page 10

out side left

Captain M. X. Polk has said a decision on the siting of an Omega Station in New Zealand would be made by May 7. It is now May 28 (if this Salient comes out on time).

* * *

Anybody notice that the body type and headings in Big Norm's new thinkpiece "Toward Nationhood" exactly parallels the body type and headings of Chairman Mao's "Thoughts".

* * *

Will Socialist Club be sponsoring a guerilla camp in study week? We won't know the answer till after the next Socialist Club party—the only function at which full socialist participation in decision-making can be assured.

* * *

Now that all these people from Geordie Fergusson down have been made honorary Maoris by various tribes, it seems that all we need is a decent tribal system among us Pakehas to do the decent thing by any Maoris sent on a Rugby tour of South Africa.

* * *

After all those demos about the Security Police, doesn't it do your heart good to see National and Labour in full agreement about the new Bill on security. With the official Opposition acting so as they say, responsibly, it seems that the only way to disagree with the Government now is to demonstrate against it.

* * *

Apparently "Focus's" counterblast to Salient's threat to report it to the Indecent Publications Tribunal will be to run a picture of Roger Wilde in threadbare jeans with red underwear glaring through the holes—and demand his prosecution for indecent exposure.

"Students tunnel under Auckland", said an "Auckland Star" scare billboard last week. Maybe Vic should get on to the idea, especially since half of metropolitan Wellington is built over water, and you can row under most of it. What about a new canal from somewhere round about the railway station to the bottom quarter of Molesworth Street? Quite apart from showing bow solid are the foundations of our political life, it might even become a tourist attraction—with enough student digging the resulting canals might make Wellington the Venice of the South Pacific. It's not often you can improve the student image and subvert the Government at the same time.

* * *