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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33, No. 1 18 February 1970

Books for USP

Books for USP

While you will again be able to sell your second-hand textbooks through the Student Christian Movement's bookstall, we would encourage you to consider donating your books to the University of the South Pacific (USP). If you feel you cannot afford to do this, please at least give any unsold books to USP. The SCM and the Student's Association office staff will accept any books donated to USP and the SCM will also send on to USP any unsold books which you may wish to donate. Make it perfectly clear that you wish the books concerned to be given to the USP.

The range of books needed by USP includes general textbooks—especially related to arts, science and social science subjects, novels and other fictional matter, non-fiction and magazines. Series of back numbers of periodicals related to subjects in the science, social science and arts fields would be particularly welcome.

Last year, the drive for textbooks at Victoria resulted in about 3000 books being donated to USP. Don't hoard your books and don't sell them. Give them to USP. They will be greatly appreciated.

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Photograph of a student protest march

There were student demonstrations in more than 50 countries during 1968 (UNESCO. 5/434), and those that I saw in Britain and America were more in the nature of political and social protests than an attack upon education per se (Brammer, 1967). The universities alone were in no position to solve political and social problems but at least the might now pay more attention to them in the future than they have done in the past. In the process they might attend to the educational problems and conflicts of interest to which students have drawn their attention An improved educational system will help students to prepare themselves for personal and professional commitment to remedy the ills of an imperfect world as well as to extend the boundaries-of knowledge. Perhaps then the moderate students will be the more willing to restrain the minority of militants with that degree of toleration and reason upon which a good university system depends.

If any lesson is to be learned from first-hand observations, impressions and interpretations of campus combat, it is that good personal relationships, good teaching, and some form of democratic organization are both the prerequisites for university education and the best safeguards against campus disruption. It is true that Victoria University has already established a lead in some of those areas (Student Participation in the Universities, 1969) but, having begun to [unclear: exanene] itself, it is important that the university should continue and not rest content. New factors may arise, new groups may form, and fresh approaches to education may be required every few years.

they could be relatively undistrubed in their search for existential and mystical truths. They were still dependent upon drugs, but they were eschewing rather than chewing L.S.D. because of its harmful consequences. They were not waiting for the drug to be scientifically evaluated!