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NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ____________ | I •• Mr.Abd not to be removed Rupali Tandoori Restaurant For lovers of authentic: Indian/Punjab/ English and Vegetarian cuisine Courier 6 BIGG MARKET, NEWCASTLE Newcastle University Student Newspaper TEL: (091)2328629 ■ J10% Discount: for Students off a la carte menu only if you pay cashl| pan Thursday, 12th October, 1989. i l f j w . publication No. 804. Price 20p For whom the bell tolls: Inside Students refuse to let Arts die. Page 2 News Vice Chancellors vote for full-cost fees French Letter: Newcastle Students report back from FIGHTBACKr Nancy, France. 900 Polytechnic students rammed home the Government’s draconian cut backs in a hard-hitting protest march on Friday. But the main thrust of the campaign came on Monday when Page 3 News 150 students stormed the Newcastle Fashion Centre and aimed Susan Tavernor reports to occupy it until their demands were met. At a meeting on Monday, National Union of Students’ (NUS) on the Lake House break-in representative Clive Searle, said that Newcastle’s situation is not unique — these cuts are happening in every college all round the country. The government want to increase student Page 4 Comment numbers by 100% by the end of this century, but they want the Space Cadet, the students themselves to pay for it. “ If Newcastle wins, people up and down the country will get confidence and think we can win Anti-Green backlash too” . starts here The students then made 5 demands: It is not only the Fine Artists who 1. That the demand for students to pay have been hit. Fashion students have to Viewpoint: Starvation, for all materials be withdrawn and any pay for heating and electricity bills if money paid be refunded. they Want to stay in their building after the Third World War. 2. That staffing levels be maintained at 6^30 p.m. At the end of their degree. the present level. Fashion students have to present a 3. The students involved in the cam show which usually costs them up to paign should not be victimized in^an^ £2,000. The Polytechnic contributes Page 5 Letters circumstance. £200 to this amount, meaning that by 4. All courses should be fully funded definition a Fashion student has to without depriving any other courses or leave College with a large overdraft. students of any money. 5. That free education is a right for all. Although Newcastle Polytecnic is Page 6 Stage and Screen highly acclaimed for its Faculty of Arts A motion was passed to occupy the and Design, it is the cheapest art The Beaux’ Stratagem: Fashion Centre in the Polytechnic until institution in the country. The students feel that they are being used as guinea these demands were met. At 1 o’clock An 18th Century on Monday ISO students did just that pigs for the rest of the country. In the and at time of going to press they were words of one student “Although we Terry & June. still there. Mr. Brian Roper, Assistant think we are m an educational estab Director (Resources) said that the lishment this is now a service to Directorate were not wishing to be industry/' They want to see the cuts confrontational and were open to dis stopped before they spread throughout all the departments. Brian Roper cussion of the demands. Page 7 Music agreed that the Polytechnic was grossly Protests started at the beginning of underfunded and low in the league The Mighty Lemon Drops term when Fine Art students were told table of other Polytechnics. that a £25 credit card system had been interviewed by Rob Cotterill. introduced to help them pay for basic The philosophy seems to be to make materials. These had previously been education run as a business. Already in provided free, but now students have to the fashion department, part of the pay the £25 to enable the Poly to buy in building has been taken over and is now • Pic: Andrew Charlesworth bulk. When this money runs out, used as an “independent company Poly students marched on our own Union building last Friday. Page 8 The Scene students must buy their own basic established to provide a range of materials. One Fine Artist said that a services to the fashion industry”. This pumped back into the Polytechnic President, said that “This Union sup good publicity it deserves and none of Bill + Ben + Books 6” x 8” canvas would cost something in is taking up space that was formerly when the Centre starts to make a profit. ports any legitimate and peaceful pro the bad that so often overshadows the the region of £12.50 thereby allowing used by the students themselves, but It is this area which the students have test against education cuts and hopes main cause of concern*’. Patrons and Painters. them only 2 paintings before their according to the Polytechnic Directo occupied. that the highly organised campaign credit runs out. rate this money wil eventually be Graeme Mitchell, University Union running at the Polytechnic gains all the Debs Dudgeon. Page 9 Feature Bula Sita describes Sri Lanka CRACKDOWN ON THUGS as it is today. The Main Bar, newly-refurbished at a cost of £50,000, was the As a response to last week’s scene last week of several acts of vandalism and offensive vandalism, and in an unprecedented behaviour. move, the Union Executive last week elected Matthew Terry, Vice Page 10 Sport News In one incident, a bottle was out of the building for more minor President Finance, as Convenor of The triumphant rugby tour thrown at and smashed a lamp, offences, they will now face prosecu Disciplinary Committee. He will be which then fell from the ceiling onto • tion before the Union's Disciplinary a short-term replacement for Bill of America, 1989. someone's arm. The victim later Committee. Borritt, the original Chair, who required stitches at the Royal Vic A slightly smaller team of Security failed to matriculate at the start of toria Infirmary. For fear of prejudic Stewards will be used each night, this year, until a cross-campus ballot ing the case against the people paid better than before to carry out can take place. Matthew Terry will Page 11 Sport Features concerned Courier is unable to their difficult and at times dangerous chair the first Committee of term report more specific details. Reports job. This, says Mik, will be more next Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. Kevin Rinchey previews of people spitting beer and urinating efficient than a larger group of in corridors were also filed. The Union is determined to pro the World Cup qualifiers. people who come down for a night In response. Security has decided vide a friendly and civilised atmos with their friends and collect a few phere for students who use it. Most to toughen up on its act. Mik Dennis, quid for it. Union Secretary, with his Chief members do not wish to see people Security Officers, believes that the The new, tougher stance is well spitting beer or urinating in corners. Page 12 Listings Union’s Security Stewards should illustrated by last week’s incident After spending a lot of money on act “up to the letter and within the report figures. On Thursday, nine The new Main Bar, scene o f last Wednesday's horrific incident. redecorating, it seems unfair that a "Annabella” + Personal spirit of the Union's laws”. Incident people were reported for ‘petty’ small number of people should des Column + Subscription reports will be filed for all offences, offences, and the following night, Along with the more efficient They, and other duty members of the troy the surroundings and put others from throwing glasses to major dam another 11 incident reports were security force, comes a new commit Disciplinary Committee, will be off using the building. Draw. age. Where an offender would, in filed. Last year, the reporting rate ment from Executive who have to doing the job, “to the utmost of their Rob Cotterill, the past, have simply been thrown averaged about ten a month. perform duty nights in the Union. abilities". Tim Hammond. T Shirts # Poster Flags # Poppers # More posters than everybody else put together Tate Gallery prints and postcards # Escher prints & cards 6 Days Patches # Badges # Studded leather gear # Lab coats # KARD BAR # Fireworks Justin: African pendants Cross Street—Telephone 232 8688 10-5 2 COURIER Thursday, 12th October, 1989 News Vice Chancellors to explore In Brief Fireworks Fireworks worth £500, which were to full-cost fees for students be used at the grand finale of First Are we nearing the end of “free ” higher education, as students Year Conference, have been have known it in past years? returned to manufacturers, follow This is the question that the from less well-off homes to come ing a veto on the event by the national press and the National to university”. University Fire Officer. Union of Students (NUS) are Reactions to the proposal After the ‘Comedy Wind-Down’, which took place on Sunday 1st asking after last week's annual have been mainly ones of con October, hundreds of Freshers mil meeting of the Committee of cern and uncertainty. Some led around outside the Union wait Vice Chancellors and Principals Newcastle lecturers feel that this ing for the firework display only to (CVCP) ended in Leeds. is an unfair, socially inequitable be disappointed. Due to the government’s system. Many students' parents According to Mik Dennis, the unwilingness to fund an expan already provide a large contribu Union Secretary, the use of fire sion in higher education, the tion by topping up their chil works outside the Union had been CVCP have concluded that stu dren’s grant.