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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.

Suggests staff rubbish

Suggests staff rubbish

Sir.—How about regular student contributions, on a "guess-who" format, rubblshing very deserving lecturers? The actual identity of the lecturer could be made patently obvious while direct criticism could be avoided Something like this:

Letters

"The class bristles with hostility the moment he struts into the theatre. The prevailing antipathy towards the lecturer is reinforced by his small, petty and pointless gibes. He generally takes an hour to say 10 minutes' worth of material. He makes no attempt to present any original material and, at best, provides a boring fourth-rate alternative to the most simple text. His lectures are delivered in that nasal, noxious, alltoo-familiar accent."

This sort of thing could develop into an entertaining feature and no one can deny that the sheer numbers of second-rate, pretentious clods lecturing and lurking about in this university are a cause for alarm!

Name Withheld.

We have permitted this writer to remain anonymous so that he may retain a slight chance of passing a certain subject. While there may well be the advantages he suggests in such a feature, we do not propose to institute one for two reasons:

(1) Such anonymous features are repugnant to us.

(2) We would feel obliged to offer the university staff the same facility to comment on students. Somehow, we feel the students might come off worse.—Ed.