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

Whose Corn Was That?

Whose Corn Was That?

We are grieved that some of our readers, both staff and student, were pained by our last issue for 1951. Criticism, we were told is the lifeblood of the University but not that sort, if you want co-operation from the staff then go about it diplomatically, approach the staff, cajole and blandish. Use the carrot—not the pickaxe.

These suggestions make it clear that our critics do not understand our point of view. So we repeat it in simple, simple sentences.

A University is supposed to have a corporate life.

Victoria is a University and therefore ....

But our corporate life is negligible: If a University is to benefit students that life must be encouraged and the staff are in the best position to do so. On the whole, they do not.

This problem has been tackled gently before and cajole and carrot have got nowhere. So we have sharpened the rapier, if our critics both staff and student disagree so strongly let them say so in Salient