Lecturers Threaten Exam Boycott • Students May Be Held Back a Year If Exams Are Disrupted
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-BRO STATIONERS . 1 Oetober·SNovembef ELIZABETH OGIL'IJIE SEA SANCTUARY Mon-S.110-,n-S pm Admission Free s..t.ctiNd~~Scoffi,/tA,fsC-,c,i d eNt -~:... = ~· Thursday, October 20d988 20p Hong Maxwell Kong Davies The homeless thousands Lecturers Threaten Exam Boycott • Students may be held back a year if exams are disrupted. by Graeme Wilson need any more mo ney. A recent ballot on whether or and Cathy Milton .. This seems 10 me to be an not the membership would with· NEXT SUMMER·s deg ree amazing attitude. draw fromn Government apprai· exams may not take place i£ the .. Our attit ude is no1 aimed at sa l schemes as a protest against Association of University . students although it wi ll affect pay (amongst other issues) pro duced a majority of 9.CXXl in favour. e,1:~c~;~~!'to!e~:t~~s 0~rcvi:~ :~~:~~\ is :ft~~:d a~~1e .~::; Chancellors and Principals. nothing to thank them fo r. Jt is Duffy said that the consequ· Last Saturday's AUT National aimed at the CYCP. They arc the ence of the proposed act ion wo uld Council meeting passed a mot ion people we are trying to influence be "irret rievable··. He said: "A to ballot members on whelher or by this action. whole year·i; work would not be not they will set the papers if the ir •· ) have no relish for this action examined and so a whole year demands arc not met by and I don·1 think any or my col· wo uld be un able to progress ... November. leagues want to take th is action. Sir David Smith. EU Princi Mr John Duffy. lecturer in the .. I know it sounds pious but we pal. speaking to Student yester· University's Statistics Depart- don·1 want to harm students· day, said: ''The University cannot ment and an act ive A UT membe r, interests and the action wil l harm affo rd 10 pay for such a rise. yesterday accused the CVCP of students interests quite seve rely. .. Last year the University had a trying to prese,nt a ··macho.man- "The whole point is that if the recu rrent deficit of £3.5 mill ion. agement image" to the Govern- Vice·Chance llors are prepared to "The AUT are trying to exert ment . He said: be havbe in a halfway decent man· pressure on the Government to ~The CVCP claim they have no ner there wo uld be no"t need fo r all ocate more money fo r the uni money. We. know ve ry we ll that this action." versities.- · they have money. Duffy said that the chances of "I woul d have to deplore such 1'They say that if they give us a the bal lot going in favo ur of act ion action whichn in any case is rise for 1988 the Gov<;rnment will •·m us! be very good" alt hough he unlikely to affect the Gove rn think that the universities don't said the position could change. ment .' MacDonald's Raided argue that McDonald 's =====b=y =M=lc=hae==IH=•=ntt= ==== ~ ~!l!t~f :r~emca::v~;~: ;:~~a;rs~~ employees work in poor condi· T HE PRINCES Street animal righls and Third World lions for low wages. branch o( inte rna tio nal ham· groups were joining forces to The demoqstrators, waving burger cha in McD onald's oppose McDonald's exploitative placards and dropping slink bombs. mingled with the lun was the target o n Friday of a ~~~~~~s both at home and chtime crowd but aft er about ten demonstration by a group Third World First, the organi minutes were hustled out by the calling itself the McDonald's sation which promotes education m3:~i:;a n~:;r st~!~ager!ss Action Campaign (MAC). about economic iss ues in the non· Goalkttptr action from tht Unlvtrsily Hodtty Ttam's thrilling mcounln-with lnl"ff· "everal Edinburgh University industrialised world , point 10 declined to make any comment on "ith on Saturday, kadlng 2-1 with nn minutn k R, Edinburgh coattded two lal st )itt look part in the action, count ries like Costa Rica where the demonstrators· actions. one pis to emutt another dtrtat In cbt dluy brights of Uw flr 5C DMsioA . Edinburgh t1 young worker clai med that optatd the 5COm11 with 11 ~•I penally nick rrom Loughton, only lo sw«umb I ; ~.Mc'D, pa~ of World~ide staple foodstuffs are fed to cattle -htavy pttS5Utton tMllroktofhalftlmt. Tlw a,ging Wyatt ttStOfflltlw by0 London·\'/&! s Day, organtsed while millions of the indigenous McDonald's was a good company 10 wo rk for and suspected that the sidt's lead, only for lnvttklth lo u ploil thtir oppoMnl's intllptriffltt In a nigbl· , preenpcacei- ecology group. ~~~a~~~~ remain under· ..,..,. nna1t. l'or run report. tam to page,. protest had been organised by •H I 4~ j .. l I It II.,_ • UI ! tJ 6 '·: 1. ".. -· d son, ' s,,. ' Icing on O n t.he domestic front Me,_C bur$er rivals Wimpy. , ........... ' L:.:" .:.· ;..:· ·.:.·.:.· ·.:.·..:.·.:.··.:.·.:.·;..:" '-"'" ""' "'" .:.·.:..· ............. _ .....__ .... ___ __, 2 Thursday, October20, 1988 News Admissions policy Poll Tax Debate by Alan MacDonald "robbing the poor to give to the leads to overcrowding rich", describing students as .. casualties" of this syndrome. by Amanda Rodrigues LAST MONDAY night a Bernard Ponsonby, prospective broad spectrum of speakers SLD candidate for the Govan address a debate at Teviot on constituency, affirmed his o pposi· THE LAW Faculty , accus tion to the tax and concentrated to med to a fi rst year intake of the motion: "This house wo uld not pay the Poll Tax". criticising the SNP for destroying 138 students, is having to the unity of the movement against cope with 170 this eyar, a All o f the speakers except for , the Po ll Tax .by advoc~ting non proble m the Faculty Vice one - a Conservative - agreed payment, w~1.ch he sa1~ ~~s ··a Dean Hector McQueen attri tha t the tux was un fa ir. But they hopeless pohttcal camp~1gn . were divided over whether non butes to a "mechanical" fai Andrew Brophy of the SNPs lure or the Faculty's admis ~;J;~ntt. was the best way to National Executive revealed sions policy. that no-one could be imprisoned ror non-payment. He Considerible overcrowding In Ron Brown, Labour MP for lectures has al ready proved dis Leith , opened lhe debate by sa'wthe prCscnt situation as a "gol ruptive and although D r. asserting that unjust laws have to , den opportunity- for Scouish McQueen is trying hard to keep be broken in the struggle for lib MPs to actually do something for tutorials down 10 the usual 12 stu erty. He we nt on to describe the a change by supporting an active dents by drawing in additional present Parliament as "a rubber non-payment campaign. tutors he admitted that things stamp for oppression", and Poll The final speaker was tan could worsen as Faculty resources Tax as "a class Jaw- Buchanan, the only Conservative become overstretched. The next speaker was also fronl councillor and therefore the only. In the past the ad missions pro the Labour Party: David Begg of proponent of the Community CCdure has relied upon a predicta Lothian Regional Council opened Charge which he described as for the opposition. He pointed out ble number of students decl ining ~a~~~rr :h:::~~~e~~e:es:~~ unconditional offers. This year photo: Hugh Pinney that a campaign of non-payment :~:n I however, a far higher number of would hit the poor an<l loca l ser tributes to the communal bill. Edinburgh, cuts which Or. Next y~a r's admissions policy vices long before i1 would trouble Charlie Ripley intervened to these candidates have accepted. McQucen describes as a "body' could be further confused b The law departments in Glasgow the Government. say that it was only fair in the blow" have affected library changes to the UCCA form where sense that the black death was fair and Aberdeen have experienced faci lities and he is no longer able by only a first choice of university Charlie Ripley. of the TG WU, similar increased demand for - they both strike indescrimi 10 maintain staffing levels. can be indicated. apologised for no1 possessing a natcly. places. In an attempt not to overcrowd filofax and a cord less phone Yet while Dr. McQueen This was by far the funniest In fa Ct demand fo r Scottish Law the Honours courses Dr. before launching into a tirade realises that he has to restrict moment in a debate that was calm courses as a whole has increased agai nst the whole Conservative McQueen envisages the raising or academic facilities, he admitted and serious, but not very exciting . by 20 percent since the mid-80's, standards or second year exams, that he has become increasingly plan to "strangle" local democ and yet this.same period has seen and encouraging students to take aware of the resulting staff and racy. He described the Poll Tax as The motion was passed by a vote or cuts in departmental budgets. In the three year Ordinary course. student frustration. an inversion of Robin Hood. acclamation. E. U.OPERA Demarco to stand for CLUB St Andrew's Rector AUDIDONSFOR by Cathy Milton He said that his association with • RICH A RD DEMARCO, ~t And rews goes back to the 1960s 'MASS' when he was asked to paint a arts entrepreneur and eternal mural near one of the golf by rectorial hopeful , is to stand courses: " I got 10 know every inch fo r the post at St Andrews.