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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 4. 1967.

Insight

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Insight

Our Vaunted "Masskerade" settlement achieved very little. Like so many student affairs, time and the change of student officials obscured the origins of this affair.

"Masskerade" sales in past years affected ours not because of sales competition but because of public backlash, particularly at the conduct of Massey mag sellers.

Certainly this year Massey did ask for permission to sell, and limited sales numbers reduced the opportunities for bad conduct.

What we really need are guarantees that Massey's students in future years won't act so irresponsibly that "Cappicade" sellers are barred from offices, factories, and indeed whole towns—as they have been in the past.

* * *

Easter Tournament controller John Stevens did a good job. But what became of the original controller, Tony Hassed?

Well, we understand this sports administrator forgot just one thing when he applied for the post last year . . . that he was getting married at Easter.

* * *

Capping this year could see Wellington with a pirate radio station—if a few students follow their words with deeds.

Adelaide students last year sold 2000 dollars of advertising, hired a tuna boat, and headed out to sea for a week of pirate broadcasting.

But they suffered deliberate jamming, and only made the air in most of South Australia for a few hours, Furious students turned their Capping Day into a demonstration against the jamming.

Could the same thing happen here? Students may well have things to say that Kiwi Keith would rather did not make our airwaves.

* * *

There's No sense of humour on student politicians these days. Vic's cultural affairs officer Larry Stenswick moved at NZUSA's Cultural Commission "that New Zealand become the seventh state, of Australia as our contribution to the development of backward countries."

The motion was soundly defeated, and Larry couldn't even get a seconder for the motion "that New Zealand obtain a nuclear detergent.

Both motions originally came from Curious Cove Congress.

* * *

Grand Establishment nearly got a dual personality at a recent executive meeting.

Anti-GE man Paul Peretz blandly tried to affiliate a club of this name, but found himself blocked by unexpected legal complications. Indeed, two members of the real GE tried to dub his now anonymous club the "Paul Peretz Fan Club"—but won no support.

Not that the GE men had much to smile about. They've threatened to affiliate a club called "Theta Gamma Epsilon" (Greek for "GE") — a hasty change from the original title of "Security Intelligence."

Cynic