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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 24, No. 3. 1961

Animal Farm — All University Students are pigs, but some are more pig-like than others

Animal Farm

All University Students are pigs, but some are more pig-like than others.

Victoria University students are pigs! So you disagree with that statement? If you had been there the first day the cafeteria opened, you would have seen why we say Victoria University students are pigs. At least one Salient reporter has stopped frequenting the Little Theatre—although it has been reported thatesituation is now much improved, owing to the constant entreaties of the cafeteria management and a few exec, members.

Salient reporter walked into the temporary cafeteria the first day it was opened. When he walked in at 11, the place was still tolerably clean. Then our university pigs set to work. By 11.30, the Little Theatre was like a pigsty. It was a pig-sty! At mid-day, It was a cleaner's nightmare. Orange peels piled high on the tables, on the floors, underneath the chairs, on the window-sills, in between the walls and the radiators! Cigarette ashes, rotten bananas, etc., were trodden underfoot. Our reporter felt a sickly, inglorious, pathetic mass at his feet. He investigated the matter—examined his heels and found a repulsive, oozing, gluey stuff adhering to his boots. Lunch paper blew all over the place. He could hear a steady, dripping sound. Not perspiration. Not blood. But stale coffeee! Salient reporter turned slightly in his chair and endeavoured to dislodge a piece of lunch-paper which was sticking on to his back. A pile of used cups and saucers at his elbow slid dangerously across the table. A saucer half-full of tea emptied itself on to the floor. Not that it mattered, for the floor was already filthy! Yet, there was a notice propped up against the cash-register which read:

"Please Return all Cups here."

Is the Victoria population illiterate? Are they so inconsiderate that they cannot obey a simple request like that? Is this how the future leaders of New Zealand behave?

Our Salient observer decided to beat a hasty retreat. He got up to go out. But rotten banana skins make good lubrication, and he almost dislocated his spine in trying to save himself. Salient sincerely hopes that when (if ever) the new cafeteria gets opened, our student population would learn to be less pig-like. For Victoria University is not meant to be an animal farm.