THE 23rd October 1980 l 1 SOMEJOKE

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Human excreta daubed on toilet walls ... graffiti scrawled across walls, doors and fittings In the gent's toilets ... soft seating and stools slashed and torn beyond repair ... walls that looked to have been used for mountaineering practice .. . and a dressing room smashed up by the group Killing Joke after the concert .. . . The damage Inflicted on the Student Centre gave It every appearance of a battleground In the aftermath of Friday's Unlvents gig.

Such was the damage stopping concerts in the may be brought to an end (his ing a series of incidents caused by the hooligan Student Centre. But. as she term. Miss Pritchard has, in involving damage to property, element that night that the said afterwards: 00 Due to fact, said "We have a particularly in Chambers future of concerts at the public demand among responsibility to protect our Street Union. Killing Joke Student Centre is once more stude_nts for them to continue, own users by stopping such have consistently denied that in the balance. University the Honorary Treasurer and I concerts altogether." they are a punk group and Catering Officer Mr John compiled, on an experimental Most of those who attended were booked on that under­ Pickles has. in fact. told the basis. an entertainments the Killing Joke concert. it is . standing. Nevertheless, as the Association in a letter to the programme which, if success­ claimed. were not students at events of Friday night give Permanent Secretary: ··1 think ful. we would have been Edinburgh University, but ample testimony, they most the time has come when this happy to continue." were allowed in under certainly do attract what is so-called 'entertainment' is Friday night's incidents. Teciprocal arrangements with very much a ponk audience stopped altogether." however, have changed all other colleges and universi­ and the behaviour we have Union President - Eleanor that. Unless enough support ties. come to expect from that Pritchard tends to share Mr is forthcoming from Edin­ Punk bands are officially group. Pickles·s view on the matter burgh University students for banned from playing at and has all along advocated future live shows. then they Student Centre House follow-

At no point during the hour­ unacceptable" that George NUS (Scotland). long demonstration did Mr Younger would not speak to Later, she told the gathering Younger attempt to come out students or staff. that she had just received that to speak to his opponents. The Principal of Callendar morning a letter of support The Minister's snub was met Park College, Mr Tom Rae, from Cardinal Gray of with chants of "Younger is went further : "George Craiglockhart Roman Cath­ rubbish!", "Ten Stay! 00 and Younger is frightened. He olic College. Miss Freeman vociferous choruses of "We knows we're right," he told the then brought the day's evenls Shall Not Be Closed!". crowd. to a close with the following Speaking at the demon­ A giant-sized letter of pledge: "George Younger has stration, the President of protest, addressed to the heard us today, and he will ALSEC in Scotland called for Secretary of State, was keep on hearing us. We will a public debate with the carried by four protesters and keep on going until we win. " students and colleges delivered to the Scottish affected. He found it "utterly Office by Jeanne Freeman of 2 Front Piece

G THE LEADER

It is that time of year again. On the afternoon yet closed. University's· more glamorous and traditional of Friday, November 7th, Teviot Row will be Three hundred tickets go on sale at the Union institutions have to pay out extra to treat the abuzz with excitement in anticipation of the shops to the general punters whilst there are delegates to their night out? The solution of annual Presidents' Ball; whether you're a fifty delegates' tickets which are kept for the course would be to make the· delegates pay like fresher going for the first lime or a hardened select (few?). The delegates' ticket includes everyone else or, failing that, we could perhaps veteran In your fourth year, most people are free wine, sherry and a complimentary bar in list the names of those concerned in our touched by the glamour of the occasion. Teviot addition to the meal (for which they don't have columns which would be most embarrassing Row Is hardly the Caledonian yet on the night to queue), all for the sum of £24 (per double for everyone involved but may promote even the Union itself seems to exude character ticket). However, the catch is that delegates are harmony in the long term. and charm. The ball remains to be one of the not compelled to foot the bill for their tickets. Almost half of the delegates' tickets are highlights of the university year, that is to those Delegates are requested to make a "donation" allocated to people who were voted into office who can afford a ticket. (sic) of £24 but are under no real obligation to by the student body. Statistically speaking it is Last year's ball tickets cost £12 each and this do so and it is hoped that of the fifty double unlikely that they will all pay - more campaign year the price of a double ticket Is £20, quite a tickets around thirty will be paid for, so what promises thrown to the 'wind - yet these Jump by any standards, however the Treasurer about the other twenty? It takes no financial people, more than any others, should realise assures us that In previous years the ticket wizard to deduce that the amount unaccounted the ethical significance of paying. They should prices have not been realistic and that this year for will be around £480 which (in order to be especially aware that neither the Students' It Is hoped they will break even (rather than the balance the books) adds over one pound to Association, nor the individual students, can £900 or so they lost last year). This seeins fair . each of the other tickets. afford to subsidise these parasites year after enough ... £10 per head for a much food as you Perhaps some will quibble that an extra year and that unless everyone involved pulls can eat, half a bottle of wine and a veritable feast pound doesn't make a lot of difference but the their weight, then the Presidents' Ball will soon of entertainment ... there really doesn't seem to perennial question remains, i.e. should the become a thing of the past. be much to complain about, but the case is not people who wish to attend one of the

Letters to the Editor

America Revisited more OTC members responded by continuing To the Editor, to maul me and I was hit in the face. OK, so I I respectfully note the humble opin ion of the was dragged out of this situation by my friends visitor to the South, that Americans are !fC before any serious damage was done. But, do Tt, desperate to compare themselves with and you really- call that sort of behaviour impress foreign visitors. Perhaps this is an "restraint" on the part of the OTC? I don't feel insecurity and paranoia that stems from 200 able to sign my name to th is letter because I'm years of vast resources and concurrent not confident that OTC supporters will wealth. However, I have found, in my travels, respond to my words with words only - last an eagerness of many Europeans and other week they seemed only too happy to attempt .. "foreigners" to match their customs, assets - to beat people up. as wel l as deficiencies - and ideologies with An Angry Woman. their ideas about the United States. I find it interesting that this is a recurrent topic of conversation as well as source of Hon Sec In Question (ii) discussion in the media. All ethnocentricity Dea r Si r, aside, this leads me to believe that it is not an I wonder if it has occurred to many that a indigenous characteristic of any one "super" General Meeting is taking place this Thursday or "minor" power, but the increasing - oh, yes, you probably have seen it - today! awareness of cultural differences in an ever­ But what about posters and leaflets, which shrinking globe. were supposed to be produced at least seven Respectfully, days before it? What about posters to Lauren-Glenn Oavltlan. advertise that motions are to be presented? These have been conspicuous by their Hon Sec in Question (I) absence. '•I' Dear Sir, This is the specific rem it of the Honorary I and many of my friends are outraged by the Secretary, Mr Rory Knight Bruce. If he doesn't lack of democracy that seems to be going o n do this, he has no purpose of existence apart within the Students' Association. from getting paid to sit in his office playing at being a bureaucrat. And do you know who General Meetings are called about twice a 21 ( term and are open to any student who wishes pays for this - us. Yes, all students pay for his ,,, sa lary. to come along. To get anything passed, i.e. to p,, One wonders if this lack of publicity is not a 9et any thing that is decided acted Upon, the 001 meetings have to be quorate, Le. 300 students. conscious act in order to prevent everyday Hence the need of adequate and widespread students taking part in student affairs. Maybe publicity. we are too stu pid to make decisions. I am disgusted to find at the time of writing Yours democratically, - Monday, 20th October - that the re is no Simon Costa, publicity at all for this week's Genera l Meeting Science Rep (S RC) (Thursday, 23 rd October) - anywhere within the University campus. I am under the impressio n we have voted for Virtues of US Culture an appointed Honorary Sec retary, namely STAFF Dear Sir, Rory Kn ight s·ruce, whose job it is is to Fitzgerald, Hem ingway and the other publicise, organise and build General Editor American writers Edmund Adams quotes are, lain Hackett meetings. Does Mr Knight Bruce object to the AHl1tant Editors in a sense, the descendants of a literary ran k an d fi le of students taking part in the Edmund Adams tradition which spans the Atlantic. After all, Nigel BIiien dec i sion-mak ing of t h e Stu de n ts' Arts the spread of the piinted word made and Ian Waldie Association? Is he reall y too busy to put up a Features m akes literatu re accessible to people few notices? If so, perhaps someone else BIii Whiteford everywhere. If Americans do acknowledge FIims Allan B. Hunter could do the job with more energy and News Eu ropean superi ority in the field of writing, commitment. Bryan Mclure Rock which is not certain, perhaps they should : the Yours, Robert Louis Stevenson What's On precursor of modern American writing is Olanan Noel Paton. Tooale elsewhere .:.... Western tradition is fairly recent Photos Simon Allen there. OTC Violence Tim Smith To say, however, that Americans have little Dear Student, Graphics Anna Elles respect for thei r artistic heritage because of As a participant in the demonstration Shona Mciver this, is quite wrong. In America, photography against the OTC at the Societies Fair, I must Sports Roddy McOougal and film are a large part of this ''heritage", an d object to the tone of your article and leader Pollllcs Paul Heywood in these media it is Europeans who have comment in last week's Student. From my learnt, acknowledging the American tradition. Contributors Betsy Person Andy Watson experience of the events of that day I can o nly Perhaps a nation which has produced the Zerlna Hanlff Emily Smyth interpret your position as a journalistic like of Adams, Newman, Weston; Coppola, James Meek attempt to diffuse a very real confrontation. Cimino, Kubrick, and so on, can afford to be There may r,av,e been no prolonged violence, . Advertising Gwenn McCreath humb about Shakespeare? but violence there undoubtedly was. At one Yours faithfully, 1 Buccl.uch Place point I was grabbed by a member of the OTC. Roderick Taylor. Tel. 867 5718 Havi ng no desi re to get into a fight. I went limp; ,------News 3 ~======' Tonight's NEW WINE IN AN OLD BOTTLE General Meeting Last Friday lun"htlme, the EU Labour Club played host to the moment, to debate the question ol who shall lead the party of Member of Parllamenl for Berwick and East Lolhlan, John disagreement. the party of discontent. but, thank God. the party A new format Is promised for General Meetings In the year Home Robertson. It was the first meeting ot the lerm, and as of violent debate. ahead. Gone will be the days of petty procedural wrangling, and with most first meetings, was well attended. When lhe speaker John Home Robertson was reticent on the subject. He hinted the often Inappropriate and unnecessarily divisive polltlcal In­ , announced to the 40 people gathered In the faculty room of the that Healey seemed the best of a bad bunch and proudly fi ghting to which we have become all too accustomed. Jn Ila David Hume Tower that he was going to speak on '1hat old announced that he would " ... put the question to a postal ballot l'l, place will be a more open meeting, with the emphasis placed chestnut, devolutlon", he was greeted by a mixture of sallvatlon of the general management committee of my local party". Noble firmly on Information, questioning and discussion. 0 and boredom, by freshers and hacks reJpectlvely. words. He then briskly added the necessity to reform the trade 1." Beginning with this Accommodation Forum. It is Mr Robertson retained the seat for Labour formerly held by union block vote at conference, to his crusade for democracy ,: evening's Emergency General the Association's intention John P. Macki,ntosh in the by-electio~ held six months before Let it not be said that he was a man who fudged the issue: "In ~! Meeting, these sessions will, and hope that individuals with the exit of lhe last Labour government. Not surprisingly, he principle, I'm for democracy, in other words l'IJ1 not against sin." i:>. in addition to being more accommodation problems shares most of the views on the devolution of power that were He ended the day proclaiming that rates should be abolished; a ~' informative and participative, and queries will come along to held by his most learned predecessor. He criticised St Andrew's permutation of the land-value tax scheme and local VAT was i:' provide for great account- the meeting and put them to House, the Whitehall of Scotland, by recalling the time he had to offered in their place. 1':) ability of office-bearers. who the relevant members Of the go to the Secretary of State's office in London to receive The control of which issues reach the agenda for debate in l : will be available for platform. permission for the. erection of a Portacabin at a site in his the Labour Party is a crucial part of the political process. In qu est ioning during the On the platform to answer constituency. He is of the calm, polite, reason-by-insu_lt (or opposition, it has been the National Executive Committee that . proceedings. students· questions will be Mr insult-by-reason) school. He was convincing. He was control the agenda; in government, the Prime Minister and his Otti Tonight's meeting, besides _Alex Stewart ol the Student persuasive. However, there were no new proposals on local government. Given that Labour is now committed to widening j j~,discussing the motions put ,Accommodation Service; democracy; merely a duplication of Mackintosh's proposals. the franchise for the election of its leader, there is consternation ~-- forwardforconsideration,will Prof. Ne il McCormick ; That is, he believes in the decentralisation of power into on both sides of the party over the unconstitutional power · include a report by the Senior convener of the Accommoda­ reg ional governments - not original, but no less commendable which the trade unions wield at the annual conference. .,~ President on work done over tion Committee; and student all the same. "I don't just want a socialist East Lothian. but also a Previously, it has been in the interests of each wing of the party, • )t! the sum~er, and on issues of representatives Mark Ken­ socialist Britain, and a socialist Europe ... a -socialist world", at different times, to endorse that power for its own cause. Now, I, cu rrent importance. nedy, Vice-President (Court) alas, he has the conviction, but not the charisma. neither left nor right can be sure ol the opinions of the TUC .,, The. major innovation, and Stewart Copeland, When the meeting was opened to the floor, no one was barons (who aren't sure either). This is the only climate where lh;jl however, will be the inclusion Accommodaiton Convener. surprised at the subject matter of the questions. Nothing could truly democratic, as opposed to factionally democratic, reforms ~f, in the programme of an be done to divert this audience away from the impending can take place. That is, with left and right in phalanx against a t,1: election of a new leader, if only a temporary one, of the Labour common evil. To corrupt lhe song: Let's do it, Let's de-moc-ra­ Party. The hundreds of Labour clubs and constituency parties tise. ~i; NASTO and the NUS up and down the country see it as their ritual duty, at the 110•( 8; In November 1976 the NUS student body of each Travel Service collapsed. individual country, but as the Despite having been success­ NUS was in no position to act Putting the Boot CATERING ful for many years before, an alone and NASTO had increasi ngly bureaucratic and become the main student top-heavy administration travel operators, the two -resulted in the firm going bust. groups combined to form the on the other Foot THE CRUNCH Within weeks, the Students' BJC (British Joint Council) Association in Edinburgh which now acts as the British established its own travel delegation. Following criticism In a Council's norm . This, Michael Foot, prospective modern times, Mr Foot quoted office, thus becoming one of Edinburgh University is not · recent government report, however, does not take into Labour Leader, addressed a Robert Blatchford, who said the first universities in Britain involved with the NUS and its changes In the catering account the number of non­ large and rather mixed about the press: "I say nothing to create an independent interests were seemingly ficllltles al the University audience at the Kenneth feeling sure that the Press sl\Jdents, some 6,000, who service. The Travel Centre has placed in jeapordy by the could soon be made. regularly use the facilities. Allsop Memorial Lecture last would expose the cause of now become commercially original constitution of the · Edinburgh University has Another notable fact, which Thursday. After Mr Calla­ honesty as soon as it becomes successful with a turnover last BJC which was drawn up in popular ... ." He also read at the singular problem that anyone who has queued for _·: year of over £620,000. favour of the main union, ghan's re'signation on the length from Blatchford's there is no main group dealing meals will vouch for, is that giving the representative of previous day, the hall was The lack of one "voice" to prose. The past part of the with the catering at the these eJting places far from ·::·· represent the ideals of the the latter a six-two advantage packed with an expectant lecture consisted of question UniverSity. being surplus to requirement :· .; ma ny centres springing up crowd sitting up the ailes. on the committee. time, where, despite being The facilities here are are in almost constant use '-" · over Britain led many of the Last September, at a confer­ along the floor and even shot al with double-barrelled provided by two groups - the throughout the term. ,: independent travel managers ence held in Aberdeen, standing on the stairs leading up; all straining to hear his questions, Mr Foot, with EUSA and the University . The University Court said 1-- and their permanent secre­ Graham Richardson, in his politician's ease, told the itself, and naturally there is the two based groups :=·· tari es to meet, firstly· at role as Honorary Treasurer, pearls of wisdom. If they came audience absolutely nothing competition between these . controlling catering was Bradford (April 1977) and and Julian Wiltshire, the travel to hear whether he planned to new. No one was more two sections. "wasteful" and recommended 1:·r then at Glasgow, to discuss manager in the Edinburgh run for leadership, they were surprised than he when Owen The EUSA provides the some form of co-ordination the problem . Finally, at Centre, made their concern disappointed as he gave Dudley Edwards asked him a greatest part of catering between the two. Bangor in 1978, 18 months evident by proposing several nothing away. The could not, , question which was actually facilities; while the University So far this has taken the after the fall of NUS Travel, amendments to the BJC however, have been dis­ ,on his lecture. Throughout the provides cafeteria and buffet form of informal meetings, NASTO (National Association constitution . These pre~ appointed at the interesting ' lecture Mr Foot presented the meals in the Sludent Centre, and Dr A. Crosby of the of Student Travel Offices) has dominantly concerned corn~ and amusing lecture which !conservatives as throwing the King's Buildings refectory and Geography Department and a ··_-;; established a democratic mittee composilion and, wilh although did not actually deal with the topic in question, country into chaos, whilst Union. College of Agri­ representative of the umbrella organisation. In the exception of two minor culture, James Clerk Maxwell University Court Finance contrast to NUS Travel, which technicalities, they were gave us an interesting insight Labour were presented as our into Defoe, J. Swift, Thomas only hope. It could only be Building and David Hume Committee is drawing up a ,'' had tended to encourage accepted for the first time. Tower. report on the situation. students to accept its own, NASTO's influence on the Payne and Robert Blatchford. expected. Optimistically he Defoe was described as being predicted another oil price Next year the composite fee However, Mr Pickles, of the ",,: limited offers, NASTO seems BJC is now on a par with that for catering will be given University Catering Depart­ to have developed into a more of the NUS. "one of the great journalistic increase, an increase in the liars of all time", whilst Swift housing problem and the solely to the University ~nd ment, said he expected "no hel pful and flexible service. Edinburgh's participation in this could mean the two cuts in · University catering" The demise·of NUS Travel the travel question was made was label led " a most most dismal winter for years. Mr Foot finished with a outlets will be financed from and forecast that the co­ • .'.. :< meant that there was no more prominent when, on the confounded Tory". Mr Foot somehow managed to hint rousing pro-Labour political one source. ordination would probably ,'i,, British delegation to fill the day following their actions, The government survey result in uniform pricing and gap on the ISTC (Inter­ both Graham Richardson and that disraeli, a Conservative speech and the audience left Prime Minister, did not ·still wondering if he would run also revealed that the number portion size in the facilities natio nal Student Travel Julian Wiltshire were elected . of catering facilities at the . provided by the EUSA and the Conference). Normally ttie to the NASTO Executive. actually hold Conservative­ for leadership or not. type views. Returning to more Zerlna Hanlff University exceeded the 10 University. rep r:ese ntation abroad is David Stead per cent Universities Grant Vicky Taylor ,.. controlled by the main

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Government plans for the by Rhodes Boyson, Minister reform of union funding, to be of State at the Department of The Reaction announced within the next Education and Science, in a few weeks, could deal a death· latter to the University Grants blow to student unions at Committee and to the Council The End of EUSA NUS: unlversltle1 and polytechnics for Local Authorities in "If by Christmas the government has all over Great Britain. England. not, at least, agreed to a deferment, then It Massive cuts in the level of Student learned of the funds to be made available to government's plans, which as We Know It? Is planned to start the New Year with student unions, and the are due to come into ,effect in direct action on a large scale. abolition of composite fees as the 1981-82 session, from abolition of the composite fee NUS (Scotland) wp_o are as the source of that income, already planning a vigorous are among the drastic campaign of opposition to the measures outlined this week scheme. JOHN STURROCK: "The government seems unwilling to The Implications consider the range of facilities we provide At present, each student of this university pays a composite and the running costs borne by us. As far fee of £65 per annum, the sum total of which represents the i as action Is concerned, I feel that NUS amount of money available to the Students' Association for the 1 The Proposals have fallen far short of what one would (·' Abolition of the composite fee of £65 per financing of its activities. Under the DES's proposals, this· expect of a national union In falling to independent method of funding is to be abolished. Instead, the oppose these proposals strongly from the student per year as the Union's source of government intends to raise the money by increasing tuition outset. However, co-ordinated national Income. fees, using the additional revenue as the source of student unions' income. action is vital now."' Its replacement by an "add-on" to tuition fees Tuition fees are, of cours~e, paid to the Lfniversity authorities - paid to the university - of £32 per student and not, as was the case with the composite fee, to the local per year. authorities. As long as the composite fee remained as the Resultant cuts In Union funds of at least 50' union's sour.ce of income, the money was automatically guaranteed and handed back to the Association to use as it saw per cent. flt. But now this financial autonomy, so proudly cherished, T·HE looks to be at an end. In future, the Students' Association will have to go cap-in­ HIMALAYAN hand to the University authorities to get its money at the start of each academic year. And it will have to compete with every SHOP other component part of the University - departme_nts, libraries, health and welfare services - for its share of the 97 Canongate University's recurrent grant. No longer, by right, .will the Association receive sufficient funds to maintain its present Edinburgh (Tel. 556 9514) provision of services. To make matters worse, the government's calculations have produced a figure for student unions' financial requirements that is less than half the present level! More precisely, the proposed addition to tuition fees for 1981-82 will be a mere £32 per student at 1979 prices (compare: £65 composite fee). What this means in the case of Edinburgh University Students' Association is an annual shortfall somewhere in the region of GREY AND WHITE YAK- WOOL £300,QQQI JACKETS FROM NEPAL Jeanne Free·man, chairman of NUS (Scotland}, claims that Prices from £22.50 the statistics which the DES have employed in their calculations are widely inaccurate. Their estimates of student union requirements are based on figures from a 1977-78survey, and COLOURED JACKETS from £15 have been calculated by dividing the total fund for all establishments by the total student population, including those not funded by public bodies. As a result, the estimate which MANY OTHER BARGAINS they arrive at falls far short of meeting the unions' real needs. The Education Department's wish to implement these 10% DISCOUNT GIVEN proposals within the next 12 months is regarded as practically o: impossible. TO STUDENTS 11 et WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? by IAIN JOHN DEARY lo,

"Intelligence can at last be measured by the methods of 1atural science -It Is not just a mythical or abstract thing." This . re lation between IQ and IT as described above, my main 1uotatlon was made by Professor Hans Eysenck earlier this concern was to explore the possibilities of using sounds in stead ,ear and captures the excitement felt by many workers In the of visually presented lines to measure Inspection Time. My leld of Intelligence research at the present time. ideas were eventually realised. with considerable help from the Tests of general intelligence - IQ tests - have come in for technicians in the Psychology Electronics Department, in the nuch criticism. They are said to be culture-based, in that their form of a machine which we called a "' tachistophone". This :ontent is said to put some cultural and social groups at a machine is capable of presenting tones for as little as 3 jjsadvantage; they are said to measure nothing milliseconds. The subject hears two tones, one after the other, 'psychologically real"; and critics of IQ tests have always been which differ markedly in pitch. All the subject is required to do is it great pains to emphasise the fact that those psychologists state which of the two tones was higher in pitch; the length of Nho defend IQ tests cannot offer a widely accepted definition of time for which the subject hears the tones is controlled by the 'intellig8nce" experimenter. This exploratory study has found that IT for Fbr these reasons, and many more, the aim of psychologists tones has the same strong relation to IQ as IT in the visual 'or almost a century has been to develop a test of intelligence sense. Future studies will be required to confirm this finding. Nhich involves a basic physiological measure that can be seen We are still a long way from the point when tests of IT will o tap a "real" difference between individuals. Recent work replace conventional 10 tests, lT has still to be standardised and Jeing carried out by psychologists working independently in tested on large populations of subjects, but the advantages of _ondon, California and Edinburgh seems to offer the such a test make further research a matter of high priority in .1, ;onclusion that individual difference in intelligence reflect psychology. If IT does underly individual differences in intelligence then such an intelligence test would appeal to be lifferences in people's "mental speed". Photo by Jim Clark. Although it is the Edinburgh work on which I will concentrate, completely culture-fair; it is beyond my ingenuity to come up Pei with an ethnic minority (or majority} who would be at a 1 brief consideration of the work in the other two centres is fan Deary tests Mr David .Wight, Chief Electronics Technician in nformative in that the techniques used are different from, but' Psychology, on the "tachisrophone" which he uses to measure mental disadvantage in the extremely easy discriminations that are ;omplementary to, those used in Edinburgh. speed. required in the IT test. Secondly, the fact that subjects cannot improve their IT with practice means that a subject can be Professor Hans Eysenck is at present the head of a team who test is not a measure of how quickly a person can respond - he repeatedly tested on IT - this is not possible with conventional ue measuring the relation between a person's "brain-waves" is allowed as long as he likes to answer - because the IQ tests since subjects will merely remember the answers. (the electrical activity of a person's brain in response to a very controlled variable is the amount of time the subject sees the Repeated testing might be used for monitoring the effect of a ;imple stimulus such as hearing a click) and their measured IQ two lines for and thus IT is a measure of how quickly a person brain tumour on intellectual function; such screening over time ;core. The finding has been that a person who scores higher on takes in information. In my own study a person with an IQ of 135 might also be indicated for people such as airline pilots whoSe Q tests has a more complex pattern of brain-waves - the needed only 20 milliseconds to identify, accurately, the spatial performance at work relies upon adequate intelligence, ::orrelation between IQ and brain-wave complexity is strong ·position of two lines differing in length by 2.4 cm while a person md the results are highly statistically significant. Professor especially if this can be viewed as "information pocessing whose IQ was 73 needed 100 milliseconds to perform the same speed" \rthur Jensen and his co-workers in California have found task to the same degree of accuracy. Thirdly, the tests are so easy, and require such minimal nore modest, but still significant, correlations between a The IT measure was conceived by psychologists at the instruction to the subject, that people of very low IQ find no ,arson's IQ and reaction time. The reaction time which University of Adelaide in Australia. Their first report of a near­ :>rofessor Jensen measures is called "choice reaction time"; in perfect correlation between IT and IQ was spotted by Chris difficulty in catching on to the principle of the test. Lastly, IT tests offer the possibility of cheap, repeatable mass testing of his test the subject has to push a button when one of a variable Brand, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Edinburgh. intelligence which may find application in educational work. ,umber of lights in an array is switched on. This test is Under the supervision of Mr Brand, psychology I hope this quick tour through the current research into the ,xtremely simple but measures more than the quickness of a undergraduates have carried out research projects which have psychology of intelligence has convinced the reader that the >arson's motor response in that he has to decide which light has developed the IT measure and its relation to IQ. More studies area is very much alive; and to those whose criticisms of IQ tests lashed and then press a button appropriate to the correct light. have also been carried out in Australia and when the average are based on the traditional paper-and-pencil style of test I Although these tests offer possibilities for a physiological correlation of IT and IQ is calculated for all studies to the would offer the above as a coherent body of work which neasure of intelligence, it is the work being carried out in present day the figure obtained is -.76 (-1.0 equals perfect strongly indicates that intelligence has a real basis in the ::dinburgh which is yielding -the most encouraging evidence correlation, 0.0 represents no correlation} an unusually high functioning of the nervous system and is by no means "a hat mental speed is the basis of intelligence. The test used in figure in psychological research. Not only have no studies mythical or abstract thing". The well-known aphorism that :dinburgh is a meaSure of a person's Inspection Time (IT), disconfirmed the strong relation between intelligence and the "intelligence is wh_at intelligence tests measure" (coined 1hich is measured as follows. Using a machine which can simple perceptual measure known as IT, the same relation appropriately by a psychologist named Boring) can be ·' ': resent visual stimuli for very short, exact periods of time (a between IT and IQ has been found to exist in four-year-old tentatively replaced by "intelligenc_f;"!_ is mental speed". 1chistoscope) the subject is shown two parallel lines which children - this suggests that adult differences in IT are not For those whose appetite has been whetted ey the above, a lifter markedly in length; IT is the shortest ffuration ol "learned" and has implications for the nature-nurture iresentation at which the subject can accurately tell whether controversy in intelligence. much fuller account of the current research and its implications he longer line was on the right (or left) of the shorter line. The can be found in Intelligence and Learning, .M. Friedman et al Although my own research with Chris Brand confirmed the (eds.), New York : Plenum . \ ______Rock 5

'ROCK AROUND THE CASTLE' -contd.

·•• Well, here it is folks, the final instalment of this tedious epic. such released a debut EP last year ("You're a Rebel"; "OK Let's environment of their own making, oblivious tO th~ concrete ,; Without further ado we'll launch straight into the Whips who hail Go"; "Run, Run, Run"). After being labelled one of the city's circle of housing estates which surround " beautiful" ,.1 from nearby Haddington and North Berwick. Quite exhilarating most promising bands, they w!)nt through a transitional period Edinburgh. In other words, The Exploited bring the class and '1 to watch live, they have just released their debut single on when Shaking Stephen left, the rest made cosmetic changes to culture confrontation to your front door. However, it seems to Flying Head butt's records. It's a "3" tracker, with the two tracks their names and, basically, nothing happened. Now, a year me that they are in a dilemma which they don't seem to realise: on the 'B' side, ''I'm Not Sure"/"Nationwide", impressing more later, as a reactivated four-piece, Pak have released a single, e.g. there is an obvious contradiction between their name than their rather bland "Walking in Circles" 'A' side. The intro to "Balinese Dance". Quite melodic with some nice drooling (conjuring up images of the oppressed and downtrodden etc.) "I'm Not sure" is remarkably similar to the Young Marble Giants' vocals, it is mildly effective but not startling. The 'B' side, "Sex and their persistence in wearing Swastika armbands. In the past "Final Day", whilst the whole song is remarkably slow-paced for Cult Thing", is a better song, if only for its unusualness. It's they have defended themselves by feebly saying that they only this outfit. "Nationwide" is probably the best thing they do, the pedantic, droopy beat builds up towards a fast pick-up near the wear the above because it is a symbol of hard-core punk; seems · lyrics are certainly the best they've come up with so far - "A end fading with innumerable repetitidns of the title to its end. to me that usage of the Hammer and Sickle would be more ~, modern-day tragedy/ A technicolour nausea Gently Pak could be worth remembering if you can overcome the appropriate. ~it{ seducing your imagination" is how the programme and its difficulties which initial listening bring. Anyway, skipping the sociology bit, we are still left with room ~~. workings are described. The 'A' side has a good driving force Also worthy of some attention are R 'n' B band the Mudsharks. 1 for a music critique. The Exploited's de but single on their own ~ which is what the Whips are all about, but "Walking in Circles" Dave Robertson, who achieved a near cult status with his former record label came out in July (the next one, "Army Barmy Life" ~ ·\relies too much on the chorus; a weak one at that. band, the Valves, fronts the group. Two other bands I've heard is out this week), and its style and content, especially the "Fuck . ~ One Edinburgh band who seem to have a very enigmatic of but (yet again!) have never seen are Random Factor and the Mods" track on the 'B' side, soon put them to the forefront of •I~ future are the Scars. At times praised by the press, and ridiculed Matrix. Rumours are nasty about the former whilst concerning the butt of the British punk movement. The 'A' side, "Army Life", t· by sections of music lovers, the Scars infuriate by reaching the latter all I can say is that you should have been at Chambers is basically a retrospective look at this side of life through the musical heights and then plunging you into gloom, all in the Street last Saturday night 'cos they were playing there. If you eyes of vocalist Wattie - at least he should know, since he space of two songs. If you want to hear how good they can be, weren't at the Health Centre on Friday night you missed an "signed away his youth" and joined the Brits. "Fuck the Mods" is then have a listen to their "Adult/ery/ Horrorshow" single, which above-average gig and a few interesting characters called Theo very much to the point to say the least, it incites and even came out in '79 on Fast. But, though no favourites of mine, th~ Pants and Bax, who are on vocals/synth and drums respectively justifies (glorifies?) violence against Innocents and no matter ,scars are at least better than the Prats, whose boyish attempts for their "twisted jazz-rock" band Bake. They've an LP out in the what your opinion about Mods, that to me is just out of order. on vi nyl have failed miserably. new year called "Black Pig" which will be on their own Hope these three articles have been of use to you, my only Although it's really good to see three young teenagers in a Clementine record label. Could be interesting. regret is that I hadn't seen every band mentioned 'cos only first­ band who have achieved some degree of national recognition All this, alas, brings us to the close of this tedious epic. hand knowledge is admissable when you're tryir,g to pass l\ (they signed to Rough Trade). their first recordings on Fast's However, before you think you've got off lightly, words will be judgement. · " Ears:om I" left a lot to be desired. Their recent "1990s Pop EP" gurgitated on this page concerning Edinburgh's favourite sons Rab Stevenson was quite entertaining but there is a large question over their - The Exploited. I don't really know what to think of this lot, future and especially Greg Maguire's vocal ability. they do shock people. although it would be fair to say that those Pak as they are now known, were formerly Metropak, and as who are shocked mostly live in a nice. preconditioned

I~'. KILLING JOKE/BOOTS FOR DANCING Student Centre, Friday

A largish crowd of punks, most noticeable thing about absolute killer of a debut, and I Jathered outside Potterrow this band on stage are the inevitably enjoyed them live, '' ,n Friday night, begging antics of vocalist Da ve too. ;tudents to buy tickets and Carso n , who continually They played the whole , :ign them into this gig. Their contorts himself and stares album, plus " Psyche" and ,armless presence evoked an wildly ahead while attempting "Change". Their heavy, heavy mhealthy degree of paranoia to pin the audience to the dance mus ic has been i·~ 1mo ng Student Centre ground with his highly­ described as "ramming your :omm,ttee members, who pitched voice. He is very like guts like a caber", but I find ih narched about grimly, the controversial leader of just blows your mind and tears ~xclai ming "One of them's got Athletico Spizz '80 and he can your head off. The best songs, 1 meat cleaver!" Killing Joke expect all the slagging the live, were " Bloodsport", an ,_., 1ttract, 'it seems, a lot of Spizz gets, and more. instrumental where light '. Jeople who dress uncon­ Havi ng hit a low point with synthesizer effects work on a :i ,entionally. So what? The real something calied " Hesitate", driving rhythm with devastat­ _.:,roblem lies in the Student they fought back well , earning ing effect, and " Primitive", -:entre licensing rules, which an encore with the final which just epitomises their ry to keep the public out of p lanned song, " Pleasure work; very heavy, rock solid 'our" gigs and so create a lot Chant" However, I didn't hear drums and bass supporting Jf unnecessary friction. anything on Friday which the most furious guitar in the Boots for Dancing pulled placed Boots for Dancing out coun·try ( not a punk thrash - nost of those present away of the ordinary - the new but like Andy Gill of Gang of ·rom the bar with their guitarist, when he arrives, will Four at his infrequently Jpen ing number called , have to bring some new ideas attained best), and the flexible Jelieve it or not, " Boots for with him. vocals of Youth (bassist) and "~ Janci ng " . The pun chy, Killing Joke tracks have Jaz (keyboards). Many of the '. Janceable rhythm on that been the highlight of many a audience wanted to dance, .,--_ ;ong is what th is band is all John Peel show over the and as tends to happen at the ··,_ ,bout. They don't appear to summer, and the chance to Student Centre, quite a crush great night, but I suspect the unique insight on reality true! : ,., 1ave found a stable line-u p,, get their de but album and see developed at the front, even some of the less committed, which Killing Joke's music Colin Macllwaln --, 1et, wi th Jo Callis (front man them live in the same week though the place was on seeing the punk mayhem at offers. And if that sounds like Nith the excellent Shake) excited me a great deal. Well, nowhere near full. the front, thought of the UK something from Pseud' s 5tand ing in on guitar. The the album was astounding, an So the band's fans had a Subs, and closed their ears to Corner then I'm sorry, but it's

Crass/Poison Girls -Nite Club _· ... telephones, opera house, strutting bass. The bulk of the vocalist Steve Ignorant often showing on two TV sets. The that, considering the size nothing in stock/That never :~; favourite melodies. set consisted of material not being lost in a plexus of lead threat is Armageddon. The limitations and the inevitable seem to end / Everyone' s ~ Wh enever I've been to listen yet available on vinyl, guitar, rhythm, bass, drums, message is Anarchy and eardrum explosion, the mix' always staring at each other/ ,; to Poison Girls per!otm live, I although the group did play and backing "radio noises". Peace. Fight Wars, Not Wars, was of good quality; the But no one speaks a word! ~, usually ~ind myself rhythmic- two numbers from the Ignorant also loses pace. destroy power, not people, vocals being audible from Good lyrics which could be • '. ally plodding around the floor. esoterically acclaimed EP The lyrics become inco­ , enola hallo. both bands. great if the band were · ',(Others may pogo, I plod.) But " Hex" - namely "Jump Mama herent. or simply don't come. Steven Corton The Gas were a tight three­ ,musically original but, alas, :~_ after several minutes I Jump" and "The Old Tart's It doesn't matter. This is a piece who, like The Chords, this is where they fall down. f, invariably revert back to a Song". The familiar guitanr band live. The energy of the are r.eally an angry version of badly. .<1 totally inert stance transfixed riff from a very early track, group is infectious. Incredibly The Jam! They drove, Unfortunately ,they are a -:,',. by th e enthralling sight and " Piano Lessons" , also stimulating. A complete The Chords thumped and chanted their_ victim/prisoner of their own ,,·sound of the group. V1 cropped up in part of another throbbing, thrashing, lashing, Heriot-Watt way through a moderately line - "Nothing new ever <";' Subversa's scathing voice number. The precise titles of psasmodic, vehement energy; well-received set but one happens here". Live, they only :;'> grates and grinds, and the other songs, save an erratic, rampant, immedi-. Neither university in which seemed to have no reached heights on their --ii seemi ngly personifies the "Chappaquidick Bridge", are ate visual and audible manna. Edinburgh has a venue good innovation; the songs Were singles such as "Something's :· ::=>;creech of a young, taut not known to me and so it's Ignorant shouts the message, enough for the total enjoy­ much the same and much of a Missing", "In My Street" anc , -·: ·,ymen being scorched by the best to distinguish them by contrasting wit~ the stunning ment of a "name" band by muchness. Their debut single, their powerful protest song quasi-operatic vocals from " Maybe Tomorrow". Some­ · lhurst of a napalm infested the chorus from each one. 1 anything like capacity which is released at the end o1 .-,:. ohallus. The rape of the world "You're So Other" included Eve Libertine - most audiences. Heriot-Watt has a this month and was the first how I doubt it. ~;~r JY the "clever men" who rule it the acutely fluctuating pitch prominent on "Nagasaki choice of inadequacy in this number, summed their Rab Stevensot :/Jand "your rock and roll')? of Richard Famous's vocal Nightmare" and "Shaved respect - one si (ght?)te is at musical "category" up nicely ~'.i "This is a message to persons whilst "Take Control of Your Women": " In all your Riccarton Campus, which is ... "It Shows in Your Face" ·:. ,1onknown/persons in hi(/ing, Rock and Roll " induced a decadence people die". too far out of town for most was a mixture of The Jam ·:-:' Jersons unknown/. ./Sur­ spate of frantic plodding! from Included ;'n the set are punters to be bothered about. circa "Tube Station" and :·_~: 1ival is silence, isn't good the audience. Other such "System", " Do They Owe Us a The other, and I wouldn't like Protex to a tee. Unless you're Next Week: The ~/ 1nough no more ... " Where titles plucked from the amps Living", "So What", a most to make the choice ... aargh, mod-mad, give them a miss. Forgotten Man of the '.:./ 'he lyrics lapse, the guitars included "I'm Just a Big stringently anti-church/Christ is slap in the city centre - Whatever you think of The 'New Wave'. ~-,.:,,.. Genetic Disease", "Bully song - "So what if the master Grindlay Street Union, just off Chords there is no doubt that \ifhe lyrics lapse, the guitars Boys", and the haunting walked on the water/ Don't see Lothian Road. Unfortunately, they are a socially aware band i ~(.' lnd drums continue. Sub­ ·"Looking through a Hole in him trying to stop the it's mostly a dump; rumours who write some succinct stuff. ,i-"·.~ ,ersa's right arm resonates the Wall", w_ell furnished by slaughter". that the basement venue "British Way of Life" is one 1f~'.l'iercely. Richard Famous the repetitive, hypnotic vocal The show was com­ could be a darkened glass­ such song and one hell of a ·~; ntricately carves sound from from Aebours. The entire set plemented by the vivid house or an excuse for a fall­ good way of opening a gig. ,;,;:,,: he lead. Various heads was passionately conveyed. performance of two mono­ out shelter may be well "Dirty shops hide dirty 1; i ,ibrate to De Boyle's drums. Crass played their music logues by a lady unknown, founded. Enough with this dreams/Of hate for your best f~f 2nd _ Bernhardt Rebour·s· extremely loud, the lead - and various film items venue fixation except to say friend/dirty shops with /:;' 6 Feature Now You See it, Now You Don't

As Is easily noticeable to those of us with lectures late enough So where does the University claw its way into this elegant In the day to permit open-eyed walking, somelhlng quite big little picture? The University - or, as it was then known, the must have happened a few years back. Buccleuch Place has "Tounis College" - was formed in 1583, on the site where the one-and-a-half sides of old houses - and half a side of Old College now stands. This fine building was built in 1789, Manhattan skyline. and as late as 1889 still had to accommodate most of the While, on a dusky evening, it's just possible to imagine University's departments, and it was not until after the First .Charles Darwin strolling into Teviot for a bottle of Pils, it would World War that any sort of mass exodus took place. Nowadays, take a gargantuan imagination to visualise him doing the same it is the centre of University administration, the Law Faculty and thing in the Student Centre. Teviot's old, Potterrow's new. The the Centre of European Governmental Studies. This, then, was George Square complex of the David Hume Tower, AdanJ the root of the University, right beside Potterrow, George Ferguson Building, William Robertson Building, Appleton Square and on Chambers Street. Tower and Library were all constructed in the sixties - the Student Centre was still being built in 1973. What went on before that? Where were the faculties housed say 30 years ago, and what was the place like before the bulldozers? Residences TtTis part of town - like South Side or Old Town - has a history daling back to 1513. After lhe Battle of Flodden, a wall was built around the town of Ed inburgh which ran from To complement the new faculty buildings, and to keep pace Greyfriars, along the side of what is now the Old College, and 1,-1 \ J=::::..l-~--'~ ~w.i with increasing University intake, more accommodation space along the line of Drummond Street. The only thing outside the was required. Pollock Halls site, at Salisbury Green, was wall was a road - dirt-track - leading into the city via a gate or donated by Sir Donald Pollock in 1948 - work began ·port' called the Potterrow Port. The top of lhe cobbled lane immediately on Fraser and Holland Houses and was completed which leads from the Student Centre to Chambers Street (West in 1973 with Cowan House. Pollock played host to the athletes College Street) was the site of this port, one of the most participating in the Commonwealth Games in 1970 at important entrances to the city. The old road, which has been The latest in University planning- N. Side of George Sq. Edinburgh - the games which were definitely responsible for called Potterrow since the late 15th century, is still there, Photo: Simon Allen the Commonwealth Pool, and probably responsible for the somewhere underneath the new ring road which sweeps round most elaborate insurance office in Britain, beside it. The halls the Union. emotion which the University ran ·into headlong when they are built within the shadow of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury made clear their intention of developing the Square on a large Crags, so, once again, rules governing height, design etc. had scale. The- resulting controversy raged, with intermissions, for to be adhered to in order to prevent a clash with the natural more than ten years. In the end, the University gained the point, beauty of their surroundings. and the wreckers moved in. It is easy to see the protester's point Another of the University's successes can be seen in the The Square - the destruction of the first Square in Edinburgh, where Sir Royal Mile - indeed, it may be a measure of how great a Walter Scott spent his childhood, was - to them - the success it is to say that it cannot be seen unless it is looked for, destruction and obliteration of a remnant of the Golden Age of so well does it blend in with other old buildings. It is Mylne's The University's link with George Square goes back to the Edinburgh, an age which made the world's eyes turn to this city Court, in the Lawnmarket; very close to the Castle itself. This middle of the 19th century, when the houses were used to make with its poets, painters, writers and scholars; the period which building dates back to 1690, when Robert Mylne - the King's residences for the professors, after the University acquired gave the city the name it still bears today, of the "Athens of,the Master Mason - had the idea of designing an open square property on the SQl,lare. Apart from the rebuilding of the north North". In any case, the days of cheap upkeep of large houses which would admit both li ght and air, which the haphazard side of the Square in 1876, the entire scheme was intact when such as the ones in George Square soon passed. By the time the jungle of buildings in the narrow closes almost entirely the University took it over. As late as 1936 a commentator had University put their redevelopment plans forward, the proper eliminated. Mylne's Court is the result and, at the time of its written : maintenance of such houses was beginning to be beyond the erection, was one of the most fashionable parts of town. The " There is one place in Edinburgh where the ghosts of the resources of those who wished to live there, and there was a University completed adaptation and restoration in 1970, 18th century could return in the dusk of a winter's very real danger that the area would degenerate into an making two Halls of Residence - Philip Henman and Edward afternoon, and feel themselves perfectly at home. That assembly of ramshackle, third-rate houses or offices. Salvesen - out of the court. The Mylne's Court project place is George Square, which retains all the peace and The extension to the medical buildings was the first to go up constitutes a fine piece of adaptation - from a palatial dignity of an age of wigs and cravats, hooped dresses and in the early fifties, and after this, development continued until residence for one of the very rich , to a comfortable home for sedan chairs. " 1970, when the Adam Ferguson Building was completed. An hundreds of the reasonably poor - and conservation, in It was this kind of feeling of deep nostalgia anq strong objective judgement of the University's success in keeping the architecture and overall structure intact. redevelopment is evidenced by the fact that a Civic Trust Award Alan Cameron ;.~:v~~;~:~~~ 0~nG~~~g~~~~~s)!Y in 1969 in respect of its 1 '1;/"~l ~\ The Student Centre Phases I and Ill were erected in the late ~fi \.1 \ sixties/early seventies in the most central location possible. The S S ·~ ~ architecture of this construction complements the McEwan ~ Hall opposite and the Old College behind. Phase II (two), by the .\' way, Is supposed to be a new sports centre to replace the ageing I \ \ Pleasance, but this scheme seems to have run into difficulty. .. All University development in the Central Edinburgh area is in accordance with the plan of the Comprehensive Development,, . i~"~ area of the city. Buildings have height and volume regulations 'I ,~ enforced upon them, to preserve and even improve the skyline~ ~ \ . o, ~, ... ,,~.~~:;·~·~~:::;;"· : ,~~ §

As time went on and overcrowding in the walled city became t,~(; more acute, people moved beyond the walls to the then open , ~ spaces between the Cowgate and Arthur's Seat. One / en~erprising ind!vidual purchased a square field near the city,~ ~.• built ho_uses on ,t an_d sold them off to those with the money to I ~.. f buy._ Witness the birth of George Square in 1766, the new, fas~•?nable home of gentry. George Square flourished unt_il the dr~1rnng of the Nor' Loch (which used to occupy what is now Princes Street Gardens, the building of the North Bridge, and the consequent construction of the New Town. A glance at any moder~ map of Edin~urgh ~ill show the haphazard jumble of I streets in the South Side which halts abruptly at Princes Street, to be c~ntrasted to the meticulously planned, crossword-puzzle regularity of the roads and streets in the north side of the city. George Square, in one way the precursor of the planned New Tow~. suffered as its popularity as the fashionable address de_clrned. The surrounding streets - Potterrow, Lothian Street, Br'.sto Street - were described even in the 18th century as being "~ull, plai_n and grey", and seemingly George Square shone like the Jewel of the South Side. The Potterrow in particular; attained a reputation for sleaze and low-life t~ng before the Student Centre gave a whole new dimension to the phras_e .. . it is reported, also, that when George Square was at / its height of fashionable popularity, the gentlemen were not loth Th8 Old and th8 New. Photo: Simon Allen to slip up there for an evening's entertainment at a hostelry run o# by a h_ighly suspect old woman called Mrs Flockhart. It sounded DHT threatens Buccleuch Place? Photo: Simon Allen anything but "dull, plain and grey". Politics 7

"OK, send the next one in. Come in, sit down, make Reagan himself is the product of a hard-drinking Irish­ yourself comfortable. Tell us something about yourself. What Catholic father and a Bible-thumping Anglo-Scot Protestant makes you the most suitable candidate, Mr Reagan?" mother. His humour - in private he is fond of the ethnic jokes WHO THE HELL What indeed? Given that Ronald Reagan could be the next which have occasionally slipped out to the detriment of his President of the United States it would be as well to know public image - derives from his father; his puritanism bears the something of the background of this born-again Christian mark of his mother. His two wives represent a startling contrast IS THIS GUY, Moralist. For a man who has been around for nearly 70 years, to each other, though each is strong-willed and possesses a Reagan has kept a remarkably low profile, and this in a country fiery temper. They do no get on; Nancy is a no-nonsense social which tends to regard its politicians as conterminous with moral climber whose chief mission in life appears to be to stick corruptness and mental inadequacy. That in itself is no mean constantly to Ronnie's side to caution him when momentary ANYWAY? achievement. exuberance might lead him to put his foot in his mouth. Once at He manages to convince even the most cynical observers that a press conference when Reagan was about to compound some he is a highly moral, honest and purposeful man. His message is nonsensical statement about marijuana being "one of the most a throwback to the Carter homily of 1976: "Ah just want a dangerous drugs", Nancy was heard to whisper to him "You country as good, honest, decent as are the American people." wouldn't know." Well, Jimmy _didn't quite make it, but Ronnie now promises to lead all Americans to what he calls "the shinin.9 city upon the hill". Reagan's inherent promise is to solve America's problems Perhaps it was the government that was without additional sacrifice, without adding to its burdens - be responsible for his younger daughter Patti they taxes or the draft. Perhaps there has been too much change, too fast, with too few good results. American citizens running away to England with a member of are becoming desperate and Reagan plays to that: he has been The Eagles in 1976... . ra iling against permissiveness, Big Government and Communism for more than 20 years. He often launches into invective about the Federal Government "destroying the American family" Nobody seems to bother about what such Nancy, though is totally devoted to her husband, and gives comments are supposed to mean. him the support he requires. Jane Wyman, on the other hand, One of Reagan 's favourite crowd-stirring tactics is to lam bast told the divorce court in 1948 that she and Reagan engaged in Federal Government intervention in all aspects of American life: continual arguments over his political views. Reagan at the time "Just who do they think they are?" he repeats over and over in was president of the Screen Actors Guild, and insisted on his his campaign speeches. Just who "they'' are is about as clear as wife's support, despite the fact that she did not agree with his just who he himself is. ideas. It was at Hollywood that Reagan developed his fervid anti­ Communist views, and these were compounded while he was Governor of California by the campus disturbances at Berkeley over the Vietnam war. He threatens to bring to the American Well, it's not Ronnie Reagan . . star-prize to the first reader to presidency the simplistic and direct standpoint that ring ten differences between this man and our hero on the For a man who has been around for nearly 70 Communism is godless and its practitioners are monsters. His front cover. view is stated clearly in his autobiography: "We are faced with years, Reagan has kept a remarkably low the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from profile, and this in a country which tends to the swamps to the stars." regard its politicians as conterminous with Reagan delights in attempts to belittle: he termed civil rights He sticks to the simple slogans because to activists "irresponsible militants"; he _derided environmentalists moral corruptness and mental inadequacy. by saying "A tree's a tree - how many more do we need to look venture into discussions of greater at?"; he commented on the university system that "the State complexity can and does prove should not subsidise intellectual curiosity''. embarrassing.

Ronnie is highly sanctimonious about the slack moral There is no scandal surrounding Ronald Reagan. He clearly is standards afflicting American youth today: "Whatever ... he commented on the university system a sincere man who really believes in what he says. In this lies the happened to just saying 'No'?" he demands. Perhaps he really that "the state should not subsidise potential danger. One can only hope that, as in his period of does believe that premarital and extramarital sex is due to intellectual curiosity". governorship, he will find the realities of being President rather governments "breaking up the family". Perhaps it was the different to the bombastic pronouncements which have Government that broke up his marriage with actress Jane characterised his seeming conception of the role. As Governor Wyman 32 years ago (although she testified in court that the of California, Reagan was known as a "9-5" man, who had no real reason was his attempts to subordinate her interests to his great desire to take problems home with him in the evenings; he In his gubernatorial campaign in California he promises to political preoccupations). Perhaps it was the Government that tended to demand - and get - one-page synopses of any was responsible for his younger daughter Patti running away to "squeeze. and cut and trim until we reduce the cost of pressing problems. That such an approach is not wholly England with a member of The Eagles in 1976, and not letting government". In fact, he signed two separate billion-dollar tax satisfactory for the President of the United States surely cannot her parents know where she was ·(although it might have been increases that were the highest in the state's history. His eight be lost even on him. Whatever his approach, though, it seems years as governor were summed up thus by the Los Angeles something to do with Reagan's rigid refusal to let the musician clear that immense responsibility will be laid firmly at the door Times: "Government plays a larger role in the life of every into the house). of his back-up staff, and his choice thereof assumes vital The point being made here is simply that the Reagan family Californian today than it did eight years ago .. . . The cost of importance. Reagan 's track record with regard to staff has suffered from its own share of problems such as divorce, government ... has more than doubled." appointments hardly inspires confidence: as Governor he generational revolt and conflicting morality. In fact, the Reagan In fact, Reagan's fiery campaign rhetoric had to give way to sacked two state officials merely on the strength of a suspicion campaign does not like to mention his children: they do not realistic compromise once installed as California's governor, that they were homosexual; during his campaign for the though his insistence on sticking to erroneous facts in his correspond to the plastic normality Ronnie has been pushing all Republican nomination this year to disagree with the man these years . All four Reagan kids dropped out of college against campaign speeches is undiminished. It seems clear that meant to risk instant dismissal from his staff; his vacillation at their par:,ents' wishes. The eldest, Maureen, became an actress Reagan is far more effective as a demagogic speaker than he the convention over the. appointment of a running mate and is now an organiser for the ERA (Equal rights Amendment), would be as a head of state. He suffers from a sense of social displayed an alarming inability to make a decision at a critical and intellectual inferiority. He mispronounces the names of which was denied a platform at the Republican convention. moment, thus undermining the position of his eventual choice, world leaders and gets countries in the wrong hemispheres. He Elder son Michael races boats and sells gasohol. Patti (27) is a George Bush. rock musician, and Ronald , Jr., (22) left Yale after a year to was unaware of who Giscard d'Estaing is until earlier this year. When all is said and done, though, the 1980 campaign will be become a ballet dancer. He sticks to simple slogans because to venture into discussions looked back upon as one of the most boring in history. When the His children, in fact, are an embarrassment to the campaign. of greater complexity can and does prove embarrassing. issues discussed degenerate to questions of whether a The younger two are not campaigning for their father, and while Reagan is happiest with his straightforward attacks against Christian God hears Jewish prayers, and to doubts as to the the older two are actively supportive of his candidacy, they have detente, and his warnings of the Russian threat. In this, his validity of Darwin's theory of evolutiQ/1, one cannot but wonder both joked about the campaign staff's wanting to have some credibility was immeasurably aided by Jimmy Carter's absurd whether Reagan and Carter are in the right race. Born-again contention that Afghanistan represented the greatest crisis little kids sent over from central casting to complete the Christians they both may be, but the Presidency of the United since World War Two. This was all Reagan needed to back up campaign portrait. The campaign also likes it kept quiet that his States is no chair of theology ... will the real contestants please his rhetoric. SALT was all wrong, detente was a big hoax, wife Nancy produced a seven-pound baby girl just seven-and­ stand up? a-half months after their wedding. Communism is a godless evil. Paul Heywood

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All applications should be received by Midday on Friday, 24th October S10lEN and should be addressed to jewellery makes you feel THE CHAIRMAN, even better E.U.S.P.B., 3 GREYFRIARS PLACE. 031-225 4881. 1 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh. 8 Arts Bent Little Lyceum Theatre Until 8th Nov. The nature of theatre is concentration camp, he essentially a dialogue masquerades 8.s a Jew. between the playwright and The second part of the play ~.;..-.~-_,11, his audie-nce. When the is set against one of the most production is a pantomime recurrent settings in litera- · that dialogue takes the form of ture. The prison has been acosychat. Bent,however, by · used metaphorically or the very subject matter of the otherwise in works ranging play, threatened to do much from Graham Greene's "The more than that. Power and the Glory" to Bent is a play about homo- Dylan's "All Along the Watch­ sexuals and homosexuality tower". The Dachau set was set against the background of most impressive, with the Nazi Germany. No longer safe spectacular and foreboding after the murder of Ernst electric fence oozing tragic Roehm by Hitler's SS, inevitability and the marble homosexuals were hounded, floor of Max's sumptuous victimisedandtreatedassub- Berlin apartment now human. Today, as Sherman I ironically the stark rock am sure is suggesting, surface where the prisoners indicates that he doesn't love audience's mind. homos ex u a Is are s t i 11 monotonously shift rocks the people he has intercourse This is a powerful theatre regarded as subhuman by from one pile to another. with and as he himself says, production. It is not, to be much of society. The audience is left to "Queers aren't supposed to sure, for those whose heart The main character, Max decide to whom the title is love." could be doing with a (Chris Mathews), is arrested referring and why. Is it Max Or is Sherman not referring transplant nor for those with by the Gestapo along with his and his friend Horst with to the Gestapo in his title? moral scruples (whatever they dancer friend Rudy (Pau l whom he enjoys a sexual Might not their ~ sadistic, are ). It is, though, a superb McCleary). His crime is being experience while standing hedonistic desire to inflict play, professionally per­ a homosexual. In order to apart from each other in pain on others be regarded as formed and brilliantly directed avoid being treated as the Dachau. Max's inatJility to "Bent"? This is the internal by Leslie Lawton. lowest of the low in Dachau remember his making love debate that takes place in the Andrew Datgtlesh Eric Schilsky

Eric Schilsky died in torso with a relaxed leg Ed inburgh in 1974, at the age stance. This sculpture is of 76. Between 1945-69 he was priced at £2,300. head of the School of A later portrait bust, Patricia Sculpture, Edinburgh College (1950), of gilded bronze, is of Art. successful because of its There are 44 exhibits by passivity. There is a strong Schilsky on display, the sculptural sense in this work; majority of which are for sale. the form of the head has been Schilsky confined himself grasped in its entirety, to the human figure. The modelled as a whole. works show no liking for "Every work of art is a self­ Stephen Donaldson narrative and little interest in portrait of the creator," wrote movement except, perhaps, in Schilsky, and it is interesting Very kindly, Stephen American readers were more two early bronze sculptures, to see that for models he often Donaldson agreed to be interested in the likes of A. E. The Musician ( 1920) and chose people close to him, ' : interviewed by The Student; Howard and Un Carter. Indian Youth (c. 1923). including his children. One squeezing us in between a We passed on from the The Musician, the earliest bronze ts of his daughter, book-signing and a radio subject of his influences to work on display, won the Clare, only a few weeks old. show for Radio Forth. We met discuss the way in which he admiration of Sickert. lt is a By concentrating on form he in the shabbily elegant wrote, that is the actual bust of Schilsky's uncle. The has secured for himself the surroundings of the North mechanics of being an author. effectiveness of this work is necessary detachment. British Hotel for afternoon tea. "I generally write for eight due to the keen sense of linear The Scottish Gallery is at 26 Dohaldson is a young man, hours a day, you have to be rhythms, developed by the Castle Street. This exhibition, much younger than I had self-disciplined about these positioning of the hands and together with a display of expected, who, despite the things .... I have to go through the tilt of the head. The pose of recent paintings by Robert fact that he was suffering from the same procedure each the Indian Youth, a half life­ Smith, continues until 1st a severe case of laryngitis, morning, a sort of self­ size work, combines a tensed November. made no attempt to spare his hypnosis." Even when he voice, and was on the contrary knew that he was going to quite prepared to give detailed have a bad day, he argued that ~ The Wounded La~d;en Vernolt answers to all the questions the important thing was to that were put to him. keep the flow of thought •~o' The Wounded Land is the Donaldson has managed to When he was asked if he going "What you don't like, ~ new novel by Stephen explore more deeply the objected to being compared you can always tttar up tater." .,,~J I Donaldson, a young Ameri- underlying conflicts that lie to J. R. R. Tolkien, as the hype Dortaldson went on to admit ~ can author who has taken, in a w1th1n us all, 1n a way that on the outside of his book that he had had a number of • very short space of time, the previous fantasy authors have suggests, he seemed to feel struggles with his publisher position of the leading fantasy appeared to brush over that there was nothing wrong over the content of his novels, author alive in the western slig htly, as though they were in the fact that this. but he felt that he could fantasy tradition. slightly uncomfortable about comparison was being made, honestly say that there was This new novel continues the prospect of giving their as it was usually meant in a only one major point in any of the story of Thomas Covenant central characters too much complimentary way . He his four books to date that had the Unbeliever, about wh·om of a human nature. accepted that Tolkien was been changed, where he still Donaldson has already Despite the intensity of his bound to overshadow any did not agree that the changed completed a masterly trilogy, writing, Donaldson contrives new author in the fantasy version was better than the simply entitled The Chron- to remain a compelling field, as he had been its way he had written it icles of Thomas Covenant the author, whose books have all leading figure for so long. originally. Unbeliever. In the short space the "magical" qualities that However, he was at pains to We chatted for a while about allowed in this column it are to be expected of a good point out that what he wrote the future, and he talked of the would be impossible to give fantasy author. was not an attempt to cash in new trilogy that he is in the even the briefest precis of the All of his books to date on the Tolkien genre; what he process of writing; this will be story to date, as it has so many have been worthy of a writes is "Donaldson" and that a follow-up to the previous ramifications and deals with place amor1Qs t the list of is very different; although he two trilogies, and will issues that even Donaldson books that can be returned to was also prepared to complete the final episode in himself finds it difficult to time and time again, as there acknowledge that they both the career of Thomas cover in three novels . neverseemstobeapointat Edinburgh Concerts wrote In the same cultural Covenant. He would not give However, in general terms, it which no new insights can be tradition. away anything about the Wed . 29th Oct. 8 pm . Playhouse Theatre, Greenslde Place would be possible to say that found in what he is saying, or " He drew images, horses, ending, except to say that an the central theme of the novel in the pictures that he paints dangerous forests and answer would be reached. Eberhard Weber's COLOURS Tickets £3.50 (members £:3.00) is to examine the conflicts so skilfully of his fantastic anonymous dangers that As we were getting into between good and evil; both world. creep through the night; so do more deep discussion of the within and outside the person It may soon be possible to I, but then so does anyone meanings behind his books, Thurs. 13th Nov. 8 pm. of the hero (if it is correct to misquote the Observer critic, who writes in the western his press secretary came Calton Studios, Calton Aoad regard Covenant as a hero, in and say that the world is tradition." across to inform us that we ex-Mingus the accepted sense of the divded into those who have He went on to say that he had run out of time, as Mr Jimmy Knepper/ Bobby Welllns Quintet word). read Donaldson and those felt that he was in fact more Oonaldson's day was so full Tickets £:3.50 (members £:3.00) The Wounded Land seems who have not. between Lewis and Tolkien, that he had to rush off again, to have passed the acid test of If he suffers from any fault. it that is, he writes stories that to be precise, he was to be being the follow-up novel, and is that he has found it hard to Mon. 17th Nov. 8 pm. have a tinge of allegory, but selecting a number of records to have come through with achieve recognition outside are not totally so. The chief Playhouse, Greenslde Place for Radio Forth's chat show. flying colours. It is not a the ranks of Tolkien addicts, influences that he had had JOE PASS, plus These records were to be from rehash of old themes, sticking and that he Js so often outside the field of fantasy his favourite field, opera. Brian Keddle Quartet to areas that the author feels compared to Tolkien which is were J. C. Conrad, H. James Tickets £:5.00 (members £:4 00) This is possibly a srgn as to safe in, but branches out in a a comparison that does and E. Falkener, despite this where a large amount of his new direction, whilst neither of them aiiy good, he had found that he was more Tickets available lrom the venues· inspiration can be found, Playhouse (031-557 2590), Calton Studios (031-556 7066) maintaining enough of the old since they write not only in popular in Europe than he was though no opera was ever as JAZZ SCHOOL backcloth to justify calling it a different style but also from in the United States, this he a fantastic as his books. Oct 25th cencelled, neKI session Nov. 1st. sequel. a different viewpoint. put down to the fact that most Platform, 45 Queen Street, Edinburgh. 031-226 4179. In all of h is works ' Alistair Mathers " ------Arts 9

SNO Usher Hall 17th Oct. Brubaker Odeon 26th Oct.

The programme note for secure, the tone was far from Nor did Mf Jarvi choose to Having witnessed violence, this week's concert drew an commanding, the perform­ relax the tensions in the waltz, filth, rape and an attitude of analogy between the con­ ance routine - perhaps a for although the style was total disregard for the '."I g enial nature of Felix symptom of having played the always graceful, the pace individual in his' new prison, ~- Mendelssohn and the non­ concerto on four consecutive soon quickened and the Henry Brubaker (who has had h eroic, often intimate evenings in other cities. articulation of semiquavers by the vantage point of an character, of his E minor violin For the orchestra, too, the the strings in the trio was incumbent "criminal") is concerto which Ida Haendel repetition of programmes can admirable. Indeed, it was forced to reveal himself as the ·performed in the Usher Hall be tiring, but their response difficult not to respond to the warden. o n Friday night . The was spiced by a last-minute surge behind Mr Jarvi's Brubaker (Robert Redford) comparison was just, but not change of conductor to the direction. If there must be it seems, is destined to bring particularly well served by a Russian, Neeme Jarvi. His criticisms, they must be respect to an institutio n where sol oist normally associated direction of Tchaikovsky's limited to some over- the privileged trustees are with the grand gestures and fifth symphony was nothing if prominent brass and rather armed, knowing if they kill an expression of the great n ot passionate - the str.ident violin tone midway escapee they will achieve Romantic tradition. conductor wore his heart on through the first movement: parole , and where the Miss Haendel was most his sleeve for much of the neither, in a performance of authorities in such guises as s uccessful in catching performance, favouring fast this type, serious faults. the doctor and the previous Mendelssohn's relaxed idiom tempi, urgent phrasing, and in This was Neeme Jarvi's first warden are so corrupt that life in the finale, where she made the finale, a dramatically long appearance with the SNO for is immaterial. :" some delightful sounds, but in pause before the stately several years. The prolonged He has decided to "blow the ·· the first movement her reprise of the molto th eme, Ovation he recei ved shouI0 place up" and "start from ':: occasional portamenti were which gave his interpretation ensure his swift return. scratch". The inmates are unsuited to the predomin­ an excitement not always Guy Thomas given jobs, a farm is started, ;' antly lyrical lines. Though her encpuntered in performances Simon Field an inmates' council is set up. ··~ technique was wond~rfully of such a popular work. But at all times Brubaker is faced with sabotage, deceit and distrust. Singlemindedly Peter Potter Gallery and with courage and determination, Brubaker tries i.: Haddington to put to right the crumbling institution. He seems to be The recently re-opened winter wind, Mrs Barrow is the "'distinctive" jewelry of N ichola Fletcher. She also has successful. (A polo match ' ete r Potter Gallery , seems to capture the mood brings from one convict the i addington is currently and atmosphere of the a few rather " samely" watercolours, but in the comment that in his 15 years ;taging an exhibition of the moment and transfer it into Goombes who finally realises enhance the various moods. strong semi-circular, tri­ at Wakefield this is the first : vork of three very different her paintings. time he has heard men laugh.) Brubaker's strength and The deprivation of the prison angular or oblong shapes of :: trtists. Phoebe Barrow, The result is an exhibition of However, Brubaker discovers commitment as the latter gets is reflected in the photo­ her necklaces, and brooches • hose work forms the largest 34 very "worthwhile-seeing" that while the men starve, closer and closer to the graphy of the rain-soaked or her neat circular boxes. She :: .. )art of the exhibition draws watercolours to contrast prison food is being resold to tiypocritical board's secrets. prison yard and of the has used a whole range of ., n uch of her inspiration from watercolours. To contrast supermarkets. However, it Robert Redford seems to be collapsed dormitory. When it colours and materials; plastic :· he picturesque sceneryof the nicely with this is the work of takes the sacrifice of an ideal choice to portray the is rai ning we know that strips of bright colours or the ,. -J orth West Coast of Scotland, local artist, Timothy Chalk. "Abraham" for Brubaker to heroic figure who is persistent something distasteful is in · more sedate ebony, ivory and : Nhere she now lives. Trees, His exhibits, Hockneyesque in see the full extent of the Board in the face of adversity. He has store; when the convicts from silver. A point to bear in mind, ·,,.,nd the way the constantly style, deal mainly with people of Governors' hypocrisy. had the same role in "All the solitary are greeted with · .:hanging skies affect the moving or at rest. However, in this age Of expensive prints Many upright and dignified President's Men", " Downhill sunshine we feel pleased that ::ountryside are recurring what makes them so and reproductions this people could be slightly upset Racer" and "Three Days of the the new warden's reforms are :.Ti otifs in her work. Buildings pleasurable is what the exhibition, which runs until if past events at Wakefield Condor". He is very well being accepted. -~ :1 nd people never dominate picture fails to tell us - where the end of the month gives come to the public's notice. supported in his fight by Jane There is violence and ~:" 1er pictures; nature, whether are the people rushing to? mostly everyone, including One of the senior trustees, Alexander who plays the bitter titillation in this film for those ::-o n broad sweeping vistas or What are they thinking so the average student, the Dickie Coombes (ably played and strong-willed reformer .that need it. But the fine acting -·::l oser studies of individual deeply about ? This air of opportunity to buy and own by Yaphet Kotto), who is Lillian, and by Matt Clark as and Brubaker's ce ntral :< hings, always overshadows secrecy is strengthened by the genuine article which always suspicious of Purcell, the warden's clerk. problem of bringing respect to ,- .,verything else. Whether she the fact that all we seem to see can't be bad. Try and get to Redford's reforms, says of While the power of the acting a corrupt and filthy institution :-:aptures a sudden burst of is the back of people or see it, it's worth the short bus " The Man" that he is "the helps create a tension and a against the odds make this :. 5unlight over a loch or sees deserted lonely courtyards. trip. dangerous man who gets direction in the film, there is a picture well worth seeing. . ,;ashing flapping gently in a Finally, as a complete change Ian Jordan people killed". But it is fine use of the camera to Peter Lyall

EDINBURGH FILM THEATRE, Lothian Road MOVIES AROUND Thurs. 23rd-Sat. 25th: THE VALIANT ONES (A) One of the few mature works in town as the ,:-; inemas cater for .,,· ABC, Lothian Road mid-term. King Hu combining brilliant fight scenes and - (1) THE SHINING (X) intelligent historical/ political observations, set in the Middle Stanley Kubrick proving it's possible to fool a lot of the people Ages . some of the time (2 hours anyway) with this tediously illogical Mon. 27th-Wed. 29th: THE WANDERERS (X) and uneventful horror fi lm. Nicholson goes over the top and My initial reaction to this was revulsion at another mindless then some. Not recommended 'gang' fi lm replete with top 20 soundtrack in the background. (2) AIRPLANE (A) Others have seen more serious merit in Kaufman's 'coming of Limp spoof of the entire genre of Airport disasters sparked by age movie'. Judge for yourself. imaginative casting - Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves. There are some schoolboy-level laughs along the way "' _but most of the time it's just plain silly. (3) THE ELEPHANT MAN (AA) ODEON, Clerk Street A beautifully inventive, totally absorbing, touching and finely THE SPECIAL EDITION OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE acted production and if that's not a rave review I don't know THIRD KIND (A) what is . The film of the week. CE3K re-edited and revised to produce a version in the manner Spielberg originally intended. With negligible running-time differences, don't expect many changes, but don't underestimate the continuing power of the most humanistic, CAL TON STUDIOS, Calton Road uplifting product of the current sci-fi crop. Also note the other PRETTY BABY (X) film-making influences, notably Hitchcock and Disney. Worth Very pretty indeed as director Louis Malle chooses all the pastel seeing again. shades to paint his beautiful, if dubiously accurate, picture of brothel life and true love in 1917 New Orleans Miss Brooke Shields stars. PLAYHOUSE, Leith Walk (Afternoons) PETE'S DRAGON (U) CAMEO, Tollcross Cheery Disney production combining live-action/animation THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (A) with the story of a boy and his dragon whilstavoiding an excess Expensive public relations article for American naval hardware. of syrup. Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney and Helen Reddy are the The plot of Captain Kirk (Douglas, that is) and crew travelling arown-ups. through time to Pearl Harbour seems almost incidental. Martin Sheen co-stars. (Evenings) SILVER DREAM RACER (AA) David Essex and his si lver phallic symbol find fame and fortune whilst the producers, Rank, pull the plug. Now has a historical DOMINION, Churchill interest - virtually~ (1) HILL'S ANGELS (U) Disney live-ai;:tion comedy, and a lesser one at that. A local community supports the Rev. Hill to send the bad guys out of RITZ, Rodney Street town. Mildly amusing for those in the holiday mood. JAWS (A) (2) MISSION GALACTICA-THE CYLON ATTACK (U) Exciting adventure yarn or allegorical tale of Nixon and Second Galactica film to be cobbled together from the Watergate, take your pick. Either way it's excellent successful American television series. Pretty standard fare with entertainment, tautly directed by wunderkind Spielberg and low-budget special effects grabbing the loot of the Star Wars personably acted by Dreyfuss, Scheider and Shaw. CALEY, Lothian Road phenomenon. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (U) (Force'ful Star Wars sequel with all the familiar characters (3) EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (AA) Love it or loathe it time again with Clint and Clyde evoking satisfactorily returned and a few new ones introduced with Allan Hunter Muppet Yo da my favourite. Entertainment on a lavish scale and strong memories of Bonzo and Reagan. The sequel is on its way highly enjoyable. - you have been warned. ' 10 Sports

It's encouraging to see the Rugby Club starting the season so well, especially after the disappointments of last year. In giving Capital Rugby Cambuslang their second defeat of the season, winning by 13 points to 10 at Canal Field, they maintained their 100 per cent league record and joined Dalziel HSFP, Aberdeen University Having provided a brief and, at the same time, While it is a little unfair to and Broughton on the six-point mark. Let's hope their final guide to the fortunes of coverage of the game both in cla im that Boroughmulr are league match, on March 14, against Dalziel HSFP, is the one to Edinburgh's football clubs newspapers and on television the Coventry City or the decide the Fourth Division Championship. last week, it seems only fair - has no longer been restricted Middlesbrough of the Scottish Saturday was a good day rugby-wise as both teams in the especially since the Netball to international c hampion­ rugby world, it is neverthe­ Edinburgh District Under-21 League recorded convincing· Club, with whom I had wanted ship matches. While critics of less true that they are one of victories: the Freshers' XV defeating Portobello FP by 28-4, and to conduct an "in-depth the league system would those clubs who manage to the Va ndals edging out Lasswade in a close match by 54 points inte r view", proved un­ advance the argument that it ruin someone else's chances to 4. Boroughmuir beware! .. _The only defeat in a league match commonly difficult to track has not always proved of winning the championship on Saturday was incurred by the RDVC who found the 6-4 lead down - to attempt the same conducive to open attacking without ever really threaten. held by Boss High too great to overhaul. ... But better news for those who deliberately aim rugby, there can be little ing to do so themselves. On from Perth where the Lacrosse Club gave th e Perth and Kinross their shots over the bar: the doubt that this upsurge in the other hand, they have team a 10-2 drubbing. What I'd like to know is whether the stalwarts of Ed inburgh rugby. interest has been a proverbial never been in any danger of forwards could score so freely given maroon jerseys and a Indeed, when compared shot in the arm for small and relegation and with, perhaps, leather football. ... I'd like to end this Brian Marjoribanks/ Joyce with the ailing institution that large clubs alike: Clarkston a little more flair in their back Hume-type summary, not with the semi-final results from the is Scottish football, the rugby and Preston Lodge FP being division to add to their many Gourock Midwives' Under-35 Badminton Championship, but scene is positively thriving. good examples of the former qualities, so typified by the with a plea to all sports clubs and especially their committees. Si nce the introduction of the case. hard-working Hay and Even if your club has achieved nothing so far or has yet to national leagues, interest in To turn primarily to Watson, they could yet mount record any sort of victory, we would still like to hear from you. the club game has increased Edinburgh clubs, however, it a strong challenge this Just as the letters pages announce, this is "Your Page" and it's is gratifying to find no fewer season. Watsonians, however, up to you to make full use of it. So, even if it's only a quick than four of them well seem to be going through a paragraph on the winter activities of the tennis club, drop it into established i n the First quite successful period of 1 Buccleuch Place (by Tuesday morning at the latest, please) Hairies Out Division (there being no place consolidation and change at and we'll do our best not ot lose it and ensure its inclusion in The for pretentious misnomers the same time. Since their Studedt as soon as possible. such as the Premier Division never - to - be - forgotten In Strength in the world of rugby). All four Houdini-like escape from the clubs, Boroughmuir, Stew­ brink of relegation at art's-Melville, Watsonians and Myreside , ' Sonians have Edinburgh University The Hare and Hounds had Heriots, making full use of the managed to achieve a no fewer than five teams out plethora of rugby talent in the respectable league position Association Football for the 4 x 2½ mile East Edinburgh schools games, while also introducing their District relays. Our first team contributed to Edinburgh's version of the "Brothers With the senior football Unfortunately, the former finished a creditable 12th with winning of the Inter-District Johnston" to league rugby. season commencing in early University stars had not all Ewan McQueen (12:59), Ken Championship, for the fi rst With the emergence of the August the resources of the gone to seed and they Mortimer (12:12) - the fastest time in ages, last year and also Hastings brothers, they are University club are fu lly tested dominat ed and won a Cycling Club hairy of the day - Charl ie boasted at least one member no t only riva lling the well before the October disappointing game by two It's Sunday morning at 11 Cottam (12:42) and Burt of the. Scotland national XV Brewster, Ca lder, Scott clan Hackenbush (12:48). disbursement of grants, goals to one and thereby o'clock, outside Teviot Row Heriot's FP are currently the of Stewart's-Melville, but also Our B team finished in 19th indeed moneys from vacation earned the chance of another Union, and half a dozen leading Edinburgh side, even building a younger side jobs and social security are tilt at the likes of Alloa, cyclists gather for a short trip position. On second leg, although they fai led to follow which, with the advantage of a critical in the early season Brechin, Stranraer, Meadow­ out to Eddleston, just outside "unknown" Alan Murray, who up their 1979 Championship couple of years' experience, phase as Ed inburgh-based bank in the first round proper Peebles. This is to be the has just joined us, whizzed success last year (an early should be one to watch. players are' reinforced by of the Scottish Cup. Glory this regular time and place for all round in an impressive time of season defeat from Stew­ In the Second Division, willing trav'ellers from the likes season will have to be earned our trips. However, it was just 12:28 (c.f. first team times). art's- Melville provfng instru­ Royal High can also be of Aberdeen, D.'undee, Fort the hard way, in the long hauls outside Edinburgh that we We hope to be seeing a lot mental in their failure to pip expected to mount a William, Lockerbie, .Ki l­ which lead to success in the lost one of our number, Jill, more of this latest star. His Gala). Th~y have added the promotion challenge in the marnock, and Perthshire for East of Scotland League and who was good enough to support came from Pat very promising John Beattie seasons to come, having Saturday matches. Enthusi­ the Inter-University Leagues. realise that she might not get Graves, Eric Waterrat and to their ranks and viewed quietly rebuilt their side in the asm for the club's first-team With term upon us, another there and back again, so, Paul Stockcube, all with times alongside the l rvines, Third Division to good effect. football encourages some crop of freshers has been sensibly, she turned back around 13:20. Gllmmells and Lawsons and The same, however, cannot be players to seek vacation jobs assessed and drawn into the before we had gone too far. Our C, D and E teams the continued good form of said of Edinburgh Wanderers in the city, and others see their fold, their ability, commit­ The outward trip was further finished 26th, 33rd and 31st Steven and Robertson, it is who have gone through a lean way to a September" in ment and enthusiasm will we marred by two punctures, respectively, with new man easily seen that the powerful time recently following their Edinburgh via re-sits. Such hope be deep rooted, for the both on the same bike - the Lawrence Edwards again Goldenacre outfit will be relegation from the First commitment deserves reward, club needs intelligent players same wheel in fact. showing promise with a time difficult to defeat this season. Division. No longer in th8 and in addition to Monday and with ambition in order to And so we eventually of 13:24. Al the Hack is getting Just along from Goldenacre, top division they are unable to Thursday evening training maintain its high standards of arrived at Leadburn, where fit again. With a time of 12:53 Stewart's-MelYllle have had a offer top-class rugby to those from mid-July, a challenging past decades. The Wednes­ our racing captain, Susan, promotion from the C team disappointing start to lhe players who, in the past, series of pre-season friend- day and Saturday weekly thought that she would have seems imminent. Perhaps he's season, picking up only one would have been willing to 1i es, four days at the match cycle reinforced by· to turn back as well (and she's run out of home brew and is point from their first three join them and a Wanderers' excellently appoi n ted twice weekly training soon supposed to be lit!). Thus it training again. games. While the lnverleith revival, therefore will have to National Sports Training helps players to overcome was that we had our pub lunch The committee is impressed club provide perhaps the best­ come from the younger Centre at Largs, and an fears ai;,out lasting the 90 at Leadburn instead of by the interest and enthus­ d ril I ed rugby seven in players in the club. evening of enjoyment on the minutes and to start thinking Eddleston, and most enjoy­ iasm of the freshers and we Scotland - only Kelso can Nevertheless, the rugby dunes of Gullane, the players positively about expressing able it was too. hope this will continue - I rival them - they somehow scene in Edinburgh is in fine face a mixture of banter, their skills. These columns On the return trip through hope our absentees will take seem to lack a killer-instinct in shape at the moment and, with note. Training is 3 p.m., KB criticism and encouragement will no doubt record some of Penicuik we came across a lot the 15-a-side game and can the increasing prestige which Union on Wednesday. The from the club coach, the Dean the successes and failures of of other cyclists, no doubt usually be relied on to the capital game is gaining, of the Faculty of Divinity, and the club this season. brought out by the ideal bus on Saturday leaves Teviot narrowly lose out in a the Borders' clubs cannot Row at 8 a.m., so get up early. the other members of the To students and staff who conditions of lots of sun and "crunch" match. Wi th Dougie afford to stand still. For the small band of loyal and well­ have no fondness for the no wind. There will be other Don't miss what will bean epic Morgan having rel inquished Scottish national team, behaved supporters on match stands/enclosures or terraces such Sunday runs leaving at trip to Inverness. It is also a the captaincy and Ian Forsyth desperately in need of a good days. of Easter Road, Meadowbank the same time, from the same free trip home for OTB if he's announcing his retirement season, this Eastern chal­ The club 1st XI has made a or Tynecastle, but who enjoy place. The club meets on fit! Having admitted defeat to from first-class rugby, it will lenge can only be beneficial modest start in search of East our native passionate art, a Tuesdays' _at 7 p.m. in both Aberdeen and St be interesting to see if the and, perhaps, we will yet hear of Scotland honours, with five welcome awaits you at East Spaitans Club, where these Andrews Universities on colleges can remain in the top Bill McLaren hoarsely points earned from the six Peffermill. The home students runs are arranged. In addition, Saturday, we need our very five of Scottish rugby. commentating on a Scottish league matches played to are skilful, short-haired, and on the weekend of November best men to cuff them at 'ness. win at Cardiff Arms Park. date, but the pulse of the club can smile at their good and 1/2 there will be a hostelling M. L. Thomas, quickened in the Scottish bad fortune. weekend to Melrose - come Qualifying Cup (with entry to A_lan Chainey to a meeting if you are the Scottish Cup proper Results for last week: interested. guaranteed for third round of Thursday, 16th Oct.: 1st XI Richard Peploe the qualifying Cup winners) 2, Jord anhill College 1; 2nd XI when, after dismissing the 1, Jordanhill College 2: Colts Calton Studios Limited powerful Vale of Leithen side XI 1, Jordanhill College 1. 3-1 at home in the second Saturday, 18th Oct.: 1st XI 24 Calton Road · Edinburgh EHB BOP ·Scotland round, the club drew Spartans (A) 0, Eyemou.th 4; 2nd XI (H) at home in the third round. 1, Meadow Thistle 2: Colts XI Telephone:031 556-7066l557-2159 (H) 7, Ashley Thistle 2.

superstar Elmar Beyeradurfer Progs. 6 and 8.30 p.m. VOLLEYBALL set is probably best forgotten Starling Mon. 27th Oct. showed himself to be a very - suffice to say Balwearie PRETTY BABY A Mixed Start valuable acquisition, with won, to take the match 3-1. THE SWISSMAKERS (A) strong spiking and cOnsistent On the whole, however, it (X) Swiss film acclaimed at Cannes, Los Saturday was the start of back court play. The match was a reasonably encourag­ Dir. Louis Malle Angeles and London Film Festivals. another season of National was closely fought, with the ing performance for the start League Volleyball for the University eventually winning of the season, with new girl Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine women's club, who were 3-1, and although struggling Birgit Jennet deserving a faced with Balwearie Ladies at at times, they seem to have special mention for con­ Broughton. The men, unable sorted out some of the sistently good play, and Upstage Rock 9.30 £1 to play their Scottish Cup pr0blems inevitable in what is Patricia McCluskey picking match, arranged a friendly essentlally a new tea m. the ball up well in the back 27th Oct.-FK9 against Falkirk II - a useful The women's team made an court. The girls are confident Fri. Sat. 11 p.m. preliminary to the season. indifferent start against of some success this s.eason, The men's team were in the unimpressive opposition and but would benefit from having AMERICAN GRAFFITI fortunate position of being were unlucky to lose the first a larger squad, and new (AA) able to turn out with a squad of two sets. By the third set, players are very welcome. Upstage Jazz 11 including five new Lucas however, the girls were This week the girls are off to Dir. George 26th Oct.-GORDON CRUICKSHANK members, all of whom were beginning to play as a team Stirling hoping for a better Richard Dreyfuss 8.45 p.m. 80p given court time and acquitted and, thanks to some strong result, while the men have a themselves very well. In serving, took the set 15-3. difficult task, facing recently particular, new German What haA~ened in the_fourth demoted Whitburn. \

\ \ Inside Story 11 careers TV Column This week there are more new series to recommend. nowadays (that is to say ing what will happen next BBC 2 returns with its series of Saturdays). This week they episode, you may have the Twelve of the leading Shakespeare plays, tonight tell me the show w,11 feature time to spare on Not the Nine chartered accountancy firms John Cleese in The Taming of young people on some weird O'clock News, this time, at in Great Britain will be visiting the Shrew. In contrast Soap is planet. I must say your gallant least, it's a new Series. If the University during an on STV just to show how low previewer feels unprepared to you've been fired up by the 'Accountancy Fortnight' in drama can sink. BBC 1,s comment, having watched the recent articles in these November, to interview final infinitely boring and thing but seldom since illustrious pages on American year students interested in excruciatingly badly acted Cybermen days. Our Univer­ politics, then Panorama (BBC c ha rte red accountancy Mackenzieisstilldrivellingon sity Chaplain, Rev. Marcus 1, Monday) is a must. It asks trai ning following graduation there. Lefevre, is on STV's Late Call, " Will It Be President in 1981. BBC 1 continues the recent which may prove interesting, Reagan?". These firms will be cove rage of Japanese- if for no other reason than That horrible man Russell interested primarily in those ~ponsored sporting events on because it will be the first time Harty has been giv0n a series . students who want to train our television (remember the most of us have ever seen him. on BBC 2 on Tuesdays. The under the regulations of the Sun-Tory golf thing?) with The Muppet Show is on STV publicity blurb about him says I nstitute off Chai rtderef d The Daihatsu Challenge, a tShuendaAymaefrte,crannoonP-res ·1ndoe,nnt·,oatl he was once a school teacher Accountants o Scot an , or tennis match, would you in Blackburn. I wish to God which the entrance required is believe. The Incredible Hulk debate, but the genuine furry he'd stayed as one. Arthur C. a first degree containing two hulks on on STV the same articles. BBC 1 's American Clarke's Mysterious World on ·~· accountancy courses, plus night, while conscious movie is the excellent Klute, STV is another of t~ese things economics 1 and mercantile humour is on show on It Ain't Jane Fonda's Oscar-winning which seem to go on forever, or commercial law; or a first Half Hot Mum. performance opposite Donald whereas BBC 1 starts what degree in any discipline This week Rikki Fulton joins sutherland. Once again take sh·ould be much more followed by a postgraduate the regular cast. Late on your pick between The interesting - a series of d iploma in accountancy. Friday the film (BBC 1) is Professionals and Shoestring. programmes in which the late ~~;veaifaoboletrwai.,nthint~ti~!~i~~ ws :~ Suppose They Gave a War It's a pity it's got to be one or Lord Louis Mountbatten and Nobody Came, starring the other. spea·ks on various subjects. the major Scottish cities and, Tony curtis and Ernest CoronationStreetisonSTV An extraordinary frank piece w,ni thLoanfdeown fiarnmds ,eslosemwehpelraece,ns Borgnine, a passable war on Monday night -gosh what of fi lm, they tell mo, about an f f I t · ht · · a surprise. If you can tear extraordinary vain man. England. spg~ct~; ~~~n';; yourself away from wonder- Bumble Some of the accountancy b-_..'.~:'..::'..'.__'.::'.:~~:'.'..'.....:'.:~...:,-:_0~'e;;'~~ -2 ____:______-:-- ____ fi rms will also be interested to see those students who want The Ultimate Residence: Double room Choir vacancies: St John's Church at the West to train in England via the available now in Eva Place (off Blackford End needs experienced singers with good I nstitute of Chartered Ave.). Applicants must be female and sight reading and vocal ability. Thursday Accountants in England and Careers prepared to part with £12.50 a week. Ring 667 rehearsal. Expenses paid. Write to The Wales. For this the entry .1673 (evenings). Director of Music, St John's, or telephone 225 Due to a typographical 2073. requirement is simply a omission In last week's degree in any discipline. careers column, It was not WEE For sale: Cured red deer skins from N.W. The visits will take place Horoscopes: Have yours calculated and absolutely clear that the third Scotland. Contact Bruce Taylor, G11, explained for only £5. Telephone Nick Grier at from 19-28 November, and the In the series of Information closing dates for lodging Brewster House, Pollock halls. 337 5113 with details of date, place and time of Fairs to be held this term In the FREES birth. applications range 20 October Upper Library, Old College, to 7 November. Full details covers jobs In INDUSTRY. Calculator/ Watch: Casio; good as new; only Strictly off the record! Jazz and ceilidh music and the firms' literature and That Is 5th November, 2 pm to £15. Phone 669 0231 and ask for William. ,from the incredible Nutty Slack most application forms are now 4.30 pm. Saturday/ Sunday nights at Aly's Bar and Grill, available from the Career ... and a heavy gloom lay upon my soul. The Services Offices at 33 Postgrad Students' Union, 22 Buccleuch Spirits of the night embraced the shadows of Place (behind George Square Theatre). Buccleuch Place and the KB my footsteps, I turned and from the bowels of Union. Sample the cheapest real ale on the campuys my existence emitted A REAL SCREAM. and the best toasties in town!

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Yet another weekend where there's sure to Royal Lyceum has been recommended as the be something on to suit your own particular best play in the city at the moment and Sadlers fancy. Friday night - a varying choice of Wells Royal Ballet equally sh·ould not be concerts ranging from the Dooleys at the missed ... so much to do in so short a time. Odeon to The Revillos at the Nile Club, and of UB40 at the Playhouse are not yet sold out so course the regular SNO concerts at the Usher there's a chance to skank to 'Food for Hall. Saturday - the sports scene in the city is Thought' etc. Sunday - if you're still feeling very healthy with a squash tournament, a healthy enough to go for a stroll somewhere, I JACQUES badminton tournament, and a universities ski­ suggest Swanston village for a ch ange. ing competition. Also, Hibs are playing at Pe rhaps a bit out of the way, but the No. 4 or 15 LOUSSIER home to Ayr United - a chance to see the two takes you nea r enough to find it (at the bottom rivals for a semi-final place in the League Cup, of the Pentlands). in concert with but in a normal league game. Sunday night - a chance to do something The fi lm to see this weekend must surely be you didn't fit in on Saturday - a fi lm or, if you 'The Elephant Man'. Allan Hunter's review on like, you could have a night in by the telly and LUC HELLER the Arts page gives an excellent briefing of the try to choose between Eddie Shoestring or the qualities of the film. But ... Travesities at the Professionals - a hard choice! Take it easy! Toosle SATURDAY, 1st NOVEM BER CINEMA THEATRE Baha'I Soc: Wholefood lunches every Wed­ ABC, Lothian Rd : (1) The Shining (X) 1.10, King's Theatre, Leven Street: Sadlers Wells nesday at 1 pm, Room 10, Adam Ferguson at 7.30 p.m. 4.15, 7.20. (2) Airplane (A) 2.15, 4.50, 7.40. (3) Royal Ballet; until Sat 25th at 7.30 pm. Matinee Building (40p). "The earth is but one country at The Elephant Man (AA) 1.10, 4.10, 7.15. Wed and Sat at 2.30 pm. Starting next and mankind its citizens." Informal d iscussion USHER HALL, EDINBURGH Caley, Lothian Rd : The Empire Strikes Back Tuesday: D'oyly Carte Opera Company. with home-made refreshments, every (U) 2.15, 4.30, 7.15. Royal l yceum, Grind lay Street: Travesties, by Thursday, 7.30 pm, at top flat, 15 Livingstone Tickets: £3.50, £3.00, £2.50, £2.00, £I.SO Calton Studios, Calton Rd : Pretty Baby (X) 6 Tom Stoppard. Nightly at 7.30 pm. Sat at 4 pm Place, Marchmont. Box Offi ce Tel: 031 -228 1155/ 6/7 and 8 pm. Late night Fri and Sat at 11 pm , and 8 pm. American Graffiti (AA). Little Lyceum, Cambridge St: Bent; nightly at Cameo, Tollcross: The Final Countdown (A) 8 pm . French Society: Cheese and wine party; 3.20, 5.45, 8.30. Traverse Theatre, West Bow, Grassmarket: Tuesday, 28th October, 5 pm in the basement Classic, Nicolson St: Sex Wi th the Star (X) The Sea Wolf: until Sun at 7.30 pm. of the French Dept. Membership and entry £1 . • 2.05, 5.30, 8.50; and Love Nest. Late night Fri Brunton T h eatre , Musselburgh : The En trance only 60p. and Sat at 1 t pm, Coming Home (X) and Track Philanthropist; nightly at 7.30 pm. Af ter play Bach - Pulsion - Loussier's new Down (X) . music moves "out of of professionalism into Dominion, Churchill: (1) Hill's Angels and Anglican Chaplaincy, 23a George Sq: sheer genius". Greenwich Festival 1980 Ploughman's Lunches, 12.30 pm, Tuesday Ugly Daschund (U) 2.30 pm and 7 pm. (2) SPORT and Thursday. Wo rship: Tues, 8 am , Rm 26 Mission Galactica the Cyclon Attack (U) 3.22, Greyhound Racing: Powderhall Stadium, Pollock Refectory, followed by brnakfast with 5.49, 8. t6; and Rolled Force (U). 23rd, 25th and 28t h at 7.30 pm. Saturday: Final the chaplain; 1.10 pm, Rm 2659, followed by 2.45, 5.12, 7.39. (3) Every Which Way But Tennent Caledonian Marathon. Ploughman's Lu nch. Wed : 8.30 pm, Carlyle Loose (AA) 3.00, 5.20, 8.00. Squash: East of Scotland Ope~ - Finals; House, Common Am. Suffolk Halls of Edinburgh FIim Theatre, Lothian Rd : The Colinton Castle Sports Club, 23-26 Oct. Residence. Thur: 1.20 pm, St Francis Chapel, Valiant Ones (A) 6 and 8.30 pm. Badmi n1on : Scottish National Junior Odeon, Clerk St : The Special Edition of Close Championships at Mea dowbank Sports 23a George Sq. Fri: 5.30 pm, Munch and Crunch; 7.30 pm, AGM and party. BYOB. Encounters of the Third Kind (A) 1.50, 4.40, Centre, 25th Oct. 7.35 (not showin g Thurs & Fri). Skl-ing: Scottish Un iversities Dual Slalom, Playhouse, Leith Wa lk: Silver Dream Ra cer Hillend Ski Centre, Biggar Road , 25th Oct. ~ TRAVERSE (AA) 8pm. Pate's Dragon (U) 3.25 and 6 pm. Football: Hibernian v. Ayr Utd, Easter Road ; Symposium: The Ethics of Transp fant Su rgery Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (U) 2.40 Meadowbank Thistle v. Forfar Ath , 5.15 p.m. Monday. 27th October 1980. West ~ TH EA TRE and 5. t5 pm. Meadowbank Sports Centre, 25th Oct. Lecture Theatre, Medical School, Teviot Ritz, Rodney St: Jaws 2.40, 5.25, 8.1 5. Plac.e. Professor G. D. Chisholm, Department of CLUB Surgery, University of Ed inburgh. I 12 Wes t Bov , . CONCERTS EXHIBITIONS Mrs M. I. W. Hay, District Nursing Officer, Faculty of Music: Flute and percussion recital, The Torrance Gallery, 29b Dundas St: Les Greater Glasgow Health Board. Edinburgh Reid Concert Hall, Teviot Row, at 7.30 pm, Drummond, metal sculp'ture and paintings. ~ Tel: 03 1- 226 26,3 23rd Oct. Mon to Fri , 11 am to 6 pm; Sat 10.30 am to 1 • •• • EU Christian Union meets on Fiiday, 24th Organ recita:I by Marley Whitehead, McEwan pm. October, at 7 pm in the Chaplaincy Centre. Hall, Teviot Place, 1.10 pm, 24th Oct. National Gallery of Scotland, The Mou~d: ,,,., "What is the Christia·n Union?" with Andy ••• Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Haydn, Bartek Auld Reekie: scenes of old Edinburgh. Mon­ Bathgate and Susan Steele. All welcome. · and Schubert; The Queen's Hall, Clerk St, at Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm. Till October 26th a t 7.30 p.m. ••• 7.45 pm on 25th Oct. Natlonal Portrait Gallery, Queen Street: Eye to RATIONAL THEATRE present Scottish Baroque Ensemble: David Nicholson Eye - a new look at old paintings. Mon-Sat 10 EU Spartans Club, Buccleuch St : Guy Fawkes ) (flute), Raymond Ovens (violin); The Queen's am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 pm. Party on Friday, 7th November from 8.30pm to THE SEA WOLF ... Hall, Clerk .St, at 2.45 pm on 28th Oct. National Gallery of Modern Art, lnverleith 1 am. Happy Hour: 9.30-10.30. Disco. Entry Adapted by Peter Godfre y Usher Hal): SNO: Weber, Brahms, Schumann. Row: Women in Interiors: Fernand Leger free to members. from the J ack Lond on novel Friday, oct. 24th at 7.30 pm. (1881-1955r. Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 2-5 Opening 28th Octobe r a t 7.30 p.m. Des O'Connor: Pl ayhouse, Oct. 26th. pm. The Dooleys: Odeon, Oct. 24th at 7.30 pm. JACK LONDON - The Man Catholic Students' UniOn: Autumn Disco, from Eden's Grove Friday, 24th October, at the Mi nto Hotel, Mi nto Street. Admission by tiC ket (available from the presented by SOCIETIES T H E LABOR ]'HEATER OF N, Y . Methodist Soc: The Edinburgh Methodist Basement Cate, 23 George Square, or at the door) price £1 . ROCK Students' Society meetings are held on Tickets and Membership fr om the Box Officf UB40: Playhouse, 25th oct., 7.30. Su ndays at 8 pm in the Society Room, STUDENT MEMBERSHIP-£4! tan GIiian: Odeon, 23rp Oct. Nicolson Sq uare Methodist Church. The Revtllos: Nile Club, 24th, 25th Oct. Sunday Oct. 26th: the the'l)e is "Judaism'_', Medieval Soc: A talk by Dr Robert Bartlett, the Rockplte: Tiffany's, 27th Oct. w ith guest speaker Rabbi Dr J. Weinberg. All Dept. of History, Edinburgh University: " The The Jam: Playhouse, 29th Oct. are welcome. Bring a friend and take part in Historian and Miracles", Room 139, William FK9: Calton Studios, 27th Oct., 9.30. the d iscussion afterwards. Robertson Building, at 7.30 pm today.