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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 15, No. 1. March 5, 1952

[Introduction]

'This question cannot be answered by merely stating facts, Salient is "an organ of student opinion" at Victoria College, published weekly by the Victoria University Students' Association. Because emphasis is on the student the most important features are: it is entirely student staffed, most contributions are from students and it is an organ of opinion to which any student may contribute.

Why have a student press? Haven't we our daily and weekly press already? A student press exists because only a student press can fulfil the student need for free, sometimes violent, discussions on matters outside the scope, and often the perception of the ordinary prese. It can encourage a spirit of University and community consciousness so alien to modern materialistic individualism on the one hand, and state collectivism on the other. The students idealistic criticism is an antidote to blind conservatism or extreme radicalism.

The name Salient sums it up; and the words of early editor,

"Send out. Salient, the swift satiric point

To smart the sluggard mind awake."