Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 3. 1966.
[gambling culture amongst students]
"You Might As Well Admit It, you're gambling, aren't you?" said a Salient reporter to this group of card players in the common common room some days ago.
They agreed that they were, and threw money (picture above) on the table which they said represented their stakes.
Whether this incident is true or not, (and we have obscured the faces of the players so that they cannot be identified) gambling is again prevalent amongst some students in the Union.
Directly prohibited by Union rules—which are enforced in the first instance by the association's House Committee—gambling is being carried on in a partly concealed way.
Salient revealed last year—following confessions from students acquainted with the situation—that hands of £2 are quite common in these games.
Hands of up to £10 have been played on occasions, and groups of students have developed credit ratings to handle the stakes which are being played for.