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NEWS IN BRIEF Where to Scargill burns and blows fly THE EFFIGY OF Arthur Scargill was the victim ·of this year's Tory now? Club heretic burninq at St TWELVE BUSLOADS OF CND In Hyde Park more entertain­ Andrews. and the resulting political supporters from Edinburgh joined ment from the 300-strong Bread friction became a little too much for the massive demonstration which and Puppet Theatre Company some as several blows were ex­ collected on the Thames from the States. While so me changed between a certain Embankment at 11 am on marchers were yet to leave the member of slaff and a student. Saturday, 22nd October. The Embankment the speeches began Unfortunately for them the BElC crowd was an estimated halt­ in Hyde Park. The crowd was were there as well. million people, a vast increase on reminded that this was part of a last year's numbers, ~rriving from United National Annual Week for all over Britain in 40 trains and 600 Disarmament with demonstra­ Arafat in Glasgow coaches. Among them was tions throughout Europe and the RUMOUR S AROUND THE 'Student' reporter Rosie Aylille. States. Ron Todd, ol the TGWU. CLYDE suggest that Mr Vasser denounced the £16,000 million The weather couldn't have been (£300 for every person) spent on Arafat is going to be asked to stand better, nor the headlines more arms in this country and said that for the forthcoming Glasgow gloomy. The timely news was that as he was speaking Cruise University rectorial elections. the date for the arrival of Cru ise missiles were being unloaded at Keep your ears .to the around. missiles at Greenham Common Felixstowe docks. Spartacus R US airbase is 1st November. and followed, he read out a list of some this cast something of a cloud over 70 countries which had been at David Liddle's proceedings for those who war since the end ol the Second managed to obtain a copy of the "sharp end" World War. His lyrics. which were paper - the Guardian was unfortunately performed without DAVID Liddle. journalist and predictably sold out early. music because of a ban in Hyde photographer, takes a break from The march to Hyde Park was Park, denounced all politicians as his travels and gives an account of initially organised along two criminals and called for direct life at the "sharp end .. of routes because of the expected action. The lollowing speaker. documentary photography, on the numbers, but hours after the first Oorothy Cotton from the US 1st November at the Ple~sance, two marches were underway Freeze movement, took this to be a Tuesday, 7.30 pm. thousands were still waiting to demand for violence and quoted 80 begin on the Embankment and so her former colleague, Martin a third was organised. The longest Luther King: .. We cannot build a march, by four miles, was joined peaceful world through violence." Call for by a group ol women peace Her movement in the States was activists lrom Edinburgh, while the calling for a bilateral freeze only, in independents rest of the Edinburgh contingent Photo by Murdo McLeod order to win support from the were allocated a place near the American public. MEMBERS OF THE Edinburgh beginning of the shorter march out He said that people were taught branch of the AUT have been of consideration for their tight the myth of weapons for peace by discussing various problems schedule. Many streets were people who thought a nuclear war To keep it in -the family ? • regarding invigilation at their closed to traffic. Significant police could be lought and won. General Meeting this week Since presen ce was confined to Thatcher was trying to negotiate financial cutbacks caused the Whitehall - the MoD building and from a position of superiority and abandonment of the traditional -the entrance ot Downing Street, should .. put her weapons on the That is the question independent invigilation scheme and to a group of anarchists whose table ... "Disarmament is the only two years ago. teaching staff were enormous black flags were pressed into service in this role way to stop nuclear war." He THE MOTION OF last week's intolerable interference of the conspicuous in Hyde Park, as was even though their contracts do not promised a commitment to an debate in Teviot, " Incest - the state in the private lives ol the police escor1s they attracted. oblige them to do so. A spokes­ anti-Cruise and Trident pro­ adult's right to choose?". individuals. brushing aside such As usual the demonstration was woman for the AUT claimed that gramme and a return to modern threatened to be the most matters as deformation of non-violent. It was made up of all conventional weapons. controversial motion of this or any since the withdrawal ol age groups representing many oflspnng and the authority that Bruce Kent praised the achieve­ other year. This proved, however, may exist within a brother/ sister independent invgilators "there has different types of peace cam­ ments of the peace movement, been chaos. As a result there have not to be the case. The motion was relallonsh,p. It was left to paigners. from GreenharTl women, been discussions with the including direct action at interpreted by th e proposition as a members of the audience, in a collecting money to take Reagan Greenham despite the fact that a libertarian one, Professor Mason University through a joint to court, to " Quakers Against the lively open period, to argue about petition to speak by one of the of the Forensic Science this casual disregard. Sarah consultation committee regarding Bomb... One banner urged us to women had earlier been refused. both organisation and special Department and Elaine Suther­ Nelson, a journalist for The .. End China's colonial rule in The women wanted to urge the payments for staff undertaking land of the Scots Law Depart-ment Scotsman and the author of Incest Tibet... crowd to a .. Stop the City" demo invigilation." making a plea for the legality of - Fact and Myth, argued lhat to Judging from audience after the rally to protest against the brother and sister, so-called propose this motion was to g ive a response Neil Kinnock was the arrival of Cruise. s1bllng, incest between consent­ carte blanche to budding day's golden boy. He showed The day finished with Joan ing adults. Professor Mason was at paedophiles. The speech of a optimistic enthusiasm for the size Ruddock describing the demon­ pains to establish their opposition representative of the Incest EPSA party time of th e demonstrati o n , and strations across Europe and to what is usually regarded as Survivcirs Organisation, which declared that this was the answer leading the crowd in singing "We incest - fa th er / daughter. EDINBURGH PAKISTANI Stud­ to Thatcher and Heseltine who Shall Overcome... Half a million was read out in her absence. took a mother/son etc. This interpreta­ feminist slant and said that incest ents' Association (EPSA) held a said the movement was dead. He people gave the right answer to tion was not expected by the and the support of it was "men's Refresher Party at the Pentland denounced the use of Britain as a CND's last question as to their audience who had expected a defence of the male status quo··. Room in the Pleasance on US military base as well as the use activities on 22nd October, the good scanda lous, s h ocking which is not as ridiculous as it Saturday, 22nd October. The of public funds to commit us to a next, with the arrival of Cruise a debate (well, I certainly had), and seems when one considers that iri !unction was attended by 30 defence policy not in our interests. week away, is "Where to now?". by the Opposition who had written 95 per cent of recorded incest students and a new executive their speeches to contest a cases the male had been the committee was efected for the '83- different viewpoint. The extent of aggressor. '84 session. ag reement amongst the speakers The motion was defeated by 37 Amongst other issues it was limited the amount of actual votes to 27 with 16 abstentions. proposed to form a Scottish­ debate, but interesting and Stirling backs down Whatever one feels about incest Pakistani Friendship Society. informative speeches were oneself, it is impossible not to feel Furthermore , if anyone is nevertheless made. · pleased that such a taboo subject interested in knowing more about STIRLING UNIVERSITY STUD­ opposition to the use of the block The Proposition argued. with as incest has been spoken and the Association contact Mr ENTS' ASSOCIATION averted a grant for the funding of pol1t1cal the help of J. S. Mill, that the argue<;! about in public. Yaseen, 18 Guthrie Street, or Mr legal crisis with the Federation of events outside the University, illega1ity of sibling incest was an Rao, 18 Crewe House. - conservative· Students last came just after the Attorney­ Simon McGrath Tuesday night by backing -down General had recently reminded from their decision lo fund three student unions on the legal use of buses to take students lo the CND public funds. The voluntary NOTE TO rally in London. Refusing lo be collection bypassed the immediate READERS beaten however, the Association problem, but the position remains St. Giles witnesses vigil managed lo make a last minute unclear for many outsiders. May we take this oppor­ voluntary collection of £600 lo pay Mr Bob Mclean. chairperson of ON SATURDAY, 22nd OCTOBER. Conscience Week" was organised tunity to remind our for the transport. NUS Scotland brought attention to a number of students from EU as a memorial to those who have readers that we provide a - At a meeting of the Scottish the preamble to the letter issued by Amnesty International group tOok died as a result of extra-judicial senior pres idents today in the Attorney-General, Sir Michael part in a silent viQil outside St Giles killings by governments. This is a free Classified Adverts Edinburgh, Mr Oouglas Campbell, Havers which emphasised the Cathedral. The vigil was organis\id very common practice in many column. which is a very need for students to be involved in a senior president of Stirling by all the Edinburgh Amnesty countries where the authorities useful thing if people do Univers ity. declared that the wide range of political discussion. groups to publicise " Prisoner of find it easier to silence their Conservatives had been intending and that necessary funds should be Cons"'cience Week" which ran from opponent's by the use ol .. death actually use it. Please do to smash the attendance figures at made available to do so. Mr Mclea n 15-23 October. The aim of squads" than to inform them. send in your adverts or the rally, as well as illuminate a however called for a little more care '' Prisoner of Conscience Week" is The service consisted of readings demands to 1 Buccleuch supposedly improper use of public in in the used union funds, and the to highlight the fate of about half a of poetry and prayers about funds. In his opinion they had need to .. Keep away lrom dramatic million people, imprisoned all over human rights, written by Place. or alternatively you definitely not been successful; gestures" which might antagonize the world for peace fu lly Archbis hop Oscar Romero of El may place your advert although fewer students were able the situation. External issues, he expressing their views. Salvador, Steve Biko and others with Mr Petherick who to make the• trip to London the said, should be discussed and The vigil on Saturday was who have died or been imprisoned response was still very funded internally, rather than followed by an ecumenical service because of their beliefs. sells Student outside the enthus1ast1c. outside campus. in St Giles Cathedral which, as Potterrow Bar every The Conservative students· Ian MacGregor well as marking "Prisoner of Jackie Gulland Thursday. Thank you. 27th October 1983 3 News Williams positive Teviottalk Rat for the Alliance puts AIDS in 1 perspective On MOnday night the active homosexual and bisexual Edinburgh Medical Group men with multiple partners''. presented a lecture on the However, it is not only male disturbing new disease AIDS homosexuals who are prone to (Acquired Immune Deficiency AIDS. Drug abusers using intra­ Sundrome). Dr A. Mclelland. head venous methods represent 17% of of the Southern Scotland Blood all sufferers . 5% are Ha1t1ans. living Transfusion Service, chaired the in New York ghettoes. 1% are meeting and the speakers were Dr. haemoph1l1acs - victims of' A. MacMillan. Dept of Genito­ diseased donate-d blood. and 6% of Urinary Medicine. University ol the overall figure are those Edinburgh and the Reverend Dr. sufferers who have no pre-· K. M. Boyd from the Society for the disposing features. Study of Medical Ethics. Dr MacMillan stated that Dr MacMillan initially outlined, although it can be speculated that AIDS as the "profound la,lure of Aids is a virus infection. since it Free to a Good Home certain aspects of the body's closely resembles the virus I Why is it that Hon Sec M ike Shirley Williams takes a breather at T eviot. defence sy~tems in someone who H!'patitis B. research has to date Conway, who always turns up to indicates no apparent reason for found no definite cause of the work wearing what appears to be Photo by Tony Martin such defence defects". The epidemic, but he did stress that an empty crisp packet, still has no sufferer has a total breakdown of much research is still being fixed abode, other than his red carried out. After being on the stump at the · can be achieved - an industry in control over micro-organisms: a sleeping bag and the floor of the Reverend Dr. Kenneth Boyd, Islington Council bye-elections on which you employ more people fundamental fault which leads EUSA Offices? Mr Conway still examining the ethical aspects of Monday night, Shirley Williams, per pound you spend than any almost inevitably to death in drunkenly insists that the failure of the epidemic stressed that the President of the SD P, travelled other; areas such as the electri­ certain manifestations of the the Stµd e nt Acc om modation up to Scotland for a series of fication of the railways, the saving disease. I here are three main genuine moral conflicts arise in Service to find him a more the tr6atment of the disease: a appearances which included a of a national water and sewage types: "poportunistic" infections, -:onventional bed has nothing personal doctor/ patient approach speech at the Teviot Row Debating system which is cracking up". whose effects are pneumonia, I Nhatsoever to do with the althoug h much desired, is Hall. lain Cameron was in the large But crucially, Mrs Williams still desemination of the brain , scurrilous allegations circulating frequently irreconcilable with the crowd for The Studenl. believes that an incomes policy is meningitis and a susceptibility to a the Potterrow that he still owes legal duty of the physician. whom After expressing a ll)odicum of an essential safeguard to ensure gross Herpes-like ulceration; Pol lo c k Hal l s a sum not by law, must inform the authorities satisfaction with the performance that the proposed increases in "Neoplasla" infection, in which unadjacent to £300 for rent two of persons indulging, for example. ot the Al liance in the General funding do indeed help the malignant tumours in the blood years ago. Mike, we believe you, 1n drug abuse. He felt that this Election, Mrs Williams launched unemployed. by avoiding large leads to death, and "lympha­ but thousands wouldn't! unfortunate dilemma in which into a somewhat rambling speech increases to those already in work. denopathy" where cancers of the physicians find themselves leads which perhaps sought to Combining these strategies with lymphatic system occur. to an unwillingness to come encompass rather too many reductions in overtime, the Dr MacMillan gave an ind1cat1on The Evil of Two Lessers forward on the part of sufferers. issues, and certainly too many of introduction of work sharing, and of the growth of the ep1dem1c The Rat was at first aghast to and he stressed the need for a the chips currently resting on improved funding and organisa­ since its outbreak in the USA 1n hear of the appointment of David doctor/ patient confidentiality. He Alliance shoulders - the electoral tion in education, M.rs Williams 1979 when there were 100 'Prat' Murray as Union Services also spoke of the moral system, government patronage believes a real dent could be made reported cases. that number has Convener after a record four years obligations of homosexuals and and the vagaries of political in the current deplorable risen steadily to 2,259 reported of trying. However, this becomes drug-abusers to prevent broadcasting all came under the unemployment figures. this year. In these four years 20 more understandable when you endangering the lives of others by Wi llia ms hammer. Mrs Williams has none of the cases have been reported in consider that his only rival this desisting from selling to But with these initial comments quicksilver rhetoric of Neil Britain and 180 in Western Europe time was the appallingly turgid ou t of the way, Mrs Williams as a whole. bloodbanks their diseased blood Nigel anderson from Chambers Kinnock, bu t th is core of her (a practice rife in America). In his settled down to the real meat of her speech was cogently explained l n answer to the question "who Street. A dismayed source close to conclusion he suggested that the 40-minute speech, in which shl and blended well with several valid are the sufferers of AIDS?", Dr the Union President sobbed authorities took have obligations: illustrated that the Alliance does points concerning the world MacMillan pointed out that the uncontrollably afterwards: "It was the facts about AIDS should be indeed have a concrete and economic crisis precipitated by label "The Gay Plague" is not like having a choice between made known on a wide scale; a (reasonably) concise economic as tronomical Third World debts, altogether a misnomer since 71 % slashing your left wrist or your platform . Acknowledging Tory of all AIDS sufferers in America method of screening blood must right wrist. Union Services RIP!"' an area in which she expressed the be found to prevent the spread of success in reducing inflation, Mrs belief that the West must take a are male homosexuals (female AIDS, and research into the Williams nevertheless pointed out "new initiative, a step forward", if it homosexuals figure minimally in causes and cures for this horrific that Government policy over the is to avoid an economic disaster at I the statistics). Of this 71% the The I. G . Stewart Award for condition must be pursued. last four years has led to nearly the hands of debtors· such as I majority are classified as ··sexually Chro nic Abysmal Lecturin g Nia ll West four mi llion unemployed, a one­ Brazil and Mexico. The latest nominations received thi rd drop in industrial investment, In her new role outside for this accolade: and a signal lack of success in Parliament one can expect Mrs Prof. I. G . Stewart (Economics). avoiding a balance of payments Williams to be heavily involved in Lothians police who nominated himself. deficit, problems only overcome tours such as this one, taking SOP Mr P. Fisk (Statistics), who has due to the huge oil bonanza which policy to the people. If she been runner-up on the past four they have enjoyed. continues to transmit such a occasions and must stand a good The Alliance's answer, Mrs convincing awareness of social chance this year. Williams indicated, was first "to speak on guns Mr J. W. "Panic Button" Crook needs she may yet prove and plough some seven to eight bi llion outstanding weapon for the (Business Studies). pounds into rebuilding the basic Alliance despite her defeat at LAST SATURDAY (OCTOBER 22) generally more reluctant to use M r B. Thra ves (Canadian fabric of our society, by which I Crosby, and in doing so she makes in the University's Extra-Mural firearms than they are south of the Studies'), who actually left last mean areas such as housing - the front line now opposing Mrs Department, Mr Hugh Fraser of border year, but nobody noticed. and Edinburgh is a marvellous Thatcher look increasingly the Lothian and Borders Police On the basis of his own past Nominations stay open until the example of the rehabilitation that formidable. Board gave his views on the experience, Mr Fraser declared end of term. The winner. to be acquittal of the two detectives himself to be opposed to the picked by a UGC panel. will involved in the shooting of arming of policemen but receive an early retirement form Stephen Waldorl and its emphasised that the fundamental with a booklet giving full advice on implications for the police in problem to be tackled was the how to fill it in. Scotland. oeveral1 number of firearms in the GLASGOW STRETCH Although the incident. was "a community. great, great tragedy", he said, His views are shared by there was no reason to think that Inspector Pat Kennedy of the the detectives knew at the time Scottish Police Federation who Graduate BUDGET FURTHER that the man in the min i was not said on BBC Radio Scotland at the David Martin. and it would now be weekend that there was nothing difficult to hold a public enquiry the police could do to prevent GLASGOW UNIVERSITY is to bid with the case having already been another 'Waldorf' incident from employment Glasgow gets £2.4 million less lor 205 of the 5,000 places which than Edinburgh in research grants settled in court. happening in the future and that THE PERCENTAGE of graduates lhe Government is "offering" to and contracts. Given this, plus the Mr Fraser, who was himself a the onus lay on society to stop in employment or postgraduate universities up and down the fact that the Government is only high-ranking police officer until criminals from getting guns in the becoming a Lothian Region Con­ training by September has fallen country. The places are willing to finance each student to first place. three points since last year In specifically designed to be created the tune of £480 (about half of servative councillor, was speaking However, Mr Peter Kinsey of the at a public d1scuss1o n on the September 1982 62 per cent of in the science departments of what it actually costs for each Scottish Council of Civil liberties question of "Why has control of during the same programme graduates were placed either in colleges. science student) it seems a very the police become amatter of jobs or further education, but in The University Court decided strange move indeed for the accused police in Scotland of public concern?" over-readiness to arm themselves. the same month this year the this week that they have room to university to make. Making reference to the police He pointed to figures which figure had fallen to 59 per cent. accommodate the extra 205 The Principal, Sir Alvin Williams, guidelines for the use of guns showed that while the police in Though the drop is small it students. It is now up to the was unavailable for comment. One which were in force dunng the Scotland were issued with arms on remains significant as a sign of still various Faculty Oeans to ratify the can only assume that Glasgow, Waldorf shooting. he sa,d that decision of the Court before the unlike Edinburgh and St Andrews, 766 occasions last year there were worsening job prospects, and although Scottish police guide­ only 292 conv1ct1ons for the provides further evidence of the move can go ahead. feel that II would be unwise to lines are broadly similar to the criminal use of guns of which continuing failure of the govern­ This bid by Glasgow University ignore Government offers. under­ English, the police ,n Scotland are almost a third were air-pistols. ment's policies to expand the job seems strange, given their current funded though they are. financial situation. Already Graham Chalmers market in its richest seam. Michaei 85¥112 4 27th October 1983 .Editorial - Overseas :Fred Price, from Where will you be? Philadelphia Chile The background to October 14 Monday's General (Part2) Meeting debate. pitcher, who throws the ball at the Philadelphia is a fairly wild city EU Amnesty have started a new man batting, and the batters by any standards, with a campaign this term, protesting at themselves. It could, crudely reputation for providing the casual the enforced exile of hundreds of On Monday we witness the first of a new generation described. be equated to cricket: visito r and the die-hard ,'ci ty students in Chile. These students the pitcher has to throw the ball in of General Meetings. A new generation that is in that it slicker' alike with bright lights, are in many cases arrested after such a way that the batters cannot won't be competing with that perennial favourite of expensive restaurants and participating in demonstrations hit it anywhere. lf the batters can't titilating night clubs. For the against the oppressive Pinochet trend-setting students, Top of the Pops. hit the ball, they don't score any moment, however, the focus of the regime, then exiled to remote parts The issues at stake are hot; first something to do with runs, if they do hit it, and it gets city has shifted away from its of Chile where they are constantly past the fielders. they have to run finance and unions and stuff like that, and second, continuous attempts to win over harassed by the police. They are around certain bases on the wallets and prise open purses: the forced to register with the police a human rights in Chile-which strikes us as rather more ground and return to their starting population en rnasse is holding its number of times per day, and interesting. point, after which they will have breath and staying very much anyone found offering them gained one run. After three men Now while Student commends both this interest in tuned to its television screens. shelter or food is also open to are ·our the opposing team will democratic participation in the day to day running of Philadelphia, acknowledged as vicious harassment. It is useful to bat, and so on until an agreed one of the best sporting cities in look at a brief history ol the the Unions, and the concern shown by groups such as number on innings have been the USA, is into the final of the Pinochet rule t o gain an Amnesty International in the sufferings of various con,pleted by both sides. the long World Series Baseball com­ understanding of the situation in people around the world because of the beliefs they petition. and shorl of the past six months is that Philadelphia's baseball team, Chile. To Philadelphians. this is the General Pinochet staged a hold, we cannot help but feel that these are not the named in the Phillies. has hit more best thing to happen to the city military coup in 1973 which saw issues that will have the populace of the University runs and dismissed more since Mayor Frank Rizzo was the deaths of 30,000 people, opposing batsmen than any other pouring through the portals of the McEwan Hall. If, defeated in a political p~imary and among them the previous left­ team in the USA - or any other after all, Top of the Pops is seriously considered to have so lost the chance of becoming wing leader, President Allende Mayor again. By losing Rizzo a few team in the world, for that matter. General Pinochet's government been a major factor behind low Thursday turnouts, years ago, Philadelphia got rid of a By the time Britain is wondering adopted a right-wing monetarist then if hardly seems likely that students armed with bully; by getting into a baseball how the Football League is policy. advised by American final, the city can look fondly back shaping up, Philadelphia's Phillies such a wicked imagination cannot achieve another economists, who came to be at six months of honest scrapping will be locked in mortal combat equally plausible excuse to keep them from attending known as "The Chicago Boys". which has resulted in an under­ with Baltimore·s Oriels - who, Easily obtainable credit facilities on Mondays. dog team coming good. incidentally, live only 80 miles and large-scale importing of Americans like the big away and so are more neighbours However, despite this the new executive must be foreign goods led to a period ol competition, the big challenge. t o the Phillies than world given a proper chance on this, their first true euphoric spending sprees, which Hence the title of the national opponents. In bo.th cities undermined the Chilean farmers appearance before the public gaze, to show how or baseball competition: the World newspapers have been preparing and industrialists who could not whether they can fulfil their election promises to keep Series. There weren't any teams sports supplements. designed to cope with the foreign competition. from Europe, however, and none home in on the great players, up and inject some interest into these often turgid Thousands industries went from the Far East, th e Middle East, events, stars, attractions and. oi bankrupt. The unemployment affairs. We hope to see that the switching of days and the Near East or any other East doubtless players' secoind level rose dramatically, to the proposed changes in format of General Meetings apart from Philadelphia, New York cousings in an attempt to provide point where it now stands as high and Miami. That's because the their eager readership with all the amount to more than a few dabs with the cosmetic face­ as 80 per cent in some areas. only countries which participate in background necessary. Fans have brush. The hardships the Chilean this world wide event are the USA paid up to $50 for tickets sold by people are facing, economic, Student will be there, as ever, and at least forthisfirst and Canada - and Canada only the clubs, and much more for social and political, are reaching affair in popular consultation will be there in strength. sends two teams both of which black market sales. Businesses are such unbearable levels that even But it cannot be denied that the root of these meetings · were removed from the pro­ scrambling for the right to ceedings pretty early in any case. advertise or get their names into in the face of fnghtening is the issues to be discussed and decided that So Philadelphia is going delirious the small print anywhere on any repression, the previously cowed determine the turn out. If they are simply of no interest over the fact that it has the chance programme. Bars are hoping for people are now publicly protesting to the majority of the University population, then to prove itself world champions, big turnouts of their own as fans against the Pinochet regime. people will just not go. If they jar raw nervesorthreaten even it the only people who are who couldn't get tickets turn up to Chile's own seC:ret po11ce , the watching are jealous fellow watch the great event on screens. CNI, have been responsibleforthe to produce some immediate action, as the Ireland countrymen rather than the world The trivia of everyday life has been disappearance of over 2,500 Publication Board debates in recent years have done, outside. totally and blissfully forgotten. people and the deaths of more then students come. We suggest that people go on Baseball is probably the second The big occasion, or rather than 3,000 in recent years. biggest spectator sport in the USA occasions (the fi nal consists of Of a group of 227 people Monday and vote with their feet: if it turns out to be after American football. Played by seven games, three of which will arrested during a demonstration tedious then yawn. two opposing teams of nine. The be played in Philadelphia), will be on 24 March, protesting against main figures in any game are the nearing its close as you in the oppressive r ule and Edinburgh read this. Without even demanding a return to democracy, realising it, the world will soon 34 people have been banished to have a new champion of baseball. the region of Pisagua, where a Tucked away on the east coast of concentration camp has been America, two cities will be erected. From this concentration slugging it out. If the Phillies win, camp there have come a dozen we'll have a wild time. officially lodged allegations ol Fred Price torture, which have been reported in the Newsletters of the Amnesty Mr McKay regrets there Chile Co-ordination Group and the Chile Committee for Human is no cartoon this week, Rights. One such torture he is working on a testimony was made by Javier The thrilling book to be Saez Paiva, who is vice-presi dent Spectator of COOEJU, the young people's published very soon. human rights organisation. 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spokesman state that there were no South African troops in But are they Zambia. One of the entrance qualifications for the Recess (SA version of SAS type troops) is being dropped into Angola armed really changing? to the teeth and fighting one's way back in to South West Africa, "no questions asked". South AFrica is a country in an Will Ralston replies to Giles Sutherland's adolescence which is going to prove very hard to get through. feature on South Africa that appeared The legacy the British passed on to the Afrikaaners was an last week in Student. unpleasant one in the extr eme and these extremes used thus far to Having spent the last year living time), nor indeed Robben Island cope with it are proving and have in a working , as opposed to Giles Pri son, nor impriso nments for Sukuland's University, environ­ proved ve ry unhumanitciria n. But refusing National Service, the list what has been done is that there ment in Cape Town. I was goes on. are far too many whites who are so interested to read his "feature" White South African s are grateful for their standard of living Politically, UCT is to most SA terrified of change which develops universities as Sussex is to Oxford that real change must be averted at more than snail's pace. After all , to save it. It is unfortunate that or Harvard. It ls only a year since Zimbabwe's making a real go of Soweto 1975 hadn't happened for students at a university in Pretoria things, isn't it? Zaire is still a a further 15 years and th e voted against accepting even hotbed · of doubts and fears. explosion that resulted proved occasional black PhD students. Imagine yourself as a white South that positive as opposed to Most of the people I met were African - I feel guilty about my negative action is requi red. co loured and white and almost to a income compared to a similarly Education/ understanding and man they looked at the political placed coloured or black on life's generosity must replace guilty system as an unchanging wall tree - I enjoy living 1n Constanua satisfaction/ defence and pride. Dr about which nothing could be more than I would in Guguletu Alan Boezak may say "We want all done and. over and beyond that, (four miles away - one of the of our rights, we want them here they didn't really want much dong. world's highest crime rates - South African whites have a and we want them now" and I traffic lights are there but not applaud him for it, BUT from what I remarkably high standard of living stopped at) - I enjoy watching sa w that will not happen. in fact it which effectively bribes them not William Cupido score tries for is inconceivable in present-day to ask questions whilst coloureds Western Province, I'd like to buy Cape Town, let al one Johannes­ look at the blacks and feel him a drink man to man, but things burg o r Pretoria. South Africa incredibly superior. I heard the aren't like that here. My wife has a heads towards a junction without a word "kaffir" immeasurably more coloured maid who lives here in a doubt but the roads lo left and times from coloured workers than flat, she's called Maria. very good right are at right angles - I fear the wh ite ones. Giles hasn't entered really and we treat her very well - passing ou para e at ynberg size of the explosion but I don't into the blacks' voting rights in the frightening. Mike, who, having 1 we always give the postman Camp to watch an 18-year-old think it will be this cen tury - the homelands which is one of the passed out, told me that his something at Christmas -'nuff pass out. The speech given by an Boe rs have got it sew up tight with main reasons for coloured and korporals referred to SWAPO an d said. " Must go to the squash/ golf/ Afrikaans Colonel took me by a little help from the friends they Indian pressure for their own other te rrorist groups never by cricke'. club to play my match with surprise in as far as I had th ought it have bought. represen tation. Not only that we name but only as "Kaffirs" o r Dean/ Andre Du P/Van der V. was "Not the Nine O'clock News" Will Ralston also haven't heard the police-state My job involved looking after "Hottentots" to the extent that o r 'Game tor a Laugh" - to hear P.S.: Resident groups decide stories of banning orders (people children in a hostel and the after­ one's energies were directed talk of these "young heroes" going totally at the blacks and not the whether individual beaches r confined to magisterial districts care tor boys who left involved off to defend Suid-Afrika from the ideology behind it. should be mixed or not and Green and now allowed with more than keeping up with those doing "total onslaught" of the "Soviets" Another anecdote which may Point/Sea Point residents voted one person excepting famil y at a National Service time. I attended a was alarming in its sincerity on the bear repeating although I cannot for whites only beaches in April behalf of "El colonel" or "Mr vouch my life on its truth tells of a this year. That is a notably un­ Mouthpiece". The SA Army 1s so soldier who 200 miles into Zambia Afrikaans area! Nationalist Party orientated it is hea rd an RSA Government Art with FRESHERS a .capital WEEK F?

DIRECTOR '84 Have you ever felt really s1up1d? Do you find you avoid going in to "Art Gelleries", 1n case you say Did you: someth ing wrong, or misunder­ • Enjoy Fres hers· Week '/ stand the ''Art"? Do not worry, there is no need • Think it was worth while? for worry. This article wi ll explain • Appreciatt.:: the organi sa tion? how to enjoy art, and how you can Do you: tell crap from genius. • Think you cou ld organise' it'' Firstly, we start with the "Hi story • Think you ca n improve it? of Art". • Want a worthwhile job !or the rc,t o f the year'' There is no history of art. The only art that can be of importance Then apply to become Freshers' Week Director .1.984 1 is that which you yourself Get an applicatio n form from the r\ssoc1a 11on Olllccs. experience. and as the creator Closing date: Wednesday, 2nd No,cmber. wished it to be experienced. Sometimes the experience 1s changed because the creator is lazy o r dead. Perhaps Mondrian ,: did not want anyone to see "Broadway Boogie Woog1e" in yourself is idiotic. You did not, you Then again, the public may like 1t, 1983. will not, and you have no wish to or may be instructed and taught to Secondly. the mention and produce such c rap if you dislike it like it by various complex means, II' not all perhaps devious and ALTERNATIVE ·dropping of names. I named or do not understand it. Mondrian whom you may not have Fourthly, the " Underslanding of capitalistic, and in these cases met. He is dead . I have never seen Art". Some things are, of cou rse, ... well, what of it? Big deal, say I. his work, yet I admire it. I have mysteries. Some art is mysteri ous. That means nothing to me. Have I PROSPECTUS seen small rep roductions in a even without mea ning . 1 have been then misunderstood·/ tt aces not 1t book. 1do not like. or know th e real told this can be done on purpose matter. works, for I ca n only imagine them . by th e creator, but it still can You should not give a blind bit of l• Thus the mention of any artist stimulate and be enjoyable, or be notice to any dogmatic proclama­ [. EDITOR know, or have not seen 1n original, tion regarding art (or Art). repellent, it can, if you like, "work". !' is of no rea l importance. It may A pile of bricks is no mystery, it is Art is a dirty word. It need not be, I: merely fire your imagi nation. (It precisely a pile of bricks. I think it because you can clean it up: make Last year's Alternative Prospectus wa:-. co nside1:~t1 the may be important wi th stupid is amusing to see oncks beside it diverse, less a marketplace, less best yet. If you want to produce as good a publica uo n people .) established " Art" I have no elite, less boring, more bowing. Thirdly, recognition of good or more elite, more a marketplace, then you're wa nted. intention of buying the bricks, I bad art. There are numerous monolithic. Make it yourself. It is Application forms at EUSA Offices (under the dome). can get some cheaper, so I leave ,ll aesthetic criteria, but these are of that to those who wish to buy it, for simple. It is difficult. It is ecstasy. It Closing date: Wednesday, 9th November. no use. What you think 1s good ,s private or public consumption. is pure hell. It is all life is for. It 1s - good, because ii 1s good fo r you. The public may not like it , bu t they meaningless indulgence. That which is bad is what you think are exercising their right of moral Fin ally, Oscar Wt ld e said tn1s: is bad. Th ere are contradictions in choice (freedom), even if they "All art is quite useless." Oscar art, so there is constant dis­ have not see n the ori ginal. Wilde is dead. And you are, I hope, cussion and conference. Th e (Perh aps the orig inal is meant to not dead. argument that you "can do better" be disliked, it still does not matter ) David Petherick Exhibitions

• Constructivism And • Built in Scotland Expressionism City Aris Centre

In adjoining rooms we or ~ This exh1b1t1on consists of work presented with a small part of the 'Jy ten sculptors all of whom are debate concerning Construc­ 3ither Scottish or resident 1n tivism and Expressionism. These Scotland and whose work s, two confl,ct,ng schools of thought instead of being case or carved o r we re born 1n Germany in the early moulded are constructed (or bui lt) Theatre Communicado, sc enes from White-Sailed Ships 20th centu ry· co n structivism '1ence the title. 'Built in Scotland' VI. James saw much further tha n believed art should perform some It is a very public an.d accessible the end of his own nose, as far as useful function in society and ~xh1bit1on which demands only as the throne of England in fact. The should involve some sort o f Tluch or as little intellectual effort play deals with James' assertion of synthesis o f the plastic arts 3.S you care to put into 1t, Theatre his powers as King and his ( pai n t ing, scu lp ture and For example. 1t is impossible to struggles with dissenters and arc h it ec t ure). Co n ve r se l y, Naik through 81 11 Scott's 'Markers· " papists·· preceding his ascension Expressionism at this time was eJennyTur ner swaps George Douglas Brown's novel, 5urrounded by their rough-hewn the story tells of a Lowlands to the English throne. concerned with port rayal of the 51mpllcity and not to catch at least recipes with Gerry History is viewed wryly through emot ions o f the artist throu gh the family , fatally driven into a glimpse of his ideas about "the Mulgrew, writer and catastrophe. ,; Having dealt with a the eyes of the shrewd King. He use o f colour, line, shape and interaction of man and nature". knows who his friends are, and subject matter. Thus, the director of White-Sailed Lowlands environment, where Ar t hu r Watson ' s luxuriously though the treasonous Bothwell exhibition seeks to display the two Ships , at the Theatre you've got connections, where nostalgic 'Sea Sign: Old Pi e( and the pompous English opposing ideas, by juxtaposing the you can communicate with literally brings a pier {or some Workshop till Saturday. ambassador try to control him, wo rk of their major pro ponents. the civilisation, I wanted to tackle pretty large chunks of one at any they have little success. Jamie is a work of their major propo nents. "It's a bit like food. If you eat at something with a Highlands rate) to the gallery His use of The expressionism of Munich is the same restaurant all the time, theme, where people are more pragmatist and, though he is King timbers from a real pier m The expressionism o f Munch is the food may be fine, but you want isolated from others.'' he uses some of the funniest and obvious, his pai ntings have sick, Aberdeen make for a piece which a change. That's what Communi­ The title of White-Sailed Ships is most homely language in the play. ai ling qualities as though the is immediately impressive cado's about. We thought Scottish drawn from a Gaelic poem and is James laughs at the bombast of mastersts themselves have an because of ,ts size and also theatregoers could do with a "an elegy for the dispossessed, a the courtiers and shows their high because of the very tangible illness. Indeed, the Sick Girl, change." story of land and people, the ideals up for what they turn out to atmosphere which its authenticity displayed here captures Munch's Thus Gerry Mulgrew, director of power which binds them together be: ,; A graspin' fur grun'." Land is creates. Equally impressive, but no rthern parlour and the internal Communicado Theatre Company and the power which forces them what matters lo them and in the rejoins of the artist. Kzurllnsky's for their restraint rather than for and writer of their new show, apart. It is a powerful and at times end, James knows that "siller~ wor k is also u n m istakably any overt grandeur are Stphen White-Sailed Ships, playing this surreal evocation of the tragedy talks more persuasively than expressionist ic in outlook His Collingbourne·s steel sculptures. week at Theatre Workshop, associated with human greed, words in winning them over. wo rk is characterised by an almost His works. which are much smaller Edinburgh's most varied and aspiration and the assertion of Jamie the Saxt was written in the random mixture of colours and and more rigid than Watson's, adventurous cultural restaurant. righteousness." The play falls into 1930s and it had not been shapes. Otto Mueller's Two Nude possess an economy of line"' atid a To extend the culinary metaphor two halves, the first showing the produced for 26 years until last precise elegance which fit h is G,r/s ,n Sand Dunes and Karl further mighf be fun, but it would misery of the Ross family, forced year. It is a revival well worth the Schmidt-Robtlufl's St. Francis subjects exactly. do a disservice to a group who, off their homeland during the effort as it is one of the funniest rep resen t examples of orle of t he My favourites though, were Jack embarking on their third project, Clearances, lh,e second showing and most carefully written Scots m a jor German expressionist Harvey·s five column pieces. have already received an unusual the same family emigrate to plays around. Above all, the schools: Die Bioke (The Bridge). Everyone who looked at them amount of public and critical America, to do unto the Cherokee language is right, the play was Conversely the world of the seemed to be drawn to touch them acclaim. Based in Edinburgh, their Indians what was done unto them. obviously written by a Scot highly constructivists is represen"'ted or to examme their patterns and appeal may partly lie in a refusal to " I wanted to show that the story proficient in the use of his own largely by the work of the Russian textures in close-up. His pieces be in any way parochial, and an doesn't stop," Gerry explains. language. El Liss, tzky. His portfolio of 1 provoked an intimate and apparent policy not to be " Patterns go on and on repeating The p[ay is being performed by lithographs typifies th e r igid spontaneous from their audience predictable. Less than a year old, themselves." the Scottish Theatre Company geomet ry and functional aspects and succeeded m being striking they have tackled Poland under Like The House With the Green which suggests a company of of the Co nstructivists. The work of not only because of their size but martial law, a great Scottish Shutters, White-Sailed Ships goes national standing. Though the Moboly-Nagy, another of the also because of their complete­ classic in The House With Green on a two-month tour next week, to ind ividual actors are highly construct ivists is also to be seen. ness as works of art. Shutters, the Highland Clear­ parts of Scotland not usually professional I would doubt if this ances and American colonisat ion. reached by theatre. Though company could be said to be truly Nobody knows yet what their next response is generally good, such a national. Or even if the mass of the production , scheduled for tour contains an element of Scottish nation want a Scottish January, will be about. Says Ger,y financial risk, as Communicado is Theatre Company w~ch seems to Mulgrew: " I don't feel duty-bound not sponsored by the Scottish Arts be patronised by relatively few ol to use Sc6ttish material -for the Council. The SAC covers potential them. sake of it. Neither are we political, loss, but finance for the project H't A. Tinline if that means we feel obliged to the first instance comes from a push a mesage. Scottish sources variety of sources. For this reason, The House of Bernarda can be just as universal as any; if Communicado does not as yet Alba we had a manifesto, it would just exist as a permanent group EUTC, Bedlam Theatre C inema 1 Thur 27-Sat 29 6.00/ 8.30 (Also 4.00 Sat) be to do new shows in as original outside its projects. Though Gerry Robert De N iro and Jerry Lew is in Martin Scorsese·s and effective a way as we can." likes to keep an open mind on their This three act tragedy on the THE KING OF COMEDY

f J St. Cecilia's Hall

• Musique de SAS Monseigneur Le Prince du Conti Univents Mon 31 st 7 .30 Thursday 27th Sunday 30th

Ecstatic Hour, 8-9 pm. Pints 45p, Happy Hour, 8-9 pm and live folk spirits 35p, plus free disco. music, Teviot Rooms. Free. • Lenny H enry & Guests Chambers Street House. Fri 28th 8.00 Methsoc: 8 pm. Talk by Janice Two hours of the star's sketches EU Ph ilo sophy Society: 7.30 pm. Parkin, " Visit to Haiti"; Societies and routines. Tickets £3.50 in Talk by Prof. Nicholas Maxwell, room, Nicolson Square Methodist advance from Virg,n Records or University of London; "From Church. All welcome. Ripping Records; £4.00 at the Knowledge to Wisdom" door. EU Society for P sychical Monday 31st • Late- night jazz - Alex Shaw Research: 7.30 pm. R'chard Quintet and Malcolm McFarlane Loosemore will be "Explaining Arts Soc: 1 pm, brief meeting for Quartet Telepathy and Psychokinesis" at anyone interested in "Life Drawrng Fr, 28th t0.00 the Society's meeting 1n the Classe" in the Braid Room at the Cheviot Room at the Pleasance. Pleasance. • Concert/ Ceilidh Sat 29th 8.00 • Poetry Society: Liz Lochhead Catholic Students' Union: 8 pm. Full details from Edinburgh Folk reads from her work. An original Hallowe'en Party. All welcome. Festival, Palace Office Suite, 1 and entertaining poet-playwright Castle street. from the West of Scotland. OHT Conference Room, 7.30. Tuesday Nov. 1st • Meadows Chamber Orchestra Sun 30th 8.00 Ecstatic Hour: 8-9 pm and live With Mozart's Overture to Don folk / blues music, Chambers Giovanni and Violin Concerto in G Street House. 12 am licence. Free. major. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and Kodaly's Dances o f Gafanta. Friday 28th Edinburgh University Women's Student tickets £1.25 from Usher Group meets 6.30 pm, Cheviot Hall Box Office. Calholic Students' Union: 12-2 Room. the Pleasance. All women pm. Bread and Cheese lunch. 23 welcome. • Scottish Chamber Orchestra George Square. Wed 2nd 7.45 The SCO play Haydn's Symphony Misly in Roots live at Teviot Row Wednesday 2nd No. 75, Frank Martin's Petite House. Tickets £2.50. Symphonie Concertante (1945) Green Banana Club Disco in and Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. Disco: 60p, am licence, Potterrow. 1 am licence. Free. I[ ,y Henry, live at the Queen's Hall on Friday Matthias Bamert conducts, with Potterrow Free Disco and late • Scottish Literature Society: oc Philip Ledger on harpsichord. licence, Chambers Street House. Karen Vaughan on harp and Peter Showing of video of 7:84 Theatre ,c· Company's The Cheviot. The Stag • Evans on piano. ,~ and the Black, Black 01/. 1· • USIC • Student Community Action Pub Folk Saturday 29th Group: Meeting for all volunteers who expressed an interest in the 1her Hall Playhouse • Caledonlan Hotel, Princes Disco: 30p, 12.30 am licence, sitting service and reminiscence Street, 225 2433, Mon, Tue, Wed, Chambers St reet House. projects. Speaker s on both ~:,a 155/6) (557 2590) Fri Sat 8.00 Ceilidh and disco, Teviot Row subjects. Cheviot Room , o· • Ellersley House Hotel, Ellersley House. Free. Pleasance, 2. 00. l")ttish National Orchestra • Micheal Schenker Road, 337 6888, :e"october 7.30 Sun 30th Thur8.30 SNO's Pri ncipal Guest • Fiddlers Arms , 9/13 Grass­ luctor Paavo Berlund leads • Russ Abott's Madhouse orchestra through Beet­ Thur 3rd market, 229 2665, o(i 's Overture to Corio/an, Mon 9.00 11in's Piano Concerto No. 1 • Habbit, Blackfriars Street, Exhibitions Neilsen's Symphony No. 4, Reid Concert Tue 8.30 lnexlmguishable. Soloist is • Watermans Bar, 92 Grass­ ard d'Ascoli, the blind pianist Hall market 225 4157 The City Art Centre The Talbot Rice nated Most Talented French Nightly 8.30 (also Country & • Aguado Guitar Duo: Kenneth Market Street e of th e Year in 1976. Western) Art Centre E Heggie and Peter Batchelor Built in Scotl and: Old College, South Bridge Tue 1st 1.10 pm • Waverley Bar, 3/5 St. Mary's St., Work by Ten Sculptors. Homage to Miro ·~Ince Factory 556 8855, Until 12 November. A selection of work by Joan Miro ) 7 2590) Mon-Sat 8.00 and photographs by Joaquim McEwan Hall • White Cockade. Rose St. Gomis. :.Jntil 10 November 19 Kurt Thur8.30 The English-Speaking lth • Marjorie Bruce Union Gallery abilly - latest signing for Fri 28th 1.10 pm "ecords. Lunchtime or~an concert 22 Atholl Crescent ;I Barbara Roberts.on The Printmakers Prints Anna King Workshop Gallery Tapestries 29 Market Street Cindy Silver E. S. Lumsden 1883-1948: Jewellery The Art of Etching port Celebration of the life and work of Until 29 October Ernest Stephen Lumsden on the :entenary of his birth. 1ccer Judo 29 October until 19 November The Gallery of ,arts v. St Johnstone • Under 21 Scottish Champion­ This week: THE OMELETTE '9th 3.00 ships BROADCASTING COMPANY Modern Art Sat 29th Meadowbank lnverleith House, Botanic Gardens The Sc,ottish Gallery PRESENT New Acquisitions and Expression­ 94 George Slree t ists and Con structivists: Two • Scottish Univ's Judo league 'MEANWHILE . . .' 20th Century and Contemporary ,1gby malch. Aspects of Art from Germany. Paintings Sun 30th PM in The Pleasance. ·Four brilliantly funny men perform Until 9 January Until 9 November lroughmuir v. Glasgow High wonders of zaniness· The Scotsman !9t h 3.00 Meggetland Greyhounds 'Hilarity is assured' City Limits ltior's FP v. Haddington '9th 3.00 Goldenacre Last week's selection didn't put Thurs 27 & Sun 30 at 8 pm The Fruitmarket Gallery )J•rt's/ Melville v. Leith 1n an appearance and a hasty Fri 28 & Sat 29 at 10 pm The Scottish lemicals appraisal of this Thursday's card Sunday 'Pay what you please· 29 Market Street Photography Group Gerhard Merz. ?9th 3.00 lnverleith takes me to the final event for what perf at3 pm Gallery Until 5 November. at so nians v. Glasgow looks like the best best - New 105 High Street Starts Friday: DANCE UMBRELLA lemicats Jacket. A speedy sort round the Don McAtlester Fnday 28 & Sat 29 at 8 pm / 9th 3.00 Myres,de first two bends, I expect to the dog Photographs 0 lead early and go on for a ROBERT KOVICH Until 5 November comfortable win. Supported by Tues Nov 1 & Wed Nov 2 The Open Eye Gallery Flashy Backdeed 1n the fourth race, DANA REITZ 75 Cumberland Street fast enough from the traps in this ctsketball Ed, Thompson The Traverse Gallery grade, I forecast a nice dividend SPE CIAL STUDENT MEMBERSHIP OFFER EXTENDED TO THE ENO OF Ceramics George Street from the double victory. 94 irray International Metals v. THE MONTH David Miles elona "'" New Jacket The Grassmarket Full d eta ils from Traverso Thea tro , Paintings .. Flashy Backdeed Grassmarket 03 1-226 2633 Sandy Love .I 27th 8.00 Meadowbank Until 27 October ., ts Centre Kavey Kanem Until 28 October 10 27th October 1983

• Death In Venice Scottish Opera Theatre Royal Glasgow v,sconti's ,mage of the dying author Aschenbach is pathetic and memorable: his face, immobile but streaked with tears SEX and the black hair-dye of his attempted rejuvenation. is turned towards the distant object of his adoration, the beautiful youth Tad210 beckoning from the waves. Visually this scene in the new production of Britten's 'Death 1n Venice· has elements in common with the film of the Mann novel, but Aschenbach ' s face is not discernible. It ,s the music which speaks more eloquently than words can describe; after the anguished discords of the later quest which has led the central Ding Dong figure towards the disintegration of the Dionysian state the strings breathe out the rarified air of a Alastair Dalton gets cantabile ascending to inaudibility It's a final peace so unearthly and so surprising that the effect hovers bats in his Bluebelfry. relentlessly after alien applause: a token of th e composer's greatness difficult to comprehend only nine Two Glasgow bands formed the The Bluebells incorporated the· years after the work was launched. bill for Friday's Tev,ot gig, Kari three single releases to date in Of course the added dimension Safari supporting their better their competent. enthusiastic set, of opera can enrich and articulate known. yet still middle-league but even so. nothing in it stoo'd out the mysterious problems of the friends, The Bluebells. as being particularly individual, book's layers of consciousness, Kari Safari have only been and thus despite the help they the supernatural nature of together for a year, and yet their have had from Elvis Costello, they Aschenbach's struggle between confident first outing to Edinburgh seem set to remain for at least the the Apollonian ideal of pure was somewhat disappointingly moment in semi-obscurity. beauty and the collapse in to received by a largely absent By the t,me the band appeared Dionysian sensuality. Scottish audience. on stage a sizeable crowd had Opera's production originating in• This five-piece is fronted by turned up, which gave them a Geneva with a French director and vocalists Dan Donaldson and consistently warm reception right designer, Francois Rochaix and William Swift (also or guitars). the through to the final two encores. Jean-Claude Maret is most former looking and sounding The Bluebells have a pre­ successful in realising this more uncomfortably like a certain Mr N. dominant guitar sound, provided bizarre side of Britten's personal Heyward. However, while the band by Robert Hodgens (a Marc vision. David Nice may well have been influenced by Almond lookalike?) and Russell the former Haircut, they sounded Irvine, with both also on vocals more ponderous, far less lively and with songwirter Ken McClusky. generally lacking in bounce. This This produced good vocal was reflected ,n the slow, rather harmonies, such as on Some pedestrian start to the set, the pre­ Sweet Day and You're Gonna Miss GANG CHILDREN- ponderance of onlookers being Me. the absence of brass or either seated on the floor or keyboards made up for by Ken's bunched at the back of the hall. frequent use of harmonica and "Would you like to take photos new name Dance Factory; still confident, with a good stage What was most lacking was an tambourine. of Sex Gang Children" someone don't be a cynical hack, ke(1p an presence. The sound was good from where I was h1d1ng. althoug element of accoust,c guitar to But three vocalists also meant said deep in the bowels of open mind. supp1ement ana comp1emeni three people doing the small talk Buccleuch Place. All that I knew about Sex Gang I'm told ,t died off a b,t at the back Leslie Long's bass, to alleviate the between songs. something that "Certainly", I said. was based on a hurriedly read Musically they were a cross rather intense feel to their music, sounded irrepressible but was " You wouldn't mind writing the article in Z,g Zag and vaguely between Siouxsie and Public and many of their songs would often garbled and 1ncom­ review as well?" remembered tracks on John Peel. Image Ltd sort of. have become altogether tuneless prehens1ble "Well. er. you see, I'm really a The fans looked as ,f they would All in all , at the end of the short had ,t not been for John The occasional melodic ballad photographer . .. gob on my camera. spiked hairdo's 45 minute set I felt as 1f I had been Donaldson (Dan's brother) on sax provided a neat contrast to the "Oh don't worry we only want and studded rackets every where. in the wrong place at the wrong With only sporadic audience band's urgent delivery on the more 200-300 words. you'll manage." so I retired to the bar to stock up on t,me The whole place seemed to encouragement, which only came up-tempo songs. but I got the "OK then," I reluctantly agreed. dutch courage. I was beginning to be try,ng to back 1n '77, (I towards the end ,n the form of a ,mpress,on that many of their " When and where?" en1oy myself by the time they came remember ,t well) but ,t was a weak few rather inebriated 'dancers·, the tracks were soundal,kes of other "The N,te Club late Saturday on. The music on the disco was effort, there was a lack of band seemed content to maintain bands like The Pretenders and night - OK." excellent. and the prices at the bar excitement no energy, too sterile stat,c poses ,n response, broken (dare I say 1t') Haircut 100. were reasonable, what more does a they played reasonably well, but only briefly by an attempt at Their current single, Sugar It was with much trep,dat,on that man need . nothing happened, which was rockabilly. Bridge. though decidedly not very I climbed the stairs, I hadn't been 1n the event I was reasonably disappointing considering Sex While Kari Safari are still waiting original or musically adventurous, near the place for at least two impressed. The lead singer was a Gang Children are supposed to be was one of the less montonous in for the first signing, perhaps with years, and I was dubious abou-t the very competent front man. the new en/ants terrible. London Records, their mates. The the set. Even so. it will only Bluebells. already on that label, possibly be a hit. are still awaiting their first big hit. FRIGGING IN THE ••••

This concert was billed as a former rock backing for more days to the expressive songs "Festival of Celtic Music" featuring traditional sounds, in contrast to prompted by such events as the (now) local band Run Rig and Alan Run Rig, whose influences from development of the army base ,n Stivell, the Breton folk Harpie. To their native Skye and North Uist Stornoway and the glorious prevent anti-climax Stivell played have developed a less insular (sic) slaughter of the Falklands first. Accompany by mainly approach into a musical form Everlasting Fun. The band's acoustic instruments. he and his more in keeping with the powerhouse Fife drummer and the three man band offered a variety of seventies. The 90 minute Stivell set lead guitarist. Malcolm Jones French, Irish and Scottish Gaelic ended in some jigs (rheegz) and boost what could be bland songs a nd dances. Stivell reels. being warmly applaused by backing into forceful rock apologising to the Gaels in the the then full Playhouse. Apart from Malcolm has become a local packed house for his Breton a noisy sound system and sleeping Guitar Hero. wildly lauded by accent. lighting-men, the crowd had a rare Hendrix fans wherever the band The first song was from the time. play. Every gig seems to see an Highlands of Brittany, North Any reservations the Reekie increase in the volume he plays ai France; St,vell adding that, audience had - 11 ,t's possible for Some mouth music, dance tunes although these were only a few an Edinburgh audience to be three encores and a duet between feet ,n height, they were at least reserved - were doffed on the St,vell and Jones on bagpipes. the "psychological Highlands". Like arrival of Run Rig cult, kilt and latter's original instrument. saw the Scots ,n Britain. the Bretons Celt all in one, the band offered the audience filtering out. talking view themselves as a race apart their uswrt, weel-paced Rock-Folk in superlatives Apt, as this was the from their cou,ntry-folk . set, ,t being more rock than folk best I've ever heard and seen Run Unfortunately, this works both Lead singer, Donnie Munro. R,g. Sound was vastly improved ways, as you can study Breton at a played off the audience and at over the first set and the boys French University ,n their foreign times his voice seemed to melt seemed to play off the receptive language syllabus. from the walls. He means what he audience. Pos,t,ve feedback at ,ts It had been some three years sings best Be see,ng you' since Stivell had played Britain; Run Rig material has matured Gordon Macintosh now he seems to have dropped his from typical love ballads ,n early Get Out Something and Dance! Wendy Barret shovels the shit with Magical Agrics' heroes . The Dance Factory wasn't exactly packed out for the appearance of The Farmer's Boys, but when the lads eventually took Clare Hammond the stage. the handful of yokels present were surprisingly enthusiastic. Surpnsing because experiences some real Ja The Farmer's Boys must be one of the most unlikely candidates for success receding hairlines rule Music: nowhere near the OK - but their popularity must be due. in part, to the d1st,nct lack ol a posturing image: mostly, however, Bermuda Triangle. to their superb live sound, which "Money will not be refunded in Youth, The Melody Makers (Bob was really well balanced. with case of acts of Jah" stated the print Marley's children). Rita Marley, to appropriate emphasis on the on the back of my ticket. The name but a few. rhythm. So. when they bounced antic1pat1on had been building up Rita Marley g.,t the crowd crying into their opening number, I Can't for weeks all round Jamaica as out "Want more! Want more! as the Help ft, one could have been June drew to a close and for the sun rose over a sea of expectant knocked down with the proverbial sixth year running, Reggae faces. Steel Pulse, Chalice cocktail umbrella Sunspfash week approached. We (perhaps Ja's most popular group) Make ft Out was undoubtedly Just prayed 11 wouldn't rain. and Dennis Brown were yet to the high point of the set, being Sunspfash has become an come. When the latter two their most popular single to date; established event for reggae fans appeared, people climbed on each and I defy anyone to name a better worldwide; 1t is unique in format pop record this year. Although I other, or anything else around, ,n and consequently ,n atmosphere delight, cheering. clapping and found myself t1r1ng of their sound 819 names in reggae from many Jamming to the sound. Thousands about halfway through the set, I countries are brought together by of fluidly shanking bodies; black, was abruptly awakened by a series the organisers Sunergy, and the white, oriental, from every country of new songs which continued and excitement lasts from Tuesday 1,11 ,mag,nable. united by the expanded on the more minor Sunday morning, reaching a peak universal music. The atmosphere elements of Muck II Out and were on the last two nights. On the was electric. and we left on an altogether pretty good Friday we arrived at about 11 pm to emotional high at 11.30 am. Contrary to what you're find the Bob Marley Performing The next night, despite having th1nk1ng . The Farmer's Boys are Centre (a vast outside area with a got a foot-full of sea-urchin not my favourite band. but they are stage at one end) a seething prickles ,n the meantime, I one of the most pleasant and mass of people exciting pop/dance bands around. couldn't stay away' The crowd was They have none of the grating monotony of Orange Juice. and neither are they a flavour of the month. I mention spec,f,cally OJ because a young man named Malcolm Ross was presenl that Cool Konilz night - perhaps to pick up some A big night for Platform: clues as to how ,t should be done. Jane Hooks and.Duncan The Lenny Henry Hoot Comp McLean reporting on Lee Answer these simple questions and wtn two free tickets for Lenny Konitz. Henry at the Queen's Hall Along with upcoming gigs by wistful tones of the saxophone tomorrow (Friday) Bring your Bobby Watson and the Surman/ were set off perfectly by Danko's answers to the Student offices at 1 Krog duet. Friday night's appear­ piano underpinning the haunting pm on Friday ance of Lee Konitz at the Queen's ·melody with punctuating cords 1. What connections does Lenny Hall has to be the big event for and short. suggestive, .melodic have with a current Top 10 Edinburgh jazz fans this autumn. runs. artist? High expectations were not dis­ Amongst others, the duet also 2. Is it true that he is Benjamin appointed, as the enthusiastic played a cheerfully boisterous Zephaniah's brother? Several thousands were sitting, even bigger, the fervour more audience was treated to a long set tribute to Thelonius Monk, Ha,ry 3. What is the name of the Rasta standing, or lying. soaking in the intense. This time the waits were of va ri ed and exciting music. Canary, and a placidly paced and character he portrays in music pulsating from the stage. even longer. and all the Joos After a rather patchy first hoarmically economical version of "Three of a Kind''? squashed as near as possible. blocked and flooded, but none of number. the Parker blues A,r Chop,n's Prelude No. 20. All in all, Many were perched on the this mattered: the crowd, the warm Conditioning , the quartet, the duet numbers were easily the scaffolding for the lights, fencing , starry night, the strange mixture of consisting of alto sax, piano, bass most adventurous and successful vans. palms, and anything else smells, and most of all, the music, and drums, soon warmed up and part of the evening, though it available to get a better view. A few combined together and carried me after a few minutes were swinging would be wrong to think that these hundred more had opted out to away . together nicely: Konitz asked for moments o f intellectual stimula­ CHART • camp out on blankets, coats or Dawn broke to a very impatient crowd. At last, at about 10 am, requests, and the subsequent tion were gained at the expense of A Short Top 40 bare earth ,n front of a large screen lively and spontaneous versions of the friendly relaxed atmosphere: further back where more speakers came the moment everyone had 1. Jah Wobble, The Edge, Helger' Honeysuckle Rose and I Can't Get the duet's parody of Keith Jarret blasted out the pounding rhythm. been waiting for: Third World Czukay Snake Charmer (Island) Started drew th e audience into the (the Liberace of jazz) was Others swarmed round the arrived on stage to deliver a 2. The Art of Noise Info Battle band's confidence to create an absolutely hilarious. numerous small bamboo stalls performance I would have waited 12" (Island) almost intimate atmosphere, no The rhythm section came back selling lta l (Rastifaria n) food , days to come and see. Once again 3. The Cure Love Cats (Po lydor) mean feat in the rather cavernous on and the concert finished with record s, T-shirts, drinks, etc. everyone climbed onto seats, 4. Sisters of Mercy Temple o f and over-lit main hall. the ubiquitous Lover Man, which Through the crowd weaved shoulders etc and dubbed. Love 12" (Merciful) 1 The quartet numbers were featured some brilliantly under­ innumerable young men and small. Despite my foot, I had to join in All 5. The 3 Johns AWOL (Abstract) played with considerable stated melodic bass from Ronnie boys shouting: "Get de good around me enraptured faces were 6. The Smiths This Charming freshness and charm, but Konitz Rae, and a segue of two more ganja! Sensie hea-ya singing and shouting, hands were Man (Rough Trade) seemed to keep back the true Charlie Parker songs: Anthro­ Sensemania!" and so on. (Grass qr clapping, feet stomping, and 7. Public Image Limited So//talfe reserves of his genius for when the pology and Moose ,n Mooche. dope to the non-patois speaker). dreadlocks flying. (Virgin) rhythm section left the stage, and Indeed the ghost of Yardbird The policemen, it seemed, were By noon the temperature had 8. Cocteau Twins Head Over he dueted with pianist Harold sometimes seemed to be blowing temporarily defeaned by the soared and Black Uhuru faced a Heels LP (4AD) Danko. Throughout his career, the sax itself, so obvious was the music! much reduced audience. Their 9. King Kurt Destination despite playing in the bands of great man's influence on Konitz's Despite the hum of activity, the reception, however, was no less Zulu/and 12" M1xup (Stiff) such big names as Stan Kenton playing. That he admits his love for atmosphere was decidedly laid­ enthusiastic. The sense of unity of 10. Lionel Richie All Night Long: Parker's music with pride, and that back. The evening had started two that last morning embodied for me and Miles Davis, Konitz has John 's Fave (Motown) performed and recorded often in a he still manages to put across or three hours late and there were the friendly spirit of Sunspfash: an sax / piano duet. Any doubts about feelings and thoughts that are Totally accurate chart compiled long, long waits between the acts, eerie feeling. the viability of such a rather entirely his own in a vibrant and by Nik at R1pp1ng Records. 91 during which time the latest unusual combination were varied manner. are sure signs that South Bridge, Zululanrt reggae records blared out from the Clare Hammond spent a year " Is that a record Norris?" immediately dispelled by the first Lee Konitz 1s no mere skilful PA. Antic1pat1on and impatience out farming goats in Kingston, number, a truly beautiful Spanish copyist of Bird but a genuine and "No, Roy, a record's a black grew as the night wore on and Jamaica. It was during her stay wa ltz by Chick Corea called valuable artist in his own right thing with a hole ,n the middle." better and better acts gradually that she took a weekend off to go Something Magical the dark appeared: Marcia Griffiths, Big and see Sunsplash. 12 27 th October 1983 EUSA BYE-ELECTIONS Association-wide Position - Finance Committee (1 seat) SRC Positions - External Affairs Convener National Affairs Convener 1st Year Arts Representative (3 seats) Veterinary Medicine (1 seat) ASSOCIATION FINANCE COMMITTEE

CALLUM CALUM ANDREW CALDER FERGUSON LYALL

The heavy responsibility carrie.d Finance Committee, short 01 a by the Finance Comm_t ttee 1s quorate General Meeting. makes never greater than at times ol all the final financial decisions financial st ringency . The onus affecting the entire Students' should not only be on effective Association. trs powerful, so you allocation of limited funds but need to know what's going on; it's also on being seen to be relatively complex, so you need allocating these funds effec­ members who can understand tively. This kind of approach what's happening. coupled with EUSA policy of In the next year: The Finance Commi1tee is a very important committee. as 11 is RESPONSIBLE, FIRM AND UNITED resistance to education cuts (a) EUSACO responsible for ensuring that the Students· Association budget of (with which I am entirely in agreement) 1s our only hope in pre-empting The as yet generally unrecognised title of the ltmlled company £3,000,000 is well spent. The Finance Commi1tee is also responsible for further cuts:- the lesson ol the Day Nursery must not be forgotten!! set up to deal in travel with the general public - a commercial the accounts of the Students· Association which go 10 the Annual offshoot of our own Travel Centre. A prime location 1n the town General Meeting. Not being a political careerist I cannot list a vast array centre is even now being sought after. The objec1? An of committees I have sat on. II elected I will ensure that no money is 1 would hke to see the Finance Committee adopt this type ol stance and improvement in travel provision to students using EUSACO's wasted. and that the revenue of the Students· Association is as as high in the run-up to the bye-election I intend to be ava ilable (evenings. surplus and its ASTA licence. but firmly under student control. as it can be. I will not allow myself to be used as a mouthpiece for Brewster House) to discuss this and other issues. (b) Chambers Street's "lace lift" student political factions. I will represent your interests in the best way Actually it's the inside that will change. £100,000 worth of internal l can. For a straight-talkrng, efficient, representative on the Finance Although this is my first year at Edinburgh I have co nsiderable renovation. ready for Freshers· Week 1984. Improved facilities, Commi1t~e - VOTE FERGUSON 1. experience, gained during my first degrees of dealing with intransigent therefore increased use of the building - belier for YOU. University Authorities and University financial problems. Just two improvements - both in provision in student services and thereby allowing more ambitious spending on representation: a I would very much enjoy working on the hnancial comm ittee an d hope neglected area as our services flourish second 10 none. As FRESHERS' that on October 27 you will feel able to vote LYALL. WE EK DIRECTOR I helped to administer a £1 7, 000 budget lor all EUSA·s spheres of activity; on a wider scale. I have confidence and experience to try it again. I need your support SRC EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

STUART STUART RODERICK A. BANNERMAN BLACK MANSON

The Post H1 Voter. Very simply this post deals with I'm 1n my fourth year studying for political matters that do not affect THE POST: The post of externat an Economic History degree. In students as students. Neverthe­ arfairs convener serves to focus the past I served on the External less the SAC is entitled to speak students· attention on 1nter­ Affairs Committee as its out. as is any other body. so long na1ronal issues It lends itself to secretary (and I turned up to as !I remembers 11 can never be used however the convener more meetings !han anyone represent every student s wishes and it 1s thus important else). Oh yeah. and I didn·t vote viewpoint that the nominee you vote for is Tory' going to concern himself/herself The principle aim ol the External The Issues with the issues you consider to be Committee 1s to increase awareness among students (that's YOU) t stand on 4 basic principles important. about 1nh.:nat1onal affairs. not only poht1 ca1, but social and economic 1 No support for Fac,sm i.e. South Africa. The South American THE ISSUES: 1 beheve in doing as much as possible wi thin the too. Thus. aHhough the Comm1uee spends much of its t1med1scussing dictatorships, the NF and terrorist groups like the IRA University 10 voice ob1ect1on to the s1 ting of Cruise and Pershing anyt hing from the problems of Overseas Students. through Central 2 Uncond,tional opposition to Communist d1c1a1orsh1ps. i.e missiles in Europe. To h1ghl1ght the plight of students in countries such American poht1cs. the Philippinese. the Middle East and Afghamstan. Eastern Europe, most of Africa. amongst others. Tyranny 1s as Iran and Chile where represstve and barbaric regimes place many to the problem of Racism and the debate about Nuclear Arms. 11 also unacceptable whatever its ideological basis students in fea r ol their lives. The Third World is also the concern of maintains particularly st rong links with such organisations as Third 3 Support for basic human rights such as freedom of speech. external aff airs and the exposure ol 1he baby milk scandal perpetrated World Society and Amnesty Once a year. it organises International association and assembly and the work of orgamsat1ons seeking by such multinational companies as Nest1e is an example of the work Week as well as helping to arrange and publicise Filmshows and talks to expose and rec!lfy their violat10n. done by external affairs and the kind of issues which I would pursue throughout the year. 4 Conditional suppoff for the prmc1ples behind the Western trade and defence alliances (desp,1e the CAP) This is an important position and I feel I have the energy. enthusiasm If elected to the convenersh1p of the External Affairs Committee. ll will and the appropriate commi11ee and debating expenence to do 1us11ce I believe that these principles broadly reflect the general opinions of be my JOb 10 co-ordinate these activities and get the blame/credit when the ma1on ty of students here to the 10b. things go wrong/nght (delete as applicable at end of the year) Luv ·n· kisses. Stu II you agree. then please. VOTE MANSON I SRC NATIONAL AFFAIRS

PABLO ROBERTSON MAR K SMITH

The previous 3 National Affairs Conveners allowed the post to fall into irrelevance. ~:a~J= ~~:sd~fn~~~~~~,~~~ been a great waste o f time the last few years. No-one has T~~ reason for. this wa_s simple; ~s members of the Conservative Party, they had no wish to !:~ 0 cntically examine or disagree with the most absurd and irrational series of attacks aimed at THE FUTURE: Using my experience C? l lhe SAC (I w as last years Science Faculty Convener) higher education by Keith Joseph. my main aim will be to sponsor 1ntelhgen t unb iased debate on nationat issues related to stuaents sucn as grants. cu ts and other decisions of Gove-rn ment And here is the c rux of the convenership: the post should be involved 1n dissecting out Government policy, particularly with regard to education and regardless of which N~S: Obviousl}:' NUS is a ve ry ~elevant top,_c for National Affairs but we can get along government is in power: explaining to others the consequences o f the cabinet's actions and without becoming obsessed w ith 11. Th1s Job requires someone who doesn't have a finally campaigning against any policy which adversely affects students. pathological hatred of NUS but a mere lackey o f it would be almost as detrimental 1 1·0 1 d to put students before dogma and sp re_ ad awareness of national issues not prop'a ane;a After several years of active involvement in student unionism and as a Labour Student I The old techniques o f useless occupation and pointless marches around Glasgowgback~ have the motivation. knowledge and skills to rea ctivate one of the unknow n. dark corners 01 streets do not s~are th_e Govern ment and are. frankly. an embarassment Lobb in of MP' the SAC. l woul d ask you to vo te for an active convenership and vote for Robertson. and fostering discussion amongst students 1s far more effective. Y g s VO TE SMI TH FOR A NEW-LOOK N ATI ON AL AFFAIRS 27 th October 1983 13 1 st YEAR ARTS 3 seats

STUART INDIRA COLIN GOODALL GRAFFIUS HANCOCK

Three good reasons to Dear Arts Students, vote for me: I am standing to represent Firstly I have no political you, not any political bias, I wish to represent faction . If you elect me, students not fight political battles. you can be a sou e y sure that I shall put forward you r Secondly I will be available to all Arts Students. views and interests forcefully and enthusiastically. A And thirdly I will work hard for Arts interests on the vote for me tS a vote for a hard-working and useful SRC. I am also an extremely nice person! representative. Thank you.

MARK ROWLEY DEVIN SCOBIE \I

I'm standing for election not only because I believe Always available - that would be my wish as a first that I can do the job, but because I think real, active year Arts representative. I want to become involved in student representation is important. Vote for me and student politics, and trying to help you in the Arts you are voting for a student who will represent the Faculty would be my main aim. I'll make sure your views of students, not those of myself or any political views count and, with your support, will voice them party. on the SRC. VETERINARY MEDICINE - 1 SEAT

GILES THOMAS INNOCENT THERESA LESLEY NORMAN

This address will be short and sweet; I was going to say " like me", but I didn't want to start with a li e. I've got the time, if you've got the votes (the money will come later!). Give me something to do with all my spare time. RETURNED UNOPPOSED

SRC Convenerships SRC Faculty Representatives

Environment First Year Undergraduates 2nd and Subsequent Year James Husband Medicine (1 seat) Undergraduates Vineet Lal Arts (3 seats) Postgraduates Science (3 seats) Graeme James Carter Andrew Lyall David M. McLean Sharon Milne Social Science (2 seats) Mark R. Poustie Fraser Dinnis Science (3 seats) Stuart Old Marc Burgess Alan Cunningham Mark Smith

POLLING STATIONS

Appleton Tower 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. VOTING METHOD Chambers Street House 10.00 a.m.-7.00 p.m. D.H.T. Basement 10.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. Dick Vet 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. J.C.M.B. 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. This means that voters are allowed to indicate their first, K.B. Union 10.00 a.m.-7.00 p.m. Second, third choice, and so on. This is very important in K.B. Centre (North Entrance) 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. the elections where there are more than two candidates, Law Faculty Office 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. and in those elections where there are more than one seat. Library Coffee Room 10.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. Ballots will be redistributed according to second, third Medical Library 10.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. choice etc., until all positions are filled. Thus, to ensure New College 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. that YOUR vote counts to maximum effectiveness, you Pollock Halls Refectory 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m. should indicate your preference for all candidates you Student Centre Concourse 10.00 a.m.-7.00 p.m. favour. You do NOT have to vote for any candidates whom Student Centre Bristo Cale 11.00 a.m.-2.00 p.m. you do not desire to be elected. Expression of second, Teviot Row House . 10.00 a.m.-7.00 p.m. third, etc., preferences in no way weakens the strength of William Robertson Building 10.00 a.m.-2.30 p.m. your first preference vote. Societies Centre 12.00 noon-2.00 p.m. 14 27th October 1983 Profiles

hoto from 'Modern Lan ua e Review' poltt1cal groups wanting Sicilian claimed he was preserved from the independence from Italy, and even disease by the high alcoholic annexation to America. All the level in his system! peasants were very subservient The name is Brand, Professor Brand's section of stating blindly that, "sono stato sempre anti-fascista··. ,n spite of eight men often swapped their the fact that many had past American rations for home records that were as "black as pitch" produced and mixed sicilian pasta the year 1943, the Professor Brand observed that it with bully beef cooking on was the Americans who charcoal stoves until they could strengthened the Mafia (almost get a Sicilian cook wiped out by Mori under On returning to Britain within place Sicily ... Mussolini) by bringing back the the next decade, the professor 901 exiled "Lucky Luciano" to re­ Cambridge to accept regular establish contact with the old residence abroad for modern How I learnt Italian: former spy-hunter Mafiosi bosses. The Mafia was language students, assertrng that and intelligence agent Professor Brand generally friendly w ith the troops it was the best way to understand a as it was in their own interests to foreign mode of life and customs. is interviewed by Penny Gibbins. be so. The b lack marketeering however this was opposed for a The •·year abroad" was not The cou rse completed, he with the allies for food, cigarettes, long while by the dons for two always part o f most la nguage began his m ission to track down drink, spare parts and guns meant reasons: firstly, that it would be no course c urriculums: it took the spies and sa bo teu rs who hoped that thieving from the troops was use as it would interrupt under­ Seco nd World War to shake the either to gain info rmation about limited. However, this did not stop graduate studies, and, ironically. Cambridge do n s from the ir allied mo vements in Sicily, o r the wheels from lorri es being that 1t would be so useful that fixation with the Dark Ages, and perhaps plant a bom b on t he taken while the d river was asleep those who could not go would be with renaissance literature whic h, supply ships of the Anglo- i-- in t he truck at t he same time. If the at a disadvantage. delightful though it may have American command . Many of Maf ia were approached in the ri ght been, had very little to do with war- these spies, trained in German way, sto len good s always found ravaged and starving Sicily espionage camps and schools. their way back to the owner; the ,------1943. were Italian-bo rn and after being Allied troops fi lled a power p ro fessor once had his overcoat The lac k of minority language filtered through the lines they vacuum and the professo r often stolen in a shop , but it was MEGABOSS experts in Russian, Czecho- made their way to the South, and exerted army authority to t hwart retu rned with in ten minu tes. Alan Chainey, D irector of the PE slovakian, Rumanian, modern forgot their allegiances, hoping only arbit rary and abusive po wer w hic h In the eveni ngs when he went D e p a r t m en t an d Se c retary/ Greek and, in this case, Italian, to rejoin their families. On his an official might be using against into a cafe, many Sic ilians w ould Organiser of Scottish Universities forced Army Intelligen ce to send mule-back travels along the dri ed- the people. At one vi llage whole wish the young officer to tell them foot ball fo r t en years, was recruits on an out-of-date crash up stream bed s between the fa m ilies were cramped into one about Britai n , so he c lim bed on to erroneously quoted by Student, course at Cambridge. Here, t he Sicilian mountains, Professor room in louse-ridden hovel , while his soapbo x and would info rm 13th October edition. young Brand broke off his French/ Brand would discover these many huts on the beaches stood them of the B ritish way of life, {a) A £5,000 mortgage would not pa y Spanish degree to spend every "spies" peacefully titling their empty due to government ju ri sdic- British politics. and would counter fo r the squash court. due to be moment speaking It a Ii an , land, and rea lising that they were tio n. The professor intercepted to t he fascist indoc t ri nation against ~~~~~e~ege~~ r ~!~~/'m~~~t~a;;o~~~o~ supplementing his archaic co urse harmless, left them alone. let the families into these empty Western democra cy, whilst people loan of £l67,500 10 be paid back over by working for three hours a day " You used y our discret ion," he huts. stood on c hairs to see h im better. ten years, with the agreement of the on a farm with Italians from a PoW reflects . I f one agent was Often he could be found in The people at this tim e lived in University Court.

camp. T his, and the evening discovered he would often inform c i v i l ian d i sgu ise attending v ery p oor conditions. o ften Pli~~a~~:,. 8~~:~~h:~~~~a~~=rp6~: cocoa-chats in their Nissen huts on others and in this way they political rallies on the look-out for suffering from malaria, whic h was Centre and Mr Chainey hopes that they helped him an d his colleagues to caught many of the enemy. any signs o f continued fascist rife until the Americans swamped can be developed to offer office, compile a modern military The breakdown of the fascist act ivit ies, or f o r mo vements the rivers with DDT at the end o f teaching, meeting and social areas vocabulary, which the study of regime and consequently of against the Allied army, because at the war. One co mpanion who ~~~~~:'.ble to users of th e Sports -D•a•n•t•e•s•o•m• e• w-ha• t• l•a•c•ke• d• ·----•a•u•t•ho- ri.ty- in_ s.ic•i•ly• m- e•a•n•t •th•a•t• t•h•e-•th•i•s• t•im- e- th•e•r•e• w• e• r•e- m•a•n•y• •sm- a.11--re• f•u•s•ed-•to- u•s•e_ a_ m• o• s•q•u•i•to- n•e•t•I pt!~~~~il~t~~~o~~~~~~;~tv~~fl~r~~~

~;~e~~~~~ntsa t~:ff~~;~;tt~r~:'e"c~ ABarry TI.me w,·th the Often the parents are physically swerved ac ross the road. He found sub committee f o Ito wing the vce~ir~~~ a~gocc~o\ts look }~er _the ~~~~ ~et;~x~ ~=~ Pineotphlee hGaidasbgeoewn ~;~~~';~ty t~e~~~P~:~~1c~:~t;ti:~·~ 10 1 1 won I ::, In O 8 rationalise all outdoor activities as far ·1rns PIiion if .they can avoid it," adds k illedincrashesonthesamespot. as p ossible at Peffermill. The Mark. "They are scared of their Another driver, Laura, remem- subcommittee has reported back 1othe Ba cars being damaged, there are bered how she had gone down a Works and Buildings and Sports Pohcy hun dreds of burnt-out wrecks in dark one-way tunnel in the wrong Committees. Student plays follow my leader with the Children's Pilton." d irection egged on by the c hildren Also, anyone w ishing to Holiday Venture. The outdoor centre at Rat ho is who argued that " Gerry always did participate in the Marathon '84 surrounded by fi elds, sparsely it". It was on ly ince that they were Project should submit their names furnished with p lastic c hairs ins ide and frighten ed , t h ey to the lovely ladies at th e Sports inside, a large kitchen, and c onfessed that no one had ever Union Office. This project involves cell ular rooms with bunk beds, d one it before. giving r u n ners w i th lim ited " T ake a ' fau t ie' o f me." exhibitionist tendery c ies come q~ t outside there is a fort and c limbing Some students feel out o f their background of systematic athletic Wednesday evening at Och ii baths as they do the " hippy shake" 1n playground. Gradually flagg ing depth, but o nce you have had training time to prepare for th e and as I walk up the steps a small front of the c amera, and the boys "stewdents" provide entertain- some experience o f the chi ldren Edinburgh Marathon. hand grabs mine and t he figure drop thei r trunks - the mo re 1984 says "Who are you ?". She is the spectacu lar fauties have been left ment until perhaps 4 o 'clock in the you t horoughly enjoy you rself, first of a small cro wd that run up out. • m o rn ing. After an o utdoor the steps to swing on the turnstyle " I used to live in En gland once," barbecue o f beefburgers, baked and then run shrieking to the a girl informs m e. "Whereabouts," t at t ies an d th e n c h ocol ate dressing cu bicl es. 'Tm go ing to said I. "Oh, I canna remember t he pudding, the children cause as w rite about you." Wide eyes and n umber," she rep lies bri ghtly. much havoc as they can unt il bed the whispering filters from child to Every child gets to sw im iime, scaling the walls o f t he c hild. John Leas comes up, "Take fortnightly with CHV whic h runs building to get onto the roof o f t he a fa ut ie" he yells. Another girl two buses, o n Monday, T uesday ce n t r e with the secr ecy o f nearly drow ns herself in an and Wednesday eveni ngs from commandos. They p lay tag, Pirates. bear and hunny pot, attempt at a photo-f inish hand­ A ppleto n To wer. There are also and afterwards they go for a stand, and I haven't the heart to tell day outings, and weekend camps It her that all I can see are splash and to the o utdoor centres at Rathe w alk armed with broomstic ks to toenails. "Watch me walk on my just outside Edinburgh, and on the w ard o ff "ghaists" and the "White knees"; Debbie, with big eyes, pale borders, at Dumfries, Gallo way. Lad y", w hile the students do their face and stork legs, wraps her Teesside and Argyll. The object o f best to scare them . lower limbs into a yoga position these trips is to give the children a O ne student still spo rted facial and mounts upon kn o bbled change from living in their large scars as he had put an arm round kneecaps, walking along the fam ilies in substandard, over­ the bedroom door pretending to bathside, her knees hitting the crowded council houses . Often be an "axeman" only to have it concrete with spine-shuddering coming from a single-parent or shoved hard in his face by a child who summoning up courage c racks, her face however a wide unemployed family, the ret re ats grin. are a welcome c hange from sho uted "I'll get the basturd" Mark, laura and Kate, the CH V perhaps a weekend of glue sniffing D uring the moonlight walk with helpers, line the kids up on the side and smoking in gener a l the kid s, a pot o f paint in the ohoto bv Fraser MacBlane m iddle o f the road was set on fire, for a synchronised jump and all conformity to and after attacking it w ith the and learn to be philosophical The committee stresses that 1t broo m s ti c ks , s eve n -yea r -ol d when, as once happened, a needs as many students as Paddy calmly solved the problem football la nded in the mince on the possible to meet outside the by dropping his trousers and too k stove. Laura threw it back and then Appleton Tower at 6 pm for two d irect aim at the flames. the other served up the mince or "skitters". weekS before the jumble sate to boys follo wed su it, extinguishing Some st udents aren't used to collect stuff in the vans. It also the fi re between them , and b eing sworn at: Mark says needs sorters on Thu rsday and sau ntered on looking as pleased a despairingly to the children, "Will Friday, and helpers to put out the spunch. your language ever get better?'". jumble on Saturday morning. ~ On an earlier occasion cows " It fucking will Mark," they reply This money contributes to the jii f r om a nei gh bouring field earnestly. A favourite insult is Christmas party at the end of term ~ wandered into the ad venture ··vour mother is a go-go dancer for the children, who all get ::;; playgrou n d a nd a c h eerf u l and your father is a black bastard.'' presents. Anyone who would like ci> morning was sp ent t rying to get (the last phrase being a term to help at this, or on one of two ~ the animals back throug h the gate. applied to policemen). bonfire nights for the younger and ~ However, it can be dangerous The CHV finds £13,500 to older kids respectively, should get .c driving with so many chi ldren in £14,000 a year by writing off to in touch with Gerry Pratt 5560591. ~ the back. Gerry Pratt hit a sheet of companies, and having fund­ Mark Wickham Jones 229 6115 or .g black ice on a snowy road to Perth, raising events like the Jumble and Laura 229 8567 and nearly killed everybody just auction sale on the 19th November m1ss1ng a lorry and a truck as he which got £1,400 last ear 27th O t b 1983 15 Sport RUGBY JUDO SHINTY Scottish Universities' Judo VOLLEYBALL MOTOR CLUB FRESHERS XV: 29 League O nce more unto the breac h PENICUIK: 6 went our intrepid heroes, to face The latest public performances On Saturday, Edinburgh follwed th e daunting prospect of Col Glen On the evening of Friday 14th from the various divisions of the up their brilliant performance of Saturday, 21st October, saw the in this season's first match. Col October several EUMoC crews Freshers rugby circus clearly last week , with an equally 1st team travel to Ayr to play Kyle Glen, from the depths of shinty took part on the V, night Op Road illustrate the potential problems compe t e nt display again s t VC. As the Evening News put it, country 1n the wild western scrub, Rally. This nagvigational rally was facing those mad enough to try Stirling , Heri o t - Watt and 'Students have a tough draw\ and were not to be underestimated . As Dunfermline Car Club's counter in so It proved to be. and run It. Aberdeen, in Stirling. Edinburgh the kilted regiment staggered from the Forth Valley Championship. oue to such sundry facts as appeared to be in trouble w hen an However. we were not lacking in the bus shouting Gaelic From the beginning it was a tight recen tly diagnosed glandular injury sustained by John Palmer confidence · after our 3-0 w in obscenities we k new w e were in event with [Jlany crews dropping fever in the senior teams, training against Stirling, forced the team to against Brannock last week. After lor a tough time. In sptte of the time on most sections. Section 9 absentees and the motonous fruit compete in the last match against storming into an assertive 1-0 lead huge age and weight difference, was 12 miles tong but was machine coefficient. the teams Aberdeen with onl y four players. in the first set, we went to pieces, th e Edi nburgh team coped eliminated from the results due lo selected bore little if any However, the deciding fi ght was eventually losing the set 15-5 in admirably and introduced them to a typing error in that section's resem blance to the previous week, won by Alisdair Brown with some only 15 minutes. To say the least so me of ,the finer techniques of instructions. One codeboard thus ensuring that the recently impressive tacti ca l judo. the service receive was patchy, shinty. vanished mysteriously and then highlighted body of oval-ball The wins were again spread though o nc e we did manage to O n th e icy was tes of Peffermill, reappeared at a later time, much to heroes, the Vandals, were speedily about the team. However, the two mo unt an attack the offence was cMered on by a crowd of four the intervening crews displeasure. dismembered. Unfortunately for bl ack belt brothers made some effective The spiking of L. Wallen thousand, surprisingly vociferous Overall it was a good event, with the selection committee, a goodly 1mpress1ve throws. The h1 g hl1 ght and C. Logue being particularl y despite the absence o f chief little room tor error. EUMoC complement of the above of the matc h was indeed a b ri lliant effective. In the second set there :heer-leader, the loquacious Katie celebrated with 1st, 2nd and 6th in managed to infiltrate the hitherto "cou nter" by Coli n Wilson. was a marked improvement, the Maclaren an d o fficia l p ress the Non-Expert Class. impenetrable ranks of the top Edinburgh's mad (but cuddly') team sh o w ing a d efinite will to win. ohotographer Lord Tennant. the The next event is Lanarkshire Freshers side , where their stra ngler also claimed another At 13-4 up with se rvi ce we looked battle commenced Frustrated by Car Club'Os Tomshies Turnoot on presence was immediately felt. victim. like taking th e set. but again the ~ur resolute defence. under November 4th. Come and find out Pre-match awkwardness soon Edinburgh's Ladies' Team put hard serving Kyle team showed up :ontrol o f the star from Plockton, more about us at the Gold Medal vanished with th e pa in fu l up a ve ry brave performance our w eakness and they eventually Lurch' Macdonald, Col Glen Tavern on Tuesdays from 8 om or spectacle of our sc rum-h alf against more experienced and ran out winners 16-14 •esorted to using their weight at any EUMoC event (see Posters). attempting to squeeze himself into higher-graded oppos,t,on, only After this we seemed to lose j,fference. However, our heroes a pair of recently acquired shorts losing na rrowly in their two heart and quickl y lost the final set the Edinburgh Team, be ing fitter, FOOTBALL which posed a far greater threat matches against Stirling and 15-6. Considering our relative lack were able to outpace the Aberdeen The team line-up was of practice we performed qwte opposition on the wings, result ing to his future health than anything HIBS: 2 - DUNDEE: 1 the oppos1t1on could have had 1n Sally Allen, Patricia, and Sarah well and can only improve as the 1n a fast end-to-end game. with store for him; to make matters Kibby - the ladies' team captain season goes on. SPIKE exc1t1ng, leroc1ous play to please Having put up with more than wo rse . he had also ra ther over­ the adulating fans Introducing our fair share of rain in recent estimated the amount of linament new blood ,nto the garne proved to weeks, we hardy souls who follow required to liven up his turgid be very successful and American football received early warning of muscles, the result being that he supersub 'Bat' Clein. showing colder days in store as a thin looked exactly like a beleaguered amazing co-ordination and sure­ crowd fought to keep warm at British tourist baking on a beach footedness for someone from Easter Road on Saturday. After the on the Costa del Sol across the li'II or Herrin Pond, heady heights of the previous Thus inspired, the side took the with incredulous passes from week proceedings returned to a ft eld looking suitably rugged as 'Clubber Grass1ck, has now more mundane level, as Hibernian they scoured the touch ltnes for equalled the hallowed scoring eased their way to a comfortable 2- anything looking remotely like a record of ·sticks Leys and 1 victory over Dundee. Scoltlsh selector - how that elevated himself to. the pos1t1on of A flying start from Hibs august body contrived to miss this season·s most prolific scorer promised to take our minds off the su ch a quality game is incredible. Thanks must go to the catering low temperatures, as Duncan shot bu t the absence of such st1mul11 convener. Char Richardson - his side into the lead alter 45 saw the lads arnve at the interval, struggling to equate supply w,th seconds. Indeed many un­ after a closely fought first half, demand This week·s match ,s fortunate punters were to rue their trailing to the strolling playe rs of against Tayforth - probably at late arrival. " Was it a good doat?" Pe n1cuik by 6-3. The break was home so watch the noticeboards ask one. Willie Irvine, off whom we certainly enlivened b y o u r And remember Sunday practices are assured there is onl one, added ex perienced centre who dived o ff at Peffermill 14 00, also weights ,n a penalty and Hibs were coasting. to the dressing room in search o f a the Pleasance mult1gym on Thereafter it became a battle to pain killing spray; Just as he Tu esdays 20 00-21.00. Spectators keep the circulation going as the emerged a huge roar went up always welcome. even to the early symptoms of exposure much to his delight, unttl 1t was weights session See you on began to manifest themselves. pointed out to him that FOOTBALL Edin. Univ. 1st XI 3; Saturday. Sla, nthe mhar. One was left to ponder the wisdom Boroughmuir had just scored on Kelso Utd. 3 Rhurig Mheadhion of turning blue in a stadium, where the adjoining pitch. The University's regular East of Scotland League no hue other than green is ever the Suitably chastened he rejoined RUGBY flavour of the month. the fray where it was fast fixtures against Kelso usually fail to generate much The scoreboard operator had becom ing apparent that the excitement or interest amongst even the most Edin Univ. 27; Stirling Univ. 0 the right idea, as Hibs' new intensive training sessions held e l e ctronic display aksed committed club members. The agricultural In the second Un iversity under the close scrutiny of supporters to voice their opinions Ober leutnant John " You ' re associations of the Kelso club tends to produce a Championships game of the regarding the feasibility of a winter chea ting, do it again" Peters were at rather dour, workmanlike type of football which season, the 1 st XV dominated their shutdown, which happens in opponents, and won convincingly last paying off. It should be said several Scandinavian countries of normally does little to enliven the enigmatic talent at by 27-0. that the opposition did contribute comparable latitudes to Scotland. Stirling were under press ure quite substantially to their own the University's disposal. This is a thorny problem, which The arrival of Nick " Dan Archer" Dee, regular viewer of .. Ennerdale right from the kick-off, but downfall, with their full back being a often crops up when the winter because of their strong defence, the principal offender; the antics Farm" and an acknowledged expert in the construction of cowsheds, in begins to bite and the fixture list Is they conceded only a penalty of this Chaplinesque figure kept the 1st team squad has revitalised interest in a hitherto uninspiring decimated by postponements. (kic ked by M. Owens) and a try everyone entertained, his kicking fixture. Unfortunately, for " Dan", he encountered transportational Indeed, the proposal to suspend whilst having huge overlaps problems on his way to the match which caused him to turn up late and (scored by J . Warnock and the league programme for a set outside him bein,q of particular led to him being named as a substitute. Apparently, Dan's mini•tractor, a converted by M. Owens) by half­ period, a month perhaps is a time. merit. Despite his considerable new prototype model pioneered by BL to meet the demands of the popular scheme in many circles. agriculturalist who never wants to be too far away from his natural I. Stevens, bursting through the eiiorts, however, it would be This notion contents that, while ,air to say that the game's environment, broke down with fuel pump problems. The unreliability of Stirling defence after supporting a many clubs have taken the wise the internal combustion engine was not communicated to " Dan" by the Warnock break, extended the complexion turn ed on ~n step of installing undersoil un fortunate incident. After the sleazy salesman who accepted " Dobbin", his beloved 12-year-old Edinburgh lead shortly after the heating, this does nothing to thaw smoke had cleared from a Clydesdale, in part exchange for the aforementioned vehicle. restart. His tey was converted by out the terraces which remain an particularly vigorous exchange, a Further misfortune befell the Uni when it was revealed that Neil "Lord Owens to make the score 15-0. inhospitable vantage point. In any Edinburgh began to play more Penicuik forward could be seen Lucan" McEwen had disappeared and could not be contacted. Search case, when conditions discourage postrate on the turf. An immediate parties were sent out and a reward offered but no one has yet come fluently now, and for once moved large attendances, should what is search was launched for a medic forward with details of his whereabouts. He was replaced by Steve "The the ba ll out through the three­ essenlially a spectator sport go within the side, at which point one Cancer King" Carter who emerged trom the dressing-room shrouded In quarters. G. Lawson, at centre, ahead regardless? Players can was tackled, but stayed on his feet of the back line tentatively a vile blue haze to reveal that he had concluded a lucrative sponsorship hardly be expected to warm to the vo lunteered the information that deal with Embassy, manufacturers of his favourite weed, as a result of and fed the ball to S. Farrell who, occasion on surfaces on which as always, was c lose in support. he had once dissected a rat when holding down a 1st team place. they could do themselves a he was twelve; this certainly These enforced changes were readily exploited by a Kelso team who He took the ball forward and linked mischief. with J. Peters, whoo smuggled it to see med to have the desired effect had obviously given up watching "Farming Forum" to tune Into "Football On the other hand, the sheer D . Leckie who scored. The latter as within seconds the afflicted Focus" or " On the Ball". ft came as no surprise when they took the lead, unpredictable nature of the completed a hat-trick of tries party effected a highly creditable after 20 minutes, with a spectacular drive which tore Into the net past a weather makes it Impossible to before the game ended, with two impression of Lazarus, and dived static Mitchell whose feet seemed to be encased In Evastlck. Judging foresee when the winter will strike back into the pack. Such talk from their Inept first-half performance It looked llkethe rest of the Varlsty pushover tires, to make the final hardest. The already congested score 27-0. obviously shook some of the XI had been liberally Inhaling the adhesive which had successfully fixture list would drag on into June fain ter hearted members o f the immobilised the statuesque Mitchell. The passivity of performance and encroach upon a host of other opposition, for in the last quaterof produced by the Uni allowed an ebullient Kelso to score twice more SAILING events in the busiest season of the the game, the Edinburgh forwards before half-lime. sporting calendar. This is a fact, ran riot, thus accruing to Jangles A stern half-time lecture and the removal of the offending solvent from Lord Cameron Trophy which also represents a cogent (2), Macdonald, Hadden and Mitchell's boots revitalised the Uni. They totally dominated the second argument against summer football half, hitting the woodwork twice, and peppering the opposition goal with which would put us out of step In Charters ensuring that by the final This year's Lord Cameron Trophy a barrage of half-hit shots, mistimed headers, and fluffed drives. relation to European competitions hooter, the margin was an was held at Firbush on the 8th and Unfortunately the only reward for all this frenetic endeavour was a impressive sounding 29-6. Despite 9th October. The Trophy, awarded and create havoc when the World solitary penalty converted with ridiculous ease by the Aberdeen fascist, Cup rolls around. the fact that chatting up referees to the winner of a series of five Doug " Oswald" Graham. " Oswald", revelling in his recent Inclusion in Presumably, we will soldier on doesn't seem to be an outside sai ling races. is open to all the East of Scotland select side, was at his brilliant best In this second as we always have. I-fibs Were subject taken by many forwards, it members of the University, and period eliminating all opposition with, as he would have It , "extreme does seem that the Freshers· form this year attracted 20 entries actually among the pioneers of 1 prejudice." However, eveh Doug's death squad tactics failed to break down s on the upturn - it is to be hoped including several members o f undersoit heating in this country )hat the Vandals ('we lost 30-18 down a sound Kelso defence. staff. so we addicts of the leather The result represents a serious blow to the club's East of Scotland cos they were bigger than us') and The winner was James Ric kets spehere are assured of a regular the Vagabonds ('I think we lost League aspirations, but as long as this wonderful club, full of such with Katherine Varvill, 2nd Jamie 'fix' throughout the winter. It talented individuals, continues to receive such tremendous publicity in about 20-0, but the ref wasn't Penman with Steve Gamman, 3rd might, however, be wise to first this and other columns in The Student then the three marvellous teams it much good') will get the habit too. Paul Robinson with Judith hunt down the thermals. supports can only prosper. Rob Kitson Rroctor. Andrew Templeton -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-·-·;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;•;····· =~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ····=·=·=·=·=·=·:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:•:• ························=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·=·= DODD 'Student' lowers its street credibility and talks to that dandy of the 1111118 airwaves, D D D D Peter Powell. Watch now as he rips up a few preconceptions

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Hmmm, so what about being a OJ, a media figure? I think a DJ is far more he's like a The music press ... are middle agent. the entrepreneur really. he's in !he middle of. em. the 'business·. the potentially the most razzamatazz. the heavy media business. pretentious bog-paper and he's also 1ust in front of the er PORTRAIT OF (INTERRUPTION - someone collects a ever. coat from the dressing room). Em. I thmk Peter Powell ,t's he's the guy in the middle. right? ------11 Yoooou·ve got the business side and the youngsters are having A 12·year-old you've got the showbiz side, so ii you·re kid now has got the men1al1ty and 1he right in 1he middle of 1t all there·s not physique of a 1S·year·otd. some live. six a lot you can do except be yourself - and BOOKS years ago. You can't trea1 them as 1f you try and do anything else you're children any longer - they're extremely For real trash, Alastair Ma..::loan TV going to gel sussed out. (INTERRUPTION New Bowie biography ambitious. in many ways - either that or News at Nine - Peter 1s informed where the reception For heavyweight. ah fu ..::kmg hell. I they're terribly deflated, and very introvert News at Ten 1s, and there s some grub there as well, haven·1 got a ..::lue. I ,::ant remember And you·ve got to be able to respect Newsmghl OK?) OK I get really well paid for being Oh, God. I don t think I've read a book that. and to appreciate It, and the only Im a news freak J wal..::h all the newses in mus,c. anyway, so I can't complain for the last eight weeks cos I haven·, had way too do 11 1s by getting tn and, eh. Maxwell Ta,fs advert Ho ho. What about when people send you getting m with the audrence and fmdmg time Winds ol War ·Ha ha ha huh· tapes, demos - do you try to listen to as OU/ much as you can, or .. Sgt 81lko There's a httle group of punks outside, and FILMS Minder t get about forty or fifty cassettes a week, I walked up to them , had a great War Games Ha. ha Total fantasy 'I did like Sw1t..::h. for its freshness • and eh. I slowly plod through them Eight conversation w,th them for ten minutes. Wonderful a day I get through I hsten 10 everything er, while Heyi Elast1ca were on, and they M1dn1gh1 Express for the eighteenth time But what can you play of that? POLITICS were really entertaining Well. firstly they Merry Christmas Mr Lawren..::e I play what I lhink 1s gonna I'm very Anyone who gets 1t right· don·t e11:pect you to walk up to them. O..::lopussy ··Ha ha ha ha huh ha ha broadminded, actually. in the stuff I Tm fascinated by po11 11 cs. irs quite a secondly. they give you a load of verbal choose I think I hope. And t hsten for hobby of mine I don t meddle m 11. I don t abuse. righ1? And then you. when you PAINTERS quality, 1n whatever kind ol musical sphere speak about 11 I keep 11 fairly personal actually get down to 11. they're actually the band Im listening to decide to go in Tm really boring Russell Flint is a.::tually to myself quite mterested I mean l hope they had a Some of the s1uff you're ge111ng through at my favounte I'm probably much more of a S0.::1at1sl good laugh havtng a chat to me. because I the moment 1s really very MOR. You know. than people thmk I am. much more had a great laugh chanmg to them It's all middle of the road music. a llttte b,t. or ARRESTS two-way stuff really The best the dance stuff is getting a little bit ·1 haven·1 ac!ually been arrested though I DISLIKES scnptwnters in the world are 1n the monotonous. and so 1s the synth Stull - ..::ould have been on many occasions I audience If I wan! ideas or 11 I want to do I hate big egos geuing very monotonous. So perhaps rm gues research. I go to the audience Not lo the I don·t like people bemg alternative Just gemng a bit bored with them YEAH 1 music press tor allernallve·s sake Come 1n1 (INTERRUPTION for MUSIC The m usic press? Em. I'm no! part1..::ularly keen on v1olen.::e autographs.) Er, who are these lor? Diane Because that stinks I lhtnk the music Par11.::u1arly at 1he moment either and Shona. right (Scnbbhng) Er a band press in Bntam - the tabloids Im Lost Loved Ones I don l hke peo1ple who are f1..;;kle I dorn has 10 have lour songs to get a session White China l:ke people berng psy..::ho-fana11.:: e11tier No one·song wo nders, mm? talking about. are poten11alty the most pretentious bog.paper ever It's so S,mple Minds all the things I'm a..::.::used of No. I'm not interested in one song. em. I'm pseudo·h1p such long words Waterboy·s new single interested ,n something. well. 11 it's don·t thmk they're so fu weeagh Lookmg forward to new U2 album LIKES released on vinyl - great. oops. there·s (CIGARETTE PAUSE) Culture Club·s album for pure pop I'm very fond of dnv1ng fast a.::1t1ally your pen 1EXIT) but. a band has got to The likes ol NME. They th ink th ey've got ii Bored with Kid Creole, very bored Yello are great for dnvmg fast to Greai have a certain amount of depth to 11 I've now got an image sussed. Attack all evil, or all that the Ellery Bop band before I'm prepared to do a session with which is ... me. And if readers can accept, and p rovide no Ou1te like The Cure too. ' them. em. because well. f,rstly I like to answers : Just destroy, take the shit. FOOD Good organ1sat1on see a band belore I do a session with people like it, great, and if The music press have got a JOb to do. And Simple roasts I enioy intense ..::onversa11on too, a..::tually. them. secondly. I hke to feel that this 1s I appreciate that, I respect the tact that Addicted to Spaghett1 Carbonara believe 11 or not Just the beginning for the band. that they don't - stuff it. they've got a stack more to offer. Because. they've got a JOb to do. and they must do the 10b in the way they want - they"re er, 11 we go with a session - l'd hke to probably just as happy with what they do. think that band's gomg to develop into As opposed lo those who listen to and as sell·content as I appear to be. Um, quite big news. ah. in the near future. and something as a background, or a the fact 1s though. that lhey can be much PORTRAIT OF THE we don·t do sessions lightly - we spend a more constructive. and could help people lot of time del1beraung over what bands pa stime? Um. yeh. I I try to mix a b11 of a lot more than they actually do Because we hke - 1 say ·we·. myself and the producer - I put all the bands up, and we personality ,n. a htlle btt of music I've got no time for destruction. of ARTIST 'respect, If I can I do tend to, I. I get people's egos or - not egos. their go through 'about, ldty, and we get about four. and then we get down to two, earned away. everyone does every and then we, well, about one 1n filly I time I go over the top with a band - I ge1 Paul Hullah-Tell Me A Colour should think accused of 11 all the time. I mean. 1 set myself up to be not I don·t know. t I hate razzamatazz, I hate What abo ut putting your whole show ALWAYS IN MY LIBRARY together? Is that achieved by yo u saying don·1 really care very much because, I'm showbiz parties, I hate Our Mutual Friend- Charles Dickens 'Well, I want to do this. and .. .', er. quite happy with myself now I'm much Four Ouartets-T. S. El,01 imposing what you want. In view ol who's more myself. on rad10 and on television, receptions, and I hate listening, um . uh. than rve ever been before. and rve S0nnets- Chnst1na Rosselli now 901 an image wh1ch is me And 11 everything to do with all I 1ust, t review my audience, 1 see what my audience are what they want. um. and. people like 11, grea1. and 11 they don·t - that kind of shit. ALWAYS ON MY STEREO I try to lulfll the middle ground - to stufl 11. Basically. I mean 11 I get thrown oft Live tn Newcastle-Damned entertain, to reflect what's gomg on, but the network. ,rn be because I'm not doing Black Album-Damned nor to try to teach or to preach. I have no the Job I'm employed to do conhdence. I've got no hme for that. God Keep Your Dreams-Su1c1de intention ol 1rying to teach people what Yes .. It musl be dlfllcull, em, with the Almighty right now we need to build Forever Now-Furs they should be l1stemng to. and wha! they kind ol sc hedule ol things such as here people's confidences up. not smash ·em It's a Mug·s Game-Soft Cell should like so my playlist ,s made up today and having to meet certain people, down (Calms down slightly.) I really Chinese Cate-Joni Mitchell of - chart ,ecords which 1 par!lcutafly well. it must be easy to Just play a nice believe that firmly Em. I mean. I dunno. like, er, I reflect a very very few oldies. I guy, or simply just be acceptable lo ,rs. ,rs a funny old game ALWAYS WATCHING whoeyer 11 happens to be. No? haven't really got time for oldies at all. and Prompting grunts. Union City Very often. very often. but at the same I think the music business 1s so sel!- em . mostly new stull. New vmyl Steptoe and Son time - I' m a big boy now, and again, you 1mportant I think everybody, including me releases, and new bands doing then Quiz shows see. t get paid a vas t amount of money for we all thmk we're so bloody important sessions Dr Climax doing a Job, which has got to be one of And we·re not rea lly We're 1ust pawns in the best jobs in the world - I mean. I the game. We're not that important The OFTEN IN MY STOMACH I have no intention of can·t thtnk of anyone who's got as much music business 1sn·1 that important. Pop freedom. or as much. I mean some ol the sta,s aren't that ,mportant Record Beer trying to teach people thmgs rve managed to do 1n 32 years are company executives aren·1 that important Lager brilliant I've had the bes, 32 years anyone When it comes down to It, you·re all just what they should be could ever want. Therefore you. em. you selling a product, keeping some people ARRESTS listening to . .. 1us! sit back and you 1ust get on with the happy. 1 Drunk in cha,ge of a motorcycle (August JOb, and 11 people ask you to do We forget what we're here to do. and 1979) thar s to entertain. Not to destroy. 2. Louering with intent (Sept 1979) ------· ~~;oe~~~~rst~~:i~~ /y~ ~i ~~~;~ l~;~:/1~, Long warble lrom interviewer on So It's more ot a dynamic? You' re trying but I can't· Simple as that. I've no . ah. I destruction and lack ol positive answering, LIKE to showcase people who are lrylng haven't got any time for pretentiousness. l depression etc. S1a1 ~ g out late something new, and have something haven't got any 1,me for inflated egos or Bitterness One of the things I don·1 like Open minds behind them? people thinking they're more important are people who are bitter, and from what McKay·s cartoons No. well. I mean 11 a band came up who than they really are - I cant stand all I've Just said to you tonight. I sound Performing had tour really good love songs rd be that. l mean 11 Just drives me up the wall, I ternbly bitter against the music press Hee really mterested m hearing ,t I'm nor can't stand Superstars I hate razzamatazz. hee hee. Basically we·re all hypocrites. DISLIKE going to get caught on a cred1b1l1ly race r hate showbus1ness parties 1 hate aren't we? Queueing I'm not there too prove that I'm more receptions, and I hate everything to do Yeah, I think so .. Closed minds credible or um, street-orientated than with all that kmd ol shit We re all hypocrites anyone else t"ve got a Job lo do which I really en1oy, Umm. Yes (C1GARETEE PAUSE) Closed pubs Do you think John Peel tends towards that and I get a great buzz out of, and my only I don't know I quite like the Smash Pre1ent1ous twats sort ol attitude? worries are that I don't eat at the right Hits attitude, really I quite like the idea of Well, he's interesting Um, yes. l think time, and I don't get enough sleep And the business being a bit glam as long ALWAYS HOPING perhaps he can afford to, because he·s those aren·t really very heavy worries. are as 1he people they g1amourise don l take 11 For happiness a pretty wise guy. a prelly wise OJ t have they? I mean. nor in companson to what too senously 11 that happens. it's a bit ol a For health a 101 01 11me for him. and a lot of fespect most kids are going lhrough. But. well as /Oka really. My def1m11on of lame 1s that For success for him indeed. And so indeed for Kid far as l'm concerned - um, a DJ has a you know someone s name. the 10b they (Jensen). Theresa drama11c change on respons1bil1ty. and that ,s - not only 10 be do. and !he kmd of l1festyle they lead Al,WAYS IN MY THOUGHTS Radio One at 4 30 Aller 4 30 the music entertaining, but also to be aware of the that's 11 My parents gets much more onentated towards people he·s entertaining and 1he social Umm. Peter, ah . . Dave C people who are actually interested 1 1n atmosphere they're involved in, !he Hey. let's go to the recep11on Haw haw he Fnends in R1pon music. conditions they're in - and the problems hahl Pumpkin :. : . : . :. : . : . :. :. :. :. : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : ... :. : . : . : . : ... :...... ·. ·. ·.·. ·.· .·.·.······························•·•·•·•·•·•••••·•••••••••