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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 21, No. 5. May 6, 1958
Current Commentary
Current Commentary
The Summit
Apparently when in an earlier issue of "Salient", I said that a summit conference should be held on a mountain-top, I was wrong. A summit conference is one at which leaders of delegations summit proposals, drink each other's health for a week, and then sum it all up.
The Cable Car
Students have been generally appreciative of the improvements made at the bottom of the Cable! Car. The place no longer looks like the entrance to the dungeons, and indeed, with a row of flowers along the wall it is quite attractive. Male students also appreciate the blonde who sometimes clips tickets. Some improvements at Salamanca (the 'Varsity stop) would be welcomed. A more substantial shelter is required and those brightly painted signs 'Alight here for University and Fountain" must go. I don't like the association they imply between the fountain of knowledge and the fountain of water.
Rugby
The New Zealand Colts—including men in the six-foot plus, fourteen stone class recently trounced those Japanese, who were several stone lighter and several inches shorter. In boxing it is not customary to match bantamweights with heavyweights. Perhaps international rugby should be conducted on the same principle.