Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 24, No. 12. 1961.
What is a Commoncommon Room ?
What is a Commoncommon Room ?
We worship the term "spacious common-common room" and apply it to a certain large room in the S.U.B. But that room is not made a common-common room merely by the Little Formica labels over the swing doors. What you and I mean by the term is a comfortable, warm, relaxing room. The term brings to mind pictures, books and magazines, carpets, fireplaces, cloth upholstery and curtains. That room which hears this comfortable label is a cold room of painted concrete, plywood, plastic and shiny linoleum; Venetian blinds, old newspaper, rubbish tins. In the abstract, this room has an admirable viewover the harbour. In fact, the view exists only for those who are standing, and those people are only standing as a prelude to sitting down or leaving. So the view claimed for it does not really exist.