Salient. An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 9. Wednesday, November 9, 1960
[introduction]
It's weird. Honestly it's a wonder to me that a few of these free-thinking guys around town don't re-orientate their thoughts and get hold of some real problem that's worth solving. Sure we all know that there are plenty of so-called society evils that need solving and keep cropping up in some newspaper columns and being criticised by some small-thinking do-gooders who say a lot of stuff that's worth nothing. Boy, it bugs me. Why don't these eggheads settle down to some creative thinking and instead of criticising come up with some solution and offer it for discussion. That's what I've done, and boy, I've got four problems off the hook. And my bait is raising the school-leaving age to eighteen.
This to me solves some problems you know so well. You know, things like delinquency, school uniforms, the lack of skilled labour, the exploitation of apprentices, and the high failure rate of first year university students.