larch Auckland University Students’ Paper Price 6d subscription 4s vol. 27 no. 3—26 March 1962 •r appro; FRANCIS J. LILLIE : SUB-EDITORS, DIANE M . HARRIS, ROY McLENNAN : ADVERTISING, PAMELA MEEKING : CIRCULATION, PETER LOUCH : ILLUSTRATIONS, LES GIBBARD : LITERARY A N D ARTS, the Mj K|NGLE OVERSEAS NEWS, BILL RAYNER : SPORT, N ICK LUBECK : CHIEF PROOF READER, MURRAY WILLIAMS : REPORTERS, MARTIN GILLION, KEN McALLISTER, D A VID EVANS, BARBARA JONES, a the n SHEFFIELD, JOHN MURPHY, DIANA RICE, DAVID WILLIAMS : BUSINESS MANAGER, MURRAY MclNMAN racewell the ie Unive setting-ii ;he bene! vho are ck of n( or com ARDS, NOT GAMBLING xecutive rescinds motion forbidding cards i recent Executive meeting Executive rescinded its ban on card playing in the Com- these P!; nRoom (the old Men’s one), while maintaining a ban on gambling in the whole student o f the a* tk. Card playing is not to be allowed outside the MCR half of the Common Room. association, lie actual motion passed on 5 M arch read as follows: That motion Ks.10 be reintroduction of card playing ment to remove the proviso cinded and that card play- — the question was whether making ‘allowed’ unequivocal. be allowed in the MCR the proviso be included He objected to the qualification of the Common Room ‘ . and that the ban be placed allowing card playing. not in the Women’s reimposed . ’ The stopping of gambling was ninon Room section, the not an Executive matter, Mr eria, or the Cafeteria 200 Signatures Wilson thought. The control ension) and that the ban Men’s House Committee of gambling was a matter for reimposed immediately, on Chairman, Curson, supposedly MHC. ience of gambling, or influenced by 200 signatures iage to furniture as a on a petition, moved this par­ Bombastic appeal tt result of card playing ticular motion although he Bob Cater, seconder of pro­ ling to the notice of the disagreed with the results of posed motion, bombastically cutive.’ gambling in the MCR. Bob appealed on behalf of those Rep., Chris Black- Vice-President Cater talked of innocent card players who original proposer of a people lacking the guts to would suffer on account of a motion, was not stand by their convictions. He hard core of wicked gamblers, nt so Peter Curson took was in favour of cards in the who he thought would devise ie cudgels. Common Room. a means of circumventing the members favoured the Capping Controller, Kerry ban anyway. Rodgers, although not happy Terry Power preferred the CALLED TO ORDER with gambling, felt a card ban original form (i.e. the text did little to prevent it. Dam­ above) since he thought it age, he thought, had been as necessary to have the power extensive as ever. of reintroduction. Public Rela­ Murray Mclnman titillated tions Officer Power advocated che meeting with some hard ‘police action’ (on part of facts about gambling — totally MHC) and heavy fines to com­ irrelevant to the principle of bat the damage to furniture. nee whether there should be or The amendment was de­ not be betting on cards. feated and the motion was ur doct Business Manager Mclnman then carried with Wilson dis­ : up. avowed that £2 10s had senting and Cater, Binney and ; progre changed hands during an Moorhead abstaining because n be evening of pontoon. of the introduction of the BIG JOHN W O W S MISS FRESHERETTE m than Our Societies Rep., Neil proviso. n years Wilson, proposed an amend­ CRACCUM REPORTER O’RORKE HOP as been years b On the third of March the O’Rorke Hall Residents Asso­ dancer ciation made its second conscious attempt of the year to think of itself as a part of the University by sponsoring its annual dance. The first attempt was its babble of these functions and of a Kingston Quintette which esearch advertisement of this same function the previous night at had appointed itself to com­ i maints rR CURSON, Chairman of Men's the Freshers’ Prom, conceded pete with the hired band. needed. House Committee by Mr Pan, if by nobody else, >ring hop to be the best floor show of Other functions NEWMAN HALL donatii the evening; and the third Other functions seemed to be w ill no doubt be the float or sion of Catholic Society’s new being held in the grounds and L Auckl Itre, ready shortly floats which O’Rorkians usu­ upstairs. er Easter, is said to be one ally feel moved1 or impelled Supper was served outside the biggest and best in to put in Procesh. on the lawn (for lack of tralia and New Zealand, space) so that in the middle tE CAN! will provide a library, Standing room for of what rapidly became a !IETY ( i bar, committee rooms, majority madding crowd’s ignoble strife Majesty ure theatre, dance hall and Graced by the presence of one could fight other people jy rooms for the Society’s and mosquitoes for food and H. the Miss Fresherette 1962, a native members, and for non- of the area, dancing took place drink. holics who w ill also be wel- The dance itself disinte­ ?w Zeal in the hopelessly small dining as well as a chapel, and grated, apart from a few last ie Gove: room, from which the tables bmmodation for the two had been removed, so that twists and jerks, at midnight, ident priests. there was standing room for and some people left imme­ he £80,000 property, plus OTHER FUNCTIONS UPSTAIRS a majority of those present, diately. cost of renovations, were in the long intervals between — O’RORKE ated by Archbishop Liston, dances. REPRESENTATIVE rot $h top of Auckland, but run- EVERY STUDENT WHO PAYS FEES IS ENTITLED TO In the adjacent lounge a in Cl i expenses are being met few people were fortunate 5ook fa the students, who w ill VOTE AT THE enough to find chairs, so that Letters to the Editor in eviewei dge to give as much as they AUTUMN GENERAL MEETING: THURSDAY, 8 PM they could sit in comfort and Box by Mailboxes or in ry of i afford each week, for the drink Coca-Cola to the accom­ t three years. THIS THURSDAY, 29 MARCH paniment of the inevitable Hut 7. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR... Card play & Exec behaviour Everyone of some intelligence will support the Executive’s Student Behaviour and U niversity Publicil decision to eradicate gambling. But the grounds many Executive members chose for clamping down on gambling were pitiful. Sir, Plunging on, he appears to Nobody wants broken furniture and unruly behaviour, but the I consider that the article deprecate the fact that stu­ disorderly exhibitions could have been stopped without prevent­ ‘Student Behaviour and Uni­ dents put long hours into club ing ‘the sport of gambling’. versity Publicity’ which ap­ organization and into miscel­ Executive should have clamped down on gambling because peared in the March issue of laneous discussion. it is a pastime that should not be allowed at any university. Craccum deserves mention for I agree that time can be One can easily see how it could spread from five hundred to its abundance of unqualified wasted in these fields of en­ pontoon, and eventually there would no doubt be requests for a generalizations. deavour, but most students TAB agency. Whether gambling could conceivably spread or I refer to such statements as know where to draw the line. not, it should not be countenanced under any circumstances ‘ Students are not a superior Then D.E. stands on his at all. race. Few work harder head and by implication ex­ of course, students would However Executive arrived at the decision not to allow than office, factory or manual horts students to take part in have good public relal gambling — even if the decision was taken in the name of a workers; most, except around the activities of sports clubs. but would be ignored quiet common room and unbroken furniture, and not, as it October of each year, do con­ Thankfully D.E. manages to public, the University hi should have been, on the principle that gambling is only for siderably less.’ complete his flip and goes on no more significance to those outside University. I submit that unless D.E. to confine the exhibitionist than the Auckland Busia Executive behaviour at this meeting where the motion can justify that statement he tendencies to a ‘few students’, College. If the XJnivei DRIP rescinding the card playing ban was taken was poor. cannot expect it to be ac­ and at last admits that it is ceases to be dangerous to several ye; The proposer (Sports Representative) of the motion was not cepted, or even considered, by these few who are taken to be ordinary man, it ceases to|eiin a typical present. The Capping Controller had to be awakened from a any person of at least ‘ aver­ the ‘archetype of students’. the University. the Cloister feigned sleep, while Men’s House Committee Chairman had to age’ intelligence. Finally he loses balance and I suggest the answer i ings stand be called to order several times for speaking out of turn. The first paragraph in the generalizes once again. He rather in the opposite dir is liable t< General behaviour and interest warrant some concern from section ‘ More Neurotics’ and must surely have meant to tion. Rather than make u ene for some all students who paid £5 at the beginning of this year. the final sentence are, in my refer to the delinquent minor­ cessions to the viewpoint According to You are reminded that the elections are at the beginning of opinion, similarly illegitimate.