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~ 2 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 • [ll\1181[1()[1cal • • Anti-social(ist> • Right To Copy Up u, ,til last year, criticisms and reviews. There are however limitations on the photocopying in the proportion of a book or periodical University posed no prob­ which you may copy . A Behaviour lems. There was no limit "reasonable proportion" is engineering company, Ferranti. reasonable standard of living for to the amount and no considered to be 10% of a book So you thought we Student's diligent reporters, students in general, and the and one article from a journal. restriction as to what you were having it hard. with their fingers in a very social various staff of the University, Only one copy may be made since Compulsory redundan- pie in Edinburgh, just happened to both teaching and non-teaching. could photocopy. But this it can only be for that person's !hear that this well known socialite If the government did introduce private study. Thus a lecturer may educa­ is no longer the case as cies (see -below), emerged from the Science Faculty their Think Tank proposals to not make several duplicates for a you will have noticed. Let tion cuts (see Student last to blow a cool £607. 75 on a dinner privatise further education, those class. week, week before, week party at a certain restuarant who would benefit from education me explain the hack­ The major problems occur when (i.e. those who could pay) would before, etc.). Yes, I know, behind a oft-frequented pub in ground to the situation students with to photocopy Cowgate. merely be those with no vested poetry, music or illustrations since tell you what you can and you've heard it all before. In a mere three hours forty-five interest in creatinQ a fair and each work has an individual Ah, but there is a light at the end minutes 30 of the elite chomped moderately equal, far less, a well­ can't photocopy and the copyright and it is impossible to of the tunnel. Only on Tuesday their way through fifet en croute educated, society capable of reasons for these restric­ copy only 1/ 1O of a map for The Guardian reported that the avec choufleur bechamel, creme constructive criticism. tions. instance, nor would anyone want Prime Minister and all her friends brulee and other good nosh, Perhaps we should ask to. Foreign works are also bound favour spending the £3-4 billion including, for the benefit of you ourselves (again) what our The story starts a year last by copyright being covered by the Geoffrey Howe was rattling vegetarians out there, £140 worth priorities are, whether the profits February when Oakham School Berne Copyright Union and the around in his piggy-bank on tax of fillet steak, and supped their made from the estimated £170 had to pay £5,250 plus costs in and Universal Copyright Convention, cuts and personal allowances. way through circa £252 of well­ million Ferranti turnover on arms out of court settlement for the only non-signatories being Fine, fine, that is, of course, if matured alcohol. sales· should be reinvested breaching the copyright laws as China and Iran. A work is no you reach the tax threshold in the Okay - so we're bitching. But dinner parties at £600 a blow, or regards sheet music. Since then longer covered by copyright laws first place. So we'll pass over that we have a valid point. After all, instead we should redouble our two Australian Universities have if 50 years have elapsed since the piece of news and go on to most of us don't have £600 to last efforts at campaigning for the true been prosecuted for providing copyright declaration or if the something that really affects us. us through one semester. And purpose of our educational photocopying facilities, the author has been dead for 50 years. But wait, we will benefit. Or being nice democratic socialists, sojourn in Edinburgh, the pursuit argument running that in so doing It is evident that the vast majority some of us at any rate. Well , we don't want to string any one up of knowledge and understanding. they were authorising the of books and journals ARE subject infringement of copyright. British perhaps one or two, such as the on a hook come the revolution. to copyright laws and there is not a male offspring of that well-known But nonetheless, we are facing a •cIS Report on the UK arms schools, colleges and universities lot the student can do about it. Industry No. 32, Spring 1982. British-based multinational constant struggle to maintain a are therefore very scared. They He/she may rish prosecution by ------,c------themselves cannot rish being the publisher if he breaks the taken to court and possibly being copyright laws (though it would taken to the cleaners at the same probably not be worth the time. publiser's time to prosecute an • TheAxeHovers •Sorry! Section 6 of the Copyright Act i ndividual student) . The 1956 allows you to make a copy of Amidst growing fears towards premature retirement. alternative course is to write direct anything so long as you're doing within the University that This is a scheme whereby Apologies are due to FAIR to the publisher for his permission "fair dealing". The problem lies in (seldom withheld) to photocopy. there is a movement academics volunteer for (Family, Action , Information, the definition of the words "fair premature retirement and thus Rescue) following the article This procedure however takes towards compulsory re- receive a lump sum in addition to dealing". In the past this section time and time is always short for " Mooning About With Rel igion" has always been loosely dundancies, the Princi- their pension. They are then re­ most students. printed in last week's edition of interpreted. However, with the In their agreed code of fair pal, Dr John Burnett, last engaged, one day a week, for a Student. It was implied in the economic recession hitting practice publishers state that week declared that he three-year period. By doing this it article that FAIR used criminal publishers very hard, they are is hoped that the need for methods to deal with the problems "copyright exists for the w a S ''Ver Y h O p e f U I compulsory redundancies will applying the law to theletter in encouragement of learning in the caused by the Moonies and other order to protect their profit compulsory redundan- cease to exist. interests of society as a whole and religious cults. Student accepts margins. This means that they are must therefore be respected." cies would be avoided at However, at Edinburgh, only 40 that this is not the case and prepared to prosecute even lecturers have so far accepted Whether copyright laws are in fact hopes that it is understood that no members of staff and librarians for Edinburgh". This has premature retirement and the in the interests of society as a criticism of the work that FAIR distributing photocopies in breach been seen by many reason for this appears to be the whole is arguable. Certainly they does was intended. of the law. people, including the offer of 20 per cent of original don't favour the student section of All this means that students may · b h A · · f salary as a re-engagement fee. society which is being dealt yet Ed make photocopies only for the tn urg ssoc1at1on O This has been criticised by the another blow by the recession. purposes of private study and University Teachers, as AUT as being far too low a figure, Liz Buie the most optimistic state- bearing in mind that some research and can only quote in ment yet by Dr Burnett universities consider an offer of between 40 per cent and 30 per concerning compulsory cent as being normal. redundancies and, more Dr Burnett, defending the • Coping with Careers importantly, one brought University's 20 per cent offer, said on by sustained action ::~;ur~rs w;g i:~igc:en~ ~~ tt;i~ If you think we have graduates in particular types of product. It is concerned with tgai;st the cuts. N:~k f~:;~=~ !~~~;~u~~~a~ffea,n~utt:~ pro b I ems, consider :~~~~t t~00bem:cchco;r:s~da~~~ ;:;a~~.n~me~~~:~~~!tio~) ,t":i~~ an oma s_u_ms up e thisisonlyforthoseentitledtothe Denmark. Traditional example, ten years ago 27% of caters to the public's need for an present pos1t1on. full pension, many lecturers will O ut I et s f O r Dan is h Edinburgh's graduates went on to increasingly sophisticated range Dr Burnett's comments come at receive less than this figure. He do Teacher Training, but there has of activities: finance, tourism, a time when the University is under added that many lecturers looked graduates are SO heavily been a steady decline over the leisure, insurance and so on. considerable pressure over the upon premature retirement as a focused on the Pu bi ic period and last year that figure was Commerce tries to provide these financial situation in relation to "cash bonanza". If this isso, why is Sector, that recent public less than 7%. Concurrent growth services at a profit. The 'discipline both redundancies and pre- the level of volunteers for in the demand for graduates to of the market' therefore works to mature retirement. The AUT premature retirement still below S Pending CU t S ha Ve enter activities such as influence the pattern of believe that the financial situation the number required? generated a major crisis accountancy, computer work and development of such services. is not as gloomy as it has been If there are any compulsory retailing, to give only three A quick count provides 50 portrayed, and at the last meeting redundancies it will affect in graduate employment. examples, has by and large taken distinct types of work open to of Senate Dr Burnett was pressed students in a very basic way - The problem is aggra- up the slack. Much flexibility has graduates in the commercial to give more information about the teaching standards will fall. So, vated by the later age _ been called for on the part of sector. Of these, no less than 43 finances of the University. He hopefully, Dr Burnett's optimism is graduates and has generally been types of work are open to claimed that all the relevant well founded and, like other typically 28 plus - at forthcoming. graduates of any discipline. information is issued, but he did universities in Scotland , which people emerge Notable as a growth sector for Moreover 'personal qualities' are agree to produce a paper setting Edinburgh will not have to issue graduates over these years is likely to be rated as important, or out the effect of last year's cuts for any compulsory redundancy from higher education: Commerce, taking only 7% of EU more so, than class of degree for the next meeting of Senate on 1st notices this year. late to start industrial or graduates immediately entering the great majority of these December. · I · employment in 1970/71 but openings. Almost all require This information will make an commercia training. increasing fairly steadily, with one reasonable numeracy. interesting comparison with other • p s The Danish government has setback in 1974n5, to 21% in An exhaustive listing is not universities that suffered s&~:3rer been moved to institute special 1980/81 . These figures exclude practical in these columns but the cuts last year: Stirling was • • incentives to · encourage Chartered Accountants and followingmainheadingswillinvite effectively cut by 25 per cent and employers to take on graduates. It Lawyers who would further swell research: Aberdeen 18 percent, and yet both Student news page, searching for is difficult to conceive such the percentages. Perhaps, then, it i. Financial/ Legal these universities and Glasgow inspiration and rather less of the schemes being introduced in the is worth taking a closer look at ii. Trading/ Buying/ Selling/ have declared that there will be no above rhetoric, is looking for an UK specifically for the benefit of Commerce. Retailing compulsory redundancies this energetic type person to gather graduates. Commerce is the range of iii. Stockholding/Wholesaling/ year. news from around Edinburgh, Fortunately, we have a longer activities which service industry Warehousing One of the reasons for there generally of the kind that isn't tradition of flexibility between the by providing finance, insurance, iv. Transport and Distribution being even the remotest connected with the University four main graduate employment communications, transport and v. Information and Persuasion possibility of redundancies - and directly, but affects students as sectors - the professions, specialist services. It includes all vi. Specialist Services the AUT believe that this should part of the community. Interested? industry, commerce and the those activities which enable vii. Recreation not be the case since Edinburgh Come down on Friday to 1 public sector. Taking a 10 year goods to pass along th e A subsequent article in this escaped_the worst of the cuts last I Buccleuch Place and ask to see Mr view, this has enabled very productive chain from raw series will discuss some of these year - ,s the University's attitude t George. significant shif1s in demand for material to the end sale of finished areas in greater detail. ·------L-.______:..:....::.....___::_::,:~~--..:....______J THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 3

instructors, learners and anyone else involved, Peter has now thoughtfully delegated the mess to The view from the basement Jan Calder. Bottom Line Yours Frances Owen Anarchy, Chaos, Hacks!! Welfare Convener has an important and Within the covers of this week's soaraway demanding remit in that it deals with the Yanki Uni Student you will find lots of smudgy little problems faced by disadvantaged groups within pictures of people who believe that they can do a our society . . . gay students, women, the Dear Student, creditable job for you. (In several cases they disabled, students with children. Last year the I was happy to see Topsy Cotes's letter distingu ishing the ultimately seek to gain creditable and remunera­ efforts of the Welfare Committee played a large University of Pennsylvania from tive jobs for themselves. Believe all that you hear part in the decision of the General Meeting to Pennsylvan ia State University. about the CV rat-race.) Cynicism apart, the keep the Day Nursery open. It is crucial that the Unfortunately, Miss Cotes is completely wrong in her assertion Students' Representative Council fulfils a vital Welfare Convener elect is able to do the job. Ms that Pen n State is in Philadelphia. function as the voice of students within this Calder is an ex-Law Faculty rep and she has the The State Univers ity is, in fact. university. In order for the SRC to work properly requisite experience to do the job . .. but leans to located some 250 miles from the right. Archie Flockhart, if nothing else, Philadelphia. The only similarity and work for you, it is necessary for those betwee n th e two Unis, as their elected to be committed and accountable. This should effectively split the left vote, so names suggest, is that they are may be the first time that you have experienced a jeopardising the chances of the most capable both in the same state. Guess university election _:_ please don't ignore it. The and caring candidate, Alison Dilly. which one? Yours sincerely, present office-bearers, from the Senior Archie Flockhart m'rikes another desperate bid Jeffrey M. Bronheim President down, were elected in a cross-campus to reach hackdom in the race for the science seat ballot in June. Those elected today will serve on along with that erstwhile spanner in the works of the SRC until next June and thus, in these times the right, David Kiltie, among others. Those Adventures Close to Home of upheaval and stringent cuts, it is vital that standing for the first year posts are, as yet, Dear Madam, those people elected are both active arid aware. unknown quantities but the best bet is to vote for It is with regret that I feel One of the posts up for grabs is the integrally someone with a semi-serious blurb. Whatever compelled to object to a remark in your article " Pillar Talk" in the important one of Welfare Convener, which was you do, vote. It's your SRC, for your own sake, issue of the 21st of October. recently vacated by Zack Moore. The post of get up and use it! The " Grand Edinburgh Adventuring Society" - a society founded to further "Fantasy Role­ Playing" within the University and its environs - does not solely The view from you concentrate on " Dungeons and Top Line Dragons" (D&D) or sacrifice any beliefs, rather than being deluded purchase of t--0Iaris in December virgins anywhere, let alone Bristo Moonle Danger Gullible Fred by the atmosphere that surrounos 1962. Twenty years later. few Square! them. believe that Trident can be paid for Admittedly, ritual death could Dear Student, Dear Madam, Yours faithfully, without affecting the present level become part of our agenda, but for I was surprised to discover from I read Fred Price's article on the Michael Nixon of conventional forces. a few minor problems, namely a, Moonies with interest. There's no his article, "Mooning about with That led me to question the true marked shortage of both, willing doubt that he wanted it to be an NUS Additions Religion", just how gullible Fred cost of the programme. My source (unbaptised) virgins and an altar. objective investigation. He puts Price can be. Perhaps Student was derived from an article in the However, we are always open to both sides of the case. as he sees would send him to a South African Dear Editor. I would like to add some Times (March 8th 1982) by David suggestions and, if anyone feels it, in the controversy surrounding Embassy and discover that that comments to the article last week Greenwood , Director of the so inclined, we can show you what the Unification Church. And he country is. in reality, a haven of by Mark Kennedy on NUS Centre for Defence Studies at· we really do on Wednesday nights has done a valuable service in racial peace and equality. Aberdeen University. He points in the Pleasance. pointing out the sincerity of Still. I suppose he can only write affiliation. Firstly, on the results of the poll out that the sums needed wilf Yours sincerely, Moonies' beliefs. as well as some from his experience of the that was carried out. In my opinion "soak up 12-15% of the money for Lesley McLeod parallels with other religions. Moonies, and I shall do the same. the reason for the strong pro­ r esearclil, development and (Cryer of the Grand But it's clear that his experience The recruitment techniques of the affiliation vote was due to the production expenditure; and Edinburgh Adventuring Society) of the Moonies is confined to their cult were explained to me by a biased manner in which the perhaps as much as 20% of the carefully-groomed public image. family in Germany who had questions were set and the fact capital budget." Moreover. it seems that in successfully regained a son from that a large proportion of Freshers So the figure of 3% of the examining the case against the the Moonies, and then became in would have taken part in the po~ country's defence expenditure Moonies he has relied largely involved in the resistance without full knowledge of the must not be taken at face value (perhaps entirely) on information campaign. Staff arguments for and against NUS Since David Greenwood's cost pr ovided by the Moon ies Typically the Moonies work analysis was not challenged in the themselves. This must inevitably among young people, often away affiliation. Secondly, on the importance of press, I assume that anybody's raise doubts about his article's from home for the first time, the affiliation fees. From Mark's opinion regarding the cost­ EDITOR overall objectivity. inviting them along to meetings in figures it would cost over £35,000 effectiveness and wisdom of Caroline Binnie May I suggest, therefore. that a cloud of friendliness. to affiliate every year. Surely this purchasing Trident, must take into Assistant Editor Fred might write or commission There, by such techniques as sum could be used to better effect account these facts, as I did. Mary Braid another article on the Moonies? "love-bombing" (hugging people within the University than giving it Yours, News Editors This could deal with the questions who are in the process of rejecting to the London offices of the NUS Nick Walles-Fairbairn Jenny Turner which so far have been raised but them) they deprive people of their to pay £24.500 of wages. Besides Simon Cartledge no satisfactorily answered. For freewill by creating a psycholo­ after the fight to save the Day Features Editor instance. just what were the Daily gical dependance on the group Nursery it would be a kick in the Fred Price Mail's allegations which the members, which soon resu lts in Chapman Cocks It Up Andrew Phillips teeth of anyone negotiating to Arts Moonies failed to prove libellous? conversion, not to God, but to a Giles Sutherland keep other vital services open to Dear Madam, Why do the Moonies have so many group of "nice" people. Pop Paul Hullah spend this money so recklessly. I believe I have spotted the first 'Iron!' organisations, and what These people do an admirable Finally, on the question of hack cock-up of the academic What's On Andrew McKichan have they got to hide that they amount of charitable work raising Sport Ian Nichol having a referendum. I agree that it year. Is this a record? must go under other names? What something like $80 per day by Going Underground Tony Wallis is time to have another one. Since The whoopsie this time has been are the Moonies· connections with peddalling peanuts. candles and Contributors Ian MacGregor the last referendum in 1979 most the (dis)organisation of the the American 'new right', and so on. Unfortunately the Nick Vandome of the students who took part in it women's self-defence classes by what's the significance of the charitable cause is in fact Moon's Sergio Casci have left. It is therefore fair to ask Peter Chapman, V-P (Court). Last ex treme right-wing political business enterprises. Effectively Duncan Maclean for another referendum, to allow term I and quite a few others put stance of the Unification Church? they are being used as unpaid Zap the present generation of students our names on his list for this term's Don't Moonies have to put quite labour to raise capital. Lucy Nokes to decide their own future, for at self-defence classes, since last considerable efforts into hustling Fred Price seemed shocked that Billy Ross least another three years. year's course was quickly filled up fo r funds for the Church's the people involved in the The new classes started last Jenny Hughes reconversion movement should Yours sincerely, David Nice business activities. and indeed for Robert Park Monday amid much confusion. At Moon himself? Don't Moon's resort to "criminal and physical least one of the women on the list I. Marr 'interests· include South Korean means". This doesn't surprise me was not informed that the classes S. Berwick arms factories? And finally, what at all. The only way for parents to Dondlrondon had started last week (though to Steve MacIntyre about the Moonies' recruitment recover their children and restore be fair, Peter did ring and tell me Uncle Ian techniques? What Fred rather their freewill to them is effectively Madam, the starting date); nor was she told Liz Buie blandly describes as 'words and to "kidnap" them. In other words Gavin Don's letter in reply to my that more women were joining the Graphics Anne Cameron atmosphere' does in fact amount take them completely away from article on Trident unintentionally class this week. Why? Toby Porter to something extremely sinister. the dehumanising influence of misrepresents what I wrote on one Then there are the fees for the Cartoon John McKay ~any people would regard other Moonies and tell their issue and is itself misleading on classes. No one knows exactly Photographers Neil Dalgleish brainwashing' as a more accurate children rationally and independ­ another. how much they are supposed to Bruno Behoff description. antly to talk out their beliefs, I did not suggest that the be. £5 deposit. returnable at the David Petherick Students are prime targets for usually with ex-Moonies now ownership of a strategic nuclear end of the course, plus 50p per Advertising Neville Moir Moonie recruitment. Don't you involved in reconversions. Such is deterrent allows us to auto­ class? £5 deposit and the weekly th1 nk our own student newspaper the background to dramatic matically reduce the level of 50p, plus a fine of 50p for each The Basement sh ould be doing something snatches at Heathrow airport. conventional arms ex penditure. class missed? Just 50p a class? Or 1 Buccleuch Place to warn us? I would urge all students to But this belief was one of the what? No two of Peter's versions 031-667 5718 Yours sincerely, beware of this cult, and at the very original reasons which led Harold are alike. Est. 1889 Julian Goodare least rationally examine their Macmillan to negotiate the Having totally confused 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 1 l[le(tlll'rD\11 Moonies - Friends or Foes? luxury himself (perfonally he is Unification Church. Moon makes and various training programmes glassy eyes . They have a Ill-informed and estimated to be worth £8 million) no secret of the fact that he sees do not exactly encourage an seemingly deep love and much to naive were the he uses his supporters to continue Korea as 'God's chosen nation' independant mind and per­ offer - if you are prepared to serve to amass a fortune, and not always destined to lead the world. His sonality. Dunbar is also not as a nee-fascist Korean multi­ adjectives most by such harmless means as selling fascist political ambitions, ·whilst innocent as Fred Price found it. Let millionaire who has come to finish flowers or candles. In 1977 a unlikely to be realised, must be me quote the experience of Bill what Jesus failed to do! used to describe Moonie organisation, known as recognised and opposed. Moon and Ian Hall -"We had to go into a Every year dozens of British Fred Price's article the Korean Cultural and Freedom has instructed his church that "the room and bow three times in front students, if not hundreds (see Foundation, had its fund-raising whole world is in my hands and I of a massive picture of Sun Myung National Student Oct. 1980 and on the Moonies licence revoked because, will conquer and subjugate the Moon ... it began very quietly and May 1981) are caught up in this according to the State Social world" (B . Morrison. ' The then built up into a crescendo of cult. I could happen to anyone no last week. Here Welfare Board of New York, it had Unification Church' 1978). In all shouting people. Then they matter what 'one's background', David Robertson raised £750,000 for 'child relief' - this he is motivated by violent anti­ started hissing. It was like a vipers Prejudice will not protect us only and used less than 7% of it for that communism and is a great nest. It was terrifying. Like knowledge of the truth will set us gives the reasons purpose. Moon, owner of a vasf supporter of the repressive South something out of the Exorcist free. Le me finish by quoting from property empire (including the Korean government. (Swindon Evening Advertiser, 20 National Student (May 1981) and why. £2.5 million New Yorker Hotel) has Finally there is the question of oct. 1977). Anyone ever read 1984 Leighton Andrews (NUS Vice­ The article by Fred Price, whilst boasted. "When I mobilise 10,000 brain-washing or thought and the communal hate periods! If President Welfare 1980) -"By :>eing informative, leaves out members it means thirty million manipulation (the latter probably anyone wants to know more about deceptive street collections and ;everal important facts about the dollars a month. Then we can buy being the more accurate term). the methodology of the Moonies street recruitments it sucks in Jnification Church (the Moonies) American Airlines and the Empire Does Fred Price really believe that then read Susan Swatlands story young people, programmes then ,nd thus gives the impression that State Building. We shall buy the brain-washing consists of in National Student (May 1981). and uses them as drones to amass :he Moonies are just another sub­ Ford Motor Company" (The electrodes and flashing white The Moonies, using a principle a huge Moonie empire" (National ::;hristian cult group who only Times, 5 April 1978). British lights! By no means is this true of called 'Heavenly Perception' Student May 1981). " In the past, Jther religious people would disciples have been tola "get on every Moonie but mind manipula­ operate under a wide variety of new students in their first days at Jppose. I hope you will allow me to with selling ... sell fast. Go like the tion is often carried out by the names (ie International Cultural college have been approached by explain why this cult is particularly blazes" (The Family News, Feb tightly controlled environment. Foundation , International the Moonies more than any other jangerous both to 'religious' 1973). The training programme of " Their conversion and Federation for Victory of groups. I would advise very students and non-religious. the Unification Church urges indoctrination processes result in Communism, One World Crusade, strongly any student who is Fred Price states that Moon missionaries to "make green bills changes which are regressive both Carnation Appeal, Kensington approached to think very carefully does have 'interests' but then (ie money) happy" by winning to the society and the long term Garden Arts Society, Hearts of about the menace of the Moonies" comes out with the ridiculous them for Moon (120 day training health of their victims" (Dr John Oah Association and many (National Student Oct. 1980). statement that "never has the program, p 72), Making money is a Clark, Assistant Clinical Pro­ others). Two years ago they used I hope the few facts-above are making of money interfered with vital part of Moon's religion and it fessor at Harvard Medical School). the name One World Crusade at sufficient to warn people about religion in any sort of church, let is not just for 'religious' purposes Again let Mr Moon Speak for this university now they are using CARP and the Moonies. There is a alone this one". Even the smallest - unless owning an air gun himself. "If there appears a crack the name "the Collegiate great deal of further evidence to amount of research into Moon factory in Korea can be called in the man's personality, you Association for Research in prove the point but, unfortunately, would have revealed that he is in religious! wedge in a chisel, and split the Principle" (CARP). Please be an article of this size cannot control of a vast financial empire Fred Price also neglects to person apart." Indoctrination by a warned - the Meanies are not accommodate it. and that whilst living in absolute mention the political aims of the technique known as love-bombing Zombies walking round with Support Subry

When we read about public South Africa. " Registered" unions refused to receive Steel; saying business. After this the attache graciously heroes such as Lech Walesa or the are white-controlled and do little that what they did was their own Not to be deterred, the Amnesty accepted the 1,000 letters, and Sakharovs we tend to forget that for non-white members. In recent informed the party that he would group decided that a delegation two newspapers in South Africa such people are not a race apart, years "unregistered" unions have get back to them. would go along to the embassy in and Subry himself has written endowed with some special grown up independently and one Needless to say, he has not done the summer holidays and try their of the psychological boost psychological make-up which of these is the Media Workers so yet, despite persistent letters luck on the off chance. that this has given to himself renders them somehow braver Association of South Africa. Subry from various people inquiring after On the assigned date the party and his sympathisers. than the rest of us. became vice-president of this Subry arrived outside the embassy - At this very moment Subry Is union. Most of us duly admire these So, was there any point in this David Bendix, a third year student, being harassed by the South In 1980 the MWASA led.a strike people, but of course admiration visit at all? The whole thing may Margaret Walker and Frances African police, so it is important in order to get union recognition alone has never really got anybody sound rather futile and quite Crook, an Amnesty official. David that the campaign continues, for a from the two main newspaper out of trouble. Amnesty Inter­ probably the 1,000 letters went Bendix spoke to the guard through government will go to great publishers. After eight weeks the national uses peaceful and straight into an incinerator. Well, an intercom and a pregnant pause lengths to avoid being embar­ strike ended in victory for the diplomatic methods to provide yes, it was a success for two ensued, after which they were rassed , and the South African union. concrete aid to prisoners of reasons: allowed to enter the building. authorities will not harm Subry if conscience: here is just one of the -few groups manage to get When the Edinburgh University Once inside, there was another they know that the eyes of the cases that the Edinburgh protests into the South African Amnesty group heard of this last strained silence as the reception­ world are upon him. University group is dealing with at embassy, but the Amnesty ist figured out just who the party Students could therefore write present. year they worked out a clever way group used decorum and a of giving Subry support: they put ought to see. Finally the letters in support of Subry to the Marimuthu Subramoney, then, superficial politeness as an him up as a candidate in the information attache was sent for. South African embassy or the is a fallible human being like the effective weapon. By playing elections for a new Rector of the This man's tactics were to remain government - the more letters rest of us, who realised that he the authorities at their own university. quite silent, volunteering no that they receive, the more could not compromise with the game they managed to score a information at all, whilst the group pressured they will feel, and the politics in his country of South In an expression of sympathy few points! came out with their party-piece on less inclined to renew his banning Africa. and solidarity, 1O per cent of - The incident was reported in human rights, free speech etc. orders. Subramoney, Subry to his stuaents aave Subrv their vote. All Lucy NokH friends, was an influential black of the other electoral candidates, South African journalist who has including David Steel , lent Suby now been banned by the their support, and David Steel Anne Flies the Flag authorities. Subry's main "crimes" agreed to go along to the South were twofold: African embassy with 1,000 letters Not content with horse in, recognises and acknowledges 2,000 laws that underpin it, aims to • He started up the first independ­ of support for Subry which had molestation or her wide l y a '}egregated society and is seen keep the urban white areas free publicised relationship with Capt. ent South African news agency been signed by students, by South Africa as a political from the " Swaart Gevaar" or Phillips, Princess Anne is now callea the Press Trust of South University staff and a sprinkling of victory. A Royal seal of approval. "creeping black death", although Africa. Through his agency Subry stars such as Shirley Williams, seeking scandal further afield. It is unfortunate that the the economy depends upon them. became a regular correspondent Dame Judith Hart, David Owen Her brief stopover in the clean, Princess cannot spend a little time The visit of such dignitaries as for the BBC Africa service. and other MPs. air-conditioned comfort of in the "homeland" areas which Princess Anne cannot be • There are two types of union in However, the embassy flatly Johannesburg's VIP departure constitute a meage 13 per cent of consistent with anyone whose lounge where, as president of the South Africa's territory although sincere aims are to help a/I South Save the Children Fund, she will the black population is five times Africa's children. It is a paradox; it meet delegates from Pretoria and that of the white. Three of these suggests that South Africa is part drink South African wine for 90 "nation states" have a bogus of the effort to help deprived minutes - is politically unthinking independence aimed at creating a children but it can only serve to and morally wrong. cheap immigrant labour force for maintain the apartheid system. As part of her " Fi ve -national which the state has no political The Anti-Apartheid Society at African visit" this hardly seems of responsibility: they are being the University deplores this visit, major aid to the thousands of alienated in their own country. The and South Africa's abnormal undernourished children in the C1skai "nation state", for example, regime Instantly recognisable by Bantustans (or nation states, as has its own parliament which the vocal enthusiasm generated at they are more politely called) and rather ,resembles a half-built 5 pm on Fridays in the Chaplaincy she, above all, must be aware that garage with a pile of earthworks Centre. the soc1et1 s are problems facing, uth Afr ca·s outside and government-buil1 shar1 d C s c ~ b acks no ,1 chi dr€ sterr galvanized shacks•,:, sleeo T hav 1 y t oni te nov n blaC'ks ar- f nanc Af ,, e epe nashame y !: utr A ea over ha theu food a OLrt :.p '>e imported to a orack r m e I ,r t," dn I f which 50 per (;ent tc gr t , th loy d John Wey dllng Alastair Prentice S1

Peasant in the Big age lour) in Penicuik (Pen-y-coc, besides, we were getting around which means " hill of the cuckoo" , town where the people look good, Shitty: a transition yes indeed), a large town due where the music is loud). south of Edinburgh. I had the good It was gigland and clubland, for Billy Ross. fortune, my parents told me, to live where we glamorous couples Two people who know the same in the Wimpey, commuter hall, as drenched our expensive outfits in city, meeting elsewhere, might talk opposed to the council house, sweat on the claustrophobo­ about it tor hours without once local-worker hall {and no doubt scoplc dance floors and were coming across a mutual point of the local workers told their kids the fleeced for dreadful beer and reference; even ii they discover opposite). tasteless cocktails at the bar {but • that they used to frequent the Nightlile there consisted of staying no later than 11.30, lest same club/shop/ venue, chances about 12 hours and the YM/ WCA. that magic pumpkin carriage are they'll each remember it in a Those of us who weren't young known only as the Penicuik and different way. Thus all things are Christians and couldn't afford to district b us service, should drink used to gather round the relative. discontinue). Hey, I can hear you think (he water-hole and pick fleas out of It was the Royal Mile with a writes, knowing that this form of the communal body-hair {our Georgian city of statues tackea on. breinwashing is fashionable in the anthropological way of saying The place where th ey held the media), that's a really neat SFA). Fest ival. reduction of Einstein's Law to The anarchy fun-th ing did It had its infamous spots such as everyday terms, and now I bet he'll penetrate for a while, inspiring a Rose Street and the Meadows, go on to demonstrate how this few aborti ve attempts at anti­ altho ugh word of the happenings relates to the title. Right first time. music in which your autho r in these places never reached us I have two views of Edinburgh played his own tiny part; "it was fun "first harld" since it was very rare which stem from (a) my newly while it lasted" even while it was that we actually knew anyone who acquired role as an inmate of lasting. lived here (and those mostly being Pollock Halls, and (b) my status, The only occasional bit of ultra­ big brothers who had moved out for 14 years, as a member of the violence in Penicuik took place on their own). th e Big Shitty I come. Taxiderm ist) are neatly laid out fo r commuter class of families within when the squaddies from the More seriously, it was the home Did I know how to live in a town us in the University library, we a ten-mile radius. They are equall y neighbouring barracks and the of the big, bad Midlothian County that was rough? What gross mis­ have our own nightclub, bars misleading . local skinheads met to serenade Council, which charged the same conceptions would I have to alter? galore (with special licensing Now here's the crunch-point: if each other under the moonlight. rates for Penicuik and Edinburgh, How does the reality of Edinburgh hours), our own restaurants. both views are relative, th en how So, a typical, reserved British yet which refused to invest in a life compare with the way I Name it do. do I know I'm talking about the suburb, Penicuik. How did an pregnancy clinic or a badly imagined it? More; what can parallel the thrill same city? Let's assume, for the inhabitant view the big E? needed second high school in the To tell the truth I don·t know the of working out a morse code with p1irpose of this perspective, that Immediately, it was a place suburbs. answer to these questions; how your neighbouring residents, of tt•ere are not one, but two where we would go to buy albums And so arrives my eighteenth could I? Certainly I now have running shaving foam fights universal constants; the speed of at 20p cheaper than those sold in year. I pass my exams, my parents access to a large number of places I through your house, of sharing light and the city of Edinburgh. the local disc shop {true, the return conveniently pack up and move to did not previously know existed, your washing with a person of the Got that? Okay, then, let's begin. bus trip cost us £1.20, but it was Manchester, making me eligible and there are no hour-long bus opposite sex? The convenience of I spent my formative years (from the principle of the thinQ, and for residence in the halls, and into journeys between me and the having so many people of your hustle, but what do I actually know. own age in such close proximity? about Edinburgh life? (consenting of course). This is the The first group of friends I made "adult" substitute for the sand-pit consisted of an Ayr lass, a Bristol which you r subconscious has lad and a Northern Irish girl. This been trying to replace si nce age x them or us? (x being a factor of the set of ages 2 Animals extended to people from Surrey, Manchester, Swaziland etc. In fact to 15). it was not until hallway through Ce rtainly I've moved into the big How many of you reading this soap it takes to poison a dog mentat ion in the field of cosmetics Freshers' Week that I got past the E, but the way I relate to Edinburgh article have never considered the remai ns a mystery. or chemical warfare, they would three questions with a native has not changed in the slightest. welfare of animals out of ei ther Rabbits are subjected to what is be very reluctant to disagree with specimen. No doubt I will still frequent the ignorance to the cruelty inflicted known as the 'Draize test'. They the use of animals in medical I'm not saying that there is some same clubs/ shops/venues as I did upon them or out of indifference? have no tear ducks and cannot res earch but blindly accept that if social taboos which cuts residents in before. My intention is not to provoke therefore produce tears to wash Pollock off from the Edinburgh The "transition" of the title, then, it appears to be for the good of sympathy for sweet little creatures away any chemical substance put students, or the community at large; refers not to that into Edinburgh mankind any amount of suffering but to illustrate the callous into their eyes. They are placed in on the contrary, there are student life, but from "civvy street" to is justifiable. exploitation of animals with facts stocks while the tests, which often action groups for the city, residential student life, between Many ex periments which are rather than sentimentality. result in blindness, ulceration, groups for local politics, for the which two terms I make a defended under the med ical The cosmetic business, for swell i ng and e v en total distinction. I'm not complaining, research ba nner are carried out to Festival etc., but I feel that example, engages in a most destruction of the rabbits' eyes, residents in particular perhaps that's just the way it is. I'll feel market drugs which are merely distressing experiment called the are carried out over a periods of more than any other student body different after the second week. commerci al ri vals to their existing LOSO test. It involves force days. are isolated from society. P.S. I revisited Penicuik and feeding the animals with massive Over 30,000 animals last year counterparts. Animals do not react Look at the factors which make took a peek at my old abode. The in exactly the same way as a doses of the test substance such suffered such barbar o us it so easy for residents (as a body) credible people we sold it to have human bei ng and therefore any as lipstick, lotions and creams experiments for the manufacture to allow themselves to become a put antlers over the garage door, drug which has bee n thoroughly until 50% die a lingering and of new and unneces s ary clique; we can get all we ever need installed a simulated mahogany tested on an animal will still not be agonising deat~ The benefit to the cosmetics. without ever venturing off campus front door, put up a lantern for the absolutely safe as prev ious human race derived from the Whilst many people would no (with the exception of clothes, doorstep, and finished off with a disasters, e. g . the drug thalidomide knowledge of exactly how much doubt condemn animal experi- cyclo-amphetamines etc.). All the nameplate (Princelaws) and have shown. relevent books (Kama Sutra, gnomes. Beware the suburba n Provi ng t he o bvious is a Necronomicon, Confessions of a menace!!! c omm o n feat u r e o f animal experimen tation. At a physiolo­ gical laboratory of Cambridge Unive rsi ty new born kittens were kept in total darkness from birth of battery cages. It isn't only hens principally for and biased toward and their eyes were injected with a which suffer this sort of humans. The use of living animals radio-active material which confinement but piglets that are for research is controlled by the enabled ·researchers' to trace the removed from their mother as outdated 1876 Cruelty to Animals pathways between the eyes and young as two weeks old and calves Act which was passed when there the brain. At the end of four who spend the whole of their lives were only 350 experiments months the kittens were killed so in narrow wooden crates before annually instead of _the current that further tests could be made. being sent off for slaughter. figure of 4.7 million. In a society The results recorded were that Human greed is also respon­ which claims to be compassionate " they developed very acute sible for hunting animals to and civilised this barbaric hearing and became adept at extinction. The present whale treatment of helpless creatures climbing round other objects". population for example is only a reflects on all of us. I believe that Was it really necessary for the fraction of what it was originally. we have a moral obligation to kittens to suffer pain and death to The Blue Whale with an est;mated protect the rights of animals who reach such a feeble conclusion? original population of 195,000 and share this earth with us, rather Scientific research involves a current population of 6,000 is a than succumb to the argument experiments which range from the very good example of this that it is man·s privilege to destroy obscene, for instance impreg­ mindless decimation of a species. and exploit them. nating chimpanzees with human The cruelty of the hunters is The new University Society for sperm, to callous 1nd1fference to highlighted by the use of a Animal Rights intends to take an animal life such as the placing of harpoon with expanding barbs active stand against this abuse of the baby monkey in a deep, dark and an explosive charge which is animals. If you are interested in pit in total isolation for weeks on set off inside the whale. These joining contact Jenny Hughes end. It is for the most part financed creatures have a highly developed Room 219 Cowan House or come by the public which is kept nervous system and a complex to an Animal Rights Campaign deliberately uninformed. brain. It takes at least three Meeting in The Highland Room, The most blatant exploitation of minutes, usually longer, for them the Pleasance 1 o ' clock animals is factory farming. The to suffer th is agonising death. Wed nesday 10th November. on eys undergoing psychological experiments at the Sub­ only consideration is profit which Animals are on the wnole Jenny Hughes Department of Animal Behaviour at Cambr,age. conveniently obscures the horrors pro t ected by l aws m ade 6 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982

Sunday 31 October Nicolson Square Methodist Church 8 pm Thursday 28 October Sunday 31 October Methsoc meeting: Tim Coey will Pleasance 7.30 pm Catholic Chaplaincy speak about his experience of Gaysoc: Film, "Watch Out There's 23 George Square, 8.30 pm "Life in Ru ssia". a Queer About"·. Pastor Jack Glau o f the Wednesday 3 November "Twentieth Century Reform Move­ Thursday 28 October ment" will give a talk entitled "The Pleasance 7 pm The Grand Edinburgh Adventur­ Sinclair Room (Pleasance Bar) Protestant Objection", being the ing Society invites all those 7.30 pm lirst time that Pastor Glass has interested in "fantasy role­ EU Friends of the Earth meet every agreed to speak on Catholic playing" to their weekly meetings. Thursday. premises in Britain. This is the first of three special talks organised by Wednesday 3 November Friday 29 October lhe CSU collectively entitled Chaplaincy Centre 8 pm "Objections to Roman Catholi­ CU Meeting: Prol. Hunt will speak cism". Please arrive early as a about the church being "One large crowd is expected. Family".

.•;; "3 C 0 .•;; 3" 0 :, :f: -::r ;.. 0 :, :f: Friday 29 October ..-::r Tevlol Row ; Lunchtime music. 0 The Kelvin Delta Blues Band and :, in the evening the Black Vinyl ~ Disco and live band, J.B. March ..-::r and the Falrycakes. ; 0 Saturday 30 October :, ~-::r .....~ 0C Chambers Street Hallowe'en Disco: please come in ~~mllllll lancy dress. ~ ~ .l;>:,n What's On What's On What's On What's On Al~--What's OnWhat'a On What's On What's On What's On What's On What's On What's . Also there are two live bands. of Goodbye Mr McKenzie, a Glasgow band which is su pposed to be very good, and The Horrible Sexy Caley Vampire,; no comment. Pink Floyd, The Wall (AA ) Weel 6.30, 8.40; ABC Edinburgh Sunday 31 October Saturday 3.00, 5.1 O Brilliantly emotive music and FIim Centre Tevlot surrealistic cartoons are wrecked 1. A Midsummer Night's Sex Amoa Live band in the evening, by the incessant repetition of Comedy (AA) and Rocks. adolescent cliche symbolism. 2.30, 5.10, 8.00 This is all about how, during film Tuesday 2 November Fllmhouse midsummer at night-time, people EU Fllmsoc Chambers Street have sex and tell funny stories. 1. Diva (AA) Odeon Note: There are still a limited Live blues band. 2. Poltergeist (X) 6.30, 8.30 1. The Entity (X) number of memberships left. Blues and Trouble. 1.1 5, 4.15, 7.20 Comedy mystery fantasy romance 2.10, 5.10, 8.20 Spielberg the Great made me jump violence and music are all subtly "The ultimate story of super­ out of my seat twice - for the rest Frt 29 October: GST Wednesday 3 November fused together to create a well­ natural terror and sexual horror" of the time I remained pretty well 6.45 The Secret Policeman's Ball Potterrow ~alanced and very exciting crime - Well, if you want to know about unaffected. 8.25 The Blues Brothers Green Banana Club disco. Bring film. N.B. Subtitles - but don't let such things this film is a must. But Both on for the umpteenth time at your own records. that put you off. 3. Deathtrap (A) since I live in Pollock, I know 1.20, 4.15, 7 .30 the Filmsoc - but worth seeing. 2. Body Heat (X) 6.30 already. I haven't seen this one, but my Reasonably sophisticated film 2. Fantasia (U) mate Kevin said he thought Sun 31 October: GST about a reasonably unsophisti­ 2.15, 5.00, 8.00 Michael Caine was very cool. 6.45 Model cated and s ualid romance. Tired of seeing Mickey, Goofy, A stylish investigation of the New Daffy and friends on TV? Well, York modelling scene. now s your chance to see them in 8.50 Yanks Dolby-stereophonic-sound. Life during the Ameri ca n 3. Rocky Ill (A) "invasion" of Britain in w orld war 2.45, 5.30, 8.1O 2. Not again!!! Midnight Express (X) Weds 3 November: GST Taxi Driver (X) S.4S On Dangerous Ground Saturday 11 .15 pm H_ard hitting and stylish "film noir" Pure mindless violence at its best directed by Nicolas Ra y I'll see you there. · 8.15 Moment of Truth · Fra~co Rosi's intimate and detailed portrait of a young Dominion 1-2-3 Spanish coun t ry boy wh o 1. Rocky Ill (A) becomes a famous b ullfighter. 2.50, 6.00, 8.50 Roc_ky's made all his money out of boxing. He's got a beautiful and Cannon Classic articulate wife, a million-dollar Mary Mllllngton's Prologue (X) house, a Rolls Royce and is loved 1.00, 5.35 by everyone, but most of all Sexatlons (X) 1.05 , 5.40 himself. Don't you just feel so sad Teenage Fever (X) when some enormous black boxer 2.30, 7.05 punches hell out of him? Deep Thoughts (X) 2. Mary Popplns (U) 4.00, 8.30 2.20 , 5.20, 8.00 Pewk. Sugar and spice and all things nice. Gorgie-Dalry Film Club 3. Gregory's Girt (A) Springwell House, Ardmillan Terr 3.00, 5.30, 8.15 Monday, 1 November Gregory Gregory wherefore art Alan Parker's Fame (AA) thou Gregory? Gregory never Excellently spontanous musical­ "Oi, mine's a pint." finds himself - but he gets his girl miles better than the crap TV in the end. series. Admission £1 . Member· ship 50p (available at door). THE STUDEN 1 1 nursday, 28th October 1982 7

Saturday October 30 Thursday 28 october Julio Ingles/as Playhouse Old greasy-arse himself, the Sad Cale Playhouse former Argentinian National Mancunian boys with a strong Football squad goalkeeper who (allowing and a good track-record now woos the hearts of middle on the album front. Most of you aged housewives with his lisped will know of them through their and breathing ballads. Don·t sole 45 success, the memorable mention Port Stanley though, lads Every Day Hurts, which they will and lases, he's a real gaucho when no doubt save for an encore. Not he's roused. They called him "The my cup of tea but a good live band. Cat" when he kept goal and now he's a singer they tell the same tale. Face like Roy Rogers· saddle Friday 29 October sores. Blue Rondo a la Turk Press-ups in long grass tor Blue Rondo a la Turk Woody Allen and Mia Farrow in The Mr Sanchez etc. brigade Monday November 1 A Midsummer Night's Sex return with their celebrated and Black Roots Coasters Comedy. dynamic live act. One of the hypes Paula Yates, Sting, Debbie of all time that never made it really Harry, Charmian Hay and Heror big. It'll be interesting to see how/ if Kloh know all about these they've progressed since the spurt Actually I think they're a reggae of initial publicity which accom­ band but I don't really know. NoI· panied their rise to mini-stardom very honest. but I'm obvious ate last year. Berets optional; zoot­ least. Friday 29 October suits a must. Usher Hall 7.30 pm BBC Scottish Symphony .... 'v .... -- Orchestra Friday 29 October Inevitable Beethoven 5th rs in the D Stiff Llttle Fingers Playhouse strange company of Suites by The Belfast boys are back. I've Thursday 28 October Faure and Lutoslawski, and the always thought this lot were a Newbattle Abbey College, Sibelius Violin Concert. Ulf great band. They've dropped their nr. Dalkeith, 7.30 pm Hoelscher is the soloist. Only earlier overt political stance in Music for Octave Clavichord chance this year to hear the favour of a more commercial by Bach, Farnaby, Peereon, Glasgow-based orchestra in sound. Saw them last year and played by Kathleen Creer. Tickets Ed inburgh. Conducted by wasn't disappointed, although S0p for students at door. Phone Jacek Kaspryzk. since then I feel they've hit a bit of a 663 1921 for details. dodgy patch with the new LP Still, Theatre Workshop would have been gig of the week if it wasn't on the same night as . Thursday 28 October 34 Hamilton Place, 8 pm Queen's Hall 7.45 pm Friday 29 October King's Theatre Until 31 Oct. Queen's Hall Scottish Chamber Orchestra 7.30 pm weekdays; The Architect of the Emperor Late night jazz Friday 29 October Galvanic Polish conductor Jerzy Sat 5 pm and 8 pm of Assyria by Fernando Arrabal. Jlmmx Feighan and the Conduct Unbecoming M01eow Nlghtllfe/ Doppelganger Maksymiuk directs an enterpris­ Cruicks'hank/ McColl Duo. ing programme of the rarely heard Starring Nyree Dawn Porter and Nite Club Anthony Steel. Royal Lyceum Without doubt the gig of the Arensky Variations on a Theme of Saturday 30 October Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky (the And Until 30 October at 8 pm week. Two great bands for £1.50. Queen's Hall 7.30 pm Starting Mon 1 November for one Tommy: a new and very tacky You can't go wrong. Doppel­ acerbic Octet) and Mendel­ Edinburgh l,lght Orchestra ssohn's Incidental music to "A week at 7.30 pm, a new show from version of The Who's musical. ganger, with the wonderful Fiona Conducted by James Beyer. Midsummer Night's Dream". Wayne Sleep who seems to have and on vocals, seen to be developing Reports, alter the orchestra played briefly escaped Andrew Lloyd Bodies by James Saunders a new, harder style at the moment Webber's tuneful grip. An interesting and imaginative and Moscow Nlght/lle get more it in the City of London Festival Sunday 31 October earlier this year, are that you will comedy dealing with family impressive every ttme I see them. Glenelg Hotel, never hear a speedier account of problems. Should be interesting to see how Leamington Terrace, 8.30-11 pm th e Wedding March. tey complement each other Folk Music: Allin Cottrell and Bedlam Theatre Nancy Corks. Admission free. musically. See you there. Cabaret: Whatever your talent, we Traverse Theatre need you for the Bedlam Theatre's Not Waving by Catherine Hayes new Friday late night cabarets. at 7.30 pm Monday 1 November The shows start on 5 November at Set in a Northern club, Not Waving Queen's Hall 7.45 pm 10.30 pm, so if you want to is about a comedienne who's in Vermeer String Quartet perform, write or just watch, her fifties and realises she is Plays Beethoven, Britten and contact us soon by calling David ageing - her biggest fear io;Josing Mendelssohn. Stead on 667 8510 or 343 2787. her laughs. · Until 7 November.

New 57 Gallery National Gallery 29 Market Street Until 12 December Until 8 November Samuel Palmer; The Visionary Craftamen In Scotland Romantic Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm Sat 10 am-1 pm Sun 2-5 pm 369 Gallery National Library 369 High Street George IV Bridge Unti 29 october Jan Tschlchold (1902-1974) Palntlnga and Tapestry Typographer and type designer Tonight until Sat 30 6.00/8.30 by Gordon MacDonald and and Scotland and Africa DIVA (AA) Thur 28/Fri 29 6.30 Chandler & Co. Season Birgitta Edwards Mon-Fri 9.30 am-5 pm BODY HEAT (X) + GILDA (A) Mon-Sat 12 am-6 pm Sat. 9.30 am-1 pm Sun 31-Sat 13 Nov 5.00/8.00 (Also 2.00 Wed nesdays. Not 8.00 Sundays) Herzog·s astoni shing Sat 30 4.30/ 7.30 Chandler & Co. Season Gallery of Modern Art Frultmarket Gallery F/TZCARRALDO (A) LAURA (A) + THE BRASHER DUBLOON (A) Until 6th November Botanic Gardens Sun 31 Gala Preview 8.00 British Drawing Until 5 December Sean Connery in Fred Zinneman's Mon 1-Wed 3 6.15/8. 15 From Plcaaao to Chia A selection from the Hayward FIVE DAYS ONE SUMMER (A) Dennis Hopper's legendary New acquisiti ons 1981-82. Annual 1982. Featuring works by Picasso, Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm Sat 30 3.00/11.15 THE LAST MOVIE (X) Mondrian, Ger Van Elk and others. KAGEMUSHA (A) Mon-Sat 10 am-dusk Talbot Rice Art Centre Sun 2 pm-dusk Until 6 November Ivan Eyre COMING Peter Greenaway's THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S DAUGHTER/ Neil Jordan's thriller Canadian paintings ANGEL/ London Film Festival On Tour/Wim Wenders' HAMMETT Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm SOON! 8 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 S.R.C. BYE-ELECTIONS TODAY Th is insert is an official advertisement taken out by the E. U .S.A. Executive. In no way does it relate to the content of Student newspaper, the editorial comment of which remains entirely independent. -E. US.A. Executive

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WELFARE CONVENER

DENISE JAN ALISON BOWKER CALDER DILLY

WELFARE Welfare Convener is responsible for all non­ Many f\Ssential student welfare services, such as Nightline, Women's Self-Defence Classes and academic aspects of student welfare and as such Nightline, Student Advisory and Counselling the Day Nursery. You've probably heard of these must have a wide knowledge of the problems Service, and the Day Nursery are endangered by facilities but students are not making full use of students face. I have the nece3sary experience on financial restrictions. It is vital that the Welfare them. I aim to remedy this. SRC and in EUSA to do this job. My policies are: Convener be committed to protect and, where possible, extend these services. The Day Nursery 1. Not to reaffiliate to NUS - the money would ACTION must be maintained unconditionally at the be better spent on our own student welfare. Grants: Help supplement it by providing a present standard and cost to students. 2. Nevertheless I believe that the grant increase register of part-time jobs. of 4% was abominable and I support the I will work towards ending all discrimination Self-Defence Classes: The 40 places at present campaign for an increase in student grants. against minority groups, such as disabled, black, are ridiculous for the 5,000 female students at this 3. I support the current work on Welfare university. Committee particularly self-defence classes, overseas, and gay students, in all areas of society. and the support given to minority groups. Day Nursery: There must be an adequate number Women are not in a minority but still suffer from of places for students as well as staff. believe that there are many problems which discrimination, sexual harassment and violent students have but they are ignorant of the support attacks. I am committed to increase safety NON-POLITICAL and advisory bodies available. I would publicise provisions, women's self-defence classes, the The convener's main concern should be the and support the work of these bodies. Sexual Harassment Counselling Group, and the welfare of individual students. I will be an appointment of an SRC Women's Convener. independent convener caring for students. The cuts affect both academic standards and the welfare of students. The Welfare Convener must oppose the cuts - I will do so.

ARCHIE FLOCKHART STEVE MARR

About the Job Apart from fervent support for both last year's and this This post is concerned w ith students' general problems year's Week of Action against Education Cuts, my and with certain specific issues: involvement in student politics revolves around Women's and Gay Rights; Potterrow House Committee. Overseas Students; Advisory Services, e.g. Nightline. No convener can hope to take a lead in all these areas. Proposals must come from within Welfare Committee, and the convener must be receptive to these. PROPOSED INVOLVEMENT It is clearly damaging to elect a convener who is actively hostile to some of the I am not attached to any one political party, therefore I am left free to pursue committee's aims. I support these aims - but not to the exclusion of more whatever policy, left, right, or centre, which I consider to be most beneficial to general topics. all without the inherent hypocrisy and cover-up which keeps our society afloat. _My intention is to cut through the cobwebs of bureaucracy and get In a Wider Context 1mmed1ately to the root of the problems of every single person, minority group, The convener should be active in various branches of student campaigns - or the majority student body as a whole. I feel that as Welfare Convener I these affect students' welfare. As a LABOUR STUDENT, I have been involved should affiliate myself lo every reasonable group operating in this university. in the grants and anti-cuts campaigns, and support NUS reaffiliation. Thank you for reading this address, I hope it influences your vote. Vote for me a~ a Labour candidate who can treat hardship and discrimination as more than just isolated side issues. Vote for Steve Marr and Sanity. THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 9 FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES ARTS 1st Year-3 Seats NICHOLAS PAUL ANDREW GREEN GURTON JOHNSON Being a quasi-militant-anti­ fascist - radical - conserva­ If you believe that further Whatever your subjects ti ve I consider myself education ought to be (mine are English Lit., Lang perfectly suitable to take the post of SRC rep. I available to all who want it, and Linguistics). Whatever believe Michael Foot Is wrong, Tony Benn a that full employment is a must and that Tory your nationality (I am Glaswegian). Whatever lunatic, and Margaret Thatcher a woman. I policies are based op inequality, I could rep­ your politics (I am a Moderate). I will do my best believe fifty words too short to express the little resent your views. I believe affiliation to NUS is to represent you and your views fairly. Vote for toe of my political consciousness so I shall not necessary for student political unity against this me - Pleasel And my room-mate will smile at even try. government. you. JAMES MARK R. CHARLES OGILVY­ POUSTIE VILLIERS STUART Why me? Well, if you have A commonsense approach Too much of student politics heard, as I have, that the to student representation is is controlled by disgruntled supposedly " non-politic­ required in university today and inept left-wing extrem­ ally orientated" Council - designed to represent rather than the futile and unrealistic approach of ists. The SRC aims to influence the academic and us, the students - is dominated either by mealy­ Bennite extremists. I will represent my constitu­ welfare life of the university so, this election, vote mouthed moderates or Marxists, take heart! I do ents, if elected, on a fair and practical basis as this for a more balanced approach. Vote VILLIERS. not fall into either category! YOUR vote is YOUR will produce real benefits. So vote for REALIST voice. . . Put SENSE into SRC! REPRESENTATION rather than DOUR DOGMA! SCIENCE 1st Year-3 Seats JOHN J. JOHN P. AILSA M. GRAY MACINTOSH MACKINNON K ,_ "The Year of the I am your perfect choice for Tf + Hatchet" Hil I'm Ai Isa. Don't worry, I'm the SRC, sitting happily " Effecience, trim1ng of not going to bore you with under "Socialist" in the waiste, Economy Measures, student loans ... ", any of the usual stuff, so if political spectrum, although I enjoy listening to these all-too-common Government euphemisms you're in the Sci. Fae. you'll know w~11i;Yote for, other viewpoints, before disagreeing with them. I are the polite terms for the wholesale destruction won't you? Bye. " always stick up for downtrodden minorities, and of the Ideal of Equal Opportunity in Our Higher even more for downtrodden majorities, which Education. It is up to US! as students NOW, to covers all of us, so vote for me! defend this right for future students. SIMON NICHOLLS BEN THOMSON

Good morning. I have put myself forward for a representative as I feel I can It's quite simple - I'm the guy to elect! offer much to the Science Faculty. Having a wide range of I'll listen to anyone, even if they just want to laugh in my face; interests and after a year's work in the House of Co.mmons, I I'm not chained to any political bias, and just as important I'm understand your views and needs and have had good practice really a very nice lad .... So, don't get burned - vote for me. at putting them across to the Union. SCIENCE U'graduate 2nd & Subsequent Years-1 Seat ARCHIE MARK DAVID FLOCKHART HODSON KILTIE If elected, my prioritie~ • LABOUR STUDENT I'm a trendy lefty, and as would be: Vote for a candidate who Hon. Sec. of the Alternative doesn't just mouth wet-Tory Italian Juggling Co­ platitudes about protecting services, but instead operative, based at KB, I am in the vanguard of the 1. To prevent any reaffiliation to NUS. for one who is prepared to get involved in the anti­ petit-bourgeois science student revolution. OK, cuts movement. so I've not got much hair, but I'll hold the line (Ho, 2. To lobby for improved teaching standards. Ho). Love and kisses - Marco delle sorelle 3. To reduce the effect of education cuts. Zam bone. Remember, the SRC. YOUR MONEY THEIR POLITICS-SO KIL TIE 1. ROBERT PARK SARAH WILLIAMS My aims on the SRC would be to: 1. Maintain the mini-bus service. 2. Fight library cutbacks. More than ever Science students need a powerful voice on the 3. Bring more George Square activities to KB. SRC. Three years at KB gives me experience of life here. Issues 4. Support an independent KB Sports Union. like the mini-bus service are still relevant but the strain being 5. Oppose reaffiliation to NUS- the money would be better placed on the catering by first year students is a more spent on the Union. Don't waste your vote- immediate problem. Vote fo r Action. ELEC T SARAH WILLIAMS. SOCIAL SCIENCE 1st Year·-2 Seats SUSAN ELIZABETH TOM DEACON FORBES POTTER Experience: SRC member, In 1981-82 EU Social I worked for many years in Vice-President , Telford Science Faculty faced a the UK and abroad before College 1981-82; founded £250,000 cut in its overall coming to Edinburgh. I hope edited Telford Student newspaper; NUS confer­ bud.get and an average 10% cut in places. We that if I put as much as I can into being at ences and campaigns; negotiating facilities with cant allow this to continue! I believe that there is university, I'll get as much as possible out of it. If other colls/unis, new Union premises. an aHernative to the present Government's you agree, maybe we can even improve thingsI I want to bring my experience and understand-· crippling policies and with your support - I'll be ing to a job I think worth doing and will be as fighting for it! accessible as possible. 10 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 Jolly Holidays!

Between the 19th JOBS•••••••

--and 22nd of Octo­ We interviewed people of course a sad indication that there ber, ' Student ' disciplines as diverse as Arabic are enough unemployed students and As trophysics, and here is a to make the scheme worthwhile. • interviewed a small selection of lhe more off beat The worst areas of student jobs they came up with and what unemployment were West Lothian broad cross-sec­ they had to say about them. and Fife. tion of Edinburgh students about their summer THE OTHERS • • • • months away from Those of you who have added Nevertheless, a large proportion up the 236 employed and the 82 (33%) of those questioned University. The unemployed will have realised that preferred to remain at home m to reach the total of 346 Britain. Reasons abounded, interviews were interviewed, there were 28 people though rationality was somewhat who were neither one way or the scarce. One girl after a long conducted in the other. They did not have jobs, so summer in the hands of Colonel they were not employed, and they Saunder's ' Kentucky Fried George Square did not want a job; nor did they Chicken' spent her extra vacation Library, Teviot claim Benefit money. For various in London. "I'm just patriotic", she waso ns these people either just said. " Someone's got to boost the Row Union, Potter­ stayed at home or 'had enough economy ... It helps, doesn't it?" money to spend the whole Others were similarly resolved or row Student Gen­ summer holidaying. their desire to remain in Britai n, whether through falling in love in tre and the David Kent or simply wishing to visit Milton Keynes - the postman's Hume Tower. The THE HOLIDAYS AFTER niqhtmare! table below maps University students - not all finding the work, not all finding the Despite the•••••• gloomy atmosphere money. of the job market a surprising out those inter- number of undergraduates did Unfortunately, all was not all so bright. Many of those remaining in viewed: Britain and notably Scotland did Nuclear Power Station worker: "!" % of FACULTY unemployed (out of people interviewed) Department of Drainage worker; so for the most rational reason of all; an inability to travel anywhere "!!" Social Concrete works worker: " Great Sciences Others else due to financial constraints. Aris Sciences Thus. whereas many students had challenge" Pickle factory worker, Germany: 27.4 24.5 22.5 14.9 the summer they w,puld have wished for (in terms of th•ir " Relaxes the mind." holiday), far too many spent their Gardener, Windsor Safari Park: "I % of YEAR unemployed (out of people interviewed) Certain things stand out from weeks waiting only tor a new term the figures. For example, nobody was convinced they were trying to kill me." 1 st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year 5th year and a new grant cheque. in the third year that we 19.5% 24% 27.5% 26.8% 5.9% interviewed did any youth or Escort Agency Girl "It was great." voluntary work. Some trends Male au pair: "I found it very (probably coincidentally) are strange; I didn't en1oy bottle Once again the figures really feeding at all." manage some kind of holiday. So for the unemployed and apparent; for instance, factory speak for themselves. Those those unable to go on holiday, jobs and catering work appear to Fish packer: "The pay was bad and unemployed students that we For those travelling abroad, 1982 making-do was very difficult. Yet, decline in popularity over the the boss was a .. " talked to were not especially keen seemed to - be the summer of in explaining a remark, one fourth years. This corresponds with the Potato inspector: " No comment". to tell us how they felt. "Resigned" diversity. France was naturally as year student certainly summed up fact that most people in that sort said one. " It's very boring, there's popular as ever (23% visited it), the feelings of the 346 people we of work described it as " ghastly" nothing to do when you're due both to its proximity and were able to interview: " Being and "boring". Nobody interviewed unemployed", said another. The relatively cheap living-standard. back at University is easy. What confessed to being self-employed. two who said "It was great fun" Believe it it or not, the Falklands I'm not looking forward to is the Although two thirds of the people were in a league by themselves. rem ained neolected. time when there is no automatic interviewed had work of some TRAVEL•••••• end to a period of having to find description, about a fifth of those work." When that time comes, had only part time work. It is only On the whole most students there will be no returning back to that which disguises the already were satisfied with their method of the University nest. shocking unemployment rate from transport, with the exception of being even worse. bus trav~I, wH1ch got an almost universal thumbs down. The one character who had disagreed with •••••••••• the verdict had been on the "MaAiC Bus" to France. "It was magic" he said. Asked wny, he explained that the man sitting next to him had Researched, compiled brought with him a large plastic and written by Sam bag containing an illegal Berwick and Ian Marr, Students interviewed - 346 substance. One took the opportunity to complain about with graphics by Ann British Rail and the feeble excuses Cameron. 1. Arts undergraduates 113 they gave for the- lateness ol the Science undergraduates 80 trains. "The fact that the preceding Social Sci undergraduates 106 train was late does not excuse the Others 47 fact that mine was also late. That is 'e ffect' not 'cause'. Could somebody please explain it to them because I couldn't. I've been on seven trains in ten days and Of these students, we also they were all late." One harassed divided them into brackets: Inter-railer complained that not only were there no seats but there was also a piddling dog which made life on the floor of the train 2. First year undergraduates 87 fraught with peril . Other •••••••••• Second year undergraduates 83 complaints were along the lines of Third year undergraduates 80 c heap charter flights being Fourth year undergraduates 82 overbooked. Fifth year ondergraduates 14 236 people out of 346 had jobs (some were part-time)

1st year 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total YOUTHWORK (voluntary etc.) ------2 2 5 9 THE UNEMPLOYED LANDWORK (farming, building, etc) ------8 4 7 9 28 FACTORY JOBS ------_ 5 6 4 2 17 In a period of particular 24% • • • • • • • SHOP ASSISTANTS ------15 8 5 5 34 economic disarray it was 'hoped Out of the 346 interviewed. 82 TECHNICAL JOBS (engineering , computers)- ---- 5 4 4 8 2 23 that such an enquiry would go were unemployed for all or most of OFFICE WORK ------5 8 11 8 32 some way towards examining the summer. Although one girl CATERING ------9 16 14 2 41 exactly how students were able to praised the fact that there is a HOSPITAL WORK ------4 6 4 2 16 cope with three to four months separate Benefits queue for VACATION STUDIES ------2 2 8 6 18 away from their University nest. students in Edinburgh, it is of PAINTING/ DECORATING------'2 1 3 1 7 ATTENDANTS uttin reens, museums etc. -- - - 5 2 2 2 11 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 11 Music on the Puff Puff Move

producing meltingly beautiful tones in two movements from the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, and a drastically curtailed Emperor Waltz, timpanist Caroline Garden accommodated in the gymn cupboard. Accoustics aren't good but no one seems to mind, and an orchstral infant (Lewis Morrison's( raising its voice in Haydn raises only smiles. Back to a diesel-pulled train, only fifteen minutes of the Major, soberer now, to endcre while those dark satanic slag-heaps that are the mountains of Sky suddenly loom ;irev below a black canopy . •••••••••• " 15.57. Arrives Kyle of Lochalsh. The SCO wind ensemble and Scottish Philharmonic Singers give a concert in from of the Lochalsh Hotel". The Hotel is a vile blot on a fair scene. In front of it the chairs are all set up, with Kyleakin and the water in the background. Only problem is the wind blows overt the music stands and human substitutes led by Michael Storrs come to the rescue, squatting on the ground to hold up the copies. Weber, Beethoven and Mozart ('Don Giovanni' excerpts arranged for wind ensemble - 'La darem la Locomotive in C Minor - not just mano' especially appropriate if the train puffing along. On Saturday 29th May this year the Scottish Chamber your tiny hand is frozen, as is likely by now) are interspersed with "09.00 A brass fanfare sends the Orchestra charter a steam train from Inverness -to take scots songs from the Phil­ special on its way. In the w ine bar, harmonic Singers. The Sky Boat red, white and rose is served up to their audience and themselves to the Kyle of Lor,halsh Song is inevitable, but strangely the accompaniment of Mozart and moving . The concert is Rossini. Other SCO members wiil and back. It was the first time in 22 years that steam wonderfully exhilarating, but it's be playing elsewhere in the train". had been used along the Highland line, the second become unbearably cold. Warmed Slothful from a sleepless night in by refreshment (not the hotel's the Inverness Youth Hostel (my time the moveable been put in to tea) and having conversed with dormitory full of Australians music feast had some of the players we prepare for brashly entertaining in their operation . David Nice was one of the the homeward journey. waking hours but hardly less noisy " 18.06. The train (n JW diesel when dormant) I and my 'invited a1o ng. We summon energy to ------­ hauled) leaves Kyle for Inverness search out the music, none of passengers. guest' amble dully through a of cows fleeing in panic from the with more music on the way". Alas which has so far reached us. In the· fire-breathing monster yield to the .,______too little of it in our cases. The crowd of faces familiar and next carriage, Melville Jerome and untamiliar along the far platform of two fellow bassoonists are barren hills unheeding of the noise Highlands, nothing like them; and Major orders a bottle of Asti Inverness station to take up seats and laughter inside. It is an must talk to the wife, w.ho has Spumante and insists we partake. perched on the edge of seats I in Coach A. Casual dress amongst uncanny contrast. moved in to the seat opposite me Although we are both wonderful engaged in what sounds like a the musicians and personnel of rumba, and causing welcome The Major - such we have and I fear she may devour me, she young people and I with my brain the Orchestra suggests that they, obstruction (who's in a hurry in decided to call him - is still seems so interested in 'the alone could solve the Falkland's loo, regard this as a relaxation reading his paper, oblivious to University'. conflict, the young lady is perhaps any case?) Nothing more until the fro m commitments . Only other activity. I find aforemen- .. _ _ Arrives at Duncraig a little mar~ exceptional for him. Juard 's van. They've moved a 12 18 Concerts Manager David Todd in tioned friend back in the guard's where, to the accompaniment of a The Philharmonic Singers enter piano in there and thumping away kilt and spor,an suggests any kind van talking to the orchestra's piper, passengers walk through the carriage and entice us in to at it, with a liberal spattering of of formality, though the reason is leader John Tunnell until his wife, the grounds of Duncraig Castle. singing along; our gentleman wrong notes because of the later to become apparent, and the suspicious perhaps of pretty girls _ _ Lunch at the castle. _ _ imagines himself vastly attractive jolting, are Bryn Turley and 13 00 14 30 boss, Manager Michael Storrs, has principal dou ble-bass and John in mirrored mini skirts and red An oufdoor concert in front of the to the youngest of them and donned a black felt hat in wry tights, abruptly attracts his castle (in hall if wet) will be causes her tremendous' embarras­ Cleese double (I hope he'll forgive gesture of authority. The rT'e s it must be the thousandth attention. Pause of party for the conducted by Alexander ment. gentleman we find in the seat someone said that) John Mozart Flute Quartet which seems Schneider". The piper is none opposite us is on the contrary Ste, Whatever they're playing serely to mock the bleak wild other than David Todd, vindicating ext remely smart and so suggests seems to afford the manic and scene outside. his Gordon tartan. We pass, heavy •••••••••• some Anglo-Scots country squire exuberant treatment it's receiving . with the excess of the gin-and­ a cu ltivated image completed by° No sign of Mozart an J Rossini but tonics and vaguely annoyed at we find respite back in the the hunting paper and Glynde­ ••••••••••• the wine is there for those who having missed so much, through guard's van where the versatile Mr bou rne-style picnic hamper. The can anoro It at 15p a glass, served .. 11.04. Stops at Achnasheen to the rhododendron flowered Todd is playing reels on the fiddle . too-blue eyes, set in a round, by giggling sixteen-year-aids pick up water, pumped from a grounds, the air now clammy and Of the tinselled serving-wenches, smooth, too-handsome face dressed in tinsel-spattered 'old­ nearby stream". Most of the sub-tropical though a warm wind one has become maudlin under when raised make our self'. tyme' attire. passengers spill forth to observe blows cold. It is still dark. Those the influence, the other two are con5ci ous conversation falter this lengthy operation; I seize a who chose lunch in the castle are helpless with laughter. I had better th fur er. (This is untrue of a first chance to view the engine from the hosted in to a disappointingly neglect to expand on the final impression; I'm describing more •••••••••• front, clambering on to the line. modern clinic-like extension; we stages of the journey - what the from hindsight). He seems to be Back in the carriage the Major has amonst the picnicers sit shivering Major said about his relations with alo ne and disda i nful of "09.23. the train stops at Muir of ar last begun to engage my with cans, rolls and eggs boiled his wife in her presence, what he commencing pleasantries. Ord to be serenaded from the companion in conversation, back at the hostel, looking over the said to my companion and how he platform by the Scottish bestowing excessive praise on loch to Plockton and praying for said it, how he turned out to be a Philharmonic Singers" All I can wonderful Youth, alas not as rain to keep off. real Major after all , but a sad and •••••••••• see are more photographers and imaginatively nor as sincerely as After eating there's a little to do, pathetic one because We hear little of the brass spectators. Someone tells us the Conrad. He did not imagine this and events are delayed by the unfortunate_ly this is not fiction fanfare, and see nothing. A woman Singers are on the bridge but by sort of thing would appeal to us, decision to hold the concert and the sorry man exists. We arrive th on e platform, seeing us leaning the time we descend their ditty is but here we were , scores of us, it inside. When eventually prepared, back in Inverness temporarily out of the window, remarks loudly done and they are joining the train. was wonderful, it really was. So for the Hall, a gymnasium-like affair depressed and embarrassed by nd a tearfully that we just don't The journey resumed, activities tne next hour and a halt we were (no suits of.armour here). barely the sordiness of ar initially know how lucky we are (strange: become more frenetic. Bryn pinioned to our seats - not too contains the 400 or so travellers. humorous encounter; it takes but a she_,s in tears!) The hooter of the Turley is now barely heard above unwillingly on account of the gin­ conversation with two Americans eng ine gives an enormous shriek the chatter in a crowded 'piano­ and-tonics liberally plied us by • • • • a • • • • • back at :he hostel reliving the day sending_ the already billowing to restore a sense of wonder at the st bar', though strains of the neighbours who appear to !:>e eam higher into the air in fright Golliwog ' s Cakewalk and his friends and his wife, and hear Conductor Alexander Schneider great success of the SCO's nd th a e train moves off toward; ubiquitous Joplin can be detected. about the Marchesa who is 94 but · turns out to be that eccentric enterprise. The orchestra remains :~e mountains, the clouds above In the Victorian observation coach has persuaded her chauffeur to gnome-like figure on the train with in Inverness to resume saner em darker even than in the the Singers have lost no time in drive to Achnasheen with 32 peaked· cap and something of a official engagements with overcast sky above us. unpacking madrigals and bottles of champagne in the boot roving eye. We are depri ved of the Schneider and others. For us there r The track for ·several miles is entertaining the 'V IP's'; the because she is too old to travel by Vivaldi Violin Concerto which he Is a duller seven hour journey via ,'""d With cameramen and car­ bassoonists are still forming train; about John (?) who is was to play and conduct, but still Aberdeen to Edinburgh on :~di5 of spectators: the event, queues either side of t'nem, whilst following us in his helicopter - hear a sprightly Haydn symphony Sunday. Sleep is no trouble: the thee her because of the engine or outside, where the sky darkens there he goes above lhe loch, the (No. 68). Lewis Morrisor. - surely Australians have been superseded brou o~c hestra, seems to _have still, the spectators are becoming devil, - about wonderful young the finest principal clarinettist in by Japanese who neither talk nor . g t every local resident fewer and fewer until the last fields people and his domain of the any of this country's orchestra s - snore. 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982

EXHIBITIONS PRESENT • • • ------­'

Exhibition at the to see his work collectively. From Picasso to Landscapes for example are University Gallery recurrent. His concern for Chia Talbot Rice Art Centre "multiple perspective" is his way of The Scottish Gallery saying he won't paint what's real. Ivan Eyre All his art is a product of a fertile ol Modern Art Briefly this guy was born in (otten disturbing) imagination. The Scottish Gallery of 1935, and has worked mostly in Landscapes are therefore Modern Art is a particularly fine Canada. The exhibition shows 18 profoundly surreal. The yellow Georgian mansion which stands canvases ( 1969- 1979) and is which purveys " Riding Mountain" in some of the most cared for accompanied by a 15 minute is vaguely autumnal and yet of no gardens in Britain. The situation video, recorded March of this year. season at all. Eyre then, is creating is also impressive: from beside In all it's probably one of the more an other-worldly experience. the goldfish pond and delicately absorbing and important shows at ("Painting" he conjects "is a sculptured fountain in front of the TRAC this year. vehicle for wondering about the the gallery one can see the Eyre is an interesting outsider to cosmos"). What is poignant about silhouetted skyline of the Royal the conventional art movements of his art is the rich association of Mile, more than a mile distant. the past decades. Art in the 60s for these mystical elements with This is one of my favourite and him was " silly, empty and boring" those that are so tangible to us best-loved places and always, as I and as he explains on film he La ndscapes, urban scenes, or enter this building, I imagine, with avoided the "hype, commercial­ interiors, (the three themes that a surge of enthusiasm, what ism and theoretical nonsense" are best represented here), treasures will await me inside. I was not disappointed by the latest which he found common in the however confused by Eyre's exhibition, which comprises the work of his contemporaries. This warped mind are nevertheless gallery's m ost recent acquisitions attitude reveals the gravity and recognisable as of this earth. Are as well as some of the longer intensity of his own work. (He these then visions of 21st century standing (o r ha nging) exhibits. actually burnt 70 of his paintings in schizoid man? The ordered chaos By far the largest piece is the 1965 because they weren't as of a world with pristine controversial Compress;on by the sincere as he wanted). Of the "fragmented debris" and distorted French artist, Cesar Baldacclnl selections present in the gallery, discarded f igurative shapes and is composed of crushed (by no means totally representa­ suggests an ambigious answer automobile parts which have been tive) , there are several common Red compacted into a rectangular themes and images which help us cuboid shape by a vast machine. Th e criticism which has If surrounded this work has been can also believe that the whole focused mainly on the price experience was an elaborate hoax (£23,000), the materials and or mass hypnosis on the behalf ol supposed "lack of art". Frankly, it FLIX the afflicted woman, played frightens me to think that these excellently by Barbara Hershey. forces of ignorance, insensitivity The film works for a variety of and undisguised prejudice exist, reasons - the all-round good even today. To anyone with any The Entity (X) action, its realistic production and ., degree of intelligence or insight, it because we are not force fed an The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art is obvious that this is not just a by Sidney lrvlne explanation for the phenomenon -photograph by David Petherick crushed heap of metal, but is the but rather allowed to make up our way it is, only because of the An apparently normal, middle­ own minds on what was deliberate and premeditated inter­ 0 0 0 00000000000 aged and relatively attractive happening to the woman. The film woma n comes home from vention of the artist. are imposing, frightening and for the first time by Courageous also succeeds in not sensational­ secretarial school one evening. There are, however, many other impressive. Here the artist's faces Boys al Work. These bright Fauve ising rape and is concerned with a She is just on the point of new acquisitions on display, and are images photographically figures inscribe their message on mental rather t han physical although they may not hold the enlarged and with painted undressing when she is assaulted approach to the subject. The the surrounding abstract areas of and raped by the entity, an same controversial mystique as expressions. space. Entity is a fi ctionalised account ol invisible presence. During the Compression, they are for the Although Guitar Gas-Jet and There are many other varied and a true incident which took place in course of the film she is raped most part exciting and stimulating. Bottle is the fourth work by Pablo different representations of Los Angeles in 1976. According to Examples of these include a piece Picasso to be purchased by the perhaps another five times by this the closing credits, although they modern art here; to catalogue and being, including in the bathroom, by the Scottish sculptor Gerald gallery, it is the first example of his describe all of them would be an are less frequent and less intense, in front of her children, in front of Laing, whose sculpture, Human Cubist work to be shown here. His insane task, but it is worth noting the attacks continue. See The her boyfriend and whilst asleep. Condition II, presents us with an work remains as fresh as it ever that names such as Piet Mondrian, Entity and you are guaranteed of After the second assault she visits enigmatic male/female relation­ was and employs such techniques Ian Hamilton Findlay, William seeing a film that is at times a psychiatrist who tells her that it is ship. The bold yellows and blacks as cutting straight edges of thick Wilson and Georges Braque ar distressing, at times a little of GIibert Prouesch and George paint to give the effect of collage. also to be found in this thesauru all in her mind and is probably due unbelievable but certainly Passmore (commonly known as The new wave Italian artist, o f culture and enlightenment. to her father's incestuous feelings thoug hi-provoking. Gilbert and George) in Exhausted Sandro Chia is represented here GIies Sutherlan for her in her childhood and her own Barrie Normal sexual repressi on. Yet she also meets some para-psychologists who suggest and then prove to their satisfac ti on that it was a paranormal experience . The Do me, Do me, one more ,me, ending of the film leaves both once is never enough (with a thin PAST. these explanations open, and we AND like you).

from the NGS itself and this A Retrospective limitation tends to make the themes in Britain" and " Italian, Look Ali ke success of thematic comparison Spanish, and Flemish" were also too dependent upon the quality of lovely (eg Domenichino and Pietro Exhibition at the National the works shown. da Cortona - (17th C Classical The Dutch section (5 parts, 14 landscapes-great-yes I know I'm Gallery Scotland paintings) was mostly uninspiring. biased). Better sections were ones which So a very worthwhile ex hibition Being rather perverse, the fi rst iuxtaoosed different artistic styles. which al though too big and thing I noticed about thi s contemporary and otherwise (eg consisting of too many second­ exhibition was its effect upon the Yeats/ McTaggart.) "18th century rate works, serves as a usefu l look gallery as a whole- a confusing Britain" was similarly dull, th ough at paintings over the last five mess: almost every room has been as the woman behind me said " It's centuries. And even if the gallery subJected to the showing of 36 nice to see the old chestnuts in a appears to be in enormous thematic comparisons (com­ new light". Now the French disarray for those who know it prising 86 paintings). paintings - yes lovely - a well, the reordering 1s in some The idea's a goodie - but reflection of a higher quality ol cases for the better - the set of perhaps for a gallery of the size of works. A good comparison for seven sacraments by Poussin the NGS the exhibition should example - "Christ's charge to St. ( 1644-48) looks especially good in have had more modest propor­ Peter" by Chisolfi and Poussin its new if temporary setting, room tions (eg the other extreme at the respectively, (17th C), two different 19 (Funny way to end a review) . NGL - 'Second Sight') It is depictions of exactly the same Red comprised o f works taken larqely subject matter. Briefly . "later Killing Time by Barrie Keefe THEATRIX Bedlam JAZZ Killing Time is an interesting awesome presence. The direction Bodies machine shadows the entire and controversial play, perhaps a Jazz was hard to follow and the all development of the play. Simpson trifle heavy for a Wednesday round technical excellence of the by James Saunders dies because he cannot reconcile lunch-time, which raised the Queen's Hall band maintained relentless his love of poetry and art with the brooding question of youth un­ pressure. Then, suddenly, at the Lyceum account he reads of David and employment - amongst other Archie Shepp Quartet/ end of what was by now a 35/50 things. On occasions the cast of It is almost dangerous to Helen's therapy, ascribing "no Gordon Cruickshank min track, Shepp introduced this describe the plot of Bodies for fea r meaning" to anything outside the three got somewhat over-excited lovely melody, right out of the of deterring the prospective body in its present situation. There Martin Croom~ as Jan, delighted Quartet blue, but as ii it had been vaguely theatregoer with the impression of is no logical fl ow to the argument, us all by fondling various parts of pre,alent throughout. It was an yetanother soap-opera type study and Simpson is up against his his anatomy, and David Pollock as I won't waste time on the incredible finale to an exhausting into the problems of middle-class brick wall, as· all that gave Louis had trouble wi th pro­ support, the Gordon Cruickshank piece. I couldn't belive it - marriage. David and Helen, and substance to his life is declared nunciation at times. Despite these Quartet - forgettable, innocuous staggering, mystifying. There's Mervyn and Anne temporarily null and void. Simpson functions minor setbacks, the trio managed enough, (you knew, pleasant barely room here to relate the rest swapped partners ten years ago. in the play as Mervyn's alter-ego: a . fairly proficient performance, background stuff), but in the light of what was a momentous evening David (Martin Sadler) and Helen both express the need for art and with Aaron Cass as Paul , providing of what foll owed - insignificant. - only time to focus on Shepp (Shella Felvln) have since bee n tor the ··God-given capacity to be a convincing display of the antics Now the Archie Shepp Quartet himself. The very fact that he can cured of the nervous hysteria this irrational". David is kind, tolerant, of your average Lewisham boot­ - in fact before they even began stand so far apart from the other ·,educed them to, by an American secure and excruciatingly self­ boy. I was puzzled by one entry on playin g you could sense members of his quartet, who were therapy, whi lst Anne (Irena righteous and boring. Mervyn is the programme, Alan Hart was .something of that especial themselves supreme, is testament Mlynka) and Mervyn (John Hart d runk, bordering on hysteria and given credit for his job as American essence: a sense of to the stature of a great man. He Dyke) are still living with their on a self-destructive search for the 'bicycling technician' - please excitement, expectancy, energy, regards himself as a traditionalist, problems, in despair of any similar answer to the question "Why", what's that? enthusiasm, exhuberance. I'll which is however misleading - his solution. If it is then disclosed that which can never be resolved . In a Stephen Davies never forget the opening track: extremely complex and abstracted the play supports itself entirely on strangled voice he puts forward Bass, Piano and Drums took off at style is at least one step away from soliloquys and dialogue (the David's case: furious pace, and Shepp himself Trad Jazz as we know it ... Music characters are rooted to their "God is dead and there is no didn't walk on till they'd set the which demands and deserves comfortable m i dd l e -class meaning", and David replies with a stage for almost 15 minutes. Then considerable effort. armchairs). the read e r will faint smile from the depths of his he took command - and with ZAP probably laugh scornfully and armchair: "God was never alive move on to the next review. But and meaning is unnecessary." ' listen first to the fate of Simpson, a If you're looking for answers, spotty schoolboy who attempts to this play is not for you, but it brings smash himself and his motorbike into focus a very real predicament to pieces against a brick wall, and with unusual wit and wisdom. Try whose progress on a life support not to miss it. E.U.S.P.B. By the third week of first term (which produce Polygon Books). Each manuscript the board most students wi l l ha ve Being the only publications decides to publish has an editor discove.-d the existence of a board run solely by students, (as appointed to it and he or she is st udent newspaper in this contrary to popular myth OUP, then responsible for checking the University. Some of the more Oxford University Press and other copy (receive not recieve' and adventurous may even· have University publishers are, like the sweet- talking the typesetters descended into the basement Edinburgh University Press here, Adam and Bill. The finale of any offices at 1 Buccleuch Place, and run by University-paid staff) " Pubs book's life at this stage is the even if this isn't your own 15p of Board" is quite unique. launch at various appropriate well spent 'purchase at least Within the next year Pub­ venues in Edinburgh. Student rings bells some time lications Board will have brought Perhaps those inspired to write Juring Thursdays. out ten new books, of which Alec their own scripts will take pen to One part of this stude nt Guinness on Screen and the new , paper once in the board (or even i ublications business wh ich , Edinburgh Pub Guide should soon t hose not), as two of the ,nfortunately doesn't have · so be flat/hall-hold names and Not, -forthcoming publications were 11uch recognition within the Not Wh ile the Giro which is due to written by a former student Allan University is the Stud e n t be published in March 1983should Hunter, Alec Guinness on Screen Publications Board . Ofte n have the same response. The and The Making of a Local Hero. shortened to "Pubs Board" many people co-opted onto the board For those interested in applying people still think (optimistically) will be involved in pro moting these (hopefully having been convinced being on "Pubs Board" is akin to new publications (this also means Pubs Board isn't an exclusively Eng. Lit. 1/2 set up for the "old -naving shares in the Pear Tree o r carrying boxes of books up and The Southsider. down the stai rs at Buccleuch boys/ girls") a seminar is being held on Friday 29th October (this Stuck in one corner of this page Place, so weight-training at the ',hould be (?) an advert for keen, Pleasance is advisable) , attending Friday!) at 1 pm in the basement at . 1 Buccleuch Place prior to the enthusiastic people, interested in· the weekly Wednesday board PLiblishing and whose life-long meetings and reading through interviews. ambition has been to be co-opted new .manuscripts w hich are onto the Edinburgh University constantly being sent into the S!udent Publicati on s B-oa r d office. • THE Here is your chance to put • E.U.S.P.B. your interest in publishing into More Jazz from Branford Marsalis), and • NEEDS though the music was difficult to practice. Queen's•••••• Hall keep up with, in terms of pace and • YOU- melody, moments of delight were Apply in writing to Wynton Marsalis Quintet often forthcoming from his own masterful trumpet. Throughout he One thing's for sure - I don't • TWO displayed control of the most remember ever having written so The Chairman, contrasting moods. The soft many notes for a concert - phew! • POSTS lingering sound of a melancholy - and that really Is a comment blues which faded into thin air was Edinburgh University Student upon the nature of the music, • AVAILABLE for example instantly replaced by which was in a state of constant his more characteristic clinical flux: unpredictable. convoluted, Publications Board, and energetic dexterity. In short • FOR intricate, but always engaging (I (given that l"m fast running out of might Iust explain at this point that 1 Buccleuch Place, roorr> this week) the whole set • NEW you're blesse with tv,, Iazz tr, we tr4CK n te hi h • TALEN by 1.00 p.m. Friday, trit Oc 29th October.

Wd Come to the Pu jcatiors Board Seminar o ) tomorrow (Friday) at 1 00 pr1 nt •he ---- 14 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28tn uctooer rn82

Waiting For The Boy

simple danceable music. The Ian Stewart waits lyrics come second place and this Howdy Suckers, (watch how and waits to pay was obvious. There are no political you pronounce them 'f's, cowboy') undertones present in much of the and welcome to another lowdown ten pence a minute new wave of music these days on the weekend's Uni events They believe that music is to dance Straddled up to the pulsating to see Culture to, not to 3nalyse. Potterrow on Friday night and Our Boy George - real name found myself much impressed by Club. George O' Dowd - 1s not the Sleep Detectors, who weren't someone I'd like to meet outside very commercial but were qu,te Elvis was the white boy of blues; Waveley Station bogs at ten cool and showed lots of promise now we have the white boy of o'clock at night, but I have been Wish the girl vocalist had invested reggae. told that behind all those locks of in a bra though. Talk about Ji seemed a good omen that hair, lipstick and eyeliner lurks a bouncing back to happiness. Culture Club had achieved the perfectly normal boy/girl. Soames esq was present agarn number one spot in the BBC radio The ma,n let down of this 919 with a sultry looking lady on one charts on the same Tuesday that was that it was over in half an hour arm and a stale bridie under the they were due to play Coasters in - and ten minutes of that was other. Says he's at present trying Edinburgh. I set off in my Poser taken up by the two encores. to start an alternative to Pies, Pints gear at 9.30, all ready to bop till I Surely, if people pay £3.50 for a and Politics, and hoping to call ,t dropped. However, upon reaching ticket they should get more than a Pies, Pies and Pies. Good luck to the designated venue, I found, to half hour set. There were reasons him. At Chambers St on Saturday my horror, that although it was for the short set. Firstly, George were Andy 'Lou' Bradbury's lastest 10.05 pm , the doors were still shut .c had gone to the specialist that day offering Sophie and the Four and I had to queue in the cold. -~ and had been told that he had ·a Frankensteins, who I thought were Yeugh. Still, I waited and grew 'B. throat infection and shouldn't great and handled both a very blue, and waited and went bluer, '" sing. This was after his failure to dodgy PA and a crowd of heckling until someone had the bright idea Q sing at a Glasgow gig the night bewying lads extremely well. A of opening the doors and letting~ before. It seems that we were worthwhile weekend all round on people inside to wait. <: lucky/ unlucky, depending on how the music front. Scandal also, as I must admit a certain liking for .~ you see it. that he sang even a surly Parisien Moscow Nlghtllle the single, and so I was looking c.. thirty minute set. The second bassist Pierre o ·Aix was caught in forward to seeing what their live reason he is in fact that Culture The delicious George with butter melting in his mouth. a scuffle with a five year old show was like. Once inside I had to Club have only been together punter outside the Potterrow on wait until a quarter to eleven since last April and so there is no Tuesday afternoon Apparently, before there was a murmer of perfect for Boy/Girl George and After the first few tracks, I began great dearth of material for them to the youngster took D'Alx the activity backstage. But no, it Co. to realise that much of the music pick and choose from . distance before the beating a wasn't Boy/Girl George and his At 1a·st, around midnight, was extremely similar, with their The feeling I got at the end of the hasty retreat. It seems our foreign Culture Club, but a would-b~ B. A. Culture Club plus others came on first single White Boy creating day was one of dismay. Dismay friend had roused the juvenlie by Robertson who's lewd, provo­ stage and opened the set v.ith I'm little stir amongst all but the few that a group with such little trying to slip a complimentary cative and sometimes fascist the Boy. The underlying reggae true Culture Club supporters. The background and a lacklustre pro­ bcket for Nightlife's Nile Club gig poems, although regional, were tones of the music were made only track I felt had a strong as well fessionalism can achieve the into his back pocket. More details quite entertaining. After 20 clear by George's use of echo and as unique force behind it was the number one spot in the British elsewhere on the p!lge. Dance till minutes recital, with not much rolled 'r's when introducing the White Boys Can't Control It. It record charts. A dismay that left you stop, boys. Mine's a pint. See audience reaction either way, tracks. But the songs also started with a simple but effective me not wondering whether I had you. David Robertson departed, contained overlying disco, funk guitar solo that led into a jazz­ enjoyed watching Culture Club, leaving room for the electricians and salsa riffs to create an often funk/reggae riff. I enjoyed it. but whether I had watched Culture and roadies to get everything unique sound. Culture Club are based on Club at all. ~e". ><>< The songs deal with the obscure side of life that love can show you. And they're all very cryptic. They Sheepdips ..... don't kiss, rather they bite. They Bombed Out think that if you push things as far as you can, then you end up with Paul Hullah talks about boomerangs more when all is said and done. borrowing the theme tune from They take life to the edge where it's Duncan Mclean "The Persuaders" TV series. (circa and feelings. A preview of a review. dangerous and safe at the same 1966) as the riff for the exhilirat,ng time. Soames "I think we're gets Torpedoed. I've Cried Enough. As in all the subversive below · the surface." The rock music scene in best pop music , the inspirations They say it's better like that. Neater. Kloh "We've got money to Edinburgh, and throughout the are very diverse, from Eddie UK ,s currently going through a Cochrane to Elvis Costello, and a burn, it grows on trees" (Poison Is). I think he's proba~:y right. very weak patch, perhaps the whole lot in between too. The one common factor They handle music deftly and worst since the su9ary nothings of Fabian and Frankie Avalon 20 possessed by their influences ,s know where you should plant yourself to avoid the shares set by years ago. Where is the energy, that they all made truly great records , and although The style or sameness. Do you warlt me imagination, and excitement of five, or even three years ago? It is Torpedoe& a10 not about to to tell you who th~y're like. I don't certainly not evident in the achieve any sudden measure of really know, and I'm glad of that. increasingly stagnant charts, and greatness, they certainly have the .,, And why am I writing this is almost as hard to find live. There potential to become successful fi' anyway? Well, I remember seeing are occasional signs , however, both artistically and commercially. :n Soft Cell's first ever concert in that the current reactionary trends To this end what is needed is a lot ~ Leeds a couple of years ago, and I need not be permanent. Here and more of the manic intensity :,,, got this feeling that one day they there, now and then, in the displayed in some of the faster ~ would be very famous. That they depressing lethargical darkness songs. A deal more (controlled) ~ had some kind of inherent there is a spark a vital spark, of agression in the vocals and ove rall unstoppable potential. It's more of dynamism and hope. a greater degree of wild a knowing sensation than just Such a spark lit up the seedy recklessness would make them a The Moskies; I. to r. D'Aix, Kloh and Phod, with Soames esq shallow guesswork. I don't get that darkness of the Coral Reef's band of exceptional power and looking sly in the foreground. feeling very often but it comes to Basement Bar on Saturday night. unusual amiability. me every time I hear Moscow From the opening organ motif of The facts come first; Moscow Freshers' Week 1981, they have Nightllfe. It's a good feeling. Modern Boys right through till the Nlghtllfe is four people, Heron built so much. Begin with the So please go and see Moscow last echoing bass notes of Selina, Kloh, Pierre D'Aix, Jaz Phod and bland enthusiasm of songs like Nightllfe tomorrow night. and The Torpedoes never stopped Nigel Soames Esq. They have Clarissa , push through past that to have a good time. You can get trying, winning over and warming On next week's been together for just over a year the mysterious. two- planar tickets at the door. I'll be there, and up an initially cold audience. and tomorrow night they are Boomerang Concept (Phod; however they go down, they've got They played two covers; Steve Rock page: playing Edinburgh's Nile Club for Sheepd1p, Bruce.) and arrive this far and it's just as easy to go Harley's Come Up And See Me the first t,me. I like this band a lot, somewhere near to now with new forward as 1t is to go back. They're and the Headboys' Shape of How to wipe your bottom and I want you to like them too. I material like the daring, vast and going to make the most of this Things To Come the remainder of want you to go and see them questioning Poison Is. That's bloody gig. D'A 1x ·on va profiler au the set being made up of self­ properly, tomorrow night. I'll try and explain how they moved, and they're still maximum de cette putain de compositions. And impressive why. running. If you saw them at Teviot concert.' these were too. One moment they From the naivety of the first in Freshers' Week this year, you Told you. were playing the punky, political cliquey gig at the Potterrow in should know what I'm aiming at. Sorry and they next they were THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 15

Grand National WANTED

Perhaps this is not the place to oroduced his best run of the :, .. ~;--~:r::~-:--:t\>;·:·: Running Club---- name names and point accusing >eason between the race course , ~ -~..: : .. ~; •\ O ~ t .• : F• ~ • .. : • ':~.. lingers but the matter will be 3nd the swimming pool. Once .. . .. : ... ~ : . . . ~ ... raised in higher places. 3gain we were able to field fix This Saturday was remarkably We arrived in time to declare our teams and I should add an apology :_.:"; .~ · ' ·\ \:;hTr-r.T-nr~ successful considering we nearly teams and were soon impressed to Pat Kearns for last week's had to start the apres-race oy the scenic and challenging race 3cepticism about his commitment celebrations without having had a :ourse and the newly opened lo Cross-Country. He wins race to celebrate. Last week the feviotdale Sports Centre which 3nother gold star for good new coach firm, who are orovided us with swimming tc 3ttendance. >,!!!I ~ /" impressing us less and less_. took ·elax our aching muscles at the Aftet the race Pat Graves made us on a tour of Highland Region on ~nd of the lace. The event was the another slick exit from the scene the way to Cupar. This week the Scottish National Cross-Country leaving the rest of us to enjoy a -,~:~\'::=--:~· :=·.:1.:/ driver apparently got lost ~elay Championships and our first good Indian curry since we were somewhere between Colinton :earn had an excellent result in unfortunate enough to arrive at Road and George Square. 'inishing 9th overall. The team was Teviot too late. That really got the Eventually, atter annoyance had ~olin MacIntyre (12 min 18 sec), systems going for a night ol grown into blatant panic, another )on MacMillan (12:18), Pat Graves ce lebrations. On a final point of coach arrived. ONLY one hour !12:40) and Graeme Haddow order, Graeme, the nucleus of We are looking for con­ late. This had a ride something I12 : 14) . There were more very choristers would appreciate some tributions from all sports similar to a fairground Big Dipper :?ncouraging runs from Freshers vocal support from senior 1 and as it sped us down to Hawick ;hawing that competition is going committee members in order to clubs. These contribu­ the coach was lucky not to get a :o be hot for places in 2nd and 3rd ensure the continuation of a fine tions should be in the SAHARA thOrough interior redecoration. :earns next week. Alan Murdoch 1·-iairies tradition. sports tray by Monday lunchtime. SAFARI we are relying on your co-operation. Unless you make the effort there will Mixed Fortunes be no sports page. It's ., your sports page - use it. Judo ______SPAIN - MOROCCO - Women's Hockey Report ALGERIA Against Strathclyde, Edinburgh Stirling quite comfortably and On Wednesday, Edinburgh A 3-wuk uperience in North Africa had a convincing 4-1 win, with losing to a strong Aberdeen team. University 1st XI started their orange belt Jay McMichael­ Missing the talents of Brian defence of the Scottish Dcpanurcs: On the 16th October Edinburgh Phillips gaining his first victory in Wilson, due to other competitive Universities Championship 18O«82-15Jan83-12 Fcb83- University Judo Club travelled to University competition. commitments, the Edinburgh (Outdoors) with a 3-0 win over Strathclyde for the first match in In the final match against St. team consisted of Alasdair Brown, Glasgow University. In difficult the 1982-83 Scottish Universities Andrews, Edinburah again John Shade, Gordon Barclay, weather conditions, Edinburgh Judo League. emerged easy winners with Ralph Robert Brogan and Jim Brown. dominated play. Elaine Makein £395 In their first match, against Hall, another newcomer to the With only A. Brown and J. Shade opened the scoring with a penalty (incl. return air-fare to Spain) Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh drew, with team scoring a fine ippon win. having previous fighting flick conversion, and this was both teams gaining 25 points. Both On the 23rd October Edinburgh experience the team put up a good followed up with two goals from Contact: of Edinburgh's Black Belts, Brian 41 London Road, played host to Aberdeen and performance to beat a Stirling newcomer Ru th MacKay. Maldon, Essex. Wilson and Alasdair Brown had Stirling Universities. Strathclyde team which contained two Dan The Hockey Club "Beerien­ TcL 0621 52603/53305 ... NOW convincing wins, and the welcome were unable to compete due to grades, both who were beaten by teering" has been arranged retu rn of John Shade to injury. Edinburgh players. However, the (provisionally) for the evening of competitive judo saw him drawing A much changed Edinburgh Aberdeen team proved too strong Saturday, 6th November - All AGC OVERLAND with a strong opponent from HW. team had mixed fortunes, beating and Edinburgh lost 3-1. Welcome. 16 THE STUDENT Thursday, 28th October 1982 cr:NtZcr BRAIN STEALING Underground Films POINT IN BRITAIN Go Underground 0 How to keep your head In the t Steve Mc Intyre explores one of afterlife. Edinburgh's obscurer legends In In recent years the 11 area teams a soon to be released documen­ of the Edinburgh Social Work No, it's not another symptom of tary . Cornel i us Van R l jn Departmenf have been cut to a graduate unemployment, nor a Investigates: staffing level of only 80 per cent. A conspiracy by a fanatical medics proportionate Inc rease In general splinter group, but a perfectly Mary King lived in post­ working-class deprivation and we ll-accepted procedure o f Reformation Edinburgh in a unemployment means that social hospital medicine used for routine narrow close still preserved services no longer have the time, medical examinations . The beneath the High Street. Plagues nor staying po'Ner, to cope with thieving of gray matter, macabre raged in Ed inburgh and Toulouse the swelling numbers who are as it may seem, was practised by and hedgehogs were scarce since experiencing severe dlfflcultles the Haematology Department of they were persecuted as flea­ living In the community. Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary very ri dden carriers of the Black Bubo. This is where the voluntary recently - until it was l (These delightful - if rather organisations come in . The discontinued under Health and prickly - creatures are to be the Barony Association is the most Sa fety guidelines, and the booty subject of an in-depth documen­ progressive of Edinburgh 's rep l aced by a commercial tary from the legendary studios of "voluntaries", and its day-care substitute. Neville K. Kane, doyen of the non­ centre - Contact Point - is its Allow me to elaborate: a sequitur.) Which brings us to a film means of street contact. Contact substance called throm boplastin project well under way under the Point 1s invaluable in smoothing inhabi t s tissue and o rgans expert guidance of smooth-talking over practical and psychological throughout the body. Thrombo- Steve McIntyre, local film-maker. at last decided to move ther blood vessels and cerebellum problems experienced in social plastin is intrinsic in the blood- Fa scinated by the more morbid business away from the taverns introduced to a food mixer, and adjustment , taking over in clotting process, and to test how aspects of everyday life - viz. and in t o mo r e salubrious strained through a gauze until the particular where the social worker, quickly blood clots, it is replaced public executions and raging surroundings, built the Roya required consistency was psychiatrist. or prison warder in the test procedure to indicate plagues - Steve has researched Exchange , now the C1t r achieved. leave off. 60 per cent of its users how it acts in the body. and filmed a documentary con­ Chambers. The well-preserve A somewhat risque and have penal or psychiatric back- Thromboplast1n Is richest in the cerning the aforementioned Mary bottom storeys became t irregular, though not wholly grounds. Without Contact Point human brain. Animal brains, less King, who sadly succumbed to the foundations and are there to Il legal, procedure -it has recently many of th ese people wouldn't be rich, could be used, and latter death before the execu­ day. Since the public is not n stopped at the Royal Infirmary on surviving very well at all, and commercial substitutes have been tioners could get to her, she being allowed access to the 70 yardsc health and safety grounds , Edinburgh's psychiatric hospitals available for many years, but in a witch. Despite Mary's perpetual the street that remain intact. ~· because of the chemicals used in an d prisons would have a far tests both were found to be less close-f1tt1ng bonnet of satin with McIntyre has decided to "takett preparing the brain. It remains a higher readmission rate. Note that expedient and more expensive. silk brocade, she was known to be opportunity of showing you wh: matter of conjecture whether we are not discussing murderers So tissue thromboplastin was a witch by her protruding ears, you're all missing". other hospitals have done and rapists here, but predomin- obtained from the post-mortem poIntIng through the fabric of her Along with its grisly history. likewise, or whether, in the present antly petty criminals, with laboratory. And the methods are headgear She was also called bigotry and disease, Mary King economical climate, this hideously inadequate back- ghoulish to say the least - brains witch because the street where Close has bequeathed to poster· inexpensive means of obtaining grounds and educations were generally taken from autopsy she lived (Mary King's Close) for a a charming array of ghosts ar­ thromboplastin will return In any The Centre Is a registered cases without prior consent of the while seemed immune to the fIends to play havoc with yo, case, it's certainly a ghastly charity funded by a £68,000 individual or relatives concerned; plague. In ~645, however, Mary sleeping hours. Stemming fro Orwellian indictment of society's Voluntary Organisations Liaisons 1.e. permission to use his or her this, the film will be an assemblag use of the individual in the King died and the street was Department grant. It employs a body for purposes of scientific of Cine Ve rite footage of the Close hereafter. sealed off to prevent further senior social worker, two research. Onceremoved,thebrain spreading of the contagious interposed with dramatic recon· sessional workers, and 11 unpaid would be stripped of its capillary L. Jeffrey nastiness In 1750 the street structions of spiritual happenings volunteers; and serves around 150 1"1111• 1111111 •iiiiamm•;.,;;;,:;,;,;;,;;,~------..;;.,,;;;,;;;;,:,:J mysteriously caught fire and was Watch out for it early in the ne "customers" at any one lime, With gutted, so the City Council, having year. a core turnover of about 50. Look Who''s Their function is to provide a transitional , and long-term alternative source of support and Ho oc hie Kooch i e C I u b 0 help for the socially isolated. members will know that Gold­ Individual counselling, a welfare finger's Rolls Royce 1s 22 et. gold rights service and help with plated, but it certainly won't be Q) accommodation are also among the prizes for those 0 provided. As you'll be aware, wishing to perfect their pose in the A accommodation is a particularly Bermuda Triangle, Thursdays and #A /V_~ fierce problem in Ed inburgh. Sundays. Since its bemourned v, Besi des helping with B&B type move from Valentinos last August, =:!':, ~ accommodation, the Centre has a business has been steadily sliding. ,~~ range of supported flats and To ,see and be seen you'll have to ::, hostels at its disposal where slot into the art hole 1n more ~ individuals are given constant respectable numbers ok? That ol' (C \,_V.)l psychological support; as well as JJ's cavalcade Iust keeps on ~('\ / links with Edinvar and Link rollin', an ' rollin', an' rollin' . ' Housing Associations and Rumour (BAM! Fanzine) has it \,-\\~\S • Stopover (Ed inburgh Council for that subversive, fascist and all .-(\()\ \\~ • the single homeless). things disgusti ng punk group 0'3\ \ 1\-' Their ethos is to work closely Dead Kennedys are going to do a f" with individuals to integrate them gig at the aforementioned Mary King's Close, Just on'e of the streets that m ake up the with each other and the Coasters. Could it be that this catacombs lurkln beneath our feet on the High Street. community at large _ a kind of overtly fanatical bunch of Yan ks The pamphleteers are back and h . social catalyst. This is why it are going to soil our beloved the sub-culture of the leaflet is overt e1r newly secured p~oducts. doesn't deal with the older Ed inburgh ? I hope so. Their raw once more beginning to assume ~ ~!ke"n o~e itamp;let, which has Grassmarket down-and-outs, for Punk '76 anarchies and contra- importance around University. un· . ea ere around the its concern is to build tangible versial, at best slick, lyrics should For polemicists and crusaders the iss iversity. One of the really ~ct1ve futures for those unable to think in make a fine evening's entertain- means to reach out and affect the b ues to confr~nt Sluden_ts,'1 has these terms. There is a community ment for those strong of stomach. pulse of undergraduate life has theen decreed,th rs education cuts; centre atmosphere, where mutual The belligerence of the OKs tends presented itself and I I ke rough e small minority who respect and personal commitment to overflow into the audience thoughtful policemen :ottin (bless t_hem) ar~ concerned with . t h down th e facts ab t I I gt such,st1II haven t got it into their are paramount. Volunteers give C r eat tng an a m osp ere not ou a os h d h th close, personal attention dissimilar to the early Sex Pi stols bicycle, they ponder their sub·ect ea t at e mass mobs who 10 ~ individuals, helping w ith practical concerts. A once in a lifetime and shift through the recesse~ of ~~~~:~~~~~~~~ U~ver~iI_ty are about problems and keeping them on chance to see the best th ing to th~ir mind until suitably relevant their consequ;ncesu~:t~;y~~!~n~~~ constructive lines of thought. come out of America since material presents itself Then next instalment o f The Ar In addition, a variety of social Macdonalds or the Doors. The they change their mantles and Anyway a rou call chers activities are provided, from music Fresh Fruit and Rotten Vege tables shore th emselves up m offices and Society 'hasg bee~ beav:~1n~ h:w~~t~ and art classes to discussion LP is a good primer. Uncle Ian rooms, often adIacent to the produce a un ent 1 1 groups and social evenings la••••••••••••.. Assoc1a t1on , and like eager Grub entitled N0S i it\i" number Contact Point also publishes th~ Street Editors scheme away at marvellously we1i8cws ~ab be " Basement Street Press " ..,_ More and more people are being content and presentation They is uite th onceiveth , ut it newsletter. forced to rely upon the voluntaries apply themselves and search for the reid th t I eh moSl difficult ing to This combination of care helps and yet they are being more and phrase which isn't hackneyed, the mind di!tort~nv; e~ertom~ across, people in real need to survive in more financially squeezed. The truth which isn't boring, the articles which be ar s an graphs, f the community improve their Scottish Office suggests that the sentence which Isn t laboured and leap the c t egin on onend page, , ~ social skills, a'nd notably, to essence of being a voluntary is the enlightenment which isn't up in an ~~:~u~pread a finish bare of promising scholar$" t rebu_ild frequently very dented that "you do not depend so much there When, a couple of days later, 1 wa~ ;~~~~~d to see percent reduction in intake), the: self-images. In these re spects a on local government". This is too they see piles of their produce that the Liberals and th SOP h unfortunates studying Chn,

tangible ~easure ?f the Centre's crass to need elucidating. The being used as mats for coffee "spokespersons" for ee ducati~~e ,Medicine ar1e going to suft success Is that this summer the authorities remain divisive an d cups, or as scrap paper for whereas there is a ··a h · overcrowding One imaqines tt customers suddenly formed a detached from the direct needs of chemical equations, they worry the Conservative Partycb atrk~an of poor people scrambling to getOL "users ' committee" which meets grassroots agencies li ke Contact not, for theirs Is the philosophy of committee on educat,o:,'; fo enchth having been lured to Edinburgh once a month to tell Contact Point Point. . _ phlegmat1sm, if only one of the five boys on the right h r e an ex PI o It est and e 1111 where they're going right and If you are Inter~sted in helpmg, thousand Is read, then their gospel' do not mtnd bein w :a~;e~~mably government who, 1n a mad des1 wrong, and a representative now watch for the notices around the has succeeded Then, like blow for my ge ual riis is a to produce clinical medics, a a t tends the Barony AGM , University shopkeepers who'v e had a hard ~ intentions More fea;s ghts lorcing the Un1vers1ty to educa· goingundergropreviously out of bounds ~ ~ ~ O Tonv Wallis week. they shut up and let their view was the ·stu tl o "'re·:,na in my ~ nore people,.:;~;; than It wants I ...