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The results of this week's Executive elections were announced at last night's Annual General Meeting. The figures given below are the first preference votes cast for each candidate.
Men's Vice-President:
Women's Vice-President:
Capping Controller:
Cultural Affairs Officer:
International Affairs Officer: Rosemary Booth 746, Public Relations Officer:
Both Professor F. W. Holmes and Dr. J. Williams were elected by overwhelming majorities to Life Membership of the Students Association. Professor Holmes received 1234 votes and Dr. Williams 1201.
Vote counting was completed at Sam Thursday morning.
Students are being used by a New Zealand publishing company fro make what has been described as excessive profits on Tournament handbooks.
The company, published at no cost to either the Auckland Students Association or Victoria the last two Tournament handbooks.
In fact as an added inducement Victoria was paid a £50 honorarium. The company undertook to sell all the advertising and pay all printing costs. 1000 copies were to be printed.
The company call themselves "publishers and advertising consultants" on their letterhead.
They are an Auckland based firm.
A temporary office was established in Wellington while they worked on the Easter Tournament handbook this year.
However several firms who advertised in the Auckland handbook believe they were mislead. Many understood by taking space they were helping to sponsor the publication and were making a sort of donation to the Students Association.
An advertising executive of a large freighting company toid Salient his company was "only interested in helping student;. We would not have advertised if we knew profits were going to this company.
"We were approached by a man who said he was representing the Students Association and asked if we would help the students by sponsoring an advertisement in the students magazine. The full page cost £32/10 - and we considered this a donation to the Students Association." he, said.
A Wellington florist who took a quarter page in the pages of advertising space in the Auckland book was taken by Wellington businesses — many small family concerns.
Wellington GHB stores, butchers, dairies, decorators, a cartage and forwarding agent, an Island Bay service station, an investment concern, a building contractor and a Lower Hutt hairdresser were among those in the Auckland handbook.
President of the Students Association, Salient the company's offer was accepted because of delays at the time. In the past Victoria has appointed an editor and an Advertising Manager to produce the handbook.
Easter Tournament controller Salient they "would not have accepted the offer if they knew the company was going to mislead the public in any way."
It is understood the company would like to produce Otago's Handbook for Winter Tournament this year.
A further study of the advertisers revealed very few-used advertising agencies. "This could be because we are wise to this practice." an agency executive told Salient.
It is not known how many advertisers in this year's Tournament handbook refrained from advertising in other student publications.
This years Cappicade Advertising Manager told Salient some firms declined to come into Cappicade because of their commitment in the Tournament handbook.
"Cappicade is a much better business proposition because it has 25 times the circulation, a bigger page, is more widely read and yet has similar advertising rates," he
New Zeanland Universities 65th Annual Ester Tournament
Box 9070 Wellington
This is the letterhead the company used to send to advertisers. Part of the text of the invoice cum ratification of space order read: "We have pleasure in confirming our telephone conversation in which you were kind enough to sponsor an advertisement in the above journal.
"Your kindness in advertising is appreciated and students and their families will be asked to give you their support whenever possible."
Auckland book said he "was under the impression most copies of the handbook would be distributed in the Wellington area. I wouldn't have advertised if I had known it was an Auckland publication," he said.
An advertising agency executive told Salient "many Wellington firms who took space in the Auckland handbook were wasting their money." It has been estimated only about 200 Victoria students went to Tournament in Auckland last year.
An analysts revealed 121/2 said.
It has been estimated the company may have made a profit of up to Ȋ4500 on the Easter Tournament handbook. Estimates were based on advertising rates and past printing costs. Generous al-lwance was made for expenses involved in selling the advertising.
It appears the company is using what public goodwill students have to make an excessive profit for themselves. Firms are being misled into thinking they are helping students.
All These Women (Lido): Generally regarded as a private joke. Ingmar Bergman's first colour film allows photographer
Assault On A Queen (St. James): Straight-forward adventure about a hold-up of the Queen Mary by an assorted crew in a renovated submarine.
Duel At Diablo (Regent): A western directed by
Trunk To Cairo (Paramount): Based on the recent Egyptian spy scandal.
Walk Don't Run (Majestic): Routine comedy set in Tokyo during the Olympic Games.
Georgy Girl (Embassy): Fast-moving attractive film about the new morality although the sentimental ending attempts to have it both ways.
One Million Years Bc (Plaza): An incredible amount of work has gone into the making of prehistoric animals, if nothing else, and the result is what could be the most curious comedy ever made.
Greatest Story Ever Told (Cinerama): The least said about this effort the better. The only relief is in spotting your favourite Hollywood stars.
Doctor Zhivago (Kings): An epic in the grand style which despite some blunders is made tolerable by Rod Steiger's performance.
Torn Curtain (Princess): Alfred Hitchcock's inflated reputation can only be further injured by this banal film.
The new lecture theatre block and Weir House extension will be ready for next year. The lecture theatre block, just south of the Easterfield Building, was a few days ahead of schedule on June 20. A report to Council on June 26 on planning and development stated that "unless problems arise in connection with the supply of equipment for building services it appears certain that the block will be in use for the beginning of the 1968 session.
"Preliminary details of study-bedroom furnishings in the Weir House extension have been determined and it is intended to complete and furnish one study-bedroom shortly for final consideration of detail and cost before making a submission for the necessary finance to furnish and equip the building. It is expected that the building itself will be completed by late October or early November," the report states.
The contract documents for the SUB extension are still under scrutiny by the Grants Committee and Government. Preparation of working drawings for the Physics and Earth Sciences building are reported to be proceeding satisfactorily and the aequisition of certain properties in the vicinity of the University are in progress.
Sports ... 12
Gap between rich and poor ... 2
May Capping for 1968 Catholic periodical attacked ... 3
Controversial Squash Club grant ... 4
Highlighting from Presidential report ... 6
Ecomony analysed ... 7
Benson on Tracy ... 8
Letter ... 10 and 11
The Shambles of parked scooters in Kelburn Parade should prompt some action from the university. The practice, which seems to have begun this year, of parking scooters between parked cars suggests that scooter space has become really short.
Yet there must be many areas within the university grounds where scooters could be parked—if somebody bothered to have a look. Or does the administration think students walk to university?
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Frankly, Forum just isn't what it used to be. These days it sounds like a debate of abuse, instead of the debate of reason which it used to be.
One of these days, it may occur to the novices of today's soapbox to substitute suggestions for swear-words, and ideas for smuttiness.
In the earlier days of forum, speakers strove for a high standard—and the hearers present expected it of them. But time seems to have debauched this tradition. These days forum sounds more like a pseudo-intellectual caf argument than a place of debate.
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Forum's Obsession with the milder four-letter swear words (you know which I mean) seems to reflect a current feebleness in student humour.
Thus, in Extravaganza, every time the action flagged (which was ' rather often) the scriptwriters merely stuck in a not-quite-nice swear-word.
We all giggled, of course. Not really at this daring realism or earthy reality though. Actually because we just couldn't believe those Extrav people Still think that this is funny.
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P'M Told that the miniature rifle club needs a range. Indeed, it seems that the association could acquire a useful sports facility and at the same time finance much of the cost by renting the range out to other local clubs.
But there's no chance of that. Victoria's never bothered to try and accumulate funds for this sort of thing. So we'll be renting such sports facilities for many years yet
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University Focus, that delightful national student magazine, seems to be headed for trouble. It just does not meet its publication deadlines.
The first issue was weeks late, and now so is the second. On this basis, the last issue for this year should be published about December.
There'll be very few readers about then.
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So The Beatles take LSD. But I don't imagine we'll see any action against them for as long as they earn Britain millions of dollars.
Has our civllisation degenerated so far that drugs are our only answer to boredom or too harsh reality?
These days, it's a witty joke in Californian universities to slip an LSD-soaked sugar lump in someone else's coffee. Is modern life so hellish that this is the way young America has decided to go?
—Cynic
Hunger and population
" Explosion" is the emotional but accurate word used to describe the tremendous growth rate of the human species.
It took the human race from the beginning of time to 1950 AD to reach the 500 million total. But the world's population increased by this amount between 1950 and 1962.
The concensus of opinion among experts is that the present world population will have doubled by the year 2000, to over 6000 million people.
The population explosion is a fact, not a theory, it is the result not of an increase in human fertility, but a decrease in the human death-rate as the age-old threats of disease, famine and to a lesser degree, war, have receded.
There is a threat to human existence in this explosion.
In underdeveloped areas of the world, Asia, Africa and Latin America, the rate of population growth is exceeding the rate of food production and economic development.
Unless a double effort is made to control tins disproportionate growth on a widespread scale, by restricting population expansion and increasing food output and gross national products, then another response could well intervene. Either a natural response such as the return of famine or disease, or a cultural response such as war.
Any of these results in one part of the globe will affect the rest of the world—bringing further misery and death to underprivileged areas, and threatening society culture, and human existence itself everywhere.
United Nation's statistics indicate that between 300 and 500 million humans are at present suffering from acute malnutrition, and another 1000 million are suffering from malnutrition in varying degrees.
While there is an increasing awareness in the industrialized societies of what these figures mean, little is being done to reduce them, and the gap between the richer and poorer areas of the world is growing.
The average individual income in the industrialised nations is 1900 USA dollars. In the agrarian or underdeveloped countries it is 130 dollars. On present rates of growth, the difference in 10 years will be 4000 dollars against a mere 800 dollars.
One method of reducing this gap is to slow down the rate of population growth. The population of industrialised regions increased by 41.1 per cent from 1920 to I960. In underdeveloped areas it increased by 70.5 per cent over the same period.
It has been estimated by Mr.
Static quantities of food and increasing numbers of people mean further malnutrition and less ability to increase food production.
It is true that there are social and economic dangers inherent in reducing the rate of population expansion too rapidly. Some of these have become evident in Japan where a shortage of industrial workers is expected in the 1970's.
But Japan's was a case of rapid reduction of growth in a highly industrialised society. In other areas, such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Pakistan, results of family-planning schemes have been conspicuously successful.
Roman Catholics have often attacked family planning as an answer to the problems of overpopulation, arguing that birth prevention is being advocated as a sole solution, which is untrue, and stressing the unrepresentative difficulties that nave become apparent in Japan.
Catholic gynaecologist Dr.
"While population control alone cannot resolve the population crisis, no combination of other measures can succeed without it."
The second approach to mitigating the problems of overpopulation is to increase food production and expedite economic development.
For over 10 years the increase in food production throughout the world has exceeded the population increase by one per cent. (New Zealand's annual food production increase is four per cent.)
But these figures are not representative of food and population increases in the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In the past Ave years the population of Latin America has increased by 11 per cent, whilst its food production has increased by only 6 per cent. In Europe over the same period food production increased by 11 per cent and population by four per cent.
Colin Clark, the Cambridge agricultural economist, has estimated that by using efficiently only the present amount of land cultivated, ten times the population of the world could be adequately fed.
Scientific methods can be used to fertilise unproductive ground, to halt erosion, to eliminate pests, and to irrigate arid soil.
The implementation of such techniques in what are at present relatively unproductive areas requires imported capital and skilled personnel.
Only if food production in-creases substantially, popula-tion growth is reduced, and wealthier countries make more foreign exchange available to underdeveloped nations, can the gap between the privileged and the underprivileged be reduced, and their respective gross national products be equalised.
The underdeveloped regions have valid reasons for doubting the good-will of the Western industrialised nations.
The latter have given 55 billion dollars of economic aid to Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1950 to 1965. But in one year these same coun-tries spend 120 billion dollars on their military hardware, and the United States spends 20 billion dollars on her space programme.
For the first time in history there is a widespread awareness that poverty and misery need not exist in underdevel-oped areas of the world, and that its existence and its intensification is a threat to the wellbeing of every human.
"The earth's savage scar, in the words of
Two evening ceremonies in May will constitute the official University capping celebrations next year.
This was resolved last University Council meeting held on June 26.
In a report to Council from the Ceremonial Committee the following recommendations were made: That in and after 1968 graduation be held in May, with no subsidiary ceremony. That the arrangements for the May graduation be as follows:
The Ceremonial Committee "re-considered the recommendations put to Council in, April, 1967, for graduation in' 1968 and later years. Attention was directed to those matters providing obstacles to holding the graduation ceremony before the commencement of lectures.
"Mr.
"It was agreed that the graduation ceremony must be either at the start of the first term, or at Its end. If any ceremony was to be held at the start of the academic year, then the engraving of certificates could be done later.
"After a full discussion the Committee resolved:
"That while the Ceremonial Committee agrees with the Vuwsa Executive that the graduation ceremony should held in March, it appears that administrative difficulties are such that it must be held In May. That the Committee was advised by the Registrar that the whole situation could be reviewed after the University records had been transferred to the computer."
Regarding the recommendations to Council, Pro-Chancellor (Mr.
Mr. Moriarty pressed once more for the capping ceremony to be held in March. He asked whether the academics had heen requested to speed up their marking to allow earlier capping.
The Pro-Chancellor said they hadn't been asked and could not be expected to, as any rushing of marking would be undesirable.
Dr. Williams said that whatever happens, a new time for the capping ceremony could not be organised for next year because the computer would not be ready for the speeding up of the notification of graduates.
Mr. Conibear and Mr. Duncan spoke in favour of the two evening functions suggested by Vuwsa Representative on Council, Mr.
Finally, the recommendations regarding arrangements for the May graduation ceremony were amended as follows:
Chivalry still lives on at Victoria. A couple of days ago an indignant student stormed into Salient office brandishing the relics of a well-torn and cursed election poster. Those much-talked-about smear tactics were about to be exposed.
But it's a little upsetting when you happen to misread the order of two three-lettered words. It's certainly embarrassing to find your self-righteous scorn has been misplaced.
Just change the order of the words "you can" and can you get a rather nasty rhetorical question?
Just what does the president of the Law Faculty Club intend when he puts up neat little lists about which law students are standing for exec? It's about time that attempts to induce block faculty voting were scorned for the nonsense that they are.
Bill Evans, the first person to offer to act as a guide during the University Open Day, received two free theatre tickets.
These were contributed by an anonymous citizen to show that the public was not entirely uninterested in the university's activities.
Campaigning for the elections really is going a little close to the absurd when a candidate offers freshly-picked apples to eat while bewildered students read his election blurt. Mind you, it does provide a catchy theme "Feast on Easton,"
It Was a quiet show, the science ball, but somehow Toro got quietly. A dance on the railing running along SUB pathway set the delicate atmosphere for a couple of well-executed dives on to the turf. Luckily the wife was there to pick up the pieces and throw them into the pit.
Well. well, some executive members really don't know what student elections are all about!
It's a bit narkham to discover that one exec member thought it would be just lovely to nominate or second lots of the oncoming burocrats. It can be such an exciting game.
Though it does seem that nominating one prospective Men's Vice President and seconding his opponent is going a bit far. But then politicians are supposed to sit on the fence.
The great "In Fact" election sheet must take the cake for pure farce. In fact, the initials at the bottom were in lower case—in fact, this was a true indication of the loftiness of the whole effort. In fact, this" is not the way to win votes in an election.
The Editor of a promising Catholic interpretive periodical resigned last month after his magazine was attacked by the Bishop of Auckland, Archbishop Liston.
The magazine is "Insight", published by the Auckland University Catholic Society, and it was formerly edited by
Its circulation had risen to just under 400 copies after the fourth issue.
In a letter dated May 2 and circulated to persons connected with the production of "Insight," Archbishop Liston said: "I deprecate the publication of so much superficial and brash writing."
He went on to complain that "the giving as an address of Newman Hall, which as bishop I have provided for university students, and this use of its facilities is a sad infringement of hospitality."
One week after this was written
He subsequently requested his letter of resignation be backdated to the day of this conversation, Tuesday, May 9.
This "official" letter mentioned a shortage of time and uncertain health as the main reasons for his resignation.
The first of these had never before troubled him to the point where he contemplated resignation, and it is known that at the time of writing his health was considerably better than it had been in the past.
"Insight" in its original form was the only Roman Catholic periodical of its type in New Zealand. It circulated among interested Catholics and Protest ants, and copies have been available in the Quiet Room of the Victoria Student Union Building.
Its aims were, in its own words, to make Christians "aware of and interested in the modern Church," and "to give information and promote intelligent discussion of the various aspects of the Church today."
In tone it tended to be abrasive, but it attempted to provide balanced analyses of such issues as pacifism, the value of the Catholic education system in New Zealand, local liturgical reform, and other religious and ethical problems.
When asked to specify which of these articles he regarded as "superficial and brash," Archbishop Liston did not reply.
Half of "Insight's" contributors were members of the clergy or religious orders, and many of them, clergy and laity, were university graduates.
They included recognised religious "progressives" such as James
The Auckland University Catholic Society, embarrassed by this instance of episcopal censure, says it will continue publication of "Insight" under new editorship.
The Badminton club has a larger number of active members than in previous years and the two teams entered in the inter-club competition are performing with merit. In the "A" reserve grade, Victoria is so far unbeaten. This team consists of
Current trends within the club are an improvement in the quality of the women players, which is now of a high standard, and a dispersal of club strength which does not now lie solely with the top players.
Although represented by only two clubs in the town competition, the Victoria club is an active and growing one. It meets in the gym on Friday and Sunday evenings to provide an invigorating physical activity for all types of students.
From the large number of players willing to play inter-club Badminton, the B team is selected each week. Most consistent players for this team so far this season have been
"That God does not exist" was once more placed before the multitudes last week in a lunch-hour debate in the Memorial Theatre.
Representing the Atheist Society and for the affirmative were
"Theirs is not philosophy."
"If He did exist it would be necessary to destroy Him."
The Chair did not put the motion to the vote as he considered it a matter of personal conscience.
" The Squash Club grant of £273 passed by Executive on the Chairman's casting vote is iniquitous" House Committee Chairman Paul Peretz told Salient.
A grant of £2 per head is extravagant. Added to this actual Squash Club figures show last year's attendances at meetings varied from one-third to nine-tenths of full membership. The grant would be subsidising active members approximately £3 per head, which is exorbitant, he said.
Vice-President Salient sports club grants could exceed £1 per member only if (a) the grant-ing of a larger sum was for the purchase of capital equipment which would be available in future years, or (b) the sport was a team sport which required high ground fees and or affiliation fees. In this case the Student Association must meet these costs in order that students can play such sports as soccer and hockey.
"However, for the Squash Club, the grant is almost entirely for court hire for this year. Those who use the Squash Club are getting really cheap squash because the Student Association is paying their fees for them. The fact that the money was going to a profit-making concern, John Reid's Squash Centre, was also a reason against the grant," he said.
The grant has been a bone of contention between Executive and Sports Committee for two years.
At the end of 1964, after money had been granted to: the Squash Club, it was found the cost of court hire had been £50 below the figure claimed by the club from Executive. Executive also learned that at least six of the nights for which the club had claimed would be in 1965.
Last year's Executive refused to pay the grant of £188 and the money was only passed by being split in half in two Executive meetings, described as a "devious dodge" by Mr. Rennie.
The opposition by some on Executive to paying large sums for the day to day expenses of an individual sport such as squash has carried on over some years. It largely occurs, according to Mr. Rennie, because this university's Sports Committee has never had any incentive to accumulate money for capital development. "Our income has been dissipated in the running costs of the sports." he said.
Salient "it was stupid to haul the matter up. Sports Committee treated the Squash Club as it would have treated any other club's grant."
"The money for club grants comes from the Student Association fee of £6 10 - paid by each student. Of this, £2/10/-is used for general expenditure, which includes office costs, NZUSA levies, tournament subsidies and club grants. About 15- of this is normally spent on club grants. Almost all of this goes to the sports clubs. Last year sports clubs received £2200 and cultural clubs £500. The reasons for this difference are the Cultural clubs use the Student Union Building and don't have to pay for facilities.
"The result is that where a sports club gets more than 15/- a member, other students are making up the difference. The Squash Club grant means a subsidy of approximately £1/5/- per head from other student fees." he said.
Salient: "Those who oppose the grant are not being far-sighted. By the end of this year the membership will be about 230 and thus the subsidy will be only £1 per head. The squash membership is now 140; over 450 students play squash at John Reid's," he said.
Until the university has the facilities it must pay costs for sports. He pointed out an aim of the club is to establish squash courts, the estimated cost for three courts and club-room being £15.000. "If the courts are built near the Gymnasium the costs will decrease because there will be no need for shower facilities. When the club is established it will run at a profit. The income from four courts used five hours a day for a year would be £800. With the addition of the subscription of members, £500, the total in-|come will be £1300, and the net profit £1000.
"If squash courts were built they would foster student sport, be a profit-making asset of the Student Association, and give any student the opportunity to play for the university.
"The cost for students to play squash at John Reid's is astronomical so it would be more profitable both for the student and for the university to build their own courts.
"Membership has to be established for squash courts to be built." he said. "This is necessary to show the interest that the students have in the sport and will make sure that the courts will be used.
"The grant does not go to the social fund." Mr. Anderson said. "The club raises its own money for its social functions. Its tours and tournament costs."
Mr. Anderson pointed out the successful history of the club. Pounded in 1962. it was beaten until 1964 but has won its tournament matches ever since. In 1968 the women were runners-up. Two men from the Victoria Club were in the NZU team.
ASPB
The University of Western Australia may soon screen its students to track down agents of the Australian Security Intelligence organisation.
The university's Guild of Undergraduates will carry out the security check after the outcome of the investigations by officials of the National Union of Australian University Students (NUAUS).
It has been claimed that in every university there is one member of the staff whose duty is to report on colleagues and students, and also that every university has a group of paid student informers. The intelligence service and the Special Branch hold about 10.000 individual security dossiers, which are exchanged with friendly countries. The union's president. Mr.
"We have no evidence at' present of security activities on our own campus." Mr.
I, Sludge, of no fixed mentality do hereby tender notice of my intention to stand or run or not as the case maybe or not for the office of Executive Member in Charge of Public Intimidation.
Qualifications: I have been a loyal member since time immemorial of the Royal Society for the Prevention
Objectives: For far too long now the Wellington public have had it too easy. Such token jibes as burning down the railway station are all very well for secondary schoolchildren attempting to publicise their production of "Toad of Toad Hall" but University Students should have more finesse. I promise that, if elected, there will be an immediate breakdown in essential services in Wellington and the Hutt will be nailed to the floor, darkness will descend on the Earth and all will await the coming of Sludge.
Methods: All this will not be achieved by sitting around a table exchanging platitudes about the price of contraceptives. No, indeed nor will it be achieved by showing aged clerics and Mother of six around the place on a "Typical" day. If that sort of thing continues, the establishment will be overrun with all manner of level-headed, woolly-minded clods. The only real solution is that tried and tested device affectionately known the world over as the "barbed wire fence."
Never let it be said that Sludge knows nothing about "down-gown relations." What he does know is that it is not natural for students to be on good terms with the public and who is he to alter what has been decreed? It is all very well to ask the Minister of Education for more finance but it is far more effective if one adds the rider "or we'll booby-trap your Volkswagen and blow your foot off."
To Sum Up: There's us and there's
" New Zealand literature has about as much hope of survival as the Maoris standing on the Petone Beach watching the first white settlers arrive," said thrice famous author Ian Cross speaking on the New Zealand Novel.
"The vision of cultural nationhood that offered hope to my generation has vanished." he said. "To ask me to write a New Zealand Novel now would be like going down to the museum and asking the stuffed moa to lay an egg."
It was such similes as these that characterised the first of the Winter Term lectures on the subject of "The Arts in New Zealand."
Explaining that the New Zealand short story and the New Zealand novel had to be studied together in order to get the novel into perspective, Mr. Cross summarised briefly New Zealand writers from Katherlne Mansfield and
"Male and female New Zealand authors are preoccupied with the male and female solitary," he said.
"The writer in New Zealand reflects in his characters what must exist in our society. The New Zealand male is a eunuch of twentieth century socialism," he suggested, but he did not qualify this somewhat alarming conclusion.
"It will be a new era in our writing," he said, "when a classic male emerges, the hunter and not the hunted." But he held little hope that this new era will now ever be able to dawn.
"New Zealand, that place so eagerly hoped for in our literature, is dead." he said. He gave as a reason for this his opinion that New Zealand was a victim of American provincialism, where the reality was Peyton Place and Coronation Street.
New Zealand literature has no chance to develop by itself, he said, because modern mass communications overwhelm it with external influences. He described New Zealand as being on the periphery of the world's great capitals, and instanced the New Zealand edition of "Life" and the simultaneous printing in New Zealand of "Time" as manifestations of this.
"A little over 100 years is not an adequate gestation period for a new nation in this age," he said in mourning New Zealand's lost chance of ever attaining national individuality in the field of literature.
"In the future, to talk of the New Zealand Novel will be as quaint as to think of the Manitoba writer or the Queensland writer," he said.
Nzspa Reporter
Language laboratories were not substitute teachers and could not work miracles, said Professor
The professor, in Auckland as visiting professor in German, was commenting on the advance being introduced into New Zealand universities.
Auckland has had a laboratory for some time. Canterbury's was set up late last year, and Victoria has brought one into use this term.
Language laboratories reduced the "slogging" work in teaching, but were "something like a power-drill in a handyman's hands. They must be carefully directed."
Where the tape recorder units scored, said Professor McFarlane, was in developing fluency and clear pronunciation early, to enable students to get on to more advanced study.
Wellington — "Education may properly be regarded as an investment, but it is im-portant to realise that the Government must find a balance between the long-term investment in education and investment in increased production and export earnings," the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon
New Zealand is at present facing great problems due to the high rate of development in recent years and a serious drop in our export earnings," he said.
"The Government has to, accept the responsibility of determining the appropriate rate of expansion or educational services in relation to other phases of our national life," Mr. Holyoake said.
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr.
This minority included Maoris seeking education and maladjusted children.
Mr. Kirk said that between five and 10 per cent of school children were suffering from emotional disturbances: a disquietingly high figure.
Actually we're not sure that teaching ever was quite the way GBS described it. Today it's certainly not. Now a whole new world of teaching is opening up—a world that challenges the talents of the university graduate.
Tomorrow's opportunities will range over the whole world of education—going far beyond primary and secondary school teaching. Graduates will also be needed in universities, training colleges and in teaching administration, Teaching is a fast expanding world.
It's also a rewarding one. Teachers are competitively paid. They receive liberal vacation periods each year. What is more, they are paid while training and may be given time off for further study.
If you decide to become a secondary school teacher while you're at university you can apply for a studentship to complete your degree.
In your second year you would receive $630 (plus fees) or $500 plus any University Bursary or Scholarships to which you are entitled.
These allowances then increase to $880 and $600 respectively in the following year.
There is also a boarding allowance.
As a graduate you will attend a one year professional training course. Even during this training you will be paid $1710 if you have a bachelor's degree, $1910 with a master's or $2010 with 1st or 2nd class honours. These salaries increase when you are appointed to a permanent position. They will then rise regularly and can reach nearly $6000 p.a. for a principalship.
The development of tomorrow's advanced teaching techniques will be both rapid, exciting and rewarding. But progress needs the stimulation of trained minds. And this is why education needs you.
If you're interested in the new opportunities in education, write to: The Recruitment Officer, Dept. of Education, Wellington.
Teaching Is a Great Career
67.Ed.1.
June 30, 1967
Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of VUWSA.
An interpretive periodical has always been lacking in the machinery of New Zealand Churches.
" Insight"—a quarterly published by the Catholic Society at Auckland University—was hailed as a much needed stimulant in this field. For a year, the magazine has enjoyed a rising circulation.
Issues discussed included: Catholic education in New Zealand, celibacy, the Vietnam war, the Church in a changing world, pacificism, birth control and other controversial topics.
At least half of the contributors were clerics—both liberal and conservative, and a large number were university graduates.
Poet Insight" had that degree of balance among its contributors that makes for a truly abrasive approach.
In May this year Archbishop Liston of Auckland criticised the publication as being brash and superficial. He did not reply to a letter asking him to specify which particular articles came within this category.
The Archbishop's criticism was quite out of keeping with the Vatican Council's declaration on religious freedom. "Every man has a duty and therefore the right to seek truth in matters religious."
A week after the Archbishop penned his criticism, the then editor of "Insight" resigned. There can be little doubt that pressure was exerted.
Such action by the Archbishop must be regarded as a direct misuse of episcopal authority. It can only serve to alienate the inquiring mind.
If any form of Christian belief is to have relevance to the modern world, notions of protectionism can not be allowed to interfere with the stimulation of genuine inquiry. A religious society at a university should feel free, and be encouraged, to promote discussion, unhindered by episcopal tags.
The fate of "Insight" is the more hard to understand in the light of trends shown by the general Catholic press over the last year. A clear broadening of political, social and religious outlook has been in evidence.
Last year the Pope suggested that Bishops retire at 75. This has largely been followed in Europe and America. Archbishop Liston is in his late eighties.
Publication of "Insight" is to continue, but the tone has been set. There is little hope that the balanced and open minded approach (as shown in the first four issues) will continue.
In its capacity for self criticism, the Catholic Church in New Zealand seems intent on lagging behind the Church's international trends. G.P.C.
The deteriorating employment situation may drastically affect students' Christmas vacation incomes this year.
It has been estimated there will be about 16,000 unemployed by the end of the year.
The majority of these will be manual workers who will be competing for the unskilled work students seek during the long vacation.
When one considers the annual crop of school leavers will also be on the labour market about the same time, the problem looms even larger.
Some students may not get satisfactory jobs at all. However, most will find themselves unable to obtain employment for the desired period. That is, many will take up to a month to find a job. And the work obtained will neither pay the wages, or more important still, offer the overtime normally available.
While the situation calls for moves to raise bursaries the immediate future must be considered.
The solution to the problem appears to be work in Australia over the vacation. For despite unemployment figures the Australian economy because of its greater size and strength, is more able to absorb large quantities of unskilled labour than is New Zealand.
The implications of say 10,000 students working in Australia over the vacation, are enough as KJH once said, "to make the mind boggle."
1. Sudents would earn more money.
2. The Student Travel Bureau (STB) would net at least £25,000 which could be used to benefit students in all sorts of interesting ways. One would be to employ a full-time education officer.
3. The economy would gain approximately two and a half million pounds of overseas funds which students would bring back into the country.
4. The unemployed wouldn't have to compete with students for work and this means fewer on the dole.
5. Students would gain the benefits normally associated with a trip overseas.
6. Air New Zealand (Government owned) would fly the students across the Tasman and the revenues gained would help pay for the DC8 that crashed.
7. And last but not least student newspapers declining advertising revenues would be countered by the advertisements Air New Zealand and the STB would give to the whole scheme in a massive publicity drive during the last term.
The only people who would lose would be the Australians and they don't count as they have managed so far to get the better of us on the trade setup.
Thus students who can raise about £45 are advised to obtain a STB concession return fare to Australia to soak up the sunshine and bring back enough dollars to finance the Government and themselves for the coming year. B.G.S.
In the workings of Executive there have been the usual long, late meetings, notable mainly for their excessive repetition of arguments. There have also been strong disagreements on a variety of subjects, but a major achievement has been that this debate has never lapsed into the personal quarrels of previous years that have crippled the effectiveness of more than one Executive.
A development within the last year that is worth recording is the increased desire of the Wellington news media to publish the activities and attitudes of students.
With your Executive barely a week in office, the Prime Minister was awarded an honorary degree during a ceremony at which he opened the
Our next publicity was more productive. Various student efforts to paint in a pedestrian crossing on the corner of Kelburn Parade and Salamanca Road were reported and public sympathy aroused when 500 students rose from Forum and marched on down to block the corner from traffic
The newspaper photographs and television coverage heightened public awareness of the issue and eventually forced the City Council to offer the compromise earlier described as too dangerous by a traffic department official.
The Association's representatives accepted the Council's offer to paint in the two crossings where they now lie, though many students were critical at both Forum and a Special General Meeting.
But whatever one's view of the result there can be no doubt that the Council gave way to public pressure aroused from the extensive publicity.
When the Association presented submissions on the University students' accommodation problem both newspapers gave our arguments wide coverage and the Dominion added a favourable editorial. Since this time, WNTV1 has shown a programme on conditions of student flats in Wellington.
The new University year opened with a stage-managed investment of £10.000 in the Wellington City Council's loan. The opportunity was taken to stress the links of our Association with the City. The newspapers here gave excellent coverage, but several students did feel the gesture was too blatant.
Easter Tournament received more publicity than a student sports meeting in Wellington will usually do, and
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The proposals will involve little sweeping change but a more efficient system of administration of affairs and the removal of the many ambiguities that have caused difficulties in recent years.
The Association must also express its thanks to the Vice-Chancellor, the Registrar, Dr.
For students the most frustrating aspect of the past year has been this Committee's difficulty with extensions to the Student Union. Delays have been partly due to faulty architectural estimating and more recently to a delay in Governmental approval of the plans which may, of course, be connected with the country's economic situation.
The area in which the Union is hardest hit is the cafeteria— already inadequate for lunchtime needs. In the unlikely event of early approval being given for the calling of tenders it will still be necessary to provide temporary lunch facilities elsewhere in our Student Union Building.
The national student body completed Its first year under a full-time paid president at Easter, and in August the Nzusa Council must decide whether or not to continue this position.
Mr. Mountain has worked very hard as NZUSA's President and has had to carry deficiencies in his executive. His main difficulty has been operating under an inadequate budget imposed by constituents who have found themselves paying a previous Executive's heavy un-budgeted expenditure and who have also had to subsidise the Association's extravagant northern member.
Mr. Mountain's efforts have been appropriately concentrated in the field of education with the intention of developing NZUSA as an educational pressure group. His efforts, despite the disadvantages he faced, have been considerable. His term, which will finish on December 31. has been beneficial to New Zealand students.
The University's Vice-Chancellor and Patron of the Association has advised the Council of his intention to retire from May, 1968. Throughout his years in this position. Dr. Williams has, in his work, fought for the interests of students. The editor of "The Student Union" gives him credit for the Student Union Building, then the first in New Zealand's Universities being built at all. He also was the driving force behind the construction of the tennis pavilion and courts, and the
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According to rumour, all Police leave was to be cancelled for the 48 hours following the reading of the Budget.
If anyone thought that this was anything other than a mischievous Kiwi rumour, the Budget itself would have dispelled any such notion.
In spite of its portentious but refreshingly honest opening ("The economic difficulties which confront us today are the most serious New Zealand has had to face at any time since before World War II") there was nothing in Mr. Muldoon's Budget to bring the rioters into the street. Even a scheduled meeting of Carp fell flat because the Budget gave the ladies nothing to talk about.
It is now being said, with the benefit of hindsight, that a tame June budget was made inevitable by the relatively severe mini-Budgets of February and May. Whether this argument is valid and the earlier measures do justify the latest non-Budget, is not clear.
It depends on how permanent one believes the present "crisis" to be and on how effectively the pre-Budget measures seem to be working. Mr. Muldoon's Budget displays a cautious optimism on both counts; an optimism for which the Budget itself gives little evidence.
The New Zealand voter is still judged capable of being wooed with: Political platitudes—
". . .. I have complete confidence that these difficulties are temporary and that they can and will be overcome. My confidence stems from the underlying strength of the New Zealand economy, based on its productive capacity built up over the years and the skills and vigour of our people."—The Budget, P.1.
"Our assessment at this stage is that no further fiscal measures appear necessary in order to restore the economy to a satisfactory state of balance, both internally and externally."—The Budget, P.21. and sheer crystal ball gazing (borrowed from Dr Sutch, perhaps?),
"While we must be prepared for any contingency, our assessment is that it is reasonable to expect a recovery in wool prices . . ."—The Budget, P.22.
To be fair to Mr. Muldoon, however, it is difficult to know how effectively ' the existing measures are working. Export earnings are notoriously difficult to forecast. His stand of guarded optimism is probably no less credible, and certainly more politically advantageous than a more pessimistic approach.
There is much to be said for the Budget's insistence on the need for flexibility to meet changes as they come, and for Mr. Muldoon's subsequent TV statement that we are going through a period when decisions must be made week by week.
We could feel more certain that this would not merely lead to more stop-go economic policy if, in spite of considerable lip-service being paid it, long term co-ordinated economic planning was making greater advances.
Of the specific measures there is little to be said. The Budget sins by omission rather than commission. Undoubtedly the most significant and positive item aspect is that Government has heeded its own call for restraint on the level of internal spending and has undertaken to reduce the rate of growth of its own expenditure (excluding debt repayment and the operating expenses of public authority trading Departments) from approximately 9% to 1.4%.
If these appropriations are adhered to they should have a significant effect on stability, both internal and external. In spite of this reduction the Budget still shows a deficit before borrowing 52.3 million, some of which will have to be met overseas (exactly how much depends—as everything else seems to these days—on wool prices).
The relaxation of building controls will help to provide jobs for New Zealand's growing (but still small) pool of temporarily unemployed. This seems a reasonable move and does not indicate that Government is beginning to panic at the effectiveness of its own policies as some commentators are suggesting.
Production incentives, for exports especially, have been continued but not significantly increased. This seems to reflect a disappointing unwillingness to institute any changes which might in any way anticipate the report of the Taxation Review Committee, due to be presented later this year.
The only other measure of note is the introduction of a dubious Development Bonds scheme.
Whether this will increase volume of savings or merely result in a transfer of existing savings is hard to tell. The latter seems more likely. Students of economics will notice in this section (Budget P.17 and 18) a bit of decidedly pre-Keynesian analysis about the implied need for prior money savings to finance current investment.
Of the changes in pattern of Government expenditures perhaps the most contentious is the 7% increase in the Education vote compared with the slight decrease in last year's (underspent) defence vote. However, this is largely a non-economic question and approval or disapproval will depend largely on one's value judgements (Do students bludge off the rest of society? Are the Committee of Vietnam a bunch of finks? etc.).
Perhaps of greatest note to students is Mr. Muldoon's intimation that he is not entirely happy about the allocation of funds within the Education vote:
". . the share of resources devoted by Government to the universities has increased at a much higher rate than the share resources expended on education generally. The upsurge in spending on university education points to the need for some re-appraisal of the allocation of scarce resources of money and personnel to ensure that they are being expended in the manner most beneficial to the New Zealand people."—The Budget, P.12.
While in this case rates of increase may not be the most relevant figures the point must be taken. In the light of competition for scarce funds, is our usual assumption that each extra pound spent on tertiary education is money well spent, a valid one?
If Mr. Muldoon and others making decisions on education expenditure are to be convinced that university education should have a high priority (in terms of benefits "to the New Zealand people") it will take more than vague phrases about education being "an investment for the future."
—Don Berriman.
"For in the age in which we live, nothing is given for nothing," confides Arnolph to the audience. Investment and return obsess him; commercial principles control his personal "contracts"; he spends money, time and calculation instead of warmth on Agnes, falsely convinced that his profit will be the perfect wife, ignorant, chaste and unworldly. The School For Wives (Moliere, directed by
I wonder if this production doesn't show instead that the bond between theatre and audience cannot be bought. If the relationship between a theatre and its public is to be of any value at all it should surely be one which derives not from detached entertainment—we "enjoy' the evening, laugh a little, have a night out—but from some kind of emotional or mental participation in the play.
Because I remained sceptically outside the action of The School For Wives I am tempted to ask whether or not Downstage was this time trying to buy its audience with a not very subtly provoked laughter.
The programme note defends—or rationalises? —its choice of play in this way: "When this play was first produced in 1662, it shocked the moral defences of a good many people and, in the best sense of the word, it should still do so." In terms of my experience of the play, however, the claim remains unsubstantiated. It may be that my "moral defences" are developed to an unhealthily impenetrable degree (if so pity help me). but it may also be that the writer of the programme note does not have a clear conception of just what kind of play is capable of shocking these.
One accepts the conventions of comedie de caractere. Character in the Shakespearean sense of the word gives way to character sketched from selected points of view. Dramatic action is confined to a series of "incidents" that lead to a resolution in which the central character is exposed in some way. This mode is a purposely limited one. The School For Wives, however, seems to be unforgiveably static. After Arnolph's declaration to heaven—with baroque music —at the end of the first half we expect to move on to new things, but are treated instead to a repetition of the Horace-Agnes-Arnolph complication, while the ending is resolved so rapidly that we are scarcely allowed even then to share in the pathos of Arnolph's situation.
One is also prepared to accept a convention of stylised movement, but if one is adopted it should be practised with a fineness which gives it an artistic validity of its own. The opening mime sequence promises such fineness, but as the evening goes on the movement becomes repetitive and gross —too many characters making gestures too large for such a small stage. Brobdignagian strides in a Lilliputian area make for clumsiness, not comic finesse, while set tremors, a tree that wobbles, and hats that are knocked off mistakenly by actors and set alike mar the comic illusion. There are moments of great humour—
And again, if costuming is to be semi-stylised it should be so without being shoddy. Such things as the notary's curled plastic hair in blue, and the sent-up sumptuousness of the men's costumes (Horace's folderols determinedly refusing to remain with the rest of his costume) worry the eye, making it difficult to suspend one's disbelief even tenuously in this comic world. The easy superficiality of the plot then, is paralleled by a too unsubtle handling of the visual aspects of the play.
There are times of involvement, and
If "nothing is given for nothing," true fori the 17th century, still applies in the age in which we live, then perhaps more thought should be given to the value of the returns we get from the something we give. Raw laughter, not in this case a "prelude to reflection' (programme note, again) is perhaps not enough.
Josephine Knight
The University Film Society seems to be flourishing these days, in better health, in fact, than it has been for years. The dedication and effort shown by a small group has paid off, if the size of audiences is anything to go by. The only screening which was poorly attended was the Paramount showing of Sam Peckinpah's Guns In The Afternoon. This film deserved better support, for it is one of the few really good westerns made in recent years.
Although Peckinpah's feeling for the narrative line is a bit clouded, he has shown in this film and his earlier The Deadly Companions that he has a way with character and individual situations, besides possessing a superb visual sense. The colour photography in this film is magnificent, but perhaps subdued in the version we saw. Major Dundee, with The Cincinnati Kid did not eventuate, since it would have undoubtedly clarified his position in contemporary cinema.
Roger Vadim's Blood And Roses tells us nothing about the vampire legends which is not already contained in the
Also good to look at, but in an entirely different way, is The Third Man. But besides Robert Krasker's photography, which effectively catches the grey harshness of post-war Vienna, the film boasts superb performances all round, a taut and dramatic narrative development, and a script by
The Third Man is justly famous. The beautiful
Postscript to Ulysses: Lady in a Cage, banned in this country, has opened in London. The film critic of The Times (
Recent events in the film world were dominated by the death of Spencer Tracy, last of the great film stars. "When I go," he said once, "a whole epoch will have ended." He was referring, of course, to that era sometimes called the "golden age" of movies, a time when the star system and men like Tracy.
Tracy's career in films began in 1930 when he was hired by the Fox Film Company to play toughguy roles. His first film was Up The River, in which he co-starred with
At Mgm Tracy found himself in the company of Bad Day At Black Rock, The Last Hurrah, The Old Man And The Sea, Inherit The Wind and Judgement At Nuremburg.
I have seen only two of the many films that Tracy made in his first twenty years in the industry. Northwest Passage (directed by King Vidor, 1940) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming, 1941). Yet by 1939 he already had two Academy Awards for 'Best Actor" on his shelf, despite the fact that he had often been cast as a harmless goof, or as a foil opposite romantic stars like Gable and Powell. Tracy never entirely discarded the image of the good-natured "average Joe" although such an image was perfectly suited to his own rugged and indomitable character.
He went on to amass a total of eight Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor (Oliver runs a close second). In 1942 he appeared in Woman Of The Year, his first film with Katharine Hepburn. It was the beginning of twenty-five years of professional acquaintance and close personal friendship. Some of their better known films are Sea Of Grass, The State Of The Union, Adam's Rib and Pat And Mike. Their ninth and last film together, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, was completed shortly before his death.
Spencer Tracy took the art of screen acting to near-perfection. "He acts less and less," a critic remarked ten years ago. He might also have added that Tracy's performances improved as a result, for his comment is very much to the point. Tracy so refined his style of "non-acting," of absorbing the role into himself (or is it the other way round?), that no trace of artifice or conscious effort is to be found in his "acting." Every one of his performances is a masterpiece of subtle underplaying and perfect timing.
Observe, for example, how in Judgement At Nuremburg, amidst the posturings and histrionics of some of the other players, Tracy strides through the film looking as though he had been playing Judge Haywood . all his life. It is one of his best performances, and the film deserves to be sought out for this reason. Tracy's gifts appear to be instinctive, born of native ability and long experience. As he once said, "I don't think about acting. I never have. You Just do it ... It doesn't require much brainwork. Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting —not many, mind you, but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time." By the depth and uniform ex-cellence of his performances in many dif-ferent roles, Tracy proved himself to be the best film actor in the world. This view does not arise solely from personal pre-judice on my part (i.e. because he has always been my favourite star)—it has been expressed by, among others, Abby Mann,
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner was to have been Tracy's last film, for he contemplated retirement and permanent residence in London. He was undoubtedly haunted by the fact that he was the last of a line the like of which would not be seen again in the cinema. In his own poignant words, "The others like Bogart, with whom I started in movies, and Gable and Cooper are all dead and
With the numerous releases of "bargain" records I sometimes wonder how many can be considered a good buy. A case in point is Rca Victrola VIC 1036 Mono-Beethoven's 3rd Symphony (The Eroica) with
The biggest fault on the Monteux recording is obvious and is enough to put 8 prospective buyer off the record before he/she has heard it. The record company has committed a great sin, you have to turn the record over in the middle of a slow movement. Both of the other recordings have avoided this and the quality of the recording has not suffered. It is really inexcusable to expect the Ustener to suddenly interrupt his absorption with beautiful funeral march, get up and turn that side over, and then listen to the other half of the movement.
Monteux's reading of the symphony is dependable—a straightforward, lively performance, but the mono recording shows its age (1963) surprisingly-leaden, lacking in bass, with a lack of definition in the brass and woodwind. If you are wanting a cheaper recording of the work the Ace of Diamonds is a far better buy—a steady performance with a touched up stereo recording which belles its vintage. Of course the supreme version is the fully priced Decca record which is outstanding—marvellous recording with a superb performance. As in the recording of the Ninth Schmidt Isserstedt Extracts outstanding playing from the VPO which complements the thoughtful recording.
Again on the subject of bargain records— when the price is as high as the Ace of Diamonds catalogue (35/-) the discs are really out of (he cheap class and must be considered virtually top-price. Many of these are right up to the highest standard, for example the recently reviewed Graduation Ball, however others disappoint—the Katchen Monteux London Symphony recording of the Brahms Piano Concerto in D minor reviewed in the last issue.
Straight on the heels of this record comes an RCA release of a new recording of the work with Rca Lsc 2917 Stereo) and even though at full price this is only 10 - dearer. The record is very good—right up to the best Rca Dynagroove standards; Rubensteln gives a masterful interpretation of this beautiful concerto and is ably assisted by the
Europe's oldest "swinger" must surely be Petula Clark who has been enjoying a remarkable run of successes since her recent return to fame. On Colour My World (Pye Nspl 10171 Stereo) she shows just how attractively she can present hit-tunes. Highlight of the disc is the enchanting Here, There and Everywhere. Other tracks include England Swings, Cherish, Winchester Cathedral, and Reach Out, I'll Be There. An excellent recording.
I have often thought that with pop LP's the sleevee note there is the better the group/ artist is—the cream of overseas established stars—Beatles, the Stones, the Byrds, Donovan, Petula Clark. LP A Study In Black (Impact IMP 104 Mono).
"...Something new has emerged, something that every entertainer throughout the world strives for, creative ability ... true dedication to a chosen profession ... Larry's Rebels have joined those "fortunate few" destined to make their mark on the crazy world of Show Business..." and many more unctuous platitudes are mouthed by
As for the recording itself, some of the tracks are good—original, interesting pop music (Painter Man, Inside Looking Out), an Situation Vacant, and an effective version of the Mammas and the Papas tune Dancing In The Street. The remaining 10 tunes are mediocre, the only interesting aspects in these are guitarist John William's lead breaks. The best features of the disc are: (a) the good recording and, (b) the promise of better things to come from this group, that is if they bother returning to New Zealand.
A Milder Scene from the controversial new film "Blow-Up" coming shortly to Wellington. Starring Vanessa Redgrave the film, according to the Sunday News features:
• Partially naked women cavorting in a fashion photographer's studio.
• Drug-takers smoking marijuana at a party.
• One would-be female model stripping another.
Blow-Up is a joint production by MGM and Sophia Loren's husband Carlo Ponti.
Mr. McIntosh, the NZ Censor, has given it an R18 certificate.
Wonder Wart-Hog, Captain Crud And Other Super Stuff, edited by
"The blurb suggests that in this book the "Pepsi generation takes on the Great Society . . . stuffed shirts are torn to shreds by razor minds . . . and every ludicrous national hero gets equal opportunity to be boiled in a cauldron of acid wit."
It is therefore interesting to us New Zealanders, possessing as we do a modicum of 'stuffed shirts and ludicrous national heroes, and without any marked prevalence of Pepsi generations, Great Societies, razor minds, or acid wits.
The book is a mixed bag of undergraduate satire from the USA, all using the comic strip to satirise both the strip and Society, Great or mini. "Wonder Wart-Hog Meets Super-Patriot ... an amazing adventure in which the Hog of Steel pulls the nation from the brink of ruin just in time to save the off-year election for the Democrats";
"Ordinary Man—Faster than a speeding child!! More powerful than a medium-sized woman! Able to leap puddles if the wind is with him!"
The general level of quality is high—well above the aimless lavatorial giggle which, with exception, is published as undergraduate wit in New Zealand. Some, Indeed much, is on a slick professional level, and while some of it is topical and parochial ("Clark Cur") even yobs like us can recognise the allusions of most of the material.
I think the best thing I can say is that if you enjoy satire of the American type exemplified in the idiom of Mad and similar magazines, you will undoubtedly find this book pleasing. And if you consider this idiom coarse, unsubtle and not amusing, perhaps you should look at this book and see whether indeed it can be finely pointed and witty, not to say pretty slashing. In my view it, can, and I believe that this volume backs me up.
John Pettigrew
Mr. W. J. Hall, o senior lecturer in Asian Studies, criticises the phasing out of Asian Studies as a separate subject on Pll of this issue. Here Professor Brookes replies to Mr. Hall's letter.
Sirs,—I, too, favour the right to know. Where better to start than of
1. The Numbers Game. A quick check reveals over 190 undergraduate enrolments and about 30 Honours enrolments this year in courses taught by Asian Studies staff, using Asian material. (They also do a limited amount of teaching on non-Asian topics.)
It is not possible, at short notice, to say how many students are covered by these enrolments; doubtless fewer, since some will be taking more than one such course; but
2. Strangling Asian Studies? Whatever may be happening in Vuw Asian Studies are being expanded. The present enrolments are only a beginning. They will increase for current courses, as their existence and quality become better known. The present staff (three of whom are new) will offer additional courses when they are fully settled in. And the policy for expansion laid down by the Deans' Committee provides (as
3. The Vulpine Committee. The so-called Brookes-Janaki Report was not devised by Brookes-Janaki, nor even by the Asian Studies Committee (which made only minor amendments to the draft). It emerged from discussions held among Asian Studies staff, as
4. Abolishing Asian Studies III? Since
5. The Sacrifice.
6. The Right To Know Council. It seems that
Sirs.—It is nice to know that
[A pox on Holy Art say I. Eros and Art are bad mixers, which is why 1 haven't seen a good erotic film since Bill And Coo. All these healthy limbs are a bore —
Sirs.—Your Arts Editor.
He sees the part of the Vagrant "totally unnecessary to the play for it adds nothing to the satire."
For Mr. Lord's information, the play is not wholly a satire. One cannot place a play of this nature into a convenient pidgeon-hole to suit the critic's individual idiosyncrasies.
As well as possessing certain satirical qualities, the Insect Play is finely tragic.
The Vagrant is not merely a mouthpiece of the Capeks' convictions, but also is intended as a living entity in himself.
The structure, I think, tends to this view. The Vagrant is a disillusioned wanderer who has not succeeded in life due to flaws in his own personality, among which is the inability to involve himself in human situations. He says musing to himself:
"Why did I love her? I caught hold of her insect hands like that and then I let her go."
He stumbles into a forest where he sees insects living the lives of people from whom he has already fled in disillusionment.
He feels more and more despair as the play proceeds. In the final scene when the Chrysalis is finally born and when he mingles among the moths, the glory of life effervescing, and then sees death take the moths moments after birth, he realises the hopelessness of life itself.
This Lear-like motivation for his death is far removed from the absurdity that the Vagrant gets the idea to die.
Sirs, I would suggest to you that your art critics when reviewing a production such as this, should not attempt to air their private philosophies in argument with the author's intentions, but constructively review the merits and demerits of the production itself.
Sirs,—Would you inquire of Mr. Paul Peretz as Lucifer and
Perhaps you could also suggest that he himself is either the martyred Stephen of St. John or The Revelation.
A. K. Rees-Thomas.
Sirs,—" Disagreement in Asian Studies." Under this heading your issue of June 15 gave the disquieting news that Mr.
It appears that Honours students wishing to continue their researches in wider fields are to be advised to transfer to such institutions as the East-West Centre in Hawaii, and that Mr. Hall objects to the consequent "Amerlcanisation" of their Asian studies.
Professor Brookes, while agreeing with Mr. Hall that the student "must do his research in the appropriate country" raises certain problems: "For instance, a student interested in the development of a Chinese commune may encounter difficulties in getting into China. He would have to work from Hong Kong, or perhaps Taiwan."
It is surprising that you, Salient, fully aware that your own students were lately welcomed in Chinese communes, could accept and publish such a statement without question or comment. To anyone following the discrepancy between Hong Kong "news" of the Chinese "Red Guards" and the reports of recent visitors to China, it's a bit like accepting "Time" or "Reader's Digest" for an objective study!
Professor Brookes Is further quoted as saying that if a student wanted a "Western-type degree" he would go to Anu or perhaps the East-West Centre. (By the way, Salient, what the devil is Anu, anyway?) But the Swedish researcher, Myrdel, whose "Report from a Chinese Village" tin Swedish. 1963: English hardcover, 1965: paperback, 1967) is obtainable locally for 14/6, went to China to collect scarce information, not cheap degrees.
Further, this report to the Professorial Board, in recommending for undergraduates a course of Asian language studies which would "enable those in relevant faculties to acquire some informed awareness of the major cultures of Asia." proposes as first choice the study of Indonesian or of Malay. It makes no recommendation of Chinese, language of the most numerous and potentially the greatest nation on earth, chief medium of culture, finance and trade throughout the East, in Indonesia an object, consequently, of the most horrible and least publicised pogrom of modern times, and in New Zealand no way to present favours.
Salient Reporter
You can now smoke in the corridors of University buildings. (Legally, if you already do so.) Council meeting on June 26 amended regulation eight "since it is no longer practicable effectively to polier such a prohibition."
" The best architecture, like all art, comes from severe restraint—which is why we are just going to produce the best architecture," said Mr. Peter Beaven.
Speaking on Architecture and Design in the second of the Winter Term lectures, Mr. Beaven expressed his optimism for the future of architecture in New Zealand.
His selection of slides illustrated both what he called our "superb architectural heritage from New Zealand's early years," and examples of modern architecture — expressing in bold and vigorous lines the vitality of our countryside.
"We must satisfy all possibilities inherent in New Zealand building," Mr. Beaven said. "We have so few materials that we can be confident in using them—we are not seduced by elaborate competitors. We have an abundance of stone, white block and natural wood. Everything is possible today—we are in a situation of tremendous hope.
"Certainly we must redefine a number of values—we must learn to work within a severe budget. We must forget Dtopianlsm and build along the grain with the materials we have.
"We have great possibilities if only we can forget we are a welfare state. We have just spent 30 years building temporary buildings. Now it is time to build permanent ones. We are poised for a tremendous creative future which is now possible."
Mr. Beaven concluded by saying we must let more creative people work in New Zealand.
The educational authorities in India are greatly perturbed over the increasing use of "gherao" by the student community to get their demands accepted by college and governmental authorities.
"Gherao" is a new tactic used by Communist-dominated trade unions in the state of West Bengal to solve industrial problems.
Literally, "gherao" means illegal confinement of employers and senior industrial staff by labour till their demands are accepted. In many cases, employers and senior industrial staff were confined to factories for 48 to 72 hours without food and water.
Picking up this easy method, students of the Nagpur University in central India confined the principal of a local college in his car and prevented him from announcing the decision to increase college fees from the new academic year.
According to reports, as soon as the principal arrived in his car at the appointed place to address a press con-ference regarding the fee rise, about 50 students, led by the Secretary of the Nagpur University Students Union (an affiliate of the National Council of University Students of India—Ncusi), surrounded his car shouting slogans against the proposed fee rise and waved black flags. The principal remained confined in his car for 45 minutes. The "gherao" was lifted only when he promised to return home.
In another incident, a professor of the Orissa University of Agriculture in the eastern state of India and a faculty dean were "forcibly" locked up in their respective rooms for about four hours by certain students to press for the acceptance of their demands. The two educationists were released by the Vice-Chancellor of the university when he opened the doors with the help of duplicate keys.
The students were demanding that only degree holders in basic sciences of veterinary and animal husbandry should be appointed teachers in any department of the university.
According to reliable reports the two teachers were requested by about 70 students to come out of a staff meeting for a few minutes for discussions. As they came out they were "forcibly" taken away to their respective rooms in the colleges and locked up. The students then fled away with keys and did not come back.
These are only two instances where the students' demands were relatively unimportant. What worries educational authorities in India is that if these tactics are used widely to solve major issues and to force the authorities to accept student demands, a serious situation may arise.
Sirs,—It is not a pleasant business to have to see the troubles of Asian Studies thrust again upon the readers of Salient whom I am sure in this time of crisis have enough problems of their own! But in a world of increasing troubles about what we can do so little, many of us could still do a great deal toward saving Asian Studies at Victoria—once we make up our minds.
Some of us may not think that what is or is not being done about Asian Studies here has much bearing on our own lives. But what really is at stake here is nothing less than the student's as well as the scholar's right to know. If Asian Studies is successfully strangled at this university, we may be quite certain that the same methods will be applied elsewhere.
A key statement in the Brookes-Janaki Report quoted by Salient was that "one reason the university introduced the Asian Studies programme was to enable a substantial (bold letters mine, WJH) proportion of undergraduates in relevant faculties to acquire some informed awareness of the major cultures of Asia..." This statement simply does not bear examination if for no other reason than scarcely more than one-tenth of one per cent (0.106%) does not constitute a "substantial" pro-portion of any group in any-body's language. Yet 51 undergraduates (that being the number currently enrolled in the "expanded" interdisciplinary programme financed by the Asian Studies Centre budget) is all we have now at more than three times the cost per student three years ago! Not only that, the total enrolment in Asian Studies has been further reduced this year from last year's 73 to this year's 63 (if we include the Political Science Honours Seminar offered by Professor Janaki).
Although courses bearing upon Asian topics have a long time been taught and are being taught at this university quite independently of the Asian Studies Programme (for example an Indian lecturer has just joined the Philosophy Department to teach Eastern philosophies). Asian Studies certainly should not and cannot take the credit for this.
But not only has the programme (despite the fine words) been more than trebled in cost and then reduced in the number of students, but the degree course in Asian Studies has been abolished. Next year no more courses will be offered by the Centre with the now planned abolition of the Stage III course.
The reduction in student intake for courses covered by the Asian Studies budget can be attributed to four principle causes:
The biggest obstacle Asian Studies has faced at this uni-yersity has been a commit-tee of the Professorial Board known as the Asian Studies Committee or the Brookes Committee. Like a similar Committee (the Aikman Committee in Pacific Studies) the Brookes Committee has both stultified as well as been hostile to the growth of Asian Studies at this university. The Aikman Committee has also failed to develop a viable Polynesian studies programme which is inexcusable in New Zealand. The reasons for the failures of both Committees are not hard to find. They are more institutional than per-sonal — few having the strength of character to trans-cend their institutional role.
As there are limited funds available for the behavioural sciences and the humanities each university department head must get as much as he conscientiously can for his own department. A committee in charge of one discipline made up of the heads of other disciplines is very much like appointing the foxes to guard a pullet. After the initial sparring among the foxes the pullet can be expected to be torn apart by the most rapacious foxes. It is natural that Jealous department heads will see that they get their share of lecturers and money formerly allocated to Asian Studies. The American "interdisciplinary" formula is the convenient rationalisation for this process. We could do the same for Political Science by dissolving it into the various other disciplines by establishing a Political Science Centre. We could let the History Department take up the Ancient Medieval, Modern and Contemporary Political Histories, Geography annex Political Geography. Economics take on Political Economy. Philosophy take on Political Philosophy. Sociology take on Political Sociology, and so forth. What incredible gall!
Meanwhile fewer students study less about Asia and, what is still worse, those few students who do show promise will be snapped up by foreign universities, never to return. Surely Victoria University and the New Zealand taxpayer deserve better than the financing of New Zealand's brain drain.
I have decided to sacrifice my own future academic career in New Zealand to expose the circumstances and some of the events that have led to this unhappy situation. I would invite fellow academics, unafraid of the disapproval of their Department Heads, students unafraid of their teachers, and a public unafraid of anybody to join with me in forming a Right To Know Council which will have as its main and immediate object the getting of both Asian and Polynesian Studies off the ground at this university. The more general end of the Right To Know Council (in which all members would be equal regardless of background or social status—even Professors and top administrative staff are invited if they can accept equality with their students and interested members of the public) will be genuine university reform.
Those interested in the formation of a Right To Know Council please contact Mr.
Sirs,—Your slip is showing. An amusing error and one which must cause consternation amongst students who know the slightest thing about music is the photograph printed on page eight of the issue of Salient on June 15. I refer to the photograph of
I have not yet had the good fortune to attend a concert in which the cellist has held the cello to the shoulder (a musical Samson perhaps?). and I recognise the person shown as being the violinist zvi Zeitlin.
Surely this is too much to expect from people who must know the difference between a violin and a cello, How about taking a finger out of the works and showing the correct photo of
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Contrary to pre-season predictions results after eleven games have been disappointing. Varsity rugby sank to the lowest level seen for a long time when on Saturday its first five teams were beaten, many reasons have been suggested for this decline, however, injuries and the loss of leading players to the club are probably the principle contributing factors.
After continuing their successful run from last season for the first seven games of this season the "A's" lost four games in succession to destroy their chances of retaining the Jubilee Cup. Included in these last four games were losses to lowly rated Wellington College Old Boys and Onslow of the "Bottom Six." However cup favourites Petone were held to 9—6 in an enthralling game. Injuries to Gary Weinberg, Mick Williment and David Heather have seriously disrupted the back-line and while Weinberg and Williment have returned to the scene, Heather will be out for another three weeks. The backline has shown glimpses of its potential but without ever "clicking."
In the forwards performances have been of a generally high standard, reaching a peak against the strong Petone pack. Captain
A string of early losses did not help a team which in the previous season had been outstandingly successful. However the losses were not heavy ones and over recent weeks players have been showing their true worth. Having players "borrowed" does not help a team struggling to achieve a combination. Performances should improve over the concluding games of the season.
Winning only two games out of a possible eleven is not an enviable record by any means but this is the fate of the "Cs." To their credit however are three drawn matches in a grade which is currently dominated by club sides fielding their top team.
Of all the Varsity sides playing in the local competition the "J.I.S" have the best performance to date. At time of writing they are third on the points table in a grade where no team is clearly superior. They are probably the club's best bet of clinching a title this season.
Mixed fortunes have followed this team which has played some polished and some shocking football. Having his first attempt at coaching is former senior half-back
Varsity is represented by two teams in this grade the Weir representatives currently doing the better of the two. Our other team has not been disgraced however and had a handsome win last Saturday.
There are also two Varsity teams in this grade University A and "Toro's Tigers." To date "Toro's Tigers" have won six games to the "A's" four'. The match in which the two meet will probably have to be the highlight of the 1967 Rugby calendar!
Two teams have also been entered in this "social grade" and both are doing moderately well. Both teams currently have eight points and interest is centred around who will be ahead at the conclusion of the season.
Sharing bottom place is not the most desired position in any grade of rugby football.
This Is currently the role of our representatives in the above grade. This in itself should be enough incentive; for the team to come back over the latter stages of the season.
In a grade supposedly of weaker teams it would appear from the results that there is a wide gulf between the top and bottom teams in this division. It is contended that the top bracket of teams in this division would not be outclassed in grades well above that in which they are at present enrolled. Varsity are currently bracketed in the middle of this grade.
Playing in the first division of the "glamour grade" University is at present in third position. Club teams are matched with the first fif-teens of the top schools of the district in this grade and it is a credit to the team that they can do so well with players playing together for the first time.
Summing up, it would appear that University rugby is at present in a trough in the cycle through which all teams go at one time or another. Even so, the record is not unimpressive and the club looks forward to a period of promise.
Classics Department first, Political Science second, third place to the Accountancy Department and fourth to the BCA team. This was the result of the Intramural Indoor Soccer Knockout competition. The Knockout competition is now being run on a Challenge Ladder basis. This will run to the end of the term.
Fun is the outcome of the Intramural Competition to date. Badminton has recov-ered from a short lull to develop into a spirited competition. Volleyball is providing an opportunity for those with a "flare" for social sport, whilst the hard core of Basketballers would gladden even Uncle Sam's heart. But, alas, oh dear, what has happened to the table tennisers—what is causing their interest to wane?
Noticed the exuberance of faculty staff of late? Reports indicate that their new bounce is a result of their increased use of the trampoline. This is also a student amenity you know. Bounce through your degree; meet the faculty staff over trampoline—seems to be the place where you'll find them these days.
There is no reason why the gym should not be accepted into student politics. Like Sports Committeewise. It's a fact that the girls get great use from the gym. It's a fact that last year there were no ladies on Sports Committee, Perhaps if some of the fairer sex were to seek inclusion on incoming committee there would be greater liaison between this building and that body? Other benefits are also envisagable from this fair invasion.
"I say, old man—winter cricket—no, not really! Whatho, perhaps these are better than the old days, what? Perhaps my arm action could be improved. This confound-ed interruption in play; not good for the game, you know. Even be good for the fellows with their batting. Oh dear, no one ever told me we gen-tlemen of the country could be given such a marvellous opportunity. Damn poor show. There is this fellow in the gym, damn nice chap really, all prepared to offer the equipment (and tons of space) for us to practise indoors in the winter, and what do we do? We neglect it! Shameful. Have to do something about this."
Fund raising? Then see the golf club. Maybe they would like to sell a golf practice net? Near new condition, one season old but hardly used. Also driving mat. Can be viewed at the gym any time as it is no longer used. Please feel welcome to call and inspect— even use it.
Who said "everything improves with use?" It doesn't matter, but as the snow on the mountain is rapidly improving for faster skiing it seems so too is the dry ski slope. Wax from the skis of the beginners (and others) is now increasing the speed of the slope to keep up with the advancement of its users.
New Sports Committee officer, Mr.
At present studying for an LLM. Mr. Corry has represented Victoria at tournament Athletics almost continuously since 1960. The exception was In 1966. He Is also a member of the Harrier club and was last year the club captain.
He was last year a member of sports committee and was a member of the three-man sub-committee set up to study the question of eligibility for Victoria sports club members. He is secretary of the Nzu Athletics Council and for the past three years has been the Athletics delegate to Nzusu. For
Victoria will be represented at the World Student Games to be held at Tokyo in August. Miss
Miss Schwarz has been fenc-ing for six years, the past four with the Victoria Club. She has been an NZU blue for the past three years and is currently rated as the top woman fencer in the University sphere of this sport.
On the national scene Miss Schwarz is a past Wellington and North Island champion and is placed about fourth or fifth in the National line-up.
She was a hot contender for a place in the New Zealand team to the Commonwealth Games at Jamaica last year until illness affected her performances.
When asked what effort was required to achieve prominence in this sport of agility and lightning reflexes, Miss Schwarz described her training. She said that the three nights a week and Saturday afternoons given up to fencing interspersed with jogging and exercises was, to her, a challenge. She expected it to remain as such for a few more years yet. When not fencing for six months of the, year. Miss Schwarz enjoys playing squash and tennis.
A final-year Science student, Miss Schwarz is this year attending Victoria part-time. Although devoting a considerable amount of time to her fencing, she tries not to let this stand in the way of her study. "But." she said, "I am determined to win a medal at these games." And it is to be hoped that she will, although it will be no mean feat when it is remembered that there will be over one hundred countries competing.
The Club commenced the 1967 season with seven teams, six playing in the Wellington Football Association's Senior Divisions and one in the Intermediate Division, but with increasing numbers of players coming forward it was found necessary to enter two further teams in the Wellington Football Association's Senior Sixth Division.
The club's affairs are handled by an elected committee of six and the nine team captains. In a club such as ours, which has only three non-playing members, the patron,
The first eleven plays in the Senior Second Division and at present holds a position half way up the League table. If the team can win its six remaining League games it still has an outside chance of gaining promotion to the First Division. Regular players include
The second team was promoted to the Senior First Reserve Division this season, and with its present position of fifth has fully justified its promotion.
The team, apart from two very experienced players in
The Intermediate team, which has an age limit of 20 years, consists mainly of first year University students. It has been unfortunate that on many occasions the team has been under-strength, firstly because of the University holidays and later because of injuries, and to date has had rather an uneven season. The team is coached by
The club's most successful team is undoubtedly the Fourth Division "A" side, which is at present sharing top position in the League table with Northern. Provided these two teams win their next three games, the final match of the season, when they meet, should provide a grand finish to the Fourth Division League championship.
The other teams of the club, with the exception of the Sixth "A" and Sixth "C" teams, are having more or less reasonable seasons. The Sixth "Cs" were late starters and have only played four games, while the Sixth "A"s have of necessity, been chopped and changed around so much that it is little wonder that they have only won one game.