SpecialistS! in University Text Books and Sationery The University Publishers & Booksellers (Pty.) Ltd. Booksellers and Stationers 129 High St. Tel. 3549 131 High Street Phone 4641 STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF RHODES UNIVERSITY GRAHAMSTOWN GRAHAMSTOWN Vol. 24 No.2 GRAHAMSTOWN, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1969 ,- Price 5 cents SRC plans further RAG PARTY contact THE RHODES SRC is to meet with the SRC of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland during the April vacation. This is believed to be the first time that an inter-SRC conference has been planned between a South African SRC and a foreign SRC. The conference will be at the Commenting on the two meet­ Alice Federal Seminary, whose ings, Barry Streek said: "I SRC will also attend. Another believe that much can come out "first" for the proposed confer­ of these meetings. Rhodes is geo­ ence will be that the majority graphically isolated and we must of students will be African. do all we can to overcome this. At its last meeting, the Rho­ "Such meetings could also bene­ des S.R.C. welcomed the pro­ fit the participating universities. posed conference and instructed For example, it was following a the External Vice-President meeting with the U.P.E. S.R.C. · Barry Streek, to organise it. An that an advertising agency was S.R.C. conference is also to be called in to handle the adver­ held with the University of Port tising of publications issued Elizabeth later this term. The under the auspices of the S.R.C. U.P.E. S.R.C. President, Gerhard I am particularly hopeful Delport, has already given his that we will be able to promote support for the meeting but a contact with U.B.L.S. to enable date still has to be decided on. Rhodes students to spend some Relations between the two time in the former Protectorate S.R.C.'s were strained last year, territories and learn something but both U.P.E. and Rhodes about life there. "In South seem to have decided that some Africa there is very little contact value can come out of such a between African students and conference. White students. By travelling to Lesotho this unfortunate fact Seen at the cocktail party to honour the Rag Queen semi-finalists held at a local motel recently could be overcome. were (from left) Sigrid Kempe, Sue Meanwell and Geoff de Jager. EXCHANGE Apology "Both conferences should help promote understanding among THE EDITOR of Rhodeo students," he said. At the last STUDENTS TO B·RJDGE RAG GAP regrets that certain inaccu­ inter-S.R.C. conference with racies and insubstantiated U.P.E., an exchange of students raising, but also by assisting with Committee hope that this gap implications were expressed in THE 1970 RAG COMMITTEE for the first term was proposed. has decided to revitalise the any community service projects between the student and the the article entitled "Summary Mr. Streek hopes to follow this whole point of Rag and re-organ­ in which he or she is asked to needy will be closed. Justice" which appeared in idea up at both meetings. ise the distribution of charity help. The idea is that students the first edition of Rhodeo In addition, some French stu­ funds. would then be able to grant prac­ In the past, the Rag Commit­ this year. dents have written to the S.R.C. tical assistance so that, in addi­ tee has always handled the dis­ e In the light of further suggesting an exchange system The Committee claims that the tion to receiving donations for tribution of funds, and has given information it appears that for the long vacations. The plan fund-raising side of Rag has become increasingly passive. Stu­ materials, organisations would the same amount of money to all the article which deals with is for the French students to also receive charity labour those charities that applied for the rustication of a student work in South Africa in June dents tend to regard all activi­ needed to make use of these patronage. This year, however, early this year misrepresents July and August, through jobs ties as the ideal opportunity for materials. the Department of Sociology will ce rtain facts. arranged by Rhodes students. a good time; they do their share Mr Bill Vickery, the Chairman be taking over this aspect. e The article implies that Then, in the Rhodes summer of collecting and then remain of the Rag Committee said that vacation, Rhodes students would happily indifferent to the fate the student was not given at the moment there is a divide They will investigate the pros­ adequate time to prepare a go to Paris to work there. Nego­ of the money and the charities between those who raise the tiations with the French students concerned. pective recipient charities, and defence because the case was money for charity funds and the funds will be allocated on rushed through a hearing by are continuing but the project To maintain the true spirit of those who benefit from it. But will probably be put into opera­ Rag, every student should con­ by supplying active assistance as the basis of the extent of use senate. tion soon. to which the charity aims to put e It has been established, tribute actively not only by fund well as financial aid, he and the the money. Funds will only be however, that Senate is con­ allocated for material use and stitutionally bound to meet not for labour, as this will be within five days of an appeal provided by the students them­ being lodged by a student. fights VetQ) faculty selves. 8 The student did not THE UNITED PARTY M.P. for gested that Onderstepoort be Veterinary Science faculty, he plead in mitigation before Mr. Vickery said: "In this way Senate that he had been Albany, Mr. Bill Deacon, doubled in size. Many students would personally like to see Rho­ presented the case for a veterin­ from the Eastern Cape have, in des continue to concentrate in Rag would be held in the true concussed at the time or ary faculty at Rhodes University the past few years, been turned the more purely academic direc­ traditional spirit, as it was forced to drink as is stated in the House of Assembly last down by Onderstepoort because tions. designed. It is not, as many in the article. week. they could only accommodate a "I'm not sure whether a veter­ members of the public think, e The possible implication Mr. Deacon was reported by a limited number. inary faculty could survive with­ merely a week during which stu­ that Senate was influenced in Grahamstown newspaper to have Mr. Fourie told RHODEO that out the support of an agricul­ dents, under the guise of their it's judgement by a confusion said he was advised by the it had already been pointed out tural faculty, in any case." he fund-raising efforts, let their hair of this case with two other Deputy Minister of Agriculture, to the Government that Onderste­ said. down, run amok in the town and cases is unfounded. Mr. H. Schoeman, to fight for a poort could not cope with pro­ Mr. van Wyk Smith added indulge in an excessive amount e The article does not veterinary faculty. blems of students from the East­ that he had heard rumours of of liquor. mention that though the The Vice-Chancellor's liaison ern Cape. "Onderstepoort does a veterinary faculty being esta­ student concerned was new officer, Mr. G. Fourie, said in an not cater for the future", he blished at Stellenbosch Univer­ "Our efforts are sincere and to Rhodes he had last year interview with RHiQDEO th•at said, "and even a double-sized sity. we are now trying to do more attended another varsity. He since 1905 various bodies had Onderstepoort will eventually be "I don't think the Government by being involved in a more was therefore not an "innocent requested the Government to inadequate." is likely to come to any definite direct way with the charities first-year" who might have establish a veterinary faculty at Mr. M. van Wyk Smith, decision on the matter before the concerned. Students are willing been forced to drink by senior Rhodes. Albany's Progressive Party can­ election - and I don't know to give a considerable amount of students. Last year a Government one­ didate said he felt that although what Mr. Deacon intends to do their time to carry out such pro­ man commission of enquiry sug- there was a definite need for a about it now". jects. Page 2 RHODEO March 12, 1970 LECTURE BY PATON DR. ALAN PATON, renowned South African writer and former leader of the now-disbanded Liberal Party, will deliver the first D.C.S. Oosthuizen l\'lemorial Lecture on May 13 on the occasion of the Local Day of Affirmation to Academic Freedom. Since the appearance of his Dr. Alan Paton is not only a first novel Cry the Beloved literary artist of the highest calibre, but also a dedicated Country in 1948, Alan Paton has believer in human dignity and been regarded as one of the the inexorable value of human leading commentators on South freedom. Rhodes University is African life and society through indeed fortunate that a man of such outstanding quality has the medium of literature. agreed to deliver the first D.C.S. Dr. Paton was born in Pieter­ Oosthuizen Academic Freedom maritzburg in 1903 and was edu­ Lecture. cated at Maritzburg College, a Last year Dr.