O.G.M. votes overwhelmingly for Union contraceptive machine to be installed. News No. 376 6d. FRIDAY, 31st OCTOBER, 1969 CONDOM N e w Sports Boss MACHINE T ™ University has acquired a full-time Sports Administrator, Mr. Michael Brook. Mr. Brook has taken over work previously shared by three departments. He takes over PASSED responsibility of intermural tlllllllilllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllli games from the P.E. depart­ ment, and Will organise Uni­ by P. V. Steele versity teams participating in Exec. | U.A.U. events. This was pre­ viously done by the General AS a result of a hurried debate at last Tuesday’s O.G.M. Athletics Secretary, Mr. Adrian the Union is finally to have a contraceptive machine. in briet I Glen. An ‘overwhelming’ majority approved the motion to in­ Function stall the machine, which had been introduced by House Monday’s Executive Sub­ Secretary Pete Jennings. committee meeting lasted Mr. Brook also assumes res­ I speaker was given a noisy for 3 | hours and: This will be the first time reception. ponsibility ifor providing teams the Union has had such a * ordered an inquiry into with refreshments and transpor­ machine. The last time the Mr. Stuart Almond moved the Union insurance posi­ tation, thus relieving Services question was mooted, in that the motion ‘be now put’ Section of a major chore. November 1964, the issue was to which the meeting agreed. tion. taken to a referendum. The The matter was put to the vote * heard Salford sports Mr. Brook’s appointment is machine was rejected on that and carried. club had caused £50 worth the result of pressure by the occasion by a sizeable figure. General Athletics Committee It is not yet known when the of damage to the bar. machine will be installed. The and Union Council, who were Motion * decided to partition the Japproved motion read ‘This duplicating room to make a disturbed by the strain that Tuesday’s crowded O.G.M. O.G.M. instructs the House was caused by the ever increas­ took a long time to get round Secretary to install a contracep­ society’s room. ing workload oif sport’s to the motion. A motion on tive vending machine in the * agreed to reaffiliate the administration. It was decided Iraq and elections to the Staff/ Union building as soon as pos­ sible to be sited at the dis­ Union to the National that the appointment of a full­ Student Oommitte were sum­ marily disposed of before the cretion of the House Commit­ Council for Civil Liberties. time University Union official [prioritized contraception tee.* It is assumed that the was the best solution. machine will be sited in one of * agreed to let Arts motion came up for debate. Festival hold a “Who” , With less than fifteen the gentleman’s lavatories in Mr. Brook, a Leeds man, also mjinutes to go before people the Union. concert on the 5th of takes over sports accounts and were due to leave for afternoon At the time of writing neither December. the organisation of coaching. lectures, Mr. Jennings moved Mr. Jennings nor House * agreed to ask the Univer­ the motion. He cited pregnancy Manager Reg Graveling were sity to put a coffee machine His aim is to obtain better figures amonst unmarried available for comment. In last facilities for sport. He said, “I female students at Leeds and week’s Union News Mr. Grave­ in the M.J. intend to get more and better went on, ‘Students should be ling had indicated he would not + banned Ian Shuttleworth sport played by more and more able to obtain contraceptives be opposed to a contraceptive when they feel they need diem.’ from the Union for refusing students. I consider myself machine by saying ‘Freedom He sat down after a short of speech, freedom of action, to repay his student loan. most fortunate to be able to speech and was followed by an freedom to buy what you t refused to set up an work with students who are unnamed student who opposed want' English Society Library at really keen on sport.” Rag Queen, 20-year-old Sue Claxton, from the Poly. the introduction of a contra­ ceptive machine on the grounds the cost of £300. of ‘common decency’. This * spent £35 on weightlift­ HENRY ing equipment. SHUTTLEWORTH * squabbled over the pro­ PRICE posed 6th Form Conference. BANNED New Information Service ^ decided to support an new information service is now available from the Department of Physical Chemistry. objection to the proposed JAN SHUTTLEWORTH ex- FIRE L.C.T. bus fare increases. L.U.U. Conservative Asso­ The aim of the new service is to provide scientists with reliable information about CIREMEN were called to ciation Chairman and a past the rates of elementary chemical reactions. These are important at the high tempera­ the Henry Price flats, Catering Secretary has been tures met with in a number of systems, for example rocket propulsion and gas turbine New Debates banned from the Union for Clarendon Road, on Satur­ failing to repay a Sltudent loan. engines. r~ day afternoon, when thick [diagram to be discussed and industrial libraries through­ smoke was seen coming out Chairman The decision was taken by The data is compiled in such critically. Error limits are also Exec last Monday. out the world free of charge of the boiler room. a way that the user has no given along with appropriate and the five hundred replies, arry davibs (2i) a G Politics Post-grad was Shuttleworth was asked to further need of referring to thermodynamic data over a 50%, to a questionnaire, indi­ Three fire-engines with a cate that the material was either tender turned up, and firemen elected Chairman Of Debates at repay this loan at the beginning the original literature to dis­ range of temperature. last Wednesday’s meeting. of last year. During the sum­ cover the data he requires. This immediately useiful or of some broke into the boiler-room value for future reference. with a crow-bar. Although mer vacation a Court Order saves valuable time. Financed and instituted by He was the victor in a three there was still smoke there, Cornered fight against Paul was issued but still has not the Office for Scientific and they couldn’t find the source. been served. Technical Information, the So far, the reports have Cousins (later elected Publicity Reports covered reactions of vital The caretaker of the flats, Secretary) and the Clerk of Previously Student loans scheme is under the direction interest in the study of air Debate, Vic Parker. of Professor P. Gray and Dr. pollution. Mr. Cameron, said that the have been completely confiden­ The information is in the gardener in charge of the old tial but since the court proceed­ D. L. Baulch along With a staff Garry Davies succeeds form of reports issued every graveyard which the flats over­ Martin Verity who resigned as ings are public Exec are taking of two post-doctoiial fellows Development in other look, had been burning some six months. Eight or more re­ Chairman after only three action now. and a clerical assistant. countries seems to be likely in leaves nearby. The smoke had lated reactions are treated the near future. This, perhaps Debates. /Mr. Shuttlewortih was sent been sucked into the air ducts separately in each report and The firsit reports have been will take place on an inter­ of the ventilation system for Other posts filled were: Chris down two' sessions ago national scale through the for repeatedly failing has the data is compiled, tabulated circulated to individuals, re- the boiler room and had Gerry — Convenor of Debates, exams. Committee on Data for Science spread from there. No damage and Mike Smith — Assistant and presented on an Arrhenius search groups and University and Technology. was caused by the smoke. Convenor. 2 UNION NEWS — Friday, 31st October, 1969 LEEDS STUDENTS IN ^JNION NEWS has advocated the review of O.G.M.’s which to most people would seem quite reasonable, considering that over the last few terms O.G.M/s have BIAFRAN been consistently inquorate and are therefore not per­ forming their proper function. The concern a lot of|lj~ people have shown over The O G K is an institu- PROTEST what they see to be a move- tion for every student and 3 ment to abolish O.G.M.’s privilege that at the moment has been shown in the re- is not being used. Should the by Peter de Haan action to the Union News students who are interested suggestion of reform. Let it in havin8 their views aired ^ coach-load of Leeds University students drove over be said here and now that Put them to others? The 200 miles on Sunday to participate in a demon­ Union News does not sup- answer is but PeoPle stration urging the ban of arms sales to Nigeria. port the abolition of the failed- However there is ...The sudents, mainly from the i— , , O.G.M. stiN h°Pe- Liberal Society and Biafra1 ckimed such sloSans as Put There are two solutions ^he only other way to Society, joined a crowd of over a dead Biafran in your tank- 1,500 in Trafalgar Square to bV M lnS W She11, °r to the problem of the make the O.G.M. a proper attend speeches given by Jo B P'” A ™bed ^ O.G.M. Th* first is to get useful representative body Grimond M.P. (in the chair), as a skeleton ^ P laVed the students interested in them «s to increase the quorum Hugh Fraser M.P., Michael Picard “Bntain rules the grave Biafran Demo.