.,. sweet revival free before 10:31 rJr f2.50 after with this ) .-arling & two dogs fia bott. - mdayr A. nar, - STIJDENIncorporating juice magazine Britain's biggest weekly student newspaper October 11 1996 , -1 A Major 144 liiP;1exclusive Your chance to interview W‘'1 the Prime Minister Ulm)11Aan Thriller; ElOn tallcs)o juice alioul his jieW wyrh violenue ip the moms - u6es 4 Turn lo patie PLUS: SUN RISING, DAVID ADAM, PAIN BANKS INTERVIEWED AND FULL SEVEN-DAY TV LISTINGS GUIDE STUDENT aiming for the double COUNCIL FEARS Br A,u KAU( NAT It INAL _judges ha% e voted Leeds Student one of the hest student -newspapers in the country, Leeds Student has been shurtlisted for the Newspaper the Year prize in the annual student media awards_ hosted by the NUS and The HOUSING HELL Guardian Nine other papers are also up for the award- TwTwo Leeds Student contributors have also been Landlords under nominated for the individual Student Journalist of the Year award. Catriona Davies and Rosa Prince are aiming four others who,hope to win. fire over lethal "les an amazing surprise:' said Catriona. a former News Editor on the paper. "1 didn't expect anything like this accommodation when 1 sent in niy entry." By ANDY KELK Prestigious The results will he TWO-THIRDS of the houses announced at a prestigious ceremony on October 26 rented to students in Leeds are during the NUS Student Media conference. The dangerous and unfit to live in. Judging panel is made up of Sixty-seven per cent of the 8,500 media professionals, including Diana Madill Or student rental properties in the city 13130 Radio 5 Live, Rosie have been condemned as substandard Boycott. editor of Esquire magazine. and Terry O'Neill by the Council's Housing and Urban a distinguished Renewal Committee. photographer. II would be a neat triumph In Britain, 80 students die each year in tin Leeds Student in the same house fires caused by had safety provisions week the paper celebrates its in accommodation and 40 die from carbon golden anniversary. After SO years and a monoxide poisoning. change of name - it was previously called Union Complaint News - the paper continues to A special Leeds Student survey also condemns the get bigger and brighter. levels of service given to students in the housing presenting this week an interview with Ben Elton, market. More than half had cause for serious complaint whose new play is about to at sonic point during their tenancy, A quarter of these "pen at the West Yorkshire problems were in relation to safety of the property, Playhouse Of those interviewed almost h0 per cent of those who There is the launch of bad complained about defects had not been satisfied with new special series which will the action taken by their landlord. focus on the lives of six One student. who did not wish to he named, claimed students. following them the landlord of his house was a real problem: -He did from freshers' week all the absolutely nothing to help when we had problems with the THE KLINGON FACTOR: One of the many 'Trekktes' a ay tii graduation. house. By the time we left, the complaints had still not who touched down in Leeds recently for the After half a century Leeds been resolved and he kept our deposit bond That was Yorkshire folk not Lights peed 96 Star Trek Convention at the Hilton Student is still l3ritain's lust £160 of our money which he used to do up the house so Hotel. Hundreds of delegates spent the weekend student read that he could rent it this year." what they used to be with stars in their eyes. Pic. David Smith Pre %s Gang - see page 14 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-9, Feature 12-13. Agenda 15-18, Sport 20-24. Plus 20 page juice pullout magazine 2 LEEDS STUDENT Friday October 11, 1996 Members of Parliament are union Cabinet into sheer NEW Union. old boredom. bearded vice-chancellors. One known to have special paranoia. day when Gary Exec members always believe can picture the privileges. Membae of Union "No one is allowed to they ate running a parliament- Bosh. Communications Council have only one known mention what we've discussed ineniniatune a kind of giddy Officer. himself joins the hail one, access to confidential outside this morn," they STUDENT political mytown. and this of fame, his bald shining head SHACK minutes of past meetings. onlered, "because if the balanced neatly by a great This week in Britai ti's time they have truly gone to .4 weekly sketch of student politks However even this was to be tabloids get hold of it.. " The town. Gone is the dark and Father Christmas beard. denied as Hartley went off to vision of armies of nuneoat- dingy hole where Council In the meantime there was could hold the young biggest weekly retrieve them, only to return wearing sleaze-mongers meetings once crawled: in its the business of the day. parliamentarians' attention for later with the excuse: "The crawling like ants through the place a majestic debating officiously deliver el by the long. however. The new student newspaper minutes are all locked up in union was left to linger in the chamber of royal oak and woman in the chair In past grown-up version of Union the union." Expect allegations air edifying tradition. years there have been many Council included a bill NE of sleaze any day in The In fact Exec would be They had to get out of the auditions for the role of union discussing whether Bruce amazed at just how union building first. obviously. Betty Bootineiyd: several have Hartley should he allowed Guardian. They're coming Then again. if members of uninteresting even the union's Y The only alternative there was come close, but none quite personal answer machine, a Exec are to he believed, the most spectacular blunders are home: but will a fortnightly yelling session made it. Now at last we have statement from Hartley on the to anyone else. It might have ==== across the Old Bar Instead the genuine article: Education history of the Riley Smith hall union is about to knock made a big noise in the Ivo students ever they sealed on the nerve Officer Liam Langston has and a tough Question Time for Princess Diana off the tabloid Student Commons, centre tit Leeds University that same maternal yet Mat Ray on why he hadn't put splashes and hit worldwide be welcome? but hi and the rest itself, the resplendent with schoolmistressy air that up some display boards. It was notoriety, As the meeting someone had are perfectly safe pages 4-5 parliament-style searing. provokes affection and fear in hard to imagine Nick Ross drew to a close microphones and eranr1 equal measures. getting excited hack in the to mention the F-word for • portraits of Father Chrism's- Not even Madam Langdon studio. fraud that is and send the Don't let The Sun go down UNI REVAMPS TO ATTRACT THE BEST on me, says COUNCIL Tim Gallagher FEARS PAW* 0 FEATU The long and HOUSING winding road to graduation Research is HORROR pages 12-13 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE One landlord even claimed AGENDA that he wasn't aware that extra precautions were needed if there were eight people in one Putting your house, despite rules Which best foot first: were laid down I I years ago, top priori Concerned its shoe time pages Darren Green, VP 16-17 Administration at LMUSU said: "We are particularly concerned about this situation RADICAL proposals have been unveiled because many of our freshen by university chiefs to maintain Leeds' move into private rented position as tine of the top research accomodation rather than 7 Motty: still centres of the north. going into university fiats or statting aftei halls. They are more likely to More money is to By Assn JoNlEts overlook the hidden dangers all these years he spent on carrying Hr added." Ten years than students who have been at out experiments and ago Leeds was slightly university and visited their pages 22- 23 departments will be complacent about it s friends' houses." merged under the new future and position but A spokesman for the NUS plans. now it is really going said: "finding housing in Leeds They will also be places.- is a lottery. Everyone in private relieved of many of their The university is accomtnodation is getting a administrative already recognised as bad deal at the moment responsibilities in an one of the best in the because of the lack of decent effort to free up more country for its teaching alternatives." time for teaching and skills, and money research. awarded to it for Additional research by Naveed research has more titan Raja and Shiraz Lalani Talented doubled Iron £20m to Wm in the past few it is hoped that this years It is expected that will encourage more hie- the new proposals will name lecturers who are cause it to rise still Singing top in their fields to further to over ChOm. teach at the university which will in turn attract Attractive the most talented HOPING: Peter Scott's proposals will Students have reacted transform Leeds University success undergraduate., ON THE Peter Scott, Leeds favourably to the A LEEDS University graduate University's. pro- vice proposed plans, has sung his way to victory at chancellor for external believing thatLit ey can the regional Grand Chinese HORIZON affaire.saye the plans, only serve to make the Karaoke Competition at the which will he u ni versity non 24-HOUR Queens Hotel, Leeds, writes with forecaster Stevie Sunshine implemented fromm attractive to prospective E.'ster Conlon August next year.