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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 4. 1969.

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Good to hear all these insurances that every consideration will be given to students during the current work-in by bulldozer drivers and carpenters, but it was odd that while student cultural clubs were refused tables for recruiting members in Easterfield conference room during enrolment while two banks had a very big table in Easterfield at which very little business seemed to be transacted. Probably Stud.Ass. would never have thought of trying to evict the banks to make room for some of affiiliated clubs; it would have got them offside with the Administration. So we are faced with the kind of Administration decision every Socialist Club member gets wet pants about—a concession to the banks (or Finance Capital, if you like a more sinister term) of facilities students have been denied.

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Guess whose teaching farright British conservative M.P. Sir Gerald Nabarro's daughter now she's expelled from school? Beautiful Helen Sutch, ex-women's vice-president of NZUSA, picking up pin money while doing economics at Oxford.

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Just before someone else says it first, be it remembered that during the last Rugby League tour of South Africa, a Mr. T. E. Skinner was vice-president of the New Zealand Rugby League.

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Perhaps you noticed that one of the by-products of the appointment by the university of an Information Officer last year was the publication of a column "Candid Campus" in the Dominion by one Patrick Neil, who appears from the evidence of his column to be a staff member. But did you notice too that (to keep the DOM onside, naturally) his first column approved Mr. Muldoon's Plans for university "reform"?

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I'm Waiting to see whether anybody on Exec. thinks of putting the copy of the airmail edition of the Observer the Vice-Chancellor's wife has donated in the Stud.Ass. Office where everyone can read it.

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If You heard Dennis Brutus, which is unlikely considering the size of his recent afternoon audience, you would have heard him criticise Sir Richard Wild, New Zealand Chief Justice and President of the New Zealand chapter of the International Commission of Jurists, for his views on South African justice. Apparently the international Secretary of the International Commission of Jurists has issued a report saying something very different. Now, think for a minute— does that name 'Wild' ring a bell? Yes, Stud. Ass's. sterling men's vice-president John, whom we elected by such a thumping majority last year. Any guesses which way he voted on whether Stud. Ass. should sponsor Dennis Brutus meeting? Can't have daddy criticised in public. But why didn't he want his dissent recorded?

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