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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 6. 1965.

Berkeley Again

Berkeley Again

Sirs,—From the analysis by Dr. B. D. Inglis of the Berkeley situation I take the following points:

(1) Crude mudslinging is quite in order. To say that the people you disagree with sit in the gutter and stink helps your case no end.

(2) It is a fine thing to get everyone to conform to your own standard of dress.

(3) Any "fair-minded" person will not worry about police brutality because the offenders are only getting what they deserve, i.e., they are committing the heinous crime of trespassing in University buildings.

(4) The student demonstrators are not such bad people really because although they don't have baths they do spend their long vacations doing something for the negroes. Unfortunately this experience has a bad effect on them. They come to think there are things more important than tidiness of dress.

(5) Having noted that the great majority of students are fine, clean-living folk who all "comply with ordinary decent standards of dress and behaviour" and are submissive to authority, then it is a real surprise to find that they're all completely apathetic.

Russell Campbell