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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 18. July 24 1978

Leave it be in the Wairarapa

Leave it be in the Wairarapa

Dear Simon,

My old uncle came down from Masterton yesterday. Apparently the place is in an uproar. Seems there's this university chap up there wanting to get into parliament or some such thing. The locals are really terrified. Seems if they don't make an immediate donation to the Labour Party and promise faithfully to vote Labour this university chap takes out a small notebook and writes something down.

Then, in the middle of the night, these dreadful people are dragged kicking and screaming from their beds. They are secretly taken to a little shack in the middle of nowhere and chained to a table. On top of the table is a stack of Sosc 301 theories. If they do not repent of their evil ways immediately these unfortunates are then made to mark one of the theories. It gets to be too much, and after they have read a page or two, they throw down their pens, begging for mercy. Out of the shadows steps this university chap, signs them up, including relieved promises to mortgage farms if necessary, anything to get out of there. With tears rolling down their cheeks, gasping and shaking, the poor couple are taken back to their farms.

Well the university ought to do something about it. It's not cricket, you know. Besides, the class want their theories back. A complaint is being forwarded at this time to the League of Nations. The Rugby Union has decided never to play rugby with universities again. Finally there will be a demonstration outside the office of the Sosc lecturer concerned, Friday anytime. Please be there.

Uncle Tom Cobleigh

and All.