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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 2. 1967.

Insight

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Insight

Anyone who wants to renew his library card, should have little difficulty. Simply rush to your friendly local stationer and acquire one QuikStik adhesive label (round). Attach to plastic card. You'll need a blue one for this year.

One of the many things that the library administration has forgotten to explain is how anyone can tell that this is the current year's card. The cards carry no date. No doubt in years to come we shall see super-annuitants waving the cards to obtain student discounts. And now anyone can renew last year's card without the formality of paying fees.

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This Newspaper has not yet revealed the strange affair of Harlow Advertising Services. It is a strange comment on student editors that this sad little story has not made the news.

After an abortive attempt to raise his commission on Salient advertising from 15 per cent to 35 per cent, former advertising manager John Harlow (who raised advertising revenues from zero to £2,000 a year) was suspended from his post by Vuvvsa. Now he threatens to sue the association for libel.

The full details won't fit into this column. We can only comment that Salient too often neglects its own dirty linen while washing everyone else's?

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Will we now have some sense, balance, and taste in our New Zealand protests? It is scarcely surprising to learn from the Court of Appeal that one cannot chain oneself to Parliament Buildings and stay within the law.

A protest is not an exercise in extreme behaviour, nor is it held to test how far protesters can go before they are arrested. Protests are so that a particular view can be made publicly. Orderly behaviour is a necessary part of any responsible protest.

As a thin excuse, some protesters have said that their extreme behaviour is the result of press distortions or excessive police restrictions. Orderly protest is equally permissible against these excesses—but we have yet to see a picket of a newspaper office or police station.

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Recording giant HMV, I am told, decided not to press "Snoopy and the Red Baron" after the NZBC refused to buy. But Radio Hauraki defiantly spun the disc, and HMV was innundated with Auckland demands for copies of the disc. A similar fate met "I want to Stay the Night With You."

Not that the recording companies like Hauraki, which spins copies of new records weeks ahead of local release dates, and thus creates friction between companies and unsatisfied buyers.

—Cynic