Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 2. March 5 1979

979 Handbook Under Fire

979 Handbook Under Fire

Dear Editor,

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I Would be interested to know who wrote course critique in the Handbook for Political [ unclear: nee rather] think (s) the did not do Pols [ unclear: to or I12] last year, or else has a rather poor me [ unclear: ory] and an excellent imagination. I say this [ unclear: cause] of utter rot which appears in this [ unclear: crigue].

Let's have a look at a few examples. It is [ unclear: it] of Pols 111 that: ".... in 1978 lecturers voted their time almost exclusively to over- [ unclear: as] and often outdated examples. The major [ unclear: crptim] to this being John Roberts, arguably [ unclear: best] lecturer of an abysmal lot."

In fact most of the examples were revelant [ unclear: new] Zealand ones, and John Roberts did not [ unclear: en] lecture Pols III; the lectures being Or [ unclear: defend], Mr Debnam, and Or Clark. Nor was assessment "on the basis that term work [ unclear: old] raise the final mark but Not lower it." [ unclear: ither] the two test and one essay were [ unclear: includ] in everyone's final mark. Forty marks the final 100 were for the tests and 60 were [ unclear: e] final exam.

The writer boobs in the very first line for [ unclear: LS H2]. The course title was "Introduction Political Theory" not "An Introduction to [ unclear: clitics] which was of course the title of [ unclear: OLS II].

The author must have done more written [ unclear: ark] than me, or anyone else I know who did [ unclear: LS I12]. The required written work was two [ unclear: as] and one essay.

The next sentence absolutely amazed me. [ unclear: one] aspect that caused much dissent amongst [ unclear: dents] but year was that they were required to [ unclear: way] for the essay topics and the materials that [ unclear: ent] with them...." This is [ unclear: oure] fiction. The [ unclear: ny] topics for the one essay were handed out [ unclear: ce] gratis, and for nothing, and there were in [ unclear: ct] no "materials" with them.

Are you sure the writer was writing about [ unclear: political] Science at this university?

Yours,

Tellit Likeitis.

[ unclear: one] of the editors of the 1979 Handbook I [ unclear: apologies] if we misrepresented the Political [ unclear: science] section of the anti-calandar. Because [ unclear: one] from Pol Sci answered our pleas for [ unclear: dents] to write the critiques we were given [ unclear: ce] choice of leaving Pols out or ripping off [ unclear: at] critique. Because Pols has one of [ unclear: the] biggest stage 1 courses, we were not happy [ unclear: out] leaving it out. We did not realise the [ unclear: Me] had changed because no Pols student [ unclear: Id] us or offered to write the section. - Ed)