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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 8. 1967.

Insight

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Insight

The Shambles of parked scooters in Kelburn Parade should prompt some action from the university. The practice, which seems to have begun this year, of parking scooters between parked cars suggests that scooter space has become really short.

Yet there must be many areas within the university grounds where scooters could be parked—if somebody bothered to have a look. Or does the administration think students walk to university?

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Frankly, Forum just isn't what it used to be. These days it sounds like a debate of abuse, instead of the debate of reason which it used to be.

One of these days, it may occur to the novices of today's soapbox to substitute suggestions for swear-words, and ideas for smuttiness.

In the earlier days of forum, speakers strove for a high standard—and the hearers present expected it of them. But time seems to have debauched this tradition. These days forum sounds more like a pseudo-intellectual caf argument than a place of debate.

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Forum's Obsession with the milder four-letter swear words (you know which I mean) seems to reflect a current feebleness in student humour.

Thus, in Extravaganza, every time the action flagged (which was ' rather often) the scriptwriters merely stuck in a not-quite-nice swear-word.

We all giggled, of course. Not really at this daring realism or earthy reality though. Actually because we just couldn't believe those Extrav people Still think that this is funny.

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P'M Told that the miniature rifle club needs a range. Indeed, it seems that the association could acquire a useful sports facility and at the same time finance much of the cost by renting the range out to other local clubs.

But there's no chance of that. Victoria's never bothered to try and accumulate funds for this sort of thing. So we'll be renting such sports facilities for many years yet

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University Focus, that delightful national student magazine, seems to be headed for trouble. It just does not meet its publication deadlines.

The first issue was weeks late, and now so is the second. On this basis, the last issue for this year should be published about December.

There'll be very few readers about then.

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So The Beatles take LSD. But I don't imagine we'll see any action against them for as long as they earn Britain millions of dollars.

Has our civllisation degenerated so far that drugs are our only answer to boredom or too harsh reality?

These days, it's a witty joke in Californian universities to slip an LSD-soaked sugar lump in someone else's coffee. Is modern life so hellish that this is the way young America has decided to go?

Cynic