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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 8. April 30 1968

Graffiti

Graffiti

The assault on the olfactory sense currently emanating from the smokestack which looms out of the culinary quarters of Maison Fritz is now seriously rivalling for the first time the overpowering aroma of oleaginous armpits which greets the entrant to the eating quarters at the luncheon hour. Surely the proprietor would not be seeking in his inimitable way to remind the younger generation of the horrible days of Auschwitz?

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With all this talk about the breathalyser being batted around in the corridors of power I feel it incumbent upon myself to relate this somewhat outdated incident from the British scene. At the time when the breathalyser was being discussed, the Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle became very heated, and because of the oppressiw British atmosphere and what all, suddenly fainted. Georges Brown, ever the gallante, rushed to her aid and commenced to administer the kiss of life. She turned green.

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One has to admire that great entrepreneur Alister Taylor (note the spelling of the name, which the news media have been not too careful over) for his derring do. What promised to be a petty C.O.V. promotion on the usual scale has turned out to be one of the best publicity stunts ever perpetrated in God's own.

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I laughed the other day. I really did. At a Publications Board meeting. Last year there was bitter language spoke over the appointment of the Cappicade editors. A past editor and a past writer of Extrav. were given the old thumbs down at a packed meeting in favour of a nondesscript fellow, who writes a sometime funny column. The reason I laughed? The nondescript was given the sack at the last Publications Board meeting, a mere five weeks before publication date. His better half continues to plug on. And what of the unsuccessful applicants? Weeellll, one is writing Extrav. and the other is writing a sometime funny column in Salient. Funny, that.