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EDITORIAL It's that time of the year againl Exams, Study, Exams, Study, Exams, Study, Exams, Study, Exams - YUKKKKKK!!!!! Don't worry ajaout it - take comfort from the fact that everyone else is in the same situation. Hopefully this Mini-Swotvac Edition will blow those exam blues away and provide you with a bit of entertain­ment and suggestions on what to do after your exams have finished.

Expo is the place to be at the moment, so check outourStudent's Guide to Expo and find out where the place to be at Expo is!!!! The Union Secretary and myself found our Official Union Tour very fulfilling and hope you do too.

Anyway, don't forget to try out for Uni­versity Challenge - I hear Hobart is very nice around this time of the year! Good luck with all the examinations and don't forget to try out the new Breathalyser in the Rec Club after your exams have fi­nished!!! And see you next semester!

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CONTENTS 5 PROSE: The Rhythm of Life by Stella

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THE STUDENT GUIDE TO EXPO: The Uniori Secretary, Robyn Finken and the standard si2ed Semper Editor, Helen Nolan, found that Expo has a lot to offer and so created the ultimate Expo Guide ... for all different kinds of students!

7 FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY: Petunia Harrington-Smythe III who is rolling money and loving it, reports on the continuing saga ofa yuppie searching for meaning of life.

8 A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE END: Is there something more to death than oblivion? Rusty Wright looks at the subject of life after death.

10 WORLD EXPO 88: Resident Semper Photographer, Chris Pokarier, presents a photographic collage of Expo.

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SOAP: Need updates on what's happening in the Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives and Dallas?? Avid Soapie watcher, Stella Goodellis, reveals all...

WHERE WERE YOU IN '77: Remember the outrageous music ofthe 70's? Rodney Catling takes a 'trip down memory lane' to the 'good old days' when punk music flourished.

THINS YOU'D RATHER BE DOING THAN EXAMS: You'd rather be doing anything else in the world at the moment other than Exams, John Carey shows you how ...

YET ANOTHER BORING NIGHT, AT COLLEGE: A short story by Nik Douglas.

ANTI-GRADUATE TAX RALLY FLOUNDERS FOR LACK OF SUPPORT: Kevin Folet went to the Free Education Club Rally recently, but they wouldn't let him into the telephone booth. Read on as he recounts his horrifying experience....

18 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES PAGE: This month Semper profiles the Beverage Appreciation Society and the Bruce Stewart Computer Programme for Economical Bar Attendance. It's very easy to swallow...

19 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY: Financial Adviser, James McKay, advises you on how to invest your hard earned dollars and buy that 944 (red) Porshe!

20 CARMEN GLORIA QUINT ANA - A Heroine of the People: Jorge Jorquere examines the story of Carmen Quintana, a victim ofthe Pinochet Regime.

21 PERSONAL COLUMN

22 NOT THE UNION NEWS

25 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

27 CARTOONS: The Red TuHp Affair «

30 GUTTERPRESS WITH UNCLE RUPERT: Our resident expert ofthe news that's not fit to print, Uncle Rupter, brings you the Dirt!

PROTESTTHE GRADUATETAX GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY FRIDAY 17TH JUN

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The Rhythm of Life We are born into a world in which we are governed by rules and regulations. Every sphere of our lives is dictated by authority. We live according to the book - a regulated set plan which society imposes on us. We are slaves of society. It is vital that we mould ourselves into the type of people our society demands ifwe are to be accepted. We are compelled to assume quahties demanded by it, to live according to its dictates.

Every aspect of our lives is geared towards gaining qualification that will serve to equip US for positions that fit desirably into our present society for it only accommodates people who abide by its rules while those who don't are regarded as "mixed up radicals" -misfits because they choose to differ. Society suppresses individuality. In it we are merely cogs in the machine which operates to produce its wants and needs.

We are conditioned to believe that society is 'right' and indoctrinated with certain principles which lead us to believe that it is 'just'. We are brainwashed yet fail to realise or admit it. Our lives revolve around political, social and economic aspects - a product of politics. The latter in itself seethes with hypocrisy but we, as its products do not allow ourselves to be conscious ofthe fact. It is easier to turn a blind eye - it's hard to face facts - the truth hurts as it upsets our 'balance', our 'security'.

We thus pacify ourselves with the belief that our lives are in the hands of a 'just society' of the 'able-minded' because this renders a precious margin of stability. We live according to the dictates of a society whose foundations allow for the continued security ofthe powerful - a society based on the driving force of selfish desires only to uphold the splinter of stability society affords us. We have allowed the spectrum of our lives to be reduced to a meagre thread dominated by false rules. We have been swept into obscurity, sentenced to the servility provided by our masters.

Thus we are sentenced from birth till death to our sevile role as puppets, dancing to the rhythm of life which the puppeteers have co-ordinated and organised. We are provided with a definite program - they pull the strings whilst we continue to dance 'contentedly' in time to their distinct, clear beat.

For my family, friends, myself and all others who live 'comfortably' sealed in cocoons and love it! STELLA GOODELLIS

THE STUDENT GUIDE TO EXPO

EXAMS FINISHED.? Where do Party Animals go NOW.? EXPO!! Unfortunately, one ofthe duties that Office Bearers have to undertake is to quality control those events which affect students lives. A dirty job I know, but someone's got to do it. This is the ultimate Expo guide. Forget the culture. What you really want to know is where to be seen, what to eat, what to wear and what to avoid like the plague. Who, what and where to drink. Right.? Well the standard economy size Semper editor and I set out on a fateful journey that was to be nothing like we had ever experienced before ...

FOREPLAY Expo carpark 110. What a ripoff. Whether you

park all day or not. Don't park there unless you never want to see your dear sweet old mother's face again - took us ten minutes just to find the exit. And that was only after we had collected two witches hats and a stroller on the way. (You had to be there.)

We suggest either park at the Milton Park and

Ride or if it's after dark in the Cit)'. We then proceeded to penetrate the EXPO site!

So far so good. We bought a program (|5 don't bother it's full of

ads - just get a program leaflet from an EXPO at­tendant). They are easy to spot. If they are men they look like a yellow version of Casey Jones and if they're female they haveanalbino pancake stuck to their heads.

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Give the souvenier shops a swerve - they are full of nuked platypuses (with glowing blue bills) and EXPO wines which are really cheap nasty stuff that you wouldn't normally drink and they think is ea­sier to flog if it has a fancy label on it. Didn't sucker us in though!!! Now on to the guide. The pavilions are rated on a scale:

» 1 Beer Stein Really slack. Pathetic. Send

Auntie Ethel in there and wait outside. NUKE IT TILL IT GLOWS IN THE DARK. Less popular than an aids carrier at an orgy.

» • ' 2 Beer Steins Passable. Comparable to a

two hour tute of ECl 34 or the thrill ofa toga party par­ticipant's win on. Could be enjoyable if drunken upon entry.

3 Beer Steins OK - As good as a rowing smoko where the guys out­number the girls!!!

" " B U F F E T E R I A - Buff up on pigging out skills. About $14.

W BBQ 88 - OK if with the standard issue Mum and Dad. BEV CITY. Why did everyone here wear poo brown scoops? Why oh Why?

» » » » 4 Beer Steins A spiritual and emotional

experience. Our party near­ly came just entering these pavilions. (We were a very turned on group.) Good for all day sit ins appropriate to any student.

NOW ON TO THE GUIDE!!!

The Bevans/Engineers/ Brick Kickers Guide

Ifyou wear motor cycle transfer T-shirts, smoke Winfield or buy uggboots in summer, this is your ripout guide. You must have a firedrill haircut to qualify in this section. (That is, someone starts cut­ting your hair, then someone yells out fire and the back is inadvertantly left long.) If so ... visit...

1. UNIVATIONS •>» Do rather ugly lungfish turn you on? (The whole

bi theme.) Here we watched a sea squirt strut its stuff, a pornographic spawning coral film where two coral run across a sea bed with arms outstret­ched, a bushfire scene and we viewed a giant clam relaxing in a spa.

FUNSTERS LOOK OUT ESPECIALLY FOR THE SIMULATED BEACH!!! (Giggle.)

A feature you mr/sisee is the earthquake charts on view!!!

2. UNITED NATIONS PAV.»

This is the pav to end all pavs. After they sucker you into lining up, they bite you for a donation to world peace. Actually it is a good ^actic though -they keep you in the queue so long that you can really sympathise with the sick and hungry of the world!! AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!! Selling KEN DONE posters for 110 and the films only had one phallic bit in them. John complained that some old guy next to him kept farting (SURE, JOHN).

We should have suspected something was up when no one in the queue was below pension age.

3. KOREAN PAV. •>» If tacky souvenirs and being fleeced $20 for ha­

ving your name written in Korean is your scene then step this way. Nothing to eat, drink, snort, inject or roll in (???) in this pavilion. Nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to vist there.

4. KULTCHA?? If you have a packet of durries shoved up your

black T-shirt sleeve, then eat at:

V COCK AND BULL - If you're used to engi­neering smokos then you'll fit right in with the cock &buU.

THE SWAMPIES GUIDE TO EXPO

Swampies don't go to EXPO. It's too uncool to ,—f^^ A l l look like you might have fun. Besides, there are no K U L X C ^ r i A • . Land Rights for Gay AMPUTEE Greenies Pavilions.

Perhaps they can settle for the Russian Pav -there's plenty of propaganda to relate to there.

2.JapanTechnoplaza W W Grily swots love technology!!! They can really get off (or on) at this one,

3, The Art of Surgery Pavilion V W D O you have a disease or like to have one? Well, go see the art of surgery. All that blood and pumping arteries on the video will sort out the men from the boys (or if you're a "Women's Righter") - the men from the boys.

Good if you have S & M tendencies.

THE CONCHY GIRLY SWOTS GUIDE TO EXPO 1. See above par. about the UNITED NATIONS PAVILION but give it an extra stein if you wear horn rimmed glasses or sensible strappy sandals or own a Nana Mouskouri record.

(a) Eat at the Hot Dog stands or ifyou have a motor cycle transfer T-shirt (gotcha creams) then dine a la carte (posh - for all your culture vultures) at the Sri

Lankan takeaway. IPP'two steins for effort and W another for the good value after effects the next day.

(b) BYO esky full of food like Conchies always tend to do. Scungy bastards always pack their own sand­wiches, finish off with a piece of fruit and a thermos full of tea. And if they do engineering, MUM'S WILL HAVE PACKED A GLADWRAP FULL OF SULTANAS IN FOR THEM.

THE YUPPIES GUIDE TO EXPO!! Sorry chaps if you don't own a polo shirt you

don't qualify!! Forget the paviUons altogether, grab your deck shoes, fob chains, bob haircuts, striped shirts, baggy muppets shorts, St. Moritz fags and run for the ...

I.MUNICH FESTIVAL

This is the place to be seen in!! It is a large trough that holds about 1,200 people, all ofa beer swilling imbibing merry nature and packs them on to bench seats bum to bum (cheek to cheek) in front of an oom pah pah band and ... lets it rip.

Rip off though - $ 3.20 for a beer and $11.20 for a jug (but yupps don't mind, do they, Biffy?). How­ever, they sell schnapps that is 56% alcohol!!

Eat sauerkraut, pretzls, bratwurst, knackwurst, weisswurst and Ifeelwrurst.

Guaranteed fat time!!

After this pav, you'll think the rest of EXPO just rolled up the pavements. Of course, you can't keep some of the bevs and conchies from managing to infiltrate but they're easily spotted and avoided. Just look for elastic waisted long trousers and socks. Yuppies never wear socks (unless they're of the female persuasion) or Yuffies - young urban fai­lures - people who don't like pate, etc, etc.

A party animals paradise.

2. BRITANNIA INN f***" This is the place to go to try out all the British

beers - they have a sign apologising that all the beers are cold!

Here TAFFIES, BIFFIES & BUFFIES can try about six different varieties of English lagers and stouts. They serve 602 glasses for $1.50 and IO02 glasses for $2.50 that are really easy to tip off.

Not that we tried or anything but I know what I'm getting from Helen for Christmas. Our fearless group tried John Bull beer which was really heavy and a couple of others in the interests of quality control on yonr behalf. Such sacrifice.

Seriously though, it's a really good atmopshere there on the river. Just side step the British "Doin' the Lambert Walk Oil!" show. Talk about crass.

3. TITAN »»»•• The rollercoaster!!! Go on it!! It's great!!! I've never seen a Semper editor scream so much

(except that one time after the Law Ball when ...). It's almost as much fun as a red plastic funnel at the Rugby Club after the I.C.C. Rowing Regatta (re­member Matthew?).

We haven't had so much fun as this since we last

got a hairball stuck in our throats. Make sure you visit the Donut Den beforehand

for a quick half dozen in order to work yourself into a frenzy of technicolour yawns on the ride.

Not quite a fat time, but at least it wasn't ano­rexic as the SUPERNOVA.

RUSSIAN RESTAURANT - The Troika »*9'»

This was simply spiffy. Our group went there after all the fun fun fun. This is the place for true lovers of fine cuisine. Better than that annoying little Japanese stuff where you don'tget much to eat but it all looks nice.

Can't book though.Just roll up and you'll have to wait about fifteen minutes for a table. Great view of the fireworks. The menu wasn't too dear either. About $7 entree and $ 12-$ 15 for a main course. We had Beluga caviar ($39) and Borscht.

They have Russian wines on the menu which are similar in effect to a truth serum and they make you want to say things like "STUFFTHE BOSSES". Just take a good dose of cherry vodka to snap out of it. They also have lemon vodka and honey vodka.

5. ALICE'S HARD ROCK CAFE

Bit bevvy, but it tries. They tried to have a Harley Davidson on the ceiling but they ended up .with a Suzuki Intruder. Not the same effect somehow. Give it some extra froth on the second stein for the thought.

6. PLOUGH INN lli*9> Serves Emu Beer!! Just like an outback pub.

(Don't get stuck in the EEC pavilion on the way, which surely must win the Jeannie Little Av.-ard for Elocution and Deportment. Equivalent to a dose of Valium and laxettes.)

A bit of a rage at night - a mini rage really.

SHIP INN ^^^^ What more is there to say about a pub that's

opened 24 hours a day. That means when you find out that you've failed after picking up the Courier Mail at Newspaper House at 11 p.m. you've got somewhere to chunder in!!

You have to queue forabout an hour to get in but they have everything there. Discos, Italians, Hot Sweaty Bodies, Fake Smoke, No Bicentennial Pro­testers, etc, etc. And best of all NO UNION HACKS!!! A guaranteed winner.

Well funsters!!! That's yourbriefrip out guide to Expo. Use it and abuse it and don't call us, we'll call you.

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For The Love Of Money The pathetic continuing saga of a Yuppie searching for meaning in life. By Petunia Harrington-Symthe III

It had not been an easy morning. I caught my Christian Dior stockings on those stupid chairs in the Parnell Building and the Dow Jones Index had fallen 50,000 points overnight. I was already ten minutes late for a meeting with the stockbroker as I ran down to my Mercedes convertible only to discover some student had tied a pink, fluffy dice on the rear vision mirror. I threw them to the ground with contempt and drove off, narrowly missing two students. Anyway, they appeared to be Socialists so it didn't really matter. I heard them shout something, it sounded like "far cough", they probably had colds.

When I saw my stockbroker, the debonair, charming, Mr Ian Syde-Traydare, he told me he had some bad news. He told me that because of the crash, I might only make $200,000 this year. When I came to, he told me I might have to pay tax on it. When I came to again, I realised I had missed lunch so I went to drown my sorrows, all the time wondering where my next French Champagne would come from. The next thing I remember is being pulled over by a police officer on my way home to Sanctuary Cove. He asked me why I was driving all over the road and would I blow into his bag. I gave him $100 and he told me that would do nicely. We are so lucky to have such a good police force in Queensland. They are always ready to help the little people. My great-uncle always used to tell me that the police force were there to look after me and he was so right. The police force always used to look after him to, when he was Police Commissioner.

It's not easy being a Yuppie you know. It really isn't easy being a Yuppie, keeping up with the stock exchange and all the parties are really quite a strain. (People with taste are advised that the content of the rest of this paragraph may disturb them. In fact, anybody wilh taste probably wouldn't be reading this anyway.) Most people think that yuppies just go to dinner parties and lunch at restaurants and rages with other Yuppies and play tennis or go yatching but it's not like that at all. Some ofus are University students in our spare time and we have to go through the

hassles like paying off the lecturers before exam time and throwing away pink-fluffy dice that inferior non-yuppy students tie to our Mercedes. And, in between, all that, we have to fit in all those dinner parties, lunches, rages, tennis matches and yatching weekends. It's a hard life. Just last weekend, I missed out getting into the Sunday Mail Social Pages, the second time this year! Mummy will be so disappointed. And now The Crash!! I'll probably only be able to go to Europe once this year now, and I might not be able to put in the extra swimming pool or buy a new yacht until next year. I don't know how I'll be able to manage! But it will be okay in the end. Mummy and Daddy have been absolute dears and Daddy says he will give me an extra $100,000 if I need it, and pay off the lecturers for me. What really worries me is that I might have to get a job, a real job, if my share portfolio drops. But Daddy told me that if I needed a job he'd be able to make a government-subsidised quango for me so that I could get that money without doing any work. He told me that no daughter ofhis would have to get a job as a check-out-chick at Coles while he was around.

So, you see, it's not at all easy being a Yuppie, I think there's probably something deep and meaningful about Yuppies that all you inferior people reading this don't realise. I was thinking about that the other day. I had to think because my car phone broke down and I believe that really, underneath that Country Road clothes and the Louis Feraud perfume, Yuppies are probably just like you plebians, only superior. And that's the way it should be. After all, centuries of breeding have gone into producing the Yuppies of today. But without all the inferior people, we wouldn't have anyone to be superior to. So, we do appreciate plebians, and if you're really lucky, we might even talk to you, to ask the time perhaps. I once talked to a lower-class person -well, almost, but that's another story. And do be nice to Yuppies, it's a hard life but somebody's got to do it.

Superiorly yours. PETUNIA HARRIINGTON-SMYTHE UI

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The opening of Expo 88 has been accompanied by both praise and protest. In the coming editions Semper is planning a thorough look at this controversial event. Chris Pokarier reflects on Expo this edi­tion. Expo has brought big changes in the lifestyles of many but not all for the better. For multitudes the Expo visit has become the highlight of the weekly rituals. It has brought employment for some and for all hopefully some insight into other diverse cultures. For John Brown and the old inhabitants of West End, Expo has precipitated a nightmare.

The run-up to Expo was .so surrounded in hype that even the most optimistic must have grown at least a little cynical. The promise ofa free earful of "Born to Run" and national economic salvation was enough however to coax even the wary into coughing up for a Season's Pass.

As the prospect of being an industrial accident victim on the opening day looked ever more likely, many no doubt questioned the wisdom oftheir outlay Those who were driven out of their homes by spiralling rents were denied even such a luxury.

In a last minute manifestation of guilt, journalists turned their focus away from Llew's sno2 to the plight of those whom Expo had forgotten. Perhaps the West End rent hike became unbearable for even those on a B Grade with Metropolitan Loading.

Commercial FM and the official E-xpo newsletter, the Courier Mail, were to prove no check on the excesses of the Expo Authorities, The axing of penalty rates and the high rate of construction accidents happened with barely a mention and less follow-up.

Somewhat ironically, the Media also failed to suggest to critics that Expo had

only hastened an inevitable rental crisis and redevelopment in the South Bank area. The urban geographer's model of "inner city transitional zones" didn't rate a mention in the conflict of hype and rhetoric.

For many Brisbane residents Expo may provide an escape from the monotony of suburbia. As a surburban Quick As A Flash lab assistant explained while printing Expo photos: "It gives everyone a chance to pretend they don't

live here." After the cost of Expo visits they certainly won't have any choice.

Expo has become an unavoidable part of life, Brekkie may begin with Paul's official Expo natural yoghurt and muesU. Commercial FM constantly sings the praises of "World Expo City" as listeners battle it out in the traffic. A strategically placed "Welcome to Expo City" banner on the Old Cleveland Road greets the newly-arrived from Capalaba,

All over the city people hide the Expo Oz towels their relatives bought them at Target. Tourists proudly display their "lucky leaf' bought for two bucks at Expo and ripped off the nearest gum tree by an "enterprising" Yank.

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official Expo queues to take in travel videos. The male staff in the La Pavilion de la France endlessly pursue relief for their collective hormone problem.

Hundreds pack into the Ship Inn in the hope of shipping out with an exotic foreigner. Accents are in; Llew Edwards could get stuffed if he thought people were going to "Say Gidday''^,

Many opt for the offical Expo expedition to far distant carparks rather

than take the slowboats to nowhere. Week nights at Expo conjure up images ofa little Ginza. And the Queensland Pavilion offers a unique opportunity for a train ride through objectified jingoism.

At the same time the diverse exhibits and performances bring many Australians face to face with cultures they have rarely seen and don't understand. Expo also brings home the demands of competing in the international economy.

As Bob Hawke suggested at the opening, if Expo makes some contribution to greater understanding and tolerance it will have been a success.

To acknowledge value in Expo is not necessarily to endorse the "one big party" mentality surrounding much of the Bicentenary, There can be suiely nothing objectionable about the principles behind Expo, despite legitimate concerns about their practical appHcation in West End,

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TRIVIA

Soapwatch with avid Soapie watcher Stella Goodellis. Do you get your thrills from counting the number of times Krystle cries on Dynasty; Hope says "Oh Bo!" on Days Of Our Lives; the word "special" is uttered on any American Soapie. Read on ...

The phones have been running hot all May, So many desperate litde soapie watchers have been crying out "Stella! Half the year is over - Dynasty still isn't on. Is this the end?!" I couldn't stand it any longer. This was really serious. So deeply concer­ned, I phoned Channel 9 and demanded in the vital interests of Dynasty fans: "Just when is Dynasty coming back to air?"

"W W Well" stammered the woman from the programs section "W W We're just waiting to get the new sh sh shows from the S States ,,, Th They should b be here in th th three to four weeks."

Fora momentand one moment only (if youknow me even this is almost impossible to imagine) I was so overcome with joy that I was... speechless! Then I composed myself.

"Are you sure", I asked sternly. "P positive ,„ 111 p promise!" "YA HOO!" I cried flinging my hat into the air

and clicking my heels and then I danced a jig.

So soapie fans Dynasty is indeed coming back al­though The Colbys has definitely been axed. But don't despair all is not lost - Remember, The Colbys was a spin off from Dynasty - Fallon is Blake's daughter and I'm sure some ofthe Colby clan if not all of it will find its way to Denver and on our screens.

Don't forget our Cliffhanger competition for Dal/as and Dynasty. We have some great entries al­ready but are craving more. Remember that there is a prize (as if I'd lie anyway!). Entries close on Friday 22nd July. For more information phone 371 1611 and ask for Stella or 371 2568 and ask for Helen.

DAYS OF OUR UVES Today (June 2) while inspecting Kimberley's

eyes, Dr Curtis saw a twitch! Kimberley, ratherthan being ecstatic became very upset and asked Dr Cur­tis not to give her false hopes. Victor Kiriakis in­structed Dr Curtis to get the best specialist no mat­ter what the cost. What a nice guy. But is he really? What does he want from Kimbedey? Now that Shane has left Emma will he and Kimberley be to­gether? Now that Shane has left Emma will he and Kimberley be together. Well .„ I hate to totally ruin it for you so I'll only tell you a bit „. Kimberley does regain her sight (of course - Blind Freddie could have seen that!) and she and Shane become enga­ged. But Kirakis being the Villain that he is locks Shane in his study and forces Kimberley to sleep with him - she gives in - to save Shane's life, Kim­berley becomes pregnant and tells her ecstatic fiance Shane .., but is the baby really his? To com­plicate things further, Emma is still obsessed with

Shane and is determined to break Shane and Kim­berley up.

People are never what'they initially seem on soapies. Patch is now so evil and scarey - is he really as ruthless as he seems? Of course not! This cold ex terior is a front to hide his fear of rejec tion -Pa tch eventually breaks down and cries - a woman melted his heart - Kayla Brady - they endure many hard­ships together which of course brings them closer to romance!!

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

We can see the beginnings of a love, triangle! Victor and Nikki seemed to have a marriage made in heaven but Victor and Ashley have so much in common - they both lost their mothers, Victor still loves Nikki but has an affair with Ashley. Nikki finds solace in Jack Abbot's (Ashley's brother) arms.

But Jack, being the ram that he is, soon tires of Nikki, She develops a rare incurable disease and so Victor, being the wonderful man that he is, gives up Ashley to look after Nikki, Funny, but she looks OK to me! (She gets better actually but to keep Victor, lies and tells him that she's still fatally ill,)

1) Talk about hidden talent! Quinn Redekor plays an unconvincing villain as Alex Marshall on Days Of Onr Lives. Although he gets paid well and has a great time, Qinn Redeker wrote the brilliant The Deer-hnnterWl

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2) Denise Alexander played Dr Lesley Webber on General Hospital for eleven years. Her character fa­ced so much trauma and lack of romance that the actress left the show both physically and emotio­nally drained and joined the cast of Another World where her character - May McKinnon enjoys "a lot of romance". She does look a lot happier than Dr Webber! 3) In real life Melissa Anderson and Todd Chandler olDays Of Our Lives are married.

4) What a transformation! Before joining the cast of The Young and The Restless as Lauren, actress Tracey E, Bregman played Donna Craig onDaysof Our Lives (Don Craig's daughter who married Marlena, Liz and Maggie),

NEXT TIME • A history oi Dynasty to refresh your memories; and * Heaps more fun!!!

Bye-bye and keep Soapie watching!

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Where Were You

For some reason musical revolutions tend to occur at roughly ten year intervals. In 1955 the bobby-

• soxers smashed their Bobby Newton records and started dancing to Presley, Berry, and Little Ri­chard; in 1968 youth became disenchanted with the bubblegum innocence of "Woolly Bully" and be­gan exploring the decadence of the Velvet Under­ground and tiie eclecticism of Cream, The Doors and Hendrix; while in I977 they angrily cocked two fingers at disco and glam rock and liegan po-going to punk, as exemplified by the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and The Ramones,

Today is eleven and a half years after the Pistols' Anarchy tour; what is our revolution?

Let's face it, when it comes to exciting, mea­ningful, insightful rock and pop, this is a pretty barren period by anyone's standards, Kylie Mino­gue is queen - though by the backlash she's re­cently suffered, it looks like she may be headed for the same fate as a certain French queen - with nu­merous pretty boy singers, both solo and ensemble, vieing for her hand at the top of the charts. Those few artists with talent are either lumbered with point­less songs written by committee (Rick Astley) or with a massive, indulgent ego (Terence Trent D'Arby) or else fail to achieve significant sales (The Church until quite recently).

Theretfrea number-pitifully small, to besure-of people concerned enough to write and perform songs with honesty and dedication, and who are successful, Springsteen and U2 are two ofthe most popular acts at the moment; both, however, are products of the seventies. Dylan is still knocking around, but can hardly be caUed representative of today's scene; while two of the best three albums released this year were made by seminal punk bands, 'Naked' by Talking Heads, and 'The Story of the Clash' (the other, by the way, is 'Starfish' by The Church).

Where's the passion, the commitment and ima­gination, the honest emotion? While groups like the Go-Betweens get next to no exposure in their own country. Overseas trifles like Tiffany get plen­ty for their latest inane drivellings.

Rock isbasically the music ofthe young, of those afflicted with chronic adolescence. It is not tidy melodies, and pretty harmonies, and simple "I Love YouA'es I Do" lyrics, but the music ofthe unem­ployed, the student, the angry and dispossessed.

Contrast today's state with that of 1977 - the punk explosion. I am firmly convinced that punk, reggae und folk - and the fusions ofthem - are the finest foinis of popular music, because they all not

In '77 only stem from the ordinary person's dilemmas but are also by and large produced by ordinary people. That was what punk was about - the power of the everyday person to excite change, and to do things. The charge levelled at the punks at the time (among other things, of course!) was that they could barely play their instruments or sing. Whilst not pointing out the obvious contradictions to this generalisa­tion (The Clash, Talking Heads), I must still pro­test, saying that that was the whole point - it took music away from the sterile, empty technocrats -Steve Howe can sure move his fingers upand down a fretboard quickly, but can he rock? - and put the emphasis on the kids in the street. Because of punk, kids all over picked up guitars or whatever and started thrashing away and singing exactly how they felt with pretense. Much ofthe results was mindless

That was what punk was about - the power of the everyday person to excite change, and to do things.

noise, but often what'd result would be truly in­spired - like the music of The Damned, of The Buzzcocks, The Ruts, X-Ray Spex, The Cramps, The Slits „. "Babylon's Burning", "Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have)", "White Riot", "New Rose", "Anarchy In The U.K." - all primitive, all simple in terms of musical ability, all tremendously invigorating - and all bet­ter than 90% ofthe pap served up today by the likes of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Look at the quintessential punk song - Sid Vi­cious' (mis)handling of Sinatra's "My Way". The backing is all proverbial buzzsaw guitar and thun­dering drums; Vicious' vocal is one of the most wretched, cauterwauling, of all time. Yet the net resuh, despite - or, rather, because - of these limi­tations, is powerful, gut wrenching and far more chilling than all ofthe other, technically polished, versions. When Vicious screeches "I Showed The World - And I Did It My Way!" you know it's rea­ched the point all (good) rock tries to reach, where there can be no return to the safe and conventio­nal.

Where are the descendants of Vicious and Johnny Rotten, of Lou Reed and Joe Strummer and Jim Morrison? "Today's rock controversies are mos­tly about the trivial - the cover of Prince's new album, backtaping, language, and so on. Where are the controversial concepts? Can anyone see Tiffany sneering "God Save The Queen, The Fascist Re­gime"? Ludicrous, isn't it? In 1976 The Pistols, con­fronted by Bill Grundy, dripping snide contempt, responded with a spontaneous burst of expletives (well, three actually); they meant it. Today The Beas-tie Boys - three white middleclass Americans -swear routinely in TV interviews and act obnoxious so they can continue to receive publicity. As Joe Strummer of The Clash sang:

'The new groups are not concerned With what there is to be learned They've got banned here - huh! You think it's

funny Turning rebellion into money' (White Man in Hammersmith Palais,)

Let's have rock that stirs the heart and guts, not shifts the feet. Let's have music with a purpose beyond the Top Ten, to lyrics that are how the writer feels, not what suits today's trends. Let's put some spirit and life back into rock. It's too impor­tant to loose.,,

'And I wanna move the town to the Clash City Rockers

Yeah - need a little jump of electrical shockers Better leave town ifyou only want to knock us Nothing stands the pressure of the Clash City

Rockers'

It's not too late, not to go back, but make music that speaks for today. Why not do it?

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hundreds of others on second boards around the country.

The secret to your first Porshe is to buy low and sell high - Easy!

Stocks range from low to high risk. The rate of return should depend on the amount of risk you are prepared to bear, i.e. high risk, high return, low risk, low return, A broker will advise you on shares (or other investments) to suit your needs, e.g, for capital gains, income, risk factors, time frame or investment or you can rely on tips depending on the value of their source. Inside trading (see the Movie Wall Street) although illegal has made a lot of people very wealthy. (A New York businessman was re­cently fined 1100,000,000 and a term in jail for inside trading,) MONEY,

MONEY, MONEY Financial Column With Semper's Financial Adviser -

mes

So AUSTUDY finally came through or Uncle George (God • Bless his soul) left you a hit in the will? Regardless, now is the time to start securing your financial future and start planning for your first Forshe 944 (red)!! Ifyou have money and you don't invest it you lose in two ways: 1) You miss out on the returns your funds could be earning for you and; 2) Your money loses value through the effects of inflation.

There are many types of investment open to you, from banks to bonds, from shares to short term deposits. Investing not only provides you with a return, jt provides you with a unique learning experience and a base on which to build future investments,

SHARES The purchase ofa share makes you a part owner

in a company. The stock exchange is the market place in which you can buy this part ownership or

shares in companies. In Australia less than 5% of the population own

shares in pubUcally listed companies. Compared with a figure of 20% in the USA, this shows that Australians have not realised the benefits or po­tential of the share market.

There is no big drama about buying/selling shares or getting advice from a broker, A Stock­broker or some ofthe banks will buy/sell shares on your behalf for a commission (around 2,5%). How­ever most Brokers don't like orders under $2,000. Advice is free, and if you want to talk to a Broker ring up one of the larger firms, e.g. Wilsons, Morgans and make an appointment - they will be very happy to speak to you.

Which shares to buy? There are over 1,000 com­panies listed on the main board in Australia and

There are many other investments open to the public - a few of these are: 1) DEBENTURES: A loan made to a Compnay for a fixed period of time at a fixed rate of interest. The loan is protected by a charge over the assets of the company. Debentures provide a reasonable return and are usually very secure depending on the company. 2) BONDS: A Bond is a loan to a government and semi-government authority (in contrast to deben­tures which is a loan to a company). They can be bought and sold quite easily. As they are considered very safe, they only produce moderate returns. 3) CONVERTIBLE NOTES: Unsecured (therefore more tisky) notes which upon maturity may be exchanged for ordinary shares. A good way to combine a steady return at a predetermined rate and possible capital gain, i.e. if the share value of the company had increased, 4) TRUSTS: A group of investments which allow an investor to gain diversification of investments by the combining of funds for investment by a Manager, under the protection ofa trustee. There are several types: a) PROPERTY TRUSTS: The trust purchases and managers properties to provide returns out of which subscribers are paid distributions. The sub­scribers' share or unit is secured by the properties held in the name of the trust. b) EQUITY TRUSTS: Pools of funds from small, medium and large investors who wish to become involved in the share market. It has tlie advantage to the small investor in that it allows diversification of investment protecting against the fluctuations in­volved in the purchase ofa small number of stocks. Equity funds have had a bad run of late, and even in the best of times most equity funds surprisingly enough, don't produce noteable returns. c) CASH MANAGEMENT TRUSTS: The manager of the trust lends the money either by way of Treasury notes, bank bills or selected commercial bills (i.e. short term loans). Cash management trusts have proved to be attracti%'e alternatives to holding short term funds in accounts which may return little or no interest. So ifyou have upwards of $1,000 for only a short period of time, it is re­commended you place it in a fund such as this.

Trusts generally are only as good as the people who run them. Consideration should be given to the post track record ofthe fund and the histories of the men in control. 5) COMMODITIES: A commodit>', e.g. gold isan asset which whilst not producing any income hope­fully will return a profit on sale. 6) SHORT TERM DEPOSITS: A deposit of money with finance companies, merchant banks and cash management trusts for short temis ranging from 11 a.m. the next day to a 180 d.iy fixed deposit - Good for money lying around for short periods! 7) PROPERTY: Buy your own house/unit and rent it to your mates? See next edition to see how surprisingly easy it is to do and achieve high returns on your money.

There are many other alternatives, especially as your investment capital increases. The secret is to go into anything with your eyes and ears open, seek advice and deal with reputable firms. If anyone would like any more information on any of the above or even the name of agood stockbroking firm, leave your name and phone number as well as what you want and I'll see if I can arrange it.

So until next edition start accumulating those dollars .md dreaming about that Porshe. The best' time to start is NOW!!!!

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Carmen Gloria Quintana A Heroine of the People Carmen Gloria Quintana, one ofthe many victims ofthe brutal Pinochet regime in Chile, recently toured Australia. Jorge Jorquera ofthe U.Q. Resistance Club wrote this report

Preceding the 1970 elections it seemed that Salvador Allende, the presidential candidate for Popular.Unity, a coalition between the SociaHst Party, Communist Party, Radical Party, United Peoples Action Movement (a left-wing split from the Christian Democrats) and A,P,I,, would do well at the elections. Consequently Henry Kissinger, national security advisor to President Nixon said:

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of it's own people".

Henry Kissinger asserted that if Allende won, the United States would be faced with massive pro­blems.

As a result, the CIA launched a number of campaigns in an attempt to undermine Popular Unity. Television propaganda against Allende, fun­ded by the CIA, amounted to $US 400,000 and an additional $US 1,000,000 was channelled into other forms of propaganda. The CIA was deter­mined to stop the election of an Allende Go­vernment.

Nevertheless, in the 1970 elections, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile with 36,3% ofthe vote, the highest percentage ofthe popular vote compared to the other candidates. Support for Allendegrew to 49-75% within the year. This clearly refiected the advanced level of class consciousness which the Chilean people had.

Within the year of his election, Allende natio­nalised a large number of foreign holdings such as the Copper Mines, in which the US held numerous shares. Allende had also released hundreds of po­litical prisoners, opposed US intervention in Viet­nam, stepped up relations with East Germany,

Communist China, the USSR and trade with Cuba.

The CIA reacted angrily towards Chile's foreign relations and most of all to Allende's goal of a "Peaceful Road to Socialism", In retaliation the CIA set up an economic sabotage with the help of US and Chilean capitalists, in an attempt to lower the living standards ofthe average Chilean and thus undermine the government. Due to the class con­sciousness of the people and a successful publicity campaign by the government, the Chilean people realised that the economic crisis was not a result of government mismanagement but of US interven­tion.

Nevertheless, on the Uth of September, 1973 Allende's dream ofa "Peaceful Road to Socialism" was endedbya military coup. On the same day, after rejecting an ultimatum by General Augusto Pino­chet to leave the country, Allende remained with forty loyal colleages through the bombing of the Presidental Palace and at 5 p.m. Allende and his forty colleages died fighting whilst protecting the Presidential Palace. Later the CIA poked it's head out and said that it's activities were of little or no importance in determining the ultimate fate of Salvador Allende,

Since the coup, which put into power Pinochet, workers, women, students, etc have been killed, tortured, arrested and many forced into exile. Others have just disappeared. Political Parties are banned and trade unions severely restricted.

The poverty and destruction that has arisen since the coup continues to increase. Unemployment engulfs one third of the population and the national debt is the highest per head in the world.

The tour of Australia by Carmen Gloria Quin­

tana (a young women who was nearly burnt to death by the Chilean military) highlights the fact that the crushing ofthe most basic human rights is as rife in Chile today as at any time since the coup in 1973, Twenty year old Carman Quintana, spoke at the University of Queensland to some 350 students and staff on the 27th of April. Both of these meerings were organised by the G.G. Quintana support committee and sponsored by the Resistance Club at Griffith and at U.Q, and by C.LS.C.A.C, and Am­nesty International,

Carmen and a friend, Rodrigo Rojas, pardci-pated in a nation wide strike on the 2nd of July 1986. As they made their way to a demonstration they were attacked and brutally beaten by heavily armed soldiers, with their faces painted black to avoid identification. Soon after, two other patrol vehicles arrived raising the number of military soldiers to 30, The kicks, punches and blows from rifle butts condnued as they laid semi-conscious on the ground, A soldier doused Carmen and Rodrigo in petrol and set them alight. They were left burning for several minutes before the soldiers wrapped

Chile, once described as the Britain of South America, had a long tradition of democratic ideals before the 1973 CIA engineered coup.

them up in blankets and loaded Carmen and Rodrigo onto a truck and dumped them 23 ki­lometres from the town.

On regaining consciousness Carmen saw Rod­rigo, she described him in her testimony to the United Nations as "totally disfigured, with his face burned black, his lips ashen and his nose bleeding". They managed to reach a highway where most drivers swerved to avoid them, frightened by their appearance. When they were eventually picked up it took over two hours for them to reach a hospital, were they were diagnosed as having deep second and third degree burns to over 62% oftheir bodies. Rodrigo died shortly after the event.

His funeral was marked by violence as tear gas and water cannons were used against the thousands of mourners. The hearse was even stolen in an attempt to disperse the crowds.

Carmen fled Chile and all the witnesses to the crime havebeen threatened, arrested, kidnapped or have fled into exile. Pinochets own brand of justice was administered. Only one officer was charge with negligence! and was released two months after on bail.

At her tesdmony to the 43rd session of the United Nations Commision on Human Rights, Carmen stated "My testimony is also the collective testimony of thousands of children, youths and students who have suffered in their own flesh during the thirteen years the cruelty of an un­constitutional regime which came to power during a bloody miHtary coup",

"Our case is similar, in its uldmate meaning, to the many others which occur daily in my country, affecdng the life, security or the physical and moral integrity of persons.

Her testimony exemplifies the multitude of violent attacks on life and democracy and the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators. Neverthe­less, Pinochets atrocious human rights record has not deteted foreign investors, Chile is becoming a paradise for hungry giants from Australia and New Zealand. Suddenly Australasians have become Chile's chief foreign investors.

Over the past few years Bond Corporation In­ternational has purchased 45% of the Telephone Company, Compania de Telefonos and B,H,P, has purchased 60% of Escondida's copper project be­coming the largest privately owned Chilean mine. Other investors such as Ansett have invested some $10 million into Chile's aviation industry. This investment will further prop up the shaky military regime and prolong the suffering of the Chilean people.

Despite this seemingly hopeless situation one thing is clear. Throughout history no number of Reagans, Pinochet's or Bonds has been able to fully suppress the social force created by the solidarity of the workers and poor. Although they are constantly under threat from the voracious military regime and their international backers, the people con­tinue to struggle.

The quiet tenancity and amazing courage of Carmen Gloria Quintana symbolises the will of the Chilean people to overcome a corrupt, undemo­cratic military regime which was foisted upon them in 1973. Hopefully, Carmen's quiet testimony will build solidarity with the oppressed peoples of Chile.

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Not the Union News

PRESIDENT'S REPORT It's exam time so I won't bore you with the crap that emanates from the Students Union, Suffice it to say that I've been very very busy keeping out of trouble and trying not to upset any ofthe poHtical factions on the Union Council. Gee it's hard being an independent!

Anyway study hard and use the breathalyser in the Rec Club after exams when you have a stiff drink. Moreover when you get aroused our condom vending machines should be installed to make your dreams come true.

DIRK MOSES

ACTIVITIES REPORT

WOMEN'S RIGHTS REPORT Greetings!

Exam time! Before I forget best of luck in your exams. Aren't you glad its Swot Vac so you can stay home and study - do youself a favour (where have I heard that before? - Oh yeah - Molly Meldrum used to say it every week on Countdown before trying to palm off useless records!) and utilise your time -Don't be like me and watch soapies all day!

Anyway, back to what this column is really for -Women's Rights news. As I mentioned last time, we are hosting the NOWSA (Network of Women Stu­dents in Australia) Conference here on campus over the weekend of 13, l6 , 17 July, The Conference promises to be rewarding and lots of fun (you'll need it after exams!). It's not all fun though - busy little bees up in Women's Rights are working really hard organising posters, workshops, lectures, films. It's really great to see so many dedicated women willing to put so much time and energy into the Conference especially Louisa Foley, Bree Mcllligan and Rachael McLaughlin (who aren't even on the Women's Rights Committee!) and Carla Gorton -Women's Officer from QIT, Anyone can become involved in the NOWSA Conference - not only listening and working but in the decision making process as well. Come along to NOWSA meetings on Monday nights at 6,30 p,m, in the Women's Rights Room,

Once again - all the best for exams,

STELLA GOODELLIS Women's Rights Vice-President "Happy Birthday Stella for 30 June!'

Thank God it's exams again!! I know it's a strange blessing but look at it from Activities point of view (to do that, get drunk for ten days [and stay drunk], eat only one meal a day [from the Refec] and smoke hundreds of strong cigarettes). Now you see it!

Exams mean that there is nothing big and urgent to organise; one can actually plan ahead for once. You know, catch up with paperwork that's overdue since O'Week, clean up the office to get the people from Quarantine, Health Department and Depart­ment of National Security off my back - and finally, have a shave.

This time, without being a sadist, j/w/'re sorrow is my joy! Holiday and all that. But I hope I can help you see the light at the end of the exam-tunnel.

For the people who survived exams and didn't loose all hope in Academia, here's something for you to sweeten up your holidays - the selections for the ever-so-prestigious team that will enter UNI­VERSITY CHALLENGE! Not only will those folks get a free trip to Hobart where they will stay for the filming of University Challenge between August 28th and September 3rd they will also get free SCHONELL PASSES and FREE REFEC GRUB. All you have to do is to register at the Activities Office before July 4th and wait for the play-offs on July 11th and 12th.

Talking of deadlines, submissions for the Stu­dent Arts Week (advertised in Semper No, 2) close on Friday the 1st July.

Also, some "dudes" from the U,S. of A, have taken on the very charitable job to take away some of you're post-holiday blues. They are a 60 piece college band (you've probably seen one of the like in one of'those' movies) and will be performing in the Great Court on the first day back at Uni (18th July) during you're lunch break. So - don't bother to go to see them at Expo for big bucks on Sun­day.

Lunchtime gigs in July will be Wednesday 20th with the "SPLIFFS" a dance band from Sydney; Wednesday 27th with "T-VIBES" a Jamaican Ca­lypso and Reggae band and BATON ROUGE, a local band on August 3rd.

Anyway, best of luck with your exams from all of us at Activites; and have a good holiday.

See you next Semester, Cheers,

HARRO WAETJEN

22 SEMPER FLOREAT JUNE 1988

Not the Union News EDUCATION REPORT EXAMS "What shall I do, where shall I go?" UNIVERSITY POLICY ON STUDENTS ARRIVING LATE OR FAILING TO ATTEND

AN EXAMINATION 1. Students who arrive late for an examination a) No candidate will be allowed to en­ter an examination room after the question papers have been distributed except by express permission of the chief supervisor, b) Under the Examinadon Rule 15* no candidate may be permitted entry to an examination room more than twenty mintuesafter the commencing

2. Students failing to attend an examination

Students failing to attend for an examination because they have mis­taken thedate or the venueare advised to contact the Examinations Officer as soon as possible after the error is discovered. In some cases it may be appropriate to apply for a special exa­mination where a decision must then be made by the appropriate Dean after considering the evidence presented. Students are warned, however, that misreading a timetable does not ne­cessarily constitute valid ground for the granting ofa special examination.

'^Examination Rule 15

who makes it all the way through a degree without stumbling somewhere along the rugged pathway. But if it happens to you, even ifyou receive an exclusion notice over the ubiquitous signature, the Registrar, there are bet­ter options than arranging a chair un­der a noose tied to a light fitting. The best is to come to the Union for advice on how to appeal. Nine out often ap­plications for enrolment after exclu-

J.D, Story Building, During the exa- S'on are successful, mination period the above phone W H E N Y O U G E T number is attended from 7 a.m. to 8 TvrrjTir'F O F p.m. on weekdays, and from 7 a.m. to .^^r^yVCoT/^A.T 5 p.m. on Saturdays. If you don't con- E X C L U b l U l N tact examinations section in a case The university has quite stringent where it is physically possible, or ifthe exclusion rules which are applied au-instrucdonsgivenby the Examination tomatically. As noted above, nine out Offier are not followed, then a sub- of ten students who seek to re-enrol sequent application for a speical exa- after receiving an exclusion notice are

time for examinations of longer du T i m e for entry or departure ration (other than on re-entry after /;\ A . , J ; J , . . . „

^ . - •' " '• ' (i) A candidate may not enter an exa-temporary absence under supervision) c) Entry by a candidate at any time after the commencing time, whether initially or after temporary absence, may be refused by the chief supervisor if he/she considers that the candidate has had an opportunity of cheating while outside the examination room. d) The names of candidates who arrive more than ten minutes after the exa­mination commencing time w-ill be listed in tlie chief supervisor's report. e) A chief supervisor may not give ex­tra time to a student unless instructed to do so by the Examinations Offi­cer.

Chief supervisors however, niay sue their discretion in such matters and refer any candidate who arrived after the perusal period of the Examina­tions Officer for the purpose of (i) allowing the student the opportu­nity of sitting the examination in a separate room with full time and with minimum disturbance to themself (as well as the rest of the students in the subject) and (ii) if necessary, allow sufficient time to compose themselves.

Students arriving after the times sti­pulated in Examination Rule 15* may be permitted to sit the examination only ifthe Examinations Officer is sa­tisfied that no other student has left the examination room or if the Exa­minations Officer has the permission ofthe lecturer concerned.

allowed to do so. So ifyou receive an exclusion notice, don't just give up and don't have a nervous breakdown.

You will receive notice of exclusion if: a) your grade point average for sub­jects in which you enrolled in your most recent semester is less than 2.5 and ifyou have failed 25 credit points or more over the last ten years; or

mination room before he/she is given permission to do so by a supervisor, or after the following times: a) the first 20 mintues ofan examina­tion session of up to and including one and a half hours' duration. b) the first 40 mintues of an exami­nation session ofmore than one and a half hours' duration. ii) No candidate may leave the exa­mination room during the periods of 20 minutes or 40 minutes specified in sub-rule (i),orduring the last 10 minu­tes ofan examination session.

IF YOU MISS AN EXAM Phone the Examinations Officer

(377 2239) as soon as possible, or have someone phone on your behalf or, if your situations allow it, go personally to the Examinations Section in the

mination may be refused.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION

If your preparation for, or perfor­mance in an examination is adversely affected by circumstances you should apply for special consideration. Sup­ply as much information as you can, (e.g. number of davs of study lost, na- r ., j , , ture and severity ofan illness) so that b) ifyou have failed more than 90 cre-the examiner can decide how much dit points over the last ten years; or special cohsideration will be given.. c) if you have twice within three years Though special consideration will be failed to pass all subjects in a course in given in most cases which are non- which you have to pass all subjects trivial and properiy documented, you before proceeding, should note that it will not be granted If an application to the Dean is un­for situatios which are of your own successful, you can appeal against the making, or which you could reason- decision to the Senate. Most appeals ably have avoided. Special Considera- heard by the Senate Appeals Com-tion/Special Examination forms are mitteeareofthissort.lt is vital toget available from Examination Section, Union assistance in the preparation of Faculty Offices and the Union's Edu- this final appeal, since the Committee cation Office. The Rules require that relies solely upon what you have writ-the application be submitted to the ten. Through years of experience on Registrar within seven days of the exa- this Committee, the Union knows mination. what is likely to be accepted and what

isn't and how best to present your

APPEALING case. It is true. People fail. In fact they do J O N A T H A N STUBBS

it all the dme and it's a rare student Education Resource Officer

SECRETARY'S REPORT Whatare you doing reading this!! You should be studying!! Are you crazy?? You're going to fail!!! You're going to be on the dole in two weeks time. Or if you've finished your exams, what kind of loser are you hanging around cam­pus!! Have some fun!! See you when you're back from hibernation.

ROBYN FINKEN Union Secretary

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UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

Remember University Ciiallenge? The sfiow on the ABC hosted by the guy with the enviable source of seemingly never-ending one liners. The show where our 1987 team came a creditable eighth (out of ten). Anyway it is a show put on by the ABC involving ten of the twenly-two universities in Australia. It involves a host, Magnus Clarke firing off a series of questions lo two teams of four representing different uni­versities. The queslions have a bias lo­wards Australia dealing with Arts, History, Politics and National Sciences but as the ABC put it "Beeihoven, Bentham and the Beatles also form part of our heritage and/ or cultural world view as do Abraham Lin-con, the Taj Mahal and Easier Island".

This year it is the duly of the Activities Department to select a team to represent this institution at the University of Tas­mania where the series will be filmed. It is

intended to do this by a series o! elimina­tion heats culminating in a "Grand Final" on Wednesday the 13th of July. This final will be held in front of University Challen­ger's Producer and Programme officers.

The winning team will be flown down to Hobart and board there from 28lh August tiII3rdSeptember,allpaidforbytheABC.If you have read this far and you're still in­terested in compeling, find yourself three other friends to form a group of four and ther^ contact Activities either by coming down to the office or ringing on 371 1611.

Please get those nominations in soon as possible as fhe heats have to get un­derway soon. Do not get scared off bv this academic business with representatives from nine universities in Hobart. There is plenty of time and room for some good clean healthy fun.

SEMPER FLOREAT JUNE 1988 23

ANNUAL GENERAL ELECTIONS 1988 I HEREBY CALL NOMINATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS ON THE 78TH COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION.THATISTOSAY:

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS 1 (one) PRESIDENT 1 (one) SECRETARY \ (one)TREASURER 1 (one) ACTIVITIES VICE-PRESIDENT 1 (one) GENERAL VICE-PRESIDENT 1 lone) EDUCATION VICE-PRESIDENT t (one) COLLEGE VICE-PRESIDENT 1 (one) WOMEN'S RIGHTS VICE-

PRESIDENT 1 (one) POSTGRADUATE VICE-

PRESIDENT 1 (one) PART-TIMERS VICE-PRESIDENT 1 (one) HOSPITALS AREA VICE-

PRESIDENT 1 (one) TURBOT STREET AREA VICE-

PRESIDENT 1 (one) EXTERNAL VICE-PRESIDENT 1 (one) r lATIONAL STUDENT AFFAIRS

OFFICER

QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES 1. You may nomtnale for any one ol Ihe positions of Presidenl, General Vice-President, Educalion Vice-Presideni, Union Secreiary, Treasurer. National Studenl Aflairs OKicef Ot Aclivities Vice-President if you are a Member of the Union 2. You many nominate lor the posilion of Women's Rights Vice-President if you are a female Member of tho Union. 3. You may nominate lor any one cf the positions oi Part-Timers Vice-President, Hospilal Area Vice-Presideni or Turbot Siroe! Area Vice-President il you spend more than fifty percent ol your limelable in any of those areas as defined by Regulations. 4. You may nominate lor Ihe position of College Vice-President ii you are a member oi Ihe Union, who is a resident of a College. 5. You may nominate for ihe posilion ol External Vice-President il your major mode of study at Ihe University of Oueensland is through the medium of the Division of External Studies. 6. You may nominate lor the position of Postgraduate Vice-President if you are a member of the Union who is a Postgraduate Student. (Postgraduate Student means any person enrolled for a Doclorate or Masters Degree, a Masters Qualifying Degree or any Honours Degree.)

you MAY NOT NOMINATE FOR MORETHAN ONE OFTHESE POSITIONS ATTHIS ELECTION.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES 1. Nominations open at 9 a.m. on Monday, leth July, 1988. 2. Nominations close at 3 p.m. on Thursday, 28th July, 1968. 3. Nominalion forms are available al the Union Ollice, and will be sent by mail on wrilten request. 4. Nomination forms must be submitted in co.Tipleled form to the Administralivo Officer, • Patricia Cussens, at the Union Ofiice al St. Lucia before 3 p.m. on Thursday, 28th July, 1988. Nominations which are incomplete, are submitted late or al a different place musl be reiected under the Union Regulations.

REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS AGRICULTURE/FORESTRY

REPRESENTATIVE ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING

REPRESENTATIVE ARTS FULLTIME REPRESENTATIVES ARTS PARTTIfvIE REPRESENTATIVES COMMERCE & ECONOMICS FULL TIME

REPRESENTATIVES COMMERCE & ECONOMICS PART TIME

REPRESENTATIVES DENTISTRY REPRESENTATIVE EDUCATION FULL TIME REPRESENTATIVE EDUCATION PART TIME REPRESENTATIVE ENGINEERING REPRESENTATIVES LAW FULLTIME REPRESENTATIVE LAW PART TIME REPRESENTATIVE MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES THERAPY/PHARMACY REPRESENTATIVES MUSIC REPRESENTATIVE SCIENCE FULLTIME REPRESENTATIVES SCIENCE PART TIME REPRESENTATIVE SOCIAL WORK REPRESENTATIVE VET SCIENCE REPRESENTATIVE E.XTERNAL REPRESENTATIVES COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE OVESEAS STUDENTS REPRESENTATIVE POSTGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVES STAFF REPRESENTATIVES LIFE MEMBERS'REPRESENTATIVE EDIT0R(S)0FTHE UNION NEWSPAPER

QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES 1, You may nominate (or any one of the positions ol Faculty Representative if you are enrolled in that Faculty and have the appropriate status. 2. You may nominate for College

Represenative If you are a memberof Ihe Union who is a resident of a College. 3. You may nominate for Overseas Studenls Representative if your permanent residence is outside the Commonwealth of Australia. 4. You may nominate for Postgraduate Representative ii you are accorded Postgraduate status by the University. 5. You may nominate for Staff Representative if you are an employee of Ihe Union on the day of nominations. 6. You may nominate for Life Member of the Union il you are a Life Member,

YOU MAY NOT NOMINATE FOR MORETHAN ONE OFTHESE POSITIONS ATTHIS ELECTION.

You may nominate (or Postgraduate Representative if you are a postgraduate aludent. (For the definition of postgraduate studenl, see Item 6 in the Qualifications of Candidates list.) You may nominate for Undergraduate Representative il you are an undergraduate studenl not being a member of full lime staff.

VOTING IN THE ELECTION WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 19TH SEPTEMBER 1988T0 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1988 ATTHE FOLLOWING PLACES:

UNION COMMITTEES Further I hereby call nominations ior Ihe following positions on the Union's Services and Finance Committee:

SERVICES AND FINANCE COMMITTEE 2 (two) MEMBERS ELECTED BY AND FROM

THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION (the first Iwo elected in 1986 hold office for iwo

. years) 2 (Iwo) STAFF MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UNION STAFF EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE EX-OFFICIO AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE REGULATIONS, PROVIDED THAT AT LEASTONE OFTHE STAFF REPRESENTATIVES IS FROM THE CATERING AREA.

A candidate lor Treasurer of Ihis Committee, unless otherwise requested in writing, will be taken lo be a candidate for ordinary member of the body. In all other respects, the same rules apply to these positions as to the election of Councillors.

ACADEMIC BOARD 3 (three) REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ON THE ACADEMIC BOARD

2 {\^o\ REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS ON THE ACADEMIC BOARD.

MAIN REFECTORY, BIOL. SCIENCES CANTEEN, PHYSIOL REFECTORY, VET AG CANTEEN, HERSTON CANTEEN, TURBOT STREET CANTEEN. AND CERTAIN COLLEGES AFTIMES TO BE NOTIFIED AT A LATER DATE. CLINICAL, MEDICAL, DENTAL, EXTERNAL STUDENTS AND LIFE MEMBERS WILL AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE A POSTAL BALLOT IF THEY HAVE OPTED TO VOTE. OTHER MEMBERS OFTHE UNION WHO WISH TO RECEIVE A POSTAL BALLOT MAY SO REQUEST IN WRITING TO THE ELECTORALOFFICER ATTHE UNION OFFICE,

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PATRICIA CUSSENS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

II there is a fault in Ihe nomination and il is handed in more ihan 24 hours before nominations close, the Electoral Officer is obliged to advise you of the fault so that it may be rectified, HOWEVER, IFTHE NOMINATION IS HANDED IN ON THE CLOSING DAY, THE ELECTORAL OFFICER IS NOT REQUIRED TO NOTIFY YOU OF FAULT AND THUS NOT HEQUIRED TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION.

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24 SEMPER FLOREAT JUNE 1988

Letters Dear Editors,

I was disgusted when I read the "DID YOU KNOW" leaflet that was being distributed throughout the re­fectories. I am not an elected member of Council but I have been around enough to spot some lies when I see them.

Firstly - the free education cam­paign. The leaflet read that "last year's Student Union ran an effective Free Education Campaign involving thou­sands of students". Really? If these "thousand of students" involved in their campaign were so happy with their handling of it, then why couldn't S.A.F.E. (Student Action for Free Education) motivate us to vote for them last year? I'd conclude that "thou­sands of students " were not impressed with the campaign, I attended two ral­lies and noticed thatby thesecond one in May the numbers had certainly dwin­dled. Also the writers of the leaflet were suggesting that the Free Educa­tion Club was responsible for the Stu­dent Strike that took place on May 5, when I was told by two executive mem­bers of the Union about two months ago that the Union executive decided to organise this in conjuction with other student bodies in Queensland.

The second lie I spotted was that "National/Liberal/ALP students coun­cillors have wasted thousands of dol­lars on a court case they dropped."

The court case to which the sheet was referring was the court case against Robyn Finken. How hypocri-ticial! The left wing also enthusiasti­cally voted for Ms Pinken's sacking because they saw itas necessary so that the Union wouldn't be closed down by the State Government. After her sac­king Ms Finkin brought proceedings against the Union to stop implemen­tation of the decision to sack her which action was unsuccessfully defen­ded. How dare the wimps who don't even have the guts to put their names to the leaflet improperly suggest that the Union "dropped" the action.

I'm glad that I've made it my bu­siness to learn a bit about the Union. I hope others do too instead of belie­ving "sour grapes". I want to ask the authors of the leaflet a question -where is this luxurious office furni­ture" that tlie Union has wasted "thou­sands of dollars" on? Out of interest I had a look in the Union Building and only found luxurious furniture and a nice rug in Women's Rights which last years Union bought.

CALLIOPE DRITSAS

Dear Editors, Why is the Union running a campaign for free education? Every year for the past five years I've had to pay tertiary fees - admittedly it has been called the Student Union Fee but what is the dif­ference? Ifyou don't pay the Student Union Fee of $ 162 you can't enrol and what do you get for your money?

The refecs serve horrible food that isn't cheap, Clubs and Socs gives mo­ney to activities which are illegal, like homosexual activity and Women's Rights supports blatant lesbian acti­vities Uke Women Only dances. All these are a waste of students money!

Don't you think its hypocritical for a Student Union to spend money sup­porting free education when everyone is compulsorily forced to join the Stu­dent Union? Its such a joke. The only thing is, I'm not laughing.

TONY COLESLAW Com/Law V

Dear Eds, I was recently disgusted by the hy­

pocrisy of the campus Liberal Club. I seem to remember the Liberal faction on Council voted to consider a pos­sible Union Fee rise.

Now they put out leaflets attacking the proposed fee rise.

What a joke ... next they'll promise to cut the Unions Fee by 25%

We are not amused.

AN ORDINARY STUDENT

Dear Eds, I'm sick and tired of smart-ass arts

students being critical of St. John's College. Jokes about Johnsman com-mittng indecent acts with under age sheep, bizarre masonic rituals and transvestism are ruining my social life. Please give us a break.

A CO NCERNED JOHN'S RESIDENT

Dear Editors, In your "Gutter Press" page in the last edition you asserted that I kicked the crap out of my opponents. This is com­pletely false and I demand a retraction from you.

It is true that the Liberal Club and other conservative students have had some major victories this year inclu­ding the defeat of $20,000 going to Anti-Expo Activities, $10,000 to the Left controlled Free Education Club and various other motions that again used average students money to try and support minority groups.

As such we have attempted to gain a 25% Union fee cut for students that Dirk Moses and the Ordinary Students Team promised, they have opposed it and have in the previous two weeks in fact endorsed an $18 Union Fee rise. This attempted fee rise at a time when students are looking down the barrel of tertiary fees, is deplorable. That the Union should attempt to increase its own fees, to the detriment ofall stu­dents, is typical of this years admini­stration.

I feel that I am doing my job if peo­ple like Kevin Folet, one of the Sem­per Editors, who is a member of the ALP Club see fit to attack me and other Liberal students for represent­ing students and trying to do the best we can for them,

I have not heard of any glee at me losing the Presidency of ALSF, in fact I had the support of all four Liberal Clubs at UQ, QIT, Grifflth and BCAE and most were disappointed when in fact I was unsuccessful.

In conclusion, these personal at­tacks, I suppose directed by the ALP Club back room boys are not to Sem­per's credit when it should concen­trate on the very important issues that face students at UQ.

SCOTT MINEHANE President ofthe

UQ Liberal Club

Dear Editors, Spellbound and trembling I read your offering last issue on the number one threat to youth today - backmasking in rock music. I read it forward. I read it sideways. I read it backwards. Then I read it reflected in a mirror whilst STANDING ON MY HEAD on the night ofa full moon.

Astounding revelation after astoun­ding revelation! Number 9 upside down is the number 6! "Devil" is a palindrome for "lived"!

Never mind that a cosmonaut had walked in space four years before Arm­strong supposedly subconsciously ut­tered the words "Man will walk in space" as he embarked on his famovis

stroll on the moon. No, from now on I'm playing all my records in reverse -at minus 33^, r.p.m. Damn what it does to my stylus. We have to con­front this demon head on.

Already 1 can declare to have found BLATANT examples of this INSI­DIOUS practice - at the tail end of Australian band This Is Serious Mum's song "Kill Yourself Now and Avoid the Rush" we discover, unmistakeably the backmasked words; "Christ has Risen. Christ Will Come Again. This message was written and spoken by Monsignor Lucifer Beelzebub."

Oh thank you Oraculous SEMPER]

GRAEME ORR LawV.

Dear Eds, There I was one night, sitting and lis­tening to rny collection of immortal Tony Barber Hymns when suddenly the tape player became suffused with a wierd green light. The tape began to wind BACKWARDS through the heads and, would vou believe it, 1 could REALLY HEAR Phil Smith mumbling that it was alright to drink a whole bottle of rum and get naked with the small furry animals ofthe fo­rest!

JOHN BIRMINGHAM

Dear Editors, Recent letters published in second

Semper by bourgeois tunning-dogs Ken McKay and Robert Allen attac­king glorious Resistance Club have achieved no purpose whatsoever other than getting their names under­lined in red at the top of our list of people who will go to the wall when the revolution comes.

ALP Club ruling-class lackeys may see university life as only studying, meeting people, etc, but we ofthe Re­sistance Club do not suffer from such bourgeois illusions and only we are aware that the true purpose of coming to university is to mobilise students (e.g. via fees rallies) to smash the re­pressive apparatus of the capitalist state and replace it with the non-op­pressive, non-hierarchical social de­mocracy of such marxist states as So­viet Union, Cuba, etc (all praise Glo­rious Soviet Fatherland).

Remember the Resistance slogan concerning life at Uni:

"Some come here to sit and fester, But we come here to smash Vince

Lester."

Yours truly. KARL ' N O T

GROUCHO' MARX General Secretary

Resistance Club

Dear Editors, I was very disappointed that you

attempted to force your own political beliefs in Semper No. 2. Your article on Wayne Goss was pure hyperbole and was obviously written by an ALP Club hack. It read like he was some sort of Messiah when the real fact is hardly the type of person to inspire any confidence.

In a place that has its motto "A place of Light, Liberty and Learning" your article shed no light, gave us no liberty to disagree and was very "un­learned".

Please keep your political leanings and thoughts off the pages of our Stu­dent Newspaper.

Yours in disagreement.

R.S. ALLAN Arts

Dear Eds, There have been recent attacks by

various ALP students (including one of the editors of this paper) on the direction of the anti-fees campaign and the role of Resistance Club in it; particularly concerning the rally in the city on May 5. At that rally there were moves by some ALP student leaders to prevent any action which actually in­volved students and made a definite, strong statement against graduate tax. Rather, these student union leaders would have preferred to have a quiet, inactive sit down lecture where they would have the opportunity to bore students into inactivity and so not cause their federal ALP government too much embarrassment. It is not sur­prising that they feel defensive about the education politics of this govern­ment which has cut education funding to less than 1% of GNP and is attemp­ting to introduce tertiary fees. So de­fensive in fact that at the May 5 Rally these ALP students had a key to the public address system which they at­tempted to use to stop any speakers who might suggest to students that they could show their opposition to graduate tax in a more active and use­ful manner. Had not Karen Fletcher used her speech to urge students to be active, the public address system would have been shut down before anyone had an opportunity to present students with this alternative.

Much to the dismay of these Union leaders students overwhelmingly vo­ted to march. The arrests that occur­red at the rally where largely unpro­voked by the students arrested but were a result of unnecessary police in­tervention. There were only a very small minorit}' of students who wished to storm the Commonwealth Educa­tion Office (and this did not happen) and Resistance Club did not support this as it would have led to unneces­sary arrests and little result (there were many police!)

Dirk Moses' attack on Resistance Club as well as being inaccurate failed to mention that Resistance had been very active in organising the rally and had to pressure the Union to provide the limited support that it did give. The Union wouldn't even organise a petition against Graduate Tax so that it was left up to the Free Education Club to organise.

The hypocrisy of the attacks on Re­sistance and the anti-fees campaign is overwhelming considering that those most ardently attacking are not op­posed to Graduate Tax (Kevin Folet -Semper Editor voted against a motion opposing Graduate Tax) or if they say that they are opposed to Graduate Tax don't want to do anything about it for fear of upsetting their ALP federal government,

RUSSEL NORMAN

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GUTTER PRESS WITH UNCLE RUPERT

For the News and Views that even the Daily Sun overioolcs!

SPERM BANK LEFT HIGH AND DRY A severe shortage of good quality sperm is threatening a crisis for one of the country's artificial insemina­tion programs.

Dwindling reserves of sperm and a lack of regular donors has forced the Queen Eliza­beth Hospital (QEH) in Adelaide to launch a publicity campaign to recruit new sources or face virtual sperm bankruptcy in six months.

We're stretched, we're really stretched", the consultant at the QEH reproductive me­dicine unit, Dr Christine Kirby, said yester­day.

"We had a driveabout 12 months back and we had a resonable response from that but now most of those people have dropped off."

STAR TALK SPARKS SPY WARS US security services fear Nancy Rea­gan's calls to her astrologer have been an intelligence goldmine for Soviet spies.

Sources in the White House, the CIA and the National Security Council are saying the First Lady may have been an unwitting spy leak.

Inform.ition gleaned from the star-gazing calls would provide the bread and butter of intelligence work for the Soviets, the sources said. UNSAFE

US security services believe Mrs Reagan and San Francisco astrologer Joan Quigley discussed the President's thinking, schedu­les, moods and health to allow the astrologer, to chart a course.

A VERY TACKY PHOTO OF THE REAGANS

THEFLUSH O F S U C C E S S FORA WORKING CLASS HERO Beijing, Friday: In the iiope tiiat Zhang Zinyu's dedication to cieantoiietswiii inspire worlters throughout the nation, the Go­vernment has declared the 42-year-o)d a heroine forgiving upa cushy office jobforthe frontline of public lavatories.

Miss Zhang, citing the motto "Letme be dirty and make thousands clean", has de­clared herself unsuitable for the office work she was given after hertoilef cleaning skills won the titles of model worker and "Red Banner Pacesetter".

"It is imtDortant to me that I be in a job suited to my skills," she told the 'Workers' Daily', which highlighted her heroism on the front page.

SEMPER APOLOGY We would Uke to retract all state­ments made regarding Scott Mine-hane's string of failures in our last issue.

We also apologise for any imputation that Russell Byrnes was one of the members of Scott's Liberal faction that took malicious delight in his downfall.

IRISH JOKES We apologise to the Peoples of the Republic of Ireland, their de­scendants and/or relatives - If you've been offended by this co­lumn that's hard cheese.

Six Irishmen were arrested last week in Saudi Arabia for drinking alcohol. The Saudi f^inister of Justice released them after explaining that his country respected the religion of their homeland.

Did you hear the one about the Irish humpty- the wall fell on himi

Did you hear about the Irish fish - it drow­ned.

Paddy didn't think much of sex on te­levision - he kept on falling off!