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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 6. 1962.

Help

Help

But help was just around the corner. The lecturer would be foiled. Below us, some fifty feet down, a human being was noticed bending over his motor cycle. Our first instinct was to throw something at him to attract his attention, something like a chair or a table; but as live heroes are usually better than dead ones, we confined ourselves to bawling at the top of our voices: He heard, he glanced up. "You're joking," he said. "You're having me on. People just don't get trapped in lecture rooms these days. You've been reading too many 'Famous Five' books." We sighed distractedly and tried to convince him. We finally managed it. He opened the door from the outside.

We are now free people, but we shall never be the same again. I don't think anybody could go through what we went through and still be the same. Half of us are thinking about throwing in our University education altogether I'm thinking about becoming a farm labourer.

The lecturer? Oh, he's still around. But you'll never find out who he is. He'll deny anything to do with trapping young students in gloomy rooms. He'll say it's all been made up. But don't you be too sure. Someday he may be more successful and you may be the victim.

All I can advise you is to never let any member of the staff of this university shut the door of the room in which you have assembled. Only by taking such a precaution will you remain safe to fail your exams., so do be careful, won't you?