Students Say Capping Mag. Pornographic

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31982, 8 May 1969, Page 26

Students Say Capping Mag. Pornographic

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 7. Nineteen students who yesterday formed an unofficial deputation to the Mayor of Auckland (Mr D. M. Robinson) to support his stand against the Auckland University capping magazine, in a supplied statement today declared the magazine pornographic.

“We as a group of individual students, while not acting in connection-with any organised group of campus opinion, feel it our responsibility to make the following points in protest at the 1969 capping magazine,” the statement read. “We reject the assertion that the magazine is not pornographic. In terms of the public consensus on morality we assert that the magazine was pornographic and deplore the fact that it was considered necessary to set such a low moral tohe. “We consider unjustifiable the assertion that a magazine supposedly representative of university scholastic achievement, comment, and humour need become a vehicle for obscenity primarily for mone-

tary gain. This is not sufficient cause for the publication of a magazine which we believe could be a viable enterprise without such content “The comments on the capping magazine made by the president of the Students’ Association (Mr W. B Rudman) are in no way representative of our views, and we believe, of those of a significant number of students who have not yet voiced a public protest.” The statement added that the group supported the stand taken by the Mayor. Mr G. Sullivan, a leader of the student group, said there were no plans by the group to refer the magazine to the Indecent Publications Tribunal