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At a Court meeting on than half of the EU Day Nursery discussed at two University sub­ use the two nursery buildings for. little market value. The present children are under this age. committees no representative Fully adapted for a nursery high standards at the nursery have Monday (15th March) the Facilities for children under 3½ from the University have actually school's needs, the University been established over a 15-year fate of the Day Nursery is years are just not available and visited the nursery yet to see what couldn't convert them into student period. To set up a nursery now, or to be decided. The Day registered child minders are services and facilities it provides flats as the renovation would in the near future, with the new difficult to obtain even if students and to speak to the students who devour the so-called £10,000 regulations, would cost far too Nursery caters, primarily could possibly afford the required would be so badly hit by its saving. It would seem that the only much. A closure now means a for the children of fees. No other nursery facilities closure. Parents have written to road open to them is to sell the closure for good. Edinburgh students but can meet the hours required by a members of Court and to the buildings. The cost of renovation This issue concerns all students academic staff are also student who has to attend national press pleading their case would also inhibit potential and women should especially take lectures. and last weekend the matron of the often able to make use of At the moment the Day Nursery Day Nursery wrote to all members the service. charges 15 per cent of a student's of Court inviting them to visit the Mary Braid reports. or member of staff's income for nursery. lt will be interesting to see At present 29 students use the child care. This of course means how many take up this offer before service and many of those that the fee paid by students has to the decision on Monday. students will be forced to give up be subsidised. In the past the SA Of the Court members, only one their studies should the proposed and the University have both of the 23 is a woman - a fact which closure of the nursery be allowed subsidised the service. The SA is could prove crucial. One hopes to go through. Closure woud also still prepared to come up with the that personal views as to the right mean the loss of 14 jobs - nine of money but the University, it of women to combine studying those full time and this would seems, is reluctant to do so. with having children will not herald the first redundancies in A statement issued by Mark colour the decision to be made. Scottish Universities due to cuts.,, Kennedy this week reaffirms the Looking at the financial The existence of of a service EUSA's commitment to the Day arguments does not strengthen such as the Day Nursery should Nursery and declares its proposed the case for closure. The "saving" never be callously viewed in the closure is a disgrace. Priorities, is a pittance when compared to the light of purely financial argument Kennedy states, are all wrong and University's income. A high but even if this is done financial the EUSA will take any action percentage of the children at the arguments seem to be somewhat necessary to keep the nursery nursery have foreign students as Graphic by Ann Cameron weak in relation to its closure. open. parents. A closure of the Day buyers. The possibility of closure was Examining the social considera­ Nursery would mean the loss of a A closure of the Day Nursery it into t::onsideration. Often one tions there is little or nothing to not announced to parents until last: service which is especially now means that a future reopening doesn't realise the worth of such a support the proposed closure. For month but in that very short time: attractive to foreign students. This would be virtually impossible. The service until it becomes necessary a "saving" of £10,000 14 jobs are to opposition support has gathered would no doubt mean a loss of OS cost to set up the Nursery again, at to use it. A lobby of the Court be lost and 52 nursery places for great momentum. 4,000 signa­ fees to the University which they a future date, would be meeting on Monday will take place students' children would tures have already been obtained already consider to be a astronomical in comparison with at Old College entrance at 1.15 disappear. Lothian Region is only for petitions at present being substantial source of revenue. the paltry £10,000. Much of the pm. A good turn-out is essential if able to pro\lide Day Nursery care circulated. Although the subject of Nursery staff are bemused as to' nursery equipment although the Court decision is to be for children over 3½ years. More closure has alrea?y b~en what the University, can possibly adequate for present needs, has influenced.· ccupat1on RECTORJAL ; NOW . Last Monday (1st students' action. Thus, a rather remain unsupportive; they now At t'he hustings in DHT on whether the"'SWSO speaker was or March) a General Meet-· absurd situation has arisen seem the only stumbling block to a Monday, JULC candid:- ... Willy was not John Deason, their ing of the Art College whereby members of staff who unified protest from all sectors of Roe and liberal Party leader David candidate; voters can be assured had previously signed the petition the college. Steel laid major emphasis on the that it was none other than Alistair Students' Union agreed have felt unable to enter the Meanwhile, something of an respective amounts of time they Walker - Deason himself will by an overwhelming college without blacking theirQwn educational commune has would be able to spend on the job appear at the hustings today majority upon a mandate union . evolved among~t the students; a of Rector; when asked what would (Thursday). Walker emphasised All week the occupation has full timetable of classes is running happen in the event of his that the Rector's primary function to commence immediate strengthened, with at least 100 throughout the day, and these are becoming Prime Minister, Steel should be to "fight the cuts", occupation of the college students staying in the college often supervised by senior replied that he would ··resign" if he stressing that Deason would do all buildings in · concert with each night, arguments with staff students; whilst the models, who didn't have the time to do the job in his power to futher this aim via continue at the door each have joined the action, are properly. Roe pointed out that, as direct action. the NUS "Week of Action" continuing to work a normal day. he will not be standing for re- There will be hustings in Teviot over the proposed 4 per All-night movies are being shown election as councillor in May, he Row at 6 this evening (just before cent grants increase and and impromptu cabarets would be in a better position to the General Meeting!), and polling education cuts. Support frequently take place. The external keep in touch with the University. station on Friday are as follows: focus of the campaign has taken a Julian Goodare, speaking "n DHT Basement, George Square was expressed by the variety of forms: leaflets have been behalf of the Amnesty candidate, Theatre, Main Library Basement, college executive, assum­ handed out along Princes Street Marimuthu Subramoney, under- Dick Vet, McEwan Hall, New ing no "in·ternal dis­ and Teviot Row, indicating about standably had little to say on this Senate Hall, Old College, JCMB, 70 per cent support from the matter. There seemed to be some KB Union; all 9.30-5.30. Bush Field ruption", and a letter of general public: models have posed doubt around the basement as to Centre, New College; 11-3. concern was sent out to in Lauriston Place (gale-force all Scottish MPs. Tony Graphic by Ann Cameron winds not withstanding) for morning , and the students drawing classes. and succeeded in _____ AND THEN Wallis reports. continue to deny them entry to the grabbing a good deal of media On Tu esday morning the college. Students, worried over coverage. The college is gripped In 1935 Leon Trotsky, Edinburgh. students set up a picket line at the the occupation's effect on project by an exuberance of political (etc) then exiled in Paris, was I appreciate this mark of college entrance to try and deadlines, scored a victory when activity: outside a slogan invited by a group of confidence all the more because, persuade members of staff to sign the Principal's committee agreed proclaims - "We can't afford as you yourselves say, you are a petition in support of their to suspend the official academic canvas so we're drawing on the Edinburgh University acting regardless of the British action. Whilst NALGO and NUPE programme and postpone all hand pavements", a proliferation of students to stand for Government's refusal to grant me pledged unilateral support, a chalk drawings gives evidence; in dates until normal conditions election as Rector of the a visa. Even so, l do not believe that "large minority" of ALSCI resume. On Friday morning the yellow footprints lead to the dole I can properly accept your ('academic) and ASTMS (techni­ academic staff met and finally° office roun·d the corner,, University. The original of invitation. You write that the cal) staff ."refused to sign, and a pledged unanimous support for anticipating future prospects; and the letter which Trotsky Rectorial elections are held on a fracas developed when they were the students' action; they are now the Jolly Roger has been hoisted wrote in response , non·political basis and indeed denied entry to the building. As a likely to sign the petition and so be from the rooftop, committing, your letter is signed by representa­ result ALSCI and ASTMS called given access to the building. The incidentally, the capital offence of declining to stand as a tives of every tendency of political their members to strike against the technical staff have decided to piracy_. candidate, has been thought. But I myself occupy a gifted to the University - political position whic h is only too Stop Press: The Art College occupation ended on Monday clearly defined. All my activity has night, tne day before the Budget was announced, due to a General coincidentally part way been and remains dedicated to the Meeting vote. through the 1982 Rec­ revolutionary liberation of the to ri a I campaign. A proletariat, bowed beneath the translation of the letter, yoke of capital. This atone entitles The Magnificent Seven me to occupy any position of Seven motfons are to be Cyrenian home in Edinburgh. replacing ot tne Polans system by from the original French, responsibility. I should therefore presented to the last General The most importan t motion will the Trident system at a cost of at is reproduced below. regard it as a felony towards the Meeting of this term tonight. This no doubt be that which proposes least £5,000 million will do doubt "7th June 1935 working class and as an act of General Meeting will take place at general opposition to any rent have its share of debate as will the To the students of the University disloyalty to yourselves if l were to 7 pm in the McEwan Hall. increases above the 4 per cent motions on abortion and fascism/ of Edi,iburgh appear in any public arena Two of the motions presented grant increase with student racism. Dear Sirs, otherwise than under the flag of are expected to go through support for other higher education The last motion may mean that I am very grateful to you for your Bolshevism. I have no doubt that unopposed. These involve support inStitutions taking action on this Mark Kennedy will be forced to most unexpected and flattering you will find a candidate who is for anti-apartheid dissidents in issue. The general support built up wear a kilt around the University invitation to stand for the post of much more in accord with the South Africa and support for the in last week's library sit-in should for a week. This could bring the Rector in your University. The traditions of your University. Cyrenian organisation which aims hopefully mean a quorate passing term to an an amusing end. freedom from all nationalist I wish you with all my heart every to aicf the homeless. University co- of this motion although the motion Ian MacGregor considerations which this demon­ success in all your labours and I operation is particularly' requested should still prove controversial. strates does the greatest honour to sign myselffully in the Possible setting up of a Tfie motion _concerni,!19 the the spirits of the students of Trotsky." THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982 3

his duties, small may they be. resulted in a considerable financial loss for the society I 00000 attempt to publicise and could equally do so in other struggling 'student'saySoo oo societies. Yours sincerely, The Rector - Your Choice ..& WIiiiam M, F. Montagu-Pollock. Action", a course which this paper supports if it is well Tomorrow sees the University Rectorial election, in organised and of some value but one which is Religious Vomit which it is vital that all students and staff participate. certainly not viable as a continuous strategy - The four candidates; Willy Roe, David Steel, John Dear Sir, fighting for the sake of fighting never benefitted I wholeheartedly agree with Deeson and Maimuthu Subramoney· are of widely anyone. David ~ obertson's recent article on diverse persuasions and all are worthy of close Along with Willy Roe the favourite for winning the homosexuality. It's about time that the Christian position was voiced scrutiny. post is of course the Roxburghshire boy-wonder loud and clear on such issues; and Willy R,oe, the candidate supported by the SRC and David Steel. His campaign is one that questions the David has shown that heis unafraid Campus Trade Unions is standing as an effective to stand up and be counted. Let me, character of the Rectorship in that he denies that a however, develop David 's voice for students and staff; to preserve standards, Working Rector is necessary. With the popularity of argument further. protect jobs and maintain services. He has no conflicts Anthony Ross, who has been just that, and the scale of Firstly, I believe homosexuality is wrong - sinful - because the of interests and will be a Working Rector in much the today's cuts and grants problems this is patently Bible expressly condemns it. I'm no same way that Anthony Ross has been during his term absurd - now more than ever we need a Working Bible-thumping, Moral Majority crank who hasn't been oiled for 50 of office. As such, it is essential that Willy Roe wins Rector. What we do not need is a carpetbagger whose years but am a young, alive the election, simply because it is he who will most ambitions lie at Ten Downing Street rather than in Christian who believes the Bible to actively defend our interests and fight most effectively be God's revealed will, and efficiently doing the job of Rector. "But I can represent therefore, truth. for the future of this University. you in Parliament," he says - Steel does not have to Secondly, David's point that If elected, Roe (and David Steel) will also start a be Rector of this University to defend it in the House of gays are unnatural is perfectly plain. Just as a person who is born campaign to free Banned South African journalist Commons. In his campaign to add another feather to with a physical defect such as a Marimuthu Subramoney whose election stance has his cap Steel must fail, as indeed he did six years ago. deformed limb is not considered natural, so a p8rson who might be successfully highlighted this reprehensible form of Thus from the candidates who have a realistic born with homosexual tendencies South African Government oppression. chance of winning there is a choice of an unavailable, is unnatural - a perversion of An outsider is Socialist Worker candidate John nationally known Mr Nice Guy or a man who will be God's order. It's part of God's wonderful plan that kids are only Deeson, an unemployed ex-docker who apparently accessible and fight for our interests. The latter is born to a man and a woman joined hates students (which is hardly likely to assist him in infinitely preferable: the latter is Willy Roe - it is he together rather than man and man or woman and woman". However, his task). His platform is on No Cuts and " Direct who should be your choice for Rector. that does not mean to say that society must brand gays as outcasts. Rather, Christians must show gays that although they have a sinful condition, God can cleanse them of their sin and restore them. Probably this letter is a lone sheep amongst many wolves. Nevertheless the views here "Student" - Merit, of a nominee have been discussed expressed reflect the Christian at meetings of the JULC since the angle, an angle which sadly has Commitment and beginning of this academic year, been swamped nowadays by Involvement Shock the topic was on the 3genda of all godless rationalism. Dear Sir, the constituent unions in the JU LC, Yours, Ken Murray's rhetoric is, if I may including the Students' Associa­ Nigel Anderson. be so bold, like a noisy, wet fart; it tion, at the same time. It is likely that is a great relief to the perpetrator, never in the history of the but everyone else finds it base, University's Rectorial elections offensive, and smelly. have so many members of the I refer, of course, to his letter University community been Staff... engaged in open discussions " Illiterate" of last week. It is all very EDITOR about the post as those which well for our Ken to pontificate on Jim Levi the virtues of Tory policy which culminated in the JULC ' s nomination of Willie Roe. few people listen to, and even Assistant Editor The EAUT was actively involved fewer, Ken Murray included, Graeme Wilson understand, but when he launches in this process from its inception. The topic was discussed at officers' an attack on the standards of News Editors meetings in the first term, and at journalism in Student it is too Mary Braid length in two committee meetings. much. Jenny Turner He tells us that Student contains At the last committee meeting it was decided that the EAUT could · no "jewels of journalistic intellect" £ Features Editor and launches a cruel attack on the not properly give official support to 1 David Stead proof readers. Anyone who has "S tudents will nPvor take NUPE Members' jo/;!s " Mark Kannady 1981. the JULC candidate without seen the original draft of one of Mr editors listen to his trite babblings; and get him to stand against Prince· cons u It in g its me rTl bers hi P Arts Graham Gamble Murray's letters will know what a how much longer will they have to Philip. One honorary position is through a general meeting. The Fred Price difficult job proof-reading and decipher his messy, turgid prose? enough for any university. committee resolved, however, to Pop Caroline tsrnnie sub-editing can be. The very thought makes me puke. John Palmer, publicise the platform of the JULC · ports Keith Nunn The staff of Student work very In conclusion, it would be naive candidate to the membership. What's On Heather Baird hard, editors are· appointed on to threaten Murray with a pille,ry- •------• Several EAUT members, including Jane Lloyd merit and their suitability for the ing or even character assassins- So what! com_mittdeeW_ m_ emRbers,d have Lifestyles Chris Kershaw 11 job, unlike SAC members, and tion in the pages of this august nominate 1 Ie oe an many Contributors Ian McGregor their work, the commitment to and manual, for he is his own worst " In recent weeks the contents of others have pledged their support. Tony Wallis involvement in. which can be seen enemy and will manage very well some of the articles in Student Willie Row, moreover, is the only Zerina Haniff every week is not made _any easier on his own, thank you very much. have been anti-Christian, of low candidate in this Rectorial election Sandy Murray by haranging from half-witted, But might I remind Murray that as moral standing and, in some to stand on policies which have Frances Wood saliva-spraying, hard-boiled the elections approach, he may cases, the1a .nguage used has been been endorsed at recent EAUT Sarah Murray toadies like Ken Murray. This is find out the hard way that the blasphemous. PRAY that God general meetings. David Nice not to say that Student does not punters shouldn't mess with the will raise up some of his people Yours faithfully, Andrew Phillips welcome or even encourage power of the press. to ·work on this newspaper and P. Vandome, Peter Wrench Yours etc. maintain higher standards in its EAUT Rep on JULC. criticism. What Student does not Photographs Gavirl°'Fulton want is gratuitous and mis­ lain M. Hackett content." Gordon Boyd informed criticisms of the Murray P.S. Ken Murray is far more -from a C~ristian Union Wee Drew's Neil Dalgleish genus. boringbe even than if she Mary tried. Braid could ever .,______• . Newsletter•Dear "Incompetence" Sir, Colette Ryan It is quite clear frbm the content Graphics Ann Cameron and nature of Ken Murray's Toby Porte Steel Slammed EAUT - the mist clears I would like to take the correspondence, both now and in opp0rtunity of advising all Elaine Gow the paSt, that his main aim is to Advertising Neville Moi Dear Sir, registered societies when have his name appear as many Dear Sir, Or Hammersley's letter and your considering placing an announce­ times as possible, so that by the A pertinent question. accompanying headline (Student, ment in the Midweek listings that time he comes round to stand for. If David Steel and his cam­ 4.3.82) are misleading in important they should in their dealings with a laigh year (this year?) he will be a paigners think that student represen'tation has reached the respects. The EAUT President's the bumbling idiot editing the S1U>ENT "weel kent face" Crude but claim that consideration of a Joint Association's newspaper, put effective. level where we do not need a The Basement, Union Liaison Committee pressure on him, "wee drew". to Student react, as always in a "working Rector" then I must beg, the question why do we need a candidate for Rector was confined fulfil the undertaking printed at the 1 Buccleuch Place good-humoured way to Ken top of the listings. That details sent Murray's baitings, which is Rector at all? If Steel is only after to meeting~ of the JULC is not true. 031-667 5718 While the principle of a JULC, "will be printed". The incompe­ laudable. How much longer must another feather in his 'eg o, make Est. 1889 Rectori al candidate and the choice tence of "wee drew" Horberry in hard-working journalists and the Chancellor an elected position 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982

Week of Action Climaxes cuts; a poin·rwell worth taking note · unemp'loyed in Britain. We face a educate us to use this leisure noticeably fixed when Ken asked Edinburgh ' s highly of; Steel himself has only received future in which we will have more constructively ... we must oppose whether s.tudents wanted a Rector successful 'Week of half a dozen. and more leisure time. Universities the whole package of Tory cuts.· who gave them verbal, or active Action' and the week­ Willy Roe, Labour Councillor for Activate! support. The audience positively Lothian Regi,rn and the SRC exploded ... they weren't the only long session of ones. rectorial candidate, appeared to The Rector left the floor to gatherings in the Library be feeling the strain after a week of collect his pension amid Detonate! basement ended with a over-exposure in George Square. enthusiastic applause, which He pointed out that students must developed into frenzy as Ken 'You have finally dished the bang on Friday, when fight hand in hand with the young Livingston stepped up to speak. myth that Edinburgh students are rectorial candidates unemployed; Roe may be no 'Red' Ken was in Scotland to get apathetic', Mark Kennedy said. He David Steel and Willy media messiah, but his nervous the Scottish Labour Herald going, warned that the Students' style seems to conceal good sense and was just the thing to revive the Association would not tolerate Roe, present Rector and genuine concern. flagging energy of bleary sitters­ rent increases of more than 4%, Father Anthony Ross, and Educate! in. He began by endorsing the proposed 'rise' in the student Ken Livingston from GLC Father Antnony Ross's last everything the Rector said, and grant. He has written a letter to Sir public appearance as Rector was went on to call for greater Keith Joseph to this effect. penetrated the smoke­ as inspiring as we have come to solidarity between students and Our sober Senior President screen with a rousing expect. He deplored the cuts, Trade Unions. 'I don't think we can went onto tell us that the work-in is especially in support for overseas be defeated - we are at a break only a 'mild forerunner of what is rally . . Jenny Turner students, and emphasised the rote point. Either we transform now to to come'. 'I'm sick of being told to reports of the University as a 'centre of socialism, or it's downhill all the be sensible and to negotiate. I'm ideas, open to everyorie ... from way on the Tory road.' sick of being responsible. We 'll Rectorate? every part of the world.' All cuts ii'I Ken deplored the non-commital start being responsible when the Government, is responsible and Former Senior President David public spending, he continued, are policies of British government's Steel reiterated much of wnat he related to the trend of cutting the over the last 30 years - especially treats us the way we deserve'. said . last Monday in DHT; he humanities - and humanitarian­ those of the Labour Party in Has Kennedy been playing it cool .18ude: Spring Recruiting Visits a good about the work and about yourself, who had just finished a work-in at ;; whirl may now feel a bit flat if and may well change your initial George Square Library. Having .,::,­ nothing definite has emerged order of p~ference. Moreover, just heard some stirring speeches ~ therefrom. Never mind - you've you will get a better deal for the by David Steel, Willy Roe, Father not original. Everyone knew the attention ot the 5,000 million being .been blooded and are. wiser now relative chances of securing an Anthony Ross and the heroes of issues and the arguments: spent on Trident and the £14,000 than when you started. This is the opening in different fields, early the GLC, Ken Livingstone and Ted students couldn't go on living like million being spent to keep people critical moment to ·review your enough in the season to adjust Knight, the Edinburgh students this, our standard of living was unemployed. She asked for strategy, discussing it frankly with your tactics. were in good spirits. This, continuing to decrease, parental support in the opposition to those in whom you have The need to run alternatives is however, proved to be in keeping contributions were being unfairly Tebbit's "anti-trade union confidence. particularly pressing if your first with the general atmosphere of the frozen, the rate of inflation Was legislation". It may be that you have focused choice is notoriously difficult of NUS demonstration. being ignored in this so-called The trade unions were well too finely on only one or two access, viz Publishing, Journal­ Most Scottish universities and increase, etc. Some other crucial represented. John Pollock, STUC employers. 'I wanted to get into ism, Broadcasting, Advertising. To colleges were represented at the points, however, were made. chairperson, later addressed the Marks & Spenser'. (So did an acknowledge the prudence of demonstration and some colleges Martin O'Neil, MP, Labour Party meeting. Mr Pollock emphasised excessively large number of having alternatives - importantly in the North of England were also spok-esman for education, referred the increased pressure on parents people). This should perhaps be in sectors of more modest com­ there. Most of these, whether to the systematic dismantling of due to the freezing of parental modified to: 'I want to get a first petition - need in no way weaken affiliated to NUS or not, had just our education system since 1979. contributions. He also claimed class training in Retail your determination to break into completed some form of individual (After the collapse of Labour's NUS to be th~ only body capable Management'. (This gives you a the field on which you have set action in protest at the 4 per cent Education Utopia.) Mr O'Neil of protecting student interests great many organisations to your heart. Indeed, the grant "increase" offer. Individual pointed out that in a recent survey needed national representation. approach, not all of whom come incremental approach to such action had now ceased in most of final year students at Glasgow This allowed Neil Stewart to on the Milk Round, and some of elusive careers may be fruitful cases and this occasion provided 75-80 per cent of them had bring the meeting to a fitting end. It whom are regional). anyway; by this is implied, say, a an opportunity for bringing all overdrafts. These overdrafts were, was quite obvious that NUS did The next step is to consider spell in Marketing before crossing action to a common focus. according to Mr O'Neil, informal not really feel that the Government widening the range of jobs you will over to Advertising; working in a The demonstration did succeed loans. This point was reiterated would go back on its 4 per cent consider. Thus, to take our bookshop before again trying for in its aim to bring student later by Neil Stewart, chairperson offer in the Budget. This led Neil example further, there are several editorial work in Publishing; discontent over the 4 per cent of NUS. Stewart to promise that NUS alternative careers only half a step becoming an expert in a chosen "increase" to the public notice. The second speaker repre­ would be mounting an even bigger away from retailing such as field before reapproaching The occasion was well covered by sented the Scottish Universities campaign in the third term against Merchandising, Selling, Purchas­ Journalism and/ or Broadcasting. the TV and press and Glasgow Joint Union Committee and asked ren t increases and the like." If they ing and Supply, Domestic Banking Finally, we would commend a shoppers received the message at that manual staff be considered in make our lives miserable then we'll and so on. Consider the elements shorter horizon. The 'forty years closer hand. Starting at relation to this 4 per cent ma l-. e theirs miserable," he which appealed to you in your first and a gold watch' view of careers is Blythswood Square and ending up "increase" for students as thI~ ·dee ired. This sentiment is shared choice and look for jobs with· likely to be misplaced anyway. The at Strathclyde Union, the demon­ would a ffe c t services an ri by E'IJSA. Mr Stewart declared that similar content. more pressing issue is to get that stration had to be sectioned off therefore their jobs. The 4 per cer a Jnt is a right and not a Not that one is restricted to first vital bit of work experience, due to the numbers which had to be seen in the light of this p r. ,ege and that parents had relate(»o-fields. To think you can and the environment in which that attended. Government ' s attitude to already paid "through the nose" only be successful at, and enioy, experience is secured, matters Many telegrams had been youngsters in general. £15 was to for it. Mr Stewart finished with an one type of work is to have a pretty less than you think. It is one of received by NUS in support of the be the new sum offered to YOP appeal for unity amongst all those poor view of your own range of life's ironies that it is easier to get protest including one from the workers with no social security associated with colleges and talents and potential. There is another job when you're in a job­ Association of University offered if the YOP job wasn't universities to work together to , much to be said for running three this has to do with information Teachers and one from Northern accepted. In answer to the protect each other's interesis and quite disparate possible networks, work linkages.and not Ireland Region colleges. Most of Government's continual claims of the interests of the higher employments right through your least, personal confidence. what the guest speakers said was no money the representative drew education system in general. THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 198, 5 PUBLISH •••

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in a situation where fixed costs possibly no abIlIty to make artistic form a larger part of total cost and considerations. He must strike a cannot be spread over a greater balance between the over­ number of books, tending to raise eagerness of past years and the prices. High prices have also been conservative cynicism of recent a criticism of the Board's years. This of course Is meaning­ publications, with standard size less if no titles are forthcoming hardbacks retailing at over £16. and the Board often has manu­ This type of book is considered a scripts submitted that have been long-term asset, selling out in rejected by several L o ndo n several years. So will Mr Kravitz·s ho uses. This year o nly four have chairmanship lead the Board to been submitted that were deemed solvency? Not this year, of course, suitable for publicati o n . the with the state of publishing budget assumed that eight would generally being depressed, like all be so. To attract work, he hopes to industries, but in the "next few introduce new typesetting styles years" A promise of jam to enable a wide range of options tomorrow? to be available to both Board and NEW TYPEFACE, NEW author. One extra contract, he says, will repay this investment. STYLE have been spent, the total cost of What else lies in the future of the Graeme Wilson EUSPB to the SA will have been PERIODIC CHANGES around £100,000. Board? Change$ in the structure talks to Pete r of the Board will. hopefully, The Board are · also keen to decision-making, resulting in THE KRAVITZ WA Y engencter a more knowledgeable, expand the use of typesetting Kravitz, the Chair­ serious financial problems. The professional attitude to publish­ facilities for outside contracts and Board had been subsidised from Peter Kravitz brings to the ing. In the past, many Board to expand their range of man of Edinburgh its origins with no pressure upon it chairmanship what he hopes will members were third or final year periodicals. The New Edinburgh University Student to become self-financing until the be a new approach to publishing students, more interested in Review will shortly come under the Honorary Treasurer in 1979 that will exorcise the ghosts of additions to curriculum vitae than editorship of Allan Massie, and it is Publications Board attempted to bring an end to the past mistakes. The large losses of contributions to the Board. Now hoped his reputation and style will torrent of cash flowing into this the past financial year were first years only are considered, to double sales. bottomless pit of financial necessary to set its position ·.,;lear allow time for experience to The sales of Student wW be The fact that you're reading this incompetence by tabling a motion and objectives visible. w;:n the develop. He also hopes to expand expanded to include further article shows that you've become to a General Meeting of the past behind them, to stare anew, the Board beyond its present size edGcation establishments. The aware of the publishing work of Students' Association to wind up never again will financial EUSPB. Other publications that the B oa rd . This move was considerations be deemed sub­ you may be familiar with are the opposed by the then Chairman, servient to those of artistic worth, Pub Guide, Shopping Guide and Tim Willis, with all the publicity except when artistically "valid" the guide to art, entertainment, flair that could be expected from work can be cross-subsidised by leisure and agitprop in the capital, an organisation dealing in the books of greater sales capability Alternative Edinburgh. Many of its image-orient8d world of and lower literary value, as in all SlUDENT publications are the work of publishing. professional publishing houses. to 18. It's also his aim to make Board will also look sympathetic­ students and it also spends a great He sees the Board's opportunities decision-making less hierarchical ctlly on plans to publish a deal of Association funds. What's FINANCIAL MESS? as lying particularly in the fields of by expanding the number of book pop/ youth culture magazin.e with going on at 1 Buccleuch Place? Scottish history, an area of proved evaluations undertaken before a a Scottish emphasis to cater for Edinburgh University Student The General Meeting was market potential, and more books decision to publish is made and to the recent rise in Scottish self­ Publications Board was set up in flooded with EUSPB suporters in the mid-ranges of around £6-£7, stimulate discussion at meetings. awareness in this area, though one 1975 with two purposes. Firstly, to and the spirit of compromise won particularly aimed at the student There are no plans to publish in cannot help but feel this idea has publish Student, and secondly, to the day, the Board being voted a market which he feels, being a paperback, in spite of the fact that missed its chance. provide an opportunity for decreasing subsidy to diminish student publishing house, it has a most novels are sold to the public students to enter publishing as a from £16,000 in 1980-81 to £3,000, moral obligation to publish . for. in this format. basis for a career. It is, under its in 1984-85, with yearly adjust­ Several inescapable drawbacks, Mr Kravitz sees publishing as a The air of optimism which Mr constitution, a subcommittee of ments for inflation. The Board however, cloud the horizon. In the tightrope between financial Kravitz beings to his post is the SRC, though, by the nature of could not, however, meet even world of books, small is not success and lit.erary merit with inevitable, like all new appoint­ its specific interests, largely these generous fi nancial targets beautiful and EUSPB, unable to himself performing the balancing ments. Whether he can cover the autonomous. and, in the last financial year cope with the large print runs of act. The Honorary Treasurer, traces of past errors is something overspent by some £11,000. This, the major publishing houses, are though a direc:tnr. has no time and that only time will tell. CLOSED SHOP? apparently, wa s due to a "reassessment of the Board's • The chairmanship of the Board, financial position" - a though an electable post, is rarely depreciation of old book titles, laid open to electoral scrutiny due previously considered assets, now to the "closed shop" nature of the remaindered and worthless, and Board of Directors, of which any £1,000 of debts written off as candidate for chairmanship must irrecoverable. The books be a member. Entry to the Board of concerned were published since Directors, like any other position the financial year 78-79 and were, on the Board, is by selection only. only two years later, dismissed as This has often led to accusations valueless. Surely the accumula­ of the unaccountability in tion of £10,000 of unsaleable books in three years ia product of gross mismanagement? On this point Mr Kravitz is frank. Mistakes on a grand scale have occurred, particularly in the distant past. The anxiousness of the Board to publish something led to a lack of financial forethought and the resu lt was these ''dead losers" But what of the overspending? The SA's Finance Committee decided to treat the subsidy as a lump sum to be spent as required. By 1984 Books Books everywhere, and not a profit in sight. w hen the last of the subsidy will and go broke. 6 THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982 THE ELECTION The Likely Lads by Sandy Murray. Deason Tomorrow, all students and full-time members John Deason is a Qf staff will have the chance to vote in the election for the next Rector of Edinburgh revolutionary University. The successful candidate will hold socialist. office for three years and will face the challenge He sees the post of Rector as a of living up to the high standards set by the vehicle for confrontation with the retiring Rector, Father Anthony Ross. government. The struggle of stu9ents, he believes, ought to be The1e are four candidates for this election: linked with that of workers and the Socialist Workers' Party activist John Deason, unemployed. Regional Councillor Willy Roe, Liberal leader Although he and Willy Roe share an unequivocal opposition to the David Steel, and banned South African journalist cuts, they differ greatly on the way Marimuthu Subramoney. This page is a in which they plan to resist them. summary of what each of the candidates stand The Socialist Workers' Students' Organisation, who are respons­ for, with grpahics by Ann Cameron. ible for John Deason's campaign, Campaign, John Deason is collective opposition to the cuts. believe that Willy Roe is "full of already involved in the Socialist Citing the example of last week's worthy sentiments against the Workers' Party revolutionary Library occupation, SWSO say cuts but lacking any real strategy struggle. that by co-operating with the to fight them". Within the University, SWSO University authorities over What the SWSO strategy would like to take up a complete arrangements for it, the Students' consists of is direct action, "no cuts" policy. They believe that Association made the protest meaning agitation for strikes, the present policy will cause legitimate and therefore occupying official buildings and squabbling among the different ineffectual. SWSO believe that "challenging our rulers in society". sections of the University direct action should be made as As secretary of the Right to Work community, weakening our disruptive as possible, and in John Deason they believe that they have someone who could be the kind of "fighting Rector" who supports Subramoney this approach. Marimuthu Subra­ from publishing in South Africa. successful campaign would help Speaking exclusively to Student other people as well as himself. money is a victim of in a secretly arranged telephone "All my other friends are in the injustice. call last week, Marimuthu Subra­ same position," he emphasised, money asked that his campaign "and I wouldn't want myself As a black in South Africa, he should not be seen as concerned personally to be spotlighted." was aware in the starkest way with him personally. He said that a possible of the inhumanity of apartheid. He chose to fight it not with force but with reason. The South African authorities are now punishing him for his peaceful opposition. Marimuthu Subramoney was a not necessarily immediately. journalist. He opposed apartheid "Of course in the present in the most practical way available climate of public expenditure to him, by portraying its bitter Steel there·s very little chance that a reality to the world. After working government's going to do that," he for the Daily News in Durban for David Steel is re­ confessed, " but I think that ought eight years, he set up his own news to be the objective and the target agency, the Press Trust of South freshingly whole­ that a government moves towards Africa, in order to take a more some and likeable. over a few years." critical stance on the politics of The slogan of the Steel apartheid. His reports carried such As has been said before, he campaign is " The Positive authority that they were used by, seems too nice to be involved in Approach", an unfortunate choice among others, the BBC, the politics. Ken Livingstone's witty given its history of use bY a Canadian Broadcasting Corpora­ blend of praise and criticism at last likeable but unsuccessful tion, and the Australian Broad­ week's rally in the Library actually candidate in the Senior casting Corporation. made him blush. Presidential contast last year. "I ' On the 29th December 1980, the He is not, however, unaware of think what m'y campaign Minister of Justice imposed a political realities nor is he lacking committee mean by it," explained banning order on Mr Subra­ in ambition, even if it is safely David Steel, "is that the University money. There were no charges, no The Roe campaign is based on encased in an easy-to-swallow should be outward-looking and trial and no appeal. The banning three issues: the defence of educa­ sugar-coated form. He has forward-looking in electing order involved a number of tional standards, the extension of someone who is able to spearhead restrictions on his freedom of Roe emphasised, in the nicest possible democracy within the University way, the advantages to the the image of the University to the movement and association, as well and the forging of stronger links University of having a Rector with outside world." as specifically prohibiting him Willy Roe has a between the University and the political clout. lean and hungry wider community. Willy Roe's "At a time when education is supporters believe that as a former going through such national look. Honorary Secretary of the SRC difficulties," he said last week, and a Lothian Regional councillor. "having a voice in Parliament is a A bright young politician on the he is uniquely able to fill the role useful asset." make. witty, articulat e and cast for him. Although he does not use the genuinely interested in the Speaking last week, Willy Roe label of "working Rector", David University. explained why he thought the Steel has emphasised that he He fits so well into the mould of University ought to have a working would be an active Rector and not the ideal Rector that he could have Rector. " It is important because a remote national figure. " I would been consciously chosen with this the University's facing threats, not be available around the Univer­ in mind. In fact, he was. The Joint to its very existence, but certainly sity," he declared, "as and when Union Liaison Committee, an anti­ to the quality of ed ucation and the required. I'm making no pretence cuts pressure group of staff and standard of faciliti es. It is of being on the campus on a daily students with a fairly broad important that the University basis, and neither are any of the political base, had decided on the communi t y is united . The other candidates. IBut] I will kind of candidate they wanted Rectorship can be used, if the adjust my diary to suit the needs of before looking at particular Rector chooses to do so, as a the University." possibilities. means of unifying students and On specific issues such as Impressed by Anthony Ross's staff." student grants, David Steel term of office, they were looking Willy Roe is a great admirer of displays a cautiously reformist for someone who lived locally, the present Rector and his attitude which has characterised , who was able to devote the time approach to the job. "Anthony his political career. He believes required of a "working Rector" and Ross came down on the side of that the Anderson Committee who already had close connec­ fairness in the University," he said, Report should be implemented, tions with the University. With the ·'and that is what the Rector has to with student grants linked to need aid of this ldentikit, they tracked rather than parental income, but down Willy Roe. do." TH~ STUDENT Thursday. 11th March 1982 7 • THE ELECTION Rectors Past The Office of Rector in lo elect 'half-baked television a Scottish University is an ~ personalities' o r busy Westminster ancient one. Traditional­ o politicians. Muggeridge ' s 0 successor Kenneth Allsop had a ly, it has been no more ~ clearly defined notion of the work than sinecure, an honour o a Rector should perform - and set ~ a tradition In Edinburgh University conferred on some v, which has been almost unbroken gentleman of note, from ~ since. and which we should be politics or entertainment. i proud to maintain. Q:, In 1971 Edinburgh's Jonathan Last year, for example, ~ Wills became the first student in Glasgow University the country to hold the office of Rector of a University. Electing a elected Reginald Bosan­ student seemed the logical quet, who has remained a extension of the movement to focus for complacency increase student representation He and his successor, Gordon and regret ever since. Brown, student Rector from 1972 In Edinburgh, however, until 1975, continued the Allsop tradition of a "working active we are developing a Rector", and at the same time traditional commitment politicised the office, pursuing for four years a carefully calculated to a different type of programme of reforms. Rector, and the office has The election of mag n us changed over the last Magnusson in 1975 ended the practice of student Rectors. T he fifteen years or so in University administration had several important ways. In 1858 the students gained, by as concern your affairs here." 1966 was the turning point. been clearly unhappy with a Act of Parliament, the right to elect In 1929 the notion of the Malcolm Muggeridge was elected student in the Chair of the Court, Here, Alan Little, takes a their Rector. and, dram then until 'absentee Rector' was challenged and, in a very short space of time, and had tried t hree times, look at the history of this the 1930s Edinburgh University for the first time. One candidate's became universally resented. He unsuccessfully, to remove the peculiar post. The experi­ regularly returned distinguished handbills slated "let it be clearly refused to take the role seriously, Rector from the Chair. With politicians from rival political understood that our candidate has and consciously set himself in the Magnus Magnusson they found ence of the last fifteen parties. The list of past Rectors undertaken to interest himself in o ld tradition first set by the Lord another way out. years dispute the cynical reads like a 'Who's Who' of 19th student life". Winston Churchill Provost - he held the post in In April 1976 "Student" carried century British politics: Thomas was returned in spite of this name only. He refused to respond this story: "Our sources in Old view that the Rector can century British politics: We. E. challenge. to the rising tide of student unrest College have revealed unofficially be no more than a Gladstone set the tradition as Afte r the War , student in t he late sixties, a n d , that the UNIVERSITY ADMINIS­ powerless figurehead. Rector from 1859-1865. Thoma, awareness of the benefits of increasingly under attack from the TRATION are planning to prevent Carlyle followed, admitting "or communicating w i th the student body, announced his a student from ever being Rector For over 200 years - until 1858 practically looking into the matte, University establishment resignation from the Pulpit of St again." Magnus Magnusson was - the obligatory holder of this as to whether there is any real duty increased, and the politicials gave Giles, in protest against declining not in touch with student opinion; honour was the Lord Provost of l can do at all - I live four hundred way to dIgnItanes from other moral standards. he had just returned from Iceland Edinburgh . The post was miles away in an ~ntirely different spheres of life; Alistair Simm 1948, Thrrteen years later, Anna and was currently in Jerusalem for aut omatically filled and scene of things and am therefore Sir Alexander Fleming in the Coote. then editor of 'Student' ten days. He returned only days automatically forgotten. unacquamted with such subjects 1950s. recalled; " he did it as a protest over before the crucial Court meeting students' 'Garadene slide' tnto where the Rector became, what he described as 'the resort of officially, a lay post. any old slobbering debauchee In 1978 Anthony Ross became anywhere in the world - dope and the first Rector to be elected by all bed' There was an almighty row. It students and all full time staff - An Idiots' Guide helped me to attach proper academic as well as non­ so easily have grown into a know how the Zulu sense ot importance to two activities I academic. In an eight-cornered nationwide movement against the humour is these days but I'm sure might otherwise have mistaken for race he defeated several well Qovernment. Subramoney is the it'll cheer them up no end to hear innocent pleasures" and th0se are known TV personalities including Idiot fused insolubly in my memory with Ludovic Ken ned y and Fran only other good vote. but st wck in that the sons and daughters of the S. Africa he has more than enough British Establ ishment which the ancient office of Rector." Morrison, and, in the last three problems of his own to be continually fuels their repression The ancient office has never years has acquired a deserved No 1 been quite the same. Students reputation as an excellent working bothered with ours as well. are showing "Solidarity" . And that leaves John Deason, Drel-Boy David. Presumably since 1968 have not been content Rector in the new Allsop tradition. Patrick Gun Cun­ who. unlike Roe and Steel. has accepted nomination for a job he ningham gives a been actively involved as secretary could never do by accident. but home. ·for the 'Right to Work' campaign in now he has to put a brave face on Second preference: WIiiy Row. the case for Steel. fighting against the policies that thlhgs and hope he loses without Having a high regard for both carefully-reasoned are going to make 20% of you being humiliated. David Steel and Willy Roe, I was appreciation of unemployed whethere you His election would certainly not sure who to give my second First preference: David Steel graduate or not. As rector, he cause much cheer in Old College, vote to w hen the campaign began. Having a leading politician who would use his influence to prevent where the empty chair at Court But over the past couple of weeks is both highly respected and to John Deason. any redundancies or course would greatly assist the "smooth I've got the impression that Willy some degree influential in parlia­ closures. Instead, he would implementation" of the cuts. Roe is the only candidate who mentary circles, would hopefully advoca t e the use of the Vier-John Deason stands for the could devote enough ti me to the give Ed inburgh students a Voting for John Deason may University's substantial private SWP, a small, highly centralised job. valuable forum to air grievances, seem like a fairly pointless shot in assets (£20,000 of which, and rather unsavoury grouping of Third preference: David Steel. l especially as far as Government the dark, when there are two such incidentally are going to be spent "Socialists who believe that direct have neve r failed to be impressed cuts are concerned. political giants as David ·wet on this sumriiers four hundredth action will win both in local by David Steel's ability and Deason. the SWSO candidate, is behind the ears' Steel and Willie celebrations - whoopee!) to meet struggles and in the fight to sincerity. I do feel , however, that too extreme and as such his 'Wimp' Roe standing. However, the cuts and call for protest transform society completely and no one who is so heavily involved activism is too impractical to the very fact that these two past­ occupations and other direct kick the Tories and their backers in in national politics could be a godd receive the consent of the majority masters of ·the 'sell-out' are action to prevent any further cuts. big business out for ever" And Rector . Having voted for· of Ed inburgh students. candidates, at a time when So if you really want to hit back at ever. Amen. Subramoney, though, I do not Th e A mnesty candidate, direction action is increasingly those Tory bastards, Deason's suppose anyone will take my Subramoney, deserves sympathy, becoming the only method of at your man. commitment to the idea of a but Amnesty's promotion of Subry least protesting against the cuts working Rector too seriously. seems little more than a publicity and many have already gone into Idiot John Deason. John Deason is stunt. occupation throughou t the the ideal candidate for someone Roe is the only other worth­ country, is more than enough to who sympathises with an authori­ while contender, his promises of put Deason at the top of my list. Idiot No. 3 tarian model o f socialism. being a working Rector and Steel's nomination is one of the Personally, I find it repulsive. someone who sympathises with most nauseating put-up jobs that Sandy Murray students obviously being in his even the establishment of this No. 2 favour. With potential like this he University could have concocte~. Colin Macilwain gives his verdict could make a good Rector. But The only comfort to be d~aw~ Is Steel's credentials are more that at least his current fl1rtatIon reviews the cliches First preference: Marlmuthu Idiot impressive, the most important is w ith the SDP will spare us his Subramoney. So what am I doing that Steel being a national figure, wincing tones if he does become Elns - WIiiy Roe. I, for one, think · voting for someone who will who at the same time will be in this election is about electing probably never be in a position No.4 rector. As for Roe he has already Edinburgh to hear what the­ shown himself to be a man of the someone who'll put their weight in even to visit Edinburgh? Put it students themselves have to say. highest calibre by participatin~ i~ Old College (stop yawning at the down to naive idealism. I am just Ian Stewart gives last summer's LRC 'compromise back) and, surprise. surprise, one of those poor, misguided over the local government cuts, here's a candidate who is actually eccentrics who put more when they had the overwhelming willing and able to do a good job! importance on the exposure of support of the rank and file for an Zwel-Marlmuthu Subramoney - barbarity abroad than on haggling Election Guide compiled by Sandy Murray. all out protest strike which could Gosh, a banned journalist! I don't over relative trivilaities nearer 8 THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982

Easter Activists Mad Max 2 (X) 2.10, 4.50, 7.45 Every which way but loose (AA) Thurs 11th March Labour Club DHT Faculty Room North I saw Mad Max and found it 4.10, 8.30 Amnesty International Scottish Education for Actlo disappointing, and I suspect from Every which way you can (AA) Teviot Row Debating Hall 1 pm. Development A!I welcome. what I've heard and read, that the 2.00, 6.10 1 pm. Mclellan Galleries, sequel will De even more so. Christopher Fyfe on 'Human Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Double-bill direct ed by and Economics Society However, if you enjoyed the Rights in South Africa' Sat 20th March, 10.30 am-4 starring Clint Eastwood. I've Southsider, 1 pm. original. I think I can safely Debate on Import Controls: always found his comedies Ottlclal Rectorlal Hustings Pub lunch. recommend this film. Set in disappointing, but this set, where Teviot Row Debating Hall will they affect Britai n's rel ship with the Third World? Australia in future times, it one of the toughest stars around is 6 pm. Mon 15th March observes Max and his companions Cost £2.50. upstaged by a bloody orangutang With candidates John Deason, El Salvador: Another Vietnam? defending a fuel dump against the for god's sake, in the absolute pits. Willy Roe, David Steel MP, and a (Film) 2nd National Convention villains. Both sides are representative of Marimuthu DHT Lecture Theatre B Scottish Assembly exceptionally cruel and violent, Classic Subramoney. 7.30 pm. Assembly Rooms, George S but at least Max's team's hearts are In Love with Sex (X) 12.30, 3.25, Sat 20th March, 10.30 am-5 in the right place. · 6.25 CND Tues 16th March Speakers include John P Hot and Naked (X) 1.55, 4.55, 7.50 Braid Room, The Pleasance UNECO MP, Jack Brand, Alex K' I'm not going to attack these films 7 pm. entucky Fried Movie (X) 1.30, PGSU Bar, 1 pm. Russell Johnston, Isobel Lin .10, 8.45 just because they've got a few Showing video of Women's Peace Ecology Party Pub Lunch. Cost £2. naughty bits in them. Besides, the Camp, Greenham Common. he Other Cinderella (X) 3.30, 6.55 All welcome. star of the first film, Mlle lse-lse hy they are showing a porno Scottish Conference in Sup Saboom has been a faniiiy friend EUSTV Wed 17th March ovie with Kentucky Fried Movie, the UN Special Session on ever since she attended Chambers Street House can't imagine. KFM attracted a SANE armament Cheltenam Ladies College with 1 pm. Chaplaincy Centre, Seminar Rm 2 ')mall crowd of admirers who Hall of the General Assembl my grandmother before the war. Showing news including 2 pm. found it outrageously funny when The Mound. it first came out, but it never highlights of the Week of Action All welcome. on Grants. Also interviews witl", Sat 27th March, 10.30 am-5 appealed to me. If you haven't Dominion Speakers include Prof Bar First Monday in October (AA) 5.02, Rectorial candidates, David Steel seen it, go ahead, you might enjoy swso Douglas Hurd MP, Anthony it - but give TOG a miss. 8.50 MP and Willy Roe. Chaplaincy Centre, 4.30 pm. Rough Cut (AA) 2.55, 6.43 All welcome. Anti-Trident Demonstration Two films which are star-studded Fri 12th March Arthur (AA) 2.25, 5.00, 7.50 EUSNA Glasgow but essentially blah - they've got Not still here? EUSTV The Pleasance Bar Sat 10th April, all day. marshmallow centres and couldn't King's Building Union Caley pm. punch their way out of a paper 1 The Alien (X) 4.05, 7.50 1 pm. Scottish Nationalist Association bag. This is OK - a group of (still) See above. pub lunch. All welcome. unknown actors gies a creditable Raiders of the Lost Ark (A) 3.21, performance, and are aided by Edinburgh Folk Fest some excellent camera-work and 5.54, 8.27 Mindless but amusing. Lots of March 26th-April 4th imaginative·special effects. After a people get shot and blown up - Festival Club in Teviot Row while the tension becomes doesn't that sound like fun? Well, 1t Easter The Folk Festival will b artificial and boring. The story is is. The Easter-Egg clo.imed from the Mercat C about the crew of a spaceshiJ: the High Street followed being whittled away by a hungry Roll Ball Gregory's Girl (A) 3.00, 5.20, 8.15 dance display and a proces predator. Oh, go away and leave us alone. Bedlam Theatre. That nig programme includes a Fi he Frog (X) 2.30, 6.00 Rally in the Usher Hall and his is trash - the ghosts are Filmhouse Out of the Blue (X) Thur, Fri, Sat 29th there is a folk ome leppers left to drown by the 6.15, 8.45 competition at the Pl ayhou nhabitants of a small village In a wonderfully honest film, Club. There will also be doz eturn to haunt their grand director and star Dennis Hopper small concerts being held in hildren 50 years later- including sees the myths and ideals of the and other venues througho he grandson of the Catholic generation he portrayed years ago Folk Festival. riest, which gives you sorrle idea in Easy Rider being torn apart. f the story-writer's intellig'ence. Rolling Easter Eggs Fascinating relationship between Calton him, as the father, and his punk at Arthur's SEat Tribute (A) 6.00, 8.30 jaughter. Highly recommended. April 11th I've always liked Jack Lemmon 11 am. but there he, and the film, ar~ Late Night Films Joi'n Duddingston Kirk S somewhat disappointing. He plays Film house School in their annual roll t a comedian who has captured Fri 12 late/Sat 13 Matinee competition. Bring your every heart in the wo rld bar one - The Marriage of Marla Braun (AA) painted eggs. his son's. Fassbinder fimly in Sirklar deon melodrama territory with a central n American Werewolf in London the m e of 'i rrec o n c ilabl e X)B.40 opposition for women between u(ry, hurry! I think it's going love and career'. oon. It's funny, it's gripping, I think you'll like it, so get into gear ·,Calton Studios and go. Also showing in The Caley Fri/Sat 11 pm cinema Frl/ Sat 11 pm. Don't miss Elephant Man (AA) the ultimate Ripping Yarn. How you feel you must look like Music the morning after some heavy Queen's Hall Usher Hall The Playhouse Fri 12th March 1930 hrs drinking. This is an excellent film. Fri 12th March 2200 hrs Blazing Saddles (A) Thur/ Fri 7 pm Scottish National Orchestr Monty Python and the Holy Grall Late-Night Jazz Classic New Orleans night. Paavo Berglund (A) Fri 11 pm Beethoven: Overture and T Most of you will hve seen these, New Orleans pianist Alton Purnell King Creon (A) with Barry Martyn (d rums) and the March , Ruins of At p robably many times. If you With the now decomposing Elvis Louisiana Jazz Band. Beethoven: Piano Concerto l1 aven't, then I'd recommend them Emperor. Debussy : Presley. Tickets,£2. Late bar and dancina. ·- they're both olassic comedies. . ,- - Rhapsody. Debussy: La Me Last Train from Gunhill (X) (Tickets £2.50-£7 .50.) Film Soc Sat 13th March 1700 hrs Part 1 Sat 13th March 1900 hrs (all showing at George Sq. 2000 hrs Part 11 ' The Edinburgh Highland R Theatre) St Matthew Passion Strathspey Society Fri 12th march, 6.45 pm (J. S. Bach) rhe Edinburgh Fiddle Night of the Hunter Complete performance in 3un 14th ivi arch~ 1 SOO hrs :oncert. l.20 pm. German. Operas of Puccini by Neville Major Dundee Tickets £2-£4. Garden A Sam Peckinpah production. Tickets £1 , members free. Sun 14th, 6.45 pm Atlantic City Made in 1980. iun 14th March 2000 hrs Canongate Kirk Wed. 17th March, 6.45 pm. Edinburgh Quartet Ned 17th March 2000 hrs - The Third Man with Elizabeth Macdonald, cello. Craig Sheppard, piano. A Carol Reid Production Beethoven Quartet No. 4 in C 8.30 pm minor, . Op. 18. Stravinsky North by North West Concert1no. Schubert Quintet in C MijdMax II A Hitchcock production with Cary major, Op. 163. Gr.ant • Tickets £2.20. THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982 9

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ivents ibitions ,. Thurs 11th March Mon 15th March Edinburgh University Debates i ymbollc Deaths: An Anthro­ Dance Workshop Teviot Row Debating Hall, 7.30 ologlca I Interpretation of Teviot Row Debating Hall pm, presents: This House deplores National Gallery icasso's 'Guemlca' 6 pm-8 pm. American involvement in El of Scotland , conference Rm School of Scottish Jumpers Dance Theatre from Salvador. Speakers from Until 21 st March ~ s1u dies, George Sq, 7.30 pm. Wales are holding a special Columbia University. New York. Poussin Sacraments and t A lilm and talk on Spanish fairs by workshop for students. Admission Wed 17th March Bacchanals. Mon-Sat, 1000-1700 iir ohn Corbin. £2. hrs. Sun 1400-1700 hrs. The Grand Edinburgh Adventur­ hirsty Disco Student TV ing Society he Pleasance, 10.30 pm-1 am. Talbot Rice Centre The Pleasance, Rm 7 and B. The Pleasance, 7 pm. resenting "Women's Noise". 6.30 pm. Until 31st March o(lle and enjoy yourself Sculpture by Fred Bushe. The news team meet. New Transcendental Meditation bsolutelv free. Mon-Sat 1000-1700 hrs. members welcome. 4 West Newington Place ri 12th March Tues 16th March 8 pm. Scottish National Canongate Tolbooth oga and Relaxation Chambers Street Union Portrait Gallery Sk; Club Until 27th March haplaincy Centre, Seminar Rm 2, Happy Hour 8 pm-9 pm. Until 31st March Lunch in Outil Room, The Beatrix Potter in Scotland om. Spirits 29p: Beer 39p. The Gentle Eye. Photographs by Pleasance, 12.30 pm-2 pm. contains a wealth of interesting Jane Brown of The Observer material which shows Beatrix at 13th March EUFSS EUGC The Crown, Drummond Street Potter not only as the author of hambers Street Disco TV Room, Chambers Street, famous books for children but also ive band . 60p. 8 pm. 1.30 pm. National Museum Folk Song Society Workshop. as a naturalist and conserva­ of Antiquities Y- uclear Cabaret Gliding Club tionist. Pl easa nce Theatre, 7.30 pm. Until 31st March orr ickets pr iced £1.25 from .Fine Art Soc Overseas Students Henderson Gallery Dress in 18th century Scotland: 1at tu dents' Association Offices or at Fine Art Dept. 19 George Sq Party for all those left at the end of Until 31st March .)ark Age Si::ulpture: The Roman:: ~o· he door. 6.30 pm-8.30 pm. term. Friday 19th March 8.30 pm, Weaving by Anna Wiseman. And a in Scotlanc:: »'eapons, silver, etc. Life Drawing. 50p a session . 3A Buccleuch Place. Drinks stained glass exhibiton by Liz Mon-Sat 1OGG 1700 hrs Sun Scotland and the UK available. Rowley. Mon-Sat, 1030-1730. 1400-170( hrs. Extra-Mural Department, Student TV Bucc leuch Place, 10.30 pm. The Pleasance, 7.30 pm. ~ public discussion on cultural All other programmes but news and/or political matters. New members welcome. Theatre King's Theatre Bedlam v Shiatsu Massage Theatre Workshop 8th-13th March, 1930 hrs 10th-13th March 1930 hrs Hello Dolly East-West Centre, Stockbridge The Lover and presented by the Bohemian Lyric The Dumb Waiter · St Stephen Street Sal March 20th, 2 pm-4 pm Opera Company. by Harold Pinter, presented April 24th, 25th An in-depth introductory work­ 16th-30th March Abyss Theatre Co. os 9 am-5.30 pm. shop on techniques and exercises. Evening performance: b Learn a whole body massage you Sun March 21st 11 am-12 pm If One Green Boffle lo can immediately share with your A short technique class prior to Jesus Christ Superstar 1 bv Bill Anderson 1 frien ds and family. Cost £17 .SC choreography. (The Edinburgh Premiere) ldlal including lunch. Sun March 21st 1 pm-3 pm Evenings 1930 hrs. Mat Sat 2.30 The culmination 61 the weekend is pm. ~~ • Art into the '80s 0 an intensive choreographic 18th March-30th April e ~ eter Moore's Liverpool Project 6 workshop. arn ru it Market Gallery p; arch 13-April 24 Relative Values JI eter Moore takes a wide interest by Noel Coward the arts in both Liverpool and Royal Lyceum Theatre St Serf's Church Hall, Goldenacre ondon where he is a trustee of the 18th-31 st March ate Gallery and a governor of the 25th-27th March, 7.30 pm Jumpers BC. Tickets £1 available from Student Tom Stoppard's dazzling comedy. offices. ggomania - Scottish Opera Netherbow 12th March 1930 hrs aster Exhibition Playhouse Theatre Churchhill Theatre Wed 24th March and Fri 26th Macruness Guevara ttish Craft Centre, Canongate 11th-1 3th March 1930 hrs New play by the Glasgow Arts March. 7.15 pm. ril 5-24 The Edinburgh Theatre Aris Centre. Tosca Puccini 17th-3oth March 1930 hrs 13th March 1930 hrs Thurs 25 March and Sat 27 March dinburgh Zoo Edinburgh People's Theatre The Year of the Carriage 7.15 pm. New play by Theatre Workshop. The Pearl Fishers

Sunday 14th X Model JJ's Sport X Model, who feature ex Josef K 0 ~'""Thrum/Taxis Buccaneer Bar stickman Ronnie Torrance, debut ihis is free, so does anyone really at JJ's. Should be interesting, Judo are what the bands are like? Tap especially when combined with awamura/ Colquhoun Trophies k your toes as you sink your pints. the usual social cocktail of chat/ .. un. 14th march, 10 am. dance/ think/ drunk. Meadowbank Sporls Centre. ::,Friday 12th Basketball No Belle Stars Nite Club Hockey Multi Metals v. Mclarens Fi Off-shoot of the totally forgettable Monday 15th Scottish Inter-District Indoor Fri. 12th March, 7.15 pm. aspect of Two Tone, The Body­ John Cooper and Linton Kwesi Tournament Meadowbank Sports Centre snatchers. Should be aesthetically Johnson Queen's Hall Sun. 14th March, 11.30 am. Murray International metals v. pleasing, but whether their music Regular Music bring you a little bit Cumnock 1 Meadowbank Sports Centre. s as attractive as their bodies of cu lture from everyones Fri. 12th March, 8.45 pm. el remains to be seen. favourite Brummie and th e Meadowbank Sports Centre. socially conscious LKJ. If this was Rugby Scottish Basketball Association Edinburgh University 1st's v. rs Halcyon Days/Kashmir a gig, it would be gig of the week. Junior Cup Finals Buccanneer Bar Oxford Sat. 13th march, 2 pm. Fri 12th March 3 pm Kick off. Another chance to see two bands Iron Maiden Playhouse Theatre Meadowbank Sports Centre. free. Rumour has it th~t Halcyon No, this has nothing to do with Canal Field Days are in the U2 vein, but Maggie's pacification campaign Oxford v. Watsonians wh ether they·1 1· set your blood after the budget. Another wedge of Sun 14th March Thurs 11th March Oul sating, again, remains to be mental mayhem which will ensure Myreside >een. that hoards of denim jacketed Greyhound Racing: Powderhall Saturday 13th apparitions will clutter Leith Walk Football Stadium, Beaverhalt Road, 7.30 rhe Virgin Prunes Nite Club yet again. Hibernian v. Morton pm. ·resh fruit from Irish places, for Sat. 13th march, 3 pm. Sal 13th March hose of you who incline towards STOP PRESS Easter Road. e inaccessible. You'll love then The Beat bash on 12th march has Greyhound Ra cing: Powderhall r hate them. No happy medium, been postponed. Watch this space Stadium, Beaverhall Road, 7.3 ds. Gig of the week. should be Virgin Prunes for the new date. pm. sc inating. 10 THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982

"I want to make things and in a way it doesn't matter what I make" Talking

Student: Although you studied Chaucer at UniverSityt you were unable to start further research To until 1972. How did you maintain such interest?

Jones: Funny really. When I ~asat Oxford I had this niggling feeling that there was something about Terry the Knight which I didn't under­ stand. The Tale seemed very long and boring to me and I couldn't really see the point of it. I wasn't Photographs: very happy about the things l was Gavin Fulton being told so I thought I'd look up a historian's opinion rather than relying on MurielBowden.l read Sir Stephen Aunciman's account of Jones, best the siege of Alexandria and that set me thinking. When I restarted known as one of my research I envisaged writing the Monty Python some sort of article for a magazine team and director but it snowballed into fhe book. •------• of Monty Python's Jones: Yes, 1 m1nK so. In a way Student: How did you find time to implicit in the book is a criticism of Life of Brian, was in start on the reading involved? the way English literature is taught in many places. For instance, if Edinburgh recently Jones:weil, I did it over a long you look at a book of criticism it to promote his con­ period and I didn't read anything always turns back to other critics. else outside the 14th century. But A history book on the same period t rovers i a I book it wasn't until we did Holy Grail .... will have totally different that I was able to afford a year off references. I think the way the two Chaucer's Knight, and concentrate on the book. disciplines have got so isolated is a mistake. in which he attacks many traditional Student: Did you have much encouragement, either f r om Student: Chal.){;ers Knight is a views. He took time academics or non-academics? scholarly book but is written ina fairly "light" way. Did you enjoy to talk to Student cockinq a snoop at academics? about his life and Jones: Yes, some. But generally I kept out of the academic world work. because I knew that if I started Jones: I wouldn't say there isn't talking to other academics who any element of that but it's not the disagreed with me I would main one. I just wanted to make it eventually start watering down my intelligible to everyone. I haven't arguments. Now I am starting to told this to anyone else because it meet academics. sounds terribly pretentious but I took Chaucer himself as my Student: You seem to havei model. He wrote things very enjoyed writing the book, did you simply. I wrote the book to interest find it hard work? as many people as possible in Chaucer because I think he's fantastic. Jones: Well, like everything you enjoy it wasn't a drag. It was rather "I was terri bly unhappy at like a hunt. I'd suddenly get clues Student: Yes, the first thing I Oxford . . . I felt very turning up and become very noticed about the book was its insecure" excited. lt was a new way of simplicity. The sentences are looking at history because I basic and you've broken the text started off asking literary into short sections. questions and used historical methods to try and find the answers

Jones: Oh, I'm glad you noticed Student: I'd like now to go back to Student: Coming back to that, do that. Actually there were many your university days at Oxford. you think there is too little history more subtitles, but the publisher Was it an enjoyable period overall? in literary criticism? made me take some out.

Jones: Actually, i was terribly unhappy for most of it. The first two years were miserable. I felt very insecure. I went up to this amazing place with very clever people and I was overawed. Maybe I didn't fit into an institution but I felt out of it in many ways. ln my third year I had a ball because I'd been in a revue in Edinburgh and then at the Phoenix Theatre, London, and suddenly everyone wanted me. Jones: It's strange really. Quite o'clock. I remember going to often you find that the people who Humanist Society meetings and are big in the university disappear things like that but funnily enough Student: What activities were you and those you don't expect come it's been studying Chaucer and the involved in at Oxford? through in the end. There was a 14th century that's made poHt ics chap called Michael Johnson who more interesting to me. was acting at Oxford and no one reckoned much on him. Then he Student: Did you enjoy your Jones: I art edited Isis in my first changed his name and became academic studies? year ... basically because I taught Michael York - fi lm star. it was so badly done. I acted in plays some of wh ich were directed by Mike Rudman who's now with Student: What Were the trends Jones: Yes, I did. I li ked mixing the National Theatre. Then in my ~mong students in those days? jokes and work. My tutor once told final year I did Hang Down Your me off for not working hard Head and Die at the Comedy enough, which was very unjust. He Theatre. It was anti-capital thought I wasn't taking the sobject punishment and a great success. Jones: More or less the same as seriously just because I put a joke the ones today. There was quite a in my essay. bit of political consciousness although I wasn't personally very Student: Did those of your politically aware. I think a lot of __, contemporaries who went on to student agitation was squandered Student: When you were at Oxford ... ______"fame and glory" show their on things like not being allowed to did you even envisage what the talents at university? have girls in your room after 10 future held? THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982 11 Dynamic Des Most of us come to University after a school career. Des O'Brien came to Edinburgh after a spell in a rugby team and ten years work i n g tor a brewery. Fred Price talked to him

about his unusual past oac1< ro w

In 1976, Des O'Brien was an where his first lecture was. The family life with University study ordinary, down to earth, straight­ servitor led him to the room inevitably means that it is difficult forward and eminently usual chap. O'Brien wanted, switched on the to en ter completely into accepted, Born in Dublin in 1920, he had lights, brushed the blackboard non academic, University been educated in a Jesuit School, and set up the projector. He then pursuits." He is, he says, very aft er James Joyce and before politely enquired as to when he satisfied overall with his lot, and Terry Wogan and Ollie Campbell. was lecturing. O'Brien laughs what he has got out of University In 1940, he moved to London, rather sheepishly at the thought, life. Wales and Oxford before finally as though the whole concept of Talking as easil y as was possible coming to Scotland in 1966. him being mistaken for an in the murk of the Teviot Row Park During this period of his life, Des academic was too absurd for him Room, O'Brien showed flashes of diversified a bit; the odd game of to comprehend. " I quietly told him humour at his situation . rugby - capped over twenty times that my first lecture was on "Sometimes I feel I'm a crusty old was on the last record we put out. 1 for Ireland, helping them win the Monday. I didn't elaborate." His bugger," he admitted when thought people were just going Triple Crown, the Grand Slam and other lasting impression was questioned on his attitudes to through th e motions and I was the Championship-. a few qames talking to a craggy, wild-haired other students in his tutorials. He " I don't think I'd have very disappointed. of squash (he represente'!J Ireland) and rather intimidating figure wonders why the Scots and been published if I hadn't again), some h0ckey, once more outside Potterrow. On discovering English do not mix as much as Student: Is there any more Monty Ireland - and some tennis. In that this formidable character was they might, and then qualifies this been me" Python to come? 1966, he accepted defeat, and studying Scottish Literature and debatable point by stating that the retired to Scotland, where he History, O'Brien ventured to three noticeable groups in the Jones: Yes. We're making a film spent just a few days every year enquire of his name. Back came University are the Scottish, the this summer called The Meaning working as General Manager of the reply: "My name's Macbeth." It English and the Americans. He of Life but I have a feeling that this Guinness for Scotland and the was a graphic and realistic intro­ grins broadly as he says this, and I will probably be the last time we North of England. Then, well into duction, he recalls. O'Brien has cou1an t help feeling that he was the second half of what was gently asserting not just his Irish Jones: Well, I don't know what the work together. criticisms of University. Chief obviously a monotonous life, he humour but also a certain amount future holds now! When I was very amongst these are the feeling that decided to buck up his ideas, pull of student-ish, rather amiable. leg­ small I was going to be a poet - tutors do not pay enough attention Student: You've played an up his socks and get a move on. He pulling. " Perhaps they have that was my vocation in life. But to individuals, that tutorials should ifnportant part in the develop­ decided to go to University. nothing in common? " he university rather put me off poets. I be more conducive to getting to ment of British humour. What are " It was an accident, really. I had suggests, and laughs as if he has didn't really like the sort of very know one's neighbour and that your feelings on the state of always been a wide, superficial, just thought of the idea. Behind descriptive stuff people were there is a tendency for him to trot comedy today? you might say, reader, and whilst the essentially frivolous exterior of getting excited about. I liked Dylan out accepted ideas taken in from doing three Highers at a local our conversation, however, there Thomas but he was a bit passe by lectures. " It's like being a mini technical college after my was a yearning for recognition as then . I remember taking a Jones: Well, I think there's some computer", he complained, but on retirement, I discovered that I was an ordinary student. At the end of conscious decision that I wanted jolly funny stuff actually. I enjoy arguing with him over these views, studying the period 1919 to 1970 his fourth year, he still feels to "make" things and in a way it Not the Nine O'clock News and I he modified his stance somewhat. -virtually my lite." En couraged undeniably different. Perhaps it is doesn·t matter what I make. I'm also like some of the alternative "There is an element of by a young tutor, he decided to regurgitation, but I must say I feel all that can be expected from very bad at watching. I hardly ever comedians like Alexei Sale. apply for Edinburgh. First someone who has already go to films. It's terrible, I ought to a deeper and wider person all the impressions for him are very achieved success in other spheres do a lot more. same. University has added amusing to look back on. He another dimension to my interests, of life. Perhaps he can put all that Student: Do you enjoy the life you remembers as kinQ a servitor ~ven thouQh trying to combine has passed down as 'experience' lead now? Student: Looking baok over your career to date . Jones: I've got more confident in certain areas which means I can try different things so life's easier Jones: ... Oh dear, sounds like an in that way. I'm just lucky in that obituary. Are you sure you're not Mike Palin and I are less writinq an obituary? recognisable than John Cleese because for him life is a strain. Everywhere he Qoes he's on shnv., Student: Quite sure ... Looking back ... your major work has beeri Student: Do you find people want with Monty Python but I wonder if you to be funny? it worries you that people forget the other things you've done? Jones: I don't think so and if they do they soon learn the error of Jones: Fortunately people don't their ways. I'm not naturally funny know the other things I've done! which is why l work with Mike Palin. Quite honestly, I'm amazed at what people find a, · '1 on't find Student: What about pantomime amusirtg. I'm a terri' ·.,,ist at Watford? really, a real old worrier.... acne like Eric Idle· immediately sets up joke situatio r'l s with people belause he like using his rapier wit Jones: Pantomime! How did you and repartee. I'm more interested know that? in talking about things.

Student: I also know your star sign Student: Finally, has being Terry is Aquarius and your favourite Jones helped or hindered your colour is muddy green. academic career?

Jones: Mmm . . Anyway Python is Jones: I don't think I'd have been a point of contact when I meet published if I hadn't been me. The people. It's always something to publisher r~al ised that my name talk about. might sell a certain number of copies. There's a big split among academics about the book and Student: Did Monty Python ever really it's an article of faith whether hit a rut? Was there ever the feeling you think that the Knight was a that you were doing it simply to ·,Qreat Christian warrior or whether please people? you believe in what I say. Generally the book has more acceptance among historians than' Jones: No, because we didn't English scholars. I wouldn't be at actually do it for very long. It was all surprised if there was a certain only three series with all of us. amount of bitterness among Then half a series without John Academics who think that they Cleese. We've made three films should have had their books and each time we've tried to do SEE YolA. SOON , I I published and that I've taken their Ff\r- Ff\N~ •• something different. The only time ideas. I've felt the feelinos vou describe 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982

Blocks and Bars

boyhood past imes such as Armed with aware­ television, cinema and strip $NO/Berglund ness, Sarah Mur­ comics. Marwick makes full use of the aggressive and expressive Usher Hall ray takes us round potential of his medium as, through by Da vid Nice the lino print,. he can ac hieve deep, the main- exhibi­ After last week's struggle with bold lines and use flat bl ocks of empty mater ial in Si bel ius's tions on offer in the simple, vibrant colour, making his " K ul le r vo" Sym ph o n y (l i ttle prints stand out strongly. Using wonder the composer forbade all city th is week. cartoon-like forms he satirises the performances of it during his life­ ,...,,..._ _ events of everyday life, such as the time), Paavo Barglund was back at The Talbot Rice antics of dogs and their masters the helm of the SNO to demon­ Art Centre and, as is true of most satire, injects strate better his worth in three a comic grotesque crudity into all On walking through the door to glittering orhcestral showpieces. his work. lf you don't like his prints the exhibition of sculpture by Fred Strauss's "Don Juan" is a common therefore, you will most certainly Bushe one is confronted by three enough ingredient of the concert be amused by them. dramatic forms. Powerful and repertory but its heady sensuality huge, they cut clear angles into the and irresistible life force make it an space around them. These angles City Art Centre infallibly thrilling work to hear. change constantly when viewed At the City Art Centre this month Berglund's reading was careful, from various positions. They are can be seen the work of Michael not only in balance but also in imposing in their grandeur. Ayrton (1921-75) - his drawings, approach, rather than fiery and Bushe's prints and drawings sculpture and painting. Although abandoned - but this is perhaps explain further what the artist is his "Minotaur Suite" relates more in accordance with the trying to say in his sculpture. The strongly to his sculptures, there is a muscular as opposed to luxuriant emphasis is on movement and lack of consistency in his two­ sound of the SNO strings. direction as being behind the dimensional work exhibited here. If of greater stature than that of power of abstract shapes. He uses Much consists of nightmarish, its predecessors, Rachmaninov's few colours, most of his work being surreal visions that Dali would have Symphony No. 3 certainly baffles; in dark shades. This emphasises done ten times better. H is more reasonable perhaps to the solidity of the sculptures and sculptures, however, are far more interpret the poorly integrated gives them maximum contrast with • impressive. The majority of these quirky little passages throughout their setting. are works in bronze of small figures as cryptically personal refer­ Both the sculptures and into which he puts an extraordinary ences. In plainer sense, the clouds drawings reflect impressions of vitality. We almost expect the of the first movement's develop­ man-made constructions such as ,,. figure in "Handstand" to topple at ment generate a powerful feeling bridges, and yet at the same time a any second. Ayrton uses glass with of distress rarely felt f n _F_re_d~ B_u_s_h_e:-'------~------great originality in his sculptures, strong feeling for nature is seen in Rachmaninov's music; this at any making the bronze figures and the way Bushe treats his materials. rate was the finest moment of The Printmakers their reflection in glass or in a lens It is satisfying to see that the seen at the Printmakers' Workshop Berglund's reading, screwed up to Workshop brilliantly and intimately related. exhibition gives his work the ample along with an enlightening display an i ntensi t y r eminiscent o f Eric Marwick was brovght up • These sculptures, far more than his Janacek. Unfortunately he couldn't space it needs and deserves to be of some of the tools and methods of and went to art school in Dundee. paintings, are well worth looking at fully appreciated. printing. One can see immediately save the patchwork o f the last An exhibition of his prints can be the influence on his art of typical and thinking about. movement from disi ntegrating, exciting as the conclusion was. The heart of the concert was indubitably Prokofiev's first Violin Concerto, with Dmitry Sitkovetsky as soloist. Prokofiev's orchestra is of a size far removed from the vast forces of Strauss and Rach­ Max..-i111u111 maninov, yet his colourings are no ----• less vivid - perhaps more extra­ ordinary and sometimes grotesque. The atmosphere on this occasion was one of extreme Experience concentration, conveyed by Sitkovetsky as much by his vivid physical exertions as in his perfectly judged playing. Mad Max II A Wen• The Edinburgh ABC Bedlam Quartet by Rupert Gordon by Helen Martin Reid Hall Discarding his amoral cop of "A Wen" by Saul Bellow was "Mad Max 1" and the warmer , moderately enjoyable at the by Fred Price sentiments displayed in "Galli- Bedlam last Wednesday. The plot poli", Mel Gibson is just as father- was amusing and the script full of In quite a large hall and on a stabbingly mean and nasty as the criticism about American middle- Similarly large staQe, four people rest of the creepy cast in this age, so it was rather disappoint- playinQ string irtstruments have to imaginative violence-exploitation ing, not to say frustrating, that the perform with absolute precision, .movie, but then of course he is the production didn't live up to the confidence and finesse. In the hero and he i! cool. play. Too many of Mr Bellow's Reid Hall; the Edinburgh Quartet • In the wilderness of twenty-n-th glorious lines disappeared into just about managed to sustain the century New South Wales one's Karen Heath's hat or were lost in three pieces they offered, vehicle is one's home and gasoline incoherent babble. although in their rendering of is the only currency of value. Max, Chris Ritchey as the obsessed Mozart's Quartef in A one violin I won't call him Mad, he's one of physicist, Hhimar, gave an intellig- was too dominant and the cello the few traces of sanity in a crowd ent performance and at least did simply did not blend in with the of colourful freaks, fortuitously some justice to a potentially three other strings. In the later part discovers resident oil-rig besieged sparkling play. If only the direction of the Mozart, however, as well as by gangs of mounted baddies led (by Tony Free) had been tighter• throughout Walton's Quartet in A by Humingus (note cleverly The production lacked that minor, the co-ordination was more disguised reference to Fungus the tautnessvitaltoallverbalcomedy, subtle and certainly more Bogeyman, they' re probably = :.:....:==--'------~-,-- ---:-- ~~---i!Particularly the American verbal pleasing , sspecially during brothers). Oil tycoons need lorry hero riearly gets killed (surprise, old, and Bruce Si,ence as a zany variety. Still, it was worth seeing Walt()fl's disjointed and staccato big enough to break through surprise , then ) though as,. gyro Captain/ s'nake tamer make and brightened up a boring piece, offering no consistent antagonistic brigands and carry uninspired by Bondi as Humingus this a _surprisingly entertaining afternoon. theme or musical continuity. The their petrol to paradise 2,000 miles and Co., accej:,ts dfivinQ the lor-ry load of rubbish. last piece to be performed was away - presumably Bondi Beach. out. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson's cool .b Beethoven's quartet in C Flat (Op. In exchange for some gas, Max Plenty of good red violence and aura of savoir fa ire along with that 74) . Like Mozart's Quartet, it was produces such a lorry and is :'"startling performances from Emil wonderful Aussie drawl could well vintage stuff, though the players

"-pb"ro,i cMriilai,i mShell"Oileiiidii,,i"aii,nii,,ih Vero noi,,u,iiriiiaiibiileii,iimiiia,inii Junior. Our" -•M•i•ntii,yiiboomerana,iisiit,iihi,e,iiuiiniiik,ii -throwine,iim,iipi,t•in•a•rt• five-icu•l•aiite•ear-, -•seroadnd toh.im•d•oiiw stafdomr..,.C•l•in•t•E•a•. s•tw•o• o• d• '•s•---· ·., ·---..•dllliiWdllltmiillo•,e-ju•s•ti.ce-t •o•t•h•is•t•h•a•n•t•h•eal • 1111 1111 111 111111111 111 THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982 13

Lindsay Macdonald talks to Jean Redpath, the sweetest voice in Scotland and star of this month's Festival.Girl ... • biggest-ever Edinburgh Folk Festival.

THERE 'S NO FOLK Jean Redpath is horrified by this traditional Scots song wh!ch he WITHOUT BURNS idea that her voice, and the often­ and his colleagues at the School of earthy words of the Bard, make Scottish Studies had unearthed. unnatural bedfellows: " I have this voice that sciunds like it was ft is na, Jean, thy bonny face, classical ly trained, because it's so Nor shape that I admire: LOOKING AFTER OUR clear and precise. I don't have the Alf hough thy beauty and thy grace power of Jeanie Robertson, fo r OWN? Might wee/ awauk desire. instance, or the nasal sound of Something, in ifka part o' thee many folk singers. Yet my accent, Like that other famous Fifer, To praise, to love, I find; and my choice of material, is quite Andrew Carnegie, Jean then quit But dear as is thy form to me, Scottish. To me this Is quite appro­ her native Scotland and crossed Stiff dearer 1s thy mind. priate, but some people seem to the Atlantic. What happened to her think I'm wasting my voice. over in the States 'was, to be sure, "It's the most insidious of straight out of a fairy tale "Get away, Burns a sexist? attacks on Scottish culture, the She began by scrubbing floors Some of his songs to women are idea that an anonymous accent is in California, sang a few songs at a incredibly sensitive." somehow 'proper', or the result of hootenanny one night, and shot to Jean Redpath should know. a 'good' education!" (Jean spent stardom . . . sell out tours of She's in the process right now of three yea rs in Connecticut, Canada and the USA, academic recording about twenty albums of teaching Scots language and posts in new En gland, and a swish Burns songs! music to schoolkids; and, as she home near the Golden Gate. " He wasn't just a poet! Burns told me with a mischievous g.rin, was one of the great song she's looking forwa rd to Meanwhile, she has document­ collectors, he wrote new words for " practising perfidy in the ed much of th e story of Scotland's old airs and even for pipe tunes. He cla~sroom" again during the song on ten albums - on Philo was a walking encyclopaedia of Edinburgh Folk Festiva l's school • Records, an American label! She 18th century music. I'll only be tours). has received a handsome grant for recording 323 of his sonos! her Burns project from the "Then I learn them in the car," National Endowment for the Arts she says cheerfully, and reaches - the American arts, of course! into her cassette rack. " I can't read M.A. ENGLISH AND "Familiarity breeds contempt," music, you see, so I learn the MEDIAEVAL STUDIES says Jean, "and so in this country melody, and then the words. from we look down our noses at our singing to myself in here." So (failed) own culture. For the Americans, saying, and taking her cue from though, there is romance, and a Serg e's Vermont Symphony Jean was born and raised in touch of remote nostalgia. . and Orchestra players on the tape Leven, and as a child, song was of course they have the money." player, she bursts into voice. (And part of her everyday life ("my Jean Redpath will spend five to hear how beautiful that sounds, -Jean Redpath- ··a beautiful vo,ce" mother's repertoire, my father's months in the States this year, and you'll have to go and see her at the voice"). Now that she spends so she's lining up a long tour of Folk Festival). "Well, Haydn set them to piano, "Yes. And I'm doing an album of much time abroad, she appre- Australia and New Zealand as well. Forty sides of newly-arranged cello, and violin. A whole series of Lady Nairn·s compositions too." elates her native county more than And she'll be "wasting" that and often obscure Burns ballads songs - 'Woo'd and married an' 'The Rowan Tree·, ·caller Herring·, ever. beautiful voice of hers on (have you heard of 'Nine inch a", 'Braw lads o' Gala Water', all she wrote some of scotland's best "Tight-knit" seemed a fair Beethoven, Burns and all that would please a lady'?) You must those songs. And Beethoven too." known songs." description of it in those days. stuff, during the first five days of be quite involved with this new Beethoven?t Jean Redpath sings Burns. And Jean reca ll s the maxim that folk the Edinburgh Folk Festival, later project? "Yes, but I'm recording an Beethoven. And, indeed, Muckle lived by: "Oor ain fish-guts for oor this month. She opens the Festival " Yes , well, not so much album of the Haydn songs right Ballads from Buchan and the ain moo's" She got out (just like on Friday 26th March with a 'involved' .. 'fanatical' is perhaps now." Borders. Hervoiceisacclaimedby we did)! by going to Ed inburgh concert at the Queen's Hall. On closer." As well as doing 323 Burns all, pure and clear as it swoops and University. Saturday, she'll be singing at the numbers? glides, and catches the rising "That was a mistake. I took Fiddlers' Rally, and on Sunday cadence of every melody. Yet her English and Medieval Studies, she's on the same bill as the voice can be full of life if she wants with the emphasis very much on excellent Spanish band Millaldoro WHAT'S A NICE VOICE to be. (Jean sits herself down in a the "eval"I I left." in the King James Hotel. (IKE YOURS ...? corner of a bar.and orders Jean wandered rouna George Performers range from something to lubricate those Square too where, during her final weel-kent TV stars llke The On went a tape of Haydn's famous tonsils) . year, she stumbled across Hamish M cC a Im ans and A la sta I r Scottish folk songs. I spluttered ''I'll never forget the time when I Henderson. Even then, he was the McDonald (and Jean Redpath!) to into my misconceptions: Haydn?! gave a concert of Burns songs, doyen of Scotland's song little-known but highly-rated So he was mucking about with and this woman came up to me collectors al"ld the man who had exotica like Makvirag from Scottish folk songs too? I mean, afterwards and said: 'That's a discovered the I e gen d a r y Hungary. throwing Burns to the mercy of lovely voice you have there, dear, balladeer Jeanie Robertson. It was The Fourth Edinburgh Folk Serge Hovey and the Vermont but have you ever thought about he who introduced Jean Redpath Festival, from 26 March to 4 Aprll Symphony Orchestra is one thing, doing anything with it?"' to the fabulous riches of - it's what your holidays are for! but .. _ _::__ -1•••••••••1111111••ill••••••------~ ------_:_ _ _ _:_ _ _ 1 The Scene

March 13. And they are organising with five performances of " Romeo 0 , Vienna From the Void a workshop for all you rejects from and Juliet" On April 2 the perform­ My cineast's eye was inevitably The Abyss Theatre Company Legs & Co. on Monday, March 15, ance will be attended by Princess ,;:aught by the news that the Film draw your attention to their from 6.30-8 pm. Admission £2 . · Margaret. Look out your tiara's, Society is screening "The Third portage to the Bedlam of HP dears. (Harold Pinter). They will be Man" (Wednesday, March 17, cf And picture this . .. What's On) and I felt this deserved performing two works representa­ The Old Order orTle attention. tive of different facets of said An eye-catching exhibition Just don't miss this stylish, playwriqht. 'The Dumb Waiter' and en titled "Art Into the '80s" opens at Changeth ... cynical, melancholy, romantic The Lo-ver' on March 10th, 11th, the Fruit Market Gallery on March It may not escape the notice of fa tnriller 12th and I 3th at said venue and on 13 (an d runs until 24 April). the most asthetically aware April 5th, 6th and 7th at the Organised jointly by a Liverpool members of our community that MacRobert Centre, Stirling. artist and art gallery, it is "designed these pages are now under nal.i to explore the situation of modern management. Consequently and Self-interest art in Britain at the beginning of the to enhance the impression of 1980s". More anon. novelty in this season of renewal, An exhibition of contemporary we ' d like more and new Scottish portraits entitled One Giant Leap contributors. If your Muse impels ·' Pictures of Ourselves··, organised Jumpers Dance Theatre from Travelling Terpsichorea you to ~rite OQ "The Arts" , get in by the Scottish Arts Council's Non-resident loyal supporters of touch with Freddy or me through "Travelling Gallery", is touring the Wales bounces into Edinburgh this week. They will be providing ··a the Scottish Ballet should pin back ~he simple expedient of leaving an Strathclyd· R,. g1on 14 March-29 their cultured ears at the news that informative note in the arts tray In May. My prt!SS release ,s unclear fascinating and entertaining evening" at Theatre Workshop its spring tour begins on March 31 the basement of 1 Buccleuch about where you can catch it so (Hamilton Place, Stockbridge) on at the Theatre, Royar, Glasgow, Place. We eagerly await. look out for publicity. Pete's Progress Beat That! of the night went up when he Caroline Binnie launched into a rerun of The Bu zzcocks' oldie F iction Peter Wrench joins relates Pete Shel­ Romance, and the recapitulation Mari Wilson's ley's fairy story. was resumed at the end of the set with Something 's Gone Wrong Dancing Party Are you all sitting comfortably? Again. Shelley is not the possessor Then I'll begin. Once upon a time of a particularly impressive voice Saturday night and the guys and there was a Manchester band who (in his inter-song raps he manages chicks were ready to go; there was called themselves The Buzzcocks. to sound like George Formby) but only one place to go, that starlit They participated in the legendary his vocal chords convey an evening, and they knew it. In the White Riot tour and released a emotion which transcends his Ponderosa Club, the people stood series of absolutely class'ic hard­ natural whine. shoulder to shoulder - the only edged pop! singles, as well as the Apart from the two Buzzcocks' thing thicker was the smoke. The seminal albums Another Music. reprisals, the set set consisted of noise of the chatter was almost as Love Bites and A Different Kind of album material, Ot whic h Q'est loud as the sounds of the Tension, and then finally broke up Que C'est Qu Ca impressed most, Supremes spun by the DJ. due to lac k of co mmercial along with one new song featuring This was the nite Marl WIison success. slowed down Burundi Black and her fabulous Imaginations Story sound familiar? No? Well, drums, a la Bow Wow Wow. My came to town! you might just be in the minority reservation is that Shelley, on First on stage Hank, followed by cos Buzzcocks former frontman Kurt and Wilbert, the other Pete Shelley managed to draw a Marines, hit us with some hot substantial crowd to Valentino's, hokum before introducing us to and I have my suspicions that past the Marionettes, the Imaginations glories had as much to do with this and (in conjunction with the as his excellent solo album Compact organisation and by Homosapien arrangement with the Universe Instead of the unexpected tape Brothers) the one and only, Miss machines, he played with a band, Beehive of 1982, the Neasden which may or may not have Queen of Soul - Mari Wilson. consisted of ex-Buzzcocks, Boy, did they swing. "I Can't depending on your eyesight and Help Myself" she sang and neither on who you believe. Shelley, a tonight's showing, could possibly could we. The gorgeous Marion­ .2 ______' slight figure in a white shirt, lit up be short on the material side, but ettes Mandy and (wow) Candy centre stage, played acoustic a. Mari Wilson exhibits the best beehive in town. as one of the most prolific pop really hit those notese that set our guitar and, thanks to tapes, was craftsmen of the punk and post hearts singing and it wasn't long The t8bulous, fast, frantic, free- she sang songs about being two- able to accompany himself on punk period, he's probably before the joint was really wheelin-dealing, fu rious, funny timed and stood up, about going backing vocals. keeping a lot under wraps. jumping. fellahs Hank, Kurt and Wilbert out and havin_ll fun with a capital F. He opened with the now familiar As far as Shelley's concerned, Throw that boy on the floor' never let up on their crazee antics Man, Wilson and the lmagina­ Homosapien an up! pop song The Buzzcocks' bedtime story has The Imaginations: Harry, Larry, and apart from singing, with their tions really beat the Beat .- they that explores the joys, the doubts, a happy ending. Tonight he looked Barry, Gary and - Jim (he's dancing, comparing, juggling, were above, beyond, beside and and the sorrows of homogenity. he relaxed and contented, and Scottish) beat out that hot­ ducting but most of all RAVE-ing, behind comparison. Whoever said follows the path The Buzzcocks though audience reaction was not doggi ng, spine-tingling, ear­ we didn't know which way to look. this is the sixties sound they're trod, assuming a place in one's as euphoric as his performance ringing whing-dinging backing But above all there was Mari wrong, this is the sound of 1982. pop consciousness , and deserved, he had to return to rhythm, timed just llke they were herself, standing in the spotlight, As Mari says - who wants to be confronting the salient issues of encore with Homosapien to· set to explode. eyes soarklinQ and beehive jiving. in America? •human relationships. placate those who demanded Live, his songs displayed more. I walked home through the considerably more attack than on Meadows, feeling nostalgic and the album, more abrasive and sa tisfied - Shelley seizes love and Wasted Time insistent, mo, e prepossessing, life by the throat and, on Monday, where the atmospheric quality 01 watcnmg otners make a hasty exit. less inriocuous. The biggest roar he made me feel hi her. With an almost acceptable Scott's vocals suddenly became Fiona Matheson is album, Wild and Wandering, apparent - his voice wasn'I wasted by Wasted behind them, they proved that destined to be wasted behind c album production can all too often tirade of rolling drums. screech in£ Youth. be deceptive. Its tame, limpid guitars, and montonously whinin£ sound was soon forgotten under synthesisers. The contrived pap of the support an assault course of heavy metal, By Surv1v1ors Part 2 my achin£ band, H2O, didn't augur well for into which they launched with ears had given up hope of hearin~ the evening. A lead singer who defiant zeal. As if this weren't anything · resembling tne aitium attempts to cavort like Rikki enough, Ken Scott, the lead production. Where other groUps Jobson in his early days with The singer, having grown his hair like Killing Joke, get away with ( Skids, combined with a guitarist especially for the occasion, heavy mix, this lot fall dowr Conda returns yet again, can You now r who would be more comfortable indulged in some head-banging. because their songs rarely deviatE Anna full of the joys of the approaching Meanwhile , former Zoo boogying-on-down at Buster This lot didn't fool me - a from the standard structure of thE promise of spring, and, addition­ stablemates Echo and the Brown's, would be enough to drummer dressed in psychedelia, typical number. Add to this a lad ally, the joys of having no exams Bunnymen are reported to be make anyone head for the bar. flanked by three exquisitely made­ of musical competence and toe till '83. using AC/ DC's producer for their As for Wasted Youth, if I hadn't up, posing musicians, had to be much volume, and you strike < After witnessing the spectacle of next album. After all, th~y are a committed myself to writing this, I MQtorhead in disguise. cacophony of noise. Haircut 100 rendering thousands rock 'n' roll band, aren't they? would have left for the comfort not Only occasionally did they Talk about Wasted Youth - · lifeless at Coasters, Anna was a Unfortunately, I missed cuddly of the bar, but of my bed. As it was, digress. from the heavy threash­ more like a waste of Hme anc mite amused to learn that the Johnny Wailer's embarkation on I had to content myself with ings, as . in the melodic Games, money! punters in Glasgow are equally his new career as a multi media indiscriminating. On turning up star, at JJ's on Sunday. Apparently Cure your cultural constipation. for a Radio Clyde interview , Nick it was really conceptual and really Heyward and the boys were cultural. Really? Sound greeted by hordes of euphoric and I No Baff Game/Basement 5 overwrought schoolgirls throwing The Everest The Hard Way Song of the Siren/Ti m Buckley their underwar in the direction of single Walk the Tightrope is a real Days of Steam/John Cale the band. The irony of the hype is gem, and Do II are supposedly Only Women Bleed/ Julie that the tour is costing Arista a poised to give ti "big push" Covington cool £48,000 (doesn't sound much commercially. Pity there's no band Liars A to E/ Sexy's if you say it quickly!), so the record now Jamie Telfer, ex­ Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind?/ company is obviously fucking it up keyboards man of the afore­ Marlene Dietrich a la Japan or Simple Minds. Any mentioned, has now joined Way of Touch/ Lori and the Chameleons odds on who'll be next to defect to the West, who have been dropped No, Je Ne Regrette Rien/ Edith Piaf Virgin ... ? from Phonogram. On hearing this, Calvary Cross/ Richard Thompson Speaking of the Simple Ones, TV21 man All Palmer was heard to Anything by . .. /The Undertones the new single's entitled Promised mutter, " Good, now we won't be!" Viet Viet/ Alan Vega You a Miracle, and it features Jim through barely suppressed sighs Foggy Noti'on/Velvet Under­ Kerr advancing into previously of relief. TV21 left the capital for Three Horrible Sexy Vampires! ground uncharted areas, as far as diction's pastures new yesterday, on a tour. My Death/ Scott Walker sings Brei concerned anyway. On a quick Bob Last, arguably the potentially Are you all sitting comfortably? series. Waking up (beside A Touching Display/Wire listen, he even manages to sound richest man in Edinburgh, has Then .a Horrtbfy Sexy Vampire will someone). Holiday in Ulster (a like Bono Vox!! They won't get a hit returned early from The Human begin . revelation). Dexy's at Coasters. People Who Died with this either, in Anna's humble League's European excursion, Tim Buckley : Just totally opinion. calmly p.·oclaiming, "Well, they're The Written Word/Vocal Word Music (Lights Out) devastating. When Lillian Roxon After Julian Cope's recent big boys now." Aren't they just, The Painted Bird/Jerzy Kosinski Alan Vega and Suicide; because said, "There is no name yet for the revelations in The Face about his especially Suzanne and Joanne. The Basketball Diaries/Jim Carroll when I listen, I sometimes get places his voice can go," she was marital traumas and his drug­ Finally , happy holidays, The Magus/ John Fowles scared. Or. it i'm lucky, I just get only halfway there. taking habits ("I take drugs cos it's courtesy of your favourite reptile. Black Angel's Death Song/ Lou terrified. grown up" - wow! Divot quote of Don't forget Plgbag on the 21st Reed In conclusion Someone get the other " Horribles" the year), The Teardrops have and Graham Parker on 3rd April. Events Pop/ Pap (Delete as applicable) to do this. We only want to be been banned from Toppy. Well, See you next term (if I survive the Death of Anwar Sadat. Death of The Undertones; incredibly naive, democratic. For myself, I just want you can't expose the kids to increased socialising over the Jan Palak. En land/ Australia Test but alwa s absolutely glorious. to be pure. anything that's a bit controversial, vacation!). THE STUDENT Thursday, 11th March 1982 15

BewaretheYellow Peril. RUGBY -- . gaps left through positional errors The 2nd XV won their league by full back and wing, and then game convincingly on Saturday Results they ran the ball. Once near the with Uprichard showing remark­ Edinburgh Univ. 10 line they always looked dangerous able stamina to score his second Waseda Univ. 20 and despite some fierce tackling try in two days. This result puts EdinburghUniv. II 29 by Shipton they scored two tries. a them top of their league and if they Corstorphine II 6 conversion and a penalty against beat Broughton on Saturday they another Goldie penalty. will finish as unbeaten champions. Shipton -A"as Edinburgh's most Their season has been all the more ~o::t;o~~i garr>i~~y KO 3 00 impressive player looking strong pleasing considering the 1 st XV when running with the ball and Edinburgh Univ. v. Oxford Univ. have so far won only two league slightly insane in the tackle while Mar. 13th Edinburgh Univ. v. games. They also won the 2nd XV Hutcheons Uprichard as well as scoring the Scottish University Champion­ try seemed one of the few Edinburgh Univ. II v. Broughton II ship. Edinburgh forwards who were fit The game against Oxford enough. Although this was a Report on Waseda game University is one of two which spirited if limited performance by Oxford play in their biennial tour Edinburgh they looked nowhere The 1 st XV began to build up to to Scotland. They play Watsonians Edinburgh began with the wind a penalty but Waseda led 9-7 near fit enough or flexible enough their Canada Tour (which begins on Sunday. Edinburgh would behind them and soon took through a goal and a penalty at to pose a serious threat to the welcome any support in their on Mar. 20) with a satisfactory if control in the forwards but half-time. Japanese in the second half. They unsuccessful performance attempt to make amends for the although leading for much of the The Japanese try in the first half will have to tighten up their 1 against the visitors from Tokyo. 51 -0 drubbing they received 1n an first half they were unable to showed their impressive sleight of forward play and become more With the well drilled and inept performance at lffley Road .dominate the game effectively. hand and sensing the first victory tactically astute to challenge technically efficient Japanese all last year. Kick-off is at 3.00 Canal They were reluctant to run at the of their tour they gained a certain Oxford University. Captain Field, Colinton Road. under 6 ft. and at least a stone a opposition and played an amount of control in the second (Peters) and outside half (Goldie) man lighter the game was unimaginative and not altogether half. Their tactics were simple but must become more aware of ·predictably a battle between size convincing forward game. impressively fruitful: the outside opposition weaknesses and how and speed. Uprichard scored a try and Goldie half kicked for position, finding to exploit them. 000 Volley Triumph True Grit! Hare and Hounds indeed been worrying especial! VOLLEYBALL FACTS Last Wednesday saw the climax since it was one of our mos of the Hairies season with club/ successful years ever. The club i committee pie, championship, open to everyone of any standard, This Sunday was the third and AGM and dinner all squeezed into anyone's welcome for a good final match against the Pentland one day. Sadly we drew together laugh if nothing else. Take a look team, of Edinburgh. It was early in to mourn the passing into the at club noticeboards for mor the morning but both teams world outside of Charlie, Ken and details. Oh, the ladies ar assembled their full complements Petur. Typically, Ken "Superspurt" especially welcome . Sall by starting time. This match was Mortimer preferred a jog with Jean " Stubborn-Scrubber" won th most important, partially because (and who wouldn't!) but Petur ladies' championship, finishing off we had split the two previous brought a superb University her most successful season with a encounters, but mainly to help career to a close by winning the welldeserved victory. Sally's ensure a final position of 4th (of 8) club championship in his usual determination and commitment is in the 2nd division. The match professional style. Petur's great an example to all of us. Well done promised to be close. wisdom and humour will be sadly and congrats on your BUSF The first set was completely in missed next year. Next year's selection Sally. The ladies' the hands of Edinburgh. Behind offense, which led to a loss at 9-15. period of score reversals, which captain, GG, was next home with captain, Alice Linten, would good mobility in the backcourt The fourth set was cruc·,a·1 only ended when Pentland scored this year's leader Charlie especially be pleased to hear from and effective use of the one setter Several times recently we had led at 18-20. Carthorse close behind. Over the any budding athletes of the female system, we played steady ball and 2-0 in the match, only to lose 2-3 The fifth set was started past four years, Charlie has cared gender, since the team which won methodically advanced the game, and we were all well aware of this. immediately. The even play of the for the club as if it was his own SUSF, the Nationals and were to close at 15-7. The second set tn what turned out to be an previously set again continued, family. But now we must part. We'll second at BUSF is no more. And was a bit tricky at the start, and extremely long set (42 minutes) until the 4-3 point was reached. miss you, Charlie. Goodbye. In that's a great shame. 0 managed to halt at 5-4, wiih both both teams returned to form. Pentland , suffering u nder truth Charles has contributed Successful as the men were 1t sides trading services. At this Evenly trading points. the score exhaustion, again lost their drive more than his fair share, his was again the ladies' sea son. point, Pentland suffered a loss of slowly advanced to 11-12. At this and relinquished control to experience will indeed be missed. Special congratulations must go control and poise, and collapsed, point, Pentland took advantage, to Edinburgh. We then returned to Pat also ran . Congratulat,ions to to Jean and Francis for more leading to our win of 15-5. Behind bring it to match point t 1-14. the steady play of the first set, and Neale Cooper and Michael reasons than r care to think about. a 2-0 lead, the sutstltutes were However, with our strongest front gradually extended our lead, Sheridan for running at all, good to And that's it for this season. Next placed in the starting line up. line (of Ian Lincoln and Douggie, ending the set 15-7 and match 3-2. see some freshers taking an year's writer is even worse than However service rece·ption with Robin setting)'we struggled Whew! interest. The lack of interest me, I'm sorry to say. Good luck, difficulties cause

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LRC Get HipShock Anna Conda ex­ p I ores Lothian Region's attempt to pull the finger out and cater for populist culture. Music good - if it's danceable it will be played - anything from a Los Angeles yawn to a Sheffield From 10th-17th March Lothian pop. OJ-ing is accomplished and Regional Council, Department of quietly efficient rather than noisily Leisure Services, is organising a annoying. cultural event which comes under Bar prices reasonable; three the banner of Rock at Queen's bars; bar staff numerous, efficient ·Hall. It's primarily directed at and courteous; queueing time teenagers and subsequently the I minimal. media involved revolve, to a large works in a variety of media, by the paintings the kiss becomes the Plush couches (and plenty of extent, around the music/ fashion Fionna Carlisle, Fred Craik, Cal um underlying image repeating itself I them ) but design of place axis. The venture is designed to Fraser, Alexander Hamilton, June like a drum beat through the four emphasises the dance-floor rather depict the ways in which young Redfern and Sylvia Woodcock­ scenes. The imagery of the tale is than its surround. people are rejecting established Clarke. These works are not carried out through the video film Many of the walls and the art forms and are turning towards exclusively about music and with the final scene being balcony faced with cooling marble imagery and ideas that reflect the energy, but they provide an artistic portrayed at the Queen's Hall. - this disco was not built on the society in which they live. commentary on contemporary Photographer Colin Dixon gets cheap! Running throughout the week, society, street life, night clubbing to grips with the resurrected punk Toi lets clean, though un­ in the restaurant, is an exhibition and escapism . Alexander anti-icono gra phy i n his 18 fortunately toilet paper is hard. of paintings, sculptures and Hamilton's series of pictures Kiss pictures portraying The Exploited Hand driers have moveable photographs by a selection of YOP Style is a spoof rock tale of and their fans at varioLis Nite Club nozzles, useful for directing a blast young Scottish artists who are tragic love between two YOP gigs in 1980-81 . His pictures are On Wellington Street, just off of hot air onto your damp Italian attempting to deal with trainees with each scene intend~d to be as much a record of Sauchieha/1 Street by Sauchieha/1 shoes (this has been seen). contemporary themes. The paint­ portrayed through a painting and the vitality and creativity of 'Street Centre. Cliente/e consists largely of the ings are large, colourful, figurative the production of a video film. In maligned and misunderstood Admission £2. typical disco-mating sort, though teenagers as an illustration of Very liberal admittance policy the more stylish are not music and fashion trends. (particularly for Glasgow). completely absent. Sculptures by Zigfrieds Sapietis Will probably be the best­ None of the usual prowling Be Blatant, not and Edinb~rgh Art College looking disco that you'll ever see bouncers looking for trouble. The student Marion Brandis continue (would we lie to you/?). atmosphere is relaxed and the " punk" theme and on Friday A wonderland of lasers, lights, enjoyable. 12th March, 10 am-1 pm, there will mirrors and coloured smoke Plenty of room tor dancing - Latent applied with style - rivulets of the floor is one of the largest we've be a chance to meet the artists computerised tube lights cross the seen and even when Ultratheque is Dear Student, Then there's the woman in your in v olved and dis c uss the dance-floor whilst a spangled full there is still plenty of room to Neil Ma c pherson , i n h i s class, rattling a mile a minute exhibition with them. globe diffracts and reflects. move. virulently anti-gay letter, about the camping trip she took The visual imagery is extended Five hexagonal, transparent Ultratheque is a high-class night apparently accepts that homo­ with her musician boyfriend aurally on 11 th March with a one­ pillars rise from dance-floor to spot that actually delivers. To visit sexuality exists; what he doesn't Wh ile you're trying to get stoned day music "seminar". This is light-encrusted ceiling their is an experience (and how many accept is having it "rammed down in the john· aimed at school and community contents alteroating from a myriad discos can you say about that?). his throat" (a rather unfortunate BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE bands and gives them the "minute white lights to violent red " The Face" put it in its top ten of turn of phrase in this particular BLATANT opportunity to play with and listen flashing spiral tubes. international night clubs_:_ how context · - Freudian slip , You go to a fair, and there's the to local " heroes" Boots for Sound quality excellent. can you miss it? perhaps?). tunnel of love with Dancing and The Delmontes. All A poem by Pat Parker, a Black pictures of straighr painted on the the instruments are provided and Lesbian feminist from the US, front and grinning couples there ' s also a synthesiser With this is a "street fashion" show interest which the project has deals quite effectively with that going in and out workshop (?), a demoot an 8-track co-ordinated by Tim McGuire of gen8rated. I understand from particular standard objection: it BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE recording unit and videos Vague Designs, William Street. organiser Katy Hazell that it's goes like this: BLATANT including The Fire Engines Big Those involved will be modelling running on a tight budget, but it The fact is, blatant hetero- Gold Dream. their own modes and will have put is certainly a valid attempt by FOR STRAIGHT FOLKS sexuals are all over the together their own choreography. Lothian region to provide an WHO DON'T MINO GAYS Finally, on Friday March 12th, place- at home, at work, in there are fashion workshops with The day I went to the audition alternative operi forum for those (BUT WISH THEY WEREN'T SO school, on television, even in there was a strange collection of teenagers interested in music and BLATANT) various Edinburgh designers gay bars individuals in evidence, ranging its related youth culture. Go along You know, some people have got a showing you how to do it yourself. -And they expect gay women and from " Model types" to St George's and be associated with youths and lot of nerve, As well as jewellery, clothes etc, men to go and hide in the sc1toolgirls, as well as the school kids, any exchange of ideas sometimes I just don 't believe the Charlie Miller contributes ideas on closet!?· inevitable token spiky hairs. is valid, and an event like this things I hear. hair and make-up, with a little help Well, to you folks I say 'Sure I'll go STV will be covering the event deserves your support to enable it Have you met the woman who was from Toyah and Adam and the if you go to-but I'm polite, for Scotland Today, reflecting the to develop on a larger scale. shocked two women kissing Ants cosmetic ranges Combined· by So, after you. and in the same breath tells you she's pregnant? N.B. straight equals hetero­ BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE sexual;_john equals toilet; 'in the BLATANT closet' equals concealment of Bowie in Baal ensured charisma was required; l Or you go to a movie and you can't one's sexual orientation as gay; his mere presence had to recreate hear the dialogue before 'coming ou·t' as gay. Last Tuesday saw the screening the charisma of Baa l himself. because of the sound effects of By the way , a vio l ent of David Bowie in rfis first bona Bowie was well cast, capturing the couple next to you? lid& TV acting role: David Bowie in exactly that mysterious blend of 0 homophobia, such as that BUT GAYS SHOULDN'T BE expressed by Neil Macpherson, is Baal. The title gives testimony to merciless nihilism ("The world is BLATANT generally considered indicative of the production's megastar, and God's excrement") and voracious, Or there's the woman if your insecureness in one's sexual the centrality of the title role; a esoteric energy that requires no office who spend her whole orientation, and is a psycho­ monstrous nihilist who gets his goal. The action reflected this "far anti-kicks fhrough destroying as away" quality - it was as though • lunch hour talking about her new logical strategy adopted to deal bikini drawers and how much with one' s own repressed much, and as many around him as we were looking in through some possible. His saving grace is distant, frosted window. Split­ • her husband likes them. homosexual tendences. . ' BU.T GAYS SHOULDN'T BE Yours etc., language - "phonetics" - screen narratives were inter­ BLATANT Deboarah ffoulkes. bestowed by Br~cht's beautiful spaced, where Bowie's singing • and intricate monologues. talents were deliberately under­ Baal is a problematic play for played in a husky, insistent rasp • actors and audience alike. Brecht that could not be ignored. im bibed his plays with an extreme One criticism is the predictable Closet Scribblers! sense of aesthetic . distance; a com pl aint that the action Are you sick of reading ineptly written, boring features - Yes? deliberate surrealism that keeps occasionally did stray beyond our Well, so are we here at Student. That's why we proudly announce the action perilously close to the focus, some of the larger scenes the: limits of our focus. The director, were somewhat wooden; Baal Allan Clarke, succeeded in giving remains consigned to a rather Student Funky Features us an engaging play whilst specialised taste. Competition! ret ai ning th i s lo w profile Anyone for anew lifestyle? Bring: __J production. o n the Baal lookalikes. You have the entire Easter holiday to compile a one or two-page CO nseq uently, an actor w ith Tony Wallis feature on anything that you fel> I will capture the imagination of L f ' Edinburgh. Hand them in first week next term and the best feature/ interview/ concept will win the author £5 worth of records AND £5 worth of books of their choice! How can you miss it? Get writing! Student- You know it makes sense. Vertical Hold