Student “Boycott”
Sir, —The article relating to the student boycott, published in “The Press” on Friday reports a student spokesman as saying “a march through the city streets would be merely a childish form of protest.” Actually the whole idea of a boycott is childish. For some obscure reason, students can never think beyond the brilliant ideas which occasionally occur to them, the present scheme being a typical example. Has it not occurred to the protesters that if they are not satisfied with the allowances made them by the Government they need not continue at university? It is not compulsory to attend and the sooner these upstarts realise that a university education is a privilege and not a right, the sooner they will be classified as mature adults rather than irresponsible adolescents who are holding places in the univer-
sities which would be better filled by serious, intelligent, and more mature students.— Yours, etc., SERIOUS STUDENT. March 28, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 10
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Student “Boycott”
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 10
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