Talk:Richard Luyt

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Beefart says: I was a student at UCT from 1965 to 1980 and left with four degrees including a Ph.D. The assertion that Luyt was accepted by the students at UCT is in my opinion total bullshit. He was widely regarded as reactionary (I do not comment on whether that was fair or not) and the historical record shows that those who followed him condemned him with faint praise. I was carpeted by Luyt in about 1972, after publishing a pornographic short poem for a student magazine. Luyt, failing to compehend that the poem had been a spoof, said to me "I cannot understand how anyone with your academic record could produce such smut. I am not threatening you but if you continue along this course your position at this university will have to be reviewed". I remained silent, in contempt. He asked me whether I had anything to say. I shook my head and he dismissed me. I hope that this little incident will be preserved here for posterity.... History is full of illusions resulting from a lack of detail. Student publications of the period, which are unlikely to have survived forty years, were full of condemnation for Luyt. One memorable cartoon of Sir Richard and his wife, Elizabeth, bore the caption "Betty Luyt than Richard"... For all that the above is true, I do not seek to justify anything, only to record. We were young and, in common with the young of the past thousand years, we though we understood all of the answers to all of the problems of mankind. "Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"... Dylan.~Captainbeefart (talk) 16:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)