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"Some so-called student activists need to reassess the channels of communication around themselves before they rush off to complain about others."
Students' Association President Doug White said this in a recent statement to Salient.
"In a short while we will be faced with the annual fraud —Executive elections," he said. "Few, if any, of the candidates will have much knowledge of Association affairs, let alone the University structure.
"Yet these candidates will promise to complete the Union extensions, increase bursaries, start a bookshop, and improve meals in the caf.
"These promises have been made before and they will be made again. An interested or gullible 25-30 per cent. of the student body will vote to elect these self-styled politicians.
"The successful candidates will, as in the past, conveniently forget their promises and try to run an association with 5000 members and an income of over $30,000.
"In providing services for students they will be equally as interested in the moral issues of the Arab-Israeli war as in the material to be used in essential night-shirts.
"Overnight they will become experts on all matters of university government and contact with the student body through dull sub-committees, frightening forums and general meetings, and an antagonistic Salient will be highly inconvenient.
"Some will foresake their designated portfolis to attack their fellow Executive members or to press their pet interests at forum, at meetings, and in the pages of Salient. Others will foresake forum, meetings, and Salient for the fascinating details of their own particular portfolio.
"It is not difficult to see how 'the petty intrigues and prejudices' deter many from entering.
"Wound up in a world of their own, Executives make little use of the channels around them to communicate with the student body on matters which concern the student body."
Most students are interested in little else outside their pleasures, said Doug. Sport or culture for body or soul provide pleasure. Their interest, if any, in their Association is cursory, usually limited to gripes at the fee.
"Most attend forums for amusement and leave meetings and administration to others.
"Despite the urgings of one curious voice, students at the moment are unlikely to riot over something called 'the present university and educational system'.
"If a riot is wanted, ban rugby or introduce 5 o'clock closing.
"With their broadminded concentration on their degrees many students are probably interested in their courses and lecturers.
"Some may have even tried to express their views on these matters. Few in authority appear to be interested and constructive suggestions for reform receive little publicity, particularly in the existing student news media.
"Is the student newspaper a channel of student communication?" he asked. "How many students want to know what the rank and file member of the Democratic National Party thinks of the rank and file members of the National Party?
"Constructive submissions to the Joint Committee were literally lost in a beautifully laid out inside page, while visitors to Victoria on Open Day learnt that front page news was a curious incitement to riot.
"The same students who pressed for 'student power' and participation now find it 'fun' to attack the first step towards their end: the Joint Committee.
"Perhaps before critising channels of communication on the administrative side of the University those responsible for communication on the student side might consider whether they are fulfilling their own role."
People interested in taking over the vacant Public Relations portfolio on Executive were invited last week to apply to the Secretary of the Students' Association.
The invitation represented something of a departure from the usual practice of filling such vacancies by "backroom methods," the Secretary, Salient.
Under amendments to the Constitution adopted at the AGM in April, the successful applicant will hold the position only till the next Pro is elected at the annual elections late this term.
But the interim appointee will have one of the biggest tasks under the portfolio, the organization of tours-of-schools, in which students speak on Vic and university life in general at secondary schools as far away as Gisborne and New Plymouth.
It was hoped Executive would make an appointment at its meeting last night, John said
— Graeme Sergeant was co-opted as Public Relations Officer by the executive at 10.55 p.m.
The President of the Students' Association,
Doug has said that the student representatives were appointed at the Agm.
He accused Owen of passing judgement on student representatives on their performance at the first meeting of the committee, at which Owen was not present.
He said Owen was consulted during the preparation of the submissions made by students in the committee, and at no time said the submissions were weak.
Owen denied saying that the student delegation was weak.
"I have not for I cannot see them in action.
"I did quote University staff sources as saying it was weak," he said.
"I had a duty to inform students this view was held; the onus is on those who feel I should have kept quiet to explain why they prefer silence on questions of this importance."
Copies of photographs taken of all students during enrolment are available to anyone who orders them.
On mention of the possibility of the Police receiving copies of all photographs the photographer, Mr
"These photographs, the negatives of which remain in our files indefinitely, are for the purposes of students wishing to order."
Mr Jauncey agreed a plainclothes member of the Police Force or Security Service could obtain copies.
"But", he said, "I only supply copies showing the name card (which students held while they were being photographed) to the subject."
Proofs showing the name cards can be sorted through at Mr Jauncey's studio in Willis Street. Customers can select the photographs they want.
The one shown here is of
It was ordered for Salient by
One of the conditions the university lays out for applicants for the job is that negatives are "to remain the property of the photographer, who may sell copies to students as he wishes."
"We must not regard the Declaration of Human Rights as a noble but distant ideal," said the Chief Justice Sir
Sir Richard was presenting the first address in a series of lectures on Human Rights organized by the Victoria University Law Faculty. The series commemorates International Human Rights Year marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948.
There will be two lectures, and according to the Dean of the Law faculty. Prof.
They will be used in the University as texts next year.
"Little writing on the subject has been published in New Zealand," he said.
Sir
"The principal function of the law is to protect the citizen, not only against the wrong-doer but against the state and again public authority.
"In 1961, we revised the Crimes Act for the first time since we had adopted a legal system from Britain 70 years ago. But we must keep an inquiring mind as to what other changes or new laws are required. 'Some people think we need new laws concerning homosexual acts between adult males and concerning therapeutic abortion. We cannot turn our backs on these questions."
Describing the role of the mass media as formers of public opinion. Sir Richard said: "The citizen himself must be alert and vigilant. The power of the press for good or ill does not wane.
"The impact and potential of television as it has developed in the recent past is almost awesome.
"Anyone who wants to do or say anything different can. through television, find his way to a bigger audience than ever before. With only one system, the weight of responsibility on those who arrange the presentation of the news and views is tremendous.
"I think we have made a good start in New Zealand. If there have been some signs of an unwillingness to offer sufficient scope for discussions of controversial questions, the citizen has the remedy in his own hands."
"The Bill of Rights in England, the Declaration of Independence in America, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France, all promulgated within a century, were attempts to define the rights of man against the state.
"These were great charters, but were conceived negatively. It was probably the establishment of the International Labour Office in 1919 that reflected the emerging international concern for human rights.
"It was Hitlers massive attack on human rights which showed that they should not end at national boundaries.
"No doubt the horror of the Nazi concentration camps gave weight to public opinion and to demands for some action."
Partly as a result of this pressure, the Declaration of Human Rights was passed unanimously by the General Assembly in 1948. It was the beginning of a "positive approach" to the question.
"It is not a legal charter or a treaty," he said. "What then is the legal significance of the Declaration?
"It was intended by the General Assembly only as a recommendation to member states. It has since been accepted by most countries in the world, and thus has a tremendous moral force."
An exhibition of student art will be displayed at New Zealand Universities later this year.
It will comprise work from students of the two Schools of Fine Art whose authorities are working in cooperation with the National Cultural Affairs Officer.
The exhibits will be offered for sale and it is hoped that University Art Purchasing Committees will buy some.
Profits from the sales will go to the Art Schools, but their administrations favour some commission going to the individual artists.
The medical health service at the University needs additional facilities.
The director, Dr
Dr Fleming said there are two sides to the health services' work—screening of first year students and the diagnosis of routine complaints.
When asked about the importance of such work, Dr Fleming said he was surprised to note the incidence of high risk conditions among students.
Congenital and acquired heart disorders, cancers, blood diseases, liver and kidney complaints and diabetes were picked up by the screening.
But he stressed these results conformed with overseas findings.
My! My! Fritz's cook in a fancy hat. Nothing to do with Open Day by any chance? By no chance.
Plenty of party-line complaints over Harold Holt sequence in Cappicade. Its editor
Scene: The hearing on the desirability of a Student Representative Council.
Salient editor Logan: "There is only a certain number of ideal student politicians on campus and most of them arc already involved."
President While: "And editors."
Procesh floats on the Government and members of the Cabient were not placed by judges Shand. Riddiford and Walker.
"My reports will be highly prejudiced as usual, "
New Vice-Chancellor and Mrs Taylor among the few who both made Grad. Balls—the start of a new era?
"Students could become a very powerful pressure group in this country, but they will have to work at it," said Mr Sunday Times.
The editors of newspapers will respect you most if you prove that you are a source of responsible news and comment."
Speaking to the Student Leader Seminar on the relationship between Students' Associations and the news media, he said: "In speaking to the executives of various papers I have found they think students tend to be inward-looking.
"They feel you should be interested in what goes on outside the Universities. Students' newspapers are sympiomatic of this insularity.
"When reading some student newspapers it is difficult to remember there is a world outside the campus. This annoys and infuriates newspaper people and the public.
"People in the press usually have not been anywhere near a University," he said, "and it is typical of their attitude when they refer to students as 'smart alecks'."
"I think that students should come out on matters outside the University," said Mr Bromby. When Ross Mountain spoke on the immigration issue last year the press was willing to listen to what students had to say.
"If students want to make any headway they ought to take interest in issues such as town-planning, immigration and economy," he said.
"By widening your interests you improve your image as a responsible pressure group and be more able to greatly influence issues closer to you—the state of hostels, fees, academic staffing and so on.
"Students should integrate themselves more into the community. They are at the moment regarded by much of the public as a sector apart.
"By becoming part of the community and taking an interest in community issues they will have far more of the community behind them."
The press was perhaps the greatest medium for students to use in their role as a pressure group. "I don't think it is in your best interests to throw stones at the newspapers in this country.
"There is barely an issue of Salient that doesn't make comments about newspapers. One column frequently makes unintelligent comments about them.
"I am not saying you should not criticise them. In fact I think they all respond favourably to reasoned criticism.
"But I don't think you will get anywhere by student newspapers printing ill-informed pieces about the press.
"It's a matter of rethinking your attitude to the press. If the press cares the people care.
"You have got to make the press interested in student affairs and student opinions on national issues."
The Governor-General and law student
This was decided at the society's AGM on 28 May.
Another motion directed the secretary to write to the N.Z. Geographic Board asking that Christchurch's name be changed because of religious connotations.
This motion has received publicity on radio and TV.
The AGM also congratulated those students who smashed a gravestone in a Palmerston North cemetery at Easter.
$608 has been given by NZUSA to Youth Against Hunger, formerly Operation 21.
The money was raised by Students' Associations, as a contribution to the World Freedom from Hunger Campaign.
"The money will be used to train young people in the Pacific Islands and the Middle East," said NZUSA Treasurer.
"Part of the money will go to the South Pacific Regional Agricultural College in Western Samoa to help purchase chemicals and equipment for their laboratory.
"Part of it will also go to the Community Education Training Centre in Fiji, where girls from various Pacific Islands learn cooking gardening techniques and other activities related to the home.
"On completion of their course, girls from the Centre return to their villages as extension workers.
"The balance of the money will go to a vocational training centre in Jerusalem run by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). where young men from Arab refugee camps undertake two-year courses in various trades such as carpentry, plumbing and welding."
"Victoria University has never been quite accepted as respectable by the citizens of Wellington", said Mr
"Students are trained to pursue objective inquiries in their studies," said Mr Bollinger, "but incur unpopularity when they turn their searchlight on the society outside the University walls and expose the iniquitous sham and tomfoolery for what it is."
Those holding "deep-seated middle class prejudices" about the University "had their worst fears fulfilled in the first years of the University's existence.
"New Zealand's participation in the Boer War was termed a 'shameful blot on New Zealand's reputation' by the Debating Club at that time," said Mr Bollinger.
"The local press declared it was shocking enough that the issues were debated at all'." Something about . . . .it was compounding the felony to do so in public.
The tradition, said Mr Bollinger, had not yet been broken.
A former Minister of Education, Mr World War I.
"Massey, the peasant Prime Minister from Northern Ireland passed the
"University administrators denied the Professor was purveying literature likely to encourage subversion," Mr Bollinger said.
"The Council also said any student worth his salt reads banned literature.
"But," said Mr Bollinger, "it is doubtful whether the man was ever forgiven by an hysterical suburbia.
"A 'Hotbed of Subversion' was the headline Truth gave an article on VUW 40 years ago," he said.
"It gave in support of its claims the example of a man named
"The Student, an independent student newspaper in 1933 was banned after only three issues because it encouraged students to refrain from "scabbing on seamen, joining the Special Police Force or the armed forces."
"The Council also banned Spike," Mr Bollinger
Mr
Mr Bollinger said he would like to confront Mr Corner with them now.
"Students in the 30's celebrated the arrival of a German Ambassador to New Zealand by hauling down a swastika and substituting a plain red flag.
'The local papers termed it 'a student stunt'."
A German Embassy official walked out of a barrage of questions at a meeting at the university accusing students of "insulting my Fatherland and Fuhrer."
"Nobody expects the present generation is going to do a whole lot better than those which preceeded it," said Mr Bollinger, "but there does seem to me to be a deeper committment to human values and a more salutary sceptism about ideologies in you lot that gives reason for hope."
"Sir
Mr Bollinger said Sir Walter had admitted to him two months before he died that he had accepted an alternative venue in Auckland after to speak.
police refused to allow him Mr Bollinger quoted Sir Walter as saying: "No matter what happened subsequently, nothing excuses the initial instructions given by Holland."
"That," said Mr Bollinger, "was the way he referred to him, 'Holland'.
"I take it he meant Sir Sidney," said Mr Bollinger.
The Joint Committee on Student Participation in the University took action at its first meeting.
A statement, released by the Chairman of the Committee, the Pro-Chancellor. Mr
"It was decided to recommend to Council that this matter be clarified by Council resolving that the Students' Association Representative did have full voting rights."
Defence and foreign policy are being discussed from a viewpoint that is now decidedly old-fashioned and some of the conventions of this discourse urgently need to be revised or rejected. According to this viewpoint the world consists of a number of states, most of them nation-states, which are the units of action at the global level, cither directly or through intermediate groupings. Hence the term "international politics" and the presumption often underlying it that nations are and will remain the prime actors in global politics. (I don't like the word "global" either, but at least it is free of this particular connotation.) On this view the nation-state serves at the global level the role of the individual in domestic politics. Nationalism attaches sanctity to the sovereignty of nation-states. These ought to have freedom of action, unrestricted policy choices, governments based on consent (the only principle of legitimate authority), and equality in the world community. The latter is therefore a democracy: one state one vote. We have tiny Mauritius and barren Mauritania equated on this view with the USA and the USSR.
An extension of this view is that the United Nations is a world community of nation-states, a world democracy, marred perhaps by the absence of China. Within the UN are intermediate groupings which play a role rather like that of political parties in the domestic politics of party-democracies. These groupings include the British Commonwealth, the Communist bloc, the Afro-Asian bloc and the Western bloc (the actual terminology, of course, varies). There are also alliances, but these are on the whole bad because they tend to circumvent the objectives of the UN (Rousseau in modern clothes!) and they do not adhere to the principle of equality between states. The main causes of tension and threats of war arise from the inability of the Western and Communist blocs to sink their differences and get on with the task—the only task that matters—of bringing the poor countries of the world up to their level of affluence.
I could go on filling in details; but this is indication enough of the kind of approach to world affairs adopted by those who often hold the floor. I have not the time and Salient has not the space to explore all the misconceptions embodied in this approach. But one or two general points about the view of the world to which I object need to be stated. The first is that the notion of sovereignly—always a woolly notion—is more and more a fiction and therefore the moral values attached to it are incapable of being supported. The notion furthermore of networks of relations mainly channelled from within nation-states through their governments either direct to the UN or via respective blocs is a gross oversimplification. The notion of a nation-state, even, is hard to relate to reality.
Let us suppose, instead of this outmoded view, that the world community is a system broadly analogous to a system like the internal-combustion engine or a tree. There is a danger in this comparison, because the purposes or functions of these mechanical or biological systems and their components are fairly clear, whereas those of the world system are not. The latter, like the other systems, however, consists of parts or subsystems interacting and changing and may be studied from various perspectives and at various levels.
If we think of the world like this the first points we become aware of are that it must be a very complicated system and that it is changing fairly rapidly, the rate of change is accelerating, and the direction of change is not pre-ordained. The complexity is so great and our viewpoint is so limited that our conception of this system must be incomplete and uncertain and it must be affected by our own values or purposes. It is therefore a subjective conception and this, of course, applies to my own elaborations on it.
I would not myself call it an international system, because this places undue emphasis on nations, nor would I concentrate attention on political aspects to the exclusion of other aspects that can be highly significant. The term "world system" or even "global system" would be better. At the same time we must recognise that, though their significance is changing and in some important ways diminishing, nations or states are major components of this system—in the jargon of political science we might call them dominant actors in some respects and we agree that in some parts of the system they are likely to remain so for years to come.
Ideally a system, if it is to survive, should contain only co-operative elements, not antagonistic ones, and it should try to overcome or expel or modify antagonistic ones introduced from outside. But our system not only contains hostile element but has various and even contradictor was of dealing with them. One way is association —integrating or unifying hostile elements that the hostility is overcome or at dissociative—keeping them apart, minimising the points of
Relations or communications between
Let us therefore classify countries in rough way as primitive, traditional, mode and ultramodern. These might broad correspond with substance, barter,
In moving up the scale identifications change. Primitive and traditional societies attach themselves to nationalism and the nation-state is their ideal. Modern societies grow out of the strait-jacket of nationalism and try to establish larger bases of loyalty such as the EEC. Comecon and the Nordie Council (though this process, too, can be uneven). In the modern and ultramodern we find (following subnational form is a reaction against impersonal values of large modern and ultramodern societies: groups like the hippies try to form selfcontained societies of their own, rejecting national policies and commitments The crossnational kind expresses not the rejection of one's own society but the extension of loyalty to another, because of the increasing interpenetration of modern and ultramodern societies which brings then citizens into a variety of meaningful contacts with other people of groups abroad. The transnational differs in that it rejects national identifications, as the old-style Marxists used to and many Vietnam war protesters do today, as well as some teenagers and perhaps mercenaries in tropical Africa. The final kind is supranational, engendered by loyalties attaching to the 600-odd inter-governmental organisations that already exist.
The vast majority of people in primitive and traditional societies are untouched by this new range of identifications. In modern and ultramodern countries, on the other hand, national boundaries are coming down or being penetrated and political, ecomonic and cultural interdependence increases rapidly. To disentangle this intermeshing of institutions and loyalties is no longer possible The modern and ultramodern countries seem destined to draw even closer together.
Barriers such as the
The modern and ultramodern societies are Europe. the USSR. Japan, Australia and New Zealand. They try to help the traditional societies to bridge the gap to modernity, but they do not seem to be able to cross that gap. One of two countries might manage to get across by their own efforts those of the USA. Canada, almost all South Africa, for example But the large populations seem destined to fall farther behind, mainly because of increasing pressure on limited food resources. So the shape of the world community at least until the 1980s can fairly confidently be drawn in outline.
It is a shape that is at once reassuring and saddening. The danger of nuclear war, it this major trend continues and fate is kind, will largely disappear. Indeed the danger of war of any kind within and between the modern and ultramodern societies is likely to diminish, since associative rather than dissociative ways of dealing with antagonisms are likely to be adopted in the integrating affluent communities Ideological commitments in this segment of the world are weakening.
The situation and prospects of the primitive and traditional countries seem quite different. Intense nationalism, dissociative way of treating antagonisms, frustration arising from the widening gap between expectations and achievements, and the multiplications of war threats are what must on present evidence be expected. Interventions of various kinds by the modern and ultramodern countries are likely, but conditioned by the increasing integration of those countries. The military in the poor countries, being relatively efficient, achievement-oriented, purposeful and nationalistic, will have enhanced prestige. There will be internal wars in poor countries and wars between them and on the periphery of the two worlds, the rich and the poor.
This, then, is the changing global system as I see it To this evolving world system New Zealand must adapt her policies and here in brief are the implications that I deduce from this series of propositions about the way the world is changing. First, Australia and New Zealand are being drawn closer together by the general integrative forces I have mentioned and also by the particular logic of then situation They form a geographically isolated group which shares a long flank with the troubled world of the primitive and traditional countries and must be affected by the turmoil that seems inevitable in and among those countries. From time to time they can expect to be threatened by outbursts of violence on this long front. Whether or not this drives the Anzae community into full politically union, the two countries are becoming increasingly united economically and culturally and their policies must converge. They may have to face a war threat alone, at least for a period. because of complications like the danger of it confrontation of super-powers if either intervened on their behalf. They must therefore build up then defensive strength on a joint scheme which does not presuppose that they will always have allies supporting them. They may even have to develop their own nuclear weapons.
This is not to say that alliances are undesirable: they are essential. Australia and New Zealand both live beyond their means and must go on doing to if they are to continue their economic development. Defence in the modern world is enormously expensive and they need to share its burden with allies and gain whatever deterent effect alliances can provide.
The Cold war, however no longer provides an adequate stimulus for alliances NATO and the Warshaw Pact are nourished less as time passes by fear of war between Russia and the West than by the exigences of the German problem Only the USA has viewed SEATO purely its an anti-commnunist league. If alliances are to persist in the absence of a clear and present danger they will need to be economic and cultural as well as defensive. So long as the superpower confrontation problem exists, alliances with countries other that the USA seem particularly desirable. One such country must be Japan; but Japan's image in the rest of Asia is unattractive and likely to become more so as her gallop along the road to affluence leaves the poor countries plodding even farther behind. An alliance with her would strain traditional friendships with countries like Malaysia and sorely test our. diplomatic skills.
Various UN agencies provide bridges across the gap between the primitive-traditional and the modern-ultramodern parts of the world and New Zealand must do what she can to maintain these and to extend them as the gap widens. But she can no longer regard the UN as a major guardian of peace and protector of small powers, UN helplessness in the face of trouble in Asia is evident enough. Moreover UN resolutions about Pacific islands have tended to distort orderly political and economic development. New Zealand will undoubtedly do what she can within the UN to help ease tensions within the poor part of the world .and between the two worlds of the rich and the poor, as well as between conflicting racial groups: but the outlook here is not encouraging.
A policy of neutrality or non-alignment for New Zealand is not feasible. She is irrevocably in the camp of the well-to-do. Her destiny is tied by unbreakable bonds to that of Australia. But, more important in the long run, neutrality or non-alignment are policies stimulated by the logic of the Cold War and will have no basis when this competition between communist and non-communist countries is largely submerged as I think it will be in the next few years. by the profounder division of the world between the primitive-traditional and the modern-ultramodern segments. There will of course be a period of transition and world was will remain a danger until this period ends. But the two super-powers have shown themselves to be keeply aware of this danger and anxious above all to avoid it Whether they will be able to deter China or some new member of the nuclear club from starting a nuclear conflict is a matter of deepest concern.
These are the main implications for New Zealand defence and foreign policy in the global system as I see it. I could add to them and enlarge on them if time and space permitted. I cannot see many policy choices The inter-meshing or integrating processes have already gone too far and short of nuclear catastrophe, are irreversible.
June 18, 1968
Opinions expressed in Salient are not necessarily those of VUWSA.
Abhorrence of secrecy is the traditional attitude of academics because valid views depend on full knowledge.
It epitomises the hypocrisy of the university situation that it is governed by a system of secret committees whose effect is to stop the possibility of discussion on a" problem until it has been decided how to deal with it.
The deliberations of committees of the University Council result in recommendations to the Council which remain secret until they are reported to the Council for acceptance or rejection. It has not occurred to anyone that discussion and evaluation of the recommendations of these committees, by the people they are designed to service, could be helpful before a final decision is made.
And now the new Joint Committee on Student Participation is to be closed.
One member, the President of the Students' Association, has twice said that members "might be scared to change their minds" if the committee met in public. This is a statement that would seem somewhat curious in its timidity, even if it did not proceed from the man who, carrying the banner of Danny Cohn-Bendit, is leading this University to Student Power.
If the true reason, as some members have suggested, is that the Managing Secretary of the Student Union and the students' caterer are to be discussed, then let them have the right to an open discussion; if it is because the student members might be persuaded to make great concessions, let them concede openly.
Secrecy has had not only the predictable disadvantage of making any substantial communication between the committee and the outside world, impossible, but has seriously undermined the prestige of the committee among students.
The original Students' Association proposal was for a committee of equal student and council representation. At the request of the Council four additional members were appointed—members of the Professorial Board. Now that students are so heavily outweighed on the committee, other students need to be assured that they will not be entirely browbeaten. Only the possibility of popular scrutiny will suffice.
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Comment on New Zealand's military involvement in the Vietnam war has, from time to time, spotlighted the role played by the churches, in the formation of an informed and ethical public opinion.
This role came under scrutiny when the National Council of Churches issued reports on the Vietnam war and the present Rhodesian government. These reports opposed New Zealand's military commitment in the former case and candemned the actions of the Smith regime.
The right of the churches to offer advice on international affairs has been questioned both by MPs, such as Mr
Individual members of the NCC have defended their right to suggest as ethical perspective for international decisions (reputed to have been referred to disparagingly by
But, not stressed, was the formidable composition of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs which prepared and documented the NCC statements in this area.
It is doubtful whether a comparable body exists in New Zealand with members of such unquestionable knowledge and integrity NCC Secretary, the Rev.
The commission represents a combination of expertise in both international problem and Christian ethics. Its chairman is
University members include Dr
The churches themselves are represented by the Rev.
When considering specialist topics an gathering further information and advice outside the experts areas, the commission breaks up into sub-committees.
Reports are adopted by the whole commission. To date, there have been no divisions according to one member, the
The ritual tributes to Sir
The historians should already be making their asessment—it is now almost twenty years since the end of Labour's first period power, long enough for the contemporary to have receded sufficiently to qualify as history. And, surely history has not all that much to record in Sir Walter's disfavour. He is one of the few politicians never to have claimed to be more than he was—a liberal-spirited, humanitarian social reformer. Virtually alone in the Labour Party he was never an extremist, entering the 1935 cabinet with no Marxist past to forget or recant Pitching his political expectations at a moderate level, he had no striving for utopia to undo, unlike some of his colleagues he never looked the disappointed visionary or the idealist turned utopian. He was an honest politician by the grace of history exactly suited to the mood and moves of his period.
Honesty and fashionableness are shortlived virtues: the man who has them may have adjusted too well to his own time to win the admiration of his descendants, and this is the reason, perhaps, why the press has labelled Sir Walter's post-1950 career anachronistic. This is too easy: the 'thirties did not end in 1939, they still survive in Norman Kirk's speeches. The thirties were the period of greatest social inequality in New Zealand's history: the politics of the 'thirties therefore had to be, in Leslie Lipson's phrase, politics of equality. This meant that the central concern of the 'thirties was money, the structure of the financial system, the lending policy of the banks. Its key measures were Government control of the Reserve Bank, the guaranteed price for dairy products, the guaranteed benefit for social security recipients—greater Government control of the distribution of the wealth coupled with redistributive payments to the least wealth. Sir
This brought us nowhere close to socialism, for socialism means a change in the structure of capitalism, and Labour, and certainly Nash, never dreamt of withdrawing industry from private hands. Nash far less than his Cabinet colleagues, never had an idea that anything else was possible. A Christian Socialist, a former member of Religion and the Rise in Capitalism. He worked out the Labour Party's guaranteed price policy, spelling out the social credit implications of this policy at the 1931 and 1935 elections. Nash, was Labour's first social crediter, Lee the propagandist of Nash's gospel who tried blasphemously to be more orthodox than his scriptures. What for Nash was a slightly exaggerated version of a just price theory became a doctrine of unlimited money in rural electorates, but Nash himself, except in his pamphlet on the Guaranteed Price scheme, was always restrained in his statements about it. describing it as part of a plan for socialising distribution. It was Nash's religion — he sold books for the Student Christian Movement in the twenties—that made currency reform respectable, though, along with Savage and Uncle Serim, Nash preached a was that of morals and politics, and Labour, making itself the vehicle of a politico-moral fundamentalism made the thirties nearer a second Reformation than a repetition of 1917. Economics in the world-view of the 'thirties could be made over by a few good men: and Nash, in his platform appearances, the epitome of the generous and devout, was as close to the ideal politician of his time as Savage in New Zealand or Eberhardt in Alberta. Nash typified a parly which, finally, was neither left nor right, but wanted politics to be based on the teachings of the Good Book and the Old Time Religion.
As a party of spiritual renewal, Labour did reverse the economic trends of the 'thirties' and was certainly the only Government would or could have goverened New Zealand in the 'forties; but like most new religions, it gradually lost its charismatic personality, of which Nash was the last, and rejoiced too early in the politic edifice it had left. By the late 'forties Labour looked less like a religion than a badly run business and the electorate, tired of uplift. especially familiar uplift tossed it out. It still regarded Nash as a secular prophet, a role he knew very well how to play, preaching for international harmony and charily by by the world's rich to the world's poor. Characteristically, though the vieux jeu—ethics always date quickly —but they opened the way to the most honourable kind of conservatism in the 'thirties. It may be that we needed something other than conservatism but. as nobody then offered it. Nash can hardly be blamed for not taking an option not on offer.
I present Ocarina's passage attempt to show why I do not perhaps not representative, but motive obliterating concentration "18653. Eight long years we have been away! We performed a ceremony at dawn today, the solemnity of which was marred a little by the magicians' [• In these places there may be omissions.]
with a commentary, in an favour his method. This is confirms my suspicions of a on fact.
Pompous
He distrusts magicians. young ones in particular.
This has not happened for some time
Why then does he so boldly preface this passage with the date?
Safely discredited now
Perhaps I am being a little unfair towards Ocarina; he promises to make a good leader; a little pomposity may be forgiven in one of his age; my suspicions may be unfounded.
All those who read this account in years to come will perhaps feel angered at my little regard for Ocarina; but I freely admit that I have good reason to bear a grudge against him. Perhaps he appointed me Chronicler in a feeling of shame for his sins, hoping that I should be magnanimous towards him. In case that was his intention, I shall try to make little of the pain caused me, and of the underhandedness of his actions, difficult as that may seem.
Upper Shajat valley. We have come here to chase a ferocious goose, I think, in pursuit of a tail that docs not exist, to find only the lone "dragonfly", who, it seems, must be Erythromelagia. Strange! He never seemed to be one who would go off by himself, to tour the world alone for years. I wonder, if I were he would I look for the 880 or for the 220 or for the homeland? I have just made an odd discovery: there have always been a thousand and one of our people. But 880 + 220 + 1 makes 100 more than exist.
Either all our people have added wrongly for centuries, or else counted wrongly in the first instance, as well as in the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth. the ninth, the tenth, eleventh, and so on. I have asked Ocarina; he did not seem in the slightest part worried, putting down this discrepancy to a computational error; he does not seem to consider the possibility that there may be 100 intruders among our true 780. He said "Numbers are unimportant; if all
I disagree vehemently
At a meeting today, outlined what he though to be our tasks, in the
The sun has
[The remainder of this page has been rendered illegible through the action of water.]
It has been a week since I entered the previous entry. We tied ourselves down in terror, which is slowly passing away. I have untied one hand and am now shakily writing. What we most fear has not happened: that our position on the man may be inverted, and ourselves thrown far into the sky, perhaps never again to touch land. Ocarina has given the signal, and all around me people are untying themselves, and each other, and the animals, and the wagons, as well as odd bits and pieces tied down in a hurry last week. Some of the less hardy among us have caught cold, after having lain for a week on the earth, subjected to sunshine, moonshine. and rainfall. Antimacassar is very sick, and others are carrying him to his wagon.
For my own part, I enjoyed the succession of the elements, which, in addition to those I have mentioned, comprised thunder and lightning, hoarfrost, drought, dew, waterspout, 3 eclipses (though perhaps I have already mentioned these . . . for the time being I have mislaid my green book, and am writing this on the back of a smooth camelopard asleep beside me); Mazinta has now found the green book, and drying it by sitting on it, and I am loth to remove her for so unimportant a matter; however, in case I have not written it, there were (I think) three eclipses of the sun, and the top right-hand segment fell off, leaving a small gap which has since healed itself, due, no doubt, to the curative properties of bright sunlight), snowdrifts, torrential rain, monsoons, as well as a totally dark period or hiatus in the passage of time.
Nostradamus has been loudly voicing his theories on the passages of time, that it crosses over itself, and that what we have just experienced throughout the length or a true period of lime, crossing over on its own path; and to present us with a choice of three directions in which to travel, or. in practice, two, since to reverse one's path through time is so far unknown, and very likely impossible. Which of the two paths we take is, he states, determined by chance or perhaps by the weather acting as chance's agent; in short, since such crossings of time upon itself must be confined to a small locality, there is half a chance that we have jumped ahead of our compatriots but probably not of our return (otherwise why should we still be travelling? To look for the 880?); therefore, he says, we must make some allowance in the calendar, perhaps even to abandon it and begin a new one.
Though Nostradamus has been discredited and removed from his post through sheer carelessness (due, some say, to the shrewish Onomatopeia), his wisdom is beyond and he-is by far our most distiguished theorist on the subject of time; Ottoman, in comparison, is a mere calendar-ticker-offer or plank-sawyer. Ocarina, surprisingly, in view of his usual attitude toward Nostradamus, heartily agrees with the latter in the theory that we may have jumped ahead of ourselves; Ocarina thinks that we should have arrived at the homeland, found no 880 (maybe 780), and that we are now searching for them. I think the man may have turned in his sleep.
I have been toying around the idea of writing this "review" for nearly a week now. Just as well the deadline remains virtually non-existent, for I was left to be goaded on by repressions of tension and frustration, and now when I see the result, it resembles a limp panegyrical stutter,
To do the film justice, this review does not, for Larry Peerce's The Incident, can only be referred to, commented on, made better known and to those who eventually see the film will perhaps understand the difficulty of returning to earth, to compliment its hysterical nightmare.
Comparisons make fine maladroit asides. When Frankenheimer's The Young Savages was submitted to major exisions, and still has a now redundant R21 certificate, the Censor presumably thought he was excluding the majority of "contenders to the cause" from seeing it, and so protect etc. As it stands. The Young Savages is no more violent than The Invaders (which at times is certainly horrible) but it will make me shrink to see what reaction The Incident will have in a big city cinema.
Compared to The War Game in terms of shock constituency (sec elsewhere) this film is much more horrifying, and substantially so.
It has not been shown commercially anywhere in New Zealand, let alone Britain or Australia. The film, too, is relatively unknown at the moment. You may have read the superb) reviews in Time and Playboy late last year, but surprisingly for a film of this type, its success has been confined to winning the Bonnie and Clyde—believe it or not.
It concerns two young drunken barbarians, who terrorise passengers in a car of a New York City train in the early hours of the morning. They are all individually too weak or cowardly to do anything. It is only at the climax that order is restored in sequences that explode in the mind and leave a cold riotous numbing effect in the body.
It could only be compared to Anthony Harvey's adaption of LeRoi Jones' Dutchman (which is unlikely to get a release here) but one can assume which is the more horrible.
In One Potato, Two Potato, which was Peerce's first (a fine film marred by a somewhat over compassionate view of racialism), the climax was a stringent showdown: the small girl belting her mother and being driven away screaming in the car. This sequence has been referred to among the "great-hurts" in cinema history, and now, with The Incident, Peerce shows his restraint (thank goodness) in dealing with a subject that has been used again and again; in TV shows (Nicholas E. Bachr's screen-play was based on his TV play Ride with Terror) and especially in the novel The Warriors by
The Incident Was made completely in New York, for $800,000.
Every person in the carriage undergoes scrutiny before the actual train ride. From their visits to parents, shows, parties, love-meetings, or dingy bars in the city, they slowly straggle up the steps, to different platforms, unprepared for the vicious zoo-performance in which they will participate.
Peerce's director of photography,
The scene where the younger of the thugs gets him to confide in him. "Will you help me . . . please, he's got a knife," degenerates (if that's the word) into farce as the older takes him on a satanic dance up and down the carriage. The sequence is timeless, there is no sound. it seems to last tor ever. It is the most horrifying I have ever seen.
As if that isn't enough, the thugs (unbearably life-like performances by
It is one of the most sickening films we have been privileged (?) to see (there is one cut and it has nothing to do with violence. I am sure), and if it does get its scheduled release at the Plaza on July 19. I can guarantee that it will haunt you forever.
Next Week: Reviews of Bergman's "Persona" and Kubrick's "2001; A Space Odyssey".
The War Game finally reaches Wellington after very successful seasons throughout the rest of the country. It began with mid-week screenings in two suburban theatres in Auckland during the March festival. The public's reaction far exceeded the expectations of the distributors so it was given saturated treatment throughout the country. A rare thing for a film classed as "festival-type only", and it was made in 1965.
cinema-verite with drama. His first film for TV was Culloden, a gruesome reconstruction of the battle presented to us by narrative, on-the-spot interviews with the participants, and a dramatic treatment of the actual events. The film cuts back and forth between these varying pastures, making the whole affair more immediate
Privilege, made after The War Game, upset many people who expected something totally different, and after seeing it proceeded to misunderstand its purpose and style. Enough said. The War Game uses facts and figures on nuclear stockpiles, the effects of radiation, and what would happen during civil evacuation under threat of nuclear attack. This has then been treated within a dramatic framework. All evacuation is simulated, and the consequences of a nuclear explosion, At intervals the drama is broken to give interviews with people on what they know, what they will do, Despite the realism, I Found it disappointing.
One is constantly made aware that everything is play-acting, Non-professional actors say the same thing to the camera as if the script instructed them to do so (as it probably did). Nobody was aware of what would happen if a nuclear strike occurred (which says a lot for the activities of the now defunct CND); small children answered "I don't want to be nuthin" when asked what they would do in a future of devastation. This may well be true, but somehow it didn't sound convincing. The events were to staged, straining to make an impact yet not quite hitting the mark. The filming during the action sequences lacked restraint: it looked more like the crazed work of a cameraman run amok. At times one had no idea what was going on. In this respect It Happened Here was far more effective
But this is not to derogate some excellent work. The point is: Was it as terrifying as it was intended. After a spate of violent films like Bonnie and Clyde, Point Blank and The Incident it seems tame stuff; certainly it would do no harm to a TV audience. (Incidentally the NZBC can't show it on TV because the BBC refuse to grant TV rights anywhere in the word.) It appears that the "objectionable" seems were those depicting the collapse of law and order, looting, murdering of police etc. But today this sort of thing is commonplace (it always has been). We even see it on TV within hours of the event Moreover, it can hardly be claimed that unclear armaments and the threat of nuclear war are the most pressing problems of our time.
But if the subject is not a burning issue, it is not the fault of Watkins and his collaborators. They have presented a convincing if not wholly satisfactory case. They were limited by the length of a TV documentary (50 minutes) leaving too much unsaid. The War Game is worth seeing, but it doesn't live up to the extravagant claims made for it.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the anger and disgust of the Death of Bessie Smith, the personal and social insight of
Perhaps he feels the fingers of middle-age upon him for this play is, above all, about life without illusions. There are layers of meaning which peel off as the play progresses, to reveal even greater depths and satisfactions yet each may be enjoyed alone. The middle-aged in the audience may see themselves a little more clearly; the young may better understand the older; and all will feel they have been closer to people rather than to a play.
It is not a pretty play but it is beautiful: beautiful in its shape and structure, in its humanity and understanding, in its delicacy and depth, and in its glittering houesty.
I kept hearing soft echoes of Chekov, the supreme master in creating people who reflected a decaying civilisation. Albee has denied that he seeks to do this for like Chekov he writes of the people he sees and knows, but they are people of their times and it is the quality of the times which comes clear.
Albee's characters talk to each other and they sometimes understand but the talk and the understanding are not related; they sometimes make love but they do not love; they live but they have no commitment to. or in, life; they behave but they have no clear values; they continue to exist but only because no new breed has yet arisen to take their place; they no longer are sure of who or what they are.
So we have a fine and moving play which happily is well served by a east, designer and producer who have achieved a rare harmony and unity of purpose. Only such a group could have attained the measured, savouring pace that the play demands. This is a real test of quality.
The whole action develops around Agnes, a finely drawn, taut and articulate middle-aged woman desperately clinging to the remnants of her life. This is Superbly played by
The balance of the play is in the hands of Claire who exists as a kind of chorus commenting on life from the sidelines, aware but uninvolved, alive but not really living, the permanent spectator whose mordant wit entertains but never completely covers the empty loneliness.
Producer
A Delicate Balance by
This collection os some 170 poems was written over the past few years and published, as book jacket says, "at her publisher's urging". It is an uneven collection as it is a personal record of memories and experience, intellectual exercises, word games, fragments of ideas and deep personal feeling. Perhaps the best dozen of these poems will be retained for future collections of New Zealand poetry and the rest discarded, but this is not to suggest they are not important to the poetess herself.
"Seizing the time from the University clock, the wind suddenly cannot carry its burden of chiming sound. The waves ride in, tumultous, breaking gustily out of tune, burying two o'clock on Sunday Afternoon."
Some of her experiments are not so successful as for example her poem "Napalm" which reads:
"nay son say palm
pay palm sun day."
However
"The fahrenheit man on the centigrade sea with wittage and wantage and wastage and me".
A personal fragment of memory as "My Mother Remembers Her Fellow Pupils at School" which reads:
"
Hetty Peak and Ruby Blake
and long poem stories such as "Sunday Drive' with its intensity of ideas and private memory world of Janet Frame:
"—And what was your favourite toy?"
"Mine,' I said, "was a paraffin tin. I dragged it along in the grey dust
on a piece of string. It was shining and silver and hollow and it sang in the sun
and everything that touched it made it sing exclaim groan tingle cling-clang, gasp a tin gasp, and proclaim
its sound and shape and glossy being as an emptly new paraffin tin that sang and mirrored the world."
A noticeable feature of Janet Frame's prose has been the 'poetry' in her novels and short stories. A State of Seige, Scented Gardens For the Blind and Owls do Cry are specially related to the poetic structure and her writing has the rounded, flowing effect of poetry. She moves happily from one medium to the other until an idea becomes a rhythm of words. She is comparable in this respect with
"Do you keep a diary;"
"I used to. I burned it. Do you keep one?"
"I do. Details I want to remember. Colours. A chance remark. A shape.
"My diary, years ago, was of love; of smiles given near and far away as the sun; of passionate beings out of reach but shining faithfully, like planets"
"Everything changes. Nothing will stay. My mother died four years ago. and though I still do not mourn for her, I remember her.
Memory recurs, cripples. There is no relief from its path."
"There is no measurement of time."
"Our parents are our first world. Do you remember the childhood imagining of their death, of how it would be with mother and father dead? How cruel winds came in to take up the space they left, how exposed you stood as on a head long, and could not bear the grief flowing down down through your body or draw you into the earth."
"I had no imagining of it. My mind and heart would not let me see it
I closed myself against it like a flower closing against the night."
This in fact could be an extract from one of her novels. Her prose and poetry are part of the same—both swell from her deep emotional involvement with people and ideas.
The sheer volume of Janet Frame's poetry is amazing, the quality is the product of her broad interpretative powers and sensitivity. By seeing the best and the lesser of her poems in one volume we have a picture of a very human writer attempting to record the influence upon her of the present and past.
The subject matter of the poems could broadly be divided into the influences of life around her which Janet Frame has analysed and given back to herself and us sometimes simply, sometimes tortuously complex, but always with the feeling of her own intimate involvement.
The Pocket Mirror. A collection of poems by Janet Frame, published by the Pegasus Press, Christchurch. $2.50.
The Film Society programme for the rest of term:
June 19: Inherit the Wind (7.30)
June 26: The Goddess; Seven Year Itch (7.30)
June 28: Fury (12.15)
July 12: Twelve Angry Men (12.15)
July 19: L'il Abner (12.15)
July 31: America America (7.30)
August 2: Libel (12.15)
August 9: Bell, Book and Candle (12.15)
Winter Tournament: The Rounders; Left-handed Gun, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Kiss Me Stupid, Only Two Can Play, Spinster (all 7.30)
Sir—Shoulder to shoulder stand
Whyso? Many a long moon here-aback, this scribeller penned upon the formation of a Pooh Club; penned at length and did scunge thereupon—great muckly heaps.
Quoth I, a merry quoth frothing from twixt my lips, I quote —'alas', I said.
For the First Action of the pooh club was the Taj Mahal Incident. A Political (or Other) Gesture. A gesture of Undergraduates and Policemen, far, O far removed from Hundred Acre Wood. Alas! as afore-said.
For Pooh is a Doubtful And Muddled Bear, and is fit company for those few Doubtful And Muddled Undergraduates, and those many Doubtful And Muddled Graduates. For those of assurance, those lets-have-some-action bower-power bodies, for those in the Real World— for these, alas, not-Pooh.
The Others. Ah. The Others. To quote me (and who better, after all) I called last year.
. . . . to gather to my own oak all those whose ears, like mine, stream in the wind, who sit, like me, on gates beating time with sticks and doing the tiddley-poms and who, like me, while being a little concerned about the jump propensities of paper Tigers in trees nevertheless can occasionally say
"look at Me"
I call them into the Club of Piglet. The Club of Piglet will never meet and will never become officered, its members will remain unknown to each other except by the occasional coup d'oeil (the couping of the Piglets in the Forest, as it were).
Welcome,
Go ye! Hales and List, go yonder! Let thyselves be consumed by the yonirable flames of political action!
Sir—Being of the opinion, as are many others, that students are not given enough information about the various and sundry goings-on of Exec, I was pleased to see in Salient No. 11, an informative looking column entitled "What Exec Did".
However, closer scrutiny revealed that it read more like a cross between Hedda Hopper's page and a naughty schoolboy's report than a seriously meant column in a publication of high standing such as Salient.
While I am aware that this column is not intended to be purely factual, impartial, or even fair, such blatant victimisation and pointlessly catty personal references will, I feel, promote distrust and contempt of Salient's honourable intentions rather than stimulate healthy controversy.
The criticisms levelled against extremely bad taste.
Will the column continue in this petty whimsical vein, or will it become a constructive and worthwhile part of the newspaper?
[Pro. However I hope she will come to future meetings. —ed.]
Sir—I was disturbed to read the article in Salient on "The Morality of Test-tube ies". The author identified only as the Science Editor hadn't the courage to sign his or her name to it, and was not mentioned in the list of Salient Staff.
The heading to the article was most misleading promising a discussion on the morality of cultivating test tube life. In fact only one paragraph dealt with the morality of test tube babies and this was short and of a scientific nature.
While I do not doubt the accuracy and sincerity of this article, I feel it is wrong to discuss such a subject as though it was a foregone conclusion. We have by no means established that life can be made in test tubes. Too often these predictions are masked in a scientific cloak as an attempt to disguise an argument which is either specious or very weak.
[Andy Easton's name, as Science Editor has been left off the staff list in error. I feel the problem can legitimately be discussed even though its urgency is not dire—ed.]
Soccer: Final—Geography v. Fiji, 26/6/68. Semi-final— Accountancy v. Classics. 26/6/68. 5th and 6th place— Horowhenua v. Salient. 19/6/68.
Basketball: Top team in 12.00 to 1.00 League—Botany. A game will be arranged between Botany and the winners of the final. For the remainder of the year a handicap competition is heme organised. Teams will receive their handicap when they score their first goal.
Table Tennis: Teams have been unable to come regularly on Tuesdays so an individual competition for regular intra-mural players will be organised from Tuesday. June 18. Top team: Staff.
Volley Ball: 10 teams play regularly on Fridays. Successful teams so far are—All Stars, 3 wins, no losses; Social Science, 3 wins, 1 loss; Classics, 2 wins, 2 losses; Commerce, 2 wins, 1 loss.
Woodenspoon Is Alive . . . And Losing His Deposit
Lamie, who has been a second-year law student for the last five years, announced his candidacy for the seat whilst addressing a gathering of supporters outside the Manapouri Men's Clinic. (He was later beaten about the head and body by a canteen proprietor who mistook him for Prince Charles).
A member of the New Zealand Labour Party for ten minutes, Mr Woodenspoon has served as an "observer" in the Girl Guides.
"I know what it's like to be stripped of my proficiency badges for a minor indiscretion," he snarled croakingly at yesterday's Press Conference.
"I think we should welcome United States Girl Guides in this country . . . even if they are falling apart with Saigon Rose" he croaked snarlingly.
There can he no doubt that Lamie Woodenspoon is well on his way to realising his ambition (to become a footnote in one of Dr Sutch's forthcoming book "The Age of Boredom: A Study of New Zealand polities 1968-1969").
Yet at the same time time he has an inherent fear that some day, in this hate-filled society, he will have his campaign brought to a tragic end . . . by being elected.
This might daunt a lesser man than Lamie. "I ran on my own two feet in Palmerston" he boasts, displaying a knowledge of anatomy that would leave the Governor-General himself threshing at the air.
"I realise the road will be hard" he grimaced crumpishly "but I will stand on the feet I ran on in Palmerston.
"I have a dream. Ask not what I can do for Cherry Farm but rather what Cherry Farm can do for me. I am a Cherry Farmer. So on to Otago and victory."
At this point Mr Woodenspoon donned a stovepipe hat and began to sing the Red Flag in Maori. Mr Woodenspoon is 23.
1.00 p.m.-2.00 p.m. Forum. On Sub lawn if fine; in Common Common Room if wet.
5.00 p.m. Ramsey House, Bible Study, Anglican Society.
7.30 p.m. Kelbum Park Coffee Shop. French conversation, records, folksinging. A French Club one-act play will be presented.
8.00 p.m. Council Room, Easterfield Royal Society meeting. Dr
8.20 a.m. Quiet Room. The NCC Chaplain celebrates Holy Communion, Members of all churches welcome.
1.00 p.m. 2.00 p.m. Memorial Theatre. Winter Term Lecture. to be given by Dr
1 00 p.m. Quiet Room. Christtian Science Organisation, All welcome.
1.00 p.m. Music Room, Hunter Building, Stage 1 Music students' Concert.
5 p.m.-7.30 p.m. Exec Room. Nat. Affairs Committee.
7.30 p.m. Memorial Theatre, Stanley Kramer's version of the famous Scopes "monkey trial" starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March — " Inherit The Wind".
7.30 p.m. Ramsay House, Combined Religious Clubssminar final meeting "Christanity and Escapism" Sister Ruth Ann, Director of Catholic Social Services and
8 p.m. LB2 "The theory of human rights," Address given by
9.15 a.m.-11 a.m. Exec. Room Acommodation Advisory Committee.
12.30-1.30 p.m. Ramsay House. Hunger Lunch 25c Proceeds to relief of World Hunger.
1.10 p.m. Music Room. Hunter Building. Music Dept. weekly recital: music by Bach and
5.30-7.30 p.m. Wesley Hall, Taranaki Street. World Day of Prayer for Students. Informal fellowship. Meal and service. All welcome.
6-7 p.m. Quiet Room. Atheist Society meeting. Discussion "Christianity and History".
7.30 p.m. Room 304, New Meteorological Office, Kelburn.
7.30 p.m. H.326. "The Earth: Self Powered Heat Engine. Dynamo and Resonator. A talk by Prof.
All day in the Student Union. Mr Kaye will be at VUW to discuss the NZUSA insurance scheme. Appointments or information may be obtained at the Association office.
12 noon Memorial Theatre. Panel Discussion on Volunteering. Chairman
1.15 p.m. RB108. Anglican Soc. Eucharist.
8 p.m. Memorial Theatre. International Club Concert Songs and dances performed by overseas students from Poland, France, Germany, Laos, Vietnam, Russia, Thailand and New Zealand.
8 p.m. Concert Chamber. Town Hall, 62nd Plunket Medal Oratory Contest in the distinguished presence of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, who will present the medal to the successful contestant.
2 p.m. VUW Harrier Club. Vosseler Shield interclub races, Seniors 8 miles, juniors 4 miles, Wellington Harrier Club Rooms, Alexandra Road, No.3 bus.
8 p.m. Memorial Theatre. VUW International club Concert, Book at Stud. Ass. Office.
8.15 p.m. Te Rangatahi Club, Discussion on Conscientious Objection and Military Training in New Zealand, See noticeboard for venue.
1 p.m. Memorial Theatre, Visual Art Films "Renaissance", "Leonardo da Vinci: The Tragic Pursuit of Perfection".
7.45 p.m. Royal Society Rooms. Buckle Street Dr
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Tuesday 25th June. Memorial Theatre. VUW Music Society presents a lunchtime concert.
Tuesday 25th June. 7.30 p.m., Room H222. Chemistry Soc. Meeting addressed by Dr Golding.
Wednesday 26th June. Memorial Theatre 1 p.m. Winter Term Lecture. "The Impact of Computers" by Professor Vignaux.
Wednesday 26th June, Film Soc. screening of "The Goddess" and "The Seven Year Itch". Memorial Theatre 7.30 p.m.
Thursday 27th June. VUW Russian Club film, Memorial Theatre 7.30 p.m.
Friday 28th June. 12.15 p.m. Memorial Theatre. Film Soc. screening of "Fury" starring Spencer Tracy.
Friday 28th June. Memorial Theatre 7.30 p.m. VUW Debating Soc.
Friday 28th June — Tuesday 2nd July. Reikorangi. Philosophical Reading Party. Pay $2.00 deposit to Departmental Secretary.
5th-7th July, Leaving 6 p.m. Friday 5th July at Otaki Camp, the French Club will hold an all-French weekend, modelled on those held by French Universities. Approximate cost $6.00. transport, accommodation and meals included.
Every Monday at the John Reid Squash Courts at 7.30 p.m.—Squash Club night. During Terms 2 and 3 the Sandwich Lunch Bar will he open on Saturdays from 10.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
Students art reminded that submission for the Joint Committee on Student Participation in the University are due with the Secretary of the Committee. P.O. Bos 196 Wellington on or before Monday 1st July 1968.
Thursday and Friday 8th and 9th August. NZUSA is organising a meeting at VUW. This will take the form of a model United Nations General Assembly along the lines of several organised overseas. The objects are to shed light on the issue of Rhodesia and to create a greater awareness of the functions and workings of the United Nations, Further information and registration forms are available in the Stud. Ass. Office. Registration is free and closes on 19th July.
"The ignorance surrounding halls of residence at this university is amazing. Popular mythology appears to view halls of residence as a regimented, single-sexed, and singularly undesirable institution, where out-of-town students are —in the last resort?forced to live. For this reason the halls of residence campaign has been given very little student support (apart from. a ten thousand pound Students' Association loan).
"In spite of predictable, and often mis-guided, popular criticism, halls of residence, I must insist, can provide outstanding advantages, for individual students and for the university.
"I am convinced that the reason for the modesty of the successes of orientation and capping weeks at Victoria does not stem so much from the apathetic nature of the Wellington public, and the Victoria University student, or the rather unfortunate "town-gown" relations. as from the fact that there is no base around which student activities can focus and revolve. This is most apparent during orientation week during which, despite gallant attempts of various university clubs, activities and functions are generally lacklustre, and occasionally disastrous, gestures to welcome eager and expectant freshers, Similarly at Capping.
"In other NZ universities, especially Canterbury and Otago, halls of residence provide the necessary initative, and the necessary base, for such activities. At Canterbury for instance, collection committee, stunts committee, charity collectors etc. traditionally stem from and are led by the various halls of residence. While this can be overdone, it does ensure that such activities have a central and established location, as well as sufficient personnel to mobilise them into maximum efficiency, creativity and action.
"Largely in an attempt, therefore. to dispel popular ignorance and popular misconceptions about halls of residence, an "inter-halls of residence" committee has just been set up at Victoria, composed of student representatives of the current student halls (Weir house, Victoria house,Helen Lowry, Fielden Taylor, Stuart Williamson, and Rudman house), and chaired by the Accommodation Committee Chairwoman.
"This committee intends to publicise, for the benefit of school leavers likely to require university boarding accommodation, for 'uninformed' students, and for the public at large, information about the location, conditions etc. of both current and projected halls of residence. As such, this committee proposes to expose what living in a hall of residence is really like, and, incredible as it may seem, to point out the tremendous advantages that can be obtained by living in them (especially in the new halls with their superior facilities).
"Other aims of this interhalls of residence committee are: to stimulate liaison between halls (at present there is virtually none) : to establish and encourage interhall activities—especially social; to support the halls of residence campaign. and finally, to enable students in halls of residence to play a more positive role within the university, especially during orientation and capping weeks."
For Flowers . . .
Waughs Flower Shoppe Ltd
5 Bowen Street
Tel, 40-797
(After Hours 44-068)
James Soteros
New Hairdressing Salon
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47 Farish Street and 23 Manners Street
For All Student Styles
Hotel St George
The "Seven Seas Bar"
Best In New Zealand
• Nearest University.
• Modern comfortable surroundings.
• Cool, bright, fresh beer on tap always.
• Food available from our "Food Bar", 11.45 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
• Mixed drinking—all facilities.
Entrees, Cold Buffet, Vegetables, Hot Pies
Phone 26-068
Kelburn Butchery (1965) Ltd.
(M. G. &
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Choice, Tender 1st Grade Meat and Smallgoods
Ham • Bacon & Poultry Supplies
Victuallers
Reginald Collins Ltd.
Wholesale wine and spirit people. Vintners to the Students' Association. Carry stocks of all brands of ale, spirits, table wine (from 55c), sherry in flagons ($1.60) or quart bottles.
Free delivery—Cellars located at No. 3 Ballance Street
(Customhouse Quay end)
Barry & Sargent Ltd.
Opticians
118 Willis St. - Tel. 45-841
Suit Hire
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Corner Manners and Farish Streets
Sports
The Sports Depot
(Witcombe & Caldwell)
Half-way along Willis St.
Long-standing connection with University sport, Every one of Vic's 24 sports catered for.
Che Lives. According to a Reuters despatch from La Paz, Bolivia, Che Guevard "has become known in parts of Bolivia as St. Ernesto of Higuerds".
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"Ben Cat, South Vietnam, March 20 (Reuters). One dead Viet Cong is worth three days of sunbathing at the seashore for some American soldiers hunting guerillas around Saigon, according to US infantrymen here. "They said soldiers who kill one or more Viet Cong in operation 'We Will Win' are rewarded with three days at one of three US rest and recreation centres on the South Vietnamese coast."
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Another shipwreck . . . Won't these sailors ever learn every time one of them dies it stops five tourists coming to New Zealand?
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Heard about all the people who signed National Club's application for re-affiliation with Stud. Ass.? No, not
By the way, did you know that Owen is scared to sign Stud. Ass. cheques for Labour Club's Cappicade takings for fear Labour Club won't accept them with his signature?
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And on the subject of politics, Democratic Labour Party chairman
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Did you hear about the EU prayer bulletin which complained there was too little prayer in EU and would members pray about this?
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When is a Student Leadership Conference not a Student Leadership Conference? Well, there was one, or rather there wasn't (or not what NZUSA President McGrath said was one) on Queen's Birthday weekend, when a lot of people who thought they were student leaders decided they weren't (though Salient—in its last issue—said they were). Or were they? Not to confuse people too much wouldn't it be a step toward de-bureaucratising student politics if exec. dropped this Outward Bound mystique of leadership? Honestly, when did Represent you?)
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Arab proverb of the week: When the desert tents grow purple in the sunset,
A hydraulic jack was used to demonstrate the strength of pre-stressed concrete at the first Winter Term science lecture.
"Crystal ball and slide rule —new developments in civil engineering" was the topic discussed by Mr
The winter term lectures were instituted in 1964 by the Professorial Board at the request of the Students' Association.
Each annual series of lectures is organised around a theme which would appeal to students of all faculties.
Speakers are asked to talk on new developments in their fields that are of general interest.
Mr Norman talked about the various materials used in construction, comparing the stones and timbers of last century with the high tensile steels, synthetics and prestressed concrete of this century.
An example was the new Thorndon over-bridge where pre-stressing enabled the placing of girders from each supporting column without disruption to rail or road traffic.
Mr Norman explained that the development of these two factors along with a greater awareness of art in design has occurred because of an inequality between supply and demand and cause and effect in construction.
Slides were used to illustrate new methods and design in engineering.
New Zealand's role in the development of aerial photography as a means of survey, and the use of seismic refraction method to measure the depth and content of the earth, were also discussed.
"The future development of engineering will rely on the realisation that taste as well as reason require enterprise as well as education," he concluded.
Dr
He is noted for his recent disclosure that wool can be turned into food.
Dr Shorland said he will bring samples of this synthetic food for members of the audience to taste.
Other speakers will be: Prof.
Dr
The availability of phosphate in the soil is the basis of his wide-ranging Winter Term lecture.
Dr
Some of the examples of recent research, on which he will speak, will come from research carried out in such institutions.
Mr
Internationally known for his success in the transplantation of heart-valves, Mr Barratt-Boyes will speak on the recent developments in replacement surgery.
Students who might need to earn some more money before the end of the year should register now with the Appointments Board for part-time work, said the Secretary, Mr
There has been a small, but continual, flow of enquiries from students in the last few weeks. Recently the demand for work has slightly exceeded the supply and the register has had to be re-opened.
If it is known how many people need casual work and at what times they are available, job offers can be advertised effectively. It is also more desirable that students earn money now rather than waiting until the third term when finals loom large.
Mr Mitchell said prospects of finding full-time work in the August vacation are not very bright.
Ineffective ventilation of Rankine Brown Building has inspired the circulation of a petition.
The petition says:
"We, the undersigned students of Victoria University, request the Administration of the University to investigate the problem of ventilation in Rankine Brown Building, and urge that steps be taken to install an effective ventilation system with the minimum possible delay."
"The building is far too hot." David said.
"This is especially so on the lower floors of the library building."
On Floor O temperatures often reach 70-80 deg. F.
A similar condition exists on the ninth floor, where a girl fainted in a tutorial some weeks ago.
One of the petitioners, Tony Jaques, said it would be interesting to find out how many students hint not fainted or gone to sleep in the library or in the seminar rooms above.
David thinks the ventilation system does not work effectively.
In the seminar rooms when the fans are full on, there is plenty of noise but still little air—this is not favourable to discussion groups.
In only one day the petition has obtained 500 signatures.
Students have been very keen to sign, David said, Many of them expressed a desire for more direct action.
The open letter David is presenting along with the petition invites the Vice-Chancellor to work for a day in one of the seminar rooms and hopes that the Council meeting could be held in a downstairs lecture room. Then they would no doubt sympathise with the petition.
The student representative on Council and also the Students' Association have been told of the matter and expressed interest in solving the problem.
Canterbury Vice-President
Mr Caird stressed the report was not a blueprint for reform. But also pointed out that if reforms were not forthcoming, Canterbury would seriously consider withdrawing from NZUSA.
"This is not just a threat," he said. "There is a very strong body of opinion to that effect in the Canterbury Executive."
"The problem is three-fold," Mr Caird said. "One, inadequate preparation of delegates; two, inadequate liaison betwen delegates; and three, inadequate definition of NZUSA's role."
Suggesting a solution to the problem of inadequate liaison, he said: "A residential Council away from Tournament is essential.
"There will be a Residential Council in Christchurch at Easter next year. Sufficient leisure time to discuss and lobby is vital.
"The distributing around the city is either billets or paid accommodation of Council delegates like Brown's cows is definitely not conducive to the informal liaison necessary for making the best of NZUSA's formal sessions.
"Much of the wrangling and ignorance exhibited around the table at NZUSA can be overcome by all the delgates being under one roof, provided there is sufficient time for informal contact."
Canterbury is working on a report which will describe the pros and cons and details of their Residential Council next Easter.
Mr "Caird suggested that non-actionable remits had no place in NZUSA.
"There will have to be a positive and fierce pruning process if NZUSA is ever to get itself into perspective.
"All petty or hopeless remits of constituents cannot be considered. Only when we have decided upon some process of what and why remits are petty or non-actionable are we going to get anywhere.
"The possibility of a Steering Committee which could decide priorities in terms of action ought to be investigated."
On chairmanship, Mr Caird suggested: "There could well be some form of instruction on chairmanship, provided by NZUSA, both for its own benefit, and the benefit of constituents.
"The Chair must sit on delegates who merely paraphrase that already stated by a previous delegate."
Many thanks to all students and staff who helped in many and barying imags and contributed to the success of University Day 1968
Candy McGrath
Education Officer