Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 9. May 4 1981

'Rape Legal'

'Rape Legal'

Woman Vice President Lesley Huffam also raised the issue of the capping organisers' disruption of the rape forum held the previous Friday. She claimed they had "interrupted the speaker and called out the slogan 'rape is legal during Capping Week'."

Unfortunately having to struggle against laughter from the Capping Controllers, Huffam claimed the disruption was "quite unnecessary," and that an apology, especially for the 'rape legal' slogan, was wanted.

While one Capping Controller stated they were not prepared to withdraw the statement — "it was just a joke" — Secretary Paul Cochrane claimed that "they must have known many people would be offended" by it, and that capping promotion should be less offensive.

David Murray said he considered the rape forum behaviour worse than that in his own complaint, and asked the controllers if they would make the comment to a Maori Club meeting that 'racist acts were alright during Capping Week.'

"Yes, they would still do it," came the reply.