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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 18. July 30 1979

No More Silly Letters

No More Silly Letters

Sir,

Being but an ordinary mortal I must admit that of late the growing factionalism in the let ter's pages of "Salient" has me dumbfounded and bemused.

Who are these people that write in under absurd pseudonyms to air their petty grievances and then go on to provoke stupid squabbles with other morons who have nothing better to do [unclear: th] write whinging letters to "Salient" purely for [unclear: th] egotistical pleasure of seeing their ravings in [unclear: prit] As a result of these cretin's efforts, the letters [unclear: p] has rapidly become no more than a [unclear: battleground] for several different sets of groups to hurl [unclear: insult] at each other in a never-ending status struggle [unclear: (a] though there is also a rather conspicuous [unclear: power] struggle taking place in the University's [unclear: political] scene which has its close letter-writing [unclear: adherent] on both sides — however we don't need to [unclear: worry] about this as nobody takes it seriously [unclear: anyway.]

But to the point, we, the student body en masse, are bcoming decidedly disenchanted [unclear: with] this gradual monopolisation of the normal [unclear: stu—] cent's section of the paper, not to mention [unclear: the] erosion of its entertainment value through [unclear: what] its perpetrators might think is humour but [unclear: which] nauseates everybody else.

Thus on behalf of all the other students [unclear: who] used to enjoy the free expression and rapier [unclear: wit] of the letter's page, I would like to lodge a [unclear: for—] mal complaint against the institutsonalised and cliched efforts in innocuous hackneys who have gone unnoticed in life and would benefit mankind if they were also to do so in our paper.

In antici...................pation, Average Varsity Student.

P.S. A literacy test might do the trick.