Our Year

This is our year. It can be our year because of what has already come about. It will be our year because of what is to come.

This is Victoria's year—that's how it can be your year too. For, together, we make up Victoria.

Why is it our year? It is our year because at last things are going our way. Take a look around you. Take a look at the buildings, for example. This year we have a new Library block. Try and imagine the University without it. Now we have it, you can't. This is a taste of what is to come. Before this building was finished, the Government announces another — two and a half times as big as Easterfield.

If it is size which will impress you, we have it. We are going to get bigger. If it is facilities which impress you, we are going places there too. If it is staff you judge us by—well, we're no shorter than anyone else. If it is new courses you're looking for, we have those too. Each year sees new subjects, new units.

Perhaps you are looking for a community spirit. In the past you might have gone away rather puzzled. Not now. The best evidence of a community spirit is our Health and Welfare Service. You didn't know we had one? Not surprising. We're finding it a Little difficult ourselves to realise what we now have.

Last year we gained Medical Services. This year we've an Accommodation Officer. Ever tried to look for accommodation? Ever had a landlord take one look at you and tell you his accommodation has been let? Now we're getting somewhere.

Perhaps you don't like having things done for you. Perhaps this all sounds too much like the welfare state. Well don't push off into oblivion. The challenges are here too, and you can do something about them.

This doesn't mean academic challenges. They're here, and if you ever forget that you won't last long. These challenges are those that go with being a student. The challenges of student life are the challenges of maturity and society.

Take a look at the Students' Association here on campus. What is the Association doing? Have you heard about our second floor extension programme? Did you know that the Association fee has been pushed up again?

Did you know that the bods at the top are overhauling our Association's Constitution to bring it up to the present? Had you heard that the Association is offering a scholarship of its own — for Salient editors? What do these changes mean to you? Is this progress or is it stagnation? If you don't find your own views you can't blame others for following theirs.

This year we have Winter Tournament. This year we are hosts to Arts Festival. This means we are having guests. This is a social obligation a little more interesting and just as unavoidable as putting up your family. Better get used to the idea — because later you'll have to work for it.

Things are happening. That's why this is our year. That's why it will be your year if you only take the trouble to find out about them. What do they mean to you? Don't crawl back into a hole. Come out and live.

Still want challenges? Use your head and find your own. Don't be a sand-hog. Forget you ever heard the word apathy. Try taking a look at life for a change. See what is wrong with the place. Open your mouth and say so. Don't just stick around looking for a few letters and a meal-ticket. Find your sense of identity.

Realise that you're part of a city. Take a look at it. Think what you can do for it. Did you know that we might get a student radio station? What are you going to do about it? Did you ever think a university bookshop might be a good idea? Did you ever think?

What do you know about Procesh? What can you do for Charity? Think about somebody except yourself. Try being critical for a change. Stop sleeping and start living. Stop sitting and start moving. If you're going to do it any time, now's your real chance.

Identity Cards in '65 See Page 4

If you haven't heard of intellectual arrogance, now's a good time. Figure out what it means—steer clear of it like the plague. Think for yourself, and learn when to keep to yourself.

This is our year. This can be your year. If you don't make it your year it'll leave you behind.

It's your choice.

Toughest Course.—Students line up for the University's most popular but hardest course. Cafeteria 1 involves little effort and students are permitted to enrol for Cafeteria II through social promotion. Cafeteria III students, however, must pass tough exclusion tests, and Honours, a stern test of financial fibre, are rarely awarded. Despite many requests, neither aegrotat passes nor specials are available. In the picture students line up for their courses under the eye of department head, Mr F. Levenbach.