Despite numerous vicissitudes, VUC's left wing is still flapping vigorously. With only a month of the 1956 session gone, the Socialist Club has already sponsored three successful functions.

A lunch-hour film show during the first week of the term drew an audience of more than 30. A film made by the Australian Watersiders' Union depicting the strike victory of last November was well received—but not as noisily so as a Soviet cartoon for which an encore was called. The encore was prevented only by tempus fugiting.

Talk on Russia

On March 14 Mr. A. H. (Bonk) Scotney, M.A., Dip. Ed., spoke to more than 30 students on his recent trip through the Soviet Union. He illustrated the talk with lantern slides which he made during the trip. Mr. Scotney will lead a Socialist Club discussion later this term on "Comparative Education"—the education system in New Zealand compared with those in Russia, England and elsewhere.

Apart from the resolution concerning Salient policy (see page 1). a number of subjects under the general heading of "Socialism and VUC" were thrashed out at a cottage evening chez Bollingers in Kelbum, on March 21. These included: Should the scientist be concerned about the uses to which his work is put? Is capitalism doomed? What is going on in the Kremlin? Are India and the "neutral group" of nations on the road to socialism Are students apathetic about politics? and Should the club campaign for the abolition of the death penalty?

Future functions planned by the Socialist Club include tutorials in certain Stage I subjects for club members and a record evening on the Spanish Civil War, Saturday April 14.