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Friday, May 5 th, 1967 UNION NEWS No. 328 Price 3d. TREASURER QUITS- in brief Monday’s five hour U.C. * Agreed to postpone the A.G.M. until after the exams. £ Recommended that a blood FOR ONE DAY donor session be held in the Union in the last week ot By Union News Staff term. £ That a subscription for “Sechaba”, a periodical of JN a well-staged walk-out from Monday’s the African National Con­ VAC GRANTS gress of South Africa be Union Committee, Ian McNay resigned as taken out for the Union Union Treasurer. Within twenty-four hours, library. EXPLAINED 4 c That the bar rejuvenation however, he decided to withdraw his resignation and is scheme should cost no more now back at his post. EW systems for Vac. Grants than £2,000 and the conver­ sion of the O.S.A. room to The walk-out, which iMdNay N are being introduced by a new President’s room, nc admits he had planned before­ Asked why he withdrew his the University. more than £500. hand, occurred when U.C. resignation a few hours later, Noted that pressure was McNay said that the permanent To explain the various types being put on the manufac­ deleted his proposals to make staff had asked him to stay on of grants available and the turers to replace part of the the chairman and other mem­ and he felt it would have created numerous forms that must be bers of ball committees agree difficulties if he had resigned in filled in to obtain them, a leaf­ carpeting in the M.J. let, called “Vacation Grants” has 4c Recommended that a report personally to indemnify the mid-term. been produced by Vice Presi­ on the financing of the Arts Union against losses made by “I i0ve the Union,” he ex­ dent, Mark Mitchell. Festival be produced. balls. “I didn’t expect this to plained earnestly, “I stood for £ That ex-lecturer Cliff Slaugh­ go through”, he said afterwards. President to save the Union from Free copies of this leaflet are ter be banned from the Straw.” available from the porters lodge. Union unless he settles an “ABOMINABLE” outstanding debt to the Union within seven days. Deletion was proposed by Vice £ Requested that Catering President-elect Neil Eldred, who Sec., Mike Paine, produce a described the recommendation as report on the Refec. Self “abominable” and insisted that “NUS EXEC. OUT OF Clearing Scheme. no amount of careful budgeting 4c Referred back to Exec, a or planning could ensure tnat a report by the Lady Vice ball would make a profit. President on the cost of TOUCH” - New Sec. Union Dinner and Ball and He was supported by several how this might be reduced. ordinary members of U.C., while T EO Smith, finals Chem- 4c Decided that the men’s Exec. members’ President, showers should be closed Mervyn Saunders and Pete istry student, will be down at once for reasons of Stark, C.A.S., backed McNay up, the next secretary of N.U.S. hygiene and that the Health arguing that ball committees Inspector be called in to see took risks and wasted money, sub-committee. His recom­ them; also that a notice be knowing the Union would pay in mendation, submitted by the fixed on the door directing the end. students to the showers in sub-committee was app­ the Gym which they are RE-VOTE roved by Union Committee able to use. Voting to delete the proposals on Monday. 4c Defeated a motion brought was 11 each way, with Vice- from debates deploring the President Mark Mitchell in the fact “that no paper towels Treasurer McNay in action at Tuesdays O.G.M. His chair, and President Mervyn ‘^N.U^S. Exec, is out of touch are provided in the toilet of eloquence seemed unabated by the traumas of Monday's Saunders voting against deletion. with the ordinary student and a the Union in spite of the Mitchell decided on a re-vote. great deal needs doing in the costly appliances tethered U.C. Engineer Allan Johnson, says internal structure of N.U.SS.,” therein with which to con­ McNay, warned Saunders that if tain them.” the matter had to be brought to said Smith. an O.G.M., the Engineers would oppose the recommendations. “I hope to involve more Mervyn Saunders abstained in people in this Union in NUS MEDICS’ EX-PRESIDENT Ian Smith the re-vote, so the proposals affairs,” he coninued, “so that were deleted by 11 votes to 10. they know what is going on and will want to participate.” KILLED IN CRASH writes for Silence followed. Then “I resign” said Me Nay. “I ’m not CTEVE Lipman, last year’s Medics. President, was going to be blackmailed by the Leo Smith, new N.U.S. Sec. Tyke threat of an O.G.M.,” and he POLICY ^ killed in a car crash last Sunday. marched out of the room. He was driving back from a wedding in Somerset. He A FTER a lengthy corres­ The new secretary’s job will pondence with the seat be to keep informed of the policy was due to be married in July after finals this summer. LETTER of the NUS and co-ordinate the of NUS. activity_ _in Leeds by in- As Medic’s President last year of government in Rhodesia, policy of this Union toward the volving students in issues that he pushed, in concert with the Union President Mervyn Saun­ Tyke Editor, Mr. Adam In his letter of resignation to NUS. affect their everyday lives, like Dentals, for better student facili­ ders described Lipman as ‘one Mervyn Saunders, he wrote, “U.C. examinations and staff-student of the most honest and sraight- has repeatdly shown a lack of ties in the Medical School area. Regan, has received a short The sub-committee also pro- relations.” A Terrapin social room is due to forward people I have ever Foreword to his magazine confidence in my judgment by be opened on the site next year. known.’ refushing resolutions on financial poses resolutions and amend­ FRIEND Saunders, Union Treasurer Ian from Mr. Ian Smith. matters.” He submitted a recom­ ments for NUS Councils (the “My hope is that the present Neil Holmes, his successor, McNay, and a party of Medics “Lefties will stage a Tyke mendation that the Union should next one will be in November). NUS sub committee will be said, ‘Steve was one of the best attended the funeral in Hull last burning,” commented Mr. Regan, apply for a decrease in per capita These are submitted to O.G.M’s superseded by an education and friends I ever had. This is a great Wednesday. There were more who also boasts Mr. Heath grant from the L.E.A.’s “to pre­ and have to obtain Union appro- welfare committee and the pre- personal loss as well as a loss than a hundred people at the among his contributors. vent further thoughtless squan­ val before being sent to Council, sent sub committee become a to the Medical School. He would ceremony, Tyke will appear next term dering of public money. working party of that commit- have gone far in the medical I during a Rag Week. “I hope to broaden the scope tee> profession.’ One of the groups just booked for the forthcoming Rag Ball in June is psychodelic group “The NO MORE UNION Marriage Soft Machine”. This group have NEWS FOR A already scored a hit with London WHILE. students when they appeared to This week’s copy or doesn’t pay perform during one of the nights BACK AFTER LE of the London School of Econo­ EXAMS. A student at Beckett’s mics sit-in. Union News contains Park Training College PHONOGRAPHE an advertising insert has been suffering from 16 MERRION STREET heavy financial penalties Atrocities on Show since his marriage last AN exhibition, borrowed from the Bertrand Russell Summer. Peace Foundation and showing with great detail the Before his marriage, Alan American atrocities in the Vietnam war, has been set up Wright lived in a student EARLY BIRDS hostel. His grant was assessed in No-Man’s Land by Peace in Vietnam and C.N.D. We ask your co-op- on parental income at £72 Societies. W HO REACH US BEFORE below the maximum. The results of napalm, of “Frightening” (3rd-year Medic); 10.0 P.M.PLEASE NOTE: eration in not drop­ His local authority have ‘Lazy Dog’ shrapnel bombs, “Simply horrible . nothing refused to re-assess his grant and other horror-weapons are else. The war shouldstop.” FIRST 50 PEOPLE — since his marriage, however, portrayed in a series of photo- (Overseas student), No Admittance Charge ping these around although this is normal prac­ graps from war-correspondents. Others have been critical of tice and his parents no longer Comments from the first three the exhibition. A first year law SECOND 50 PEOPLE — the University make his grant up for him. students asked their impressions student described it as “sensa- were: “They’re ‘little people' in tionalist exploitation which Half Price “We could have had ten kids trouble and I feel symapthetic cheapens the true horror of the and they still wouldn't give me towards them” (2nd-year Eng- fighting,” and thought it “emo* THEN NORMAL CHARGES OPEN EVERY NIGHT any more,” said Alan. lish); tional” and “fanatically biassed”. 1 U N IO N N E W S — Eriday, 5th Hay, 1967 Li DEPRIVED ACTOR” ORATES Dear Madam, I note with interest the quote of Mr.

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