The Ruination of the German Dept

Perhaps the most typifying feature of Victoria is the impersonal nature of the various departments. One of the Very few exceptions is the German Dept where there is a real feeling of conviviality among students and staff, which is centred around the house the department occupies (28 Kelburn Parade).

This surely is a situation which should be encouraged, But what is about to happen will have the opposite effect. The house is to be demolished to make way for the new ten storey Languages and Literature Faculty building (Von Zedlitz Building), where there will be little, if any, consideration for a students' room. There is a chance we may be allowed to move into a house in Fairlie Terrace, but nothing is definite. If this plan falls through, we are destined to life in a prefab, where space is so restricted that absolutely no provision can be made for student facilities. To have the department move into a prefab would not only help to destroy this almost unique atmosphere in the German Dept, but would contribute to the growing feeling in the university that the place is only a machine in which to programme people into a state where they can never acieve personal identity. Who wants this to happen?? We don't:

From students of the German Department and others. Kathleen Culliford, Glenda Howell, Rosalind Salas, Detlev Vosgerau, Chris Kelly, J. Nelson, Stefanie Oram, Elsie Bradley, Eric Schusser, Cecily Adams, Lisalotta Napp, Andrew Hibbard, John Zohrab, Jo Mitchell, Dillwyn Hiddlestone, Giilian Adsett, Harold Merriman, J. Harker, Mary Hunter, Peter Baumann, George Hendry, M. B. Johnson, Rand Baxter, Pat Scriven, Murray Needham and many more who can't fit on the page!!