Apathy

Dear Sir.—Have you ever noticed the pack of "morons" who trudge up to that menagerie "on the hill" every day. These "morons" are supposed to represent men and women who will be in responsible professions in the near future (?): but the more I see of the cliquey nature of the outfit and the actions of some of these types in public, the more ashamed I am of being a member of VUC. Sure you say that throughout the world students are known for their antics but here they are so "corny."

And now to the elections at present taking place—you will note that at the last elections 33 per cent of Student Association members voted, and I'm surprised that that many troubled to vote, and I will lay big odds that 80 per cent of the 33 per cent didn't know much about the "drongoes" (with apologies to exec.) they were voting for and these elections will be the same.

Most will endeavour to make their choice of exec. from the paragraphs in "Salient" or the photographs on the notice-board which appeared on June 16. but I had a fair indication of the men standing to enable myself to vote but not knowing anything about the ladies I could not honestly and did not therefore make a vote for women members of exec.

Surely there could be a meeting at which all the candidates for exec, could be given three minutes to talk or some other arrangement arranged where a person could gauge the candidate's worth much better.

Enough of elections and now Mr-Editor to that "dry bull" publication "The People's Vice" otherwise known as "Salient"; it is not worth the paper it is written on—who wants to know about NZUSA delegates to Cosec or their worthiness of participation in Cosec which took up a total of one page in the last issue of "Salient" or the debate on "State subsidies to schools" which could have been reported in one small paragraph.

Surely there is something else of general interest to students which could fill up the paper but I suppose one cannot expect anything else considering my opening remarks.—