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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 26, No. 2. 1963.

Around The Campus

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Around The Campus

Man, enrolment brasses me off. I stand in Interminable queues, fill in endless forms and talk to dozens of lecturers, all of whom have, I think, veiled doubts about my ability. I fork out for class fees, association fees and everything else in sight. I tell VUWSA I am an anarchist and a member of Junats.

I meet classmates who got straight A's and are bemoaning their terrible, terrible marks. I meet girls who can't recall my name but smile sweetly, and finally I stagger into the cafe for my first cup of coffee for 1963, but the cafe's not the same. There are no dolls in tight' skirts crossing and uncrossing their tanned thighs, no bearded fools to laugh at, no science bods feverishly copying assignments, no table artists, no plots to heave Exec. Only bewildered freshers.

I think I must be getting old. Freshers this year seem distinctly young looking. I look at the little Train Coll girls and feel sorry for them in their innocence, sorry that they will be soiled by hard drinking hard living old young men in Ivy Leagues.

A Weir fresher is running round loudly proclaiming he can drink any senior under the table. Poor boy. He'll have some tough competition from jokers like Barry Finch, last year's Varsity drinking champion. Tony Timms, fighting fit after a trip to Australia (ostensibly to see the cricket) and Graham Anderson, who has a mighty thirst from four months scrubcutting.

Nudity is out in Weir this year. Initiates will for the first time be wearing shorts (provided by Weir). And they will not have to spend hours getting Cablecar grease out of their hair. Only sump oil is to used this year. Main advocate for the cover up was Salient's Rob Laking, who said that being paraded in the nick before 30 or 40 Weirmen might be a terrible experience for, say, a fresher with a sheltered background. Although leading a minority. Mr. Laking was upheld, since it was felt that if there was any strong feeling then nudes would be scrubbed. I have that feeling that old Weirmen will be turning in their graves.

Scholarship Goes North

Unilever Scholarship for 1963 has been awarded to Mr. N. T. Evans of Auckland.

Sponsored by Lever Brothers (NZ) Ltd. the scholarship provides all expenses for two years post graduate study tenable at any university in the United Kingdom.

Evans graduated MA (first class Honours in physics from Auckland University in 1962. He intends to study for a doctorate in particle physics at Imperial College. London.

While at Auckland Evans won the Sir George Grey Scholarship, the annual physics prize and played both rugby and cricket for University teams.

No Go

A Serious young accountancy student tried to flog his University Handbook through the S.C.M. bookstall for 2/6.

This handbook had been issued to him free when he came to University two years ago. Almost all the information in the publication is now out of date.

A spokesman for the S.C.M. said that the item had been rejected for the sale, after consultation.

You know how Canterbury has its Pooh Sticks competition on the Avon. I think that Vic should have its own distinctive event.

I think we should have a soapbox derby down Kelburn Parade. I don't think more than a few people would be killed in such an event, and anyway it would provide some entertainment for the onlookers. It would be a mistake to stop the traffic, having cars and buses roaring around will make things more enjoyable.

Well, the editor is screaming for his copy so I'll sign off now hoping you have noticed that I am keeping my column clean and wholesome.

Cornford Says All Should Help Sell

As Capping Controller, 1963 and Distribution Manager of "Cappicade" 1962, I have been asked to make a statement on "Cappicade" 1962.

An article headed "Big Cappicade Scandal," appeared in Salient of 3 September 1962. This article attacked Mr. Robb primarily because he had sent bills to those students he believed to owe money to "Cappicade." Some of these people had paid in their money in such a manner that Mr. Robb had no record of it.

Be first with the news. Club Secretaries, let Salient know about your meetings.

Others had held onto it, not being sure what to do with it. The former group were quite justifiably incensed and came forward and told Mr. Robb exactly what had happened thus clearing that up. The latter group paid in the money they owed thus saving much time and bother.

At least one person failed to account satisfactorily for the magazines taken but further action by Mr. Robb was stopped because of the health of the student concerned.

Mr. Robb has been taken to task for dumping the unsold "Cappicades." The same thing was done last year though two months dust was allowed to accumulate before anything was done. No attempt has ever been made to sell "Cappicades" to schools or to incoming freshers as Salient alleges Mr. Moriarty has stated. If Mr. Moriarty said this then I agree with Salients headline "Moriarty Mad."

I personally, am guilty of leaving Mr. Robb too much to do. About ten days before the magazine was released I found I would not be able to take time off work on the days "Cappicade" was on sale. I proceeded as well as I could, realising that it was too late to appoint a successor. This left Mr. Robb with far more to do than any human being could hope to accomplish. We averaged an hour's sleep per night over Capping time.

Now the Executive have seen fit to close the matter once and for all. They also dismissed Mr. Robb as Business Manager for "Cappicade" 1963. This had little effect as Mr. Robb had already resigned in objection to "petty pinpricking."

But now I plead to you, the students, to come forward and help with "Cappicade" 1963. A Capping committee meeting on 5 March is investigating the reorganisation of "Cappicade" distribution. I beg all students to help make "Cappicade" 1963 a resounding success, by volunteering their services to sales and distribution.

L. H. Cornford.