2 CRACCUM — April 29, 1968

Editorials

NEW LOOK FOR CAPPING WEEK?

Arts Festival PlannedOn the Thursday before

Easter, a service of tribute to Dr Martin Luther King was held in the Maclaurin Chapel. The service was arranged by the Maclaurin chaplain, Rev. Rob McCullough, on the sug­gestion of Michael Law, the Students’ Association Public Relations Officer.

Although some form of tribute to Dr King was cer­tainly warranted, it is open to question whether a religious service was best suited to the occasion.

The university is not a reli­gious institution—only a small proportion of its members remain adherents of any denomination or religion. To make the only possible tribute to Dr King a religious one, framed within the context of a religious service, made it impossible for the tribute to be one in which all the university could share.

Surely it would have been better for the students’ asso­ciation to have organised a different type of tribute more suited to the nature of the university. A tribute meeting, held in front of the student union or in the hall, at which representatives of various sections of the university, in­cluding, perhaps, the chan­cellor, the chaplain and a representative of the students’ association, were given short times to speak, would have avoided the situation by which many were excluded from pay­ing a tribute because a reli­gious interpretation was being forced upon them.

It would have been much more meaningful if students and staff had been able to meet as a university to pay tribute to a great man, so that a message could have been sent to the Civil Rights leaders and Mrs King paying tribute to Dr King’s work.

As it was, the tribute was a small one. Had the students’ association had more initiative and conviction, they could have organised an event which would have been in accordance with the signific­ance of the occasion.

—G. de B.

APOLOGIEST h e e d i to r s w ish t o e x te n d

a p o lo g ie s to :• D R L IS T o f th e E n g in e e r in g F a c u l ty b e c a u s e th e s ig n a tu re to h is a r t ic le o n B o o k P r ic e s ( Is su e 3 , p a g e 16) w a s n o t p r in te d .• M R P E T E R B O Y E S fo r th e f a c t t h a t th e re v ie w o f th e f ilm ‘T a m in g o f th e S h re w ” . ( Is su e 3, p a g e 9 ), a p p e a r e d to b e p a r t o f h is o w n re v ie w s , w h e n it w a s w r i t ­ten b y a d i f f e r e n t a u th o r .€» D R P A T H O H E P A w h o s e a r t i ­c le ‘‘M ig r a n t C o m m u n i t ie s in A u c k ­la n d ” (Is su e 3 , p a g e 13), w as u n ­a c k n o w le d g e d .

CRACCUMP.O . B o x 2175. A u ck la n d .

P hone 22-175 , ext. 68.

E D IT O R S ............. G e o rg e De BreeM ic h a e l V o lke r lirtg

E D IT O R IA L A D V IS E R Tom Hutch in s

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Capping week: these celebrations, which in some ways are perhaps the most enjoyable of the year, is at the same time the single event which provides the worst public relations between the city and the university.

Recently there have been developments aimed at establish­ing a more dignified atmosphere for capping week and at counteracting its automatic identification with student stunts and pubcrawls. The introduction of the procession of graduates and staff from the university to the town hall for instance is a step in this direction.

It is not surprising that some Aucklanders take the more irresponsible stunts as an index of customary student conduct, because these are in effect the most public manifestation of their corporate behaviour. Yet moves have been made this year to modify this situation.

A proposal has been already put before a number of faculty committees, which aims at extending the scope of capping celebrations through the introduction of what is called a “University Arts Week.”

This motion proposed by Mr I. V. Porsott of the Architec­ture Faculty reads as following:

“That this Faculty requests the Council to establish an ‘Uni­versity Arts Week’ as a recurrent annual event, the term ‘week’ being used subject to further consideration of the event’s dura­tion. The purpose of this event is to bring the contribution of this university to the artistic and cultural life of the city, both in training and achievement, to the notice of the public in an organised form thus strengthening good relations between the city and its university. The event is not proposed as in competi­tion, but as complementary to the established Auckland Festi­val of Arts; the time of the year to be chosen for it should not coincide nor adjoin closely to that of the civic event.

One of the times proposed for this Arts Week is in fact during or immediately following capping.

Main participants are envisaged to be:1. Departments of the Faculty of Arts concerned with literary

and dramatic arts—poetry readings, theatrical displays.2. The Department of Music—concerts of performing and com­

posing artists.3. The special Schools of Engineering, Architecture, the Depart­

ment of Town Planning, and the School of Fine Arts, with displays of students’ and graduates’ work.

4. Other departments and faculties with appropriate public lec­tures; the library with book displays; the New Buildings Committee with plans of development, etc., etc.

Mr Porsott has commented at length on this proposal.So far he claims, activities of this kind have either been

associated writh the Auckland Festival of Arts, or performed out of any context, thus losing much of their effect, being of little stimulus within the university, and failing to establish in the public esteem the separate and distinct contribution of the university to public cultural life. Attendances have also suf­fered, owing to events being exposed to massive competition. The Auckland Festival Society has recently resolved to organ­ise its items in March, in order to facilitate interchange of over­seas performing artists with other Southern Hemisphere count­ries. This not only confirms the festival as a focus of commer­cial events (which is perfectly legitimate), but it also demands participation from university departments at a very difficut time, with preparation for exhibitions, etc., required at the very time the university settles down to work after enrolment. Separating out the art contribution of the university would therefore appear not only of advantage to us (we cannot match the superior publicity power of commercial art undertakings in any position of competition), but also to the festival, by remov­ing from its field such burden as we still represent—but the ultimate beneficiary would be the Auckland public, who are already unable to partake of a cultural repast too big for any but the most voracious appetites.

The effect of this Arts Week on the status of Capping Week would be equally beneficial in conferring distinction on what at present is, in effect a purely social affair, and, quite apart from considerations of public relations, it is obviously valuable in its own right.

At present the motion has been approved in principle by both the Architecture and Fine Arts Faculty Committees, on the condition that it would necessitate no financial outlay by the staff members involved.

This attitude is understandable. Students’ Association at the present time manages to finance the social side of capping at considerable cost, and it is only reasonable that they should extend their finances to activities of this nature.

If in addition, it is obvious that this festival must be a student organised venture, displaying student work and finan­cial independence is essential for such a proposal.

Yet there is no reason why the council should not offer a grant to initiate such a festival if in fact there is sufficient talent within the university to make such a venture a working propo­sition. At present there seems both the ability and the demand among the students for such an outlet for their work. This year for example students have had to turn to private organisations

to finance such festivals. The Auckland Society for Contempor­ary Music, for example, is sponsoring a festival of student music, drama, poetry, painting and films later this year, in co-operation with Central Theatre and Barry Lett Galleries. With such obvi­ous demand and talent within the university it seems natural to provide the opportunity internally for such a programme.

It seems odd that a university as large as our own is unable to provide this type of outlet for student work on a regular basis instead of letting their role be assumed by private organi­sations.

If this private festival is a success however, and if either the Council or Studass is prepared to commit finance to such a venture in future years, it seems likely that such a festival could become a regular contribution to Auckland’s cultural life.

It is a serious comment on the priorities of those involved in university administration that such a scheme has not yet been implemented, and it will be still more serious if this scheme is not introduced after such a lead has been given.

Perhaps capping celebrations in 1969 will be rather more representative of what the university is intended to stand for. The decision lies in the hands of the student body and the willingness of both university and student administration to support this important proposal. —M.V.

ELEGY VII Bby D o u g a ll

Oh that I could, without dishonour, use An eagle as the symbol of my muse;A bird that, soaring in its peerless flight,Plucked old, blind Milton from the depths of night And set him on a pinnacle of fame:But I confess, to my eternal shame,The only bird my questing soul has found Hides under logs and scratches up the ground.Thus, is my song regrettably confined,Though l can see— my muse is almost blind;Though I would paint, in epic, tale, or story,A noble image of my country's glory And show you how the force of Education Has made of us a great and mighty nation,The wonder that my pen describes for all Is nothing but a dreary pastoral.Yet what’s the odds. We live, both you and I,Like cattle staring dumbly at the sky,Within an atmosphere of quiet calm Upon an academic dairy farm.Here one can see with what uncommon ease The intellect is moulded into cheese.About the Fields of Knowledge (fertile plains Sown with the seed, of countless human brains)Six thousand head of cattle dream and browse.These are the cream of all the nation’s cows.Some there are here who know not what they do But merely chew and defecate and chew.While others contemplate, with ifs and buts,The process going on inside their guts.Yet one or two, of all the herd the best,Are by the god of nature richly blessed Arid can produce more butterfat per pound Than all the other beasts upon this ground.They crop the grass until, with stomachs packed To bursting point with undigested fact,They pause to contemplate, upon their knees,And chew the matter over at their ease.With bellies full, existence is sublime Until October when it’s milking time.The udder swells. The pain becomes severe.The weight of genius is hard to bear.The heifer lows. The farmhand merely shrugs And clamps the suckers to the spurting dugs.Behold! The miracle has come to pass.Milk of pure wisdom synthesised from grass.The farmer watches with uncertain eyes,Waiting for intellectual cream to rise.See how the thickened scum of greasy gold Is curdled skimmed and pressed into a mould,Dried, wrapped and labelled A or B or C Depending on the product’s quality.These units, packed according to degrees,Are put on sale as fine New Zealand cheese.Which portions will the eager merchant buy?The standard’s good but prices seem too high.Some brands by growing industries are bought And others, in the wheels of commerce caught,Commit themselves to various forms of trade,While teaching s7iaffles up the lower grade.The government, who’d like to buy the best,Looks with a rueful eye upon the r-est.There’s yiothing left, for all the prime degrees,Marked “Export Only,” travel overseas.Australia, Britain, and, the U.S.A.Want premium grades and have the wit to pay.Thus it turns out that all our country gams From careful processing of human brains Is third-rate produce (all it can afford)A t home and high prestige abroad.So ends m y story. If you think it’s stale Look for a cow that has a better tale.I’ve only done my level best to show,In spite of curdled vnts and thinking slow,My strong resolve to demonstrate to allThat though my cheese can’t walk, by God, I’ll make him

crawl.

Fw b lithed b y the A u c k la n d U n ive rs ity S tud e n ts ' A sso c ia t io n , F Q . B o x 2175 , A u ck la n d ; and p rinted b y W ils o n a n d H o rton Ltd, a t its re g iste red o ffice, 149 Q u e e n St, A u ck la n d . M o n d a y , A p r il 29, 1968.

CRACCUM — April 29, 1968 3

Muldoon plays it coolMinister of Finance Speaks to University

Mr R. D. (King Rob) Mul- doon, the famed min-budget- eer, made an impressive debut in his first major speech to the student body as a Cabinet Minister. Speak­ing to a packed house in the lower lecture theatre last Wednesday he gave a display of the political acumen that has taken him to the top Ministry in only six years.

S tu d e n ts h a v e n e v e r b een c o u n te d am ong th e M in is te r ’s m o re a rd e n t fans. H e h a s b een th e v ic tim o f th e M u ld o o n f o r K in g c a m p a ig n a n d end less c a p p in g s tu n ts — -(“ D o n ’t Bank o n P ig g y ”). O n W e d n e s d a y , h ow ever, th e b o o t w as o n th e o th e r foot. T h e M in is te r p a r r ie d in te r je c ­tions d e f t ly a n d w o n o v e r th e au d ien ce to su c h a n e x te n t th a t tw o co lo u rfu l in d iv id u a ls w h o a t te m p te d to e n te r a c c o m p a n ie d b y a sm a ll piglet w e re e je c te d b y p re s s u re o f pub lic o p in io n .

P a r t o f th e re a s o n f o r th is c o rd ia l recep tion w a s o f c o u r s e th e s u b je c t of th e a d d re s s . M u c h o f th e ta lk cen tred a r o u n d p h i lo s o p h ic a l issu es. W hen h e c a m e to sp e c if ic c o m ­parisons b e tw e e n th e L a b o u r an d N a tio n a l p o s i t io n s M r M u ld o o n w as carefu l to c o n f in e th e m to econom ic p o lic y . P re d ic ta b ly th is a roused te s s i re f ro m a u n iv e r s i ty

a u d ie n c e th a n , f o r e x a m p le , h is w e ll-k n o w n v iew s o n V ie tn a m m ig h t h a v e d o n e .

N o n e th e le s s h is sh re w d h a n d lin g o f a p o te n t ia l ly h o s ti le a u d ie n c e s h o w e d th a t h e w ill be a f o rm id a b le o p p o n e n t w 'hen th e L a b o u r P a r ty b eg in s i ts c a m p a ig n to u n s e a t th e G o v e r n m e n t n e x t y e a r . In d e e d , it c o u ld be h is p e r fo r m a n c e th a t d e c id e s th e e le c tio n . T o w in a f u r th e r te rm N a t io n a l w ill h a v e to c o n v in c e th e N e w Z e a la n d p u b lic th a t th e re c e s s io n o f 1967-8 w a s d u e so le ly to th e fa ll in w 'ool p r ic e s a n d n o t to a n y la c k o f e c o n o m ic fo re s ig h t o r g o v e rn m e n ta l m is ­m a n a g e m e n t . T h is w ill n o t be e a sy . W ith th e la te H a r r y L a k e a t th e T re a s u r y o n e w o u ld g o so f a r a s to sa y th a t it w o u ld h av e b een im p o ss ib le . T h e im a g e w as to o m u c h th a t o f a n ice m a n w h o h a d b een ‘c a u g h t s h o r t b y e v e n ts th a t w e re b e y o n d h is c o n tr o l .

M r M u ld o o n . h o w 'ev e r. m ig h t go v e ry c lo se to p u ll in g it o f f . if W e d n e s d a y ’s sp e e c h w a s a n y g u id e . A s a n Under-Secretary h e b u i l t u p a n u n e n v ia b le r e c o r d a s a p u sh y y o u n g m a n w h o w a s g o in g to decimalise th e c o u n tr y e v e n i f he h a d to ta k e o n e v e ry g ro c e r s in g le -h a n d e d . T h is to u g h im a g e c o u ld w o rk in th e G o v e r n m e n t ’s f a v o u r now '. T h e G o v e r n m e n t n e e d s , a b o v e a ll , a m a n w h o se

c re d ib i l ity is b e y o n d q u e s tio n . T o a c e r ta in d e g re e he s h a re s art iro n ic s im ila r i ty w ith A rn o ld N o rd m e y e r — w h ile o n e c o u ld d o u b t th e w isd o m o f h is a c t io n s h is u n c o m ­p ro m is in g s ta te m e n ts u n d e r lin e d h is c o m p le te s in c e r ity .

A d m it te d ly it ta k e s m o re to w in a p o li t ic a l b a tt le th a n a re p u ta t io n f o r s in c e r ity — M r N o rd m e y e r h ad to w a it te n y e a rs f o r p u b lic v in d ic a tio n . B ut M r M u ld o o n h a s o th e r th in g s w o rk in g f o r h im . F o r a s ta r t he c a m e to p o w e r a f te r th e d a m a g e h a d been d o n e an d h a s n e v e r m in im is e d th e in i t ia l s e r io u s ­n e ss o f th e c r is is . A n o ta b le a s p e c t o f h is a d d re s s to th e s tu d e n ts w as h is o m it t in g to a p o lo g ise fo r th e s ta te o f th e e c o n o m y . G o n e w as th e “ it w as th e w o o l th a t d id i t ” lin e th a t w e h av e b e c o m e a c c u s to m e d to h e a r f ro m N a t io n a l s p o k e sm e n . In s te a d he la u n c h e d a p o w e rfu l a t ta c k o n L a b o u r 's a n n o u n c e d p o lic ie s w h ile a t th e s a m e tim e s te a lin g so m e o f th e i r t h u n d e r — th e d e m a n d f o r m o re e c o n o m ic p la n ­n in g — b y p o in tin g to th e N a tio n a l D e v e lo p m e n t C o n fe re n c e , d u e to m e e t la te r th is y ea r .

T h u s it c o u ld b e th a t on W e d n e s d a y w e saw; a p re v ie w o f N a t io n a l ’s s t r a te g y f o r ’6 9 . T h e im ag e b e in g c re a te d is th a t o f an e n e rg e tic M in is te r w h o w ill f a c e th e c o u n tr y ’s p ro b le m s b lu n tly an d

CONFIDENCE MOTION FOR PRESIDENT McCORMICK

A U S A exec, m em bers unan im ously approved a motion stating that they had full confidence in the ab ility of President M cCorm ick to fulfill the ob liga tion s of president o f A U S A an d vice-president of N Z U S A . This motion w a s passed after the president had been a sked for an exp lanation of his acceptance of his election to the post o f vice-president of N Z U S A at Easter Council.

A t a n e x e c u tiv e m e e tin g o n A p ril 10, a m o tio n w a s p a sse d w 'h ich sa id that A U S A w o u ld m a k e n o n o m in a tio n s f o r N Z L IS A p o s it io n s for 1 9 6 8 /6 9 . M r M c C o rm ic k claim ed a t th e t im e th a t h e w as definitely n o t in te r e s te d in th e p o s t of v ic e -p re s id e n t w h e n a s k e d b y a m em ber o f th e V ic to r ia e x e c u tiv e . H ow ever a t E a s te r C o u n c il h e w a s asked to s ta n d f o r th e p o s t 10 m inutes b e fo re n o m in a t io n s c lo sed and a c c e p te d . O ta g o se c o n d e d th e nom ination a n d h e w 'as e le c te d to the p o s it io n . A t a n e x e c u tiv e m eeting o n A p r il 18 th e s e a c tio n s came in f o r so m e p r e t ty c lo se question ing . E x e c u tiv e m e m b e rs launched w h a t M r G o tl ie b c la im e d was an u n ju s t i f ie d a t ta c k .

M r L a w a s k e d M r M c C o rm ic k if there w as a n y c o -o p e ra t io n b e tw e e n the e x ecu tiv e a n d th e p re s id e n t a n d then d r a m a t ic a l ly p r o d u c e d a petition c a ll in g f o r a n S G M w h ich would ca ll o n th e e x e c u tiv e to resign.

He sa id th a t h e r/o u ld a d d h is own n a m e to th e tw e n ty a lr e a d y o n the p a p e r if he d id n o t re c e iv e a sa tis fac to ry e x p la n a t io n o f th e

a c t io n s o f th e p r e s id e n t in g o in g a g a in s t b o th h is o w n w o rd a n d p o lic y la id d o w n by th e e x e c u tiv e o n ly a w eek b e fo re .

H e sa id th a t h e c o u ld n 't u n d e r ­s ta n d h o w s o m e b o d y c o u ld b e n o t in te r e s te d in a p o s it io n o n a W e d n e s d a y a n d a c c e p tin g n o m in a ­tio n to it o n S a tu r d a y n ig h t.

M r R u d m a n , w h o p ro p o s e d th e m o tio n sa id th a t a l th o u g h M r M c C o rm ic k h a d n ’t y e t c a r r ie d o u t a n y o f h is e le c tio n p ro m is e s th is w as d u e to th e e x tr a w o rk c a u s e d b y th e n ew b u ild in g w h ich h a d n ’t b een f o re s e e n a t th e t im e o f h is e le c tio n c a m p a ig n .

M r R u d m a n sa id th a t th e b o d y o f o p in io n w h ic h e x p re s s e d d is s a t is f a c ­t io n w ith th e p r e s id e n t’s a c t io n s h a d b a s e d its o p in io n s o n a f a l la c io u s in te r p r e ta t io n o f h is e le c t io n p o lic y .

M r L a w re p lie d th a t M r M c ­C o rm ic k h a d s to o d o n an e le c tio n p o lic y c a ll in g f o r im p ro v e d c o m ­m u n ic a t io n s a n d th a t he h a d h a d a lo n g p e r io d o f t im e b e fo re th e ngw b u ild in g w a s o p e n e d to p ro c u re th e m a c h in e r y f o r th is im p ro v e d c o m ­m u n ic a t io n .

M r L a w w e n t o n to sa y th a t th e

Gotlieb, Rudman, Law at Exec.

p re s id e n t h a d d e c e iv e d th e e x ­e c u tiv e a n d h a d b e c o m e vice- p r e s id e n t o f N Z U S A in c o m p le te d is a g re e m e n t w ith h is e x e c u tiv e ’s p o lic ie s w h ich h e fe l t in d ic a te d a b r e a k d o w n in c o m m u n ic a t io n s o m e w h e re .

M r M c C o rm ic k th e n p ro c e e d e d to g iv e an e x p la n a t io n o f h is a c tio n s . H e sa id th a t he h a d a c c e p te d th e p o s it io n f ro m tw o p o in ts o f v iew . H e sa id th a t u n til h e r e t i re s a s p r e s id e n t in A u g u s t h is f irs t in te re s t w o u ld be p re s id e n t o f A U S A b u t h e fe lt th a t h a v in g A u c k la n d ’s p o in t o f v iew r e p re ­se n te d a t th e h e a r t o f N Z U S A w o u ld l^e in th e best in te re s ts o f A U S A .

H e w e n t o n to sa y th a t he fe lt he w o u ld be a b le to fu lf i l the o b lig a t io n s o f b o th p o s it io n s b e ­c a u s e a s f a r a s he c o u ld see th e o b l ig a t io n s o f h is W e llin g to n jo b w o u ld o n ly in v o lv e a t te n d in g a few' m e e tin g s u n til A u g u s t a f t e r w h ich he w o u ld be a b le to d e v o te a ll th e tim e th a t he s p e n d s o n A U S A a f f a ir s a t th e m o m e n t to N Z U S A a f fa ir s .

T h e p re s id e n t sa id th a t h e h ad b e e n a p p r o a c h e d by V ic to r ia and a s k e d to a c c e p t th e n o m in a t io n an d th a t he e x p la in e d to th e m w h a t his o b l ig a t io n s a t th e m o m e n t in v o lv ed , h o w e v e r th e y w ere s till p r e p a re d to n o m in a te h im . H e w en t o n to say th a t h e h a d c la r if ie d h is c o n d itio n s o f a c c e p ta n c e o f th e n o m in a t io n at th e “ s e c re t” p re s id e n ts ’ m e e tin g so th a t th e le a d e r s o f a ll thed e le g a tio n s w e re a w a re o f w h a t h is e le c tio n w o u ld in v o lv e a n d th ey w e re s ti l l p r e p a r e d to n o m in a teh im .

H e a p o lo g ise d to m e m b e rs o f th e A u c k la n d d e le g a tio n f o r n o t p r o ­v id in g th e m w ith th e sa m e a s s u ra n c e s b u t h o p e d th a t th e y w o u ld a c c e p t h is e x p la n a t io n .

M r R u d m a n th e n sa id th a t the p re s id e n t h a d p ro v id e d a s a t is ­f a c to ry e x p la n a t io n as to h is a c tio n s a n d th a t th e fe e lin g so m e s tu d e n ts m ig h t h a v e h a d th a t h e h adb e tr a y e d th e m w as fa lse . M r L aw sa id th a t h e w o u ld a c c e p t th e e x p la n a t io n o f M r M c C o rm ic k and th a t h e w o u ld re c o m m e n d to th e s tu d e n ts w h o h a d s ig n e d th e S G M p e ti t io n th a t th e y a c c e p t th is e x p la n a t io n a lso . T h e m o tio n w as th e n p a s se d u n a n im o u s lv .

— Richard Hannan

h o n e s t ly . M r M u ld o o n a n d h is c o lle a g u e s w ill p ro b a b ly t r y to fo c u s a t te n t io n o n f u tu re e c o n o m ic p o lic y r a th e r th a n ju s t i fy th e i r o w n re c o rd . W h e th e r th is w ill w o rk w ill d e p e n d o n th e e c o n o m ic d e v e lo p ­m e n ts o f th e n ex t few m o n th s . N e w Z e a la n d v o te rs te n d to ju d g e g o v e rn m e n ts o n w h a t th e y h a v e d o n e r a th e r th a n w h a t th e y sa y th e y w ill d o . N e v e r th e le s s , i f M r M u ld o o n ’s sp e e c h p ro v e d o n e th in g it is th a t th e G o v e r n m e n t .d o e s n o t in te n d to s ta y o n th e d e fe n s iv e a n d L a b o u r c a n n o t h o p e to w in th e n e x t e le c tio n by d e fa u l t . M r Muldoon

HOW GREAT A THREAT IS MR MULDOON?

One of Mr Muldoon’s most recent statements to attract attention was his speech at Massey on University education last February. In the course of this lecture he raised doubts as to whether “the right people are getting into our universi­ties.” Such statements always strike terror into the hearts of academics and administrators, the more so because it is usually unclear just how real the threat is. After his speech on Wed­nesday. the political staff of CRACCUM interviewed Mr Mul­doon to see how just how serious he was.

T h e M a ss e y s p e e c h . M r M u ld o o n s ta te d , s h o u ld n o t b e ta k e n a s a n in d ic a tio n th a t h e b e lie v e d c u r r e n t leve ls o f s p e n d in g o n u n iv e rs ity e d u c a t io n w e re u n w a r ra n te d in v iew o f its re la t iv e im p o r ta n c e t o th e n a t io n a l e c o n o m y . T h e q u e s tio n th a t m o s t c o n c e rn e d h im w a s th a t th e p r o p o s e d in c re a s e s in e d u c a ­tio n a l e x p e n d i tu r e a r e so g r e a t th a t a f u tu re G o v e r n m e n t m a y n o t b e ab le to m e e t th e d e m a n d s p la c e d u p o n i t . T h e q u e s t io n w o u ld th e n a r ise a s to w h e re th e c u ts a r e to b e m a d e . H e w as p e r s o n a l ly in f a v o u r o f th e m b e in g m a d e in th e d is c ip ­lin es th a t h a v e th e le a s t b e a r in g o n th e n a t io n a l e c o n o m y , r a th e r th a n sp re a d in g th e m e q u a l lv o v e r a ll se c to rs . T h e p u rp o s e o f e d u c a t io n , M r M u ld o o n c o n c e d e d , w a s n o t so le ly fu n c t io n a l a n d h e r e c o g n ise d th e n e e d f o r e d u c a t io n a l in s t i tu t io n s o f th e b r o a d e s t p o ss ib le ra n g e . N o n e th e le s s if th e c ru n c h c o m e s th e least fu n c t io n a l e le m e n ts s h o u ld , in h is v iew , b e a r th e b ru n t o f it.

D id th e s e v iew s in d ic a te a c h a n g e in G o v e r n m e n t e d u c a t io n a l p o lic y ? A p p a re n tly n o t. T h e y w e re , th e M in is te r a s s u re d us. m e re ly so m e p e rso n a l th o u g h ts th a t h e h a d th ro w n o u t f o r g e n e ra l d isc u ss io n . T h e w e re b y n o m e a n s to b e re g a rd e d as f in a l .

T h e to ta l e f fe c t o f th e in te rv ie w w as r e a s s u r in g to th e d e g re e th a t it is d e a r t h a t th e u n iv e rs it ie s a re u n lik e ly to c o m e u n d e r im m e d ia te a tta c k f ro m a h o rd e o f ta x - c o n s ­c io u s f a rm e r s m o u n te d o n t r a c to rs . O n th e o th e r h a n d c o n s id e ra b le d o u b ts re m a in . T h e V ie tn a m issu e is an o m in o u s p re c e d e n t o f th e w a y

“ p e rs o n a l v iew s a ire d to p r o v o k e d is c u s s io n ” c a n v e ry r a p id ly b e c o m e N a t io n a l G o v e r n m e n t p o lic y . M r M u ld o o n is n o t a n t i -V a rs i ty , b u t h e d o e s h a v e a m o re m e c h a n is t ic v iew o f its fu n c t io n in s o c ie ty th a n m o s t a c a d e m ic s w o u ld c a re fo r .

T h e P a lm e r s to n sp e ech h a s b e e n a t ta c k e d b y a n u m b e r o f u n iv e r s i ty sp o k e s m e n o n v a r io u s g ro u n d s . Tn p a r t i c u la r M r M u ld o o n ’s B ra in D ra in s ta tis t ic s h a v e ta k e n a b e a tin g . T h e u n iv e rs it ie s m u s t n o w fo llo w th is u p . T h e y m u s t d e m a n d to k n o w e x a c t ly w h a t p r o p o r t io n o f th e g ro ss n a t io n a l p r o d u c t th e G o v e r n m e n t d o e s c o n s id e r it a c c e p t­a b le t o s p e n d o n e d u c a t io n , o r b e t te r s till , p r e s e n t th e i r o w n ca se , b a c k e d u p w ith d o c u m e n ta r y e v i­d e n c e a n d c o m p a r a t iv e s ta tis t ic s f ro m o v e rs e a s .

F in a l ly th e y m u s t r e a f f i r m th e b e lie f th a t th e b r o a d e s t p o ss ib le e d u c a t io n sy s te m is th e b e s t. T o a c e r ta in e x te n t th e M in is te r 's f e a r s a r e ju s t i f ie d . O b v io u s ly w e h a v e a g r e a te r n e e d f o r a g r ic u l tu ra l s c ie n ­tis ts th a n p o li t ic a l s c ie n tis ts . T h e r e a l th in g w e w a n t t o k n o w is ju s t h o w m u c h m o re im p o r ta n t d o e s M r M u ld o o n th in k th e y a r e ? H o w so o n is th e a x e g o in g to - fa l l o n p h i lo s o p h y a n d n u c le a r p h v s ic s a n d o th e r “ n o n - fu n c t io n a l" s u b je c ts th a t b e a r l i t t le r e la t io n to th e N Z e c o n o m y ? T h e S o v ie t U n io n is a g o o d e x a m p le o f a c o u n try th a t h a s m a d e g re a t e c o n o m ic a d v a n c e s b y p la c in g a h e a v y e m p h a s is o n “ f u n c t io n a l” d isc ip lin e s . D u m p in g th e “ n o n - f u n c t io n a l” a ls o h a s a p r ic e , it w o u ld se e m , a n d u n f o r tu n ­a te ly it c a n n o t be r e c k o n e d in te rm s o f o v e rs e a s e x c h a n g e .

McCormick under attack.

CRACCUM — April 29, 1968

Politics on Campus:

Shand ExplainsGERMAN STUDENT

LEADER SHOTPersonal Massive Police Intervention

Political PhilosophyT h e U n iv e rs ity N a t io n a l C lu b ’s

le c tu r e se r ie s o n “T h e R ig h t in N e w Z e a la n d ” m a d e a p ro m is in g s ta r t w ith a n e x p la n a t io n o f h is p e rs o n a l p o li t ic a l p h i lo s o p h y b y th e H o n . T .P . S h a n d . T h e M in is te r o f L a b o u r is o n e o f th e m o re p a r a d o x ic a l f ig u re s o n th e c u r r e n t p o li t ic a l s c e n e . H e h a s th e r e p u ta t io n o f b e in g a m o n g th e G o v e r n m e n t ’s m o s t a b le M in is ­te rs . C e r ta in ly h e is th e i r m o s t a r t ic u la te .

I t w as a p le a s a n t s u rp r is e to h e a r a p o lit ic ia n sp e a k in g to th e aud ience* r a th e r th a n to th e o p p o s i t io n p a r ty , a d is t in c t io n w h ic h a g r e a t m a n y p o l i t ic ia n s se e m u n a b le to m a k e . Y e t d e s p ite th is th e r e r e m a in s th e k n o w le d g e a t th e b a c k o f e v e r y o n e ’s m in d th a t th a t th e r e is a n o th e r T o m S h a n d w h o h a s b e e n r e s p o n s ib le fo r s o m e o f th e m o s t in te m p e r a te a n d il l- t im e d o u tb u r s ts in N e w Z e a la n d p o li t ic a l h is to ry . A c la s s ic e x a m p le w a s th e v io le n t a t ta c k o n s ta f f a n d s tu d e n ts o f th e A u c k la n d P o li t ic a l S tu d ie s D e p a r tm e n t d u r in g tire “ G o d f re y A f fa i r ” o f 1966 .

I t w a s , h o w e v e r , a s p a r ty p h i lo s o p h e r r a th e r th a n p a r ty h a c k th a t M r S h a n d to o k th e f lo o r o n th is o c c a s io n . T h e b a s is o f N e w Z e a la n d c o n s e rv a tis m a s m a n if e s te d in th e N a t io n a l P a r ty h e a s s e r te d , is i ts r e je c t io n o f “ is m ’s .” T h e N e w Z e a la n d e r is b a s ic a lly a p r a g m a t ic in d iv id u a l , w h o fa c e s h is p r o b le m s o n e b y o n e w i th o u t se e k in g sy s te m s o r id e o lo g ie s t h a t w ill p ro v id e o v e r a l l so lu t io n s . C o n s e rv a t is m , a t le a s t in its N e w Z e a la n d c o n te x t s h o u ld n o t b e c o n fu s e d o r e q u a te d w ith r e a c t io n a g a in s t p ro g re s s , sa id M r S h a n d . R a th e r , it a d v is e s c a u t io n to w a r d n ew d e v e lo p m e n ts a n d a n e x a m in a t io n o f th e ir s u i ta b i l i ty in th e l ig h t o f p re v io u s b is to ry .

I n tu r n in g to h is o w n p e r s o n a l p o l i t ic a l b e l ie f s M r S h a n d re je c te d th e L a b o u r P a r ty , a s i t r e m a in s c o m m itte d , in th e o ry a t le a s t , to th e e v e n tu a l “ s o c ia l is a t io n o f th e m e a n s o f p r o d u c t io n , d is t r ib u t io n a n d ex - E x c h a n g c .” T h e a g g re g a t io n o f e c o n o m ic p o w e r in a few h a n d s , a n d p a r t ic u la r ly in th o s e o f th e G o v e r n m e n t a lw a y s c o n s t i tu te s a d a n g e r to d e m o c r a t ic in s ti tu tio n s . T h e m a in te n a n c e o f p r iv a te e n t e r ­p r is e e n s u re s th e d if fu s io n o f e c o n o m ic a n d h e n c e o f p o li t ic a l p o w e r .

S u c h a r e th e b a s ic s o f T o m S h a r id ’s c o n s e rv a tis m — s o u n d , c o m m o n s e n s e , 100 p e r c e n t K iw i a n d a f a i r d e s c r ip t io n o f th e g e n e ra l a s s u m p tio n s o n w h ic h N e w Z e a la n d g o v e rn m e n t h a s b e e n b a s e d s in c e m th e w a r . U n f o r tu n a te ly s o m e o m in - J ©us c ra c k s a r e b e g in n in g to a p p e a r .

T h e f i r s t p o in t t h a t s h o u ld b e m a d e is t h a t N a t io n a l d o e s in f a c t h a v e a n id e o lo g y in th e se n se t h a t th e g e n e r a l a s s u m p tio n s o u t l in e d a b o v e p ro v id e a b a s ic f r a m e o f r e f e re n c e w h e n d e a l in g w ith th e p ro b le m s th a t fa c e th e c o u n tr y . A s M r S h a n d ’s le c tu r e in d ic a te d it is e s s e n t ia l ly an o p t im is t ic p h i lo s o p h y th a t e x p re ss e s f a i th in th e c o n t in u a t io n o f th e fo rc e s t h a t h a v e sh a p e d th e N e w Z e a la n d e c o n o m y a n d s o c ie ty . T h u s th e c o lla p s e o f w o o l p r ic e s in 1967 w a s r e g a rd e d a s a n is o la te d e c o n o m ic a c c id e n t . T h e s i tu a t io n w e w e re a s s u re d , w o u ld r ig h t i ts e lf th e fo llo w in g s e a s o n . Tt d id n o t , b u t th o s e w h o p o in te d th is o u t w e re d e n o u n c e d a s “ d e s t ro y e r s o f c o n ­f id e n c e ” a n d “ p ro p h e ts o f d o o m .”

O n e o f th e m o s t d is tu rb in g a s p e c ts o f S h a n d is m is th a t it is a s t r ic t ly c ro s s -y o u r -b r id g e s -a s -v o u - c o m e - to - th e m p h i lo s o p h y . W h e n q u e s t io n e d o n th e d e g re e o f fo re ig n o w n e r s h ip in N e w Z e a la n d in d u s try M r S h a n d c o r re c t ly p o in te d o u t th a t fo re ig n in v e s tm e n t is “ a g o o d th in g .” H e w a s less c o n v in c in g in h is a s s u ra n c e s th a t w h e n su c h t r e n d s re a c h d a n g e ro u s p r o p o r t io n s th e y w ill be h a l te d . C o u ld it b e th a t b y th a t t im e th e so lu t io n w ill be b e y o n d th e r e a c h o f th e m o s t p r a g m a t ic K iw i?

F o r m o s t o f th e tw e n tie th c e n tu ry w o r ld e c o n o m ic t r e n d s h a v e b een f lo w in g in N e w Z e a la n d ’s fa v o u r . U n d e r su c h c ir c u m s ta n c e s i t w as p e rm is s ib le f o r u s to ta c k le o u r e c o n o m ic p r o b le m s a s w e c a m e to th e m . W h a te v e r th e s h o r t- te rm t r e n d s w e w e re b a s ic a lly a s s u re d o f m a rk e ts f o r o u r p ro d u c e . T h e e v e n ts o f 1 9 6 7 -6 8 , h o w e v e r , s h o u ld

se rv e a s a w a rn in g th a t w e c a n n o t a lw a y s e x p e c t th is to be so . W o o l h a s ta k e n a c lo b b e r in g a n d sh o w s o n ly s lo w s ig n s o f re c o v e ry . D e v e lo p m e n ts in th e E E C su g g e st th a t a s im ila r f a te c o u ld a w a it o u r d a iry p r o d u c ts in th e e a r ly 1970s.

I f su c h a c r is is d o e s o c c u r it w o u ld a p p e a r th a t th e N a t io n a l G o v e r n m e n t , a n d th u s th e c o u n try , w ill b e id e o lo g ic a lly i l l-p re p a re d to fa c e it. W e m u s t r id o u rs e lv e s o f th e a s s u m p tio n th a t it is s u f f ic ie n t f o r th e G o v e r n m e n t , N o a h - l ik e , to s im p ly u rg e a ll s e c to rs o f th e e c o n o m y to g o fo r th a n d m u ltip ly . E ig h t y e a r s o f u n p re c e d e n te d e c o n o m ic g ro w th w e re in s u f f ic ie n t to s h ie ld u s f r o m th e e f fe c ts o f a s in g le p r ic e fa l l . S im p le e c o n o m ic e x p a n s io n is n o t e n o u g h . M o re o f th e sa m e w ill o n ly m a k e th in g s w o rs e i f w h a t is r e q u ire d is s o m e th in g d if fe r e n t .

In a se n se w e a re in d a n g e r o f

M r Shand

fa llin g v ic tim to a m y th o f o u r o w n c re a t io n . K iw i p ra g m a t is m , th e in d iv id u a l r e s p o n s e to in d iv id u a l p ro b le m s h a s a lw a y s e x is te d w ith in a f a ir ly r ig id e c o n o m ic f ra m e w o rk , a f ra m e w o rk th a t h a s b e e n c o n ­tin u a lly m o d if ie d b u t n e v e r f u n d a ­m e n ta lly a l te r e d . T h e e c o n o m ic d e v e lo p m e n ts o f th e n e x t few y e a r s m a y d e m a n d th a t it s h o u ld b e . I t is th e n th a t w e w ill see ju s t h o w f lex ib le a n d p r a g m a t ic th e K iw i re a lly is. —Bill Holt

Naval Officer Trainees At University

New Scheme CriticisedI t is i ro n ic th a t th e u n ifo rm , th e

s y m b o l o f c o n f o rm i ty , m a k e s a g ro u p o f tw e lv e s tu d e n ts a m o n g th e m o s t c o n s p ic u o u s o n c a m p u s . T h e y a re in f a c t th o u g h , n o m o re th a n fu l l- t im e s tu d e n ts , a s f a r a s th e i r a c a d e m ic s tu d ie s g o , lik e m a n y o f u s to o , th e y h a v e c h o s e n th e i r v o c a tio n b e fo re a c q u ir in g a d e g re e .

E a c h a t th e r a n k a n d s a la ry o f m id s h ip m a n ( ‘‘M id ”) is p a r t o f a R o y a l N e w Z e a la n d N a v y o f f ic e r tr a in in g sc h e m e o p e r a t in g f o r th e f i r s t t im e th is y e a r . P re v io u s ly o f f ic e r - t ra in e e s w e re se n t o n ly to th e R o y a l A u s tr a l ia n N a v a l C o lle g e o r to E n g la n d . N o w , w ith a c o m b in a ­tio n o f d e g re e c o u r s e d u r in g te rm a n d m o r e sp e c ia lis e d n a v a l- ty p e e x p e r ie n c e d u r in g v a c a t io n s , it is h o p e d to fu lf i l th e s a m e N a v a l p ro fe s s io n a l- t ra in in g r e q u ire m e n ts .

F o r m o s t o f th e m th e N a v y is a b o u t a s n e w a s th e u n iv e rs ity . T h e se a t te n d e d h ig h se h o o l la s t y e a r a n d b e g a n th e i r n a v a l c a r e e r w ith a b a s ic o r ie n ta t io n - ty p e c o u r s e d u r in g F e b r u a r y .

A s ig n if ic a n t p o in t is th e s iz e o f th e i r b o n d — 12 y e a rs o r r e le a s e b y th e n o r m a l se rv ic e m e th o d . A l­th o u g h it is n a tu r a l to a s s u m e th a t th e y w o u ld r e g re t th e s iz e o f th is o b l ig a t io n , w h e n a s k e d a b o u t th is o n e o f th e m s tr e s s e d th a t th e re is n o q u e s t io n o f th e u se o f a p a id d e g re e a s “ b a i t .” T h e s e b o y s h a d jo in e d th e N a v y th r o u g h th e i r d e s ire to b e c o m e N a v a l O ff ic e rs . T h e i r d e g re e w as a m e a n s to th a t e n d .

W h ic h d e g re e th e y ta k e is d e p e n d e n t o n a p e r s o n a l c h o ic e b e tw e e n N a v a l d e p a r tm e n ts . In a d d i t io n to s c ie n c e a n d e n g in e e r in g th e y a r e r e p re s e n te d , o n e e a c h , in th e a r t s a n d c o m m e rc e fa c u lt ie s .

T h e i r s tu d ie s a r e u n d e r th e s u p e rv is io n o f a fu l l- t im e c o u r s e o f f ic e r . H e is a ls o a s tu d e n t, “ p a r t ly o n h is o w n a c c o u n t , p a r t ly so th a t h e c a n u n d e r s ta n d th e p re s s u re s a n d d e m a n d s o n h is c h a rg e s ,” h e sa id . T h e m id s h ip m e n a re e x p e c te d to d isc u ss w ith h im su c h p r o b le m s as th e r e la t io n s h ip o f th e i r o u ts id e a c t iv i t ie s to N a v y p o lic y , w h en th e re is d o u b t a b o u t th is .

T h e i r f re e d o m a s s tu d e n ts is d if f ic u l t to c la s s ify . W h ile th e y h av e b een e x h o r te d to ta k e p a r t in u n iv e rs ity life a s fu lly a s p o ss ib le , th e y a g re e d th a t s o m e th in g less th a n a p p r o v a l w o u ld m e e t th e ir m a r c h in g , in u n ifo rm s , a t th e h e a d o f a n a n t i -V ie tn a m d e m o n s tr a t io n . I f th is s e e m s c o n t r a r y t o th e t r a d i t io n a l f re e d o m o f u n iv e rs ity th o u g h t , w e s h o u ld p e r h a p s r e ­m e m b e r h o w m a n y “ f r e e th in k e r s ” w e re a l ly h a v e a m o n g us. M a n y m o re s tu d e n ts th a n th e s e 12 h a v e c o m m itte d th e m s e lv e s v o lu n ta r i ly to s o m e re s tr ic t io n s o n th e i r a c tiv it ie s a s a re s u l t o f b e lie fs , re l ig io u s o r p o li t ic a l . T h e o n ly m o n o p o ly w e

sh o u ld h a v e is a m o n o p o ly o n le a rn in g .

O n th e o th e r h a n d , w h a t is th e ru le w h ich m a k e s th e w e a r in g o f u n ifo rm s to u n iv e r s i ty c o m p u ls o ry a n in d ic a tio n o f , i f n o t o v e r -c o n tro l e x te n d in g to th e v e ry c o re o f p e rso n a l c h o ic e ? I t w a s e x p la in e d to m e th a t th is w a s in a c c o r d a n c e w ith th e “ N a v a l t r a d i t io n o f e x a m p le b y p e r s o n s in a u th o r i ty .” S u ch r e s tr ic t io n s a r e a c c e p te d a s a m a tte r o f c o u r s e , a n d a r e n o t c o n s id e re d to b e o n th e sa m e level o f s ig n if ic a n c e a s th e i r e n th u s ia s m fo r th e ir c a re e r .

W h a te v e r o n e ’s p e r s o n a l o p in io n s o n th e A r m e d F o rc e s th e n , th o se m e m b e rs o f th e g r o u p to w h o m I sp o k e a re c a p a b le o f a d d in g a n o th e r spec ies o f o p in io n to th o s e a lr e a d y in o u r c o l le c t io n a n d th e i r p re s e n c e is to be w e lc o m e d o n th is b a s is .

— J .V .B .

A s a ru le s tu d e n t p o li t ic s a re n o r m a l ly a n in n e r -u n iv e r s i ty a f fa ir . P u b l ic o p in io n o n ly ta k e s n o tic e w h e n s tu d e n ts r a is e o u ts ta n d in g c r i t ic a l is su e s in g e n e r a l p o litic s .W es t G e r m a n s tu d e n t g ro u p s , w ith th e i r to ta l m e m b e r s h ip r a re ly h ig h e r th a n 2-3 p e r c e n t o f th e o v e ra l l n u m b e r o f s tu d e n ts , h a v e ' a c h ie v e d w o r ld -w id e p u b lic ity .

T h e s tu d e n t s h o t in W es t B e rlin , R u d i D u ts c h k e , le a d s th e S D S . S in c e its e x p u ls io n f ro m W illy B r a n d t ’s S o c ia l D e m o c r a t ic P a r ty se v e ra l y e a rs a g o , th is g ro u p h a sd r i f te d m o re a n d m o r e to th ee x tr e m e le f t. I t n u m b e r s a b o u t 2 0 0 0 m e m b e rs a n d h a s b e c o m e th e p r in c ip a l e le m e n t o f s tu d e n t o p p o s i­tio n in G e r m a n y .

M a n y s tu d e n ts re s e n t th e p a te r n ­a lis t ic a n d a u th o r i ta r ia n a t t i tu d e s o f u n iv e r s i ty a u th o r i t ie s . T h e re is u n r e s t a b o u t th e cour.se G e r m a np o lit ic s a r e ta k in g , p a r t ly b e c a u s e o f th e u n so lv e d n a t io n a l q u e s t io n a n d p a r t ly b e c a u s e o f th e g re a t c o a li t io n in w h ic h th e re is n o ro o m f o r s tro n g p o li t ic a l o p p o s i t io n .

A l th o u g h W e s t B e rlin s tu d e n ts a r e in te g r a te d in to u n iv e rs ity a d ­m in is t r a t io n , th e i r c o n t r ib u t io n is l im i te d . T h e “ B e r l in M o d e l” is in a d e q u a te b e c a u s e it p u ts s tu d e n ts in a s u b o r d in a te p o s it io n w h e n e v e r a c o n f l ic t a r is e s . U n a b le to p u sh th e i r ow 'n v iew s, th e y a re n e v e r th e ­less e x p e c te d to d e fe n d th e m a jo r ity v iew o n c e a d e c is io n is ta k e n .

D u r in g th e 1 9 6 0 s, th e B e rlin S tu d e n ts ’ U n io n h a s b e c o m e m o re a n d m o re d o m in a te d b y le f t-w in g re p re s e n ta t iv e s . S e r io u s c o n f lic ts w ith th e u n iv e r s i ty a u th o r i t ie s h a v e a r is e n w h ic h h a v e b e c o m e m o re s e r io u s b e c a u s e o f a p p a r e n t m is ­m a n a g e m e n t b y th e a u th o r i t ie s . T h e y h a v e t r ie d to so lv e c o n f lic ts by tu r n in g to leg a l d e v ic e s a n d n o t c o n s id e r in g s tu d e n t o p in io n a t a ll.

S e v e ra l m in o r in c id e n ts led to th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f s o l id a r i ty b e tw e e n th e g ro w in g n u m b e r . o f s tu d e n t g ro u p s . T h e in te n s ity o f th e c o n f lic t w as d e e p e n e d by th e p r e d o m in a n t ly h o s ti le B e rlin p re ss , a lm o s t e x ­c lu s iv e ly o w n e d by W es t G e r m a n

n e w s p a p e r ty c o o n A x e l S p rin g e r, a n d b y th e e q u a l ly h o s ti le W est B e rlin p o li t ic a l le a d e rs h ip .

T h is c o m b in e d h o s t i l i ty won c o n s id e ra b le m a s s s u p p o r t f ro m

fe llo w s tu d e n ts f o r m o re rad ica l s tu d e n t le a d e rs . B e rlin ’s s tu d e n t le a d e rs a re n o w a b le to ra lly severa l th o u s a n d s tu d e n ts f o r th e i r ac tiv i­tie s . R u d i D u ts c h k e a n d o th e r s see th e m s e lv e s a s th e n u c le u s o f an e x t r a -p a r l ia m e n ta r y o p p o s i t io n .

T h e c r i t ic a l d e v e lo p m e n t of s tu d e n t o p p o s it io n r e a c h e d a clim ax o n J u n e 2 , 196 7 . B e n n o O tines- b o rg — a s tu d e n t o f ro m an ce la n g u a g e s— w a s s h o t b y a p la in ­c lo th e s p o lic e m a n , a v ic tim o f a m a ss iv e p o lic e in te rv e n t io n against d e m o n s tr a to r s w h o w e re p ro tes tin g a g a in s t th e S h a h o f P e rs ia .

T h e in c id e n t se rv e d as the c a ta ly s t f o r s tu d e n t o p p o s i t io n in o th e r u n iv e rs it ie s . G e r m a n u n iv e r­s itie s m o v e d in to a ro u g h e r c lim ate b e c a u s e o f a s e lf -c o n f id e n t s tu d en t o p p o s i t io n w h ich b e lie v e s that s tu d e n t p o w e r is a r e a l i ty . The D u ts c h k e s h o o t in g m a y b e the c u lm in a t io n o f th is p h a s e .

T h e c o n tro v e rs ie s in B e rlin have tu r n e d th e s tu d e n t b o d y in to an e f fe c t iv e p re s s u re g ro u p . T h is trend w a s in ia te d b y th e S D S a n d re lated g ro u p s , a n d h a s m a d e G e r m a n y ’s e s ta b l is h m e n t fee l le ss s e c u re . The h a n d l in g o f re b e l l io u s s tu d e n ts has m a d e i t c le a r th a t to G e rm a n a u th o r i t ie s , p e a c e a n d o r d e r ranks h ig h e r th a n th e p ro te c t io n of d e m o c r a t ic m in o r it ie s .

D e s p ite a ll th is , s tu d e n t op p o si­t io n in G e r m a n y w ill n o t b e a b le to d o m u c h m o re . T h e g ro u p s d o not c a r ry e n o u g h w e ig h t, e i th e r in term s o f n u m b e r s o r in ideo logy . D u ts c h k e is d e f in i te ly ideo lo g ica l, b u t la c k s m u c h m o re th a n tiny f r a g m e n ts g a th e r e d f ro m M a rx and s o m e o f h is m o d e rn in te rp re te rs . H is c h ie f c o n c e rn is a n ti-b o u rg e o is p r o te s t a b o u t th e s ta te o f society a n d p o litic s .

P e rh a p s th e so le a c h ie v e m e n t o f th e a c tiv is ts w ill be to c o n t in u e to u n v e il G e r m a n d e m o c r a c y a s a s h a m . I t is b y n o m e a n s c e r ta in th a t s tu d e n t p o w e r w ill r e m a in in th e ir h a n d s . T h e p re s e n t su c c e ss o f the le f tw in g s tu d e n ts — b r o u g h t a b o u t m a in ly by in c o m p e te n t h a n d l in g on th e p a r t o f th e a u th o r i t ie s — is b r in g in g th e r ig h tis ts to th e f ro n t a g a in . — Barry Chisholm

O'RORKE HALL TAKEO VER?

R u m o u r h a th it th a t O ’R o rk e is to lak e p o ss e s s io n o f th e b u ild in g it h as a lr e a d y p a r t ly m r r o u n d e d , t h a t is, th e R e d C r o s s p re m is e s a t 5 l S y m o n d s S t. A n u n o f f ic ia l in s p e c tio n p a r ty fo u n d th e b u i ld in g v e ry d u s ty a n d still c o n ta in in g in s t r u m e n ts o f a v aguely s u r g ic a l n a tu r e . F o r th is re a so n , w e h o p e th a t th o s e O ’R o rk ia n s w h o in d u lg e in th e

p o p u la r s p o r t o f h o ld in g se a n c e s w ill r e f r a in f ro m c a l l in g u p th e g h o s ts o f a n y lo n g -d e a d b lo o d - d o n o r s in th e b u i ld in g . T h e re m a y s ti l l b e a q u e s t io n o f re v e n g e ! T h e n e w p r o p e r ty w ill h o ld 4 0 -5 0 (liv e ) o c c u p a n ts , a n d it is in te n d e d t o c u t a d o o r f o r th e i r c o n v e n ie n c e th r o u g h th e a d ja c e n t w a ll o f th e p r e s e n t b u ild in g n e a re s t . H o w e v e r ,

se e in g th e f ire -e s c a p e o f p a r t o f the g ir ls ’ q u a r te r s is a lm o s t e q u id is ta n t b e tw e e n th e u p p e r w in d o w s o f the tw o b u ild in g s , a n d if , a s ru m o u r a ls o h a th it th e n e w o c c u p a n ts will b e m a le , th is w o u ld se e m a little r e d u n d a n t . B u t I d e v o u tly h o p e th a t th e p o ss ib le m o re e th e r e a l in h a b i­ta n ts d o n o t a ls o se e f it t o d r ift o v e r ! — Jill Clark

ENGINEERING SCHOOL EXPANDS

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T h e e n g in e e r in g f a c u l ty is a t p re s e n t u n d e rg o in g a p e r io d o f r a p id e x p a n s io n a s w ell a s b e in g in th e p ro c e s s o f sh if t in g b a c k in to to w n . T h is y e a r 's ro l l ( e x c lu d in g in te r m e d ia te s tu d e n ts ) is a b o u t 5 2 5 , r o u g h ly 2 0 p e r c e n t g r e a te r th a n la s t y e a r c o m p a re d w ith a n a v e ra g e in c re a s e f o r th e u n iv e rs ity o f a b o u t 12 p e r c e n t. T h is y e a r w ill se e th e f i r s t g r a d u a te s in e n g in e e r in g sc ie n c e (a g e n e ra l t r a in in g in e n g in e e r in g w ith s t ro n g e m p h a s is o n a n a ly t ic a l a n d m a th e m a t ic a l te c h ­n iq u e s o f g e n e ra l a p p l ic a t io n to e n g in e e r in g ) a n d n e x t y e a r w ill see th e f i r s t A u c k la n d g r a d u a te s in c h e m ic a l a n d m a te r ia ls e n g in e e r in g (a c o u r s e w h ic h lie s b e tw e e n t r a d i t io n a l c o u r s e s in c h e m ic a l e n g in e e r in g a n d m e ta llu rg y ) .

P ro f e s s o r A . G . B o g le , d e a n o f th e s c h o o l o f e n g in e e r in g , th in k s th a t th e r e c e n t e x p a n s io n in th e sc h o o l w ill be c o n t in u e d w ith th e m o v e in to to w n , s in c e a l th o u g h f irs t p r o fe s s io n a l th is y e a r is th e sa m e siz e a s f i rs t p ro fe s s io n a l la s t y e a r , th e r e is a m a r k e d in c re a s e in th e in te r m e d ia te e n r o lm e n t , w h ic h th is y e a r w as ju s t o v e r 3 0 0 . A n in te re s t in g t r e n d is th e c o n t in u e d in c re a s e in th e n u m b e r o f B Sc g r a d u a te s f ro m b o th N e w Z e a la n d

b u t th e re a r e o n ly tw o n ew M E e n r o lm e n ts in th e m e c h a n ic a l d e ­p a r tm e n t . H e r e g a rd e d th e p re se n c e o f r e s e a rc h s tu d e n ts , p a r t ic u la r ly P h D s tu d e n ts , a s e s s e n tia l to th e h e a l th o f a d e p a r tm e n t to s t r e tc h a n d s t im u la te th e s ta f f . F r o m th is p o in t o f v iew h e w a s n o t c o m p le te ly h a p p y w ith a te n d e n c y f o r s tu d e n ts to d o a n M E in N ew Z e a la n d a n d a P h D o v e rs e a s , u s u a lly in th e U n ite d S ta te s . H o w e v e r , he fe l t th a t th e in d iv id u a l s tu d e n t p ro b a b ly g e ts b e t t e r s t im u lu s by g o in g o u ts id e N e w Z e a la n d , an d th a t th e re a re g o o d a rg u m e n ts fo r n o t c o n f in in g o n e 's a c a d e m ic c a re e r to o n e u n iv e rs ity . H e c o n s id e re d th a t m o re A u c k la n d g ra d u a te s c o u ld d o p o s tg ra d u a te w o rk a t C a n te rb u r y a n d v ic e v e rsa . H e lo o k e d f o rw a r d to th e g ro w in g s tr e n g th a n d sc o p e o f r e s e a rc h g ro u p s th a t th e in c re a se in th e sc h o o l ro l l w o u ld n a tu r a l ly b r in g a b o u t .

P ro f e s s o r B og le sa id th a t th e s c h o o l is a t p re s e n t b a d ly u n d e r ­s ta f f e d . T h e m a in r e a s o n f o r th is is th e r a th e r s u d d e n e x p a n s io n in n u m b e r s . H e e x p e c te d th a t a l th o u g h d e v a lu a t io n w ill m a k e it h a r d e r to r e c r u i t s t a f f th e v a c a n c ie s w o u ld be f ille d . N o g re a t d if f ic u l ty h a s b een e x o e r ie n c e d in f illin g v a c a n c ie s in

a n d o v e rs e a s (e .g . N a n Y a n g ) w h o a re ta k in g a B E a s a se c o n d d e g re e . M o s t B S c g r a d u a te s a r e a llo w e d d ire c t e n t r y in to s e c o n d p r o ­fe s s io n a l, a n d a ll a r e a llo w e d to d o c o u r s e s e n a b l in g th e m to c o m p le te a BE tw o y e a r s a f te r g a in in g th e ir B S c if th e y d o n 't m iss a n y u n its . T h u s it is p o ss ib le to g e t a BSc a n d a B E in f iv e y e a rs , c o m p a re d w ith f o u r y e a r s f o r a s t r a ig h t B E . T h is is a u se fu l a l te r n a t iv e to a n M S c f o r a B Sc g r a d u a te w ish in g to e n te r in d u s try , s in c e a B E is a r e c o g n ise d p ro fe s s io n a l q u a l i f ic a t io n a c c e p te d b y th e v a r io u s p ro fe s s io n a l e n g in ­e e r in g in s t i tu t io n s . A BSc h o ld s litt le a t t r a c t io n f o r a B E g ra d u a te u n le s s h e is p a r t ic u la r ly in te re s te d in a s c ie n c e su b je c t , s in c e h e a lr e a d y h a s a p ro fe s s io n a l q u a l i f ic a ­tio n . P ro f e s s o r B o g le se e s li t t le p o in t in a s tu d e n t a c c u m u la t in g b a c h e lo r d e g re e s in s te a d o f c o n ­t in u in g in to p o s tg r a d u a te w o rk .

P ro f e s s o r B o g le r e g a rd e d th e n u m b e r s o f p o s tg r a d u a te s tu d e n ts a s p a tc h y . F o r e x a m p le , th is y e a r th e e le c tr ic a l a n d c iv il d e p a r tm e n ts h a v e a s m a n y as th e y c a n h a n d le ,

th e p a s t , a n d n ew s ta f f c a n be re c ru ite d a s so o n as p e rm iss io n to d o so is o b ta in e d . H e c o n s id e re d th e a llo w e d s ta f f - s tu d e n t r a t io a s a d e q u a te a n d e x p e c te d n o d if f ic u l ty in g e tt in g p e rm is s io n to a p p o in t m o re s ta f f .

T h e n ew b u ild in g is b e in g u sed th is y e a r f o r f irs t p ro , s e c o n d p ro c h e m ic a l a n d m a te r ia ls a n d th ird p ro m e c h a n ic a l . T h e la t te r tw o g ro u p s h a v e so m e le c tu re s a n d la b s a t A r d m o re a n d th e f a c u l ty is p ro v id in g a f re e b u s s e rv ic e b e tw e e n to w n a n d A rd m o re . It is e x p e c te d (“ E & O E " w as th e e x p re s s io n u sed by th e d e a n ) th a t th e n e w b u ild in g w ill be f in is h e d f o r fu ll o c c u p a t io n n ex t y e a r . I t is d e s ig n e d f o r 7 0 0 s tu d e n ts . A t th e p re s e n t ra te o f in c re a s e th e b u ild in g w ill re a c h its d e s ig n e d m a x im u m c a p a c ity in 1971 a t th e la te s t. A s it is th e p o lic y o f th e u n iv e rs ity to o v e rc ro w d r a th e r th a n e x c lu d e , it is p r o b a b le th a t o v e rc ro w d in g w ill o c c u r f ro m 1972 u n t i l n e w e n g in e e r in g te a c h in g f a c il i tie s a re o p e n e d . T h e re is so m e c o n tro v e rs y o v e r w h e th e r it w 'ould b e b e t te r to b u ild a new e n g in e e r in g

By Clive Holborow

sc h o o l a t V ic to r ia o r to e x te n d th e p re s e n t sc h o o ls a t C a n te rb u r y an d A u c k la n d . T h e la t te r sc h em e a p p e a ls b e c a u s e a sc h o o l o f 1000 is n o m o re u n m a n a g e a b le th a n o n e o f 7 0 0 , a n d it w o u ld be e a s ie r to c a te r f o r 3 0 0 m o re s tu d e n ts a t e a c h o f th e p re s e n t sc h o o ls th a n it w o u ld be to e s ta b lis h a n ew s c h o o l fo r 60 0 a t V ic to r ia .

A p a r t f ro m th e u su a l te e th in g tro u b le s , P ro f e s s o r B ogle e x p re ssed s a tis f a c t io n w ith th e la y o u t a n d q u a l i ty o f th e n ew b u ild in g .

P ro fe s s o r B o g l e d e sc rib e d a c a d e m ic p ro g re s s o f s tu d e n ts a s “ as g o o d a s c a n be e x p e c te d .” T h e p o lic y o f lim itin g e n try to th e p ro fe s s io n a l y e a r s b y a to u g h ( fo u r -u n it) in te r m e d ia te w as a b a n ­d o n e d la s t y e a r w ith th e in tro d u c ­tio n o f a th r e e -u n i t in te rm e d ia te in v o lv in g o n ly m a rg in a l ly m o re w o rk th a n th re e s c ie n c e u n its . F o r th e p a s t th re e y e a rs p ro fe s s io n a l- y e a r s tu d e n ts h av e sa t tw o 90 - m in u te te rm s te s ts in e a c h p a p e r , a n d e a c h te r m s te s t h a s been c o u n te d a s 2 0 p e r c e n t o f the f in a ls p a p e r . T h is m e a n s th a t s tu d e n ts h a v e e n te re d th e f in a ls p a p e r k n o w in g e x a c tly w h a t m a rk o u t o f a p o ss ib le 6 0 th e y h a d to g e t to p ass. T h is h a s re d u c e d th e s tra in o f f in a ls fo r th o s e w ith h ig h o r very lo w m a r k s , a n d le f t it a b o u t th e sa m e f o r th o se w ith a ro u n d h a lf m a rk s . In g e n e ra l f irs t a n d se co n d p ro h av e fo u n d th e te s ts u se fu l in e s ta b l is h in g h o w th e y m e a s u re u p to th e se t s ta n d a rd , b u t f o r th ird p ro th e y h a v e m o s tly b een a n u isa n c e , s in c e by th is t im e a s tu d e n t can e s t im a te f a i r ly a c c u r a te ly h is s ta n ­d a rd o f w o rk . F o r a ll s tu d e n ts th e te rm s te s ts b a d ly d is ru p t u su a l w o rk p a t te rn s . T h e p e r io d o v e r w h ich the te s ts a re h e ld h a s b e e n g ra d u a lly re d u c e d f ro m a m o n th to tw o w eek s , h e lp in g to re d u c e th e d is ru p t io n . A m o st n o tic e a b le e f fe c t is th e h u g e d r o p in n u m b e rs a t te n d in g le c tu re s o v e r th e period o f th e te s ts . C h a n g e s a re ru m o u re d f o r th is y e a r , b u t P ro fe s s o r Bogle w as n o t f re e to c o m m e n t . A cco rd ­in g to P ro fe s s o r B o g le th e s ta f f 's im p re ss io n is th a t th e te rm s tes ts a r e m a k in g s tu d e n ts w o rk m o re e f fe c tiv e ly d u r in g th e v e a r . S tu d en ts a r e c e r ta in ly u n d e r m o re p re ssu re a ll y e a r .

W ith th e n u m b e r o f en g in e e r in g g ra d u a te s c o n t in u in g to rise (o v er 80 la s t y e a r ) th e q u e s tio n o f th e a b il i ty o f N e w Z e a la n d in d u s try to a b s o rb th e m a ll a r ise s . “T h e p ro fe s s io n h a s f re q u e n tly ex p re ssed c o n c e rn a t n o t g e tt in g e n o u g h g r a d u a te s ,” sa id P ro fe s s o r Bogle, “ a n d th e p o s it io n is m a d e w o rse by a n a c u te s h o r ta g e o f p e o p le w ith in te r m e d ia te q u a l i f ic a t io n s su c h as N Z C E . T h is m e a n s th a t m a n y e n g in e e rs sp e n d m u c h o f th e ir tim e d o in g w o rk th a t c o u ld be d o n e by N Z C E h o ld e rs . C o n s id e ra b le in ­te r e s t h a s b een e x p re sse d in th e c h e m ic a l a n d m a te r ia ls c o u rs e , an d a c o n tin u in g d e m a n d f o r e n g in e e r­in g g r a d u a te s se e m s lik e ly .”

S tu d e n t a c tiv it ie s a re o rg an ised b y th e e n g in e e r in g so c ie ty . L a rg e ly b e c a u s e th e e n g in e e r in g sc h o o l h as b e e n a lm o s t c o m p le te ly re s id en tia l s in c e 1948 . th e e n g in e e r in g fa c u lty is th e b e s t o rg a n is e d in A u ck lan d . W h e th e r th is u n ity a n d in itia tiv e c a n b e m a in ta in e d a f te r th e sh ift b a c k to A u c k la n d is u n k n o w n , but p re s e n t s tu d e n ts a t b o th A rm o re a n d A u c k la n d a re d e te rm in e d to re ta in a s m u c h a s p o ss ib le . G re a t p a in s a r e b e in g ta k e n to invo lve A u c k la n d s tu d e n ts in a s m an y a c tiv it ie s a s p o ss ib le , a n d the re s p o n s e is e n c o u ra g in g . T h e po in t o f v iew o f A u c k la n d E n g in ee rs is b e in g fo rc e fu l ly p r e s e ta by Jim J o b b in s (se^ fljid r^T ffo ^ch em ica l an d

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f u n c t io n s — a f i r s t p r o sm o k o , a b a r b e c u e (w ith A r d m o re T e a c h e rs ' C o lle g e ) a n d a p ic n ic — hav e been ru n . T h e v a r io u s c lu b s a t A rd m o re a re w ell in to th e i r u su a l ac tiv itie s , s e v e ra l ta lk s o f te c h n ic a l an d g e n e ra l in te re s t h av e b e e n h e ld , an d p r e l im in a r y o r g a n is a t io n fo r th e e n g in e e r s ' b a ll a n d d in n e r , b o th in th e se c o n d te rm , is u n d e r w ay . S o f a r ^ th is y e a r th e h o s te l (L a m b H o u s e ) h a s b e e n v e ry q u ie t , n o d o u b t b e c a u s e o f th e ab s e n c e o f f i rs t p r o a n d th e u su a l in it ia t io n fo rm a li t ie s . H a k a p a r ty w ill ag a in le a d P ro c e s h , a n d h a s c o m m e n c e d

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p ra c t ic e s . T h is y e a r i t w ill b e s m a lle r b u t b e t te r o rg a n is e d a n d t r a in e d . W o rk is c o n t in u in g o n “ P ro c e e d in g s ,” th e a n n u a l p u b l ic a ­t io n o f th e A .U , E n g in e e r in g S o c ie ty , c o n ta in in g p a p e r s p re s e n te d b y r e s e a rc h s tu d e n ts a n d a r e c o rd o f th e a c tiv it ie s o f th e so c ie ty . “ P ro c e e d in g s ” is d is t r ib u te d to s tu d e n ts , e n g in e e r s a n d se le c te d o v e rs e a s u n iv e rs it ie s a n d l ib ra r ie s . T h e c ir c u la t io n is a b o u t 6 0 0 .

T h e im p re s s io n o f A r d m o re s tu d e n ts is t h a t m o s t o f th e r e s t o f th e v a r s i ty is r e a d y to w e lc o m e th e m b a c k , a n d h o p e s th a t th e e n g in e e rs c a n p ro v id e a f re s h

in je c tio n o f e n th u s ia s m a n d d r iv e . W h ile th e r e is r e g re t th a t th e c h a r a c te r o f th e s c h o o l w ill c h a n g e , e n g in e e r s a r e lo o k in g f o rw a r d to th e re la t iv e lu x u r y o f th e n ew b u ild in g c o m p a re d w ith th e s q u a l id ­n e s s o f A r d m o re , a n d to c lo s e r c o n ta c ts w ith s tu d e n ts f ro m o th e r fa c u l t ie s . T h e y w ill b e try in g to c o n t r ib u te th e i r in d iv id u a l c h a r a c ­te r is t ic s f o r th e b e t te r m e n t o f th e w h o le u n iv e rs ity .

G e n e r a l o p in io n a t A r d m o re is th a t it is h ig h ly d e s ira b le th a t th is y e a r s h o u ld be a v in ta g e y e a r f o r s tu n ts . I f it isn 't it w o n 't be f o r la c k o f try in g .

Two From TaranakiFINE ARTS MEN TO LONDON

The first Auckland student to be accepted by the Royal College of Art, London, in at least five years is Rodney Charters, an Honours Diploma candidate in the School of Fine Arts.

H e w ill b eg in a th r e e -y e a r M a s te r o f F in e A r ts c o u rs e in th e F ilm a n d T e le v is io n D e p a r tm e n t o f th e R C A n e x t S e p te m b e r . H is m a jo r s u b je c t h a s b een P h o to g ra p h y a n d F i lm , a n d h is w o rk in th is g av e h im a d m is s io n to th e tw ghly se le c tiv e R o y a l C o lle g e o v e r h e a v y B ritish a n d in te r n a t io n a l c o m p e ti t io n . In F in e A r ts s e le c tio n by th e RC’A c a r r ie s th e sa m e p re s tig e a s e n t r y in to th e b e s t g r a d u a te sc h o o ls in a c a d e m ic f ie ld s a n d r e q u i re s th e sa m e d e g re e o f ta le n t in its fie ld .

A s a s e c o n d -y e a r s tu d e n t h e re h e m a d e h is f irs t s o u n d f ilm . “ F i lm E x e rc is e .” T h is w as a c c e p te d w ith v e ry g o o d c r i t ic a l a c c la im a t th e la s t S y d n ey a n d M e lb o u rn e F i lm F e s tiv a ls , h h a s a lso b een sc re e n e d n a t io n a l ly by th e A u s tr a l ia n B ro a d c a s tin g C o m m is s io n .

F o r th e la s t few w eek s h e h a s b e e n w o rk in g o n a d o c u m e n ta r y f i lm o f th e r e c e n t W e llin g to n P ea c e P o w e r a n d P o litic s c o n fe re n c e . M r R . H u tc h in s , S e n io r L e c tu re r in P h o to g ra p h y , w h o h a s b een r e s p o n s ib le f o r h is c o u r s e , say s: “T h is h a s b een a g o o d in t ro d u c tio n to th e m a n y p ro b le m s o f re a l- l i f e f i lm in g , a s d is t in c t f r o m R o d n e y 's p re v io u s s e lf - c o n tr iv e d f i lm th e m e s .” A n d on, f i lm g e n e ra l ly h e sa y s , “ It is a n a tu r a l m e d iu m f o r y o u n g fo lk to d a y . I t is g o o d to se e ta le n t a r is in g in N ew Z e a la n d in th is ty p ic a lly tw e n tie th -c e n tu ry m e d iu m . O n e d a y th e re m a y be m o re sc o p e f o r f i lm tr a in in g in th e s e is la n d s .”

L ik e a ll F in e A r ts s tu d e n ts R o d n e y h a s d o n e b a s ic P h o to g ra p h y , b u t w ith a n e x p e r t fa m ily b a c k g r o u n d in it, R o d n e y fe e ls th a t th e c a m e r a is s o a u to m a t ic a l ly h is Way o f m a k in g im ag es th a t he c a n n o t th in k o f b e in g o th e rw is e . “ O f c o u r s e ,” h e sa y s , “ w o rk in p a in t in g , s c u lp tu re , d e s ig n h a v e a ll h e lp e d in m a k in g m e see th in g s m o re k n o w in g ly a n d w id e ly .”

O n e o f h is o ld s c h o o l-m a te s f ro m N e w P ly m o u th B o y s’ H ig h , D a r c y L a n g e , w ill a ls o b e g o in g to th e R o y a l C o lle g e a t th e s a m e tim e . D a rc y h a s b e e n a c c e p te d f o r a o n e - y e a r n o n -d e g re e c o u r s e in S c u lp tu re . H e h a s c o m p le te d h is H o n o u r s D ip lo m a in F in e A r ts , w ith a th e s is o n th e D a d a is t M a rc e l D u c h a m p . D a rc y h a s b e e n w o rk in g in la rg e -s c a le w e ld e d m e ta l c o n s t ru c t io n s w h ic h h a v e b e e n e x h ib i te d lo c a lly , in c lu d in g d u r in g th e F e s tiv a l sh o w in g in th e A u c k la n d A r t G a l le r y . D a r c y is r a te d a s o n e o f th e b e s t F la m e n c o G u i ta r i s t s in th is c o u n tr y , a n d he w ill fo llo w up th is s t ro n g in te re s t w h e re v e r h e goes .

O n th e p ro b le m s c f g e tt in g to L o n d o n . D a r c y sa y s , “W ith th e c u t in th e g r a n t to th e Q u e e n E liz a b e th A r ts C o u n c il by th e g o v e rn m e n t , it w ill b e a b ig s t ru g g le f o r b o th o f u s to g e t to L o n d o n a n d s u p p o r t o u r s e lv e s in f a ir ly e x p e n s iv e c o u rs e s . F in e A r ts g ra d u a te s a r e in a m u c h w o rse p o s it io n o v e r g r a n ts a n d s c h o la rs h ip s th a n S c ien ce o r A r ts s tu d e n ts . W e a re th e p o o r - r e la t io n s in th e w h o le se t-u p w h ich th e a u th o r i t ie s c u t d o w n o n f i rs t , n o m a t te r w h a t th e y sa y a b o u t th e v a lu e o f a r t .”

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Robert Kennedy

A n y p o l i t ic a l p re d ic t io n is a v a in a n d c h a n c y th in g a n d e v e ry o n c e in a w h ile a n e v e n t , ' o r s e r ie s o f e v e n ts , ta k e s p la c e w h ic h a c ts a s a p a in f u l r e m in d e r o f th is t r u th to th o s e w h o a r e in d a n g e r o f fo rg e t t in g i t . T h e c u r r e n t A m e r ic a n p re s id e n t ia l n o m in a t io n r a c e h a s b e e n a s u s ta in e d le s so n in th e f u t i l i ty o f p o l i t ic a l c ry s ta l-b a l l - g a z in g . T h e d is c o m f i tu re o f th o s e w h o p u b lic ly p ra c tis e th is a r c a n e a r t w a s r e n d e r e d to ta l w ith th e

a n n o u n c e m e n t b y P re s id e n t J o h n s o n o f h is d e c is io n n o t to se ek r e n o m in a t io n a s h is p a r ty 's c a n d id ­a te ; a t o n e b lo w a l l th e th e o r ie s , a l l th e c a lc u la t io n s b e c a m e a s i r r e le v a n t a s a re v iv a l is t m e e t in g o n J u d g ­m e n t D a y . W h a t h a d b e e n th e s i tu a ­t io n b e fo re J o h n s o n ’s b o m b s h e ll? W h y d id h e d o i t? H o w h a s i t a l te r e d th in g s ?

I n th e d a y s im m e d ia te ly p r io r to J o h n s o n ’s w i th d r a w a l a f lu id s ta te o f a f f a ir s s e e m e d to be g e llin g in to s o m e s o r t o f re c o g n is a b le m o u ld . O n th e R e p u b lic a n s id e th e b e llic o se R e a g a n h a d b e e n le f t t o la n g u is h in h is te c h n ic o lo u r h id e -o u t in th e W e s t; R o m n e y h a d b o w e d - o u t th e b a s h fu l R o c k e fe l le r h a d a p ­p a r e n t ly c o w e re d o u t , a n d th e d u r a b le N ix o n , d is p la y in g a n u n ­s u s p e c te d ta le n t f o r a m b iv a le n c e , h a d s u rg e d to th e f r o n t a s th e a lm o s t c e r ta in G O P c a n d id a te . R o m n e y h a d n e v e r b e e n m o r e th a n a s t r a w m a n , b u t R o c k e fe l le r w a s r e a l a n d h is “ s u r r e n d e r ” w as c le a r ly

a g re a t d is a p p o in tm e n t to h is a c tiv e s u p p o r te r s a n d to c o u n t le s s R e ­p u b lic a n v o te r s t h r o u g h o u t th e c o u n try . H o w e v e r R o c k e fe l le r c o u ld n o t ig n o re h is u n p o p u la r i ty w ith in th e p a r ty its e lf . S till t o th e le f t o f m o s t le a d in g R e p u b lic a n s , a n d th e f ig u re -h e a d o f th e E a s t c o a s t e s ta b l is h m e n t w h ic h h a d o n ly b een o u s te d f ro m its c o m m a n d in g p o s i­t io n w ith in th e p a r ty in 1 9 6 4 , th e G o v e r n o r o f N e w Y o rk r e m a in e d u n a c c e p ta b le to th e m a jo r i ty o f th e p a r ty p ro fe s s io n a ls . N ix o n , m e a n w h ile , w as k e e p in g h is o p t io n s o p e n — m a k in g d e lp h ic u t te r a n c e s in p u b lic , a n d e f f ic ie n t ly g a th e r in g in d e le g a t io n p le d g e s b e h in d th e sc e n e s .

In th e D e m o c r a t ic c a m p J o h n ­s o n ’s e a s y r o a d to r e n o m in a t io n h a d b e c o m e c lu t te r e d w ith o b s ta c le s in th e p e rs o n s o f R o b e r t K e n n e d y a n d E u g e n e M c C a r th y ; b u t w h ile th is m a d e it p r o b a b le t h a t J o h n s o n w o u ld h a v e to s te e r a s o m e w h a t d i f f e r e n t c o u rs e it s t i l l se e m e d in c o n c e iv a b le t h a t th e in c u m b e n t P re s id e n t w o u ld b e p a s s e d o v e r a t th e p a r ty c o n v e n t io n in A u g u s t. M c C a r th y ’s b id w as a s w e lc o m e a s it w a s u n e x p e c te d . H is e a r ly su c c e ss d id n o t m e re ly r e f le c t a s p li t in th e D e m o c ra t ic p a r ty — a c c u s a t io n s o f “ s p o i le r ” f lu n g a t b o th M c C a r th y a n d K en n ed y m iss e d th e p o in t — it b r o u g h t in to th e o p e n a d iv is io n th a t w e n t r ig h t th r o u g h A m e r ic a n s o c ie ty . M c C a r th y h e e d e d th e o p p o s it io n to th e w a r in V ie tn a m , to o k a g a m b le o n its e x te n t , a n d se t a b o u t g iv in g it a r e s p e c ta b le n a t io n a l v o ice a t a t im e w h e n it w o u ld be m o s t e f fe c tiv e . A m e r ic a h a s m u c h to th a n k th e S e n a to r f ro m M in n e so ta f o r — n o t le a s t f o r re v iv in g th e c r e d ib i l ity o f a p o li t ic a l sy s te m w h ich h a d c o m e to se em tire d an d all to o p r e d ic ta b le . A n d o f c o u rs e h is d e m o n s tr a t io n o f th e p o l i t ic a l c o n v e r t ib i l i ty o f th is u n ­r e s t c a u s e d R o b e r t K e n n e d y to th ro w d o w n th e g ag e .

W h y d id K e n n e d y e le c t to p,ut h is p o l i t ic a l fu tu re o n th e lin e a t th is t im e w h e n , a c c o r d in g to a ll th e p o p u la r p u n d its , h e h a d o n ly to w a it u n til 1 9 7 2 to e n t e r u p o n h is t r iu m p h ? T h e s h o r t a n s w e r is t h a t th is a n a ly s is h a s b e e n o u t - d a te d b y e v e n ts . T im e w a s n o t o n K e n n e d y ’s s id e ; h is to ry w o u ld b e m a d e , o n e w ay o r th e o th e r , w ith in th e n e x t f iv e y ea rs , a n d B o b b y , e v e r s l ip p in g in to th a t l im b o in h a b i te d b y a g in g p o p id o ls , a n d n u r s in g a ru s tin g p o li t ic a l m a c h in e , w o u ld b e le f t w iltin g in th e w in g s w h ile in c e n tre -s ta g e A m e r ic a 's f u tu r e a n d th e m is s io n o f its le a d e r w o u ld b e h a m m e re d o u t. B u t b e fo re h e m a d e th e i r re v e rs ib le s te p K e n n e d y h a d to b e a s s u re d o f a t le a s t a n e v e n c h a n c e o f w re s tin g th e n o m in a t io n f ro m J o h n s o n , a n d w ith N e w H a m p s h ire h e t h o u g h t h e sa w th a t c h a n c e . T o K e n n e d y ’s p r a g m a t ic e y e th e m o s t s ig n if ic a n t f e a tu re o f th e s u p p o r t g iv e n M c C a r th y w as it p r o n o u n c e d a n t i - J o h n s o n b ia s . A

L o u is H a r r is p o ll ta k e n im m e d ia te ly a f te r N ew H a m p s h ir e su g g e s te d th a t a p la t f o rm m e re ly o f g e n e ra l is e d o p p o s i t io n to th e w a r w o u ld h a v e w o n M c C a r th y o n ly 2 2 p e r c e n t o f th e v o tes , w h e re a s a n a t ta c k d ir e c te d e x c lu s iv e ly a t th e w ay J o h n s o n w a s m a n a g in g h is jo b w o u ld h av e fe tc h e d th e s e n a to r 46 p e r c e n t. H e re th e n w as s o m e th in g p o s itiv e , a s p e c if ic r e s p o n s e w ith a p e rs o n a lis e d ta rg e t , s o m e th in g th a t c o u ld read ily b e c a s h e d in o n p o li t ic ­a l ly . I t w as w o r th a t ry . Y e t i t is h a r d to b e liev e t h a t K e n n e d y ’s c h a lle n g e c o u ld h a v e su c c e e d e d if J o h n s o n h a d re a l ly c a re d to f ig h t. T h e o ff ic e -h o ld e r , w ith e n o r m o u s p o w e rs o f p a tro n a g e a n d p e r s u a s io n a t h is d isp o s a l, a n d h is c a p a c ity f o r m a k in g h e a d lin e s b o th n a t io n a l ly a n d in te rn a t io n a l ly , is a lw a y s th e m o s t fo rm id a b le fo e w h e n it c o m e s to p o li t ic a l in - f ig h tin g . A n d so th e s i tu a t io n , d e sp ite a ll th e e x c u r s io n s a n d a la ru m s , s t i l l s h o w e d e v e ry p o ss ib ility o f re so lv in g i ts e lf in to a n u n e x c it in g , d is i l lu s io n in g c o n te s t b e tw e e n N ix o n a n d J o h n s o n . O n e m a y say “d is i l lu s io n in g ” b e c a u s e it w o u ld h av e a t b e s t o f f e r e d th e p u b ­

lic a n in v id io u s c h o ic e : o n th e o n e h a n d a n u n s y m p a th e tic c a r e e r p o l i t ic ia n , b e lo v e d by n o n e , m is ­t r u s te d b y m a n y , f o is te d o n th e e le c to r a te by th e R e p u b lic a n p a r ty m a c h in e in d e f ia n c e o f th e f a c t th a t p u b l ic o p in io n in d ic a to r s h a d c o n ­s is te n tly s h o w n a n o th e r m a n — R o c k e fe l le r— to be m o r e p o p u la r in th e c o u n tr y a t la rg e ; a n d o n th e o th e r h a n d a n u n p o p u la r , e v e n d is c re d i te d P re s id e n t p r o p e l le d f o r ­w a rd by th e p a r ty s a t r a p s f o r th e c u s to m a ry s e c o n d te rm . I t m a y be o b je c te d th a t J o h n s o n c o u ld a n d w o u ld h a v e re n e w e d h is p o p u la r i ty b y in it ia t in g p e a c e p ro c e e d in g s w ith H a n o i a n y w a y , b u t i t is o n e ’s c o n te n t io n th a t w h a t g a v e p la u s i ­b ility t o J o h n s o n 's p e a c e o f f e r , w h a t g a v e h im re a l r o o m in w h ic h to m a n o e u v re , a n d t r u ly s p a rk e d o f f th e w a v e o f s y m p a th y a n d h en ce p o p u la r i ty f o r th e P re s id e n t r e ­f le c te d in r e c e n t p o lls ( th e la s t a v a i la b le f ig u re w a s 5 7 p e r c e n t c o m p a r e d w ith 2 6 p e r c e n t a m e re th r e e w e e k s a g o ) w as h is “ r e n u n c ia ­t io n .” J o h n s o n w o u ld in d e e d h a v e p r o b a b ly m o d if ie d h is c o u r s e o v e r V ie tn a m b u t i t w o u ld n o t h a v e b e e n th is w h ic h w o u ld h a v e se c u re d h is r e n o m in a t io n .

T h e p r o s p e c t o f a J o h n s o n /N ix o n c o n te s t w a s m o re th a n u n in v it in g — it is h a rd ly a n e x a g g e r a t io n to sa y th a t it b o d e d ill f o r A m e r ic a ’s p o l i t ic a l h e a l th . T h e “s y s te m ” w o u ld b e s e e n to c r e a k o n u n d e r its o w n d im in is h in g m o m e n tu m , o p e r ­a te d b y its o w n s e lf - re g a rd in g ru le s , in s u la te d f r o m th a t p u b l ic t o w h o s e in te r e s t it is d e d ic a te d . H o p e s ra is e d b y th e M c C a r th y e x c u r s io n in to b ig - tim e p o li t ic s w o u ld h a v e p r o v e d a b o r t iv e , a n d th e p o l i t ic a l v i ta l i ty w h ic h h a s t r a d i t io n a l ly b e e n a f e a tu r e o f A m e r ic a n l i f e w o u ld h a v e s u f f e re d a f u r th e r b o d y -b lo w . T h is w a s th e d is t in c t p o ss ib il i ty w h ic h h a s f in a l ly b e e n a v e r te d a s a r e s u l t o f J o h n s o n ’s s te p p in g d o w n ; s o m e th in g w h ic h h a s b e e n la rg e ly

o v e r lo o k e d a m id th e e x c ite d c h a t te r s u r r o u n d in g th e r e m a in in g c o n ­te n d e r s . O n e is n o t t ry in g to d e p ic t J o h n s o n as th e s a v io u r o f U .S . p o li t ic s ; o n th e c o n t r a ry , J o h n s o n h a s m e re ly b e e n th e in s t r u m e n t

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W ith J o h n s o n o u t o f th e w a y th e f ie ld is a g a in w id e o p e n . H u b e r t H o r a t io H u m p h r e y h a s s te p p e d f o rw a r d , th u s e n s u r in g a to u g h th r e e -c o rn e r e d f ig h t w ith in th e D e m o c r a t ic c a m p , a n d N e ls o n R o c k e fe l le r h a s le t it b e k n o w n th a t N ix o n is n o t g o in g to h a v e i t a ll h is o w n w a y a m o n g th e R e p u b lic a n s . I f o n e is to e x a m in e th e p ro s p e c ts o f th e v a r io u s c o n te s ta n ts , a n d th e re a s o n s f o r R o c k y ’s “ r e tu r n ,” o n e m u s t lo o k in to w h y J o h n s o n b o w e d o u t , a n d a t h is m a n n e r o f d o in g it. M a n y s u g g e s tio n s h a v e b e e n p u t f o rw a r d : J o h n s o n w as a t te m p t in g a “ N a s s e r ;” h e w as m a k in g a f in a l b id f o r th e a p p r o v a l o f p o s te r i ty — a s th e p e a c e -m a k e r ; h e w a s a s ic k a n d t i r e d m a n . T h e m o s t lo g ica l a n s w e r is to b e fo u n d , a t le a s t p a r t ia l ly , in th e s e c o n d o f th e a b o v e a l te rn a t iv e s .

T h is th e o r y h a s r e c e n t ly b een e la b o r a te d b y P ro f e s s o r R . M . C h a p m a n a n d , b r ie f ly , ru n s th u s : J o h n s o n , f a c e d w ith w id e s p re a d p u b lic d is a p p ro v a l o f h is c o n d u c t o f th e P re s id e n c y , a n d in c e n s e d a n d h u r t b y th e to r r e n t o f a b u s e p o u r in g a b o u t h is h e a d , c h a r a c te r is t ic a l ly c h o s e to g o w ith th e c u r r e n t b u t to d o so in s u c h a w a y a s to r e s to re h is o w n s ta n d in g w h ile a t th e s a m e t im e p u l l in g th e ru g f r o m u n d e r th e f e e t o f h is d e te s te d r iv a l , R o b e r t K e n n e d y . T h e s o lu t io n w a s to e m b a r k o n p e a c e p r o c e e d in g s o v e r V ie tn a m a n d lin k th is w ith h is o w n “ a b d ic a t io n .” T h is w o u ld s im u l­ta n e o u s ly d e p r iv e K e n n e d y o f h is tw o m a in ta r g e ts — J o h n s o n a n d th e w a r , c le a r th e d e c k s f o r a c a n d id a te o f w h o m J o h n s o n c o u ld a p p r o v e — H u b e r t H u m p h r e y , g iv e s u b s ta n c e to h is c o n c i l ia to r y g e s tu re to w a r d H a n o i , a n d th u s o p e n th e w a y f o r th e g r a n d c o u p — p e a c e in A s ia a n d a p la c e in h is to ry . L .B .J .’s b e lo v e d c o n s e n s u s w o u ld b e r e ­s to re d o n th e b a s is o f a p e a c e d r iv e

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I f h o w e v e r , N o r th V ie tn a m m u f fe d its lin e s th e r e w o u ld e m e rg e a c o n s e n s u s o f a d if fe r e n t c o lo u r — a w a r -s o c ie ty c la m o u r in g f o r a c h ie f ­ta in , w ith th e p r iz e g o in g to th e m o s t p la u s ib le h a w k . S u c h a n a l te r n a t iv e w o u ld b e u g ly , a n d c e r ta in ly w o u ld n o t be o f J o h n s o n ’s c h o o s in g , b u t e i th e r w a y th e m a n f ro m T e x a s w o u ld s ta n d v in d ic a te d , a n d e i th e r w ay th e K e n n e d y / M c C a r th y f r o n t w o u ld b e s c u t tle d . T h e lo g ic o f th is a n a ly s is is c o m p e ll in g ; o n e is te m p te d to su g g e s t it is to o s y m m e tr ic a l , to o “ p a t .” Y e t th e e a r ly in d ic a t io n s a r e th a t i t is w o rk in g o u t ; H a n o i , h a s re s p o n d e d , J o h n s o n ’s p o p u la r i ty h a s re c o v e re d d r a m a t ic a l ly , a n d H u m ­p h re y h a s a lr e a d y d r a w n s u b s ta n t ia l s u p p o r t f ro m q u a r te r s t h a t c o u n t .

A n u n fo re s e e n b u t w e lc o m e b y -p ro d u c t h a s b e e n th e re - e m e rg e n c e o f R o c k e fe l le r a s a R e p u b lic a n c o n te n d e r . J o h n s o n ’s p e a c e b id h a s s e t th e tu n e to w h ic h a l l th e p ro s p e c tiv e c a n d id a te s m u s t d a n c e , a n d w ith in th is c h a n g e d a tm o s p h e re , in w h ic h th e l i b e r a l / d o v e p o s tu r e h a s b e c o m e th e o r d e r o f th e d a y , R o c k e fe l le r p la in ly se e s th e o p p o r tu n i ty f o r p r o m o tin g h im s e lf a s a m o re c re d ib le p re s i­d e n t ia l c a n d id a te th a n N ix o n . R o c k e fe l lo r h a s g ra v e h a n d ic a p s to o v e rc o m e if h e is to o u s t N ix o n . H is p o l i t ic a l a s s e ts in c lu d e lo n g

e x p e r ie n c e , a n d th e f a c t t h a t h e s ta n d s p r o b a b ly a b e t t e r c h a n c e th a n N ix o n o f c a r r y in g th e v ita l B ig S ta te s (N e w Y o rk a n d C a l i f o r n ia ) a g a in s t a D e m o c r a t ic r iv a l . B u t th e v ita l in g re d ie n t in th e r e c ip e f o r su c c e ss m u s t b e o v e rw h e lm in g e v id e n c e o f p u b l ic s u p p o r t — s u f f ic ie n t t o f o rc e th e p a r ty p r o fe s s io n a ls to c h a n g e th e i r m in d s — a n d R o c k e fe l le r ’s la te e n t r y is g o in g to m a k e it e x tr e m e ly d if f ic u l t to p ro d u c e th e g o o d s .

O n th e o th e r s id e o f th e p ic tu re th e K e n n e d y b a n d -w a g o n r o l ls o n a n d a p r e d ic ta b le s h i f t in ta c t ic s is n o w d is c e rn ib le ; R .F .K . is tu r n in g a w a y f r o m th e c o lle g e c a m p u s e s a n d d ir e c t in g h is e f fo r ts m o re a n d m o re to w a r d w h e re th e v o te s c o m e f ro m . Y e t th e r e is l i t t le e v id e n c e th a t h e is m a k in g re a l p ro g re s s in th e a r e a w h e re h e m u s t d r a w h e a v y s u p p o r t — th e b lu e - c o l la r s e c to r . H u m p h re y , o n th e o th e r h a n d , h a s a l r e a d y r e c e iv e d m a s s iv e e n d o r s e ­m e n t f ro m th e t r a d e u n io n m o v e ­m e n t , h e is b y n o m e a n s th e a n a th e m a to th e b u s in e ss c o m ­m u n ity t h a t K e n n e d y is , a n d -— p e r h a p s m o s t im p o r ta n t o f a l l — h e is f a r a n d a w a y th e m o s t a c c e p ta b le c a n d id a te to th e S o u th . S o m e o f h is re c e n t te te -a - te te s w ith S o u th e r n le a d e r s h a v e b e e n a lm o s t e m b a r ­ra s s in g ly co sy . H e is t a r r e d w ith th e b ru s h o f th e p re s e n t A d m in is t r a t io n b u t th e r e p u ta t io n o f t h a t A d m in is ­t r a t io n is l ik e ly to ta k e a s ig n if ic a n t tu r n f o r th e b e t te r in th e n e x t few m o n th s , n o t o n ly o n th e w a r q u e s t io n b u t e v e n o n th e c iv il r ig h ts p o v e r ty issu e . T h e a s s a s s in a ­tio n o f M a r t in L u th e r K in g m a y ,

iro n ic a l ly e n o u g h , g re a t ly a id J o h n ­so n in h is r e la t io n s w ith C o n g re s s , p a r t ic u la r ly i f d e - e s c a la t io n in V ie tn a m re d u c e s e x p e n d itu re in t h a t d i r e c t io n . F u r th e r m o r e , th e d e le g a ­tio n v o te s w h ic h M c C a r th y h a s s o f a r g a in e d r e p re s e n t a r e a c t io n a w a y f ro m K e n n e d y o p p o r tu n is m a n d a re th u s m o r e l ik e ly to b e tu rn e d o v e r to H u m p h r e y a t th e D e m o c r a t ic C o n v e n t io n in A u g u s t. T h e lo g ic o f th e s i tu a t io n , th e n , f a v o u r s th e V ic e -P re s id e n t. T o th o s e w h o c ry , “ I t w o u ld b e n ice if H u m p h r e y w as s till a l ib e r a l ,” o n e m a y r e to r t , “ Tt w o u ld b e n ic e if K e n n e d y h a d ever b e e n a l ib e r a l .”

T h u s , d e s p ite t h e w a rn in g im p lic it in th e o p e n in g p a r a g r a h , th is a r t ic le e n d s w ith a p re d ic tio n : H u m p h r e y f o r D e m o c r a t ic c a n d id a te , a n d , if p e a c e n e g o t ia t io n s p ro c e e d s a t is ­f a c to r i ly , H u m p h r e y f o r P re s id e n t. L .B J . h a s s o m e n in e m o n th s in w h ic h to g e t th o s e n e g o t ia t io n s o n a s o lid fo o t in g a n d o n e fe e ls h e c a n d o it — a f te r a l l , d e s t in y c a l ls h im . H e re m a in s e v e r y b o d y ’s b e s t b e t — H u m p h r e y ’s , H a n o i ’s , th e w o r ld 's , a n d i f p e a c e d o e s e n s u re w e w o u ld a l l a g re e , s u re ly , th a t th e a p o th e o s is o f L y n d o n B a in e s J o h n s o n is n o t to o u n r e a s o n a b le a p r ic e to p a y .

CONFERENCE SEQUEL CHAOTIC

Meeting Ineptly RunT h e p o s t s c r ip t to t h e P e a c e , P o w e r a n d P o l i t ic s in A s ia C o n ­

f e r e n c e h e ld i n A u c k la n d a t t h e Y M C A s t a d iu m o n W e d n e s d a y n ig h t , A p r i l 3, w a s a d i s h e a r t e n i n g a f f a i r f o r t h o s e w h o h a d a r r i v e d b a c k f r o m th e c o n f e r e n c e p r o p e r in W e ll in g to n . T h e p a n e l o f s p e a k e r s d id l i t t l e to s w a y t h e o p in io n s o f t h e m a j o r i t y o f th e a u d i ­e n c e , t h o s e u n c o m m i t t e d to e i t h e r s id e o n th e V ie tn a m w a r is s u e , b u t w h o s e i n t e r e s t h a d b e e n a r o u s e d b y n e w s r e p o r t s o f t h e c o n ­f e r e n c e in W e ll in g to n . I f t h e a n t i - V ie tn a m w a r m o v e m e n t is to w in o v e r to i t s s id e t h e w a v e r e r s , , th o s e w h o f e e l m o r a l ly d i s tu r b e d b y th e w a r o r N e w Z e a la n d ’s i n v o lv e m e n t in i t , th e m o v e m e n t h a s t o p r e s e n t m o r e c o n v in c in g a r g u m e n t s t h a n w e r e d i s p la y e d on W e d n e s d a y n ig h t .* T h e R e v . F r a n k H a r t l e y f r o m A u s t r a l i a , a n d r e p r e s e n t i n g th e W o r ld C o u n c il o f P e a c e , w a s th e f i r s t s p e a k e r . A lth o u g h w h a t h e s a id a b o u t th e h i s to r y o f th e p e a c e m o v e m e n t in A u s t r a l i a w a s i n t e r e s t i n g e n o u g h , o n e h a d t h e f e e l in g t h a t f o r a l a r g e p e r c e n t a g e o f t h e a u d ie n c e n o t a c t i v e ly in v o lv e d in s i m i l a r m o v e m e n t s i t w a s r a t h e r b o r in g . A t t h e e n d o f t h i s s p e e c h i t w a s o b v io u s t h a t th e a u d ie n c e w a s r e s t l e s s , a n d th e i n t e r v a l b e tw e e n th e f i r s t a n d s e c o n d s p e e c h e s h ig h l ig h te d o n e o f t h e k e y s to th e s u c c e s s o f th e W e ll in g to n c o n f e r e n c e : s t r o n g c h a i r i n g o f th e m e e t in g s . T h e A u c k ­la n d c h a i r m a n , D e a n C h a n d le r , u n f o r tu n a t e ly p r o v e d i n a d e q u a te fo r th e t a s k a n d c o n t r ib u te d to th e g e n e r a l f e e l in g t h a t t h e e v e n in g w a s d i s o r g a n is e d .

M r s F r e d a C o o k e s p o k e n e x t , a n d i t is h a r d to u n d e r e s t i m a t e th e d i s a s t r o u s im p a c t s h e h a d o n th e m e e t in g a s a w h o le . H e r t a lk , if i t c o u ld b e c a l l e d s u c h , w a s a s e r i e s o f r e m in is c in g s a b o u t N o r th V ie tn a m a n d h e r im p r e s s io n s o f H a n o i in p a r t i c u l a r . B u t a f t e r h e r e x t e n d e d d ig r e s s io n s in to t h e p r e m a r i t a l m i s f o r tu n e s o f a y o u n g s o ld ie r in t h e A r m y o f t h e D e m o c r a t i c R e p u b lic o f V ie tn a m th e a u d ie n c e g a v e e v id e n t s ig n s o f d i s s a t i s f a c t i o n w i th t h e o r i e n t a t io n o f th e m e e t in g . N o th in g h a d so f a r b e e n s a id a b o u t t h e a l t e r n a t i v e p o l ic ie s t h a t h a d b e e n s u g g e s t e d a t W e ll in g to n , a n d w h ic h h a d b e e n a n n o u n c e d e a r l i e r a s o n e o f t h e h a l l - m a r k s o f t h a t c o n f e r e n c e .

I n t h e fe w m i n u t e s p r e c e d in g th e i n t r o d u c t io n o f th e B r i t i s h j o u r n a l i s t a n d p o l i t i c a l c o m m e n ta to r F e l ix G r e e n e , t h e r e w a s o n e o f th o s e s i t u a t io n s w h e n m o s t p e o p le w is h e d th e y c o u ld c u r l u p a n d d i s a p p e a r . D e a n C h a n d le r c a l l e d f o r d o n a t io n s to p a y f o r t h e c o s t o f t h e m e e t in g in w h a t m u s t b e o n e o f th e m o s t i n e p t d i s p l a y s o f c h a i r m a n s h i p s e e n in a p u b l ic m e e t in g in A u c k la n d f o r s o m e y e a r s . A f te r a p r o t r a c t e d h u s h th e a u d ie n c e r a t h e r h e s i t a n t l y r e s p o n d e d , b u t t h e e x p e r i e n c e c o u ld h a r d l y b e s a id to h a v e l e f t a f a v o u r a b le im p r e s s io n in t h e m in d s o f m o s t .

F e l i x G r e e n e g a v e th e s a m e s p e e c h t h a t h e h a d g iv e n in th e W e ll in g to n T o w n H a l l t h e p r e c e d in g S u n d a y n ig h t , w i th a f e w c o m ­m e n t s o n th e b o m b in g p a u s e t h a t h a d b e e n a n n o u n c e d b y P r e s i d e n t J o h n s o n o n th e M o n d a y , a s w e ll a s s o m e c o m m e n t s o n th e P r e s i ­d e n t ’s d e c is io n n o t to s e e k r e n o m in a t io n . F o r o n e w h o h a d s e e n th i s t o u r d e f o r c e o n th e p r e v io u s o c c a s io n th e r e - r u n o f f e r e d s o m e in t e r e s t i n g c o m m e n t s o n th e W e ll in g to n c o n f e r e n c e . T h e f i r s t to s u g g e s t i t s e l f w a s t h a t in W e ll in g to n , G r e e n e h a d b e e n s p e a k in g l a r g e l y to t h e c o n v e r te d . T h e s e c o n d t h a t t h e W e ll in g to n c o n ­f e r e n c e w i th i t s v e r y e f f i c ie n t o r g a n i s a t i o n h a d p r o d u c e d i t s o w n m o m e n tu m a n d i t s o w n a t m o s p h e r e ; tw o t h i n g s w h ic h th e A u c k ­la n d m e e t in g f a i le d s ig n i f i c a n t ly t o d o . In c o n n e c t io n w i th th e l a s t p o in t i t c o u ld b e n o te d , th i r d ly , t h a t th e W e ll in g to n c o n f e r e n c e e s t a b l i s h e d a n a c c e p te d f r a m e o f r e f e r e n c e e a r l y in t h e p r o c e e d in g s .

B u t t h e c o u p d e g r a c e h a d y e t to b e g iv e n to th e m e e t in g . W h e n M r G r e e n e f in is h e d s p e a k in g th e c h a i r m a n a t t e m p t e d to g e t th e m e e t in g to a d o p t b y a c c l a m a t i o n th e c o m m u n iq u e o f t h e P e a c e , P o w e r a n d P o l i t ic s in A s ia C o n f e r e n c e in W e ll in g to n . L a c k o f c o n ­t r o l o v e r t h e m e e t in g a n d th e f a i l u r e to e x p la in c l e a r l y w h a t th e c o m m u n iq u e in te n d e d le d t o l a r g e n u m b e r s l e a v in g b e f o re it f o r m a l ly c lo s e d . T h e s i tu a t io n w a s o n ly s a v e d b y th e a s t u t e fo o t­w o rk o f M r J . G a le w h o s e l e a p o n to t h e p l a t f o r m w a s r e w a r d e d b y th e r e s t o r a t i o n o f a t l e a s t s o m e s e m b la n c e o f o r d e r . T h e m o tio n w a s p u t a g a in , a n d a c c e p te d b y m o s t o f th e p e o p le in th e s t a d iu m .

Y e t t h e r e w a s a d i s t i n c t im p r e s s io n a s o n e l e f t th e m e e t in g t h a t th e l a r g e n u m b e r o f m id d le -a g e d , m id d le - c la s s c i t i z e n s w h o h a r b o u r l e g i t im a te d o u b ts a b o u t th e V ie tn a m c r i s i s a n d a l l t h a t i t e n t a i l s w e r e s t i l l u n d e c id e d . Y o u n g p e o p le , i t w o u ld s e e m a s w e l l , w h o a r e o p p o s e d to th e w a r b u t n o t in v o lv e d in a c t i v e o p p o s i t io n a ls o r e m a i n e d u n d e c id e d a b o u t t h e i r s u p p o r t o f o r g a n i s e d a n t i w a r g r o u p s . — Chris Smithyman

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the master-c h r is else

The doors of the hall were open, held back by meta! hooks attached to the wall, and the pale light from the vestibule spilled out into the night, illuminating the steps and the bases of the two centre columns in the building's facade. Leaning against one of these columns was a wooden board upon which the words "National Chess Championship, Admission 50c" were painted in black letters but the message was invisible now, lost in shadow, for the light fell behind it. Inside the building there was silence save for an occasional murmur among the spec­tators and a sharp tap, from time to time, as a competitor pushed the button of a chess clock. The day's play was almost over and only a few enthusiasts remained, for it had become obvious that the three games still in progress could not be completed that evening but would have to be adjourned. Most of the spectators were clustered round one end of the roped off area which contained the players. They stood in a tight knot, peering over each other's shoulders. One or two of them were following the moves with the aid of pocket chess sets, working out different combinations from the present position and pointing these out to their neighbours. Others stood with folded arms or with hands in pockets, shifting their feet to ease their discomfort.

The game they were watching would be the deciding one of the tournament for the two men involved in it had an unassailable lead over the other competitors and both had relatively easy games in the next and final round. One of the two was a tall, well-built man of twenty-eight years of age. He seemed to have a vast amount of nervous energy for he was continually moving about, shifting in his chair, tapping his feet, getting up and walking to and fro. He smoked all the time, lighting a fresh cigarette from the butt of the last one, and the ashtray at his elbow was full. His opponent, by con­trast, looked as if he had gone into a trance. He was a slight man, with a gaunt, lined face and receding grey hair and he sat in perfect stillness with his folded arms resting on the table top. His grey-blue eyes, staring out intensely from beneath bushy eyebrows, were fixed on the chess board in front of him. When he shifted a piece or recorded his move the action came with surprising suddenness, a decisive gesture of the arm which seemed out of keeping with his still posture. Occasionally, he would raise his eyes and gaze at his opponent's face, as if trying to read the other's thoughts, but he met no return took, only the most fleeting of glances which betrayed nothing.

At ten past eleven the game was adjourned. The young man wrote his next move on a piece of paper, the clock was stopped and the paper was sealed in an envelope. On the cover of the envelope, in the space provided, the position of the pieces and the time used by each player were written down. Then the two men signed their names and the envelope was handed to the tournament controller.

The spectators began to disperse, talking together so that the room seemed suddenly alive with noise. The grey-haired man moved quickly to the door, oblivious of the voices and the glances which followed him. Someone offered him a lift but he was so preoccupied that he automatically refused, not even realising that his curt answer had given offence. In the vestibule, he put on a woollen scarf— crossing it over his chest and holding it in position with his chin— and a gaberdine rain­coat. With deft, unconscious fingers he fastened the buttons and then, thrusting his hands deep into his pockets, he moved quickly down the steps into the night.

He was tired and he knew that he would only exhaust himself further by walking fast but he could not relax. The tension which had held his mind in the iron grip of concentra­tion over the past four hours could not be released. It had transferred its insistence to his body, forcing him forward, step after step. He found that his fists were clenched into hard knots and with a deliberate effort he tried to relax them, stretching his fingers in the warmth of his pockets. His step slowed momentarily but before he knew it, his mind had faltered from its purpose and he was driving himself onward as before.

It was almost a mile to the hotel but he covered the distance in ten minutes. The first thing that he did when he reached his room was to put through a toll call to his wife. This, too, was an automatic action. He had done it every night of the tournament so far.

'Hello, Peter,' she said, 'How are you?''Well,' he told her.'Who did you play today?''Jones. The most important game.''And did you win?''It isn't finished yet.''But you will win?''I hope so.' He did not notice the hint of desperation in

her tone. She was worried about him. His mechanical replies to her questions made him sound very distant, much further away than the hundred miles that separated them.

'Michael had his exam results today,' she said, concealing her anxiety. 'He came third in his class.'

'Who?''Michael.'It was a moment before he recognised his son's name.

'Oh, yes,' he said, 'that's good.''You re not s i c k are you?’'No. I'm well.''You sound strange. Very far away.''I'm tired.''Why do you do it?' she burst out anxiously. 'Why do

you drive yourself like this? I don't understand it. It frightens me. You sound as if you're half dead. Why do you go on?'

'I don't know,' he said.'I wish it was over.''In two days,' he said. 'You shouldn't worry. I'll be homo

in two days.'She did not reply and because he could think of no way

of continuing the conversation he said, 'We must stop now. Our time's nearly gone and these calls are expensive.'

'Goodbye, Peter. Keep safe.''Goodbye.'He put down the receiver and the action seemed to release

some hidden spring for suddenly his weariness swept over him like a great wave so that he staggered under the weight of it. He sat down heavily on the edge of the bed and took off his shoes but even this small action seemed to be a great labour. His back and legs were aching almost beyond endurance and his mind was a tumbled chaos of jagged thoughts. He lay back on the bed and loosened his tie, staring emptily at the blank darkness of the ceiling.

He closed his eyes but with a sudden flash his mind erupted into light and he saw the chess board before him, every piece clear and solid. He could even see the faint multiple shadows which they cast in the lights of the hall. Automatically he thought of his plan of attack, wondering what his opponent's sealed move had been, but as soon as he began, to consider the different possibilities the game was plunged into confusion and the pieces jerked themselves into fantastic positions.

With an angry gesture he sat up, cursing himself because his mind would not rest. It had been the same on every other night of the tournament — he had lain awake, pointlessly playing over the games move by move. He had slept for barely six hours over the last three nights and now, when he needed rest more than ever, when he had thought he was too exhausted to do anything but fall into a coma, he could still not escape the ceaseless movements of his mind. He clenched his fists in frustration and screwed up his eyes against the images that had burnt into his brain.

'Why?' he asked aloud, 'Why?'The sound of his own voice startled him and he looked

up, a little frightened at his loss of control. The lights from the street filtered into the room, striking the Venetian blind into long, yellow bars. He could just make out the dark, solid blocks of the furniture and his suitcase standing beside the wall. The darkness had a thick, tangible quality, as if it was the light that was an illusion — the mere absence of darkness. A car passed outside, the sound of its engine cutting through the stillness of the room and fading quickly until it blended with the low, ceaseless hum of the ctiy. He sat, forcing himself to listen, trying to merge his consciousness with the sounds of the night, but there was no release. The darkness pressed about him, forcing him in on himself, until he felt nothing but the growing sense of his own isolation.

Helplessly, he lay down again, no longer able to keep his thoughts at bay. He felt himself drifting, suspended in the atmosphere of the room and then, with slow insistence, the image of the chess game slipped back into his mind. This time it was less distinct. The squares of the board were blurred and out of focus. Only the tops of the pieces remained clear and he realised that this was because they had grown very tall. They were taller than himself. He stood amongst them and they towered above him like huge, unintelligible statues. He tried to make his next move, pushing with all his strength against the base of a pawn but he could not shift it. In sudden panic, he looked around for help.

'Why do you go orv?' It was his wife's voice. She was beside him, pushing with her shoulder against the piece.

'What does it mean?' she asked, staring at him with round, frightened eyes and then he was alone again, standing in the middle of the vast board, staring upwards. He was surrounded by light. It drifted about him in golden streams but he could not find its source. Above him, he could see the edge of the darkness which stretched around, like a great bowl, to the far off boundaries of the board. There was nothinq beyond it.

'Play on,' he told himself. 'You can't stop now.' But the pieces had changed. They were twisted into fantastic shapes so that he could not recognise them. Angrily, he turned and began to demand an explanation of his opponent. There was only darkness. Slowly, he realised that the darkness itself was his opponent, that it was not empty at all but was a vast, breathing substance which enveloped the tiny board and himself. He started towards it, running across the black and white sauares, faster and faster until he could not stop. The board tilted suddenly into an ever steepening slope, forcing him forward till it flung him out into space. For a moment

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he clung to the slippery edge of the wood, gripping it with his fingers, and then he dropped.

Peter did not remember his dream. He remembered waking up after the sensation of falling and finding himself shivering with sweat but the dream itself was nothing but a vague uneasiness in his mind. He wondered about it as he walked to the hall in the watery, winter sunlight, feeling that in some way it was connected with his new mood. The world seemed strange to him this morning. Objects looked closer, more real, more solid and although he was tired he was borne along by a sensation of excitement that he did not understand. It was as if the despair of the night before had been a stripping away of the unessential part of himself, as if he had fallen into a new world.

The hall was almost empty. Only the adjourned games would be played that morning and many of the potential spectators would be at work. He hung his coat and scarf in the vestibule and went to get a cup of coffee from the vending machine which had been provided for the tournament. His footsteps sounded very loud on the wooden floor. He turned, sipping his drink, rolling the hot, sweet liquid around his mouth with an enjoyment that was new to him. His opponent was sitting on one of the chairs which lined the walls of the hall and smoking a cigarette. Peter raised his hand in greeting and the other grinned.

At ten o'clock the games were begun. Peter sat down in his place and studied the board. It was a tense position in which both sides were probing for slight advantages that could be used as a base for a winning assault. He found that concentration came easily to him. His mind moved freely over the possible combinations, judging their implications. He was perfectly calm, disinterested almost as if it did not matter whether he won or lost, but at the same time he felt that the game had a significance beyond itself. The touch of the smooth, polished wood beneath his fingers brought a host of thoughts and memories which he could only just keep from crowding into his mind. Suddenly, after several moves had been played, he saw an opportunity that he felt ought to have existed all along, a manoeuvre which would involve sacrificing a piece but which would destroy the equilibrium of the position and produce an open game full of complications which would, he judged, work out in his favour.

He was vaguely aware of a slight stir among the spectators as he shifted the piece. The faint murmur of conversation grew louder as hasty readjustments were made to the pocket chess sets. His opponent sat down in his chair again and lit another cigarette, a look of puzzlement on his face as if he suspected that Peter had made a grave mistake but could not believe that this was true. He studied the board, the fingers of his left hand drumming light, unconscious rhythms on the table top. The lines of his forehead gradually creased into a frown as he saw the traps and dangers produced by the move.

The longer his opponent spent in thought the more confident Peter became. He knew now that he was going to win. He felt no excitement, however, as he had done on such occasions in the past. Beneath his certainty there grew a doubt, not about the game but about something beyond it which he could not see. He felt that he was in danger of falling again, as he had done in the dream, and although the calm and clarity of his mind was unaffected by the threat he knew that the darkness would always be there.

When, a few moves later, his opponent resigned Peter was caught in a sudden surge of N disappointment, as if he had been deprived of victory.

cogitation on the ads— lieth duncan

Consideringthe emotionalinnuendosof commercialadvertising;the sales taxof sex andsubtle overtonesof photographic syntax —Splayedmod lengththighsimplicit piquancy of Boutique ads in full gloss fashion plates, orgiven maximal exposurethe bare essentialscosmetic,soft tactilescrawn skin textureexpliciton hard glazedprints,yetbeyond naked the intangible - isolate of intimacy insulated within the personal sacophagus of a professional exterior;Such picsphysical perfection,I find, elicitonly objective response they lackthe pregnant excitement of a lesser perfection with emotional involvement.

no. 3robert orr

I sailed between two headlands Worn smooth by the flow Of the tide,And my boat raised its prow And then fell,Lifted with rhythmical easeBy the surge of the melon green swell.And the keel bit deepThrough the cool of the seaAnd I laughed as through the fathomsThe anchor drifted endlessly.

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the prisoners of leisure---- mike kenton

within dark hails of deadened sound, I dwell beneath the heap of wasted bodies, I laylistening to;the oppressive routine of a throbbing vein the measured beat of feet down the hall the tin cups rattling against their bars sounds lost beneath the roar of time checks upon a calendar a circled date years awayscream for something newan old screamcry of the condemnedan old crysound of suicidean old soundflat upon a bunk killing timetearing, choking, smashing timebreaking his bonesspilling the sandsscuffing them awaya circled date years awaya mind . . .time dies hardhe takes his timeand mineand lets it tick away

vague troubles with

prepositions: a riddle— tan wedde

Imagine Nureyev tripping against the edge of a step — not on stage but at a friend's place where appearances matter less than usual but still matter.

Can onefall with grace? Imagine if you will the fabulous dancer stum­bling and barking his shin shouting a good loud curse grimacing and hopping about on one leg . . .

No.Never. You get too caught up in reputations. Were he to be tossed over the battlements of heaven and down it would be as though all that long time of falling were a splitsecond photograph arresting him at the height of a leap hands arms trunk legs forming a shape as memorable as their movement.

So where does beautycome in.

that has this virtue of being remembered? One can fall WITh grace. Can one fall from grace with grace enough to be remembered?

Agh !Word games !

How would Kandinsky have done with aquarelle? Would Pound's way for the correct preparation of coffee have become a Way Of Life had he been a cele­brated gourmet? Or how about Pontius Pilate as a secret cabalist? It's reputations.Satan trying an arabesque would probably not be grotesque.Rudi with water on the knee could still not stagger quite like me.A pale Kandinsky aquarelle would most indubitably sell.Ezra's fine fastidious brew pleased Williams the relisher too.Yet the beard of a cabalist is something that cannot be missed.

for scott ---- fiturray edmond

The need is greatin the aloneness of raising my hand

* toward youI notice an affinity

the precise placing of your handon mine

ls that so, this so I mumble

what cannot be said anyway or touched

or what it does not matter She sd. to me

'I have a friend, an ordinary friend, gone away, but I feel no aloneness, like before, when I think of him'

She sd. Lsn I sd.When I leave this town I will bid you fare fare well

sonnet— fan wedde

To catch a moment unawares and press it dry between the leaves of a book is seldom sent. Loaves and fishes to the crowd. It shares as many shapes as there are fears of going short; each man relives the instant later and believes himself. The moment disappears.Here, I am sole spectator yet the moment is legion. When you come in all changes, the slamming door presaging miracles that transform . . .

whether the room or you or me is beyond my knowing.

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Mr and Mrs Frederick Betelgeuse live in a tall, narrow terrace house in Edmonton. Their son, Fred, has not only taken to wearing disposable paper collars but he has introduced games to his aged parents. They have passed beyo.id the running-up- and-down stairs game; they have abandoned norging with its suggestions of permanence and immutability. Norging produces little heat or passion. In this pastime a silk handkerchief is stretched tightly over the upper lip, the thumb is inserted in the hard-gummed mouth whilst the index finger scratches busily on the silk.

Fred was recently twenty-one. On his birth­day his parents gave him a leather wallet made from compressed paper.

As we intrude upon Mr and Mrs Frederick Betelgeuse and Fred's Auntie, Frederika, we can­not fail to notice that the parents have a new game. They are operating a large-scale version of the treadmill — a little device to keep white mice amused. Fred, the son, is a mannikin coloured a luminous green. He lies on a divan in the posture of Chatterton in the famous painting. The Glory Box is large and carved: it contains drink­ing glasses, a cloak, a golden beard, a pestle and mortar: also three hammers.Oh dear will you just look at him now — he was all right once till he got sick and funny like this. Are you moist yet lovey?Not by a long chalk.My favourite nephew and we kept him inside from being a tiny toddler and I always had a soft spot for him.Perhaps a hot toddy?Lovely head, lovely head, oh my dear heart. Then all of a sudden he was twenty-one and we gave him a leather wallet with a picture of the Sphinx on it, and a pair of sandals from Saudi Arabia, but he dropped the wallet in the lavatory as he was bending over when . . .It was the meningitis.Or the dogs — Tt could have been the dog wet. His father gave him half a crown and told him to go out and do the town but what was the use of telling the poor dear that when he'd never been beyond the lintel?A game's a game Frederick but bugger a circus. I'm not complaining.Will you look at him now so quiet and so still. You wouldn't think that a little while ago he was vomiting his heart up. All quite normal. (AMPLIFIED SOUND OF VOMITING)And the bowl cracked.And the U bend clogged.Then the funniest thing . . . daddy here got in his machine to keep himself warm but he trod the wrong way and it went in reverse.Went in reverse.Backwards it went.And poor little Fred was leaning over the lav when it went in reverse and up it came in a great glistening column.The vomit.The spew.Right back in where it came from but daddy couldn't stop working his wheel to keep himself warm so it came flooding in through the windows and the doors, out of the chimney and in through the ventilators.All the rest.Got to keep warm.Everything !Poor Fred.He asked for it.The plague and leukemia and tuberculosis and meningitis and dog wet and soft chancre and syphilis.And the toilet cracked.And the U bend blocked.And we're not even warm.It all came in through the windows and the doors, out of the chimney, from everywhere. A dead dog and a severed hand: a plague of rats and a million fleas — and poor Fred couldn't stop suck­ing it in.Ingesting.Digesting.And the U bend cracked.With an earthquake from Brazil and a dose of thalidomide, then a hundred million alcoholics all came in through the windows and the doors.Out of the chimney.And into Fred our son.I nailed shut the doors and bolted the windows

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because he was groaning so but the rafters split and the slates fell in and down came Belsen and nerve gas and napalm and he took it all in.He asked for it.We denied him nothing.For weeks it went on until it died to a trickle and poor Fred had turned the colour he is. (Pause). It had gone very quiet outside.Open the Glory Box dearie.We're nice and warm now.We can leave our treadmill game.The box, the box, the lovely box.(They step from the treadmill and open the box. Mr Fred dons the golden beard and cloak. He distributes the hammers.)Here are our hammers loves.And then he lay down there and sighed and he didn't smile at all and then he turned to stone. Let's get on with it before we cool.He was a lovely lad.My favourite nephew.I'll break up his feet. -vMe the head, the lovely head.The centre for me — I always had a soft, spot for him.(They take the hammers and smash up Fred. They all take pieces and Mr Fred grinds them up in the mortar. The powder is placed in three glasses and water added.)He grinds up nice in this lovely mortar.Wield your pestle well my love. .Now he's a paste, a beautiful paste.Into the glasses with him.A toast — we must have a toast.Raise your glasses high.Here's to a long and happy life.Here's to beauty and truth.Here's to dear Fred without whom it would not have been possible.(They elevate their glasses and drink.)

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CRACCUM — April 29, 196$ 1 1

RELIGIONGod in the New World, by Lloyd Geering. Published by Hodder and

Stoughton.M y f ir s t im p re s s io n o f “ G o d in

th e N ew W o r ld ” is th a t th is b o o k is a s t r a n g e m ix tu re o f c la r i ty a n d c o n fu s io n . P ro f e s s o r G e e r in g m a k e s a s k ilfu l s u m m a ry o f th e " n e w ” (i.e. p o s t-R e n a is s a n c e ) w o r ld , th e n a t te m p ts to t r a c e i ts o r ig in s b a c k to th e B ib le a n d f in d a n e w re le v a n c e fo r th e C h r is t ia n f a i th to d a y . T h is in v o lv e s a n a s s e s s m e n t o f th e m o d e rn a g e a n d a r a d ic a l r e in te r ­p r e ta t io n o f C h r is t ia n i ty in th e lig h t o f h is v iew o f th e n e w w o r ld . W h ile th e a s s e s s m e n t is f a ir ly lu c id , th e r e in te rp r e ta t io n is m u d d le d a n d d if f ic u l t t o f o l lo w lo g ic a lly .

T h e b a s ic p r e c o n c e p t io n P r o ­fe s s o r G e e r in g b r in g s t o h is v iew o l G o d , a n d th e B ib le , is t h a t th e re is n o s u p e rn a tu r a l . T h u s h e se e s th e B ib le a s w h a t m e n th o u g h t a b o u t G o d , n o t a s G o d r e v e a l in g H im s e lf to m a n . T o s a y th a t a n y th in g m ira c u lo u s m u s t n e c e s s a r i ly b e m y th a n d to m a k e that th e b a s is o f a n in te r p r e ta t io n o f th e B ib le is an in d iv id u a l o p in io n w h ic h d o e s n o t d o ju s tic e to th e d o c u m e n ts .

P ro f e s s o r G e e r in g ’s v iew o f G o d is t h a t “ T h e G o d th a t is k n o w n is an id o l. T h e G o d w h o c a n be d e f in e d , is n o G o d .” E v e n th e u se o f th e w o rd “G o d ” c o u ld le a d to id o la try . T h is is a l l r a th e r c o n ­fu s in g . C h r is t ia n i ty n e v e r c la im e d to d e f in e G o d , b u t i t d o e s b e lie v e H e c a n b e k n o w n a s a p e rs o n . W h ile P ro fe s s o r G e e r in g u se s s u c h te rm s a s “C r e a to r ,” “ T h e G o d a n d F a th e r o f o u r L o rd J e s u s C h r is t ,” h e d o e s n o t s e e m to r e g a rd G o d a s p e r s o n a l , d e f in ite o r a b le to b e k n o w n . P e rh a p s G o d w o u ld b e b e s t v ie w e d as a ? , o r e v e n a s a !. T h e c o n fu s io n o f th e la s t s e c tio n o f th e b o o k is p e r h a p s b e c a u s e h e u se s p e rso n a l t e r m s w h ile d e n y in g th e i r im p lic a tio n s .

P ro f e s s o r G e e r in g d i f f e r e n t ia te s s h a rp ly b e tw e e n th e “ J e s u s o f H is to ry ,” w h o c a n n o t b e k n o w n b e c a u s e th e G o s p e ls a r e la rg e ly p ro je c te d m y th s , a n d th e “C h r is t o f f a i th .” H e sees th e C ru c if ix io n n o t so m u c h a s a n a c t o f a to n e m e n t f o r m a n ’s s in , b u t a s p ro v id in g a “ sen se o f d e l iv e r a n c e ” a n d a n e x a m p le o f se lf - sa c r if ic e . G o d is to be k n o w n th r o u g h " th e C h r is t ia n h e r ita g e ” a n d “ th e W o r d ” — th o u g h h o w th is is to b e f o u n d is n o t c le a r . C e r ta in ly J e s u s C h r i s t is re le g a te d a n d n o t se en a s G o d b e c a m e m a n . T h e R e s u r re c tio n w as an a t t e m p t b y J e s u s ’ f o l lo w e rs to ex p la in s o m e th in g th a t h a p p e n e d to th e m — th e im m e n s e d if f ic u l t ie s th u s ra is e d f o r a lo g ic a l in te r p re ta ­tio n o f th e N e w T e s ta m e n t d o c u ­m e n ts a r e n o t c o n s id e re d .

In sp ite o f th is b a s ic c o n fu s io n , w h ich te n d s to le a v e th e m in d f ru s tra te d , th is b o o k d o e s h av e in te re s tin g a n d h e lp fu l a s p e c ts . P ro fe s s o r G e e r in g h a s s o m e w ise w o rd s t o s a y o n in s t i tu t io n a l C h r is t ia n i ty , s tre s s in g th a t th e C h u r c h ’s re a l in f lu e n c e is “ th r o u g h the liv e s o f i ts m e m b e r s .” I f o u n d th e a s s e s s m e n t o f th e “ N e w W o r ld ” in te re s tin g a n d c le a r a s a g e n e ra l p ic tu re , a n d it is a p ity t h a t th is lo g ica l c la r i ty is n o t p re s e n t in th e m a in a r g u m e n ts o f th e b o o k . P ro fe s s o r G e e r in g ’s re fu s a l to sp e ak in d e f in i te te rm s a b o u t a n y th in g c o n c e rn in g G o d le a v e s th e r e a d e r w ith n o c le a r id e a a t a ll o f th e re le v a n c e o f th is G o d to th e n e w w o rld . — A llan Bell

A Second ViewI t is in s o m e w a y s u n f o r tu n a te

th a t th is b o o k is p u b l is h e d a f te r th e fie rce p u b l ic i ty th a t h a s a t te n d e d th e a u t h o r fo l lo w in g s o m e o f h is p re v io u s a r t ic le s . W h ile s u c h p u b ­lic ity w ill g o s o m e w a y to w a rd e n s u rin g a p la c e in lis ts o f b e s t se lle rs it is a ls o lik e ly , a n d th is is th e u n f o r tu n a te p a r t , to e n c o u r a g e p re c o n c e p tio n s a b o u t th e n a tu r e a n d p u rp o se o f th e b o o k .

T h e b o o k i ts e lf is m o re c le a r th a n th e a r t ic le b e c a u s e i t d e v e lo p s , f ro m a d e s c r ip t io n o f th e n e w n e ss o f th e m o d e r n w o rld th r o u g h its B ib lica l a n te c e d e n ts t o th e C h r is t ia n re sp o n se o f f a i th . C r u c ia l to th e f irs t p a r t is th e p o in t m a d e in th e f irs t c h a p te r : T h e sc ie n tif ic m e th o d o f e x p e r im e n ta t io n a n d h y p o th e s is te s tin g is p ro v id in g a n e w , a u th o r i ­ta t iv e s o u rc e o f k n o w le d g e a b o u t th is v o r ld . S in c e th is is t r u e it im p lie s t h a t “ r e v e a le d ” k n o w le d g e ,

a s u n d e r s to o d t r a d i t io n a l ly , m u s t be r e in te rp r e te d o r se e n as l im ite d by th e t im e in w h ic h it w as r e v e a le d . T h is is a v e ry im p o r ta n t a r e a w h ich c a n n o t , a n d is n o t, a d e q u a te ly c o v e re d in a s m a ll b o o k , c o n ­s e q u e n tly th is se c tio n is d e f in ite ly th e w e a k e s t o f th e th re e p a r ts o f th e b o o k .

I t is in th e s e c o n d se c tio n th a t th e a u t h o r ’s O ld T e s ta m e n t s c h o la r ­sh ip re a lly b e c o m e s e v id e n t . H e re th e re is m o re a u th o r i ty in th e w r it in g a n d th e m a te r ia l i ts e lf is m o re a d e q u a te ly t r e a te d . T h e th e s is is t h a t th e n e w n e s s o f o u r m o d e rn w o rld is o n ly p o s s ib le b e c a u s e u n d e r th e g u id a n c e o f Y H W H (G o d ) a n d h is m e s s e n g e rs th e re d e v e lo p e d w ith in I s r a e l c e r ta inc o n c e rn s th a t s p e l t th e e n d o f c e r ta in s ty le s o f th o u g h t t h a t w o u ld h a v e p re c lu d e d th e d e v e lo p m e n t o f sc ie n c e a s w e k n o w it. T h u s th e d e v e lo p m e n ts o f a h is to r ic a l ,e a r th ly , p r a g m a t ic u n d e r s ta n d in g o f G o d , m a n a n d th e re la tio n sb e tw e e n , p a r t ic u la r ly a s se e n in J e s u s a n d th e c o n c e rn f o r f re e d o m , a r e se e n a s th e p r e c u r s o r s o f o u i p r e s e n t s e c u la r l ib e r a t io n .

Y e t it is th e th i r d p a r t th a t is im p o r ta n t . I f a l l t h a t h a s g o n e b e f o re is t r u e , s o w h a t? O f a ll s e c tio n s th is is th e o n e m o s t o p e n to c r i t ic is m b e c a u s e th is is th e o n e in w h ic h th e n e c e s s ity o f a b r e a k w ith t r a d i t io n a l C h r is te n d o m b e c o m e s m o s t c le a r . L ik e o th e r ra d ic a lC h r is t ia n s th e a u th o r se e k s to c o n v e y th e im p o r ta n c e o f w h a t f o r h im is v ita l f o r l ife itse lf . H e se ek s t o c o n v e y th is m a te r ia l in s u c h a w ay th a t it b e c o m e s o b v io u s w h a t is th e r e a l i ty a n d w h a t is s im p ly w a y s o f e x p re s s in g th e re a l i ty . H e m a k e s th e im p o r ta n t p o in t th a t o n e c a n n o t e x p re s s f a i th in o r d in a ry la n g u a g e ; o n e m u s t r e s o r t t o m y th , a n d o n e m u s t b e s u r e t h a t th e m y th d o e s n o t c o n c e a l th e v e ry th in g s t h a t i t is t r y in g to e x p re ss . W h e n th is p o in t is m a d e th in g s lik e th e V irg in B ir th , th e R e s u r re c tio n , th e A s c e n s io n an d th e s to r ie s o f P e n te c o s t c a n be u n d e r s to o d m o re e a s ily a s s ta te ­m e n ts o f fa i th a n d th e i r c o n te n t d e s c r ib e d m o re r e a d ily . F a i th is th e k e y to th is s e c tio n . I t is a n e s se n tia l a s p e c t o f h u m a n life an d its la n g u a g e , g o a l, m o d e d e s c r ib e d . G o d is se en a s its g r o u n d , th e C h u r c h a s its c o m m u n i ty a n d it is th e c h a r a c te r o f f a i th th a t m a k e s se n se o f e te r n a l life in a ll its m e a n in g s .

O b v io u s ly th e b o o k h a s so m e s im ila r i t ie s t o " H o n e s t to G o d .” W r i t te n f o r s im ila r r e a s o n s , it a ls o m e re ly b r in g s to g e th e r s t r e a m s o f th o u g h t t h a t a r e n o t n e w , b u t m a y be s t r a n g e to m a n y a n d it s u f f e r s f r o m th e s a m e v u ln e ra b i l i ty in th a t th e a u th o r h a s n o t h a d th e s p a c e o r th e in te n t io n to w r i te s y s te m a tic th e o lo g y . I t is a b o o k th a t d e s e rv e s to b e re a d c a r e f u l ly a n d w ill r e w a rd su c h r e a d in g b e c a u s e it p ro v id e s an in t ro d u c tio n to a n ew u n d e r s ta n d in g o f th e C h r is t ia n f a i th th a t w ill fo r s o m e b e a l ib e r a t io n . — R. G. Nairn

PHOTOGRAPHYPhotographs o f Auckland by Gary Baigent. Published by Pauls; $3.75.

In h a v in g “T h e U n s e e n C i ty ,” a v o lu m e o f p h o to g r a p h s o f A u c k la n d p u b lis h e d la s t y e a r , M r B a ig e n t w o rk e d a t a d o u b le d is a d v a n ta g e . F irs t ly h e la c k e d th e te c h n ic a l c o m p e te n c e to p ro d u c e g o o d p h o to ­g r a p h s c o n s is te n tly , a n d se c o n d ly h is p u b l is h e r s a p p e a r to h a v e fa ile d to f in d a p r in te r w h o c o u ld m a k e a d e q u a te r e p ro d u c tio n s o f th e p ic tu re s .

T h e re is n o th in g w ro n g w ith G a r y B a ig e n t’s a r t i s t ic v is io n , l su p p o s e . H e se ts o u t to p re s e n t u s w ith a n in d iv id u a l v iew o f a c ity a n d its p e o p le , a n d p e r h a p s a 10th o f th e p h o to g r a p h s su c c e e d in t r a n s m it t in g th is v is io n in a n a d e q u a te a n d c o m p re h e n s ib le m a n n e r . T h e p h o to o f tw o p e o p le in a r a in s to r m a t n ig h t f o r e x a m p le (1 2 2 ), a c h ie v e s its p u r p o s e w ith o u t r e q u ir in g s h a rp n e s s a n d c la r i ty , — w e see o n ly tw o b lu r r e d f ig u re s o f f s e t b y th e b la c k a w n in g s a n d p i l la rs a n d th e ro w o f w h ite s t r e e t la m p s p e e r in g th r o u g h th e ra in . M a n y o th e r p h o to s a c h ie v e a s im ila r e f fe c t b y th e i r s im p lic ity o f e x p re s s io n , th e s c h o o lg ir l (1 0 3 ), a n d th e w o m a n in th e ta k e -a w a y b a r , so n e a t ly ju x ta p o s e d w ith a n o r a n g e (47) b e in g o b v io u s e x a m p le s . A lth o u g h te c h n ic a l ly h id e o u s s e v e ra l o f th e r a ilw a y y a rd a n d d o c k p ic tu re s a ls o m a k e th e i r p o in t w e ll.

Geering: Baigent: LaingIt is no t u n u s u a l ly d o g m a tic to

su g g e st th a t th e p r im a ry p u rp o s e o f p h o to g r a p h y is to re c o rd an d c o m m u n ic a te . N o r is it to o a s se r tiv e to sa y th a t a g o o d p h o to g ra p h is o n e w h ic h fu lf i ls th is p u rp o se r e g a rd le s s o f th e te c h n ic a l fa c ilitie s a v a i la b le a n d th e c o n d it io n s u n d e r w h ich it is ta k e n . By th is l im ply th a t s h a rp n e s s a n d to n a l g ra d a tio n a c h ie v e d by c o r re c t fo c u s an d e x p o s u re a r e by n o m e a n s o f p r im a ry im p o r ta n t in a p ic tu re ta k e n u n d e r d if f ic u l t c o n d itio n s . T h is is th e re a s o n w hy I lik e B ai­g e n t’s n ig h t p ic tu re s b e s t— th ey a re n o t v e ry s h a rp , th e y a re g ra in y a n d o f te n b a d ly e x p o s e d — b u t th e se c h a ra c te r is t ic s - a r e in e v i ta b le in “a v a i la b le l ig h t” p h o to g ra p h y a n d it m ig h t e v e n be e n h a n c e d by th e m . B u t b y u s in g tw o v e ry v a lu a b le th in g s , h is a b i l i ty t o c r e a te a m e a n in g fu l c o m p o s it io n o r ju x ta ­p o s it io n , a n d th e p h o to g r a p h s ’ g r e a t ­e s t p o w e r , th a t o f c a p tu r in g f o r a sp li t s e c o n d a fa c ia l e x p re ss io n o r g e s tu re , h e h a s m a d e th e s e su c c e ss ­fu l.

By th e sa m e to k e n , h o w e v e r , m a n y o f B a ig e n t’s “s t r a ig h t” d a y ­lig h t p ic tu re s a r e f a i lu re s . I t w o u ld se em th a t M r B a ig e n t la c k e d th e e x p e r ie n c e t o e x p o s e n e g a tiv e m a te r ia l p r o p e r ly , a n d f o r r e a so n s o f p r id e o r p o c k e t w as u n w ill in g to in v e s t in a n e x p o s u re m e te r . In m a n y o f th e p h o to g ra p h s th e o w n e r o f a $ 5 0 a u to m a t ic e x p o s u re c a m e ra m ig h t sa y “ I c o u ld h a v e d o n e b e t te r .” T h is is n o t w h o lly tru e , o f c o u rs e , a n d w e c a n n o t d e n y th e m e r i t o f m a n y o f th e s e p ic tu re s as f a r a s th e i r c o n te n t is c o n c e rn e d . T h e s t r e n g th o f s o m e o f th e c o m p o s it io n s a n d th e s y m p a th y w ith w h ich , f o r e x a m p le th e s h u n te rs in th e r a ilw a y y a rd s o r th e m e n o n th e W e s tm e re w h a r f a r e p o r tra y e d d e m o n s tr a te th is .

T h e r e is a th i rd c a te g o ry o f p ic tu re s to c o n s id e r — th e s e a r e th e p h o to s in w h ic h B a ig e n t is e x p e r i­m e n tin g w ith b a c k l ig h t in g a n d " r im ” l ig h tin g . N u m b e r 3 5 , sh o w in g th e s c o o te r is t r e tu rn in g h o m e to D e v o n p o r t , a n d s u n s e t f ro m M t E d e n R d , 7 4 , a r e b o th sh o t s tra ig h t in to th e su n .

T h e s e p ic tu re s a r e p e rh a p s th e m a in v ic tim s o f th e v e ry p o o r r e p ro d u c tio n o f th e b o o k , an d it w as b i t te r ly d is a p p o in t in g to see h o w s o m e o f th e s u b t le to n e s in th e o r ig in a ls e x h ib i te d h a v e b e e n r e ­d u c e d to a m e a n in g le s s g re y .

T h e m o s t a t t r a c t iv e f e a tu re o f th e b o o k is i ts lo w p r ic e , $ 3 .7 5 , a n d its r e f r e s h in g a p p r o a c h to its su b je c t. T h e p ic tu re s s h o w a n im m ed iacy a n d f ra n k n e s s w h ich c a n o n ly be a c h ie v e d b y h o u r s o f w a lk in g o f its s t r e e ts w ith o n e ’s e y e s o p e n . I t is a p ity th e n th a t th is b o o k , so a d m ir a b le in in te n t a n d c o n c e p tio n s h o u ld fa ll so f a r s h o r t o f b e in g su c c e ss fu l o n te c h n ic a l c o n s id e ra ­t io n s . — M. C. Oettli

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t im e s , f o r th e h u m a n s p ir i t e x p e r i­e n c e s s o m u c h s u f f e r in g an d in ju s tic e th a t it b e c o m e s in d if fe re n t a s a m a t te r o f s e lf -p ro te c tio n . W e liv e in a w o r ld w h ich m ay be a n n ih i la te d w ith in a few m in u te s a n d w h e re a lm o s t n o k in d o f m o n s tro s i ty o r e x a g g e ra t io n is im p o ss ib le .

W ith th e s in g le e v e n ts o f life p re p o s te ro u s a n d a b s u rd , life a s a w h o le re s is ts a n y o r d e r in g in te r p re ­ta t io n a n d is s im ila r ly a b s u rd . T h e e x is te n c e o f a b s o lu te s ta n d a rd s a n d a r a t io n a l o r d e r o f life is r e p la c e d by a n a r c h y . T h e re is o n ly o n e t r u th , th a t th e re is n o t r u th .

In th e P e n g u in O r ig in a l The Politics of Experience a n d The Bird of Paradise (1 9 6 7 ), R . D . L a in g p r o v id e a n in te r p re ta t io n . H e d e m o n s tr a te s th a t o u r a lie n a t io n g o es to th e ro o ts , in a n e x is te n tia l a n a ly s is w h ic h c a lls o n sc ie n c e , rh e to r ic , p o e try a n d p o le m ic to s u p p o r t b is p o in ts . D r L a in g su g g e s ts th a t a l ie n a t io n a s o u r p re s e n t d e s tin y is a c h ie v e d o n ly by o u t r a g e o u s v io le n c e p e r p e t r a te d o n h u m a n b e in g s .

M u c h o f D r c a in g 's r e s e a rc h , a s a p s y c h o a n a ly s t a n d a p s y c h ia tr is t , is c o n c e rn e d w ith v a r ie t ie s o f h u m a n e x p e r ie n c e , in c u d in g th o s e in d u c e d b y d r u g s w h ic h e x p a n d c o n s c io u s n e s s , s u c h a s m e s c a lin e a n d L S D . A s in a n e a r l i e r P e n g u in The Divided Self (1 9 6 5 ), D r L a in g ra ise s th e w h o le q u e s t io n o f n o r m a l ity . S tu d ie s o f s c h iz o p h re n ic p a t ie n ts h a v e in d ic a te d to h im th a t th e te r m s “ s a n i ty ” a n d “ m a d n e s s ” a r e a m b ig u o u s . T h e s c h iz o p h re n ic m a y s im p ly b e s o m e o n e w h o h a s b een u n a b le to s u p p re s s h is n o rm a l in s tin c ts a n d c o m f o rm to an a b n o r m a l s o c ie ty .

T h e re a l is a t io n o f a l ie n a t io n u n ite s m e n a s d iv e r s e a s M a rx , K ie r k e ­g a a r d , N ie tz s c h e , F r e u d , H e id e g g e r , T illic h a n d S a r t r e . V a r io u s th in k e r s o f th e la s t 1 5 0 y e a rs h a v e s p e lle d o u t its n a tu r e , e s p e c ia lly in r e la t io n to c a p i ta l is m . F o r D r L a in g , th e r e le v a n c e o f F re u d to o u r t im e is la rg e ly h is in s ig h t t h a t th e ordinary p e r s o n is a sh r iv e l le d , d e s ic c a te d f r a g m e n t o f w h a t a p e r s o n c a n b e .

T h e c o n d it io n o f a l ie n a t io n , o f b e in g a s le e p , o f b e in g s e n t o u t o f o n e ’s m in d is th e c o n d it io n o f th e n o r m a l m a n . T h e s t r a i t ja c k e t o f c o n f o rm i ty c la m p e d by so c ie ty o n e v e ry c h ild t h a t is b o rn d e v a s ta te s m a n ’s p o te n t ia l i t ie s . S o c ie ty h ig h ly v a lu e s its n o r m a l m a n . T o b e n o rm a l is to h a v e b e c o m e a b s u rd . N o r m a l m e n h a v e k illed p e rh a p s 100 m ill io n o f th e i r fe llo w n o rm a l m e n in th e la s t f i f ty y e a rs .

A c c o rd in g to D r L a in g , a l ie n a t io n is th e p r o d u c t o f th e d iv o rc e o f o u r e x p e r ie n c e , s u c h a s is le f t o f it, f ro m o u r b e h a v io u r . A n a d u l t m a n r e p re s e n ts a n a lm o s t u n b e lie v a b le d e v a s ta tio n o f o u r e x p e r ie n c e . A s a d u l ts w e h a v e f o rg o t te n m o s t o f o u r c h i ld h o o d , w e b a re ly k n o w o f th e z o n e s o f “ r e a l i ty ” in o u r d r e a m s , o u r c a p a c ity f o r o r ig in a l th in k in g is p it i fu l ly l im ite d a n d o u r se n se s s h r o u d e d . A n d if w e a re s t r ip p e d o f o u r e x p e r ie n c e , w e a re b e r e f t o f o u r h u m a n ity — o f in n o c e n c e , t r u th a n d lo v e .

S u c h id e a s a t t r a c t c y n ic ism in th e a f te r m a th o f th e L S D b o o m , b u t D r L a in g c a n b a c k u p h is th e o r ie s w ith p sy c h o lo g ic a l w e a p o n s . A n d it is q u i te c e r ta in th a t u n le s s w e can re g u la te o u r b e h a v io u r m u c h m o re s a t is f a c to r i ly th a n a t p re s e n t, th e n w e are g o in g t o e x te r m in a te o u rs e lv e s . B u t a s w e e x p e re n c e th e w o r ld , so w e a c t . W o r d s in a p o e m , s o u n d s in m o v e m e n t , rh y th m in sp a c e a r e b r id g e h e a d s in to a lie n t e r r i to r y , o u t o f th e s ig h ts a n d s o u n d s o f a d e p e r s o n a lis e d , d e ­h u m a n is e d w o r ld . A u s c h w itz is a m o n u m e n t , b u t V ie tn a m g o e s o n .

A s e c tio n o f d ie b o o k a p p e a r e d in Peace News d u r in g 1965 a s “ M a s s a c re o f th e In n o c e n ts .” D r L a in g su g g e s t .h a t w e h a v e la id w as te o u r s a n i ty , b e g in n in g w ith th e c h i ld re n . F r o m th e m o m e n t o f b i r th , w h e n th e S to n e A g e b a b y c o n f ro n ts th e 2 0 th c e n tu ry m o th e r , th e b ab y is s u b je c te d to th e fo rc e s o f v io le n c e , c a lle d lo v e , a s h is m o th e r a n d f a th e r h a v e b e e n , a n d th e ir p a r e n ts a n d th e i r p a r e n ts b e fo re th e m . M o s t o f h is p o te n t ia l i ­tie s d e s tro y e d , w e a re le f t w ith a b e in g like o u rse lv e s .

A h a l f -c r a z e d c r e a tu r e m o re o r iess a d ju s te d to a m a d w o r ld . T h is is n o r m a l ity in o u r p re s e n t ag e . L o v e a n d v io le n c e , p r o p e r ly s p e a k ­ing , a r e p o la r o p p o s i te s . B u t w e a c t o n o u r e x p e r ie n c e a t th e b e h e s t o f o th e r s , ju s t a s w e le a rn to b e h a v e in c o m p lia n c e to th e m . W e a r c ta u g h t w h a t to e x p e r ie n c e a n d w h a t n o t to e x p e r ie n c e , a s w e a r e ta u g h t w h a t m o v e m e n ts to m a k e a n d w h a t s o u n d s t o m a k e .

A ch ild o f tw o is a lr e a d y a m o r a l m o v e r a n d m o ra l ta lk e r a n d m o r a l e x p e r ie n c e r . A s h e is ta u g h t to m o v e in s p e c if ic w ay s , o u t o f th e w h o le ra n g e o f p o s s ib le m o v e m e n ts , so he is ta u g h t t o e x p e r ie n c e , o u t o f th e w h o le ra n g e o f p o ss ib le e x p e r ie n c e . T h e f a m ily is th e u su a l p r im a ry in s t r u m e n t f o r w h a t is c a l le d s o c ia l is a t io n , th a t is g e t t in g e a c h n ew re c r u it to th e h u m a n r a c e to b e h a v e a n d e x p e r ie n c e in s u b s ta n i ta l ly th e sa m e w a y a s th o s e w h o h a v e a l r e a d y g o t h e re . T h e s c h o o l th e n r e p re s s e s c r e a v i ty , b y in d u c in g c h i ld re n to w a n t t o th in k th e w ay s c h o o l w a n ts th e m to th in k .

C h i ld r e n d o n o t g iv e u p th e i r in n a te im a g in a t io n , c u r io s ity , d re a m in e s s e a s ily . Y o u h a v e to lo v e th e m to d o th a t . L o v e is th e p a th th r o u g h p e rm iss iv e n e ss to d isc i­p lin e : a n d th r o u g h d isc ip lin e , o n ly to o o f te n , to b e tr a y a l o f se lf .

T h e d o u b le a c t io n o f d e s tro y in g o u r s e lv e s w ith o n e h a n d , a n d c a l l in g th is lo v e w ith th e o th e r , is a m a rv e l lo u s s le ig h t o f h a n d . H u m a n b e in g s se e m to h av e a n a lm o s t u n l im ite d c a p a c ity to d e c e iv e th e m ­se lv e s , a n d to d e c e iv e th e m s e lv e s in to ta k in g th e i r o w n lies f o r t r u th . W h o a r e th e t r u e s c h iz o p h re n ic s , w h en so c ia lly s h a re d h a l lu c in a t io n s a r e w h a t w e ca ll re a l i ty , a n d o u r c o llu s iv e m a d n e s s is w h a t w e c a ll s a n i ty ?

W e se e m to seek d e a th a n d d e s tru c t io n a s m u c h a s life a n d h a p p in e s s . W e a re a s d r iv e n to k ill a n d b e k illed a s w e a re to liv e a n d le t live . O n ly by th e m o s t o u t r a g e o u s v io la tio n o f o u r s e lv e s h a v e w e a c h ie v e d o u r c a p a c ity t o liv e in r e la tiv e a d ju s tm e n t to a c iv il is a tio n a p p a r e n t ly d r iv e n to its o w n d e s t ru c t io n . T h e r e is a ra c e a g a in s t t im e , b u t D r L a in g o f f e r s h o p e th a t p e rh a p s w e c a n u n d o w h a t h a s b e e n d o n e to u s , a n d w h a t w e h a v e d o n e to o u rs e lv e s .

D r L a in g ’s b o o k is b a s ic a lly a v is io n o f h u m a n i ty e s t ra n g e d f ro m its o w n a u th e n t ic p o ss ib ilitie s . H e e n d e a v o u r s t o p ro v id e a th o r o u g h ly se lf -c o n s c io u s a n d s e lf -c r it ic a l h u m a n a c c o u n t o f m a n . I f w e c a n s to p d e s tro y in g o u r s e lv e s w e m a y s to p d e s tro y in g o th e r s . W e h a v e to b e g in b y a d m it t in g a n d e v en a c c e p tin g o u r v io le n c e , r a th e r th a n b lin d ly d e s tro y in g o u r s e lv e s w ith it, a n d th e re w ith w e h a v e to re a liz e w e a re a s d e e p ly a f r a id to live a n d to lo v e a s w e a re to d ie .

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T h e c a u s e o f c o n te m p o r a ry m u s ic o v e r th e la s t few y e a r s h a s re s te d m a in ly w ith th e A u c k la n d S o c ie ty f o r C o n te m p o r a r y M u s ic . T h e s o c ie ty w as fo u n d e d in 1959 by R o n T re m a in w h o is o n e o f N .Z 's le a d in g m id d le g e n e ra t io n c o m ­p o s e rs , a n d its c o n t in u e d e x is te n c e is a c r e d i t to h is e n th u s ia s m a n d p e r s e v e ra n c e . T h e a c tu a l lis t o f w o rk s p e r fo r m e d in th e s o c ie ty ’s c o n c e r ts is q u i te im p re ss iv e a n d th e r e h a s b e e n g e n e ra l ly a t le a s t o n e f i r s t N .Z . p e r fo r m a n c e in e a c h c o n c e r t . T h e p o lic y h a s b e e n to a v o id to o m u c h e m p h a s is o n th e “ c la s s ic ” m o d e rn s lik e S c h o e n b e rg , B a r to k , S tra v in s k y , a n d to g iv e h e a r in g s o f m o r e e x p e r im e n ta l w o rk s — n a m e s l ik e F ra n c e , E v a n g e t is h , H a n s O lle , E a r le B ro w n , E d g a r B a re s e h a v e a p p e a re d o n p a s t p ro g ra m m e s a n d n ew N .Z . w o rk s a r e a ls o f re q u e n tly h e a rd . T h e A u c k la n d s o c ie ty is p ro b a b ly th e m o s t e n te rp r is in g o f th e th r e e s u c h N .Z . so c ie tie s (W e llin g to n a n d C h r is tc h u r c h ) b u t s o m e h o w th e ra n g e a n d sc o p e o f its a c tiv it ie s a n d th e siz e o f its a u d ie n c e h a s a lw a y s b e e n l im ite d . F in a n c ia l ly , f o r in ­s ta n c e , th e s o c ie ty is l im ite d t o th e p e r fo r m a n c e o f so lo o r c h a m b e r w o rk s . A lso , a su b s c r ib in g m e m b e r ­

s h ip o f se v e n ty in a c ity o f h a l f a m ill io n is n o t a l to g e th e r a su c c e ss s to ry . W h e n a n e x h ib i t io n o f c o n te m p o r a ry p a in t in g o r s c u lp tu re in th e c i ty A r t G a l le r y c a n a t t r a c t so m u c h a t te n t io n a s in d e e d it te n d s to (it d o e s n ’t m a t te r i f th e re sp o n s e is n o t a lw a y s s y m p a th e tic ) is it ig n o ra n c e , a p a th y o r g e n u in e h o s ­ti l i ty w h ic h p re v e n ts c o n te m p o r a ry m u s ic f r o m te a c h in g a l a r g e r a u d ie n c e th a n it d o e s . O n th e o th e r h a n d i t m ig h t m e re ly r e f le c t th e in e f fe c tiv e n e s s o f th e s o c ie ty ’s a d v e r tis in g !

U n d e r s ta n d a b ly m a n y o f th e p e o p le in th e p e r fo r m in g s id e o f th e so c ie ty ’s a c t iv i t ie s a r e u n iv e r s i ty b a s e d — m u s ic tu to r s a n d e x e c u ta n t s tu d e n ts h a v e m a d e a n u n e s t im a b le c o n t r ib u tio n to th e p ro g re s s o f th e s o c ie ty . B u t th is c o - o p e r a t io n h a s a lw a y s b e e n u n o f f ic ia l a n d th is h a s lim ite d th e in f lu e n c e o f th e s o c ie ty a m o n g s tu d e n ts . I t is a p p a l l in g h o w fe w m u s ic s tu d e n ts f o r in s ta n c e a re in f a c t s u b s c r ib in g m e m b e rs . A c lo s e r in te r e s t in th e a c tiv it ie s o f th e s o c ie ty b y th e M u s ic D e p a r t­m e n t o n an o f f ic ia l level m ig h t h e lp r e c t i fy th e in d i f f e r e n t a t t i tu d e to w a r d c o n te m p o r a ry m u s ic a n d th e a l l - to o -a c a d e m ic a t t i tu d e to m u s ic in g e n e ra l w h ic h is p re v a le n t

a m o n g m u s ic s tu d e n ts . M u s ic s tu d e n ts f ro m V ic to r ia U n iv e r s i ty f o r in s ta n c e h a v e a c o n s id e ra b ly h e a l th ie r a t t i tu d e to w a r d th e i r su b je c t. A m o re in te re s te d g ro u p o f m u s ic s tu d e n ts w o u ld g e n e r a te a w id e r in te re s t in th e s tu d e n t b o d y as a w h o le . I t is n e i th e r n e c e s s a ry n o r d e s ira b le t h a t th e c o n te m ­p o r a ry m u s ic a u d ie n c e s h o u ld b e c o m p le te ly “ u n iv e r s i ty o r ie n te d ” b u t a t th e m o m e n t th e la c k o f s tu d e n t in te r e s t is w o r ry in g . T h e p r e s e n t a u d ­ie n c e te n d s to c o n s is t o f th e o ld fa i th fu ls , w h o lis ten a t te n t iv e ly an d a p p la u d d u t i fu l ly . T h e re se e m s to b e v e ry l ittle sen se o f d is c o v e ry in th e a u d ie n c e re sp o n s e , a n d th is is r e a lly w h a t c o n te m p o r a ry m u s ic is a ll a b o u t. T h e o n ly e le m e n t o f c o n tro v e rs y se e m s to b e in th e n e w s p a p e rs , w h ic h e x p re ss b a f f le ­m e n t , in c o m p re h e n s io n , d is g u s t o r d o w n r ig h t c o n d e m n a t io n w ith m o n o to n o u s c o n s is te n c y — th o u g h th e y g e n e ra lly g iv e th e p e r f o r m ­a n c e s d u e c red it.

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t im e h a s a re le v a n c e in th e i r liv es . O n e p o s s ib il i ty is a S o c ie ty f o r M u s ic a A n t ig n e t N o v a w h ic h w o u ld ju x ta p o s e c o n te m p o r a ry m u s ic w ith R e n a is s a n c e a n d B a ro q u e m u s ic — th is m ig h t a p p e a l t o a la r g e r a u d ie n c e a n d w 'ould c e r ta in ly h e lp f ill o u t a l l th e g a p s o f o u r g e n e ra l l is te n in g e x p e r ie n c e . S u c h a so c ie ty w o u ld p ro v e a t r e m e n d o u s b o o n to th e u n iv e rs ity m u s ic c o u rs e . In f a c t m o s t o v e rse a s u n iv e rs it ie s h a v e su c h so c ie tie s a s a p a r t o f th e i r c o u rs e s t r u c tu re .

A n o th e r a l te r n a t iv e is t h a t th e so c ie ty c o u ld b r a n c h o u t to in v o lv e o th e r f ie ld s o f a r t — a n d th is is e x a c t ly w h a t is b e in g a t te m p te d th is y e a r . B e sid e s i ts u s u a l th re e c o n c e r ts th e so c ie ty p la n s a f e s tiv a l o f th e a r t s w h ic h w ill ta k e p la c e in la te J u ly . T h is fe s t iv a l w ill f e a tu r e r e c e n t m u s ic , p a in t in g s , p o e try , p la y s a n d f i lm s . b y f i f te e n y o u n g A u c k la n d e r s a ll u n d e r th e a g e o f th ir ty - f iv e , m o s t o f w h o m b e in g re la t iv e ly “ u n k n o w n ” . I t is a v e ry e n te r p r is in g s te p o n th e p a r t o f th e s o c ie ty in a n e f f o r t to e n la r g e its a u d ie n c e a n d to p ro m o te th e a r t s in A u c k la n d . I t is p o ss ib le th e w h o le th in g w ill b e o n e e n o r m o u s f lo p b u t , o n th e o th e r h a n d , i f it c o m e s o f f ( a n d th e r e is n o re a s o n w h y it s h o u ld n 't ) th is f e s tiv a l c o u ld p ro v e to b e a v e ry s ig n if ic a n t o c c a s io n . A n d th is is th e s p ir i t o f a d v e n tu re w h ic h m ig h t m a k e A u c k la n d e r s m o r e a w a re o f th e y o u n g a r ts in th e i r c ity . E v e n i f th e r e s p o n s e is a b it h o s t i le (m o s t o f th e w o rk s p r e s e n te d w ill be f a i r ly “ w a y o u t ” b y a n y s ta n d a rd s ) th is w ill be f a r b e t te r th a n m e r e in d if f e re n c e .

B y th e w a y , in c a se y o u h a d n ’t g u e s se d th is is a n a d v e r t is e m e n t . N o te : s tu d e n t m e m b e rs h ip f o r six c o n c e r ts a n d tw o le c tu re s is a m e re $1 . I n q u i r ie s to , p h o n e 4 3 -2 0 0 .

— Jack Body

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o f n e w re c o r d s th e s e d a y s is p i t i fu l ly s m a ll . T w o w h ic h h a v e c o m e in to th e s h o p s r e c e n t ly a re w o r th a d d in g to o n e ’s c o lle c tio n . B o th a r e w h a t c o u ld b e c a lle d c o m m e rc ia l — th e y c a n be d a n c e d to a n d / o r ta lk e d o v e r , a s w e ll a s lis te n e d to se r io u s ly .

T h e C a n n o n b a l l A d d e r le y g ro u p h a s lo n g b e e n a le a d in g e x p o n e n t o f th e “ s o u l” sc h o o l o f ja z z a n d a c c o rd in g to m a n y o f its d e t r a c to r s h a s s a c r if ic e d c re a t iv i ty to p o p u la r a c c la im . R e c e n t ly th e g ro u p m a d e th e h it p a r a d e in th e S ta te s w ith “ M e rry , M e rc y . M e rc y ” a n d “ W h y a m I t r e a te d so b a d ? ” T h e s e h i ts c o n ta in l i t t le im p ro v is a t io n b u t c o u ld be s ig n if ic a n t in t h a t th e y a re a t le a s t b r in g in g ja z z c lo s e r to th e m a s s a u d ie n c e . T h e f o r m e r is th e tit le t r a c k o f:

T h e C a n n o n b a l l A d d e r le y Q u in ­te t , Mercy, Mercy, Mercy C a p ito l S T 2 6 6 3 ; in w h ic h th e p e rs o n n e l is C a n n o n b a l l A d d e r le y ( te n o r) , N a t A d d e r le y ( t ru m p e t) , J o e Z a w in u l (p ia n o ) , V ic J a ts k y (b ass ) a n d R oy M c C u rd y (d ru m s).

T h is a lb u m is c e r ta in ly a h a n d c la p p e r b u t a ls o c o n ta in s m u c h g o o d ja z z . O f th e se le c tio n s , th re e . “G a m e s ” “ S tic k s ,” a n d “ S a c k O ’W o e ” h a v e a ro c k b e a t , tw o , “ F u n ” a n d “ H ip a d e lp h ia ” h a v e a m o re s t r ic t ly ja z z f o r m a t a n d a re p r o b a b ly th e b e s t t r a c k s , w h ile th e t i t le t r a c k is a t le a s t a g o o d tu n e . C a n n o n b a l l A d d e r le y w h o p ro b a b ly r e a c h e d a p e a k in h is d a y s w ith M ile s D a v is a n d J o h n C o l t r a n e ( fo r in s ta n c e , l is te n to Cannonball and Coltrane, L im e lig h t , L S 8 6 0 0 9 ) w h ic h h e h a s n e v e r q u ite s u s ta in e d s in c e , n e v e r th e le s s h e p la y s w ith a lo t m o r e f ire a n d d a r in g th a n o f la te . H is se n se o f t im e is r a r e ly e q u a l le d a m o n g s a x o p h o n is ts a n d h e g e n e ra l ly r is e s a b o v e th e h e a v y s e m i- ro c k b a c k g r o u n d to p ro d u c e in te ll ig e n t a n d e x c it in g ja z z . N a t A d d e r le y b u ild s u p th e e x c i te m e n t o n m o s t o f th e t r a c k s , b u t o f te n (“ S a c k O ’W o e ”) te n d s to le t th e rh y th m c a r r y h im , p la y in g s h o r t p h r a s e s w h ic h se em c a lc u la te d to m o v e a s lig h ly s h o t n ig h tc lu b c ro w d r a th e r th a n m a k e a n y th in g r e a l ly in te r e s t in g m u s ic a lly . H e is m o r e in v e n tiv e in “ F u n ” a n d “ H ip ­a d e lp h ia .” J o e Z aw 'in u l m o s tly p la y s a R a m s e y L e w is “ In C r o w d ”- ty p e p ia n o a n d is r a th e r m u f f le d b v c la p p in g b u t h e d o e s k e e p th e fe e lin g h ig h . A ll in a ll , a g o o d r e c o r d to b u y .

I h a v e n e v e r re a l ly lik e d ja z z o r g a n , f in d in g it a r a th e r c lu t te r e d , h e a v y s o u n d n e e d in g re p e t i t io n to m a k e i t in te re s tin g . H o w e v e r J im m y S m ith , th e “ m a s te r ” o f ja z z o rg a n o f te n m a n a g e s t o ra ise h im s e lf a b o v e th e ru t a n d th e r e is p le n ty o f o p p o r tu n i ty to h e a r h im d o in g th is o n The Best of Jimmy Smith, V e rv e V 6 -8 7 2 1 .

M o s t o f th e t r a c k s c o n ta in a b ig -b a n d b a c k in g w h ic h is g e n e ra lly u n o b tr u s iv e ; P h i l W o o d ’s a l t c a n b e h e a rd b r ie f ly o n “ O ld M a n R iv e r” a n d K e n n y B u r re l l o n “O rg a n G r in d e r S w in g ,” b u t th e re s t is J im m y S m ith . T h e b lu e s n u m b e r s “ G o t M y M o jo W o r k in g ” a n d “H o o c h ie C o o c h ie M a n ” h a v e S m ith s in g in g in a r e s tr a in e d R a y C h a r le s s ty le . T h is a lb u m c o n ta in s th e h its o f J im m y S m ith r a th e r th a n th e b e s t , a s s o m e o f h is B lu e N o te w o rk s h o u ld be in c lu d e d in th e la t te r c a te g o ry ( fo r in s ta n c e Softly as a Summer Breeze, B lu e N o te 4 2 0 0 ). H o w e v e r , it is a v a r ie d a n d in te re s t in g p a c k a g e .

— Mjke Michie

RockT h e R o llin g S to n e s ’ la te s t L P is

a n a t te m p t a t th e “ n e w m u s ic ” a s p io n e e r e d la s t y e a r b y th e B e a tle s . W h ile a d ire c t c o m p a r is o n w ith th e B e a tle s w o u ld b e u n f a i r , it m u s t b e a d m it te d th a t “T h e i r S a ta n ic M a je s tie s R e q u e s t” is n o t th e a c h ie v e m e n t “ S e rg e a n t P e p p e r ” w as. I t d o e s , h o w e v e r , r e p re s e n t a d is t in c t c h a n g e o f s ty le f o r th e S to n e s .

P r io r to th is L P th e g ro u p h a d b e e n w o rk in g m o re o r le s s w ith in th e b r o a d b o u n d a r ie s o f A m e r ic a n N e g r o p o p u la r m u s ic , w ith o c c a s io n a l E a s te r n a n d B rit ish m u s ic h a ll in f lu e n c e s . T h e y h a d g a in e d m a x im u m im p a c t w h e n p re s e n t in g b e a t - fo r t i f ie d p a r ty m u s ic , w ith d y n a m ic v o c a ls b y M ic k J a g g e r a n d d r iv in g b u t s im p le g u i ta r w o rk b a s e d o n c o n v e n t io n a l rh y th m s a n d c h o r d p a t te r n s . O n T S M R th e y a t te m p t a m o r e c o m p le x so u n d , b u t a c h ie v e o n ly m o d e ra te su c ce ss . D e s p ite g r e a te r te c h n ic a l s o p h is t ic a t io n th e re is a te n d e n c y to w a r d sa m e n e s s o f so u n d , m a in ly a s a r e s u l t o f lo n g in s t r u m e n ta l p a s sa g e s . I t a lm o s t s e e m s a s i f th e r e h a s n o t b e e n su f f ic ie n t m a te r ia l t o s u s ta in a w h o le L P . S tro n g E a s te r n in ­f lu e n c e s a re e x h ib i te d to g e th e r w ith d e v e lo p m e n ts o f th e d ru g in - f lu e n c e d - fu tu r is t ic th e m e s o f th e B y rd s a n d th e P in k F lo y d .

“ 2 0 0 0 l ig h t y e a rs f r o m h o m e ,” lik e “ 2 0 0 0 m a n ” g lo r if ie s lo n e lin e s s a n d a l ie n a t io n f r o m r e a l i ty a n d th e re a r e u n d e r c u r re n ts o f n a r - c is ism , o n e o f th e t r a d i t io n a l e le ­m e n ts o f J a g g e r - R ic h a rd c o m p o ­s i t io n s . I n “ S h e ’s a r a in b o w ” a c h a n g e is s e e n in th e ty p ic a l R o l­l in g S to n e p o r t r a y a l o f w o m a n , m o v in g a w a y f ro m th e w e a k , s u b o r d in a te b e in g s o f so n g s lik e “ P la y w ith f i r e ” a n d “ B a c k s tre e t g i r l” to w a r d a d e m ig o d d e s s , b e a r in g s im i la r i t ie s t o s o m e B o b D y la n so n g s . B ill W y m a n s ’ “ In a n o th e r l a n d ” f e a tu re s a n in te re s t in g e le c tro n ic a l ly m o d if ie d v o c a l a n d “O n w ith th e s h o w ” is a c o n t in u a ­t io n o f a lo n g lin e o f s c o rn fu l , r e b e ll io n so n g s . I t is a h ig h ly e f fe c t iv e p u t-d o w 'n o f th e p le a s u re s o f th e c a b a r e t g e n e ra t io n . “T h e la n t e r n ” f e a tu re s s o m e s im p le b u t e f fe c tiv e h o llo w c o re g u i ta r w o rk , h o w e v e r , l ik e s e v e ra l o f th e t r a c k s o n th is r e c o rd , i t is d if f ic u l t to re so lv e .

O n e o f th e r e a s o n s w h y th e R o llin g S to n e s h av e la s te d is. th e a b il i ty th e y h a v e s h o w n to p re s e n t th e i r r e c o rd e d s o u n d o n s ta g e . W h ile th e c ra s h in g c h o rd s o f “ T h e c i ta d e l” w o u ld n o d o u b t a d a p t w 'ell to liv e p e r fo rm a n c e , m u c h o f th is r e c o r d w o u ld b e v i r tu a l ly im ­p o ss ib le t o r e p ro d u c e . I t is th is f a c to r w h ich h a s led to th e c u r r e n t re a c t io n a g a in s t th e so -c a lle d “ p s y c h e d e lic s o u n d .” I t is in te re s tin g to s p e c u la te o n th e d ir e c t io n to b e t a k e n b y th e R o ll in g S to n e s s h o u ld th e y b e c o m e p a r t o f th is r e a c t io n . T h e o v e ra ll im p re ss io n g a in e d f ro m T S M R is th a t th e g ro u p is a l i t t le u n c o m f o r ta b le in th e w o r ld o f m a n y se s s io n -m e n , h o w 'ev e r, th e y a re to o g o o d a g ro u p to r e m a in so f o r lo n g a n d th u s , a r e a s s e r t io n is to b e e x p e c te d .

F IL M SCanadian’s clear eye on life

Nobody Waved Goodbye, sh o w n b y th e U n iv e rs ity F ilm S o c ie ty o n A p r i l 18, is a re c e n t e x a m p le o f th e g re a t e x p e r tis e o f th e C a n a d ia n N a t io n a l F ilm B o a rd , p a r t ic u la r ly in th e d o c u m e n ta r y fie ld .

The Age of the Buffalo, se en h e re a s a s h o r t to The Knack, w as a f in e f ilm s h o w in g th e e f fe c t o f th e m a s s a c re o f N o r th A m e r ic a ’s b u f fa lo e s o n th e R ed In d ia n . F o r o n c e , w e w e re g iv en an o b je c tiv e v iew o f th e “ c o w b o y a n d I n d ia n ” w a rs , w h ic h sh o w e d h o w w h ite m e n b e tra y e d th e I n d ia n s ’ tru s t , a n d p ro v o k e d th e b i t te r w a rs th a t w ere so d is a s tro u s f o r th e In d ia n s . T y p ic a lly , th is sh o r t f i lm e m p lo y e d p a in tin g s , as w ell a s m o v ie p h o to ­g r a p h y in b e a u tifu l c o lo u r , c a re fu l ly e d ite d to g iv e a w o n d e r fu l se n se o f m o v e m e n t .

P ro b a b ly th e m o s t w id e ly k n o w n C a n a d ia n d o c u m e n ta r y is Lonely Boy, a p e n e tr a t in g a n a ly s is o f th e p h e n o m e n o n o f a p o p s ta r — P a u l A n k a — a n d o f th e m e n w h o c re a te d

h im a n d th e fa n s w h o su s ta in e d h im . A c c o m p a n ie d by s o m e o f A n k a ’s so n g s , Lonely Boy is a r e le n tle s s , s o m e tim e s c ru e l e x a m in a ­tio n o f m e d io c re ta le n t b e in g p ro p e lle d to f a m e by g o o d p u b lic ity a n d lo ts o f b a lly h o o . I t a lso p ro v id e s a se r io u s c o m m e n t o n te e n a g e rs o f th e t im e ( la te 5 0 s) an d th e ir id o ls .

Nobody Waved Goodbye s ta r te d o u t a s a d o c u m e n ta r y o n ju v e n ile d e l in q u e n c y , a p a ra l le l to P h o e b e ’s c o n s id e ra t io n o f th e p e rs o n a l c o n ­s e q u e n c e s o f an u n w a n te d p re g ­n a n c y . H o w e v e r , D o n O w e n ’s c o n c e p tio n g re w b e y o n d th e id ea o f a s h o r t d o c u m e n ta r y , a n d he p ro d u c e d a f e a tu re f i lm , h a v in g as its b a s is th e p ro b le m s o f a y o u n g so c ia l m is f it .

P e te r K a s tn e r , s t a r o f C o p p o la ’s You’re a Big Boy Now, p la y s P e te r , th e 1 8 -y e a r-o ld h ig h sc h o o l s tu d e n t w h o d r o p s o u t o f s c h o o l, h is fa m ily , a n d C a n a d ia n so c ie ty ; J u lie B iggs p la y s h is g ir lf r ie n d .

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F r id a y , A p r il 5 to d isc u ss c lu b g r a n ts , a r t s fe s tiv a l a n d c a p p in g '6 8 . A ll c lu b s w e re g iv en n o t ic e o f th e m e e t in g a n d w e re in v ite d to send tw o d e le g a te s . S o m e d id . T h e m e e tin g e le c te d f o u r c lu b s ' r e p re ­s e n ta t iv e s t o th e S o c ie tie s G r a n ts C o m m it te e , w h ich w ill c o n s is t o f: so c ie tie s r e p re s e n ta t iv e , s p o r ts r e ­p re s e n ta t iv e , m a n v ic e -p re s id e n t, b u s in e s s m a n a g e r , a n d e le c te d m e m b e rs Bill P u ru , B o b S c u r r , B. M c L e a n , P e te r B ray .

T h e g ra m th e y h a v e to d is t r ib u te to c lu b s a n d so c ie tie s th is y e a r is $ 8 0 0 0 .

A r ts F e s t iv a l 1968 w ill b e h e ld in A u c k la n d f ro m A u g u s t 12 to 17. A te n ta t iv e p r o g ra m m e h a s been w o rk e d o u t by a r t s fe s tiv a l c o n ­t r o l l e r J o e J o h a n n s o n a n d c lu b s h a v e b e e n a l lo t te d t im e s a n d ro o m s f o r m e e tin g s . E v e ry e v e n in g b e ­tw e e n f iv e a n d se v en th e re w ill be c o c k ta il p a r t ie s in th e c o m m o n ro o m , a d i f f e r e n t so c ie ty o r g ro u p o f “c o m p a t ib le ” so c ie tie s c o c k ta il in g e a c h n ig h t. J o e h o p e s th a t th e se c o c k ta i l p a r t ie s w ill a l lo w “ s im ila r in te r e s ts ” p e o p le to g e t to g e th e r o n a n in f o rm a l b a s is a n d to a r ra n g e th in g s s p o n ta n e o u s ly . A n a c tiv it ie s c o m m it te e c o n s is t in g o f r e p re s e n ta ­t iv e s f ro m th e v a r io u s c lu b s w ill be

se t u p to a r r a n g e th e c lu b s ’ p a r t o f th e p r o g ra m m e . Jo e s tre s se d th a t w h ile th e a c tiv it ie s c o m m it te e a n d th e so c ie tie s rep . w o u ld lo o k a f te r th e o r g a n is a t io n o f th e b u lk o f th e p ro g ra m m e , it w o u ld b e th e r e s p o n s ib ili ty o f th e c lu b s th e m ­se lv es to a r r a n g e th e d e ta ils o f th e ir o w n p a r t ic u la r c lu b fu n c tio n s .

M r R ic h a rd R u d m a n , C a p p in g C o n tr o l le r , th e n r e p o r te d o n C ap-_ p in g 1968. T h e w e e k ’s a c tiv it ie s w ill b eg in w ith a se rv ic e in th e c h a p e l o n S u n d a y , A p r il 28 a n d e n d w ith G r a d u a t io n B all o n M a y 3. T h e re w ill b e p r iz e s o f $ 2 0 0 to be w o n by c lu b s w h o e n te r f lo a ts in P ro c e sb . M r R u d m a n e x h o r te d th o se p re s e n t to c h a lle n g e A rc h . S o c .’s m o n o p o ly o f f i rs t p r iz e s fo r th e b e s t f lo a t .

S o m e s o r t o f F r e d ’s F u n c t io n w ill b e h e ld — a t a c u t r a te f o r th o se w h o c o lle c t f o r C o m m u n i ty C h e s t . C o m m u n i ty C h e s t m o n e y w ill no t be u sed to p ay f o r th is , s a id M r R u d m a n . A g a in th is y e a r s tu d e n ts se llin g C a p p in g B ook w ill be o n a p e rc e n ta g e . A t th is p o in t M r R u d m a n sa id th a t h e th o u g h t it w as " a p re t ty p o o r sh o w th a t A u c k la n d U n iv e rs ity is th e o n ly u n iv e rs ity in th e c o u n tr y w h e re s tu d e n ts h a v e to be p a id t o se ll C a p p in g B o o k an d to ta k e p a r t in P ro c e s h .”

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b e g in n in g o f 1965 to p r o m o te a n d p e r fo r m in t im a te re v u e a n d is m o d e l le d o n th e C a m b r id g e U n iv e rs ity F o o t l ig h ts D r a m a t ic C lu b w h ic h to u re d N e w Z e a la n d w ith “Cambridge Circus” in 1964 .

T h e e r a o f th e ex tr -a v a g a n z a re v u e in A u c k la n d is n o w O ver; f in a n c i ­a lly , ( i t c o s ts $ 1 1 ,0 0 0 to s ta g e s u c h a sh o w ) it h a s p ro v e d u n e c o n o m ic a l ; p ra c t ic a l ly , in te r m s o f f a ile d u n its , it h a s b e c o m e u n a c c e p ta b le to th e a v e ra g e s tu d e n t. T h e F iv e a n d N in e C lu b so lv e d th e p ro b le m b y r e p la c ­in g th e o ld s p e c ta c u la r s h o w W ith s a t ir ic a l in t im a te re v u e .

I n t im a te re v u e is in f in ite ly e a s ie r to s ta g e th a n th e m o re e la b o r a te a l te r n a t iv e a n d th e c lu b th e r e fo r e p ro v id e s f o r th e re v u e -m in d e d m a n y m o re o p p o r tu n it ie s to w r i te , p e r fo rm a n d w a tc b s a tir ic a l re v u e . T h e p u b lic a c tiv it ie s o f th e c lu b in c lu d e th e p re s e n ta t io n o f th e a n n u a l C a p p in g R e v u e a n d th e s ta g in g o f a t le a s t o n e o th e r m a in p r o d u c t io n , lu n c h - tim e r e v u e t te s , e v e n in g s o f c a b a r e t s ty le re v u e a n d th e p u b l ic a ­t io n o f a s a t ir ic a l m a g a z in e . T h e c lu b is a ls o c o m m is s io n e d to p e r fo r m a t b a lls a n d o th e r so c ia l fu n c t io n s f o r w h ic h sp e c ia l m a te r ia l , a p p r o p r i ­a te to th e p a r t ic u la r o c c a s io i , is w r it te n . M e m b e r-o n ly a c t iv i t ie s in c lu d e a c o u r s e o f a c t in g a n d w r it in g w o rk s h o p s a n d th re e ro llic k in g e n d -o f- te rm sm o k e c o n c e r ts .

T h e c lu b h a s th re e lev e ls o f m e m b e rs h ip . “ S ta g e ” m e m b e r s h ip is by e le c tio n o n ly , th e q u a l i f ic a t io n b e in g th e a b il i ty to p e r fo r m , w r ite o r c o m p o s e a h u m o r o u s s k e tc h o r so n g a t o n e o f th e c h ib ’s w o rk s h o p s o r sm o k e c o n c e r ts . S in c e re v u e is t r a d i t io n a l ly o n ly p e r fo rm e d by m a le s , w o m e n c a n n o t a s a g e n e ra l ru le b e c o m e “ s ta g e ” m e m b e rs : ( th u s th e n a m e “Five and N ine” — th e t r a d i t io n a l th e a t r ic a l te rm f o r s ta n d a rd m a le m a k e -u p , g re a s e p a in t n u m b e r s five a n d n in e ) . T o d a te o n ly o n e g ir l, R a e w y n E ll io t t h a s b e c o m e a “ s ta g e ” m e m b e r a l th o u g h f e m a le a s s o c ia te m e m b e rs a re o f te n in v ite d to ta k e p a r t in v a r io u s p r o ­d u c t io n s . “ A s s o c ia te ” m e m b e rs h ip is o p e n to a n y s tu d e n t , g r a d u a te o r s t a f f m e m b e r o f th e u n iv e rs itv . “ S u b s c r ip t io n ” m e m b e rs h ip , w h ic h e n t i t le s y o u to n e w s le tte rs , th e c lu b ’s s a t ir ic a l m a g a z in e a n d p r e f e r e n ­tia l c o n c e s s io n b o o k in g s is o p e n to a n y o n e s u f f ic ie n tly in te re s te d to p a y th e f if ty c e n t fe e .

S tu d e n ts in te r e s te d in e n ro l l in g fo r th e f irs t te rm w o rk s h o p s , a u d i ­t io n in g f o r th e C a p p in g R e v u e o r a p p ly in g f o r a n y level o f m e m b e r s h ip w e re in v ite d to f ill o u t a c lu b ’s a n d a c tiv it ie s c a r d a t e n r o lm e n t a n d to a t te n d th e c lu b A .G .M . in th e f i r s t te r m ; (w a tc h th e n o tic e b o a r d s f o r th e d a te a n d th e v e n u e ) . I f v o u m iss e d th e s e , c o n ta c t ROGER SIM PSON . C h a ir m a n , p h o n e 2 4 -7 7 9 (b u s in e ss ) .

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in te re s ts o f th o s e s tu d e n ts w h o fee l th a t th e m o d e rn w o rld is a b u rd e n a n d p r e fe r th e m o re a d v a n c e d c iv il is a tio n s o f G r e e c e a n d R o m e. I ts m e m b e rs h ip te n d s to be c o n f in e d la rg e ly to c la s s ic s s tu d e n ts , bu t th e y w e lc o m e " b a r b a r ia n s ” f ro m o th e r d e p a r tm e n ts a t a n y o f th e ir fu n c tio n s . T h e a im o f th e C la s s ica l S o c ie ty is p a r t ly to c o m p le m e n t an d a s s is t k n o w le d g e o f th e G re e k an d R o m a n w o r ld , b u t m o re g e n e ra lly to p ro v id e a l ig h te r re lie f to n o rm a l c la s s ic s s tu d ie s . It w as w ith th is p a r t ic u la r v iew in m in d th a t h o n o u r s s tu d e n ts a n d s ta f f m e m ­b e rs r e c e n t ly p re s e n te d a n a d a p ­ta t io n o f A r is to p h a n e s ’ “ T h e F ro g s .” T h is y e a r a s in p a s t y e a rs th e y p lan to o to h o ld a h u m o r o u s d e b a te in th e f i rs t te r m , c h o o s in g as th e ir to p ic s s o m e w e ll-k n o w n f ig u re o f a n t iq u i ty . O th e r a c tiv itie s f o r te rm o n e in c lu d e a n a d d re s s by D r M in n o n “ A n c ie n t E d ito r s ,” a n d se v e ra l s h o r t p a p e r s to be g iv en by s tu d e n ts o n th e R o m a n e m p e ro rs .

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B u t i t ’s n o t so le ly a sc ien ce s tu d e n ts ’ c lu b . I t c a te r s to o fo rth o s e w h o lik e to “ g e t aw ay f ro m it a l l ” a n d o n c e “ a w a y ” d o n ’t w an t to be tie d d o w n to a se t p ro g ra m m e . T h u s , i f y o u like to lie in th e su n a ll d a y , p la y w ith to y d o g s , p rac tise sk ip p in g . . . F ie ld C lu b is y o u r s o r t o f c lu b .

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Swedish students are paid about NZ$50.00 a month by the State, said Mr K. H. Andervson. Ambassador for Sweden.

High school students are paid about NZ$12.00 and univers*ty students 300 krona, which is approximately NZ$50.00. This is partly repayable, depending on the student's later salary. However the Ambassador qualified this in the light of Sweden's very high cost of living.

W hile giving basic facts on Sweden, Mr Andersson described Sweden’s foreign policy as “non-alignment in peace time and neutrality in war.” “An unfortunate consequence” of this is enormous defence spending: NZ$800 million of the budget.

However he admitted that Sweden is not ideologically neutral and “believes strongly in Western democracy.”

Mr Andersson claimed that Sweden's famed economic success and independence was not due to socialisation as is commonly believed. Ninety per cent of Sweden's industry is co-operatively or privately controlled and there are no plans for increasing the public sector outside education, housing and health.

‘“The fusion of idealism and pragmatism has been the cause,” he said. Other causes were high taxes, “the high priority to raising the standard of living” .(30 per cent of the budget), the active understand­ing between labour and management, and the lowering of tar ffs creating stimulating competition and economic competitiveness.

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V a lle y R d a t S w a n s o n is a sm a ll h u t in a little m ix ed b u sh v e s ted in th e A u c k la n d U n iv e r s i ty . T h ro u g h th e e f fo r ts o f th e la te H o n . S ir G e o rg e F o w ld s , th e n p r e s id e n t o f th e c o lle g e , a c h a ir o f fo re s t ry w as se t u p u n d e r P ro fe s s o r C o rb in , b u t o w in g to la ck o f s u p p o r t b y th e S ta te F o re s t S e rv ice a n d fe w o th e r a p p lic a n ts , w ith in a few y e a rs it w a s c lo s e d d o w n . N o w w ith th e g ro w in g in te re s t in fo re s t a c tiv it ie s , a c h a i r is b e in g rev ived a t th e C a n te rb u r y U n iv e rs ity , C h r is tc h u rc h .

In th e v e ry e a r ly d a y s a lo t o f t im b e r w as cu t o u t o f th e n e a r -b y fo re s ts b u t f o r tu n a te ly th e C ro w n re s e rv e d th is a r e a o f a b o u t 5 0 a c re s a n d b y th e a id o f f e n c in g a n d th e e x c lu s io n o f c a t t le th e re h a s b e e n c o n s id e ra b le r e g e n e ra t io n . A s a m e a s u re to h e lp to s tu d y D o m in io n f lo ra , it w as th r o u g h th e in f lu e n c e o f S ir G e o rg e th a t th e m a in t im b e r c o m p a n ie s a n d r e la te d h a r d w a r e c o m p a n ie s ag reed to s u p p ly a ll th e m a te r ia ls f o r th e h u t . N o w it is m a in ly u se d by th e B o ta n y D e p a r t ­m e n t s tu d e n ts a n d o th e r g ro u p s .

A r ra n g e m e n ts w e re m a d e w ith a n e ig h b o u r in g f a r m e r t o h o ld th e k ey a n d th e re is a p iq u a n t s to r y c o n c e rn in g th e w ife o f th is m a n w h o h a d f o u r d a u g h te r s to w h o m sh e w a n te d to te a c h th e p ia n o . By sa v in g e n o u g h m o n e y f ro m h o u s e ­k e e p in g p u rp o se s , sh e w a s a b le to b u y a p ian o w h ic h sh e k n e w h e r h u s b a n d w o u ld n o t b e in f a v o u r o f a n d w as ab le to te a c h th e g ir ls f o r a n u m b e r o f y ea rs b e fo re h e w a s le t in to th e se c re t.

— George M. Fowlds

H o w c o m fo r t in g it is to le a rn th a t C a n te rb u r y 's P ro f . C a r r in g to n h a s jo in e d J o h n M c G ra th in g iv in g th e “G o o d -H o u s e k e e p in g ” se a l o f a p ­p ro v a l to th e N Z U S A In s u ra n c e S c h e m e . (C ra c c u m — A p r i l 8 .) B u t th is w o n 't fo o l a n y b o d y w h o c a r e ­fu lly c o m p a re s th e r a te s a n d c o n ­d i t io n s be in g o f fe r e d b y th e c o m p a n ie s u n d e rw ri t in g th is s c h e m e w ith th o se o f th e le a d in g N .Z . L if e O f f ic e s , an d d isc o v e rs th e fo llo w in g fa c ts .

1. T h e c o m p a n ie s ' u s u a l r a te s a re h ig h e r th a n o th e r o f f ic e s , a n d th e“s p e c ia l d isc o u n t” o f f e r e d to s tu ­d e n ts o n ly b rin g s th e m in to l in e w ith th o se n o rm a lly a v a i la b le o n th e m a rk e t.2. B ro k e rs c a n n o t r e p re s e n t th e le a d in g A u s tra la s ia n L if e o f f ic e s . Byd e a l in g w ith a f i rm o f b r o k e r s th e N Z U S A is d ire c tin g b u s in e s s a w a y f ro m c o m p a n ie s w h ic h h a v e p r o v e d su c c e ss fu l an d c o m p e ti t iv e o n th e N .Z . m a rk e t.

3. L if e O ffic e s c a n o n ly a c c e p t th e r isk o n an y o n e l i fe a f te r c a re fu l m e d ic a l s e le c tio n . W h ile it is t ru e th a t if a ll N .Z . U n iv e r s i ty s tu d e n ts w e re to in su re in th is s c h e m e th e n m e d ic a l s e le c tio n w o u ld be u n n e c e s ­s a ry , in p ra c tic e , a n y c o m p a n y o f ­f e r in g n o n -m e d ic a l life in s u ra n c e r e c e iv e s a p p lic a tio n s f ro m a h ig h p r o p o r t io n o f n o n -se le c t a n d e v en u n in s u ra b le lives. T h e c o r re s p o n d -

RHODESIAY o u r c o r r e s p o n d e n t , A . 3.

W it te n - H a n n a h a p p e a r s to be a f f l ic ­ted by th a t s a m e m u d d le d th in k in g a n d m is re p re s e n ta t io n o f fa c ts w h ic h is so p re v a le n t a m o n g th o s e se e k in g to ju s t i fy th e S m ith re g im e in R h o d e s ia .

H e s ta te s th a t in 1689 in B r ita in a re v o lu t io n to o k p la c e a g a in s t J a m e s I . T h e f a c ts a r e th a t G r e a t B r ita in o n ly c a m e in to e x is te n c e a s a n a t io n in 1707 a n d J a m e s I , K in g o f E n g la n d , w h o w a s a ls o J a m e s V I , K in g o f S c o t la n d , d ie d in 162 5 , to be su c c e e d e d by h is so n C h a r le s w h o s u b s e q u e n t ly lo s t h is h e a d .

A t th e t im e to w h ic h y o u r c o r r e s p o n d e n t r e fe rs . E n g la n d d id , o f c o u rs e , h a v e a k in g n a m e d J a m e s I I . g r a n d s o n o f J a m e s I . A t t h a t t im e E n g la n d d id n o t h a v e a d e m o c r a t ic a l ly e le c te d P a r l ia m e n t su c h a s is k n o w n to d a y . I t w as in d e e d J a m e s I I w h o r e fu s e d to a s se m b le th is so -c a lle d P a r l ia m e n t a n d e n d e a v o u re d to ru le d ic ta to r i- a l ly by “ th e d iv in e r ig h t o f K in g s .” H is “ g o v e r n m e n t” c o n s is te d o f a

ing d e te r io r a t io n in it’s m o r ta li ty e x p e r ie n c e m u s t d e c re a s e th e p ro f i ts o f th e o f f ic e . A n y s tu d e n t in g o o d h e a l th is th e r e fo r e b e t te r to in ­s u r e w ith a n o f f ic e w h ic h se le c ts i ts r is k s m e d ic a l ly , a s th is m u s t re s u l t in h ig h e r b o n u s d is t r ib u t io n s .4 . O n ly 10 p e r c e n t o f a L ife c o m p a n y 's p o l ic y h o ld e r s u se th e m o r tg a g e f u n d s m a d e a v a i la b le by th e c o m p a n y . I t is a f a i r b e t th a t a la rg e p r o p o r t io n o f th is 10 p e r c e n t a r e p e o p le in a h ig h e i in c o m e b r a c k e t , ie. th o s e w h o w e re o n c e m e m b e rs o f th is S tu d e n ts ’ A s s o c ia ­tio n . A n y s tu d e n t s h o u ld th e r e fo r e th in k f a r b e y o n d a n y g im m ic k s su ch a s “ f r e e in s u ra n c e a d v ic e ” (w h ic h a n y r e p u ta b le a g e n t c a n g iv e ), “ n o n -m e d ic a l in s u r a n c e ” (w h ic h m e a n s lo w e r p ro f i ts ) a n d a sk , “ H o w m u c h m o n e y d o e s th is c o m p a n y le n d in N e w Z e a la n d ? H o w m u c h c a n it le n d ? H o w m u c h w ill it len d m e ? ”

W h e n th e s e q u e s t io n s h a v e b e e n s a t i s f a c t o r i l y a n s w e r e d , m o s t s t u d e n ts w ill p r e f e r ( a s I d o ' to d e a l w ith c o m p a n ie s w h o h a v e a h i s to r y o f i n s u r in g a n d in v e s t in g in N e w Z e a la n d , a n d n o t w ith a f i r m o f b r o k e r s w h o c a n n o t g iv e s tu d e n ts a n y c h o ic e b e tw e e n le a d ­ing N e w Z e a la n d life o f f ic e s , a n d w h o a re p re p a re d to m a k e n o d is t in c t io n b e tw e e n th e h e a l th y a n d th e d ise a se d in o r d e r to a t t r a c t n ew b u s in e ss . — R . A , S te v e n s o n ,

fe w p e o p le se le c te d b y h im se lf w h o g av e r e a d y a c q u ie s c e n c e to h is e f fo r ts to p u t th e c lo c k b a c k 150 y e a rs a n d d e p r iv e th e p e o p le o f E n g la n d o f th e f r e e d o m s th e y h a d p a in s ta k in g ly w o n o v e r th is p e r io d . J a m e s ' ru le w a s in d e e d lik e S m ith ’s in th a t it w as th e a t te m p t o f a sm a ll g r o u p o f b ig o ts to ru le th e m a jo r ity f o r th e f u r th e r a n c e o f th e i r o w n e n d s .

I t w 'as J a m e s w’h o h id th e G r e a t S ea l s o t h a t P a r l ia m e n t c o u ld n o t b e c a l le d . F a r f ro m b e in g a n o n -d e s ­c r ip t g ro u p o f h ig h - ra n k in g o f f ic ia ls w h o in v ite d th e P r in c e o f O ra n g e to e n te r th e f r a y , i t w a s a ll (b u t a few ) o f th e E n g lis h a r is to c r a c y , to g e th e r w ith th e A r c h b is h o p s o f C a n te r b u r y a n d Y o rk , th e A d m ira ls o f th e F le e t a n d g e n e ra ls o f th e A rm y , a m o n g th e m L o rd C h u r c h i l l , S ir W in s to n e ’s f a m o u s a n c e s to r .

It s h o u ld b e b o r n e in m in d th a t W ill ia m , P r in c e o f O ra n g e , w a s th e h u s b a n d o f J a m e s ’ d a u g h te r M a ry w h o w a s th e h e i r to th e th r o n e . J a m e s ’ o n ly so n . la te r k n o w n a s th e P re te n d e r , w as o n ly b o rn d u r in g th e tro u b le s .

K in g J a m e s w a s n o t o v e rs e a s w h en W ill ia m la n d e d a t T o rb a y in N o v e m b e r . 168 8 . H e r e m a in e d in th e c o u n tr y u n ti l a f t e r th e w h o le n a t io n h a d tu r n e d a g a in s t h im , in c lu d in g h is o w n d a u g h te r s . H e p re te n d e d to g ive w ay a n d p ro m is e d to s u m m o n P a r l ia m e n t to m ee t in J a n u a r y , 1689, a n d o n D e c e m b e r 2 2 , 16 8 8 , th e H o u s e o f L o rd s a s se m b le d to d ra w u p p la n s f o r th e c o n v e n in g o f P a r l ia m e n t. T h e fo llo w in g d a y a d e le g a t io n w as d e s p a tc h e d to K in g J a m e s to p r o c u re th e o ff ic ia l R o y a l c o n s e n t b u t it w as fo u n d th a t b e h a d f led in se c re t d u r in g th e n ig h t a n d h a d ta k e n sh ip f o r F ra n c e . T h e c o u n tr y w>as th e r e fo r e a b a n d o n e d by h im w ith o u t a n y g o v e rn m e n t a t a ll a n d w o u ld h a v e b e e n re d u c e d to a s ta te o f c o m p le te c h a o s h a d n o t th e P r in c e o f O ra n g e c a lle d to g e th e r a ll th e a v a i la b le m e m b e rs o f K in g C h a r le s I l ’s la s t P a r l ia m e n t to g e th e r w ith th e L o rd M a y o r a n d c o u n c il lo rd s o f L o n d o n , to m e e t h im o n D e c e m b e r 2 6 . O n D e c e m b e r 2 4 . th e H o u s e o f L o rd s h a d m e t a n d o n th e fo llo w in g d a y , C h r is tm a s D a y , 1688, p re s e n te d a n a d d re s s to th e P rin c e b e g g in g h im to issu e c i r c u la r le t te r s in h is n a m e to th e e le c to ra l b o d ie s a s k in g th e m to r e tu rn m e m b e rs to a N a t io n a l C o n v e n tio n .

T h e f a c ts s h o w th a t th e S m ith reg im e h a s in d e e d m u c h m o re in c o m m o n w ith K in g J a m e s ’ fo o lis h a t te m p t to ru le a m a jo r i ty b y a m in o r i ty in d e f ia n c e o f th e C o n s t i ­tu t io n . H it le r a n d M u s s o lin i a ls o m a d e s im ila r a t te m p ts a t ru le b y th e d e n ia l o f th e r ig h ts a n d f re e d o m s o f th e c o m m o n m a n a n d , lik e J a m e s IT. c o m e to a b a d e n d . N o d o u b t th e sa m e w ill u l t im a te ly h a p p e n to S m ith .

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b e tra y a l o f th e i r o w n c ity s tu d e n ts ” w as h o w R ic h a rd R u d m a n (C a p p in g C o n t r o l le r ) r e f e r r e d to th e d e c is io n o f th e T r a f f ic C o m ­m itte e to a l lo w M a ss e y U n iv e r s i ty to se ll " M a s s k e ra d e ” in th e s t r e e ts o f A u c k la n d . W h y , h e c la im e d , s h o u ld th e c it iz e n s o f A u c k la n d f in a n c e th e c a p p in g a c t iv i t ie s o f a n o th e r u n iv e rs i ty ? B o th s tu d e n ts a n d c o m m u n ity w o u ld in e v ita b ly s u f f e r if “ M a s s k e ra d e ” w as so ld in a n y q u a n t i ty . P ro te s ts w e re m a d e to th e M a y o r , a n d a t th e e le v e n th h o u r , t h e C o u n c i l h o n o u r e d its o b lig a tio n to th e c ity a n d u n iv e rs ity . By re v o k in g th e d e c is io n o f th e T r a f f ic C o m m it te e , th e C o u n c il p re v e n te d A u c k la n d c it iz e n s f ro m u n w itt in g ly c o n t r ib u t in g to in te r ­lo p e rs , a n d r e m o v e d th e f e e lin g o f b e tr a y a l a m o n g th e s tu d e n ts .

T h e sa le s o f C a p p in g M a g in A u c k la n d p ro v id e th e m o n e y f o r a ll th e a c t iv i t ie s o f C a p p in g W e e k . F e w e r sa le s m e a n f e w e r s tu n ts a n d a m o r e l im ite d p ro c e s h : an o p p o r tu n i ty lo s t f o r h ig h -sp ir ite d s tu d e n ts to le t o f f s te a m ; a n d f o r s o b e r c it iz e n s to e s c a p e th e c a re s o f e v e ry d a y w o rk . A f u r th e r e c o n o m y w o u ld h a v e to b e m a d e in th e g r a d u a t io n c e re m o n y , th e r e b y w e a k e n in g o n e o f o u r b e s t m e a n s o f sh o w in g “ to w n ” th e a im o f “ g o w n .”

C a p p in g M a g sa le s a ls o p ro v id e th e m o n e y f o r th e v a r io u s c h a r i t ie s to w h ic h th e u n iv e r s i ty c o n tr ib u te s , n o ta b ly C o m m u n i ty C h e s t . L a s t y e a r , s tu d e n ts ra ise d $ 7 0 0 0 , o n e th ird o f th e to ta l in c o m e . T h is y e a r , th e re is a ls o a p ro je c te d p a r ty f o r th e c r ip p le d c h i ld re n , w h ic h w ill a g a in b e f in a n c e d o u t o f th e p ro c e e d s f ro m th e sa le o f C a p p in g M a g . T h e sa le • o f “ M a s s k e ra d e ” w o u ld l im it th e a m o u n ts th a t c o u ld be s p e n t o n su c h c h a r i t ie s . M o re se r io u s , h o w e v e r , w as th e fe e lin g o f d is i l lu s io n m e n t a m o n g s tu d e n ts th e p e rm iss io n g iv en to M a ssey to se ll in A u c k la n d c a u s e d . T w o o r th re e m e m b e rs o f E x ec , a r e sa id to h a v e fe lt th a t if th e c ity c a re d so little f o r th e in te re s ts o f i ts o w n s tu d e n ts , th e s tu d e n ts sh o u ld n o t feel o b lig e d to in te r e s t th e m s e lv e s in th e a f fa ir s o f th e c ity . T h e s till f a i r ly f ra g ile c o -o p e ra t io n b e tw e e n “ to w n ” a n d “ g o w n ” w a s th u s th r e a te n e d .

A s s o o n a s th e f i r s t d e c is io n o f th e T r a f f ic C o m m itte e , r e a c h e d o n M o n d a y , w as k n o w n , a s tro n g p ro te s t w a s m a d e to th e M a y o r . O n c e h e re a lise d th e a t t i tu d e o f th e s tu d e n ts o n th e m a t te r , h e w a s fu lly c o -o p e ra tiv e . B y W e d n e s d a y , th e C o u n c il w as p e r s u a d e d to rev o k e th e d e c is io n to a llo w sa le s o f “ M a s s k e ra d e ” o n th e c ity s tre e ts . T h e f in a l a r s u m e n t se e m s to h av e b een R o s s M c C o r m ic k ’s (o re s id e n t) in fo rm in g th e C o u n c il o f th e se llin g b o u n d a r ie s th a t e x is t f o r th e sa le o f c a p p in g m a g a z in e s . A lth o u g h se t b y th e N Z U S A . it is in fa c t p o w e r le s s to e n fo rc e th e m . O n c e th is w as m a d e k n o w n , th e u n iv e rs ity r e ­ce iv ed th e fu lle s t c o -o p e ra t io n f ro m th e a u th o r i t ie s c o n c e rn e d , a n d f ro m m o s t o f th e A u c k la n d b u s in e ss m e n a p p ro a c h e d , to k e e p th e s e lle rs o f “ M a s s k e ra d e ” a t b a y . U n f o r tu n ­a te ly , h o w e v e r , th e C o u n c il re ­v e rsed its d e c is io n to o la te to p re v e n t m a n y M a ss e y s tu d e n tS ’T ro m le a v in g , a rm e d w ith “ M a s s k e ra d e .” fo r A u c k la n d .

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A ll l i b r a r y b o o k s r e m a in s u b je c t t o r e c a l l th r o u g h o u t th e v a c a t io n .

I f y o u p la n to b e a w a y f ro n t A u c k la n d a n d h a v e b o o k s o u t o f th e L ib r a r y , e i t h e r m a k e a r r a n g e m e n t s f o r s o m e o n e a t y o u r c u r r e n t a d d r e s s to r e ­t u r n t h e m i f th e y a r e r e ­c a l l e d , o r , if y o u a r e t a k in g th e b o o k s w i th y o u . i t w ill b e n e c e s s a r y f o r y o u to h a v e y o u r v a c a t io n a d d r e s s o n th e b o o k - c a r d s .

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“T ra v e l— w ith in N Z U S A is th e r e s p o n s ib ili ty o f th e S tu d e n t T ra v e l B u re a u (S T B ). T h is b u re a u sp e c ia lis e s in e d u c a t io n a l tra v e l , a n d p ro v id e s a s e rv ic e to a ll s tu d e n ts w h o a r e s tu d y in g in N e w Z e a la n d , o r to u r in g th is c o u n try . A lso , th r o u g h lia is o n w ith th e I n te r n a ­t io n a l S tu d e n t T ra v e l C o m m is s io n , th e S tu d e n t T ra v e l B u re a u o r g a n is e s t ra v e l c o n c e s s io n s , to u r s a n d fa c i l i ­tie s f o r N e w Z e a la n d s tu d e n ts th r o u g h o u t th e w o r ld .” S o sa y s th e S tu d e n t T ra v e l B u re a u p a m p h le t w h ic h c a n b e o b ta in e d a t th e A u c k ­la n d b r a n c h o f th e S T B , lo c a te d in th e H o u s e C o m m it te e R o o m n e x t to th e W o m e n ’s C o m m o n R o o m , a n d o p e n e a c h W e d n e s d a y lu n c h ­tim e (1 -2 p .m .) . A lso a v a i la b le a r e t ra v e l in s u ra n c e f o rm s f o r p e r s o n a l

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future may see pubs with no beer . . . for the students any­way. Last year a student alleged be (in an orderly state) was evicted from a city pub together with three of his mates. No reason for the evic­tion was given then.

It seems on investigation that the behaviour of a small number of students earlier in the day had so disturbed both staff and other patrons that a firm line was drawn and no students at all were admitted for the rest of the day. It happened at one hotel last year. This year it could happen at more. Certainly there are some hotels that do not wel­come students with open arms and there are probably more that take a dim view of exces­sive fooling around on the part of a minority. It is possible to avoid all this ill feeling.

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Peter Pan BlamedE x e c u t iv e m e m b e r , S e lw y n

A n d e r s o n , g av e h is r e a s o n s fo r th e h ig h c o s t o f th is y e a r ’s G r a d u a t io n B all t ic k e ts to C ra c c U m . M r A n d e r s o n s ta te d th a t th e m a in f a c to r in th e m a t te r is th e 33 p e r c e n t in ­c r e a s e in th e h ir e a g e c h a rg e o f th e P e te r P a n . w h ic h h a s r e ­c e n tly b e e n r e d e c o r a te d , a n d w h ic h n o w o f fe r s b e t te r a m e n it ie s a n d a b ig g e r o r c h e s t r a . W h e n a sk e d i f it w o u ld be p o ss ib le to h o ld G r a d . B all e ls e w h e re , M r A n d e r s o n r e p l ie d t h a t in v iew o f la s t y e a r ’s a t te n d a n c e o f a p p r o x im a te ly 9 0 0 . th e o n ly a l te r n a t iv e to th e P e te r P an w o u ld b e th e T o w n H a l l , w h ic h w o u ld n o t o n ly c o s t m o re , b u t w o u ld in v o lv e c a te r ­in g p ro b le m s .

A n o th e r f a c to r n e c e s s ita t in g . th e r is e in c o s t o f t ic k e ts , s a id

M r A n d e r s o n , is th e g e n e ra l m o n e ta r y d e v a lu a t io n a n d r ise in l iq u o r p r ic e s . A n y th in g less th a n $ 1 0 w o u ld m e a n a f in a n ­c ia l lo ss to th e S tu d e n ts ’ A s s o c ia tio n . W h e n q u e s tio n e d a s to w h e th e r a lo w e r a t t e n d ­a n c e w as e x p e c te d th is y e a r ( la s t y e a r ’s t ic k e ts c o s t “ b e ­tw e e n $8 a n d $ 9 ” ) M r A n d e r ­so n s a id w ith a s s u ra n c e th a t a t te n d a n c e w as “ g u a r a n te e d .” H e c o n c lu d e d by s a y in g th a t h e w as “ m o re w o rr ie d a b o u t th e c a b a r e t .”

— J L . K in g

a n d lu g g a g e r e q u ire m e n ts , a n d a p ­p l ic a t io n f o rm s f o r I n te rn a t io n a l 1D c a r d s w h ic h e n t i t le s tu d e n ts to c o n c e s s io n s o v e rs e a s .

T h e t ra v e l b u r e a u o rg a n is e s g ro u p tra v e l a t c o n c e s s io n r a te s (a p p ro x i­m a te ly 25 p e r c e n t c h e a p e r th a n fo r n o r m a l f l ig h ts ) to A u s tr a l ia a n d N e w C a le d o n ia . T h re e A u s tr a l ia n t r ip s a r e sc h e d u le d f o r e a c h o f th e M a y a n d A u g u s t h o l id a y s , w h ile th e o n ly N e w C a le d o n ia n t r ip is in M a y . A la rg e n u m b e r o f f lig h ts a r e sc h e d u le d f o r th e s u m m e r h o li­d ay s . R ig h ts f u r th e r a f ie ld , to S in g a ­p o re o r th e U .S .A . f o r in s ta n c e , h a v e s till to be f in a lis e d , b u t w ill p ro b a b ly ta k e p la c e n e x t C h r is tm a s . A p p lic a tio n f o rm s f o r a ll f l ig h ts th is y e a r a r e n o w a v a i la b le f ro m th e A u c k la n d b ra n c h .. A n o th e r s p e c ia lty o f th e S tu d e n t

T ra v e l B u re a u is th e o r g a n is a t io n o f w o rk c a m p s w h e re , a s th e S l 'B p a m p h le t p u ts i t , “T h ro u g h th e i r sp e c ia lis e d k n o w le d g e , in itia tiv e a n d la b o u r , N e w Z e a la n d s tu d e n ts c a n c o n t r ib u te s u b s ta n t ia l ly to n e e d s o f c o m m u n it ie s o r c o u n tr ie s in th e P a c if ic a r e a .” P o s s ib le p ro je c ts th is y e a r w ill be th e b u i ld in g o f a t r a in ­in g co lle g e in T o n g a , th e fo rm in g o f c o m m u n ic a t io n l in k s to o u te r is la n d s o f th e F i j i g r o u p o r th e to o f f e r in r e g a rd to s tu d y to u r s , to u r s w ith in N e w Z e a la n d , a n d e x c a v a tin g fo r p o t te ry re m a in s fo r th e F i j i m u s e u m .

Capping Week 1968 Programme

Saturday, April 27: REVUE opens at Concert Chamber, 8 p.m.Sunday, April 28: Handicapped Children's Party: SUB caf., 2.34 p.m.

Graduation Chapel Service.Monday, April 29: MISS AUCK. UNIVERSITY parade: SUB, 1 p.m.

UNDERGRAD. BALL — CAPPING CABARET; Caf. 8 p.m. Food and liquor inc. in $5. See Miss University crowned.

Tuesday, April 30: BOAT RACE: Details to be finalised. Folk Concert: SUB Caf., 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May i:Thursday, May 2: 12 noon: Procesh leaves ’varsity. ALL day: CHARITY

COLLECTION.Friday, May 3: Lunchtime: Academic Procession. 8 p.m.: Graduation

Ball — Peter Pan Cabaret.CAPPING WEEK is your week. At this time of the year, the

students of Auckland University go on public show. Most of the populace are tolerant of our indiscretions, and enjoy the fun and frolic. But we must remember to avoid deliberately trampling upon sensitive corns. CAPPING COMMITTEE has struck a number of extraordinary problems this year; but has nevertheless managed to organise a pro­gramme designed to produce an enjoyable Capping Week. The com­mittee hopes that everybody will enter into the full swing of Capping Week, and hopes that all will have a good time.

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CRACCUM CENSURED BY EXECUTIVE

"Filthy Blackmail" AllegedCraccum w a s censured at a recent Executive m eet­

ing for "attem pted b la ck m a il" of the Exec. This m otion fo llow ed Craccum 's request that Exec, m em bers sum up their ow n positions or be "indecently exposed."

C r a c c u m se n t a le t te r to e a c h e x e c u tiv e m e m b e r a s k in g h im to g ive a p ro g re s s r e p o r t o n th e fu l f i lm e n t o f h is e le c tio n p o licy . I f e x e c u tiv e m e m b e rs fa ile d to su p p ly su c h a r e p o r t . C r a c c u m w o u ld in d e c e n t ly e x p o s e th e m f o r th e i r a p a th y .

P ro te s t to th is le t te r to o k tw o fo rm s . F irs t ly , s o m e m e m b e rs th a t th e w r it in g o f s u c h a r e p o r t m a d e u n r e a s o n a b le d e m a n d s o n th e i r t im e . S e c o n d ly , so m e , e s p e c ia lly M r L a w a n d M r L id d e ll , in te rp re te d “ in d e c e n t e x p o s u re ” a s a tte m p te d b la c k m a il o n th e p a r t o f C ra c c u m . T d o n ’t lik e to b e b la c k m a ile d b y

C r a c c u rn ,’’ sa id M r L a w . M rR u d m e n s a id , “C r a c c u m h a s n or ig h t to d e m a n d an a c c o u n t o f

BURSARY DELAY Maidment Explains

A c u t in th e t im e a llo w e d fo r c h a n g e s o f c o u rs e m a y b r in g b u r s a r ie s o u t e a r l ie r n e x t y e a r , sa id th e V ic e -C h a n c e l lo r , M r M a id m e n t.

C a lc u la tio n s o n b u r s a r ie s c a n n o t s ta r t u n t i l a f t e r M a rc h 3 1 , s in c e s tu d e n ts c a n c h a n g e th e i r c o u rs e s u p to th is d a te , a n d “ o v e rp a y m e n ts n e v e r c o m e b a c k .” I f th e D e a n ’s C o m m it te e a llo w s o n ly u n ti l M a rc h 15 f o r c o u r s e c h a n g e s , th e d e la y wi l l b e c u t d o w n .” M r M a id m e n t sa id . “ In f a c t th is c h a n g e is n o w b e in g c o n s id e re d . I f it is b r o u g h t a b o u t , n e x t y e a r b u r s a r ie s w 'ould be o u t b y th e f irs t w eek in A p r i l .”

D e la y in b u r s a r ie s is a lso c a u s e d by s tu d e n ts ’ f a i lu re to b r in g th e n e c e s s a ry d o c u m e n ts fo r h ig h e r sc h o o l c e r t . , e tc .. w h e n th e y e n ro l . A lth o u g h M r M a id m e n t p la n s to e x p e r im e n t wi t h u s in g m o re s ta ff , he fe e ls th e r e a l d e la y is c a u s e d b y w a itin g f o r s tu d e n ts to f o rw a rd th e s e d o c u m e n ts .

“T h e s h e e r c o m p le x i ty o f b u r ­s a r ie s in th e p a s t y e a rs — wi t h A - ty p e . B -type a n d sp e c ia l s u p p le ­m e n ta ry a l lo w a n c e s is a ls o r e s p o n ­s ib le fo r th e d e la y .” '

W h ile m a n y s tu d e n ts re lv a lm o s t e x c lu s iv e ly o n th e i r b u r s a r ie s , th e se h a v e c o m e o u t la te r th a n e v e r th is y e a r . H o w e v e r . M r M a id m e n t p o in te d o u t th a t “ n o s tu d e n t w ith a c a se o f h a r d s h ip h a s been tu r n e d a w a y . M a n y h a v e b e e n m a d e a d v a n c e p a y m e n ts .”

H e a ls o s tre s se d th a t th e d e la y w a s “ in n o w a y c o n n e c te d w ith th e E d u c a t io n D e p a r tm e n t .”

NZUSA ELECTIONSMcCormick Vice-president

T im A rm ita g e , R o ss M c C o rm ic k a n d P e te r A llen a re N Z U S A ’s n ew V ic e -P re s id e n ts . T h e y jo in E d u c a t io n V ic e -P re s id e n t E d n a T a i t a n d T r e a s u r e r D a v e S h a n d . w h o a re c o n t in u in g a s m e m b e rs o f P re s id e n t J o h n M c G r a th ’s a d m in is t r a t io n .

P re s id e n t M c G ra th , th e a s s o c ia ­t io n ’s s e c o n d fu l l- t im e le a d e r , lo o k o v e r f ro m R o ss M o u n ta in in J a n u a ry .

In w h a t w as d e s c r ib e d as a c lo se e le c t io n a t la s t w e e k e n d 's A G M o f th e a s s o c ia t io n , tw o o th e r c a n d i ­d a te s f o r th e V ic e -P re s id e n c ie s , M i k e Ki n g (W a ik a to ) a n d P e te r N a th a n (C a n te r b u ry ) w e re k n o c k e d o u t.

B e fo re c o n s t i tu e n ts c a s t th e ir v o te s , A u c k la n d P re s id e n t M c C o r ­m ick w as q u e s t io n e d o n th e a b ility o f o n e m a n to d o b o th jo b s w ell. H e a rg u e d th a t h e w o u ld b e c o n ­c e rn e d wi t h th e A u c k la n d P re s i­d e n c y o n ly unt i l A u g u s t, a n d th en w o u ld be a b le to d e v o te h is s p a re t im e e n t i r e ly to N Z U S A b u s in e ss .

M r A rm ita g e , f o rm e r ly P re s id e n t o f C a n te rb u r y , is n o w a s tu d e n t a t O ta g o .

M r A lien . w h o h a s b een N Z U S A 's N a t io n a l W o rk C a m p s O f f ic e r , w as a V ic e -P re s id e n t a t

W a ik a to f o r tw o y ea rs .F iv e o th e r m e m b e rs o f th e

N Z U S A a d m in is t r a t io n w e re “ e le c te d ” a t th e m e e tin g . T h e y a re : C u l tu r a l A f fa i r s O f f ic e r , G r a h a m C u l l i f o rd : P a c if ic O f f ic e r , K e ith M o rr is o n : S tu d e n t W e lfa re O f f ic e r , M u r r a y J a m ie s o n ; O v e rse a s S tu ­d e n ts ’ O f f ic e r . C . C h u a : O v e rse a s D e le g a te S e le c tio n C o m m itte e R e p re s e n ta t iv e . J o h n S tre v en s .

O th e r p o s ts h a v e y e t to be f i lle d .N Z U S A 's r e p re s e n ta t iv e s o n th e

a d m in is t r a t io n b o a r d o f F o c u s a re n o w R o b in B ro m b y (o f th e S u n d a y T im e s ) . N e il W o o d h a m s a n d T re v o r C r a w f o rd . T h e y jo in N Z S P A ’s r e p ­r e s e n ta t iv e B a rr ie S a u n d e rs , F o c u s E d ito r H u g h R e n n ie , A d v e r t is in g M a n a g e r P au l P e re tz . a n d N Z U S A P re s id e n t J o h n M c G ra th , w h o wi l l c o n t in u e to c h a i r th e b o a rd .

H o n o r a ry V ic e -P re s id e n ts e le c te d w ere : P a d d y F in n e g a n . J o h n S co tt. J o h n P re b b le . R o s s M o u n ta in a n d R o ss F e llo w s . — NZSPA

e x e c u tiv e m e m b e rs ’ p e r fo r m a n c e .” M iss W o o n to n u p h e ld C r a c c u m ’s r ig h t a s a s tu d e n t n e w s p a p e r to d e ­m a n d th a t e x e c u tiv e m e m b e rs r e p o r t o n th e ir p ro g re s s to th e i r e le c to ra te .

A f te r lo n g d is c u s s io n , e x e c u tiv e p a ssed a m o tio n o f c e n s u re a g a in s t C ra c c u m f o r o v e r ta x in g th e e n e rg y o f e x e c u tiv e m e m b e rs , a n d c o m ­p ro m is in g th e in te g r ity b y b la c k ­m a il.

I t w a s a ls o su g g e s te d th a t if e x e c u tiv e m e m b e rs w ro te th e i r o w n r e p o r t , it w o u ld be d e t r im e n ta l to o b je c tiv ity .

— Richard Hannan

EDITORIAL COMMENT

We consider that every Exec, member who lias been elected is responsible to that electorate for carrying out the policy outlined in his election platform. If be was prepared to state his aims then and submit them to Craccum. there is no reason why he should not be required to report on his progress after election, in­

stead of merely using this newspaper as a medium for making public views which are for him politically expecSient.

If he fails to do to. he is obviously avoiding his respon­sibility to his electoral", and he should, to quote the oi igiual proposal, be “indecen.lv ex­posed” for it.

If this is blackmail, we in­tend to blackmail every stu­dent politician in the ini- versity.

It was stated that Craccum

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f lo u ris h in g a t A u c k la n d U n iv e rs ity . Ja ck F a g a n (a f o r m e r K iw i) h a s been tra in in g th e s e n io r a n d ju n io r te a m s w ith s te n to r ia n d isc ip lin e a n d th is c u lm in a te d in th e s e n io rs d ra w in g a g a in s t th e p o w e r fu l S o u th e rn D is tr ic ts te a m o n S a tu r ­d ay , A p ril 6. A lth o u g h th e fo rw a r d s h ad n o w h e re n e a r th e w e ig h t o f th e ir o p p o s it io n th e i r p la y in g a b il i ty b ro u g h t th e m o u t o n to p . a n d th e w ings w ere a b le to sc o re tw o f in e tr ie s .

J u n io r t e a m s ( th e 3 rd a n d 6 th g rad es) wi l l p lay th e i r f irs t g a m e s on A p ril 20 . M a n y p ro m is in g p lay e rs a r e a lr e a d y t r a in in g fo r th e se g ra d e s . B u t a n y p ro sp e c tiv e p la y e rs wi l l be su re o f a g a m e an d w ill be w e lc o m e d a t o u r S u n d a y tra in in g s g t 10 a .m . a t C a r la w P a r k .

Athletics TourA N e w Z e a la n d u n iv e rs it ie s

a th le tic te a m w ill to u r A u s tr a l ia in M ay .

T h e to u r , f ro m M a y 6 to M a y 26. will c u lm in a te in a te s t a g a in s t an A u s tra lia n u n iv e rs it ie s te a m in B risb a n e o n M a y 25 .

T h e te a m o f 19 w ill b e le d by M r J. P. M illa r , o f A u c k la n d , as m a n a g e r , a n d wi l l f o r th e f i r s t t im e in c lu d e w o m e n a th le te s . R e p re s e n ta ­tiv e te a m s f ro m e i th e r A u s tr a l ia o r N ew ' Z e a la n d wh i c h h a v e to u re d ev e ry tw o y e a r s s in c e 1956 h av e p rev io u sly c o m p r is e d o n ly m a le c o m p e tito rs .

T h e to u r co s t o f $ 3 2 0 0 wi l l be p ro v id ed b y c o n s t i tu e n t a th le tic c lu b s in r e la t io n to m e m b e rs o f th e te a m c h o s e n f ro m e a c h u n iv e rs ity .

— NZSPA

Mice!W h at k in d o f a sc u n g v h o le is

M a ssey ? R e p o r te r s h a d d if f ic u l ty in c o n c e n tra tin g o n n ew s i te m s d u e to th e p re se n c e o f m ic e in M a ss e y ’s R e fe c to ry C o m m o n R o o m . N o d o u b t th e se m ice w ill m o v e in to th e new u n io n b u ild in g w h ic h th e y o p en in J u ly .

— NZSPA

M a n y p ro b le m s h a v e a r ise n f ro m th e in t ro d u c tio n o f s u r f in g in to T o u r n a m e n t c o m p e ti t io n — t r a n s ­p o r t o f s u r f b o a rd s to T o u r n a m e n t w a s d if f ic u l t . T h e O ta g o te a m h a d to k e e p th e i r b o a rd s in th e a is le s w ere b e in g c o n s ta n t ly b u m p e d a n d d u r in g th e b u s t r ip , w h e re th ey

had “no right” to make such demands of Exec, members and that such questioning was “not feasible” and “ridicu­lous.”

We obviously have every right to demand such explana­tions and to insist that the individual involved write the article explaining Ills success or failure. If this is not ‘Teas- ible” in political or personal terms, it is not the demands which are “ridiculous,” but the system.

c h ip p e d . T h e d is ta n c e f ro m M assey to C a s t le p o in t w a s g re a t a n d a g a in t r a n s p o r t w as d if f ic u l t .

M a ss e y h a d t r o u b le o b ta in in g p e o p le t o “ h e lp th e la n d - lo c k e d s u r f ie s ge t th e i r fe e t w e t.”

A lth o u g h su c h p ro b le m s , to ­g e th e r w ith th e c o m p le te d e ­p e n d e n c e o n w -eather c o n d itio n s , m a y h in d e r s u r f in g in th e f u tu re , th e a u th o r i t ie s a r e c o n f id e n t th a t s u r f in g w ill b e p a r t o f n ex t y e a r ’s F a s te r T o u rn a m e n t . — NZSPA

Auckland Rowing SuccessOne of the outstanding successes at Easter Tournament this year

was that of the Auckland women’s rowing four. Racing against five other crews, the team had an easy win iu the 1000-metre race, winning by five lengths. A victory achieved in spite of navigational difficulties on the Wanganui River iu the form of dead sheep and logs, and despite the fact that the stroke was rowing with a mutilated oar—three inches of 5t disappeared after she struck a log during a practise the night before the race.

The win was deserved—for five weeks before the tournament the team got up at 5.30 every morning to practise. The girls in the team were: Elizabeth Cato, a fourth-year arts student. Lorraine Williams, a third-year commerce student, Orini Temaipi and Loris Monzari.

The last two, not students, were in the first crew' at the national championships. None of the girls has been rowing for very long — Orini for three years, Loris for two, Elizabeth for one, and Lorraine for three months.

In spite of the outstanding victory, the team was not able to secure any points for Auckland’s total because the crew was not an all-student one. The club is keen to have an all-student crew and to recruit new members. Winter training, where novices are taught how to row, has now begun — those interested should ring Elizabeth Cato, 581-673.

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