SHORT STORY PAGE A serious deficiency has been about 1500-2000 words long (or, YOUR EIGHT-PAGE apparent in the Union this ses UIN11|0|N if longer, easily divisible into GUIDE sion, following the non-appear- instalments of this length). ance of the magazine Short Stories on any subject whatso Story. W here are the Union’s ever will be considered. Contri 2 Editorial budding fiction writers to have butions should be addressed to nIeIwI their work published? Short Story Page, and either 3 Morris Dancing s To offset this to some extent, dropped into the Union News 4 Short Story Page Union News has decided to box outside the M.J. or handed Leeds University Union introduce a Short Story Page. in to the office. 5 From Moscow; Debates This new feature makes its first We hope to illustrate each 6 Letters No. 201 appearance this week (on page story in some way, and w ith four) with the first instalment of this object in view it would be 7 Sport at University Friday, December 1st, 1961 a two-part story by Alex Barr. helpful if authors would indicate 8 Sport To qualify for consideration passages in the story suitable for for this page, a story must be illustration. CHILDISH RAGE Fascists Maub Again EASTW O O D WINS by THE EDITOR Engineer's Bid Fails QN Thursday of last week, Fascist slogans were found daubed on J)AVE EASTWOOD romped home in the election for several buildings in the University precincts. The New Arts Block JVP held earlier this week. He collected 653 votes, was heaviest h it—- slogans and symbols were scrawled on both side of to Keith Carabine’s 285, and John Sykes’ 235, giving him an absolute majority over the two other candidates. the new main entrance. Perhaps due to the lack of any controversial candidate, the poll Also affected were the Parkinson Building, where was a lot lower than last year, when Communist Roy Bull stood for Fascist symbols were painted on either side of the main re-election. This year only 23% of the Union voted, as against 37% steps, and Union News office window, each panel of last year. Interviewed after his election, which bore a symbol. Eastwood said that he would welcome The green paint used sank new ideas from the body of Union deep into the surface of the held altogether responsible for them. members rather than institute radical The evil lies in the insidious way in reforms on his own account. On the stone, meaning that much time subject of Union government, he and energy had to be spent on which their opinions may infect and excite the young. Throughout history, thought that a reforming influence its removal. Needless to say, the the jews have a history oif persecution; ought gradually to be exercised by a perpetrators of this infantile traditionally they hlave been shunned. standing sub-committee. Another Now there has been added the negro. thing he would like to see was a ces display were not to be found; but sation in the apparently growing anti the fact that Union News was Never until now a problem in this country, the increasing number of thesis between the Union and the selected as a victim points to at coloured Commonwealth immigrants Halls of Residence. The two should least the connivance of certain have aroused a fear in the British be recognized as complementary Union members. worker for his job. Such targets are institutions, he said. easy meat for unscrupulous agitators. Eastwood intends to resign as Fascists are, we know, glad of the Secretary of Union Committee, but sort of publicity that holds up their Hitler, said Chamberlain, would will continue as acting Secretary until behaviour to the public gaze with have been undistinguished in a crowd, his successor has been named follow condemnatory comments. This is as and looked for all the world like the ing next week’s U.C. elections. much a part of their perverse make house-painiter he was. Hitler, however, up as is their illogical assumption that like Britain’s Fascists, had an DISORDERED MINDS one people, by virtue of skin pigmen inferiority complex coupled with Nockles tation, can be considered superior to mental derangmsnt; the chaos and Daubings on University and Union speak for themselves any other. We, however, think it abso bloodshed thit followed his coming "disappointed" lutely essential that Union members to power must never be repeated. and the public at large be made aware The Fascists aie infantile and they Asked what he thought of the of the subtle evU that is in our midst. are insane—their futile daubing and results, Engineers’ President Tony The psychological disorder that hysterical propoganda indicate this. Nockles, who had nominated candi gives rise to such attitudes is present, But their madness is of a dangerous date Sykes, said: “I can’t say I’m sur to some small extern at least, in every and infective nature; and we call prised, though I must say I’m a bit one of us, Its abnormal development upon everyone to guard against this disappointed/’ Answering enquiries as in the case of Fascists should be taken menace. to whether the Engineers had again as a warning of what may happen to tried to play power politics as they anyone. Union News, for its part, will not had in the past, Nockles remarked: The evil of these men does not con cease its efforts to have such obscenity “I would support anyone who had sist in their actions as such; as with eradicated, no matter how many times shown sufficient initiative and interest, all deranged fanatics, they cannot be they paint our windows. from whatever faculty.” Why then did he not nominate someone from the Arts Faculty on this occasion? Replied Nockles: “There are too EXEC. NEWS many of them around saying a lot "jVTEW regulations are recom make every effort to find out their and doing nothing. The only people opinions, not by general meetings at the moment who showed any initia mended by Executive for which are difficult to convene but by tive or ability and the will to get Union posters. These are that no informal get-togethers. their ideas put into practice are the poster shall be larger than These recommendations come technologists.” 18" by 20" and that the maxi before Union Committee next Thurs Commenting on rumours that an day. engineer (presumably), after voting mum number of posters publicis LEEDS WIN for Sykes, had been heard to ask ing any one event be four, not where he could see a picture of the including advertisements on person he had just voted for as he society notice boards. U.C. Election DEBATING TOURNAMENT did not know him, he stated em Posters will not be displayed more phatically that he wasn’t interested in EVEN candidates have been such people. than six days before the event and S nominated for the five vacancies HE Leeds ‘A’ team taking part in corduroy jacket, poplin trousers, and must be checked and stamped by the on Union Committee. They are T the seventh preliminary round of red tie worn by Peter Hall. Less porters. Exec, committee accept that Meissrs. Carabine, Court, Eastbum , the N.U.S. Observer Mace Debating striking but none the less improperly NEW AND GOVERNMENT SURPLUS dressed, Alan Andrews sported red Microscopes publicity is difficult but maintain that Morrison, Silverston and Whan, plus Tournament at Hull last Saturday Stopwatches Optical Instruments something must be done about the one female, Miss Irene Millward. were apparently in good form. The tie and grey suit. Both speakers were Surveying and Navigational Equipment state of the notice boards. Arts and science seem to be fairly panel of judges, led by Alex Stern, displaying GND badges. The Leeds Lenses, Prisms and other Optical pair arrived too late to change into Mechanical and Scientific Instruments Exec, also recommends that a com evenly represented this time and reached a unanimous verdict in At fractional Prices Fully guaranteed mittee be set up to review the con those of the candidates who have record time: Leeds first, Leicester evening dress. Send Stamped & Addressed Envelope stitution. This will not be ad hoc as declared their politics favour the left. second. This weekend, Leeds’ two other (If possible stating requirements) The motion, that This House UNITED TECHNICAL SUPPLIES LTD., was that set up last year but will be The candidates addressed the elec teiamis consisting of Mary Squire and Dept. U .N ., 29 Tottenham Court Rd. permanent, comprising four members. torate yesterday and polling will be would not Support Civil Dis Tim May, and Ram Singh and Dave London W .l. LANgham 1116, 5015 This sub-committee will welcome on Monday and Tuesday. obedience, was proposed by Hull, Pollard, will be tackling the same Open All Day Saturdays ideas from Union members and would Newcastle, and Leicester, while motion at Manchester. Sheffield, Loughborough, and Leeds opposed. On a vote being taken, the Hull chairman declared the motion WIDE SUPPORT FOR “overwhelmingly defeated.” TATLER A touch of colour was added to BOAR LANE ANTI-RACIALISTS the formal proceedings by the YORKSHIRE’S LEADING CONTINENTAL CINEMA HARDY’S FLAGRANT example of A racialism was how the Com Immigration Billl HERE is to be a demonstration COMMENCING SUNDAY mittee of the Anti-Racialist Official outfitters to Leeds University Union T 'against the Immigration Bill AND ALL NEXT WEEK Society described the proposed tomorrow. The Anti-Racialist Society Immigration Bill. are organising a march, starting at UNDERGRADUATE GOWNS from 57/6 How much support has this new, the Town Hall at 2.15 p.m. After WEST-END but exceedingly active, Society gained wards there will be a meeting outside outside the Union? By all accounts, a the Town Hall, addressed by Tilak JUNGLE great deal. The national press and Gunawardhana, G. Pande, P. Ken radio have reported and commented nedy and Keith Jones. (X Certificate Leeds) favourably on the campaign at LEEDS Bradford, and the people of Bradford MR. L. HORSFALL also themselves have expressed their W e wish to apologise to Mr. approval by their criticism of the L. Horsfall for any erroneous Telephone 24226 Jean Seberg in Mayor’s decision to hold the Civic impression that may have been Ball at the Locarno. Likewise, Leeds given by our article on the pro INFIDELITY ® posed Landladies* Association, Tories have protested about the deci 57 / 59 NEW BRIGGATE — LEEDS 1 French Dialogue - Subtitles sion of their Bradford colleagues to which appeared on page three hold a dance at the Locarno. two weeks ago. 2 UNION NEWS— Friday, December 1st, 1961
' k ' f c ' k UNION je ers i t NEWS QOLLiN SHOUTED DOWN of his opponents and merely said that they shouldn't ge* so excited about Communist Leader these matters. “Anyway, how much Weekly Newspaper of Leeds University Union do you know about this particular issue?”, he asked. “A damn sight more C< than you do” was the quick retort Editor: GORDON WALSH from the floor. Finally, amid further Assistant Editor: GREG CHAMBERLAIN Insulted interruptions and cries from the floor of “Liar!”, Murderer!”, “Tell the News Editor ...... IRENE TROTTER truth!”, and ‘ You’re no Communist!”, by The News Staff Mr. Gollan told the meeting: “I’ve Features Editors ...... ALAN ANDREWS; RICHARD ATKINSON never been so insulted in all my life”. Sports Editor ...... RO NNIE GRIFFITH rj^HE Trotskyites in the Union were out in force when John Gollan, As the meeting dispersed, a large Pictures Editors ...... KEITH AUSTIN; PAUL JOHNSON number of Trotskyite leaflets were Secretary of the British Communist Party, spoke in the Riley distributed. Business Managers ...... ELIZABETH BELL; IAIN BROW N Adverts Manager ...... JUDITH LAWRENCE Smith at Monday lunchtime. The main onslaught came during the Sales Managers ...... STAN HOOPER, MIKE TYZACK questions after the talk, but there were several strongly-worded inter Subscriptions Secretary ...... MARJORIE HISTED ruptions during the talk itself. Publicity ...... SUSANNE ELLIOTT The subject was “Communism in Secretary ...... ELSA HENDRY our time”. After saying that capi talism was “bankrupt” and that for economic crimes in the USSR, he News Staff: Leila Allison, Manuel Carballo, Alan Dudlestjon, Christine Kennedy, said he disapproved, but added that it Kathleen Luxton, Valerie Nixon, Elizabeth Pembroke, Margaret Slater, Patricia socialism was las" becoming the deci Stoddart, Jean Sutcliffe, John Vale, Helen Vernon, Priscilla W alker, Janice sive force m world history, Mr. was probably only a temporary Waters. Gollan went on to describe how true measure to deal with temporary diffi Pictures Staff: Margaret Dugdale, Wendy Howells, Richard Morley, Ian Morrison, communism was to be brought to the culties. Richard Wagner, David Tunbridge. Soviet Union by 1980 by such means It was at this point that the Sports Staff: Wally Blair, Ann Boyrvton, Phil Cooper, Brian Glover, Howard Hughet, as a sixfold increase in the national Trotskyites present began to question Life has become chilly for 6 of the Mary Squire, Richard Taylor, Tony Thirlwell. income, free food, housing, and the speaker. This quickly turned into outnumbered female population of Business & Adverts Staff: Stephen Crowther, Bill Morris, Jean Rostron, John Sutcliffe, transport, a fourfold wages increase, rowdy diatribes against Gollan and Sheffield University, who have had Martin Taylor, Eileen Wadsworth. and a reduction of the working day demands for him to tell the truth their unmentionables stolen. 36 pairs to five or six hours. Referring to the about the Trotskyite “deviationists” of a certain item of feminine under differences between China and the whom Stalin had liquidated in the wear were removed from a clothes Soviet Union over Albania, he said 1930’s, a policy which Gollan had line in the dark of night last week. It Editorial “the capitalist press thrives on the fully supported. At one point the seems that a rivalry has grown up hope that these two countries will fall meeting got out of control, but order between the men’s Halls of Residence out, but they will be disappointed.” was quickly restored by the speaker’s over the aforesaid articles. It cannot Asked what he thought about the calmness and well-placed humour. He be said that the girls share their sen reintroduction of the death penalty could not however answer the charges timents. Th eManager of a certain well known chamstore remarked that THE CREAM “stocks on a certain counter are low”. AT University, the cream of the country’s intellectual Overseas Visitors to talent is gathered in pursuit of academic distinction. It seems hat the new boys are being naughty. The Principal of Men and women of varying personality, whose fathers the Union University College of North Staffs. may cover all conceivable occupations, study, attend lec reprimanded the students for their outspoken criticism of the actions of tures, amuse themselves in a mild but harmless way. They the authorities. He took exception in are reaching maturity in the company of people who, particular to some remarks made by like themselves, rank intellectually with the highest in the columnists of Cygnet, the University paper. However “he noted with land. pleasure the proposal for close rela This is the ideal. This is the ------tions with the Potteries—a cause picture students like to give the which was close to his own heart.” world—one of sound, steady res assumption. Thefts from students ponsibility. are increasing, as they have in creased over the past year or The Queen’s University of Belfast Yet is it borne out by the newspaper GOWN received strong actions of those who, removed more. During the past week, a valuable tape-recorder has been criticism from the University authori from parental authority for the ties last week. They had attempted to first time, drink more than their stolen from the men’s cloakroom bring off a scoop by printing the unaccustomed stomachs will take, and some money from a girl’s result of a local By-Election in their purse. It may be argued that the stop press column. They had, how indulge in new-found liberties ever, made the assumption that the with the opposite sex, and in owner of the tape-recorder should not have left such equipment election would be won by Dr. Sam general show every sign of revert Rodgers of the Unionist party. The ing to some prehistoric arche around in the Union; but should result of the election turned out to be type? This sort of conduct is this sort of precaution be neces a defeat for Dr. Rodgers by 252 votes sary among students at a Univer and a win for Miss Murnaghan, the surely not of the type that will Liberal candidate and as a result the convince the cynical public or the sity? The theft of the money is even more disgusting, since it took rnH E picture shows three overseas editor was ‘carpeted”, and sales of authorities that students can be J- visitors to the Union last week, the paper were frozen immediately. trusted to look after themselves. place at a party last weekend, and The copy of the paper received by the only possibility is that one of seen with members of the Executive There is another, more serious Committee. They are left to right): Union News though still bears the the girl’s friends committed the Colour Bar Digs wrong result. (since it concerns society itself Philippe Delay, treasurer of the Swiss theft. Apart from other considera National Union of Students; John rather than individuals) aspect of The Jaguar Committee revealed on tions, the loss of seven pounds at Gohring, president of Geneva Uni Wednesday that 4 out of 5 Cambridge University Rags need a new look! current student behaviour. In this stage of the term is alarming versity Union; and Rameshwar Goel, landladies will not accept coloured This is the cry of Sheffield U nion’s such a community as ours, secretary of the Indian Natonal Union for any student. students. John Ciosby, the chairman, newspaper “Darts”, which feels that honesty ought never to be ques of Students. commented “we hope it is an exag in Sheffield at least, “saturation point” tioned; it is automatically This practice is utterly despic geration.” They did not consider race has been reached where Rag is con assumed that in the atmosphere able. We would suggest that, if prejudice however as responsible for cerned. It calls for greater novelty and S H O R T S T A Y the attitude • »f all landladies who dynamism in all Rags. of a University one’s companions students wish to be considered turned away coloured people. would take such a matter for responsible human beings, they Observers at N.U.S. Council in granted. should take steps to ensure that Margate two weeks ago, they were Manchester’s Rag Secretary has The iiews of recent weeks has occurrences such as these do not invited to visit Leeds Union by the answered the challenge by calling a President and the S.V.P. Unfortun "DRAW THE FIRES!" conference of all Rag organisers, so shown the naivete of such an take place in future. ately, their stay was short: they that new ideas can be pooled. The reached Leeds on Monday of last RNST Toller’s ‘historical play’ is conference will take place on week and left on Wednesday for E impressively directed by Mike December 8th, and Leeds will be BERLIN London. Mayfield who employs both Expres among those represented. Another German government quite natur At an informal reception in the sionist tricks—‘ecstatic’ group move criticism of Rag has come from ( page five this week we print President’s Room, Mr. Delay ment and the clankings of the Durham University’s paper, which ^ the first article received from ally resents the existence of West presented an illustrated book on Capitalist machine—plus a Brechtian says that Rag’s real purpose, aid for Roy Bull since he went to study Berlin; but legally the East Ger Switzerland to the Union. Accepting, humanity in his treatment of the charities, is becoming subordinated to in Moscow; and it should be man government can do nothing President Brian MacArthur said that court martial scenes. Wilf Carr as the enjoyment of the students. This made clear that, whilst we con about it. the book would be available from Kobis is outstanding; in fact the play too, together with various other criti Union Library. is acted magnificently. cisms, will be discussed at Manchester. sider the article in every way It has been asked from time to worthy of publication, the views time how we in Britain would feel expressed in it are not necessarily if the same thing happened in this those of this newspaper. country. A comparable situation would be if Russia and China In particular, the view taken of occupied Britain, Russia taking March at Bradford the Berlin dispute is open to ques England and China Scotland, with tion. Mr. Bull says that, in closing London as ia two-power city. the Berlin border, “no troops Quite obviously, we should resent were involved” on the Eastern this; but our resentment would side. This is not according to the not be affected in the slightest by facts; armed Volkspolizei tried to the Chinese having to drive down close the border and keep back the Great North Road, through the population during the build Russian - occupied territory, to ing of the wall. They may not reach London. This would merely have been “troops” in the strict be a tiresome inconvenience to sense of the word (members of the Chinese, and, in due course, the armed forces), but their mili a cause of irritation to the Rus tary function is undoubted. sians. In addition, he states that Ber Substitute, if you prefer, lin lies territorially inside East America and West Germany for Germany, as a justification of the Russia and China; the situation Y ^ T another demonstration in the Pakistani community in any sort, and fascists were nowhere to be seen. “laws” passed by that country’s remains the same. To the divided, Bradford was organized by Bradford, Mr. Mohammed government concerning the city’s subject nation, it cannot matter Hussain. As one group of demonstrators the Anti-Racialist Soc. last week made their way back to the station, servicing. The status of the city, which conqueror takes which One significant (and alarming) a bus drew alongside them and the as we all know by now, was de part; the division and subjection end. After a march, those taking point was that 50% of the leaflets Pakistani driver stopped his vehicle fined at the end of the war by themselves are of all-important part were addressed by four offered to the public were refused. to ask how the demonstration had gone. “We’re right behind you,” he four-power agreement. The East concern.. speakers, including the leader of However, there was no trouble of said. U NION NEWS— Friday, December 1st, 1961 'i A PART OF
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ENGLISH LIFE Morris Dancing in Leeds outside the Morris Dancing not a Survival Town Hall from the Past
jy[ ORRIS dancing is not an antiquarian revival, or an We make our own plans, meet regu Morris dancing throughout most of addiction to the gogglebox, or just larly for practice, give shows in the England, in Leeds, we seem to be the active social life of our union. attempt to resuscitate a dead and bimed piece of so- open and at Barn Dances and under back in the times of the nineteenth However if there are any aspiring called “Merrie England"’. It is as much alive and as much take tours of Leeds and area, plus a century, with no new generation of males in the union who are interested grand tour of the Dales at Whitsun. young men to fill the ranks. Perhaps in joining, please contact the Bagman, a part of contemporary life as cricket, football, or any Despite the flourishing existence of this is due to the affluent society, Mike Boddy, via the P.H.’s. other such forms of activity. Although you might not guess it simply from watching the spread. No doubt this was much dis dances, the Morris has a very couraged by the Church, but the ancient history, so ancient that young men who dance, flutter rib bons, ring bells and blacken their its origins are lost. It is quite faces, did survive in many places, and probable that the Morris descen frequently appear in literary and ded originally from the field of historical references. Shakespeare Pick your path primitive religion. A widespread called the dance the ‘Morisco,’ but its more popular name is the Morris belief that clings to the practice Dance. of the primitive dance is that the The word ‘Morris’ does not mean man, through the very act of jig that the word came from Morocco. ging upon the surface of the It need not imply anything more sig nificant than that the diancer origi ground, can communicate the to Management nally had a blackened face—a com vitality and exhilaration of the mon enough disguise in ritual cere living to the recent dead, to the monies^—and thus appearing as spirits of far-off ancestors and to Blackamoors gained themselves the WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY title of ‘Moorish,’ which in former the gods themselves. Thus the times was synonimous with ‘Pagan.’ dance becomes a form of com munication with the unseen Th e_C ofswolds CHEMISTS/CHEMICAL ENGINEERS forces which control human wel fare and survival, provide food, Thus, although it seems certain that regulate the weather, and the name was imported, it is equally promote fertility. certain that the Dance was not. Its INITIAL TRAINING As the faith behind such primitive geographical distribution relates to religious impulses weakens, the tne oldest settlements in England, in dances which express it are not the Cotswolds. It is generally accep- .. immediately abandoned, but they tep that the Sword Dance and the gradually change their character. The Folk Play that goes with it, which PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT form of the ritual remains, but some are to be found in the North Bast of of the mystery and magical contents the country, were probably intro departs. I he dancer becomes less and duced by the Danes about a thousand less of a medicine-maker, and more years ago. The Cots wo-ld Morris HEALTH PHYSICS and more of a performing artist. In must have been indigenous in the & SAFETY fact the ritual changes imperceptibly Midlands of England long before. into art. It was in some such manner In the Cotswolds, the Morris that the Folk Dances of the different Dance maintained its grip on the parts of Europe grew out of the old country life until about one hundred MATERIAL ACCOUNTING pagan rites as the pagans themselves years ago. Then the village life, in were converted to Christianity and directly effected by the Industrial gradually lost their primitive beliefs. Revolution began rapidly to change, and the communities to decay. Many of the Morris teams died out at this Elaborate Ritual time, the few that survived continued on to the end of the nineteenth Thus in Europe, after the conver century. But for once in a thousand sion to Christianity the peasantry still years, no new generation of young preserves some of their ancient men arose to fill the ranks. Educa seasonal customs. One of the most tion, and the new ‘Town’ attitude of important of these was the vigorous slight contempt towards the old- dance performed by chosen young established country ways were enough men in the early Spring. The young te blight the old custom. men leap and stamp, their rythmical Then in Christmas 1899 Cecil actions emphasised by the sound of Sharpe happened to be staying in bells and the fluttering of ribbons. Headington and saw the Headington The whole effect, even to the most Quarry Morris side perform. This sceptical observer, is one of tre was the beginning of Cecil Sharpe’s mendous vitality. In many parts of great work of rediscovering the Europe, only broken fragments of Morris Dances. During the following the elaborate ritual have survived, years he visited village after village the dispensing of medicines and in the Cotswolds, finding the old fertility by the dancer is not so wide- dancers, learning from them the tunes, steps, and figures of their dances, and then teaching them to others. He did 'the same further North, with the Derbyshire, and the The U.K.A.E.A.'s Production and Engineering There are vacancies JAZZ Lancashire and Cheshire traditions, and in the N.E. where he found Groups needs academically qualified chemists, offering parallel scope Zoot HPHE modern jazzman many traditional Sword Dance Teams. chemical engineers and metallurgists to train as and opportunities for Sims was in Leeds three Today most people who know the managers. Programmes ot training, normally diance limit the name ‘Morris Dance’ weeks ago, making history. He is to the Cotswold Dance with its many lasting from 18 months to two years, are tailor- PHYSICISTS AMD the first American artist to be al traditions-variaitions of style that grew made to suit each man. The programmes demand M A T H E M A TIC IANS, lowed, by the Unions, to play in up in the various villages, such as active and responsible participation in technical a British jazz club. Hitherto Headington (Oxon.), Fieldtown (Ox- For further details, get in on.), Bledington (Glos.) and Brackley work of many different kinds and aim to convey Americans could only give con (Northants). touch with your University certs. knowledge of management techniques by a Zoot Sims looks like a filmstar with combination of instruction and experience. Appointments Board now sagging jowls. He plays his tenor as if Nature it were an alto, and gets a really lyric quality. He is a reactionary in this and avoids any harsh sound or If we simply regard the Cotswold If you (ire already in industry, write direct to : modern harmonies. When he swings Morris Dance as an example of that Young Men’s dance evolved for the —as he did in the Jimmy Rushing purpose of quickening Nature in the THE GROUP STAFF MANAGER, number ‘After You’ve Gone/ — he Spring, that is sufficient an explana does not jerk at all. Tubby Hayes and PRODUCTION AND ENGINEERING GROUPS HEADQUARTERS, tion of its character. The group of UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY, John Coltrane could learn from this Men are initiated specialists; the form man. of the dance is a procession, circle or R1SLEY, WARRINGTON, LANCASHIRE. But the tragedy of the evening was square, to frame the attendant that Zoot Sims was giving nothing characters, the movement and the away. Esquire Club members paid bells are merely the paraphenalia of 10/- each, just to hear polish, tech Rhythm, while the White Handker GRADUATE APPRENTICESHIPS FOR ENGINEERS nique, but no heart. Only in “Autumn chiefs, white clothes, and the ribbons Leaves” did this follower of Lester and flowers with which they are Young really say anything. He was decorated, represent that immaterial There are also opportunities in the Production and Engineering Groups of the U.K.A.E.A- resting on his laurels for the remain spiritual side of man. and nature, der of the evening. Ronnie Scott, shared by the living and the dead. for academically qualified mechanical, electrical or chemical engineers to follow graduate however, was in fine form, doing In Leeds University today there apprenticeships leading to a career in management or design. Write to the above address for wonders with “Straight, No Chaser.” exists the Leeds Morris Men’s Club His backing served the American as —fan independent body, affiliated to full details. well, and never failed the soloists the English Folk Dance Society. We once. elect our own Officers, the Squire JOHN MOWAT. (President) and Bagman (Secretary). 4 Short Story Page UNION NEWS— Friday, December 1st, 1961 The Fall of the Idol A 2-part Story
People and things reveal themselves to us only through experience. How many words there are in our lan guage which, although we have known them almost from childhood, suddenly become real and vivid to us as a result of a meeting or a journey. One meeting that particularly sticks in my memory took place during a hitch-hiking holi day in France. I had set out from Paris one dull September morning bound for the south which I had never seen, where the sea stretched across my inward eye and palms filled my imagination. Early afternoon found me on a bleak stretch of country between Fontainebleau and Sens, and it was while I was walking along the roadside that I came upon Champigny.
by ALEX BARR ing as far as my fertile imagination if he had known Leo Valentin, the was concerned. He bad told tihe French birdman who had plunged to HE was standing by his car, letting his engine cool, and offered me a lift as far antique man, the owner of a grey hils death when his parachute failed Abraham Lincoln beard, that he was to open. Yes, he had known him, in as Sens. I gladly accepted, and we drove off down the straight road, a on his way to Dijon, and that he fact he claimed to know most people was taking me to Auxerre, but an in the world of flying, a world in road lined with trees in the typical French manner. His car was slightly more hour or so later found us south of which the French are acknowledged Auxerre, and certainly not on the experts. luxurious than anything I had been accustomed to having lifts in, and as I eased road to Dijon. I was feeling quite It was then that he told me about bouyant; at this raite he might take his hand. He took off his glove and my back into the seat feeling very comfortable we talked. He told me how he me a long way on my journey. showed me a rather gruesome sight. Three of his fingers were missing and had hitch-hiked through France and Italy when he was my age. "But no more all that remained was a battered two- of that for me" has said, grinning and tapping the fascia with his free hand. Champion thirds of his index finger and thumb. It happened in an accident.” he It was then I noticed that he wore a leather glove on “I hope you don’t mind our fre informed me. rocking-horses, and inside were all quent stops’’ he said “but as you see “A flying accident?” his left hand, and I could see that the latter was deformed kinds of objects—tapestries from I have many friends all over the “No a oar accident.” in some way. I noticed his appearance for the first time pre-revolution days, items of iron country. I am well known—you “It’s unfortunate” was all I could work from North Africa, and such know — from newspaper photo think of to say in French. too — medium height, thirtyish, a squarish face with a things as lazy-tongs and candle- graphs.” “For me yes. Look what the hooked nose and blond hair, wearing rimless glasses and snuff ers. From the conversation “Newspapers photographs!” I Americans gave me. a rather loud striped suit. He spoke French with a faint between Champigny and the owner echoed. Not only was he a hero but He reached across and from the of the shop I gathered that the latter famous as well. “What do you do to cupboard in the dashboard pulled out German accent and I guessed, correctly it turned out, that was making or repairing some kind get into the newspapers?” a plastic model of a left hand. It was he came from Alsace. of medial for him. Little things like “In 19--,”—he said the year slowly made from a kind of waxy material, this all through my acquaintance with for my benefit—“I was helicopter and was perfect in every detail, even “So you are going to the the man pointed at his being some champion of the world.” to the small lines and wrinkles across Mediterranean,” he said. “I saw kind of hero. The mystery deepened. This revelation stirred a good many the palm. It was made to fit his wrisit, and could have passed at a glance for in the paper that 4 million cars next youth hostel I would have to Before we got back into the car of the vesltages of childhood hero wor get another lift from Sens to he showed me what I assumed was a ship. Anyone can fly an aircraft real. I held it on my knee for a long have returned from there to Paris Auxerre, nearly 60 kilometres further quartermaslter’s store list, perhaps stimulates my admiration, but to be time, looking at it. this weekend—look at them.” on, the same evening. However, the something he had to collect in his a champion of any kind of flying puts “It’s perfect,” I said, shuddered; and The opposite lane was indeed a man’s friendly, easy manner curbed army duties. But it could have been someone metaphorically as well as put iit away. my annoyance, and we begian talking a code for something far more excit- literally above the clouds. I asked him (To be concluded next week) mass of cars, many pulling boats once more. or caravans and most of them “That was my colonel,” he said, should dry up and wither when it full of nut-brown families. In speaking of the distinguished looking could have been put to some useful due course he told me that he grey-haired man who was obviously FROM THE BEACH purpose. I have noticed since a ten had been a soldier, a captain. 1 the owner of the house he had just dency for other plants to do the same wondered whether he had visited. From what he said, although by VIVIENNE C. WELBURN thing. with my knowledge of French I damaged his hand fighting in couldn’t be too sure, I gathered that A COUPLE of years ago I was sent to the seaside. The There are many creatures which Algeria, and whether he was he and his former colonel were now chief purpose of my going was to discover certain aspire to being birds in this area. bitter, as I knew Frenchmen civilians employed by the French Most of them are unable to fly at first were. He had a rather cynical army, and that he was on some kind semi-precious stones which are to be found in that part but a few whose wings are stronger of mission at present. than others, through determination smile and a dry sense of humour, of the country. I was to take a few of these stones and and effort, soar by varying degrees ajid was already becoming rather We talked some more covering a above the beach and hover, looking wide range of subjects. Our side of by describing them with sufficient clarity, to procure a a mystery. down on the life below them. Their the road was almost deserted, while certificate stating I was from henceforth to be accepted life however is short and they soon down the other side the stream of as an authority on the specimens I had described. fall into oblivion. cars were still uninterrupted. “Always Friends cars, cars, cars, to Paris, Paris, When I was eventually to be Nothing is permanent here. The After some twenty kilometres or so Paris,” exclaimed Champigny with a recalled it was considered cum huts, not being allowed, for example, beaches seem firm and dry but are he pulled off the main road and said wave of his hand. Some time later bersome and unnecessary to to sleep two in a bed for fear of the treacherous quicksands. Many people when we were discussing where I I know have become bogged down he had to visit some friends. The have to carry these inanimate beach attendants who will send the side road degenerated into a track by was going to stay that night, I men weaker one away, even before digging in different parts. Once the sands a lake and I waited for him in the tioned that the next youth hositel was objects with me, the certificate has begun. These attendants being, have claimed a victim they are ruth car, listening to the radio and look at Auxerre. My companion nodded being sufficient, and I was there of course, answerable to the less in their possessiveness. One par ing out over the bulrushes. He said but said nothing, and I noticed that authorities on high who have sent ticularly treacherous part is called we drove through Sens without stop fore to hide them judiciously, Personalitisand, another Fanatisand he wouldn’t be five minutes and the easier for the next visitors to you there with the rules but without greeted his friends on the porch of ping at all. I wondered with horrible the huts. and the largest Apathisand. Between their house in what seemed a very glee whether he was going to take find. these areas are narrow paths called French manner. Cigars and Cognac me all the way to Auxerre, although So I set off with great hopes, to variously Responsibility Road, went all round, and he disappeared I didn’t like to ask him. find upon arrival great difficulty in Socialist Way, Potential Path and inside to be much longer than five It was on the road between Sens getting a place to stay. It seems the Set to W ork Freedom Fairway but those who minutes. and Auxerre that we stopped at an general principle is to hope for the walk on the extreme sides of these It was nearly an hour later that we antique shop. A French antique shop best, look to the future and hang Once enstaited however I set to paths are in danger of slipping into moved off again. I was slightly is even more fascinating than an round waiting for a beach hut to be work. I am of course restricted to the ruts or ditches which lie between the annoyed at the delay, unreasonably English one. Outside the shop were vacated. There are of course rules beach, only a few, much older (and paths and the sands. perhaps, but I knew that to reach the a couple of old and beautifully made imposed on the use of these beach therefore, naturally, wiser) people being allowed to paddle in the sea. Most of the sand has been dug and re-dug in these parts and the en Bleak Hills YOUR LOCAL CINEMA S J thusiasm for exploration with which 1 AT I initially embarked on my journey soon evapouraited. Under the huge bleak hills which i Carlton Cottage Road Capitol i hem in the coast are small, damp, It is interesting however to note evil smelling caves which everyone ■ Carlton Hill, Leeds 2 Headingley, Leeds 6 Meanwood, Leeds 6 mthe different behaviour of the animal passes through and few escape from Circle 2 /6 Stalls 1/9 « life I discovered on these wide, vast Circle 2 / - Stalls 1/6 Circle 3 /- Stalls 11- without attaining their odor. In these beaches. caves, varying in size and stench, Bus Nos. 1, 30, 33, 36 to Bus Nos. 8, 32, 44, 45, 52, 53 g Bus Nos. 1, 30, 33, 36 56 There are some groups of sea Head ing ley Depot Stop to Meanwood names, reputations and obscure to Fenton Street Stop urchins which cling to rocks protrud opinions are passed from mouth to ® Sunday, Dec. 3rd— For I day Sunday, Dec. 3rd— For 1 day Sunday, Dec. 3rd— For 1 day ing from the sand. These creatures mouth, soiled and covered with slime seem content to remain static and they are then disposed of. The ■ Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier Andy Griffith ONIONHEAD ® - THE DEFIANT ONES ® feel their particular territory over creatures who dwell perpetually in ■ PARTY GIRL ® (Colour) also SHE D ID N ’T SAY N O ® Col. y also THE BETRAYAL with mechanical care, oblivious of these caves are misshapen and also IM IT A T IO N GENERAL @ ra the fact that it is now dry and pur blinded by the false light and the Monday, Dec. 4th For 3 days Monday, Dec. 4th— For 3 days Monday, Dec. 4th— For 6 days — ■ poseless and has long since been left lethargy which surrounds them. They behind by the sea. sniff and grunt and use a language I VIC M O R R O W , LESLIE PARRISH VINCENT PRICE $ James Mason Other little vermin there are who all their own. When squeezed out they huddle their way back to the - PORTRAIT OF A Susan Hayward HOUSE OF WAX ® run all over the sand shrieking and in Colour also stamping as though in mortal agony. country and towns carrying with them 1 MOBSTER ® Julie Newmar I have learned recently that they do their blindness and boredom. _ also Anne Francis as in a sophistocated laughter show THE M AN FROM G O D ’S _ this because they are happy and I have been too long already on 1 GIRL Of* THE NIGHT ® on morals and marriage C O U N TR Y ® I expect everyone else to join with this beach. In the evening when I them in their fun and laughter, irres stfand alone on slowly shifting ground | Thursday, Dec. 7th—For 3 days pective of the fact that much of the THE MARRIAGE- Thursday, Dec. 11th—For 3 days B and smell the fresh air blowing from SIDNEY JAMES, PAUL MASSIE sand they disturb is of the finer, more FRANK SINATRA, DEAN MARTIN a the sea, I long to swim out and £ LESLIE PHILLIPS, KEN WILLIAMS . delicate variety and should be care drown myself in its waters, it is so GO-ROUND SAMMY DAVIS JNR. fully sifted. C ’Scope— Colour also clean and cool out there. I have - RAISING THE WIND ® I found a curious specimen one nearly finished analysing and describ ■ Colour also DAYS OF THRILLS OCEAN’S ELEVEN® B day—a long piece of seaweed which ing the too-often handled stones I m THE MALPAS MYSTERY ® AND LAUGHTER © in Colour « had trailed into the sea by some have found. They are poor speci mistake and yet had grown roots into mens, small and lacking in lustre, yet , the sand. No amount of pulling could occasionally when I look deep into ,THE CAPITOL BALLROOM-ME ANWOOD remove its roots so it could neither the heart of them I see shining there DANCING EVERY SATURDAY — from 7.30 p.m. — Admission 5/- be totally immersed in the water, nor a pure colour untainted by the drill live sufficiently as a plant on land, of microscopic analysis. I should like B JACK MANN and his ORCHESTRA. Large Free Car Park the ground being too uncongenial. It to live with that colour forever—and was sad that such a remarkable thing the sea. U N IO N NEWS— Friday, December 1st, 1961
troop movements. The next step will cence and a source of huge There is only one thing one can write about at this time, and be to regulate the traffic between Wst satisfaction to those who preach Brl'in and West Germany, to stop distrust of Russia — the extreme right that's the Bomb and the awe-inspiring heightening ot tension among West Berlin being used as a spy and the fascists. centre. This step would require tne For, with anti-Communist hysteria the more desperate sections of the U.S. governing strata in recent minimum of troop and aircraft acti to play on, war-bent generals and vity. The Western reply?—Presumably near-Nazi politicians can achieve any there is only one thing to do after thing. We have begun to see this in weeks. bringing up massive troop reinforce the U.S. and West Germany. If this ments. And that is to use them. So hysteria is not overcome, people’s the Russians have taken all measures minds will never be won from the necessary to be fully certain of com influence of such as Strauss, Aden- pletely crushing any armed sally by aue r and Speidel over to the ideal of the West in the quickest possible time peace. and with the smallest loss of life to themselves. I respect their judgement that they themselves know best how to achieve this without advice from Bertrand Russell or any other de fence “expert.” They have dealt suc Union Library cessfully with two mass invasions from the capitalist world since 1917. They will just as surely deal with TAyrELL, where is Union the third. library? This question is heard so frequently that those who know the answer must be a Bellicose minority. Those who realise that in addition to being a less im personal study-room than the If all of this sounds very bellicose, Brotherton, Union Library con I can only repeat that the Russians are determined to take action over tains books, are much rarer. Berlin. If the West refuses to alter As an overworked scientist I realise the status of West Berlin in order to only to well how little time is allowed keep it as a loaded pistol pointed for general reading by packed courses at the heart of the G.D.R.. then it but it seems a great pity that this means the West is prepared to use valid colletion of books (and the war as a means of maintaining their union’s annual grant of £100) should position, for only by military methods be virtually unused. The library con tains well over a thousand books, chiefly novels, but including sections on art, poetry and drama, sport, soc iology politics, religion and philos ophy travel, etc. It is hoped that the Climbing Club’s collection of books B MOCKBE (“ In Moscow9') and guides will be incorporated with Union Library, and enlarged. New can they defy laws concerning the books are bought about twice a term servicing of West Berlin passed by and suggestions are more than HERE all is comparatively calm. Determination and confidence are very deeply the East German Government (in welcome — after all, it is YOUR rooted in the average Soviet person, who takes a fiendish delight in telling you whose territory the city lies). money which buys them. Once the Russians show the The library is on the top corridor how his country came right from behind despite everything that Armies of Inter slightest hesitation when theatened of the Union, next to Rag Office (or with nuclear war, then it will mean opposite the billiards room if that vention and Hitler's Germany did to it and has now overtaken the mighty complete and final victory to the nuc gives a more helpful bearing). Books lear war lobby in the American rul can be borrowed any lunch-time, and United States in many fields and will soon leave it behind it in all. ing strata and the third world war joining the library involves merely will then be virtually inevitable. The filling in a membership card. Union News was absolutely right in calling upon all Hill 1II1IIIIIIIIIIIIII Russians have no choice but to pre The somewhat dispiriting task of pare their armed might down to the those who help with the library would students to concern themselves for their future safety — from very last detail and to stand ready for be worthwhile if there was a little and to take action. I would like to outline some facts, the signing of the German Peace more to do. If you have the time, Treaty. Those who want peace and make use of Union Library — and facts as seen from this side of Europe. are fully aware of the enormous grav if not, remember that mindbroadening RO Y B U LL education you expected from Univer The Iron Curtain countries ity of the situation can safeguard the world from nuclear war by forcing sity. welcome the new tests while T.N.T. power, nuclear power - are in ex-J.V.P. of SUSAN JONES. cold-war propaganda. The Russians, the British government to support the regretting that they are being clearly, are winning—without bombs. this Union, and ending of the monstrously unjust and forced to such truly grave terribly dangerous position in West NORWEGIAN measures. They are geared up now a student Berlin. for any eventuality and no Defensive in Moscow SWEATERS amount of slander and abuse is Hill for going to change them. Once they But, if you stay on the defensive, Protest then sooner or later you will be at Men are convinced that their very tacked. If you leave a smouldering war? But leaving Berlin as it is [Women existence and independence are fuse lying about (like the West Ber would have led to war anyway event Clearly, there is only one place to threatened, they will literally lin provocation centre), then sooner ually, but with a nuclear-armed Ger protest; and that is at the House of and obliterate capitalism from the or later it will blow up. The West many. This way, the chances are that Commons. Demand that Britain pro Juniors Germon neo-Nazis get stronger every the Yanks and the British will test and act against the revival ot the face of the earth. day. Ex-Nazis swarm in Germany to climb down—if the peace movement Nazi war machine in West Germany; day in all the high positions of the plays its part and stops playing into and that she declare and act for an W inning state. the German fascists’ hands by doing end to the West Berlin war-provo* Therefore, now they are strong their work for them in demonstra cation centre. It is the cause of ten enough, the Russians are taking the tions outside the Soviet Embassy. sion that needs eradicating: ihe pro The Russians now know that they vocation in West Berlin with its initiative, are going to clean up the The first step was to close the Ber are completely, overwhelmingly sup Berlin problem and put out the spies and saboteurs. Not its effect, the erior to the Yanks in every form of lin border. No troops were involved; Russian strengthening of her armed dangerous fuse. the West retaliated with massive warfare that matters (and intend to But putting it out might lead to forces. This means taking action over stay that way) - land, sea, air, rocket. a matter that most students will only just have become aware of. But these Debates are the measures necessary.
INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION Superiority Finest selection in the North. the floor, Miss Brenner asked about W arm , hard wearing, moth drugs. If a valuable one was pro Th Russians want no war. They are proof, showerproof. by JOHN MOWAT duced, was it right to keep it from deeply committed to the idea of pro (Men’s size) from 53/6 all drug companies, while one com ving the superiority of Socialism in a pany made a fortune out of the peaceful development of science and LEEDS J^E X T week, my dears. You will all come flocking into debates plight of people who needed it? every aspect of social life. And to When he summed up. Dr. Townend point to their armed might and their CAMPING CENTRE next week, won’t you? The motion will be “That this House said that if the firm did not finance cold-blooded threats in order to ridi GRAND ARCADE (New Briggate) the research, maybe the drug would cule their claims of peaceful inten LEEDS 1 believes chastity to be outmoded.” Oh course you are not sensualists, never have been invented. tions is most dangerous political inno- I know. You are lovers of true debate. Not many lovers of true Here is the flaw in the opposition’s case. Should purely commercial con debate turned up to hear “That this House believes that Industrial cerns dictate on the time lapse before a product becomes universal? Miss Scholarships are a threat to the Independence of Education.” Squire said, from the floor, that in dustries hamper with local Education PHILIP DANTE Not even my favourite floor WHITEHEAD speakers could sit that one out. Either for his education. He has a right Authorities to have courses channeled that, or they missed Martin St. J. to education anyway. their way. Again, is that right? High-Class Forrest’s mis-spelled notice. He has Mr. Bob Whan, the champion of Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Tailor resigned. We can hope for more pub GOOD SPEECH private enterprise, seconded Dr. 164 Woodhouse Lone Townend. He said that he had held Expertly tailored clothes to your licity for debates, now. (opposite University) At any rate, only 68 voted. Less Dr. Townend opposed. He also three industrial scholarships. Never own individual requirements at stayed to the end. Mr. Gunawardhara gave a good speach, apart from his had there been any strings attached. most reasonable prices — Every proposed the motion. He pleaded jokes. Industrial scholarships did not The ratio was one good speach from garment made for one or twc that the state should pay for all impede the advancement of know each side of the House. Mr. Whan’s ★ CIGARS fittings. education and research. He was sup ledge,, he argued. Industries will speach did not have enough meat in YOU ARE WELCOME TO CALL ported by Miss Sellar. She said that propose a certain topic for the re it to alter the ratio. Added to this AND INSPECT OUR CLOTHS in far reading terms the industries search student, or professor. But they was the faot that questions from the ★ TOBACCO floor had gone against the opposi AND WORKMANSHIP have their iron hand clamped on us. need not touch them, if they are — without any obligation Once people come to a university for not interested. Usually the topics are tion. A crystal ball was not needed ★ CIGARETTES an education. Now the science student interesting. Otherwise the firm would to forecast the voting which went >44 WOODHOUSE LANE a specialized degree for a particular, not be beaten. Again, the student or like this: 36 voted for the motion; 27 2 doors from Broadcasting pre-destined job. This is not an edu professor may propose a subject for voted against. There were six absten FANCY GOODS House facing top of Fenton S t.L t f c U o L cation. And it is the result of the the industry, vho may pay him to pur tions. — OWN MATERIALS MADE UP subtle coercion of industrial scholar sue it. In any case, the industries Mr. Peter Hall chaired the debate. O.S. & Difficult Figures a Speciality ships. “Universities are now factories cannot stop information from being Experience will give his native autho GIFTS for turning out personel.” She closed published for monopoly reasons. rity the unruffled quality of a good IST D . 1900 Tel.: 26573 by saying that we students should After two years, the report will be chairman. If he chairs next week, he have to say “Thank you, industries,” come public property. Later, from will see all of you, and need it. PS Politics, books, the arts. Edited by John Freeman. Have you seen this week’s New Statesman? Fridays, ninepence. 6 UNION NEWS— Friday, December 1st, 1961 HUMANITY IS F IL M N E W S In the tradition of ‘The Facts of ing; co-stars Paula Prentiss and Janis Life,’ and Billy Wilder’s ‘The Apart Paige, and Agnes Moorehead makes ment,' Batchelor at Large (at the Ritz) a brief appearance. mixes sophisticated sex-comedy with Also ‘Fury River’ a silly piece of some stick satire on modern ‘Boy's Own’ rubbish with the American moueres. decidedly message that ‘a reasonin’ HORRIBLE Or at least this is what it sets out man can get pretty mixed up in war to do. The first threequarters of the time! friction between them. I speak from film are filled with fine Tatiesque fun experience. I have moved out of at the expense of the gadgets and lodgings where the conditions were comforts ‘necessary’ for up-to-date Nausea of Existence as stated by your correspondent, living. Adam J. Nilas alias Jack The film version of James Hadley partly because of the dirt, etc., and Adams alias Bob Hope is dropped Chase’s “The World in my Pocket,” IR,—I noticed in your columns think they can change it. It’s laugh partly because my study in the even into ‘Paradise’—the name of a new On Friday at Eleven at the Plaza, is S last week a letter complaining of able. Human beings are fools, and ing was made exceedingly difficult by housing development scheme in Cali rightly billed as “A Million Dollar apathy in the Union. I on the other it’s funny. the continued nois? of the workmen fornia. On being shown his new house Crime Planned With Nerve Shatter hand advocate apalthy. Whether or Yours etc., coming and going. by Rosemary, a sexy spinster played ing Precision.” Exciting and packed not there is a J.V.P. interests but a P. R. BERESFORD -TEB BIT I am sure that few will maintain with tension throughout, this quali Leeds University Union. by Lana Turner—who doesn’t look a handful of social climbers although that lodgings where ten students move day over fifty—Mr. Adams says, fies as the best crime film I have seen it is doubtful whether they know in (3rd-year French). out in one term are (a) common; (b) ‘It’s a pity it was pink though’ for many a month. The old cliches which direction they are climbing. desirable. are all there —the Perfect Plan, Per The whole object of the Union seems ‘That’s not pink it’s Californian Yours etc., C oral’ fectly Executed, the Unforeseeable to be to allow a few potential back Conduct in G EO FFR EY I. SHARPE, Jnr. Hitch, the inevitable Triumph of The scratchers to play at politics with ‘Who on earth thinks up the names University of Leeds. for these colours anyway — Law. ‘It’s been done often, but ne’er other people’s money, generously so well’. donated by students who have no Lodgings Tennessee Williams? Jack Adams, this libertine and Rod Steiger and his international choice in the matter. The Union, if IR,—Your violent correspondents set of criminals, Ian Bannen, Peter its existence is of any value, is to who are too disgusted to sign 200th Issue redooser romps his way through the S super-markets, bowling alleys, drive- van Eyck, Jean Servais and Nadja provide a place where students can their names seem to have allowed IR,—Please accept the congratula Tiller, waylay an armoured pay wagon eat, drink and talk in reasonable their resentment of a purely imag in restaurants as well as the private S tions of the undersigned (all now lives of the women forsaken all day on a lonely road by staging an acci comfort and amuse themselves with inary slur on workmen to lead them living in or around London) on the dent with Nadja Tiller lying as dead the opposite sex. It should not exist into irrelevant allegations as to the by their commuting husbands, look occasion of the paper’s 200th birth ing for material for a racy socio in the road. After two deaths and to manifesit examples of nauseating ordinary students’ (say 5,500 of us) day. We wish Union News good health half an hour, to our amazement, the idealism. It should not exist to en conduct. logical study called ‘How the Ameri criminals have the cash BUT it is and continuing success for at least cans live.’ hance the growth of, or even to re The inference that all students are another 200 issues. still locked (with a guard) inside a cognise such societies as continue to in the habit of indulging in immoral The whole thing wears a bit thin supposedly impregnable steel truck. emit the putrefying smell of mediae As you were honest enough to though by the time we get to the court behaviour with wcmen in their bed- point out in the 200th edition, the The subsequent attemptes to extract val superstitions. It should not exist scene (we know what happens when the money and their final failure pro to squander money on petty activities someone writes a book about a small duce a tense, fast moving film. Sup such as sport. Far better that it should town—we saw ‘Return to Peyton ported by “Nothing Barred” — a be spent on expansion and libraries Place’) but there are plenty of laughs typical but entertaining Brian Rix and places to work undisturbed by in it and it certainly should not be farce — this makes an enjoyable the constant contact of sickening, mised by Bob Hope addicts and evening . . . but don’t forgot your seething humanity. At least in this there’s a nice, sentimental, corny end tranquilisers. way students would get to know themselves instead of attempting the futile and impossible task of getting to be taken, processed, sent away for opposing the election of certain per to know other people. blocks to be made and returned to the sons to office; I opposed them merely What a shock humanity gives you printers in Leeds—a total period of because I did not want them elected. when you see it in a boxing-ring or 2-3 days), which is the reason for some Indeed I was as anxious to expedite attacking itself on a rugby field. rooms late at night is an insult which paper has had its “downs” as well as old blocks being used a second time. the business of the meeting as anyone Humanity is horrible. The only way must be deeply resented by most its “ups”. We have made mistakes, We shall continue to do our best in present. out is to withdraw into yourself. students, and certainly by those people but we have learnt by them—and we this respect; if you think you can do Yours etc., However, to do this all the time is who are aware of the situation. If would not wish to be dissociated from better join us! M. P. LAYCOCK. psychologically impossible; but at such conduct T^kes place it is within one line of .opy printed during our Leeds University Union least from time to time pull back the the landlady’s power to stop it. days on the paper. In the immortal curtain of deception and feel the In a university attended by words of Hugh Cudlipp; W hen in Women in nausea that is existence. Be a cynic, a thousands of students, it would be doubt, “Publish and be Damned”. Letters misanthropist and laugh at the dis surprising indeed to find no-one whose Our best wishes, behaviour was shccking; what is the Union gusting and revolting idealism of the BARRIE G ILL (1955-56) We must point out that, except in nuclear disarmers and anti-racialists. more surprising to me is the concept DAVE SMALLEY (1956-59) ^ IR ,—I feel it necessary to correct that the word “student” is a synonym the impression given by Miss exceptional circumstances, we cannot Go to Bradford dance halls, and JOY LANG RIDGE (1957-59) guarantee to print any letter exceeding watch them parading their banners for “playboy”. GEOFF HOWITT (1956-59) Sinclair in the “Consideration” of and sloagns. They think they are de No matter how good the conduct “Women in the Union”. about 200 words. Readers submitting ALAN W OODHOUSE (1957-59) long letters, therefore, do so on the fending humanity, but in fact they are of workmen or students, their different HUGH FRANCE (1957-60) It may surprise her to know that attacking it. They in their idealism ways of life are n effective cause of there is an amazing number of understanding that they may be cut TREVOR W EBSTER (1957-60) drastically. It will be assumed that SHEILA MIDDLEMISS (1959-60) normal females attending University for all the normal reasons of work/ anyone submitting a letter has agreed ALEX BARR (1958-60) to this condition. JA L EBERT (1959-61) play/life, and they are sick of being JOHN FRYER (1959-61) pushed into either the category of JOHN HOWIE (1960-6H Virginal Frump or of Sex Maniac. PETE BUSH (1960-61) As for the matter of Equality: it SUSI PARKER (1960-61) really does not signify at all. All we «• want is a certain amount of recog nition as individuals—as distinct from Standard Female V.F. or Female S.M. Yours etc., Beer! J.M.J. of Photography Leeds University Union. IR,—We, as unwilling subjects of P.S. Surprisingly enough, the S an old and uninterestnig photo afore-mentioned categories can apply graph in todays’ issue of Union News, also to the males. feel we must protest against the de TETLEY plorable standard of photography displayed in this paper this term. Is Unconstitutional it completely impossible that new photographs be taken? Yours ets., Procedure Leads TWO IRATE “V IRG IN S” IR,—I wish to protest against the Leeds University Union. Sunconstitutional procedure adopted PICTURE EDITOR REPLIES: at the inaugural meeting of the Anti- Many people do not realise that Racialist Society, of re-electing the although the frequency of publication original self-appointed committee of the newspaper has doubled this (except for two officers, elected indi The BREWERY LEEDS 10 year, the amount of work which the vidually) by composite motion instead photographers on the staff have to do of by open election. I repudiate Mr. has more than doubled. We do our Gould’s allegation of obstruction in You could say that, you know. utmost to illustrate articles with the best photographers we can obtain, but Now. While you’re still preparing for your future in many cases an article is received too DRESSWEAR HIRE SERVICE career. And what a help it would be, now and later, if you late for illustrating (photographs have CH/tRLIE GOULD LTD. Morning, Dinner For all occasions— our Gentleman’s had your own account at the Westminster Bank. 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A Survey by Klaus R. Kaiser should be composed of the best per various bodies which constitute the formers in the country; anything else present B.U.S.B. will retain their is a disservice to the nation and an autonomy and many of their present affront to the competing teams." functions within the B.U.S.F. The RECENTLY a great deal of controversy has been raised main objects of the B.U.S.F. would concerning British student representation in inter be to control and co-ordinate Increase (a) Inter-university championships, national events. It was generally considered that the team matches and competitions for both men and women through sent to the World University Games in Sophia, Bulgaria, Scope out the U.K. (b) International competition in was not the strongest according to the terms of selection It is obvious that the existing volving combined university organisations are incapable of coping teams. of the Federacion International du Sport Universitaire. with the demands made on them and are hopelessly handicapped by lack (c) To cater for the varying re The controlling financial aspect in selection is also a mat of funds. Steps have recently been quirements of all universities. taken to increase the scope of inter- ter of grave concern. Klaus Kaiser with a U.A.U. official university sport in the U.K. and to The Wolfenden Committee in make these benefits available for Objects of a recent report on “Sport and (b) the W omen’s Inter-Varsity more students and to ensure proper Thirdly, the comparative inefficiency and adequate representation in any the Community” stresses three of our sport administration owing to Athletics Board (W.I.V.A.B.), founded in 1923. international events. The formation Federation things:— lack of funds. of the British Universities Sports These two bodies are primarily “In the administration of sport, Federation (B.U.S.F.) is now in its The objects of the federation however, we feel there is much need designed to promote athletic activi final stages and will mark a significant for more evident machinery . . . the ties among the civic universities of step forward in the organisation of were put forward in a memoran England and Wales, which provide a All sound development of sport requires student sport in this country. dum to the Vice-Chancellors of a good national administration” certain amount of financial support. We in Leeds are full members of The B.U.S.F. will nicorporate all all Universities in the U.K. The Levels These recommendations were sub this body. The Universities of Ox Universities and University Colleges support has been most encourag mitted ais a report to the government ford, Cambridge and London are not in the U.K., take over the duties of the B.U.S.B. and co-ordinate the work ing and very few Universities are First, the essential need for sport at and even if supplemented would be full members. Scotland, and to some still withholding their financial unlikely to provide for sectional extent Wales have separate organisa of the U.A.U., W.I.V.A.B. and other all levels. “There is a positive play constituent member bodies. The support. element in the life of young people, interests such as the universities. tions, but their individual universities which can be neglected only to the and Queen’s, Belfast take part in disadvantage of both the individual some of the activities arranged by and society. Man, in short, needs play. the U.A.U. and W.Y.V.A.B. 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We have been This board was founded to the U.K. or that of international organise university representation in KIRKSTALL told of the great value of international sport is stall in a rudimentary state. games in which no national prestige international sporting events of a A comfortable hotel for friends and At present these are controlled by non-political character. Its main THE is involved. Teams from universities three separate organisations:— relatives. — Very near the University already go abroad, we believe this type function is to organise the British WHITE EAGLES team for the World Student Games, of venture yields rich dividends in (a) the Universities’ Athletic Union, BAND founded in 1919. which is run by the F.I.S.U., Terms: inter-national understanding biennially. The financial difficulties Featuring are great, it has no regular income, 2 4/- Single and is entirely dependent on public MIKE PALEY Additional Sports News appeal and voluntary effort. Com 4 4/- Double Available DANCES, PARTIES ETC petitors have been asked to pay sub stantial sums towards their participa Springfield Mount. 2. Tel. 28817 STUDENTS 2/6d. tion and have often had to refuse LOUNGE - DANCING • LICENCE selection on grounds of financial RHYTHM CLUB MEMBERS If- difficulties. Demonstrating If I may again quote the Wolf enden report: “A national team
A WAY at Bradford last Satur- still in doubt; an interim assess TABLE TENNIS day, Leeds faced the strong ment is costs to nil (the technical opposition of an All Comers nomenclature is, of course, 26 days YORKSHIRE OPEN team in what was felt by many to to nil). be a needle match. After a dis FTER a below-form Leeds side LEAGUE A witth two reserves in had lost to appointingly quiet start, Leeds a strong Manchester team in the l i i slowly asserted their superior style U.A.U. 9-6; it was decided to enter as —bred of so much hard practice CHAMPIONS many as possible in the Yorkshire and training. After a number of Open, just for the experience, Peter Enthusiastic activity was once again sons and Kimble had played well at inconclusive manoeuvres in which secured for Leeds the Mirror Three Manchester, but as Petersons had not the buck was passed from side to Mile Marchers’ Cup. Presenting the entered at York, all hopes were w side, activity centred on the left award at a special sit-down in the pinned on Kimble. He however, lost “Queen’s”, (the Mirror representative narrowly in the first round to Silver, wing and a constructive contribu in Leeds (an undisclosed member of who eventually reached the quarter 1 0 tion emerged. The final score is the Union) said that he thought finals. Fullen and Hesse were easily Leeds would always have sufficient defeated in the first round as was sorrows to keep their cup overflow Ellis in the Preliminary Round. Earis >xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox< ing, but, failing this, he hoped that, was -the only one to reach the second as in the past, the lack of causes round where he too was heavily The Listener would i nnc way interfere with the defeated. Contributions are forceful manifestation of protests. Hesses and Holmes a scratch part nership) reached the 4th Round of the CHRISTMAS BOOK NUMBERS already needed for REVISION Men’s Doubles, a creditable perform- New books reviewed by distinguished critics, including: Ellis in the Preliminary Round. Earis Geoffrey Barraclough this year's OF RULES and Earis both lost in the 1st Round Sir Anthony Blunt aagin. Competition was just too Peter Fleming “The whole structure of the present severe and the standard at the Uni Michael Futrell rules will have to be radically re Geoffrey Gorer versity must be raised by constant Hugh Lloyd-Jones T Y K i vised if the game is to retain its practice and, if possible, coaching. C. L. Mowat popularity.” This was the opinion of Raymond W illiams a spokesman interviewed by Union LACROSSE The Leeds Rag Magazine News. It seems that there is consider B.B.C. talks to be printed include: able dissatisfaction with the national 4 The White Collar Revolt ? ’ ruling that teams shall be limited to FIFTH VICTORY Dr. V. L. Allen, Lecturer in industrial Economics at JOKES twenty and strong feeling that many Leeds University, comments on the recent growtlh of white referees are showing a distinct bias Cheadle Hulme 5, Leeds Univ. 21 collar militancy. Is it a revolt? Does it indicate that these towards public order. A demonstra A runaway victory over botttom of workers are moving leftward politically? STORIES the league Cheadle Hulme gave the tor at Bradford, after astutely show REITH LECTURE No. 3 ing that the game wasn’t cricket, Lacrosse Club their fifth league vic CARTOONS tory of the season. Within minutes Margery Perhan, Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, pointed out that, notwithstanding the discussed the evolution of British policy towards colonial added excitement of the spectators, of the face off the Cheadle net was self government . . . difficulties encountered in the trans —ANYTHING! bulging and a half time score of 8-3 ference of power. (G ood) he had no wish to see the use of live ammunition or broken bottles reflected the complete dominance of the Leeds attack. Even the home THE PLAIN MAN — INSTITUTIONS encouraged. He felt sure, however, A N D MENJ Drop your ideas (marked that many latent demonstrators were team contributions were a trifle lucky "Tyke") into the Union News being denied the chance to participate and indeed one was a complete gift Creative minorities, internal conflicts and the layman when Gay in the University goal gave . . . “ a study which fails to take them into account can by what coul only be called the pre have little but idealogical significance,” says John Rex, Office or Box. judice (to maintain public order. It is a perfect “pass” to the Cheadle Lecturer in Social Studies at the Leeds University. >r