_ T1 £-10 EsrtSs T 2 m *7 looked at the plastic spiders, cockroaches and frogs, and I thought of you, Mavisi" Derek, CORONATION STREET

EDITOR: MICHAEL LAMB TECHNICAL EDITOR: CORNELIUS (DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAYJOB) Craccum 15,11th July, 1989. STONE ADVERTISING MANAGER: ANITA (WHAT?) ANDRELL PROCESS CAMERA AND PIZZA ADVICE: JASON SCHULZ AND C O LO N EL KLINK AM AZON COORDINATOR: TRACEY AITKEN DISTRIBUTION: JULIAN (THE HIT SQUAD) LA VALETTA TYPESETTER: NGAWAI (BOTHER) SIMPSON PHIL GOFF CERTAINLY HAS SOME CURIOUS GRUDGE AGAINST STAFF WRITER: PETER (MEGAMOUTH) MALC0UR0NNE NOT ONLY STUDENTS BUT STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS. APPARENT­ WELLINGTON OFFICE: ANTONIOS PAPASPIR0P0UL0S LY HE’S INCREDULOUS THAT THE SUCH ‘CREDIBLE’INSTITU­ GUEST: MIRIAM DE (CAUTIOUS) GRAAF TIONS AS BANKS CAN SUP WITH SUCH ‘INCREDIBLE’ OUTFITS AS STUDENT’S ASSOCIATIONS, AND ACTUALLY UNITE TO DISRUPT NURTURING: BRUCIES 24 HR CAFE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO IMPLEMENT USER PAYS EDUCATION. PRINTING: TE AWAMUTU (FINN COUNTRY) COURIER CONSIDERING THAT NATIONAL POLITICS IS BORN AND BREED IN 'TOONS: ROGER LANGRDIDGE (KNUCKLES) ANDREW STUDENT POLITICS, THIS ATTITUDE WOULD SEEM TO REFLECT LANGRIDGE (GUMP) ST. (FAMILY OF SEX) BACK BADLY ON THE EDUCATION WHIPPING BOY. PERHAPS HE MIRIAM HARRIS, ANN COM M ONS. WAS BEATEN UP A LOT BY PREFECTS IN THE SEVENTH FORM, OR HIS GIRLFRIEND RAN OFF WITH A STUDENT POLITICIAN WHEN SPECIAL GUESTS: KIRSTY, SHAYNE AND MEMBERS OF THE FIRST HE WAS AT UNIVERSITY. BEATS ME. EDITION. THANKS TO ROBERT AT CAMPUS RADIO BFM (HOME OF THE OTHER EVENT THAT MANAGED TO PENETRATE MY OVER­ THE LOVEY DOVEY KISSY KISSY MUSHY SHOW) FOR THE TOP TEN, TAXED BRAIN WAS THE ADVENT OF TELEVISION COMMERCIALS ON SUNDAYS. IF THAT’S NOT A BREACH OF CIVIL RIGHTS, THEN LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND REALLY IS GOING DOWN THE GURGLER. THE MINISTER OF BROADCASTING SHOULD BE PAN FRIED IN HIS OWN SWEAT FOR EVER ALLOWING SUCH A DIABOLICAL INTRU­ SION INTO THE JOYS OF A SUNDAY NIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BOX. IT’S QUITE SIMPLY INTOLERABLE. BESIDES, YOU CAN’T RUSH OUT LETTERS...... 3/4 AND BUY A HONDA PRELUDE AT 10PM ON A SUNDAY NIGHT EVEN PRESIDENT'S REPORT...... 4 IF YOU WANT TO. PO LITIC S...... 5 MEANTIME CRACCUM HAS SURVIVED RECENT EVENTS CLOSER TO HOME, AND IS BUSY REFORMATTING ITSELF AND GENERALLY CHINA FEATURE...... 6/7 PRISSING AND PREENING AND MESSING AROUND WITH NEW AMAZONS...... 7/8 IDEAS. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN THE FUN-WRITING, LAYING POETRY...... 10 OUT, HELPING US DRINK THE INCOMING CLARET, GET YOUR ASS UP HERE PRONTO. LIKE A HANDFUL OF RABID OLD VAMPIRES, ELAM...... 11 WE ’RE ALWAYS HANGING OUT FOR NEW BLOOD ♦ .. . TANGATA WHENUA ...... 12/13 /VI‘ L« SPORT...... 14 THEATRE FEATURE...... 15 ENTERTAINMENT...... 16-19 UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE...... 20 KNUCKLES...... 21 NOTICES...... 23 STAR WARS BFM BITES BACK Dear Craccum MOULD ON SEX Dear Craccum In reference to the [previous] Dear Cornelius/Craccum, Your film page looks great, editor’s comments regarding I don’t understand your but I must take issue with the ‘Star Art’ in the June 20th ‘Family Of Sex’ cartoons. To derogatory comments made issue, we would like to correct me they seem completely inane, about BFM and Siesta. If your the following false statements. pointless, and make as much reviewer (and those forty 1/ “He (the owner o f Star Art) sense as something that makes A matter of some concern to the University others) can’t get their arses over at the moment is one of student numbers The Editor, allowed some artist’s to use no sense at all. and available space. The total student enrol- to the Bridgeway in time for premises of his as free studio I don’t know what you’re ( ment of Auckland University this year is 1 5 May I through your letters-to-the- the movie then I don’t give a space” talking about, but I don’t wan­ 800, up 1400 on the student roll for 1988. fuck if they miss out. Five na know if you are lonely and This increase is the equivalent to the whole editors column first congratulate population of a reasonable secondary school. minutes before the film was hardly getting over it. your erstwhile team on producing a This is obvious nonsense This increased roll will carry through as the due to start 88 people had because Star Art and the Maybe the subtlety of what students go onto Stage II and Stage III. In fine number of “CRACCUMs” this taken their seats. Lots more you’re saying is To far Down, the normal course of events similar increases year - some of which have come into studio’s mentioned are two should be expected over the forthcoming were in the lobby —I shouted separate entities. The patron for myself and the other 15,000 years. Of course, we have no idea what ef­ my possession via the Government loudly for those with passes to from whom we rent studio of us at Auck. Uni. Your car­ fect the loans scheme will have on enrolment Printing Office - what a brilliant take their seats because the space, is not and never has toons are anything but crystal figures when/if it is introduced. The Depart­ place to pick up copies! ment of Statistics has produced projections Bridgeway was about to start been the owner of Star Art. clear, I don’t know for sure of student numbers, using a high scenario selling tickets to fill those emp­ what you’re saying. You’re ob­ and a low scenario. The figures for this year However 1 write about a rather The only formal connection ty seats. I don’t like the between Star Art and the viously in your own private indicate that trends are following the high serious subject given the shake-out at projection. Therefore we can expect a stu­ Bridgeway doing that but I studios, is that the real owner plane, but keep hanging on. the Beehive these days - and that’s dent roll of approximately 21 500 at can’t expect them to leave half rents studio space there on the The Wit and Wisdom may yet Auckland University in 1993. This is almost about the subject of a terrible omen the theatre empty waiting for same basis as the rest of us. come in the new day rising. If double the number of students that the - tertiary students beng charged for pass winners to toddle in (the I told you I wanted the answers University facilities are designed to cope 2/ "W ithout notice he with. The Students' Association facilities their education before they graduate. pass did say 7pm sharp). A allegedly began to charge to your cartoons printed upside were designed for a roll of 7500. The warning perhaps for BFM — rental once they were down on the back page of each Recreation Centre was planned for about 11 000 and the Library is well stretched, only We are backward as an educated na­ claim your prize early or miss established there ." Craccum would you be offend­ out! having the facilities to support approximately tion. Let my qualify that severe state­ The studios were originally set ed. If you don’t I’m never talk­ 10 500 students. At the moment a large ment before many rush for their pens Nick D’Angelo. up on the basis that in return ing to you again. For number of courses at Auckland University are something as bad as F of S to restricted in entry, but there are some left to challenge my remarks... PS: I have told the Bridgeway for studio space, the artists that are completely open. The University b[sic] printed every week that we can’t do anymore would gift a work or works to believes that if they are to maintain teaching makes[sic] me to believe we standards even more restrictions will need to Compare studies made of in­ movie previews if they are go­ the patron’s collection. Because must be in a masochistic world, be in place next year. The University is not dustrialised nations show a leap in the ing to also sell tickets. It seems of the slightly ambiguous it’s not funny anymore. getting the funding from Government to requirment to be well educated BFM has a 90% turnout rate nature of this arrangement, it employ more staff to cope with the increased was deemed necessary to for­ Yours sincerely Bob Mould enrolments. Even if they did, they don't have among the masses, and the desire to compared to 25% for other malise it in some way. As from PS: Please don’t flip your wig, the physical space in which to accommodate assimilate useful, knowledgeable in­ radio stations. them. Again no money looks likely to fund May this year, the artists pay write a reply. PPS: All this I’ve formation of high-tech processes; badly needed new buildings. Again, if these GOD'S SPIT a nominal rental which the done for you. problems could be overcome, the support equipment used in such uses, added My dear mortals, patron then uses to purchase facilities (eg. Library) could not cope with the to skills that people can adapt to in extra demand. Another feature of the In my omnipresent wander­ work from the resident artists. Cornelius replies: You said it in statistics available is that the percentage of their working lifetime. We, as a na­ ings through your unholy pit of This set up was discussed and your first sentence. You object all University students in New Zealand who tion lag behind these countries. Now debauchery I couldn’t help agreed to by everyone concern­ to F.O.S. because it irritates attend Auckland is dropping. This goes we have a Government that, simply ed. It should be stressed that you. So sorry. 15,000 against the trend of an increasing population overhearing (always a problem in the Auckland University region. This sug­ put, wants to put a tax on knowledge for the omniscient) a conversa­ the cost to the patron is far in Auckland Uni. students don’t gests that the increased rolls at other univer­ and gained skills. Note that the very tion between two youthful men excess of the money which is read Craccum; never have and sities will partially be due to Auckland with diametrically opposed hair returned to him in rent. It is a never will. students leaving the Auckland region. This is people proposing the tax are all well encouraged through the Youth Support educated in the system we presently fashions. Both were pass­ genuine patronage and not a Scheme which automatically qualifies know to be “free education.” Funny ing humourous comment on means of acquiring artwork at Auckland students for the accomodation allowance if they attend University outside that, isn’t it? And many of the pre­ My use of frogs to control un­ knock-down prices. ’’Has allegedly not paid the ar­ the Auckland region. All in all, these pro­ sent Cabinet and MPs came from compromising Egyptian blems mean that as residents of the leaders. 1 have one thing to tist for work sold, because he Auckland region we are disadvantaged with Auckland University. say to you heathens—there is decided illegally, to backdate respect to University education: It is harder nothing funny about a well the rent to the time artists to get into the courses of our choice at Make no mistake about it, any tax on Auckland; if we choose to go to another trained frog militia hopping started using the *gifted’ University it is going to cost more in terms of education touches deeply, from furiously about in their premises. ” accommodation, compared with the choice trainee builders to teachers, as well as millions, looking for an Egyp­ of living at home in Auckland; if we stay at The artist who the {previousT Auckland the facilities are inadequate to cope university students. Tell the Govern­ tian to harass or a biblical editor falsely claims was illegal­ with the increasing numbers. The University ment that they are making a big scholar to impress I Some is considering ways of dealing with these ly charged back-rent, had been mistake. Keep the pressure up, and of my loyalist followers are problems although none are entirely satisfac­ a resident for 8 months before tory. The most immediated move will be fur­ lobby these representatives of the amphibious and they*U be May, during which time he ther course restrictions, probably with fees much better off come Judge­ increase. Other options being considered in­ people. Otherwise, they are likely to hadn’t yet gifted an artwork to vote in the legislation late in the night ment Day than you bipedal clude satellite campuses. These will be the patron’s collection. It is discussed in future issues of Craccum. blasphemers! Hence, in my as per usual. therefore a case of the artist in­ eternal wisdom, 1 have seen fit volved catching up on his to add an eleventh We know our educational standards obligations under the old set up commandment: are excellent, that’s why so many and not some act of extortion “Thou shalt not make fun of come to our institutions from by the patron. The artist is still small green things that go “rib- a resident of the studios and is overseas to study here. But there’s no bit” in the night, for their wor­ quite happy to be so. point in having a small number of shipful hopping is a joy to the G J r a c r u m Urging people not to support highly qualified people exiting out of Lord. Nay shall you draw into Star Art on the basis of such the country as soon as they graduate. ridicule the Lord’s position as false information is ridiculous. chief Frog Military Advisor.” 1 fear that this Government will Anyone with the slightest o Yoiirs in pillars of Flame and knowledge of the Auckland art > shortly introduce a tax on fresh air, oo Salt etc etc world would know that Star 'mU X as it’s about the only thing non-taxed God Art is a consistent supporter of H today! Keep up the good work! PS: Should this warning fail I young, often university based, x may well have to consider a artists. Star Art and the patron 2 H Peter Boys strategic plague of hamsters on of the studio refered to, are far x an unspecified floor of the o Former Editor of Craccum - 1986 more important to artists than 7 Library. I kid you not. the misinformed and misguid­ ed comments of your CRACCUM is published under the auspices of the Auckland [previous] editor. o 73 University Student's Association, which also takes NO responsibili­ oo tmm r— H ty for the contents herein and are an awfully difficult bunch to sue Yours etc -Loui Morrell -David fiu PI Reid -Peter Smith (currents o anyway so don't even think about trying, even if you are Matlock, C ON X residents of the studio) Please type all submissions, double spaced and single sided, x Letters To The Editor may be left at A.U.S.A. reception or posted to: Craccum or: Level Two c/o A.U.S.A. A.U.S.A Building SISTER KNUCKLES Private Bag, 34 Princes Street WANTS Auckland. Auckland Ph. 390-789 EXT 840 YOU Fax. 3032236 Advertising: Anita Andrell 390-789 Ext.841 DEADLINE is strictly Tuesday 5pm for all material, unless otherwise SQUARE arranged, Welcome back to part iwo of 1989. Hope your mid-term break went well.

What I thought I’d do in this week’s column is give you first a quick run-down on events to-date and then a bold presidential punt on likely happenings in the remainder of the year. Here’s a how it’s going to hit the community. It all began with a kick and a roar in January No Sunday buses. 20% of regular bus services when we heard through the grapevine that the to be axed (mainly to lowly-populated areas). A.R.A. was going to cut student’s “Ten-ride” $40/month pass for school kids to be axed at bus concessions. In typical government style a more politically acceptable time (during end- we had been given no warning by the A.R.A. of-year holidays). Senior-citizens’ concessions itslef. Needless to say there was rap-id coming- to be axed at a more politically acceptable time together of presidents from student associa­ (probably Christmas ho! ho! ho!). tions in the Auckland region. To cut a long story short, we made a number of submissions On my way to the rugby the other day I saw to a number of submissions to a number of a.young lad in school uniform (on a Saturday) A.R.A. committees. The first was the transport offering lollies to the passers-by: committee. Since this committee appeared to know very little and was prepared to do even “Two dollars for half a packet and I’ll give you 'The Auckland University Library' less the matter was refered to the Policy and the other half free!” Development committee as it was felt that this 'Even the horses are leaving' would be a more appropriate forum to deal And for an instant I saw New Zealand’s educa­ with the matter. We were then informed that tion system as it now stands, and that is on the any decision made by the Policy and Develop­ edge of one hell of a precipice. Several weeks ago Craccum shocked the universe when it revealed ment committee would be meaningless unless that the University library was using a rather dubious method of book it was approved by the Finance committee. The So far talk around university about education detection. The article was placed under the title below and prompted Finance committee then told us that their hands has centred on “The Loans Scheme” and the a fevered response from readers. The following article is in response were tied by proposed local-body reforms direct effects that such a scheme would have to one such reply. under review by the Government. Images of on US. The reality is that we have over­ sado-masochistic bureaucrats whipping simplified what constitutes the single greatest themselves to a frenzy over outrageous social threat to the fabric of our society since World * policy helped to while away the immeasurable War Two. “...Such callous hours spent waiting for an intelligent response worthy from leaders in our community. Of Where New Zealand once proudly held the disregard, such blatant i i course, none ever came. It was stated that if middle ground on free-market/socialist politics ignorance, such self- \ the reforms were instituted the current Govern­ we now find ourselves inexplicably drawn in­ ment subsidy to the A.R.A. would be reduced to the user-pays-at-all-costs mentality. Health servin g selfishness. ” thus forcing the bus section of the A.R.A. to and Education, two of the foundation blocks operate as a profit making venture and NOT of New Zealand society today, are being openly a service. In a nutshell they told us to fondle assulted. The argument is much wider than off and complain to the Government. Unfor­ “The Loans Scheme”. But such a scheme tunately, we are still in the complaints queue, epitomises the Government’s train of thought. behind the superannuitants, those who believed And it is not a train of thought to which the ( raccum received tin» letiei from that GST was not going to go above 10%, the people of New Zealand are privy to. The con­ the Head Librarian and was horrified Labour-left (or is that “Labour left”?), school tradictions in Government’s election rhetoric at the shameless lies contained within. and university administrations and about and post-election action whigh bring me to this We wondered if the letter itself was 180,000 unemployed workers. We were conclusion will all be revealed in next week’s column if I can fit them all in. One thing can a hoax; indeed was the extraordinari­ assured, however, that no changes to the fare structure would be made until July 1990: be sure. If a loans scheme is not instituted in ly intelligent Mr Durey having a joke NEXT YEAR. Well spank my onions with a 1990 there will be a huge increase in your up­ at our expense. People of unquestion­ Labour manifesto if on the first day of June front enrolment fee. The fact that such a rise ed genius, people such as Mr Durey 1989 1 don’t get a letter from the A.R.A. IN­ in enrolment costs will contradict all of the often delight in publicly ridueuling FORMING students that as of July 1989 Government’s objectives, with respect to open access to education, is irrelevant. They didn’t unaware and unintelligent people (THIS YEAR) their bus concessions are to be axed. What’s a year between friends,eh? mean any of it to start with. such, as ourselves. So was Mr Durev indulging in some malicious mischief­ CHEERS, DES. making at Craeeum's expense. You be the judge!

Dear Mr Howard, esteem of some hapless first year stu­ imitable Mr Durey suggests. We as Librarian Head. Futhermore you dent desperately trying to do a good The article on the Library Detec­ managed to track down such a per­ cite the example that the system ‘is us­ service to his fellow students and in­ tion System which you published on son disconsonately wandering ed by several thousand libraries deed humanity in general. 1 can only 7 June seems to-have been almost as through the now deserted library. Be­ worldwide’. Mr Durey, surely a man speculate as to what your real motives successful at creating alarm and ing demented, exceedingly insecure of such status and title as yourself are. It is said that those that are in­ despondency as Orson Welles famous person Mr Malcouronne started to would not be blind to the analogy secure and not satisfied with production of H.G. Wells “War of sob uncontrollably at Mr Durey’s in­ here between the system and D.D.T. themselves will attack the good name which, incidentally, was used by the Worlds”. sinuation that he was not a liv ing en­ of others; are you such a person Mr The article on the detection system tity. Neverthless he managed to several thousand people, some no Durey? doubt librarians, worldwide, before was, of course, a complete fantasy. regain his composure sufficiently to My horribly and disasterously low The General Library system is bas­ pen a reply which is printed below. it too was discovered to be cancer self esteem was further reduced, ed on electromagnetism, is used by causing. perhaps irreversibly when you plac­ However 1 most admit to being several thousand libraries worldwide ed nty name, yes the name given to “Peter Malcouronne” the alleged and presents no hazards for reader or wholly Hattered with your assertation me at birth and treasured ever since writer of this suppossed article library staff. as to the possible parallel between my in inverted commas. reportedly replies. article and ‘Orson Welles famous 1 should be grateful if you would if mntas. Indeed Mr Durev production of H.G. Wells “War of make it quite clear to your readers you seemed to suggest I don’t exist. Mr Durey, the .Worlds”. Nevertheless 1 must that the article by “ Peter You do not realise how much this Malcouronne” was joke. point out to you an error obvious to upsets me. I ask myself am 1 real, am How can we believe that ‘the arti­ all. You say that my article seems to I flesh and blood, indeed is this my Peter Durey cle on the detection system was, ot hav e created ‘despondency’. Mr Durey hand writing this letter. With my self Librarian course, a complete fantasy ? I most strongly take offense to this confidence at such a low ebb I think As the head librarian of the A.U. flagrant, total, unashamed and even you could understand the sham­ library you are obligated to deny this unabashed lie. Far from being ed agony of self doubt that racks my substantiated (and mathematically We decided it would be ap­ despondent Mr Durev the happy pro- tortured soul (with apologies to correct) claim of mine and others. propriate for the author of such a literiat arejubliant that I have expos­ Wordsworth). Mr Durey, Lam. I was You have everything to gain and contentious article to reply. We were ed your ‘fry n' Die' system for what and I will be Peter Malcouronne nothing to lose through your un­ however faced with what seemed to it really is. forevermore. proven refutations of my in­ be an insurmountable problem. The Furthermore Mr Durev 1 can’t Amen disputable wisdom. Where are your writer of the article was one Peter avoid the impression that your letter P.5. This is Craccum, not \ational facts Mr Durev? My elaims have been Malcouronne who according to Mr obviously regarded my expose as Geographic backed up with considerable scientific Durev did not exist, ls the elusive Mr some frivilous, lighthearted ‘joke’. As P.P.S. Mr Durey, in writing this ar­ evidence. You pretentious reply is Malcouronne a ghost, spirit or a sincere and genuine writer 1 find ticle l assumed anyone with a mere rhetoric Mr Durey. You shelter, mvsterious apparition as the in- such allegations to be both upsetting modicum o f intelligence would see it as always, behind a false aura of and indeed soul-destroving. Why do for what it was. In doing / assumed credibility, an aura (and 1 stress this people such as yourself Mr Durey also that you would not read it. O word) that is a result of your position have to tear down the fragile self­ to succeed in the society they were not Glasshouse returns after a three week break McLaughlin's article in CRACCUM 14. The responsible for. People who have not been and for the reasons see later. First I feel I reason that my article devotes itself to the equiped with rich benefactors, a stable en­ should note that the focus of this column principle of user pays is because that is w hat vironment to grow up in, or an elitist school is to change. S.R.C.s are no longer to be the my friend and I were discussing a fortnight to attend. It is these people especially who event around which comment is centred. ago, and because I fear that the issue simply has not been discussed enough. Quite simp­ need to be empowered with education. It is ly the crux of my argument is that educa­ quite obvious that increasing the cost to the This is most certainly not not because I con­ tion is too important to risk it being available individual of education will mean that fewer sider S.R.C.s to be any less important now to less than everyone. Education is too will be able to reap the benefits and the m an­ than they ever were, that is, any less than valuable to the economy and more impor­ tle of fees will weigh most heavily on those surpemely important, but rather for two tantly, though perhaps not seen as so by who will be most hurt. It is of course true other reasons. First, I have grown annoyed everyone, education is too valuable to peo­ that the government is "just trying to that we have had an executive without a at writing and being outdated by the time ple to give it any less than absolute priori­ balance the bcoks", the question which re­ focus at all. This has meant that the political I am read. Second, people who really want ty. I shall seek to comment on my friend's mains however is whether or not they side of A.U.S.A., which I believe should be to know what went on should get their pro­ statement that "the government is just try­ should be trying to. Lockwood Smith says at least dominant, has been lacking. CRAC­ verbial 'A' into 'G' and turn up to witness ing to balance the books". A statement I "it is all a question of priorities” (I am sure CUM has to an extent mirrored this lack of the event themselves. I consider myself to would consider so inane as to not even re­ that this was first said by someone far more focus and been much the poorer for it. At be used to provide an unpaid service simp­ quire comment but for my having heard it credible). If we choose to neglect education the S.G.M. we saw those people who would ly for the benefit of lazy people. The reasons expressed by another also. During my study then perhaps the 'books' can be balanced. get most behind the political aspects of I am returning are also twofold. First I have of macroeconomics last year I was part of I would prefer however that we take more A.U.S.A. take their frustrations out on an been informed that there is a dearth of a class that explored the effects of an educa­ heed of Drs. (in econom ics) Johnson and editor who gave them the opportunity to writers about who are quite like me. With tion programme on the economy. Our model Thomas when they say "a nation never make him their scapegoat. Aidan quite ob­ this and other things considered I am forc­ of the economy was a simplified version of went bankrupt educating its people". To viously created enemies during his t.me as ed to the conclusion that I am fulling a void the neo-classical model widely accepted by turn so late in this article to the S.G.M. of editor, frankly it should be noted that he also which needs to be fulled in this unique economists of the same ilk as those in 28 June will scarcely give the occasion the came into the job with a fair few as well. publication. | also felt that by stopping Treasury. Although it is not a model I would credence it deserves, but equally of the writing I was letting down CRACCUM, necessarily be prepared to adopt I will use events that took place any credence at all When Aidan provided the opportunity for perhaps at a time whan it needs regular con­ it here since it is the only model on which is far more than was earned. Quite frankly these people to get together under the same tributors most. My second reason is that I have witnessed the relevant analysis. The I was disgusted, greatly sadened, and enor­ banner he signed his own warrant. What with all the time available by dropping the results were quite outstanding, all the in­ mously embarrassed by what went on. I left should be made clear was that this was paper I had time with which I wanted to do dicators moved in the 'right' directions; the crushed by what had just occurred. For most certainly not a motion based on any nothing more than write. This was enhanc­ economy expanded, employment grew and those who clapped and cheered when the real objective or with a rational focus. This ed by the time I spent last Wednesday stuck prices fell. The outcome could not have results were announced I feel your joy was was a political move, removing someone in a lift. With all the greetings completed I been more decisive, the nation received an illfounded and as tasteless as those crimes who it had become politically unsound to can settle to the focus of this week's arti­ incredible boost by an increase in spending of which Aidan was accused. For those who support. I guess I have not been around long cle. It could not, of course, be considered on education. It is quite clear that a decrease stood by having professed their support and enough if I get so offended and revolted by topical without mentioning a certain motion, in spending would have quite the opposite for he who got up professing support I was this sort of activity but if experience is to regarding Aidan-B. Floward but really con­ effect, and been detrimental to the ashamed. I was also ashamed at my own enable me to accept such occurrances cerning all of us, and this will have space economy. A.C.Darnell, an economics lec­ inability to put my feelings on the matter philosophically then it is not the experience devoted to it later. First however I wish to turer at the University of Durham, writes before the masses. I only wish I was as I want. If what I witnessed is what current provide an economic basis (mine) for "educated individuals enhance the overall brave as the young man who knew not what politics is all about then roll on (please e x ­ refuting the objections to Loans Out put for­ productive capacity of the economy; thus to say in the situation but who was still cuse the pun) a new constitution to give ward by an economics student whom I have ail society's members benefit, not merely brave enough to voice his support. What we A.U.S.A. a focus and strike out the in­ some contact. My argument is with user the individuals who receive education." This who were there witnessed was a witchhunt. fighting. A.U.S.A. and each individual stu­ pays in education, not the Loans Scheme as is of course not to say that there is not a dent will be much the better off for it. such, though I object to it also. The reasons benefit to the individual. Education serves We have had the misfortune this year to the scheme itself can be seen to be ine­ have an executive unable to to focus the as a very important empowerer especially ALISTAIR SHAW Fin. quitable are well set out in Frank of those who have not been well equiped student body on anything. In fact I have felt

CAMPAIGN AGAINST USER-PAYS EDUCATION-UPDATE

Well folks, it was great to see lip service to the whole consulta­ be justified by assuming that New solidarity on the march against FOR THE SAKE OF NEW tion process, denying basic Zealand has too many tertiary user-pays education but that was democratic rights. The government students. Yet this country has the ZEALAND'S FUTURE only the beginning —we gotta keep states it 'cannot afford' to fund the lowest output in the developed SUPPORT THE CAM­ the momentum going. Next thing increasing demand for tertiary world. Independent assessors have up is a National Day of Action on PAIGN AGAINST USER- education but it has CHOSEN not actually suggested that the govern­ July 20 focusing on a rally in Aotea to afford tertiary education. ment has a hidden agenda to PAYS EDUCATION Square. Caygill has stated that there are reduce the number of tertiary By now you w ill all be aware of the questions of equity in this whole af­ students under its current pro­ What you can do: * come to the events of last week! Caygill spilt fair. The government has argued posals. Strange eh!! student meeting every Tuesday at the beans and sent Goff in to a real that an increase in fees would not Just when the country is crying out 1pm in the quad or, if its raining, little tantrum. NZUSA has called affect equity but now that higher for more people with skills and in the cafe to find out more of what his outburst 'childish and petulant'. upfront fees are being talked about knowledge the government's user- going on, * if you are really com­ The loans scheme is out or accor­ are they changing their minds? It pays policy will see more people’ mitted come to the task force ding to Goff shelved! We now need makes a mockery of their 'intention end up on the scrap heap, unable meetings, Thursdays at 1 pm in the to fight higher fees! The bizarre to draft equity objectives into to work for New Zealand's campaign coordinator's office thing is th a t G off blames the University council charters'. economic and social future. This behind the TV room, * volunteer to students for the banks' decision. country needs to be responsible for petition your MP, lecture speak There was only one meeting bet­ A CARING COMMUNITY its future even if the government is and/or put up posters, (see me or ween NZUSA and the banks ages CAN'T SURVIVE not. It is using the old axiom of the campaign manager or leave a ago. The banks say that the 'divided and rule' but we have to message at AUSA reception). scheme was unworkable. Students WITHOUT FURTHER be strong and stick together. had nothing to do with their deci­ EDUCATION If you think you can pay higher fees sion, it was clearly evident to them to study next year, or that you that they were dealing with yet The government has encouraged won't need to worry because you THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPOR­ another one of Goff's badly young people to stay on at school finish this year, it is about time you TANT FOR OUR NEXT DA Y OE thought out proposals. longer and go on to further educa­ discovered some social ACTION THURSDAY, JULY 20 The shelving of the scheme is a tion but now wants them to pay for conscience. L UNCHTIME RALL Y IN AOTEA step in the right direction but it was it. Overseas evidence shows that SQUARE only a small part of the govern­ user-pays education put this ment's intention to introduce user- education out of the reach for BE THERE!!! pays education. The government many, especially women and low has presented its user-pays policy income families. The user-pays ROGER PYM as a fail accompli and merely paid policy of this government can only Education Vice President F)EATURE 5ographed S & CHINA: eadvanc ^Y\o*e' .\ott\ng a taken tol ih as 10( done

From Mao to Deng his m ot hard w ls what happened in China a Basic industry was taken out of sionists figures in the existing Maoist boom that will spread inland. crisis of communism? No. It is a private hands and socialised, ceeded i leadership. They then rapidly began But the reality is one of sharply crisis of capitalism that is being (state-private forms of ownership dards o1 restoring capitalism. This is what rising prices and inflation and rapid­ presented as a crisis of com­ also existed as a means of transi­ rampgn- the West and the Soviet bloc hail­ ly growing unemployment. Some munism. China's present rulers tion to socialised ownership); a and go\ ed as progress. estimates suggest that there are abandoned socialism when they system of collective agriculture the mas 50 million people roaming the seized power by a coup d'etat in was developed in the form of the The re "To get rich is glorious" says countryside looking for work, and 1976 and began restoring People's Communes; the Yellow a ffectei Deng Xiaoping. Can anyone im­ in the cities 30 m illion of China's capitalism. Mao Tsetung foresaw River was tamed ending a two- Educatii agine a Marxist saying this? Deng 1 30 million urban workers have no this possibility and wrote to his thousand year flood menace; lines w is the a rch itect of capitalism in real jobs. Since 1985 the govern­ revolutionary comrade and wife widespread rural health program­ childrer China. Well lets take a look at what ment has a new labour-contract Chiang Ching in 1966 saying: "If mes effectively eradicated malaria, primary capitalism has delivered. system doing aw ay w ith the prin­ the Rightist stage an anti- schistosomiasis, kala azar, filariasis the retu ciple f guarantied employment. Communist coup d'etat in China, I and hookworm; and famine, which country Thi being promoted as am sure they will know no peace had plagued China every year for a tions ar Sweat Shop for the West "freeuom of choice"! In the in­ either and their rule will most pro­ thousand years, was eliminated. comeba dustrial city of Shenyang, 63,000 bably be short-lived, because it will For women the revolution farm ing workers were laid off in 1 988; but not be tolerated by the revolu­ bought their struggle for liberation In industry the principle of profit are vah only 1 6 ,0 0 0 of them found new tionaries who represent the in­ forward at an incredible speed. A has been put in command. Com­ rights o jobs during the year. This situation terests of the people making up petition among industries is en­ more tl new marriage law was introduced never existed in Mao's time and more than 90 percent of the which soon became widely known couraged, big imperialist com­ w ith pr bears no resemblance to socialism. population." as the 'divorce law' or the panies are invited back to China to beating, 'women's law'; nearly a million exploit what is now the cheapest giving b divorces were carried out in 18 labour force in the world. Under ing of fe The Fight for Liberation months, as women freed Mao China kicked out the foreign Capitalism Restored ed as it themselves from arranged mar­ imperialist monopolies and pursued W her riages, including as child brides that a policy of self-reliance. Deng After the coup d'etat a process a base < China, before liberation in 1 949, many had been forced into. All this Xiaoping and right wing 'refor­ of decollectivisation took place. hated b was a country crumbling in misery was unprecedented in any feudal mists' like Zhao Ziyang have taken The People's Com m unes were Soviet s and despair. Carved up by the ma­ society. Landlords, wife beaters China back to pre-revolution days. broken up and farming returned to socialis- jor powers and subject to im­ and rapists were hauled into mass China has received large amounts individual family lots. People with deeds)- perialist domination China was a public meetings called 'speak bit­ of foreign capital over the last ten influence and connections grabbed for the semicolony for over one hundred terness' sessions, and here women years. Since 1979 China has a big share for themselves of what China a years. It was also semifuedal with poured out their rage and organis­ negotiated and signed loan was once communally produced in a s big landlords and landless peasants ed punishment for the criminals. agreements worth $47 billion. and owned. What exists now in the develop in the countryside. The landlords Even tl Prostitution was eliminated almost China's large-scale industrial equip­ countryside is a system of modern had absolute power and reigned literally overnight —60,000 women ment industries increasingly rely on capitalist commercial farming, Tim e with tyranny. China's five hundred a c k n o v in Shanghai alone were given train­ imported foreign technology. China often with international linkages, million peasants knew extreme hospital ing, education, work, and must continually export more to developing alongside a dependent poverty, famine and degradation. built w i lodging —and rape became virtual­ meet its rising import bill. Failing and fragmented poor peasant Out of this misery great peasant the A fri ly unheard of. Female infanticide this, it must borrow, and its foreign economy. A class of landless revolts took place. Inspired by the disappeared. All forms of legal debt now stands at about $65 peasants exists again. to 196 Russian socialist revolution the m idst discrimination against women billion. High imports in 1984-85 C hina's w ealth is continually Communist Party of China was donatec were abolished by a new constitu­ fuelled industrial growth, while re­ concentrating in fewer and fewer formed in 1921. Under the leader­ a three tion. The constitution went far fur­ cent cuts in imports have made hands, out of this has grown ship of Mao Tsetung and the Com­ the fo ther than anything adopted by the domestic shortages and inflation widespread corruption. This is munist Party China's revolution Guinea, big modern bourgeois democracies worse. The much talked about what drew the Chinese workers went forward. It took thirty years interest like England or the USA. ('World to 'raised standard of living' over the out to join the student demonstra­ of civil war to put an end to foreign repaym W in' 1 987/8) From 1 949 to 1 976 past tw e lv e years in China w as all tions. Deng Xiaoping's son Deng dominance and local feudalism; the and 1 9 there were many campaigns ad­ built on foreign loans. Pufang heads the giant China workers and peasants of China African vancing women's liberation. Mao Tsetung fought to disperse Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. liberated themselves by armed industry throughout the country He allegedly helped a Chinese con­ grant ai struggle. With the enthusiasm of and to make special efforts to glomerate gain tax-exempt status trib u tic hundreds of millions of people Deng’s Cout D’Etat develop the poorer and backward and reap vast profits for fraudulent USSR.' freed from a life of intense exploita­ regions. But today development work. "On a small scale leaders at tion a new China was built. As Mao After Mao's death in 1976 a new resources are being concentrated all levels routinely use their posi­ said then: "The Chinese people, leadership sought to carry out his along China's coastal provinces. tions to obtain free restaurant New l one-quarter of humanity, have policies. However, they lacked ex­ The aim is to develop an export- meals or theatre tickets. In a stood up...From now on no one will perience and made ultra-left errors. oriented economy in these areas. grander m anner, o ffic ia ls buy insult us again." New capitalists found their Ineqi These zones are similar to the scarce raw materials such as coal China's revolution took, place in representative in Deng Xiaoping capitali export-processing zones establish­ and timber at low, subsidized two stages. First was the stage of who had turned Marxism into revi­ stantly ed in Taiw an and South Korea in prices and sell them on the open a New Democracy under the sionism (de-revolutionised Marx­ tion. the 1 960s and 1 970s. It is not un­ market for handsome profits." revolutionary leadership of the ism). Recognising that a large part econon common to find employees, even (Time 5 .7.89 ) W hat is this but working class backed by the of the people were seeking stabili­ raise li\ children, working twelve hours a capitalism? Twenty million peasantry. The mass of the people ty in place of the instability of the for de day, seven days a week, for piece- peasants face fam ine-.this year preceding years of Cultural Revolu­ Stalin i were now the ruling class. This rates amounting to 30 cents and while party officials openly flaunt period ended feudal and colonial tion, Deng and others (including paymei hour. The result is a widening gap their- wealth. Former ministers, relations and developed the the People's Liberation Army fessior between areas, with the rich get­ vice-mayors, senior party economic base of agriculture and Commander-in-Chief Yen Chien- enterpr ting richer and the poor getting secretaries, and relatives of polit- industry. By 1956 it was possible Ying) organised a revisionist coup experts poorer, as investment and finance buro members hold senior manage­ to begin the second stage of the d'etat, pretending that they were separal gets concentrated in high profit ment positions of state-owned revolution— the long struggle of fulfilling Mao's aims. It was not promot areas. Tax incentives and cheap companies, amass huge fortunes building socialism. long before they began attacking were a labour in China's coastal regions and receive protection from top of­ Mao under cover of attacking the tagonis are supposed to attract foreign in­ ficials in the party. This bears no so-called 'Gang of Four', key to wor! vestment and ignite and economic resemblance to the w ay Mao lived; radicals! out of Kent...They are the USA Shoots Down Students worst type of people that we har­ bour in A m e ric a ." The C om m an­ Too ding General Canterbury of Na­ tional Guard Troops on Kent State The capitalist press has been campus on May 4th 1970 said nêVia-,^ tn ess^ P ^ s^ making the most of the upheavals much the same: "These students in the Soviet Union and China. are going to have to find out what J "This is what happens when you &1; law and order is all about." Twen­ >:-W have a communist government" ty minutes after Canterbury spoke, they say. They use the opportuni­ .,«*'0 '" f ®rtonst his troops opened fire without war­ • Li''^ ale„Urpetan4 8 H ty to blame all the problems of to the ning. Four students were killed, taken rJV:*-' restored capitalism onto com­ 100 twenty wounded. At Jackson tVA as , munism. And they can get away don^ with it because the revisionists State college two students were pose as socialists while restoring murdered and twelve wounded by state troopers on May 14. The of­ capitalism. But not everyone is his motto was "plain living and that a new bourgeoisie had emerg­ blind. Some notice how much the ficial response by President Nixon's press spokesman was that the hard work". The Chinese revi­ ed in the Soviet Union and that Western powers love Deng Xiaop­ sionists have probably even ex­ Krushchev represented their in­ ing. They have backed Deng's s tu d e n ts d inland, were to blame for their own ceeded international capitalist stan­ terests. From 1956 onwards regime to the hilt for a decade. ie of sharply deaths. Nixon himself said that the dards of corruption. It is obviously capitalism was restored in the Deng is their man, he opened China on and rapid- rampgnt at every level of the party Soviet Union, although it has main­ up to foreign capital—turning the killings should be a warning that m ent. Some campuses should maintain control. and government and despised by tained the pretence of building country into a sweat-shop for the at there are The killing of the students only in­ the masses. socialism . West. As well a secret partnership oaming the flamed the resistance. During May The restoration of capitalism has between the US and Chinese ar w ork, and 1970 over 100 people were killed affected every sphere of life. Mao saw a new bourgeoisie Governments began ten years ago n of China's or wounded by police and troops. Education is organised along elitist developing which could lead to a with for example America building kers have no Nearly 2,000 people were rounded lines while more than 30 million restoration of capitalism in China. listening posts in China to spy on the govern- up and arrested for political reasons children have dropped out of To counter this he set off the the Soviet Union.(NZ Herald our-contract in the first two weeks of May primary and middle school. With cultural revolution. Its aim was to 2 6 .6 .8 9 ) /ith the prin- ('Revolutionary Worker' 12.6.89). the return of family farming in the rear a whole generation able to en­ All the Western imperialist's imployment. So much for Western democracy! countryside, brutal feudal tradi­ sure the continuation of socialism. pious sentiments condemning the )m o te d as What the people of China need tions and practices have made a However during the cultural revolu­ massacre are totally phoney. After '! In the in- is not more capitalism, more ex­ comeback. In the system of family tion he made the mistake of rely­ all American capitalist 'd e m o cra cy' 3ng, 63,000 ploitation, more famine. They need farming, male labourers and heirs ing on the youth instead of the Par­ has its own tradition of bloody in 1 988; but a return to socialism. The actions are valued above the lives and ty and the working class —resulting repression of students and found new of the People's Liberation Army rights of women. Sons are valued in a great deal of confusion and workers. The American ruling class his situation (once the pride of China) show more than daughters. So, along chaos. The cultural revolution suc­ saw the radical student movement 's time and without a doubt that it is not a peo­ with private family farms, wife ceeded for a time, but not after of the 1960s and early 70s as a to socialism. ple's army but the army of a reac­ beating, the persecution of women Mao's death when Deng and com­ great threat to their system. Reac­ tionary and frightened new giving birth to females, and the kill­ pany managed to stage their coup ting to student demonstrations in bourgeoisie. The crisis of China to­ ing of female babies have reemerg­ d 'e ta t. 1970 Ronald Reagan, then Gover­ day shows that revisionism has no ed ed as major social problems. The Chinese Communist Party nor of California, said: "If they future. A time will come when the When Mao was alive China was does not inspire anyone today. It want a bloodbath, lets get it over workers and peasants of China rise at a process a base area for world revolution — has nothing to do with revolution with." When President Nixon up and become the ruling class took place, hated by Western imperialism and or the goal of building a classless decided to expand the Viet Nam again. Then they will have real lunes were Soviet social-imperialism (meaning society— instead it represents the War by invading Cambodia a na­ democracy, not democracy for the I returned to socialist in w ords but im perialist in ruling class of China - the new tional student strike started. Here rich capitalist democracy, but People with deeds) —and an inspiring example bourgeoisie. is what Governor Rhodes of Ohio ons grabbed for the oppressed of the world. The defection from socialism and said: "W e are going to use every democracy for the mass of the peo­ Ives of what China assisted developing nations Marxism-Leninism of Russia (after weapon of law-enforcement agen­ ple, proletarian democracy. y produced in a socialist fashion, not to Stalin's death) and China, the two cies to drive them [student s now in the develop dependencies or for profit. major socialist powers, gave world DAPHNA WHITMORE n of modern Even the thoroughly right wing imperialism a new lease of life. In­ al farming, Time magazine had to stead of being bastions of ial linkages, acknowledge this: "Roads, socialism and proletarian revolu­ a dependent hospitals, hydroelectric dams were tion, under their new revisionist or peasant built with China's help throughout regimes they covertly joined the of landless the African continent. From 1960 camp of imperialism. The to 1961, when China was in the capitalists have recently grown continually midst of a severe famine, it complacent but were shocked r and fewer donated 1 5,000 tones of rice and when there emerged during the has grown a three year $25 million credit to mass demonstrations in >n. This is the former French colony of Tiananmen square some signs that se workers Guinea. Many loans were provided a revival of Mao is taking place in demonstra- interest-free and with generous China. For example one report s son Deng repayment terms. Between 1959 quotes a demonstrator saying; liant China and 1979 the Chinese provided "What we want is to make Com­ andicapped. African states with $2.4 billion in munism good and perfect. We Chinese con- grant aid, almost double the con­ don't think the Government we've ampt status tribution of the much richer got can do that and that's why we r fraudulent USSR." (Time 16.1.89) want it to go...He IMaol was a e leaders at great leader. He turned old China ! their posi- into modern China...Mao made restauraot New Capitalists Develop mistakes. He was human. All kets. In a leaders make mistakes."(NZ ficials buy Herald 22.6.89) Perhaps this is Inequalities remaining from uch as coal why recently the present regime capitalism cannot be overcome in­ subsidized has attempted to appear com­ stantly even after a socialist revolu­ >n the open munist by quoting Mao, but it is tion. To build up a socialist e profits." pure hypocrisy. Mao was for 'great econom y rapidly in Russia so as to is this but democracy' and against capitalism. raise living standards and provide y m illion The recent demonstrations in for defense against aggression a ■ this year China were undoubtedly a mixed Stalin encouraged high incentive aenly flaunt bag with some students wanting a payment and high salaries for pro­ ministers, more rapid road to capitalism and fessional people, bureaucrats, or party more privileges and perks for enterprise managers and technical 'es of polit- themselves. But it was not the experts. This grouping became ior manage- drive for greater bourgeois separated from the masses and tate-owned democracy that brought the promoted their own interests. They ge fortunes workers out in their thousands to were a new bourgeoisie —an an­ from top of- Tiananmen Square —it was the call tagonistic class to the workers and is bears no to protest against the much hated ! Mao lived; to working class power. Mao saw corruption of China's ruling class. Woman women produce TAKE THIS POEM reproduce. but canpot choose Deps Take this poem Equal I and shove it how can you call yourself free get paid in your VCR when you do not own years d watch it play back your body receive or hiccup when you do not decide wage. get stuck whether to get pregnant (or not) The! between ads seperat< screen out the ghosting woman men in ; adjust your set you get up to say, look for clues. with the down law, to you walk miles looking men wh Take this poem for food same jc and wear it searching for wood The i the latest trend you return bent Pay At wrap it round your with a child riding Februai lips on your back Worker or write it up weighing you down the Arl your arms painted rhyming couplets you go alone dustries down your legs to give birth women Gucci Gucci Goo. because you are behind unclean dustrie Take this poem but your milk makes them strong themsel and eat it and the pig's flesh than m munch it crunch it is sweet $100wk spit it out yet you do not have women drool over it a share The ( don’t let it go cold ed the A eat every last bite you pay for your right Clerical or you won’t get to play a part women the next verse and keep your place Howevt in their line power Take this poem with sexual favours because and play it allow cc say it cast out of work relay it from your natal home was no < share words you are a part-timer to asses skip with them in a new clan Thert hopskotch over syllables and you cannot look back women hoolahoop through letters eluding bounce them over you must bear children a breat beat them up. in-laws watch children your waist-line care cen Take this poem for the sign can app and stick it of fulfilment women on your wall of their dreams therefor make it art and if you fail apply f pull it apart you suffer the judgements women paint it again of others jobs. cubist expressionist Howt abstract woman for the 1 join the dots you are not a breeding machine that wi colour it in. or a passive pawn women’: in a man's game confinet Take this poem motherhood does not have The suil and shove it to be an accident oecupat anywhere you want. or home economics or isolation not so n individu And watch it change, you are a person come tt transform itself, you are a worker s’ ited tt MOTHER grow. you are a mother all worn you are a Woman in 6 art THE SMEAR keeping Sea-wife, teaching Salty faced and tanned. support Under no man. Man in white coat underva Woman at his mercy women i A SLOTH OF HIGH Ocean heaves. "I'll take that pretty smear today Smoke-black glass make is ASPIRATION Wind serenades. From vour ring a ring rosy”. Running wet where belief ol Birds score. the Gods cry ing of v "Feet up, knickers down; Orange flames reflectet I scorn those who walk the safe trod­ Spray-soaked, This sheet will keep you nice and warm, drop surge flare rates of den path. She stands. Call me when you’re ready now from the surface down are paid I will not belittle myself so, Herself. The sea. And memory Mv ring a ring a rosy”. White pillars and solid women; will not stoop to copy old, worn seen thick and blending importa forumlae so I do nothing. Alice Phillips From bed to grave as they fade deeper Anott It’s not been long The pillars and tongues Act can Lynette Wrigley Oh sing a song for Rosy of hell labelling The smear is on the white coat now' 5.30 on a wet April morning. same jot from ring a ring rosy. pie. The L y n ley Stone the sarr Barbara Mann employe PAY EQUITY EQUAL EMPLOYMENT

Depsite the long, hard fight for the pie of this can be seen where 2 peo­ The way this world works is very OPPORTUNITY Equal Pay Act in 1972, women still ple were employed - one to stick simple. Perhaps a typist may claim get paid less than men? More than 15 labels on envelopes (a man), the other that her work is equal to that of OFFICER years down the track women only to stuff the labelled envelopes (a carpenter. The principle of pay equity receive 75% of the average mans woman). I would have expected these would look at the two jobs in terms of (EEO) wage. jobs to be covered by an all inclusive all the different things involved such as The Equal Pay Act 1972 outlawed title such as mail assistants. However job training, qualifications, carer skills, seperate wage scales for women and this was not the case and the woman effort, responsiblity and working men in any individual award. That is was paid at a lower hourly rate. This conditions. to say, employers are required by is quite a frightening concept, Then an overall comparison bet­ law, to pay women the same rate as especially for women who believe we ween the jobs in terms of the things men when they are empoyed for the have achieved all the reforms outlined above would be made. same job. necessary for equality with men. If the two jobs are shown to be The ineffectiveness of the Equal equal in value, the typist shot be paid Pay Act was clearly illustrated in EQUAL PAY FOR the same as the carpenter. ??? WHO A M I ??? February 1986 when the Clerical Hand in hand with procedures to Trudie McNaughton - recently ap­ Workers Union brought a case before WORK OF EQUAL achieve pay equity are equal employ­ pointed to the EEO position. I did the Arbitration Court. The Union VALUE ment opportunities programmes. my Masters in English here and I also painted out that the pay rates for in­ These work to remove barriers worked as a research assistant in the dustries made up almost entirely of What Pay Equity argues is that it is against women’s equity in the History Department so I have some women (such as clerical) are well workplace. not acceptable for women to be paid knowledge of the University. I need behind the payrates of other in­ less because they work in traditional All women will benefit from pay more though!!, To do my job proper­ dustries. Thus women find female jobs. Whole areas of women’s equity legislation, especially those in ly I need ideas, experiences and feed­ themselves being paid $2.50/hr less skills are invisible and this has a traditonal female jobs. The benefits back from students as well as staff than men This can mean up to negative impact on women’s wages. will be two-fold. Lastly and most ob­ about equal employmenmt $100wk reduction in income for The gap between men’s and women’s viously women will receive more pay. opportunity. women compared to men wages will not be removed without Secondly women’s confidence and The Clerical Workers Union ask­ legislation. The law is needed to en­ self-esteem will be raised through ??? W HAT IS EEO ??? ed the Arbitration Court to rule that sure that women would receive the recognition of the real value of their Clerical workers - 85% of whom are same wage as men where similar, or work. My job is: - To identify the barriers women - do not have true equal pay. even different jobs are shown to be to equity in employment However the court said it had no equal in value. Nerilee in the University, (inten­ power to review the Unions case tional or otherwise). because the Equal Pay Act does not - To work in consulta­ allow comparison of different types tion with many groups of work. The court decided that there to develop a programme was no on-going provision in the Act to eliminate discrimina­ to assess women’s wages. tion in employment. There are many reasons why - To pay particular at­ women do not get equal pay, in­ tention to discrimina­ cluding such things as women having tion against women, a break in their careers to have Maori, Pacific Island children; the lack of subsidised child and disabled people. care centres, limiting the jobs women Among other things I will be looking can apply for the fact that many at structures in women are part-time and are - advertising for jobs therefore restricted in jobs they can - recruiting apply for; and the prevention of - interviewing women training for higher paying - promotion jobs. - leave opportunities However, by far the main reason - etc. for the lack of equal pay seems to be that within the paid workforce While my job is not specifically to women’s employment tends to be deal with Equal Employment oppor­ confined to certain areas of work. tunity (EEO), obviously there are The suitability of women for these areas of overlap. If post-grad students occupations has come to be based, can’t get access to affordable high not so much on the abilities and the quality child care so they can com­ individual, but on what society has plete their degrees, parents may be come to believe is the only work disadvantaged when they apply for S' ited to women as a whole. 90% of jobs here. all women workers are concerntrated 1 am able to draw on the work in 6 areas of work: clerical, book StudAss has already done on EEO. keeping, retail, medical, typing and The “WOMEN AT UNIVERSITY” teaching. These are all service and * Report on the position of women support areas. These occupations are students at the University of undervalued by society. The work Auckland (compiled by Stephenie women do and the contribution they Knight and Belinda Hitchman) is a make is not taken seriously. It is the very useful resource. It has a welcome belief of this writer that the devalu­ emphasis on qualitative as well as ing of women and what they do is quantitative research. The study and reflected in our comparitively low its sensitive write up give the human rates of pay. That is to say, women dimension to EEO. are paid less simply because they are Please feel free to get in touch with women and their work is seen as less me either as a resource person, or to important. pass on your brainwaves. I would Another reason why the Equal Pay welcome more feedback from Act can’t protect us is through job students - individually or from stu­ labelling. It is very easy to label the dent groups/organisations/clubs - on same job differently for different peo­ EEO. ple. These jobs are then not seen as I am located in Room 6051 in the the same at face value, and the Chemistry Building, on phone employer has no obligation to pay the 737-999 extension 8316 and look for­ same amount for each job. An exam- ward to hearing from you. O There are families at risk. Couples If we substitute “society” for “fami­ developmentally retarded, and who are very young or emotionally ly”, and it becomes clear that the key severely multi-handicapped. To immature are more likely to divorce issue is “will this person be a burden which we could add the pyschiatrical- or separate after the birth of a child on society?” ly ill adult. with a disability. But more prevalent are the families who do cope, and 1 could answer this with the stories of These are people who are unable to whose chid is loved and cherished. people with disabilities who have cope. In the past have been relegated passed through this university, and to the fringes of society, and finally Child-bearing and child-raising is Shock and denial, fear and guilt are others who are in employment, pay to hospitals where the person as an fraught with difficulties. There is the common, and natural reactions from their taxes, and are good citizens. individual is irrelevant to the life of pressure of the constant dependence parents on learning of a disability in Sensory and physical disability is no the institution. of the new-born, and often it seems their baby. barrier to achievement. that there is not enough love, money, Once society starts assessing people or time to go round. This stage passes, but it is in this in­ Another answer is to point to the as units, then it is easy to see these itial stage of emotional disorientation “burdens” for society now accepts units in terms of profit and loss. And For parents with a child with a that parents are susceptible to the responsbility: those incapacitated by once we allow quality control at the disability, that “constant argument that babies be “allowed to accident; by old-age; by criminal or “point of manufacture”, then how dependence” can stretch into an eter­ die”. This includes not only a denial anti-social behaviour. long will it be before we bring in a nity. “Milestones” of child develop­ of life-saving treatment, but in some Warrant-of-Fitness to life for others ment are delayed, or may never hap­ countries, the permitting of babies to The area of contention is always the in the Brave New World? pen at all. The milestones which starve to death. least articulate and least powerful and reward parents, and baby, such as least loved... the institutionalised Modern technology compels us the smiles of recognition, crawling and Denial of remedial treatment until it think through these ethical issues. walking, speech, feeding oneself, is certain the baby will survive also may need major efforts and training runs the risk of unnecessarily exacer­ rather than the natural progression bating the disability. And also pro­ over time of most babies. longing pain which can be relieved. This stress on the parent is presently 1 am raising this issue, not to draw considered as sufficient grounds for attention or additional pressure on an abortion in New Zealand. Abor­ the parents, family and doctors in tion however is not an issue I wish to this sorry situation, but to move the adress here but te attitudes within debate from being a personal issue to society which lead to the view that life an issue with wider social and ethical with a disability is a life not worth implications, and responsibility, for saving. people in care.

At present, says NZ Disabled The personal decisions about the life Magazine, life-saving treatment re­ of a baby involve judgements in three mains an option exercised by hospital areas: Degree of disability; Quality of staff. A 1986 article said that in mak­ life; Family’s quality of life. ing decisions on whther or not to pro­ I don't intend to explore the first two vide treatment hospitals considered areas, only to say that for adults there the degree of disability, the disabled is, as yet, no popular support for infant’s quality of life, and the fami­ voluntary euthanisa, nor for suspen­ ly’s quality of life. ding care on the bases of a judgement of quality of life.

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The Tribunal can hear any claim by a not new. Many have existed for over 100 Maori against the Crown, where there is years and have been raised on marae and conflict with the principles of the Treaty. with government by petitions and letters. Be­ The claims are made against the Crown fore the setting up of the Tribunal no court —no action is possible against private had jurisdiction to consider these claims. The owners and no existing private titles can claims are about land, fisheries, water and be set aside. other taonga. If the Tribunal agrees with the claimants The Waitangi Tribunal is charged with after hearing all the evidence it can finding practical solutions. It provides recommend whatever steps it believes are guidelines, but in some cases suggests necessary. The Tribunal's role is solely negotiations between the Crown and Maori. advisory. The T ribunal cannot force the The Tribunal has made major findings on government to accept its recommenda­ pollution of the fishing reefs near Waitara, tions. the Rotorua Council's wish to discharge ef­ It can, under i new law, compel the fluent into the Kaituna River, pollution of government to return land owned by State the Manukau Harbour and Maori language. Owned Enterprises to its Maori owners. Consideration of the Muriwhenua claim led This power applies only to Crown land to negotiations between the government and transferred to the new corporations, not Maori. to other Crown land or to private land. 150 of the claims before the Tribunal are

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W a it a n g i PREAMBLE Her Majesty, Victoria, Queen oft lingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, rega her Royal Favour the Native Chiefs andl ew Zealand, HE KUPIJ WHAKATARI Ko Wikitoria te Kuini o lngarani KO TE TUAROA Ko te Kuini o Ingarangi ka wakarite ka and anxious to protect their ju nd Property, i tana mahara atawai ki ngā rangatira me nga hapū o Nu Tirani i wakaae ki ngā rangatira, ki nga hapū, ki ngā tangata katoa o Nu and to secure to them the enjoyi ceand Good tana hiahia hoki kia tohungia ki a rātou o rātou rangatiratanga Tirani, te tino rangatiratanga o o rātou wenua o rātou kainga me O rder, has deem ed it necessary, ence of the me to rātou wenua a kia mau tonu hoki te rongo ki a rātou me o rātou taonga katoa. Otiia ko ngā rangatira o te Wakaminenga great num ber of Her Majesty’s ho have te Atanoho hoki kua wakaaro ia he mea tika kia tukua mai tetahi me ngā rangatira katoa atu, ka tuku ki te Kuini te hokonga o era already settled in New Zealand, dextension rangatira hei kai wakarite ki ngā Tangata Māori o Nu Tirani kia wāhi wenua e pai ai te tangata nona te wenua, ki te ritenga o te of Emigration both from Europ ralia which wakaaetia e ngā rangatira Maori te Kawanatanga o te Kuini ki ngā utu e whakaritea ai e rātou ko te kaihoko e meatia nei e te Kuini is still in progress, to constituh lint a wāhikatoa o te wenua nei me ngā motu - nā te mea hoki he hei kaihoko mona. functionary properly authorise: nth the tokomaha ke ngā tangata o tona Iwi kua noho ki tenei wenua a e Aborigines of New Zealand for ition of Her Majesty’s Sovereign authorityi ioie or any haere mai nei. KO TE TUATORU Hei whakaritenga mai hoki tenei mo te Na ko te Kuini e hiahia ana kia wakaritea te Kawanatanga kia wakaaetanga ki te Kawanatanga o te Kuini. Ka tiakina e te Kuini kaua ai nga kino e puta mai ki te tangata Maori ki te Pākehā e o Ingarangi ngā tangata Maori katoa o Nu Tirani. Ka tukua ki a noho ture kore ana. rātou ngā tikanga katoa rite tahi ke ana mea ki ngā tangata o Na kua pai te Kuini kia tukua ahau a Wiremu Hopihono he Ingarangi. Kapitana i te Roiara Nawi he Kawana mo ngā wāhi katoa o Nu Na, ko matou ko ngā rangatira e te Wakaminenga o ngā hapu ARTICLE THE FIRST [A t: SECOND I Tirani i tukua aianei a mua atu ki te Kuini e mea atu ana ia ki ngā o Nu Tirani ka huihui nei ki Waitangi ko matou hoki ko ngā ran­ The chiefs of the Confederation Her )ueen of rangatira o te wakaminenga o ngā hapū o Nu Tirani me era rangat­ gatira o Nu Tirani ka kite nei i te ritenga o enei kupu. Ka tangohia ira atu enei ture ka Kōrerotia nei. of the United Tribes of New Engl and g u a ra n te e s ka wakaaetia katoatia e matou. Koia ka tohungia ai o matou ingoa Zealand and the separate and to tt Tribes o f N e w o matou tohu. independent Chiefs who have not Zeal re re s p e c tiv e KO TE TUATAHI Ko ngā rangatira o te Wakawinenga me Ka meatia tenei ki Waitangi i te ono o ngā ra o Pepueri i te tau become members of the famjviduals thereof, Confederation, cede to Her and ngā rangatira katoa hoki, kihai i uru ki taua Wakaminenga, ka tuku kotahi mano, e warn rau e wa te kau o to tatou Ariki. Majesty the Queen of England, undi session o f th e rawa atu ki te Kuini o Ingarangi ake tonu atu te Kawanatanga absolutely and without Lam e s. Forests, katoa o o rātou wenua. reservation, all the rights and Fish her p ro p e rtie s powers of Sovereignty which the whit co lle c tiv e ly o r said Confederation or Individual indis less, so lo n g a s Chiefs respectively exercise or it is nd desire to possess, or may be supposed to main ne in th e ir • TREATY OF WAITANGI: A LITERAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE MAORI TEXT exercise or to possess over their poss ie Chiefs o f th e respective Territories as the sole Unite (the I n d iv id u a l Sovereigns thereof. Chid hr Majesty the Signed at Waitangi February 1840, and afterwards by about 500 chiefs. excl Pre-emption over as the prop of m ay b e ite, at s u c h VICTORIA, the Q ueen of England, in her kind ( gra­ Queen over all parts of this country and the Is­ price agreed upon cious) thoughtfulness to the Chiefs and Hapus of lands. Now. the Queen desires to arrange the gov­ beh* jedive prop persons New Zealand, and her desire to preserve to them ernorship lest evils should come to the Maori appo Majesty t o t r e a t their chieftainship and their land, and that peace people and the Europeans who are living here with It behalf and quietness may be kept with them, because a without law. Now, the Queen has been pleased to great number of the people of her tribe have set­ send me. William Hobson, a Captain in the Royal tled in this country, and (more) will come, has Navy to be Governor for all places of New Zealand thought it right to send a chief (an officer) as one which are now given up or which shall be given AS YOU CAN SEE, TlltE TWO T1 who will make a statement to (negotiate with) up to the Queen. And she says to the Chiefs of Maori people of New Zealand. Let the Maori chiefs the Confederation of the Hapus of New Zealand ITS TRANSLM0 ENGL accept the governorship (KAWANATANGA) of the and the o th er chiefs, these are the laws spoken of.

- WHICH TREATY IS TH1.0NE? THIS IS THE FIRST THIS IS THE SECOND^ - I THIS IS THE THIRD - THE FOURTH ARTICLE The Chiefs of the Confederation, The Queen of England agrees and This is the arrangement for the Two churchmen, the Catholic and all these chiefs who have not consents (to give) to the Chiefs, consent to the governorship of the Bishop, Pompallier and the Both. There are 5 12 signatui tly30 are on joined in that Confederation give hapus. and all the people of New Queen. The Queen will protect all Anglican Missionary William an English version. The retst ithe Maori up to the Queen of England for ever Zealand the full chieftainship the Maori people of New Zealand, Colenso recorded a discussion on bi structed to all the Governorship (rangatiratanga) of their lands, and give them all the same rights what we would call religious Treaty. The Waitangi Tril (KAWANATANGA) of their lands. their villages and all their as those of the people of England. freedom and customary law. In have regard to both Maori lish v e rsio n s possessions (taonga: everything WILLIAM HOBSON. Consul answer to a direct question from as both have signatures. that is held precious) but the Chiefs and Lieutenant-Governor Pompallier, Hobson agreed to the give to the Queen the purchasing following statement. It was read to of those pieces of land which the Now. we the Chiefs of the Confederation of the Hapus of New the meeting before any of the chiefs owner is willing to sell, subject to had signed the Treaty. the arranging of payment which Zealand, here assembled at will be agreed to by them and the Waitangi, and we. the chiefs of New E mea ana te Kawana ko ngā IS THE TREATY LEGA purchaser who will be appointed Zealand, see the meaning of these whakapono katoa o lngarani, o ngā by the Queen for the purpose of words and accept them, and we Weteriana, o Roma, me te ritenga buying for her. agree to all of them. Here we put Maori hoki e tiakina ngatahitia e ia. our names and our marks. yofWaitangi Translation: Yes, but like other treaties, The Governor says that the several is not directly enforceable|coiiurts u n le s s faiths (beliefs) of England, of the Parliament has so directedlof Parliam ent Wesleyans, of Rome, and also Maori custom shall alike be protected by him.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: PROJECT Place Names in New Zealand • • • MAORI PLACE NAMES Aotearoa There has been a trend in recent years to return to the use of the rer 100 New Zealand ae and A otearoa original names of places in New Zealand. From time to time this has attracted considerable media attention such ?rs. Be- «* NiuTlreni d court as the case of the decision to make Mt. Taranaki and Mt. Egmont alternatively acceptable names for the same place. as. The Auckland Tamaki-makau-rau ter and In other cases such as the Wanganui Education Board’s decision to ° R Ā karan a rename Fitzherbert East School in the Manawatu, Aokautere School, i with the event has gone by unnoticed and fully accepted by all concerned. rovides Ham ilton Kirikiriroa N.Z. Post has recently declared that it will receive and deliver mail to uggests towns given their Maori name. This situation is clearly also undergoing Maori, « Ham utana change. The poster reproduced below shows the currently accepted ings on list. This was issued by NZ Post early in 1988. G isborne Turanga-nui-a-Kiwa The seven member National Geographic Board oversees policy and development in the matter of place names in New Zealand. Its powers N apier Ahuriri and functions are set out in the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1949. This Act is currently under review. The most authoritative led source for information on place names is the New Zealand Gazette W ellington Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara which is available from the Survey and Land Department. oR P ōneke It is interesting to note that two significant works in this whole area are planned for launching in 1990. One is to be a detailed account of Maori Christchurch Ō tautahi place names and their meanings, and the other a book on previously unpublished legends. Dunedin Ō tepoti A source for further information in this area is:-

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ictoria, Queen oil ingdom of part of these islands. Her Majesty therefore being and Ireland, reiga her Royal desirous to establish a settled form of Civil Government tive Chiefs and :w Zealand, with a view to averting the evil consequences which 3 protect their jn nd Property, must result from the absence of the necessary Laws 0 them the enjoryi ceand Good and Institutions alike to the Native population and to med it necessary, ernce of the Her Subjects has been graciously pleased to empower of Her Majesty’s io have and authorise me William Hobson, a Captain in Her 1 in New Zealand, Jd extension Majesty’s Royal Navy, Consul, and Lieutenant-Governor both from Europ ralia which of such parts of New Zealand as may be or hereafter ress, to constitul lint a shall be ceded to Her Majesty, to invite the confederated operly authorise rith the and independent Chiefs of New Zealand to concur in New Zealand for lition of Her the following Articles and Conditions. ireign authority! lole or any LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE?^

jAR!SECOND! j ARTICLE THE THIRD | Now therefore. We the Chiefs of Join Arthur Young’s Tax Division | ation Herl Queen of In consideration thereof, Her the Confederation of the United Engl and guarantees Majesty the Queen of England - Tribes of New Zealand being md to# I Tribes of New extends to the Natives of New assembled in Congress at 'e not Zeal he respective Zealand Her Royal Protection Victoria, in Waitangi and We the fan# viduals thereof, and imparts to them all the Rights Separate and Independent Chiefs the I»and and Privileges of British subjects. of New Zealand claiming and, undi session of the W Hobson. Lieutenant-Governor authority over the Tribes and Uni es. Forests, Territories which are specified ind Fish her properties after our respective names 3 the whit collectively or having been made fully to ridual indiv less, so long as understand the Provision of the e or it is nd desire to foregoing Treaty, accept and ed to main je in their enter into the same in the.full heir poss ie Chiefs of the spirit and meaning thereof. In ■ sole Unit !the Individual witness of which, we have C h ie je r Majesty the attached our signatures or marks excl, Pre-emption at the places and the dates over s the respectively specified. prop of m ay b e Done at Waitangi, this sixth day dispc ate, at s u c h of February in the year of Our price agreed upon Lord, one thousand eight betw eetive hundred and forty. prop jersons appc Majesty t o tr e a t with it behalf.

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“They’re All Blacks aren’t they?” replied Mr Wayne strange, foreign little doggies ‘Buck’ Shelford after the se­ coming and pooping on them. cond Test against France, in When all is said and done, the reply to a question about the old ground rules apply, that’s condition of two groggy for­ to say, ‘ground rules’. If you wards who had only just have more ground than I do survived. then you’re quite likely to think The reason why, as we all you’re a better sort all round know, it’s called a Test, is than I am and feel divinely because your testicles are on authorised to rush over and try the line all the way through — and steal my donkey, rape my when rugby first got going it wife and blow up my Nissan was so violent, so mercilessly 4WD. mutually destructive, that If the rape idea gets you up in players running onto the field arms think about the French would say ‘mind your testicles’ build-up to the First Test. This to each other, and slowly over including parading a half nak­ the years the big games came to ed New Zealand woman in be known as ‘Tests’. It’s a bit front of the entire French worse when you’re up against rugby team as they lolled about the French because we all know stuffing themselves on our very those thrush-murdering frog­ fine lambchops. gies are into eating all kinds of The women of New Zealand unsavoury yuckies (this is the then sprung to life declaring race that put the ‘d’oeuvre’s that the honour of NZ women back into ‘hors’ remember), had been challenged and the and to a big ugly froggy lock only solution was a thorough like Jean Paul Condom (resist, pasting of the froggies in the resist), Big Buck’s balls are Test. about as enticing as a plateful Of course the colonial mentali­ of fresh truffles washed down ty demands that any affront with a nice burgundy (read against the womenfolk ‘blood’) and served by Brigitte demands nothing less than total Bardot in a black chiffon retaliation, so War can safely nightie. begin on the carefully marked Besides, the French know that out confines of the rugby field. Besides, as a country it’s our 1989 DB UNIVERSITY WINTER if they miss ’em in the rucks, they can fall back on Plan B: only hope of world domination TOURNAMENT CANTERBURY light a few nuclear firecrackers at anything. I mean we haven’t UNIVERSITY, AUGUST 21 -2 5 at Mururoa and nuke the got a dogshow of ever beating bleeders. the Icelanders at running Winter Tourney '89 is being organised in I mean if you want to put it in backwards over fresh ice so we Christchurch at Canterbuy University, in the bastard hoon mentality, Test have to give it everything in second week of the August holidays. rugby is nothing short of full- rugby. Transport down there is not being organised For me the ultimate enigma of this year, so individuals or groups will have scale war, a kind of show down the rugby war is the scrum. I’m to find their own way down. Accommodation between the top warriors of is likely to be billeting or hostels. At this each nation masquerading as damn sure a longish book stage we are looking at the following sports sportsmen. could be written on that sub­ being played; The interesting thing about ject. Fancy 16 men bending Badminton rugby is that it’s so territorial, over and pushing at each other. Basketball (mens and womens) What a silly thing to do. What Cross Country a symbol of the confronta­ does it mean? Is it just a com­ Cycling tional genesis of modern New Debating Zealand culture i.e. the con­ plicated way for ripping ears Fencing quering of the land by col­ off? A sort of surrealists tor­ Hockey (mens and womens) onization a kind of micro Land ture contraption? Indoor Cricket Yes, monsieurs, these are some Judo Wars mentality. Everyone knows we’re very partial to our of things rugby is really Karate about... League front lawns, and we don’t like Jack Strap. Netball (mens and womens) Smallbore Shooting Soccer (mens and womens) Squash Underwater Hockey As usual, all com petitors must be full-time university students. Each team member must fill out an eligibility form, which can be ob­ tained from the team captain, or from the Sports Officer. Now is the time to start organising your teams. Don't leave it too late — contact your club captain about it or see the Sports Officer. More information will be placed in Craccum as it comes to hand.

r 0 * - ON JULY 13 AUCKLAND'S NEWEST EATURE THEATRE COMPANY TAKES THE STAGE WITH IT'S INAUGURAL PRO­ DUCTION, UNSUITABLE FOR ADULTS'. WE TRACKED DOWN THE LEADING PLAYER, FIONA EDGAR, AND 'b y /j I d f y i b * FOUND HER IN A VILLA IN PONSONBY IN HER PAJAMAS... WHAT ATTRACTED YOU INITIAL­ ONCE YOU GOT THE IDEA TO PUT LY TO THE PLAY? ON THIS SHOW HOW DID IT I thought it was a great play MATERIALIZE? because it is very funny and it's I went to Wellington in April and also very serious, and it deals with came back inspired by the fact that some really interesting issues. It I'd finally managed to locate a copy makes you think: it's provocative of the script but slightly disillusion­ in that sense. Practically speaking, ed by Auckland's comparative lack it seemed a good choice as well: a of theatre. (Wellington had just small cast, a fairly straight-forward opened its fourth professional set, minimal costume difficulty... theatre). Everyone was running all terribly attractive in these tough about madly trying to get work in economic times. User Friendly or Fiddler on the Roof and it was all rather depressing WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES really .. SO., a group of us got COVERED IN THE PLAY? together and decided that instead of sitting around moaning about it One of the most interesting things we'd make something happen it deals with is being a heterosex­ ourselves. So we formed a com ­ ual feminist and the hassles of sex­ pany ..Total Struth Theatre Com­ ual relationships in the Eighties. pany. The play also challenges 'tits and bum' comedy which seems institu­ WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? tionally prevalent in Stand Up com­ We had planned to do Tartuffe but edy.— I was at the Comedy Store that was postponed due to logistic a few weeks ago and they had difficulties so Suzanne (Me Aleer, jokes like "m y girlfriend is so ugly Production Manager) who'd been that ... I had to put a bag over my ear bashed about 'Unsuitable For head when I fucked her just in case Adults' since day one grabbed me the bag over hers fell off." 'Un­ and said "W e Do It N O W !". suitable For Adults' is an answer to AND THEN? that type of humour. It explores the conflict within feminism of strip­ IN REHEARSAL: FIONA EDGAR TIES UP We probably got drunk, we usual­ MURRAY BEASLEY pers as performers and who is to ly do when we're feeling overrun judge what is pornographic — are with enthusiasm. Seriously strippers answerable for male though... The next thing was to violence? It also probes the killer find a director, confirm the cast thriller mentality... how abitrary is and get a space. I had idealised the that.. you know it's 'funny' on that cast pretty much as soon as I'd programme about the Yorkshire walked out of the theatre in Ripper — one of the victims who'd Sydney. The next step was to get escaped said "it was like a script to Cathy who I had for­ something out of a movie really". tunately met when she was going WHAT RELEVANCE HAS IT GOT to direct the University Capping TO US HERE IN AUCKLAND IN Revue., and to get a script to 1989? Stephen (Hall — Nick) . Once they said yes it was all go really. We It probably couldn't be put on at started rehearsing fairly soon after. a more relevant time really. In the Then off course all the nightmares last couple of months alternative start... publicity, sponsorship, performance has really taken off: organising the set, the posters... The Lewd and the Ludicrous, Art- now everyone's involved busily space, The Comedy Store, The hammering and painting. Gotham City Rage etc... It's setting is in an alternative cabaret in a pub TELL US ABOUT THE PROCESS in London which doubles as a strip OF STAGING THE PLAY? AND TANIA ANDERSON ADJUSTS HER LIPSTICK joint during the day — if it had been put on here four years ago it Well it's very interesting that you perhaps wouldn't have made much should ask me that. Cathy works you know your intention you can sense. very much with actions and inten­ As a collective you pool the play around with getting the tions... it's not a way that I have resources within the cast. As a pro­ desired response ... lots of different WERE YOU TEMPTED TO worked in so specifically before. duction team as set construction. ways and it will always work. CHANGE THE SETTING ? For every line in the play you have Rather than having your cast and an intention e.g. to humiliate that 5 other people to do everything Yes I was actually. When I saw it SO THERE'S A LOT OF ONE-TO- person... I had quite a lot of trou­ else.Ideally you find out where in Sydney last year it occurred to ONE WORK IN THE PLAY ? ble with it initially because we I peoples strengths lie and then me that it would have been equal­ couldn't see where it was leading delegate accordingly. ly relevant to set it there instead of Yes, quite a lot. There's a lot of sit­ to. There wasn't a lot of action WELL THANKS VERY MUCH putting on English accents and ting down and going through the happening, we weren't getting up FIONA . YOU'VE OBVIOUSLY GOT things but as Cathy and I went text working out what the and running over the lines. It was A LOT TO DO . IT SOUNDS LIKE through the play we realised it character is all about and getting difficult. But then I read the ON A GREAT PLAY TO GO AND SEE would have been an enormous job that quite defined. Also making FILM article by Fiona Samuels FOR LOTS OF REASONS. I WISH and that there are English traditions decisions about that character out­ about the Mike Alfreds workshop YOU THE VERY BEST FOR THE referred to in the play that simply side of the text... Why Kate had in Wellington... followed by the SEASON. couldn't translate., for example Pattie, why she didn't have an Kaleidescope programme last Sun­ Kate's reference to panto per­ abortion. That's something you day ... and it all clicked into place. Thanks, its not an easy play to ex­ formers your parents take to as have to make a decision about. His technique is basically very plain , the best thing to do is go and kids... Arthur Askey and Norman similar to Cathy's method... which see it because I guarantee you'll YOU OPERATE AS A COLLEC­ Vaughn..we don't really have an is largely Stanislavsky derived. You like it. — TIVE, HOW DOES THAT WORK? equivalent. start to realise how it works... once entertainment this week MUSIC/SHOWS/EVENTS 1 2 -1 9 JULY Nov* WEDNESDAY 12 Sound/ Watch —Open Night —Artspace Chamber Music —University School of Music. C ^ c o ^ 5.30 pm Os*"? Vintage Jazz Band— 14 years on and still going... ScV^U Birkenhead Trust Hotel Don Roberts —Shakespeare The Black Sorrows — Powerstaion Fabels of Fabbis —Cafe Zira

THURSDAY 13 GUIDE Gershwin—Auckland Philharmonia—Town Hall ABBY’S — Cnr Wellesley Street & Albert. pb 303 4799 Sound/Watch: John Cousins —Artspace ALBIOIM HOTEL — Cnr Wellesley and Hobson Streets. Ph. Jumping Bones —Sam Diego's 794-900 AMARILLO'S — Ellerslie Panmure Highway The Lewd And The Lewdicrous —cabaret the ARTSPACE — 6 8 Quay Street. First Floor Kiwi way, The Basement THE BASEM ENT-Albert Street. Ph. 399 233 Dave McArtney — Farside Cafe BROADWAY TAVERN— Broadway Centre, Newmarket. Ph Hard Rock Special —Powerstation 520 5422 Tommy Adderley & Friends —Montmartre Club BURGUNDY'S — 289 Parnell Road. Ph 395-1 1 2 CAFE ZIRA — Rutland Street, opp. Town Hall Ph. 371-344 The Plague, The Misunderstood, Fear—The CITY HOTEL-51 Hobson St. Ph. 733 737 Venue ESPLANADE HOTEL-1 Victoria Road. Devonport. Ph. The Clear —Rising Sun 451 291 JUNE 21-28 (unless specified) Legendary Bitters —Esplanade FARSIDE CAFE-Albert St. Ph.399 201 GLUEPOT -Cnr Pon sonby & Jervois Roads. Ph. 760 068 GLOBE H O TE L-82 Wakefield Street. Ph. 735 125 MERCURY/GODS F R ID A Y 1 4 KINGSGATE CENTRE-Lower Albert Street Ph. 303 1651 'The Decline and Fall of a Small Family' Inside The Highwaymen —Rising Sun LOGAN CAMPBELL CENTRE-Epsom Showgrounds. Ph. Out Theatre at the Gods Beaver and Grant Ryan —Cafe Zira 688 833 686-969 Scissormen C.V. Special —Powerstation MONTMARTRE-C ivic Building. Wellesley Street. Ph. 302 0479 MERCURY/REPERTORY The Clear/Halleluljah Picassos —The Gluepot POWERSTATION 33 Mt Eden Rd. Ph. 777 666 'Fiddler On The Roof' Sound/Watch —John Cousins —Artspace RISING S U N -3 7 3 K'RD. Abel Tasmans/Catherine Wheel —The Venue RICK S BLUE FALCON-Ph. 390 854/771 533 TOTAL STRUTH THEATRE Peter Morgan And Tactics —Montmartre Club ROYAL OAK RESTAURANT - 756 Manakau Rd Ph. 659-625 (Jazz) SAM DIEGOS BAR & BRASSERIE-17 Albert St. Ph. 'Unsuitable For Adults' 770 304 Cornelius Herring - Farside Cafe SHADOWS — Student Union Building (Students & Guests). HOWICK LITTLE THEATRE Poison/Push Push —Mt Smart SuperTop SHAKESPEARE TAVER N -61 Albert Street ph. 735 396 Crazy Rhythm And City Lights —Burgundy's of SIREN — High Street. Ph. 303 1 336 'Animal Farm' (From July 20) Parnell (for the infirm) SOPHIE'S C A F E -14 Rockland's Road, Balmoral. Ph. The Urge —Sam Diego's 505 671 MAIDMENT THEATRE THE VENUE 131 Beach Rd, City. Ph. 390-629 Lunchtime Concert —Maidment, Free WILDLIFE 16 Quay Street. Ph. 771 022 'Reign Rain' by Theatre Workshop Rebel Without Applause —Esplanade

SATURDAY 15 Strikemaster — Powerstation Abel Tasmans/Catherine Wheel —The Venue Sound/Watch—John Cousins —Artspace Viva Voce —Ellen Melville Hall Peter Morgan And Tactics —Montmartre Club (Jazz) The Clear/Halleluljah Picassos —Gluepot Sam Diego Stompers (Dixie) —Sam Diego's Cornelius Herring —The Farside Cafe NZ Symphony Orchestra —T ow n Hall

S U N D A Y 16 Just Me And Mario —Film —Wintergarden Sound/Watch—John Cousins —Artspace The Nairobi Trio —at Rick's Blue Falcon (Jazz) Brett Higgott —piano at Sophie's Cafe Linn Williamson/Nairobi Trio —City Art Gallery, 1.30pm 3 5 8 's —Cafe Zira

M O N D A Y 17 The Comedy Store —at The Basement Poet's Night—The Albion The Nairobi Trio —Rick's Blue Falcon (Jazz) Al Hunter —Shakespeare Live Blues —Farside Cafe Shenanigan —Irish music —Sheraton Hotel Sound/W atch—Gitbox Rebellion/People Who Hit Things—Artspace

T U E S D A Y 18 Legendary Bitters —Esplanade f t O C Crazy Horse —amateur country music night. f l O C Royal Oak Restaurant Rob Ranger —Shakespeare O £ 7 D The Shostakovich Quartet —Tow n Hall O n o JO O 0 * J 'T A £ o u T WEDNESDAY 19 faejBAjT 57Ai& A/{CHiTSC[i>flb “ PO Angel Head & DAve Merritt—The Venue Fabels of Fabbis —Cafe Zira S A&oUT ff { Vintage Jazz Band —Birkenhead Trust fa B ook

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POLYGRAM have popped up with two Hits packages, one from the Style Council, and one from Shakatak. It's S '* i»« a little like going into a time Wk warp listening to retro discs, ! 2If rou DOM r Z n ~ ALBUMS like fooling around in the Tar- 3 ? « « f f i s s iouto'Ts fled m A j-w ** Wk dis. **cor<* Indeed the Doctor would have listened to Shakatak's groovy turn the lights down 7/13 IiBfrrvn P m i srer- i P # low gear anyday in preference to the Council, which is probably where me and him fork into different galaxies. Not that Paul Weller dippy little junta is that far remov­ ed from the cosmic kiss- off../You're The Best Thing' is cool enough to outwit a t Total S truth Presents Steinlager and one of those songs it's easy to associate 4 Īk^ UNSUITABLE w ith certain people and cer­ tain places in the past. FOR ADULTS The Style Council album comes with the Bunteresque title 'The Singular Adven­ just everybody. It's like buy­ tures Of The Style Council' ing the charts rolled into one. and the usual Cappuchino Kid Apparently it's gone down blah-blah on the reverso. It's like a tonne of caviar in the good but it makes you think USSR, and sold out. It's one in the past tense. of those records that is real­ A similar sensation but a ly going to confuse your kids worthier cause is the when they find your old Greenpeace compilation dou­ records in the attic in 20 ble album being released here years time. Salve your cons­ By Terry Johnson DRAMA STUDIO by WEA to coincide with the cience and get hold of a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY launching of the Rainbow copy. And watch out for a JULY 13 23 Warrior II. It has everyone Greenpeace Special in next from Sting to Belinda Carlyle, week's Craccum BOOKINGS AT BASS PH 375 000 Lou Reed, R.E.M — you know, MC.

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GALLERY C in e m a 2: Dead Calm Roger Guise and Vera Stark (till July 13) W e s te r n !; Lead On Me O d e o n : Dirty Rotten Scoundrels AUCKLAND CITY ART GALLERY Exhibi­ tion of paintings and drawings by Italian impres­ S t J a m e s : See No Evil, Hear No sionist artist G.P.Nerli. EvU W intergarden: Say Anything BLUE CUBE STUDIO C iv ic : HeUbound Pottery by Joan Kilsby (till July 15). Midcity 1: The Gods Must Be Cra­ zy Part II CHARLOTTE H. GALLERIES Midcity 2: Twins Drawings by Alan Pearson. M id c it y 3 : Beaches Midcity 4: Skin Deep/ Cocktail COMPENDIUM GALLERY Banners and dream blankets (till July 15). B e r k e le y : Navigatorf Dangerous Liaisons DIVERSIONS Tudor Takapuna: Married To The "Solstice Reflection"— sculpture by Helen Mob/ Dangerous Liaisons Pollock. Aberhart North Gallery: 46 College (Benfield: See No Evil, Hear No Hill, Ph 764-334Artisan Centre: FISHER GALLERY EvH Broadway Plaza, Newmarket, Ph H o w ic k : The Gods Must Be Crazy 540-465Artspace: Quay Buildings, Pakuranga Arts Society Members July Exhibition (from July 1 5). Part II/ Taran And the Magic 6-8 Quay St, Ph 34-965ASA: 13 Blake St, Ponsonby, Ph Cauldron FISH SHOP GALLERY 784 1 60Auckland City Art Gallery: Papatoetoe: Cocktail/ Three Fugi­ Corner Wellesley & Kitchener Sts, Works on Paper by Dale Major, Michael Harrison tives/ Lean On Me Ph 792 020Blue Cube Studio: 434 and Vanessa Narbey. Manurewa:'Say Anything/ Danger­ New North RdCharlotte H, ous Liaisons Galleries: Norfolk House, 18 High FRENCH ART SHOP AND GALLERY Re E p s o m : New York Stories cent work by Rachel Dore (till July 15). St, Ph 7 94 41 8Compendium Henderson: The Gods Must Be Gallery: 49 Victoria Rd, Devonport- Crazy Part II Diversions: 18 Kitchener GIFFORD GALLERY StDowntown Hilton Gallery: The Work by Arthur Funnell. Walkway, Downtown, Ph Charley Gray’s: Lair of the White 303-3836Elephant House Craft GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY Worm/ Land of the Brave/ Matter Gallery: 237 Parnell RdFerner Paintings by Tony Fomison. of Heart/ Maurice Gallery: 279 Parnell Rd, Ph Bridgeway: Siesta 390 1 07Fingers Jewellery: 2 Kit­ JEANNE D'ESTIENNE GALLERY A c a d e m y : A Prayer for the Dying chener StFisher Gallery: Reeves "Papeno'o Tahiti" — paintings by Julian Hooper. COMING UP Rd, Pakuranga, Ph 569-399Fish Stormy Monday, Salome’s Last Shop Gallery: 186 Ponsonby MUDLARKS OF MANUREWA Dance, The Good Mother, Her Alibi RdFrench Art Shop Gallery: 51 Pottery by Margaret Hull and Dave King. When I Fall In Love, Things Change Ponsonby RdGallery 5: 10 O'Con­ nell StGallery on One: State OUTREACH Highway One, Waiwera Gallery "Nicaragua: Ten Years On"— exhibition of P acific: Tyler St, Downtown “/foW A tf O ut photographs (till July 14). Square, Ph 390 1 1 5 George Fraser Gallery: 25a Princes StGifford t y / j a W PAKURANGA COMMUNITY i Gallery: 606 Balmoral RdGow M a h o \ Langsford Gallery: 381 Richmond CULTURAL CENTRE Rd, and 20 Drake StJeanne D'Es- "Youth Express" (till July 16). “E VER YTHING Y.OU NEED tienne Gallery: Vulcan LaneLopdell House: Waitemata Arts Centre, PROBA TO KNOW WHEN YOU Titirangi, Ph 81 7 8087Massey Paintings by Eliza Donald (till July 15). 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HELLO, THIS IS KEN RUSSELL SPEAKING. I HAVE TAKEN OVER THE CRACCUM FILM PAGE FOR THE PROMOTION OF MY FILM AND MY FILM ONLY BECAUSE I MAKE REALLY REALLY ODD MOVIES AND I'M BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE AT IT. MY NEW FILM IS 'SALOME'S LAST DANCE', WHICH IS BETTER THAN MY LAST FILM LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM' WHICH I ACTUALLY MADE AFTER SALOME. ANYWAY, IT'S ON (SALOME THAT IS) REAL SOON AT CHARLEY GREY'S. HEY! WHO THIS 'GULLIBLE' GUY HANGING AROUND ON MY PAGE...

SALOME O.K. We’ve got sex (necrophilia, even), wordplay (though mostly Wilde’s), classical music (a veritable Name That Tune of the late 19th/early 20th centuries - Grieg. Debussy, Satie), and some pretty dodgy attitudes to women (if you liked Ann- Margret writing around in chocolate then you’ll love John the Baptist spitting in Salome’s face and her licking if off).

A Ken Russell film, perhaps?

By sticking fairly faithfully to Oscar Wilde’s notorious play, however, Russell comes up with a more successful work than the stylish but brainless popcult of The Lair Of The White Worm, which was actually the more recent of the two. He has the good taste (shock! horror!) to include Aubrey Beard­ sley’s exquisite illustrations over the credits, and has ap­ parently done his research in other areas as well. Sarah Ber­ nhardt even gets a mention. Wilde’s glorious, ritualistic text is virtually intact and this may prove to be the film’s greatest strength. The repetions take on a mantra-like quality (ins­ tant deja vu!), with characters constantly comparing the moon to a woman, preferably dead, and all but Salome expressing a terrible sense of foreboding. It’s a stagy, campy performance - and Russell cleverly allows for this in the framing device - but one can’t help thinking that it would have met with Wilde’s approval.

Less satisfying, though, is the clumsily handled framing se­ quence, with Oscar Wilde (Nicholas Grace) acting like he just walked out of a Monty Python sketch and self-consciously ‘ironic’ ‘real-life’ events that are either too vague (the death) or too obvious (the arrest). Russell is on steadier ground when he incorporates into the ‘play’ multiple references to am­ biguous sexuality. A final niggle is: why change every reference to Iokanaan into ‘John The Baptist’? Whatever hap­ pened to inference from context?

In the final analysis. Salome’s Last Dance, excesses and all, is far truer to the spirit of Wilde’s play than a blood-less, low risk Merchant Ivory type production would have been.

Who’s Ernest? SYD GULLIBLE

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“Why on earth do students get their own bloody TV programme?”

University Challenge sprung onto your TV screen back Day 3 starts even earlier. We hope everyone can be found The final is played after lunch. Before it are the official in 1976. It was taken from the British equivalent although and then it is off the studio for makeup by 8.00 TVNZ do and unofficial prizegivings. TVNZ drag in some sponsor to with a much easier scoring system. not mind some of our silly intros but they get pissed off if hand out the lesser prizes, either a desk lamp and/or carry In NZ we only have 6 Universities and Lincoln College, we have anything political. For everyone this is their chance bag or whatever else they can throw in. Some of them are so the whole show can be shot in a five day period down to look cither witty or bloody stupid in front of all their quite good and at least no one goes home empty handed. in lovely Dunedin during oh so warm August! friends, relatives, family, infact in front of quite a lot of We then have our awards, some of which are in fact funny Upon arrival we meet up with the other varsity teams and people actually. By the end of the day, which can drag on or relevent to some event which occurred during the week. the production assistant at the airport, bused to an Otago for ages if things foul up, we have recorded four shows and You would be surprised what goes on in such a short time. hostel and given an hour or so to settle in. A full a la carte one tema has posted two scores. This becomes the target (I will refrain from embarrassing certain individuals in print meal is painstakingly dealt to before we all march on to the as the three bottom teams will fail to reach semi-finals. as they still may well be at varsity) TVNZ official welcome. This is where we get to meet the Day 4 is more of the same except only three shows are As for the final, like the semi, it comes down to the ques­ crew on a social level. This is also where we can win or lose. reorded so we go out for the Challenge dinner. This is our tions; if they are easy, speed wins. If they are difficult then last night sunny Dunedin so we have a bit of fun. Three A good, polite and agreeable impression is very important. it comes down to team composition. We may or may not teams arc out and they arc naturally disappointed so very If the team is liked by the right people and it comes down have a student in that specific field. Some varsities train often they decide to drown their sorrows. The rest of us to a 50/50 decision during the show, then you will probably regularly and take it extremely seriously. Others barely find celebrate whilst we can, knowing that tomorrow we could get it. The reverse is also true. Once the top bods leave we enough applicants. But what it comes down to on the day join them. The draw for the semi-finals is known too, so can revert to less sycophantic behaviour. is luck. You might know the answer but are not quick this makes for an amusing evening as each manager tries The initial function also separates the serious from the enough. You could get an ancient history question whilst like hell to get as many of the opposition as pissed as possi­ others. We can tell which team is the one to beat, they are up against Lincoln or it was something you read in the paper ble. It can actually make a difference and can mean the win­ not drinking the free booze. This is a student crime, especial­ just the other day. ning and losing of the final. ly as we do not compete for another day yet. This is also TVNZ thinks Auckland has a huge advantage over the Day 5 is it. There is no let up on the early morning wake where some team members play with their massive egos, others due to the wide range of courses we teach. What is up call, the inevitable search for waylaid team members or which ultimately leads to their poor audience support dur­ really means is that it is harder to pick a team. Should we the hostel bowel basher. The goffers arrive, also hungover ing the show. have a major in this or that? All we do is simply pick peo­ and get us to makeup on time. This is where the nerves really The following day we recover from the horrible shock of ple who we can mould into a team with as wide a range or get tested. From now on it is a knockout. We must score having to get up at 7.30 and then... breakfast! Once back knowledge as possible. If you want to have a go by all means more in the 25 minutes and the time becomes all important. in bed, the morning the TV set up and practice stage. This do. Contact AUSA reception asap. Remember last year’s Often during a show Pete will unintentionally meander is just a warm up and it necessary to feel comfortable in prizes were a PC each for the winners and a BNZ $1000 bank along, depriving you of extra valuable seconds as he tries front of lots of lights and cameras. The last thing we need account for the runners up. Now do you think it is worth to add some f his own knowledge, some history or simply is to have someone freeze during a show. This session can a crack? excitement to the show. This is extremely frustrating. If you carry on till 10pm if all is not well. By now we know the arc behind you desparately need more questions, likewise Auckland has done well in recent years, history is on our draw for the first two rounds, hoping we do not meet both side and just think how good it would be on your CV. if you are only just in front you do not want to get pipped Canterbury and Otago as they are traditionally tough op­ at the post with no chance of reply. It seems to come down position. We do not want the first game either, not at to the last two minutes and how many of those your team Cheers RAF. 8.30am . can answer. You can pick up 150 points if you get the lot.

E te Iwi Maori, tena koutou katoa I o tatou tipuna matua kua wehe a tu ki te po, ki tua o te arai, tera kua whetu rangi. Heioino, kia ratou kua o tenei e mihi atu nei kia koutou katoa, jua hou ko Deirdre Nehua ko Ngati Hau/Ngati Wai ko Ngapuhi Me era atu or nga karanga wheinga e pa ana ki nga hou e wha. Kia ora koutou.

I have been approached by the Ac­ several organisations. I have been ac­ but now that they are older, I am able my job well. ting Editor of Craccum to write a tively involved in the Maori women’s to take a much more active role. I have thus far thoroughly enjoyed short resume of myself as the new movement for the last 20 years, and I support Mana Maori Motuhake the job of Secretary and feel that I Secretary of AUSA. Given the right have had the satisfaction of seeing at­ [not the party] and am a foundation will in the future, as I enjoy a wing reactionary garbage that I had titudes with regard to issues such as member of Te Ahi Kaa, an organisa­ challenge. I see in this job only a read in Craccum which as 1 unders­ solo parents, male violence, rape, in­ tion which supports Maori na­ challenge, but also a job with a lot tand came largely from the outgoing cest and abortion, change. Admitted­ tionalism. I have in the past and will of potential. I enjoy being around editor - I was somewhat reluctant to ly the change has been a slow one, in the future continue to fight for the young people and being part of the do so. However I feel that the and there is a long way to go yet, but rights and freedoms of the tangata inter-action of young ideas. students have a right to know a little I’ve long since learnt that short of a whenua in Aotearoa. To this end I would hope that about myself, and I also wish to give revolution, change does not happen I am also involved with a group students, whether they agree or the Acting Editor the benefit of the overnight. called He Taua [sound familiar?] disagree with me will feel welcome to doubt. Speaking of revolution I am also who oppose the 1990 celebrations and come to my office and make My name is Deirdre Nehua, and as actively involved in Maori politics all that is connected with them - and themselves known as I believe it im­ of 26th June 1 began as Secratary of [not the Winston Peters kind] I have who see 1990 as a year of mourning portant to have an ear to the ground AUSA. My tribal affiliations are been proud to have been part of the for Maori people. about what the Campus is thinking Ngati Hau and Ngati Wai, from Tai struggle which is now part of the In writing this article I pondered I hope that in doing this job I live up Tokerau. My primary job is as a history of Aotearoa, such as Te deeply on whether to write what peo­ to your expectations, and with your mother to my 6 children - anything Roopu Matakite, Raglin, Bastion ple want to hear [given that I’ve only help I feel sure I will. else is secondary to that. Point, the Waitangi Hikoi marches, been here a week] or in writing what In the past my paid and voluntary and many other changes which are is my reality. For better or worse I Kia Ora Koutou work has been largely in a communi- not so high profile as those mention­ decided on the latter. If my views ty/counselling and social work area, ed. When my children were smaller, should draw adverse reaction then so Deirdre Nehua and, between children I have work­ my role was more in the line of cook­ be it - my politics are my politics, and Secretary ed in an administrative capacity with ing and working behind the scenes, do not interfere with my ability to do m l ftoi * w ee fcffc offeree I6 - & 9

he official PILLBOXES AND sponsor to POSTBOXES: d /or carry f them are Pharmacy to y handed. ?act funny replace Postbank the week, hort time, ils in print Students should eventually see a pharmacy in the site of the old ) the ques- Postbank premises beneath Student ficult then Health. And the post office will be r may not ities train staying. iarely find m the day Conditional to the use of the site is not quick the retention of postal services. This ion whilst follows the departure of Postbank in the paper May, after Postbank refused to carry

: over the the cost of the University’s post of­ i. What is fice service. ihould we pick peo- Since the separation of banking, i range or postal and telephone services, many all means postal services have been split off * Y e a s e ? THI$ heotn&s ha tfk« ast year’s 'from shared premises. The universi­ 1000 bank I A N 6 B I P 6 $ (VHP *c *T € *| readthg Unit hanymore tfke lartmg t is worth ty administration would not countenance that at Auckland, and t

Instead, Postbank went, and students came back in the second term to one less service, but one not sorely missed.

Although notification of the closure came during the May study break a petition was quickly circulated by registry clerical staff. In the space of a week over 1200 signatures were gathered from staff and students con­ cerned at the possibility of the clos­ ing too.

Student protest was muted however when president Des Amanono learn­ ed from Registratrar Warwick Nicoll that postal services at least would be staying.

Postbank had not endeared itself to students, unlike its neighbour the / enjoyed Bank of New Zealand, which has ?el that I consistently supported students with enjoy a advantageous accounts, overdrafts b only a and sponsorship of student events. /ith a lot l around Warwick Nicoll then held hopes of a rt of the pharmacy moving in to the premises, and the post office continuing as an ope that agency run by pharmacy staff. tgree or A pharmacy would be a welcome ad­ lcome to dition on campus, supported by d make cuTyone who has left Student Health ve it im- clinching a prescription, and loathe e ground to walk to Queen Street for their thinking medical ion. I live up ith your Student Health has previously lob­ bied for this service, and like the stu­ dent association, are keen to see this Koutou ammenitv on campus. Vehua Tenders for a pharmacy and combin­ retary ed postal agency are expected to be requested shortly.

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Tue, Wed, 12pm Tutorial Room E, 1pm grazes and bruises, the winner (HULK-A- Mr & Mrs Urashima, 5-8-4 Nogata, Rm 405. MANIA RULZ) got a cool $50... well Nakano-ku, Tokyo T165, Japan. possibly a hot fifty as the check book fel 1 of the back of a lorrie, however the morale Setting Up a Green of this is, next time you actually manage Whilst we may not have the money j to read (you know, what they (why are You, like me probably find as an Money Exchange to participate extensively in the cash | there always these nameless “they’”s (eek older tertiary student that beyond the economy, collectively we have a varie p three levels brackets, this is worse the com­ on Campus ty of skills and services that we can | puter science)) taught you in primary | basics of accommodation and food; | that you are a little stretched in us- exchange with each other. The result ^ school along with speeling), one of our It works like this. Brian Brown in the notices advertising q silly lunch time in the | ing what money that is left over for will be that we can have more of i quad, come down and participate, let us | other things that makes life a little green money network, needs his»tape those things that we might not other- t to laugh at (in the most nastest of ways) you | brighter. Whilst doing research for recorder to be fixed, and looking wjse afford. As a spin off, through i the Green and wlel make it worth your while (sex, | my M.A. thesis “Co-operatives and through the Green Pages of the our participation it is inevitable that j drugs, rock’n’roll, but most probably Green Money Exchange sees that J Community Owned Businesses as a we will meet and make friends with i money, although...). ) response to Economic Crisis in New Noel Eyre does those repairs, and so others outside our specialist academic i he calls me up and I fix it. He con- fields. j J Zealand.” I came across the green tacts the Green Money Exchange and | money exchange idea that is working | elsewhere in NZ. I was really im- has his account debited with, say 20 for those who are interested in help- j Paanui units, my account credited with the jng get ft 0ff the ground there will be i *Kia ora e hoa maa. The second | pressed by it and so I am in the pro- J cess setting such an exchange on same amount. Some time latter I meeting at 6.00 pm Tuesday 11th Ju- j immersion live in for Maori need a paper translated from French iy jn room 911 s Sociology Dept, 9th \ language will be held from Friday I campus. for my Sociology, I call up Florence floor of the Human Sciences Building 1 July 21st 5pm to Sunday July 23 Nightingale who has listed French in (next to the Arts/Commerce \ 11am. Application forms are I Green Money is a variation on the availible from Maori Studies the Green Pages as a skill, and when Building) to The Green Money Ex- \ ) theme of bartering, with a dif- Secretary. Limited Numbers, Cost she has finished I contact the GM Ex- change will oly happen if there is sup- 1 $10. No reira nau mai haere mai. l ference!!! The difference is that you change and have the transaction p0rt for it. If you are interested or 1 I or I do not need in any single tran- recorded. Florence is looking for a want to find out more about it phone 1 I saction to barter for the exact or same gift for a friend and sees that Anne me Noel Eyre 866-997. ) [ equivalent vlaue, or indeed need we Appleby is listed in the exchange as 1 receive that value from the same per­ a potter and calls her up, and the Keep an eye out for more info in j son with whom we barter. transaction is repeated as above. Craccum mid-July or so. l J / L I K 6 A W Q i SHIRT- _ L I F T ^ M

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