more students to participate in our activities especially the apathetic ones. It is also our policy to introduce to New kttmtofid Zealand more aspects about Malaysian/ those Singaporean ways of life. It includes the CRACCUM Volume 49 . Issue 7 socio-economic conditions in the countries naughty Tuesday April 22 1975 rather than just politics. Kiwis, especially 1 girls who wish to marry Malaysians and Dear Editor, want to be Malaysian citizens or M alaysian fiK ditft I would like to express my concern Singaporean citizens should take note of over the manner in which last night’s this. The only way for foreigners to students1 Craccum, once again firmly established Autumn General Meeting was conducted. become Malaysian citizen is marriage. as the best New Zealand student newspaper I am sure that a group of primary school Kiwis have a lot to learn before they The following is a reprint of an (modest cough !) is skilfully edited by Mike children would have shown more decorum could say what is right and what is wrong editorial that appeared in Malaysia’s New Rann, playfully laid out (and laid back, and restraint. The situation was such that, for us. I Straits Times — Tuesday, January 14, baby !) by Chris Brookes, Chiefly (or at least half of the time, the speakers By the way, I am the official spokesman 1975. I don’t think we need to comment cheaply.....?) reported by Rob (Joe Cool) could not even be heard above the noise for MSSA. There is much that is wrong and Greenfield (far out, man; funky chicken of the general rabble. Mike Loh, needs to be righted in Malaysia. ' and soop-de-doop), and lotsan lotsan lotsa In particular, I refer to the motion There are grave social injustices. It ads got gotted by Ad-man Paul Gilmour. put forward by Michael Low, of MSSA. Student-Captain, MSSA is for good reason that Malaysia is (Now cut yer moanin’, Gilmour, you got He merely asked that MSSA should be so concerned to build a masyrakat yer name in !). consulted before the AUSA organised NB: Malaysia’s National Ideology adil. But where is this monster - wide­ Articles were bludgeoned (It’s true. demonstrations against visiting dignitaries 1. Believe in God spread political persecution and re­ They were !) out of Fraser Folster (Radio from Malaysia and Singapore, as such 2. Loyalty to King and Country pression - which anti-Malaysian Craccum/Current Affairs), Michael W. demonstrations can have serious reper­ 3. Uphold the Constitution Malaysians conjure up with youthful Steff, The Young Socialists (shuttup, you cussions for Singaporean students on 4. Rule of Law glee in Australia and which the Aust­ naughty Anarckists !), NZUSA, Ann Wilks, their return home. He was shouted down 5. Good Behaviour and Morality ralian Union of Students talks of Environmental Defence Society (a lovely by the ranks of bigoted New Zealanders Proclaimed by His Majesty, the with ignorant enthusiasm ? The lat­ name), Dave Francis (see below) Bob present, while other speakers put forward Supreme Head of State (The King) after est report of a “hate Malaysia" Hillier, Dave Colbourn, Brian Brooker, ludicrously irrelevant "parallel” examples the May 13, 1969 riots. And is accepted campaign launched by some of our Darvie, Peter Franks, Chris von Keisenberg, from New Zealand spheres. This demon­ by the people as a prelude to a new era of students there will no doubt raise Phillip Amos (M.P.), Bob Lack, George strated the inability of the average New democracy. (Westminster deomcracy was many temperatures here. It is diffi­ Bryant (Social Credit Education Spokes­ Zealander to see past the end of his dead since 1969). cult not to be angry on reading that man), John Robson and numerous others, nose where groups of non-New Zealand­ In the interest of balance Craccum the AUS has asked the Australian (Me, for instance) and Bill Ralston. ers are involved. Moreover, there is some G overn m en t to p u t pressure on Kuala Technical assistance of great ability doubt as to whether there was in fact a sought a reply to the above letter from Societies' Rep Jock Chew. Lumpur to stop its “repression " and was contributed by those consummate quorum present when this motion was to relax Australia's immigration pro­ artists of the newspaper revolution, Anne voted on. It seems to me that the least cedures to allow Malaysians to re­ Chambers, Barry, Nan, Dave Francis (see the association could do would be to main in the country “to escape polit­ above), Virginia Smith, Ev Baker, and represent the motion at the next General Dear Editor, ical persecution at home. "B ut there some more lovelies who forget to tell me Meeting. This motion, while of little The letter by Mike Loh could easily be is no reason for over-reaction. Tragic how to spell their names. Or, for that importance to the average N.Z. student, brushed aside as another piece of right is the nation that ceases to care what matter, even what their names were. Or could be vital to some Malaysian and wing utterance except for the fact that others think of it, and paranoic the are. Singaporean students, and their families in several places of the letter are some nation which cares too much. The (If you have noticed the usual high and friends. extremely misleading remarks needing my Australian Union of Students and quality of credit-writing slipping over the Yours, clarification. our critical own should not be given past few lines, it’s because a 900-ton crane M. Cox For a start Mr Loh IS NOT the more attention than they deserve. has just started up outside the window, official spokesman of MSSA. Or even if Tun Razak's advice to Malaysians and my silence-loving brain has gone he were, as far as I know, MSSA does not a year ago not to get too excited over somewhere else to think in peace. Con­ have any such policies as claimed by him. the mischief that some of our stud­ sequently I am writing by guesswork, as Dear Editor, And thus whatever he says is his and his ents in New Zealand were up to was it were.) See you here next week for I was rather diappointed with last alone! mature and remains wise. Malaysia another fascinating instalment in the night’s AGM of the StudAss which rejected The fact that I came out to speak was a democratic country, he said on “Guess-the-Credits” game. a resolution supposed to be sponsored by against his ‘personal’ resolution during that occasion, and “our people can Love Malaysian /Singaporean Students Assoc­ the AGM was because I saw the extreme express their views freely." It was a iation. However I moved this motion in idiocy of it. Can anyone imagine having normal tendency for students to Items may be freely reprinted from my personal capacity, at the AGM because* to consult any organisation on things such hold extreme and radical views. We ' CRACCUM except where otherwise stat­ my original seconder, the association’s as demonstration for which that organ­ have a record of accomplishment ed, provided that suitable acknowledge­ treasurer (MSSA’s) has resigned. With his isation is opposed to it or could not express and progress that can stand up to ment is made. CRACCUM is published resignation there was one vote short in a stand for it for fear of political persec­ close scrutiny. The facts are on our by the Craccum Administration Board the commitee. Thus it could not be intro­ ution. I see MSSA as having this latter side. Truth will out. The sooner, of duced as a MSSA’s resolution but l am dilemma. And, I can also see that by course, if it is given a little help. for the Auckland University Students’ not representing myself because it had the adopting such a resolution, AUSA could The minority among our six to Association (Inc), typeset on our own blessings bf five members of the com­ set a sad precedent for having the |seven thousand students in Australia I.B.M. typesetting machine, and printed mittee (including the resigned treasurer). liability to consult other similar organ­ j who feel they must run down their by Wanganui Newspapers Ltd., 20 Drews I regretted that a former vice-president of isations on such matters. As one other |country should be regarded as mis­ Avenue, Wanganui. MSSA and currently AUSA’s Societies speaker rightly pointed out that night: guided and misinformed, which they Representative spoke out against the Nobody in his right mind should feel clearly are. One of the most import­ compelled to consult the Young Nats for INTERNATIONAL WHALE DAY motion. I could see no other motive for ant reasons overseas students gener­ doing this except for his own self interest. a demonstration on Mr Muldoon. I don’t ally become hypercritical is that see the possibility in Malaysia of‘speaking The Greenpeace V leaves Vancouver on This is so because if this resolution was they are bereft of information about passed, it will reduce his influence. He out against the Government’ (even on what is actually happening at home. April 27th (North American time) and will certain bad policies) without being at have on board several scientists including always wanted to be the unofficial liaison Judgments are thus made on the between the Exec and the Overseas the same time being called ‘anti-Govern­ basis of abstract concepts rather an ex-New Zealander, Dr. Paul Spong. For Students. If last night’s resolution was ment’. Just how the new MSSA policy than concrete facts. Their feet get the last several years this man has been passed the Exec will have to seek our can ‘give effective support for all those off the ground, their heads into the studying the behaviour of Killer Whales views and thus he will not allow this to - struggling to eradicate poverty and those clouds. Often they use yardsticks off Canada’s Hansen Island, and at the happen. struggling for freedom and justice’ could which may be relevant in the socie­ same time has been fighting for the peace The MSSA is a national organisation be done ‘within.the context of National1 ties in which they are temporarily and survival of whales on a world scale. for Malaysian and Singaporean students interest’ really boggles one’s mind. After resident, but which are unfair, out­ This time instead of attempting to and thus it represents all interests. It all, may I ask, in whose interest the rageous or inapplicable to Malaysia's stop weapon testing the Greenpeace V will represents the anti-Government elements, power of a Government is served in circumstances. Few student critics attempt to blockade a whale hunt. With a pro-government elements, the conservat­ Malaysia to justify its service in the name studying in Middle Eastern countries specially trained crew they will manoeuvre ives, the moderates, the English-educated, of ‘national interest’? take us to task for not having a wel­ their high power small rubber dinghys bet­ fare State. Few in Britain criticise ween the whaling fleet and the whales. By the Chinese-educated, the Malay-educated, I would have preferred to leave any and also the apathetic ones too. It should comment on my role as Societies Rep­ Malaysia for not being Islamic placing their lives in front of the whales not be used as a tool for anti-government resentative of AUSA to those whom I enough. The counter is simple. Keep they hope to force the whaling to stop. campaigns although we could speak out have worked closely with over the months the students informed. In honour of this historic action since August last year, rather than a Greenpeace (Canada) has declared April against the government if we have to. person like Mr Loh who has just landed 27th International Whale Day. Due to Anti-government is not our policy this year, it might have, been so in 1973, but in Auckland no more than 3 months and am nesty time changes this is actually April 28th this is 1975 now, and AUSA’s Societies’ who has only known me through no more in New Zealand. Rep. is not a committee member of MSSA than half a dozen at most very superficial Project Jonah in Auckland will be and he has no right to speak on our conversations. international organising an information Sunday at Miss­ behalf. I must say that I felt very much relieved ion Bay beside the Mission House on the The new MSSA policy is to give having an Overseas Student now elected to sale 27th April from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Whale effective support for all those struggling SRC (although the true calibre of that photos, artefacts and information on to eradicate poverty and those struggling person has yet remained to be seen) which Bought any second-hand books lately ? whales will be on display. There will also for freedom and justice. This will be done means my not having to play a double role The Tamaki Group of Amnesty Internat­ be diving equipment on show. The aim of as Soc. Rep and Overseas Students Liaison ional will be selling some in Parnell Village the day is to better inform Aucklanders within the context of national interest For all Malaysians the Rukunegara (Nat­ at the same time. on the morning of Friday May 2nd, be­ of our responsibility towards the world’s Maybe Mr Loh could now start to ginning at 11 o’clock. All the money rais- whales. ional Ideology) should be observed and for the Singaporeans the interest of the really do something useful rather than |ed will be used directly in Amnesty’s work republic must be at heart. And we will not writing letters and introducing resolutions jof helping prisoners of conscience, Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th involve ourselves in demonstrations so without a clear knowledge of events. How j As well as the books, Tamaki Group long as there are other alternatives, in about organising a basket-ball team for a will be offering for sale an interesting Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th which we believe we have. change? collection of miscellanea. And if you want It is also our policy this year to keep Regards, to know just what that covers, better go Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th polities to the minimum to encourage J.H. Chew along and see. Page 3

iture of the Association. There is probably about. a great deal of merit in a grant for the Nan Bailey Tour but it is rather a dubious pre­ In March the Executive agreed to cedent for the normal channels to be by­ affiliate with ALRA when they thought passed. the subscription was $1.00. When they It is almost certain now that the Fund discovered it was $5.00 they changed will be far widely used. It will be interest­ their minds and last week overruled them­ ing to see whether Right to Life can ask selves again and by 1 vote decided to pay for a grant to cover the Carolyn Gerster the sub. Tour. The meeting also agreed to act as a The move to give Executive ‘control’ sponsor for the Committee to defend MEETING was again passed by a single vote and Dr Woolnough, the Sydney doctor up Treen then removed his original motion before the Court on charges under the to grant Young Socialists $150 - which was Crimes Act relating to the Auckland carried by a similar margin. Medical Aid Trust The trouble with University Student Bodies is that they provide a vehicle as a SECURITY OF PROPERTY watchdog for lapses in democracy e.g. The executive spent some time consid­ This year with an executive dominated by a group of new relatively inexperienced Vietnam and the Bursary issue, while they ering proposals by A.V.P. Mike Walker to members it has mainly up to now been a fairly convivial amiable group. remain undemocratic bodies themselves. counter the great rash of thefts in and During the last two meetings, however, the traditional split of ideologists and admini­ Student Executives must be one of around the University Bookshop and strators has broken on this executive. the few bodies where members don’t have Library. Noticeable too has been the almost complete lack of direction generated by the chair. to declare conflict of interest. It will be a It was decided to install a team of Claire Ward may well be a hard working, purposeful President but the very features that ludicrous situation if the only groups that contact personnel to catch the thief. make her a good President outside the Council room are definitely not suited to a Chair­ get money are those with members that And so at 11.45 p.m. the meeting, or man of a Meeting. just happen to be on Executive. what was left of it, broke up. Lets hope in Neither of the last two meetings have had any business likely to generate great contro­ The Young Socialists were also success­ the two weeks before the next episode versy - but both meetings have dragged on to near midnight. ful in obtaining a $3 per head allowance Executive members do some preparation It took the last meeting nearly 2 hours to even get past correspondence with the for their founding conference in May. in order to shorten the farce. result that more important business near the end of the agenda was skipped over. This was implementing a recommendation Note : from the Finance Committee. Elsewhere Bob Lack has written a One of the great pitfalls of loose chair­ pose to be by-passed for reasons of exped­ ABORTION SUPPORT critique about the atmosphere of the manship is that any resemblance of pro­ iency. The Executive over-ruled a decision A.G.M. Next week after we receive the cedure is swept over with the result that The Association last year made a $7000 made at a previous meeting not to re-affil­ official minutes Craccum will examine there becomes cross debate on menial loss and it is the job of Finance Committee iate to the Abortion Law Reform Associa­ the large number of Constitutional Amend­ issues between factions of the meeting. to examine the daily and long term expend­ tion. It was another example of waffling ments.

GRANTS TO YOUNG SOCIALISTS

The issue which fired the most debate was action on a letter from the Young Food fo r Thought Socialists asking for a grant of $150. While a fairly simple decision requiring an affir­ Those apples you bought today, I bet to get 30 - 170 % above your requirements the large corporations can also take credit mative or negative answer seemed all that you made sure they were red, succulent in essential compounds. Of course, you’ll for the rapid demise ot the small food was necessary the discussion dragged on and unblemished. But did you suspect be getting a lot more rubbish with it from store and the small producer, the squeez­ for well over an hour. The discussion got that they were probably shot through the processing. ing out of large profits from N.Z. for so twisted in knots with the result that no from peel to core with super powerful It’s just that we’ve lost any worthwhile closely following and greatly fueling infla­ one really understood the topic under poisons ? control of what happens to the food tion, for ensuring starving countries re­ discussion. And how about those prepared cake before we get it. We are reduced to choos­ main so...... And so it goes. You’d be Mike Treen, Welfare Vice President mixes you use when you’re feeling lazy ? ing between weeties or ‘muesli* for break­ crazy to trust people who live in the world and local Campus leader of the Young Does it contain real egges and shortenings, fast. And when the food’s on the table, where market considerations created by Socialists originally moved a motion to or were these replaced by an inexpensive we’ve little understanding of what our profit motives is the only reality. the effect that the Executive ask the Fin­ chemical that offers no nutritional value bodies should have, our own individual ance Committee to give favourable con­ and has caused extensive organic damage requirements - not just totting up our The process of re-establishing control sideration to the request. There was imm­ and death to laboratory animals. calories quota - but what balance of for ourselves will not be easy. Our digestive ediate opposition, firstly from those who And don’t overlook that loaf of fresh nutrients our body needs from day to day, system has to get accustomed to unpro­ dislike the Young Socialists; secondly bread (white or brown) you count on for situation to situation. from those who disagree with Association cessed food. We need to begin exploring nutrition and energy. Did you know that to learn what our own bodies really need. giving away money; and thirdly from the most valuable ingredients were milled You don’t have to be a food freak to And we’ll have to learn to work in co­ treasurer Peter Goodfellow who submitt­ out of the flour, that it was chemically reject the idea that the present system is operative groups to produce and distribute ed it was Finance Committee’s job to aged, chemically bleached, the dough ' capable of eliminating our problems. Be­ our own food - groups that have their recommend a course of action to execu­ treated with chemical softeners and pre­ sides their venture into processing and . members' interests moving them and tive. Goodfellow said that it seemed a servatives to make it appear fresh, the adulteration, and influencing our tastes, afford their members direct control. trifle stupid for Executive to suggest a starchy remains dosed with 3 or 4 synthe­ course of action to Finance Committee tic vitamins to replace some 25 nutrients and for them to suggest that course back that were removed, and then the bread was to the Executive. sold to you as an enriched product Alter­ For efficient banking services And so the Executive floundered around natively some mallee meal is added and on these views for a period until Mike the loaf is called 100% wholemeal because Treen asked for his Motion to be with­ the meal they add is supposedly 100% drawn. wholemeal ? you name it... And then came the funny business. It Virtually every bit of food you eat has was pointed out that the meeting’s con­ been treated with some chemical some­ sent was needed. They all agreed that where along the line - dyes, bleaches, emul­ BNZ has it on campus! they should vote on it. The result was 6 sifiers, anti-oxidants, preservatives, flavours, for and 6 against - a deadlock - but ah, flavour enhancers, buffers, noxious sprays, Complete banking services are available to all students, through the Frank Stark, the Cultural Affairs Officer, acidifiers, alkalizers, deodorants, moisten- Bank of New Zealand Campus Branch in the Old Student Union had voted in favour - but could he ! The ers, drying agents, gases, extenders, thick­ Building. Cultural Affairs Officer previously has eners, disinfectants, defoliants, fungicides, been an appointed position and the officer neutralisers, anticaking and anti-foaming Cheque Accounts, Savings Accounts or a handy combination of both. was a non-voting member of Executive. agents, fortifiers and lots more. These Facilities for withdrawal on demand throughout New Zealand. However, the A.G.M. the previous chemicals perform their mission at the BNZ has more branches and agencies throughout the country than night had passed a Constitutional Amend­ cost of distroying valuable vitamins, min­ any other bank. ment making the Cultural Affairs Officer erals and enzymes, stripping food products Safe keeping of documents and valuables. a full Executive member. The question of their natural qualities. BNZ Education Loans. was whether this meant that the old type And along with nutritional loss, a prime Free consulting and financial advice. Officer automatically became the new casualty of the orgy of chemical adulter­ one or did it require an election. ation of foods has been flavour and text­ Full travel services. So the hassle continued. It was finally ure. Processing leaves a product that is All these services and more, on campus, and available to you through resolved by a decision to consult the Assoc­ made palatable only by use of more chemi­ the BNZ Campus Branch. iation Solicitors. In the meantime the Cul­ cals. The deterioration in flavour applies Never underestimate what the Bank of New Zealand can do for you ! tural Affairs Officer was allowed to vote. to many fruit and vegetables. Varieties If you'd like more information on any financial or associated matter, In actual fact this was yet another blun­ once prized for their flavour and texture call at the BNZ Campus Branch, and arrange time for a chat der for Constitutional Amendments are not have been dropped and replaced by others or ring 370-385. ‘in action’ until Registered with the Incor­ that meet today’s criteria. The test for porated Societies Office - and this the everything now is : Will they transport Association Secretary had not had time to well ? Do they look appetising ? Flavour do. When this was pointed out to the and nutritional value have been sacrificed -BNZ President she declined to alter her original to economic expediency. ruling. It’s not as if you’re going to collapse a/ So, with a 6-all deadlock - the President with acute poisoning the next time you cast her vote in favour of the motion, eat food from a supermarket. But no one Full banking services at the which was withdrawn. Then Treen moved really knows the effect of thirty years’ that the Executive have sole power to accumulation of assorted adulterants. We deal with the Overseas Travel Fund. More are a generation of guinea pigs. fun. And it’s not as if you’re going to find Nobody had any idea what the Travel your oversized stomach is really a symp­ Campus Branch, Fund stood at and it seems somewhat tom of malnutrition. In fact, if you’re The Old Student Union Building. amiss for a body set up for a specific pur­ Average Kiwi you’ll be overeating enough Page 4

1 Negroes ticket prices allowing white families in Sweet and docile the South to attend the lynchings at a low Meek, humble and kind cost, were not unusual. Beware the day It took a massive civil rights movement They change their mind to destroy this terrorist system and pressu­ rise the government of the U.S. to abolish The struggle to recover, even to recon­ the legal inequality that blacks faced. struct a world in which black Americans Black migration to the Northern cities in enjoy an unashamed sense of identity - j this period helped to make this possible - remains the task of black organizations in I NAN for the simple reason that terrorist meth­ the U.S. today. Nan Bailey, an active ods - intimidation and lynching by the member of the Young Socialist Alliance Klu Klux Klan in the South - were imposs­ and the Black Liberation movement in ible to implement in the Northern urban the U.S., spoke with considerable vehe­ ghettos supporting populations well over mence to N.Z. students about the subject- j BAILEY: the hundred thousand mark. Such an ion of the black community in Boston to attempt might result in a lynching but it a violent attack by racist mobs aimed at wouldn’t be a lynching of the people for preventing the desegregation of Boston- j whom it had been originally intended. schools. In 1955 a fourteen year old black * \ youth was lynched for whistling at a white On a televised variety show American woman in Mississippi. His mother shipped comedian Bob Hope was asked if he his body to Chicago and instead of burying thought a black president would ever be him, put his body on display to show the elected. “Only if he runs against a Mexican”! world exactly what racist America had was the reply. Present at the show was done to her son. The reaction was astound­ Henry Kissenger who commented that ing: not only did 250,000 people turn out Bob Hope was the funniest man in the world. But, for the overwhelming major­ to see the body but spontaneous meetings resulted throughout the urban ghettos in ity of black and non-white people in the world today these are not very amusing the U.S. 20,000 people protested in New times. Victimization is taking place the York, 6,000 in Detroit; 3,000 in Cleveland; world over, with stepped up attacks on 8,000 in Los Angeles; 9,000 in Washington black and non-white rights. D.C. The mood for action was encouraged The black liberation movement in by the 1954 Supreme Court Act that America is entering a new and important declared separate schools for black students stage with the emerging struggle over inherently unequal and required imple­ bussing. mentation by state and city governments The U.S. government, it appears, has throughout America. tried to suppress the full truth about the The Civil rights activists were able to bussing controversy in Boston - attempt­ take advantage of the temporary differ­ ing to hide the open racism. Preventing ences that existed between state govern­ Latin Americans, Asians and Africans ments in their demands that federal gov­ from an understanding of this controversy ernments implement the 1954 Act that becomes the express aim of the U.S. made segregation illegal. government. George Wallace, for example, the local Nan Bailey presented an eye-witness governor of Alabama used his local police account of the situation in the Boston force to force the Supreme Court decision streets today by outlining the historical to be ignored. President Eisenhower, under context behind the black dilemma in pressure from the Civil Rights movement, American society - an essential prerequi­ was forced to send in federal troops to allow site to an understanding of their present blacks to take advantage of their rights to condition. equal education. Ever since schools opened in Boston Despite these major gains, the end of the last September hardly a single day has Jim Crow laws did not mean the ‘actual’ gone by where violence has not erupted. end of segregation and inequality. Blacks Racists lynch mobs have roamed the streets still live in ghetto’s, are the last hired and of Boston, throwing rocks and bricks at the first fired, have the worst jobs, and school buses carrying black students, attend the worst schools. threatening black children and attacking Schools remain segregated in virtually individual blacks on the streets. every single Northern city and it appears Graffiti covers the walls and sidewalks there is little or no intention on behalf of South Boston round the white commun­ of the U.S. government of ending actual ities involved in the busing controversy segregation in housing, employment and which reads : "French-fried niggers for education. This would mean a complete sale”; “Bus them back to Africa”. social upheaval, a tremendous blow to the The anti-bussing, anti-black movement present system where white profits depend reached its peak of insanity one day when on the super-exploitation of black work­ a white student was allegedly stabbed to ers. death by black students. The school admini­ Civil rights action has shifted in empha­ stration dismissed the white students and sis therefore, from demands for formal called in buses to evacuate the black stu­ legal equality to demands for actual equal­ dents. A mob of students and parents black ity. These demands are accentuated by meanwhile, had gathered outside the school double digit inflation, recession and the and successfully prevented the buses from economic situation in general. The major evacuating the blacks. battlefield is in the schools where demands Louise Day Hicks, one of the ‘anti­ for black rights to equal education and an bussing bigots’ on the Boston school comm­ lib e ra tio n extension of the position that was origin­ ittee spoke to the mob : “You must dis- ally embodied in the 1954 Court decision, :rse for your own safety”, she said. She are claimed. >viously wasn’t concerned about the There is inherent in racist America the Ēfety of the black students trapped inside. fact that white schools are better than When she agreed to the proposal to bus in th e black schools. What is at stake in the battle the black students out, the crowd booed over bussing is the right for black children ier down. to attend schools of their choice in order Chants from the mob included : “Bus to get the best education possible. The them back to Africa, bus them back to u s solution of equalising educational opport­ Africa”, and other racists epithets like : unities appears obvious. Since housing “'Bonehead, bonehead”, and “niggers eat segregates blacks, transportation of white shit, niggers eat shit”. An idea formulated children into black neighbourhood schools among the crowd to burn down the school. and vice versa would theoretically solve It was clear the mob was being whipped the problem. Racist feeling however com­ Lip into a murderous frenzy. plicates the simplicity of this and makes Several hours were needed by police to the practical implementation of theory get the reinforcements required to trans­ virtually impossible. port the black students safely out. Organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan, Eventually, with the help of a decoy bus, the John Birch Society, and the U.S. Nazi police formed a human barricade to allow Party have joined in playing a leading role the students another exit to escape. in mobilizing opposition - rallies, demon­ These scenes of racist mob violence strations, and marches have been organized occurring today are typical of the racial by right-wing elements of white society history of the U.S. Similar events took involving thousands of racists. The vicious­ place during the 1940’s and 1950’s in the ness and violence of these racists have Southern States under the laws of Jim photo by Murray Cammick exceeded anything that has been seen since Crow which enforced the segregation of let seats as whites. Lynching was a regular major political events, held in front of the days of the J im Crow laws in the whites and blacks in every area of life. occurrence to keep blacks in line - these mass audiences, and political speeches South were initiated. Many white Ameri­ Under Jim Crow the blacks had absolutely were often spontaneous, spurred by groups were made before the actual lynching took cans refute the claim to call them racist no legal rights. of whites deciding that some black indivi­ place. Newspaper advertisements, leaflets by announcing that what they are in fact It was made illegal for blacks to eat at dual had overstepped the balance of Jim and posters were distributed to publicise fighting for are neighbourhood schools. the same lunch counter, drink at the same Crow. the event and build audience participation. The inherent hypocrisy in such a state­ water fountains, or even use the same toi­ A number of these lynchings were Instances of railroad companies lowering ment is evident. Page 5

The spectable of racist mob violence in was John F. Kennedy. Today in Boston civil rights organisations in the country. blems the world faces today .: Boston including the stoning of black while the Democrats have refused to take Boston should be a concern for every­ “Those who want peace and security school children and attempted lynching, a stand, the right wing parties of Massach­ one; - it is but part of a larger campaign; without fighting or taking any risks have are very clear examples of what the call usetts state, in which Boston is located, a campaign that Nan Bailey as a feminist simply chosen the wrong time to be born. for neighbourhood schools entails. As one have often placed themselves at the head and a socialist hopes to promote. This But for those who aren’t afraid of the South Boston youth told a Newsweek of the racist protest. campaign is relevant to N.Z. women, storms and the strife and can see social magazine reporter: “Our folks don’t say The all white, all-democratic Boston Polynesians and Maoris. The conviction progress riding with the storms, matters nigger, they say alienation of our rights.” school board has marched at the head of of Dr Edelin, a black doctor in Boston, stand differently. For those who are in Let’s face it, it all means the same thing. racist demonstrations and helped to or­ for manslaughter in performing an abort­ tune with this century, who understand ganise them. The all-white, all democratic ion, bears a startling resemblance to the laws of this development and the force Examples of hypocritical views are also Boston City Council have turned their current attacks on the Auckland Abortion and direction in which it is moving, this is illustrated by Democratic and Republican chambers over to racists to determine Clinic and the prosecution of Dr.Wool­ a great century to be alive in.” candidates. Senator Edward Kennedy, their future strategy in plans against black nough. Leading representatives of the Black people fighting for social change probably the most prestigious Democratic organisations. black community in America and women’s must do three things. First, they must tell politician in the country, has refused to Thus the black socialist argument, to groups have attacked the conviction of the truth about the system, about govern­ take a strong stand against the racists. He interpret white political propaganda as a Dr. Edelin as racist. It is certainly true ment harassment and its role in creating told reporters on September the 9th last campaign to encourage racist America to that he was convicted by an all-white jury the problems against the rights of women, year that white racists : “Still feel very opposition of the black movement, is not in the midst of the racial strife in Boston. blacks and the working classes. Secondly, strongly about these issues and they’re without cause. Racism exists today for a reason. Nan around those issues that are recognised it entitled to their views”. President Ford, Black activists and their supporters Bailey and the Young Socialist Alliance is important to become actively involved in his opinion of the bussing controversy therefore are beginning to take the count­ believe it is the creation of a system dom­ in an attempt to remedy them. Thirdly, told reporters he essentially sympathised er-offensive in their struggle against white inated by a handful of individuals who it is important to tell the truth about the with the racist point of view : “I am racists. The first response was on Novem­ make the political and social decisions of future and accept the prospects whatever against forced bussing too”. ber 30th last year when three thousand whose consequences the rest of us suffer. they may be. Society would be benefited Such illustrations show the reluctance people supported a demonstration. A Certainly two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, perhaps if more people in general took of the U.S. government to meet the issues national teach-in in Boston raised slogans :- the Middle East, strife in South East Asia, account of such activities. and demands raised by the black liberation “racists don’t own the streets of Boston”. and world wide racism, sexism, pollution, “The fight for socialism has therefore movement. Ironically, the first congress­ On December 14th 12,000 people march­ inflation and so it goes on, illustrate the a very serious goal. The most important man in American history to introduce a ed in Boston against racism. Black and political ineptitude of so many of our single thing we can do with our lives is to piece of civil rights legislation in Congress student organisations are presently organ­ rulers. join up in work and try to turn the pros­ in 1957 was Richard Nixon and one of ising what promises to be the most import­ James Canon, a leader of the Socialist pects of socialism into something that is the congressmen who fought to secure ant political protest in the States this year; Movement in the States once summarized a reality”. thesom electoral support of e Southern whites called by the NAACP - one of the oldest the prospects of socialism and the pro­ Anne Wilks random thoughts the computer will, this year, find the who teach you both of the above but missing link. Reform - with a stench. don’t give a ...cause there’s a hell of a lot Does it make our education any you can learn on the way. Teachers from better? Not a bit. Has it improved our the latter category come in half as many, teachers’ teaching? Most of them still are worth twice the pay, and when you have not realised it’s time to tuck away get one it’s a rub and a half, perhaps,, last year’s notes - forever - and many but worth it. The least you learn from never will. That the facts can be lifted such a teacher is memorise only what is from textbooks and recent magazines. useful, and what is useful is method and That lectures would be better as a form not facts; and if you’re lucky you get a of extended tutorial; and so what if few little more, like a meander through the students participate - a few minds are beauties and subtleties of the subject more well learnt from than one. That being taught. method is better than madness and that What we need in the university is a madness is grabbing hold of Plato, commonsense approach to teaching Hobbes, Mill or bloody Hume, or any­ methods, not screeds of highly legalised body for that matter, and condensing rules and regulations; and an easing of down what they say into a little block staff-student relations, not the present this big by that big, then adding an droll-faced peering over lecterns or addenda of accumulated gossip gleaned parrot-fashion mouthings on the accum­ from volumes of erstwhile critics. And ulated knowledge of the past millenia. there’s method in this madness. So But perhaps one might as well ask the much so, in fact, that one could amost carpenters to desist from watching those invent a conspiracy theory to cover it. lovely little post-adolescent bums as I was sitting in the quad the other day practical and turned up with passing by As I see it, you’ve got three sorts of they wiggle by the workshop every day. thinking out an ammended timetable to years, scholastic gambling where the teachers; those who teach you how much make sure I got that essay in only a winner takes all, and in Arts they’re still you don’t know, those who teach you week late instead of the usual two, and working out the puzzle with hope that how much they don’t know, and those Bob Hillier having fantasies about being the big bad wolf and huffin’n puffin’ till the whole place fell in, so we could all have three Program Saturday night May 3rd Car club - Tractor tug of war weeks off while they built a new one (1) Caf dance - Car display when along comes this bloke whose GALAH DAV (2) YMCA stadium 8 p.m. Jumble sales /Auction/Produce stalls enrolled in the faculty of a thousand and Family variety show including Maori club • Hangi and concert one credits and having problems with Fencing display Old time music hall his timing cause he knows not whether COMMA 2 Body Band etc. etc. etc. he will graduate next year or the year The Galah Day is coming - Sunday May 4. University Dancers after. Theatre Workshop o> The poor bloke was suffering from an We need your help and support to: Samoan Students Item obvious case of academic reformophobia Bake bread Maori Gub We need your help and support. If you which must be pretty well epidemic in give old clothes, furniture and lots of others can give us decorations/jam/art work/ the university right now, judging from white elephants, handcrafts, white elephants/old books/ clothes/ the earbashings I’ve received on the cakes etc Sunday May 4th furniture we’d be grateful. subject of paper system, credit system, help make sandwiches 10 a.m. —all day. [Over the next week a student will call and all the other recent innovations that Over 100 events arranged by the A.U.S.A. at your house asking for any donations fair boggle the imagination and take clubs and societies including of the above items that you can give - we hours of computer time to work out. international Food Fair — Malaysian will take practically anthing] Apparently it’s your liberal conception — Singapore of reform that causes it all. What happens — Samoan If you have goods which you can give is that somewhere along the way someone Almost every club and society is doing — Fijian you could either bring them into the loses his sense of humour about the something. If the day is to be successful etc. cookery Students Association - Custodians office whole thing and insists that nothing can then we need the support of every student or give us a ring 30 789 and we will be taken away, and a whole new list of and his or her friends, relations and arrange to pick it up. rules and regulations be added so as to assorted others. The day promises to be a good one - make it, the new system, like the old The aim of Galah day is three-fold. Bread making competition A students’ association open day and a one - certain, rigid but with discretionary 1. To raise money for a creche Bursary. Athletics Club challenge run gesture from Auckland University Students power at the top, and watertight to 2. To raise money for a workers bursary. Underwater club - marine display Association to the people of Auckland abuse and, unfortunately, to any com­ 3. To help increase the funds of the clubs Wooden Toys stall City. passionate manoeuvring. and societies. Candle stall Come along on Saturday night to the So Architecture went on strike for j The day is a kind of Students’ Assoc­ Plant stall YMCA and Sunday to Princes St - enjoy year round assessment and got year iation Open Day. All kinds of things are Law Society Mock Trial yourself and discover what the students’ round exams instead. The Law School happening. It is a gesture from A.U.S.A. French Club - French coffee bar and Association is all about. bargained for something a little more to Auckland City. entertainment We look forward to seeing you. Page 6

i— all the days of your life mate. All the end­ get it As my mate says ‘It’s the bosses A less days. bloody system so I don’t see why we should So here’s a toast to the drivers and eng­ suffer for it’. ineers. If they go on strike for those extra Travel Allowances glorious days, here’s one bloke who will Finally, all hail to the 7 unions - includ­ be subsidizing them. So perhaps will ing Purdue’s and Andersons’ again - who AUSA? are after travel allowances. Payment for Redundancy Payments time spent at work was fine once. When we All Hall Secondly all hail to Peter Purdue’s all lived next door to the factories. But Carpenters and Labourers and Anderson’s now thanks to the speculators most of us Drivers. In the face of increasing layoffs live in dreary suburbs miles out and it costs they are demanding redundancy pay. It’s a fortune to get in. Especially as most of us no joke getting turfed out of your job use cars ’cos the buses are so bad - two out with unemployment all around. I know, I of 40 of use buses where I work. And as to th e once spent 4 weeks looking for work. the boss gets the benefit of our trek why Broke I was, and it was misery. And weary shouldn’t he pay. After all as I sit my weary on the feet. 40 minute journey to work every day its Fairs fair mate not really my time I’m in. Like it or not I’ve a mate who’s a carpenter in a firm I’m mentally, physically and certainly M ilita n ts that is laying men off. This, as near as I emotionally - attuned to work. In short I It’s been a great week for the Unions. And God bless’em ses I. For after can remember is what he says about redun­ feel sick. It’s boss’ time alright.Let him nearly one year of full time factory work I agree with Philip Larkin who dancy. Look, he says, I’ve spent 10 years pay. described work as a ‘toad’ which ‘squat on our lives’. It bloody well does too. with that boss. 10 years of National spon­ M ilitancy pays again Every day, day after day. So much so that any organization which seeks to sored building speculation boom. This So there’s a moral to all this brothers. firm expanded like crazy. The boss made Once again the militant unions are fighting lessen that load is acting most democratically for it has the support of millions a fortune. Did I share in the boom ? Like our battles. As ‘The Herald’ made clear; if of us under old toad. hell I did. The boss gave me not a penny Anderson’s boys, Purdue’s boys and the For a start all hail to the engineering graft! I, and millions like me, will kiss the rise. Any rise I got came courtesy of the other militants get these 3 awards pretty union. Anderson’s Drivers. They are de­ arse of anyone who can get me even one general awards. It’s the bosses' system soon we all will. They fight; we gain. The manding an extra weeks holiday for all days parole. What, with Queens Birthday Dave, boom bust boom bust. All over the old story. workers with over 3 years service with coming up I’m even feeling patriotic. capitalist world. Well I didn’t f------g well Choose how you like, the bosses give any one firm. Well, I’m a bloke who’s Forever and Forever Amen share in his boom and I’m not going to nothing. Ever. You name it, the militants spent - one way or another - 23 years in The Kiwi is supposed to be an outdoor share in his f------g bust. He can damn well got it. The 8 hour day. Tea breaks. Paid education. I’ve been pretty profligate with bird forever hiving off into the scrub. compensate me. holidays. The vote. ‘Free’ education and holidays. Had so many of them see. Took Thre’s an old myth for you. I ask you. health, Pensions, Social Security. All forc­ them for granted. But oh brothers, it's How on 3 weeks holiday a year, can I be ed from the bosses by the militants. different now. continuously mounting tramping, fishing, The Bosses* System The Weary Drag shooting and climbing expeditions ? It’s And he’s got a point. I notice that when You win Y ou see I've just had my 3 weeks just not on. Damned impossible. The old times are bad the bosses trot along to their Even you fur hooded darlings of the annual holiday. (The 3rd week courtesy of toad won’t let you. friends the banks and the minister and ask bourgeoisie benefit In your bursaries the unions; it used to be two weeks. Come ‘5 days of the week it sours with its for ‘bridging finance’. They get it too. Are struggle the militants are backing you up. to think of it the 1st and 2nd week came sickening poison’ says Larkin ‘just for the getting it at the moment as subsidies to the Were even with you at the demo. courtesy of them too. For they had to be paying of some bills. That’s out of propor­ tune of millions. They don’t have to strike. And it must have taken some doing. struggled for). Anyway I've just had my tion’. It bloody well is too. And weekends They just ask. The governments neutral see? A.U. students scabbed in 1913, the 1930’s annual holiday and do you know folks are not much better for it is written ‘6 days Well, the workers are asking for bridg­ and 1951. I’ve got nothing coming now till Xmas. shalt thou labour and the 7th all odd jobs’. ing finance now. Just enough to bridge Remember that next time. Xmas ! 9 endless months of dragging And the tragedy is that the poison lasts them between jobs. And here’s hoping they David Col bourn Aboriginal overseas Rights students... Over six hundred ‘overseas students’ The five day Congress will feature a Campaigner are currently enrolled at Auckland Univer­ host of guest speakers on subjects ranging sity. Many more are studying at other New from “Politics, economy and society in Zealand tertiary institutions. They hail Singapore” to “Hanging Myself Together - from Malaysia, Singapore, the Pacific Is­ a comparison of philosophic and religious Coming! lands, Vietnam, Thailand, Africa - to traditions”. (Bhuddist, Hindu, Muslim name just a few. and Christian). “Involvement” activities at the Congress will include tramping, horseriding and good Cheryl Buchanan, Aboriginal land- girls, or drop out of university. tucker cooked in many exotic ways. rights campaigner, is to visit New Zealand In 1972, Cheryl got leave from the Uni­ Some may find life in a strange country Conference Highlights universities towards the end of this term. versity to go on an aboriginal cultural lonely. Most would benefit from an inter­ Tuesday May 13th - A full-time field officer for the newly exchange mission to China. When she change of ideas - with a goal of solving Joe Shephard on “Lessons from the established Black Resource Centre in Mel­ returned she found that her bursary had common problems. philosophy and practice of liberation bourne, Cheryl was a delegate to the Con­ been stopped. This May Auckland will host the Over­ movements in South America. Panel : ference for a Nuclear-Free Pacific - held The education authorities wanted to seas Student Congress - to be held at Walter Pollard, Steve Hoadley and Bob in Suva recently. discuss the matter with her, but by this Knock-Na-Cree Camp in the foothills of Mann on Indo China. time she had lost patience and told them the Waitakeres. Overseas students from all Wednesday May 14th - She told delegates at the Fiji Conference to keep the Scholarship and left University. over New Zealand will be attending. “How much money is Malaysia worth” that Aborigines place great importance on The Conference was told that discrim­ The last Conference was held in Christ­ (Mike Stenson), “Politics, economy and their ancestral lands as the focus of aborig­ inatory laws in Queensland made it illegal church in 1973. At that time emphasis Society in Singapore” (Keith Buchanan) inal cultural and spiritual life. for Aborigines in that State to leave their tended to be placed on the educational “Fijian Politics and Society”, “Tonga and The Black Resource Centre, Cheryl reserves or return to them without permi­ and welfare problems that overseas stud­ Samoa”, and a Fijian style Hangi. said, helps to initiate and campaign for ssion. Those that broke this rule were liable ents face in New Zealand. Particular atten­ Thursday May 15th - Aboriginal land rights and operates as a to a $200 fine or six months imprisonment. tion was focused on the difficulties that Syd Jackson on Maori Politics and centre for reliable information on the acti­ “The most iniquitous part of the Queens­ students experience both in gaining ad­ Society. Although essentially a recreational vities of Aborigines and other coloured land Act was that it prevented Aborigines mission to New Zealand tertiary institu­ day, NZUSA Moguls will speak on the minority groups in the world. on reserves from receiving more than $22 tions - and in negotiating with Govern­ background of student politics in New “People get paranoid when Aborigines a week in wages. Anything in excess of ment Departments to extend periods of Zealand re overseas student issues. start fighting for their Land’, she said. that amount has to go into an Aboriginal study in New Zealand. Friday 16th May - But if all the existing tribes got their Trust Fund, established in the 1890s”. Although such problems will undoubt­ John Hinchcliff on “Hanging Myself land back it would not amount to more Cheryl said that Aborigines had not edly be raised at the Auckland Conference, Together”, “Examining Overseas Aid”, than three or four per cent of the total been able to find out where the millions the organisers have placed emphasis on Student Welfare panel, Trevor Richards, Australian land mass. Most of the land is of dollars which had gone into the fund delegates gaining a greater awareness of Henry Isaacs and Tom Newnham on barren anyway - but has so much meaning had been spent. each others’ countries and societies. It is “Africa”, and Cheryl Buchanan on for the people from that land.” During her New Zealand tour Cheryl hoped that New Zealand students will also “Aboriginal Rights”. Cheryl now lives in Melbourne, but her will speak at the Overseas Students’ Con­ attend. Only through understanding on a Saturday May 17th - spiritual home is a sandy stretch of land at gress - to be held at Oratia May 13-17. first hand basis will barriers be broken Resolutions, Mock Capping ceremony Cunnamulla in South-West Queensland. down. and a lot of fun and fine food. She grew up on a native reserve, living in a corrugated iron shack. At 15, Cheryl Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th was one of the youngest students to attend ARMY SURPLUS STORES Queensland University. She was on an Tents 173 HOBSON STREET. PHONE 372-675 Packs Aboriginal study grant, and found the Sleeping Bags Ground Sheets Kit Bags Army Great Coats Covers requirements imposed upon her as discrim- Tramping Boots anatory. All at prices well below Normal Discounts already built into our prices Education counsellors kept warning her Produce this ad. for a 50c reduction on your purchase______not to get pregnant like other aboriginal what i was taught its really to h a te

blades ■ of its leaders have since disappeared. illkea They had learnt to cushion their con­ 1 was born South African and Five thousand Ovambes have since dis­ ived in South Africa for the first sciences from reality. They could no longer feel. appeared. Five thousand Ovambes have twenty years of my life. since crossed into Angola seeking refuge. When I was seven my mother Sometimes I would walk far along the coast to a lonely beach where there was no During May-June 1972 Black students taught me to distinguish between protested over the inequalities of Black White and Black, between White “Whites Only” sign. Sometimes I would and Coloured. walk high on the mountainside where education and against the expulsion of When I was nine I saw my mother police vans could not ride. student leaders. Consequently the “tribal hit our servant because she did not Once I met a girl on the mountain. We colleges” were temporarily closed and all work hard enough. I was taught to built a fire and talked. We sat, our hands students had to seek re-admission. hate Blacks. intertwined and watched the sun’s rays In June-July 1972, a minority of the I remember my father remarking peep over the distant mountains and then far more numerous white students demon­ that a Coloured man, with two years creep slowly across the flats. And as the strated in sympathy and were suppressed tertiary education, had had the insol­ sun’s first ray touched our rock our lips with batons, dogs and tear-gas. ence to apply for a job in his office. met in communion. When we left the As a consequence, 65 student and youth When I was eleven I saw policemen mountain we decided it would not be wise leaders were placed under house arrest throwing black people into their van to meet again. She was black. I am White. during 1973. because they didn’t have passes. While I was growing up in South Africa October 1972- April 1973. Illegal When I was thirteen my school many things were happening and Mr.Vor- •strikes by 250,000 workers over wages, built two new rugby fields on land ster and his supporters would probably working and living conditions. More batons, previously occupied by people who describe the era as a period of dynamic tear-gas and dogs. There is much overcrowd­ had been forced to move under the change. ing in South African gaols. Group Areas Act because they were cause he had never attended school. He In the 50’s the coloured people were And so the tragedy of South Africa con­ the wrong colour. sold his newspapers barefooted. He knew desenfranchised, the universities were seg­ tinues. Many things happen in South Afri­ When I was sixteen I was hitching from his parents lived in a tin shack but he had regated and hundreds of thousands of ca which nobody ever knows about except Durban to Johannesburg and obtained a forgotten where. coloured, Indian and black people were the security police. The press is effectively lift with a black man. We had a blow-out I remember watching pregnant women forced to vacate their homes because of muzzled and all dissent is crushed. and a white garage manager refused to sell and elderly women climbing to the upper the group areas act. New Zealanders should realize that us a new inner tube because I was White deck of a bus so that they would not taint In 1960 sixty-nine men, women and there can be no compromise between their and he was Black. the seats of the “White’s only” lower deck children were shot at Sharpeville for peace­ liberal, social democratic values and the At seventeen I was conscripted into the with their blackness. fully protesting against pass laws. ideology of the Vorster regime. army so that I could learn to defend West­ When I was nineteen I worked at Groote During the early 1960’s the African The ruling National Party in South ern civilisation. Our Sergeant forbade us to Schuur Hospital (where the first heart National congress, which had since 1912 Africa is controlled by a secret organisation talk to the Black workers in the kitchen transplant was performed). I remember the peacefully promoted the total aspirations called the Broederbond and is committed because they were his “Kaffirs”, he said modern, spacious, well-equipped wards in of Black South Africa, was completely to the myth of Arayan superiority. It uses he had made them from three sacks of which White died of cancer and heart dis­ suppressed. All its leaders are now either the forces of capitalism to further its own cabbage and one sack of shit. ease - and the shabby, cramped wards imprisoned indefinitely in fortresses on ends. It ensures that whites get the best When I was eighteen I got my first job where the blacks died of tuberculosis. Robber Island or have excaped into exile. jobs, education, amenities, social services, as a work study officer in a shoe factory. I And the long queues of Black people wait­ The Liberal and Communist parties residential areas etc. etc. It aims to main­ had to decide whether workers were com­ ing for medical care. too, were suppressed. tain the white man in his position as mast­ petent enough to keep their jobs. If I did­ I used to wish that I could teach Black March 1971, Port Elizabeth. Eleven er, forever and ever. n’t I would have lost mine. I did eventually children but a White may not teach a people were shot over a bus boycott Even now, I remember all too vividly the lose my job but that was because I was Black except at tertiary level. against increased fares. nauseating racialism, the hatred, the ten­ suspected of having an affair with a Chin­ I described to my White friends all the October-December 1971 all the Ovamb sion, the violence and the fear which per­ ese typist. injustice and oppression which I noticed workers in the white sector of Namibia vade my country. Sometimes, I wish I I remember watching twelve-year-old in our country, but they did not wish to went on strike. This strike was broken by could forget. Sometimes I know I must Kenneth scratch sums on his thigh with a know, (sometimes it seemed that they no white scab labour, brought from the re­ return to fight. Dawie nail. He could not calculate mentally be- longer wished to know me either). public - and much police brutality. Many the Annual Accounts, which reflected Rules to get the money through affiliating. some strange policy decisions and some Probably the only people who were less gross mismanagement on the part of last than satisfied were the hundred or so who year’s Exec, were accepted unquestioned. attended not as part of some pressure In passing it would be nice if the Accounts group but instead as individual members were presented in an easily comprehensible wishing to take part in the running of the form. I was a member of last year’s Exec, Association. If they want orderly meet­ LACK am familiar with the background of many ings with reasoned discussion of whatever of the items involved and have some grasp questions face the Association they are of the assumptions and thoughts underly­ unlikely to be satisfied while the present ing AUSA financial policy. Nevertheless quorum remains. If those responsible it took me most of a two hour lecture to were serious in their desire to see demo­ read, analyse and comprehend the cracy triumph they would raise the figure' Accounts. How someone without this so high that no pressure group could sur­ background is expected to understand vive - say 1500 ?? The alternative is to them I am not quite sure. If it is not poss­ return to the old figure and let those who unfortunate presentation of some of the ible to alter the Accounts themselves, then are interested run things. worst aspects of “student democracy”. at the very least it would be appropriate Finally I wonder why we have adhered An earlier attempt to hold the meeting to see a Craccum article from the Treasur­ so long to the tradition that the President had failed for lack of a quorum with 160 er explaining them. must chair meetings. Clare is a very nice students present, and this one only succ­ The meeting was probably satisfying person and a good President - better than Last August 58 people attended the eeded because various pressure groups to most who attended - the Engineers we have had for years - and it is no disres­ Association’s Winter General Meeting and found items of interest on the agenda. defeated the attempt to remove the Capp­ pect to her to suggest that chairing is not voted to increase the Studass fees by $4, Thus we had the unedifying spectable of ing Controller from Exec, though every­ one of her strong points - only one Presi­ double what the Treasurer requested. This major items of business being rushed thing they regard as essential to Capping dent in the last six years has been good at farsighted decision was later rescinded by through with no proper consideration or is being organised outside Exec this year - chairing meetings. It might not be inappro­ a special meeting which also quadrupled rational discussion so that the pressure Contact preserved the Exec positions of priate were the Exec to appoint whomso­ the quorum to 200 in an effort to “prevent groups could reach their particular item House Committee and Student and Public ever is best among them to do this job. undemocratic decisions” and to “minimise and get off to the pub. Liaison, though since they are doing most But it won’t get round the fact that such the effects of pressure groups”. As was A large number of trivial constitutional of the work associated with these positions meetings as do achieve quorum in the near predicted at the time the result was just amendments were decided on the basis ot it is difficult to see why - and the hostels, future are likely to be emotive, simplistic the opposite of those desired and the Gen­ some short, emotional, irrelevant and while prevented from voting themselves and chaotic anyway. eral Meeting held two weeks ago was an occasionally falacious “discussion” and subsidys were shown a way round the Bob Lack Page 8

TELEVISION ONE He says television gets good value for the amount spent on private companies and does not pay enough for their productions. Aardvark lost money on the last three features it produced and the losses had to be made up with income from commercials. “Television has an obligation to the pushing out the people who watch the programmes,” he says. “There is more talent outside the networks than in them and if these people cannot get work here they’ll go somewhere small guys where they can.” He says that if the networks are prepar­ ed to pay a reasonable price for their films Some members of the private film industry in New Zealand are concerned they have been approached by TV 2 but then his company is prepared to take the that the opening of the new Avalon television studios may affect their liveli- have been given no details of their policies risk of making them. “All we need is the lood. on making commercials. money and the films will get made..... Television one is considering using its studios to produce commercials at Owen Hughes, an independent produc­ some good and some bad, the same as what will probably be a lower rate than the private companies can. Commer­ er and direction manager, says private overseas. Until the money comes people companies have proved their ability and in cials provide many private companies with most of their income. won’t even know the talent is there.” effect Avalon is now saying they are not Robin Turkel, television critic for an M iss Susy Pointon, who has worked in majority of their film contracts at present needed. He sites the example of ‘Derek’ Auckland newspaper, says private com­ most areas of the industry over a period of go to private companies, but they would which was produced by Aardvark films panies can pick and choose their work so six years, calls the idea a gross insult. take the best deal offering. Up until now and recently won the Drama Arts award. they should be able to produce more crea­ “First the NZBC stopped commissioning the television networks haven’t been inter­ The fifty minute drama was sold to the tive work. The television networks on the documentaries, and now Avalon is taking ested in making commercials and he believ­ NZBC for $1,600.00, a price which didn’t other hand are geared to production level. away our last means of livelihood.” es it is right that the private companies even cover production costs. However, he thinks ‘Derek’ was still a should make them. The film - which he says would not oncer. He does not think drama films She says network television has be­ He says his company needs a constant have been made by the network television should be manufactured by private com­ come a factory, concerned only with turn­ supply of products and a continued ser­ because of their ^conservative attitude” - panies as they don’t have the facilities to ing ‘the product’, while the different per­ vice by someone who is interested in them. was subsidised by the arts council with a maintain production. sonalities in private industry allow more If the private companies can do this then grant of $3,500.00. The number of pri­ Private companies should concentrate personal and professional freedom as well the networks should have enough work vate productions in the Feltex awards and on commercials and documentaries, he as encouraging different modes of express­ making dramas and entertainment films. their placings prove the high standard of says. Being more flexible they can vary ion. He believes the exclusion of private indust­ the private companies’ ability, he says. He their time to suit the demands of their She would not like to work for Avalon ry would mean a loss to the standard and has just returned from two years working subject and do not work to such a strict because she considers it too large and wants value of television. in England and says that technically New schedule as the networks. He says the net­ to work for a small, central group. “I don’t Daphne Davidson of J. Nott Ltd, an Zealand films are of world standard. works operate on an assembly-line basis want to be tied down to a policy,” she advertising firm, says all their films are Roger Donaldson, owner of Aardvark because that is how they make most says. made exclusively by private companies. films, says he believes pressure groups are effective use of their facilities and staff, it Sam Gardner, television director for Up until now they’ve been the only ones too strong to allow the television networks is not because they employ less talented Dormer Beck advertising firm, says the interested in making them. She adds that to reject all private company productions. individuals. Chris von Keisenberg PARTY UNE since the importance we place on education ties in with our particular political philo­ AMOS S0 C R E D S sophy. And for some years now the Leagu­ es’ policy on student bursaries has been clear and forward-looking. REPLIES BURSARIES (i) EVERY full-time student at univer­ “The true position is that student bursar­ sity and technical institute, who has ies have now been increased twice in the the University Entrance qualification, last two years. POLICY mGeorge Bryant will receive annually renewable bur­ In March 1974 increases were introduced saries which will be sufficient to cov­ which resulted in bursaries paying full fees er boarding allowances and other instead of nine-tenths of fees. The A supp­ basic costs. The only condition is lementary allowances were increased from that satisfactory progress be made. $100 to $150 per annum, the B supple­ mentary allowances were increased from (ii) Such bursaries would be automati­ $80 to $100 per annum, and general allow­ cally adjusted each year in terms of ances were increased by $60 at all steps. rises in the cost-of-living. These increases amounted to over $2 million that that can hardly be described (iii) The bursaries would be differentiated as insignificant. t between student groups according to In March 1975 the second set of increases circumstances and the extent of the were introduced. They have been termed costs involved : some subjects involve interim provisions because that is exactly much higher costs than others. what they are. They are interim provisions until the more substantive proposal for a (iv) No bonding would be involved. standard tertiary bursary can be worked out. (v) There would be no means test, with For university students the interim pro­ its associated degrading aspects. visions are in the form of a hardship allow­ Social Credit liberal philosophy holds ance, not exceeding $150 for students who that: (i) every student, with the appropriate receive the boarding allowance. For tech­ qualifications, should have equal opportun­ nical institute students the recent measures ity and right of entry to tertiary instruct­ contain an increase of $100 per annum, $80 to $240; in year three from $120 to Labour Has Failed. ions (ii) therefore, it is obligatory upon the effective from the beginning of the 1975 $280; and in year four from $165 to $325. The Labour Party has not kept its pro­ State to see that economic conditions are academic year. It is quite correct that the Technical institute students also qualify mise to students. Its delaying and fobbing- such that entry is financially feasible for boarding allowance has not been specifi­ for the $350 boarding allowance in appro­ off tactics were to be expected. Why ? each student (iii) education would be top cally increased, but this was at the request priate cases. Because (a) education generally is consid­ priority in Government expenditure under of the New Zealand University Students’ In technical bursaries then too, there ered a low priority portfolio in the present Social Credit and so importantly do we Association, whose stated policy has been have been two increases in as many years. Government (b) the question of university regard university education that we intend that the boarding allowance should become This is detailed on the attached table, “A”. education, and bursaries in particular, was to establish an Under-Secretary to the less significant in the bursary scheme. The introduction of the standard tertiary never considered a high priority within Minister for this purpose. Accordingly, increases that might have bursary is under active consideration and that portfolio, and (c) the larder is now Students should never be placed in the been justified in this particular allowance discussion at the present time. Now a bare. Even if the Government did come position of having to crawl to the authori­ have been calculated and distributed Government priority, the Department of up with something more than the meagre ties pleading for handouts. It’s a matter of through the improved general allowances. Education and Treasury have held frequent offering announced on March 10 it would human dignity and principle : students Technical institute bursaries have also meetings to develop a draft proposal. soon be eaten away by rampant inflation, should be able to pursue their studies un­ been increased since the Labour Govern­ Today, I will be meeting a representa­ most of which is caused by internal econo­ burdened by financial worry. ment took office. These increases were in tive group of students again to receive mic mismanagement. And it is highly keeping with the priority which I as their proposals for a standard tertiary doubtful, despite alleged support from the By supporting Social Credit policies at Minister and the Government accorded bursary, and these will be studied by me other major political party, that it would the forthcoming General Election you can tertiary technical education. and the officers of my department have done any better. help provide political pressure. After all, From $20 in 1972 when Labour took I have gone on record as saying that I At the 1972 General Election an indep­ the League is one of the strongest pressure office, the first year technical student hope to have a statement to make at about endent survey of the three parties’ educa­ groups in the country and our efforts have allowance has been lifted to $180 per year; the end of May. tion policies clearly adjudged Socred pol­ often been instrumental in promoting in year two the allowance jumped from (Sgnd) PHILLIP I. AMOS icy to be superior. This is not surprising change in a number of vital issues. Page 9 NEW HEBRIDES- NUCLEAR POLITICS

FRIENDS- Why do I say that we are brothers and proportionate. Other basic criticisms sisters in a common struggle? that we put forward were that: I have talked about the Assembly be­ In the New Hebrides I come from an cause there are several important consider­ island which has a volcano at the centre. Well, we are all aware that Tahiti is a 1. Since the rural population (81,000) is French military base for nuclear tests. But ations to think about. Firstly, the elections The volcano is called Yasur and some­ four times the urban population (19,000) for it represent the first time ever that times it makes fire and smoke from its some of us are not aware that New Cale­ then the rural representations to the nationwide elections have taken place in top. My ancestors and many of my people donia, a French colony which is about Assembly ought to be the same propor­ New Hebrides. Secondly, the plans for the today are frightened of the volcano 1,00 miles north-east of Sydney, is a tion. Assembly openly represent a pattern by because they don’t understand why fire tightly controlled semi-police state. The 2. Since the system of co-operative soc­ Brittain and Franch to continue their must come out of the ground. Before we worl of the police authorities in New ieties is well established in the New Anglo-French Condominium in the New believed that volcanoes were the work of Caledonia is to keep a tight military-like Hebrides, and since it was introduced Hebrides. And thirdly, given these difficul­ the spirits. Now, when we understand why security on political ‘dissent groups’ in to encourage melanesian participation ties, the New Hebrides National Party can volcanoes happen, our people are less New Caledonia AND the New Hebrides. in rural and commercial trading, that still win these elections to enable it to est­ frightened. These ‘dissent groups’ happen to be the the Co-operative representatives to the ablish a course of a future New Hebrides I see that the problem of naclear voice of the Melanesians and nationalists Assembly should be increased to six the way we see things. That is why I have weapons and the nuclear bomb has the struggling along the road to self deter­ (6) or in any other event, to a figure said that the next 3 to 5 years will be the same story as that of the volcano. At mination. In the New Hebrides, our twice that of the Chamber of important time for us in the New Hebrides first the people of the world were fright­ people often see the military strength of Commerce. to try and gain political power from France ened when they heard of the nuclear bomb, France being displayed. In two public Since the people of the New Hebrides and Britain. because its power of destruction was very protests held in March and September were not represented at the London talks So this is the kind of freedom that we great. We were also frightened because we last year by our people, the two adminis- (November 4-5, 1974) we thought that to New Hebrideans speak of - the struggle to trationsimmediately radioed the French think we had the power to stop the ask for these concessions was the least we ‘self determination’ and it is in our reach. authorities in Noumea (capital of New spread of nuclear armaments. Now that can do. We have no replies to our criticisms This kind of struggle is a broad and long Caledonia) to send their highly trained yet. And I don’t think the two adminis­ term development, whereas when we talk we understand the role of nuclear power riot squads to the New Hebrides. This as part of a political game in the world, trations will agree to our criticisms of of a ‘nuclear free Pacific’, we are looking has been the practice since the British we can control its spread even though our their plans. toward the immediate years ahead. But as and French nationals (who total 5% of countries might be militarily weak. In our criticisms of the Anglo-French I have emphasised, these two struggles are our population of 100,000) petitioned plans, we also maintained that in effect really within the same problem each is The arguments for and against nuclear the Anglo- French administration in armament are very technical and some the powers of the Assembly were inadeq­ part of the other. We want to create a December 1973 (date of first major public ‘nuclear free Pacific’ because we under­ are psycho-political. For example, the protest march by New Hebrideans) to uate, and that therefore the Assembly theory of naclear armament as part of was no different from the previously stand some of the problems of nuclear keep .a stricter control of public armament. It is a futile human practice the world’s "balance of power”. It seems demonstrations. established Advisory Council where the that the people who believe in these two administrative Resident Commiss­ aimed at maintaining world peace. The Thus, since last April, a ‘public order practice leads to the relative domination theories are those people who have regulation’ was introduced. It states that ioners (governors) had wide discretionary nuclear bombs. powers. The two resident commissioners and exploitation of other peoples. The an application to hold a public protest practice recreates a mentality which There are many explanations. The and its acceptance by the authorities must still have wide discretionary powers in the volcano is a restless child of our young proposed new Assembly. relies totally on violence as a means to­ be made 24 hours before the time of the wards achieving peace, rather than adopt­ planet. In the same way, the atom bofcnb actual demonstration. In practical terms, Thus the Assembly has no powers of is a deadly example of a young race trying legislation but only an advisory voice on ing a different kind of mind that seeks to it means enough time for the British and achieve peace through non-violent means to live in harmony. The real problem is French authorities to agree in sending for important areas such as education, health services, land policy, the police, immig­ and through the power of human under­ that living in "harmony” means different the New CAIedonian riot squad. The things to the Russians, the British, the ration policy, the legal system and laws standing. I think these are the roots of the British and French do not want to use (there are three at present) and other nuclear mentality. Americans, the Chinese, the Indians and the local New Hebridean police force the French. As a result we see suppression important matters which are more delicate But to achieve these ends is a slow - because all of them are New Hebrideans, like the citizenship issue and foreign very slow - process. But this is inevitable and exploitation of one people by other whereas the New Caledonian riot squad is people. The exploitation is done by coun­ investment since we are talking of a mental and spirit­ an all white contingent. I do not care my­ The two administrations try to keep the ual attitude. tries who look at themselves in the mirror self about the colour of a riot squad - I am of world history and affairs and say: New Hebrideans quiet by saying that the We all know the first commandment only saying these things because it shows Assembly will have a majority of New of the nuclear arms build up. “I am beautiful. I am the greatest” up how the British and French administ­ at the same time these countries hold Hebrideans represented - that is, seventeen It was :- rations think and do things in the New (17) from the rural electorates and four “Thou shalt not fire the first shot” their bombs in one hand ready to throw Hebrides. them at you if you happen to disagree (4) from the Co-operative and three(3) This was later revised to state :- The reason for this pattern of French from the urban electorates. On paper this “Thou shalt only fire the second retal­ with them. rule in New Caledonia and New Hebrides If this is what is called ‘balance of looks very good. However, we in the iatory shot” is part of a wider Pacific pattern of dom­ National Party think that kind of In this age of super nuclear achievements, power’, then it is just a ‘better sounding’ ination. By keeping tight military backed name for ‘Colonialism’ and ‘world domin­ thinking is too simple and thus very when little wars are fought to forestall the political hold on the New Hebrides, New narrow and rascist. Why? Simply probability of larger wars, the command­ ation’. With this problem before us, I can Caledonia and Tahiti, the French are trying because it categorises people on the basis see that this Conference must touch two ment has been further revised to say :- to maintain a delicately balanced status of his or her skin colour. So, for example, main resolutions. The first is to plan a “Thou shalt not fire the first shot, quo, because if one of these three places in the urban electorate, the total of 9 unless the first shot is directed at point declaration of a ‘nuclear free Pacific zone’ broke away from France, it would mean the representatives must be made up of three or a Pacific ‘zone of peace’. The second A and not at the aggressor” beginning of the end of French colonial British nationals (including subjects), How tragic all this is ! How sad ! The story resolution is a long term stand against rule in the Pacific. nuclear armament generally. I think that three French nationals (including subjects) never began but we are telling it. The story these two resolutions must stick together, In the New Hebrides we believe that and three New Hebrideans. These 9 mem­ has concluded but it is not yet finished. the next 3 to 5 years will be our deciding bers of the Assembly will be elected on a otherwise we are fighting a losing battle. common roll basis. So that if we pressure the Americans out period as to the future developmental of Micronesia and the French out of course of our country. I will explain what OVERSEAS STUDENTS CONGRESS 1975 Polynesia, they will go and blast their l mean by giving you the administration’s bombs and build their military bases else­ plan for constitutional development for Knock—Na—Gree Camp (10 Miles outside Auckland) where - so the problem would still be a the New Hebrides. It seems to be a plan human problem. by France and Britain to continue their May 13-17 1975 What can we as individual countries do? rule over the New Hebrides. We are all here because we do not want So that, by September of this year, the Discussions on Africa South America to be the target of a nuclear conflict But Anglo-French would have set up a "new” Indo-China New Zealand we are also here to see how nuclear arm­ legislature known as the Representative Malaysia Politics ament is part of a greater expansion policy Assembly. This Assembly will have 38 Singapore Religious Philosophy of the nuclear powers. If this Conference elected members. This membership of the Fiji Foreign Aid can continue to unite our many organ­ Assembly will be divided into the follow­ Pacific islands Inequalities isations on the two aims that I have explain­ ing electoral divisions: Australia Poverty ed, then I think the work of the Confer­ —17 rural representatives from 10 ence will be made easier because diff­ rural electorates $12.50 per person which includes food, accommodation, fun, talks, films, slides, camp­ —9 urban representatives from 2 fire, bar-b-q, socials, one full day for tramping, train rides, horse riding, Auckland City erent organisations will have different plus 20 - 50% travel subsidy for Non-Aucklanders. motivations and energy to continue our urban electorates common struggle. —8 Chamber of Commerce members from a college of 210 members A Congress for overseas and NZ students throughout the country to learn more about Before I came to this Conference, I each other. Send your name now and we will send you more info, and your congress thought that the New Hebrides was one —4 Co-operative members from a kit. of the few ‘colonies’ remaining in the college of co-operative chairmen Pacific. But when I began to read about The New Hebrides National Party made it known to the Anglo-French administ­ Write now: Organisers the Americans and how they tested OS Congress their bombs on Bikini Atoll in Micronesia, ration that, as the free conscience of the New Hebridean people, it was not satis­ c/- Counselling Service and how the French control Tahiti with University of Auckland . their troops, then I can see that we are all fied with many of the proposals for the Assembly. The relative representations of Private Bag brothers and sisters in a common Auckland struggle. each category of members were very dis- M l Students krtu

1__Tf Meet r i J Amos

student representatives met the AUCKLAND BRANCH Minister of Education, Mr Amos, on ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CONFERENCE April 8, and expressed some satisfaction NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OF at the outcome of their discussions about SATURDAY 3RD MAY 1975 the standard tertiary bursary. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Commenting after the meeting NZUSA AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY - B15 LIBRARY /f President Alick Shaw said that the Govern­ SPECIAL ISSUE PANEL ment seemed more receptive to student OBJECTIVES : To help participants (i) understand environmental law and demands than they were in February. (ii) develop practical skills “New Zealand and the Indochina Refugee Alick Shaw said he thought that stud­ Situation 1975” ent demonstrations on bursaries may have •PROGRAMME produced a change of heart and that the — What should be the response of New Government also appeared conscious of PROGRAMME Zealanders and the New Zealand Govern­ the role students could play in metro­ ment to the recent events in South Vietnam [he Clapton c politan marginal seats in the November Introduction and Cambodia ? letter. Some c elections. — What are the facts ? ut some of tf The NZUSA, NZTISA and STANZ The Concept of Environmental Law - The New Zealand Law - An Overview. — What humanitarian principles apply llowed into h representatives put forward a number of THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE COOKE in this case ? quad backstaj ideas about the standard tertiary bursary — How does this case differ from re­ narketing hyp Water Quality and the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967. at the meeting. They suggested that entry fugee situations in Laos, South Asia, the Like a goo to a tertiary institution should he the $ole MR. D.A.R. WILLIAMS Middle East, and other parts of the world? criteria for paying the standard tertiary — What considerations of political ickup ticket bursary to a full-time student. If the Conveyancing Aspects of Water Rights prudence are likely to guide the New Zea­ quite a bit of Government accepts this view then stud­ PROFESSOR F.M. BROOKFIELD land Government’s policy now and in the Street was blc ents who have come to university straight future ? around the bl from the sixth form with U.E. would be Planning for Environmental Quality and the Town and Country Planning — What is the role of non-governmen­ cheque book eligible for the bursary, as would those Act 1953. tal agencies and how do they co-ordinate action Recorc who enter on provisional admission. MR. A.R. TURNER S.M. with Government ? worried about The student representatives said that more importa the bursary should be a cost of living Air Quality and the Clean Air Act 1972 THE PANEL (alphabetically) the occasiona allowance tied to general wage orders. MR. N.G. THOM groups of frie They emphasised that student organ­ Helen Clark, President, Princes St. the gate ticke isations must have the right to negotiate Commentary : The Conference, The Law and the Citizen. Branch, N.Z. Labour Party. was worth it \ with the appropriate government agencies SIR GUY POWLES Communist Party of New Zealand . to the vanue. enough witho about increases in bursary payments. representative. There was a lengthy discussion about Appreciation. The Hon. Eric Halstead, former N. scoring ticket With the c< the abolition of the present boarding Z. Ambassador to Thailand and Laos allowance and the student representatives A discussion session will follow each presentation. to be as high ; under the National Government. concerts, muc stressed that if the boarding allowance Geof Renner, Director of World FEE : $10.00 (printing, morning tea, lunch and social hour.) deemed it pol is to continue it should be available to Vision, just returned from an inspect­ lamage whicf all students living away from home. At ion trip to Saigon. nuch of our c present students living away from home TIMES : Registration 9.15 a.m; Introduction 9.30 a.m., Morning Tea 10.45 - 11.00., Philip Soljak, Dominion Councillor Lunch 12.30- 1.30., Social 4.00- 5.00 p.m. lefore getting in the same town as their parents are of the United Nations Association duelling with not eligible for the boarding allowance. of N.Z.....(PANEL MODERATOR). on K. Road (I The representatives of the Student Those interested should send cheque or postal order (with name and address) to Ta Dinh Hoe, Vietnamese Engineer­ “Environmental Law Conference, Box 5549, Auckland. even the remc Teachers’ Association told the Minister ing Ph.D. student at Auckland lis surveillanc that the standard tertiary bursary should University. concert traffii be introduced to cover university and lash the old 1 technical institute students first. They DATE : Monday 28th April Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th that that wasi said that any reduction in the allowances TIME: 8 p.m. (coffee at 10 p.m.) that “no chec presently paid to student teachers would G A L A H D A Y PLACE: Maclaurin Chapel, Princes SL jet us in any have major ramifications for teacher Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th irous souls ha recruitment, and that there was a need thousand pho Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th for a thorough inquiry into all aspects of It seemed | teacher training. This position was supp­ olid ticket h< orted by NZUSA and NZTISA. MAY ng phonies : Student representatives will moo» 4th ticket sales w, officers of the Department of Education that late stage on April 30 for detailed discussions about all day! ha ha) perha the standard tertiary bursary. After dis­ icket holder cussion at May Council at Waikato Uni­ naybe just a versity the student representatives will hus ensure tl meet Mr Amos again. iffort to buy heir efforts. Never min spite of all scientific lice enough s jicnic on the BEECH op and effort the books main act, and ocal band a r ’erhaps this a A DISPLAY ock audience music be eval eventually) s (rices, surveil WILEY. MCGRAW-HILL. M.I.T. Anyway, t the best I hav COLLIER - MACM ILL AN . SCHAUM REDUCE YOUR FOOD BILL - THURSDAY 12.00 P.M. - 2.00 P.M. think that the but sometime HELPERS NEEDED THROUGHOUT THE DAY Mother Goos SPRINGER-VERLAG. YALE U P.. Clapton, som went on too I a revisionist, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS don’t fit into WE ALSO NEED GENERAL HELP would like to their friends: Feminists doi LEAVE YOUR NAME & ADDRESS AT might. Carefi u.b.s to get them ii STUDASS OR PHONE 360283 hem howeve ( 5 0 % student owned ) with fiddles \ mate blues in m

Page 1 i

*********** **::: ::: .in ::::;: *:::::. **★*** ***★ ★★...... *** ::: ::: :::**** ::: *** ★**★ * ★ *★★* ★ * ★*** ** **★*** ★*** ★★ photos by Murray Cammick **★*** **** ★ ★ ***★ ** N o C la p s F o r C 1 ap to n

Hie Gapton concert was disappointing. I came away feeling that it could have been a lot etter. Some of the fault lay with Clapton because he didn’t seem to be trying very hard, wtsome of the fault lay with Auckland. Added to the fact that his girlfriend was not llowed into New Zealand with him, Clapton had to endure the attentions of the drug quad backstage and then put up with an audience which had fallen victim to the superstar narketing hype endemic in rock promotion. Like a good citizen, I’d trotted off to harmonics and none of those bothersome pickup tickets in advance. I had to do fixed semi-tone fret intervals with which quite a bit of trotting because Swanson guitarists have to cope. Street was blocked off and after going After the inevitable thirty minute break around the block I found that my (still it was a lot better than the Cocker cheque book wasn’t good enough for Dir­ concert where the audience was getting ection Records. If the promoters were justifiably mutinous after a sabotaged worried about losing money, there are opening band and a fifty minute wait for more important areas to worry about than the main act), Clapton wandered on and got the occasional crook cheque (two separate the band away on BLUES POWER, follow­ groups of friends reported weird stuff with ed by a lackadaisical version of Eddie the gate ticket sales): still, I thought it Boyd’s FIVE LONG YEARS which he was worth it when it came time to travel sang in a much more wide-awake manner to the vanue. That promised to be heavy on “Five Live Yardbirds” (Columbia enough without the added hassle of 33SX1677). scoring tickets. Clapton’s laidback attitude was more With the concentration of police likely than a number of Yobbo fans in front of to be as high as at recent outdoor rock the stage could endure. After all here was concerts, much of the audience must have their idc! ERIC, wandering around the Jeemed it politic to inflict the neural stage with no build-up or introduction, Jamage which is regarded as necessary by in a CARDIGAN, with a fag hanging out much of our drug dependant youth culture of his mouth and playing all this chugaluga lefore getting to the stadium. So after reggae stuff. duelling with all the other bent paranoics They wanted a superstar playing the on K. Road (I wonder if Gideon Tate has stuff they knew. (“I hope he does LAYLA tyen the remotest idea about what effect and all that stuff on “Wheels of Fire” lissurveillance tactics have on pre rock where he does all that fantastic fast play­ oncert traffic), it’s nice to be able to ing ....”). Consequently Clapton was sub­ lash the old ticket and roll on in. Except jected to a barrage of clottish requests for hat that wasn’t what happened. After all blasts from the past, and suffered a less hat “no cheque” stuff, our tickets didn’t than enthusiastic response to his later pt us in any faster because some advent- directions. irous souls had forged and sold a few After paying more than five dollars for [housand phony tickets. tickets, queuing, waiting and suffering all It seemed pointless pissing off all the the privations inherrent in a big, ugly, «lid ticket holders just to nail those hold- ammenity-less stockcar circuit, some people ngphonies : after all, the total volume of within yelling range of the stage didn’t icket sales wasn’t going to be effected at seem prepared to ensure that they got that late stage. If promoters really CARED their money’s worth by giving the visiting ha ha) perhaps they should have let every musician a chance to get his present shit icket holder in quickly (after picking up together. naybe just a few to help enquiries) and As far as music being something made thus ensure that the people who made the in front of them, they weren’t interested. iffort to buy in advance got something for Instead they wanted the whole museum heir efforts. superstar trip and no matter that the band Never mind. After a bummer queue trip was doing some great stuff. You just don’t nspite of all the plans, the weather was get a drum/bass section like Jamie Oldaker nice enough and we had a bit of the old and Carl Radle in New Zealand every day, jicnic on the grass before the music started. and back-up vocals such as those provided BEECH opened and in terms of balance by Yvonne Elliman and Marcella Levy just and effort they were perhaps as good as the never happen here. nain act, and for once the crowd gave the This line-up looked particularly good on ocal band a reasonably warm reception, TELL THE TRUTH from the “Layla” thudded out with all the subtlety of an music (with the emphasis on star-cultism •erhaps this augers a new era of Auckland album and on a simplified but effective elephant strumming with his foot, and and other counter-productive crap) often rock audience where not only will the version of Bob Marley’s I SHOT THE Radle looked as if he was about to fall seems to focus audience attention away music be evaluated objectively, but also SHERRI F. Interested folks should hear asleep. It wasn’t that the band wanted to from the really valuable things that happen. eventually) such trifling matters as ticket the original Waiter’s version featuring do all new material : one number (see But on the other hand Clapton seems irices, surveillance, and amenities. Marley on vocals on “Burnin’ with the above) went back to the Yardbirds days prepared to go along with the Superstar Anyway, back to BEECH : they played Wailers” (out on the Island label): a record and the band cranked out a very creditable trip and maybe if you want to take the he best I have ever heard them but I still which contains some admirable commie/ version of BADGE : but it seemed to me good things out of it (like lotsa money think that they lack bite. They tried hard bodgie lyrics (sample — “yes you are the that the musicians wanted to make their made from big venues and high ticket but sometimes wound up sounding like big tree, but I am a small axe, waiting to own decisions about their material. prices) you have to be prepared to cope Mother Goose Goes To Nashville. Like chop you down”). Mention must be made of George Terry, with the crap. I dunno.....I don’t want Clapton, some of their instrumental breaks The numbers that (to my mind at least) the other guitarist who was very good and to get out of my depth on a lot of specu­ went on too long, and their song writer is were performed the worst were LAYLA did some hard work behind Clapton and lation about the role of the consumer in arevisionist. They sang about women who and LITTLE WING, and it is interesting took some solo breaks that were at least music and “what is art” and all that stuff. don’t fit into their Zeitgeist and how they to note that the second most bored person as good as the man everyone came to see. What puzzles me is the question “what (vould like to live in the country and have on stage for those two forgetable events This only seemed to piss the audience off would the concert have been like if the their friends sleeping in the barn. If the was the other remnant of the “Dominoes” further. They had come to hear CLAPTON audience had attempted some form of Feminists don’t shoot them, the PLA days - Carl Radle. and when he merely wished to be part of rapport.....got behind the band and let might. Careful use of their fiddler ought Obviously these were crowd pleasers a band and not the up-front screaming something happen ?” Maybe nothing was to get them into a direction which suits which have to be trotted out whenever guitar player of yesteryear they felt cheat­ going to happen, but now we’ll never them however, and all power to bands the band feels that it has to make a con­ ed. Still, the concert was sold to the pub­ know. yvith fiddles which are (for me) the ulti­ cession to the sch mucks in the front row. lic as CLAPTON the Superstar. The trouble mate blues instruments with lots of fruity The familiar bridge in LITTLE WING was is, it seems, that the marketing of pop John Robson CRACCUM

V0UNG SOC BACKGROUNDER ICONFERENC 25-27 A P R IL , WELLINGTO

Super prof ons. This is tl Peter Franks created. We di way. - The Y o u n j on 'hange socieb im to create overwhelming direct dem ocr ivesand th e ir C am bodia ialist society \ Prince and Princess Sihanouk in front of the Temple of Banteay Srti near Angkor Wat. March 1973. the schools ar ised to care f jeings. We’re built ------Prince Samdech Norodom Sihanouk1 ihe status quc The final victory of the liberation Khieu Samphan (now Deputy Prime The CIA’, which is an outstanding history and to w in pe forces in Cambodia will mark one of the Minister of the Royal Government of of the Cambodian people’s struggle for ism. We’re do greatest defeats the US government has National Union of Cambodia— were national independence. liberation of the country. struggles to cl suffered anywhere in the world. appointed to important positions in the In 1963 Sihanouk retaliated against ives. O n ly by Ever since Cambodia achieved its Front and in the Government. At their the American attempts to subvert Cam­ the debate, thus making it easier for the jeople in p o li independence from the French in 1954 insistence Sihanouk remained Head of bodia. He ended US economic aid and US to keep Cambodia’s UN seat for Lon of the ca p ita l successive administrations in Washington State but he has stressed ever since that he threw out about 300 US economists and Nol. Characteristically, Sihanouk has not successfully c have tried turn the country into another intends to take no further part in the military advisers’ In 1965 he cut off been shy to express his disgust at the Young Sot US neo-colony; a base which could be internal political life of the country. He diplomatic relationships with the US. Soviets’ opportunistic policies and he has n the struggli used to attack the revolutionary forces in or radical po will be a figurehead leader and help con­ The 1970 Coup and After bitterly denounced their refusal to Vietnam. duct Cambodian diplomacy abroad. support the Royal Government on a We’re helping For 16 years the Cambodian leader As the war grew in South Vietnam, Dr Woolnoug Sihanouk’s government has never been Cambodia assumed great military signif­ number of occasions. Prince Norodom Sihanouk resisted US On February 24 and February 25 this ion Clinic. Tc diplomatic, military and economic pres­ a government in exile. At the time it was icance in the US Government’s strategy. abortion. T o formed extensive liberated areas existed - The country could have been used as a year the Second National Congress of sure. Cambodia was held in leberated territory. Then in March 1970 Sihanouk’s now nearly all of Cambodia is under the base for US troops and air power and to control of the government of National outflank the Vietnamese liberation forces. This congress reaffirmed the National Government was overthrown by a right- United Front’s basic political line since wing clique headed by Lon Nol and fin­ Union. The day after announcing the The Americans faced one major formation of the new government Sihanouk obstacle in carrying out this strategy - the its formation five years ago. anced and directed by the Central The Front and the Royal Intelligence Agency. explained it to Journalist Wilfred Cambodian government headed by Burchett in Peking: Sihanouk. Government’s domestic policy is to Sihanouk rallied the Cambodian 'uphold the great unity of the entire people to join the resistance against the „ “We formed the government in response In 1955 Sihanouk abdicated as king so to a request from inside the country, he could play a more active role in Cam­ nation and people irrespective of social coup and its American masters. For the classes, political tendencies, religious Cambodian Head of State, the return to mainly from those in the resistance move­ bodian political life. He used his trem­ ment. Leading members of the government endous prestige among the Cambodian beliefs and regardless of their past except Phnom Penh will represent a tremendous for the seven leading traitors in the Phnom triumph. are actually directing that resistance masses to consolidate the political power movement ....our government.Js rooted of patriotic people in the country. Pehn clique (most of Whom have left the The Web of Intrigue and Subversion in the soil of Cambodia.’ The right-wing, pro-American elements country). The background to the present events Most countries now recognise Sihanouk’s in Cambodia fought tooth and nail against The National United Front’s political in Cambodia goes back to 1954. At that government. But over the last 5 year s of Sihanouk’s independent policies. In 1966 programme has been applied since 1970 time the French colonial forces had fin­ fighting the Cambodian people have come they succeded in taking control of the in the liberated areas. The programme ally been defeated in Indochina. Cam­ to realise who their friends really are. National Assembly and Lon Nol became provides for democratic freedoms for bodia was the one country in the area The Chinese have provided Sihanouk Prime Minister. the people, equality between the sexes, which enjoyed a large measure of national with a base for his diplomatic activities and Left wing leaders in Cambodia saw the recognition of Buddhism as the state unity, largely because of the firm anti­ in ‘My War With the CIA’ he wrote: ‘No writing on the wall. A number of them religion and a guarantee of freedom of colonialist stand taken by Sihanouk who resistance movement could ever dream of ‘disappeared’ from Phnom Penh to the religion for those of other beliefs, protect­ was then the country’s king. having such conditions as have been placed countryside where they joined resistance ion of the ‘legitimate rights and interests The geneva Accords signed in 1954 unconditionally at our disposal by the bases that had been formed years before. of foreign nationals who respect our laws iguaranteed the sovereignty and independ- Chinese leadership to live, work and to Lon Nol used his position as Prime Minister and customs’ and protection for the rights ier .e of Cambodia, in exchange for a fight.’ to launch vicious attacks against the of the national minorities of Cambodia. pledge of neutrality. Sihanouk’s first The Vietnamese leadership in Hanoi and resistance bases and against the peasantry The economic policy guarantees r. Lake in American eyes was to take that the P.R.G. have also provided the Cam­ in general. peasants the right of ownership of the land ,i . jdge of neutrality seriously. When he bodian Liberation fighters with consistent In March 1970 Sihanouk left the they cultivate, promises to establish a fair was visited in 1954 and 1955 by the support. country for a visit to Europe, the Soviet system of land rent and rates of interest Dulles brothers from Washington (John North Korea has also supported the Union and China. On March 18th, as he on loans, and promises to help the peasants Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State and Royal Government of National Union ever was leaving Moscow, Sihanouk was inform­ resolve the agrarian prbblems through a Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA) and since it was formed, while the Cuban ed by Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin that fair solution of unreasonable debts. jobs are asked to join the anti-communists Government’s reaction to Lon Nol’s coup there had been a coup de’etat. The National guaranteed to the unemployed and workers alliance SEATO, Sihanouk refused. was to summon the Cambodian ambas­ Assembly had voted to depose him. are encouraged to form trade unions. The price the Cambodian people had sador to the Foreign Ministry and then It was not long before the truth about On March 25, ‘Washington Post’ corres­ to pay for standing up for their national order him out of the country after he’d Sihanouk’s deposition came about Lon pondent James Fenton interviewed independence was a heavy one. For the declared himself against Sihanouk. Nol had used the Khmer Serei forces and Phnom Penh troops retreating from Tuol next 16 years the US Government tried In contrast to the principled, fraternal other troops to take over Phnom Penh and Leap, six miles northeast of the capital to use every undercover trick in the book stand of these governments, and many other arrest loyalist forces. These tnoves follow­ city’s airport. to ‘persuade’ Sihanouk to join the Third World countries, the Soviet Union ed the sacking of the DRV and PRG ‘One officer’, wrote Fenton, ‘(who American alliance. has only recognised Sihanouk’s govern­ embassies in Phnom Penh. was) asked what would happen if Congress The CIA used the pro-American regimes ment in the last few weeks. For a long On March 18, the National Assembly / cut off military aid, said that Prince in Thailand and South Vietnam as a base time after the coup they kept their em­ was ringed with tanks and heavily armed Sihanouk would come back to Phnom for launching raids and infiltrating sabot­ bassy in Phnom Penh and provided Lon commandos. Machine-gun posts had been Penh ....and the Khmer Rouge would eurs into Cambodia. A Japanese puppet Nol with medical and financial aid. When set up around the city and the road from win. There would be no more war’. during World War 2, Son Ngoc Thanh, the UN General Assembly debated a resol­ the airport was barred with roadblocks - Asked whether he thought it would be was made head of the Cl A-trained army, ution to exped Lon Nol’s regime and in case Sihanouk suddenly returned. good or bad, he paused with some the Khmer Serei, which was based in Thai­ admit the Royal Government last year the National Assembly members were then embarassment. Asked a second time, he land and South Vietnam. Russians and their allies voted for invited to cast a ‘secret’ vote to depose said that he thought it would be a good The left-wing resistance leaders in the Sihanouk. But they were noticeable by their Sihanouk. Each deputy had to sign his thing. ‘Every Khmer thinks so’, he Cambodian countryside who had been silence during name to a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ ballot before said. fighting Lon Nol for several years reacted US economic and military aid was placing the vote in the ballot box. The puppet regime in Phnom immediately to Sihanouk’s proclamation. also used to put pressure on Sihanouk’s Just over a month after the coup Penh lost its strings when the US Despite the differences they had had government. In 1958 when Saigon troops American and Saigon troops invaded pulled out its Embassy officials and with Sihanouk over his failure to prevent invaded Cambodia’s most northern pro­ Cambodia in force. The country’s hard- Cambodian compradors such as Sau- Lon Nol from attacking the resistance vince the head of the US military mission earned neutrality was destroyed over kham Khoy (the acting President since movement, they announced their immed­ in Phnom Penh told the Cambodian night. The second Indochina war had begun. Lon Nol’s exile). It won’t be so long now iate support for Sihanouk’s proclamation. government it could not use American Oppression.... Resistance. before gravity takes over and Norodom Shortly before the Americans invaded arms or equipment to defend its national Sihahouk’s'government of National Union Cambodia the leaders of the DRV and the territory. Five days after the coup Sihanouk is in control of Phnom Penh. resistance movements in Laos, South Throughout the late 1950’s and early broadcast an historic proclamation from Although Washington plans to keep Vietnam and now Cambodia met to dis­ 1960’s there were a number of attempts Peking calling on the Cambodian people the airlift going for another two weeks cuss united action against US aggression. by right-wing Cambodian politicians to to rise up and overthrow the Lon Nol Pochentong Airport is closed and all In May Sihanouk announced the form­ seize power in Cambodia or to assassinate regime. He announced the formation of a supplies are being parachuted in. All the ation of the National United Front of Sihanouk and other members of the Government of National Union and called US is doing now is prolonging the agony Cambodia and the Royal Government of royal family. These plots are described in for the creation of a National Liberation it has' been inflicting on the Cambodian National Union. The left-wing leaders like detail in Sihanouk’s book, ‘my War with Army and a National United Front for the people since as far back as 1954. ;

Page 13

and Southern Africa, and the prospects 2 p.m. “The feminist movement in N.Z. for socialism. We’ll be mapping out a .....Gillian Goodger course of action to confront the Labour 3 p.m. Workshops : Women’s liberation/ government on the important questions International Political Prisoners. young socialists.. facing young people today. 4 p.m. “The fight against racial oppress­ Delegates to the conference will be ion in N.Z...... Andre Raihman YOUNG SOCIALISTS FOUNDING discussing a number of resolutions and 5 p.m. “Socialism : Why we need it and CONFERENCE. ANZAC WEEKEND reports defining the political standpoint how we’ll get it” .. Nan Bailey 25-27 APRIL, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, of the Young Socialists. There will be WELLINGTON. again! workshops, panels and a special Saturday 8 PM PUBLIC ELECTION RALLY night election rally. Super profits for a few, misery for mill­ for students. To end all'discrimination As well as the formal taks and discuss­ 10 p.m. Social ions. This is the world that capitalism has against homosexuals. To defend political ions, there will be plenty of time to relax created. We don’t think it needs to be that prisoners in Malaysia and Latin America. in a social atmosphere. SUNDAY, APRIL 27 To fight racism and war. The conference is open to all thos 10 a.m. “Tasks and perspectives of the The Young Socialists is organising to We’re involved in all kinds of activities interested in radical politics. If you want Young Socialists” Report and (change society from top to bottom. We to win people to socialism. Running Young to join the fight for a better world, or to Discussion. aim to create a new society in which the Socialist campaigns in student elections, find out more about socialism, then 1.30 p.m. Workshops : General Election/ overwhelming majority of people will have sponsoring debates, forums, conferences register now. Gay liberation direct democratic control over their own and seminars. Organising speaking tours. 2.30 p.m. “The radical movement in N.Z. ivesand their social environment. A soc­ Selling the fortnightly newspaper Socialist - past and present” ....John Colquhoun le of Banteay Stei ialist society where the factories, the land, Action and our magazine the Young STUDENT UNION BUILDING ALL the schools and all other resources will be Socialist. SESSIONS, UNION HALL, SOCIALS, CONFERENCE REGISTRATION used to care for the needs of all human We’re also planning a major socialist LOUNGE-SMOKING ROOM. jeings. intervention into the upcoming general (a) Enclosed is $4 registration for Y.S. We’re building a movement to challenge election. FRIDAY, APRIL 25 Founding Conference. This covers all the status quo politicians and their system We’re fighting for a better world and 10 a.m. Registration, Billeting sessions, workshops, socials etc. and to win people to the fight for social­ we intend to win. Join us. 1 p.m. Conference Opening (b) Enclosed is $11 for return far on Chart­ ism. We’re doing it by involving people in ABOUT OUR CONFERENCE 2 p.m. “The radicalisation of youth” ered Bus. Bus leaves Auckland Thursday struggles to change the conditions of their The Young Socialists Founding Con­ Report and Discussion 7 p.m., Wellington Sunday 5 p.m. ives. Only by involving large numbers of ference promises to be one of the most 7 p.m. International Panel Discussion (c) I require a billett aeople in political action can the power ■ for the significant gatherings of radical youth and Social Evening : (d) l require use of creche. of the capitalists and their politicians be that has been seen in New Zealand for Politics in South East Asia for Lon successfully challenged. k has not many years. Australia, Peter Conrick NAME :...... Young Socialist members are leaders At the conference, Young Socialists United States, Nan Bailey t the n the struggles and movements fighting id he has from around the country will be discuss­ ADDRESS :...... or radical political and social change. ing the current issues of New Zealand and SATURDAY, APRIL 26 to We’re helping to lead the fight to defend on a international politics. We’ll be discussing 10 a.m. “How the Young Socialists is PHONE ...... Dr Woolnough and the Auckland Abort­ topics such as the current economic crisis, organised” Report and Discussion. ion Clinic. To win women’s right to the international detente, the national 12 noon Workshops: The student move- SEND TO BOX 6176 AUCKLAND FOR y 25 this abortion. To gain a cost of living bursary ess of liberation struggles in Palestine, Indochina ment/Selling the socialist press. FURTHER DETAILS PH. 543-985 territory. :ional e since

to tire : social ious ;t except he Phnom left the

>olitical e 1970 mme s for sexes, tate >m of , protect- nterests our laws the rights ibodia. es , f the land ish a fair nterest e peasants ough a k- J obs are id workers ons. it’ corres- :d m Tuol apital who Congress ce nom uld 9 ould be ne, he good

d u- ince ig now ►dom d Union ceep Page 14

The Auckland Film Festival - June 20 PREMISES, PREMISES...... ired - you’ll probably throw up. Go ahead to July 3 at the Lido - now has a provis­ So you’d like to write a play ? Okay, - throw up. But don’t throw your tear- ional list of titles, which includes: Amar- go ahead. All you need is a pencil and stained pages away and don’t throw in m ore some paper. Any old scrap of paper will the sponge. Think - consciously think cord (Fellini), Phantom of Liberty (bunuel), Bombay Talkie (James Ivory), Belle (Del­ do. By the time you see your master-piece about what exactly you have to say - or vaux), Love (Makk), and Boesman and on the stage you will have rewritten and imagine you want to say. I believe every film s... retyped it about twenty times anyway, so good play has a premise audiences recog­ FILM SOCIETIES AND FESTIVALS you could put down your first inspiration nise, consciously or otherwise, and that’s on the backs of old exam papers. why there are so many lousy plays here In a recent issue of Craccum, I listed Advise ? No, I don’t think I have much today and gone tomorrow. some of the cinemas and organizations in to offer in the way of advice - except do One last thing. Don’t show your work Auckland that screen unusual films. Since it. Write your play, for God’s sake. We need around. You’ll get comments you won’t then, I have been given information about all the New Zealand theatre we can get. like and suggestions you might take. several other groups. Two of them are sub­ Oh yes, there’s one thing I might say - You’ll get confused and depressed and go urban film societies which present many don’t worry about the conventional divis­ back to writing novels. And oh yes, never of the same films screened by the Auckland ion into acts or scenes. Not at first. That ask for advice. Above all, if people offer HE ROLE Ol Film Society, but add a few titles of their all comes later. And don’t try to write a it, don’t for Chris’sake take it. IEW ZEALAr own, such as the two Czech films, The End perfect play as you go along. There must GORDON DRYLAND of Agent W4C and The Murderer Hides, be thousands of excellent first acts or 'Last year, 30 which receive their only Auckland screen­ even first scenes locked in drawers or DARK GOING DOWN, Gordon Dryland’s rested for srr ing this week at the Rutherford Western thrown under beds all over the world. prizewinning play, starts at New Indepen­ Victoria used i Suburbs Film Society. Write the whole thing even if you know dent on Saturday, April 26. Nightly except ramps. It’s a 1 Although the Rutherford Society has it stinks in places - even most places - but Sunday at 8.15 until May 1Ō. lie herb, of ci been in operation for only a year, it has get it all down on paper while your’re hot. Student rates:- $1.75 except Mondays and Itherwise kno already lent support to a number of Polishing and rewriting can then be quite Tuesdays, when admission is one dollar. iemp, boo, mt community activities such as the Student a leisurely business. Tickets available at the theatre on night of lames are legi< Film Society at Rutherford High School, Speaking for myself, I’d say that all my performance. io are the peo and a Junior Film Club which operates on worthwhile thoughts are second thoughts. ly all reckonii Saturdays. The Rutherford Society holds First thoughts are important, of course Advice ? Who needs it ? Graeme Anderson iationai pastir its screenings in the ‘Film Teaching Lena (an anti-apartheid film from South (otherwise how could you have second as Mark gets it from Bob Finch, who plays s, by some a< Theatrette’ of the local high school, which Africa). Other possible titles are : The thoughts ?), but they’re not to be trusted. psychiatrist Dr Menchken in Gordon fhatever the e is very comfortable and well-equipped. Earth ls Our Sinful Song, Servants of the When you read them back, these inspired Dryland’s DARK GOING DOWN at New iereentage of first thoughts you felt sure so - well, insp­ Membership enquiries should be addressed Devil, The Cars That Ate Paris, and Each Independent Theatre. ntial criminal to Jill Brabbs, 60 Kervil, Ave, Te Atatu For Himself And God For All (a new film on of it. And North (phone HSN 45-606). by Herzog, the director of Fata Morgana). or years, we’ After several years of inactivity, the It is hoped that the N.Z. feature film, North Shore Film Society has reappeared rads to madm Test Pictures, will also be available for the usage and ever and is presently one of the fastest growing Festival. film societies in N.Z. Screenings are held Victorian popi in the Birkdale College Library. Informa­ In 1894, The I Film Calendar reported marij tion can be obtained from the Secretary, April 22 to April 24 : Citizen Kane at Noel Evans, whose business phone number less. A fact th; U.S.I.S., 5 Princes St - 1 p.m., time and agair is 654-259 Extension 859. 4 p.m., 8 p.m. tiding, most re There is also a film society on Waiheke April 23:Paint Your Wagon and Snoopy Island - contact Mrs. H.A. Kerrod of Come Home, presented by P & own Commiss Surfdale (phone 8080). Qin B28 at 7 p.m. an indictment Another outlet for unusual films is the April 24:Berlin and Menilmontant, two And that’s wh U.S. Information Service at 5 Princes famous films of the 1920s, at are turning on Street, which is presenting Citizen Kane 7 p.m. in Room 305 of the marijuana law this week. Shirley Forde who administers Library Building. Victoria’s cod the Auckland centre has a special interest April 29:Battleship Potemkin, presented must be chang in the subject, and she has obtained a by the Pushkin Society at 7.30 >egon did, in number of important films that otherwise p.m. in the MacLaurin Chapel. uana successf would not have been seen in Auckland. April 30- )ther states ai Later this year she will be screening May 1 : Auckland Film Society screening direction. The John Ford’s Stagecoach, and films by at 323 Queen St (5.30 and 8) NORML has t Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage. The May 1 : A Nous La Liberte (Rene Clair) egislatprs, wo centre’s phone number is 371-633. In Room 305, Library Building. the lawmakers doing our besi AS AA^Ofy £>oWN WD ON HIS WAV fours.” To EteAKfASf TO WORK AT THE. from SlSOJlT f/ACTOR^ HIS SjE.ML-6. o f PEOPLE ACCO^TE-O "WAT Ato&iVM H£. c o u t -J ) .SC: I IN THE. STZ£ £ T J 1975 THINQ.S WE-RE UN£AS£ INCK£AS£W1 the F h a /w u ..: GtuiTB TH6- SANE-/ WAMTil ANOTHER H rwiaTr> (COULD yE SPA REA rCRAc*£R TK^FT Since it’s it I u.e R .., PIECE OF 6l(kHT eral years ago. i v THE CiTy / 'AW THE- ' MÊAN... FOR a p in t B£N2, Played a le IV/NDMILL O' R.U/A .CH, 7L marijuana pom es/ | zine calls il ►©o' the countr w • Helped ach e marijuana | • Filed a lawsi c tionality of / which will b< Attorney Ge member of h a a . Brought lega Enforce men ing that mari u ā FACTORY WAS PARTED w ith new WORDS j IT WAS THEN H£ R£ALiS£C International THAT HE WAS !N TH£ qRips o f SO WATCH OUT PARfLOTNO|[)£/ Ate* CRACKERS . PRESENTS CONSOL IDATE.D./ Gonzo jot "PAW o t n o i a " / LAH M week the obs ^ACKERS' o o n n o L O D (a little uninl staAAiVc w iA -y s u N M Y / CtelitAR The stimu t i l series of anoi c/isj o'waRT IB ^ 3 t o R A IS E IA OisieY FOR P . %oUt2. A«*!|. _ icles by Feli> A * * 1 c R £C H & y clo'SS/ and s o a e T te s t from a Georj Af^K I spelling) L.P. A *.*1- AR.K/ ^ H € . L P N € .£ l> e i> O M 'T Y te- violence and their use. Ac M '/ A MB / 1 call it that, h about being RuNNiNq SID^-SHOWS J nite-club for ~ MAKJNq S h ftj CAKES, LEATHELQEAtli for saying sh l town is cal ^ ip/CifA/^ ALL YOUR oU> wHfTe Anyway ( a * k ’/ ELEPHANTS WlLDEBEe ST ANi> seven words r 3 V (or Craccum ^ANXX COc>TS l motherf**k< N/\M£S jo STI/MSJ office PLEASEll it ...tits.! Words, th not say ther Page 15 RML HALLENGE ITO P©T LAWS

HE ROLE OF NORML IN CHANGING IEW ZEALAND’S MARIJUANA LAWS

Last year, 300,000 Americans were federal control; legal and medical fields to lobby and try would prevent the user from having to to sway enough politicians to make the rrested for smoking a herb that Queen - Provided nationally known experts at make frequent contact with the more dang­ Victoria used regularly for menstrual passing of the bill a lot more than a mere erous narcotics. People should be allowed legislative hearings in a dozen American formality. . » ramps. It’s a fact. states; and, to cultivate no more than 12 cannabis lie herb, of course, is cannabis sativa. - Assisted hundreds of individuals arrest­ Already, several people in various fields Itherwise known as marijuana, pot, grass, ed on marijuana-related charges in have offered their services, some from the plants on their own property or in their iemp, boo, mary-jane, ganga - the nick- finding competent legal counsel. university staff, and it appears that NORML own home. Sales of small quantities of ames are legion. will be well received as an important part cannabis to acquaintances over the age of So are the people who smoke it. A branch of Norml is now being set up of the national fight for practical laws. 16 years without profit should be lawful. jyall reckoning, it is fast becoming the in New Zealand. But, just what is NORML 4. That the search without warrant provis­ ational pastime. Twenty-six million smok- able to do in New Zealand where other The major changes that NORML would ions of the bill be removed. rs, by some accounts - lots more by others. efforts have failed ? The New Zealand like to effect in the new drug legislation As well as being a gross infringement of Whatever the estimate, a staggeringly high branch will have three major aims; area :- our civil liberties, the provision has allow­ iereentage of the population become pot- 1. “That cannabis in its various forms ed the police to harass certain sections of ntial criminals simply by being in possess- 1. To lobby at National government level (fruit, plant, seed, resin and extract) be our society on the pretext of a drug search, Dn of it. And the numbers are increasing, for the decriminalization of use, placed in a seperate schedule as distinct and there is no safeguard that police auth­ or years, we’ve been told that marijuana possession and cultivation of a personal from other narcotics.” ority will not be exceeded. rads to madness, sex-crimes, hard-drug supply of marijuana; NORML believes that it is important that 5. That the placing of the burden of proof usage and even occasional warts. Pure 2. To provide an honest and unbiased marijuana is placed in the same schedule on the defendant be removed. Victorian poppycock. appraisal of cannabis to the general pub­ as other socially accepted intoxicants, In all other criminal legislation in New In 1894, The Indian Hemp Commission lic, to allow people to form their own namely alcohol and tobacco. Classification Zealand, the burden of proof lies on the ported marijuana to be relatively harm­ opinions without the prejudiced gover­ along with the opiate narcotics is mislead­ crown, and any change in this is also a less. A fact that has been substantiated nment and news media reports. ing and undermines respect for the ration­ dangerous intrusion on our civil liberties. time and again in study after study. Incl­ 3. To provide a legal assistance service to ality of the law. There is not much scienti­ Surely the police must prove the guilt uding, most recently, by the President’s people arrested for personal use, poss­ fic agreement as to what it’s proper classi­ beyond a shadow of a doubt or are people own Commission. This report stands as ession and cultivation. This service will fication should be, but there seems to be now guilty until they can prove their an indictment of the pot laws themselves. provide legal counsel with assistance in a general consensus that if it is to be class­ innocence. And that’s why more and more legislators preparing their defence. ed with any other group, it may be regard­ 6. That the protection given to Police are turning on to the fact that the present ed as a mild hallucinogen, although some provocateurs who use cannabis be with­ marijuana laws are as archaic as dear old point out that it’s character is rather that drawn. Victoria’s code of morality. And that they Now that submissions to the select of an intoxicant than a hallucinogen. This legislative double standard allows must be changed. Recently, the state of committee have closed, and the new undercover police to legitimately smoke Oregon did, in fact, decriminalize mari­ 2. “That the distinction made by the “Drugs (Prevention of Misuse)” bill it cannabis while entrapping smokers. Surely juana successfully. present bill between marijuana (the canna­ appears, is to become law without any if the government considers cannabis so )ther states are beginning to move in that significant changes being instituted, des­ bis plant, fruit, and seed) and hashish direction. They must be encouraged. dangerous, it should not allow their agents pite numerous submissions by many well (cannabis resin) be deleted”. to partake of it, no matter what the NORML has been and is educating the Although hashish may be many times informed groups and individuals. The time circumstances. legislatprs, working in the courts and with has now come when we need a complete more potent than marijuana, the effects the lawmakers to change the laws. We’re of these two forms of cannabis are often 7. That the Government undertake an reappraisal of the methods used to find educational scheme designed to discourage doing our best but still, we need help, the best way of presenting to government indistinguishable. All of the cannabis sub­ fours.” stances are derived from the same plant the use of drugs. the facts concerning marijuana decriminal­ This sort of campaign is already educat­ from NORML advert. Oui. Feb. ization. NORML will be able, as a national and any differences in strength would 1975 (National Organisation for depend on the origin of the plant rather ing the public to the dangers of alcohol group, to co-ordinate all the varied attemp­ and tobacco and could easily be modified the Reform of Marijuana Laws) ts to lobby for marijuana law reform, and than on the part of the plant from which the substance is obtained. and extended to include cannabis and direct these attempts to where they will other drugs. Since it’s inception in Washington sev- do the most good. We cannot afford to The only way that these changes can be tral years ago, NORML has :- let the drug bill go through parliament as achieved is by support and constant pre­ • Played a leading role in decriminalizing it stands at present. The bill itself is a ssure on the government. With your supp­ marijuana in Oregon. Newsweek maga­ gross injustice of our civil liberties, the 3. “That penalties for personal use, possession, and cultivation be reduced to ort NORML can keep up the pressure. zine calls it “the most realistic law in police are to be given even greater powers, Initially it is hoped that recruitment of the country”; and that great bastillion of British Justice, a $20.00 fine, and the conviction be annulled from the record after two years.” political party members, politicians, • Helped achieve a dramatic reduction of “innocent until proven guilty”, has been doctors, lawyers, theologians etc. is poss­ marijuana penalties in Texas; reversed. Personal possession should be defined as being a maximum of not more than ible to begin the political campaign, but • Filed a lawsuit challenging the constitu­ these people cannot be enticed without tionality of America’s marijuana laws, With laws like this, the parliamentarians 100 gms (a little over 3Vi oz) of cannabis some sort of backing support from the which will be argued by former U.S. seem to be introducing a police controlled and 30 gms of hashish. Cannabis like all public. The “Drugs (Prevention of Misuse)” Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a state. Do we just sit back and allow them illegal drugs, is obtainable mainly through bill goes before parliament this sitting, member of NORML’s Advisory Board; to go blindly on, or, do we demonstrate the same channels as the harder narcotics. and it is hoped that it won’t become law Brought legal action against the Drug our democrastic right and apply pressure By allowing possession of 100 gms, it without opposition from within the house Enforcement Administration demand­ for realistic legislation. Norml will enrole and numerous changes. ing that marijuana be removed from the services of leading experts in both the fdix minderbinder on obscenity Gonzo journalism fights back! This show murder and death all the time to the world ( a false conception) is already Woman that Lives in A shoe has a Two week the obscenity revolution has come! kids on T.V. Carlton freaks out at the deeply ingrained. Imagine rewriting Mother Year wait for a State House, Snow White - (a little unintentional humour there). thought of substituting obscenity for Goose Fables to fit problems in the the original Groupie, The three little pigs The stimulus for this second in the violence on T.V. as a healthier form of modern world. Terrorised by a rack renting landlord - series of anonymous and scurrilous art­ expression. He imagines a typical Western Jack and the Beanstalk. What actually saved by Tenants Protection, Little Red icles by Felix Minderbinder himself came reoriented to sex instead of violence. The happened was Jack bought home a few Riding Hood Raped by a Kinky Wolf in from a George Carlton (questionable bad guys ride into town, walk up to the seeds of N.Z. Green which he had picked Grandmother’s Gear, Three Bears Burgled spelling) L.P. I heard about obscenity, sheriff and instead of getting violent say, up from a dealer down Vulcan Lane. by Blonde, Winnie the Pooh Busted for violence and the socio-legal constraints on “O.K. Sheriff, we’re gunna and Right? His old lady found them, went Pushing 2000 tabs of honey to an under­ their use. Actually George did not really f**k you now. ” shits at him and threw them out the cover piglet, Was Tinkerbell a Transvestite, call it that, he was simply complaining Better to have good old down to earth window, But...good old hardy N.Z. Peter Pan Mugs Aging Amputee, Hobbit about being thrown out of a Las Vegas sex than kinky violence, right? Carlton Green just kept on growing, Jack finds it, Liberation Front blamed for terrorist nite-club for saying “Shit”, imagine it.... didn’t say anything about this but I like has a smoke and the giant (Dec. Inspector bombing of dragon’s lair,....etc....etc.... for saying shit when the biggest game in the idea or reorienting traditional children Ogre) tries to bust him. Right? So Jack What is needed to complete cultural town is called Crap. stories away from unreal and imaginary trips on down to the plot and destroys the revolution. Indoctrination with a false Anyway George went on to outline the events, people and activities to forms evidence inadvertantly clobbering the sense of values must be stopped. Free seven words you can’t say on television, more relevant to today’s society. Kids get cop - who had no warrant - with an axe. Felix Minderbinder from the bonds of (orCraccum): shit, f**k, c**t, p**s, entirely the wrong view of life through How about that for a real introduction to semantic constraint, all the minder- motherf**ker, c**ks***er and .... wait for obscure fairy tales told to them at an early life for kids. More relevant than the binders of the world, wankers of the world it ...tits.! age. Face them with the facts of life at an original, right? unite! Words, that’s all they are but you can early age while they can still adjust, not As for the rest of the stories, the pos­ As Flanders and Swan once sang not say them. It’s a NO NO. Yet they post puberty when their conception of sibilities are endless. Noddy and Big Ears “Pee, po, belly, bum, DRAWERS.” Go Gay, Mr Plod is on the Take, The Old Bill Ralston Page 16

* Use returnable bottles (in preference minimum amount. Where possible use bak­ to cans) where possible. Where there is an ing soda and non-chemical scouring pad. alternative (say in soft drink lines) patro­ Detergents and enzyme soakers with phos­ nise those firms that DO make provision phates cause serious water pollution, as for re-using bottles. However, wine bottles phosphate promotes overgrowth of algae Look and other non-returnable glassware CAN which "kills” water by removing oxygen. f you go be recycled to make new glass. Craccum Avoid pollution of our waters by using ampsite. Ne\ will provide a list of suitable glass collect­ soap rather than detergent wherever poss­ Ithe camp w ht ion agencies at a later date.) Send your old ible. If you have a water softener, deter­ ants. E ither b A fte r glass back to be made into new and you’ll gent should not be necessary. them well aw, help restrict littering and control wastage of resources. You can help raise money for YOUR charities at the same time. Never use chlorinated hydrocarbons. These are the killers that decompose slowly but accumulate rapidly in the food chain. Environment! They also kill helpful insects which are natural pest controls. Psychic pollution is matched by the industrial vomit that fills our skies Pesticides in the garden should be used and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile with care and discrimination. Avoid those carcasses, aluminium cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense kitchen middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. ay Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. We risk thermopollution of the oceans themselves, hem for the ' overheating them, destroying immeasurable quantities of marine life, per­ is clean as po haps even melting the polar icecaps. On land we concentrate such large whether y o u < * Aluminium cans are bought by any couple o f wee masses of population in such small urban-technological islands, that we scrap metal merchant’s yard-and steel threaten to use up the air's oxygen faster than it can be replaced, conjuring Disposing ( cans can also be recycled. trip is n o t d if up the possibility of new Saharas where the cities are now. Through such * Do not use anti-fly or pest strips in a disruptions of the natural ecology, we may literally, in the words of betaken horn room where food is stored or prepared, nextsettleme biologist Barry Commoner, be ‘destroying this planet as a suitable place for where there are birds or an aquarium, or human habitation ’. ideal). I f th is in a child’s room. Read the label. the campsite I When we think about everything we did consumer pressure will ensure that the * Use white toilet tissue rather than the ns can be b last week and the week before that - it is ‘environmental consequences’ of corpor­ coloured tissues with insoluble dyes, ith the bott which may get into water supply. difficult, almost impossible to believe ate activity cannot be ignored at Director’s inches underg * To help control air pollution have wood that our way of life is being seriously en­ meetings. containing DDT, Chlordane, Lindane, tercourse \ dangered by pollution. But, the threat is And for all mankind a new equation stoves, incinerators, fireplaces etc. pro­ Heptcblor, Sieldrin, Aldrin, or Endrin. Read real and gaining momentum ..... and there for survival is inevitable. perly constructed so that they burn effic­ the label. iently and completely. Shift camf is grave danger that the harm we are doing Restrict pollution in your garden by fouling th< * To reduce noise pollution in the home to our environment right now is not always using natural rather than chemical fertili­ Be careful mmediately apparent.....yet may be keep electrical and mechanical equip­ zers. Chemicals should be used according ment in good order so that they operate ed and gra rreparable. to directions, using recommended applica­ grass fires cai There are two parts to the environment quietly and keep radio’s T.V.s, record tions. players etc. at an easy level so they don’t Don’t use products containing lead, nd destroy c problem. The first is to alert people fully tilling anim al to the fact that danger exists, immediately have to compete. arsenic or mercury. They are not biodegrad­ * If you are building a house, one of the able and poison people by slow accumula­ soil erosion. in the here-and-now; the second is to se­ When to u r cure action neccessary to cope with that best ways you can help stop pollution tion. is to see that it will be well shaded and Powder is less harmful than spray. Spray pick flo w e danger. dead w ood f< Mankind’s own ‘success’ as a species has insulated, thereby minimising the need for when the air is still, and wear a mask. fuel consumption in heating and cooling. There is no safe way to dispose of DDT irresponsible developed to a degree that it is placing a Litter is o severe drain on non-renewable resources. and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. (It may be best to keep them and use strictly easily-conl Reserves like minerals and other mater­ Make others ials upon which we have learned to depend as directed on the label). Don’t throw kitchen them away or down the drain. ind flatmate; are running out, many may last only a few litter bag ir more decades. This in turn strains the ‘eco­ pollution Start a compost heap rather than burn­ ing leaves and vegetation. This will reduce ilastic bag w system’ - or balance of nature so dangerous­ ment type fr ly that our interdependent, life-supporting * ‘Housewives’ make up the largest pur­ air pollution and return more nutrients to the soil. Leaves, grass clippings, and vege­ quite cheap. system may break down altogether. Simply investigating and apport­ chasing agency in the world. Tell man- Dum ping < What of the population explosion ? A ioning responsibility after the fact ufacturers and retailers why you refuse to table scraps should be mixed with manure and topsoil, watered then left for at least country rc growing number of experts (such as Paul is hardly sufficient. We must create buy a product that is harmful to our en­ ution. Y ou c; and Anne Ehrlich) in "Population, Resourc­ an environment screen to protect vironment. It doesn’t take much time to three months. Avoid pollution by using pesticides habit, w hich es, Environment”) have pointed out that ourselves against dangerous intru­ scribble a note to the Chairman or Manag­ breeds diseas< the buffers man previously had between a sions as well as a system of public ing Director of an offending firm. Mark it sparingly. You can often combat pests by choosing a variety of plants that are not to clear up, t growing population and starvation-clear­ incentives to encourage technology ‘Personal’ .... and always go to the top. police or cou ing of new virgin land, colonisation of that is both safe and socially desir­ * We can all assist conservation in our prone to the one particular pest - or em­ ploy natural pest controls such as attract­ Rubbish d new’ continents - are no longer available. able. This means governmental and kitchens.....sort household garbage into are forms o f Malnutrition is an everyday preoccupa­ private machinery for reviewing parts that can be used that can be put on a ing insecteating birds or grow chives among roses to discourage aphids. for the dropp tion for billions. There can be no specta­ major technological advances before compost heap, recycled by sale or gift to pack - can be cular food increases from virgin lands, they are launched upon the public. charity, and send the rest out with the ng- chemical farming or the sea - except per­ regular garbage pick-up. Litter thrc haps short-term increases at the cost of WHAT * Play your part to assist recycling. Glass, iccidents - ca the ecosystem. paper, metal foil, and steel and alumin­ in y o u r I Today, the growth of human settle­ YOU ium cans can all be re-used to preserve nat­ also causes ac ments associated with population increase, ural resources. ances m ust w CAN * Recycling makes sense. It helps prevent brings more and more extensive damage overboard. to water and other vital resources.... littering of many forms of discarded Avoid unn DO. packaging; it reduces wastage of natural making unusable the increasingly precious Use your car supplies we still have. resources - as well as restricting some of household the primary stages of manufacturing, not as a conv Then there is the problem of affluence. See that youi In an attempt to maintain a‘reasonable’ thereby reducing pollutants. Check the pollution Smog is a standard of living ‘well-off nations are Yellow pages for collection agencies of nuisance - pa * Avoid unnecessary pollution of the air. waste materials, or collect recyclable using resources at a rate too great to be respiratory c< sustained. Don’t burn plastics at home as they materials for charities and sports groups. give off harmful vapours. Use paper rath­ eye problems Americans number less than six per * Compress cans, boxes, and cartons the guy next cent of the world’s people....but esti­ er than plasties for garbage bags. before putting them into a litter bin or * Household pest sprays should be used fight smog mates of total American utilisation of your rubbish bin.....it will hold more ing and by k raw materials currently run as high as with care. Avoid those that contain litter that way. dichlorves (DDVP), DDT or Lindane. Read Work with garden clubs or other working orde 50% of the world’s consumption. Even * Select goods without undue packaging. by the chem i allowing for new discoveries of deposits, labels carefully. Wasteful packaging (all that cardboard, interested groups to landscape roadsides, and recovery from low grade deposits * For every ton of paper recycled, 17 cellophane, plastic and umpteen pins that parks, malls, shopping centres etc. Plants unburned pet produce oxygen and help beautify the which comes (which must be accompanied by higher trees and thousands of gallons of water go with your shirt) generates litter, deplet­ ion of fuel oi costs) it has been estimated that some re­ are saved. You can help save trees and es natural resources, and causes unnecess­ area - building civic pride is the best method to beat pollution. Avoid wastin sources may be exhausted within 30 years. water by making sure that your scrap pap­ ary manufacturing pollutants. Take con­ renewable na Thus the mushrooming rate at which er is recycled - not burned, where it will tainers with you to the supermarket, and Plant trees and shrubs - they absorb we create goods and services is probably add to pollution and destroy resources. re-use containers. carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, purify already too high for the exhaustible reser­ Use campus recycling bins. Choose bio-degradable or returnable the air, and prevent soil erosion. Choose omrr ves of the ecosystem to support for very * Never put down the sewer what you containers at the supermarket in place of plants easily grown in your area. This will much longer. can put in your rubbish bin. Organic plastics and non-returnables. Bio-degrad­ reduce excessive watering and use of in­ 3 ior Manufacturing companies must be secticides and fertilisers. materials like cooking fats clog plumbing able materials will break down and their If your co forced to exercise a responsibility that and septic tanks, causing sewerage over­ components eventually return to nature. Put a bell on your cat for its safety - goes beyond a ‘What can we produce to flow. Oils should not be poured down the Select detergents that are bio-degradable this will also help keep insect-eating birds suitable di jsell for maximum profit’ attitude. Only and low in phosphates and use a measured alive. vision o f app drainage system.______-i systems, inch Page 17

3 use bak- possible. Press for dumps to be easily ag pad. touring available and open on the weekends when ith phos- and they are most needed. on, as * Help fight litter and pollution. If the af algae camping litter bins at your local parks, shopping oxygen, f you go bush, don’t pollute your centres and recreation spots are not ade­ by using campsite. Never scatter food scraps near quate, discuss the problem with your /er poss- the camp where they will attract rats and local authorities and make recommenda­ , deter- ants. Either burn the food scraps or take tions. It doesn’t take much courage to them well away from the camp and leave ring a borough councillor - or write to the mayor. Always remember - they need your vote. If you get a hostile or unsym­ pathetic reply - ring Craccum or your local newspaper. * If you are arranging a special function at a site without adequate litter bins, help stop the mess by taking along paper rbons. or plastic rubbish bags. Make sure people ase slowly use them. d chain, * Complain to advertisers and stores h are about the use of unsightly billboards. * At work see that your firm has suitable be used anti-litter facilities. If not, discuss with id those your staff social club means of providing adequate bins. * Parents, past pupils and School comm­ The “Don’t Believe Everything You Read’’ ittees can assist pollution controls by department...... recommending that litter prevention be included in social and liberal studies There are various guides to gardening gardeners continue to use these insect­ hem for the wildlife. Leave the campsite curricula. Help develop environmental available, and they give details of what, icides in the way recommended in the is clean as possible. These rules hold good sections in school libraries. how, and when to plant Fair enough. But guides,accumulations reaching critical whether you stop for a picnic or for a * Identify community and regional assets they are not particularly ecology - consc­ proportions will be the result. ouple of weeks. that need to be preserved and enhanc­ ious when it comes to pest control, and There are controls governing the use Disposing of packaging on a camping ed. Identify blighted areas in your comm­ never give any information about collect­ of DDT in or on sheep and cattle in this trip is not difficult Most containers can unity and seek improvement. ing, instead of buying, seeds. This is under­ country, but these were only imposed be taken home or on to a litter bin at the * At the root of all our environmental standable in the case of the garden guide following strict controls by the recipients next settlement (a large plastic sack is pressures stands one great problem - put out by a certain seed merchant (as of our exports. Harmful insecticides ideal). If this is not practical, don’t pollute runaway population growth. The predict­ they also sell insecticides, and if everyone continue to be used on most market the campsite by leaving rubbish behind. ed doubling of the world’s population in produced their own seeds there would be gardens, so those “garden fresh” vege­ Cans can be burned out and buried the next 30 years could make.our envir­ no market) but for the other guides there tables may not be as healthy as all that. with the bottles (unbroken) at least 18 onmental problems insurmountable. This is really no “excuse”. If you are in the habit of eating chicken, inches underground...... but not in a may only be avoided by reducing the One book stands out: “The Basic Book then also beware. Broilers (i.e. non-layers) dane, watercourse where they can be washed birth rate - each family having two child­ of Organic Gardening”. It is written for are fed selenium and arsenic. Why idrin. Read out ren only, to replace the parents. North American conditions, but with a arsenic? So that the chickens will feel * Shift camp every few days to avoid * Support and encourage government few simple modifications to the planting super-hungry and get fat more quickly jen by fouling the area. measures favouring a lower population times (add six months), and by disregard­ than otherwise. So don’t eat the liver il fertili- Be careful with matches around wood­ growth. ing the comments about the winter snow, (which is one place these minerals are xording ed and grassy country. Forest and * Support government programmes to it becomes a useful book. Here are some likely to accumulate), and for the same d applica- grass fires cause air and water pollution introduce penalties against industry contrasting comments on DDT : reason don’t boil up the bones for soup. ; lead, and destroy environmental balance by and individuals who pollute the environ­ The best way to ensure you’re eating biodegrad- killing animals, birds and insects and allow ment, to support research into pollution 1. (from “Organic Gardening”): “Every unpoisoned chicken would be to keep a iccumula- soil erosion. control, and to provide incentives for mouthful of food any American eats few in the backyard, but council regul­ When touring don’t break branches or companies to use anti-pollution equip­ in the next century will contain at least ations prohibit this in all but the biggest >ray. Spray pick flowers unnecessarily, use only ment. one molecule of DDT, even if DDT were sections. task. dead wood for camp fires. Don’t allow * Be aware of anti-pollution laws and never used again”.....“The concentration Back to insecticides....and some more ;e of DDT irresponsible specimen collecting. obey them. If you see a flagrant vio­ increases on the way up the natural food DON’TS. You may be aware that there ons. (It Litter is one of the most evident and lation, report it to the proper authorities. chain; DDT does not disappear from food is a thin ozone layer above the atmosphere, >e strictly easily-controlled forms of pollution. * As a citizen you are eminently quali­ through washing or cooking; mother’s which protects us from harmful solar hrow Make others around you - family, friends fied to comment on and complain about milk is found to be laced with four times radiation. Spray cans containing insect­ md flatmates litter conscious...... carry environmental problems and pollution. as much DDT as is permitted in milk sold icides (and also hair spray, deodorant, * Nan burn- litter bag in your car - any paper or Never be afraid to phone or write to to the public; residues found in stillborn window cleaner, oven cleaner and lots of ill reduce ilastic bag will do - or get a special perm- and unborn babies are capable of doubling other garbage) and have most of their trients to ment type from the supermarket, they’re the mutation rate in man....” volume - 90 to 92 per cent - taken up by md Vege­ quite cheap. FREON, which was thought to be harm­ ta manure Dumping of household rubbish on ' 2. (from “Brett’s Guide to NZ Gardening”) less. However, the freon rises to the ozone r at least country roads is a nasty form of poll­ “DDT can be used as both a dust and layer where it decomposes, forming chlorine J ution. You can help stop this filthy as a wet spray against a wide range of in the process, and this breaks down the habit, which degrades our environment, pests. Although poisonous to warm-blooded ozone. Dr Sherry Rowland, chemistry breeds disease and costs excessive rates animals in its concentrated state, DDT professor at the University of California, to clear up, by reporting car numbers to is much less so than some other insect­ has estimated that each atom of chlorine police or council authorities. icides in common use, and at the strengths released by the freon will decompose Rubbish dumping and litterbugging used in horticulture is NOT HARMFUL 100,000 ozone molecules, or one ozone are forms of pollution. Heavy fines - even TO MAN” (My capitals!). Alternatives molecule every minute for five years! So for the dropping of an empty cigarette to DDT are given, but these are no better: DON’T buy ANY spray cans. By using jack - can be imposed for careless litter- Arsenate of lead (both arsenic and lead them you are helping to break down the ng. are cumulative poisons), Lindane or earth’s vital radiation shield. There are Litter thrown from cars can cause Malathion. other ways of dealing with hair, under­ accidents - carry a litter bag in your car ALL of these, I believe, should be arms and ovens that are easier on the rest md in your boat too. Litter in the water avoided in preference to non-residual of the world. also causes accidents. Under no circumst­ sprays, and even these should be used ances must waste materials be thrown Government Ministers, Members of Parl­ sparingly. Certainly if New Zealand Love.....Dave overboard. iament, Borough Councillors, the News Avoid unnecessary noise pollution. Media, industrialists, Health Department Use your car horn as a warning only - and Consumer Council. The battle will not as a convenience to attract attention. be a hard one - You must keep on fight­ Ecology Action Project Jonah (Save the Whale Campaign) See that your car muffler is not faulty. ing. - Ross Guy, 10 Paerimu Street, Orakei, Smog is a health menace not just a During 1974 members of Ecology Action Auckland 5. nuisance - particularly to people with undertook the following projects: respiratory complaints and throat and —University Paper recycling scheme. eye problems. (If you smoke think of —Save the Whale campaign GreenPeace (Kay Couper), Private Bag, the guy next to you on the bus). Help w ho —Lodging of water classification scheme Wellesley Street, Auckland. fight smog by restricting noxious burn­ you Objections ing and by keeping your car in good — Population submissions to Environ­ working order...... much smog is caused can mental Council for the UN Populat­ other ion Conference. aadsides, by the chemical reaction of sunlight on contact. beware c. Plants unburned petrol in the atmosphere, It is hoped that work will continue to fy the which comes from incomplete combust­ Environmental Defence Society, be done on the paper recycling, whale )est ion of fuel or from leaking fuel systems. P.O. Box 3838, campaign and new activities during 1975. the great Avoid wasting petrol as it is a non­ Auckland. Postal Address — C/- Auckland absorb renewable natural resource. University Students’ Association.....or , purify E.D.S. is committed to the preservation, phone Simon Hayman 548 073. galah... Choose community restoration and national use of the envir­ onment. The patron of the Society ls the This will Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) >e of in­ action Ombudsman, Sir Guy Powles. Its direct­ SUNDAY ors include Warren Templeton, Professor Secretary Maire Leadbeater, 10 De Luen If your community does not have G.A. Knox, Dr Bob Mann and Dr M.J. Street, Auckland 2. President Richard safety - Northey - Phone 74-740 extension 338. 4th may ting birds suitable dumping facilities, seek pro­ O’Sullivan. Membership (for students) is vision of approved landfill or incinerator only $1.00, and members receive regular Jsystems, including recycling equipment if copies of the excellent E.D.S. News. General Philosophical Position Last July the Crimes Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament. Its most important aim was to legalise homosexual acts committed in private between consenting males of 21 At the outset NZUSA (hereafter mean­ years or over. Further, it extends provisions relating to heterosexual prostitution to cover ing also the Law Faculty Club) stated its homosexual prostitution. general philosophical attitude to the laws Almost all Bills (especially controversial ones) that eventually become law are introduced IF YOU ARE LOOKING governing sexual behaviour. by the Government as Government policy. However, in June last year the Labour Govern­ FOR A STEREO SYSTEM We support the principle of legal equal­ ment revealed the tenuous nature of its claim to stand for social justice when, after 18 BETWEEN $200 AND ity between people regardless of their sex­ months of negotiations with people pressing for homosexual law reform, it refused to spon­ ual preferences, and we believe that all sor any measure to relieve the legal oppression of homosexuals, because of the damage it $1000 COME AND SEE US sexually discriminatory legislation must feared this would cause to party unity. Consequently, the Crimes Amendment Bill is a FIRST. We spec­ Pick thal be removed. In particular, we believe that private member’s bill sponsored by the National Party MP for Egmont, Venn Young. ialize in nothing but stereo and its shop of you there should be a common code governing The Bill was sent to a special select committee (chaired by Dr Michael Bassett) for study associates. We can supply all your what kind c sexual behaviour for male and female, in and submissions were invited from the public. NZUSA and the VUW Law Faculty Club requirements in the way of turn­ me, the ten which objectively similar types of sexual made a thirty-two page joint submission, prepared by NZUSA General Vice President John tables, amplifiers, speakers, tape amorphous behaviour, whether homosexual or heter­ Blincoe and Law Faculty Club President Michael Okkerse. It was heard by the Committee ; decks, cassettes and all lines of seductive ar osexual, are treated consistently. in late February. accessories. For protecting your ually, mind We believe that individuals’ sexual pre­ records or upgrading your stereo got the idea ferences are matters of private morality, system. We can also help those on a the sense ol unless they can be clearly shown to have limited budget who want quality thing to ste significantly harmful effects for other peo­ but at a low price with unmounted conscious I ple. Only then can it be contemplated h om osexu al turntables and speakers and also So what that they should become the subject of speaker kits. We accept trade in's Funny, I criminal sanctions. and offer terms as well as special particular t< The function of the criminal law is to reductions for students. All this adds change. It’s proscribe those activities that fall outside law adds up to good service with you sure we’ve ; the maximum level of social toleration and and your requirements in mind. swearing, in which thereby threaten the society’s exist­ ence. Clearly, behaviour that violates the uage, that \ TcatvVt, GutuWVs mean whate person of another human being or exploits reform: a flat with his or her weaknesses or which is fraudul­ runner fron ent cannot be tolerated, whether or not it next day he is connected with sexuality. The central STEREO making an ; issue raised by the present Bill is whether n zu sa since you’v< or not private homosexual behaviour falls free, and he outside the maximum level of social toler­ CENTRE bastard as > ation, thereby becoming a threat to he asks you society’s very existence. We submit that 16 Customs Street East, it does not but falls within the “realm of submissions morning at A uckland. Ph o n e 373-889 osopher an< private morality and immorality which is common code that was desirable in terms Crimes Act. Section 146 makes it illegal after hours 656-035 .....not the law’s business”. still, he get of a reform of the whole Sexual Offences for a landlord or occupier of premises to (what that The Submission’s Approach part of the Crimes Act, which was present­ allow them to be used as “a place of re­ NZUSA did not present detailed evi­ our ideas, c ly fraught with inconsistencies and anomal­ sort” for homosexual acts. While it is GAY PUBLISHING COLLECTIVE ijudices in v dence as to the nature or causes of homo­ ies. It was stressed, however, that if the claimed that section 146 is intended to Publishers of the national Gay sexuality because other submissions had adoption of such a code were not possible (battered, b< apply only to homosexual brothels it is Liberation magazine : we shouldn dealt with this in great detail. The Comm­ at this stage that the need for reform of framed so widely that it could possibly New Zealand gay LIBERATOR ittee was referred particularly to the sub­ the male homosexual area of the law was Here you a be used against couples engaging in Subscriptions $4 per year (another or missions made by Gay Liberation groups so urgent that the present Bill (with the homosexual activity within the.privacy of P.O. Box 694 Auckland 1. throughout the country. The NZUSA amendments suggested) should be passed their own homes. As such it causes homo­ you with ic submission concerned itself mainly with into law without delay. sexuals a great deal of worry. NZUSA judices, wh the mechanics of rewriting the legislation The Present Bill contended that the real offence that ought open minde to incorporate the general principles that Here is a summary of the most import­ to be attacked should be brothel-keeping, that life se< had been outlined. ant changes the submission suggested be whether heterosexual or homosexual. The Tailored BA Hood & Gown 48” way possibl The submission pointed out that while made to the present Bill. The submission: submission therefore suggested that section long. $48.00 for the two. is trying to the Bill was an important step towards 147, which covers heterosexual brothel­ Phone 688-870. wear. equality and social justice by making pre­ * opposed the proposed increase in penalty, keeping, be extended to cover homosexual It happe sent sanctions against male homosexual from 10 years to 14 years imprisonment brothel-keeping. behaviour much less repressive, it preserv­ for the sexual molestation of a male under A Common Code ed a number of serious anomalies in the 16 by a male over 21 and further suggest­ The proposed common code of sexual present law both in relation to homosex­ ed that the penalty be reduced to 7 years behaviour in the Sexual Offences part of uality and to sexual offending as a whole. to be consistent with the penalty for the Crimes Act (sections 127 to 149) was Perhaps the most obvious was that while sexually molesting females under 16. constructed by modifying the present the present law recognised an age of provisions governing sexual behaviour. The hey you consent of 16 for female homosexual * advocated that the age of consent for changes suggested to the Crimes Amend­ relations, as the Bill stood the age of con­ homosexual acts between males be lower­ ment Bill were incorporated. The submiss­ G A L AH D A Y sent for male homosexual relations would ed to 16 years, consistent with that for ion noted that NZUSA might not necess­ be 21. females. arily agree with all the assumptions under­ WANTED URGENTLY The submission recognised that the scope lying present provisions. It could for of the Bill was limited and that the Comm­ * urged that sodomy be no longer an instance be argued that the age of consent ittee might feel restricted in the changes it offence except where it was forced upon should be lowered. NZUSA also expressed Woodworkers to make toys for the could recommend. The submission there­ either male or female (i.e. rape) or where grave doubts as to the utility of the pres­ Galah Day. We will supply designs fore took a dual approach. Firstly, the performed by a person over 16 on a per­ ent penalties for sexual offences, especially to suit your equipment. Especially present Bill was re-drafted to incorporate son under 16. (At present sodomy per se imprisonment However, the appropriate needed - people with woodlathe/ a number of amendments which NZUSA is an offence, even for example,between time to review penalties and the assump­ bandsaw. Materials provided. believed were well within the competence a consenting husband and wife.) tions underlying various categories of sex­ of the committee to make. Secondly the ual offences would be once the concept CONTACT ROBIN WATTS submission outlined in detail the kind of * urged the repeal of section 146 of the of a common code had been accepted. The main effect of the common code Phone 360-283 or outlined in the submission would be that for each offence (e.g. indecent assault) the same penalties and conditions would apply or leave a message at STUD ASS to both heterosexual and homosexual situations, which would involve the crea­ ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT ! FI tion of some new offences. The language of the proposed code is “de-sexed” (i.e. the word “person” is used rather than “male” and “female”), and sections which presently deal separately with homosexual b u rsaries offences are consolidated into the sections dealing with heterosexual offences. The overall effect of adopting such a code SPEND ALL THAT BREAD ON would be to simplify and rationalise what is presently confusing and inconsist­ ent area of the criminal law. CAREFULLY! Some of the effects of changes suggested N EW A N D USED MOTORCYCLES would be : * females would be made liable for sexual offences upon males (at present there FROM is no such liability). * the offence of rape would be extended JOHN DALE LTD. to cover both homosexual and hetero­ FOR CONTRACEPTIVE ADVICE sexual rape and females would be made CONSULT YOUR FAMILY K-RD. liable for rape. DOCTOR, STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE OR FAMILY PLAN­ * a husband would be liable for both sodo- IlY lvd ph. 78741 mitical and vaginal rape of his wife (at NING CLINIC. H present he is liable only for sodomitical N.Z. FAM ILY PLANNING ASSN. rape). INC. Page 19

KING Zen YSTEM Student 'ID SEE US Buddhism We spec- MR? Pick that term up from the antique legged runner but a Liverpool sailor. I ical, moral and political wrangles that o and its shop of your mind, dust it off, and see once would have told you, a firm tone people get into. Where has that got us, McCULLY ELECTION all your what kind of ripples you get Once, for in my voice, that anyone wwho after all? Zen is practical. Not the Zen >f turn- me, the term would have stimulated in my voice, that anyone who would that you may have heard or read about, s, tape amorphous feelings of something soft, substancially change the direction of my but the Zen of traditional Zen practice. Last Tuesday evening the National les of seductive and vaguely wrong; not sex­ life would at least have to be very well Party finally selected its political candidate g your ually, mind you, although I’m sure you’ve educated. After all, I am. But, no, It’s simply a matter of you sitting in for Auckland Central. stereo got the idea (you would). But rather in experience wanted that conception out zazen and letting something out or letting Values had started the ball rolling with those on a the sense of mentally debilitating, some­ of the way. So one evening this sailor saw something gp; the old brain hasn’t got a Reg Clough a young lawyer and Labour ) quality thing to steal one’s mind away. Oh, how into me like no man I have ever known. chance of understanding the show. That’s followed soon afterwards with Richard mounted conscious I was of my precious “mind”. He reproved my gently, dusted off my where we go wrong. We actually think Prebble another lawyer. id also So what do you get? antique collection, prodded me out of that the brain, our small mind, can National chose to hold the selection ade in's Funny, how one’s attitude towards a my stupor. It was both annoying and understand the world. Who thought that? meeting in a small church hall on Remuera special particular term like Zen Buddhism can stimulating. But it had to happen; I The brain. Kind of circular, no? The Road. dl this adds change. It’s a bit like an experience I’m needed to know what he saw in me so brain would think that. Observers’ tickets were limited by the ith you sure we’ve all had. One finds oneself well. So we do Zen sitting, zazen. It’s a size : there were sixty-two voting delegates mind. swearing, in one’s most colourful lang­ So then I read stuff like crazy for a means of erasing the grime so that we can present and an equal number of visitors. uage, that whatever happens (and we year or so. Everything I could lay my finally see what is; what we are, and Many of the delegates fitted the Nation­ mean whatever) that one will not live in hands on Eastern “religions” (watch that what our relation with the world is. al Party stereotype of being old, “mature” a flat with a one legged long distance word too). Not only that, but twentieth There’s no division here, for we are the and grey-headed with a sprinkling of runner from Tasmania. Of course, the century guys who have been influenced world, you and I. One usually thinks “younger” people and Young Nationals. next day he arrives, his wooden leg to whatever degree by Eastern thought that what is, is the whole mess of Among the candidates were John Bucking­ making an awful noise at the door; and I figured it this way. So often in human complaints: war, greed, hate. ham, New Zealand Chairman of the Sports since you’ve advertised, and the room is history it seemed that the thinkers who But I’m suggesting that those things are Federation, prominent in Auckland league, free, and he doesn’t seem as much of a everyone thought were nuts at the time, because we don’t know what reality is. with Tony Ryan of Ryan Family fame and bastard as you had imagined even though fifty or a hundred years later are what we really are. I can’t say too much; an old party faithful worker, Harry he asks you to run with him the next accepted; become authorities indeed. you and l will just get trapped in words. Hobson. morning at 6.00am (he’s actually a phil­ So if I read the nuts now, I’d be ahead We’ve got to see it for ourselves. The others were a Polynesian woman osopher and does pottery on the side); of it Or so I'thought Maire Cole and a Young National Murray McCully : definitely outsiders ! still, he gets the room. It’s as if reality But the nuts weren’t all that crazy when Joshu Sasaki-roshi will again be in F (what that word) keeps demanding that I read them. Indeed, they had a lot of New Zealand during May. He will our ideas, our preconceptions, our pre­ sensible things to say; things that hit lecture in Auckland 9 May, Friday, LECTIVE judices in whatever way, be constantly me like that Liverpool sailor hit me. 7.30 pm, B28 University; and 12 May, ial Gay battered, besieged and beleaguered as if Out of it all, the book that hit me the Monday, 8.00 pm, Unity Hall, 323 we shouldn’t have them. Funny that too. most was something called Three Pillars Queen Street, just above Town Hall. Here you are, getting an “education” of Zen by Philip Kapleau. Among other (another one of those words) which fills things, this book describes a thing called A sesshin will be held in Wellington you with ideas, preconceptions and pre­ a sesshin; that is a period of intensive 17-24 May; phone Wellington 793-219 judices, while of course making you more meditation called zazen in Zen. And for more details. Auckland’s sesshin is open minded ( of course), only to find would you believe, last November a Zen 24-31 May, Knock—na—Gree camp, that life seems to get at them in every master, Joshu Sasaki-roshi, came to New Oratia: Phone 600 061 Auckland. More way possible. Maybe the order of things Zealand. I attended a sesshin under his details next issue. Think about it gang. is trying to get through all the crap we guidance. It was something. wear. What do I like about Zen? It avoids by Michael W. Steff It happened to me too. Not the one discursive thinking; all of the philosoph- O! Gal ah Day Sunday May 4th Your Bursary GaJah Day Sunday May 4th National Party candidate selection meetings are unique for the number of CHJ You and Your Family are Invited members that are involved in the final to Take Part in the choice. Each branch is entitled to a certain number of delegates that is calculated GRADUATION according to the size of the branch : a M I L E S large branch would be able to send a large >ys for the SERVICE number of voting delegates, and a small ly designs branch only a few. Each nominee was Especially MACLAURIN CHAPEL allowed on the night to speak for twelve odlathe/ further minutes, with a prepared speech before ded. at 4 p.m., on Sunday 4th May having to answer two questions sealed in 1975 an envelope and sent on the night by TS Party President George Chapman and Academic Dress Optional leader Rob Muldoon. on a from A light meal will be served After an hour of speeches, the dele­ following the Service. gates were tired but tense. Some had changed their minds and many looked puzzled. Ballot voting forms were handed out. And soon handed back. FORBES & DAVIES The counting period seemed to be dragging out, and the noise level rose as speculation mounted. * FOUR STROKE MOTORS FOR POWER, DEPENDABILITY & ECONOMY Who would be the final choice ? SPECIAL Finally all the nominees were lead back * HUGE RANGE OF MODELS - ONE FOR EVERY BUDGET. $8 for 4 different pics. Graduate out onto the small stage at the front of portraits in colour...... naturally, the meeting, and the result was announced. * N.Z.'S LARGEST RANGE OF SPARES - 1F WE PUT YOU ON THE ROAD, Murray McCully a twenty-two year old WE'LL KEEP YOU ON THE ROAD by Anthony Henry, law graduate and New Zealand Chairman 253 Symonds St (opp Post of the Young Nationals, long red hair and * A FRIENDLY, EXPERIENCED SALES TEAM TO FIND THE HONDA YOU beard looking rather like a radical student NEED & CAN AFFORD. - FINANCE IS NO PROBLEM - Office) Pnone 74-554 in a suit! * AN EXPERT HONDA SPECIALIST WORKSHOP TO KEEP YOUR MACH­ Another lawyer for Auckland Central, INE IN TOP CONDITION and the youngest candidate to be fielded in this Election by the National Party (even younger than Marilyn Waring). * BIG STUDENT DISCOUNTS ON ALL SPARES AND ACCESSORIES And he’s willing to debate Richard Prebble “on any platform on any issue !” ALL IN OUR HUGE SHOWROOM the great AT 19 NELSON STREET galah 5 MINUTES FROM VARSITY FORBES & DAVIES strikes (AUCK.) LTD G ASSN. L.M.V.D. Campus News

SCIENCE FACULTY COUNSELLING MEETING WITH AMOS, AND ADVISORS. health people should eventually mean a POWERFUL COMEDY COMING TUES APRIL 11, 1975 better service to New Zealanders. In recent years the Science Faculty NZTISA, STANZ, NZUSA. Major SNAG ! Theatre Workshop’s 4th production has collected together in the May The Minister did not entertain the idea, for 1975 (following "Canterbury”) is to vacation the first term’s test and lab­ The meeting was held in Amos’s office. at least initially, of aiding students on be, “A Night to Make the Angels Weep”, The Broad Issues were discussed, with oratory grades of all its first year medium term, full time courses, e.g. The an English comedy by Peter Terson. It is the student representatives taking the 18 week full-time Journalism course at directed by Paul Wentford, and is being students and arranged for those with initiative and putting their point of view A.T.I. or the part-time student doing 4 or one or more ‘fail* grades (and this presented in the Arts Centre, 24 Grafton on a particular concept. When these con­ 5 V i days/week all year such as some Road. A dHI 26th to May 2nd. at 8.00. involved nearly half the students) to cepts were questioned by the officials we Secretarial courses. Some thought should The play is Terson’s first, and one of see a staff member or senior student were able to gauge their feelings or anxie­ be given to this matter of so called part- his best.lt involves a small, introverted early in the second term in the hope ties. Usually the minister would summarise time student, whose studies are often village in the S.W. Midlands, filled with that some advice or help may be the feelings of the students and the offic­ adversely affected by part-time or full­ fascinating characters, around whom the given. In a way this may be regarded ials adding his own comments before time employment committments. plot is built. The characters fall into as a salvage operation with advice moving onto the next issue. FURTHER three distinct, small groups, cleverly arriving rather too late in many cas­ Consequently the meeting was the 1. Students and Student Associations to contrasted, which Terson brings together es. most successful held to date. discuss the 10 point proposals. through the play to arrive at a tense and 1. Because the Minister, his advisors and 2. NZTISA, STANZ, NZUSA to consoli­ powerful climax. the appeal ants were together at the date and strengthen their case. The comedy, often earthy, derives This year a new scheme has been intro­ same time. 3. Develop proposals for S.T.B. with from these characters, and their situations duced. By 11th April all first year full-time 2. Because the 3 student unions were Departmental officials - Tresury, and dialogue. students in the Faculty had been assigned unanimous with each other in their Education and U.G.C. The production aims at bringing out to a staff member or senior student who points of view. 4. Meet Mr. Amos in May prior to the full depth of the characters, and the is to be their "academic counsellor” for 3. The Minister was not able to divide the Budget comedy, but also to employ the power the year, offering help, advice and encour­ 3 unions even on controversial matters 5. PRAY and poetry of the lines to their fullest. agement as seems appropriate, and to keep such as a possible redistribution of Teach­ by Ken Newlands Tickets are available al the door, for an eye on each students academic progress er Trainee Allowances; although it was con­ only $1.00 to students. throughout the year. About 75 permanent ceded that the S.T.B. should be available OMBUDSMAN’S DUTIES TO BE staff and 55 part-time staff or research as an alternative to a bonded studentship.- E X T E N D E D ? students offered their services as counsell­ During the discussion the Minister The Executive considered a letter from ors, the good response meaning that they clarified some of his thinking with regard the University on the powers of the only have four or five students each. It is to Technical Institute Students. Ombudsman. At present there is a Bill hoped that such a scheme will help make The extra allowance for costly courses before Parliament extending the Ombuds­ POETRY GROUP the University less impersonal and give in Technical Institutes as well as University man’s jurisdiction and powers. It has been students the opportunity of talking over received favourable comment, especially suggested that Universities be included any problem they might have. WED. 23rd April if this was given to the Department or within the jurisdiction. 5.30 Should the scheme prove worthwhile faculty running the course (e.g. Graphic The University has been advised by it is hoped that in future years students Arts at A.T.I.). the Dean of Law Professor Northey to Law Common Room would be told who their counsellor is at Health Department and Education oppose the move on the grounds that 6th Floor Library Building enrolling. Department Bonded Students (Nurses, it could encroach upon Academic Freedom. Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Poetry reading by Michael Joseph Student views and reactions to this The Executive decided to support a Teachers etc.) were promised a proper NZUSA submission which is likely to attempt by the Science Faculty to help consideration under any proposed S.T.B. Wine and Cheese students would be welcomed. favour the Ombudsman. There is strong This is extremely welcome, especially merit in the proposal bearing in mind J.E. Packer with the Department of Health bursars. 50cents. Sub-dean, Waikato’s difficulties when the last New Zealand has a chronic Public Health avenue of appeal - the ‘University Visitor’ Faculty of Science. Scheme and such moves to properly train refused to come.

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY : LAW SCHOOL

LEGAL REFERRAL SERVICE

TIME : Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, noon to 2 p.m. during University term time except statutory holidays and the week Need following Easter. PLACE : Legal Referral Service Office, Second Floor, Student Union Building, Princes Street (nea$ the Judo Room). AVAILABILITY : The service is available to students at Auckland University and Money? Auckland Teachers Colleges. SERVICE AVAILABLE : Senior Law students attend at the Legal Referral Office from noon to 2 p.m. A practising solicitor attends between 1.30 and 2 p.m. to give advice about serious legal problems. It cannot be Ask the National. guaranteed that clients who arrive after 1.15 p.m. will be able If you need a loan, or simply a little financial to see a solicitor on that day. Therefore it is strongly suggested advice, call at your nearest branch of the that clients who feel they will need to see a solicitor should National Bank. arrive before 1.15 p.m. Alternatively, a client may leave a note with the Auckland University Students Association reception­ W e’ve helped hundreds of students complete ist before noon on the day he wishes to attend at the Legal their studies with a simple, flexible loan Referral Service, explaining that he cannot arrive before 1.15, scheme which provides assistance wheh you and the note will be delivered to the student advisers on duty need it most. at noon. If you’re working to a tight budget, open a cheque account with the National. It’ll make REFERRAL : Where necessary, student clients will be referred to practising payments easier, and give you a record of solicitors in Auckland who have agreed to take cases from the Referral Service. These referrals are made to solicitors on an your spending - for about 15 cents a week ordinary solicitor and client basis, though in appropriate cases on average. Legal Aid will be available. W e specialise in banking for undergraduates, so choose the bank that wants your business: ORGANISATION : The Legal Referral Service is under the control of a Student Committee of the Law School. Further information may be AS THE FIRST STEP PHONE DON DAWSON obtained from : AT 32649 OR CALL AT ANY OF OUR BRANCHES Tony Wade, Chairman, Tel. 30789 OR Chairmaine Dimery, Secretary, Tel. 542-954 īhêtiatioiuiê Bank Legal Referral Service Tel. 30789 during advertised hours. OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED —YOUR FRIENDLY BANK blerta is coming fly by galah cafe cŪ F ^ ) = ^ 2nd may MAY 4th