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Hundreds of overseas students could be eligible for refunds of their fees instruction to refuse awards, not undergraduate in metallurgy. and back-dated home student grants from Local Authorities, following only to these people but to For nearly five years Michael a ruling in the House of Lords last month. The judgement was the virtually all students who did not Arthur and successive presidents culmination of a five-year legal battle started by Imperial College hold a British passport—in- saw the cases go through Divi- Union. cluding one whose father had sional Courts and Courts of The Lords ruled that students lived in Britain for seventeen Appeal until on December 16 last who have lived in Great Britain years. year the House of Lords ruled for three years or more (including A number of test cases chal- that any resident with a settled those who came here on student lenging these refusals were taken purpose — including that of visas for purely educational to court, among them one education — is an 'Ordinary purposes and have no intention brought by Imperial College Resident'. In his speech, Lord of remaining in Britain after Welfare Officer Michael Officer Scarman ruled that education is their courses) are eligible for and Mary Attenborough, then a settled purpose, and that Local Education Authority ICU President, on behalf of Immigration States and future grants. As a direct consequence, Shahin Bagha, a first-year intentions were irrelevant. it seems certain that these continued on page 3 people, who have until now paid the high fees imposed on over- seas students, will now be entitled to register as home students, whose fees are con- siderably lower and paid to the universities by local authorities. It is reasonable to expect that ihe fees paid by the students to tne colleges will have to be refunded. Michael Arthur, whose appeal has been upheld by the Lords. In addition, the increase in the number of Home Students have received preferential means that College have ex- treatment as 'centres of ex- ceeded the 'Home Student cellence', these may well be Quota' imposed by the Univer- waived. sities Grants Council. This is the The wording of the 1962 maximum number of students Education Act is that students paying the lower fees that a who have been 'Ordinary Resi- College may accept in any year; dent' in Britain for three years one thousand and fifty for are eligible for grants. In Imperial College last year. January of 1978, the Department Colleges are encouraged to accept of Education of Science sent a as many overseas students as circular to Local Authorities possible, because their indepen- suggesting that people who had dently paid fees (which have entered Britain on Student Visas doubled in the last three years) to take O and A Levels before are a major source of income to going to universities were not the Department of Education ordinarily resident because they and Science. Colleges that were here for educational exceed their home student quota purposes only, and many in- face severe financial penalties, tended to leave the country as although in the case of Imperial soon as they had qualified. Local 'But I do stand and count them!' Captain Lindley with pocket and several other colleges which Authorities took this as an calculator at his retirement party last month. No. 6321 I Friday, January 14,1983' I Free! 33% of its cost is in avionics

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Page21 January 14,1983 FELIX INEWSI Round Britain Jezebel Violated Flat Out A team from City and Guilds hour shifts. The groups will be A headlamp and a bearing RCSU last year. However, Jez is College is organising a sponsored based in fully-equipped Dor- belonging to RCS's motorised not a violate mascot and QMCU's non-stop pedal-car ride around mobile-type vans in which they mascot Jezebel are in the hands of action is thus against mascotry the coastline of Britain next July. will escort the pedaller. Three Queen Mary College Students' rules. Mr Batty has asked The participants hope to raise groups of four will cover the first Union. QMCU to return the missing £10,000 for the Royal National five days of the journey before They were stolen on the last parts and eventually negotiate Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), and handing over to another three Wednesday of last term, but Mary's handover with RCSU's to qualify for an entry in the groups. On top of the partici- RCS did not discover who was Vice-President Fiona Owen. Guinness Book Of Records. pants' expenses, the team hope to responsible until last Wednesday. 'The only ones to suffer are The vehicle that they will use raise enough money to buy an According to Duncan Batty, the the Motor Club members, as the is the Windcheetah Street Legal engine for a Brede-class RNLI RCS Motor Club Chairman, bearing needs repairing and we Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) lifeboat. This they will do by three people came to see him at will not be able to run Jez for at made by Burrows Engineering of personal and industrial sponsor- Jez's Garage where he was least another couple of weeks,' Norwich, enclosed in an aero- ship, and by selling the twenty- working on December 15. Two said Mr Batty, who has also dynamic composite bodysheli four square feet of advertising of them pretended to want to written a letter of complaint to designed in the College. HPV space on the bodyshell. join the Motor Club and started the Principal of QMC. enthusiasts claim that these Anyone interested in taking discussing the matter with Mr machines are more comfortable, part in the trip (there are still Batty, while the third dis- warmer and faster over long places in the team, and the appeared behind Jez and took a distances than bicycles—the organisers claim that you need headlamp and a bearing which Windcheetah cruises com- not be an ultra-fit racing cyclist) was being repaired after damage fortably at 30mph. It is should be at the meeting at on Morphy Day. The theft was hoped that the 3,675 mile route 1:30pm on Tuesday January 18 not discovered until later that will be covered at an average in Room 342, Mechanical evening. speed of 20mph, taking about Engineering, or contact John Mr Batty revealed that the ten days to complete the journey. Gilday (Chemistry 3) or anyone equipment, worth £600, was The team will be divided into in the Guilds Union Office. only traced when he personally groups of four working in eight- telephoned the President of QMCU to find out whether she knew anything about it. QMCU want to exchange the stolen parts for their mascot, Mary, which was violated by Duncan Batty Flowers' Powers The Rector of Imperial College, water nuclear reactor at Sizewell. Lord Flowers, is to lead a two Lord Flowers believes that the year investigation by a commit- present planning system devised tee of experts into the British to deal only with 'little, local town and country planning difficulties' is in need of reform. system. The inquiry, funded by He has previously chaired a the Nuffield Foundation, is government commission which likely to recommend changes in produced a major report on the system of public inquiries environmental pollution. His into major building and environ- work with this new inquiry is not mental developments, such as likely to affect his work as the current controversial inquiry Rector. Taking it all lying down-the Windcheetah Street Legal Human into plans to build a pressurised Powered Vehicle without its body (which has yet to be built). was not released until the end of j continued from front page and it is by no means certain that be looking for ways to rewrite the Universities Grants Council the regulations for the award of the Christmas term. The grant The effect is that a large will supply the money. The grants, but unless this can be regulations say that Local Auth- j number of students not pre- Registrar of the LSE (the college done without passing through orities are only under an obliga- viously eligible for Local Author- most likely to suffer from this the House of Commons, it will tion to make an award where a I ity grants now are; in many ruling, and to the heart of the probably be left until after the written application is received cases, the grant will have to be University of London) told next General Election. before the end of the student's back-dated. These students will FELIX that neither the UGC Imperial College Secretary first term at university. then automatically become nor the University of London John Smith has published a The late publication of the home students, which will cause had given much scope for notice stating that no enquiries decision means that any student great concern over quotes and optimism. can be answered on this subject who has not previously applied next year's admissions. The A spokesman from Senate at present. Meanwhile, the for a grant will not be eligible. It colleges also have to find a large House, the administrative centre admissions procedure (normally is strongly advised however that sum of money to return these of the University of London, well underway by January) has all students who have not students' fees—up to £10,000 per told FELIX that Senate House been thrown into confusion until applied should do so at once as student for a three year course— has been in contact with the some policy has been reached on authorities have a discretion to and no college has easy access to UGC and DES, and a statement the subject of next year's quotas. ignore this stipulation which, in that kind of money. Imperial from these bodies is expected by An interesting feature of this these extraordinary circum- College's budget this year is the end of the month. In the case is that although it was heard stances they may be minded—or officially described as 'tight', meantime, the Government will in the summer, the judgement compelled—to do. FELIXHHIBm Uanuary 14,1983BHHHH HHHHHHI Page 3 For Sale Accommodation Dire Straits ticket, Tues Dec 21. One large two bedroomed furnished Small Ads Contact J Dawson, Maths 1. flat in Kenninqton, close to West Technics ST-C04L FM/MW/LW Road, good sittj" Ring Windsor 61032, Stereo Tuner with auto-scan, 6 pre-set Road, good site, £32.50. Ring Windsor tuning positions, Quartz frequency 61032 and ask for John. synthesizer and digital display. Brand College Accommodation Announcements new, never used; genuine reason for There are currently a number of sale. Open to offers. Contact Peter vacancies in shared rooms in Halls Elections for this year's Overseas Dias-Lalcaca, Elec Eng PG letter- and House. Rent from £12pw. Please Students Committee will take place on racks. contact Student Services, 15 Princes Wednesday 26 January 1983 in room Three-seater bicycle. Appalling Gdns for further details. 408, Elec Eng. Papers have been construction, hopeless condition, but posted outside the Union Office. everything works and it's legal. On Personal Want a working holiday in the USA? view chained to the railings in Watts Find out how in the JCR this Friday Way (by Southside). Offers to Martin S Cossar: NME needs you, anything, lunchtime. Taylor, FELIX Office. anything accepted ET toilet paper? Caught short? Due to popular Dunlop Systemdek, Mission 774, The Python would like to know who demand, the Welare Officer now Dynavector Karat Ruby. £340 Tangent Amelia is and how she(?) can be keeps stocks of contraceptives and RS4 loudspeakers, stands and leads contacted. can be woken if necessary on int 2292 £150. Both ono. Int 4219 GPO 584 You know who Negatives will be or call at 388 Keogh. 8241 morning or evening. from the Imperial Society for Pot- returned on receipt of £100 paid into For those who didn't read '...but were Clearance sale!! Everything has to go my Swiss bank account. You know hole C vctiiif afraid to ask', copies of 'Getting by Friday. Lots of ridiculous goods at who. Married' are now available from the ridiculous prices. Eg complete hi-fi Dear Sir Welfare Officer. system £50 (or less), 100s of cassettes X of Paris. Thanks for everything last The abow society is contem- (10p each), gaudy ties (frp ' hoxes of weekend. I really enjoyed myself!! Attention! Dancing Club is starting a Hope the sheep gets better. Love Mike plating an 'xoedition to a well- new beginners calss for those of you junk (buy 2 get one free). Contact S King or J Lay, EE2. the Bald. PS What's French for known Lancashire pothole, with who missed out last term. There's no wellies? need to have a partner just come Squash rackets: Classic 003 £12ea. Katie (also of Paris!) I love your the aim of being the first to along and have some fun. Among the Also selection of American-made sultry look —it's wasted on the dances learnt are the waltz, cha cha, bicycle (a light vehicle for one Manta rackets. See Sportscentre froggies! See you again soon, I hope. foxtrot, jive and many barn dances. Squash Club noticeboard for details Love not the Python. person consisting of two large, Every Wednesday in the JCR at or ring Dave 731-6301 late eve. spoked, tandem wheels, a steer- 7:30pm. All beginners from last term now join the intermediate class held £15 for one day's work ing handle and a saddle on which on Tuesdays at 7:30pm in the JCR. Renetly Paid volunteers are required by the the rider sits to work two pedals Budding artist wanted: to design Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme for Ladies' & Gentlemen's Hairdressers which, by making a chain engage Squash Club sweatshirt. Contact Dave Discount lor students and stall! one day's routine clerical work on Molesworth, RSMU Officr or 731- Cut: first visit £3, second visit and after Thursday, January 20, between 9:30 in a series of cogs, drive the back 6301. £2.50; shampoo, cut and blow dry: first and 5:00. If you are interested please wheel) to these eerie underworld Eat, drink and have the evening of a visit £4.20, second visit and after £3.85. contact the Student Services Office. lifetime. H G Wells Society Annual Equally attractive reductions for lady Red Cross Nursing Course caverns. Dinner, February 16. Contact Geoff students. begins This undertaking is to raise Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm 6:30pm, Tuesday, 18 January Phillips, Physics 3 or Simon Rodan, - Physics 3 or ICU or Jo in the IC Union Sat 9am to 12noon in the College Health Centre money for charitv, and we were, Office. Renetly, 154a Cromwell Rd, SW7 77ie course continues for four weeks therefore, hoping that your Cricket players interested in playing 01-373 0288 and leads to the BRCS Basic Nursing readers may be interested. If so next term or indoor nets this term see (Next to British Airways Building) Award. It is followed by a more Simon Tear, Geology 3 or Steve Bell, Appointments not always necessary. advanced course which lasts for six they may contact the under- Civ Eng 3 for details. weeks. signed. All staff and students are welcome! Yours faithfully „N„SPaw" S Ramule

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i Southside Security Staff Vacancies Three years ago a female student There is always room on the was raped in Southside. A man FELIX staff, especially for used the lift to take her down to EDITORIAL writers (see me early in the week) the basement so that no one and collators (just turn up on would be able to hear her cries Thursday evening), but over the for help. As a result of this, it Christmas holiday two important was decided that security in the position is even more ludicrous, internal phone directory has no vacancies have arisen. building was too lax and that for the security guards them- numbers for the staircase phones Firstly, since Hugh Southey everything possible should be selves are in some doubt as to in Selkirk or Tizard. Linstead has been elected Editor of the done to prevent such a thing the official time of locking and doesn't even have a compre- Alternative Prospectus he will be happening again. This is why the unlocking, and it is never clear hensive telephone system at all. unable to continue as What's On 'basement' buttons on the when access to the building is And knowing the telephone Coordinator. This job is hard Southside lifts are now sensibly available; often the doors are number is no help if your friends work and needs considerable fitted with key switches, and why locked all weekend. Surely to are in the laundry, the television commitment: the entries have to there are wide-angled mirrors in protect the building from lounge, the kitchen, or anywhere be sorted and written up early in the entrance lobbies. intruders the doors should be else except their room. the week (about an hour's work) But another measure was locked at the most likely times This is annoying, but there are and then laid out and pasted up introduced at the same time, and for an intrusion: during the more serious consequences. on Tuesday or Wednesday (at one which is by no means daytime when there are few Irritated by the inconvenience of least six hours' work—say a obligatory for the security of the people about. It seems par- the security arrangements, whole evening). The job is not Hall: it was decided that the ticularly pointless to lock the students get round them in two one to be taken on lightly, but outer doors which lead into the doors at 7:00pm when they are potentially dangerous ways. will, as they say, provide lobbies should be locked at opened at 5:00am. There are doors into South- considerable satisfaction to a 6:00pm and that all the doors It is often said that locking the side which are meant to be reasonably tidy and conscien- should be locked at 7:00pm. door doesn't really incon- permanently locked, but can be tious worker with a good eye for What does this achieve, apart venience visitors, since it's a left open by anyone with access layout. Anyone interested from inconveniencing several simple matter to use the internal to the building. Southside should see Hugh or me in the hundred students and their telephone to call someone to the residents often open the doors FELIX Office. friends? While it is necessary to door, but anyone who uses this when they are expecting visitors; The other vacancy is staff shut out a wide variety.of argument clearly doesn't appre- as a result the doors are often left photographer, who liases with undesirables, ranging from ciate the inherent difficulties. To open well into the night, when it the news editor and other potential rapists to thieves to . begin with, it is necessary to find is important to restrict entry. photographers and tries to tramps and illicit users of the an internal phone: itself no easy Secondly, so many residents capture the important hap- laundry, one wonders how is this task when the bar is shut. Then are aware of the massive incon- penings around IC on film. The achieved by locking up as early you need the phone number, venience caused by locking up at perks of the job include using all as 7:00 rather than at 11:30. say, which is accessible if you are 7:00 that they will gladly allow the FELIX photographic equip- when the bars are shut and social trying to contact someone in anyone to follow them into the ment (including, when necessary, activities begin to wind down. Falmouth-Keogh and you know building at any hour of the day the Mamiya polaroid camera); On Saturdays and Sundays the his room number, but the or night. In fact I have even seen the commitment is to spend time a note left pinned to the door of on Wednesday afternoon in the Southside: 'Dear X, come and darkroom, developing and see me in room YYY, if this door printing up to half a dozen films. is locked wait for someone else Anyone interested, see me at any to go in and follow them.' time. So let's outline some practical suggestions. There is certainly a Copy Deadline case for leaving Southside Copy for next Friday's FELIX unlocked until 11:30pm and not should be in by Monday 5:30pm, opening it until 7:00am, and but anything for inclusion in the these times should apply at spring term calendar must be in weekends too. There should be a by 5:30 today. notice on the doors warning students not to allow strangers Christmas FELIX into the building, such a sign There are a few Christmas would not only remind residents FELICES left (although the free of the dangers, but would also gift is not as fresh as it was in make it psychologically much December) and also lots of last easier to refuse strangers access. year's The Phoenix all available And finally, there are internal free from the FELIX Office. telephones lying idle just inside the doors of Southside. Would Impossible Without the expense be too great to all the usual crowd, to wit, Hugh move them outside enabling Southey for What's On, Adrian bona fide visitors to phone their James for news, Lee Paddon, friends at any time of the day or Nick Bedding and Nigel Brand night? for reviews, Walkabout-Looksee It is impossible to make a and Gastropod for their res- student Hall of Residence pective columns, Pinocchio, completely secure; but until Dave Jago, Nick Pyne, Paul something is done about South- Philippou, Peter Rodgers for all side we will be forced to live with kinds of help, Chris Mallaband a system which does very little to for sport, Maz for typesetting enforce security, and only serves and Pete the Printer. to irritate the residents. Martin S Taylor

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STOIC Almanac March *Fpatient of his is murdered (losing your wife is Although there are several branches in the £2.85 is an excellent choice for garlic lovere. bad enough, but losing a patient as well is just area, I am going to concentrate on the one in Puddings, priced at 60-70p are uninspiring. plain carelessness). The murdered man's South Kensington—mainly for the very good My Chocolate Mousse seemed to be mistress, Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep) reason that I haven't tried any of the others. unnecessarily small although at 65p one can't turns up at his office and asks Sam to return The candelit atmosphere—it doesn't quite really complain. The Treacle Tart at 60p and the deceased's watch to his wife, the violins aspire to having an ambience—is pleasant. the Cheesecake were also fairly ordinary. The play and he sweeps her into his arms; well, not The walls are decorated with racks of wine best bet is probably the Bistro Sorbet. quite, but Sam's blood pressure moves up a bottles and plastic bunches of grapes are much The House Wine at £3.50 is no better (or notch or two (and whose wouldn't?). in evidence. wose) than one would expect. Hard on her heels comes the tenacious As a tribute to its popularity, you often have Service is generally good although the main detective, Joe Vitucci, with just a suggestion of to queue for a table, although if you arrive couse can take its time in coming. lasagne stuck between his molars. Thje before 8:00pm you shouldn't have too much You would be hard pushed to spend more evidence points to Brooke, but Sam reckons difficulty. On a cautionary note, it isn't really than £5 per head on food and service is not there are better things you could do with a suited to a quiet romantic evening out as added onto the bill. woman like that than put her behind bars. Can couples tend to have to share tables, in rather Altogether, highly recommended. he prove her innocent? Thus the trail of blood and corpses continues. Still, this is by no means a violent film, and the blood and corpses are kept to a minimum. The main problem with making a film of this sort must be generating the sense of tension. Even Hitchcock, the master of suspense, occasionally failed to deliver, ending up with a rather limp feeling of resignation in the viewer, ' as he waits for the next thing to go bump in the night. This film uses some cheap tricks, such as total silence followed by something hurtling in from nowhere. There is also a scene in Central Park; everyone knows that you always get mugged in Central Park, which removes the necessity on the director to produce the tension. I don't suppose Central Park can be really that bad, but I must admit I have no inkling to test this theory at first-hand. On the whole, the atmosphere is well maintained and an underrated LP before splintering, with throughout and rivets one's attention to the lead singer and Kafka devotee Paul Haig screen. Record retreating to lie low in Belgium. Justice may The climax of the film is well worth waiting have been a good single, but his' latest, Blue the obligatory one and a half hours for with an For You (Interference), is unfortunately a empty seaside retreat being a perfect location Low rather monotonous, anaemic disco-ish effort. with real spook appeal, and there is a clever And on the subject of bloodless wonders, two link between this and a dream sequence earlier Record companies are traditionally at a low positively weedy efforts: current John Peel in the film. When the homicidal maniac is ebb over Christmas, and the New Year— favourites The Farmers Boys sound like fifth- revealed, s/he (I'm not telling) is fittingly silent maybe hangovers are particularly heavy in that rate Orange Juice, awash with mannered and menacing; s/he's out to kill you, not wake industry—and this one's no exception; the odd vocals and simp-strummed guitars, on More | up the neighbours. The acting is of high new release jostling with a handful of last year's Than A Dream (Backs Records), whilst standard throughout, with Meryl Streep leftovers for your attention. . Darkness & Jive resurrect the ghost of Marc outstanding. As anyone who saw her screen A few singles for starters. Island launch 1983 Bolan on Hooked On Your Love with dire debut in the unmitigatingly awful telly-epic with their latest signing, Glasgow's Set The results. Holocaust will tell you, she's at her best when Tone. Unfortunately, Dance Sucker isn't too On the brighter side the debut single from being alternately terrified, agitated and grief hot; join-the-dots funk embellished with too Southern Death Cult, Fat Man (Situation 2), stricken; for my money, the best actress on much synth trickery. Much better are APB gallops away on some spirited drumming, the screen today. This is a very polished and who hail from Aberdeen, who have just re- propelled along by twangy guitars straight out refined film all round. Despite the numerous issued Shoot You Down (Oily Records); more of Ghost Riders In The Sky. Theatre of Hate murders, we are spared the blood and gore basic, more direct than Sucker, and all the fans should love it. This week's 'welcome back normally associated with this sort of goings on, better for it. How long before the music press from the dead' award goes to Echo and the the camera just allowing you time to take in the hype 1983 as the year of Scottish New Funk? Bunnymen; after the unwieldy Back Of Love blooded corpse for the instant shock effect In 1980, Postcard Records of Scotland were single, The Cutter (Korova), is a welcome before moving on, and despite the numerous going to set the pop world alight, so we were return to form, relying in part on those sexual liaisons, we are only allowed one all too told, but instead their main bands Josef K, thematic hooks that dominate Rescue, brief glimpse of Ms Streep in the altogether, Orange Juice and Aztec Camera had either Monkeys and A Promise, with a great tune more's the pity! broken up or dried up by the end of. 1981. built around what sounds like an Arabian ' continued on page 8 Lee Paddon Josef K recorded a string of sparkling singles, nuxmammmmammmmmmm January 14,1983HMH BHBBHHBBHHBHBHB Page 7 IREVIEWSH continued from page 7 Things reach a peak on Christmas Day and he is confined to bed with a severe speech kazoo. Take note Farmers Boys! This is how it Uninspiring impediment. should be done. The Specials broke up shortly after their Ducking Out is pure 'sitcom' and although a topical number one Ghost Town. Out of the Laughter good laugh it was rather uninspiring. It had wreckage sprange the Fun Boy Three who Ducking Our by Mike Stott, directed bp nothing to differentiate it from other comedies quickly became Top of the Pops regulars with Mike Ockrent, Duke of York's Theatre. d'uuui eccentric families that one often sees on a run of increasingly frivolous singles; There are a lot of dotty families about. I TV. However, superb performances were meanwhile, Jerry Dammers had crawled off don't think anyone can deny this, it's just that given by Warren Mitchell (one of this comedy's with a couple of Specials, a Bodysnatcher, and some families are more dotty than others. The most outstanding actors in my opinion) and a few others to form the Special AKA. Their Coppell family, feature in Ducking Out, are Leslie Sands as Arthur Coppeli, Len's elder first single, The Boiler, was a chilling account pretty dotty indeed. In fact the family itself is but very odd brothe: of a rape. Predictably, the BBC banned it as almost a flagrant absurdity. (Good phrase that, Nick Bedding 'distasteful', whereas it was anything but a flagrant absurdity, I must use it again some PS: The-most-obnoxious-person-I-have-sat- gratuitous cash-in on the plethora of rape time). ' . next-to-in-the-theatre-in-the-year award was cases at the time. Nearly a year later, Capital The play is an adaptation by Mike Stott of a conferred upon a neighbour a; the end of the Radio will only play the instrumental B-side of play by Eduardo de Filippo called Natale in performance of Duckmg Out. An extremely their latest single. IVar Crimes (2-Tone 7" and Casa Cupiello (Christmas at the Coppells). high accolade, it is not awarded lightly. 10") is 'too political', a haunting lament for the The action takes place in the Coppell's flat in Nominees have to be of the highest calibre. victims of last September's massacre in Derweht Block, the Lakeview Estate, in a town The winner was a genuine young bourgeoisie Beirut's refugee camps. Meanwhile, FB3 in West Lanes, over Christmas Eve, Christmas upstart (student). Telling his woman how release their most potent single since Day and ten days later. One might infer from many tens of pounds he had spent on buying Lunatics. The More I See (The Less J Believe) this that Warren Mitchell as the father of the Christmas presents at Harrods, he was. Half is a tensely orchestrated piece, specifically family is playing an Alf Garnett type character. closed eyes. Pouting lips. SpeaKing in that about Northern Ireland (reminding us that Not so. Len Coppell is a jovial easy-going rather silly front of mouth manner. Asking his 'Belfast's only half an hour away') but also catholic. Like Leone Galla in Pirandello's The friend what Marcus and Gloria and Jeminia about sectarian violence in general, and the Rules' of the Game (played recently by and others with those bleedin' bourgeois consequences for those caught in the Leonard Rossiter), Len has a rock, an anchor names were giving him for Christmas. crossfire: '...another attack/leaves a widow in in life, by means of which he can weather any Obnoxious little turd, theatre critics ought to black/weeping for her bereaved...And they storm. His anchor is crib making and we find be afforded seclusion from such people. As if keep telling me/it's not my concern...' It's out him busy on Christmas Eve labouring over a there weren't enough unpleasant and on Chrysalis as 7" and 12". huge papier mache holy crib, a veritable distracting. things in the world like poverty, According to Cherry Red Records boss Iain magnum opus. His cribs save him from his hunger and the FELIX Editor's brown plaid, McNay in the Christmas NME, independant troubled, eccentric family, but not for long. trousers. companies are having a tough time facing up to. the increasingly glossy competition from major labels, as records seem to sell on the strengths of a. band's haircuts rather than the music. Cherry Red seem healthy enough, and to back this up, there's a compilation LP called Pillows & Prayers that is fifty minutes long and costs only 99p (echoes of Virgin's samplers for the price of a single that ranged from The Faust Tapes in the early 70s through The Front Line to the recent Cash For Coics). This better- thah-average collection—the sr-jndtrack to a forthcoming film and video—features a number 6t recent or forthcoming singles, from the fizzy electronic pop of The Passage with XOYO, and Thomas Leer's All About You to the acoustic wanderings of Tracey Thorn's Plain Sailing, and Ben Watt's Some Things Don't Matter. Cherry Red have quite a few acoustic acts, so it's no surprise to find Kevin Coynt here, fitting in well alongside The Marine Girls and the Thorh/Watt duo Everything But The Girl. As with any compilation, there's a few oddballs: ex- Nightingale Joe Crow, Piero Milesfs excerpt from Modi-an Italian Mike Oldfield by the sound of it; shades of Omma-bleedin-dawn, and something from Eyeless In Gaza who give synthesiser duos a bad name, and name themselves after an Aldous Huxley novel. One absolute gem is the Monochrome Set's Eine Symphonie des Grauens, originally a 1979 single on Rough Trade, and included here for possibly LWO reasons: firstly, Cherry Red will release the early singles on a retrospective album pretty soon, as the Set—surprise, surprise—now record for the label. Secondly, their new material is crap. The curent single is some juvenile cowboy whimsey called Cast A Long Shadow. Last year's Eligible Bachelors album is being re-promoted (as a film tie-in?), bui this tawdry effort sounds rather dated, like I jarly Caravan out-takes in fact; limp 'humour' pitched at the head rather than at the feet, it falls severely short of its mark. Otherwise, full marks to Cherry Red for a varied roster of artists; what with Compact's 60s kitsch, Factory's corporate chic, and Rough Trade's ^heer drive, maybe 1983 will see the indies bite nu< k. Nigel Brand Flagrant absurdity in 'Ducking Out' Page 81 January 14,1983 Hi IFELIX IREVIEWSI who found them a trigger towards the development of Cubism. WALKA80UT- It is only within the last forty years that other Nigerian art-traditions too have been seriously investigated by archaeologists and art LOOKS££ historians. The sculptors' technical skill in modelling and firing terracotta and in casting Ay Mobile Optics Inc. bronze, using the lost wax method,"Was extraordinary: the gallery guide supplied for the price of admission, will elaborate on Fashionable society, including the Queen technical details. Mother as guest of honour, attended the Appreciation back to front? private view that launched this winter's major What I found disorientating, but ultimately exhibition at the Royal Academy. 1 too might rewarding, about the exhibition was its feeling have been present—tor the price of a ticket of familiarity. I have an instinctive sympathy for (£20) and a wardrobe that would not have the Cubists' analysis and synthesis of forms: been disgraced by Savile Row suits and Paris I've grown up under their influence, sub- couture dresses. FELIX reporters don't yet consciously abosrbing cubist posters, rate four-figure expense accounts, so I architecture, etc. The Royal Academy contented myself with a visit on an ordinary exhibition was rather like meeting a close Tuesday afternoon! friend's family and recognising his mannerisms 'Treasures of Ancient Nigeria' contains a and the shape of his nose in his parents. Quite hundred or so bronzes and terracotta from the the 'Wrong' way round—Picasso achieved a Nigerian national collections They span a new analysis of reality by penetrating the period from around 500BC to well into the romantic haze that surrounded primitive second millenium AD and cover several objects at the turn of the century, and seeing distinct styles. In fact, the exhibition could well them for the first time as just another kind of be subtitled 'Variations on the theme of an art: an art with a different concept of form, African head, with Pots and Animals for light concerned not with presenting illusions but relief. with making ritualistic totems and ceremonial Colonisation rules OK masks. It is this feeling of art as creation, The formal stylisation of Benin bronzes is rather than some sort of imitation, that comes probably the feature of Nigerian art best across so strongly from the Benin and Tsoede known in Europe—and that as the result of bronzes. In the terracotta Nok sculptures a high-handed exercise of colonial power. Bronze vessel - 9th or 10th century (dated 500BC to 500AD) the act of creation is Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. that of assembling abstract geometrical forms: In 1897 the king of Benin (the Oba) was accused of massacring a party led by Vice the style is one of sophisticated simplicity. Consul J R Phillips. The Oba, though not In complete contrast is the striking involved, consulted an oracle who predicted naturalism of the metal heads of Ife. Idealised the white men would destroy. his city. To features represent the stately bearing of the appease the gods, and avert this disaster, he royal figures and clearly demonstrate that House of Clay ordered large numbers of human sacrifices 'black is beautiful'. and the decaying bodies were found by the The scope of this exhibition is considerable Clay by Peter Whelan, directed by Bill Royal Navy expedition when it reached Benin. but as a Walkabout-Looksee it seems tailor- Alexander, The Royal Shakespeare Horrified, they exiled the Oba, cleared up the made—equally fascinating to the archaeologist, Company at The Pit, Barbican Centre. carnage and then, to cover the expedition's the 20th Century-art-enthusiast and the "1 imagine most people have a countryside costs (!), sold off ivories and bronzes found in amateur of smithing and casting techniques. of the mind, some green and tranquil refuge the palace. Many were bought by the British Where, When, £? Museum and placed in the ethnological north of the frontal lobes for escape at times of Treasures of Ancient Nigeria is at the Royal department where they were exhibited as the pressure." So says Peter Whelan about his Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly artifacts of primitive savages. new play, Clay, which has opened recently at until 23 January 1983. It's open from 10:00am The Pit. Unlike Captain Swing and The Over the next twenty years the sculptures to 6:00pm every day, including weekends, last Accrington Pa/s-Whelan's other plays, both were 'rediscovered'—they inspired many admission one hour before closing. Admission performed by the RSC— Clay is set in the European artists, not least of whom Picasso, is £1.40 for students, £2 for others. present. Three generations share a converted hill farm turned pottery studio: Bert (Fred Pearson), Micky (Janet Dale), their sixteen year old son (John McAndrew) and Micky's octogenarian mother (Sylvia Coleridge). Win and Pat, played by Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent respectively, arrive from a more pressurised life in urban West Germany. They are inseparable teenage friends of years ago. But the future has slipped in almost unawares. Whelan has made the main character, Win, to stand for all of us who have ever looked for a refuge from that future. But her 'countryside of the mind' contains people, the old teenage foursome. Her refuge is mutual love and affection. The play is a sort of comedy of embarrassment as the two couples meet after such a long separation and talk about their past and future intentions. But it is the present the play is concerned about and the way our 'mental refuge' can be given a nasty jolt by the unexpected sudden arrival of the future. The play is very confident and clever, and quite rich in meaning. Some interesting parallels are drawn between clay and people (!) and the production has an excellent cast to boot. Recommended. Nick Bedding FELIXMKMM1I HIHIIM—B—«H January 14,1983 Page 9 Physics 1300h LT2 Polymer Crystals A talk to Wednesday MOPSOC by Dr G Davies ot Kings College.

40HCL ;l Prince's 0915h Id lOll Gardens Johnson Matthey. An Indus- How and why I became a Mus- trial Society visit to the gold lim. An informal talk by the refinery. German writer on Islamic mat- ters. Ahmad von Danffer. Huxley 1245h 408 Mech Eng Industrial Society Self- 1330h 342 Marketing Event designed for Pedal GB A meeting for inter- final year students who need to ested pedallers. impress job interviewers. Bring Read JHAAL Theatre a £5 cheque payable to lOOUn Sherfield Education for Industrial Firstly, I must apologise that What's On is so boring this Society week. However, if I haven't got any pictures I can't print The Origin of Life A talk by them. Dr Brian Charlesworth, organ- 1315h Prince's Gardens Secondly, we now have two What's On forms. One is ised by IC Anglican Chaplaincy Quran Circle designed for regular weekly events, while the other is for one- JOOAU Pippard Theatre 1430h Union Upper Lounge offs. Please ensure you use the correct form. In addition lOOUn Sherfield could fill those societies that have previously been included Drama Workshop regularly please fill in a new form. Thanks. Religion and Nationalism in the Contemporary Middle East The 1830h JCR Hugh Southey first talk of this series, Arab What's On Coordinator Nationalism and Muslim Bro- Bronze Medal Dancing Class 1230h JCR therhood will be given by Angling Club meeting. Edward Mortimer. 1930h JCR Monday Beginner's Dancing Class 1230h Bot/Zoo Common Room 1730h Brown Committee Room Huxley Natural History Soc meeting to Amnesty International meeting 1300h 413 plan field trips. 1230h Rag Office Community Action Group Christian Freedom An SCF 1730h Volleyball Court meeting talk and discussion led by 1255h Union Concert Hall Women's Volleyball training Islamic Society Friday prayers Dr David Hum. 1230h JCR session. CND Bookstall Elec 1300h Eng 508 1800h Common Room Committee Room Union 1800h Radio Amateur's Examination Islamic Society social gathering. SCR Mind A talk to Socialist Society Introductory Class This course Free food is available and all are 1245h on the rights of mentally handi- leads to the examination for welcome to attend. Debating Society meeting capped. a transmitting licence. JCR Committee Room 1800h TV Lounges 1930h 1730h STOIC broadcast Fancy Dress Party organised by International Broadcasting Thursday Guilds. Trust A talk organised by Third 1830h Union Gym World First. Judo Club practice. Fees 25p. 2230h Falmouth Kitchens Mines Soup Run -The International Broad- 1230h 303 casting Trust was formed to Health make television series which 1830h Centre First Aid for Outdoor Pursuits. A lecture by Mr R Serpell. highlight aid and development. Nursing Course The course, Saturday which continues for four weeks 1930h JCR leads to the British Red Cross 1230h Southside Upper Lounge ICHYA Butties meeting Guilds Advanced Dancing Class Society Basic Nursing Award. It 0930h Union Office is followed by a more advanced 1930h Lower Refectory course which lasts six weeks. Botany Basement Guilds Hit Squad attack the PDT Medal Class This is open to all staff and 1300h LT Portobello Road for Rag. Re- students. Aldabra A lecture to Natural member to bring towels. History Society by Dr N Waloff 1830h Union Upper Lounge on the island of giant tortoises. Tuesday Audio Society meeting Sunday 1300h TV Lounges Union STOIC broadcast. 1230h SCR 1830h 0915h Consort Gallery Great Labour Club present Reg Race Oh Lucky Man A Film Soc Prayer Meeting Hall MP speaking on 'Why we need show starring Malcolm 1330h MacDonnell and the infamous 1000h Consort Gallery a Labour Government'. All Knowledge or Certainty Part welcome. 'Chocolate Sandwich'. The eleven of the Ascent of Man. Communion Service music is by Alan Price. 30p admission for members; 60p 1230h Southside Upper Lounge lOOO!^ Music Room 1300h Union SCR Boardsailing Club meeting for non-members. Wargames Club meeting lOOUn 53 Prince's Gate 1245h Aero 452 1930h JCR Lunch-hour Concert by More Catholic Mass Intermediate Dancing Class Margaret Fingerhult, piano. 1800h House Catholic Mass followed by a bar 1300h TV Lounges 2230h Falmouth Kitchens 1800h TV Lounges supper and social evening. STOIC broadcast Soup Run STOIC broadcast. 'agelOl I January 14,1983 FEL dazzled the opposition? We'll 'runs' for people wishing to run Championship at Wembley probably never know the ans- in the marathon then could they Squash Centre in two weeks time wers. let the Sports Editor know. (Friday January 28). Tickets are 5 PORT A final comment would have £6 and I need to know imme- to be a resounding 'well done diately before no seats are left. chaps. You played hard, fought See Sportscentre for details. hard and showed that IC bad- The jerseys should arrive at minton will always win.' Squash the end of the month. The Now down to the serious noticeboard displays the details {^Badminton business of the Badminton Club. for anyone else interested. There will be a club dinner at Finally, the club now has the Firsts Lubas Bistro on Saturday lsts vs UCH 4-1 use of one court on Sundays January 29 preceeded by and lsts vs St MH 3-2 from 8:00am until 12:30pm. 1C vs UC 6-5 followed by the partaking of l 2nds vs UCH 2nds 2 /2-2'/2 This was going to be a tough beverages in congenial sur- 2nds vs RFH 4-1 match for IC lsts. All the roundings. See Chris for details. 3rds vs LSE 1-4 ingredients were there: violence Expected cost is about £7.00. 4ths vs Bedford lsts 1-4 ACC (courtesy of Dominic), depravity 4ths vs QEC 2nds 5-0 (courtesy of Ian) and entropy 5ths vs RFH 3rds 2-3 (courtesy of Tony). To cap it all 5ths vs Bedford 2nds 4-1 Just a quiet reminder to all the team was understrength, Marathon 5ths vs City 3rds 2-3 sports club captains. There will having to draft in two of the 5ths vs Lon H 3rds 5-0 be an ACC meeting on Tuesday second team players. Ladies vs Lon H 5-0 January 18 at 6:30pm in the Despite all this IC played like I think by now that all people Ladies vs RFH 5-0 Union Lower Refectory. a spinach gourged team of accepted to run the London Another reminder to club Popeyes. UC crumbled under Marathon have been notified. This rounds off a successful first captains is that their estimates the power-packed hammer Therefore I thought it might be a half of the season. League for next year must be made by blows dealt them by the rapier nice idea to find out how many matches continue next week so if the end of next week. Failure to like shots of IC. To put it in the IC students are running in the you're out of practice them get do this will firstly mean no proverbial nutshell. Imperial event and to perhaps see how in some fitness training this money for next year and secondly College won. they get on. 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FELIX January 14,1983 Pagell No Hex Please Welcome back after the Christmas break. The puzzle I have in mind this week is one which I'm sure many of you will have found in your crackers, but it's such a nice puzzle that I have no qualms about bringing it to a wider audience. It is simply this: cut out the seven hexagons shown for, if you don't wish to damage your copy of FELIX, trace them onto a piece of card and cut them out) and try to fit them into the following shape, such that wherever two hexagons meet, the same numbers come together. Good luck!

The Prize Puzzles Heidensieck (head of Secret Service) does not trust his comrades and so has ordered that all Scrnfcr's Soup Run his messages should be coded. However his A wonderful puzzle this, from Perola. The assistant Und Der Kuvher forgot to give him answer, for those of you patient enough to the codebook so he's having trouble with the work through it, is: test message. Can you help? Dandelion Wine John's No. 1 Cucumber Martin's No. 2 23, 12, 1114, 1114, 1, 1112, 12, 0, 112, 1123, Beef Broth Andy's No. 2 1113, 1113, 1123, 1233, 1114, 0, 3, 123, 0, Solutions, comments, criticisms to me at the Egg Andy's No. 1 1113, 1, 24, 3, 123. FELIX Office by Wednesday, 1:00pm. £5 from French Onion John's No. 2 12, 111, 111, 121, 0, 12, 2, 124, 1, 114, 2, Mend-aBike for a randomly selected entry. Golden Pea Stephen's No. 1 124, 1114, 0, 124, 114, 1114, 124, 1114, 0, Asparagus Martin's No. 1 1114, 111,1, 1113, 3, 1114, 0, 123, 124, 123, Haricot Bean Stephen's No. 2 111, 0, 24, 124, 23, 4, —, 24, 124, 23, 4, —, Last Week's Solutions 24, 124, 23, 4, 0, 1123, 111, 111, 3, 4, 3, 24, First, the non-prize puzzles. This provoked the only entry for any puzzle, so a £5 cheque can be picked up from the 12, 0, 1112, 114, 1, 2, 124, 1114, 0, 4, 124, A Word In Your Ear FELIX Office any time after 1:30pm on 1113, 1114, 1, 123, 24, 12, 0, 4, 1123, 1114, Well, having given you six special words, I Monday by Elizabeth Berry, a Physics PG. 24, 0, 111, 22, 114, 3, 1114, 24, 1123, 4, 22, managed to improve on three of them over the 1123, 114, 124, 23, 0, 114, 1123, 11, 3, holidays. Still, here are the reasons; Nobody has so far entered the other two 123, 124, 23, 0, 2, 12, 1114, 111, 12, 123, 2, 1. Almost-the longest common word in the puzzles, so I'll run them both for one more 12, 123, 1114. week. English language with the letters in strict I shall give one more clue for the second alphabetical order. Our illustrious leader, paragraph; leave ail the insignificant numbers. Martin S Taylor, suggested 'Aegilops', a kind Superkings - 2 Solutions, comments, criticisms to me at the of grass, but I hardly think that that's common. Having had you puzzling over the rather FELIX Office by Wednesday, 1:00pm. £5 from 2. Unconsciousness - Oh dear. This was simple problem of placing a number of supposed to be the longest word which, when superkings (pieces that can move like both a Menda-Bike for a randomly selected entry. written in lower case, has nothing projecting queen and a knight) on a chess board. I shall Space Filler above or below the main body of the word. now reveal the more difficult part of that More Words In Your Ear Unfortunately, the dot on the i provides a question. All that I want you do do is find the More words that are unique in their own squibble here. A better, equally long contender smallest n (n>l) such that n superkings can be little way. Can you see anything special in: is ouernervousness. placed on an nxn board so that none attack 1. Cow 3 Bookkeeper - the longest string of double any other (although they may, for the purpose 2. Dermatoglyphics letters in a word. of this puzzle, be collinear). 3. Latchstrings 4. Wrong - it is. It was meant to be the 4. Strengths longest word with the letters coming in reverse Solutions, comments, criticisms to me at the 5. Unoriental order, but it is defeated by wronged. FELIX Office by Wednesday, 1:00pm. £5 from 6. Scintillescent 5. Facetious - the shortest word with all the Mend-a-Bike for a randomly selected entry. vowels in alphabetical order. Fine, but *y! >s Or this set of words: sometimes a vowel, so a better word is Perola's Puzzle Toast, doubt, indict, handsome, twitched, facetiously. —, malign, dichotomy, Sioux, —, know, General Reisenschein's chiefs of staff have psalm, mnemonic, autumn, people, psalm, —, S.Queueing - the word with the largest had great difficulty arranging their offices and number of consecutive vowels. —, rendezvous, often, gauge, —, answer, their letters are always getting mixed up. Sioux, Prayer, Rendezvous.

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