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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 7. April 10 1978

Salient Lost in the Woods?

Salient Lost in the Woods?

Dear Sir,

Drawing of a person digging stairs

I write to deplore Salient's spinelessness in deliberately refusing to provide students with information on the Pythagoras Owl issue. This is an affair of some importance involving a denial by a certain member of the academic staff of the English Dept. of this valuable creature's very right to exist.

I need hardly impress upon you the awesome ethical ramifications of this whole question. As a direct threat to civil liberties the recently enacted SIS legislation is its only parallel. Since the issue's original flare-up two weeks ago in Tutorial Room T303, the evil machinations of National censorship have been probed to their depths.

And You, editor of a student newspaper with a distinguished history of social conscience and struggle against oppression have been content on this occasion to just "go along with the rest of them". Could it be that this issue is too hot for even Salient to handle?

Come out of the woodwork, Wilson. Students want to know where you stand. You can't turn a blind eye to the Pythagoras Owl.

Yours in expectation,

a concerned member. Students Against Censorship

(I agree, this is an important story, but right now we are following the policy of a nod being as good as a wink to a blind bat — Ed.)