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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 11. 1969.

"Salient"

"Salient"

I Am not your sincerely, nor yet yours in any other form of modification, for I am unable to work up any felings of truth, sincerity or faith, in or towards the editorial policy of your rag. Since, however, you do still manage to print letters to yourslf I will take a chance and display some esprity.

What in fact does the staff of Salient do with all its time and honoraria? In all fairness to the students who paid such extortionate stuns for a campus publication, could you not try to compete with the news sheet for information, newsworthiness, readability and humour?

Why for instance is there virtually no space devoted to a little accurate reporting of student activity? Is it because Salient would rather start a witch hunt through the precincts of 'he Brig than arrange for the reporting of the special meting of the Drama Club that was (now the Drama Society, old boy), so that the Drama Society committee must needs send in its own copy. Very sound policy that, too, for it seems that Salient only needs to reach out one sticky tentacle towards the facts to distort them out of all value they may have once possessed, leaving simply an inky blur of little symbols and fine phrases.

D. G. Andrews.

P.S.—Put a few more pages in this week's copy, it makes wunnerful papier-mache.—P.A.