Win a Porsche - see next week's issue... BA SPORTS An illicit minibus service ended in a £156 fine for Leeds Poly Parachute Club. The fine was imposed by LPU Exec. when they discovered that a member of the club had been using the Union minibus to ferry people home after the Saturday disco. The minibus had been booked out by that the Polytechnic football club had the parachute club to go to Gains- attended a tournament sporting Leeds borough, and the Union's insurance Carnegie jumpers. The team had been covered them for this trip. Providing a entered as Leeds Carnegie, in spite of the taxi service between the City Site and fact that it receives a grant to the tune of Carnegie hall does not however count as £1100 from the Poly Union, and that the Union business, and the chauffeur could club is intended for all Poly students, not have been faced with a few sticky insur- just those from Carnegie. ance problems had there been an A spokesperson from the team argued accident. that they had received no funding for this Treasurer Pete Gaffikin said that he particular tournament and that the team had wanted to freeze the club's account, they had sent contained only Carnegie but this would discriminate against peo- members. ple who had nothing to do with the inci- Social Secretary. Sue Gratwicke coun- dent, and who still wanted to jump. It was tered this by saying, "It seems to me that decided to freeze their petrol account, as soon as the Union cannot afford to which amounted to a fine of il56. fund them, they don't want to know." Exec. are still discussing what further Sports Secretary, Craig Talents action to take. thought that the punishment was rather Meanwhile, Leeds Poly football club too harsh, adding that the same would had a narrow escape last week when a not happen in future. proposal to withdraw their constitution The meeting voted to refer the prob- was defeated at the last SRC meeting. lem to the Board of Governors, to ask Had the proposal been accepted, the that the name of Carnegie - which football club would not have been offi- appeared to be causing all the trouble - cially recognised and would have he withdrawn. received no grant for next year. The dispute followed the discovery SUE RYLANCE Earthlings turn to Page 1 4 Bitter end for Beckett to read about the chair Park Pub Crawl... leaders About 170 pints of beer and £200-f300 would be made in Jeremy Birch, completed it in 12 cider were stolen from the Bec- the race_ As it turned out, only minutes 30 seconds, and fastest kett Park Sponsored Ilan Crawl £150 was made in the whole females, in 17 minutes 1(1 sec- last Wednesday. Nearly forty day, including the evening disco. onds, were Julie Francheili and couples raced round the Halls, Cavendish, Carnegie. R., W. Kathy Birkett. stopping off at each one for a Rich and Fairfax Hall residents MARILYN HONIGMAN pint of beer or cider each. have been asked to pay £10 each However. many of those towards the cost of the beer, manning the pumps decided which, in fact. had been bought that they too required a little by the competitors themselves. f460,000 cut for refreshment, including a member However, all those in the race of next year's Exec. enjoyed it. the fastest male cou- It was originally expected that ple, Lindon Johnson and Poly next year. The Polytechnic is to face a cut of £-160,000 of its budget next year, according to LPU President. Pete Godwin. Barring the The cut, which is scheduled to he divided equally between A scuffle broke out at last Tues- staff and services will mean twenty academic posts frozen and day's Robert Palmer gig in the way... services cut by 5%. to take effect in January. 1984.. Refec. Ents. Sec.. Dave Goodman Trouble dared due to had organ- Services includes provisions such as maintenance and back of the cellar in an attempt said that two men were involved, isation of the Scouse Soc disco tefuriiishment. New plans for the New Beckett Park Bar, the to get their money hack, whilst a 12ft space was cleared on May 11 th. although the Bar Manager had Refectory and the Halls of Residence may well he delayed or "whipped altogether. The proposed plans for converting the for them to carry on. Although Bar Manager, Sid nothing to do with the general However, all ended peacefully. Head had been asked to cater organisation of the event. old nursery into a leisure complex will also suffer. Pete Godwin said that this was the first example of what the as the protagonists were ejected. for 700. in fact by 11.20 p.m. No damage was done and. as A report of a similar incident Mr. Head said, it could have National Advisory Body - the group responsible for recom- over a thousand people had on the balcony was also received. been let into the Refectory. been a very successful event if it mending Poly cuts - may do in the future. "Al its worst, 120 posts could go," he added. -It the NAB Mr_ Goodman may have been So many people were pushing had been organised properly. over-optimistic in hoping to fill against the mobile bar that the It is not yet known how much proposals go through next year. the amount will be four times the Refectory twice with head- money was made, but it is that we are now facing." staff were scared of being hangers as apparently the tickets crushed. As a result, it was believed to • be a substantial "Students can now expect to Ilse in an environment which is for the Motorhead concerts are closed at 11.15 p.m., rather than amount. falling to hits, since there just will not be the money to replace not selling very. well. 1.00 a.m. as originally intended. the facilities." People tried banging on the MARILYN HONIGMAN SUE RYLANCE MA FUL N RO N1GMAN rags Two LEEDS STUDENT ELECTION SPECIAL Instead of wading through millions of manifestos, we have put together a few points of interest and given some idea of who's standing where and for whom, in Leeds. Questions on education dis- whose daughter died at an arment, the health service and illegal drinks party in Jeddah, Debate party politics are included. Saudi Arabia. in 1979, faces The questions are not opposition from representatives A debate between the three intended for statistical analysis, of the three main parties. major parties is due to take but merely to give students some PAUL BROMLEY place next week at the Poly. guidance. The responses will be Former Leeds M.P. and can- posted up in the Poly Union. didate for Leeds South at this election. Merlyn Rees, will be amongst them. The other two speakers have not yet been N.U.S. cut up Too late finalised. The President of Preston Requests for postal vote appli- The debate will take place on Polytechnic is standing against cation forms for the general Thursday, 2nd June in the Ents Sir Keith Joseph in his Leeds election have flooded into LU U Hall, North East constituency. Exec. The University Union held a Paul Holton, who did not seek LUU were already allocated similar debate yesterday with NUS permission to stand claims three quarters of the quota for candidates for Leeds Central that he represents the Against the whole of Leeds, but the speaking. Cuts in Education party, United Printing Service had to • Further information about He could not be contacted to he called on to cope with the the election is available from the comment on his candidature. demand. Over a thousand had Executives. PAUL BROMLEY been issued by last Friday, the closing date_ Any PAUL BROMLEY Return of • Denis Healey would you buy a used Polaris from this man? Questions the Jeddah Leeds Poly Union have sent out Ron Smith. the father of nurse LEEDS CANDIDATES questionnaires to all the candi- Helen Smith, will be standing as dates in the Leeds area, in prep- an independent candidate in his aration for the • forthcoming home constituency of Pudsey. LEEDS NORTH WEST General Election. Mr. Smith, an ex-policeman, LEEDS CENTRAL Michael Ashley-Brown: Conservative and John Battle: Labour Party Unionist Party Keith Hampson: Conservative and Unionist Gordon Cummins: British National Party Party Derek John Fatchett: Labour Party Colin Graham Haygreen: Elmhurst Independent James Martin Rodgers: Communist Party Conservative Peter Wrigley: Liberal Alliance Norman Henry Jones: SDP/Liberal Alliance Alistair Laurence: Ecology Party MORLEY AND LEEDS SOUTH LEEDS NORTH EAST Peter Michael Burley: SDP/Liberal Alliance Peter Maurice Crystal: SDP/Liberal Alliance William Schofield Hyde: Conservative and Paul Jeffry Holton: Against Cuts in Education Unionist Party Keith St. John Joseph: Conservative and Unionist Merlyn Rees: Labour Party Party Ronald Henry Sadler: Labour Party Ernest Leonard Tibbitts: Anti-Corruption LEEDS WEST Anthony Braithwaite: British National Party LEEDS EAST Joseph .tabez Dean: Labour Party Andrew Ronald McMillan: Conservative and Jocelyn Stephanie Keeble: Conservative and Unionist Party Unionist Party Andrew Henry William Brons: National Front Michael James Meadowcrofl: SDP/Liberal Margaret Grace Clay: SDP/Liberal Alliance Alliance Denis Winston Healey: Labour Party • Merlyn Rees. THE LEEDS STUDENT POLL FOR. ANIM4L. Fill in the form and return to .1,raEr<tiTioN OJVT Leeds Student Office, Vo-rE or 155 Woodhouse Lane, or Leeds Poly Newsdesk (Exec) On June 9th, will you vote Conservative ❑ Labour ❑ SDP/Liberal Alliance ❑ Other (Please state) ❑ Don't Know Please tick Please indicate if you are from Poly, University or College.