Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.
Socialisation
Socialisation
Sir,—Our university would appear to have been subjected to feeding by a variety of architectural mothers; consequently, today, our university is not exactly an aesthetic temple whose servants are dedicated to the acquisition of knowledge.
Victoria, then, represents a clash of Red Brick (Kirk) with Traditional or Oxbridge (Hunter). Rankine Brown is a plateglass office block— Vic's "air conditioned nightmare," dedicated to the mass production of ? … the mass produced.
Thus it would seem all tradition has gradually melted away from Victoria and tie ivy has rotted.
This, I presume, is the price of the "socialisation of knowledge."
Ian Rush.