FRIDAY 14th JUNE, 1985 Leeds Leeds University Union SUMMER BALL Thursday, 20th June MIDSUMMER MADNESS Details inside StudentINDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER Students could lose one third of their income Who benefits?Students may be stopped agrees with the government's he outlined in a DES eonsulta- from claiming sup- principles on benefits. but not ttse paper on student support ai plementary benefits dur- -their means of achieving them. the end of June. but NUS de- 01 course the grant students scribe this as 'cold comfort" as ing the vacations, but their get should be enough for them they consider the length of time Anti-Apartheid grants are unlikely to be not to need benefit". he said. for consultation is insufficient increased, according to a "but it is not. Despite repeated and are concerned that the clash with report by NUS. guarantees from the Govern- Government will not seriously - ment. these reviews threaten I he report is In response to consider the situation of stu- Communists the ( iiivernment's Green Paper the income of all students". dents in the social security sys- Details of the proposals wi ll tem released last ‘‘. eek which states. Publicity for an Anti-Apartheid demonstration. due to take 'The Governments believe it NUS are particularly critical place in London this Sunday. has been tampered with by the right in principle to return to the was these proposals have City's Revolutionary Communist Group. An average stu- . - the situation which existed he- een released. There are no igures in the Green Paper so it Posters printed and displayed weeks Leeds Other Paper. front tore NW) with students being dent on full grant . s not possible to work out the around Leeds by Chas Millington of the R.C.G. helped through the grants sys- paying £15 a week •ffeet on students - but it A.A. group have had coach and this decision is condemned. lie tem, by their families and their rent will lose £600 ppears to be considerable- ticket information removed brings to the attention of all own earnings'. 'aid Christopher Hall. NUS front them and R.C.G.. s groups. opposed to apartheid The Government says that a year which is - Welfare Officer. LUU Welfare ,alternative details stuck on. the African National Congress student claims for these be- 30% of the annual ,i'...:retarS. Claire Whitely. Disagreement between the slogan of 'Unity in Action'. news cause 'disproportion and agreed. 1 he proposals were t wo groups first arose schen R.C.G.'s subsequent actions administrative difficulties' - a income, if the gov- outlined in two different 1..U.U. A.A felt it inappropri- in changing the information On point confirmed by local an- ernment proposals volumes of the Green Paper ate to work with the R.C.G. in the posters seems to o impletely thoniics. Nationally an esti- on supplementary thus not making students. posi- its opposition of Leeds prop- contradict the ANC s adage mated 2110010 students receive tions immediately clear. "It's osed Chamber of Commerce which they themsely es took so housing benefit and each claim benefit go been done very cleverly - , she Trades Mission to South Afri- much trouble to quote in print. mav nerd to he reassessed six through. said. ca. They made this decision on Tickets for the demonstra- times a year. the basis of maintaining the tii,m are available at E4 waged. NUS President Phil Woolas -Gill Webber national apolitical stance to unwaged at L.. V.1?. exec or which A ..A groups have to the Corner Bookshop. adhere. Tina Ogle In a letter published m last Having a ball in the Union In celebration of its StIth birthday i t I is to hold its first full scale ball in living memory. Its aim is to cater for all Hie I 'Mon will he closed at task's, Irons lop hands like Ian 4.(lo 1).111. Thuisday, 20th June Durs and the Blockheads lo to prepare fin the Balk open- steel hand. iuggleis and ing at S.31.1 p.m theatre. iekets are now on sale in the Nirt only is this a tun event S shop and change kiosk but the ticket price includes 12 at t.12 each for Ethiopia. Which if all two Annabel McGoldrick thousand tickets sell, 'sill Mean a donation mo(o. Any Rather profits still also to to P.2 The Green the appeal Paper and women Cultural Allan, Secietary, , Julie Parrs. said. Its not just P.7 Eighty years going to he another evtravagan- of LUU iri - we ware, more ainnip- P.8 Getting it shere - The t 'Mon will he deco- rated in party style. there will taped he a cold bullet. cocktails and P.9 The victims cheap drinks (wine tram r1.50 a of Vietnam bottle). Dress is 'smart' as the organisers, throught formal P.14 The Damned dress may he an unnecessary interview • The match asking fur the release of jailed turners passed through Leeds last week. expense. L.U.U. Summer Ball Kenny Ball and his Steinhaus Bierkellar String Quartet Cocktail Bar Jazzmen Band Wine Bar Ian Bury and All Night Films Wendy Squires Xero Slingsby Light Opera Gala Beer 40p Pint The Blockheads and Autumn and rWorks ir Performance Spirits 40p Shot Dr F Serenades Steel Band Morris Dancing PAGE TWO WOMEN PUSHED BACK Gill Webber examines the govt's latest attack on women the Green Paper on the Welfare State & says "Thanks Norman! Norman Fowler. Secretary of scheme that realistically catered l he money that the govern- !tient instead of a weekly ,1 I 1(1- when people are least lit - at the State for Social Services, may for the lives that society expects ment have entrusted to what IN a nee and manv women will no death of a relative, during pre- well he pleased with himself. women to lead - allowing them they obi, iously see as the du- longer he eligible for the gnancy and .during economic Last Monday saw the publica- to take time off work to raise a bious care of women them- maternity grant. hardship. This can only reduce tion of his Green Paper on the family without their pension selves. has been drastically cut the number of claimants - what being affected, its abolition a convenient cost cutting exer- Welfare State - at last a in these proposals. Child be- Other benefits not im- leaves women in a catch 22 cise. courageous attempt to get at the nefit is not to rise with inflation, mediately so specific to women situation - leaving work to raise root of the problems of the state widows will be CM worse off will he withdrawn from them a family will financially penalise benefit system instead of just with the new lump sum pay- nevertheless - the death grant is The government should at them in later nears, especially pruning the edges. But how sad to be means tested, affecting least be given credit for its con- as women will he unable to that the government seems to women morethan men because sistency in its attack against claim their husband's full pen- see the recipients of the benefits they live longer. Children of women. Its policy to keep them sion as well as their own as as the root of the problem, low income families are no lon- at home now seems complete. under SERI'S. Meanwhile the rather than the system itself. ger to he given free school The National Health Service lack of nurseries for full time And how sad that once again meals or milk and benefits to policy of sending patients home working mothers reflects the women will take the brunt of the help with furniture, diet, laun- to convalesce' rather than government's disapproval of government's new policies. dry etc. which specifically affect keeping them in hospital. the women taking up valuable jobs women because traditionally denial of women's direct access in a scarce jobs market. Yet all this shouldn't concern these are their concern. are to to benefits. and the 'encourage- Norman too much, He will be he withdrawn and replaced with ment' for women to take low congratulated for keeping well Those women who are discretionary payments from paid part time work to supple- within the government's philo- already housewives will be the new Social Fund. ment reduced benefits. sophical guidelines - the prop- forced into further economic osals are forward looking, effi- dependence on their husbands It is this Social Fund that For many women, the cient and economical. Howev- with the replacement of Family perhaps gives most cause for domestic role has always been a er. as he is quick to point out. Income Supplement, at present concern. Hidden among the full time job which fitted in with this is not a cost cutting exer- paid by Giro, with the Famil\ pages of proposals is the fact the government's desire to cise - it just happens to save Credit Scheme which will be that the government is remov- leave the reduced opportu- £.50(1. million on housing benefit paid into the wage packet. For ing the right to benefits. Clear nities of today, available for alone. those women not working, that legal entitlement allowed peo- men. Yet it seems that those means the husband's wage ple to claim the maximum num- women who have complied. As women are the majority packet. This shows a fun- ber of benefits. This is now to either willingly or unwillingly to of claimants for many benefits. damental fault with the govern- he replaced with bureaucratic this, are now to he penalised they stand to lose most all ment's proposals - they presume charity.