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THE UN’ OF A t C - 2 MAY »69 UBRAKL Overcrowding Govt, and University recognise the prob­ -r- lem, but present *resid plans are not the ng ag answer. it he has I REGISTERED FOR TRANSMISSION BY ROST AS A NEWSRARER ;he assoc id has si V O L 43 5 cents ime playi I S S U E 4 Free to Students Chancellor Cooper. a respci M r Kinsella. he had nl n student! e was gainst still ren AKLEY-HOW TO PLAN ave a proj Executive! ind up r we hail said. % *# * • DISASTER tm l ■ By BILL HOLT Disasters usually just happen. The Titanic hit an iceberg — irrested s be give bad luck. But in the university administration's latest gambit, the ssociation Oakley "supplementary college" we have an example of a much ur of a rn more interesting phenomenon — the actual planning of a disaster. :ations First suggested late last year the idea o f an "annex" to ind contii such a sti Auckland University at Oakley Farm is the government's belated response to the realisation that the Princes Street site is filling up non-alignn ied. A spei much more rapidly than anticipated. It was originally designed to sible to de cater for 10,000 students in the mid-1970's. Now that target seems ar attack likely to be passed by 1971 at the latest. .way the irget. The Oakley Plan (if a series obvious. The thought of leges and schools. Junior cf vague and f equently con­ 4000 students making their lecturers and tutors, cn C raccum w riter Bill Holt at the O akley Site. tradictory statements can be way into the city and then whom the teaching of most clambering cn to the Point stage 1 courses depends, will .defined as such) appears to be time lectures, concerts, con­ last week both Mr Muldoon ^eiars Tfcr a type cf junior college cn Chev. bus is hardly likely to no doubt be able to draw The worst aspect of the >nva e l#jan(j ncw owne(j by Oakley entire Oakley conception, tact with older students. It and Education Minister Kin­ gladden the hearts cf any- straws to see who is to be is difficult to conceive that of 18 ye cne but the poverty-stricken exiled. however, lies in the quality sella denied that there was Psychiatric Hospital. At this any but the most active stu­ any chance of such develop­ institution will be a “stream” ARA. of student life at such an Facilities — the University dent societies would be able ment. Oakley is to be purely of a co! [cf Stage 1 arts students taking institution. It has yet to be Staffing — given the diffi­ Grants Committee has ap­ to organise "supplementary" "supplementary" and perma- notions a combination of subjects such proven that a timetable culty of filling existing posts parently premised that ade­ activities on the new site. nant. as English, History, French and could be drawn up which in Princes Street, it seems quate cafeteria and study Numerous alternative plans Education. The maximum sug- would make it unnecessary doubtful that there will be facilities will be provided, to Oakley have been suggested ng a rem gested roll is 3000 to 4000 Stu­ for students to commute from The Draft a rush of overseas graduates along with offices, lecture As most graduates who have around the campus, including ■hould haidents. one campus to another. To to teach at a souped-up halls and a library. Yet the study under such circum­ attended the Secondary Tea­ the possibility of development aching. ■' There will be no prizes cf- secondary school in the University has no guarantee chers College will testify, the at South Auckland, or of ex­ there weii^d for finding disadvantages stances would be intolerable; outer suburbs. Thus the cf how “adequate” they yet the alternative is almost morale cf a one-year institu­ panding the present site at v why the >n such a scheme: institutions will have to be will be, and since the whole tion is usually fairly low. The Princes Street. None of these, te to as bad. Completely sepa­ « • Location — the accessibility staffed with lecturers from reason for Oakley is to save rated from the main campus, feeling of isolation at a second- however, can have any credi­ cf Oakley for potential stu­ Princes Street, who will the expense of a second most freshers would be de­ class college would be height­ bility while the university con­ that mi dents on the North Shore, the drive back and forth, or by university it seems probable ened by the fact that only tinues to give the impression nt becati nied all the "extras" that Eastern suburbs and in less qualified people re­ that much of the institution are a legitimate part of a some stage 1 streams will be that it is satisfied with the South Auckland is scarcely cruited from training col­ will be on the SDartan side. university education — lunch­ out at Oakley. No doubt the Oakley prcpcsal. In the last university grape-vine would analysis, the dilemma is due abound in ruses and schemes to the government’s failure to AVONDALE RACECOURSE on hew to avoid being drafted. make adequate allowances for AVONDALE COLLEGE It wculd be wreng to suggest university expansion. Any that there is any easy way take-over of land at Oakley is out for the university admini­ geing to be unpopular in the stration. Interviewed bv Crac­ public eye. There is no reason cum last week, the Minister of why the university should take Finance, Mr Muldoon, strongly the blame for a piece of poli suggested that if AU refused tical expediency and at the the Oakley site it would get same time be landed with an nothing at all and would have educational white elephant. to admit more students on to Mi the present site or begin r —--------------------------- --------- 1 wholesale exclusion. Yet the arguments against Oakley are so overwhelming that it is dif­ INSIDE S3 ficult to justify the administra­ Page tion’s apparent determination • LE to keep the debate “private” . Manoeuvrings at flit 5. 1969 Lincoln — :NST. Many people obviously feel that another public “site debate” NZUSA Easter similar to that of the 1950’s Council 3 would be damaging to the uni­ © OAKLEY HOSPITAL versity. Yet bv its refusal to Biafra — Exclusive bring the issue into the open interviews 5 and explicitly state that it is fessiona not happy with Oakley, the ad­ © oday fo ministration is already losing Answering 11 urin much public sympathy. Mr Mr Muldoon 6 irn post Noel Holmes has already de­ • scribed the proposal as a “land Oestreicher : grab” by the university. The Death of Sex 8 Independent University Similarly the widespread • belief among both admini­ Tournament stration and faculty that debacle at >unt Oakley would inevitably Canterbury 14-15 ;oc evolve into an independent • university as Waikato did, The site for the proposed satellite university at O akley Farm, bounded by Carrington Massey's Capping seems a dangerous assump­ Books — again 16 d. Road and G reat North Road. tion. In separate interviews — N.Z. Herald. 1969. ’ ^ 3 H T ; 3 0 f 2 ?£., CRACCUM ^s- April 17, 1969 EDITORIAL— LETTERS Emphasis « feddaae o r many different NZUSA Council most construct ) Mr A. H. Jeffs is a World War I veteran who has dent element, and create the most disruption in the ccfcgaster Council N recently retired from dairy farming. By his own admission, munity. This feature is world-wide, so it must have sa S he has been fooled all his life by world affairs and now significance for us. The leaders of the negro rebellion NZUSA Pres Liturgy Bores N devotes his time to "intensive studies from independent U.S.A. and elsewhere are mostly products of universitiil Rosier emphasis^ ) sources of what makes the world tick". Likewise many of the spy traitors and Communist revols cil's responsibilit NZUSA's m eeting at Lincoln College over Easter will S Craccum spoke with Mr Jeffs who, under pressure, tionaries are from universities. lion, particularly not go dow n as the most new sworthy or the most exciting S revealed that among these "independent sources" were I said earlier that among ether things the young year, when NZU! in NZUSA's history. In fact, it w as probably the dullest N Gerald L. K. Smith, A. K. Chesterton, Ron Gostick and getting MORE education, this does net mean it is bettl lo influence th on record. There did not ensue the Great Clashes of S Eric Butler — all are well known members of the extreme education. Education of the wrong kind can revert to “ii policies of the Personality that have characterised past meetings: but ^ right. doctrination” with a breaking down of respect and loyaltia parties by condu< at the sam e time, the m eeting decided to expedite four ^ Mr Jeffs, a self-styled "seeker of the truth", says he Loyalty and pride in family, nation, race and Christian ethic! tionnaire in m, matters which will bear greatly on the organisation's ^ is "not disgruntled with the universities". He feels, how- Loyalty to standards of decent behaviour, dress, and standan electorates thro future as a pressure group. At the instigation of the ^ ever, that students are being "used as a ground for propa- of art and literature. That this disruptive and subversiv country, President, Peter Rosier, NZUSA decided to initiate an ) gating revolution" by an international left-wing conspiracy. element does not want real freedom, but only license ft “Unless constii education cam paign for the general election this year, ^ Craccum prints his "message for youth" without themselves, is demonstrated When any speaker with who hrough with this, designed to bring hom e to the public the im portance of ^ further comment.

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