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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 8. April 17 1978

Book Cons and other Grouches

Book Cons and other Grouches

Dear Sir,

I would like to expedite a few inquiries through your hallowed columns if I may. Firstly I must congratulate the Political Science Dept. for advertising the book "The New Zealand Voter in their prospectus, and then telling all us sucker students in the first lecture that it was not required! Was this Dept, in collusion with the Victoria Book Centre to get rid of old stock or was it just a practical joke? Either way it was bloody sickening as it cost me the best part of ten bucks.

Secondly, I must congratulate the Accountancy Dept. for a similar feat. That time, after reading their prospectus, I purchased their textbook as quoted at Whitcoulls for a mere twenty bucks or so. And what happens my dearly beloved? Some turd of a lecturer tells us First time out that this isn't the required text but we can purchase the current one from a stall outside K303 or from the Vic. Book Centre. Once again I am forced to conclude that a major plot had been arranged to suck in idiots like myself so that certain businesses could dispose of old stock.

This of course leads me to question, wh, didn't the personnel at Victoria Book Centre, i. e. Underwood and friends check to see that the books quoted were actually required? After all, as a business supposedly working in the students' interests should they not see this as a reasonable step to take? Are Mr. Underwood and friends reasonable people?

As a snivel servant I just loved the way the Library was open for my purposes on Easter Monday. As this was one of my rare moments to do some study I was most disappointed to see the library was closed. Is that bloody edifice there to serve the students study requirements or or just a place to keep a few more people employed? I consider it piss poor when a man can't get access to the background reading he needs to do when he wants to do it. I consider the Library a service, but it would appear to be a bloody useless service at that.

I must offer my humble thanks and grovelling platitudes of merciful benifices to my beloved Lindy Cassidy and Co. for allowing me the honour of a barely recognisable sacrifice to myself which I should really regard as an investment in my own interests, i.e. that $37.00 contribution I had to make to some shit for brains organisation at the beginning of the year. How thankful I was when I realised that someone somewhere just oozed satisfaction at the thought good old Gundtfartin's wallet being opened and 37 tinsy winsy little itty bitty arsehole dollars we went into paying the equivalent of a full time student's Studass fees when yours truly is crawling up that bloody hill to do a pitiful one unit this nineteen hundred and seventy eighth year of Christ.

Why the hell should I pay the same as a full time student when I am only doing one third his workload. Pisspoor yer hear, if I catch who made me pay that lot I kick the buggar. I hope whoever it was gets a dose of the clap. I hope all their brain cells turn cancerous, their grandmothers recompose themselves as Uncle Remus, their pet rabbits turn into llamas.

Really Gundtfartin please control yourself, what will all your readers think. Don't worry folks, I've got a piece of paper to say I'm sane. I bet you haven't got one hahahahaha no no please don't take me away my mummy loves me. Go on piss off you little bit of a wombats do. Yer awlright.

Yours expecting (in 9 months) Gundtfartin Arseholes

P.S. I just love having to type my letters out these days. Well done Mr. Editor, sir.

(Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!—typstr)

(Thank you. Your students association fee doesn't subsidise your academic work so the size of your workload is irrelevant. It does however help to pay for all the association facilities which you are free to benefit from. These include the recreation centre, everything in the Student Union Building—if you belong to a club you can use the rooms free of charge and get money to finance your activities—and the vast amount of education, welfare, political, cultural, and social work the association undertakes.

The fee also includes a levy to NZUSA so they can work on your behalf at a national level, and a levy to the Students Arts Council which enables them to tour artists and their work and gain discounts at concerts etc for students.—Ed)