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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1933. Volume 4. Number 1.

The Common Room Committee

The Common Room Committee.

Dear "Smad,"—

I am disgusted, overwhelmed, and otherwise duped, doped, and fooled. The Men's Common Room Committee still exists! Not only does it still exist, but it has taken unto itself disciplinary powers! Does this Committee intend to assume an absolute and despotic power over the whole student body by ruthlessly exterminating all competitors? It seems as though our long-loved Common Room is become the trap in which these octopodes will lure their victims. Once we are in the Common Room they will torture us with all forms of "disciplinary punishments' to satiate their lusts, while they gloat at all the misery they cause. No doubt they have spy-holes in each nook and cranny to watch our every movement.

I suggest that they would do much better to spy into the Common Common Room (if last year's happenings are to be repeated), and thus to learn the maner of sundry billings and cooings, or to calculate the S.C.M.'s extortionate profits.

If however, this committee realises that it is considered as a joke by the student body and assumed disciplinary powers, merely as a playful insult, let me warn it that I for one am not inclined to take the insult playfully. I would suggest a meeting between the insulting and instilled, and let that meeting be pugilisic and sanguinary.

I am, etc.,

Irate.