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1sTuDENT: O.G.M. CG Tuesday, 6th May INDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER Riley Smith Hall fpm BRADFORD AMNESTY IN ALL NIGHT FIGHT In ictalialion to an announcement of a .£1.2 million cut. Bradford and Ilkley College staged a 24 hour occupation of the Tory Party D rooms in Bradford Town Hall last Monday. PREJUDICE The occupation was "well behaved" and even the buffet which had been provided fur the Tory councillors remained untouched by the students! Morris McNally. finance officer at Ilkley College, Leeds University's Amnesty In- the Amnesty AGM was held at leaders who referred to the who organised the occupation said he was "totally stunned by the ternational group has been insu- Leeds. A report was produced Leeds group as "infiltrators", cuts" and added "the Tory and Liberal councillors who voted for lated at Amnesty's national con- but no other action was taken. claiming that "they would bring this are expecting the college to carry on as normal. It's frighten- ference over a motion on "sex- diseases to the organisation". ing." ual orientation", LUU welfare officer, Claire Approximately eight students entered the town hall and slept in Whiteley, who was present at and even suggesting that "Gays should just desist from being the council rooms_ Numbers were kept deliberately small to avoid The motion, put forward by this year's Amnesty AGM. was adverse publicity. According to Mr McNally the event has angry at the meeting's reaction gay"- the Leeds group, was intended Ms Whiteley confessed her- attracted sonic good press coverage from West Yorkshire media to include in the constitution a to the Leeds motion, "All of the and he hopes it will help make the council change its mind. speeches against it were based self, "Horrified by the fact that section for people who are im- these sentiments were ap- College management is said to be on the students' side. particu- prisoned because of their sex- purely on insults," she told larly Labour councillor Bob Sowman who is on the college hoard Leeds Student. plauded by the ACM." uality along with people Amnes- Ms Whiteley has sent a letter of governors. lie sharply criticised the budget's author. Tory ty already tries to help. It was The main objections to the to NALGO, one of the unions councillor. Eric Pickles saying that the cuts were "the product of first put forward last year when motion came from Trade Union whose representatives opposed an intellectual and deranged mind." the motion, asking what the Un- Coun Pickles, who chairs the education committee. nevertheless ion's policy is on gay and lesbian justified the cuts because the college "has enjoyed a 2t) per cent rights. The TUC policy is one of growth rate since Ml". Bob Sowman replied this was "absolute support for gays and lesbians. bullshit. the college has suffered cuts in excess of 13 million since It was argued at the .AGM A e r, that Amnesty %%mild lose mem- 1 1\t S ()slicer. I);oc ircen ( NORTHERN lot education in the West orik.,hire 111Ch be NAV, IS licing bers if they supported the re- s i lease of people imprisoned be- decimated Bradlord \ has lust 31 courses since IOSI cause of their sexuality but architecture at Huddersfield PoIN IS under threat, Trinity and All claire Milkier sees it as a Saints is losing courses steadib, and meanwhile both Bradford and GAYS Leeds University await a decision from the University (irants Moral decision we have to - ■e tears. take". Committee which will decide their funding for the next fi SNUB NUS CHRIS HILL Helen Slingsby LLI Lesbian and Gay- Societe Brand an odd choice as a repre- angered by NUS treatment. sentative because she is have formed a new action group straight. with other northern universities and polytechnics. Linz! Brand told teed, Stie- tlenrt she knew nothing about The group is to be called the nn% group and pointed out CiM62 as all the societies in- that if people are aggrieved at volved are centred around the the way she and Doran are Mt62 motorway. It will include doing their jobs then "they representatives from Hull. should tell us". Sheffield. Bradford and York as well as Leeds. Brand said that she was at Manchester University. which Mr Mathew Windihank. one has one of the largos lesbian of the group's ti,anders, conde- and gay societies, only last mned the two NUS convenors week and that they had not of the Lesbian and Gay cam- heard of GMb2 either. paign, Jim Doran and Linzi Brand as being. "Obviously no Despite this she claimed that use". it the group was democratically set up then "We would ap- At the south Yorkshire NUS plaude it". Lesbian and Gay conference on the 14th of April Doran came Windibank hopes that GM62 over as -Patronising. COmpla- will allow the societies involved cent and generally ill- to organise themselves more informed". and Brand. "Didn't efficiently. as well as to remind say a word from beginning to NUS -that practical things need end." claimed Windibank. to be done". • for black South Africans. Some members of the Les- "It should not be necessary The Anti-Apartheid bus parked outside LUL' Leeds Student was told that the privately bian and Gay Society consider for this to happen. The NUS last Thursday. was making another stop on a far lasted funded venture will carry on going around the should he able to organise itself journey. around Britain which has so a year. country, "For as long as is necessary to make properly but it appears they people aware of what is happening in South can't." he said. Inside were video presentations and exhibits representing and explaining the reality of life Africa". INSIDE CHRIS HILL NUS-OUT DAVID HOILE Plus: LETTERS INTERVIEW WITH OF TOUCH? CONTRA SUPPORTER WHATS ON SAMANTHA FOX pg 5 page 8 page 3 MUSIC ART & SPORTS Page Two NEWS NEWS IN VOTE FOR A T This week has seen the launching of be advantageous to use the forth- houss Mom encourage the political groups in BRIEF a new campaign by LUU called. coming local elections as a platform To date Minshull has received at the union to get their acts together 'Vote for a future'. The campaign for a practice run. least one reply from each party, and put forward their views. It is has been organised by LUU secret- Minshull had written to all of the and all the replies will be printed their chance to do something real Leeds University will play host ary. Rob Minshull. who sees it as "a candidates in the lieudingley and on the day to slay board in full. and instead of just talking ahout revolu- to the city's first ever Green chance to encourage students to ex- University wards, outlining the size leaflets and posters reflecting the tion. Personally however. I hope Fair on Saturday, 3rd May. ercise their democratic rights." of the student vote in those areas views expressed will be produced. that the campaign will lead stu- The afternoon's free enter- The campaign is actually an up- and asking them four questions. All candidates have, in addition. dents to realise the results and tainment will include Ils e shot of the NUS conference where about the Fowler proposals. the been invited to hustings on Friday effects of six years of Conservative music, dancing and a children's it was decided that all unions near abolition of the metropolitan court-. in the Riley Smith Hail. and asked government on their standard of circus. Friends of the Earth any marginal seats at the next elec- efts. the standard of private sector to send a representative if they are living. In the longer term I also (Leeds) will he releasing hun- tion should run such a campaign. student accommodation and the unable to attend in person. hope that the campaign will lead to and Minshull decided that it would dreds of balloons as part of a possibilities of lighting on Wood- Minshull emphasises that this is still greater improvement between not a party political niove by the LUU and Leeds City Council." national campaign to trace acid union, '-It is not the job of LUU to rain. take sides. but I hope this will Ashley Tabony Among the many workshops W.YORKS v FOWLER there will he juggling, gymnas- %Vest Yorkshire NUS are to march against the Fouler proposals this tics and remineralisation. Stal- afternoon in Bradford. 'holders will present their Tickets for the demonstration which include entry to a disco, arc causes together with speakers £1.75 from the Union. including Lindy Williams (co- LUU Treasurer Frank Horvath admitted on Tuesday that no chair of the green party). tickets for the event had been sold. He claimed that people are Creche facilities, a licensed becoming tired of anti-Fowler protests. bar and vegetarian food will he The march was not mentioned at Tuesday's OGM. Little publicity available throughout the after- for the event has been evident throughout the Union, though Horvath claims to have distributed "a considerable quantity" of noon. posters. Posters promoting the march are "uninspiring", and have no Four Leeds University students -eyecatching feature" be said. plan to hike 50 miles across in spite of this Horvath hopes that this "good cause will encourage Iceland for charity. all Leeds students to attend." Colin Skinner. Andrew Sarah De‘‘e Backhouse_ David Brock and Shaun Fagan, hope to C20,000 fur RADAR. the Royal Association for the Dis- CAMPUS CRIME ability and Rehabilitation br.