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Thomas Dolby live I at the Queen's Hall Cl) -a Alasdair Gray-the ·-en Glaswegian novelist C All the sports news -I and What's On 2 THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984
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NEWS IN BRIEF Moonie Rumours
RUMOURS ABOUND THAT the Moonles visited KB last week to Fowler to cut medics Nirvana closer hand out leaflets and tout for converts. Bearing In mind their THE SETTING UP of a Social reputation, had the Students' A Department of Health Science Students' Council should Association found out about their working party has recom make it easier, in theory, for visit they would undoubtedly have mended to Mr Norman students in that faculty tc had them removed from the participate in the run~ing of their campus. Fowler that the number of own affairs. Last week the medical students in Council's laws and bye-laws were Keeping warm University be reduced. approved by · the SRC thus bringing the day of nirvana for The city's poorest families could The party, which has social science students ever. be in line for help with their winter been in operation for a closer. fuel bills if a block claim to the year, feels that the level of More greens, DHSS by Edinburgh District unemployment among Council is successful. Special payments of about £3.70 a week doctors may reach an please would be made available for low intolerable level unless EU VEGETARIAN SOCIETY is at income tenants living in homes student numbers are present conducting a survey officially classified as "hard to among students about the quality heat" reduced. and quanitlty of vegetarian food in No doubt you will all have the Unions. It Is claimed by the Fees increased noticed the over-abundance of society that the choice of any doctors In the NHS. We have all sat Vegetarian, and particularly of FEES FOR FRESHERS in the In empty waiting rooms while Vegans, is extremely limited, to the next Freshers' Week are to be doctors play poker to help pass point where some cannot find increased despite a surplus of their idle hours. Those of us who anything at all suitable to eat in £1 ,720 in last year's budget. The have had the misfortune of having some Unions. If you have any surplus resulted from the to call out a doctor In the middle of feelings on the subject you are University taking on more the night have have the experience invited to complete the survey or students than expected. Fees have of 4 doctors all arriving 2 minutes go along to any Vegetarian been raised, however, in the after the call, so eager are they to .Society meeting. expectation that student numbers find something to do. So, It's will reall y fall this time. logical that they reduce the Council help numbers of medical students, Isn't Health cuts It? Well, isn't It? Lothian Regional Council are to The numbers of medical hire private sector management Edinburgh's Health Council, the students are to be reduced to the consultants to examine their body- which monitors the state of level of 1979. Instead of administrative system, as part of the city's health services, has admissions reaching a predicted the search of ways to improve spoken out against the "gradual record of 4,080, they are to be It Is, of course, too late to reduce schools. Queen's College medical efficiency and reduce costs. For a deterioration" of care and reduced to 3,840 and again to as the number of admissions this school In Belfast may not, £200,000 fee the consultants say treatment caused by the low as 3,500. September since provisional however, get off so lightly and may they could show how to save £2 Government spending squeeze. Scottish university medical places have already been offered. be closed altogether given the million. The move has been Patients are starting to suffer schools are expected to be However, If Norman Fowler supply of doctors in Ulster and criticised by Labour councillors as unnecessarily as more than 500 particularly badly hit along with accepts the findings of the Ireland. unnecessary: they say council posts have remained unfilled In some London colleges. Despite working party, and he Is likely to, Once again the hammer of Tory staff could carry out their own Lothian since last August. the fact that the academics In then he, In conjunction with the m O net e r i s m ha s h I t t he study. charge of medical schools are Dept. of Education and ·the Universities. Once again the old expected to protest about the University Grants Committee, will maxim of "If in doubt, but" has Labour Lothian Scrap scheme reduction In admissions, the Implement the cuts for next year's been applied. Once again the Admissions Officer In our own admissions. number of students at University Labour's Europe spokesman, scrapped medical school refused to Edinburgh's medical school, has been reduced. Once again our Robin Cook, says he is confident comment on what action, If any, being the bastion of the apathygetsthebetterofusandwe his party will win the Lothian seat Special waste paper collections in from the Conservatives come Edinburgh may be stopped in April :~eu~~ cit:. taken to avert thes:_ d~o~hl~ Michael Devlin r::~~~:h;~~~ t=:t~~~~ :~~t~~: European election time on as falling prices for salvaged paper January 14th. Labour currently have made the service un hold 5 of the 9 UK Parliamentary economical. At present the seats which make up the Euro scheme makes an annual loss of Last flight for Openings constituency. Mr Cook says he £153,000. But the paper would still hopes to see a total gin of 20 seats have to be collected as refuse, for Labour. meaning a net saving of only £53,000. Blocked Victory in sight Osprey? j The Open University, Music money Osprey, Scotland's only Lothian Regional Council every Britain's unique domestic THE NATIONAL AFFAIRS Con year in April. Ken Shoji doubts academy, is likely to vener, Mark Smith's epic five week An annual membership fee of £6 ls International Student whether the grant will be renewed struggle to produce a petition to be charged to borrowers of Advisory Council, could this year, however, given the reduce the service it against the pitiful increase in records and tapes from city close by the end of the· current tight financial cir offers soon as a result of student grants is nearly over. 400 libraries. This replates the current cumstances. " we know a service government cuts. more signatures will see the £6 deposit which is returned when month unless it finds that doesn't seem to affect a lot of minimum target figure of 4000 borrowed material Is given back. extra cash for some - students is an easy target," he Vice-Chancellor Dr John reached. Victory should come in The charge Is part of the 10 per where. With strong link's said. Horlock issued this warning last the next few days if KB students cent rise in recreation charges week at a press conference he to Edinburgh University It is vital for Osprey to attract respond well to the touring recently approved by Edinburgh enough funds to stay open during gave in order to criticise the petition team. District Council. overseas students at March because if it were to shut government's actions. " It seems Edinburgh would in even temporarily Lothian Region extraordinary that with the evitably be among those Council's Education might use ii worldwide reputation we have as an excuse not to renew the achieved we seem 'co have been to suffer. singled out for particularly harsh The price of grant. The University's close ties to Although the Students' Associa treatment in the university sector Osprey, which provides overseas tion and Edinburgh Un,versity over the next three years," he said. students throughout Scotland combined give it £600 every year in The university will receive about with advice, information ahd help, affiliation fees this shrinks in £60 million annually for the next revolution are emphasised by the fact that comparison to the £7940 that three years, and student fees will Senior President, Ken Shoji is Lothian granted last year. Among increase to about £2,000. The Socialist Worker Students' and keep the issue as cleanly· currently its Treasurer. In his view the many useful services to 5,232 Open University gradu Society, as reported in last week's fought as possible that they have " Osprey provides an absolutely Edinburgh University to go if ates were awarded degrees this issue of 'Student', are In deep decided to penalise the SWSS for vital service to the region. Osprey were to close would be year. Many students are from trouble with those notable their misdeeds. The society's Oversees students pump money 'Osprey News', a joint Students' sections of society which are not personages responsible for president, Julia Mackenzie, into the city .. they might not Association/ Osprey newsletter well represented at conventional maintaining the fair play factor in received a letter last Friday come without Osprey." which keeps overseas students universities, with their pre the increasingly heated NUS-or informing her that the SWSS will In the short term, Osprey only up-to-date on matters affecting dominatly young middle-class otherwlse campaign. The trouble lose its annual grant from the began, if you remember, with the Students' Association not for one needs money to stay open during them 1n ::;cotlano. .intake. Most are over 30, of which a March as it receives a grant from Graham Chalmers high proportion are women. The SWSS's publication of a pro-NUS year, but two. This punishment university makes higher educa leaflet entitled 'Work for a fighting represents a financial loss of some tion possible for the housebound NUS'. This article, because it was three hundred pounds. disabled. and for those who unsolicited by the official pro-NUS It's unclear what action if any the already have a job they cannot campaign party (spearheaded by SWSS intend to take. "We don't interrupt for study. the Students' Association's very even know if we can appeal," said Recent Edinburgh graduates own Amazon, Susan Deacon) was the society's secretary, Charles include a freelance architect, a officially disowned by the 'NUS Ross. If they appeal and lose, they police sergeant and the wife of the Yes' group, and even achieved the say they will take no action at ail. Scottish Liberal Party's Home distinction of being denounced on The offending leaflet, by the Affairs s pokesman . Elspeth the front page of 'Midweek' by the way, Is still In circulation, both on Campbell, who said. "I have Retuning Officer, Charles the Socialist Workers' bookstall always been somebody's daughter Fishburne. and elsewhere around the or somebody's wife ... I wanted to The matter did not end there. So University among the proliferation do something in my own right." keen is the Students' Association of campaign literature. James Meek to stick by its Initial declaration Jenny ounn THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984 3
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Sir Keith Joseph "forgets" Scottish Universities Scotland out in the cold The Mole Scottish Universities fear themselves whatever extra funds decisively rejected the idea of they could be left out of for expansion and development independence. During the debate the running for new are forthcoming in the future. over Devolution, before Thatcher Sir Alwyn Williams, Principal of ism threatened their very courses and extra student Glasgow University and chairman existence, th~y refused to places as a result of of the working group, said that Sir contemplate control by a Scottish changes in English and Keith Joseph had "forgotten" to assembly, preferring to stress how take Scotland into account when British they were. Welsh higher education. last year he urged the NAB and the Scottish Universities may soon, A working group from the UGC to talk seriously about closer however reluctan'tly, have to Conference of Scottish University links between universities and follow the example of Scottish Special Mole You've Gotta Hustle To Get On Courts expressed anxiety last colleges. colleges, which have thrived At the first hustings in DHT Deacon week that their "lines of com The Scottish equivalents of the through their pragmatic , Report on That criticised Conway for changing his munication" with the central polytechnics, the various colleges, opportunistic attitude towards opinions as often as his shirts. She resource-allocating bodies were do have central representation in courses and funding. Fourteen of Referendum immediately realised her mistake. Conway has only two shi rt s. dangerously weak. the shape of the Scottish Educa these colleges, known as Central Thing Hustings hung like seaweed round The issue has surfaced as a tion Department. But Scottish Institutions, form a dynamic, the necks of bored onlookers, where result of recent moves ·to Universities, in spite of their market-orientated group , Everyone knew it had to come this hacks merely tried to impress each encourage close co-operation unique (and expensive) four-year independently managed but year. At the Annual General Meeting other. The plants in the audience were between the University Grants course system, are at present united under the cash umbrella or Socialist Workers, Tories, Liberals and as easy to spot as kangaroos in dinner Council, which funds all British simply eight individual institutions the Scottish Office. Socialists joined in an unholy alliance jackets. The plants at the Pleasance Universities, and the National among the 51 the UGC has The group includes Edinburgh's to give ··ord inary students·· a chance to were all plastic. Adviso ry Body, which funds responsibility for nationwide. This Napier College and Aberdeen's vote on NUS aff_illation . polytechnics south of the border. unique Scottishness could be famous Robert Gordon's. If Sweetie Money The working group's worry is jeopardised unless they are able to Scotland's Universities do not Power, Corruption and Lies The topic of money came up over and over again. The affltiation fee that in the absence of a formal present a common united front to eventually form a similar You'd think the No's wouldn't want the UGC. ranged from £37,000 to £45,000 b<>dy representing the eight grouping, the current student ratio one as the status quo was wuh them depending on who you spoke to and Scottish Universities, English and The fears of Sir Alwyn, and his of 35,000:20,000 between them No chance. They have dreams of was described as both "sweetie Welsh higher education estab group are somewhat ironic, and the colleges could be reversed squashing the left with a big NO vote money" and ·· this giganttc sum". lishments could use this "closer bearing in mind that Scottish before the dacade is out. The Yes campaigners (most of the left) Sweetie money, eh? Perhaps Bob co-operation" to parcel out among Universities have in the recent past James Meek have been wandering around with the Mclean (NUS Scotland chairman and grim aura of the early Christians with built like a Russian war memorial) may the "Real Truth" (with a kap1tal T) on well need £45,000 a year in Mars bars their side. and wine gums to keep up his strength! While the Antis appeal to th e ·imli·ne I New accommodation snobbery ol Edinburgh University The Swizz students (most Scottish universities Sl The Socialist Worker Student are out) the Pros have been entreating deal for freshers us to join together with Aberdeen Society leaflets, '" Build a Fighting NUS", advocating such things as All first years at Un1vers1ty down to the Edinburgh Foot and Chiropody College students manning the Warrington SRC Edinburgh University picket lines and not being too hard on Yes, No or Maybe? the IAA, took the colour from Deacon's The SRC struck a blow could be guaranteed a cheeks. Those who said the No Without a hint of disagreement the campaign produced them were being place in University referendum was agreed upon. The against bureaucracy last only sflghlly too cynical. Tuesday, Jan. 31, by accommodation within No's initially celebrated with a potent two years if Tim Parke, punch tasting as if strained through th e Refuse Cruise? passing proposals to socks of the Forgotten Man . Watching Whicker's World this reduce the number of its ' Accommodation Con Meanwhile most students didn't vener and the SRC's Halls know (or even care) what the NUS, correspondent discovered a world own committees. As part SAC or EUSA is, and found the whole cruise on the CEIi costs £40,000. Rather coincidental, don't you of a general plan to and Houses Working thing as exciting as the view inside a Party have their way. coffin. think? restructure the SRC, We could send Teresa Bray on a stow In a report out this week the boat to China instead of affiliating to Faction Action writes Graham Chalmers, Working Party has called for NUS. this should have the effect anyone coming to the University The faction meetings were the first In fact why not send poor old Mole stage in the campaign. Held in the who needs a decent holiday? of making student parti- t for the first time, whether from William Robertson Building it was clpatlon easier. home or abroad, to be guaranteed Yes 's to the right and No's to the left. The Red Room I a place in Pollock Halls or one of Maybe's stayed in the Unions and NUS President Neil Stewart, fu ssed the many student houses According to the Ken Shoji, Senior libraries around George Square and in over like the only black guest at an President, " the system had scattered throughout the city. all the outposts of the Empire - KB, Anti-Apartheid dinner party, looked After being considered by the High School Yards - ah, what exotic become much too bureaucratic. out on Teviot debating hall to see 40 SRC, the Working Party's recom names. There were simply too many com hacks and only one uncommitted mendations will be sent for final At these meetings Susan "Mae West" mittees." Committees were set up student, who mistakenly thought he'd approval to the University Court, Deacon and Tim "Rusk" Farley (both come to see ··The Big Sleep··. He wasn 't here-and-there to deal with new I! rising stars of the Association) were the University's ruling body. It is raised without taking away the wrong. problems and issues as they arose elected leaders of the Pro and Anti unlikely to pass the recommenda right of 2nd and later years to live tn the bar afterwards Stewart but the number of SRC members groups respect ively. The Pro tions without some persuasion, there. substantiated that there wa s a Karl wa not Increased. As a result, figurehead of Dea con, the lassie from Marx Lounge at Aberdeen. It is, of said Tim Parke. The Halls and Houses Working there are 12 SRC sub-committees, . the ·· Honest Toun" (Musselburgh), hid cou rse , absolutely untrue that The Working Party's case is that Party's decision to support the behind her a multiple of sins as did too many for SRC members to ' affiliation would mean the Teviot Bar turning the idea of a guaranteed idea of a guaranteed place will affable Farley. ex-Potterrow chairman. attend, which often duplicate the 1 would lose that painting of our glorious place into a reality would not be enable the SRC to accommodate The organisational abilities of James same tasks. omnipotent (i .e. invisible) Chancellor difficult. Several new develop the University's strong wish to "Machiavelli" Husband and polemical Prince Philip (looking like Spock of writing styles of Pete ''Rat'' Chapman ments in Arthur Street and attract more overseas students for Star Trek) ,n exchange for Marx , Lenin Now there will be only 8 , and Mike "Poison Dwarf" Conway Blackett Street are already under or Big Brother (Fat Bob?). committees, Education, Welfare, I financial reasons without, at the were used by Farley to telling effect. Transition, External Affairs, way and it supports the idea of same time, being seen to Some people were quite amazed at the 1 'The Truth' Accommodation and 3 faculty selling outdated student houses discrimin~te against home vicious tone of the No propaganda. Later that day Student TV councils. Ken Shoji said, "I'm , like Muir Hall to finance the students by giving only overseas Rats for Affiliation interviewed the faction leaders. Posing pleased that the proposals were I building of a new block at Pollock. students priority in accom Most university accommodation modation. Ifs a shame Zack "High" Moore for the camera while Deacon droned passed unanimously. They should on, Farley noticed an NUS poster of already has a quota for the intake This was not the main motive didn't ask the same question to Stewart make It easier for students to get as he did at KB, that the NUS President marching millions on the wall behind Involved. We'll just have to try and I of first years which would only behind its decision, however. The him, and pulled 11 down revealing a need to be upped slightly. Tim general welfare of students and may have met Roland Rat on breakfast get them passed at a quorate I Tv but was it true he'd never even met publicity shot of '"The Truth". Very apt General Meeting." Parke, who it is generally agreed the need to put an end to the Sir Keel? has done a good job as Accom situation where many first years We all knew the answer that 1t Mole Advises How to Vote Plans for the changes began last ! modation Convener this year, are in digs has been its overriding doesn't matter not bemg on speaking My advice is either vote or don't vote summer in order to coincide with a I believes that Pollock Hall's figure concern. terms with that loony, Waldo Use a cross rather than a tick I hope Change in the structure of the of 62% for first years could be Graham Chalmers Watergate 1s far more important I'm not being too biased Good luck' SRC's back- up staff. In addition to committeesa reduction there in arethe severalnumber other of '--years.------They were partly·-- prompted---- 1 Important changes which will go by the problems the SRC Edinburgh joins the third world head II they are passed by a GM encountered last year in trying to and the University Court. Oxfam are to fund a self Conservative-dominated district creative, to develop skills they fight government cuts at the help scheme in the Craig council seems more obsessed never believed they had. The most Important other University. Discussions seemed to with city centre car parks than with One group of women, many of proposal is probably an increase go on forever as the issue had to be millar district of Edin urban decay, it is well to be them single mothers or with un In the size of the SRC Execut,·ve d b t d t I b th A d · j e a e no on y y e ea em,c burgh, the first time that reminded of the grimmer face of employed husbands, have already from 6 to 10. Instead of 2 Vice- Affairs Committee but also by the this charity, best known Scotland's capital. moved on from their initial Presidents there will be 4 which Anti-Cuts Committee and all the embarrassment to a great Craigmillar has the highest retie will mean that all of the main SRC Faculty Committees. 1 for Third World famine enthusiasm for their painting and of eviction in Edinburgh, four sub-committees will be repre- woodwork. " Most of us started off I relief, has provided aid to times the average number of lented on the Executive for the Not all of the proposals were feeling we couldn't do anything, children in care, three times the first time. " Decisions made by uniformly welcomed by the SRC. Scotland. but now we've found we can,·· said average attempted suicide rate, sabbaticals like myself," said Ken Among those who could not see Oxfam are giving £15,000 over one. " Soon we're going to begin I and three times the incidence of Shoji, "will get passed down the any need for a separate committee three years, most of it to pay two making things for the school." line In a much more efficient way." to be set up on Accommodation full-time workers to establish and mental handicap. were Teresa Bray, Honorary assist arts and crafts groups on the The Oxfam scheme does not Olher projects currently funded These proposals are the first Treasurer; Mike Conway, I sprawling decayed housing have grandiose aims: it sets out to by Oxfam in Britain exist in concerete moves towards change Honorary Secretary and James I estate. give people something to do, to Sunderland and Manchester. In the SRC's structure for three Husband, Environment Convener. At a time when Edinburgh's give them the opportunity to be James Meek 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th Februa ry 1984 Comment
Letters Hypocritical NO-campaigners campaigfl. Mike Conway has Dear Sir, stood In SRC elections repeatedly Public Discussions Arguing a 'No' vote Is easy. We as a Labour or Socialist candidate. save a lirge sum of money by Last summer he attacked the SRC staying outside the NUS. But do Dear Editor, for being In the hands of those who advocate a 'No' vote We are grateful for Elaine Permanent Secretary Dr. seriously believe that students ....___ Edinburgh University Student New._...- Preston's report of our sparsely Fishburne. Yel pathetically, It Is STUDENT attended public discussion here would be better off wllhout any Flshburne's poslllon he lakes up national representation at all? Do last Saturday. Nevertheless I now. So much for so-called they believe students need no would be grateful for space to put 'progressive' views, as the petty Put our money one or two matters right. voice whatsoever? For surely the sabbatical advocates Introspec Fir st ly, our f ree Sat urd ay policies of a 'national' governmen,t tion and Isolation for Edinburgh. are best contested by a national morning d iscussions on aspects of Mark Smith, In last summer's public affairs are only on certain organisation? David Steel, and electlon addresses promised to Wllllam Waldergrave, Tory MP at where our mouth Saturdays at 10:30 am. The next "work with NUS rather than two are on 'Who Governs Britain?' the Education Department against It" (his words). Democracy (Feb. 11 ) and 'Pressure Groups are support NUS, and highly praise Is being turned upside down by the part of a healthy democracy· (Feb the quality of Its work. 'No' campaign, and not the NUS. is 25). Although we seldo m get an Essentially, what the 'No' The total poverty of their positions attendance of more than a dozen campaign proposes Is a free rider; Is represented by the fact that, Nothing but lies that's what the NUS-No there is rather mo re than a little that we should receive the benefits having tasted power they seek to of representation without paying campaigners have to offer. They say NUS costs too price in bringing together a group keep It out of a broader democratic of people who may be complete for them. framework - hence the rubbish much; no it doesn't as £45 ,000 is a pittance compared strangers to each other, to have a The performance of NUS In they come out with; alledglng that to the £10 million received by students in grants from genuine discussion o n a topi c claiming grant Increases hasn't the Student and NUS are appropriate to a Universi ty yet also been brilliant since 1979, but there incompatlble. Of course, no the government (just ask our Honorary Treasurer). Is no doubt the situation would They say NUS is £1 / 2 million overdrawn; no it is!l't, it of real interest to many adults. university In NUS has a student Can I add two further points. have been much worse without newspaper! What shlt/ Don't you has a mortgage of £400,000 for tax purposes. They say These discussions are only a tiny any form of student pressure feel betrayed? union facilities will deteriorate if we join NUS; no they part of a total program me of group. and how can NUS function The truth Is that this referendum effectively on our behalf without won't because it is government subsidies which keep several hundred weekly course is a moral issue; only when NUS and events, mostly for the general our support? has the support of all universities prices down and therefore national representation is public (including any full-time Instead Mike Conway and Mark can it campaign best on our essential. They say NUS wastes money on fancy students who may be interested). Smith want us lo enjoy behalf. When voting consider this ott,ces and conferences; no it doesn't as th e present " Adult education" i!S a subject of representation without con against the ramblings of people study is much more a matter for tribution. It Is time Edinburgh who change their minds every offices are older and smaller than before, and £80,000 our neighbours upstairs in the shared responslbllity, to students other month. If you don't want any has been saved on . conferences in recent years. Department of Education. In general. The reafllllation of national representation that Is Questions answered. Anyone wishing fuller informa Edinburgh would give NUS added democratic, such as NUS, and weight as a pressure group. Grant We disaffiliated from NUS in 1976. We decided to tion is welcome to cal I and make would rather have the FCS or any enquiries during normal office Increases would improve and we NOLS pandering to the form a Scottish Union of Students as a replacement hours. would a·II benefit. It Is a moral government In power then vote this never materialised. What did we do with the Yours sincerely, Issue; we should stop this 'No' by all means. hypocrisy now. money we saved? We spent it largely on lighting in R. Peter Wassell Yours, with gratitude, Such hypocrisy Is heightened Mark Wickham Jones Teviot. Points made. by those In charge of the 'No' Toby Porter The truth is that NUS made the government ag ree to Rubbish from the Mole a 4% grant increase as opposed to nothing at all. NUS ensured that every student receives a mimimum grant which was not so before 1976. NUS persuaded Dear Editor, government to provide grants for overseas students Please inform the 'Mole' that the KB Union elections are, this year which didn't exist before. as every year, during the first two We all sit back and enjoy these advantages. If NUS weeks of March, and that if he did not exist then we would be really stuck. Now is would like to submit a nomination form before February 27 th, he the time we need NUS most, when this government might even end up with an puts less into further education at the same time as invitation to the changeover demanding more out of it. party(!) at which we shall be happy to prove his report in last week's We reap the benefits of NUS without ever knowing it. 'Student' was utter rubbish from NUS provides the information which allows our beginning to end. Students' Association to tackle the problems of Yours, finance, welfare and accommodation which we rarely Bridie Andrews KBU President, Farley, the imaginative novelist hear about. for the Committee The Principal, Dr Burnett, has national representa Dear Student, What upsets Tim Barney so tion. Your tutor belongs to his union. The Pollock Tim Farley's piece (last week's much is that many FE students are cleaners belong to their union. Each of them knows Student) "the case against NUS" not elected to conference by was nearly as big a hoot as the cross-campus ballot. So what? Try that national representation is essential to their fut ure. Open-minded Student university challenge panel on his having a cross-campus ballot Let's wake up. NUS yes. campaign poster (our image') covering a college and 6 annexes Dear 'Student', anyone can get on university (Telford) on a student run budget As an Impartial, objective and challenge as long as you've got a that couldn't keep a parrot. level-headed observer of 'Student' mental surname! Everyone knows Speaking of parrots Tim and his each week, I read with dismay Mr that. chums have been trundling round His article was wonderful. I had ------• J. Goodare's statement In a letter campus like little daleks telling last week concerning 'Student's' to rummage through it to find people they can join NUS review of 'Burn' by Bodger, "It Staff anything that was actually true. He individually. You can ... it entitles Features lain Cameron strikes me as a textbook example couldn't even bring himself to tell Eric Carlin you to subscribe to "National Editor Ian MacGregor of what's wrong with your arts us how many Scottish Universities Student" and that's it. The Anna Antilli pages and indeed with much of there really were in NUS. referendu m today is about Pam Aul. Ed. James Meek your political comment." I know It's the way he tells them though, affiliating the membership of that Mr Goodare enjoys his Sport Rob Kitso n try this" ... in fact deleg~tes from EUSA to NUS. News Michael Devlin Alun Grassick rhetorlal games from time to time Further Education Establishments But Tim Blarney will have none but can't he refrain just once. Graham Chalmers I are carefully selected to suit the of it. With imaginative writing like Jenny Dunn Back Page David Pethcrick would have thought that the extremist vi ews of the National that Tim you could be a novelist variety of opinions expressed In e-.cutive". Carefully selected by (perhaps a new take-the-mickey Arts Bill Williamson Photography Neil Dalgleish 'Student' goes a long way towards who m Tim? and which Further spillane) or maybe a job on the showing how "un-cllquey" and Donna Campbell Donald Pollock Educatio n Establishment did you Sun' Phew! What a scorcher!! Eleanor Zeal James open-minded It Is. Did Mr Goodare attend? Fred Johnson Fi ona Millburn not bother to read the full page James Laidlaw article on McKay the previous What's On Sarah Hemming Graphics Toby Po rter week which seemed, to my mind at least, somewhat In favour of the Laura Dickerman Nancy Miller "A Better Informed SRC" ... Please. Jocelyn Campbell artist's work? As for the " polllical Publicity Tanya Woolf comment'\ I have not noticed a particularly 'cynical', 'negative', Dear Editor, they were not Informed. I asked Mr Music Wendy Barrett In last week's 'Student' you Kevin Dunton, SRC Administrator, Advertising 'fashlonable' etc .. . attitude. But Neil Dalgleish Neville Moir asked II EUSA needed a 'Better why EU Overseas Students had Alastair Dalton then again I don't manage to read every news article every week. Informed SRC'. I would like to not been sent Invitations - unlike All letters . articles. ideas etc. to be submitted by next Monday please. c/o Yours ever, stress that it does. On Thursday In past years. He said he had not EUSPB, 1 Buccleuch Place. A. Blas evening 26th January, EU even heard about the reception. students went conspicuously I hope that the proposed missing at the annual welcome Information Committee will gel on reception held In the Assembly the move quickly. I would only 'Burn!' - again! Rooms, George Street, by the Lord object to the Idea if, as Teresa Bray A big· thank you to the many People interested in photography, Provost of Edinburgh for all new fears, their role Is going to be peopfe who broughl In various writing articles, news stories; overseas students to the city. restricted to warming th e articles, letters etc. Unfortunately reviews. Even if you don't know Dear Ed, The reason of their absence was committee's seats. this week we are very short of what interests you most come I thought 'Bumi' was an album not the 'workltls' disease, as one Blslmwa Ntahwa-Kuderwa space due to NUS coverage. down to 1 Buccleuch Place on by Deep Purple. might think; or that they would not (former Vice Pres. of the Please don't be put off'though . .. Friday at 1 pm. Yours, George Blockhead have enjoyed the event. Simply EU Overseas Students Centre) THE STUDENT Thursday. 9th February 1984 . 5 Feature Glaswegian novelist Alasdair Gray talks to Student's lain Cameron. The Road to 1984, Janine f Alaadalr Gray wasn't a man of slightly diminutive proportions, you'd the ordinary. which I found boring. because he's not so obsessed with Nothing ought to be kept going Iprobably think he was Invented by Ronnie Barker. There Is a comic And then in later adolescence of warmth being special. This will sound a bit out of pity, but on the other hand about Gray that refuses to allow him to become pompous ·course I discovered that the dicey, but it's possible in Scotland nothing ought to be neglected." As despite the fact that ever since the publication of his first book 'Lanark: ordinary which you find boring if you're trying to do something he went on to illustrate, th ere is a fu•I a few short years ago, he has looked almost certain to become not actual l y con t ains all the only one of the very best of Scottish novelists, but also one of the most imaginative as a writer or an artist, good deal of quality stuff in the possibilities for pleasure or horror possibly as a creative scientist Scottish canon. popular. That first novel exploded onto the Scottish literary scene with that you've been gettin9,in a kind something for everyone between Its covers - serious Intellectual Ideas though that's an area I don't Some of that 'quality stuff', of clandestine form, through particularly know. for people to indeed, is being produced right comedy, science, fantasy, love Interest, tragedy. Gray covered so manY fantasy. And therefore I got much ba1es In one novel that critics began to speak of him as Scotland's get the feeling 'You're drawing now, for in a sense Alasdair Gray is keener on what might be called attention to yourself. Why do yu merely the first bloom of a new 1n1wer1 to James Joyce. Now, as the publication date for his second realistic writing, but without at any feel you're good enough to draw flowering in Scottish writing. If novel, '1982, Janine', approaches the critics are flexing their muscles to point wanting to abandon the heap more praise upon him. attention to yourself?' So I can see one considers other contem queer thrill I get from seeing reality in what I've just said that this porary names such as Jim Kelman caricatured through fantastic seems to indicate the attitude of (whose new novel The Bus exaggerati ons." 'I'm sick of all those arty folk th at conductor Hines is published by That belief in the variety of think they're so special. Let's have our very own Polygon Books on ordinary life is perhaps why at an honest down to earth bloke. February 29th), William Mcll least one criti c called him a Just once a bit of sunlight and a vanney, Liz Lochhead, and John Scottish James Joyce. How on good fuck,' - and I don't mean and Tom McGrath. How does it earth, I wondered, did one react to that either' Well yes, I mean that feel to be part of what has a comparison like that? partly. I don't want to demean the potential to be a major revival? "I was highly complimented'" anything, you know. I suppose I "The point is , that it does Gray replied, with a smile. "I'd be just didn"t want Lanark to ,ctually seem to me that there are gJad to be called a Scottish be a specialist. Tiore writers around. Some I think Dickens, a Scottish Kafka, a Scottish anything that other people thought famous." The " ••• I don't think there is anything better in the Joyce comparison, it seemed to world than somebody who is ordinary and glad. me, went deeper than simple Because normally our education suggests that to flattery however. Lanark. like Joyce's 'ordinary hero' Leopold be glad we must be extraordinary!" Bloom, sai d that all he found important was love . " And One thing which Gray was JOOd , some I think interesting. sunlight," he added, "which is particularly eager not to demean, ;ome I think have found quite a actually the physical and universal perhaps, was the city of Glasgow. Jood style and are putting up form of it as far as human beings Duncan Thaw said in Lanark that · ather a good show for are concerned. I like you making nobody thinks of Glasgow as .hemselves. And because there that connection - it never struck beautiful, because its only impact He more of them around, I feel me before, but I like you making upon people's imagination has ·at her cheery about it! I don't really it." been through "a music-hall song
Film Society Filmhouse Nult et Brouillard, the Exterminat Heartaches ing Angel and The Seventh Seal Thur 9th-Sat 11th 18.25, 20.30 Sat Friday 10th. Pleasance. 18.45, 11th 16.00 19.20, 21.00 A light, breezy but perceptive The first is an unsurpassed short piece from Canada in which the by Alain Resnais, the second a mundane existence of pregnant surreal attack on bourgeois Bonnie Howard (Annie Potts) is niceties in which a number of transformed into a whirlwhind of dinner guests find that they are entanglements when she meets trappe'd in a palatial house with devastating Rita (Margot Kidder). ve ry little food and even less Canada 1981. patience; and the third is perhaps Bergman's most sombre, Tokyo Story pessimistic and yet most beautiful Thur 9th-Sat 11th 17.45, 20.15 Sat film. World-weary Knight Von 11th 14.30 Dydow is confronted with Death "One of cinema's indisputable whom he must challenge to a works of art". David Robinson, game of chess in a desperate bid Financial Times. A movie neatly for a longer life. Dir. lngmar constructed, acutely observed Bergman 1957. study of the traumas of family life would be difficult to find Ozu It Happened One Night, Britannia poses a serious challen~e __ to Hospital Western popular cinema. Jasupro Sunday 12th Pleasance 18.45, ozu·. Japan 1953. 20.40 Reportedly Hitler's favourite film? Breaking Away A romantic comedy starring Clark Sat 11th 14.00 Gable and Claudette Colbert, Tired of those long, tedious which won 4 major Oscars. A Saturday afternoons? Desirous of runaway heiress is doggedly a little light relief? Didn't you too Oleg Yankovsky and Erland Josephson in Nostalgia (Filmhouse). pursued by a lovesick reporter. dream of becoming Italian cycling Mur Murs: Los Angeles 1980 1934. In 'Britannia Hospital' we see champion? Dir. Peter Yates USA Wed 15th 18.20, 20.20 every aspect of British society 1979 (8 yrs and up) A rarely shown but valuable film in ruthlessly attacked during a Nostalgia which Los Angeles wall murals chaotic day in the life of a Sun 12th-Fri 17th 18.00. 20.:in dominate the screen, reflecting collapsing hospital. Occasionally 20.30 only Sun 12th, Matinee 15.00 the diverse and alienating nature clever. Dr. Lindsay Anderson UK Wed 15th of the city. Who paints the murals? This is a film in which very little Who pays for them? USA 1980. 87 }i:;- Box Jordan, The Hands of "happens" We enter the· mins. Ortae, The Woman In the Window metaphorical, lyrical universe of Anti-Apartheid Society Wednesday 15th. Pleasance 18.45, one of the few successful film Thursday 9th 19.00, 20.45 makers remaining. Haunting ABC EU Jazz Society Talk by Yvonne Strachan of A jazz short to begin, followed by a image succeeds haunting image (228 1638) Pleasance Bar. 22.00-1.00. £1 . on South African Polit, small landmark in early German as Tarkorsky mediates on man's Scarface Games Competition Prisoners and the Law. cinema in which the hands of search for self, taking us through Faculty Room South 13.00-14. 14.30, 19.30 A new line at Chambers Street famous pianist Orlac are replaced the misty vales of a wintry Italy. Dr. Another gangster-type role for Al House. 20.00. Pinball, video and by those of a murderer. Highly Tarkorsky. IVUSSR 1983. stylised and nightmarish. the third Pacino, in this violent film about pool - with prizes. (Free). the Mafia in Cuba. Wednesday 15 film is an even more disturbing Juliet of the Spirits Friday 10th thriller with an innocent professor Sun 12th 19.00 Green Banana Club Sudden Impact ·The Union Palals becoming embroiled in a murder A classic from Yellrui, said to have Disco at Potterrow. 20.00- 14,00, 17 .00, 20.00 Disco 19.30-2.00. Jazz he never committed. Dir. Fritz been based in his own marriage to Free. If you are in the mood for Ecstatic Hour 20.00-21.00. Lang USA 1944. Guilietta Masrna. A bored middle celebrated villains, glorified Disco aged housewife fantasies with an EU Campaign for Fair Votes violence and out-of-control Potterrow 19.30-1.00. 60p. Odeon intensity which might be A talk on electoral reform by revenge, this is your film. (You Competition Jenkins MP with Ludovic Kenn (667 3805) condusive to mental breakdown blood thirsty thing). but in fact seems to work as a sort Chambers Street House. Prizes. and Prof. D. N. McCormick. Gorky Park 20.00-24.00. Lecture Theatre. 13.00. of sanity-preserving mechanism, Never Say Never Again 13.25, 16.25, 19.35 Media Megalomania protecting her from the worries of 13.30, 16.40, 20.00 A spy story involving Russians and A talk by Martin Walker of The Lesbian and Gay Society age, marriage and death . Now you don't only have to choose sable farms. Maybe you should Guardian' on ' Insanity' and Sinclair Room. Societies Gen Sensuous in the extreme. IVFr. between Bonds, you have to read the book instead. 1965. Newspaper Ownership in Modern Pleasance. Discussion: Love Jungle Book choose between cinemas as well. America'. Room 107, WRB, 16.00. Money - Liberation vers us See Dominion for details. 14,00, 17 .00, 20.00 Tom, Dick & Harry and Blithe Spirit Scene. 19.30. I am running out of cute things to Maths Society-Beerienteering Mon 13th-Tues 14th 18.45 Chambers Street Union 19.30 / say about this film, bu~ it is a true The first is a Ginger Rogers Caley Bring three friends and form a classic for all ages. comedy in which she finds herself (229 7670) team (you'll be attached by the The Honorary Consul engaged to three men at once, Tootsie leg) which will decipher a clue to 14.00, 17.00, 19.50 spreading anarchy as she 19.55 locate a pub. After that .. well, you Richard Gere swaggers and contends with hilarious pre Dustin Hoffman is an unemployed can guess. Bring 80p and some sweats his way through·this boring dicaments. USA 1941 . The second actor who becomes " Dorothy" and string! film as an empty and undeveloped is a celebrated Noel Coward an instant star. This situation leads character involved with vague comedy-fantasy about a man to hilarious moments and political wars and Michael Caine's whose long-dead first wife returns Saturday 11 th wife. touching revelations as Dustin to haunt and taunt him. 1945. learns more about women through The John Peel Roadshow first hand information. Chambers Street House 20.00- Stir Crazy 2.00 Cinema 1 Thur 9-Sat 11 6.25 8, Margot Kidder, Robert Carradine THE 1,,,J 18.00 Tickets £2 from Union Shops. HEARTACHES (1Si Now is your chance to see Gene 18/22 Greenslde Place, Self Assertion Cinema 1 Sun 12 8.30 ~on 13-' Wilder and Richard Pryor dressed Andrei Tarkovsky's award·w1nning Edinburgh EH1 3AA A talk and discussion by the t;J'Ff:YHOUSE like big chickens. Actually, this 1 film is very funny in a slapstick Unemployed Graduate Group. ~~!T!~~~~ -(. ~stoilishing .. t way. Pleasance, Cheviot Room , Cinema 2 Thur 9-Sat 11 5.45.'8 February Pleasance. 14.00 April Third lllm Information unavailable, Yasujiro Ozu's classic drama abo\/1 12th SAXON £5.00 £4.50 £4.00 16th BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST TOKYO STORY (UI 16th&18th SCOTTISH OPERA-LA please check with cinema. "One of the most profoundly rewa: £6.00 £5.00 £4.00 Sunday 12th BOHEME Student Standby Cinema 2 Sun 12 7.00 only tickets available on night. May Dominion Ecstatic Hour Fedenco Fellini's gloriously oputen 19th MARILLION £4.50 £4.00 (447 2660) 20.00-21.00 Teviot Row. Pius Live JULIET OF THE SPIRITS 11•1 20th TINA TURNER £6.00 £5.50 2nd CANNON & BALL £6.50 £5 .50 £4.00 Never Say Never Again Folk. Free. Cinema 2 Mon 13-Tues 14 6. 45 £5.00 Ginger Rogers and three lovers 11 23rd HAWKWIND £4.50 £4.00 £3.50 31st BARBARA DICKSON £6.00 14.00, 17.00, 19.55 £5.00 TOM DICK AND HARRY (PG> 29th WHITESNAKE £5.00 £4.50 Sean Connery stars in this latest Monday 13th Plus Noel Coward's wonderful co: £4.00 James Bond film. Much action and EU Conservative Association BLITHE SPIRIT iPGi typical Bond stunts. Starring Rex Harrison. Consiance CINEMA The first in a series of Speakers - Today- Last Night of Trading Places Mrs Winifred Donaldson, Lothian Cinema 2 Wed 15 6.20/8 20 March Agnes Varda 's entertaining lilrn Saturday Night Fever and 14.00, 16.50, 19.50 Region. Middle Reading Room, backgrounds in the recenl lllm 8' 8th MAN O WAR £3.50 Flashdance (7.00 pm) American comedians Dan Teviot 13.00 (Lunch from 12.30). MUR MURS (PGi 11th THOMPSON TWINS £4.50 £4.00 From Friday 10th February Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy romp Up In Smoke and 13th DR HOOK £7 .00 £6.00 £5.00 through this biting comedy about 48 Hours (7.00 pm) 16th RUN RIG £3.50 role reversal. 18th FREDDIE STARR £5.00 £4 ,00 Late Night Saturday 11 .00 pm Local Hero Tuesday 14th 23rd&24th RUSS ABBOTT £5.00 Apocalypse Now 14.00, 17,00, 20.00 Full details in free me £4 .00 £3.00 Student Tickets £1 .00 Late viewers are still raving about EU Ulster Unionist Student Student Concessi0" this warm and wonderful film . Organisation (remember tob BOX OFFICE 557 2590 Don't miss your chance to see it First meeting in Middle Reading now. Room, Teviot 13.00. ·-- THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984 7 NUS News NUS hustings • reports & analysis Stewart shines at Teviot Lunchtime A half-empty Teviot financ ial aspect of affiliation. He lethargy Row debating hall was the said students must bear in mind that the £10 million which scene of the best hustings Ed inburgh students receive in 1.10 pm, Tuesday: NUS of them all on Monday various grants all comes from a Day -2. The low rafters of night. It was good for one national level. " It is." he said, "vital, therefore, that you have national Chambers Street's crow reason only and that was representation." ded dining area shudder the presence of Neil Stewart was a hard act to follow, as Ken Shoji's amplified Stewart, Presid ent of and this was evident throughout Tim Farley's speech. He appeared voice bellows out un NUS, who raised the nervous and dry-mouthed as he expectedly from a pair of arguments from the petty, began by complaining about the huge loudspeakers in one uncommitted level at lack of " real " students in the hall as gloomy corner. Aston which they were stuck opposed to the left-wing hacks who had already made their minds ish.ed pie and pizza eaters and added credence with up before they came. look up to see a panel of evidence to the pro-NUS Farley said little that was new four eager hacks, about to case. and he said nothing with conviction. He claimed that the harangue them with the Hilary O'Neill was in the chair University unions would be virtues and vices of the (it's now becoming remar~able to dragged down to the national level National Unio~ of see her out of it) as Neil Stewart if we were a part of NUS, but he and Susan Deacon put the case for gave no evidence to substantiate Students. NUS reaffiliation while Tim Farley ljis ·assertion. On the whole, he "Who cares a damn about and Fiona Shaw spoke agains\, appeared smug in the knowledge NUS?'" began Graham Carter, for Neil Stewart was first to speak. that his side will probably win and the anti faction. ,His speech was In a very clear, concise and fell that he needs add nothing for regularly punctuated with such Graham Carter Pnoto by James Laidlaw forcefully delivered speech, Neil this end to be achieved. remarks - " bloody better off turned the clock back to 1976 to without them" etc. In substance, - 1n our grant. Secondly, he sUsan Deacon spoke next for voiced strong personal doubts as examine the reasons why NUS. Her speech amounted to an he argued that the NUS was both Edinburgh actually left NUS in that unrepresentative of students and a to the validity of the NUS's claim to attack on Ken Shoji (who was not Dome drones be the representative voice of year. These reasons, he claimed, in attendance). She said that he failure In terms of Improving included the fact that NUS was student Ille. " NUS Is as repre widely-divergent studenthood. had a "little empire mentality" and Short, succinct, and completely viewed as a bureaucratic, un that the only reason why he had se n tat lve of students," he Another peaceful lunch democratic organisation whose concluded obscurely, "as Sir Keith unapplauded, Ken returned to sit finally "fallen off the fence" was time in the oasis of the forlornly on the steps like the rest conferences were as disastrous as because he felt that the Joseph Is of the Save the Whale its financial control, and because campaign." Student Centre con of us, and with us awaited atmosphere in the Association chairman Mike Conway's ordeal Ed inburgh at the time was going to Offices would be changed if Heather Lamont, of the pro course ... or is it? As form a Scottish Union of Students. faction, spoke next, taking up the by Socialist Worker. Edinburgh were to be in NUS. t advised by that instru The ever-confident Chairman Mr Stewart then proceeded to Fiona Shaw was the last to Issue of finance. She said that systematically dismantle the there were more important things ment of power, 'Midweek'. Mike eloquently crushed two over speak. Again she did little more enthusiastic attacks by mumbling foundations upon which all of than restate all the old and tor students to consider than the I got me to the hustings. these arguments were based. With number of pinball machines In that they weren't, er, relevant. One somewhat tired anti-NUS On Thu rsday they was about use of EUSA funds the regard to bureaucracy, he pointed arguments. She appeared to be unions. Paying for NUS would erupted around me in the out that NUS had moved head mean the difference between second about victimisation of the more moved by her own rhetoric DHT basement cafe, but SWSS. This would have been more quarters in London into a smaller, than the issue itself. Asserting the painting bars once every five years cheaper and older building and one every six. She said that appropriate if applied elsewhere, ineffectiveness of NUS she said on Friday the road to the since it wasn't the SWSS we felt thereby saving money. On confer that the government only listened NUS had, among other things, verbal cut and thrust of ences and finances he claimed been Instrumental In preventing sorry for it was Mike Conway. to " bank managers and dons" the Student Centre was A relatively sore question - was that £80,000 had been saved on the when it was considering grant the Introduction of student loans former, and that the financial to replace grants. one I took with the the Pubs Board really threatened levels - not NUS. by the NUS? Inscrutable and ever situation of NUS is good contrary Zack Moore was the second anti clearest of minds. to the tie told by the anti-NUS When I spoke to Neil Stewart to speak. He described what he polite, Ken explained that the factio n about t he £500,000 afterwards he was pessimistic considered to be the NUS"s First speaker, Laurence money (Using Mr Farley's maths) overdraft. Of course he referred to about the result, saymg that Ken fundamental Irrelevance to O'Donnell, pro-NUS. He had to come from somewhere. In the non-existence of the Scottish Shoji was disappointing in his lack Edinburgh University. defended the organisation against reply, Laurence Macdonald urged Union of Students, mentioning the of control over the campaigns. On Tom Potter rounded off the the "scorn and cynicism" of its us not to worry; we can afford it. this p~rformance to night, there opponents without saying much Exit unsatisfied questioner into fact that Scottish NUS is a "fully lnltlal speeches for the pro faction should be no need for pessimism. more, except that we can afford ii. apathetic audience. devolved part of NUS". by trying to highlight the practical The only pity is that more of you Whatever that means - in actual The anti-NUS men proved calm The most interesting part of his value of NUS In terms of the weren't there. financial terms ie pounds and under concentrated enemy fi re. speech was his dealing with the training and Information services pence - no-one seemed quite Tim Farley survived a half-hearted Michael Devlin It offered. He pofnfed out that certain. demo by totally ignoring it. (It was David Steel had said how much he Answering this flood of oratory. half over before he even realised it valued NUS Information. As for Tim Farley managed some highly was going on). Ken repeated whether the government listened complicated mathematics, too himself patiently when asked what to NUS - "If Kefth Joseph doesn't difficult for that part of his he'd said about national represen speak to them, It says more about tation. Anna repeated herself Keith Joseph than about the audience concentrating on boiled sausage and baked beans and not fervently on NUS victories. NUS." even there for the beer ... Perhaps Laurence repeated Ken (more or The pro•, for their part; were we could afford it after all. less) on the pointlessness of anxious to remind the audience of All these economics were made individual membership of the what the NUS had already done for more parochial by Anna Burnside, NUS. In fact, not a lot more was Edinburgh without getting who listed the NUS's achieve said. anything In return - presourfng ments on grants, housing, and so It's an accurate measure in the Government on loans and forth. She attacked as well as audience response, of either the granta , researching student defending; but, like everyone else, frenzy of the ·pro' lobby or welfare Issues, and so on. fell down over the annual fee. It everyone else's apathy. On the The event was not a lively one. troubles her as it troubles us, and subject of student loans, first Although the calm, reasoned she didn't convince us otherwise. Laurence and then Tim both speeches of the pros were Next the highlight - Ken Shoji. proved harshly condemnatory. superior to the melodramatic, For me he was the best of the four The former was clapped to the excfted sniping of Iha antis, there speakers - largely because he echo, the latter sat down to a was a sense that the apathetic and coped best with the microphone. resounding silence. Send in the apolitical Jeering, audible from Firstly, the NUS had lailed to clowns, Edinburgh students - if distant tables, would triumph In prevent a decrease - in real terms you can be bothered. the end. Jenny Dunn James Meek Tom P•~o~tt~e~r ______!_P'.!.ll'.'.o'.'.1£0!.b:!V'._:J~a~m~es~L!a~id~/a~w~------afford reafflllatlon and that the afflllatlon, Conway urged the Bouncers held back the concluded the case for the antl money Is therefore not a problem. audience to think less of principle screaming females. overcome by NUS group. Whilst conceding that NUS Is and more of reality. He claimed Conway-mania as Susan Deacon DHT dilemma Question-time then followed. not perfect, he urged his case by that NUS Is a useless organisa took the floor to a somewhat more Few new points were made other stressing that EUSA Is wealthy and tion, using as an example the fact subd4ed reaclion (only because of than Laurence O'Donnell stating whether or not to vote is only a (or fiction) that Neil Stewart, the lack of men, Susan - honest). On Thursday, 2nd that the £45,000 Is no more than matter of priorities. On the president of NUS, has " never even Miss Deacon claimed that we "sweetie money" to EUSA. Mike February, it was NUS with met , .. eh .,, Sir Keith Joseph". He only left NUS In the first place to question of priorities he claimed Conway responded by saying that asserted that NUS is seen as no form Scottish Union "which now your lunch whether you that NUS know about and deal a the Publications Board (I.e. with issues which are central In the more than a relatively Ineffective only exists In Dublin Street". She liked it or not in DHT Student among other such lives of all students such as grants, pressure group in political circles. said that contrary to what Mike venerable publications!) and cafeteria. overseas fees and hall fees. According to him, NUS has said, the Government Is sym renovations to the Unions could Laurence O'Donnell was first to As Laurence stepped down to an overdraft of £500,000 and we pathetic to the strong case which be put in danger by spending the speak In favour of reaffiliation to the roars of enthusiastic females, will do no more than help to NUS presents. She then quoted money on NUS. NUS. This ex-Honorary Treasurer Mike Conway took the platform to reduce that figure. Union develop many examples including the After co n clu d ing remarks really turned on his "little boy lost" a similar reaction. Sharing all of ments will be slowed down if we Improvement of grants to medical followed , the meeting was look as he appealed to the O'Donnell's good looks and have to pay an annual contribu students following pressure from finally adjourned. audience to vote yes to NUS. He charm . the Galloway lad looked tion for national representation - NUS. She called the antl-NUS used his knowledge of EUSA imposing and impressive. a job which we can do better by faction liars and then gave the Michael Devlin finances as he stated that we can Putting fhf £2SS against re- ourselves. microphone to Fiona Shaw who 8 THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984 EUSA Offlclal AdHrllsement
N.U.S. AFFILIATION REFERENDUM TODAY
VOTING METHOD POLLING STATIONS The Students' Association is consulting its members today Agricultural School 10.00 am-5.00 pm as to whether the Association should be affiliated to the Appleton Tower 10.00 am~s.oo pm National Union of Students (NUS). Bush Field Station Refectory 12.30 pm-1.30 pm Chambers Street House 10.00 am-7.00 pm David Hume Tower Basement 10.00 am-5.00 pm ALL members, whether student, life or associate, are entitled Dental School 10.00 am-2.00 pm to vote upon presentation of their matriculation card Dick Vet College 10.00 am-5.00 pm (students) or membership card (life or associate members). James Clerk Maxwell Building 10.00 am-5.00 pm KB Union 10.00 am-7.00 pm KB Centre (North Entrance) 10.00 am-3.00 pm The ballot poses the question, with two answers (Yes or No), KB Centre (South Entrance) 10.00 am-3.00 pm one of which should be marked with an ' X' according to the Law Faculty Office 10.00 am-5.00 pm voter's choice. Library Coffee Room 10.00 am-7.00 pm Medical Library 10.00 am-7.00 pm Minto House 10.00 am-2.00 pm The ballot count will commence at 7.00 p.m. in the Teviot Moray House 11 .00 am- 2.00 pm Row Debating Hall, and is open to all members. Mylne's Court 5.30 pm- 7.00 pm New College 10.00 am-3.00 pm Pollock Halls Refectory 5.30 pm-7.00 pm The result will be binding on the Association. Postgraduate Students' Union 10.00 am-7.00 pm Societies Centre 11 .00 am- 3.00 pm Student Centre Concourse 10.00 am-7.00 pm Student Centre Bristo Cafe 11 .00 am-2.00 pm Teviot Row House Foyer 10.00 am-7.00 pm William Robertson Building 10.00 am-5.00 pm EUSA Official Advertisement THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984 g N.U.S.-NO USEFUL SERVICES N.U.S. WHY NO NATIONAL VOICE The Nat_ional Uni~n of Stu~ents has got nothing to offer the students of Edinburgh university . This Nati onal body 1s a London-based organisation dominated by WENEEDIT political hacks that can lay no claim to representing the interests of Scottish university students. Despite the existence of NUS Scotland the National Union has consistently failed to represent Scottish interests, and this failure has led the This Referendum is our chance to improve the services and representation majority of Scottish universities to leave NUS: provided by our Students' Association.
NO SCOTTISH VOICE AFFILIATION TO NUS WILL GIVE US: Edinburgh University - disaffiliated in 1976 St Andrews University -disaffiliated in 1977 • Expert advice and information on all student financial and welfare Edinburgh University -confirmed decision in 1979 matters such as Grants, Housing and Supplementary Benefits and Dundee University - disaffiliated in 1980 Rents. Heriot-Watt University -disaffiliated in 1981 • Expert advice on Overseas Students' issues, fees and immigration St Andrews University - confirmed decision in 1982 problems. Heriot-Watt University -confirmed decision in 1983 Glasgow University - has never been in NUS • Legal expertise, advice and support for individual students and EUSA. Only two Scottish universities remain in NUS. thus the concept of Edinburgh • Expert training for Students' Association office-bearers. "coming in from the cold" and completing the picture of NUS representation in Scotland is yet another deceptive lie circulated by the Pro-NUS ca mpaign. • Advice on the running of our Unions - from Entertainments to Bars. • Special deals, arranged by NUS, for Union Bars and Shops. UNDEMOCRATIC • Membership o f a Discount Card Scheme which is valid at over 20,000 The claims that NUS is a democratic organisation are equally untrue. In fact shops, and coach and air services throughout Britain. delegates from further education establishments are carefully selected to suit the extremist views of the National Executive. A minority of delegates - those from universities - are now elected on a cross-campus basis, but these represent only AFFILIATION TO NUS WILL GIVE US A SAY IN DECISION-MAKING: 30% of the total. so leaving the National Executive a comfortable working majority of 70% with which the pursue their left-wing ambitions. • We will have one of the largest delegations to NUS Conferences and will THE UNIVERSITY WILL NOT PAY FOR NUS therefore have a major say in deciding the policies to be followed by NUS. To reaffiliate to NUS would cost the Students' Association £45 ,000 per annum - where would this money come from? The Pro-NUS campaign have naively • We will have a say in the negotiations that take place nationally on suggested that ii could be financed by the annual grant thessociation receives from Grants, Travel Awards, Overseas Students etc. the University. This totally ignores the fact that last year's Grant-Aided Account • Our presence in NUS will strengthen the student case, which has made an unbudgeted loss of £33,000. This year the deficit is likely to be in the region already won major concessions from the Government: of £1 2,000 and Finance Committee have already accepted that the "cost of membership to NUS would have to come from elsewhere". - NUS demanded an increase in the parental contribution threshold The government raised this by 8% thereby increasing the standard of A CUT IN SERVICES living of over 60% of students. The only alternative source of finance that could support the cost of reaf,lliation ,s -NUS put forward the case for a minimum grant - The Government the Association's Capital Funds. Any money spent from the account would directl y introduced minimum awards. affect the money available for renovations to Union buildings. This ultimately means -NUS wanted students living in Halls of Residence to be eligible to an erosion in the quality of service that thessociat,on is able to offer its students claim H ousing Benefit - The Government included-this in the New Again, claims that reafflliat1on would not mean a cut in Union services (and Housing Benefit Regulations. possibly price increases) mask the truth. While it is unlikely that joining NUS would -NUS argued against government limiting funds available for Student attect services immediately it 1s obvious that 1n the long run REAFFILIATION Unions - The Government made available an extra £3,900,000 to WOULD HAVE A DRAMATIC EFFECT ON THE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO Students ' Unions. STUDENTS. It is perhaps worth remembering that Publications Board is one of the services dependent on funds from the Capital Fund Account and so is directly threatened by reaffiliation to NUS. These are just some of the successes that proves that the Government listens to NUS. YOUR PARTY THEIR POLITICS NUS needs Ed inburgh University, but what the Pro campaign has conveniently The " NO" Campaign have lied about NUS. forgotten is that NUS needs our money even more. The National Union of Students 1 have just moved to new offices in London and the National Union is reported to have They said: NUS finances are in a mess with an overdraft of £1 / 2 million. FACT: NUS does not have an overdraft. This year it has reserves of over an overdraft of £'/2 million. NUS finances are in a mess and it clear that NUS NEEDS 1 OUR MONEY FOR THEIR NEEDS. A breakdown of NUS expenditure was absorbed £170,000 and owns property worth over £1 / 2 million. by conferences and administration. They said: NUS is London-based and does not represent Scottish students. A WASTE OF MONEY FACT: 53 Scottish Universities and Colleges, representing 80% o• To get some idea of how this expenditure was absorbed here are some of the topics Scottish students, are in NUS. NUS (Scotland), with headquarters ano debated by the National Conference of NUS Scotland: full-time staff in Edinburgh, is a devolved section of NUS with full The Decline of the Gaelic Language; decision making powers. Israel's Invasion and Continued Presence in the Lebanon; Workers -in Struggle(!); They said: NUS is undemocratic. The Unwarranted Invasion of Grenada by US Forces. FACT: ALL delegates from Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Such issues are typical of those motions debated by EUSA at its own General Education, and Central Institutions MUST be elected by secret ballot. meetings - issues which incidentally are rarely supported by the majority of · This represents over 85% of the delegates at NUS conference. students and which have no relevance to everyday student life. Edinburgh They said: Students are conscripted into NUS. University Students' Association don't have to waste £45 ,000 in order to debate these issues - we already possess the facility to do so - FREE OF CHARGE. FACT: NUS is a body of affiliated St udents' Associations, whose members decide, through referendums, whether to affiliate. A BAD REPUTATION Today we have the choice. The remaining 10% of NUS expenditure was spent on Student Representation. Such is the incompetence of NUS that even this is largely wasted on poorly organised and badly supported campaigns that serve only to tarnish the public image of students in WE CAN AFFORD IT general. The incompetence of NUS in respect to Student Representation is clearly borne out by the fact that since NUS has been " negotiating" for a better grant for EUSA is one of the wealthiest Students' Associations in Britain. 800 studen!s the real value of the grant has fallen by 30%. Colleges and Universities can afford to affiliate to NUS. To suggest that EUSA cannot do this is nonsense. INFERIOR SERVICES Our affiliation fee to NUSwill be £37,861 , but we will not pay this full amount NUS also claim to offer students a wide variety of services - these services are in a until 1987. Next year we will only pay a quarter of the fee - £9,645-and the shambles and have clearly been neglected by NUS in the pursuit of extreme political 4 year phase-in agreement will allow us time to restructure our budget. ideals: -NUS Travel disappeared into liquidation in 1976. its Edinburgh premises were With an annual grant of more than £500,000 and a projected surplus for taken over by EUSA who have turned it into a major commercial success 1983/ 4 o f £70,000 we can affiliate: offering a wide range of cheap travel opportunities to students. -NUS Discount Scheme - one highly localised and operating mainly in the - WITHOUT Increasing prices. London area. EUSA already operate a far wider range of discounts negotiated at - WITHOUT cutting services. local outlets in 1981 and available on the production of a matriculation card. - WITHOUT cutting grants to Societies or Publications Board. -NUS Insurance fail ed miserably and was bought out by Gouda in 1979 though it still operates uner the original Endsleigh name. - WITHOUT stopping planned renovations. POLITICAL CONSCRIPTION FOR ALL We've stated our case - it's up to you to decide. At the moment we are part Finally - and perhaps most significantly - ii must be remembered ANY student is of only 2% of students in Britain who are not in NUS. free to join NUS as an individual - without committing the Students' Association If even half the things that " NO" Campaign say are true then would there and its resources to membership. really be 800 separate University and College Students' Associations in There are many students at this university WHO DO NOT WANT TO BECOME NUS? CONSCRIPTED MEMBERS OF NUS - if you vote YES on February 9th you could be committing these students to joining a national political organisation against their will. If you still believe in NUS - JOIN UP as an individual but in the INTERESTS OF DEMCORACY VOTE NO TO REAFFILIATION. Now's our chance - Vote NO Today Vote YES Today 10 THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984 NUS Anal sis An independent look at NUS As the NUS ballot boxes open, 'Student' brings you the grant allotted by the dietary?" an independent survey of this burning question of the "They did, ma'am ," replied week. Simon Cartledge and Judith Squires ask Sir Bumble. themselves "Should we re-affiliate or not?" "They will be hung," said a gentleman in a white waistcoat. " I know those students will be hung." Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. But Victorian morality aside, there are a few more principles involved than the single-minded pursuit of affluence in this reaffiliation debate. These centre upon the nature of NUS and the kind of things it tries to do. Foremost among those are its functions as a pressure group. It aims at representing the interests of students .as a whole, and in particular to co-ordinate the actions of subsidiary groups, such as medical or overseas students, which a're individually weak. So what we are left with is an , organisation that offers little in
l\s tile 'Ws roTI wearily on worst aspect. Its upper echelo political activism becomes not could probably learn a lot from o that 1f we want to, we can afford to only more and more a dirty word, immediate terms (at any rate in education currently constituting present sabbatical foursome but also one of a fast receding join NUS. And, as most students Edinburgh). and on the bigger NUS have simply got it wrong. how to took efficient by keeping have probably already realised, past, it is probably more with issues, hopes its little pokes and Foolishly, they can't see that they lower profile. whether we do or we don't, it won't · bemusement than anything else digs, though possessing little are just pouring good money after And similarly, much as K make much difference to the that the majority of us vaguely muscle, may somewhere find a bad. Maybe they should be Shoji et al have shown that corners of the unions we spend watch the NUS debate currently sympathetic ear. spending it on themselves. interests of Edi~burgh studenJs Trti· engulfing this University in a our time in. Furthermore, as we are And, in addition, the anti lobby not fall neatly mto party pollt, 'm• rather minor sort of way. After all, already one of the richest and best . an abnegation of claim that NUS needs our money portions, the successes ol NU. we all know that the arguments are facilitated(?) student unions in the responsibility and rights in order to survive. This apparently (and there have been a few) f really quite simple - there are, at country, then we heedn't exactly is a debatable fact. But, if this is right across the spectrum of t. the bottom of the mirk of rhetoric, worry about sliding overnight into Yet this is to view NUS purely in accepted as true, then not joining student corpus. There is, howe two. destitution as far as bars and such terms of quantative results. In is another nail in the coffin of NUS, a possibility th at by rejoining The first concerns the cost. For like goes. many concrete respects it a contribution to its abolition. the SAC would find it some, £38,000 plus a bit more is a So, having flown lightly over the probably is a waste of money; it is, When these kind of points are transformed into a political o mere snip, producing the bargain monetary bit, we .can move on to of course, of far more direct use to put to the antis they murmur that from being, as it is now, a se of a four year degree course. For the meaVsoya bean substitute part those who work for it than for the NUS perhaps gives services to to students to a talking h the others, £45,000 (at least) of the discussion: whether we knoc~ing on one million member~ students less fortunate than where people could warm up spooned out gratis every year from actually want to join NUS. Here, it it claims to have. But, it should be ourselves, taking pride in greater things at a national I 1987 onwards will bring our is also worth pointing out that in or noted that any argument for Edinburgh's affluence and high unions virtually crashing down not in , most of us tucked away in Edinburgh not to rejoin NUS is in standing both in terms of around our ears. our non-changed part of Teviot, effect an argument for the amenities, services and welfare. There can be no doubt The second concerns the nature Potterrow or elsewhere, will not abolition of NUS, and implicitly, an Yet does this not sound like an I'm that on the non- 'l, of NUS itself. Is it a democratic (on notice the difference. As the anti argument that students should not a/right Jack type of argument? politicised strata of the ,r~·• the whole) body, efficaciously lobby have emphasised at virtually be represented at a level any Lower down the scale unions we have no need :" pursuing the rights and interests all their junctures with the public, greater than the educational everything gets a touch more of students across the nation? Or NUS have not power at all over the establishment they belong to. hazy. A few question-marks hang of NUS. is it an impotent, London-based one thing which binds us all into a This claim is naturally denied by over the actual nature of the organ, furthering the career unitary group - the size of our the anti-NUS faction , so it 'National Voice' with which NUS This would be a bad thing. aspirations of a lot of hacks faced grant increase. There must be deserves closer scrutiny. speaks. Undoubtably its ranks are the other hand though, th with dismal prospects having something Oliver TwisHike in It also sounds suspiciously like filled with many hacks, testing depoliticisation of Ed inburg graduated (or not)? their approaches to the an abnegation of responsibility themselves in the slightly greater' University has run a bit too fa As usual, the truth, or at any rate, government. and rights. Although NUS is pretty amphitheatre of nationwide (albeit There can·be no doubt that on th, the semi-objective matter "Please, sir, we want some helpless when faced with a student) politicking. But perhaps non-politicised strata (i.e. in I pertaining to be the truth given the more." resolute government, this does not what upsets most people is its Unions) we have no need ol NU existing conditions, is probably The minister was a fat healthy mean that an organisation cannot leftist stance. But this is a question about wha.t situated somewhere in between man; but he turned very pale. occasionally yank the odd piece of There is of course no the role of a students' union, whic these four points. And seeing as "What!" he said at length, in a string. No NUS means a limit to coincidence in the manner in brings us back to the beg inn ing today is probably the last time we'll faint voice. the possible range of discussion which the pro/ anti divide falls it's a matter of principle wh ichw perhaps consider the issues. let us "Please, sir," replied NUS, and protection of students' neatly along the left/right split, make little difference. We c attempt to push away the facts "We want some more." interests. No one could claim any despite the pretence that this is afford it, but there might be so (which only get in the way and The Cabinet were sitting in overall responsibility for students. mere chance. Yet this political detrimental effects around th obscure most things) and try solemn conclave, when Sir If we do not take our place in the front, maintained predominantly fringes. Should students accep looking at something else. Bumble rushed into the room in education debate, we have no at the NUS annual conference th ei r position and not wistfully tr) great excitement, and right to criticise those who make when the countless delegates can to rise above their statmn , "' The only truly significant addressing the woman in the the decisions. At the level of bathe in the dubious glory of the accept a future that lies in sink ing hiah chair said: principles, the arguments run media, serves only to mask the beers in a very posh bar. thing is that if we want to, "Mrs Limbkins, I beg your pretty much NUS's way . kind of work which NUS tries to Oh well, you pays we can afford to join NUS. pardon, ma'am! The students Consider first the idea that get on with for the rest of the year. yo have asked for more!" Edinburgh doesn't need to be 1work s u c h as re sea r c h , money and you mak Take the aforementioned For more! " said Mrs represented on a national (British) monitoring legislation , and your choice - or wo financial aspect for instance. Limbkins. "Compose yourself, level. Well , if we don't, then why campaigning and lobbying in a you prefer these d Many facts can be produced from Sir Bumble, and answer me should anyone else? If we believe constru c ti ve and moderate ly £45,000 , most of them irrelevant. distinctly. Do I understand that the 'No' campaign then patently, intelligent sort of way. Indeed, in cisions to be decided bY The only truly significant thing is they asked for more after eating all the institutions of further many ways its public visage is its lottery? THE STUDENT T hursday, 9th February 1984 11
Stills Gallery to Seurat Night Workers April. Mon-Sat 10.00- From 11th Feb-3rd Mar. Tue-Sat n 14.00-17.00 12.30-1800 by Rembrandt, lngres, First part of an exhibition of photo oya, Whistler acquired by graphs by Chris Wainwright. ·onal Gallery over the last Gallery of Modern Art .. British Art 1900-1939 Until 29 April. Mon-Sat 10.00 till dusk. Sun 14.00 till dusk From 10.00 Last exhibition before the gallery of winter moves house, Includes work by Peploe, MacTaggart , Cadell, Yeats, Fry, Piper, Smith, Sicker and many others. City Arts Centre Jewellery Redifined Until 25 Feb. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00 Exhibition mounted by the Bri tish Crafts Centre of avant-garde jewellery in multi-media material. • Reid Concert Hall Reid Memorial Concert Germination 1983-84 MUSIC Thur Feb 9th 19.30 Until 18 Feb. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00 Concert by students of the Works by students from British, Edinburgh University Music French and German colleges. Faculty. Support your fellow Scottish Chamber Orchestra students - besides, admission is Fruitmarket Gallery Wed Feb 15th 19.45 Queen's Hall tree. Jerzy Maksy m iuk conducts (668 2117) Artists International Association Lunchtinie Concert Until 25 Feb. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.30 Rossini's String Sonata No. 1 in G, Platform Jazz Dvorak's Serenade in D minor, Op. Fri Feb 10th 13.10 The exhibition telling the story of Fri Feb 10th 22.00 John Walker on organ. the Association from 1933-1953. 44, Rossini's String Sonata No. 3 in An all-piano programme: Graham C and Britten's Variations on a Whitelaw, Ken Fraser, Rob m 13th Feb-7th Mar. Mon- Talbot Rice Centre theme of Frank Bridge. Morsberger and Graham Scott University Music Society 17 .3tl. Sat 09.00- 13.00 play everything from ragtime to Tues 14th. 13.15. Germinations II Edinburgh Quartet contemporary jazz. And it's all on a UMS choir and orchstra, Until 16th Feb. Mon-Sat 10.00- Thur Feb 16th 19.45 Steinway grand! conducted by Christopher Bees 17.00 Haydn's Quartet in D, 'The Lark ', perform Handel's 5th Chandos One second part of the exhibiti on Elgar's Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 Computer Music A nthem. ·Soloists Katie Wylie and at the City Arts Centre: the and Mozart's Quartet in E flat, Samuel King. Please Sat Feb 11th 20.00 sculpture of students from Britain, K.428. John McCabe on piano. The Edinburgh Contemporary France and Germany. Arts Trust has sponsored this programme including works by Dodge, C howning, Souster, Berio Usher Hall io~atlonal Museum of and Denis Smalley. There will be a (228 1155/6) The Open Eye Gallery pre-concert talk by Peter Nelson at ,nttqultles Scottish National Orchestra Paintings and Ceramics 7.15 - come at 7.00 and you can Fri Feb 10th 19.30 •leuncler Selkirk - the Man Until 16th Feb. Please c heck times. have coffee, wine and rolls. Britten's Variations on a theme of lehlnd David Defoe's Robinson Paintings b y Erne st H o od , Friends of Scottish Opera F ra n k Bri dg e, Sc h umann's :ruao. Ceramics by Tom Lindsay. Sun Feb 12th 15.00 Konzertstuck and Tchaikovsky's o til 3rd March. Please c heck Not a concert but just as good: Symp hony No. 6 'Pathetique'. Sir John Cox will tal k on the 'Operas Ale xa nder G i b so n i s th e of Ri chard Strauss'. conductor. ,; heatre Workshop Printmakers Workshop Scottish Chamber Orchestra otographs Graphic Work Gabriel! String Quartet K, ntil 3rd march. Please check From 11th Feb-5th Mar. Mon Feb 13th 19.45 Fri Feb 11th 19.45 I es. Please check times. A presentation of the New Town Gustav Kuhn conducts Mozart's s · n exhibition of work by Gra.ham Graphics by Ian Fleming. Concert s Society: Moza r t's Symphony No. 23 in D, K.181 and Horn Concerto No. 3, Briteen's Les :ulark and Roseanne Lynch. Hoffmeister Quartet in D, K.499; Janacek's Quartet No. 2, 'In timate Illuminations and Beethove n's 1· Graphic Work by Ian Fleming Letters', and Schubert's Quartet in Symphony No. 1. Frank Lloyd G, Op. 161 , D.887. Don't miss this plays horn and Anthony Rolfe ., fa mous auartet . Johnson is the tenor. . -·---...... ,.-~,, , . U SE Theatre Sport ' H 031-228 2688 King's Theatre Traverse Theatre Soccer ~-00 Sal) (2291201) Hearts v Rangers t ro mantic comedy (226 2633) Sat 11th Tynecastle Sleeping Beauty 19.00 Eemls Slane Rugby Union id .00/8.30 Fri 10th, Sat 11th. 20.00. Sun 12th The Christmas spirit lingers on Boroughmulr v Watsonlans 15. 00 and on and on ... Rikki Fulton and Sat 11 th Meggetland Jack Milroy are still here in this A celebratio n of Hugh Mac to P<>etry cinema can spi,e"JF. Times Herlot's FR v West of Scotland everlasting panto. Diarmid by Owen Dud ley Edwards. 0 2.30 Sall Sat 11th Goldenacre tr family life Traverse Talk Stewart's/Melville v Ayr THE EEMIS STANE Bedlam Theatre Sat 11th. 13.00 Sat 11th I nverleith a celebratlon ol Hugh MacOlarmld \i '''" made' The Gua,d;an (225 9893) A talk given by Ri chard Demarco compiled by Owen Oudtey Edwards tn, to complement his exhibition in Greyhounds presented b§a~g~r;,:e~~cnlennan and The Swing t the oallerv. Last Thursday sa w Paradise Island Frid1Jy Feb 10 & Saturday Fet:> 11 at 8 pm and Wed 15th. 13.15 SundlJy Feb 12 at 3 pm U:r------Adrian Harrison devastate the opposition by getting Saturday Feb 1 I IJI 1 pm the first in a series of Edward Bond's chilling indictment Sun 12th. 20 .00 amongst the field ea rly on the race with TRAVERSE TALKS ~i~ ii Silvers !) of racial hatred as it shows iself in a an unhampered ru n. Tonight, with four featuring personalities who have been A concert given by the talented 1ssociated with the Traverse - this week vulnerable society performed by young classical guitarist, recipient wide runners in the race. although RICHARD DEMARCO talks about his founding EUTC. slighter tougher opponents. Island yeers at the Traverse with. as a backdrop. an w of the RCM Jack Morrison award exhlb1t1on ol work by artists w~o he presented in should still sneak up the inside in the :;a and Margaret Rutherlord the Traverse Gallery entitled RICHARD Church Hill for guitar. A pay-as-you- · please back straight to ta ke over going in to DEMARCO AT THE TRAVERSE 1963-66. (Bar open Sat Feb 11 lunchlime 12.30-2 30) ,rn event. the last bend. A repeat of last th Ang~es wall murals (the amazing (447 7597) Starts Next Week Claxon, Trombette e Pernacchle Th ursday·s winning lime should be DARIO FO/ FRANCA RAME FESTIVAL ep Sat 11th 19.30 Tues. 14th. 19.30 good enough, the field then also Tuesday Feb 14-Thursday Feb Hi Thea1re Pkl present action readings and tn Performance by an English-based Roughly translated as " horns, comprising four wide runners and a d 1scuss1ons ol new translations from 1he authors Indian mime group. trumpets and farts" Theatre Pkf's railer. One that has been threatening to ol Accidental Death ol an Anarchist and Female win over the last couple of weeks is Parts. ,n productio n takes a sharp sideways Fr1dayFeb ll·SundayFeb 19 Royal Lyceum g lance at po litics. Back ford Snooker. Tonight presents a 1982 Theatre Company present golden opportunity in the first event. MISTERO BUFFO ,uirogramme brochure (229 9697) Three Monologues From trap 1 Back ford can snooker this by DarloFo e so All Performances The Music Man Wed 15th. 19. 30 op portion who should be ·c ueing' at his fro m Tues 17th (please check New translations of Franca Rames back all the way to the line. Dela/ls, Tickets and New Economy Membership 1 t Studentcard!) ... PARADISE ISLANO r,om lhe 8011 omce, 112 West Bow, ii times). humorous monologues, per G,aume, kel. Edlnbutflh. Tel. 031 -226 2633. ..BACKFORD SNOOKER 1e Mac Millan amateur productio ns fo rmed by Theatre Pkf. Kavey Kanem bi 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984 AQT~ Berkoff live! God in the theatre Traverse Theatre clover with In "The Tell Tale Heart and Others" Steven Berkoff drives typists away the bleankess of the one-man show. Here all eyes are fixed on the lone actor, who, with every The intriguing umbrella name Co-operative grimace, every Jerk of the hand Still on Stage gives a few clues to brinqs his story to llfe. the nature of EUTC's contribution The four pieces provide a tine to this year's Scottish Student Theatre show of Berkoff'• versatility - and Drama Festival to be held in also of his claims as a writer. The Glasgow from the 27th of February "The Best of All Possible Insane suspense of an Edgar Allan until the 3rd of March. Still on Worlds" is a co-op of talent, com Poe story contrasts well with the Stage (running in the Bedlam bining the professional exp'erience ridiculous cavortlngs of the Theatre from the 8th to the 10th ol of the Communicado Theatre absurdly macho biker. Finally B. February) consists of three one Company with the enthusiasm of parodies his own profession with a act plays selected for the dramatic actors, musicians and technicians self-penned portraft of the down-at~ power of their writing. from the Edinburgh community. heel actor, trying to keep up in a The first play (Portrait of the Result: an innovative, rowdy pro back-stabbing bitchy world. artist as a young god) was written duction with the high quality Fine stuff, the Traverse twin-set by Duncan Mclean (co-author ol expected on the Theatre trendles loved It. If the stage the recent lunchtime success Workshop marquee. fascinates you then you would Faculty of Rats). who good Moving 70 singing, dancing, have loved It too. I found this a humouredly satirises a day in the walking, talking human beings stimulating production but not an mind of a young pretentious poet. and one Chihuahua around an exhilarating ol)e - It was a As with all the three plays, Portrait unfamiliar stage sans utter chaos celebration of skill, more than of of the artist as a young god requires infinite patience and a life. concentrates on characterisation variety of techniques. "Anything Claire Smith with dramatic action playing a that works," director Gerry subsiding role. The play might Mulgrew said. almost be called surreal in its " The show is ah<'ut people names - but one of the film's survey of the musings of this self working with each other," strengths is that it realises that absorbed young poet who day Mulgrew said. The modest £200 Daniel charges of anti-semitimism (which dreams but never writes. The stage budget suffices because An American nightmare would be fair) might over-simplify film becomes the poet's mind filled Communicado works with human the issue. They marry ,we see them with bizarre characters skilfully resources, he said. Whole families The trial and execution of Ethel together, with their children and picked out by the highly effective get involved and work together, ano Julius Rosenberg, the 'atom their friends, as pro-Soviet rallies: lighting amongst whom the poet making and finding costumes and spies' in 1949, is one of those perfect lovers, perfect parents, roams. Porti. .. it of the artist as a props. _ modal points in America's legacy perfect party members. The FBI young god is a play of strong The physical script for The Best of guilt. Like slavery, or Vietnam, (the only WASPS in the cast) vitality with a lyrical wit that of All Possible Worlds was created Lee Harvey Oswald, something in arrest one of their best friends, exposes the pretensions of many by John Harvey of Communicado, the American consciousness exhort a confession and arrest self-enamoured would-be young and once again the community revolves around such incidents, them. _ poets. cast. Harvey adapted Vol revaluating, recriminating, writing These scenes, shot in sepia The Typists by Murry Schisgal is taire's " Candide" to reflect faction. pointedly told from Daniel's point a very different play from the first. modern threats and realities. • E. L. Doctorow wrote The Book of view. They do not provide us and baby march from Greenwich It is an exciting adaptation in The hero, Candide, endures the of Danial, wherein the Rosenbergs with an axis of truth from which to Village to a Woodstock-like peace which much has been stripped woes of war religious tolerance, became Paul and Rochelle determine the lsaacson ' s festival. They looked clapped-out, away leaving a compact and volcanic eruptions and American Isaacson. He also wrote the innonence, or guilt, although this compared to the fervour of the powerful core. The actors rise pop culture with Job-like patience. screenplay, Sidney Lumet is not what the film is about, Vietnam demos and workers' superbly to the challenge of the Not bad for the "result of a curious directed and Timothy (Ordinary strictly speaking. Daniel is not out pickets. It is unsatisfying, but interchanging of reality and social experiment with an under People) Hutton stars, as Daniel; to clear his parents' name. It is probably justified. absurdity showing us the ease gardener". thirteen when his parents went to hugely unlikely that they were Danial is a pretty good film - with which two people slip into Candida clings to the fantastic the chair. capable of stealing atomic secrets with one reservat ion. It is self-delusion. The play is made teachings of his old tutor in his Daniel and sister Susan have to feed to the Russians, anyway. still more powerful by the passing adversity and waits for good to been adopted by a well-to-do The question is one of culpability punctuated throughout by Daniel, full face, Brechtian, reciting of time as hopes and ambitions inevitably triumph over evil. He lawyer and his wife. Susan has whose fault was it that they were modes of capital punishment become frustrated by circum watches this and other philo been beaten up by the police in a executed? A journalist believes it stance. The play does however sophical fairy tales crumble as the Vietnam riot; Daniel slumps in was a put-up case, exacerbated by through the ages. If we are being told that capital punishment is have considerable wit and energy world moves towards " the ultimate bearded apathy, a graduate the defence's incompetence. The with which Schisgal keeps our horror". student with a pregnant wife, a lsaacson's attorney's wife believes wrong, it is a copout, and ungainly at that. Yet the executions attention sharply focused on the A startling message hides midst future to think about and no that the lsaacson's signed their pitiable tragedy of the two typists. themselves (in blue-based film) the raucous bantering and horse interest in the past. Susan will own death-warrants, and her Three-Leafed Clover written by are low-key; not half as unpleasant play. Candide's ideals mean little carry on the Isaacson cause of husband's by being stubborn. Melissa C. R. James. Gareth as the Rosenberg's were, by all faced with the brutality of man idealism and dissent: " They're still Daniel's stepfather sees them as Thomas, and Patrick Evans against man. The world is not fucking us, Daniel; get the willing martyrs to a daying cause; accounts. The horror, the horror tor Daniel is less the deaths than concludes the evening with an governed necessarily by logic, picture?" she cries, after her first they deserted their children for the astonishing tragi-comedy about the burdens thrust on those left cause and effect, but by random suicide attempt. Her legacy is to be CP, the CP deserted them, only the rise and fall of two lovers. It is behind. It is guilt and uncertainty cruelty and insanity. Candide's a victim; she becomes catatonic, to collapse itself, with the war most astonishing in its acute and impotence: to be powerless to world is the best possible world in the foetal position, and her and McCarthy. observations of minute details of relieve the past and only a tine because it is the only world second suicide attempt works. Profound issues are raised: the human behaviour in courting, possible. He must learn to live in it What have the lsaacson's left nature of personal and political pawn in the manoeverings of the future. marriage, and separation. It is with his best possible Cunegone Daniel? We work through the past loyalty. Is Susan a martyr to her throughout filled with the most Jenny Turner as best he can. to find out. Paul meets Rochelle at parent's cause. is she forsaken by humourous and touching of Mulgrew and his merry band a demo in the 30's. It is the heyday Daniel, is her death the last gasp of pathos. effectively blur the demarcation of the American Communist Party; revol utionary idealism? What does Next week; Patrick Marmion line between the pros and the they are young, idealistic, second Daniel learn from her death and amateurs. Some of the cast have generation Jews. The latter is immersion in his past? The end is Tarkovsky's 'Nostalgia' never acted before. The main important to the novel - check the curiously ambivalent: Daniel, wife Eastwood's 'Sudden Impact' objective was that everyone, audience and cast, have a good time. At dress rehearsal. Mulgrew called his cast together for a pre show pep talk. " If you make a mistake. laugh and carry on," he said. "The most important thing is to enjoy it." So when a bawdy minstrel loses his net-stuffed What have John Lennon. abdomen as he is about to ravish a Mary Whitehouse , Germaine Greer, fair maiden, the show goes on. . Lord Goodman, Kenneth Tynan, Some of the faces on stage are Yoko Ono and Mick Jagger screwed into do-or-die determina in common? tion as they carefully execute They·re all in Traverse founder dance patterns. A few release JIM HAYNES' autobiography nervous giggles or smiles. The THANKS FOR COMING Best of All Possible Worlds opens published by Faber this month. with slight hesitation, but soon the Jim Haynes will be signing copies cast begins to enjoy their perform of this BJ1traordlnary book at ance and so does the audience. The Traverse on Thursday, Communicado and Theatre 16 Feb from 6.30 1111 7.30 pm. Workshop have hit upon a Bring this add to receive one night's successful formula for involving complimentary membership, have the community in the theatre. a glass of wine - while it lasts - Scatter a few pint-size scene and meet the man who put the stealers throughout the cast to "mm " in Me Generation. keep everyone on their toes. Add "The guy who h•• done more for numerous strange and meaty Edinburgh than Edinburgh I• willing to n,cognlse.... Som• Hy characters f or actors and no doubt •om~n• will write ' audience. Mingle with an open, book." STUDENT, May 131965. welcoming atmosphere. Donna Campbell Eleanor Zeal Victims of Whom' The lsaacsons Daniel and Ethel. 13
REVIEW Coasters February 20
GOODBYE Thomas Dolby is a man of widely unrecognised , the video of Hyperactive shown on Top Of The Pops I obably the first taste of his work for a lot of people, but them, MR they've probably heard him quite often before. 1 on a Sa turday at 4 pm and you'll hear part of the pa and the McKENZIE Pirate Twins as the intro to the Saturday Li might have heard him busking in Paris or Londo n su ore likely you listened to him playing synthesiser for Le oreigner (among PoHfflOW, Friday, and the atmosphere is many others). llftM. Nervous glances towards the dance flOOf give away the fact Iha! a showdown is Most of Dolby's commercial success ,apeeted. WIH the Caped Crusader return to album The Golden Age of Wireless clalffl back his crown, st~en so rulhlessly a have done exceptionally well. success has not been ktrlmghl ago by the hideous transvestlle in lht black dress? The coveted award of Wally echoed here but perhaps soon e you're interested, one of Ille YHr Is up tor grabs. Supporters of the reason for Dolby's success in t a big marketing operation two herutl will stop at nothing to see their by WEA in which he was ith Classix. Nouveaux., Duran (man?) triumph. In an atmosphere such as Duran and Talk Talk o which was of dreadful quality 11111 H wH always going to be dlflicull for Goodbye Mr McKenzie to gain approval. and labelled the bands itish Invasion - representative of A she-piece band from Balhgate, GBMM all that was hip in Brita pose. The credibility of the project .,. Yeterans of the Potterrow. Indeed many was reflected in the pri cents. I'm sure he'd object to that sort of the onlookers seemed quite lamillar with of thing now ... at I . Now where we? . much of their material, although most punters couldn't concentrate properly on rs don't feature more strongly on the the band, knowing as they did of the e has long been synonymous with synths, probable bloodshed lo follow. The band rely on the usual bass, drums, andbuilt electronic instruments. Still, I think guitar, keyboard lo form an lnleresting, this forthcoming gig at Coaster's will feature colourful sound which is difficult to , nic machinery whether you're interested in his ,..«>nhole. However, their real tour de force His previous one-man, multi-media show which It the vocal backing provlde·d by the two girl lingers, Hilary and Shirley. As well as d be described as being more of a fringe theatre lfllproving the band's visual appeal they also a concert in normal terms. I don't know what the 9lwe the overall sound a vaguely time but judging by the video, he hasn't lost his interest llolOwnesque !eel. Hallway through the set visuals to accompany the music. 1 rumour went around upstairs, the Caped Crusader had relinquished h is crown. The I think that anyone who's clever enough to build his own tr11n1vestlte in black was Wally or the Year. uipment and instruments and still has time to produce PNple breathed a sigh of relief. They could usic (and the odd hit single) is something not to be missed. tfltoy the band. Everybody likes Goodbye way, this has got nothing to do wi th noise reduction systems. Mr McKenzie. The band won the prtze of SHHest Name of the Year. Neil Dalgleish George Shepherd JAZZ (NOT SO) FAB FOUR Queen's Hall In spite of huge technical advances made by jau musicians a single It ,s a mystery, therefore, why in recent years the qualities which not seen the band's reputation should have elevate a performance to an degenerated to the stage where no intimate (rapturous) exchange A psychopathic puppet, two Cushing's clarinet chuckles were young person would even think of between artist and audience are as iesters (a sack-swiller and a wolf assured (just!) by what he's done innocuous calling them a "rock" group. When rare as ever. The Queen's Hall got whlstler) and an artist have been rece"tly before he even began. c1ely"s way of was the last time you saw their one such treat last Friday with the oppearing at the Usher Hall over Stravinsky's 'Petrushka' a week istaste for clinging picture in Kerrang? This despite appearance of American blues the past three weeks, courtesy of before (20th January) flashed past hose music not only the fact that they produced one of singer Jimmy Witherspoon. lhe SNO and Messrs Stravinsky, with even greater rapidity - of date but was the meanest heavy metal tracks Almost all important blues Elgar, Strauss and Hindemith. In though not quite the same ompletely duff in the ever, Hefter Skelter' singers are at home in several the face of harsh criticism of virtuosity - under the assured On second thoughts. however. it forms and styles - not only in the programme music by Anthony hands of Polish conductor Jace s like King Crimson and is not really a mystery at all. After sense that they developed from Burgess and the like, incisive Ka sprz y k. Petrushka , if ho produced such stagger all, what do the Beatles mean to one to the other, as from country contributions from principals predicament is only a third of Y pretentious tracks as most people apart from scream mg blues to city blues and on to urban within the orchestra are sharp, score, is literally the c rtom in Tang1ers" and "Larks· girls. Yesterday or Alf You Need Is blues, (eg Muddy WAters, Howlin' objective characterisations from question, framed by the h ongues in Aspic" which make Love? Who knows much about Wolfe, B. B. King) - but also in the the three conductors concerned bustle of the human wor hearing the latest Bucks Fizz their rock 'n' roll or psychedellc sense that they may practice have gloriously upheld the cause (beguilingly pointed single seem a rare treat. cannot periods? The blame for this state several forms simultaneously. of musical images to perpetrate juxtapositions w complain when their fans are of affairs lies solely with the media. Thus Jimmy Witherspoon along these myth-heroes. terrifying in the rel chastised by the rest of society. TV and radio have consistently with his contemporaries T · Bone The odd man out is certainly (overdrive?) of P However, misrepresentation of only played Beatles tracks that Walker and Ray Charles have Hlndemith's 'Mathis der Maler'. scene tumbling their career by the media has led to they know wLII attract the largest become associated with the Strictly the concern isn't directly the next. Li one of the best bands eve r. The number of people: beautiful Texas, Jazz influended. blues. with the subject, the 16th century Beatles, becoming about as hip as ballads or classic pop songs. The Witherspoon's mastery of the painter Grunewald but, in this ski-boots in the Sahara. worst offender is Radio 2 which style was expressed in every symphony taken from the opera The Beatles. whose concerts plays a perpetual diet of the aspect of his performance. Wry yet with his paintings. The medium is inspired a whole generation of Beatles' smoother songs such as fiery in character he lent endless a rather phoney medievalism little girls to wet their knickets, Miehe/le, And I Love Her, The variety to simple blues lines. With a which I question as something of were important because their Long and Winding Road, you flick of the wrist and swig of gin he took us through the sorrowful an affectation (like Bunthorne's) music evolved faster and further know the ones. blues of T-Bone Walker Send my since Grunewald's pictures have a than any other group's, before or Recent solo output has not baby back fo me; gutsy Ain't I good distorted, agonised expressionism playing since. In the space of only seven helped however. After Lennon's to you to knee jerking life stories which ill accords with this notion ff' marked my first years th ei r musical style Woman and McCartney's Ebony and self composed anecdo1es that of austerity. Hindemith had funny e with the gaunt progressed from the simple and Ivory and currently Pipes of had us rocking on our seats with Ideas about the artist as workman en, not even a fresher, I energy of She Loves You, through Peace. I doubt whether they will mirth. There were plenty of old and not a receptacle for inspira· · spected town and the sophisticated nostalgia of In ever regain their credibility in favourites such as Stormy Uon, and it tells. What Ja ity. I am at least certain that My Ute, the thundering groovi "rock" circles again. The day when Monday; Careless Love and Sweet Loughran produced from e both Immeasurably ness of She Said She Said. the a student wearing a Beatles badge Lotus Blossom was one of a few orchestra was exactly to t roved since then, strings apart drugged nihilism of A Day in the is laughed at in the street as if he 'non-blue' songs thrown in for Loughran they gave brilliant Life and the unintell ig ible - a clear, coot pal was Rick Wakeman fan cannot be good measure. sonorities, a pertect balan urishes In Berlioz's 'Corsair' madness of Revolution 9 o nly to too far away. overture, and lapsed the next end up in the tranquil religious Not to be easily outdone sumptuous. But I desp Graham Chalmers Londoner Don Weller on tenor had even the Boschlan week): I can't tell whether the waters of Let ft Be . Interpretation of 'Falstaff' has, but a few tricks up his horn and 'The Temptation of provided an excellent, often it is a distinctive one. Gibson's Sir draw from Hinde amusing allegor:," to Wither John is rotund in an angular sort of the cloying st spoon's dark but penetrating way, gouty, certainly not only the Strauss would voice. Weller is another musician melancholy man said to be woodwind dex of diverse talent who plays another self-portrait of Elgar's; little devils everyting from be-bop to avant he's the scabrous and yet pitiful critics. Wha garde. It didn't take him long to fall rogue of Henry 4 Part 2, lamenting was proof equips into Witherspoon's stride and they always 'I grow old, I grow old'. of this · el' there lies comp l emented each _other Mistress Quickly's cakewalk even by C indestructible throughout the evening. hum an framed the sounds saucy for once; H31 is Kenny Fraser (Piano) and never nobilmente, and the with lofty, cool Ronnie Rae (Bass) accompanied coronation scene seems to herald pilogue; even after in fine style as did Mike Traverse premonition of disaster, Pomp and Circumstance (Drums) though the latter seemed g disaster an objective collapsing in to 2nd symphony1 slightly unenthused and out of ptured myth-making anarchy. But finest of all were the touch with the rest of the band. at work before the noose dream interludes, Elgar's 'higher The final cheers and whoops ound his neck. frame' and, like the Till prologue .testified to the audience's and epilogue, unifying all the at a dazzling succession of app r eciation of what was lvity for the main action, bustle and fragmentation of this al together a most memorable ought There was no unncessary performance Into something musical specta cle. show - the brass know what they timeless. Richard Tipper can do and quietly surprise; John 1 14 THE STUDENT Thursday, 9th February 1984
lr your home uses gas - and the chances are it TOMORROW'S WORLD will, since British Gas is the largest single supplier Yesterday, ,the gas people solved what would of heat in Britain - then you are benefiting from have been today's problems, and we've given you yesterday's planning and investment in advanced just a few examples. But you may be more interested technology by the gas people. in the work we're doing today to solve tomorrow's. Yesterday's research anticipated the needs of For instance, in readiness for the time when today's customers, and some of the developments Britain's indigenous supplies of natural gas begin to produced by the gas people were revolutionary. decline, and nobody knows when that will be, the gas Did you know, for instance, that the gas people people have already developed the technology for helped to pioneer the technology for transporting producing substitute natural gas from coal. The gas across the world's oceans - gas which would results of this pioneering work are being viewed with otherwise be wastefully flared-off? This was done great interest in many parts of the world. Whichever by cooling the gas into liquid form at minus 160°C feedstock is available at a competitive price, however, and carrying it in specially designed tankers. The the gas people intend to have the technology to transportation of LNG is now a major world trade. produce a substitute natural gas from it. And because gas will still be there for The gas people also saw opportunities in newly tomorrow's customers, the gas people are helping to available gas-making feedstocks and developed the develop a new generation of appliances for to Catalytic Rich Gas process for making gas from oil, morrow's low-energy homes. They are starting to rather than coal. Advances like these underpinned apply ways of recuperating waste heat in industrial the transformation of an ageing industry into a and commercial applications by using gas engine highly competitive and rapidly expanding modern d riven heat pumps. These reverse the normal business. process by which heat flows from a high temperature The gas people went on to exploit the natural gas to a lower and so can consume less energy than they which they had helped to discover around our deliver! The gas people are even looking at new ways shores. To achieve this they constructed a network of to avoid traffic congestion by replacing underground high pressure steel pipelines to the underground gas pipes without the need for digging highest standards. A great deal of money and tech up the road! nical expertise were expended in devising a means of Much more is going on besides, so if you'd like to inspecting these pipelines, and a sophisticated find out about today's high-tech gas industry, write electronic and mechanical device called an to the Public Relations Department, British Gas, 'intelligent pig' was developed. It works inside the Rivermill House, 152 Grosvenor Road, London pipeline while the gas is sti ll flowing. SWIV 3JL. [Gas] WONDERFUEL GAS FROM THE GAS PEOPLE WORKING FOR TOMORROW'S WORLD TODAY
• , JP ...... _ .., .. _ ...... 4 .. _ ,.,J Sport THE STUDENT Thursday. 9th February 1984 15 EU BOAT CLUB ENGLAND NOT SO DUSTY Better Late Than Never Spirits were h·igh as we left early SCOTLAND 18; ENGLAND 6 on Saturday morning for the As Edinburgh returns to normal alter the prolonged celebrations of Glasgow Eights Head of the River Scotland's most recent Calcutta Cup success, there can be no doubting Race. Although there were some who has the worst hangover. desires expressed concerning Set against Scotland's courageous and skilful display, the English rugby, Scotland, England and -, performance was utterly lacklustre. and whilst they were unlucky tha-t Murrayfield, these were suppres Hare chose Sa turday of all days to leave his kicking boots behind in the sed by threats of bodily harm. dressing-room, the fu ll back's misfortunes only summed up the general '"''" ,., Glasgow welcomed us with its malaise th at seemed to pervade the whole side. customary greeting of a The wet and blustery conditions posed enough problems for the two ceremonial wash and blow dry, regimental bands, but of the two sides it soon became clear that the this led to several questions Scots were far better attuned to them. The pack more than held their own regarding train times to in the tight and were yards faster in the loose, thus giving Rutherford at Edinburgh. Scouting parties were st~nd-off the perfect platform from which to orchestrate proceedings despatched to try and find our with a _superb-series of inch-perfect pupts. Apart from a brief period early boats, which were being towed o_n whic h saw England encamped close to the Scottish line, he keplhis across by another club, due to the side well away from the danger area. and it was no surprise when the fact our own trailer had been Scots went ahead. A loose ball in midfield was missed by both English scuttled a few months previously centres, leaving Johnston to demonstrate his soccer aptitude by on a trip to Durham - where it "burying the chance" as Archie Macpherson might say. Dods remains. converted, but England remained in sight at the interval when Hare Our boats were still in sections finally kicked a penalty at the fifth attempt. when other crews were leaving for Scotl and were forced to replace Cuthbertson with Beattie during the The British Olympic contingent learns to cope with the cold. the start. Several helpful officials change over, but any inconvenience this might have caused was then came over and mentioned the forgotteo when they -.yent further ahead before Eng land had fully time and something about time digested their oranges. Confusion between Hare and Slemen over a high RHURIGH IN SARAJEVO penalties for being late at the start. ball se t up quick second-phase possession and Rutherford allowed the T he BBC's build up to the training run.I would put my money They also cast doubt upon massive Kennedy to thunder over unopposed at the posts. leaving Dods 1984 Winter Olympics in on Steve Podborski, the whether it was really worth while the easiest of conversions. This score. coupled with the retirement of Sarajevo be gan on impetuous Canadian . Un for us to bother racing at all' Win terbottom soon afterwards, was a body blow from which England fortunately the British duo of the The women's crew set off and never really recovered. and whilst Scottish indiscipline allowed Hare Monday with the rather Bell brothers is unlikely to disappeared round a bend in the three more shots at goal, only the first succeeded, ensuring that by the uninspiring, out of date produce any surprises and are river, ever had that feeling of being time Dods popped over a last-minute penalty, most of the 60,000 crowd Robert Red ford film , only there for future experience. alone? The men's crew set off a were already exultant. With Ing mar Sten mark and Marc few minutes later, the last crew to This victory fixes Scottish eyes firmly on Dublin where another win on 'Downhill Racer'. Rhurigh Giradelli banned from Olympic do so. By the time we showed up to March 4th would bring the Triple Crown north of the border for the first Mheadhion, enjoying a competition the slaloms look quite the start the race had begun -well time since 1938, but for England the confidence engendered by their welcome break from the open. but the Mahre brothers, we were only 15 minutes late! The race itself was uneventful - well defeat of the All Blacks has speedily evaporated. Their limitations were hectic Shinty calendar, providing they ensure to wear the amply illustrated b.y Woodward and Slemen who might have been correct numbers, should perform we did not have anyone to race, promoting a well-known washing powder so clean were their jerseys at looks forward to the, well, and give even the Americans although the men's crew did the end - it could be the selectors will have to experiment with a forthcoming events and something to cheer about, should actually manage to catch and pass another crew which had rowed different brand of play too. makes a fe w predictions. their women's downhill specialist Robert Ki tson falter. into a bank! There is concern over the recent The inclusion of the Virgin At the end of the day we Meanwhile on the other side of town . . . warm weather which changes Island's speed skater has no one discovered both crews had snow conditions, causing icy accrued 75 seconds of penalty In the other International took two strikes against the head worried, but does bring a record pistes once it freezes, and also points . The women ' s crew at crltlcal moments, and l tnally a entry of 49 nations. Will there be a played In Edinburgh last making the bob-sleigh runs finished 18th and racing much last ditch penalty attempt from clean sweep as in 1984 by the great dangerous towards the bottom. more experienced crews of both weekend, about 59,750 Hunter hit an upright, allowing American speed skater? However, this should not affect the sexes, in a tough event, must have less people {and 6 dogs) England to escape with an 11 -1 1 The bob-sleigh and large events skating rink, where Britain's been left wondering what might draw - what the result might have provide us with some of the most packed the Imposing attention will be focused on Torvill have been. The men discovered been had the Sportsman's Ball not spectacular falls. The favourites and Dean ; certainties for the gold just what might have been when grandstand at Canal Field been held the previous night, no here are the Russians. East and metal in the ice dancing, unless they realised that the winners of to watch a hard fought one will ever know. West Germans. and also to be they make another mistake as in the event were only 74 seconds Scottish Universities: w. Bigland considered are tne Nordic (cross and exciting encounter practice earlier this week. Also faster which meant that had it not (Stirling), lo( . Ferguson (Dundee), S Trail, H. country) and biathlete events. The between the Scottish and Murray (both Aberdeen), G. Lawson, A. look out for Susan Jackson in the ice hockey should live up to its been for the penalty points they English Universities. Hunter (both Edinburgh), J . Whittington figure skating, but she is unlikely reputation as one of the roughest would have won by 1 second. (Aberdeen capt): J . Peters, H. Ritchie, M. to win a medal. Unconsoled we left for home. With the subtlety and pace of Thorpe, I. Stevens (all Edinb'brgh), P. sports, next to shinty and the The most popular event must Peters, Ritchie and Thorpe, the Renucci (Strathclyde) . G . Hamilton experienced Russian team should surely be the men's downhill. With ORIENTEERING devious combination of Stevens (Dundee), D. Leckie (Edinburgh), R. come away with the gold medal. Have you ever wanted to try Mitchell (Aberdeen). Franz Klammer injured in a and Leckie at lock and No. 8, as Replacements: J . Warnock (Edinburgh), Orienteering? Well now·s your well as the general charm and A. Smart (St!rling), 0 . Robson (Aberdeen). chance. This Sunday (12th good looks of Lawson and Hunter C. Alderson (Edinburgh), d. Flemming The Rifle Club scores a hit 0 February) Edinburgh University In the backs, the Scottish line-up (Aberdeen). Orienteering Club is holding an had an lmpre11lve look to II, but In Winners of EUSU's LIiiywhite ofthe period of success which event in Holyrood Park. Just come the opening stages at least, a hefty Edinburgh Trophy for the most successful since 1975 has seen Edinburgh along to the Sports Centre. 46 English pack proved something of University Fencers sports club - for the second time University eslabllshed as the most Pleasance, between 10 am and 12 • handful. The tide turned In the In six years - are Edinburgh Uni consistent university shootln!I noon. It will cost you 50p and you 18th minute when an English Strike Again versity Rlfte Club (aka the Bang team In Britain, and one of the will need: midfield chip was seized by a Gang), as attendants at the Sports strongest, largest membership (i) a clear plastic bag to protect mauraua1ng Leckie, wno then took This last weekend EU FC went Union Ball will find out on clubs In the country. the map. off upfleld like an overweight up to St Andrews University for the Thursday 2nd February, when the Li ke any other long-term (ii) a pen (preferably red) to copy Powderhall greyhound, much to Scottish Universities Fencing award Is presented. sporting success story, that of down the course with. Ille delight of the canine element Championships. The outing was a Ai;hlevements by the assort EURC has been built on a base of (ii) a compass if you have one. In the crowd. Hunter completed grea t success for both the club ment of teams representing the organslatlonal commitment and We will provide the map. There'll Ille move wide out on the right, but and its members. Mark Donaldson University at the sport of target competitive participation be several courses available, the his conversion attempt, as triumphed again, winning in the shooting In 1982/ 3 Include the throughout the club's membet:r shortest being 1 km and the happened with most other place men's fo il, the sabre event and British Universities, Scottish ship. This has helped the club to longest 7 km. For f urther kicks on a bitterly cold, windy day, coming second in the epee with Universities and Lothian• County produce several home grown information contact the organiser: went astray. the loss of only one fight by a League Championships. Three talents, notably the current Richard Colbeck The English, clad In rather narro w margin. Congratulations Individual achievements also captain, who became the Borders (031-667 1971 ext. 82) surprising red Jerseys, predictably also lo John Kidd who reached all stand out; selection for the champion three years alter first EU Women's fought back hard and scored two three fi nals, coming third in the Brisbane Commonwealth Games, picking up a rifle as a complete Hockey Club tries and a penalty In the apace of foil, fourth in the epee and fifth in a victory In the championship novice tn his first year at eight minutes, Just reward tor their the sabre. Paul Bowyer, the men's aggregate at the British cham Edinburgh. On sunday the indoor team strength at set pieces, the captain, also had a successful pionships, and third place Jn the Amongst for the future are a tour succeeded in winning back the Hcellent service of their acrum weekend, coming fourth in the foil, Scottish championship (by, of the USA, and the establishment Scottish Universities Indoor haH, and their fast, II not wholly third in the sabre and like James respectively, an Irishman, an of professional team coaching, Trophy from Strathclyde. Playing convincing backs. The Scottish Toss and Jonathan Clarke, getting Englishman and a Scotsman); both moves which should in c ram ped conditions with a· aide, however, seemed the more knocked out in the penultimate amongst several less notable tltle1 reinforce the team's current status ridicu l ously slippery f loor committed, and this determination epee round. The men's foil final capture by this motley crew. as a breeding ground for lnter underfoot, Ed inburgh recorded easy victories over St Andrews, paid off when, after a couple of was a tense competition between The awn! Is a further recognition natlonatlsts. forays from scrummages close to lour Edinburgh fencers, including Dundee and Glasgow, and ran out Ille try-line were repulMd, flanker Ian Wells who came sixth and only worthy winners against the Mitchell from Aberdeen plunged t wo othe r s (from Gla sgow stronger opposition of Strath over to further fuel their caustt Un iversity ). Ro be rt Be n son clyde. Wi th Heriot-Watt and A hall-time deficit of only three contributed a com mend ab le Stirl ing not competing, only points must have been very performance in the men's foil too, Aberdeen lay between the team Nllsfactory for the Scots and with reaching the third round. and the title. In a thrilling match, Ille aid of the elements for the In the ladies' foil, Jenna White, Edinburgh led 2-1 early on, but remainder of the game, prospects EUFC captain, came second in the then fell behind to trail 7-4 with looked fairly rosy. Hunter had fi nal and Renee Ouz, who had also only a few minutes left on the been cool under all 1or11 of done well in the epee, coming clock. Two opportunist goals preasure before the break, but sixth. Ruth Stephenson must also by Edinburgh were followed by a afterwards he was In his element, be congratulated for reaching the disallowed equaliser and with only scattering probing kicks to all semi-final round in her fi rst second remaining C . Thow corners of the field. A sweetly competition, as must the more crashed home the seventh goal to struck penalty goal from the same experienced Shona Wilde. ensure a draw and make safe the player brought the sides level, but These results, together with the title. Congratulations are in order desplle allowing the English to sterling efforts of the other to the whole team for a most cro11 half way on only two melhbers of the club in the event, impressive and heartening team cccaslons, the Scots could not won the overall team trophy for performance and special mention find the combination to crack a EUFC (for the third year running) must be made of L. Monahan's secura opposition defence. which was the culmination of a EURC BUSF WINNING TEAM 1983 goal ta ll y for the tournament of 23 A drop goal attempt was very enjoyable and exciting Back : left to rlght- G. Winch , H. MacNeal, J. Owen , A Davie. - the second highest scorer for charged down, the English pack week~ d. Front: Miss D. Wickers, S. rlley, Mrs G. MacDonald. Edinburgh managed only 5! } \" "'I i
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And I am ... a crowning artistic triumph." :;:: away from me but can't quite :::: tattoo thereon for some minutes. was sure you do not delude yourself that it · The Doctor had risen to his feet, and :;:: The grizzly bear loves wooly leave, you are the best thing in the :::, rewarded by the bobbing descent of a is merely the domain he desires. For had been striding, inspired, across the :::: jumpers. world. P. :;:: dim light from the second floor of the possession of its mistress is now his length and breadth of the carpet, ,:,: Bryce - the man who bowls no Fran, how would you like a { building. The door swung open. It was utmost objective. You know this, and blundering into furniture as he spoke. maiden overs, watch out for the younger man ? J.P. :':: the widow her.self, bound about with He came to rest by a huge writing desk layers of padded silk, her eyes rimmed littered with crumpled sheets of fine ~H. JoR.~'1 , t,(,c> tu1 lfou ~~ i 1 Female domination rules!! George and Hannah - Punk on ;::: with the sticky pink of sleeplessness. paper. A wraith of yellow light danced P."10 ME' iJ<,,1•1 ~Mc o,11 'To A "Dr Samson," she said horasely, faintly within the deep gloss of inlaid H1l.Loi=- 1oQ.-( 11\.t,,,otrflU 1N Ian, your new trousers and jacket } holding the candle up to his face. The wood as Madame Etallon lifted the 11111 (RAZ'/ WoRUl. 11M o ff T.~.P.-Hop_e_you can come soon. just make me wanna rip them off. :;:: Doctor laughed. foR A PINT - St, 't°" (, .A! We re all waiting . Everyone. :;:; candle and approached him. Her _;__ " Have all your servants then composure had returned: she no ...... _ - Dear Alble, . d , t h :;:: deserted you, that you must open the longer walked, but swepl, and her I thank heaven for your small Pig Puss- Why on t you s y w,_t :::: door yourself?" he asked. garments had become clothes. nol mercies! me? Love from your favounte ;:;: " I - I did not wish to rouse them, and wrappings. But the Doctor was Grateful Boar. :':: as I was awake ..." Madame Etallon reckless now. He rummaged among was too tired to resist shrewd the papers. Ooohh Donna, you make us sad Charlie- My love lor you is more } questioning . She let the Doctor enter "Your correspondence with the lawsuits ensued. The given Brotherhood. In fact, you may be girl. Trembling in anticipation '. plentiful than all the Fish in the } and led him through to a large, cold Romantic poets, I presume?" he reason was Mr Knight's sitting on one right now. M&B . Burn! T.B. Ray :;:: drawing room. sneered, unfolding one sheet and insinuation that KGB spies were Edinburgh's Historic New Town Jean M, For you, the best remedy Bill; if only you knew, how I turn so { ·· 11 1s a frosty night," said the Doctor. smoothing it down. "U is dated . getting to the top of MIS by was designed by a Mason - the can only be me. Chris W. blue, when I see you, my :::: "Yo u will surely catch a chill, my dear yesterday." He read it, and frowned, being Masons. Now, this is no two circles (Moray and Madame. May l call for a fire to be lit?" kangaroo. luv PP. :;:: moved by a fresh, unexpected sense of doubt true, but of course being a Drummond Place) , surrounded :::: Rob Mclaurin: My Art is yours, · · " II - it is not warm, certainly," pity. FIMr member of the KGB is not half by a tartan-like grid system (key stammered Madame Etalton. She "Dear Mr Wordsworth," it read , :;:; now and forever. See you in the 16-year-olds - yum, ym. Nlge. The Booker Committee may as as wicked as being in a Civil lines) has mystic significance, looked nervously around the room. set "Proud Albion's couriers are grown :::: staff club. Vincent. well take up Selina Scott's bright Service trade union. So one should any extraterrestrial down the candle and waved her hands most capricious of late, tor my letters My Darling Pint- Where would I m a poor attempt at a carefree gesture. suggestion and give up reading assumes it was less the Soviet Brothers be looking through { To honey-bunny Michael D to you have, I fear, been all mislaid. be without you? Sober? Mike "Welt , why awaken the household Unless it be that your missives are the nominations. William Golding infiltration that did in Mr Knight, their binoculars. The statues :::, Your wit , your charm Is too much now? I shall light the fire." .... rudely lost by these laggard agents of can heave a sigh of relief and than the shattering expose of all studded along George Street ;:;: for me, don't leave me now, your Conway The Doctor started to laugh again, Mercury; for it has been wellnigh two rest back on his nobels. Britain's { bumble bee. xxx the silly things Masons do. For each carry the likeness of a Darling Jeremy, n st opped. assumed a grave years since an epistle of yours grace Bright Young Authors needn't example, Prince Philip's a Grand Master of the Lodge. This >res s1 on, stuck hi shands in his :::: To newsman Mike. Your poetic See you in the Pear Tree on my breakfast table. " trundle out on their wheelchairs Mason. Ergo he has stood alone may not be true, but it certainly ;kets and sat down. The Doctor looked at Madame ':;: style, your tennis skills are enough Saturday night, then back to my for the annual Observer team in ~ dark cupboard for several livens things up when you get I ha ve left Thurlock's employ." he Etallon. who stood close by, but made ;:;: to give me lots of thrills. Ever yours place for a quick massage. photograph. Vanity, vanity, all is bored of row after tow of tasteful d morosely. "I could not keep faith no attempt lo prevent him reading . hoursa, been let out blindfold, M. Craddock S. Daffers 1 I I va nity. The cash-register hit of jabbed in the neck with a pair of Georgian townhouses. And there h hi s visions. am leaving Litchbury. / " Even they have deserted you, then," ave come to tell you to leave also." he said . " It is you and your son now, the year, I'd imagine, will be Mr compasses, and taught the is a sinister plausibility about it: He looked up. Madame Etallon studied quite lost and separate from the world. Stephen Knight's The tickle-handshakes. Just like the compare the patternings of street. the floor, clasped her hands together. Please, I beg you, leave. Soon. I warn Brotherhood. Boy Scouts. But a little more names in Edinburgh and and shuffled backwards. out of the you: Thurlock is preparing to destroy This remarkable document has sinister: the only time the Scouts Glasgow town centres. light your son . He has-" the sort of history any post ever disappeared anyone, it was I'm going_to Glasgow this Floats Procession Save the Children urgently require " You are alone," Or Samson went on, " I do not wish to know," said modernist would give his/ her left when they discovered that Akela weekend, actually, to do some ESCA will be holding a Floats volunteers to help build a "all your servants have left. Why do you Madame Etallon. eye for. It all began late last Procession as usual this year to stay ? You could command a fine price was a gurrl. research into my bestseller playground in Niddrie at times to "What?" year, when Mr Knight was end our Rag Week. Application for the house and the land." ·· 11 is you who must leave now." "But . . but how can you tell, Brotherhood II: The Lodge be arranged between now and metathesised in The Guardian. forms are available for Floats from "My son," murmured Madame "Bui your son! Did you not hear me?" Big Brown Wolfcats?" Strikes Back. By Nejny Runter (a March. All expenses paid. Please Etallon. "I heard. Go .'' "Mr Stephen King, who has just "Well ... she bent over, like . secret code even Cheltenham the Charities Office, 42 The contact SCAG, via EUSA Offices, "Your son!" snorted the .Doctor. Dr Samson stared at the tall, still written a study of the and I could see her lungs, down would be proud of). And ... just Pleasance. or phone Philippa Cox 226 4350. " Yes . a fine cause for stubbornness. figure, whose white complexion and Freemasons, after years of the front of her shurrt!" in case I don't get back in one Urgent: 1 double room available When you could escape with him to the cold voice evoked in him a sudden research ... " Wot? The mighty Because if George Orwell piece, there is one conspiracy I Radio Cassette for sale: good for two girls in Stockbridge. 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