The demonstrations began at Washdyke on Saturday

The demonstrations began at Washdyke on Saturday
‘ternoon. Most of the demonstrators had marched through
jv
imaru earlier, then travelled on to Washdyke.
That morning Timaru residents had been treated to an
utraged anti-demonstrator tirade in the Timary daily
swspaper written by one of the newspaper staff, a woman,
hose husband is one of the US servicemen stationed at
ashdyke. Owen Wilkes said that the servicemen have
iken considerable e ffo rt to f i t into Timaru society, joining
i the usual P.T.A., church and scout groups, using this to
ieir advantage.
We all arrived outside the small concrete block building
at constitutes the Washdyke Communications Centre,
e usual casual, arms folded, strolling policemen were
iere, plus a few locals out to see the "h ips."
As we left for our various means of transportation one
f the locals tried the old trick of running down a
^jmonstrator. He h it one. His car was surrounded and his
jys were taken. The cops with their normal im partiality
lid they'd charge the guy later, compare this with their
iaetion to demonstrators stepping out of line.
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Anyway we all moved on to Tekapo, travelling through
m
ie Canterbury plains. We stop at a roadside tavern to find
n ,
iree cops in uniform, drinking in the private bar; we
)ntinue on the road, climbing higher up into the McKenzie
juntry to Lake Tekapo. Tekapo, a really far-out green
our lake in bleak country windy as hell, but bloody
autiful.
After some food and pitching of tents, a few of us shot
irough to the local Tekapo Pub where we sang the Red
lag. We didn't realize what was going on back at camp,
nd when we arrived back, drunk and singing we were met
y a group of people supporting a guy who had been kicked
i the face. Graeme Wells, one of the people on the summit
f Mt John, at the base, fills in what happened that night.
" . . . There was a large meeting and we decided to go up
Dthe top at about eight o'clock. We set o ff up the hill in
roups, intending to go up and look, and talk to the
Americans.
The police were waiting as demonstrators moved over
^ O l i e hill towards the base. When I arrived two police dogs
were barking about ten yards away from the people who
were surging towards the restricted area. The police
retaliated by putting dogs on to demonstrators. There was
pushing, shoving, barking-and a guy was b itte n —Richard
Suggard. He was bitten on the penis and was bleeding
profusely. During this scuffle a 16 year old schoolboy,
Derek Bunn, was kicked in the face, losing tw o teeth, and
suffering a broken jaw. (He is now in Burwood Hospital,
Christchurch). The crowd became angry—tw o rocks were
thrown at the cops and their dogs. A cop rushed in to the
crowd, chasing a boy. He escaped, then a th ird charge
follow ed—I was booted and another guy, Ian Sm ith, was
bitten in the leg, requiring six stitches.
During this, cops dept swearing and cursing the
demonstrators, telling us to "fu c k o ff". The crow d moved
back, people sat down and began chanting "Y anks Go
Home". During the second charge, Brian O 'B rien was
arrested—the charge "Inciting Offensive Behaviour". I
accompanied a person with an injured leg in to the base to
be treated by a "medical orderly". I saw Brian O 'Brien in
the base surrounded by police. I was escorted around the
base, and as we went I tried to talk to the police into
removing the dogs.
I met Superintendent Dean (Timaru). He asked if I had
any status w ith the demonstrators. "Can you d o anything
with them?" he said. I asked him to get the dogs o u t—and
bring out the Yanks so we could talk. He replied im plying
that if we stayed behind the wire we would be alright. He
left. Later I called a cop over and asked if we c o u ld use the
road—he said he would escort people down the road. I left
with some of the others . . ."
The Boy, Derek Bunn was standing in th e camping
ground, his hand cupped around his chin. Blood was
running freely—his mouth was swollen—teeth were missing,
we put him in one of the cars and set o ff to the nearest
phone, at the caretaker's cottage. The caretaker's wife was
bitchy, unresponsive, charged 50c for a call to the nearest
doctor at Fairlie.
FAIR LIE 11.30 p.m.
The doctor was skeptical—he had been w oken up. " I
d id n 't believe you when you rang from Tekapo. How did
this happen? A policeman kicked him! It's hard to believe."
The doctor told us we must go to Christchurch Casualty
Dept 120 miles away. "The boy needs the attention of a
dental specialist." We set o ff on a long journey. The further
we travelled towards Christchurch the more obvious it
became that the injury was of a serious nature, as Derek
became quite uncomfortable, and on arrival at the Hospital,
was unable to stand up unsupported.
We arrived at the casualty department at 2.00 am.
REVENGE ROCK'N'ROLL CONCERT
We got to the top of the hill at 11.00, gathering above
the station, chanting, listening to Owen Wilkes. The
Americans were watching from inside the dome. An
Inspector came out and told Owen Wilkes that we could
only have one speaker. He was greeted by stones. Then
stones were thrown at the observation building, breaking
the front-door window. The crowd burst through the fence
surrounding the base. The cops threw them back. Then the
people moved around to the back of the base, throwing
stones at a police car. Another window at the rear of the
base was broken. Someone threw a smoke bomb. The rain
began to fall, and people began to disperse—as we went, we
dropped rocks all over the road, stacking them up as we
went. The road was left temporarily useless. 2 V2 miles of the
road were made totally impassable. The police spent some
time picking up the rocks. (Later on we saw a snow plough
heading towards Tekapo, supposedly to clear the road.
Following all this we left for home. The demonstration
was over, but it is certain the issues the demonstrations
raised w ill remain very hot here in Christchurch. In "The
Press", Christchurch's daily paper, the entire fro n t page was
devoted to the M t John/Washdyke demonstration. The
injuries sustained by Derek Bunn w ill on their own create
controversy for he is quite emphatic that they were caused'
by A POLICEMAN'S BOOT. This week in Christchurch
many of the people are planning to continue
demonstrations in protest against police action, and legal
action w ill also be takm .
- SUE WILSON, CHRIS THOMAS.
Consider the fo llow ing:
* O f a ll the executions ju d ic ia lly perform ed in the w orld
every year, h a lf occur in South A frica.
* The South A frican Government spends 22.9 rand per
annum to educate each Black child. I t spends 224 rand
per annum to educate each w hite chifd.
* 2000 Blacks are prosecuted daily fo r n o t carrying their
Passes.
* Backed b y cash and the threat o f a modern arm y S.A.
has a sphere o f influence th at includes Rhodesia, two
Portugese territories and six nom inally independent
nations. Tanzania and Zambia who have tried to fig h t
this have been the victim s o f a campaign o f subversion
and propaganda to supplant th e ir radical leaders by more
pliable men.
* B ritain provides 70% o f foreign investm ent in S.A. and
actually supports A partheid by discrim inating against
Black workers in S.A.
* Vorster, S.A.'s Prime M inister, was ja ile d fo r his
activities on behalf o f the Pro-Fascist Ossewabrandwag
in WWH. The Ossewabrandwag worked on Germany's
behalf against B ritain. Vorster has since said o f his fig h t
fo r H itle r " I f / had m y life to live again / w ould do
exactly the same. I'm quite satisfied that w hat / d id was
rig h t."
* A ustralia's decision to host a Rugby tour was seen as an
endorsement o f Apartheid by the N ationalist Party.
* Theoreticians o f the N ationalist Party suggest S.A.
should jo in a Southern Hemisphere alliance w ith
Australia, N.Z. and Argentina, fo r this reason Australian
dem onstrations against the to ur caused great fu ry in S.A.
OK you apathetic crow d who say A partheid is a few
thousand m iles away and there's nothing you can do, we
hope you've g o t an eyeful o f the above. Just because the
Government has sold o u t doesn't mean you have to as well,
like every person protesting about the to ur or disrupting
games or ju s t on yo ur feet a t a demo is m ore o f the
crum bling dust from under the feet o f the Fascist S.A.
Government. D o n 't say we d o n 't w ant to bring p o litic s in to
sport", because S.A. has already done so. We d o n 't say who
can or ca n't be in teams b u t they say who can or c a n t't be
in teams visiting th e ir tin p o t land o f plastic shining white
gods,—like Basil D 'O livera ca n 't p lay fo r the English C ricket
team and A rth u r Ashe ca n 't p la y tennis 't ill he was made an
honorary white.
People here have no idea how mad the Afrikaaners and
the lackies g ot when the Australian people showed what
they thought o f S.A.'s A partheid policies. Those thick
necked South A frican pigs are unbelievably sensitive to
w orld opinion. We shouldn't lik e w hat goes on there either,
the Government fo r once doesn't represent the w ill o f the
people so i f fo r the only tim e in yo ur life , you wake
u p -D O SOMETHING, GO TO THE H A R T AN D CARE
AN D A L L OTHER A N T I-A P A R T H E ID DEMO'S. POWER
IS IN YOUR H AN D S-U S E IT.
GEORGE RUSSELL.
Dear Editors,
As a newcomer to this in s titu tio n , / regret / haven't had
the change to visit a ll the toilets yet, b u t those / have spent
tim e in have some o f the best g ra p h itii / have ever read. For
example, one booth in the old arts building has about five
d iffe re n t versions o f the "B ird in the b ush" standard. It's
really nice to have something that makes visit to the g ro t
more enjoyable. / w ould lik e to congratulate Auckland
University. A nd keep i t up, you silen t m a jo rity, whose
art-form is appreciated b y all.
BR ENT PAR LANE.
Dear Sir,
In the midst of the adulation of Germaine Greer I would
like to add a few critical observations to put things in
perspective. In the Sunday Herald, March 12th, it is stated
that “she gave the interviewer an emphatic answer
deploring the demonstrations in Wellington and Auckland.”
In Friday night’s Star she is reported to have stated “I
wish those kids would go home. What’s the use of me
battling in court if they’re going to battle down there?”
The demonstrations were not held for her benefit so
much as for the general struggle against inane laws. Her
words suggest she was somewhat peeved at the limelight
being taken from herself, however momentary. What
egotism o f these “kids” to imagine that their struggle on
the streets could compare with Germaine’s intellectual
struggle in the court!
In the Sunday Herald she was reported to have stated
that she believed that “men, women, and children would
never be free until society was free, until the capitalist
system is overthrown”—in short she preaches revolution.
For a revolutionary, her preference for a struggle in the
courts to a struggle in the streets is strange.
In Saturday’s Herald, Germaine is reported to have
appealed to demonstrators to leave the courtroom and
added “this is stopping cases going on in other courts so I
would ask you to leave.” One would have thought that
stopping the capitalists using the coercive power of their
system on the people would have been a progressive act.
(Right on, on the fact of it, but unfortunately we’re not in
a revolutionary situation at the moment and the bullshit
demonstrations were hardly likely to precipitate one. The
pigs control time at the moment—they can try us any time
they feel like it. ED)
In the university quad Germaine claimed that lesbian
love was potentially a higher form of love than heterosexual
love because of the competitiveness of the two sexes in
heterosexual relationships in contemporary society.
However, women in contemporary society are more
sexually competitive than men. If hell hath no fury like a
woman scorned, imagine two women scorned. The less
sexually competitive male homosexual would be more
likely to achieve a higher form o f love. On the other hand
there are a multitude of pressures on the non-heterosexual
in contemporary society which often results in neurotic
queens and bitchy lesbians.
In reality we are all likely to have maladjusted sexual
relationships until a society exists which has eliminated
competition and thus the motivation for sexual chauvinism.
I support Germaine Greer 90 percent. It is the other 10
percent I find repugnant: the elitist tendencies and the
empty rhetoric regarding revolution which is inconsistent
with her actions.
- PETER R Y A N .
Dear Tim,
i\vn. Some
A couple o f errors in your article about Elam.
it?) and pic
1. Parking Fee is $10.40 fo r students and sta ff
■And you >
d o n 't know who to ld about the $15—i t is n o t true,
,>
2. A misquote. / d id n o t say th at Elam lacked the : u, and per
ask fo r a parking building. The whole business ishP^ wouldn’
NOT by Elam b u t by the adm inistration tople’s apa
university. (You know the little weedy men in y/-ey|ause jf y(
th a t move about leaving nasty circulars under^ if li^ht
windscreen). Elam was specially privileged fo r yl
b
having a parking space fo r student use. / think it}illy belie1
)mposting,
something which has caught up w ith us now.
3. You m isspelt m y name.
pnumentsestige. He
ith a quiet
Dear E d ito r
/ was fascinated, alm ost m orbid ly so, by your adm b's belief
o f the o il o f eucalyptus m ethod fo r abortion. W h a tlilh a some
like to know is: who puts the fire o u t in the womapjneern over
tries yo ur advice? I f she is a p ro stitu te you may vi v-]-j,, an(j
charged w ith arson fo r you w ill have helped her to bum
business. Burning o il and bloody loops—i t a ll sounds^ abso utc
eight le tte r w ord to me.
If-impor'tar
Yours fai% There’s a
G. H. Gf,ei|i) if ev
Departm ent o f Obstetrics & Gynaea lt „ , .
U niversity o f A u c f^ 3 l0t
ie purpose
The E ditor,
; So far I’1
Sir,
ut seeing
May / use yo ur colum n to thank those o f your /intentional.
who patronised the 'F riends' White Elephant stall / L j ,
quad last week. The sum o f $183.41 was raised—$ i
. '
already been donated to the U niversity Creche.
r ne’ doe
The Exec o f the 'F riends' w ould like to pay a should be a
tribu te to AUSA President John W oodroffe and foiut in Bac
PRO Russell B a rtle tt both o f whom p u t in many fespecive efi
helping us prepare fo r the sale. I'm quite sure the f/'naLj fertiHty
success o f the event owed a great deal to the v ita lit^, R
s k ill (in auctioneering) o f Tim Shadbolt. To Tim am 0 es 0
assistants Chris Moisa and Russell B a rtle tt wh(m can 8et
cheerfully g ot drenched fo r our cause, thank you Ganges wn
much.
inclusion:
DAWN C'G/?/Vf,|ncj(i en^aip
n, . ^
4aissez-faire
Physics Departiv ,
Monday 13th»lhis, f ’ b;
Whateve
To the Editor of Craccum,
Dear Sir,
When I was younger I rode a motor-bike (a nicePnont^ &1V(
mimica
Velo with straight handle-bars—we laughed at
atlni ’ ' '
“Easyrider” style as affected and American, and cj c^e
them “sit-up-and-beg” handlebars, which I’ve a],aow comm
considered a most colourful and apt name for them jrofit-makii
that’s a digression).I joined what was then the Comp in
Society, and I used to go to their meetings and field-drtlono cu^tu
and when I came banging up on my motor-bikeextreme Sl
climbed off, old ladies used to say “It is nice toeconom*c ^
someone young taking an interest. Young people ai!jPonvenienf
apathetic about things like pollution and soil fertility, fertilisers, a
there, we’re only young once, and I suppose young peicall them
them. Wash
should enjoy themselves.”
I recount this story because there are two or L So roll
morals attached to it, especially now that the state ofrountrys^ (
environment is rocketting up the hit parade. The first Jfnv°lvemen
is that this cause is not one you’ve suddenly raisedt*mPer'a^srr
Tim 's E ditorial.
So Craccum has made it to the fro n t page of th e N Z H erald and
yourselves out of a vast morass o f public apathy. Sonify seems
Zealandier in just one week. Beside paranoic neurosis caused in Exec
us have made it our thing for quite a while, and stuck t:p ^ ng t0J
meetings by a few B artlettian letters w h at has th e overall effect
although the University students called us cranks that is, th
been.
1) N o t one single Craccum was le ft in any Craccum box anywhere
ignoramuses to demonstrate their solidarity with non-left-wi
on Campus.
scientific age. (A little while ago, to be an intellectualj| polities in
2 ) N o Craccums w ere left in the Cafe or blowing around the quad.
had to make a formal obeisance to science.) “Muck I S°me
3 ) Students were seen in the C om m on rooms, lecture theatres and
A Reply to D.H. Finlayson, D irector o f Student Health.
even in The Library actually reading Craccum.
Dear Sir,
mysticism” they said, and “Afraid to live in the | mac*e econ
4 ) The num ber of contributors to Craccum has quadrupled.
/ feel it is m y d u ty to p o in t o u t THIS:
century.” Anyhow, there’s no resentment, and we’re I ^ ng UP r
5 ) The am ount o f advertising has suddenly boom ed.
In Auckland, where i t is w ell n ig h t impossible to get a
glad you’re joining our cause, as we’ve hammered it fork a
*ia'
6 ) There have been tw o lively m eeting and a forum o f thousands of
safe abortion, the eucalyptus and loop methods have been
students actually trying to w o rk o u t w hat Craccum is all about.
enough.
an^ Ibe m
tried by women we know, and have been used safely and
7) There has been an increased interest in the circulation of
Another moral is this; that you’re not entitled to be °* wa*er t(
successfully.
Craccum to Training Colleges, Nurses Homes, A T I and sales in
S it on your self-righteous arse and rave on about the self-righteous towards the ordinary stodgy middle-c ru'n'n8 a '
the street.
"ill-a dvisa bility o f young g irls " doing these terrible things. footy-loving New Zealander on this issue, because a k book on I
8 ) There have been hundreds o f irate parents ringing up and saying
they w o n 't S E N D — T H E IR — C H IL D R E N (study each word
Try being pregnant fo r nine m onths, and culm inate the
them are concerned about the environment too, see, R. Clark.
carefully) to University.
pregnancy w ith the b irth o f a baby you d o n 't w ant—and
started doing something about it long before you did. 0 8arbaêe >
Am azing w h at a b it o f controversy can do isn't it?
then talk about tragedy!
Fern Keen thing they usually do is to take a bit of care oft fari™ng s'
Women fo r Equality. environment themselves, as a start. This doesn’t alw; livestock
occur to some more, vehement reformers, who deci are a^iot(
E d itor's Note: One doctor / have asked about the
about pollution and spoilation across a quad inches deep on rye'8n
eucalyptus m ethod looked up te x t books and said that
Editors:
grass-grub:
Heather Mclnnes,
there was nothing in them to suggest th a t eucalyptus o il scunge and rubbish. A few bushells o f scrap paper
OUT. Phc
Gordon Clifton
w ould have any ill-effects when used in this way. B ut seem infinitesimal compared to the massive abuses
John Miller
Photographies:
apparently even " te x t" books d iffe r on this. Could some industry, but man, their absence would make your messt written or
Above
Advertising Manager:
Leo Pointon
suitably qualified person look more deeply in to this m atter sound a lot more credible. No-one is going to listen tc
fo
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the
benefit
o
f
many
women's
confusion,
and
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us
rows
of th
Tecnnical Editor:
Jim Laing
man ranting about cleanliness when his home base lo«
know EXACTLY w hat are the properties o f o il o f
almost
in\
COPY FOR THE NEXT ISSUE MUST REACH US T O D A \
like a deep litter chook-yard. So why not clean up
eucalyptus, and w hat this means in relation to this m ethod
Trees
eat
TYPED AND DOUBLE SPACED
quad? It’s not enough just to refrain from chucking sti
o f abortion. -H eather.
5tllff
COME UP AND SEE US ANYWAY.
Published by the Craccum Administration Board for the
proprietors, the Auckland University Student's Association
and printed by the Wanganui Chronicle Co. Ltd., at the
printers' works comer of Campbell and Wickstead Places,
Wanganui.
2
"In the issue of Craccum of 16th March 1972 under the
heading "Greer 1" was a statement inferring that Mr
Hamish Keith had entertained Miss Greer to a has h party.
Craccum acknowledges that there is no foundation of f ' C t
for this statement and that it was completely false and
grossly defamatory of Mr Keith.
It unreservedly withdraws
any such suggestion and apiogises for such publication."
and rend
hillsides. !
broken b}
angry. R
by-produc
product.
wn. Some of us will have to go the extra mile (who said
-la m
Zd s t ff at^ anC^
UP w*iat someone else has dropped,
s not trw
^ou
want t0 ma^e y °ur message credible, don’t
ked the si)U' anc* Persuade as many as you can to listen and act?
siness ishi>u wouldn’t want to enjoy your own superiority to other
tration cople’s apathy and general horribleness, would you?
\en m S,/'ej»cause jf y0 u approach the general public with ruseness
^jed f o r ) 6 se^*righteousness it will look as if you do. Anyone who
! think
believes in a cause, any cause—Christianity,
ow.
Dmposting, Marxism or the preservation of old
onuments—will give this a preference over his own
•estige. He will answer anger with courtesy, and sneers
ith a quiet statement o f his motives, all to win an advance
’ yo ur ad,n h's beliefs. He’ll be a bit like an insurance salesman, but
7 . WhatlMi a somewhat higher motive. If, professing an intense
he womai)ncern over some issue, he proceeds, while speaking on it,
“h e r t o b ^
anc*
soc'ety he lives in, he must either be
/ soundsIf* abs°lutc twit or else incredibly Pharisaic and
:lf-important.
'ours faitfo There’s a third moral to the story (Aesop never did as
G. H. G f, gut) If everyone forgets the limelight and works for a
y X E K a lot can be done, even in a capitalist society where
ie purpose of industry is profit and not utility.
So far I’ve meandered on about attitudes and conduct,
ut seeing that I regard these as fundamental this was
if your retentional.The remark about capitalism highlights its basic
1aised-$l,ea*
r
cness’ ^ doesn’t do things because they need to be
te
one; it does them to facilitate the flow of money. Money
, pay a should be a means o f distributing production and services,
e and toml in Backwards-land it’s the other way round. The
7 7 many respecive effects of profit-farming and peasant farming on
re the fnic0jj fertj]jty are demonstrated very clearly in a book called
oo ^Tim
v ^ ljT
h e Restoration o f the Peasantries” by
G.T. Wrench,’ if
an:
J
t/ett whf°u can 8et hold ° f a coPy- Citing Roman history, and the
tank you:hanges wrought by the British in India, he presents his
:onclusion: Capitalist, or profit-farming destroys the land.
/ CO/?M jncj(jentajiy5 ]’m not a Marxist.) An indictment of
aissez-faire economics in general can be found in “Unto
:s Departs
his last,” by John Ruskin.
ay 13th Nj
Whatever it may be in any other section of society, the
priority
given to the profit mptive is fatal to good farming,
e ( a nice I
id
inimical
to the fertility o f the earth’s crust. The old
g h e d at |
in and C
fhche that “farming is not just a job, it’s a way o f life” is
I’ve a](now commonly answered by the statement that it is a
for themlro^ 'mak*n8 ^n<^ustry> like any other industry. The truth
the Comp *n
c^c^e- The nee(i f° r monetary profit leads to
md field-flono’cu^ure’
*ts attendant ills, forced growth,
3tor-bikeextreme sosccpfrbility to the spread o f disease, and
s nice toeconom‘c brittleness. These in turn demand specious and
people aiconvenient remedies, the poisons, the quick-acting
fertility kaisers, and the easy disposal o f spare products (I won’t
young pe|Ml them “waste products”—waste is what we do with
them. Waste is a verb, not a noun, in my book),
two or tti
r0^ on’ Silent Spring. It was the destruction of the
e state of countryside that turned me against the American
he first it invo*vement in Vietnam, rather than any stories of
lly raised imPerialism and aggression. It’s always seemed to me, and it
thy Som st‘** seems to me> that a majority of protesters are only
id stuck! pbng to see half the attrocities committed in this world;
; cranks l*lat ‘s’ those perpetrated by right-wing groups (or by
ty with non‘left-wingers anyhow). Ethics seem to depend on
ellectual P°htics in Back-wards-land, but that’s another red-herring.
) “Mucki Some things that should be done immediately—and
in the 1 mac*e economically possible—are as follows. We should stop
id we’re v filing up mud-flats, because filling them up with garbage is
ed it fori a dirty habit, and the garbage could be put to better uses;
and the mudflats are needed to provide a sufficient volume
led to be of water to scour out the harbour channels. (An example of
middle-c, ru*nin8 a harbour—Southwold, in Suffolk—is described in a
ause a lot book on Norfolk wherries called “Black-sailed traders” by
oo, see, R. Clark. It’s in the Library). We should compost all our
mil did 5 garage , instead o f filling up harbours with it. Mixed
care of farming should be encouraged-a mixture of arable and
esn’t ahi livestock where the country permits. Specialised pastures
vho deck are afflicted by specialised pests, so an absolute dependence
ches deep on rye-grass and white clover, grazed by dairy herds and
* paper m grass-grubs and topdressed with super and poison should be
e abuses OUT. Phased o u t-y o u can’t rush up to a man with a
our messt written order to change everything.
Above all we should plant more trees. There should be
) listen ti
rows
of them along all the streets and the suburbs should be
: base loo
lean up almost invisible in a haze o f green (most of my suburb is).
ucking sti Trees eat pollution and hide ugliness. They enrich the soil
and render the climate less extreme and hold up the
. hillsides. Planting them makes you happy and seeing them
broken by young idiots or commercial interests makes you
angry. Richard St. Barbe Baker said, “Timber is a
by-product of forests.” A healthy environment is the main
product.
R .M .D IC K .
Students,
Those of you who attended Forum on Thursday 9/3/72
will have heard a young man decry the name and existence
of Jesus Christ. Although somewhat belated and perhaps
cowardly, this is a reply which I hope will be read and
considered, as it is relevant to the way in which we all live
the short time which God has allotted to us on this earth.
When we talk of Jesus Christ, we talk of a Divine Being
being born as a human child for the specific purpose of
undergoing suffering for the people of this earth—people
yesterday and ourselves today. He was brought up in a poor
family, and experienced all the joys and trials that each of
us has experienced in our lives. In spite of being a trained
carpenter, He chose to become a tramp (if you like) and in
this role He wandered many miles around the Middle East.
Although spiritually, in some mysterious and
unexplainable way he was God, emotionally and physically
He was a human being with human interests, concerned
with human needs and problems. Certainly He did not want
to die; in fact we are told in the Bible that He prayed for
release from His task of dying on the Cross. We know that
because of his Divine Power, He could have decided to
perform a miracle and delivered Himself from His captors.
Yet because of His love and compassion for us-the same
love and compassion that prompted Him to heal lepers,
Massey Students have dumped their President. A t their
Annual General Meeting about 700 students split in two
cripples, to restore sight to the blind, and even to bring the
and toppled the President, Don Swann.
dead back to life-H e chose to endure the pain and
Senior Agriculture students, led by a former President,
humiliation of death on the Cross-a death normally
Rob Anderson, had run a petition to get rid of Swann, who
reserved for murderers and thieves.
was excluded from university this year.
This innocent and blameless man died hanging on a
Six of the other seven Massey Exec, members also
wanted Swann out. The vote was approximately 400 to 300
Cross in the hope that perhaps—just perhaps, since man has
against Swann.
always had a choice as to his decisions in life-perhaps
The
Cul t ur al ,
Educational
and
International
somebody, or a few people, or even a lot of people, might
Vice-President of Massey, Kay Baxter, was the only one to
choose to accept His gift of sacrifice, His gift of Eternal
back him. She says the reasons for getting rid of him are
Life. Jesus went down to Hell from the Cross. For a time
mainly personal—other exec members can't get on with
him. According to her, they saw Swann is a bad public
that we call three days, but who knows how long when we
relations guy because he makes no e ffo rt to fit in with
remember that time in Hell has no meaning, he underwent
other people's opinions. She regards public relations as
extreme and unimaginable suffering. Only because of his
being irrelevant.
love for us.
Kay Baxter also says "D on's not a fence sitter—he
Such love as this does not deserve abuse, nor does it
doesn't shy away from issues and presents the student view
honestly."
deserve indifference. With gifts such as these (Forgiveness,
"The others d on't think that MUSA should be political.
Eternal Life, Peace, Joy) at stake, how can we stand by and
He thinks that if an issue is important, the student
say “Jesus can’t be real” or “Christianity has no meaning.”
Executive should act on it." This applies to stands on rugby
Of course Jesus is real. Countless people have proved this
tours, war, elections and so on.
with their testimonies of personal relationships with Christ.
The leadership battle isn't over. Liaison Vice-President
Al an
Carrick,
a leading
Swann
antagonist,
is
Christ is real to me and to thousands of others throughout
acting-President
for
a
month.
Then
there
w
ill
be
another
the world. There is no racial or class distinction as to who
presidential election, and Swann w ill be standing.
goes to Heaven. God does not discriminate. Christianity
BARRY SLACK
without a doubt has meaning—ask a practising Christian. He
will tell you of a new kind of life, a new kind o f love, a view
peace, a new joy-these things and more besides.
Finally, the choice for or against Christ is merely a
matter of a decision —something personal between you and
Him - BUT A DECISION MUST BE MADE. And when
you make it remember it is a matter of Life or Death —
Eternally.
N. B. ROGERS.
m ore on the beats
WHY SHADDY'S SHABBY ON LABOUR
The trouble w ith Shadbolt is that he can't see past his
own meaningless patter like 'Vote with your feet'. It's easy
to be negative and dismiss what you don't understand, such
as political parties. But if enough people used their heads
and voted Labour we'd see some social change.
The crux of the Labour position is that, although they
(and particularly Messieurs Kirk and Watt) could have been
mor e
radical
on
certain
issues
such
as the
Suharto/Westmoreland issue, nevertheless, the guts of their
policies and proposed legislation is right-on, and way ahead
of any real alternative i.e. National.
A few of the areas where Labour's got some damn
good ideas are:
(a) : Immediate withdrawal of all NZ troops in Indochina
(e.g. those training Cambodian troops) right back to
N.Z.;
(b) : Reaching 1% foreign aid w ithin 5 years (present
'National's level is only a fraction of this);
(c) : A bolition of Compulsory M ilitary Training;
. (d): Repeal of the section of the Narcotics A ct allowing
entry of police officers to private premises w itho ut a
search warrant;
(e) : For pensioners: automatic increases in pensions as the
cost of living rises;
(f) : Restore subsidy on doctor's bills to levels which
existed before the National Govt, erosion set in.;
(g) : Immediate start on legislation to force introduction of
Equal Pay for Equal Work — not 2 or 3 years of
waiting aroung . . . as National intends;
(h) : Repeal of the Payroll Tax.
(i) : Implementation of the Woodhouse Report provisions
on worker's compensation; also, inclusion of
housewives under these provisions.
(j) : Introduction of three weeks minimum paid holiday (up
from two).
(k ) : Coherent plan for regional development (incentives,
subsidies, etc.)
( l) : Repeal of the Maori Affairs Amendment A ct (typical
iniquitous National legislation).
(m ) :lncrease number of Maori seats to 7 i.e.: 8% o f seats in
Parliament corresponding to Maoris being 8% of
population.
(n) : Will set up at least one experimental community
college.
(o) : Will definitely NOT raise Lake Manapouri (National
shows every sign of raising it, at present).
__________________ __ _______________ RALPH CHAPMAN.
nm ERIKH ns n
d y in g c iv ilis a tio n
m t Jo h n
"They acted tike animals, so animals were used," spake
Timaru
Police Superintendent o f the M t John
demonstrators. Which is lik e saying o f yer norm al
law 'n'order Tory-thinking members o f society "H e acted
like a cretin fo r years, so / fe lt ju s tifie d in attacking him
and cutting o u t the fro n ta l lobes o f his brain. He w ould
only see what he wanted to see, so while / was a t it, /
thought I would whip o u t his eyes. He never showed any
feeling fo r anything b u t the trivia l, so his heart had to go as
well. We may as w ell be consistent in these m atters /
thought, wiping the blue blood o ff m y m eat cleaver." R oll
on 1984.
I t is interesting to note th at the police d id n 't fin d their
ju stifica tio n fo r using the dogs u n til AFTER they had used
them.
WEDDERSPOON: ON POWER
Fintan Patrick Walsh and Papa 'Doc' Duvalier I take as
terrific examples of angels doing their best to rule this
hell-ridden world. You know I'd love to live in a shack
above Karori way up in the mountains and give the country
good old hill-billy government from on high. A sort of
Howard Hughes recluse I would wake up at dawn, cook
toast and a pot of tea over the fire hearth before tearing o ff
to state banquets where you m ustn't be too hungry
(diplomacy and all that). In the back seat of a gleaming
1930 limousine I'd shave myself w ith a raw blade and
throw the cigarette ash out the window on the way down
to parliament buildings. If I saw any of my mates or a guy
needing persuasion I'd let him hop in.
As a real good Labour man in the bosses seat I'd have
carrots dangling above the assembly lines w ith whip masters
behind the worker. Let's face it I w ouldn't be in power for
nothing—I'd want my pound of flesh the same as everybody
else. As a good Social Democrat I'd have Cederman and
Kedgley in the Nauranga Freezing Works cutting sheeps
throats; Ngahuia Volkerling would be sweeping out Plunket
Rooms; Brooks and Basset would be coal shovelling in West
Coast mines; cousin Dreyfuss would have the job of
cleaning state files w ith Ajax and running Kapiti as Devil's
Island for Young Tory Turks. Sinclair would be sent back
to the wharves and Edwards given a taxi-driver's job.
Muldoon and Marshall would be made to share the same
cell at nights; w ith Gill and Gair pressed into running the
Seamen's union.
Now and again I'd have public hangings and floggings of
opponents who got too serious. I'd turn up in Harris Tweed
britches and golf clubs—it would be a capital offence not to
applaud me when I raised my little finger. As I mounted
Parliament steps brass bands would play "Land of Hope
and G lory". I would kiss the babies and wave to the fans.
P.J. WEDDERSPOON.
.
America is going through a period of incredible
deficiency in its supposed quality lifestyle. Unfortunately,
the age of the "th ro w away" has settled in solidly, and
appearls to be building momentum to the day of the "Great
Throw Aw ay" when we'll have to dispose of the country,
because of all the refuse. Everything is disposable; bottles,
cans, packages, plastic; just meaningless rubbish garnishing
the ever-growing number of trash cans. Quality production
has virtually ceased in most fields. Cars are made about as
well as the cans we drink from, and made from virtually the
same materials. Americans buy a car, drive it for 2 years,
and then dispose of it. And you can't even be sure of new
cars. Books have been w ritten telling you what to do if you
have bought a "lem on". And this shoddiness has even
spread to the production of food. Last year there was an
incredible number of cases of bolutin poisoning because of
faulty packaging, resulting in a series of deaths. Quality and
integrity have gone into the bin w ith the rubbish, and it
looks fo r good.
But there is one "p ro d u ct" that w ill most definitely not
be thrown out fo r another four years, and that is the
venerated President, Richard M Nixon. He w ill not be
affected by this "throwaway complex". And he is a
"p ro d u ct" his 1968 campaign illustrated this vividly. To me
he epitomizes this quality deficiency in the country. His
policies have a fluctuating, faulty quality about them. His
stand on communism is rather strange to me. In the 1950's
he was recognised as a talented "prosecutor" in the Joe
McCarthy style; a fervent anti-Communist. But his policy,
in a relatively short time, has reversed itself totally from
this burning drive, to the "bridge" between the Free and
Communist worls. Why the total reversal in policy, and the
careful preparation of his China trip? Could this trip be a
genuine gesture for peace, or a skilfully constructed ploy to
facilitate his re-election, for this is what his campaign
needed. The positioning of the trip so close to the New
Hampshire primary raises my beliefs as to the underlying
motives for a political boost. This double motive in Nixon's
politics upsets and shocks me. Granted there are benefits in
his N.E.P. or Vietnam policies, but the decisions always
seem to coincide w ith a new bill he has introduced into the
legislature, or when his popularity is low. This is my gripe
with Nixon, these practices in such an important job. His is
the used car salesman dishing out his policies w ith the same
sneakiness as selling a car, and people are buying from him.
Why w o n 't America practice their tendencies more
completely and dispose of Nixon. Unfortunately America is
known fo r fickleness, so it looks like the trashman w on't
stop by the White House fo r another 4 years.
DW IG HT WHITNEY.
4
DUSK reform
report
COMMITTEE ON ASSO C IATIO N G O V E R N M E N T D R A F T REPORT.
The Committee was set up by resolution o f the last A.G .M . to
" c o lle c t" and collate submissions fro m all students and student
organisations in order to report on AU S A G overnm ent structure and
the role o f structural in s titu tio n s ."
A fte r receipt o f such submissions as were fo rth co m in g the
com m ittee discussed the disadvantages and faults o f the present
system o f government. F irstly it is fe lt th a t there is a large
in fo rm a tio n gap between the Executive and the students —
Executive members tend to be senior students, part-tim ers and
non-students, usually o u t o f touch w ith current student op in io n and
often w ith no great desire to reflect or enact student ideals:
furtherm ore few students are aware or even interested in w hat is
being done w ith their money, on th e ir behalf and in th e ir name.
This situation is n o t new—the Wilson rep o rt o f 1966 attem pted
to overcome it by the creation o f largely independant
sub-committees and the Rudman report o f 1968 by the creation o f
the S.R.C.: while both o f these seemed in itia lly successful, on
reflection each has m erely slightly enlarged the governing clique
w ith no particular increase in efficiency. In our op in io n the
breakdown of these tw o systems has resulted p a rtly fro m lack of
interest by the students involved, b u t the demise o f theS .R .C . was
encouraged by the fa ct th a t m ost members were n o t in fact
responsible to any body fo r th e ir performance, and th a t o f the
sub-committee system by a d isinclination on the part o f various
Executive members to p e rm it the com m ittees to decide anything
independently.
A second and possibly more - distressing fa u lt is the lack o f
Executive involvement in the adm inistration o f the Association,
especially in matters o f finance. This was predicted when the
Accountant and A d m in istra tio n Secretary were firs t em ployed
about five years ago: w hile it was hoped th a t all activities o f the
Association would remain under the co n tro l o f elected groups of
students this has become increasingly so over the years: the prime
example was of course last years m ysterious envelope appeal, but
even reference to Executive minutes fo r the past six months
indicates that of the 804 payments o f Association funds approved
by the Executive in this period some 28 were discussed specifically
and the remainder passed on 3 om nibus m otions w ith o u t Executive
members knowing w hat they were approving: fu rth e rm o re the vast
m a jo rity of these "aprovals" occurred A F TE R the paym ent had in
fact been made by Association employees.
O nly half a dozen matters o f any great im portance were
discussed during this period: the Annual Budget, a couple o f large
loans, the fate of this year's C harity C ollection, the new Theatre,
Shore Road development, the appointm ent o f a Senate Rep. and the
fate o f the Theatre Co.: it has been suggested that the Executive as
such should be disbanded b u t the com m ittee believed tl
keeping o f a proper co n tro l over all facets o f the Associi
adm inistration and the performance o f its employees is
im portance and th a t it could well occupy all the spare tim e of
dozen students: hence we recommend the retention of an Exi
though in a reduced fo rm and w ith d iffe re n t responsibiliti
those presently discharged.
This proposal is a reversion to the system in force prior tof
and is sim ilar to th a t in force at Canterbury: it consists basicalli
small Executive elected as an Executive rather than to poij
positions, these people being d ire c tly responsible to the studeij
all facets o f Association affairs. The p o rtfo lio system!
introduced largely to com bat the hassels previously caused I
process o f dividing the w o rk among Executive members, but*
co n flicts and disadvantages have appeared over the years, esp
involving people picking any old p ro tfo lio ju st to get on Exa
and those w illin g and able to do a p o rtfo lio jo b b u t not wish£
be involved in general decision making. It is o f concern
com m ittee th a t im p o rta n t decisions such as those mentioned e
when n o t able to be referred to a General Meeting should be(
by
p e o p le
e le c te d
by
th e
s tu d e n ts as
reliable/acceptable/knowledgable
adm inistrators
w ith
opinions akin to those o f the students rather than by a
arbitary collection o f the person best suited to be Social Conti
the person most interested in Publications, someone w ith
knowledge o f International A ffa irs etc. etc.
The argument has been advanced th a t the Executive muDear Prime IV
representative body and that to achieve this the fifteen ps y 0u have
.devoting the most tim e to the Association are as good a selec%ell as holdii
any, b u t the com m ittee feels this is no longer valid sim ply by vYou obviousl
o f the am ount o f w o rk now required o f an Executive membeiwould agree
least three positions on the present Executive w ould be full jour, I was
jobs if perform ed fu lly , and in o n ly a couple o f cases can thepeprivate corre
perform his p o rtfo lio w o rk fu lly and do fu ll justice torace. It woul
responsibilities as an Executive member and also hope to tto go on like
m oderately successful student, and this is increasingly d ifficult but I knew
the tightening academic requirements.
which is su
The com m ittee therefore proposes the establishment o f asdistinguishin
A d m in istra tive Executive, consisting o f a President, a Treasurer believe th a t'
five elected students to manage the adm inistration of best of us
Association and the U nion and to co n tro l the Associatitcharitable ct
employees and to pay especial a ttention to financial matters: it yourself ha\
been agreed fo r some tim e th a t the Association must find [possible that
sources o f finance and it seems im p orta n t to us th a t the Execu
Up and
should be able to do this and to manage them e ffic ie n tly rathertwith great a
have to rely on sub-committees and employees.
recognised tl
T o perform the w o rk o f the present p o rtfo lio s the comm; of words ar
proposes the establishment o f "o ffic e rs h ip s ", no number sped homework,
b u t rather the creation o f new ones le ft to the Executive as the this approac
arises, the holders to be elected or appointed and removed by aware, is yc
Executive, n o t necessarily annually, each to be responsible to editor of Th
Executive fo r his particular area.
know, I pers
The place o f the Education O ffice r in the Association and finals in N<
University was discussed at length and it was decided that country and
Association m ust adopt a more active role in the stud:to practise f
representative system o f the University, and to this end i; a duty to pi
proposed th a t an Education O ffice r be elected annually and thatCan improve
chair a standing Delegates Com m ittee com prising a delegate ft that I have s
each Faculty plus the Association's Senate Representatives injcould get av
e ffo rt to co-ordinate th e ir e fforts.
the world is
The whole o f this organisation must be responsible to gem | could,
meetings, and the com m ittee proposes th a t these should hallways that
higher quorum than at present b u t th a t they should be easier to^effort and i
It also proposes th a t general meetings should be held weekly reads the co
receive reports from the President and to act thereon, and to disc
When I
anything else forthcom ing.
that I didn
If the Association is to continue as an Incorporated Socie what teach)
/vhich seems desirable, it must have a C on stitu tion . However,; a while so I
com m ittee has tried to keep this as short as is legally possible it again w it
two reasons—firs tly the needs o f an organisation like this with some (
constantly changing and we believe the politica l structure must the notes I
able to change and develop as necessary. Secondly we believe*
My fin
matters and problems arising, especially during the course consideratii
meetings are better settled by discussion of the particular case* body of c
oy reference to an outdated set o f rules th a t cannot possibly all: wielding th
for every circumstance th a t w ill arise.
bloody-mir
A few m inor points—we have not tried to rew rite the elect* enhance tf
■ules, b u t fo r the transitional elections we suggest the Secretary; wonder, ini
appointed Returning O ffice r w ith fu ll powers on the understand» of those w
that the Executive are the five w ith the highest votes and t* game; I wc
anyone standing unopposed must gain at least 50% o f the votesi Maoris the
Yes—No ballot.
things you
We have not m entioned Craccum—since this Year's Editors hi. phenomen;
signed a contract wi^h the Association the Board must continue anything ei
axistance b u t we recorrfmend th a t the Executive investigate tj
The ne:
feasability o f legal independance.
forms of (
Because o f the w o rklo ad involved in an Executive position! survive as
the vital necessity of proper performance o f these we he and it mu:
recommended the provision o f honoraria. These need not counts yoi
arge—say $250 each plus an extra $500 fo r the President for; show you I
holiday period. In return we could demand at least 25 hours wor|
You sa
week.
two coun
We have recommended the removal o f the Executive's power basis," i.e.
fine members except fo r the cost o f material damage done.
Now tf
The Executive year at present runs August to August, i if you tho
recommend th a t it be changed to coincide w ith the financial yl But Mr M<
(January to December) w ith elections held in the th ird term.' by our ab;
oerm it the immediate in tro d u c tio n o f the revised system we propo for it in i
that elections fo r a new Executive be held rig ht after Easter, to ho had in mi
office fro m the beginning o f May to the end o f this year.
salute for
In conclusion: fo r a com m ittee th a t began by bewailing the I* him to bre
of student involvem ent in the Association our proposals may see*
What's
e litist or fascist. This is not so—we have attem pted to provk Rotorua?
satisfactory adm inistration by rationalising and streamlining * integrated
Executive system w hile sim p lifyin g the Rules as much as possible» Paremorer
orovide a fle xib le structure which can accommodate differs each Soi
student needs as they arise. The key to the w hole thing is obviousl sophist ica
the regular General Meeting w ith power to make p o licy and very cruc|(
DIRECT the Executive—the proper fu n ctio n in g o f this w ill depeiy spend mo
an a maintainance o f student interest and on a vigilant perfornw tenet of t
of duties by the In fo rm a tion O ffice and Craccum, b u t we belie crunch pc
that the advantages accruing from this system if it works well justi
You s
the experim ent.
may occu
-S T E P H E N CHk would no
-B R U C E KIRKLAH we are nc
-B O B LAC apartheid
millions
THIS PROPOSAL W IL L BE DISCUSSED A T THE AGM NEXl PRINCIPI
WEDNESDAY EV EN IN G A N D A T A LU N C H T IM E MEETINGO
As wi
T H U R SD A Y 30TH M ARCH. A REFER E N D U M W IL L BE HEU talking al
T H A T A F TE R N O O N A N D AS WE H AV E NO E LE C T O R A L ROL be exami
YET A V A IL A B L E PLEASE BR IN G YO UR I.D. CAR D TO V0T! you've li'
nopen
ettertothe
icutive muDear Prime M inister,
fifteen pc You have now issued tw o m ajor statements on matters racial as
}d a select well as holding press conferences, replying to y o u r critics and so on.
;im ply byvYou obviously th in k the subject im p orta n t. A nd there, o f course, I
:ive membewould agree w ith you. In fact, up u n til y o u r statement on the rugby
ild be full tour, I was q uite lo o kin g forw ard to continuing the jo lly little
i can the psprivate correspondence we had struck up on th is very m atter of
justice torace. It would have been ever so co m fy and cosy if we'd been able
hope to :to go on like th a t. O f course, deep down I knew you were a T ory;
ly d ifficult but I knew to o th a t you have had the kin d o f intellectual training
which is supposed to produce cla rity o f thought and skill in
nent o f a 'distinguishing between valid arguments and phoney ones. I still
a Treasurer believe that you can probably spot an undistributed m iddle w ith the
ration of best of us up here in academe. And th a t being so, the most
i Associat charitable construction I can p u t on yo u r statement is th a t you
I matters: ityourself have been m isinform ed about South A frica . It is also
must find possible that yo u r statement was the w o rk o f a com m ittee,
t the Execu
Up and dow n the c o u n try, m any people read yo u r statement
lt ly ratheriwith great attention. Those who, like m yself, are teachers w ill have
recognised the sym ptom s—the b righ t boy w ho knows the rig ht kind
the commrof words and how to spin them is often tem pted to skim p his
im ber spec!homework. [ I have to adm it th a t sometimes students get away w ith
five as ther this approach right up u n til th e ir finals year. Now this, as you are
emoved by aware, is your finals year and you may have noticed th a t even the
ponsible to editor of The New Zealand Herald has found you o u t at last. As you
know, I personally w o uld be only to o happy if you were to fa il yo u r
Nation and finals in November. B u t I am a teacher and th is is m y adopted
cided that country and you may well scrape through and be given yo u r licence
) the stuo to practise fo r a fu rth e r three years. So on all those counts I do have
this end i; a duty to p o in t out the error o f yo u r ways and show you how you
illy and that can improve y o u r performance. I ca n 't have it on m y conscience
delegate fr: that I have sent a prim e m inister o u t in to the w o rld believing th a t he
sntatives in could get away w ith sloppy th in kin g , still clinging to the no tio n that
the world is a frig h tfu lly nice place fo r everyone to live in.
ible to gent
| could, naturally, w rite to you again p rivately; b u t there is
should ha« always that p ossibility I m entioned o f yo u r essay being a collective
e easier to geffort and in th a t case I w ant to be sure th a t everyone concerned
•eld weekly reads the comments and criticism s I have w ritte n in the margin,
and to disc
When I firs t read y o u r essay, I found it so m uddled and w o o lly
that I d id n 't kn o w q u ite where to begin in correcting it; so I did
>rated Socie what teachers com m only do in these circumstances. I set it aside fo r
However,; a while so I could th in k about yo u r whole approach and then I read
ly possible it again w ith a view to correcting it step by step. I 'll begin therefore
like this) with some general comments and then I hope you w ill read carefully
jcture must the notes I have made about each o f yo u r arguments in tu rn ,
ve believet*
My first impression remains w ith me still after careful
the course consideration and I am bound to te ll you th a t the spectacle o f a
cular case th body of grown men, m any w ell past m iddle age, collectively
possibly alii wielding the fu ll power o f the state, quavering before the assembled
bloody-mindedness o f the Rugby U nion, is n o t one lik e ly to
te the elect; enhance the d ig n ity or co n firm the legitim acy o f the state. I
e Secretary; wonder, incidentally, if you have th o ug h t to draw to the atte ntio n
jnderstandir of those worthies a growing trend towards soccer as the preferred
rotes and ffl game; I wonder if indeed you yourself are aware o f the way young
f the votes r Maoris these days seem to favour soccer over rugby? One o f the
things you must learn to do is examine the relationship between
s Editors h) phenomena. The trend is n o t " ju s t one o f those th in g s''—scarcely
ist continue anything ever is.
nvestigate ‘
The next im p orta n t thing fo r you to learn is th a t there are tw o
forms of consistency, bo th o f w hich are essential if you are to
e position jj survive as a p o liticia n . W hat you say must be in te rn a lly consistent;
tese we he antj it must be consistent w ith the know n facts. On both o f these
need not counts you are fa ilin g badly and I hope m y marginal comm ents w ill
isident for: show yOUhow. Let's take it fro m here step by step.
5 hours work
y ou say; " | t w o u ld do much to im prove relations between our
two countries if South A frica w ould select th e ir teams on this
five's power basis," i.e. "w ith o u t d is crim in a tio n ."
lone.
Now this is a very curious statement and I ca n 't help b u t wonder
) August, i if you thought about it at all. It im plies th a t relations are not good.
financial yj But Mr Marshall, we trade w ith South A frica , we assist and sustain it
h ird term.' by our abstentions at the UN, we exchange sporting teams, we vote
!m we propo f or jt jn international sports bodies. Was there something else you
raster, to he had in mind? A n exchange o f state visits, perhaps, w ith a 21-gun
ar.
salute for Vorster—th a t w ould be jo lly . What w o uld you do w ith
railing the lac him to broaden his education? Let me guess . . .
sals may se?
What's the name o f th a t picturesque rural slum hard by
ad to provie Rotorua? Y ou'd want to show him that, o f course; and our racially
eamlining tt integrated school ce rtifica te results. How about a tr ip to
i as possible Paremoremo goal? He'd like th a t; we do as you say, have a lo t to
date differs! each South A frica and they d o n 't have anything q uite so
jg is obvious sophisticated fo r dehumanising people — Robben island is really
policy and: very crude. But then, you see, they d o n 't actually feel the need to
is w ill deper spend money dehumanising th e ir blacks because it's a fundamental
t performar tenet of the system th a t they aren't human anyway. And there's the
ju t we belie crunch point.
ks well justif
You say next: "W e are against racial discrim ination wherever it
may occur. It occurs in many countries besides South A frica b u t we
■p h e n cm would not wish to b o y c o tt any o f those countries." Prime Minister,
KIRKLAH we are not talking about racial discrim ination; we are talking about
-B O B LAC apartheid—the systematic, planned enslavement and starvation of
millions o f our brothers and sisters who are denied, ON
AGM NEX PRINCIPLE, the most basic human needs and rights.
i/IEETINGO
As we both know, one o f the virtues yo u r supporters w ill be
L L BE HEL talking about come finals tim e is experience; and you w ill want to
O R A L ROL be examined in th a t subject. "E xp e rien ce d " is a kind way of saying
\D TO VOTE you've lived a long tim e. W ell, I've lived q u ite a long tim e too, so
the possibility o f com m unication; even w ith o u t it there are things
I'm inclined to view the argument favourably. B u t it's not much use
called "non-verbal messages" through w hich we establish contact
claim ing virtue fo r having lived a long tim e if you ca n 't remember or
apply the lessons taught by experience. One o f the things I hoped
and obtain reinforcem ent. New Zealand has been sending non-verbal
you m ight remember w ith o u t my prom pting, fo r example, was a messages o f support to the racists in South A fric a fo r many
little incident called the M unich Games. You m ight get Ron S cott to
years—in the shape o f sports teams. Now you have sent a verbal
lo o k up the story fo r you if yo u 're a little pushed fo r tim e yourself.
message. I am sure th a t w ith y o u r years o f experience w ith the press
As a prim e m inister, you m ight fin d a study o f Neville
and w ith audiences o f many kinds you w ill already know th a t what
Chamberlain o f m ore im mediate relevance. His policy, you w ill
goes o u t isn 't by any means w hat gets transm itted and even if j t is, it
remember, was called "appeasement" and the fact is that he was so * isn 't at all like w hat gets received at the other end. You yourself, I
sh it scared o f the "e n e m y " in Russia th a t a few m illio n jews dead
notice, have complained about inaccuracies in criticism s o f this very
essay. If you w ant to say something th a t w ill d isco m fit the South
were neither here nor there, let alone Czechoslovakia destroyed—by
A frica n regime—and th a t's w hat you claim —then it's got to be a very
agreement, n a tu ra lly—in the interests o f the ruling classes. You
strong message, surrounded w ith supporting actions w hich
d o n 't see the connection? Well there are a few m illio n blacks in
significantly alter the environm ent. If you wanted to teach the
Southern and Central A frica who w ould be happy to te ll yo u —if
South Africans, in short, the on ly message available to you to send
o n ly they had voices.
was: " N o T o u r."
I w o n 't go in to the tangible parallels here; b u t I do th in k you
It is possible th a t you yourself are scanning o u t uncom fortable
ought to consider the less tangible consequences o f that particular
evidence. Just in case you d id n 't get the im p o rt o f the South
h o rro r enacted d a ily in the Nazi gas chambers. Western, liberal
A frica n message in reply to yours o f the 7th u lt., let me spell out
progressive society has never recovered because, you see, the Nazis
w hat th a t "w e are d e lighted" note shows. You w o n 't recognise the
destroyed the illusions th a t were the m ajor premiss o f that creed.
message they received from y o u —fo r a hoary old p o liticia n you
Y ou see, we were all g u ilty o f genocide because we are all connected
seem to have retained w hat in other circumstances m ight be a
by a com m on hu m a n ity; so we are all and each capable o f genocide
refreshing naivety. The message you sent and they received was as
and th a t being so we are none o f us NEC ESSARILY rational or
follow s: "Y o u already know th a t the NZ Rugby U nion loves you,
reasonable, o n ly C O N T IN G E N T LY so. A nd w h ils t the contingencies
now hear also th a t the NZ Governm ent agrees w ith the Rugby
in New Zealand are such th a t it is s till possible to appeal to reason,
U nion; sport is greater than p rinciple; the game's the thing; please
the contingencies in South A frica are such th a t we can share no
fin d enclosed herewith m y c o u n try's subscription to cover entrance
assumptions w ith them —any more than Neville Chamberlain could
charges to your Dream Society, the W hite C om m onw ealth." Well, I
tru ly " ta lk w ith the d icta tors" as he so p ro u d ly boasted (and
suppose in the process of Am ericanisation this was an inevitable
believed).
developm ent. We've had Kennedy's New F rontier and Johnson's
" I t is better to bu ild bridges between nations than w a lls," you
Great Society; w hat more sym bolic assurance o f the fin a l collapse
say. No do u bt. What sage brom ides we do all have handy fo r these
through the Looking Glass than Marshall's Dream Society.
occasions. M r V orster w o uld pa rticu la rly agree w ith you. He has
Y o u r next proposition w ould seem to prove this p o in t almost
been busily b u ilding some very interesting bridges recently. L ike the
w ith o u t fu rth e r com m ent: " I t is argued th a t we should discontinue
jo in t security conference th a t links South A frica w ith Rhodesia,
sporting and other contact w h ile apartheid continues, b u t it is not in
Portugal and B razil—a m erry band o f practitioners in the gentle art
the liberal tra d itio n o f New Zealanders to extend hatred of
o f genocide, you must agree. By the way, yo u 'll fin d a list o f
apartheid to hatred o f the people o f South A frica , whatever their
suggested reading at the end o f this, in case you are a b it short on
colour may be. It is not the in te n tio n of the New Zealand
in fo rm a tio n about any o f these matters.
G overnm ent, even though our policies on race relations are
Bridges, as you im p ly, are fu n ction a l structures. Y o u d o n 't say
d iam etrically opposed to those o f the South A frica n Government,
so, perhaps because there were to o many cliches in y o u r essay
to impose th is opposition in any personal way against the South
already, b u t you obviously mean th a t we should w a lk across it, drive
A frica n people, many o f w hom w o uld like to see changes in their
across it, "h o ld hands" across it. What you d o n 't say is w ith whom
own Governm ent policies".
you propose we should sup or hold hands when we get to the other
It's d iffic u lt to know where to begin sorting this one out; but
side. Maybe you d o n 't realise th a t the on ly people w e 'd be allowed
one must select, so I 'll leave aside the "lib e ra l tra d itio n " b it, except
to sup or hold hands w ith w ould be whites—th a t's w h a t " p e tty "
to say th a t maybe if you fail in November you could fin d
apartheid means. What you may not know either is th a t not even
em ploym ent lecturing to the police and magistrates on this
godzown are tolerated in South A frica if they step o u t o f line—even
in triguing to p ic. Let's begin instead w ith the hatred o f apartheid not
qu ite q u ie tly in social conversation. If you w ould lik e a lis t o f New
being extended to the hatred o f the people o f South A frica. I'm glad
Zealanders w ho have been declared p ro h ib ite d im m igrants or
to see you remember yo u r theology course and the lesson about
otherwise bundled o u t o f South A frica , I and many o th e rs w ould be
hating the sin b u t loving the sinner; it seems, however, that you
happy to oblige w ith a select list. B ut surely even y o u m ust have
were absent on yo u r European tr ip when the class dealt w ith the b it
noticed the case o f th a t chap w ith the fu n n y nam e—dean of
about m illstones being hung around the necks of those w ho offend
something or other; he's so "square" he doesn't even th in k the
against God's creatures. Perhaps you d id n 't know , by the way, that
blacks should be enfranchised, b u t th a t d id n 't p re ve n t h is arrest and
a black man cannot receive the sacrament in w h ite churches in
tria l fo r "subversion."
South A frica . There is, as you say, an o ffic ia l (white) opposition to
O f course, it is very enjoyable dining w ith S o u th A fric a n whites.
M r Vorster's government. W ould you, though, te ll me, please, what
H itle r and his Nazis were spawned out o f W eimar, h a s ty , somewhat
is the difference—essentially—between D e V illie rs Graaf, who would
crude. The South A frica n whites, on the other h a n d , w e ll, they
like a little easement o f the p e tty apartheid laws so th a t his
are—how shall I p u t it —they're, educated, quite d e lig h tfu l people,
supporters could get more w o rk m ore e ffic ie n tly o u t o f th e ir slaves
and o f course they play sport very well. A nd so th e y b lo o d y well
w ith o u t breaking the law, and M r Vorster, who blinks w h ilst the law
ought to , M r Marshall, so they bloody well ought. L iv in g o ff the fa t
is being broken in order to m aintain and fu rth e r his m ajor apartheid
o f the land on the back o f the blacks w ith servants in V ic to ria n
programme?
abundance—and at pre-V ictorian prices. That w a y th e y get tim e to
Apartheid, M r Marshall, is not sim ply a m om entary aberration. It
concentrate on sport; indeed, it is a necessity. F o r w h e n the fu tu re
is a w hole way o f life. It is w ritte n in blood and gold, scored onto
uprising o f the slaves is prefigured in M ozam bique and A n g o la , n o t a the skin in gunpowder and w ritte n in flesh by the sjambok and the
m illio n miles away, then brother, you need th a t o va l b a ll. A nd th a t,
hangman's noose. It is w ritte n in to the cells o f brain damaged
by the way, is an intended pun, fo r the slave m a ste r is castrated
children w ith pellagra and kwashiokor, transm itted through the
along w ith the slave, the schizophrenic rendered im p o te n t by
generations and carried in the hearts and minds o f whites so blind
precisely the circumstances which produce his sickness.
w ith fear and sated w ith self-indulgence they live perm anently
You say: "N e w Zealand has a well-earned re p u ta tio n fo r liberal behind barred windows, a revolver and alarm bell by the bedside and
policies in race relations and is among the advanced c o u n trie s in this a shotgun at the door.
fie ld ." Oh dear! Lo o k you really must tr y harder. P rim e M inisters in
A nd you s till imagine. Jack, th a t these people are lik e ly to
th e ir finals year sim ply cannot affo rd to o ffe r so m a n y hostages to
receive the message you hope we w ill believe you intended to
fortune, as, fo r example, in the phrase " lib e ra l p o lic ie s in race transm it?
relations." Please attem pt a d e fin itio n which w ill a llo w you to
I see th a t you do, fo r you repeat the nonsense in yo u r next
sustain this proposition fo r the period since 1950. R e m em ber, y o u r paragraph: " I believe there is more chance o f getting the South
d e fin itio n must stretch to include the 1 9 6 7 M a o ri A ffa irs A frica n Governm ent to m o d ify its racial policies by th is kin d o f
(Am endm ent) A c t, the 1972 Race Relations A c t a n d th e in e q u ity of moderate and reasonable approach than by the use o f boycotts,
Maori parliam entary representation.
sanctions and fo rc e ." Come now, and you a lawyer, trained in the
You go on to declare: "A gainst this background o f tolerance and development o f evidence. But o f course, y o u 're an advocate rather
co-operation on racial issues, I believe th a t New Z e a la n d is entitled
than a judge and thus inclined to concentrate on favourable
to say and is ju stifie d in saying th a t it is better t o b u ild bridges of evidence to place your client, the South A frica n junta, in the best
com m unication w ith South A frica than to cut o f f a ll c o n ta c t." Well,
possible light. There is, however, no evidence th a t the junta is open
here we are again, back w ith the old cliche m ill g rin d in g o u t the
to y o u r kin d o f approach. Q uite the contrary. O n ly since the
corn. Some parents do, to be sure, reward th e ir c h ild r e n w ith lollies
bo yco tts has there been any ostensible s h ift and th a t has been
when they scream; b u t you w o u ld n 't say p u b lic ly t h a t they were
m ainly verbal shuttling. You w ill have observed th a t the devices
very good or in telligent parents, would y o u —e xce p t t h a t th a t's w hat
adopted by the regime to ensure the continued particip a tio n of
you just d id say, M r Marshall. Perhaps you have be e n to o busy in w h ite South Africans in international sport have been rejected by
recent years w ith labour relations to notice th e w o r k o f another the black organisations.
man called Skinner. In any case, I recom m end h im to you, the
"T h e New Zealand G overnm ent", you say, " w ill continue to
in itia ls are B.F. and you w ill fin d the reference in the attached
oppose both in the United Nations and in other international
reading list.
forum s, all form s o f racial discrim ination wherever they occur, b u t
Com m unication, ad m itte d ly, is a very d if f ic u lt su b je ct—though we w ill do it by giving a m ore constructive lead in support o f
I'm sure y o u r colleague Rob M uldoon can tell y o u a b o u t it, fo r he ''n licies o f reason and restraint, w hich I believe w ill nrevail in the
at least is know n to have kept up his reading in th e p o litic a l science
fie ld . We all like to th in k th a t the existence o f language presupposes
5
end '. You’ ll have to forgive those o f us w ho haven't noticed
recently much opposing going on fro m our corner at the UN.
A bstention in most people's books—and certainly in th a t o f the
South A frica n G overnm ent—means support fo r the w h ite junta. B ut
I have to adm it, yo u r words are very co m fo rtin g .
I remember when I was a child, I used to repeat the Hail M ary to
m yself all the tim e I was at the dentist, over and over; it was a
fa m ilia r charm, just enough to d ive rt a tte ntio n from reality. B u t this
rea lity w o n 't go away; it isn 't about to be d rille d or lanced or drawn
w ith rhubarb noises from W ellington. The black people o f Southern
A frica have been reasonable and restrained fo r upwards o f a
century. Tell me. Prime M inister, can you produce a single example
fro m history o f a ruling class v o lu n ta rily relinquishing its power and
privileges? In the face o f reason and restraint, the whites o f South
A frica have not o n ly given nothing away; each year they have taken
a little more. Surely even you must have noticed—after all, you are a
law yer—th a t the rule o f law has been abolished there now fo r more
than a decade.
I w o n 't com m ent here on yo u r use o f evidence fro m the polls.
M r K irk has already dealt q u ite adequately w ith that. B ut I must
com m ent on w hat you say about opposition to the to u r. "T h e re is",
you say, "a small b u t articulate m in o rity w ho hold sincerely and
strongly to the opposite view. B ut the exercise o f this right by some
must not infringe the rights o f others." Fine words, as the saying
goes, b u tte r no parsnips and it is m y d u ty to p o in t o u t to you that
this is w hy the young—who are gentle and kin d , considerate and
loving and th o u g h tfu l—are also radical and even some o f the tim e
disposed to violent gestures. It is also the reason w h y people like
me, whose every conditioned reflex screams towards the
com fortable liberal position have become increasingly, w ith many
misgivings and much heart-searching, also radicalised.
Decoded, yo u r finely-w orded message reads as fo llo w s: th a t it's
perm itted to hold views co n tra ry to those o f the government,
provided you d o n 't make a fuss ("cre a te ", i.e. p o in t out, "tension
and dissension"); and th a t it's alright fo r some people—the Rugby
U n io n —to do wrong in the eyes of the w o rld , b u t not fo r
others—H A R T —to uphold the principles to w hich the global
m a jo rity aspires.
" A ll moderate people", you say, in a last pathetic appeal,
"w o u ld wish to avoid the tension and dissension w hich o n ly a few
w ould wish to create. In a situation where contrary views are deeply
and genuinely fe lt there is a need fo r restraint on all sides." Y o u 'll
forgive me if I d on’t fo llo w you round the m ulberry bush again
here, fo r I have no need to be reassured about the depth and
genuineness of m y own feeling. Indeed, feeling scarcely comes in to
it, fo r we are ta lkin g —at least I am—about the rather nasty facts of
life fo r many m illions o f very m oderate black people, not about
feelings at all. And those on the other side o f the fence from
yourself d o n 't need to be warned o f the horrors o f im m oderation.
They have already accumulated ample experience o f the behaviour
o f the im moderate racist rugby yobs in this island home o f ours—the
obscene phone calls, the threatening letters, the physical violence
offered. I must confess I'm a little disappointed th a t someone so
much older than m yself should need to be reminded o f the
dimensions and characteristics o f Nuremberg p o litics. Y ou may not
see the connections, which I ad m it are com plex; and I realise you
have a tendency to reject these "c le v e r" parallels when the warnings
come from "a rticu la te people". B ut as a lawyer you w ill be fa m ilia r
w ith circum stantial evidence and so I w ould urge you to enquire of
the Quakers among yo u r acquaintance about the fate o f the women
o f the Black Sash when they stood m aking th e ir reasonable,
restrained and silent protest. They were, o f course, set upon by
how ling mobs o f w hites chanting rugby slogans as they bashed and
battered, tore at and spat upon th e ir sisters.
I th in k that's about the last useful marginal com m ent I can make
on y o u r w ork. I hope you w ill read the com m ents carefully and also
read the books on the list I am sending you. If there is anything you
d o n 't understand, please d o n 't be shy about asking me or any o f the
others I have mentioned. We are all here to help you and each other
and we have a d u ty to go on doing this whatever our personal
p o litica l beliefs. This is because, as I have trie d to explain, we all
share the burden o f g u ilt, as we share a com m on hu m a n ity. But I'm
damned—and I use the phrase advisedly—I'm damned if I'll share
that g u ilt in silence, or acquiesce, w ith o u t protesting, in its increase.
Ruth Butterworth
nurse Pouter
The hospital system is in uproar because someone's
attacked the system from inside.
In a flood of publicity . . . a hard core of student nurses
from the four Auckland hospitals, have started up an
Action Committee committed to change.
The committee's chairman, David Wills, says that
student training is virtually unchanged since the 1880s
when student nurses where admitted under a form of
apprenticeship scheme.
He says the backwardness of the system has caused
crippling staff problems, and that the staff shortage is
snowballing.
David Wills wants only his name mentioned because of
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But the committee has a hard core executive of eighty
and early last week it had a rapidly growing membershi|i
several hundred.
The committee intends to try every channel it can to
change. It wants implementation of a report on N
Zealand nursing, compiled by the Canadian World Hei
Organisation nursing expert, Dr Helen Carpenter.
* better training, through university courses i
MUSINGS
colleges of health.
* rationalising of existing training. Reduce the
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schools o f general, comm unity, psychiatric, i ^w^ at J '
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psychopaedic nursing to 20.
of moder
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happen if
* higher entrance standards.
get his me
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homes abolished in favour of flats, and it endorses! "Chariot
Carpenter idea of counsellors being introduced.)
travellers
* a public relations campaign be launched by t image. Cl
Health Department and nurses associations.
spreading
Action Committee leaders are fed up. They say f
face-t<
existing student nurses association is “ apathetic" and "I one anot
failed to gain the confidence of the students."
engrossing
Wills says the SNAC has formed because there's a net
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staff attend ordinary students association meetings 1 ^Uge amc
invitation", and where the attending matron enjoys jnsjde ins
virtual veto.
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hopeless <
the hospital.
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uptight. Posters they put up throughout Auckland Pubi only thet
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politicans
Student Nurses Association officials who was behind it, b
million d<
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idea.
would li<
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president. Sue T ill, "what's the moaning about? Whereat Associatii
I don'
the grievances?"
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with several thousand people on waiting list fo r years ft television
minor operations, wards being closed because of sta market f
with jeali
shortages, and understaffing.
this way
David Wills has compiled a 35-page report on the syste
would be
with the results of tw o surveys he's conducted amor have a re
student nurses and qualified staff.
flickering
He says a profession which fails to bring change whe
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change is clearly needed, has failed to earn self-respect.
man a ch
Besides the Carpenter Report, the SNAC wants:
of a fat
happenin
* an emphasis on social work in training
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* a student voice (and a nursing staff voice) in tli
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running of hospitals.
Recor
* an end to sexual discrimination by nursin
administrators. (Wills, whose fam ily has been involvet opposed
the instil
in nursing since way back, has been virtually accuse:
popular i
of being a queer because he's a student nurse.)
quite bet
* ban on nurses homes. Although Auckland area home inroads
are
rarely
fu ll,
despite
compulsory
live
compara
requirements fo r nurses in early stages of trainin: has led 1
another huge home is being built.
music is
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143 student nurses were surveyed by Wills, with thl
result that 83 percent of them believed criticism of nursin; and rank
have li\
was justified.
percepth
Furthermore, most of those who d id n't think nursin
a drown
and hospital standards were so bad, had very little idea tr that the
reforms proposed by Dr Carpenter.
the worl
Right now the SNAC is building membership; runnin heart of
petitions on specific issues, such as the staffing of specialir than any
Jimi I
holospital wards; and trying out all conventional channel:
sleeping
to seek action on reforms.
new Chi
But it's fighting against a system as steeped in traditia
as the army, run on army lines. Hospitals, says Wills, ha« musical
selfless i
very bad Staff relations, and this doesn't make staff stay
and peri
Staff nurses and students get hacked o ff and leave
ego-trip
Students now frequently control specialist wards, whet
over his
they're not trained sufficiently to have such responsibility
muddle
The dropout rate in the general nurse training service
Paul Me
39 percent. This rises to 61 percent in the psychiatrii
of Love
service and 57 percent in the psychopaedic service.
agonies
And few nurses remain on graduation.
LP of L
of his
They give a wide range of reasons fo r resigning—fror
interest
study and marriage to health and personal.
studio-p
But Wills says more likely the reason is dislike of
space vi
system. His survey showed that support for changDaniker
increased with the number of years spent in training.
Henc
He also alleges that a Middlemore matron refused it
LSD tr
accept dislike of the system fo r wanting to leave. She told
genius
registered nurse in one specific case, that she couldn't leavt
Candida
fo r that reason, but she'd accept one like "personal
worth o
"health".
As a result student nurses still in training are loadec
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down with non-nursing duties and patient overloads
Shut
Hospitals in England and Wales have refused to ?'cep
and gen
nurses from many Npw Zealand hospitals because of this.
and err
And, because the students are the largest group
Greer v
hospitals, they must a c t . . .
division
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MUSINGS ON THE NEW CHRIST
A thought struck me
ice the 1 the other day. Since we are living in era of media saturation
:hiatric, j (what I like to call hyper-stimulation) and the so-called
Jesus "revolution" (which is an indication of the empitness
of modern life, and yearning for meaning)—what would
irsing duti
happen if a great prophet mereged; how would he (or she)
get his message of salvation across?
I don't believe fairy-stories about supreme deities.
wants nur Although Erich von Daniken is very convincing in his book
endorses) "Chariot of the Gods" which demonstrates gods as space
luced.)
travellers visiting earth and breeding men in their own
hed by t- image. Christ then, was merely an extraordinary man,
spreading his message in an age of simple communication
is.
hey say t by face-to-face encounters. The presence of individuals to
c " and '1 one another is primal communication; it is emotional,
engrossing, and total experience. It was effective in Christ's
ere's a nee time, but what about today?
Societies are more divided now than ever before, in
Iministrat
terms of differing values, differing styles o f life, and just the
eetings '1 huge amorphous nature of mass society. We are also living
in enjoys inside institutions and structures which at the same time
isolate people from people, but provide an enormous flow
away fro of information and symbols. Face to face contact seems
hopeless as an answer.
So would the New Prophet hire an ad man? He would
stration t
eland Publ only then have to compete w ith the consumer economy
staff aske (things go better w ith Coca-Cola) not to mention the
politicans, all promising salvation, and often having a few
‘hind it, lx
million dollars to spend convincing us of it.
had a got
He could appeal to the bourgeois press, but even if they
the SN
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>r years ft
se of sta
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ted amor
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■spect.
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liver
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of nursin:
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overloads
to except
of this,
group if
nt Nurses
18, Roya
would listen, it would mean equal space w ith Women's
Liberation, Social Credit, and the Returned Servicemen's
Association: probably six inches of column on page 12.
I don't think a Christ-figure would prostitute himself on
the exploitative capitalist market. This would exclude
television and books—these media are pretty well tied to
market functions, and at any rate, are institutions filled
with jealous people. The number of messages put across in
this way is also enormous, the competition w ith other ideas
would be prohibitive for one man. Besides is it possible to
have a religious experience from a page of linear print, or a
flickering TV screen?
So what, if any, are the conditions that could give one
man a chance to reach a wide audience w ith the immediacy
of a face-to-face (religious) experience? Could this be
happening now?
Dear reader, d on't despair! Three paragraphs w ill sum up
my thoughts on this burning question:
Recorded music provides a direct communication, as
opposed to an edited, transformed, or diluted form such as
the institutionalized media. Over the last six or seven years,
popular music has provided a revolution which has not yet
quite become stultified and institutionalized, meaning that
inroads by new and gifted personalities have been
comparatively open. The growth of the recording industry
has led to a demand and need for good artists. Recorded
music is the prophet's medium.
The LSD experience is completely engrossing in nature
and ranks with the religious feeling which the ancients must
have lived through. It throws the subject into a
perceptive-orgasmic relationship w ith his environment. It is
a drowning of the senses and loss of self (ego) to the extent
that the self becomes an intense spiritual experiencing of
the world. And music w ith a message of Love strikes at the
heart of an individual's needs and feelings more (probably)
than any other communicated message.
Jimi Hendrix is (i.e. was, since he crucified himself with
sleeping pills in London in 1970) the best candidate for a
new Christ I have experienced. He is not only the greatest
musical figure of this century, but also one of the most
selfless in his message. One of love, tolerance, unselfishness
and perception of the richness of life. He was not on an
ego-trip like Mick Jagger, who is on top when he has power
over his audience. His music is not the tortured sex-self
muddle of Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), or the cynicism of
Paul McCartney, as revealed on his la.test LP. Hendrix' "Cry
of Love" was his final masterpiece and embodies all the
agonies of a world-love. "A xis Bold as Love" is an earlier
LP of Love. Hendrix acid-tripped a lot, and knew that most
of his young appreciators would turn on. (a point of
interest is that Hendrix, as a cosmic consciousness, on every
studio-produced LP, portrays himself as a paternalistic
space visitor coming (back) to earth. Shades of Erich von
Daniken here?).
Hendrix composed his music to get the full effects of
LSD tripping. He was aware of the implications of his
genius and the times he lived in. Are there any more
candidates for Christ? All you need is some acid and $200
worth of stereo equipment.
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE & THE DIALECTICS OF SEX
(BOOK REVIEW)
Shulamith Firestone's work is the kind of deep analysis
and general statement which anyone who has intellectually
and emotionally responded to the partial statements of
Greer will be looking for. She shows the political (power)
divisions based on such "personal" divisions as sex are in
fact class divisions, in the same way that the Marxist
analysis points toward. And although a socialist revolution
is an integral part of her vision, her view that there is a level
of reality which does not stem from economics would
offend some "p u re " Marxists. The depth iof her work
cannot be readily summarised, and because her book isn't
easily available I w ill entice you to read the whole by
quoting sections from her chapters on Love and The
Culture of Romance.
Firestone:
A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love
would be a political failure. For Love, perhaps even more
than child bearing, is the pivot of women's oppression
t o d a y . . . . Contrary to popular opinion, love is not
ultruistic. The initial attraction is based on curious
admiration (more often today envy and resentment) fo r the
self-possession, the integrated unity, of the other and a wish
to become part of this Self in some way (today, read:
intrude or take over), to become im portant to that psychic
balance. The self-containment of the other creates desire
(read: a challenge); admiration (envy) of the other becomes
a wish to incorporate (possess) its qualities. A clash of
selves follows in which the individual attempts to fight o ff
the growing hold over him of the other. Love is the final
opening up to (or, surrender to the dominion of) the other.
The lover demonstrates to the beloved how he himself
would like to be treated. ("I tried so hard to make him fall
in love w ith me, that I fell in love with him myself.") Thus
love is being physically wide-open to another. It is a
situation of total emotional vulnerability. Therefore it must
be not only the incorporation of the other, but an exchange
of selves. Anything short of a mutual exchange w ill hurt
one or the other party. There is nothing inherently
destructive about this process. A little healthy selfishness
would be a refreshing change. Love between two equals
would be an enrichment, each enlarging himself through the
other: instead of being one, locked in the cell of himself
w ith only his own experience and view he could participate
in the existence of another—another window on the
world . . . .
slipper, forcing and m ultilating their bodies w ith diets and
beauty programs, clothes and makeup, anything to become
the punk prince's dream girl. But they have no choice. If
they don't the penalties are enormous: their social
legitimacy is at stake.
Thus women become more and more look-alike. But at
the same time they are expected to express their
individuality through their physical appearance. Thus they
are kept coming and going, at one and the same time trying
to express their sim ilarity and their uniqueness. The
demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the
Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about
personal appearance. But this conflict itself has an
important political function. When women begin to look
more and more alike, distinguished only by the degree to
which they d iffer from a paper ideal, they can be more
easily stereotyped as a class: They look alike, they think
alike, and even worse, they are so stupid they believe they
are not alike.
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A man must idealize one woman over the rest in order to
justify his descent to a lower caste. Women have no such
reason to idealize men—in fact, when one's life depends on
one's ability to "psych" men out, such idealization may
actually
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easier to try fo r the recognition of one man than of many;
and in fact this is exactly the choice most women make.
Thus once more the phenomenon of love, good in itself, is
corrupted by its class context: women must have love not
only for healthy reasons but actually to validate their
existence.
In addition, the continued ECONOMIC dependence of
women make a situation of healthy love between equals
impossible. Women today still live under a system of
patronage: with a few exceptions, they have the choice, not
between either freedom or marriage, but between being
either public or private property . . . . To participate in
one's subjection by choosing one's master o fte n gives the
illusion of free choice; but in reality a w om an is never free
to choose love w ithout external motivations. F o r her at the
present time, the two things, love and status, m ust remain
inextricably intertw in e d ..................Eroticism is only the
topmost layer of the romanticism that reinforces female
inferiority. As with any lower class, group awareness must
be deadened to keep them from rebelling. In this case,
because the distinguishing characteristic o f women's
exploitation as a class is sexual, a special means must be
found to make them unaware that they are considered all
alike sexually ("cunts") . . . . When a man exclaim s " I love
Blondes!" all the secretaries in the vicinity s it u p ; they take
it personally because they have been sex-privatized. The
blonde one feels personally complemented because she has
come to measure her worth through the p hysical attributes
that differentiate her from other women. She no longer
recalls that any physical attribute you could name is shared
by many others, that these are accidental! a ttrib utes not of
her own creation, that her sexuality is shared by half of
humanity. But in an authentic reco gn ition of her
individuality, her blondeness would be loved, but in a
different way: She would be loved first as an irreplaceable
totality, and then her blondeness would be loved as one of
the characteristics of that totality . . . . th e exclusivity of
the beauty ideal serves a clear p o litic a l function.
Someone—most women—w ill be left o u t. And left
scrambling, because as we have seen, w om en have been
allowed to achieve individuality only through their
appearance—looks being defined as "g o o d " n o t out of love
for the bearer, but because of her more o r less successful
approximation to an external standard. This image, defined
by men (and currently by homosexual men, often
misogynists of the worst order), becomes the ideal. What
happens? Women everywhere rush to squeeze in to the glass
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“ The man who loved trains” — Marie McMahon
Central Theatre — directed by Dick Johnson
A conventional play featuring the typical NZ fam ily
(featuring the chronic anxiety o f the timeserving housewife
and her Kiwi husband lurching, racebook in hand, from one
Anzac day to the next) is likely to be as dull as the subject
itself. The direct presentation o f characterlessness, in every
sense, must verge on the platitudinous. The only
perspective given to the reappearance o f the inhabitants of
lower-middle class suburbia in this play was a little
parody—though the mere presence o f the cliche was enough
to delight the audience o f upper-middle class theatre-goers.
Their prejudices were the central point o f reference o f most
o f the play, not as criticism or satirical comment, but, as
confirmation of their class attributes. The -laughter was
suitably complacent.
These appreciative people were indulged in another way.
Both the programme and the play issue a clear invitation to
intellectualisation. ‘Comment by the author’ (which
, includes quotes from Samuel Beckett, Chekov and the
inevitable Chinese master o f 1228) informs us that the play
is ‘in essence not a social comment but an exploration into
self-deception and the youthful discoveries which may lead
to self-awareness.’ Exploration always means that the
author has something to tell us but wishes us to believe we
found it out ourselves. And no mistaking it, there is
^meaning in this play, there is message, there are even
symbols.
With what solemnity the homilies and ‘constructive
dialogues’ are delivered — all about life and meaning, about
questions and answers, self-knowledge, starry nights and
first
even God. All of which was pretentious and worse still,
floor
mere assertion, w ith little connection w ith character or
queen’s
dramatic action. This is despite an energetic if uneven
arcade
performance by Jon Darvill who, as William Mondaine must
auckland
‘|'.J impart most of the meaning to the audience. Marie
McMahon is more comically successful—with the repressed
Salvation Army g irl’s song and dance routine, or w ith other
suede & leather,
-•£ touches, like the train (well established as a sex symbol in
cbthing, belts,
^ A ct I) appearing from between M illie Mondaine’s legs as she
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hypnotist and perhaps her entire women’s division are
having it o ff together to the rhythm o f a steam train. A pity
this and other directions were not followed after A ct I,
which was more easily watched. Shirley Duke as Millie and
John Givens as the Hypnotist both gave good performances
in fairly limited roles.
A ll actors ip fact had to play stereotyped parts. All were
adequate, though none were inspired. O f course, the whole
point o f the play was that William, eccentric, lover of
trains, was rebelling against the stultifying conventions of
fam ily and society. No doubt they were stultifying; but
H E R B IE H A N C O C K
Marie McMahon does not realise that the young in revolt,
J IM M Y S M IT H
especially conceived as one-sidedly as William was, is also a
character of convention — admittedly o f lesser antiquity
JO HN C O L T R A N E
than the rest. And it is possible to query the identification
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o f university students w ith an ‘ imaginative’ role in the
G R A N T GREEN
community.
ERIC D O L P H Y
But, although the play over-reached itself somewhat, the
production coped well w ith the demands made on it, and
H O R A C E S IL V E R
most o f the credit for the play’s (for me) limited appeal and
JE A N -P O N TY
stimulation lies here. And the set for the suburban home
M IL T JACKSON etc.
was perfect, right down to the plaster spaniel doorstop, and
C H A R L IE M IN G U S
the three china ducks on the wall.
-Generally, however, a tired play, a conventional play
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somehow a conspiracy between play and audience against
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the stock characters in the play (not that they matter). I
recall the words of the Chinese master (1228):
“ Even tho’ the mountains become the sea, words cannot
open another’s mind.” Apply them to the characters, to the
playwrite, to the play itself, to everyone who watched the
play. It w ill scarcely seem worthwhile.
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LA N D F A LL 100
A NEW ZEALAND Quarterly
Edited by Robin Dudding
The Caxton Press
December 1971
A R D Fairburn
R A K Mason
Alan Curnow
Keith Sinclair
Frank Sargeson
Russell Haley
Murray Edmonds
Ian Wedde
Kevin Ireland
Sam U nit
Kendrik Smithyman
‘EVOLU
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photo it
the earlol
Rex knows Ron and Ron knows Bob, Bob knows Keit
only “ eve
and K eith knows Ron, Ron knows Bob and Bob know
“ Hair” (I
K eith, Keith knows Ron who Rex also knows. Alan know
clothes d
Charles and Charles knows Denis, Denis knows Kendrk
oafs whe
K endrik knows Alan who Charles also knows; Alan know
equipped
Charles and Charles knows Denis, Denis knows Alan wk
left but l<
Kendrik also knows. Rex knows Alan, Alan knows Chark
All th
Charles knows Denis, Denis knows Denis, Denis know
expect ar
Denis and Denis always knows. Frank knows no one and n,
of a Fred
one knows Frank; Frank is the one a ll people know. Boi
Some
knows Keith and Keith knows Bob, Bob knew Keith wk
Bob no longer knows. Rex knew Ron and Ron knew Bot for their
Bob knew K eith and Keith knew Ron, Ron knew Bob anJ policeme
Bob knew K eith, Keith knew Ron who Rex also kno backgrou
Alan and Charles and Denis and K endrik; Rex and Ron ai their sho
businessn
Bob and K e ith ; has the penny fallen.
Russell knows M urray and M urray knows Ian, Ian kno\ inevitabh
Sam and Sam knows M urray, M urray knows Ian and /, record m
knows Sam, Sam knows M urray who Russell also know.
B ill knows Kevin and Kevin knows Wynstan, Synsta
knows Stephen and Stephen knows Kevin, Kevin know,
Wystan, and Wystan knows Stephan, Stephan knows Km
who B ill also knows. B ill knows Russell, Russell know,
M urray, M urray knows Ian, Ian knows Sam, Sam know,
M urray who M urray also knows. When M urray know.
M urray who is there le ft to know. Russell and Ian an
Kevin and Stephen, Sam and B ill and Wystan, and Murray
Russell and B ill and Kevin and M urray, Sam and Ian an
Wystan and Kevin. Russell, Ian, Kevin, Stephen, Sam, Bill
Wystan, M urray. Has the penny clicked?
" This is less a summation o f 25 years og growth tham
prom ise o f another 2 5 ."
Kendrik Smithyman
Robert Chapman
Alan Mulgan
Charles Brasch
Bill Mahire
Wystan Curnow
Stpehen Chan
Denis Glover
Don McClean—TAPESTRY—United Artists Records (1
tracks).
Pete Seeger, who contributes some of the liner notes fa
this album, describes Don McClean as a "talented
unpretentious, nervous, relaxed musician trying to use hi;
songs to help people survive in these perilous times."
The title "Tapestry," is significant, not only because itii
the name of one of the tracks, but because of what it
implies of the whole album. The word 'tapestry' suggests;
work o f art w ith a certain unity of theme and fair degree 0
craftsmanship in its execution.
The major theme
is contemporary America,
underprivileged—as in Orphans of Wealth, (a protest epic ir
the classic tradition); its lonely cities—as in Three Flight
Up and Castle in the Air; its frequently unjust judicia
system in Respectable; and the assaults of its industries a
natural law—as in Tapestry; are presented w ith a sensitive
ordering of lyric and melody. He masterfully sketches
characters and situations and flashes them in movie-like
images on to the wider screen of the social fabric.
My favourites are Magdalene Lane, (a lament on the
deterioration of the American Dream, which reads well asa
straight poem); Circus Song—a song of shattered illusions
and personal misgivings; and Castle in the Air-a
condemnation of an empty urban middle-class existence
coupled w ith pastoral longings.
"F o r I cannot be part of the cocktail generation
Partners waltz devoid of all romance
The music plays and everyone must dance
I'm bowing out, I need a second chance."
The only rough spot on the tapestry, in my opinion
comes w ith songs like And I Love You So and Bad Girl,
which at times lapse into an over-sentimentality somewhat
reminiscent of Bobby Goldsboro.
Meticulous finger-picking characterizes his guitar wort
and his voice has a gentle fo lky lilt. His latest album
American Pie, is yet to be released in this country.
— S. Barton.
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‘EVOLUTION” —Denis Coffey and the D etroit Guitar
Band - Sussex SASL 93421.
Note, for a start, that the title is "E volution” not
“ Revolution” but neither in fact are appropriate. From the
photo it is obvious that Mr Coffey grew his hair down to
the earlobes when it became socially accepted (Perhaps the
only "evolutionary” thing about this album) But o f course
“ Hair” (haha!) doesn’t maketh the man anymore than
clothes do. Just look at all those half-witted long-haired
oafs who wander round town on on the theatre stage,
equipped w ith all the embroidery o f the hippies and/or the
left but lacking their ideas/ideals.
All the tunes, on the album are instrumental but don’t
expect anything stamped w ith the finess, vita lity or quality
of a Freddy King,' Jerry Garcia or Frank Zappa cut.
Some people, however, w ill find this a definite "m u st”
for their record collection. For example heavy-footed
policemen and lumbering tight forwards w ill require such
background M UZAK to accompany scoring attempts on
their shorthand-typist girlfriends. Others such as self-made
businessmen, salesmen, entrepreneurs and mayors (who
. Ian knov inevitably left school before turning 15) may also find this
an and la, record much to their liking and equal to their intelligence.
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Therefore it seems a shame th a t since "U n c le M eat" and " H o t Rats"
Frank has chosen to relegate his considerable musical talent to a
secondary position. Even m ore disappointing is the manner in which
the b rillia n t m ulti-instrum entalist, Ian Underwood, Master o f Music
(Hons) has been phased o u t fro m the fro n t-lin e position he once
occupied. Remember " H o t Rats"? Well it was Ian w ho played all
the keyboards, flutes, saxes, bassoons, clarinets and piccolo by
means o f m ulti-tra ckin g. N ow he is confined to a s tric t back-up role
w ith hardly any solo space.
However this is n o t a com plete denigation o f the album b u t
rather an expression o f disappointm ent fo r one came to expect so
much more fro m Uncle Frank. His Mothers o f Invention along w ith
Captain Beetheart and sometimes the G rateful Dead were the only
USA bands w ho could f i t easily the true meaning at th a t grossly
misused term "progressive". N ow we have a well-planned and
well-executed act—a slick professional operation due in no small
way to the fin e vocals o f Howie Kaylan and M ark Volm an. Indeed
the ex-Turtles are certainly superior to any o f the previous vocalists.
Granted to o , th a t the old M others o f Invention were often
under-rehearsed and over-played b u t in m y estim ation the new
professionalism is no substitute fo r "expe rim en ta lism ".
The album itself does refer back to an earlier phase by including
three encapsulated versions o f previously recorded tracks—" L it tle
House I Lived I n " —w hich features some superb time-changes by
Ansley Dunbar (drum m ing w ith incredible drive and v ita lity
th ro u g h o u t b oth sides o f the L.P.) —"WiIJie the P im p " w hich
features Zap him self really getting it together on guitar. He's
d e fin ite ly a master at c o n tro llin g the wah wah pedal — apologies to
Jim i H endrix fans) and "Peaches En Regalia" w ith b rillia n t
keyboarding fro m U nderw ood, Kaylan and V olm an swing in to
action on "M u d s h a rk " a tale o f the V a n illa Fudge perveting young
wom en by means o f a fish. This track veiled largely in innuendo is
less e x p lic it than w hat fo llo w s in "W h a t K ind o f G irl D o You T hin k
We A r e " —a supposed dialogue between musicians and groupies who,
as revealed later, are try in g to "g e t inside each other's pants".
" L a te x Solar B eef" hits a d e fin ite clim ax w ith its great soaring vocal
lines—d e fin ite ly an outstanding vocal performance. I t also includes
the memorable chorusline "ta lk in g about y o u r haemm orrhoids baby
— S team roller".
" D o Y ou L ike M y New C ar" on Side Two is a c o n tin ua tio n by
the group-groupie relationship theme which runs th ro u g h o u t the
album. Before the group members "g e t th e irs" though they have to
sing "H a p p y T ogether" (—" th e bag h it single w ith the b u lle t in the
The M others o f Invention
charts") "Tears Began T o F a ll", — a fo u r part vocal performance
"T h e M others A t The F illm ore East — June 1971"
derived fro m the black-vocal groups o f the fiftie s , closes the L.P.
—Reprise RS.2042
Overall one gets the feeling th a t though superficially the
A t firs t listening, this album seems q u ite an unexpected offering
vocal/dialogue tracks are fu n n y they become u ltim a te ly boring and
from someone like Frank Zappa. A fte r all, he is about 3000 lig h t
reduce genuine erotica to the level o f schoolboy sniggering. Some
years ahead o f every other arranger/composer in rock, and equipped
may be offended by the album's supposed "o b s c e n ity " excesses b u t
w ith an outstanding knowledge o f all facets o f music; from the
perhaps " b a n a lity " is a better term fo r Zappa's product.
classical music o f Bach, M ozart, Stravinsky; to the electronic music
When comparing the album to Zappa's earlier e ffo rts it becomes
o f Varese, Berio, Stockhausen and Cage; to avante-garde jazz as
hard to recommend this particular L.P. On the other hand taken in
exem plified by Cottrane, Coleman, Shepp and Saunders; through to
isolation it is s till certainly superior to much o f the "noise
the vocal music o f the 1950's — The Pelicans, Flamingoes and Four
p o llu ta n t" m arketed under the name o f music these days. Give it a
Deuces — the w hole gamut o f musical styles in fact. Zappa is also an
listen before you buy.
outstanding guitarist (refer to " H o t Rats") and a clever satirist.
Henry Jackson
impossibU
aggression
Each g
Fear is t
chivalry
speaking,
sexual ex|
By SUSAN GRIFFIN
\
(Reprinted from RAMPARTS,
Sept. 1971)
she must
distrust h
learn not
essence o
A,
EVERY MAN I MEET WANTS TO PROTECT ME. CAN'T
FIGURE OUT WHAT FR O M -M A E WEST.
If a male society rewards aggressive, domineering sexual
behaviour, it contains w ithin itself a sexual schizophrenia.
For the masculine man is also expected to prove his mettle
as a protector of women. To the naive eye, this dichotomy
implies that men fall into one of tw o categories: those who
rape and those who protect. In fact life does not prove so
simple. In a study euphemistically entitled “ Sex Aggression
by College Men" it was discovered that men who believe in
a double standard of m orality fo r men and women, who in
fact believe most fervently in the ultimate value of
virginity, are more liable to comm it “ this aggressive variety
of sexual exploitation.
(A t this point in our narrative it should come as no
surprise that Sir Thomas Malory, creator of that classic tale
of chivalry, “ The Knights of the Round Table," was himself
arrested and found guilty for repeated incidents of rape).
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against
men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which
the mafia established w ith small businesses in the early part
of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection
racket which depends for its existence on rape.
Women do not get chivalry fo r free. For the female,
civilised behaviour means chastity before marriage and
faithfulness w ithin it. Chivalrous behaviour in the male is
supposed to protect that chastity from involuntary
defilement. The fly in the ointment of this otherwise
peaceful system is the fallen woman. She does not behave.
And therefore she does not deserve protection. Or, to use
another argument, a major tenet of the same value system;
what has once been defiled cannot again be violated. One
begins to suspect that it is the behaviour of the fallen
women and not that of the male, that civilisation aims to
control.
The assumption that a woman who does not
respect the double standard deserves whatever she gets (or
at the very least 'asks fo r it') operates in the courts today.
While in some states a m an's previous rape convictions are
not considered admissable evidence, the sexual reputation
of the rape victim is considered a crucial element of the
facts upon which the court must decide innocence or guilt.
According to the double standard a woman who has had
sexual intercourse out of wedlock cannot be raped. Rape is
not only a crime of aggression against the body, it is a
transgression against chastity as defined by men. When a
woman is forced into a sexual relationship, she has,
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according to the male ethos, been violated. But she is also
defiled if she does not behave according to the double
standard, by maintaining her chastity, or confining her
sexual activities to a monogamous relationship.
One should not assume, however, that a woman can
avoid the possibility of rape simply by behaving. Though
myth would have it that mainly “ bad girls” are raped, this
theory has no basis in fact. Available statistics would lead
one to believe that a safer course is promiscuity. In a study
of rape done in the District of Columbia, it was found that
82% of the rape victims had a “ good reputation". Even the
Police Inspectors advice to “ stay o ff the streets is rather
useless, for almost half of the reported rapes occur in the
home of the victim and are committed by a man she has
never before seen. Like indiscriminate terrorism, rape can
happen to any woman, and few women are ever w ithout
this knowledge.
But the courts and the police, both dominated by white
males, continue to suspect the rape victim, sui generis, of
provoking or asking for her own assault. According to
Am ir's study, the police tend to believe that a woman
w ith o u t a good reputation cannot be raped. The rape victim
is usually submitted to countless questions about her own
sexual mores and behaviour by the police investigator. This
preoccupation is partially
justified
by the legal
requirements for prosecution in a rape case. The rape victim
must have been penetrated, and she must have made it clear
to her assailant that she did not want penetration (unless of
course she was unconscious). A refusal to accompany a man
to some isolated place to allow him to touch her does not,
in the eyes of the court, constitute rape. She must have said
“ no” at the crucial genital moment. And the rape victim, to
qualify as such, must also have put up a physical
struggle—unless she can prove that to have done so would
have been to endanger her life.
But the zealous interest of the police frequently exhibit
in the physical details of a rape case is only partially
explained by the requirements of the court. A woman who
was raped in Berkeley was asked to tell the story of her
rape four different times “ right out in the street", while her
assailant was escaping. She was then required to submit to a
pelvic examination to prove that penetration had taken
place. Later, ^she was taken to the police station where she
was asked the same questions again: “ Were you forced?"
“ Did he penetrate?" "A re you sure your life was
endangered and you had no other choice?" This woman
had been pulled o ff the street by a man who held a 10-inch
knife at her throat and forcibly raped her. She was raped at
m idnight and was not able to return to her home until fivi
in the morning. Police contacted her twice again in the next
week, once by telephone at two in the morning and once a
four in the morning. In her words, “ The rape was probabh
the least traumatic incident of the evening. If I'm eve
raped again,. . . I w ouldn't report it to the police becaus
of all the degradation . . ."
If white women are subjected to unnecessary and oftet
hostile questioning after having been raped, third work
women are often not believed at all. According to the whit!
male ethos (which is not only sexist but racist), third work
women are defined from birth as “ impure". Thus the whit!
male is provided w ith a pool of women who are fair gamt
fo r sexual imperialism. Third world women frequently dt
not report rape, and for good reason. When blues singei
Billie Holliday was 10 years old, she was taken o ff to a loca
house by a neighbour and raped. Her mother brought the
police to rescue her, and she was taken to the local polk
station crying and bleeding:
When we got there, instead of treating me and Mom
somebody who called the cops for help, they treated mi;
like I'd killed somebody . . . I guess they had me figured
for having enticed this old goat into the whorehouse
A ll I know for sure is they threw me into a cell . . . a fat
white matron . . . saw I was still bleeding, she fe lt sorn
for me and gave me a couple of glasses of milk. But
nobody else did anything for me except give me filthy
looks and snicker to themselves.
A fter a couple of days in a cell, they dragged me intoa
court. Mr Dick got sentenced to five years. They
sentenced me to a Catholic institution.
Clearly, the white man's chivalry is aimed only to
protect the chastity of “ his" women.
As a final irony, that same system of sexual values from
which chivalry is derived has also provided womankind with
an unwritten code of behaviour, called fem inity, which
makes a feminine woman the perfect victim of sexual
aggression. If being chaste does not ward o ff the possibility
of assault, being feminine certainly increases the chances
that it w ill succeed. To be submissive is to defer tc
masculine strength; is to lack muscular development or any
interest in defending oneself; is to let doors be opened, to
have one's arm held when crossing the street. To be
feminine is to wear shoes which make it d iffic u lt to run
skirts which inhibit one's stride; underclothes which inhibit
the circulation, ls it not an intriguing observation that those
very clothes which are thought to be flattering to the
female and attractive to the male are those which make it
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impossible for a woman to defend herself against clear: In no state can a man be accused of raping his wife. that I was defiling his women—and this point I believe was
aggression?
How can any man steal what already belongs to him? It is the most satisfying to me because I was very resentful over
Each girl as she grows into womanhood is taught fear.
in the sense of rape as theft of another man's property that the historical fact of how the white man has used the black
Fear is the form in which the female internalises both
Kate M illett wrote, "T raditionally rape has been viewed as woman." Thus a black man uses white women to take out
chivalry and the double standard. Since, biologically
an offence one male commits against another—a matter of his rage against white men. But in fact, whenever a rape of a
speaking, women have the same if not greater potential for
abusing his woman." In raping another man's woman, a white woman by a black man does take place, it is again the
sexual expression as do men, the woman who is taught that man may aggrandize his own manhood and concurrently white man who benefits. First, the act itself terrorizes the
she must behave differently from a man must also learn to
reduce that of another man. Thus a man's honour is not white woman and makes her more dependent on the white
U*TS,
distrust her carnality. She must deny her own feelings and subject directly to rape, but only indirectly, through "h is " male fo r protection. Then, if the woman prosecutes her
learn not to act from them. She fears herself. This is the woman.
attacker, the white man is afforded legal opportunity to
essence of passivity, and of course, a woman's passivity is
If the basic social unit is the family, in which the woman exercise overt racism. Of course, the knowledge of the rape
not simply sexual but functions to cripple her from
is a possession of her husband, the superstructure of society helps to perpetuate tw o myths which are beneficial to
self-expression in every area of her life.
is a male heirarchy, in which men dominate other men (or white male rule—the bestiality of the black man and the
Passivity itself prevents a woman from ever considering patriarchal families dominate other patriarchal families). desirability of white women. Finally, the white man surely
her own potential for self-defence, and forces her to look to
And it is no small irony that while the very social fabric of benefits because he himself is not the object of attack—he
men for protection. The woman is taught fear, but this time
our male dominated culture denies women equal access to
has been allowed to stay in power.
fear of the other; and yet her only relief from this fear is to
political economic and legal power, the literature, myth and
Indeed, the existence of rape in any form is beneficial to
seek out the other. Moreover, the passive woman is taught humour of our culture depicts women not only as the white males. For rape is a kind of terrorism which severely
to regard herself as impotent, unable to act, unable even to
power behind the throne, but the real source of the limits the freedom of the women and makes women
perceive, in no way self-sufficient, and, finally, as the
oppression o f men. The religious version of this tale blames dependent on men. Moreover, in the act of rape, the rage
object, not the subject of human behaviour. It is in this
Eve fo r both carnality and eating of the tree of knowledge, that one man may harbour toward another higher in the
sense that a woman is deprived of the status of a human
at the same time making her gullible to the obvious devices male heirarchy can be deflected toward a female scapegoat.
being. She is not free to be.
of a serpent. Adam, of course, is merely the trusting victim For every man there is always someone lower on the social
Since Ibsen's Nora slammed the door on her
of love. Certainly this is a biased story. But no more biased scale on whom he can take out his aggressions. And that is
patriarchical husband, woman's attempt to be free has been than the one television audiences today receive from the any woman alive.
more or less fashionable. In this 19th century portrait of a latest slick comedians. Through a media owned by men,
Rape is an act of aggression in which the victim is denied
woman leaving her marriage, Nora tells her husband, ''O ur censored by a State dominated by men, all the evils of this her self-determination. It is an act of violence which, if not
home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your
social system which make a man's life unpleasant are actually followed by beatings or murder, nevertheless
doll-wife just as at home I was Papa's doll-child." And, at blamed upon "the w ife". The theory is: were it not for the always carries w ith it the threat of death. And finally, rape
least on the stage, "The Doll's House" crumbled, leaving female who waits and plots to "tra p " the male into is a form of mass terrorism, fo r the victims of rape are
audiences w ith hope for the fate of modern women.
marriage, modern man would be able to achieve Olympian chosen indiscriminately, but the propagandists for male
And today, as in the past, womankind has not lacked
freedom. She is made the scapegoat for a system which is in supremacy broadcast that it is women who cause rape by
examples of liberated women to emulate: Emma Goldman,
fact run by men.
being unchaste or in the wrong place at the wrong tim e—in
Greta Garbo and Isadora Duncan all denounced marriage
Nowhere is this more clear than in the white racist use of essence, by behaving as though they were free.
and the double standard, and believed their right to
the concept of white womanhood. The white male's open
freedom included sexual independence; but still their rape of black women, coupled w ith his overweening
example has not affected the lives of millions of women
concern for the chastity and protection of his wife and
who continue to marry, divorce and remarry, living out daughters, represents an extreme of sexist and racist
their lives dependent on the status and economic power of hypocrisy. While on the one hand she was held up as the
men. Patriarchy still holds the average women prisoner not standard for purity and virtue, on the other the Southern
Exclusive ft* The Times from the Washington Post
because she lacks the courage of an Isadora Duncan, but white woman was never asked if she wanted to be on a
WASHINGTON—A U.S.
accident had not been a
because the material conditions of her life prevent her from
pedestal, and in fact any deviance from the male-defined
hazardous one, despite the
Navy satellite that burned
standards for white womanhood was treated severely. ( It is
ie until fiv; being anything but an object.
fact
that plutonium is one
up in t h e atmosphere
In the 'Elementary Structures of Kinship', Claude a powerful commentary on American racism that the
in the nex
of the most enduring and
eight
years
ago
scattered
historical role of Blacks as slaves, and thus possessions
and once; Levi-Strauss gives to marriage this universal description, " I t
deadly radioactive poisons
traces of radioactive pluto­ known to man. It takes 80
as probabli is always a system of exchange that we find at the origin of w itho ut power, has robbed black women of legal and
nium over 12 of the most years to lose half its po­
If I'm eve the rules of marriage." In this system of exchange, a woman economic protection through marriage. Thus black women
populated countries of the tency.
ice becaus is the "m ost precious possession." Levi-Strauss continues
in Southern society and in the ghettos of the North have
Southern Hemisphere.
The plutonium was the
that the custom of including women as booty in the long been easy game for white rapists). The fear that black
Worldwide studies just fuel for a thermoelectric
made public by the Atom­ generator aboard a Navy
i and ofter market-place is still so general that "a whole volume would
men would rape white woman was, and is classic paranoia.
ic E n e r g y Commission Transit satellite launched
bird worl: not be sufficient to enumerate instances of it." Levi-Strauss Quoting from Ann Breens unpublished study of racism and
show that the amount of f r o m Vandenberg A i r
0 the whitf makes it clear that he does not exclude Western Civilisation sexism in the South "The New South: White Man's
the plutonium came to a Force Base in California
l i t t l e less t h a n two on A p r i l 21, 1064. The
third worlj from his definition of "universal", and cites examples from
C ountry", Frederick Douglass legitimately points out that,
pounds.
satellite failed 'to >~each or­
s the whit modern wedding ceremonies. (The marriage ceremony is had the black man wished to rape w hite women, he had
Nonetheless, even this bit and fell ban! to earth,
e fair game still one in which the husband and wife become one, and ample opportunity to do so during the civil war when white
small amount was one- burning up at an altitude
quently da "that one is the husband").
sixth of all the plutonium
woman, the wives, sisters, daughters amd mothers of the
of 30 miles over Madagas­
that fell out over the car in the. Indian Ocean.
The legal proscription against rape effects this possessory rebels, were left in the care of the Blacks. B ut yet not a
dues singe
S o u t h e r n Hemisphere
Two years of intensive
ff to a Iocs view of women. An article in the 1952-53 Yale Law Journal single act of rape was committed in this tim e. The Ku Klux
from the more than 300 sampling on the ground
irought the describes the legal rationale behind laws against rape: "In
Klan, who tarred and feathered black men and lynched
nuclear weapons tests con­ show that the plutonium
ocal police our society, sexual taboos, often enacted into law, buttress them in the honour of the purity of w h ite womanhood,
ducted in the atmosphere fell on at least 12 countries
by the United States and in the Southern Hemis­
a system of monogamy based upon the law of "free also applied tar and feathers to a white w om an accused of
Soviet Union.
phere: Brazil, Argentina,
1 Mom like bargaining" of the potential spouses. W ithin this process, bigamy, which leads one to suspect th a t Southern white
"Weapons tests distri­ C h i l e , P e r u , Ecuador,
treated me the woman's power to w ithhold or grant sexual access is an men were not so much outraged at the v io la tio n of the
buted most of their pluto­ South Africa, Rhodesia,
nium over the Northern Kenya, Mozambique, An­
me figurec important bargaining weapon." Presumably then, laws woman as a person, in the few instances where rape was
Hemisphere, mostly be­ gola, New Zealand and
against rape are intended to protect the right of a woman, actually committed by black men, but a t th e violation of
ehouse..
cause of wind patterns," Australia.
ell . . . a fat not for physical self-determination, but fo r physical his property rights." In the situation where a black man was
said Dr. John Harley, di­
New Zealand got the
"bargaining". The article goes on to explain explicitly why found to be having sexual relations w ith a w h ite woman,
e felt sorrt
rector of the AECs Health most, almost four-tenths
a h d Safety Laboratory. of a millicurie (a measure
the white woman could exercise skin-privilege, and claim
milk. Bu the preservation of women's bodies is important to men:
"This satellite happened o f r a d i o a c t i v i t y ) per
The consent standard in our society does more than that she had been raped, in which case the black man was
; me filthy,
to burn up over Madagas­ square mile. Brazil was
protect a significant item of social currency for women; it lynched. But if she did not claim rape, she herself was
car and so scattered most second, with three-tenths
fosters, and is in turn bolstered by, a masculine pride in the subject to lynching.
I me into;
of its plutonium over the of a millicurie, and Argen
In constructing the myth of white w om anhood so as to
exclusive possession of a sexual object. The consent of a
lower part of the world." tina third with one-fourt'
ears. They
Harley stressed that the of a millicurie.
woman to sexual intercourse awards the man a privilege of justify the lynching and oppression o f black men and
J only to bodily access, a personal "p rize " whose value is enhanced women, the white male has created a c o n ve n ie n t symbol of
t „ A . T IK E S , M a rc h 1 3 / 9 7 2
by sole ownership. An additional reason for the man's his own power which has resulted in b lack h o s tility toward
condemnation of rape may be found in the threat to his the white "b itc h ", accompanied by an uinreasonable fear on
alues from
status from a decrease in the "value" of his sexual the part of many white woman of the black rapist.
ikin d with
possession which would result from forcible violation.
Moreover it is not surprising that after being told for two
ity, which
The passage concludes by making clear whose interest centuries that he wants to rape white vwomen, occasionally
of sexual
the law is designed to protect. "The man responds to this a black man does actually commit the <act. B u t it is crucial
possibility.
undercutting of his status as possessor of the girl with to note that the frequency of this practice is outrageously
ie chances
hostility towards the rapist; no other restitution device is exaggerated in the white mythos. IN in e ty percent of
i defer tc
available. The law of rape provides an orderly outlet for his reported rape is intra- not inter-racial.
ent or any
'
vengeance." Presumably the female victim in any case w ill
opened, to
In "Soul on Ice", Eldridge Cleaverr has described the
have been sufficiently socialised so as not to consciously mixing of a rage against white power vwith th e internalized
at. To be
feel any strong need for vengeance. If she does feel this sexism of a black man raping a white vwoman. "Somehow I
j i t to run;,
need, society does not speak of it.
arrived at the conclusion that, as a m iatter o f principle, it
ich inhibit
The laws against rape exist to protect rights of the male was of paramount importance for me to have an
that those
as possessor of the female body, and not the right of the antagonistic, ruthless attitude toward! w h ite woman . . .
ng to the
r n
r m
t
female over her own body. Even w ithout this enlightening Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was
:h make it
passage from the Yale Law Review, the laws themselves are defying the white man's law, upon his system o f values and
Falling U.S. Satellite
Strews Radioactivity
jennifer dean
&
THIS m EM lS
Tie bashers, the hoodlums, the scum of New Zealand have had too
much molly-coddling.
Let’s set what a taste of the lash does to them.
The reformists have failed . . . (they) have no right to continue their
namby-pamby policies.
We say the public of this country want action—not mere words and
reproving pats on the heads for these street terrorists.
If the threat of a dozen lashes across their backs doesn’t deter some
of these louts who beat up innocent citizens, and who make our
streets unsafe after dark, then nothing will.
Harsh crimes demand harsh retailiation.
"One of the worst and most sadly disturbing traits of
many of our young people today is that they take their
inheritance for granted, and have no thought of its cost.
This is a vital part of the moral breakdown that is
endangering our civilization. It shows how basic and
necesary a component of faith is man's feeling of
continuity and gratitude. Let us, w ith a faith fo r the future
based on this very principle of gratitude to God and man,
lived up to by ourselves, and made a living and articulate
faith for others by both example and teaching—let us try to
(N.Z. Truth, 1969,- fr o m a fro n t page item headlined ‘Birch the bring many of these young people, who are now at loose
Bashers’.)
ends because of their lack of any faith, back into the
conscious current of man's increasing purpose. For a code
H A M IL T O N , Today (PA). — People should te ll the police if they of honour and an ennobling sense of responsibility are
believe drugs are being used in a neighbour's home, the M inister of themselves gifts to the human soul which have been won by
Police, M r A llen, said in H a m ilton last night.
its upward reach.” ________ From page 144 The Blue
Book of The John Birch
Society.
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$39.50
$16.00
$15.00
$ 1 0.25
D.J. R id d ifo rd , in N.Z.P.D.
V o l. 328, page 2772
"C a p ital punishm ent should be retained because. . .
it
u n doubtedly o f the greatest value in certain tim es o f emergency and
disorder, and we do n o t know when those tim es may recur.
Now, there could be tim es o f disorder when life imprisonm ent oi
im prisonm ent fo r long periods w o uld be inappropriate because with
a tu rn o f the p o litic a l wheel a man could be released fro m prison. Ill
however, the death penalty had been abolished it would be
extrem ely d iffic u lt to reintroduce it even though it was vitally
necessary on occasions o f th a t so rt."
The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled,
with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to
destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might, and
the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We
need law and order! Yes, without law and order our nation cannol
survive . . . elect us and we shall restore law and order. We shall by
law and order by respected among the nations of the world. Without
law and order our republic shall fall.
(E xcerpt fro m a campaign speech made in H am burg in 1932
A d o lp h Hitler),
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K E ITH H O L Y O A K E .
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p rint both points of view).
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used.”
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police district, Superintendent
B. K. Dean, said
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