1 THE NEXT ISSUE U.41' IS OUT STUDENT: ON JUNE 6 INDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER M • 0 • PUPPET? LUU has condemned the visit of he could nominate a group to He argued that scientific milit- the Chief Scientific Adviser to attend. ary research enhanced the lifes- the Ministry of Defence, Profes- President. Kevin Shute. told tyles of individuals. allowing sor Richard Norman, to the Leeds Student he had received the development of calculators University. "nothing at all" from the Reg- and digital watches for inst- LULI only found out about istrar's office, ance. the meeting through a leak a In a press release circulated Norman said that the Uni- day before it was due to take on the day of the seminar the versity Vice-Chancellor's refus- place. Union said Professor Norman's al to support a campaign to It had been the intention of visit should have been con- secure research facilities for the the University authorities to ducted more honestly. MoD amounted to censorship. bar all students from the profes- Only six students were pre- It was pointed out to him that sor's seminar. The invitation sent at Professor Norman's there were only six students at circulated by the Registrar's seminar on 9th May, three had his seminar. office was confined to depart- been sent ht the Union. the Norman faced hostile ques- ments that held current re- others walked in unopposed de- tions from the academics. there search grants from the ?viol/ spite a large security presence. was a call for a vote of censure Sheona Merton of the Reg- There were less than ten pickets on his visit. Paul Brannen, istrar's office claimed there was outside the Textile Industries President elect of the Union. nothing secret about the visit hall where the meeting look told Norman that he did not since all heads of departments place. wish to see the University re- • Picker against talks on military funding of university departments. had been informed. The seminar discussed MoD search facilities turned into When asked why the Union funding of British universities "branches of the defence indus- professor who never mentioned they had no alternative but to had not been consulted she said and the research potential of try". "weapons" during his seminar. depend upon MoD money. it was "inappropriate for stu- 'Star Wars' technology. Two second year English stu- The students felt that it was "We should support our lectur- dents to attend the meeting". Professor Norman claimed dents Duncan Crossley and Pe- important to ensure that uni- ers," they said. adding that the Union Presi- he was "just another academic" ter Chapman noted the euphe- versity departments were not dent had been notified and that engaged in academic research. mistic language adopted by the placed In the positron where Ian Attkinson JOSEPH CUT ON THE ROAD TO RUIN "The Government has simply statement, which also made vague partments it can make a profit out learnt nothing and is continuing promises about giving "more funds of." he revealed. down the road of destruction of to better research departments and The Government's policy of university education," said Vice less to the less good", was a "har- favouring specific universities im- Chancelloi Sir Edward Parke'. last row boy approach to higher educa- plies the closure of "unpopular" Tuesday in response to the Uni- tion". ones and this can only mean a fall versity Grants Committee's (UGC) Mike Fin. Department of Educa- in numbers at a time when only 4( decision to cut Leeds University s tion and Science (DES) spokesper- per cent of applicants get a place at spending power by approximately son disagreed that rewarding uni- a British university. 2.5 per cent versities for providing "value for Helen Sfingshy The cut was expected and Leeds money" smacked more of the busi- was actually one of the universities ness rather than education ethic. which was spared the worst, Aston. "What's wrung the rewarding ex- I lull, Newcastle. that is, the more cellence?" he asked. modern institutions. plus the Asked what criteria Sir Keith majority of Scottish and Welsh uni- will use to determine "good" and • "So what if Kenneth is a better looking guy than me, at least I'm drier versities face even harsher cuts. "bad" universities and research de- than him." As well as hitting arts and huma- partments, he said the DES was Confirming all rumours of a Cabinet reshuffle, Kenneth Raker took nities the UGC has requested that following the UGC's findings and over from Sir Keith Joseph as Secretary of State for Education last science courses must also retrench told Leeds Student to wait for the LIGC's detailed report which com- ednesday, and this appears to contradict the Former Secretary of State for the Environment, Mr Baker Government's policy of promoting es out next week. more technical and business orien- Responding to Sir Keith Joseph's bodies the new, caring, soft image the Government is trying to tated courses. concessions, chair of WU 1-CS, attain in order to win back the support it lost in the recent local and Frank Horvath. Treasurer Jeremy Galbraith believes they will bye-elections. thought it "illogical" for the (kw- encourage universities to reach a He looks good, smiles a good deal and is apparently not as dry as ernment to cut Aston and Salford higher standard of education and he first appears. However, his answer to the question "What is your for the are both "industrial tinnier- will bring in more private invest- main ambition?" "I want to serve my country". made even the snies". ment. Ile added. -The private Daily Telegraph reporter wince. Not the most appropriate com- In his last speech to the Com- firms can tell a good university fur ment to make considering (he Tories have now made education a mons as Education Secretary. SIT these are the ones the Milkround Keith said, "Universities with good major policy. records in research and manage- WU General Secretary. Ruth Asked for his opinion of Mr Baker. chair of LULI's FCS, Jeremy ment efficiency could expect in- MI:Ishii!l doesn't relish ph% ate in- Galbraith, said "Although his presentation of policies will be better. LOTS OF creascs in Government funding vestment quite so much. "The he is not exactly a radical." Rob Minshull replied that the fact that Boni autumn 1987." Government is planning to reduce Mr Baker "is not suffering from mental illness s ill he an advan- Speaking on the -Calendar' TV central funding of unit, ersities by tage. but given the nature of this Government's strategy, one programme last Tuesday. the Vice moving in the private sector. which RAMONES change at the top won't make an item of difference." Chancellor claimed that Josephs will in turn only invest in the de- THINGS LATEST BOOK RELEASES REVIEW Page 6 INSIDE CENTRE PAGES INTERVIEW Pages 8-13

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Page 2 NEWS NEWS IN BEATING THE BRIEF HARD Fund raising for the South Afri- can scholarship scheme at UP Leeds Poly has fallen to an all BENEFIT SYSTEM time low. Five students who took the un- In response to this fact LPSU usual step of appealing against At the end of the summer term vice-president Paul Syryscko their fair rent decision have been successful in achieving an 68 per cent of students will he pointed out that enough money overdrawn to the tune of £51). has been raised to sponsor a average rent of E10.00 a week. L200..These were the findings student for the coming year. the initially, the students had of a survey conducted in York- Student Union is trying to build their rent for their Cliff Mount shire and Lancashire by 'Over up its resources for the scho- house reduced from £16.50 to 16' magazine published by larship fund. £12.00 but still felt this was in- National Girobank. One proposal suggested to adequate. They immediately Over half of the students with revive funds is the placing of an lodged a complaint with the an overdraft had found the optional levy on the Poly union Rent Appeal Committee. card. Normally the landlord grant to be inadequate. A - spokesperson from Lloyds hank LUU vice-president Anne appeals to this body but their said "the popular view of stu- Baxter commented that the landlord failed to do so. dents just isn't true. We find momentum for fund raising has Instead, the Appeal Commit- that those students coming to been maintained and the target tee viewed the house and com- see us for overdrafts are of £3,001) has already been pared it to similar properties raised. registered in the area. They genuine cases of hardship." A recent government survey Zoe Osbourne voted to reduce the rent by a further £2.00 to £10.00 a week. found that the average student. Paul Allison. a student from One of the students. Andy spends £14.00 per week on Leeds University. will be part (Arras remarked. "we're thril- alcohol but the same survey of a four man mountaineering led to bits, our action shows that agrees with the hank's view of team set up to scale the if students get it together they student hardship. 'Shimhal Weisshorn', in North- can make an impact on the Does the competition be- ern Pakistan this summer. housing benefit system." tween the High Street banks The 21.0110 foot peak has However. LUUs Welfare make overdrafts an easy option never been successfully climbed Office believes the appeal went for students who might other- before but the experienced so smoothly because the land- wise manage? Colin Byrne tit team. who have been in prepa- lord didn't turn up to defend the NUS does not believe so. ration for the attempt since himself. "Realistically the banks have to October feel confident that Very few rent assessment de- make a profit and they do pro- they will complete the climb. cisions have been released and vide a necessary service to stu- The cost of the expedition. as a result it is too early to draw dents, What the NUS oblects to around 0.000, has been offset conclusions. is that it now amounts to a by a grant from the University Welfare recommends stu- private loan s).stern for tit 11- Expeditions Council. It is also dents to first negotiate rent re- dents. It is not the bank's laidt hoped that the LUU will award ductions with their landlords that students have to borrow money; Paul Allison a Roger Stephen's and if this fails then they should travel bursary. lodge a fair rent and if neces- The fault lies then with the sary, appeal against this deci- relative decline of the mainte- The disabled drivers motor club nance award in real terms. will be holding events in Leeds sion as did the Cliff Mount stu- dents. Over survey found that next week as part of its 'Round • The victorious Hoddites with their mascot 'HoIrby' • Photo. T. Woo/gar since 1979 the value of the stu- Britain Rally'. dent grant has fallen by 211 per There will be a civic recep- cent. The situation may. hc even tion and buffet. attended by the LEEDS STUDENTS ARE worse for the 71) per cent of Lord Mayor, at Leeds Town students receiving parental con- Hall on Monday and a full day tributions since hall of them (an event on Tuesday which will NUS estimate) do not receive include exhibitions and driving GRANT HOAX VICTIMS all their money. skills competitions. Two Leeds students have been amongst the described as "typical local government jargon.- Unless grants are increased victims of a hoax in which letters. apparently The two people responsible. both students, significantly the general down- horn Stafford County Council, have been sent to have been caught and it appears Ihat the letters turn of the economy will soon COVER UP students informing them that they would have to were merely a practical joke which went wrong. make a system of loans such as Earlier in the year equipment repay part of their grants because of spending The result. according to Dimes. is that the those pilot schemes now spon- worth £301) was stolen from Kit- cuts. county council had onginally called in the police sored by William & Glyn's .on College. At the time of the The letters, which a total of five students have now views the prank as an "unfortunate incident hank in FE colleges in the south theft Leeds Student was asked received, are authentic looking forgeries. bear- which escalated." and wishes to see the matter of England. the only alternative not to report the additional ing the council's letter headity, and written in closed with no charges being brought. to being overdrawn. theft of computer equipment. what the council's awards officer. Mr Davies Martin Bentham Fiona Fordott for reasons best known to Mr Henderson, then head of photography and design at Kit- son. MACK THE KNIFE We now know that the addi- North Riding College has been proposals can be dire. Last tional theft was of £15,500 ordered to enter into "close September it was recommended worth of photo typesetting academic association", with that De La Salle should merge equipment. Mr Radley. the Leeds University as part of an with the Liverpool Institute of new head of photography and expansion of public sector Higher Education. De La Salle design, told Leeds Student that teacher training places. failed to find a satisfactory basis he was unaware that there had Bretton Hall College may also to carry this out and Joseph has been a cover up as the police be required to link with Leeds given them three weeks notice to and insurance firm had both by Secretary of State, Sir Keith close the college down. received details of the crime. Joseph. In addition Five other In a letter to the Bishop of He said: "Whoever it was that colleges around the country will Salford. Chairman of Govenors committed the robbery knew be joining up with nearby uni- at the college, Joseph manages what they were looking for. versities. Joseph hopes that this to conclude that, "It would not They took certain items of spe- move will further the develop- be in the interests of the Higher cialist equipment which could ment of cost effective and high Education System as a whole to be linked together." The cul- quality teacher training. increase the number of students prits have still not been traced. The consequences of dis- at the college." Damian Earle obeying the Secretary of State's Chris Hill c tistickqforbooks WON'T LIE DOWN A coach load of students from rain. It passed pearetull ■A11,1 ALL THE BOOKS YOU NEED ARE HERE Leeds Lniyersity took part in a there were no arrests. UNIVERSITY BOOKSHOP POLYTECHNIC BOOKSHOP MEDICAL & LEGAL rally in support of the 'Silent Night' strikers last Saturday.. At the after march rally. an 21, Blenheim Terrace, 25 -2Z Cookridge Street, BOOKSHOP enthusiastic crowd was enter- 57. Great George Street, Hours of business 9.00a.m. to 5.30p. m., Monday to Saturday 1 he march. through the tained by speakers including streets of KeithleY in North councillor Derrick Hatton and and for STUDENT STATIONERS orkshire. attracted about MP Dennis Skinner. 'The beast STATIONERY, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES : 4, Wood house Lane, people. despite constant of Rolsovee.

NEWS Page 3 ART WORK A *work-in', will be held at the sic said that he and his staff Polytechnic on Friday. 6th June have been, "working hard to CRETIN HOP in protest against the redesign the course", in the LUU witnessed scenes of vio- building in order to take advan- was no trouble, he commented threatened closure of the Fine hope that the CNAA will re- lence and disorder on Friday tage of the last half an hour's on the professional attitude of Art department. verse its decision to freeze the night as the union played host to drinking time. Ents security his staff. On Saturday members of the courses intake. A document the Ramones. had to be called to assist the Following the problems in art. design. planning and media outlining the changes which Inside the union building be- porters in keeping people with- the union LUU executive de- courses. occupying the city site have been made has been sent fore the concert, the har mana- out union cards out of the cided, at a meeting on Monday union. will mount an exhibition to the CNAA which will prob- ger witnessed a man being hit in building. night to discuss with Ents and in the building in an attempt ably review its attitude to the the face with a bottle. LUU Despite the trouble in the Events whether it would be bet- make people aware of the course within three weeks. women's officer, Frankie Blag- union the concert itself passed ter not to have. "This sort of possible effects of the depart- Mr McKenzie felt the reasons don, Ents officer on duty for peacefully. There was no trou- band appearing at the union mental closure. Members of the for the course incurring the the concert, tried to find the ble during the body checks at again." public and local MPs will be wrath of the CNAA were com- man, who is thought to have the door of the refectory and Frankie Blagdon said, encouraged to attend. plex. He partly blamed the fact been badly cut. by following a the only injury that occured "There are always incidents of LPSO Deputy President. that the course prospectus had trail of blood he left behind. whilst the band were on stage disruption in the union at con- Chris Tidey. who is coordinat- been out of date, promising a The injured man, was not was to a girl who received a certs, but this was much worse ing the event, hoped it would traced but during the hunt broken arm in the crush at the than usual." She was not pre- "show the commitment of the another man was found face front. pared to sec. "Ordinary mem- students involved." down on the floor, suffering Scouse, head of Ents, was in bers of the union put off by The Fine Art, and Design from alcoholic poisoning. An the refectory during the whole rowdy behaviour." course at the Poly had it's in- ambulance took him to hospit- of the Ramones set and there Chris Hill take stopped by the council for SPORT al, where he later recovered. academic awards (CNAA) in In another incident a number AID December of last year. It was of men were heard shouting ra- also given a 'Zero intake', by cist abuse at a black union the National Advisory Body, member. They stopped this which would mean that the when Ms Blagdon threatened course receives no students in to have them removed from the the academic year 1987/88. union, but after the concert range of activity which financial Head of the An and Design cuts had curtailed. they found her in the union and course at the Poly tan McKen- physically attacked her. Government cuts have The Ramones finished play- meants that Leeds Poly arts stu- ing in the refectory at 10.30 pm. dents have had to start buying not at I1.00 pm as was expected CLIMB some of their own materials and so the union was faced with a expensive areas such as film and photography, have been large number of fans attemp- DOWN especially badly hit. ting to get hack into the unam Norman Fowler may he recon- It the CNAA reverses its de- sidering his benefit cut propos- cision on the Poly then the next als according to an article in the campaign the department Guardian on Tuesday undertakes will he one to try to Sun Shun He has postponed his get the NAB to remove its. announcement on the cuts Seven Bristol University stu- 'Zero intake'. Despite the which is to he reviewed by the dents have been disciplined fol- obstacles. tan McKenzie he- Cabinet. lowing iolent demonstrations liexes that, -Fine ,irt J fu- Day id iicilcke. the ser- againsl hislon. lecturer Profes- ture at Leeds Poi\ sor I ices correspondent rcce John Vincent's involvement Chris Hill with the Sun newspaper. leaked information about a re- The University's History de- port issued by the Social Ser- vices Advisora Committee (the Colin Byrne, NUS press partment has seen a number of in- Gosernment's benefit watch- officer said Fowler's action protests during February and dicates the Government are March, against the allegedly dog body). Hencke believes the report is the main cause of Fow- worried about the report and sexist and racist views held t)N are delaying the announcement Professor Vincent in a weekly ler's change of mind. It allegedly condemned the to see if they can "soften the column titled 'Vincent's View'. blow", either by compromise or On one occasion 12 out of 60 implementation of the Fowler Photo John Jeffay by scrapping the proposals demonstrators having been re- proposals, mainly due to Education Secretary Sir Keith completely. He believes that a fused entry burst into a theatre What a wondetul world it would he if all adverts could inspire new education secretary will be where he was conducting a lee- ideas for charity students. Joseph's decision not to go ahead with his promised grant appointed shortly who may lure. breaking the door down. Last ear's LUU General Secretary. Marcus Sheff, minus take a more moderate line on his Levis 501s, strips to his boxers in the Hyde Park reforms. and assaulted him. It is alleged student grants. but to go ahead he was kicked, punched and laundrette to raise money for Donisthorpe Hall old peoples' The SSAC considered the article to he "speculation" and with the proposals in the dal"' spat on. home. of the report would be "politic- to declined to comment arty furth- A disciplinary committee The event which was organised by J Sac is expected al suicide". comprising academics and stu- raise about £151) from Mr Shen show 01- nerve. er until the report is made pub- Damian t'larle dents found sevenpeople guil- lic. ty. Two students will have their degrees witheld for six months. one was fined £H0. and three were repremanded and sent- enced to 60 hours community DISOWNS MILITANT service. One will he suspended Militant has had its recognised annoyed by this move and in- al Secretary Rob Minshull. She had expected Union support if he commits another offence group status removed by LL tend to try to gain full Union A photocopied article from for Hatton's rally which, she and has had to pay for the executive at a meeting this society status by bringing the the Guardian newspaper, which hopes, will attract "Hundreds of broken door. week. matter up at OGM's next year. singled out Militant supporters young people as Hatton repre- A fund was set up to pay for The move means that the Un- Young Socialists ('hair Julie as a recruitment area for the sents people prepared to fight." the fine which collected the full Till expressed anger at the National Front were stuck onto ion no longer officially acknow- Rub Minshull said that he amount. move, she also condemned the the posters. ledges the existence of Militant knew about the defacing of the The Union does not support fact that posters advertising the Ms Till found this action group. It will not be allowed to posters and that he was present the demonstrations and recent Militant backed visit of Liver- "Pretty disgusting coming from display posters or hold meetings when it occurred. He attacked OGMs condemned the vio- pool Councillor Derrick Hatton a member of the Labour Party" in the Union building, nor will it Militant as a right wing orga- lence. to Leeds have been defaced, and felt it was •*Something that receive Union funding. nisation who refuse to support you would expect from a Tory." Damian Earle Militant are understandably with the support of LUll Gener- separate sections for blacks and women, the CND or a united Ireland. He further claimed that THE RACE AGAINST TIME he had been beaten up by Mili- Run the Race Against Time on away just because they are not ited Nations to make policy on tant supporters in the past and Sunday, 25th May at 4.00 pm wearing the top. this continent and to directly that three members of LUU ex- on Leeds' Hyde Park starting raise money from the event. The main aim is to get as ecutive had recently been from opposite the Grammar many people on Hyde Park as threatened with violence by school. As Sports Aid's founder. Militant. possible. Your action will coin- Chris Long says. "We shouldn't It doesn't matter if you're a The posters which were de- cide w tilt millions of others hay e to go on creating glamor- gasping wreck. or amazingly fit, world wide when the race starts faced were displayed in the just get off your burn ana run. ous projects to raise money for at 4.00 pm. wrong places and in large num- Hopefully all entrants will Africa. What's needed is for the world's political leaders to act bers claimed Minshull. This have already sent a V. +IV for the Sport Aid. which is ;omits constituted an abuse of the Un- sponsored and supported by now to help Africa help itself." official SPORT All ) T-shirt be- ion by-laws, and it was because If millions of people gel Lip and cause this is the entrance fee. Bob Geldols Band Aid Trust of thik ahuse that the Union had matter if it act for themselves on Sunday However. it doesn't and UNICEF. aims to broaden banned Militant, hasn't arrived by Sunday, no- the issue -01 Africa's cruel then how can the world leaders body is going to turn anybody famine. to pressurise the Un- ignore this symbolic gesture. Chris Hill Page 4 NEWS JOSEPH CCC Ambiguit KNOCKS defers grant A decision at an Exec meeting has ferred until "a crystal clear" e NO brought the activities of Campus planation of their membership Crusade for Christ under closer cy was offered. scrutiny. At Monday's Exec meeting CC The movement win still have the explained that they felt the Bible PLATFORM recognised body status that it holds was equivocal about the fact that in the Union but has lost its antici- practising homosexuality was a sin pated funding in a debate over its just as some heterosexual practices membership policies. were sinful. CCC said they were nut Education secretary Sir Keith The matter came to light when "discriminating against gays or les- Joseph launched an attack this Bill Nairn wrote to all the Christian bians especially" and that anyone week on the 'no platform for movements operating in the Union could attend their public meetings. racists' policy which is upheld to ask what their beliefs and policies As a result it was agreed that the by the National Union of Stu- were on the membership of practis- public meetings could be held in the dents and both Leeds Uni and ing homosexuals. According to the Union with funding provided on the Poly Unions. Gay Soc. President the replies were understanding that Union bye laws He called on students to re- "on the whole satisfactory". CCCs against discrimination are kept. member that "serious, free and reply while being similar to the The issue follows in the wake of a others ambiguously stated that the case at York University where dis- orderly discussion of controver- movement may exclude "such a per- crimination in the Christian move- sial issues is the hallmark of any son from our small disciple groups ments against lesbians and gays society which is worth living after lengthy consultation." This prompted the York University Un- in." was discussed at Union Council ion President to write interrogative. • Jimmy Saville (LLB) Stephen Robinson Recently the 'no platform' meeting last week where an unrep- ly to Leeds. While thousands of students were swotting frantically, six people policy has been enforced at va- resented CCC had their grant de- Fiona Furdott were granted honorary degrees for not so much as opening a book rious colleges around the coun- but for carrying out the more 'honorable' task of providing a try through demonstrations service to the community. against guest speakers like John disastrous record on student Government to prejudice left The honorary graduates included some lofty names as the Carlisle and Enoch Powell_ grants and benefits." wing organisations. congregation gathered in Leeds University's Great Hall two weeks Both MPs are known for their He said he continued to sup- Mr Minshull saw it as a coun- ago: Jimmy Saville OBE (and now, LLB), epic film director, Sir controversial 'racist' views on port LUUs policy of 'no plat- terpart to the present Public David Lean and David Lloyd Jones. director of Opera North who immigration. form' but that each case should Order Bill which he said would received a music degree. In a letter to NUS President he reviewed on its merits. be restricting the freedom of Dr Geoffrey Allen who chairs Unilever is now an honorary Phil Woolas. Sir Keith drew Leeds Poly Deputy Presi- speech of left wing organisa- science graduate while Dr Jan Firhas received his award for comparisons between the in- dent. Chris Tidey, also sup- tions like NUS and CND. 'making linguistics a living form of communication'. Noel Stock- fringements on individuality by ported his Union's no platform Mr Tidey commented that dale, who pioneered the idea of British hypermarkets also has a racists and fascists and the 'no policy but was more cautious "The Goverment and Con- degree in law. platform' policy. saying "We've got to tread very servatives in general are afraid In her opening speech, Chancellor of Leeds University, the LUU General Secretary Rob carefully when we are trying to of left wing organisations. They Duchess of Kent remarked that "her confidence and pride for the Minshull reacted angrily saving defend no platform." are probably trying to smear place has deepened with every passing year." She also payed it was "another attempt by this Both he and Mr Minshull felt students." tribute to the Union for its "support of an immense variety of Conservative Government to it was part of a more general facilities." divert attention away from their attempt by the present Tory Jay Rayner TEESSIDE LEEDS ri Av g \ Daily/- Express Service THE X99 LEEDS LINK

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'ro.1 Miss, 111101) ;raffled 'Northern al Be Claims the new getup will include representa- Committee consists of a student from /full Chimera• Gays Snub NI..•S. tives from the Universitits of Hull, Sheffield. Brad- andom! Isom 'fork Um vendy. Neither of them have The article gives a false irispression that 4 Miliffr lied. York and Leeds. raised a committee meetings this new group ilarthy split it taking place within the NUS lesbian and faay A Buick telephone call so Sheffield Onivetiot) a. minor split. arrimtign The vie evidence of this 'split' is the tonfirmed tut they were not pal of ant new pimp NI I did address the South Yorkshire NUS Lesbian owl Guy Cualr-renim in Aril My comma:, centred around the importance tit Lesbian -aid Gay Societies to break assay from the 'cheese 'n' wine. syndrome and to intabre themselves in political anivits as will aspmviding a web needed social Inaction, I have had no complaints from tither: onenthng Thal Con. ferenee of me being -patronising. complacent and generally Perhaps Mathew realised that 1 did nut exactly agree with his views en the role of Lesbian and Gay Soeities which centred around whether or not trips- should be organised is, pubs with drag tine. Apart Dear Editor. Dear Editor. from tieing, in my view, oreicsunt to the discussion, it also highlighted a generally repressive view n1 It was interesting to read the Rob Minshull is right when he women by sonic ol the men present replies of Mao Tee and Roh says (Leeds Student, 9th May) If Mathew wishes in hide /Us political naivety Minshull to Jay Rayner's article that most students cannot re- behind name railing. then so be it. He doesn't fool 'Toeing the Line'. Matt Tee is member NUS before NOLS took Inc. fel I have tanveard the -NUS Lesbian and Coy partly right in stating that it is control. This enables him to Campaign for nearly Iwo years. In that time I have the ineffectiveness of the make all sorts of wild claims had no correspondence whatsoever from Mathew. opposition which has led to the about it. (For example NOLS No complaints, no suggestions, nothing. • Joe Johnson • Jeff Samuels stagnation of NUS. After all. it actually captured the NUS Pres- Why the new found zeal for criticising-NUS? noes Dear Editor, Mathew nun lulu that it arum only Linn Brand' nd is the ineffectiveness of the pre- idency with Neil Stewart in 1982 I that he criticises but also the whale of she elected sent 'official Labour opposi- not 1983). I wonder it any of your readers have noticed the remarkable Lesbian and Gay Committee and the hundreds tit tion in Parliament which has led However, I remember NUS similarity between World Snooker Champion, Joe Jonhson and activists who are involved in the campaign and who net 115 priunnes? to similar stagnation in the pre- ante-NOLS and 1 was an Execu- that well known Leeds Union hack, Jeff Samuels? 1 wonder if by any chance they are related'? (d) Why does Mathew not mention anything which sent government. However. tive Officer in a College in the the NUS Campaign actually does" just as the Conservative FE Sector at the time, and I do Yours faithfully, why no mention ol the mailings. publints, Con- domination in Parliament does not notice much improvement, Mark McLaren lerencrs, the AIDS Campaign• los example"! Why.nu mention of our role in helping set up Leibins and not mean the country can be if any, coming from NOLS lead- truly pluralistic NUS they would majority slate. Gay Societies, particularly in the Further Education governed so badly, so the ership. Tough luck, Rob. If sector Ahem hostility is greatest? NOLS domination of NUS does NOLS is so good for FE Colleges not run a majority 'slate' for The future of the Student (e) This year I am the only gay man on the NUS riot mean they can also perform why was the only NOLS motion NUS National Executive. It has Movement is in your hands. National Executive. The worUntd is such that two people are rammed to take so badly. defeated at NUS Conference the been noticable at all the NUS Yours in Student Unionism, responsitithi} for the Conferences I have attended Campaign. Thai is why Linz, Brand. a straight Rob decides that because Jay one unFE Colleges? And why is Bevis Ingram Human, also cruise-nes the Campaign, The Lesbian has never been to a Labour the independent FE Caucus hos- (four) that NOLS is always the LUU Delegation Leader, and Gay Committee and Conference are happy with student's meeting. he is com- tile to NOLS? If FE Colleges are ONLY organisation to run a NUS Easter Conference. 1986 her. Perhaps those who found her an -odd Choke might expand on them rationale for this view which pletely unqualified to write ab- better represented in NUS now, Dear Editor, would allow us to put their minds at sea. out KOLS. Jay went to Easter it is, as with other groups, be- Dear Editor, In all, the article gave credence to the views ul one Re: the letter in Conference as an independent cause they have organised them- Leeds Stu- It's about time Events got it person without trying ui present an alternative. dent of 9/5/86. from Mr Smith. reporter and observer. He is far selves. together. Last night at the Dr I welcome the development of new groups for specific purposes: But l arc welcome some pthitical more likely to have been able to Turning to Matt Tee's letter concerning the banning of cer- and the Medics gig the stage tain newspapers in the Uni- honesty by the goaup's.spolespetsan. form an objective view of the (Leeds Student, 9th May) which and internal security were nil It To eat, l would welcome a debate with Mathew versin Union: dealings on conference floor states that the problem with the stage heavies cannot handle on his new group and his virus 01 the NUS Lesbian I have always been aware of and Gay Campaign. That debate should he open La than Rob, who as National NUS is a lack of credible opposi- three or four pissheads they and grateful for the myriad of all those involved in the student movement sin the Secretary of NOLS, a fact he tion to the NOLS machine, sure- should give in and get the pro- facilities, events. services and issue and Gal IsherIa ommitted to mention in his let- ly it' NOLS really believed in a fessionals and pay real money 11.1.ipe tighesi &bre ir. 1 11,r ter, spent most of his time en- general support supplied by the out . rn ,r1 and its officers. Howe\-- suring that Labour delegates Dear Leeds Student, The speaks monk ies with el, I led I mull agree with Mr their sign ins should too c been voted in the correct manner. As a member of the recently Smith when the Union hierar- replaced with either security Jim paean Rob is quick to take credit derecognised Militant Suppor- Notional Secretary. chy fed it is also their dune to staff or people who paid real for Thatcher's U-turn last year, ters Society I would like to t'o-Convfnor, sus Lesbian and Coy Campaign protect us mere non-sabbaticals gig. It was not NOLS or NUS which complain :bout the thoroughly money to get into the from the evils of Fleet Street. At the end several people forced this, but the 20.00(1 stu- undemocratic way in which we Of course the gutter press are climbed on to a set of light Dear Editor, dents who marched through have been treated. fascist rags that corrupt people scaffolding at the hack. Why on The University Union is no- London, frichtening This back- Our society was derecognised with their sexist_ Jingoistic leer- earth it was there or why they thing more than a scaled down benchers. When -10,0(10 pro- on the grounds that we ,tuck Lt ing and Viciousness. but we do were allowed the use of it as it Banana Republic whose rival tested this year it was NUS in- too many posters. despite the expect to have the freedom to was shaking about makes no factions representing a mere competence that resulted in it fact that they were not Militant chi rose. fraction of the population. are being failure. Would Rob like posters and were put up by sense. Actually. all I want to do is locked in a perpetual civil war to take the credit for this? members of the Labour Club to One day real trouble will wander into the stationery shop break out. There were signs co which only weakens its ability to Rob linishes with a cheap promote a Labour Party. Young and pick up a copy of whatever it in the Old Bar with tables stand up to outside hostility. jibe in accusing Jay Raynor of Socialists rally on 25th May. takes my fancy. whether it's Vie going ovei and glasses beiog We are apathetic students he- 'Sun' like lies and sensational- Does this mean the Executive or the FT, and so do many thrown, then we will all he in cause our mandatory contribu- ism, It is this idea that NOLS will close down the Labour others. tion to the Union takes away- 'Pl. and Labour policies are above Club'? trouble. Let's step back a minute and Yours faithfully. only accountability and puts it criticism which is doing NUS The unequal treatment lake a real look at the Union. in the old rubbish bin. We are such harm. NOLS. for tltc sake meted out to Marxists within Ian Prior Has anyone for instance ever apathetic students because the 01 NI'S. will continue to ignore the Union is highlighted by the Complained about the large Union will still have cheap inis criticism at their own and way in which the FCS were number of incredibly sexist in the Union schedules prog- drinks and tasty chips whether \l S peril, given the opportunity to defend greetings cards in the CATS? rarnmes whose content is equal- we go to every OGM or just `i ours. their flyposting of the Union. Of course not, no-one would be ly biased or whose producers show up for Saturday night pis- Not only were Militant Suppor- \lichael Green so pathetic. Does any official (directors, editors or set de- sups. ters not present at the Execu- Chair LUC' Liberal Society and ever check the notice-boards corators for that matter) hold We're not terribly interested tive meeting which ratified the LUU Delegate Easter for the suprising number of similarly extreme views? 01 in overthrowing the Govern- decision to close down the Mili- Conference offensive adverts that go up? course they bloody aren't. See ment or supporting countless tant Society. but we were not No. why should they? Are the my point'? Never mind. motions about whatever is informed that it was going to TV rooms closed when the Yours. bothering our 'leaderS' on that ALL LETTERS take place. Dues this mean any other source of media available ion Melville-Brown particular day. We think that if society can be closed at the you want the government to lis- WELCOME whim of the Executive? Dear Editor, ten to you, you should start ON ANY Mick Connor I am sorry that the Amnesty International committee of LUU acting civilised (even if you have (Treasurer. LUU Labour Club) was unable to support the sentiments expressed in an article to hold your nose and pretend). SUBJECT entitled 'Amnesty Prejudiced'. I believe that Als failure to support The Green Paper says that Lesbian- and Gay rights amongst others - through the inclusion of Student Unions are too political. NOT JUST Dear Editor, the' words 'sexual orientation' is something completely indefensi- That may be silly but it should I would just like to point out ble, I also reel that the tone of the AGM was intimidating for those give you people some idea of STUDENT an irregularity on the piece ab- who hoped to see those words become part of the mandate. and why our voice isn't being heard. out 'Poly Exec wrists slapped'. that statements made about the meeting by me were factually You tend to dismiss the shouted HACKERY - If Chris Tidey thinks that fifty incorrect. I'm only sorry that those of us involved in proposing the slogans of people who spit in students from the poly attended initial motion appear to hold different perspectives. your face. WRITE TO the demo on 2nd May 1 suggest I have written to Als British Section about the article and also Student interests are under he goes back to school to learn about the confidentiality_ I believe that open criticism of any attack and our crucial hour is THE EDITOR, to count. The total turnout for organisation is vital if progressive growth and change is to be rapidly approaching when unity the demo amounted to about achieved. is the safest insurance against an LEEDS STUDENT one hundred students, of that 23 1 hope that Al will soon rethink and believe that if uncertain future. When you the were from Trinity and All students. Lesbian and Oav groups and interested members work minority who use our enslaved PO BOX 157 Saints College. who had the together we can succeed in introducing this much needed change voice, stop bickering about Nazi largest turnout. The poly were into the mandate. posters and pointless motions LUU lucky if the number they sent I wish LUU Al all success in continuing to work for human and start doing something, we even reached double figures. rights worldwide. and in their continued campaign to see 'Sexual the apathetic majority will wel- LEEDS Yours sincereley. Orientation' included in Ms mandate. come you to the real uortd. Ben Topping Yours sincerely, Signed 131 1UH ( Ext Affairs TASCUS) Claire Whiteley' Tired of Politics DOING THE LEN GANLEY STANC

MUSIC THREE HALF-DIGESTED HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT retesque wit, and aware that LEEDS POLY the jokes can't sustain them- FEET selves for long the Biscuits all "Jesus Christ, come on the same manage to capture down...." the feel of aimless afternoons And you too Nigel Blackwell, stuck in front of the televi- OFF because we want to find out sion, waiting for the Giro, if that joke is funny anymore. and the next instalment of 'Cos nothing fades so Chigley. Cathode-ray culture quickly as a smile on the face THE forced into a directionless of popular music, and the generation, but all the more welcome given to 'Back in poignant because it can the DHSS' is. freezing on the laugh instead of preaching lips already. Most of the GROUND emptily to the converted. tracks were present and cor- rect - 'Nerys Hughes', 'God Time may fly by when TIM STORY Gave Us Life', 'Time Flies By', you're the driver of a train, `THREE FEET FROM but the light-heartedness is but don't stagnate on the giving way to something platform of ephemeral laffs - THE MOON' (UNITON) altogether darker. as 'Trump- the next train won't wait so VIVA! 'DREAM BE ton Riots' shows. long this time. • Photo: r wooigar QUIET' (UNITON) Shot through with Bar- John Tague

Tim Story has a short history as a rather obscure self-taught OUT-LAND American composer and his SINGULAR second (or is it third?) LP 'Three Feet' puts him on a par with the doodling maestros Budd and Eno. GARAGE BAND CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN These slow instrumentals bear COLUMN `TELEPHONE FREELAND - more resemblance though to the 1.) The Sinister Cleaners - nocturn-like reflections of tants, and this is very much SLIDE VICTORY' (ROUGHTRADE) Roedelius, another of the same 'Lemon Meringue Bedsit' EP. in the same vein: candly floss attempt to move onwards, popular music is balding brigade whose main ple- (Aaz) on the outside, a diamond In its ceaseless asures come from lonesome ahThis is a truly wonderful, heart. rapidly forsaking its 'tradition' in rock, and plundering the hours at the keyboard mulling dare I say, awesome record. 5.) Brave Combo - 'People manifold styles that helped spawn it in the first place. over their inadequacies. This is After a number of worthy but Are Strange'. (Rogue) Country, blues, bluegrass, so on and so on. 'Telephone Free not to degrade the music ultimately unsatisfying false Another six-track 45 for a ridi- Landslide Victory' is a slice of contemporary underground though, which in the case of starts, the Cleaners have culously low price. Brave Amerikana, encompassing a bewildering cross section of Story consists of grand piano ditched their rhythm box, styles, from ska to folk to psychedelia to country to hardcore. with backing synth and vib- Combo are based in Denton, recruited a real drummer Texas and play various The Campers reek of the Californian garage set-up, but raphone, and creates a pictures- while Hardcore still burns up its own implosive energy, these que whole that doesn't so much with real arms who can, you ethnic musics of the area; boys have stepped outside and observed the bewildering meander as actually achieve a know, really drum, and have notably Czech-Bohemian and destination (surprisingly). It's a set the world an object Tex-Mex. But it's all done array of musical types around; gone back inside and pro- sad little record, made for tink- lesson in how to make pop with the wit and fire of a duced music which gathers them all together under their ling in the background of a mid- music. Six tracks for the price punkish bar-room rock band. own humorous eye. afternoon laze while heads slow- of the usual number. Maybe The lead track is indeed the Apparently they started out playing folk versions of hard- ly nod off on the patio, and ironic the world isn't such a bad Doors old choon rendered core classics, and their original irrelevant inspiration remains titles like ' tiny Tortures' and place after all. Polka stylee. Fall about with unblunted. 'Take the Skinheads Bowling', 'Mao Reminisces 'Dirge For A Sunless Day' prove about his days in Southern China' and the Russian folk 2.) The Mission-Serpents - mirth, then get up and dance. it all the more worthwhile. 'Vladisvostock' concocts a heady mixture of molten music. 'Kiss'. (Chapter 22) 6.) Zapp - 'Computer Love'. But they also take stabs at their own youth-culture; Not so with Vival whose LP (Warner Brothers) Much, much better than I "Maybe he went to get a sideways haircut... maybe he went can really only mar the growing could ever have imagined. Slow and slinky, tender and reputation of the specialist to buy a vespa scooter... maybe he went to go ride his On the surface this is a stan- Norwegian label Uniton. They touching, but have Zapp real- skateboard" ('Where the Hell is Bill?'), and the obligatory are one of those irritating groups dard derivation from Sisss... ly fallen in love with a vdu? teen-angst causeless rebel touch, 'Club Med Sucks': "I hate you know who, but it is hand- who insist on using exclamation The 12in also offers eight mi- golf... I wanna play lacrosse," the nearest thing I've heard to led with sufficient imagina- marks and whose approach is nutes of 'More Bounce To a Country-hardcore song. tion to establish the Mission that of the ponderous pop mer- The Ounce'. Resist if you can. These boys are serious about being funny; 'Telephone' is a chant. Sounding like such blo- with their own, well earned, I couldn't. witty, charming overview of the current obsession with ated rockists as Bill Nelson! and identity. Flip it over for even 7.) Genesis P. Orridge - 'Je anything un-rock, lyrically and stylistically fascinating. And it Ultravox!, they prove the point more laughs. t' aime'. (Intermyth ) that pop music is only about proves for all the garbage spouted about British invasions, mutations after all and there's 3.) Colour Box - 'Baby I Love Certainly a lot less to the and the prevailing cultural xenophobia, the best and most nothing left to explore in that You So'. (4AD) point than the original; all the consistent sources of musical invention remains the Amer- direction anyway. Viva! employ Another pastiche from Col- gurgling and groaning here ican underground. melancholy in the same weighty our Box, this time it's back to could easily have been in- John Tague synth doses as The Wake, but the electro-skank as pre- duced by an over-indulgence these sonorous strings just viously heard on 'Say You'. in Newcastle Brown. Of aren't convincing enough. Such course, this has to be heard Friday 30th finds the God- serious titles as 'The Frozen Lorita Grahame is in fine, fine in the context of the beliefs of in the city again, this Field' and 'Dark Shape' ask you voice, as ever, laying down a PREVIEW fathers to conjure up the images but the firm base for the Young the Temple ov Psychick time at the Marquee in Vicar nature of the music renders the Brother's imaginative trick- Youth, some of which are The most eagerly awaited Lane; then back to the task redundant. 'Dreams Be tracking. succinctly obfuscated on the concert of this particular fort- Phoenix, Francis Street, 1st sleeve. The Gladiators, who .Quiet!' starts as a brash ex- 4.) BMX - 'Bandits-Sad'. night must be that of The June for clamation and despite neat pack- at the Poly on Mon- have come all the way from (53rd & 3rd). 8.) Mantronix - 'Bassline'. Mission aging and presentation ends as day 26th. The Mission, as if Jamaica . Complete with free BMX (10). a half-hearted plea, leaving you you didn't know, include in Third June: Adrian Legg, Bandits' comic! 'Sad is from There's little to say about to wonder what use is this Pop their ranks two members of ace guitarist, you name it, racket anyway' the same stable that brought this. Simply the best electro- the Sisters of Mercy, Craig he'll play it, in the University A. Hulme you the fabulous Shop Assis- rap of the year. To be heard only in the very best youth Adams and Wayne Hussey, Tartan Bar, and the Guana clubs. plus Mick Brown and Simon Batz (again) at Adam and 9.) Leather Nun - `Gimme, Hinckler from Led Rorry Wal- Eve's. TAMBOURINE MAN Gimme, Gimme'. (Wire) low Lolly and Artery. Judging Wednesday 4th June, may by their new single, 'Ser- warming up concerning the horrors of Wow, cosmic coincidence! find Roy Harper PALLYARD pents Kiss', they should be for Stone Henge and other chemical warfare. Only a couple of weeks ago I PACKHORSE pretty good. Even better, the hippy gatherings at the Irish was heaping praise on Era- After the customary laun- All these numbers were support is the new band Centre on York Road. What accompanied by fine playing sure's resurrection of Abba's ching of the vening by floor formed by the very, very, The Red Guitars at the 'Gimme etc. (A Man After else? singers on guitar, bass, recorder (a la very wonderful Pauline Mur- Pallyard opened their Midnight)' and here is Warehouse, the very same Cambridge buskers), tam- ray. set on a lively note with 'The another version. More evening. bourine and accordion. Wednesday 28th May the The Very Things Winsborough Cotton Mill guitars on this one. though. Finally, Blues'. From this point on, Pallyard finished the even- Warehouse hosting Boxing My favourite Abba track was will be at the Marquee on Pallyard demonstrated their ing with the encore 'Let's Clever, but the only other in- always "Dancing Queen" : Friday, 6th June. I honestly dream together for the ride', formation the Warehouse wide knowledge and versatil- perhaps the Redskins might can't promise that they will a cover of a song originally could give me was that they ity in playing tunes ranging care to have a bash at that. be fun, but they will certainly from a hornpipe (strangely played by Melanie Kafka. came from Sheffield. Not be intriguing. What's more, titled 'Hornpipe') to the spir- This provided a relaxed 10.1 The Woodentops - 'Good much to go on, but it's a it's the evening after my last itual 'Rivers of Babylon'. evening with three of the Thing'., (Woof Trade) freebie, so you might take a exam, so if me mam lets me Their repertoire also in- most entertaining head jum- More laid back than the usual chance. If not, sashay along out, I might even be there. cluded traditional songs such pers we have seen at the Tops stuff, and much better to the Phoenix, same even- Now, there's a recommenda- as 'The Cruel Mother' and a Packhorse. for it. ing, May 29th, for Smiley Cul- tion for you. more contemporary song Karl Gordon Taylor ture: Yu' kshire Gordon Taylor Page 7

MUSIC I'M GONNA CALL HER ON THE TELEPHONE A GOOD THRILL GABBA GABBA THAT PETROL EMOTION Although John and Dee WAREHOUSE O'Neil had their first taste of success 10 years back That Petrol Emotion, the they've got more energy in ETC ETC band with the stupidest their plectrums than many name in show business are young upstarts have in their the Undertones without whole band. multi-media sex-god Fergal The sound is wholesome Sharkey. I'm not sure what it full-blooded power-pop, takes to make a good pop more akin• to the Buzzcocks band, but whatever it is, the than the Undertones. They Petrol's have it in chord-fulls. achieve a pulsebeat of three They've got that edge that minute classics, hard edged makes the best music a bit keyboards and guitar lines, dangerous: ugly-beautiful grating and melodic in turn. guitar noise, lyrical con- A million miles away from sciousness and, most of all the monochrome Goths of the ability to generate excite- darkest Leeds, TPE don't see ment. anything wrong with success as long as it's accomplished with sincerity. They want, (heaven preserve us) to have MEDICINE HEAD fun. Chris Hill 'Happy but Twisted', quickly followed by 'Around and Around', and the answer to many a drunken weekend 'Friday Bad Monday'. The Annadin Brothers were at their best during 'No one Loves You when you've got no shoes' with their trance like dancing and express- ions. The highlight was an ex- tended version of 'Good Gol- ly, Miss Molly' which lost it- • Photo: Mark Williams self half way through but by THE RAMONES LEEDS UNIVERSITY REFEC DR & THE MEDICS • Photo: T Wooigar this time in his element. I very much hope that Dr LUU RILEY SMITH HALL and the Medics will stay Ten years is a long time: a lot blanket of noise tumbling of days cultivate cynicism, to Every time I see Dr and the want it to faithful to their brash, lunatic from the speakers. Such stuff let the orgial hunger be dim- Medics, little seems to have The set really began to get style of performance, but as rock 'n' roll legends are med, to get just plain bored made of.. but where legends changed, but who would going with the aptly name only time will tell. Here's hoping! with life. Has it happened to get fossilised, the Ramones da Brudders? Or do they still won't stay stationary long Helen McGergor sustain the gut-excitement enough to be touched by the GHOST-BUSTERS that impelled them onwards debris of collapsing convic- in the first place? tion. GHOST-DANCE; DEAD VAYNES - Emphatically yes: take it or Take it or leave it, the THE WAREHOUSE leave it, the Ramones still Ramones still have the ability The Dead Vaynes are one of those imitation bands who have the ability to kick the to kick the s*** from under try, in vain, to entertain. Mr Dead-Vayne need not have s*** from under main- mainstreams fosillising feet. told us that their influences were the Sex Pistols, New streams fossillising feet. John Tague York Dolls, and the Stooges - that was blatantly obvious. If anything they're getting The incestous Gothic scene in Leeds has already given harder and meaner as time birth to bands such as the Mission, and the Batfish Boys. goes by. 'Animal Boy' de- Ghost Dance might well become the head of the family. scends as a fiercesome blur Ann-Marie (Skeletal Family) joined forces with Gary Marx of sound, aural brutality beat- ing at the ears. Turning out FATALE of the Sisters, and the infamous drum machine - the cause of so many personality clashes and break-ups in the old faves at double-speed NICO Goth bands. - 'Blitzkrieg Bop', 'Pinhead', 'Teenage Lobotomy', I guess MARQUEE Ann-Marie, having lost her haunting features, looks For someone who wasn't much better on stage; her singing, too, has improved a there's just no stopping the brudders from hopping. born when Nico appeared on helluva lot. She showed what she's capable of doing the music scene, her longev- most admirably on the last number of the evening, 'Both OK, so a big tour, a big PA and a very LOUD noise can ity has always been some- Ends Burning' with Danny Mass of Salvation joining in. thing of a mystery. Yet, like "Who you gonna see... Ghost Dancers. sometimes get a bit empty, but what saves the Ramones her other Velvet Under- PAPI is their dedication, they con- ground collaborators, she tinue to burn from the pit of has remained active: and, in their stomachs, with no in- a musical climate where the terest in changing, in com- 60s tag is no longer viewed promise. with the same implacable FISHER BOYS BLUES Joey hunched over the disgust it inspired in some ever. Check out 'When the savage comes'. THE WATER BOYS microphone, Johnny quarters, she's still a notable, He tends to fancy himself as a latter day LEEDS UNIVERSITY REFEC cranked-up really high, three if not exactly influential fi- McCulloch. gure. Cup Final Saturday, having watched Liver- chords firing from his guitar, Moving up a gear. four classics with an Nico certainly has plenty of pool go to a resounding win over and counting in to break the excellent violin set-piece on 'Pagan Place', what used to be called star Merseyside rivals Everton, how can I resist and Scott is making free with the lyrics of ening which wasn't dissimi- quality which, coupled with looking at the Waterboys in the same man- 'Old England', and I can hardly keep up with lar to a giant fridge, Hipsway her disconceting vocal style, ner? the emotion of this great occasion. took the stage, and were makes her a striking perfor- The first half - a lot of new numbers being soon into the better known mer. But, paradoxically it was played here. They're very tight, with a lot of The crowd clap along, what a night... the songs like 'Ask the Lord' . the intimacy of the occasion the blues influence showing through. A Dublin boys have carried off the glittering Their set was technically which defeated her - a more quick one-two into Hank William's classic prize, and over to Ian St John for a comment on the gig... perfect and packed with detached, alienating setting 'I'm so lonesome I could cry'. powerful songs, even with which would perhaps have Mike Scott appears more charismatic than Nigel Hoitby the odd Frankie Vaughan better suited her own brand HIPSWAY lyric thrown in for good mea- of icy emotion. As it was, LEEDS POLY sure. As for the lead singer's there was little to convince "There aren't many people voice - ooh! exquisite? this uncommitted listener here are there," I thought Even though Hipsway are that she has anything fresh to when I first walked in. Even not destined to be a mega, offer. HIP CRACK though it filled up later there sex symbol teenybop band, As pop examines its roots must have only been about (John Taylor, pout on) they she may prove an interesting 350 at the most, surprising are destined to be an ex- diversion. But, at worst, Nico for a band with two recent tremely popular and interest- is an irrelevance, a king of hits. ing live group and that's not post-punk Liza Minelli, sadly Half an hour later, admist a a bad thing is it now refusing to give in gracefully. AWAY lot of dry ice and blue light- Alison Tim Wheeler BROTHERS GO TO BITBURG elcome to the plea- commercial success bring Dee has also been the target sure dome of popular corruption? "It starts the of violence, once a kung-fu Wmusic, where the age band arguing about money, star embedded itself in his of the gain is entering its and the guy who writes the amplifier, narrowly missing middle-age... song gets more than the him, and not so long ago What to do when packaged others, and they still have to Johnny underwent a brain acceptability begins to stick tour so they start fighting." operation after being kicked in the throat, and the right Johnny takes up the point, in the head by someone haircut and the right contacts "Everybody knows they have wearing combat boots. are just nothing more than a a good thing going - we're a Wimpiness this ain't, but measure of their own worth- good band. I think everyone should it extend to Dee-Dee lessness? in the band believes we're expressing the opinion that You get out of the dome, the best at what we do. If I Libya, England and any- and scrabble around in the saw a band that was better where else should be trashcans of pops backyard, than us I'd be worried. Once bombed because of anti- that's what_ in a while I see things I like. I American feeling, not only This has always been easy; saw the Clash - early Clash, stirring up trouble but contra- since its earliest days rock 'n' and oh boy, they were really dicting their own stance in roll has spawned deviants good, nearly as good as us. songs like 'Bonzo Goes to Bit- that have just refused to fit. Then I saw them a year or so burg' (anti-Reagan), 'Planet But we're talking about the later and they weren't the Earth 1988', and 'Comman- Ramones here, and that's same anymore." do' (both anti-war)? twelve years of gigs, and re- Johnny lists the Clash, the "Well I took LSD last night cords, and song-writing; Sex Pistols, the Damned, the and I learnt to be more gentle twelve years of playing punk Dead Kennedys and a couple and non-violent... I'm getting rock, and one thing punk nev- of others as being his custom-made T-shirts with er set out to do was write favourites, they were the big peace signs on them." So itself a history. We're asking ones who could write songs why did he say all that about has time eroded that original and keep the excitement bombing Libya, England? independent, uncaring, going. They're more or less "Oh, I was drunk, I was just dumbkopf zeal that helped in the past now, certainly showing off. I don't drink shape the movement in the their finest moments are long very much - I take anti-abuse, first place? gone. Why should that be so, 'cos I'm an alcoholic. But I We're asking does 1986 that music's gone back to its had a couple of drinks that really need the Ramones? former dullness? day and I was really bombed, Does guitarist Johnny nev- "There was a time when I so I was just taking the s*•* er get worried that they're thought that we'd become out of this reporter. I knew practically an institution, and really big, around the time this was just what he'd really punk was all about breaking when the punk movement like me to say, I knew he institutions? started to become big. We wouldn't believe it if Dee Dee "We're not that much of an were up to our third album, Ramone says "I pray for institution, just among the the Sex Pistols were putting peace'. I know he's gonna people who follow punk rock. out their first, and I thought say oh you're right wing, and • Joey, DDT DID A JOB ON ME I know punk is about break- that this was the music of the all this. ing institutions, but we're still future, that us, the Pistols, "Look, I hate war. When outcasts as far as the main- the Clash were the Beatles, they bombed Libya I didn't stream of everything else the Rolling Stones of today. feel good. I saw the pictures From Old Hanoi goes." But I guess the music indus- of Gadaffi's kids, and it just But time is a great fami- try really worked to keep it makes it hard for everyone. to East Berlin, liariser; has it ever bred con- down because they didn't We all want to survive." tempt? "I don't think we're really understand it. They Looking at Dee Dee the Brothers gonna get too professional. wanted to keep the acts that Ramone myself, the tattoos, There's a lot of thinking as far they understood big, so it the hard face and even har- as the show goes, but we never really caught on as it der Noo York accent I too find Grim are with don't practice. If we don't should." it a little hard to believe that play for a month and a tour's Ah, memories only make he prays for peace. Then us again. With gonna start, we have a re- us cry. What does he listen to again such a fine slice of vital hearsal the day before we now? vinyl like 'Bonzo' can't be all a major tour tour. I don't play guitar at "I don't listen to music, so wrong. Speaking of the home or anything, we're not that's a bad one to ask. I just music, would they say underway, and going to get too slick." got so much of it through the they've changed (I don't say So the punk enthusiasm/ years, that I just had to mellowed) at all over the their tenth LP unconcern is still there. But escape from it. I guess music years? were there any points in your comes in different waves, all Johnny: "I hope not... I like `Animal Boy' history when you thought it of a sudden there's a high us to be as close as possible was all going to end? point, and in a couple of to what we set out to do. I about to be "At times around 'End of years a low point." never like seeing bands the Century' and 'Pleasant "Is synthesiser music at a change when I was a fan of Dreams', I didn't like the high point now?" theirs. I always wanted to released, John direction in which we were "No, it's not really going play punk rock, the songs I going and I was getting really anywhere at the moment... was involved in on the last Tague speaks to tired of it. I didn't write any of All that synth music seems to album - 'Mama's Boy', the songs on 'Pleasure have come out of England, so 'Warthog', 'Endless Vacation' The Ramones Dreams' only because I'd lost you can have credit for it." were the punk stuff. There's a interest. I felt we were getting Suicide? certain percentage of the about the soft, people were worrying "I know they might have album I want to be a certain about having a hit, worrying been one of the first, but at way - three chord punk orien- what's the about compromising and least they were sick y'know. I tated songs." Doesn't all this putting out watered-down liked Suicide, I was a fan of inevitably get a little limiting? Ramones. I never cared ab- theirs, they were crazy. After "Everybody's limited. Every why's and the out having a hit, it didn't mat- that it became all wimpy," band's got their style, they're ter to me. Now the last two stuck with it. Not many bands where-to's of albums are good again, h, wimpiness, here's can continue to change styles everyone's less worried ab- something to play with. and still be good." the celebrated out hits." ANot that it could ever But for all this, hardcore is Why, though, out of all the seep into their music, let's certainly making its presence three-chord bands that came out of the not be so naive as to think felt in Ramonesville. It was a rush of 76/77 should the that, but this 'hardness' of style that helped focus atten- mash. Faces on Ramones out of all of them attitude has dropped them tion back on da brudders, ab- lasted? Dee-Dee answers this into trouble in the past. The sent though still working the film: one: "We like what we're last time they played Leeds small American clubs whilst doing. and probably because someone smuggled a loaded caught up in record-company • RICHIE: I lust found a nurse f ha we never had a hit we never air-pistol into the concert and hassles. Paradoxically I can go for Mark Williams got corrupted." Why should took a pot-shot at Joey. Dee- though, it was the Ramones

ARTS Page 9 The Di drawls (drools?). "the first girl to bring me her bra and knick- ers gets a free bottle of Asti Spa- mante but make sure they're dean though" - no. not 'ladies Mehl' at Tiffanys. but an extract from John Godber's excellent play Bouncers. This two hour. four man per- formance accurately catalogues the weekend nightclubbing scene through some hilarious character- isation. The play thrives on its use of stereotypes and could be coh- cised for doing so but Godber's skill as a script writer means that no FORESIGHT single night dubber escapes deri- Come on down... sion. We find we are laughing at Yet again the price is right at the ourselves as well as others. Hyde Park Picture House - even if Students are portrayed as moan- you walk out half way through ing Smiths fans who plague the DJ you still waste less than the price to play 'The Jesus and Mary Chain' of a pint of Tetleys. instead of Lionel Ritchie's getting With value like this how can off music: the Hooray liennes you miss LETTER TO BREZH- don't even get across the threshold, NEW This must be the largest their 'now listen here, my .good and most reality full prize this man' chatter rubs the doormen up week. Sexual tension, tension the wrong way and they are told to between countries, steamy p'" off. scenes and LURVE as Teresa Most of the play. however con- meets Sergei and Elaine meets centrates on four women. four men John Godder's 'Bouncers'l Peter. A cynical fairy tale about and the Bouncers themselves. Few has stolen her boyfriend and they "they're sixteen going on thirty example - "You don't need a brain two ordinary young women (Fri- props are used or indeed. are had "been going out for two whole five, young and vulnerable - ex- to he a bouncer,just an ego" - to day, 23rd May for seven days). needed to distinguish these charac- days". ploitable." lie recollects an inci- the occasionally ghastly. COLONEL REDL transposes ters for the actors deftly change dent he witnessed in a pub when a John Godber of the Hull Truck these themes of sexual and, poli- their personalities at the drop of an Suzie's foil is Dirty Eric, the woman. p" 'eft up, was repeatedly Theatre company is a talented tical tension, which seem to be accent. massive bouncer who has taught raped by members of a football man. he writes plays that have mass the Hyde Park's raspberry ripple There's Suzie. "she's sexy. wears the other 'lads' all they know. fits team and nobody. apart from him, appeal but don't seek the lowest flavour of the month. Hissing suspenders. goes on the sunhed - two speeches are introduced blunt- did anything to stop it. Certainly no common denominator. One hopes self repression, opulence and she's had everybody". het friend, ly by the other doormen. The laughs here. and expects he has inspired a whole angst (Friday 30th for three whose birthday they are celebrat- laughing stops. Eric's description In Bouncers. the mood switches new class of theatre-goers. days). Sex. murder and psychol- ing, has hysterics because someone of the Suzie genre is poignant: from the predominantly jovial for Helen Slingsby ogy mingle in an intelligent con- tinental movie that puts wits and laughter into the word thriller. (22nd May for four days). DEATH , IN A FRENCH GARDEN, it's cal- • TOP • HOLE • led, or so the Hyde Park say, AN ILL llieeles (ABC) Complex stuff. The film is entertaining and amus- The Playhouse does well on Just when you thought it was safe to join FLYSOC. ing; Biggies (Neil Dickson) is pukka English and the late night and Sunday scene. Captain James Biggtesworth, alias Biggles, flies his contrasts well with his American counterpart. who is the eccentric KISS OF THE SPID- finest hour to save the ABC, and the world as we yo-yoed between present and past to good comic ER WOMAN should have know It from almost certain reality. effect. enough energy to keep the volts WIND Biggies first clattered off into the blue in 1917. the dazzling through your skull. There are a few giggly scenes (Biggies dressing up sooperdooper aerial chappie who shot the Huns into as a nun etc) and the aerial skirmishes are well shot. (Saturday and Sunday 11.15 and the pieces they jolly well deserved to he shot into. THE WINTER'S TALE: 7.30). On Sunday, 1st June The adventure and the hero arc reminiscent of the Looking back to the future, director John Hough Bond films. though they're not in any way a rip off. WORKSHOP THEATRE there's THE WAGES OF FEAR, a has had -him fly into a timewarp and crash into 50s black and white subtitled B There's a good comic stooge. Peter Cushing is as stern modern day America. He is rescued from the wreck- The movie. 11 throws together South and sinister as ever. and only Biggies himself needs a Winter's Tale is one of' age by a curious Jim (Alex Hyde White). who becom- Shakespeare's later plays and one America, nitro glycerine, fire and little more stuffing to become a first division super- es. via the urging of from 1917 of Colonel Raymond of his most mature, so my English the road to the Oil Wells, all hero. (Peter Cushing} caught up in the desperate hid to find teacher used to say. courtesy of the Playhouse hand- out the nature of the new German secret weapon. Very enjoyable. Let's hope the Biggies saga con- out. I'm using indelible ink for which could change the outcome of the Great War... tinues... The Workshop 't'heatre's inter- this one in its confrontation with pretation of the play rather than its page 42 of my diary. visual presentation meant, howev- SUBWAY is the best that the er, that this production was only a Cottage Road can offer, late qualified success. night on the 30th May. It's a French comic book thriller As a modern audience we expect turned into a moving picture, psychological realism but Leontes' But if you've seen all the films LEEDS jealousy, the starting point of the before why not guess how much action, seemed unjustified and his it cost to revamp the Alhambra PLAYHOUSE subsequent ranting and raving far- Theatre in Bradford whilst ex- fetched, even ridiculous. periencing some of Britain's top contemporary dance with the Calverley Street The staging of his first suspicions Ballet Rambert. (27-31 May). of the illicit 'relationship' between You too could win a plastic 442111 his Queen, [fermium! and Bohemia toasting fork. was highly effective though: a sea of There's something even better dim blue light in which he struggles to come to terms with the 'evidence' closer to home. The Grand and Until 7 June Opera North are conspiring to in front of him as the action freezes produce a series of songshows THE SEA and the other characters remain in which all loudly and stupidly motionless. statuesque. lOse their souls and end up twist- The Winter's Tale falls in to two ing on that eternal toasting fork distinct. very separate halves which the devil's fires. THE RAKE'S are rather rudely brought together PROGRESS. FAUST, and DON at the end. At times it was difficult GIOVANNI are all on at some Mon'Tfles bpm, V'Ved:Sai 7,3t)prn. to reconcile the two. The first half Mohnee June :The', point over the next two weeks. ends with the death of the Queen But I'm missing out on all the and then we are transported to a polished stuff. The nety gritty of Fri 23 May, 11.15pm different world where the mood, ideology sounds again as the even the language Is far removed Workshop theatre presents a AMERICAN GIGOLO (18) from what has gone before. week of women's theatre.. 2-7 June. The contrast in tone was striking. On the more static side of life Sat 24 May 11.15pm, Sun initially there was Lawrence Ness- Bradford's NMFP is probably kau as Leuntes. prancing around still the best bet, municipal 25 May 7.30pm the stage, filled with jealousy, tor- museum wise. Indeed Leeds KISS OF THE SPIDER mented and suspicious: the mood is hasn't yet managed to open half sombre, the action slow. Then in of its gallery: see What's On for WOMAN (15) the Bohemian' forest the tone is further info. lighthearted, like a Shakespearian More importantly, and build- Fri 30 May, 11.15pm comedy. ing up to an end here, there's the Antolyeus. played by David Poly Creative Art PRINTMAKING DIVA (15) Clarke. was the most attractive fi- DEGREE SHOW at the Poly gal- gure in the production, a rogue who lery, 23rd, 28th and 29th. always bud the audience on his side Sat 31 May, 11 15pm Agitation and Propaganda and who provided comic relief with time: the powers that be, in this contemporary references. case the evil, gluttonous, mono- TRADING PLACES (15) minded NAB (National Advisory Despite my reservations about Body) are again trying to close Sun 1 June, 7.30pm the last scene when we get a virtual down the Fine Art Course. Watch resurrection. as with most of the out for action. Work-ins are plan- THE WAGES OF FEAR (PG) production the svelte was well pre- ned and if they want you to sented but the actual test served to march the price (pretentious bit alienate or slightly confuse the audi- coming up here) must be right. LEEDS ence. for walking is free and, so the cliche goes, art is without price. _PLAYHOUSE,, Duncan Mu •ray Page 10

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It raises -I am an English Liberal. i hate the points in an undemanding the world we live in and about the ism of the stories of the fine art of reality of London's boom-period Interesting Tor• party. their men. their words, and through the hero of the novel, a hip, Beameam me up Scotty. their methods." - Winston Churchill- hest way of living peacefully in it" murder.' The two novels from Pluto crime attempt to just that. As a Evelyn Waugh, 'Waugh in time Waugh spent in the war- subsidiary of that well known Abyssinia' Penguin torn country with a few newsy publisher of left wing literature, bits thrown in: as such it is a Pluto Press, they bring a socialist "On 2nd November of that year work of many sides. ■ or 'socially aware' perspective to 4 pliiiviliv vp EVELYN WAUGH the sphere of crime. 1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen was You can read this for his fun- But does it work? And, after the crowned King of Kings. 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Waugh's politics were disillusion is of ex-students and Evelyn Waugh, fresh from reactionary and his conclusions ex-activists who have seen the the decade of the "bright young on imperialism are usually pret- hopes and ideals of the late MK things" was sent as a journalist ty dubious if not downright dissipate into mortgages and to Abyssinia where he reported wrong. sensible jobs, but who still need to on the Emperor's coronation Yet Waugh was an intelligent do radical acts. and the Italian take over that and truthful man: in this little, The eponymous Angels are a terrorist group who have infil- followed shortly after. lively hook he made perceptive trated high society and the secur- The book is not a compila- comments that helped disturb ity forces. Instead of simply des- tion of his news reports. 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Page 11 BOOK CONTRIBUTORS Chris Allibane John Tague Baz Arden Mark Taylor Dan Burman Ivan Tennant AMANDLA Kieron Collins Nelson Mandela by Mary Benson Emily Cross (Penguin £2.50) Katherine Deans The difficulty of writing about a life of such unfulfilled Robert Grubas potential is working out the historical perspective that you Nigel Holtby have to start from. Ben Hopkins He is still very much alive in Pollsmoor Prison and the Anne Lavan mythology that has grown up around him is becoming an Caroline Levy increasingly irritating thorn in the South African govern- Marcus Lyon ment's side. However his deeds now form part of South Jay Rayner Africa's history. Helen Slingsby %11.1r8‘01" Fleeing from an arranged marriage and pursued through The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangood and John Penycate the state by men determined to bring him hack to his royal SNOOKERED (Pan Books £2.95) Zulu family and chiefdom, Mandela was forced into an early BY DONALD TRELFORD Much has been written, photographed, filmed and sung about political awareness. He was woken by various of the deeds of Snooker is primarily an Vietnam, yet the 'Tunnels' reveals a whole new area of the war, General Smuts, like the massacre of the Israelite sect of 63 or armchair spectator sport. Apart and a whole new nightmare that makes Apocalypse Now seem like the bombing of the Bundelswats brethren for not paying from David and Dickie and the teddy bears picnic. their dog licences. Although these acts were not necessarily Dickie's obvious and occa- The tunnels of Cu Chi were a system that the Vietnamese built directed against the black population, they still reflect the sionally banal gentry inquisi- to fight their foreign enemies. During their struggle with the barbarism and national character around which the ideology tions the average enthusiast Americans they extended for hundreds of miles around Saigon. of apartheid has been structured. gleans most of his/her know- This book provides a comprehensive and detailed study, not just Compiling quotations from many different sources Mary ledge of the green baize from of military facts and figures. but also of the men and women who Benson has managed to prevent this book from becoming televised frames. fought in the tunnels, the conditions and the horrors they had to just another political biography of Nelson Mandela. Tabloid printed sensations - undergo. She has shown the guiding influence that the Mandela- where Knowles puts his and The best parts are the remarkable interviews that the authors Tambo partnership had on an ANC which had lost its ways how Kirk lines up the white - have managed to secure with tunnel veterans. and degenerated into a 'talking shop' during the 1930s. As a offer a disposable gossip sup- This is not just military history but a view into what makes rare indication of the stature of this man we are given a plement. Donald Trelford's people tick. detailed quotation from Nelson Mandela's four hour state- book appears as an oasis of The [Age Between the Streams ment in his defence at the Rivionia trial in 1963. genuine inside information in Those Pluto Press people have by Ved Menta (Picador 1984) Since then he has been in gaol, and Mary Benson has had this desert of useless trivia. done it again and found this. to try to account for the staggering influence that an unquot- In the first half of the book `The Big Sea' is very good, "From experience they knew able, imprisoned man has had on the angrily politicised he traces the game's origins, unlike the typical student par- that within moments the people of South Africa. explains why Joe Davis was 'Mr ty quipped the 'reviewer' dry- riverbeds would he flooded. The task is a difficult one. and she has not fully succeeded. Snooker' and charts the sport ly. But they knew of no way to Rather than an analysis of the situation we are left with an 'as from its comparative obscurity Langston Hughes an 'all- warn us. We were far out of the it happened' account of the stories that Winnie Mandela can in the 60s and 70s. From this American' black, wrote this reach of their voices, and the tell of her husband's life in prison. foundation the author reveals autobiography from his ex- fastest legs amongst them Easy to read with amusing first hand stories and anecdotes his fascinating comments on the periences as a poet and couldn't get to us in time. They closed their eyes and prayed. from Mandela's early life. this version of events does give an 198415 season, culminating in 'aware' man of the 1920s when When they opened their eyes, interesting introduction to the lives of one of the modern the book's pinnacle, the Cruci- radical prejudice was not they saw us slowly coming up, world's born leaders and statesmen. If only . . ble 85. The writer pens a covert but viciously open. plethora of individual portraits: still unconscious of the wall of Thorhurn has 'the air of a river- water. which even at that mo- boat gambler', Knowles is ment was coming out from 'boorish', Higgins 'mis-spent under the bridge. They gave us ■ - • his youth' and White boasts 'a up for dead. Then they saw us reputation for speechlessness'. break into a run. They held The reader discovers how their breath as they lost sight of us in the blinding rain." • Steve ticks and how the man from Coalisla.nd won at Shef- Vedi is trapped by his blind- ■ ledge between • field. Hearn's Romford Mafia ness as if on the which Trelford seems to have the streams. He can help him- infiltrated, is his chief source of self, other people An only AA • a insight. watch. Outside his blindness . . 44 The author edits 'The Obser- other forces contend against ver' and he relishes his leave of him, the Indian social system absence from political analysis. which condemns any handicap. His love of snooker is com- The book is a tale of his ped child to a life of depend- plemented by his writing pedig- travels: Mexico, New York, ence on his or her family. and ree. They blend to produce an Africa, Paris etc. Because he the political upheavals and vio- appreciative but critical was a 'negro' it centres around lence leading up to and follow- appraisal of the state of the people's perception of race ing the 1947 partition of the game and the characters within and reveals the absurd serious- Indian sub-continent into India it. ness of the colour bar. and Pakistan. The compelling content is en- les a friendly personal book Vedi, now Ved Mcnta, writes hanced by a fluent and witty rich with anecdotes. Sailor one about the years from his sixth to 4 narrative and generous use of moment, Harlem socialite the his fifteenth birthday. in the quotation. 'Snookered' is scin- next, he writes about it all with language and style of a child, and from a child's point of tillating material for cue buffs - an amiable richly observant a literary one in seven. pen. Marvellous content is view. showing how the world allied to a powerful plain style. outside has to be fought with It's quite probably the and mastered. His autobiogra- friendliest most approachable phy is not another 'Gandhi' or Have you had your free eye test this year? book ever. Friendliness with a 'Jewel in the Crown' packed true tongue, for Langston with dramatic incidents and sus- pense, but a documentation We are all entitled to ONE free sight test per year. knows what's what. 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Though Lang- * Qualified and helpful staff ston knows a heck of a lot of * Convenience - our practice is opposite the Parkinson Building people I have never heard of, I * Medicinal and toiletry requirements are also available still had a fine time hearing about them. Ta Lanes: you was a swell guy. We offer a confidential and professional service ARTS REVIEWER WANTED Contact us now for your appointment MONDAY AT LICS Optical Practice, 180 Woodhouse Lane. Tel 438136 UNIV 11-2 410.M.M■ Page 12 ARTS GOODBYE TO GUMLESS WONDER FRIGHT NIGHT - a modern day horror movie spoof with no Nu r - pri,es or originality, Writer/ MINELLI? director Torn Holland wanted to exploit Iwo markets: comedy and It is unfortunate that in these days horror. The lure of financialgain of mega bucks production audi- seems to have obscured his judge- ences would always prefer to watch ment. television than go to the cinema, His mistake starts with a full and gu to the cinema instead of the moon. ethereal mist and a barely theatre. glimpsed coffin. From here on in It is probably for this reason that the plot -develops". ie gets more the stage version of Cabaret has for thoughtless. and little of interest the past two decades or so remained happens until the last half hour unperformed on the professional when the audience is treated to stage in Britain, apparently ren- some highly polished and mildly dered obsolete by the 1972 Bob gruesome special effects. Fosse film version of the same name Roddy McDowell is relatively which starred Liza Minuelli and amusing as 'Peter Vincent' the hor- Joel Grey and which scooped ror show host who when presented numerous Oscars. with a real vampire, bottles out but However it is by no means obso- comes through in the end. 'Arai' lete as the touring of Cabaret which played by Amanda Bearse is, at stopped at the Grand Theatre ear- first a typical sickly sweet heroine. lier this month showed. Cabaret is a Luckily she proves more interest- "traditional" love story set against ing when metamorphosed into one the decadence of 1930s Berlin and of the vampire's minions. The most the rise of Nazism. Unique in its amusing role is that of Stephen time, it sets love against politics. Geoffrey's 'Evil Ed'. who as a and does not allow the audience to bizarre teenager and then as a settle back into a cosy world of 'boy bungling vampire provides most of meets girl' stories, constantly pos- the laughs. William Ragsdale as ing questions about sexuality and its 'Charley' the hero does little for relationship to extremist politics. the film. Wayne Sleep. who played the Revision is more scintillating Master of Ceremonies seems to than this film. have chosen this production as a Katherine Than and Simon way of branching out from his ster- Winchcombe otyped role as the doyen of dance for the masses. He acquitted himself was of course aided by a chorus of the problem of too many diverse greatest skill. It was a rather ob- This said however, the staging of very favourably. dancers and singers who spared no scene changes. In the style of the vious combination of Nazi gestures 'Money Money Money' was spec- His was an unenviable task be- blushes, not to [agate but to un- modern musicals the action and to a sound track of Nuremburg tacular and in itself a great break cause however hard one tries to nerve. movement carried on as each scene rally type chanting. It can only he with the film. ignore it comparisons are bound to Unfortunately not all the other moved off to be replaced by another called a show stopper in that it be made between him and Joel principal characters were as strong. set, all of which were both simple destroyed the continuity of the play It is unfortunate that the pro- Grey's film performance. Salls Books lacked the vi veal capac- and effective. and jarred with what went before vinces of Britain which apparent's, Looking more like a Borstal bully ity necessary and veered too much Continuity was maintained by and after. means any thing outside of London boy than the sinister ringmaster towards vulnerability as the real setting the whole play in the fantasy it also seemed a shame that the where of course only about 85 per Joel Gray had made his own. Sally Bowles rather than the cover world of the Kit Kat Club, into songs 'Money Money Money' and cent of the population live. are so Wayne Sleep gave a performance for the hard woman within which It which all the sets moved. Maybe This Time' both of which rarely given the chance to see pro- which although slightly lacking in is meant to be. She flashed her Only one number came across were not written for the play but the ductions like this which almost ex- the vocal region was exceedingly suspenders as though she were a particularly badly. Called 'Political film, were put into this production. clusively are restricted to the hal- powerful physically. convent school girt rather than a Tap' it seemed to have been drop- It seemed like an attempt to give lowed streets of London's West He typified the sleaze and deca- raunchy night club singer. ped into the second act purely as a the theatre-going audience a live End; which is in fact where this dence which is meant to permeate The staging was remarkably slick vehicle for Wayne Sleep's tap dig-ic- production of the film. which is production is finally bound, through the whole of Cabaret. He for a musical which has always had ing. which is not actually his totally unnecessary. Jay Rayner

SPIES LIKE US — ABC FLIMFLAM AND SPACE: After a highly promising opening half hour or so this unrestrained spy spoof veers fast towards un- humour. Funnymen Chevy Chase ALHAMBRA & RAMBERT and Dan Aekroyd fight a losing battle to extract laughs out of a corny script and disregarded plot .which displays the- usual American padded-cell internationalism and neanderthal sexual codes. The hest hits are in two sketches early on. if you think they are worth the admission fee, and tiles might he. Aykroyd and Chase are two obscure fledgling CIA ops sud- denly hauled into the big [One by the thoroughly nasty General Slim:, as unknowing decoys on an impossible mission into Soviet territory. To do this they must sit ihniugh a token exam in which their ridiculous attempts to cheat in front of suspicious invigilator Frank Oz are highl!, mirthful. lit the second such scene they operate on a great Afghan tribal leader. mistaken for eminent surgeons. He dies just in time. but alas so does the film at this point. only left for the heroes to go on to launch a Russian missile at Arrierica. threatening world disas- Morocco and Norway if you like ter and some nearby Russian that sort of thing. and fine clapper women in a last minute fling. Here work by crewman Danny Shelrner- Donna Dixon undresses well in a dine if you don't. difficult scene, surely a name for Take my advice and you'd defect the future. to the bar. The famous Alhambra Theatre of The strange size, the large afford to use it. There's some exotic filming in Steve Miles Bradford reopen:, on 27th May. orchestra pit, the extensive dres- The theatre starts off on the 27th revamped and largely rebuilt. The sing rooms anti various hits of tech- on a brilliant note with the Ballet tickets will he quite cheap - only Eritrean culture looks peculiar in dents have raised about £4,000 to nical wizardry should combine with R.arnbert dancing a high energy three quid a throw for all us student the context of the Tartan Bar, but 1 support this infrastructure: the rehearsal scheduling policy to modern line up. There are some pop pickers. have to admit that their dancing cultural evening was by way of mean that it will he the only real other decent shows - Agatha Its a mixture of Vulgar would work well anywhere and that thanks. Victorian dance theatre in England. Another Christie's 'Death on the Nile'. but film Elam and open-structured artistic first for Bradford. their spongy pancakes. green The music had a boppy beat and unfortunately about Christmas beans, lentils and fatty curries are a hip swaying tune, the dancers modern metal and glass. There are Deputy leader of Bradford City time the programme deteriorates some wonderful evocative spaces. step up from your usual SOp danced, the crowd joined in. Council, Gerry Sutcliffe, points out with Cannon and Ball. some light. some dim. It's big. The that the Alhamhra won't only be a ploughmans. They didn't really succeed in put- stage looks Like the hanger that grand theatre and a -northern cen- With any luck_ after the las- The Eritrean Liberation Front ting over any essence of their cul- Death Vader and Luke Skywalker tre of excellence": local communi- telessness of Yuletide, sanity will have been fighting ' various Ethio- ture: the griminess of the bar pre- used for the final struggle in Star in Bradford should be able to return with some improved offer - pian regimes fur many years now. vented this. But they were different. Wars; to my untutored eye the use the workshop style theatre ings. As I repeat, 31)p off peak Behind their front lines they have refreshingb different from your auditorium looked like the 'Super- which has been built behind the evenings in Bradford promise some created a new African state com- usual Tartan Bar hop. it you we- bowl '. Bars and restaurants main stage; pricing policy will he restoratum to your social life plete with hospitals. agricultural ren't there you should have been. abound. fixed so that the relatively poor can Ben Hopkins assistance schemes etc. Leeds stu- Ben Hopkins • Dee Dee, 'It want my

that helped inspire the move- enjoy it, y'know, so I don't ment in the first place. "It have to concentrate on what evolved into what they do. It I'm playing." started off as punk and Are the Ramones still sing- evolved into hardcore. We al- ing about the same things? ways play with local hard- "Yeah, probably the same core bands, they open for us things... you just find new the different towns we play in subjects to sing about, hope- America. We want the kids to fully it'll still be amusing." know that we identify with But those lyrics, Pinhead, that, that we still listen to that hopping Cretins, baseball stuff too. It's nice they play bats, and a hundred other with enthusiasm, but they sprat comic scenarios, why need songs, you can't have those? "We were trying to every song sounding the sing about things other peo- same. I mean our stuff might ple weren't singing about. come close to sounding the There's only so much you same, but you need to con- can sing about, girls, getting centrate on having good drunk y'know? So you come • Johnny 'I wanna be sedated...' songs." Dee Dee: "Now we up with new subjects, pin- have two songs that are real- a Ramones break-up will eah. I know that feeling, inside these boys. As dedi- heads, mental conditions, ly difficult to play, they're circulate, so how long will people say it to me quite cated as ever to spontaneity, mental problems... Other really hardcore, beyond punk this thing be going on? "I just often. Packaged accep- perversity, pure as ever that lyrics seem dumb, we're y - 'Animal Boy' and 'Eat That take each year one at a time, I tability is still scum as far as what they do is the best, and singing about different Rat'. They're really fast feel we still have another this band are concerned, the with no desire to comprom- things, that's gotta be a little y'know, faster than punk year left, then after that dun- home fires still burn strong. ise for the sake of anyone, bit more intelligent than the songs." no, we'll see. I'm looking for- Though because they are an punk begins, and maybe will same dumb bands - Fore- ward to retiring." institution, however limited, end with the Ramones. igner, Journey... I don't even As retirement looms, does their attraction never tempts Wilful, hard and dedicated. know their names." 'Gimme hile Dee Dee enth- Johnny Ramone cast an eye them to go really big? Not any year needs such an atti- gimme shock treatment' uses, as he always over his history, and take commercially, but generally tude, and maybe now more perhaps a little, ermm, taste- did about the de- pride in what he and the with massive sets, massive than ever. Last word falls to less? "Other bands they lights, of the two-minutes band he's with has done? venues, which they've got Dee Dee: "My solo work's a don't know the fine line good thrash, Johnny's a little less "Oh yeah, 'cos if us, and the the clout to sell-out? bit like the early Stones blues taste, there's a fine line impressed. He's the only per- Sex Pistols and everyone stuff, mixed with some hard- where you go into bad taste "We played four sold-out son I've ever heard describe didn't start then I don't know core. But the hardcore I'd like and a lot of bands do that, I shows in London, and had a hardcore as and despite if there'd be any rock 'n' roll to give to the Ramones, the nice hear lots of songs on the day off and went and played being involved in the writing now, y'know. It seems like it's next album I'd like to make radio, and I go (tuts) that's a little club. We did four en- of the two songs, prefers the dying, the short songs, the an all hardcore album. I hope bad taste. Somehow I feel we cores there, y'know, and older stuff. "I love to play the energy, when you parents go we get dropped by the record stay on the line of bad taste that's the first time we did old stuff, I enjoy playing it get that junk off! - that's how company, get picked up by and not go into it. We're al- four encores... we haven't more than the new. The new it's supposed to be None of an independent label so we ways aware that we can't done it in so many years t gets a little harder to play, this, oh they're a very cute don't have to make singles, sing about something 'cos can't remember." and I don't like going up band, Duran Duran, very videos and stuff, but put all it's bad taste." there and having to worry nice. I want people who All those years ago: de- our energy into playing live." about how I'm going to play Fun but sick, sick but fun, aren't into wild aggressive spite the years, the all too Is punk dead? This may be the song. I like to go up there but can it go on much lon- music going I hate that, it's easy path towards big-scale the living end, but it's still feeling relaxed, so I can just ger? Periodically rumours of horrible, get it off..." ease, something still hungers living.

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THE JEWISH SOCIETY It is difficult to talk about determination, as all peoples do. mate fears of the Israelis. Thus a secular democratic state and Gaza number many thousands. peace solutions in the The desire of the Jewish people to in Palestine would mean that once a homeland is no more inherently Why then have the Palestinians again the Jews would he unlike the In Israel, the Ratz party has poli- Palestinian-Israeli conflict. racist than any other national li- and the Israelis not been able to other nations of the world. without cies based on mutual recoemtion There is tremendous confu- beration struggle. The synthesis of reach some form of compromise? a spiritual centre, and without a and understanding. The Labour sion over the rights and the progressive Zionist thinkers and The answer is both complex and homeland. Moreover. the actions Party has a new policy that advo- wrongs of a complex and tor- the recurrent waves of anti- tragic. The PLO has since its of the PLO do nothing to inspire cates allowing political organisa- tuous history. Debate often semitism in Europe (which reached formation in the 191,0s claimed to confidence in such a state and there tion in the occupied territories. their horrifying fruition in the be the sole legitimate representa- is clearly no guarantee that the providtng an alternative to the descends into a slanging slaughter of the holocaust) pro- tive of the Palestinian people. Jews of this state would he either PLO. and a few hesitant steps to- match, trading atrocities that duced a commitment and resolu- What has the PLO stance been on protected or free to express their wards a Palestinian state. highlight the great divide be- tion in Jews and most of the world Israeli!. The Palestinian National culture. We believe. that a one- tween the two peoples. In an for the establishment of the state. Covenant, the Charter of the PLO state solution. would lead to a The peace movement. The Way declares. -claims of historical or bloody civil war. as in Lebanon. to Peace, has West Bank Palesti. issue where it is difficult to Holocaust survivors were denied religious ties of Jews with Palestine Mans. and Israeli-Jews. working remain objective we should entry into every country in the are incompatible with the facts of The Israeli-Palestinian conflict together, lobbying for peace. state our position clearly. world and many. entered Palestine history . .is not an has now gone on so long, and has Three thousand Palestinians illegally as their last refuge. In independent nationality. Nor do been so bitter that sensible logic attended the first rally of this November 1947, the state appeared the Jews constitute a single nation cannot always apply. The average group. They reject the PLO's tac- We are zionists. Zionism is not a as a reality with the partition plan with an identity of its own," Israeli or Palestinian will have lost tics and courageously condemn the total ideology. Zionists still have to of the United Nations. which cre- either family or friends in the war. murder since 1977 of over 50 mod- clarify their position on their rela- ated, side by side, Jewish and Having denied Jews. the right of Emotion, for most people is stron- erate Palestinian leaders who dared tion to society, on the problem of Palestinian states. This was all people to self-determination. ger than rationale. You simply can- speak out against them. the territories, on the questions of accepted by the Jewish Agency but the convenant declares that they not tell an Israeli who has lost religion arid state, and on the prob- repeatedly rejected by the Arab "reject all solutions which are sub- members of their family that the A settlement cannot be found lem of social inequalities. leaders who swore to destroy stitutes for the total liberation of 'one-state', is a solution. and that that does not involve compromise. Israel. It was in the war that en- Palestine." In the process to this Israel must dismantle its army. Israelis must accept the Palesti- The author Amos Oz put it more sued. that the Palestinians became 'liberation'. "armed struggle is the allow all-corners in. and enjoy the nians rights. and five land as they simply, Ile said "Zionism is a fami- refugees, having had a state of their only way to liberate Palestine. rosy future. have shown willing to do. eg Sinai). ly. name." There are religious and own. Thus it is the overall strategy. not The Palestinians must accept that non-religious zionists, capitalist merely a tactical phase. - There can be no Palestinian state they cannot have the whole area, and socialist zionists. As members Over half a million Arabs be- which does not agree to live in and with it the' destruction of the of Leeds Jewish Society we cannot came refugees in 1948, an almost But surely the PLO and Arafat peace with Israel. as there can be State of Israel. speak for the whole society, but we identical figure to the numbers of have changed some of these views? little positive future for an Israeli do represent a train of thought Jewish refugees from the Arab The PLO is indeed changing and state that doesn't agree to live in Anyone who considers peace a within it. world at the same time. it was some of the elements within it may peace with the Palestinians. The priority should he doing their argued that driving the Palestinians well be moving towards recognising first step is mutual recognition_ Be- utmost to support those Palesti- We believe the initial element in out of Israel was a policy of the Israel, but the Israelis have good fore this can mean more than just nian e and Israelis who work for the any road to peace is the under- Israelis. Whilst it is certain that reason to fear otherwise. "I want to words, a revolution of attitudes is revolution of attitudes that will standing that zionism and the rights many Palestinians were driven out. tell Carter and Begin that when the necessary. save both peoples from the „self- - of the Palestinian people are not as in the massacre at Deir Yassire it Arabs set off their volcano there destruction that intransigence will diametrically opposed. Arab and is also true, that many fled. will only he Arabs in this part of The way to peace does not lie in bring. Jew can live peaceably in the the world." Arafat, Beirut. March the Jews or Palestinians solely de- Middle-East. At the settlement "The Arab states which had en- 12th 1979. "The Fatah fending their own rights, rather it "Two national movements have Neve Shalom, Israelis and Palesti- couraged the Palestinian Arabs to movements . is the libera- must lie in both parties sympathis- clashed.., over possession of the nians jive together in a communal leave their homes temporarily in tion of Palestine ...and the exter- ing with the rights and sorrows of same land, and the only way to - society where. the emphasis is on order to be out of the way of the mination of the zionist entity eco- each other. Accepting that the resolve the conflict, the only way peace. understanding. co- Arab invasion armies. have failed nomically. politically, militarily. Israelis will not willingly dezionise two rights. and two kinds of justice operation and an appreciation of to keep their promise to help these culturally and idealistically." 4th themselves and destroy their own ean he reconciled would be to each others' cultures. refugees." - Jordan daily newspap- Fatah convention, Damascus. state. a two-state solution is the partition the country between er, Falastin 19th February 1949. Syria. 31st May 1980. only just. and realistic option. A them. It is difficult for one people So what is at the centre of the "The 15th of May. 1948 arrived. two-state solution will however to understand the nationalism of conflict? Many anti-zionists claim the Mufti of Jerusalem appealed to The first war that Israel loses will never work until both peoples are another-- if such peoples wish to that the suet is the 'racist policies' the Arabs of Palestine to leave the he the last war that Israel fights. genuinely in favour of such a prop- survive they must make the serious of the Israeli state, which are them- country because the Arab armies And what if they did lose?. The osal, that accepts the existence and effort to understand. Every recon- - selves an 'inevitable consequence'. were about to enter and fight in suggestion offered is that of a secu- rights of both peoples. ciliation begins with empathy. I of the •racist ideology' it is based on their stead' - Cairo daily. Akhhar lar democratic state. This sounds believe that this remains our - Zionism, In this scenario, Israel is el Yom. 12th October 1963, reasonable, but as members of a There are good signs. The Levatest dies..." Amos Eton. 'The a colonial state founded through minority group. living in Britain we 4011,0(111 Israelis who demonstrated Israelis. Tel Aviv, 1981. imperialism, and the Jews are not For nearly forty years the are aware that the society's pre- against the realities of the goverrr justified in claiming the right of Palestinians have been left, without dominant culture is based upon ment's war in Lebanon were a sign self-determination, a country of !heir own, in refugee Christian. white. male % eluee (Uni- of the Concern Israelis feel ahem By Raymond Shaw (Political OM- camps. They are a people without a versity holidays for example. re- their country's actions. The experi- er, J-SocI The Jews are a people - we have home, and their right to a suite is volve around the C'hristian calen- ence of Neve Shalom has been Paul Berman (Vice-Chairperson. .1- a language. a culture. a history. unquestionable. The problem is to dar. forcing minority groups to mentioried. Members of the Peace Soo and a religion - as a people we have reconcile the legitimate aspirations conform to it regardless Of their Now movement. which calls for a Bougie krikler the right to autonomy and self- of the Palestinians with the legiti- own cultural calendar). Palestinian state on the West Bank Lawrence Glyn 111 PEACE 1;1 The middle Eastern debate seems unresolvable and is a constant obstacle to world peace. Below both the Palestinian Solidarity Society and the Jew- ish Society put forward their points of view on the future of the Israeli state and the Palestinians. THE PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY SOCIETY The Palestine conflict is a "Increased (Jewish) immigra- government from normal re- result of the attempt to tion will add to the strength of sponsibilities towards its citizens our gains in war; it is not enough in the areas of health, education create a Jewish state on to occupy the territories. we and other provisions covered by land already inhabited by must settle them too." a welfare state. Thus the stan- another people, the dard of welfare amenities for the Palestinian Arabs. This Two and a half million Palesti- Arab population is vastly lower has caused the disposses- nians are still homeless refugees than that for Israeli Jews. as a result of the creation of sion of millions of Arabs, Israel. Between 1948 and 1967, It is obvious from this that the the oppression of hun- 385 Palestinian villages 13/4 of Palestinian problem is really the dreds of thousands more, those occupied by Israel in 1948) problem of Israeli state racism. It is not essentially a dispute about and a war which has were destroyed and their land taken for exclusively Jewish set- refugees but about the basic hu- lasted, with brief breaks, tlement; since 1967, this process man rights of Palestinians both since 1948. has been extended to the occu- within and outside the unde- pied West Bank, Gaza Strip and fined borders of Israel and any Palestine was under British Golan Heights in defiance of In- possible solution must therefore 'protection' until 1948, when ternational Law and United Na- involve the dismantling of its in- part of the land was handed over tions resolutions. As Moshe stitutionalised and systematic to the Zionists for the establish- Dayan, the Minister for Defence, discrimination. other part might be. Palestinian people as their sole ment of the Zionist state, Israel. said in 1969: representative both inside and Many Palestinians were forced The view of Leeds Palestine The Palestinians have been outside 'Israel' and this is the to leave and become refugees in "There is not one single place Solidarity is that the starting forced into a position where they only framework within which li- the surrounding Arab states. In built in this country that did not point must be the right of have no alternative but an beration can be achieved. particular, many went to the have a former Arab population." Palestinian people to self- armed struggle. There is no West Bank and Jordan. Even those who remained af- determination and to return to point in negotiating when one It is often argued that taking a ter 1948 lost much of their land their homeland. The argument is side has all the power. The only stance against 'Israel' is neces- In 1967, many were made re- with the result that 91 per cent of often put that if Palestinians are bargaining chip the Palestinians sarily anti-semitic but in fact, we fugees for the second time. the land area of 'Israel' is now by seeking a peaceful solution, they have is military action - they are strongly committed to anti- when the Six Days war broke out law allocated for the benefit of should recognise 'Israel'. otheriwse have little to offer and racism including the fight and Israel occupied the West Jews alone. By this means However, in this sense 'mutual everything to demand. against anti-semitism. To Bank along with the Gaza Strip. Palestinians have been forcibly recognition' can only mean rec- We can only conceive of the oppose the Jewish state is not to Sinai desert and Golan Heights. transformed from a largely ognising the right of Israel to use of an international confer- discriminate against Jews but to Not satisfied with occupying the peasant economy into hired perpetuate racist policies and ac- ence as a forum for discussing fight against the anti-Arab rac- land the Israelis began to build workers at the lowest levels of tions against Palestinians and the restoration of full rights, in- ism carried out in their name by settlements on Palestinian land Israeli industry. thus deny them the right to free- cluding the right of return to all the Israeli state machinery. and to impose oppressive eco- dom from discrimination within Palestinians to the land of Pales- The liberation of the Palesti- nomic, legal and educational Because much of community that state. For the same reason, tine - a prospect which, in the nian people cannot be seen in restrictions on the Palestinian development in Israel is pro- we cannot accept a two-state present climate, is impossible to vided for by money raised solution since it is untenable and isolation from the liberation of people. Abba Eban, Israeli Fore- imagine. ign Minister in 1967, expressed through the World Zionist Orga- ♦rtjust for there to be an apar- all Arab peoples and ispart of an Zionist aspirations to the land nisation and not through the theid state in one part of Pales- The Palestine Liberation Orga- international struggle for equal- openly in statements such as: state, this absolves the Israeli tine however democratic the nisation is recognised by the ity and freedom.

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June 27-28: Quartet/James Iv- OUT OF TOWN ory. I Box office: Bradford 720329. BRADFORD ALHAMBRA THEATRE, Morley NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FILM, Street PHOTOGRAPHY & TV, Princess June 2-7: The Lion the Witch and View the Wardrobe; June 8-12: Tom- 4NolOioior-ptotgatc.ley 1 at 8pm Heat & May 31-June my Steele; June 21 onwards: Dust/James Ivory; June 1 at Jesus Christ Superstar. JUMBLE SALE in aid of SASF. COMMUNARDS BOXING CLEVER 5.30pm: Script to Screen with Saturday, 24th May in the Refec- 29th May at The Warehouse. Box office: Bradford 752000. Thursday 12th June. 12-2pm in Walter Lassally; June 3-4 at RSH. Please have a clear out and tory. £4.00. Free admission. Drinks promo- 7pm: Kagemusha/Akira Kurosa- PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT tions. bring all your unwanted clothes. wa; June 7-8 at 7.30pm: June 4 at 11am: The Hidden brit a brac, pictures, books etc to RED GUITARS Detective/Jean Luc Godard; Parchment/Pilot Street Theatre. Helen or Anne in the Exec Office. ADRIAN LEGG Wednesday 4th June at The June 10-11 at 7pm: A.K./Chris Details: Dewsbury 454771. 3rd June in the Tartan Bar. £1.50. FEDORA BEAT - discos for all Warehouse. Marker & RASHOMON/Akira PLAYHOUSE, Chapel Street Kurosawa; June 14-15 at occasions. Phone Wade 742796, MISTY IN ROOTS June 9-15: Sweeney Todd/C.G. Mick 740643. 7.30pm: Vertigo/Alfred Hitch- Bond; July 14-19: The Fosdyke ALIEN SEX FIEND Sunday 25th May. 12.00 mid- cock; June 17-18 at 6.30pm. Saga/Alan Plater & Bill Tidy_ FRIDAY CLOTHES STALL - every 25th June in Riley Smith Hall, night - 4.00 am at The Phoenix Lawrence of Arabia/David Lean; Box office: Bradford 720329. Friday in the Union extension, £3.00 advance. £3.50 on the Club. June 21-22 at 7.30pm: Rumble selling practical clothing, Gran- door. Fish/Francis Ford Coppola; June THEATRE IN THE MILL, Bradford SMILEY CULTURE dad shirt, mohair jumpers, even- 24-25 at 7.30pm: Return of the University ing jackets, 1950s jewellery and 29th May, Thursday, at The Soldier/Alan Bridges; June 28- May 30-June 1: Black Key Study! Trilby hats. THE MISSION Phoenix Club. 29 at 7.45pm: Far from the Mad- Tony Graves; June 3. One •for Ex-Sisters of Mercy. Monday ding Crowd/John Schlesinger; the Road/Harold Pinter; June 5- LIBRARY STOCKTAKING - takes THE GLADIATORS place during the week beginning 26th May. Advance £4.00, £4.50 Thursday 5th June, at the June 29 at 5.30pm: Script to 6: The Northern Trawl/Remould on the door. Monday 16th June. Please en- Phoenix Club. Screen with Richard Rodney Theatre Company; June 13-15: Bennett. No Platform/University Drama sure all books are returned to the Edward Boyle and Brotherton ROY HARPER Box office: Bradford 732277. Group; June 19-21: Palach! PINK PEG SLAX Charles Marowtiz; June 24-26: Libraries by Friday 13th June. Our Lady of Lourdes Social Club. On Wednesday 28th May, at The PLAYHOUSE & FILM THEATRE, Irish Centre, York Road, Leeds. Good Morning Bradford! THE ELECTRONIC TYPING SER- Cardigan Road. Friday 30th May, Chapel Street University Revue; July 1-5: Old £3.00. (All films commence at 7.30pm) VICE - all audio/copy typing at 9.00 pm. £1.50. All proceeds to Time Music Hall/Bradford Youth June 2-7: Room with a View/ work undertaken. Theses, dis- the Catholic Church. Players. ZOOT AND THE ROOTS James Ivory; June 16: Trophy sertations, manuscripts and cvs. Box office: Bradford 733466 Plus The Atlantics. Friday 23rd Scenes; June 17-18: The Official Competitive rates. Phone Leeds ext 8416. AT THE PUB WITH NO NAME May at The Astoria. £2.50 Version/Luis Puenzo; June 19- 611774. (EX-MARQUEE) waged, £2.00 unwaged. 21: Death in a French Garden/ May 27th sees the opening of 20,000 RARE books/cassettes. MAY. Friday 23rd - The Shrubs Michael Devine; June 23-25: Bradford's £8.2 million Headshop stuff on the Occult; plus Easterhouse. Saturday 24th BRENDAN CROKER Dangerous Moves/Richard De- ALHAMBRA Theatre. Seating Hypnosis; Healing. Browse - The Bomb Party plus The Para- At The Astoria, Friday 30th May. mbo; June 26-28: Caravaggio/ 1,500 the theatre will be pro- Monday to Saturday 9.00- chute Men. Sunday 25th - The £2.50 waged, £2.00 unwaged. Derek Jarman; June 30-July 2: ducing a variety of shows. 5.30pm. Mail order. Stockists/ Atlantics. Monday 26th - Zoot Streetwise/Martin Bell. from ballet, to drama, to Soo- enquiries. Tel. 753835 anytime. and the Roots. Tuesday 27th - SLIM GALLIARD ty. The theatre comes at a Astonishing Books! Hyde Park Hang The Dance. Wednesday At The Astoria, Friday 6th June. SECOND SCREEN time when there has never Corner, Leeds 6. 28th - Fidei. Thursday 29th - Jon £2.50 waged, £2.00 unwaged. (Films commence at 7.45pm) been a greater need for per- Strong and Band. Friday 30th - June 6-7: Jane Austen in FOR HIRE: A sixties special dis- formance venues, and it is a The Godfathers. JUNE: Sunday THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Manhattan/James Ivory; June co. All sorts of music: Rock, pop. worthy addition to the York- 1st - Blues Bite. Monday 2nd - The gig scheduled for the 9th of 20-21: Hullabaloo over George & liquorice, soul etc. Telephone Chainsaw. Tuesday 3rd - Lykos June at the Poly has been can- Bonnies Pictures/James Ivory; shire arts scene. Ches Cherrington on Leeds Opera. Wednesday 4th - Mecas- celled. The lead singer Mr Reid 740876. sars. Thursday 5th - The Prow- has apparently had a nervous Blue shorts, grey top keep up the FROGSLEGS CO-OP hand made lers. Tickets - Weekday £1.00. breakdown. Obviously, playing keeprating - love keepfliness clothes. Trousers fitted to per- Weekends (Friday and Saturday) for 14 minutes at a time was all • sonal requirements. We make £2.00. Doors open at 7.00 pm. too much for him... Whn says nobody sends you a me-s- up your material, jackets, bow iege Matt? The whirling dervish XXX ties, tops too! Steven - 122431 - A 7 E I Just remem- ber to take the key out of the door this CAROLINE LLOYD - knitwear, Hazel does your Mornsons bag leak ? unusual handmade jewellery time' • • • and buttons. Find us at Caroline It's inhuman Hazel. will it lit in your House, 38 The Calls, Leeds 2 Nicky Better - get your fringe cur bag? (near Wharf Street). Wed-Fri • • • 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-1 pm. If your bag's too heavy Hazel, don task MASSAGE FOR WOMEN - re- FRIGHT NIGHT LETTER TO BREZHNEV 5G +T Thanks lass !- I'll not forget it. XC me to carry it. I know what's in it lieves stress, tension, aches. Supposed to be a horror spoof If you've ever crossed the • • • • • headaches insomnia, premen- movie, with all the vampires you Mersey, on a ferry, in the rain, Sophie - good luck I Aled - I know you'll To all at Hillel rather ynu than me, strual tension - and makes you could wish for. Unfortunately, it you'll love this one. Trashy, dis- pass Good luck in your exams - Lisa good, £5-£8 per hour. Phone doesn't really work, and instead posable fairy tale, teeming with • • • • • • feel Liz on Leeds 785717. you get a below average com- the Scouse humour you know A N J - thanks for the help I don't think To our own little rabbits. Met and Rob - edy about American high school and love. London? Where's that? I could have done it without you Love. ever tried myxing yer toesees1 SUNDOWN DISCO phone Chris kids. Don't bother. AJC • • 780253. THIS IS SPINAL TAP • • • JEWEL OF THE NILE Been on telly. Story of a dis- Today's horoscope Gemini An excit- 'ALEX ON WHEELS' LIGHT RE- You've heard the song, you've astrous tour by spoof heavy la Holley - Conservative candidate for ing day with lots of surprises and glit- MOVALS - £6 per hour (Leeds seen the video, now watch the metal band, Spinal Tap. Quite Woodhouse Moor? tering prizes. area). Estimates quoted for Ion- • • • • • • film. Sequel to Romancing the funny in places, especially when g75e3r88d8istances. Phone Leeds Stone, with Michael 'Zak' Doug- they're all being so serious. I Blue Holtby - Thatcher's puppy? Good luck Candi. love Ben Don't las et al. Good fun adventure • • • economise on your revision knew somebody who thought SWAN TYPING - electronic typ movie; nice way to get rid of • • • - the band were for real, but he Happy birthday Anna Girl 20 lots of ing. Theses, essays, cvs, any- those exam blues. likes Twisted Sister, too. love. Nigel X The situation concerning Mr MB is thing. Quality presentation. JAGGED EDGE • • • getting desperate Large cash reward Collection/delivery. Phone York AMERICAN GIGOLO PLUS the rest of the house thrown in Top-notch thriller starring Jeff Luck and love to the girl with the parrot Richard gets in gere, for a real for the love of a good woman 0904 424079. Bridges and Petre Coyote. Every- trousers-down, ho-down. The on her head • • • • • INSCRIPTIONS - for ccs, mail thing you need for a good night Playhouse calls it "an essay in Sharon. Ali. Jill. Rose and Shauna send shots and address labels. Phone out. Take a cushion to hide be- redemption". I say it's porn, Break your leg. their love to all their mates in Leeds Leeds 441592 evenings. hind. thinly dressed up as art. • • • See you all soon NIGHTLINE - for someone to tal BIGGLES KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Think once, think twice. think elite pair. • • • • • • o and for information. Tel. See this week's review. New William Hurt whiles away his Ta very much for the Spanish hospital- 42602 8.00pm-8.00am ever blockbuster; chocks away. prison days by escaping into an I've never seen so many DID-Heats ity, to the Granadan bunch, from Jay . • • • • • • night of PON or uni term. Night SPIES LIKE US extreme world of fantasy. Bril- light is confidential. Chevvy Chase and Dan Akroyd liant film. Brazil, turns out better Daisy - come play with my bike pump Superb effort lads, love EDxx star in what is probably the first films that it does football teams. 6of .11'1 bortii6 F !NAL s 2 of many spoof anti-commie DIVA &saw s... ►tees s movies. What it tacks in plot, it 1981 French movie full of in- •••• '4 Lar.ts I., MO' rot 1•1..J•V terreawsr.. was, N. SA's rms. gains in laughs. John Landis tense loonies and operatic mur- 11••••,[...1.74. Prr, tor./ • film, which is enough to make it ders. Subtitled and recom- 0•a., a hit. • 6604 00 n.v. mended. •10 :4„ 7914terrT SON There ST fiZvIN, OUR OF AFRICA TRADING PLACES 00. Oscars or not, one of the better One of Eddie Murphy's better movies going around. I don't films, concerns the role reversal ...... really see any attraction in Ms of a down and out to a financial Streep, but I only write the film wizard. Good fun because you guide. An intellectual offering, don't have to make any effort at ***OF uson .taller served on a panoramic platter. all - sit back and let it roll. i C•P 4, came? KING SOLOMAN'S MINES WAGES OF FEAR Richard Chamberlain stars in IR: 1953 French film about two lorry LOIN& Ara, meolp? average adventure story. Natur- drivers and their cargo of nitrog- ally enough, it is sexist and racist EXAM FEVER. SETS IN lycerine. Tense and exciting, BUT THERE S A REAL WORLD and all the other ists you can pretty much like going to the NI 'An NC CI', Cr nit uto think of. Even if King Soloman Tartan Bar the night before a OUT THE RE . doesn't mind, I do. Medieval Lit exam.

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GRASS SKIRTS IN GLOUCESTER BRITISH HOPE PIDCOCK TO TAKE ON WORLD?

An excellent season for the Uni- Leeds University sent a versity Table Tennis Club came Since the gradual decline of to a close at the beginning of this strong team of four riders to the mass marathon there has month during the tournament the BSSF Road Race Cham- been a boom in medium dis- finals of the Leeds Table Tennis pionships, held near Cam- tance road races. Many League. bridge over an undulating series have sprung up, often After the finals had been play- 78 mile course consisting of highly sponsored by com- ed the presentation saw the Uni- six 13 mile laps. panies such as Mars, Kodak versity pick up 12 trophies. The etc. In order to follow this first team were champions of After the long drive down in development in competitive division 4A, Zaid AI Kurdi pick- the morning it took some time for running Leeds University ing up another trophy for the the Leeds riders to become active Athletics Club are holding highest average in the division among the 60-strong field. their own series, the Doss (100 per cent). The second team However. after 30 miles new club were champions of division 6A, captain. Giles Pidcock broke A.C. Grand Prix. while the third team, who could away with five other riders, aided The first race of the series only finish third in division 6B, by es-club captain John Neuman was the Allerton High School picked up trophies as runners up and Roger Tonsil who tactically 10km Road Race. The course in the Norman Smith Knockout 'blocked' the hunch for some ten was rather hilly and with Cup. miles. poor weather conditions, hail In the very windy conditions, was falling during the warm the breakaway group reached a up, fast times were not ex- lead of some two minutes before pected. After covering all the TABLE TENNIS Pideock attacked after 55 miles. breaks during the race, John over Onwell !lilt. dropping every- Sherban kicked with less ROUND UP one save Jason Rimmer INeucas. than half a mile to go and tle University). comfortably won the race, at The lead then slowly dwindled the same time setting a as the main field counter-attacked course record and a personal over the last 20 miles. However. best time of 31min 7sec. Eight representatives of the Leeds fourth rider, Mau Walk- Despite the unfavourable Leeds Skiing Club took part in ley. had now recovered from the conditions many runners set the BPSA Dry-Slope Cham- lone drive and was active in new PBs, including Greg Hull pionships in Gloucester last blocking manoeuvres, Meanwhile who claimed many notable week. Roger Tonsil retired with lee scalps in finishing third. Eric ache'. Although such weather as hail Morrison (17th) was third to and torrential rain hampered Pidcock, realising that u place finish for Leeds University skiing conditions somewhat, in the World Student Cycling and in doing so ensured Jarlyn Howard managed a fine Championships to he held in them of the team competi- Moscow could rest on this per- sixth place in the women's indi- tion. formance. and riding skilfully en- vidual event. After setting the pace for sured that he and Rimmer stayed With about 100 skiers partici- ahead of the main hunch which the first three kilometres, pating the Leeds men's side was chasing hard. Doscoe's efforts slowly faded were stilt able to bring some until he eventually finished a originality to the proceedings Into the last half mile and. feel- miserable twenty-second, confident, Pidcock. paus- with all four competing in grass ing being overtaken by Roger skirts and Beach Boy tops. ing sink' to put on hi, shades, • G. Pidcock in action during the ten mile IT sprinted away from Rimmer up Mee (19th) who had a parti- The overall winners were the the finishing hill to win by some came in. eleventh place going to BUM' and UAU individual culary good run. favourites Plymouth Poly (not five lengths. As he crossed the Matt Walklev. Leeds were almost trophies, and is now leading the Unfortunately there were surprisingly considering that line he raised his arms in delight certainly robbed of the team prize season-long best all round com- not many women competi- their union had payed for them to the sound of an appreciative when John Newman's rear derail- petition. He waits to see who will tions, but Lesley Lake had an to practice in Switzerland) but crowd's rapturous applause. leur committed suicide after b5 be selected to represent Britain at exceptionally good run to Hiles. forcing him to retire. the World Student Games. Leeds, Hawaiian gear and and pick up the women's second One minute later the bunch Pidcock was awarded both the all. finished a 'staggering' M. Elliott prize. fourth. An eventful two days was had by most, both on and off the Gloucester slope, and the team hope for further success in the future. FINALS CHOICE

With an appalling lack of consid- that includes Michael Platini. manding presence of Terry have proved that they have the eration, FIFA have arranged the These two players in particular Butcher will be vitally impor- raw ability to trouble the best in World Cup Finals to coincide could make the difference be- tant, while the gutsy but cul- the world, while Beardsley and URGENT with examinations for tween England just missing out tured Kenny Sanson rivals Ita- Hodge have arrived late to im- thousands of students all over or actually winning, and this ly's Cabrini as the best left-back press with some fine perform- the country. This obviously could make more difference in Europe. In midfield. England ances. Butt hope that a hereo places many in an awkward than you think. have the much criticised but does not emerge in the form of position, forcing them to deter• highly talented Ray Wilkins, Kerry 'over the moon' Dixon, for In the dreadful event of you The University Athletic Club mine their priorities for the next with nearly 80 caps he has the although he will undoubtedly failing your exams, you will would like to hear from any of the month. kind of international experience feel 'magic' should he find the need to have a fairly good ex- people listed below. If you know it would be folly to ignore in 'back of the net', I am not sure I This task is made even more cuse prepared. A sudden attack any of them could you please let Mexico, and his influence as a will be able to keep pace with difficult by the fact that England of yellow fever, or kidnap by the them know. Contact can be made natural leader will be crucial if his profound after-match in- are genuine contenders to carry IRA are two potential humdin- via the noticeboard in the union Bryan Robson's injury problems sights. off the winner's prize for the gers. However, there may be building. for further details con• get the better of him. Then there second time. England go to doubts in some quarters if these tact the sports editor of is Robson himself, providing the It you are not tempted to put Leeds Mexico as one of only two sides are used without being accom- Student. cutting edge to the English chal- down your books by the mouth- who were unbeaten in the qual- panied by some proof. Similarly, lenge. There are few more in- watering prospect of seeing the ifying rounds (Brazil are the "I was watching the World Cup Joseph McMartin. Lynton Boaro- fluential players than a fit Bryan world's best players (Hughes other), conceding just two goals when I should have been revis- man, Alison Williams, Rick Robbin. Robson - his reading of the and Rush apart) competing along the way. They have long ing" might seem to be a rather D Woods. Martina Fertigan, Mike game is excellent, his tackling against each other, with the been a side that are difficult to limp explanation. But, "I was strong and crisp, and he has the added possibility of England Grethe, Liz Whalley. Jennifer Rae, beat, with a defensive record watching England WIN the priceless knack of appearing at winning the World Cup, nor Charlotte Rourke. Ian Chapple, that any team in the world World Cup when I should have the right place at the right time sufficiently scared of failing your John Race, Ian Green, Richard would be proud of, but they been revising" seems to have a Elliot, Donald Walker, Vijay Par- to score vital goals His true exams to need a ready-made now also seem capable of much better ring to it value is sometimes only excuse, then think of it another mar, Caroline Johnston. Paula damaging the very best coun- altogether. perhaps also allow- appreciated when he is not play- way. People are often asked Mathson, Ginny Lunn, Andrew tries when going forward. ing you to wax lyrically about ing, and even with players like where they were and what they Holme, Peter Denson, Mike De- being swept along on a wave of Gary Linekar has the sort of Hoddle, Wilkins and Reid com- were doing when important vine. Jonathan Kenyon. Susan patriotic favour. But you might electric pace which can embar- peting for the places in the mid- events were happening, such as Pyhus. Natalie Ashby, Thanos Mat- also need to know about some any defence, while the im- field, there appears to be an Kennedy being shot or the space zoros, Andrew Jackson, Bob Hurl- rass of the players involved. ing, Vicky Waldron, S. Hardy, Mary agination and artistry of Glenn alarming lack of pace without shuttle blowing up. If you are Bloomfield, Tefan Coleman, Steven Hoddle will surely provide him Bobby Robson is fortunate to Robson. asked in ten years time what Holmes. Janine Freeman, M J with ample opportunities to have a core of five highly experi- you were doing while England Smith, Judith Roberts C. Ander- prove this point. Although still enced players of truely interna- The World Cup will also pro- were winning the World Cup in son. D Brown. S Smith. H Riffle lacking authority Hoddle could tional class to mould his team vide the opportunity to make Mexico, imagine how boring 13 S. Mander, Nick Witney, Simon use the tournament to demons- around. In Peter Shilton, Eng- unlikely national heroes almost you will sound if you admit to Taylor_ Jon Sandford. Gay Lewis trate that his vision and passing land simply have the best goal overnight, as it did with Geoff revising in the Edward Boyle! ability are second to none - and keeper in the world. The com- Hurst in 66. Waddle and Barnes John Grisdole VOLLEY BALL The phenomenal success of the Ind London. Leeds heat Liver- Leeds Poly Mens Volleyball pool and Sheffield without los- Club continued with the club ing a set. With uncharacteristic retaining the BPSA title held in carelessness Leeds lost a closely Leeds recently. In the group fought game against London. matches Leeds were drawn with 16-14, 16-14. Liverpool, Sheffield, and Cen- This defeat was the first suf- STUDENT fered by Leeds in a student competition in a staggering six Years. Although the defeat did not affect Leeds reaching the semi-final, the team's pride was dented. in the semi-final Leeds beat Hatfield 2-0. the performance TRINITY TRIUMPH being efficient rather than spec- tacular. In the final Leeds played Central London, who beat Reported by Brighton in their semi. Leeds Dave Wardale quickly took revenge for the defeat the day before, demon- strating their superior team- work, winning 15-12, 15-11, 15- Following the defeat of Bil- 13. ston in the final, Horsforth's Earlier in the season. Leeds Trinity and All Saints Col- Poly again dominated the En- lege won the Endsleigh National 5-a-side competi- glish Student Cup. beating tion at the first attempt. Loughborough University in Having also won the 11-a- the final. and only dropping one set in the whole competi- side British Colleges Nike Shield three times in the tion. last four years, Trinity must rank as one of the best stu- dent football sides in the POLY country. Their captain, Paul Batty, attributes much of their suc- AWARDS cess to a squad that enjoys Last Saturday night the Beckett great strength in depth and Park bar served as the venue to their manager John for one of the more formal Golathorpe. John, who left occasions in the Union calen- Trinity three years ago, is dar. The Leeds Polytechnic one of the few outside man- Sports Clubs annual 'SPORT- agers in student football SNIGHT was a relaxed and which enables him to have friendly evening. a level above the respect of his players goal lead and scraped home top scorer Paul Batty netted Such an impressively con- the regular hops taking place thus helping standards of 4-3 against a spirited Bllston seven times in the same sistent performance level there. discipline, fitness and orga- College side in front of a over the past two years Morris Bramford - Great Bri- nisation to remain high. spell. crowd of some 500 people. Locally, Trinity regained makes Trinity a feared team tain Rugby League Coach was Trinity beat 300 Universi- Their record in the last their first division Yorkshire nationwide and their domi- seemingly impressed by "so ty, Polytechnic and College stages of the competition Old Boys League title for the nance of student football many intelligent young Sport- teams to the Endsleigh Tro- mirrored the quality of the fourth consecutive year and seems like to continue as spersons- gathered to pay tri- phy despite a score in the Trinity team: they conceded the second team won the the majority of the squad bute to the achievements of the final at Coventry. They went only one goal in the last five equivalent cup competition remains unchanged for next 1985-86 season. in at half-time with a four matches to the final whilst for the third year running. season. It was an impressive display of cups. shields, trophies and colours which served to empha- sise the range of sporting pro- ATHLETICS wess in the Sports Clubs. The ever popular Hockey. Rugby and Football Clubs were joined in the evening's honours by many others including the more unusual Sports Parachuting, Climbing. Horse Riding and Martial Arts. ISLE OF MAN Apart from the variety of Sports the evening also under- During the Easter break, the race, eventually slipping out of the Doscoe improved on his pre- the second 'IV team to finish. com- University Athletics Club prizes to be 'pipped at the post' by vious day's effort to finish a re- ing 14th, overall, However. Al lined that there is no truth in was far from inactive, the Rob P. Hudson. Next to finish for spectable fortieth, another note- Morton and Phil Davies ran the the myth that Carnegie students- Leeds 'A' were Trey Taylor (34th) worthy performance came from first event of the vacation most memorable legs of the day for dominate the Clubs. Awards and Mike Balls (46th). Mark trillion (64th) running with a the 'D" and 'E' teams respectively. went to those who had earned being the Leeds City 10k Further down the field Martin badly swollen ankle. them through time. effort and Miscue (75th) managed to catch Road Race. Annie Murray proved Leeds's By finishing third in the hill race dedication and not via the name Eric Morrison (74th), who had an most consistently successful athlete John Sherban predictably won and sixth in the relay. Leeds 'A' of their particular school. the event. but team results were excellent run considering how of the weekend, finishing sixth in managed third in the overall very close and the University were green he had been looking only an the women's race, closely followed weekend event. Jacky Weston nudged into third place despite hour before the start of the race. by NiNi. good performances by Greg Huai However, Roscoe could not over- It has long been traditional for Stith) and Neil Mathieson (17th). take. having no idea where the athletes to run the eleven miles As expected. Veronique Marot finish was. back to Douglas, and it was during (Leeds Poly) won the Women's In the Women's event over the this run. while negotiating one of RESULTS DIARY event with Lesley Lake just missing same course. Annie Murray was the faster corners on the TT course a prize in finishing fourth. first to finish for Leeds in tenth that Nicki P. Williams sustained a ATHLETICS CRICKET However, the main event of the place, the 'A' team was made up by rather serious leg injury, Fortu- Saturday 24th May DAC Grand Prix NORT! • vacation was the Isle of Man Athle- Nini Shrivastava (14th) and a parti- nately she managed to stagger hack LEEDS UNI 2nd Xi vs (Standing after one race) Weetwood tics Festival where many University cularly good run from Liz to Douglas. LEEDS. teams turned up to compete in a Ashworth (37th). On Easter Sunday morning the three race series held over the Eas- Saturday afternoon saw a hill women ran a three mile race along !individual Wednesday 28th May ter weekend. race starting from Peel. on the the promenade at Douglas, once L Lake 1Opts LEEDS UNI 1st XI vs LEEDS The first obstacle all the com- opposite side of the island to Doug- again Annie Murray (9th) was first J. Sherban 10pts ALLERTON. Weetwood petitors had to overcome was a las. The race over a new extended finish for Leeds, followed by Pat G. Hull 8pts course was about four and a half Williams and NiNi. E. Morrison 6pts our hour crossing with gale force 4p1s winds and a rather lumpy sea which miles Iong with a thousand feet of The climax of the weekend event R. Mee ATHLETICS made many regret their decision to ascent, Feeling hilly refreshed and came on Easter Sunday afternoon M. Roscoe 2pts Wednesday 28th May sail to the Island, others seriously with the effects of the journey out with an interclub tour by three mile Match vs Army, Carnegie thought of chartering a plane for of their system Leeds showed their relay. run on a very flat and fast the return journey. true potential. Greg Hull had a promenade course. Leeds Uni- magnificent run coming in ninth. versity entered several teams, the Constructors Championship The crossing was hardly ideal Nike International 34pts ROWING preparation for the first event, an 'just ahead of Martin Ewan (13th). 'A' team (Hull. T. Taylor. Balls. Sunday 25th May Good finishing by Bill Taylor Farran) all ran well to finish sixth Reebok dos evening 5.24 mile road race around Ron Hill 2pts NOR THWICH, Regatta Douglas. Greg Hull started off well (29th) and Mike Balls (30th) pulled and the 'B' Learn. (Planckaster. but faded in the second half of the the 'A' team into third place. Doscoe. Shepard. B. Taylor) were SPORTS • SPORTS • SPORTS Produced by Hamilton Press Limiest. Quayside House, Preston Docks, Ashton. Preston Pitt 2XS. Tel: 733333. rt Printed by Pace Web Offset, Und 16. Centurion Industrial Estate, Centurion Way. Leyland. Lanes. Tel: (0772) 436000 UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES