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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 18, July 26, 1976.
Good Case for Bursaries
Good Case for Bursaries
Dear Sir,
I know, and you know, that we are a good case for our bursaries, but publishing rubbish like that tear-jerker about Kathie Rose - "Case Study of a Poor Student" just weakens our case. Can't you think of a better story than descending to the ridiculous
| 1) | Forgive me if my logic fails me, but to get Special Admission you've got to be over 21 - therefore Kathic Rose has had at least a couple of years to earn a bit and save towards coming to varsity. Personally, if my finances were so far up the shit that I couldn't afford $10.00 Special Admission fee, then I would consider it reasonable to defer varsity for another year. |
| 2) | Having established a bad case of poverty as evidence by the singular lack of $10.00, and personal debts to friends, no raincoat etc, it should be obvious to those with even the most limited faculties that a part-time job would be necessary, so embarking upon a full-time varsity course was near-sighted and irrational. |
| 3) | As for that sickening story about the Maori Education Foundation "I felt there were more needy cases than me" - if her thinking is so warped and witless as not to see herself as needy after all that's just been said then either a) she's not got adequate brain power to handle varsity, b) What's more likely she tried for a M.E.F. grant and was turned down on grounds of intellectual incapacity or otherwise, or else she knows they wouldn't throw their money away on such a deadhead. |
| 4) | Quote "Because I work 30 hours a week I get more than I would if I was on a full bursary, - so I can't see how even those students manage". |
- how very telling! On one hand she tells us how hard up she is - can't buy books etc, then confesses to earning more than the full
I agree S.T.B. is pitiful, I'm having a struggle myself an $24.00 a week, but I did have the gumption to get a job in the summer, without much trouble - not highly paid as I'm a girl but I saved hard and could pay my own fees etc as I've used up my fees bursary.
To tell a personal hard luck story I lost my bursary years ago, and instead of trying to bludge off friends, family, state etc, I quit varsity, worked like hell for a couple of years, and saved enough to support myself entirely while I won back my bursary. With no help whatsoever from my family, who live in another city. So surely Salient could've dug up a better hard-luck story than Kathie Rose's, which only damages our cause as being too ridiculous to credit.
- No Bludger