Eve at the University

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 21

Eve at the University

"DAP says that I have got to think of something to do now that I have left school-that is, if I have any time left after doing my face and nails every day and talking to Marlene and Dulcie on the telephone. . . Do you think it would be a good idea to go to the University for a while? ... I couldn’t .do anything difficult, of course. . .. All I want is something to fill in for a while until I get my bearings. . . Hundreds seem to survive each year.

SO 1 Cant be too drastic." Eighteen-year-old Eve ("it is marvellous to be 18 at last and really grown up’’) may not be a typical University student, but there have been young women before who went to

University for ‘no more _ substantial treason, and listeners will find when the first of her letters to her Aunt Clare are broadcast from 4YC next week that she gives a lively and entertaining picture of her life as a first-year student. "You can always tell a University student," she says, "by her gabardine coat and low-heeled shoes, and the everlasting brief case either under the arm or clutched against the stomach." She finds it "marvellous," even though getting to nine o'clock lectures is a terrible rush and making a decision about what society to join something of a problem. Quite early she goes to the poetry reading circle, where she comes up against free association and innervation and blue skulls and the desert sun and meets the

chief poet, "a long-haired type called Raymond." How Eve establishes her "cultural relations," how she knits a very long University scarf (and whom she gives it to), how she becomes prompt and effects girl and bit-part actress in the drama club, what she does about boy friends and_ social * life-listeners will hear this and much more besides. Letters from Eve will start from 4YC on Monday, July 13, at 9.30 p.m., and further letters will be heard on Wednesday and Saturday. The letters will be broadcast later from other stations.