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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 4. March 20 1978
A Voice from Nowhere
A Voice from Nowhere
Dear Sir,
Unless your magazine (?) wants to lose all "credibility" how ever little it may have on the campus. Perhaps it could get its facts right, about the Movick case and how much support does exist for James.
You state that there was "solid support was expressed by Vic students". Having gone to that forum, I would hardly call "solid support" 200 or less people. The petition being handed around didn't seem to be gaining much support. Nor does a march of 50 or 60 people pushing their own ideologies, using Movick as a convenient excuse constitute the majority support of students.
May I suggest that your 7 views from students, are not those of most students, but those of Salient twisting facts to give a bias.
Most students at Vic are basically apathetic on the subject or reject James, on the grounds of not being a New Zealander, interfering by right of his position in New Zealand affairs.
I would suggest if you want to see the body of support for James, a poll be held in Salient asking the same questions of the 7 students. If the topic hasn't fallen to the grips of apathy by next week.
Yours.
Erewhon
P.S. Please don't censor my letter.
(Censoring would be difficult - we have no-one (rained in that capacity. As for bias, the only "fact" you call twisted boils down to the adjective solid which is a matter of interpretation and not of fact. The presence of substantial numbers of supporters and the absence of any opposition, except from Gill, could reasonably be construed as solid support for Movick, could it not?—typstr.)