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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 24, No. 3. 1961
[introduction]
A former part-timer speaks: As most students will know, there is a growing pressure on students of all faculties to attend university on a full-time basis. Part-timers will be aware by now of the latest squeeze; part-time students are not to be allowed to attempt more than the equivalent of two arts units!
To encourage full-time study the Professorial Board is now arbitrarily setting a limit on the amount of work a student may undertake; lengthening the time he has to remain a student at university; and increasing the amount of money he must put down towards his own education.
This is no incentive; it cannot be described as just a blind or negative approach. It is a calculated repressive measure clamped on by the Board to further that pipe-dream of professorial bliss—the university inhabited by full-time students only.
The Board is Dragging Back the Part-Timers to Let the Full-Timers Keep Ahead!
There are un.deniably some phases of university study which are best undertaken by full-time students only. Recently, a lecturer in philosophy was deeply pained when, while keenly explaining symbolic logic, a student objected, "But what is the use of it all?" "Good heavens!" he replied, "We don't study this for utility, you know."