? Then write Planned frequency of is.sues: Fortnightly to the Editor and make use of our wide open • a1icw concBBt^tolal^entertainment spaces.' Number of issues produced: 15 (plus Perhaps when we look over this year's special women's issue of "Inquest") Issues of Semper we realise that the original Average number of pages: 16-24 aims of the paper are being maintained and _y even with all of the emotional criticism of NIXON EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT the 'New Look' Semper Fioreat perhaps the EDITORIAL TEAM THE UNION — Radical Action Ticket (RAT) Union intentions of ttie first editor and the Union — Campus Camp, Power Authority. Editor: PaulG.Tully Council at the fine ar* not so ludicrous. ECOLOGY Degree Factory, Knowledge for What, Advertising Managcr:Duncan Stuart Perhaps those aims are still suitable and PROF. BOARD Gay Lib Greg Reed relevant for today's Semper Fioreat. — Women's Liberation Politics of Orgasm (19th June, Page 2) LEAGUE OF — Rcvitallsation of Christianity Publications Secretary: Libcrata Burman, Fonnat: Tabloid RIGHTS — Torres Strait Sovereignty Deannc Farter Planned frcqueibji^.pf issues: Fortnightly — Robert Crumb cartoons Furry Freak Chief of Staff: James Carter ^ SATIRE Brothers Total No. of issues produced; 9 — Self-lVlanagemBnt Group (SMG) Cartoonist: Paul Whitman Average No, of Pages: 20 — AUS Goes Stalinist Photography: John Gow Studios, Cover Price. 10 cents — Arts Reviews, ASlO Imperial Portraits EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL TEAM — Rock'n'Roll, Vietnam Reviews Editor: Len Sorbello — NImbIn Aquarius Festival — Need tor student representation on Senate Editor: Alan Knight — Ralph Nader PIRG Sports Editor: Mike Driscoll — Union fee rise Advertising Secretary: Murray Proctor — Nixon Sihanouk Petrov Fashion Editor: Margot McKay — Onion elections Publications Secretary: Mary Mcleod — Eric Butler Australia's League Motoring Editor; Barry White — Nadorlsmand P.I.R.G. Cartoonist: David J, Woods of Rights Entertainment Editor: Duncan Stuart — Fashion — Wolston Park Social Work — Student protest Photography: Ralph Falkiner, E. Perdraut — Campaign to oust Union President Staff: William Brown, Sam Sorbello, John — Aborigines' Staff (The Workers): Jim Beatson, — Nuclear Testing, Brisbane's Freeways Chapuis, Tony Fraser, Hugh Carter, John — Union News and Council- Anne Bailey, Graham Cathcart, Judy Dwyct, — Future of Killer Weed in Australia Rigano, Tassos Konstantinos, Richard — College scandal David Franken, Betty Hendrikx, — Leathorsex, Chile Oveiell, Scott Conway, Terry Kt:ogh, Claire — cultural reviews — Arrival ot tne Australia Party — Sporting and motoring Rosie Hannigan, Bomber Perricr, — American Bases In Australia Addison, Jenny Rose, Terry Hobbs, Ken — University scholarship cuts John Stanwcll, Simon Evans, Deb Britton, — Plans for Ur>lon Radio Station (4 ZZ)

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(Non-paid Ad., 23 Juno 1970, page 7) DRAFT RESISTANCE On Friday, April 16th at 10.00am Bill: Yeah, who arc you? three draft resislers went to court for SM: 1 am the Magistrate, and this is a Court failing to register for National Service; of Law. the court appearance was before Mr. Bill: That doesn't impress mc particularly.' V. Smith, S.M., at Hothlyn House, SM: You don't impress me. Bill interrupted the long reading of the Herschel Street. charge with; 'I'm not very interested in what . . . And so the last case began. Bill Coch it says. As far as I am concerned, these pro rane walked in and stood before the Bench ceedings arc criminal, and immaterial. ' When 'hands in his pocket and without a jaclcet' asked to plea he remained silent, so the SM according to the 'Telegraph*. The 'Courier entered the plea as not guilty. Tlie defendent Mail' described his appearance as 'in shirt said he didn't think the SM should. sleeves'. Mr Smith, SM: Arc you Cochrane? (Extract, 30 April 1971, Rags 6)

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~~(Quickies column, 12 March 1970, page 22)~~

One thing I particularly enjoy about growth of conservative and fascist 'suneal' productions, if they are well tendencies. On the other hand too done, is that they don't pose definitive much confusion and distortion of answers. I'm not disputing that we reality, or too much social mytho need to feel we have something of an logy is also closely related to author (At Civil Rinhts Demo, 15 Marcti 1978, page 12) answer in order to take action in life itarianism. but that is different to being presented The dilemma is that too often we •:••»••*• with 'the light', 'the one true way'. find the genuinely complex being Some of the most authoritarian people over-simplified and the genuinely sim STUDENT QUERIES DISCREPANCIES ON (or alternatively unrealistic people) I ple being depicted as overly compli know, are in the 'truth' business. cated. DEFERRED UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS We all need some certainty and (From theatre review by Bruce Dickson, meaning in our lives, but too much "Passionate Positions", 24 May 1978, Page 26) DEAR SIRS: There are some questions which •certainty' is closely related to the the Chancellor should be aslccd concerning the granting of deferred examinations at the end of the last academic year. They are: J) (1) Wliy was the member for the Federal seat« of Morcton (.Mr, D.J. Kiilcn) panted defer ments for examinations last year in second year Contributors: Peter Murphy, Julianne Schultz law subjects? Bruce Dickson, Terry Dygar, Tom Stevens, {2} Did the Law Faculty Board recommend Linda Heron. that Mr. Killen be granted deferred examin Publications Secretaries: Lillian Holt, ations? Annmarce O'Kecfe, Nanette Badgcry (3) Is it not true that very so often I''aculty ^& Editorial Office: Students Union Bldg. Boards, without reference to Senate, reject applications from evening students who claim EDITORIAL POLICY that pressure of work during the day prevents "For ttiose who found oDjection to them from preparing adequately for an exam 'second-hand' material (!) stiouid lilts may never hear ot, let alone examination he was called on to take part in read, and (b) that Semper be an Interesting his election campaign. publication, and that it be read by studerxts Surely this is no more than the equiva of all sorts of persuasions, political and otherwise." lent of what many evening students sometimes (June 6th, Page 1) have to manage to do while working during "Ur\llke ottier publications, whicfi shall the day and studying at night. remain un-named, Semper i^loreat is ideally Why was Mr Killcn given special treatment? suited to be a watchdog on itiiberat activities I know of al least two students - on in Medic within the University arena." ine, the other in Arts - who applied for defer (1th August, Page 2) ments on the grounds of ill health during the Format: Tabloid exam preparation period. Planned frequency of issues: Fortnightly Both produced medical certificates; the Total ND. of issues produced; 16 medical student was ill on the day one of Average No. of pages: 16 his exams and was unable to sit. (Leunig cartoon. Vol. 44 No. 4 1977, page 15) EDITORIAL THEME AND CONTENT Not only were they not granted supplc- EDITORIAL TEAAl — Education mentaries - their letters requesting defer ments were not answered. Editor: David Franken — Sexuality 'I object to people cheating,' he — Whltlam Double Dissolution Why the discrepancy? Surely the day when frowned, 'be they doctors, cheating Business Manager: David Meredith this Senate feared the possible influence of pol- Typesetter: UQU — Campus Creche under Medibank, lawyers cheating under -^Campus planning and landscaping iticans has long since passed. Printers: CPL/CAT, West End — Reviews: Film, theatre, books (The writer of this letter, a bona fide Legal Aid, or University students doing Layout: David Franken — Coming events student, has asked the Editors to withhold his a second course and thinking they can Riotographcr; Greg Perry, Eric Perdlaut — Wine name.) bludge on the tax-payers money.' Cartoons: Paull Mitchell — "The Rtilnoceros" column (26 February 1959, Page 5) — Politics iJim Killen.tOinister for Dfjfence, 20 May 1976.Page 30)

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Cartoons and Graphics: Noel Hill 118^ Staff: Vicki Noble, John Stanwell, Richard Rob Cameron, Mark Hayes, Anne Draper, Spencer, Julianne Schwcnkc, Laurence Steve Gray, Ross Peake, Paul Reynolds Gormley, David l-ranken, Jane Camens, Bill Printers: GPL-CAT West i-nd, Bundabcrg Michael, Ross Clark, Peter Phillips, Mail, Warwick Daily News Bernadette Dalton, Mari Anna Shaw, Martyn EDITORIAL POLICY Goddard, Andrew Ilerrington, Paul .Marshall, "/\ftor nearly half a decade of Semper as a tabloid newspaper, we are changing the size, 4 Ralf Lovcday, Peter Skinner, Peter Poynton making what we believe has been a magazine I^F^^FlH^v^Mlm^ and Women's Collective pretending to be a newspaper into a genuine ^^^^B ^'^V^^ÊflÊ^^ÊJ&l Typesetter: U.Q.U. newspaper — incorporating news material, Printer: CPL/CAT, West End ol course." February 26 19 76, page 2) [ ' EDITORIAL POLICY "With the help of a number of dissatisfied "Our first obligation is to print University lournalists and other interested people In Bris news, but It Is also Important to print all bane, we hope to provide alternative news types of alternative news (i.e. news not readi (le nevii Ignored or squashed by the estab ly available (r> the commercial press). However lished press) so as to provide Brisbanites with' you won't be seeing any 'furry freaks' — a more balanced view ot what happens In dW<'iim&râomd horrible little sexist bastards. V/e promise this State." you that, at least." (March 15 1976, page2 (13th February, Pago 2) Fonnat: Quarto r^rlMin tvvt fte4)k Format: Tabloid Planned frequency of issues: every 3 weeks Planned frequency of issues: Fortnightly Number of issues produced: 8 tl »1n klrtahl »«rk «tf«rl4*n Total No. of issues produced: 16 Average number of pages: 60 Average No. of pages: 24 EDITORIALTHEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL TTIEME AND CONTENT — Censorship — Nuclear Weapons and Energy — Environment EDITORIAL TEAM — Women & Women's Issues -4 2Z-FM/4ZZ2-FM Editor: Jan Tumcr-Joncs — Sex education EDITORIAL TEAM — Semper Sleuth AjiSise. Editor: Ann Draper — Children and bicycles Editors: Julianne SchuItz.Jane Canens — Wot's On — Union News — On-campus/Union news Publication Secretary: Maureen Oakley, Business Managers: David Meredith, Julianne — International news Schultz, Jane Canens — East Timor Annmaree O'Kceffc — State politics and gerrymander — Reviews: books, records, theatre, films, Business Managers: Deborah Schwcnkc — Conservation and the environment Typesetter: Annmaree O'Keefe, Greg restaurants Julianne Schwcnkc — Tlie artist and Homosexuality Anderson — Student housing — Sexism David Meredith Layout: Ron Hastings, Mark Wolff, — Abortion i_aw Reform — Urban crisis Ross Peake, Ron Muir, David Paratz — Media Editorial CO-Op: — Salvador Oall — Aurukun Activities - Hcathet Ross — Prisons and media Photographers: Greg Wolff, Mark Wolff, — Mental Health Act Intemationil News - Peter Murphy, — Human sexuality Val Dennis, Greg Perry — Racism, apartheid — ChrUtlanlly and Religion Cutoons: Bill Thorpe, Ralf Loveday, — AUS Senior Journalist- Julianne Schulu ~ international Women's Year David Wixlcd — Education Union News - John Campbell — 4 ZZ-FM Stereo Rock — Fraser island Contributon: Radha Rouse, Alan Knight, — Feminism

SEMPER - $Oth Anniversary luu« • Pag« 28 the Sesventies Leighton Ford: Blatant Fraud ?? A DAY IN THE iiyl'ITI'KSTIIINtH'tJI-R LIFE OF BERT It's kneeling room only at a packed out Festival Hall. Wall to wall Christians in the Hall which earlier in the week had been labelled a den for pot smokers and they're all AND REG here to get it on with Billy Graham clone, Leighton Ford, the man who last week the Cioodday Reg, how's the wife? average Brisbaneite still thought was trying to sell them a new Falcon. I'm not married. But no, bviddy, this man's business is Salvation, available on terms if you like, low How's your mother then? mileage and only taken to church on Sunday by a ciircful owner. She's dead. Well, how's your girlfriend? Wlicn I arrived to unexpectedly find the place full I was asked to wait until the support I'm a poofia. choir, whose name I can't recall had finished Well, have you got any brothers and one of their up tempo iiymns, a real ragcr Why don'Iyouf-kck off?!! entitled 'The Way to the Lord'. Fscortcd to my seal, back row right side of the Ilall, I noted a bimodal age distribution, Reg: Hey Bert, has your wife got big with peaks from 6 months to 5? years. tits? Support act Robert Coleman after making Bert: / dunno. apologies to the semi-comatose ;is.wmbly for Reg: Shit, Bert, you inusta looked! daring lo h:ive a - wail lor it - heard, belted Bert: She's pretty sky you know. <3ai| ^ffl«B^ into a version of 'I Will Witness', Cold Chisel Reg: Even so, cobber, I mean to say! must be sliivcring in their botus. Next up was Keith Wright Labor ,MLA who Bert: Listen Reg, what are you, some told us he liad come out of the Heathen closet kind of pervert? twenty years ago at the last IJilly (Jraham crusade. Tonight we get big Leigliton, liilly's 124 March 1970, page 2) (1 September 1970, page 24) brother-in-law, but not tili after interval. Well, interval was the lime retfuired for tiie buckets H> be passed around for doniUions lo "Invariably the explanatory words the crusade. Only S30,000 required. Of course Wherever I go, the Australian people under which the police state operates Hilly Graham's suite costs S300 a nighl in know something is wrong, are Law & Order." Sydney and someone lias to pay for the TV ads. (P.M. Billy Mackic Snndden, quoted in {Ralph Summy commenting on Qld. The man himself is a gaunt, uninspiring Vol, 44 No. 56 1974, Pa

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the small people will be heard, the Issues we cover will be addressed to the reality of your day-to-day existence." ZELMAN COWEN AS HE is (Aprils 1979,page3) What are Cowen's plans for the university? "in the process of promoting social alter with a capitalist mode of production. It is natives. Time Off becomes one Itself, but with We need look no further than his public state Cowen's particular talent that he has seized ments, to the effect that the university must any alternative we are only of lasting value it upon the development and strengthening of what wo offer reaches and is understood by serve the community; and when we recall his this relationship as a conscious policy, to the not just the 'Initiated', but the uninitiated statements that 'closer relationships with in exclusion of all other policy goals. Not for as well." dustry are desirable", and recall his meetings nothing did Comaico include him in its recent (May 31 1979, page 3) with groups of businessmen last year, then it share issue! "Hopefully the days are gone when is obvious just which community he wishes campus newspapers were swamped by articles the university to serve. (Extract, 24 March 1971, Pago 5) on International politics, or otherwise full of His plan is two-pronged: to smash the often inadequately thought out, left-wing rhetoric and slogans. It Is pointless running radicals; and lo execute an impressive build material which is not going to be read . . . ing progranime as quickly as possible. On Tuesday night, March 30 1976, Since 1978 Semper and Time Off have been The first makes the university 'secure'; Queensland University's FM Radio innovative and questioned past assumptions the which Cowcn so desparately needs to about their content (and their readers) in impress big business. (Ii is no coincidence that Station, 4ZZZ-FM will join with ABC the hope of trailblazing a new direction for one of the uses of the Creat Mall is that of Television to present for the first time campus publications." convention centre.) The university will be in Australia something that should (September 19 79. page 3) come even more tightly bound to the corpor excite all hi-fi enthusiasts, a simulcast of EDITORIAL POLICV (Tbc Press) ations, Ihe university gaining 'resource' in a live TV programme with stereo FM "The Press ... an experiment to involve return for ii becoming a research station and more students and staff In tho actual process employee indiiciinn centre for tlic big corpor- sound. of publishing, thereby gaining experience for :ilions. This reLiiionship, of course, is implicit the future. All these changes are consistent dSMiirch 1976, Pago 5) EDITORIAL TEAM in every edutaiional institution in countries with our earlier fundamental objective of TIME OFF Editors: Bruce Dickson and restoring Interest in tho Union's 'iS year old Rob Cameron newspaper, Senior Reporter: Calvin Noack "Semper Newsmagazine and Time Off have managed to directly Involve more new Advertising Managers: lifol Marsh. student writers than in the past, as Vi^oll as Ian Dodd provide a showcase for the many brilliant portant role in breaking down the often Secretary: Maree Clarke, local artists, photographers and cartoonists huge gap which exists between what Is taught who have previously received little recog in the University and what in reality occurs Bridget van Tintcren nition, and wo have now created The Press in the community. Typesetters: Marie Blanch, Jenni Bird - to redefine the meaning of tho 'student The way to do this will be by bringing the Alert Typesetting, Uni of Qld Union press' and continue building higher expect Ideas and problems of the community back Graphic Designers: Cliff Massey, ations in readers. Into the University via the paper. Naturally "The Press will feature a series of guest Semper this year will remain free to students Peter Lightfoot and staff on campus. editors and will be monthly, containing a Cartoonist/Graphic Artist: Matt Mawson potpourri of Information and contributions, We feel that what Is nesded in 1970 is Contributing Cartoonists: Damicn Ledwich, whilst Time Off (now also monthly but out not so much a 'student' newspaper of the Tim Low of phase with Tho Press) will concentrate on type seen so often before, one In which achieving more depth in Us visual and written poor quality Is often excused as part of the Photographer: Nick Udovic content." stylistic or political differences between a Canberra Political Correspondent: Mark student newspaper and a city newspaper, (June 14 1979, page2) rather we want an ethical diverse, fair-, Plunkctt Format: Quarto and Tabloid minded, small 'p' professional news/mag Sunshine Coast Correspondents: Greg Planned frequency of issues: l-ortnightly azine. Gillham, Elizabeth Dimes and monthly Given a choice students wouldn't buy a Toowoomba Correspondent: Colin Stewart student newspaper, they would rather take Number of issues produced: 12 (Time Off) a popular culture magazine, a Nation Review, Brisbane/Ipswich/Gold Coast: Flora Pylant 3 (The Press and Write Ot'O Rolling Stone, National Times, or even an Living Guide Editor: Flora Pylant Average number of pages: 72 (semi-tabloid) Australian or Courier Mall. Contributing Staff and Production 36 (tabloid) This year we hope the content will diver sify, and that genuine dialogue can occur Assistants: Tony Gjlson, Barbara Allen, Cover price: 50/60/80 cents within the pages of the paper — only by this Wendy Ccrnak, Rob Whyte, Heather Killcn, Subscriptions: $10 for 20 issues, $4 for 6 means can real change, and learning, the Annette Read, Bruce McKinlay, Keith Circulation: South East Qld and metropoli type Paulo Freire spoke of In his 'Pedagogy llorsley, Margaret Arnold, David K. Wheatlcy, of the Oppressed', como about. tan Brisbane newsauents. University and Semper must become a genuine fofutr^ Gerard Lee, Max Hughes, Shaun Hoyt, College campuses tor people who not only wish to engage in Peter Stcinheuer, Thomas Shapcott, Lcc . EDITORIAL THEMES AND CONTENT EDITORIAL TEAM dialogue with one another but who also show Bradshaw, Terry Murphy Editors: Ikuce Dickson a willingness to change their positions as a — Cultural reviews and complete Printers: Qld Times, 260 Brisbane St, Ipswich, entertainment guide Mark Plunkctt result of engaging In that process of dialogue. Wo would like lo see the paper play a and Wilkc Printers (covers), 485 Zillmcrc Rd, — Rock music and rock photography Asst. Editors: Rob Cameron, Steve Gray, meaningful role In promoting other people's Zillmerc. Sunshine Coast Newspaper Co., — Contemporary cinema and theatre — Community arts and artists Jamie Collins attempts to Improve the quality of our Aerodrome Rd, Maroochydore. Mirror lives. This may take the form of giving favour — Brisbane's cultural development and Business Manager: Rob Cameron able publicity to events or actions which in Newspapers P/L, Fortitude Valley cultural venues Typesetter: Marie Blanch, Alert Typesetting a non-oxploltatlve manner seek to provide Distributors: Gordon & Gotch P/L, Brisbane — Cultural Interviews and profiles 'Cartoonist and Graphic Artists: Matt Mawson the public with stimulating cultural alter THE PRESS (Guest) Editors: — Social responsibilities and ethics of the natives and perspectives. mass media David TyiCT, Terry Muiphy, Michael O'Neill Vol 1, No 1 - Robert Whyte Format: Tabloid — Political profiles Judy Brand, Sasha Middlcton Vol 1, No 2 - Annette Read and Robert — The Queensland Club Planned frequency of issues: Fortnightly Photographers: Karl Munneasc, Nooche Booth Whyte with Roll Hannah as — Counterculture revisited Total No. of Issues produced: 18 — Feminism revisited Contributing Staff: Sally-Ann Tennent, David Assistant Editor Average No. of pages: 32 — 4 ZZZ-FM community radio revisited Russell, Peter Walsh, Harry Throssell, Cee WRITE OFF (Guest) Editors: University Cover price: 25/30 cents, free on campus — Town'n'country life — towards Walker, Mark Mayes, Gus Stachan, Peter of Qld Journalism Students . mutual understanding Stcinheuer, Ian Dcardon Circulation: Metropolitan Brisbane, campus — Social satire, futurology and drugs .Printers: Sunshine Coast Newspaper Co. EDITORIAL THEMES & CONTENT EDITORIAL POLICY (Time Off) — Politics of non-violence — Cultural politics "Our stated editorial policy is to promote — Full Quid column, Poets Press, Noosa in a positive manner ail Initiatives which im Classifieds Distributors: Gordon & Gotch Pty Ltd, — Dubious ethics of academic authorship — Special Branch on campus prove the quality ot life for Queenslanders, — Malcolm Fraser's horoscope

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lillT rHI', W/A'i ASt"RlO»l>i CLICHES, PUNK AND l«(RA(.TiOH OTIHf Rut£5' Tilf; Br^y Wi, Hii MoMTAlKtD 1 r OVtR ^NL> PCCIOED CHANGING TRENDS V* 'Cliche' is probably the most danger Punk records were iold, punk posters were ous word in today's society. But the sold, punk raxar blades were sold for $5 a piece word is used so frequently today that it so that the trend punk could hang one around is a cliche to say 'cliche'. his neck, point to it and say, 'Look at this - Everything changes so fast; what is see I'm a punk, I'm a punk, I'm trendy'. brilliant, sparkling and esoteric today And so the Punk 'Movement' died. Wc sit and wait for the next trend. A punk associate is cliche tomorrow. of mine once said to his friend: 'I'm sick of Trends change so fast that you see disco- punk mate, what's next*. bunnies transform suddenly into punk rockers Not many could answer this question. bccau.se that is the new bap, even though the They simply suck their old trend dry while music is many decibels louder and the people waiting for the new trend to spring up and arc much different. materialise right in front of their eyes. But It's not what it is or what it represents, they have no idea of what will be next. it's the trend that counts. Nothing more. If you asked a trendy hippie of what the Society has young people where Ihcy trend would be in ten years time, the last want them; by the balls. Bouncing from the thing on his mind would be a vision of a leather new idea that has bounced from society's . PUAusi h'tJlWO Auto clad, pink-haired green-sunglasscd, razar-blade- n ,\ WriKtr^gj-^WtKE AT! mass media, the collective youth is a puppet wiclding neo-teddy boy wlio danced as if he to the will of society. wanted to relieve every societal frustration The mess is strong. It takes much to break WiEW -.(UF.fUrr I that ached in his bones. 1 iJuci. ii*vf: LWMP Z l{Ai it. Punks threw rocks at the mesh, severing it I have to believe that Punk meant some a litlle, before the agents of society smiled thing more at one stage, than doing the 'pogo' down upon them and told them that ihcy with the same conformisi, irendy enthusiasm were silly boys for even trying. as one does tlie'bump'. So society quickly made punk a trend. The ircndy punks have forgotten the crude That way the agents could keep an eye on it. but meaningful philosophy behind their image in the same manner us the trendy hippie has PUT S^WM HIS DC|'RC95I0N AND Trtt MDR6 Hi frtooGHT i\SDBecCEHgfc'NEWir, Hf forgotten what happened in Chicago in '6$. OlAMOEO To«JS?(3jr /eour nrUK MOCE HE 8«AN Could tlie hippie icn years ago see tliat years of hope of Utopia, if crushed would 'IwcoJNTKyN lead In years of despair. ,NfEOSANr«U|ND We can change Iho world. •^^i^^5^^ Rearrange tlie world. It's dying to get bctier. - Cro.sby.Siills, Nash & Young \\ No I uiure - Sex Pistols And, yes, i live in a cesspool; and no, I (Rufus llie Radical R^Dtilfi; Childhood and Early Youth, 3 July 1970. pa:je 16) have no idea of what miKlU come next. CLINTON WI-BB (8 November 1978, Pane 23) BENNETT RESIGNS Never before have I seen such antici In a shock move, the Chairman of the Union and resort to canine cacophonies pation. Such bursting hope for what's Union Council, former MLA for South when logical argument exposes their falsity. Brisbane (Mr. Colin Bennett) has resigned. The average taxpayer who helps finance really just another pub night in Bris this university would not believe that stan bane. Though to be true, it's far more .Mr Bennett was ciccled Chairman of Coun cil on December 9 last year. dards have become so depraved. than that. It's a rebirth of progressive His resignation comes after six months of I sincerely hope that the Council lakes live music on a permanent basis. It's a constant abuse and ridicule which Mr. Rennett stock of itscif both from an attendance and has endured at each Council meeting from conduct point of view and it is my earnest challenge to the sleazy pre-packaged wish that the incoming Chairman receive the pre-recorded disco atmosphere that radical students. Moves to dismiss him from office have co-operation rather than the hindrance of the dominates young Brisbane entertain failed on two occasions, the last one being Council so that the reputation of the Uni ment. defeated at the Council meeting on June 8 versity can be restored to some extent. 119 June 1972, Page 2) (Rob Cameron commenting on the 4ZZZ's by a vote of 20 - 7. Pub Rock Revival at the Queen's Hotel. Mr Bennett's move has come as a surprise (Sports in concert, photo by Nick Udovic. 7 Juno 1978, Page 33) to many Union officials despite rumours that 31 May 1979, page 13) he would resign. Mr Bennett gave Semper Ploreat an ex clusive statement on his reasons for his re signation. This is his statement in full: 1 am tending my resignation as Chairman i ' Scm^S OF COUNTRV UfZ No. 1 - the University Student Union Council aft'ci a six months genuine endeavour to make the Council work. I am disgusted by the apathy generally of the voting members of the Council, only 50% of whom attend the meetings which often are gasping even for a quorum, and appalled al that .section of the left-wing radical mal contents who seem hell-bent on destroying (15 July, 1970 page 10)

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Many Australians are horrified at the stantiated in the ca.se of an ultra-conservative spectre of a warmongering Ronald Reag politician like Reagan. an as the next U.S. president. But accord ing to American expert RALPH SUMMY, Despite the recent skewering of American Reagan could be a safer leader than the Politics righlward and his own right-wing tend- reckless Jimmy Carter, Summy cautions ancics, Reagan has demonstrated throughout against taking Reagan's statements too his political career, and shows every sign of continuing in this vein, an appreciation of the seriously, and looks at his past perform power wielded by America's chics and their ances and present advisers. ability to forge a pervasive consensus out of an Willi the early October polls averaging American middle. Unlike Barry Goldwatcr, about a two point lead for Ronald Reagan who took rightists down to a resounding and independent candidate, John Anderson, defeat in 1964, Reagan is prepared to accom expected to siphon off more Democratic than modate, even sacrifice conservative verities to Republican vutes, the prospects of a 'changing the necessities of political power. of (he guard' at the White House after the RKAGAN AS GOVERNOR November 4tti election arc very real indeed. Reagan's past record suggests a capacity The man who would assume the office for pragmatic compromise. Mis ciglu-year of the most prominent pohtical institution in term as Governor of California disclosed the world has the reputation of an extreme flexibihty rather than the obduracy of the SEALS WHO WANT TO BE SEALS right-wing ideologue, who in Australia would 'true believer'. "In California", admits probably most comfortably fit into the Prog establishment weekly Newsweek, "he talked Back in 1977, Premier Joh announced that (he day of the political street march was over. Tliis ress Party. Among other things, Ronald Reagan a strong and occasionally even violent game of was the case for the test of the 70's, but with the 80's people returned to the streets. The "SAVE has championed nuclear superiority over the conservatism and still signed off record-high TIIE SEALS" march and rally in March attracted 4,000 people to the time-honoured method Soviet Union, advocated 'arm-twisting' at budgets and reformist healtli, welfare and of expressing mass opinion. JOHN DICK was there to capture the event. every international crisis, and risen to poUtical environmental programs . . .He has always (14 April 1982, page 15) fame on the soothing virtues of God, country, been a scholar of the marketplace, not the motherhood and free enterprise capitalism - academy." the cardinal quadrants in the new Holy War of (Extracts only, 16 October 1980, page 5) American reactionary populism..... Yet, if what Bertram Gross has termed TO HELL WITH MORALITY "friendly fascism" is to come to America, "The Labor Party is a strange and it can just as easily be introduced by a Jimmy vicious place where some of the highest The present day decline in moral are pulling against one another, neither may Carter as it can be by a Ronald Reagan. The aspirations of humanity are reduced to values is alarming many church leaders get anywhere. If they co-operate both may professed differences between the candidates and educationalists. But to philosopher get what they want quickly. Conflict can be tend to merge when their records and bases smouldering, pointless rubble." (from "The State of the Labor Pany in IAN HINKFUSS, it is" a welcome step. frustrating when it comes to satisfying desire. of decisive power are placed under close He sees morality as an obstruction to However, conflicts can be resolved without scrutiny. The confusing clement in the pol Queensland" by Stephen Stockwetl, 11 happiness, and hopes for a time when satisfaction. A duel may end a conflict, but itical rhetoric , but political rhetoric seldom August 1981, page 5) leave one person dead and the other maimed equals political reality - a maxim well sub churches are abolished and everyone is amoral. He agrues the case for scrap for life. Both parties could have enjoyed life more if the conflict had been left unresolved. ping morality, in favour of rational So the question is not whether or not con solutions to conflict. flicts can be resolved more readily using moral Ian Hinkfuss is a lecturer in the ity, but whether the use of morality leads HOW TO AVOID THE VOID Department of Philosophy at the Uni to optimal satisfaction of the disputuig parties. versity of Queensland. This extract is My claim is that morality does not do so. (Ten Ways to Recover from an Existential from Chapter 3 of a book he hopes (Extract only, 24 April 1980, page 17) to publish soon, "To Hell With Morality", Breakdown) Ian describes himself as 'pretty anarch istic' and hopes the book will further Do you find yourself waiting for got up from the table, found an axe m the gar society's trend towards amorality. He "Another leftover of 1980 was the Godot and he never comes? Do you no age and finally decapitated herself in front wants society to operate in a less elit Azaria Chamberlain case. The eyes of tice yourself constsmtly putting cxistance of her husband and children. ist, authoritarian and aggressive manner, the world were on the Alice as the clues before essence? Do you wake up every Yes, these two people suffered severe and sees the Family Law Courts as an became more absurd and the jokes morning with feelings of alienation, a existential breakdowns. Now for ten ways of avoiding the critical point. example of this taking place. sicker. Best clue award went to: Azaria sense of futility, and thoughts on the J. Become familiar with existential literafttrc Confiict is not always distasteful to people. means sacrifice in the wilderness." meaninglessness of it all? You could be and enter Mastermind. Competition is enjoyed by sadists and ego (from "The 1981 Slow Motion Instant suffering from an encounter with noth 2. Commit Suicide maniacs who win most of the time, as well as by masochists who do not. Even ordinary Replay" by Anne Jones, 21 October 19B1 ingness! Now read on. 3. Become a Punk (all states except Qld, N.T.. page 6) W.A,) people enjoy a tussle now and then. But con Don't feel alone if you suffer from these flict can often be annoying. When people symptoms, Many people with far higher IQ's 4. Become a Hippie or go A Iternative experience similar dilemmas. Take the case 5. Jesus Loves Me or Born Again Christianity of John T., aged 35, who had a successful 6. Constdt a Counsellor university career, a new Volvo and who was 7. Form an Existential Self Help Group happily married to an ex-Miss Australia. One 8. Take up a Hobby or Class day his Volvo was found on a lonely stretch 9. Write A bout Your Fears and Present Them Life certainly Isn't the proverbial bed of of beach with the note "It's all so futile". for Publication roses on a student paper, vve know we can't Or Judiih D. (27), mother of two adorable JO. Become a 4ZZZ Subscriber please all cf the people but can we at least children and wife of a hard working exec (From "How to Avoid the Void: Ten Ways to please some? utive, who aftet listening to a Brisbane comm Recover from Existemiai Breakdown", by Mark Seriously though, Semper, Is a fine stu ercial radio station (AM or Bl?) at breakfast. Creyion, 25 September 1980, page 31) dent paper: the best equipped in Australia, according to a recent Bathurst survey. Semper has tried to transcend the Little League of traditional student iournalism which fills space with reprinted articles, lengthy un edited students council minutes, endless reports from union officers, and predictable government bashing. By comparison. Semper has covered leftist Dcbritz. Shelley Dempscy, John Drew, Tony issues' in a digestible, palatable way. "No, Semper Is no 'red' paper. But wc do aim for Gilson, John Jiggcns, Kevin Johnson, Anne In-depth coverage of complex issues, and Jones, Damien Ledwich, Matt Mawson, challenging viewpoints. We rely on the in-' Mark D. Hayes, Annette Read, Jan Smith, formative, sifted word so as to avoid alien ation of some or all of the eighteen thousand Peter Stcinheuer, David St.John, Lyn Taylor, students at this university who have oblig Nelle Tycho, Lynda!) Wiile, Alpha Yap and ingly funded us with their student tecs. the staff of 4ZZZ. We feel we've done a good job. We've EDITORAL POLICY stood by our principles on editing, on adver tising, on issues. And while there has been "Semper in 1980 hopes to maintain and criticism, there has also been positive feed Improve upon the professional standa.'ds back from that amorphous slier>t majority, initiated In Time Off {1979). This will be which has given us that old 'it makes it ali dllflcult as tho paper's t>udget has been worthwhile' warm feeling Inside". dramatically cut, and the staff will be even more overworked than last year. Nonethe (21st October, Page 2) less w/e remain vaguely optimistic that it will Format: Tabloid all turn out right In the end." EDITORIAL TEAM Planned frequency of issues: Every 3 weeks (13 March 1980. Page 2) Editors: Anne Jones Average No, of pages: 32-36 Format: Small tabloid Tim Low, Shelley Dempscy Total No. of issues produced: 1Q Planned frequency of issues: every 3 weeks Layout and graphics: Matt Mawson Cover price: 50 cents, free on campus Average No. of pages: 32 Typesetting: Jenni Bird, Alert Typesetting EDITORIAL TIIEMKS AND CONTENT Total No,of issues produced: 10 UQU - Queensland, federal politics Cover price: SO cents, free on campus - Aboriginal issues THEMES AND CONTENT Advertising Managers: Scott Blackwell, Shane - Nuclear power Brannoch - rock'n' roll — Queensland politics Contributing Staff: Jo Baxter, Ashley Bowen, - Media EDITORAL TEAM, — Federal politics - Civil liberties — Education Mark Creyton, Matthew Condon, Bruce Clark, - Education Editors: Tim Low, Kjaz Perry — Queensland University Judy Dunn, John Drew, Andrew Fraser, Dan - I'orcign politics Secretary: Jenni Bird, Anne Jones — Foreign Politics (especially S.E. Asia) 1-lanncry, Ian Gray, Kay Nicol, Annette Read - Pop culture Layout and Graphics: Matt Mawson — Women ~ Campus activities — environment and Conservation John Reid, David St.John, Steve Stockwell, - Multinationals Typesetter; Marie Blanch, Alert Typttsetting — Health Peter Stcinheuer, Charles Stuart, Lyn Taylor, - Women Photographers: Matt Mawson, Tim Low — Animal Rights Lyndall White, Lindy Woodward and the rest -Gays Advertising Managers: Kevin Pammcnt, — Rocl<'n'Roll - Environment and conservation — Media of4ZZZ. Tim Low — Aboriginal Issues EDITORIAL POLICY - Scientific developments Production Assistance: I'at Combcn, Judy — Civil Liberties "The editors this year have been cheered - l-ilm, censorship, animation/cartoons Dunn, Jenny Horwood, Damien Ledwich, — U.S.A. bucl

~~SErvtPER • SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 32 FLATTEN THE BATTERIES~~

The poultry industry operates in a In theory, battery hens arc very well fed. cruel and unjust manner, according Their mash contains an impressive list of to organic poultry farmer "FRED" cereals, proteins, oils, fibre, and a number of (who prefers to stay anonymous). In this minerals, trace elements, and concentrated article "FRED" offers an alternative vitamins. E.M.B. eggs were notorious, at first, for* their pale anaemic looking yolks and to the intensive battery system used runny whites but these problems have now by most farmers. been overcome. However battery hens miss Most E.M.B. (Sunny Queen) eggs arc prod out on at least four important needs - sunlight, uced by the battery system which has been fresh air, live food and a love Ufc .... condemned by many dieticians, environment Tlic alternative system most favoured alists, and cruelty prevention societies. by conservationists is a combination of limited Supporters of battery cage production claim free range and deep litter yard where the it is economical and efficient and that this type poultry fit into a balanced life support situation of intensive farming is essential if we arc fo and assist in the food chain as well as drawing feed large and ever increasing populations. from it. Properly planned asid managed, tliis Rationalisations of this sort glibly fall from the mini ecology is self supporting and self per lips of industry spokesmen but the truth is petuating. that, for centuries, people managed to live There is no erosion, polution, or drain on very hcaltliy lives without the so-called benefits finite resources. The birds are kept in spacious of inorganic factory farming. enclosures, inches deep in leaves, grass cuttings, In a typical battery shed the birds arc weeds and other vegetable matter. They enjoy closely confined, two or three to each small shade from climbing plants such as peas, wire cage for neatly all their short lives. Many beans, chokocs, tomatoes, passionfruit, grapes battery owners de-beak the birds to prevent etc., which proIifcr;itc on high trellis fences. them pecking each other to death. The opera They forage for grubs, green stuffs, fallen fruit, THE POPULAR PEOPLE'S BANQUET tion, in which the upper beak of the chicks and seeds, adding tiieir droppings to the deep is cut short by a machine with a hot blade, litter and turning it into the finest organic is apparently very painful to the birds. fertiliser known. Semper introduces a regular column from young appetite. All recipes given are suitable The one type of feed, a dry mash, is calc Eggs from these birds arc superb and disease self-styled glutton and budget chef, for six people. ulated to enducc them to lay two eggs per amongst them is practically unknown. The KNIFE AND FORK MACARTHUR. The The food should be washed down with day for one year only. By this time, after system is labour intensive and lends itself column will deal with food from both beer, if you arc dyed-in-the-wool working class, non stop eating, drinking and laying, their ideally to Queensland's climate and conditions. an eating and preparation point of or cheap flagon red by the progressive thinking health has deteriorated to such an extent It is known as pcrmacultuie and stands out view, with an emphasis on reasonable sons and daughters of the middle class. that they would soon die if not replaced. in sharp contrast to the wasteful and ecol cost. Before the meal proper, while your guests They arc either sold cheaply or killed before ogically disastrous monoculture system which arc singing the Internationale or recounting May 1st and the first week in May arc tales of police brutality, 1 would recommend the effects of their dismal lifestyle become is sanctioned and protected by the govern traditionally u-scd to recognise the efforts too evident. By contrast, barnyard hens have ment. serving the Latin American contribution of progressive people throughout the world - to the dinner, a useful laying life of four years and have (Extract only, 13 June 1980, page 2QI a sort of left wing Anzac Day. SANDINISTA FRIJOLE DIP been known to live to fourteen and still lay It is also a good opportunity to show beautiful eggs occasionally. OCTOBER 1917 BORSCHT that you don't have to be rich to eat well. GANG OF FORE-QUARTER OF LAMB The Popular People's Banquet comprises an I.R.A. VEGETABLE PLATTER eclectic collection of dishes from all parts RED BRIGADES LEMON GRANITA of the Tcvoluiionary globe, using cheap but (Extract only, 3 May 1982, page 7) interesting ingredients lo satisfy the angry

~~^ flkaifVi i '^>*^w»v i MINNIE THE HOUSE MOUSE AND PORKY THE MALE CHAUVINIST PIG~~

m I Sexism in Comics In 1935 the League of Nations voted its approval of Mickey Mouse. For a I'M JUST A t fictitious cartoon character it was the ...... 1,.^-.. Av; highest of honours • he had become a HELPLESS symbol of America and the Free World. ....':.'.:.., Rut poor Mickey's personality was doomed. PEPsSOM/ igf- His previously cheeky personality and mis chievous antics were out of place in his new •. MW* 1 role as Anierican ambassador to the world. The poor rodent was sentenced to be lobotom- iscd, moralised, and dressed up in shirt and bow tie. .•\s a symbol of invincibility, Mickey became a problem for his comicbook scriptwriters. He could not be shown being outwitted by villains, not even momentarily. So to add suspence to his npht against evil. Goofy and Minnie were brought in. Goofy, the useless bumbling half Printers: Gympie Tinies, 197 Mary St., wit, was forever sneezing his way into prob Gympie lems; Minnie was the hapless heroine, always ^ :« » / K Distributors: Gordon & Gotch Pty. Ltd., in need of rescue. Fortunately Goofy never Brisbane discovered antihistamines, nor Minnie femin EDITORIAL POLICY ism, and Mickey Mouse continues his battle "Semper as we intend it, will t>e a vehicle againsi evil lo this day. for as wide a cross section of student opinion Comic books arc laced with ideology. as possible. Mickey Mouse and Captain America are In the past the editors have iiso t)een re the norms, not the exceptions. They and other only frailly being an infatuation with their sponsible for writing a good deal of Semper. comic characters have an undoubted role in hero. Unhappily the Phantom, like most While we are not afraid to take the Initiative inducing social values among childicn..... superhcroes, is sexually inadequate, and he when necessary, it is our belief tt^at members Sexism in comics has escaped most of the (\ces to the pub for a glass of milk instead of the student body should provide the major The superhero represents the ideal American ity of Semper. critiques applied to children's picture books The University comrnunlty is our primary and educational programs. Wliiic a variety male ~ not too intelligent, eager for good clean concern, but wo will also lool< at issues of of alternative non-sexist children's books violence, and brave to the point of stupidity. wider Interest, A feature of Semper will be have recently become available, comics remain Except for a few female superheroes, women T\ background articles explaining why an event a form of sexist views. are ignored or remain out of reach is happening, rather than merely what is The Phantom: "Where is the Dove Girl?" The ob.sessions of underground cartoonists '1' happening. Villain; "In ... Women's Quarters." were hiiihly sexist. Comics were becoming Format: Tabloid phantom: "Women's Quarters! I'd rather frank for the first time, but the women they Planned frequency of issues: Lvery 3 weeks go into a lion cage." portrayed remained the caricatures of men's Average number of pages'. 32-36 expectations. Robert Crumb in particular Total No. if Issues produced: 10 plus 50tli Comic books tend to be written by men was attacked by feminists, and even devoted Anniversary Issue who have vividly retained their childhood an abusive strip to rcpvidiating their accws-. ations Cover price: 50 cents, free on campus fantasies. The scenarios they create arc the Comics remain a bastion of male sexist Subscriptions: $8 per annum ideal 'little boy's adventures' - violent brawls where no-one is ever killed, searches for riches views. Piffercnl comic genres portray women EDITORIAL TEAM Total No. of issues produced: lO plus SOth in strange lands, and an absence of complex in different roles, but they always remain 2- Fvditors: Kay Nicol, Andrew 1-raser Anniversary Issue social interactions particularly where women diiiiensional stereotypes in a world of male Layout, Cartoons & Graphics: Damien EDITORIALTHEMES AND CONTENT arc concerned. adventures. Ledwich and Matt Mawson — Queensland, federal and local government As such, the sexism in Children's comics Women have made few inroads into comic politics production. The alternative comic movement Typesetter: Jenni Bird, Alert Typesetting is not that of their adult authors, but of the — Foreign affairs (especially Africa) little boys Ihey once were produced several women cartoonists, but Photographers: Andrew l-'raser, Dave Russell — Environment Women are not portrayed as objects to be their work was mostly of low quality and un- Conltihuting Staff: Graeme Beaton, Donna — Education memorable. — University dominated and seduced, lliey arc mostly Bath, Ashley Bowen, Ian Cook, Matthew — Civil Liberties just not portrayed at all Mary K. Brown and Claire Brctecher are Condon, Joe Dowling, Shelley Dempscy, — Travel Women appear often in Disney comics, two outstanding womes\ cartoonists. Both Harry Dunstall, Louise Evans, Mark Gaal, — Aboriginal issues but their stereotypes are insulting. Daisy Duck have an excellent style and deal intelligently Ian Gray, Mark D. Hayes, John llcnzcll, — Health is reserved for domestic scenes, while Minnie with women's experiences. — Science Mouse is forever being kidnapped But the business of children's comic book Stephen llerrick, Shaun Hoyt, Jasmine — Religion production remains firmly under male control. Hirst, John Jiggens, Hugh Lyons, Knife and — Short stories In all Disney stories women arc shown lacking initiative, independence, courage and A survey of children's comic books could i'ork MacArthur, Brett Morgan, Cameron — Rock'n'Roll — Cooking resourcefulness. Always playing B roles, they only conclude tliat none deal intelligently Lawrie, Tim Low, Trevor Peacock, Adete — fvledla act as backdrops for the egos of the little boy •witli sex roles. If a non-sexist movement Walsh, Alpha Yap, Lindy Woodward. — Culture heroes. ever emerges, it will have been a long time Advertising Managers: Mark David, John — Society The superhero comics show women in coming. Caskcy, Tom Harwood. — Reviews slightly more mature roles. Women in Phantom {Extract from article by TIM LOW. comics are often intelligent and assertive, their 9 May 1981, page 14)

~~SEMPER - 50th Anniversary Issue - Page 33 Golden Qpeats The Fuhrer Principle~~

What do politicians like Joh Bjelke-Petersen mean when they refer to "the people"? DEANE WELLS posed this question, and suggests some interesting answers. We often ^ve ourselves away in a manner unexpected. Politicians, in particular, often reveal - quite unintentionally - that they are acting on a set of assumptions that they would really rather keep to themselves. In particular, when politicians talk about "the people" their remarks often tell us a good deal more about their authors than their authors intended.

Political ideas have a way of hanging to historical proof that a paranoics enemies arc his gether. Sometimes there is a key that will best friends. enable us to decipher a politician's programme; A quite different account of "the people" is often the key is what the politician or political furnisJicd by the important theory of conserv writer says about "the people". atism. Conservatives believe that a society is All politicians of cour.se talk about "the like an organism. It has a natural growth of its people". The question is, who arc they talking own which should not be interfered with by about? Generally they mean all the individuals politicians acting on the basis of preconceived within a particular political unit, or they mean theories. Our rights arc all inherited, as arc cur a numerical majority of those individuals, or insthutions. If wc wish to change these we they mean to refer to some other group whose should effect the changes on the basis of identity docs not depend on tlie mere counting respect for the natural developments within the of heads. body politic. "Only one body is supreme in Queensland • By contrast Malcolm Fraser docs not really Adolf Ililter was one of the political theor Lateral thinking radicals have often replied, the people. Parliament, government and ists who spoke of "the people" as if they were a "This is all very well, but 1 think the whole have a concept of "the people". We hear a lot executive are merely instruments of the about dole bludgcrs, about the virtues of group whose identity did not depend on the edifice stinks." This is in fact the traditional people and accountable to them." counting of heads. Hitler believed that within anti-conservative approach. Edmund Burke, the private enterprise, and about self-reliance. Wc see the curtailment of welfare .systems, the lo.ss the German speaking community in Europe founder of modern conservatism, has a reply. "I'm running the parliament, not the there was a group of people whose culture and His reply is tliat they are bound by llieir of SIOOO million a year revenue through tax Speaker." avoidance systems and family trusts and hund aspirations were such that they constituted a membership of a body known as "the people". Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, 1978. scperate political unit. Excluded from this It is the existancc of a "people" that legitimates reds of millions in capital subsidies to indust group were Jew.s, Gypsies, socialists and comm the state, and its activities. Without "the ries, together with no other economic planning. That remark, which was made in the con What wc arc seeing is in fact the confused unists. The remainder, he believed, had a people", the state would have no building text of an assertion that Cabinet, not parlia common will, whether they realised it or not. force. application of a right wing anarchist philosophy ment, should make rules on a certain money applied to Australian politics. Hitler believed that he was in touch with A further view is the greatest happiness of matter, and constitutes a rejection of the the greatest number theory - utilitarianism. This Westminster system of democracy, nicely Eraser and Petersen are interesting oppos- this common will His words were its expression itcs, in that one is a romantic collcctivist and -an expression of the will of a united, undivided is one of the many antiromantic views and expresses his concept of "the people of Queens sees "the people" as just the sum of the indiv land" as those people who more or less agree the otlicr is an anti-romantic individualist. Wliat people. This is known as the "Fuhrer Principle" Australia needs is something between these two -a principle which, its adherents believe, made iduals in the community. with him. (He has explained that communists and socialists arc not " genuine people".) It also extremes. A view that recognises that the reference to numerical majorities quite unnec Australian people is an aggregation of individ essary. SOME APPLICATIONS articulates the Bjeike Fuhrer principle, by which he sees himself as articulating the un uals, but an aggregation of individuals who have Hitler's notion of the people was arrived at Joh Bjeike- Petersen falls neatly into the a responsibility for one another, and a respons by subtracting from the individuals around him first school of thought, tiie extreme romantic spoken will of "the people" of Queensland. Compare this with Hitler's statement. ibility for the general welfare. ali the people he particulariy didn't like, and view. Like Hitler, he claims his mandate from ***** then propagandising the rest of them until they "the people", but not a democratic majority. "Over and above parties, confessions and shared enough of his paranoia lo accept him as As he once said at a Country Party conference, classes we have set the German people, and This article is edited from a lunchtime leader. By silencing remaining critics, and "We have to get away from this talk of majority it is oidy as a people, not as a group of seminar sponsored by tlie Philosophy Depart making the general paranoia objective, by rule. It doesn't add up." individuals or parlies, that it can suri'ive. ment at the University of Queensland. setting up a situation in which, understandably, Petersen has been al pains on a number of Above all, we have worked out in Germany Deane Welles lectures in pbijophy at other nations really were out to get Ihc Ger occasions to point out that he, rather than a single will. he who represents this will Queensland University. He is the author of mans, it is not suprising that Hitler forged the pariiamcnt which he himself has gerrymander should be respected in his will." "The Deep North" and is the ALP endorsed undivided nation, whose dream he articulated. candidate for Petrie. ed, expresses the true will of the people of Adolf Hitler, 1937 This was Hitler's dream coming true - the Queensland. (3 September 1980, patje 31 "/ can Y see any benefit of land ri^ts to tbe aboriginal people*'f>

LINDY WOODWARD reports on Queensland's Minister for Abori&nal and Islander Q: Couldn't there be different ways of caring for the land . . . couldn't aborigines argue Advancement. that white people, by aboriginal standards have not cared for the land? T: I don't think tliey could. I think white Ken Tomkins is unusual ministerial material, even for the state of Queensland. He's people are very good settlers. an approachable, friendly, and apparently humble man, with little understanding of It was while Mr Tomkins was Lands .Minis the complex issues involved in his portfolio. ter that the State Government refused to sell an area of land at Archer River, wanted by a While he has been content to leave it to Joh Bjeike Petersen to make most of the Federal lands body for a group of aborigines. running on aboriginal affairs, he's not without his own theories on the subject. The Archer River case has been the subject In fact, if anyoite had taken the Minister seriously enough to publicise his theories, of a confrontation between the State Govern he could have been a major embarrassment to the State Government over the past ment and the Community Relations Office. two years. It's also the central issue in the State Govern ment's challenge of the Federal Racial Dis Tomkins: I've always found aborigines quite.. I'm saying now mightn't apply in fifty years crimination Act:- good. time. In fifty years, of evolution, they could T: I often say to people, particulariy amongst Q. How do vou mean, you've always found be quite a different proposition to what they aborigines, if you want to buy some freehold them. . .good? arc today. land, you can buy it off the Reserve altogether Tt \Vcll, good witli horses . . . I've always Q: Mr Tomkins, don't you think that could be if you like. Because that's the way you're going Uiougtit they made good stockmen. interpreted as a racist comment? to slowly get the aboriginal people to be, well, When Joh Bjeike Petersen announced that T: I can't be held to say tliat would be racist, if you like, more like ourselves and our way of T: Well I suppose nothing, we'd have notliing aborigines would be given fifty year leases on tlial's what I think. life. to lose, but you don't do things for tiiosc the Reserves, Mr Tomkins had been out of Q: Isn't the State Government opposed to that reasons. You've got to have responsibility town for over a week. When he returned, Ask most aboriginal leaders in Queensland though . , . Isn't that what the Archer River with freehold land. 10 find such major policy foreshadowed by about Ken Tomkins, and they'll tell you case is all about? Q: So you'd support the Premier's ar^mcjif, someone else, he expressed only mild surprise. he's a 'nice bloke', but with little understanding T: Well, I happened fo be Minister for Lands that it's a moral question? Tliat you don't The Premier said he thought the Minister would of his portfolio. If they find his ideas about at the time, and the Federal Department tried get freehold land for nothing? be glad he had saved him the trouble. aborigines insulting, they say it's hard to get to buy this land, and, well, I put it up to Cab T: Yes I do ... Yes I do. I tliink tiiat they've When Mr. Tomkins said he supported per angry with a man who seems unaware of his inet, and they considered that the aboriginals got no ridit to expect freehold land ri^ts, petual leases, the Premier said the Minister , ability to cause offence. had plenty of land at that time, and what because what they've got now is just as good, just as good. I mean that, just as good. would know what was happening when he Tlie Minister has claimed one hundred per ihey had tliey weren't making a very good job told him. of it cither. So they were the reasons, and Q: But couldn't the aborigines equally argue cent support for the repeal of the Acts, the that white people arc now living on land for Despite Mr Tomkin's lack of control over lease proposal, and the Deed of Grant in Trust. now I'm charged by Mr Grassby wiUi racial dtscriminarion.. which the original owners were never paid? his portfolio, he's still the person with whom He told Parliament House once that he knew ... freehold land, for nothing? aborigines have had to deal. the aborigwies were behmd him, because when T: Oh well, that's a bit of a catch-ciy you Brisbane aboriginal leaders tell the story of ever he visited the Reserves, he was always Like the Premier, Mr Tomkins argues that know. It's a bit like saying 'We owned this a lengthy meeting with Mr Tomkins, durmg welcomed with a cup of tea. aborigines have no right to special treatment. land once, gWe it back'. This is virtually what which they strove to communicate to the The Minister has also argued that aborigines He says it's the aim of the Queensland Govern they're saying a lot of the time. But they're Minister the significance of land to their people. have nothing to gain from land ri^its, and are ment to treat them just like other Queens- not sayuig it, it's these activists that are saying All their hopes were dashed by the Mmister's better off the way diings are now;- landers, so that his Department eventually will well-intended partuig comment: "I under it, I don't think that's ri^t. T: I can't see any benefit of land ri^ts to be unnecessary. I mean, you know, you mt£jht almost say stand about land ... it's a very valuable com the aboriginal people. Like the Premier, he argues that they have modity". well where would you aboriranal people be, if Q: But they do say they have a special re no claim to the land. He argues that point in Japan had won the last war. You know, that'd Q: Why ore you supporting the lease proposal, lationship to the land, that it's important. a way that it's unlikely to have been argued be a little bit awkward to answer for them, when many members of the Aboriginal and T: Generally speaking over the years, the before :- because they mij^t have a wht*c heap of Islanders Councils are demanding freehold aboriginal people themselves haven't shown Q: The Reserve lands are less than two percent Japs out there now. title? a great love of the land you know. We've got of the State. .. What would Queensland have 122 March 1982, Page 6) T; One of the msin rctsons, yc»h . . . What aboriginal cattle stations here without an to lose by giving the Reserve residents control I'm saying is you do it by degrees . . . What aborigine on them. of It... freehold title?

SEMPER • SOth Anniversary Ksue - Page 34 CddenQieals CAN'T STOP THE MYSTIC Self-proclaimed "clair-audient" Doris Stokes, recently toured Australia amid a flurry of publicity. Skeptic PETER STEINHEUER reviews her Brisbant appearence. Full bladders, empty minds, tinted hair and plastic teeth. The women's toilet queue had the jitters. Can't miss Doris. The Playtex set were out in force for their audience with the supernatural grandmother from London, Doris Stokes. Adulated in this country by the populist electronic media such as Don Lane and Hayden Sar gent, Doris is on her second "tour" of Australia, ostensibly to promote her book "Voices in My Far". Vou see Doris claims to be a clair-audient, which I guess is one way of describing a clairvoyant with cataracts, reduced to hearing the voices of the dead "spirit side" as she calls them, rather than seeing them.

A blind man is assisted to his seat in the Ilcck, pity the poor goldfish or budgie at the sold-out City Hall. To clarify a point, this one Stokes' household. If only birds or fish could had a white cane and dark glasses - he was vis talk, or pigs could fly, or wrinkley English ually blind. As for the rest of the audience..,. women could communicate with the dead.... At ten dollars a head, at least I expected Maybe he thinks she's fair dinkum too, a support act. Maybe they could have hired or maybe it's because iiis current affairs TV Lennox Walker, the long range weather fore show i.s rating so abysmally, but Mr. Pluralism caster or had a tea-leaves reader working himself, Hayden Sargent's function was lo off an overhead projector onto a large screen. introduce Doris to us and as he put it "to Put no, tonight for ten dollars we were to get keep her company on stage". Or maybe ju.si the rotund Doris, plus her ardent supporter his function was to plug his shows: "Our llayden Sargent. Oh, hang on, I forgot all programme «n 4p;C" and "The Sargent those extras - Ihe spirits who appeared to Report" both were mentioned in his usual Doris during the "performance" • I guess self-effacing pallet. He assured the adoring they'd expected a performance fee or royal Ihrong that Doris was "just a very homely, ties or the like. Truly invisible expenses that pleasant grandmother type". Even at SIO go into putting on such a show. Lest wc forget. a head. He told us "She's not a very rich The audience was overwhelmingly female, woman", and donated half her earnings lo and I guess they thought feminine too. Prob an Irish boys home. The other half....well, ably a bit shell shocked still witli the news of .who knows, but we were informed that lla Buttrose's second divorce, but taking llie she likes chocolates, llowers, children, people". news well. On second thoughts, maybe they Maybe Doris herself would tell us more. were the New Idea set. 't'es, I think they are, 1 Well, it certainly wouldn't appear to be Don Lane Show refuting her powers, only just a clever phoncticist. She works on the said to myself from my choice fourth row her Wardrobe expenses keeping her poor. to be told to piss off by the tall American basis ihat many words sound alike, have similar seal. .Allah! The late tweniics woman sitting The tall but rotund grey-haired Doris strode non-singing compere whose TV ratings also numbers of syllables, start with the same next to me was reading a coloured illustrat onto the polled palm fringed City Hall stage incidentally have slumped badly this year. letter, or are in any way similar. Similarly, ed paperback manual entitled "Understanding and sat down next to Hayden in the red arm Interestingly the Doris Stokes perform she know that people die mostly past the age Cats". And directly in from, sitting underneath chair sporting an emerald green kneelength ance is taking place in the same auditorium of SO, often from heart disease or lung disease their brunette and honey blonde perms were dress. "Hello everyone". The response was as Uri Gellcr's 1975 Brisbane performance, (heart disease being the commonest cause of Jan and Barbie respectively. Yes, definitely not loud enough, Ihe second lime she got a three years before Gellcr's manager spilled death in the community). Stretch Doris bey a New Idea crowd. much more unified and audible "Hello Doris" the beans on the so-called psychic's methods ond those safe conclusions, and she shows Well, 1 guess you're waiting lo hear about from the crowd, still cursing their arthritis to reveal him as nothing more than a clever up to just a less than clever purveyor of auto the show itself. Well, so were wc. You sec, playing up with all this clapping. but highly organised magician. suggestion. Let mc exemplify..... Doris had been due to appear, colloquially "I fell in love wiili Australia on my first The crowd was becoming slightly rest Doris begins searching for a relative of a speaking of course, three weeks previously, visit two years ago", as she chatted and joked less, waiting for tho ten dollar woman to voice from the spirit side n;imcd .Allen. No but the day that the performance was due, the full house were even more on side. Sudden come up with the goods. Wlio knows what cx- takers, but a woman with a departed Arthur she Ivjd suffered a "slight stroke" so wc were ly a winner out of the blue; "God wiBing peoplc "spirit side" would contact her tonight? accepts. "Oh I knew it started with 'A' " told. Now this raises a number of interesting next year I shall be amongst you" as she Maybe Harold Holt would speak to her, give claims Doris, who then tells the relative she possibiUlics. announced lier intention to move to Aust a surf report and ask how Zara is going? thinks Arthur died of a heart attack: "He Surely Doris, with her special powers, ralia. An audible sigh followed by hearty app Doris believes "there is no death" and compar went across very quickly". The relative says would have seen in advance that she would lause ensued. Doris beamed appreciatively. ed her role to that of a link in the chain no, actually Arthur committed suicide. Stokes be struck down, as it were, and cancelled Never had a future tax exile's announcement which joins those on the "spirit side" to those replied: "Well darling I didn't want lo say it" the show in advance to save everyone the of her inlentions been .so well received. It still living and paying to see her. Doris assured and says lhat the pain she felt in her chest trouble. could only happen in Australia, the country us (hat the more the audience talked back which she interpreted as a .sign of .Arthur's Secondly, if Doris had suffered a slight which for various reasons attaches disprop to her about the loved one's "spirit side" heart attack was actually the heartache the rel stroke, she was in safe hands: you see as she ortionate credibility to the woman. But Doris the more vibrations she would receive. Para atives felt. Good one, eh? Doris then says he told us on the night: "My husband is a spir is aware of her detractors and warned the phrase: Tell mc as much as you can so 1 can left behind a Tony, Tommy, Terry living, but itual healer", so 1 guess he could have taken audience to beware of "this man Randi" make obvious deductions about the relative the Arthur relative says she doesn't think so, who had attacked her and labelled her as a who has died. however she docs have a friend named Terry. care of that. Not only that, but Doris informed fraud, and who was later to appear on the On lhat point, Doris claims victory. us "even the cat's psychic at our place!" It's quite simple really. Doris Stokes is And so it goes on. Doris picks on another person, again a woman, w-ho doesn't have a clue who Ida, the person Doiis hears "spirit side", is. But she does know an Eileen, which is good enough. Wow, how magical! I'm sure university and within the society ... wc all know someone whose name starts with There was a fascination in listening to the I or U or T or take your pick. Doris says that a .speeches in the forum area in those early years. spirit tells her someone close lo Eileen has had People would stand around lor hours of the a window put in and the audience member afternoon watching as their lellows stood forth claims "Wc had a lordado at Redcliffe and had and began to exist in a new way. listening as a new window put in". Well, they sure must Ihc spoken word broke a long enchantment, keep their tornados secret down the Peninsula moved us day after day to a new vision of the way; wc haven't heard of any tornados there world in which we as individuals and as groups lately. seemed, for the first lime, to have a part. You could feel yourself being re-defined, The guessinji goes on. A spirit named Charlie entering deeper into a new dialectic of coni appears during "this communication, and the munily' with others escaping a similar entrap woman from the tornado ravaged Redclifte ment, forming a sharper and sharper contrast says .she hasn't a clue who Chariie is. Doris with an 'enemy' that grew dearer and clearer.. Slokos dismisses this, explaining that there arc so many spirits talking lo her that wlion she saw If you collected the Icafiets canvassing someone in the City Hall audience "tlicy just every conceivable issue from every point oV call tiieir names out". She then lells Charlie view over (\ve years, you would have a pile what Don Lane told James Randi, but in more of information and comment the height of a polite plirasing. kitchen table. If you went to the forum and Next, Doris tries to find a relative of Daisy, talked after to the critics, the Christians, the but settles for someone who knew Mabel (Wertheim, O'Neill and Summy, 20 May 1976, page 10) Liberals and the radical activists, you began instead. She guesses at fiuid on the lung (a to get your real education. .sympton of heart failure) and is told someone And, with ill its defects, the community died of lung cancer. She tells a mother her dead by existed every night as well. S.D.A. House in Craig was in his thirties, a good guess when talk DAN O'NEILL Highgatc Hill, the Cellar in Roma Street, ing to a woman of about sixty, but the woitian The Ifise and [all of numerous rented wooden bouses in Toowong, says Craig was only nineteen when he died. St.Lucia, Milton, Indooroopilly, where leaflets Oops, damn these late pregnancies. She asks were discussed and produced, pot was smoked, the mother about a departed leffrey, to yield endless booze was downed, Dylan, the Band only an alive son-in-law Jeff. How about an and the Stones, the Beatles, and the Doors alive Doris or Dorothy? The woman stuns the student consciousness harmonised and melodised a whole world of varicose-troubled auditorium by admitting her abstract and concrete connections in a way Uiat daughter is a Christine Dorothy. And after all The University of Queensland during the Sixties was, in fact, probably the liveliest can still bring back faces and philosophical this, the woman sUlI states that "I nearly didn't and most complex, serious and subtle scene of the student movement in Australia. points, arguments and parties, gestures and come here tonight. I wasn't a believer but I kitchens, bedrooms and. opened books. To am now". In retrospect the place seemed to have changed overnight when a civil liberties march say nothing of the Commonwealth police Which was the perfect cue for the end of the of 4,000 clashed with the police in Roma Street one day in September 1967, as vir and the 4 Corners crew in hot pursuit through first half. Jan and Barbie in front of mc gush tually the rest of the university watched from the footpath. Mass actions on various the suburban underground of activists or the forth cliches: "Marvellous" and "Fantastic". I issues followed frequently until early 1972. Law after uashing the university Regiment agree. How fantastic it is that Doris can do this! building just up the street. Ten dollars a head for a self-professed necro The war in Vietnam remained throughout the most powerful incentive to continu It's a bit odd to rcficct that, after ali that mancer with below average guess skills, a ed protest and resistance and the clearest most evil result of the system which we came talk and action and travail, the sort of thing psychic cat, and average deduction skills. Why, more and more to oppose. you miss as you walk into the fomm area now the headless woman at the Ekka is only sixty adays or through a back door these nights is cents! All she's lacking is a head. a certain lift of the head and look in the eye Who knows what Doris Stokes lacks, but it Vietnam was the fire that burnt down the ism, on Australian foreign policy on Australian that said something like: 'Here on this sunny certainly isn't cash to buy tlie spiritual pet rotten framework of Cold War politics. The society, on the nature of the University within winter day' ot 'Now at nearly midnight wc are food. Which reminds mc, I'd better get home to discussion on the war became a discussion on capitalism, on the working class movement, really living in our tune, and Christ knows feed Warren, or is it Warwick. NO! Wally. I American society and its imperatives, a dis on the revolution in advanced societies and so ' what the bastards will pull next'. knew it started with W.... on, the point of our own lives withm the (Extracts, 20 May 1976, Pages 10-13) cussion on capitalism, on economic imperial (3 September 1980, page 15)

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Rob Dylan declared that times were a'changing: The Clash demanded a riot of theirno t be ignored. own. Even the Beatles sang abotit revolution. IAN GRA Y reports on the role of The distinction between culture and politics politics in rock music. was not so blatant in the music, The counter culture thought it could reform society by Somewhere in the early fifties you can find the beginning of modern music. There reforming culture. Drugs and psychedelia are all sorts of explanations: the post-war baby boom, increasing assertiveness of black opened up new horizons and ways of think Ameri<:an culture, the cynical business of American entrepreneurs. Each one over ing. There were references to drug-related simplifies the period, and the real explanation is probably a combination of ali these experiences all through sixties music and the form of the music itscif changed from a ihree and more. Only time will tell. minute format to twenty minutes plus jams. Still, we all look back on fifties and early sixties music as a product of (or for?) John Lcnnon even sang, 'Vou tell mc it's the a panicuiar generation. Every adult magazine talked about generation gaps, and music institution, don't you know you'd better was the culprit. .Music separated parents from their children, I'uritan America called it change your mind instead'. Politics no longer a Communist plot, designed to weaken the moral fibre of its youth and make it ready meant class, it meant culture. for revolution. It drew analogies with the decline of Rome. With class out of the way, only the individ ual remained. The sixties deteriorated into a Southern Americans found music a threat to their noble white culture - music, like decade of self-indulgence. It left a legacy of blacks, was preoccupied with sex, if not lyrically then on the dance floor. singer/song writers and long haired hippies living out obsolete dreams of Ihe future. Music then was attacked on two levels - the new generation of youth can it manufacture This style of music still appeals to the young on the political and on the cultural - although a suitable product. affluent middle class of America and Australia. perhaps this is a false distinction. What was This process occurcd with both the counter However, in the late seventies it was totally really at stake was the American ideology, culture of the sixties and and punk phenomenon irrelevant to the working class youth of Britain. an ideology which was puritan, sexist, racist of the seventies. For a while ihc corporate Individualism is a luxury only the aflhient and 1970. During that time the main political and exploitative. superstructure was thrown into confusion. can afford, and in an era of unemployment bands were .MC5 and Jefferson Airplane. In the short term, at least, the ideology had The sixties less so than the seventies, largely and racial tension the British were more con England leally only produced odd songs rather one victory and that was in the exploitative because records were essential to communi cerned with survival. Punk exploded onto the than bands. The Rolling Stones contributed sense. As soon as music fell into the hands of cation. In the seventies one of the targets wa^ scene, whether by coincidence or design. "Street Fighting Man" and the Beatles "Re entrepreneurs (arguably right al the very be records, or at least record companies. The first volution" lost the Beatles a lot of their polit ginning), it was able to resist the attacks much, battle was for the right to play at venues, the Originally a working class call to arms, it ical support because it denied the validity of more easily, Capitalism has a flexible morality. right to relate to audiences as people, not as soon attracted art school bands and former class politics. pub rockers. As it diversified, it lost its explos Money equals power. And wiien music was consumers. It was almost as if records were ir I'our years on from punk's heyday, at cleaned up for mass consumption, it meant relevant to music. Wlien the Damned became ive intensity. New Wave cleaned up punk and concentrated on the musical form. Yet the least many of the bands still exist. There are more money and more power. the first punk band to put out a single on a still the Clash, the Pop Group, the Gang of major label, it was regarded as a sell-out. political remifications were lost in the after Whatever ideological significance music had math. Probably by design. Four, Stiff Litlle Fingers and Crass. Perhaps at the beginning, it was still a form of enter (Independents at that stage were not as sig it is here to stay this time. While there is youth nificant as they arc now.) Nevertheless, each As with the counterculture, the pohtics unemployment anyway. tainment. Youth enjoyed it, even if it changed of punk are difficult to identify. There was their values as well. By the mid-sixties music generation produces its own entrepreneurs and The real threat to politics and music is Ihc the corporate superstructure soon recovered. Uttlc sympathy for the Old Left, for it had had become the most lucrative entertainment been tried and failed. If Communism hadn't possibility that people get bored with the com industry. It now had its own corporate super The sixties counterculture was a broad- already been effectively stigmatized, it had bination. Sooner or later you just have to have structure. Soon it had its own terminology with based attack on the ruling ideology of the time. become irrelevant. Anarchy won almost by some fun as well. Nobody knows this better , words like mass appeal, lowest common dc- It started out as one generation against all default. The Sex Pistols were made the vehicle than the corporate superstructure. Tho ska nommatoi, consumer and product. previous generations - one of its slopns was for its new anthem "Anarchy in the UK". revival was a compromise with the demand Unlike other industries, music has never 'Never trust anyone over 30'. In retrospect, But it's doubtful how many punks really for entertainment, The New Romantic move been able to standardize its consumers. One it was mainly a cultural revolution against ac embraced the theory and practice of anarch- ment, focusing on bands like Spandau Ballet reason is that its main audience is a generation, cepted values and restraints. In America the sim. Most just identified with ils anti- and Ullravox, blatantly seeks an escape from youth. Each generation has different demands New Left made the transition into a political authoritarianism. Punk absorbed pieces of political reality. It is a middle-class phenom and tastes. And youth tends to be anti- philosophy. However, the British New Left anarchism rather than adopting it intact. The enon. If it spreads, who knows how soon a -^ authoritarian. It sets about creating its own was more of a revitalized Old Left than an anarchist movement benefitted only in the new combination of politics and music will world. It still believes it can change the worid. extension of the counterculture, perhaps short term. emerge. J Only when the industry identifies the world of because the obvious class distinctions could The counterculture peaked between 1968 (22 July 1981, Page 3) (Interested rock historians should also read 'Roctt'n'Roll - the Last Concert', in Semper Fioreat, Vol. 43, No, 3, pages 6-7, available in Fryer Library, Uni. of Qld.)

Mainly out of curiosity, the Editor of Semper Fioreat and a female staff member paid unheralded trips to the Brisbane male and female V.D. Clinics. Their reports on these visits are published below, however first a short history of the clinics then Semper's conclusions on their current positions. Only a relatively short time ago, a furore broke out following public disclosure of the appalling conditions and treatment available in the Brisbane clinics. Immediate steps were taken to remedy this situation and 1 feel these have been relatively success v(i.(ium ': ful with one{?) exception ... my discovery of a person, who, in the field of health, can only be described as a perfect example of the old guard. CENSORED N:... they're all ratbags. - to understand why read on ... M: What's a ratbag? Bruce Dickson, Editor N: (evasion) They keep on coming back. My first meeting with the gentleman in (Noticing my long hair) You take drugs don't question was at the clinic enquiry counter you? where the puritanical and moralistic character of this male nurse soon became apparent. M: What makes you ask that? MALE NURSE; Have you been here before? N: You look the type. vddoo ME: No. Wc both adjourn to another room for tests. N; (picking up questionnaiic) N: Arc you sure you haven't? as a 'good bloke' upon part proof that 1 was good girl. There there. Do you have sex often? disease free. (Takes down my name and address.) When did you last have it? M'. Ow Shit, F**K that hurts. N: (passing comment) They're all ratbags. ^Arc you a homosexual? 5, Finally, my experiences have been related N: Yes, it does, doesn't it (sleazy grin from M: What do you mean ratbags? * Do you drink? How often? here. other nurse.) Wltat makes you think you've got V.D. luv? Do you take drugs? CENSORED Are you religious? M: I just thought I had a few symptoms. N: Is yer boyfriend all right? :- •i.-.-.frr-.- When did you last go to church? Not to discourage any person in need of Have you a police record? M: 1 don't know- advice from making use of such essential N: Well, we'll soon sec (smiles knowingly) Do you drive a car? facilities. Do you have a licence? O.K. luv, that'll do. Yer can go now. (Walks ^rc out into waiting room and spies Anne). You've Having finished questioning he then conducted WOMEN'S V.D. CLINIC tests - was most apologetic when he found I been 'ere before 'aven't yer? by female SEMi'ER staffer ANNE: No. didn't have venereal disease.) NURSE: What do you want, luv? N: Well, you've been drinking too much soft N: Yes yer 'ave. I know yer. (Walks up and ME: I'd like a V.D. test please. examines Anne.) What's yer number? 'Ave drink and beer - see the way your urine N: Right 0 luv, sit down. Yer can come in cfforesces. You can have the result of your yer come for a test? when you've 'ad yer fag. Yer can't fag in 'cic. A: No! blood test in two weeks. Here, quote this M: Yes, Sister. N: Do you go to University? number over the phone when you ring - wc N: Come on in now luv. Sit down there. Now A: Yes, like to keep your patients anonymous, what's yer name? It's anonymous, yer know, N: You 'aven't got any shoes on. (I laughed lo myself - having filled out ump so don't give mc a false name. It's an crfcncc A: Yes. teen forms by this stage.) yer know. What's yer name? N: Do they let you go without shoes? END OF VISIT M: Pauline Darcy A: Yes. Conclusions: N: Wlien did yer last 'avc intercourse with N: Hell you'd think they'd 'ave a uniform. 1. The whole tone of this male nurse was one anyone? O well, 'ooray luv, yer can come back on of attcmptinj? toonakc mc feel bad (sex maniac M: Last night, sister. Thursday for yer results. See yer. - VD sprcidcr) about being there. Any natural N: And 'ow long before that? {24 Marcli 1970, Page 28) ly hesitant caller would have been frightened M: The night before last, sister. (Nurse gives away before tcsring eventuated. other nurse kiiowing look and mutters " 'ell*',) 2. I discovered later that patients arc sup N: O.K. luv. Take off your pants, 'op up posed to be first asked whether they wish to. 'ere luv. Right O, I'm just gunna 'avc a look complete the questionnaire. I felt that the up yer now. 'Ang on there. Relax fer god's questionnaire itself was attempting to relate sake, or I'll *urt yer. Stop complaining. Any crime, drugs and lack of rcli^on to so called one would think 1 was committing murder. 'immorality'. Right 0 I'll just do a bit of a scrape 'ere. 3. I was questioned about by accomplice in Relax. No wonder it's hurting. Loosen up the 'crime before my test had showed any there. Hell. Ah, got it. O.K. luv, hop down negative of positive result - possibly a little now. (Cover design by Damien Ledwich, premature. Other Nurse: Come on dearie, we'll just take 6 November 19801 4. How happy I was to be suddenly treated a bit of blood now. It won't hurt. That's a

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~~A Special Report by Mark Plunkett on Labor's Power Drunk Politicians, Electorial Failures in Queensland and an Inside Look at Current Moves to Reform the Party.~~

Chronic alcoholism is without a doubt the principal cause of the crass imcompet- ence of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Labor Party. In a Party whose tradition includes the conducting of branch meetings at the local pub it is not unusual for decision-makers at senior levels to adjourn meetings (often before resolution) to the Breakfast Creek Hotel, where the impetus and implementation of programmes fades into a drunken oblivion. One does not have to look beyond the bravado of the boys boozing at the Paddy Fitzgerald Bar to realise why the conservative parties are the ones who get the women and Blacks into the parliaments. On increasing the number of women on the convent ion floor, one inner executive member opposed it in terms of; "Your filthy minds can't think past sex"; and an oft heard remark by another on Blacks is, "There aren't, any votes in it." (Drawing by Vi/endy Ccrnak, 28 June 1979, page 58) The intoxicaled gerontocracy that controls tional rapist John Kerr who did the investing the Party is an exclusive brotherhood of be of honour on Sir Jack Edpcrton after a lifetime sotted, beerputled men whose cultural norms of leading the Branch. and habits embody the worst features of Aus The Branch's Parliamentary representatives tralian ockcrism. arc obsessed with the same opportunism and the Queensland state of mind As 10 their politics, they arc neither en electoral deceit as their supposed opponent, lightened nor motivated by the reforming zeal Joh Bjelke-Petersen, of whom they have often Queenslanders believe they are different from other Australians, and they often that characterised the T.J. Ryan predecessors been criticised as attempting to emulate, ex and now-retiring Whitlam contcn:porarics. They cept that they lack the necessary vision to win act differently politically but for some reasons State by State analyses of political have much the same altuism as thcit one-time government... cultures are unfashionable in academic circles. leader of yesteryear, Vincent Gair, the only Between drinks the main energy of the One suspects the reason for this is that to give credence to the idea that the differ difference being that they ceased to be per Party is spent on internal power struggles, ence between States are important would be seen to be giving support to the notion sonal friends of his after 1957. It was constitu with members preoccupied to assert or to of states' rights - a nasty reactionary cause, if ever there was one . . . deny influence among the various feuding factions. There is no left and right battle as 1 believe the initial and continuing relation More than physically however, the Aborig such. It is really more a matter of the bully ship that White Queenslanders had and have ines arc a psychological problem for white boys of the junta maintaining their control with the Black people of this land and with the folks. Generally, \Vliites despise the blacks to the blatant exclusion ofall others. land itself has shaped the Queensland character. but al the same time some have a vague There is certainly more talent in the ALP Tlie Aboriginal people were beaten milit feeling of guilt about them. They feci some than in any other party but a real tragedy arily but not wiped out. Unlike Tasmania, one should do something. The State Govern of the branch is that unless one can win the they were seen to be of use and the pastoral ment did something - it shut them away endorsement of the Breakfast Creek boys, industries of this State set up an uneasy un on reserves where possible. The trouble is one is not likely to rise above handing out equal economic relationship with the remn though they won't go away and their very how-to-vote cards on polling days... ants. existence punctures some illusions that Queens The greatest tragedy is that while pre Queenslanders, especially in cousitiy areas, landers have. Every time we start singing occupied with monopolising power in the Party arc still aware in the backs of their minds 'Everything's Great in the Sunshine State' no energy is expended in checking the BJclke- that the original owners are still around and up pops an aborigine and everybody gets Pctersen monster. may yet serve eviction notices or at least ask angry, (Extract, 2 August 1978, Page 7) for back-rent. Apart from their continuing experience with Aborigines, Queenslanders have other fearful experiences with 'outsiders' in their myth ology. The 'Kanakas' .ind the Chinese have both served as bogeymen in their time; especi ally 10 the Labor movement in Queensland. The long exposed coastline leaves people in DAN O'NEILL - Radical, Activist this Stale open to scare campaigns about Black/Red/Vellow/Brown hordes, and they and University Lecturer Interviewed. know they can't trust Southerners In defend them. Remember the Brisbane Line? It could be said that in their thoujihis Daniel Francis O'Neill, BA., B.Litt, lecturer in the Department of English, Uni about the rest of the world the people of Ihis versity of Queensland and a leading protagonist for social pressure groups on and Slate linve more than a touch of paranoia. off campus. Oucenslanders arc aware this is ^ branch Mr, O'Neill feels that in the unique circumstances existing in Latin American office stale -- decisions are made elsewhere. countries it may he impossible to draw a distinction between violent and non-violent Those people down south it is fell, ave soft, revolution. In the List analysis there may be no alternative to violent revolution in lazy and out of touch with reality. It is in this these areas, but (his is a particular extreme case with little relevance to modern Indus- situation that the samllcst slight can be mudc into neglect and finally into a fully fledged trail society (though this is not altogether clear in the explosive American situation. case of victimisation. A prime example of this was the Australia Day Floods and Whillam's He draws the distinction between the two Q. What is tlic meaning of the word 'radical'? failure tn visit. huge power groups (the capitalist countries * A. Well 'radical' is one of these words which is In the hands of a shrewd person like Bjekle and the Soviet system) which represent the getting more and more ambiguous 1 thmk, but I'etcisen, the vague sense ihal Queenslanders status quo, and the underdeveloped nations to me, a radical would be a person who at have that ihcy are hard done by can be trans which are the leaders of change in the world. tempts to get through to the underlying struc formed into a formidable political weapon, I-OT example, Vietnam had caused the U.S.A. tural features that support existing injustice Queenslanders, judging from successful to look at some of her own .social problems. or existing lack of freedom, or existing vices policy speeches want concrete achievements Thus to study N.L.l.'s in Asia and Che in in our society; and attempts to think out alter not ideologies from pohticians. The two parties Cuba and Bolivia is not just romanticism but is native ways of arranging society or arranging who technically have some sort of guiding to examine some of the most advanced thinking- institutions that will work institutionally theory (the Liberals and the A.L.P.) only do about social revolution today. against the recurrence of the injustices and so well when they play down the fact. A politician It provides us in Australia with an object on. I think a person can also be radical with who wants to succeed will have plenty of ive view of our place and role in the world - respect to his own personal life. And in that bridges, dams, silos, hospitals, etc. in his speech, a minor branch of the vast American economic case, 1 think a person is being apolitical when rather than words about justice, freedom, empire. But while this is relevant to the world, he strives to confront his own moral nature rights and equality. Equality is all right as situation it has little influence on what is done' very honestly and to always back up his in long as you can see it being built; lean on it here in Australia. The French .May revolution sights about his own character by taking the or shelter beneath it from the rain. Equal and the American Civil Riglits movement are corresponding action lhat seems to be requir sewerage for all. ed. So I think that I'd see, you know, two much more significant in determining the Queenslanders expect such a lot from their methodology of revolution in Australia. Mar- meanings of the word that 1 think are actually interconnected. It seems to me that if you Government that some have called the system cusc, Gramsci, and the Englishman Raymond State Socialism. This is inaccurate though Williams (and the British New Left in general) start off to be a radical in one way or another, because no Party in Queensland has attempted are the most important and relevant theorists you wind up also taking on the other form the situation becomes more complex, so do to redistribute income. Rather they work on for the local scene. of radicalism. In fact I think that this is a the lines of history become more complex and the assumption that if tlie Government ex characteristic of our age that political radical-, harder to disentangle and I know some young pands the size of the pic arguments about the Q. How and when did you get started in the ism and moral radicalism arc all joined up Radical Movement? (If you consider yourself stpdcnts - some young Leftists - who would, size of individual slices arc less important. and each of them can lead to the other two. in their thinking align themselves with fairly as part of the Radical Movement) Wliy? One final point about that, I don't believe Queensland has always had a strong line in A. Yes, well I certainly do consider myself as traditional Socialists and some older Leftists 'morality upright' politicians, no matter what all Socialists are radicals. 1 don't believe they're whose thmking would be fairly New Left in part of the Radical Movement and I'd say that alt radicals, the Socialists. their political or business morality is like - I first began to get involved with the Radical the other sense of the term. one can usually assume that a successful Movement through the Newman Society late Q. What to you docs the term the New Left Queensland politician is bad in bed, Tlie ALP Q. What sort of things would you like to sec has lately moved from a position of moral in 1965, and I began to take a more active role mean? changed; what reforms, outside Uni? in that there was a kind of fairly intellectual hypocrisy _ traditionally one of its strong A. The New Left seems to mc to be partly A. I would like to see some form of challenge (points - into a position where one can no involvement. 1 think that 1 began to take a referring to a number of Left Wing intellectu to the state of the mass-media, their irres more active role in late 1966 and from then on longer be sure that their guilt is in the right als and students who began entering the Left ponsibility, bias, and triviality, on most issues. place. 1 Ihink that I've just got more and more involv Wing movement in • the late 50's and 60's, Finally, 1 think wc need an immediate mass- ed, you know froin a point of view first, where partly it also means people whose proposals action movement against the obviously rigged Queenslanders are conservative - not in an I simply felt a lot of sympathy with people who for radical change are posed in times of institu electoral system that sustains the Country ideological way but from the view of the prac were engaged in direct action I've now came to tional changes rather than proposals backed by Party in power with about 19 per cent of the tical handyman on the farm. Caution, border a position where I think that direct action is the theory of dass confiict. Though here it's votes. ing on paranoia is part of the Queensland style. utterly necessary in certain respects, you know, bccommg increasingly difficult to distinguish (Extract from interview by John Alexander, This state Is the last resting place of the con in our society. between the old and the new Left because as 17 March 1969, Page 4) spiracy theory and the communist can, (Extracts, 20 March 1975, Pages 11 and 14)

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For the past five days my mind has been full of this one obsessive thought. Just what would I do if my fears were true? I've often thought about it. But do I really know as much as I think I do? I've never read a proper book about anything. You just seem to pick things up as soon as you're old enough to wonder what that abstract, enigmatical word sex means. \ haven't even had a talk with my mother since I was about eleven. Jt seems to be non-existent in our house. And yet it is around every where. Practically everything has it as a motivating force back somewhere; man and woman, black and white, positive and negative. To a boy either he has got a girl into trouble or his girl friend is in trouble .. She has got a load. Maybe to him she's a pro, moll, tart, bird, darling, whore, bitch, twit, slut, brush, sheila, sweetheart, Jill . . . perhaps he's in love with her. Whether she got it in the backseat or a motel after knowing him ten minutes or ten months is no matter. Something has to be done.

How docs she know it was him? God! Society is so complicated. It sets up so when he leaves me and when I'm with him 1 fcrred down lo Sydney or something ... 1 She gets around enough. How do I know she's many false standards. When you're a kid you wish wc could slip into eternity together. should be able to hide it for at least a few not just having mc? It's not my business if she believe that cverytliing your parents tell you 1 love the long, slim line of his body. He is months. If I got a transfer interstate, nobody races off with every bloke that gives her the about good and evil is just so. It can never be my complement. His body is firm, but his would know who I was and 1 could arrange once-over. A bloke's got to get it somehow. any different. The law is laid. But naivencss skin is smooth. He's young and strong, potent everything down there and come back again at Shit! Why did God have to make women so gives Way to scepticism and the rules put down ially active but always gentle. I love to feel his the end of the year exactly the same as when 1 bloody complicated. Besides she was a damn by our failicts ate questioned when it is realis Warmth and breathing beside mc and to lay my left. bat. I don't know what got into me to want ed they arc not cut and dried. One does not head on his shoulder. I love to touch him A bit unrealistic? Hell! I wonder if I would her, anyway. step into sex on the wedding night. One's and put my arms around him and pull him really have the guts to do it? Of course, that Sure, I lold her 1 loved her and what beauti desires for the opposite sex, sexually and ro close. 1 love him to do it to mc. I love to ruffic would mean adoption. I don't think I could ful eyes she had (like muddy water). Wc even mantically, grow and mature with experience. his hair. I love to look into his clear eyes and just hand over a life I had helped to create to talked about eternity. 1 didn't even remember A sixteen-year-old loves as deeply as any couple grope to reach the perfection of mind and somebody else; just like a parcel. I would her second name when 1 saw her again. God! on their silver wedding anniversary. It is this body which comes with oneness. I love to know always feel drawn back to it and very guilty - 1 wouldn't even have rung her up. Hell! Life conflict between tlie natural desires of the how he has spent his day, even what he ate I know lots of kids who have gone through is bloody strange. Now she's going to have my young who arc healthy and naturally inquistiive for breakfast. 1 like to be depended upon and the same thing. Abortion? I wish Kaye was in kid. Part of me is inside of her. A bond formed and the mores of society which cause so much to have somebody to always turn to. 1 love to town. She's the only one I could talk to about from promises made only to be broken. I of the storm and stress of the twelve to twenty say this is - when I introduce him. I love him, having one. She had one about a year ago and wonder how she feels about it and me. group. By twenty it is realised that these un but it is a sin to love in such a way. later married the boy . . . Most of the other Right now a thousand thoughts are racing written laws rest on very shaky posts. I should not have to worry. This should girls I could ask have been around a lot more through my brain. Will 1 tell him? I know 1 be the time to anticipate a great joy. 1 do not than I have and would just love to gossip. wasn't just a one night affair. We've been going Any girl can get into trouble, whether she want to destroy what may be pulsating witliin 1 don't think I could say anything to my around with each other for some time now be from St. Lucia or Inala. It happens a lot. me. I see it as an image of him. I believe deeply parents. They just wouldn't understand. I'm and 1 know he likes mc a lot and 1 love him so If you love somebody you want to share every in the sancity of life, no matter what its form. sure they don't know what goes on. Besides much. If society wasn't so damn hypocritical thing and always be together ... I love him How can 1 reconcile my conflicting feelings? .Mum raises the roof when 1 only boil over I'd live with him. Wc probably won't get so much I would go anywhere with him or do Surely it's not impossible? Where could I go? the milk. married but right now I wani him for all the anything for him. He's not handsome, but I Wliat would 1 say? It would look awfully sus Wliy is it illegal? It goes on. time and if I can't have him for ever, I'll still love his expressions and all the things he says picious if I suddenly left home and shot and docs. 1 love to care for him, I miss him Everyone knows it docs. When I'm sure remember him for ever. through. Perhaps I could get my course trans- something has happened. I'll tell my boy friend. Although I don't think he would know of anybody who could help. 1 know he would stand by me and do all he could to help me work something out. I'll tell my best girl friend too. We are very close and trust each other completely and I would have to have somebody else besides my boy friend to talk about it. She knows us both well and would SOTHATSWHO not condemn or judge us. But where does that get me? I'm still in Semper interviews Pete Townshendl! trouble. I guess I'll have to tell a third person. 1 know one of my ex-boy friends has found out The Who exploded into fire? Well, no quite. But their Festival Hall concert last about getting at least two girls abortions, January was a good one anyway. It was a pity that a show which depended heavily on although not because cf him. I hate to think what he will think of me coming to him. It theatrical techniques fell down badly technically. Sound balance was so bad that singers could be embarrassing and yet neither of them could only rarely be heard, and the much-publicised lighting lost so much of its effect is easily embarrassed. Not everyone can afford through sloppy handling (light changes not fast enough, and so on). Despite this The abortions. Who provided an excellent half hour of pop music, running through their hits, a few 1 won't let him pay all of it. It's just aS LP numbers, including Peter Townshend's miniopera 'A Quick One While He's Away', much my fault that it happened. God, when did it happen? I'm sure I gave my.sclf enough time. an climaxing the evening with the electrifying presentation of 'My Generation'. We're not that ignorant and - always knows Townshend, who is the group's guitarist and has written all their hit songs, was what he's doing. It does not seem wrong. It is interviewed by Semper at Brisbane Airport. ,. very beautiful and mysterious. What if - can't help me? Oh, boy! But he just has to. What am I going to do if he can't Q, What is die purpose of music? What is the as a very good finale to a show. It's a very exciting thing, it grabs their attention, it or won't? 1 don't really know too much about purpose of pop music? What is it specifically what would happen if he did anyway. I often that The Who arc trying to do? affects them physically, it leaves them genuine ly shaken. That's why it's such a good finale. think about it, I've read about things, seen A. The purpose of music is to transmit the films, heard talk, but 1 don't really know ex thoughts and emotions of the author to the If tlie show has been a good one, it take it one step further. If it's bad, it can make it good. actly what would happen. 1 wish 1 could talk audience. It's got to affect the audience in some to Kaye. I sec Bea Faust's imploring and agon way. In addition, it's got to be something Q. Is pop music leaving its audience behind? ising expressions as she argues with a smug they enjoy; it provides entertainment. Pop A. It's not leaving its audience behind, it's preacher on 'Fighting Words', about whether music does all this, but it's got to be something taking them with it. But it is leaving behind a it should be illegal. I see strange instnimcnts new as well, because it's played to a young whole lot of thirtcen-ycar-old kids, who have from 'Project 65', I see Norman Bank's ugly audience, and they want new things. IMiat wc n't heard this stuff before. Like the Beatles' grin as he discusses contraceptives, Uni. de are trying to do is get at actual individuals. •Hello Goodbye' - goodbye to all the thirtccn- bates. Truth's headlines, 1 see delicate young The best way of doing this is at a live perform there's enough going on in the world to worry year-olds. What we are getting is that light them. They don't like to be told that there's girls falling down stairs, wild horserides, strange ance, where you can get direct communication music is taking over, music aimed at people concoctions from a witch's kitchen, hot baths between the performer and the listener . . . anything or anyone bigger than they are, they in their twenties, young marrieds, and so on. like to thuik they're the biggest thing tlierc is. and gin. But the kids want something new - they are I am afraid. I see myself walking along a Q. A lot of interpretations have been placed Q. You once described your work as 'something on your smashing instruments. What is the idea the ones that are being left out. As 1 said, dark street, until 1 reach a cold, bare room with music must provide entertainment. People Wagnerian' what were you referring (o? a big, bright light. The walls are shining white behind this? A. 1 suppose I meant Wagner's personal in A. Most intelligent people simply interpret it don't want to be worried by music, because while the doctor has on big black gloves. What fluence on me, an influence via mythology. else is there? I think of what 1 would have lost. The idea of using mythology is very attractive, Who will want mc after this? I feel empty because you can say things without having to and very lonely. Perhaps he will do a bad job? believe in them. I've heard about those too. Wliy should such a I mean the more you believe in, the more gift of God turn to such sadness or tragedy? there is to doubt; the same goes for science - 1 remember how I wept when 1 thought I could tlie more it proves, the more it finds it has to not have - at all. prove; the more problems it solves, the more it God! Please help mc. What am 1 going to finds there is to solve. Mythology takes you do? Please drive these crazy thouglits out of beyond this, because you arc suspending belief my head. Make me think rationally. I'm not in your frame of reference. Mahler, too, is one even sure I've got anything to worry about yet. of my favourite composers. There's similarity I'll give myself at least two more weeks before there - Mahler wrote for a God, for an old man FIND r^y pnofoDNoesrC*mtl\) mr in Htrr...Ju*' «>» I do anything about it. / I'm (iMi>Mr,f tn nhtt/iff « "V" con anHeipatt-mt fvtvf. numnlc anditms^ in the sky sitting in an armchair. 1 don't he- THOUOMTS ll'i*"

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fee ta WO. *' campus BEATS When corisidering the homosexuality issue, a question that immediately springs to mind is 'Why do Australians react so violently to 'queers'? From interviewing a number of homosexuals on this subject, there seems to be two, though the second is a result of the first, answers. Firstly, most camps seem to con sider that most Australians are hung up with one big inferiority complex \yhen they compare themselves to their counterparts in the United States and Great Britain. As a result of this they try very hard to have the typical Australian big, bronzed, beer swilling, beachgoing image, This gives them a preoccupation with 'masculinity', and therefore to preserve this image they subconsciously consider that tiiey must be re pulsed by homosexuality. And it is from this that we get the second answer. (Cnronmion Drive, 1967 Civil Liberties March, Reprinted from 17 March 1969, Page 11)

Tliesc 'typical Australian' types spend a own parlies, tiieir own vernacular and do not great deal of time with otlier men, drinking want to go beyond this, one of the main rea together, going to buck's parties together, and sons being thai they know how detrimental it generally carrying on with all the other activ would be to their jobs if too many of the wrong ities which arc regarded as normal to 'mate- type of people knew of their activities. And Confessions of a ship'. All these activities which come under the make no mistake, quite a number of camps are title of mateship are basically homo.scxual brilliant people. Perhaps this is because tlicy in tone, e.g. doing a 'liambone' at a buck's are more .sensitive then most 'normal* or party, or having drinking races where every 'square' people, and because of their position body strips because they claim it is getting in society, as it stands today, arc such ex worried Radical hot and actually all they want to do is feel and cellent judges of human nature. see each other's body, and so again tliere is a great subconscious rebellion .igainsi anyone I spent four of the past five years at Monash, that 'singing centre of Melbourne's who looks in the least bit pretty, and it is a GAY PARTIES demonstration business', as someone called it. 1 was, for a considerable time, part of great Australian pastime of 'belting up a few that business, and I offer these as some disconnected thoughts on the subject of queers', Tlie first gay party I went to absolutely student politics in the 1960s. It is no doubt that these so-called typical .shocked mc, I went along with the preconceiv ed idea of having to protect myself from being My remarks may not have hit the nail on the head, indeed, the nail may be imagin Australians have a large percentage of latent homosexuals and practising homosexuals raced off by homosexual men. and was com ary. I am also aware of not having sufficiently qualified what I have said. amongst them. Almost all the camps that I pletely and utterly surprised by Ihe fact that I have met claim that they find their easiest was not bothered when I explained to them My admiration for those who really care about where we are going is both unfeign pick-ups at a certain Brisbane hotel renowned that 1 was square. At the party, the camps ed and unpatronising. They have had a vitalising effect on Australian society which, if for its footballcr-typc clientele. And. sur were quite different than they are at normal not profound (who, outside the university, cares any more than they did because prising as it may seem, they all agree that places, and this was especially noticeable in the manner of their speech. All were speaking of what we have done?) is certainly real. Queensland was so aptly named as it is the canipcst slate in Australia. with affected accents, trying very hard to speak Issues have been brought to light and argued over, people in the universities, and Hkc women. All seemed to be enjoying them outside them to some extent, have stood up and had themselves counted. Something (31 March 1969, PatielO) selves immensely, and at one stage we were like a conscience shows signs of birth, at least far more than in the 1950s. treated to a strip by a beautiful drag queen (man dressed as a woman), and this was fol DO CAMPS HARM SOCIETY lowed by a .screaming little drag queen get (A) i. Ours is a century in which (the iv. To have as one's goal the good society IN ANY WAY? figures as Camus') 70 million human beings is to be content with travelling forward a yard ting extremely jealous and wanting to claw have been killed, enslaved or uprooted, and and slipping back thirty-five inches, the former's eyes out. In fact it was very like these arc conservative figures. Such a statemeni The answer to this must be emphatically the situation at normal square parties once V. My own position is very similar to that no. Tlic old stories of camps running around staggers the imagination and the most predict of my grandfather, a Lancashire carpenter: you got over the idea that half the men were able reaction for those who have considered 'Lad, I were born a socialist and I shall die a molesting young boys, etc., arc nothing more playing the part of women whether they were it is a stance of conservative pessimism. Rad socialist, in between 1 just worry'. than myth. Camps generally keep to themselves, dressed in drag or not. and arc quite content to work within these ical optimism, after a consideration of this, is (Extracts, 31 March 1969, Pagr? 11) a luxury that few can afford. SOME AXIOMS, PERHAPS? boundaries. They have their own hotels, their ii. This 'radical optimism' often goes with that cynical attitude towards Ihc world which i. An increase in freedom should be the someone called nostalgia for belief. It is also, ultimate of all our endeavours, not a wish to all too often, horrifically unimaginative. A scarify the Establishment. Except insofar as person who promulgates or proselytizes an scarifying the Establishment is a necessary ideology now is more an ape with a bulldozer. part of what wc are doing. DRUGS AND YOU iii. These radical optimists, with melan ii. There is such a thing as intolerable choly predictability, start, too often, fo use tolerance. Drugs are here and here to stay. Don't counters and symbols instead of thinking. They lit 1 am my brother's keeper, but neither stick your head in the sand and try to become Sinophilcs at the drop of a red fiag his pedagogue nor his master. If we reject avoid the problems they have brought and jump on the merry old bandwagon. Then, that injunction upon us then we reject that of course, you don't have to use your imagin solidarity and charity that are so.neccssary to with them, by either ignoiing that they ation, you don't have to think problems our Sanity. exist at all, or by passing new laws with through to the end, you don't have to make iv. The extent to which a man is civilised heavier and heavier penalties for an action things difficult for yourself. Why bother under is ofteri best measured by the thoughtfulncss which is not even a crime (the taking or standing the world before you start to change and delicacy of his prejudices. possession of restricted drtigs, is, by law, it? V. Tlicy should be involved in politics only iv. A concern solely with Ihc mechanics of insofar as it is necessary to protect the people a criminal offence) against other indivi a situation has as its cause the most vulgar from politics. The worid still has muaculous duals, but rather by recognising what is of superstitions: the basis of the inequities beauty as well as injustice and madness. obviously a need of modem society with in our society are rarely, if ever, understood vi. Human beings are sohtary, unendingly its pressures and demands on intlividuals, only in terms of reason. Reason unilluminatcd and horrifically so. The conscience is forged by passion and compassion leads all too often in silence and in solitude. and by finding ways by which the hazards to depravity. Unremitting pragmatism kilts vii. An idealist at twenty is twenty, an of drug taking could be reduced or elim as surely as cyanide. idealist at forty is an idealist. inated. How about centres, run by V. Have you got a photograph of Che government health departments, where a Guevara in your room? If so why? Is he at IN LIEU OF A TEXT supervised L.S.D. trip can be taken? It best but a symbol (but of what?) at worst L: Remaking the worid is an insignificant Pot Smoke-in,. 1968. (The mass media were the an inane irrelevance? When did you last use task. bears thinking about, so please do so. true victims on this occasion.) the word 'bourgeois'? Can you really put C: It is not the worid that we have to remake, (Extract, 31 March 1969, Page 8) (3i March 1969,pa()c9) several sane and precise sentences together to but man. explain your point of view? (that intolerable C: There arc fools everywhere. But everywhere wrestle with words and meanings!). Or with' else there arc fools and cowards. You will you is it that everyone is a genius but no one not find a single coward amongst us. bothers anymore to say anything intelligent? L: Heroism is a secondary virtue. (B) i. What I am heartily afraid of, what in C: You have the right to say so because you STUDENT PRANKS deed 1 despise, is that baleful lack of imagination have shown what you can do. But what then is What's Good For The Goose without which there is no real morality, those your primary virtue? mentally crippling excuses for thought. That L: (looking at him) - Friendship. The Graduation Ceremonv on the night of Thursday, 29th May, revealed just what L: If the world is tragic, if we arc torn asunder very real intolerance among the Left of opin an inane bunch we are. ions contrary to their own, that belief that by life, this is not because of tryants. You and"! socialism is more important than democracy. know that there is a freedom, a justice, a deep, The ragged hooliganism of a mob of depraved Freshers, bearing aloft shovels and shared joy, in short a community in the struggle •And that anaemic attitude towards society blowing bugles, was not a very good indication of student humour. Many students against tyrants. When evil rules there is no seem to think that-'hutnour' must necessarily be associated with noisy bugles, scream which could be cured by reading a few good problem. When your enemy is wrong, those who novels. One can learn more about false con ing, swearing and unusual clothing. This lurid type of behaviour only serves to arouse fight against him are free and at peace with the general and easy-going public to glowing frenzy. sciousness by reading Dickens than from all themselves, but wc are torn apart bccuasc the Marx in the Uritish Museum. men who arc also working for the good of man ii. The power which intellectuuls have, want to achieve it straiglit away, or decide that Stunts at Commem. Ceremony, if they are A few innocent revelers were arrested to pay (don't, for the moment, let us be coy about it will be achieved within three generations, the word) is at best some small influence on funny, are objectionable to nobody. Witness, for the earlier strcet-arab tactics of an unruly and this is enough to separate them from us the case of the Chancellor's anthropologicai mass of larrikins. I venture to say that anyone theh society, at worst it is an elegant and forever. jiloquent rejection of everything in that society. friends. Smoke bombs, rotten tomatoes, water of these hoodlums, who grin happily as they The choice, for anyone but a moral idiot, is PAUL MARRIOTT bombs and their ilk arc not amusing at alt, go about their rampages.lacks the courage to clear. (12 May 1969, Page 10) and therefore, wc can do without them:. do the same thing without the mob to support 1 do not decry the harmless stunt. It hurts VM. The good society, I am sure, will conic him. nobody and amuses most people. However, Undoubtedly, the well-planned humorous one day, But it is not very likely to come when a graduand, in new blue suit, about,to about by tinkering with social fiat, but from but harmless prank, whose autliors remain receive his degree on what (for liim at least) anonymous, is Ihe one from which outsiders within, and after a struggle. Wc must begin must be a memorable occasion, is grcated by a, in the schools, by educating reasonable social draw the most enjoyment, not the puerile paperbag full of flour, the majority of people rampaging flock who, widi childish glee, des beings, and that is a job for a prometheus. It find little to laught at. can only come about with a full acceptance troy all in their path. of the complexity and delicacy of what we Unfortunately, the real hooligans of Thurs Let us not confuse hooliganism with ate domg and the ideas with which we are dcal- day night escaped the clutches of the police. humour! hig. I (Editorial, 14 May 1954, Page 21

~~SEIViPER-SOth Annlvanary Issue-Page 40 GddenGteats Univerisitj^ Prankis—and the Public By Brewster Wentworth~~

November 1956 . . . and a huge crowd has packed Martin Place, Sydney, to wel come the Olympic torch on its lourney to Melbourne. A narrow lane leads to where the Lord Mayor stands in his robes and chain along with other dignitaries to welcome the runner. The distant cheers come closer... There is a stir among the crowd. A figure in running togs appears triumphantly waving the silver torch. The Mayor comes forward to take the torch from him. Suddenly a startled expression comes over his face - recorded by countless news- reel and TV cameras. He hesitates in the middle of his carefully prepared speech of welcome. THE TORCH IS NOTHING BUT A TIN ON THE END OF A STICK. THE WHOLE THING IS COVERED WITH SILVER PAINT - STILL WET!

Some has come off on the Mayor's hands. nothing could be funnier. By the evening most people have heard Pranking has an elan all of its own. People of the incident, which was the work of Sydney who can't sec anything funny in pranks are University students. There arc plenty who arc rather like people who don't like oysters or ready to decry it as completely out of keeping beer or the (joons. with the dignified occasion; others are more Some claim that pranking is a rich man's charitable. habit, dating from tlie days when knowledge Certainly, to organise and carry out a prank was the exclusive property of those who could of such barefaced magnitude demonstrated afford it. admirably the spirit of the Olympics.. , even This can no longer be said when the major if expended in a field which has not so far ity of students at the University arc maintained received official recognition. by scholarships. IN 1956, first-year Architecture staged a mock suicide at the * * * Actually, celebrations such as Commem. The habit of pranking is rooted in the stu are directly descended from the folk festivals Grey Street Bridge, The "corpse," which is heitig'inspecied dent mentality: the prank itself - which should of the middle ages. here by the ^vatev police, was .stuffed with Seniper Floreats. not be destructive ~ is a much studied and « * » serious art. PROTESTS (2 May 1958, Page 2) Like other arts, it has its classics, such as Many pranks these days are inspired by a the prank organised at Cambridge early in very real desire to do good. Bureaucratic in the century, when students masquerading as efficiency, red tape, and the incompetence of the Princes of Ethiopia, complete with en governing bodies have all been targets for the It made its way to the centre of the city, in pranking too - pranks that for the most tourage and '"Macphcrson of the Foreign ptankcr. where policemen were struggling frantically part have caused amusement, inconvenience, Office", were taken over the British Home In Adelaide the traffic situation was very with the biggest jam of all. Suddenly huge perhaps - but rarely damage or injury. Fleet as personal guests of the Admiral and bad at peak hours. The city was regularly clouds of smoke began to pour ou t of it. Ten years ago Engineering students, disguis received full military honours. choked up by paralysing jams. In sixty seconds there was hardly a car to ed as a Council gang, succeeded in closing The student retort was almost fiendish. be seen (or, as far as I know, a policeman). down the Victoria Bridge for several hours. SILLY OR NOT? One day among the rush of homeward 12 May, 1958, Page 4) All this may seem ratlier silly to the student, moving cars appeared a large red truck label BRISBANE conscious of a long tradition of pranking. led 'DANGER - HIGH EXPLOSIVES'. Brisbane students have a fairly good record

Whatever one's views on the Vietnam quest WOMEN ATTACKED ity of the audience goes to see the play as a ion, I imagined that at University level the play- argument would be approached in an open- SIR: I am an average 'Varsity male, no more Just take a took around the tiieatre duruig minded manner, that speakers would be lis exacting or moie critical than my fellows, but a crucial moment in the plot - for example, tened to, and that comment would be marked I must admit that I have yet to meet the when Roo destroys the 'Seventeentii Doll' - by something better than the illogical emo 'Varsity woman who possesses a fully de and I think you will see why the audier^ce is tionalism identified with the Courier Mail and veloped mmd coupled with personality and titeiB. Centenary Park. It was these same engineers social graces. If I have mistaken your meaning I beg who last month set out to dissuade Vietnam Surely, the University, with its cultural your paidon. If not, then 1 suggest you take protesters by the highly civilized and intel and social aspects should produce some of the a look at the audience next time you go to lectual method of throwing eggs and fruit. most interesting and the most charmmg women the theatre - on a last night. It is a pity they were incapable of expressing one could possibly hope to meet. 1 know J.J. ANDREWS, Eng. IV. their objections more in keeping with the uni that it is a University of which I am writing, (The Editors showed Mr Rowbotham the versity motto of 'Light, Liberty and Learning'. and not a Matrimonial Bureau, but it is quite letter printed above, and asked him if he would Perhaps as they grow up these engineers logical, though it does not necessarily follow, like to reply. Mr Rowbotham said he preferred will lose their present sUong herd instinct Uiat one might find one's affinity among this not to comment.) and learn to think our their own ideas and group of women, with whom as fellow students 126 February 1959, Page 5) PORNOGRAPHY actions even if they are never able to express we snare the hopes and aspirations ol 'Varsity them. I hope so, for the idea of this yelling, life. But at the completion of my course at the SIR: My 20-year-old daughter, who is engaged thoughtless mob as the future leaders of the "Varsity I shall be cast upon the world a con MODERN MUSIC v. OLD to a nice, clean-living young man, recently Australian community is for me a frightenmg firmed bachelor. brought home a copy of lhat filthy muck- one. In the fint place, the 'Varsity woman is DEAR SIR: Must the dance programmes at rakuig University newspaper 'Semper Fioreat'. CAROLBROWN one-track-minded, her conversations revolves Commem. Prac. and oUier Varsity functions I was disgusted to find that this obscene ARTS I about 'Varsity doings and 'Varisty people, be 99 or 100 percent jazz? publication mentioned sex a number of times. (Vol. 36 No. 7, Page 3) her horizon is as limited as that of a school Let modern dancing predommate, by all My daughter's fiance was also shocked, gid, and she is apathetic to people or events means, in this our abode of culture, but what I would like to know why the Queens outside the sphere of the 'Varsity. Keenness about a Gypsy Tap, an Old Time Waltz, or a land Literature Board of Control has not ban WHACKO CRITIQUE about "Varsity affairs is commendable, but Pride of Erin occasionally for those who ned tliis indecent publication, to prevent the' YESTERDArS PAPERS at a dance, 'Varsity men, like busmess men, would retain certain of tiieir 'common' tastes? minds of young, susceptible Uni students do not want to talk shop all the time. Also, Is student opuiion ever sought on this from being blackened by this garbage. SIR: I have waited twenty-four hours before in my opinion, a woman loses some of the matter, or must we bow to 'just another tradit writing this. Last night 1 .received Whacko feminity which righUy should be hers when ion'? Yours, etc., I myself never had any sex education and she sustains tliat man-to-man attitude in her I have never regretted this, 1967 (University Commem Week Magazine). NIL SANGUINEUM BONUM To say it is obscene would be to con conservation with her dancing partners which (Letter to Editor, 30 March 1944, Page 3) MOTHER OF FIFTEEN is so typical of everyday discourse between Annerley. fuse the issue. It is simply bad. Not morally in the accepted sense but bad in every con men and women at Uie 'Varsity. (Commem Semper 27 April 1968, Page 12) ceivable way that can be related to human In short, most 'Varsity women make good STUDENTS DEGENERATE values. pals, but few can supply the ideal combination Like so much Australiana it depends upon of comradeship and enough piquancy to appeal DEAR SIR: Last week I strolled mto tiie women being treated as objects. Objects of fun, to man's imagaination. -1 am, etc. Men's Common Room for the first time this PAPER DARTS AND PRIMARY SCHOOL scum, ridicule or contempt, it doesn't matter ADAM. year, and I thought that I was back at second Attack on and-war activities by Engineers which. Women are things you take advantage (7 April 1938. Page 3) ary school. The wheless was blurting out some of and run down afterwards for being sluts. hot swing number, papers were strewn across SIR: • Idealistically, beginning my university The explanation of this attitude is to be tiie floor, chairs were upside down; in fact, I course this year, I imagined entering a tolerant found in the sexual, in its Freudian sense, CULTURAL SNOBBERY thought I was in the wrong building. To add to community articulately expressing opinions inadequacies of die typical catholic, football this Uie dress of the majority present wasn't based on rational examination and enquiry. worthy of a hobo. Ninety percent were without playing, beer-swilling, membcr-of-the-regiment I have read David Rowbotham's article in The talk on Vietnam on Friday 10.6.66 by Mr en^eer. coats. That is all right - quite sensible. Eighty Alan Fraser, M.H.R., certainly dispelled tliis the 1958 Uiird term A.U.P. supplement; I percent were without tics. That is all right. H. McQUEEN would like to ask him a question. youthful misconception. A party of engineer (2 June 1967. Page 2) But tiiose tie-less ones wore shirts that were ing students had flocked along behind their Referring to tlie Elizabethan Theatre Trust, certainly not decentiy pressed, clean and neat leaders with the express purpose of preventing he says: 'But the Trust is giving far greater There is no excuse for not behig neat Surely the speaker from making his ideas heard. This satisfaction to those in society who practice WE'RE ALL RIGHT MAC this is indicative of degeneration when men do they did most effectively by a continual battery not literature but what Aldous Huxley called not even take the (;are to make themselves of witless catcalls, stampuig and laughter. Cultural snobbery'. DEAR SIR: Nothing in mere print could excite presentable - even more so in a University. TTiey evidently found the enumeration of the Now Mr Rowbotiiam, arc you implying that Carelessness is the result of decadence, follow nur ber of bombs dropped on the Vietnamese mc more. Thank you for the copy of Semper tiie mqjorfty of people who watch the Trust Fioreat, which I thought a most creditably ing which people and cultures disintegrate and people especially worthy of prolonged applause productions are 'cultural snobs'? go under. and meriiment The audience on the whole lively production. I shall be glad to receive Granted that many people will go to see a further copies. play because tiieir friends are talking about it; Yours etc., was reminiscent of a rock'n'roll show rather Mr. DEEDS than a university lecture room, and intelligent JAMES McAULEY but then most people will got to see a particu comment was replaced - by the throwing of Editor 'Quadrant' lar film for similar reasons, and surely tiiat is (Letter to Editor, 20 April 1944, Page 3) [Words fad us-Eds.] aper darts and primary school standard heck- not snobbery. g (13 April 1961, Page 2) I should say that an overwhclming-maiot- I'.'.'l'^KK.-i-y.'K-V..V.'A'i.'

~~SEMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 41 GddeQ Greats~~

~~POLICE, PYJAMAS, ...AND McMAHON~~

~~'*# donU cmre it th&ff DfD dr^sft up a.spolictf..." The Pyjania Party raids: Another interpretation of legal loopholes BY JOHN FOGARTY~~

After the 'Courier Mail's" usual open, honest coverage of the pyjama-party raid has sharply divided the thinking^ reading public into an anti-teenager faction, I think it time to open another side of the case. This, though it does not present the teenager as pure as the driven snow smirch ed by the gutter press, nevertheless does not view the police action in a favourable light. (Cartoons from Commem Issue - 'Telegraff - 1964) It seems to mc that the 'Courier Mail' They lurk in shadows, they travel on fast has taken up arms in vindication of I. BischoPs motor-bikes and employ all their efficient biltz on breaches of the liquor laws. organisation to descent on him like the Assy Their argument is roughly: Wc present this rian on the fold. wicked teenage behaviour lo you (the respect It is little wonder, then, that he feels it a able citizens of this community), to show you point of honour not to be beaten into sub how right the good policeman is in stamping mission, and that prohibition becomes for him What Varsity linlis out this menace to the flower of our Australian an incentive. youth. Another accusation which can be levelled However, this puts the cart before the at the Licensing Squad is that their raids horse. It is more correct to say that the enforce constitute public interference in matters of ment of these laws has produced the situation. private morals. There is nothing the teenager desires more An assembly of people whose numbers of V.D.C Scheme than to appear in the paper as wicked and are fixed by the issue of invitations - an rebellious, and to have his persecution complex assembly in which there arc no comings and Most encouraging words we met in our.hunt for opinions on the plan for formation of a Varsity catered to by the brutal police. goings, as there are in a saloon bar or beer V.D.C. unit came from women. garden - may be regarded as a private one. Were thev bellicose! 'No fiddling non-combatant jobs for us,' tiiey said: 'we want to go after PROHIBITION IS AN And any punitive action may be interpret the Jups with bayonets," INCENTIVE FOR YOUTH ed as a disapproval of the morals of the indiv Unfortunately, the V.D.C. is not open to women. However, auxiliaries are, and although the idual. You might almost say that the State is V.D.C. up-tops frown on auxiliaries. Army Minister Forde is not strenuously opposed to them. Long before these raids took place, or meddling in the business of the Churches. So something may be done yet. indeed before the present blitz had started, And finally, there is the legal aspect of the (18 May 1947, Page 1) custodians of the law would drop into a bar affair. You have the Police, on one hand, and start taking names. claiming that spiritous liquors and alcoholic Perhaps the teenager felt this as an in beverages arc being served in the vicinity of a vasion of his privacy or that he was being public dance hall, and the proprietor, on the chastised while engaged in an innocent occup other, pointing to his bogus invitations and ation. calling it a private party. Whatever the reason, the flower of Aus It is a case of loophole fights loophole. Culture Comes to Q'ld.! tralian youth has gathered the impression that (13 March 1959, Page 5) the police are out to 'get' him.

Mass swooning on the Kidney Lawn marked last Wednesday's address by Sir Laurence Olivier. Sir Laurence's vigorous figure, we noted, was covered by a beautifully- tailored grey D.B. suit, a striped shirt, a tasteful red tie and brilliatit tan shoes. Lady Olivier's figure, we noted, was covered. a writer's theatre, when a writer was the domin Poetry for the People Sir Laurence began, "Learned Gentry, Professors, Masters, Alumni and Fellow Stu ating personality of the theatre". dents. . ." and went on to include himself in Speaking on the possibility of an Australian (By D. H. ROWBOTTHAM) the category of student. Theory he regarded National Theatre, Sir Laurence gave as his opin as the backwash of success; he himself was a ion that we should have one. "It would be a Poetry for the people is merely an ideal these days because remarkably little is practitioner, not a theorist. Aviators who learnt start. It would be the wrong way to start, but being written: this, for one reason, in view of the fact that poetry is kept alive mainly to fiy, in the early days, by the seat of their that didn't matter." He pointed out that it by the small minority of enthusiasts and is consequently written more particularly pants, were apt to despise the lecturer on would encourage competition and so help for the intellectual enjoyment of these few. aerodynamics; and he himself was inclined that develop a thriving theatre. way, for he had learnt acting, directing, pro If 'Semper' were a real newspaper like our It is doubtful if the majority of people could mention offhand half a dozen Aus- • ducing - if not by the seat of his pants, at least down-town cousins, we probably could have tralian poets or a dozen English ones; but that is not entirely their fault, nor is it in a similar manner. run banner headlines in the foliowmg manner - entirely the poets'. All of us cannot be expected to develop a keen taste for poetry, At this point, the attention of the audience Olivier Advocates Nationalisation of especially after passing through the dehydrating atmosphere of State Schools; nor was temporarily distracted as Lady Olivier Theatre. can the poet who feels himself inclined to a great theme be expected to prostitute the adjusted her hat. Socialism Rampant in Old Vic. finer attributes of his art to please the less poetically-minded, who probably would Speaking on the difficulties of producing Thus would we have ensured a complete never read his poem anyway. and acting in Shakespearian tragedy. Sir Lau sale ofall editions. rence stated that the first duty of the actor On the completion of his address, Sir It is safe to say that a satisfactory .equUi- was to ititerprct faithfully whatever the author Laurence asked for questions, one of which the descriptive or the intellectual. No wonder brium in both the writing and the reading of then that in modern England there is no poet was trying to say. Whatever method w^s adopt (inevitably) was, "Why no Richard III?" poetry wiU never be reached; and it is really ed, the ideas of the author must be shown with Having dealt with all questions in a business who may justly claim to be popular among the just was well, for if such a stage had been people. While versifiers like Ezra Pound and the greatest truth. The difficulties of doing like manner, he gracefully surrendered the reached pcrmanentiy before this Milton would this were chiefly bound up with the average microphone to our Union President, who said T.S. Eliot arc wallowing in morasses of obscur have written 'Paradise Lost' in a jocular vein; antism, it is more refreshing and far easier to intelligence of tiie people who comprised the he felt at a loss, but appeared to recover in Shelley, pandering to popular sentiments, audience. time to accompany the distinguished visitors turn to novels and short stories. would have unbound Prometheus in the first Speaking particularly of the country which The speaker asserted tiiat the cinema had to the Refectory for a good feed of spuds and act; and at the other extrcmily of the picture savs. concerns us most, Australia needs now, new done to the stage what photography had done on this side of the world, C.J. Dennis, for fear poets to give it new stories (preferably in a to the artist, ie, forced them to go back and Wc were impressed by the athletic prowess', of censorship would never have written "The new way), uicorpotating and preserving the find a new method of expression, displayed by people taking a short cut past the Austral - aise"... spirits of the narrative and the simple which Lady Olivier here turned her head, and the Psychology Department in time for a glimpse Poets today have lost or rather have not were translated by Paterson, Lawson and others. attention of the male members of the audience at the great as they turned tuckerwards. Or per come upon the advantageous art of writing FitzGerald and Slessor are outstanding poets was again distracted to the profile beautiful. haps they were hungry too. poetry of human interest. Although Shake and remain so by cultivatuig their hidividual Sir Laurence was confident of the future The smister workmgs fo Communist intel speare is read and played now only in schools. styles; but surely there is a poet somewhere of the English TheaUe. "Although wc arc lectuals at the University, feailessly exposed Universities, and among small isolated groups who may be able to satisfy the poetic desires gobig through a period when few wortiiwhile by tiie 'Sunday Mail' last week, were further who keep his genius alive, it should be re of tiie people, and also, even if those desires plays arc being written, that is probably a tem revealed by this propaganda address from a membered ius appeal was once extraordin are momentarily latent because of the barren porary state of affairs, due to the aftermath prominent member of the British Society for arily universal. ness of titc age in narrative verse, is able to a- of war." He was sure we would find more the improvement of Cultural Relations with Times change, testes change, but funda- waken and stimulate them again. brilliant dramatists, more good plays, before die USSR. The fact Uiat he wore a red tic has mentaUy, the desires of a people remain the been noted on the appropriate dossier. Let them write for the people. All they ask long. He referred to the present state of the same, the desire in poetry for story and simpllc- is: give us simplicity, give us a story. tiieatre as 'an actor's theatre, as distinct from (9 September 1948, Page 1) ity, the partiality for the narrative ratiier than (25 July 1947, Page b)

S&MPER • SOth Anntvertary tsiue • Page 42 QidenGeats piimqmmrwTi PRINCESS TO I SEE SEMPER SEMPER aOREATS pK//\C/:;SS ALEXANDR.4 has asked for copies of this year's Issues of "Semper Fioreat,^' through her Lady-in-ivaiting, Lady Moyra Hamilton. She is believed to be particu this year's copies lo be sent. larly interestetd (and amused) in Princess Alexandra's visit set an informal atmosphere of spontaneous gaiety, which made this year's Commem. issue. it a huge success. The Royal fiarl^ tuaa tolA of ihe issue Eleven students were presented in the Main Llbrat^'. ;REVEALINGPICKIESINSID[ during its North Queensland tour, and siit- (9 September 1959, page 4) dcrtl rcprcsen(a(ives ivcfc cs/fec? fo arrange iCommem Issue cover, 1 May 1959) So TMs Is Edinburgh Democracy and Fascism Well, gentle readers, against the better judgement of Mr. Gair and the Royal Tour organisers, H.R.H. The Ouke of Edinburgh decided to pay a visit to what the local press refers to as 'the show case of Brisbane', St. Lucia, home of the inteUectually Surprising may it be, but out of the womb of apathy and ennui there has been depraved. And the place hasn't recovered yet. born an energetic brain-child - the Radical Club. The first cry of life, last Thursday Mr. Edinburgh, deciding to fortake the company of goats for a while, mingled with night, was healthy; augured well of the future. the sheep on a visit organised with cloak-and-dagger secrecy. Owing to the fact that Mr J. Green outlined cleariy and logically the meaning of Democracy. In the fif H.R.H, did not want a crowd, very few people knew of the intended visit and even teenth century the people began to break away from the ties of feudalism and the those people who met the Duke were informed only a few hours beforehand. Catholic Church. The spirit of the Protestant Revolt conditioned them to new ideas of freedom. Out of this a capitalistic economy, based on a laissez-faire conception, Those in Ihe know had organised a right cnpneer's dragon was lo come charging up developed. The way of religious tolerance was thus cleaved, even thougli it had to pass Royal welcome for His Royal Highness, which breathing fire (and water) bearing a huge was thrown overboard for a more normal placard entreating the Duke to 'Please take througli many vicissitudes (e.g.. Divine Right of Kings) and remains imperfect even to and mundane welcome. According to the me home. Daddy!' As the Duke walked in the this day. Out of these early struggles may streams of thought have developed: human original plan, the Duke was to be met by a .Main Entrance an organised bunch of fakers ism, liberalism, individualism, the scienrific outlook, and the doctrine of equality being cycle guard of honour, mounted on 'penny were to faint en masse. the most notable. farthings', tandems and all manner of veloci pedes. As the Duke alighted from the car, the (Extract, 6 March 1954. Page 1) But such promising bcpinnin.us have placed They became anti-rational. In Fitche and modern thinkers in a quandary: how to recon Nietzsche we Iiavc a dominant individualistic cile the equality of status as the necessary theme. Evolution was the ascent of the indiv condition for the realisation of one's individu idual above the 'bungled and botched' to the ality and the society in which the inequality of power and prcstipe of a superman. He spoke Our Varsity is Too Sober wealth creates class structures. The liberal al Icngtli, too, on Calvin, Cailylc and Mazzini, to whom freedom is the higliest good has the Economically, he said. Fascism develops dilemma of restricting the freedom of enter out of tlic need of maintaining a capitalism prises or sanctioning every abuse of that free devoid of the stabilising factor, increasing mar Remedy: A Bloody Cocktail dom. The individualist insists on unrestricted kers. At this time tlie \vorld markets were being economic freedom. exploited to the fuU and in order to compete Mixture: University student, air raid, invasion, and three Japs on a bayonet. The ideology of Democracy is based on a more .successfully iherc had to be decreased deep respect for human personaiit.v. Thus there wages and further exploitation of the home WAKE UP! must bt the right of self expression, equality worker (and thus, too, repression of his full rights). The classes were unified not be revolut It is about time, we, as University students woke up and did something, apart from of opportunity, and in the political sphere universal suffrage and secret ballot. ion into a higher socialisation but by suppres organising Freshers' Welcome and debating what form Commem. ought to take. If .Mr N'.D. Adams then gave an outline of sion of the exploited class. This class was satis we do not move fast, we might find rice for Commem's supper, and the last dance, l-ascism. He stressed ihc fact that this is a time fied psychologically by the creed of the super positively the last, devoted to displays of jiu-jitsu and demonstrarions of hara-kiri. of ideological struggle when only for the race and the doctrine of aggression. Aggression is essential to the creed because ultimately That is just the time and incident for which we have to prepare. moment the bomb is more decisive than the printing-press. At this time of the collapse of Fascism had as its goal the unifying of the worid markets in one gigantic German mono these lines: Fascism in Europe the words of Benito Musso OTHKRS DO IT lini take on a sinister meaning: 'Fascism is more poly. But in doing so it would lose its incentive You say we have no rime, our Job is to (a) Instruction - First Aid, War Gases, Incen to power and would thus fail. diaries, Weapon Training, How to Deal whh than anything a frame of mind ...' study and graduate - but that will not The intellectual beginning of Fascism he Supper was .served in an atmosphere of deter the Japs; they are not waiting till Parachute Troops, Intra-Univcrsity ARP (how it works, what to do). found in the 'Revolt against Reason'. The bathos and heated invective. you have graduated, and with bayonet (b) Information - By specialists, on Army Germans interpreted the scepticism of David (Editorial, 17 May 1945, Page 2) poised they will ask no questions. Mel Organisation, Empire Air Scheme, Recognition Hume as the consequence of scientific method. bourne University spent the whole first of Planes, Experiences of Active Service, and week in digging air raid trenches, cam Air Raid Conditions, Talks About 'Our Enem ouflage netting, bandage making and ies', War Organisation of Industry, and the rolling, and attending lectures on incen Universities in 1942. diary bombs, first-aid, what to do in an (c) Practical Work - Demolitions, Voluntary Our Women are Wasters air raid and so on. first Aid, Eire Brigade and Hospital Personnel, Medical Groups (for Transfusions, Inocula The best plan ofall is to destroy Fascism before it reaches you. SOMETHING TO WORK ON tions, etc.), and assist the ,Army Education Man. A fair proportion of the men here is doing something in that line, as the V.D.C. And now, this, I suggest, is what our Uni registrations show. But what of the women? versity can do. 2. Witii such a shortage of manpower, the 1. From camp there emanated ihis suggestion, University mav be able to supply, at appropri An organiser here has had the toughest job in the world to get a mere ten women that the Union or some appropriate body ate times, teams for fiuit picking, harvesting, for camouflage netting. should organise a series of lectures, etc., on shelter digging, etc As is well known, the women of this insn'tution spend their time in two major (9 April 1942, Page II occupations - flirting and swotting. The former greatly oversliadows the latter. Tliere is no word other than 'degenerate' to describe these fluttery esses who care so little for the dire peril of world freedom tiiat they will not give an hour a wee.k out of their inane pleasures to the terribly hnportant business of defeating Fascism - of which institutitm they have only the vaguest ideas, politics, not being their strongest Peace In Europe point. Whatever the Jups might do to them the beggars would deserve. After many bitter years of bloody conflict the peoples of Europe again live at (Extract

SEMPER - SOth Anniversary Issue - Page 43 QiJenQ-eats STATE GOVERNMENT SEEKS "Gone With the Wind'' Is ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF a Pain in the Bowels UNIVERSITY SENATE After having yawned, fretted and fumed a weary way through 'Gone With the Wind', I concluded, with many an execration and much self-recriminatioit, that my cash had gone the same way. It's a crying shame that cinemas don't adopt the money (HOW IT ALL STARTED) back if not satisfied' principle. The plot is distressingly rife with situations girls) contributed somewhat to his uneasiness,' of highly coloured (in both senses), maudlin but the main factor was undoubtedly raiscast- Students Lead the Fight and distinctiy boring melodrama. Otiier mg. De Havilland does little besides simper and people's love affairs are in general devilish un look like the pride of 'Cliff House'. Gable, interesting except, when as is often the case however, as the picasantiy human Rhett Butier, Without any preliminary skirmishmg, the will go through in its present form. with a sufficientiy attractive character, the is excellent fare; by the way, should any State Labour Government introduced its Mr Maher: The students evidently knew spectator unconsciously transfers, but the Varsity adolescent wish to improve on his sonorous "National Education Co-ordination the Premier's technique. We have had to submit tracing of the lives and loves of tiie inane, pecking technique, I recommend that he study and University of Queensland Acts Amendment to that in this House for a long time. It was my common, egotistic, gusty, money-grabbing the swooping, sadistic, all-conquering Gable Bill." criticism of the Premier at the last State elect Scarlett O'Hara was a pain in the bowels. style. When the implications of the Bill became ion when I referred to his dictatorial atti And the sight of he-man Butler wasting his known, even the politically impervious hide of tude. It is the Premier's technique. delightful caveman stuff on such worthless FOR SNIFFLERS, the average undergraduate was pierced. At the * « • and unappreciativc material was enough to The sentimentalists among you will enjoy Annual General Meeting Ihc following resolu In 1935 the Senate conferred on Mr Forg rend even my cynic's heart. much of this film; in fact, nothing short of a tion was passed by an overwhelming majority: an Smith the Degree of Doctor of Laws, hon napkin will cope with your discharge of tears "This Union of Students of the University oris causa, as "a fit and proper person" in SUGAR-PLUM MEL. and mucus, for there are marriages, romantic of Queensland protests strongly against the con view of his having "personally displayed an The character of sweetypic Mclanic Wilkes and otherwise, births (one without the doc), trol over the University given to the Govern is about as commanding as that of Scarlett. deaths (complete with candles), a prostitute ment by the new Bill, such control consisting active and enlightened interest in the Uni- vershy, sharmg as he does the Senate's ideals She corresponds beautifully to those dear, with a heart of gold and a son at college, chiefly in the institution of a Government insipid Httle paragons of virtue that roam and even a miscarriage. But what you won't majority on the University Senate, and the of an educated and efficient democracy." * * • the pages of 'Schoolgirls' Weekly'. In fact, enjoy, still addressing sentimentalists, is the power conferred on the Government or on any I think fan odds would be 100 to 1 on that pictorial realisation of the fact that war is Minister of the down lo require from any HERR HITLER: she is a 'Cliff House' old girl. filthy. member of the staff special duties and services "The most important issue for the National A somewhat superficial personality, Vivien on behalf of the Crown, outside the University. Socialist Party is not the taking over of power SOUTHRONS LIGHTLY TREATED, We thinic these measures menace the right of but (the taking over of) education." Leigh fits in neatly as Scarlett O'Hara, but at times plays the role more kindly than is The film is unsatisfactory in that it treats the University to remain an unregimented of the heartlessly selfish Southerners as somc- voice." (25 October 1941, page 2) warranted. Poor Leslie Howard is the misfit of the piece and looks rather sheepish and tiiing of romanticists, and that not too ironic (25 October 1941, page 1) HOW'S YOUR GOOSE-STEPPING? unhappy as tiic indeterminate Ashley Wilkes. ally. You'll Need It In Forgan's New Perhaps the knowledge that his hair was such a DAISY MAE POINTED PARS. Varsity repulsive hue (giner yellow if you're interested, (23August 1940. Page 1) The Premier, Mr Forgan Smith: It does not Well, we've woke up! Our dream of a larger matter what the students say or do, this Bill life, of a true University of St Lucia is over. Our visions of strolling through groves of eucalpts, of loungmg on the river bank, talking of Philosophy and Politics, will never be realis HOW TO MAKE THE PROCESSION SUCCESSFUL ed. (After all, the Honourable the Premier

v--.j:gV^aTj thinks Philosophy a bit of comfort at certain times, but not much else, and, of course, UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS Pohtics will be taboo.) No! There'll be no tune for thought for us! We'll spend our leisure learning to goose- VOTE E step with appiopriate precision on the grassy plaui (the Campus Martius). FOR JOE (H. Goldsborough, 25 October 1941, page 2) Joe Prom/ses HERE ARE THE FACTS: Total number Government • Vodka 01 all nl^ctorlii and luppraiilon ol lh< Timpvnuico Union. University of Senators Nominees • Vulgar BoolnMn on lb* St. Lucia Laki. Sydney 26 7* 9 Suppr*nlon ol "Sampvr FlorMt". • The Wottd—wh«S.i\..0 tc OuBt >iu!-»3«ou's) tA4lL,V Bt &Ntl>) 1VC SLIP ,?) (20 July 1951, page 1) (7 May 1947, page 2)

We quote the opinions of leading authorities on SUPERstu; PROFESSOR WALTER MURDOCH: 1 like SUPERstu because he represents a tilt at the suburban spirit. I loathe Ihc suburban spirit. So does SUPERstu. Wc gel on famously. GEORGE BERNARD SllAW: SUPERstu is a very good example of the type turned out by PRESENTING... universities in droves. He is a complete nitwit. This is very true to life. I am quite sure that a university education would have effectively prevented mc from becoming the SUPERgenius I am today. JOSEPH BENEDICT CHIFLEY: With icgaid to the question about the comic strip called "SUPERstu", 1 regret that 1 haven't seen the newspaper in question and so cannot give a consid SUPERStu Iere d reply. However, 1 shall have tiie matter looked into and give a detailed reply at a later date. After these learned men have spoken, need we say more? No, we needn't! But of course wc Always eager to raise the cultural level of our newspaper, we arc doubly pleased to present to shall. you the latest and greatest addition to the ranks of our educators - SUPERstu. Mark this well: We're depending on you for SUPERstu's future. If you have an idea for future Wlio or what, is SUPERstu? Is it taken by the mouth or administered externally? Is it more Incidents in his life - for odd gags that might come in handy - then let us know. Drop a short economical to buy in the large family size, or should one purchase the handy tablet form? Is it a note in the "Semper" box, or call down at "Semper" office on Mondays at I, when we hold the bird? Is it a plane? - No - it's SUPERstu! big conference. All welcome. (As a "great service to the community", Semper's first comic strip ("with a difference"). 19 March 1948, page 5)

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As President of the Radical Club, I must enter a vigorous protest against the action of the Vice-Chancellor in refusing the use of University premises for a dis cussion on the current railway strike. The Radical Club has always made it its policy to provide a forum for discussion of questions of importance to students as citizens, and while preserving the fullest possib le freedom of discussion, selects its speakers with some bias towards these of working- class point of view. In the opinion of the Club Committee the fact that the Government has declared a "stale of emergency" should not preclude discussion of the rail strike, but rather makes a clear understanding of the position urgently necess ary. The daily Press has for some weeks presented only one side of the dispute. \Ve believe that wjuitevcr view wc may take of the rights and wrongs of the matter, it is necessary to know the facts of the trade union point of view. This was our intention, following our failure to arrange a debate on the question, in (1948 Commem, 14 Way 1948, Pago 7) asking .Mr. .\IacdonaId to present his side of the case. 1948 COMMEM DINNER AND BALL In my opinion, the action of the Vice- Chancellor has cxactiy the opposite effect to The Commem. Dinner - late as usual - was remarkable for the brevity of the liiat which he states as Iiis desire, ll places CO speeches and the superfluity of the liquor. (I believe there are still about 30 gallons the University in a decidedly partisan position. untouched.) The toast to the graduates was proposed with enthusiasm by Mr Peter It is always possible for authority to find Conn()lly, and responded to by Wally Campbell (we loved vour stories, Wally), and by reasons for prohibiting inconvenient discu.'ision; MISS Nancy Brazier with charm and sincerity. such curtailment of democratic freedom must be viewed with alarm. en Mr. Charlie EUiott said a lot of nice things ed velvet featured the mam characteristics of about the University, U) whicli tlic Vice- the 'new look' in evening gowns - ankle-length (by John Callafjhan, 12 March 1948, pagn 3) Chanccllor, Mr. Story, replied in his inimiuiblc FRrsnivwc j-oLrric.AL NnmiALiTV? skirt, padded hips, and off-tiie-shouldcr neck -By-NtaiG," style, wishinp us all a gay time at the ball and line, while Eleanor Cooke's draped gown of a small hangover on the morrow. Then every deep blue embossed velvet featured a slit body cheered our popular President, Bas. skirt and low-cut bodice (but why didn't you Wright, because lic'd managed to conduct pro- take the bolero off, Cookie?). ccediiiits witliout making a speech at all. And .\monp the Frcsherettcs, pink was a popu so off to the grand finale - the ball at Cloud- lar choice. Ann Appleby and Pam Harper look AN UNPRACTICAL IDEALIST land ,.. ed dainty in pale pink net, while June Johnson Black was a popular colour, by itself or chose a lovely lace frock with narrow shoulder combined with pink or white. Meriel Quinn's straps. Green with a silver stripe was the choice TAKES ON THE FUEHRERS fair hair was shown to advantage by her black of Shirley Burrows, white Ann Lahey's aqua- net frock, while Ddl Dowric looked very sweet tinted .satin made an effective contrast to her i have just made a profound discovery. It all comes from reading newspapers. As a in an off-the-shoulder gown of black marquis auburn colouring. rule I never bother with newspapers. | find they bore me, and my greatest effort in ette, and Gytha Wade and Kath Mezger combin Tlie ball progressed merrily until 2am, when life is to preserve myself from boredom, except when we have a crisis, that is. Then ed black and white most effectively in their it came to a lively close in the middle of some full-skirted dresses. Nan Gow's fushia colour particularly hcavv rain. it's fine. There's nothing like a crisis for an emotional pep-up. Back to the simple (7 May 1948, Page 1) primitive feelings, that's what I say. Gee-eh? But about my discovery. Do you know what, I have a feeling the world's all wrong. It appears from these newspapers I've been reading that the Fuehrers are planning on another little war, and it has me quite perplexed. I had been taking to meditation on the higher beauties, and in the contemplation of my navel 1 had seen my soul growing ON EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. upright and splendid as the lily. It now appears that Fuehrers object to my preoccu pation with my umbilical apparatus. (Please do not take offence, ladies and gentlemen. You doubtless perceive that this is symbolism of no mean order.) The Fuehrers have, in fact, decided to put a bullet right through the middle of it. In consequence I am (By A WOMAN) perplexed, and when I can rise to it, I am more than a little annoyed. There has been of late much argument in the leading papers about the unemploy Vou see, 1 had planned rather a wonderful of fact, I have not yet made up my mind ment question. The question of equality and inequality of men and women has again life. Wonderful to me, anyway. I had hoped on tiic subject. I feel that with a littic courage cropped up, some contending that women are a nuisance in the world of employment, that before 1 was twenty-five 1 should be I might tell all these Fuehrers that 1 have no others that they are an asset. familiar with all the major compositions of intention of dying before I have heard a Bris Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, and that 1 should bane choir and orchestra do the Ninth Symph Now this question is one which to the standard of .i science. But it is an under perhaps have acquired that taste for dry wines, ony of Beethoven. And I rather feel that if I we should face, for we are to be thrown stood thing that woman is nothing if not con which continues to elude me. 1 also wanted to and perhaps you also were to tell them that, upon the world and its affairs in our scientious about anything for which she is held work through the Oxford Book of Latin calmly but firmly, that they would probably responsible. And of the women who hold com Verse, and 1 thought that in time I might be very reasonable about it. As a matter of fact, turn, and these problems will then con discover what was so wonderful about the if there were enough of us, they miglit decide front us, though we may previously have mercial positions today, how many of them do lhat work as a diversion? Very few. Tlicy Italian masters. That last point is interesting, to postpone the war until we were ready. And, ignored them. have to earn a living. As to the insthution of by the way. Primitives and extreme modern judging by the present standard of Brisbane There are several points which have been ciiuality of pay for men and women, 1 consider ists 1 find quite fascinating, but madonnas and musicianship, it probably wouldn't occur in made, and these it is necessary to look at be it but a fair thing; but in many cases it would children, in chairs, under fruit trees, playing our life time. That would be fine. fore wc go any further. It is contended by be nothing but prejudice that would prevent with sheep, and the rest of it, I have always I suppose the sensible reply to mc would some that men arc kept out of employment twenty percent of the important positions found rather tiresome. Gee ch? be to say that 1 am an impractical idealist. by women, and that if these women can be being held by women. At present there are So you sec that I have quite a lot of intense- I should like someone to say that. Then 1 displaced the men \v\\] be reinstated. Others, positions held by third-rale men which, if ly interesting thin.ES to do. Then come the could come back with a nice argument I've deploring the serious condition that there arc sentiment allowed, could be more adequately I'uehrcrs, and want to drag me into a war. thought out. You see, 1 believe that 1 am fewer marriages today and that tlie birth-rate discharged by first-rate women, to the benefit You will admit that if is perplexing. Of course, more of a realist than lots of people. 1 believe is declining, say lhat this would be rectified of the State. And let tho lower rate men take the Fuehrers say that I am somewhat degener that men arc concerned with art and thought, if women were not so widely employed. Still the lesser positions from which at present many ate. A man, they say, should yearn to die in but most of all with life. I don't believe they others advocate equality of pay for men and girls are supporting families. Today more than battle. I don't yearn to die in battle. That want to die for the I'uehrcrs. But it still per women. By this means, it is argued, tiic wonicn ever the best brains arc required to guide the raises an interesting point. Either 1 am not a plexes mc to see them going ahead and doing would not be employed as a cheaper pro State, and irrespective of sex, ihey should be man, or the l-"uchrers are mistaken. Either it. I wonder why it is so hard to persuade men position, and so nicil would take their old given the responsibility. possibility could be argued with much plaus to do the things they want to do? place again. Numbers of women are not gifted with ibility. However, I prefer to believe tiiat the But some day men will say to the Euclirers: As I see it, the proposition stands thus: acute brain power, and they, in gcneraL go on Fuehrers arc mistaken. Take Fuehrer Lyons, "Wc have many things to do with our minds The trend of modem education has proved that with the work they can do - manual or menial. for example. Now, there's a man who's made and bodies lhat are so much more important men and women alike are gifted with brain Numbers of men, similarly, arc not gifted his name in the worid. There's pillar of society than your wars. The heart's blood is not dye for capacity and intelligence. Until more recent with brain power, but herein lie the troubles for you. Well, he's just gone and told Fuehrer a fiag, nor the tears of men a wine for your days that capacity in woman had not been of the State - they will not face the fact and Chamberlain that I will fight for them, if drinking. Vou are wasting our time." necessary, against Fuehrer Hitler. As a matter developed, and the world has not yet escaped put their physical energies into the develop (Editorial by Poter Connolly, 24 March from the notion that women, the weaker sex, ment of the land and manual toil. Rather 1939, page 2) was meant for menial labour, perhaps elevated they will persist in the pursuit of a profession or high position of which they arc incapable, while popular prejudice gives preference to them (or rather to their sex), over the head Ascot Taxi Service of a woman suited in every requirement, except in point of sex. LTD. The root of the trouble .seems to be in the The Fate of Austria early stages of education. There is an urgent LOWEST D1JA>I RATES need for some vocational guidance, which, although never infallible, must be of material use. The matter would straigliten itscif out if ISlazVs Origin in Universities only men and women alike could be helped in the choice of the path tiiey arc to follow, so Mr. W. Pueregger, of Austria, an engineer who has been in Australia only six, that they could easily take the height that is months, gave a very informative address at the University last week on the events within their reach. Especially the fault lies witit tiic men, who endeavour to crowd into leading up to the present crisis in his own homelaitd. The speaker mentioned that tKe the towns and professions. They fail and be Nazi Party in Austria had its origin in the University and High Schools. Beginning come unemployed, and financially unable to tn an underhand way, it grew very slowly seizing, as occasions offered, every oppor marry, leaving the women who conscqucntiy tunity to make a demonstration in order that they might be noticed. At these public arc compelled to work for a living to occupy positions and to be tiie butt of popular grumb- appearances. It was their custom to call out every one of their numbeis, and in addit Ungs. ion, to make as much noise as a group ten times their size! This masterly insist as I 28 September 1933, Page 1) to the value of propaganda has been their main characteristic ever since. (Extract, 25 March 1938, Page 11 (Advertisement, 14 April 1939, Page A)

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...... ^^ THE UmVE^SITY OP THE FUTURE Those who were present at the laying of the foundation stone of the new Univer sity buildings at St. Liicia will long remember the dignified and impressive ceremony. Brilliant sunshine gladdened with its rays the hearts of those who had gathered to wit ness the historic occasion, and the colourful assemblage presented a striking contrast to the vivid green of the gentW sloping grassland. When our broad acres at St. Lucia are dominated by the splendid edifices so soon to be erected as the cultural home of Queensland, we may be sure that the buildings will be rendered even more pleasing to the beholder by virtue of their setting in the fields by the river, and will prove a lasting reminder to posterity of the foresight of those who so wisely chose this admirable site ... YOUTH AN ASSET be complete without a reference to the spirit The premier (the Honourable W. Foigan of optimism and enthusiasm which was every Smith, LI.D., M.L.A.) spoke of the confidence where present. The sombre mediaevalism which and optimism of youth, and the need to foster many associate with University ceremonial a civic pride in potential citizens. The Queens was nowhere to be found; it would have been land University, "a fellowship of students and incompatible with our Quf^ensland sunshine. teachers," set out to realise this ideal, and The roots of the Tree of Knowledge go deep should prove an inspiration and a blessing to into the past, and arc covered with the dust of fellow citizens. The Foundation Stone of the years, but all who witnessed the planting of our new University buildings was then well and tree on Saturday looked forward with joyful truly laid. anticipation to the day when its spreading branches will bear abundant fruits to delight MISS FREDA BAGE, MISS MAVSE, ASB DR. J. O'NEILL MAVNE AT THE ST. LUCtA CEBEMONY. ENTHUSIASM and nourish the Individual and the community. —"The Telegraph" Block. An account of the ceremony would not (Extract, 8 March 1937, Page 1)

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Saturday's ceremony at St. Lucia marked an important advance in the progress of the University of Queensland no less certainly than did the Australian University Students' Conference in Adelaide last month start a new era in the history of all University students in Australia. Accordingly no more fitting number of 'Semper' than this present 'Special Foundation Stone' issue could be found to record the inauguration of a National Union of Australian University Students. The N.U.A.U.S. aims to weld the students ol the several Australian Universities into one Union in order that increased benefits may accrue to every individual member. A report of the proceedings of the conference must necessarily be rather more solid than interesting. Discerning students will appreciate the value of such a con ference and take the trouble to read its results. The keynote of the latter is that Australian University students are wakening to their responsibilities and opportunities and that they are fighting for, and obtaining recognition of their right to a say in all matters affecting their own welfare,

The N.U.A.U.S. was only one of the with the Australasian Universities' Congress Australian University Student's Conference Delegates at Adelaide in February last material results of a week's conference of in Adelaide in I'cbruary. The Student Con when the Constitution of the N.U.A.U.S. was drafted. From left: Messrs. C.J. Parker University students organised to coincide ference consisted of seventeen students re presenting the governing student body of (Q.), F.W. Coaldrake (Q.), K. Hamilton (Adel.), L. PhUpott (Syd.), K. Ellis (Syd.), each University in the Commonwealth. The R. Wall (Melb.), J.E. Listen (Melb,), L.F. Crisp (Adel.), Miss N. Henderson (WA), students were privileged to attend some of the Messrs M. Finnis (Adel.), H. Gilchrist (Syd.), A.G. Crawford (Syd.). - 'Honi SoiY block relevant sessions of the major conference and (6 Mav 1937, page 3) CIRCULATION were allowed to take part in the discussions INCREASED. with the academic and administrative staffs... except in so far as shall be necessary for the (3) Co-operative buying of books at reduced furtherance of any of the foregoing objects. prices. It is obvious that some use is being found AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE N.U.A.U.S. The N.U.A.U.S. proposes to justify their (4) Control of national and international for our paper these days. I£very copy is taken The draft constitution proposes that the existence by carrying out these aims in the lecture and debating tours and contests, _ whether it's read or not. "Semper" is pleased objects of tiie Union shall be: following manner: (5) The organisation of national student con to report that it has been necessary to increase (1) To represent the students of Australia ferences at regular intervals. the output by 100 copies for a start. The nctt nationally and internationally, and to maintain PROJECTED ACTIVITIES The affairs of the N.U.A.U.S. will be con and/or gross circulation will be 1,100 as from their co-operation with the students of other (1) The organisation of an annual conference trolled by a council consisting of Union re Ihis issue. countries, of representatives of the governing student presentatives from each University allotted on n2tVlav1938.Pa9e2) (2) To co-ordinate the activities of the various bodies of the Universities of Australia. a population basis. It is provided that no two constituent organisations and to promote (2) The organisation of student travel facilities Universities can hold a majority in the Council. the education, social and sporting interests in Australia and overseas. (Extract, 8 March 1937, Page 4) and activities of students, (3) To study national and international quest ions relating to higlicr education, tand to the University intellectual and material life of students. (4) To undertake and implement in such a Men manner as it thinks fit such other matters and movements, not inconsistent with the above objects, as may from time to time be deemed c.xpedicnt by the Council. < luiii.*- (,.r. j (5) Provided that in no circumstances shall the -\ ixiiM-- til.' j Union directly or indirectly support any pol- "''"'• "'", I itical or rclidous movement or organisation mm-- \uii ^ llh' ViiUiT-iiy

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