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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 3. March 16 1981

Lack of Time

Lack of Time

Another of the major problems was a lack of time. The controllers were appointed about six weeks before orientation. Consequently, planning was considerably condensed. Wilson points out that there wasn't enough time to get all the display and thematic concepts worked out. For example, the idea of making the Coup d'Etat night a 'red night' (everyone wearing red) had to be scrapped because time didn't allow for it to be publicised in that way.

There wasn't sufficient time to build up a team, so that various tasks could be delegated and therefore carried out more efficiently (for instance a person directly responsible for publicity would have been a great advantage).

Activities were a mixture of the old and the new. Standard successes such as the Drinking Horn and the Tramping Club's climb down the Easter field Building were intermingled with new activities such as the Beatles Night and the Graveyard Horror Movies.

Some traditional Orientation activities were deliberately omitted. For example, this year a 'New Students' Evening' was not held. Wilson explains "leading academics and student politics come along, and it's all very boring. People would much rather be having a drink than listening to speeches". This year less stress was placed on separate events for new students. Wilson doesn't see them as being particularly different or having specifically different tastes to other students.