Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 8. April 17 1978
Letters Unintellectual
Letters Unintellectual
Dear Ed,
In a newspaper that supposedly caters for people of a higher intellectual level than normal, one would expect to find letters on more controversial topics, however this is not so. Constantly there are immature letters appearing in your column that could have been written by 8 year old Tartan Terror or Andy Gibb fans.
Hail Sex Pistols and the like. Bands that get banned are good, they do at least stir up this turgid mess of music one must put up with. It is ironic that songs similar to Anarcy and Bodies are banned in New Zealand, which all goes to Bob Jones' theory that only money can buy verbal freedom (all $32,000) worth).
Come on you new wave mongooses, lets have an almightly punky reggae party and get the the Reptiles to Victoria.
Sid
andJohn
(I quite agree with you about the trivial nature of a lot of our letters, but I can't help feeling they're all part of punk—Ed.)