TitleDesperate Dan vol.6 no.5 1977AuthorAnonymousDate1977DescriptionDesperate Dan was an irregular sheet produced at the University of Waikato in the 1970s through to the early 80's.
This satirical Desperate Dan issue projects absurd campus futures. Professors take unlikely roles - Roadkey becomes janitor, Llewellyn wins a tongue‑in‑cheek award, Faulenberg flees timetable duties, and Wetfield writes a risqué book. Scientists seek refuge in Business Management, while Theo Roy launches a Strategic Studies Institute with tavern takeovers as priorities. Campus life grows surreal: duets in the Oddfellow Chapel, rejected waterbeds in the library, and departments exploiting loopholes - Selby “adopts” 835 children for allowances, demographers feud in poison‑pen letters, and German scholars stamp agreements in cow pats. Power struggles abound: Guru Pitchie vies for Vice Chancellor, the Huntly Power Project collapses in farce, and new Humanities Dean Rudi Zodlins is respected yet undermined.Number of Pages4FormatPrinted documentVolume6Number/Issue5Year1977
