2 THE STUDENT Thursday, 10th November 1983 News · · , Move for Deputy President blocked because of C. of M. vote Who rules the rulers -Students?

has some still more worrying Last Thursday the Committee of representatives on the Com­ ideas, namely that "a General Management made the shock mittee of Management. Ewan Meeting is no place to finalise a decision not to allow constitu­ Hawthorne, this year's Teviot Row motion like this, as it would tional amendments regarding the House Chairman, explained their probably agree with whatever the creation of a Deputy Presidency to reluctance to accept the plan. be presented to the Annual "This plan would reduce respect Executive proposed. A General General Meeting later this month. fat the union house committees Meeting is good as a forum but not Even though the committee voted and concentrate everything on the for detailed discussion - I think 9-7 in favour of the p)an, a two­ Deputy President, and I would like that should be left to a smaller thirds majority was required ii the to call for a more effective way of forum who are fully aware of all the plan was to be ratified. Yet the improving the Association. This arguments." need for these changes has been was very much Tony Miles· pet What Mr Hawthorne suggests 1s accepted within the student project - he decided what was nothing less than a complete community for the last two years, Heather Lamont in conflict with Ewan Hawthorne. wrong and the best way to deal abrogation of the democratic with it." process by which our Students' and both the current Union over to this year - only to be The most dramatic of the Mr Hawthorne's statement Association is run, and setting up President Heather Lamont and her stopped in their tracks by a mere proposals is that the post of Union reveals the union houses· worries predecessor Tony Miles were handful of people on the new President should be scrapped, and yet another working party does that the creation of a Union elected by landslide majorities, Committee of Management. replaced by a Deputy President not improve the situation. The Executive will lessen the stressing that they intended to rhe organisational changes with wider responsibilities, students of this University are autonomy of the house com­ carry the measure out. lain which would be brought about by particularly for the Societies· entitled to debate this motion mittees, and that the loss of a Cameron and Ian MacGregor these proposals have been in the Council. The Deputy President themselves, and as for listening to sabbatical post directly concerned report on a situation which­ air for a long time now. As long ago would retain responsibility for the the Executive - in this instance seriously brings into question as the 81-82 session 1t was felt that Unions however, and to make the with union matters will eradictate the Union President was clearly student control over their repre­ the post of Union President was no channels between DP and unions their influence within the mandated to achieve these sentatives. longer an effective role in more effective a new committee Association Executive. This takes reforms: it is their job to listen to Constitutional amendments comparison with the other would be formed, the Union no account of the need to spread us. They are being prevented, must be passed by the Committee sabbatical posts, but something of Executive, on which each union the workload of the Executive however, by a group of lesser of Management before they can be a white elephant in jts present house would be represented by a more evenly, and completely office-bearers of whom the presented to a General Meeting, form. In an attempt to repair this Union Vice-President. a post ignores the fact that increased students have only the dimmest and last year's committee - situation, a working party was set roughly equivalent to the current numbers of union representatives knowledge. Perhaps Mr Haw­ whatever their doubts - did not up under aegis of last year's Union House Chairpersons. working on important Association thorne and his supporters would committees will ultimately make prevent the plan from taking its President, and presented a report But these proposals have now like to explain themselves more the union candidates for natural course. Unfortunately calling for a radical reorganisation been overturned. mostly through fully at the Annual General sabbatical posts much better both the General Meetings to of the Association which 1t was felt the efforts of various union Meeting. Unless, of course, they which the motion was presented qualified. Furthermore , his see sense and reverse their quite would make the whole set-up Miles ignores the fact that it was were inquorate however, and the suggestion that the whole plan ludicrious decision in time for that more eff1c1ent. What does this passed by last year's Committee of Deputy Presidency plans and all was solely a brainwave of Tony meeting. report suggest then, and why is 1t Management. But Mr Hawthorne that went with them were carried important?

NEWS IN BRIEF Oxford To Don-ations Troops Out! THE STREETS OF EDIN­ BURGH on Saturday afternoon Abolish Exam were greeted by the strange sight On Thursday 3rd November at with whether or not your murder 1s tion is not necessarily com­ of students in clown make-up 7.30 pm the inaugural meeting of wrong. Diplomatically, this film The Oxford University post - A pulsory. giving out presents to children and the Edinburgh University Troops didn't try to justify the murder of level examination was abolished The review committee also last Friday. The undergraduate collecting money. They were Out Society took place. That's a retired members of the security made further recommendations to date for your diary, folks, because forces. colleges voted last week and the colleges which they accepted. Aberdeen University students who history was made that night at that Although the film was absurd in decided that the examination One of these is that students who were primarily concerned with meeting. Never before has such a its portrayal of the Irish situation, should go. This democratic (nay, narrowly miss getting a place in selling last year's " rag mag" in confused, misled, misinformed, there was another rather more socialist!) step has been taken the college of their choice now order to subsidise this year's dangerously wrong and pain(ully sinister aspect to its screening after the findings of a review have a chance of gaining entry into Charity Fortnight which happens well intentioned Society been set­ than merely the bias of its content. committee were made known. another college as the rejects in the first fortnight of Spring up in the University. (Well, the This was the reaction of the people The committee was set up last names are shared out among Term. They managed to collect Federation of Conservative in the room to some of the scenes year to investigate the compli­ colleges with vacant places under £400 which will help to organise Students aren 't really well in the show. At the sight of some of cated system of admission to the the new system. the fortnight during which they intentioned, are they?) the Bloody Sunday footage they university. It lound_that the system The last great Oxford reform is hope to raise £90,000 for charities The Society has been formed shook their heads and tutted and as it stood favoured greatly the the ending of scholarships and which have yet to be decided. with the express purpose of swore quietly. When one camera pupils of private schools. This is exhibitions for outstanding pressing for the removal of British caught a shot of a British solider because private schools had the students. This follows a similar· CND Camp troops from Northern Ireland. The means to provide an extra term lying on the ground having his decision taken by Cambridge EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY CND most remarkable aspect of the after A-levels were taken. This head kicked like a football, many University earlier in the week. It took part in a 24-hour peace camP' gathering of about 30 people is term was spent studying solely for of those present laughed (no mis­ will be interesting to see whether this Tuesday at Kirk o' Shotts that this reporter was the only Irish the entrance exam. State schools print). They also laughed at each or not Cambridge will follow outside the US military base. person in the room. Strange? You were unable to provide this facility riot and bombing which was Oxford and abolish their entrance Report next week. ain't heard nuthin' yet! portrayed. ·of an extra term, and so the review examination. The focus of the meeting was The film concluded, a committee decided the post - A All this activity at the top of the the showing of a video called "The discussion ensured. Someone !evel exam was discriminating. University ladder happens in a Fresh-view Patriot Game". Before the film got asked whether it is true that when Given this fact, the 38 colleges week when the new chairman of A few selected comments under way, a guy went around then decided with a two-thirds the ,British troops first went into the University Grants Committee, from the official Freshers' giving out a copy of the " Irish Northern Ireland they were majority to abolish it altogether. Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, has Solidarity Newsletter". You had to welcomed by Catholics and Now prospective Oxford students sent a letter to all univers>ty Week survey: admire his style. First he handed Protestants alike. "Yes" came the will have to sit an entrance principals and chancellors asking Who are the Executive? you a copy of the thing, waited reply, " but then they assumed the examination before they sit A­ for advice on cuts. He is asking "Someone Chinese"; "the four levels or not at all. until you said thanks and then role of the RUC and began what changes would be necessary dwarfs"; "Helen from The new ruling, which comes asked for the compulsory intimidating Catholics." if a cut of 10 per cent per student Southampton" and "a wee man into effect during the selection of donation. I think it's called the I asked "What does the group was made by the end of the like this @;) hard sell. 'Student' sellers take 1985 for entry in 1986, does not consider would be the effect of the decade He als o wants opinions on What are General Meetings? note. affect the right of individual immediate withdrawal of British lowering the retirement age of " Students Union get-togethers" After exorcising a few pence colleges to offer pla ces troops?" The answer came, "That academics to 60 and reducing and "Search me". from the faithful, the film began. conditional on A-level results is for the Irish people to sort out degree courses to two years. Are GM s worth attending? "I Perhaps "film" is too strong a alone. So the entrance examina- themselves. We just want to get the Michael Devlin hope EUSA is respecting the views word. It was, rather, a collection of troops out". Didn't he think it of students like myself" and badly taken (sometimes) moving would lead to a blood bath? " It's "perhaps someone might buy me a pictures with a female voice absurd to suggest that if the troops drink". adding the narration. Patriotic American Poll leave, Catholics and Protestants The Opening Ceremony: Irish rebel songs provided most of Sixty-six per cent of students will kill one another." it contri buted to world peace. "Should have been made the musical interludes, adding have little or no confidence in the The fa ct is that they killed one Another majority, 62 per cent, compulsory" and "boring". rather more than a touch of pathos ability of the United States to deal another before the British troops thought that the EEC gave How did the student platform to the whole thing. with world problems. That was the came. It's absurd to suggest that European countries greater appear' "Scruffy except the Senior The film was as biased a piece of verdict of a recent MORI poll they won't if the troops leave. I influence in world affairs than if President"; "articulate" and "silly propaganda as one could imagine. carried out among 300 students asked whether or not the group they acted independently. in clq,aks and jeans". This thing made Party Political saw it as a disadvantage that there attendi ng a con ference on The poll is an interesting one. JCR events: "A bit more ostenta­ Broadcasts look positively bi­ were no Irish people present other European- United States relations A~erica is seen as the country tious beer guzzling". laterial. While it called the killing of than a newspaper reporter. at Westminster School, London. with the most power and influence Departmental Parties: "One big 13 innocent Catholics on Bloody "Not at all - some o f the The students did think, however, in Europe but at the same time is piss-up" and "a bit childish". Sunday murder, which of course it members of the Society have by a majority of 83 per cent, that the one that inspires the least Bands: " Eddie and Sunshine was, it referred to the murder of actually been to Ireland and so the United States has the most confidence. It doesn't really seem hundreds of innocents civilians in power and influence in Europe. terrific" and " Eddie and Sunshine they know what they are talking surprising when one looks at the aaaghl" IRA bomb attacks as "u n­ ~bout." The Common Market got a ma~y failures in American foreign Bedlam events: "Sat drinking fortunate". It appears that your I put no more questions. much greater vote of confidence. policy - Vietnam and Iran for coffee feeling unloved" and religion has got something to do Michael Devlin 52 per cent of the students thought example. A sobering thought "excellent people". THE STUDENT Thursday, 10.th November 1983 3 SRC brings Compensation Rat NUSvote closer finally arrives I to the crunch I for Tuttle The Association took a step suggested the SAC was unhappy EXACTLY THREE YEARS after a The Edinburgh st udent was lurther towards a referendum on ... with the status quo as far as NUS serious fall from a tree, Edinburgh accordingly held to be one-fifth the subject of reafliliation to NUS is concerned, and therefore was University graduate David Tuttle responsible. last week, when the SRC supporting affiliation. But the was finally awarded damages of Mr R. A. Footman, information Executive decided to present its alternative would be for a private £112,400 last week, to be paid by officer at the University, sa id that own motion to the Annual General individual or interested party to the University. there was the "deepest regret to all Meeting calling for a referendum, bring up the motion. which wou ld The accident took place in concerned at the University that with February the most likely time almost inevitably make it more November 1980 when David was the accident should have for it to take place. lain Cameron biased." taking part in a University field happened at all", and since then looks at the motion which the The creation of an inde~endent study trip in Penicuik. Whilst the University had tried "to ensure AGM will discuss. tribunal to control the publicity climbing one of the trees to that no comparable accidents As various private members involved and rule out factually measure its height a branch occur". A full review of field work were no doub.t willing to save the untrue or libellous material is a snapped and Mr Tuttle fell over 20 has since been carried out by the Executive work by raising an NUS sa f eguard which must be feet to the ground. He is now University safety officers under motion at th e AGM themselves, it welcomed in view of previous confined to a wheelchair. the auspices of the Department of is perhaps surprising that such a clashes between NUS and the The University's insurers Forestry. As Mr Footman proposal should in fact come from Federation of Conservative claimed that Mr Tuttle was at fault admitted, however, the risk will Hacked to pieces the Associati on offices. But Students, and Ken was hopeful in attempting to cross between the always remain. bearing in mind the scurrilous that it would be effective. Though two trees and although the judge, Mr Tuttle was in his final year of Behind the scenes Conservative public debate on the subject at he wasn·t convinced that such a Lord McDonald, criticised the his ecological science course Heriot-Watt last year. it is tribunal could keep the absence of such an elementary Club wheeler-dealer James when the accident occurred, yet Husband, who put Ken Shoji important that the Association troublemakers at bay, he safety device as a ladder, he did remarkably he managed to where he is today, was returned should be instrumental in lorming nevertheless agreed that these say "the operation w as so continue his studies and finally not only the right resolution but arbiters might at least make manifestly dangerous that it was unopposed last week to the role of graduated in 1982. He is now Environment Officer after handing in creating sufficient safeguards students more aware of the too foolhardy of Mr Tuttle to working part time with IBM. in his nomination late, cynically against smears from either side. publicity that was worthwhile and attempt it and he must bear some Ian MacGregor using the fact that the closing time Thus the AGM will be faced with a what was doubtful or beyond the was advertised as 2 pm instead of 1 thoroughly ambivalent motion pale. Even its mere presence might pm in 'Student'. calling simply for a referendum. dissuade the more unruly Now hacked into position, but more importantly, suggesting elements from entering into the that an independent tribunal be set ·p,roblem James follows such luminaries as fray. Hopefully the tribunal's own Race Julian " Cry for theWhales" up to keep a rein on publicity. necessarily unb1assed nature will Goodare who broke down in tears Senior Presiden t Ken Shoji be assured by selecting it from during an SRC meeting over explain ed th e Ex ecutive's " respected members of the Juggernauts shaking birds nests, thinking. community", which may well and Andrew "Ding Dong" B ell who "There was quite a bit of debate mean a preponderance of in Britain on the advisability of the SAC itself embezzled society funds, was academic staff. who should have kicked out of the University (not putting forward a motion .• some . no strong views on the subject. people felt that it implicitly telling anyone), keeping his discussed numerous (titles) and finally went At the Appleton Tower on ·sus· laws and the protection entirely off his head. Tuesday November 1, Professor which they give to marches by the James himself was extremely John Rex of th e Universit y of National Front. successfuf as National Affairs Chile: Thefirst i Convener two years ago, the aston , Birmingham charged Professor Rex recognised that I successive British governments successive governments have highlight of the year being his with having permitted the growth made attempts to redress this annual "put iton your CV" meeting of a system of racial segregation. s1tuat1on. Originally the essential in the French Restaurant of the " The problem which has faced political issue was avoided and the George Hotel. yet more cut is thelBritain since immigration began problem defined by governments It is all especially galling to has not been a question of multi­ as one of general poverty. Pablo Robertson , who objected to culturalism but a question of the dodgy nomination as he failed 1 This had the unfortunate inequality , exploitation and consequence. however, of to get in his own nomination for Finance Committee member last oppression." labelling all immigrants as dis­ arrests deepest elections when Susan Deadm Professor Rex, a distinguished advantaged. More recently, he sociologist, was giving the annual forgot to set the alarm clock' Julian Goodare makes an urgent SEVERAL OF THE University's continued, there have been steps James Seth Memorial Lecture on appeal for letters of support. smaller medical libraries are under towards ending discrimination Amnesty International have just the question of " The Segregation through positive legal action. threat as Lothian Health Board, or Integration of Britain's Black learned of the arrest of eleven who provide much of the funding "The 1976 Race Relations Acts Little did we know Minorities?" more students in General for the libraries. struggle to find ·equal opportunities· clause has In his view discrimination has been taken up very actively by Some people leave this Pinochet's Chile, They were taken viable avenues in which to apply not been of the legal kind as in away by the secret police in the their quota of health cuts. The local authorities, but only since place and go on to great things. South Africa but of a de facto early hours of 27 October, and Medical Faculty Libraries Com­ the 1981 riots. " Allan Little, last year's Hon Sec nature. have not been heard of since. mittee is being forced to consider Professor Rex thus declared now works for the BBC as a "In the 1950s and 1960s There are fears that they are being the closure of libraries in more himself to be cautiously optimistic researcher in Glasgow. To immigrants were excluded from tortured; only an international distant hospitals, wher e the over the chances of greater supplement his meagre income full participation in the rights of protest can save them. facilities are not in great demand integration for Britain's black (25% less than what we paid him) the welfare state". Amnesty are asking everyone to from students, and other mino rities. However, he con­ he's also taken to supplying As a result, he said, most black write a letter at once to the Chilean alternatives include the curtail­ cluded the lecture with a warning articles for 'National Student' and Asian immigrants today are Interior Minister, asking for the ment of vacation opening hours in that any progress which has been newspaper at £25 a time. All he employed in unskilled jobs, live in eleven to be released if they have the Erskine Library. Though the made would be destroyed if the does for this is to lift stuff straight run-down inner city areas and go not been charged with any crime. cuts loo k fairly large in financial unemployed in their despair were out of the Midweaks he wrote last to ·segregated· state schools. This type of action has a good terms it is nevertheless hoped that t o turn to the immigrant year. Incredibly, he's even modest Rightly o r wrongly, they also feel success rate and has saved many the Erskine Library, as a facility , community for scapegoats. enough to quote himself at length discriminated against by the lives in the past. extensively used by under­ as ·a spokesman·. Allan's major police through their use of the Graham Chalmers The arrests came only hours graduates, will, be protected from ambition in life is to be loved. before major student demonstra­ the worst effects of the cuts. Sharing a flat with Heather tions calling for the return of I r::======"""::':'"'"":"""""e::::1 Lamong and Callum Calder he democracy in Chile. It seems stands quite a good chance, from certain that the authorities were what people say. trying to pre-empt the demonstra­ tions by arresting those they considered the leaders. Alcoholic apathy Among those arrested is Patricia Navarro, whose father 'dis­ appeared' in 1976. She and the • The new bar in CHAMBERS ST other ten have been taken to a UNION (where?) opened on secret destination; nobody knows ·Saturday night with a flurry of what is happening to them, but apathy. Most people save money they have not been charged with on alcohol by standing under the any crime. BALLROOM CEILING waiting for An airmail letter to Chile costs lumps of plaster to send them into 28 'hp. It's not much to pay for OBLIVION from this cruel world. something which could well save The idea of selling it off to the the life of a fellow-student in University Staff Club is mooted as desperate danger. Just write a profits drop and the walls collapse brief letter - two or three lines will Optimists hope the £100,00 soon do - appealing for their release. to be spent there will turn it into The address is: His Excellency "Something viable" Only free beer Sergio Jarpa, Ministro del Interior, or sexist entertainment seems Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, presently likely to restore its hi popularity of days gone by 4 THE ST UDENT Thursday, 10th November 1983 Editorial Overseas Where's Your Fred Price's Letter from Democracy Now? America: this week - Homecoming Weekends For a couple of years it has been openly books - objects which by their University H omecoming he acknowledged that the positi on of Union Pres ident is very presence in my arms marked thought fantastic; it was America. I me out as a visitor to rather than a had no wish to differ. obsolete. The incumbent potters around fo r a few American university graduates, participant in the celebrations. - months up to the Pres idents' Ball , and then idly sits or at least Ivy League American the full force of the importance of "Support War" back on his/ her sabbatical stipend to the end of University graduates, stay in love the occasion made me realise how with their student days long after in Britain we tend to take our 'We got to the ground. his/her period in office. Mea nwhile the Senior they close their last textbooks and institutions somewhat for granted. Upon the giant electronic Pres ident cannot be seen for clouds of sweat and wave goodbye to their college This was no n melee of lost and scoreboard there appeared a flash of jingoistic indulgement - cigarette smoke. Eyebrows were therefore raised chums. The wealthy, for instance, ageing businessmen: these people donate large amounts of money knew each other. Scattered around "support war - buy a Red and Blue when last week the Committee of Management failed towards books, libraries, eating the grass were tables with placards cushion" - aimed at stirring to pass the extremely sensible and well thought out halls. residencies, pavements, announcing the various graduat­ patriotic hearts into purchasing a scul pt ures and eve n (at ing years - 1926, 1948, 1969andso University cushion with the plans for a Deputy President by the two-thirds proceeds presumably going to the majority required for constitutional am endments. Pe n nsylvan ia U n iversity) the o n - and each table sat people who occasional ice rink. All but the most had joined and left the University boys in Grenada. Few, I suspect. There appear to be two possible reasons for this. awkward college rebvel stay in together and who knew they had noticed. I stood highabovethefield First, that the Union House Committees fear a loss in touch to some extent ·with either generation if nothing else in of play, pa rt of a 35,000 crowd basking in the tradition of football, their autonomy, as the new-fang led Deputy President the institution or their friends, and common. so cultivate a lasting tie with their education and unity, and around would be related to the Unions through a new At these tables old class mates me one set of happy supporters got carefree days and associated could renew their acquaintences, committee. This, however, seems unlikely, as the new memo ries. progressively merrier as they introduce each other to their sons helped themselves to liquid po·st will give the DP more to do, and so less time to This year as e-very year, and daughters (who have probably refreshments of varying origin. interfere in the running of the Unio ns. And second, thousands of students and parents r"eplaced them at Penn now) and They shook the U niversity colours, that it will remove the straightforward step from one of at the University here celebrated talk over the past year, decade or sung the University song, cheered their memories and lauded the half century, depending on when the House Committees to the sabbatical positio n of the University team and relived present at the Homecoming they left. On such cordial alumni thei r University days. This Union Presideot, through the abolition of the rule that weekend, held on campus in a whirl (the name given to graduate youngish set of carefree ex­ all candidates must have serve d on a House of reunio n parties and disliked only associations) rests the future of the students talked and halloed to by those who dare to doubt to value University - it is the past pupils, Committee for at least si x months. anyone within earshot who cared by those who dare to doubt the and not the government, who to listen. "" Let"s get some more If this is the case, caree rism alone is preve nting a value of traditional educational provide massive amounts of points up", shouted one. "Let"s get much-needed change in the workings of the Students' standards. money and advice which give Penn some more beer up", corrected his Association Executive. If so, this is despicabl e, Homecoming its status, facilities and reputation. friend, loud nough for the sweating especially as two successive UPs have been elected After the buffet, everyone teams belpw to hear. No-one Homecoming takes up a good trooped from the centre of the minded; the spirit of the occasion with large mandates to carry this change through. three days, with the most important University to the sports field, eager demanded joviality not starchy events being held on the Saturday. to see their young athletes take on properness. It is then that the drinks parties, the the old enemy, Princeton. I fell in The football game ended in a one Staff buffet suppers and the Home­ with a thirty-ish man, who was soon point victory for the University, coming football game (American joined by a friend, and together we thus ensuring the centuries of Editor Simon Cartledge Exhibitions Giles Sutherland football, not the Celtic and Rangers strolled towards the scene of the Homecoming tradition would not Music Duncan Mclean sort) take place to an assortment of combat. Before we got to the field. be eclipsed by the short term Assistant Ed. Andrew MacKichan Wendy Barrett Undergraduage whoops a nd however, we stood on one side and temporary setback of an athletic Neil Dalgleish benevolent old boy good humour. watched the University band, defeat. People made their way back News lain Cameron on Friday evening the cars arrive, seventy strong and marching with to· class parties, Alumni parties, Ian MacGregor Profiles Penny Gibbins the parents visit their offspring and proud step, as it swung past us on f ratenity parties and other Mike Devlin Sport Henry Winter the first tingle in the blood alerts its way to give musical cheer to the reunions. All round me were Back Pa ge David Petheri ck past pupils to the familiarities and assembling crowd. My companion students, former students and Views Jenny Dunn Advertisi ng Neville Moir differences of their old stamping turned to his friend having taken in future students, mingling ,n grounds. On Saturday, the lawns the drums, the balloons the little tradition. They do the fund raising. Arts Jenny Turner Photography Neil Dalgleish and terraces o f the central campus Fraser McBlane children o n parents' shoulders, the the bridge building, and the are are thronged wilt> returnees. As noise and the excitement His eyes institution loving, so it is only right.. Film Bill Williamson Donald Pollack I wandered around with some very positively glowed. ·· Fantastic, isn·t I mused to myself, that they should What' s On Graphics big and recently acquired library it?" It wasn't just Pennsylvania also do the enjoying.

Scourge was sitting with a non-student friend, and spent thei r £5 on a two­ Sorry! Dear Si r, minute drink, a regular sitting Your po rtrait of Douglas Smith nearby remarked, " They must be Dear Editor, (why call him a fascist when he bloody students." Yes, indeed. In re ference to the title "Art with obviously isn't?) pro bed wuite Who else could afford to quander a Capital F" - I completely missed deeply into the strange and so much money in so short a time the point! Sorry, thank you for complex mind of this handsome on such a futile activity? Perhaps telling me. young scourge of the student these students have never heard of Rosanna Kelly establishment and presented him the University's effo rt to improve That's all right-Ed. in a reasonably flattering light, but relations with the public? Are Playgirl Publications Ltd. pe r ha p s yo u s h ould h ave these the " poor" students at the Centrefold Division, consulted your back issues and forefront of the campaign to Box No. 007 , discovered that the very same Mr increase grants? Or perhaps they Edinburgh . Ell4 7PE Ref. PB/TR Smith was responsible (a lo ng with were wasting their money in order Tel. No. 556-2222/)/4/5 Mr G. Sproule who also makes an to raise some for charity? Whoever Wanted! appearance on th e back page) for Mr. M. Conway, or whatever, they left in thei r wa ke Sth October , 198) A Sports Editor for c/o E.U.S . A., the disgusting " prank" with a video groups of justifiably disgruntled Student Centre House, camera at a party last year. Well n on-students whose initial Student. Interested? Bristo Square, Edinbur gh. may this cree p beg " to be bemusement had turned to sheer Come down on Friday to 1 forgiven". d isgust. ' Buccleuch Place at 1 pm. Yours Yours, Dear Mr. Co n\Jay, The Lady With a Long Memory Clare Donnelly '.our name has been submitted to us with your photograph and I regret to P.S.: No platfo rm for Smith and tnform you that we will be unable to use your body on our centrefold. Weir! We call them Neds - Ed.

On 11 scale of 0-10 your body was rated 2 by Lhe f,oluel of •.:0111Cn ranging ir: Life is full o f strange ironies - Ed. ages 60-70 years , We tried to assemble a. panel in the age bracket of 2S-35 years '. ~ut we could not get them to stop laughing long enough to reach a dec1s1on. Bloody Students

Should the taste of British women ever change so dramatical Jy that a body Dear Si r, such ?s you~s would be appropriate in our centrefold, you wi 11 be notified What a pity a mi nority of by this office. In the. meantime, do not call us we will call you . students chose to ignore John McKay's point in last week's ;;·" ~'7?/4- - . Student about confining thei r J( "·1//f/ (B.f.4r;:;;p=- "jolly pranks" to their own domain. Friday evening saw a series of . for PLAYCRlL PUBLICATIONS LTD. local pubs being subjected to Amanda Desire (Ed itor). similar treatment as the cafe he wrote of. It would appear that the various groups were conducting some kind of "pub race" to see who could drink the most alcoho l P.S. We do coimiend you on your most unusual pose, \Jere you in the shortest time in the series of \JOunded in the war or do you ride a bike a lot? chosen pubs. After a fourth g roup had bombarded the pubs, where I DEATH ON THE CLYDE As the industry of Glasgow declines, Paul McGlone mourns the slow fate of the Scott Lithgow shipyards.

tn the machine shops and Indeed, since its inception in 1711 , engineering works of the Lower the shipyard of J. Scott Ltd., and Clyde the steady hum of industrial the associated Lower Clyde machinery has been cut to a shipyards in general, bestowed a monotonous whisper. On the shop legacy of impeccable workman­ floor of the once-industrious ship on the shipping lanes of an shipbuilding giant Scott Lithgows expanding world. The pride and of Greenock and Port Glasgow, skill of the Clyde worker, slum­ tension mounts as a doomed bred and ill-educated though th·ey workforce prepare for the futile were, was amply reflected in suc h light for economic and industrial ocean finery as passenger liners, survival against the stacked side of warships (for those were jingoistic government-backed _manage­ times) and merchantmen of all ment. As if in some farcical drama, types . Howeve r , l ong-he l d this last (and possibly most bitter) traditions of superlative industrial industrial clash is to fought out enterprise do not necessarily against the backdrop of vacant, imbue an industry with any sense rusting slipways, overcast and of immortality. Thus with dwarfed by the shadows of shipbuilding, as in so many other skeletal cranes. industries, the combination of a complete lack of investment (a common malady among post-war. The hum of industrial British industry as a whole), short­ sighted management and the archaic shipyards - to go with its machinery has been cut continuation of a long history of privatisation in mind, the decision tional shipbuilding to the esoteric string of run-down, archaic coal to a whisper. bad industrial relations, resulted in to concentrate on specialisation in needs of the oi l industry, however, mines no doubt-bled dry of the steady decline now reflected the shipyards - whereby the time involved for such a profit and starved of essential by impending c losure. ind ividual yards would be dramatic shift in output was never investment. restricted to one type of ship- i.e. calculated (or costed) when Scott Lithgow, a conglomera­ For the workers of Scott Lithgow understandable. For the future, contracts were drawn. Thus while tion of two of the most famous The pride and skill of itself, nationalisation, as was to be therefore, the potentially highly a half-complete, hulking rig lies off shipyards in the world, is today the Clydeside worker expected, meant little more than profitable yards Yarrow and facing almost certain closure, and the tail of the bank, on the Clyde, " meet the new boss - same as the Viakets were given the sole right to and another project (the most the subsequent loss of over 4.500 was reflected in such old boss", al though to be fair to the negotiate contracts for warships. sophisticated of its kind in the jobs with the attendant ruination ocean finery ... socialist sentiment behind the Thus Scott Lithgow (with an world) is only partially complete of the economic base of the towns plan it did purport to offer some impeccable reputation for warship and may in fact be cancelled by the of Greenock and Port Glasgow. Yet, ironically, the probability of form of job security - dependent and submarine work) found itself customer, Britoil, the prospects Indeed, such a catastrophic blow an eventual closure at Scott on the political winds of fortune of cut off from its only viable outlet - are not good. to the economy and employment Lithgow's stems not only from the course. However, entering the '80s merchant ships and warships - of the region, coming as it does so disease of 19th century free with the new era of Conservative and was, in future, to be given shortly after closures at Linwood enterprise but from the blatant populism at the nation's helm, did work only on oil-related projects The battles of pay and and the Carron Ironworks in political butchery of a government not augur well for the shipyards, - itself a depressed and highly Glasgow, will almost certainly appointed management. After all, conditions have all been already reeling in the face of bitter competitive sector of the market. push this once-prosperous let's not forget that with the advent competition from overseas for the futile. industrial region to the top of the of nationalisation in 1977 Scott few orders available. The " resolute national unemployment scale. Yet, Lithgow became part of the British approach" in regard to British Workforce and manage­ So it seems the era of the as we view this destruction of an Shipbuilding Group; leaving the Shipbuilders meant a continuation " Clydebuilt" man may be nearing entire area of one-time Scott and Lithgow families free to ment alike tried hard to of moves to nationalise the an end. The age-old tradition of manufacturing splendour let us spend their plentiful compensa­ industry, make it more cost­ make the change ... class warfare, the endless battles pause , before the gates close tion on what they loved most, effective and generally spruce up of pay and conditions have all, in forever, on the slow death of the shipbuilding (for a profit of those parts of the industry which As Scott Lithgow were to find the final outcome, been futile. For shipbuilding legacy on the Lower course) in the "bc:>wl of rice a day" could later be successfully hived out to their cost, the basic the workers who moulded the grey Clyde. paradise of Korea. Ah, the fickle off to private enterprise. Needless ergonomics of a traditional steel plates into a product famous From a once burgeoning - if hearts - ruled only by the inter­ to say there were very few yards shipyard, and the lack of relevant the world over there is no internally fraught - industry to national law of economic viability with any prospects of regaining technological experience put discernible future for, in the age­ the ignominy of final closure, the - of our patriotic captains of profitability with the exception of them at a distinct disadvantage old tradition of capitalist history of "the yards" has been one industry. Thus, following in the firms such as Yarrows, who when it came to constructing off­ endeavour, the profits of the of bitter class warfare, exploititive traditions of earlier nationalisa­ concentrated solely on warship shore oil platforms and the like. patriarchal owners were never capitalist genius coupled with tion attempts, the British taxpayer manufacture for the home and Nevertheless, both workforce and transferred to the man at the point (until only recently) innovative (as portrayed in the " Free" press) overseas market. management alike tried hard to of production or even to the and high quality workmanship. fell heir to a collection of run-down With this policy of future make the switch from conven- industry he gave his life to. A Summer in Birzeit the military authorities extreme Have you thought about going on a Kibbutz next and arbitrary powers over the area, What's On at KB summer? Perhaps this article will make you think the University, over the students and staff. 'Minor' events KB Union Psychology twice. Three years ago I went on a kibbutz and, I must roadblocks, arrests etc. admit, I enjoyed it, but after leaving Israel a country, Students may be taken from Open Forum Society that had seemed so ideal, doubts to began to arise. buses or the street for no specific Discussion on possible alterations Disco at the Satell ite Disco reason, and taken to the military to upstairs pool room , Fri 18 Nov, 1 Tues 15 Nov, 8.30 pm-2.30 am. motivation to undertake positive centre, where they may be pm, Coffee Lounge, KB Union. Tickets available from the I finally decided to return this action. severely beaten and held for up to Psycholo·gy Dept. Library. summer to see how it fooked from In contrast, the Palestinians 18 days, then released without Members £1.00; non-members another angle. taking part in our workcamp were charge. The Happy Barrel £1.50. A horrendous interview (which incredibly enthusiastic. Not only Another seve re handicap Cheap beer and videos. seemed more like a political were they ever willing to answer imposed on Palestinian students is Fri 11th Nov, 8 pm-1 am. interrogation), with the United my questions about Middle the unnecessary censorship of Function Room, KB Union. Nations Association in London Animal Rights Eastern Politics, but they talked many University books. Israeli Tickets 50p. secured me a place on the third freely and critically about Islam. censorship not only prevents the A philosophical and political view. Work Camp at Birzeit University, Being a woman on the camp was publication of material which Public meeting in George Square West Bank. no problem, just l>y showing an might damage state security, but EU Microbiology Theatre, Tues 22 Nov, 7.30 pm. During the first part of my understanding for their cause one actually prevents access to "holiday" I travelled and styaed in was treated with complete respect. material already published. Books Human Values Syria and Jordan. These countries These Palestinians were all are added to the censored " list" Society gave me an insight into the students from Birzeit University, without prior notification , a Seminar on Plasmid Stability with Human Science standard and quality of life of students that is, when they are student may well be in possession Prof. David Sherrat. Palestinians in exile. alloed to pursue their academic of ·forbidden material' without Annual Conference of the British Here the conditions of life for studies. knowing it' Periodicals and Society for Social Responsibility Palestinians are very difficult; all An official report from the newspapers on sale in the streets Blood Donations in Science. To be held in POiiticai involvement is sup­ University states that 10-15% of of East Jerusalem, are forbidden KB Union Edinburgh on the 26 and 27 Nov. pressed, the Palestinians I met students in the West Bank have on the West Bank. Any such Thurs 10 Nov, 10 am-5 pm For further details contact Steve seemed apathetic, conditioned been arrested at one time or other, material found in the possession Fri 11 Nov 10 am-4 pm. Sturdy, the Science Studies Unit. into an "exiled" existence. They an while harrassments of students is of a student may be used as a 36 Buccleuch Place. inbred desire to return to their a part of Birzeit's lifestyle' The reason for his arrest and "homeland", but there was no real Israeli Security Regulations give detainment. • 3C - Alternative Eyes

What is it? Whal does it hope to achieve? I hope you will excuse me if I begin with a short case­ history. The first public meeting of Third Cinema was held in early May to inaugurate a club "to de"velop public awareness in Scotland of independent film and video culture". The principal ways in which this was to be achieved included: Exhibition: Third Cinema would show films synthesises his influences to and videos not normally available • The City Art Centre produce his fragile statements. for public screening. 29 Market Street Stiven talked of Paul Neagu and Education: his idea pt " snakes and ladders" . Fred Stiven To encourage a dialogue among The " ladder", representative of the film/video workshops available independent fi Im-makers and their Alastair Park frame of creativity (like the basic comparable to that established in audience (after post-screening • Betrayal Until 19 November plot of a novel), while the "snakes" England. Centres like the new weave through the original discussion ). Gl a sgo w Film and Video Taken from a Pinter play Fred Stiven is a constructivist: framework building on the bare Production: Workshop are not readily avai lable " Betrayal" is a classic love triangle he makes things. His art is con­ ladder. This too can be applied to To stimulate the production in to independent fi lm-makers. Third farce. The very fact that the script struction: small glass-fronted Fred Stiven: his boxes are his Scotland of independent films and Cinema in effect aimed to provide was originally designed for the boxes containing objects of laddered framework: their internal videos, at all levels. a focus both for film-makers and canvas and oil paints of the theatre refined geometry. Words will not geometry and refinement, his After a summer break the newly audiences who at least sometimes separates it from all the furnish a description of his " snakes" . const i tut e d Third Cin e ma wanted to play a more active part. mainstream productions around thoughts, only touchstones for Alastair Park gives gentle restarted its meetings about m id­ Since its start Third Cinema has ours. His ideas are transmitted at the moment. delicacies of line and colour September. screen ed many events from The opening scene depicts the through his medium. His message embedded in framed wax tablets. In terms o f cinema hierarchy " Representations of Scotland in end of Emma's (Patricia Hodge) lies in the viewer's mind and its Several are deliberately simple. Th ird Cinema belongs to the third Independent Film-making" to the marriage and the rest of the film translation is non-verbal, but Mountain, for example, is sparse rung after firstly the nation " Abstract and Avan t Garde". retraces the events leading up to instead, summed up in our senses. lines; a "child-like" sun and flower distribution centres like the ABC. However, Third Cinema has not this climax. This grabs the viewer Stiven constructs his boxes in are its attractions. Eroticism, too, and secondly the art-houses like been without its p roblems. T he by the jugular and only at the end ordered geometry; they contain is a vital part of Park's work: the Filmhouse. While art-ho uses committee tried to run itself along of the story does Pinter release his gently honed wooden shapes, obvious similarities to the sexual widen the audience's c hoice they iul1y democratic lines: no one had grasp leaving one to gasp in awe at grained and textured, coloured power of Klimt and Schiele do not stimulate film-making nor any spe c ifi c r e spon s ibil ity , his masterpiece. with delicacy. pervade JANE " Waiting for do they tap the unknown , instead decisions had to be c ollective. The Ben Kingsley plays a publisher The wooden shapes are refined tonight, father" and Dream they tap the successes o f the problem with democ rac ies is that who's wife Emma has been ~ representations of landscapes. Transit. various internatio nal film fe Stivals. they are not efficient; sometimes betraying him for seven years. They are simple in the same way In his introduction to the Furthermore, the role of the the indec ision was c rippling and Jeremy Irons as her love is (as Mr Stiven says) as the basic exhibition, Lloyd Gibson gives a audience is extremely passive; there was c onsi d e ra bl e dis­ shocked to discover Emma has forms of "a dog kennel or a detailed description of Alastair c hances to question and inquire illusionment amo ngst the orig inal told her husband this. henhouse" . His enclosed Park's ritual of setting a table: this after show ing are ra re. Scotland members. Without some centrepin Suddenly the calendar turns constructions are similar in some methaphor can be extended to the has been particularly unfortunate upon whic h to focus Third Cinema back two years. This is the point ways to those of Will Maclean; ordered mental processes of the because there is no network of began to feel like some vast where Jerry (Irons) and Emma indeed, Maclean drew much artist. Park's collection of wax amorpho us body. Particularly split up. The silken strands of the inspiration from this more mature tablets are, to some exctent, mass • Blue Thunder amongst the committee, members web portrayed in the first scene artist. But these two talk of produced - or at least this is the began to fall back on their own are slowly unravelled from here different things: Maclean of Odeon 1 intended effect - their grey personal ideas and preconcep­ onwards. In this scene the couple Highland traditions, landscape riveted frames giving ideas of Currently John Bad ham has two tions meaning that more gun than are finally leaving the flat which and culture, while Stiven' s automation. Within the frames, films showing at the Odeon, Blue not the committee was strung out they patronised on many dialogue is more of geology and however, the individuality is clear. Thunder, although released in the between two poles. Several issues landscape without any particular passionate afternoons. Giles Sutherland UK after Wargames, actually were guaranteed cauldron-stirrers Scottish influence. Stiven The cameras then roll back predates the blockbuster by about for example those who felt that another year. Memories described six months. political/social issues were the in the opening scenes become Blue Thunder is an action­ most important consequently events as the ripples in the packed cop thriller - sort of those who flet avante-garde whirlpool of relationships curl Exhibitions . CHIPS in the Sky, helicopters subjects should receive equal back and the water becomes instead of bikes. It's got all the airing went on the attack. The clearer and clearer. stock ingredients: the hard-bitten, present hot potato centres Gradually we see how Jerry and experienced cop (Roy Schneider). around "middle-class elites .. and Emma' s romance develops. • Gerald Scarfe the green partner, girlfriend the need to reach a wider However at the back of one's mind Glasgow Arts Centre problems, the captain on his back, audience. The trouble is, whether lies the smouldering knowledge etc. Yugh! The film's saving grace or not we can as yet reach a wider that it is a romance doomed to is the superb action sequences, audience, that dogmatism is a pain failure. Known to millions for his illus­ shot in the air around Los Angeles, in the neck and more stultifying As one sees Cupid draw back his trations in The Sunday Times, magnificently photographed, than useful. bow one knows ultimately that Gerald Scarfe is one of today's although the standard of the Some of the earlier meetings when the arrow flies it will not glide most consistently inventive and photography made the effects were not well organised, despite softly but will pierce the heart perceptive political cartoonists. look cheap. (Fine Fox suffered the all intentions, simply through lack through. On November 19 an exhibition of same fate.) of experience and with little Finally we return to the party his cartoons, animations and The title Blue Thunder comes knowledge of how to stimulate where Jerry and Emma first met. sculptures opens for a three-week from super new heli copter. It's a discussion amongst the audience, The story is complete. Their run at the Glasgow Arts Centre. cross between a tank, a helicopter t he talk could bandy about romance has begun. Scarfe' s unique style in gunship, a greenhouse, and between the organise rs alone. " Betrayal " is a superb producing grotesque caricatures surveillance ve hic le. It's designed Sometime the bullshit was of observation of the sociological of countless celebrities and for counter insurgency purposes, exceptional quality. relationship between three people politicians leads from his and we're told that all the hardware Don't be put off, though. T hird united in love and friendship but philosophy of taking ideas and and techniques portrayed are Cinema is quite rapidly beginning ultimately destroyed by this bond. situations to their extremes, the currently in use in the good ol' US to pull itself together. Some Pinter weaves cliches and resulting imagery having a of A today, thal's as maybe, but the limited executive posts have been freudian slips together to produce powerful, striking effect that is whole lot in one helicopter? elected on the committee and a some quite hilarious pieces of often extremely funny. At his unexpectedly when walking Anyway, our hero - Roy long-term policy is being thrashed dialogue. repartee is permeated by outstanding London exhibition round. Schneider - gets to fly the beast, out. Now the air has c leared irony creating some delightful this summer, the most memorable Scarfe is also responsible for the which looks like a huge fly, with a attenti on can be redirected into situations. cartoons, for me, included those of stunning animation in the film of Gatling gun sticking out the front. the events. T he current theme is Jeremy Irons plays a literary Mick. Jagger's mouth, of Enoch Pink floyd's The Wall, stills of He and his partner dis.cover a Misrepresentations in the Cinema: agent who must reconcile his cosy Powell discovering a gollywog in massive p lot by a Federal nuclear family with his burning which also feature in the 1 his marmalade, the many Government agency to. well that • Misrepresentations of love of Emma. Irons fulfils the part exhibition with their vivid, explicit Men9.11.83 depictions of Richard Nixon (one imagery. wou ld be tell ing, b ut it's typical immaculately reinforcing his of Scarfe's particular hang-ups), Gerald Scarfe's work, whether Watergate Hollywood paranoia. • Misrepresentations of already recognised ability. and of course those of Mr Reagan you find it unsettling or just plain Why the D rea m Factory can't Women ~ .11.83 Jerry's best friend - and and Mrs Thatcher. come to grips with Watergate or husband of Emma - is played by funny, continues to be inpsired • Misrepresentations of Particularly exciting are the and stimulating, as this exhibition Vietnam, whic h raises its ug ly the radiant Ben Kingsley. Kingsley huge sculptures of these two, will demonstrate. head in this move, I'll never Sex 7.12.83 vilifies the part of the fated a.k.a. Mickey Mouse and the Iron Alastair Dalton unde r s t a n d, b ut w h e n h as all at the Filmhouse. husband striving vainly to retain Lady, the former featuring giant Hollywood come to grips w ith Most im po rtantly, if you have his composure and dignity. ears and holsters full of missiles, anyth ing. some topic or area which interests Dignity is one quality that is the latter a massive, curved nose, 1f you like good pntertainment, you, suggest it to us. If it hasn't certainly not lacking in Patricia amongst the many others, the escapism, and so on, you'll like already been done the chances are Hodge. As Emma she give a quiet huge red carpet-like tongue of Film Quizlette: Blue Thunder, it's genuine good you could be organising it. stunning performance as the wife Prince Andrew's Taste for Girls fun, there's a good performance AbOve all, it is important to torn between two men who and the very literal Chairman Mao by Roy Schneider. it's well remember that independently ultimately loses them both. are especially amusing. Between What is the connection between ·1941 · and photograp hed, and reasonably made films are mostly pro­ Shri Jawarharlal Nehru once all these odd shapes are faceless 'American Werewolf in London'? and competently directed. Fi le fessional , original and stimulating. wrote "The only alternative to co­ models realistically made up to Answers 10 1 Buccleuch Place first one alongside An Officer and a If you are interested in film, they existence is co-destruction". And nght wins 2 llckets for the F1fmhouse resemble gallery visitors, and Gentleman. shouldn't be ignored. so it is with " Betrayal" . rather disconcerting to bump into Fraser Davidson Paul Quinn THE STUDENT Thursday,

A scene from " Willie Rough" was doing the Mayall long before • Clanjamfrie crit1c1sm will be applred to a the Comic Strip, and will no doubt Literary Broadsheet number of manuscripts which still slope around being offensive have been collected. the ob1ect Theatre - after the aforesaid collapses in a Let us take as our text a short being to sift out the pieces of puddle of Channel 4 over­ quotation from Edwin Muir's book highest quality and greatest exposure. To give you an idea of Translation published 1n 1926 interest When the best pieces just how funny this seven-foot tall "The things which 11 1s most have been found, they will be • Willie Rough • The Comedy Club syphilitic gnat is - I was dying for essenllal that the critics should printed in a new publication. the Lyceum Abreaction Productions the bog as he began his first song, deal with are the things of the end point ot all this applied and I was still there, bladder and present the books which are cr1tic1sm will be called funnybone aching, half-an-hour being written, the books which CLANJAMFRIE. The working class unrest on Abreac t ion Productions later. as he explained why he "Ain't might be written. the tendencies CLANJAMFRIE should appear Clydeside in the First World War appears to have something to do Gonna Do No Fucking No More" which have not still found a approximately quarterly, with the was a threat and an embarrass­ with Cate Grafitti. Now this is odd, A lot of the dead people had less decisive direction." There 1s some fist issue coming out near the end ment to t he Lloyd George because you would have thought staying-power and left. of this kind of crit1c1sm gmng on at of this term. Its most unusual government. Mass walkouts by that the brain behind Calf Graff's Mr Oowie and Mr Henderson the moment; at least. 11 would be feature will be its format 1t will engineers in the vital armaments resounding success in financial were sandwiched by FLAAP who overly depressing to assume come 1n the shape of a large and sh i pbui l di n g industries and bohemian-credibility spheres did a nice enough line in robotic otherwise, but 1t 1s certainly not poster. printed on both sides. with coupled with a rent strike by the alike would have realised that a dancing, and were even. I going on 1n Edinburgh. and space given over to photos. women of Glasgow was not the great gig begins cheaply and suppose. tewwibly wadical. what apparently not anywhere else 1n drawings, and other graphics. as kind of conflict to which Kitchener scruffily - in The Underground - with their mechanical policeman. Scotland That 11 should be 1s well as writing The writing will thus attracting a young, talented consist of poems. short prose, or wanted the people to aspire. To be frank (H1. Frank.0 I enfoyed arguable, of course. but two and trendy pool of artists and anything else. in whatever styles Instrumental in this ferment is myself: Mr Dowie aside. the artists students at the University are so audience. Then. and only then, exist. the only editorial criterion Bill Bryden's Willie Rough, a were young and keen enough to convinced that there should be a does it sneak out of the woodwork. (apart from an interest 1n "dealing riveter who begins work in a· be worth seeing, professional or platform for literary criticism bump up its prices and move to a with the present') will be quality. Glasgow shipyard as the country not .. Mr Oowie was ace. dealing with "things of the posher venue. gathering Arts There should not be too many goes to war against the Hun. At But the atmosphere was forced present" that they have gone .Council grants and spots on problems on the last score. for first he is decried for his and frigid The way you might feel ahead and constructed one Channel 4. You can't rush these contributions have already been opposition to the war. but as the if you hitched a ride on a truck But lhe only worthwhile form of things. It also helps if some given by (amongst others) the novelty wears off. the khakied marked lnnovat1onsv11\e, and criticism 1s one that directly affects originality of conception is following Liz Lochhead. thousands line up in the death found 11 wa s 1ust an old what 1s being crit1c1sed. other involved, and personally I feel a Roderick Watson. Edwin Morgan. lists, and living conditions become bandwagon on its way to Cashin forms are mere navel- contempla­ little offended at the notion that Paul Edwards. Hermann Palsson. worse and worse at home, his City. In rather a hurry But -given tion. so the only crit1c1sm going on Scottish punters are only now Valerie Gillies. George Mackay words find more receptive ears. lime - 11 might start moving. will be in the heads of the two ready for "Alternative Comedy", students. This qenuinely practical Brown and James Meek (His militant socialism prompts Jenny Turner him to lead the shipyard strike for four years after the Comedy Store 2d an hour more from the hit London. profiteering owners of the arms So - the Comedy Club kicks • The Exorcism and shipbuilding industries. T he off, tickets cost £2.80, the venue is Lyceum support was widespread all along the Queen's Hall, cultural enclave Dance the Clyde and not even the use of of swinging squares. There is a strike-breakers could stop its lively disco, but the audience Rachel and Edmund have success. The women's ren t strike might be dead fo r all it matters. recently bought and renovated a ever still; each wriggle of a toe and prompted a swift and long-term Three acts follow smoothly in small 17th-century cottage. They • Dana Reitz glance of an eye is important. The national rent strike from the quick succession. and that's it. If are hoping to spend a quiet Traverse occasional bone-crack adds to the government. But su c h con­ the £2.80 is a cover-charge for the Christmas with their friends Dan drama of an ambitious leg swing, cessions were to have their price ambience. it is a rip-off. If for the and Margaret, who happen to give Dana Reitz exemplifies the or sudden arm whirl; of which - the imprisonment of Willie and brief acts. it's still a bit steep. them an extraordinary and violent dancer, disillusioned with the there are few as the dance evokes other r i nglea d e rs fo r t hei r Stu Henderson. the compere, is primitive carving of a woman in classical style who has turned to rather harmony of body and from Glasgow. and because of this childbirth. Rachel. who estab­ more experimental and creative continuity of movement. An revolutionary sedition. he feels he can make jokes about lishes herself as the intuitive one. dance as a means of self­ oriental influence is evident both Bill Bryden cleverl y recreates thick Glaswegians without being experiences deja vu when playing express ion and personal in this overall harmony and in the the atmos phere o f el a t i on racist. Perhaps he can, but on the the harpsichord. The electricity fulfilment. Owing much of her predominance of snakey arm engendered by the extent of the whole. they are not terribly funny. fa ils - oddly the telephone isn't inspiration to Tae Chi Chuan and movements. solidarity, but t h is is over- He also has a guitar. a drape jacket wor king either. Being level­ kinetic movement, she has Light plays a small part in shadowed by the se nse of betrayal and a lovely hai rcut. a cross headed. well-educated people managed to create a highly casting shadows and planes which Willie feels on his release when old between Pete Murphy and Shakin' they rationally ponder about individualistic style of much grace are seared by clean and graceful workmates are too scared to help Stevens; but while both these appearance and reality. But they and beauty, but offering little action. Dana shows no facial him get his job back. The strike great heads can be extremely are trapped in the house and the beyond this aesthetic satisfaction. expression adding to the purity of was all very well, b ut they want to funny without meaning to be. Stu clocks have stopped. Although introverted dance of this the dance and leaving the inter­ settle back into the old routine tries very hard, but is just too nice All four characters are equally style can be mesmeric, as shown pretation of ideas up to the summed up by Willie's friend Pat: and kind. si ncere and self­ in volved and their va{ ying by many oriental dancers, Dana audience: b i rds, butterflies, "I'm not interested in politics, I just effacing. reactions are revealed; of ra ti onal Reitz seemed to lack the charisma seaweed, musical scores - vote Labour like everyone else." You need to be a bit of a bastard thinking, on different levels. the and intensity necessary to fully anything. The play was well performed, to be a good comic, and John blaming, soul searching and convince the audience. Sadly she Dance is no longer classical and but you don't have to try too hard Dowie is probably the most confessing - and pure terror. seemed unable to be committed to predictable. Dana Reitz shows that with a Lyceum audience kee n to bastardly bastard ever to set foot Slightly separate from the rest is either her participation in the it can be as ingenious and laugh at every opportunity (and in Edinburgh. An old hand with a Rachel. Through her we move dance or her communication with expressive as any of the other, invent a few of their own along the devoted following in London and towards the climax as she the audience, caught halfway more widely explored, arts. way!) . Russell Hunter played the Edinburgh Festiva l, Mr Dowie becomes the ghost ol a starving between self-indulgence and Kate Baker and Jean Findlay Hughie - a one-legged alocholic woman with dying children and a audience concern. in sharp contrast to the sombre husband who was hanged for Personally I e njoyed the intensity of Willie (Benny Young). taking food. Her speech on the performance tor its style and Hughie's boozy observations were injustice against the poverty­ contemporary approach but I more than just comic relief, but stricken stabs the conscience of wonder it it would appear beyond gave this play an edge of humanity the bourgeois, affluent Dan. the dancing elite. which might otherwise have Edmund and Margaret. Nor do Dance is one art we seldom foundered in a sea of socialist they get away with it by being think capable of being 'avant polemic. ~ (ll\ allowed to survive at the end. garde'; but Dana Reitz proves This is a powerful play which ·· 1 The bizarre. macabre atmo­ otherwise. Apart from th e whirr of transcends the political and 1lf t~1,, sphere o f this play is expertly built the Traverse air conditioning, she historical intricacies of the plo t to ' - 1~ up. It moves swiftly, feeling of performs in complete silence. deal with people standing up to scepticism do not get much Without the interference of confront potent adversaries and chance to dampen it. Anyhow. that musical art, the visual effect of not knuckling under to conform to is voiced in the play. One is rather dance is all that remains, and it the constrai nts of a dominant l detached from the characters in a alone occupies our attention. Her ideology which they believe to be L .. I sense the play is more reliant on fluid, almost rubbery arms and wrong . , ' general feeling and it is unfalter­ fingers begin at first to dance; • ingly performed. followed in flowing ripples by the Nick Craven Rose Jane Leslie rest of her body. At no point Is she Mr Dowie Dana Reitz • The Woman Next Door case, a cop uncovers evidence that Thu 10th 6.10. 8.30 may link his brother, a Catholic A sparse. well-acted film that priest, to the killing. Interesting examines the destructive effects of conflict of familial and religious love. Truffaut's new movie loyalty. One From The Heart is an compares iavourably with admirable attempt to recreate the previous successes like Jules et glamour of the Golden Age of Jim. Hollywood complete with flashing lights, sequins and beauties • Continental Divide and 1941 Natasia K,nski, Teri Garr and Raul Fri 11th-Sat 12th 6.30 Julia. (2.15 on Sat) John Belushi devotees can satisfy their Cravings with two riotous • Total War in Britain and comedies. Continental Divide Celine et Julie Von! en Bateau shows Belushi in the rol_e of a Wed 16th 6.45, 7.30 journalist discovering nature and Venue: Pleasance vice versa. He simultaneously What would happen if ... ? Find out discovers Blair Brown who plays a in 1945 government film Total War beautiful ornithologist. 1941 is in Britain. After you've explored vintage Belushi as a crazed WW2 the consequences of destruction, fighter pilot. enjoy the more suspenseful and less maudlin romps of Celine et Film • Best Friends Julie. Sun 13th 8.30 Mon 14th-Tue 15th 6.00, 8.30 • Still of the Night and Diva Dominion Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn Sun 13th 6.15, 7.55 ABC discover best friends don't always Venue: Caley (229 3030) (447 2660) make the best mates. Norman Meryl Streep's talents are sadly • Staying Alive (1) Jewison directs this slick comedy wasted in this ponderous, pseudo­ The disco beat goes on and on and • Educating Rita of passion domesticated. Hitchcock thriller. Roy Scheider on as John Travolta takes to the Times not available. plays a psychiatrist trying to dance floor in another highly Edinburgh cinemas swap and • Dreams of Leaving and discover the murderer of one of his improbable flick. overlap their tired old films - only Licking Hitler patients. The divine Diva is a slick, the Filmhouse plies variety. Not so Mon 14th 7.00 sparkling film that moves at • Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence much a matter of making sure the Kate Nelligan stars in two films by breakneck speed, surprising you (2) 1.40, 4.40, 7 .40 public get what they want as writer/ director David Hare. just when you thought you'd A provoking portrayal of human making sure the public want what Dreams of Leaving examines uncovered all of the surprises. cruelty and mis understanding. they get. personal relationships in 1970s Tom Conti stars as the Japanese­ London. Licking Hitler looks back .speaking British prisoner of war • Octopussy (2) at a propaganda unit operating in who strives to·penetrate the minds 2.00, 4.45, 7.40 England during WWII. Odeon Lyceum of his captors - but Europeans More "amazing" gadgets with the (667 3805) and Japanese alike are stifled by usual bevy of cover girls. Action­ • 48 Hours (229 9697) packed adventure with Roger • Blue Thunder (1) their own codes of honour. David Wed 16th 3.00, 6.15, 8.00 2.00, 4.50, 7.45 Bowie proves himself as an actof, Moore in action again (with Di-rector Walter Hill cuts through • Willie Rough additional help from his stuntman Fast-moving, high-tech film with Thur 10th-Sat 26th 7.30 pm 8.00 and director Oshima very efiec­ the cops and robbers cliches. Nick Roy Scheider in fine form as ex­ tively blends past techniques with this time) as our hero. Nolte plays a tough San Francisco pm Sat Vietnam vet gifted. with a new Although set in Scotland durin· a more commercial style. cop who has been given 48 hours " multi-purpose , helicopter • Gregory's Girl (3) and the assistance of a black con WWI Willie Rough has ai 3. 10, 5. 20, 8.15 gunship". Aerial battle sequences international and timely relevance • Spacehunter (3) to track down a half-mad escaped and cinematography are worth 2.05, 5.05, 8.00 Delightfully entertaining film convict. Eddie Murphy gives a The struggles of the out-of-worl made on shoestring budget seeing. Malcolm Macdowell also riveter, Willie Rough, chron The current rage for 3-0 is dazzlingly 'cool' performance as stars. indulged in out-of-this-world concerning schoolboy's fantasy the wise-cracking con. logues the political and industria about the girl on the school conflicts of the time which are sti gadgetry including vulture-type • Wargames (2) transport and assorted mutants. football team. Naive and innocent • Boxcar Bertha and felt today. with marvellously funny moments. 1.45, 4.50, 7.50 As expected, human factors are Italian American Highly plausible tale of high • Beyond Here Are Monsters less than fully developed. Peter First major success for Bill Tue 15th and Wed 16th 5.15, 8.00 Mon 14th 8.00 pm Forsyth. school kid who breaks into US Strauss stars as our rough and Two fine films directed by Martin defence network via computer Against the lush jungles of th ready hero who battles sci-fi Scorsese. Boxcar Bertha is one of games. Credibility and interest are Amazon, and under the noon da) villains to rescue not one but three Sco r ~e~~'s earliest films, maintained throughout by sun two slight unusual British lovely distressed damsels. comm,ss,oned by Roger Corman excellent character perform­ explorers and a glamorous gir Filmhouse as a follow-up to Corman's Bloody ances, notably from Matthew Friday search for an unusual!) Mama, but bears little resem­ Broderick and Ally Sheedy. deadly tribe of savages. Funny an (228 2688) blance. Starring David Carradine frightening. Caley • Pauline at the Beach and Barbara Hershey. Italian • Educating Rita (3) (229 7670) Thu 10th-Sat 121h 6.00, 8.30 American was filmed in the 1.50, 4.55, 7.55 Churchill • Porky It (3.45 on Sat) Scorsese's family apartment in Pygmalion in the 1980s with an In his new film , director Eric 6.00, 8.00 Little Italy. Eliza from the hair salon and an Rohmer brutally scrutinizes the (447 7597) If one day of sexual high jinks in Open University Higgins. The habits and characters of the the life of a group of obnoxious somewhat blurred division in the bourgoisie set as they play their • When We Are Married American teeny-boppers was not Film Society relationship between tutor and sexual games on a Normandy Thur 10th-Sat 12th 7.30 pm enough, second helpings in bad • True Confessions and tutored rescues what could have Comedy farce performed taste are available. coast holiday. One From The Heart been a collage of university Necetor's Drama Club Fri 11th 6.45, 8.40 stereotypes. Willy Russell's very • The Matchmaker Venue: George Square Theatre funny play travels to the silver Wed Nov 16th 7.30 Detective film starring Robert De screen with great success. Davidson·s Drama Club pertor Niro and Robert Duval. While Starring Julie Wa lters and Michael Thorton Wilder's comedy inves tigating a sensational murder Caine. romance and marriage. Sport Exhibiti Cinema 1 T~ur 10-Sat 12 6.00/ 8.30 (Also 3.45 Sat) Enc Rohmer s sharp comedy about summer holiday sex The Fine Art Society PAULINE AT THE BEACH (PGI Soccer Greyhounds 12 Great King Street Cinema 1 Sun 13 8.30 Mon 14-Tues 15 6.00/ 8.30 Cadell and MacBey • Hearts v. Dundee Punters have more than the Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn revive the Tracy/Hepburn style of Centenary Exhibition Sat 12th, 3.00, Tynecastle. vagaries of form to contend with, comedy BEST FRIENDS (PG! Until 22 November as l ast week's abominable • Meadowbank Th v. Falkirk Cinema 2 Thur 10 6.10/8.30 performance by the 3-star selec­ The Queen's Hall Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardan! in Francois Truffaut's Sat 12th, 3.00, Meadowbank Stad. tion proved. Mug-money (mine THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR 11s1 included) was taken by bookies Clerk Street early doors at odds which began to Babera Myatt Cinema 2 Fri 6.30 Sat 12 2.15/6.30 Rugby drift before the off - when this Images of Caithness John Belushi double-bill including the rarely seen • Scotland v. New Zealand happens, well, cheerio cash ' Until 11 November CONTINENTAL DIVIDE (PGI Sat 12th, 2.00, Murrayfield. However, that's water under + Speilberg's 1941 (PG! etc., so let's hope we can bridge The Belford Centre for Cinema 2 Mon 14 7.00 last week's failure with some Dance Two filmed TV dramas by David Hare, both starring Kate Nelligan Boxing success tonight. In the seventh race Ada's Gift gets a drop in c lass Douglas Gardens DREAMS OF LEAVING + LICKING HITLER • Scottish Youth Championships which should allow her to get her Rebecca Neil Sat 12th, 10 am, Meadowbank Cinema 2 Tues 15-Wed 16 5.15/ 8.00 nose in front coming off the Dance Designs and Drawings Stadium. Martin Scorsese double-bill second bend. Coupled with Liquid Until 3 December BOXCAR BERTHA 11•1 + ITALIAN AMERICAN 1151 Mercury, undisputed champion at SCOTLAND v. NEW ZEALAND the track, who take over from New The Open Eye Gallery Jacket in the back straight, the two Saturday 12th November 75 Cumberland Street Stand tickets at £8 and £5 are still should recoup some of last week's Alexander Stoddart available for this game. Phone losses. Sculpture George at 667 7269 Thursday or .. 'LIQUID MERCURY Robert Saunders Friday evening. ..ADA'S GIFT Kavey Kanem Drawings and Paintings Until 17 November Caley (229 7670) (229 1201) Music • Dr John • The Exorcism Fri 11 th, 8.00 Thur 1Oth-Sat 12th 7 .30 pm 5.00 Jazz and blues mingled with pm & 8.00 pm Sat Caribbean sounds and rhythms Queen's Hall Reid Concert Hall from this New Orleans master. Television personalities Kate (668 2117) • Lunchtime Concerts O'Mara, Norman Eshley, Doug Tue 15th 1.10 Fisher and Vivien Heilbron are on • Late-night Jazz-Cutting Edge Fri 11th, 10.00 pm Francesca Greene sings songs by stage attempting to send chills Berlioz. Thomas, Verdi, Wolf, Pub Jazz down the spines ot those who Norwegian group on their first • Dragonara Hotel British tour. Not only blues, rock, Schubert, Chabrier, Granados. think thrillers are little more than Audrey Innes on piano. 69 Belford Road (332 2545) bedtime stories. jazz and calypso tunes, but even Sun 7.30. treatments of Norwegian folk • St Cecilia Singers melodies are performed by this • Barnton Hotel intriguing band. Thu 10th 7.30 • The Gang Show Music by Bach, Percy Grainger. Queensferry Road (339 1144) Mon 14th-Wed 16th Delius and Leighton. Sun 12.30-3.30. 24th annual Edinburgh Scout and • Edinburgh Light Orchestra Guide Gang Show presents some Sat 12th, 7.30 • Old Cow of Edinburgh·s youthful talent in Easy listening: music b"y Sullivan, McEwan Hall 184 Cowgate (225 2010) song, dance and comedy. Monti, Mascagni, Coates and Tuesday. Grainger . an arrangement of • Organ Recital Fri 11th 1.10 Bonnie Prince Charlie by Arthur • Caledonian Hotel Bach, Messiaen, Mendelssohn Blake selections from Annie Princes Street (225 2433) Theatre and Jongen. Get Your Gun, etc. Thu and Sun 8.00. Workshop • Lunchtime Concert • Magna Carta Sun 13th, 1.00 St Cecilia's Hall (226 5425) 20 Abercromby Place (557 4744) Four young Edinburgh guitarists. • Georgian Concert Society Tue -Fri 8.30. Lunch available from 12.00. • Senseless Tue 15th-Sat 19th 8.09 pm • Clarinda's • John Currie Singers Waterloo Place (557 1222) Lumlere and sons become the Sun 13th, 8.00 Usher Hall first experimental company to Ff! 8.00. Performing Pergoles1·s Ma:,n//1- (228 1155/6) stage a lull-scale opera. cat, Pert's Ancient Rites and • Scottish National Orchestra • Albany Hotel Psychopathy is the key behind Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Fri 11 th , 7.30 39 Albany Street (556 0397) "Senseless". illustrated with Soprano is Christine Cairns. original visual effects and Featuring Tippett's Ritual Dances Sun 1.00 pm. improvisation. from The Midsummer Marnage, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto • Old Waverley Hotel !diam and Beethoven's Pastoral 43 Princes Street (556 4648) Symphony. The Midsummer Sat 8.30. i 9893) Traverse Mamage was the first opera by Sir Michael Tippett, often considered • Raffles Mother (226 2633) Britain's most eminent living 48/ 50 St Stephen's St (225 5395) l 16th-Mon 21st 8.00 pm composer. Violin soloist is Gyorgy Mon evening and Sat afternoon. • Young Playwright's Festival Pauk. ·1n•rlllgillle Thur 1Oth-Sun 20th 8.00 pm a16t h 1.00 Maybe a preview of future big • James Galway and the c,Stoppard's simalcrum of the 1 names, anyway a taste of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra 0 male's quandary at aspiring writers of the Scottish Sat 12th, 7.45 n i ham Common . Directed by Youth Theatre's Young Play­ r, athan Miller". EUTC wright's course. After their 511 time. Scottish Tour, Edinburgh sees Never a Dull Moment by Jackie Glenelg Hotel Boyle and Patricia Burns, Picture (229 6481) itherbow Paradise by Elizabeth Mont­ • Ray Stubbs gomery and Reflections by Fiona Sun 13th, 8.30 ~: 2633) Thomson. Sir Michael Tippett Blues. Admission free. YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS II FESTIVAL 83 grth Sea riggers portrayed in EU Jazz Sac: Ian and Taj (guitar Potterrow. BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU or/mtraditional fash ion by duo) and the Swingvill e Six. Free Disco in Park Room, Tev1ot. FIRST NIGHT drePKF. ls this th e beginning Pleasance Bar, 10. 00-1. 00 am. Tuesday 15th November Flown in from France - come along and 1ew theatrical style? Ballroom Disco and Live Band, Philosophy Society: Peter Lewis try this year's vintage available at the Chambers Street. Friday 18th Traverse from 8 pm speaks on "Forgery and Art". I All Sunday performances 'pay as you Middle Reading Room, Tev1ot EU Latin America Solidarity please' (suggested minimum £1) and Row, 7.30. Society - Talk on '" Grenada and open to the pub/le. lh Sunday 13th the Caribbean". By Phil O'Brien Bookings and details from: Catholic Students' Union: Talk by of the Institute of Latin American The Box Office, 112 West Bow, Studies at Glasgow University. Grassmarket, Edinburgh. Labour Students - A speaker Fr. Jock Dalrymple on "Develop­ 1 Faculty Room South, DHT, 1-2pm. Tel. 226 2633. National Library of from NUPE on "Opposing Local ment and Liberation". 8.30. •!land Health Cuts". Teviot Middle Chaplaincy Centre: Remem­ 191 IV Bridge Reading Room, 1 pm. brance Sunday service. Upper lions of the Past Library, Old College, 1O. 20 am. 31 January Free Disco and Happy Hour, Chambers Street 8-9. i Mercury Gallery lorth Bank Street, The Mound Happy Hour and Live Folk, Teviot Campbell Room. ~· 18/22 Greenside Place, I 26 November Friday 11th Catholic Students Union: Bread ~ · . LA YHOUSIE Edinburgh EH1 3AA and Cheese Lunch, 12.00-2.00. i Saltlre Gallery Monday 14th NOVEMBER Catholic Students' Union : DECEMBER r tholc..-,1 19th MIKE HARDING £5.00 £4 .00 £3.00 61h TEARS FOR TEARS £4.50 Costume Society of Scotland Fellowship Meal. 6.00. 20th OZZY OZBOURNE £4 .00 Labour Students - Geoff 24th HOT CHOCOLATE £6.00 £5.00 £4.00 11 th ANIMALS (goes on sale 19November Sat. 12th November £5.00) Hodgson, economic adviser to· SCAG Babysitting Project: 261h ACCORDIAN 83 £3.75 £3.50 Neil Kinnock, speaks on "Health 27 1h EURYTHMICS £4 .00 £3.50 201h WHITESNAKE City Art Centre Volunteers required for new 28 th Y & T and ROCK GODDESS £4 .50 £5.00 £5.50 et Street Service Cuts". Teviot Middle project. SCA G room, Pleasance, £3.50 in advance. £4 .00 on the day 31st MARILLION £5.00 £4 .50 £4.00 in Scotland: Reading Room, 1 pm. 7.30. CINEMA 181h January PRETENDERS ' by Ten Sculptors. The Presidents' Ball - Teviot Thursday 10th. Friday 11th, Sunday 13th £4 .50 12 November. Row. FANNY HILL 7.00 pm 24th & 25th February SIMPLE MINDS. EMMANUELLE 8.40 pm 'Theatre Workshop Not The Presidents' Ball Tuesday 15th also on late night Sa turday 12th at 11.00pm Function Swtes available for hue tamitton Place Chambers Street. Tickets £1.75 Students £1 .00 phone 031-557 2692 Shields Happy Hour and Live Folk, "Blues BOX OFFICE 557 2590 tographers of Dancers Disco 60p and late licence, 'n' Trouble" - Chambers street, s-· 1 19 November Potterrow. 9. PITY OF WAR throughout. This is hard to take: the dissonant screams of the huge orchestra in the first movement, relieved only by a lament from the cor anglais (beautifully played by Susan Tyte), are followed by a blazing, lu rid march-scherzo loaded with shouting irony. Then comes the machinery of war, a nightmare when seen not as hectic but as slow, cold, bulldozing: Berglund restrained the strings in this deadly chant, leaving the human response to the shrieking replies of dumb despair (the scoring , bleak and rough, relies on one sound especially violent, the flat blare of the clarinet, and John Cushing powerfully captured this throughout) . A passacag l ia drained of all life shows the immediate aftermatch, the final movement possibilities of recon­ st ruction while 'gasping monsters st randed lie'; though, unlike Auden's vision , the growing wheat is blighted by the flood again, the screams return and the luminous David Nice reviews the coda could be but the emptiness of a world destroyed, like the epilogue of Vaughan Wi lliams' SNO's Shostakovich Sixth Symphony. It sounded uncomfortably so here. I don't think I was the only one The pity of war must now be in the most terrible. It's easy to have a wishing they would stop tt,e third the music; words can only warn surfei t of the violence in this wo rk , movement for fea r: res pectable and state the facts. Yet only a where it is balanced only by audience-members who had 'so handful of sympho'nies hav, desolation and (del i berately) en joyed' the vi rtuosity of Ida emerged si n ce 1914 w h ich hollow optimism, but it is pain­ Haendel in Wieniawski's Vio li n adequately express horror and fully honest, whether you choose Concerto No. 2 shifted uneasil y, waste through a combination of to see it as a tragedy of Russia complained about the noise, or rhetoric and emotion. It struck me, before the war, the world during it walked out, but no one could sit listening to the remarkably intense or of the composer's own life there complacently. Other inter­ performance from Berglund ancf (surely elements of all three). pretations have softened the the SNO on Friday , that Berglund decided on the edges , but there were no Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8 is hardest course - relentless drive compromises here.

Steve Hackett Life'sARiot NEW DISCS Alastair Dalton and the From Genesis band who came in from to .•..• the cold Peter Carroll The warm reception that and keyboards player, to the greeted the opening set ,n the extent that on several tracks he The Great Man was in town and Union Houses· so - called was occupied doing all three the faithful duly turned up to pay 'Liverpool Weekend' was for Billy simulataneously. This had a ralher their respects. With not so much as Bragg , a guitarist from Barking, off-putting effect, which detracted a guitar synth in sight, the Great Essex. Teviot was fuller to hear from the otherwide compelling Man emerged to a rapturous Bragg's solo guitar and vocals in tensity of much of the set , reception, immacu lately clad in than for the main band, which particularly when McNab, playing tai ls. T hen, for th e next hour or so, pe rhaps bears out his reputation keyboards, sang facing away from he proceeded to p lay a few as currentl y being one of the most the audience. Reviewed by pleasant chords, occasionally in demand support artists around. However, despite this, the band Singles accompan ied on flute by brother He moved through a set of lively , have a captivating propulsive Wendy Barrett John (also immaculately clad in biting songs in a kind of 'Mark energy in their songs, such as tails) , who popped out inter­ Miwurdz-with-a-guitar' style, demonstrated on The Cauldron of • Ministry: Revenge adequacies of his irritatingly mittently from behind the sizeable making some cutting remarks Love and the excellent Factory in From the band that brought you boyish voice: and even resorts to PA speakers - an ·acoustic' gig about certain people (Love Gets the Desert both of which had the Work for Love comes a fairly Pete Murphy techniques in the from H ackett meaning that he can Dangerous was prefaced with a solid supp~rt of Chris Sharrock:s acceptable disc; perhaps a bit chorus - he's really trying hard. still employ a couple of effects comment about "s marmy two­ powerful drum sound, and Chris more subdued than the afore­ Trying being the operative word, pedals and an abnormally large PA f a ced bastards like Cecil Layhe on bass and percussion. mentioned single, but the strong of course. The song consists of system. Parkinson"), a few political After a strong first part of the set, drumbeat coupled with the fragments of horns, child-chorus The tunes themselves varied in statements such as Like Soldiers the band's sound began to get octaving bass line gives a good and organ bits, which despite all quality. Horizons stil l sounds good Do, as well as succinct ballads like formless by the end, as was the 8 dance feel to the song. Slightly Master Cope's efforts do not form and Jacuzzi, minus its customary A New England. case in the unconvincing From over-repetitive , however, I any sort of coherent whole. electric backi ng , gained a lot of Bragg's considerable guitar Whisper to a Scream; unfor· suppose that's what makes it charm. Hackett was perhaps at his talent is the key to his success; his lunately the decidedly cool catchy. • Dalek I Love You: best, and cert ainly most innova­ st raight, un fussy live performance audience response to their set The Mouse Thal Roared tive, duri ng an "improvised" says it all ... his debut mini-LP has signalled their early departure. • Icicle Works: Love Is a Wonderful A rather confusing, strange little number wit h Chinese inf lu ences. just been re-released (the oddly­ Colour offering: a mixture of kazoos, girlie For much of the res t of the time he titled Lile's a Riot With Spy vs. Icicle Works are pretty typical of vocals and distraught male vocals. practised his classical techniques Soy) he's even been on The 4 TRACK STEREO that ever-so-boring Liverpool I'm still not very sure about it, but it on ponderous, whimsical pieces Tube ... Rock on Billy. sound; the qualities (?) of which is nevertheless a boppy song. If in which gently washed over the Meanwhile, back at Teviot, PORTABLE STUDIO manifest themselves most clearly doubt, dance! senses, inducing a mild state of Liverpool's Icicle Works were FOR HIRE in the vocals - strained , somnolence in this listener for having prob l ems with the emotional , soulful teenage • The Thompson Twins one. Also, his playing was clinical audience. With a half-empty hall it Dead Cheap Rates! anguish. As you probably realise, Hold Me Now to a fault: he still seems incapable was obvious that not many were to Also: It was really only a matter of time of expressing emotion in his it gets right up my nose .. . see them, which was dis­ DR 55 DRUM MACHINE, before the celebrated trio totally playing. The same could not be appointing I thought, when any • Julian Cope: blanded out - pity because they said of the excellent Alastair relief must be welcome while Billy BOSS DELAY, Sunshine Playroom are one of the best pop bands Anderson, whose mastery of Joel is at number one. and other bits. ... I'm just a glutton for punish­ around. This nauseous, sugary accordion and pipes went down so First of all, the Icicle Workds are Phone 667 7030 ment. Dear old Jules has piece of nonentity would have well earli er on in the evening. rather short staffed. Lead vocalist or see Music Department employed the LSO to back him In admirably suited Buck's Fizz. Looks as though it's back to the Ian McNab, wearing a head-mike, of Student. order to hide the glaring in- What a load of codswallop. guitar synth, I'm afraid, Steve. also took on the role of guitarist George Shepherd takes a bite of the cherry ( and spits it out) boys.

So th,s was the new renovated As I had feared their music was Chambers Street Ballroom. Ne bland throwaway pop, ,ndicat,ve decor, new bar, new lightshow and of so many of the new Mersey a fresh young band from Liverpool groups. All their songs had snappy called the Cherryboys. Amongst drum beats, cute choruses. and all this newness then, support neat hooklines. Nbw this kind of band The Quick were a bit of thing 1s alright ,f the group in an anom,ty. Despite having a question don't take themselves too trendy bassist. they looked and seriously, but these four lads from sounded dated coming over a Liverpool could hardly muster a cross between Dire Straits and smile between them. and this Journey They played a song coupled with their cute white called "Lady of Love·· so I went to uniforms resulted in them looking the bar The most exciting thing rather silly. happening there was Mike conway There was a no real depth in Rex fiegonta eating a plate of scampi. Things their music although some serious were not looking too good. muso types in front of me Boys next door, mums and dads Around midnight the Cherry­ obviously thought there was, as boys decided they would grace us they sat cross legged throughout w,th their presence. so while the the gig d1scuss1ng each son as ,t •.. Neil Dalgleish in clubland Thunderbirds theme tune came up. They might as well have heralded their appearance the four been discussing Kajagoogoo, and lads bounded onto the stage and at least they"ve got n,ce haircuts. &llllburgh has never in so many Basically the "' Hooch"' as we·ve Club" has one band a week sood there while the Tunderbirds Perhaps ,f people had danced lfd been the ultimate in come to call it is open four nights a (usually from the locality) , song played on and on and on the atmosphere might have been n...... , or more particularly week - rock and roll, R 'n ' B and Edinburgh"s major live club venue Then Just as we were all expecting better. but the lead singer niglll,odub life. Assuming, that is, soul on Thursdays, Fridays and is now The Dance Factory which lady Penelope to slink on stage introduced their new single, and tllllJIIU have some degree of sell­ Saturdays being more of a mixture has at lasl become a permanent left. the tape finished, the lights urged us all to rush out and buy ,t ,-,.ct and you don't therefore of everything, and New Wave on replacement for the original Nite came on. and the Cherry boys were 1rs called "Shoot the 819 Shots··. ~I the likes of Bobby Sundays, when you·re likely \o Club, and is basically the sa me, i.e. in action but I don't think the Cherryboys llcGle's, Pipers and the like , with hear the newest music that you'll black, hot and smoky, but that's ever will...... euggerated atmosphere and hear anywhere in the capital. just part of live music It would lillllllr bar prices. The music Recent changes include a 60p appear. It's good lo see someone prollded for the clientele's Happy Hour and 50p admission if encouraging both upcoming and delecletlon is usually limited to the you arrive at the right time. Don't established acts to the city, but ifs BBC top 40 or ii the DJ is really forget to wear the right clothes. ironic that it took someone from adnnlurous he may throw in the New for Wednesdays is the Dundee (of all places) to do it. The Smiths - This Charming odd 12-lnch of Blue Monday just to originally named " Wednesday Edinburgh is apparenlly as dead Man (Rough Trade) be hip. Club" at The Place which has ·'no as ever in the new music/club 1 On the other hand, there are a accent on style" and is run by respect and still doesn't have a 2. Joy Division -/Love WIii Tear lew places to go if you are Regular Music associated Lennie really good venue, while the re­ Apart (Factory) inlerested in hearing music and Love. I'm glad to say it has opening of Barrowland i n J you can put up with the posing. discounts for students and un­ Glas gow for Simple Minds adds to The Hoochie Coochie Club, which employed persons. The main idea the seemingly endless list of 3'l,is Mortal Coil - Song To originally was fairly restrictive in seems to be to e ncourage Glasgow live clubs. The S,ren (4AD) ijs "members only" rules (some­ " socialisation" which is good and Why is Edinburgh so boring? thing that led to a certain amount to provide " an alternative platform Why do 50 per cent of the 3. TheD 3 Jons - A W.O.L. of sell-styled elitism in a certain for local bands" which is also interesting bands avoid it? Why (Abstract) number of patrons) but is now a good. Also, every five to six weeks can't the University provide an much more open-door affair. t there is a ''local musicians' acceptable venue and decent think It's fair to say the massive jamboree" where " anything can audience (that cares about the 5. SistersI Of Mercy - Temple Of lewel of apathy that exists in happen" and probably will. The music more than just getting Love (Merc,lul Release) Edinburgh Is reflected here and in music is pretty widely varied and pissed on Fridays)? Why don't llrlOUI other clubs which are you don't have to worry about people get off their arses and make more than ever having to go out of dressing up. Edinburgh something at last? Why E their way to get business. Although th~ '" Wednesday be an optimist? I don·t know. Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar (Factory)'

TKing Kurt - Zulu Beat (Thin inept." So what has happened to performance but he withstood the Sliced) the one time golden boy of HM? pressure admirably and sang w,th After seeing MSG at the confidence. In this he was a,ded by Playhouse last week I'm st ru ggling a new boy" Derek St Holmes who 7. The0 Mob - M,rror Breaks to find musical reasons for the helped with the vocal duties ,n (Madmen) hate campaign being waged add ition to playing rythym aQainst the German guitarist. (rivvum?) guitar. My only gripe was the unneces,;ary inclusion of Admittedly, the last album was a 9. Bauh.e-4 AD 72 "EP(4AD) disappointment but the live show two old UFO songs in the set. After is still an exciting spectacle, a vital four albums there 1s no need for factor for HM bands since here this when a c lassic song such as The national music pre_ss nas dynamics. presentat ion and Lost Horizonz is left out 10. Peter and the Test Tube recently t!een caustically deriding technical skill are more important The main reason for the MSG Babies - Jinx (Trapper) the work of the Michael Schenker than pose and fash1onab11ity. backlash can be traced from a Group in general and of Michael Schenker himself is relatively certain loss of credibility after the debacle involving Graham Bonnet 0 Schenker in particular. This ,s a stationery on stage, prefering to by Nik . R1pp1ng considerable turnaround from the and from the downright bigoted stick to his corner and (as the Records. 91 South Bridge Don·t situation three years ago when the Americans might say) let hisgu,tar approach by one mus,c paper be thick. buy 11 from Nik first MSG album was released to do the talking. Schenker 's journalist who carta1nly has 1t 1n both critical and fan acclaim. In a reticence is made up for by the for Schenker. If this band split up review of their first ever concert in stagecraft of ex SAHB bass player because of the adverse criticism 1980 the "Sounds" reviewer wrote Chris Glen and of vocalist Gary piling up against them ,t will be a Sc henker plays with a demon,~ Bardens. History students may crying shame because I have now lury .. stamped with the hallmark like to note that the former is still seen the band three times and of stardom . . . finest rock pulling the same pouts and poses have yet to come away Performance in a long. lone time." he used with that great band ten disappointed. By 1983 the same paper was years sgo. Peter Foster rep orting , "m 1nd -numb1ng A fair portion of the blame for mundanity ... they are as tough as the last album was placed at the wet kleenex." and "' MSG are feet of Bardens· mediocre vocal 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 10th November 1983

• After this ra id, government control in Lebanon fragmented LEBANON • further; its attempts to assert its " authority was blocked by all groups, and the army found that ii could not enter Maronite ·or Phalangist areas. THE DELICATE The Israeli invasion on 6 June 1982 had been planned fo r some time. and the stated aim of only ·;..- advancing 25 miles was rapidly BALANCE ,dropped. The speed with which the Israelis moved shows that the nationalism led by the Eg yptian Arab feelings were reinforced; PLO was not as strong as the leader, President Gamal Abdel Maronite halred o f the Pales­ Israelis claimed, and, as the Nasser. tinians soon became obsessive - Israelis pride themselves in The present situation in Lebanon is Nationalists they accused the Palestinians of saying, the Israeli army is the T he Arab nationalists in wanting to take over the country fourth strongest in the world, Why extremely complex and confused - who Lebanon were led by the Druze with the help of the radica l, worry abou( the PLO? As David leader. Kamal Jumblatt who splinter groups whose support Gilmour points out in "Lebanon is fighting whom, and why? Andrew organised the National Movement, they attracted. The Maronites tried the Fractured Country", the PLO which comprised of too many to persuade other Lebanese sects had become r espectable, MacKichan attempts to fill in the disparate groups to be of any real to join together to expel the therefore the Israelis launched this consequence. It was a result of the Palestinians; thus the Palestinians attack because the PLO was not historical background. National Movement's part in the became th e catalyst for the 1975 attacking Israel, thus ruining the civil war which explains how so civil war. Zionist's expansionist desires. many splinter Arab nationalist groups are still m Leoanon. 1975 Civil War Costly success The Maronites also developed The civil war was a complex affair, Israel succeeded in expelling their own brand of Lebanese with sides being continually the Palestinians at some cost· country, each of the sects had to nationalism. identifying Lebanon changed. At first it was the 14.000 civilians died and 20,000 be represented. A man's ioyalty in with West as a Christian bastion in extreme groups on all aides which were injured in the first fortnight. Lebanon was to his community the Arab wor ld . The first were involved; but the moderates Proof that Israel would not be able before the state; the administra­ Maronite leaders tended to be were gradually drawn in as Ras hid to control the new Lebanon was tive system was based on this more liberal than the leaders of the Karami's government's attempts shown by the massacres at Sabra system of confessionalism, until it 1970s; the liberals, such as to reconcile the Za'ims failed. The and Shatila camps in September collapsed in 1975-a person's place Raymond Edde, disliked the collapse of the army in March 1976 1982. It was no surprise thatBachir in society, where he or she was intransi~ent Maronites like Pierre meant that the government lost Gemayel was elected President in educated or could work was what little control it had left, and August last year as he was the determined by that person's so, on 1 June 1976, Syria Israeli candidate; his election was religion. The parliament and intervened to try to stop the supported by other sects as it was cabinet were effectively run by the fighting and to prevent the felt that a strong leader was heads of these communities the partition of the country, as needed, ,regardless of religion. Za 'ims; each Za'im's support was planned by lhe Gemayel Wi thin three weeks of being l1m1ted to his own community and Maronites. elected he was assassinated, and locality, but within that area he had Israel played an ind irect role in succeeded by his brother, the total control , dealing with the civil war, financing the more moderate, Amin Gemayal From the declararion of everything from people's personal Maronites and Major Saad Israel is now up the creek in independence in 1943 until 1975, problems to who should run for Haddad's breakaway part of the southern Lebanon; the PLO has the Lebanese gov ernment the parliament. It was also an Lebanese army in lhe south of succeeded in filtering back to succeeded ,n keeping some hereditary position. so when the Lebanon, which became a buffer Lebanon, leading 10 the split control over the d isparate Druze leader, Kamal Jumblatt was zone between PAM activities and between Arafat and Abu Musa. Lebanese sociely by a careful assassinated in 1977, he was Israel. The Syrians want to destroy the system of checks and balances. reluctantly succeeded by his son. Israel-Lebanon paace treaty, so This survived as long as none of Wal id Jumblatt. These Za'im's still Israel in Lebanon are possibily sponsoring lhe the various sects was strong control parts of Lebanon, and it Under the more radically Zionist attacks on the border of the enough to dominate or antagonise was they who met together for Menachem Begin, who became multinational force. But what the others; as long as Lebanon was talks in G eneva last week. Prime Minister in 1977, Israel would Syria gain jrom a not involved in foreign confllcts, NC>t only did each religious sect lashed out more heavily at w ithdrawal of that force? There the system could survive - hence try to get as much influence for Lebanon. The heaviest raid was on would be a further fragmentation Lebanon's part 1n the 1948 Arab­ itself, but the government's 15 March 1978, when 25,000 Israeli in Lebanon. leading to a clash Israeli War was small, and no part actions were l1m1ted by the troops invaded southern Lebanon between Israel and Syria; the wealthy business lobby which in retaliation for a PLO guerilla was played in the 1967 war at all. Druze leader Wafid Jumblatt Syrians understand the Lebanese The government machine was effectively controlled the attack in which 37 Israelis died. In problem far more than the myopic carefully distributed under the economy. The paralysis of the Gemayel, Camille Chamoun and this raid, some 2,000 civilians died, Americans, so have to.be included terms of the unwritten National government benefitted these Suleiman Franjieh. Franjieh was and the Israeli aim of ending any in and discussions, along with wealthy groups and the za·1m's; Pact of 1943; the President and the more responsib l e , as the chance of Palestinian/Lebanese/ Israel and the Palestinians -these corruption and nepotism were rife army commander were to be President, than any one else for Syrian reconciliation succeeded. d i scussions, with Lebanese at all levels of government - Christian, and the Prime Minister a the polarization of the country Lebanon's post-civil war stability za·1 ms, are the only hope Lebanon nothing could be done to stop it as Sunni Muslim. On top of this. the which brought on the civil war. was undermined and Syrian and has of remaining united. Christians had an automat1c6:S few wanted to. The army was one Lebanese prestige suffered. proportion majority in the of the few institutions which held The Palestinians Lebanese parliament so Lebanon the country together; thus, when. The Palestinian presence in was far from being the democracy 1n 1976, the army fragmented, the Lebanon was a major factor for the 1t was clatmed to be . government lost what little control polarization of groups in 1975. In it had over the country as a whole, 1948, some 150,000 Palestinian Communities and has never regained 1t. refugees went to Lebanon; the The various communities had to government's weakness meant co-operate together in order to 1958 Civil War that little was done for the make the government have any Lebanon survived a brief civil in desperate refugees, and il also strength, and tor the government 1958 as the army remained meant that Lebanon was to to have any control over the neutral; this had been sparked off ,become an ideal staging ground as the President, Camille for Palestinian guerilla activities. Chamoun, declared his support especial ly after the Palestinians for the American anti-communist were expelled from Jordan in Eisenhower Doctrine. Chamoun's 1970. The Lebanese were naturally pro-western declaration angered worried about the activities of the many more broad-minded Palestinian Resistant Movement Maronite Christians and Lebanese (PAM) and the retaliation it Muslims; partisan actions. such as provoked; the Israelis soon this caused the d isparate attacked Palestinian camps in Lebanese society to split even Lebanon for any guerilla activities 1 , more. weakening the government carried out against Israelis in the further. world - after the Munich The final split came in 1975 for a Olympics massacre in 1972, Israel number of reasons; ns1ng Arab attacked Lebanon, killing 400 nationalism, the Maronite civilians. nationalism and the presence of The Maronites demanded the the Palestinians in Lebanon. use of the army to control the Lebanon has always contained Palestinians. neglecting one of the numerous different re ligious basic tenets of the national pact, sects, Mar onites, Greek that the army was a neutral force. Orthodox, Armenians, Pro­ The Israelis tried to encourage testants. Sunni Muslims, Shi'ite Lebanon to follow J o rdan 's Muslims and the Druze to name examp le by expe lling the the most important - there was Palestinians by stepping up never a simple Christian/ Muslim retaliatory actions against division as new alliances were Palestinian camps; however, the continually being made and Lebanese government was too broken. The Maronite Christians weak to stop the PAM or the Lebanese soldiers m the recent dominated Lebanese politics. and Israelis. fight for Souq ef Garb their cause was boosted by the By antagonising the Maronites, increa s ing l e ver of Ar a b the Christians anti-PLO and anti- Living On The Deadline

Penny Gibbins keyholes Sunday Times and Observer photographer David Liddle

university. On Monday at 11 am I Aberdonian photograph er took the pictures, by 12 am they solicited from Nillson's mother were processed, and at lunchtime three photos of his childhood they were in London, ready to put which he sold in Fleet Street for into The Times and Newsweek. I £50,000. I respect privacy, I gleaned £700 from that," he wouldn't photograph the Royals finishes triumphantly. when they were on holiday in the "Now, I only do commissioned Highlands because it would have work, it's too expensive to go to been an invasion of privacy. I also another country unless I have dislike going to the homes of three or four stories to murdered people, it is tawdry and cover . which would spread my sensationalist, I feel people don't overall costs. If I go abroad, to need a picture of the murdered to Dave Liddle spent an perhaps Nigeria , I feed discover why the incident evening with budding the information through a happened. The teams I work with Clrtler-Bressons in the telex, so that if any one should on The Observer and The Times Photographic Society, want to commission me they just are very honest about the way they look at the computer, and send a portray things, though just now demonstrating the pres­ message via a telex. The Times is too frenetic." sures and conditions of Recently, in view of the situation in When asked whether he wrote on-spot photography by Grenada, I was about to go out any stories, Dave replied that snapping other Pleas­ there on a standby flight, but sometimes he had to strir,g words realised that it was not worth my together because the "words­ ance Societies involved in while as there were plenty of men" were nowhere to be seen. " In yoga and trampolining. photographers covering it Londonderry my girlfriend came already. There is a macho across Daily Mail and Express He ,s a passive pnotograpner in colleagues sitting in a pub, at the image attached to photography that he uses the situation given, time of the Bobby Sands affair. and reportage in war-beseiged or with the aim of producing They were nowhere near the poverty-stricken areas like San something "spontaneous", action, but made hourly phone Salvador or Beirut. Young whereas others would dominate calls to the police, and gleaned aspirants feel they should 'cut the scene, organising it to build up information from telexes. Many their teeth' in such situations, but a picture. When asked what are off1ce-1ournal1sts getting this attitude is wrong. Tim Page, proportion of negatives ended up others to report in for them, the The old man had his leg blown off by 'Irish freedom for example, had to bolster himself as photos , Dave replied people I rate are the conscien­ on drugs to photograph the fighters'. He died shortly afterwards. dampeningly: "About one on every Vietnamese war, whereas Don tious and meticulous words-men film of 36, but film is cheap." McCullen, in contrast, felt the like Simon Winchester, and Henry Dave enumerated the growing need to show people what was Kelly, who provide on-the-spot Traverse Theatre was writing a Times , but even after that publicity hazards of photo-journalism : coverage. happening in Vietnam. He didn't play on Jimmy Boyle and on the Larry Winters, an inmate who died "There are fewer and fewer need a combat pass to be the man "But there are also the macho pretext of getting information for a few months later of a drug openings, so you have to be on the street, born near Hiroshima guys who drink until paralytic but the theatre we phoned him in overdose, had obviously received freelance making your hobby pay he reflected the war with the still sober up to report on any in prison for an interview. 'Nae little help, proving that authorities for itself, you can't just take objective detachment a photo­ action should it occur. Did you probs, ahm not doing anything were still neglectful of giving photos, you have to know how to grapher needs in these situations. know (he giggles) that the Daily else', was the reply. We were not attention to those under lock and sall them as well, and the amount Papers always reflect unhappi­ Record is the sole newspaper in searched, although we had a key. you'll gei depends on the size of ness, and an interest in people's Britain to employ a drying-out camera hidden, and were given a Dave continued to give advice to the scoop, and your bargaining misfortunes. Jock Tarrell satirised officer as a member of staff? tour of the Special Unit by Boyle, members on ways of getting into power. You get £25 for a photo on the life of the Daily Express in the "In Scotland at the moment, Only later did the Scottish Office the profession. he highlighted the front page of The Scotsman, SO's 'What do you get for a however, I feel that journalists are ring up to ask us what we were three year apprenticeship courses but In London for commercial starving baby on a park bench - not asking the right questions to doing, showing that they had no run by the Union of Journalists, pictures you could collect £200- one-hundredth of a second, F11 '." bring more injustices to light. idea of who was in their jails." (It is which included day release to a £300 a day. Most photographers Dave Liddle flicks cigarette ash Recently I and Scotsman's George policy that no publicity or Jounralists School. His own Ill paid according to the amount into the tray as he quietly pushes Tracy exposed the dichotomy recognition should be given to interests is photographing spent on the job. I receive llf":•me the point home. between progressive and prisoners as a form of punish­ sculpture, and also ballet and '*' a day with The Observer. So backward prisons in Scotland. The ment.) "We printed the story in The dance. alien It depends whether you are "I deplore photographers who use a zoom lens from a car, IIW!e scene of the action; a couple Clfmonths ago, The Times decided without asking their subject for OR a Sunday that they wanted permission to take the photo; and photos of the Russian diplomats also sensationalist, or cheque­ taking part in the 'Conver­ book journalism. With regard to sations ' sponsored by the the Dennis Nillson's case, one literary Review

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amazing ideas for what to wear at Street," she told me, "and I do a lot sell at £3-£15; trousers £8-£18 and Difficult shapes and you can have this done. The the Presidents' Ball. Well, maybe of the craft fairs. It's there where I likewise for skirts - prices very workmanship is surprisingly good, passive clothes - the not quite, and equally if you tend get quite a lot of slagging from old depending on the materials and and Joy is proud of their record. New Look for the '80s , to wear anoraks; jeans and ladies coming up and saying work involved. Most of the fabrics "We've only had people returning kickers, I don't really think this is 'that's terrible, you could make here we go used are new, and many things wil things because they don't fit , not the place for you. However, the that in five minutes', but I don't match simply because they're because they've fallen apart of clothes are not all outrageously really bother about comments like made from the same cloth. whatever." 1f you have ever visited that avant-garde; the colours mainly that because I'm not making stuff In fact customers include such centre of the alcoholic universe, bright and contrasting , or for people like them; people who prominent Edinburgh personali­ Bannerman's Bar, then you have alternated w ith black. With the still wouldn't buy it even if it cost a ties as Muriel Gray, Caroline been within spitting distance of a exception of shoes and coats, all quid. You've got to remember that Lack of Male Interest Dempster and bands like The Wild modest little shop which sells of the stock is handmade by you're paying for the idea as well Indians, Gallery Macabre, Brains some of the most original various contributors. as materials and time " Quite. Trust and The Revillos. Hey ho, It must be said that guys are not "designer" clothes in Edinburgh. However, there was some dis­ why not Join the stars and boogie rea lly c atered for : previou s A little over a year ago. Jay and agreement in the ranks over prices on down to the Fashion and Dance attempts at designs were not very Sandra received a modest grant - Sandra, for example, said: ··1 Show featuring the Ivy League at Slagging popular with the perhaps a little from the Prince's Trust in order to look at something I've made and the Art College on 11th November. set up a shop, making and selling too conservative male clientele, ask myself how much I'd pay for it. Tickets available at the shop. See b ut ideas are always welcome. their own designs. They called it, And because I'm pretty mean. it's you there. Madeleine. who specialises in Incidentally , if yOLJ want in a fit of elitism, The Ivy League, usually n.::,t much!" As a result, her V. Westwood and it's now (almost) a flourishing jewellery and knitwear, has designs are comparatively cheap. something to measure (providing • All photos b y Fiona McPherson, business. Amid the salubnous established herself as a designer While on the subject of prices, tops it isn't ridiculously compli-cated) a third year photography student surroundings of Niddry Street, in her own right. She now supplies at Napier College. and to the accompaniment of the shops such as Underneath the numerous bands who practice in Arches and Ritzy ,n Edinburgh, the neighbouring rehearsal and Chain ReacJion in London. rooms, you'll find some fairly " I've got a workshop in London Skirt and tunic by Jay Cento Sucks Knitwear by Madeleine - The latest and greatest (though it's questionable) "Works to Wear" of the articles are for sale and by Madelein Shephard, Fawns commissions can be placed for other items. There are two mair Reid , Joy Kirkland and Caroline Conway can be seen in this " way­ outlets -based at 23 Nicolson Street out". out-of-the-way (the back (Cento) and N iddry Street (The Ivy room-of-a-shop job) exhibition of League). "sculptured" clothes and access­ These are worth checking out, o ries. Quite frankly one does especially if you want to portray a prefer just to stand back and let the very different kind of image at the full impact of these "creati ons" hit Presidents' Ball. you full in the face. The price range makes these These designers, none of whom pieces of designer wear very have had any formal art training, accessible to students: tops range certainly believe in " doing their from £7 to £15; dresses cost from own thing". Many items in the £15-£25 and jewellery is from exhibition are guaranteed to £2.50 upwards. provoke an " I could have done These clothes are not for the ,, that" attitude. Examples being Joy timid: textures and colours Kirkland's hand-knitted bin-liner abound - often clashing - and top (a good-fun piece of plastic the clothes themselves reta in a rubbish) and Medelein Shephard's " home-made" look in that they electrical wire jumper (a shocking have been designed without piece. but not for comfortable patterns : have a delightful everyday wear'). crumpled effect, i.e. unironed· and The 50s style hats. bags and the fraying edges with hanging belts are made out of cut-out threads also have their own quaint knitting patterns, magazines and little charm - it spoils the whole sticky-back plastic. A leather garment. jacket takes on a completely new The items themselves were look when sprayed with car paint! either pinned to the walls or hung These c lothes may be "works to on cardboard dummies, there wear" but they are certainly not were also a few black and white work-wear! photographs sprinkled around the Fun is the name of the game - room depicting the clothes on though please don't laugh at them actual people! Therefore any The exhibitors have tried, with a comments/ criticisms (construc­ certain degree of success, to tive or otherwise) are made purely forget the conventional and from the two-dimensional angle. commercial ideas. Although some Monica and Katrina THE STUDENT Thursday, 10th November 1983 15 Sport VOLLEYBALL FOOTBALL TURFCLUB UNDER MORAY 3-EUVC 1 Eyemouth Utd. O; MARATHON '84 With "Randy" Fisher 111 at the Edin. Univ. 3 helm this week we set off to Elgin at 7 pm, the sun rising romantically The problems of playing footbaH PROJECT STARTER'S over Grangemouth. After 4½ hours at Eyemouth are not solely those associated with finding the place. of constant Steve Wright Volunteers are still required for impressions from "Rook" Logue, . The to tally unbelievable location ol their pitch, on the top of a cliff, makes it feel like the programme of preparation for ORDERS we arrived knackered, and partly the most inhospitable place on ea rth. the 1984 Edinburgh Marathon. insane - who wouldn't be. I don't Further dangers for the unwary are provided Fu rther details and registration The Inaugural meeting of the Edinburgh University know whether its physiological or courtes~ of Eyemouth's burgeoning seagull forms are available from the not but it seems about 15° C popula.t1 on who terrorise visiting teams by Turf Club will take place at 59 Forrest Road, 2nd Flat assuming all the characteristics of orni­ Department of Physical Education cooler u p there, and after thological stukas. Fortunately, the Sports Office (ext. 4458). Right. on Friday 11 th November at 1 pm. spending 15 minutes huddled like predominantly green colouring ol the new The next meeting of the Project Videos of such champions as Arkle, Nijinsky, Sir lvor, Penguins at the station, we University strip meant that any direct hits Group is on Monday, 14th arrived, nearl y stiff, at an equally failed 10 show up. MUI Reel and Shergar will be shown and forthcoming This journey has always been hazardous November, meeting at the Sports cold sports hall. After apologies in the past, but not this time Bolstered by Centre for an Opening Run at trips to racecourses and top class stables will be for the state of the changing rooms their 3-2 midweek victory in Aberdeen , the 19.00 disCUSSed. All racing enthusiasts welcome. from the attendant , which Un1vers1ty were full of conl1dence. "Hey incidentally made the Pleasance Man" Hardie, who netted a snappy brace up north, was said to be "over the moon" but MOTOR CLUB look like a cow byre we readied whether that was a result of his satisfaction FRESHERS FOOTBALL ourselves for the match. with his Wednesday afternoon performance, Edinburgh University Motor Contrary to most volleyball or because he was suffering from the Club was one of the co-promoting hallucm,genic effects of hi sover•1ndulgence teams Moray are not made up of clubs of the Tumshies Turnoot NO FIREWORKS 1n readily available chemical compounds, RUGBY permed haired posers. only one nobody knows. rally, a round of the Forth Valley AT EASTER RD. team won in El gin all last year, The female fan s of Capt. Wham will have road rally series. \t had all looked so promising which isn't suprising, most of the been dismayed to discover that the Captain The event took place on Friday "Hai ry" Moray team seemed well of Cool. the Sultan of Smooth, the Pharaoh when the lads departed for the fi rst of Fas1on was dragged down to play with the the 4th of November, starting in contest of the week against that HIBERNIAN 1 equipped for playing in sub-zero seconds. He was replaced by Tich Allan, Bathgate, and received a good EU <1ell-known educational estab· conditions. wh9 has the enviable capacity to understand MoCentry. the vocal utterances of Kid "Mad Max" lishment, the Scottish College of HEARTS 1 Without "windmill" Wallen it was The rally, the culmination of always going to be a tough game. Gurne, but does no! have the smarmy Texliles - most people felt that Hearts and Hibs may be charm, or expensively co,llured locks, of several months hard work by the INnes " Diego " Fergu son Capt Wham. Lanarkshire Car Club Ltd., went 0nce; we had the opposition in enjoying a revival of fortunes but stit418S, our close-knit unit should this was scarcely reflected in the deputising effectively as a reserve The game itself provided a perfect ahead very smoothly with not example of the art of controlled football The be 111118 to sew up the game quite standard of play at Easter Road on setter, despite occasional mixups major i ncidents. Weather with "Hedgehog". I need say no Un, defence superbly marshalled by the comfortably. Reinforced by a few Saturday. Being frank, it was an dashing deadly Dode Reid. whose purchase conditions were almost ideal for more than to say that we lost the members who were at best rather abysmal match, nowhere near the of the latest line m denim fashion wear has such an event, with good visibility, stale Freshers, the side took the cracker which 22,000 folk turned first set 15-4. has him occasionally mistaken for Capt dry road su rfaces and no frost. Wham. eff1c1ently dealt with the predictable hefd eschewing the customary up expecting. Indeed, the only In the second set we played some drive rs reported slippery particuarly well, again "Rock" was Eyemouth forward forays The Vars11y, wann up in favour of a rigorous fireworks were those lit by fans soaking up Eyemouth's aerial bombar· patches but these caused no sessions of puffing out chests and leaving the stadium. "p/enetrating" for which he was ment with the cancerogen1c Caner serious problems for competing tu rning up collars, but this didn't For s~veral reasons hearts were almost sent off, "Randy" was absolutely outstanding his the mopping·up EUMoC crews. operation. broke effectively with Hardie seem to impress our opponents, happier with the draw. They lost particularly effective through the The police were in attendance on middle confirming all the rumours. orchestrating proceedings. Inevitably, who soon began to cut into our their way after the break and were Hard1e, the ctub's chemical chameleon the second and third secti ons as Both "Squire" Swanson and defences, as easily as scissors ultimately fortunate to escape with broke the deadlock with a superbly flighted the first few competitors came "Atlas" Chalmers. played by far travel through cloth. On a wet. a share of the spoils. At times, their free kick which swerved and dipped so much through but left fairly soon and no their best games for the University. the opposition could only stand and applaud grey day, it is sad to report that defence showed an alarming lack competitors were sloped for any Having almost contrived to lose the artistic genius that created it When University form matched the of urgency, as Hibs fed crosses asked for a half.time comment all Doug offences. the second set, after being 14-9 up conditions, one honourable into the danger zone at will. With could mutter was that "11 was cosmic man" A short section of loose exception being Guy 'what's up keeper Smith inspiring little we finally won 16-14. The second half continued 1n much the chippings through a wood gave as they always do, Moray came same vein as the f1rstand 11 was only a matter doc' Sm ith, who took it upon confidence and with marking most crews an opportunity to try back strongly, making a terrible of time before the University scored agam hi mself to fell one of the slack enough to consti tute Hardie duly obliged with a dauhng run and their hand at driving on loose mess of the court. Though we lost opposition in an attempt to gaine dereliction of duty, a sharpter cross·shot which can only be described as surfaces, (with a touch of youthful 15-10, we played probably our some marks for the continuous strike force would have punished being sheer magic Hardie tormented the exuberance!), but the road surface best volleyball of the season. In the sorry Eyemouth defenders for the rest of the assessment part of his medical Hearts severely. very rapidly deteriorated and the 4th and what proved to be the final afternoon with a display of mvent1ve. course. Despite this little incident As it was, chances were scarce. frequent pot-holes removed most set, we again showed fight, almost creative football that took the breath away and our prop's predilection with Both Irvine and Robertson were The total supenonty and authority of the of the enthusiasm for this form of literally for Hedgehog and De1go. being violently ill at key moments efficiently marshalled, while the Un1vers1ty performance was further driving. but the covering behind the block emphasised by Dave Glabra1th who scored ,n the forward exchanges, only a midfield battle was grim and All EUMoC crews finished the 95 was poor as was blocking 1tsell. the third goal on the final whistle to hnally late consolation try and a couple intense. Inevitably, as tackling bury an anaemic Eyemouth outfit. miles event, without any damage to either competitor or car, alghough of goals were forthcoming. and the began to border on the criminal, Following a quorate Performances like this can only improve score stood at 20-9 when the fl uency and subtlety went by the th e club's East of Scotland position. a failing alternator gave one crew youthful referee, who apparently Special General Meeting Hopefully they will be able to pile on the cause for concern as to whether or board. points at the expense of Heriot·Watt on had missed a couple of his lessons The first half degenerated into and subsequent co­ Sa turday at Peffermill, kick•off 2.30 pm. not it would hold out to the end of at the local primary school to be paralytic boredom as Hibs, in front options by the General the event. with us, ended it all. Post match The Boss EUMoC crews were well of their biggest gate of the season. Committee of Edinburgh formalities proved interesting as contrived to pass back a dozen Under 21 Scottish represented in the final results, n1!>st of the enemy refused to be times in the first half hour; and this University Sports Union, taking second in the newcomer distracted from a recording of from a team whose fans justifiably the EXECUTIVE COM­ Judo class, and first and third in the non­ 'Conan the Barbarian· presumably expert class. This result has left shouted 'Boring, boring!' when M I TTE E for session because several had bit-parts in it, A berdeen resorted to such Championships several EUMoC crews in a good whilse one particularly burly spoiling tactics recently. It was 1983/84 will be: position in the championship after Edinburgh had three represen­ combatant confessed casually only two events. enough to invoke the spectre of President: Ewan Malcolm tatives in this prestigious event, over his coke that dress was his The next road rally in this Bertie Auld and to remind those Honorary Treasurer: Ian held in Meadowbank on Saturday real forte. The side left soon championship is not for some time present of the Dark Ages, from 29th October. Brian "pink boots" afterwards. which Hibs have nevertheless Stevens yet but club members can always Wilson. in the U.71 kg category Typically, Edinburgh character test their skills again in the Autumn emerged. Vice President: Harry and Colin " I'm only here for the endured for the weekend tussle Autotest at Heriot Watt University Alex McDonald and McKay did Ritchie money" Wilson, and Jim "the when 16 players reported for the their best to galvanise Hearts in car park Riccarton Campus on cuddly strangler" Brown in the \rip to Dunbar; with violence Vice President (Intra­ Sunday the 13th of November. See the first half but although the U.78 kg. It is a significant threatened if anyone was left Mural): Hector MacNeal you there. Maroons were on top at this stage, achievement for Edinburgh Uni to behind, the team travelled with a THE SASSENACH they could only muster one Honorary Secretary: produce three competitors at this reserve for the first time in livi ng se rious shot on goal. a Mc Kay memory. This was obviously too Alison Law level. WANTED: drive which Rough blocked. It was Brian was the best prospect for a much for the bus. as it seemed to Ordinary members: the only genuine effort on target medal and was really expected to jettison No. 1 engine after about 1O NEW SPORTS EDITOR from ei ther side before the break. Catherine Charley, win his weight category. However, miles, covering the rest of the Under fl oodlights for the first Jonathan Peplow, in his pool he lost one of his three As the present Sports Editor has distance with a subtle smell of Saturday this season, Hibs took fights, and after being well ahead done his year on the page, applica­ burning rubber tantalising the Andrew Grey command upon resumption as in the contest he was beaten by an tions are invited from those occupants nostrils. Hearts faded. Even so, Hibs Senior Treasurer: Mr G. unfortunate arm-lock. This meant wishing to hold this illustrious Recognising our previous error opener was complete out of the that he was forced into a fight-off post. It provides a chance for you of judgement, we launched into a Edward blue as T homson swept home a for the bronze medal. For six to practice your journalistic skills, warm up routine which would have Senior.Secretary: Mrs I. Schadler cross with some aplomb. minutes Brian demonstrated the meet more sportsmen and women severely tested Jane Fonda and Immediately, T urnbull had a cast McTernan kind of judo he is capable of and and ii looks good on your CV. So, surprisingly, in view o f these iron chance to seal victory but Senior Bookkeeper: Mrs was well ahead. However, in the all you budding Keati ngs , exertions, the most consistent side amax ingly shot w ide with the goal last minute, his lack of fitenss Glanvilles and Macllvennys, come in the University were 3-0 up at the A.Gibb at his mercy. This was, however, prevailed over his skill and the down to The Student offices on int8fVal. By this time however the but prelude to grea ter drama. match was decided.· Friday at one. temptation to build sandcastle on As was sai d of a Yorkshire Lacrosse In the U.78 kg category there One further attraction of this job the nearby beach had proved too batsman who stro de to the crease will be that the next editor will have On Saturday 5th November two was a great inbalance in the way much for some, and together with at a crucial juncture, "Come the at his disposal a fine stable of teams left Edinburgh at 6.30 am to the pools were drawn, with Colin the sudden disappearance of the hour, come the man". Thirteen writers. Old scribes like THE travel north to Aberdeen for the Wilson, Jim Brown and John pea from the ref's whistl e which minutes from time, Robertson cut BOSS have been joined by the new important Scottish Clubs and Dambrosia, the British Champion. worried us all, Dunbar stretched to insi de and un leashed a drive firm of regular writers \Ike Rob Colleges Tournament. all in the same pool. Him was an improbable 16-3 victory. which l ooked a w icked deflection Kitson and Andrew Templeton. Although neith e r of t he " hammered" by the Champion For those statistically minded and left Rough groping at fresh air Also you will have to deal with Edinburgh teams actually won the who went on to win the readers , th e s id e's a l mos t before nestl ing in the corner of the the slight ( completely) eccentric cup, they both played well. The competition. Colin Wilson came unblemished r eco rd n o w net. A massive sl ice of luck but Shinty Club portrayed so University had fielded a strong closest of any competitor to reads:P6, w1 , L5, For 52, Ag 124. Hibs were reprieved when an poetically by that master of the ladies 1st XII and they proved they beating Dambrosia. Hoever, he Any suggestions as to how these oddly m ishil Mc Kay shot all but literary flourish , Rhur i g could work well together, which eventually lost by several low­ frightening figures might be cleared Rough. Mheadhlon. promises much for the rest of the scoring throws. the lack of fitness resuscitated should be addressed Al the end, neither team The retiring editor would like to season. The 2nd XII was a mixed was again apparent when lo the groundsman's dog, Canal deserved to win; as a derby, it was thank the latter four as well as the team and all the players fought watchi n g Edinbu rgh repre­ Field, which has just been named a considerable let down. Hearts following for their excellent hard and enthusiastically. sentatives. team coach in succession to John relief in salvaging a point was reports, past and present: Cathy T h e following Edinburgh In his remaining matches Colin Peters. The latter has decided to matched by H ibs frustration in was impressive and went onto gain Charley, Rachel Fowler, EU MoC, Quit whilst at the top in order to University players were selected at letting their old rivals off the hook Ed i nbu rgh 's on ly medal, by Rugby Club, Boal Club, Pete Lyall, lurther his budding song and the tournament to attend the again, after fighting their way into winning the bronze. This is quite Andy Wilson, Hare and Hounds. dance career - we wish him and Home Scots trials next Saturday: a strong position. Their day wil l an achievement for someone only and thousands of others. all ladies feet every possible good Susan Chalmers, Catherine assuredly come. but I fear it won't coming to University this year. Henry Winter RIP. fortune in the future. Rob Kits em leton Charle and Emma Dick n .Sf£(.IAL- SoME:,-HI.JC. ABou-r 11 - S<>ME11,(cwc. IN "ll{E; AIA "fHl\1 (3R.1,-,JC,5 .S'fF..Ar-Ju€R..S -ro6e1"HER. ON 1-10-r RoMAN'i1 c. NIC>HlS He;,. 1 I COULi) Do Wl1H 1HA•,

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