Saxby and Cants

I have no intention of boring the pants off your readers by replying to 82 column-centimetres of tedious argument from Chris Gosling with 82 column-centimetres of tedious counterargument. Anyone (including Chris Gosling) who is genuinely in doubt about the very modest claims I made against NZUSA can write to me c/o Box 30-271, Lower Hutt as I advised in my first letter. A better plan might be to subscribe to the Canterbury students' publication. Canta (only $6 for 23 brilliant issues). I will continue to write my weekly column for Canta.

It is already clear, after only three issues, that the standard of Salient 1979 is going to be abysmal — even worse than last year! I therefore choose not to lend credibility to your pages in future by treating them as a student forum and can only feel sorry for those whose position in the Students Association obliges them to communicate with and through Salient.

An old lady is supposed to have said of politicians: "I never vote — it only encourages them". To the readers of interminable articles by Salient ideologues, I suggest likewise: Don't react. It only encourages them.