Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 34, No. 18. October 6 1971
Academic Mississippi
Academic Mississippi
Students are politically disenfranchised. They are in an academic Mississippi. Many of them can vote in the national elections -their average age is about 21 - but they have no voice in the decisions which affect their academic lives. The students are, it is true, allowed to have toy government run for the most part by bureaucrats and concerned principally with trivia. The faculty and administration decide what course will be offered, the students get to choose their own toy parliaments. Occasionally when studetns get uppity and rebellious, they're either ignored, put off with trivial concessions, or get manouvered expertly out of position.