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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 17, July 19, 1976.

Another Silly Letter

Another Silly Letter

Dear Sir

Why oh why has Victoria University lost so much of its character lately? I feel that the vanity is becoming much too straight, like certain other similar education institutes (Polytech, Teachers Training College) - will mention no names though.

Recently I have been observing at close quarters this "place of learning" and silly things (supposedly); and I must say I am appalled at the torpidness I have concluded VUW runs on! I spent no less than 1 hour and fifty minutes strolling around the campus in an effort to find something and/or someone interesting but no such luck I found the Wombles more interesting. What has happened to the good old days when you would be flashed in every dark alley by a grubby old man in a plastic raincoat; or when girls were being raped left right and centre on Hunter lawn; or when there was no room in the gutters for rainwater because of the vast numbers of alcoholic people lying there in drunken stupors? As yet I have seen no nudity - total or partial; and no blatently obvious homosexuality or lesbianism.

Is Victoria University of Wellington slowly dying? Perhaps we should call this institution "Victoria Cemetery of Wellington". The only attempt I have seen at a touch of madness around the campus is by such people as the Mug of Arloo and the Wizard, and by the recent hat day - well done you people, keep it up.

I am sure that if a thermo-nuclear device was detonated in the Rankine Brown courtyard, the majority of students would just step over the rubble and continue in a normal fashion to their destination, the sadists would beat naked females with whips and the masochists would beat themselves with wet tram tickets

Finally a pita from a genuinely silly person - "Students liven up, do something unusual, shed you inhibitions - or else!!!

Yours,

Damascus K. Stoatgobbler.

p s. I unclog my nose at you, I wave my private parts at your aunty and I fart in your [unclear: general] direction.

p.p s. "What the people said about this letter: - 'I laughed until I stopped - W. Rowling. 'My brain hurts' - F. J. Gumby. 'We smirked a lot' - The Queen 'At least it made me snort' - R. Muldoon. 'It mad me want to eat my own [unclear: vomit]' - Guy The Gorilla ..