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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 3. 1967.

Editorial endorsed

Editorial endorsed

Sirs,—I would like to heartily endorse your editorial in the last issue re the language requirement.

There can be little doubt in thinking minds that this regulation represents bureaucracy at its ugly best. Surely if academic pursuit is to have any real meaning it can only emerge from extensive study prompted by genuine interest.

Where the study motive is simply compliance with red tape entrenchment, I am at a loss to see how any lasting benefit can be conferred. I believe that it is quite unfair on staff to expect them to labour over an uninterested class.

May I also urge that these pleas go not unheard. Let the scurrilous provision be struck from the regulations.

Mike McDonnell