Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion At Victoria University College, Wellington, N. Z. Vol. 24, No. 4. 1961

What your Contemporaries Think

What your Contemporaries Think

"Critic," Otago University newspaper, is demanding that initiation ceremonies be abandoned altogether. Under the heading "Let's Show Maturity and End Foolishness," the leading article reads:

"To expect adult behaviour from some of our contemporaries would be too optimistic. But we hope that perhaps this year will see the end of the absurd series of juvenile rites perpetuated in some of the local student hostels. Initiations are a canker, and a curse, a stupid tradition."