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ORSMIP

THE BANNING BAND Review)

(alias, tke Qiieensland

Since one of our local censors—a sense of shame regardless of race,
decidedly patriarchal licenser—has climate, history or degree of civiliza-
recently "opened his mouth wide tion, is one of the essential character-
and gaped" (in the Courier-Mail) istics which distinguishes human
after the destruction of fcelthy pic- beings from animals. The sense of COMMITTEE ON CENSORSHIP
tures and periodicals, it occurred to shame is one ofthe most basic feelings
our own Semper Board to scrutinize which a human being has along with the exhibition will be to pose the
The Committee is at present cir-
question whether much that is
the pulp magazine produced by the the feeling of compassion and rever- culating a statement expressing sup-
acceptable is recognizably differ-
said censor and his associates: to wit, ence . . , such sense of shame must be port for its efforts to achieve a
ent from much that isn't,
the Annual Report of those unmcrry respected; to reject it as hypocrisy liberalization of censorship which it
(iv) We are holding lunch-hour lec-
men, the Queensland Lit. Board of would be antagonistic to human invites members of the academic tures and discussions every Fri-
nature." We have here quoted as staff to sign. day, and wc also hope to hold a
Review. public forum at night, or during
We have decided, unanimously and much of the Tanaka ruling as the Some people have preferred not to a weekend, in the near future.
nem. con., to pass the aforesaid Boarders have selected. Since The programme of lunch-hour
magazine for general circulation, even "shame" is the key word in every sign on the grounds that they don't meetings (1 p.m.) until the end
among first year students. It did not sentence they have culled, we may of term is as follows:
corrupt us; it did not set our hairs, call theirs the Japanese Shame test. know exactly what these "efforts" July II—Dr W. J. Hamilton,
or our flesh upright. Ask at the Fryer We should perhaps explain that the psychiatrist, on "Psychiatric
for the current issue, and it will give Five confine their activities, on the arc. Aspects of Obscenity", J. D.
you half an hour's good, clean fun, as whole, to a modest sphere. Not for Briefly, this is what the committee Story Room, the Union.
them the glory of burning Boccaccio, July 18—Mr Ron Finney, bar-
it did us. has so far done and what it plans rister, on "Legal Aspects of
The back numbers are worth look- Law-rence (T. E.), or Norman to do: Obscenity", Room 45, Main
ing at, too, They include the names Mailer's Why are we in Vietnam: such (i) We have requested an interview Building. (Ron Finney's talk
of the Board, and their qualifications greatness they leave to their superiors will be preceded by a GEN-
for their high office. Among this in Canberra (sec Commonwealth of with Dr. Dclamothc, the Minis- ERAL MEETING of the
quincunx of quinquevirs (for there Australia Gazette). No: theirs is the ter for Justice, who has agreed staff anti-censorship move-
arc five of them), they boast two humbler task of defending us from to sec us. Wc shall first call a ment to discuss the delegation
B.A.s and one B.Com.; also a couple such dreadful works as Male Man, meeting of academic staff and to Delamothe.)
of imperial gongs. Wc would not for Dizzy Dames, Peep, and Fantastic other interested people to ascer- July 25—Professor P. D. Ed-
a moment suggest that higher quali- Fcmlins. 120 such volumes have now tain what proposals for reform wards, English Department,
fications are needed in censors: far perished beneath their blue pencils. we should put before him. Our on "Sex and the Victorians
present feeling is that we should (with special reference to The
from it. Milton—that champion of Sometimes, however, not without propose Other Victorians)", J. D. Story
(a) that censorship by the police, Room, The Union.
liberty so beloved of the Vice Chair- putting up a fight; and occassionally, Aug. 1—Professor D. W. Mc-
acting under the Vagrancy, Elwain and Mr John Damm,
man—has explained with luminous not without resurrection. The saga of Gaming, and other Offences Psychology Department, on
Act, be discontinued; society's attitudes to sex, J. D.
and prophetic clarity the job con- the Five's warfare against Peep (for Story Room, The Union.
(b) that, as an alternative to the Aug. 8—Symposium on D. H.
ditions, career prospects, types of example) deserves to be chronicled. existing system of banning or Lawrence, J. D. Story Room,
expurgating supposedly ob- The Union.
recruit, etc., of such work {Areo- August 'i)4 was a glorious season for jectionable books, films,
plays, etc., a properly quali- The members of the Committee on
pagilica, Everyman cd. pp. 20-21). our quinquevirs. Within ten days fied tribunal be set up—per-
haps on the New Zealand
No: we think our board admirably their dragnet bagged Dragnet, they model — to classify such
works as unsuitable for child-
qualified for their work, especially felled many felons, including Dizzy ren and to legally restrict sale
of, or admission to them, to
in experience and age (the average Dames (who stayed down), and adults only;

of four-fifths is 63—the other fifth is that naughty Peep. One presumes that

publicly coy about this vital statistic). like most of the others Peep, though

It may be of some interest to note officially dead in Queensland, con-

that the Vice-Chairman's appalling tinued to fleer and flourish in the

discovery {C.-M., 3/769) of the lower dives of King's Cross, and that (c) that strict legal penalties be
retained for the public dis- Censorship are:
filthy pictures of Cairo took place in still, from time to time, the Board play (e.g. in shop windows or Professor Peter Edwards, English,

the First World War. condescended to cast a scandalized Ext. 271 (convenor)
Mr Doug Blackmur, Economics,
Incidentally, the Famous Five arc eye upon What the Butler Saw. on hoardings) of material
considered objectionable by
a tough lot. With hardly a casualty, Then, one day in October, the a properly qualified tribunal, Ext. 8574

they have withstood their ordeal of Board, taking a peep at the latest but that, at the same time, Mr Clayton Bredt, History, Ext. 311

smut, filth, indecency, violence, hor- Peep, allowed it to cross the border the right of adults to read or Dr Barry Chiswell, Chemistry, Ext.

ror, crime and even sex, since 1958— from thenceforth with official bless- view such material in private, 8483

the same names turn up in number ing, so long as it behaved itself. and by their own choice, Mr Harry Garlick, English, Ext. 290
should be legally allowed and Mrs Jov Guyait, Thatcher Library,
after annual number. When one But alas, vice was in its blood! In

thinks of the deadlincss of the stuft' the February following, Peep must protected. Ext. 477

they handle — Vice-banner Byrnes have peered too far or low for the Some of us feel that these pro- Mr Jim Kelly, External Studies,

compares it to snakes and arsenic— quinqucvirile taste, and the issue was posals hardly go far enough, but Ext. 327

one can only admire their courage banned. But, with the cflfrontery they represent our idea of the Mr David Lake, English, Ext. 588

and marvel at their eleven years' usual to such pandering beasts, the most we can hope to achieve for Mr Paul Marriott, English, Ext. 8710

good luck. Peepists appealed to the Full Court Mr Harold Throssell, Social Studies,

How do they decide when to spare, of Queensland, and 0 tempora! the present. Ext. 8200
Mr Peter Wertheim,
and when to ban? Have they aban- alas for our mores!—their creature (ii) We are drafting a questionnaire Philosophy,
to be circulated, initially, among
doned the customary Cockburn test? was acquitted in June '55, and sent members of the academic staff. Ext, 8559

Well, they do seem to encourage off to corrupt us unbanned for ever It will be designed to inform us, Mr Pau! Wilson, Government, Ext.

themselves with the Tanaka ruling. more. d as exactly as possible, how much 8349
censorship (if any) most of our Students interested in helping with
Kotaro Tanaka, Chief Justice of Such, such are the tribulations of ^l colleagues would like to see

Japan (that country so renowned for censual work. But let the Five hold retained. publicity, posters, leaflets, etc., please
sanity and justice) is quoted in their their heads high, and march on with
1959 number: "To be obscene the stift' upper lips, and pencils at the (iii) We are planning an exhibition of contact—
literature in question must be such ready: Male Men and Fantastic pictorial and literary art dealing Mr Doug. Blackmur, Economics,
that it is harmful to the normal feeling Fcmlins shall not pass, nor ever be with sex. All the exhibits will be Story Bldg., Room 413, Ext. 8574
of shame, it excites and stimulates found (officially, at least) on Queens- unbanned and therefore pre- or
sexual desire, and runs counter to land's sacred soil for ever.
sumably acceptable to our Dr Barry Chiswell, Chemistry, Ext.
good moral concepts regarding sex
. . . the fact that mankind possesses a M. A. SNELL present censors. One object of 8483.

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The "Erotica" of a nude male student on the Library roof. After an initial reaction to the photos, the let alone anything else.
This, in fact, turned out to be the highlight crowd subsidised into relative silence. Things brightened up when Pug Sander-
Happening of the happening. Following this, Graham Acting Vice-Chancellor Teakle, after ad-
Rowlands read some erotic poetry. Then, for dressing a lunch-hour meeting in the Relaxa- son read a new policy speech, which, like
The "erotica" happening, set down for the some lime, practically nothing happened. tion Block and finding himself caught in the his other one, would certainly have been
afternoon of July 16, just didn't happen. The crowd, however, waited patiently for forum crowd, was offered a "marijuana" banned from Semper. Laughter, cheering, a
After some rain in the morning, a large crowd the obscene photos, pot, grog, and various cigarette (actually a Benson & Hedges with few calls of various four-letter words and
of students (variously estimated at anything other obscene displays to eventuate. The the filter cut ofi) by a "paid agitator" who other expressions.
up to 3,000) gathered in the Forum ai 2 I'ress and TV men also waited patiently, called himself Sativa which he accepted and
o'clock to be shocked, amused, or enter- while the strains of "Hair" wafted over the took away for analysis. Finally, the beer arrived, and was eagerly
tained, as the case may be. There was little afternoon air. seized on. A wall of paper, for graffiti pur-
to shock or entertain, possibly a little more Meanwhile, on the side ofihc Union Build- poses, was stuck to the side of the Union
to amuse. FinaUy, the pornographic photos were ing, a large Beardsley had appeared, only Building, and soon filled. With Hulc else
brought out. Camera shutters clicked to be torn down some time later. "Hair" had happening, the eroiicisis soon faded out,
Proceedings started with the appearance madly—Press, TV, students, and, what was been replaced by the Mothers of Invention, leaving the Forum to a discussion on the
to prove the most controversial part of the but there was still very little action; the large presence of Uni. photographers at the
"Obscene" afternoon, Uni. Admin, photographers. crowd almost made movement impossible, happening (about which more follows).

Photos?—Pt. I independent observer. This decided, the answer with the old ploy of "I've lived a lot (Thus contradicting Sharpe's own state-
students marched down the stairs of the longer than you fellows, and seen a lot more, ment).
After Uni. Admin photographers were Admin. Building singing "Bella Ciao" all etc., etc", then wandered off into some talk
seen at the "Erotica" Happening on July 16, the way. about an obscene wall in the ruins ofPompeii, Prentis: There's a conuradictton here: you
a forum was held to decide what action to (Teakle) suggest you have no interest in
lake. Dick Shearman, Kim BanniXoiT, ^^Obscene University Security Officer Sharpe, who political activities of the students. If so,
Dan O'Neill, and other R.S.S.A. members Photos?—Pt.II was present at the happening, was, per agree- why is Mr. Sharpe al all the forums?
addressed the audience, arguing that the ment, brought in. He said that his orders
taking of the photos represented an infringe- On Thursday afternoon, jusl after 4 were issued by Deputy-Registrar Bruce Sharpe: I'm interested in some politics,
ment ofpersonal liberties, as these could later o'clock, Kim Bannikoff, Dick Sheamian, Jim Green. Prof. Teakle said that Mr, Sharpc's Prentis (to Teakle): Well then, does he
be used against them. Various students tried Preniis (replacing Erroll O'Neill who was duties were to watch for thefts, generally (Sharpe) go to the Forum as part of his em-
to speak againsi them but proved them too unavailable), and Ron Eedy of Semper, as- patrol the campus, and see that the general ploy or because of personal interest? How
inarticulate, cended to the fifth floor, J, D. Story Build- rules of the campus were observed. Asked long a lunch-hour does he have? Why does
ing. With them came about a dozen sup- why he had booked the people in charge of he go to the Forum for three or four hours?
Deputy-Chancellor Ghcrman was called porters. the S,D,A, showing of "Far From Vietnam" (To Sharpe) Are you asked specifically to go
up to address the meeting. He defended the in 1968, Mr. Sharpe replied that he did so to the Forum? Why are you there?
action of taking the photos on the grounds After being met by John Topley, Assistant because it is against Universily Regulations
that some people were offended by the dis- to the Vice-Chancellor, who said that Pro- to charge admission to University rooms. Sharpe: A lot of interesting things go on
play, and it was necessary to take action fessor Teakle was still at a meeting but would Questioned as to why he had not taken there. 1 have no specific instructions to
against the exhibitors to discourage them. be along in a few minutes, Bannikoff, aclion againsi such groups as CA.A., cover the Forum.
He himself, of course, was not offended, nor Shearman, Prentis, and Eedy were con- Abschol, W.U.S., C.A.S., etc., he said that
were his Admin colleagues, since all of them ducted to the Commitlee Room. no action was taken over the S.D,A, booking, Prentis: So you go there off your own bat.
were "men of ihc world" (heh, heh), but it so he had not made any since. Questioned as Do you have 10 go there'in the inieresis of
was necessary to protect those people who About five minutes later Professor Teakle to why he had not made any bookings before campus security?
were offended. and Mr. Connell entered, with the photo- that occasion, he replied that he "probably
graphs in an envelope. Contary to ihc agree- had something more important to do at the Sharpe: No, but there might be a brawl or
(Ofcourse, the fact that no-one was forcing ment made the afternoon before there were time." something, and I'd be interested in knowing
these people to come to the happening didn't no negatives. who was involved.
seem to bother him; nor that, if they did Asked what happened to ihe names of
come and were offended, they would only After showing a number of innocuous people booked, Prof. Teakle said they were Shearman (to Sharpe): I brought up at the.
have themselves to blame, since they would photographs taken at the "happening", submitted to the Vice-Chancellor to see if Forum that I saw you in 1968 with a file on
have known what son of thing was going Prof, Teakle said that the students could any action should be taken, and if il was Brian Lavcr.
to be there. Under such circumstances, it have them. These, however, were only prints; decided not to act, the names were des-
would be sheer hypocrisy 10 lodge a com- no negatives were returned. troyed. Sharpe: I don'l remember it.
plaint. As for those people who lodged com- Shearman: Do you deny having it?
plaints and wrote letters beforehand, no- Then came a number of photos of various Sharpe was asked if he was asked to Sharpe: No, I don'l, but I don't remember
one was forcing them to v-iew these things, if people holding up the placards wilh the attend meetings of a political nature in the it. 1 don'l keep files anyhow. It was probably
they didn't want to; in fact they were seeking pornographic photos on them. Prof Teakle Forum; he said he was. Asked the reason for, a report on some breach of the Statutes.
to infringe the liberty of those who did want said these photos would be referred to the it, he replied: "That's my business." Prentis: So there is absolutely no record
to view ihcm). University's legal advisers to decide if legal of political activities taken on campus?
aclion should be taken against the people in Question: Has there been a high propor- Teakle: None,
After-further discussion, a group of about the photographs. tion of thefts from the Forum.' Mr, Hollywood, ihc head of the Univer-
30 studenls walked over to the Admin, sity Photography Dept,, was also present at
building to see Acting Vice-Chancellor Asked by Jim Prentis if the Uni. photo- Teakle: There have been none reported. the meeling. Contrary to the agreement, tlte
Teakle and ask for the film from the photo- graphers were regarded as acting as part of But Mr. Sharpe does not go to the Forum other photographers who were at the Forum
grapher's cameras. Prof. Teakle and Regis- the policing of censorship laws. Prof. Teakle for polilical spying. were not present.
trar Connell came out to talk to the studenls. said no, they were acting for the University, Mr. Hollywood was asked if he had been
Contrary to the "Courier Mail" report, no in order to discourage the people who took Sharpe: I'm not interesicd in politics. specifically ordered to be at the happening,
attempt was made to enter ihe Senate Room; part in such displays. TeaUe: There have been many requests and by whom. He answered:
the students waited in the fifth floor foyer from students for Adminislralion people "Yes, we were asked to be there by Bruce
for Prof, Teakle to come to them, A calm Kim Bannikoff asked why, since the stu- to attend the Forum. Mr. Sharpe goes ihere Green (Deputy Registrar), to cover the
discussion then ensued. After a suggestion denls at the happening had obviously not as an Administration representative. meeting. We cover all sorts of activities on
that the films be turned over to an inde- been shocked, did Prof, Teakle set himself campus, visits by dignitaries, the opening of
pendent party (e.g. Semper) was turned down up as a moral censor? Teakle began to Takle said a bit later in the discussion lhat the fountain, and so on.
by Prof. Teakle, it was eventually agreed Sharpe went to the Forum as pan of his Question: Did you have any specific direc-
lhat Teakle would show ihe photographs on employ, adding that "he receives no instruc- tions on the photos?
Thursday afiemoon to a delegation of three tion as to where to go during his employment. Answer: None, just lo cover the meeting.
students, Kim Bannikoff, Dick Shearman Question: Why did you take these? (indi-
and Errol O'Neill were appointed as the cating a number of innocuous photos).
delegation. It was also agreed lhat Semper Answer: Well, they were interesting group
Acting Co-Editor Ron Eedy, who was photos, (Indicating one photo)—This fellow
present at the lime, be invited along as an look a photo of me, so 1 took one of him—
fair exchange.
Question: Where do your photos go when
they are printed?
Answer: To whoever requested ihem. Our
only order was to cover the event.
The meeling finished at about 5,10, The
innocuous photos were handed over to the
studenls, but not the negatives. The other
photos were kept.

MUSHROOMS, went out for a surf (silly boy) soon after it started divine immanence; for RenEe, it was a revelation^
MYSTICISM,
to work. He didn't come back for three hours. of what she calls 'the system', the vast cosmic
ANAM.
He'd been picked up by a pumpkin, taken out to mechanism which exists only to grind out guili
The Great Mushroom Experience has been sea, and raped. He was exhausted from the long
stomped on, and this innocent pastime of picking paddle back. and punishment, solitude and unreality.
the offending organisms from North Coast cow Everything in it, from the stars in the sky to the
dung could cost you $300, and a feature in Sunday Another bloke had gone stiff for an hour, then dust under their feetas unspeakably sinister or
Truth. fell to the sand trying to eat it, thinking it was disgusting; every event is charged^mth aj
sugar and spice and all things nice. Another was in hateful significance; every objectjneirtRts the'
But can they stamp it out? The great psilocybin a car and as they passed another car, the occupants presence of an Indwelline,.,.JJ^J^/* infinite,
hunt for virgin cow paddocks continues. Leave no turned into red devils, trying to claw at him. He all-powerful, eternal, V ^ ^ ^ X p " ^ ^
turd unturned, boys. felt like jumping from the car '(40 mph) and
escaping. , . , The negative \mon?r^i^nencc is often
But until the New World is discovered, let's accompanied by bodily .stSnsations of a very
talk about that brief honeymoon period of six weeks So, very powerful stuff, very hallucinatory, and special and characteristic kind. Blissful visions
or so between the public knowledge ofthe existence
of these delightful "legal" {Sunday Truth) little obviously., not; to. be used; irresponsibly. •After all -. are generally, associated with a sense of separa-
things, and the traumatic confiscation of a certain
pot of mushroom soup by the flying Mushroom that T:was jiot "overly eiithiisiastic to-miihch my ' ,. tion from ;tKe Body; a feeling of de-individualisa-.
Squad,
firgtjmushrdom.J ;;-; I-'<\ •'• .: • .: —: '• f ; tipn. . . , 'Ji'CTieh ^ the visiionary experience is ;
I have spoken to a lot of people who have eaten
these things, and the experiences varied widely. -:. However,; as-tfme >vent oil, the whole ;\yorldi it ' ; '• terrible: and thb vvorld- is transfiguired for' the •;
From the horror experiences of a lady journalist
who got the wrong mushrooms in a Chinese meal. seemed, was jturnihg on around; me. Everyone, .:' worse, individiialisatipn, is j intensified and the*
("It felt like my clothes were coming off, God help
those who do it for kicks"), to catatonic bliss. seerned td be surviving and returning to something negative yisiohary finds himself aissociated with

The taste is quite acceptable, especially if they likie a normal-state. Dosages etc, were becoming . : .; a body that seems to grow progressively more
are cooked up in something else—^mushroom soup,
steak and mushrooms, mushroom goulash, psilo- standardised, (4~mushroom ^triijs rwere. recbm- • dense, more,tightly packed, until he finds him-" .
cybin carpet bag steak, etc. Many people found
that they tended to repeat, and give an unpleasant rriended fpr;beginners) and of course, at this stage ', '• self at last,,re'daced:to:Cbeing'the agonised con-.
taste, a few hours after eating. But at least one
cat was so enthusiastic, he ate them raw, straight everyone thought it was-Iegal, Tests on the niush- " scibusnessof anjihspissated liinip of matter, no.^
from the ground, striding over the earth's surface
in his seven-league boots, hair streaming, bending rpoms had_showii there was nqthiiig toxic in them, bigger than a-stone that cari^be held betvveen,
down for another as he finished the last,
So'no he^dforpararioia. ::' •• .'"'-'. '.^the handsr ,-/: l?'-,' |[ 'V ; ' •'••; •*'
I first heard about the mushrooms from a group
of blokes who had eaten them on a surfing weekend ', On Saturday-afternoon :the stage was set., I had ; ;- . , . How and-why is heaven turned ihtP hell?. ^
to the North Coast. Practically all had had freak- decided, aft?r years;pf thinking about it, that I was . ' . . . Fear aiid aiigerbar the way; tp'the heaverily
outs. They decided later that this was mostly ready, .and :prepared to take a. jciufney to the ; Qther Wprld'and'p'lunge themescalin t^kcr intp.
because they didn't know enough about the
mushrooms (What was the active ingredient? "niind's antipodes", ' - . Vi • 'hell; ' . , \['y.--l • - " • • ' • „ \ - ' . , . ; '^ ' •
Was it safe? What will it do to my chromosomes
etc?) and had eaten too many and under the wrong .1 had read my Huxlej;: " , ' .^ - --- . , : Negative emotions^—fear .which is ".the '
conditions. Consequently there was a fear syn-
drome built up once they started to trip. One bloke " Some people never consciously discover their., -absence 'of ,cpnfid6iice, the.hatre'dj.'anger,; or

aintippdes. Others^ make" ah pccasipnal landingli;.; , malice > which-exclude 'love-—are the\guarantee

; Yet Pthers,(but.they are few) firi'd-it/eagy tP gp ""V-. , /that visionary-experience, if.and when iL.boines, .

land cpme;as'they please. For the naturalist pf- • •, • shall be appailihg. The Pharisee is a yirtupus. \.'

• ± e mindj the coUectpr of psychplpgjcal speci- :-•/ man; but his virtue is pf the kind" \yhich..is. ;

.mens,'the'prirnary need is spme safe,',easyi an'd •'•.;^ ; •: cpmpatible with negative emotion. His; visiphary '.••

reliable'rniethod 'of transpprtlng himself^and' '.^ :• experiences are therefpre- likelyVtp ^be infernal

. others-from the,Old World to the New,;-froni'the .,- ';. ra±er-than bhssful. ,;. .')'•'.;".;•. ;* -

.continent-.of'faniUiar cows and hprseV;t0;.the/ ;;• Visipnary experience "is •• npt the same as.

, cbritinent ojf thejwallaby and.the platypiis;;',, " mystical experience. Mystical experience is

. ; Two'suchvmetHpds .exist. Neither; .., . beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary

experience' is still within that reahn. Heaven '
perfect; ^ but/both : are sufficiently-~reliabiej'; .' /.entails hell, and 'going tP "heaven' is_ no mprev^;
; sufficiently, easy, i n d sufficiently, safe..t6;'justify .
liberation, than is:. the descent into horrpr.•'.]'
their],eniplpyirieat by thpse whp know what they :..,'- ;VHeaven is merely a-vauitage ppint frpm which -
are doing. In the first case the soul is transppirtedC* ',o Vthe divine grpund can be seen mnre clearly than '
to itsfar-off destiriationby the aid pfalcfaiemical, "
..Son the level .of ordinary individualised exist- "•
''•ViprInepneg'dhniteioahcstnleeu;sirssbeeccu,aaptcarhcrntdyphdmecttpahhdHseere^us/hptgcheappeds'hnn.svassacbsecgiyhip.eptiu'hc)"h^t^lebnyenr"'peV^eTtsn^itis|cptse--jm^iiVjf?jtptjt^om^so?.iy?\^i..)cntt.Ti:hhh\d^oehe'gsleeo.ssagaaatniwnicrtn^iaiidojee-l./fii'/,'!.''.;Klv:,•:^'..^.^-"-"^ltbi.oeomlSltephPanw,t,cooreeent.sra"-eaod' vryS,ie-ulttlono/e^drts'a.ais'y:k.a•e^ta''-n^af'•tidee'•tpJrr•anwi'lpo,.npiwnnttipptahtHa5et.wm0a0vouesp'n•hn.,mrpoon,ro,-mHtIrseiarplanlp,ndeodarr-s/•A.J;;_•-•\.'.
takes; its passengersI further^MntV^t^e terra ,:''*'. I who had done it'befdre, to keep an eye ph.things/^:!-
: ihcpgnita,/ '; • : ,''."::^'<y'^^,.,
'and prpvid?'a link with reality if needed. \ ; :f!;:
•About the,physip|ogicaI;efferts^6f:^^^
' • V Twenty^inutes and nptWng's happened. Feelff,;"
genie drugs jve know, a little.-PVpb^bl^^inter- kyr'']inl'Slightly self cpnscious and a little apprehensivel^/'i
; feires -with the eruymfe,system thatS; regulates \',. /. ThenxaVa^e lightr.headedness. -Thilrty-fiye ihiny;/ ;•
cerebral functiphmg-rgiYing a: lowernhg of ' ' ..^.utes^-and'my thoughts";,seem t'p bei Ipsinig continur^y v.-'
: biological efficiency 0f*t|ie,-brainto^^^^ the
ity,^biata: little concentratibn.Mid it'shpnnal again.;':^^' "
: entry intpfconsdoiisiiesspf certain classes pf
: We tdk of trivialities.';Tliyi ^vvcompanipn'^^s^
. mental';events-which are nprmally excluded, ., ioir the, appearance pf ;a xlpthes pVg^i,th a-golliwqg .i'i:; '-
, .because they ppssess no siirvival^ value, similar • 'hair-dp.''Th^ wbpd grain''pn a cup)x)ar(i:brcaks),uip'^^'^>-'
, intnisions "bi-biologically useless, b'ut(ae.s^ ,-%, into a^gebniietric patten^ Ilcp^ce^tirateji^^ricl'^^^^
mm• ^ things •areybEmair;Tlien relSxatiPn, arid t'^mm^^
' ly aiid s'orhe. times spiritually valuable it^ateria!

may,.6cfcur as: the ^resblt pfillness br/fa_t_igiie; or^. say~"this'is rhy last'bpinmunicatiprt befpire^gp^tj^ ..

j ;.they.inay^be::mduc^ffi.by:^^^ into space", but get dis^ctedj?Kiya)mp^^

' ' copfinemSitin a plSce iif darkness arid^cpmplete j ( : ; > 0 i ^ s three faces, if I'ddn^^PoK.put, .alU«pr« ^5-.
Iii'cs.-iilAeini;c;^e,'• >'•••• .^•••. . •• ;v.v' -- •. ...v •
;. iBiit the;yisipnai7^experiennrc^e iics'n-nofp'atl^xWflWR ^different. emptions.; T. sta'rtVtatlBughVt^jid^Vannbt^
stopr.itj.;tiieii idbri't: try; ,^o jStop itJ,I ,laugh,<ariid\
•blissful It i^sometihjes terrible. Th«e.;;is hell ,
lajigii.!' Eyefyihing;; seetiis-- rldiculp.us''v I- 'fbll^

rVjjijjsi^ivell as\heaveii!j ^•';;;.':'\N';^J::V'', ;';v'i'">\'":' - .^ :'^ cigarette .with' hanids')ma?.Vr.b/nii]cs^'away and'iiot

•iji-^JI^e heayid^ the;vi$idri^ , , m„xyj;:„p,r\yx*n. Ibe&iiii^.awarcpf'm^^ an impleasant,

^ ll^auiral jigHt-anaiis l i ^ : v^ I 'wa^, i!fe;^(i separate and'egotistical; and predomin-

p ! •j&ifr^ttelis'iijiiificaiiqfeii is jiintrinsicaliy appalling;' • i.'j^::;; \ iaiitljl-wieijndlp"/

;;.;iaiui:|hfejUgh^3Sithei?smo^^^ |7W«fia/f i'^.^ii iiif't: i:^i^datting'in'addaarr]k- mipleasaht roprn, with

rip music,We riipve imp

lisi'r.that'^is'aU'swe^tness and light and Donovan

autobipgraphical recbrd pf ypung gifl s passage•"•* IC. I have a tremendous urge to lie down on

thrpugh madness', the wprld pf the schizo- the floor on my back alongside the heater. I am

phrenic is called 'le pays d'^clairment'—'the rapidly losing interest in communication. I look

country of lit-upness'. It is a name which a up at the gaily painted lamp shade and watch thei

mystic might have used to denote his heaven. colours vibrate to the music. Then I lose all|

But for poor Renee, the schizophrenic, the interest in the external world and close my eyes.

illumination is infernal — an intense electric Incredible 1

glare without a shadow, ubiquitous and im- Visions! Colpurs, flowing everywhere! Thisl

placable. Everything that for healthy visionaries, stuff really works! The music becomes incrediblyl
is a source pf bliss, brings tP Renee only fear and stereophonic, speakers in all different parts of myl

a nightmarish sense pf unreality, body. In a corner of the spectacle, a set of teeth isi

, . . And then there is the horror of infinity. singing the words to me. Then the colours—all thei

For the healthy visionary, the perception of the primary colours, warm and flowing and moving

infinite in a finite particular is a revelation of into the centre in constantly changing flowing

patterns—not geometric—become the music, en- night) and I am instantly under attack in Vietnam.
I "fly back to the bedroom, get under the blankets
ticing me out of myself Extremely friendly, and (back to the wombj^and gp'to sleep, after ensuring
""^JRReongiyill watch me.
sensual in an abstract way, I curl around the
I wake up an hour later, and I have only the
eater and can feel a smile pn my lips, "" nasty taste in my mouth, and an extreme emotipnal
weariness, I feel very humble and human, I really
Then* it becpmes extremely impprtant that my feel like I nrtly need people. I feel cpmpletely i4i 1
disinterested in things like success. These are
body is arranged perfectly—rthat my finger is just irrelevant, inhuman. I hppe this feeling will last. "This writing is not exempt. It remains like all
writing an absurd and revolting effort to make an
so, Invpluntarily, my bpdy is becoming completely Then all I want tp dp is go to bed with my girl, impression on a world that will remain as unmoved
V tell her I love her, and go to sleep. as it is avid.
relajjpd, in a series of twitches. My breathing is
If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out
very low and shallow. But I am not interested in of your wretched mind, if I could tell you, I
would let you know",
myself I look around. The other guy is staring
"Who is not engaged in trying to impress, tp
aD the orange/brown curtains, fascinated. One leave a mark, tP engrave his image on others and
the world—graven images held more dear than
bloke is reading, the other doing some drawings. life itself? We wish to die leaving our imprints
burned into the hearts of others,
Perfect, A little group of flower children
"Forests and cataracts of intricate interstitial
I close my eyes and go back to my visions, I r II luuk twcrdays to get back to normal, and get landscapes,
reinembcr i thiiiking 'f'tffis is important. Everyone over the tiraJpess it produced. I decided I would
Should tiirn on; at-least fence, to see what fantastic likaJB do i^gain, under more controlled con- Cascades and waterfalls through and past elbows
to promontories of fingers,
tliihgs are in the' nyiid.-'nThis experience should difl||ucnpwiB what tp expect, fewer mushrooms,
Star of nerves, arteries of champagne,
not.be fpr kigks'.'i f T h e phlj^ impprtant thing is etc.^^fc^' ^ Her image tingles my fingertips,
Uncoils my recoiHng flesh,
that, .people should "'be' ihuman—respect other A couOTBf we'eks later I did. This time we went • Touches a lost nerve of courage.
Entices an uncertain gesture of delight
"people, take them seriously''. ''That this is possible into fhe coumry, ate them earlier to have a dayUght^ To adventure into being. ^

is'.fantastic"—platitudes take ibn universal signifi- trip, and there were ten of us, all close friends,^}!.* • "Dancing waves of fluent highs and lows of lips
and nipples, fingers, spines, thighs, laughing,
,cancei suddenly becpme real. ^ • ;! K ate fewer, /ifi'^'j'i intertwining, interminghng, fusing, and some-
where touched, an ultimate joy and gladness,
• • Then I go up further, and citn'tbfe bothered with This trip I was more in contrpl, but m|ma|iyj i'. lovely Hghtful life diffusing an ever fiercer fresh-
ness. Yes, this is possible . . . 2
words and conceptions and \ other irrcleyancies. ys it was similar to the first one, onlmhe g90d.|;:
" . . . The truth I am trying to grasp is the grasp
Only experiencing is important. Soniepnel k^s me and bad aspects were not so separ^t^dj |4n'..^ddi-1 that is trying to grasp it.

how it's going. I say "I-'ll tellybu Iater''i i; -i ^ tional complication was the number jj^Kppbpie'

Total sound and colour. Yellow; Siibiriaririe involved. Too many to haveJOTiiipk'at^ii^^ .

incarnate; . • ' • ' • • ' '^.- 'W a fear syndrome was built^.'^Sey^ailQ'f/^He^rt.^set;

• Perfection 'K off in Dr, Livingstpne ^otrf^i'^ja^^ffle'jungle'f.;'•

That's it,-It's perfect. : | K H Ti^ There was a scare \v^^m\y^^q^

y^Wwfe/y perfect,. This has,sorted out Jthe; dark, and there was '^lli^nibb'i^o^^^

chaff of experience and left the pure; grain. Essehpe! fallen out of a tree anddl'huiKrtjtnihiiinMse^lfe.l!f.liljhy'.^

of perfection. No hint of the,negative, negative? ^ ..Finally they turnelMjMjp>,ja|^tQm^|yyiyj^Ms|^^

. A swirl of patterns'.and w'ords suddenly;-tufns. :>;;:; V .tihi;eree was tpo much p^^ata^TtyicMusett.:! Tptatytinpl
pver, and reyc^ls an-underside of'wririkles'.ahd: ! /)/.;'^Vaass''an eeppiicc ttrriipp.. IfI fth^e.]jls|ione[liad| a.'nj'."*"E' lvira|j;
ugliness; then "• rights itself and all goes on as .'/•-• [K^ladigan qudlity this one^'
befbrii. But that•sha^red'things a little, "^ iiK l Rneferiji

: .r.The" illusion 'of sanity' again. The. momentary. •' :J iV,tli'e?fprm'er/^^^, W v w - w .

hprrpr pf 6xpen'e««M^ the turbulence pf the depths' Well, the e x p e r i e n c ^ ' M \ y d t t e i;
pf the niind..-Uncpiitrollable.: Like surfing. A bi^ on the make-up pf ^ ^ i W ^
surf is exhilarating if'ypu are in cbntrpl. But it cpmpany he is with, the iri§oajy|ibn]W
takes pnly a fractiphalerrpr, or a slightly .bigger
swell, tp chum ypu.trpiind on tlie bpttona till ^PU / t j o n invtakiiig the drug, a n t ^ M t^j^i^^D^JM

start tP see green, and dpn't:even kripw which jyay

is up. So beauty becomes hprritste. • 'jThen I-

realise I aiii still gPing up; jind I think "thislis

getting a bit much. I wonder if we tookjtoo maiijj ^.

Before long my:mate:says the same fhing. H t s

Ipsing contact with reaUty.^He is not in contrpl and e3|>eriepfcesV*° a*stlin|.that;feyeiyp^^
wants
him ahd^riderstands.y)?U:;T^hfe^ro
em^Jj^dSxhot to b;e>r^

here *ii jv"' " " T^'':" v ' •, ^ ".J • i. .„' > Kut ,.- , *y^;asj ^''tetr^'a';'^a&ctilar;'aiidv^ensT^^^^ I have seen the Bird of Paradise, she has spread
( entfef rather, tiiap'^^piritual/prie^\-,^\^disint^ herself before me, and I shall never be the same
6mk of mushrooms :at \p-nj\XPu\wai^ reach/ / iI/ Vln/'r^/ii^^p'c^c /^T Qi^t h"^ \^th^an^'. \>thfeHAp,^\irinitrefgtfrfaratirviv^fOtX\mrehte|itphdo.sd;s;^ ^ again.
;ypur^peak sbon, then starvcpmiI^ao^^Il/^
hi ^' There is nothing to be afraid of Nothing.
l()fiiA,,.you;will%e pretty weU^^^^ Exactly.
The life I am trying to grasp is the me that is
;You h'av^ nothiiigtp^worry abput trying to grasp it. If I could turn you on, if I could
drive you out of your wretched mind. If I could
it'befpre^ypu aire.nPt a very hung up

will be np'perman'eht ill effects" (th<

Scientific^ American article which sajjs,

keep repeating thisi and he's pK.\'U^ tell you I would let you know", 2

^with1nfinity^''hesaj^-. . . '-j^ ^K {)>:>;;:[-' reydry0ne!must\rea:lispexactly\^ I Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception!Heaven and Hell,
(Penguin 1959) pp. 72-73, pp. 107-111.
^ • ^ u t I'nv-not OK. I no^v;seem;to^be i n ^ e
aSsohitely negative. Before; I - ' f c l ^ , ^ f V S ' ' f ^ J R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise.
•and sensual. Nowl'feel lumpy w«nkly;hateful, jmd (Penguin, 1967)
vdepersty^alised, ; j . hav^/an^unple^ant-^rnot^

> & a i ; .iri\ itiy> aouth, •' and. a "Pinsl-Mitoedles

^'6VnVateKim.mybqdy..,'The:perfectiori^^.bef^^^^^ ilt hdd'a h^.of^'catbrfiVefecr/^bd^ \

ihihgs sem .to;gp back" prei;t^\muph as^ beforerr'^v,

- ;was:. . • . , - » • • ' • ' ; • • . • • • . . « . " • • / • • • . " , / / . ,,, . , unless, ypui tak^ the\ trbuble\tp\ remehiberA Tlie\^
experience is ipjetty *"""*''•'"'''"*^''^'^" ~"'"* '^^•'* '
.. Then 1 lol"e all .concept-bf hie.anihg.* My person-
I!tliinklitidid;iiie^
ality/brea'ks^/.up* prisniatically. I. 'canhot/even , again j..;.,spmeti|nfc:

''cominand the dbnceptfoiis to work'put who I amy •

' what' I ' W 'doii>g/here> W^ ,,

leadihe'iuitp) ttop this/event? I havfe ibst toiicli./Hfle^e /; •( I P; • ,'lM' A
' w^ 'acted/.respo^isibly?/ What/ iif-an ambiilah'ce,',I
. I! ' I I - 'If' 'It

•^ctMnes^ahd'fakesVe'dyi4y?'''I/m/m ;// ; '/:';

' yM'y'G'p'dl/I'rn.gping tP be Ul^e this fbreVer Jesus said to them:
When you make the two one, and
Then I felt a tremendpus need for a "tpwer pf When you make the inner as the outer
and the outer as the inner and the above
strength" perspn—someone who was "really real" as the below, and when
you make the male and the female intP a single
—who imderstood. If only I could be like that. pne, so that the male will not be male and
the female not be female, when you make
Then I realise the hnmense amount of work and eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand
in the place of a hand, and a foot in the place
time necessary to achieve this unity within, and of a foot, and an image in the place of an
image, then shall you enter the Kingdom,
union without.
The Gospel According to Thomas
I Ippk at my arm, and it looks like a gorilla's.

Individual black hairs standing put like tree trunks

from a wrinkled old arm. My friends' faces be-

come congealed. I want to be able to communicate

my fears, but can't find the energy, I go to the toilet,

then panic in the solitude. A whole lot of sky-

rockets go up in the next yard (it is Guy Fawkes

AUGUST 4th, 1969 SEMPER FLOREAT PAGE FIVE

INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION—N.U.A.U.S. EDUCATION CAMPAIGN

Spare a thought for those who didn't daughters enter Universily. Surely the dis- live on S 17.40 per week, while the Austra- the effect that the difference in spending
make it to uni. Most of them couldn't tribution of intelligence and ability within lian Government allows S30 a week for makes, without examples—Sweden, where
make it because the cards were the community does not correlate so highly Colombo Plan students to live and study. next year 80 % of students will begin tertiary
stacked against them right from the with affluence and posiiion. Figures for More discrepancies such as this are revealed education (a pre-school coune starting at 16)
start, and everything connected with students entering other tertiary institutions by investigating the allowances. and where primary classes over 25 are pro-
hibited by law. Compare this wilh Australia,
the education structure placed them show a similar bias, except that more sons COUNTRY SCHOOLS: and particularly Queensland, where teachers
at a greater disadvantage—so they and daughters from the lower income strata in government schools bring their own soap
Pupils in rural areas not only suffer from so pupils will learn 10 wash their hands after
dropped out. Students at university ' go to teachers' colleges—they can afford lack of cultural stimulation, but have fewer using the toilet, where paper is so scarce they
tend to think they got there througli this form of tertiary education because the opportunities of furthering their education. can't afford to duplicate material, where they
inequalities in intelligence and ability, living allowance is at least adequate and the They start out with a limited range of have to do the work of secretary, clerk and
not in opportunity. Admittedly, the course is short. This situation continues des- "occupation models", and are not en- janitor; and you can see what the rate of
average uni student has a high I,Q. pite the introduction of Universily scholar- couraged by inexperienced teachers doing Government spending means. It also means
compared with the rest of the com- ships. that only 35 % of Australian children com-
their compulsory stint in the country. If plete secondary education, and only 10%
munity, but docs our education go on to tertiary level, Japanese children have
system really select those who are COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS the teachers stay, they find it difficult to a 75% chance of completing secondary
intelligent and capable of further SCHEMES: take extension courses, in-service training education, and 30 % go to tertiary level; so
education? etc. The cost of travel and accommodation that in any business, trade or profession, the
The scheme was originally intended to away from home prohibits Universily educa- Japanese are better trained generally than
I.Q, is not set at birth—each in- lessen the inequalities of opportunity at the tion for many country children, and so many their Ausu-alian counterparts—and this
dividual has a wide range of poten- tertiary level, and has allowed many stu- farmers need the cheap labour provided affects the trade rivalry between the two
tialities for intelligence, and the dents to go ftirther in their education than by their sons thai country boys exhibit the countries in South East Asia, This could go
realization of this is determined by would otherwise have been possible. Many lowest retention rates (the rates of boys in on for pages, showing up Australia as one of
environment. Thus even before a people believe that il has established to a Senior over the number of original Grade 8 the least enlightened countries when it
child begins school there are in- considerable degree, equality of oppor- starters). comes lo educational awareness. When you
equalities in the development of his tunity. A look at the 1966 figures will consider that Queensland is the most back-
innate intelligence. There's nothing show that this is nol true:— Retention rates favour city schools, non- ward state in Australia in this respect, the
much that an education system can government schools, schools in wealthy posiiion is indeed critical,
POVERTY:
do to prevent the discrimination in education
actual intelligence due to differing A child has to be tremendously gifted to
home backgrounds but, if equality overcome the effects of real poverty. Imagine
of opportunity is to be anvthing what happens when a parent cannot afford
to buy a school uniform, a text book, to
apart from a political catchcry, the pay for an excursion. When the only way a
school can get a library, or more basic needs,
system should make allowance for is through their Parents and Citizens'
organization—and parents can't afford to
environment, should discriminate in contribute. When teachers, trying to impose
the middle class values that form the back-
favour of the underprivileged kids— bone of the siruciure, run into kinds who
haven't heard the word "Please", VChen
instead it reinforces these differences parents don't know what the word Physics
means, when they oppose the child's learning
in thousands of ways. French, when they don't speak English at
home, when kids don't get the chance to do
Equality of opportunity is a myth— any homework because of the paper run or
the milk run. Any wonder lhat their sense
perhaps it will always be so, for of inferiority is ingrained, and daily they
fit in less and less. Their poverty is inherited
parental influence which creates many and the education system makes sure of it.

obstacles to development, can never PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION:
It is the age group 3-5 years that mosl can
be discarded in favour of a "Brave
be done to equalize opportunity—the pro-
New World" type of uniformity. cess of education begins ai birth, and the
earlier children come in contact with books,
However, many of the factors that members and ideas, the greater advantage
they have in the race. Yet this advantage is
influence a child's development are given to those who can afford it—the same
group who get all the other advantages.
apparent today, and all these factors Only 7 % of Queensland children receive any
kindergarten, compared with 34% in the
should be taken into account in a A,C,T, where kindergartens are provided
for any child who requires them. Even
comprehensive education system. In- within Australia, the discrepancy is startling.
Yet this phase of education is perhaps the
stead, our children are trained under most important in establishing a child's
ability to learn, interact and relate to others
a system basically unaltered since later in his development.

last century, when the only factor WHAT MUST BE DONE?
For a start, the Federal Govemmeni could
considered was discipline.
have another look at the Martin Report
Equality of opportunity means which it rejected in 1964 and which sug-
gested co-ordinating andfinancingteacher's
that every child should be able to colleges, all of which were to be more auto-
nomous than at present, and offer a three-
develop to the limit of his or her year training course as the minimum
training.
ability—whether he is white or black. supplement
Catholic or Protestant, the son of a Pre school education must be made avail-
politician or of a waterside worker, able to all.
and whether he lives in Ascot or
Camooweal,It means equality for the Schools dealing wilh special problems,
e.g. migrants, poverty, aborigines—should
blind, the deaf, the crippled, the have special facilities and trained teachers,
they should be the best equipped schools,
retarded . , , and the gifted. It not the worst.

obviously does not mean equal effort Percentage of Com- areas, and white Anglo-Saxon protestanls in The Government must give direct grants
or equal expenditure on each child— monwealth Tertiary general. There is obviously a great depth of to ill-equipped schools—not the matching
the government must help compen- Percentage of males scholars whose par- talent being wasted—it has been estimated grants system which gives to those who
sate for differences in environment earning.,, ents appear to have that if the percentage representation at ter- already have, nor the polilical football of
and for the special problems of earned this amount.* tiary level of the lower income groups was stale aid. Only the policy of positive dis-
underprivileged children, by a "re- raised to lhat of the higher income groups, crimination in grants will alleviate the
distribution of opportunity". below 52000 38,98% 11.85% the number of tertiary students would jump problem.
57 %—a 57 % al present being wasted, in a
Inequality of opportunity is diffi- below 54000 83.73% 33,9 % country that cannol afford to waste ils c n n t , on next p a g e . . .
cult to measure—in the following population resources.
article several indicator statistics above 54000 14.27% 66,1%
are used to illustrate the problem,
such as the numbers entering uni- •based on mean tests applied to living allow-
versity, and several of the factors
contributing to the problem are ance applications.
outlined. Other aspects of the situa-
tion will (hopefully) be dealt with in Figures are also available relating the num- WHY HAS THIS SITUATION
a later article—such things as the ber of awards to the category of school— DROPPED?
appalling state of affairs in teacher- as can be expected, pupils in Independent
training, the role of the teacher and non-Catholic schools win a disproportion- One of the reasons for all this blatant in-
the involvement of the community, ately large number of the scholarships com- equality can be highlighted by comparing
the position of artistic development pared wilh those in government schools, figures for the Australian expenditure on
in curricula, the administrative struc- whose pupils need ihem most. education, which that of other comparable
ture, and so on. Sufficient for this Yet these scholarships are relatively easy to countries.
article to bring some of the problems obtain compared wilh scholarships to other
to light. tertiary institutions, or Mature Age awards. Government spending on Education as
The Colleges of Advanced Education which, a percentage of GNP 1965 /66
NUMBERS ENTERING UNIVERSITY: despite the staius value of Universities, are
Children of fathers in unskilled or semi- vital to Australia's development, have very Canada 8.5 %
few Commonwealth Scholars. And even Sweden, USSR 7.3 %
skilled occupations make up 33 % of all though the numbers of scholarships are Japan (1963-4) 7,2%
those who leave school, but only 1,5% of sporadically increased, the pressure on the USA 6,5%
their sons and 0,7 % of their daughters enter scheme is such lhat many people who would UK
Universily. Compare this wilh people in have been entitled to assistance 15 years Czechoslovakia 6.4%
"Higher Administrative" positions—their ago now cannol obtain it. Even 10 receive France 5.3%
children make up only 1 % of leavers but a scholarship doesn't seem enough—living Australia 4.8%
29.8% of their sons and 14.2% of their allowances are just not sufficieni, nor are 4.3%
they geared to indications which allow for
the high cosl of accommodation and icxt To quote from H. P. Schocnheimer:—"In all
books, Australian students are expected to international comparisons we show up as
the third to Hfih wealthiest nation on the
planet and somewhere from fourteenth lo
seventeenth in educaiionai spending". It is
hard to picture what this means, to realize

PAGE SIX SEMPER FLOREAT AUGUST 4th, 1969

The cost of textbooks and materials will tion. This organization I shall speak sary employable units, in the old have been winning hands down. For
have to be subsidized to a greater extent at example, of every thousand dollars
all levels. of at some length because I believe it fashion terminology they were called of our gross national product, we in
Australia spend 43 dollars on edu-
All costs involved in "free" education to be the prevailing one in the present people, to enable the Assistant Mana- cation. To quote only the nations
must be met by the State or Federal Govern- that spend at least half as much again:
ments, Australian climate. In it, the Mana- ger for Personnel to operate equally the United Kingdom devotes 64
dollars to education, the U,S,A, 65,
Somewhere along the line towards the ging Director is the Prime Minister expeditiously. Sweden, Soviet Union and Denmark
collapse of our education system, the Com- 73 dollars and Canada 85 dollars,
monwealth must assume responsibility— and the Assistani Managers and the Now all this has to be done on just on twice of our proportion of
rebuilding old schools and building new ones, GNP. That percentage, if it's trans-
etc, , , . What we need is a shake-up of the members of the Board of Directors of sound business principles. The know- lated into money, means that wc
whole structure, lhat will allow national co- would have to spend at least 700
ordination based on modern concepts of Australian Enterprises Incorporated, ledge industry must be run as million dollars a year extra to equal
education, but a greater degree of autonomy the rate that Scandanavian countries
granted to individual schools and teachers; that's the Cabinet, include for our cheaply as is consistent with meeting were up to when those figures were
and wc need the people to education our taken in 1965, In all international
children—teacher training is the basis of purposes Mr. Fraser as the Minister the needs of the corporation for comparisons we show up as the third
an education system and Australia falls to fifth wealthiest nation on the
down badly. Enthusiastic teachers, particu- for Education and Science, that is skilled manpower. So there must be planet and somewhere from four-
lariy in Queensland, arc frustrated at every teenth to seventeenth in our educa-
turn by the hierarchical structure, of the Director of staff-training, and Mr. no overproduction of educated human tional spending.
blind incompetence of a system grinding
towards a crisis that will leave Ausiralia Berry, the Minister for Labour and interlect. Early in the 1960's the If education is to be a privilege
years behind the rest of the world in her limited to the few, and at the same
dcvelopmenl. Education can be the great National Service, Director of Per- Commonwealth realized, and this time the key to a higher income in the
equalizer and the key to social mobility, but new age of automation, then in-
in Australia it serves to reinforce stratifica- sonnel, was codified in the Martin Report, evitably those who can afford to do
tion and discrimination within our society. so will ensure that the inequalities
Universal, free, compulsory and secular? Now this enormous enterprise has that the country was going to need
Compulsory and secular maybe. People arc
getting worried—groups like S.l.D. and one fundamental aim, frequently more scientists, many more techno-
Q.E.R.C. are evidence of this. NUAUS has
been campaigning on this issue for a while, stated by the Prime Minister in his logists and administrators in order to
and much of the material in this article
came from Tom Roper, the full-time capacity as Managing Director, that meet the demands of the age of auto-
Education officer of NUAUS. There is a
campaign under way at present, to press for is to increase production and to pay mation. So the Board set to work to
education reform—if you arc concerned
about it contact the NUAUS Education dividends to the shareholders who extend the tertiary branch of the
Committee.
have put in their capital. When knowledge industry, that is, the uni-

labour, the wage and salary earners versities and the colleges of advanced

demand their share in the material education.

production, then especially if it is You might think that this would

election year, they can hope to gain necessarily mean an increase in the

an increase in their allowances. But number and quality of kindergartens,

your children have no votes and so primary and secondary schools, but

it's much more difficult for them to but here you would be wrong. Since

put their case for an increased share.

Australian Enterprise Incorporated

has links with the United States

Limited, with Japanese Holdings and

with British Investments. All share a

common determination to protect

what we have from the impoverished

^SSikim^m

Schools falling apart

"Temporary" classrooms that have been there is enough well-trained intelli- favour their own, I will do it for my
used for up to 9 years.... gence available from the survivors of children until State education is of
the rat race at these levels, to give the reasonable quality.
EDUCATION peoples of the world, those peoples States money to build new and
IN who, already poorer than ourselves, better schools and to train and to So within the Australian situation,
AUSTRALIA are becoming relatively poorer than employ more and better teachers, to even without looking at the poverty-
us every year. In 1966-67, for install facilities for music and art stricken nations of the third world,
By H. P. Schoenheimer example, the income of the in- and drama, gymnastics, to beautify gross educational disparities exist
dustrialised world rose by 60 dollars the buildings and grounds, all this and the results show up at the ex-
There arc two possible views of the per head and of the unindustrialised would be unnecessary and uneco- amination level and in the granting
primary purpose of education. From world by 2 dollars. nomic and would eat up capital that of scholarships where approximately
the one side, it is seen as a means by could otherwise be used to mass- twice as many children from the fee-
which workers are trained for jobs. This total organisation, this busi- produce over high powered cars, to paying private schools obtain scholar-
From the other, education is the ness arrangement, I may remind you, glut the market with electrical goods, ships as from the state schools. Some
means that helps human beings to does represent the majority view and to advertise and produce record of these disparities I want to look
live richer and more satisfying lives. is represented in Federal Govern- numbers of billions of cancer-causing at now.
ment policy. The electors may some- cigarettes. And the Board, of course,
In the first instance, the school is a times wish to change the Board, was not so foolish. The then Director, For the child of professional or
fairiy tough work place. In the second, partly because they believe that this Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, washed senior executive family, the chances
learning should be exciting and joy- will improve our competitive position, his hands ofthe Martin recommenda- of obtaining a tertiary education are
ful. Of course, there are combinations but they show no great willingness to tion for Commonwealth responsibility 18-to-l for the child of the semi-
of these things, and neither view is change the basic rules of the game. for teacher-training because wasting skilled or unskilled parents. The boy
totally exclusive of the other, But the money on better education for future who leaves school at fifteen pays in-
basic view one takes of education de- My concern is to consider the employee units, quaintly they were direct taxes which are very heavy in
termines the kind of outcome in the workings of the Department of the once called boys and giris, would be Australia to meet the cost of this
school itself and, to a large extent, in Director of Staff-training, that is the simply wasteful — there's no per- tertiary education for those of us who
the human being who proceeds from Minister for Education and Science, centage. are recruited into the elite. There's
the school. Mr, Fraser. an interesting sidelight on the tax
The story of Australian education structure here: between 1955 and
Now the Australian view of edu- In line with the general policy of during the current decade is the 1968, federal income tax increased
cation sees the nation at large as a Australian Enterprises Incorporated, story of a struggle between those who in gross amount by 160",,, tax on
commercial and industrial corpora- his function is to manage the know- take the democratic view of educa- business people increased by 70",,)
ledge industry efficiently. The tion, that is who attach the highest on companies by 140",, and on wage
schools, the colleges, and the uni- value to people, and those who take and salary earners by 370",,. Overall
versities have to produce the neces- the techno-cratic view who see people disparities in the schooling system:
as units to keep the system functional. at the one extreme are the Catholic
parochial school carrying on educa-
In this struggle the frugally minded tion at a standard of provision which

AUGUST 4th, 1969 SEMPER FLOREAT PAGE SEVEN

in many respects is far below that inequalities. The Board is running a Swedes have developed follows from who were in extreme difficulty, doing
offering in the state schools; classes business and it's not in business for these basic premises. Primary educa- the same job all over again; and in a
are larger, teachers arc more over- the good of your children's health. tion runs from seven to ten, our third specialist room was the speech
loaded and facilities are frequently It wants the schools to train an elite secondary is divided into their middle teacher, or the speech remedial teach-
even scarcer; at the other extreme and that elite is to come basically school (age ten to thirteen), high er whose work was regarded as
are the wealthy fee-paying private from the present holders of wealth school (age thirteen to sixteen). The specialised once more. The staffing
schools of which I spoke, mainly and power plus any extra cream that next stage the student attends one of ratio they offered mc was 1:17, In
non-catholic ones, where education needs to be skimmed off from the a variety of institutions from age secondary, where the teacher is
costs anything from 450 dollars a lower orders. So when all the States sixteen to ages eighteen or nineteen expected not only to have time for
year to 750 at the highest ranges. In ask for educational funds the Com- or twenty and after that he goes on to correction and preparation of lessons,
effect these schools provide an educa- monwealth invariably refuses more the university. but to do the sort of reading that any
tion which costs approximately than a token gesture, 10 million other professional must do, the staff-
double the cost of education for the dollars a year here, 10 million dollars The plan envisages that by next ing ratio was nearer 1:12, Any large
state school child and can be regarded there—they always call it 30 million year (1970) 80",, of students will city school will have its psychologist,
as being of approximately the relative- dollars a triennium because it sounds start not on university education, its doctor, its nurse, its clerks, its
ly higher quality. It's interesting that more—for something which may be but on this tertiary sixteen-plus janitors and where appropriate, of
a very large number of the Federal good in itself but is insignificant education. By 1980 '96"„ will be course, its laboratory assistants.
members of Pariiament send their alongside the real needs. involved in education at that level.
children to schools of this kind. Swedes are tremendously pre- Facilities: well, no child in Sweden
The fact that this leaves the schools occupied with equality in education. buys so much as a pencil before the
Now the Government lumps all of desperately short of accommodation, So, for example, to support these age of sixteen and 50",, have all
these schools together under the catch- of desks, buildings, of suitable higher levels, they have a generous books and other equipment provided
all title "Independent Schools" or grounds, of highly qualified teachers system of student loans whereby the right up to the gymnasium, that's
"non-Government Schools" and gives who are the key to any successful students receive an allowance and the nineteen year age level.
the Catholic secondary schools parti- education, with all of this the Board this is supplemented by a substantial
cularly, and the non-Catholic expen- is not concerned. Education is in- loan, something of the order in Buildings: the new buildings of
sive schools, Science blocks, libraries, vestment. The doctors, the lawyers, Australian money of a thousand the 1962 and later era are magnifi-
state-aid, tax concessions, whereby the managers, the engineers and dollars a year, which he eventually cently beautiful, although they arc not
the richer you arc the less you pay technologists are being produced, so pays back when he is earning the terribly flexible. The quality is liter-
and so pays out these Commonwealth Where's the profit? As long as you higher income that his higher educa- ally that of an expensive St. Lucia
tion has made him capable of flat. The rooms are not only to keep
Similar loans and grants are available the wind and rain out: they have
in the folk high schools where you been carefully designed and decorated
can find students up to the age of by interior decorators. Curtains and
forty, though the bulk of them are original paintings and statues and
in their twenties. I wish you could lovely polished wood furniture, ad-
sec some of the schools of Sweden. justable desks, of course, air
In primary school, that is from seven conditioning, spacious rooms. I'm
to ten, no child sits in a class larger thinking of Farsta particularly with
its vast theatre and its concert grand

Inadequate sick rooms.

Secondary Scholarships Grants, of have that kind of thinking in the Libraries squeezed into school verandahs
which most always go to the richest community, you will have it in
and the least to the poorest schools. Canberra. As long as you have it in than twenty-five, that's the law and piano, musical instruments, its gym-
This has been researched by Profes- Canberra, the schools will be mean
sor Fincham in my own university. and drab and in a perpetual state of if twenty-six comes along, you start nasium and its many w^orkshops
crisis.
Between the AustraUan States there a new class. In secondary, that is and separate craft rooms for different
are further inequaliues in education. By contrast with the Australian
New figures are due soon, but in the situation, I draw your attention to the middle and higher school, the class crafts, and this is the standard that
meantime the interesting ones that educational pattern in Sweden, which
apply are that in 1966 the average ex- I visited last year, Sweden is a may go up to twenty, but they are the Swedes set for state schools in
penditure per child on education was nation of eight million people, slightly
210 dollars per year with Queensland richer than Australia, and as I split intofifteensfor so many subjects the 1960s, I asked the headmaster of
as the lowest State at 163 dollars. In suggested earlier, spending 7.3",, of
primary education Queensland was the its gross national product on educa- that the staff to student ratio is Farsta, "What else do you wnnt for
lowest State, 77",, ofthe national aver- tion, Sweden is a nation that has
age and in secondary education, developed mainly on its own capital better than in the primary schools. your school, Mr, Lindberg?" and he
Queensland was the lowest spender, so that it has no great overseas debt.
spending 85",, ofthc national average. It has virtually eliminated poverty. And in both primary and secondary paused for a moment, as if this was
By contrast with this variously distri- It uses a steeply progressive taxation
buted poverty, in Canberra kinder- system. Its people work 42^ hours a education no teacher is employed unfamiliar to him and said, "There
gartens are provided by the Common- week. They retire at 67] rather than
wealth, that is by the taxpayer for 65, If you wanted to, you could say with less than two-and-a-half years is nothing, I am content". And so he
every child who requires them: the that the result of all this is that they
only expenditure to parents being are working harder and passing the of training beyond the tertiary, that should be content, although later on
for movable furniture; buildings, extra on to their children.
equipment and staff are paid for from is the nineteen-plus stage. This is I did get him to admit that the
the public coffers. Again if you wish In Sweden there's an educational
to start a private school in Canberra, plan that reaches forward with vary- fairly well in line with modern teachers (he has a hundred and
the Commonwealth pays for the ing degrees of tcntativencss into the
buildings and so I'm assured grants twenty-first century. The view taken United States and Canadian practice fifteen, if I remember, of whom ten
the use of land. It is surprising that here is that the country will need all
the Canberra high schools have been the educated people it can get and where four years of high school were on study leave last year) though
authoritatively described as the best that if wealth is shared , . , you need
in Australia? all the dentists and doctors and college education is the recognized they had their staff rooms some
architects and teachers and artists
I remind you there are perfectly that they can get. basic training for a teacher, 3,000 square feet of them with
good reasons for these staggering
Now the education system that the I was in a number of the big new television and radio and separate
schools in Farsta and Sollentuna and quiet room for study and the kitchen
Bredang. In the primary schools one for making coffee (of course they
found in addition to these small didn't cat there—they ate in the
classes I have mentioned a specialist dining rooms) felt they would also
teacher with nothing to do all day like a study of their own, that is, one
except to take groups of children of study for each, and he also decided
two, three, four or five who were that it was a pity that they had only
losing ground in language and num- six or eight or maybe ten expensive
ber work; and in another room at the tape recorders and a dozen or so of

side, equally well provided with

masses of teaching aids, a second c e n t , on next p a g e . . .
specialist teacher for the children

PAGE EIGHT SEMPER FLOREAT AUGUST 4th, 1969

overhead projectors and that it would Careers
be nice to have one of each in each for Graduates
room like Bredang. Then the head of
Bredang had cheated, mind you. In fhe Commonwealth Bureau of Census & Statistics
How much? Well when 1 talked to
him he explained that in his school ECONOMICS
they had overspent on equipment in COMMERCE
the previous year by 18,000 dollars. STATISTICS
But of course there was no trouble,
he said. The authority found the MATHEMATICS
money. COMPUTING SCIENCE

This is a good note to conclude on.
The authority that found the money
was the local authority. Swedish
education has eleven hundred such
local authorities and roughly speaking
60",, of the finance for education
comes from the central government,
40"o from the local authorities.
Power and responsibility are shared
between the two and this one finds—
I think in every country where
education is thriving and excellent
and progressive—that the local au-
thorities, the mothers and fathers
whose children are in those schools
have a great deal of responsibility for
seeing that education is first-rate.

This brings me back to my starting
place that education depends on
people and on the view that is taken of
the importance of people. Above all
else in my thinking it's the participa-
tion of ordinary citizens in the de-
cision making that will see that this
view is a healthy one.

PARALLEL EDUCATION The Bureau offers:
CONFERENCE
Attractive salary on appointment.
'the Universily of New UnglanJ S.R.C. is organizing Excellent prospects of promotion,
a Parallel liducaiion Conference m coincide wiih the A challenging and interesting job.
Nt:At'S. Tcrciary Planning Seminar. I'his conference Excellent conditions of employment
has come atwut because New iingland ihinks studenls Positions available in Canberra and all States.
will nol be getting enough voice at ihc 'ITS. This con- General and specialised on-the-job training.
current conference will be run so that siudenis can hear Opportunities for further study both in Australia and overseas.
some ofthc speakers from ihc speakers from the IPS Opportunities for overseas travel and experience.
and have their own seminars and discussions. General
topics of tlie 'ITS will be dealt wiih, e.g. National and For further information and application forms make arrangements through the
State policies on higher education, but it is hoped to Careers and Appointments Counsellor for an interview with our
expand the scope of the para, conference lo include representatives on 17th July, or contact:
oilier topics of interest to studenls such as 'l"hc I'uturc of
t^niversilies. Both conferences will start on Sunday, The Commonwealth Statistician, OR The Deputy Commonwealth Statistician,
August IQth and go till Saturday, August I6th, and will CANBERRA, A.C.T. BRISBANE, QLD.
be held on campus al Armidale. Costs are being kept to a
minimum. Two types of accommodation arc available: SF^

1, Men: I-'ree sleeping-bag accommodation t i . t t . a « i i « s . education Gommittee
for 6 days plus meals—$8.
Queensland is educationally backwards. 6. and of course to encourage action on CafttzeJs
Women: Single room accommodation Gradually people arc becoming aware of this, campus.
— J2; plus meals—$8. and on campus the NUAUS Education Com- BtG
2. College accommodation: Single nxim mittee is attempting to spearhead reform in Something has already been achieved,
and meats, all inclusive—$ 17.20. all fields of education in Queensland. The A public meeting, attended by over 1,000 BOVLEMONADE
'ITierc will be a conference fee of $ 2, first term of this year was spent in deciding people, was addressed by leading education-
A full program will be available soon. in what area it would be best to concentrate alists (Schoenheimer, Drinkwatcr, Lang,
'I'hey iiope to have representatives from all SRCs, efforts. This slogging is now over. The Goodman) who pointed out some of the
Teachers' Colleges, aciivisi groups and 1-ducaiion Commiltee has now decided on a course of present defects. The majority of those attend-
Faculties and anyone else iniereslcd. <\tuch meaning- aclion for the rest of this year, viz.: ing were parents, teachers, etc.—all fairly
ful discussion and a useful report should come front the elderly (not "student-stirrers" as some
wnfercnce. 1. hold public meetings (the first a film peanut-farmer attempted to establish), and
Forms available at Union Ofiice, evening on August 6th, 7,30 p.m., Abel 800 of those interested gave their names.
Smith),
T Our present activity is working towards
2. publicise our ideas and activities as the Federal election, attcmpiing lo stir both
n DIIIIIIIC widely as possible (through press, radio, etc), parties into a promises competition. It's an
ambitious programme, but judging from last
\^% REDUCTION 3. to form committees in various areas of term, it should be successful. We want help
TO ALL those who attend our meetings to press for from the student body, so those who are
reform, willing to put in some time in the programme
UNI. STUDENTS. outlined above are welcome to the next
4. send out speakers from Uni. to interested meeting (8 p.m., Tuesdays, Axon Room).
57 1266 groups (clubs, seminars, etc.),

Pantlus 5. send a newsletter to interested public
(the fint has gone),
dry cleaners

Also Dry

Cleaning, MOVIES! Movies! MOVIES! Movies!

Laundry, And There will be afilm eveningfor Wednesday, A ugust 6th, to show A mcrican, British and Swedish
Shoe Repairs. films on cducaiion. These countries have a progressive attitude towards education—come
and sec tvhat difference this makes; bring your friends, discuss, get committed and siiV t/tc
Government.

LEAVE GARMENTS Wednesday, August 6th 7.30 p.m.
AT UNION SHOP Able Smith Lecture Theatre.

AUGUST 4th, J969 SEMPER FLOREAT PAGE ELEVEN

MARINETTI— THE SAGA OF "HAIR" HUNGER EyCoTic,EROTIC, K/^Le,jpo5coPic.
a controversial
premiere —continued (ELDORADO) ONE tAASTU RBATIOM

Last month Sydney saw a spectacular film These spots have been censoredfrom the Australian Director: Henning Carlsen ^sn^m &•Wep.
premiere that made the Hollywood-iypc production of "Hair":
premieres of recent .Australian features seem (/} At tlic bcsinning, mo policemen arc sup- A Dano-Swediiih co-production, this fine little HELGA HELGA HELGA
dull in comparison. film is set in Kristiana in 1890. It concerns a HELGA HELGA HELGA
posed to patrol the aisles—OMITTKD.
Over 2000 people clamoured and fought at cranky young writer going through one of his SEX education has finally undergone a revolu-
the box office in an aitempt to see .'\lbie Thorns' (2) A bedroom scene inhere one asks: tion. Originally intended to instruct .Munich
experimental feature MARINETTI. Talk of starvation periods, sustained only by his pursuit schoolchildren in the whats, whys, and wheres
the film over its 18 months of production had "What docs one do in bed?" of sexual physiology, it was raved over so
aroused considerable interest in the unusual of beauty in the form of Gunnel Lindblom. A much by critics that the producers were forced
experiments that had taken place. Furihcr, —"F - - k in bed." into expanding the film to suit popular audi-
rumours of frank sexual scenes aroused other perilously thin story line spread over close on ences. And critics arc raving more than ever.
interests. :~"Find one's cock in bed." Certainly a film for all University studetiis to
—"Scratch one's balls in bed."—COM- two hours, but the work is saved by Per Oscars- see, it uses the pregnancy of a young German
The premiere was as unusual as the film son's animated ponrayal of the emaciated girl, Helga (Ruth Gassman), to show what
itself. Sydney's swiiched-on people—the Pad- •PLI-tEiy OMITTED. happens.
dingron push, the Kings Cross hippies and {3} Other small descriptions too numerous to eccentric, which won him the award for best
art and university smdents—rcsplcndcm in actor at Cannes in 1966. Carlsen's direction is Fantastic photomicrographs show the mo-
their colorful clothes, jostled with staid re- mention. ment when a sperm fertilizes an ovum, and
presentatives of the .Australian film industry BUT suitably spare, and his editing has a fluidity later a developing foetus is shown. i\nimaicd
who had come to sec what they could learn (7) The nude scene is said to he "more honest" which keeps the film's momentum up to an diagrams are shown only where it would be
from the film experiment. acceptable level, with lots of quick little difficult to show the actual thing, and even these
Response to the film was sharply divided and than the London or Neiv York versions. arc of superlative quality,
irguments actually occurred in the cinema glimpses into the writer's quirky nature . . .
while the film progressed. Experimental (2) The " / - - A"-$tt.\'i'i!jf scene is intact. Nudity appears only when necessary; one of
sections of the film deriving from the theories (3) More porersions arc featured in asides than Rating . . . three stars. the points put forward is that nudity /.( neces-
of musician John Cage and painter Josef While wc are on the subject of Swedish sary and desirable.
Albers were met by some with astonishment in the other productions.
and disbelief. For others the James Joyce over- {4) Overall, (he AusiraHait rcrsiori is said to hi films, Sweden, as everyone knows, has a The birth scene is stunnini;. No other word
tones of the film were to much to comprehend much superior to the London or Mete York population considerably smaller than this could describe what is one of the greatest
at one silting. One critic described it as a country. The history of its film industry is as wonders of life, which so few actually witness
"psychedelic collage, total cinema, happening", versions. (mothers included), and which is shown from'
while another referred to it as "an oddity . . . long as ours—dating back lo 1896. Like all start to finish in "Hclga".
photographed at express train speed," and
another resorted to the neologism "cinemas- "PETULIA" other western countries, (apart from the USA Despite the rather inferior quality of the film,
turbation" to describe his impressions. Two and .Australia) Sweden has a National Film and the losses incurred in dubbing into the
newspaper editorials attacked ABC-tv for Brilliani. A must for vicwinp. It is unfortunaic that Institute to promote its native film industry. English language, and the rather inevitable
suggesting such a bizarre experiment should this film grosscJ Ititlc more ihan $50 afu-r a whole In the five years since SVENSKA FILM- Ait^cricanisms (in interviews which introduce
be seen, and the .ABC defended its right to week of screening ai a city theatre. IN'STITUTET was established, feature film the film), "Hclga" is highly recommended to
draw 10 public attention any film it thoughi of production has doubted, c\pon revenue has everyone who is curious about themselves and
interest. Richard O'llard Day's N'ighi", "The Knack") Lester's increased by more than 300",,, yearly. Swedish how they work; even if you think you know it
use of colour and Uashback couplcJ wiih a highly in- box office receipts have mo\ed up from 27 all, you could be in for some surprises.
Such was the incredible premiere ol' cisive sense of siicial comment and an intelligent script,
.MARINHTTI. One wonders whether its make its 105 minuies a valuable espcriencc. Birth control is treated in a fair, though
Brisbane premiere on .August 6 will be as raiher scanty fashion, but this is made up for
exciting. Hxcellcni acting on the pan ofJulie Christie, Richard million doUars to 38 million dollars. by the generally very informed tone of "Helga".

c:hamberlain, Joseph Cotlen, Shirley Ktyers. The The Institute supports native films in relation Showing at the Carlton. (Normal admission
motor sequences, visions of huge while stereotyped to their box office receipts and makes awards $L50. Student concession, $1. Take advantage
suburbia, the fact thai every time a TV appears ti to films of high artistic merit. The lop monetary of this and sec "Hclga" soon.)
shows Vicinam killing, all aJd up 10 an intense commem awards of the Institute in 1967 went to
on the Now-Time, Of added interest is ihe featuring Bergman's PHRSONA ;555,a00 Kr.). Jan TONY >:ELIL'5
of world-famous groups—the Grateful l>:ad, Kig

liroihcr and (he Holding Company and ihe .Slcmbcrs Troell's HHRU IS YOUR LIHE (seen at ihe

ofihc Commiliee. Well worth seeing."-* recent National Film Theatre of .Australia's

Swedish Season at the .Avalon) (475,000 Kr.),

and Bo Widcrbctg's ELVIRA MADIGA^5

(280,000 Kr.). But it can't be done here. Why,

"THE WICKED DREAMS OF il might upset the British-.Anierican production

PAULA SCHULTZ" distribution exhibition monopoly, and ihat is

Largely a comedy based around Berlin Wall comic unthinkable, and an infringement on the foreign
sequences when ItasI Germany's top woman athlete capitalist's Iwsic right to take as much money

I'aula Schuhz IKlke Sommerl polc-vauics the wall to out of this country as possible without any

land in the arms of an American black marketeer. responsibility of contributing anything in

Screening Paddington Theatre—S p.m. Complications arise when the C.I.A., Kasi German return.
Security, and ihc 1'ndcrv.orld become involved.
Humour is patchy, with some clever sequences Wc NI-T.A people in Queensland were
icspccially ihc "female impersonator" scenes), which shocked at the Cerfsor's suggestion that he cut
make ihe film cnjovablc" two of our specially imported Swedish films.
These films were from ihc Swedish Film
M.J.K. .Archiv'es and have been shown uncut in every

Department of Education other country in the world. Well, if we can't

Queen 5lanij produce works of art in this country, we can
certainly try to mutilate other people's.

PETER ML'LLIWS

T E AC H 1NS

as a career m page

One-year graduate t e a c h e r s c h o l a r s h i p s l e a d i n g t o thE
Diploma in Education are offered for 1970.

Salary on appcintment - f 4 , 0 5 0

Interviews on campus 11th and 12th Se^terrber, 1969. "Charly!''CPam; and in the episodes of Charly's brief but happv
love affair with the widowed .Mrs. Kinain. it
iSpecialised tuition during 3rd Through an experimental operation, mentally approaches an Elvira Madiganish qu^ility.
Term will help you in orrjanising retarded Charly Gordon (Cliff Robertson) Ravi Shankar's music is suitably unobtrusive.
your Course, Your future success becomes a genius, only to find that the result of One very interesting part of the film is the use
warrants a ' p h o n e c a l l t o HUBB/JiDS the operation is not permanent. The problems of the split-screen technique. Although the
now Charly faces firstly as a mental retardee in an segmenting of the screen in the segmeni «ucn.
unsympathetic world, then in trying to improve Charly adopts the life, first of a Hell's .Angel,
PURE MATHS 1 his mind after the operation, and finally when then of a hippy, is effective in conveying its
he realises the effects of the operation will not kaleidoscopic qualities and its brevity, the
COACHING last, are, or should have been, the main points split-screen technique in scenes involving two
of the film. Unfortunately they are forced to characters, adds little to the film.
during 3''' term compete with the story of Charly's love affair
with his tutor, Mrs. Kinain (Claire Bloom), The best part of the film is the sequence un
(other subjects by arrangement) which is given undue importance in the film; black and white) of Charly the Genius, realising
even the publicity pushes this as the main he will soon revert lo imbecility, attempting to
PHONi; NOV/- 2 1 2 9 2 7 feature (at least it's being honest). This is a escape from the image of what he was, and
pity, because when the film concentrates on what he will soon become again. He runs
'rnii! HUBB/OiD Charly's other problems, particularly as a around and around a series of maze-like cor-
ACADSMY mentally retarded person, it shows great pro- ridors, meeling Charly the Moron at every
mise. The scene where Charly, now a genius, turn; the maze resembles the one '.hat .Algernon
6 2 GHAIILO'J:TI] STREET, BRisSimE helps a mentally retarded waiter who has the mouse was put through in laboratory tests
(Opp. F e s t i v a l Hall) dropped a tray of glasses, is perhaps the most (a point reinforced by an intercut, held a little
moving in the film, more so than the rather too long, of .Algernon running through a maze);
sentimental (though in the context of the film, nevertheless, the best sequence ofthe film.
perfectly valid) final scene, where a sad-faced
Clare Bloom watches Charly, returned to his All in all, a film that could have been much
original state, playing happily on a see-saw with belter if the love interest had not interfered too
some children. much with ihe main point ofthe siory; but with
technical effects that make it worth a look.

RON EEDY

Cliff Robertson won an .Academy .Award for WRITER'S, FDET rv'i (hQi.C5Y,
his role as Charly, and his portrayal of the
mentally retarded Charly ceriainly deserves it. Work i s being c o l l e c t e d row for a
Claire Bloom gives a capable performance as
Mrs. Kinain. The two scientists who perform book by w r i t e r s under 3G r e s i d e n t in
the operation on Charly are much less inter-
esting as characters. (A word of praise for Australia. Send c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o
Algernon, the white mouse.)
Mic'hasJ D r a n s f i e l d ,
The colour throughout is clean and bright.
Box 199B, G.P.O.,

5Yli|\lEY, 'sJ.S.W. 2001

PAGE TEN SEMPER FLOREAT AUGUST 4th, 1969

R. SPENCER OLIVER reaJise that use of violence only brings about have been accepted as a compromise candidate,
• epression and loss of the chance of change. Q: Isn't the Presidential election run by the
(This article is based on a talk given by the rioting students. They were given a crash party machine and not by the people?
President of the United Stales Youim Democrats, course in riot control. I do not like those who perform outrageous A: This is probably less so in the U.S. than
Mr. R. Spencer Oliver.) acts and claim to speak for all students. The elsewhere, because ofthc lack of organisation in
As a result of all this, everyone was expecting students are trying more reasonable methods, the parties between elections. It is easy to
Young people probably had a greater impact on virtual war. The National Guard was called in. so there should be little unrest in the 1969-70 manipulate the forces of change through money,
the Dcmoctaiic Party in the 1968 U,S, Presi- academic year. the mass media, opinion polls, and using public
dential elections than ever before in the history About 10,000 students showed up; and relations to give the candidates good images.
of democracy. Previously they had been pro- mostly they were ones who had shown up at The students arc beginning to realise that if This is bad; to overcome it, free TV time
testing, asking for a voice in decision-making conventions for years because they were inter- they do not take an interest in their university should be given for debate between the can-
that affects their lives. Many felt that the U.S. ested irr political processes. But they could not and elect student leaders who can represent didates to get a better idea of them.
has made a mistake in Vietnam, and this had get into the Convctttion Hall. They had no- them on disciplinary committees, etc., then
led to demonstrations. Yet there had been no where to go, no facilities. So they went to the those who want to destroy the sysiem will be SEMPER LNTERVIEW:
change in the attitude of the Government or of parks—where the police were, and also the able to do so, because of the closing down of Q: What sort of role do you think young people
either Party. leftists. The set-up in Chicago was perfect for channels. svill play in the Democratic Party in the future?
the leftists: they could provoke unrest and A: I think it will be an expanded one. There
So, in 1968, the young tested the electoral violence. American students are an idealistic and com- will be more emphasis on youth activity and
system to try to bring about change. Many de- passionate group of people. They are becoming organisation, with greater opportunity for the
cided to support Eugene McCarthy as a chal- This meeting of students, police and leinsts more interested in the political process, and young people to elect their own representatives
lenge to the EstabHshment. Some young people led to a confrontation. The police reacted in a are joining the Parties. to the decision-making bodies of ihe party.
opposed this, claiming that the politit-al system way that I have never seen before by a police There arc measures in the party reform move-
and institutions were too rigid, and the only force in the civilised worid. It was a police riot; What 1968 taught us was that the system ment to sec there is always an avenue for youth
way to change them was by staying in the it was a student riot; il was a mass media riot will work, and that we can accomplish more by participation, even to rise to positions of
streets and using violent means. (if there was no action, the TV people would participation in political parties than in the leadership.
arrange some for the cameras). streets. A vivid example is provided by what Q: Do you think there are any parallel ten-
Early in 1968, the Young Democrats nwk a they did in the Democratic Party in 1968, and dencies in the Republican Party?
poll in New Hampshire, in which McCarthy The delegates to the Convention did not ho\v they changed national policy. A: Yes, but to a lesser degree.
got less than five per cent, By I'cbruary, stu- know what was happening in the streets, be- Q: What is your opinion of President Nixon
dents from all over the north-eastern United cause they spent mosl of their time in conven- Australian radicals arc little different from so far?
Stales came to New Hampshire to take part in tion. I spent five to six hours each night at one those in the U.S., but they are about two vears A: So far he's done alright, but it's really too
the Mc{2arihy campaign; they worked without of the parks because I had friends there; 1 was behind. It is becoming the new way to do things early to say. Everyone knows he is a master
mass media techniques; they shaved and had fortunate enough to miss the violence. to infiltrate the Establishment in "square" politician, intelligent, elTeciive, well-informed.
haircuts to make themselves acceptable; they disguise, and then try to blow it up from the He is less "Socialist" than the Democrats. He
organised massive doo-knocks to ask people to But when the delegates left the Convention, inside. probably feels the poverty programme is not
vote for change. At the primary, .McCarthy the Party was divided. Local represeniativcs really successful; the Democrats feel it is suc-
recorded a shock win. It was through the zeal scuttled back home to dissociate themselves Question Time: cessful, but not enough is being done.
and enthusiasm of ihe students that change was from the national party. The Gallup Polls Q: Is it true that the U.S, sysiem is tremend-
brought about. As a result, .McCarthy became showed that the Democratic Party had no ously centralised? The Republicans support an anti-ballistic
a serious contender for the Democratic nomina- chance of winning. A: Not at all The Australian political parties missile system; the Democrats oppose it as a
tion, Robert Kennedy entered the Presidential are much stronger between elections. In waste of money, dictated by the military-
race, and LBJ withdrew. But about October, the young people came America, they just gel together every four industrial complex; it will be ineffective and
back, because they realised they had changed years to elect candidates. There is much di- obsolete by the time it is built; and there are
.McQrthy's slyle and image created an army the policy of both parties: the first point in both versity; it is not a highly-disciplined system at other, more important, problems on which the
of young people throughout the U.S. wanting was to end the war in Vietnam. So, although all. Only in the Presidential campaign is there money can be spent.
to change the system and seeing a way of doing Hubert Humphrey had no organisation or organisation. Q: What do you think will happen in the 1972
it. So they poured into other primaries to can- money, he had a large number of young people elcclions?
vass for votes. At Party meetings there was a who gave the Democratic campaign the im- Q: I disagree with your interpretation of the A: There will probably be a confrontation
change in the type of people present: there were petus to almost win in November. They or- lack of demonstrations since the elections. The between Nixon and Edward Kennedy.
more young people wanting change. ganised dotir-knocks, etc., and began to feel a policy changed at the elections because people (The interview teas conducted before die accident
new enthusiasm. They began to feel they had a voied in the street beforehand. involving llJtvard Kennedy.)
As the Chicago Convention drew closer, sup- chance. /].• No, this was tried before, but failed. The Q: What do you think McCarthy's chances will
porters of McCarthy and Kennedy began to change came through participation in the be?
feel ihey wouldn't be successful. The assassina- I hope there will never be another (Chicago. political process. The street demonstrations A: Right now, about nil. But things can change,
tion of Robert Kennedy was a traumatic ex- The party structure must be opened lo grass- would only bring repression of freedom of issues can arise, McCarthy himself is very un-
perience for many of them. roots inlluence. speech. predictable. After 1968, who's willing to make
any firm predictions?
In Chicago the young people decided thai, if Since the 1968 elections, there have been no The policy hasn't really changed, except that Q: Spencer, tvhai are your vicxes ou the legalisa-
they could not have their candidate win the major street demonstrations on Vietnam, be- nobody of atty consequence now thinks the tion of drugs?
nomination, they would at least change the cause the majority of young people now feel U.S. can win a military victory in Vietnam. A: The penalties for marijuana are too severe.
Party's platform. But the left-anarchists said that ihey can effect change through the political We arc going to turn it over to the South There shoidd be a distinction made betzeeeit mariju-
they were coming to Chicago too, to disrupt system. There is some unrest slill, but it is Vietnamese because we can no longer afford it, ana and the more dan.i;crous drugs; the laws do not.
and challenge the U.S. system, and to close mostly on utxivcrsity campuses, to get change because the South Vietnamese probably don't Scientific research seems to indicate that marijuana
down the ciiy. in university administration. The students do care if the U.S. leaves, and because we have is less harmful than alcohol. If this is jo, tre
not want to run the universities, they just want large domestic piobkms, such as pollution. should consider legalising it. The present lam
In reaction to this, the organisers of the a voice in university govenunent. They know Q: Did the assassination of Robert Kennedy are outmoded, public understanding is limited.
Democratic Party Convention decided to uikc better than anyone when social rules, curricula, have any effect on McCarthy's chances of being Education about drugs is needed, and changes
every preciution; they did everything possible and teaching methods are outmoded, nomunated? need to be made in ihe late.
to keep young people out. The (Chicago Police
Force panicked, expecting to be confronted I think the students will get changes, because A: Yes, it enhanced his posiiion on the war. But miBOQt mop^
with between one and five hundred thousand the legitimate leadership ofthe students realises the differences between Kennedy and McCarthy
that the changes are reasonable, and they have made it unlikely that Kennedy's supporters
begun to suggest to university administrations would support McCarthy. But overall,
that this could be a healthy influence. They McCarthy had no chance left. His only hope
would have been a deadlock in chiwsing the
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WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE ADMIN. DOOR?

Ill the Hi^hi of varioHi ^lalancnis made the AJminisiration photographers were \4} Why were there no nci^ativcs in some politics?
by Dcpuiy-CJhinccllov (jlicniiaiin, Act- there? Afler all, the ''erotica'^ after- produced at the Thursday afternoon (8) Does Sharpe go to the Forum as
iitt; I'tcc-i^Jitiiictllor Tcakic, Ra^isinir noon was nol a surprise event. Wasn't mcetint;, even thoiii^h Teakle had
l^oniiclL iind .Sccurily Officer .Sharpe, he told that the photop'aphcrs zi'ottld a.i^recil to provide them? part of his job or out of personal
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abi'i'c ijitcstioii, and several iiion hc- .somewhere in ihc Admin.; if nol, whv [5) Why was only one photoi^raphcr i^ivcn; in fact, only contradictory ones
siilcs: did he say he didn't know? prcscnl at ihc mcctini;, even thoui^h If Sharpe goes as pan of his employ,
Tcakic had a^i^rccd to provide the ivco how does j^oini^ to Forums aid campus
il) Why did I'caklc cbini at ihe (2) If Teakk' didul hunt the phoio- or more who were ai ihc luippe/iiftg? .H'c'urity? If he f^oc.f out of personal
happciiiiit^, iviicit asked hy one of the i^raphcrs xcerc takini; plioios for lei;a! interest, zvhy does he do so durint;
R..S.S.A.. ihal he did noi kiuw why action, how is it Ghcrmann did? '6) Why did .Sharpe say he xvas asked working liours?
to attend Forum nicciiims, cifnl Teakle
'3) Why is it the phoioi;raphcrs were Until these questions are anszucred
nol lo/il l/iis, but >ncre/y to "co-oer the soon after, say he zcas not specifically satisfactorily, 'we musi remain in doubt
cvcnr? [The anioniti of film used on asked lo do so? as lo the efficiency ami competence of
perfectly harmless pliolos would seem those runninii our University.
10 confirm this.) (7) U-7/\' did .Sharpe firs! say he was
nol interested in politics, then later
amend tlii.t to sav he was i/itcrcsicd

SEMPER FLOREAT: VOL.35,ND. 11 'ITicrc was a policeman standingon the other side ofihc In this course, wc have exams, quite reason- "S<UTj| i';i(MKi4n! di'M-IiiprwilhllJU-
Editors: TONY f^'ELIUS. road and also a motor bike policeman on the corner. A able in themselves, at both mid-year and end of ,;i:mc rhsm tl;c ctiiifcrcntC- I S c tlu.n
block later I was pulled up and the motor bike police- term. On Friday July 11th, we had a mid-year !:i'C liji WtD ;;; i^fdt-'.jl JCCllj:*Hti;»|l ;;l
RON EEDY. man wroic mcout a ticket for turning right where there Anatomy exam on ail work up to that date. Icrr: CKj;r,i TLc ctn:crciKC llfJId Ci^in-
Authorised by Michael Kelly. was a "N'o right turn" sign. If I had seen ihc sign would Consequently, most students in the year spent f l j . i ! v ihim Jll jjiJci iin Ilio cniidut": ai
Business Manager: BRUCE CA^•£RDN. I have turned rijht in view of two policemen? I went a large part of their time working on ,'\natomy. ic.'fn CXS.TI atid i!cL-iJ,?d l o M:t ii:Jc a
for advertising: 713136. back lo check the sign which was even then hard to see Now, at the end of term, wc have a Biochemistry ri.ll week at I IK hcjiir.riinp uf Sc:i»iiJ
Layout: Tony Melius. because it was on ihc set of lighis just about straight exam on Thursday, 31st; then a Physiology T c i n 4S a t:.\\^ tirrclaKcJ ctJiii pcn.ij.
above our lane of iraffic. To sec it one had to look exam on Wednesday, 6th. Uctu.'CS a-J p:3C1ica!s wdl n j l Sc
Ron Eedy. upwards and this is not the usual practice of drivers. ^ivtn il-tir,p tlijl week allhouph ilej^-rr-
N'ick Bcoth. If the police had any decency at all one should have It is obvious that this must have the effect of jner.tl are nut bound to w t e x a m i .
Mai Enright. come over and told mc that there was a "No right turn" completely destroying any balance the course This fill III uiDi ihc l;cs^ riiujj.'c I^jihiii);
Staff: Robert Holden. sign because anybody in their right mind, having seen may have had, both before the Anatomy exam Ijjlejiil hvmf i,MrJ m MKIIC i^ieiKe a.-^d
Pauline Kelly. the sign and the mo policemen would noi turn right. and especially after it. This is a ridiculous e.MIK^inici suhjfctt and alMi incani tl;it
Caria Catterall. situation, but one which has arisen and will llie luadofcr.J cf )cai cxariii w;^. bt re-
Yours sincerely, iljced. riic coii:erc,"i;e fell ll-.al undei
"Disgruntled Uni. Student". ihlSiyiteni.deparliiieiits rec J vl fesici
papcrkir. ex'n sv.hjecl J"d lieailst^f Je-
Megan McMurchy, LETTERS paltR'.e;-u!iaie heen jvked l,i d.ill::i '
IX'ar Sirs,
irroR

Angela Collins. It is a melancholy fact, but none the less a true one, arise over and over again throughout the If they can do this at New Hngland, why
that liberty loo often goes hand in hand with irres- University. cannot something of the same sort be done here,
eilher in Medicine or even in the whole campus,
Ccntributors: David Lake. ponsibility. It is equally true that liberty without self- \X'hat is the solution? since this problem is widespread.
i-'.A. Snell. discipline is nol liberty at all, for the individual who is Since spreading the exams has these de-
preoccupied wilh his own interests is more than likely leterious effects, perhaps concentrating them Jim Dickinson (Med. II)
might be better. Perhaps it would be better lo
Nick Booth. to dclimii those of his fellows and in turn find his own have either a week at the end of term, or a week NEW EXHIBIT AT
Alan CHenoweth. hopes frustrated by their selfishness. An instance of this in the middle of the year, set aside for such DARNELL GALLERY
abused liberty is to be found every day in the Refectory exams. Professor Romanes, at present Pre-
clinical Guest Professor, assures me that at The Senate has approved the appointment of
Henry Schoenheicier. area where food scraps, paper cups and news letters Edinburgh Medical School they have just such the President of the University Film Group,
left about on scats and on the lawn lurn a pleasant eating a system—"class tests" are conducted at the PliTI-R .MULLINS, to the John Darnell
end of each term in the last week to ensure a Pine Arts Committee. Mr. Mullins will be the
Peter Mullins. place into a pigsly. Admittedly, there seems to be a reasonable balance of subjects. first student to sit on the committee (chaired by
.Michael KelJy. notorious lack of rubbish bins throughout the Univer- Gareth Roberts, Professor of Architecture)
sity but there can be no real excuse for this blaiani It is of interest to note this extract from which is responsible for the Darnell Gallery,
"Neucleus" referring to a round table con- the university's collection of paintings and
Ron Eedy. despoliation. ference between staff, students, and the sculpture. The appointment is for three years.
Tony Melius. administration;
Rccenily certain vocal champions of liberty wiihin
ihe Universily exhorted visiting sludcnis to attend a

meeting by chalking notices on the stone walls of

photographs: Winston ['''aike. various buildings. 'ITiis is the act of a libertine not a
Ted Baldwin. libertarian. Nodoubi with the Union elcclions once more
upon us wc shall sec similar vandalism both inside and

ouisidc buildings and on the concrcic paths. 1 strongly

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.Saturday midnight, June 20ili, 1969, and heading course, but which no doubt has relevance to
towards West Iind. As 1 came lo mc Mm set ol Itgtiis other faculties as well, especially those who
un the corner of Grey Sl. and .Melbourne St., [ wanted find "continuous assessment" is descending on
10 turn right into Melbourne Street. 1 had a three them.
minute vi-ait at the lishis with my indicator lo the right.

Constitution Changes 0000
UL-;\M1 I'.iii X of the ('inis!iui(;on .nid insert iii <".omniiiiee for the hearing of the
lis y\.Ke charge. >V} If the dclendant does nol without notice in writing delivered to the
•i'The quorum of any tneeiing of the c.\pl;»i;i!ion which the (^iiiimiltee Honorary Secreiary appeal againsi such
PART X—Discipline deems reasonable appear at the lime decision of tlic Committee to the
U. Ill i!:is I'.ui unless .i comiary inicniion (lonimittee shall be three members. and place appointed for the hearing C'ouncil.
id'' It tor any reason a qiiormn cannot be of the charge against him then the :2; An appeal shall be heard before the
apiHMr\. •'Loniniillee" IIKMOS iHc l'nion charge shall be heard in his absence. ("oiincil at that next meeling of Council
Disciplinary C'.ominittec, "l^icicli oi ilis- obtained then the complainant iiui\- which is held ai (east seven (~) days
i-tplitK-" tiK'.ffis iijiy brcaci; ot' this {.'ofi- refer the charge to Cinincil, ;,li Subiect to seciion ^5 ; Vi of this Coii- after the lodgemeni of his appeal.
'•;iui;ioii or nl' ilie Kcuul.ilioiis ilKieiiiuler VI. , n Any member of the L'nion may lav a stituiioti the Committee shall in the : 3) Any punishment imposed by the
"iii:iil4:iin.ir.i" nie.uis .i iiursoii wl-.n has . ., .charge against any other member of the presence o( the defendant hear such (^(mmiitee shall not be enforced
iiKli;eil a v<>n;|>iaiiii helore ilic coiiiiiiiltce Union. evidence as the complainant and pending determination of an appeal to
.ilicjuiii; a hieacli ol discipline '2' Tht charge shall be in writing and shall defemlani shall advance and shall ("ouncil.
'i.h.iii;e" means an aile.uaiinti ot' a breach sfiecify permit such cross-examination as it {•li The defendant shall be entitled to be.
111 disLi]i;i:u' i: the alleged breach of discipline deems necessary to establish the facts. represented before the Council by any
"i!ck'iid;inl" ineans a peison c:li;uj;ed with • ii' ihe time place and manner of the person.
a hic.kh of discipline. Vt). ; 1) If the (Aimmittee is satisiied that the i5! The Council shall
H. i I'iic-fe sJi.jJl be .1 l'nion Disciplin^iry alleged breach of discipline charge has been proved il may deal with li': hear all evidence submitted before the
uii' the name ofthe coinplainani. ihe defendant in one or more of the
<^'inniiilee consisijii}: iil': , y; Charges shall be filed with the Honorary following manners: ('ommitiee as well as any additional
i the President evidence submitted by the parties and
li liie (icncral ViLe-Presideni Secretary and shall be heard no more • i) repriiiiiind shall permit such cross-e>:amination
ni tl'.e .Xrca N'ice-Prcsiiier.l of da- area nf than thirty days after tiling. i ii':- impose a punitive line of not more than as it deems necessary to establish
;-l) The Honorary Secretary shall not less the facts,
which the delenJaiil is a iiietiilier ih;in ten days before the date appointed one hundred dollars .i$llH)\ (ii) deliberate the matter in ihc absence
IV: (WO members ofthe L'nion elected hy lor the hearing of the charge give due ,iii) impose a further tine to cover costs of ofthe parties as well as those members
notice in writing to the defendant of of the Committee who determined the
(loiiiicil at its Aniiu.il (ieneral .Meeting ,i) the charge as in Section 'i\. ,2) of this restoration of any property lost or case other than the Chairman of the
. . 2 ' The members oi the Cotiiniittee shall damaged, Legal Standing Commiltee
C'onstitution uv) suspend i,iii' inform the defendant in writing over
from liiiK' II' lin'e select one of ihcir '^ii: the lime and place appointed lor the the hand of the Chairman of Council
members lo be ('.liairiiiaii. the defendant. of the decision of Council.
i? The ('liairman of the l.e^w] Standing hearing of the charge ;2) The Commitlee shall inform the ((•)) All appeals shall be heard and all
Coimnittee or his iioinitiee shull be the iiii^ his rights under this Part. Council deliberations thereon shall be
leyiil advisor to tile Commiliee in which 55. ; D T h e defendant shall be eniitled to be defendant in writing over ihe hand of conducted in camera.
cap.ieity he shall aliend each meeting the Chairm;in of the decision of the
of the (."omiiiiiiee. represented before tlie Commiltee by Conimitiee.
:•[) No member of the ("onimiiiee who any person. V7. 1' Any defendant deall with in accordance
is party to a charge shall sii on the [2) The ("oilimittce in its discretion niav with seciit'll V() of this C'onstitution
adjourn to a fixed date the he.iring of may wilhin thirty ;10' days of the
any charge. hearing of the charge against him by