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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 6. 1962.

Men in Grey Flannel Suits

Men in Grey Flannel Suits

Sir.—There has been in recent months a new trend noticeable in the administration of the University. I mean by this, the appearance of large numbers of gentlemen, dressed in grey coats, who appear to perform such indispensible tasks as issuing parking tickets to naughty students with cars, or helping to operate the lifts in Easter field in their spare time. The place must be kept clean, of course, and I am all in favour of providing employment for such members of the community as are willing to take on such arduous work. Yet I cannot help feeling that such large numbers of grey-coated gentlemen (I'm sure I see a new one every week) are not able to find useful employment in so small an establishment. It seemed to me that the lifts operated satisfactorily in previous years without the assistance of paid operators, and that the University and Student Union buildings were kept clean by a comparative handful of men who did not have time to go about performing officious and useless "duties."—Yours etc.,

J.K.M.