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• Guaranteed. no Royal baby INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER news . University administration source admits "Cuts mean we can't afford full fire safety"

A University administration source has blamed the a high level of fire extinguisher recent spate of fires squarely on cuts to the University's provision and maintenance. budget. and fairly extensive rewiring over the years provided some The high-ranking staff member — who did not wish to level of precaution. He has be named — told Leeds Student that fire safety has however, made some changes: sometimes been sacrificed because of ever-tightening "In the light of our experi- spending curbs. ences in March. more smoke doors have been installed," he "The University does not have not have the funds to replace said. the funds to replace old equip- them." "The question of fire is ment," we were told. "Universi- The first fire. in March 1987, obviously at the fore-front of ty maintenance has had to be damaged several rooms of the our consciousness. and we arc cut drastically and is therefore inorganic chemistry's adminis- constantly on the lookout for inevitably less thorough. tration section. Although the anything that might cause dan- "Elderly wiring or photo- cause is uncertain, greatest ger. rouble, however. conle,, copying equipment, suspected suspicion falls on faulty wiring from the u n . " of causing the chemistry tire. connected to a photocopier. Mike I los land agreed perhaps might not Iaa%c been However. both Dr Munro. the the department had vet maintained as early as It could Departmental Safety Officer. safely practice and tcgulaiii/ii, have been, and the latest and Mike lloyland. ASTMS "The event in March wai un- • Just one of a number of safety hazards our photographer found around the photo-spectrometers would not Union representative, are satis- forseeable:. it could have hap- University, on a hall hour stroll. Snapped in the basement of cheosstry have caught fire as the one in fied with the fire safety regula- pened in any c Alice situation. civil engineering did. Due to tions. 1However, norhirig should he static and situations change. tires, and the recent (Inc on the the cuts, the University does Dr Munro said that there was taken lin granted. as nothing is For example. we have recently earth sciences root, totally un- changed the w iy of bottling our related. solvents to increase the safety "To put the three events The fire in Co. it I- ligincer mg together arrives at a misleading last December is still Irish in result." he argued. the minds of most. Ross Dixon. "Basic safety procedures ha- the departmental Salet?.. OfIk- ven't changed. but all the situa- cr. has since issued notices fur tions have been analysed and even, hods in the department to lessons learnt." report ideas for improving all The West ' fort.: 1 .I :JC' _Cr- aspects of safely, and has had a vice agreed. Station Oftieer good 'espouse from technical Eric Richardson of Fire Preven- staff especially flie reason for tion Publicity said, "Fires arc the fault in the photo- invariably caused by human spectrometer that caused the error. Blames should not he fire is still not known although a apportioned. but lessons learnt. report is under consideration. "The Civil Engineering fire Dixon told Lei,th. Sruthaw highlighted an area that lack r d ''basically it had a perfect safe- maintenance can. and ver y ty record for five years and sud- often is, the cause of fire. The denly something went wrong: earth sciences fire shows that we don't know what. In the people in this ease workmen light of the fire. we are sexy repairing the roof) should he well covered. and having a fire yen, careful when handling in- drill just a few weeks before the flammable substances." It is not fire certainly helped with the a case of penalising somebody,. evacuation. Only small im- but Ic;irniag. provements can really he Safety procedures in the made." event 01 fire however, were still David Morris, Senior Assis- said to be entirely adequate. • the morning atter the night before - a shattered civil engineering building, 12 hoUrs after the explosion. tant Registrar. called these Marlyn Ziegler

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Page 2 NEWS Prisoner's wife speaks Earlier this month on her African tour Mrs 'thatcher expressed satisfaction at the human rights record of Kenya. • . • • Last Monday a student at Leeds. and ..• . • • • •• • ••.•. • • wife of Kenyan prisoner of conscience .. •• • . • •. • • Wanjiru Kihoro. shattered this typical .. • . • • • • Western image of Kenya as a stable. • .. • . • • . • . _ • even modern African nation. exposing ":.• •.... .: ; • 4: • ' • MMTYPICO in precise detail the human rights viola- .. tions and political oppression of the • • Kenyan Arap ?viol regime. Kihoro placed particular emphasis on ,,,cio-economic factors which per- ..... efflYffMAZC34(44 petuate the situation, especially 'Bri- • • • tain's economic involvement in writing off Kenya's debt to Britain and con- tinuing aid in grant form. • •ea. a',0 RY <)440144,0A4 Questioned about the future, she re- • Wanjiru Kihoro mained realistically resigned to the fact changing the situation. that things would not change in the near She held out some hope of success in TUESDAY 1 PM future, despite the recent release of her husband's case against the Kenyan detainees before Mrs Thatcher's visit. Government. currently being held in RILEY SMITH HALL She stressed however. the crucial role camera. although such eases have al- that international pressure can play in ways failed in the past. Tie... mite-4 : OZONE LAYER Ines for house rockers Residents of a Leeds Unirersity Hall of of the damage seems to have occurred Residence are this week liable for a hill later on in the evening with a stained of £628 for damages which occurred at a glass centre-piece being destroyed. win- party held there at the end of last term. dows broken and bannisters removed. One resident commented: "It was a FRAM K STAG Permission was given by the warden wild and extensive party with unfortu- for the party to take place at Devon- nately wild and expensive consequ- shire Hall's Ridgeway Annex on the last ences." Thursday of term which drew around Letters of apology are to he sent to 120 guests. nearby residents disturbed by noise All students of the house who from the party. These include the vice- HAVE YOUR SAY! attended the party are now facing fines chancellor of the University. one of of £25 each to pay for repairs to doors. Ridgeway's neighbours. windows and paintwork. The majority Gay Ilashman Uni fees to Work is a 4 THE I§tUDENTI PARTY soar by 10% letter word Barclays Bank have issued a help and It has been announced recently that advice sheet for those teetering on the Diniacrit there is to he a ten per cent increase in edge of gainful employment but unsure the fees for overseas students in British of exactly how to go about nailing a job. r universities. This substantial charge in- The booklet. entitled 'Earning your rb FRESH PcSTA R.'elgauran: ---* crease has been seen by many universi- living', takes you through each step of ties as a method of combatting financial the road to work with advice on prepar- in aid of difficulties, and the vice-chancellors are ing a ev, making applications and the confident that foreign students will he psychology of interviews. able to cope with the higher fees. And if all that doesn't work there's a chapter on how to cope with unemploy- Comic Nevertheless. Caroline Gibson. 1.1.1U ment. Welfare Secretary thought otherwise. Copies are available from Akan Ren- "Most overseas students are paying huge wick, Barclays Bank. Juxon House, 94 Relief hills anyway. and are not receiving a St Paul's Churchyard. London F.C,t particularly good deal." Ms Gibson con- SEIL tinued to say that many overseas stu- Wednesday, February 3 dents, on state scholarships, encoun- Leeds Student needs your tered severe hardships not because of stories. Bring the noise to our TicKEt. INCLU)LS: themselves but because often family cir- University Office on 3 Course Meal cumstances change at home, making it Mondays and Tuesdays, or impossible to continue their courses. phone 43907.1 (daytime) or Jazz Band 434727 Ifeveningl Monday to • 0 • Tim M'hitwell Wednesday. Spaghetti Eating Competition . • • Chance To Win Lots 01 £3.75 Great Prizes! It's a funny ALSO ON THE NIGHT: SUp I() ( (mu( Relict 1 Official red noses 50p Ito Comic Relief) (inelueles ' 2 prom %MR I old world! tr, Budweiser .. 70p a bottle (normally 1115J for haircut at 1 I.nrwi irks, 'fit carafe al wine ..... T2.50 (normally 0.201 The world of amateur rugby league goes Miss Selfridge, critical mass' tomorrow when its Asso- COME AND NAVE A GREAT NIGHT OUT AND HELP RAISE LOTS Of ciation Cup competition opens for the MONET TOO! GET YOUR MUSTS NOW?!!? second year running under sponsorship The event has been kindly from none other than British Nuclear sponsored by FITCH & SON I.TD Fuels plc. BRAYS BAKERY OTIIER CLOTHES BNFL (known as But Not Fur Long CARI.0 & JEFFREY CRASH RECORDS to its employees) has put £12K into the HAIRWORKS, MISS SELFRIDGE THE GRAND THEATRE with tomorrow's first LEEDS PLAYHOUSE game, sItrtchiensg. BUZZ• GALLERY round matches. BOOKSHOP THE ALE HOUSE MISS SELFRIDGE JOHN'S RECORDS "We are delighted to he associated OASIS HAIR SALON JEAN CROWTHER FLOWER again with the grass-roots of a game FLICKS SHOP which is so important to the north,- JAMIF.S HAIR EXPERIENCE JOHN SMITHS BREWERY enthused the company's Head of D. SIDOLI & SONS GRAND METROPOLITAN Corporate Affairs, Tim Knowles. B & J MARSHALL LTD RETAILING So don't be surprised if you see lead- lined rugby strips from the terraces chi. See Gulain Uddin, 'Leeds Student' Office between 1-2pm E. col 'FE 114-4r %%5 come ray! u 3 year. It is, after all, a funny old world. Page 3 NEWS RAlliforcAABIllinst

1••The biggest threat000 to abortion rights since 67" is hows David Alton's Private Members Bill, intent on a drastic reduction of the upper time-limit for abortion, was described last Thursday at a rally in Westminster Hall. The rally was only one part of a whole day of action. co-ordinated by the FAB group and the National Abortion Campaign.

The day of action. Which was were being unusually evasive. planned for the day before the "Perhaps they're too embar- second reading of the ;Mum rassed to admit that men ex- Bill, which has now passed on ercising effective control over to committee stage. \\as largely wornens bodies proves. onee peaceful, but a heaiy police again. how little MPs reall y presence led to some arrest,. cote about women One "[he 2.utai NUS protestors, counillor commented angrily who marched from the I ad- the 23 arrests which were versity of London Lnion on to made were of anise in the lob- the embankment at ‘Nestmins, hying queue. "The police were ter. were met 1-1\ a blockade of pushme too many people into mounted police at Westminster too sti1:111 a space.- said Luc Bridge. Apart from a Ica' Fish\\'ices an e'vesAiIIICss To the SW SS members who were arrests ..sWsS members stand- heard calling the demonstrators ing behind LIS were pushing us to 'storm' the bridge, most into the police. leering at them simply took a different route whilst we were caught in the somewhat fraught atmosphere the 'litanies. the tr.tlitt was leading v Hill she that across another bridge. middle." between police and protestors. brought to a practical standstill. there s., .Soll a chance that Outside the Commons, huge Police officials said that cer- For most. the best supported but as a demonstration. the we can de teal II Another queues grew. as women waited. tain individuals were in clear and successful part of the day event nos commented on as, national demo is planned for tin many cases) tOr some hours, breach of the peace, for refus- was the Torchlight Vigil, for -Well conducted.'' Men stood March 19. which will he sup- to lobby their local MPs voting ing to step onto the pa\ ement. women outs. which was held on the sidewalks and ahoYe ported by the I LA'. intentions on the Bill. Most but the group of demonstrators that night. thousands of stu- bridges. showing then support "The tact that the Bill was were admitted. only to find that say those trying to cross the dents. health-workers and doc- but not wining the prik.essi,in passed only by a 41 majority their MP wasn't even in the road were forcibly prevented tors. COI rviiig candles and blaz- shows that the outcome IS still 1-lousv.. Some, especially those from doing so. Certainly. . indi- ing torches. walked peacefully Although Germaine Varney. hanging in the balance.- ring to lobby. John Battle viduals were being stopped through the streets. from Ian- Cieneral Secretary said Letts West) said that they. felt horn moving in certain direc- coins Fields to Si Thomas's that she was depressed on hear- Sarah Mann their Commons representatives tions..nal there seemed to be a Hospital, on the South Bank of ing the °womc of the second Sue tucker

01E1 tsi Renting AIDS March Five thousand !topic chest anti-disci linmatorY Standards to Westminster last Sunda\ as Chair nut lesbian and Gas VlisitIN demonstration of rOhtlat Soc. David t rellin told Leejs Good news for students who against the lack of go\ erninen- Studem. eminent; such as ours. rent accommodation nom land- tal support tor people with lords. Front lailltary 17 nrtni- AIDS, and in remembrance 101 who base ar lar responded tn- i .; intim standards date to he int'l those 01 the esmnated one mil- ido.ntitieti to d lion people who have abeady should ensine that 1.11 more t )PI I- I I I \UK'. OPTICIANS, CONTACT LENS tw, lass died from thc. disease. mono, Is devoted 111 the crisis .- PRACTITIONERS Leeds t'itv Council has up- dated its minimum standards The march. attended his he columned. Ian homes in Multiple Occupa- approvimatek students from rut was also made of tepiesemanous I pco- FOR COMPLETE EYE CARE FOR tion (IIMOs) such as student 1 reds. marked the beginning 01 houses or bedsits_ the week's AIDS conference pie %%III) AIDS Jilt' I II \ STUDENTS e s ila c. 'Hie Council has sup. ev ed which began on I u I he mired aecooling to 1_1. 1. * FREE NHS examinations houses in the Roval Palk area aimed al imp: mg inhumation General Secretary.. Gel 'name a great success. * NHS vouchers issued and accepted of Leeds in the Iasi sis nu mats and education about the AIDS . was -people Herr actualls read- to cheek that standards are irus. and w as attended l's * Full range of ophthalmic lenses I heN were oven. being maintained learns from 150 countries ing the leaflets instead of lust throwing them * Large selection of spectacle frames. It has also recently brought a At the meeting in Ihdie ['ark ;man ." she said, including 'designer' and 'budget' ptosecution onto an owner of at the beginning of the proces- , selections three IMO,' who was fined sion there were calls for Ihe I he end of the Mardi IN:I' marked lw a 'beautiful. one mi- i 1(1 for not being up to stan- iiovernmenis of the world to * Contact lens fitting and aftercare nute silence in Pathament dard. co-ordinate a unified and posi- service the global Square. as a mai k 01 icspeet for There is a general scour!, tive response to those who have :Mead\ died * Contact lens maintenance schemes amongst students that the health crisis which AIDS repre- ruin the ■irus. * Contact lens solutions and chanses made by landlords With sents. run down proven!, V. Ill result in -Such a response should en- sunglasses Da‘e Brighton higher rents being charged. sure the civil rights of people ut Day id t'rellin Specialist glasses for leisure, although the quiet! aims to with AIDS or I 11 including skiing, shooting and bring the changes without :111) diving increased charge. The standards now include In fact whatever your needs our professional Bible Blues minimum pro\I.ic ii f(11* ba th- service can help you. room facilities, liv Mg space and Conrroy els\ lollanyed a show kiss .illid lthill:11.111■Ill 41111C-0S lot Call in for an appointment at cooking. utilities. It s.iti d011.1 pron-loted ,'Im ei s i t% Weil. t NI\ F.1011) VistIoN 1.1-1) Ina, \Dill 111111`;L: comes up to Christian Union last I oda\ 711011i11.1-s Ol the east could standard. contact I cells (II\ when Vanessa Jones. omen's only concede voth some embar- SPECIAL OPENING OFFER!!! Council ',111t1 sre.ik to 1 he Allaits Secretary told the cast rassment that the casting could FREE pair or sunglasses with cct.r• ;Ivst p.iir of contact discs environmental health officer. that slit' \vas 1.1...cply intended hay c been 11101e hal:Int:ed. tilted for the first IOU Not its or for general advice phone Billed as ' flue Blocs ''It v.,t• d shil‘S. l's 11101 101 either Leeds -1(13-15:!: ur .16302_ 13rothers- in a gospel show . the Mill.- 'did Vanessa .1.nleS. pet tormanc.. was gIN en hi -Mid II, Itl hit L.-1'd the view I11:11 menthe's ot the l'ol■tilt mil), rile lor \\ omen III Ille featured inainl. mime .end Chffit 11 is lo illAk: tea and polish Wino: to hacking iecords. the il L13 c usticksforbooks there was also preaching and a „:: I itien in the show were reading from the Bible shied ol\iionsli upset that cite whole gospel ALL THE BOOKS YOU NEED ARE HERE caused a mini \s-ilk out he point 01 the show the 1:..1. 111(1 i11 Ihe' message, was di\ eitect lino a 'UNIVERSITY BOOKSHOP CITY BOOK SHOP MEDICAL & LEGAL outhethl: rrl hilt\ 'smith !Lill, vIch.tie about vabiheit's toles 21, Blenheim Terrace. 25-2Z Cookridge Street BOOKSHOP Ohio:non, wele raised int- ''Ii took a lot oi elm! age to do ,i Z Grutt rgreet e St . Hours of business 9.00 a.m. to 5.30p.m_ Monday to Saturday GOO medmieli the shuts [meshed by Chr isti.in show in 1 he host I Ic women", lights supporters wino ens iromneitt Ill the ',indents" and for STUDENT STATIONERS 1:01111)1dIM:4_1 that Alen took all V mon: solid \ maiiii,i Smith. STATIONERY, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES: ra_kwoodhousc Lane. the leading parts that -W'e wailed to do it tot ( -foil. - women emerged only as shal- Laurence ruse) Page 4 SQU SQUARE ONE moves into the heady world of fiction with a piece called The Three-quarters Moon, by 0 Matthew Chetwynd.

igh above his head through a small window in the frost. and over mud rigged and roof, a 3/4 moon hung in a clear sky. The young man walked Away from home cracked by the rigours of farm at his little desk in his attic study tried to view the 'If it doesn't change when I towards wilder areas. where vehicles Tyre tracks led H moon from another direction but it stayed the same. turn my head, will it change if I the wind had little to catch towards dormant machinery. walk along the next street? Will itself upon, and so swept Nothing moved around them However hard he tried he Her windows closed it off and it be different if I go across to uncompromisingly into the two except for their air which could not alter its appearance, made it impossible to view the the other side of town?' young peoples' bodies, raising moved across their faces and he pushed his back up against shape that was irritating the goose bumps, and numbing made their noses run, They one of the walls and turned his young man. If she couldn't see The moon hung above them ungloved hands wiped them on sleeves and neck to one side All that it, it didn't have to be there and both and did nothing Nothing The city and its lights started into gloves, and carried on changed was himself The could offer no threat to hei was asked of it so why should to recede, and spared of the walking, away from the edges imperfect disc above remained world , it? No one asked it to dance. glare of the pile of brick, mortar of the fields so that they were the same No one asked it to sing And if and electricity within which as exposed as they could be so From other places in the attic She stepped outside to get they had -- it would have done they lived, the sky became near to the conurbation they — looking out across the some air Pine whistled as the nothing, for nothing was what deeper and darker, and the had left, which shimmered mouldy sink, or leaning over wind blew against its branches, it was meant to do. save hang stars more intense - and gently on the horizon. the old stove in the kitchen - and the tarmac turned white above the head of those below glaring through it all the three- The young man and the the moon was still constant. with an early hoar frost And it, many of whom would never quarter moon remained young woman stopped. and But he had moved, had the moon looked through the bother to look at it. because it unchanged looked up at the sky, past the swapped one seat for another clear sky. and however far she was not their concern_ But the top of the trees silhouetted and turned his body into new walked. or wherever she went, young man and woman were But neither looked at it They against the paler horizon, past and somehow irrelevant it did not change She looked concerned, because they could were saving their next glance the low stars to the centre of postures. up and saw it, but tried to pay move but the moon could riot for when they were ready the sky where the moon sat It The sky paled towards the no notice But she was They stared at the ground as it had not changed_ And as they horizon, turning pink above the intrigued Why could she move Late at night, when most had passed beneath their feet, looked the two young people old prison and finally burning but the moon not? Why was it gone to bed and were trying to looking up only to avoid were not alone away in a blaze of sodium static and herself constantly in ignore the cold, the young man obstacles that might make 'It followed me here,' they orange The young man made motion? and the young woman left their them trip but refused to give thought, and revelled in its himself some toast and coffee rooms and walked, through the the sky a look. in case they saw devotion and tried to ignore the silver 'I pity the moon,' she clear brisk air, through their what they were for the disc. thought, and went back inside breath expanding as it hit the moment avoiding They grew cold and returned to make some tea cold and rising in clouds from The two reached their to their rooms flared nostrils They pulled their destinations and walked into In a room a thousand miles As they sipped their tea and coats around them and clicked fields across ground hardened High above their heads a away a young woman sat, coffee they thought about the their heels on the paving by days and nights of frost, three-quarter moon hung in a ignorant of the sky above her moon stones beneath their feet and through thick grass laden with clear sky Page 5 5 runt neon, -ma.rs---01 his securita:Thika Ijia""' - cm-90 7 paid ton feel we must wr pd 9 ' and rear r, dor, "rof4Ipri I" ^I, T • Keep our letters concise. thro o your front Dear Editor, Yr-, . Read, vide a •• • Signed letters only please, nyur fit As a stau!.• ,r.r• • though we can o ithhold sour • le name it sour sr ash. Letters • Send em to: Leeds Student Leiters MU, PO Box 157 m- Leeds LSI 1UH Fight Clause 28 THE Dear Editor, BITS practical help given by straight AIDS vigil in London on Sun- Dear Editor, I would like to agree with people, like some members of day, January 24 and, as in the At least you managed to spell everything Katie Grant said in the current LUU Executive. case of the Stop Clause 28 de- her name right. her letter last week. Clause 28 They realise that the Tories' monstration a fortnight ago, Yours of the Local Government Fi- attacks on the lesbian and gay only a few of these were stu- nance Bill is the biggest hack- community and the woeful in- dents. Tony Austin and Austen Garth FIFTH (sic) wards step for lesbian and gay adequacies of the government's When Will all of us. whatever rights since the partial decrimi- AIDS policies are a threat to our sexual preferences and poli- nalisation of male homosexual the liberty and, indeed, the tical orientations. do something Dear Leeds Student, practices in the I967 Act. lives of everyone. to stop the creeping growth of On Friday. February 5) peo- The response of the lesbian 11 is sad that, despite this fascism in this country? ple throughout the country will he running loads of different and gay community to this help, the number of students in Yours COLUMN attack upon its very existence is events in order to raise money Leeds who are prepared to David Crain an indication of the advances actually turn out to support for Comic Relief. At Leeds University Union which have been made since those of us who arc fighting not Chair Clause 28 of the Local Govern- 1967, as is our response to the only for ourselves but also for LUU Lesbian and Gay Sex the following events will be tak- ment Finance Bill is without doubt, the most dangerous and AIDS crisis. them is still pathetically small. ing place: Twelve hour sponsored evil piece of legislation that this This response has been partly Only 33 people managed to government has attempted to the result of the magnificent make it from Leeds for the See Filth Column events in the Tartan Bar and Raven Theatre (collect sponsor thrust upon us. And these are not ill chosen forms from Porters Lodge and words. By attempting to ban the come down and join in!). From 'promotion' of homosexuality by Ham to I Ipm. local councils, Clause 28 is in There will be a nose-only dis- effect promoting homophobia, Stalinist NOLS co in the Tartan Bar at night and inevitably general bigotry. Dear Editor. lying and backstabbing shown NOLS, ith perhaps more im- There will he videos all day- in The clause is based on an in- Readers of last week's NUS themselves to he neither demo- portantls the campaigns and the television rooms. sane premiss - that local coun• conference report may have cratic nor Left but just old ideas which could help save stu- Plus many other events cils, by trying to work for civil been slightly bemused that the fashioned Stalinists. indeed dents I torn the increasing throughout the day. including rights for gays and lesbians, by main factions involved should literal Stalinists. as shown by attacks from this goverritnent. trying to blow away bigotry and music. juggling, people in fancy be the National Organisation of the censure of Vicky Phillips Unfortunately any such pers- narrow-mindedness - are trying dress etc. Labour Students (NOLS) and and Adrian Long on Soviet pective comes well down on the to 'turn' our children into Don't foreet to buy your red Socialist Students in NOLS .lewry. they prefer to ignore the list of priorities of Vicky Phil- homosexuals. (SSiN), surely some mistake or mandates of their own orga- lips and co. well at least below a nose from ate t anon and sup- People don't become gay or port this nal 1.1nyvide event. Any lesbian, just as people don't be- contradiction. nisation than to upset the safe job, free trips to the East- suggestions her events or offers come straight. It is a tact, and as But unfortunately not. be- aSOVS- as Adrian Long calls ern Bloc and taking any notice of talents tot day will be a fact can be no less right than cause the leadership of NOLS. them, of the membership. the welcomed - bring them up to the fact of hetrosexuality. commonly known as the Demo- To counteract this and cam- Why should certain people Yours sincerely the executive office, or turn up cratic Left, who also control paign for democracy within have to suffer at the hands of on the- day, NUS have for the past five NOLS and NUS, SSiN was set Mike Fen•ick those who are too narrow years worth of bureaucratic up as a broad Left group within SSIN Steering Committee Campaigns Committee minded to cope either with diffe- rent orientations or just their own sexuality? But It you find this too much to stomach, consider this. If Clause Poly isolated claim 28 becomes law it would be illegal for council libraries to Dear Editor. given by the editor as a legiti- of our institution whether or the funding. We receive 33 per stock books about homosexuals Having recently read Leeds mate argument for the appall- not the staff arc Uni students. cent from the Poly and 67 per and their relationships. That Student. I find that I must agree ing situation we have at pre- This is not a professional atti- cent from 1.1.V. rules out E.M. Forster, and quite o few works by Aristotle among totally with the comments Ed sent. ('overage in the last tude. body .fumls .c Si totem PO t • others. Gamble makes, particularly on academic year (8(-57) was tar The more Uni students that that/ Lseed out of the Similarly no council funded the coverage of the more comprehensive and 1 read know about the Poly and stce £40,001) Leeds Student costs a theatre group could perform Polytechnic. I am a member of many a good article. I also re- versa the less ignorant a e will year. at least 125,0(Y) eome.s plays like 'Torch Song Trilogy', a society that holds its meetings member Leeds Student request- be about each other. So come 'tom advertising. about to be performed in the in conjunction with a Uni socie- ing that sports articles and on Leeds Student be fair. University Workshop, or 'Another ty of the same name so I feel other 'write ups' he done by the Country', 'A Normal Heart', 'La 1. 1,N'estle► that I can accurately gauge the students themselves, due to • finally, our request for Nto- Cage aux Folles' . the list is Leeds Polytechnic endless. position of both Institutions. lack of staff. Is this a fair situa- dent% ter supply stories' Ii' ti A, IS 10 get them involved in the paper. In point this Bill is about repres- In the past few months I have tion? Are we at the Polytechnic firstly between 0 and 1.. , of • :111 the people who write for sion and censorship - the sod of felt that the Polytechnic has to accept this 'hand me down' all news stories originate from repression people have fought .ceds Student are students. tun been increasingly isolated, and attitude? I for one do not and I for centuries to destroy. Where the Poly. All sport s ( 1411.% there is virtually no coverage of demand equal and fair coverage pond iourriaitspi • will it end? our events and current affairs. I (after all Leeds Poly SU funds • Secondly Leeds Poll Llaline (even fowl the University) have do NOT ,ka_upt the excuse the paper as well: in fact all:5(I) does not supply .50 per cent of to supply their own reports. Fight this Evil.

you're an aborigine) and the they just couldn't sort out any dence (sic) this week of MA- who ever goes abroad does, Leeds Student Pastificio poor mug to 'have a gan' for JOR THEFT by one Ed 'Fin- Bony Tony and chum found THE binge selling out in lust two finance gers' Gamble. themselves conscripted as days. Such joy! But not for "I know!" piped a bright "Absent-mindedly" FILLUM EXTRAS The Fan, oh no mateys spark "In his position as (we're told) 'Brinks-Mat' Some kind of wartime dra- societies boss-dude. Diddy Gamble had walked out of a ma or other called 'War and FIRST is the 'news' that Dar has ex officio mem- prominent Leeds flat black Remembrance' (watch out for Alison 'Good God is that bership of all clubs including plastic disc shop WITHOUT it) required someone to chauf- the time?' Walker is to the shambles that is Labour PAYING FOR THE RECORD feur its star around in one launch an assault on the rani- Club!" And after much panic and a scene and - presto!! - Our fled heights of LPSU's pres- "Excellent, comrade!" they quick underwear-replacement Tone got the lob. idency The extremely-non- chorused as one. "Now we exercise HE DECIDED TO Unfortunately the budding insomniac deputy prez (your can nominate him as our offi- KEEP thesp blotted his 'copybook' may remember) contrived to cial candidate, thus escaping The Fan says: Re upon when said scene was shot, kip all the way through the our current dilemma and you sir! What sort of exam- for as he glided past the Xmas NUS conference's assuring at least one Labour ple is this to the impress- camera in swank° old motor most crucial moments. Club wallah hits the big ionable students of Leeds? with star sitting in the back, SECOND ELECTION Fan-bit time!" he turned and peeled off the FAN is a MAJOR TRAGEDY which Which is all well and good SPEAKING OF examples, biggest grin ever seen on has befallen LUU Societies except it was news to Shiv- writes The Fan's tenuous link stage or screen, straight to . .This week's Sec Mot him again" - the vers, and not very goon news correspondent, have you camera anal offering • • • Ghost of Louise Allison) Divi since Labour Club nomination heard the one about globe- T. Lasher (anag no 47 in an these days is about as useful trotting blond bombshell The Fan says: Does this 1 Reader endless series) rn LUU elections as an open- Tony Austin's celluloid man's ego have no bounds? Our children should be pro- It's hard for anyone to be nas- The cheery moustachio'ed ended condom. Odds on debut? ty when it's been a week of gadgets wiz has decided that Dar's success must surely The Fan is told that 0 Nas- tected from this. unbridled patty all round- financial affairs is the job for lengthen with this albatross ty Uni tanagl was 'doing yorp' THAT'S IT for this week - another LOVELY LOVELY him BUT fate has intervened round his wee neck MIND as the Americans say and keep your noses clean, kids. LOVELY little royal sprog on A recent Labour Club buck- YOU at least LUU won't wind duly arrived in Gay Paree to the way (and they're worth passing session attempted to up with a CRIMINAL in its sample the cultural delights, and stay tuned for more wild inaccuracies next week Re- every penny, you mark The bundle some sacrifical lambs exec office like the Poly union drink in the scenery, get pis- member - same bat-time. Fan's words). birthday fun for into the elections slaughter- has Oh yus, The Fan's Crim- sed and so forth same bat-channel! Ockers the world over tunless house but try as they might watch dept can bring you evi-va And as every single stude Page 6 A Crying Out For Last December, Richard Attenborough sped into town with the 'C'ry Freedom' media circus. Andy IN loore talked to the British Cinema's foremost knight about apartheid, plating it on film and clefeating it. ange• • •

n December 16 Sir after Biko's murder to write the One charge that cannot be violence on screen. I felt the Afrikaaner hostility to the pro- Richard Attenborough's freedom fighter's biography levelled at Attenborough is that sense of the horror of Steve's Icel. promotional bandwagon Attenborough sees it as an he has exaggerated the events death would be greatest if we "There were four separate 0 rolled into town. optimistic story: he portrays; if anything he errs left it to the imagination " incursions from the South Artenborough is a film maker "The film is a testimony to on the side of understatement Despite the mixed critical re- They tried to destroy the sets, uninhibited by commercial the human spirit It shows "The scene of the massacre ception it seems that the last but were unsuccessful. It was trends He defiantly tackles what a tremendous impact one at Soweto (which opens the laugh will be Attenborough's. a futile gesture, we would only provocative and often con- remarkable man can make by film) was based on the lowest "The film is doing even bet- have rebuilt them anyway " troversial subjects. never more having the guts to stand up and death toll statistics we re- ter business than we expected Nonetheless, he is delighted so than in his latest production be counted, and by saying 'I ceived. I'm sure it was much in America At the moment it is that he has been given sanc- 'Cry Freedom'. an embittered protest' " worse than it appears in the even outgrossing 'Gandhi' tion to open the eyes of South attack upon apartheid He is Attenborough is full of praise picture Also, the list of blacks (which incidentally remains his African whites- well aware that such a film is for the performances of his who died in prison (a chilling favourite)." "There's an ignorance hardly in line with popular two stars, but confesses that catalogue which precedes the The film is also riding high in among the whites They have tastes. hence this whirlwind Washington was not first final credits) is far from com- the British box office charts, no idea what conditions or life publicity drive choice- plete. Since the state of but is not likely to break any are like in Soweto for example. "This is not the sort of pic- "I really wanted a black Afri- emergency was imposed it has records in South Africa, where They simply accept what ture that promotes itself We can to play Biko We tested been impossible to get names, astonishingly it has been re- they're told about the blacks, have to fight for an audience by over 90, but none were quite but we know that over a leased unedited I suggested but if they saw for themselves going around the world and right I had seen Denzil in the thousand children are in prison that far from intimating a what is going on they couldn't beating the drum for the film film 'A Soldier's Story', and we untried, and are being tor- change of heart on the part of condone it." We have to convince people got him at the last minute." tured." the administration. the conces- What appals Attenborough is that it isn't lust another movie The film has been heavily This determination not to sion betrayed the realisation that it is not only in South Aflica We'll be going to every country criticised in what Attenborough transgress the realms of au- that banning the film would that ignorance and apathy are in Europe between now and calls "the right wing American thenticity was a major factor in only incite more adverse pub- prevalent: April " press" for over-simplifying the .the Oscar-winning director's licity Attenborough too har- "Some countries, such as So hectic is his schedule that South African situation, and decision not to portray Biko's boured reservations the United States, are still not today he is to attend press con- glossing over the enmity be- murder in graphic detail: "I insisted that if the film is prepared to condemn apar- ferences in three cities, Leeds tween rival black groups, yet "There's no evidence about to be shown at all in South theid They don't really care " being paid a hasty lunchtime the distinguished director re- Biko's death The official ex- Africa the screenings must. be Attenborough believes the visit en route from Manchester mains unrepentant: planation is that he fell against desegregated and uncut. Veri- elmination of apartheid will be to Sheffield "I don't deny that intertribal a chair and a desk. All the doc- fication will not be easy, but we nothing more than a pipedream The film depicts the warfare exists, but that doesn't tors were guilty of perjury We have an agreement with Uni- until such obstacles are over- friendship between Steve Biko make apartheid any less dis- know he was battered to versal (the distributing com- come. (played by Denzil Washington), graceful. I'll admit I'm biased; death, but there's lust no proof. pany) that if a single foot is cut, "Outside pressure is hero of the 'Black Conscious- to say that people are inferior We couldn't be sure of filming the film will immediately be tremendously important We ness' movement, and white because of their colour I think Steve's murder accurately withdrawn from South Africa " must unite to ostracise South journalist Donald Woods (Kevin is' obscene It contradicts the Also, the audience is con- During filming in Lesotho he Africa. The present administra- Kline), who fled to South Africa very idea of civilised society " ditioneo; we're used to seeing was left in little doubt about tion must be brought to talk; we must persuade them to be- gin a dialogue That they may make no attempt to find a solu- tion is the terrifying thing " When finally put on the spot about whether he foresaw the abolition of apartheid Attenbor- ough responded with caution. "We can only live in hope I don't know if we can be too optimistic. but I do know that we Can't stand still " Sir Richard Attenborough had little time for standing still - Sheffield beckoned. Page 7 ARTS PROFESSIONAL FOUL 168 (ieorge Bernard Shaw's chief imelest in the theatre, we are told. was its use as a platform for ideas. so it good to see Leeds Play house presenting 'Mrs Warren'. Profession'. one of his mote controversial works. There is a tendency with Shaw and the writers of this genre - Chekhov Ibsen. to dress them up in 'chocolate box nice' sets and costumes. shitting HOURS the emphasis completely. So it As was good to see Simon Iliglett's the Ii comes ut ..yeekend's feeble attempt at set, airy and full ot clean lines and neatness. The sparseness ot winter recedes into the core- the design perhaps owes soilic- oral soup II remember 82 when I were so cold your cheeks thing to his -work as designer for Regent Park open air theatre :racked when you smiled), and :be debris of another fire rav- and serves hint well here. let- aged University department ting the scenes act is that all collapses around your ears, important 'plattorm' for Mr lime again to fill your diary with Shaw'', ideas. not detracting too those appointments we call much First off. night at 11 00 and LIM , were tentative On Occa- the Hyd.. .:reening sion, particularly during the Woody Allen's Hannah first ten to 15 minutes, arid the and Her Sisters, possibly tits best hist half of the play was a little f)1111 n lildny years, and certain- lacking in energy 1 wonder if ly the closest anyone has come this was the result of a levy to putting the rne.H• -rj of life alarming directorial choices 01 on film Michael Caine gives a positioning :Ind moy mein. All startling as a too Irequeinly the actors ended lovesick ath.ilt_!c1 up in ern uncomfortable r)(1.s1-. mins tor the audience and for From Tuesday through to t hems,. ly es. several tunes w lien Saturday the University Work- I wanted to see an actor's face. shop Theatre are staging Har- during important spectacles and vey Fierstein's Torch Song so lorth. instead I got his or her Trilogy, all three hours ot Lt back or profile. But don't let the clock put you Helen Cotterill as Mrs War- off There are two intervals and ren has a wonderful, large- word has it that the production hcarted charm and .laninc is darn good r-.clr-nc.= and soc, uud's VI\ le IS guile ;tighten the sort Dame Jill Mg in her dry sell-knowledge. Knight Clause 28, r Peter Laird's !'race would hate see gone .f, • . 10 steal hest actor from these ibis the last ody play two, however. his warmth. to have Ginnie nut of New York. coot naturedness and the wis- thi • _1.- ,%1 di 0:- 1 1•' dom - Vet naiven.? - are a joy to watch. Yet the overriding merit of this production lies in the play Hyde Park, Women on itself and that the Playhouse the Big Screen team have done nothing to chit- • , Suzana Amaref's No easy answers for Janine Wood as Vivre Warren ter it. • The Hour of the Star, • Iielen Cotterill's Mrs Wal- Qirl ren, with all her Me:SS\ edges The moral aspect ot the play and the tact that some are faced Unit to he tinanced by it. of to the city, where she tights for and paradoxes ot sense and could he said to he dated but with the choice of prostitution whether to cut herself oft Irons her identity amidst the sky- sentiment. strikes up a brilliant given the current 'Puritan hack- or start ;mon. this lite and work to keep her- scrapers Showing from relationship with Janine lash'. I wouldn't like to affirm The iesolution to the moral sell Ma\ not resolve itself loth\ 7 30pm with Alison de Vere's Wood's k'n, ir. w hu seem. like a this Some of the speeches do dilemma - whether Vivic in the same way or so easily animation snort, Black Dog. tall thin tree standing Yet\ firm still rine horribly true as regards should implicit. condone her Leeds Playhouse production is Alternatively the BET is show- against the storm. The two bat- the position of women in em- mothers profession by accept- worth seeing. especially for the ing What happened to tle it out in arguments that had ployment especially at its lower ing that her education. degree debate it takes to get you their. Kerouac, a documentary about an oddly contemporary ring. ends. their appalling conditions and future were, and could con- Jill Foreman the king (sic) of the beats But without doubt the place NO WAY OUT terests of 'national security', and transparencies in a col- From next week the Art. to be every night this week is which is all too readils in- lage. But innovation does not klitor will he Anne Levan. the Grand Theatre where the The Odeon s oked. So runs the office ver- equal brilliance. and so this is lor eyery thing. Blackpool Hot Ice Show s 'No Way Out' contains all the sion Unfortunately. you can interesting. but nil brilliant Tim, love the Snide... Mit!uitl iff obligatory elements fur a hint not shred a hod\ and the truth The pictuies are lrge. but about American politics: the proves to be very different. made up of a 1115'llad 01 Small CIA. the FBI. corrupt semi- The dead Girl mixed m %cry components: thus creating a tors. a naval hunk. the odd influential circles: u the de- very dithise effect. One N LEEDS PLAYHOUSE • contra and loads of secrets fence secretarys mistress and dtaw n back to gain the effect and schemes_ Dealing with the I•arrell's set:to lose!. 1 his is a of the whole. Net one weds to Calverley Street. 442111 .111 extreme lengths and drastic film of survival in the menac- miRe close-up to see the de- eonspit acids officials will ing Vill Id 01 super-power puri- tail. undertake in order to safe- ties. the girls death is intele- The largest picture 'Prayer Until Saturday, February 13 FILMS AT LEEDS PLAYHOUSE ■CM: what is as for the Dead' has a haunting guard their power and posi- Friday. January 29 at 11 pm tion, the film begins as a 'Top sCandal - tiny cost or quality about it: portrait MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION In :my bizarre initigue. As the photographs and images of by George Bernard Shaw WHEN THE WIND BLOWS Gun' style thriller, emulates (PG) parts of the 'French Connec- secretary 's aide warns. -you skeletons himeing life and tion' and ends as a 'Tale Of has e no idea what men of death higether. .Another. less The llnexpeeted'. power can do. - All good fun. mosaic-like piece. 'American Naval commander and all- which is. however, all too coffin. works hecause ot its Saturday, January 30 at 11 pm frighteningly plausible in the images of the IlS flag. Ko- LITTLE SHOP OF merit:an hero. Tom Farrell. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR puns the staff of the Secretary America ot Ronald Reagan rea ietnain est: w on n ded HORRORS (PG) and Ulrs er North. and other, poignant touches SPRING SUMMER SEASON of Defence ft iene IlackmanI ■ and finds himself emhnided to J. Clenntin of detail I 11 i as comment not 1988 mere illuso;ition. If there is a series Or C\CIIIS. from which 5 Great Nights Out coherence. and who says !licit' there is 'No Way Out'. Ile is ACT NOW & SAVE Cs - Sunday. January 31 at 7 30pm assigned to investigate the SIMON CRUMP should be? It lies in ideas ot Student subscription only COMRADES (PG) death and dying. The press murder of a Washington party St Paul s Gallery £11.25 or f 13.75 SUggesis • soleinn . girl. killed by the stock• hump! Ring 442111 and ask for a rhal characici of a Soy tel agent. Designee phinoeopving7 h is rather than leaflet A.LitrIISSittit itiOy i 1.80 about right. Farrell s lob is to locate and certainly novel rutin, the use neutralise him. all in the in- of layered photographs. maps Ashle, Allen

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Nomination forms available from the PORTERS' OFFICE in the Union Building Mom Page 9 SyliaSL A RIGHT I'LEARNTO LE "There is no place for (the African) in the European community above certain forms of labour . . . Until now he has been subjected to a school system which drew him away from his own community and misled him by showing eels University was one In science subjects the of the pioneers of the him the green pastures of European society in which he will not inequalities are especially South African Scholarship be allowed to graze . . ." pronounced where a number of LFund under the auspices black students I spoke to had of the World University Dr Verwoed introducing the Bantu Education Act, 1953. never seen let alone worked in Service. any kind of laboratory. The scheme enables talented Words: Pontso These students are expected black students to enjoy an to compete with the better education denied them by the educated white students and system of apartheid currently are unfairly compared with operating in South Africa and them on the basis of results. many of the border states. One consequence of this is The University currently that without even those blacks offers two places to award who do attend. universities are holders and hopes to set up rarely successful academically another. The Polytechnic offers and only 13 per cent of the one place at present. black students obtain their Under the scheme the degrees in the allocated time. institution waives all course For many blacks the major fees while the limn organises criticism of the -black fund raising events to make up education' system is nut of the the equivalent of a grant. entrenched racial bias but of its Apartheid operators in all purpose. aspects of life in South Africa, It is not intended to enable especially through the most an individual to attain their potentially influential potential and assist in the ideological state apparatus— development of the country but the education system. rather as a means of social the Bantu Education Act control. which was introduced in 1953 in The gos eminent of South South Africa removed the Africa, through its control of control of education from education has sought to provincial authorities and eradicate radical critical churches and placed them thought: to preclude the under the control of central existence of a black government. intelligentsia. The purpose of this was not In M, doing it has forced only to exacerbate the many radical black students differences in resources and into oluntary or ins oluntary access between black and exile. white. but also to control what It is in response to this was taught. to prepare blacks consistent abuse of human for the inferior role assigned to ireIns111.11 mane countries them under apartheid. the Lk. I `IA. the Discrimination does not only sy.andinio ian countries and apply to primary and secondary many African states have t alon education. but feeds into p%)•itise Action In the form 01 ihe SAM' further and higher education .\ ■ white child has 100 times flair L The \N oil,t I ru eisii!. s•WIN RA.' a Ills lr acts as a clearme chance of becoming a UlliNT1,0 I \ graduate than a black one. house for 1 he selection of The extension of University ndidates chooses students Education Act passed in 1959 mainly segregated universities along —through the liberation racial lines and led to the min ements establishment of universities fot —from those who have been blacks in remote rural areas referred from educational known as 'Universities of the and development agencies North'. —from referrals of personal These universities are for contacts abroad. blacks only and offer inferior These students ate drawn and non-recognised degrees. from the entire southern The few blacks who manage African region - South Africa. to enter university suffer not Namibia. Mozambique. Angola only from similar disparities in ere teacher-student ratios as those Fund raisinv for SASE' is in schools (1:20 for white already underw. . AI the children and 1;50 for black [ins ersity a benefit gig is children) but also because of planned to take place in eYery the poor quality of education. exploitable y cline in the 1. 'Ilion The staff at many of the non- and refectory in March. white universities are At the Poly. an anti- predominantly white Afrikaans apartheid awareness seek w ill speakers who failed to gain begin on Tuesday February In.. posts in white universities. Anyone Interested in helping There are five Afrikaans .11 hese kir other SAM: language universities at which `,1101.11d 1:01114h:I 99.4 per cent of the students arc - 111%L:usity or Poly Wellare. Contributions are always white and 0.6 per cent arc non- welcome white. Opera: Art(

peras concern themselves with intense emotions - fear, joy. 0 love. death, hatred. OPERA, opiate of the int Similarly, people usually absolutely love or absolutely loath opera it is an art-form about which it is impossible to David Crellin takes a be indifferent Those who love opera claim it portrays experiences which :Are 'beyond' ordinary life, in look at the art form that that life is heightened and intensified through art Those who hate it think it is irrelevant load of old arias'. to life -a 'dead' art-form

the Royal Opera House's grant) have in common with Tory opera-goers a view of culture Dead as it might be, opera which makes a rigid distinction definitely seems to be between 'high art' (like opera) 'fashionable' these days It's and 'alternative' art which is on television more than it used produced by ordinary people to be, with regular series of and is openly politically 'Opera on 4' and, from the progressive. Both Tony Banks BBC, live relays from Covent and Bernard Levin would see Garden and a recent Verdi this distinction as being based season. To go with technical on a system for the regulation developments like the advent of art production which is of CD, there is a spate of new elitist. The difference between opera recordings and them would be that Bernard remasterings of classic older Levin would see this as a good versions, like EMI's Callas thing. collection. Everything points to an expansion of the market for such products, and an increase Audiences of general interest in what used to be an art-form seen as There is no doubt that opera is exclusively for the wealthy or a usually reactionary Operas cultural elite. have never been written for the people, but always for the ruling class - first the The Past monarchy and aristocracy, then for the ascendant bourgeoisie The charge of elitism often The international banks and levelled at established art- corporations who fund most forms is particularly associated new productions are not in the with opera, and is linked to the business of paying for instant charge it is 'dead' If this revolution second charge is true, that is The audiences for opera are because it belongs to a past mostly middle class, middle culture - the beliefs and values aged and quite comfortably off, it contains ought to be thank you for an evening's consigned to history entertainment they're more However, it is made clear interested in 'Black Magic' than that opera is not culturally and Black Power. For a lot of them, politically irrelevant, if by what opera is about is long nothing else, then by the intervals so they can have political uses which are being plenty to drink, and a nice meal made of it today All the Arts to finish off the night_ are affected by the current the other side of the reactionary political climate and traditional audience land there cutbacks in public spending, has never been an absolutely but the case of opera shows in clear-cut distinction to be a particularly acute way the drawn between the two) is political questions surrounding made up of the opera-buffs and the arts. Intellectuals, who take opera isornetimes excessively) seriously, approaching it with a Culture critical intelligence and not seeing it merely in recreational Al stake is the question of terms what people think 'culture' is The appeal of opera and the and what it ought to be. ways in which it has been used Radicals who think all art ought in social practice have been to be community-based and conditioned by these extreme non-elitist (such as Ken variations in the ways it has Livingstone and Tony Banks of been received by audiences. the GLC. who wanted to stop One result of the fashion for cs of Voice Page 11 & Extremity

between categories such as 'opera'. 'light opera', 'musical' and 'operetta' have been asses or refuge of the rich? partially dismantled. ghly personal and emotive Extremity II such dismantling helps to make enjoyment of opera is often discarded as 'just a available to greater numbers, then that is a good thing; but if however, it rather endangers the continuation of opera as a distinct art-form sustaining certain kinds of social practices, then recent opera is that a new kind of developments should be audience seems to be questioned emerging If. traditionally, What is in danger is the people have either loved or extremity of the experience of hated opera, this new audience opera. If opera is both politically does neither rather. it is contentious and aesthetically interested in opera, and moving, that is because it somehow likes it. It is similarly knows no 'middle ground' indeterminate in the way it Traditionally, there has been inserts itself into the traditional no bridge between the smug audience - bourgeois like them, Philistinism and the (potentially it is nevertheless noticeably politically progressive) younger Although its aesthetics of the opposing consumption of what it sees as ends of its radically fractured this appealing and newly- audience. Similarly, there can discovered) cultural artefact is, be no link between those who al first, casual fit can't. though see it as 'elitist and wrong' and young, be reduced to the those who see it as 'elitist and traditional 'earnest music student' category), it What the new audience is nonetheless has the potential attempting to do is to fill that and will-power for a more middle ground, an attempt serious and committed seen in their clamour for appreciation 'political' productions of operatic old favourites, which all too often succeed only in promoting a kind of SDP Commodity version of social conflict Jonathan Miller's famous I suppose that what this is the mafioso 'Rigoletto' could be 'Yuppification' (over-used seen, not only as bringing the term)} of opera — its work's plot into present-day assimilation to the tastes of a relevance, but also as serving younger, newer middle class. implicitly to distance and What's so worrying about such aestheticise organised crime a move is the way it seems to and rape by the mere fact of put in danger the intellectual representing them as operatic frissons opera affords. spectacle. The new popularity of opera might, at worst, be seen as a 'toleration' which is the reverse Politics side of an indifference to all cultural commodities because Any interpretation of opera they are seen, finally, as which ignores its part in the commodities history of reaction is bound to There is an ironing-out of fail because it tries to make reactions to all cultural forms anodyne both opera and the and a blurring of the political subjects to which it distinctions between those addresses itself forms It is now seen as It is because it has a unexceptional for one of ENO's resistance to the values of biggest 'hits' in 1987 to have 'liberal democracy' that the been a revival (recently on TV) discourse of opera offers areas of 'The Mikado', which, until of opposition to established the final collapse of the D'Oyly and oppressive cultural norms. Carte company, was seen as The difficulties in reclaiming irredeemably 'middle-brow' a cultural apparently so The point is not whether or not embedded in the strategies of Gilbert & Sullivan is 'good the Right is one mark of the enough' for a national company challenge a progressive to put on (the production, in Leftism faces if it is to win back fact, proved it but rather the political/cultural ground lost that, recently, distinctions in the past few years.

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No doubt after last weekend's stnylall. everyone suddenly felt the urge to rush outside and polish up their .skiing. However in ease you missed the masses slaloming through the lamp-posts. along Brudenell Road. here is the attraction. WORDS: PENNI MAWSON PICTURES: NICK GRANDICE G wing skiing may riot be the first priority attracted. In fact it is an added attraction, all If you are on a non-existent student sports which can be dangerous are challenging grant, but many students do go, For a beginner the risks are minimal but the attracted to its youth and vitality. associations are still there. In fact it only lakes a Skiing is fast becoming a big growth industry couple of days for a learner to experience the and even if you can't afford to join the thrills of the slopes and find out what is all enthusiasts on the slopes this year. its quite about probable that one year you may There is an underuable sense of achievement It is a sport which more and more people are in skiing which, unlike most sports, starts from getting addicted to. Over a few years it has day one It is an early success sport It is also become incredibly fashionable to indulge in this paradoxically a sport where perfection is expensive and glamorous sport In fact it often impossible because not only do you have to seems wrong to label it merely a sport because improve on your own style but also the going skiing is a round the clock holiday elements have to be compatible There are experience many variables which affect the slopes the Sport is now an in-built part of today's society condition of the snow, the temperature, the and like it or not, the emphasis is on healthy time of year and also the equipment used, living So it's not surprising that a sport which different skis can affect your performance combines fitness, fashion and socialising has Everyone has to find their own level, yet the started to boom challenge is always there to improve rt. The attractions of skiing are endless but it is In really good conditions many experience a the non-stop activity which thousands find high, which is almost like a drug. The faster the exhilarating. The day starts early at nine o'clock speed at which you ski (possibly up to 120kph). and its straight onto the slopes for a hard the greater the thrill is in the control you have working but enjoyable day It doesn't stop at over it Skiing, to put it romantically, is about dusk either The apres ski is as big a part of the people and nature It is breathtaking to be skiing holiday as the actual skiing. The sociable can doWn a remote slope. completely isolated in a join the discos and numerous bars or you can huge snow-ridden landscape The combination continue being out in the snow, go tobogganing of power, speed and magnificent scenery down mountain trails in the dark, or watch local attracts people back year after year ice-hockey teams Anything4rom ice-skating to The practicalities of skiing are soon learned It sleigh rides can fill up the evenings and all the is cheaper to go off-peak and avoid the time you are surrounded by hundreds of people expensive Christmas and Easter weeks which from all different sections of society. Many are always very crowded. It also depends a people use it as a chance to improve a foreign great deal on which country you decide on language. Andorra in Spain is one of the cheapest, For someone to go skiing reflects a certain whereas the resorts in France are extremely degree of adventure and nerve. Most people expensive Realist)cally. E400 is about the are fully aware of the horror stories There is the cheapest a week's skiing will be. because the one run called 'The wall' which runs over the cost of things like ski passes, meals and French-Swiss border which is rumoured to kill equipment mount up quickly about three people every year insurance However good holidays abroad in the companies refuse to insure skiers in the area, summer can easily cost that much and often because if you fall there is nothing to stop you the only attraction to some of them is lying on a and you go plummeting straight to the bottom beach all day. A skiing holiday with its thrills. of the sheer drop continual activity and lively social scene is Despite all these incidents, people are still certainly a tough rival MUSIC MDMA MANTRONIX Eyes Wide Open (Edlesta) Sing a Song (10) If your toes only twitched to Hip hop that can't fail to im- 'Toy Soy', or your feet didn't press even those that think BUTCHERED get past itching over 'Bad', Uzi is a Greek spirit. Alt the the 'Eyes Wide Open' should power of Public Enemy, with make your body go bananas. none of the bad habits. When MDMA don't deal in cissy the run off groove says 'Put disco music; this is hell-for- that record back on' what can leather disco havoc — a Nob- you do? by Stiles among dance re- cords, a veritable Norman SCARLET FANTASTIC Whiteside. Plug Me In (To the central love Iing)(Arrstal LEN LIGGINS "The central love line is the A Heedful of Ants (AAZ) energy love force we can tap One man, a drum machine into" — honestly! and a crumpet. Len Liggins These used to be some of lives amongst us, writes ab- Swansway, so I'm told. That out us and for us — from a couldn't have been profitable portastudio in his front room, enough since SF must be get- Do something daft in Leeds 6 ting a lot of zlotties com- and find your way into Len's pensation for doing this. Hav- acerbic, eccentric worldview. ing said that, I'd be Shakin' Better still, grab a copy of this Stevens for hismoney. direct from 47, Brundnell THE SEA URCHINS SEARCH PARTY Mount, and give hire some If It Makes You Happy Christine (Sa rah) money. Football rating: (President) Bruce Grobelar, What a nice name. What a nice record. Kittens playing, The press release says "raun- THE BATFISH BOYS young children laughing, chy guitars, manic popping Another One Bites the Dust — sunny meadows, thistledown horns... a soul/dance track of Purple Haze Mix (GWR) in the morning dew.,. TOSS, rare power and authority." Now this really is tasteless... in fact. Someone's telling porky an unsavory hybrid of Freddy pies. Mercury and Jimi Hendrix on TACKHEAD a dayglo lump of plastic. Reality (On-U Sound) LUXURIA Most surely the work of a As easy on the ear as a com- Redneck twisted mind. Backed with bine harvester. The On-U Howie Devote returns from last year's classy 'Bomb Sound disseminator gets to oblivion with a new meister- Song', and a ropey cover of work again on the electro work. reminiscent of the glo- 'Born to be Wild'. beats, dub effects and rious magazine of old. Per- A Charlie George among assorted other musical fect Kaleidoscope Pop! Grebo records. accoutrements. Andy Owen THE JAll BUTCHER F ishcoteque THE JASMINE MINKS Another Age (Creation) Worrying signs are afoot. When The Jazz Butcher appears en his record covers with his jacket sleeves rolled-up a positive fashion crime on a par with white socks and slip-ons — the suggestion is that something is amiss. Further distress is caused by the absence of Max Eider; constant companion of four previous albums — to be replaced by a cheese with the unlikely name of Kizzy O'Callaghan. But initial fears are mainly groundless. The slick wit is still intact and the playing has progressed with similar sophistica- tion to that of the last album proper, 'Distressed Gentlefolk'. Also, in keeping with that album, some of the more direct humour of earlier albums has been lost, for instance no ode to alcohol again — the man's holding a can of Lilt on the cover for chris-sakes. As with most of The Jazz Butcher's songwriting, this collection appears rather personal: 'Susie' being the prime example. On a less sensitive level, 'The Best Way' is a culinary rap all you need to know about take-away chicken. and 'Looking For Lot 49' and 'Chickentown' are the rowdier TERROR numbers — nothing on the scale of 'Caroline Wheelers Birth- SEEING DOTS UNSEEN TERROR LP day Present' though, sadly. Jacket sleeves apart, everything Human Error (Earache) still seems to be in order — almost. LEGENDARY PINK DOTS Pheeeeeewwwww. Where The Jasmine Minks are not unlike The Jazz Butcher in that Any Day Now Play It Again Sam) did that song go? 20 songs of they could be disregarded on a first casual, low volume listen, HULA moshin' intensity and the then unfairly consigned to the 'another-ex-jangling-bunch' Threshold (Red Rhino) world's most vociferous critic bin. But once Jim Shepherd stops sounding like Paul Heaton, What both of these LPs have in common is their (abluse and of speedmetal (and it's shal- and Tom Reid's drums start sounding accomplished instead reconstruction of accepted forms of music. low subsidiaries) has to of basic, then 'Another Age' gets under the skin. And besides, With the long overdue LEGENDARY PINK DOTS we're admit a liking to something, it doesn't matter that it sounds loosely 60s since who can given a rampant strain of pop music, quirky being perhaps well... fairly metallic. remember being two, three, four... anyway? the best word to describe it. Their acid synthesis of styles — 'Divisions' is my personal Roger Lakin collated from several types of music— is not just mashed into favourite, a scorching exam- a pulp but carefully re-arranged and played as cut-up. Their ple of hardcore's humanita- songs jump internally from, for instance, mellowness (in rian sensiblities. It is the 'Waiting For the Cloud') to a chaotic pop with even stranger heavier, less drum-directed SJ.M. Present lyrical prophecies: "The thirsty dogs spat fire, rolled in glue, sound of ANTHRAX or MET- then they burst..." With the use of trumpet, piano, violin etc TALICA however, that most the result stretches the bounds of most imaginations and influences UNSEEN TERROR appetites. By way of The Pink Dots' humour and willingness and the sheer extremity of to entertain, 'Any Day' is a satisfying culmination of every- these social outblasts has to TED CHIPPINGTON thing good about their dishevelled career. be heard to be believed. I've With Sheffield's Hula who have an equally long track record never been a particularly their compilation 'Threshold' is more an anthology of re- attentive pupil in the Earache leases to date. This covers the earlier and somewhat dis- School of hardcore, but I be- jointed 'Black Pop Workout' up to the excellent ponderous lieve this record could signal Friday, Feb 5 'Black Wall Blue'. By omitting the recent 'Voice' LP we're a significant move in the given an insight into the title and are confronted with their speedmetal scene. Some of Duchess of York dark career in order to put it into perspective. these songs are pure jokes, The execution of their music, similar to the Pink Dots, is in a like 'Nermal' which lasts only Advancc form of collage, only Hula transpose unfamiliar strains and ten or eleven seconds, and is techniques into what is essentially dance music. Here then is one of three songs about Door a hybrid of strange sounds and pumping rhythms, worried Garfield the cat, including synth lines and tortured vocals. also the classic 'Garfield for Aciv:ince tickcts 'Threshold' is a resplendent document (with its Simon President'. The remainder ti-(n1)1ill»1 t) Rcconts Leeds Crump sleeve) that falls only where the primitive techniques should carry warning stickers of the earliest work seem obtrusive by juxtaposition. for the musically timid, and Two records for the unorthodox. be tested as a cure for the John Frum hard of hearing.

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DESMOND DEKKERUBLE Astoria It's been a long time since I've seen such an unusual audience: skinheads and rude- boys, as if reappearing from the distant past, rubbed shoulders with young 'profes- sionals'. Soon Desmond Dekker on stage, small and wiry, wearing a beret, looking more like a revolutionary than a singer. Dekker's sweet, sweet voice crooned through '007' and 'You Can Get It If You Really Want' with small snatches of rock 'n' roll classics, such as 'Blue Moon' and 'Candy Girl' intert- wined within them. Desmond Dekker often looked like a black Elvis Presley, with his pelvis thrusting on stage (even though this may be a contradiction to some sensitive soulsl. First on the agenda those purveyors of the Brg-Bad-Noise and It's a shame that ska seems to have gone designer-cyclist wear, The Age Of Chance play the Riley out of fashion in reggae circles as it is by far Smith Hall tonight to raise cash to fight the construction of a the catchiest and most-accessible of reg- nasty gas-processing plant in our beautiful Dales. Another ' g a e music. benefit tonight at the Cardigan Arms with. The Pearl Divers. Finally came what many people had Hot from supporting Desmond Dekker last week, Little Chief been waiting for; the brilliance of 'The play again tonight in the Duchess of York. and tomorrow at Israel Israelites'. The whole hall skanked to the same venue, a real must for rhythm 'n' balls fans - The its mellow chant. It may have been 1.30am Prowlers. At the same time over at the Astoria, hardcore on a cold night in Leeds, but it didn't seem folksters. The Oyster Band appear. to matter. Desmond Dekker had once more warmed our hearts. Have you started 'moving mountains' yet for the debut appearance of megahype American 'dance-metal' band Faith Helen McGregor No More in the Tartan Bar on Monday. February 1? Could be interesting? jLP CONCERTS presents And to round up this week Balaam and the Angel will be Hondas' drawing in the goth-gurlies at the Poly on Thursday, February 81h LIVELY 4, but I'm sure Anne-Marie from support slot Ghostdance will THE SCREAMING attract a few Both-guys. Till next week, hang loose readers. P.J.

LEEDS ressive aspects of the work, WAREHOUSE UP conducting it as a bold 20th century symphony instead of SPLASH a piece of late romantic kitsch. Opera North's pit BigEMESSIAHS YOURSELF orchestra played with a Tel: (1532 panache that left you MARTIN STEPHENSON DANCE wondering why they're bare- Duchess Of Yolk 4682870431 PEARL DIVERS duchess 01 York ly known south of Watford. I came curious and left con- The physical impact of the +THE WILD FLOWERS & usual agents verted. Previously I had only Another Leeds band on the brass was overwhelming, heard Martin Stephenson on road to more widespread rec- and seemed to disturb the record and although his ognition? Could be. Pearl Di- elderly contingent in the songs were both thoughtful vers are a six-piece. domin- Town Hall. and tuneful, I wasn't sure ated by the interweaving It was sad that the audi- they would come across live. sounds of three guitars. but ence participation became paced by sometimes chug- too enthusiastic. Do Asthma- They did though, and did ging, sometimes galloping tics Anonymous send their well. The music was distinc- drums and filled out with members in coach loads to tive and very proficiently keyboards and percussion. sabotage music by subver- played, with just Martin on And although their current sives like Mahler? It was odd guitar, aided arid abetted by line-up is a relatively recent that the audience remained a bassistJclarinetist and later occurrence they have many silent during the innocuous on a steel guitarist. The years accumulated experi- ramblings of Schumann's songs were mostly old ence with previous bands. Cello Concerto (well played krOff.W4 favourites, such as 'Coleen`, They have a strong set, by Ralph Kirshbaum), though 'Crocodile Cryer' and 'Rain'. lead singer Toni Bliss having this sounded like 'Terry and RECORDS • C D'S • TAPES and ranged from lively jazz written all but a couple of June' before the wild and and ragtime to bluest' bal- covers, Memorable were raunchy delights of Gustav lads, in which he came 'Secret Operator', the thump- . Mahler. across as a kind of Geordie ing opener 'Sleeping De- Graham Rickson Tom Waits. mon', and 'Wrecker's Moon' And their version of 'It's All It wasn't singalong stuff so STOP PRESS... Anyone Over Now' was especially im- interested in writing reviews don't expect to see him play- pressive for having been so or taking photographs for ing Wembley Stadium in the reworked it sounded abso- this page, come on down to near future, but for a little lutely nothing like the origin- our Uni Office lunchtimes or venue such as the Duchess al. Some healthy guitar- the Poly Office Monday * THRASH, METAL, Of York, it was just right. The jamming sneaks in here and evening... STOP. intimate ambiance was en- there, and Andy Fielding on HARD CORE, SOUL, hanced by his between-song lead showed himself well patter of amusing anecdotes able to give Bliss a break in a HIP HOP, HOUSE, INDIES, and one-liners. complementary and unpre- What made this gig so en- tentious way. joyable, was that he was They are a band with vital- IMPORTS, FOLK, JAll, clearly enjoying himself, so ity. They are clean-cut, and even though some of the they are relaxed. They are far BACK CATALOGUES (etc..) songs tackled subjects as se- from innocent however, Talk- rious as a miscarriage and ing Heads started this way... the break-up of a lesbian Martin Baker love-affair he still managed to keep a happy atmosphere 7" - £1.65 12" - £2.99 by the best means possible - being happy himself. There's CULTURE C.D.s FROM £9.99 nothing worse than po-faced ENGLISH NORTHERN pop stars. PHILHARMONIA 192 WOODHOUSE This was intelligent, yet un- JACEK KASPRYCK 35 THE HEADROW LEEDS pretentious entertainment Leeds Institute Galle.ry LANE. OPPOSITE and most importantly of all, Mahler's Fifth Symphony, OPPOSITE THE ODEON fun, so over all I'd say a good what a scorcher... Kaspryck, THE UNIVERSITY time was had by all. Spot on. last minute stand-in for an TEL.(0532) 436743 indisposed Elgar Howarth. TEL. 465823 Guy Millard made the most of the prog- Page 16 Wha 'S on

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 ALTERNATIVE CYLCING CLUB- Safari Supper at Hyde Park Pub. Cinema Miscellaneous 7.30pm, £2. FISHNET BALLOON - meeting and workshop. OSA Lounge, 1- 44gr 2pm. All welcome. J-SOC - 'Israel - What's Happen- ing'. A meeting for J-Soc mem- bers. 7.30pm. Hillel Flat.

FILM SOC - 'Letters from a Dead Man', Roger Stevens LT21. 7pm, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVE- £1/50. LEEDS PLAYHOUSE ODEON (436230) THEATRE GROUP Cheese and 1. NO WAY OUT, at 2.10, 5.30 MENT - 'Liberation Theology in January 29. 11pm WHEN THE Wine SGM in Committee Room Britain' - a talk and discussion. CANAL SOC - weekly meeting. and 8.10. WIND BLOWS - 30 - LITTLE D and RH Evans Lounge. 1.30- The Catholic Chaplaincy. 25 Cardigan Arms, Kirkstall Road, SHOP OF HORRORS 31 - COM- 2. PREDATOR at 2.15, 5.30 and 5pm. It's happening NOW! 9pm. 8.00. Cinema closed from Janu- Clarendon Place, 8pm. RADES 7.30pm. ary 31. LESBIAN AND GAY SOC - dis- 3. WISH YOU WERE HERE at LUU FUEL SOC DISCO - Tartan FISHNET BALLOON - Auditions for Mary Cooper's TABOO. OSA cussion - 'What do you want 1.50, 3.50, 5.50 and 7.55. Bar. 7.30pm till late. 50p mem- from Lesbian and Gay Soc?' BRADFORD PLAYHOUSE bers/80p non-members. Lounge, 5pm, Mon and Toes 2. BFT 1 - February 1-3 at 7.30pm Male and female parts available. Committee Rooms A&B, CANNON CINEMA (452665) 7.30pm. FULL METAL JACKET; 4 - at 1. CRY FREEDOM, at 2.20 and 6pm WHAT HAPPENED TO J-SOC - Shabbat comes in this TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 6.45pm on Mondays to Satur- STUDENT INDUSTRIAL SOC - KEROUAC: and at 8.15pm TIN days. Sundays at 2.15 and 6.10. week at 4.25pm and goes out at LIVE DANCE BAND BOP - Dou- 5.39pm. Friday night at Hillel Flat bles Bar, 8pm. £1 (Music Soc Challenge of Enterprise. Arts MEN. 2. FATAL ATTRACTION at 1.50. 6pm. Saturday morning at Block LG19 at 1.30pm. £1 refund- 4.25 and 7pm, Mondays to members 50p). Late, late bar! 10am. Shabbatical Salutations! able deposit. See Union foyer Saturdays. Sundays at 2.50 and COTTAGE ROAD CINEMA FISHNET BALLOON - 'Bazaar everyday 1-2pm. Free buffet, 4.40. and Rummage', a hilarious corn• free entrance. All week at 6pm and 8pm (Sun- 3. LOST BOYS at 1.15, 3.35, 6.00 CYPRUS: IN SEARCH OF A JUST days 5.30pm and 7.30pm) PRICK edy by Sue Townsend. In the and 8.10 on Mondays to Satur- SOLUTION. A discussion by a Raven Theatre at 7pm. £1111.20. UP YOUR EARS. Late show Fri- days. Sundays at 4.50 and panel of distinguished speakers day, 10.45pm, PINK FLOYD, THE 7.25pm. including a representative of the THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 WALL. POLY LABOUR CLUB MEETING MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, Cyprus High Commission in - 1pm, Conference Room. HISTORY SOC - Cheese and Matinee on Saturday at 1.15. London. Brunswick Building Ex- 'Labour Students and Interna- Wine in the History Department, Sundays at 2.15pm. hibition Area, Leeds Poly, Mer- 8pm. Free for members, 50p HEADINGLEY LOUNGE tionalism'. Speaker - Tommy rion Way. 6pm, free. Reception Hutchinson. non-members. Free food. All week at 5.40pm and 8pm HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE with snacks and Cypriot wine (Sundays at 5pm and 7.30pm) 1752045) will follow. J-SOC - Debbie Brazil speaking FANTASIA. One day only Thurs- SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 All week at 7.30pm, THE WHIS- about her trip to Russia, 8.30pm, day at 5.40pm and 8pm. NUS LESBIAN AND GAY CON- TLE BLOWER. Late show Friday University Union, 1pm. All wel- FERENCE, NEWCASTLE. Satur- Conference Room, Poly, A ROOM WITH A VIEW. Satur- 29 at 11pm, HANNAH AND HER come. day Matinee, 2pm. Madonna in day 30-Sunday 31. SISTERS, Saturday 30 at 11pm A chance to hear the youngest J-SOC - NB. Ball tickets now WHO'S THAT GIRL BETTY BLUE. MP talk about Youth Rights! SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 available. Ring Paul Becker ALTERNATIVE CYCLING SOC - 783128 for details. Towpath Poolle. 10am. Union griaVAWASMOZNII Steps. A Classic Event! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 : 7 DUCHESS OF YORK (453929) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 LESBIAN AND GAY SOC - Trip January 29 - Little Chief THE LIBERAL YOUTH CHANCE to Manchester. Leave Union 30 - The Prowlers CAMPAIGN - launched in Leeds steps 8pm. £3.50. All welcome! 31 - Slow Down Zone by Matthew Taylor, Liberal MP Gigs February 1 - Zoot and the Roots for Truro. RH Evans Lounge, LUU MOTOR CLUB - Pennine 2 - Rough Justice Hut Weekend, February 5-7. 19. 3- Lop Benefit - two local bands SKI CLUB GLUHWEIN PARTY - 4 - Son of Sam, Hang the Dance, Sign up on the noticeboard for a 15 Chestnut Avenue, £1.25, See mega weekend. UV Pop noticeboard for details, tickets 5 - Simon Moran and maps. CANALS SOC - Working party. Pocklington, near York. Sunday, JAZZ 'N' BLUES CLUB - blues February 14. Transport will be HADDON HALL (751115) band 'Mojo-Mania' upstairs at provided. Sign up on January 29 - Gargoyles Packhorse Pub. 8.30pm. free. noticeboard. 30 - New Market Cross February 5 - Armadilla Hat Band TRADES CLUB (620629) ROYAL PARK PUB fftigUnatai5EaSMVIEMMOVELMOM January 30 - Trevor Watts Every Saturday night - Lizzie Sextet Wouldn't Like It - Jazz-Jazz ASTORIA (490914) Rock-Blues, 9.30pm, 70p January 30 - Oyster Band and Black Spot Convention. f3 ADELPHI (456377) LUU DOUBLES BAR February 5 - Funk Disco £2.50 January 29 - Termites Club adv. Every Tuesday - Jazz Night Exhibitions February 5 - SASF Benefit Gig - 30 - Ed O'Donnell Jazz Band The Dicemen 4 -• ( LUU RILEY SMITH COCONUT GROVE (455718) POLY January 29 - Age of Chance January 31 - Tommy Chase February 4 - Balaam and the Nightmare on Wax, Son of Sam Quintet 7.30pm. £3 (cone) Angel Ghostdance, 8.30pm Rage Benefit, £3, 8.30pm Every Wednesday - Jazz Club

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THE GRAND (459351) The OPERA NORTH season con- ST PAULS GALLERY (456421) NMP . BRADFORD (0274 727488) tinues in March, April and May 'CRUMP' - an exhibition of the HENRY PEACH ROBINSON'S with KATYA KABANOVA, TOS- collages of Simon Crump, until pictorial photographs, made up Theatre February 13. 'Things seem to CA, FIDELIO AND CARMEN. from several negatives, and the Book Now. £1.90. have got a bit out of hand.,.' (S. photography of LEWIS CAROLL Crump). THE WORKSHOP THEATRE - both exhibitions end on Janu- (Arts Building) ary 31. Perform TORCH SONG TRILOGY The work of HUMPHREY SPEN- DER, photographer for the Daily by Harvey Fierstein, on February ART SPACE GALLERY 2-6 at 7.30pm, 11.50. Mirror, Picture Post and Mass An exhibition of CHRIS Observation, and HUMPHREY STUDIO THEATRE TAYLOR'S work during his re- JENNINGS, a founder of British (Emanuel Institute) sidency in Leeds Poly printmak- Surrealism and Mass Observa- On January 29-30 at 7.30pm ing department. Until February tion. Both exhibitions end Febru- THE HOUSE by David Halliwoll, 6. ary 14. 11.50. CIVIC THEATRE (462453) LEEDS PLAYHOUSE (442111) LUU RAVEN THEATRE COOKRIDGE ST GALLERY From February 4 until February 6 Until February 13 - MRS WAR- Andy Sherlock performs GOOD. A selection of drawings by ANN at 7.30pm, JANET SMITH & REN'S PROFESSION by George NIGHT, on February 4 at 7.30pm, CITY ART GALLERY 1462495) SEABOURNE reflecting her ex- DANCERS now firmly estab- Bernard Shaw. Written in 1894 - f 1.20. (Not for the easily The exhibition of the work of the perience of recent travel in Afri- lished as one of the top Contem- originally banned from the stage offended but for those who have battle artist LADY ELIZABETH ca, and her involvement in con- porary Dance Companies tour- as 'immoral and otherwise im- to deal with the offensive, ev- BUTLER continues until Febru- temporary dance. February 1- ing Britain today. £2. proper'. eryday). ary 14. 12. Opens 9am until 4pm.

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Page 19 ■I; , SPORTS Cr al 4 MARCHING ON TOGETHER YORK 1st X l:1 LEEDS 1st Xl: 5 Leeds Uni 1st XI continued their relentless march towards the NUL Championship with a re- sounding 5-1 away win at York University. Despite a little rustiness due to five weeks without a game. Leeds dominated the first half THE but were unable to convert their superiority into points. A re- feree who granted York every FINAL offside decision simply on the strength of their appeal did little to help the Leeds cause. WHISTLE Dave King who rounded off an impressive performance at centre forward, opened the 1988. the year graphs. Artists scoring in the second half with a the world over have a field confident strike. This acted as a day of pretty pictures invok- catalyst for Leeds who became ing Olympic symbols and fi- more cohesive and penetrative gures of eight. For once as the York defence fell apart. again that bulbous mam- John Grisdale twice made deci- moth of razzamatazz which sive breaks from midfield, slot- now has about as much in ting the ball home with the natu- common with the ancient ral assurance of a born finisher Greek athletic ethos as chalk does with cheese. waddles to to put the result beyond doubt. • Leeds Student photo the goes back IN lime (Nice one, John — Ed). the starting blocks awaiting a Andy Croston made a wel- gunshot that could signal far YORK 2nd XI: 0 A goal against the run of play Leeds a two goal cushion. more than an innocent 100m come return from injury in the LEEDS 2nd XI: 4 proved to he the spark needed When Edwards added a third last 20 minutes to demonstrate dash. to enable Leeds to play the sort soon after. the Leeds team Los Angeles in 1954 un- that his pace and strength have Leeds 2nd Xl went to York in of football of which they are peared to be cruising. not been diminished by his en- ashamedly displayed what search of another win to con- capable. During a fine spell Hwever, instead of pushing, had come to be common forced lay-off. Two well-worked solidate their position at the top Webb. Hill and Haverson all for further goals. is la Liver- goals were his just reward. knowledge: the fiercest com- of the league. and to continue a saw efforts scrambled away and pool, Leeds seemed content to petition happens far away At the half way stage in the winning rtreak which has left York did well to hold Leeds to sit on their lead. If not for two season, Leeds Uni 1st X1 sit trom the sandpit. swimming them undefeated since Novem- just one goal at half-time_ excellent saves from Morgan in pool or boxing ring but in the proudly at the top of the Nil. ber 4. During the opening 2(1 In the second period Leeds goal. Leeds may have des- and are also in the last 16 of the plush offices of politicians. minutes the York team belied began where they left off in the troyed earlier good work by re- administrators and multi- LIA U. their lowly position and had first, pushing forward, looking laxing. This shock sparked As long as consistency is nationals. Leeds on the retreat. for goals. Brown, an influential Leeds into life again and Wal- LA 54 made money, lots maintained and a worrying in- The Christmas break had member of the mid-field began ker netted Leeds' fourth just jury list does not grow any lon- of it, but this ow ed more to obviously left some players to split the home defence with before the final whistle. A satis- Olympian feats at marketing ger, there is no reason why at short of match practice and some measured passes. On 61) factory result from a less than least one trophy should not he by one Peter Uheroth than Leeds were lucky to remain on minutes Hill finally atoned for satisfactory performance. the sportsmen and women gained this season. level terms after the early ex- earlier misses when he fired themselves. South Korea John Grisdale changes. home from close range to give Ian Edwards may well have made a very rash decision in assuming that this was true of all 01) lupe elarries Fortunate]) PADDLE STEAMING Jot them the) have a more The team arrived in Llangollen waving to the spectators %Oils! impressive line up than has on a cold Friday night. to he handrollme dow n ' I ow n Falls' been seen before in most of greeted by the had news that Sunda) saw excellent per our lifetimes and therefore the bitter was off in the local formances from Alan Tordoll the standard of competition bar. who won the mr.h. idual event should he higher. But as the by over 3(1 seconds. Lim] also times get lower on the track However. the team struggled from Steve Lewis (7t h1 and the stakes get higher behind on with the men's 'A' team. A. Colin Pinder (12ilo. Andy Ed- the scenes. Munich in 1972 Tordoff, S. Lewis and C. Pin- wards. Jon Lyn and Dave Mul- showed how tempting such der, carrying off the gold medal lane all managed to finish in the an obvious worldwide stage on Saturday afternoon. top half of the competition as is to a man with a machine gun and an axe to grind. Unfortunately the 'B' team well. Already there base been chose to play to the crowd, with Overall Leeds came third. a rumblings that all is not Dave Mullane getting carried good result considering they 'ticket \ with Korea., away by the excitement. fling- were hampered by a lack of neighbour s north at the •9th ing his paddles away at the women and Canadian paddlers. Parallel. Salts lust because roughest part of the course, and And Edwards some musele hound, dum- RUGBY bell juggling. Lallassus from WINTER the 1 'nis CI Sil Iowa he- llo es that sport and polities LEAGUE don't mix does nor make this WHITE OUT SPORTS DIARY the case .An number of bal- T.S. Elliot assured us that LEEDS Uni 51 loons, doves. ohs e branches Wednesday. February 3 "April is the cruellest month" SHEFFIELD POLY 12 MEN'S FOOTBALL or children in national dress ; 1St ul triorrl0 but I reckon that as far as Saturday, January 30 they intend to release during Leeds University RLFC pro- sports fans are concerned YOBS v County Hall taw,* NETBALL the opening ceremony will duced their best performance of January must be a close MEN'S HOCKEY Saturday. January 30 not be able to stifle the ling- the year to defeat Sheffield . second. Last Saturday saw the wdyl ering tensions. Poly by 51 points to 12. This Saturday, January 30 Wednesday. February 3 first snowfall of 1983 and the LLJLJ 1st v Adel (away) As regards the eve nts was one of ,dy (away) weathermen don't think it was the few matches this LUU 2nd & 4th v Sheffield themselves and Britain's the last. So it was mass can- season that could not be classed Bankers (away) RUGBY LEAGUE chances of success. last sum- as a game of two halves. Leeds cellation of fixtures with a LULl 3rd v Sheffield Bankers Wednesday, February 3 c! S F urOpC 11 11 4' 11 a ni- quiet week in prospect. having established a substantial (hornet LUU v Leeds rawayl pronship results do not kale This explains why the sports lead by the interval. Wednesday, February 3 RUGBY UNION well lin this scar. No doubt LUU v Birmingham (away) pages could be more accurate- A wide pitch suited the I. ni- Saturday, January 30 Ron Pickering will ;174sure us ly referred to as the sports versity's style of play: with the WOMEN'S HOCKEY LUU I s: & aid :zicarborougil that the whole team deserve page. However, if your club or extra space allowing Clark and Saturday January 30 (hornet golds for attitude and enthu- LUU 2nd & 4th XV v Scarborough society is doing anything de- Gill to use their strong running Ltr . (away) spite the weather or even as a to good effect. Davidson was Wednesday, February 3 Perhaps we would he bet LUUvNrav, Wednesday, February 3 result of it, we still want to excellent. yet again, and Hens- ,in wdaavT 3rrt XV v let oft looking to the Winter know. ley's drop goal kicking ensured MEN'S LACROSSE Olympics 111 (...11i.1;11'4 nest University news as per usual Leeds gained a profitable re- Saturday, January 30 LEEDS POLY 1114111th 1411 the to the Leeds Student office, all t )1\ milk: ideal \ nd r umour turn from every attack. 1 \ MEN'S RUGBY UNION Poly information to be left in scorers included Gill (4). Con- it the British boys are WOMEN'S LACROSSE Wednesday, February 3 the Leeds Student pidgeon- nelly, O'Neil. Luty and yours onfidento.f a wan as, er Saturday, January 30 Leeds Poly v Nralingliam hole in the Union Offices city sincerely. e.vpt in the men's 'dow- LOU v Nottingham (away) (home) Adam Butstone site. Thank you. Paul thirties

Page 20 LEEDS EDITOR Jay Rayner NEWS .10 Sue Cocker Andrew Harrison ARTS Tim Whelehan

- I I - INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER L MUSIC r Roger Lakin Paul Greco Palestinian J Soc row SPORTS An exhibit in last Wednesday's Palestinian exhibition was censored, Adam Batstone and the exhibition eventually closed down after a heated and emotional argument between Palestinian and Jewish students. PHOTOS The row surrounded one pic- "We are very upset. They ture in the exhibition which have no legal rights to do this. Kieron Dodd showed Palestinian refugees in They took this decision without a camp. underneath which was conselting us," said the Palesti- written 'The Final Solution'. nian students spokesperson. WHAT'S ON Jewish students explained that "We are showing our point of the phrase was used by Hitler to view but it is not against the Kate MacGregor describe the extermination of policy of the Union." he con- the Jews. and that its use in tinued. ADDITIONAL such a context was an attempt Finally the organisers de- to equate the policies of Israel cided to close the whole exhibi- DESIGN with those of Hitler. tion as an act of protest. Palestinian student repre- LUU Jewish Society Political Graham sentati, es denied this. Officer Jonny Mendelsohn was disappointed that the problem Alexander "None of our members equ- had arisen. ated the phrase with that.- a "This is an argument which 1 Steve Hicks spokesperson said. thought we were getting some- After much arguing. the Un- where on and then this hap- "It's opening up the wounds that the Executive had taken FEATURES ion Executive produced a pens," he said. of previous arguments. It's action. Meanwhile the Palesti- signed minute ordering the "The photo with the words opening up a Pandora's box of nian students are still deciding Chris Donkin offending phrase to he covered 'The final solution' was out- anti-semittsm." on whether to take legal action. up. rageous. He was however, grateful Jay Rayner Damian Earle Penni Mawson LPSU ADVERTISING Clause 28 demo Gulam Uddin small but *.ociterous demon- gay culture that has been estab- scribed how the clause would premises stration zlaainst the anti-lesbian lished over the past 20 years," effect such productions. and gay. Clause 28 of the pre- he continued. "The clause bans the repre- FAN sent Local Government Fi- Clause 28 would ban any loc- sentation of pretended families. rights unclear nance Bill, took place outside al council from spending money and that's precisely what Torch Fanthing Leeds Civic Hall last Wednes- on anything which could legally Song Trilogy is about. If a The Great Education Reform day lunchtime. be interpreted as 'promoting* polytechnic performed this they Bill due to take effect in April Representatives from LUU homosexuality. This would would be penalised." Lesbian and Gio, Sac, and mean the phasing out of fund- 1989 has raised serious doubts In early March a delegation over the ownership of the Poly women against Clause 28 ing of any lesbian and gay hel- of five people from LUU is staged a protest as a prelimin- plines, of the freedom of asso- buildings which houses the Un- Lecds Studtn1 Newspaper, going to see Leeds City Council Leeds University Union, ary to further larger demos to ciation for lesbians an gays on ion. with the removal of Leeds and National Day of Action City Council's control. PO Dos 07. Leeds LS1 I UH he held in March. council premises. or of any against Clause 28 is planned for Tel 439 U7I ext 231 .Jeff Driver of Leeds City "This is just to make our pre- council funded art'- which have Produced by Hamilton Press Limited. February 20. as well as a further Council, the present Chair of sence said Lesbian any lesbian or gay content, demonstration in Leeds on Quayside House. Pedders Way. and Gay Soc Chair. David the Governors at the Poly told Preston Riversway, Preston. University student Brian HI- March 5. Lanes. PR22XS. Tel. 7V111 Crain. Leeds Student that although to lis presently rehearsing for the Sec Fifth Column. Muted by Pace Web Offset, Unit In. "This Clause would mean the University workshop theatre's all appearances the Poly will Jay Rayner own the buildings, central gov- Centurion Industrial Estate. destruction of the leshian and play Torch Song Trilogy de- Centurion Way, Leyland, Lanes ernment will, in fact wield the Tel. (0/72) 4311000 real power as they will he the sole appointees of the gas - ernors. Although he felt it was impossible to predict the future L Poly 'wins' new g ym of the Poly Union, he com- mented on the lack of gov- Plans for a new sports-gymnastic complex at the Carnegie College - Council had set a deadline of ernmental concern for the wel- Beckett Road site now seem secure after Leeds City Council February l, by which time it fare of students. WEATHER confirmed its funding of the project this Wednesday (27). required confirmation of LCC However. Chris Price, Direc- Earlier in the week, there existing size. to he funded joint- funding if the conditions of its tor of the Poly is under no FORECAST were fears that LCC would ly at an approximate cost of own grant offer of £250,001) doubt that the Poly will own the Friday: Outbreaks of rain. ++ ill withdraw from the project as 1.528.000 by Leeds City Coun- were to he met. buildings, including the Union. turn to showers as brighter LPSU had been planning a Ile said that nobody could he Council Chairman George cif. the Poly and the Sports weather spreads North Ease local and national media cam- certain of the effect the Bill will Mudie delayed agreement Ire- Council. The weekend: Broken cloud "LC(' would only be re- paign to highlight the issue, as have, but expects the Union's quired by the Sports Council and blustery showers with a repairing the existing sports position to remain unchanged. for its 1:250.000 contribution) to sponsible for five per cent of fresh to westerly breeze pre- halls would cost only E100,000 Although he "doesn't antici- the project. the funding," claimed an irate venting overnight frost. Later less than replacement by the pate any difficulties" and points LPSU speculation suggested Ed Gamble (LPSU President) on Sunday cloud will increase prestigious new centre. So to the directorate's good rela- that the council wished to put earlier this week. "as the rest of and rain is likely proceeded by Wednesday's news from the tions with the Union. he could off a decision until the Poly the debt would he transferred sleet or snow. to the Poly when it becomes a council was greeted with relief offer "no real hope of greater becomes a corporate body rc- Daytime temperatures near on all sides. Ed Gamble was funding." sponsible for its own funding in corporate body anyway." He 5°C 41°F. and it will feel cold in 1989, and that LCC would pre- was, however. sympathetic to "delighted." The President of the Poly the wind. fer to see the Elland Road site fears that the expenditure could Council members Mr G. Union Ed Gamble, is "slightly Supplied by LEEDS WEATHER in South Leeds developed in exceed the council's central Driver and Chairman Mudie worried" about possible reduc- CENTRE. preference to North Leeds. government-imposed budget were in a meeting and therefore tions in the area the Union cur- The existing sports halls at ceiling, leading to rate-capping. unavailable for comment. rently occupies. as the Poly is the Carnegie College of Educa- Ending the project, though, However, Council Press short of academic space and Lion arc in a serious and danger- would mean 'missing a great Officer. Mr Hardy confirmed because of the example of Kit- NSTOP PRESSM ous state of disrepair (see last opportunity' for furthering fu- that Mr Driver had been "very son College which is -being kick t fliversity Hall Presidents in week's 'Sports Hall Delay' page ture corporate-Poly/LC(' Itnks. confident" that a satisfactory out. The future position of the move to force resignation of 23), and are inspected weekly and would be a great loss for decision would be, as it has Union will be decided in discus- General Secretary by council engineers. Plans sports in the north in general, been, reached before the Poly which Ed Germaine Varney at LUU were announced last December said Gamble. Council's February 1 dead me. 131 hopes take place in AGM. Full story next week. for their replacement by a mod- The issue became a matter of dire ffir future ern complex, three times the urgency this week as the Sports Karen Thrni.nt.,;.;!', .; i TY Philippa Shann