Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978
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Dear Salient Staff,
Salient staff are to be congratulated for continuing the high standards of journalism of this campus magazine. Orthography, typesetting and layout are of consistent competence.
The articles presented continue to be of much interest. I feel that a happy balance is struck between articles of overseas importance, as well as local and national, student politics and events. Of particular moment are the articles on overseas events (e.g. insights into the People's Republic of China, fair reporting of liberation movements around the world, etc.) which are not otherwise reported in papers readily obtainable in this country. Hopefully, these sentiments reflect the feelings of many student and staff members who regularly read "Salient" and realise that its high level of journalistic competence needs no further comment.
John Bailey is to be commended for his continuing perceptive and incisive drama reviews. I felt that the Peter Handke plays were most thought provoking expecially the Hegelian idea of the force of contradiction between audience and actors. John Bailey's criticism of the Drama Soc. was somewhat untoward as the main way for the Drama Soc. to determine the needs and wants of students is surely by empiricism and heurism. The courage of the Drama Soc. in presenting I Handke's plays was admirable and the lack of audience numbers was a sad commentary on campus interest in theatre. Let us work towards keeping Drama Soc. alive on campus and serving the students.
Perhaps Salient might consider a column of haiku (for poetry) and senryu (for dialectic). Would students be interested in such a column? Readers could send in their haiku and senryu and someone could act as a collator (I would be willing to after June).
Robert Cook.