VOLUME 62, ISSUE 22 FRE SEPT 20, 1988 SO, WHAT HAS CANNIBIS CULTIVATION GOT TO DO WITH WILDLIFE PRESERVATION? ► NZUSA RELEASES EDUCATION BLUEPPRINT ♦ ********************»»»* » m ( ( ) N T E N T S INDULGENCE THE USUALS Well, kids, it looks like the economic climate has caught up with Craccum again: we've had to cut down to 12 pages Arts .................................................................... 8-9 for this issue. Unfortunately unless there is a dramatic up­ turn in advertising revenue it looks like we might have some trouble getting back to 16 pages before the end of Letters................................................................11-12 the year. This cut back has meant that less than half of the letters Life, the University & Everything.......................3 received this week were able to be printed.As usual preference has been given to those letters that arrived here Music ................................................................... 4 first, so if you're pissed off that YOUR letter didn't make it then, sorry, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. It has been quite noticeable in the first couple of weeks Notices ............................................................... 10 of this term that Shadows has not been as full as it used to be. Have you all suddenly realised that you'd better do Politics ................................... 5 some work or you might fail? You should have listened to that advice at the beginning of the year about doing all your coursework, shouldn't you? Of course, then you didn't know that the Government was going to boost the fees so FEATURES much that without a fees grant (which depends on your eligibility for bursary) then you're going to have to pay a Cannibis Cultivation & Wildlife Preservation 6-7 minimum of around $900 or up to $3000 if you're a Med. student. This means you'll have to work your butt off over summer just to afford enrolment, let alone the rest of the Restructuring Progress.....................................5 year, unless your parents can afford to give you the money. It's just the Government's way of saving money by cutting down the student population so that they don't have to dish out for new buildings etc. Bloody typical, innit? On a happier note, the Olympics have finally got under way, and New Zealand can again look forward to bringing ( R F D I T S home medals in front of competitors whose countries give them 10 times, or even 100 times, as much financial sup­ port. It looks like we've still got true Olympic spirit, it's Typesetting: Barbara Hendry & Kerry Hoole just a pity we're 20 years behind the rest of the world. It Printers: Putaruru Press just goes to show what a mickey mouse occasion the Olym­ Distribution: Alison Comer pics have turned into. Now we've got tennis back as an of­ Advertising: Kerry Hoole Ph (09) 366-0413 ficial sport, what the hell for? It's about as much a waste of time as synchronised swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, or soccer (after all, the World Cup is bigger and more im­ Ta to these peoples for hitting random keys on a typewriter portant than the Olympic soccer competition). Before you this week and creating something legible: know it they'll have tiddlywinks or aerobics or Craig Dickson, Mark Broatch, Richard Eltringham, Col­ bodybuilding just because some arsehole has decided that in Amery, Bryce Kowalski, A.J. Poison and John they're sport is important enough to warrant being present Burgess. at the worlds biggest sporting spectacular. Bullshit!!! Ta to these peoples for randomly throwing pieces of One thing we should all, as students, note about South typesetting onto lay-up sheets from two metres away and Korea, which will probably have some bearing on the getting everything in the right place: Olympics, and that's the student protests. Boy do those Bruce, Richard Eltringham guys and girls know how to protest! They make the Queen Street riot look like an E.U. party. Postal Address: Craccum, Phone No: Time I was off. See you in the garden bar. A.U.S.A. 390-789 ext 840 Gort Private Bag, Advertising ext 841 Auckland. The Eds: Miriam de Graaf, Simon Holroyd Craccum is a source of free expres­ again, do you? After all, isn't this sion for Auckland University the only bit in the whole paper students and the University com­ with the remotest spark of imagina­ munity. Craccum is not the official tion? Of course it is! Well how publication of the Auckland about this: University Student's Association or disclaimer n. act of disclaiming, of the University of Auckland. Both renunciation, disavowal. bodies may not endorse or agree What that means, peasants, is with opinions expressed within that anything we print in this rag is Craccum, and the Editors can't be none of our responsibility what­ bothered with anything so boring soever and there's no way you can as opinions, not unless they are get us in the shit! Any contradic­ suitably bribed. tions are almost certainly the result So, here we are again. And I sup­ of a really boring person trying to pose you all expect me to come up think!! with something witty and original RAR.T i s " s a t t l e 's e n d ." (D rm . -idfrj. 'WITH THE HELP OF A MEDIUM I DISCOVERED I’D HAD THE SPECTRE 8‘ OF EXAMINATIONS IN MY LOCKER. IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT IT COULDN’T BE DES­ fB TROYED. IT IS PART u ] OF UNIVERSITY... BUT IF I DESTROY THE LOCKER... AT THE VERY| IT LEAST IT WILL GO ELSEWHERE. HELLO SATED REVENGE (jONTD- . 2 -4 CRACCUM Sept 20 1988 r Last week the national stu­ for personal development dent body NZUSA released -to advance knowledge through research and development Meanwhile, the Hawke Report is ex­ their latest project, the The submissions need not be long or The co-ordination of this system pected out on September 26. Follow­ complicated, and they can be based on 'Blueprint Initiative'. In an­ would lie with a Tertiary Council, who ing this there is to be a period of con­ the NZUSA blueprint, which is available ticipation of the Hawke ensures that the goals are met. This sultation. General feeling has it that for study at the Students' Association. the Hawke Report will call for the Report to be released in a few council would include representatives If you've never written a submission from tertiary staff, students, the in­ decentralisation of tertiary education. before, don't worry—the Students' weeks, it aims to provide an dustrial sector and the public. Each in­ NZUSA'S blueprint states that PCET Association is there to help you. alternative structure for ter­ stitution would be headed by a coun­ (Post Compulsory Education and Train­ ing) does not distinguish between tiary education. cil which would include management, staff, student and community education and training, by including the The Blueprint is titled 'Higher Educa- representation. higher grades of secondary school, Ac­ So what do Art History, Ancient tion:Our Vision' and is based on the cess and on-job training. It specifically principle that education, one that is free Tertiary institutions would be divid­ objects to these being included with History, Anthropology, Maori and and open, is not only good for our ed into four types: tertiary education. Philosophy have in common? country, but essential—socially and 1. Universities—their aims being to It is also believed that the Hawke economically. Education is our means develop critical thinking, analysis report expects tertiary institutions to be Well, if the government gets their to share our collective knowledge so and problem solving, as well as partially responsible for their own way with free-market education, these that society can operate and develop. research. funding—this will be largely privately are all under threat of extinction. Face As the blueprint remarks, "It frees suc­ 2. Institutes for technology—teaching derived, meaning students would be it, what student without rich and cessive generations from the need to and research in specialized areas. expected to pay. The government's generous parents is going to want to reinvent the wheel." 3. Polytechnics —accessible to large contributions would be concentrated pay thousands of dollars a year to The Blueprint also sees education as proportions of the population. Pro­ on funding for disadvantaged groups study subjects that haven't specific an important part of a democracy, viding occupationally oriented courses, and capital for educational research. careers tied to them? which cannot be effective unless its personal development opportunities, It seems the government is also But lots of people want to learn citizens are informed and educated so introductions to skills etc. releasing a Pre-School education about themselves and others, and as to be able to able to make wise deci­ 4. Professional schools—specialist policy, at the same time. By doing so, society cannot be deprived of sions and to participate in the running areas like Medicine, Engineer­ it will be presenting a funding option knowledge. Pakeha NZ is already a col­ of their country. ing, Teacher training. Located in between pre-school and tertiary educa­ lection of people with no culture to bind This system aims for: either of the other institutions, depen­ tion you can have one or the other. them, easily frightened and subject to -effectiveness in achieving the educa­ ding on appropriate resources. NZUSA believes this to be emotional their rulers' whims. Why make it tional goals blackmail. These kind of choices, worse? Give a morning to write a sub­ -genuine equality of opportunity This system of tertiary education is though, should not have to be made — mission to the Govt.