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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 13. 1962

Cannot Integrate

Cannot Integrate

A large number of part-time students is detrimental in a university, Gupta went on. They cannot integrate themselves into the life of the university.

He explained that there was more to a university training than bare adherence to a syllabus. Furthermore, he said, when good lectures are given in the evening often very few students attend.

The library at V.U.W. was probably the best in the country in the in the Asian field. It was not a research library; but an excellent undergraduate collection, he said.

A comparison between students in N.Z. and the experience he had gained in the U.K. and the U.S., led i Gupta to say that N.Z. students do much less reading!

Dr Gupta has shown interest in university clubs in the past. He answered a question about his attitude to them saying that they made up a "peculiarly student field". "I keep my interest but also keep my distance," he said. Relations with his colleagues and students had been very satisfactory.

Judging from his experience as political correspondent of the "Times of India", covering the Korean war, the war in Indo-China and the U.N., Dr Gupta will be a valuable acquisition for the Cit: University of N.Y. V.U.W. has certainly gained from his all too short stay here.

Professor Palmier is taking up the position of Senior Research Officer at the UNESCO Research Centre for Social and Economic Development in Southern Asia. On a year's leave without pay, in lieu of sabbatical leave, Palmier will coordinate the 'entirely original" research to be done by this body on the whole of Asia.

Having not done any field work since 1956, Palmier felt it was "high time" that he returned to Asia for this object. He felt it was necessary to have personal experience in keeping up to date.