AGAIN IN THE NEWS FOR THIRD TERM DAZORS pain you; THE stern Sir Harry ...^ Rivers aro damp; • M*ss»l, jicids' stain you; Knight of the Nuclear Pestle, And dru3S cause cramp. ^Qis aren't lawful;, Will accept no apology grtWooses give; For the neglect of tech> iSNi jgli .ipells awful; nology. THE %9.q.U, NEWSPAPEiL Vou might as well live. —R.A.B. —Dorothy Parker. Wednesday, October 11, 1960 «t«'^i;?Ji."'by*WV-?s l''1^':U^;. Vol. 30, No. 11
II iiiHiiiiiiii IIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIMIIIIIII iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifnt .^ >r K -^ ^-^ ^ ^-^ y <^ '• '•'^'W^'M^'H ^ • • ^ • ^ r^rm ^-^ l » » ^ G. P. Hut Saved iMAMMOTH PREMIER TO AID Squeaks Largely owing to the sympathetic attitude of the Vice-Chancellor, the University has decided not to and resume control of the G.P. Hut next year. The present Women's Comnton Room will be used hy the Univer APPEAL Gibbers sity as administrative offices, but the G.P. Hut is to On Tuesday 27th Sep- CROM the comments that remain as a rehearsal room and theatre for the students. tembcr crowds gathered * have been arriving in To compensate for the Union Councillor and to sec the premiere of "Ben the post It seems Semper is being read more avidly iloss of the Common Room business manager of Hur"—all proceeds in aid of the University Great hi Melbourne than in .a dressing room is to be "Semper". Queensland. As well as built along the back wall Hall Appeal. And greater featuring a mangled pre 19th Century melodrama, crowds gathered to have a of the Hut itself. This wiU and Dram. Soc. would do cis of Crazy Jane's article look at the mob who were on A.U.P. on Its front page. of necessity be a long well to consider the at willing to pay up to five Farrago has printed the thin room and will ad- tractions of the bizarre story of our fight with our and informal atmosphere guineas to see this mam .join the existing dressing former printers, has used of the hut rather than the moth religious epic. one of Pfogarty's cartoons, iroom. A sink will also be squalid, which t has The cynics among the repeated one of our front built into the room. chosen to reproduce in its page boxes, and distorted plays to date. audience found it rather This means that until i amusing contemplating a passage from our review the Union theatre Is built It is also hoped that ithe intelligentsia of Bris- of If the Gown Fits. there can be a theatre of Union Council will do , bane watching a film Such, we suppose, are : sorts at the University. something about installing (Suitable for twelve year the penalties of notoriety. Weightlifting, judo and permanent footlights and '; olds. Sydney, of course, has : general meetings will all seating in the hall, and ! All tastes were catered politely ignored us all be carried on in the new last term a meeting of all ,for. A real Scotch band year, despite our com Union, as will dances and dramatic groups was held •piped in the film. Usher- ments on their art, ed general student rorts. • to discuss ways and means lettes dressed in regal After searching for prominent pcrsonalifios at "Ben Hur' our photographer finaUy gave up and settled for ifrom left>. itor, paper, politics, and With the prospect of of getthig these amenities. I purple with gilt fringes Mr. Knight political adviser to William Wyler, John Brodic provincialism. getting something for Nothing has yet been de handed out programmes. Daiton offered the parf of J.C. esq. but declined. Professor cided, but let us pray that I Real Americans playing McElwain psychological adviser to Pontius Pilate seen smiling Their editor has just themselves it is hoped behind right, Joan Lyndon who would have played Mary Magda moved to Melbourne! •that student dramatic ven this is due merely to lack ; Jews, and real Englishmen lene had fhe part offered sufficient scope, John Fogarty who tures other than Scoop of information as to the : playing Romans, added to Is not leering at his sister Pat, but at fhe blonde nof shown in will be able to produce a fate of the building and I the cosmopolitanism of the photo. not inertia. Ithe evening. successful show there. The AT the top of every ^hall would be ideal for a IBCA news-sheet sent to Semper is the foUowhig The Sound and cryptic comment:—"Re production is free; men SPORTS tion of source would be appreciated." the Fury IBCA, in case you're RESULTS ^^ELL, the annual general meetitig of the union has wondering, is the Inter national Bureau for Cul The results of the Sports been held, and we hope will soon pass into the limbo tural Activities. Union Elections have fin- cf forgott«n things. It covers a wide field of ;ally come to hand. When This year's annual report on WUS, Alschol is still interests. nominations closed there was an excellent presenta' vacant. weren't any, but since July tion and those who had I believe some other .an eager and capable group things happened at the anything to do with the meeting, but one can't IN the second issue of the have been
wo really love nick wc really love nick we rarely love nick we rirely love nick we rudely love nick we really love nick we really loathe nick we rarely love nick we really live nick we really love nick we-rarely i 'TnU of Sound, and Fury, m&mym^...'' I an understanding of what is meant "firstfrults of them *that sleep", "the earmody by diction. The newcomer could have only-begotten" (I.e., begotten from voice from aifar ; followed the 'sense of all the opera the dead—Acts 13) etc., etc. luiR. PETER ROESER'S shrill shriek .^ censured with no difficulty even if he did miss The world was "reborn" through a •" of Injured;Innocence has reached -- some phrases at times. The diction, process identical to that mentioned me in exile. I have only one objec- ;? ^ UOW can you publish such hisldious while not perfect, was not by any in (6).The Insistence upon the resur tion to his .statements.: .they are "• '^ and nauseating guff as appears means bad. rection as a fact (as isolated by Mr. S above the name of John Carmody In Brooks) derives from this .Importance completely false. 2- ° practically every edition of Semper? One would expect Carmody to in the scheme of NT :reasonlng. If Semper's policy towards the ^ •praise the only real 'fault in the It lappears, from close analysis, that Union is to be attacked, I fall to.see ? i I read Carmody's first concert re- opera: while :Karl .Rankl in charge of the NT writers discovered in Psalms why Miss TLyndon should get all ^the 2 view — or rather half of It— after the music did everything in his 89-26/27 and 2-7 (firstborn, only-be blame. As her co-editor throughout | a which I had to adjourn to a con- power to give an immaculate and gotten) the otherwise "missing" fir St. term, I. shared .responsibility for 2. ' venient;pl9ce to be sick and thus had studied {and thoroughly Mozartian) criteria satisfied by Jesus through all editorial policy, and, in fact, much ';^ g no stomach for the rest of the article. reading of the score (almost to the resurrection. As criteria of resurrec of the reporting df 'Couneil proceed- g = However so often have I heard Car- point of error), the producer was tion however, they can only be so ings was.my work. ? M mody's tripe ridiculed and joked doing everything to "popularise" the employed if the reasoning In (6) is I was in complete agreement with g about that I ventured to try another dialogue, "rhere was a decided lack correct and If Jesus established a her comments on the Medical ~ ~ sample of his rubbish to see If all of harmony between the scholarly spiritual kingdom .as the firstborn Society's stupidly parochial attitude '^ •5 everyone has been saying about Car- restraint of the music and the boist "among many brethren". to the International Conference on i I mody could possibly be true. erous overplaying of the dialogue, Student Mental Health and with her ^ 8. SON OF GOD: As used Biblically this reaction to their -heavy-handed and E 0 If Carmody's gurglings on The most obvious when Papagens was on term has 4 meanings: abortive attempt to Induce Council ^ * Magic Flute (S.F. 5th Aug.) were just stage (although Jackson ^ang a. created to stand over the editors If the mat- _ ^ plain nonsense and stupidity they superbly),. b. procreated ter had been in my hands, I'd have < y could be dismissed as the harmless Finally I should like to ask c. anointed (christ) ' "been rather more emphatic than she ^ £ ravings of a lunatic, but such vile Carmody a question. Do you enjoy d. resurrected (only-begotten) was. o' 3 criticism and alarming misrepresen- the concerts and operas you review? Considered as 4 terms the 4 usages Roeser alleges that Semper's re ^ tatlons cannot be allowed pass un- If you don't why do you keep going are NOT mutually exclusive. Jesus porting of Union business was in- I •5 checked. to them? If you do why are ycu such justified his own claim on the basis adequate..If he would bother to check , a hypocrite as to damn all and of (b) but indicated, at the same time his facts, he would discover that that S. Carmody is obviously suffering sundry as you do? that natural generation provided only this is completely false. Semper this ? 1 from a disease which is reaching —R.S. the "empty form" which required a year has given more space to both t: j^ epidemic proportions among Aus- "filling" of appropriate character, objective reporting and comment on 8 ^ tralian music critics — the disease 9. SON OF JOSEPH: Semper's evan the Union than it ever has before. 3 ^ of "antihickism". This disease gelical correspondents are obviously The Union has -had -the front page S^ > manifests itself in vicious attacks ^^onee more into under the misapprehension that "son in practically every issue and a let 5 ~ on overseas celebrities who visit the of Joseph" and "son of Gcd" are of other space as well.-Some students •» = country — a result of fear that to the breach dear mutually-exclusive terms. Historically have even complained that we were ra 3 praise visiting artists is to leave and factually, however, the mutually- filling the paper with "bureaucratic = „ one's self open to ihe claim .that exclusive terms in the New Testament buU". 1 i one lacl;s taste, that one is a hick friends'' identifications of Jesus are "son of It is true that neither Miss Lyndon < .g or country bumpkin with no dis- JN asking JMG and EU for precise Joseph" and "King of Israel". nor I treated Union politicians with " E crimination at all. answers to specific questions my Evidence on this point is quite con the respect -some of them thought 5- S Thus every artist is torn to shreds concern was that the authority of clusive. they deserved, but beoing Union poll- j - or at least condescendingly acknow- Ordered Intelligence had been invoked E. P. WIXTED, Arts, Part Time. ticians ourselves, we felt that nothing « ^ ledged, for what critic who can find in that field where its authority is was to be gained by writing of the 5 least regarded. Council as if it were the "Mount ^ •§ all those faults with all those artists Olympus Parliament. ;;|^ •- could possibly lack taste? Thus Rationalist-Christian debate is In she's not mum Anyway, what right has this o I Kubelik was damned, Fontyn was evitably futile because Rationalists in student cf the Santamarla-Commo " ^ criticised, and more recently Campoli variably fail to distinguish between false I SHOULD like to inform Med. I. premises and fallacious reasoning, and 1980, and -anyone -else who is in methods of stacking meetings to lee- 5. y was criticised and Sargent and Christian .apologists, using undefined or ture anyone on ethics? >^ "^ Markevltch were condescendingly terested, that I AM NOT "Mother of BILL SPARKES $ > acknowledged. ill-defined terms, invariably insist on Six". Surely this person could come provhig the wrong point. forward and accept the credit—or Sometime Co-editor, Semper Floreat " ~ Carmody, labouring under a (justl- Based on the premise that "the blame—accruing from those most in Maroubra, N-S.W. £ « fiably) bigger inferiority complex original biblical record is essentially formative letters. •= than the professional crltls is correct" a definition of Christianity may Nevertheless, I should like to take she is 0 c apparently even more vicious than be arrived at as follows: this opportunity of agreeing with one < ' most, for he has consistently at- 1. CHRIST; Refer to Young's Concor of "Mother of She's" earlier letters, as I SHOULD Uke to inform anyone •X tacked mtislcians and music the dance and the Universal Jewish En regards the treatment meted out to ' who Is interested that I AM NOT E whole year. However his attack on cyclopaedia under tri-lingual equiva Nick Clark by our glorious Semper. Dorothy Millar (Med. 1). , 0 The Magic Flute is so blgotted I feel lents "Christ", "messiah", and I am sorry about this confusion, ° another opinion ought to be voiced in "anointed". Cyrus the Mede was one Mr. Clark may appear at times to but I had thought my slgnatiure was ^ these pages. be in need of a Book of Etiquette and of the OT temporary christs. Courtesy; yet even this doesn't seem sufficient to dlsthigulsh me from 1 This hick village is not Salzburg, 2. DIFFERENTIA: Jesus differed from to warrant the continued criticism other females In Med. I. I realize my a Vienna or Prague, and as our opera all other biblical christs/messiahs in which appears in all Sempers. Much mistake and would like to add the * season is merely a four week visit by that he was cruclfied-resurrected of this may be tongue-in-cheek re further comment that I am married. ^ a touring company, we should not (see 4) porting but it does become a httle May there now be no more of these £ expect a performance to rival the 3. MESSIANIC CRITERIA: Old Testa sickening to those in the outer false accusations! 0 D.G.G. recording of the opera. What ment Hebrews specified certain cri circles. Yours expectantly, i we can expect Is that vague though teria which were to be satisfied at the Mother of Six, Med. I. >. vital thing called atmosphere. This one and only appearance of a per Yours etc. PJB.: May there also he no more of g can never be captured by a record— manent "anointed". DOROTHY MILIAR Mr. Clark! Some of the criteria were: Med. I. P.P.S.: May there also be no more! "• It Is the result of a two-way com- a. the world to be cleansed by fire 1 municatlon between audience and b. the tribes of Israel to be reunited ^ actors (shigers — sometliing unique c. the "Kingdom of God" to be estab 3 -y to the theatre. lished 0 And .the Trust's recent production d. the ciirlst to "abide for ever". 3l(jaqwdy. 1 did have atmosphere. And the sing 4. SATISFACTION: New Testament s' ing was of a sufficiently high stand- writer? propose that these criteria WE >»OMiT THAT ^ ard to be enjoyed. Perhaps Glenda were satisfied In a totally unexpected WHtN WB CAME HBRE " Raymond had to struggle through way, i.e., through the agency of a WE cruclfied-resurrected christ. The pro PLACED THE FIELD o" s the vengeance aria but after all It is position did not recommend itself to the most difficult aria in the color- J