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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 4. March 20 1978

Letters

page 21

Letters

Letters must be typed, double spaced on one side of the paper, and should not run on and on boring everybody to death. They can be dropped into the letters box just inside the Salient door (middle floor of the Union Building, graveyard end), left at the Studass office, or sent c/o VUWSA, Private Bag, Wellington

Drawing of a man impaled by a pen

Standing up for Movick

Dear Simon,

On the 14th of March, a meeting was called for overseas students to discuss James Movick's case. The meeting was attended by representatives from various overseas students' clubs. VUWSA's President, both local and overseas students. The most significant aspect of the meeting was a resolution in support of James Movick, moved by the Victoria NOSAC committee. The resolution which was passed unanimously called upon all overseas clubs to endorse the statement in expressing support for our elected student leader. Leaflets will be prepared to publicise the campaign.

James is our elected student leader who has done a lot for our cause. Gill's attempt to deport him is clearly a political move to silence an outspoken overseas student leader capable of uniting and mobilising fellow students. Gill's interference in students' affairs is in effect a direct challenge to our right as overseas students to participate in student activities.

If this dirty move is not thwarted, it will set a precedent for more overseas students to be victimised. This is our battle. No one else is going to fight our battle for us. The campaign thus far to let James Movick stay has been imitiated and carried out by our NZ counterparts, NZUSA and VUWSA in Wellington.

Now is the time for us overseas students to stand up and support a man who has been championing our cause.

I urge all overseas students clubs throughout NZ to join the Victoria overseas students' move in showing solidarity with James Movick.

A concerned overseas student

(Salient has received many more letters from overseas and local students supporting James. Unfortunately space does not allow us to print them all—Ed.)

Dear Editor,

Photo of James Movick

After having read Wayne Baker's letter of March 13th, leaves me under the impression that certain people would prefer the dissemination of "Australian White Policy" over here in New Zealand.

I feel that he should have signed off his letter after the first para, since he had already stated that he knew very little about the "Movick Affair" and regardless of the impact of his letter, he goes out to blurt, what one in his proper senses would not have, in the next 4 paragraphs.

I quote Baker: "Why should Movick get preferred treatment merely because of his position?" May I know what is "preferred" suppose to mean?—Is it that he is sitting on his fat bum on the I.V.P.'s chair and screwing out a handsome pocket?—My boy he deserves it.

And on the issue of "Govt. interference in the NZUSA elections", Mr. Baker defends his standpoint by displaying his very-amateur knowledge of democracy. I quote Baker: "What is more important is that if Movick is being sent from New Zealand according to the laws as normally administered, so that any person in an equal situation would get equal treatment, then no interference has taken place." He is equating this situation (the Movick Affair) with an "Equal Situation" which, as yet, has not arisen, hence "equal treatment" is out of the question and therefore it makes it impossible for the "normal administration" of laws.

After reading Mr. Baker's letter, one might well assume, that New Zealand, afterall has not exhausted of stubborn people (like Mr. Gill) and pessimists (like Mr. Baker).

Naunit Lal Khatri

(Fiji)

Dear Editor,

The decision undertaken by the Immigration Department to deport James Movick is totally unfair and unjustifiable. Being an overseas student in New Zealand, I would like to express my personal opinions on James' character and personality. Being elected as NOSAC National Coordinator, James capability to mobilize overseas students to stage a campaign against the 45% cutback and to integrate overseas student's clubs toward a united goal are unfoundable in the history of the student movement in New Zealand.

His sincere and generous character as overseas student leader; his firm political stand to fight against the unjust system; his capability to undertake a challenging post as International Vice President of NZUSA, are to the fullest extent, being highly admired and appreciated. James' deportation will for sure not only mean that overseas students have lost a capable and helpful leader but also to a certain extent affect the forthcoming International Student Congress.

Therefore, I am strongly hoping and urging all overseas fellow students to voice their opinions either in Salient or any public media in order to assist James Movick in his fight for his stay in New Zealand.

From a concerned Overseas student.

Dear Editor,

I strongly oppose the Minister of Immigration Frank Gill's decision to deport James Movick our student leader on the ground that his academic record is not good and also refuse to issue a "Special" work permit to enable him to hold the International Vice-President post in NZUSA'

I strongly feel that James must be allowed to stay. In my opinion, he is a person who is very capable of leading, especially in his involvement in student welfare which is a great asset to overseas student in particular and NZUSA in general. For instance, the success of the anti-cutback on overseas students campaign in 1977 was greatly due to his active involvement and good leadership.

I believe among other reasons (i.e. besides his academic record) his position during the anticutback campaign has definitely influenced Gill's recent decision to deny him a permit to stay in New Zealand. By not granting the work permit, Gill is seeking to attack the student movement as a whole.

He hopes by using his "fascist" method of deportation he will effectively weaken the NZ student movement and also discourage other students (particularly from overseas) to take up full and active roles in the Students' Association in the future.

I urge all overseas and N.Z. students to join in the move to oppose the deportation of James Movick and stop this type of fascist suppression in a democratic country like New Zealand.

What can be done to Oppose the deportation:
a)All overseas students' clubs (Fiji, MSA, MSSA, etc.) must write a petition to Frank Gill, Minister of Immigration and release "Press" statements in any local news media to oppose the deportation of James Movick.
b)write in person to oppose the deportation to the Minister of Immigration.
In Solidarity, an overseas student

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.)

Dear Thing,

We would like to protest your Student Says column on the subject of James Movick. We feel that this presented a very biased picture of student opinion on this issue. There surely can't be a unanimous feeling among students in James Movick's favour.

Since New Zealand students can be refused entry to N.Z. universities on the basis of a poor academic record, and since James Movick came to N.Z. for study purposes only, surely if he no longer fulfils the requirements for entry into a university there is little point in him remaining. As we understand the issue one of the conditions of his entry was that he not take full-time employment except in the university vacations. Hence, by taking on a full-time position in the Student Union he is going against this condition of entry and breaking the laws of N.Z. Any other lawbreaker would be sent back would they not?

James Movick is using his influential position as a student leader to stir up a lot of ill-feeling by playing on N.Z's Pseudo-liberal students and their paranoid fear of offending anyone when there is a remotely racial element in the arguement. Why doesn't he just accept the big P.O.?

(Signed by four students)

(NZUSA and VUWSA have been fighting for a long time to ensure that all students who study at New Zealand universities have the same privileges. One of these privileges, which you and I enjoy without harassment from the government is that we can take a full role in the democratic functioning of our associations. University life, as has been said many times, consists of far more than libraries, lectures and books.

James has been an effective voice for overseas students in this country, who do very clearly suffer from having to cope with a second class status. That is one of the reasons Gill wants him out. Academic considerations are merely useful to his argument.

Of course not all students support James and/or the principles on which the campaign is being fought. That's not going to happen on any issue. Nevertheless, our Student Says was randomly conducted and solid support was expressed for James at the Monday forum. This support has been echoed on campuses right around the country - Ed.)

(Watch that word solid Simon, it's liable to get you in trouble again. Reserve it for occasions when concrete examples such as the hurling of pieces of pavement can be provided. At least if you want to avoid being called unfactual and biased—typstr)

Dear Mr. Editor Sir,

Being a working-class lad is, as I can now fully appreciate, not considered as either worthy or something to be proud of.

As the author of one of the original two letters sent to your esteemed paper complaining about the 'letters-must-be-typed' rule, I now submit the same argument for those who were unable to read it as it wasn't typed.

This version Is typed, as I guess you've already noted by now.

My argument is (or was) that a typing-rule is a flagrant attack on the working-class students of this institution (if any actually are really working-class, and not really posers who think they're working-class and suppressed because it gives them a mandate to moan).

It is actually a double-pronged attack.

Firstly, the 'typing-rule' is an attack on the working class suppressed students by the middle class ruling aristocracy in that it means that working-class students in the future will have to type their letters. This requires a typewriter. As working-class students are poor trodden-on sods (actually they're not really starving), they don't use such mechanisms as typewriters.

Of course they cannot afford to buy one on their inadequate bursaries (though they seem able to still buy necessities such as records, dope, condoms, pills, etc.), so that means they have to either beg, borrow or steal.

To beg is to play into the hands of the ruling-classes; to borrow would be a sign of depedance on said classes, and that only leaves one alternative: to steal - and as it's stealing from the wealthy to give to the wretched (i.e. themselves), it's morally justified(i.e. O.K.).

Secondly, all bona-fide working students would've dropped out of school before they were 15 years old, as this is mandatory if one is to be a Real working-class lad (or lassie).

Entering 6th form is a sign of a capacity to pay one's way, and therefore of excessive wealth. As a bona-fide working class person must drop out of school before the age of 15, this means that one cannot have learnt how to type, not to mention not having even sat U.E., which means that they would not even be at bloody university.

This not only proves that all professing working-class students are not Really working-class, but also that anyone who can type is not working-class. This is self-evident logic. It cannot be disputed. It is indusputable, therefore it is true, which means that I'm God and you're nothing.

Yours in providence and superiority.

Armpit Lymph-Gland (Right-side)

P.S. I really am God. I can prove it. . . really.

(How about a miracle which will make everybody a typist?—Ed.)

Drivel Die—Rationality Arise

Dear Simon,

I am amazed at the drivel that was written under the auspicies of "Salient notes" in the last Salient. This classic example of "twitfoolery" not only reflects the slant of the writers mood but also is confusing, uninformative and finally boring. Please ammend the standard of this part of an otherwise good student newspaper.

In fact having been at Victoria for two years I am rapt with the rather remarkable degree of balance and intelligent presentation that is coming forth in your articles.

This pleasantly supplants much of the often emotive and imbalanced viewpoints that we have had to stomach in the past. I congratulate you Simon in this regard and am convinced that you will get the support of students and staff alike if you keep it use.

Yours,

Rodger Heckler.

Dear Editor,

Your paper is rubbish but the Salient notes are brillient.

Yours,

Rodger

the sleeper
page 22

Dear Editor,

This campus is a rotting corpse and the students parasites aiding in its putrefication.

After a few months absence it was interesting, though not pleasant to see this institution of collective decay welcome old excrement and new into its insalubrious den.

Attempting to break away from metaphor, dear reader, I must inform you that I partially ensconced myself in that temple of tomes, that pagoda of periodicals, the library. I shall not, however, join in the cacophony of glib denouncers of this monument to thought. To me this sacred place is solace from the moribund world.

But!—In my sallies to the student union, for a beer or to listen to the latest Punk band dealing rough justice to its unhappy victims, I became the sorry witness to the continuing story of Victoria's demise.

I'll cut the bullshit and come straight. . . Varsity is worse that it was last year. It's fuller than ever with people wrapped in their own scenes going nowhere. The library, God bless it, has more in the way of thoughtful, active people that the bloody cafe! A sorry tale to tell! The library in fact is a much bigger social scene than the craperteria.

Why? What's wrong with the Studass? Part of it is that the yoboes who run the joint, especially Salient, are operating on a totally different plane to most students. It's been said a million times. But still the pontific utterances and call to arms are churned out simply putting more and more distance between them and the bulk of unthinking, egocentric bananas who make up the student corpse. But they're all fine people in essence—I'd bet my STB on it, if I had one.

If people started talking simply and honestly again, and if they tried may-be to de-school the student association a little, may-be we'd have a nicer university. I must, Of Course, say that the answers are not simple—the letter merely being pizza for mental consumption.

Hare Bol and a Happy New Year.

Eugene Doyle

(It may well be that there is a tendancy for Salient and VUWSA personnel to operate on a different "plane" to other students. But I can't see that the sort of glib cliches expressed in this letter help the situation much. Student activism on campus has actually increased, but if Eugene Doyle is only going to visit the library and the cafe he might not know about that. How about getting off your arse and doing something. Eugene?[unclear: —]Ed.)

Is this bribery?

Dear (words fail me),

Quite frankly the only thing in today's Salient (13th March) which reveals any erudition (and I would have missed it if it hadn't been for a spasm of boredom) is the passing reference to zucchinis planted out in the Salient darkroom sink.

It must be obvious to the evangelicals of the Salient conglomerate that some person(s) in their midst are suffering from delusions and that their undoubted concern for the spiritual welfare of students may very well bear no fruit for some time (if ever) while this confusion continues. As man shall live not by the spirit alone but bread also, I suggest that the examples of the zucchinis be followed with enthusiasm, if not fanaticism. Lets ditch the politico articles, the culture vulture articles and have survival articles i.e. how to plant zucchinis (incidently a most rewarding little plant), how to live on $26 a week and enjoy it. If the job is well done you may even be able to persaude some of us to put the extra $2 a week we got this year into a common fund to support all the unpaid Salient workers.

Penny Pepperell

(You should come in and see our pumpkins under the light table. Penny—Ed.)

(And that's not all that s under the light table Penny - realty—typstr)

Call it Piffle

Dears, Dearies and Dear Sirs,

I would like to express my deepest repugnance in respect to the letters printed in "Salient" recently concerning sexual perversions and such other disgusting practices.

Being a person of sound body and mind (especially the former), I'd just like to say that if people have got nothing better to do than make-it with blind-folded wombats of the female gender, then they ought to consider themselves as the people they really are: filthy, slightly-bent and pox-ridden.

The thought of female cats and pinky pussies is so nauseating that it's just unspeakable. I mean, who could even think about beautiful, furry Persians flaunting their temptating chops .... disgusting.

No. The time has come for all right-minded people to stand up and stop being insulted by all these wrong-minded perverts who have no morals to speak of or any moralistically based standards, apart from humping dead goats.

All right-minded people are sick and tired of being told where to put there unmentionables and it's about time that all right-minded people made themselves heard by standing up and speaking out against all wrong-minded perverts.

Yours in ever present

Anglo-Roman ethics and right-mindedness

Arnold J. Pullmeoffnow.

P.S. I'm sick and tired of being told that I'm too straight by all these wrong-minded perverts, so they can go stick their fore-fingers up their fundamental orifices until the blood begins to gush forth in resplendent shades of dark red.

(Go see a shrink.—typstr)

Irresponsible women?

Dear Simon,

When a thirty-year old healthy married woman of adequate means who has three children goes to Australia because she can't be bothered bearing another child, then I suggest that is "pleasure without responsibility".

Or if a university woman crosses her fingers instead of responsibly caring for her own body and later wants to extinguish a potential baby because she has neither the means nor security to support it, then that falls into the same category.

I don't want to stir or argue but setting aside the atrocities that are sometimes associated with abortion by unqualified people and looking at the people who fall into the above category, then please let's have a good look at ourselves and see if in our situation as regards abortion we are seeking to indulge without facing associated responsibilities.

Yours sincerely,

Vicky Stillman

My Kingdom for a politician

Dear Editor,

Thank you for letting us see Bill Tizard. He was reel neet. He must be reel big fella in the government. Since I been at uni-varsity I has learned some reel big words like Marxist, recession, economic climate and abortion. Does this mean I can join the Labour Party or do I have to know the meaning of these words? I am better qualified than Bill to lead because I was a milk monitor at school. I also wear glasses and my favourite colour is red. I learned to make reel good darts listening to Bill Tizard. Please can I have some reel politicians to throw them at?

Mark Pedersen

Abortion a democratic right!

Dear Simon

In the last issue of Salient, Vic Urwin in her/ his letter displayed a basic misunderstanding of the term "a woman's democratic right to abortion." This does not mean, as Vic Urwin suggests, that everyone votes on the issue, or that there is a public opinion poll. The right to vote is only one democratic right. There are other democratic rights, such as the democratic right to criticise the present political system, to strike, to hold political meetings, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and finally the right to control one's own reproductive life. These democratic rights ensure that the state will not interfere in the private lives of the individual.

However, these rights are gradually (or not so gradually in some cases) being eroded away. With the introduction of the Commerce Amendment Act workers theoretically can no longer strike. With the amendments to the SIS Act people can no longer organize peaceful, political opposition without fear of reprisal. With the Sterilization, Contraception and Abortion Act women can no longer control their reproductive lives.

THE FRISBEE Look MUMMY THERE'S A FRISBEE!! I'LL SEE IF I CAN CATCH IT!!

Vic Urwin is quite correct when she states that "the law of this country denies that such a right (abortion) exists". But his/her conclusion that because the law denies its existance than this right does not exist, is fallacious.

This right exists in the USA, Sweden, Britain, China, some states of Australia and many other countries. It is a fundamental democratic right, and I will fight hard until the New Zealand government recognises that abortion is a women's democratic right.

Your sincerely

Lindy Cassidy

President

Swim and sin

Dear Sir,

Last week I was disgusted by the worst display of immorality and juvenile behaviour I have ever seen, at your university's swimming pool.

For many years I have been a resident of Wai-Te-Ata Road and this is the first time I have been forced to complain, and hopefully the last.

Thanking you

Mrs.

Isabelle Davis

(What's going on?—Ed.)

Gray a Labour-saving device?

Dear Sir,

I find it hard to believe that anyone would resort to National's smear tactics. Yet I was surprised to see that the Labour Party club is attempting just that. Instead of congratulating Neil Gray for bringing them some form of recognition with his own genius brand of wit, the ignorant fools have protested! Labour certainly has a long way to go if it hopes to even equal its performance in Rangitikei. Some people are so used to ridicule that they become blind to well meant humour. I find both political parties equally boring, and I deny any association with reactionary political groups.

I certainly hope to see more good humour (well meant of course) in Salient soon.

Love to all.

Bruce.

P.S. I am Not Neil Gray.

page 23

Sexuality Handbook

Dear Salient,

Drawing of a sad man on a bed

Point 1: Note that I'm writing to "Salient" and Not to "The Editor".

Dear Salient,

In the hope that this letter may in fact escape what appears to be a somewhat selective mode of censorship and in fact be printed I wonder whether any of the Salient workers might like to inquire of their Editor, firstly, why he choose not to print the Otago Human Sexuality Group's letter sent to Salient several weeks ago, a letter I might note intended not solely for Mr. Wilson's benefit but also for that Salient's readers, and secondly why no one on Salient appears to have then pursued that one time habit of Student newspapers, muckraking.

Its going to be a pity if all that Victoria's members read of NZUSA's ineptness over the Sexuality Book is what they see in the Court News.

Well then Simon how about it??? Surely Auntie Lisa hasn't really got you all so gutless as the rumours All appear to suggest??? But then again, maybe she has......

A.J. Duncan

P.S. Surprise me and avoid making a "Clever" reply at the end of this.

(This isn't going to be clever and I'm not Simon Wilson, merely a humble typesetter - you know, ordinary droll workie, but the letter to which you refer, and which is reprinted above is quite clearly a mimeographed form letter addressed to "Dear Sir/Madam, not dear Editor or dear Sir. In fact there's nothing to indicate it is a letter to the editor at all. But I suspect that Simon is going to be clever anyway typstr.)

(Okay Al, don't wet your pants.

(see, I told you he'd be clever....)

The letter from the Dunedin sexuality group appears below. As it arrived before we had started publication for the year and bore no marks to suggest it was intended as a letter to the editor, it never occured to me that I should publish the thing. I merely thought, if you can see past the plotting to believe this, that the group was being nice enough to keep me informed.

The letter makes many claims, some spurious, some downright bullshit. I was responsible for laying out the Sexuality booklet. Some photos, not the bulk by any means, were replaced by graphics. A member of the group gave me verbal permission to do this. Whether the graphics are in poor taste is a matter of opinion. I don't think they are, nor in my experience does anyone else except members of the group. Certainly Vic students have raised no objection.

I might add that in selecting the graphics I took a lead from the personal statements themselves. How "moderately serious", for example, is the claim "Masturbation is... the easiest way of coming to grips with yourself "? You know, the group's aim of being "sensitive and mature" sounds remarkably like headmaster talk to me.

The letter goes on to claim that some parts of the text have been altered or omitted. Apart from the Abortion section (which we were asked to change if the law was altered, which it was) and the contact lists at the back which we updated also on request), no other copy has been touched.

The cover was scrapped because a] it was badly done with wobbly, sloping letraset and b] it was the wrong shape. Our replacement was taken from within the booklet itself so we wouldn't move too far away from the group's intentions.

To the best of my knowledge NZUSA has not published a disclaimer because, I would guess, the situation does not warrant one.

Now to your letter. Al. You charge Salient of absconding on its traditional role of muckraking, and have taken it on for yourself. All I can say is that considering the booklet has gone down well with students on all the campuses (Otago included, I hear) and with the people who have a professional involvement in the field, it might become you to take another look at your own reasons to for taking the stand you have.

Sure it's fashionable to attack NZUSA, and in some cases there is very good reason for doing so, but your contribution only helps obscure the real issues at stake. Otago president Andrew Guest claimed at the recent NZUSA SGM that whatever the rights and wrongs of affairs like the Sexuality booklet controversy, they still managed to split the association.

I suggest to you that "Aunti Lisa" and the other officers are not always primarily responsible for that split. But let's not get too heavy over the whole thing. After the Dunedin letter you will find a sample of the Victoria reaction to the booklet.—ed.)

Dear Sir/Madam,

A couple of days ago we telegraphed your association requesting it to stop distribution and payment for the book "Sexuality', copies of which you will have received from NZUSA.

At the time of telegraphing the Dunedin Sexuality Group, which was responsible for the content of the book, had just discovered (quite by accident!) that some rather severe breaches of the agreement between the group and NZUSA had occurred. The bulk of the photos the group had included with the text were omitted and replaced with cartoons, without the consent or even notice of the group, and which the group sees as particularly tasteless. The cartoons, in the opinion of the group, have the effect of trivialising the content of the personal statements, thereby reducing the book from something intended to me moderately serious on the subject of sexuality to no more than titillating capping book material. The group feel it is in the best interests of the individual student that the topic of sexuality be treated in a sensitive and mature fashion. The publication as it now stands negates this. In addition, some parts of the text have been altered or omitted and the cover (which was expressly approved by constituents at August Council 1977) scrapped.

The Dunedin Sexuality Group is therefore requesting that NZUSA publish an apology and also a disclaimer on behalf of the group, which can be included in each copy. For these reasons we have asked your association to stop distribution until they receive this disclaimer

Yours faithfully.

Dunedin Sexuality Group per: Jane McChesney

Sex After One Other Person.

Dear Editor,

I am writing to complain about a startling omission from that illustrious publication, the NZUSA Sexuality Handbook.

When I saw the headline "Sex with one other person", I immediately assumed that this would be followed by "Sex with two other people","......a dog", ".....an axylotl", and of couse, "sex with an aardvark".

When I realised that there was no chapter on this most erotic of animals, I was naturally somewhat dissapointed. On reflection, though, I now believe that I know the answer! The aardvark is an animal of South African origin!! In your haste to condemn and ban all things South African, you have neglected the fact that the aardvark is also widely discriminated against at home and must carry a pass at all (times. In view of these facts which I have now brought to your attention, I think a Salient article on "Sex with an aardvark" should be written and disseminated with all haste.

Yours Expectantly,

Karori Housewife.

(I quite agree, even though I am not French, or female—Ed.)

... and Solution

Dear Sir,

I would like to express my profound disappointment over the inadequacy of the Sexuality Handbook. The absence of any sections on necrophilia or beastiality had me truly astounded. A proportion of students higher than most people realise find total satisfaction in relationships of this nature; one which to them has more meaning and relevance in regard to the needs of the modem student.

I hope no students were adversely affected by this unfortunate oversight and have suffered from feelings of guilt and rejection. Feeling they may be alone in choosing this alternative lifestyle.

These types of facts should not, however, be regarded as attempts to gain mere physical gratification. The bonds of friendship, companionship and love between man and dog (or horses or goat or sheep or cow or . . . .) are irrefutable. So too necrophiliacs give a new dimension to life beyond the grave and new significance to the second coming.

yours faithfully,

Tim O'Brien

P.S. The Victoria University Necrophiliacs Club is to hold its A.G.M. at 12 pm. Tues. 21 March in Bowen St. Cemetery. All new members are welcome. Bring bird and body. Remember: "Necros are Nice"

Boring

Dearest Simon,

I still anxiously await a reply to my letter of March 6th concerning my boyfriend's apparent lack of interest in me. Since then, he has purchased a young female ferret, and I wonder if you think this has any bearing on the fact that he is only doing it once a night.

Would the Student Counselling Service be equipped to deal with my concern for my diminishing role in my boyfriend's affections?

I am desparately in need of advice and long for a solution to this heart-rending problem.

Yours Sincerely,

Mary-Ann Carr-Gregg.

P.S. He has also taken out a subscription to "Chomp", a magazine about bum-biting aquatic pet Hamsters. Should I be worried about this too?

P.P.S. I am now doing it only once a night as well.

Dear Mary AnnCarrGregg,

Simon was much too busy to help you this week, so like almost everything else the responsibility has devolved upon my unworthy shoulders.

Since your boy-friend's lack of interest is more apparent than real, I suggest you ask him if you should worry.

On the other hand if you can't decide by yourself whether or not to worry, you probably shouldn't bother with a boyfriend at all.

I've heard of people worrying about many odd things, but worrying about whether to worry takes the cake sweetheart.

As ever, Abby

Dear Simon,

I really do congratulate the Student Health Service at this University. They do a wonderful job and are a great team. However, just last week, I had to pay a $70 bill for a couple of dental appointments, which made me wonder why we don't have a resident dentist on campus. Surely, oral health is as important as physical health?

Many students face wisdom teeth problems, costing untold, during varsity years. Six thousand students should provide a dentist with a full-time job. A scheme of this sort could be subsidised with out Student Association fees. I wonder what other students feel regarding this matter?

Yours sincerely,

Jane Robertson

A late Movick letter

Dear Editor,

Drawing of a person in black clothes

The other day we sat down in the cafe having a cup of tea. We began a chit-chat about home and friends. Then we turned to the topic of student life in N.Z. John reminded us what we are expected to do while studying in this "God save the Queen" land. These include conforming to various rules and regulations, having no hand in politics and satisfying academic requirements, etc. . . We all expressed anger at the NZ Govern't attitude toward we overseas students.

Victor said James Movick is one of those many who are asked to leave NZ. for various unsound reasons given by the Govern't. Certainly there is no reason why the Govern't should not allow James to stay, except that he has the capacity to unite the overseas students nationally. In this case the Govern't not only infringed the students' rights but is also afraid of overseas students being organised. Jack said the growing student movement in NZ in the last few years has scared the Govern't into action. We all agreed that the strong international progressive movement, those of students and workers will surge forwards and crush into pieces those who intend to stop this movement.

Jack, John

and others from third world Countries;