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NUS:No! again Rape increase Rector Arafat? ARAB LEADER VASSER Arafat ..m..------.1 THE NUMBER OF rape cases has been nominated for the rector­ reported to Edinburgh police ship of Glasgow University. increased dramatically last year. However, he has yet to write to the figure for 1983 was 43 - a 72 confirm whether he wrn accept the per cent increase on the previous nomination. Unless his lette, year. A spokeswoman for the reaches Glasgow by Friday, Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre sai<1 February 20, his name will be that this was more due to a greater scratched from the list of number of womeri coming forward candidates. to report assaults than to an actual increase. Pancake mania ON TUESDAY, MARCH 6, Walesa for Portobello will be the venue for the Dundee? Great Pancake Race. The race will POLISH HERO LECH Wa begin at 11 am and sets off from has been awarded an honorary the Promenade. There will be degree by Dundee University. races for men, women, children Although he has written to accept and presumably students. The the degree of Doctor of Law, ii la event is being organised by local unlikely that he will turn up businesses and entry is free. Now personally to receive the award is the opportunity to show what a given the current situation In tosser you really are. Poland. Cut, cut, close The ins and outs LOTHIAN REGION's new budget A telephone news service has proposals Involve spending cuts of just been launched by NUS. This __.__...,. aver £10m. Four primary schools, 24-hour tape recording of what is Photo by Fiona Milburn The victor and the vanquisnea two nursery schools and six going on in national student life is Student Centre Concourse were apathy, and for the anti-NUS, "well children's homes would be closed. available by phoning 01-263 57 13 No! That's what Edin­ markedly closer. Students at KB informed''. aooeared to be th e most 400 Jobs would be lost. Funding for anytime of night or day. This week were most adamantly opposed to popular remark. community education, repairs and they are drooling over the 5:1 burgh University Stud­ When the last result came in, a reaffiliation as results like 180 to 61 maintenance, List D schools and majority vote in Leeds University loud cheer went up as the victors ents' Association (ie you) and 89 to 8 clearly illustrate. This sheltered housing would be to stay in NUS. Ed inburgh's scurried off to the Middle Reading said to NUS affiliation. We latter result is worthy of particular slashed . The preliminary decision to stay out is also Room where a rather impressive comment. proposals were contained In mentioned in a somewhat have opted for retaining victory banquet had been It was the Agric students who documents leaked to The disgusted tone of voice. Fame at the status quo. The issue prepared. Meanwhile, the NUS Scotsman. voted 89 to 8 against the issue. last' is not likely to be voted on This is especially interesting given supporters went off to the bar and again until most of us that most of lhese students will, if quietly drowned their sorrows. I spoke to Susan Deacon, leader here have left the they succeed in their aspirations, Kelly v. Arafat eventually join the National of the "NUS-Yes" campaign. She Health Protest University. Michael admitted to being very dis­ GLASGOW'S LORD PROVOST, Farmers Union - probably the KEN SHOJI, SENIOR President, appointed, but she claimed a Dr Michael Kelly, is to stand as an Devlin reports on the most influential pressure group in has finally sent a letter of protest victory in that her campaign had independent candidate in count and gives some Britain. For farmers, national against NHS cuts lo Norman representation decides their won the arguments, merely losing Glasgow University's rectorial reactions to the result. the vote as a result of people's elections against Vasser Arafat. Fowler, MP, Social Services quality of life. There seems, Secretary. In II he em phasised instincts to always opt for the His decision follows a snub from The result was as follows: 4. 783 therefore, to be a contradiction in that students are particularly students voted , a slight decrease status quo. She stressed how hard the Labour Club who are giving the fact that these aspiring farmers de pendent on the Health Service all the campaigners had worked their backing to Arafat. Actor on the 1979 number -of 5,176. Of voted 10:1 against national and would be badly afl~cted by the that number, 2,344 voted against and thanked them for doing so. Omar Sharif is expected to turn up representation whilst they are present cuts. reaffiliation and only 1,439 said students. Tim Farley, tucking ,nto a plate on the campus on polling day to that they wanted to be a part of the of rather sumptuous looking food, support the Arab leader. Not a single polling station had National Union of Students. said that he fel t elated with the 5:2 anything other than a majority The count, which was done vote against. He was a bit dis­ against. As the result of the New Financial help station by station, didn't quite have appointed with the turn-out, but College (where the school of Gay Storm? A MONEY ADVICE Centre will the atmosphere of some of the was pleased that the issue can now divinity is housed) was written on A 'HUMOROUS' ARTICLE on open for the first time at the SAC counts in the past, largely be forgotten about for 4-5 years. the results board as 48:9 against, homosexual life in Paris which reception area of the Chaplaincy because the result was predicted So ends another issue. Good old Mike Conway was heard to say appeared in Glasgow University's well in advance, even by the pro­ radical Ed inburgh has done it Centre next Wednesday, February "there goes the moral argument". student newspaper has created an NUS faction who had realistically again and astounded the world at 22. Staff will be on hand from 12-2 This was the order of the night. uproar amongst the students resigned themselves to defeat. large with its impulsiveness: less pm to give advice and answer As each result came in , the hacks there. In the tolerant spirit we have Nevertheless, a degree of than half o f you voted, and of those enquiries on grants, housing evaluated the students associated come to expect of them, nearly600 excitement was generated as the only a fraction attended any benefits and other financial with the particular polling station have' signed a petition of protest to 24 results came in slowly but hustings. Maybe it's as well we matters. Twenty people re· and tried to judge why the the University's Guarc;Jian cal ling surely. didn't join NUS - we would have sponded to a plea for volunteers to students voted as they did. For the the article pornographic and Most of the results were been to too apathetic to haul staff the Centre which will pro-NUS faction this judgement emphatically "no", while other ourselves along to the con­ 'lewd'. The editor has apologised hopefully be of help to many generally entailed a comment on such as DHT basement and the ferences anyway! for any offence caused . students. Directors of Studies come under Another million slashe The Government's damage since the Education searching questions about their hammer spring offensive against Secretary, Sir Keith Joseph, first future expectations. Once the survey has been drawn asked via the University Grants He also noted recent sug• Are you dissatisfied up it will be circulated by the SAC Universities has begun. Council whether they could cope gestlons that each University with your Director of to gather statistical evidence on Edinburgh now faces a £1 with an annual cut of 1-2 per sent should be subject lo a strict Studies? If so you may Directors of Studies to enable the million cut, in real terms, over ten years. management and efficiency study. soon be able to make your University to address itself to the Reported financial penalties are " The outlook lo be Inferred," he main problems. There are unlikely from its 1984.:5 budget - a cruel blow to a University that said, "Is that the future of views felt in a forth­ to be any easy solutions as most more than two per cent of has made particularly strenuous Universities Is to be assessed In coming survey by the directors. through pressure of its annual grant, already efforts to live within Its new means, terms of narrowly-conceived University's Director of work, simply lack the time to battered by three years of and to find alternative sources of economic requirements, that they concern themselves more with cash. Edinburgh has been should be run more cheaply and Studies Working Party. their students. "sli mming-down". phenomenally successful In that they should, nevertheless, The Working Party was set up by In the interests of neutrality the Edinburgh's Principal, Dr John attracting research funds from produce more scientists and the University's Welfare Services Working Party's convener is an Burnett, announced the cut In a private sources - it received £11 technologists than at present - Committee after members of stall Edinburgh District Councillor, last-minute addition to a speech to million last year - and had a which costs morel" and the SAC brought the failings Nainsi Mainsbridge. Aside from the University's General Council surplus of £100,000 on last year's Dr Burnett stressed that the of the present Director of Studies being the council's representative on Saturday. He had been told of £70 million budget. alms and results of education system to its attention. The main on the Court. she is also a member the amount involved only hours News of the cut made the could not always be defined in problem seems to lie in the Arts of the Welfare Services Com­ before. He quoted the reason Prlnclpal ' s criticisms of purely economic terms. " If the Faculty where. if present trends mittee. given for the cut: " ... a measure of government policy , already policy now being pursued Is to continue, there will soon not be Although known to possess Increased economy In ex­ contained within his speech, all provide cheap University enough Directors of Studies to go many 'unorthodox' political views. penditure." the more pointe.d . Future education regardless of quality, round. It was also felt, however she was appointed,. said Susan Specific plans for a new round of prospects, he said, were not regardless of Its contribution to that ,n general, too many directors Deacon, Vice-President (Court), Government cutbacks had not encouraging, in the light of the society as a whole ... then, in every have not been taking sufficient to g,ve the Working Party's been previously disclosed, but notirous " 28 questions" letter sent way, the national interest will interest ,n the welfare of their f1nd1ngs more weight Universities have been bracing by the u·niversity Grants Council suffer." students. Graham Chalmers themselves for fresh financial to all British Universities, asking James Meek THE ST UDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 3 News. • • News ... News . .. News. • . News ... New New book recalls a more active Edinburgh The Mole A new book was Information Office Ray Footman and Eric ' Chariots of Fire' Liddell published last week, and Bruce Young , formef were all here at one time? Or that chairman of Polygon , the the kaleidoscope was invented by writes Graham Chalmers, University's student publishing a 19th century undergraduate of which throws a revealing house. They admit that the book is the University, Sir David light on 400 years of not meant to be a real visual Brewster? history, only "an atlempt to brir•g The book could not have been Edinburgh' University's together some of the illustraUve compiled without the help of the history. If its 80 photo­ material about its development University Library' s Special graphed-packed pages over 400 years". Collections Department and the Apart from the evolution of the Edinburgh Room of the City The Count Entertainments Convener, is are to be believed, the physical environment of the Library. Al £2 ii is recommended After the overwhelming defeat another contender but sources student of the past was a University, most attention is reading for anyone who wonders of NUS affiliation in the reveal he's applying for summer lavished on famous past graduates how on earth the University far rowdier creature than referendum the Tevio t Bar jobs. Interesting. or Rectors. Did you know that managed to end up in its present his counterpart of today. collected what was almost an We may still end up with another David Lloyd George, Winston shape from Its lowly beginnings on extraordinary meeting of the NUS eloquent union President who has The book, entitled Edinburgh Churchill, Robert Louis Stevenson the Kirk o' Field site 400 years ago. University: An Illustrated Memoir, Scotland Executive. no interest and little aptitude for was launched at a reception in the Fat Bob, Jim 'Flat-top' Doran Union administration. Abolish it, I say, or change it to Deputy Old College last Friday, February and the like sat nursing their stiff 10, when the Principal, Dr John drinks until one leftie's sentiments President, just to see what Burnett, presented an inscribed summed it all up - "Sod it' Bring it happens, eh? copy to Edinburgh's Lord Provost, to a General Meeting!" Tom Morgan, CBE. Renowned right-wing Con­ Lies, Damned Lies All the main areas-of academic servative Douglas Smith appeared and social life are covered in it, for the first time in the campaign and Election from the University's foundation in despite fears he allegedly might 1582 by Royal Charter when it was bring out the Paedophile /RA Addresses Gunrunners in NUS type leaflet called the 'Tounis College of This is the time of the year when Edinburgh' to last July's quafer­ 'Mother' Teresa Bray, stomping around like a demented donkey, we can look back to the May centenary celebrations. Students' Association elections Some of the finest photographs spotted Smith and demanded he be thrown out. Her voice ranging and see how disastrously the concern student battles which Sabbaticals have done in traditionally followed the election from the high tones of a contralto to the low bray of a donkey, she comparison to what they of a new Rector. As recently as the promised. late 1960s hundreds of students claimed he'd done hundreds of pounds worth of damage in the Firstly, Kendo Shogun, Senior would pell each other with flour President. Kendo claimed he bombs and anything else that Unions and all other sorts of allegations. would be "aware of grass-roots came to hand in an effort to win James ' Sod W'le Whales' opinion" - this came from control of the Old College steps Husband, organising a Pimms and somone who thought the after the election result. lemonade Tory cerebration next referendum would be close! He's The book is a joint University/ door, calmly asked if Dougie was never been seen out of the office. Bank of Scotland project and was The good old days Next, Heather Lament, Union compiled by the University's banned from the Union. Since he was not, James went down and President, who said she would signed him in. ensure the "Union Houses work in One thing's for sure - Fat Bob harmony" and the SAC would wasn't signed in nor was the rest of have greater contact with the Universities -lost the NUS Executive. Union and vice-versa. haV_e_ Needless to say this promise has Pablo Robertson, who ha slost at least 13 elections (as previously been entirely forgotten . The SAC revealed in Mole), had one obvious has less members on Union comment to make. "Oh , I'm not committees than last year and the 20,000 places bothered - I'm used to losing." house committee members, far from working in harmony, hate University places avail­ a University place in 1983, 5,000 by pointing to the falling birth­ Campaign for each other. a b I e for would-be fewer two years ago. Over the rate. Education Oepartment Thirdly Mike Gonaway same period, demand increased figures anticipate a drop of some Spoiled Votes (Honara ry Secy) who promised to students are now lower by 8,000. 20 per cent by the 1990s. root out the "smug self-important than they have been at Government cuts imposed in But that is in the future: the An advert for the Proportional types who enjoy hackdom". a(ly time in the past 25· July 1981 mean there will be Government's past and present representation Campaign Well they always say people years, it was claimed last 20,000 fewer places altogether. cuts have in fact coincided with revealedt form with a big cross in it become what they most despise. This represents a one in seven loss the so-called "baby bulge" of the as its logo. Finally we have Teresa Bray week. of opportunitiy, say the Com­ early 60s, which has produced a As far as I can recall, hardly a (Hon Treas) whose election Figures released by UCCA, the mittee of vice-Chancellors and great aggravation of the shortfall. single system of proportional address took the form of Universities Central council on Principals. What is more, to rely on a simple representation uses crosses. They stunningly bland and obvious Admissions, showed that 69 631 The Government has attempted statistic of overall population use numbers. statements as "the Day Nursery is home students were accepted for to deflect criticism of its policies decrease does not take into I think these imbeciles had a good thing", " money making account changes in the pattern of better change it. entertainments are a good idea" demand, such as an increase in and "prices should be kept as low applications from women and Election Selection as possible". This is impossible to mature students, or from overseas criticise but her plan, revealed students. Nor does it allow for Already the Students' Association drunkenly on Student TV, of False alarm havoc improvements in the standard of office groupies are thinking about having travelling road shows to KB school-leavers qualifications. the May elections. Hilary O'Neill, to improve science representation The past week has been the fire alarm is raised, the power President of Debates, thinks she's thankfully never got off the UCCA's latest figures for In the building is automatically Union President already. This a whirl of activity as far as applications do show a ground. shut off. As many of the useless sincerem wutg bi wirj (By the way, Bray's opponent the University fire alarms microscopic decrease - from University' s computers are ubvikved besudes what the holder Pete 'Rodent' Chapman never 148,439 to 148,145 - but staft are concerned. Both the housed In the basement of the can create, has a tradition that the carried out his promise of running responsible for University Tower, students are having to put winning candidate must have slept naked round Bristo Square if the Appleton Tower and KB admissions are still being forced to up with having their machines with the previous holder. This Day Nursery was saved. Now have had their problems, turn qualified applicants away in turned off. For those of you who explains why it (more or less) deeply embroiled in job hunting, large numbers. Polytechnics and their respective systems know nothing about computers alternates between male and perhaps Chapman could colleges are picking up some of this means that if a student has not female. I suspect the tradition may exchange his 3-piece suit for his having developed tend­ those rejected, but they too will already recorded a programme well go to the wall this year. · birthday one and live up to his encies to go off rather have to restrict their recruitment then he or she will lose whatever Steve 'Always at the Bar' Marr, word?). before long. Many of them are frequently. they have put in. Most annoying, raising their entrance qualifca­ At the Appleton Tower it would especially· when some of the tions as a result. appear that the problems· arose terminals have a reputation for alter some cleaning work had breaking down anyway. Mr John Akker, Oeputy General been carried out on the smoke Down at KB the fire engines Secretary of the Association of Bloody students! detectors. Unfortunately, after this have been called out twice. In this University Tea c hers, said yesterday that the situation would, brush-up, the detectors became, it case it is not sure whether the Noisy students have late at night. would seem, over-sensitive and culprit be the rampant smoke in the long term, be economically disastrous for the country. been the subject of a The trouble is not that students went off without cause. Now this detectors or some frolicking are noisy in Chambes Street itself may not seem all that earth­ (some may say Infantile) student. "The Government is pursuing an letter of complaint from elitist policy tl:W,l is forcing the but that after the Union closes at shattering but when you think that OK, if it is the machines at fault Edinburgh District 12 o'clock they often make their evertlme an alarm goes off better they be over-sensitive than Universities unwillingly to slam the door in the fa ce of many able Council. As a result, way to the Old Cow pub in the 1omeone is obliged to telephone not, but what about the cost to the Cowgate to quench their thirsts the fire brigade immediately it University? Ever time the fire and qualified youngsters because Chambers Street Union is they cannot afford to provide the further. Nearby Guthrie Street means that you have a couple of brigade is sent out due to faulty to be covered in 'keep residents have complained to the fire engines turn up before the fire equipment the University is fined. places," he said. Edinburgh University, which quiet' posters. council that they have often been has been positively confirmed. Rumour has it, but it is only a woken up by 'merry' students has come o ff relatively lightly, has Heather Lamont, Union This as you can imagine does not rumour, that this may be as much shouting at the top of their voices. had to cut back its intake by 5% President, felt she was in no please the firemen, or anyone else as £2,000, though this is not On one occasion a window was since October 1982 ~ by reducing position to refuse Councillor Keith for that matler. certain. However, it is something even broken and on another a car the number of new arts and Geddes request for something to Not only is this causing to bear in mind with April 1st on damaged. problems for the fire brigade, but it the way. medical students by 10%. be done about the noise of Is also distracting students. Once Elaine Preston James Meek students leaving Chambers Street Graham Chalmers 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 News. • • News ... News . .. News. • • News ... New 'New deal' [Writers needed for

It is ironic that this week now push for these six areas to be 1 NUS should launch a Improved en masse rather than as Alternative Prospectus campaign calling for "a individual causes. Unfortunately, one of the Issues new deal for students". has already been decided, before Tucked away in the on some. Then fill the q ues tion­ On a personal level, the the campaign can get underway. It corner of the Students' naire in honestly an d offer your has been announced that a new Irony lies in the fact that in Associat io n Offices comments on the course (even if flat-rate travel allowance Is to be your critical appreciation only this same week we at Introduced for most students in th ere 's a little hive of Edinburgh again refused higher education. In effect, there amounts to, "It wiz crap!"). activity being overseen by Alte rn atively, if you feel to join NUS. It is ironic on will no longer be a travel two determined young a national level because allowance. Instead, the petty £50 pa rticularly eloquent, offer to write which students already receive in ladies who have been a critiq ue of the course. These one of the aspects of this their grant will be Increased to delegated the task of Course Critiques amount to about "new deal" is the main­ £100 with no system for claiming editing t h is year ' s 800 words or so of what-the­ tenance of the current more money If your travel co u rse-was- li ke and what -it­ expenses are more than £100. This Alternative Prospectus. meant- t o -m e, assessing the system of travel allow­ new system will be introduced In Some of you may remember that standard of teaching, course ance. This week the 1984-5. day long passed when your content, workload etc. government decided to The only exception to this rule Is Freshers' Mailing landed on the For any information regard ing abolish this system. Scotland. Thanks to NUS hall ca rpet with a floppy slap, this yea r's prospectus you should Scotland, the new flat-rate system shaking you out of bed and onto contact Lorna Sinclair or Jackie The "new deal for students" will not apply north ol the border. greater things in the Groves of Gray at the Students' Association campaign has been masterminded Goerge Younger, Secretary of Academe. No doubt somewhere in Offices under th e dome. They will by Nell Stewart, President of NUS. State tor Scotland, has, under the days before you arrived bright­ welcome any contribution that He asserts thal whlle In the past pressure from NUS, decided to eyed and bushy-tailed in George you can make, especially any students were prepared to accept So what can you do to help? retain the old system of travel Square, you used your Alternative vo lunteers to write the Course poor living conditions In return for Well, yo,u can start by filling in the awards for Scottish students. The Prospectus to plan your course Critiques. the reward of a well-paid job at the obvious ironies multiply. and get some idea of what the survey sheets that are being end of their studies, this Is no Make sure you help by filling in It is, perhaps, worth noting thal course was "really like". No doubt circulated by the AP's editors. If the survey, this is your chance to longer the case. the government did ask for Nell it fleshed out the rud imentary yo~ ha ve n't already been· issued help others steer past their mistakes Now that graduate unemploy· Stewart's comments before lmple· guidelines expressed in the •with one, molest your Class Rep men! Is running at such a high you may have made. menting the new travel allowance University's own Prospectus, and demand Iha! he gets his hands Alan Munro level, a degree Is no longer a system. However, It seems that which is, after all, aimed at guarantee of any job, let alone a they had reached a decision long drawing as many bright young good one. Mr Stewart says " the before any advice was taken. things as possible to Edinburgh, current crazy situation, wllh many An NUS rally Is to take place in like a candle calls a butterfly. young people offered the choice London on March 10th as part of The Alternative Prospectus is of no money but some hope In the "new deal for students" without a doubt an essential part education, or some money but no campaign. It Is also likely to of pre-University planning and it is hoe on the dole, cannot be allowed Involve some protest about the only through accurate" portrayafs to continue." new travel allowance scheme. No of the available courses that the The "new deal" will concentrate doubt a----· will restrain most of· would-be student will select the on six areas - grants, housing, you from taking part. At least lhls course that is right for him, and all · travel, access to education, time we will have an excuse - we of us can help here by supplying lacilltles In colleges and finally in Scotland got what we wanted. the information that will make this unemployment. None of these are But thanks to who? -year's Alternative Prospectus the Journali-st defends particularly new, but the Michael Devlin best to date. difference Is that the c_ampalgn will press barons Disappointing it was that ,------.. For advice and information on Grants, Overdrafts, no more than a dozen Housing and Supplementary Benefit call at the people managed to come and hear Martin Walker of 'The Guardian' speak on 'Insanity and Newspaper ownership in North America' last Friday afternoon. The seminar, organised by the North American Studies De­ partment, was both infor­ mative and entertaining as Mr Walker took us on a darting tour of the private they would have liked . Otis, "the lives of the great 'press great cl ass warrior" was the one barons', their particular exception. His timely purchase of obsessions and madness! 2, 000 ac res of No rthern Mexico allowed him to exploit ihe great Enthusiastically examining the Mexican war at the beginning of OPEN EVERY WEDNESDAY idiosyncrasies of Messrs J . G. the century. It was the Otis fa mily Bernett, Pulitzer, W. R. Hea rst, who first set Richard Nixon on his 12 Noon to 2.00 p.m. Scripps, Otis and Ken Graham, Mr rise lo political fame, and who are Wal ker came to the conclusion today among President Reagan's that the power assumed by staunchest supporters. Ye t the era Reception Area American press barons is the of the great press baro n is quick road to mental instability. A probably over, according to Mr Chaplaincy Centre (Upstairs) little softening of the brain Walker. encouraged Mr Pulitzer to make The s p ea k e r was t hen plans to paint huge letters in the ques tioned about lhe freedom of Bristo Square turf of Flushing Meadow in order the press today, and emphasised that the in telligent beings in space how the freedom of ideas has might read about his paper. Mr developed to such an exten t l hat Hearst on the other hand had a bugging, bribery and "cosy, cosy peculiar fetish for rarities and deals" are commonplace. "The warfare which meant sleeping in average voter isn't concerned the bed of Cardinal Richelieu and about the actions of the press", he employing a uniformed battalion said, but they should be. Too of photographers and reporters much criticism has been aimed at whose shooting skills were equal the sensationalist headlines of the OPENING NEXT WEEK to their journalistic ones. Nobody popular press, as exemplified by actually questioned the verity of "Gotcha!", and not the frequent these and other stories, but they inaccuracy of far too many sounded quite convincing to the individuai" reporters who have unintiated. been allowed "too much of a six Mr Wa l ker expressed his gun licence" since the Watergate admiration for these press barons affair. who had managed to set up As Mr Walker ad mitted himself, p r ospe r ous, independent l he press barons were totally This Centre is run by EUSA in conjunction with the newspapers with su c:'1 absolute lacking any scruples, but he still commitment. He did point oul, retains a " nostalgic hankering for Students' Advisory and Counselling Service. however, that contrary to thei r the men who built up the free beliefs, !he press barons did not press." wield the political power which ICM Comment T HE STUDENT T hursday, 16th February 1984 5 If you want to

STUDENTEdinburgh University Student Newspape pay, you can go. The cost of going it alone Fred on the price of American education. "Unless the universities change their approach from tacit submission to furious challenge, the public will not even be fully aware of the riches it has lost." University of Pensylvanla Jan. 20th year stay on campus. But equally clasroom on their 16th birthday ]The Guardian (8.2.84) What an unpleasant surprise. the idea that America is throwing and told to find nonexistent jobs. University is going to cost more - away its carefree youth is stuff and I suppose the utopia of everyone Ironically, the day after the above editorial was a lot more. nonsense. Paying for an education having a good educatin is upon Fees here at the Ivy League is quite simply an accepted part of you in Britain now that the left and published we in Edinburgh overwhelmingly decided University are going to rise by life, like paying for the telephone right are at each other's throats as to refuse national representation. So be it. eight per cent, and accom­ or the groceries. If you don't pay, of yore. A university education for As e~pected, our punishment is not slow to follow· modation bills are due to go up by you don't get, and if you don't get everybody will never be possible; 7 per cent. Food, as provided by you become a dustbinman. any idea of its is pure gibberish . In the latest news is that the princely sum of #1 million i~ _the University's dining se rvice, is But this is not to imply that those Britain the possibilities seem to be being cut from the .University grant and we students likely to cost six per cent more. without money don't" go to becoming less optimistic for the have no national body to express our disgust. The The overall amount of money University. You might not be able c han c e s o f a n ex pand i n g going from student to Universi ty is to go to an Ivy League, but you can universi ty population; at least in government is so concerned with getting every penny going to be juicily large or go to the state run university in the states they seem to remain out of the University system that the future of our frighteningly massive, depending your home state for very little constant. mainly because millions education is really in the balance. It has been well o n you r status with in the capital outlay. And if you're good and millions are poured into publicised that since 1981 20,000 fewer students have institution. For tuition alone, both enough - bright enough - you campus coffers from old boys' the bookworm and the sportsm an can get loans and grants to go to associations (Alumni). been able to get a place at university. are going to be paying around an establishment of a slightly I suppose the moral of the story So at last Edinburgh is having to open its blinkered $9,600. With food and accom­ higher calibre. The real ity of all is not exactly enlightened . eyes to the truth. This university has spent'so much modation thrown in, tempered this is that, yes, the rich go where Introduce the profit motive, with (presumably) some they want because they can pay encourage the old boy network, time and effort in organising private fund-raising entertainment and the odd trip to whereas the poor go only if they're build up the unviersity's reputation schemes, and this is the reward we get! Surely now is see Mom and Dad back home, the intelligent enough. But if I may say through glamorous sporti ng the time for all universities to stand together, stop average Pennsylvania student can so, you don't need to be a genius to events and a good PR campaign, wave goodbye to' something like go to Penn. So without being and you 've got a popular striving between themselves, and voice their unified $17 or 18000 for a thirty week disparaging about academic university, no matter whether it's opinion. Dr Burnett's individual criticism of this academic year. It is small wonder standards, it would not be privately funded and supposedly ridiculous government decision will, unfortunately, that they all, bar the lazy and the inaccurate to say that with exclusive (like Penn and the Ivy get us nowhere. rich, fly campus like migrating determination someone without League) or public and supposedly swallows and search for summer money can make it to a " good" open to all (like a state university). The one piece of good news this week is that jobs as soon as the last exam is university. And the final factor is this: if you Scottish students have been relieved of the threat of a handed in. Why, then, is the place not over­ want to pay, you can go. There is flat travel rate; and that is due to the. enormous Horror! I hear the livid liberals flowing with the obviously poor, an extremely benevolent attitude cry. American youth being turned the blacks, the hispanics, the slum towards loans and awards, and I pressure exerted on the government by a national in to a nation of wage slaves, children? For the same reason that think it is fair to say that by body of students, NUS. bowing and scraping to the British Universities aren't. Such searching out the means - loans That is why national representati_on is so important. capitalist power. Good show! I people aren't educated to the don't just appear - a poor child hear the conservative applaud. benefits of a tertiary schooling. can make it to an expensive A well-organised, national voice can make this American youth being instilled They don't know about it; they're University. It will take ages to pay government listen; diverse individuals have little hope. with self suffic iency and an really not guided towards it in the back the bank, but it will ensure a Whether it is with or without NUS, we students must understanding that an education same way that British workirig job with money if not necessarily get together and say 'NO' to the cuts. Will our student must be paid somehow. class children aren"t. prospects. Balderdash! I say to you both. If Despite this, more people in the But this can't happen in Britain, leaders lead the way or not? ever there was a black and white lower income bracket - you can's so any conservatives who starts For full coverage of these stories see the news pages. issue, if ever education had a clear say working class, becaryou can't talking about paying for fees or cut solution, and if even it was sure there is one in the States - go something wild like that is being possible to al ight on a panacea, it to University here than in Britain. silly. The American system of is apparent to no one here. I really Somewhere between 40 and 50%. education is rooted in the don"t think anyone believes it is a so I'm told, make it to a campus in centuries past, just as the Staff Features lain Cameron marvellous thing to be able to pay, some state or other. This is a far presidency and the supreme court Eric Carlin Editor Ian MacGregor in full and over 10 years, the debts higher figure than in Britain, where are. The American system is for Anna Antilli of a four and sometimes seven children are booted out of the America, not for Britain. Mat. Ed. James Meek Robin Henry Sport Rob Kitson News Michael Devlin Alun Grassick Graham Chalmers Jenny Dunn Back Page David Pethcrick Arts Bill Williamson Photography Neil Dalgleish Letters Donna Campbell Donald Pollock Eleanor Zeal James Laidlaw Paul Quinn Fiona Millburn Getting the priorities right

What's On Sarah Hemming Graphics Toby Porter Dear Sir, Laura Dickerman Nancy Miller The EUUUSO Just left to reflect back on the term but at this very moment a JocelyQ Campbell peace after the NUS campaign, secret clan are beavering away in Publicity Tanya Woolf and believing that there might a the Pleasance garage (on the Music Wendy Barrett takes off square inch in the Student again entrance way to the Sports Neil Dalgleish Advertising Neville Moir it's interesting to wonder if we ever Centre) to try and make this year's Alastair Dalton Dear Sir, do look beyond out own front a collection more worthy ofa Front p hoto by Fiona Milburn Many students will be interested door-step. Well we're OK (give or wealthier place like Edinburgh. ------.1 to know that a new society has take the odd #million we Jost this The strange thing is that ESCA been formed within the University. week) so to hell with everybody the charities appeal members sit in Vile allegations 'The EU Ulster Unionist Student else let's build a new Union to meetings in the bottom of Organsiation'. This society was celebrate. Chambers Street or hide in the Dear Editor, formed as a res ult of an initiative Before you get the wrong idea garage and complain that nobody Some friends of mine, while jokingly said he'd never sit next to by the Official Unioni st Party of we are not arguing over #40,000 ever turns up to help. The fact that sitting back enjoying the domestic me in a lecture again. Northern Ireland to set up for the NUS but a comparatively we don't even know that they exist tranquil of their University flat, Realising what an utter idiot she branches in mainland Universities. trifling sum of #12,000 we or that they hardly ever advertise heard the doorbell ring. Opening had appeared as, she backed off As a society our main aim is to managed to raise for charity last themselves is irrelevant. If, the door there appeared, I am sheepishly and no doubt went on counte ract re publ ican pro­ year, pretty insig~ificant? however, you do fancy lending a Informed, Heather Lamont, Union to try the next flat with similar paganda and to make students Aberdeen managed #60,000 much needed hand (or have a President, canvassing for the pro­ smears and fogs of dis­ more aware of what is really and?????? as many of them. I good idea) rumour has it that you NUS affiliation side. information. happening in N. Ireland. Also, to expect we spent at least #12,000 can visit them on Wednesday Giving the usual spiel she went This miserable wretch, who has pro m o te N orthern Ireland's wondering what to do with the afternoon in the aforementioned on to describe the anti-affiliation absolutely nothing to do with her position as an integral part of the other #500,000 ELISA budget. garage or Monday week (27th) in campaign in the most disgusted time, whose living expenses are United Kingdom. Well, .enough said, what we Chambers Street at 7. 30. tones. II contained, she alleged, subsidised by students in her If you are in t eres ted i n really want is some innovative Furthermore they have all the such extreme right-wingers as the sabbatical post of Union supporting us. or if you want to ways of raising some more money information required to turn your vile Mar!c: Smith, Wno was also President, should do one thing ] hear more of what we are about, this year. Univ e r s ities are wildest dreams (probably illegal) guilty of some very devious and publicly withdraw whatever then come along fo r some supposed to be famous for the into respectable money spinning dastardly acts. allegations she made about me in informal discussion over lunch in ridiculous things students s et up stunts. So get you down there! My friends immediately burst Student. II she doesn't I challenge the Middle reading Room, Tev,ot to in rag weeks so let's see it here. Yours, out laughing, and one opined that I her for proof. Row, at 1 pm on Tuesday 21st We have a rather bland rag week A. Jack (I"m All Ri ght) wasn't a right-wing extremist the Yours irr disgust, February. here called " Charities Week". It"s P.S. Don"t forget this Saturday"s last time he had met me, and Mark Smith. S. Kirk the second week of the summer jumble sale, McEwan Hall, 2 pm. 6 THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 ARTS i cultures, of spiritual contact between people,. but more importantly between the artist and society. In Tarkovsky's language it becomes a relationship between film the crazy and the sane. Thus in his search for spiritual contact Goncharov is fulfilled not in his relationship with his clever guide but " the idiot" Domenico. The artist laced by an indifferent society becomes the crazy man. But. as Tarkovsky has stated, "if these crazy people disappear the society will pensh with them". This, one feels, is the essence of Tarkovsky's beautiful film. In the closing sequences Domenico Nostalgia immolates himself whilst preaching to a static crowd in " Nostalg ia," for a Russian Rome, attacking a false division ab roa d , rem arked Tarkovsky between the sane and the insane recently, "1s a sickness, and it can Goncharov dies in the fulfilment of even be mortal. It is a moral Domenico's absurd order to carry suffering o f the spirit. Those who a lighted candle across the baths cannot overcome it die." This, his in his village. By doing thus, fourth film, is ostensibly an maintains Domenico, the world attempt to portray that sickness. will be saved. It is indeed in such In doing so Tarkovsky follows beautiful crazy acts, such massive the progress of a Russian poet, village, who had incarcerated his Sosnovsky's rejection of Italy for Actually it is a label which is acts of faith , how much more Goncharov (very well played by family for seven years. 10 spare slavery in Russia T he incident indeed applicable to the enlightened than the actions of the Oleg Yankovsky) researching in them from the world. tells much of Tarkovsky's method Tarkovsky of "Nostalgia". Not sane, that hope lies. Italy. Removed from Russia he Wading in a sunken church - the evocative metaphor, the simply because " Nostalgia" is a " Nostalgia" is a brave and very suffers from "nostalgia" like the Goncharov tells a child a tale of haunting image is employed beautiful film about " homesick­ moving film . To describe forerunner Sosnovsky , he man stuck in a sllmy pond who, beuatifully t o co nvey both ness" if you will. Were this true adequately the sheer scale of researches. Each night his dreams when someone pulls him out, Goncharov's state of mind and the then it would be, intruth, no more Tarkovsky's vision, his masterly return to his dacha and his wife, protests because the slimy pond reason for his pain, without even than maudlin self-indulgence. use of imagery, and senstivity to whilst he is unable to communi­ was his home. The pond, of leaving the c h urc h. lt is such Rather Tarkovsky's poetry is his subject, superlatives are cate with his beautiful and course, is Russia and Goncharov's sequences which have earned applied to a much wider subject. In required. For now only the cliche intelligent guide. Significant tale an answer to the incompre­ Tarkovsky th e reputation, often his impressive sweep he also "masterpiece" springs to mind, 1t is contact is established only with hension with which his guide glibly applied , of a poet film­ encompasses a brief considera­ a sadly inadequate word. the crazy- man of a remote Tuscan greets his " complexes" and maker. tion of the relationship between Bill Williamson

a ghastly club, getting stoned and study for the central seated figure Scarface dancing to odious Georgia Rembrandt to in Seu rat's early masterpiece "Une Moroder records. Baignade a Asnieres" (National But what really makes this film is Gallery, London), and as such is the acting - particularly that of Al Seurat an excellent illustration of the Pacino, whose portrayal of the canvas extent of his achievements in the Scarface is Tony Montana, a swarthy Scarface is never short of evolution of graphic techniques. Cub'an ex-con and one of the masterful. During the last five years The department - forming part thousands of undesirables Peter Carroll Germinations Duncan Bull and his colleagues in of the National Gallery of Scotland dumped on the US by Castro the Prints and Drawings - feels an obvious commitment to during his 'purges'. The only way It's an old Joke that an aspiring art­ Department of the National Scottish artists, and they too are he can wangle himself a green lover will gaze knowledgeably at Gallery of Scotland have fulfilled strongly represented in the card - the first step towards full an exhibit which later turns out to EU Hispanic not only their day-to-day task of exhibition. Among the more citizenship - is to bump off a be the window cleaners bucket. conserving and researching notable works included under this former bigwig from his homeland. This Is given a new twist at the Players Scotland's national collection of heading are David Allan ' s To him this is 'fun' and becomes Talbot Rice Art Centre's display of prints and drawings, but also their remarkable sketchbook dating understandably bored washing French, German and British art task of seeking out and acquiring from his period in Rome (1767-77) dishes - for Montana wants 'the Los Arboles Mueren students work, Germinations new works to add to the collection. and Arthur Melville's powerfully world and everything in it'. where some exhibits are not de Pie Currently on exhibition in the vivid watercolou.r ' 'Eas t ern Primitive and ruthless he doesn't Immediately recognised as such Wednesday 15-Friday 17 Prints and Drawings section of the Scene". care what he has to do to get it. until closer Inspection reveals Adam House gallery is a selection from the large The selection of prints in the He gets himself hired to buy their true nature. Taking Reinhard A classic farce involving the number of works which the exhibition is every bit as some cocaine, and only narrowly Helnrlchsmerger' s 'unfinished' weird goings-on in an organisa­ depar1ment has acquired since impressive as the selection of avoids having various parts of his " Black Box" to point. Complete tion set up to ensure the happiness 1979 when the last exhibition of drawings. This section boasts of anatomy forcibly removed by a with unwashed brushes and of its patrons. Balboa, having recent acquisitions was held. such undoubted masterpieces as nasty looking chainsaw, before palates, polythene groundsheet, banished his dissolute grandson, Although the show contains the intensely disturbing litnograph successfully completing the paint splashes and footprints it is must now suffer the meanings of num~rous works of the highest " Geurre Civite" (1871 ), by the tiansaction and keeping the easily overlooked as a spot of the grandmother. All seems well quality - there seems to be two founding father of French money into the bargain. redecoration. Yet, there Is no when he entices two of the hwich have attracted particular impressionism - Monet; it also Frank, his new boss who has mistaking the fact that other organ i sat i on ' s members to interest. They are both 19th includes final proofs from Goya's made a fortune smuggling drugs, exhibits are there to be looked at. impersonate the grandson and his century works, and are both macabre "Los Proverbious"; and and who is looking for 'a man with A number of massive oils show the wife on thei r return home. French. One is lngres's brilliant - perhaps the most noteworthy steel in his balls' is impressed by results of extraordinary However, out of the blue, Balboa " Portrait of Mlle Albertine Mayard" piece in the selectio n - Montana and promotes him. experiments In colour; Xavier De receives a visitor one evening who (1812) ; the other, Seurat's superb Rembrandt's overtly sensual From here onwards it is pretty Rlchemont's "This is the village is about to disrupt the homely " Seated Nude" (1883-84). Each is " Jupiter and Antiope" (1659) . obvious that he will supercede fete II" especially demanding your harmony. undoubtedly what Bull termed "a All in all the exhibition proves to Frank, get his moll, make illicit attention wtth a strangely Staged in Spanish, the play is a high-watermark in the mainstream be very impressive and provides us millions, crack up, and perish in a must for language students with a luminous quality. with, what Bull consider to be, "a violent shoot-out, for this is Smaller, framed exhibits are of European draughtsmanship": sense of humour. the " Seated Nude", however, does small but choice selection of the basically an up-dated 'gangster' wisely displayed separately so as Reality clashes with fantasy to appear to have slight predomin­ rich harvest the department has movie. not to be overwhelmed and are spark off one's imagination right ance on this score. It is the final enjoyed over the past five years". The more successful he from the outset. This is maintained mostly works In Ink, pencil and Oliver photography. a bizarre set of becomes, the more paranoid he throughout the drama by the becomes. As he says to his tangled web of relationships untitled lithographs by Michael sidekick, Manny, in one of the few which appears ready to snap at Huth of Frankfurt contrast the richly coloured oils, conjuring up sentences he manages to any moment. Stnking costumes construct without using the word and some quite spectacular props Images similar to Gerald Scarfe's nightmarish scrawllngs In black 'fuck'; "We ain't hungry no more." complement this unnerving plot. Disillusioned, he developes a As a comedy 'Los Arboles' is a Ink. No contemporary art collection is complete without Its distressing habit of talking to piece of theatre Woody Allen pile of bricks, but In this case we people with their brains blown out. would have been proud to have have to make do with a But his own brains have been produced . Underlying this , photograph - or rather several 'blown out' too. Ignoring the moll's however, is a sympathetic advice - 'Don't get high on your investigation into how when photographs of the pile In various stagd of desstructlon. The own supply his mind c racks under people are drawn down the road of the prassure and the coke and he deceit they eventually lose control Influence of that old master Fred Dibnah may perhaps be seen with even kills his best friend before of the brakes. It is this added factor slumping nose-first in a mountain which strengthens the play and the bamboo props of a dangerously unstable brick of the real thing as assassins close makes for a compelling piece of in. 'chimney' set alight to achieve the drama. results. Good pictures of kinetic Still, he doesn't go without a Paul Quinn light - and some fight it is too - sculpture In action. before becoming the victim of a Next week: It Is easy to dismiss the work of hungry youth on his way up to art students as tacking In maturity perpetuate the vicious circle Third Cinema news and Indeed the title of this However, there is more to this Student collection " Germinations" does film than a series of gangster Reviews: A coup de foudre Imply that these are Just the early cliches. The film touches on police beginnings to a fruitful future. corruption and government Rome and Fo at the Nonetheless, there Is no denying complicity in the drug-dealing Traverse the high standard displayed, and I world , and deals with the Preview: 'Rosencrantz for one will be going to the City Art shallowness of the 'high' life-style Centre and the Royal Scottish led by the wealthy in Florida, who and Gildenstern are Academy before Feb 16th to see seem to spend all their evenings at dead', at the Bedlam some more. John McBride Seated nude George Seurat THE ST UDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 7 ART~ structure and the genius of its expression, ensured its lasting Sunday evenings significance and its stature as one theatre of the most accomplished pieces at the Traverse of literature written in the 20th century. The Eemis Slane moves with the As part of the Traverse Club's most lyrical flow of voices through the interesting season In y ears remaining three poems: Excelsior Theatre PKF make an unusual (1931); Island Funeral (1939) and foray onto the venues hallowed finally, Reflections in a Slum boards In a series of 'moved' play (1962). The penultimate poem, readings at the Club on Sunday First taken lrom Macdiarmid's book, evenings. The first In their five­ The Islands of Scotland, draw on play series took place on Sunday the past, the celtic traditions of the 5th when an audience of the old Impression Western Isles, the roots of Gaelic faithful and new adventurers culture. A poem o f sadness, grey, witnessed a PKF rendering of THE EEMIS STANE sea, sky, and the lonlinessof death ' Pyrates' by George Dunn. seems.in part, to involve the 'Rendering' Is not insensitively Traverse rhythms and cadences of the selected since to describe any I must admit that I had never Gaelic languate although offering by PKF as a 'performance' even heard of Christopher Murray written in E nglish . Dolina would be to go against the w hole Grieve, better known under the Maclennan's Gaelic background thrust of this much underated and name of Hugh MacOiarmid, before and her close friendship with underexposed groups argument. having to do this review. Upon Hugh MacDiarmid (and Christo­ PKF, a group of dedicated leaving the theatre alter the pher Grieve) brought the poem to dramaturqs, emerged some years performance, I knew his name, but larger life than the silent words we ago, out of the Edinburgh aUII I had no Idea of who the man­ speak inside our heads. Playwrlles Workshop and the was. Obviously the Idea was to The Eemis Slane is enriching for theory behind both groups' work is present the audience with a. both the initiated and the tyro For a simple but not uncomplicated collection of his best poems along_ the former, it provides new one. In an eflort to develop a with various political and patriotic interpretations and adds healthy medium for the growth o f Ideas which he so strongly enjoyment to familiar territory; for Scottish playwriting and hence believed in. MacOiarmid, who the latter, it is a well chosen Scottish Theatre a conscious went lo Edinburgh University, was introduction to one of the best attempt has been made to strip - of the founders of the Scottish writers Scotland has ever known. away the t r appings o f t he Nationalist Party. His poetry is traditional ' performance' o f ,acked with emotion, wit and Giles Sutherland theatre. pelriotism, but remains nonethe­ Those witnessing such a lns very direct and realistic. The Eemis Slane; A Celebration it is interspersed and introduced presentation for the first time are All the poems are recited with a of Hugh MacOlarmld's Poetry by b y O w en Dud ley Edwards' Vanished! understandably confused. Gone tlllclc Scottish accent, whoch Owen Dudley Edwa rds was commentary, spoken mostly by are the costumes, sets, lights and could prove lo be a nightmare for originally presented before an Doli na Mac l ennan. But this The Disappearing Act direction, since In the philosophy 111 overseas student (and, in this international audience at the 1979 commentary holds little of Mr of PKF these are expensive and -, the English are classified In Edinburgh Festival - it no w forms Edwards' orig inal thought, for This play is so new that there hlnderous trappings which shift this category) If he has not already p art o f th e 2 1s t bi rth day even the most shallo w dip into was no programme telling you the analysis and discussion of new lived In Scotland for some lime. celebrations of The Traverse ever-growing body of MacDiarmid who had written it, or who theatre which they have made Bui the closest I got to compre­ Theatre. "The Cekebralion" is a criticism will reveal much of what produced it or acted in it. I did not their goal. Instead, the audience hending the man as opposed lo short presentation of the life and is said here. understand it properly, but it are confronted by little more than the Image that has been created by work of Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Part One of "The Celebration" seemed to be about a man reading a first reading of a new script, they himself and his admirers, was al Grieve) performed by two readers, deals almost wholly w it h his grandfather's diaries. and are brought into the theatre MacDiarmid's prose, while the Ille Interval, when I sat In the Dolina Mclennan and Sandy unconcerned by his wife, who is process of the stage normally empty theatre. There was a very Neilson. second part is concerned with the deeply troubled by unemployment reserved for the artistic director. old Scotsman al the back, sitting The Eemls Slane opens with a most voluminous (in quality) and and introspection, and who The 'actors' if so they may be alone, motionless, not saying a citation o f MacDiarmid's entry in important area o f his work: poetry. appeals to him for affection. This is described, have had little more word. He had a faint smile on his Who's Who - the first impression Many believe, including myself, acted out alternately with scenes than a cursory reading of the play that MacDiarmid's early poems Hps because he understood the is important as it gives, lrom the from the diary, where the grand­ before It is put before the poetry, and loved the beauty of ii, outset, an idea of the volume of w ritten in the 1920s are his best father talks to his friend Maxwell. assembled 'jury' in all its nudity. because he was of the same MacDiarmid's work the quality and work and Owen Dudley Edwards Maxwell always talks about sex, An inherent, and vital, part of the generation as the poet, a genera­ tone are c learly demonstrated observes this conviction when he and ridicules the grandfather who PKF experiment is the 'Second states that " Ian Crichton Smith Hon which Is slowly dying out; and tater. T he final artic le in the entry is wishes to reduce all to mathe­ Act', where by means of a closely was prepared to give away whole because he was a Scotsman. While significant: it gives an indication o f matics (he ca lculates there are 17 structured circular discussion the swatc hes o f his (MadD's) other positions for making love). T he I was admiring and trying to the poet's humourous personality audience, actors and playwrite (to and to some extent, his stance as a work" for The Watergaw. grandfather tells of a lost report comprehend, he was remember­ use the traditional terms) are all detailing " the plane wi thout a Ing an era that has been and gone,. Scottish literary revalist: The rendition of this poem gives given an equal opportunity to surface", which Maxwell also left to survive only through the shivers of sadness and tears of express their views, comments scorns. He shouldn't, because the poet,y of men like Christopher Her: (Dolina Maclennan) b ea u t y to t he soul f u l and and criticisms of the piece, which, Murray Grieve. Recreation - interested. That is the mark of a report is found and Maxwell in aH probability, Its first public good reading and a great poem. disappea rs. This explains to the airing. Comments at Sunday's Him: (Sandy Neilson) Other p oems were read, some in a diary-reader Maxwell's absence, event varied from criticism of the Anglophobia. more understanding an d involved and to his satisfaction is at last use of a Grenadian 'prologue' lo way than others - they plotted, in dear to his w ife, and the final union the place of the poetic narrative T he performance then proceeds rough c h ronologica l o rd e r , of the two halves of the story style in the Scottish Theatre. to reveal a well chosen and MacDiarmid's development (but occurs at the instant o f the final Energy flows in circles as they French r e p res entative sample of not necessarily improvement) as a union o f the couple, when she say and anyone with more than a M ac Diarmid's writ ings, both poet. disappears. 'Lyceum' interest in theatre could poetry and prose,' Scots and The Drunk Man Looks at the Maxwell acted confidently, and do a lot worse than take advantage Nostalgia English, sobriety and inebriation. Thistle (1926) was perhaps the the wife most naturally, but the of the Traverse's Sunday evening In prose, MacDiarmid is at his pinnacle of MacDiarmid's 1.iterary others dulled the wit of some 'pay as you please' policy. Next week on the 24th, 25th and most amusing (and convincing) career and its repercussions are excellently funny li nes with rather 261h of February, Les Escogriffes laboured presentation. While parts when he adopts his public still felt today. The Drunk Man was Taff Thomas present a play by Marcel Pagnoi, personna and issues forth a the poem w ith w hich MacDiarmid were funny and effective, for Topaze. Performances will be held torrent of blustering and pompo us f o u nded modern Sco t tis h example the pickled private parts at the Pleasance Theatre every language. Nationalism; its epic propo rtions bought by the reader, I never rea ll y Next week: night starting at 7 pm. T he direct q uota t ion o f (it runs to over 3000 lines) and the saw their significance, and I'm Marcel Pagnol Is one of the MacDiarmid's writing constitutes fact that it is written entirely in sure there is more to the play than Review of EUTC productions lesser known playwrights by a large part of The Eemls Slane - Scots, as well as its spiraling I understood. entered in Scottish Studen t British audiences. He represents a Sven Wright Drama Festival, Feb 27-Mar 3, certain area and style belonging to Glasgow. lhe 4Ds. His world is that of the Midi of France with colourful India in Morningside 'So, U1d.o.. ~, H(J'U 1.Jo.rrt: representations of the Marseilles folklore in a debonair and melo­ Jagran is an Indian theatre scenes. but it would have been tZ> pi~ ~ At ackt{. . dramatic style (Marius, 1929), company of 11 men and three better to see some of the other women and their director Aloki actors in bigger parts. T he Fanay, 1931 ; Cesar, 1946). Most of · · · ..[) oJ,,),;. n3, ,:j en,. don 't Pagnol's work has been adapted Roy. Since foundi ng the company director, standing right on stage in in 1968 he has been producing western c lothes and bawling too I t1..:.n k. ~oe~M- rY½.J~ 6e for the cinema: 'himself and m ore _yo u? famous directors such as J. Renoir mime plays of 10 to 25 minutes in many explanations and sound and P. Allegre! created the order to entertain and educate effects too loud into a microphone "reallsme poetique du film Indian peasants and slum dwell ers turned up too much was a grating lrancals" at the end of the '30s. on socially important subjects and i r ri tating intrusion. The Topaze, written In 1928, is one of from the right food to eat, superb miming and drumming Pagnol's early works; it is what is alcoholism, national and domestic should have been left to stand called " comedie du moeurs" in money matters to family life and la rgely by themselves. French , a situation comedy. The education. We saw 'The Black­ In India these tong mimes must story is about a naive school mark.etee r·, 'T he Mon ster of be effective in giving their teacher who loses his Job alter a Malnutrition' (a spinach adver­ message. But shqwn to a mixed suburban Edinburgh au dience series ol misunderstandings and t isement ),- and ' B io-gas' (on they are less so, because th eir accidentally becomes the methane production from cow raisi ng of social awareness in suc h business partner of a fraudulent dung) . a practical way is of little relevance speculator. T he company's two chief actors t o t h e audience , h o w eve r Come and see the play If you are were excellent, giving amusing but very clear miming, which fitted interesting the players are in a Ian of old French nostalgia, ii is exactly with the o bject o f direct sh owing the work done by th e not only a very good comedy but a education through entertainment homage to the days of Fernande!, company. w ithout word s. The drumming was ; Arletty and Raimu. used most imaginatively to set Sven Wright 8 THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 WHAT~ .film

Dark Crystal Film Society From Fri 17th Please check times. (55i 0436) Supernatural adventure with Not a _ove Story monster-like Muppets, recom­ Fri 17th 18.45 mended for children. The dangers and effects of the pornoqraphic industry are Film house explored in this 1981 docu­ (228 2688) mentary. Manila (In the Claws of Darkness) Nostalgia Fri 17th 20.05 Thur 16th-Sat 18th 18.00, 20.30 Lino Brocka and Bembol Rocco Director Tarkovsky's treatment of star in this disturbing film about a a Russian intellectual abroad in man trying to rescue his girlfriend Italy and his relationship with his from a brothel in the seamy city of interpreter is poetic and Manila. hauntingly beautiful. Sub-titles. Cabaret Heart Beat and Body Heat Sun 19th 20.25 Miou Miou and Isabelle l'luppert Life is a cabaret, old friend in this Sat 18th 23.00 Rosie the Riveter multi-Oscar winning musical Heart Beat is the story of a love Wed 22nd 18.05, 19.30, 21.00 starring Liza Minnelli. What use is triangle between Nick Nolte, John This ,s a lively and award-winning srtttng alone in your room? Heard and Sissy Spacek and Body film about the plight of American Heat ,s a steamy, exciting film women employed during the war Mata Hari about the dangers of passion and Sun 19th 18.45 (GST) murder, starring William Hurt and The role of this famous WW1 spy ,s Kathleen Turner. Odeon deftly handled by the amazing (667 3805) Greta Garbo. Cat People and Nasferatu the Gorky Park Theatre Traverse Theat Glen or Glenda Vampyre 13 25. 16.25, 19 35 (226 2633) Wed 22nd 14.00, 18.45 (GST) Thur 16th-Sat 18th 18.30 It all began with three faceless A 1957 study of tranvestism Workshop Claxon, Trombette & Perna Nastassia K1nski pants and prowls bodies ,n the snow (see directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. Thur 16th 19.30 through Cat People as newly Dominion for more details). and starring Bela Lugosi. (226 5425) A new translation of work by awakened desire turns her Be\cikal Fo performed by Theatre Television Commercials dangerously feline. Nosferatu the Jungle Book Sat 18th 20.00 Sharp political satire. 15.25, 20.10 Vampyre is a West German film 14.00, 17 00, 20 00 This is a one-night presentation of Mistero Buffo that reinlerprets ' the vampire Citizen Kane If you are bored and/ or depressed Third World and' non-Western Fri 17th 20.00, Sat 18th 20.00 legend in a bizarre and Wed 22nd 15,25, 20.20 and you don't feel like writing music. Tickets £2 and £1.50. 22.00, Sun 19th 15.00 nightmarish manner. Sub-titles. A reporter attempts to discover the another essay. I suggest a trip to 1982 Theatre Co. present meaning of a newspaper tycoon's At First Sight Jungle Book. guaranteed to reworking of popular pal last words, starring Orson Welles. Sun 19th 20.30, Mon-Wed 18.00, postpone the blues for a good two Adam House theatre from the Middle Ag Everybody should see this film. 20.30 (Wed 15.00) hours (225 3744) slander of the best. Nominated for the 1984 Oscar Songs from the Front ABC 'Best Foreign Language Film', Al Porky's 1 and Porky's 2 Los Arbotes Mueren de Pie Tues 21 st till Sat 25th 20.00 Wed 15th 18.30, Thur 16th, Fri 17th First Sight ,s translated Coup de Please c heck times Elaine Loudon in the B (228 1638) at 19.30 Foudre and revolves round the Porky 's 1 ,s a mixture of crude premiere of her new Scarface The EU Hispanic Players present relationship that develops Jokes. Ju venile humour and combining her talents as s 14.30, 19.30 Alejandro Casona·s farce between two women in Lyons in pathetic sex-starved teenagers. and actress to provide st The poster says '"He loved the involving an organisation set up to 1952. The delicate subject is and Porky's 2 ,seven worse. compelling theatre. American Dream With a handled with subtlety and insight ensure happiness. vengeance." Well, so do we all. and has been highly acclaimed. Royal Lyceum right? Al Pacino rules the Mafia in Dir. Diane Kurys. Sub-titles. Dominion Cuba with an iron fist. (229 9697) Last Year in Marienbad and La (447 2660) Bedlam Theatre The Pirates of Penzance Jetee Gorky Park (225 9893) Sudden Impact Tues 21st-Sat 24th 19.30 Sun 19th 17.45, 20.15 13 40, 16.40, 19 40 14 00, 17 .00, 20.00 Cabaret The Edinburgh University Maflenbad stars Delphine Seyrig A Russian detective (W1ll1am Hurt) Good violent fun as Cl,nt Wed 22nd 13.15 Opera Club perform Gilbe in this strange French film about becomes obsessed with solving Eastwood takes on the bad guys A lunchtime cabaret at the Sullivan's classic operetta. the presence and/ or absence of the murder of three unidentified with an unquenchable thirst for Bedlam. last year, while La Jetee is another victims, and becomes involved revenge. King's Theatre French flick about time-travel with a beautiful former Siberian Rosencrantz and Guildenstern experiments. Sub-titles. dfss,dent. Wed 22nd-Mon 27th 1930 (229 f 201) Never Say Never Again Valerie and Fri, Sat at 20.00 Sleeping Beauty 13.30, 16.40, 20.00 The Saragossa Manuscript Never Say Never Again Tom Stoppard's satirical and Until Sat 18th 19.00 James Bond again. See Dominion Mon 20th, Tues 21st, 18.45 14 00, 17.00, 19.55 thought-provoking play, directed Rikki Fulton and Walter Carri for details. Valerie is set in 18th century Sean Connery brings much­ by Martin Groome and Mandie panto, if you haven't seen i 'Transylvania'. Valerie's develop­ needed wry humour to the latest Calvert. this is your last c hance. £5.5 Caley ing sexual instincts are James Bond film. £2.50. (229 7670) transcribed into a fantastical journey through the human Local Hero Savage Island psyche. Dir. Jaromil Jires. 14 .00, 17.00, 20.00 From Fri 17th Adapted from the original novel Don't postpone it any longer - go Please check times. by Count Jon Potocki, The and see this f11m 1 I promise you A children's film about swash­ Saragossa Manuscript tells tales won't be sorry. buckling pirates on the bounding of demons, ghosts and ghouls. Dir. marn. Wojcie~h Has. Subtitles.

National Gallery Scottish Gallery ODEON Film Centre CLERK STREET Rembranat to :seura1 Sylvia von Hartmann RSW Until 29 April. Mon-Sat 10.00- and Ian Cook ODEON 1 17.00. Sun 14.00-17.00. Until 7 Mar. Mon-Fri 09.0 A thriller that begins with three faceless bodies in the snow Paintings by Rembrandt, lngres, Sat 09.00-13.00. LEE MARVIN Manet, Goya, Whistler acquired by GORKY PARK (15) the National Gallery over the last National Museum o Separate programmes at 1.25, 4.25 , 7.35 Sunday 4.25, 7.35 five years. Antiquities Book now 101 Friday/Saturday evening pert. 8011 Olflce Open 1·7 pm. No.telephone bookings ucept Access/ Visa. Alexander Selkirk-The M Netherbow Centre Behind Daniel Defoe's R ODEON 2 Wlnterscape Crusoe WALT DISNEY'S Until 18 Feb. From 10.00. Until 3 Mar. Please check t THE JUNGLE BOOK (U) An exhibition of winter Separate programmes at 2.15, 5.45, 8.15 Sunday 5.45, 8.15 landscapes. Stills Gallery Suls bookable as Odeon 1. Night Works New 57 Gallery ODEON 3 Until 3 Mar. Tue-Sat 12.30- Violence - Intrigue - Treachery Sculpture First part of an exhibit\ RICHARD GERE MICHAEL CAINE Until 3 Mar. photographs by Chris Wain THE HONORARY CONSUL (18) Mon-Sat 10.30-17.30. Separate programmes at 2.00, 5.00, 7.50 Sunday 5.00, 7.50 Work by William Brotherston. 369 Gallery Sears bookable as Odeon 1. Keith McIntyre Until 18 Feb. Please check r Srvden1 Conce.u10n - 4 lor the puce ol 3 on production ol Union Cards any per1ormance Sunday to Thul'$day Traverse Theatre Smoke-box and new paper From Fr,day 2nd March Franco Zell1re111·1 LA TRA\IIATA (U) w•lh Placido Domingo Separate programmes at 2 pm and 8 pm Book now lo, evening per1 Richard Demarco at the Traverse by Keith McIntyre. s,a,r looking forward ro; John Ca1penter's - CHRISTINE (18) 1963-66 Albert Finney Tom Courtenay - THE DRESSER (15) John Hurt - CHAMPIONS (PG) Part o f the 21st birthday celebra­ Torrance Gallery Barbra Streisand - YENTL (PG) tions. A selection of works by Mel Brooks - TO lSE OR NOT TO BE (PG) Maggie Greer artists who were exhibited during Until 25 Feb. Please check ti VIOEO SCENE Join now - only £10 and you will receive 4 r1ee tickets lor Odoen. La1es1 titles available in VHS and BETA Richard Demarco·s founding Recent watercolours by M Selection ol music videos Hire lee £1 ·£2 SO per night Bargains in our sale ot su,plus stock Don r delay - Join today years at the Traverse. Greer. THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 9

Potterrow Disco Happy Hour 20.00-21.00. 60p. Cabaret for Green peace Featuring the McCalmans and many more in this fund-raising evening for Greenpeace n by Dr Keith Hearne on campaigns. Tickets £2.00 (UB40 rimenter's Search for Psi £1.50) from Smiling Sun Shop, 11 to his research on lucid Forth Street. Chambers Street and ESP. Cheviot Room, Union 20.00-01 .00. e. 19.30. EUTC Festival Fringe 1984 Auditions Auditions will be held lor Festival productions on Friday 17th, 19.00- 2-2.00, Cheviot Room, Pleasance: Saturday 18th. 14.00-17.00. onservation Strategy Highland Room, Pleasance. ·th slides by Prof. Aubrey Wednesday 22nd, 14.00-18.00. , FOE. Somerville Room, Ochil Room, Pleasance e. 1930. This vear's olavs will be Judqe Dread ,n Megga City One. Nice Monday 20th lnologist Wanton. The Changeling and • ctives on Crime series by Faculty of Rats. EU Conservative Association Deri ck McCl1ntock Phone 225 9873 or 667 3525 for Second in a senes of speakers MUSIC :haplaincy Centre, 13.10. details Michael Forsyth. MP, Stirling 13.00. Middle Reading Room, l ritussla: Relles of an Empire Saturday 18th Tev,ot. ·a1k by Mr Basil Skinner, Extra­ Reid Concert Hall Thomas Dolby :c ural Studies. 6th Level Common Ballroom Blitz Mon Feb 20th 20 00 Edinburgh Quartet loom, James Clerk Maxwell Chambers Street House 20.00- Tuesday 21 st The talented British pop star. best Tues Feb 21st 13 10 Da1uilding. KB 02.00. Library Bar Happy Hour Ecstatic Hour known in the US for She Blinded p, 80p entry. Chambers Street 20 00-21 00. Plus Me with Science and more live folk/blues Queen's Hall recently in Britain for Hyperactive. riday 17th (668 2117) must be seen and heard by anyone Sunday 19th Poetry Society J a e Union Pala is Edinburgh Quartet who appreciates great music i' cstatic Hour 20.00-21.00. Disco Ecstatic Hour Andrew Greig and Brian McCabe. Thur Feb 16th 19.45 Scottish Chamber Orchestra ,, 1 2.00. £1 . Jazz, Ceilidh. Tev1ot. Chambers Street House 20.00- two members of Scottand's new John McCabe. internationally 11 1 Wed Feb 22nd 19.45 . ; w. Late night Happy Hour 21.00. Plus live lolk/blues. Free generatron of poets, will be known pianist and composer. will reading from their work in Room Hallgnmsson's Poemi for violin .00--01.00. celebrate the upcoming 50th 3.18, DHT, 19.30 and strings (1st performance), anniversary of Elgar's death by n Edouard Manet lithograph of Guerre Civile. Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in 1oin1ng the Quartet in the Elgar Anti-Apartheid Society E minor and Mozart's Serenade in quintet m A mmor. Also on the D major. 'Haffner'. Jaime Laredo is A talk 1n the series. DHT Faculty programme are Haydn's Quartet ,n Room South, 13.00. the violinist. 'The Lark' and Mozart's Quartet m t flat. Wednesday 22nd Usher Hall Green Banana Club Platform Jazz Disco. Potterrow. 20 00-01.00. Fri Feb 17th 22.00 (228 1155/ 6) Free. The inimitable Benny Waters - 82 Scottish National Orchestra years old and still going strong - School of Poets Fri Feb 17th 19.30 possesses an eclectic style that Tnck or Treat? First in a series of Another programme devoted borrows from many periods in jazz public readings. Readers will be exclusively to the 50th anniversary history. Don't miss this master! Rayne Makcinnon, Rosemary of the composer Elgar's death: Hector, Ian Hutchison, Ann Gwilt. Overture, Cockaigne. Sea Cantilena 27 George Square. 19.30. Pictures, and Symphony No. 2. Sir Sun Feb 19th 13.00 Alexander Gibson is the Cabaret Adrian Shepherd is the director of conductor. Bedlam Theatre, 13.00. £1 (75p to this group which presents an members). ambitious programme: Biber's EU Amnesty International Sonata No. 4, Bach's Branden­ McEwan Hall Talk on The Abuse of Psychiatry burg Concerto No. 5. Muffat's Lunchtime Concert by Dr Michelle Hampson of Constantia, · Cimarosa's Oboe Fri Feb 17th 13.10 Amnesty M edical Group. Concerto and Handel's Concerto Chaplaincy Centre, Seminar Grosso, Op. 6 No. 4. Herrick Bunney on the organ. Room 2, 19.00.

1900-1939 Sport , April. Mon-Sat 10.00 till FfLMHOUSE un 14.00 ti ll dusk. 88 LOTHIAN ROAD EDINBURGH 031-228 2688 hibition before the gallery 1oves house. Includes work by ep loe, MacTaggart, Cadell , Rugby Union Cinema 1 Thurs 16-Sat 18 6.00/8.30 eats, Fry, Piper, Smith, Sicher Andrei Tarkovsky's award-winning and dazzlingly beautiful Edinburgh U18 v. Glasgow U18 N0STALG1A t15J , nd many others. South U18 v. North/ Midlands U18 i ity Arts Centre Sat 18th, Murrayfield. Starts 12 Cinema 1 Sun 19 8.30 Mon 20-Sat 25 6.00/ 8.30 (Also 3.00 Wed) 0 wetlery Redefined noon. Nominated for the 1984 OSCAR 'Best Foreign Language Fi lm' Boroughmuir Heriots lntil 25 Feb. v. AT. FIRST SIGHT tis, Sat 18th, Meggetland. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou and Guy Marchand ,t fon-Sat 10.00-17.00. Watsonians Stewart's/ Melville " The subtlest. most tough-minded mainstream movie of the year"­ :xhibition mounted by the British v. Film Comment :rafts Centre of avant-garde Sat 18th, Myreside. Tlr11IYl"('I. Ian ?Wellery in multi-media material. Tonight Feb 16at 7.30 Thca1rc Pkfrchca~cd Cinema 2 Thur 16-Sat 18 6.30 (Also 2.10 Sat) b in ••rmlnatlons 1983-84 -rcadinganddiscui,.i.io n of Dari Fo's CLAXON Greyhounds Klaus Kinski and daughter Nastassia in 'dream' double-bill TROMBErn: H' ERNA CCIII E with illus· Paul Schrader'sCAT PEOPLE t1s, } ntil 18 Feb. Mon-Sal 10.00-17.00 tratcd imroducuon by transl:11or Ed Emery. Langton Lord looks set to open Plus Werner Herzog·s NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE f15J ti Ork by students from British Fri Feb 178pm.Sat Feb IKK pm& IOpm. his account in the first event at · Sunday Feb 19 3pm 'rench and German colleges. 1982 ll1c.itrc Company prese nt s Dario Fo's Powderhall tonight. Whilst not Cinema 2 Sun 19 5.45/8.15 ·rultmarket Gallery M ISTERO BUFFO exactly a- drop in grading the Delphine Seyrig in Alailitesnais' perplexing classic Tonight Jim Haynci. will be i.igning hi!> auto· opposition looks less severe, the LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD

REGGAE:

AN Ato Z'V PARl2 by Toby Porter

The guitar chop is not an essential the production. Like the cover, ingredient of reggae, though it though. seems to be most closely associated with the style So, when T oasters: DJs talk over versions of tracks are dubbed up, the rhythm original ska hits. Some of the guitar usually disappears, and the liveliest music ever recorded, very bass is turned up. British version good for listening to in the shower. of reggae is peculiarly called U-Roy 1s the best artist in this style "Lovers' Roel< ". along with Columbia Colly and Dennis Alcapone Roots Radics: Sack-up band to U-Roy: Version Galore vol.11 & just about every successful reggae 12: Columbia Colly Jah Lion. act from Culture, to Bunny Wailer. to Linval Thompson. If you should Toots and the Maytab: The only ever see an album with this name ska artist to survive well into the on. it's as good as a guarantee of reggae era. His Monkey Man was quality. No kidding.folks. Still d not Scienti st: Another great dub Bob Marley: Robert Nester Marley, producer/ engineer. It takes a very son of an English army major and a dedicated listener to get used to black girl from the Ki~ston ghetto these sparse productions, and an (Frenchtown). Marley's contribu­ aid to th,s is to hear the original tion was as follows: first he versions , often by Linval Peter invented reggae in its current Thompson. I find them too empty Wailer form, second, he introduced the of form to maintain my interest, Tosh protest song into the pop but that's only an opinion. stone) vocabulary, and third he brought Scientist Meets King Tubby, Rastafarianism to popularity in Scientist versus The Vampyres, Jamaica. and from there spread its Scientist Wins the World Cup, Mr President message. Any one of these would Scientist Encounters Pacman. have been adequate to make For me, a more varied collection February the first is one another artist successful. That is such as Raiders of the Lost Dub is of those significant days. why Marley's influence is so more accessible. It's significant for three pervasive. His death, of cancer, in 1981, prevented him from Sociologists may come, and reasons; it's the first day becoming the oldest pop star sociologists may go, bul they don't of a new month; it's since George Burns. His third solve the problem of the Rasta. Douglas P . Munro 's posthumous elpee was released Which 1s probably 1ust as well , last week. More songs from the because without Rasta, reggae birthday; and it's the day Dead People Record label. And would be fairly lifeless, and that Mr President took the certainly this plunder from six-feet soc1olog1sts like reggae Waterloo Bar by storm. under won't match up to the ove, Classics Rastaman Vibration, s of The connection? Yes, you Burma and Exodus, after which he Pri nce Far I: Another DJ who cially guessed that there had to went into something of a decline, successfully transferred lo record. the s Love be one, the said D. P. In a class of his own when it comes itself is a collection of their own shying away from the dub Munro just happens to be treatment on the latter because, he. to dub. Sounds exactly like a ten­ versions of early reggae classics said, dub loses the message. ton frog. The Dub Encounter - they didn't know that Neil the drummer with the See also Catch a Fire, Natty albums, Parts 1-4, escape me, but Diamond had written Red, Red exceptionaly line Mr Dread, Kaya, Survival, Uprising. Marble Srone on the Liv1ty album Line Quite funny, that, really, is superb, and inddentally sounds John. The first band to sell a dub President, who, as I said, much like a Rastafarian religious album in Woolworths. took the Waterloo Bar by service, all bongos and in­ storm. comprehensible recitals Really, it was a low key gig by any standards. Two bands: Mr President, and a St Andrews band, Rastafarl anism: Jah (God) is Haile Life Support, playing to what Selasse, former Emperor of looked like being an audience of Ethiopia, otherwise known as Ras the "very small" variety, in a pub­ Tafari (hence the name, geddit?) cum-disco which gave one the which is arabic for (something same feeling of joie de vivre as the like) Imperial God-head. All guillotine. Rastas believe that the Western All, however, was not lost. Your world ("Babylon") is corrupt, and faithful hack listened to both that, one day, the " Black Star­ bands soundchecking, and liner",' as foretold by prophet decided not to listen to Life Marcus Garvey, will come and Support's set. Bad, I'm afraid, is return them to their homeland, doing this bunch a favour - Ethiopia. The sacrament, called definitely one to miss. "ganja", is marijuana (competi­ Mr President were the support, Mighty Diamonds a bit pappy for tion: how many words different not that you'd have guessed from me, but a big reputation, though words can you think of for elpee, which contains his versions the reception they received as 9 God knows why. lyrics talk of cannabis, you trendies? Answers of Marley's songs, and smacks of o'clock drew nigh. As if from sunshine and pretty girls and to 1 Buccleuch Place by Friday. profiteering to me. His own stuff is Studio 1: The particular sound noewhere a crowd appeared, and music sounds like a Trevor Horn Prize is· a signed photo of Paul much more creative. recorded on Clement Dodd's there could be no doubt about who production. A good combination, Daniels.) Every Rasta refers to Tribute; Black Heart Man. Studio One label 1s a genre to they wanted to see. They weren't wouldn't you say, Terry? Radio himself as " I and I", being itself. Turn the bass, treble and disappointed. Playing as if born to Two deserves it. something lo do with the evil and The Wailers formed in the masstc loudness up, and what at first the stage, Mr President delivered the good self, I think. Since Bob ~eriod and issued at least 40 seemed a dull, flat sound becomes an introduction to the blues that Misty In Roots: John Peel talks of Marley, Rasla and reggae have successful singles over a period of throbbing and vital. Called the none would forget. Quite simply Live at the Counter - Eurovision become inseparably unseparable. eight years before even thinking "University of Reggae", many they were superb, tighter than a 1979 as "medieval" and Rastas must preach the word of about an album. Catch a Fire was prominent performers have gnat's arse, and far more fun to "hypnotic". Well, i find live reggae Jah, and they use music to do ii. issued in 1971 (was it?) and soon started out their careers here - listen to. I could eulogise at length albums very unsatisfactory, and The Rasta colours are red, green after, the Wailers achieved Misty in f1oots uninspiring. Best to e.g. The Skataliles, (the most international fame, just like about every individual number, and gold, lhe colours of the but I'll spare you. However, some go and see them on stage as they masterly ska band) the Wailers, Liberace. They took on Junior Ethopian flag. Hence all those hip numbers do deserve special seem to be here every year. I've Toots and the Maytals, Burning Murvin, the Barrett brothers little badges you've seen on mention: Wild Thing was delivered s~en them three times myself. The Spear. Equally, all have been rhythm section and tje I threes and hipsters' lapels. A rasta can't cut like I've never heard, without a first time, only ha lf of the 14-piece ripped off by Dodds and strangely, travelled the globe spreading the his hair. Hence dread locks. doubt, the best version of this old band was at the Playhouse. The none bear him any malice. message. It reaches you some ten (Yannick Noah must've had a classic you'll ever hear. Also rest were in prison in Glasgow, on dispensation.) years later. drugs charges. worthy of mention was their self­ penned number Slow Motion, and Reggae: When the rock steady Sunsplash: A festival held every White Reggae: The Clash, The last but not least, in this short hall beat of Ska slowed down, that left year in Montega Bay, Jamaica, Police, Scritti Politti, all schieved of fame, I've Got My Mojo Musical You th: The best-selling room for the bass to play more with all the best reggae acts taking impetus from their own form of Working, delivered With the sort of reggae artists in the world. Fun, freely, until in reggae it provides all part. A world cup of reggae, you reggae. Cullure Club too. The gusto which makes certain ex­ poppy reggae, though recent of the melody. This, together with might say. A recording of the 1981 bass-dominated melody is now a bass players glad they didn't singles are rootsier. Their dad. the distinctive off-beat drum were festival is available on re lease, but uniiiersal motif of British rock. decide on a life of monastic who also manages them an,d has innovations chiefly of Bob Marley. the selection is terrible, and so is This was derived from the form of solitude. THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 11 DESTROYERS How encouraging it is to WHITE TRASH realise that there is such a supportive, lively audi­ ence for jazz amongst OF MUSIC student. Doubly encouraging ii was to hear such an escatlc encore for a To some of you Chambers but I think that if there is talent · student band after an action­ Street punters Architects of Fear there, it will show regardless: and I packed performance. " Off the may be a familiar name. To their can hear that the band are trying to Cuff', first to play In the Pleasance audience, I send my sympathies. achieve something. but it just last thursday night for EU Jazz A couple of weeks ago, a doesn't quite come together. I ·Society, certainly won the cassette purporting to be the have th e sneaking suspi cion th at admiration of their less Architects' demo, fell into my this is probably due to lack of courageous contemporaries. trembling, ~xcited hands. (Before I musical accomplishment more Their repertorle ranged from the go any further, may I say that all than anything el se. Having said rocky 'Doctor, Doctor' to 'You'll demos from local bands are that. I did find the drumming get their In the end' (composed by welcome to be torn to pieces inventive and a little mo re o ut-of­ Spade, the lead guitarist). reviewed by our illustrious staff.) the-ordinary in places. The band's others members are However, on to the matter in The most important thing for an stefan (bass guitar), Ian (playing a hand. The band appear to have the unknown band is to have their own mean sax) , Tim (some adept, beginnings of some possibly good however slightly distinctive sound, energetic drumming) and Blanca ideas but these are slaughtered in and the Architects definitely do (strong vocals). Nol forgetting our their infancy by a distinct lack of not have any such trademark. own Grevllle McKenzie giving that imagination. The rather predict­ Easier said than done I knoW, but piano all he'd got. able chord progressions are not it's vital in order to achieve any sort The question is: Was this Jazz? made any more in teresting by a of recognition outside of student . .. Whal is Jazz? vocalist who sings along with unions. I rather think that Theatre 'Spirits of Rhythm' came up with them, rather than creating his own of Hate and Spear of Destiny may all the answers. 100- New part of the musical whole. The be a big influence on the band: Orleans. 100- gusto. Thoroughly guitaring is very crude, particu­ Death Wea rs a Stetson was cer­ enjoyable. larly in Davey Jones 's Locker, and tainly reminiscent of early T of H. Next week don't miss the 'Ken a little tuning-up would not have whilst the vocal in Cannon Fodder Scott Trio' and 'Suqd'. As usual, gone amiss in War Correspondent. were ve ry a la Kirk Brandon. 10-1 the Little Theatre Bar, the I realise it is difficult to sound Maybe next time, lads. Pleasance. From 9 pm entry Is sop wonderful on a budget recording, Wendy Barrett to members and £1 non-members. Judith Allen FAIRIES ::e r'"'T"'1 ::c:­ THE MAGNIFICENT? ::0 CORDUROYS? Weber's Oberon EU Opera Club CLASH! and Orchestra Glasgow Barrowlands IS twice the size ol CoaSte,s and has a ut1l1ta nan . Weber himself was never truly ughness Iha! makes OHT basement inviting The sort of venue 1mmortal1sed m No Mean City green stnpl1ghting, plastic chairs and tables nailed to the floor maximum drinking. trapping happy with his opera Oberon. and the odd kmfe f,ght A cap,tal-mtens1ve cattle-market The sort ol venue where the Clash Although his English was bad he can feel hke probish punk rockers again. dahn the Roxy. half Strathclyde Pohce Force on the sensed that the over-sentimental street outsid e. a mockup of the first album cover. and melodramatic libretto by It's very hard for me to be ob1ect1ve about The Clash. I grew up with them, bought their records, stuck them on my wa ll and eagerly swallowed the predigested dogma spewed up by Planche was not apt for a dramatic $!rummer on the pages ol NME. 1978. and I pogoed in black hpsllck, 1982 and I raised my musical setting and was probably hairy armp11. 1984, and we s1ood at the side, watching the football fans down the lront Here left with the uncomfortable feeling we go here we go here we go ... I feel the way a h1pp1e feels about Genesis. I used 10 love them. that he had made a mistake. so I still love them. But rea lly, they were awful And lhe hits 1ust kept on commg: from London Calling, The Guns of Bnxton. Spanish Raymond Monelle, the musical Bombs, Career Opportun,t1es. Police and Thieves, Garageland {"I don't wanna go where the director of the Edinburg University nc h are going "). All very nice. very polished. sounded Just hke the records. S1menon g1v1ng Opera Club deliberately his usual rhetoncat flounshes on bass. then fading mto the backg round to altow the new attempted to point out ttie guitari st (who shall be nameless) to be an Angry Young Poseur, pulhng m cheeks and pretending to batter his axe. Strummer wore a torn T-shirt. in an inane attempt to persuade absurdities of both libretto and the punters they weren't a ripofl at £5; strutted and screamed, as angsH1ddle as ever He did plot. Unfortun atel y, having There was no shortage of Headlining band Seven are come up with some good quotes, though; pointed out the bad points he entertainment al Chambers Street another band formed from the 1 failed to bring out the good: much Union on Saturday night. In demise of two bands (Everest The Glasgow! Glasgow' I want you 10 stop /1 v1n g with makeup on I want you to paml cha,,spmk. Hard Way and Set The Tune) . and stic k them 10 buses w11h superglue! Be activists! {seque into Know Your Rights) of Weber's individual and between the three bands, John Glasgow' Glasgow! I want you to stop watching 8 fldeshead Rev1s1ted and The Jewel m the sonorous orchestration was Peel Introduced the records In the They pistoned their way through a Crown' (which 1ust goes to show the sort of bourgeois enlertainment he's into) obscured. way in which we have come to series of songs that seemed to be a New numbers all smacked o f three-chord tricks and a somewhat tokenist ideology. Are You expect him - quick wit and pot-pourri of currently popular Ready tor War (pac1f1st sentiment, m1htary chic). rm A Dictator (tor 1984). Stop this Sex Mad The orchestral playing lacked World (I think); Three-Card Tnck (Freudian shp) . Free videos included Taxi Driver, The Wild clarity and many tempi were not deadpan dllvery. Everyone was dance styles. The songs had too Ones and Mad Max II, which would prove to anyone but an 1mbec1lethat you need more than a observed: the allegro con fuco trying hard to have a good time. little content to do justice to the Moh1can haircut and a leather 1acket to be 1deo1og,cally sound sounded more like a funeral First band to appear were undoubted talent and vivid stage Strummer is ei ther very very cinicat. or else he is an 1mbec1le. He has lost half his song presence of singer Tracie Stewart. wnt1ng ab,ll ty and a lot of fans by sacking Mick Jones, but, he 1s in the wrong business lor march. Above all they swamped Autumn 1904 - a local band. With pot1t1cal credib1 l1ty or effectiveness. Rock music 1s cap1tal1sm at its most effective and its most the singers which was a pity a large visually interesting line-up Watch this band, though - they've brutal And thrs Strummer probably knows, but there's precious l1t1le he can do about 11 because the chorus were lively. including two female busking­ only been together six mo nths and Except sing songs which have outlived their usefulness. 1n clubs packed with kids packed Valerfe Nunns as Rezzia, the singers/ dancers, they played an their songwriting will undoubtedly with pints. Strummer's over the hill, which puts peopte like me on the down-slope Sober for The Clash. I went on to a nightclub and got very d runk. I had a great trme, and by the next day, gushy heroine, sang se nsitively, enthusiastic, funky set that were improve. I'd lorgou en all about them. Back 1n my garage with my bullshit detector. her top notes were beautiful and certainly the highlight of the Throughout the night, despite unlike the strident tenor, Alan evening for me. Songs were the quality of entertainment on Borthwk:k, she made no particularly well-constructed for a offer, there was a feeling of misguided attempt to battle with band still in the small-time league frustration in the air. It seemed that the orchestra. Generally thoug·h. and technically good perform­ there were si mply too many the soloists blended well in ances from guitar and keyboards people in th e building . If ~n semble, especially in the trio slotted nicely on top of a rock Chambers Street was within the And must I then dissemble". steady drum mix. And the restriction s impo sed b y fire In truth the EUOC's decision to keyboardist really was enjoying regulatio ns, those regulations bring the opera off stage and give it himself! need , looking into. Spontaneous a concert performance,was a bad Next band, The Collector, were combustion was not out of t,he one. Although Raymond Monelle's less inspiring. Despite their question in th e heat of the upstairs satiric narrative (read spiritedly by illustrious parentage ( TV21 and d isco! Apart fro m the lengthy John McCall) in place of the Another Pretty Face), tight rhythm queues at the undermanned bars it . dialogue managed to inject some and resonant big band brass was impossible to dance in the wry humour into the proceedings sound, they were rather limited by disco w ith o u t h avi ng mass the . half-hearted attempts at an apparent total reliance on the studentocide o n yo ur conscience. miming by the " cast" were often various phases of Rexy's Midnight You could hardly blam~ the embarrassing. What was lost by Runners for influence. Songs such audience for the lack of response the removal of action colourful as Something to Believe In, to the band s. Everyone must have costume and dialogue ' was never Promised Land and Wonderful felt like just another sausage at the adequately compensated fo r by Life seemed slightly co ntrived as a bottom of a Pollock deep freeze. the music or the humour of this result in their soulful ic;lealism. No Everyone was trying to have a production. one seemed oo bot\)erl!d whether good time e>n 5at1Arday night. It or not t~ r..w 1f ,c·ur - ~l l bY C(\Uld have been -~ ' mi...... 1w ,,·e. did, all ll1G ,d' oh F'e1rla 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 Feature John Peel= still at the controls? People flocked to Chambers Street Union on Saturday night. In addition to three good local bands, .I will admit that standing room only and half-hour long queues at the through the years I have bar, there was an added attraction - a big name DJ played some pretty from Radio One - JOHN PEEL. After the ordeal, he embarrassing stuff." kindly agreed to speak to Student's John Petrie about " I like to think that you can't hold his job. talent back. It's like with football - always championed the cause of if you've got a player who's really whatever new movement has been good he's going to make it 12.30 pm- Chambers Street last emerging in the field of 'popular' whoever helps him along the way. Saturday night. A squat, balding music . His allegiance has If a band are that good it makes no middle-aged man and his wife switched from hippy bands to punk difference whether or not I give stumble across the street to their bands to bands on 'independent' them a sessi on." car. Both carry mysterious black labels. Many of the bands involved Idealistic st uff, this. If anything cases. As they haul them into the he seems to have too much fait in boot, an awkward-looking lad in these movements have gone on to have some kind of popular (and the ramifications of the music approaches proffering a red book commercial) success. I ask him business. My preconceptions of and a pen . Faintly amused, the cynicism are obviously suspect. man takes them and signs his whether he believes that his I agree with John Peel. He does name - John Peel. influ e n c e brought these play some "pretty embarassing '"S like being Noel Edmunds," stuff'. At the moment' I venture to he quips as he sits down on a pile "I tend to think of my suggest to him th at he has been of demo-tapes and wipes the programme as a con­ driven into extremes of obscurity windscreen. I sit in the back; Mrs sumer guide to music that by th e recent c ro~sover of many of Peel , loving referred to as 'The "his' bands on to daytime radio Pig', sits in the front. isn 't being gi ven enough shows, es pecially Kid Jensen's. I am in the presence of a Radio exposure elsewhere." One DJ - a Top of the Pops " I reall y like the Kid. Peter Powell's a good guy too - gets presenter' This is the secure little movements to the forefront or man who sits in his cosy studio lpte whether he simply followed each more than his share of slagging, at night sniping from the rooftops new wave. even 11 he does come across as with cynical remarks and playing "I don't really think I'm that being a little self-seeking. But I don't see either of them a lot. John Peel: is he about to be blown off the airwaves? obscure German records (at the influential - sometimes I think I am because people around me tell " As for the others - most of wrong speed) purely for the sake "The money helps too - I'm in "I think that whole business says me so. Anything new attracts me them don't care what's on their of self-indulgence. I sit back and considerable risk of finding myself more about the psychological - any new perspective. It doesn't shows. It's the producers who ask the questions, expecting a unemployed." have to be a 180 degree turn, like count, not the DJs. I mean, if you state of mind of the people who lorrent of cynicism. A bombshell is drop·ped. The the punk thing was . Even a shift of hear the odd good track on Bates· banned it than it says for the sniper has fa llen from the rooftops five degrees can be enough. i'd programme (the surname is record itself. Just a hysterical fear " I 'd have to be a and is running in the streets after rather listen to something new pronounced disparagingly - my of homosexuality. It also made the curfew - cynicism is his only committee to listen to all than sit and listen to something I brackets) it's only because he's BBC look very silly to ban it after it weapon. The security of the the stuff we get sent. It's already know I like." working with the guy who used to had been played so often." establishment ,s no longer behind So does he still like bands ne produce my show. John Peel talks a lot of sense. By sad because people's John Peel. used to play, like Genesis? " But it is happening - there are no means is he as cynical or lives are involved. That "I've got the big boys at the BBC "It's funny - I'm often accused more decent records getting secure as some would have us ~ff mv bar.k for the moment but I'm sounds memodramatic, of liking Genesis. I was never played during the day. There's no believe. Next time you hear his but it's true." really that keen on them. They point in me playing a band like show, listen to what he says rather only did one session for the Culture Club, even though I really "It's not as if have than how he says it - you could be As I had seen people from programme and there was a like them - it would be boring to anything put aside for a surprised. Cynicism is a front to a very positive person. lonight's bands handing him demo certain amount of pressure on me have them on all day. I tend to rainy day. I'd say that the tapes, I ask him first about the to do that. .. Still I will admit that think of my programme as a Our conversation ends with a state of his demo tape backlog. through the years I have played consumer guide to music that isn't Pig and I have about chat about football , his true "This may sound callous but some pretty embarrassing stuff." being given en ough exposure £2,000 in the bank." - ·passion in life. He has seen many are never listened to. When Despite his dour tones, his elsewhere." Aberdeen beat Motherwell today, I'm awake, and I'm not at the enthusiasm for the new is far from Another preconception is sure they'll be back before long. but expresses disappointment at football , I'm listening to music. cynical. How far does he believe shattered. He can justify his It's not as if I have anything put the violence displayed both on and Even so , only one in twelve tapes he can help a particular band? apparent wilful obscurity in terms aside for a rainy day. I'd say that off the pitch. And Liverpool's of providing a kind of community the Pig and I have about £2 ,000 in chances for the League? - he service. the bank. What w ith four kids and admits that if they win it it will be I ask him if heen1oysdoingg1gs, all the rest of it, it'd last about six "by default". such as tonight's at Chambers weeks at the most. " Street. Prospects are not secure for a I leave him to his hectic "Yes, I do. This may sound a bit middle-aged DJ , especially one schedule (The Pig is like Bob Hope or something, but who is responsible for the most it 's su rprising how many nice radical programming on national yawning) . T hree gigs in peopl e there are about. Gigs are a radio with an audience almost of th ree days in three cities way of keeping in touc h. I like to an age with his children. - Glasgow, Edinburgh, see what people dance to and what While on the subiect of the BBC. D u n d e e . G a m u r ?. they request - I've got a couple of I ask about his attitude to the I O big bags of requests already this banning of Frankie Goes To Fame? Fortune? Who'd weekend. Hollywood's single -'Relax·. be a OJ? Alook around Student television With the installation of programme which ultimately not only those who were shouting television sets in various reaches the television screen can things like 'Get the Tories out'' and parts of the University , no longer be as ·comprehensive as ' Stop the cuts! ', and the a "straight" news programme programme also made the viewers students have suddenly might be. aware of the presence, believe it or become aware of the " However, I don 't intend not, of a few royalists. We took activities of the Student 'Lookaround' to be a news service. rather an unusual angle on the My intention is that it elaborates Prince's visit actually, so that Television Society. Sarah upon the facts which have been rather than emphasise all the Spurrfer spoke to David reported elsewhere, rather than to chanting and booing that went on, Levy , the editor of go over them again. Some of our we spent a long time in talking to best visual effects were when we Student TV 's 'Look­ Prince Charles's chauffeur about covered skiing at Hillend. Our trip .his experiences." Around ' prog ramme , to the zoo was very good also, Unfortunately, there have been about his attempts to -especially when we were almost a few technical problems with tht1 attacked by a monkey. On-the­ make the student popu­ new TV monitors. Because of this spot interviews with students also 'Lookaround' has been seen only lace aware of events come across quite well, so that , for intermittently so far, usually on around them. example, we went out and about in Thursdays and often in rooms "Previously, Student Television Bristo Square just before where a television screen goes broadcasts tended to come in the Christmas to ask people what they r.irgely unnoticed. David Levy is simple form of reading news items thought of Christmas. Responses clearly unhappy with this. to a camera , despite the fa ct that to having camer~s trained upon However, where he might these kind of news sto ri es co uld be you vary tremendously. Some arguably expend his energy more conveyed perha'ps bette r in written people shy away, while others usefully in acquiring a regular form as in The Student and revel in 1t!" sc reening time for hi s programme gets heard I'd have to be a " All I can do ,s help th em along Midweek. I've tried to ma ke 'Look­ "Lookaround' al so has some whic h wo uld improve its audience committee to listen to all the stuff the way Someti mes I can help Around' a programme where we short documentary-type pieces fi gures. he spends more time in we get sent It's sad because bands that I don't even particularly take the cameras out and about and David stresses that he ,s demanding better equipment such people's lives are involved. That like. while bands I thi nk are really and film events and happenings extremely care ful to be as as a more soph1 st1ca ted editing sounds melodramatic. but ,t's excellent - like The Cravats and which lend themselves especially objec tive in his reporting as record er. David Levy stresses that true." The N1ght1ngales - sti ll sit on the to film." possible new peop l e t o h e lp w ith And ,t ,s true On his late-night sidelines." A problem with this kind of "When we covered Prince "Lookaround' are always welcome show throughout his relatively John Peel draws many images approach, which David fully Charles·s visit to the McEwan Hall and the editors meet at 6.30 pm ,n lengthy career. John Peel has from football. He continues acknowledges ,s that the last term we were careful to show the Pleasance every Monday THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 13 Feature Life Sentences 'The Prisoner' - South abolishing the House ol Lords, but now I believe the answer lies in the lact that Labour MPs love Opinion peerages just as much, if not more than, the Tories because it is a kind Korean style of forbidden fruit for them. Of Nothing spectacular is happening in South Korea. No under the Law on Assemblies and Life peers were instituted 1n course they have to justify their Demonstrations vary between 1958 to replace the disgustingly presence in the Lords by saying riots, no murder by governments, no "disappear­ eight months and four years: Kim elitist practice of hereditary titles that they are only making up the ances ", no mass graves. It is hard to feel concern for is currently serving a three-year with the disgustingly elitist numbers in the Labour batting the anonymous masses quietly being jailed in a term. There is no guarantee of practice of Prime Ministerial order, but this only means that humane treatment for prisoners: patronage. This can be seen as a they can enjoy all the ermine country distant in space and culture. But their step towards a meritocracy, trimmings, while pretending not to imprisonment is of direct although in practice it amounts to care. By the way, the Welsh do not concern to us in KB and something a little less attractive; usually accept peerages, not did you, for example, take much because of their true socialist George Square, for they notice of the peers created in the principles, but because no one are students, and the New Year's Honours List? No, would be able to pronounce the systematic repression is neither did I, but if I remember Welsh place-names they chose. rightly, it included two remark- Lloyd-George was one who did something we all take for ably uninteresting former Labour and found this out when he granted: student free­ Cabinet Ministers called Mulley became the Earl of Dwyfor dom. And the abstract and Bottomley, some Tory and a (pronounced " Dooeyfor"), and issue is given a human former civil servant. Other "George Thomas. the former recipients include any of the Prime Speaker, who became, apart from face by the individual Minister's old mates, anyone the most wonderfully pompous case of one agricultural contributing anything to party bore, Viscount Tonypandy, now economics student, Kim funds and anyone with a silly name complains that he gets letters like Shufflebottom who wants an addressed to Mr Tony Pandy. The Ye-neung, as EU Am­ excuse to change it. But most of all more astute of you will know that nesty International point it is for the wives. The only reason neither of them were made life out. that most politicians' wives suffer peers; Viscounts Tonypandy and years of boredom, following their Whitelaw. although neither has The Republic of Korea has a h u sb and s around on the any children, are both hereditary troubled history, and students like campaign trail, walking about peers; this seems a pretty Kim ~ave always been in the fore­ listening to them drivelling on and pointless exercise on the part of front of political protest. Student trying desperately not to yawn, is Mrs Thatcher, unless it is a part bf pressure proved to be an the distant prospect that they a scheme to encourage important and effective force in might just end up being called promiscuity among the over- the early years of independence Lady Shufflebottom. sixties. from Japan. Its success in The whole idea of life peers has Talking about Prime Ministers, campaigns against government been attacked on the grounds that they enjoy dishing out titles more corruption ended abruptly in 1971 , you can no more make Joe Bloggs than anyone since it is a when nationwide student protest a member of the aristocracy by convention that former Prime at the re-election of President Park calling him Lord Bloggs than you Ministers are entitled to an Chung-Lee resulted in the closure can make him a true son of the Earldom, and since Sir Harold of universities and the arrest of desert by calling him Sheikh Wilson was obviously dying to get numerous dissenting students, Bloggs. This argument must be his hands on a peerage, it is some of whom are still in prison 13 very reassuring to the real blue- surprising that he settled for a years later. bloods among us, and while there more downmarket Barony - The president made repeated is some truth in it, it ignores the maybe he was feeling sentimental vain attempts to suppress the fact that the practice of making about the working classes at the critical voice of students. He used "new men" into nobles has been time. It is also a shame that he his considerable constitutional going on for some time: Henry 11, I chose the boring title of Baron powers to issue a set of believe, was accused of it in the Rievaulx. He ought really, for the Emergency Regulations, for­ chance of a degree. Added to this disturbing allegations have been 12th century. There is also the sake of the British sense of bidding all criticism of the are more obvious conditioning made of beatings both before and argument that making so many humour, to have become Lord government or the constitution. devices: all student groups are after trials, particularly of students peers dilutes the value of the Scilly. Similarly, Mrs Thatcher, South Korean students were given forced to register with the who dare to protest against the peerage as a whole; this may according to Denis, takes her no choice on the matter of national authorities and pass under the prison regime. One student died in sound plausible but actually, the holidays on the Isle of Muck, but representation : between April and control of the government's prison after being ill-treated thousand or so modern-day peers she would probably not take August 1974 2,000 people were laughably named Student defence duriog a hunger strike. Kim is represent much the same kindly to the resultant title; she arrested for "praise, encourage­ Corps. Professors are resons101e thought to be in a Seoul prison, but proportion of the population as could try next door with Eigg - ment or sympathy with" the for "guiding" the political views this has not yet been confirmed by they did in the 17th century. Lady Eigg? - I'd leave that to the Students' Federation , Eight and activities of a number of the authorities. At least he was Anyway, if you are a meritocrat, chickens (ouch! what a fowl yoke). people accused of membership students; while extra vigilance is given an official trial: dissident both these arguments are very Personally, 1 think our Margaret is were executed. Others were provided by the constant campus sources claim that large numbers good ones to support the aiming a little higher, perhaps sentenced to between 15 years of studentsarequietlyconscripted continued existence of life peers. hoping to end her days living the and life imprisonment. patrols of plainclothes policemen. into the army, or given summary I won·t dwell on the subject of plain and simple life as Good "The president made repeated vain attempts ~o sentences. whether the House of Lords Queen Mags. Although the situation seems should be abolished or not, But I digress. Life peers do seem suppress the critical voice of students: He used his hopelessly frustrating, there is one because I think that it's well past to be a good way of honouring considerable constitutional powers to issue a set of effective course of action open to bedtime for that old chestnut; I do people and, by introducing people Emergency Regulations, forbidding all criticism of the Edinburgh students which will, if thi.nk it should be reformed, but in of different classes and cultures. we take it, al low us to influence in a a way it would be a shame to get ri d they must help to decrease the government or the constitution." small way the course of events in of the word " Lords", which can great strains within society; I have South Korea. This is the campaign refer to anything from the Creator heard that there is one black peer, Park Chung-Lee was assas­ Any student singled out as a by Edinburgh University Amnesty of the Universe to a cricket but he seems to keep himself sinated in 1979, and despite the troublemaker undergoes car- International for the release of Kim , ground. However, such ve rsatility rather hidden - there should of impositi o n of martia l law. rective treatment in a military Yu-neung. It is based on the is probably too good for this course be many more. However, i optimism grew as impri soned camp oeiore being returned to the apparently useless method of ' plastic world of ours: no doubl still have a nasty suspicion that life students were released and 760 university, where they continue to letter-writing. But a constant when the SDP is in power they will peerages were actually introduced people expelled for political mix with students and monitor stream of letters bound for the reform the Lords and replace the to save the aristocracy from activities were re instated at their their opinions. Following the desks of academics, officials and titles Duke, Marquis , Earl hordes of hereditary working- universities. Students united with introduction of new crowd-control MPs in Britain and Korea Viscount and Baron with "superio1 class Lords, so that when the age opposition politicians to present legislation in l980, bus loads of constitutes an amazingly effective Citizens - Classes 1-5 (on seconc of socialism is passed and the compelling demands for academic riot police, armed with shields and weapon. Annesty members have thoughts that sounds rather toe good old days of feudalism have freedom, the lifting of martial law batons can be seen waiting already begun the flow, but to elitist, perhaps it should be "More come again, only the herd1tary and immediate democratic outside campuses to quell build this into the flood which will Equal Citizens"). ones will be left to get one with elections. But when demon­ immediately any attempt to hold ensure Kim's unconditional It used to surprise me that the their job of running the country stration moved into the streets the an illegal open-air meeting. release, we need the support of j Labour Parly, being supposedly again. militia took swift action, extending every student in this University socialist, never got around to Robin Henry martial law and closing -all And yet, in the fact of this And this means practical support. universitie.s and colleges. The brutality of their methods of suppression provoked a nine­ :~;::s::n, i:he n:ot;:agr:~t:: of humane treatment for 1· 11I~~l~~r~':;~tAJ:ti~~;~~ =~ri,,~~~!iiii''.V day insurrction, which ended with .lSOners· disturbing allegations have been made Of ;; '(Uf:-1 , AFTER ANDROPp\l," 11"! 1> ,-'C;,:; ~ Pr • . • I f , ,..£,ttlER W('Ll LALL IT Ctlltt>Tt,t'tlEIF ,·,~··' / /. ;, an estimated 1,200 people, mostly beatings both before and after trials.' particular _Y O \oR ElToN; ~ert_NDi ric. o"' . students, dead, and hundreds students who dare to protest against the prison ~wrtETlttR 1T ui<.e~ ~K111,Nu oR , more under arrest. .~ FOOT8111.t.. ' Since universities opened in regime." September 1980, government regulations have been stringent. Kim's "crimes" were those of many write letters. vote for Kim's motion Until his arrest on 7th March 1983, other imprisoned students, the at the next EUSA GM, help raise these are the consitions which leadership of a peaceful anti­ the funds necessary to fuel an Kim, and others like him, had to government demonstration, and expensive campaign. Remember: endure. To begin with, revised the distribution of leaflets Amnesty members will do their university entrance arrangements criticising government policies. utmost to protect that most basic mean that only 70% of students The number of arrests in the first of student rights: th e freedom to have any prospect of graduating. half of 1983 for "harming public dissent. But a small bunch of This is to discourage any order or fanning public unrest" hopeful letter writers can't sway a divergent political thinking which stands officially at 116. Sentences government. You can. might jeopardise a student's meted out to those convicted 14 THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 Feature Mr Speaker,Sir... Lively an d loquacious, tournament was very successful. Some are a bit of a let-down intelligent and occasion­ The amount of organisation was though. Ted Heath spoke well but ally intimidating, that's phenomenal and lasted for he was a boring old fart (yes, you months! Only full-time students can quote me on that!). His Glaswegian Hilary O'Neill. can compete. This year there were chauffeur was alright though, he President of Edinburgh 41 teams and 30 were from abroad, bought us loads of drinks! Merlyn Univers it y Debate ' s but they all had to speak in Rees was very funny but he kept Englis h: generally it is under­ on referring to my Irish accent, Council, Secreta ry of the stood that it's actually a tourna­ though I'm from Glasgow' Do I Scott ish Students ' ment for the English-speaking want Thatcher? We'll take anyone. Debates Council, until world If it got really big, perhaps we might have interpreters. At " Do I want Thatcher? very recently President of Princeton there was a team from We'll take anyone." the Wo r ld Debates India but they were there mainly to The only person we stopped short Council and erstwhile set themselves up with American ·post-grad' courses, not to debate' at was Ian Paisley as it might have history student of this "Yours truly will also soon be caused too much trouble. University, she managed appearing on BBC television in a "It can all take up too much of your time ,f you let 11 Certainly my to spare a couple of new series of 'Mr Speaker, Sir' with Fiona McLeod as my co-speaker. tutors think it takes up too much of minutes of a ve ry busy mine! I'll be able to use it, though, What else ca n I say 10 the readers schedule to speak to Eric . of this page but to recommend this when I go into some occupation in the general current affairs/media/ Carlin. programme very highly! It starts around the beginning of March. politics/ something interesting kind of area. That sounds a bit Our first debate was against "Since l've been at university, vague, doesn't it? I want to plug I've got 'really involved m debating. Strathclyde University. No, I'm not going to tell you who won. but let's debates though. Debaters might I didn't do very much at school but just say that you won't be dis­ often seem too over-confident and I've done a hell of a lot ,n the past appointed!" frighten people off. That's a pity four years. Last year I went with because underneath debaters Nuala O'Sullivan to represent this, (Miss O'Neill later admitted that she "trounced them".) have kind hearts, we're honest and our University, of which we are so we·re as sensitive and easily hurt fond , in the World Debating "Incest was very popular as anyone else! Beheve me. " compet1t1on at Princeton. We last term". Having said this, the bold Hilary debated for four days, three times "As President of Edinburgh breezed off to convince some a day and also spoke ,n the public University Debates committee, I other gullible person of the speaking compet1t1on. We came organise all the debates and niceness of debaters. One is left second in the public speaking and lunchtime addresses. Last week's with the impression that if Miss tenth in' the debating tournament. I Bruce Kent/ Olga Maitland debate O'Neill told you that you were also got two columns in the New was one of our most successful. surrounded by little green men, York Times as they seemed to We ' re having one soon on she would argue it so convincingly really like my public speaking Northern Ireland and Merlyn Rees that you'd begin to watch out that performance. Nuala and I is coming. We don't always have you didn't bump into them. suggested that the tournament be major speakers. The subjects are Undoubtedly, she has a great held in Edinburgh this year and very important. Incest was very public career ahead of her, and when this was accepted, I was popular last term. she knows 11. ThecaseforPR elected President of the World " One of the great perks is to But Hilary, dear, I do think that Debates Council which we set up meet famous people afterwards. you're nice as well! ~ the same time. This year's At the AGM two attacks were made The case for PR is ever greater in on the motion supporting a local government, where the referendum on our electoral present system produces even - ~ -;---__ _ system. Firstly, most people only more disproportionate results. It support PR emotionally and know has led to corruption in councils little about it, and secondly the where one party has stayed in CATERING arguments supporting it are ~Yi:~----'-­ power, and also to unpopularity. simply negative, that is, while they Moreover without a broad, non­ bemoan the profound unfairness partisan basis of support it is weak, SERVICES --.~~ of the present system, they do not unable to rally support effectively, put forward any concrete but too eager to fight party battles 1 mbenefits that PR might being. between local and central DEPARTMENT ~ -\, Therefore I intend to sketch some government. But instead of central of the advantages of PR , and hope government making councils to show how a real democracy more representative, hence less could serve the country. naturally antagonistic but with The first area of debate is the strong support they clash with quality of central government. PR government, it is simply attacking STUDENTS, S TAFF AND VISITORS will produce a Parliament which the rights of local government and accurately reflects the allegiances further weakening our democracy. of the population. Whereas, at Are Welcome at: present a small change in those constituencies allegiances can massively change A supposedly great advantage the political complexion of of our system is that it links a Parliament, under PR, Parliament, group of constituents with one BRISTO SQUARE KING'S BUILDINGS by properly representing people, MP, whereas the best alternative would see none of the more has multi-member constituencies University Refectory K.B. Refectory and ridiculous ideological chopping with a larger electorate. But this and changing of the past. could improve local contact; for and Coffee Bar. Carry Out Service. Economy instance MPs could specialise in certain problems, and more Bristo Bar and Buffet. The terrible effects of the people would feel that they had K.B . Union and (next to the Health Centre) present system can be most theor 'own' MP. Also, as the clearly seen in our economy. As system' would allow the elector to Coffee Bar parties change office, although express a preference for MPs of they usually have similar aims, the same party, more MPs would COLLEGE OF they try to be novel and uproot the have to live locally to win support. old policies. Investment policies, Similarly this system woulc OLD COLLEGE rates of corporate taxation, increase the number of women AGRICULTURE regional planning programmes, and coloured people in Carry Out Service - and industrial relations have been Westminster, as it has done in Snack Bar. .. in continual turmoil. 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(Tel. 667 1011 Ext. 4400) tiny swing that could bring them Simon Duffy total victor EUCFV Sport THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 15 TENNIS WORD SPOTTING SHINTY STAR It'll be an advantage to s_et out gently and not to smash into naming and f1nd1ng 32 tennis terms 1n the grid below. We guarantee you'll knock-up INJURY SHOCK them all in time! Answers next week. soon broke out from defence and UDENT began a relentless siege of the Q D E T p B u E 0 V B D K X D F C M z opposition's goalmouth . The addition to the team of the B A C K H A N D V N A J w G E B L y E H 1' elusive! experienced 'Roger' Wright and E F R J C G s E R V I C E I N p s p Once again violence raised its the recall of 'Fox' Hunter did much s ~gty head in the game of shinty. to strengthen and steady the side. Q H R y A K K H K E E L s C M R N D 0 y Star player 'Ox' Whyte was carried The key to our success was deft unconscious from the field, blood accurate long range passi ng T R A J s s V z A V w s L X M u N w L 0 dripping from a gaping wound on complemented by superior fitness his head and rushed to the and enthusiasm. In the end the Q E u R C p A s s I N G s H 0 T y L X G score was only 2-0; but for superb Casualty Unit of the Royal p Infirmary. This was the result of a defence and goalkeeping would z V I s B H M C E T D u E V E A F B have been much worse. However vicious, cold-blooded attack by 0 R T N H A D C E V T F R w G F X one of the hoodlums on the Edinburgh were not unduly dis'. C u u appointed with this surprise result Tayforth side. Despite being in as Q T A J B s s s E E N I L E R . T N E C higher leage, this disgraceful against a team from a highe team, with their attacks frustrated league. K y D R E L E H z R M C p u N D 0 E G p by superior tactics, were forced to y G 0 A A J J A K adopt these actions which are DRUGS X D 0 C E L D L H u rapidly bringing the game into disrepute. M p u K C 0 N K G G H z F E K 0 R T s I spoke to ·c1ubber' Grassick E B N F A 0 V N p K Q E R B s N T and 'Sticks' Leys after the match C w VIOLENCE and a few drinks in the West End D s L N T T H C T N I V E L M H L X A M Hotel to find out what they thought of the game. Much of what they A G E E 0 B E N L E s A B w F C L V w The violence, however, was not had to say was incoherent, but I confined to the field ; spectators gathered that the team was R p s z T H R u 0 D 0 J u L p K T D Q from either side, after this incident, pleased with the 2-0 score and p y Q y never ceased in taunting each they stated that training was C J u V 0 0 N B F V 0 L L E A B other and several missiles were obviously paying off. thrown onto the pitch resulting in w L 0 X D K F u E M T z V D R G s A H M the near decapitation of 'Throat' M X \>I L 0 y L C E u X H V w G T Mackie as he powered up the left SEX z s wing on one of his many searing B Q N K R A J s C p T Q D u R E I F s V attacks. Watching 'Sticks' Leys and club groupie Pauline Telfer staggering One spectator commented alter up Palmerston Place on Saturday the match: "We all feared for our night I wondered what drives such lives at one point'" people to play shinty and drink so MASOCHISTS TAKE much. Are they going through NOTE: JURA RACE some weird form of torture? Well, Kenya Watch Out Nevertheless, unintimidated GETS FURTHER the Ed inburgh University shin!; . that's another story. SPONSORSHIP team continued in fine tradition I have been urged to remind The following squad has been Montgomery, who had been and ahered to a skilful, clean, fast­ shinty followers everywhere of the Following last year's staging of named for the Rugby Club's forth­ elevated to higher things, as well moving game which brought the forthcoming Ceilidh on February Britain's toughest fell race, across coming three-week tour of Kenya as the non-participation of their deserved awards. 25th at Teviot Row Union. Tickets the 16 miles and seven summits of which commences on 19th March: regular full back. This mysterious Having been under pressure for can be obtained from anyone in the Inner Hebridean island of Jura S. Burns, R. Williamson; S. character turned up for the the first 10 minutes - primarily the Shinty Club. See you there. whisky sponsors Charles College, K. Hannaford, M. previous week's game wearing due to lack of match practice - we Rhurigh Mheadhion Mackinlay & Co. announced their Wallace; S. Clark, G. Lawson, M. some shocking pink nail varnish continued support for the event in Offord; I. Gardner, R. Hunter; P. which caused considerab le SHINTY FLING 1984. Harper, J. Warnock; S. Farrell, D. consternation amongst all the Restaged in 1983 after a gap of Coming soon, follow­ International Rugby Leckie (capt), J. Manson, N. other 29 players. Whilst he eight years, the Macklnlay's Bens Stewart, R. Stewart; C. Alderson, I. managed to survive that game ing the huge success of Tickets of Jura Fell Race will be held on St_eve1J,s, P. Young; G. Butler, H. unscathed, if one ignores the disco, is the Shinty Saturday, 26th May, and Is Ritchie; C. Grlgor, J. Peters T character assassination, he has SCOTLAND expected to attract more than 100 Sale, M. Thorpe. ' · been seen this week with plaster of Club Ceilidh on Satur­ entries from top fell runners. And V , With such an appetising trip in paris adorning most parts of his day 25th February at among those Invited to attend will prospect, it was perhaps not anatomy, t .,.,c'ment indeed to the Tevlot Row Union. FRANCE be last year's record-breaking .surprising that the senior side's havoc whi _:, ,. 'iengeful committee winner, 35-year-old Andy Styan of performances met with little can wrea: . Tickets are limited so be This game will be played on Holmfirth Harriers, who bettered 17th March and the tickets success last Saturday. The 1st XV WoulJ-be sympathisers should sure to buy yours early - the previous record by more than be or hand at the Rugby Club are now available from all were, according to that master of 14 minutes in setting a new lime of K6nya Tour Disco on Wednesday, available from any shinty Union Shops price £3. succinct observations, John team player or supporter. 3 hours 24 minutes and 37 seconds Peters, "generally lacking" for the 22nd February, at Outer Limits, for the Jura event. c;furation of t~eir Division IV garr, Nest Tollcross, at which several Due to the severity of the course with Morga,. ~P. whilst the X)..X club members have promised to DRAMATIC COMEBACK BY HEARTS - which involves more than 7 .SOO Club were soundly beacen" by produce the form which usually feet of ascent - the Bens of Jura Watsonians if one believes a eludes them on the field of play. Hearts 2; Rangers 2 race Is open only to amateur member of the o~,,osition. The Tickets are £1 only and are Among the numerous battle hymns sung by Rangers fans there is one runners over the age of 21 who can Freshers acnieved what is now available from m ost club which contains the line, "We will fight till the day is done". It is to this point to successful completion of known as an Hiberr.·:::rn-type dr.:icw, members. commendable virtue that Hearts owed their share of the spoils on any two fell races making and thus it was left to the Vandals Last Saturday's Results: 1 st XV 5aturday against an lbrox side who may, with justification, have comparable demands of fitness to taste the only succ ; amongst 3, Morgan FP 18; XXX Club 3, considered themselves home and dry as the match approached its and mountalncraft. the varsity sides. This Y. ,s made all Watsonians 17 ; Freshers 0, conclusion. Last year's race featured many the more praisewortl,y by the Corstorphine O; Vandals 14, Trailing 2-0 with only three minutes remaining , Hearts staged a elements unique to the Island absence of their charismatic Linlithgow 0. grandstand· finish to snatch a point from under Rangers' noses. Those where George Orwell wrote 1984, leader Dave ' Desert Rat ' Robert Kitson unfortunate souls who left early will rue their ill-timed departure. They and where the total population missed the most breathtaking comeback likely to be seen all season, the numbers only 200 people. Almost sort of fever-pitch excitement designed to draw larger crowds, or, as my every islander turned out to watch PING PONG However, fortified by several colleague succinctly observed, " The stuff to put bums on seats." the finish of the race, where each glasses of Lucozade and a few What added spice to the delirium was the certain knowledge that athlete was given a tartan tribute PANGS Woodbines, S. Davidson and J. Rangers should have won. Throughout the match, they showed more by a kilted bagpiper as the crossed Bates returned from the Union Bar pace and incisiveness and their half-time lead was merited, albeit the finishing line. British Universities Table to make a last stand in the mixed through slack work by Hearts' keeper Smith who failed to hold a Cooper As sponsors of the race, Charles Tennis Championships doubles for the honour of shot. McCoist followed up to score easily. Mackinlay & Co. will ensure that Edinburgh. Their heroic struggle Though few would deny Jock Wallace due credit for restoring Rangers these traditions will be repeated was short-lived as in the quarter­ to a healthy league position, they remain a hard, uncompromising team. for the 1984 event; and that the With an enthusiasm that was keen, finals they were ruthlessly beaten Their physical approach may produce results in the short term, but it will race - seen by many experienced fervent and, above all, well by the Cambridge pair. win the club few new admirers. The once-promising McCoist was, fell runners as one of the finest in concealed, the EUTT team went Despite being faced with surprisingly, among the worst offenders in this respect. Britain will become and down to Swansea to compete in powerful opposition and stricken Nevertheless, the visitors increased their lead immediately upon established date on the national the BUSF Table Tennis with general athletic incompe­ restarting when Russell found Williamson in an unmarked position and fell-running calendar. Tournament. After a poor start the tence the Edinburgh team morale the latter duly oblfged. Hearts' response was to introduce the notorious Athletes interested in taking part team never really improved. was always high, even if not Willie Johnston who added new vigour on the flank. However, when in the 1984 Mackinlay's Bens of Athletic excellence was notable by outwardly demonstrated. Shields hammered a 20-yard drive against the crossbar, Rangers luck Jura Fell Race will be given full its absence and only S. Lindsay seemed to be holding. details of travel and accommoda­ progressed beyond the opening SPRING IS HERE? Still, no one had bargained for such a hectic finale. First, Johnston's tion needed for the race event, round., However the Worcester powerful shot broke free from Walker allowing O'Connor to stab the ball which coincides with the Whitsun With the recent snowmen now Weasel Pete Carroll did prove that melted, for the time being at least, home; then, incredibly, with the last move of the match, Mclaren nodded Bank holiday weekend. Initial athletic and sartorial elegance are on a speculative scissors kick off the upright and into the net. The roar enquiries should be made to the the interrupted sports scene can not incompatible; resplendent in now pursue its normal course . which followed all but brought the roof down. race organiser, Don Booth, of cricket kit and red si, k headband, This means that all club Robertson has long since earned the right to wear his undergarments Dark Peak Fell Runners Club, he momentarily baffled the secretaries should be busy on outside his shorts, such is his standing at Tynecastle. He not only has the which is promoting the event. opposition, more it must be said by Sundays compiling their club habit of scoring spectacular goals, but seems able to strike at the right Don Booth can be contacted at 5 appearance than technical skill. reports for Student. Al l articles moment. Hearts have him to thank for their Premier League status in the Birmingham Lane, Meltham, near This individuality however, did not and photographs are gratefully first place, over and above the thrilling moments he has provided this Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Tele­ disguise the generally poor results accepted and should be submitted season. He is the club's greatest asset, just ask any Hibs' fan. phone 0904 31351 ext 29 (office); produced by the Edinburgh team. Andrew Templeton 0484 852250 (home). on Mondays if possible -:,; ···•·· follow. And, seeing as the Mound whereas now It takes me 15 minutes VI has always been the half-hearted along well-lit, well-populated streets. heart of Edinburgh's Festival, the There has been a great conspiracy ambience might as well be put there on the part of Edinburgh's planners: Shin and Guinness IN WHICH A SUPER as anywhere else. Edinburgh remains beautiful at the ABUNDANCE OF FLESH Jollity and blossom, the Scotsman expense of her less well-heeled ( Ragout d'I rlandaise) FAILS TO COCCOON A will take photos, and autumn will citizens, who have been shoved off FRIGHTENED HEART ~ic~ ar,d ~iddy arrive. All that will be left Is a few the city limits. The population of rotting leaves ] coke bins, old Edinburgh Is 75 per cent middle newspapers, unsold paintings ] to class, says New Society. Such a Method: blow about and hit people In the face statistic just goes to show how GREAT Peel and slice the onions and Aware that Dr Samson had visited as they rush up the steps to work. thickly the make-up is smeared on; carrots. Cut the meat into cubes Madame Etallon , but uncertain as to Edinburgh's problem Is not that It how urban landscaping cures '±111111> CULINARY (approx. 1.5 in .) and coat it with the matter of their meeting, Thurlock doesn't know how to look pretty. It is eyesores by brushing them under the had decided to set his plans in motion and amidst the stench of putrefying embrace. The wind blew a sudden rather that It is just too cosmetic. carpet. the seasoned flour. Brown the sw iftly. It was his intention to surprise refuse, or molten metal. of engine oil gust; the twigs and branches rustled: So Playfalr Steps are to be As I leave my el egant Georgian Nobody gains by ghettoes. People FEATS OF OUR meat in the hot fat or oil, add the the widow with an evening visit, thus and human decay, what odour could she clutched him more tightly. lransformed, saith the Oracle. A New Town flat on a spring morning of our age In Wester Hailes, onions and carrots. When the diverting her attention, while Hick and stand out more distinctly than that of a Hick, too, was distinctly uneasy In Grecian playground. A row of little and saunter past the splendidly unemployed and penniless, cannot TIME vegetables are lightly coloured Yiddy surreptitiously entered the young boy, sleeping betwee n clean this uncertain region, where no plastic Tradlses, for the selling of sand-blasted homes of El Greco, afford to come Into town, so sit at add the remaining flour. Pour the house an d stole upon her sleeping son. white linen sheets in a warm nursery? identifiable craftsmen had been at quiche and Italian Ice-cream. And Verneer and Vlannlck on my w ay to home with a gluebag. The citizens of Guinness and water into the pan Whatever means they used to find So it was that the deep, silent work, where no one lived or laboured. the conservationists are hopping. the ivory tower of David Hume, I feel the New Town visit art galleries and Ingredients App. price (n.b. do not be tempted to use black ness at the mouth of the steep their way proved reliable; it was But he had seen a yellow light in the I was none too pleased either, disgusted. Why don't I know any read Scottish Portrait, and are briefly 2 lb (1 kg) shin scarcely an hour before they emerged more than half-pint stout) . Add the road which, plunging from a crumbling distance, and imagined what revenge when I saw the sketches In The students who live In hard-to-let shocked out of their numbing of beef i1 .50 per lb from the great conurbation and heard Thurlock would take should their Guardian on Monday. Urban bay leaf, parsley and stirring well terrace of workers' dwellings into the council flats? I don't think it's my complacency only when they go to 2 oz (50 g) seasoned dread Culvert. seemed as unyielding their feet crunch on the ash and clinker mission not be fulfilled. Wriggling free "Improvement" Is a tricky Issue, and fault, because I know plenty in non­ Glasgow for the Clts or to PIiion for bring to the boil. cover, reduce flour as the mouth of Hell. was broken by the surface of the graveyard. Ahead of of the snivelling Yiddy, he took her by far from agreeing with the town campus universities from Aberdeen Safeways. A city isn't really a city heat and simmer on top of the hesitant emergence of two grotesque them, stark in the moonlight, stretched the hand and led her towards the planners, I find It hard to agree even to London. Is it their fault? It can't when Its inhabitants are effectively Ollt fat for frying stove or in the over at 180 deg . C figures. One was huge. plodding, her the brand-new ring of chequered house. with myself. be, because there are thousa nds of penned Insi de their limited 1 large onion 20p per lb (35o deg. F) , Gas 4 for two hours flesh quivering like an inflated pig's tombstones, each three feet by four, Thurlock's spies had located the For instance, anyone who has non-house Edinburgh students experiences. Build a picturesque 8 oz (225 g) until the meat is tender. bladder filled with treacle; the other ·set out with perfect regularity in plots boy's nursery some days previously. It wandered the streets of Paris, or {though house volubility o ften makes piazza on the Mound, and those who carrots 12p per lb ten feet sq uare. Half an hour before that cook was tiny, wrinkled and shrivelled, his was on the ground floor, and had a even London, bemoans the lack of this easy to forget). But anyway, will can travel from London to Paris 2 tablespoons parsley the prunes in their own liquid until fa ce seemingly distorted from within, Hick and Yiddy wove their way large, unfastened window. Hither crept street cafes in the Athens of the student membership of community to Athens to Edinburgh without ever Half-pint (300 ml) between the slabs and reached the soft. Remove stones and add as if the bone of the skull had suddenly Hick and Yiddy. Hick produced a North. No one can deny that a organisa tions is fl ouris hing. crossing the dangerous street Guinness 55p per can crumpled, leaving the puckered skin to Etallons' boundary wall, once ivy­ crowbar from within his tattered coat milkshake under umbrella, Edinburgh students aren't snobs. outside thei r own homes. Build a prunes and liquid to the stew, Threequarters (450 ml) cleave down around its strange covered, now scraped and scratched and, easing it between window frame surrounded by the amplified hum of So why don't I live In a hard-to-let working-clas s ghetto, and Its adjust seasoning and add the contours. Yet it was nothing fantastic free of the slightest trace of vegetation. and sill. prised them gently apart. The 20-odd body-poppers Is more council fl at? Because it just Isn't Inhabitants could be In Edinburgh or water Free remaining parsley. Serve with or wraith-like in their appearance lt was the same height as Yiddy, and curtains fluttered; Hick drew them romantic than a cup of tea In the Ute practical. If I lived in Pillon or Wester Glenrothes or Beirut or Warsaw for 1 bay leaf creamy mashed potatoes. which caused the bravest of men to thus presented a severe problem. Hick open and climbed inside. Bite. As w ith Britain's once unspoiled Hailes or Craigmillar, I would lose in all they care. 2 oz (50 g) prunes soaked (In the 19th century the prunes shun them like lepers as they passed scrambled up and reached down a The room, now flooded with beaches, erect a row of bathing­ bus fa res what I'd save In rent. I Edinburgh ] elegant, picturesque, In water {Optional) were stuffed with hazelnuts before through the streets, monstrous though hand for his companion. He tugged, moonlight, was plarn, clean and simply machines, and the artists, peddlers would have to walk fou r miles after a cosmopolitan, a mean city. Should serve six. adding to the meat.) they were: nor was it any strain of and heaved, and she gave a little jump furnished. A soft carpet covered the and bright young things are glad to party, through patches of wasteland, Glasg ow·s miles better. demon or goblin visible in their of about an inch, which caused her an floor, and a fire burned row beside a features which caused old women to outbreak of sweat and palpitations, but miniature desk On 11 was an open clutch at their shawls and make signs failed to propel her over the obstacle. exercise book with blank pages and a for the warding off of evil. For their Hick hauled again, leaning over row of freshly cut pens. A child-sized VOICE origin, the legacy of human parents, backwards like a yachtsman in brisk bookcase stood against a far wall, filled Simple Minds was atl too apparent beneath their seas. Just before his skeletal little arm with neat little leather-bound volumes. Sparkle in And thank you for the voice. snapped, Yiddy took it into her head to And in a wide, high bed, facing the gross disfigurements. That was the the Rain It screams, it shrieks, it creates its own melody. From a It was a white hot day in Montevideo, and whisper to a scream, it still the American was changing dollars to enthra ll s. Wordp l ay a n d 'vdeutshmarks. playfulwords , cries and breathes. PULSE. What is popular music, if it's LE V not new direc tions and self­ bel ief? The answer is yours, For those of you -"find out not mine, nobody else's. and PULSE~ VIVISECTION for yourself" - James Kerr, somebody else is a man like live, 1979 in France. you or me, not a woman He knows, or rather he It is a recording of songs. horror which struck at all who beheld clamber up the wall using her feet; the window, between white linen sheets though. a young man going captures for me, may you too, Unlike any others, comparable MINDS 6. them: their reality, the fact that they centre of balance shifted, and they sure enough, was the boy. His fa:ewas west at thirty frames a second , the tumble crack le an d to some, different from their were members of the same race as tumbled over in a grand parabola. very pale. almost white, and very sweat in bullet, over Central electricity of all sorts of last. From the start, new. Crash them, provoked a terrible mingled Somehow they spun in mid-air, and Just who are you? I'm not beautiful Hick stared at 11, twitching, Europe, to the nightmare of feeling of revulsion, guilt and - H1ck 's fall was comfortably broken. then turned to see Yiddy squeezing her brilliant things. Natassia and thrust, sweat screams and telling you to buy a record, I'm though none save Thurtock would Now they were within the estate. bulk through the inadequate entrance. Ameri ka a la Kafka. Kinski, Martin Luther, golden w hispers silver. Seamy street alright Jack. Back to Jack: dare acknowledge it - fascination. Yiddy gave a frightened whimper, He dragged her in. stood her on her "And what do I know, just guns and cars, stars and politicians, music harsh. Music keep it secret, treasure it, look They kept close, walking mute and and wobbled upright. The completely feet and pointed to the child. what do I know?" T his boy's up motorcades. It doesn't all mellow. Breathtaking, breath­ dogged; Yiddy's eyes were blank and after it. But, Jack .. use it Jack. alien sensation of lying on soft turf was Without hesitation, Yiddy wiped her on the catwalk with the rest of change like kaleidoscope, it less guitar. Bass pounding and unseeing, like two tarn,shed farthings terrifying to her. She pulled up a face, moved over to the bed. knelt Stick it in your walkman and afloat on stagnant pools of white and handful of grass, sniffed it, chewed a down and touched the child's cheek. us, but because he makes moves and it darts but his focus wallowing, drifting. Keyboards see the Crescent Moon, the red red. Hick led her by the wrist, his sharp morsel, spat 11 out and threw the rest But something made her snatch her records with his friends he is is visible if you look hard, - what a name. It doesn't stars, the quiet night of a white little head lolling down from the neck, away Then she saw the trees. great. hand away: she glanced, startled, at talked about, expected of, different, surface symbol at it describe them, I won't describe hot day. Scream. Cry like a navigating, it seemed, by the shape awesome elms. with what was. to her, a Hick, and pulled back the bedclothes. taunted, loved. So what does all, or part(s) of it. It's all so them. Drums. Superb. Vibrant. and slope of the gutters. Or perhaps completely inexplicable shape and baby. What she saw made her scream out he know? On and on. some faint scent-trail was clear to him, texture She grabbed Hick, and, full of aloud with all the force her lungs could complete. 0 what a world. David after all, Litchbury was full of smells. .. fear, clasped him in a smothering muster. -TO BE CONTINUED- . ... :.,,,.. .. I