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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 14. July 6 1981

Hopping Mad

Hopping Mad

Dear Sir,

Question: Why is it that the hops this year have been getting progressively more tense and potentially aggressive?

Answer: Because there have been progressively less students and more outsiders attending these now debauched functions.

My point is that this situation is simply not necessary. I know that we cannot afford to run the hops at a loss and that door sales to non-student union members allow us to break even, but there is a simple solution to this problem. If tickets were available on campus a week before each hop and were advertised in Salient, I'm sure they would sell out to us, the students, the people for whom these functions are run!

I don't want to ban non-varsity friends from attending, but I do want the proportion of students to others to change in our favour. We are often accused of creating an "Ivory Tower". Well, if we have, let's not let outsiders knock bits off it.

Xeno Phobic