Gliding space necessary

Wonder if the Campaign for Civilised Drinking will face up to the main task now that we've got ten o'clock closing?

Little old New Zealand needs a cogent and active pressure group to ensure pubs provide the sort of civilised amenities to make later closing worthwhile. We need good but reasonably cheap entertainment—the odd dance band and a few square feet of gliding space wouldn't be a bad start.

And the whole effort's pointless unless we press for suburban taverns.

Be brave GE

The myth of Victoria University's Grand Establishment still survives in some quarters. Wouldn't a rapid dissolution be preferable to the slow process of being forgotten?

Grand Establishmentarians, be like the brave man and end the misery not with a whimper but with a bang.

Student apathy?

When nine out of fifteen exec members get in unopposed it suggests there is not much interest in student affairs. Granted it's the third term and all that jazz, but this doesn't account for the wide absence of competition.

If executive was smaller (say eight members) we could hope for greater competition promoting greater interest. As a result we may even get better quality.

Neurosis?

Examinations are reported to be close at hand. Now's the time to drag out all the sprained writing wrists, the impending flu, and a year's dose of neurosis.

It's horizontal not vertical

The Catholic world is getting exciting. A ban on the Tablet in one Christchurch parish smacks of forward thinking.

It just goes to show that the basic divisions in matters religious (like politics) are not a vertical difference between sects but a horizontal difference between conservative and liberal within each sect.

Does Exec control the world?

These student politicians do assume great powers to themselves. Get on Exec and control the world.

According to pre-election policies we can expect the extensions to the Sub to be ready for next year, a reorganisation of the NZBC, a fantastic rise in bursaries. new squash courts, the common rooms to become an edifice of art, the Wellington public to start loving students overnight. we can expect .... we can expect ...

How unfortunate that all positions on exec were not contested. We could then have expected 9/15ths more than at present awaits us.

But whatever, don't expect realism.

Executive immaturity

Believe It or not section: A convulsive Executive, tittering here, giggling there turned its gubernatorial attention to Homosexual Law Reform at a recent Executive meeting.

Perhaps Mr. Hanan is right in his assertion that New Zealand is not ready for a change in the law.