Other formats

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

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37 No. 3. March 20, 1974

Contact

Contact

There is in this University a basic lack of communication, between staff and administration, staff and staff, staff and students; as well as between students themselves. This is what concerns Contact. You can talk until you are blue in the face about how many people sit by themselves in the cafe; or how you didn't know what course to take until you were doing the course you didn't want to take at third year level; or how to enlist the students' association is and that the average student has no way of know what is going on — and all you do is go on going blue.

There is a place called Contact. We know this is about the third time you've been told this and you've already started to yawn but it doesn't want to survive without you. Vent a little of your frustration on their ears and watch them jump. Or move a little. Rush down there to the second floor of the Union Building (committee room No. 2) and ask them when the next bus to Dannevirke goes and watch them squirm.

We know a bit. (You know we know a bit) about timetables and clubs and staff and events and how to sit down and have a bit of peace and quiet (cynics can laugh now!). We can put you in contact with other students in order to discuss courses, revolutionising lectures or injecting enthusiasm into tutorials. We can contact people who will teach you Samoan or the guitar through the Learning Exchange. If you have any gripes about the student's association and can't do anything about it except stand for Vice-President come and see us. If you do get the chance to be Vice-President and ever want to know what students think we'll find some real live ones for you.

There are other things — from secondary school liason groups to a place in a flat. There will be more if you are willing to participate. Believe it or not, in this place, there are people worth talking to and events which you simply must know about. Come and see us anytime about anything. Honestly, we too are nobody in particular.

Contact. Middle Floor, Union Building. 10am - 3pm.