TRLBOTRICE ' GLASGOW GALLERY HE RALD Old College MO!>ERN PRIMITIVES 26 Oct-23 Nov AWARD An exhibition of . paintings and sculpture of a highly personal STUDENT WINNER nature by self-caught artists. Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm 1985 7.11.85 Edinburgh University Student Newspaper 20p Underpants sick hoax "cliarity" fiasco

The well-advertised "Bare there Liz Lochhead or be square" Underpants li'or Africa party which was supposed to be held at Spottiswoode Road, Mar­ chmont last Friday, has turned out to be an elaborate hoax. The aim of the party, according to the posters, was to raise money fo rjam ine relief in Africa . "All we want you to do," said the posters. "is to.turn up to our party In nowt but yer knickers!" One of the instigators of the party-that-never-was, David Skud­ Petra "A1acDonald tracks down this larek, said there was a serious side year's Writer-in Residence. Liz to the "joke". Lochhead. ge1s the low-down on current projects and the proble ms "People wouldn't just turn up at of being Scottish. a woman. and a a function and give £5, or some­ writer. th ing, to a cause. The sort of people wh o would turn up at a party like -page 12 that seem to me to be more interested in the underwear, rather th an famine relief. There's a hint of David Owen immorality about such people." Skudlarek and his friends are in volved with Oxfam in several ways, and · thoehr "party organiser", Andrew Todd said "We're sick of the Band Aid hype. We're trying to get at the si tuation whereby people need some sort of encouragement to give money to famin e rfelicf. ,I Skudlarek also criticised the lax­ ity at the Students' Association offices which enabled them to get an Career opponunist or visionary? EUSA stamp on their posters, Devin Scohie talk; to the SOP leader about education. Scotland wh ich made them legitim ate and British politics. around the University. He also criticised Student for publishing an advertisement fo r the party, "with­ -page 14 out checking that the party was genuine. We were having a go at student politics, which are por­ Branski Beat trayed as being so important by A scene from 1'he Interrogation ofAmbrose Fogarty on at the Bedlam Theatre, Forrest Road, from Monday those in volved." I Ith until Wednesday 13th. Renowned author and critic Owen Dudley Edwards previews the show on page Alan Young 12. (See editorial - page 5) • Anti-pill campaigner cancels debate appearance

Gillick pulls out Do you recognise this man? Last Friday. a revamped version of old Student faves Bronski Beat played _Anti-pill campaigner ·Mrs ing was subsequently overturned by without being shouted down at uni­ without parental knowledge. a short promo set at the Hoocbir Victoria Gillick has pulled out the House of Lords law juudges, versities up and down the country. "The pill has never been tested Coochie Club. Afterwards the), of a major debate at Edin­ but Mrs Gillick completed an "But these people still get into on girls of 13 or 14, indeed it was talked to Suzanne Doran. burgh University scheduled for extensive number · of speaking the debates and manage to disrupt only ever tested on much older 2 engagements across the country to proceedings for the vast majority women when it was first intro­ -page6 .6th November. In an exclu­ debate and discuss her emotive who will allow me to express my duced. Wehave no idea of the side sive Student interview Mrs views. ·views in peace. 300strong demonst­ effects and dangers that it would Gillick said that she had' taken Speaking from her home in Berk­ rations by the Socialist Workers have in girls under the age of 16 ... Contents the decision last weekend not to shire, Mrs Gillick said that she Party, and theRevolutionary Com­ Debates Convener Tom Reid. munists, have all been briefed at News 2,~,4 speak to any more universities "deeply regrets" being forced into who had arranged Mrs Gillick's s .~r students because of "persis- having to cancel her Edinburgh meetings before hand at how best visit , told Studentthat he was sorely Comment engagement. "But," she continued, to stop me." disappointed with her decision. Letters s ent, abuse and personal 6,7 "I know that I wouldn't get a VictoriaGillick was due to be Hestill hopes that she might be pre­ Music attacks" she had suffered from What's On 8, 9 chance to speak. I have had to can­ speaking on the motion that "This pared to reconsider before the 26th left-wing protesters. cel all the talks and debates 1 had house believes Feminism degrades Film 10 November. II, 12 Mrs Gillick, a mother of ten been invited to at universities, med­ women" with other confirmed Arts If Victoria Gillick cannot be per­ Classical Music II achi_eved a remarkable legal victory ical schools, and law societies speakers to include broadcaster suaded by the Debates Committee Exhibitions II across the country because of these Cliff Hanley, and Daily Record earlier this year when a High Court to change her mind, and allow the Theatre .11 \~dge ruled i,J her favour that it was protests." agony-aunt columnist Joan Burnie. 1 vast majority of non-hostile stu­ Features 12, 13, 14 egal for doctors to prescribe the Mrs Gillick explained how time Mrs Gillick sai he protests dents to hear her express her views , Opinion 13 contraceptive pill to girls under the and time agin she had been prom­ had, in no wa er belief then Convener Tom Reid has said Writings IS ~ge of 16 without their parents' ised a hair hearing and the sim­ that girls un he will stand in for her himself. Sport 16 nowledge. The controversial rul- ple opportunity to express her view sent should e pill Devin Scobie Home sweet home •

In what EUSA President treated differently, and students •its opposition to the proposal. One Mike Devlin has described as studying in their home town and liv­ member of Court said that "the "a milestone in studnet-univer­ ing in private flats or lodgings only University ought to frame its response to the SED in the same sity relations", the University receive the lower rate of grant unless "there are strong compas­ strong terms as were undoubtedly court has reversed its previous sionate or academic ground for used by the Students' Associatio~". approval of a Scottish Educa­ leaving home during term-time". Association President M1.ke tion Department (SEO) prop· The SED now wants to resolve Devlin described this turnaround in osal that could force more stu­ this situation and pay all students the University's previous position dents to live at home, and who could live at home - whether as "a real coup" and a "cause for joined in strongly opposing this or not they are in university accom­ celebration",. modation - the lower rate. EUSA feels that forcing students move. Edinburgh University's Student· to live at home may impose unsuita­ The SED's proposals would Accommodation Service states that ble conditions and reduce oppor­ mean that students attending uni­ in 1984/85 there were 96 students tunities for participation in "stu­ versities in their home town, and from the Edinburgh area in univer­ dent life". It also points out that the· living in university-owned accom­ sity accommodation. If the prop­ extra travel costs incurred by living modation, would receive £500 less osal is implemented such students at home and the discouragement of grant each year. could face an increase of 10 to 20 students from studying at home At present, the SED will not pay pewr cent in the proportion of their may severely reduce any savings the higher, "away" rate of grant grant spent on accommodation made by the proposed changes. pa) to students whose home (£1,850 costs. Some could be spending as· A spokesman for the Scottish is within " reasonable'' travelling much as two-thirds of their ~rant on Office told Student that Edinburgh distance of the university. hall fees. appears to be the ionly university to Such students receive only Meanwhile, the University Court ·have consulted with student rep­ £1,365 pa unless they are given a last week gave its influential back­ resentatives on the proposal. place in a university-owned resi­ in~ to the Students' Association in Gary Duncan dence. Private accommodation is Burnett frustration Bucks An extra £200 million beyond the leagues, who were forced to waste Thousands of protesters congregated in London on Saturday for one of £500 million presently allotted is much of their time trying to raise fizz the biggest Anti-Apartheid demonstrations ever staged in Britain. The lead­ needed for the country's university_ money to fund research. He also ing speakers were Jesse Jackson and Oliver Tambo, President of the ANC. science budget so that important pointed out that the quality of The University of Buckingham, It was a protest against the British Government's refusal to impose sanc- long-term research can be carried · teaching in the faculty was affected. Britain's only private University, tions on South Africa. Photo: Donald Pollock out, according to the new Rector of "Teaching is always that much bet­ founded 12 years ago with the sup· Imperial College, Professor Eric ter when a lecturer is involved in port of right wing academics and Ash. He condemned the govern­ experimentation and research," he senior members of the Conserva­ ment's science vote and said that it said. tive party, has offered the Prime Money monster was forcing spending cuts all over Professor Ash described the case Minister an honorary degree. the country. of outstanding researchers and lec­ The offer is likely to draw hostil­ The Edinburgh Students' At present, up to 50% of the turers being refused Research ity from other higher education Charities Appeal is alive and kick­ most important of the proposed Council funding as tragic. institutes and comes nine months ing, and just to prove it about fifty, research projects - the alpha pro­ In order to fund all the proposed after Oxford Universty dons voted people made it to Chambers Street jects - are refused funds and must alpha projects alone, another £200 down a similar proposal because of on Monday night for the second' subsequently be shelved. Funding million would be needed. the damage that the Government General Meeting of the term. by research councils is becoming Questioned about the apparent was inflicting on the whole educa­ After the presentation of the even more vital, while universities' Arts v. Science budget conflict, Dr tion system. 1984/85 Accounts which nobody own budgets become tighter, and Burnett emphatically denied any The honour will be seen by many queried, the main business of the Professor Ash described the lack of contention, saying that if there as a quid pro quo for ·the Prime evening was the election of the ten research funds as "economies were to be any spending cuts made Minister's past support .•It was her ~harities who are to receive money which we cannot afford". by the University, they would be decisive intervention two years ago .from ESCA at the end of the com­ The Principal of Edinburgh Uni­ general, rather than specific to which ensured the University ing year's fund-raising activities. versity, Dr John Burnett, talked faculties. granted its own Royal Charter. The most heated debate was, how­ al;lout the "frustrat.ion " of his col- _Sarah Forsyth This week it emerged that a prop· ever, reserved for the choice of osal had been made to honour Mrs name for ESCA's latest mascot, the Thatcher at Buckingham Money Monster, with 'Boris' even­ immediately after the Oxford vote. tually emerging as the favourite. However the idea had been drop­ Lightheartedness apart, the work. It's really essential for ped because of opposition on the ESCA volunteers were obviously students to get involved." . University's Senate. aware that their standing amongst With a new office and a full-trme Mike Conway, of the Edinburgh students is quite low and know secretary this year, ESCA's costs Cons. Students Association, there is pressure on them to will be a lot higher than previously, described the move as "excellent improve beyond last year's total of but with better organsiation it is still stuff'' and commented "if there £16,000 and, hopefully come close hoped that it will be possible to con· were more private Universities to Aberdeen Univ ersity's £57 ,000. tribute £20,000 to charity at the end around there would be more places But, as one member put it , "Seven · of the year. for students." Ross Parsons people on an executive can't do all Michael Moore Arrogant graduates lose out Graduates have a better chance of Indeed, his advice to students and to learn about the market in getting a job than any other group of would be to beware of giving the young people, but should not which it had to operate. impression of being arrogant and to He expressed grave concern as to assume that their first job is in the be alert to those expecting the ineptitude of university educa· managing director's chair. graduates to be complacent. Mr tion in preparing students for indu5• That was the advice given last Bassett agreed that a great many try and commerce through its week by Mr John Davidson, Direc­ firms are now looking specifically assessment of the individual rather tor of the Confederation of British for graduates, even offering them than developing essential tearn· Industry in Scotland, when he training and experience in manage­ work and management skills. Th 15 spoke to students at St Andrews ment skills in schemes such as the creation of a paradoxical mismatch· • University. Unilever Development Manage­ ment leaves the graduate excelling However , in reply to Mr David­ ment Scheme. in brainpower but falling short in son's assertions about graduate 1 IBM .. ICI .. JOHN LEWIS:. Cl While the flow of graduate vac­ management qualities. arrogance, the head of EU Careers ancies increases, last year saw the COMMISSION .. MARKS & S Advisory Service, Mr Bassett, said Highlighting the situatio~. Mr THOMPSON McLINTOCK. / .... ,..,,,...... _,... biggest change in graduate that while graduates are more likely unemployment with a drop of over Bassett stated: "Some of the sad· INVESTORSININDUST~ to become managers rather than 3% and a further reduction dest people we meet here are those the managed, they actually belittle ANDM~Et""' expected for this year. graduates with first class honours themselves in this regard, thinking However, Mr Bassett echoed the degrees who realise, often too late, that they are only recruited for their Industry Director's conclusion that that they don't have the basic man· ORGA~ BY AlESEC. academic qualifications and not graduates must learn the basic facts agement skills the employers are necessarily for any inter-personal of business, to become fully aware looking for." skills which are equally important. ofits products, policy and people Jane KeliY ( STUDENT ThJt;day 7th November 1985 3

News Law Faculty review New

The diploma in legal prac­ tice , requi_red by all _law st~­ post dents seeking to practise law m Scotland , is now, after five ears to be the subject of a possible revie~ to determine its effec- tiveness. . . Established m 1980, the mam EUSA's Welfare Committee is purpose of the diploma is to pro- currently testing student opinion vide a bridge between urnvers1ty over the creation of a new post next and working life by concentrating . year- that of women's officer. on practical aspects of Jaw after the The possible new post is the theory has been learned during the brainchild of EUSA Secretary degree. Its success_ in achievi~g this Robbie Foy, and would be aim is now bemg questioned, intended to highlight the problems according to the Legal Practices faced by many female students. News from the wild Unit at Edinburgh, if the amount of These include sexual harassment support provided by established and the fact that some women fight in the south lawyers at the moment 1s anythmg shy of male-dominated courses, to go by. Currently, 65 practition- especially in the sciences where Not that far south , really. Kings ·nstruct students m their dip- Old c II t 1· t · ta· · there is a noticeable numerical ers l o ege: s rugg mg o mam m ,ts postgraduate diploma courses. ·imbalance between male and Buildings in fact. How the mighty loma year at Edinburgh, which, it is female students. have fallen. Jamie White, Societies claimed, represents a major com- Council Secretary and all-round mitment on their part. implemented, will interfere with faculty would like to increase the Information desks set up last fast-talking miscreant was once There is , in fact, some concern the 'natural evohJtion' of the dip- number to 120, meaning fewer week under the dome in the Stu- famed for his distinctive mating call about the need for the review, loma course and hold back Iits people would have to travel dent Centre and in Ki·ng's Buildings "do you like jazz". Now "'Green which was recommended by the development. elsewhere to complete their dip- Union were designed to provide Jumper 1985" has apparently '"me t report of the Royal Commission on The Law Faculty's immediate Ioma. some feedback from the 'average' someone" (or not) and is reduced · · 1980 M R h d concern, he says, is to allow more The working party which is to student - and stressed that both Legal Services m · r IC ar males and females were welcome to to wandering around KB looking Girdwood of the Lega Practices. graduates to remain in Edinburgh handle the review is expected to for new places to purchase cut-price Unit, feels that the formal review, for their diploma year. At the produce a consultation document give opinions. coffee. And that. in a sense. is what which ma y take up to 18 months for moment 105 are able to do so from early in the new year. Welfare Convener Cathy Pres- he's there for. ,;.;;;_.;...;..its recommendations ______to be______a total of 125 applications and the ..., ______Michael Moore-1 mationland said had that been a good gathered deal of in infor- the L.ahour split o_ver ~~:~it~;g:~~~~ . ~~~h~~~~l~~te~;~: A week's a long .ck Vet has so far been processed. time ... DI She said that ;,articular interest In politics that is. Why is it cuddly h h d Scots Jaw lecturer Bob McCreadie has decided to leave theLabour closure .. ~,~ .. ro~!',ro~ '"' 171[:\if Party? Disillusioned with the over the Labour Party's manned ~~~!·~.~'''year, putting forward a comprehen- "" to feel that'.E:Jg~~-g the idea could be divi- charter for higher education. sive higher education policy. sive," she told Student. Party's policies seems the only Labour hope to launch the charter ly!r Giles Radice, Shadow Edu- She added that it is not certain reason we have been offered. I sup­ at the National Union of Students cation Secretary, criticised the SEA that a women's officer will eventu­ pose when he stood in 1983 as a rumours Labour candidate he was happy conference in early December, but for attacking the charter without ally be created, although a decision Socialist Education Association discussing it with him first. He sa id is possible by the end of term. because the party had no policies. (SEA) secretary Mr Graham Lane that he would be asking the SEA "Even if the idea itself comes to Must be why he's joined the Scouish has asked the Labour leader, Neil executive to come to see him. The nothing, the exercise will have been Liberals. denied Kinnock, to delay the charter SEA has also withdrawn from the profitable," she said. "Feedback The speculation which has been beca.;se he feels it may not be radi- .pressure group Higher Education from thi- two information desks will The Galaxys greatest mounting since the beginning of this cal enough. for the Labour Party (HELP) go to other committees such as edu­ term that Edinburgh University's Paul Greatrix, chairman of the which was set up by Mr Radice and cation or external affairs. " comic Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Edinburgh University Labour has invited members of HELP to News of the proposal comes at Club, said he knew nothing about join its own special education cam- the same time as the publication of Studies may close has this week been Teviot Row House Committee the apparent split and could not paign group. a paper suggesting that problems dispelled. Speculation of closure minutes. I mean. you·ve gow comment on it since he did not Labour's education strategy was facing overseas students in Britain seems to have been based on, so far, laugh. The latest gem of decisio, know what was contained in also criticised by Mr Peter Brooke, are particularly applicable to unfounded rumour that the vet making (and I quote): · Labour's charter. However,hesaid the Under-Secretary for Higher women. The report claims that school might suffer a similar closure 10.2 Durex. Durex Durex Dure· that he would expect the launch of Education, at a recent Cambridge many of the 15,000 foreign women threat which ung over the Dental Durex Durex Durex. I've no ide the charter to be delayed if the split Students' Union meeting. He students face sexual as well as racial School and Hospital this summer. what theidea of this is. butit is not resolved before the .NUS con- accused it of bieng "unrealistic" prejudice, and that many who are w,, The University Grants Commit­ mentioned again . ference. and "vague" . married have had to leave their tee recently sent out a letter to all This perhaps explains " ' The SEA intends to produce its families behind. British vet schools saying that one, there's only one female commit own alternative to the govern- Guy Fisher Jenny Dunn or possibly two, closures may be member. necessary in view of further govern­ ment education expenditure cut­ Working on the backs. Speaking on behalf of the Veteri-. NUS to back Labour's youth midnight shift nary Students' Committee, VSC President Andy Beardow said in a Which, surprisingly enough. letter to Student this week, that "as charter reminds me of Potterrow last Wed­ far as the students and staff of the nesday. Good or Charlie Faculty are concerned, the Vet Last week saw the Scottish The campaign has the support of ment on students have not been Fishburne kept trying to tell me School is in a very healthy st'ate. launch of the NUS I'm Back­ senior figures in trade unions, poli­ embarked upon in isolation. They something. Unfortunately. I'd con­ Indeed, as far as the VSC is aware,' ing Youth campaign. Its aim_is tics, youth organisations and cul­ are part of the Conservatives· over­ sumed too much export in an the University is in the process of the promotion of a charter of ture and initial action in November all strategy and, as such, we must attempt to believe Donald "Man filling the vacant chairs within the and December will concentrate on link with the wider community in with the money" Pollock's attempt basic rights for young people the difficulties of entry into Higher Veterinary Faculty thus displaying covering education and train­ opposing that strategy and the ·to explain the budget. and their confidence in the future Education and the funding of stu­ ideology behind it. This campaign remember only that . . .Oh. now 1 development of the school." ing , employment and discrimi­ dent unions. is vital in that process.,. remember . . .. nation, finance and the right to As for Edinburgh's role in this Anyway till next time my little The VSC President concluded, union participation. · campaign, EUSA External Affairs Christine Clough chocolate pots. "in the current hostile environment It follows a comprehensive sur­ Convener, David Clark, com­ that all university faculties find vey, commissioned by the NUS, of ments: "As a University of only themselves, rumour and· specula, people aged 16-22, both students 10,000, wqe cannot hope to take !ton are the weapons of those who and non-swtudents. The findings the kind of initiatives that the NUS seek to undermine the foundations reveal deep-seated dissatisfaction can with l l/ 4 million members and of our university system. Perhaps with the Government's achieve­ all the resources that go with that. we should see to it they are not ments in the aforementioned areas We can only follow the lead given Propagated." over the last six years. Particular by the NUS on issues such as this The matter was raised during the concern was expressed over the and contribute what we can by way last meeting of the Students' Rep­ Youth Training Scheme and of support. That is what I'm hoping resentative Council, althouJ1;h sub­ schools in their acpacity to prepare we'll do in this campaign." sequently there has been no UGC students for adult life while the gen­ The convener added that representative available for com­ eral feeling was one pf pessimism "EUSA and Edinburgh University ment. and indifference on the part of the students must realise, as the NUS Devjn Scobie Government itself. has, that attacks by the Govern- 4 STUDENT Thursda 7th November 1985

Letters Extr.i Leukaemia Marshall arts Harry• • • MoreRCP Dear Editor, Dear Editor, Dear Student, ·1 feel J must reply to Simon I'd just like to point out that your Appeal I was saddened to read Lorraine As it stood, Miss Marshall's let­ Wright's letter in Student of 31st article on the RCS last week mis. Marshall's attack upon Devin ter constituted a personal attack October, 1985 . Since the introduc­ represented the RCP's views on the The Student leukaemia appeal Scobie's "flippancy" on the subject that is difficult to substantiate. tion of "Free-Ents'' attendan'ce at Labour Party by quoting us out of appears to be gathering momentum of apartheid in last week's issue. In Damaging accusations ofthis events has risen by 100%, if this is a context. Our attitude is not that as it enters its final phase. The the same edition as you published nature against any ·named person shambles then what, I ask , i'S a suc­ "every single person in the Labour money is to be handed over to Ian Mr Scobie's response to the initial on the basis of what that individual cess? Furthermore, the bands that Party is a barrier to working class Botham in Biggar market square on criticism, EUSA secretary Robbie may (or may not) have done or in play in the Unions are locally based development" but that the Labour Friday. Foy defended himself against the opinions they may (or may not) bands, high cost "big" bands have Party as an organ_isation misleads Speaking on Tuesday night , cam­ exactly the same charge with the hold, should surely not have been never been successful, costing the people with socialist aspirations. paign organiser David Yarrow said words "humour is a weapon. " published. Such a letter can only Association thousands of pounds There are many historical reasons that the amount raised was already Surely, then, Miss Marshall must reflect badly upon both the writer over the years. I would rather see for this but even today Neil Kin. £600, and the appeal seems set to either equally condemn Mr Foy or and the newspaper in which it is good free ents that were self-financ­ nock's influence makes it clear to reach its target of £1,000. else excuse Mr Scobie, if her objec­ printed. ing and well attended than see socialists that anyone who ti es "The response has been excel­ tion is, as she claims, to flippancy Yours , badly attended money-losing big themselves to a pro-capitalist party lent, especially at Pollock," he said, and not to Mr Scobie himself. Jenny Dunn events. will never be able to take on the but added that there had been some In my election campaign I made difficulty in getting out to the far­ it quite clear that I supported free­ fight for the working class politics. That's why we're building the inde­ Oung corners of the universities. ents, and I feel it w@uld be wrong of Student would like to thank Two for one me to lose sight of this. pendent working class alternative everyone who contributed. worthy Finally, "The Rat" suggests I the Revolutionary Communist of special note are Colin Campbell, Dear Student, Dear Student, turned down Mark Almond; not so, Party. I find it necessary to write and John Duckfield, Jacqui Browr. I welcome the forum that the when Coasters burnt down he Yours, condemn the "regrettable", "ven­ and Phil Copeland, each of whom Comment page gives to those who refused to play in any other venue. Gordon Lee omous" and "vindictive'1 letter have raised more than £100 wish to make constructive criticisms Yours faithfully , Treasurer, EURCS whichStudent saw fit to publish last It is sti ll not too late to bring of news articles which appear in Stu­ ·Harry Elwin week. The personal attack on donations to the Studen·t office at I dent. ·Deputy President Dear Editor, Devin Scobie by Lorraine Marshall Buccleuch Place. Chegues should EUSA Re the RCS article in last week's be made payable to 'Leukaemia was totally unnecessary, particu­ I do not welcome the use of that Student, I doubt very much if any larly as Mr Scobie had made his forum to make personal attacks on Road Runners Celebrity Walk. e SMALLADS member of RCS would recognise a feelings on apartheid abundantly news reporters, or anyone else. socialist/working class person if clear in reply to a letter in that same CASIOTONE. MT-65 ELEC­ they tripped over one. Appeal 2 edition. For Student to publish such Therefore, I regret that recently TRONIC KEYBOARDldeal for an unncessary personal attack was people have seen fit to write, and composi11g, home or stage use. 20 Yours, that Student has seen fit to publish, pre-set sounds (has good sounds for Dear Sir, surely a mistake which can have L. A. B. Class Why oh why has it come to my done nothing to enhance its reputa­ such personal attacks. gigs) and modulation feature and. notice that your staff are looking so tion. Yours etc, effects. Perfect condition. WANTED- Gents bicycle in good tired/downtrodden/washed out? Yours faithfully, Alan Young, Onecareful owner. RRP £149 condition. Not more than £20 What have they been doing/what Derek J. Huntly News Editor. Yours for £80 only! 8/7 Horne Ter­ Replies to Student, 1 Buccleuch have you been doing to them??? race. Tel. 228 6456. Place, marked 'BICYCLE' or tele­ It is the policy and duty of Student to pub­ published without qualification from him. Are you some sort of literary tyr­ phone Student 667 5718. li sh as many letters received as possible - Under normal circumstances , and fol­ SQUASH RACQUET - used only ant? Is the news editor some sort of even those about members of staff - pro­ lowing thexample of most weekly publica­ once. Unwanted gift. (Ascot Mota) literary tyrant? Free the news staff tions , editor reserves the right to Student is keen to receive your free vided that they are not actually libellou s. Student's will sell for £12. or nearest cash, - they're innocent! In fact , as Devin Scobie did consider reply to letters in their week of publication small ads. Buying, selling, looking offer. Contact: Shona Finlay son Yours faithfully , the original lt!tter to be personally libell­ as and when appropriate. for accommodation? - Send it in to GFIDQTT FNMTR ous. it was felt that it could not have been Lee 205 ( extension 64). Student.

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Desperately telling Susan

Dear Student, no great surprise to your politically Brigade" led by Kinnock and Co., May I, through your columns, .informed readers that the Socialist it is a totally rational response that take this opportunity to supply Workers Party had no role in the SWP should offer such a clear some relevant facts further to Susan " motivating· Mr McLean" butthat invitation rather than indulge in Deacon's "factual account" of last Mr McLean's views were, in fact, some form of mere flirtation as week (Ballot rigging - not us!) . expressed in response to an invita­ suggested by Susan Deacon. Firstly, in Section 3 of her letter, tion by a member of "Student" By a combination of conjecture Established in 1889 published by EUSPB. she talks of "The possible role of staff. 'and innuendo, therefore, she the Socialist Workers Party in Secondly, Susan Deacon refers attempts to present a " factual Laughing at the starving motivating Mr McLean to make his to the Socialist Workers Party's "at­ account" of SWP politics and inten­ accusations ... "Whether this may tempts to flirt with the Militant" . lions which, in the final analysis. Charity has been very much on the collective mind of the Student come as a relief or a disappoint­ The use of the word "flirt" is blat­ are no more than "false and mis­ staff recently. While caught up in the swirl of our Leukaemia Appeal, ment to Labour students I don't antly misleading in this context leading allegations" (to use her own which was running to its £1,000 target at time of going to press, we know, but the reality is that the .insofar as what the SWP has openly phraseology). Might l suggest to were initially only too glad to see another group of students involved Socialist Workers Party has no con­ and honestly done is to issue an Susan that .in order to counteract in raising money - this time for Ethiopia. suming interest in either the invitation to the Militant member­ what is -an unfortunate and disap­ While doubting the wisdom of the widely-publicised "Underpants bureaucratic machinations or arith­ ship to unite with us in counteract­ pointing lack of insight into the for Africa" party, which was supposedly to be held last Friday in two metic (correct or otherwise) of the ing the amazingly rapid rush to the politics of SWP that she purchases adjacent flats in Marchmont Student had to assume that the organis­ National Organisation of Labour right that we have witnessed, and "Socialist Worker" every week. ers had taken the necessary precautions in order to be host to a pro­ Students. In similar vein , personal ncontinue to witness, on the British Who knows, she may end up lead­ jected 500 students in their flats. As requested in their letter, we gave character assassination is not a part political scene. Since the Militant ing the charge back to the left them the publicity of a "Small Ad" in Student. of our armoury - for the Socialist are clearly the main section within where she'll find the SWP "holding It was certainly not our perogative at the time to question the integ­ Workers Party it is a case of politi­ the Labour Party who are really the fort". rity of such an apparently laudable venture. We thank Mr Balmer for cal analysis, political critique, ·and committed. to fighting against Yours sincerely. his letter, notifying us of the hoax, and join with him in condemning, the translation of this into political Thatcher's government (ewg Liver­ David McRobert in the strongest possible terms, the people who arranged this elabo­ activity. In Iighi of this, it should be pool) and the "Charge of the Right Socialist Worker Student Society) rate hoax in order to have a not-so-cheap laugh at peoplewith genuine feelings for, and intentions towards, the starving in Ethiopia. Speaking to Student, the "Underpants for Africa" team showed no shame for what they had done and claimed that the stunt had showed Damned lies up part-time pleasure-seeking wacky-student charity types for what Dear Student, Heady days they really are. _ I refer to your report on the Gen­ In fact, they proved nothing - except their lack of any moral sense ·eral Meeting and, hopefully forthe Dear Sir. whatsoever. By extrapolation, they were laughing at the starving all last time, to the remarks made by Re the letter from Mr Simon ·1 over the world. Student trusts that this was the last practical joke they Tom Reid and my reply to what he was that fucked pig' Lazarus which will play at University. said. I did not say, and would never was printed in your newspaper of say what Szudent attributed to me ie Thursday, 31st October 1985. l sub­ The TSB Challenge . " people who don't make use of mit only the following . Written Student was faced with a difficult decision this week regarding the democracy don't deserve to vote". ·ong ago in the heady days of the acceptance of the advert opposite from the TSB, looking for graduate What I actually said was that people EUSA elections. the sentiments staff. who don't make use of their democ­ expressed are as heartfelt now as While fully supporting Trustee Savings Banks,Student would not ratic right to vote in EUSA elec­ they were then. wish the acceptance of the advert to be construed as lack of awareness tions and at EUSA general meet­ Student. Witness your article on Poem for Simon Lazarus or alignment on the issue of the Government's planned privatisation ings can hardly claim that EUSA is . ballot riggin!! at NOLS conference. an unrepresentative clique, when This is bad enough, even worse is to You may have red tulip petals dying on of Trustee Savings Banks in February. your windowsill If the shares flotation, which was the major provision of the 1985 they themselves ha\[!! not made the credit peopie with things that they And Greenham and your st ickers: h?.ir­ TSB Act , goes ahead, it will be especially in Scotland that ordinary most minimal effort to change such have not said at all. spray too small depositors lose out. Thequestion of who owns the surplus asset a hypothetical state of affairs. Just because journalistic integ­ But when mornings come ea rly in our I hope people don ·1 think that I sunny little garden value of TSB Scotland - the depositors or the Central Bank - and, rity is not a feature of our national am harping on about irrelevancy. And I am hung over. therefore, whether the TSB can in fact be privatised, is one of which press is no reason why smaller As an SRC rep I do not like my fel­ It is you even the Chairman of TSB Scotland himself is uncertain. newspapers like Student-should not low students to get utterly distorted Always you I feel bathing the dust from The current Court of Session case against the Government over the aspire to such a quality. my feet. reports of my opinions. TSB privatisation, which is adjourned until tomorrow, may very well Yours faithfully , Paul William Hullah, MA (Hons), · Recently we have seen several be won. The Government may also be found to have contravened the Joanna Cherry Aged 22 112. examples of selective quoting in European Convention of Human Rights. TSB Scotland is a bona fide organisation with a 160-year tradition of small Scottish deposit accounts. We accept the advert for that reason alone, and have no with to_see the TSB privatised. The Dave Clark crit Dear Student, another explanation however. It Sick party You seem to be lacking editorial seems to me that one or two of vour consistency this term. In last week's reporters are more interested in Student, yot¥attacked my speech on using Stude111 for their own crude ''joke'' the occasiort of the students· day of ·political purposes than producing Dear Editor, protest against Apartheid, as being the kind of objective and award­ I write to express my extreme composed of ·mindless slogans·. winning journalism we saw last ·outrage at thesick joke publicised Yet if you care to look back at your term. l hope to see a return to the everwhere as "Underpants for editorial two weeks previously you balanced reporting Student is fam­ Africa". I turned up as instructed in will find that it contains exactly the· ous for and no more cheap jibes. Student only to find the party same points raised in my speech. David Clark, thrown for famine relief funds did namely that we as students have a EUSA. External Affairs Convener. not exist! responsibility in reali;ing the plight of students in other countries who Studenr's reference to Oavjd Clark 's Quite frankly Mr Petrie, the speech in fact referred to .. mindless slo­ are denied the liberties we take for · Arts Martin McHugh exploitation of human suffering for gans . . . per second'"The point objec1e? to Ben Simms a cheap laugh will not do, and must granted. was the ··opport1111ist" use of tht' police­ David Cline never be tolerated by EUSA mem­ By calling me a ·mindless man publicity stunt to deliver an otwiously Staff rehearsed speech to a captive: audil.'nce al Stella Collier bers in any shape or form. sloganiser' you have surely denounced yourselves. Much of the an inappropriate moment. Jacqui Brown To the perpetrators of this Features inspiration and fact contained in my As far as the speech was concerned. S111- Editor John Petrie · infantile deed I would say two dem criticised the wav in which v;:\\id idea~ Melissa Clarke things: firstly, hoaxes masquerad­ speech came directly from your were made unconvin.cinl.?. in translation to Chloe Dear editorial - are we to assume that Assistant Editor Peter Carroll ing as altruistic projects serve only <-1 simplistic level. The suhject matterol:tht' lshbel Matheson to make genuine charitable efforts your line has changed. or is it that speech was not criticised: thus. our ~d110- News Alan Young increasingly difficult to convey pub­ your reporter is deaf. There may. be rial policy remains consistent. - Editor. Writings John Hodge licly - the principle here being: Suzanne Doran Alastair Dalton once bitten, twice shy. Secondly, if Gary Duncan I and my friends find out who did Sport lain Catto FRESHERS' WEEK Jenny Dunn .this, they will not need a "Band Laura Kibby David Yarrow Aid" so much as a wheelchair! Anne McNaught Photography 1986 James Laidlaw Yours truly, Devin Scobie John Lindsay A. Steven Balmer Application forms for the post of · Craig McNicol (See editorial - Editor) What's On Sally Greig Michael Miller Katrina Philip Freshers' Week Director 1986 Illustrations Robbie Bushe Artist pays . .. ·· are available from the 1, Sandra Catto Rory MacBeth Lorna Henderson John Henderson Julian Thomas Dear Szudent, Association Offices. Advertising Neville Moir Thanks for the piece about the Music Keith Cameron Artist-in-Residence. It should be Applications close Wednesday, Names shown in staff fist show sub-editor Peter Carroll noted, though, I pay for my own first then other editing/lay-out staff in 13th November. Jame Humphries alphabetical order. Pages with no overall materials. John Lindsay suh-edttQr show names in alphabetical John McLean order. Contributor's names are given Artist-in-Residence Do you want to direct it? Film Anthony Harwood beside individual articles. Edinburgh University 6 STUDENT Thursday 7th ,November 1985

.\\usic it engenders in most people's n_imds "and he doesn't look like On Friday night in the - that of raging queens campmg it These quips are made with El',, Hooch, Bronski Beat took the up on stage in front of other ragmg humour, and any animosit great stage for about four minutes, queens. . exists between the two ya that accompanied by backing "We're musicians first and appears frivolous rather thin n.,es The Beat tapes. This 'short sharp shock' foremost. That is what is most ous. They confess to "stickin Vis,. treatment was part of an important to us. " Larry's statement noses in the air whenever Weg our voices the opinion of all three m the him in the record company ~ss extensve promotional tour kids, these things happen.· band. 0 es which they are doing at the· "Everyone knows about our sex­ professional basis, they think t~ a Goes On moment, and as such smacks of uality" he sighs, and I don't blame Somerville and his new band r:t management/record company him for being fed up with the popu­ Communards are a packaged e Is there life after Jimi? Suzanne Doran investigates and asks manipulation. lar myth that the music came about duct now, with their appearan/ro. Bronski Beat- Why? However, their performance suc­ as a result of somenovel whim to Wogan accompanied by bac~·on ceeded in disproving any cynic who promote themselves as front line singers etc. tng might have said that they are a load campaigners for the homosexual "It involves compromise." sa of crap since the departure of community. This is a media inven­ Larry, speaking of the big b YJ Jimmy Somerville, former lead tion, totally spurious, and infuriat­ world of pop music. Bronski Ban singer and major force behind the ingly bewyond their control to have no illusions about the mueat band. His replacement, JohnFos­ rectify. Except through · playing b1z. - t h ey rea 1·1se that succeS!Q 51 ter, has great energy and their new live. involves hard graft and promo to single is damned impressive. Considering the speed and inten­ of. small Scottish towns. They ~J Naturally they are on the defen­ sity of the fame which Bronski Beat neither overly cynical nor compla. sive when faced with yet more pros­ have been exposed to in the past, cent. pective boring questions about the lads I spoke .to on Friday night The new single is called Hit Tho, Jimmy, and even more boring ques­ were remarkably amiable, patient Perfect Beat and will "hit the club 5• tions about sex, and before being and interesting. They regard what as the boys said themselves som granted an interview with the lad I they are doing now as a natural time this week. The forth~omi:· was vetted, (gently but firmly) to progression from the old Bronski LP is not to be called Promisesg ensure that I wasn't about to launch Beat. Promises as rumoured on the old into the usual media-style interro­ I suggest, rather tentatively for .grapevme - Larry, Steve and John gation. I assured their minder that I fear of losing my kneecaps to a c_onfided in us that they prefer the would instigate nothing untoward. high-speed drill on the way out, title Bongo Barn Bam. Intrigue and Bronski Beat that their new lead singer, John uspense eh? We gottit. Good luck were labelled as a 'gay band' at the bears a striking physical to Bronski Beat, and outset, an unhelpful and unfair So which one of you's the real Jimi Somerville? Photo: John Lindsay resemblance to Jimmy Somerville. REMEMBER WHE RE YOU classification because of the image "He's better looking," says Steve SAW IT FIRST. S uzanne Do an pet and sax came to the for all too i SIMPLY RED briefly. ! WE FREE KINGS/ Glasgow Scottish Exhibition and Simply Red had the clock against j THIEVES AND WHORES/ Conference Centre them too. Their final song Money's NO TOMORROW Too Tight (To Mention), a spirited Nicaragua Benefit - Pleasance To act as openers at the inau­ cover of the Valentine Brothers gural concert of Scotland's 1982 release, was rushed through It dido 't look like anyone was newest and biggest venue before a uick exit to let the roadies going to benefit when the evening's would have been an onerous prepare for UB40. j entertainment started in a deserted task for any band; Simply Red, In Picture Book, the title track of Pleasance bar. No Tomorrow from Dundee played an enthusiastic and the band's debut LP , came a remin- 1' on their visit north of the bor­ heartfelt, if rather obviously U2- der, had tht: added challenge of der of what had been missing ear- , lier on: the harmony of soaring voc­ influenced, setto absolutely no reac­ having to entertain 10,000 als and understated, brooding tion from a small crowd who looked impatient UB40 fans. instrumental. Hot on its tail was the as if they couldn't wait for the videos The building's colour scheme, highlight of the set, Holding Back and the food. both inside and out, is predomin­ the Years. We've heard so much Thieves and Whores turned out antlv red. However, for much of about Mick's sould influences and to be nothing more depraved than thei~ set Simply Red had little more aspirations; here at last they were, an angry young(???) man called than this on their side. The PA, wonderfully displayed, complete Chris wearing denim and a very which seemed perfectly geared for with brass backing that included dodogy hat. He demonstrated a UB40 later on, reduced several of muted trumpet: "I'm wasting all my highly unusual vocal style and a the former's songs to little more tears, wasting all of those years." I profound hatred for parents I knew we should have stayed with Dexy's Midnight Runners. than a wall of sound, the very worst Unfortunately, due to the fire at everywhere: "If it wasn't for them Photo: Nick Hunt ting that can happen in a large Coasters, Simply Red's Edinburgh we wouldn't be in the shit we're in We Free Kings are three Scots, tent, energetic Love ls In The Air venue. date on November 287 had had to now" and "I'll never forgive him for an Irish accordion player and a Bur­ to a ferociously snarled God Bless One of the pleasures of live be cancelled. No other suitable or murdering the gorgeous "Summer­ mese violinist who list The America . . Comparisons ·with The appearances is the prospect of hear­ avail able venue was found. Con­ time". Woodentops and Nancy Sinatra as Pogues are inevitable but Joe's ing new improvisations to already sole yourself with the Lp if you By this time the place had filled their influences. If this sounds teeth are in marginally better shape well known songs'. Come To My can't get to see them at their Dun­ up but the best thing I'd heard all highly dubious then their music than Shane McGowan's .. Aid had the potential for this, dee and Glasgow dates in late night was the tape with "Move Me" isn't - a glorious swirling Celtic We Free Kings can be seen play­ butthe band's brass section oftrum- November. and "A Girl Called Johnny" on it thrash that got everyone dancing ing their frenzies folk down Princes Alastair Dalton which was played in between the fgrantically-from the sentimental Street every week. Don't pass them "live acts". opener Oceans through the insis- by. Special Offer Ruth Harrower on Kilt Outfit­ Sound and VisiOn He then turned to independent THE VIDEO IN POP MUSIC video producers and suggested that · £159.95 Talk by Paul Blyuth the reason why so little of their work (8yd Wonted Kilt, Argyle Jacket, Bose, 11ashes) Last Saturday independent is shown on national TV is that they video-maker and founder ·either have no money to 'push,.their BOT member of Edinburgh's The videos, or deal with what the TV Discounts on all Leather companies term 'sensitive' issues: WAX Laughing Academy Paul Blyth death, politics (especially), sex- in Brogues and Boots (£39.95). presented.a talk on the video in short, just about anything about 60 DALRY ROAD Also 10% off Arran/lcelandic popular music, as part of this which a song can be written! EDINBURGH year's Edinburgh Fringe Film An at times heated discussion fol­ 031-337 5225 Knitwear (special student Festival. ~owed, during which such hoary After giving us a potted history of issues as video cliches and sexism in offer). All items of Highland the pop video: tracng it through videos were debated. · For all your domestic and early chat-show mimes liy the likes The most interesting point to imported recorded wants, Dress. of Elvis Presley to the little shown com~ out of t~e talk was, however, Albwns, Cassettes, Seven-in.ch video proper of The Beatles Straw­ Paul s contenhon that the advent of and Twelve-inch, and Cable TV would lead to more inde­ c.v.s. berry Fields, he then i>inpointed the Our quality secondhand rise of the video as being due to the pendent videos being shown as the R. Shepherd pleased to increase of TV magazine program­ producers of any nascent pop chan­ department will be Highland Bagpipes & mes such as Multi-Coloured Swap: nel search for more variety with make you ~ cash or exchange Shop. The video proved to be the which to fill their schedules. He offer on your unwanted Accessories. ideal package for selling groups, as seemed less concerned about any Albwns or C.D.s. TV live sound is notoriously appal­ possible decline in TV standards ling, especially for groups who can't ~hich Cable would produce, point­ Ofscoaot: bfgblar.10 sappcy play or sing. The video format has mg out that it is now virtually for ••• ,. 7 Cowgatehead, Edinburgh EHI IJY. Scotland. Tel: 031-225 2390 proved the complete and glossy many mm-makers to get their work 5% discoant oaprodactioD of (East end of the Grassmarket) advert for a band even of dubious screened.as it is. Studeat CazrL ,~------1 merit. PJ:t~r Carroll. STUDENT Thursday 7~h N~vemb;r i9ss 7

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JEFFERY LEE PIERCE Party Crackers Hoochie Coochie Club Shit or superb. Love or hate it. Is this music, or is it aimless thrash? Opinions tend to be very black and white . about such persons belonging to the rock school where Jeffrey Lee Queen's Hall/ Pierce resides, formerly from Glasgow Theatre Royal that bastion of the loud/fast/ & Well, it's certainly been a hard philosophy, The Gun busy week for jazz buffs and, Club. as usual, I was there to cover . The Gun Club represented the all the thrills, spills and crowd pinnacle of the bands of their field· violence. Friday night saw me the power, the anger, which create~ in my usual seat in the Queen's that welling up feeling in ones Hall. stomach, that surges irresistibly First on was Aladar Pege, the through ones whole body. So how well-spoken-of Hungarian bass. does Pierce solo compare to his player. Without doubt; the man band of old? The answer is 'not was a fine bass player, all sorts of much'. JLP continues along much techniques were on show. The only the same vein as before, although problem was that a seemingly end­ maybe a little toned down now (in less succession of bass solos, I think it's boring too, ~ames. _s~und, but not in appearance), punctuated only by brief bursts by slightly slower, slightly quieter; guitar and sax, does have the ten­ • memorable tunes with some pretty dare I say it 'more refined'. 1 dency to be remackably dull. I'm strange rhythms. couldn't describe JLP as looking ashamed to say that after only half On stage he appeared shy and refined however. He looked the set I was occupying my usual nervous (you could tell by the paper wasted, they all looked wasted. In seat in the Queen's Hall bar. bag over his head) while his son between songs a look of helpless­ Red Rodney was an entirely dif­ Chris (bass and trombone) looked ness, anguish, would cloud his fea­ ferent kettle of fish. He was Charlie like a hippy who'd stolen his .tures while, slowly shaking his head Parker's trumpeter for a number of father's dinner jacket. Randy Jones· from side to side, an expression years and proved his skill by playing on drums managed to play the only flitting across his face'Whats going some fiery bebop numbers. He by drum solo I've ever heard and on? I can't cope?' His entourage no means limited himself to that didn't find deadly dull. Bill Smith's appeared equally spaced out - a style, playing both cool and funk clarinet playing was enlivened by red eyed wreck on drums, a male and he exhibited a particular pro­ the use of a digital delay ... lay ... 'Grace Jones' figure poised on bass, fessionalism which has occasionally ay . . . ay. His slid up and down and a completely motionless, been lacking from performers arpeggios (which can be very pain­ expressionless guitarist, strumming recently. His patter and its delivery ful) to give us a sweet sound; yet the away unconsciously, staring out were perfect. older numbers lacked the forcoe­ blindly into 'never never' land. Monday night saw me heading fulness of the sax. Take Five was It's Me! Photo: John Lindsay off to the sleazy atmosphere of played after being demanded by a Glasgow's Theatre Royal for th~ drunk, but as well as the oldies were lar just now - all fifties doo-wop. The songs that were of surpris­ ingly moderate pace, when perhaps first Scottish date of Dave some great songs dominated by RENT PARTY And since musical output is under­ Brubeck's British tour. Brubeck Chris's trombone, a kind of neo­ going a worldwide recession, the it was time for the subtlety of the Hoochie Coochie lyrics to show through, also pro­ · occupies a special place in my trad dueting with Bill. As my kids are going for the tried and heart, the left atrium.His jazz has esteemed colleague Hugh Godsal Holee shit. 1 have never seen the trusted oldies. Get the gear in Flip vided breathing space for the Hooch move with such wild aban­ sweating armpit - waving mind­ been harshly described as "pseudo­ would say, "tliose with the decisive (preferably Glasgow) and go to see intellectual", his piano playing is say are the public" and after having don. A busload of funsters must Rent Party because they play fifties less morons making a nuisance of have infiltrated the place - surely intense, fast but never frantic, clini­ paid £5.50 you'd be a mug not to better than any other plagiarists themselves at the front, who seem these were not native Edinburgers to take great pleasure in knocking cal but always taut. As a composer .enjoy it. around. he has managed to combine James Jazz who were witnessed enjoying them­ They were still brilliant - you hell out of each other, as well as out selves-nay, letting it rip-on Fri­ of much of the passive contingent of day night. know what they say: if it feels good, don't slag it off in irrelevant poxy the audience as well, while their Rent Party were the cause of this articles. This band really live up to sweat production was directly prop­ spontaneous outburst of boogie. their name - they re capable of ortional to the speed of Mr Grace There were about seven of them getting even the most unwilling of Jones' bass. Why do they bother lis­ and they were hugely entertaining. image conscious airheads onto the tening to the band at all? Try stay­ The smts were impressive enough dance floor. The most memorable ing at home with your favourite on their own, but the show was sto­ of all the cover versions played on Cliff Richard LP on 45 rpm next len by an excellent saxophonist, Friday was Momma Put the Kettle time. It's cheaper and saves the rest Tomorrow night looks like pulse-beat to return to normal.) ,John Wilmott. Their banter bet-· On which must have lasted about 15 of the audience a few bruises, spilt cardiac arrest time for those Back, thankfully, to familiar ween songs was fast and furiously minutes, and never a dull moment. drinks and is not disrespectful to attempting to savour all the ground, Friday also means The Witty and their obvious delight in They also spent longer on stage the efforts of the musicians. cultural goodies on offer. Tube which this week offers crowd participation a joy to behold. A fittingly hard and fast ending 1 than any band I've ever seen in the Ideally, of course, the entire Elephant (Elton?) John, The Fall. was all but worn out by the end of world should be along at the Marc Almond and Prefab Sprout the evening. Hooch before ( at least over the last Photo: Hugh Godsal 73 y~ars) - quality and quantity. Queen's Hall that night to savour which might all be better than it Now some staiutory bursts of Rare stuff, and please can we have Gil Scott-Heron's unique blend of sounds. cool objectivity-the type of music some more of the same calibre. jazz, soul, funk and biting political Whistle Test sees David Hep­ Rent Party play is universally popu- Suzanne Doran acid drops, typified by B-Movie, a wroth "At Home in Liverpool .. five-minute expose of the Reaga- with the best band in the world. nite myth. Just go - the man's a Echo and the Bunnymen. Live in genius. the studio will be the Men They However, I daresay that all you Couldn't Hang. Messin' the Blues casual young trendies will be sue- Gigs to avoid this week sees close with his white shirt, tight leather cumbing to.the fuss and the h)!pe competition between Go West on and will be at the Hoochie Coochie sunday and The Cult on Tuesday. !!!_E PRIMEV ALS pants and pointy boots, he even looks like him. Only uglier. Good Club posing like mad ·whilst Hips- both at the Playhouse. Go West are Chambers St. voice, though. way make their bid for street credi- an extraordinary tribute to the The rest of the band both look bility. Purveyors of OK-ish Glas- power of money: a band created ~ The sight of clods descending gow pop, these four young dudes from nothing by Chrysalis Records rom the Chambers St 'ball­ and play mean. Their chosen style is hardly the most original, but they have been receiving almost as much · and hyped into the charts by means ~OOm' usually means that the do it a lot better than most, with the' media attention as Madonna ·s of the popular press and Radio One and is on. slide guitarist outstanding. The belly-button but without half such -possibly the most worthless lump to Yes indee_d , i~'s a long trek to that _group has that elusive quality of good reason. Wonh investigating of shit you 're able to come across in cli floor with its fancy lights and being both tight and loose. They to see if they can pull it off and a long time. The Cult? At least d' Ying DJ, and for your average are different from the sort of band Er-Branski Beat? Who? counfound cynical bastards like 'they'r efunny. 15 Keith Cameron t ~0 punter to go all that way only which plays the Preservation Hall myself. The day again? Friday ... 0 e confronted with a live band­ was delivered, with 'Wildweed' and And still there's more! Dr Feel­ in that they play their blues harder APOLOGY ~nd one of whom they·ve probably and with more guts and pride to the superb 'Sex Killer' raising the good are on at Queen Margaret Col­ /Ver heard at that-well, it must be blood pressure, so that even the lege and must therefore qualify as In the issue dated 24.10.85 we boot. made disparaging comments con­ singularly galling experience. It is this self-same pride which trendy Hoochie audience slipped in the only credible motive for struggl­ cerning the Piledriver PA system in p . Tonight's sufferers were The impels them to drastically curtail mask of disdain and unconcern , ing out to Corstorphine on Friday a review of Amazulu's Assembly nmevals from Glasgow who play their set, leaving the House DJ requesting an encore which was night. But what about the Filmsoc' hard R•· 'B Th. Rooms concert. We now realise that th· n · 1s comes as some- blubbering pathetically into his duely supplied. Take it or leave it, A/1-Nite Horror, I hear you ask. Amazulu supplied their own sound 'r mg of a relief because most of my mike. The reason is the comatose slag Jeffrey Lee Pierce off if you so Yes, indeed; decisions, decisions .. engineer who was solely responsible ;ends were convinced that they audience, (there's a shock), which desire, but just because its not the And what about Potterrow (yeah, for the poor sound quality that ere some sort of dodgy · Goth probably wouldn't have stirred had in fashion music style of 1985 what aobut it?) and ... and Enter­ Combo. night, and not Piledriver, wht> the- Queen herself turned up and doesn't mean that you cannnot tainment USA (?) on BBC 2 and merely supplied the equipment. M'fhe lead singer sounds like Jim launched into a raunchy strip-tease. enjoy it. . . . and then there's the Presidents' ornon. Upon closer inspection, Peter Carroll HughGodsal Bal! AAARRRGHH!!! (Pause for Sorry, lads. ""THEATRE FILMHOUSE F L M soc=B~E_D_L_A_M_TRAVERSE ------Forrest Rd . 112WestBow Lothian Rd 228 2688 WHO WAS HILARY MACON CH IE? 226 2633 SOPHIE'S CHOICE ALL-NITE HORROR 8Nov;1 .1 5pm 13 Nov; 1.00 pm 7 Nov; 2.30 Tickets: Non-members £1 .25, HOGG - THE SHEPHERD JUS­ Tale of menage a trois, New York Odeon members75p TIFIED style with Auschwitz survivor Take a cusion and something to dig your nails into, preferably By James Saunders. Test your 7-13 Nov; 8.00 Meryl Streep choosing between ingenuity with this whodunnit Tickets: £4.50 (cone. £3.60) Kevin Kline and Peter McNichol. human. The whole kaboodle kicks off with THE COMPANY OF thriller with a difference. In celebration of the 160th anniver­ THE COTTON CLUB WOLVES, Neil Jordan's scary ver­ sary of the death of James Hogg 7/9 Nov; 5.45, 8.15 THE INTERROGATION OF Frederic Mohr presents this new sion of Red Riding Hood and men AMBROSE FOGARTY Coppola's version f 20's Harlem whose eyebrows meet in the mid­ work. 11 Nov-13 Nov; 7.30 jau with Gregory Hines as the dle. Next on is ZOMBIES: DAWN Tickets: £2 (copnc. £1 .75) open wide and say u Aaah" . .. crazy hooferand Richard Gere as OF THE DEAD, nothing to do with a EUTC members £1 .25 EDINBURGH PLAYWRIGHTS the cornet player. general meeting but as much life. By Martin Lynch. A violent but WORKSHOP BRAZIL Entertaining as well as gory. Once humourous setting of an RUC sta­ 10 Nov; 5.30 7-10 !',lov; 5.15, 8.00 you've crawled out of the sick bag, tion in West Belfast. Not for the Tickets: £1.25 (cone. 75p) 8, 9 Nov; Matinees 2.30 you can watch FIRESTARTER, a faint-hearted. Jessie MacMurray reads 'A New a paranoid view of a future urban Stephen King tale of a sweet little Play', followed by a detailed dis­ society with Jonathan Prtyce brat who happens to be able to set cussion. ABC caught in the middle of things as a things on fire at will. BASKET THE GATEWAY For the October-December tetA civil servant. CASE is disgustingly funny about EXCHANGE pass system. Ask for the leafk THE GUARDIAN LECTURE: soeone who carries a real sicko pay the standard £2 .30 and i,,e around in a basket. Moral; don't 2-4 Abbeymount K N G s card is taken from you and vot CHUCK JONES 6610982 -2-L_e_v_e_n_S-t.------11 Nov; 8.00 ask to see ·inside. PIRANHA, what . is now non-smoking. The head of the Warner Bso. I saw, Jaws in miniature and multi­ THE COMMONWEALTH TALES 2291201 Department which produced Tom pied. And just before you stumble Oct 31-Nov 9 (Not 4, 5 Nov); 7.45 ODEC>N A standard £1.50 student cone.on and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck out into the gothic horror of South Tickets: £2 (cone. £1) COPPELIA Sunday to Thursday. However,h et al. the lecture is preceded by Clerk St at 9.50am, FUNHOUSE The Rough Diamond Theatre Co. 4-9 Nov; 7.30 £2.60. Cinemas 2 and 3 are non CRICKET on 9 Nov at 2.00. prepares you for the Meadows present a show which takes a Tickets: £4-£10 Festival with a tale of two couples ' Presented by the London Festival COUNTRY humourous look at Chaucer's fam­ spending the night in a Fun Fair. Ballet, artistic director Peter DOIVIINU 10 Nov; 8.30, 11 Nov; 5.45 ous tales. Schaufuss, choreographer Ronald Students pay £1.20 for all pert 12 Nov; 2.30, 5.45, 8.30 Whew! Hynd. only exception is the late eveti a film of the farmer's life in the WHY WE FIGHT non-smoking part of the build' American Heartland as Jessica THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COL­ L y C E u M Sundays. Lanqe attempts to keep her ONEL BLIMP family together despite her hus­ 10 Nov; 6.45 Grindlay St. K N G .S FILIVIHOI band's drinking and Reaganite George Square Theatre 229 9697 Matinees (Tuesday-Friday) ~ The first film is an American prop­ 2 Leven St. politics. HAMLET 229 1201 (Sunday-Friday) cost £1.20. T1t aganda film about. war. The sec­ minutes before performance PROSPER EBEL ond is Powell, and Pressburgers 7-30 Nov; 7.15 DOCTORIN THE HOUSE part 1 and Lifestory FRee Preview: 7 Nov evening films but you can bo study of a frumpy colonel's values 11-16 Nov; 7.30, Sat. 5.00, 8.00 both cinemas. 12 Nov; 6.30 inWW2. Ticket Range; £2-£5 Tickets: £2-£5.50 A collection of films chronicling By William 'I wish all this attention BILLIE HULLIDAY Monday: all seats half price. the life and times of a Ruhr coal had been paid to me when I was ANGEL Riotous comedy by Richard Gor­ Members get in free to all pe mining town. Part 1 contains Lifes­ CAL alive' Shakespeare. The Royal don, with all-star cast. be purchased in advance at a tory, The Immigrants and Down Lyceum present one of Shaky's 13 Nov; 6.45 from the Postgrad Students' Below. George Square Theatre greatest hits. weekend. ALPHAVILLE After the short jazz film, two films WORKSHOP 11 Nov; 6.30, 8.45 about N. Ireland or rather, people 1------­ 34 Hamilton Pl. Jean-Luc Godard's film set in a who live there. Angel is about a All tickets for lunchtime pro N E T H E R 8 0 W 2265425 computerised Paris of the future musician's struggle against the your consumption. where love and emotion have dis­ IRA, while Cal is about the love 43High St. 556 9579 TRAVE R appeared. affair of an RUC widow and an IRA YOUNG PEOPLES THEATRE Exclusive offer this year for PROSPER EBEL vouth. STRIKERS WEEK allows many benefits. These 11-16Nov Part 2 8-30 Nov; 8.00 performance; £2 for a stude A B C Groups from across Scotland pre­ 13 Nov; 6.30 ------.,..---- Tickets: £3 (copnc. £2) performance; free entry to T Part 2 of the story of Ruhr mining Lothian Rd, 229 3030 Half price review 7 Nov sent shows ranging from pan­ town contains The Fourth Genera­ MADMAX-BEYONDTHUNDER- By Donald Campbell. A contem- tomimes, to satires and social tion, Women's Life and In The DOME porary play combining the politics dramas. Details ofthis packed .:~~ni:u J Heart of Germany. 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 of coal and pressures of premier programme are available in spe­ They offer a plastic card costinl The hero has returned. Whether division football. cial programme. tickets at concessionary rate MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETTE you're going to sing along to the Check at box office for details. 13 Nov; 2.30, 6.45, 8.45 theme song, swoon at Mel Gibson.. The story of a Pakistani laun­ or scream and shout at the blood ESCA derette owner and an ex-National ESCA have changed premise 1 and gore, this is probably the best contrary to this year's Stude a Front boot boy taking on film to queue for. E .XHIBS time during office hours tom 1 organised crime and transforming PALE RIDER alternatively phone her. the lowly launderette. 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 Clint Eastwood is the man to see. FRUITMARKET PRINTMAKERS­ SNC> Forgetr the orangutans, forget the 29 Market St. 0 D E 0 N magnums - this is Clint the 225 2383 WORKS HOP South Clerk St. 667 7331 Former as the all avenging gun- 557 2479 COCOON man. MARY KELLY AND RICHARD PUT­ BETWEEN FRIENDS 1.45, 5.40, 8.15 DOING TIME TLE till Nov 16; Free Great film about extra-terrestrials 1.40, 3.55, 6.10, 8.45 Starting Nov 30; Free Mon-Sat; 10-6 leaving cocoons in silly places, like Imagine Burt Campbell from Tues-Sat; 10-5.30 This is a members only show, but swimming pools, where they give 'Soap' as the Prison warder and Kelly's 'Interim' contains thirty silk still well worth seeing, lots of large some geriatrics a new lease of life. you'll have an idea as to how seri­ screens depicting women in their scale screen prints, some etchingfs With Steve Guttenberg and ous thisprison film is. middle age - some from a and other forms of print work. Tahnee Welch. (Yes that is medieval view and others from a Raquel's daughter). DOMINION rqmantic/glossy image. Puttle will e~hibit some of the abstract work NATIONAL PETER PAN Newbattle Terrace 447 2660 he completed from the 60's till G A : L LE RV 2.00, 5.15, 8.00 PALE RIDER to~ay. Good ol' Peter, him of the cute cap 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 The Moun~ and nifty green leggings, snathced Clint Eastwood is back with a bang \ 556 8921 I up a group of kiddies (including as the preacher man-with-n-m ADORATIO>N OF THE MAGI the Wonderful Wendy) and takes His best role forages, 369 GALLERY, A chance to see Mantegna's mas­ them off to Never Never Land to t~rpiece and to learn about the FROG PRINOE 209 Cowgate face the perils of Captain Hook. nation's battle to keep it in Scot­ 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 225 3013 THE EMERALD FOREST Not a fairy tale about a toady land. 2.00, 5.30, 7.55 prince but actually a tale of a Sor­ TEH HOCK-AUN A construction engineer searches bonne student in the 20's trying to Nov 8-30; Free for his lpng lost son within the decide who to give her mind and Mon-Sat; 9-5 TALBOT RICE tribes of the Amazonian Rain soul to, so to speak. OK, Trevor? A mixture of the abstract and · Old College Forests. This film is based on a true expressionist painting by an artist Nov7-24 story and shows not only the WITNESS 2.00, 5.00, 8.00 whostudied in Malaysia. Apart Free struggle between good and bad Harrison Ford as the good cop on from this exciting Chinese callig­ MODERN PRIMITIVES but also the onslaught of civilisa­ the run from the bad cops, as raphy, the newly opened bar Polish sculptures and paintings on tion. directed by Peter 'Gallipoli' Weir. should entice you. your doorstep. l)NIVENTS IVllJSIC THURS 7 NOV.SUN 10 NOV THURS 7 NOV SAT 9 NOV KB LUNCHTIME TALK ------REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE ------Sixth Level Common Room, SADE GOOMBAY BEAT Upper Library, Old College, Playhouse The Barbados Suite JCMB; 1.10pm South Bridge What is the Scottish Enlighten­ This cool lady needs no introduc­ (West Tollcross) 10.10 am (service: 10.20 am) tion! Fridays and Saturdays Reggae and ment? - Prof. Peter Jones, Dept. A service to be conducted by the of Philosophy. 7.30 pm: £8-£6 Soul. Sundays Fiesta Tropicana Chaplains to Edinburgh University NIGHT FOR WAR ON WANT 9.30 pm-3am RCP SUPPORTERS GROUP and Heriot-Watt University. A col­ Wilkie House Late bar, open to all. Chaplaincy Centre lection will be taken in aid of the (Cowgate) AVALON 7pm Earl Haig Fund. Featuring Chinese Cultural Dance Preservation Hall RCP v. Conservative Association: an Indian Sitar Recital and Wee SANITY CLAUSE IRA-Terrorists or Freedom Fight­ MON 1 1 NOV Free Kings. Jail house ers? (For time and ticket prices phone EU CONSERVATIVE EDINBURGH SYMPHONY PROJECT FOR ANIMAL 229 8791). ASSOCIATION ORCHESTRA WELFARE SOCIETY Teviot Row Middle Reading Room STILL THINKING Queen's Hall Executive Room, Pleasance 1 pm Preservation Hall Alasdair Mitchell conducts Beeth­ 7.30 pm Meeting with guest speaker Mal­ (Victoria Street) oven's Overture to Leonora No. 3 Meeting with a guest speaker from colm Rifkind, MP for Edinburgh DEJA-VU Wagner's Siegfried' Rhine Jour­ the Scottish Society for the Pre­ Pentlands and Minister of State at Jailhouse ney and Berloz Harold in Italy. Pul vention of Vivisection. BC operates a stu~ent_ c_inema the Foreign Office. (Calton Road) Coliti viola soloist. DISCO TILL MIDNIGHT 7 .30 pm: £2 (cone. £1 .50) 8 cash desk. For six v1s1ts you ROCK DISCO card stamped. After this the Chambers Street F R 8 NOV 8.00 pm Chambers Street £5 in return . The entire cinema 9 pm-12.30 am SUN 1 0 NOV Happy Hour 8-9 pm KING Playhouse CLARSACH SOCIETY F R 8 NOV TUES12NOV Get your boots on and join Paul Queen's Hall n rate holds in all cinemas from EU LABOUR CLUB and co. for a naff night out! What could be nicer than spepding 7.30 pm: £5-£4.50 e weekends entry will cost you I CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION Seminar Room 2, Sunday afternoon listeni~ to oking. ' 23 George Square Chaplaincy Centre HIPSWAY Isobel Mieras voice accomp nied 12.30 pm-2 pm 5.15 pm for 5.30 pm Hoochie Coochie by mandalin and harps. unch N Bread and cheese lunch This week a joint meeting with the "Ask the Lord" was a pretty bril­ available at 12 am. nces in Cinemas 1, 2 and 3. The EU LABOUR CLUB Anti-Apartheid Society. Anybody l[ant single. Should be worth 1.00 pm: £2 (cone. £1) shows in Cinema 3 - the only , Seminar Room 2, interested is welcome. going to see!! GO WEST identally, this place is shut on Chaplaincy Centre EU ART SOC BLUES 'N TROUBLE Playhouse 1pm Braid Room, Pleasance Preservation Hall Pity this band didn't go to. SE Jim McAllistair of Sinn Fein will 6.30 pm SHATTERED FAMILY 7.30 pm: £6-£4 50p; early evening shows appear as part of his current speak­ Another Printmaking Tutorial . Jailhouse EYELESS IN GAZA ing tour. tickets are only available 30 . . see entry under Sat 9 Nov for DR FEELGOOD Hoochie Coochie . No ocncessions given for late EU CONSERVATIVE details. .Queen Margaret College in advance. Non-smoking in Still good for a laugh! ASSOCIATION HAPPY HOUR i MON 1 1 NOV 9pm: £3 Teviot Row Middle Reading room Chambers Street G 1pm HAZE 8-9pm GIL SCOTT-HERON Preservation Hall Agitate, Educate and Struggle. Queen's Hall nces. Guest tickets (£1.25) can WORLD'S DISCO CRY (Clerk Street) ion Shop during the week and EU POLITICS SOCIETY Mad Hatters Jailhouse Mark this one in your diary, quite ' n, 24 Buccleuch Place, at the Faculty Room North, DHT 9 pm-2 am simply a must! Pianist, poet, 1pm Tickets: £1 (available from singer rapper extrodinaire! TUES12NOV 'Jeremy Bray, MP, will be speaking Debates Committee). on "The Decline of the Steel Indus­ 10 pm : £6-£4 THE CULT ns include soup and bread for try- Focusing on Ravenscraig " SNO Playhouse WED13NOV Usher Hall Previously Death Cult and South­ NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES ern Death Cult SEMINAR CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION Programme includes Haydn's E Symphony No. 88 Letter V. 7.30 pm: £4.50, £4 rship : £4 for four years, which Room 107, 23 George Square Dvorak violin concerto with · FAT SAMS BAND ea free ticket to any Sunday · William Robertson Building 1pm Gyorgy Pank soloist. Theevening dby ticket 10 minutes before 4pm A talk on the sacraments of the Jailhouse ends with Bartok's The Miraculous Nice to see a bit of jazz at \the Bar and many other theatre Prof. George Shepperson, Dept. of .sick. History, talks on two women from Mandarin ballet music Jailhouse especially one as good BAHA'I SOCIETY 7. .30 pm: £8.30-£2.80 as this. · Lynchburg, Virginia - one an Room 10, Adam Ferguson Build­ English lecturer and the other an ing · Which allows you to clai m two Afro-American poet and rebel. off cost of any performance). 1pm OXFAM - HUNGRY FOR Who!efood Lunch - 50p CHANGE DEBATE James Gillespie's High School SKI CLUB LUNCH ~DILMHOlUJSE: 8pm Pleasance * 7/19 Guthrie Street (225 4061) 1 pm I 88 LOTHIAN ROAD 228-2688 .ry . Pop into the offices at a n'y Michael Ancram v. Kevin Dunion . inda, the full-time secretary, or (Oxfam). Debating quality of gov­ MIDWEEK SERVICE Cinema 1 ernment overseas aid. Chaplaincy Centre Wed 6-Sat 9 5.45 and 8.15 1.10pm Prohibition g_angsters, backstage romances and heartstopping dancing in Coppola's SHOOT YOUR LOAD THE COTTON CLUB (15) Starring Richard Gere and ~iane Lane Potterrow The Voice of Desperation - Rev. 8pm-1 am Brian Bailey, Hon Chaplain to Con­ Cinema2 gregational students. Wed 6 6.30 and 8.30 Live band plus disco Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in John Huston's classic . N°0TTHE PRESIDENTS' BALL VOLUNTARY WORK FOR KEY LARGO (PG) Edward G. Robinson is, of course, the key baddie Chambers Street PALESTINE Cinema2 8 p-2 am Pleasance (see posters in foyer for Thu 7-Sun 5.15 and 8.00 Tickets cost £1 .50 (proceeds to room) ~~J~1\!~~ses terror and comedy in his brilliant vision of al alternative future. Star Save the Children Fund). Happy 5.30 pm ring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro and Bob Hoskins Hour 9-10 in Library Bar. Entertain­ Two EU students will talk about ment provided by bands Ranacan­ their experiences and impressions Cinema 1 8 as volunteer teachers in the teen and The Viceroys, as well as ~hounc~aJ0 ~~!~ ~~~di: Lecture:...... The creator of Bugs Bunny and theAoad Runner w(II the comedy act The 4 Stooges._ occupied Gaza strip inside Israel. discuss his approach to various aspects of animation using extracts from some of his 1 The controversial film "Gaza best cartoons. \SAT 9 NOV Ghetto:· will also be shown Cinema 1 Mon 11 and Tue 12 5.45 and 8.30 (not 8.30 Monday ·11) \EU ART SOC EU ART SOC l Braid Room, Pleasance 369 Gallery, 209 Cowgate ;~!!~~!tl~~~f the way that the Reaganite economics are squeezing the _life o':'t of small farmers. Sam Shephard is the farmer and Jessican Lange his land-own mg wife. i 10.30am 7.30 p~ . !Printing tutorial - initiating our An exclusive talk by gallery direc­ 50p Matinees this week: THE COTTON CLUB (Wed 61 ; SOPHIE'S CHOICE (Thu); 'new printmaking workshop. tor Andrew Brown : "The New BRAZIL (Fri BJ; COUNTRY (Tue 12). All at 2.30. -Please ring Mark Burgess (652 Scottish Paintings". Free to mem­ '1290) for details._ bers-and it's never to late to join! JU.MBLE SALE LESBIAN AND GAY SOCIETY McEwan Hall Pleasance Bar 1 pm 7.30 pm .Proceeds to Women's Aid and Video showing of "Harold and Medics FYC '86. Maude" at 8 pm. THE LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE GREEN BANANA CLUB Chambers Street Potterrow Bpm-1 am 8pm-1 am Hour 9-.10 m Happy Hour8.30-9.30 pm Cock - up French Fancy In general Frog Prince is a masterly THE FROG PRINCE collection of cliches. If you hate English people abroad, this wil con- ~OCOON Dir: Brian Gilbert \- )ir: Ron Howard Dominion )deon An innocent, untried, gentle vil­ "I hope you find what you're lage maiden with a mino_r talent for ooking for" basically sums up the sketching comes to Pans on what ill-American Dream that this film one presumes is a language course epresents. Blown up to Close (though this is subsidiary to the plot ~ncounter proportions, Cocoon it is never made totally clear). Hav­ nundates you with the gushing sen­ ing received a good Surrey educa­ lmentality in vogue nowadays to tion, she is suitably modest and :apture the American public. unassuming and, as a sign of her A handful of aliens returnto remarkable intellectual capacity, 'la net Earth and · recover some can even read 'Sons and Lovers' in !riends they left behind centuries the rowdy atmospken: of the disco. 1go from the sea-bed. The "Co­ ln the course of one such cultural ;oons' in which they are held are session, this maiden meets (and 111bsequently transplanted to a here your powers of credibility are firm your worst suspicions; if you wimming pool near an OAP's really tested) a shy(?) good looking think French men's one obsession is ,ome and the 'lifeforce' which also cultured French boy who nubile young women, that'll be hese cocoons give a group of speaks English with an engaging confirmed too. Whatever you !eptuagenarians plunges the film accent. Far from making an expect of this film sJtots of the Eif­ nto the gepths ofdrab sentimental­ immediate pass at the defenceless fel Tower, a game of boules, ly. Old men feel young again as the -child, he waits for his first innocent French cooking, the Seine, the ilm abounds with all-American kiss - at which point the transfor­ Champs Elysees - it's in it. iliches of 'feeling good', 'loving mation hinted at in the title takes Therefore, if you want to listen to ife' and 'loving love' . The concent­ place. Of course it was too good to a lot of French and lose yourself in lation on old people certainly gives be true,m and the shy French boy a make believe world where tradi­ he film a different look but the foreplay I'm done for.") The musi­ turning aliens. All, of course, becomes a lecherous sex-starved tional animosity between the ~hole rejuvenation process that cal score by James Horner except poor Bernie (whose already brute whose one object in life is to French and the English is once ,rings us fossilised breakdancers (Brainstorm and Star Trek III) lost Rosie because she didn't go for lay the young girl from Surrey. again overcome by physical chemis­ 1nd other skipping grandads makes up slightly for the lacklustre a swim)° who utters those immortal Throw into the magic cauldron a try - this is the film you've been visuals especially in the underwater words which began this review. If iecomes so tiresome that the film ' smafiering of Shakespeare's waiting for. IOOn loses all interest. sequences but cannot save the film you're after .. sci-fi fantasy that Romeo and Juliet (a vital part in the And, as a postcript, if you enjoy Steve Guttenburg (Police from its deserved fate . borrows heavily from Spielberg in seduction of any young lady) , and Edith Piafs music and don't like 'Cocoon':winds down very slowly its use of 'Kind , loving and ~cademies) gives a mediocre per­ here you have the outline of the the sound of the film - sneak in f9r k>rmance as the unsuspecting boat indeed; the whole old-folks home altogether huq1an' extra-terres­ plot ,· which carried on in this vein . the last five minutes, where Edith tials, then 'Cocoon' should satisfy ,wner who becomes slightly non­ together in the pool manage to until the Frog gets his wicked way Piafs voice combines with the drain all the Lifeforce out of it killing your desires. For the rest of rlussed when he discovers he's har­ and the girl from Surrey, now a newly made real woman for a all the cocooned aliens and then all ,ouring aliens who shed their skins you;took elsewhere. • Real woman is able to face lecher­ superb ending to a mediocre film. jnd 'do it' differently ("if this is hitch a lift into space with the re- Anthony Harwood ous Paris unflinchingly. Helen Bell

prison television. Richard Mullipan as substitutes. But these succeed in DOIN'TIME is Mayo, the man appointed to bemusing the audience rather than restore order but whose own mis­ amusing it : Dir: George Mendeluk conduct makes such a task impossi­ ABC ble. Action packed this film cer­ Directed by George Mendeluk However any potential moments tainly is, so much so that any idea of and set in present day California, of excitement or amusement are a consistent plot seems to have· been Doin' Time is painfully predictable bulldozed over the slapstick , cus­ mashed over. 'Doin Time' is the prisim comedy. tard pie humour which rages like a classic example of the inmates tak­ wild beast throughout. The weak ing over the asylum , but its unorig_i­ Jeff Altman stars as Duke Jarratt unwitty nature of the script is · nal presentation draws any comic 1 door to door salesman who is unable to hold the action together, aspirations it may have had. wrongly convicted of rape, and sen­ and the film lapses uncontrollably Instead a monotony develops tenced to serve inside the John Dil­ into a farce at any opportunity. which is not relieved at the end. A tinger Penitentiary. farratt arrives Where the dialogue fails to squeeze Tales-of-the-Unexpected type 10 find that the prisoners run the a laugh, a good fight, an egg eating ending suggests things are to con­ -1how; aU night parties are thrown contest, a series of half-hearted tinue with the same deathly tedium. fry-ups are held on the electric adolescent sex scenes, or the disas­ 'Doin Time' is to be recom­ thair, and the prisoners produce terous repercussions of the internal mended only as a last resort. lheir own programmes on PTV - PTV network going n~tionwide act Belinda Brooke. "Please Officer, anything but 'Cocoon'." Minor Success THE SECOND EDINBURGH have been· seen at the Odeon or To my mind 'Pixote' was the FRINGE'FILM FESTIVAL ABC (here at a far more reasonable ·highlight of the Festival. It is a price) all more or less integrated tough and thought-provoking filrn ­ Like the Fringe in August, there · with this year's theme of 'young­ about an eight-year-old boy was far more to see than time to see ness'. The programme was ambiti­ struggling to survive in a world of it. Spread over fqurdays ai the er!l'.I ous, promoting awareness of the brutal criminal and sexual exploita­ of last week, the Edinburgh Fringe shortcomings of most images of tion, both in his reform school and Film Festival at Adam House 'youth' and 'youth culture' that on the streets of San PauJo. It is all offered 130 films and videos, held crop up so regularly in the media, the more powerful because the £4.50, £4 £5.50, £5 practical workshops, discussions and attempting to look beyond the young actors were taken frorn the and continual videos in the cafe . November 14th December 22nd stereotypes. same background portrayed in the Madness TheA/arm film; in Brazil there are more than £5 £4.50, £4 However, in spite of some excel­ three million homeless children. November 18th February 1st 1986 lenf items 'on the j»Ogramme, Some films are naturally attendance numbers were disap­ Hawkwind Hits of the 60s de;;,anding as they challenge our pointingly low: at the films I saw preconceptions of media cliches, 1f £4,£3 £5,£4 there were rarely more than 25 such independent work cannot be December 1st February 8th 1986 people. There should have been shown at a Fringe ··festival , where Robert Cray Band The Motely Crue more. Despite the screenfog of the else? If the EFFF is to estabhsh £4, £3.50 £5.50, £4.50 well-known biggies there was a itself in the Edinburgh cultural faint suspicion of film buffery that December 4th cycle it must present a more February 16th 1986 may have deterred a few punters - Magnum encouraging, 'accessible' face; Ozzy Osbourne There was something for lo be honest; there were times I had funding is obviously short, but even £4.50 everyone, for although the Festi­ a sneaking wish that one lesser such small things as more explanat­ val's main aim was to provide a known short had stayed that way, ory notes on the handouts may platform for new material untarred preferably even shorter, but no one whet a larger number of appetites by the brush of mainstream cinema can expect to be pleased all the next year. there were films that once coul

YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE WEEK t,! VID TONER: Theatre Workshop RECENT PAINTINGS 11 th-16 November The Scottish Gallery From the 11th November to the Until 27th November 16th, there wi ll be a Young People's After the restraint and subtlety Theatre Week at the Theatre Work­ of Gwen John which I saw last shop, 34 Hamilton Place. week , David To_ner's paintings Chosen from the best Youth couldn 't be more different. Theatres in Scotland, the event The first thing that strikes you is plays a major part in developing his use of colour. Not only is it theatre in Scotland. An annual vivid , even garish, but the colour event, it gives young people clashes in some of his paintings involved in the theatre in Scotland a would be enough to give an interior chance to indulge themselves. A designer a heart attack. week devoted solely to their work is see what may be best in Scottish This boldness of colour re­ a rare thing. Even more rare is the theatre in years to come. Keep enforces his striking treatment of fact that on top of this there are ahead and go. ·> the subj ects. Detractors might screenings workshops and cabaret. Martin McHugb describe it as crude and simplistic, It is an unadulterated celebration of particularly in the scenes of marinas youth in the theatre and provides Programme: Tuesday/Wednes­ and Spanish villages, but in some of an opportunity to see the best youth day: "Misfits" , "Rockshockshow", the paintings his representational groups in Scottish theatre all !'In Camera". Thursday/Friday/ style can be stunningly effective. together in the one place. Saturday: "That'll Teach You", For example, Night Market, Paris Theatre Workshop is a theatre "The Offence", "Work is a Four and Cafe Soir are·simply superb - that gives a tremendous boost for Letter Word", " Night­ the trip to George Street is worth it any theatre group, be they young or mare", "God's Greatest Hits, Vol. £1.50 for these shows on any to see these two paintings alone. old. It puts on shows that in many ·n". cases wi ll result in a box-office loss. evening. However, this is a minor point Toner is also very good at using between an area of calm single col­ Not all of the subjects, it must be when it comes to the fact that many texture to create an additional our and that of the principal sub­ said, benefit from Toner's forceful groups may have been unable to dramatic effect, either generally or, ject, depicted in a riot of colour; so techniqu,e, but overall the exhibi­ have a public showing are able to do as in Winter Dusk, The Atlantic, there are parallel contrasts between tion is a very powerful example of so. The Unaccepted Theatre Com­ Lewis, to focus o n the climactic relatively smooth areas and those in his work, and definitely worth a point of the picture. Just as there is which the paint stands out in large pany is one new company appear­ visit. ing next week: often a contrast within a painting flakes and bumps. Colin Hancock As well as plays, there will also be various other ~vents. This Mon­ day, there will be a showing of vid­ eos made by young people in Edin­ burgh at 7.30 pm. And on Saturday E.U.T.C. A tale of apartheid FESTIVAL MEETING 16th November, Picture This is Do you want to administer the for whites, for blacks, 1: 12,000. going to this exceptionally powerful beind held; an introduction to black Fringe? NO EASY WALK TO Combined with the realities of rep­ exhibition. Failure to see it is to and white photography for youth. If so, come to the Bedlam at 3 pm FREEDOM ression in South Africa , the 'spec­ ignore your fellow men and Such a feast of theatre doesn't Wednesday 13th Nov. come very often. It is .a chance to City Art Centre tator' feels as if buried alive under women. Until 30th Nov an excess of suffering and sorrow, James Rand bigotry and bias. Tears and a sickened feeling inside wo uld, perhaps, best describe the impression left by the The exhibition concludes with Anti-Apartheid exhibition No Easy the blacks' fight for freedom, cov­ Walk To Freedom , on at the City of ering the growth of their organisa­ Edinburgh A rt Centre until 30th - tions and their relentless struggle against the 'superi or' white rule. uuuuu November. This single-room exhibition may initially seem Whether or not the rest of the inadequate, but it presents many world continues and intensifies its overwhelming and harrowing facts recent action against Apartheid, of the injustice and inhumanity of the truth remains that the people the Apartheid regime. are not free. UUUUUt . The exhibition begins with the However, the exhibition's mes­ h1_story of South Africa, continuing sage is clear - the determination of with details of today's situation - the blacks is invincible. Anyone from Pass laws to Bishop Tutu. The who understands the words 'liberty' statistics are disturbing. For exam­ and 'justice' will feel nauseous with UUUUU*U ple, the doctor-patient ratio is 1:330 guiit anci empty with shame on UUUUUUUt

Occasionally too, the duets :/Q!!N CURRIE SINGERS revealed musical deficiencies - Queen's Hall there was a tendency for the soloists to sing as individuals instead of uuuuuuuuu The B Minor Mass is a most integrating their parts which meant Our products appropriate choice to perform in ·that the melodic lines became frag­ this year which marks the tricente­ mented. always stand out from the crowd. nary of Bach's birth. The Mass is a monumental work (a little too However, quibbles aside, the monumental for this 'heretic' who 'Credo', 'Sanctus' and 'Agnus Dei' We want pe~ple who do the same. fou nd some of the music rather movements produced some United Biscuits are looking for outstanding North British Hotel on Monday 11th November inaccessible) and it is heroic and graduates and can offer you an exceptionally wide at 7.00p.m. 0 moments of musical glory, particu­ Ptimistic in spirit. larly the poignant 'Crucifixus' range of opportunities right through your career. Members of Senior Management will give an chorus, delivered with emotion and We are currently offering graduate traineeships in informal presentation about the Business and you The John Currie Singers and 0 fervour. The exuberant mood of Production. Personnel, Sales.Marketing, Distribution, will have an opportunity to ask questions and chat . rchestra produced an unexpec­ the 'Hosanna' was accentuated by Engineering, Business Analysis and Restaurant to recent graduates over a meal and a drink. tedly full and powerful sound con­ the delightfully incisive and robust Management Look forward to seeing you there. North British sidering the small size of the forces singing, while the closing 'Dona If )OU think )00 v.ould like to knON more about Hotel. Princes Street Edinburgh EH2 2EQ. ~~Valved, and the opening chorus Nobis Pacem' rose to new heights United Biscuits (UK) Limited.come along to the IIJ 11th November 7.00 p.m.-9.00p.m. • the 'Kyrie' was thrilling in its of stately dignity, a fitting conclu­ Intens"t1 'G . 7 and sombre need. The sion to this magnificent work. The Major British f'ood Group. so Iona , in total contrast, produced Dynamic and vigorous, yet capa­ . me of the most vivacious and ~ ble of great sensitivity - this /~bilant singing I've ever heard, outstanding performance was a ough the orchestra tended to 0Ve · worthy tribute to one of the masters <<•Vi@'hhi.. d r-indulge themselves and of Baroque music. rowned out the choir and soloists. Heather Foley 2 STUDENT Thursday 7th November 1985

,\rts/Fcaturcs )wen Dudley Edwards previews The Interrogation of Ambrose Fogarty Dramatising Ulster Macs" lacked-a good script. He is Conall Morrison, himself a.'suc­ Willie Lagan, a crazed comic, also essful student playwright while at giving relatively little help to the 'Alinburgh University, returns to police with their inquiries, until he he Bedlam Theatre to direct becomes a pawn to trap Fogarty. mother Ulsterman's work - "The Lighting is in the hands of Will Eng. nterrogation of Ambrose Fogarty" land, the technician of Scream Blue ,y Martin Lynch. The production Murder, a show which among other 'URS from Monday the 11th to triumphs had the finest technical ,aturday the 16th of November. opening minutes of any in the Festi­ val and Fringe. Morrison's cast _ To those who know their Belfast, largely Ulster Protestant - give he names are a clear indication of promise of some very remarkable he Catholic background of author work, particularly John Ennis as a nd subject. "Ambrose" is a decla­ haunting Ambrose Fogarty, Tim ation of parentage in a Catholic Parke as a neurotically authorita­ amily of piety, with preference for rian Stanley, and Trevor Johnston omewhat intellectual saints. This as a convincing, comradely sadistic , not stated in the text, but the pro­ Peter. All this, of course, is early agonist upholds it. While no longer guesswork from a view of rehear­ ailing himself a Catholic, he is pos­ sal, but it provided enough evi­ essed by somewhat spiritual ideals dence ot say that the Bedlam's new ,f non-violence. There may be an and Jackie, .whose unease at his state's secular arm, determined to have a point: the Fogartys are more utobiographical clue' intended being the only one of his class not show Catholics their subordinate dangerous than the bombers in that show will provide some food for ,ere: St 'Martin of Tours also has serving in a military capacity (legal place. Mr Lynch clearly believes no they win sympathy the .bombers entertainment, more for thought ome intellectual, or at least cultur­ or illegal) is partly dissipated by a changes have been effected by cannot get. But that cannot justify and most of all for argument. lly elitist, status. simple resort to physical force as reforms since 1969; at least he can defence of the law by contemptu­ often as possible. Ultimately Jackie take the credit for reminding us of ous destruction of it, whether on Bedsit Blues is let loose on Fogarty, which is all the ideological continuities on his the part of government officials or Are you stuck out in Portobello? rhe police force is simply the old right by Stanley (whose interrogat­ own side. The memory of degrada­ anyone else. The p\ay's liberal cre­ >rotestant State's secular arm. Are you unhappy with your land­ ory methods personally consist of tion in the past prevents the making dentials may be paper-thin; its lord/lady? Is the mould moving in; bawling in the manner, if not the of allowances in the present. argument still cannot be swept are bed bugs keeping you awake at But to the Royal Ulster Con­ intellect, of his 'Master). But it rep­ aside. And it is good, exciting, if night? ;tabulary, who are investigating resents a defeat for Peter, who up The play's liberal credentials may crude theatre. The aglt-props creak Student is planning a feature Fogarty, he is simply an IRA man to then has faith in himself as the be paper-thin; its argument still painfully from time to time, but the investigating the problems of masquerading as an altruist, and it master of mental torture. cannot be swept aside. author brings human beings to life , accommodation in Edinburgh. ·s a priority for them to discredit his all the more because they some­ Please let us know about any prob­ ,opposed innocence and expose Martin Lynch is not prepared to The resulris not a great play, but times break out of his straitjacket. lems you have encountered or are nim as a man of violence. For this concede to any of them the it is ari important one. Arguably, The production itself looks excit­ still suffering - whether as the purpose he is taken in hand by three rationale of understandable anger Fogarty's innocence and victimisa­ ing. Jes Benstock, one of the lightn­ result of the SAS or a private land­ inquisitors, Peter, against whom he against IRA bombings or genuine tion serve as a liberal chocolate ing-moving, elastic-jointed, topsy­ lords. ,discovers himself to have played anxiety to maintain peace by the coating on the IRA's more frankly turvists of The Merry Mac Fun Address your letters or articles to football in school, Stanley, a Pais­ detection of its enemies. This police homicidal message. In this sense, Show, has the chance to prove him­ the Features team Bild bring to the leyite first and a policeman second, force is simply the old Protestant ironically, the policemight seem to self with the one thing the "Merry Student office at I Buccleuch Place. Liz - blowing in on a west.wind

ness, Petra MacDonald talks to Glasgow writer Liz Lochhead, current Margaret Thatcher having unfortunately lost sight of her "wo­ ly writer in residence at Edinburgh University. manly values" along the way. Men need to develop some "womanly Liz Lochhead sits comfortably about the unmistakeable and values" if the world is to become a with the persona of popular con­ archetypal products of central belt sane, better-balanced place to live. temporary Scots writer. This year\ Scotland. True Confessions reads in. writer in residence, she is eager to like a hilarious social commentary share her experience and talent - Verena, the oil worker's lonely Although ,she admires the work with any student scribbler. Her own wife; Mrs Abernethy, suffering of other writers like Tom Leonard, job description is a compreheRsive minister's wife; and Page Three whose exploration of the power of list of just about anything anyone Dollies. This verbal pastiche of the Scots tongue she sees as an anti· could write, and Liz is willing to Scottishness is delivered by Liz in dote to tartan couthiness, Liz is lalk about it all! Clearly, she is readings all around Britain, and she above all searching for "that sniff of enthralled with the power of both claims that the trick in making it life" in any type of writing. Is there the written and spoken word to appealing from North to South is any " life" in the Edinburgh Univer­ "put pictures inside people's accuracy. If you can create a sity literary scene? Is there such a heads". Although trained at the snobby housewife from Glasgow's· thing? Liz watches from the eyrie of Glasgow School of Art, early publi­ Kelvinside and get every turn of. her sixth floor room in the David< cations like Memo for Spring phrase and affectation right, then Hume Tower, and has had a few seemed to work faster than the can­ ;he will be recognised for what she encouraging sniffs already. vas when it came to creating those s wherever she goes. 11 pictures··. There are appointment times Although admitting to a growing when she's available stuck on her Currently, Liz is involved in the resentment of the all-pervading door and a writer in waiting for you translation of a 17th-century work South-East of England media cul­ inside. A public reading of Liz Loe· by Moliere. In the recent past stie ture which threatens to submerge hhead's work has been provsionaJly has done plays for TV; everything north of Norwich, Liz's arranged for the 14th November. mythologised in her books The main concern is with gender poli­ Look out for the notices and look Grim Sisters and Dreaming Fran­ tics. The machismo attitudes so kenstein ; and worked on numerous redolent in the Scottish make-up out for Liz. songs and sketches ( collected in are pin-pointed with uncomforta­ True Confessions). How is it possi­ ble accuracy. ble for one writer to range over APOLOGY Photo: Dave Yarrow such a wide compass of feeling a'nd Preferring to be described as a The features team apologise for expression? Obviously the answer feminist rather than an anti-sexist, Match of the day, action replay it's on Scotsport, ' Chuck us a car, a man's not a man without Scots port, ·certain inaccuracies in the article on is to be not one writer but to adopt Liz sees a need for the development 'lightline, issue 31/10. a different persona for each pro­ of the characteristics and values of You can cook good, you can look good You can play hard to get Nightline is an autonomous co~­ ject, using the persona as a vehicle each sex in all of us. Quoting Ian lectively run student group and 1s into the life of the charai.ters. Given McEwan, "Womanly values, with­ To tum him on's impossible He's turning on the set. not attached to EUSA. that the only mythology in Mother­ out them we shall perish", she cites There is not a maximum length of well ( where Liz was brought up) is· the Greenham women as personify­ He' II never tell you he loves you Unless he's pissed. 20 minutes on telephone calls as was created on the football terraces, Liz ing these qualities. Successful implied: some calls last up to two does not, however, have to create women have cultivated the male love in a Cold Climate 0 Scotch Mist! hnurs., __ an imaginary persona 10 write attribute of energetic competitive- from True Con essions, Liz Lochhead - STUDENT Thursday 7th November 1985 13

Features Protection racquet Opinion y l shb el Matheson. reports on self-defence classes organised by EUSA and run by era p enman, a qualified mstructor. Kate Ashley takes a satirical look at Survival for Overseas Living Vera Penman makes no bones learning to defend herself. Once instant and damage him. " about what a woman has to do to the "cringe factor" has been elimi­ Despite the simplicity of the a pamphlet given to all American students advising how to cope defend herself. Faced with a poten­ nated, the body reacts indepen­ methods taught and despite the fact with studying abroad . . attacker, she must 1 dantly and automatically to defend that violent attacks on females are uat liate with "verve, enthusiasm re a . ,, itself. Psychological confidence is on the increase, the interest in self­ I was under the impression that, '.°orning and simultaneously writ and homocidal intent. the most important thing to take defence classes is on the wane. · having thegood fortune to be born mg a speech for the human righ~ As the classes progress through away from a self-defence class - Defending yourself became a bright in Britain, rather than Chile or _debate, the No. 2 bus was late h all ocated ten weeks, the single the ability to use violence without new thing to do a few years ago, and Iran, for example, I lived in a again, you'll know why. Cultun ~~st important thin~ Vera will reit­ quailing. classes sprung up all over Britain. civilised society, with all the Shock has set in with a vengeance. erate again and again, week after Now the classes inay remain but the luxuries modern technology can There are ways for the America, eek is that a half-hearted attack fervour has died down, and the offer - from hot water on tap to abroad to try to come to terms wit I ~ unched on an opponent is futil e. numbers attending dwindled microwave ovens. However, it the new environment. You can rac ! woman must commit herself accordingly. The lack of interest ,eems that I may be wrong. In "Survival for Overseas Living" i wholly or not at all. A feeble may be attributed to several causes; American eyes, coming to Britain is you can read, that is. The best wa, attempt at defence merely runs the the distaste of using physical vio­ as much an intrepid adventure into to cope is, of course, to relax yout ri sk of infuriating further an lence, the pervasive idea it is not the unknown as trekking through a grip on your own culture, and try t< already aggressive attacker. feminine to be able to floor a man, South American rain forest. "fit in". So, Americans, you ca, In her classes, she admits the the "I'll go tomorrow (and tomor­ stop having three showers a day am techniques she teaches are "basic," row never comes) attitude. I find it quite insulting that it is join the rest of us dirty people. I in the sense they are quick, violent Vera is under no illusions as to deemed necessary by some you smell as bad as we do, ym and may inflict extreme physical what her courses in self-defence authorities at so"1e colleges in won't find us too offensive at all - pain upon an adversary. This week achieve. Given the whole issue of America to provide students with a you'll soon get used to it' she shows the class how they can violence against women, her course booklet of advice for overseas study I am not quite sure what the nex defend themselves against an is not even a drop in the ocean - it which is patronising and degrading, comment is suspposed to mean attacker who has them on the would be like "trying to empty the and assumes not only that we have and so I' ll leave you to draw-you ground and is aiming a kick at the Atlantic," she says. She can only an IQ of nil , but that the v'ts'tt'mg own conclusions. But it's probabJ, ribs. Swiftly she curls herself into a help individuals, not attack the fun­ students do as well. Having said one of the most infuriating sen defensive ball to block the incom­ damental problem. It is perhaps a that, I spent three successive even­ tences in the booklet; students an ing foot , her left foot gives a disabl­ judgement on the perceived ings in hysterical laughter about it ,· told to ·'resist making jokes an, ing kick to the groin, she brings him efficacity of the law and law along with the Americans who had comments which are intended t< to the ground and with the ease of a enforcement that some women feel the misfortune to be given it. illustrate the stupidity of the ·na tives"'?? I am sure that the level o professional dissector - chop; the the only way they may ensure their T_he students are urged to rate intelligence necessary for us to ge back of the knees, chop; the base of safety on the streets at night, is to themselves on a scale of 0:5 forthe to Edinburgh University is infi the spine, chop; the floating (not answer violence with violence. following qualities, to find out if nitely lower than that required i, floating yet) kidney. The methods she teaches are Why does Vera carry on teaching they are equipped with the neces­ America, therefore jokes about o Many women come to the first based on an awareness of the kind self-defence? sary skills for coping with us barba­ stupidity would be justified. but tel class in self-defence and do not of attacks a woman might be faced It is, she says, because of Janet. rians: tolerance, warmth in human them in private, please. come back - they cannot get used· with up a dark alley way at night. Janet and her friends attended two relationships (1 am glad that the to the notion of inflicting physical Her lessons cover front attack, or three of the self-defence classes fact that we are humans is stressed; The booklet also mentions that damage upon someone, albeit they back attacks, rape and strangle Vera held in Rosyth. One day we could probably be trained to in a political demonstration "yo, may be fighting for their lives. It attacks as well as ground Janet's brother-in-law came to visit acceptance levels of domestication may be rounded up by the loca goes against years of propoganda techniques. Vera - to thank her. Janet had with a lot of love and understand­ police when the entire crowd i~ and belief that women are naturally "It's so, easy for a female to been attacked the night before and ing) open-mindedness (to cope taken away" - and you ·ve all seer non-violent people. Vera does not defend themselves. if she knows had, because of the lessons, man­ with our many idiosyncracies), '·Midnight Express" haven't you pander to such ideas: how to . . . " The greater weight and aged to do something rather nasty non-judgementalness, adaptability Be warned! Rapists abound in out "The ferocity is there in women, height of a male opponent may eas­ to her attacker ... But if the classes (really, you get to enjoy wearing a fair land , but a ·handy' phras, they'll fight for their children, their ily be turned to his disadvantage; continue because Janet escaped, loin-cloth and eating off the floor) , memorised in several languages family - or even baby animals his own preconceptions of females they continue even more fo r t,he empathy and many more. can be useful ·· Please leave mt when threatened, why can't they do being weak and vulnerable may dead yo ung girl found naked and Of course it is natural that alone or I'll report you to th, it for themselves?" I also turn out to be a fatal error. assaulted a few days later. The everyone should have to get to grips police" will of course, deter all. The psychological aspect of using " I'm a great believer in cringing, police were looking for man with "Culture Shock'' . The omin­ Finally, I'd just like to say that violence is the biggest obstacle a never make an overt action, attain answering to the same description ous final stages of this terrible dis­ hope Americans here are pleas woman has to overcome while the advantage then strike in an as Janet's attacker. ease are narrowed down to a few of antly surprsed by the high stan the most troublesome differences, dards ofliving we enjoy; yes . wed, which become all important. For have central heating. but no . unfo1 ADVERTISING FEATURE Americans, standards of cleanli­ tunately. I've nevet seen whit ness, attitudes towards punctuality tunafish. Give us another 100 vear STOCKBRIDGE and the value of human life are pin­ of evolution and may be that wil STEAKHOUSE pointed as the minor details which come. Let's iust hope that al will begin to dominate their lives. Americans take this sort of litera 42 St Stephen Street So when all the Americans are late ture as a joke. as the one wh, ~5877------for English Lit. 1, because after showed it to me did. Otherwise l'n taking their second bath of the surprised any of them come at all. Stockbridge is well known for its selection of successfully different restaurants and the ODEON FILM CENTRE Stockbridge Steakhouse fits CLERK STREET Tel: 667 7331 neatly into that description. Opened in February, it is small FROM FRIDAY 8th NOVEMBER ODEONl (seats 24), comfortable and An emotional blend of Science Fantasy - Action - Humour - Adventure specialises in Scottish food. COCOON(PG) The restaurant is a member of Separate Programmes at 2.15, 5.30, 8.15. the "Taste of Scotland" scheme Sunday 5.30, 8.15 which proQ1otes imaginative recipes that have nothing to do with ODEON2 haggis and neeps. Instead, t,adi­ Walt Disney's llonal ingredients such as oatmeal, PETER PAN (U) Whisky and crowdie are used to Separate Programmes at 2.00, 5.35, 8.00. ~ake the standard steak that wee and drinks are cheaper than pub ied set menu at £9.30 a head. Sunday 5.35, 8.00. NoSmolciJlg 11 different. The result is a taste prices. Considering the limited space, that is rich and memorable. Open seven days a week, busi­ the service is outstandingly good, ODEON3 The menu caters for all tastes and ness begins at 11 am with cham­ although you may be surprised to John Boorrnan's 1 r; ces, ranging from fillet steak at pagne breakfasts served through­ see the chef occasionally serving. THE EMERALD FOREST (15) T .()() to the beefburger at £3.00. out the week for£5.00. Lunches are This is explained by the fact that Separate Programmes at 1.45, S. 45, 8.25. ake a lbok at the Specials menu now being served in Raffles (below chef Kevin Roach is co-owner with Sunday 5.45, 8.25. :htch varies daily and will .tickle the restaurant) and evening meals Howard Razgar, a partnership that NoSmolciJlg Y ur Highland fancy. Main dishes are served until midnight. There is goes back 12 years to Dunblane are all served with vegetables and a a 10% student reduction between Hydro. surprising but beneficial, as PRICE CONCESSIONS FOR STUD£NTSl1JB40s EXCEPI' FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING PERFORMANCES. cha·f . tee o f baked potatoes or French 5-7.30 pm which is quite excep­ this accounts for the flexibility of ' b~es. Vegetarian meals are availa- tional amongst Edinburgh restaur­ the menu and their ability to offer e on demand and the chef will ants. such thoughtful service. 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Tl,ere is a good selec­ JOIN TBE BEST VIDEO LJBJlARY IN TOWN - FULL DETAWI FROM mas menu will be offered from 1st owners are canny to say the least. SIMON OR STUART. lton of spirits, beers and liqueurs December and t~ere is a very var- Jacqueline Brown ,. ... - . 14 STUDENT Thursday 7th November 1985

Fc,1tun:s Owen: the politics of change

, . ?• been sitting on his knee for the last Dr Owen admits that he does not "I remember best the one with Thatcher dining in this restaurant, and the wwter says, 'Vegetabl~. half hour. How does he r~gard the like the principle of parental assis and she looks round and it's all her Cabinet. She says, 'Oh, they'll have steak as well:' So Social state of higher education m Bntam tance to student finances , and pr<, Democratic Party leader Dr David Owen recalls one of his favourite Spitting Image Jokes a~ut today? ceeds to mention his own universiti career when his parents had to sub. Margaret Thatcher. Devin Scobie spent a hectic afternoon talldngto this political phenomenon dunng "The sodal bemocratic Party's sidise his maintenance for six years. his most recent visit to Scotland. view about higher education is that The conversation is interrupted Variously considered as a career with its own form of regional gov- boys' half-term so we brought the ' the prese_nt sy~tem is disgraceful. by a ten-minute stop to record an opportunist, to a visionary whose ernment eventually. In the fullness whole family up. We played golf The participatwn _rate of people interview with Radio Clyde. FiJ. destiny lies in the leadership of the of time, I would like to see a federal yesterday afternoon and again this over the age of 18 m higher educa- teen more minutes take him to the 4 country, David Owen is an inspir- structure for this country as a morning." The Daimler stops at tion is only 1 % , and the govern· BBC studios where he is to record ing individual. Born in 1938, he whole. It'll take time, but mean- traffic lights. Are there any golf ment plan that percentage to nse to an edition of "Open to Question" 990 qualified as a medical doctor in time it would be very foolish of me courses on Skye I am asked. only 15% by the early i s, and I A worried producer guides th; 1965 before entering Parliament as to stop natural developments in George You~ger said recently think this is ou~rageous. We have small delegation to the VIP hospi, a young right-wing Labour MP. He Scotland because of an obsession that David Owen didn't know much neglected the skills of the na~on fo~. tality room where a humourless D 4 1 rose swiftly through party ranks to that you must have the same pat- about Scotland. "Has he said that?" far too long. Japan has a oYo rar Owen picks up a copy of the day's become the youngest Foreign Sec- tern throughout the United King- Owen asks. The Scotti.sh Secret- ticipation rate, and the Umted Scotsman. "I haven't read the pal> retary this century in 1977. dom. You must have a constitu- ary's comments came soon after the ers today," he quips. David Owen resents little of his tional climate for change." SOP leader's Scottish Assembly A smiling BBC secretary enters, Labour past, and looks constantly David Owen begins to relax in statement at the Liberal Confer- offering tea. David Owen hai towards a brave new world in which the back of the chauffeur·driven ence in Dundee in September. always placed a very high regard on he and his Liberal allies will form a Daimler which speeds rapidly " Well, I mean, I'm always rather public opinion, and had spoken government. Ideally, he says, that through the afternoon Glasgow reluctant to claim to know more earlier of his earnest desire for government would have a federal traffic. He reflects on why he has than you should. I'm not a Scot. I proportional representation in system, of which a devolved Scot- come north to Scotland this time. don't know anywhere near enough British politics. "I'd like it to goto a land would play an integral part. or as much about Scotland as David referendum," he remarks after " I've taken a pretty long and sus- "The present system of higher Steel knows, obviously." reflecting on the day's favourable tained interest in Scottish devolu- education is disgraceful. The Owen settles into a stride, and opinion polls, "because it is a very tion. I wrote a pamphlet in 1967 participation rate for people who answers a series of questions in with John Mackintosh and David are 18 and over is 14%. Japan rnpid succession. He volunteers a Proportional representation: Marquand and, I suppose, that was has a 40% participation rate; and personal opinion about Margaret "I'd like it to go to a referendum when I publicly committed myself the United States nearer 50%; Thatcher, knowing that he is the because it is a very real people's and stated positively that I sup- these are the sort of figures that only opposition party leader for choice. It shouldn't be a ported the devolution idea. My we have to target for." whom she is reckoned to have any politicians' choice really." reasons haven't really changed respect for at all. "I can certainly since then. I think that I was a "I do actually come up to Scot- admire her stamina and she sticks real people's choice. I\ shouldn't be decentralist before 1967. My roots land quite a lot. I suppose the main to the very letter of her word. But I a politicians' choice, reall y. " are in the West Country, so basi- reason I came up this time was to go think she does this far toomuch. Owen's schedule is tight, so w cally I'm a provincial person. to the Isle of Skye. " He adds that She absolutely refuses to believe move abruptly to South African "I've never been taken over by "Charles" has such a vast consti· that she can ever be wrong about sanctions. " It depends, of course, the sort of Whitehall-Westminster tuency, referring to Charles Ken- anything." what exactly you mean by sanc­ establishment brigade, and I would nedy, MP. "I've planned the visit The SOP leader glances at a tions. I was the person who made like even to see the West country for quite a long time, and it is my ,;eek-old copy of Student that has an arms embargo mandatory wh en .------=------'----'-'------I I was Foreign Secretary in 1971. I've always supported the sportl embargo, and I've advocated th at we should certainly move gingerl BNR needs your talent towards economic sanctions. It al depends on what your specifi to bring the digital world objectives are; whether you want t see some sort of constitution al change in South Africa , and if th a! to Europe. is the case then you need to have some sort of co-ordinated policy." BNR (Bell-Northern Research) Limited is Canada's The arms embargo against South largest private R&D organisation. With headquarters Africa, and his two years as Foreign in Ottawa and ten regional labs in Canada, the United Secretary, are well remembered by States and the UK, the company has developed contemporaries. A recent press strategic plans to take digital switching and office Photo: Dave Yarrow interview said that David Owen products technology firmly into the 21st century. David Owen - out in the wilderness. himself "was aware" that his defec· At our lab in Maidenhead, the major technical thrust tion from Labour in 1980 would States nearer 50%; these are the is the development of digital switching products for probably lead to Margaret sort of figures that we have to target the European, Caribbean, near East and African Thatcher remaining in power for for. We're going to have a whole markets. most of the 1980s. His prognosis range of policies which gear us Many of our projects are 'market-driven' and ensure certainly tends to be pessimistic, towards getting a higher skilled that Northern Telecom, one of our parent companies, but he vehemently denies that he training at every level. As far as maintains its position as market leader in digital could possibly aid to keep a Conser· higher education spending is con­ switching. vative government in power for the cerned, what really troubles me With an established reputation for incorporating most is the science cutback in rest of the decade. advanced software engineering with the latest budgets for polytechnics, colleges David O~en is a survivor in digital electronics technology, BNR offers excellent of technology and the universities." British politics. Despite the cer• opportunities to graduates with honours degrees On student grants, David Owen taintyofasecuremedicalcareer, he in computer science, electrical and electronic is less clear. "As far as maintenance chose instead to enter a volatile engineering or the applied sciences. grants are concerned, students lifestyle in national politics. He The BNR philosophy recognises and rewards the need a level of grant which will 6culd easily have been leader of a talents and creativity of all employees. If you are keep pace with inflation. There is Labour Party now far rem_ov_ed looking for an opportunity to develop a career within an element in the average student's from the socialist party of the s1xt1es an expanding organisation at the very frontiers of budget which has gone up higher Owen once felt proud to represent. telecommunications research, contact us or your than the inflation rate, so there has Instead he abandoned the careers office now. been an erosion in real terms of stu- allegiances of a lifetime and garn· We will be visiting the Careers Fair at your University dent grants." bled the respect and authority he on Wednesday November 20th. · In an ideal world, he would like had gained from being so nearl~~ to see the parental contribution the top on a totally new pohll Your future in telecoms research phased out. "We must consider," party. So far that gamble has been he warned, "that students, like ·successful. most other people in the commun- Whatever happens at the next, or ity, are just going to have their subsequent, general election, Dr BNR41 demands and their needs judged David Owen would like to be against the overall expenditure of remembered simply as someon~ For further information, apply to: the country. who changed the system. "lfW_~ di , Ian Irving, Human Reso·urces, "Ideally, I would phase out the get proportional representauon, BNR Limited, Dept. M130, parental contribution immediately, he concluded "then that would be St. Mary's House, 17 St. Mary's Walk, .butitwouldcostsomuchtodothat. a very, very ~ajor change indeed Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 1 OX. I certainly don't think that it could One of the major mistakes peo~iie 1 Or call him on Freephone 3277. be phased out during the first four make is to underplay the s1gn 1 • or five years of.a government com- ;ance and far-reaching consequ· mitted to other increases in higher :nces proportional representauon ~·_ . -·'-''-''-"'-"---''-'-· -'· -'--~-----'' -'-' .;..·--'-' ;:.. · "-- ·;..;-;;..;•c...-...;·_;;·---:.•-'' -'-' -'-. '-''-' '-• ''-''-'...:•...:•...:•...:•---'' -'-' -'' -' _. _• .;..' .;.." ;:..:..' 'a...'c.;'c;;~...;•...,•..:•...;•..:•..:.•..:<-..:•..:•.:...• .:...• .,_ , .:...•!r "' • • ~aducat..ioo.e.x.penditur~.;'.., + ._ .- f , • • ._ ., Nill--.liave.!' ._ .... ._..._. .... STUDENT Thursday 7th November 1985 JS

Writing~ Writer and Reality

It has to arrest the attention. It distinguish baskerville from His mark is well and widely has to suggest that he has been as bodoni, ems from ens, and has a known: twenty novels spanning inventive in staging his own life as way of showing (through some sec­ forty years and, much translated, he is bringing wittily and warmly, ondary charater's asides) why the twice as many lands. This book - sardonically with a sure touch, the weight of paper matters and what The Luck of The Lehmanns- is his somewhat errant and eccentric pas­ we should wonder about water­ twenty-first. It is set mainly in Ger­ sages of the Lehmann sisters and marks. many between the wars and Times their suitors to the pnnted page. His recreations chess, New Roman type. But, naturally, sex is skirted· chamber music and walking on the Were he a composer, we should (convention has it so), is himself Downs - contrast with those of his surely learn under whom he the father of three daughters, now joint heroines: swimming, swing, studied; if a painter, which other grown up. NNhing, note about and having fun. And if, in an open painters were his friends and the mistresses or mcest, two of his tourer, they were noisily to pass his cafe where they drank together. As favourite themes. substantial residence at the exact he is a writer, we are fed what moment he was to raise his shrewd seems to be a fiction when read To~ography is much more topi- .eyes from his writing desk and to after the realicy of what he himself cal. Like the Lehmanns~and their look out through the oriel window has written ; if read before, lo~ers-. he swmgs his compass_ of his panelled study (the photo­ remember that his authentic voice w1ldly: 1s here amo.ng us insular · graph reproduced upon the jacket), sounds not in stereotyped biog­ islanders, was there m Umbna for he would not notice them: his Sus­ raphical notes but in those cunning years, and m betwee.n, .everywhe~e · sex home, the fruit of well-pai nted portraits of typically contemporary abo~t the Caribbean,. his soiourn m royalties, has a mell owed wall high women, such as the Lehmanns, Afnca broaden~d his quick sym- enough to keep out jinks and who people his printed pages. path1es , while V1en.na softened his spirits. often restless 1mpat1ence. Anthony Edkins But (in this different from his characters: neither the Lehmanns T'~EE ..... • nor their circle, it seems, have 11' ( f much need to work) he is shown to . .. AIIO fHE' have been in early days, ifbutterfll', MAN SAYf .ru.~~ A F'fE'2. A industrious: crewing and captaining fe:W OF sea-going ships; digging for crops DESC(l/f;E 'fHESE and gold; shaking cocktails, break: T.H£ ~ ing horses and composing mottoes s-r!{\l.('furu for christmas crackers. All this, of course, after an expensive and exc­ OF lusive education.

And once (it is told quite proudly $0Mt;fl11Ww• Oll to underline the working-class background of one side of his family tH~ -OT'HE'(l~ -the other was rather aristocratic; 'fl11NKIH'' f'O · the Lehmanns, too, are the product (/,'f'(H ME: of grand and lowly ancestry), way Ol.lT.. · back, he worked as a printer's devil (in the family press) and so likes to

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Sport ~ Three in a boat ~ The wind was picking up and Edinburgh Firsts then proceeded Grizzly Adams ito do likewise to St Andrews, with the temperature was dropping In appropriately chilly con­ all three boats finishing at least a - why do we go sailing at this hundred metres ahead in both races ditions at Hillend, Edinburgh time of year? What remained of despite the course being shortened'. University skiers played a the boats were put on the water The real ' team sailing took place in dominant role throughout the on Saturday for the first match the final race between Strathclyde Scottish Universities Skiing of the season. A three-way tie and Edinburgh. Edinburgh started Championships, sponsored by between Strathclyde, St 2, 4, 6 with Paul and Gary on pon Ski an' Do Holidays. Sadly an Andrews and Edinburgh and tack, Simon and Jo on starboard leaving Gordon and Pete flounder. eye injury to the well known seemed ambitious at the outset ing on the start line in the dirty wind Tania Adams somewhat mar­ and was not helped by the of five boats. Decisive covering on red a day which had seen the waterlogged rescue boat engine the first boat improved the position University take the men's indi­ delaying the start by two hours. with Gordon gaining two places and vidual award through Alan Simon sailing the second Strathclyde McGregor who defeated St Our ladies were on the water first boat off the course to leave us with 2 Andrews Andrew Steel in the providing the most controversial 3, 4 at the end of the first lap. A bad final. match of the day against St Andrews gybe at the leeward mark by Gordon ladies. Their win was marred by lost us a green. Edinburgh contributed 25 skiers start-line tactics leading to a protest The race was resolved on the final to a tournament which was effec­ and several 'greens' on both sides. run, roll-gyping and mark tactics tively run and as a result thankfully Rebecca and Shirley sailed well, tak­ gaining several places for Edin­ brief; indeed if there was a ever a ing the first St Andrews boat well burgh. A final result of 1,2, 4 and a day to prove that Scottish amateur past the mark , but the match will green apiece showed Edinburgh's skiing competitions don't necessar­ now have to be resailed at a later dominance of the Scottish League, ily have to test your patience this date. Next Strathclyde Firsts I:ielped this year by the US contin­ was probably it. convincingly beat St Andrews Firsts, gent in the squad. Next weekend the even with St Andrews having the second team matches take place, Mary McPherson ,and Paul first three boats over the start line in again at St Andrews. Smith, the two leading figures in the second race. GT the Edinburgh Ski Club both prog­ ressed to the latter stages of their respective tournament though in Mr Smith's case this was perhaps more due to the inadequacies of his dual slalom ~ Snow queens opponent, rather than his indi­ vidual flair , much as it shone ( on Edinburgh University Lac­ Despite the snow and high winds the chairlift). Mary, however was 'Tania Adams qualifies for the final.' Photo: Dave Yarrow rosse Team has won the Scot­ we got off to a good start and scored to play a truly presidential role tish Clubs · Tournament again the first goal after a few minutes. before succumbing to one of the detract from the performance of Blyth is seen as something of a ski­ By half time the_ weather had more serious contenders for the the winner. ing mercenary who floats around after 17 years. improved and we carried on to win woman's event. Edinburgh's chal­ any university that will carry him The tournament was held in Aber­ by 3 g(!als to 2. lenge was then left to the considera­ In the men's championship how­ under their wing and who this year deen last weekend and all the Scot­ ble talent of Tania Adams who pre­ ever. Alan MacGregor and Edin­ had the misfortune to be at Dun­ tish clubs, besides St Andrews, The whole team played well with dictably met Aberdeen's Sally Har­ burgh were 10 prove victorious; a dee. The other beaten semi finalist were present despite the snow. a great sense of team work which rison in the final. Unfortunately it miraculous achievement firstly in was Edinburgh University no. 2 Although we were without our two augurs well tor the rest·of the sea· was not to be Tania's day and her view of his apparent ill health the Roddy Lapgmuir, who .looked top players, who were training with son. The trials for the Home Scots accident during the 2nd leg came, 1night before <1nd sefondly because good all the way before losing out the Scottish squad, we were never team take place next weekend and when she appeared to be beaten by of his dismissal of last year's champ­ to the beaten finalist Andrew Steel. behind in all our games. about eight of our members will be the better girl, and served only to ion Ross Blyth in the semi nna1. Dave Yarrow The final game was played competing for places. against Edinburgh Ladies Club. Alex Dampney e 5-a-side fun & frolics @ Price of success The first intra-mural five-a­ the order of the day, but due to time On a sourer note, it was discon­ side football tournament took restraints they had to be sudden certing to see two players sent off Aberdeen GSFP 3 EURFC8 during the tournament, one from place at the Pleasance on Sun­ death. Teviot scored, Grant mis­ sed, and despite them keeping a Criterion Fighters and one from the Aberdeen was a cold and Aberdeen line and eventually fol­ day. Perhaps it was the case clean sheet for the fourth game, Agrics (surprise, surprise?), both wintry place on Saturday. Even lowing a break from R . McPher­ that the advance publicity was Grant were out, and Teviot were for persistent fouling. Although it th'e touch judge got frostbite son, J. Douglas went over for a cru­ not up to scratch, but only nine through. was a · considerable improvel)lent cial try. To their credit Aberdeen but the Edinburgh side under a never gave up and strong surges teams entered the competition. on the tournament last year when determined captain, John • Unfortunately, the other semi­ the final was abandoned because from their forwards relieved the Therefore, instead of the us~al Douglas were hot and ready for pressure on their line . However straight knockout format, the final went along similar lines. both teams were involved in an all­ Again the two sides were equally out fight , it is till sad to see in a tour­ anything. they were unable to capitalise and teams were divided into two matched, but though two good nament that is meant to be primar­ only managed to score from a pen­ groups. goals were scored, when the whistle ily for enjoyment. The match kicked off;ith Edin­ alty late in the second half. Edin· went the teams were deadlocked. burgh playing into a cold wind; this burgh held on in spite oflosing prop In the first group Teviot Row Again the first penalty hit the back Finally, thanks must go to Char­ immediately giving Aberdeen the forward D. Casson in the dying Rowdies sailed through into the of the net and the second one mis­ lie Grant who organised the tourna­ .advantage. However it was the stu­ minute, and achieved a very wel· semi-finals undefeated, although sed, but this time it was the Blacket ment and officiated throughout. dents who were more alive and come win to ease the pressure of they were given a fright by Bufties who were through and Gaz­ lain Catto ready for a game of rugby and they rugby in Division Ill. Maximum Grant, who although zer's Gang who were out. showed their sheer determination P. E. FermiII having the better of the match, mis­ by taking the game to Aberdeen. sed numerous scoring chances. A With time fast running out on the Intra-mural As they couldn't kick effectively for play-off was necessary to decide hire of the hall, the final kicked off position, Edinburgh had to run ' who would join Teviot in the semi­ without delay. Almost immediately Lacrosse most of their ball and this resulted finals, after Gazzer's Gang and Blacket scored with a shot through in their first score. Following a Maximum Grant finished level on a ruck of players beating the Sunday afternoon saw the first maul situation the back row broke points, which the former won com­ 'keeper. But hardly bad the celeb­ Intra-Mural Lacrosse tournament away and fed to Jeremy Warnock fortably 3-0. rations finished when Teviot were of this year. Four teams partici­ who linked two more times before level, with Chris McGregor clev­ pated in the very close round-robin getting the score in the corner. A Thel second group, with five erly slipping a defender and shoot­ battle for victory which in the end telling blow against the FP side. teams in it, was more straightfor- ing the ball into the net. Teviot now· was won by "The Power Series" ward. Slacket Bufties won in their began to assert themselves and over "The Colonials" by goal dif­ Aberdeen however stood firm games, scoring 15 goals in the pro­ midway through the game a poor ference. Not far behind were and piled the pressure on the Edin­ cess,and they were joined by Half a clearance was picked up by Murray "Mylnes Court" and in fourth posi­ burgh side before half time. Their Grant (Maximum Grant's second Low who moved forward with it tion came "PIES" who, despite attacks were good but the Edin­ team) who lost only to the Bufties. and stroked Teviot into the lead. their great enthusiasm, could not burgh defence at centre and from 1 111, ,1,1 v ' Pre-tournament favourites, Criter­ Concern was by now being expres­ get the ball into the back of the net. the back row was solid and destruc­ 11 1111 ion fighters , could amass only three sed as to the prospects of being All in all, the tournament was a tive. Several times the Aberdeen points. thrown out of the hall before the great success with everyone enjoy­ players were dumped on the final was completed, but Teviot ing themselves, hopefully returning ground to knock the ball on giving The first semi-final involved made it all academic anyway when. to take part in next term's tourna­ Edinburgh the possesion which d like IO Teviot Row Rowdies and Half a they added a third through Andrew ment (provisionally 9th February). they used to clear their lines. The Student sports staff wou I asse" Grant. A close game ensured, but Holmes, their best player. In the Should anyone else like to partici­ wish University rugby prop D~ny ~iegt end Teviot deserved their victory, pate in this, watch out for posters The second half saw the confi­ a speedy recovery following hJS c~ ·ured at the final whistle there had been operation on Sunday. Danny w_as inJ "er no scoring, despite Grant creating although there was really nothing around the University in early Feb­ dence of the Edinburgh team rise. in the last minute of his team's v1ctoryo the only chances. Penalties were to separate the top four teams. ruary for details. They piled the pressure on the Aberdeen the previous day.