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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 5. 3rd April 1974

[Introduction]

I still think there is plenty of room for expansion as far as literature in Salient is concerned: more width and depth. The major issues are certainly the main function of this paper, but I would like to see a regular and even spread of all types of article. Also, the increased amount of original work presented in Salient this year could perhaps lead to deeper studies of art works which are more well known. But all this it totally useless if it doesn't come in, in the first place; and at the present rate of contributions we'll be back on the diet of politics and funnies before long. There's six thousand of us I hear, most with access to pen and paper at some stage in the day.

Salient wants short stories, poems, or any sort of original article you think of. Now, for instance.

Still on the same subject, it's always useful to be able to tell good writing from crap. That, after all, is what could be termed "literary appreciation" isn't it? You know, like they teach at school, or in literature courses here? Like Tell You'll be lucky to come across anything like "appreciation"—most of it is "literary adulation". They give you a piece that they think is good, that you know they think is good, and that you also know you won't get much in the way of marks from them if you tell them it's bad. I have only ever been in one literature paper (German, stage I, would you believe) where the lecturer had the gumption to go over some bad poetry with us. I hear there has been some vague attempt here. It is all very well teaching people how to understand literature, but when the only stuff you're given is from the all-time greats, you're not given any means of comparison when you're faced with the lesser works produced by us mere mortals.

—Marty