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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 2. 1966.

Pettipoint

page 4

Pettipoint

Did you get through enrolment all right? Good fun isn't it—all those forms and things, and staff looking suspiciously at one's course, or suspiciously at the addition of fees upon one's form. Initiates one well into the life which will be one's for the years of attending university.

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We welcome back Mr. Taylor, who was reputed to have been in New Zealand for a few days during enrolment. It is rumoured that Mr. Taylor will be continuing his academic studies, in spite of being the only applicant for full-time president of NZUSA. Speculation is rife, if that is what speculation is, as to how he avoided expected opposition from the North. Interested observers are also intrigued by the possibility of Mr. Robertson's reactions when he returns from his overseas trip. The little world of student politics, in fact, was never more agog.

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Observe the shape of the SUB second floor. Familiar? An airport control tower, of course. Symbolising the way in which we students control or will control the destiny of this fair land, us it journeys thru cloud, storm and crosswind to arrive safely at its desired goal. Symbolises those brave, yea fearless men who, with keen eyes and felt tongues plot the difficulties ahead and chart the course around. Or is it, perhaps, the first example of satire in architecture?

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It is expected, I believe, that this year the Coffee Bar will make a profit for a change. Under new management and all that. Assuming, of course, that the students want it to run at a profit, which I sometimes doubt. I mean to say— tv for goodness sake. Quite revolting. What is even more disturbing is the number of students who spend the evening watching it.

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Oh yes, please write a letter to the editor saying how much you object to my expressing opinions with which you disagree herein, and what a cruddy column anyway and how well-named—how petty indeed—and why do I not come out from under my sand-castle in the sky, that the folk may see who I really am (if, indeed, I really am) and that I may see the world as it really is. Mutter strung words about the often disjointed stream of apparent semi - consciousness. Otherwise the editor will think I am not doing my job and pandering overmuch to that great mass mind of which we are all a little part.

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So the taxi charges, already high, have been raised. To provide, one gathers, "a more economic return from longer hires." Hires longer, in fact, than two-thirds of a mile. Which will be a useful saving to all those people who hire a taxi to travel up to that distance.

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