TitleDesperate Dan vol.7 no.6 1978AuthorAnonymousDate1978DescriptionDesperate Dan was an irregular sheet produced at the University of Waikato in the 1970s through to the early 80's.
The campus circus continues with the great graduation certificate debate—once scorned as plain, now reborn in four ornate versions that left 146 staff baffled and provoked one Vice Chancellor’s assistant to cast 11,000 proxy votes for the original. Radicals envision balloons, gnomes, and Doric columns as the dawn of a decorative revolution, while conservatives rally under OPUS to defend tradition. In a comic twist, Council has abandoned consensus and decreed that each student may design their own certificate, complete with optional “Sample Only” signatures. Elsewhere, dubious lists and absurd connections fuel a wage abolition movement, the return of the explorer: Hon. J. Tollemache, and farewell notes mix career changes with cryptic repetition.Number of Pages4FormatPrinted documentVolume7Number/Issue6Year1978
