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Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 6. April 3 1978

Dear Salient,

Well chaps — how amusing things can be! An election fiasco whot!? Again human nature Never ceases to amaze me — scapegoat(s) have to be found and blame shared out and indeed who more suitable to do this than the honourable retainers of that most noteworthy publication — Salient — who were behaving so obscenely only the other week in the varsity swimming pool in Wai-te-ata Rd. Salient goblins grumbled about inadequate publicity and rightly so by Jove! They were so concerned about it that they decided to make a whole page available for election publicity last week (No. 5 Mar. 27 1978) they neglect to mention that they weren't nearly so keen to provide so much space for this important subject in the two preceding weeks' issues when applications for exec were open. Surely to God old boys, they could have Made space available during this period by shifting other items out — but their overbearing concern for election publicity — or was it something else? — prevented them from doing so. So you see you 'orrible lot out there — Saltne was wright! — publicity was bad and they are at least partially responsible — that's all — more — next week!

Viscount Vulture

(S.H.I.)

P.S. Dear Sally — next time I will use a typewriter so I beg your indulgence and humbly ask you to print this letter.

(Although I was aware the elections were coming up I did not know the date until far too late in the piece. There was nothing Salient could do until we were given the information and the official go-ahead by the election committee. —Ed.)