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Sited on a windswept hillside, at a steep climb from anywhere. Victoria University is an uneasy failure as a community.
Hutt Valley residents are forced to commute, Wellington students ties are elsewhere and part-time students aim at a meal-ticket. All have contributed to making this a nine to five brains factory.
Yet another year of emancipated schoolchildren have just muddled their way through the enrollment machine, and after that it is hardly surprising that any will feel affinity to the University as a community.
For all anyone can see, the only bond between the confusion of departments, lectures and students that parades as the University, is the amorphous and impersonal 'Administration'. Signing forms in triplicate, receiving a computer number, or undertaking a course wrangle with the bureaucracy is hardly likely to encourage a feeling of warmth.
The setup from enrollment on, is so confusing that it is easiest to jump into the first academic rut that appears, and never be seen or heard again.
Very few lecturers will have the guts to confront you with their personal beliefs. You are under no pressure to form your own. You barely even need to think if you follow a well-trodden degree path.
The student community may struggle along while you bury yourself in mountains of library books. A few 'self-seekers' continue to run the nearly dead Student Representative Council and its string of important committees. A few people will produce Salient every week. You may safely ignore their attempts to produce a community out of deadwood. After all your own search for academic irrelevance is much more important.
More architectural coffins like the Earth-Sciences building will make this tiny area of Kelburn into a memorial to shortsightedness. Balloon-like expansion will add to personal problems of adjustment.
The Administration isn't geared to worry about the future. Its task is to spend the funds given by a reluctant government, in the most economical way possible.
Cover: Robert Franken "A Worm's Eye of you"
Printed by the Wanganui Chronicle, Box 433, Wanganui and published by the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association, Box 196. Wellington.
The Vietnam War having caused how many deaths and mournings (poverty, diseases, illiterature, innumerable war victims, orphans, widows, invalid soldiers...) in our Fatherland.
Therefore, we, all the priests of all the religions, demand the U.S. Government must put end quickly to this "doctrinal war" so inhuman and so irrational that continues to prolong our miserable homeland.
Please, you give our Peace Documents (enclosed) to the Directors of your local newspapers, magazines. Press-Agencies... in order to help us propagate the aspirations of our peace loving Vietnamese People all over the world.
If you will have the newspapers or the magazines which insert our documents, please, send those articles to our address (above) to remember for ever!!!
Hoping that your help, the U.S. Government may end all the sufferings of our Vietnamese People and even your American People. God bless for you and your family.
The Vietnam War has prolonged more than 25 years ago, having caused how many of deaths and mournings. The poverty war, diseases and illiterature ones had and have acted severely in our whole Country. The Oriental moral laws and religious regulations have been treaded, overturned, and exhausted by the infiltration of the Occidental material civilization waves influences.
By the Foreigners policy, our Vietnamese People is going closely to destruction hole. The West and the East don't yet understand together, because we haven't yet Love!
By this reason, being Clergymen, on behalf of all Religions and all Vietnamese people classes, we have the honour to call to your Conscience and your
Do you want your country be ravaged by the war, or your people be painful by hostilities? Surely no! why were you so merciless to aid money, ammunitions and guns; for our compatriots of the two North and South Regions be reciprocally killed? In face, you have called to Peace for Vietnam, but in your heart, you have tried to prolong the war for your interests over the sweat blood and tears of your Human Fellows!?!?
The Vietnamese People don't ask you for help for anything, but beg you to allow us Love only! The Vietnamese National Spirit is immortal, our more four thousands of history years had proved this point. So that, what do you wait to order not yet the entire withdrawal of your forces and your Advisors out of Vietnam to give back to the People Self-Decision Rights to our people, for we resolve the Vietnamese Peace by a moderate and intimate policy?
If you aren't sincere to stop in time the Vietnam war, but to let it spread out everywhere for becoming at last the World War III, at that time, or you sure that your Super-Powers should live in peace and security.
The World End Day isn't far, once the Nuclear Arm stock of the Super-Powers be exploded on same time in the coming World War III.
The last time, the Vietnamese People ardently beg you and Mr. the Chiefs of all Governments in the world to will have the common agreement for Giving Back Peace to Vietnam.
With our thanks for your Human Pity Mercy. we remain, dear Sirs.
I'd like to warn all your readers of the disadvantages of ever finishing a degree. Having just done that very stupid thing, I find that I am being discriminated against when applying for work (something which I am loathe to do, but which I find necessary when confronted with having to pay for travel tickets, etc)
Employers feel obliged to pay more because of a degree and frequently refuse work to graduates without asking if they would be prepared to work for wages that do not take their degrees into account. The difference often isn't all that much anyway.
The other day I went to see the Toll Exchange where I was told "Sorry you're too highly-qualified. You'd get bored and leave quickly." Now this is possibly quite true, but having a degree doesn't increase your capacity for boredom To the contrary, it enables you to fill in hours of what would otherwise be boredom with pleasant memories of the good old days in the ivory tower and maybe... revolution? By passing our degrees we have become branded in a way that will destine us to a nice safe job sitting behind a desk or in front of a classroom, where we will be paid "for our degrees" and where we can cause no trouble Society would rather let us subvert students in schools than the real might of this country... its toll operators.
I would like to express disapproval with the management of this year's Oversea's Students' Orentation Day.
The choice between goulash or spring roll (at least thats what it looked like) is hardly the same quality of reception as we experienced from Herr Levenbach and Associates, the previous year, when we dined on lavish helpings of chicken and salads and ice cream 'n strawberries 'n all sorts of goodies.
Many other incidents during this years Orientation inspire me to write to you, Sir, so this may merely be the first of my many letters.
Alas, where are the snows of
Despite the circumnabulatory nature of Raymond Forsyth's life, about which more I know and care not, and the verbal evidence that he so relishously imparts, I must temerously ingrate to dispute a certain modicum of his material. For certes, in fact, said scungy sponger must in no leisurely manner have enjoyed the breathness of a Taranaki breeze. In struth and verity do I state this matter from most fresh and oft-repeated visual evidence, that in those gentle pastoral dales and hills, so ruptically engorged by cocky denizens of the road, the constant, and, indeed, almost like a lover, unwavering statistics, in probity show:-
This, I must in all honesty impart, is likely to be shown of utmost importance as a lucid and unprintable indicator of the bovigerent incomprehensibility of the Taranaki Mentality.
Dr Brian Edwards tried to project an image of willingness to aid underdogs and the underprivileged during his recent visit to the University Union. Hit speech, entitled "The Quest for Justice" suggested that the need for law reform was as urgent as ever.
Justice must no longer remain the perogative of the rich. With free criminal prosecution for one and all, vastly better State resources, high lawyer's feet, and a bum legal aid scheme to boot it seems that the "scales appear to be loaded from the outset in favour of the accusers rather than the accused."
Dr Edwards' called for the placing of the protection of the legal rights of the citizen on the list of social services, which the State should provide as it does with health and education.
As a solution to the present situation he suggested the Introduction of "Duty Solicitors", similer to those in Scotland and Ontario, Such a solicitor would advise the accused, on bail, and prospects of legal aid, but be paid for by the State. The present New Zealand scheme has little hope of success when a Crown Prosecutor can receive $578 while the Defence Council receives only $132.20
Dr. Edwards finished by saying that it was essential that the government should recognise the need for providing a legal aid scheme as a social service end thereby do away with the "invidious distinction between the rich and poor."
Not surprisingly many questions centered around the forthcoming election and whet Dr Edwards would do if successful. When asked what he would do if he gets in, the reply was "..speak, just speak, what else can I do?"
On judges and the legal profession, he answered that they were the most reactionary group in society, and their pomposity end moral lectures were really terrible.
On the question at a second T.V. channel Dr Edwards said that the present one channel showed a selection of programmes almost unequalled anywhere else, and if there was to be a second channel it most certainly Should not be in private hands.
The encyclopaedia ad. Dr Edwards acknowledges as a mistake that he now regrets, as it wet in contradiction to the political philosophy that he now holds. But he needed the money for his book.
He said he was in harmony with the general philosophy of the Labour party but if it ever came to a clash of over-riding principle he would withdraw.
He did not think that the legalisation of marijuana was a vitally important issue, and would rather see people housed first, so that they had somewhere to smoke the stuff.
The final question was, "Do you personally think-that you will beat Bill Young and get. elected?" to which he replied, "Couldn't you ask something harder?"
The temporary reprieve of the Bowen Street Hospital from the M.O.W's jugernaut, has also meant a temporary reprieve for 43 of Wellington's home less students. An attempt has been made, at Bowen Street, to create a community of disparate ages, sexes end nationalities, although there is a slight imbalance of too many senior New Zealand male students and too few female students. Whet vacancies there are, are almost exclusively reserved for overseas first year students who have not yet arrived at Victoria.
Rooms are let at the rate of $8.50 for a single room and $6.50 for a double room. These rates are designed to recoup the several thousand dollars spent so far, on setting up the hospital for student accommodation. The residents will buy their basic grocery items communally, in bulk, and $5.00 has been levied from each resident for this purpose, but this will be reduced in the future.
At the moment there is a shortage of furniture and kitchen implements, although the public has responded with offers of gifts ranging from bed spreads to a stove. The only stain on this otherwise happy picture, is the projected
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Nor how much you can do.
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The University 'Council's motion refuting to accept "funds or equipment from the military departments of foreign governments without the published approval of Council" ( Feb 28, 1972) comes at a convenient time for this University.
In August 1971, the USAF ceased providing finance for research at Victoria.
Now the Vice-Chancellor (Dr D.B.C. Taylor) can safely say that there is at present no military-funded research in progress. But suggestions that this University should not accept foreign military research grants have been raised at Council level before and these have in feet been opposed for years. It is only at this time of minimum inconvenience and embarrassment that the University Council decades not to accept "funds or equipment from the military departments of foriegn governments."
(If Canterbury University Council passed a similar motion, they could still have the U.S.A.F. lease land from them and operate such defence installations as the Mt John tracking station. The motion passed willingly here at Victoria, then, is still not enough)
Leave Wellington on Friday March 10 on the ferry at 8pm; travel by bus to Washdyke near Timaru, and then on to Mt. John. Return on Sunday night in time for work on Monday.
All for $10. Pay Your Ten Dollars to the Students Association Office Today. There are Only a Limited Number of Bookings Left. Phone 557308 for Details.
Many people in New Zealand regard others according-to their race rather than as human beings. Mrs Holland speaking in the Union Hall; on Wednesday, 1st March, expressed her feelings of hopelessness toward young people in N.Z. by citing our ignorance of the South African and Rhodesian situations.
She said that if in fact people in N.Z. and Australia thought of themselves as races, the situation was more tragic than in America, in a lot of Asian countries and also in Industrial countries where people regard themselves as human beings first and foremost. She said that although she was a British born subject and a permanent Australian resident, for all intents and purposes, she was still treated as an alien.
"There is a race war in Southern Africa"... "I support guerilla warfare in Africa because what alternative is there?" If the white people won't listen to them there it no choice but to make them listen. She said that the tragedy to her was that if the overt conflict in Southern Africa came earlier than expected, Australia and New Zealand will not be ready to listen to the Africans but will lust run in blindly with the whites.
She said a major reason why the British were negotiating with Ian Smith is because people like Reginald Maudling, Quentin Hogg and Rippon are the directors of companies which own some of the million pounds of capital investment in Rhodesia, if the British were serious about the commission to investigate opinion in Rhodesia they would have chosen en Australian or a New Zealander, a West Indian an Asian en Africa—a completely neutral group of people with a background to understand a colonial situation.
"There are mass graves in South Africa and in South Rhodesia, of those who have refused to move off their land end killed by Security Forces, and there are mass graves of Africans who were killed by Security Forces because they were suspected of harbouring guerilla's. And with all their powers the security force searched these homes end didn't find any evidence of guerilla's end they still killed these villages on the strength of rumour. If white people were being killed in the same way there would be an uproar, but because its just Africans being killed New Zealand and Australia don't bat an eyelid. And because the message has been disseminated for you by the whites in Southern Africa and because you are so ignorant of the situation, you just print what they give you."
Maybe the word ohms still sounds scientific to you. Or you think of the old fashioned label 'On her Majesty's Service.'
A small group formed several weeks ago wants to alter that. OHMS is the Organisation to Halt Military Service and its first campus activities start this week with a display in the Union Building foyer.
The decision to register and comply with National Service Act is one political decision that every nineteen year-old male must face It's Time You didn't have to'.
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Cutlery and salt and pepper shakers are disappearing en masse as the time for furnishing flats has arrived. Unless people wake up this means either that salt and pepper plus sugar must be kept by the cash register or that meet prices will have to be increased. Someone has to pay for the loss end the only ones to suffer will be your fellow students.
Another disappointing aspect of peoples behaviour is the way a few student! treat the cafeteria staff with contempt or as people to make fun of The idealism of some appears to be pretty thin.
In both cases it is only a few people who are responsible but the few are upsetting a mighty lot of people.
So you thought the Debating Society had been laid to rest. Given its last year's records it certainly deserved to be.
But a few people are still enthusiastic enough to think that communication is important in a University. The emphasis this year will be on small meetings where people learn to speak.
The new look Society is holding its first meeting at 7.30pm tonight (Wednesday) in the Union Listening Room.
This year the National and Labour Clubs of Victoria hope that they will be able to set up an unusual tutoring scheme - but this scheme will only be possible with the help of students outside the two clubs. The people who are hoped will benefit from this scheme are young Maoris. Islanders, end children from other migrant groups.
Why do we need such a scheme? It was born from the realisation that these people start school with a ready-made handicap- partly due to language difficulties. This handicap is self-perpetuating, as the child can rarely catch up on his equally-endowed pakeha classmate, and when it comes to job hunting, he's left with the low-paid occupations. This lack of money will affect his home life, and that of his children-and so the vicious circle continues. There are very few Maori students going to University- if you're in the cafe, look round and be convinced.
Rather simplistic- but probably true. The long-term answer is more money provided by the Government to give extra tuition to these students- as many people in high places are starting to realise. On a short term basis, however, the situation can be helped by students doing the tutoring in their own time. Facilities have been promised by several headmasters, end there is the possibility of financial support from the Government.
There are two types of assistance that we can give to these students. The first, which has been tried out in the USA, was that each tutor be assigned to one student- but this scheme has its disadvantages, the main one being that few students have the time for the frequent, regular meetings that make this scheme work.
The second type of assistance is where we establish homework centres, staffed on a roster basis by about five tutors on a ratio of one tutor to five pupils Transport could be arranged to the centre, which hopefully would be a Community Centre.
The scheme, of course, is rather vague at the moment- details have to be worked out with headmasters and the like. But there is one essential to this scheme your support. If you can provide it, hand your name address, end telephone number into the Student Union office, end if we get enough names, a meeting to organise things will be held In the near future.
Don't just talk about It. Do it!
Are you a former ambulance Cadet? or Nursing Cadet? or former member of a senior division? Have you belonged to Red Cross? Are you interested in learning first aid. Are you a member of a sports club, tramping club, ski dub etc?
Help your club and yourself. Come to a meeting being held at 7.30pm on Thursday 9th March in Sub Committee Room No. 2 where the formation of a St. John division (combined ambulance and nursing) composed of University students and staff will be discussed. Come along and find out how you can help your fellow students end club members.
Clubs and societies are invited to send at least one representative to find out all about it.
Further information can be obtained from Nelson Metcalfe, P.O. Box 966, Wellington., or at the old Bowen St. Hospital. Remember the meeting is 7.30pm Thursday 9th March in the committee room No. 2.
"Age is not important, I might well be 25 years old,
Robert Franken studied sculpture at the royal academy in
As there was a possibility that he might have had to do national
"When I do something I like to do it properly, so I came the other end of the earth."
He knew no English when he arrived.
"At school I learned French and German-most art
He has exhibited in the Rothmans Gallery in Wellington, and
His work is obviously worthy of being exhibited, but there are
"New Zealand needs better galleries, with many rooms the artists work may be appropriately hung." "It is easy hang a lot of work, it is harder to hang the essence of
And NZ newspapers,
"A person rates two columns and a picture if they grow extra large pumpkin. But if they create a work of art,
He is travelling overseas in a few weeks, and will be away for
"I am not this, not that, not a painter, not a sculptor. I
"One day I hopped on a bus and bought three sections
"I collect matches. When I have enough I put them on a dish on the floor, put a rose in the middle and set fire
The drawings (usually 30" x 36") in black ink on white paper are edged thickly with black and fixed behind glass. The artist intends the reflection of the room and of people in the picture. And he thinks that a person may appreciate a drawing more if he has to look hard to see it. He has small editions, ten copies printed of each for selling.
"You can buy my drawing, but it is really only a permanent loan. I made it, it is still a part of me."
Robert Franken has been drawing like this for three years, since in New Zealand. It may not be his ultimate style. "I know I am going to draw much better than I can now. In the past I have maybe drawn as a child learns to tie his bootlaces, but those drawings were very important at the time, and as a snapshot of time.
"Each drawing is a peak, a different view. There is never a final peak."
He has done paintings, big paintings, but not with much colour Between the black and the white of the drawings are all the colourful tones of grey. Black and white convey the finite and the emotive quality of the subject.
"When the gun is pointed at the animal or in the instant between any life and death, there is no colour, there is only black and white".
Colour would only distract from the basis of the picture. And "white is important-I am just making a cutting. The white is just as much in balance, just as important as the black."
Visually, he is perhaps still a sculptor.
"Drawing is similar to sculpture - if you make a mistake, that is it, you cant fix it up. I hardly work with a rubber. My drawings are quite sculptural, every detail stands on its own, every minute detail of the drawing is in a world of its own. People say, why dont you draw natural things? Everything I draw exists, just because I draw it.
I make small sketches on paper, I get ideas from these. In my final drawing, I have to be totally involved in the living act but at the same time detached to enable me to draw fine detail.
My drawings are too complicated to have the entire drawing in the mind. It is all there, but as a continuous film. A drawing can never be finished. What I put on paper is more like a still from a film. In my mind they are changing all the time. A drawing is a statement of an instant, a moment. Although it may take three months to draw, three months are nothing.
In my type of work I make only statements, I dont make any rules. I am not that sure."
The artist has a number of prints of his work still available. People interested in seeing them with a view to purchasing may call on him at no 12A Terrace Gardens in the mornings, or may inquire at the Salient Office.
"Where do I pick up my ideas? From nature, or from my own thoughts? ideas flow in when talking to people, explaining to people who have a different eye, I learn from other people, I know everything under the sun, but it has to be opened up."
"I didn't consciously pick up my style from anywhere. People refer to Grunewald, Breughel, Bosch. I have been working with a microscope, I probably get more from the microscope than from the history of art. Therefore my detail, there is always something within the viewed object; e.g. the movement of muscles, the various organisms on the body. There is an answer, but there are so many sideline answers, there is no answer."
"It is good to read the theories of other people. All the answers are in oneself. You have to discover which page, which window to open. I do not illustrate life, I illustrate my vision. I am not pleasing to some people, because I do represent some thing, but maybe not something they have experienced yet."
He likes the art of Max Ernst.
"I look at things and I leave them. Somewhere along the line they are going to affect me, but only when the relevant part of my life comes along."
He likes some of Etcher., but he finds Escher very technical, very worked out. It is important to make a reflection of oneself, but not too much of a reflection.
"Escher is more representative than I am. I draw more what affects me. I look in a microscope, you can never make anything new, really. I think I am very religious. I create my own symbols to interpret life with. Not religious in the sense of believing in a God"
He reads no Science Fiction. Most books he reads are about cults, why people behave in the way they do, the force in life, the life force. He is not interested in black or white magic, but in the symbols people have created to describe things, e.g. the sun, God.
"My symbol of the eye is not new. The eye is a symbol for awareness, a symbol for all the senses... You can see an eye in a cup of coffee, you don't know if the cup is looking at you.
There are so many things you cant explain. People talk about the weather, but they dont really know how important weather is. Your whole behaviour is underneath influenced by the weather."
"Every one of us is a magician. Every one of us makes symbols. "
"If I had a look at a chemistry book or an airport, some of the symbols I would know, others I would interpret entirely within my own way of thinking."
"Questions - You only met me one hour ago, but the questions were already in your mind. I dont know where my answers come from, the well starts boiling up."
"I know I can't drive on the right hand side of the road here, but there are so many ways I can drive on the left hand side."
Franken has written poems, in Dutch. An English paraphrase of one is roughly: "You are always married in yourself, but you must also merry something else, to overcome the divorce in yourself.'
The short stories Robert Franken writes will be incorporated with his ideas for drama, his poems and his drawings, to make an unified and certainly amazing book. His short stories are genuinely short; colloquial, and characteristically vivid.
But it may be that when he realises his ideas for films, he will have his maximum impact. He has already written stories end scenarios for a series of five films and he has begun drawings for costumes and sets.
The films will be primarily 'atmospheric', and they will be made for total audience involvement. They will offer perhaps a surrealistic atmosphere in which the audience may participate.
"I want my audience to be acting, though not quite panicing."
"A man with an oxy-acetalene burner may suddenly come up to a wall and start burning like hell, but the wall wont burn."
"I was once watching a horror movie where everybody was enjoying themselves, and some were screaming. I put a lens over one eye so that it looked twice as large as the other. I asked the man next to me for a light. He handed me his matches, looked at me, saw my huge eye, and let out a perfect scream, a real scream. The theatre became quiet, but for the giggling of a girl nervous." Most of the films will be without words. Sometimes there will be natural sounds, sometimes electronic music, end often no sounds at all. Visually they are a series of fantasy landscapes and constructions. They are peopled with grotesques and corpses, people naked or bizzarrely costumed. All this is woven into an arcane symbolic sequence to convey more of Franken't exceptional and novel ideas.
Stone The Crows are a British rock group fronted by Maggie Bell on vocals. She has been compared to the late Janis Joplin, but Maggie Bell's vocals have a charm and sincerity not always evident with Joplin. This L.P. is the third released by this group, and certainly they are more polished and tight knit in playing. The current line up is Les Harvey (guitar), Steve Thompson (bass), Ronnie Leahy (Keyboards), Colin Allern (percussion). Musically the band are showing more progressive, driving riffs than formerly. There is much less influence of soul music Which was evident in earlier albums.
Most of the tracks on the album comprise original material In fact the other two tracks Dont Think Twice (Dylan) and Ailen Mochree (Scottish traditional) are probably the least effective tracks on the record. Keep On Rollin is a straightforward rock song, in the Delaney/Bonnie style, in which The Beat goes on. One Five Eight is probably the best track which opwns with electronic spacey sounds, followed by fuzzed out guitar and powerful vocals from Bell. The track has an evil funky feel and good lyrics. One Five Eight was written by the groups former Organist. I may be right, I may be wrong is another simple rocker; a good time un-complicated song which would probably appeal to those who like Delaney/Leon Russell/Joe Cocker type music.
Stone The Crows present an exciting, driving type of rock music. Although an accomplished and tight group the emphasis of the musicians is always to provide a solid background of rhythm and to feature the powerful voice of Maggie Bell. There are no lead-breaks or freak-outs but plenty of driving solid rock sounds suited equally for listening or moving to.
Stone The Crows still retain the driving solid percussive background of sould music yet they have also a subtlness and artistry which make them one of the best bands in Britain today.
Its been close to a year now since our ears were blessed with a new package of Led Zeppelin's distinctive sound. Continual engineering errors have delayed the completion of their fourth album, the one with the unpronounceable name. They began recording as early as The Battle of Evermore and Stairway to Heaven Plant's voice is certainly sweeter, even gentle in parts. There seems to be strong influence in the album, from the romantic-epic ballad style of Fairpoint Convention and especially Fotheringay. Whether this is a result of Sandy Denny's presence on The Battle of Evermore track, or whether it has resulted in her presence, its impossible to say. But anyway she is there, and I for one am delighted to hear her duelling it with Plant.
There are 8 tracks in all, beginning with Black Dog, which is in traditional Zeppelin style with difficult lead guitar riffs and breaks in the music as Plant sings each rhyming couplet, much the way is goes in Dazed and Confused and You Shock Me, though perhaps not as memorable as these latter two songs, Black Dog is still an excellent track.
Then Zeppelin go womb-hunting with a rock 'n roll number entitled Rock 'n Roll - what else? The result is a pleasant, beat-ey track that sounds like a cross between Chuck Berry and early Beatles, with the Zepp. flavouring that Plant always imparts. It seems that many groups, having established themselves in one great idiom, then turn to airing several styles on the one album. Ten Years After, with their Watt album are another example of this. And in the case of both T.Y.A. and Led Zeppelin perform an old Memphis Minnie/ Kansas Joan McCoy song, (though with their own arrangement), called When the Levee Breaks - they do it well too.
Following Rock 'n Roll comes The Battle of Evermore, yet another song springing, I would guess, the Tolkien-like legend-myth-fairy story base. As mentioned, Sandy Denny sings in this one, and Jimmy Page mandolines away a solid accompanying melody. Stairway to Heaven is next; its quite a plaintive song emphasized by acoustic guitar - the lyrics (written by Plant) are the essential part of this track - they are printed on the dust cover so make of them what you will. Misty Mountain Hop, first track on Side Two reverts to a heavier sound and this is maintained into Four Sticks so-called simply because John Bonham used 4 drumsticks at once. Going to California is another acoustic number. It reminds me of Ralph McTell and the lonely minstrel image, and it reveals the range of Led Zeppelin in comparison to such one-track heavy groups as Grand Funk Railroad,
This seems an exploratory album with fun numbers like Rock 'n Roll thrown in. Though it doesn't have the impact the Zeppelin 1 and 2 had, tho' it doesn't stun you like Whole Lotto Love still does, this is an excellent record and is certainly worth emptying the wallet: It is not so long since Led Zeppelin was in some danger of breaking up. This has now passed and Zepp. is more cohesive than ever. Also, there is a large amount of material on tape, so another album can be expected reasonably soon.
There is ever-growing support for the contention that the twelve bar blues is the most clinced form in modern music The wide-spread fame of B.B.King and the rise in popularity of young white bluesmen (particularly the English) has had the effect of cluttering record shops with albums that are nothing more than a collection of twelve bars all arranged in much the same very dear precise way. All good clever stuff or course. Very relaxing but also very very predictable.
So it is refreshing to come across a blues record that is something more than just and endless string of 12-bars in fact only one strictly orthodox twelve - bars is included. (Long Distance Call) by Muddy Waters. Most of the tracks are vigorous fierce R'n'B songs of the type that established the Rolling Stones, The Animals and others in Who Do You Love, the best track on the album serves to emphasise how power is nowdays confused with heaviness Led Zeppelin's arrangement of this song becomes bogged down with heavy monotonous bass riffs and lead breaks whereas the version on this album has an orthodox yet fresh r'n'b feeling and is very raw and gutsy and exciting by comparison. Unfortunately only the three Bo Diddley compositions manage to properly achieve this delicate balance of lightness and power so that the other five tracks seem relatively inferior. In particular the Willie Dixon standard I just Wanna Make Love to You seems heavy and drab alongside Alan Price's brilliant arrangement of the same song for the Animals. But this track is the only real disappointment. For the rest, good musicianship and fierce singing cannot, it seems, compensate for the indefinable "something" that marks off the very good, that makes a song really exciting and inspiring rather than just clever.
Musically the album is characterised by a fresh informal air, provided in the main by Muddy Waters' seemingly carefree slide-guitar by cheery repartee between the three in the intervals between verses and by constant improvisation. Balanced against this is a near impecable rhythm section (featuring very good piano-work by Otis Spann) so that at no stage dows the album look like losing any of the tightness so important to the idiom. If there is to be any critisism of the album in this respect it must be that Little Waiter's harmonica cannot compare to the playing of Butter-field and that there is a slight tendency for the rhythm section to become smothered. And one more black mark-it is apparent after only a few listenings that Bo Diddley's singing is vastly superior to the others. Whereas Walter's voice is too weak and Muddy's a little too harsh, Bo's singing is clear and fine and bubbling with excitement.
Overall - this record is one of those agonising discs that only just fails to be truly inspiring. It is by and large a successful blending of three great talents but one that could perhaps have been better.
Memorial Theatre
— season ends 11th March
Imagine if you will, a play that purports by title to provide every man's manual for sexual success. The Knack (and how to get it) is neither salvation for the sexually incompetent nor a jerks journey through Disney's fantasy land. The play is however a finely tuned set of characterisation and observations of the sexually incompetent), the country girl come recently to London, and the man of mode. Interposed between these three is the resident madman. This character — eminently likeable, provides the fulcrum for the change in relationships between the other three.
Generally the performance and production of Ann Jellicoe's play is of a very high standard. Showing the classical unities of time and place the setting is a somewhat shabby and singularly disorganised house in London. Colin (the sexually frustrated landlord) lives with Tom (the madman) and Tolen is man given to womanising and boasting of his sexual achievements, Tolen is a man who would never allow a female superior in his bed or any of his sexual exploits. She will grovel and he will command the situation.
Colin fascinated by these carnal proclivities of his cohabitant begs to be taught the knack. Yet Tolens success is built more on lengh (imagined or actual) rather than depth, his ability is not of the sort that could be passed on by instruction. Colins is not the sort of problem that could be solved by instruction. Tolens brand of sexual imperialism is not medicine for Colin's hangups. Tom is partly annoyed tho' largely disgusted and at once thoroughly amused by Tolen. Tom too displays a remarkable knack - not the same as: Tolen's for Tom's knack is an ability to annoy Tolen.
Frank Edwards as Tom is certainly the outstanding medieval performer, his outlandish behaviour is not as trying as one might expect when first the play begins. In fact it is Tom who provides the norm, the safety of the man in between. Edward's performance is surely one of the best given at University recently.
Teresa Woodham is a brilliantly hysterical Nancy. She must have quite a remarkable stamina to maintain a part at such a pitch, for after an initially and unfortunately demure meeting with the lads her only weapon, attraction and defence, is hysteria. Splendid acting and as. with Tom, splendid athletics.
Andrew Wilson as Colin some found a little out of place and in that he and Nancy should have had far more in common than we discovered, so he was. The performance was however far better than that comment would indicate, for Andrew Wilson was remarkably unsure of himself and utterly adolescent as he licked the carnal crumbs so carelessly that were tossed to him by Tolen. Wilson's part though not requiring the stamina of Nancy was in many ways the most difficult. It fell on Colin to give the play credibility, for it was his problem at issue. Wilson gave life to his role and consequently gave the play both sense and direction.
It was however on Tolen that the play foundered to some extent. As I understand the role Tolen should not be immediately dislikeable. Indeed he should be full of attractive arrogance and roguery. In short Tolen must be anything but a slob. The director I felt was at fault in this characterisation. Tolen was too articulate to be portrayed as a milkbar cow-boy. Since the director could not cast himself in the role, he over compensated.
However certainly one of the best University productions of recent years. Not one of the societies almost habitual epics but artistically a production to see and be proud of.
Once upon a time the NZBC, wishing to get a little professionalism info their productions, brought into this country a well-known actor who was once a native of this fair land, and put him in the starring role of a series about the probation service. Unfortunately the well-known actor had a past (or as Oscar Wilde would say, several of them). He was a carrier of that dread disease, boredom, contracted while serving a term on that hellshole called "The Revenue Men". He quickly passed this affliction on to the scriptwriters (though one must admit their natural resistance was very low) and to the producer, with the only ones spared from this horrible disease, even including the actors from Hire Pool, being the two probation officers, who made a valiant effort to hold back the plague of dullness and incompetence manifested so far in this horren dous series.
Television watchers, if any still exist, may remember an almost morbid preoccupation by the media about two months ago with Disney On Parade. Together, with an incredible number of commercial spots for this overpriced show, were advertisements, cunningly (for the NZBC) disguised as fillers, news items, etc. Readers who may be interested in the answer to this boring question need go no further. It is not unconnected with fact that NZBC was offered a percentage of the profits of the show if it did the publicity. Readers are warned that similar ventures are on the way, and their standard may be judged by the current Miss Wellington competition, which has Miss Mastercut Meat, Miss Wrangler, and so on, warbling on about their respective virtues on our screens. (I am reliably informed that there was a Miss Easy lay Tiles until someone whispered to the eunuchs responsible that It May Be Misunderstood.)
As my concession to balance in this column, I offer the following recommendations. Golden Silents on Tuesday evenings is good value, and it doesn't have that nauseous commentary that ruined the previous American series on the same topic. And if you have an interest in rather strange cartoons, Looney Tunes on Thursday afternoon is worth watching.
As befits a student newspaper, Salient took the lead last week in advertising the previously unpublished "newlook" "blast girl" bra. The Booby Trap bra is of course only the first in the new fashion trend, and will be quickly followed by other clothes for the young men and women of today which bring out the important things in life.
The emphasis in the coming fashions is of course not on oneself, but on others. Boobytrap is the bra for men. The women who wears it says "my boobs are not mine alone, no indeed, they belong in the hands and mouth of those men with the good taste to recognise a fine pair of boobs when they see them. Boobytrap is the bra for the woman with a body to give."'
Realising that in todays world not only women are eager to show off their marketable wares, Crutchie Enterprises has plans on the drawing board for a range of "aids to male sexuality" (as they say in the clothing trade magazines). First to come off the production line will be a New Zealand version of the Keep It Warm Cock Sock, which was received with such acclaim in the fashion houses of Britain last winter. Kaiapoi are making the stretch woollen "outer", following the English design, but Zip industries are bringing a uniquely New Zealand flavour to the sock, with their own, built-in masseur/masturbator which will ensure that the well dressed man will always look his best. Advertising will emphasise that no longer need a man be under-exposed and under-shaped.
The already productive alliance with Zip Industries promises to produce another masterpiece in the Crutchie range, when the Jagger Lips are brought on the market next spring. Unlike the Cock Sock, these electrically heated and inflated organs will add to the real man's body, and rather than simply enhance his natural good qualities will actually add something of the mysterious West to his face.
In the production line for women is the new "power pubes". These clever, electrically-powered, imitation pubic hairs, will actually crawl from out under the hotpants that today's freedom loving girl is wearing. Make it clear that your care, the ads will say Production will be by United Empire Box.
Finally for people of all sexes with something to give is the new range of Rothmans cigars and cigarettes; Phallic forties for the freedom people. In pack's of forty, the new cancer sticks will be billed as the "fags to fuck by........or with." Rothman's (NZ) general manager justified the new approach by saying that in line with other leading manufacturers in NZ his firm had decided to adopt a new policy of uncompromising honesty. "Quite frankly, this new Rhodesian tobacco we are using now is a real aphrodisiac.
Hopefully Salient will continue to benefit from this new wave of enlightened enterprise.
Trevor Reeves, a living room full of printing press, just enough bread for the power, and what have you? Three books of poetry, three more planned, and a magazine called Cave. Even if
If you want to have a go at getting pub lished, nothing better for a first try than our own Argot! (The first issue will be appearing soon) Send your submissions along to the Salient Office, or post to the Editor Argot, Box 196, Wellington. No bribes accepted except as folded banknotes. Reply guaranteed sometime. A second bet could perhaps be placed on Trevor Reeves, Caveman Press, Box 1458 Dunedin. Cave has not appeared yet, but is due any time.
Its a non-profit organisation and prints reasonable quality publications. Browse through the three that are already out - Skyhook by Lindsay Smith. Jesus Hobo by Tony Beyer, and the Bare Remembrance by Alan Loney. Best of all, found yourself a Literary Society, apply for a grant, produce your own work - broadsheets, a booklet, what you will.
Long years ago (about six) Wellington was woken by an old time Quaker, complete with tall hat, reading Paradise Lost backwards (tsoL esidaraP) at midnight outside the Taj Mahal. Two years later, on the day set aside for Eeyore's Birthday, the Autumn Equinox, and the Lit Soc AGM, the dawn was broken by the rousing Old English of Beowulf stridently resounding from the gun emplacements on Tinakori Hill. The next year two romantic teenage opossums were bewitched by a candlelight gathering in the graveyard. Broadsheets and issues of Experiment have been sprouting sporadically for more than fifteen years, including the incredible
I see a wall in front of me
Shall I
Look for a hole in it Climb over it
Or pretend its not there and go somewhere else?
Generally speaking a work study observer is a forty-five year old ex-tradesman who is out to grind the worker into the ground. We want to change this. We consider that a young woman with a real interest for people could make a worthwhile contribution to this end. We are not looking for a graduate. Instead we envisage a young woman who has become tired of theoretical work and is interested in the practical application of her knowledge. If you are interested contact Roskill Gilmore, Todd Motors.
Tel: 685-099
Rugby Trials for 1972 Season Saturday 11th March
12.45pm - Registration for Under 19
Grade Trials.
1.00pm - Under 19 Grade Trials commence
2.45pm - Senior Grade Trials continue.
Note: Senior A & B Squads for a trip to Feilding on March 18th will be chosen at the conclusion of these trials.
Senior trialists who did Not register on 4th March should do so at 2.30pm.
Saturday 18th March Senior A & B Squads at Feilding.
1.00pm - Under 19 Grade Trials conclude.
2.30pm - Junior Grade Trials continue.
Note: Trialists who did NOT register at earlier trials should do so at 12.45pm (under 19) and 2.15pm (Junior)
Saturday 25th March
1.00pm - Senior A v Senior B
2.30pm - Junior Grade Trials conclude.
Note: Trialitts who did NOT register at earlier trials should do so et 2.15pm
Venue: For all Trials - Boyd-Wilson Field, Wai-te-ata Road.
Announcement of Squads:
Composition of the Senior A & B Squads will be notified by the respective Coaches, Mick Bremner end Derek Barton.
The under 19 end Junior 1st A Squads will be announced after trials for these grades have concluded, while Junior 1stB end Junior 2nd Squads will be announced as early as posible before Easter.
Clubrooms:
Will be open after all Trials.
One of the larger student problems is lack of physical exercise during the year. The great advantage of squash in remedying this problem is that if concentrates a large amont of physical exercise into a smell period of time thus maximising the time available for academic work. The average person will be able to maintain a certain degree of fitness throughout the year by playing one or two 1/2 hr. periods per week.
To most however, the game of squash is more than just a means of keeping fit. There is a large amont of enjoyment which can be derived from the game. This increases of course with practice. The more you play, the more you want to play.
The paramount purpose of the club's existance on campus is to encourage more people to take an active interest in the game. To this end. club nights are organised whereby players of all grades can play each other. For freshers and those new to the game this establishes contacts for other games during the week.
The subscription this year is $5.50 This is cheep when compared with some of the clubs around the Wellington area which cost up to $36.00 to Join for one year.
It is hoped that this year, subject to the demands of members, that it will possible to run a club morning. Thus, it may be possible for members to drop in and play their game between lectures.
The A.G.M. will be held on Mon 13th March at 7.30 pm in the Smoking Room. We request that all those interested in joining be present.
Wellington's top Smallbore Club holds regular club nights on Monday's from 7pm at the new Association "Royal Tiger" range at Mt Albert Park, Russell Terrace.
Club members also participate in rep. shoots for all grades, and travel to open prize meetings during most weekends from May onwards. These outings usually result in some competition successes despite extreme social events.
The club has a better range of equipment than any other in Wellington, end with a nucleus of keen senior members is able to welcome and help newcomers into the sport. The season really begins in the sutumn, but Varsity Club operates from mid-February so students can get introduced to the sport before they get immersed in studies. An additional bonus for freshers is the free shoot concession on their first night, although even those who do a lot of practice do not find this to be en expensive sport.
The club welcomes experienced marksmen and beginners, of all temperaments end sexes.
Interested people are welcome to turn up at the range. Ph. 896-215 or to ring Gavin Adlam 45-820 (bus.) or 559203 or Dave Row 59-889 (bus.) or 768831 (home).
So much shit has been flung around in the last few years about Sports Clubs and the grants that they receive that it would probably be a good idea to give a brief run down on how the particular bureaucracy attempts to function.
Sports Committee is elected each year at the AGM of Sports Council to which each sports club is supposed to send two delegates. Of course they never do and its only the really active clubs that can be bothered to send delegates. Other clubs snivel end moan about the grants they get but are too bloody lazy to even attempt to help themselves.
Sports Committee is responsible for the allocation of the money it receives from Exec, in grants to the individual clubs and the popular fallacy that the Rugby club gets a big grant every year because Sports Committee is made up of Rugby players is just so much shit.
A survey conducted by lest years Sports Committee Dave Howman showed that a large amount of grant money was spent in just keeping clubs in existence by way of administration costs and affiliation fees. New gear appears to run a poor third.
Once started I could rave on endlessly about how much sports clubs get end how much they should get and how student politicians don't give two stuffs for sports clubs.
Suffice it to say (good legal terminology) that lest year Sports Committee received $10 more in grants than in
As well as administering Sports grants Sports Committee runs the annual Blues Dinner end supplies some members of the VUW Blues Panel.
This years Sports Committee is -
Sports Clubs attention is drawn to the following motion passed by the Students Representative Council on
Moved Burns/Cullen
"That clubs which fail to substantially advertise themselves, particularly in Handbook, be ineligible for financial assistance of any sort from the Students' Association in the year in which they fail to advertise themselves."
So kiddies if you are sports club officers end couldn't stir yourself last year to supply any guff for handbook you may find yourself in the proverbial shit up to and over your ears.
However ell is not lost, note that if you have "substantially advertised yourself" you are OK, but if you couldn't be bothered to advertise in handbook, you probably haven't bothered to "substantially advertise yourself" so to speak.
Sweat it out kiddies.
will be attending the practical yoga class in the gymnasium on Tuesday 7th at 4pm and also lecturing in the Union on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th at 8pm. These lectures will be on the yoga sutras.