16.2.84 20p ....__ Edinburgh University Student Newspaper--... 2 THE STUDENT Thursday, 16th February 1984 News .. • News ... News . .. News. • • News ... New NEWS IN BRIEF 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.