Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 4. 1967.

On the grapevine

On the grapevine

Bastardised?

Good Old NZBC—pooped again. Now It seems the noble institution is to promote the bastardised "paara-par-ram." Has this mercantile body no respect for legitimacy?

Taj Mahal

Among The now disused latrines and porcelain bowls of the Taj Mahal may soon flit sticky-pawed students in gay obeisance to their favourite, funny plantigrade quadruped—Pooh Bear.

For the newly affiliated Pooh Club has applied to the City Council for the use of this revered edifice for poetry readings and associated activities.

VUWSA Executive, however, feels such an application below its lofty dignity and last week refused to support the Pooh Club In its move.

Pooh's followers will continue to press for the Taj's use, however, and, in the event of permisison being granted, act in a manner commensurate with Taj Mahal's prestige as a truly worthy relic of Wellington's past.

Cemetry out

The literary society's midnight poetry readings held in the Mount Street cemetery are illegal. Law prescribes that no person shall enter a burial ground during the hours of darkness.

Would you believe it?

It Could only happen in New Zealand. A Deputy Prime Minister shut away in a pokey Activities Room to speak to fifteen students. Shame on you SCM. what an insult to Mr. Marshall.

Library sleepers

You may not believe it but 5000 students sleep in the library every second night. Apparently each student passes through the library doors five times per day.

Shortly someone will wake up and realise that if an alternating rostrum is drawn up there need only be 2500 students sleeping there at a time. But, of course, it would mean there would be this many every night.

Conservatism

Boy, was the Law Faculty Club AGM a farce. Conservatism dripped, and the display of chairmanship would be lamentable at a kindergarten.

Old perennial

The old perennial for old perennials—February specials —was again raised at the annual meeting of the Law Faculty Club. It received a more sympathetic hearing than usual for two reasons:

  • • Time is running out for students doing the old degree.
  • • When February specials were held in past years, terms in a subject carried on indefinitely, but now they only last for two years.

The incoming committee is going to take the matter up with the Faculty. Perhaps if a student decides to sit specials he should forfeit his right to his terms extending for a further year? Time will tell.

Toro again

Toro decided that he must cultivate a more avant garde image. He's going to grow handle bars to his already luxuriant moustache and goatie. All he needs is patience and a little wax.