UNION NEWS
No. 212 16th Year LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION Friday, 27th April, 1962 Price 3d. THE ESTABLISHMENT DOES
Last Year's ABOUT-TURN A Scoop for Scope Headline • More Flate • 7'G Fee Out • New Hop Rules and now • Women’s Curfew Eased Leeds Do It Again!
HE Establishment on both sides of Univer New editor ‘ 61- WinslGestetner Cup T sity Road have begun this term by making Whittington “ POLITICS JjEEDS literary talent has triumphed once more! several important concessions to recent student At the Student Journalist Conference held in agitation. Indian Soc. London over the vac., “ 61 ” was awarded the IN N.U.S.” Gestetner Trophy for duplicated magazines. The University’s move has been to implement, some of the recommendations of the Grebenik AGM Rigged? This means Leeds are so MOTION far the sole winners of the Report by abolishing the 7s. 6d. lodgings fee, and A LLE G A T IO N S of elec Cup, which was only intro FAILS easing the flat regulations, and late-night rules tion rigging were duced last year, when for women students. attempt to amend the made at Indian Associa “ Scope ” was the winner. controversial Clause tion’s A.G.M. held at the Both the Leeds entries were The Union’s move is the modification of the end of last term, when K. praised, but the judges this Two in the N.U.S. Consti rules for admission to Union hops. year criticised “ Scope ” for its Pande was elected presi tution, the clause touching rather heavy appearance. But Action from the Univer “ We are trying to niake dent by five votes. it was also “ well-written ” on the national body’s stand ourselves superior,” said and “ easy to read.” on matters which do not sity followed the reports Bob Whan. “ We have lost G. S. Pande was accused of “ An excellent magazine from the committees desig the idea that we are here to attempting to get proxy from the point of view of directly concern students, serve.” voting allowed and of content, highbrow but per nated to consider the mas “ making ” twenty-five mem fectly balanced,” was how one was heavily defeated at the A fter failing to define bers within forty-eight hours sive Grebenik Report pub “ undesirable women ” which of the judges. Mr. Stogden, N.U.S. Easter Council, held of the elections, contrary to from Howard Panton Ltd., in Liverpool last week. lished in the middle of last the old rules aimed at keep the constitution. term. ing out, it was concluded described “ 61.” He was par that whatever the rules, Vijay Chaudhari, secretary ticularly impressed by the The amendment, from Man of Indian Association, com poetry—“ real poetry,” he said. chester Tech's Bill Galley, First, as from now, the they could get in just the 7s. 6d. a term to finance the pletely refutes the allegations, called for the insertion of same. saying, “ There is nothing in “ except where a two-thirds much-challenged “ expenses In the end the 7 p.m. Winning editor Good Reflection incurred in the administra the Union constitution about majority of Council shall ticket rule was abolished, proxy votes but in any case Doug Sandle The editor of the winning decide otherwise ” after tion of the lodgings office,” and entry w ill no longer be will no longer be payable. these were not counted in the issue, Doug Sandle, feels that “ students as such.” by production of Union card election after the meeting had the result reflects the reputa only. Conclusive proof of shown itself to be overwhelm tion which Leeds Union is A motion demanding a Growing Chorus Union membership, such as change in the government’s ingly against such a proce gaining for being “ alive and Early last term, education a registration certificate, is dure.” R.U. 18? significant.” Jaz Whittington, policy towards higher educa all that is now needed. U.C. tion as reflected in the recent postgrads added their voice About the matter of new URING the first week of “ 61’s ” new editor, is “ abso to the growing chorus members can now use their lutely delighted ” with the cuts in the U.G.C. estimates discretion over who to let in members within the pro D the vac., the heavy hand was passed unanimously. against the fee when they hibited time he says that the result. demanded full details from and who not. of the law descended on rule only states that a list of Casey’s, in the shape of Leeds were less successful the Bursar, and claimed the The irritating check at the members must be posted 48 rule meant they were being Union entrance on Wednes fifteen police officers, who in the “ Tim e and Tide ” con Not For Father hours before the election, not proceeded to take people’s test which “ L eft W in g ” also treated like “ irresponsible day hop nights is scrapped that people may not join children.” and replaced by a check names and addresses and entered together with the One motion which gained a during this time. “ In fact,” samples of their drinks in other two. The judges thought The second change, con outside the bar toy the stated Chaudhari, “ in order lot o f publicity in the national porters. The Saturday Union curious phials provided for “ Left Wing ” “ admirably Press was that proposed by cerning flats, abolishes the to avoid controversy I made the purpose. A t the same time direct ” and “ lively.” Kesteven Training College. It under-21 rule, and permits entrance check stays, how sure that the treasurer they did a thorough check on called for a relaxation of the flat-dwelling by all, “ pro ever. accepted no new members current membership. In the Daily Mirror Cup rules which forbid inter vided they have their during the two days before for student newspapers, the mingling of the sexes in some parents’ permission,” except More Fitting the A.G.M.” Leeds were well represented victors were (for the third year running) “ Varsity1” of halis of residence and col “ those in their first year of R. D. Sharma, the defeated on the Aldermaston march university study.” This Brian MacArthur, who Cambridge. leges. supported the reform move, candidate, may (bring the this year. Over a hundred comes into force next matter before Union Commit students, about half the Of the 33 entries this year, The speaker quoted an session. said to Union News after wards: “ I think the new tee in an attempt to have membership of C.N.D., and there was a notable increase instance where a girl’s father This week. Miss Abell in the entries from colleges of was not allowed into her room rules are much more fitting them declare the election null several members of the staff claimed the supply of flats to a university union where and void. took part. technology. unless the bed was first was, as always, short, and pushed into the corridor. we should be able to exer Union News was praised said she “ just didn’t know ” cise some discretion without “ for the way it has estab An executive - amended Whether the expected in iron hard discipline. I hope lished its own personality.” motion from Leeds calling for creased demand could be Union members will not W ith a little more zip and investigation of the relation met. “ Some landladies may abuse the trust we have Peace So Far At personality in headline w rit ship between the receipt of be willing to change digs placed in them by relaxing ing and layout, the experts higher education and social into flats but many houses the rules.” conceded: “ this could be a background, as revealed by are difficult to convert,” she very good newspaper.” recent studies, was over added. A few weeks before this The Barricades whelmingly carried. meeting, no fewer than eight Hilary Ashworth has re Midnight Curfew people had been dealt with ^TITH a ten-foot wire fence at one end of the road signed as Entertainments Another Leeds motion con by Disciplinary Committee The third reform extends and a manned equally military-looking barrier Secretary. Union Committee cerning the investigation of for contravening hop regu has elected in her place ex- restrictive practices to pre curfew hours for women in lations, and two of them at the other, the Pedestrian Precinct is here with hall or digs by half an hour Catering Secretary Pat vent firms giving concessions were suspended from the a vengeance. Watson. to students was also carried. —they must be in by 11-30 Union for a fortnight. instead of 11 on all nights During the Council, two except Saturday, when the To help offset any in How are students reacting members of the Leeds dele to the “ show-your-permit-or- deadline will be midnight. creased flow of “ undesirable else ” barrier? “ W e’ve had a gation dropped out. Paula Commenting, Union Presi women ” due to the change [o f f i c i a l o u t f i t t e r s O’Neill fell ill with German few slight arguments, but dent Brian MacArthur, who in the rules, it was proposed nothing serious,” say the measles, and because o f a dis has played a leading role in that more publicity be given I TO LEEDS agreement over the delega patrolmen. They have been the tussle with the Univer in the colleges for hops and told that if they have any WITHIN tion’s official policy on the sity over digs reform, said social events and perhaps Clause Two motion (not in greater use be made of trouble they are to call the he was “ very pleased police. EASV favour), Victor Johnson indeed ” about the measures hostess tickets, especially in * The Tie House of the North. resigned from the delegation. taken. the colleges. No fines have yet been Over 500 different designs always in He is to make a full report REACH (Editorial, P.4) imposed on cars without per stock including the full range of on his reasons for doing so to U.C. See the mits found within the area, the next U.C. meeting. but these are likely very soon. FOR YOUR University Ties. Light Mansized Tadpoles Questions have been asked * Dress Wear Hire Service. in Union Committee about the OUTFITTING For any occasion you can hire the Q H ANGES in Union hop S this now a possibility? way in which the whole complete outfit, and for such a I The staff of the biology Bath-House or rules were made fol scheme was rather thrust NEEDS moderate charge. lowing a lengthy Union department have discovered a upon the Union. Little notice method of paralysing certain was given by the University it Doss-House ? Committee meeing at the glands so that tadpoles re seems. main tadpoles, though their Yes, you’re within easy reach i^lRlES from the heart were end of last term. size increases. Science fiction Protests have been made of the Student’s Best Friend ^ heard at Union Committee The discussion was pre is not so strange. about the exclusion of student at the end of last term, when faced with several remarks cars from the precinct, especi L a w s o n Ian Morrison said the Union about the current unpopu Next Freshers’ Conference ally from in front of the baths were “ filthy, like a larity of Union Committee Secretary is David Merriman, Union. But last year’s Union second-class doss-house.” The over the matter. “ Never present N.U.S. Secretary. Committee accepted the prin HARDY’S wooden duckboards were since I ’ve been here has Dave, who is a second year ciple of a precinct, so there is “ lousy,” be said, and why was Union Committee been in Chemist, thinks the Confer little they can do. One point 57-59 New Briggate, Leeds 1, Tel: 24226. there never any soap? The such bad odour with Union ence needs streamlining, so at least, is that compared Official Outfitters to the University Union. House Secretary promised to members,” said Brian Mac that it is “ slightly fuller, but with other universities, the look into the matter. Arthur. slightly less exhausting.” restrictions are mild. 2 UNION NEWS— Friday, 27th A pril, 1962 _____ edited by COLLEGES NEWS p aujjne Battersby REVOLUTION OVER KIRKSTALL “Accent” Praised At Athenian democracy with Losing only twice, they Journalist Conference the “ two houses ” of Stu notched up over five hun Feeling of Uncertainty dent Council and Joint dred points and included “ rpHE total effect of this magazine is clear— but a Staff-Student Council, and wins over the Universities touch too brutalist,” was the comment of John with the open, informal of Hull and Sheffield. J>ERCHED up here, overlooking the smoke of meetings to which all may Thompson, editor of Time and Tide, on Leeds Art The season ended on a come and air their views. Kirkstall, we at Beckett Park are undergoing high note with a 6—3 vic College’s magazine Accent when he judged the entries The welcome result of tory over the “ Auld for this year’s Time and Tide student magazine trophy. a revolution. introducing this formula Enemy,” Carnegie College, The competition, one of read.” He thought that in This we have in common with all the other has been to give the stu and with a Bacchanalian dents a greater say in the orgy somewhere in Lanca several held at the N.U.S. the issue submitted (num training colleges in the country as the change-over from management of their shire. Student Journalist Confer ber three) “ it was an orig affairs. ence in London over the inal idea to make an edit a two-year to a three-year course is implemented. And so now to the vac., had a disappointingly orial out of quotations.” The great changes which summer term, and we in low number of entries this will be wrought in our High Standard College look forward to the year the judges said— only This is the first time that College next year are pres mixed prospects of exams thirteen in fact. A ccen t, which carries in its The happy tradition of a and the long grass in the fifty or so pages articles Jim Qodbolt aged by the building act Mr. Thompson thought high standard in dramatics woods. about art, architecture, ivity which is all about, and was maintained in this A ccen t’s cover “ both Agency by a monumental feeling of thrifty and striking.” It had philosophy, and in No. 3 an year’s production of Arthur interview with Canon JA Z Z & D A N CE BANDS uncertainty amongst stu Miller’s “ The Crucible.” an ambitious layout, which dents. Most are convinced he admired, though he “ did Collins, has entered the 7, SHAFTESBURY MEWS, Such efforts as this in competition. STRATFORD ROAD, W.8 that from next year on stance, also, the excellent not feel it was always suc WEStern 0052 everyone will be saying: cessful.” Staff-Student relationship Art School It was first brought out “ Things ain’t what they which we are fortunate in used to be.” While allowing that typo nearly two years ago and having in College. To Join In graphy was very much a since then has received Despite the upheavals We have been well served matter o f opinion, he criti national acclaim. Two thou caused by the new policy, in sport. Our soccer club cised the sans type used: sand copies are produced WESTMORELAND College life has continued, having had a glimpse of the Set Design “ I think that while . . . (it) bi-annually and sent all though a little less vigor world at the top in their . . . may look very modern over this country and 38-40 WOODHOUSE LANE ously, perhaps, than in for appearance at Elland Road, H E University it isn’t in fact very easy to abroad. (Off Headrow) mer years, but then we are added a tour of Holland to Theatre Group is to a little light on numbers on their league fixture list. for the distaff side this year. invite members of the r- BETTER-CLASS TAILORING However, there can be no i Art School to enter a i and disparagement to the parti set-design competition. i Union News representatives at SPORTS WEAR Brief Review cipants in other games i As the summer term is when I say that quite the i Beckett Park: DON YULE (Fairfax) The competition, which is « ANORAKS FROM 55/- too ephemeral and too most spectacular results sponsored by the Vice- i School of Architecture: BRIAN SPINKS CLIMBING BREECHES crowded to make any signi came from the rugby field. Chancellor, has previously i College of Art: ROSEMARY LEE SKI WEAR ficant contribution to the been open only to members i overall pattern of the year’s i Outfits for of the University Union and i News of ANY interest can be handed to the above. events, perhaps this would Leadership there have consequently « RIDING, SAILING, be a suitable time for a been few entries. i Remember—you make the news: we print it. GOLFING, WALKING, etc. brief review of the Session. Under the leadership of Before the end of term, we hope to be able to our Union President, and i DUFFLE and DONKEY Designs can be for any • JACKETS To start with, we have a drawing upon the ranks of one of five plays and it is i cover all the other Leeds colleges. new Union Constitution. our large number of P.E. hoped that many members i See and wear the new • See Editoral (Page 4) Our new system embodies a students, the 1st X V went of the Art School will be i little of both British and from strength to strength. interested. 44 majorcord ” Slacks c . •A Umbrella for an Emperor Fifteen hundred years ago the Emperor Maximianus Herculius caused a lavish hunting lodge to be built for him in a Sicilian valley. And there he remains to this day, immortalized with gods and goddesses, dancing maidens and all the beasts of the hunt in a spectacular carpet of mosaic. Overhead, to ward off the weather and temper the harsh Sicilian sun, is a 75,000-square- foot translucent canopy of a truly 20th-century material — ‘Perspex’, the acrylic plastic discovered and developed by I.C.I. of England. Tough, weather-resistant and easily shaped, ‘Perspex’ appears in one form or another in nearly every country in the world. It provides windshields for Dutch scooter riders and cockpit canopies for French air pilots. It gently diffuses the lighting on German roads, in Swedish petrol stations, Canadian hospitals and Italian trams. Australians mould it into brilliantly coloured lightweight baths and sinks, and it features in many o f the world’s famous shopping streets in the form o f advertising signs. Yet it is only one of a wide range o f plastics— the widest in the world— that I.C.I. exports from Britain every year to the value of £18 million.
The influence o f I.C .I. research and production is fe lt today in every corner o f the globe
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., London, S.W .i UNION NEWS— Friday, 27th April, 1962 3 r ------— ------Profile ------FRED CHILDE my said it “ When we come back after Aldermaston . . . three-piece suit and, until a school where he taught whisky, nails, nylons, recently, a cloud of cigar English and Religious wood, razors, and even er, some people call it Easter . . .” ette smoke. Its owner is Knowledge. This probably dustbins, made their way . — Dr. Rex. a third-year lawyer by explains his aptitude for into Rag Office in large the name of Fred Childe. imitating Presbyterian quantities. R ag expenses ministers—suitably well last year reached an all- “ I schemed well last night! ” A native of Nantwich oiled. He left this school. time low, and much of in Cheshire, he was edu —Second year Fine Art female. He then took the most the credit for this must cated at Gordonstoun go to Fred. School “ where they make momentous decision of a man of you,” and is his career: he decided to He owns a collection of “ Mr. Forrest to move the House.” highly delighted to hear apply to Leeds to read firearms which, surpris that the Prince of Wales law. “ I only got into the ingly enough, are licensed — Chairman MacArthur at Union Committee is to be a pupil there. Faculty because I offered under the appropriate meeting. “ My market value has the fags round,” he says. Acts. A lack of real tar gone up,” he explains. At He has. for some gets is a constant com Gordonstoun he studied plaint; however, he man “ Attention please—Toryism is good for you!” reason, been a member of ages to make do with Professional scrap-dealer? English, History, and not the Conservative Associa — Tannoy last term. being caught smoking. midnight poaching ses tion, this year holding sions on Woodhouse “ A VOICE that A fter this he served his the position of treasurer Moor and pot-shots from “ I think your driving’s a bit erotic.” would make a National Service with the —a post which he finds the window of his pala London costermonger Cheshire Regiment in most lucrative. However, tial residence in Woods- — Overheard in Austin 7. Germany and Malaya, he rarely attends meet ley Road. blush with envy,” “ fighting for Queen and ings except for wine and wrote the Yorkshire Country, knee-deep in cheese parties. When N ow in his final year, “ David Eastham is too clever by tw o-thirds.” leeches, defendng the asked to comment on Fred hopes to make a Post. This voice is furthermost outposts of Conservative policy, he career in industry. He —Fred Kidd. the British Common said: “ No comment.” has considerable experi often heard resound ence as a salesman, fre wealth against Commun Last year, Fred was a “ If you are worried about exams, please keep ing across the Mouat- ist aggression.” Actually quently doing the work member of Rag Commit of various afosent Union quiet.” —Statistics lecturer. Jones coffee lounge he was in charge of tee. Officially styled native labour and the Committee members. His and echoing in the “ Appeals Secretary,” he sales patter is most per Regiment's contraceptive was known to all as “ The “ We are studying the situation closely.” City Varieties. distribution. suasive. So future house Scrounger.” “ You want holders beware! — Home Office archaeologist when asked It is usually accom Returning to civiliza it—I ’ll get it,” was his Unless of course what was being done to discover whether motto, and he did. Beer, panied fby a well-cut tion, he was employed in you should want a the inhabitants of a newly discovered settle lorry-load of nails, ment of 5,000 years were in fact cannibals. -j ) nylons, wood, razors, ( and assorted dust- J bins. I f this is the “ I’m afraid the England team are looking a little I case, then contact rusty in their combinations this evening.” / Fred. He has a \ living-room full of — 1TV commentator at England-Scotland Stub that Fag Quick Ir i them. football match. f WONDER how many wouldn’t put too much faith says in the “ if they float, you of last term’s bumper pass, and if they sink, you fail ” merchants. I ’ve heard crop of pipes have sur they’re going to mark them vived Easter. this year just to check. And at least you don’t have to face the medics’ I expect you’ve all got “ the bomb will get us first ordeal where the sub-dean complete kits now: pouch, anyway.” stands at the top of the scraper, tamper, igniter, and Gilbert Darrow, truth- A career steps and reads the dread most of all cleaner. Yes, loving fellow that he is. still news to the trembling prole those fuzzy pieces of wire maintains, however, that if tariat 'below. A little bar save the comfort of anybody you want to be around to baric, isn’t it? downwind of a well-chewed draw your old-age pension, French briar; they’re not you’d better stub that fag really for making funny and give the packet to your Ph.D. (hens) little animals out of. worst enemy. is what it’s X SEE a notice for a Ph.D. But it was fantastic how in poultry-husbandry. many ways of questioning Academic Barbarism Such a degree would be a the findings of the Royal T T O W does it feel with feather indeed in anybody’s College turned up. Econ only five weeks to go? cap and gown, which is not omists said “ statistics prove No more Sweaty’s. no more ideal dress for feeding your nothing,” mathematicians Fred’s, not even any more hens by the way. worth muttered “ concomitant social aspirations in the I hope that the birds in effects ” at each inhalation, M.J. Just the Brotherton, battery cages (where con medics said “ there may be the whole Brotherton, and centrated foods and com I f you divide the population into two groups— a genetic cause,” chemists nothing but the Brotherton. plete lack of other interests averred “ they haven’t iso And if you’ve still got that produce more but inferior T h b T im e s lated any carcinogens ” and queasy feeling about the results) don’t remind them those who take and those who don’t philosophers proclaimed man with the red pen, I too much of certain univer sity faculties. —you find this: those who don’t take T h e T im e s Let’s Twist Again are in the great majority. Those who do are either m H IS is much more whole- at the top in their careers, or are confidently some though, than a CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN notice of a £200 silver medal headed there. Roy Thompson prize for ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES solution of a problem con cerning “ media.” “ The sig T h e T im e s both by its seniority in experience with the nificance and importance of the problem solved will be and by its incomparable prowess as a modern CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE taken into account,” it says. I wonder just what Mr. newspaper, naturally commends itself to success W eather Analysis and Prediction, Research, Climatology, Thompson’s criteria of “ sig use and care of Instruments nificance and importance ” ful people. There is no high level conference, no are? board meeting, no top executive’s private office M ETEOROLOGISTS— $5160
University Graduates w ith Honours Degrees in either Physics, into which T h e T im e s is not apt to be taken. Mathematics and Physics, Engineering Physics. This choice of a newspaper by people who get Those selected will be enrolled at the University of Toronto or on is indisputable.* In which of the two groups MacGill University to obtain a Master’s Degree in Meteorology. Full LEYTHORN salary will be paid while attending university. do you place yourself? For further details and application forms write IMMEDIATELY Bed and Breakfast to Department C.M.S., National Employment Service, Government of Canada, 38, Grosvenor Street, London, W. 1. 17/- # Good Food Read
# Lounge with TV # Interior Sprung THE TIMES Mattresses AUSTICK'S * STUDENTS AND THE TIM ES: As a student 2, HYDE TERRACE, you can have the times for 2!d. Write for details t h e tim es, LEEDS, 2 to the Circulation Manager, London, E.C.4. FO R YO U R Phone 28250 PAPERBACKS LEEDS BOOKSHOPS j 4 UNION NEWS— Friday, 27th April, 1962 C. J. F. Kidd, a leading Tory, explains away ... UNIONNEWS THE SHOCK OF ORPINGTON Weekly Newspaper of Leeds Students Editor: GREG CHAMBERLAIN rpHE recent by-elections at Blackpool North and Conservative majority in the The only definite policies House) to show their dis one seems to be able to asso Assistant Editor: BRIAN GLOVER Orpington have increased speculation upon the approval of a temporarily ciate with the Liberals are topic that the so-called Liberals are gaining so: tiring Government, and to free trade and support for News Editors ...... MIKE TYZACK, ELIZABETH BELL give it a shock in the hope the Common Market — both much in strength as to become a major political of jolting it out of its lethar in their separate ways ad Features Editor ...... CATHERINE SINCLAIR gic mood. mirable projects but not Pictures Editor ...... RICHARD W AGN ER party. quite sufficient to provide an This is the message of the Business Manager ...... IAIN BROW N duced in the by-election at adequate basis for a Are we indeed in danger electors of Orpington and national policy. Adverts Manager ...... JUDITH LAW RENCE Torrington and other places of having Grimond and his in 1957. A t that time, too, Blackpool. The Government Sales Manager ...... DAVE W ILLIAM S there was talk of the great should take note and give young, inexperienced Liberal “ revival ” and most us more determined leader Old Customs friends ruling over us? Liberals forecast a great ship with a more vigorous increase in the number of conservative policy, and not Also fairly significant is The results at the by- Liberal MJP.s to be returned merely a luke-warm version the fact that most of the elections at first sight look at the next general election. of socialism. few Liberal seats are situ impressive: a Conservative ated in outlying parts o f the REVOLUTION (1) majority of 15,000 turned As we all know, what hap Of course, I recognize the nation, such as the Orkneys into one of a thousand at pened at the 1959 election necessity for a strong oppo and Shetlands, where old O the revolution has come. Action has been Blackpool North, and one of was an increased Tory sition party in a democracy customs and habits die hard 15,000 into a Liberal major majority, with the Liberals such as ours, and realize and where many of the elec S taken. The University authorities have at ity of nearly 8,000 at Orping keeping their six seats but that this need cannot be tors possibly still imagine ton. But what lies behind gaining no more (with two met by the various sects they are helping to over last seen the light which we in the Union have these results? of their Members, including (ranging from the power- throw Stanley Baldwin. Mr. Wade, their Chief Whip, conscious trade unionists to done our utmost to show them over the past It is my belief that the only there because of elec the long-haired Ibadge-wear- Having said all this, I only significant lesson to be tion pacts with the Con ing brigade) that call them would conclude by saying learned from them is that servatives). selves socialist. But this that if we were to have a few years. The changes in the lodgings regula the Government is going need must be met by a party through the traditional un with a definite policy and true Liberal revival with tions that have been effected must be welcomed popular phase which gener Lethargy with leaders of the calibre leaders with the policies and by the vast majority of students. ally occurs about mid^way Most of the votes then, as required to rule this great standing of a Palmerston or between two general elec now, came from disgruntled nation of ours. Somehow a Gladstone, then I. for one, But the new ruling concerning flats is disappointing. tions. In this connection it middle-class voters who con Mr. Grimond and his friends i§ of course significant that sidered a by-election a safe just do not seem to measure would welcome it as an All it does is to extend legal flat-dwelling facilities to one similar results were pro enough time (with a large up to this. alternative government. more year. Reality has thus only been half faced: the large number of first-year students in flats is ignored for some unknown reason. University students of course Letters to the Editor are very welcome — particu larly to entertain the nurses Why are first-year students excluded from flats any afterwards. The suggestion of way? Do the University still see themselves as our self- boredom on the part of the nurses is ludicrous when one appointed moral guardians? It could perhaps be argued sees the R.S.H. packed to that many first-year students straight from school are ABOLISH THESE CATTLE capacity during the concert. ill-fitted to move into flats as soon as they get here The division of the ‘ ‘Medi cal Students ” from the “ Uni But these students are hardly likely to want to move into versity Students ” is, we feel, flats anyway if the change of environment and way of MARKET HOPS, SAYS AGRIC regrettable and in no w ay living is going to be so great for them. Those who do helped by such spurious «j^IR.—I ’m no unusual guy: when there are perhaps liter His references to “ mental articles. take the initiative of finding flats for themselves in their I go out in search of a ally a hundred male “ wall period ” coupled with the Yours, etc. first year are therefore likely to be quite capable of living flowers ” (pardon my name of Charles de Gaulle good time on Saturday nights. Botany!) just standing there. (whom I hailed in 1958 as D. C. B. B A R K H O U S E independently. A look at other universities without such I f we want better hops, we aJbout the only French leader J. A. D. JO LLIE, Because there are few alter J. F. MILES. restrictions provides the evidence. So there seems no basis natives and because there is men have got to do more than capable of standing up stand and stare. But the against pressure from Alger Faculty of Medicine, a slight chance of having a University of Leeds. at all for this continued prohibition. good time without getting reason for the “ beds ” of ian settler opinion) seemed a Union Committee too have made welcome reforms. completely drunk, I regularly wallflowers is the lack of very superficial device for stroll down to the Union hop suitable partners—a man can dismissing consideration of SOREBONES writes: The Having emerged from last term’s somewhat fascist panic along with hundreds of Uni hardly be blamed for prefer ideas which he apparently heading of the articles may ring conversation with mem over hop admission, and no doubt prodded on by their versity men. I f I am lucky, I couldn’t be bothered to deal have been unfortunate but that might pass the evening with bers of his own sex when the with seriously. consequent increasing unpopularity among Union mem a down-town typist; though alternative is dragging about My remarks aibout the does not affect the appositeness bers, they have reinstituted discretion and sanity. It this is not the ultimate — I a dumb schoolgirl or machine- potentialities of free enter of them. remains for Union members not to abuse this new trust occasionally come across a operator. The solution to the prise were subject to an college girl! problem is lots more Univer important qualification about Since clinical students nor in them. sity women at hops. The new hop regulations the growth of the world’s mally wear white coats anyway On the whole, Authority has at last given greater should go a long way towards So let’s remedy the situa population. when dealing with patients, the keeping down the numbers of tion now! In view of your Features consultant-style dress beneath recognition to the principle of individual student respon schoolgirls, typists and other Let’s have a really con Editor’s smug assertion that surely does not have much certed effort girls! sibility. And only by treating students as responsible undesiraJble women ” as the no Profile is published with effect, beneficial or otherwise, regulations put it. But simply Put your very best glad- out “ the full consent and co beings can they be expected to become the same. rags on and come to the hop on those they seek to impress keeping out these women is operation of the subject,” I with their professionality. Fur not going to ease the high this Saturday! feel I am entitled to some Bring along the other girls correction. thermore I should like to male-to-female ratio and it is in your lecture or tutorial or not going to attract “ desir Yours, etc., inform our correspondents that coffee-clique! there are other manners of able ” women. M. P. LAYCOCK. REVOLUTION (2) And lads, make them really dress besides the impeccability welcome, or else they won’t Leeds University Union. Sufficient intellect come again! of Alexandre and the ragged rpHIS week heralds yet another era in the development ness of the beatnik. What is a desirable woman? Yours, etc., of Union News. We shall now try to give coverage Every man to his own taste, DERRICK W. GEE. Hairy Doctors As impartial readers will to events and opinions in the various Leeds colleges and but generally speaking, for note, this letter accepts the hop purposes, she is the Leeds University Union. Not Wanted institutes of higher education. In doing so, we have woman who embellishes to “ division ” of the university. ceased to be merely the organ of the University Union; the full the physical attri ^IIR.—With reference to the This is precisely what I have butes which God gave her and ^ articles in Union News been crusading against. M edics we hope now to be able to justify our existence as an who is of sufficient intellect Laycock Hits Back at under the heading “ Medical have something to contribute organ of Leeds students in general. to please the mind as well as Bulletin,” we, as final year to the university and by with the eye. “Imaginative Profile” Medical students, would like holding it they are doing a ser Our reasons for doing this are twofold: first we are On weekdays, as we trudge ^ IR . — Congratulations on to take up one or two points. vice to no-one, least o f all following up the establishment last October of a com about the Union, such ladies ^ your able and imaginative Firstly, under the heading themselves. mittee of Leeds colleges to induce greater co-operation are to be seen (and heard) Profile of me in the last issue “ Medical Bulletin ” one on all sides; but on Saturday of Union News. Your writer’s expects the general feelings and unity amongst Leeds students; and second, we feel nights you can spend hours skill in fitting the facts to his of medical students to be that there is a pressing need in the colleges for a means looking for one and be out of ideas was truly worthy of a aired—not the opinions of one luck. Where are the gay paper capable of printing isolated individual. His re of communication and expressing student opinion. nymphs who -can be seen flit under the headline COM marks, we suggest, should be Especially do we feel that some representation and ting about the M.J. or decor PANIONS IN PROTEST? confined to the letter columns. ating Caf’s abyss every work a photograph of two people Secondly, dress in the BEER! voice ought to belong to Beckett Park Training College, ing day of the week? Having protesting against one Medical School. This is a where hundreds of future teachers having their future questioned a number of them, another. point of grievance between find there are two reasons When I read of being “ per “ University ” and “ Medical ” careers trimmed and harassed by the present Govern why they don’t come along. haps misjudged by an incom students — and one that is ment’s education policy, have no ready means of making petent and intolerant jury ” I always raised by “ Univer their opinions and special problems known to a wider Prodding hordes could hardly restrain myself sity ” students. Patients do from commenting what a not like to be confronted by public. With a circulation approaching 3,000 copies a First, they say that a hop brave show he was putting up hairy beatniks in winkle- tetley week, Union News can help to do this. is nothing but a “ cattle- against his own prejudices. pi-ckers, sweaters and jeans market,” with hordes of men when divulging their medical eyeing them up and down, all My mild expressions of dis Inevitably, there will be the small group of brown- satisfaction with the present history. Quite apart from this, but prodding them, and then many of us actually enjoy shirts in the University Union who will denounce us for passing on to the next “ item ” government (nothing new) were magnified into a cata wearing a white collar and “ defiling the University’s integrity ” or some such nebu or “ piece.” Being an Agric., I tie! Leads enjoy cattle markets and strophic loss of confidence— lous thing, and those in the colleges who will accuse us therein must lie the reason I a treatment illustrating the Thirdly, the Medics’ Con of some sort of “ condescension.” get some slight kick out of prevalence amongst Union cert. This has never been hops! But the ladies are quite News writers of the fable intended for the benefit of But, though we of necessity start from very modest right — it is a cattle-market commonly circulated in the University students. It started and this should not be. Union, that members of Con originally as a Christmas beginnings, Union News believes that this enterprise will servative Association are pantomime for the Nurses, The Brewery, Leeds, 10 produce lasting results which will prove of great benefit The second reason is closely nearly all complacent and un- and was later postponed to and satisfaction to all sides. connected with the first: they selective adherents of govern this time of the year as it can’t stand just sitting there ment policy. clashed with examinations. UNION NEWS—Frida/, 27th April, 1962 5 TEENAGE IDOLS: The Public Image
J HAVE had my the reflection of the crafts -fay- man, embodies in his gyrat doubts about the ing guitar-strumming pro recording industry for tege. Once one has met the CATHERINE SINCLAIR latter away from the spot some time. I am con light and the adulation it vinced that if they mar becomes easier to appreciate keted the mating call of his lack of understanding of what or who it is I am being the hysteria he creates. He an Aberdeen Angus presented with every time I will not admit, even to him someone, somewhere, turn on my radio or open a self, that there is any such thing as the “ public image.” would buy it — pro magazine. But perhaps I am too mercenary, or cynical or He will deny to the last viding it was billed as something. that the stage personality, the new sound. (There the face on the magazine I led a very sheltered cover, is in any way differ are times when I feel childhood. I was well into ent from the individual of they may have already the Lower VI before I reality. This of course may started my first riot. I want be true. For all I know he done so). to know why this somewhat may spend twenty-four dubious honour is accom hours of his day surrounded This is not a situation plished week-in week-out, by by shrieking 15-year-olds. It easily arrived at. It has a child of twelve merely get is unlikely, but not incon tak en years of patient, sys ting up on a stage and sing ceivable. tem atic brainwashing; of ing. The child himself can delicate, intricate operations not tell me. Cliff Richard upon an impressionable has been at it fo r years, but . It has taken years of patient, systematic brainwashing; of delicate, intricate clientele. Deftly, scientific he still does not know why Difficult ally, the machines have he is greeted with rapturous operations upon an impressionable clientele” been put into motion. The hysteria every time he Yet to state categorically m irro rs have turned, the mounts a platform. Adam that no image has been created, that the boy merely obvious that an almost that “ we all appear differ the operations behind the im ag e has been projected. Faith said: “ I would not blatent effort is made to ently to each person we pop-singer do is to crystal Dozens of synthetic man- even describe myself as a get up on a stage and is himself, is an assertion of create a character, a symbol meet. Everyone sees a differ lize all these various facets if you like, of something ent side of us. Our person of character into one rock individuality which I find alities change according to like, unchanging whole. difficult to agree with. superhuman, larger than life. It is done with infinite those whom we are with.” Who, I wonder, gives them I cannot believe that some care and dexterity. Through This may be so, but what the right? of the inarticulate, insensi it the “ star ” has come to tive bundles of inflated ego represent something to be which I have encountered aspired to, reached for, off-stage are really the groped after, inaccessible boyish, self-effacing young and yet somehow attainable. lads which the public sees. I have met these “ boys- In order that the idol next-door.” Their neighbours retain his position with any have my sympathy. thing like permanency, every youth in the audience Cliff Richard is an excep must feel that one day the tion. He asserts emphatic adulation could be his, and ally that there is only one every girl that the idol could personality: be hers. It is known as the common touch. It goes with “ No-one presents me. I the guitar. , . . i S , am myself. I do what I like. When I go out there before Name Factor an audience I am exactly The choice of name is, of the same person as I am course, one of the most now, sitting here talking to important factors in the projection of this dual y ou ” image. Here the Larry weeK But he also admits that Parnes syndicate reigns un this is so because he is now deniably supreme. Note the in so completely immersed in common denominators and the character of Cliff numerators of the following Richard that he has ceased little gems: Billy Fury, to exist as Harry Webb, Marty Wilde, Johnny Gentle, Dicky Pride, Vince Eager, The Listener even to himself. He is Cliff Richard. In his case there Duffy Power. They follow a is no disparity. The idol and definite, traceable pattern of the man are one. It is the adjectival omnipotence and individual who has lost. down-to-earth homely iden tification with the masses. And still they insist that the “ public image ” is a myth. The Exception UNNECESSARY DEATHS r‘. . . Every girl in the audience must feel . . that one I can see that it is neces To direct youthful energies towards the positive aims day the idol could be hers” However, as I said. Cliff sary to add a certain of life-saving rather than the negative aims of war is Richard is the exception. glamour, a certain profes the object of DR. KU RT H A H N , Founder of Salem This frank admittance of sional polish to these boys. and Gordonstoun Schools. m a d e idols have been singer.” I was forced to total immersion in the new Few people, after all, are la u n ch ed upon a public well- agree with him.” character is by no means prepared to pay exorbitantly THE IDEA OF A WILDERNESS to watch a Liverpool tug- p rim e d to receive them. The answer is always the general. JAMES FISHER, naturalist, talks about the world’s G le a m in g , metallic, they hand called Ronald Wych- same. They none of them What is far more com first National Park, the Yellowstone, in America. p o u r off the conveyor-belt— know the reason for their erly knock off a couple of in stan t stars. monplace is Adam Faith’s numbers on an ill-tuned volcanic effect upon masses immortal understatement MATHEMATICS, CONCRETE & ABSTRACT of otherwise normal, healthy guitar. Similarly, names like I dislike being deceived, that “ one does not analyse Reginald Smith, Terry Nel- particularly when it is cost individuals. It is not simply the mind of the masses.” It How two seemingly incompatible aspects of mathe inarticulacy which leads hams and Harry Webb do matics come together in the teaching process. By ing *ne money. I am curious. is an ideal to which the not remain burned forever W. W. SAWYER, Professor of Mathematics at I want to know precisely them to skirt the question, majority purport to sub Wesleyan University, Connecticut. mumble a few vacuous plea upon one’s memory. Change scribe. It is also in its turn the name by all means, tune santries and change the sub somewhat difficult to believe. ject. It is something beyond the guitar, please. But leave LIFE ELSEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE Anyone who has ever the individual alone. them, out of their hands. attended a one-night stand PROFESSOR J. D. BERNAL, Head of the Department The question becomes can vouch for the invalidity Stop creating this new of Physics at Birkbeck College, discusses recent work Jazz Club concerning the possibility of life elsewhere in the easier to answer if it is re of such a statement. social strata of little men, phrased, when one asks not based on a denial of their solar system. Every Friday “ why? ” but “ how? ” Every movement, every right to a personality and gesture, is premeditated to individuality of their own. THE LINKS OF COEXISTENCE have the maximum effect Stop holding up a w riggling STAR & GARTER Replies Vary upon the maximum number neurotic boy, plunged into a Recent talks on “ Coexistence ” given in the B.B.C. of people. David Whitfield is sea of publicity and indis European Service are discussed by CHRISTOPHER HOTEL The replies vary enor the only one I have met so HOLLIS. mously depending on the criminate adoration in far who will admit that this which ten-to-one he will KIRKSTALL agent or manager con is so. He, presumably, is cerned. For it is with him, eventually drown, present now so far removed from ing him as a being to be or her, that the crux of the the general teenage morass matter lies: the machine envied, something to be WHITE EAGLES that he feels reasonably admired. operators who mould, caste, secure in doing so. and o+her features evaluate and market the BAND end product, the “ public “ You start from the bot Featuring image.” These are the men tom right-hand corner of the Manage Well who can tell you “ how,” if stalls and work round, MIKE PALEY not “ why,” and they are, taking in the circle and They manage quite well Available Dances, Parties, etc. therefore, the most elusive. finally the balcony, until when left on their own. If you think it is difficult you’ve got the whole house Adam Faith becomes quite The Listener getting back-stage to see the with you. Then you start eloquent when discussing arid BBC Television Review Edgar Allen Poe, and Marty STUDENTS 2/6d. artist, you want to try get again.” This, then, is the ting hold of Larry Parnes technique which supposedly W ilde really does dote on FROM YOUR NEWSAGENT EVERY THURSDAY 0 D l o u n g e , d a n c i n g , l ic e n c e and Tito Burns. does not exist. Wagner. RH YTH M CLUB MEMBERS 2 /- One has, therefore, to From the outset of a pop- Johnny Dankworth was A BBC PUBLICATION make do with the shadow, singer’s career it is quite only half right when he said UNION NEWS— Friday, 27th April, 1962
“ In order that architects can regain their place in our civilisation, they must inte grate architecture with science, and not turn to the whims of a Romantic Revival of a bygone age.”
— Professor Furneaux Jordan, Hoffman-Wood Lecturer in Architecture at Leeds University Humanity 1962
MODERN ARCHITECTURE 1962
The ancient Greeks used three types of columns: DORIC 640-400 B.C. IO N IC 500-250 B.C. C O R IN T H IA N 400-100 B.C. This particular example is a copy of the Ionic order. These columns were orig inally designed by the Greeks for their Pagan temples. The sacrificial altar nor mally stood in front, but a little to the east side, of the entrance.
The use of these columns Humanity 1902 over the last few cen turies is now thought to have something to do with Parkinson’s Law.
This page has been produced by the students of Leeds School of Architecture
Photos by J. W. Morris
This is true expression of function: a lecture hall. Actually the big smooth curved wall conceals two staircases, four store-rooms and the air-conditioning plant.
This week’s photo quiz: Question: ? Answer: Probably a protest march. UNION NEWS— Friday, 27th April, 1962 7
^ can you cure Irene Trotter takes a look at A Woman's World the SQUEEZE and the ;j^O you cannot, or you dare not, get into FRILLINESS IS THIS last year’s summer dress. drunk, providing there is no I cannot promise a svelte Slim, all the fashion sugar present in either. figure. Some of us could eat XOTIC, feminine, magazines tell you. Cut Despite the fact that fruit nothing and still remain ten daring — this was down on this and that. Eat contains carbohydrates, the stone. Others could consume SEASON’S STYLE salads, fruit and steaks ad maxim about the apple and a banquet every day and E the Aage Thaarup nauseam. W hat they usually the doctor still stands. How still remain a pikestaff. spring hat collection. omit to realize is that on a ever bananas do contain Nevertheless do try — you student budget one cannot more carbohydrates than never know, it might work. Held at Marshall and afford salads and steaks, most other fruits. So per An important word of warn Snelgrove’s, his show IN HATS haps aJbstinenee in that ing though. One’s nature Y et all hope need not be direction might be wise. Did and personality are far more included everything with an off-the face brim scarf of the same young abandoned. For with luck you know, by the way, that important than anything poppy colour that was the months when hot suet you can ask for water bis else. I f dieting makes you from Model hats, at that was trimmed with a puddings and their com long-stemmed white rose, swathed round the face and cuits in refec? Have them irritable, then give it up. astronomical prices, to panions were needed to keep this term instead of a roll, Far better to be fat and and “ tres Parisienne,” a over the shoulder in Diet- out the icy blasts are gone. with cheese. happy than thin and sour. those for the bargain plaited straw beret. A sur rich style. hunter. Carbohydrates are the prise was the pill-box. Among the less expensive easiest things to cut down No matter if you are not Double or single it domin hats, sun hats, cloches and on — a lack of them also asked to drink cocktails ated the collection. All straw berets featured pro gives the quickest results. with the honorable, or to sweetness and light seemed minently. The colours here Allowing 12 carbohydrate the Royal Enclosure at to be in “ Valentine,” a pill were navy blue, china blue, units a day. let us examine box in white broiderie the possibilities of refec, caf, Ascot, the model hats are beige and lime green. The and the soup kitchen. still the star attraction. anglais, with blood-red vel beret — suddenly fashion Hats in true Ascot tradi vet bows as trimming. able — m u s t be worn cor Always have clear soup tion came in cornflower The climax was the whenever possible. A ll roast rectly. This means pulling meats are permissible, as blue, or brown and cream Rayne - Thaarup partner it down well on the right- are hamburgers, ham, liver, patent straw, or adorned ship. Shoes of patent hand side of the face. heart, rabbit and eggs. Fish with black silk feathers. leather matched Aage Aage Thaarup’s budget is excellent to eat while Emphasis was on all that Thaarup’s hats in patent reducing weight. Of the hats (39s. lid . and under) vegetables, not all are safe. was feminine and frilly — straw. Colours ranged from are already on sale at Mar beige and nigger brown to Those that show the green “ Brighton Rock ” in pink shall and Snelgrove’s. The light are french and runner and white straw, an emer white and navy blue. panama hat and the Breton beans, cabbage, cauliflower, ald green straw cloche hat, Mr. Thaarup kept his lead this collection. The celery, broccoli, cucumber, season’s fav most outstanding panama lettuce, marrow, radishes, ourites for was in white with navy blue spinach, spring greens, the finale. Brussels sprouts and water trimmings, while the cutest cress. The colour he Breton was in navy blue chose was with white trimmings and a Butter, margarine and “ Summer is V cummin in ”—and so should your yellow — de pixie crown. As Mr. cheese are in, as are sour pickles and salad dressing. waistline. How about a diet? licate or Thaarup pointed out, it Tea and coffee may be sunny. K in g takes no small effort to cups, hya design and create an out cinth petals standing hat for under two and jewellery pounds. were the A new colour to wear is materials for a tomato/melon shade. A the top three. new designer to watch is Among Martin Boswell. He de white polka signed the most avant-garde dots, china hat in the collection. It was blues, sunset a crash helmet in white reds and straw, trimmed with a navy emerald blue band that extended in greens, un two spearheads over the doubtedly the right-hand side of the hat. hat that won After the fashion display, the day was I asked Mr. Thaarup if he a small pill could account for the lack box. Covered of enthusiasm among the in silken younger generation over young pop hats. He could not, but he pies* it was did say that the girl with trimmed individuality will always Part of the Aage Thaarup spring w ith aj wear a hat. So in future— collection one of his model hats. fine chiffon' mind your head madam! Revolution in Make-up ONTEMPERA,” by Helena Rubenstein, Coty, Excellent for travelling C Revlon, is just one Charles of the Ritz, etc., all (no more spilt powder), this of the many lines in the have their particular angle is a very practical make-up. in the new foundation-cum- It is ideal for wearing in the new type of make-up. hot, centrally heated atmo pow^der make-up. sphere of the Union. Years ago our mothers used it under the names of SHADOW Snowifire or Veluty cream New in eye make-up is powder. This is the same Lancome’s powder eye Personal idea revolutionized. The shadow. This brushes on matte finish that the make above make-up more subtly up gives is nearest to the than the usual eye shadow. Y O U can advertise here for natural look of a flawless A fter all, the idea of eye only 2d. a word. Copy to Union skin. It is complete in itself. make-up is to shadow the N e w s office with payment by Don’t use powder over it or eyes, to give an illusion of your make-up will look as depth and colour, not to give M o n d a y before publication. if it has been applied with green, grey or blue eyelids. Thin rule box 1/6. Box No. //-. a trowel. Only a very little Turkish delight and Cleo in search of TALENT... F L A T to LE T. Sunny, large is necessary, carefully patra eyes should be left to bed-sitter, share bathroom blended under the skin and Elizabeth Taylor and com With occasional odd hods and jaw. pany. kitchen with one other person, Not only in music, but in every walk of life it’s the man with i e. me. Area — Headingley. Landlady accommodating. that creative spark who makes things tick. These are the Price 37s. 6d. per week. — OPPORTUNITIES men we seek-----chemists, physicists, engineers and A p p ly Miss H. V. Barclay, via The pigeon holes. Applications as for technologists, whose intuitive sense matches the soon as possible suggesting INDIAN STUDENTS Brandon meeting, etc., to arrange excellence of their qualifications. There’s a great future for details. Opportunities may be avail # Comfortable accom them in this, one of the leading companies in the lively, UNIVERSITY LECTURE, able in India for young Indians modation near Uni " Old Bones ” by Sir Wilfred w ith good degrees in Engineer versity go-ahead plastics industry. Our Personnel Manager ]e Gros Clark, F.R.S., Great ing or Allied Fields and /or # No Restrictions will be glad to hear from you. H all, 1-45 p.m., Friday, May sound practical experience. # Electric Blankets and 4 th. Graduates (or undergraduates Fires ABE’S ALMANACK — the who may be interested in the magazine for Folk — on sale fu tu re ) should w rite to— TELCO # Terms 19/6 B. & B. soon. DEPT., TATA LTD., 18, GROS- BRITISH INDUSTRIAL PLASTICS LTD (M{KP MANY THANKS to all those VENOR PLACE, LONDON, SPRINGFIELD MOUNT willing and unwilling helpers S .W .l. Tel. 27290 OLDBURY, BIRMINGHAM • PHONE: BROADWELL 2061 ' with Oar Competition last term-—Oar Comp. Secretary. A MEMBER OF THE TURNER & NEWALL GROUP 8 UNIO N NEWS— Friday. 27th A pril, 1962 TH E ARTS a weekly page of reviews and comment Debates TO WHAT END j This Week's j BREAKTHROUGH ! FILMS I OR BREAKDOWN? SCIENCE FICTION? JN^ONE of the coming debates would, I believe, |]\j[OST forms of didactic literature attempt to with a tradition of verisimi J N the Dead Sea of litude and disciplined imag week’s films are going foster this respect for what answer the sort of questions that Robinson Debates certain is, after all, an art. The ination. They also proved, to drag hard-working final formal atmosphere would Crusoe put to himself when marooned on his because so many writers things turn up to give not necessarily lead to pom today are active scientists, ists away from their sweat- island: what is Man's relationship with the that they are fully alive to one hope. posity. As things are, Universe ? soaked books. On the debates are Wednesday’s the moral pitfalls inherent other hand most of them There was Alan Andrew’s soft option to Union Library. How can Man adapt to might, I think, be described in modern science and are clash with Dr. Read in the The ginger group of as space-opera (after soap- far from those scientists are worth seeing if it debate on student represen Andrews. Atkinson, Hall, a hostile environment and opera, horse-opera). who regard the whole of science as morally neutral. means no sacrifice of tation on academic bodies. May arid Gould deserve still remain an ethical The difficulty is that valuable work time. There was the clearly- more than a drowsy after- being? What is the funda space-opera has disastrously The best way I can con reasoned, factually correct lunch audience. More and departed from the Wells- clude is by mentioning ★ ★ debate on the Indian inva varied people might also mental nature of Man? Verne -line of science fiction names, books, and book- At the Odeon those Guns sion of Goa. speak. and so on. w riting and has limited its themes, all illustrative of of Navarone reappear. This appeal to the groundlings. Then there was the vigor One notable absence is the questions I asked at the is a preposterous, far The list could be extended It cannot even be seen as start. ous if incoherent debate on that of women speakers. fetched and yet exciting paperbacks devaluing cul They could have shed an but I think I have said allegory; the rocket-ships, enough to provide at least a space-guns, robots, bug-eyed Under the heading of the story of a small group of ture. There was the visit of interesting and different impact of science on society the two Americans; they shade of opinion on many context for my discussion of monsters, etc.. have become saboteurs whose task is to contemporary science fiction. a self-perpetuating end-in- comes first the work of destroy the huge guns com were unfair to our home of the motions. But why the Robert Heinlein. His main grown speakers but they suffragette movement failed It is pretty obvious from themselves, with no purpose manding the straits this that I do regard serious beyond that of entertain works are “ The Man Who also gave a polished demon is, of course, another story. Sold The Moon ” and through which B ritish des stration of attack and dis science fiction as a form of ment at a suspiciously low Let us instead consider didactic literature. level. “ Crisis: 2,000.” That beauti troyers must pass in order cussion. that even a dead sea can ful, if slightly repetitious, to save two thousand Allied (and does) bear fruit. And The rest of the rubbish Books of any value usually writer. Roy Bradbury, is But a piece of driftwood operate at many levels. I f soldiers marooned on a of a different ilk was the if my compass isn’t wrong, that has used the name of perhaps most characteristic neighbouring island. Need we ought to be out of the science fiction to cloak its this is so, then science fic awful debate on teaching. in his book “ Fahrenheit less to say the guns are Sargasso next session. W ith lack of science and its tion ought to be more than 451.” The speakers might have rocket ships and robots. I f been talking in separate any luck. inability to be taken as a destroyed—just in tim e, of JOHN MOW AT. serious form of fiction it is and if it attempts to The possibilities of science course. rooms for all the continuity answer some of the ques they had. as a way of looking at the Sheer corn and melo tions that I put at the begin Universe so as to survive in drama, yet quite entertain Then lately there were ning, then I think it should it are well explored in Rex two humorous debates. They be regarded as a legitimate Gordon’s “ No Man Friday,” ing with good performances were races to see if the Jazz art form, unlike space-opera. and C. M. Kornbluth and F. from Anthony Quinn and speakers could get laughs Pohl’s “ Wolfbane.” David Niven. before the audience got The Wells-Verne tradition bored. The ex-Members, at that I mentioned before ex Religious themes have ★ ★ their debate, began by a plores the social and psycho been well explored in James A t the Plaza w e are mockery of standing orders, Basie Not Quite With It logical impact of science Blick’s “ A Base of Con treated to Bob and Bing in and to listen to more did technology (however badly science ” and Walter W iller’s The Road to Hong Kong. conceived) upon society. “ A Canticle for Leibowitz.” not seem worthwhile. “ SLOUNDED just like of having been here before. W ith it crept in, by the back While not completely suc Lambert, Hendriks and The former novel explores Ted Health” and door as it were, the “ sense the clash between science as cessful, this is an enjoyable Ros were great. Annie Ross of wonder,” that essential film. One can only really Cooked Up “ not a patch on Dank has a really good voice, one an a priori way of looking gets the impression that she quality in everybody who is at things. The latter novel is appreciate it as a huge joke, The last motion of term worth ” were two perhaps curious about the Universe. concerned with how true is a film made “ for a laug-h ” was “ This House Believes could sing anything. Dave unfair comments over Lambert, the oldest living Science - fiction writers the reality of a scientific in the widest sense, both It ’s A ll in the Mind.” have provided themselves vision, and this sums up Humour needs a lot of pre be-bop singer as he de for participants and audi heard after the Basie con scribed himself, and John with a moral precedent in■J most of what science fiction ence. paration. The speeches at the form of Wells and) is about. this debate had been cooked cert at the Odeon during Hendriks are both fine musicians. Together the trio Verne’s novels, as well ■J A. D. LO VIE. ★ ★ up the night 'before. The the vac. Summer and Smoke speakers admitted it. The is wonderful. debate, on the whole, went There is no doubt in my Their gimmick of putting (A.B.C.) is a Tennessee down as awkwardly as a mind that Basie’s is the best lyrics to solos could not be Williams story of the love stymied flamingo. big band playing today. successful without the high Painting between a small-town spin However, this was not est standards of musician ster and a lively young What is encouraging is shown at the concert. Slick ship and lyric writing. To the fact that debates are no arrangements and a succes me their rendering of the doctor (Laurence Harvey). longer a platform for pub sion of good solos were not Basie arrangement of A resume of the plot cannot licity seekers. Fewer fatuous sufficient to put one in mind “ Every Day ” was a minor do justice to what is in fact floor-speakers, and fewer of the hand of “ the Atomic masterpiece. a very good film. Corn can niggling points of informa MIRROR ART Mr. Basie.” Occasionally I might add that I went tion show this. be moulded into success by they seemed to get the spark to the concert fully expect good direction and acting, Y et if there is to be a A review o f the recent art but on the whole something ing not to enjoy hearing and this is what has hap breakthrough there must be was missing. Also there was what I thought was just an more preparation in the a lack of variety which audience-catching gimmick. exhibition in the Parkinson pened here. soeeches. More evening tended to give one a feeling J.AD. ★ ★ ELF - PORTRAI- impose any ready-made solu After “Oceans 11” comes s tion to the problem, but they Sergeants Three (Tower). TURE seems to pre proceed sincerely and pene- tratingly towards an image Once more Sinatra, Martin, sent a series of traps which is convincing, humble, Lawford, Davis jr. and co. romp to and fro across the A T Y O NEMAS ; into which the artist and, one feels, true. I bowling greens being con The village will be within International Sport structed. A suggestion that seven miles of the city close indoor greens and correctly to City Beach, Wembley PSRTH 19 6 2 laid composite greens be Downs golf course and the ruled as suitable has been Stadium. placed ibefore the Australian Bowling Council. Supporters Perth to Become of the proposal believe that lawn bowls would disappear Accommodation from the Games calendar unless the plan is adopted. Technical officials for the A £42,000 stadium is being nine sports of the Common SEAT NTH A built to accommodate boxing wealth Games will be ac Commonwealth’s Centre events. It is adjacent to the commodated in three col BRITISH EMPIRE main athletics stadium at leges at the University of Perry Lake. Previously it Western Australia. The col jg v ■: A N D f'-" . by Ronnie Griffith was intended to stage the leges Will accommodate the boxing in a pavilion at the 300 officials expected from CCBfMONWEAlifi Royal Claremont Show overseas and Eastern Aus tralian States. GAMES for any previous games at Strong men of many Dalkeith Bowling Club has grounds. The new building this stage, and that venues nations will match their brought Mr. Darrell Deacon, will 'be used for basketball A wide screen colour film and facilities would be the strength at the Published by U N IO N NEW S, Leeds University Union, Leeds, 2. Printed by Huddersfield Examiner Letterpress Departm ent, Page Street, Huddersfield. Tel. Huddersfield 2720 (E xt. 4 0 ).