Men's Common-Room.

We feel that an editorial, protest should be penned regarding the disgraceful state into, which the men's Common-room has been allowed to fall. Mr Plank, in his last report of Executive activities, assured the students that the magazines and furniture in the Common-rooms were their property, and provided by their money. His attention aroused, by this assurance, the men student discovers- that the magazines are non-existent, and that the furniture has been depleted daring the last two weeks to three armchairs and a couch. Last year a few belated "Punches" did find their way into the men's wilderness, but for 1931 the supply has seemingly ceased for both Common-rooms. It is rumoured that they go far to enliven the monotony of business-meetings of the Executive. Furthermore, what appears to be a week's accumulation of filth on the floor does not add to the comfort or cleanliness of the men's Common-room. Surely it is time a Common-room Committee was set up, or else that the Executive should take more care of the Common-rooms. Also may we ask whether the N.U.S. intend to preserve the Common-room as a second-hand book-exchange for the whole of the year? Last year this room pursued an inglorious course as part-time Committee-room, part-time comfortable "swotting"-place for the men, but we fail to see that its activities this year are in any greater degree those for which it was intended. The institution of a real Common Common-room is one very badly needed at Victoria College, where what should be a wholesome camaderie of the sexes is confined to furtive meetings by the letter-box.