------======~------~-- - = '' 'Butcher of •• , the Somme?' What the Haig diaries I really tell us Eve ry Thursday Price 15p -p.12 GM-OCCUPATION MDVI AT TONl5HT'S General Meeting, members of compulsory redundancies and the Day Nursery the Socialist Workers' Students' Organisation closure. This undoubtedly controversial motion, will propose a motion that students should together with other GM business, is discussed occupy Old College in order to protest against on page 2.

There'll be blood on the streets tonight.

Fight your GM John Peel speaks truth about rumours that his programme is to be axed apathy with ~n an . exclusive Student Jp RIMOVAl MDVI intervrew p. 14. 2 THE STUDENT 27th JANUARY 1983 l s6Re L~? J As Student went to press It seems unlikely that Finance campaign to defeat it when the on Tuesday, the Finance Committee will reject the proposal execuHve seek the support of a out of hand, although they have General Meeting, as they must. Committee of the SRC the power to do so. T he scheme Senior Presiden t Imagen Foulkes were in the throes of has unanimous support amongst has refuted these charges, saying debating a radical new .the fou r sabbaticals, and it seems " it's not privatisation. Students will approach to Students' likely that if it does gain sufficient support it once they understand support tonight, then a decision the plan and see its benefits." Association financing will simply be deferre d . The move is a response to that, if successful, could The benefits of such a scheme several factors, not least the become a model for other l ie in t he fr ee d o m fr o m possi bl e r et urn o f a T o ry government restriction on the use government at the next election. If, associations to follow. of Association fu nds that it would as is fea red, a fut ure government T he plan is to form a limited give. At present, as since 1980, the were to move to rad ically alter company, trading outside the Association receives a portion o f students' associations' demo­ University and in services not the funds granted to th e University cratic insti tutions by, for example. necessarily related to students, in as a whole by the UGC, subject to seeking to abolish sabbatical whatever ventures it sees as restrictions on their use. One of posts, financial independence suitably profitable. These would t h ese is illustrated by the would negate any budgetary seem to like in such items as continuing court action of leverage that the government groceries, food and stationery, 'Sherbrooke v. EU SA' where the soug ht to bring to bear. through which it would be able to use of funds to send a mi ni-bus to T he costs of such a scheme are increase its profits by purchasing a London demonstration is alleged hard to predict, although they stock at bulk discoun t prices to be 'ultra vires·, i.e. o utside the would be unlikely to be less than through the joint purchasing reasons fo r which they wer~ iven, £50,000. Similarly hard to pred ict agreement that the Association and therefore illegal. Such a is ·exactly when th e scheme would prese ntly has with other unions in scheme as a b ove w i th a n become o perative, although fro m Northern Ire land and the North of independent source of income an accounting point of view, April Englan d. The legal status of this through its profits would clearly 1st, beginning of the fi nancial company would be as any other, avoid such com plications. year, must b e the easiest . with the executive office-bearers The controversial implications Whatever the scheme's merits and as the effective board of directors, of this plan are clear, and the flaws, given its political implica­ and the student body controlling political left have already begun to tions, a stormy debate seem it s activities through the General level accusations of 'sell out' and inevitable. Meeting's ability to control the of 'joining the system' and wi ll Graeme WIison activities of these individuals. doubtless mount a strong

Glasgow Students in Rent Camp Strike Proliferation was one of the largest imposed. Last week Student re­ SAC President Robert Steven­ Stamped on ported that Heriot-Watt son believes that the freezing of students would be taking rent payments will force the Three Greenham Com­ pa rt in a re nt strike, and University Court to review the present situation. and that some mon women peace more students at Glas­ form of response will be campaigners were in A General Meeting is being held tonight at 7 pm gow University have forthcoming. "We realise that the court on Monday after in the McEwan Hall and promises to be a stormy informed us of their own University is suffering from cuts in attempting to set up a funding by the UGC. but it's either one. strike .. .. higher grants or lower rents." second peace camp The Socialist Workers are Service (SAGS) which gives The threatened rent strike by Under the current system, any outside an American calling for a sit-in if any advice to students in difficulties. students in the University Halls of increase m fees is proposed by the cruise missile base in compulsory redundancies of The proposers argue that the Residence began at the beginning Finance Office. With accommoda­ academic staff are announced or if SAGS is of real benefit to staff and of this year's term, following a tion of academic conferences Berkshire. the Day Nursery is closed. Such an students alike and oppose any referendum held in the halls the during the summer vacation, the The women were arrested on occupation would revive cuts that might be made in its previous term. The results of this Finance Offlce achieved over Saturday afternoon when local memories of student unrest in the facilities. The EUSA is called upon referendum show that the majority £28,000 in surplus from this, most residents called police to Pyle Hill, '60s and would almost certainly to act if the SAGS is threatened. of students are unhappy with the of which was spent on wages. which is about a mile from the receive television and newspaper Three other motions talk about present hall fees and that over 65% maintenance and other necessary original peace-camp. coverage. SWSO has been talking matters outside the University. support the demands outlined by prov1s1ons. Under the laws At Monday's special sitting of about a sit-in for some time, Amnesty International are calling Glasgow's SAC in a leaflet issued imposed by the UGC, the office Newbury magistrates Ceri feeling that the SRC's present for support for a black South by them. must adhere to a self-balancing Drysdale. 18. Susan Popper, 19, policy is ineffective. One member African journalist, Marimuthu The terms of the residents' budget. However, the University and Geraldine Ellis, 27 waved and raised the issue at the last General Subramoney, or Subry for short, campaign call for a phased Court has offered subsidies in the blew kisses to other women Meeting in December and who has been placed under a reduction in hall fees until they are past, and Mr Stevenson believes supporters in the court area. received quite a lot of applause. banning order by the government at least equal lo the board and that if a substantial subsidy were However, the magistrates were not Whether the motion is actually for his anti-apartheid writings. lodgings element in the student to be offered, financial pressures impressed by this ostentatious passed is another question Subry is under virtual house arrest maintenance grant, and a possible on students could be lessened. display of peace and goodwill, and though: lmogen Foulkes, Senior and Amnesty want the Senior rebate for students on this year's The cost of Student Halls is not asked 1f they were liable to cause a President, was hostile to the President to write to various fees. decided unfil a meeting in May of breach of the peace when they suggestion at the last General bodies, the NUS for instance, In the past four years the fees the Finance Committee. and the erected a tent to the annoyance of Meeting , saying that an asking them to take up Subry's have escalated by almost 65% SAC feel that if any decision on the the local population. occupation would achieve nothing case. The South African Prime compared with a 45% increase in matter were to be brought forward The council for the defence said and worsen relations between Minister is also asked to lift the the student grant. G lasgow by a couple of months, more time that the three were pleading not students and the Un iversity banning order. Another motion University's hall fees are the could be given for joint d rs­ guilty, and the case has been authorities. The majority of concerns the deprived area of highest of any university in c u ss ion between the two adjourned until the 21st of students would also be probably West Pilton, Edinburgh, an area of Scotland, and last year's increase financially distraught parties. ~brua~. • opposed to such an extreme very poor housing. Edinburgh motion. The fact that SWSO is District Council is criticised for its proposing it might also lose the failure to improve the area and motion votes: the "loony lefties" disquiet is expressed about a plan are not very popular; indeed most to demolish several hundred people regard them as cranks. houses as part of a privatisation There are also two other scheme. The proposers call on the motions about matters within the EUSA to condemn the council's Jobs Riot at Glasgow University. One concerns the housing policy and oppose the growing level of violence in Urnon proposed demolition. The third Glasgow students are becoming so desperate bars. Trouble has been brewing up motion notes with alarm the effect since the beginning of last term ; of acid rain, the result of industria l for jobs that they caused a mini-riot when there was the infamous tear gas pollution, on the environment, application forms for major companies like ICI canister at the Presidents' Ball, water supplies for instance. It calls and Shell were recently issued. while this term "Agric night" at the on the Senior President to write to People fought amongst each other to claim copies of the forms. Potterrow has been the scene of the Secretary of State for the some were knocked to the ground and several women fainted . assaults on male and female Environment criticising the Those present said that the scene was chaotic to the extreme, it students. The violence is driving government for its failure to had never happened before. Many of the vital forms were some people away and threaten­ legislate against this pollution. trampled on and ruined by the melee. ing late licences and in response This general meeting thus has a The incident highlights the plight of graduate unemployment. to th is a motion has been drafted number of important issues. One in eight of last summer's graduates are still unemployed, the calling for a Committee of Whether they are made quorate or highest proportion ever. Glasgow ironically has a good record of Management to be set up to deal not depends on the number of finding jobs for its graduates. It was recently placed first in an with the problem. Stricter students attending: 300 is the Observer survey as offering the best chances for graduate penalties are also proposed, minimum figure. Students are thus employmenl. including life-bans and calling the encouraged to attend : their Richard Dyson police. participation will make or break Another motion concerns the the meeting . tudent Advisor and Counselling Richard Dyso THE STUDENT THURSDAY, 27th JANUARY 1983 3 NIW lANARK DIil

Compulsory purchase order confirmed by Mr Younger

Mr George Younger, Council for Scotland and the MP, Secretary of State for National Heritage Memorial Fund Scotland, has acted to have indicated a willingness to secure the future of one of help towards the rehabilitation process. the most important This announcement is the latest legacies of the Industrial chapter in the chequered history Revolution - the New of New Lanark, founded as a model vi llage in 1784 by Richard Lanark village complex, Arkwright, the father of near Glasgow. mechanical cotton spinning. From POISON GOES POP Food for the few! He has confirmed a compulsory 1799 to 1827 the village was the purchase order to acquire a group scene of a unique social Paul 'Henna' Hullah, leader of Yesterday, while you ate your of buildings regarded both experiment, led by Robert Owen, that ridiculous group, 'Tell me a meagre lunch of gruel, or some historicall y and archaeologically which made the name of New Hullah', is having his big break on ,uch stuff, you could have spared as of European importance and Lanark famous throughout the Friday supporting the 'Pigeons'. a thought for the members of which had fallen into a state of world. However, he will be sure of a good Finance Committee meeting in serious deterioration. Mr Younger said: "'The restora­ reception since he's put all his Teviot Middle-Reading Room. The buildings are a three-storey tion of New Lanark is a cont,nwng many friends on the huge guest Not for them the queuing, block in the centre of the village process in which I have personaffy list which he insisted on drawing paying up, and general hassle we known as the lnstitue for the taken an interest for the fast ten up. 'Henna' is great friends with ordinary students have to suffer. Formation of Character and used years. Today's decision can be entertainments convener Paul They had a beautifully prepared in earlier times as a school and seen as the first step in safe-. 'Plimsolls' McGarvie, who had his high tea of cakes, cucumber community centre, and three guarding the future of the Institute sister's band on at the Peel sandwiches, gateaux etc. Of former mills. and miffs, which form an important Roads how. course, to avoid the awful Mr Younger's move is the first part of the viffage. Obviously the You scratch my back accusation of anything corrupt step on the road to finding funds to restoration of the more important going on they had to fork out the be raised for the restoration of the features of the village wi/1 take a Little Footnote princely sum of forty pence. buildings, and towards new uses great deaf of time but I believe the Can you imagine it; Ken being found for the buildings result will firmly establish New Alan Little, our Honorary Falframan stuffing his face with wh ich will help to ensure their Lanark as both a living commumty Secretary, ,s a past master at the delicious pastries, Mark Smtih continued maintenance. and a place of major archaeo­ art of appearing super competent. pocketing the huge stacks of Both the Historic Buildings logical and histor;cal interest." Indeed, most'people have become salami sandwiches which will keep so convinced of this that there him going for months would be a not if anyone I don't know about you but this suggested he wasn ' t super starving, emaciated skeleton will efficient, super cool, 'Mr Chic' ,n be standing for Finance Carlo Ginzburg comes to the way he likes to portray himself. Committee in May' Let them eat Why then . we must ask, dtd this cake. Edinburgh on 1st February man who has got his act so well together manage to lock himself in his own flat last week? It must only be the 'Midweek Blues'' Bringing the dead to life is a trick that not many historians attempt, for if it fails, it fails dis­ PLAY OF THE LEAR! astrously. The dead never co-operate in their The "Bangles" Show own resurrection. (Shome mistake surely - Ed). An exchange of views accurred One historian who has Ginzburg is coming to at last Tuesday's SAC which may Anyone down at the Bedlam on attempted the trick and brought it Edinburgh to inaugurate the 1982- show to readers some of the Monday night would have seen off brilliantly is Pro/. C.,rlo 83 series of The Antiquary Visiting dubious "knowledge'" possessed something more reminiscent of a Ginzburg of the University of Scholars Programme (sponsored by those who aspire to be Senior bad horror movie than the home of Bologna, the celebrated author of by The Antiquary whisky). On President. this University's incurable hams. The Cheese and the Worms which Tuesday, 1st February (4.15 pm, "Bangles" Jan Calder - "Can I It was Patrick 'Dracula' Evans revives the thought-world of a George Square Lecture Theatre), ask the Honorary Secretary why mixing blood for his giant budget 16th-century mi l ler named he will be speaking on 'The he spent two-thousand pounds on production of Lear. The mad Menocchio. Menocchio had his Construction of a Social flowers this year?" professor cackled as he stirred his own ideas about how things Scapegoat: Inquisitors and the Lawrence O'Dimple - "To Witches Sabbat'. wlerd concoction and played with began. T he Inquisition dis­ improve the place." various bits of animal viscera. approved of these ideas Witches, the Inquisition, and "Bangles" Jan Calder - " Then ginzburg. But for budding People are getting worred about Menocchio went to the stake. Yet why have you put them in the 'Dracula' self-acclaimer greatest in Ginzburg's book we have a historians and o th ers interested in basement bar in Chambers Street? seei ng how resurrectionists of director since Cecil B. Demille. chance to listen to the amateur They'll die from lack of light'" Please submit cures on a postcard self-taught cosmol ogist and mentalites·- the entire long-dead Lawrence O'Doddle - "They're world of buried attitudes and to the 'Student' Offices. by this freelance theologican. Ginzburg PLASTIC1" Friday before he goes completely mental habits- pursue their craft, believes in using unconventional Is "Bangles" into flower power. bonkers! sources in an attempt to allow Carlo Ginzburg 'i n performance, those from social groupings once li ve' is reasons enough for being at believed to have been perman­ George Square Lecture Theatr ently deprived of a voice to speak on a Tuesday afternoon. Student journalist digging dirt on Student to us. Gary Dickson Accommodation Service wants to hear from any student with bad experiences eg financial loss, damp, overcrowding efc connected with the above organsiation. 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Nlddrle, Cralgmlllar and Wester The vast majority of Hailes. West PIiion would then be sold off to private contractors. A students at this univer­ nice source o:cf,._lccne;c-"o'-'m~e::.I sity spend three, four or Not surpr s ng y, _~=--s ec son even more years In was not rapturously received by the West PIiion tenants when they Edinburgh, and yet read of It In the press (they were minute proportion never Informed In person). Their them have any awareness estate, though deteriorating, was or involvement regarding not beyond repair and they did not want to see their homes and their Community Affairs. A closely knit community Indiscrim­ motion at tonight ' s estate, and it is ar y surprs ng Suddenly, from a situation where resources. Community centres inately torn to pieces. The Pillon General Meeting asks for that walling lists for West Pillon people were queueing to llve In cost local residents more than Action Committee therefore commissioned a survey by such an interest for n o•,_pr...o.i-p -,-e,..,rt.,,1e,,.s~w~e=r~e ='o~nc-'g~."' West PIiion, they were queueing to they can realistically afford. Worse This was e case untlfrtcently. get out. One only lived there If one of all, the housing Is decaying last: professional surveyors and I Ong er than a f e W During the ·Iast fifteen years, we had no choice; those who had a dampness and overcrowding are assessed local opinion, as a result minutes. The proposers hav, as Governments lndefatlg­ choice moved. prevalent. Even emergency of which they drew up an of the motion, Jerry Prat ably proclaim, been living In an There are still many people repairs are no longer carried out. alternative strategy: PIiion - /I's Now or Never/ This explained the and Mark Wickham- age of recession. Much hot air Is living In West PIiion who can Vandalism - Including grallttl, spouted on the subject: In remember It as "the home we had house breaking, arson and attacks pr9blems laced by West Pillon, Jones, discuss the issue practical terms, recession means always dreamed of", and to hear on people - ls Increasing steadily. and offered solutlqns which would and urge you to attend un·employment, proverty and the their accounts of the area's de­ Even very young children are (1) upgrade the area, (2) help to relieve local unemployment, (3) tonight's meeting to hear related problems. generation Is heart-rending. It Is sniffing glue. West Pillon Is far Thus II was , that during the last also an experience which fills us removed from the dream estate it cost a fraction of the price of their case. decade, In common with all local with disgust, because It Is was. demolltlon and redevelopment. West Pllton: It's now or never. authorities, Edinburgh found Itself Indicative of a Conservative party The reaso,, for this Is that the This Is the plea being made by with the problem of council which flagrantly disregards the Council, and ,;,e local MP, Tory several hundred famllles In tenants who could not afford their feelings and wishes of ordinary Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Edinburgh council houses who rent and fell Into arrears. Edin­ working people. have Ignored West PIiion. They are threatened with eviction burgh Corporation, as the District It Is not necessary to catalogue conveniently used It as a site Into thanks to high-minded Tory Council was then known, In Its the decline of West PIiion. We all which to rehouse their problem There are further compelling policy. For several years the West Infinite wisdom decided that the know about vandalism, glue­ famllles, who suffer from genuine reasons to save West Pillon. It Is Pllton estate has been regarded as solutlon to this problem was to sniffing, truancy, violence and financial and social Instability, and one of the best laid out estates In a " problem area", with more than evict all owning their fellows. Similarly, we all offered no further sup ort. Scotland, with only two high rise Its fair share of the dltllcultles evict all owing families and to know from what these ugly blocks (which were built a long many working people currently rehouse them in West Pllton. In features of modern life stem. They time after the original develop­ face. short, West PIiion was to become arise from the poverty, boredom ment) and Is a self-contained unit The estate, when It was built In the Council's dumping ground for and frustration which are with a strong spirit of community. the late 1930s, was everyone's Idea what It regarded as Its "un­ consequent to unemployment. It needs only to be compared with people, of a perfect housing network. sociable tenants". This Is a phrase Its modern counterparts, e.g. maintain their own community, Houses are spacious and have which was used by Councillor Wester Hailes, an acknowledged organised a highly effective Action private back gardens, and there Cornelius Waugh , the then problem area even before It was e has cons stently Committee, and dozens of small are large open spaces. for recrea- Conservative convener of the fully built, lo show how much West displayed a total lack of concern groups were set up, catering for tlonal purposes. Local facilities Housing Committee, and which Pilton must be saved. for Its less privileged constitu­ different branches of Pilton were originally unparalleled: met no criticism from any of his The Council, provided with ents. For, it lumping them society. One of the Action schools within the estate and Tor colleagues. ammunition from a reactionary altogether Into a conglomerate Committee's foremost objectives supervised play areas meant it was right- wing Government, con­ mass Is bad enough, their was to press far better conditions. safe for children; football pitches, Hooliganism tinues to treat PIilon people with subsequent action is more The co·uncll had lo respond (It bowling greens and tennis courts disdain. Never have their plans scandalous. Local amenities In doesn't look good to the summer­ provided an opportunity for been discussed, never have their West Pillon have been allowed to time tourists if your tenants riot sporting activity and community representatives been given a fair collapse: there are no longer because you treat them so centres were freely available to all hearing. sports fields, but open wasteland unfairly). Respond the Council tenants. This motion calls for your where vandalised cars and old did, by deciding to demolish West support. It asks you to put your furniture rot. Schools have run Pilton, lock, stock and barrel! The L is s voice with those of West Pilton to Into disrepair and are under site would be evacuated and the show the Tories that people are staffed and lack ad equate mllles rehoused, mainly In not going to be subjected to the contempt by which the Council is typified. This motion is a motion in defence of people's wishes and well being. Please support it.

n Dogs and_Men • Dogs: rabid crappers or man's only friend? Cornelius Van Der Post has been rum inating on these four-footed furrys that have been licking his feet. Fri 28/ Sat 29 7.00 (Also 3.15 Sat) GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (PG) Being an observant chap, the t is purpose: my atmate s Tonight until Sal 29 + MARILYN (PG) last few months have brought to labrador objected strongly lo 6.30/ 8.30 (Also 4.30 Sat) my notice an alarming new being hidden in my greatcoat for Frederic Forrest In Wim Wenders· Fri 28 Video Rooms 6.30/ 8.30 element in the already rich more than a few seconds, sq that HAMMETT (15) DOCTOR AT LARGE + 2 episdoes of tapestry of university life. I refer to rules out any chance for a surprise FAWLTY TOWERS the presence of quadrupeds. attack. The male dog-owners, at These are not to be confu sed with any rate, are hardly the sort of Sun 30 3.30/8.30 and Mon 31-Sat 5 6.30/ 8.30 Sat 29 Video Rooms 6.00/ 8.30 Agricultural students or the inbred people one would expect to (Also 4.30 Sat) THE RUTLES+RUTLAND WEEKEND Simian upper classes: they are the perpetuate this ki nd of practica l 1959. Five bikers ride into small town USA. TELEVISION+TOMKINSON'S SCHOOLDAYS genuine article. Dogs appear to be joke. In general, they are of the THE LOVELESS (18) the latest personal accoutrement, above-mentioned inbred upper "Cool, sexy. mean and funny"-T he Face Mon 31 Catch Up On Classics 3.00/ 6.00/ 8. 15 the natural addition to a wardrobe classes, and are cons0quentl y LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (PG) t hat may already include about seven feet ta l l with sheepskin coats, Gucci ankle­ eno rmous flattened, ape-like boots and bleep ing digita l faces. Perh aps for them to dog COMING THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT/ THE ATOMIC CAFE/ YOL/ Bob Dylan in DON'T LOOK BACK/ THE NIGHT OF SAN LORENZO/ LOOKS SMILES/ watches. represents a re turn to the primitive AND Strolling around the David Hune way of life: man and his faithful SOON! THE STATE OF THINGS/ BATTLE OF ALGIERS Cafeteria between lectures used to hound off for a day's huntin'. On be a relatively safe occupation. reflection, hound is something of a Now you have to watch the floor to compliment for an obsequious par Icu ar y irksome t ey can dumbest Springer Spaniel is i ely avoid steppinglhrough the myriad mull. barely indistinguishable have a further drawbac to th e si mply be defenestrated and to be considerably higher than piles and puddles that these from its owner's sheepskin coat, securi ty-conscious female: they ignored. that of its owner. Wh ile the honest loathsome creatures leave behind. which shits itself at the ve ry have brains. Dogs on the wh ole, gent racks his brains over the You will now probably agree The place is a menagerie of mention of 'walkies'. with the exception of the afore­ that this unnerving trend must be 'Mirror' crossword, his faithful slobbering bassets, moulti ng -I arTI continually thrown Dack men ti oned elite, do not tend to nipped in the bud. The solution is mutt may be seen pe rusi ng the retrievers and fa wning spaniels. onto the notion of the dog as a answer back. Imagine the ensuing ve ry simp~ and has already been Edict of Nantes and deciding what Who, then. are the owners, and status symbol. After all, for the conve rsa tion: tri ed and te sted in the Shetland invitations it should accept for the why do they keep these animals? man who has his own New Town Stout woman: 'All men are Islands. Concerned pa rties simply following busy week. At school children would bring pet flat. fast ca r, bleeping digit3I watch beasts.' arm th emselves with stout wooden For the female dog-owners rats, hamsters and frogs along to and a double-barrelled name, Dog: 'Wool." cudgels (oak is particularl y suited there i~. at least, a practica l the classroom to give the teacher a what else is there to acql)ire? A Pretty innocuous. isn't it? and to this purpose) and deliver a consideration. With the number of good scare. These colo~rful Gent. of the highest pedigree must hardly a reply to put any but the sharp blow to the back of the rapes in and arou~d the University animals would be secreted In a have a dog of the same, an d must most paran oid fem inist up in arms. ma rkedly increasing, it has offending animals head when convenient pocket until the be seen to have one. Dogs are also more manageable nobody is looki ng . As it's hard to become necessary, and quite desired moment and then released What do these animals do with than. say, babies. They do not tell whet her these crea tures are understandably so. for women to upon an unsuspecting classroo~. themselves when they are not nee d a nursery, although I think protect themselves better than alive o r dead except by observing Unless one is blessed with being paraded about? Do they one could be provided, and they ever. Men offer little protection: their bodily functions, the owner particularl y copious pockets, attend tutorials? This is not quite do not require breast-feeding. they turn and run at the slightest will be none the wi se until you've though, it is almost impossible to as potty as it may sound. After all, Unlike babies they can walk intimation of danger. I shoul made a clean getaway. Happy conceal a do about the erson for the avera e IQ of all _but the without any hel ; and if they get culling! know - I' it myself. Men Subry: Victim of Apartheid 5 Amnesty International have put a motion Julian Hotair to tonight's General Meeting_ abou~ a 'banned' South African journalist. Julian Gases Off

Goodare appeals for support. Dear Student You have a~ e he lives. He cannot enter any ot Plibftshfng XC~/fent tradition Introducing Subry afford to tolerate any opposition, Proposers ot Gart,cles by the newspaper office, factory or they have to attemp_t the Many people will remember m~fions. Accordi:nera/ Meeting harbour area. He is not allowed to suppression of news. This is what Marimuthu Subramoney (better article about Subry~ly, here is an write anything, or to prepare banning is mainly used for. Only a known as Subry): he was . a I am Submittin candidate in the Rectorial anything for publication. He few hundred people are banned at cannot meet more than one amount of trep1i it.with a certam elections in March. He's been any one time: but they include because Paste a~1on, however person at any time. under 8 'banning order' since some of the most well-known that mere xpenence suggest; December 1980. Before that he writers, journalists and_ com­ comparatively 1i:lhors have was the head of an independent munity leaders. By speaking out, Basement M status in th news agency, Press Trust. which The impact on his life these people endanger the the following ay I, therefore, mak: he'd set up to report news fro~ Banning has ended Subry's stability of the regime. 1. That suggestions: . You use lh South Africa's black communi­ work as a journalist. It has also Provided, rather th e head/me ties. He'd become a B_BC isolated him so that it's hard to a more inane an Substituting correspondent. He was also vice­ lead any sort of normal life. When a How you can help devising_ It's ont°ne ot Your own president of the independent friend of his was murdered by There's not a lot you can do, but but it does le// Y lour words long media workers' trade union, which white extremists, he was every little helps. The South is about. You What the artic/~ in 1980 led a successful strike for prevented from attending the African authorities watch British 2. That You la i funeral. When his young son union recognition against South public opinion carefully, because m~tead ot cu~i: 0 u_t normally, Africa's two main newspaper became seriously ill one evening. of Britain's close economic links sticking it on a bla g ,t up and publishers. Subry was initially re_fused with South Africa. So do turn up at at random. My fri/k background It was shortly after this stri_ke permission to drive him to the General Meeting and vote for representative nds - a la1r/y that he was banned, together with hospital. The child died the next Amnesty's motion. _ Student readers se~ection of several of his colleagues. But ,t Better still, why not write to la/fer technique - think that the may have been his wor~ as a dai.eanwhlle, he is under Subry and tell him of your besides mak . looks awful journalist which earned hm~ .the continual surveillance and harass­ support? He's always glad t_? get read. It's Par:;~the articles h_ard t~ hostility of the white authorities. ment from the security police. His sympathetic letters. Postage is 26p so many of th ecause of this that As well as sending news overseas home ,s searched frequently for and the address is: Mr Manmuthu become ex·Stu~m have this term through Press Trust, he was,abou~ any evidence that might show he Subramoney, PO Box 4_86 , I ~OUfd have tho:nt readers. to become editor of a ne~ black was breaking his banning o_rde r; Verulam 4340, Natal, South Africa. la,r/y reasonab/ 9ht these were magazine. Too much free 1_nforma­ this could lead to h1s impnson­ You can also write to the Sout~ ~I course the E:;,~~t;ests, ~hough tion is a threat to apartheid. ment. Remember that he has African Ambassador. You ~on t Imai. Nevertheless s_decision is committed no crime; he_ has only get a reply, but the letter will be sense, the U/t1ma1 . in a Wider reported news which the taken notice of. Amnesty has newspaper e verdict on any How banning works authonti€s wanted to keep quiet. achieved the release of m~ny readership. rests With the Best wishes No reason is ever given for a thousands of prisoners world:""1de throuQh letter-writing campaigns. Julian Gooda;e_ banning order Subry was not The apartheid tried, or even charged with any The address IS H,s Excellency background Mara,s Steyn, South Africa House, PS: No need to b . crime. He has no right of appeal. Wou/dn 'tw1sh P,U l,shtheabove·J His banning lasts for three years, Subry is Just one of aparthe1d_'s Trafalgar Square, London WC2N Your Wi//ingnfs: t;1s st~ge) to P~t but it can be renewed indefinitely many victims. The aparthe,_d 5DP letters to the test. o Pnnt Crit1ca1 under South African law.. . system denies basic democratic Finally, we in Amnesty are The banning order confines him and economic rights to the non­ always looking for new people to to his house between 7 pm and 6 whites - the vast maJority_of the help our work for freedom and am on weekdays. and for the South African people. This can justice. o~ corn~ al<:>ng to whole of every weekend and only be achieved through meetings if you d like to public holiday. He is not allowed to systematic repression. involved. leave the district of Durban wherfiil Because the authorities cannot

My Stars On a clear, crisp November Dear Mr Hota . **sentence** from* practitioners*** under* ********* morning , finding myself ten f read Your tr, . . position of the sun at my time and minutes late, I rushed down the fhe Witchcraft Acts, repealed only J place of birth had been plotted, feelings ot Pa,n'n;,ssive With mixed steps leading to the Edinburgh in the '50s. From the mantelpiece a giving all factors, not just lhe have attempted n~ Pleasure, and I Astrology Centre with only slightly parchment and wax scroll single most important one. ;~n;."::_nds lo the l~s/O!low its less haste than would have proclaimed professional stand­ 1 ards in a very tangible form. Now· Over the next part, dear reader I would r full stop allowed me to fall and break my 0 draw a veil as I see no reason t0 that half the PI ike to POtn/ oui I neck on my way to the dingy New they're desperate to free ' discuss my private life simul­ !Ourna/fsm ca;:sure ot Student themselves of the Gypsy Rose Lee Town second basement at 12 r~r~und the floo: lrorn ro/Jing Howe Street. image and be seen as a science, taneously with 2,000 strangers, t~dicu/ous titles that constructing • with a scientific method. not that any of you would be Inside and seated amongst the interested anyway, suffice to say e tone of 'serious · '?ta/fy lower • stripped pine furniture, the only The centre has clients from all llinA~. to ripping lhem~eces. social classes, with many that the character anlysis from the ghostly glow from a computer cart was at least as good as that g ng the scrap l P and gaily screen, f found the lack of beaded academics and professionals 9fue·sfainec, Sh s rom 10 feet at a from a 200-question personality shawls, smoke, crystal balls. la rge having regular consultations and eet, Wefl little can chart readings. My clipping from assessment. Whether this was gold earrings and invitations to from 'my stars' or our two hours of e sai , except it beats sex into the cross palnis wit~ silver very hard to the Evening News was rejected contemptuously. "Sun-sig n conversation is for the cynical g,:ound, and reminds me of that let pass without comment. highly esteemed anarc h ic astrology. Hopelessly inaccurate. amongst you to debate. Some of " Oh, no, we don't have any of constructivist Rodney Dada Takes the birth sign and deduces what was said was very accurate that nonsense here," I was told by Bollocks to the bourgeoi; from that alone. Probably written and one 'prediction' has worked Violet Milne, the proprietrix, a slim constnctJons. c6ntemporary by the office boy. Come and look out very much as described. ?' woman in her mid-forties, " we're at this." hackdom. This ,s art with a capita/ astrologers, not fortune-tellers." Graeme WIison F. Behind me the electronic As tactfully as possible, so as Fi'?ally, as you say the ultimate hardware had finished plotting my Many thanks to the Astrology not to compound the offence, I felt. verdict rests with the readership. chart. The positions of the planets, Centre for their help in the writing I'd caused by not knowing the of this article. For further informa­ Alt I can add, is that I hope the difference in the first place, I asked the rising (ascendant) or falling readership rests with us. (descendant) aspecl, as well as the tion contact Mrs Milne on 664 2603 if the distinction could be clarified or Mrs Chalmers on 332 3463. Best wishes (too). " for the reader's benefit, I wouldn't George Hack like to put words into your mouth". PS: Good luck with the GM motion "Some aslofogers ally them­ - I'll be there and I'll be with selves with psychics, clairvoy­ ants, some even with the man in the moon. But that's their personal PROSPECTIVE opinion. Profess1ona/ly we concern ourselves with energy paths. Lines of greatest and feast PERSPECTIVE resistance to your fi fe flow. Not what will happen but what is easiest and hardest tor you to a "The Student·; as implied by its 1,11 achieve." s Possible it represents the t d ~, is a student paper. As far Professionally? Astrologers staff cannot hope to represe:, u ent viewpoint: but the basement take themselves seriously. The ;s something which motivates :~~ry s:ade of opinion. So, if there rest of us used to take them o other people, then get it on a , w ICh You wan, to get across seriously as well, with a death Place. We exercise no editori./er and hand it into 7 Buccleuch re1ec1 a badly written article so c;ntrol other than the rtgh( to sub1ec1 we 'd like to hear ·, i You have an Opinion on any perspective Page then do s ram. You. If You don't like the omethmg about it Yourself. 6 THE STUDENT 27th JANUARY 1983 VIEWS3

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Student bias Dear Sir, The General Meeting Editorial As an Ulsterman, born and bred, behalf of the republican terrorists provoke some response in the I feel that I must object most and their supporters and I am apathetic bovine masses, but the strongly to the entire content of surprised thal Student should response also happened to be the article by Mr Maguire on page make itself the organ of such a favourable. I would also like to This being General Meeting Day, when we're all 12 of the last edition of Student. mindless. destructive minority in thank the Poison Dwarf. or rather supposed to play at Democracies, this column He has accused the security our society. the Aesthetic Dwarf, for taking the should contain the customary exhortation to its forces in Northern Ireland of the Yours sincerely, time off his rounds and cigarette readers to attend, mark, inwardly digest the sectarian murder of innocent Alan Logue foragings to visit the Richard children, using plastic bullets. Demarco Gallery, and see Mr motions and enjoy the participatory vote. And Plastic bullets are used as a Crabfish's work at first hand. I am indeed, as a fairly quintessential expression of minimum fo rce, riot control The other side informed from a wholly reliable weapon by the army, usually on student non-apathy, that is the line this paper Dear Editor, source that Mr Ribena Sandwich the occasions that they are was rather bemused by the dwarf's It was heartening to read the takes: however unsatisfactory the processes by subjected to petrol bomb attacks. article on plastic bullets in last scepticism, and indeed confessed The rioters' weapons, chiefly the which our internal and external political wil l is week 's Student. As a result of the that this was the first time he had petrol bombs, have caused the expressed, however be-devilled the system is by efforts of the British stale and its been "piled on" - a quaint deaths of many soldiers and manifestations in radio, television Canadian idiom synonymous with careerists not fighting for but riding vital issues policemen over the last 14 years as and the daily newspapers, the the "shat on". to frail pe rsonal glory, however this may be so, it well as countless serious injuries British public has no idea about It only remains for me to thank and the destruction of millions of is all utterly pointless if you don't make it work. what is happening in Northern al l of you, especially Messrs Dwarf pounds worth of public and private That may be a predictable line to take - what Ireland. Your article has perhaps and Smythe for the immense property; and those who aid and shed a little light on one aspect of curiosity and interest you have we're try ing to avoid - but it's also the only abet these riotous criminals are the oppression of the Catholic displayed in me, and also in Mr guilty of crimes every bit as conclusion you can intelli gently reach. So when minority. Swordfish - who is rapid1y heinous as the murdering you sit down in the Mc Ew an Hall tonight, beware In reference to the contents of becoming very hot property in IRNINLA gunmen and bombers. Europeland. the article, is it little wonder that of such monsters, as the above - and others. Does Mr Maguire suggest dis­ the IRA and INLA have so much Long may the revolution Foil their evi l plans and avoid unthinking reflex arming the security forces in order continue. support (five Sinn Fein represen­ to let these people attack them vo ting. Remember too, that General Meetings tatives for the assembly) when Yours sincerely, with complete impunity? I also aren't the only organs of our democracy. This faced with such direct oppression Giles Sutherland. noticed that his article did not even (in the form of murder by plastic _pa per is too. We' re doi ng our best. include the usual token bullets, summary execution of condemnation of the murder of IRNINLA members etc.)? truly innocent people by terrorists The deaths of innocent people such as these rioters that those Getting the Fish Off will continue until the British army with Mr Maguire's viewpoints is withdrawn and the Protestant the Hook usually try to tag on the end of privilege on which the Northern Dear Sir, STAFF their comments in order to give the Irish State is based is abolished. The Poison Dwarf must be impression of impartiality. Yours, running short on arsenic if the The article also describes the Chas. Ross condition of my back (a tedious Royal Ulster Constabulary as EDITOR SWSO member subject at the best of times) is felt Graham Gamble Lifestyl es Jane Lloyd 'sectarian', by which, no doubt, Mr Elaine Gow to warrant a full 18 lines in his (also Maguire means that they go Assistant Editor Simon Cartledge rather tedious) column! around indiscriminately killi ng In the interest of journalistic Graphics Toby Porter innocent Roman Catholic citizens, News Editors accuracy, three corrections: David Petherick this is a ridiculous comment since Imitation is the sincerest Ray Clancy Ph otograph ers Neil Dalgleish (i) No slipped disc, just a strain. . many officers of the RUC are form of .. . (ii) It did not happen through Jonathan Shearer Roman Catholic themselves and I Bruno Beloff Dear Sir, playing squash. Features Editor Andrew MacKichan also suppose that he never heard Neville Moir The Croyden Crabfish saga (iii) I strained by back through Adve rtising about, or chose to ignore, the Divertissements Andrew Ph1ll1ps continues . lifting a window in my flat in the murder of an. off-duty Roman course of cleaning it. Fred Pnce Contributors Penny Boreham Catholic police insp8ctor as he Parody, especially good parody, Ho-hum. If you want more Giles Sutherland Nick Wades-Fairbairn was coming home from mass (m 1s one of the greatest literary compliment~. This was indeed the interesting gossip for the Poison Rlipert Gordon Julian Goodare the presence of his younger case with Mark 0. Smith's letter of Dwarf column, I could tell you Cornelius Van Der Post daughter) by terrorists in Armagh last week. I was pleased, in fact about a certain 19-vear-old "dirty Music Duncan Mclean Marina Engell recently. almost overwhelmed at the old man" ... . (Please do ... Ed.) Paul Wilson Sarah Murray All in all, the whole article is a response to my :uticle. Not only Yours sincerely, Ross Murray completely unbalanced and - e-rs_p_e_c_ti-ve_____ 1..a 1_ 11_ 1_,._1_P1_n______insidious 01ece of propaganda on did my writings and actions "Fishy" (Boss Fish) THE STUDENT THURSDAY, 27th JANUARY 1983 7

Cafe Au Late THE PRINTMAKERS WORKSHOP GALLERY The Cafe Graffiti was a the first mate whose highlight of the Little rattles weren't quite up to (225 1098) Lyceum during the standard, the wandering 7th University of Dallas Festival last summer. minstrel enchanted us all National Print Here we take a look at its with his ballads around Invitational recent form, threatened the tables. There was a l.• •!I 12th Feb•uary as it is by the withdrawal good deal of foot­ of its Arts Council grant. stomping revelry encour­ With names like Joel Bujnowski or Kenjilo Nanao who could help aged by the fiddler, while but become an artist? The 7th This was a cruise the a more novel act, some University of Dallas National Print Captain told us, and the "performance poetry" (so Invitational (organised by none crew were to provide the other than Juergen Stunck') is an I'm told) by the trio exhibition of works by 20 contem­ entertainment. With a "Drunken Christ" was porary American artists, selected little bit of liquid refresh­ interesting a number of by the graduate students in print­ ment, the tranquillifying rather repetitive beats making from Dallas University. It's interesting. atmosphere of the and chants which had the If somebody told you that James candle-lit tables, one passengers firmly glued Torlakson had changed his name almost felt as if you were to their seats. A little more from, say, Fred Price (for want of a really there on the high better example) and determined to wine and I was really become an artist, you would not be seas. Well, not quite enjoying the cabaret. surprised - after seeing i,is maybe, but for two quid It- was fi;n aR

'Lear' by Edward Bond, at the Bedlam Theatre, by EUTC, until GEORGE SQUARE The dancers were perhaps most 31st January, Is at 7.30 pm. happy with group movement and Library Conference Room Lear Tickets are £2.00/ £1 .50. the successes of the evening came Thursday 27th Jan 9.30 am-12.30 in the corporate dance of UNIVENTS pm, 2-4 pm ·inversions· and 'Pavina My Dues' Books and periodicals will be on There has been an unfortunate which were impressive for their sal e for very reasonable and creative use of space. Dancers and dearth of Univents in recent weeks cheap prices. owing to th e fact that we haven't music combined to give a powerful Be a bookworm and catch a rhythmic effect that did not need been receiving the information. If bargain. there is an event that you would dramatic explanation. Perfect like to publicise through S tudent harmony of bodies and sparkling then the only way of ensuring KING 'S THEATRE jazz came in 'Ko Ko' and 'West End publication is to put the details in Tollcross (229 4840) Blues' with every step a small the "Whats On " box here in the 'Mother Goose' explosion of energy. basement at 1 Buccleuch Place 7 pm until Feb 19th We were invited to laugh some t i me before MondaY Tic kets from £2.50 occasionally; the self-parody of afternoon. Stan ley Baxter 1n drag - a 'Cliches In Vogue· gave us bund le ot laughs and fun . something like a ballet of the TEVIOT absurd where classical music Film Club contrasted with je rky visual 7.30 Thursday 27 January humour. The dancers showed The Secret Policeman's Ball their versatility and athletic skill in THEATRE these ·energetic pieces, creating Ph~ ture: Bruno Beloff 1 Live Band: Hlgsons CHURCHILL THEATRE atmosphere simply throug h If God had made the almost unbelievably 8 pm Friday 28 January changes in pace and movement. Tnry £1.40 (447 7597) Basic Space; it 1s a startling and world, might would spectacular 'set ' and 'Cocktails' by Basic Space memorable experience. be always right. But he 'stage'. Mr Evans in Disco Dance Company Sarah Pearcey didn't, we made it. Thus particular and his cast Park Room 25th-29th Janu ary King Lear, the pro- should be well pleased With the Fab Park Room lights. For the first time since its BEDLAM, Forrest Road successful premiere at the 1982 (225 9873) tagonist of Edward with a performance which Film Club Ed inburgh Fringe. Jane Dudley's Bond's not Shakespeare's in its best moments (and 2.45 Sunday 30 January programme of new works comes ·The Room' by Harold Pinter The Secret Policem en's Ball to the city's C~urchill Thea tre. The Wednesday 9th Feb._ drama. And the world of they are not few) is quite choice of music and movement is Th e Room is a play o f symbols.­ the play, a world of un-bearably moving. Amos 'n' Rocks ful l of contrast, ranging from Bach Set in Mr and Mrs Hudd·s own little senseless, ceaseless, There are some small, but 8 pm Sunday 30 January canons to early jazz an d Scottish microcosm, a room amongst appalling aggression, dangerous weaknesses, Folk Band folk dances. It all hits th e audience many, the acti on revolves around with a dynamism onl y modern an hour in the li fe of the violence and cruelty is almost entirely among the CHAMBERS STREET ballet can produce, al though 1nhri hitants. simply our world (no n·on-principal characters. HOUSE certain ,mages st ick in the mmd: a You th 1s here represented by the worse, no better) seen Too many of them neither Free Disco single white figure against a black 1nqq uis1tive and unusually Thursday 27 January curtain, moving with abst ract aggressive Toddy and Clarissa through a cracked blood­ concentrated nor con­ strictness t o t he measured Sands Their entrance on to the stained lens. Bond's Lear vinced when I saw the Roller Disco and Free Disco precision of Bach, a doll-like girl in scene contrasts markedly with the is far more than a re­ dress-rehearsal. In a play Friday 28 January lime-green leotard and pink tutu is exist of the decrep1d landlord Mr lifted onstage by a man in Kidd and the moronic but sinister writing of Shakespeare's where violence is sup­ workman's overalls to the strains Mr Hudd. for our time (if it is that posed to terrify, shambl­ Live Band: Medium Wave Band 8 pm Saturday 29 January of class,cal orchestral music; a Ultimately, the audience must all). It simply takes as its ing, lifeless soldiers are a twitching group of dancers leap as ask themselves the questions common starting point very weak link. There Live Band: Clever Dick one 1n an exuberant celebrat ion of Who 1s Riley? C..nd hopefully t hPsP Tuesday 1 February Benny Goodman, Bas1e and questions will be resolved? Ian Stewart the deposition of a were exceptions in this Armstrong. crazed, hearless tyrant by hard-working, multi-role Free entry his two power-hungry section of the cast- Dick· POTTER ROW daughters in order that he Godden, Aaron Cass, Disco and live band: Tell Me A Colour and-the audience may see Mike Conway and Mandie Friday 28 January experience the full Calvert. But in general the Ent ry 50p pointless horror of man's play's best work is done no t nature 's in­ by its main character Green Banana Club Wednesday 2 February humanity to man. Far, far actors. Andy Loudon, worse. As such Lear is not finely cast in the title role the political play it may took time to warm, but PLEASANCE BAR have a reputation for. It is has the ability to project a Thirsty Disco an anguished humani­ compelling, jut-chinned (Mark Kennedy Roadshow) tarian expose of the intensity giving way to an Thursday 27 January violence we still think we ,e q u a II y p e r s u a s i v e Free entry. Happy Hour 8-9. have to run the worla gentleness in the !t:lter Folk Night with. Every moment of the scenes. Jeremy Bernstock Friday 29 January play sh rieks ' Why? '! (stronger physically than Free entry. Happy Hour 8-9. But in its rich thematic vocally) is deeply Society Events and linguistic symbolism affecting as the Grave­ EU Philosophy Society Mr J . Shearmer (Manchester - the wall bounding his digger's Boy - He and Mr Univ): 'Socialism'. country, index of Lear's Loudon work well Friday 28th Jan, 7.30 pm. instinctive fear and together. As Lear's (PGSU). Down hatred, the caged, daughters, Melissa James Across Christian Union (1) Message of mission field? (1) Meditate without hesitation tortured bird, the blinding and Debbie Padfield are Meets every Friday at 8 pm in (8) on still water (4) of the monarch wl'lo killed painted in different the Chaplaincy Centre. (5) Take a rise (4 , 2) (2) Truncated tense crudely so many people* but shades of black - the (9) Versed in the absurd (8) despatched (4) CND never looked at one of former a chilling matriar­ (10) Forces or type of mural (6) (3) Ranked above 2. Quite un­ Meets every Tuesday, (12) Cuts back on plums (6) deservedly, it seems (9) their faces - the play is chial villainy (pushing Chaplaincy Centre at 7 pm . (13) Heron running in SE (4) First two letters 2 composed masterfully,· beautifully knitting needles into France (5) were missi ng (6) eloquent in its phrasing of ears), the latter more (16) Ascribe to blowing time up (6) When right one is not in MUSEUM LECTURE (6) it. . (5) the question. overtly sexy, impulsive THEATRE, Lothian Street (17) Able to feel used internally, (7) But not right if one tries this! Lear's ramshackle epic and utterly superb. 27th Jan, 7.30 pm with purpose (8) (10) grandeur presents more This rivettingly relevant .Lecture: Si r Kenneth Dover (19) Eternal finale to inter­ ' (8) Objectionable sect? (10) than the usual share of play deserves and Fa ith and Reason in Classical national body (8) (-11) Eastern shooting star Greece. Entry fre,- (20) One islander of usl (6) produces a flower (5) problems in staging - commands your atten­ (22) Barium is mostly over­ (14) Adding, perhaps, in some par./. i c u I a r I y in t h e tion. Given what the play GEORGE SQUARE flowing (5) form (10) cramped squalor of the demands, it would be (23) Odd puss nearly creates (15) Looks like one is there to be making it (10) aedlam Theatre. Much impressive if it were any THEATRE and uproar (6) 1st Feb. 4.15 pm (26) Inborn hostelry consumed (18) Night sound made by credit is therefore due to good at all. A production Denis Hay Seminar (6) hoarse Norse (5) director, Patrick Evans of this quality is an Prof. Carlo Glnzburg (27) Great lines, partly, are (21) One with an affinity with pirld designer Jane Parker outstanding achieve­ "The Construction of a Social changing (8) the Cheshire cat? (6) (28) The point of a fir (6) (24) Baked link to the over (4) 1anrl innumerable hack ment. Scape g oat : In q uis it o rs and Witches Sabbat. " (29) A claim to make believe? (25) Rogue eats you, we hear, engmeers for creatmg an Graham Gamble (8) lmd becomes a giant! (4 ) THE STUDENT THURSDAY, 27th JANUARY 1983 9

THE FILMHOUSE CIRCUS ARTS (228 2688) Hammett The Hopefully GROUP 6.30-8.30 Thurs to Sat A REVIEW OF A MOTION Additional per! 4.30 Sa t Wim Wenders at his most Professional Circus STUDENT ARTS commercial, in a tribute to CO-OPERATIVE Hollywood heydays, with all the usual ingredients - prost1tut1on, PICTURES murder and blackmail. Highly The first Wednesday confusing but well worth a visit if only for the superb photography. this term, EUTC had the rare opportunity of ABC (229 3030) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes hosting an independent ET 1.30 , 4.40 , 7.45 and Marilyn ET really is as good as it's meant Frl 7.00, Sat 3.30-7.00 student arts group at its to be - despite th e all-American Monroe tracks down rich regular lunchtime plat­ family. It contains very c lever husbands in Paris - also form in the Bedlam sequences and is beautifully features the now legendary filmed - definitely one of 'Diamonds are a girl's best Theatre. Intrigued by this Spielberg's best. friend'. Rock Hudson narrates unusual phenomenon, I the second film. which is a interviewed its Edin­ First Blood 2.15, 5.00, 7.50 profile of the actress's life, with burgh spokesperson In this version of cops and some gripping film clips. robbers the hero, a Green Beret sometime EUTC member, Vietnam veteran played by the Jay Jopling. ever husky Sylvester Stallone. utilises the guerilla tactics he I asked Jay about the employed against the Viet Cong to company and its origins, escape the Doberman Pinchers, and was presented with a 200 army reservists and rockets of pile of press cuttings, a local sheriff who arrested him for vagrancy (ie for carrying a photographs and maga­ sleeping bag and wearing a zines. It seems Circus combat jacket). Productions is not quite In the local prison the officers rough him up a bit and as they the amateur dramatic attempt to shave him, memories of society I had taken it for. his torture by the Vietnamese flash It is in fact a 'multi­ back vividly and he escapes impressively into the forest. media arts project group ', The various ways in which involving a large number Rambo eludes and kills his of students studying all tormentors are justification over the country, inter­ enough for seeing this film, and the "men" among you will love it, ested in many fields of art although it is grisly. Les Enfants Terrlbles - writers, actors, sculp­ Towards the end the corn­ and La Premlere Null Mon 3.00, 6.00-8.15 tors, photographers etc. - wondered what the minion - wafer-thin credibility resources behind the cant becomes sodden to the point of Directed by Melville from with the finished product rt dissolving but it is still compelling Cocteau's famous novel about taking the form of maga­ were. "OK - so what about viewing. the tragic love affair between a the money?" Mr Jopling brother and sister. Followed by a zines and exhibitions as Rambo is the only character was rather reticent about played with any conviction and the short film in which a young boy well as theatre, aimed at other actors obviously have no chases his girlfriend in the Paris providing a platform for, this, but seemingly compunction about playing their Metro. as yet, amateur contribu­ private sector sponsor­ stereotyped roles just as we've all tors. ship has something to do seen them played a thousand The Loveless times before. Sun 3.30-8.30 "Our emphasis is on the with it (the ubiquitous Mr However if your boyfriend is the Mon-Sat 6.30, 8.30 rehearsal and workshop Richard Demarco wa s Latest of the American type that pays you in, go along. stages of a play," said Jay, supportive during the And vice versa. 'Underground' films. All the Kirsten Barclay social restrictions and "rather than the finished Edinburgh Fringe ). frustrations of the 1950s are article. For this one, we However, costs were Airplane II 2.00, 5.00, 8.00 captured as the film traces the lived together after Festival Fringe in 1981 covered during the adventures of motorcycle gangs. 'Just when you thought it was Christmas as a commun­ and '82 with plays and an Fringe, and the company safe to go back to the departure Angel and Mean Streets ity, getting to know each exhibition. The reviews is largely self-financing. lounge ... " Sequel to Airplane Tues-Thurs 7.00 were enthusiastic, stress­ The group's ultimate and like most sequels probably other, discussing the If you missed 'Angel' first time ing the youth of the not as good. round - go and see it now! script and then rehears­ aim, said Jay, is to build Depressing but powerful account ing. We -take a stylistic troupe, who, in '81, had an up its resources until it of a young saxophonist caught approach theatre average age of 18. I was can acquire a property in up in a protection racket in also shown a glossy, London. Thus the THE CALEY Northern Ireland. Robert de Niro should be an escape, (229 7670) heads the cast in 'Mean Streets' alienating from everyday though slim, art maga­ company will be able to Love at First Bite a sub-Mafia thriller set in New experience." zine called 'Take 1' live and work together American Werewolf In London York . Open to disagreement published in 1981. permanently "with Thurs-Thurs 6.00, 8.00 Behind all the literature individuals free to con­ A contemporary and comic look though this may be, the at the Dracula myth, with George achievements of Circus and the words of Mr centrate on work in their Segal at his most engaging. Jopling, seemed to lie a own field". They are an ODEON (667 3805) Productions is impressive Corny dialogue in the second stuff. Since 1980 they strong group philosophy ambitious and dedicated fil m but look out for gor)I special The Evil Dead effects! 2.15, 5.15, 8.00 have performed a number stressing multi-media group of pe_ople who, Amusing take-off of 1930 horror of shows, many of them interests, with emphasis against all the odds, have films and as the 22-year-old on community projects produced some high writer-director Raimi stated, the new plays written by a THE DOMINION film is 'more than cliche'. seminal figure in the and theatre as a show­ quality work and deserve (447 2660) group, one James case for "each member of all the success they can High Rise Marriot. They have the company to combine get in a field where the 2.1 0, 5.23, 8.36 survival of the fittest is no + Force of One experimented with street their diverse artistic Antony Quinn and James Rolin theatre in London, and talents". It all sounded empty cliche. caught up in drugs. attended the Edinburgh wonderfully idealistic, so Kerry Richardson Gregory's Girl 3.00, 5.20, 8.15 as good as 'ET' but special EDINBURGH Sunday 30th January I doubt if anyone has not seen it effects are still original. Playhouse UNIVERSITY 6.45 Southern Comfort by now. Realistic if overrated • FILM SOCIETY account of adolescent love. Return of the Soldier 8.35 Ordinary People 2.00, 5.30, 8.15 60 The ll'leasance Edinburgh Who Dares Wins With a cast headed by Alan Wednesday 2nd February Friday 28th January P/easance 2.25, 4.59, 7 .33 Tron 1.55, 4.44, 7 .38 Bates and Glenda Jackson, it Pfeasance If you're fed up with The Yet another American science­ should be difficult to fail as a 6.45 Greetings 6.45 Porte Des Lllas 8.20 f am a fugitive from a Chain Professionals' I suggest you give fiction film - this time cashing film - but it does. Atmospheric 8.35 Sous Les Tolts de Paris this one a miss. in on video games. Nothing like but sloppy dialogue. Gang 10 THE STUDENT THURSDAY, 27th JANUARY 1983

complete with Mere uou form of' catwalks into as Lady Macbeth and a audience territory, and Ubu Roi Banquo ghost. Although s urrounding it by a NA~~a~: a ~~P~~n~~~~ there are no direct number of . . . . well, Brown's nightclub comes first, I (can anyone afford Annabelle's?) Les references to Shakes­ actually loo-seats. but It isn't in style. Very typical of peare, the plot is riddled The re are no stars, Sp its genre, the dj's are not content to with implicit associations, incidentally, in this pro­ Some items for the BTdiary: play obscure 12" George Benson Escogriffes given an added dose of duction, rather a group of Volleyball: Fund raising disco at singles: instead they roll out The Place on 1st Feb .; tickets from r,1onotonous disco records Paris, 1896, and the first the scatalogical and ex­ performers: having club members and Sports Union comparable in diameter to lorry performance of Jarre's pressed in lang uage witnessed a short snatch office. wheels. Ubu Roi shattered with its much of which is pure of rehearsal, and seen Athletics: Special general The more venerable readers will meeting of the social kind at recall Tiffany's where all the best single first word the rigid invention. them convulsed in Pollock on Feb. 7th at 8 pm. gigs were played. Now this once moral code which had so The result could easily helpless hysterics of Hot Air Ballooning: New seedy dive is a glittering Saturday stultified the art of the bl! confused to put it laughter, the production spot, Cinderella Rockefellers. meeting place is to The Claret Jug, previous century: the Great King Street, 9 pm Fridays. Members and non members alike mildly, but Escogriffe's certainly seems to And of course today, our very have to look smart to get past reaction amongst the Director Peter Allen is promise a fair degree of own Sports Union Ball. Tickets are the bouncers at the door. audience was predictably doing everything to make merriment. For £1 .50 (the memberships still on sale, so take the plunge, explosive and amidst it more accessible by Not, however, that they buy one and we'll see you tonight· have still not arrived ) you too can at the Caledonian Hotel. jerk trenetically to A Forest and cries of indignation marrying the French haven't been working Peter Lyall The Model at the Hoochie Koochie fighting broke out; the surrealist formula with a hard, and the word was Club. The clientele here used to des port themselves at Valentino's, actor then had to resort to much more familiar whispered that Peter then moved up to JJ 's, sporting dancing a jig on the stage English pantomime style, Allen has been relent­ sucked in cheeks and setting gel, before the mob were with the same slapstick lessly driving every last still dancing to Kraftwerk. The sufficiently pacified to humour, stylised cos­ only thing that has changed is the ounce of energy and venue - perhaps the dj is too enable him to continue tume, exaggerated char­ ability out of them in his poorly paid to afford to be with his performance: this acterisation and spec­ ravenous pursuit of MUSIC innovative. (If you're refused at the was to foreshadow the tacular stage effetcs. The perfection. door check your clothes and hair impact of Ubu Roi on THE MCEWAN HALL, - is the latter perpendicular and initial idea was to perform Anyway do go and see Teviot Place the former outrageous?). theatre as a whole. the play in the Round and it ( if you don't understand Tuesday 1st Feb 1.10 pm Mad Hatter's on the Mile is Way ahead of its time, thus include the audience French it's not going to be supposed ly predominated by Lunchtime Recital couples. Anyway, you have to be the play was stunningly much more effectively much of a disadvantage, Bryn Turley on piano. over 21 . (As most readers are older original in its zany, than is otherwise pos­ plot summaries are Schubert, Debussy, Beeth.oven than sixteen I've omitted Outer Free!! farcical and obscene sible; having scoured the provided) and it promises Limits, Tollcross). humour, the plot derived University for potential Any frequenter of a ski club to be one of the most disco wil l recall the livid from Jarre's ado/scent venues, however, the original and visually NITE CLUB, combination of pink neon and dislike of a certain Esco 's have had to resort exciting pieces of theatre Greenside Place tartan that is Piper's, Lothian schoolmaster, whose to reconstructing George Edinburgh has seen for Road. Girls are not allowed to Friday 28Jh Jan 10 pm-2 am character is here dis­ Square Theatre to the some time. Loo seats - A new club• called "Le Metro" leave their handbags at their seats, opens tonight with a "tasteful which makes the dance floor torted and exaggerated best of their ability, by pah! selection of music" plus various something of a hurdles course. into a Macbeth figure, extending the stage in the Katherine Need videos, and occasionally there However the theological will be live bands. A rival for the question of how many angels can Hoochie Coochie Club? dance on the head of a pin is no Admiss ion : £1 . dlfficull question compared to how many students can perform QUEEN'S HALL this feat on the Potterrow dance Clerk Street (668 2117) floor. It's cheaper than any other Thursday 27th Jan 7.45 pm disco apart from Teviot and Chambers Street. Edinburgh Quartet: Elgar At least the drinks aren't Hayden, Beethoven prohibitive - please get drunk The String Sensation. before you visit any commercial £2.40/£3.60 disco. The banana diaquairi's at Top Friday 28th Jan 10 pm O's, Grindley Street, are delicious Late Night Jazz : Swing '82 + Jim and pricey. It's a nice place for a Vincent 3 party but full of glittering eyed £2.50/ £1 .50 strangers on other nights. You could say you've been warned. K. Ba rclay PLAYHOUSE, Greenside Place (557 2590) Friday 28th Jan 7.15 pm Scottish Opera A Midsummer Night's Dream RESTAURANTS by Benjamin Britten £2-£12 Continuing our series of restaurant guides, Gaston le Gourmand tells us a few more food Thursday 27th/ Saturday 29th Jan facts. 7.15 Scottish Opera (New Production) 'The Magic Flute' by Mozart Produced by Jonathan Miller', conducted by Sir Alexander value as it is Italian (£2 to £3 for Glaces as a sweet followed by Gibson pas la dish, less for pizza), but food LAFAYETTE deliciously strong coffee. All this £2.00-£12.00 1s indifferent in quality - ideal for 22 Brougham Place costs just £2.95, and with a half the hungry and poor. Service is (229 0869) litre of house red from the fairly fast and furious. comprehensive wine list at £2.40, a This genuine "Restaurant quality lunch for two comes in at £5-£8 Francais" serves from 12.30 to 2 Bar Roma Queensferry Rd under £8.50. Considering the 'f E?IIOT ROW and from 6.30 onwards every day, Up-market Oario's. Excellent consistently high standard of the Friday 28th Jan 7.30 pm except Sunday, when it is closed. Italian cuisine in more preferable food and service, this is very m uch The Higsons + disco. It has the hushed atmosphere of Chinless white funk hits town surroundings, but one pays value for money. Specially worth an intimate eating place for noticing is the best salad dressing with songs about lost bongo. Git Urider £5 accordingly - £3 and up for pasta anyone who wants to take their in Edinburgh at the moment, and down, hipsters. Bell's Diner St. Stephens St dish . Recommended for a time over a meal and savour good the main course sauces, which are Attractive, unpretentious " cheepish" night out. food. rich without being cloying. USHER HALL restaurant with pleasant £7-£10 The full menu is excellent, Bannerman's Cowgate I hesitate in writing this article, Lothian Road (228 11'55) atmosphere . Home made offering a wide selection of French Despite a bad press('). nicely as I'd like this restauran t to remain hamburgers (£1 .70+)! Steak (only dishes of va rious kinds, but what Friday 281h Jan 7.30 pm cooked food for all-in price of £7. relatively unknown and hence £3.60) . Haute Cuisine, but very must be one of the greatest deals S.N.O. concert: Brahms, Nielsen Set menu, which vanes a lot from "unspoilt ", but lhe spirit of slow service. BYOB. Full breakfast in Edinburgh at the moment is the Conducted by Paavo Berglund. night to night. Lacking in bulk for altruism dictates that I should £1 .50. plus papers on Sunday £1 .80. set lunch. Choosing from this the big eater! Pleasant sub­ recommend it unreservedly to reduced menu, a typical meal Approx. £5 terranean atmosphere. Wine from anyone who enjoys good food but might go: Salade aux Tamales, Netherlands Chamb':!r Orchestra Dario's Lothian Rd £2 to £110! Most suitable lor an a isn't necessarily made of money. !Saturday 29th Jan 7.45 pm For the hunQrv student! Great deux. Crepe aux Crevettes, and Marron Clement Fraud LIFESTYLES The µroportIon devoted to To break these down, it is To execUte a campaign, as well salaries is important. Advertising Th necessary to look separately at the as media buyers, the Agency is essentially a 'people business' e concept of a concept of advertising and the needs a production department, to Wh 0 Does execution of it. ensure that the creative ideas are 1 I :~:~nie~s~i~i~h ~;;,:~~ ?i~1~:) campaign implies The concept of a campaign translated into a communicable forms_ of communication and the coming to­ implies the coming together of two form and that printing materials machines to take a lot of the very different disciplines - the (or TV films) reach their destina­ What in the drudgery out of life, there is no gether of two very clash of science and at. The art is tions in time and complete. The substitute for the human brain different d1"sc1· _ the formulation of the words and skills involved are semi-technical when 1t comes to the creative pictures which make up the and are usually classified into an aspects of_buisness. . plines - the clash advertisement or commercial. art studio, comprising typo­ Advertising People in advertising are very • Constructing the most cost- graphers and finished artists, print bright and high achievers. This is Of SClenCe and art. effective way of publishing the and press buying units and a because the generation of idea'!; is advertisement is scientific progress department to schedule what the business is about. If you analysis of facts and figures. and chase work and ensure cannot contribute ideas. and make There is also an element of In an advertising agency there is deadlines are met. Large agencies Jungle? them work in context, then there is creativity involved in media no monopoly on ideas but, also have their own TV/ radio no place tor you. planning - size or shape of space, broadly, the art is the responsi- production teams. Fortunately, many different imaginative choices of publica­ bility of the creative department The other 'productive' depart­ kincis of thinking and ideas are tions - but the bulk of the work where copywriters and art ment involves market research, required the creation of here is in statistical comparisons directors work in teams to evolve now being supplanted by a advertising words and pictures of markets and media. Generally, advertising concepts The art function known as account GEORGE reigns supreme but it cannot stand the work of the media department director will normally be an art planning. This is more of a alone. The structure of the is split between planning and school graduate with a few years background job. involving the CARLAW organisation necessary to -create buying. Both involve the same experience of commercial design. collection and interpretation of advertising i s rather more principles and share the same The copywriter can come from marker information; and is more of horizontal than you will find in a goal: reaching the largest number anywhere (and frequently does!) an all-round advertising job than manufacturing company. A large of the right kind of people at the and only needs to demonstrate an pure market research . The number of specialists exist on a least cost to the Client. ability · to write imaginatively, account planner takes the raw par with each other and each has a An Agency is judged on two within a tight brief. This is possibly information right into the creative particular skill to contribute which fronts. The creation of good the hardest thing to do in adver- strategy and ensures that a tising and good writers (and art campaign is correctly moulded Client has just driven is no more or less important than advertising and. the best use of di recto· s) are very highly paid. and targetted. o the car park. In the the \)!hers. conference room you are checking again that all the The modern equipment and materials you will be using are in the right place, in account exec is, in the right order. Your charts are set fact, a hard­ up on the easel, the VTR is cued, the slide projector is properly working, entre­ focussed . Your secretary arrived with the coffee. You neaten your preneurial busi­ tie, straighten the chairs and cast your eye around the room a final nessman. time. Your team of research, media and creative people shamble in, This tends to overlap with the looking nervous. By contrast. the traditional role of the account Client team exudes comfort, executive. Here evolved the image affability and eager anticipation. of the flash adman - expensive What you are about to do is try to , suit, expense account, good persuade somebody to place a sounding but meaningless million pounds into your safe phraseology. hands (it could as easily be 10 The modern account exec is, in million). After weeks, or possibly .tact, a hard-working, entrepren- months, of research, hard work 1eurial businessman . He is and brain battert11g, you have responsible for all aspects of the created an advertising campaign management of a Client's account which you deeply believe will keep - profitability, client satisfaction. your Client's product ahead of its internal co-ordination and clinet objectives. Will he like it? You have interface. He is the jack of all maybe two hours to persuade him. trades. He understands the creative wonderland but he can He may like it, in which case your job's safe for another year. He crunch numbers with the best of may hate it on sight, even though them. He has a conceptual under­ it's the right thing, and you've got standing of the economics of problems. marketing but he is at home with Out of that million pounds the the problems of a salesman on the Agency will get £150,000. The rest road. He has spent late night goes mainly to the ad\lertising working with figures and cajoling media - press, TV , radio, etc. the creative people and has rushed From your 15% commission you parcels off on Red Star when no one else could do it. have to pay the rent and rates, the phone bills. and other overheads. Now, he buttons his jacket. and Sixty percent of these are salaries. takes two deep breaths. " This The eventual net profit, to put in morning, gentlemen," he says, " we the bank, is around 2%. are going to unveil our plans for the million pounds you are going to spend with us next year." This is best illustrated by the In order to maintain/ re-establish efforts put in by unemployed a framework for your life you will Helping people in organising and partici- have to do something new. pating in Art on the Dole '82 . A Possibilities include: unique event worthy of national 1. Get a temporary job of some Yourself recognition it received. description. If you have an idea. and it is a 2. Acquire a new skill. good one. finance might be 3. Voluntary work. available from the Regional 4. Part-time private tutoring Council and the various trusts. (£5+ hour). number di you will gradu­ Getting involved in projects of this 5. Take up new activities. ate this year without a Job to nature will be rewarding. 6. Develop any existing talent. go to. For many it will not be Meanwhile, back at the flat, the Having tried most of the above i for want of trying. hunting hassle continues. How can assure you that the more you go about this largely depends varied your days are the better you Unemployment is being ex­ on what you want to do, but the will feel. perienced by an increasing process is essentiPllly divisible by .:..,...;.;;,;;;.;...______number of graduates and for many two. The more local the 1------,~---,;a;;;.;:;;.;.;;:;.;::;;...:..;.... ,_~..;.;;=-;..;;:i of them it can be a pretty . . . company is the better depressing time. I graduated in 1. Getting an interview. , July 1981 and had not applied for 2. In the interview, getting the job. you~ chan~es are for any jobs at all. This situation was The big problem tends to be that ·Qettmg an interview. By to develop into 14 months of hundreds of people are applying local I mean within 100 unemployment. for each job. This sug_ges_ts that _a miles radius. It is easy--10 lose the framework large number of appl1cat1ons will ______of your life during this period and be required to "guarantee" a job. Information is valuable in your this is probably the most devastat­ This is especially true between search tor a Job and here the ing aspect of unemployment. Its September and December. public libraries can be useful, they effects can ripple through your complement. the Careers Office in whole well being and is not helped The more local the company Is the better your chances are for keeping back issues of papers, by a feeling of uncertainty about magazines and press releases the future. Lack of money is getting an interview. By local ! mean within 100 miles radius. about companies. merely an irritating aspect of The process may take as long as realitv. a year, it may take only three If you consider these fa ctors If there Is something you think months, who can say? Whatever carefully you may be able to tackle that should be happening and 11 happens, try to make the most of them effectively 1f and when they isn't, then don't sit about. Get your time and you might actually arise. enjoy it. up and do 11 yourself Stewart Gow 12 T_HE STUDENT THURSDAY. 27th JANUARY 1983 FEATURES

MAN Of DISTINY were considered the maJor dange Edinburgh University is fortunate to have its own expert on Field Marshal to Brilain. The battle should hav been given up after two week Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces for much of the First because only 600 ya rds had bee gained. But Haig continued. Hai World War. Mr Gerard de Groot has been studying Haig for three years which has kept quiet about this intentio included an in-depth study of Haig's papers and diaries, recently bought by when asked to account for hi actions. He claimed he had to kee the National Library of Scotland. Haig is the subject of much historical debate. fighting and keep a continuou offensive as the French armies ha Haig believed himself a man of destiny. He found 70% casual,ties "highly mutinied. So he kept going to sto satisfactory". Lloyd George described him as "brutal and fatuous" but lacked the Germans attacking the wea French forces. Haig does no the courage to reolace him. The cost in lives at the battles of the Somn:ie and mention this in his d iaries, so h must have felt it wa s necessary t Passchendaele were so appalling thatthe government concealed the figures. make up an excuse as there w Rav Clancy spoke to Mr de Groot abou1 Haig and what his papers and diaries doubt in his mind about what h had done. Haig was always so sur reveal. of himself, especially when heo became religious in 1916. He fel A. J.P. Taylor accuses the general he had been chosen by God tq of World War 1 of staring head the Britis h to victory. He saV4 Impotently without understanding himself as a predetermine~ throughout the war. Was Haig instrument of God's will. Thi particularly bad , or just one of the along with his extreme sense many awful commanders who duty meant he did not se were not prepared for modern anything wrong with walking ove warfare? people on the way to victory. Ha Haig was not really bad. He was even used Charteris, his only the best of the bunch, but the friend, as a scapegoat at Cambrai. bunch was limited in the sense that Why are Haig's paper and diariet only a certain type of individual so Important? could rise within the Victorian They show that his biographer,_ Army. Innovative soldiers would studied him in the context of war not get the chance to rise to the therefore lhey have not helped u rank of commander. So there was to understand him. His pre-wa a limited pool of resources. As you career has to be looked a say, the kind of war which took carefully. From the papers an place was not expected, so the diaries we get an image that i British were not prepared for it. decidedly different and more But neither were the Germans or whole. From his early ..career we the French. can see why he did certain things. Apologists for Haig claim he did It is too easy to condemn Haig as a the best he could, given the weak person. His tactics, the main conditions on the western front, cause of his failure as a competent and that he was rock-like and commander, were determined tenacious. Do you agree? during the Boer War. Haig As far as Haig's character is Field Marshal Douglas Haig in his headquarters train. He argues that Haig had a difficult suddenly stopped in terms of concerned he was the wrong childhood and was thus ego Yes. Among the papers are men "went over the top" they were tactical progression around 1905. person for the type of war. World• motivated - which he calls letters between Haig and his mowed down by enemy machine He felt the Boer War had taught War 1 demanded a person with an "patholog·1cal achievement mother. From these 1t is clear that guns him everything he would ever nee open mind. Haig would have made motivation" - i.e. motivation by his mother was a supportive What could Haig have done to know, so by 1914 his mind ha an excellent commander in the the ego alone. Dixon continues to influence and lhat she stood by differently? been closed for ten years to ne numerous small wars of Victoria's argue I hat Haig's weak ego caused him as a friend. He was a spoiled Haig could have used a wide tactical inventions. Historian reign, because in such wars the him to be driven forward by his child which meant he had an over­ variety of separate tactics, e.g . a approach Haig with a purpose iq commander did not have to be amb1t1ous mother. Haig was developed ego, rather than a weak greater use of surprise, deception, mind - to condemn him or ta, open-minded. But World War 1 unable to build up his ego to a evo. He had a high opinion of and short bombardments. At make him a hero. T hey have faile4 was different. Haig was stubborn well-adjusted level so he put his himself which is shown by the fact Messines there was no bombard­ in both because they have failed t~ and had a closed mind, therefore ego before the nation and was thus that he never threw away any of his ment and the troops were able to understand him. Anyway it mu he continued battles long after incompetent as a commander in letters. He was not motivated by destroy five miles of enemy be left to the reader to condemn they were capable of bringing the war. But there are several ego. but by a sense of duty He felt trenches. At Cambra1 innovation praise him. gains. Everything comes back to problems with Dixon's thesis. Firs1· a great obligation to the British resulted in a gain of five miles. So Was the National Library right t the Victorian Army. If you are of all, Haig did not have a difficull. Empire. He came from an upper­ imagination and innovation buy Halg's papers and diaries? going to condemn Haig you must childhood. Dixon reaches the class family, so he was not aware gained the most in trench warfare. The papers belong in edin condemn the institution as well. conclusion that Ha ig's childhood of the mentality of the lower Passchendaele was futile, it burgh. Haig was, after all. bor W•s Haig motivated by personal was difficult through supposition classes, i.e. the men which he had should have been given up after here. It is impossible to stud ambition, jealousy, and concern and use of Haig's biographers, to command in World War 1. He two weeks. Haig thought advice World War 1 without Haig' for his reputation, I.e. a militaristic who have not made use of Haig's was used to commanding pro­ was superficial. H e was papers. As most of the materi type of mind that valued things papers and diaries. commander so he felt the necessary for an in-depth study more· than llves? fessional soldiers, not conscripts, So Halg's papers and diaries are of so there was a problem of politicians sl)ould give him the war is already in Ed inburgh iti N. F. Dixon. in his book The cruclal Importance when It comes communication between com­ support whelher or not they were only right that Haig's pape Psychology of Military Incompe­ to understanding Haig? mander and men. gentlemen. Politian's were by should be here as well. But the tence, examines Haig's childhood.. Can the casualties of the Somme definition not gentlemen. so Haig should have been given to t and Passchendaele be excused? was not going to listen to them nation. They were written mostl No. But Haig must not b'\totally under any circumstances. As you on government stationery by condemned . Historians have have already said he was rock-like public employee. so they bflOn tended to blame him for trench and tenacious. He built up a staff to the nation. It is sad that a privat warfare generally. Since he was which was blindly loyal to him. individual should benefit simpl Commander-in-Chief at these Historians have criticised Haig's because he cannot afford to run battles he has had to bear the staff for giving him misleading cross. It must be remembered that "i nformation, especially Char­ there were severe limitations on teris. But Charteris knew that he commanders during the war. could not change Haig's mind so Movement in war is determined by he did not real ly give Haig mobility and firepower. one of misleading information. Charteris which ha s to take preference. In felt it was better to give Haig moral World War 1 firepower was way support. During Passche('ldaele he ahead of mobility (ten years later took Haig to visi t German this would not have been so). So prisoners of war in the hope that the war slowed down and came to their terrible condition would a standstill, resulting in trench boost Haig's morale. He did. of warfare. In trer.ch warfare strategy course, make sure that all able­ is predetermined. War is all about bodied prisoners had Deen strategy and tactics. The only l"emoved by the time Haig arrived. strategy possible was to try to lake How did Haig account for his over the enemy trench. So Haig actions? cannot be blamed for pre­ Afler Passchendaele Haig was determined strategy. But he can asked to accounl for himself. be faulted over his tactics. He Originally Passchendaele had · showed no imagination. His been intended to push the tactics started with a large Germans back 40 to 50 miles to Haig with Marshal Joffre bombardment which gave away free the Belgian coast, as the and David Lloyd-George his intentions so that when his man submarine bases there NEXT WEEK: SEX- THE FIRST Of 3 FEATURES ON STUDENT PASTIMES ! much much more. We do now have a number of well established projects - about ten so far. I hope COMMUNITY more will be on the way. I occasionally get telephone calls at the office asking why we haven't got around to doing this or that. The answer is that it takes time and ACTION a lot of thought before we can channel resources into something At a time when the Student the Group agrees is worthwhile and something we think we can Community Action Group is do. The projects we are running at the moment incorporate a range of planning a major recruitment drive, activities. Such as? Fred Price talked to Nick Wailes Such as working with the mentally handicapped in our Fairbairn, Community Affairs Menswell project or with Officer of the EUSA, about the wider physically disabled people. There is a hospital visiting project at the asp_ects of student involvement in Royal Hospital in Morningside. There is a possibility that some of the community. us might get together and provide the entertainment for some of the community. That is what we are. It could be said, and It often Is said, people at the Simon Square I'm suspicious of using words like 111111 students come to university to Centre. That's where the Disabled " academic vacuums", because it gell degree. Everything else, even People's Project is based. You worthy causes such as community suggests there is an alternative to needn't look so alarmed, I'm not Involvement, come secondary to being involved. There isn't. The going to start singing, But any 1h11. So perhaps It's dlfllcult to question is how we get involved budding Mike Yarwoods or Shirley give a high enough priority to and how we get involved in the Basseys will be very welcome working In the community In a way most effective way, not wt,.ether here. Quite seriously, somebody that would make an Impact? we can or whether we should. .. reading this who can strum away I wouldn't argue with what you You suggested that If we came to a on a guitar and play one or two say about students coming to place like Edinburgh with the sole chords, would be made to feel very university, or polytechnics or Intention of getting a degree, it welcome! People also go out on colleges to get some kind of results in a shallow and limited painting and decorating activities, qualification. That's exactly what view of university life, In what way or to baby-sit for a single parent we are here for, though I occasion­ does the Student Community family, or to visit one of the ally have some trouble explaining Action Group fill the gap? "people get lonely, depressed and maybe even desperate," Region's Childrens Homes. Now this to my lecturers, who notice my It's one way of fill ing the gaps. that the Inland Telegram service permanent non-presence in the One of the better ways. I don't say demonstration to Glasgow, not run a sitting service for elderly has gone, somebody came up with library. But if that's the sole it's the only way. Have you ever many of us do that. One full bus people down in Stockbridge. If in the idea of starting a local intention why we are all at thought how bloody boring we load of us normally do that, if it's a visiting them we find that they are messages service for people - university, then that's a pity. If would be if all we could talk about nice day and the other one is poorly housed, or have problems probably in the Southside. Several that's all we think of, then the was books? Instead of bringing cancelled. Now I'm not saying that ofaccess - that too has a political people are doing some publicity people who say that students have bottles along to parties, we could demonst r ating is useless. dimension. The fact that people for the Gorgie City Farm. The idea a narrow view of things and little all take books. If you accept that Anybody who is at all in touch with get lonely, depressed and maybe of the farm is to allow those in a contact with anything off campus the ultimate aim of education is to what is happening will know that even desperate is because the restricted community to have are right. The Student Community enable people to develop and fulfil the student, case on grants, for buses don't run and they feel contact with a farm setting. Much Action Group is about involve­ themselves, then this can't be example, is entirely genuine. trapped, or because there are better than listening to Dan Archer ment; it's about working with done by staring at a book all the Since 1979 its spending power has insufficient social facilities, or milking a cow. others in the local community. As time. The objective of education - fallen by over 10% to something because there isn't anywhere for How much is the Group spending to the second point, whether ornot maybe I ought to say one of them like 78% of its 1962 value. The 4% their kids to play; all that gives on recruitment? we can make an impact, we have to - is about developing awareness. award for 1982/83, a so-called voluntary work a political Quite a lot. It's not a trade secret. accept that there are limitations to The objective of the Student increase of 24p in the pound, falls perspective. Take one more Anybody can go into the EUSA the type of voluntary work we can Community Action Group is about a long way short of recompensing example. The talks the Student offices and look at the files. We undertake. But the type of work developing a social awareness and students for inflation. Especially Community Action Group has have set aside about 1O per cent of that our own Student Community a plan of action in the things we when some costs that affect arranged this academic year on our grant for publicity over the Action Group is involved in, is all undertake. What we have to do is students have risen dramatically% Community Policing , or the year and that is probably the right the proof anybody could want that to find the role we can play in the such as accommodation. But I problems facing single-parent balance. The number of people we as students can make a community and fulfil it in the most don't think you'll find anybody in families, or the rights of the who have come forward and contribution and that what we do effective way available to us. There the Student Community Action mentally handicapped - that has expressed an interest in contribute is worth while. We can are several other consequences of Group, or in CHV or in ESCA, a political dimension. The Un­ community work is up on last year, make an impact and we do. this. The first is that students are saying they are involved in employed Graduates Centre that but it is still not high enough. We Nonetheless, there Is a tendency seen to be making a coAt,ibution voluntary work or in raising money we are in the process of setting up should be thinking in terms of to m,e In what is often called an and that is important. Secondly, for charity because they want to is to some extent a political project hundreds wanting to get involved. academic vacuum, Isn't there? people appreciate the small persuade the public that they in that it highlights the special Surely that wouldn't be too much problems and needs of the un­ Yes , there is. Mind you, the contribution we can make - and deserve more than 4% 'and don't to ask for a University the size of Student Community Action Group that's important. Last of all, deserve Sir Keith Joseph. They are employed. Obviously there is a Edinburgh? 200 is just over two isn't the only group involved in the helping out with one of the involved because the enjoy it and danger in becoming narrowly per cent of the student population life that goes on around us, though projects is exciting and can usefully contribute something political. But people of different here.In the next few weeks we have in the actual range of activities we stimulating and fun. That's by doing it. That having been said, viewpoints can work together and to get across that we have a do, I think we're unique. There's important too. The Student by interacting with the community establish a common purpose and competent StudeM Community also Children's Holiday Venture Community Action Group does in a thousand and one different so put ideas into practice; which is Action Group. What it does is and ESCA and one or two others. not exist to appease a guilty ways - and helping in Student what the Student Community worthwhile. What we do, we do There are probably a significant conscience. It exists to give Community Action is just one of Action Group is ail about. well. The recruitment drive is enjoyment and to receive enjoy­ the better ways - we can generate aimed at those who haven't heard number of students who make Let's talk a bit more about the ment. sympathy for the issues that of us before or those who have their own arrangements about Student Community Action Group Although universities are not concern us directly, whether it be heard of us, but have not found the volunteering with non-university itself. One of your recent leaflets expecting any more volume cuts In cuts in the educational base of the time to get involved. The time based organisations. Some has the picture of a duck staring their expenditure, it could be commitment shouldn't be a factor students are involved in country or cuts in our grants. out from the centre of a tractor argued that we as students have that should put anybody off community work as part of their Before we talk about the projects tyre, with the caption " Keeping an getting in touch with us. Any degree. All this does add up to failed to persuade either the the Student Community Action eye on things". What sort of things Government, or for that matter the Student Community Action Group something. In fact, unive rsi ties up Group have organised, Is there not have you kept an eye on so far? has to accept that there are and down the country have had to public, that education is a priority, a danger that voluntary work Actually that's just one of the Perhaps one of the ways of :imitations to the amount of time recognise that it is in their own might become narrowly political? captions that the Group have attracting a greater degree of students have available. Anybody interests to cultivate their public There is, but I don't think there is adopted, but I think it denotes part can pick up a leaflet and send off image and exactly the same thing sympathy Is to get Involved In anything to be gained by ignoring of what we do very well - making the application form for more can be said of students. wider activities - such as the political side of community an effort to be aware of what's details. There is another form in For example? voluntary work. involvement. I can walk up going on around us. We've just got Midweek. Hopefully that's what Weil , Aston is a good example of Uni vers iti es may n ot be Arthur's Seat and look over a poster drawn up, showing a dead two or three hundred will do, but a university that was set up to cater expecting any more volume cuts, towards We st Pilton and see acres tree standying by itself and the we'll wait and see. The more for the needs of the community - but polytechnics are. Going back of dilapidated housing that the caption under that is "No need to volunteers there are, the more in Aston's case, the engineering to your point about our public Edinburgh District Counci l stand alone". One of the problems effective we will be. We 'll achieve image as students, I wouldn't care H ousing Committee would is that people try to do things on and technological needs of more. Birmingham 's manufacturing to argue that student activities probably like to forget about. I'm their own without much success, industries. Unfortunately, it has should be dictated by trying to glad I don't live there, but 10,000 rather than working together. A fallen rather foul of the keep on the right side of public people do. There are some large group of people can achieve Universities Grants Committee opinion. On the other hand, if all students in the group who help to and has been told to budget for a we do is to go on demonstrations decrease of 31% in its grant for the and if that is all we are seen to be year 83/ 84 . Our own university doing, then obviously we won't runs an extensive extra-mural score very highly in terms of public department. A university is an esteem. Whether ornot that makes asset that enriches a community. a lot of difference in terms of But taking up your point about avoiding cuts is another question; living in an academic vacuum it's I doubt it. Anyway, that's not all we important to remembe r that do. If you look at the amount of universities, and the students in people the EUSA have been able universities, part of the to whip out of~ thy to go on a 14 THE STUDENT T HURSDAY, 27th JANUARY 1983 MUSIC 1

all about?" And the editor said: of t,me. I suppose I've got a "For Christ's sake don't, because backlog of about three thousand it's almost certainly not true." At now. Some of the oldest ones in the same time it makes you there must be a couple of years old wonder where they got the story in ·by now. It's something I feel very the first place, whether it's badly about, but ,t would be a fu ll someone at the BBC saying: "Let's time job to do it properly. I'd rather PIil TAlKS ! just see what happens if we say be at home doing that now, to be this, and if nothing happens we'll honest, but I do these gigs get rid of the old bugger." It 's got because like everybody else, I to the point where you look so need the money. The wages that awful in the Radio One calendar the BBC pay - you don't get paid that it 's time to get rid of you ... I badly - but it's an expensive job in don't think it's based on the merits the sense that you have to buy £60 of the work you're doing. or £70 of records every week. and there's no pension scheme or Have you got any par1icular merit anything at the end of the job as that justifies your staying on? well, so it's a high risk job as well. Should you not be being replaced And the payments seem to be by a 'younger more spirited based on the idea that because I'm talent'? self-employed I can use the Well, there are several things alleged prestige which the job there. One: I don't regard being a gives me to make a fortune, which disc jockey as having a talent, I some people have done, but think that elevates it above its true unfortunately I'm not one of them. status. But at the same time, if the programmes I do have any value, it Do the rest of the Radio One DJ's .seems a bi t daft, just for the sake of have the same demo tape doing it, to put someone else in problem? just because they're younger, that No. they don't get them . would seem to be ·ageism', if such a thing exists . Like, if I was a black bloke and they got rid of me and Why have you been specially put someone else in because th ey adopted then? were white, that doesn't seem like I think it's just that a lot of the a desirable state ol affairs. I can bands that we've had sessions understand that if I was doing the from came from demo tapes. Well morning programme and trying to a few did. I think that Kid gets sent be cute, and pretending that I was a few, and Peter gets sent a few , eighteen aga,n. I could see that but I don't suppose they bother to there would be a Iustif1cation for it. send any to anyone else. But I always want to go on doing radio programmes. I'd prefer them I presume you're still on the to be on Radio One, but I don't lookOut for new talent, so how do 'really mind if they're not. I just like you do it: through demo tapes or doing radio programmes. through live gigs? We ll not through live gigs, Were you not being cut on Top of because they can be really the Pops? deceptive you know: you go to a Hardly' (laughs). When they first live gig and you have a couple of asked me to do it, I must admit I beers and the band seem terrific, thought they were joking, which is then you get them in the studio why I agreed to do ,t. As time went and you think: "Jesus, this is by they kept on asking me to do terrible". This hasn't happened for more and more of them, and I a while. It's happened a couple of actually quite enIoy doing them times. but not for a long time. now People always say they " like (At this moment " The Glen Miller they way I do Top of the Pops", or Story" appeared on the dressi'ng they don·t like :he way I do ,t, as 1f room TV. "A ludicrous cinematic there was an alternative, that if I moment" says John, as the wanted to I could be really cute. military parade band burst into a My children like seeing me on fine example of fort ies swing jazz) there, and you get to meet Dollar and Bucks Fizz . It's quite Are you a fan of the music of this interesting really, because you see era? Before the show on Saturday night, Duncan McLean these people on television and it's Of this era? l was alive at this quite interesting to meet them. time, but only just. (laughs). It's intervfewed the "grand old man of rock" not as if I remember it. I quite like Hmmm. A few people have said listening to music from any era This is the first half of a two part heard that your programme Is to that they're taking along demo really, and trying to understand be chopped In the summer? tapes of their bands to give you. what people found attractive· feature. The full unexpurgated text! Yes , I keep hearing rumours I picked up four this afternoon about it at the time. I've been· about this as well , it's a bit just wandering around Edinburgh listening to a lot of old jazz records from the thirties and forties lately. I Do you think rock music is with jazz in the thirties and forties worrying. But of course the BBC is and goirg to the football. It ,s a never could understand them becoming over-intellectualised where people used fo over­ one of those organisations that problem, and no matter how much these days? intellectualise about that, and they works a bit like that. You can trace I try and explain that this is the when I heard them as a kid . I never could understand y,hy people No, I don't think it is. I think it's used to write article.s and the story back to. the Mail on case, tl'ere's just no way on earth liked them, but listening to them less so than it was couple of criticisms on the music which the Sunday, I have a mate who works you can keep up with them. a now I can see. That's quite good, years ago. Obviously there are people who were actually making it there although he' s a bit Because I get, say, ten or a dozen a because that comes about as a people who are determined to wouldn't have understood. It embarrassed about it. and the day, if each one is like ten minutes, resu lt of fashion really. I always intellectualise it to a certain extent seems to me that once you've got story came through to him so he that's two hours listening time, and used to see fashion as being a bad and this, I think, has been brought to that stage, things have become went to th e editor and said : if you're tryi ng to listen to records thing. But asJar as it draws your on largely by the music papers, rather fatuous. "Should I ph one John? Cause he's and answer letters and go to the attention to things you miqht and by the NME in particular a mate and he can tel l us what it's lavv ie and ea t and sleep as well, it otherwise ignore. I think it's good. which is a pity really because I Do you think that this Is motivated doesn't leave you with a great deal liked the NME and I actually like by a desire to be accepted by "the . ------· the people who seem· to be most establishment"? responsible for writing those sort No, it's just people flexing their of reviews and those sort of intellectual muscles in public, it's THE PARTRIDGE articles. I think they're trying to just the intellectual equivalent of prove something to themselves showing people your willie on the rather than to anybody else which train. It really is. I don't value it ,s a pity really because so many of much as an exercise. the articles seem to be all about OPENING 31st JANUARY themselves when they should be So do you choose records for your about other things ... agonising roadshow or for your radio over their relationships with other programme on a. totally non­ people ... I never read them any Intellectual basis? more, to be honest. I think I'm obliged to by nature I TheY:re so preoccupied with (Laughs). People always expect I Largest selection o[ real ales in the ci ty ·co include: t_hese fashionable bands, people you to be able to proouce a useful I LEITH HEAVY, THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIAR, like this Joe Boxer, who they're all formula to demonstrate the I geUing behind now - and a,1I they process how you select things for THEAKSTON'S BEST BITTER, C R°EFNMANTLE, I are 1s Subway Sect having anoth~r something like a radio pro­ I I gramme, but there isn't a process I go at doing something else, having I BELHA VEN 60 SHILLING, YOUNCER'S 80 SHILLI!\'C. I failed in everything else they've really. When I'm listening to done You do get fed up of the records I just think: "I'd like to play I I music papers· attitude, it does get that on the radio" or "I wouldn't I up your nose. like to play that." It's as simple as I There are always people, who, that. Obviously there's a certain I for one reason or another are kind of A.Olitical aspect as well, in I 34 West Nicolson Street, Ectinburgh. I determined to turn music into that you avoid playing records some sort of intellectual exercise, which have a strong righ·t wing I . but by doing that they're really basis. But you don't get many of And w hile you are there, why not visit MAXIE's new wine I devaluing it in the long run. It's the those anyway. bar, also opening 31st J anuary. sam~ sort of thing that happened How true are the rumours l'v.e L---- J THE STUDENT THURSDAY, 27th JANUARY 1983 15

MUSIC 2 Zap's Apprentice

sussed out James Moody underlined his versatility CLASSICAL Moody at the by playing alto sax on one tune. Lover Man. This song has never Iona Binnie was at the Usher Hall to Queen's Hall, real ly recovered from the mortal blow dealt it by Yardblrd way back hear the SNO play Rossini , while the BBC JAZZ in 1946, but Moody did his best, playing with remarkable fluidity Beethoven and the world premiere listened in. and restraint. After a rather long bridge section. the band stopped of lain Hamilton's 4th Symphony. If you can't lower completely, and the saxophonist T he even ing's p r ogramme was left out front by himself, commenced with the Overture Heaven, raise Hell consistently exhilarat i ng playing around with the melody, from Rossini's The Silken Ladder. improvising easily made up for the be nding it and tying it in knots, Th is opera is itse lf little known, b ut At one point during Friday's gig, fact that he wasn't playing only to smooth it out once more in the liq uid liveliness of the overture James Moody stopped singing anything stylistically revolution­ a cascade of beautifully flowing is justifiably popular. A small and mumured into th e mike: "If I ary. A good example of this was notes leading back into the main orchestra played the pi ece in a was doin' this in the shower, you'd offered by his version of Charlie tune. All this was done with a great traditiona l bu t h igh sp irit ed cal l me a fool; but I'm doin' it on Parker's Anthropology, a tune sense of lyricism: inspiration manner, p roviding a pleasant stage, so you call it entertain­ which is often played, but rarely seemed present in every note he introduction to the evening's ment." It certainly was enter­ with as much fiery drive and blew. music, rela tively undemanding but tai nment, and, despite Moody's imagination as Maddy put in to it. But you don't have to take my greatly enjoyable. se lf-deprecia t ing j ibs, e nter­ This was the highpoint of the word for it: the show was recorded The full orchestra then per­ tainment of the highest caliabre. evening, but there were fine by the BBC and will be broadcast f or me d B eethoven's Violin And it was not just on inter-song moments throughout the set: on Radio Scotland at 9.30 pm on Concerto in D Major, Op. 6 7 with patter that he excelled: his jazz when he used his flute, for Friday, 28th January. the young Korea n Cho -Liang Li w as extremely exci ting an d instance, he ad ded a whole new making his debut with the SNO as inventive too. ----- sensuous dimension to the band's soloist. T he extreme heights to His singing was expressive and sound, particularly on the long, which the solo violin soars. lain Hamilton bluesy, but the real magic enigmatic Waves. particularly in. its first entry, have occurred when he lifted up his always presented great opportuni­ horn . The arrangements were came to the fore were of exquisite I ties fo r the soloist with a large fairly conventional straig ht­ store of confidence and imagina­ tenderness; the most moving part forward bop, but Moocty ·s tion . Cho-Liang Li took his of the whole work. +ROCKNEws+ chances with skill and grace The th ird movement started as a cheerful combination of waltz used the upper reaches of his The big bit of news this week doubtedly be missed by all HM fingerboard most eloquently and themes, but soon it began to was the announcement that Thin fans. Equally sad this week was the. expressively. The orchestra as a acquire darker tones until 1t had a Lizzy are to split following their UK death of Reebop, the innovative wh ole, and the soloist in definite aura of melancholy or tour this spring. They've been African percussionist who played particular, fully deserved the even tragedy. Throughout the ROCK around for 10 years now, having with Traffic in the ea rly seventies . ra pturous reception their symphony, Mr Hamilton displayed regularly hit the heights since '76 Unfortunately such music is now performance was given. a great sense of ingenuity in his with their platignum album obscure - but it was great stuff I After the interval came the main use of percussion . Such 10 SUPEfUOR SOUNDS Jailbreak which included such tell ya. On a more pos1t1ve note event on the programme: the instruments as a snar~ drum and a classics as The boys are back in Robert Plant will be going on the world premiere of a specially gong were used as a sort of 1. U2 New Year 's Day (Island) town. Two years later they had road later this autumn. His band commissioned work by Scottish musical punctuation. providing 2. Spandau Ballet Commun1- equally phl!nomenal success with is likely to be made up of those composer lain Hamilton, his useful points of reference as well catIon (Chrysalis) Uve and Dangerous a double live who contributed to his highly as introducing overtones of their Symphony No. 4 in B. This was a 3. Soft Cell The Art of Falling album which caught them at their acclaimed solo L.P at the end of work in four movements, the first own. Apart (Some Bizarre) best. Since then it's perhaps been last year, including multi-talented The final movement began of which began quietly on the 4. Echo and the Bunnymen The an anti-climax but Lizzy will un- Phil Colllns. stri ngs, soon swelling to include sombrely but gradually opened Cutter (Korova) the whole orchestra to very full out into an airy but graceful 5. Aztec Camera Oblivious and emphatic effect, although the recapitulation of the various (Rough Trade) stridency of the horns was rather motifs introduced throughout the 6. Virginia Astley Love is a overbearing at times. A certain opening movements. Altogether, Lonely Place to Be (Why Fi) deg ree of turbulency towards the one cannot help thinking that the 7. The Fall Live USA 198( end of the first movement was audience·s reaction could have . (Cottage Import) been much more generous for, balanced by the calmer beauty of 8. Tracey Thorne A Distant Shore even on a first hearing, this seems the second movement. Indeed, the LP (Cherry Red ) a very fine work. moments here when the oboe 9. The Dollar Album (WEA) 10. Marvin Gaye Midnight Love LP (CBS) This chart was compiled by Nik at 000 the lab Ripping Records which can be found at 91 South Bridge, Edinburgh. A prize for the first person who can work out how the hell this chart was made up, and what the ••••••• it's all about? ooocooooooooo~oooo oo • Phil calls it a day. Photo: Neil Dalgleish

Gigs STUDENT : Vinyl Vote for your favs of 1982•a Lat est tour news looks • 1 LP a exclusively heavy. The Playhouse Latest L Ps show some () ROCK have just attracted three HM diversity at least. Echo & • 2 Single • bands. On Feb. 22, Del Leppard; Bunneymen have r e leased 3 Live Band • April 7, Marillion, (semi-heavy­ Porcupine most of which sounded 4 Guitar " prog ressive "); May 13, OK live. Annette Peacock has a POLLS a Iron Maiden; in Glasgow there·s collection out - nice melodic 5 Bass • reggae outfit Amazulu, (Night stuff. The Eurythmics have their 6 F. Vocal Moves, Feb 14); and the Bluebells, second LP out Sweet dreams are Music Papers Hand in your 7 M. Vocal • Univ, Feb. 19. As part of a made of this - pretty dodgy I European tour. the Commodores thought, but then I didn't like the wasn·t much in the papers this selection to STUDENT 8 Drums S play London Hammersmith first either. Most enjoyable new week. Sounds has really gone 1 Buccleuch Place 9 Other • Odeon, Feb 2 and 3. At the disc at the moment is Oslblsa, live; down hill recently. I thought they by February 1st 10 Image moment they look like the only UK a class bunch of funky African were on the up at the end of '82 but a dates. It will also be their first dudes. they've sunk back into their COOOOOOOOOQOOO OOOODD • appearance over here for almost Singles - yeah quite a.few predictable mould covering five years! this week. oppressive crap like the Still churning it out after Subhumans this week and no decades 1n the business are Eric hopers Pat Benetar and Jim Clapton wilh I've got a rock ·n · roll Steinman. They really lack the •••• heart and Stevie Wonder Front variety more evident in the other line. Bob Seger contributes with two main papers. Melody Maker Shame on the moon - pretty had a brief but interesting feature awful. For all you boogie boys out on Weekend, a great Rough Trade 0 there, W, Wand F: Fall in love with product, plus articles on the me - groan and the wonderful Stranglers and Wah. (not so hot). too wacky George Clinton alias Dr As for NME, best read of the week Funken stein : "Atomtc Dog " was the unusual interview with excellent rubbish. Good lads Jazz man Steve Lacy - both Tears for Fears: Change - nice forthright and provocative. one again . Aztec Camera : Surprise reviews of the week were Oblivious. Finally there's the re- Sound's 5-star rating of Randy FOLK release of all 18 Jam singles this Newman"s latest LP and Melody week from In the City in 1976 to Maker's equally rave review of the Beat Surrender of lasl year. OK? sam~ thing - really odd - thank John Peel says: "We used to ____, God NME kept its credibility. have a lot of folk singers on the Tara for now, see ya next week. programme at one time. I don't Nick kn ow why we don't now, there's no reason really ." 16 THE STUDENT THURSDAY, 27 th JANUARY 1983 Alternative Sok ka

Th e Annandale Albion F. Georgie Best. The Mcl arens St8Uo111 League is a unique event for mixed fought back, and Kempe even five-a-side teams who prefer fought upwards by trying to get READERS may have enjoyment to serious sport. the ball as high as possible. noticed and lamented the The '83 new season opened on Lambton (captain). playing with temporary absence of the Su nday 23rd when the Mclaren gusto if not accuracy, rallied the Student Sports Page. invitation five played last year's Oysters on to win 5-4. They ar~ winners, the Britannia Oysters. surel y favourites for retaining the This week, it limps home The Oysters scored in the first Annandale Trophy. in triumph - to stay, we minute through Westcott, perhaps There are a few places le ft 1n the hope. the only centre forward with league. anyone interested should SPORT a more glamorous hair-do than contact Derek Wynch, 556 4248. GO IT STD!

HARE AND HOUNDS the day it was first donned way back in 1982 so Stuart has promised to take it off one more GITTING Off Our cross-c;ountry pro­ time to be washed and ironed for gramme started again in wearing to the club dinner in earnest on Saturday March. with the East District Champion­ The day was full of other ships at Livingston. For most suprises too. Charlie Wall failed to people It was the first race in a long honk up his lunch on the last lap while and as a result there were a th :s time. Paul Stockman actually few rusty performances. In turned up to the race bul Pat particular Don and Graeme looked Kearns didn't. The tortoise 6t the a bit jaded and Ewan McOueen week was Alan Murdock but he THI GROUND managed to run a whole minute has become a bit predictable in this respect now. and a half slower than his time over the same course in November. The end result of a day of mixed ON WEDNESDAY the women's a qualifying tournament with Alister Hargreaves narrowly failed performances was that the haries basketball team scored their first DCPE and Ulster Polytechnic at to take advantage of Ewan's lack of . team was 5th overall. - a Dunfermline College. form and couldn't quite get his respectable result but nothing too victory in the first division of the Six members of the team have nose ahead of him after an exciting special. The six team members to been invited to play for the SUSF sprint finish. count were: Lothian League in a close match representative team : Helen Fortunately some of the team Colin MacIntyre, Alan Currie, Pearson, Karen Taylor, Bridin did produce good runs. Colin Do n MacMi llan, Graeme Ha<;Jdow, against Dunedin. Stuart McMorran and Ewan The team hopes to continue its O 'Connor. Melanie Jackson, MacIntyre was as dependable as McOueen. The score was 51-48 successes in the Scottish Lorna McLeod and Carol Begg. A ever and finished as our first man Next week both men and women with Karen Taylor scoring Universities League , being match against UAU is scheduled home ,n 15th place overall. Alan go to Glasgow for the Scottish unbeaten for the last two-and-a­ for March 5th/ 6th in York. Currie had a storming run for 20th 17 points and Jackie Univers1t1es championships. Both ha l f seasons. We are also The team trains every Monday place only 10 seconds behind Kreutzman and Helen teams are going to find it ve ry hard competing in the Scottish Region night in The Pleasance Trust 6.30- colin and this made him the to hold on to their titles won· last Pearson both 12 points. of a new British students 8 pm under the guidance of ace winning junior athlete. Stuart year. We will need full strengµ> competition; the final tournament cupremo coach Bill Clyde. We try McMorran also ran well and even And all this under the teams so hope to see some of the will be held early in the summer to cater for all standards of ability surprised us all by taking off his guidance of the new people who have been notably term at Crystal Palace. On 5th/6th so if you are interested in playing tracksuit for the race This track­ absent from training so fa r. captain Bridin O'Connor. February the team will complete in we'd be happy to see you. suit doesn't look quite as fresh as

On Saturday Shona Wilde won the finals of the Junior Sabre competition, where our Novice Junior Ladies Foll competition LOOK! another good result. And the Ladies did particularly well - out with Jenna White comlng"second Touche! Junior Epee? No results have been of a final pool of six there are three if you want your sporting after a fight-off between the two notified yet but I am sure Ashley EU ladles competing for a medal: for the trophy. In the Junior Men's WIison fenced to kill! Fiona Abbotl, Lindsay Mann and fixture publicised or The Scottish Junior Fencing Foil John Kidd did very well to be Many of our novices entered this Liz Skidmore. Due to delays, the reviewed, come along to Championships In all weapons place In the last eight, while Paul (their first) competition, and held final Is being held this Saturday In our Editorial Meeting on were held in Duntocher (where?!) Bowyer re ached the last 12. On their own. Some stayed and Edinburgh - good luck! at the weekend, where EU Fencing Sunday Bowyer and M ike entered the secondary foil S. Wilde (cap!.) Friday at 1 pm. Club performed very well indeed. Furneaux both reached the se~I-

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