Blame Yourselves ...

If the Clubs in this College lack support, no matter whether they are cultural—there has been a decline in debating—or sporting, some of the blame must be placed on the clubs.

Salient's sports coverage, in the hands of Sports editor Daphne Davey, has unfortunately not been very good—through no fault of hers. The clubs themselves rarely sent in copy, most of the copy received was written on odd pieces of paper. We had no complaints and no representatives of the clubs attended our meetings.

If the comments made by E.R.B. elsewhere in this issue are true, then we can expect lack of student interest. Salient published an article criticising the Blues system but our Blues panel did not bother to reply and several sports' club members feel that an explanation is overdue.

We have drawn attention to the unsatisfactory state of the Common Common Room which originally deprived some of the sports clubs of much needed space. No members of the clubs wrote to Salient to agree or insist on some action. The Common Common Room remains—a shambles. Clubs did not even support a mild suggestion at the Annual General Meeting that something should be done about the Common Common Room.

Salient could be a means of increasing support for clubs and no attempt is made to use Salient. Evidently the problem of support is not a serious one. We have had no reports from many clubs and it is too late now.

The remedy was in your own hands. If you do want support and if your dub is important, then you can do more than you are doing. At present it is no wonder that we have collected so many wooden spoons.