ATTACKER GAVE Q , Grants to go after ME DRUGS KISS’“election Club victim’s By MATTHEW QENEVER FUTURE generations of students face having to cope without any financial support from the government hallucinations whoever wins the general election. The high-powered Dealing Committee, backed by both Labour and the Conservative after assault party, is set to recommend the phasing out of the student By LAURA DAVIS grant as soon as next summer. Tony Blair has said he is A TERRIFIED clubber committed to scrapping the student grant system and collapsed alter a man grabbed replacing it with a series of loans to be paid back over a her for a french kiss and forced 20-year period. And a source on the committee admitted: two LSD tablets down her throat. “Nobody is defending the The student was celebrating the end of maintenance grant You have to find ways of cutting costs in term in Majestyk when the stranger the system.” seized her and pushed the drugs into her mouth with his tongue. Leeds North-West: During the next 12 hours she suffered turn to pages 16-17 horrific hallucinations, believing she was being Simon Cafftey, President of attacked by six foot spiders. LMUSU, sits on the A friend who stayed with the student, who does not committee as a member of the wish to be named, throughout the night and said she was governance and structure sub­ intent on hurting herself: “She kept banging her head group. He said: “Higher against the wall and it didn’t seem to hurt her.” education should be free in The victim confronted the manager of Majestyk two days principle, but the fact is that later, but said although he expressed concern, he was unable to the money just isn’t there at the help. “They said I should have told them about it on the night,” moment I would just hope that she said. “But I didn't even know where I was!” the money saved will be put Conrad Nugent, the general manager of Majestyk, said he back into the universities, but I sympathised with the student: “It’s a very horrifying thing to can't see that happening.” happen to anybody. Obviously I feel very sorry for the girt but I Caffiey continued: don’t believe we have a problem here.” CORONATION SW EET: Vera Duckworth (Liz Dawn) was star attraction at a “Forcing students to pay for. A spokesperson from the National Drugs Helpline Passion for Leeds fashion show organised by Park Lane College and Leeds Rhinos in aid tuition is wrong as most condemned the attack: “The effects of LSD have a lot to do of the Liz Dawn Breast Cancer Appeal. She was joined by fellow Corrie graduates will be in the upper with the user’s state of mind before taking it This student actresses Gaynor Faye and Debbie McAndrew. The clothes were supplied by income bracket and so will would’ve been scared even before it started to take effect” fashion Leeds stores and the models all appeared free of charge Pic: Piers Martin pay more taxes anyway.” INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-9, Feature 12-13, Outlook 15-19, Sport 20-24. Plus 24-page juice magazine 2 LEEDS STUDENT Friday April 25, 1997 f L E E D S H EXPOSED: SOMETHING INTERESTING AT NUS CONFERENCE S t u d e n t This week in Britain’s award-winning student newspaper of the year NEWS Housing hassle: The naked truth The downside of living in uni accommodation pages 4-5 E aster over, the of the body politic summer term FOR anyone suffering that pursues him. Kate can do. begins: fasten your election fatigue here’s a Woodhead enjoys shouting, Fortunately, the National seatbelts for the ride Darren Green likes being Executive Committee - way to make yourself jovial and Laurie Spieler resplendent as always sitting page 9 better: rip off all your absolutely relishes making high and proud upon the stage clothes, flaunt your speeches and darting about - didn’t want to run the risk of FEATURE wares before two with a mobile phone as if he’s a longer conference in case thousand people and secretly running the show. there was time to talk about What? Maggie’s not For once LUU, one of the issues they didn’t want to talk shimmy past the grasp biggest delegations at the about. With their well- running this time? of despairing entire event, hadn’t just come rehearsed when-I-scratch-my- What you don’t know policemen as you sprint along to make up the numbers. nose-it-means-vote- away into eternity. They had a cause to champion AGAINST technique they that would take the nation by about politics is One man tried it and it were therefore able to signal to storm. Conservatives stand for the political puppeteers up in revealed pafles12.13 worked. He burst robeless the great British nation, the conference balconies to across the floor of this Labour campaigns for social signal to their troops down on year’s National Union of justice for all, the Liberal the conference floor to vote Students Conference in Democrats pledge to resurrect against Hellawell and LUU. The Empire Blackpool, ducked and If this column has given the dived the shocked impression that NUS Strikes Back: onlookers and, for all one Conference is one long Travel to knows, headed for the sea charade of contrived votes and HACK foretold elections then well like Reggie Perrin to quit Hong Kong spotted. Groups such as this world forever. pages 18-19 at NUS Conference in Blackpool Labour Students and the (“It’s male... and it’s seen Union of Jewish Students its last politics for the day,” is education for our children. expend incredible amounts of SPORT how the late cricket LUU fights tooth and nail to time, energy and mobile phone commentator John Arlott BUSA latest, get NUS Conference extended batteries on getting their way < Illustration: Colin Hoginson would have put it.) by half a day. in even the most petty including triumph What could have driven a Normally, you see, it goes handbag fights. The deep man so far? The answer is on until Thursday lunch-time, tragedy, or comedy depending Labour. Will politics always title Dead Anoraks Society. ® ^ for the rugby politics. You might think you but this year it was scheduled which way you look at it, is be so predictable? And then the final glory: got enough this holiday just Hgjgx league stars of to close on Wednesday night, the sheer futility of it all in the But then, as the flame of the nude intruder made his seeking out ever/ dose of robbing us of crucial hours eyes of the real world. student radicalism threatened dramatic appearance and this LUU pages 22-23 election coverage as an excuse when we could be dissecting to flicker and then die, the elaborately staged Blairite for not starting that parts of parts of motions, Blairified fabled Phoenix began to rise. showpiece descended into dissertation. And it came from Leeds. farce. Who was the mystery voting for more Labour And the problem for the Princess Tiggy, genial Mat man? Could it be Bruce Anoraks Students wearing Blairite grins spectator is that New Labour Ray and the rest hadn’t carried Hartley, LUU’s Finance & to run NUS for another year are getting too good at it Last But some take it much bagfuls of flyers declaring Administration officer, and dodging the inevitable year they had to wheel every further. They play at politics “We will fight them on the protesting against the failure to barrage of stickers, flyers and deal and scratch every back on themselves. Every year a speeches,” all the way here not invite him? Or Robin Van Den documents that are more the way to finally throwing out weird band of ego-tripping to make a big fuss about the Hende, the trainspotterish unreadable than the Maastricht the old policy of ‘free’ . careerists and anorak-sporting burning why-is-conference- pundit keen to test whether the treaty. education and embracing the nerds gather for a pretend only-three-days issue. NUS constitution has any “We need a debate on why Blairified plan that students parliament all of their own, As the event neared its provision on how to handle its this conference has been should help pay their own firmly convinced that final hour LUU suddenly rose, delegates au naturell Or shortened by half a day!” way. It was an epic struggle everything they say is shaking climbing on chairs and making maybe it was just Chirpie after bawled Graham Hellawell of between Tony’s Empire and the planet to its core. Huddersfield University, really all kinds of noise. The rest of paying another visit to the bar. The Leeds delegations the Rebel Alliance of diehard the vast conference hall spun Conservative Central getting quite emotional. Trotskyites. So much for Star therefore naturally feel at round in disbelief. One day Office might have had its Intriguingly, Hellawell’s Wars, this year was more like home. Simon ‘Chirpie’ someone’ll turn it into a Blair-chasing chicken, but medicine for the lost debating Howard the Duck. The Trots Caffrey, President of LMUSU, movie, with stirring classical NUS now has the naked _ _ time was to spend even more rolled over and got squashed, delights in strutting around background music, the ape. Who said British time debating just why it had looking as dead and buried as trying to look important enchanted expression of Robin politics has gone to been lost in the first place.