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2 THE STUDENT Thursday 20th October 1983 News Fascist problem confronted THE STUDENTS' AS­ The problem is, of course. that any such action cannot be allowed SOCIATION is currently to interfere with the democratic considering some means process. and Ken Shoji is under no of r e gi s t e ring th e ir illusions about finding an accept­ able and practical solution: "I did a disapproval of fascist quick survey of the situation in groups who attempt to other Scottish universities, and expl oit the Associati on's Stirling University was the only meetings and elections to one which had any sort of policy, which simply said that thei r Union publicise th e ms e l ve s. itself would actively oppose Th is thorny qu estion fascism and rac ism within the Last year's Senior Presidential hustings. Paul Deacon is on the far right. came to a head last year university. There are all sorts of problems wrapped up in this - w h e n Nation al Fro n t who would decide that someone is member Paul Deacon a fascist ; how could you stop stood in th e Seni or someone standing in elections if they didn't declare their NEWS IN BRIEF Pres idential election and SRC Centenary intentions? And if we attempt a some hustings became, ban that policy would be open to extremely rowdy. The abuse and misinterpretation." pro bl em was highlighted The whole question is a veritable minefield, and some would say Children's Holiday when it became cl ear that that it is better left alone. The celebrations under va ri ous people w ho had wholesale banning of fascist or Venture e ndor se d Dea c on 's racist election candidates must CHV HAVE LAUNCHED a candidature had not been surely be out of the question, as it varied programme of events for would be a perversion of this term. Swimming trips take informed of his political democracy and one never knows consideration place every Monday, Tuesday and views. where it might end , but the Stirling As the centenary o f the believes the centenary could be Wednesday at 6 pm, meeting Deacon's candidature caused solution, whereby the Assoc iation Students' Representativ e Council utilised as a focus for the outside the Appleton Tower, while much concern not only within the itself would declare its opposition approac hes , con sideration is now renaissance he feels the SAC and a bonfire, jumble sale and University, but also in wider to a candidate and call for his or bei ng given to the possibility of Association are undergoing in the Christmas party are being planned celebra tions the Association face of the new realism that is circles. and this was emphasised her defeat, might work if sufficient by for November and December. Executive. So far, however, the abroad. "I do think the centenary when Lothian Community safeguards can be found to Camps and day trips are organised prevent its abuse. It would be idea has not met with universal should be celebrated per se, Relations Council complained to every weekend , and there will be a wonderful to believe that last approva l. lain Cameron ex amines because in a sense it marks the the Association that allowing a special planning workshop in the the differing shades of opinion. beginning ~of organised student National Front member such year's distastefJ..!I exposure for the Gold Tankard , East Cross policies of the National Front will The question of centenary representation in Scotland. But I exposu r e amounted to an Causeway at 7 pm on Thursday, never be repeated in this celebrations for the SAC has been agree with many of Mark endorsement of his ideology. 27th October. For more informa­ university, but there is certainly no up in the air for some time now, Kennedy 's arguments for Obviously this was in no way true tion about CHV, ring 556 0591. as constitutionally there was no quick way to achieve this. It will be ever since a special committee abolishing the committee. and so I barrier to Deacon's standing, but so met time before the Association wa~ set up consisting of such would like to mark the centenary in the new Executive is hoping to come up with concrete policy noted luminaries as David Steel a completely different way, by fo rmu late some policy to prevent proposals. Let's hope they don't and George Foulkes, MP, as well promoting the work of the SAC Temporary such allegations in future. need them. as a bevy of former Senior within the University and in the Conveners lain Cameron Presidents. Two yea rs ago, community. It's all tied in with the however, the Senior President of idea of taking the SAC out to the NICHOLAS GREER ANO Nei l the time, Mark Kennedy, was student body, instead of sitting in Heyden Dumbleton have been horrified to discover that the the offices expecting people to proposed to act as Arts Faculty committee's plans centred on a come here. It's really a golden and Science Faculty Convener Hacks falling series of events such as· -opportunity to r;,ise the r espectively as temporary champagne receptions, special consciousness of the student appointments until after the bye­ meetings of the General Council, community about the services elections. the con ferrment of an honorary available to them." degree and a special lecture. Some members of the old Tevi ot Reasoning that such activities wer committee have continued to meet like flies elitist and competely out of touch in an unofficial capacity, however, Concerts with the students the SAC is and though the SAC is refusing to As the resignations conti nue to failed to return to the third ­ supposed to represent, Kennedy approve some of their events, flood in at the Association Offices. perhaps his academic progres s LAST FRI DAY'S CONCERT by promptly disbanded the com­ Susan Deacon, Vice-President Al ison Whipps recommends that a was hindered by his commitment Fad Gadget at Teviot Row was not mittee. (Court) commented that some of swing door be installed. to th e SAC - unfortunately-we quite the success the Union had That committee conti nues to th eir plans "st ill leave a bad taste in It's st range how quickly all the hoped it would be. Whereas the have nothing to go on! cast a sh ad ow over th e present the mou th. T he committee ostentatious campaigns, canvas­ We have even le ss info concert had been planned in the discussions however, and th is disbanded because its plans didn't concerning Mr Shearer and Mr expectation that around 800 sing, and pre-election crawling year's Seni or President, Ken Shoji , seem re levant, an d though they subsides leaving only the ·select Polloc k ( S c ience Fa c ult y people would attend, in the event is wary of merely reit erat ing th e contin ue to make suggestions I'm elect' to wallow in success and Members). Perhaps Mr Shearer's the -audience numbered only 500, idea of a get-together for the Old not sure that we should involve reconsider just how all their plans failure to be elected as Tevi ot Row which meant that ba r takings fell Boys' ne two rk . I ns tead, he poeple who are now inevitably will actually materialise. Chairman on a policy of slashing short of their target by something distanced from the current mood It may seem unjust to throw a fi xed beer prices was too mu ch to approaching £1,000 though the spanner into what usually can be live with. He is no longer a st uden t, among students and the Associa- concert still made a profit. desc ribed as an efficient and however, and there is no letter of PSyc hSoc tion. I'm not averse to the idea of Though concerts at Teviot Row indispensible machine. Yet one resignation. Perhaps it got lost in Wi thin the dark realms of the centenary celebrations, but I don't over the past year have proved far would like to believe that all the the post with Donald Pollocki? - Psychology Department, where think we should become involved more successful than the previous cogs are pulling their weight. It he's under the missi ng persons fil e sc h izo p h reni c rat s sel dom in even ts and media coverage that "big band" scheme using the would seem, however, that some too where are yo u Mr reappear the same sex and the frequently have nothing to do with Health Centre as a venue, House just can't take th e strain - not Pollock?!! ! word depression is synonmous the vast majority of students. By all Chairman Ewan Hawthorne is even to pick up pen and paper to The by-elections for thes e posts with not having handed in an essay, means let's try to put across a true worried that last Friday's poor write th eir resignations . will be coming up soon on the SAC several would be Pi agets and picture of student life and correct attendance may be the start of a Mike Conway (Hon. Se cretary) agenga I wonder if the Freuds have emerged who's ,t he image that Campus gave us, trend: " If that is the case we'll have report ed th e resign ations of applications will be in wi'iting!I??. cognitive processes came up with but ideall y I thi nk any celebra­ to rethink the whole idea but the D o n ald Po llock , J o nathan the id ea of setting up a new tions should be very much pu blicity for Fad Gadget was rather Shearer, Ri ck Innis and Simon Psychology Society. intern al ised, d i rected at the low-key, and we're hoping that Nichols. We were just on the verge · Having analysed the situation it students, because they're the accounted for the size of the of getting out the hankies over the was felt that this new soc iety peopl e who rea ll y matter. " audience." news but really,what has become should pl ay a role in providing a As Ken Shoji has noted, this of the dear departed? social outlet for ove rw orked cen tenary reall y is something of a Sandy Mr Nichols (Science Faculty stud ents accompanied by an lan dmark in student representa­ Reid Convener) is looki ng for a decent acade m ic fringe of visiting tion, and celebrations of some writ ing set in his Christmas speakers, film s, outings etc. Most descri ption are certainly in order, RUMOUR HAS IT THAT stut.1<.1ny his resignation importantly, however, was the aim though h_opefully they wil be more Potterrow House Committee man 1 consisted of a half-torn page of to integrate the different year magmat1ve and successful than Sandy Reid has been hit by scurvy. exercise paper. and much thought ,grou ps a nd improve upon: the _stilted efforts made by the Sources suggest that Sandy has must have gone into "Dear Mike, I communicati ons (andfindmugsto ·1 U n iversity f_or its quater­ been faced with an acute cash resign, Yours Simon" . .. touching do experiments tor the fourth cen ten_ary. Having cleared the air shortage of late,. and other year!'). regarding the old Celebrations itsn't it!! necessities took precedence over Mr Innis (Arts Faculty Member) It's new and excit ing - anyone Committee, the SAC should now lavish eating habits. Beware all of was, unfortunately, obl, gec to can join. They aren't going to Ibe _ able to set down concr_ete you who think this is a laughing psychoanalyse you . . . just proposals which are both practical, resign from his post havi ng 'left' matter :.._ wait till the overdraft welcome your support! : and satisfactory. Uni after the second year and starts to bite and it could be you. THE STUDENT Thursday, 20th October 1983 3 News

r Stirling 1 Crime & To Russi a Rat outcry Justice With STIRLING UNIVERSITY the charitable status of Scottish · A new centre fo r Criminology Students' Association has called universities and those in Eng land 1 and the Social and Philosophical an Emergency General Meeting for and Wales. Mr Bert explained that 1. Study of Law opened this term. tonight, Tuesday, in a desperate Stirling University has a stan ding ; The inaugural lecture, given by attempt to resolve the confronta­ policy to fund transport for groups Professor F. H. McClintock took Bowles tion with the Federation of who "support th e policy of the I place on Monday night in th e New Conservative Students. Ian university", hence th e decision to Senate Hall, Old College. MacGregor pokes his eye into a hire the buses fro the CND rally. The new centre amalgamates As"'Stated in this week's national complicated puzzle of legal The Se ni or President of the Juri sprudence and Crimino­ goings~on. Edinburgh University SA, Mr Ken logy departments. The teaching, press, Mr James Callaghan, MP, left on Monday for Moscow. The The FCS has threatened to take Shoji, told Student how important research and secretari al staff of purpose of his visit to the Soviet legal action after th e Association's it is to differentiate be tween the old departments become the funding an open political debate staff of lhe cen tre, and are joined capital is to discuss disarmament decision to hire th ree buses to take with members of the Politbureau and direct support fo r political by seventeen Research Members a party of students down to the The Edinburgh University parties, and he feels that Stirling drawn fr om other law departments CND rally this weekend. The co nnection is tha t Mr Callaghan is have certainly got th emselves into and from the Faculties of Arts, Students' Association has paid out bringing along Dr Nigel Bowles, a a tricky situation Social Science and Medicine £1.620 to fund thr trip, and this lec turer in the Politics Depart­ Right now lawyers ar e At the lecture, Professor comes only one · week after the ment . desperately trying to work out McClintock, the centre's directo r, Attorney General, Sir Michael Dr Bowles only just re cently whaJ is exactly happening in thi s launched a strong attack on the Jan Can Write! Harvers , insisted that student joi ned the University having test case for st udent union affairs pr esent Government's policy on , unions should not breach the previous ly worked wi th th e former Tonight's GM will see th e FC S not law and order. He said that in Mrs The Editor of Student was charity laws by improper use of Labou r leader for three years, only supportin g th eir acti on T h a t c h e r ' s ··e xpansion ist amused to receive a letter on funds. when, according to Mr Calla­ 1 against th e Students' Association res po nse" to th e current crime Monday threatening legal action Mr Richard Bent , vice-president ghan's off ice, he was a "very of the Association. said that th e but ca ll ing for a referendum to' rate, no a ll owance is made for 1 from a Muriel J. Calder, who valued assist ant". seems to have got 1t into her head situation was very unclea r, yet leave th e NU S. Thi ngs are cos t . H e f ee ls th at it i s It is interes tin g th at the Soviet that the Rat ('Bendix come clean') there was .a definite differen ce in certainly hotting up. irresponsible of th e Government to pump money into poli cing and leaders should invite Mr Callag han ' last week referred to her. Having prisons simply in order to lower on these private talks rather than a consulted a reputable lawyer the the registered crime rates. member of the Conservative Party. Rat would like to point out that no Leaving aside the obvious and The probable reason is that Mr re ference was in any way made to increasing financial cost of the Callaghan has made his stance on a person of that name. In fact, the THE' Government's commitment to its the necessity of multi-lateral dis­ reference was to one Ms Cecily law and order policy, Professor armament very clear, thus dis­ Calder who , perhaps un ­ B~.'lJ MCCiintock stated that there are trnguishing himself from the fortunately for Mr Bendix, plainly even more worrying social m aiority of Labour Party does not even exist. The Ral would consequences of the Tory action members. like to apologise for any He voiced his concern about "the Dr Bowles will prove very useful embarrassment caused to anyone inevitable ex tension to the state indeed when these discussions who (a) can't read, (b) hasn't got a power and to the degree of beg in since he is generally sense of humour and (c) appears intervention acquired by th e acknowledged to be an expert on to have a guilty conscience. bureauc r a t ic age n cies that defence. Also, his socialist ideals administer the cnmmal justice should prove to be a common system" Strong words, and with foundation upon which to build A SPENT FORCE 1984 only months away, possibly the ta lks. now ,s th e l ime to take heed of Michael Devlin Neil Hayden-Hayden Dumble­ them' ton, Science Faculty C onvener, made a re markable confession this wee k. Having spent a year supplying the Lothian Region Sperm Bank with his sample every Friday morning (at £20 a shot, if you'll forgive ttie expression) he Party Travel Centre . has now lost that job because his sperm count is unsatisfactory. He Rise & now plans to " climb up the SAC ladder in stead". There's an obvious joke here about the the SAC being a bunch of Fa iled Fall Wankers, but l shall not make it as .Fightback .. ~,,., t ... •,!"~."'"'' it is far below the moral and eth ical While one women's group is r A call to start the battle of ideas· t.~~Centre hopes.~~. to expand~ ~ sometime (prob~~lem). Under~ the existing standards of this column. thriving to the point of being over- '. against Thatcherism and for a in the near future by open mg up an cons ti tut ion Of Edin burgh subscribed, another is having to ! credible Social is t Alternative was Edinburgh ~mversity Travel Shop University, it is impossible for the be rel uanched after failing miserabli made by Gordon McLennan. in a prime site around town. Students' Association to either in its first drive. The Women's Se lf- I General Secretary of th e The reason arid logic behind lend or borrow money, it also

Defence Class has received a ·1 Communist Party, on Tuesday such an ambitious enterprise is makes it impossible to invest any massive response from female eveni ng. that last year our Travel Centre surpluses that the Students· Direct studen ts - mainly freshers. The i The meeting began with a shop made a total turnover of Association may make. It is hoped classes, which are held at 7 o'clock I statement from Alex Bennet, NUM £829,221 and the planned budget that the Student Travel Centre on a Wednesday night in the Branch Chairman at the local for next .year is £955,000 - just off Shop will be a profit-making Chaplaincy Centre, are absolutely Monktonhall colliery. Mr Bennet the mrllt0n mark. Having such a ve nt ure and we wil l want 10 invest full at the moment. In one day at ; called for financial and poli tical vast income and obvi?us d~mand ou r profits sensibly. A con- Action the Societies' Fair, 150girlsjoined I! su pport for the miners in their for the travel service, . 1t has st itutional amendment is being up. This "embarrassingly good struggle to retain their jobs in the bec.ome necessary for Edinburgh proposed in the next GM (General FOLLOWING LAST WEEK 'S response" meant that the recruit- i fa ce of the proposal to make 300 of Un rve.rs.rty to apply to the Meeting) to eradicate this archaic report in Student concerning ment at the Fai r had to stop after them redundant for no apparent Assoc1at1?n of Bnt1sh . Tra~el clause, whi ch prevents Students' complaints about Directors of just one day. reason. Agency Licence for the University Association investment of profits. Studies, the issue was dragged up At the other end of the scale is Mr Mclennan predicted that the Travel Shop to form a limited Control will be kept over the again at the Arts Faculty meetrng the Sexual Harassment Counsel- Tories would be divided at th eir company. Students' Association's invest th is weekend. The Associate ling Group which is having its conference, particularly on th e The rise in demand for booking1 ments much in the same way as an Dean , Dr Barron, consequently second lease of life after being degree of fu rth er Pub Ii c travel through the Edinburgh ordinary shareholder in any met with Ken Shoji and student forced to stop last year through expenditure cuts. He predicted University Trave l Shop has li mited company. Our Students' representatives from the Faculty shee r Jack of demand from that the week would end with a occurred for many reasons. The Association office-bearers to decide upon some concrete students. Susan Deacon of the euphor i c r es ponse to Mrs reason for its inception was NUS (elected by us) act as our board of solutions, SAC Welfare Committee i s Thatcher's speech signalling a Travel Ce ntres goi ng bu st. directors and students at At the moment each faculty convin ced that the problem of united resolve for further attacks Following this , many smal l Edinburgh University act as provides its own short set of sexual harassment does exist, and agai nst jobs and social and public companies catering for students sharehold ers. The Studen ts· guidelines for problems su ch as that there is an unwillingness to spending. were sucked under by large Association are constitutionally grants and transfers, but these are comeforwardandreporttheguilty The recent Labour Party booking groups such as Thom- bound to publicise their budgets often inadequate compared to party. She feels th at the words conference at Brighton was dealt son 's, Britannia etc. and fu ll reports of these are given those produced by the Social "Counselling Group" are off- with at length in Gordon It has become essential for the· at the AGM (Annual General Science Faculty which boasts a putting to students since they feel McLennan 's speech Whi l e Edinburgh University Travel Shop Meeting) _ here we will be able to detailed index to every problem. that their problem should be a welcoming the "new spirit of to deal with Thomson's and debate the various Association The ratio of Directors of Studies serious one Deto re tney can optimism" he reminded everyone ,various other groups, to maintain investments. to stud e nts is 1 :60/7 0, a approach the group. The Welfare that Labour had lost 3.5 mi ll ion and expand the service already It seems v it al that this surprisingly hi gh figure which Committee do want people to votes on June 9th result ing in their offered by th e Student Travel constitut ional amendment be illuminates the problems for report all ~rassment to • the worst defeat at the po lls for 60 Shop. However, in order to be able voted for at a quorate General Directors in finding tim e to cope Counselling ffioup, although the years. He went on to argue the to negotiate with th ese groups we Meeting th is term in order, to with the huge numbers. Dr Barron group i~ wary of paran.oia setting ' danger of sitling back and waiting mu st obtain an Ass ocialion of enable our university to make intends to provide better publicity in, resulting in every smile and I for 4½ years to elect a new Labour Briti sh Travel Agency (ABTA) profitable investments which in for seminars and courses on glance being reported. However, 1 government , pointing out that licence. To qualify for this li cence ·turn will enrich th e quality of wel fare and advice in general to try the feeling is tha t it is better to be unless the fightback begins now necessitates th e Student Travel services provided by Edinburgh to eradi cate va rio us weakn ess es, too busy than havrng to cease to then the res ult of th e nexl General Shop se tting itself up as a limited Univers ity Students' Association. and hopes that Di rec tors will be exist through lack et demand. Election is academic. company and opening up a shop Jane Lloyd encouraged to inform themselves Michael Devlin Laurence O'Donnell in town. better. 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 20th October 1983 Editorial Overseas Fred Price, from Andrew Where will you be? Philadelphia Phillips Peter Watkin's film The War Game was banned by October 14 in Paris. BBC TV in 1963. It has since toured around Britain, its I'm not complaining. I admit that graphic depiction of nuclear attack adding fuel to the Here are a few names: Canellos, leverage and muscle. Goodhand. the WASP, has more of his kind everybody does, but for the time Wei ner, Liu, Coughlin, Lalasz, being, I'm going to lay off. I was fire of first-generation Aldermaston-marching CND, 3oodhand. What do they have in around him than Canellas has of really put off doing it after and stirring response to the new wave of anti-Cruise :ommon? They all belong to his around him; but all the watching Edinburgh student after oeople who go to the University of Canelloses, Weiners, Lius and so and Trident demonstrations. Edinburgh student bitching into Pennsylvania, and they all live in on when put together with the But 1983 is not 1968, and it seems likely that the television camera last year. It oarmony on the credits page of the largest minority of all, the blacks, was boring. To make matters Saturday's Hyde Park demo will be less than world­ University's daily paper, 'The Daily make it hard for Goodhand to worse, I then had to put up with Pennsylvanian'. That they're all forget that wha_t was once his great shaking. Over the last year, the CND groundswell has everyone complaining about how >tudent journalists is indicative of great grandparents alone he now plummetted. Why? boring the series was. It was hardly little, apart, perhaps, from a has to s:1are with a selection of the directors fault. The poor guy To begin with, Hyde Park and Greenham were good macabre desire to stay up every new faces. must have been bored silly by all copy for The Sun and The Guardian alike. The former nig ht until 4 or 5 am making sure Newspapers and radio stations the crap being poured into his made mileage out of Soviet infiltration and lesbians, the lhat the University has a paper to can find without any trouble read later on in the day. No, I chose something to report everyday microphones. It's not that all latter from group solidarity and passive resistance. The these names because I've met their which reasserts the way in which Edinburgh students are boring per stories got boring, and were replaced by new gutter owners, and can testify to their so many people see themselves as se (though, let's face it, most of tirades and soft-left fads. CND became yesterday's owners' true American-ness . Hispanics, or Italians, or Germans, them are) . But just stick them in Canellas, Weiner, et al are happy as well as Americans. Most casual front of a camera within sniffing trend. American students who will soon glancers at US events can pick up distance of the Potterrow and Peter Watkins, understandably embittered by the become grudging American a big Jewish lobby (Is Reagan everyone's eyes and glazed over media, constantly bewails its ability to render us image­ taxpayer s and finally, one treating the Sinai or the Druze within ten seconds. So I'm not complaining. I've no junkies. The media spoonfeed us with rapidly­ supposes, will end up as part of correctly?) and a black race America's good, ri ch soil. Despite problem (Is Jesse Jackson going need to, anyway. I'm doing very changing information and quick thrills; our tolerance the fact that they may have second to run for President?), but over in nicely, thanks. I've really fallen on levels escalate to quickly that we become immune to cousings in, respectively, Italy, the States there are other ethnic my feet this time. I'm earning horror, and increasingly tickle in our capacity to be Germany, Japan, Ireland, Poland lobbies which fight for attention. around three hundred pounds a and England, they all undeniable These lobbies have leaders, month. I have a fairly large room moved. Peter Watkins) fears are corroborated by the are, and so naturally see associations, politicians repre­ for which I pay no rent whatsover. I findings of the Glasgow Media Group, Herbert themselves as , wholesome , senting them locally and get subsidised meals at lunch and marcuse and Cedric Cullingford's work for the peanut crunching, genuine, nationally, cultural and historical tea-time at my school. The pupils Observer (July 1983) among others. As bright-eyed lovable Americans. groups, professors in universities, complain about the food , but then But even if they all suddenly chiefs in police forces, managers children always do. Though come students, we nod sagely at the stultefying effects the changed their names to Smith, the in corporations and stre e t to think of it, I can't see many media have on lesser mortals. As critical youth, as are community solidarity which sweepers in cities. Each lobby ,s British school kids complaining above soaking in the insinuations of mainstream news accompanies their surnames linked from top to bottom by about having crepes stuffed with would remain the same. I'm not a common ethnology. Whether or cheese and ham, fol lowed by coverage. saying that Canellas becomes a not Lalasz goes to local meetings sweet and sour pork with potatoes, Instead, we may read NME or Student, cynically reclu se every time there's a of his 'Solidarity with Solidarity' followed by a fresh green salad. piercing organs of the disaffected young, and what do general election in Rome, or that committee, and whether or not followed by bread and cheese, Weiner shopes every day at the Coughlin takes part in the ·annual followed by ice cream and fresh we find? The rhetoric and build-up and backlash, local Bratwurst delicatessan, or St. Patrick's Day parade in New fruit for lunch. From 70p. Actually, eulogy and nihilistic slag, have become part of the way that Liu drives a Datsun; what is York , their identity remains clear, I don't do as well as most at meal we think. A glance through this paper proves the point, true is that they all remember their emphasised by others on their times. I'm a vegetarian. Veggies and an inward search might well prove more. parents' and grandparents' and behalf. aren't common over here. There great grandparents' past far better This of course can lead to what are only about two vegetarian Bruce Kent, Watkins et al have no dirty pictures left to than the average person in the might be described diplomatically restaurants in all of Paris, where motivate us. Instead, CN D have resigned themselves to Potterrow would remember his or as 'inter community dialogue' - they cahnge you a tenner for the the vocabulary of trendiness: Where will you be on hers. Tracing family trees, I'm told, squabbles over whether any one pleasure of not having a slab of is something that Americans go in ethnic group feels that it's getting dead meat slapped on your plate. october 22nd? gibe the posters. It is rather pitiful. for far more than Europeans a fair deal. In Philadelphia, the So when, at school, I politely turn Worse is the attitude, which necessitates it. A neat (though I've not met anyone who's Hispanic community has been down a freshly grilled steak at haircut is of more immediate importance than the actually done it - perpahs it's complaining that not enough 'lunchtime with the perfectly holocaust. So be it! In the fifteen years since popular something of a myth, ,n the same Hispanics are being recruited to reasonable excuse that I'm a way that people insist on thinking the police force. Puerto Ricans. veggie. people look at me for all revolt against destruction on the TV screens, the media that all Germans are militarists). Italians and Chinese communities the world as if I'd said I was a has learned to be subtle. It has made us too lazy to rise Family trees, though, are too frequently draw attention to the Martian. "Never mind", they head again. romantic a notion; Community state of the poorer elements within of the English department said soHdarity in the American cities their ranks and ask what the city cheerfully, but seriously, "You can Unless, of course, we have more sense. means social and political power, authonties intend to do about 1t. eat all the breat you want." I Most of the time, however. the thanked him for his thoughtful various communities in Phila­ offer, but couldn't help rather delphia have things to celebrate testily adding that I had no wish to rather than moan about, whether enter the New Year looking like I'd its Yorn Kippur for the Jews of the spent 1983 in a concentration three hundredth anniversary of the camp. first German settlers for the The teachers at school, with true Germans. This is because French grit, put up with the food. sectional and community pressure They tend to fuss about the poor by any one ethnic group on behalf quality of the wine, however. I of its members has proved refrain from telling them that no singularly successful over the last British school teacher would century or so in e rasing complain upon being presented outstanding injustice. So the next with a free bottle of wine with every The Spectator time you read of the problems meal, no matter how excusable; I facing American cultural would merely be inviting more integration, think less of the sordid snubs about British eating habits. WIN THE BRITISH AIRWAYS/SPECTATOR SPECIAL divisions brought up by things like Instead, I keep quiet and help * Presidential lections and reflect myself liberally, with the excuse STUDENT PRIZE OF TWO RETURN TICKETS TO more on the combined efforts that that all the bread in my stomach ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. have made such an astonishing will soak it up, before staggering degree of unity possible and off to my afternoon classes. 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nc ulc tee Though faced w11h al l these A ROOM OF adversities (I can't lie) I am trying ·~e my best. The room is to be kept Jrt tidy - a combined effort between MY OWN myself and the cleaner. Who really You 've heard of the old woman wants dirty underwear festering who lived in a shoe - well, now beneath the bed, and the subtle meet the student who has settled aroma of decaying socks down in a shoe box, i.e. "a Pollock permeating throughout? Not me. Halls study bedroom". My washing quietly pongs in a Only having taken up residence polybag stuffed away in a dark a fortnight ago means that the corner. The aforementioned walls This means that ou, room still lacks the cosiness trammg plulosophy 1s bound have yet to be plastered with a to be tough. We need students associated with home. However, it selection of posters including, of who are Cdpdi.>le of dCllve dS already had some of its own course, the ever-popular black well as passive lcdrnmg, endearing qualities: the walls - people who will not only and whites of hea rt-throb James ass1mi lale what we teach cardboard in fancy dress - have Dean; the multi-coloureds of th e them b ut take the m1t1c1t1ve, loads in common with the Pollock alternative " heart throb" Snoopy think for themselves, thmk Refectory custard, both are an and the must fo r al l Freshers - th e obnoxious yellow colour and Student Term Planne r. tasteless; the linoleum, after Other pe r sona l a d ditions coming off the worse during include the all-important books wrangles with previous occupiers, (what would university life be like is now patched in places giving it a without them? - bliss?); the tape­ delightful two-tone effect; the recorder, which drowns out the threadbare rug, placed strategic­ thuds of irate neighbours; the ally by the c leaner, makes seaset, an essential for those who crossing your room without indulge in late-night tea drinking slipping and breaking your neck a sessions and as an assertion of hazardous affair; the bed is 2 feet 6 femininity, a general scattering of inches wide that says it all - the lotions and potions. only nighttimP activity that one Finally, I have absolutely no idea ca n indlulge in is sleep and even ,t who has or who will stay in this ''The Alternative" were possible room, and quite frankly I couldn't the squeaky mattress lets the really care, because for the n; wt,ole corridor know exactly session 83-84 it's been entrusted ., what's going on 1n your room. to me and it's my room. R.P . ----·------~

appearance somewhat tarnished. It would appear that the rising sun has dried up his setting gel by this time. As for Sakamoto. the Yellow Magic Orchestra frontman has given a whole new meaning to the term ·camp" commander Evidently his rubbing shoulders with a certain Mr Sylvian over the theme tune' has resulted in an over-excessive appliance of rouge. He does, however, given an impressive performance as the dignified Japanese officer contrasting sharply with the lethargic Jack Celtiers. Though not an epic. Merry Chnstmas is an enchanting film. Do not approach 11 expecting a glass of bubbling champagne but Film rather a mellow wine which warms the palate. I'll drink to that. Paul Quinn OSHIMA RETURNS • Frances Oshima brings east and west face lo lace. Frances is a harrowing film the more so because it's true. Any With the tremendous success of • Merry Christmas preconceptions that it was just Merry Chr,stmas Mr Lawrence, the another Monroe-esque biog-pie name of director Nag1sa Oshima Mr Lawrence are completely false. None of the Books has become familiar to us all. Set rn 1he luscious geo­ Monroe-inspired books and films nectar, a Platonic d1st1llat 1on Although horribly neglected by graphical surroundings of Java, have ever succeeded in bringing transcending other potions as the the Western world. he has in fact Merry Christmas sets out to • The Channering the real woman to the surface in ideal does the real, surmounting been very highly regarded in exemplify the culture clash arising the way that this film does - Duncan Mclean its earthly origin as electric smaller film circles for over 20 between British pnsoners of war Worm probably because they have radiance or the ram-shower on the years and their Japanese captors. It is a recurring worry of mine always been restricted by the ben ." (The whole book 1s He is frequently referred to as This contrast manifests itself in that excellent books are being appearance of the actress. Since dranched in whisky, but ironically one of the "new wave" directors. the opening scene which published frequently and that I am no one can remember who "'uisge beatha. the water of life" is having introduced or used such introduces us to the tropical failing to buy or read them, Frances Farmer was. let alone always used for escpaing from life; devices as intertitles which paradise during the execution of a because they are buried what she looked like. the role for imitating death by drinking 1t comment on, explain or foretell Korean guard. As a result we are underneath the vast amount of offers Je ssica L a ng e the until unconsciousness brings the action; sudden breaks in tone left with the initial impression of a print (most of it worthless) that opportunity to create her own happy oblivion) The third person or acting style; constant heaven on earth where the angels comes off the presses every day. It charad she certainly takes that narrative and description often alternation between black and have very dirty faces. was with great pleasure. then, that chance. However, this does raise displays s1m 1larly ingenious and white or colour film; soundtrack The intervention in this matter I read a recently published novel the question that if any of the film vigorous use of language: here isa cut-offs, heavily symbolic pan by officer John Lawrence that that arrived relatively is fictionalised, then perhaps the description of a local barman: shots; and "montage" {disjointed establishes Tom conti's role unhearlded but which I believe to whole thing is distorted from the ··what a manikin he was after all. and numerous) shots, these throughout the film. He strives to truth. There are times when it be a very fine work indeed. bright on the surface as glass devices were daring, radical and reconcile the brutal attitude of the would be nice if this were true. The Channering Worm by among his shining bottles, flat as stimulating at the time of making Japanese soldiers with the Everyone knows that psychiatry James McCondach was published stale beer; less spirit he had than but were, unfortunately , stubborn stiff-upper-lip stance was in its infancy in the '40s, but this summer by Canongate at the tipple he served her, seeping unpopular with the Japanese adopted by his own colonel surely the asylums were never that £7 .95, and although it is a difficult through life like spill on the general public and hence his films Hickley-Ellis (Jack Thompson). bad? book, it has potentially huge rewards for anyone brave enough counter were rarely distributed abroad. Lawrence realises the Japanese The story itself is not as to pay out that much money on an It seems fairly clear that the Not only were Oshima's devices have their own philosophy; but remarkable as the acting perform­ novel is not concerned with radical, his subject-matter was walks the tightrope of both ances. Frances is a fairly normal unknown writer. Like Ulysses, it objective physical reality: no one equally disturbing (for the '60s attempting to appease them while child with a complete inability to cannot be read. but only reread, and any summary of "the story" really speaks profound philo­ audiences at any rate). Violence at retaining his fellow soldiers' toe the line either at school or at sophic and psychological insights Noon ) f 966) examines the case interests as his paramount home. Her mother rs determined reduces the book to a level on with such a continuously vivid hrstory of a sexual criminal in very consideration. that she should become a which it was not intended to be at its strongest and most impressive. spontaneity as everyone in explicit detail, while Diary of a The arrival of 'Staffer' Jack > Hollywood star, when all she Still, a brief idea of the main McCondach's world does. It is, Shmjuku Thief (1969) contains Celliers (David Bowie) only serves wants for herself is to go to New characters in the novel would be however, converned with the shots of a woman menstruating. to heighten the tension. York and act on Broadway. 1 more helpful in conveying the reality of peoples' minds, with the Death by Hanging (1968) has been Captaon Yonoi (Ryuichi Initially her mother wins, but way the mind perceives the world described as very " Brechtian" as it Sarkormoto) who is charge of the Hollywood is just another general tone of the book tham mere critical generalities. and itself. In his attempt to lay erupts on to ever higher levels of prison camp, has a slightly more institution which Frances 's Gavin, an incompetent medical open for examination what Joyce unreality. It begins as a straight­ than a platonic reference for independent attitude cannot hope called the "conscience" of his forward documentary against the Celliers and this exploited by the to please. When she leaves for student but an eloquent talker a~d race. McCondach has been almost death penalty, with a young man latter to gain.what he can for New York with a playwright who enthusiastic drinker arrives in a entirely successful. (Perhaps the standing trial for crimes of rape himself and his fellow prisoners. soon deserts her, she hits the village in the Scottish uplands, supposedly to rest and compose only weakness lies in his virtually and murder. The jury examining Alas Yono, soon discovers that the bottle. and her fairly harmless exclusive concentration on rural him ends up committing the very path of true love rarely runs neurotic personality becomes his mind before the start of term. same crimes in a mad attempt to smooth l y and this vo latile genuinely dangerous, especially His rest is short lived, however, as Scots, who I am sure are falls in with the lecherous, considerably different from urban ascertain whether or not "R" could situation draws to an explosive in the unrelenting atmosphere of Scots). be guilty. Dead bodies jerk back to conclusion. Hollywood when she is forced to disputatious villagers. and in I do not think there can be any life, characters appear from Based on a short story by return . At this point it has to be particular the family of doubt that this book will come to nowhere, acting styles suddenly Laurens Van der Post ( The Seed admitted that she needs help. but acquaintances of the local be indispenible for students and undergo radical changes. and the Sower) the film does not whether she is any more sick than minister. The Rev. McAndrew lovers of Scotland and Scottish Oshima's present films seem protray the Japs as the "baddies" her mother or the sadistic studio himself is the bitterest person I literature, but is appeal is also incredibly tame by comparison. and the Brits as the "goodies" On bosses is doubtful - she's just less have ever encountered in print, a The fantastic diversity of his '60s the contrary, Merry Chr,stmas able to cope. The next few years verbal pugilist who enjoys nothing much wider than that, for the book films -so diverse that it is virtually belies this myth in illustrating the are spent in and out of the better than twisting h is religion , is above all about the strength and impossible to identify any one of opposing attitudes of starkly medieval asylums, with im­ the bible, and the words of others beauty of words, and Mc­ into sphist1c but frignteningly Condach's verbal and rhythmic the films ad distinctly "Oshima" - different cultures. p la us i b le escapes being convincing diatribes against "life, dexterity. as well as his iventive has disappeared and Oshima Tiny Sergeant Hara's position engineered periodically by her the universe, and everything··. He appears to have fallen back on emphasises this theme. He held only faithful friend. Ultimately she and forceful imagery make The conformism. What talents he has the classic Japanese view that to has a lobotomy performed on her is married to Elspeth, a ruthlessly Channering Worm a novel great voluptuous woman whose gained in character 'delineation be captured was to lose all one's by a surgeon who boasts the and universal in its appeal. and emotion content, he has lost in . dignity . Consequent ly the ability to do ten such operations in coupling with an Indian prince McCondach is well aware of the courage and bittter cr1ticial ' Japanese soldiers would strive to an hour, and at the end of the film produced two daughters. These strengths (as welt of the possible latter, now in their late teens, nor powers. reinstill the prisoners' self-esteem she is a shadow of her former self. weaknesses, which he manages surprisingly considering they have largely to avoid) of placing this For Oshima was one of Japan's by any means at their disposal - living and dying alone without any ' been brought up by a nihilist and a great importance on language. greatest critics. Although Merry brutality included. urge to continue her career. nymphomaniac, are an odd pair: making it an important part of the Chnstmas Mr Lawrence obviously The final scene with Sergeant The final effect of the film is to one flirts outrageously and deftly message as well as the means by criticises the Japanese mentality, Hara and Lawrence, however, infuriate the audience. She could with the local lads. but always which the message is carried. He his previous films contained shows them united in one thing - have had anything - even what retreats into frigid terror at the last reveals, however that he is well decidedly more bitter and acutely the bond of friendship she wanted - but she just couldn't moment, while the other remains incontrol of this difficult and observed criticisms of Japan. Conversely this bond of keep a clear head when her silent and cold in her distrust of dangerous literary situation by his Whereas now violence seems to friendship does not exist between mother, or whoever the figure of everything but distrust itself. relating of some of the final intrigue the audience, the Cetliers and Yon oi. Yonoi's authority happened to be, started It is the tension which builds up thoughts that pass through appallingly cold sex and violence affection for the British officer is telling her what to do. Nobody (eventually to an intolerable level) mcAndrew's mind, which deal with which occurred in such films as an example of director Oshima·s deserves the things that happened between these characters which precisely this problem: Diary of a Sh1njuku thief was more fascination with sexual motiva­ to her and it would be comforting a symbolic means of expressing tion . However, this does manifest provides the core of the novel, but " And epiphaneously it shone on to think it could never happen this tens;on is not of importance in Oshima's dejection and despres~ itself in a far more subtl e form than again, but there are too many him that it was all words. All his sion with the state of Japan. that inherent in Oshima·s earlier itself, but only in as much as 1t creed or philosophy or att1- Monroes, Garlands and Frances drives on the characters to quarrel It is sad when such a daring, films such as In the Realms of the Farmers for that comfort ever to be duionising was merely words. as it diverse director as Oshima is Senses. and fight with each other: it is the was in the beginning and always. anything but complacency. dexterous ferocity with which they driven to conform to international As for David Bowie, he glides Frances is a good film :-- see it if Call it what you would, that was demand (and finance no doubt). through the fi lm without really attack each other and the v1rtuosic what it was, like that of all the you get the chance. At 139minutes and fiery wit they show in David Bowie 's rather dry over-exerting himself. N eatly it's long, beautifully made but in others down the ages. no different contribution has certainly drawn groomed and clad in chic army approaching every other subject, as he pretended, or had pretended the end, pretty ugly. Don't take be it drunkenness or life, that ·crowds but one cannot heJp battledress, he is more reminis­ to himself, but just the same. He your granny, take your lunch. makes the book a pleasure to read. wondering at what cost to cent of a model in Italian Vogue had with saturine ~arrogance Take McAndrew·s homage to Oshima·s talent than a prisoner of war. Only at the maintained its truth. But what was whisky, for example: " It is an Sarah Newman end of the fi lm is his immaculate truth but multifarious mutations of Olympian liquor, a Caledon1an words. words, words." Theatre ~

interacting even in the most different roles and a set which was personal of scenes. While clever obviously on a stage and through wordplay does provoke a chuckle which the actors could be seen or two, it is overshadowed by the preparing for their next entrance. dry grimness of the situation. This style was part of a rebellion The climax of 'for Three' as the against the realistically staged but jealousy and suspicion draw to a often vacuous plays in currency at turbulent resolution is , however, the time. The realism in Brecht's the high point of the entire plays lay in the meaning and the evening. coarse, ironic representation of 'Untitled' Dan McAllester, SI ills Gall ery. Although the presentation of mankind. 'Stilling' is a great deal more Jeff Howitt • The Wizard of Oz sensual than 'For Three', it doesn't sustain its eerie atmosphere or • Die Hose Theatre Workshop audience interest for very long. It Traverse Exhibitions also suffers from being placed Not that Herr Maske was Ends Saturday se cond on the bill following the prejudiced, you understand, but explosive (literally!} conclusion Mackintosh (who stands . Theatre Workshop's 'Wizard of he did feel more comfortable • Homage to Miroa un i ntentionally comic w i th incidentally, in almost exactly the Oz' does not possess a Judy about Jews with the Red Sea protound (?) dialogue such as Talbot Rice same relat,onsh,p to Glasgow as Garland, nor a yapping lour between him and them. Carl Stein­ " You ask me the time? I tell you t Gaud, does to Barcelona) . legged Toto. With a cast of five and helm's play Die Hose ( The don't know. The hands have come • Brian Gibb: Not far from the National an hour to perform Theatre Knickers), brilliantly performed by off", wearing thin very quickly. Gallery, 1n the 369 Gallery ,n the Workshop have produced a witty, Guildhall drama students, omin­ New Works The plot is even more obscure High Street ,s a small exh1b1t1on by funny and entertaining childre n's ously foresradows the coming of than that of 'For Three' and the Brian Gibb. who ,s one of the more show, complete with the bett er Nazism. The play moves at light­ 369 Gallery play is aved only by the excellent interesting young Scottish artists known "songs from the film" plus ning speed with ideas and symbols performance of Maggie Mac­ It's a great pity that the Scottish His work 1s expressionistic in th e extras, including Chatanooga Cho flashing between actors and Ritchie who combines fragility and Tapestry exh1bit1on at the Talbot best sense of the word. that ,s to Cho. audience with dizzying regularity. toughness as th e female lead in Rice Art Centre in Old College say he communicates both Dorothy is not a re incarnation of The play is a pol1t1cal satire each of the two plays. ended before most students had through the evident movement of Judy artand, but rather a student, revolving around the fair and The A-Z Theatre is a touring any opportunity to see ,t. the brush and through the loud mouthed , crop- h aired ambiguous young Frau Maske, company based in Glasgow particularly because 1t was melange of faces hands feet and decidedly cynical tomboy. who, much to her husband's (though you wouldn't know it by substantially a show by recent animals he portrays. What makes Once landed amongst the shame, unfortunately loses her the English accents) and Bernard students of the Art College. him good is that his works, Munchkins in her laundry basket knickers in public before the Rudden's, the playwright, is also Fortunately it has an excellent however rapidly they may be Dorothy meets Fairy rfough and action begins. The loss of the one of the theatre's directors. replace in "Homage ti Miro" which carried out. are excellently the Wicked Witch of the South aforementioned garment attracts Despite some innovative lighting celebrates the artist' s 90th composed. (complete with boos and hissing) the attention of two would-be and staging techniques, 'For birthday. It's a display of prints and ignoring both she sets out on the lovers; the sickly barber, Herr Murdo Macdonald Three' and 'Stilling' ultimate fail to sculptures by Miro himself famous Yellow Brick Road to the Mandlestram, and the passionate, provide any thematic coherence of together with a large number of city of Oz, gathering the flotsam aristocratic aesthete, Herr • Stills Gallery message. photographs by his lifelong friend. and jetsam of the Brainless Scarron. T he two take rooms in Jamie Reinstein Joachim Gomis. The exhibition is Dan McAllester Scarecrow, the heartless tin man Frau Maske's house and vie for her of particular interest because 1t and the cowardly witch on the affections (or knickers?). enables the visitor to place Miro in Don McAllester's exhibition way. These then are more • Lux in Tenebris The play was produced by his Catalan background. He grew exemplifies his excell ence in the traditional than Dorothym but Jenny Killick, currently at the up in the early twentieth century field of studio photography. After nevertheless funny, particularly EUTC Lunchtime Traverse under the patronage of Barcelona of Antonio Gaud,, the achieving many major accom­ the Scarecrow who paces the the Scottish Arts Council. Ms leading exponent of Spanish Art p l is h men ts i n th e f ield of hero of the peace when faced with Bedlam Theatre Kil l ick's production was Nouveau architecture. Gaud i advertising, McAllester took up the Wicked Witch of the South who Yesterday EUTC staged the meticulous; the actors moved with emphasised processes of growth the post he holds now as senior looks as ii she eats children for second of their weekly lunchtime a clockwork precision perfectly in the bulbous vegetable shapes o f lecturer in Photography at Napier breakfast. Dorothy's own downfall shows. 'Lux in Tenebris' (A Light in fitted to the mood of the script. his buildings and similar concerns College. Since this period of the doesn't occur in a field of narcotic the Darkness) by Brecht, concerns There were some original and underpin Miro·s curvilinear formal ea rly '70s. he has p ursued a highly poppy's, her "junk" is hamburgers, a man, Paduh, and his campaign to hilarious pieces of stage business language. He complements this personal, metaphoric type of but needless to say she survives, to stamp out prostitution in the often performed to the accom­ with use of brilliant colour: work. T his exhibition comprises of reach the end of the Yellow Brick middle of a red-light area. pa n Im e nt of a three-piece patches of saturated hue which over 40 highly potent works of this Road, and . . .. The play is typical of EUTC's ensemble of able musicians, on re flect a love of st rong sun linght. period. striking because o f their This isn't the film , Theatre lunchtime shows. It is short, set in stage throughout the play . Like his graphic work s. his apparent simplicity yet hidden Workshop add yet another twist to an unchanging scene, and is The use of music within the sc ulptures investigate natural depths. the end of the tale. Making me wish capable of being lit, dressed, built action combined naturally with forms and bring to mind McAllester focuses his attention I'd seen this version sooner. and made-up in the confines of an movement and speech to form a palaeolithic images of fe rtility on studio work, shooting stil l lifes Louis Bryan incredibly tight budget. Finally it is fast-moving , cohesive whole. such as the Venus of Willendorf. which are mainly 10 by 8 in not a sitting-room melodrama Simon Beale was achingly funny To make us of Pablo Neruda's dimension. Everyday objects are • For Three' such as is favoured by so many in his satirical characterisation of a words, each scu lpture ,s an "earth­ employed skilfu ll y and Prontion is other amateur drama groups. This money-grabbing, petty civil shell in whom the earth sings." avoided by leaving these works Stilling of vital importance, for some the servant. Overall. the actors in this In providing a co ntext on M iro, untitled, the salient featu re being few who will go on to work in production richly deserve their Joachim Gomis' photographs the mastery of shape, form and A-Z Theatre professional theatre, the Bedlam is coveted Fringe First , awarded in ra nge from portraits of his friend at design rather than the objects the last and probably the only) this year's Festival , and anyone va rious times in his life. through themselves. Netherbow chance that many people will have who missed the play then would be pictures of the studio designed by Collage effects are achieved to work on productions that are unfortunate not to see it this time round. fe llow Catalan Jose Luis Sert ,n with such mundane items as Detached from one another by new, unheard of, or otherwise the grounds of Miro's Palma de cereal packets, crumpled paper, both their e motions and experimental. Mallorca house, to ·'found objects" fishing ne-t and beer cans movement on stage , the Whilst Brecht himse lf is neither such as sku lls and sinuous pieces (Tennant's lager. I th i nk') . characters in Bernard Rudden's new nor unheard of, 'Lux in of ol ive wood. Also included are The works are mostly mono­ 'For Three' and 'Stilling' poise Tenebris' is one of his lesser­ photographs of many of Gaudi's chromatic although McAllester themselves for poetic exchange known works. It was written by buil dings m Ba rcelona. achieves subtle va riations in tone but rarely achi eve meaningful Brecht, in Berlin in the early If you fi nd your interest in the by using se leni um toner to create contact. Yet, while one play builds twenties, but was a play that he architecture of Robert Adam pinkish highlights and shadows into a tense, suspenseful drama, was never to see in print or on the re,nv,go rated by wandering This technique may be viewed ,n the other meanders along, evoking stage. (It was first published in through Old College to the Talbot the work appearing on the cover of few lasting Images. 1966). Like his later work, the time Rice, take ,t further by v1s1ting the this month's edition of What's On The stark black and white set and place is ambiguous, as is the exhi bi tion of Adam drawings at magazine. and formal costume in 'For Three' nationality of th e lead i ng present on show in the National The exhibition needless to say is complement a confusing story of character, who has only the Galler y. These broaden our a great success. The Scottish romantic intrigue and deception. strange name of Paduk. To stage it perspective o f Adam's work. Photography Group have Time and settings shift rapidly, as literally would be impossible for showing him to be no mean achieved their aim of interesting do the moods and attitudes of anyone but our national theatre each character. Fragmentary depicter of landscape, as well a the public at large in skilful companies - fo r example, there fine architectural draughtsman photographic work. A visit to the dialogue emphasises not so much are 73 young workers , and there events as the syumbolism of One cannot help being reminded Stills Gallery should prove a are to be several brothels on one physical detail - scents, cracks in of that other great Scottish visually memorable experience side of the stage. To try to do this the pavements, th e movement of a architect who devoted much of his even 1f you know nothing about would be both futile and against leg. the wishes of the author - his la ter life to la ndscape water­ photography at all. The acting is intentionally stiff, stylised theatre demanded actors co I o ur s, Cha r les Rennie Monica Hart characters reciting rather than continually reapp ea ring in Lyceum Bedlam (229 9697) (225 9893) • Much Ado About Nothing • Funeral Games Thu 20th-Sat 22nd 7.30 Wed 26th (4.00 and 8.00 Sat) By Joe Orton. Traditional Elizabethan produc­ tion comes off well.

• Irving Churchill Mon 24th-Sat 29th 8.00 Commissioned to celebrate the (447 7597) Lyceum's centenary year, this play • The Tender Trap describes the career of the Thu 20th-Sat 22nd 7.30 theatre's original leading light and An American comedy, performed in doing so reminds us why the by Edinburgh People's Theatre. Victorian Age is not renowned for its drama. Traverse King's (226 2633) Theatre • Die Hose (The Knickers) Theatre Thu 20th-Sun 23rd (229 1201) 8.00 (Sun 3.00) • Scotland The What? An award-winning production of Thy 20th-Sat 22nd 8.00 Carl Sternhe1m·s play by former Theatre Netherbow T he North-East's answe r to students of the Guildhall School of Oxbridge revue and the Comic Music and Orama. When the Workshop (556 9579) Strip - venerable Aberdonian trio censors closed the theatre on its • The Journey Through the Abyss Sufi hardie, George Donald and first night in 1911, they were most (225 7942) Thu 20th-Sat 22nd 7.30 Stephen Robertson. Entertaining shocked by the knickers of the title • White-Sailed Ships Poet-performer Alan Jackson parody rather than swingeing and what resulted from thei r Wed 26th-Sat 29th 8.00 does his medley thing; "a personal satire. untimely fall around the ankles of Presented by Communicado story o f journey". Frau Maske . But modern Theatre Company, whose director • Jamie the Saxt audiences will recognise a Gerry Mulgrew also wrote the • Wha Oaur Mon 24th-Tue 25th 7.30 powerful piece of social satire play. It tells of a Scottish crofting Tue 25th-Sat 29th The new Scottish Theatre behind the lewd comedy. family forced to emigrate to 7.30 (Also 2.30 Wed & Sat) Company present their produc­ America by the Sutherland The Border Reivers in the tion , first seen last year, of Robert • The Omelette Broadcasting Clearances. Five actors and two premiere of a new play about the McLellan·s " Historical Comedy''. Company in " Meanwhile . . . " musicians make up this new conflict between cultures and Ron Bain plays the Scots king Wed 26th-Sat 29th touring group. generations in modern Scotland. clinging to his throne. 8.00 (Fri & Sat 10.00) Four comedians act out and Film house • Macbeth improvise a flexible revue which Wed 26th-Fri 28th 7.30 relies on the audience for its scene (228 2688) STC again. settings. • The Ploughman's Lunch Thu 20th-Sat 22nd 6.00, 8.30 (Mat Sat 8.00) A film which tries to charact the moral corruption of W Britain. Set among the su· "' Sport heights of society, the 1ncesh.1 world of politics, publishing the news media, it tells of a ra news editor who double-thinks way between greedy amb11ton Soccer Badminton journalistic rntegnty into ulllm failure. • Hibs v Dundee • Scottish National Junior Sat 22nd 3 00 Easter Road Championships Sat 22nd Meadowbank Sports Rugby Centre • The King of Comedy Sun 23rd-Sat 29 th • Boroughmuir v West of 6.00, 8.30 (8 30 only Sun· Omelette Broadcasting Co. flexing their features in preparation for their Scotland Greyhounds 3.0: also 4.00 Sat) improvised revue at the Traverse. Sa t 22nd 3.00 Meggetland Director Martin Scorsese's la! l.i: PWDERHALLGREYHNDS film. As bitterly comical and s o.; • Watsonians v Gala Beastly bad luck last week, as his previous films Tax, Dr ~·· Sa t 22nd 3.00 Myreside chaps' But with a philsphic shrug f and Rag,ng Bull. It concerns the shulders, we keep takrng the desperate rise to infamy of • Edinburgh v New Zealand tablets and plunge right int this clownish Rupert Pupk,n (Ro Wed 26th Myres1de week's select in - and it's a guess: de Niro). Univents reasn being nn-del1very f the prgramme befre the paper went t bed . Wnt,ng f which - bed that is Thursday 20th Happy Hour 8-9 pm, with Gordon Basketball • The Wiz Campbell live in the Teviot Room. - have a small wager n BED LVER Sat 22nd 2.00 KB Union Video Njqht Sophie's if it's n Thursday's card . It shuld be Free. • Murray International Metals '70s disco remake of The Wizar Choice, 7.30 . Free to a ll in trap ne and in a fairly lwgrade. A Fri 2 t st 7.30 Meadowbank Oz which flopped . Starring o, matriculated students. reliable starter it has nt been ding Stadium Ross and Michael Jackson. F · ~ Ecstatic Hour 8-9 pm and disco, Monday 24th much lately but it was rumured of the little gasping one 1.,1 Overseas Students Centre that " wrk" had been dne t imprve Chambers Street House Late • Meadowbank v Glasgow remember the single "Get ·· :.i: licence. Free AGM . All ove rseas stu d ents its perfrmance. Fri 21st Meadowbank Spor1s Down, Get On Down, Down cordially invited. 7.30. Kavey Kanem Centre Ro-ad". c;,, PS. Spt the missing vwel. Friday 21st First meeting of EU Jazz Society, 1!· THE BLUEBELLS live in Teviot w ith much acclaimed Edinburgh Row House. Tickets £1.80 from band Swing 83. Society is for NOVEMBER • Excalibur Union Shop or on door. listeners, players and potential dancers. Park Room, Tev,ot, 8.30- Sat 22nd 1 t.00 ll\1 Disco and late licence, Potterrow. THE P.,,J· 3rd RUSS ABOTT'S MADHOUSE Flashing blades, romance 60p. 11 .00. ' rough chivalry 1n blockbu ~:,l Free disco in Chambers Street 6th EDWIN HEATH £2 .50 £ t.50 style. Interesting version of House, 8- 12. i¥t:YHOU SE 19th M IKE HARDING £5.00 £4 .00 £3 .00 Arthurian legends. Tuesday 25th 20th ozzy OZBOURNE £4.00 •· 23rd ROBERT PLANT (S OLD OUT) Ecstatic Hour, 8-9 pm, plus live 18/22 Greenside Place, Saturday 22nd 24th HOT CHOCOLATE£6 00£5 00£4.00 music and late licence, Chambers Overseas Student Centre Inter­ 25th EURYTHMICS £4 .00 £3.50 Street House. Free. Edinburgh EH1 3AA lo national Baked Potato Bonanza. 26th ACCORDIAN 83 £3 .75 £3.50 • The Atomic Cafe t 28th Y&T and ROCK GODDESS Opportunity to meet British and Thu 20th-Sat 22nd £.3.50 in advance, £4 .00 on the day o" foreign students and find out more Wednesday 26th 6.20 & 8.20 (Mat Sat 3.00) rt, about the Centre. 1.00-4.00. The Green Banana Club in the A montage of clips from Ameri SJJo Disco, 60p, plus free videos, films, television and radio sh ~ Potterrow. Licence 1 am. Free. OCTOBER Chambers Street House. Licence DECEMBER of the '40s and '50s which had 12.30 am. common purpose of persuad Catholic Students' Union: Bread Cinema - Sa turday 22nd October 20th WHITESNAKE £5.50 Park Room Disco, Teviot Row and Cheese lunch, 50p. 23 George Oeerhunter (18) 7.00 pm the public that atom bombs sho House, Licence 12 midnight. Free. Square, 12. 30-2. 00. : 1ass of '84 (18) and Heavy Metal (18) £5.00 £4.50 be seen as weapons of m1 ali 11 OOpm 31st MARILLION £4 50 £4 .00 domestic inconvenience. CSU - Cardinal Gray will £3.50 £5 00, £4 00 £3.00 ~ Sunday 23rd o ffi cially open the new session at 2 t st ALAN STIVELL £4.00 Methsoc - talk by Lesley mass m the chapel, 7.15. Wine 23rd SYDNEY DEVINE £4 00 £3 75 £3 25 ANO MANY MANY MORE MacDonald, "The World Council reception afterwards. 26th SHAKIN STEVENS £5 SO £4 50 £3.50 • Mildred Pierce and The Kiili!! ·t· of Churches·' S0c1et1es Room, 28th KISS £6 00 £5 00 ATTRAC T/ONS Mon 24th 6.45 30th MICHAEL SCHENKER £5 00, £4 50 N1colson Square Methodist CSU - Fellowship meal, 6.00, Last ,n the series of thriller dout Church Chaphancy Cate. features Joan Crawford won ',r. BOX OFFICE 557 2590 Oscar for her role as Mildred THE STUDENT Thursday, 20th October 1983 9

• Space Hunter (3) 1 05, 5.05, 8.00 "Adventures in a Forbidden Zone". Sub-Barbarella zap-feature about Music a disreputable space pilot's search for three women. Shot in 3-D, which might be exc1t1n g. Bring Disprin. Queen's Hall Usher Hall (668 2117) (228 1155/6) Dominion • Gilbert and Sullivan Society Fri 21st 7.30 Singers Three works by Beethoven (447 2660) Thur 20th 7.30 Overture, Leonora No. 3; Piano • Snow White (1) Concert in aid of National Trust for Concerto No. f; and Symphony Thu 20th-Sun 23rd Scotland Tickets from Mrs No. 3; Eroica. Sir Alexander 2 00. 4.50, 7.40 Allison, 45 Claremont Road. Gibson conducts. Christian Not to mention American foreign Zacharias is the soloist. policy. • Late-night Jazz - Lee Konitz Quartet Playhouse • Octopussy (1) Fri 21st 10.00 Rare Bntish appearance from Mon 24 th-Thu 27 th great American alto sax-player. (557 2590) 2.00. 4.45, 7.40 The acceptable face of sex and • Rock at the Queen's Hall • Sydney Devine violence; latest James Bond. Sat 22nd-Sun 23rd Sun 23rd Two-day programme of dance. • Shakin Stevens • Superman Ill (2) fashion and music from the Wed 26th Until 27 th 2 30, 5 05, 7.45 Scottish Association of .Youth The Richard Pryor film , also Clubs. Tickets and details from starring Christopher Reeve. SAVC , Balfour House. 17 Hoochie Bonnington Road, 554 2561 . • Gregory·s Girl (3) Coochie Club !rs1 while a symbolic river sneaks past behind him. 3 00, 5 20, 8. 15 • Peter Hammil (At the Bermuda Triangle, Bill Forsyth and the Glasgow Mon 24th 8 00 West Tollcross.) (The Ploughman's Lunch) Tickets from Ezy Ryder, Virgin and Youth Theatre captu re the Scales eccentric charm o f the Scottish • The Twinsets • Starffight Fri 21st Doors open 10.30 I comprehensive school without • Mondrian Trio Live return before John Peel Sun 23rd-Sat 29th 5.30, 8.00 any of the menace. Tues 25th 7 45 The first hypersonic passenger Richard Friedman on violin, session. plane 1s marooned in outer space. Hafl1d1 Hallgrimsson on cello and Whether this is a sequel to Film Society Bryn Turley on piano play trios by Thu 20th sees the start of the King Atrplane or A,rport I am no certain Haydn, Beethoven and Men­ B Club - original R&B, Rock 'n' - although either would be, in its • Alphaville and delssohn Roll , Rockabilly, Soul at the g 1s the result of a collabora­ own way, comical. Stars Lee Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Hooch1e. ietween Ji m Thompson and a Ma1ors. Fri 21st 7.00 ling Stanley Kubrick. Venue: George Square Theatre Alphav1lle 1s definitely not "just Pub Jazz nc, another sci-f1" No special effects • Barnton Hotel, Queensferry and yet quite unworldly Dean Men Road, 339 1144. Sun 12.30pm-3.30 ll , Train Has Stopped ABC (229 3030) stars Steve Martin as a '40s private pm. oa·.25th 6.20, 8.20 • Staying Al ive (1) eye in a film woven together from • Black Bull, 12 Grassmarket, 225 c' etect1ve investigating a 1.40, 4.30, 7.40 original clips of the stars 1n action 6636: Tue 9.00. tn; erious death in a small town You've got stunted dreams. You • Blue Blanket, 232 Canongate, in, lS to suspect a cover-up. want trash. Well trash costs, and 556 4481 : Tue 8.30. 1s· ,11a11y hackney~d. but this 1s right here 1s where you start payrn·. • Goblet, 110/ 114 Rose Street, 225 ; o ?t Russia in the 1980s, not •Some Like tt Hot and 8088: Wed B. 30. H'! second-rate American TV M. Hufot's Holiday • Hopetoun Bar. 18 Morrison Street, 229 6683: Wed 8.30. 1 e: this last film in the series of Sun 23rd 6.45 • La Grenouille, 20 Abercromby to. Soviet Cinema certainly • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Venue: George Square Theatre (2) 1.40, 4.40, 7.40 Place, 556 2270: Wed 10.00. rves a special effort to see. Excellent comedy double-bill Japanese director Nag isa • Spider's Web, Morrison Street, r,tled) Jack Lemmon. Tony Curtis and Oshim.a 's film set in a Japanese Marilyn Monroe 1n archetypal 228 1949: Tue and Sun 8.00. prisoner-of-wa r camp. This gender-confusion farce, together interesting background has Tom with Tati's meticulous hysterical, Dance Factory e Last Metro Conti as the British officer who poignant masterpiece n 26th-Thu 27th 5.50, 8.30 understands his captors' mentality oppressiveness of Nazi­ (557 2590) and can thus communicate with Late-Night Jazz =se pied Pans weighs heavily on them , while David Bowie is the ii a'1upe of actors in Truffaut's tough New Zealander determined • Sex Gang Children • St Louis Blues and Sat 22nd ra, d-winning film . Stylish acting to resist fhem without compro­ The Barkleys of Broadway nc Catheri ne Deneuve, who mise. Despite his many previous Wed 26th 6.45 m rves a better support than screen appearances, this 1s the Venue: Pleasance m ng Gerard Oepardreu. first film in which his acting ability The immortal pair, Ginger Rogers titled/ is genuinely tested. and Fred Astaire Exhibitions leon The Scottish The Scottish Gallery :~l; i7 3805) Photography Group (225 5955) ksc'r Games (1) Gallery (557 1140) Oeborah Dewar 4.30, 7.50 FfLMHOUSIE 0 Paintings and Drawings ·nobrat with a home computer 88 LOTHIAN ROAD EDINBURGH 031-228 2688 Photographs by Don McAllister, 15 October-9 November o;essly initiates countdown to Lecturer in Photography at Napier College 1geddon. Easil y one of the Until 5 November The National Gallery of American films of the year. Cinema 1 Thur 20-Sat 22 6.00/8.30 Scotland (556 8921) Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Frank Finlay in Ian McEwan's 1 he Drawings of - Robert and THE PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH 1151 The City Arts Centre James Adam Until 24 December rky 's II (2) Cinema 1 Sat 22 Late Night 11.00 (225 2424) ,a' 5.00, 8 00 Nigel Terry. H elen Mirren. Nicol Williamson in Built in Scotland: Jlorrican high school japes. A EXCALIBUR 11s1 Work by Ten Sculptors The Traverse Theatre 14 October-12 November 10, cription to the Beano mighl Cinema 1 Sun 23 8.30 and Mon 24-Sat 29 6.00/8.30 Club Cate Gallery ? marginally more elevating. Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis in Martin Scorsese·s (226 2633) THE KING OF COMEDY 1PGI The New 57 Gallery Sandy Love: Past and Present Cinema 2 Thur 20-Sat 22 6.20/ 8.20 (225 2382) Until 30 October 1=-rnest Trobridge 1884- 1942 tucatlng Rita (3) Up an· atom with the hilario us and shocking Architectural Exhibition I Wed 26th THE ATOMIC CAFE IISI 15 October-12 November 4.55, 7.55 Cinema 2 Mon 24 6.45 Thriller Writers The Royal Scottish OC Uher overrated modern-day MILDRED PIERCE IPG) starring Joan Crawford The Scottish National Academy 1A on of Pygmalion. Amusing at THE KILLING IPG) Stanley Kubrick's racy thriller ,d:S, flat at others. Gallery of Modern Art The Mound ,er Cinema 2 Tues 25 6.20/8.20 New Soviet Cinema (556 8921) The Scottish Society of Intriguing drama about a local ·cover up' pe r'\/ew Acquisitions and Expres­ THE TRAIN HAS STOPPED 1•01 Artists sionists and Constructivists: Two The annual exhibition of the SSA rn:'1ley Cinema 2 Wed 26-Thur 27 5.50/8.30 aspects o f art from Germany featuring some of the best Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depard1eu 1n Truffaut's Until 9 January :e 29 7670) cor,temporary Scottish art. Last THE LAST METRO 1eo1 week of showing. ow White The Printmakers 20th-Sat 22nd Workshop Gallery The editor wishes to acknowledge -h e' 4.50, 7.10 Full detalls in free monthly programme brochure (225 1098) the assistance ol the Scottish Arts m which says more about Council for their provision of the He' rican popular culture than a Student Concession £1,50 All Performances f"rints by Flemish artists from the monthly press i nformation ,rd •ful of textbooks (remember to bring -St-canll) Frans Masereel Centre 1n Belgium Until 22 October magazine Artform. 1i1c Unsafe i~f ~e

~:~~t:e:?r::;~:~i~~;'.~~ Band Chamber Orchestra r_esu rrect th.e ! original chamber version of Falla s 'Three-Cornered Hat' Ballet ('The Corregidor and the Miller's Wife' for authent1c1ty) . We are deprived less they are still a vital band and of the Miller's Dance and the B. R.Coode­ played a more than lively set which orgiastic final dance, but gain was only marred by large numbers other less significant details and of '76 revivalists , large skinheads the breziness of reduced forces - Adams " Smash Hits" readers and only strings , horn, trumpet, single appaling sound quality. wind and a piano to serve for the reports on a The support band called somei percussion battery. The Fandango such name as T he Climb were and the neighbour's dance were better than they made out. Their attractively played by the red alert Jimi Hendrix cover version was orchestra. with its usual style and strong and effective. The Misfits scrupulous phrasing, though I felt was simple but lively, I'm going to the scenes which move the action hippie Alarm kif/ someone was full of rock poses forward dragged a little, for all the but also good. The rest lacked a vivacity extracted from none-too­ The Alarm are a four-piece band fullness of sound, being stark but subtle allusions and puns. Jesus who used not to fi t the cliche that not by design. The perpetual gum Lopez-Cobis evoked a sharpness their line-up suggests. Now they chewing of the head singer was appropriate here but less so in the do. They come from Rhyl in North annoying but otherwise they Debussyan 'Nights in the Garden Wales and formed in 1981 . They looked very macho. of Spain', though Queen's Hall sold all the 2,000 pressing of their The Alarm then came on after acoustics and my seat heightened first single Unsafe Building b/ w Up only a 45 minute wait. They are the impression of garishness. For Murder - an excellent record technically brilliant with immense Flutist David Nicholson and oboist with none of the ornamentation versatility using harmonica and Robin Miller (moliner?) biting out that makes hit records. Then acoustic guitars to play songs that zarzuelas were in finest form in under the auspices of 1an Wilson were powerful but were wrecked both pieces, and in Arriaga's now their manager they played by the enormous volume wh ich Symphony, a youthful master­ support lor U2 at the Lyceum distorted the sound virtually piece with Schubertian gift for followed by a tour With Th e Beat in beyond recognition. melody and sounding even more 1982. On this latter tour they Visually they possess great sprightly than when the SCO first played brilliantly a series of songs charm with backcombed hair and played 1t, less tragic- Lopez­ which were as exciting to listen to boot lace ties which makes Dave Cobos' doing again. Either way 1s as to watch . Sharp look like Arie Guthrie and valid. Now with the success of 68 Twist look like John Cooper A footnote to Duncan McLean's Guns they have gained in Clarke. This is why they managed preview - Student Standbys are confidence. Now they can have to play at the St Martins in the Field also available for SCO concerts - long hai r and they won't be folk festival (or is this a Zio Zaq, on how before the performance at myth?). Their appearance belies branded hippies. They can wear £1.50. There is always room even if · cowboy suits and people won't their stance which is Legs-apart­ it's only standing so you won't be think them punle - perfect lean-back-and-throw-your­ disappointed. For the Usher Hall ·· smash Hits'' material. Nonethe- guitar-in-the-air, VERY TRIBAL concerts standbys will be on sale from 2 pm - demand for the Labeque Sisters and alway will by either band or audience. be high, so you're advised to be They should sound much better Photo.· Neil Dalgleish early. on vinyl, though, and with the possibility of a contract with Oily the fledgling Aberdeen record Keep taking the New Releases label. there is the promise of better -things to come. PIL ... 1. The Cure Love Cats (Fiction) 2. The Waterboys December The pace of the evening Notwithstanding their current (Ensign) changed at once, however, with popularity in Japan, where PIL­ 3. Hey El astica Party Games the arrival of Fad Gadget, a five­ mania has grown to the extent that (Virgin) piece dominated by the Pete Lydonesque wigs of plastic spiky 4. Dura n Duran Union of the Murphy-like character of Frank red hair are now worn in all the Snake (EMI) Tovey. Dressed in black down to best places (on the head, the chest 5. Revitlos Love Bug (EMI) his DMs, with his jet black hair and etc), Public Image Limited have 6. K i ng Ku rt Destination eyeshadow contrasting with a condescended to play a gig at the Zufufand (Stiff) Whey face, he was the immediate Glasgow Apollo on NovembM 7. The Jam Snap LP (Polydor) centre of attention . In total 16th. For everyone who doesn't 8. Sex Gang Children Maurita contrast the the preceding, like love songs, tickets are motionless support band, Tovey available from Ripping Records Mayer (Clay) embarked on a series of bizarre for £4. Rumour has it that they 9. Paul Haig Rhythm of Life contortions and frenzied motions, played Anarchy in the UK in (Island) such as his self-flagellat ion during Tokyo, so it might be Worthwhile 1 a. Cutlure Club Colour by, ' Like the Foot You Are. When he going along just to see if they play Numbers (Virgin) wasn't wildly swinging his any other favourites: Freebird, microphone, or trying to swallow Twist and Shout etc. For those of Chart compiled by Nik at Ripping it, he engaged upon moronic you too arthritic or geriatric (like Records, 91 South Bridge. Don't gestures like throwing a chair off Mr Lydon) to walk to Glasgow, a take risks . it 's Nick for discs! the stage, or plunging headlong cheap bus is being organised. See into the crowd, before finally the ubiquitous Nik for details. departing by climbing the PA Reviflos photo: Bruno Beloff stack and disappearing along the balcony. Also, instead of lhe synth of Fadahast Photo: Frances Amstad Alone Again Or , , ,. Fad Gadget The imposing, almost threaten­ perform. Their main problem, of have now moved to a pre­ ing figure of Fad Gadget's lead course, is that to a marked degree dominately non-electric line-up, vocalist, Frank Tovey, cut a stark they rely on backing tapes. and as featu ring David Simmonds on antithesis with Keith Mackenzie. with so many other synth bands , piano/ keyboards, and David the slight, timid leader of this gives an impersonal, lifeless Rogers, complete with bright blue Aberdeen-based support band, feel to their music. Keith has an doubl e bass and Joboxer outfit. Alone Ag ain Or .. . acceptable voice, yet it seemed the The band have a kind of sub­ Last Friday night saw the return band needed to do very. little else Bauhaus sOund, their music raw of both bands to Teviot after . to supplement the electronics and and direct. yet effective thanks to having played there last year, and .~hen their d·rummer ffalf­ Tovey·s menacing vocals, backed yet their musical styles are heartedly mimed along with the by Joni Sackett, and held together somewhat different. if not totally Linn Drum. you really wondered by their very competent drummer, contradictory. what they were doing . Nick Cash. In many ways their Having talked to the members of The band's name 1s the title of a current single f Discover Love , was Alo ne Ag ain Or . . ., Keith song by a 60s psychedelic group, unlike the other tracks 1n the set, MackenLie (vocals and guitar), his Arthur Lee's Love, yet their sound it's more commercial sound brother Derek on drums, and 1s more reminiscent of a static , having a much toned down punch, bassist Ian Angus, about their 18 China Crisis-type tlectropop that and containing less of Tovey's months together as a band, I was is not particularly stimulating live sharp vocal bite. disappointed seeing them actually and defies any physical movement Alastair Dalton THE STUDENT 20th October 1983 11 I U.B. Exclusivette Penny Gibbons gets in deep with the dole-dreads ...

Ali: One Spanish job was speculatively, "sheep rustling promoted by a Mafia coke dealer, originated in Birmingham, it's got a we got out to Spain and the hotel lot of sheep. The Arabs are into hadn't been built; workers came in boot loads in a t>ig way. Do you and out saying 'scuse us while we know you can get two sheep in the put in the windows in . We had a boot of a mini!" shotgun concert with armed men Astro gazes at the cailing. I threatening 'I shoot you· if we didn't nearly drowned in Brisbane. perform, and the promoter was Ali: Yeah he was struggling in the also on stage using us a bullet water, and I was shouting swim for screen. We got our money but your life, Jesus loves you Astro. th~ Eddie Grant who was with us the lifeguard shouted "Sland up." I demanded his and was promptly can't' gurgles Astro; and then he arrested for a few days. did, in three feet of water. (Astro Rob: In South America, we were grins). offered 100,000 to do a concertand­ Me: What were you goind. when we got there the promoter Ali: We were surfing. had been arrested by Interpol, and Rob: Jimmy was shark shagging another agent offered to keep the I decided to steer the contract. The hotel we stayed ,n conver sation into healtheir, hadn't been paid for but we just serious waters . .. no chance. kept putting down expenses in the Ali: I hate the French. agents name. The cargo trucks Rob ard Jimmy: I love the hired hadn't been paid for either, French. Rob continues: "I'll tell the freight people are threatening you, the best looking French girls to sue us for 25,000; but they won't serve behind petrol pumps at filling get it, he smirks. stations." The band nod their headsw,sely, Ali: " The bigger the bread, the and Al i, getting bored, goes off to more gangsters are involved. In lake a slash. America the concerts are a centre The conversation becomes more for cocaine pushing and sowe have ... w o 1s t e drea est o them fragmented and infantile, as one a large young following.'' Barsal smal lh eath Brummie Ah! We 've been touring for 4 •1, member recklessly tells me the Mug question: Do many kids origins; "Borstal" grinned Ali "the years - Am,erca, Europe, Japan, band's nicknames. "Rob is stumpy smoke cocaine at the concerts? or RTD2, and Brian is 'big nose'. home of Moseley and the black Australia, New Zealand Al, reels shirts, we started playing together them off "but our next tour ,s ,n Siin On at the of 12." America." Inane question: did you play in a Me: Where do you get the garret (a pause, Ali: what's a warmest welcome. Here garret? (answer duly given) Oh. Ali: It's got to be Glasgow Apollo. "Have you anything more you'd yeah we played in a cellar. the only Jimmy chips in " Yeah they're like to say?" " Yeah, get lost". trouble was, Brian used to take great 'cos they say 'hurray', and Frazer McBlane illicity taking frequent baths and the cater came throw beer to us in the cans like." photographs overheard the band down the walls. so we stood on Rob : We've had warmer as they got rid of the crestfallen soop_ boxes to pr_act ice .. we were receptions, but they're not so interviewer. Blissfully unaware a keen band, he added re_flect ively. consistent, spasmodic warmth. that UB40 don't like photo­ 2nd inane question: Do you have God you should try singing in New graphers' and UB40 are fed up a warm up, psyche up session Orelans, it was a 140°C on stage, I with interviews". I was playing before yo go on, like Madness, who felt like I had a pillow wrapped physical and verbal tag with a leap about on tables. and slap each around my face (then meditatively) heavy jowled, protocol conscious other's faces and make long bacon - it was a bit nippy in Japan, (he doorman outside the dressing at each other? creases at his own wit'). room, waiting for a go-ahead from Ali. looks at me qu1221cally and Ali: We found a few ag gressive the band's manager. The band then gestures at Astro, lying on his Swedes. . in Manchester, and at members dri fted in and out back on the dressing table. a can of the height of the skinhead gangs, nonchalantly·muncing cake and, lager clutched in both hands. there was a Nazi element of ,.;ith assenting r,ed -headed nods "Yeah we do weightlifting, boneheads making fascist salutes, at the dressing ·room door. actually we go in stone cold sober and carving each other up in the saxaphone player Brian Travers and straight, and afterwards we get electric ballroom with chevy said " go on, get ,n there". After smashed out of our brains and out knives. much coming and going the porter of our faces. Madness burned Us and Madness coped ok, but barked his last and I nipped into down our dressing room in Drury the Specials, here he adopts a join the photographer . Ali Lane", he adds. "That was the only mimicking effeminate voice; "fuck .. \ Campbell known affectionately as warm up session we ever had!" off you bastards", poor Terry he \ 'p ig ' or 'scroke' was the most Mug question: Are you going on Just couldn't handle them. verbal; telling me of the band's tour? · Me: What did you think of the BBC 2 all night pop concert you were in recently. 4 Indignant noises from the whole band ensue and spokesman Ali said. "It was the worst mistake we ever made, we spent a whole afternoon making sou0d tests and in the evening they didn't bother using any of the information we had, and the acoustics were appalling. While we played, Sally Oddball. Mike Oldfield's mum could be " Let them eat cake."· Ali Photo: Frazer McB/ane heard next door. It should have Ali with a 'wry smile of Brian them comes 1n, and looks been retitled 'Bonanza game for a superiority: You don't smoke indignant, consequently the laugh.' cocaine dear. conversation takes on a serious Rob continues: One good time The band laugh and Rob adds: turn . . s- though was breakfast with Simple No they smuggle it. Brian: We haven't had many SALE .s- Minds and the Eurythmics . and problems; after we nad toured for Jimmy: Yeah cocaine sup­ ~ OPENING 12·00 b we did a no nukes concert with positories, the key to brilliant two weeks as a support band with celebrities, like Pamela Ste­ dancing. the Pretenders we were on Top of phenson. Rob: and also how the Bee Gees the Pops with 'Food for Thought' \. SAT,22 ND OCT, nSs to meet your mother.' The band the sheep (I raise an eyebrow) a smile. ! .______, chuckled and started to reflect "Well", he chuckles, "the ground I left the band to get ready and over past tours. is very soft", and more went upstairs to see the concert. 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 20th October 1983 Feature · SOUTH AFRICA IS CHANGING

case and in this respect South and "fasci sts " should be dispelled. Anyone with an interest in Africa is rea lly retrogressing. The The history of student South African affairs will constitutional plan can be seen as opposition in South Africa has probably know that a new a response to a crisis which the been a long one, but it is a history Nationalist government is now which has received little coverage constitutional plan has facing . Firstly, South africa is in an in the media. Instead, the general been put forward by the economic mess. Unemployment view put ac ross and a view which is Botha government which ru ns at over three millions and held by many people is that the proposes to give a limited there is a shortage of skilled and level of opposition to Apartheid is professional workers. Secondly, low and disorganised. There are form of power sharing to resistance to the National Party's three main student bodies in the "coloured" and Indian policies is at a higher level than South Africa: the Natio nal Union communities. However, ever before. of South African Students In order to test public opinion on (NUSAS) , wh i ch represents the plan has one very large the subject of the constitutional democratic white un1vers1ty draw-back: it excludes the plan, a "whites-only" referendum students: the Congress of South majority of the South is being held on November 2. This African Students (COSAS). African population. The step indicates the level of concern representing black school and uncertainty within the South students; and the Azania n new form of Parliament in African government and also Students Organisation (AZASO) South Africa has been provides an example o f what may which represents black university termed the President's be termed " democracy" for students - Azania is the South propaganda purposes. It is African equivalent of Zimbabwe. Council or PC. The interesting to note that the T hese student organisations problem with the PC, Nationalists are em bark in g O!'l have stressed the need to work apart from excluding the their largest and most expen sive a longside oth er democrat ic majority of the population propaganda camp ai gn ever. Even g roups because it is obvious th at more interesting is that they have students themselves cannot lead from representation, is adopted 11 Thatcherite approach to the fight for democracy in South that it leaves the bulk of the whole affair supported by the Africa - any such movement must the power sharing firmly capable hands of the South have mass-based support and African su bsidiary of Saatchi and hence must come directly from the in the hands of the whites. Saatchi. majority of the population. Thus, the "Coloureds" The British press seem to be at Having witnessed the activities and Indians are repre­ least partially swallowing the idea of NUSAS I was left with a feeling sented but only on a 4:2:1 that South Africa " really is or admiration and shame: the level changing" For example, a recent of commitment and organisation ratio. Once given the vote, editorial in The Scotsman stated was vastly superior to any student the "Coloureds" and that it would be unwise for South body I have experienced in this Indians will be granted Africans to reject Mr Botha's new country. NUSAS' efforts are made deal on November 2nd as it at least more commendable because of privileges previously goes some way towards a more their ability to act effectively accorded solely to whites. democratic South Africa. That The despite their comparatively poor Among these so-called Scotsman - generally taken to facilities and lack of substantial privileges will be com­ hold a fairly liberal stance - funding . should adopt this view is It becomes obvious to anyone pulsory service in the frightening. Because, if Botha who visits South Africa that she is South African Defence feels general support for his new keen to prove change is really Force (SADF) for the plans this can only go towards the taking place. For example, the strengthening of Apartheid - recent invitation by the South majority of men. In fact, precisely what the South African African rugby authorities to under the new con­ government wants. foreign journalists to make a fi rst­ stitution these com­ As I mentioned previously, the hand assessment of the progress munities will become level of opposition to National of multi-racial sport in the country. Party policies is at a higher level Undeniably, progress has been "allies" to the whites than ever before. One of the major made: sport is becoming more and against the majority of the issues of opposition comes from more non-racial. But what is the population. the United Democratic Front point of this if, once outside the (UDF) which is an "umbrella" sports stadium, men and women It would be true to say that the organisation set up specifically to are forced to travel home in PC is really no more than part of oppose th1e constitutional plan. "white" and " non-white.. sections Botha's "Total Strategy". The PC The UDF boasts a membership or of the train? is designed to establish the system between 1 and 1.5 million people. I or Apartheid still further while It ls easy to see the conflict in witnessed the launching of this South Afric a merely in terms of attempting to show the outside organisation at a mass rally in "Black" and "White", but the world that South Africa "really is Cape Town where it was stressed changing". This is simply not the problem is infinitely mo re complex that the UDF was a non-racial than this. The survival or Apartheid organisation which represents the depends on a system of racist interests of many groups such as capitalism where sexism and students and trade unions. The exploitation are as much part of overall effect that the UDF will the system as anything else. have still remains to be seen. What The time now in South Africa 1s is significant however is the level an exciting one and there is a of opposition to the National genuine feeling t hat real change is Party's proposals. One is left ''just around the corner" . The wondering if the press, not least in change is not in the form of the Britain, is aware of the size of new constitution, however, but in a opposition to the PC. It seems wider feeling o f unity amongst all doubtful whether they are. those opposed to "the system" - Strong oppos ition to Apartheid black, white, "coloured" and an d th e g eneral system of Indian alike. If Dr Alan Boezak's racial and sexual exploitat ion is speech at the UDF launching was also encountered on university anything to go by: "We want all of campuses. Whilst in South Africa, I our rights, we want them here and spent some considerable time at we want them now" , then real the University of Cape Town change in South Africa is (UCT) where I attended meetings, imminent. workshops, demonstrations and Good things are happening in helped with the d istribution of a South Africa and better things are community newspaper. The po int to come. which must be stressed is that N.B.: The terms .. President's there is a ve ry high and cOm mitte~ Counc il s", "co n s titut i onal level o f studen t involvement. This proposal$", ··new constitution" fact 1s not as wtdely realised as It and PC are used synonymo~sly ,n should be and the notion that all this article wh ite South Africans are racists Giles Sutherland. .,.. 14 THE STUDENT Thursday, 20th October 1983 Profiles Wavemanand Scribbler I write. overshadowed by the threat of seven foot­ Continuing her series and flash gear is Captain Wham. ballers being unleashed Deadly Dode Reid (Dode is of talks with important upon me unless I uncloak Scottish for George) is so called figures around the Uni­ because he never scores" {a quiet versity, Penny Gibbins their charismatic golden smile passes across the Boss's boy, and football coach, lips. "Then Glen Williams 1s ·the meets Steven Salter, a 'The Boss", and bring him Bishop' beca use he's studying pioneer of renewable into the studen t spot­ divin ity, and H enry Winters energy, and Dave Stew­ (whose Christian name is virtually art, a.k.a. 'The Boss', light. unheard of beyond the border) is " My ni c kna me gives me reti tled Big Kendo." Scottish Student Journal­ delusions of grandeur," says In May Oave·s column was given ist of the year 1983. Pies dynamic Dave Stewart with self­ the Glasgow Herald Student Press courtesy of the Wave deprecating humour, as he Award for its idiosyncratic humour cuddles his girlfriend Dawn and and wit. This success prompted Power Unit and Fraser bashfully outlines the vital Dave to try. so far unsuccessfully, McBlane. statistics of his life. A closet to get on to a newspaper to do full­ trumpet player who plays carols, time journalism. He wrote off to and the theme from "Gone With numerous full-time gazettes only the Wind" all the year round, he to be told that he must be a was a late-comer to a three-year member of the National Union of history course after two years as a Journalists, however, this means clerk in a UBO office After playing he must be getting two-thirds of team football in his last year, more his income from journaltsm importantly he took over from Alan already. "A Catch-22 situation,'' he Cheyney as the first team's coach says grimly. Undaunted, he has in 1982. At this time seasoned written several short stories. I was led into a large players such as Ewan Gillespie including one about football, and corrugated iron building, and Mike Carney had left and his is trying to get on to a news trainee new team was inexperienced. He scheme . He 1s currently in which was a large tank praises them fo r th e leve­ communications supervisor for of water, the size of a headedness and their capacity for the Wester Hailes Youth Training small square swimming hard work. "They came back Scheme, and writing for Its looking like death warmed up after newspaper ...You need to have pool and on two sides the pre-term training at Largs written a novel to get in on the act were a series of elec­ Sports Centre," he reflects with these days." he summarises tronic a 11 y operated amusement. gloomily. panels. Dave rechristened his band of Penny Gibbins merry men who appear weekly in A SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL Built in 1977 wuh,n a space the comic style column on the PLAYERS: Please remember to of six montns by ~teven ;:,aner emu sports page. his assistants, this wave tank was assiduously read the recently " Keith Myers," he explained. "1s revised edition of Alam Chutney's the first in Britain, now copied at called Ebeneezer because he's Bumpber Book of Football before Southampton and in Norway, it is Steven Salter and his unique pump. tight, while John Rodgers who the weekend's fixtures. currently the model for one being trendily sports a bomber jacket planned at Heriot-Watt, because The Boss of its small-scale verisimilitude to final modifications 80% efficiency interested. the sea, in its ability to produce was gained; compare this to a Nuclear energy generated at waves going in all directions. current power station which gives 2.22 pence per ki lowatt houris still The mechanical and electronic 36% efficiency. much the cheaper source, engineer has been experimenting This duck sends energy to a although taking into account for ten years with alternative pump, also invented by Steven greater wear and tear on a nuclear energy sources, and to stress the Salter and praised by British power station, the overall importance of this research into scientists and the Department of difference in cost becomes wave power the words of David Energy. It is an isolated canister, minimal , and wave energy Ross, a Daily Express journalist, sealed from sea water containing scientists hope to reduce cannot be more apt: " The 1974and two giro discs, which convert the expenses on wave energy 1979 crises hit us unexpectedly energy into electricity when high production to 2.5 pence. and I believe that it is certain that pressure oil is pumped through Another problem was "fouling" supplies of Middle East oil will them. This unique flywheel system the build-up of a mixture of suffer future interruption. They can also store energy for at least protein, vegetable and calcium cannot be regarded as a firm half an hour, and can be adapted carbonate, and additional source of energy because there to store wind-generated energy in minerals on the ducks over a long will be future upheavals in that a windmill. period. Mr Salter amusingly area. Even if these factors are It is also this machine which is suggested that the substance discounted, many countries are responsible for stiffening or should be collected from a desperate for new sources of slackening a floating plastic spine protective plastic sheet wrapped energy. Wave electricity is already which connects the pumps and the around the duck and sent to the cheaper than oil, and it is the one ducks into a line. Sa lter, after poultry industry for feed. tech nology in which Britain is many laboratory experiments, " If you need less salt in your indisutably ahead of other realised that a rigid spine would be eggs in 1990. you may know why," countries. If offers an enormous subjected to uneven wave he said cryptically. export market, and can provide the pressures causing bad twists At the moment the engineer has world with a renewable . (torques) on it, and so developed a a three-year contract involving unpolluted form of energy." supple backbone to spread and £120,000 grant for wave research, Mr Salter • himself does not neutralise these pressures. A ,£190,000 for oil systems, and believe that there is an immediate computer monitors the stresses £20,000 for wind research. necessity for this energy source and adjusts the spine to take the The Edinburgh group have but Mr Ross's cribbed words show strains of the waves. ·currently done much research in how vital Steven's pioneering An apparatus involving 500 wave climate, and Salter took a trip experiments and inventions are. concrete ducks increased in size in a Nimrod jet in order to test a With · the fundamental know­ 140 times and put in the Atlantic new instrument developed by ledge that the sea contains 90 Ocean would equal a power them which was thoroughly kilowatts of energy per square station the size of Torness. successful. He is also experi­ metre (an electric fire uses 1 In addition the oil can be menting with solar panels to kilowatt), Steven Salter wanted to repeatedly recycled, although motivate steam engines. syphon off this energy using a " marine fouling" is a constant I would like to thank Steven mechanism he calls a "duck" worry according to the Committee Salter for the "carnival of waves" which generates it. Opposite to a of Energy in 1982. demonstrations, as we spent a ship which is built not to roll. the The Department of Energy in happy half-hour sinking model instrument, developed from a 1979 asserted that energy trawlers in the wave tank and ballcock, involving a front but no generation by waves would not be making St Andrew's crosses. We back , produces energy by its much greater than energy from might have got on to computerised rolling inslability. coal at its present price of ducks and drakes! Initially the object produced 31hpence per kilowatt hour, still it Wh o says that man cannot 15% efficiency in energy con­ is too high for mainland purposes, control the elements. Canute just routine. version but after Salter had made although island communities are had the wrong technique. THE STUDENT T hursday, 20th October 1983 15 Sport Yet another rugby report. SCOTTISH UNIS EDINBURGH II does appear that rugby FOOTBALL JUDO LEAGUE '' has been suffering some The Boss" damage to its public There is something pro­ On Saturday last Edin­ image by comparison foundly satisfying in burgh University Judo with that other winter seening honest en­ Club travelled to Aber­ team sport popularised deavour rewarded to the deen for the first match elsewhere in these full. for the Scottish Univer­ columns. Thus, it was with smiling faces It ca n now be revea led that Hibernian fans left Easter sities' Judo League title. Road on Saturday, having seen This title has eluded them that this unhappy t rend their m uch maligned heroes score in the recent past, for will fa il to take a firm gri p a thrilling victo ry over Aberdeen. as long as there exist such The men from the Granite C ity despite having very good had no answer to H 1bs second half teams, the club has been cava li e r bo di es o f pressure, which culminated in a unable to maintain the sportsmen as that soon­ dramatic last gasp winner from the to- be-legendary oval ball elusive WIiiie Irvine. consistency which is n11s marks Hibs finest win of the institution. the Vandals. campaign so fa r, an d let nobody required to win the This ,s a side consist ing of those be ,n doubt that the Dons scalp who are not quite good enough for league. was well deserved. Nor will this be the best fres hers side, those who Edinburgh made a good start a flash ,n the pan. for football ,n the think they are a bit too good for the with three victories over St capital 1s experiencing something worst side, and those w ho seem to Andrews , Strathclyde and owe their inclusion entirely to o f a revival. Since the inception of Aberdeen. The team line-up was the Prem ier League ,n 1975, H 1bs computer error. At this stag e of the very impressive as it included and H ea rts, arch local rivals, have The fabulously famous Dougie Hardie watches the relatively unknown season it is d1ff1 cult to highlight three 1st Dan Black belts - Brian languished in the doldrums As the Willie Johnstone show him how it's done, while the rej ects from the 1nd1v1dual personnel, especially as Wilson, his brother, and new team Freshers' trials are lined up - beheaded - against the wall in the rumour has 11 that selection power base ,n Scottish football member Colin and the old war­ moved tentatively out of Glasgow background. meeti ngs revolve around the horse with a new slimline look whims of the fruit machine 1n the to the North East, Edinburgh Alisdair Brown . Two o t her EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY O - HEARTS 2 remained a backwater, as both Spo rt sman 's Bar. but ear ly campaigners from last year, John H1bs and Hearts underwent the The visit of a professional opposition to Peffermill ind1cat1o ns, are as they say m Painter and Captain Jim Brown those General El ecti on specials, 1gnom1ny of relegation. H earts, in (not so slimline!) made up the always creates an incredible atmosphere of that although Scottish results are particular, have struggled, and team. excitement and anticipation. notoriously fi ckl e. the good guys aft er defeat by Motherwell at the Victory was the result of a good C ap abi l it y S mit h, Peff e r mi ll ' s gre g ariou s should come thro ugh 1n the end. end of the 1981-82 season, which all-round team performance. However, whoever 1s selected 1t condemned the Maroons to However, Colin Wilson, with three groundsman, was thoroughly overcome with the seems that the Va ndals continue another season of minor grade "lppon" wins on his debut, emotion of it all, summoning the famous Peffermill to break new ground whenever football (their 4th ,n 8 years). ,t deserves a special mention. The Mistral; an obvio us indication of his respect for last they play, although this does seemed its financial plight would closest match was, as usual, have forced the club to go part­ Wednesday aftern oon's opposit ion. seem to be more to do w ,th the against arch-rivals Aberdeen. This torrentia l weather conditions of t,me, thereby effectively kissing match was decided by two Unfo rtu nately, he became so overcome that the bracing breeze he recen t times than any particularly the big t,me goodbye. surprise strangles - one by whipped up to celebrate the beginning of the afternoon's athletic revolutionary p laying technique Happily, for those of us who Aberdeen's Black belt on Brian activities got totally out of hand an d by the start of the game had become fas hioned under the street lights at follow the game (in all weather), Wilson, and the other a last-minute a raging sto rm. Canalf,el d on Thursday evenings. Hearts retained their professional status. and. not content with strangle by Edinburgh's captain. Co nd itions excepted, t he Mackay, their best pl ayer, crashed Follow1n an extended promotion, have made a rousing Un,vers,ty 1st XI was fu ll of 1n a marv ellous shot from 25 session w ith t hose talen t ed start to the season. Now, for the co nfid ence an d f eroct0us l y yeards w hilst simultaneously exponents of progressive rock an d MIX AND deter m ined. They were boosted by manag ing to ru n ht s fingers roll, the bus drivers of Edin burgh, first time since most of you enrolled at th1s Un1vers1ty, both the return to ac tion of Nick " Dan through his expensively dyed the lads con g r egated in a H1bs and Hearts are in the top half MATCH A.rcher" Dee fro m completing th e locks and hitch up his silky sheen Porto bello dressing roo m only to shorts to expose the vast expanses of the league table; indeed the LACROSSE : onstruction of a cow-shed o n his find that their prest, gous jerseys lather's ranch in balmy Berkshire. o f hts mac hO thighs to the had been maturing nicely 1n the Ty necastle men jo intly hold the lead The Lacrosse Club had a very Moreover. the return to fitness of admiring gasps o f the assembled kit bag since the previous week. active weekend. On Saturday a fe m ales. Fo rtunat ely, neithe r The deadly rivalry between th e Ian " Mad Max" Currie, whose Whether stimulated by such team travelled up to St Andrews clubs does tend, all the same. to penchant for black leather jackets, Mackay, nor h is team mates, cou ld matters, or more probably by the and played in wind and rain reproduce the individual, or make them mutually su pportive. lestooned in zips, has earned him h o vering presen ce of our against the University. col l e ctiv e, 1nsp1ration to 0 1e- hards on both sides would a lucrative role as understudy to incapacitated minder-for- the-day, Although Ed inburg h ultimately have readily welcomed the retu rn Mel G ibson in Mad Max 28, further purposefully threaten the home the aforementioned gladiators lost 8-6 it was a good close matc h, goal again before half- time. of loca l derbies to the fixture 11st. added to the g rowing feelings of eased to a 13-3 victory, 20,000 po ured down Gorg ie Road especially the second half. Go al destiny in the University camp. Half-time brought little respite experiencing rat h er more for the spirited Edinburgh 11. to see the first of these on scorers for Edinburgh w ere Julia The surprise appearance of Alain problems in the c lubhouse Their sycophantic club coach S e p tembe r the 3rd . Th e y B u ckingham (2) , Catheri ne Chutney, complete w,t h AC afterwards. where subtle switches witnessed a magnificent match Charley (2), Emma Dickins (1), Spo rtwear's lat est cat alogue, obviously keen to impress his of complimentary jugs had to be professional co un terparts, tore w ith Hearts snatching a breath­ Jenny Carlton (1). crystallised the aura of confidence effected to avoid considerable into his charges with undue taking 3-2 victory. which sent the On sunday the club sent two which permeated the University's embarrassment in the eyes of our savageness and vindictiveness. As pulse rate soaring and left many te ams to a seven-a-side ind opr pre- match warm-up. Chutney, opponents; suffice to say, bar­ n ails painfully near the quick. T he tournament in Perth. One of these pleased at the reactio n to his if that was not bad enough the room etiquette will play a major diminutive deadly Dode Rei d, the next derby is scheduled for teams was mixed and its members remark that Andy " Boy" George, part in our preparation for the next 1 st XI captain, had to retire d uring • Novem ber 5th at Easter Road, and played well , coming second in lhe 1 st team centre-half, had a tussle, w hich, rest assured, w ill be while it won't be a game for the their section in which there were cultured clubbed left foot, has the break suffering from the covered by your correspondent - debilitating effect of flu. The faint hearted, I can vouch that, 1f it six teams. decided to begin work on a new just as long as he's selected. lives U? to the last one, you c an If anyone who hasn't been in boo k tentatively entitled: "A lain necessary readjustment period to Rob Kitson contact with us yet is interested in Chutney's Complete Boo k of Willy accommodate his departure expect an ep,c battle. See you p laying lac rosse - m a les, Remarks to suit every occasion." proved difficult and M ackay RIFLE CLUB there, for the REAL Edinburgh females, beginners - come down H earts fielded Willie Johnston, inevitably stepped in to exploit the Festival . to the Pleasance G y m o n the ex-Sc otland w inger and star of confusion w ith another superbly Readers of 'The Scots­ Andrew Templeton Wednesdays between 3.30 and 5 th e 1978 Argentine debacle, struck shot w hich Mitchell could man' will be no strangers only wave at as it flew past h im into pm. Cathy Charley whose preoccupation with pursuing to the fame of Edinburgh SHINTY RUGBY D o ug " H ey M a n " Hard ie, the rigging. Edinburgh's Mr Fi xit, proved a T he Un iversity howeve r , University Rifle Club. The committee were sorry to 1st XV 51; St Andrews Univ 3 trifle embarrassing to both sets o f showing tremendous character We hold, among other team disappoint the fans who had Last Wednesday saw the 1st XV connections. They also includ ed and cou r age , fo u ght back trophies, the B ritish Universities booked placed on the bus with the travelling to St Andrews to play in Gary Mackay, star of Scotl and admirably. " Hey Man" H ardie Smallbore Championship, the cancellation of our match last the first game of the Scottish youth teams and Edinburgh d isco shaking off t h e p e rsis t e nt Lothian's Shoulder to Shoulder Saturday against St Andrews. Universities Championship. fame, in their line-up. The rest of atten tions of Wi llie Joh nsto n League. the Strathvittie Cup (Fife They were overawed by the The team perlormed well and the team was made up of as piring began to exploit the defensive Championship), and th e Scottish advanced publicity and the won the game convinci ngly, youths whose predilection for weakness of the oppositio n's left­ Universities League Cham pion­ daunting prospect of opposing scoring a total of ten tries. To be gold chains, rings, fashionabl e back w ho laboured under the ship. such stars as " Sticks" Leys, fair to St Andrews though, they hair cuts, and pungent after-shave unfortunate nickname of " Suds" Individually, the team boasts " Clubber" Grassick, and "Ox" lost their scrum-half captain at demo nstrates the q ual ity of the By the time Dougie had finished t h r ee Scott ish junior squad Whyte. Nevertheless, with our first half-time through injury. Fo r footballing educatio n they . were with h im " Suds'· had been members, whilst two of the English win only hours away supporters Edinburgh, the top try scorer was receiving at Tynecastl e Park. thoroug hly ri nsed and hung out to members hold the Borders. West are welcome to join the cheer· ri ght wing M. Wallace, w ith three In the early part of the 1st half the dry, But, despite Hard1e 's heroics, of Scotland and Universities leaders' team at Peffermill at 14.30 (fortunately for Mike, there were general all round sharpness of the and Dee's d iligence, the University Ind ividual trophies between them. this Saturday. Free whisky, no car parks nearby onto which he professio nal outfit served t o were unable to effectively explo it G raduate mem bers st ill involved salmon, grouse and venison may could dive while touching down). disorientate the varsity XI. Shots th e f e w oppo rt u n it ies th ey with the club inc lude the curre nt be provided and could be an Scrum-half J. Warnock scored two rained in on the Uni goal and managed to create and at the end No rthern Ireland Champion (8th in added incentive to spend your tri es, while both centres, J . M itchell, the varsity custod ian, of the day, to paraphrase Jock t he B risbane Commonwealth weekend with a team of heart­ Macartney and G. Lawson ran in must have felt like an Aunt Sally at Stein , the result was just about Games) and one of the two county throb pin-ups. Incidentally, indoor one apiece. The forwards, too, the fun fai r o r a nearby tree at a right, although the Uni were far coaches for Lothian. training started on Tuesday (8-9 took their scoring chances with football club shooting practice. from being sick as parrosts or over Rifle Shooting is growing in pm Pleasance multi-gym) and this prop J. Peters, No. 8 D. Lecki e and Not unexpectedly, Hearts took the lhe moon. " But, that's what the popularity, and offers a unique weekend's practice wiU be held at flanker J. Manson all getting a try lead after 30 minutes w hen qame's all abo ut isn't it A rchie?" challenge in that it 1s stillness, Pellermill on Sunday at 14.30. each. I Gardner converted fo ur of co n ce n tra t ion and m e ntal Anyone interesled'shoul dmake na the tries and kicked a penalty goal. d isc ipli ne whic h p rod u ces appearance and remember no In the first half St Andrews had SPORTS UNION c ham pio ns. If you doubt our criminal record is necessary, kicked a penalty goal, and so at SPECIAL GENERAL The business of the meeting is: ability to teach you, the fact ,s that though it undoubtedly helps! One the current Border Champion had fu ll-time the result was 51-3. It was MEETING (i) (i) El ection of Sports Unio n more item - do look at the notice­ encouraging that the backs scored President never fired a rifle until he 101ned us. boards or read Student (who~e seven o f the ten tries, demonstrat­ The Sports Union require 100 (ii) Electi on of Vi ce­ CUNNING LINGUISTS sales have surprisingly Increased ing that forwards and backs had people at their Special General President (Intra-M ural) since the addition of regular shinty learned to combine successfully. Meeting to make it quorate. (2) (i) Ap p rova l of E U S U Wi ll Rhurug Mc iver, Graham features) to find out about forth , This meeting will take place in the Constitu tion Bell, Pete Wood and Rhurug·s coming events. Thanks to my 1st XV results so far: PLEASANCE THEATRE on (ii) Approval of EUSU Clubs brother please phone Alan (or personal secretary and typewriter, P WL DF A MONDAY, 24th OCTOBER at 1.15 constitutional amend­ Tony or lain) on 667 4354 as soon Jon Cline. Cheers - hie. 5 2 3 0 81 56 pm. ments. as poss ! Keep on lickin'! RHURtG MHEADHION 16 THE STUDENT Thursday, 20th October 1983 The Back Page Obituary

MR PETER ALLEN, Lecturer in French at the University ol Edinburgh, was drowned during the summer vacation That is all that might be expected to appear in any university history, and yet behind that statement there lies a wealth of grief which will include many former students of this university, many faculty members, and many present undergraduates. The miserable thing is that I would give anything to say it to - Peter Allen, someone who ~ belittled his own achievement far more than most of us, with our absurd patterns of false modesty, could understand. TV I cannot put it better than by ,, on Satan Bugs sunnv pOETS saying he gave his whole life to this Sgl B1lkO 1~orman McGa•9 University. He loved it. He laughed with it. And he tried With all his f\LMS other place heart to create something in it FOOD Another time. an omelettes which would make it better than it Chinese ~,~~ne Waterlron1 k was. Empire strikes baC His supreme achieve ment, I Dark Star suppose, must be acknowledged as the work of Les Escogriffes, the GREAT BORES players who resolutely delivered ARRESTS David Bowie plays in the French language to TV Driving backwards up a motorway sllp­ Eddie and Sunshine Meryl Street enthusiastic audiences: very often road. 101atly pissed, and hitting a car Polished Shows Vivian lee the same au'1ieoces had been coming down the right way. The guy in Marlon Brando Tom Baker (Fav. Ham) reluctantly dragooned in by Peter. the other ca r was about half-mg over !he ART READING MATTER' "Actors tend ro piss me off, actually." Peter's enthusiasm was primarily limit, so he got booked instead ol me ·Tm really ignorant." Actually !hat's a total lie. 2000AD for modern drama, but anyone LIKES Old Robert Crumb and Skip Williamson DISLIKERS who saw his production of comics People recommending me to very htp llttle Srncenty DISLIKES Racine's Andromaque starring The Sprnt NOVELISTS exh1b111ons Cheerfulness Loud people Daredevil William Golding Michael Worton and Yvon Nadeau ACTORS Generahsed Med,a conspiracy Forced pleasantness K1llraven Ne1t Gunn People who think cartoons are for infants. will acknowledge how splend idly John Hurt Pubes 1n the sink Warlock he made the classical achieve Early Master of Kung-Fu Robert de Niro Bad reviews of The Very Thing LIKES immediacy for modern audiences. Anything by Stevanko Mrke Conway "Once I know what I like you'll probably BOOKS Gulacy ol Eisner As a director, he knew so Dick Godden r,nd me doing ,, ... Bert Fegg's Nasty Book lor Boys and Girls brilliantly how to create contrasts, Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky POLITICS MUSIC as he did so well by his juxta­ The Map of Life, Conduct and Character "Armcha,r po/J11cs. as I seem content to Bauhus - Dark Entries position of the coldly phlegmatic Lagar111a Nick -W.E.H. Leckie 1rot out my cartoons, rather lhan actually Nadeau against the Mercurial, domg anything." Tom Tom Club - Genius ol Love The Smiths - Hand ,n Glove possessed, Worton. I do not expect POLITICS Everything but !he Girl - Night and Day to see a better production, and PAINTERS Joy D1v1s1on - These Days, Dead Souls .. , believe in sort of freedom. rd Kandmsk1 now. I never want to see it . Echo & the Bunnies - Heaven up Here Picasso circa 1912 MUSIC probably be qu11e a Jetty, If 11 wasn·t for Grace Jones - Nightclubbing It was characteristic of him, too. Some Dall Public Image the terrible student p0Mic1ans · Talk Talk & Forever Now - Psychedelic that such a production embraced Egon Schiele FOOD Furs Wire-1 54 Pork Chow Mein so much of the University: him, Live sides by Bauhus Blurt Avocadoes & Prawn Sauce Faculty, though no member of the FILMS Blue - Joni Mitchell Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures "Generally I 1usl eat to survive .. · The Oeerhunter Station to Station - Mr Bowie faculty ever wore his status with Chic The Wrath of Khan Sex1et - A Certain Rat10 such contempt for artificial Sex Pislols "Product of a closed ill-educated. M1C1n1ghf Express NO ARRESTS - as yet. position than he, Worton, then Jah Wobble Aock1s1 1magmat1on. · French graduate student (whose own present achievements in CLASSIFIED FOR SALE drama at University College BUMS NOT ESSENTIAL - ONLY •UNICYCLE, PASHLEY, as new, London owe, like those of so many ideal for beginner or experienced others, so much to Peter's COLUMN A BRA IN and at least three fully BOOKS FOR SALE: Nat. Income lunctioning limbs. All nominations unicyclist; 36 in. £30 infectious enthusiasm) and Analysis-Beckermann, Pricing in Nadeau, administrator (a nd now accepted at the Bedlam for the Practice - Davies & Hughes, •DAWES 10-SPEEO BICYCLE, the wise guardian of the destir.ies post of EUTC publicity person. Business Economics - Bates & EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY ARTS overall good repair. needs slight of so many of us m the Faculty of Election at GM 2 pm, Wed 26th Parkinson. Prices negotiable. Call SOC: There will be a trip to the October. attention; 22 1"2 in. frame. £55 Arts). John after 6 pm on 229 2365. Fruitmarket Gallery on Wednes­ I remember Peter's direction of day, 26th October. The exhibition TWIN ROOM available for two MINI 1000 F reg , 57,000 miles. •GEORGE HAYMAN VIBRASONIC Nadeau in Beckett, where his is the work of a contemporary females in central flat. Immediate Taxed MOT August 1984. Full ORUM KIT, 5-piece, including sense of rhythm of the words German artist, Gerard Merz. Meet entry. Ideal for KB. Tel 667 1561 service history. One family brand new premier shave-drum, 2 mysteriously created the fall of the at the gallery, 26 Market Street, at 2 (best alter 10 pm). Rent £59 pm oWnership from new. £550 ono. cymbals and hi-hat. £175. sea. I know that Yvon Nadeau will pm. All welcome. each. Tel 336 1240 after 6, or weekend. • Phone Paul 667 4383. allow me to say that his own superb performance could not have been possible without Peter"s 1 0~ No THE: ! •>T>,:,·!!Uill sense of the degree to which 1 IJc--pr,.-, n So~ Wl7H Go l.11,ur, I .,, Beckett had encapsulated all ol [nd,:,,:1-,;in AND l\u.. W£ 've \ [,,,,:u" French literature, and how to both Go, ,s .... \[11HJ < :1tU\j:: of them I owe this eternal sense of a sighing on a wave-shattered horizon. I remember his vital delight' in the work of countless others in his beloved Escogriffes, notably when Michael Worton directed him as Estragon in a superb En Attendant Godo/. Peter's Estragon will for the rest of my life by my Estragon. I remember, with delight, how he bullied me and my family into lending a slide belonging to our children to become a means for his entry in a modern play, and how we howled with delight at how superbly he made that entry he had to plead with our children first, and how splendidly he did 11, arguing from a child's standpoint with all of the skill which he could do before an arts committee. I remember his laughter, his kindness, and his utter inability to understand why people would like him. I remember his frenzied enthusiasm lor the work of Edinburgh Student Publications Board, and all he gave to its pages and to the Festival Times. I remember a man for whom people " and art meant everything, and personal advantage so little. I remember a man to whom I failed to say how much I owed to him. He stood for a University with no barriers between students, stalf and administration: so let the lot ol us say, what I didn't say often enough to him, "Thank you. Peter, and God bless you." Owen Dudley Edwards