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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 5. March 27 1978
The Right Wing Indulges
The Right Wing Indulges
Dear Sir,
Allow me to indulge in a few random right-wing observations, some character assassination and a little foaming at the mouth. There is only one thing worse than a poor down-trodden self-pitying 'Red' and that is a boring, middle-class, self-pitying 'Red' of which your paper seems to abound.
It is time a new perspective was put on issues carried in this paper by clear, rational thinking people, rather than a bunch of self-centred dropouts, pushing their own ideas at the expense of student opinion as a whole.
However I realise you like to live in your dream-world, a world in which the oppressed students are waiting on every word from their radical saviours. So you can continue to dream away but please let us make up our own minds on things political, social etc.
Yours faithfully,
Jenny.
(A student newspaper is traditionally a medium for the expression of anything and everything students are thinking about and talking about and doing. Ain't nobody trying to make up your mind for you Jenny. Students - like yourself - are just writing about their ideas from their own point of view. Salient is comprised of those students willing to do the work, and if you dislike the content the surest way to influence that content is to come in and work on the paper Please don't think of us as some kind of closed, introspective, self-congratulatory revolutionary cell out to propagandise the masses. If we were, your letter would not appear and we would not be asking you to join the staff. - typstr)