Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 13. June 11 1979
Crusade Against Card-Players
Crusade Against Card-Players
Dear Sir,
I, a seasoned university student, wish to bring to your attention the apathetic attitude of certain people in this university.
Namely the decrepit degenerate 'students' - and I use the term in its loosest possible sense - who at every possible moment that they can squeeze out of their so called 'courses', sit on the balcony of the SUB lounge and play peculiar games involving chips, playing-cards, cigarettes and rosary beads, and take absolutely no interest in trying to rid the sacred halls of this hallowed university of that most dreaded disease, "Apathy".
These people should be out. Yes, out creating an atmosphere of keen interest in pressing and relevant problems. When last did one of them lock him/herself in the Rankine Brown toilets for three weeks in protest against higher taxes on beer, chips and chocolate fish??
Instead they intrude into other students fun and games. Who can forget that SRC meeting where phrases like "The freedom of the people in Southern Finn-Glang has been violated", were interupted by impassive calls of 'Three diamonds', and 'Pass'. Does winning a 500's game help free the oppressed millions in the world? (Then :gain, does it hurt?)
I do not mind them using the balcony nearly all the time, but when you have to produce St. Pats Old Boys Association membership cards just to get up the steps, it is getting serious.
I also do not mind them tossing the occasional rotten chip over the balcony into the crowds below, but when they start tossing Rongotai Old Boys and excess females over the side, I start to worry.
Can't these people be put in their place......... (The cemetery is far from filled.) Before they declare the balcony a Republic.
Yours faithfully,
M. Entell.