Campus Clash

NZSPA

A Student protest against Soviet foreign policy caused extensive damage to the Wai-kato University caretaker's car.

Students built a wall across the university road, using concrete blocks from the hostel construction sites, and in pre-dawn darkness the wife of the caretaker drove a car into it. She was badly shocked, but uninjured.

Police said at least 40 of the concrete blocks were damaged in the collision.

The wall, 36 feet long and 4 feet high, intended to symbolise the Berlin Wall, was erected to mark the visit of the Russian Ambassador. Mr. Boris Dorofiev, to the university.

The students concerned have been disciplined, and are making restitution.