We're too unbiased, now

I was with disappointment that I read Mark Derby's report on the Geiringer/Castanov forum (Salient July 17). I feel it represents a victory for those who have been long pressing for a non-political, non-critical, what's-goingon-around-campus-type Salient. Surely the article pleased them immensely.

Why? Because this article is no more than a word for word report on the forum. After a promising introduction.....'The voice of traditional establishment psychiatry (Dr Castanov is a psychologist, isn't he) confronted fuzzy-haired and radical therapy on Thursday last..." we had not the advertised heavy-weight boxing match (and surely such a combination of emotionally loaded words portend something exciting, provocative) but a slow and deadly dull, three and a bit columns of cricket.

The whole article contains only one small attempt at at evaluation, where Mark says....."but Geiringer throughout the forum offered no useful suggestions on carrying out the revolution he describes."

And right to the end Mark maintains his winning style with a slow left-arm googly in Geiringer's last words, to finish off his over.

An unconclusive write-up lacking the usual Salient judgement; I even had trouble in clearly discerning whether 'snake-pits' referred to Gciringer or the 'asylums' he described.

One last word, no mention of David Tripe's bubbles. I distinctly remember that even Dr Castanov in one of his few guarded statements alluded to them.