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THREAT TO N.U.S.? RAG MAG THE Anti-National Union sible student challenges the by the governing authorities. would be saved by disaffiliation, N.U.S. movement we will res­ A proposed change in the of Students group As the actual contribution government allocation of the particularly as there has been pond accordingly. I do not ner student amounts to only a capitation fee, will mean that a cut of thirty per cent in the (A .N .U .S .) appears to be regard A.N.U.S. as an organis­ little over two pounds, it instead of this being .paid by grants to S.R.C. societies. In SALE gaining support amongst ation which legitimately rep­ appears that the membership oflocal authorities it will be addition to the cost of mem­ resents the views of a some Newcastle students. N.U.S. are getting exceedingly controlled from a central bership, approximately £2,000 significant number of good value for money. Tund. However, the actual is spent annually on sending The movement claims students” . Secretary Claire Sheehan amount which is paid on be­ delegates to N.U.S. Con­ that disaffiliation from Nigel Wild said that he felt has given a concise breakdown half of each student will ferences. the leaders of the “anti” move­ BANNED the national body will of the contribution of New­ probably be reduced. The student body as a ment had been significantly castle University students to In view of this there is a influenced by their own pre­ whole will have the opportunity save over £13,000 a year, its present organisation. very real question of whether to express its own views at a conceived opinions, and were TH E latest episode in the which is currently paid as The total amount paid is Newcastle University should general meeting on February now conducting their cam­ remain part of the N.U.S. Are the price for membership paign because the present £12.219.67, which is based on 7th. This will take place at battle between the Rag we actually getting value for 1.00 p.m. in the University of the N.U.S. N.U.S. leadership was com­ 6i% of the per capita grant of money? organisers a n d t h e posed of political factions £19.92 which is made by local Ballroom, and a discussion will The reactions of the Union whom they disagreed with, and education authorities for each Where would the average be held on the means of pay­ officialdom of the Sabbaticals to A.N.U.S. have who they were not prepared to student. Th's totals £9,775.74. student be in regard to grants, ing future subscriptions. Students' Union has the provision of essential It’s entirely in your hands. been mixed: Deputy President accept. and the remaining sum of resulted in a ban on the Ms. Nicky Edwards com­ He felt that any split would £2,443.93 is a conference levy facilities and subsidised .rail Do , you want a corporate, mented: “It is being run by an which is charged to all travel — to name but a few of national organisation of sale of the Rag Mag from be wrong because it would be students, or a separate, un­ animated gnome and a front sacrificing long term benefits Universities, and is based on many examples — which have the building. man for a party of more for short term gains, and would 25% of the initial sum. accrued from membership of a attached Union? money than political sense, cause “the atomisation of In addition to this national united student body? Whatever your feelings, the At last week's meeting of the who send fresh - faced student movement” with all its contribution, a further £902 is The alternative point is that solution is entirely in your Union Management Com­ ignoramuses to do their tawdry inherent consequences of weak­ paid to the Tyne and Wear the student membership could hands. mittee it was voted that the business. The day that a sen­ ness and possible exploitation branch of the association. benefit .from the £15.000 which Iain McBridc. sale of the magazine should be prohibited from the Union building. This followed the Students’ Representat've Council's refusal to give its ABORTION RALLY A SUCCESS backing to the magazine because of its overtly racist and sexist content. Saturday against the from all over the North East Tom Sawyer (NU.P.E. / Sixth- OVER 1,000 attended the Ms. Nicky Edwards, said was remarkably well attended Regional T.U.C.), Sarah march and rally organised Corrie Bill. that S.R.C. had asked to see a given the snowy weather. Roelofs from the N.A.C. draft of the Rag Mag before by the National Abortion The march, that consisted of The rally, held in the Poly­ Steering Committee and Gor­ the Council gave its approval, Campaign (N .A .C .) last delegations from Trade technic Union Building, don Bagier, M.P. for Sunder­ because of last year’s suspect Unions and political groupings attracted speakers including land South. Form content. On reading the draft it was decided that the material was both offensive and con­ LA ST Saturday saw the trary to the policy of S.R.C.. which seeks to end racial and first Sixth Form Con­ sexual exploitation in all ference to be held at spheres of life. Commented the Deputy Newcastle University. President, “the Rag Mag is an Around sixty Lower 6th absolute disgrace. Although wc form students from schools in support the aims of Rag, the the North East shivered in a content of this magazine does freezing Debating Chamber and nothing to enhance the reputa­ listened to talks on teaching tion of the student body, and methods, and the common mis­ is bad for the image of Rag” . conceptions of University Ms. Edwards was also education, students and apprehensive about the pros­ student life. pect of a hit squad to attack After an understandable selected targets. In view of the silence caused partly by the violence which occurred when temperature and the impersonal a similar stunt was tried dur­ layout of the Debating Cham­ ing Durham Rag Week last ber, a constructive discussion year, her fear may well be began. It became clear that the justified. Mr. Toby Cullen, the chair­ majority of those present did man of Rag, pointed out that not know of the existence of all jokes contained in the the Alternative Prospectus and magazine were submitted by Student Reception Service, either polytechnic or univer­ which were created to give sity students, and were there­ school students a clearer idea fore an accurate reflection of of University life. student opinions. The aims of original) was used in Durham Because of this, and the Rag, in addition to providing and, retailing at under £4.00 desire of the school students are well within the reach of Rag when (surprise, surprise) help for worthy causes, was to ALARM gangs of heavies posing as to see University life “ in improve its organisation every every student pocket. Mindless action”, the Education Com­ The alarm itself comes either Rag members took the oppor­ year, and the effect of the ban TH E latest protective tunity to indulge their violent mittee will now try to arrange would be to seriously impede in the form of a rather thick YOU may have noticed days in which Sixth Formers measure against attack pencil, about four inches in urges. Scared possible targets the efforts of next year’s that among the plans for are ‘adopted’ by a student and organisation. takes the form of a small, height, or as a torch. Both are and certain sensible people remarkably efficient, and this year's fun-packed object rather strongly, includ­ taken to lectures, seminars As for the hit squad, all but highly effective, per­ ing Nicky Edwards who com­ etc. ... members are to be rigour- replacement cartridges, should Rag is a thrilling little sonal alarm which emits a the device have to be used mented “Pinching ideas which This will not cause disrup­ ously scrutinised, and only high pitched, ear piercing against an adversary, are item proposing the cause violence and ill-feeling tion as the school students will harmless materials will, be readily available. establishment of "H it verges on the imbecilic” . come individually. Neither will used. scream which should The devices are selling well All in all. Rag have found clash with the work of S.R.S. The organisers of Rag now temporarily stun even the on the campus of other Squads" to douse con­ another way in which they can as it is aimed at students who plan to sell the magazine out­ Universities, and all students tracted targets in cold damage their image and avoid have not yet applied toside the Union building, so it most determined attacker. all hints at Rag’s purpose. University, rather than those remains to be seen whether the would be well advised to con­ Smash, water, flour etc. sider purchasing one. (See Another triumph for the who come up to Newcastle for ban will have any serious From today they can be interviews. obtained from the Union Shop. advert page 3). The idea (naturally not mindless amongst us. effect on the sales.

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TEETH ‘N’ SMILES SPRING DIARY

THEATRE

Theatre Royal CRUISE It is still possible to make party bookings for the ALTHOUGH the Spring this band must rest with the brass following performances: Cruise tour was supposed to section of Dick Hanson on trumpet Wed. 20 Feb. Matinee and John (Irish) Earle on tenor 2 p.m.Merry Wives of feature ‘The Blues Band’ sax, who both featured heavily in Windsor. the undoubted success of ‘Bumin, Bumin’ and ‘Women are Sat. 23 Feb. Matinee the night was the support, stronger’. 2 p.m.Merry Wives of The Blues Band, fronted by ex­ Windsor. aptly named ‘The Dance actor Paul Jones, played a very Sat. 1 March. Matinee Band’. This seven piece out­ tight fitting set but still managed to 2 p.m.Merry Wives of fit from Windsor, convey the same sense of enjoying Windsor. themselves which the previous Wed. 12 March. Matinee incidentally playing their performers had done so effortless­ 2 p.m. Twelfth Night. first gig outside the capital, ly. They featured a mixture of Tues. 18 March. Evening warmed up a largely recognised blues numbers and 7.15 p.m. Twelfth their own compositions, including Night. apathetic audience within a the excellent ‘Going Home’ by Wed. 19 March. Matinee matter of minutes. guitarist Dave Kelly, as well as 2 p.m. Twelfth Night. Although fronted by Lou Stone- their personal theme tune, ‘The Wed. 19 March. Evening bridge the kudos for the success of Blues Band’. 7.15 p.m. Twelfth ' In addition to playing a very Night. popular encore, they were joined Mon. 24 March. Evening at the finish by the Dance Band, 7.15 p.m. Twelfth PLAY giving a total of twelve musicians Night. on stage. This unexpected addition Tues. 25 March. Evening TYNEWEAR THEATRE COM­ to the evening’s entertainment 7.15 p.m. Twelfth I still think built-up shoes would be less conspicuous. PANY are inviting unperformed comprised a lengthy performance playwrights from the North to sub­ Night. of ‘Sea Cruise’ and a very Wed. 26 March. Matinee look at with Gilbert Taylor’s hiding Nazis and one or two mit scripts for an exciting new competent medley of numbers PETER BROOK’S ‘Meet­ scheme. 2 p.m.Twelfth Night. photography superbly compli­poolside creeps. from the mid-sixties, during which Wed. 26 March. Evening ings with Remarkable Men’ menting the beautiful scenery of It’s a good job, he’s not in charge The idea is to provide the six guitarists, two harmonicas, opportunity for writers to hear a re­ 7.15 p.m. Twelfth (at Tyneside Cinema 2 from Afghanistan. The cast do their best of Miss Fawcett-Majors no-claims trumpet, saxophone, and twinned Night. with a script loaded with Pseuds bonus because she gets involved in hearsed reading of their plays by drums fused together with an tomorrow) is a film about members of the Tynewear Theatre Sat. 29 March. Matinee Corner specials and Warren a ludicrous car-chase that includes excellent degree of harmony. 2 p.m.Othello. and based on a book by the Mitchell, Colin Blakely and one or a bull-ring and lots of greasy extras. Company and, it is hoped, local Iain McBride. philosopher and guru G.I. two others just manage to keep But it’s Farrah that you’ll waste Community Theatres. Gurdjieff. their heads above the tide of your money on going to see and The public readings will take beatific smiles and ultimate truths. who is trying to make it big on the place on two Sunday evenings, It’s full of ‘meaningful’ dialogue, It’s also nice to see that Farrah silver screen. So how does she do? March 16th and March 23rd at the knowing looks, dangerous Fawcett-Majors is not in it. Well, without being ungallant, Playhouse. The readings will be journeys and it’s pretty boring. Unfortunately she is in ‘Sun­ she’s lousy. Squeaky voice, no act­ followed by a general discussion. Questions about art and life, the burn’ (now showing at Odeon 1) ing talent. Grand Canyon smile — The scheme is not a competition true way and life forces are tossed and therefore the smiles in this are she’s got all the qualifications. for established playwrights, but is designed to help new writers W H AT’S around and Gurdjieffs search for purely dental rather then mental. The film matches her too. It’s the Sarmou'ng brotherhood in Tur­ The plot is pure “Charlie’s soft moments are tacky and its benefit from seeing directors and key and the solutions which they Angels” pap, with Farrah being action fiat. Instantly forgettable, actors working on their scripts. might be able to offer provide the called in to. act as the wife of an gratuitous disco soundtrack and Any writer who has not yet had a film with more yawns than most. insurance investigator who is sent Joan Collins as an alcoholic play professionally performed However, it is always good to to Acapulco to sort out the mob. nympho (Never! — Yes, honest) should send their play, (full length ON top up the mixture. of One Act), to Tyne Wear If it’s ‘Sunburn’ you fancy, try Theatre Company, Newcastle the'real thing — blisters, pain and Playhouse, Barras Bridge, Excitir all. It’s preferable. Newcastle NE1 7RH, no later than Exciting New Colours and Cuts for the 80's Keith Jarvis. February 28th, 1980. Should the scheme prove successful Tynewear hope to Country Fare extend the idea in the future. CINEMA Restaurant ABC HAYMARKET Victims 1.45, 4.40, 7.30 6 BIGG MARKET NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE SUGAR Escape from Alcatraz 2.40, 5.20, 8.25 HAIRDRESSING 10% discount off all meals JUST ROUND THE CORNER — IN a nutshell Stephen Poliakoffs ABC WESTGATE ROAD 7.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. ‘City Sugar’ at the People’s Phantasm 28 LEAZES PARK ROAD, NEWCASTLE 29691 20% discount off all meala value £1 or over between Theatre from 5-9 Feb. is a savage Emmanuelle and the White Slave Trade. Complete Shows 3.28, 10% discount on Tues. and Wed. on production of 6.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. dissection of that pristine slag-heap 7.00 on production of Union Card Union Card. of our times-mass culture. A comic and abrasive piece it focuses on STUDIOS 1-4 Leonard Brazil, local disc-jockey 1 Daughter of Emmanuelle. Massage Girls in Bangkok. as he dispenses milk-chocolate pap 2 Queen of the Blues. over his local air waves. The world 3 Dracula. The Sentinel. TYNESIDE of commercial radio and teeny- 4 The Bitch. Thriller. boppers collide with the mounting CINEMA of the grotesque competition of the QUEEN’S THEATRE century, with which Brazil pouis all One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (until Sat.) 1.45, 4.40, 7.30 U.S.E.C. his self-hatred and his contempt for Pilgrim St., Newcastle Miss Average Listener. ODEON FILM CENTRE presents some films Tel.: 21507 1 Sunburn 1.35, 5.10 L.C.P. (with Shout at the Devil) 6.50 CINEMA 1 2 The Incredible Hulk 1.00, 4.50 L.C.P. 6.50 NEXT WEEK — CURTIS AUDITORIUM Circle & Stalls £1.00 3 Manhattan 1.25 L.C.P. 8.05 Late nights £1.20 4 Breaking Away 1.10, 3.35, 6.05 L.C.P. 8.35 7.30 p.m. Thurs. 7 to Sat. 9 Feb.: GRAY & SON LAST TAN G O IN PARIS x LIMITED GODFATHER II — 50p. 4.15 and 8.30 JESMOND PICTURE HOUSE The recognised authority Quadrophenia 7.45 plus MIDNIGHT COW BOY since 1896 No Smoking x 6.30 Late Night Rock 'n' Roll CLASSIC Sat. 9 Feb. at 11 p.m. ROBE MAKERS Blood Voyage and Mistress of the Apes. COMING SOON Jimmy Cliff in by appointment to the THE HARDER THEY Universities of Durham TYNESIDE CINEMA Feb. 14— PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN COME x and Newcastle. Public Cinema 1 plus BOB MARLEY AND Hoods and Gowns, College 7-9 Feb. Last Tango in Paris 4.15, 9.05. Feb. 21— THE NIGHT PORTER Scarves, Ties, Blazers and THE WAILERS LIVE u Midnight Cowboy 6.30 Sun. 10 to Wed. 13 Feb. Badges our speciality. Caps Feb. 28— MISSOURI BREAKS and Gowns for Graduates 10-13 Feb. Agurre, Wrath of God 5.30, 9.05 Werner Herzog double bill The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 7.10 Mar. 8— ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST AGUIRRE, WRATH OF and Undergraduates stocked In all sizes. 14-16 Feb. Marathon Man 4.40, 8.35 Mar. 13— A BRIDGE TO O FAR GOD a 5.30 and 9.05 The Parallax View 6.50 Mar. 20— THE DEERHUNTER plus THE ENIGMA OF We are the leading out­ 17-23 Feb. Nosferatu! The Vampyre fitters to all Colleges and 24 Feb. Steam on the Great Western 3.00 p.m. KASPAR HAUSER Societies in the University. 7.10 25 Feb.-l Mar. Days of Heaven 5.40 and 9.05 CINEMA 2 Known for a great The Duellists 7.20 SATURDAY, 9th FEBRUARY Thur. 7 to Sat. 9 Feb. number of years as Public Cinema 2 Peter Brook's THE COLLEGE SHOP 7-9 Feb. Meetings with Remarkable Men 7.30 Reggae Night with REVELATION — £1.25 MEETINGS WITH 16 Feb. That’s the Way it is 2.00 REMARKABLE MEN u 41-42 SADDLER ST., Follow That Dream 7.30 in BALLROOM DURHAM. 18-23 Feb. Those Wonderful Movie Cranks 7.30 THE CLUB Tel.: Durham 64168 28 Feb.-l Mar. Quintet 7.30 Mon. 11 THE KILLERS DISCO'S — TUESDAY & FRIDAY — SOp. & 60p. plus THE BIG HEAT Goods can be obtained — two film noir thrillers Every one's a winner. from tha janitor at the MUSIC 7 p.m. Armstrong Buildings, the Tues. 12: Dirk Bogarde in Medical School and the The Presidents. Golden Fleece, Thursday, 7th Feb. Joseph Losey's Civil Engineering Build­ THE SERVANT 7.30 ing. Sat. 9 Feb. Reggae Night with Revelation £1.25 Uni. Ballroom. New Darnell every Wednesday,Breathing Space. Wednesday, 6th February, 1980 THE COURIER 3

Page Exhibition DIARY Scottish Opera LEAR Wed. 20 Feb. The Bartered Bride. EDW ARD BOND’S ‘Lear’ is a tragedy on a very similar at Sunderland Sat. 23 Feb. The scale to Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ but it happens in a very Bartered Bride. different world. The bareness of the stage is used to suggest AT Sunderland Arts Centre Newcastle Playhouse a world existing without the limitations of normal life. In until next Tuesday is a small Tom Stoppards‘Rosen- this world the characters possess a fluidity which enables exhibition of photographs | # P ^ 3 erantz ang Guilden- Bond’s expressionistic drama to succeed, thus, for stern are Dead’. 7 Feb. - by the Vietnam War I March. Matinees 1.45 instance, the Ghost’s physical presence on the stage neverphotographer Tim Page, p.m. Evenings 7.30 p.m. worries the audience’s sense of realism in the play. simply titled ‘Nam’. Put simplistically, the play is about the failure of a man to understand This is a particularly topical Gulbenkian Studio the injustice and insanity of the society of which he is a part. The catch for them as Page was recently ‘Death’ by Woody resolution, Lear’s death on the wall, shows him having come to featured in an ‘Arena’ programme Allen. Thurs. Feb. 21st. understand how the society works and to recognise his inability to alter it. on BBC2 and is also portrayed by 1.10p.m. and 11p.m. Fri. Thus the wall he anempted to build to encompass, in safety, the future Dennis Hopper in Coppola's Feb. 22nd 1.10 p.m. and generations of his society, kills him. The wall remains a visual image of an stunning ‘Apocalypse Now’. II p.m. All Tickets 50p. immovable barrier for the whole of the play. In fact, apart from a change Coppola used Michael Herr’s in the order of the names (Cordelia is now the tyrant), nothing has excellent book ‘Despatches’ for a Peoples Theatre changed. There is no question of the world not continuing because Lear is lot of the background feel for his ‘City Sugar’ by Stephen dead. Violence overthrows violence until nothing exists. film and in the book. Page, born in Poliakoff. 5-9 Feb. 7.30 Kent and wandering over to Asia p.m. DEPRIVED OF UNIVERSAL still in his late teens, comes to life GRANDEUR as a ‘crazy child’ and ‘stone-cold Debating Chamber freak’ who always went on the most Poetry Reading with Peter Porter. 1 p.m. The part of Lear could easily appear anachronistic on stage, even ashairy missions to get his pictures. Thurs. 7 Feb. Bond had presented him. deprived of universal grandeur, because he is so EXHIBITIONS close to being a classical hero crushed by fate and a weakness of character. FRIGHTENED, STONED, Laing Art Gallery I think this was overcome by the belief the audience had in the SHATTERED AND Feb. 15-Mar. 23. The metaphorical/real stage-world. James Nuttgens as the Gravedigger’s Boy GLORIOUS British Art Show. and the Ghost was especially sensitive and his death very disturbing because he was the most balanced of all the characters in the play. The photographs convey this Side Gallery But can this violence and travesty, or transposition, of the Lear legend danger and madness brilliantly and Feb., 14-Mar. 14. "The be justified? Is the production of a play like this not merely an indulgence the sense of presence and risk1 Isle of Man’ (Chris in a public demand for violence on stage? I think that the quality of the comes across either through the Killip). play and the competence of the production as a metaphor shots in of the corpses frozen in their ‘The Teds’ (Chris self-destruction are enough to justify Newcastle University Theatre agony or of the survivors, Steele-Perkins). Society in performing it. John Holtom. frightened, stoned, shattered and glorious. Page has said that it is as Spectro Arts Workshop impossible to take the glory out of Feb. 7-27. Night Photo­ war as it is to take it out of sex, and graphs. (Gallery Two). the pictures make no. attempt at facile judgements. Breaking Page was wounded four times SO YOU THINK IT and on the last occasion was logged COULDN’T HAPPEN as ‘dead on arrival’ at the field hospital to which he was taken with TO YOU? a chunk of shrapnel deep in his TM PAGE'S NAM' Away brain. However, he survived and so did his photographs, charged with the spaced reality of life and death in the jungle! PETER YATE’S new film Dave’s father (Paul Dooley) DEBATING CHAMBER ‘Breaking Away’ (now saves the film from sliding into sentimentalism with his clumsy 7.30 p.m. showing at The Odeon 4, cynicism.. .‘I’ll have no inis in my LACK OF SUITABLE Northumberland St.) is an house’. .. and reinforces the films STAGE strength. " This House believes that mankind today honest but humorous look Page was employed by ‘Life’ n at the lives of four teenage magazine and over five years they no longer has any need of religion Gfl boys floundering between CENTRAL STRUGGLE used 80 pages of his photographs. sr in None of his action scenes was SATURDAY, 9th FEBRUARY e school and the anticipated 3 staged—Page didn’t work like that 89 tedium of a working life. The hours Dave spends training — and his lack of employment and Speakers : on his bike are superbly photo­success since the war ended seems Long halcyon days of an t * H graphed, the camera watches the to be because of the lack of a Proposed by : Opposed by : ftj CO © ideal summer, are spent intense pedalling on the long suitable stage rather than a lack of a n plunging into the vivid blue straight roads, and leaves us feeling talent. Mr. N. WALTER Father R. SPENCE 3 eo exhausted by the struggle Dave has It says a lot about us that a war sr water of their ‘private’ Editor of to keep up his speed. photographer can take on the sub- Catholic Chaplain swimming pool (naturally The central struggle between the mythical status that Page now has ‘New Humanist' to University. n formed from an abandoned ‘townies’ (Patronisingly termed going for him, but it is his Magazine CO quarry) or half-heartedly ‘Cutters’ by their college rivals) photographs which reflect that V] and the rich kids, is finally fought mentality rather than create it. eo 3 looking for jobs to pacify Prof. N. JENKINS out in the little five hundred Bike Page is now living in L.A. with Mr. M. CORNER despairing parents, and race. his semi-plastic skull and of the Dental School, inevitably ending up in a ‘Breaking Away’ is a refreshing photographing such things as Miss — President of Lecturer in Religious break from sex, violence and Nude California and local garden Newcastle Humanist Studies Dept. brawl with the rich college intense concentration. It’s worth parties. AVAILABLE IN kids of Indiana University going to see if you feel you need a The horror.. .the horror. Society. UNION SHOP IN THE — who seem to the boys to bit of light-hearted entertainment. Keith Jarvis. REFECTORY have had all the opportunities that they THE UNIVERSITY OF were denied. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE The film focuses mainly on Dave (Dennis Christopher) an endearing, incurable romantic, whose aspirations to become an Italian Bike racer (although his THE DOREEN HASLEWOOD origins are entirely American) TRAVELLING AWARD FOR SPORT result in driving his parents mad with Italian music, and tricking the AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION college girl his heart is set on, into ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY falling for his winning Italian LUNCHTIME AND LATENIGHT PERFORMANCES accent. HIGH WATER — a new play by Nick Darke Applications are invited from registered students of the University for the Doreen Haslewood Travelling FRIDAY, 29th FEBRUARY SATURDAY, 1st MARCH THURSDAY, 13th MARCH University of Award for Sport and Physical Education. The Award Is Newcastle THURSDAY, 20th MARCH FRIDAY, 21st MARCH All at 11 p.m. (Tickets £1) of an annual value of approximately £100. It is upon Tyne FRIDAY, 14th MARCH at 1.10 p.m. (Tickets: 75p.) intended that the Award shall be used to defray expenses incurred in consequence of a study visit in connection with sport or physical education, or of PUBLIC LECTURE WHAT’S IN THAT CAGE ? participation in a competitive or instructional sporting Thursday, 7th February — a musical entertainment compiled by Roger Rees event either in the United Kingdom or overseas. Other 5.30 p.m. thing? being equal, preference will be given to women The Modernity of FRIDAY, 15th MARCH at 11 p.m. (Tickets: £1) applicants. John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi Applications, in writing, stating the nature of the R. A. Foakes proposed visit or activity should be submitted to the Professor of English, Registrar (Fellowships and Studentships Committee) University of Kent coniflci siuflpi p c x jEds by FRIDAY, 15th FEBRUARY, 1980. CURTIS AUDITORIUM GUibfran v ijd io , tm m kkkswhr.k nrwcRSTif bOAOfficf d iiiljlM if 4 THE COURIER Wednesday, 6th February, 1980

10 MILLION FLOWERS — ONE PARTY

Russians have been trying union sports societies, and when common expressions appear to be,house the athletes. The sportsmen The various clubs exist so that all forms of THERE has been so the Games have finished the stadia ‘not possible’, or, ‘no, this is not will sleep two to a room in speciallyphysical fitness can be made available to work­ hard to produce excellent men, especially the older and younger people. much fuss over the will be handed back to the parent possible’, or, ‘no’. The visitor will made beds of Siberian wood- The physically handicapped are able to enjoy sporting facilities. No organisation for use by their only receive a limited number of Originally, the village was a proper sports, and there are certain subsidies avail­ political implicat­ expense has been spared,members. 203 events will be replies to a polite request, so village where affluent market able. The USSR covers a vast area, and large perhaps the language is becoming travelling distances are needed to compete in ions surrounding partly because sport is onecompeted for, and a new Olympic gardeners worked the fertile soil. competitions. To offset this, there are Medal has been designed by Ivan simpler! After the Games, Moscow families subsidies for people who compete because they have to take time off from their jobs. the Olympic Games, of the few forms of self- Postol. Gone is the traditional The language is easy, the social will move in as soon as any that the most expression that the picture of a victorious athlete being life easier. The Russians realise necessary repairs and decorations In the municipal sports centres Government do not carried in truimph by fans (the that only 30% of a visitor's time is have been completed. The new and industrial sports halls, there is important fact has Russian police will be too strong spent spectating and that he loves occupants will pay the same rent, an abundance of instructors, encroach upon, in order to for that to happen), and instead his social life. Therefore on asking based on square metrage, as do all coaches and doctors. The top been submerged provide a complete sportingsymbolic running tracks and a bowl for the nearest nightclub, the reply other Moscow council tenants. athletes are not professional; they will be portrayed. Russia’s two do not get paid for time off work, occasion. Twelve new is Helsinki! Drinks are easier to The Olympic mascot is a cuddly under a deluge of million prisoners have been busy come by — the cocktail bars serve three foot bear called Misha. But but return to work after their political banter; stadia have been recently — making 2,835 Olympic one standard cocktail, and the the children who would most like competitions. The numerous constructed and twelve souvenirs — and so have the incoming planes serve Ve of a pint to cuddle it, will be at their annual opportunities for sport, the authorities — printing six million strength of competition, and inten­ How good are the have been reconstructed of beer! (“Any more?” “No, not camp. The six to twelve year olds tickets. 35% of these tickets will be possible”.). You are not allowed to are packed off to Pioneer Camps sive coaching, mean that the facilities in each with its own orchestra. distributed to foreigners at ten go into a restaurant without book­ each summer, and this year they strongest rise to the top and Moscow? Forget 10.000 craftsmen and roubles each (one rouble is approx­ing and paying in advance. Nor is it will be returning two weeks later. achieve such heights that many are 35.000 construction imately seventy pence), whilst theadvisable to sample night-life after (The transport services will be too world-class performers. about the politics Russians will only have to pay 10 p.m.; There is none. Or if you occupied with the Games to bring The Future?: builders were drafted in to three roubles. do go out, and hear a noise, it could them home). The actual sporting facilties are and follow this create the ideal conditions Arrangements are progressing be that of a police 24 hour guard on adequate and preparations are pro­ well due to the enthusiasm of the The role of sport in a Russian’s life: gressing well. However, sport is investigation into (do not forget that the a Westerner’s fiat rummaging There is no doubt that every effort is made to workers. According to a member through their dustbin for various make Russia THE sporting nation. No effort is not everything for the athlete or the preparations. original ideal of The Games of the Olympic Organising literature. But do not despair; The spared to encourage and produce people who the tourist. They will have over two are capable of phenomenal feats. A ‘screening’ was so that EVERYONE Committee, they regard it as an hotel accommodation had been weeks in Russia, and it may be that Lord Exeter was honour to do this work around the system operates in schools which extracts could compete). Moscow is increased by 50% (and likewise talent at an early age. For example, those who the oppression already existing in right when he said, clock, which is why the Russians have the prices). show aptitude in gymnastics and swimming Russian cities and the ■ recent a underlit city which creates are ahead of schedule. when aged five years will be taken out of hostilities to the country will be felt school. They will be transferred to a “We are not lap dogs a picture of dank dullness Thus, the life for the visitor will well-equipped environment where, under strongly by the visitors. Athlete’s What about the visitors?: and greyness, but this may have to be centred upon the intensive coaching and regular testing by performances may be impaired by to politics”, and now So far the sporting facilities are Games. The actual village is not medical personnel, they will mature into the atmosphere; Tourists may be allieviated through the progressing well. But will the signposted and is difficult to find, athletes of the highest ability. Once a person become frustrated and irked by cast aside your has been chosen, every effort and opportunity bright colours of ten million visitors be able to overcome the although for journalists it is a will be given him to attain success. These Russian inhospitality; Overall, the political affiliations flowers which will be sent in Russian oppression and attitudes rewarding game of hide-and-seek. schools for talent are free. general situation may overwhelm which make life a strain for the They will find a six storey block Although the prodigies are given special some people and the consequences and take a look at the for The Games. visitor? They will have to with commendable facilities for treatment, the official Soviet view is that sport could be harmful. ______Altogether 250 million roubles overcome the feeling of antipathy 3,100 journalists, and a computer for all has always taken precedence over the Moscow of January training of the talented few. Therefore, the have been spent on facilities. which may be shown, and also which will give full details on any ordinary citizen is also able to practise sport by 1980. Neither the Government or the overcome the barriers of the athlete. The ' village, located and develop skills. The places for these are the USSR Olympic Committee have Russian language.Well, not so behind the campus of Moscow local clubs. The Trade Union Organisation for RICHARD Sporting Facilities: sport promotes the idea that sport produces financed the preparations. The much barriers but coming to terms University, is made up of towering strong bodies and minds and that sport is good SMITH There is no doubt that the money has come from the trade with the language. The most eighteen storey block of flats to for its own sake. My God it’s true ___ NICK CUTHBERT with ACORN

WED. 6 (8.30 p.m.) “My God, it’s true” HENDERSON HALL

Thurs. 7 (8.00 p.m.) Fri. 8 (8.00 p.m.) “Dying to meet God” “Power to the People BALLROOM KINGS HALL . .A lie has a short life, but truth lives on for ever. (Ancient Proverb). Wednesday, 6th February, 1980 THE COURIER 5

The staff in this building are Without going into the causes of For the last 5 years of the Shah’s marvellous and have my utmost this misleading article — an article existence more than half the respect. Working under often very Inflamed that took merely a journalistic view revenue obtained from oil was difficult and frustrating conditions and again proved that the British spent on armaments. they achieve more than could ever Sir, media’s treatment of “faraway For instance Iran had' more be expected of them. No criticism countries of which we know little”, chieftan tanks than the United was intended. Whilst agreeing with as in the case of ‘Courier’, is Kingdom. Yours etc., the bulk of Mr. R. inadequate. The remainder of the oil revenue NIGEL WILD, Palmer’s letter (Courier The aim of this article is not to was divided among the deposed President, change the inaccurate picture in Shah and his family, the militia, Union Society and Students’ No. 626), I must take people's minds put there by theSAVAK (the notorious secret Representative Council. exception to the British media on the crucial subject police) and other high-ranking inflammatory remarks of Iran, for the simple reason that state officials. there is not enough space to cover The relationship with the United contained in the last everything. magazine was presented to S.R.C. paragraph. States and world capitalism has It was evident that the warning undermined the Iranian economy given had either not been acknow­ Abortion Has the ghost of Bosworth Field PROTESTS BY PEOPLE to the extent that inflation has run not been laid? Do the names at a steady rate of 30% since 1974. SRC, ledged or had not been adhered to. FROM ALL WALKS Statham and Higgs bring him out in The average household would It was, therefore, necessary to Sir, OF LIFE implement the decision taken by The Abortion battle, a cold sweat? Is his ambition to be spend around 60-70% of its income Council. Last week Union the first Yorkshire Society on rent in the capital city of It is just an attempt to present a Management Committee made a at least for some of us, is President to storm Lancaster Tehran. decision which upheld the policynot merely over who University? Or does he just want to more realistic approach. Food prices have trebled in 5 UMC, put Sam Smith’s Pubs in St. It is now apparent that mass years. of S.R.C. — namely not to allpw controls women’s the sale of this publication within Helens? demonstrations, strikes and Illiteracy runs at 60%. the building. bodies, as stated in last I hope this doesn’t indicate a protests by people from all walks of The lack of basic hygiene and life ranging from lawyers to school I would like to make it dear that week’s Courier, but over change in the current (very health requirements can be seen both these bodies commend the who controls the fate of Lancastrian) policy of Yorkshire students showed the large body of from the fact that 3 children in and spirit of Rag and give their support Society i.e. Anybody regardless of opposition to the old regime of the every 10 do not grow to adult life. wholeheartedly to Rag itself— it is both women and men at their politics colour or creed can Shah. This proves the fact — Approximately 19 million simply that it would contravene the most vulnerable join and enjoy the revelry. something which is not reflected in Iranians live in villages(that lack much of what the students union time in their lives — in Mr. Palmer has proved by his the British press even now — that the very basic human needs. stands for to give its name to a comments that, though he may the developments of the past year In 1967 the Shah spent over £40 the womb. were not the work of a few religious RAG publication which eontains have buried the hatchet, he has million of borrowed money on his material of this nature. Following on the oppression of marked the spot very well! or political “agitators” but were Coronation Ceremony and the Yours etc., minorities such as blacks and Yours etc., the expression of broadbased and celebration of the 2,500th year of Sir, CLAIRE SHEEHAN, women, it is noticeable that those STEVE HOUGHTON, diverse forces. the Persian Kingdom. I am writing on behalf Secretary. who have fought (and are still (Dept, of Education). One must never forget that fighting) so hard for their own literally millions of people in Iran of the Union Manage­ rights are the Qfet to ignore the expressed their desire for the ment Committee and the rights of others. Shah’s overthrow. AGRICULTURAL AND Students Representa­ Are there any other women in For decades, basic human rights INDUSTRIAL RUIN Apology the University who believe that IRAN — ranging from political and trade tive Council to inform union freedom to simple verbal female emancipation cannot, and The Shah’s regime seemed to be you that both of these must not, be achieved by further­ criticism of the Shah was ruthlessly Sir, suppressed. enjoying the calm and quiet of a bodies have decided to ing the oppression of our unbom dreamer on a volcano: “my life is a Last week I wrote in sisters — and brothers? THE It is a serious people’s struggle in disassociate themselves Iran, not a sectarian ‘coup’ golden dream", he once said, Courier and upset many As the Conic Amendment adding that Iran “is an island of from the publication comes up before Parliament, let us instigated by “terrorists”, of the staff as they saw “religious fanatics” or “agitators”. stability”. Nothing could have known as the Rag Mag. support this step towardsOTHER been further from the truth. This follows a warning that was the letter, which protection of a very silent minority Let me just mention a few facts, facts that show the dominance of While ill-health, bad housing, given to the Rag Committee by admittedly was cryptic in the fac* of abuse of the law and illiteracy, poverty, agricultural and S.R.C. before the magazine was diagnostic uncertainty such as in United States imperialism in all and ambiguous, as a walks of Iranian life, dominance industrial ruin, corruptions and compiled that if the contents of this the case of the doctors who advised VIEW mismanagement increased, the magazine could be construed as criticism of them and the abortion at 26 weeks of a that threatened to change Iran into a semi-colonial state. Shah spent more and more on the either of a racist or sexist nature the their work. There was a “badly deformed” child who, RECENTLY there was an Secret Police, the military and article in ‘Courier’ about the By the mid-1970’s oil constituted said body would not wish to be general misinterpretat­ happily for the entire family, himself. linked in any way with the managed to survive. situation in Iran which 97% of Iranian exports, 85% of ion of the meaning of the foreign exchange receipts and 75% publication. i Yours etc., unfortunately didn’t reflect the Continued on Back Page. Following this the draft of the letter. HELEN GRAHAM. true facts. of state revenue.

UNION SOCIETY STUDENTS REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL at the at the UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ANNUAL ELECTIONS ANNUAL ELECTIONS SRC AND UMC MEETINGS 1 9 8 0 1 9 8 0 I give notice of the following Annual Elections: Wednesday, 6th February, 1980 PRESIDENT Tuesday, February 12th I give notice of the following Annual Elections : Joint Working Party on the Union Extension — ♦DEPUTY PRESIDENT Friday, February 15th 12 noon, Level 6 Committee Room. ♦SECRETARY Friday, February 15th ♦PRESIDENT Tuesday, February 12th Education Committee — 1.00 p.m.. Level 6 ♦SOCIETIES TREASURER Friday, February 15th PUBLICITY & EVENTS OFFICER Committee Room. VICE PRESIDENT COMMUNITY AFFAIRS SECRETARY Friday, February 15th Societies Finance Committee -— 2.00 p.m., VICE PRESIDENT WELFARE ♦STUDENT TREASURER Level 6 Corrimittee Room. Monday, February 25th ♦VICE-PRESIDENT Monday, February 25th S.R.C., Executive — 4.30 p.m., Level 6 VICE PRESIDENT SERVICES ♦CONVENOR OF DEBATES Committee Room. Monday, February 25th 6 ORDINARY MEMBERS OF U.M.C. VICE PRESIDENT CULTURAL AFFAIRS Thursday, February 28th Monday, February 25th 12 MEMBERS OF THE ENTERTAINMENTS Thursday, 7th February, 198Q VICE PRESIDENT WITHOUT PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE Friday, February 29th General Meeting to receive motions on Subscrip­ Monday, February 25th tion Systopn of N .U .S . — 1.00 p.m. in University PUBLICITY OFFICER Monday, February 25th Nomination Papers are available from the Per­ Ballroom. EDITOR COURIER Thursday, February 28th manent Secretary's Office, Room 2, Level Six, Life Members Association Sub Committee — FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES and M UST BE returned not later than 10.00 a.m. Level 6 Committee Room, 7.00 p.m. Friday, February 29th two full week days before the Election. Friday, 8th February, 1980 Nomination Papers are available from the Per­ Hustings (where an Election is contested) will U.M,C. Executive — 12 noon. Level 6 Com­ manent Secretary's Office, Room 2, Level Six, take place at 1.00 p.m. in the Debating Chamber mittee Room. and M UST BE returned not later than 10.00 a.m. on the weekday preceding the Election, except Mandating General Meeting to receive motions two full week days before the Election. for .N.U.S. Easter Conference — 1.00 p.m., in the case of the starred (♦) positions, which H U S TIN G S (where an Election is contested) will Room 27. will take place at 5.00 p.m. in the Debating take place at 1.00 p.m. in the Debating Chamber Chamber. Tuesday, 12th February, 1980 on the weekday preceding the Election, except in the case of the starred (*) positions, which Catering Committee — 10.00 a.m. E L E C TIO N S will take place at 5.00 p.m. in the Debating will take place in the Wednesday, 13th Februaury, 1980 Chamber. ELE C TIO N S UNION FOYER and the UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Joint Working Party on the Union Extension — will take place in the 12 noon,, Level 6 Committee Room. between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 8.00 p.m. UNION FOYER and the UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Alternative Prospectus Steering Committee — between the hours of 10.00 a.m. and 8.00 p.m. 1.00 p.m. Claire Sheehan, Secretary. S.R.C. Executive — 3.00 p.m., Level 6 Claire Sheehan, Secretary Wednesday, 23rd January, 1980. Committee Room. Wednesday, 23rd January, 1980 6 THE COURIER Wednesday, 6th February, 1980

KILL all Aardwarks in Castle Leazes — M.J.C. Personal RICHARD KNIGHT F167 —legs for hire —balance suspect. BOOST S. & N. PROFITS — Jdin STEVE Column on a drinking session. YORK/SOC. ADS: 2p per word lOp minimum S.R.C. FOOD CO-OP

Open every Tuesday and Friday on Level 5, 12 noon until 2.0 p.m. Foods TRUMPET BLOWN SEAN CONATY and wholefoods at s low price. Back from a month in Chile will be speaking to staff and students at the SMUTTY R.109 HH. Seeks tall female for Catholic Chaplaincy Wednesday love and companionship with a view to 13 1.15p.m. week relationship. Breathing Space performing have never been on such a well for the hire of its J.C.R. and disco. IT is our sad duty to (MASS AND LUNCH FOR CHILE) regularly, and we hope, leading organised excursion”. Incidentally all these individuals Country Fare inform the mass partly to their recent acclaim. The Society even entered a float were wholeheartedly in favour of populus of the apparent in the Rag Parade, decorated the Society during the hustings NOW the star of the radio waves— it’s darling Restaurant Again with the emphasis on around a cricketing theme, with all when they were most keen to attain Hilary. demise of the Yorkshire 6 BIGG MARKET informality and spontaneity, 200 members clad in whites. Although their present positions. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Society. students were left speechless by the one of the smallest floats to take In the opinion of many they haveWHOEVER lost a good signet ring on exceptional talents of the Tyneside part it was awarded second prize fallen far short of the standard set Victoria Road, Thursday, contact H. 10% discount off sll meals Borne out of a barrel of beer the Ladies Barbershop Choir: who as for excellent artwork and the in­ by previous Executives, and have Graham. Biochemistry. 7.30 a.m. • 6.00 p.m. Yorkshire Society was formed national champions were perform­ 20% discount off sll mesls genuity of its members in collecting now alienated themselves to the HEY MY MAN, was that a pistol in your value Cl or over between under the initial leadership of Mr. ing in Castle Leazes and agreed to a particularly large sum for charity. majority of E.P.H. and a large pocket. 6.00 p.m. end 8.00 p.m. R. W. Goodwill. To elucidate give an impromptu concert for on production of Union Csrd A new decade has been heralded number of influential members of fully, the 1978 Annual General society members one evening. by an evening jaunt of a hundred the University. Meeting boasted four attendants; Yorkshire Society continued to Whilst we acknowledge that OLD PEOPLE LIVING ALONE loyal members to the coast in the LOVE TO SEE A “YOUNG” to cut a long story short they were expend its interests, forging strong form of a coach trip to Marsden minor damage has occurred to RAG REVUE ’80 left in possession of a barrel of links with the local community by E.P.H. J.C.R., and that numbers FACE. JUST ONCE IN A Grotto where everyone was to WHILE — COULD IT BE Camerons Strongarm. arranging home and away darts at recent meetings have been on is set for the 17th-22nd of March (last enjoy the convivial atmosphere at YOURS? To avoid alcoholic poisoning to matches with the Belle Grove that one of the North East’s most un­ the increase, no effort has been week of term) in the New Tyne Theatre. If you have a clean artistic licence, can act, the four initial members, a free proved to be highly competitive made by this cowardly bunch of Please contact SUE in the usual and picturesque taverns. dance, sing or play then join the RAG disco was hastily arranged in and enjoyable. The ladies of the individuals to negotiate or S.C.A.N. Shop. Again response was overwhelm­ REVUE by ringing Marcus 730787. Eustace Percy Hall’s Junior society excelling themselves on the ing, the initial coach was quickly compromise with the Yorkshire Common room, by the kind catering front for the visitors. filled and a second coach had to be Society! permission of the then J.C.R. We can only see that their The climax of the year was the ordered, much to the surprise of THE DISCOUNT HANDBOOK IAIN: See me in my private office 11.45 a.m. Committee. The enthusiasm for motives are purely those of Wednesday. Lessons must be leamt. fabled coach trip to the “home­ Union administrators. IS NOW AVAILABLE FREE— the society was astounding, and selfishness influenced by the YES FREE! further fortnightly meetings at the land” to partake of the local Now, what is the point of this efficiency and success of the York­ same venue were regularly “waters” and to observe the way of article you may ask? Are the shire Society that has added so From: Porter’s Lodge, S.R.S. NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY attended by two hundred stalwarts life in England’s foremost county. Yorkshire Society again blowing much to the traditional atmosphere Reception and Welfare Centre. THEATRE SOCIETY and others. Not only enjoyable but their proverbial trumpets? of E.P.H. greatly distinguishing it informative, the tour included the ■ Yes, we bloody well are! presents Every meeting was free, catering from other halls. Something that G. FLANAGAN — EGO TRIPS primarily for members of E.P.H., National Railway Museum and the Every Society undertaking has THEY have so far failed to do! exquisite architecture of York’s been non profit making. The prime UNLIMITED. Hey Gerry what’s it like to DEATH and without a written constitution So come on E.P.H. Executive, be popular. by Woody Allen the society relied on the good faith Shambles and Minister. aim is to give value for money and try and conjure up the moral fibre and hard work of its committee and A beautiful summer evening at pleasure to its members, to allow hundreds of students the Thursday. 21 February friends. Flamingo Park Zoo would have subsequently it has become one of pleasure of letting their hair down BREATHING SPACE (1.10p.m. and 11p.m.) Entertainment was to say the heen hard to better and proved a the largest, if not the largest social once a fortnight in Leazes. Friday, 22 February least varied, enriched with the suitable build-up to a fine suppersociety within the University. Remember it costs nothing to be appearing this (1.10p.m. and 11p.m.) good humour and spontaneity of its spent in a delightful village tavern, It has come to our knowledge, pleasant to people. The Yorkshire Wednesday at All Tickets 50p. captive audience. Meetings proved whose patrons welcomed us with unofficially to date, that the Society have proved that over the an excellent venue for students to open arms and refreshment. The present J.C.R. Committee has past two years. The New Darnell. Fenham at the exemplify their own talents, with final compliment was paid by the imposed prohibitive financial Friends of the (off Barrack Road) GULBENKIAN STUDIO bands such as New Shoes and coach driver who commented, “I demands on the Yorkshire Society Yorkshire Society. 8.30 p.m. Tel.: 29974

U.S.E.C. BANDS NEXT TERM DO NOT INCLUDE: Genesis, Boomtown Rats, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Tubeway Army, Dire Straits, The Who, The Rolling Stones, XTC, Donna Summer, Earth Wind & Fire ... but you can borrow their records/cassettes at the UNION LIBRARY BOOK, RECORD and CASSETTE SERVICE on Level 5 open 9.45 a.m. - 4.15 p.m. Monday to Friday. Wednesday, 6th February. 1980 THE COURIER 7

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Cross A Plea From Me... Country 15 YEARS TH E recent cancellation of many matches and the prospect of bad weather to come, has resulted in a shortage of sports reports in this issue. However, ! WADERS SURVIVE would welcome any articles on social occasions or AGO previews for the coming weeks. Therefore, please hand in any items of interest to The Courier Office — B.U.S.F. QUAGMIRE R. Smith, Sports Editor. W EATH ER has once University and Morpeth TH E University took part in the British Universities again played havoc with Old Edwardians (un­ Cross Country Championships this weekend which the fixture lists. The most beaten this season). also incorporated the polytechnics and college race. ill-fated match appears Originally to be played Manifestoes The high standard of competition and the nature of the to be the second round on December 19th, it had to be postponed until VOTE TOBY CULLEN members. I believe it is important that UMC course made this one of the most testing races of the cup-tie between the FOE UNION SOCIETY PRESIDENT should understand what is really needed but January 23rd because of this can only come from you. season. WHO IS TOBY? PROMISES? frost. But on January I am one of several people who are standing I can only maintain these ideals if I have your In the ladies 21 mile for the job of President of the Union Society. I support. All I can really promise is that I will do Riding 23rd it had to be post­ am presently a 1st year student in the depart­my best to help all of you. race Gill Burley was a ment of Computing. VOTE TOBY TO BE YOUR poned until last Satur­ WHY TOBY? PRESIDENT—TUES. 12th FEB. clear 1st counter in 39th day, again because of Firstly and foremost because I believe in myself and my capability to make a good Presi­ making light work of the frost. dent. I have always had a very forceful and out­ SUE BLACK going personality and this makes me think I muddy scrambles with will be able to bear the responsibilities and also ME: MATCH On Saturday the ground was I am a second year student reading for a drive for improvements for all. Ruth Browning showing in beautiful condition but un­ I am an Independant candidate which means degree in Agricultural Botany. I am an fortunately could not be seen, that no groups will have any influence over my independent candidate and have never been a fine form in 57th while or played on because of four decisions. In this way I will be able to fight for member of any political group or party. I what is best for all rather than follow a party consider this to be veryimportant when trying Kate Colling pulled out a RESULTS inches of snow. to help and further every students interests. line. good one in 69th position. It is now fixed for next This year I accepted the position of Rag As Rag Secretary and SRS Faculty Repre­ Saturday, and unless torrential Chairman within a month of the beginning of sentative. I have to deal with all types of people In the men's 'B ' race 23rd January NORTHFIELD RIDING rain, frost or snow intervenes, term. This forced me to team quickly to accept and have established a good working relation­ we hope to see the University responsibility and make decisions on behalf of ship with various members of staff. Communi­ Chris Ireland ran strongly Murton House R.S. CEN TRE others. It got me acquainted with many of the cation is an essential part of the job. progress to the quarter-finals. staff and has given me an insight into the WHY SEC? for 53rd position being Newcastle Home ST. HELENS/LIVERPOOL The University started their workings of the hallowed “Level 6". The post of Union Secretary is primarily one New Year fixture list a week I have travelled around the world a great of ensuring the smooth running of the Students pushed hard by Paul 30th January deal and this had made me accept the different Union, to convene all necessary meetings, to Teams: before the beginning of term, ways of other people and remove the racial take minutes and ensure all decisions are im­ Merrison in 56th with Teams: with a match against Harro­ prejudice which is unfortunately inherent in plemented. 1. Leeds ...... 184 gate. Fielding a weakened most British people. STUDENT INTERESTS club dietician in 72nd 1. Newcastle ...... 319 team the University lost 15-0. I believe that because, so far, I have not The major problems within the union come 2. Newcastle ...... 181 become involved with the activities of the from a lack of communication between UMC place. Other runners who (P. Varley, C. Spark, On the following Wednesday Union Society I have not removed myself from and SRC. The Secretary must provide this link (H . Waltl, L. Newland, they played St. Andrews and the general student body. I have not become and ensure that everyone is adequately packed in behind in­ L. Newland) despite atrocious conditions conditioned into pseudopolitical ramblings informed so there is no confusion on any S. Killen). which bear little or no relationship to the real matter. cluded Gary Hutchinson, 2. Liverpool ...... 305 they won 6-3. life problems of the student. This job requires someone with efficiency, 3. Dundee ...... 175 A narrow defeat by Gos- UNION SOCIETY? perceptiveness, diplomacy and determination Mike Woods, Nick Cryer 3. York ...... 292 amongst other qualities. If elected. I will do the 4. Edinburgh ...... 131 forth. was suffered on the It is this body that decides what goes on in and Vince Rodrigues. Lancaster ...... Saturday, ' but the University and around your Union. It’s main aim is “the job to the best of my ability ensuring a fair deal 4. 273 provision and maintenance of means of social for all members. COMPETITION gave the Gosforth .pack a hard and academic activity for its members". FOR SECRETARY The 'A ' team couldn't INDIVIDUAL VOTE FRIDAY 15th. INDIVIDUAL run. However the UMC has only 12 elected salvage much in the way COMPETITION of pride, though club 1. L. Newland 1. L. Newland superman Kev Forster (Newcastle) Newcastle 113 deserves special praise L. Knapp (Leeds) 2. York 108 ...... 71 for his outstanding run 3. Lancs. 107 3. Dunee ) Coaching Programme: for 6th place — only 4. Liverpool 106 Edinburgh ) 65 being dropped in the 5. P. Varley Leeds ) latter stages of the race Newcastle 105 and must remain a choice for the international to be An Advanced Squash Course held in Ireland later this NEWCASTLE’S We provide natural foods at VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT year. reasonable prices, including at IS: least 12 varieties of salad. Supporting him was The hot dishes are mostly Adam Cooper 77th with unusual due to our deter­ DATE : other high finishers of the mination to avoid convenience 28th February foods and those containing 7.00 — 9.30 calibre of Chris Lees, obscure chemicals. 29th February 10.00 — 4.00 Steve Pautard, Julian Theakstons beers are sold, as Stevens, Andy Brinkman, well as a comprehensive select­ ion of the better quality wines PLACE: Richard Peel and Alex Q Wine Bar and spirits. Smith. c? Richardson Road Squash Courts. Open from 9.30 a.m. till A.L.C. PRINCESS SQUARE 10.30 p.m. every day except (back of Central Library) Sunday. COACH: Ms. Jane Poynder. POST HASTE Come to an afternoon of sheer enjoyment National Coach for the Women’s BUREAU AIESEC presents representatives from Squash Rackets Association. 36 St. Mary's Place, TYNE TEES TELEVISION Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 Tel. No. 28848/9 METRO RADIO and FEE : Why not ask our advice THE NEWCASTLE JOURNAL about thesis, reports, with slides £4.50 (Non-refundable) typing and duplicating. TODAY, 6th FEBRUARY 2.30 p.m. ROOM 006 Our charges are reasonable PSYCHOLOGY DEPT. STANDARD: Everybody welcome. Tea provided afterwards. Good Club Standard (Contact John Stevens in the P.E. Centre for MACDONALD’S further information). MEN'S WEAR HIRE BEER SERVICE 11 BLACKETT STREET REGISTRATION : Book now for that 24-p pint At the General Office in the P.E. Centre. special occasion Ball, Dances & Social DERWENT SCOTCH — Min. quantity: Functions VACANCIES : DINNER SUITS from Polypin (36 pts.) — only £8.50 & £1 deposit £6.75 (inc. VAT) — keeps fresh for weeks. There are a limited number of places available. 10% discount on produc­ Monday — Saturday: 9 a.m. — 5 p.m. tion of Union Card A waiting list will be established. Bow Tie Shirts and all DERWENT BREWERY LTD., CARR HOUSE GRANARY, accessories available VILLA REAL, CO NSETT Tel.: Newcastle 27100 8 THE COURIER Wednesday, 6th February, 1980 DISABLED DAY OF ACCESS COLD HITS OLD AS promised, and despite members of the SCAN Dis­ Apparently, a certain bunch abled Access Group, Fiona of thre*' hooligans (doubtless a driving blizzard, last Taylor and Sue Robinson. practici jjj for starring roles in THE large increase in gas costs while their heat continues avoid disconnection andi so on. Thursday saw the Dis­ With the help r local clin'cs rag) acquired a couple of prices recently announced and to escape under the doors, out W c also hope to offer physical and manufa.. arers, the wheelchairs with which they abled Day of Access tak­ the already high cost of of the windows, and through help with insulation and organisers got hold of 35 proceeded to cause havoc in electricity, will result in more the roof. draught proofing. Finally, it is ing place on campus and wheelchairs of which six have the Eldon Square shopping people being unable to afford The Government has said essential that we actively cam­ been donated to Rag. centre before dumping the around the city. the heat they need. The hardest that it will make provisions for paign for effective insulation Due to the event, it is finally chairs in town for officials to hit will be those like the old, those who get into difficulties, and conservation programmes, Despite the adverse con­ a well-known fact that only six collect. the handicapped, single parents but those who do have prob­ and against Governments use ditions, some sixty normally of the thirty-two buildings on with young children and the lems will also be the ones who of fuel prices as a method of able-bodied students took to campus are easily accessible to Nonetheless, the whole day raising revenue. crutches and wheelchairs to wheelchairs. The modifications seems to have been a notable tour the area in an attempt to necessary to make these build­ success, due to the efficiency of focus attention on the ings usable are fairly minor the organisers and the difficulties encountered by dis­ (for example fitting ramps and generosity of the providers of abled students as they go widening doorways). chairs. The concluding event about their business. Also out Nicky Edwards was delighted was a talk/discussion by Sue in force were the media with with the day of “good clean Clements, an ex-studuent of coverage on ITV’s “Northern fun” (sr '.tic but well-meant: the university who completed Life” programme and in the she en: -zed, seriously, that two degrees herself from a local press. it was im , later). However, wheelchair, suffering all ' the The organisation of the there was one “unfortunate inconvenience that implies, an affair was conducted by Deputy and pretty sickening” incident inconvenience which perhaps President, Nicky Edwards, which marred, though only a few more students are now based on an idea from two slightly, the proceedings. aware of. N.I.S. by D.E.S.

EDUCATIONAL CREDIT TRANSFER: FEASIBILITY STUDY Last summer following an eighteen month project funded unemployed, who spend most either don’t understand, or Please call in at the SCAN by the Department of Educa­ of their time at home and con­ don’t know how to get help office for more details or come tion and Science, a research sequently need to leave their when an enormous fuel bill to our next meeting at the team based at Exeter Un; heating on all day. drops onto the mat. Citv Councils Energy Advice sity presented a report v Insulation is out of the The SCAN Energy Advice Unit, 33 Grainger Street, recommended the e* n i question for people who have Group is being established to Newcastle, opposite Central ment of a National I; to live on permanently low offer advice on: how to cut Station, at 6.00 p.m. on Tues­ tion Service on edu incomes; they are forced to heating costs; how to get a day, 12th February. We need qualifications and credi' bear the full increase in fuel grant for insulation; how to your support! ! fer. This report has now be out for consultation by In the meantime the Exeier GEOG. SOC. team have been asked to make a more detailed study into the R.T.N. ON AIR informational needs of students YUK-ON and to make recommendations on how the service already proposed for the use of IN THE ELDON CANADA educational and professional institutions, would need to be THIS year’s Geography Society expanded to provide an Radio Tyneside Network the patients, help with any scientific expedition is to the adequate student service. (R.T.N.), the Newcastle and problems, and generally make St. Elias mountains of the Gateshead area hospital broad­ their stay more enjoyable. Yukon, Canada. As part of this brief a casting service, will transmit The stat'on will begin to national survey of students is An advanced party are its daytime programmes from a transmit regional programmes planning to leave Britain on being conducted, and this window of the Rediffusion in May, the Gateshead Studio University has indicated that it July 8th for Vancouver. From shop in the 'Eldon Square’ providing a service for there they will travel by road is prepared to assist in this; shopping precinct, as part ofhospitals South of the Tyne, accordingly, members of the Politics Move to Horseshoe Bay, on the its flag day appeal, on Satur­under the title of, ‘Radio Kluane Lake, and establish a research team will visit New­ WILD Gateshead’, whilst the New­ castle on February 8th to dis­ day, 9th February. base camp from which the New proposals may see the The programme will be castle Centre, continues to majojrity of the field work will tribute questionnaires to politics department moving supply the Northern area under students. Your co-operation in relayed to ten hospitals in the take place. out of the Claremont Tower DYKES region, and anybody who has the original name of ‘Radio completing and returning into new premises on the The projects include these _ will be very much a friend or relation in hospital- Tvneside’. The aim of the split investigating the effects of Great North Road. Tony Dykes from the World wili be invited to give a is to provide a more personal­ appreciated. Currently, 40/42 Great temperature on the biological University Service was in the dedication over the air. ised service, which will include activity of Arctic plants, a North Road are used by the Union last week to discuss an alternative news outlet of a Economics department, the student matters with SRC geological mapping of the five An extensive collection will more local nature. During the square kilometres of the area, Transport Operation Research president Nigel Wild. be carried out, and it is hoped weekends, all programmes will GAY-NEWS Due to a clash of events, he including both solid geology Group and for storage with to raise in excess of £1,000, to originate from the Newcastle and glacial deposits, and an three vacant rooms. The was unable to address a pro­ help maintain the studio studios.’ FOLLOWING a protracted politics department currently nosed General Meeting but accurate study of the campaign td widen distribution centre in Newcastle and Gates­ This is R.T.N.’s first flae dav, mineralogical types, par­ occupy nineteen rooms on Mr. Dykes talked at length to head. and it is honed that it will run ticularly those which may be and availability of “Gay three floors of-the Claremont N'gel about the problems of News” — particularly with The station is staffed entirely smoothly. However, we are in of commercial value. Tower which will be exchanged refugee students with reference by volunteers, who provide a urgent need of more peonle to regard to W. H. Smith Ltd. — for twenty-two reconditioned to what help can be given to The total cost of the one minor victory has been service each weekday evening help with the collection. If you expedition is estimated at rooms at the new location. them by educational institu­ between 7.30 and 10 p.m., and are interested in collecting for around £4,700, half of which won within the Union. The scheme would cost tions. and how they them­ At last Thursday’s meeting all day Saturday and Sunday. us, even if it’s onlv for half an is to be found by the team around 77,000 pounds and selves can be of use in the'r The presenters are drawn hour, please phone 857141 and of UMC, a motion was passed would allow for a rearrange­ native countries once a more members. In order to raise the to make “Gay News” available from many sources, including ask for Mr. Lindsay Williams, balance a number of social ment of facilities in the Clare­ stable political situation has both local radio and television, R.T.N.’s public relations events are planned, including a at the Porter’s Lodge as soon mont Tower giving more space been established. Also discussed as possible. This was not the and all the staff pay frequent officer. sponsored “beer barrel push” to economics and bringing the were the problems of dis­ visits to the hospital, to meet Russel Hayes. first time that this proposal has Transport Operations Re­ crimination in education world­ around Newcastle on Saturday, been made but the success on wide and the need for help in 23rd February. The head of the search Group nearer to the Brathy Organisation is backing this occasion was virtually Traffic Engineering Depart­ the development of education without opposition. in “Third World” countries. the expedition, and is ment. STAFF CUTS currently conducting negotia­ tions with the Royal ALTHOUGH Newcastle £200 000 on alterations. Geographical Society for sponsorship. Polytechnic's manage­ Further, more insignificant 20% Discount to Students (meals only) cuts mean that a saving of The personnel for the trip ment has given assur­ £1.000,000 will be easily made. include two who have had ances that there will be Unions on campus are army training, and all on the on production of Union Card expedition have extensive no redundancies in the naturally fearful for their live­ lihood. camping and hiking experience. near future, job prospects It was decided to oppose all Iain McBride. at the establishment look cuts and to campaign for in­ ALL bleak. creased rather. than reduced Democratic Government. public expenditure. 8.000 political prisoners were Over £1 million worth of murdered in ten years. 25,000 NIGHTER cuts are to be made to the political detainees were Polytechnic’s budget — released on the Shah’s fall. £400.000 of this on staffing. IRAN Cont. 100.000 died during the Fourteen hundred people (continued from page) five revolution. are presently employed there. These facts, I think, prove at £259,000 is to be cut on So much so that as opposed least that, the revolution in BAR equipment and a further to 9,860 million dollars spent Iran was not mere “agitation”, in 1978 on education, welfare, “the work of a handful of culture, the health service, terrorists”, but a mass revolt 5 THE SIDE urban and rural development, against U.S. Imperialism. ROBINSON’S housing and manpower, MEETING ON IRAN 11,669 million dollars was (near Red House) BOOK SHOP spent on the armed forces, the “Anniversary of Iranian IN GRAINGER MARKET Secret Police and the Royal Revolution”, — Speech and is worth a visit. Family. discussion. Friday, 8th Feb­ MONDAY-WEDNESDAY...... 5p.m.-2a.m. It was obvious that the ruary. Physics Building, Lec­ Large stock of new and ture Theatre 1. 5.30 p.m. — THURSDAY-SATURDAY...... 5p.m.-5a.m. sacond-hand books. 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