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Leeds Student will be out in Roadshow in halls and flats force tomorrow at NUS's major similar to last year's successful demonstration against the GER- publicity drive on student Bill in London. grants. And NUS expects a massive This time a debate between 100.000 students to take part in LUU Conservative students what may be the biggest demo and the Exec had been used to of its kind ever. explain the GERBill's signifi- Both LUU and LPSU are cance. confident that Leeds will make "Generally people have been a major contribution to the very interested in opposing march. GERBill." Varney said. "We can guarantee that all "We'be been collecting sign- our eight coaches will he com- atures for a -petition against the pletely full." LPSU President Bill in the Union foyer and the Ed Gamble said earlier this response has been very posi- week. tive." LUU General Secretary Ger- LPSU has sent leaflets every maine Varney added that the Poly hall of residence with a full demo would carry the message briefing on the threat of GER- No to GERBill' home to the Bill. government in no uncertain And Ed Gamble says local terms. media interest has been The demo will paralyse traf- aroused by the Poly's cam- fic in the centre of London at plign peak time." she said. %kith tornorrm.s dernonstra_ The march sets off from the tion. students have a real Victoria Embankment at 12 opportunity to influence the fu- noon and proceeds to Hyde ture of GERBill. Though the Park where a mass rally will Bill doesn't reach Parliament highlight the opposition- to until November of this year. it's GERBill from all quarters of up to you to make your voice higher and further education. heard now. NUS's organisers hope to Otherwise. under the new make it the news event of the business biased system. you weekend. may not have a %oi,..e to raise at The run-up to the demo has all been carefully planned. with Nathan Barrow LUU conducting an Education Andrew Harrison • • and Poly Director joins the GERBILL Protest At Leeds Polytechnic's gradua- Poly financially and is currently and more lime going out of their interest in education which in- thus planted in the minds of tion ceremony last week, Poly helping with the campaign way for external funding. dustrial people have — that is. parents and teachers — the very Director Chris Price lashed out against the legislation. In addition, at a time when not for the broadening of the people whose co-operation the at the government's 'Great' Poly 'independence' would be millions of pounds are needed mind." legislation needs. Education Reform Bill, current- a sham anyway, as Price ex- for the upkeep of buildings and Membership however, will be Ed Gamble called the Bin "a ly being steam-rollered through plained — "Far from setting us equipment, the Bill introduces chosen by Education Secretary sery big step backwards for stu- the Commons. free, they intend to supervise us further payments — to the Kenneth Baker. dents. to the point — if they are not Polytechnics and Colleges Fund- Leeds County Councillor "There is nothing in it for Although the Bill hides under careful — of suffocation." ing Council. Geoff Driver, Chairperson of students nor children at school. the guise of freedom fur Student/staff ratios will be LPSU President Ed Gamble LCC's Education Committee It's important not to just focus polytechnics by cutting links asked to be increased from I I- hoped this would be "made up also gave Baker a grilling — "He on the implications for higher with local councils, in actual 13. In turn this will necessitate of academics and people that is riding roughshod over con- education." fact this would be restrictive. departments — especially those should be there, as opposed to structive criticism. Leeds City Council aids the of arts courses — spending more those with some weird vested "The seeds of suspicion are Jeremy Coleman WORK IN Poly Elections CLAUSE 28 FIFTH COLUMN THE L Letter to the THE SUN Interviews Students of Leeds INSIDE Poly Jobs abroad Read their words TRtITH NEWS ist Fund raisin' A LEAP INTO PASTIFICIO "FREE" BOTTLE worth praisin' FOR YOUR OF WINE

FREE BOTTLE All you need vour OF WINE: Student- linion card and enough money to eve got over 200 for a two-course meal l~t )ttles of wine to give (from our regular away so 'march' in and 'MARCH menu - starter or leap out 'happy- MADNESS" FOR dessert and main STUDENTS ONLY course) for two people. 155 THE HEADROW AT PASTIFICIO It could come as cheap LEEDS as .0.50 all in I for two) opp 'site or as much as .0 1.50 the art gallery (for tw, and library • A Pink Peg Slack (left) and John Sullivan of the Snap Dragons git on down for charity

Last weekend saw a number of fundraising benefits take place, all with foreign links. Ed Gamble. LPSU President was evening of spirited entertainment. He OFFER AVAILABLE SUNDAY TO FRIDAY NOT ON SATURDAY) -delighted with the response" to the added that "this lively event was not one collection outside the Poly's degree to miss!" The following evening the FROM FEBRUARY 26 TO MARC!! 31. WERE OPEN FROM 12 - 12 ceremony on Saturday. Money raised anti-Apartheid disco managed to raise for the South African Scholarship Fund L125 for its cause. EVERY DAY. ALL-DAY LICENCE. totalled £349, and the Poly's director referred to the cause in his speech at the Finally, Little Chief, Pink Peg Slits, ceremony. The Snapdragons and The Dieemen A well attended gig in the Tartan bar provided 'four bloody good reasons' for on Fridas, helped Amnesty Internation- going to the RSH in aid of the Eritrean al to collect an estimated £2711 for the Tent Campaign. Initial figures raised Wanyiri Kihoro Legal Fund, The New appear to be around 1:100, which the World Steel Band and the Holy Campaign hopes will he increased next Brothers and Sisters of Joy received Friday when an Eritrean dance hand praise from an enthusiastic Dave will perform in LUU. Anderson of Amnesty for providing an Dave Hobbs Post grads dodge axe "Leeds post-grads have fared comparitively well in the light of the sanctions imposed by the Economic and Social Research Council (E.SIRC) regarding the submission rates of Phi) thesis," said Mrs D.J. Kindlay, Assistant Registrar to post-graduates. The ESRC was established as a result In .1987 the rate was set at 35 per cent of the Winfield Report which criticised completion within four years. This the low submission rates by PhD stu- affected students starting between 1981 dents. In recent years the ESRC have and 1984. Although exact figures were stipulated the level which must he met. not available, Mrs Kindlay assured lf the institution does not meet these Leeds Student that Leeds had "easily • . standards it becomes black-listed by the met this quota." Next year the comple- ESRC, which means that it is unable to tion rate rises to 40 per cent. but so far (.7')51- obtain grants and other Research Coun- the figures are very encouraging and n 1MVAI.C4(44 cil funding. Only this month, York Uni- seems that Leeds will again meet the versity and Imperial College London required target. fell foul to this ruling. Sharon Parke .ORDIRIAZY CIO( (1444 AP' TUESDAY IPM It's a funny RILEY SMITH HALL T44 44/a: old world! Heartless dognappers took unsus- pecting six stone Rottweiller puppy. Elmo. for unscheduled walkies last week when they stole the passive CLAUSE 27/ LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL/ LESBIAN & GAY RIGHTS pooch from his home at the Fenton US SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE SCHULZ' VISIT TO isRAEL pub on Woodhouse Lane, A tearful Ray Cooper, landlord at `SIX DAY WORKING FOR MINERS AND BRITISH COAL'S PRODUCTIVITY the pub- described the eight-month-old DRIVE 'lies' friend* as "big, soft, stupid and as dirls as a brush." Rattweillers are meant to be the most vicious dogs in the world. The canine crooks also snatched MC from cigarette and fruit machines in the raid, and for some reason. Elmo HAVE YOLI SAY! kept mum all the way through. o NAY` ■Yli z,-or rvir A 150 reward has been offered for Le 1" ;$ 40' the safe return of the 'beast', Crtorytl. n.tarun B06.5 NEWS Page 3 Back stabbing in Shock Poly move LUU Labour Club threatens LS's independence

Major constitutional amendments affecting Leeds Student and the As to criticisms that LS could structure of the Poly Exec' were passed last week at the Poly Special do more to get Poly members Constitutional General Meeting at Beckett Park, although a motion involved, he acknowledged that for a women's-only vote for the position of Women's Officer was this was a permanent problem rejected. and naturally affected IS Perhaps the most controversial about the lack Of Poly coverage coverage. but that every week's amendment passed was the de- (especially from sports clubs). issue contains a notice asking letion from the constitution of but cites the coverage (or lack for contributions. "We publish the clauses dealing with Leeds of it) of the Poly-s involvement 7.000 copies a week," he said. • RON STRONG (left) and fRANKIE BLAGOEN before Electoral Armageddon Student and their transfer to the in Comic Relief as the last "I can't imagine a better adver- wren! them asunder Phoice, heron Oncid bye-laws. straw.' (see Ed Gamble's letter. tising campaign." This in effect means that any February It) issue). Sue Cocker, (News .Edition) The knives were out this week as a furious Ron Strong, former further alterations can now he pointed nut that LS has Labour Club candidate for administration secretary, resigned from made by the Student Repre- Reports Freshers' week stalls at both the Labour Club following a dispute with fellow also-ran Frankie sentatives Council (SRC), and Poly and the Uni, whilst Adam Blagden, over his well-known support for rival candidate Will are not subject to the approval by Batstone (Sports Editor), said Wood, new welfare secretary-elect. of a gamine constitutional GM. Karen Thorne that he positively discriminates Yet Blagden. beaten by Wood fended his actions, and accused The SRC is made up of dole in favour of the Poly - when he for the welfare post, admits that Labour Club of being in the gates twin ah the Poly depart- "The amendment pills us in a gets the copy. "But if reports she put her support behind grtp of a "self-appointed ments plus Exec members. and position where we can exert aren't handed in by the clubs, Strong's rival, card-carrying clique.- is subject to a quorum of 50 per greater control," said Stewart. they aren't published.- he Liberal Mike Green. -I was a Labour Cub candi- cent plus one of the mem- "because we can get SRC quo- added, The row. which began in the date and that was my commit- bership - only 30 out of fiU rate more cash~ than AGM 'LPSU funds LS to the tune of counting-room. immediatelv at- ment." he stated, "it was not to in people approximately. ones." stsi(X) as well as providing the ter the result last week. saw give unconditional support for 'I-he philosophy behind the As elected vice president at same amount for the weekly Blagden publically label Strong any other LC candidate. A measure is to make Leeds Stu- Beckett Park, he felt he could Poly newsheet. Offspring . This as a "scab." The altercation number of people in LC helped dent 'more accountable'. in the no longer ignore members' in fact constitutes the smallest soon spread to Executive where Will Wood and voted for him - light of claims that the paper is complaints. Nor does he rule proportion of Leeds Students Strong was slammed by several he was the best candidate. The too heavily biased in faNOtir of out the use of SRC' funding income, the rest being from Labour Club stalwarts. He way Labour club o inducts their the t rniversity. by a firmer con- threats agiainsi LS. although LUU 14,5o0) and from offered his resignation. business is totally ludicrous:* trol of the purse-strings. these "Should not he necessary. advertising (1:21 The incident could begin a Blagden was quick to launch COVERAGE The SRC could cut funding he- flurry of protest resignations her counter-offensive. fore anyway.- he commented, DANGEROUS from strong sympathisers: "There's not much point in "I don't think Leeds Student "all it means now is that there Nonetheless, the amendment further reducing the import- having Labour Club candidates is balanced," said Jackie Nixon, are no constitutional ties-- is generally seen by LS staff as a ance of Ihe once dominant it nieln hers are gonT to Illisth!ic Vice President (Admin). "If it The amendment was neither dangerous and perhaps mis- Labour Club in Union politics. each others campaigns. and he is called Leeds Student then it a personal attack or an attempt placed attack, as a quick. ran- Blagden denies the remark: was caught actually putting up should he covering ALL stu- to reduce editorial independ- dom sample of six back issues "I called him an arrogant bas- Will's posters. dents in Leeds, including those ence, but to make a stand suggested that in terms of mini- tard. not a scab." she claimed. But there is no doubt that a "I supported Mike Green.- at FE colleges." against poor Poly co% erage, ber of news stories (not inches great deal of animosity exists she admitted, "hut I didn't take However. she did not see the When asked how LS could of column space), the Poly any of his posters around." measure as a personal attack or amend this situation he sug- averages the third of the total between factions. An unrepentant Strong de- as a potential threat to editorial gested a publicity and informa- that equates to its funding. Neil Amos independence, should the SRC tion campaign. The most significant areas of decide to withdraw funding - Leeds Student editorial staff bias seem to he in general news but more as a 'convenience' unsurprisingly greeted the items affecting all students measure for dealing with any amendment as a serious attack (such as GERBill. Comic Re- future alterations, and as a on the paper. Jay Rayner, (Edi- lief). where the teraleika 1,, We're no crooks' means of gaining more influ- tor) claimed it constituted a quote only University sour.es ence only. "Personally motivated attack However. LS'is probably 111,,: Steve Stewart. Vice Presi- threatening LS independence. group most conscious of the dent (Beckett Park). who and instigated by certain per- problem, The solution lies in say ENTSTECH seconded the motion. claims to sons concerned with their own Poly students getting involved have received many complaints lack of coverage.- themselves. Furious ENTSTECH officials have denied libellous allegations made against them in Leeds Student last week. In a letter to LS, Michael C'rawshaw accused an ENTSTECH member of failing to hand in his lost jacket to the Union but selling it to a secondhand Other SCGM Business clothes shop instead. ENTSTECH, which is part of TSTECH official. An amendment to the Poly Exec structure. seen as 'lung overdue' much to Nixon-s disgust, "1 low ENTS but spends most if its ENTSTECH are angry at by most Exec members, was passed by a unanimous vote. the hell can you have men time working for events, is a Michael ('rawshaw's reliance This amendment means the Steve Stewart agreed, point- saying what they want a self-financing organisation and on hearsay evidence to defame creation of two ncy, non- ing out that change had been women's officer to be, when the fears that these allegations will them. -ENTSTECH have no- sabbatical posts (overseas stu- delayed because of the difficul- officer must he a woman adversely affect its business. thing at all to do with this inci- dent officer and mature student ties in getting the 200-member elected to represent women'!" The incident happened at a dent," stormed an angry Paul officer), and the loss of some quorate required for a constilu- Sub-Aqua disco in the Refec. Some felt that the proposers Greco. a member of EN- other positions in a complete mina! amendment. "This was Michael Cra•shaw left the disco hadn't put their case dearly. TSTECH. reorganisation of the structure why the SGM was held at Beck- wearing someone else's jacket. Those in opposition put the of Exec, aimed at clearly defin- eft Park, because of the greater and when he returned to the A man is currently helping counter-argument (as per Steve ing the constitutional functions potential we have up here of Union he was told his ow n jack- police with their enquiries. Stewart) that -Every elected and obligations of all officers. reaching a quorum." et had been handed to an EN- Robin Perrie officer is accountable to every Jackie Nixon explained the However, the Beckett Park Union member." thus raising growing need for an Overseas bar did not prove conducive to constitutional questions as to o f f ic e ras a due to t he a reasonable discussion of the the restriction of the suffrage. Polytechnic's increased interest proposal for a women's only c7V1iles in accepting overseas students vote for electing the women's Despite the failure of the c_711- as a source of revenue, express- officer, according to Poly Presi- women's measure, though, of Leeds ing satisfaction that the other dent Ed Gamble: atmos- Jackie Nixon viewed Beckett where good books cost less changes to Exec had finally phere was not conducive to a Park as a good choice for the been achieved; good debate - intimidation was SGM: "There was a had atmos- Secondhand Books Bargain Books "This has been a long-term rife." phere at times. but it meant problem. . There were a lot The motion, proposed by that the Union reached more 12 Great George Street 64 The Headrow of redundant jobs... Exec had Eva Searle and seconded by people. which is good." Monday to Saturday gam to 5.30pm become too big and unwieldy." Jackie Nixon, was defeated - Karen Thornton Page 4 LEEDS STUDENT NUS CONFERENCE MANIFESTOS

Nicola Butler Simon Buckby Mike Fenwick Maths History Physiology David Harvie Tony Austin Tony Austin Robin Dey Gerry Reagan Austen Garth

With our grants and welfare benefits being continually NUS roust take the idealogical offensive against the NUS is running out of time with a challenge being undermined, it is important that the NUS does not government to defend OUR education. NUS must also made to the Union autonomy, it needs to fight waste time on petty factional infighting, but cam- align itself with other progressive groups to defend nationally against the GERBiII and poll tax, and join paigns effectively for students. Vote for a candidate the NHS, oppose the poll tax and defeat Clause 28. To the nurses in their defence of the NHS. Defend your- with the necessary campaigning experience and com- do this it needs to encourage YOUR participation. self, defend your Union. Vote Mike Fenwick 1, mitment who will put you first. Please vote Nicola Vote LABOUR. Vote SIMON BUCKBY. Thanks. Butler 1.

Jeremy Coleman Matthew A. Jones Tom Wright Politics Economics Austen Garth Mike Green Computing Eddie Goncalves Jayne Hainswnrth Jonny Mendelsohn Alan Eager NUS Conference is an important national voice for vote for me. Thanks. As an independant candidate, a first-year, and a Jew. I students, it is vital that educational issues are put first am committed to the merits of issues, increasing and not sectional party politics. NUS should be a NUS' accessibility to even the inexperienced, and to non-aligned organisation, campaigning against the all liberation campaigns. Make NUS more effective. Education Bill's assault on the autonomy of universi- Fight Clause 28, support human rights. Maintain the ties. Education is essential, NUS doesn't need foreign NI-IS. Defend overseas students. Vote Jeremy Cole- and economic policies. Rachel Taylor man 1, Social Policy Frankie Blagren Germaine Varney John Craig Austen Garth Politics For someone committed to fighting Clause 28 with the Adminstration Secretary Jane Turner experience to have an input into NUS reorganisation. Caroline Gibson Alison Doherty For someone who will ensure that NUS remains a Germaine Varney Union for ALL its members fighting racism, sexism, able-bodied prejudice and homophobia. Fighting for I oppose the government attacks on education and real access to education for all. Vote Rachel Taylor 1. NUS - The next five years? Open up the NUS struc- training, on civil liberties and on groups already tures to increase participation. Clause 28? Campaign underprivileged in society. As a Labour student I want against it and for non-implementation if it is passed . to see NUS campaigning against these measures and National Exec elections? Vote for an experienced offering a real alternative. delegate who will vote for a National Executive which works for students, not their own cares. Vote GARTH Paul McDermott 1. Combined Studies Max Akroyd Mike Green Andy Burnyeat Russian Tony Austin e fkkalit-.6-- Germaine Varney Eddie Goncalves As a member of Socialist Worker's Student Society, I English believe we have to fight the Tories over health cuts, grant cuts and Clause 28. I support the struggles of all C. Gibson the oppressed - from the blacks in South Africa to A. Garth NUS should not be dominated by any political party. Palestinians in Gaza. Vote for a fighting NUS. Vote Unless NUS executive and conference become more SWSS. representatives of the diversity of a Union of 11/4 Vote for a candidate with experience of working with million members it will never regain the credibility it NUS and the workings of conference. Vote for a so badly needs. For experience and representation candidate committed to fighting for the rights of all vote MIKE GREEN 1. students and to defending the rights of autonomous groups within NUS. Vote Germaine Varney 1, Jonny Mendelsohn Politics Austen Garth Tracey Allen Warren Taylor Sociology Eduardo Goncalves Susan Allman Politics Sharon Matthews Vote for a candidate who will fight for a more demo- Mike Green cratic and representative national Union. Vote for a Matthew Jones candidate who will oppose the implementation of As a member of Socialist Worker Student Society, I Clause 28 and will fight for overseas student rights. oppose all attacks on students and working people. I Vote for a candidate with progressive ideas. Vote believe in the liberation of all oppressed groups, Mendelsohn 1. As here, NUS has long been dominated by small which includes the Palestinians. I oppose the Alton cliques who have disastrously alienated the ordinary Bill, Clause 28 and attacks on the NHS. Fight the bigots student. NUS will only be credible and effective when and the Tories - vote SWSS. it accepts pluralism, accountability and tolerance as its first priorities. We've started the ball rolling here - NOW LET'S DO IT NATIONALLY. Vote EDDIE GON- CALVES 1, Katie Grant Alison Doherty Spanish (Postgraduate) History and Italian Germaine Varney P. Letson Rachel Taylor A. L. Austin Julia Hammond Fuel and Energy For a postgraduate's input into CD5 discussion of the Jonny Mendelsohn future of NUS and for defence of the liberation cam- NUS policy is to support abortion up to birth for any paigns. For someone experienced in fighting Clause Mike Fenwick reason. This is too extreme and unrepresentative. 28. For someone campaigning on positive proposals Although I believe that few of the six hundred abor- for student financial support to increase access to tions performed every day are justifiable, I stand not education for ALL potential students. Vote Katie Grant I would like to go to Spring Conference. I think it will for a pro-life policy but rather for no policy on abor- 1. be interesting. Please vote Tony Austin t tion. NEWS Leeds students march Militant House row for arrest Budding house rockers Shock against Clause 28 Scottish Incorporated were forced to cancel tonight's mega Ware- house party after fire inspectors Five coaches and tut minibuses, containing about three hundred be followed by a wide range or Labour declared the venue unsafe. and fifty University and Polytechnic students travelled to Manches- events across the country. in ter last Saturday, for a march in support of gay rights. eluding a demo in Leeds on \I'S Scotland. traditionally "We were told that the The march was specifically Police estimates meanwhile Saturday, March 5. This is also Labour controlled, is this year arranged building. Skillions against Clause 28 of the local were predictably lower at the culmination of LUU Les- facing right wing challenge. Fif- Warehouse in Regent Road, had government reform bill, which around 12-15,0IXI. bian and Gay Awareness ty stranded trades unionists, a only two lire exits." Jerry Scan- aims to stop the promotion of It was the largest demonstra- Week. during which the gay wrecked bookstall and allega- lon of Shock Inc told Leeds Stu- homosexuality" by local au- tion ever held in Manchester, rights campaigner Peter Tatch- tions of rigged ballots have been dent. thorities. and one of the biggest demon- ell will speak. The events will the result of this fight for pres- With hundreds of party peo- It was described as "A very strations for lesbian and gay work towards a day of action on idency. ple expected, we couldn't go positive and happy march" by rights ever seen in this country. April 23 and a National demon- At this c.-.11's selection meet- ahead tinder the circumst- the president of LUU Lesbian The march was followed by a stration in London. ing, right 'sing Benny ances." and Gaysoc. David Crellin. A rally with such speakers as Sue The march in Manchester McLaughlin challenged Mili- Shock have put their plans to headcount by the organisers, Jonston ('Sheila- from Brook- was considered to he a great tant Douglas Blackstock. host Leeds' first real Ware- the North-West Campaign for side). Tom Robinson and success for lesbian and gay Claiming that 33 per cent of house throwdown on ice for the Lesbian Gay Equality, Michael Cashman ('Colin' from rights. "I am pleased and en- voters had not been NUS mem- and time being. but promise showed the total number 01 de- Eastenders). couraged that so many people bers and that registration had monstriwirs to he 21) . 300. This demonstration will now turned up," said David Crellin. taken place in a store cupboard, another venue and rearranged Mr Blackstock and co walked date for the near Future. out. The to DJs from local pirate The chair Mr Paul Geatrix stations KISS FM may also he claimed that intimidation by booked for the forthcoming late Leeds Poly applications up Militant supporters followed night sesh. during which a bookstall was smashed up. Eventually Nit- compared to national trend McLaughlin was selected oith Mr Blackstock rejecting the re- Calling all Poly students — come sult as he considered the meet- The number of applicants to the Department of Education "We are already looking into ing illegitimate. and make your mark on the Leeds Poly has increased 11-9 and Science is predicting a fall an alternative development Mr Blackstock intends to paper and help us write the per cent over the last three years of between live and ten per cent market." he explained, "which fight the decision nest week at news. despite a decrease in the popula- in the number of full-time will provide greater access to Strathclyde Universit y , pros id- tion aged over eighteen. This is equivalent students in Polys and Further Education, allowing ing that is. that he is no longer Come to the office in the Uni- part of the national increase in colleges by 1993/4. more mature students and part- plagued by an alleged 'dirty applications of 2-3 per cent on time students to participate." tricks' campaign which had ‘ersity Union extension from last year, according to statistics Frank Gould. assistant direc- Mr Gould expects the number threatened to prevent him and 10.30am Monday mornings. from the Polytechnics Central tor of Resources at the Poly, of students on full-time courses his supporters from attending We'll be wailing. Admissions System. believes that Leeds is well- to remain steady for the next the selection meeting in Edin- The figures come as some- placed to survive the downward few years. burgh. thing of a surprise considering trend. Mike Howard Susan Beenstock LEEDS POLY ELECTION MANIFESTO FIONA McDOWELL Lesbians and gay men, ALISON WALKER The GERBIL, the govern- CARL MUSTILL ment's policy on grants, the Deputy President women wanting abortions, Deputy President Final Year Business Studies being Irish and opposed to Polytechnics lack of commit- British rule, being black or a ment to comprehensive stu- V.P. — Admin student: the government is dent support services — affect attacking you. everyone at Leeds Polytechnic. Education We need to stand up to this should be accessible and we and have regular Union must work for equality of meetings to hammer it out, opportunity for all. These are and get the maximum num- issues that I have tackled this ber of people involved to take year as deputy president and action. We need a Union will continue to do so if re- Exec that's prepared to do all elected. this. I think I'm the woman Vote Alison Walker for De- for the job. puty President.

STEVE STEWART ROBERT COOP IAN CHILD TASH Vice President Vice President V.P. Ents VP Ents The coming year at the Poly is going to be crucial. We need an executive that will campaign for more money from the Polytechnic and against the proposed changes in the education sys- tem. I will work to make sure that Union services are not cut, and that our money is used effectively. A. No abuse but better use of V.P. Admin vote CARL Having been elected in funds. Your cash is safe with MUSTILL. February 87, I have had time Tash. to properly get to grips with Quiz nights, cabaret, come- how the Union operates. I When elected I promised the dians/comediennes, Friday BLACKWOOD now feel I have the experi- following: Better publicity, night discos — Saturday and ence to help guide this Union Anyone familiar with the free buses, better discos, Wednesday Bops. President through its most difficult Halls of Residence, will be more varied concerts, Your fun is a priority with The threat of the education period ever. aware of the bad state of re- cabaret, quizzes, a better Tash. Culture; Film and reform bill and our financial Without the right guidance, pair, inadequate facilities, offspring, beer festivals, theatre. A change is as good position means that 1988 will this Union could well col- and the lax health and safety more drinks promotions. as a Tash. be the most important year lapse and that means that ev- standards. If the Students' I've kept my promises. £8,000 p.a. on offspring? for the Union since its forma ery Poly student will suffer in Union and Polytechnic stop So what do I promise this Worth that much? lion. one way or another. tackling these problems from time? Rehash with Tash. Ques- For a president with experi Please don't let this different perspectives prog- Simply to give you the best tionnaires/surveys — for gig ence, commitment and the happen. ress would be made. These year's entertainment and preferences. desire to get it right. Vote Steve Stewart, Vice problems could be solved publicity ever known at the For fresh ideas and action Vote Blackwood, we can't Poly. VOTE TASH. afford anything less. President Beckett Park with better liaison. 1_1

Two weeks ago the Fifth Column. SQUARE said there was nothing in student politics worth voting for at the moment. Last week it said that there was no point voting anyway. This week, to help the rhetoric disappear up its own premiss, Simon Webster tells us all to get up off our buns and get rid of that apathy thing...

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0 YOU feel a little off colour, sleepy, drained of all your energy, generally wiped out? If a stampede for the toilets D This fear is not just a nut, •v ■Al probably lust haven't noticed yet, metaphor for something else, It may come as a bit of a it's real, tangible, bowel shock to some of you but moving. To see this in the there's a vicious virus, a (clammy) flesh, so to speak, sit veritable bad news bug in our and watch the lunch time crowd Pn mute for the net sol,ttle comeeinev ,. University Uniun, running Thij, disease that has reached 100 lapprox both out of about epidemic proportions This gauntlet of 'Socialist Worker' 11.000) fever saps your will, numbs peddlers With beating heart Meanwhile, somewhere in your brain and, to the casual and bowed head they come, England, some of the observer, appears to lower you can see them thinking, journalists for certain daily's cardiac temperature It has "Oh God what if one of those have learnt to read and write confined thousands of our lefties speaks to me. God don't and are churning out articles friends and associates to bed, let them see me Ignore them. that recall the heady days of assorted pubs and even. in Ignore me!" You'd think the student protest 20 years ago. severe cases, to cumfy chairs line 01 politically aware The time when all those guys in front of 'Blind Date'. youngsters (of a slightly red 'n' gals just like us (well But what is this strength- persuasion) were terronsts, perhaps with a bit more hair) sapping plague? Is it glandular Milwall supporters or Nuns wandered around the streets in course, giving easy to follow fever? Are the Thatchente collecting for charity very large numbers, occupied steps on how to be a 'Student' iunta?commie subversives The lunch time paper run is buildings and generally made a All you do is: Come to putting a tranquilizing drug in merely an arbitrary example of lot of noise They protested college, slip into a pair of black the lager? Can you catch it off a a widespread phenomena, about the war tn Vietnam (Nam rolled up 501s and go on toilet seat? (Other suggestions with the same effect to all you Rambo fans), the demos for/against assorted on a self addressed postcard achievable with simple props nuclear arms race ISeb Coe eat causes. Three years of badge please) There is a more like a CND badge or a red nose. your heart out), civil rights and wearing and banner waving obvious diagnosis, genuine, Alright, still awake? A little put a lot of effort into making then off you go into the big bad 100% Made in Britain-- quiz: your starter for ten What the World a better place in world to buy your matching suit did your University students which to live. Hey, peace and and Filofax and learn some APATHY forget to do on February 4? love,man jokes about the 'loony left'. Let's face it, the so called Remember• the day the Union In these articles the word I'd like to think this was 'Fire of Youth' has been bar closed early and your 'naivity' is used to sum up being a bit cynical, although severely pissed on afternoon lectures were 1968, and when describing the regrettably it's too often true, "Holy smoke Batman!" I cancelled? Still don't know A present, 'contrast' features or rather used to be. Nowadays hear you cry. "It's the Evil little clue then, you weren't at very prominently They proudly all we seem to have left is Fiddler " Lock up your children, the AGM Oops, I've given it parade prime examples of 11,000 pairs of black 501s and run for the hills, hide in the away (perhaps it was too what has been achieved in the a few ripped blue ones Do you like seeing children library It's going to take more difficult a question, bearing in past two decades_ Colleges You're a passenger on the starving to death, murdered. than a condom to save you mind you managed to forget that were once lively, energetic train of Ilfe so why not lift tortured? from Aunty Apathy's evil again in the following week) centres of debate and yourself out of your seat, takea Do you think education shadow Let's try another one. - for the discussion are now look in some of the other should be a privilege for those The more observant of you cut crystal toilet roll holder and overwhelmed with an carriages and tell the driver who can afford it? may have noticed the complete the camping holiday in El intellectual silence. As the where you want to go; before Do you think' absence of Government health Salvador, what happened on good old Daily Telegraph you get chained to your seat The list goes on You know warnings in the void between February 15-16? No it wasn't reports about the LSE "Ho Chi because your student rail card you care, you lust can't be the two halves of 'Suprise Jeremy Beadle's birthday and it Min posters, donkey jackets has expired (sorry its the best bothered, or you can't see Suprise!' No atmospheric plc's wasn't the final of 'Going for and manuals on how to make a analogy I could think of at the what good your single effort is of the word 'Apathy' cut out of Gold' It was, in fact, the Union Molotov cocktail have given time) . going to do, or you think you'll granite. No terrifying pic`s of elections, an event that way to Filofaxes, pinstripes and OK! WAKE UP leave it to someone else... bla, kids turning into middle-aged normally requires a certain the Financial Times The THE BOTTOM LINE. bla. You won't be young sheep even before they make amount of audience revolution has taken place but Yep, its moral blackmail forever and you won't always it out of puberty participation and is an with results Mrs Thatcher time, try to stay cairn If you have the opportunities that The present apathy oubreak, opportunity to use your Union would warmly approve of." have a heart condition or are of residing in this ivory tower whilst having the usual 'I can't card for something other than These articles also dwell on a nervous disposition, read this provides, SO THE VERY be bothered syndrome. has an gaining access to the cheap what some have conveniently bit wrth a friend_ Put down your BOTTOM LINE. extra dimension, fear Just the beer All three providing vivid summed up as the three year pint and/or the TV page from Cut the crap, do it while you mention of politics or the statistical testament to student cycle 'Do what John?' you cry. the paper and ask yourself can, and GET UP OFF YOUR whisper of an opinion is inaction (Elections 20% "The three year cycle?" Do you believe in Apartheid? BOTTY AND DO SOMETHING enough to create mass turnout - and that's a record! This manages to stereotype Do you like living under the (Well that's that written, is it hysteria, panic in the ranks and 1st AGM 412 people 2nd AGM the duration of a typical degree cloud of nuclear war? time for Neighbours yet?) Page 7 neqnt ------mat .---mnonnIMT11-"" mn rs Ot has securit.cmIt.' Paid too feel we must wr T du and yj liar, • keep your letters concise. IT 'tiro o your front Dear Editor. Read. vide a'. • • Signed letters only please, fit As a statOr nvur though we can withhold your voce * now it your wish, Letters • Send cm to: Leeds Student Letters III, PO Box 157 In: Leeds LS1 111•11 ENTSTECH HITS BACK THE I Dear Editor, confined their allegations to returning to the Union that it BITS We would like to bring to fact, rather than basing it on had not been handedec .n- can Dear Editor, the attention of all members hearsay. definitely be contested as libe- Flaying picked of LUU the fact that no mem- We call upon Mr Crawshaw lous. up a copy of Leeds Student bers of ENTSTECH were in to retract his allegations con- last week. I was ENTSTECII has a turnover anyway involved in the cerning ENTSTECH. to very disturbed to discover the of over 0.000 a term and is headlines were all alleged theft of M. Craw- apologise for having made about the FIFTH run as a small company with tragic death of a student. shaw'~ leather jacket at the them and we hope that in fu- I can- most of its revenue coming not refectory disco on February ture he will act in a more imagine what possessed you from hiring out PA externally_ 12. responsible manner in matters to use such an insensitive from This statement has now prob- page. Steve's death has hruug llt We are particularly upset of such a serious nature. ably defamed the reputation enough grief to all of us wh that the first knowledge that Yours on behalf of EN- , of ENTSTECH, the extent of knew him, particularly chop. any member of ENTSTECH TSTECH, COLUMN which would normally he de- had of this incident was on the friends. He was brilliant lad and Chris Goodhand cided in court. appearance of the letter in last this was a shocking accident TO THE STUDENTS OF LEEDS POLY Joe Hickey and it is hard enough for those week's Leeds Student. As a Union official. I must Neither Sally Milnes affected to come to terms with had Mr Crawshaw informed warn anyone to think very The suggestion that Leeds Stu- this. without being confronted dent newspaper does not give LUU exec. the organisers of Dear Editor, carefully before making any with such heartless journalism. the Poly enough coverage is not the disco. or the chief steward Without wishing to appear defamatory statements in Yours sincerely, a new one. Every year it surfaces who was responsible for lost too pedantic or patronising. I Leeds Student. If the implica- and every year suggestions are property on the evening. The feel it is my duly to point out tion had been any deeper. the S. Martindale mode as to how to rectify the only people who had been in- some basic legalities regarding Union would have had to have situation. formed were the police, yet public accusations. The point considered taking stronger ac- But there is only one real way Mr Crawshaw was unable to to which I refer is the letter tion to defend ENTSTECH. to solve the problem and that is keep himself from printing a last week from Michael Craw- whose reputation is obviously Dear Editor, for more people from the Poly to letter accusing a member of shaw which directly implied crucial to its existence. I would just like to remind get involved. The coverage of a the 226. out of 2541. Anti Apar- situation and its accuracy is ENTSTECH of a serious cri- that ENTSTECH was re- Michael Crawshaw was under- obviously highly dependent on minal offence and breach of sponsible for the theft of his standably upset and acted theid members who did not turn up to the AGM last Friday the amount of knowledge that trust without first waiting for jacket, without it seems any rashly in printing his accusa- one has of if. Unfortunately as the results of the police en- more evidence than the hear- tion, but it must he remem- (February 19) that although the majority of staff ore from the quiries. say of a passer-by. Such a bered that naivity is not al- South Africa has of late been University, our perspective is Uni- It is our understanding that strong implication as -some- ways accepted as an excuse in supplanted in the news by the versity based. the police came to a different one had handed in my black the real world! Israeli/Palestinian conflict. it This does not mean however conclusion regarding the theft leather jacket at the end of the Yours sincerely. does still exist. that we at Leeds Student pur- posefully ignore events al the than that reached by Mr refectory disco to an official of Apartheid is no less real and Tony Austin Poly as certain short sighted Crawshaw. perhaps having ENTSTECH. I was told on no less horrific just because we Financial Affairs Secretary are not being reminded of the members of LPSU Exec have sug- fact everyday. gested. We go to every effort to cover every aspect of our brief. Are students so shallow that But at the end of the day, good Revulsion once something is 'out of sight' intentions are no substitute for House Fascist it is 'out of mind''? correct information, and that Dear Sir. 11 a lot of reading but few Dear Editor. Yours, can only come from people who must compliment Jay Rayn- lime-tabled commitments, and I would like to register ni) Pipa Munjardiuu really know. er on the piece 'Finding a Mate' scientists with practicals until revulsion at some of the decora- Anti Apartheid Some people have argued that the positioning of the Leeds (February 19), Thinking back 5,3(1 three days a week. Having tions at last week's Bodington Student information gathering to the time I led a freezing, any shared meals/cooking/ 'Fantasy' Ball. office in LUU negates any possi- poverty-stricken existence in shopping defeated our well- bility of independence for Leeds meant efforts completely and Following the pre% ions the slum districts of north Dear Editor. , Student. This ignores the fact that Liverpool as both undergrad the cessation of such shared re- weekend's tragic events, a mod- our production office where the I would like cy/c,s con- el guillotine. painted o oh im- vast majority of the fundamental and postgrad, the article rang sponsibilities was the beginning cern in the continual w von itation blood 1111k:11,j+. L.' work on Leeds Student is carried pretty true, even to the extent of a long downhill slide which Leed., .11. urlent Iitl at enough: but the Ruched dum- report on out is situated in the Poly Union. of recognising myself as 'house turned out to he terminal. saboteurs. Usti:ilk heade,I my suspended from the ceiling Each Monday, Tuesday and fascist'. sensational leader that old\ Wednesday evening, scores of What eventually killed off was surely in the worse possible From experience I can warm- puts to negatke point it..ross. University students (and prob- the community we had so opti- taste. ly endorse the paints made but what lollaws Inc ariala \ ably a dozen Poly students) work mistically set up was when the would like to add one other: how many at rests were made. in that office for up to ten hours a debt burden between members I would suggest that these that of compatibility of timing. the terrible injuries inflicted on night. became almost intolerable. objects were totally unneces- It you wont to get involved When I was a postgrad follow- sans and nun% alarming exae- with the final spark being some sary and showed incredible tas- please come and join them. The ing full-time research, I shared gerations. Case in point being temporary girlfriend-swapping. telessness on the part at whoev- first stage is to come to our LUU with someone taking a PG( T. ill the Fehruur l'; er was responsible for them. your report office from 10.30am on Monday another person who had a Happy hunting. edition: 'Subs dodge bullets'. Yours faithfully. morning where all the commis- 'proper job' and others who Rob Cheetham yes it makes exciting reading sioning takes place. were a mixture of arts students. (Elec Eng) Alastair Wright but as we all know the accurac■We will not get involved in of reporting by the media in I tokenism, giving work to stu- country is not one of our strong dents merely because they are points. I'm sure also that Mai from the Poly, but if you are up to - the job you will find there is plen- would appreciate giving Crver ty to do, Who are those the quotes himself. I now look See you there... forward to a climate of positive Jay Ray net- reporting. on this association (FAlitor I based on non-violent direct ac- tion. grinning guitarists? Yours without bias. fiver and he said he would annoying us with their joviality Dear Editor. ture of drink. dope. sex and David Margerison me some farm butter as I had at such a godforsaken hour. Having shocked. us with their apathy that the rest of the stu- been so kind. the overhearing enthusiasm for dent population seem to he And if that's not enough However. it transpires that Pernod (Free the Spirit 87) the into-. And even if we aren't they thousands of invitation cards about two months ago son% Dear Editor. hordes of born-again. do- think we should try God! will get you in the end! I really know round a mail Last week I stopped near people I gooders are on the warpath These strange creatures can don't know - maybe if we all go stumbling down Brut-lent:II again. This time it 's 'Who often he heard with their sing- along and get converted they Ellerslie Ilull to help a man sawn. Road with a cut hand. I he, Cares?'. Does this call for graf- ing. guitars etc ii you walk past would calm down and shut up. (about 5, reasonably had a look hint inside. bathed his fiti or what? There's even a the campus chaplaincy in the Somehow I doubt it! slight Welsh accents who Base him a hit wound and gave him some cash piece missing from the jig-saw! mornings. Rumour has it that Maybe I will.. then on the bleeding hand. I to Headinglev and he told mite for at taxi and train. Ile said he this now goes on at 7.45am. other hand. there's always the was at lorry driver on his way to he was a lorry driver. had just This latest campaign is once Are they really students we pub! don't be been discharged from hospital. Telford etc. etc. so again aimed at telling us about ask? They pile out at 9am with conned! God. They claim he's the horrible grins on their laces, Yours faithlessly, had no 'none\ and wanted to Ian Dryden answer and not the general mix- and ow alone to their lectures A. Theist tel I gave him a WIN, WIN, WIN WIN WIN WIN Stiff Little Fingers are on tour again and heading straight for Leeds University where they'll be playing on Saturday, March 12 And we are giving away a pair of tickets to this mega event. To win this highly desirable prize get your answer to the question below, to the University Union, Leeds Student office by Friday, March 11 The winner will be drawn from the correct answers. Question: What can't you say on the radio according to Stiff Little Fingers? Page 8 ,wicamiNg..C11 V7:0W ARTS • 41• DEATH IN DUBLIN THE DEAD post-Christmas party in Dublin let alone to have seen him pur- in 1904. What conventional plot suing 'just the facts ma'am'. BPH there is develops as attention is The plot bears little inter- Mk. Dead' is the last film made drawn to the Conroys. a mar- rogation: Friday's nincompoop by the late John I fusion. based ried couple. Gretta (Angelica ncwphew (Dan Ackroyd) and on a story from James Joyce's Huston) and Gabriel (Donal his cool cohort (Toni Hanks) 'Dubliners'. As a film. it is an McCann). The nature of their set about exposing the schem- impressive achievement in characters and their rela- ing Christopher Plummer, a TV its own right. What tionship emerges as the evening evangelist and moral campaig- places it amongst the very develops. culminating in a ner by day. but whose noctur- best of Huston's films is the beautiful and moving love nal activities involve presiding skill shown in the translation scene in which Gabriel reflects over pagan rituals of virgin sac- .-460•0-0411V of a story by a writer such as upon the nature of his life and rifice. Joyce into such effective the 'mutuality of all things and Universal's press release cinema. In a field all people - the living and the pleads that this is more of a dominated by the superficial if- dead'. tribute than at parody. but a the-hair's-right-it's-art Mer- 'The Dead' is an excellent diploma in cynicism is not re- chant-Ivory productions film: due to its attention to de- quired in order to draw the Has ton has triumphed in tail in every aspect - writing. conclusion that this is a pretty successfully conveying casting and direction. Its ulti- paltry excuse for the fact that Joyce's message. mate effect, however. is less the picture is not liable to leave so apparently easily defined and is only fully you in need of a prescription for inseperable from appreciated in seeing it. aching sides. the written word, in a Adam Higginbotham That said, this is an amusing and arresting time-passer, due medium so reliant DRAGNET upon the visual to the near perfect portrayal of Cannon image. Mr Ackroyd, whose script gives The golden rule of satire is to the other characters scant The film features a keep abreast of the times. but opportunity to steal a sentence broad gallery of try telling Hollywood scriptwri- let alone a scene. Proceedings characters ters. Mel Brooks seemed to would have benefited from a collected for a have perfected the art of little more of Plummer's rapa- anachronism with his decade- cious reverend, and of Dabney late lampoon of Star Wars, but Coleman as his porn-peddling this resurrection of the seminal accomplice, but after being out- though for most of those who sixties cop show beats all. The gunned in the past by co-stars will go to see it the word 'Fri- young. patrons whose cash this like Eddie Murphy and Bill day' will mean nothing more parody aims to cadge are un- Burray. Ackroyd was taking no than the end of the school likely to have ever heard of chances. week. legendary lawman Joe Friday, It should he a hit; even A. Moore RACISM, REVOLUTION AND ROBIN HOOD BITTER SWEET TRILOGY the anal play. 'Incidental Death eN<%:ssi%Cly overambitious KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN FOOLS BY NEIL SIMON Theatre at the Poly at a Dinkie'. The date is 19W,), claims which were not realised Bradford Playhouse Limelight Drama Group Ralph the location - a turbulent Tow- and left you feeling totally un- Through this trilogy Strange As well as directing Manual Thoresby Community Theatre er Hamlets, and the venue - the touched and unmoved. The Fruit 'Theatre Company aim to Puig's promising play. John high-security penthouse of a greatest impact was found in 'A comic fable' stated the sub- explode the myth that racism is. Walker proved himself to be an young professional couple ab- the programme which cata- title to Neil Simon's play. and a 'black' problem and seek to' efficient all rounder by per- out to throw a 'Riot Party' logued the atrocity of racist the Limelight Drama Group show how racial prejudice is a forming multiple roles, over- (bring your own binoculars). At attacks in 1987. did not disappoint. product and indictment of seer of the ticket booth, enthu- best this was amusing and subt- The complexity of racism After an initial slowness of 'white' society and culture. The siastic member of the audience, ly witty; yet according to the does not translate easily into pace as the sane, reasoning Tol- production charts the history of and during the interval, bar- blurb the production is. "highly theatre. but as a subject has the chinsky, ably played by racism from the slave-trade tender. entertaining and challenging." potential for impassioned and Jonathan Rose. is taken into through to contemporary times, It is intensity rather than effi- Well l'm afraid not for me - articulate treatment, which the topsy-turvy world of using the tenuous link of Christ- ciency that ought to characte- entertaining possibly. but only when not realised - as in this Kulycnchikov. the momentum mas: the three plays are set rise Puig's talc of two men, who momentarily so. and certainly case. fosters only a sense of lost increased significantly. Nicola respectively on Christmas Eve, through developing a passion- Christmas Day and Boxing not challenging. opportunities. Frazer, playing Sophia Zubrits- ate love for one another, man- ky, moved the audience to Day. Despite versatile, valiant and Jayne Glennon age to transcend prejudices and laughter with an innocent sim- Initially flair and uninspiring vibrant acting the writers over- preconceptions. plicity as the sheltered village the performance peaked with stretched themselves, making ROBIN HOOD The two are thrown in jail girl. Malcolm Padwell as Dr Grand Theatre together for what they stand Zubritsky and Helen Reed as In the end the task of humour is for Molina is a homosexual his wife. made a comic two- to unsettle its audience. and on and Valentin a radical socialist. some as her over-caring pa- these terms Robin Hood must However the full force of rents. maintaining a firm grasp he judged a success: time and their final act of love depends of the ridiculous sublime. on the ability of the two charac- again you're left wondering Lines were delivered with a ters to pierce beneath the whether you're laughing at the speed to guarantee spon- stereotyped image of what they idea that such a joke could he taneous audience reaction. but stand for and to discover their considered funny (as you may also to allow their full impact to deeper selves. fondly imagine) or just laughing sink in. The play works on Jim Burke as Molina howev- inanely at the joke itself. with different levels. from pure farce er never never develops from a the rest of the masses. Tonight to meaningful parable, and stereotype. Valentin is even- the Grand Theatre is no place whilst aiming at the former, the tually seduced by Molina for hair-splitting liberals, en- players did not preclude the through discovering in him hid- lightened prejudices are knock- tatter. ed over and given a good kick- den qualities and attractions 'ream work. important in any ing. Geoff Capes (...yes, that that arc as compulsive as the legendary spiderwoman. Such a production, was clearly display- Geoff Capes) blunders around ed here. A community spirit of the stage. bloated like neutered mystical sensuousness is conspi- cuously lacking in Burkett per- sheer enjoyment shone tomcat, while the great Stu through. This was extended Francis., displaying a gratifying- formance. Hts only notable attraction is in his chirpy and outwards. as audience parti- ly obsessive interest in the gros- cipation was elicited with the ser bodily functions, incites cri- helpful manner. caring for Valentin whilst he is ill and entry of Count Gregor minally embarrasing bouts of Yousekeviteh (Ian Vellins) who audience participation. Add to slavishly providing him with a continuous flow of drinks. acted superbly as the black- this a trashily over-loud orches- cloaked villain, tra. Linda Nolan as a wildly The ability to serve drinks improbably Maid Marion. a however is neither a mark of The production, enjoyed by tribe of Italia Conti cast offs compulsive attraction nor is it adults and children alike. sworn to take hideous revenge one of artistic merit. For all proved that the theatre can be on those who spurned them and John Walker's adaptability 1. fun, and certainly provided a you have a spectacle of quite for one, left the theatre neither night of good humoured enter- mcorruable vileness. Recom- shaken nor stirred. tainment. mended.. Andrew Hisiehoff Alan Spencer Page 9 ARTS FROM POOL TO THE PARK 168 Nick Conway, Billy in the BBC comedy series Bread, is presently gracing the stage of the Leeds Playhouse in Willy Russells Breezeblock Park. Ashley Allen has a natter with the scouser and reviews the production.

reezehlock Park is a black comedy. `Bread' is HOURS greyish. Nick Conway is B philosophical about his Lent has officially begun Yes role on stage. screen and in life. it's the time of year when especially so since he feels that those of us whose New Year his latest role as John in Willy resolutions caved in within two Russell's harsh. yet at times, hours of making them have hilarious play is 'miles away' another crack at self-sacrifice, from Billy in Carla Lane's hit giving up our most favourite serial. things be it fags, booze. jaffa 'The quiet John appears as cakes. or boiled cabbage for 40 the antithesis of rebellious days and 40 nights. cousin Sandra (Brookside's De- If you're already having mas- bbie) in Breezehlock Park. But sive withdrawal symptoms as Nick says. "So much is left spare a thought for the family unsaid. You're a good boy ar Mosquito osquito Coast (Hyde John. when you agree, you're a Park Friday night showing) had boy when you rip up the with Harrison Ford as the in- sofa (a symbol of the petty considerate sod who drags materialism that runs through them off to some obscure lung- the play). John wants to please le in the middle of nowhere to his parents. but has a moment start a new life. Certainly not of enlightenment and sees San- your run of the mill storyline dra's predicament. Though he's but then of course it is based nor got the will to go through on fact, with it. the moment is worth The Playhouse come up doing the whole play for me." trumps with Joe Orton's hila- Sandra's predicament is not rious Entertaining Mr Sloane. simply that she is pregnant. but Beryl Reid is brilliant as a mad that she aspires It) a 'good life'. old woman battling with her She wants intellectual conversa- son for the affections of the tion. red wine and "lots of sorts unfortunate Mr Sloane Re- of cheeses.- She wants to commended escape the estate of her small- Theatre is a bit ca', minded family and enter the wound This weed, Willy Rus- worldy-wise life of student sell's Breezeblock Park hos blend Tint. If John's mo- tinues Playhouse. ment of truth is the coup-de- lei.- The sadness, lies in the but these are particular charac- suggests Nit. "they don't haven't already seen it 1 urge theatre of act two. Sandra's gaps betweengroups. The gen- ters. You can see yourself in know what is outside their trim'. that you do isee review and announcement in act one is eration gap: the gulf between them. Whether they're stereo- door. -They're acting out fanta- interview) Meanwhile the Similarly a classic and. like the sexes. and the distance be- typing I don't know, it's just sies." One feels for Sandra. Workshop Theatre goes for a much of the play. grotesquely tween the members of the fami- good writing." Nick hales the then, in a moving confront., Brechtion romp through Mon- comic. Syd and Tommy come lies w Oh their all-consuming word 'stereotype' and feels for- tion, her mother pleads for the equalsT (7 30pm until home drunk; Betty gets a lec- hobby-horses. The production tunate that 'Bread' has not small pleasures that she has. ture on vibrators and Tommy brings these discordant ele- typecast him "yet." because "it Sandra and John are repressed For dance fanatics there's a explains in graphic detail why ments out excellently. as it did does not use comedy actors, by their parents (John. horrili- special tr.: t ,1- 101111 I .ind tomor- he threw up on the brother-in- the attempted dictatorship of rather actors in a comedy." calls N4)). set the parents are row London Contemporary law's car. The comedy and ten- Betty (Jean Fergusson). and Attention is thus on the series uppi es,ed h, their condition. Dance end II • week re- sion nes er eliminate each the comic contendedness of as a whole. and it is helped fw, This is best summed up in sidency at the Grand Theatre other. Vera (Diane Whitley 1. who his determination to take on Nick's own words: -Sandra is with an innovative programme Nick feels that Willy Russell epitomises the arguments of "diverse roles like this one." Ile the hope because her mother of four dances with heavy In- would view the piece as a both the men and s‘ornen. wants to keep his talents saried lets het go.• volvement from the West York- "celebration of the working These run ad absurdum to their at all costs. even it it means 1he east is largely land aptly) shire community class" and the point is stressed. hilariously comic and logical unemployment. "I hope to be personalities of the soarisit- If you're prepared to make The irony lies in what happens conclusions; if she wears stock- in this game quiet a while. I'm com ilk but don't he fooled: in the Journey to Bradford you to the working class when it no ings in order that Tommy gets not frightened of unemploy- both inspiration and express- could lust catch th? Ll-t two longer has work. "'There is an her a microwave, where will her ment." ion. this is a superb piece of showings of Oa Untouch- overwhelming feeling of sad- virtue finish up? 'Breezeblock Park' contains social satire. It goes tin national ables at the NMI iluay and eas ness," says Nick. "hut you must The characterisation is bril- no simple sympathies for one tout for at l t 13 weeks and Saturdayl This ex. ,t .rig gangs- go for the quality of the charac- liant. Nick agrees. People come person or another. it both ex- Nick himself then resumes film- ter epic about prohibition Chi- ters and their potential what up and say "I know someone presses and exposes the limita- ing another two series of cago features incredible action they should be. There 1•-• a shin- like that." "Everyone knows tions Of peoples 'Bread'. sequences and an amazing per• ing diamond in every itarac- someone like that in the play. "These people are insular," Ashley Allen formance by Sean Connery

LEEDS PLAYHOUSE RANGING FREE Calverley Street. 442111 1111 FREE RANGE ART ing on cloth to simple paint other less distinguishable ob- Jacob Kramer College brushed onto brown paper, and jects. Others. physically' smal- Until Sat, March 12 Sat. Feb 27 at 11pm All produced by adult educa- include the odd lino-cut and ler. become wire insects or BREEZEBLOCK PARK LA BAMBA (15) tion students, the exhibition collage here and there. The form faces and masks from by Willy Russell held al the Jacob Kramer Col- artists, in these works, touch on papier-maelui. lege is a rich mixture of draw- such subjects as the Cry for For art produced in the Black Freedom. Buddhism. the ings. paintings. prints, pottery majority hs absolute beginners Sun, March 20 at 7.30pm and sculpture. nude. the straight portrait and this display must be praised and Sun. Feb 28 at 7.30pm the extreme abstract. credit must go to the course THE ALBION BAND AdmisSion free. this walk- THE BEGGARS' OPERA (U) Variation being the key word teachers w his obviously have All tickets E4 (students E31 around display situated at their in this exhibition the sculptures managed to iniect inspiration Box Office open 10am-7pm Cookridgc Street studio shows folloNN the suit of the paintings and creativity into their pupils. DON'T FORGET HALF-PRICE the results of its students last in then challenging shapes and However. for the experienced STUDENT STANDBYI half a year of work. sizes. They tend not only to he artist looking for a mind- FILM AT LEEDS PLAYHOUSE Fri. March 4 at 11pm the most kistially entertaining Each medium ranges not blowing exhibition full of new . Fri. Feb 26 at 11 pin LOOT (18) of the display but also are capri- innovative creations in the an only in its aesthetic appearance. ENTERTAINING MR The second of our Joe Orton but in its selection of subject cious and unpredictable. Most world disappointment will he SLOANE (18) play adaptations matter, technique and colour born out of cardboard boxes felt in the work displayed here_ and old newspapers they form ,7 applied. The paintings vary A7.1cA% ADMISSION ONLY El 80 from complex silk screen print- skeletons, witches' hats and Hayley Lee Page 10

preposterous suggestion, you may say. Quite ludicrous. But before you dismiss A it as pure fiction, consider the following facts. The rate of information growth is doubling every five years. Currently, 6000 new scientific articles are published every week. An explosion of facts and figures shattering the dreams of anyone hoping to become a Jack-of-all-trades. Indeed, being the master of just one is now a race where the finishing line keeps moving. Skills and knowledge that may have taken years to acquire can be out of date almost overnight. Think of the ship designers in the north-east who have had to turn their hand to designing oil rigs. The plant breeders who have had their world turned upside down by the advent of genetic engineering. The textile designers who have had their crayons replaced by computer keys. Formal qualifications on their C.V.'s, though important, would have given little indication of their capacity to accept and adapt to change.

WILL TODAY'S GRADUATE BE WEARING A DIFFERENT HAT IN THREE YEARS' TIME?

Of course, if we expect people to have a more flexible, adaptable outlook on work, we must also expect the same of their employers. So companies must be prepared to do more than just give time off for occasional conferences. They must also allow time off to attend business schools and retraining courses. And maybe more. Some companies do already. But should we follow the example of countries like Sweden where mid-career breaks of several years are not uncommon? In fact, is it time we reappraised our attitude towards career patterns entirely? Traditionally, the long serving employee has been held up as the shining example. And, of course, many years of experience in a company can be invaluable. But in today's fast changing world perhaps we should look more favourably on frequent job changes and regard them as the need to face fresh challenges. That, in itself, is a challenge that business may soon have to face. Indeed, in our view, training, or lack of it, is very often at the root of many companies' staffing difficulties. Yet, sadly some firms still see training as a side issue when compared with, say, providing plant and finance. According to the latest (1985) MSC figures, the average company spends a mere 0.15% of its turnover on training. As for ourselves, this year training will cost us some 100/0 of our income. It's a sizeable sum. But it's one we would not spend unless mg Ernst &Whinney we knew it would repay us fully in the years to come. L

IF YOU LIKE THE SOUND OF ERNST & WHINNEY CONTACT MICHEL KNIGHT AT THE ADDRESS ABOVE. Page 11 S ETROIT BERLIN NEW YORK Need a job, but want to get out of this Emerald (sic) Isle? Nick Freemantle reflects on mid-term torpor and looks at the possibilities for work abroad.

his must be about the as the 'dosh' factor and the unpleasant or badly paid that worst time of year for 'credibility' factor. Somehow nobody can be found locally students. The evenings the would-be holiday-maker who is prepared to take them are getting a little has to piece together a plan on. longer and perhaps the that is likely to be fun, Vivacious foreign language winter is not quite as bitterly affordable and worth talking students, especially those cold as it was, but this is about afterwards. Of course, doing French. German or really little consolation to the individual characteristics, like Italian can make a good deal embittered souls who, pale rich parents, attitudes of money if they are prepared from several months away towards working for a living to work hard as couriers for from natural light and a diet and the level of pretention the tour firms, as site consisting mainly of colour the choices to be managers on permanent potatoes, scurry from made, but every year many camping sites or as tour building to building. students decide to try a company representatives in From cold, damp rented working holiday abroad. hotels. accommodation or from the A brief look through the At the other extreme it is expensive debilitating heat of literature is quite an eye- probably possible to make a the flats and halls of opener. There appears to be cent or two from selling ice- residence, warmly wrapped a major industry existing creams along a beach, if you figures emerge into a dark merely to introduce students do not mind living out of a and dismal world where even to prospective foreign tent for the summer and the most cheerful hats, coats employers. working six or seven days a and gloves look drab. For those who fancy the week. The occasional sunny day romanticism of the 'Beat Those lucky people who is far too bright for comfort Generation' of Route 66 and have some money to spend and serves only to remind us Greyhound buses, or have a few more choices. of the vagaries of our mole- perhaps just fancy a look at Working on a Kubbutz was like existence. Of course the the Manhattan skyline or once very popular but is weather is not the only factor Disneyland, two schemes, probably not such an that conspires to make this Camp America and BUNAC appealing choice at the the darkest hour of the seem to be quite attractive. moment. The decline in academic year. though it is Basically, a couple of Kubbutzism coupled with true that the need to keep weeks of American holiday tensions in the Middle East. warm is a constant concern. can be exchanged for a and for that matter the cost of But it is not just the couple of months of hard the air fare rather conspire weather and lack oftnoney labour in an American against this option but it still that make this such if - summer camp, working and may be appealing to some depressing time. The living with American children The Britain Australia academic year is rather like pretty much full time. Vocation Exchange scheme one of those magnificent ski Obviously it is up to the (SAVE) seems quite a good jumps you see on the individual holiday-maker to one. It applies mostly to television on Sunday weigh up the advantages and people involved in scientific afternoons. disadvantages of each or commercial Gradually, as the year scheme. specialisations and it aims to passes you gain momentum Still it should be an provide work experience in and accelerate towards that experience not to be missed Australia or New Zealand. awful and unmentionable and it does have the The drawback is of course event, the end of year advantage that it will not cost the cost of the air fare which examinations. The too much. While no one has has to be met from the anticipation of that dreadful ever made their fortune at individuals own resourses. stomach in mouth feeling as this sort of work, with careful The most important advice you fly out of control into planning it is probably for people interested in those couple of weeks of hell possible to break even, and working abroad this year is to lurks at the back of almost have a free whistle-stop tour get something organised every sane and healthy mind. of the United States into the quickly, the later you leave it. Exams are funny things, like bargain. the less is available. Second, the first cuckoo they seem to While American summer look for the catch - why can get mentioned earlier each camps might seem quite nobody locally do the job? year and they seem to have good value for money they And third, get some health some sort of inevitability are not an option open to the insurance. If you or one of about them, omnipresent many poverty stricken your friends suffers a and unavoidable. creatures who, with the bank rumbling appendix in a With all the pressures manager knocking at the foreign country, the last thing faced by the average young door, are wondering what is you want to be concerned student at this time of year, it to be done about their about is not being able to is hardly surprising when the overdrafts. It is unfortunate afford the bill. mind starts to wander, past that unemployment is not a Current editions of: the dreaded exams and problem that is confined to 'Working Holidays' by the towards those halcyon days our little corner of the globe. 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hen Ivan Boesky, the the concept of 'Designer self-styled king of Europe' appears to have 'creative accounting'. become an integral part of the YUPPIE... thei W expressed the view that upwardly mobile way of life. "greed is healthy" he effectively Brand names are everything, misquoted word canonised self-interest and and never before has it been as made ostentatious materialism important to wear the right trendy. From his school of clothes, drive the right car, and the truth behind business ethics came a new live and socialise in the right breed of professionals — young, places. that the young it dedicated, and hardworking. with their eyes focused on the The 'Yuppie Phenomenon' top has its roots firmly in London, increase, not let Thus, a new stereotype was the origin of its wealth in the born. The suit became the stock market boom and the symbol of new flaunted wealth, financial growth of the City, and Words and pi sported by Filofax-clutching, its physical embodiments, its mobile-phonable, would-be bars, brasseries and boutiques Porche-owning YUPPIES ranked according to which drinking cappuccino in newly- borough they belong. plastered brasseries, talking However, as with any 'new' about Docklands flats and social genus there is a certain spending their serious money on manufactured quality about the designer accessories. whole thing. Undoubtedly there The term yuppie has become were many young upwardly despised, equally by those to mobile businessmen long before whom it is applied as by those the advent of the Filofax, just whose derogatory use of the waiting to be classified and expression hides a thinly-veiled given a solid social status by an jealousy. It is a term which equally upwardly mobile conjures up an image not only of anthropologist What has a person but of an entire followed, as with all good lifestyle. trends, is a rush to jump on the fuel injected bandwagon and a fight as to who has exclusive rights to the cellphone. And nowhere has the bandwagon been jumped on more vigorously than in the provincial cities, Leeds being no exception No sooner had those in the high income brackets begun to realise that they, like their City counterparts could now wear their BMW with pride. The 'Yuppie Concept than the commercial possibilities pervades all aspects of life— of yuppiedom began to appeal to from homes and clothes to food many others. and drink, and pretty well At this stage one is inevitably everything in between The presented with the 'chicken and hallmark that separates the the egg' syndrome, in which 'yuppiefact' from the plain everybody claims that it was artefact however, is exclusivity. their innovations which inspired The possession of anything, be it others. their designs which all a car or a cigarette case must set the others have copied and so almost obsessive interest in the owner apart from the on In the case of some of sartorial elegance represents a greyness of ordinary existence. Leeds' more up-market clothes Material possessions are a social shops such as The Wardrobe in statement and as such the Lands Lane this may be true to a yuppie ethos implies that certain extent, at least as true as designer tags reflect social the belief that 'true style never standing. goes out of fashion'. An interesting aspect of this Nevertheless for those shops obsessional exclusivity is its which exist to market the Continentalism German cars. expensive end of the designer Italian clothes, French cuisine, fashion business, the recent cadea* .__ developers all over the country Cadeaux in Leeds is a perfect however, is that they just aren't Suddenly 'inner city' were no example of a shop selling exclusive any more, and the the most over-used and longer dirty words and with local predominantly stark minimalist same can be said of his clothes councils falling over themselves designs, carefully arranged in and even his accessories yard of the past year. Whatever to distribute large development mirrored cabinets, well spaced grants to all and sundry, the and well priced to underline their crumbling dockland waterfront exclusive nature. Needless to iind the cliches, indications are properties became instantly say it has been an unprecedented desirable success, decorating designer It upwardly mobile are on the office desks and black ash coffee tables all over West Yorkshire tieast in Leeds. However, such exclusivity cannot continue forever, and significantly many of the clothing dpictures Chris Donkin. shops have begun to stock The problem is that no matter similar items - such is the lot of how offensive the term yuppie the trendsetter.. and the early has become, in our increasingly imitators materialist society, those lower The area where Leeds has down the social scale have been quick to imitate the yuppie begun to begrudgingly accept In Leeds the Victoria Quays scene is its hostelries. Here the achievements of the development in Dock Street is again Contmentalism is rife The upwardly mobile described in the publicity newest addition to the list of They may not be able to copy brochure as 'an oasis in the heart places to be seen drinking is The the achievements of the of the city', which by anyone's Boulevard, situated on the Rue business high flyers, but more standards is stretching the truth de Headrow and within a filofax- and more they have begun to a little. It satisfies the strange throw of the business district. ape the outward appearance and ideal of living by water which the The Continental aspect behaviour of the self-made man. salesman for the development continues throughout the Whilst a Porsche or a BMW stressed was part of the majority of up market pubs and are beyond the reach of all but upwardly mobile ethos. but little wine bars where it seems the the most bona fide yuppie the else seems to measure up to more exotic the name of the lesser trappings are bring what one would expect lager the higher the pose value al lecteu cy more and iriorc Advertisements today, for and correspondingly the price people High street banks are products as diverse as cash Another aspect which would distributing 'personal planners' cards and breakfast cereals seem to run contrary to the as they are now euphemistically show vast open flats converted Continental idea, but which known to all and sundry, car from derelict warehouses with appears to Lind its niche just the phones ace at the fingertips of huge loading bay windows and same is that somewhat almost every travelling salesman spiral staircases. The reality, at amorphous concept which all in the country, and the once least as far as the Leeds yuppies seem to aspire to . the hallowed brassenes are packed Dockland development is English Establishment Such with wall-to-wall designer wear concerned, is dramatically dreams are adequately fulfilled on the backs of those who a few different The flats are no bigger by The Conservatory, nestling years ago would not have or better than those in many reassuringly below the quint- wished a bottle of Lithuanian other locations, so the fact that lager on their worst enemy they are almost all sold. The entire concept of the including a sizeable number yuppie was based upon which have yet to be built would exclusivity The 'upwardly seem to suggest that there is a mobile syndrome' has grown certain degree of snobbery out of all proportion to now about a 'Dockside' address. include a majority who follow its One of the biggest growth passing trends and whims commercial dream come true. Victorian shopping centre have areas as far as the upwardly without any of the true yuppie The established retailers have been rejuvenated by a seemingly mobile trend is concerned, has status which was once laughed been joined by a host of smaller endless parade of shops bearing been in the area of accessories. at but secretly admired. It and supposedly even more fancy names to rival those on The yuppie, so we are led to flourishes as much in Leeds or exclusive shops dedicated to the labels of the garments they believe, has an obsessive essentially English Austin Reed Liverpool as it does in London, providing the upwardly mobile. sell. interest in beautiful objects, both Here one can take tea and feeding off people's irrational and increasingly those who functional and decorative, scones, or something a little desires to be categorised and aspire to be so. with the On the home front one did not preferably in matt black. This stronger, and revel in the 'cafe labelled, particularly as complete designer wardrobe at need to be a divine visionary to gross oversimplication has atmosphere' which is so something they are not Yuppies. a reassuringly high price predict that the yuppie haven of spawned a number of retail important The main failing of are everywhere, but they are In the past 18 months or so, London Docklands would fire outlets dedicated to the concept such places as far as the dyed-in- mere shadows of last years the rather dull arcades of Leeds' the imgination of property of the designer gift. the-wool yuppie is concerned favourite aphorism. KicThe Time to count our friends I the last Tory party attackers are often apologetic expect an educated man to conference, Mrs toward the motive of the have enough consideration for Thatcher criticised attack. Not in order to his audience not to trample on some Left Wing local encourage the queerbashers, the dignity of its lesbian and A gay members in the way that. councils for "teaching our which the most fanatic children that everyone has an homophobic bigot would not Mr Yeats did in his lecture. inalienable right to be gay" As deem necessary, but to restate Similarly. I think the 777 later events showed. Mrs from an official pulpit that Leeds students who at the Thatcher, who uses sexist homosexuality in our society recent Union elections voted language, meant 'lesbian or calls for corporal punishment for Ian Baxter, candidate for gay'. If we do not have the right and murder. Education Secretary, who to be lesbian or gay, we do not We are under constant direct declared in these pages: "I have the right to be, because attack by the homophobic bigot don't think that homosexual the one sure thing about propaganda, eminently acts are right", should have lesbians and gay men is that exemplified by the 'gutter known better. Homophobic we are lesbian or gay. Should press'. in whose pages bigotry is no light or small we then be murdered? lesbians and gay men are matter It is oppression carried Practically unanimous depicted daily as vicious and out with terrifying strength consensus condemns murder, perverted individuals The against millions of lesbians and and arguments leading to a climate of denigration is such gay men in Britain alone Many justification of murder are that James Anderton can of us are intimidated to such an normally regarded with great declare that "homosexuals extent that they remain hidden, suspicion and concern. yet the swirl around in a cesspit of from society and from simple and obvious their own making" and remain themselves: few of us can interpretation of her words I unscathed in his post of high afford to come out without risk have just given did not seem to responsibility of Chief of social marginalisation and occur to many, and Mrs Constable of Manchester violence. Thatcher easily got away with a Nearer to us. Edwin Yeats of Clause 28 states that, if we Clause 28 will do more to fascist declaration. The reason the school of English lectured are to be mentioned at all, in for this, being as the people of for a quarter of an hour last the classrooms and elsewhere, destroy the human rights of this country are not utterly and December on what was it must be in order to insult and irretrievably stupid, is that she termed in the Middle Ages (he despise us. This is already any one group in society than said nothing new, and that the did not term it otherwise) as common practice now, but the oppression of lesbians and gay "the appropriate punishment law wants to make change men carried out by society is so for sodomites" (gay men), impossible. We have been any other Bill this century. strong and important that it which consisted in being insulted and despised long justifies murder. impaled with burning hot spits, enough and we are not and other delights of the sort. prepared to take it any longer LUU Lesbian and Gay Dozens of us die in the He did not care to state once We are fighting back, and will streets every year at the hands that the atrocious torture of gay keep fighting until we are tree Society explain exactly what it of queerbashers, for the sole men of which he was speaking And we are counting our reason of being gay. Court at such length is worthy of the friends. will mean. sentences against convicted strongest condemnation, I Tommaso Besozzi

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lause 28 will give legal who are out and proud (as men, only actually spends credibility to the we all should be able to be - 0.96 per cent of its annual violence and bigotry with safety and no fear) run budget on specifically C shown to lesbians and the risk of losing their local lesbian and gay facilities. gay men. This has already authority grant. Why shouldn't we. 12 given the gay bashers new The clause allows for percent of the population. confidence and there has censorship not seen since have money spent on been an increase in the the age of Puritanism or the Listings facilities specifically for us? number of attacks on Nazi book burnings of the After all, think of all the pubs, lesbians and gay men and 30s. Any book with a clubs, societies etc, which even an attack on the offices sympathetic (or rather true) are straight orientated - why LUU Lesbian and Gay awareness of the newspaper Capital portrayal of lesbians and gay not let us have our share? week. Gay. men can be removed from Or is it that 'Jenny lives The stark reality of this library shelves. This will with Eric and Martin' is in Mon Feb 29-Sat Mar 5 clause will be the increased include authors such as every school - forcing MON 29 FEB murder and suicides of Marcel Proust, E.M Forster, unsuspecting innocents to lesbians and gay men. The Christopher Isherwood, Jane read such depraved and 1 pm OSA Lounge rate of attempted suicide Rule, Mary Renault, Gore filthy literature. The book in amongst lesbian and gay Vidal, Gertrude Stein, James question is to be found in Speaker: Maureen Oliver from OLGA teenagers is one in five. This Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall and one teachers' centre in ILEA (Organisation for Lesbian and Gay figure will rise because even Shakespeare. and has never actually been Clause 28 means that pupils Films such as 'Another used in a school. Action) who think they may be Country' and 'Mona Lisa' will There are lesbian and gay 7.30pm OSA lesbian or gay or who have not be shown. mothers and fathers. decided and are out, will Lesbian and gay centres Children of such parents Speaker: Lena Milosevic from have no support or defence. could be shut down. Lesbian, would benefit from 'Jenny The teachers themselves gay and mixed clubs could lives with Eric and Martin' Leicester Lesbian and Gay NUT who are lesbian or gay, or be forced to close down or not only personally, but Group support lesbian and gay 'go straight' because they because their friends and equality, will find themselves will be refused licences by peers could read it and see losing their jobs. Already, a the local authority . that it's perfectly natural to TUES MAR 1 teacher in Bradford has 'Help' and social love some one of your own suffered such discrimination. organisations with no sex. 1 pm Collection in OGM for Stop The clause allows funding and no meeting You can't make someone Clause 28 Campaign. discrimination against place, helplines that save lesbian or gay. You can make lesbians and gay men trying many lesbians and gay men it easier for them to 7.30pm LT 21 RS Building. Films to obtain council housing from suicide, despair and acknowledge their and may even mean lesbians confusion, could find lesbianism or gayness, 'Domestic Bliss' lesbian sitcom, and gay men losing their themselves with no funding without fear or shame. 'Silent Pioneers' about older lesbians houses. and have to shut down, or Clause 28 aims to prevent Lesbians, gay men and our run a very limited and lesbians and gay men from and gays. supporters could find inadequate service. telling the truth and from themselves losing their jobs What has sparked all this being supportive to people or being placed in a very off is the supposedly large questioning their sexualities . WED MAR 2 difficult situation when amounts of decent taxpayers Don't let it happen - STOP 1pm OSA trying to find one: either money being spent on us CLAUSE 28 NOW they hide in the closet or be queers. Haringey, a Katrina Pickering Speaker: Peter Tatchell out and risk discrimination. supposedly 'loony Left' Member of LUU Lesbian and 7.30pm OSA But the clause will not only council, who allegedly spend Gay Society. affect workers. Students millions on lesbians and gay Speaker: Sarah Roelofs from LCLGR (Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Why are Lesbian and Gay Gay Rights). THURS MAR 3 1pm Common Room B Debate on Lesbian and Gay rights. men under attack. . .? Representatives from LUU Political

lause 28 is the'biggest attack on challenge the sexual 'norms'. For the Societies. lesbian and gay rights since limited majority of people for the bulk of the time 7.30pm Rupert Beckett LT that distortion takes the form of a more gains were won two decades ago_ It Film 'Forget Venice' feature. C promotes bigotry and bitterness, will 'repressed attitude towards sexuality. lead to bitterness, and it will lead to The family seems to offer the only possible respite from a world of hardship victimisations and physical assaults. Living FRI MAR 4 an openly gay life has always taken bravery. Capitalism requires new generations of It can mean rejection by family and friends, workers to exploit, raised and cared for by 1 pm Common Rooms A & B harassment by police and courts, loss of women tied to the home. Anyone who Speaker: Maria MacMahon from job and home. However, this is not stands outside the family or challenges its confined to Britain. In the past year more virtues such as single parent mothers, Square Peg magazine. than 300 gay men in Brazil have been women who choose abortions, lesbians murdered. In Columbia 65 'suspected and gay men who offer an alternative to the homosexuals' were shot dead by vigilantes 'normal family relationship' and its SAT MAR 5 in the city of Cali in 1986 alone. associated values can easily become the Stop Clause 28 demo and rally, Leeds object of fear and loathing. In a world in One may well ask why there is such City Centre appalling hatred when sex is a vital part of which our sexual roles are so strictly prescribed, it should be no surprise that the our lives. .? Assemble - 12 noon outside Art Our society is based on exploitation most disturbed reflect those contradictions Gallery, Headrow. which exhausts us and constantly pitches violently. against each other. It stunts and distorts It is upon this sense of powerlessness Doubles Bar 9pm onwards our sexuality as it does every aspect of our and disgust that the most bigoted 'The Rubber Dance'. Benefit disco for lives. Capitalism has transformed sex into a elements feed, forcing through a whole barrage of attacks upon the abortion rights commodity. It's sold as directly as Stop Clause 28, and Leeds Gay Youth pornography and used to sell everything of women, masking any lesbian and gay Group. With drinks promotion, visibility under the effects of Clause 28. else from shoes to power tools. No one escapes the pressures of society which Nick Jones admission 70p. distort our lives, including those who Member of LUU Gay Society Page 16 Kiss That Leeds Student Election Special DEPUTY PRESIDENT FIONA McDOWELL asking groups and societies to Food and Accommodation put motions into these OGM's. studies, 4th year 6 I'm a member of the 1 I've spent four years at Revolutionary Communist Leeds Poly and have attended Party_ hundreds and hundreds of 7. Getting people along to inquorate meetings and I want these meetings. to change this. 8 I think Clause 28 is just a 2 Because you can guarantee charter for gay-bashing and I'm that I'll put the paper motions opposed to that because we've that get passed into action. got to fight against this sort of 3. Getting people along to attack Elections again, and this time it's the these meetings, getting 9. I don't support football publicity for them. getting 10. I want to change the world chance of the Poly sabbaticals to agendas out on time and have a communist 4. I'm dead against the Alton revolution. launch their campaigns with a bout of Bill, women need abortion 11. I think Leeds Student is a rights, a woman doesn't stop very good idea, the problem is baby snogging- disgusting we call it - needing an abortion until she's that it doesn't cover the Poly changing the world means I'll had one enough but maybe that's have to change myself in some still it's democracy. Two posts, 5 Show that the OGM's are because people don't write for way, 1 don't know quite what worth going to by following all it. yet, we'll have to wait and see president and VP admin are presently the motions through and 12 My ultimate atm of uncontested but candidates will be ALISON WALKER students no matter what the fighting the election against the Deputy President issue, whether students 1. There's a lot of things I've need representing on their proposal to re-open nominations.. started to work on this year courses or if they have prob- and I want to see them lems of a welfare nature. Three candidates who are standing to through. 8. I think it's an appalling 2. I feel I'm quite approach- attack of human rights and I be re-elected to their posts - deputy able and as an independent wonder what's going to be feel I have the interests of next. president. VP Beckett Park and students at heart rather than 9. I don't. doing it for a political pur- 10. To be happy. entertainments were asked an extra pose. 11. I think Leeds Student 3. Representing students. needs quite a few changes, I question - what do you feel you have 4. I think women should be think it should represent the able to choose when to have ideas of the Poly and other already achieved since taking up the children and not be told by a colleges in Leeds more. man such as David Alton. 12. To be taller. job? 5. By getting out more and 13. More representation for talking to people, discussing students, such as post- Other questions are listed below. issues and ideas that benefit graduates, placement stu- students. dents and art students and I 6. I'm an independent. also feel the Exec has started Interviewer Robin Perrie 7. Doing the best I can for to work better for students. Photos Neal Mackintosh PRESIDENT 1. Why do you want to do the job? TERRY BLACKWOOD 2. Why should anyone Business Studies, 4th year vote for you? 1 The cuts of feeling the Poly mean the Union is becoming 3. What do you see as weaker financially so it's your main role as a important to get the Union member of Exec? back on its feet. 4. What's your opinion 2 It's important whoever of the Alton Bill? stands for president has a strong mandate, I'll find it weal, 5. How do you plan to to go into negotiations if not involve and motivate many people vote for me. the membership? 3 Commitment for myself, 6. What is your political communication between other stance? members of Exec, negotiation with the Poly and local 7. How do you see your authority role on a day to day 4 I'm very much against it, it's basis? an attack on women's rights 8. What's your opinion 5 By trying to stop the political of Clause 28. point scoring in general meetings and try and get 9. Which football team people interested in what the do you support? Union is doing 10. What's your 6. Liberal. ambition for the future? 7 Mainly negotiation, sitting ii 11. Do you have a meetings and administration 8. It's a further attempt at commitment to Leeds isolation of individual groups. Student, and if not why 9 Arsenal. not? 10 To be rich and famous 12. If you could change 11 Yes, it's important that one thing about there's an independent student r newspaper in Leeds yourself what would it 12. Have enough money to get be? a decent haircut Page 17 Baby Now! VP Beckett Park

ROBERT COOP them is wrong. but there again 3. Hopefully an advisory role, Graphic Design, 3rd year it's another moral issue that saying "We've done this 1. I feel I can do the lob well, people have to decide before, so lets do it this I've been at Becketts Park for themselves way." three years and I know the way 9. Liverpool. 4. It's certainly regressive, I things are run 10 I'd like to see the Union in a don't think in any way it's a 2 Because they feel I have healthier state and saying more good idea, it should be something to offer. things for the students. suitably stopped. 3 My priorities would 11 No, because I took some 5. By discussing issues which obviously lie with the halls of photos for it in the 1st year and are directly relevant and residence due to the position they printed them backwards getting them interested that I'm standing for which I feel and spelt my name wrong. way. You asked me this this year has been slightly 12 !don't know, I'm quite question last year and I think neglected. happy with the way I am I've proved already that it 4 It's a moral issue so my can be done. opinions aren't that important I 6. Middle of the road. feel people should have the STEVE STEWART 7. It is taken up by answering right to decide so I am against the phone and things like quite clear, if it gives the Poly it. 1. I feel a second year is that. more coverage I'll be happy. 5. Ents at Becketts Park has 7 My main priorities lie with essential to get into a job like 8. It's not a good idea. Any 12. Be nicer to people when just about ceased to exist so outlying halls so it will mainly this and to make an effective attack on civil liberties is I'm in a bad mood, or after a that would be a step in the right be dealing with internal hall input. obviously out of order. night out on the beer direction problems 2. I feel that with the 9. Liverpool. 13. Entertainments-wise we 6.1 didn't vote in the last 8. I feel its not helping, people experience I have and the 10. To be successful . are getting a lot more people election, I didn't feel any party have the right to run their own plans I have, it would be 11.1 think I've made my in, we are more efficient and offered enough lives and prejudice against quite a good idea. position on Leeds Student we provide, a better service. VP Entertainment VP ADMIN TASH IAN CHILDS 6 Fairly apolitical. Business Studies, final year 7 Basically answering the phone to about 30 different 1. It frustrates me to see had I I feel 1 llave tod ‘jood local hands. pitting our entertainment timetables attempt at the job this year and publicity but good facilities. I want to I feel 1 can improve on that and 8 it's another regressive step co-ordinate these facilities to make it a really good year for 9. Manchester United the advantage of student entertainment. 10. I'd like to live on a tropical entertainment . 2 Simply because I do what I island until I'm 200 2. I think I have a good all promise to du 11 Providing it ups its round knowledge of 3 To co-ordinate things, to get commitment to the Poly then entertainments and can publicity out and to provide yes, otherwise no manipulate Union funds to good entertainment 12 I'd lose about four stones. the Poly's advantage. 4 I think it's ridiculous, it's a 13. What do you think you have 3. As a purely intermediary regressive step. achieved over the last year role between students and 5 I think you've got to start by I've only been doing the job for promoters to provide what looking a what the about five months and I think the students want in their membership actually want, I've already got it to a state Union. once you've got that you can where it's better than its ever 4. It's a direct attack on start doing other things been before womens liberty and human rights. 5. With effective publicity and implementation of questionnaires and surveys to cater for everybody. 6. I don't believe it's exactly relevant to entertainments. 7. To be disposed to anyone 8. It's a gross infringement of facilities for artists. who wants to speak to me personal choice and freedom 11 I have a good and to attempt to achieve of expression. commitment to Leeds maximum entertainment 9. Arsenal. Student, I believe it's an output with available 10. To set up a restaurant or informative paper. resources. nightclub with exhibition 12. My underpants.

CARL MUSTILL Business Studies, final year 1 I've put a lot of work into the Union already and I want to continue that next year. 2 I'm approachable and I already know the situation the Union is in, and as I am running unopposed it's important that I get a Int of support 3 Sorting out the money that's been wasted by making sure funds are used as effectively as possible. 4 I see it as a vicious attack on women' rights 5 By talking a lot more to them and working together with the other sabbaticals ensuring we are working together for them 8. Again I find it a frightening mitment to It but I do think the 6 I am a member of the Labour attack on people's rights. decision taken in last weeks Party 9. Leeds Rugby League SGM was a little hasty, 7 Being around the Union for 10. To pay off my overdraft 12. The lack of stubble on my people to see. 11 I don't have a strong corn- face. Page 18

MUSIC SUEDEHEAD'S SINGLE MORRISSEY THE SISTERS OF MERCY this lump of sub-T'Pau mid- dle of the road ordinariness. Suedehead (His Masters Voice) Dominion (WEA) To this untrained, generally While the Mission continue ELLIOT to be turgid and turbid, philistine ear to matters Pretending to Care (Furl After A111 Smiths, I can detect very lit- Andrew Eldritch manages to tle difference between this make his new Sisters corn- There's no earthly reason and times past. Morrissey's pact and clean; taking the why this can be prevented dulcet phrasing remains in- predictable and making it from racing up the charts, tact and perhaps a touch acceptable. unless of course Elliot proves more prominent. Vini Reilly's unmarketable as 'virginal' guitar proves adequate re- DEJA (Tiffany, Debbie Gibson), or placement for Jimi Marr, if a That's Where You'll Find Me 'raunch' (Belinda Carlise, Taylor Dayne). touch too romantic, Stephen (10) Roger Lakin shouts 's**t', Vini hits the If as claimed, Deja are the shovel. UK's favourite funk duo, sipithedhy(WASHRWOROS there must be an absolute AGE OF CHANCE dearth of bass-plucking two- Take It! (Virgin) somes across the land. Silky This must be a major coup in smooth production and all the Brit rap credibility stakes the life of a paralysed sloth. - a Hank Shocklee remix from the plastic soul of WHEN IN ROME Bowie to the plastic Uzis of Everything 1101 Public Enemy. AOC say TAKE 10 Records, having an ecr for IT, spend it, steal it and sam- a dodgy band, snapped-up ple it (Queen, PE, Curtis WIR some time ago. As if Mayfield) even if they do say unwilling to prove their label it a little slowly. wrong, WIR have released

appear to develop you realise most important document LEONARD COHEN interrupted by the single it's all been done before: the concerning the activities of `I'm Your Man' (CBS) 'First We Take Manhattan', Edgey guitar in 'One by One', anti-Illuminati groups to be death disco that makes a the Frankie sound of 'Hollow released during the 1980s. It always amazes me how brief attempt at life but ends Inside' (which I began to These two valiant fighters Leonard Cohen is still alive; up sounding like a depressed feel). The biggest rip-off of lived to work again (or so we perhaps his music is playing Yello. all, however has got to be assume...) a huge joke on the public, but 'Everybody Knows' sounds 'Closer to you', full of Pal- They leave us with the somehow I doubt it. like Andrew Eldritch croon- mer's added atmosphere (I'll message: 'In the beginning Cohen's celebration is so ing over 'La Isla Bonita' play- leave you to guess who gave was the word, and it was much more oppressive than ed at 33rpm, different but them the idea for this one). written by a baboon'. that of, for example Jacques ultimately uninteresting . And so to the last number, Vee Brel's, who's vision of pes- Leonard Cohen at his most appropriately entitled 'Break- simism was one of the fragile exciting is as uplifting as a ing Down' whch contained DUB SEX side of optimism. There's no John Lee Hooker classic and the only, albeit shortlived, in- at least, a grating weekend Push! (Ugly Man) hint of Brel's lighter side in spirational moment on this Cohen's world of reclusive spent with a corpse. worthless piece of vinyl: the Mark Hoyle sings with a con- melancholy. Mark Little wild guitar break right at the The general Cohen dirge is Vuopioril I, I 110,11 %ft( end; such a pity they cut it off viction you know is doing so abruptly, I was just getting irreparable damage to his vocal chords-a combination into it. of gargling with splinters and Paul J. Greco phlegm. Around this core of crank-sided tension Dub JAMMS: Sex's echoey, metallic noise THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS Who Killed The Jamms? creates the atmosphere of the 60s-built crescent disas- World Without End (Chrysalis, Found in the files of JR 'Bob' ters of inner-city Manchester, Blue Guitar) Dobbs of Dallas, Texas, was from where they are to be the following memo: Illumi- found. Hulme demands The world keeps turning and nati Project No 15 - either a doom and anger so does this latest offering By the mid-20th century, darkness, or a dayglo P*"ery from the Lemon Drops; on the Illuminati had gained attitude - Dub Sex take the and on and on... When is it all control of all the major former, furiously. gonna end? How long did it methods of disseminating in- Push! achieves a meshed take them to write these formation: from the TV to the sonic noise whilst nervy songs? Probably as long as it record industry. Socalled guitar, bass and drums rum- ECORDS • CD'S • TAPES takes to listen to a few 'popular music' was totally ble on distinct and indepen- Bunnymen and Teardrops within their grasp. dent. When Ugly Man print albums. Into this atmosphere came 'Love and Not Money' on This, their second album, a small band of musical re- their headed notepaper isn't much of a departure volutionaries. Taking for they're not being flower- from their first, which is in- themselves the name of the power hippies - this music is finitely better, despite the Illuminati's hereditary ene- about dedication (as Roy fact that the Mission's pro- mies - the Justified Ancients Castle always said it was). ducer Tim Palmer was of MuMu - they attempted to Roger Lakin brought in to spice up their break the hold of the Elder * THRASH, METAL, sound on this one - listen out Gods and their attendant for da biwdies and wayne- Conspiracy by almost ran- dwopsl domly reprocessing pieces of HARD CORE, SOUL, My mind wandered as I lis- music by the 'Con's most tened to this (not a difficult trusted slaves (including HIP HOP, HOUSE, INDIES, task) so much so I lost track such foul fiends as 'ABBA' of which track was playing, and 'The Mission'). IMPORTS, FOLK, JAll, or when one song finished Unfortunately, their know- and the next started. They all ledge of the Illuminati was sound the bloody same: too slight, and they were BACK CATALOGUES (etc..) same old singing style, same quickly informed by people acoustic guitar intro, even close to the 'real' JAMMS 7" - £1.65 12" - £2.99 the same damn key! The un- that they were playing with mistakable Marsh phrases, very dangerous powers that like 'Come on Baby' in 'No could result in their own des- C.D.s FROM £9.99 Bounds' (who is that myste- truction. A final, defiant, ges- rious mumbler in the back- ture was made: the music 192 WOODHOUSE ground?) more subtly mimicing the 35 THE HEADROW LEEDS Their obsession with rain - Con's servitors, while the re- LANE. OPPOSI TE eg 'Fall down (like the rain)' - negade duo rapped out their OPPOSITE THE ODEON is obvious now: the oh-so- broken lyrics of hatred. THE UNIVERSITY mighty Lemon Drops have In the final analysis, their TEL .(0532) 436743 become a wet band! When second recording - 'Who Kil- TEL. 465823 anything interesting does led the JAMMS?' - is the MUSIC ROLL' EM PINK PEG SLAX UTRE CHIEF SNAPDRAGONS THE DICEMEN Ftiir Riley Smith Hall Yet another gust in the whirlwind we call the Eritrean Tent Campaign, and what a better to boot. First up. The Dicemen, Their mission: To reinject some dirt into dance music, like in the days when funky meant Elendrix's mighty wah instead of club-footed Linndrums and soul-slime. This is angular, wiry stuff with big teeth and bite to match. If you want a surging. entirely white brand of chunky but funky dance racket, look no further. Or if you'd prefer a night in with Sylvia Math, the Snapdragons are probably more your cup of Horlieks. Touted as future guests of Simon Mayo and even whispered in the same breath as the Smiths, the Snapdra- gons' music casts itself firmly in the role of Voice Of The Wounded Sensitive. In this whimsical context the minor tension between their acoustic and 'lecky guitars acquires a son of Morris- sey/Marr quality. I wouldn't go burning your copy of The Queen Is Dead yet tho'. Next up, the brassy reggae sounds (sic) of Little Chief. One to engage the feet before to braincells but rather spitting all the same. And the closers Pink Peg Slax? Suffice to say that the day will come when as many Leeds students have seen this amiable crew of revivalistabillys as have witnessed the Blues Brothers and all the rest of their ilk. Charlie Pontoon march THE BLUE AEROPLANES on Sunday 6. Both gigs are Tartan Bar free. \Vac it the mix, was it the PA. Not exactly jazz, this 15 al was it the band? It's hard to week's event 'Cheap Gig' is say. but somewhere along the the ace Jazz Butcher sup- line the Blue Aeroplanes got a ported by none other than hit lost. They took off well the Jasmine Minks, in the leeds enough with 'Coat..' followed Tartan Bar on Monday, in 'Nwardice and Caprice,' February 29. Both have re- through a set comprising a re- cently released Creation markably wide range of styles. albums: the JB — 'Fishcote- from folk-rock to indie thrash, que', the JMs — 'Another warehouse and plenty of catchy tunes. Un- Age'. Turning back to today fortunately, the overall sound there's an Ethiopian benefit at the Astoria with Gz1 roduced b this eight -piece Act Natu- ► and PLU. Not much else band came out as an indistinct ral on this weekend apart from tickers £4, from usual outlets subiec I to booking Fee jumble of riffs and rhythms, You may well ask why we the Pearl Divers at Haddon fronted by Gerard Langley's have a picture of Jim Ho- Hall tonight and The Hooters disappointingly inaudihe CONCFRTS prefani. ward's trumpet as the pre- at the Poly on Sunday. vocals. view logo? Well his snazzy- The big one this week has One of the high points of the jazzy combo, Vain Jim's got to be The Pogues at the set was the forthcoming single Quintet, are playing at the Refec this Tuesday. ID 'Vales of Colour.' from their Greek Evening in the Refec- Sadly this gig sold out soon to he released third album tory next Friday, March 4 yonks ago. If you miss this entitled 'Spitting Out Miracles.' • along with the 4 Zorbas 4 gig, make sure you get down For the rest of the time. (shut that bloody bazouki to the Warehouse on the fol- though, there was enough going up!) So run along and buy lowing night, where DNA on on stage to keep the atten- your £5 tickets for this fah present Howard Devoto's tion of the sizeable audience: a night out, including a deli- latest line-up, Luxuria, who tireless dance artiste jumped cious meal. Jim and cronies according to Mr Owen's and girated around the stage. + SUPPORT played the Packhorse last scoop preview of their album generally getting in everyone's Tuesday, where the 'joint 'Unanswerable Lust' sound • • way, whilst the clever use of was jumpin'.' The Jazz 'n' just great. Finally, the ICE tapes and records ensured that LEEDS UNIVERSITY Blues Club are putting them scoop for this week is The Tuesday 22nd March of 8pm there was no let up between - on again this Tuesday (same Meteors at the Astoria on Tel: Box Office-0532 439071 and usual agents songs. All in all, although the venue) and they'll be sup- Thursday 3 supported by hand were intriguing to watch porting Xero Slingsby and Bradford's own The Vultures. iHi NEwP70 S1NGIS 'eON i TURN AROVMJ' and exciting to dance to, the Works in the Tartan Bar So get stompin'! Tim Ray P.J. IN THE CLOUDS ALL ABOUT EVE Leeds Poly Thursday's expectant crowd at the Poly deserved a better warm-up. However, 'special guests,' Some- thing Happens scored a classic own goal in their bid for world domination by thrashing through a cueless and clueless set. This hand may have been of interest but their diffidence left us cold. You may have had misgivings regarding All About Eve. A single with suspect statesiae overtones, con- stant references to pixie fantasies in the music press . . Dismiss not. my friend. Live they ate a revelation, achieving by persuasive alchemy a rich brew of pastel nostalgia and punchy guitar pop. True to their folk roots. AAE eschew the laconic downside of Both introspection and indulge us in a fresh vision of albeit familiar territory. The source of this inspiration is without doubt singer Julianne. who delivered a flawless vocal performance with natural exuberance thus transfixing the by now delighted punters to a state of pure appreciation. Ransom your fairy godmother and see this band. Stephen Connelly Photo P.1 CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION imisismitiomFestemeinemminfa AGM - Will all membes please attend. Room 9.02. Economics Cinema Miscellaneous Building, 7pm. CHRISTIAN UNION - meets at 7pm in the JR Airey Room, Main Building, Becketts Park. Every- one welcome.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3 J-SOC - Meet on Union steps - transport provided to Chaplain's house for Purim feast, 4pm.

BRADFORD PLAYHOUSE (0274) ODEON (436230) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 'GOD OF CONCRETE, GOD OF WOMAN NUCLEAR WORKER 720329 CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION 1. THE LAST EMPEROR STEEL' - Alan Batchelor talks DIES IN ACCIDENT - or was it Feb 26-27 - THE DEAD 6pm. LEON BRITTAN MP speaking 2. ROBOCOP about his work as an industrial murder? LUU CND showing the ANGEL HEART 8.15pm, OUT OF Ring cinema for times. on the economy, 1pm, LG10. chaplain. 8pm in the Catholic acclaimed video about the Karen THE BLUE 7.45pm. Chaplaincy, 25 Clarendon Place. Silkwood case, 1pm, OSA PLAYHOUSE (442111) LUCON - SCIENCE FICTION Lounge. NMP BRADFORD (0274) 727488 Feb 26 - ENTERTAINING MR CONVENTION - in LUU on 26, CONSERVATIVE ASSOCATION SLOANE, 11pm. 27, 28. Price £9 includes entry to Feb 26 - IMAX Double Bill, - Neil Hamilton MP speaking on GEOG SOC - Pub Crawl Quiz. Feb 27- LA BAMBA, 11pm. Friday film 'Android', Saturday 7.30pm. freedom of speech, 1pm in Meet in MJ at 7pm, 50p175p non Feb 28 - THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, night Tartan Bar disco and 8 Feb 27 - THE UNTOUCHABLES LG10. members. Teams up to five peo- 7.30pm. other films, panels, discussions, 7.30pm. ple. Prize of bottle of wine each and guest of honour talks by for winning team. Plus prize for LPSU FILM SOC authors Bob Shaw and Duncan LOUNGE CINEMA (751061) TUESDAY, MARCH 1 best fancy dress. Feb 26-Mar 3 - FATAL ATTRAC- Caravaggio, March 2, 1.30pm. LT Lunen, BOOK SALE - a sale of surplus H114. Guests 50p. TION, week 5.50pm, 8.15pm, library stock in the Meeting BUDDHIST SOC - a talk entitled J-SOC - Shabbat comes in at Sunday 5pm, 7.30pm, Room, Edward Boyle Library, 'WHERE IS SANGHA?' Theology LUU FILM SOCIETY 5.21pm and goes out at 6.30pm. 10am-4pm. Subjects include department, 173 Woodhouse Feb 26 - FRITZ LANG'S 'M' Ro- Services at 6pm Friday and literature, history, politics and Lane, 7.45pm, all welcome. COTTAGE ROAD CINEMA ger Stevens LT21, 7pm, £1 non 10am Saturday at Hillel Flat. science. Prices from 50p. Pro- (751606) members/50p members. March Shabbat Shalom, ceeds to the library's book fund. ADVANCE WARNING Feb 26-Mar 3 WHITE MISCHIEF 2 LOLA RBLT Arts block 7pm. £1 LUU HELLENIC SOC - the week 5.55pm. 8.15pm, Sunday members/50p members. SCIENCE FICTION SOC - White 5.20pm, 7.40pm. Late show Fri- Noise now out. See copy on SF annual GREEK EVENING. LUU WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 Refectory, day 10.45prn BLADE RUNNER. SCIENCE FICTIOIN SOC Soc noticeboard. J-SOC - Evening service, fol- Feb 26 - ANDROID. RBLT, lowed by Megilla reading and CANNON (452665) 7.15pm. £1 non members/50p LUU DENIM DAY - If you sup- Purim festivities - prepare skits! FRIDAY, MARCH 4 1. FATAL ATTRACTION 2pm, members. port lesbian and gay rights wear Hillel Flat at 7pm, £1. 8pm, £5 (full course meal, glass 4.35pm, 7.45pm (Sun 3,15pm, denim today. of wine), bar till 1.30am with fine 7.30pm). HYDE PARK CINEMA (752045) ANIMAL RIGHTSNEG SOC DIS- Greek wine, live Greek and jazz 2. CRY FREEDOM 2.35pm, Feb 26-Mar 2 WITCHES OF LESBIAN AND GAY SOC - Com- CO in the Doubles Bar. 8.30pm. music, disco. 7.30pm, (Sur; 2.35pm, 6.50pm). EASTWICK, 7.30pm. mittee Meeting, 1 pm, Common 50p/80p non members. 3. STEPFATHER 3.50pm (not Mar 3 - MISS MARY, 7.30pm. Room D. LPSU LESBIAN AND GAY SOC - Sat), 6.10pm, 8.35pm, (Sun Late shows, Feb 26 - RADIO ANGLICAIPMETHODIST SOC - Stop Clause 28 Open Meeting. 5.45pm. 8pm). Sat and Sun DAYS, 11prin. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27 Communion, followed by On Friday, March 4 at 1pm. City • Matinees TEENWOLF Sat Feb 27 - THE FOURTH PRO- DISCO in the Tartan Bar, 8.30pm. Ploughman's Lunch, 1.10pm, Site Conference Room. All wel- 1.35pm, Sun 2 50pm. TOCOL. 11 pm. Free entry for fancy dress, 50p Emmanuel Church. come! others. CLLIVireMatntiAfigVXMONMWAIRM ACTION - there will be a practic- ARTS SOC - Trip to London to ACTION FUN RUN - 2pm on al workshop on challenging rac- LUCIEN FREUD exhibition, [5.50 Woodhouse Moor. ism, open to all volunteers. More for coach. See noticeboard for details from the office. details. Saturday, March 5. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Coach to LONDON - seats avail- Gigs ANGLICAN-METHODIST SOC - ACTION AGM - 5pm, RH Evans able. March 16, [5 return, see 'The Dangers of Religion' by Rev Lounge. All members please Social Policy Soc noticeboard. Alan Overell. 4pm at Oxford attend. Place Methodist Church (near SOUL SOC - Trip to WAKEFIELD Town Hall). All welcome. GREEN FAIR MEETING - Com- Rooftop Gardens/Casanovas. mon Room D, 7.30pm. All wel- Saturday. March 5. Free trans- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29 come. Details about Birming- port for members. See LUU LESBIAN AND GAY ham conference and Wales trip. noticeboard for details. AWARENESS WEEK. Speakers! DUCHESS OF YORK THE GREAT HALL, LEEDS Events! Films! ENGLISH SOC - Cheese and THEATRE VISIT - to 'ALL MY Feb 26 - King Glass UNIVERSITY Wine party. English department SONS' by Arthur Miller at Royal Feb 27 - Beat Crazy Feb 27 - John Francis and The BRITAIN'S LONG RUN ECONO- foyer at 8pm. Manchester Exchange. March Feb 28 - You Slosh Inspirational Choir £3.50 MIC DECLINE: A CHALLENGE 16, 7.30pm, £8 inc coach. Tickets Feb 29 - Noussommes FOR ECONOMIC HISTORIANS - FISHNET BALLOON - Meeting at from Theatre Group at lun- Mar 1 - Uneven Planet a public lecture by Prof NFR 1 pm and workshop at 2pm in chtimes. (Office under Riley Mar 2 - Masqued Raiders RIVICAMISMPRIMM Crafts. In the RBLT at 5.30pm. OSA Lounge. All welcome. Smith Hall) Mar 3 Harliquine, Shot Gun _1- Brides Nightclub yriee MICZNZMIZNIM HADDON HALL Feb 26 - Pearl Divers FRIDAY Classical Feb 27 - Slow Down Zone The in Scene et Ritzy (Ell Mar 3 - Owterzeds Friday Bop at Beckett Park Theatre Alternative Night at The Warehouse (free) LUNCHTIME CHAMBER MUSIC ASTORIA Student Night at The Phono AT CITY ART GALLERY (462453) Feb 26 - Act Natural, Deadline Mile High (-tub at Ricky's if1.25) Mar 2 The Clementi Company Mar 3 - The Meteors, The Vul- Heavy Rock Night at Central Park play Vanhal, Czerny, Pixis and tures (111 Bottesini, 1.05prn. Free. The Soul Pit at Ricky's in .501 Refectory Bop 112112.501 LEEDS TOWN HALL (462453) SATURDAYS Feb 27, English Northern PLU Funk/House/Soul at the Warehouse Philharmonia. Programme to in- Feb 26 - Ethiopian Benefit 11.2.501 clude Tchaikovsky's Concert Downbeat at Ricky's 1121 LEEDS PLAYHOUSE (442111) THEATRE IN THE MILL, Fantasy, Shostakovich's Sym- The Buzz at Ritzy Feb 26-Mar 12 Breezeblock Park BRADFORD (0274) 733466 ext phony No 10. 7.30pm. tickets WAREHOUSE Megabop in Tartan Bar 175pin ) - Willy Russell, Mon/Tue 8pm, 8416 from £2.50. Mar 2 - Luxuria Poly Disco in City Site (Cl) Wed-Sat 7.30pm. Matinee 3pm Feb 26-27 Hitler Dances, CLOTHWORKERS CENTENARY SUNDAYS Saturday, Feb 27. Alternative Night at Ritzy 7.30pm. £1.50. CONCERT HALL (431751 ext MONDAYS LEEDS ARTS CENTRE (462453) 7187) PACKHORSE Music Review at Ritzy 111.251 Mar 3 Peccatte Quartet play Feb 26-27 Hay Fever by Noel WORKSHOP THEATRE STUDIO Mar 1 - Vain Jim's Quintet (Jazz The Mix at Ricky's (111 Coward 7.30pm, £3. Mozart Quartet in D minor K421 'n' Blues) Lesbian & Gay at Rockshack (Emmanuel Institute). Feb 26- and Ravel Quartet in F major. Ma r 1 (not Sunday). Bertolt TUESDAYS GRAND THEATRE. LEEDS 1.10pm. Free. TRADES CLUB Kaleidoscope Pop at Ricky's (11.50) (459351) Brecht: Man Equals Man, LEEDS INSTITUTE GALLERY WEDNESDAYS 7.30pm. £1.50. Feb 27 - JDDJS Poly Disco in City Site (50p) Feb 26 7.30pm, Feb 27 2.30pm (462453) Live Jazz at Coconut Grove (1 1 501 and 7.30pm. London Contem- Mar 2 An English Song Recital COCONUT GROVE Student Night at The News Ill I porary Dance Theatre. Tickets RAVEN THEATRE LUU by Valerie Baulard contralto. Programme to include songs by Mar 2 - Dick Morrissey £2 The Keep at Ricky's 1111 from [4. Mar 3-5 (women only on Mar 4). THURSDAYS Taboo by Mary Cooper - a play Michael Head. John Ireland, Wil- Thursday Bop in LUU 170p1 ALHAMBRA THEATRE, about incest, and A Woman liam Kinghorn, Roger Quitter POLY CITY CITE pgmgralgegnewn BRADFORD (0274) 752000 Alone by Franca Rame and Dario and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Feb 28 - The Hooters Mar 1-5 My Fair Lady. Fo. 8pm. 7.30pm, £1. Page 21 11 • • . • Wha 'S on

DEWSBURY EXHBITION Jason (Ian Botham) was that really you C.V. LEA AND HIS DOUBLE PAGE Exhibitions GALLERY on TV last week - and who did give you SPREAD. (Wellington Street, Dewsbury, those scratches on your back? 0484 513808 ext 216) 1 Well Brian, at the end of the day we An exhibition of all types of Valentine still loves the remaining live took each peak as it came (except the prints by artists including single Harrogate lads. fourth) Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, Audrey II returns - kettle, door, :1 i i ri Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Lu- toaster Please be nice to me, my sky has turned liquid. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Cordelia Ellerby - The Action Fun Run, Woodhouse cien Freud, Henry Moore. Until Moor, this Saturday. 2pm. NMP, BRADFORD (0274 727488) March 26. u uu from 50% of the news editors BRITONS - group portraits, from I.: Li REFLEX DISCOS for all occasions and nuns to boxers, by NEAL DMP- Lite be all that bad And ST PAUL'S GALLERY (456421) tastes. Leeds 468170. The Action Fun Run. can't SLAVIN. 'THE LITTLE NATURALIST' - soon we II all get plastered. I know just LI Li U LJ JULIA MARGARET CAMERON - childhood flights of imagination how you feel luvvy - Condescending CHRIS - WE MISS YOU - much maligned by her in welded steel by Leeds based Audrey II + 2 = 3 little pigs . Bastard. BROOKFIELD ROADS A CULTURAL nineteenth century male col- sculptor PHILL HOPKINS. Until U LI LI . leagues, her brillant photo- DESERT WITHOUT YOU! April 9. HIKERS SEWARD! IT'S LUMBERJACK graphs from the HERSCHEL 1.1 The Action Fun Run Sponsor forms LEA AND HIS LUDICROUSLY LARGE ALBUM are on show until June. from LPSU Exec or LUU porter's LOG. 'Donkeyplonk Preston' - cheap. eh? office. KARSH - a selection of his inter- CITY ART GALLERY (462495) U i1 Li nationally famous portraits of EQUUS - THE HORSE IN ART - U 'CORDELIA'... remember t'days when 20th century personalities, from work by GEOFF BEAUMONT. IN- Flake eater - l love you so much. Yo! N.G. !ha' could get a fake tan and rickets Posse. How's ya D C. rating? Churchill to Sophia Loren. FAY SIDE/OUT exhibition of chil- o and still have change out of your first Li LI GODWIN - the work of 'the best dren's art, Ill March 6. A Sue - Happy 20th, get well, etc, from born calf? Old but SEXY. Happy 21s1 WAITER! ANOTHER FLAMING known landscape photographer SPLASH OF COLOUR, the collec- the W.B. Brass (who?) Petal - love xxx DRAMBUIE PLEASE. in Britain today'. From March 1. tion, focus, ends on March 13.

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LUU LESBIAN & si GAY AWARENESS MONDAYS WEEK RICKYS CLUB Mon Feb 29 — Sat Mar 5 Meetings every day Demonstration and disco FUNK - POP. in Doubles Bar on INDIES SOUL Saturday, March 5 OPI IT1 IALNTIC OPTICIANS, CONTACT LENS All meetings open — pRA•rrnoNERs everyone welcome - EPEE . FOOD - FOR COMPLETE EYE CARE FOR LIVE - ALL DRINKS guts= SOCIETY PREskur), STUDENTS JAZZ 71-.11= ANNI-1/AL * FREE NHS examinations 70P ADM C Ir. * NITS vouchers issued and accepted £1.00 J E IV 1 IV C.; * Full range of ophthalmic lenses Large selection 14 spectacle frames. including 'designer' and 'budget' NO DRESS RESTRICTIONS selections * Contact lens fitting and aftercare DANCE AT R ICKYEI service * Contact lens maintenance schemes - kaleidoscope PPP sues * Contact lens solutions and - the keep rock night wed I, Pic /Tip! e.{C, sunglasses I Specialist glasses for leisure. - free student Parties thurs including skiing, shooting and • mile high/ soul pit fni .1,13ft div ing downbeat/live jazz sat In tact whatever your needs our professional service can help you. Call in for an appointment at 434826 MILE:HIGH N !VI s -11 \1St() \ r 1 SPECIAL OPENING OFFER!!! 1 BLITZ THE MIX THIS MONDAY 1 CLUB FREE pair ut sunglasses with curt It o.% hair ut curriAct lilted kir the first I IR) Fs:MLitt,: I AT THE LEGENDARY RICKY'S CLUB I NOW -AT RICKYS I 1/2 PRICE ENTRY OR ONE FREE DRINK I COCONUT GROVE CROSSWORD ANSWERS I (WITH THIS COUPON) 70s. FUNK AND SOUL. I The Wizard of Or 9. Israeli 10. Playboy 11. Eliot 12. Energetic 13. Needs I ELECTRO.iiPILS 90p ACROSS: 1 • ALL DRINKS 70p • MIX IN MUSIC • 15 Phuander 17. Last Ditch 18 Essen 19 Tenacious 22. Smell 23. Invoice 24 Big Bang I 1.50 STUDENT/U640 25 Under Milkwood. FREE FOOD • LIVE BAND FOOD AND COFFEE DOWN: 2 Hardiness 3 Zaire 4. Replenish 5 Orangeade 6 Orbit 7. Live and Let Die I NO HANDBAGS. WHITE STILETTOS OR WHITE SOCKS I FRIDAY 10.30 8 Synchronology 14. Seductive 15 Petroleum 16 Desperado 20 Niven 21. Sybil Page 22 SPORTS GOLF Having reached the knockout BALLROOM BLITZ stages of the competition Saturday. February 13. saw the through a series of inconsistent LUU ballroom dancing team results, the University golf set off for Hull and the Inter- team met a Manchester side in varsity match featuring 13 the hope of one of their better teams from around the country. performances. Leeds were confident after The early morning perform- their recent success in the ances led the casual observer to Northern Reeional Cham- believe this would not he the pionships. They were not to he case. Richard Lee and Sean disappointed as another im- Bottomley lost 4 and 3. Mean- pressive display enabled team while Eddie Edwards with captain Chris Ayer to lead his Dean Fletcher fought bravely. team to triumph. going down 2 and 1. Chris. and his partner Pene- Peter Gracey and Andy lope Astley earned the gold af- Litchfield played well, going to ter their electrifying tango. the lath one up. However they whilst Paul Bullevment and were taken to the 19th and lost. Fiona Williams achieved a sur- But the Leeds team came hack • The first team (from left to right) Paul Nichols. Sharon Holroyd. Paul Bulleyment. Helen Jay, Andrew Fox, Paul Beeton, prise in the waltz after a last in the afternoon with an asto- Lindsey Patterson, Andrew Hal nelope Astley. Chris Ayer. minute practise session. nishing onslaught. Edwards. In the team match, Leeds Sydenham and Lakeman versity team. The north-south southern counterparts. Litchfield and Bottomley all first eight took silver in the made it through the preliminary divide served only to heighten This performance underlines won their singles matches to waltz. bronze in the jive and round for the second team with the already intense excitement. the fact that. Leeds are now the level the overall score at 3-3. quickstep (Nichols and Hot- a gutsy performance in the jive. With the scores still level after a team to heat in the gruelling Whilst Fletcher lost his game, royd) (Bulk:111CM and Jay) waltz and a cha-cha. everything world of Intervarsity ballroom Lee drew level again. In the with fourth place in the cha cha. The highlight of the evening hung on the jive — the ballroom dancing. They will approach final match Gracey became the The team were declared overall came in the Knock-Out com- equivalent of penalties — in the forthcoming National hero of the hour to curl a five winners owing to the fact that petition; Leeds made it to the which the superbly athletic Championships very much the foot put on the last green to put they managed to win medals in final where they were fronted Nichols and Holroyd snatched a 'favourites. Leeds into the last 16 of the every discipline. by the mighty Cambridge tJni- very popular victory from their Sean Mohan competition. kiHO CARES? vx,,e461447 Ateaoq-:' -:Atoa efol? ezea

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SPORTS SOCCER SECONDS THROUGH TO FINAL LUU 1st XI 0 LOUGHBOROUGH 2 Despite a committed perform- ance- Leeds made their exit from the UAU at the hands of a thoroughly professional looking Loughborough side. Loughborough started con- fidently and within 20 minutes had taken the lead via a half cleared free kick which was THE slotted in [rum the edge of the area. They dominated most of the match and scored their FINAL second just before the break and could have easily scored more had it not been for the WHISTLE woodwork and some good goalkeeping, Leeds fought their way hack into the game As the Winter Olympics fade towards the end but unfortu- into obscurity fOr anothci nately the outcome was four years. the gap between already beyond doubt. hype and performance tot British athletes is again shown to he a large One. Manchester Uni 2nd XII Ask anyone the world Leeds Uni 2nd XI 3 over what the talking point The Leeds team booked their of the Games is. and they place in the final by recording will all respond with the their tenth successive victory t same answer: Eddie 'the with an efficient display the finishing touch. Such a evitable addition to the Leeds have easily doubled their Eagle' Edwards is the name against a disappointing Man- dream start helped Leeds set- total came shortly before half- score as Manchester attacked on everyone's lips. chester side. tle and within minutes Leeds time. Webb the supplier be- in numbers leaving gaping Yet what is this humorous, From the opening Leeds be- were further ahead, Brown re- came Webb the finisher as he holes in their defence. Coates, some say mad, Englishman's gan strongly and could have leased Webb on the left, the nipped in to slot home num- Nicholas. Webb and Breck- claim to fame. The first Brit gone ahead inside ten minutes winger's cross was inch perfect ber three after good work nock were all guilty of missing to hurl him/herself off the when Brecknock reached for the incoming Nicholas to from Coates. good chances. side of a mountain at 90mph, Webb's cross but miscued his head past the keeper. Manchester pushed valiant- These were soon forgotten And where did this resource- volley. The squandered The now ebullient Leeds ly in the second half but never as the final whistle blew and ful character end up? Thirty chance was soon forgotten. team sensed the game could really threatened to overhaul thoughts turned to the final. yards behind the next com- Leeds won a corner on the he finished and pushed strong- the Leeds goal tally. A con- and the appropriate way to petitor. Excellent! left, Webb flicked on at the ly in an effort to put the game solation goal was all they man- celebrate a deserved victory. The next most famous British athlete at the games near post and Coates applied beyond Manchester. The in- aged. ln fact. Leeds could Milan Edwards is Martin Bell. This York- shire character is slightly more successful at his chosen sport. But Martin still only finished in eighth place. POLY CUP SUCCESS RUGBYLEEDS 25 LEAGUE Luckily Martin had a Forty-four teams gathered from with both the men's and the them a position in the semi- HULL KR 20 touch of humour about him around the country for the Stu- women's teams not making it final against Loughborough. With only three minutes left. when interviewed after his dent Cup which was once again through the first pool stages. -This game I tk riled out to be one Morris' try. saved a game for run. being held in Leeds. After the much appreciated of the hest of the tournament. Leeds which had started slowly No I lor him the horing Traditionally' won by Leeds hash at the Dragonara Hotel on Leeds took the first set after and ended at tremendous pace. 'over the moon/sick as a pa teams the Polytechnic were the Saturday evening it was a persistent pressure and excel- Hull opened the scoring rot oatements. but in true looking [or revenge after last mixture of fatigue and enthu- lent team play. when passing set up a good run Prti an Lie Cashion. he was year's win by the university siasm that signalled the start of Loughborough came hack in in for Burton. but Leeds soon 'lost for men. Sunday's play. the second set and took it with equalised when Maskill scored What other famous Brits The contest which was to he The Poly women's team vic- some very strong hitting. In the after a mistake by Fletcher. are there in Calgary? As far divided over the weekend, tory against Bradford UM in final set Leeds played under Heron and Brooke-Cowden as I know there is only Nick started badly for the university the quarter final had earned some great pressure. Lough- gave Leeds 16-6 up at half- Oven. his fame stemming borough attacked strongly, but time. front a certain brother who could not hold the Poly offense, Just when the game had be- can run rather better than and eventually lost (15-11. (r- come pedestrian. Rovers our Nick can sit on a tin tray. IS, 15-8) scored twice to lead ho a point. Recently, of course. there PUNCH UP The Poly lads met the even- with Leeds sun wing on hope has always been the ice skat- tual winners of the competition. for the last 15 minutes. ing to explain the enormous National Event 1 - the first of finish third on the shorter Manchester University in their Sharp passing from Delaney and tedious coverage of Brit- this year's major orienteering. course, semi-final, and lost after Roger and Schofield, the captain, cre- ish participation in the fixtures - look place al Bentley His justification was pro- Hunter injured his hand. ated a brilliant try for Mon is et Games. Tors ill and Dean Wood near Nuneaton in the vided by 'Van Carus who had The Poly girls met Sussex crown his season. A tense tee and before them. Robin Midlands. It was an uninspiring opted fair the longer course. He University in the final, and minutes followed, but Leeds Cousins. Yet now the .British venue with a marked lack of was running well before physic- dominated the match to win the hung on to keep their cham- are left with the reputation areas of technical difficulty for al exhaustion caused him a fatal competition (15-12. 15-13, 12_- pionship hopes alive. of their outdoors comrades. such an important event. lapse in concentration and he I5, l5-6) David Fisher Our top male skater came The attempt to correct this was disqualified for punching 18th out of 28. not bad. but shortfall bu lengthening the the wrong control. not good either% senior courses merely led the Malcolm Erskine SPORTS DIARY The main interest. as [mild runners from plain woodland to has been the ice I L .1 plain parkland around the cen- ANNOUNCEMENT MEN'S FOOTBALL MEN'S LACROSSE fast. energetic and oitert tral lake. The wet ground was Saturday, February 27 Saturday, February 27 lent sport, worth waielime soon turned into a bog of cling- may) As a result of last Thursday's Yob v Leeds PBS (aw* LUU v Rochcial• (List for the numerous fights ing mud, the very trademark of Polytechnic Special Constitu- Wednesday, March 2 WOMEN'S LACROSSE that break out at regular in- Midlands orienteering. Hippos LUU 1st, 2nd and 3rd Xt v tervals. tional Meeting, the Sports Wednesday, March 2 may love it, but it's a runner's Liverpool (away) Editor feels obliged to reaf- LUU v Birmingham Lawav British interest here is li- nightmare, MEN'S HOCKEY mited to being winners in firm the situation as regards NETBALL The performances of the Polytechnic sport coverage. Saturday, February 27 1934, and we have not even University's orienteers suf- LUU 1st XI v Bragg laway) Saturday, February 27 entered a team this year. but Despite having made numer- LUU 1si & 7nd VII v LIN fered, as an early mistake could LUU 2nd & 4th )(Cy Chapeltown it is still worth a watch. ous requests for more reports Ihurnc, i not be rectified later in the (away) most amazing the amount of information Wednesday, March 2 But the LUU 3rd XI v Chapeltown (home) about the Games is the heavy conditions. Some. forthcoming has been low. LUU 1st & 2nd VII v Liverpool thing however. were able to over- Wednesday, March 2 was the British are always Once again we request that if LUU 1st & 2nd v Liverpool (away) tawAyl come these problems. Emma presenled as heroes. filled you feel other students ought LUU 3rd & 4th v Leicester lawayl RUGBY UNION Austin positively wallowed in with the spirit that made the to know about your club then February 27 the mud- and was heading for a WOMEN'S HOCKEY Saturday, Empire great_ Meanwhile it is time to get in touch with I_UU 1st & 3rd XV v Leeds CSSA high placing before a costly Saturday, February 27 the commentators laugh at the Leeds Student as your (away) error on the penultimate leg LUU 1st v Adet inome) the competitors from Afri- newspaper. This way we can LUU 2nd XV v Leeds CSS4 wasted valuable minutes. LUU 2nd v Adel (away) can count r.es where snow is avoid unreasoned criticism LUU 3rd v Caine (away) (home) Andy Chilton's- decision not Wednesday, March 2 unknown. who COMC in lust from misguided union hacks Wednesday, March 2 to compete in the 'A' class LUti 1st Si 2nd v Liverpeoi (away) behind, and occasionally in who plainly don't understand LUU 1st & 2nd v Liverpool (away) brought much criticism, but he Saturday, February 27 front of the equally had UK the full situation. LUU 3rd v Wakefield (home) produced a fine performance to BPSA away at Sheffield 'athlete'. Page 24 LEEDS EDITOR Jay Rayner NEWS Sue Cocker Andrew Harrison ARTS Anne Marie Lavan INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER MUSIC 1.11111111 111 Roger Lakin Student Paul Greco Poly Election Apathy SPORTS Next years LPSU president may take over the job unopposed as the thought that the apathy has beats 'Mrs Adam Batstone Poly's Exec elections have fallen prey to student apathy. something to do with the low So far there are two unopposed posts. that of president and level of the grant. "The stu- vice president admin. dents can't afford to take PHOTOS The two unopposed candi- said. "it just shows that next another year on low pay." she Meanie' dates for these posts. Terry years Exec will have to look commented. Amongst other Kieron Dodd Blackwood and Carl Mustin are carefully at the way the Union reasons she gave were the vi- fighting an election against the is promoted." cious attacks on the NUS by the Jonathon Hudson, a second- WHAT'S ON re-opening of nominations. Jackie Nixon, VP Admin, government, and the fact that year architectural engineer, which closed last Friday. Ed was concerned that the two the Poly is to achieve corporate took his ex-landlady to court Kate MacGregor Gamble said he was dis- candidates that were un- status next year, which will last weekend and came awte, appointed at the lack of in- opposed would run their cam- bring the Union into direct with £142. ADDITIONAL terest, but was not in favour of paigns as effectively. "It would opposition with the The saga began when he ar- re-opening nominations. "It is he better if they were Polytechnic. rived to occupy his basement DESIGN not a wise step to take." he opposed." she said. Jackie Tim Whitwell room in Manor Drive at the start of the summer holidays. to Graham find that a water-main had burst in the street outside, and Alexander the floor ankle deep in water. Steve Hicks It's no yolk "All that had been done was the building of two dams across Egg-sasperated vegetarian residents at the Uni's all-male on- of I: I 0 per week per person." the rooms adjoining mine," he FEATURES campus Lyddon Hall will shake off their yolk soon when a dietician She added that as well as the said. "I asked the landlady, a arrives, to replace their 'Eggs with everything' diet with something 'egg-problem.' soup with meat Ms Robina Buwer, what she Chris Donkin fresh on the menu. in it had been served to vegeta- was going to do to improve the Damian Earle The under-nourished meat- "1 have seen most of the rians. She wants to see if it is room on several occasions. but abstainers were said to be vegetarians." she said, "and the possible to sort out a proper she never gave me a definite Penni Mawson "Cracking up" last term after only form of protein they are diet for them. answer," he continued. months of cholesterol-packed getting is between 11 and 14 "I believe it will be." she platters and fruitless coin- eggs a week. concluded. "The food can be He enlisted the help of Phil ADVERTISING plaints. "We have contacted a com- bought in hulk, as the Universi- Davis of LUU Welfare. who In desperation they hatched a amity dietician. who has taken ty does, and we will get in touch advised him to call in the en- Gulam Uddin rem contact hard-hoited lists of the meals they has. had with the warden to see whether .irotimem;11 health officer . We leo e Setae' ary Caroline over the past lets weeks. and he he will introduce it." After taking legal advice, the FAN iibson. who helped eat out is trying to compose more whole household moved, and iheir raw deal. varied and nutritious meals out Martyn Ziegler sent several letters asking for Fanthing their rent hack, the last under the threat of a summons. With no reply from the landlady. Poly - 'unequal they went ahead with legal pro- ceedings and went to court on February 17. After both sides Leeds Student Newspaper. had presented their case. the Leeds University Union, Employer' claim registrar awarded £130 plus £12 PO Box 151, Leeds LS1 1U1-1 Tel 439071 ext 251 costs to Hudson et al. Produced by Ilamillon Press Limited, LPSU President Ed Gamble, made by the Poly has been the Quayside House, Pedders Way. has hit out at the Poly for not installation of a loop system in Caroline Gibson, LUU Wel- Preston Riverswav, Preston. implementing their equal the library for the hard of fare Officer, said that although Lancs. 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hearing. on was officially formed nine At a meeting of the plaints about the state of rooms Centurion industrial Estate, bins Centurion Way. Levland, Lanc, months ago. "There has been Polytechnic Governing Body in both private and college Ro Tcl. 01772t 434100 no change visually at all in the on Monday. Gamble deman- accommodation, she wanted to past nine months." Gamble ded time scales for the prob- hon sec people with any queries ab- stated. Examples which can out the state of the property.

lems and the commitment that Slop be cited include no improve- an equal opportunities officer ment for disabled access to the would he appointed by June "I want students to he more Polytechnic buildings and no to ensure that these policies Pbrno aware of their rights to have provision in childcare within are carried out. • Leeds Polytechnic's new Director rooms repaired," she said. WEATHER the Poly. Although a childcare "I had high expectation of "Even some University accom- working group has been set the Poly in this policy, but no not being implemented." Poly modation has been deemed un- up. it has no secretarial help at change had materialised," Director, Chris Price was un- fit by surveyors," she con- FORECAST all. stressed Gamble. "There is no available for comment. tinued. The only improvement point in having a policy if it's Lesley Maitland Marlyn Ziegler XXXX is back! Irish Forum for thought At the first of three forums This he claimed, inevitably LUU drinkers will he able to Secretary. organised by the Irish Freedom leads to the Catholics fighting heat 'em or join 'em again next "But this year they've come Movement on Tuesday, Dennis hack against such discrimina- year when Tetley Bitter and the back with a much more reason- Ryan spoke about the myths tion. for a united Ireland, so Sunny intervals and rest of the Allied range of beers able offer. which means we'll surrounding loyalism in North- Friday: turmoil is always close to the a few snow showers. max tem- return to the Union's bars. he able to give students the ern Ireland, and the reality as surface. And the massively popular beers they want again in 191i80 peratures 4°C 39°F in a moder- he sees it. The British Estab- The main argument put for- ate north/east breeze. Castlemaine XXXX, whch in 9." lishment he stated, "covers up ward by Ryan was that the Irish Saturday: After a frosty 1986/87 accounted for a third of Nevertheless bar takings at oppression in Northern Ireland, Freedom Movement sees no start it will he dry during day- all the Union's beer sales will LUU have fallen eonsiderahly by indulging the myth of some chance of either side severing light hours, but thickening also be on sale once more fol- over the past two terms com- sort of religious feud. stirred up the link with Britain — the Brit- cloud will bring rain or sleet lowing the Student Union ser- pared to recent years which by bigots in rival communities." ish connection maintains the overnight before clearing by vices organisation NSSO's re- earned the Union its formid- Ryan talked of loyalist pri- Loyalist privilege in Northern Sunday morning. Then colder cent deal with Allied. abiptistrtation as Britain.'s big- vileges strengthened by Britain Ireland and Britain uses this again with wintery showers "LUU stopped selling Tet- geit single beer outlet with a through the supply of financial loyalty to uphold its rule in Ire- and sunny intervals. the ley's and Castlemaine this year i6tS5 MOO turnover last ! year and military aid to the Protes- land. as Protestants save their showers being most frequent after their tender to NSSO was alone. tants, and reinforced by the attentions for the Catholics. during Monday. rejected." says Tony Austin, partition of Ireland in 1921. LUU Financial Affairs Andrew Harrison into Eire and Northern Ireland. P.O. .Supplied hr I ELLS WEATHER CENTRE J