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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 8. 1969.

More Pretty

More Pretty

Good afternoon, this is your friendly neighborhood genius speaking. The name of Ron Pretty has become well known on this campus in the course of the last few months when he has spoken upon unpopular issues, and not always taken the accepted course. Why? Can he possibly be serious, or is he the biggest since Gerard Curry? Pretty (that's pronounced "Pretty" as in "bet", not "bit"), is a most unusual fellow.

A self-confessed genius and crackpot, he spouts apartheid and Nazism, mixed with socialist ideals. He hates the government, socialists, anti-aparthiedist and 1% A.I.D. He loves Ron Pretty. It has been suggested that he is a government agent with a new type of cover. Perhaps he really is genuine, perhaps he really does believe in the superiority of "humans" over "wogs". Perhaps then he's a not case. R.P.'s ideas are many and varied, at different times he has thought of several ideas of to necessitate subjugating someone. The basis of many of Pretty's racialist ideas seem to come from outside his won intricate mind. For proof of the superiority of same races over others he has turned to Aristotle, who stated in his "The Politics", that: The slave was so by virtue of his natural inferiority. It is the tendency of nature to mark a difference (slaves and freemen) and, quote, "There are some by nature free, others by nature slaves, and for those their state as slaves is both advantagueous and just." The mental differences are sufficient, where nature has failed to mark the body. "The use to which the two are put the slave and the animal, varies but little."

For inspiration he has turned to Wagner, that composer whose "Nordic" operas were so beloved by one, Adolf Hitler, Indeed, perhaps you have noticed at forum the gleam in Pretty's eyes when he speaks and other startling similarities to that other great German orator, some of whose ideas seem to have been adopted, and to a certain extent expanded by this fellow in our midst. Is Pretty a fascist who if he had the chance would enslave and "purify" the world? Is he a Government agent who seems to be doing an excellent job at leading suspicion away from himself. Or is he the best entertainer this university has had since Wedderspoon? We will probably never know. Of course you could always vote him as the next President of the Students' Association.

Ron Pretty.

Dear Philistines, one and all. The latest piece of lavatory paper filling to issue from the pen of M. Aitken has demonstrated once again just what sort of a thick character he is. This fool cannot get it through his railways-cup-type skull and into the meagre brain within that my letter asked for a BALANCE of music and other. I can ignore the other, Aitken can ignore the music. I do not understand Aitken's remark about the reviewer "ballsing-it-up" as he very delicately puts it. I asked for a review of music and I got one, and, and a very pleasant review at that: I am sorry that Aitken's crude tasted do not appreciate Daniel Baremboim or the English Chamber Orchestra. Incidentally, forgive me if I exhibit my own ignorance by enquiring as to who wrote "Spoonful". I don't think it was written by either Liszi or Handel.

Ron Pretty.