Orientation Ball

The Orientation Ball, the first big social event of the year for students was held in the Town Hall last Friday. There seemed to be mainly freshers attending. Obviously most of the innocents were not yet thoroughly integrated into university life; and the presence of older students surely gave them an introduction to a truer picture of student activities, and thereby enriched their experience!

Arriving punctually (unlike our executive) the freshers were slow to respond to the crazy rhythms. Mem, the creeps just crept! The band was quite terrific.

In contrast to the polished showmanship of the professionals was the usual Weir House performance. This item showed little change from last year. The nauseating excuses for humour it invariably produces are disgusting—Salient demands some genuine wit for next year.

Various short interviews with a cross-section of those present during the evening gave some highly unintelligent remarks. The first male assured Salient he was having a marvellous time and when asked why attributed this to the presence of our reporters. A couple of inarticulate freshers introduced Salient nicely to their partners and assured Salient they simply adored watching all the dancing. A bearded, more blase type (a non-fresher) considered the ball terrific and when asked "why?" answered "why not?"

Salient congratulates exec, on taking some action to dispel the usual grossly distorted rumours on exec, drinking habits. Let's hope that these resolutions will be respected by incoming executives as it will be by the present one.