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Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 3. Monday, April 11, 1960

Round and About

Round and About

Old School Tie-Up

Dr. Ausubel in his book "The Fern and the Tiki" criticises our private school system. He found it "the most authoritarian tradition—bound and hierarchially organised of institutions in New Zealand society."

Does this explain why New Zealanders studying in the United States often find students there more original—thinking and forthright than students here.

It may be true too, that private school products here tend, after schooldays, to follow and consolidate rather than initiate in politics, the arts and some other fields where a little originality and rebelliousness is required.

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Rock Or Rubbish

Lots of adults groan about their children's addiction to rock n' roll.

Their children might well groan about the music they hear most on the radio, and for which adults are responsible.

The Singing Commercials.

We prefer Elvis

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Enlarge And Print

As yet the diameter of Mr Armstrong-Jones's navel has not been the subject of a newspaper feature. We expect it any day. We also want to know if he's ever had a pimple on his left ear, and the length of his left big toe.

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Deadpan On Dead Elephant

Can any item produce a flicker of response in a B.B.C. news announcer? One recently announced that Russian delegates had made important contributions to the disarmament talks. Then, precisely the same dispassionate voice told that a British trawler had fished up a dead elephant.

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Rangoon Rook?

The Asian influence is, it seems, increasing in Western art, architecture and fashions. Perhaps here lies the next happy hunting ground for Western popular music. It would surely be more acceptable than the "popular religious" wave reported to be rolling across the States' ether. Or the Caryl Chessman weepies said to be rolling in the dollars for their promoters.