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Editorial

Well this is it, your newspaper. All things as they should be, you'll be able to pick it up every Monday morning, and even if you don't read it, it's bloody useful for wiping up a spilt cup of tea in the cafe Who knows, something may catch your eye while you're about it.

You will probably notice that several regular features are missing in this issue. Not to worry, we'll be catching up just as soon as possible on the news from Malaysia and Singapore, record and concert news reviews, cooking and eating out, sport, book and art reviews, and local and international news.

It is unfortunate that we have not been able for various reasons to include articles on recent newsworthy events. The Todd Motors affair and the rail strike have brought to light the meaning of an important trend in Government thinking: rationalisation. One can see quite clearly just how much the livelihood of the people working in an industry is considered an expendible commodity.

The Rangitikei by-election was interesting not so much because Bruce Beet ham won the seat — that much was always on the cards — but because of the miserable showing by Labour. Despicable might be a better word. We will shortly be running an interview with Bob Tizard which covers a wide range of issues. Needless to say, the extent of Labour's thinking on many of them is somewhat limited.

This year is Salient's fortieth anniversary. There will be a bumper issue sometime to celebrate the occasion; any suggestions as to suitable festivities are welcome. We will also be joining with the other student papers to produce three joint joint issues during the year, on the Arts, Education and Politics. The Arts issue is already scheduled for April 10th, so if you have any suggestions about that we would also like to know about them.

The Raglan article on pages 10 and 15 w was written and laid out at Craccum, the Auckland University paper, and appears simultaneously in both papers. If you lift out the Orientation section you will find it forms a new center spread. To the best o of our knowledge something like that has not been done for a long time, if at all, So thanks to Craccum, and let's hope it has worked.

Finally it must be pointed out that the onus is on your shoulders as much as ours to keep Salient up to date with events around campus. So if you want your activities reported in the paper let us know about then and we'll do our best.