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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol.12., No. 11. 29th September 1949

. . . And Finally . .

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. . . And Finally . . .

This will be the last issue of "Salient" for this year.

For you, maybe it means only that finals are looming far too close; for the College generally, it means the end of a jubilee year—one which passed quietly enough for the majority of students as far as celebrations go. For the Association, it has been an active year in some ways. An annual meeting and three special general meetings have kept things moving in some fields, though loud noises made previously in the direction of faculty committees, the medical scheme and so forth have been decently hushed.

And for us, another year has seen about the usual amount of criticism and a rather bigger than usual furore. Most typical of the criticism was the one after the last issue came out—that it was politics, politics all the way. Certainly it was. And it was also everything submitted; you can have no kick coming at all-when we print what you don't like if you merely [unclear: rumble] on your intellectual beard.

Our success as a vehicle for opinion depends largely on the amount of opinion we have to publish. Or, the whole this year hasn't seen enough and we can only hope than next year will be better.

Not that we feel apologetic about our policy; the ivory tower will find precious little support here so long as "Salient" countinues its tradition. We could do with a leavening of comment on the arts because at present there appears to be a major crop at minor poets—but where are our critics? We could do with more beging about affairs in the college—the library and other facilities have been under fire, but it isn't easy for an already overworked staff to get on to those subjects. Next year, we hope that "Salient" will do a little stirring up of the cabinets to the family cupboard—a revival of issues like the medical scheme which we raised in past years might show just how much has (or hasn't) been done.

But we repeat that we can express but pious hopes if you—and we mean you—don't use "Salient" to say what you wish. We will publish, as we have recently said almost incessantly, any opinion which is fair comment. We have done so now for eleven years.

—D.G.