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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 4. April 26, 1951

Are Students All Talk?

Are Students All Talk?

"The trouble with these damn university students is that they're all talk and no action. They talk a hell of a lot about the equality of all men, rights of coloured people in India and so on. Some of them are sort of religious and talk about loving our neighbours in Asia. What do they do about it? Not a darn thing!'" So said X, a vociferous passenger, on a 6 o'clock tram.

Is he right? The V.U.C. I.S.S. committee doesn't think so. We think some at V.U.C. will want to help I.S.S., a non-partisan, non-secretarian, university organisation whose main interest is, at present, helping countless students in Europe and Asia who are trying to study under seemingly impossible conditions. Some can stand up to it, but many fall victim to T.B., malaria, dysentry and typhoid. I.S.S. tries to help by providing drugs—but drugs coat money—that's why we want you to help.

Would you like to have as your only place for living, sleeping, and studying, a bare 10ft × 12ft room shared with 4 others? If you were a student in Madras you'd count yourself fortunate to have that.

Madras isn't an I.S.S. relief area because conditions aren't bad enough. No wonder when hundreds of students in Calcutta have to sleep on the streets. The I.S.S. committee thinks some students at V.U.C. will want to help I.S.S. do something about this sort of thing by providing hostels, health centres, etc. That's why we're asking you to help us get money for this by working on Saturday, April 28. If you can't spare half a day, perhaps you could give us 10/- or so. We don't think there's a single student at Vic. who can't either spare a morning to work or give us a few bob. If you can help by working or giving, fill in a work-day form. (Forms are posted on the main notice board and in both common rooms.)

Are university students all talk and no action? That depends on you.

—A.M.