TitleDesperate Dan vol.8 no.1 1979AuthorAnonymousDate1979DescriptionDesperate Dan was an irregular sheet produced at the University of Waikato in the 1970s through to the early 80's.
This issue opens with a gloomy New Year message for 1979, offering tongue‑in‑cheek predictions in Desperate Dan’s Almanac. Bureaucratic reform is mocked as the university belatedly removes sexism from publications, extending absurdly to renaming staff as “Knuferperson” and “Penperson,” or forcing them to submit new names for Vice‑Chancellor approval. The “Pearls Before Swine Department” lauds academics’ devotion to research while lampooning their empty lecture halls, where committees draft comic rules to ban apathy and even sleeping with eyes open. The issue closes with Desperate Dan’s Prize List for 1978. Number of Pages4FormatPrinted documentVolume8Number/Issue1Year1979
