Persian Student Arrested?

UNION NEWS No. 239 18th Year LEEDS UNIVERSITY U N IO N Friday, 4th October, 1963 Price 3d.

Non-return of Persian student causes confusion in debates PERSIAN STUDENT ARRESTED?

]VXORE than 100 delegates of seventeen nationalities, representing Leeds Mystery about thirty-six universities in eleven countries attended the European Seminar, held at Bodington last Easter. student So says the final report of the Seminar—a glossy, well illustrated production— which is to be issued shortly. European Society played a big part in organising the Seminar, which was the third of its kind to be held in this country. The two previous ‘Paymun9 editor ones were held in Jesus College, Cambridge. studies in The Seminar (more details on Page 9) was addressed by several well known politicians and academics, including Mr. Edward Heath, Britain’s chief negotiator By NEWS STAFF at Brussels, Lord Gladwyn, former British Ambassador in Paris, Professor Dr. Henry Brugmans, Rector of the College of Europe at Bruges, Mr. Christopher Australia Chataway, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, and Mr. H. C. Hillman, 0ONFUSION reigned at the debate on Wednes­ Senior Lecturer in Economics in Leeds University. JTLY1NG to Australia The report consists of summaries of the main points made by the various day after allegations had been made that an speakers, as well as important features of the several study groups set up. These yesterday was 21- editor of a Union magazine had been arrested by covered culture, education, politics, defence, economic and social problems. There year-old Barbara Cuck- are also reports on the trip delegates made to Leeds slums and the surrounding the Iranian government. In a private motion countryside, on Press coverage, and on registration. son, who is taking a Mr. G. S. Pandey, a leading member of Indian After dealing with Leeds slums, the report continues: “Some of the newly M.A. in Australian association, said that Firooz Shirvanlou, editor developed areas of Leeds were also seen, in which people are housed in ten-storey Drama at Sydney Uni­ blocks of flats. Although the authorities are rehousing people in this manner there of the Iranian society magazine “Paymun” had are still many thousands of old houses which have yet to be demolished. versity, after graduat­ been arrested. “The coaches then passed through Bradford, where the picture is much the ing at Leeds University His motion, calling for the release of Mr. same as in Leeds. In Bradford, however, the monotony of seemingly endless streets this summer. of small, overcrowded, decaying houses is broken somewhat by some of England’s Shirvanlou, brought protests from Sue Khozai, ‘ dark satanic mills/ in the shadows of which the workers’ houses are built.” Although prepara­ who said she had seen Shirvanlou a few weeks Random comments of delegates are also printed in the final report. One from tions have been in hand ago and he was not under arrest. When Persian Denmark said: “The slums were worse than I expected. They were so small, so for almost a year, Miss crowded together, and there were no gardens. I think it is scandalous for students students return home, she told Union News, they to have to ‘ dig ’ in slums.” Cuckson was only told have to hand in_ their her departure date ten dersfield Technical College. passports at the Educa­ When “ Paymun ” won the days ago. In spite of the tion Office in Iran. Gestetner Trophy he asked last minute rush to get Union News not to publish Until these are returned his name, a request which packed, she had time to they cannot leave the coun­ tell Union News that try and it appears that in was agreed to. Debaters Slate this case Shirvanlou’s pass­ Asked about returning to No room she will probably come port has not been returned, Persia, he said that he could back to England in two possibly for political never go back. Obviously he reasons. has gone back for some rea­ at the years time. Under his editorship last son, and his position is in Canon Morley She hopes to travel over­ year, “ Paymun ” won the doubt. land on the return journey, Gestetner Trophy for the “ P ay n u n ” ap p ears q u a r­ through India and the best duplicated student terly in English and Per­ — Hop — the debate on Wednesday a motion proposed Middle East, “ always pro­ magazine in Britain. Its sian. It has an average of by Mrs. Margot Kent condemned the attitude viding there is not a war in anti - government policy forty pages in English with 0V E R one hundred progress on our route.” She caused it to be banned m of the Vicar of Leeds, Canon Fenton Morley, in has no regrets about miss­ articles both of interest to people were turned ing the Leeds fogs, and in P ersia. Persians and of general his sermon of Sunday. His advice on student fact looks forward to having Due to the confusion exist­ interest. away at the door when marriage was an example, she said, of the position two summers in one year, ing on this motion the “ pre­ as the long Australian sum­ vious question ” was moved they tried to get in to of the Church today. mer is just starting. and passed. Although it was Wednesday’s hop. The The Church hierarchy is out of touch with A well known member of agreed not to put this students and young people, she continued. Canon the Leeds University Union motion to a vote, Chris Arme number of tickets for a TG, she has appeared only asked that something should CHURCH Morley had given no statistics to prove his claim occasionally on stage, once be done before it was too hop held in the Riley- that students who at the Civic Theatre, Leeds, late. A motion proposed by preferring to work back­ Arme to send a telegram to Smith Hall is limited to married got poor German student in Leeds on the Persian Government UNITY an exchange visit. stage. She has attended urging that Shirvanlou be a maximum of 600. degrees. Drama Festivals throughout There was no opposition Among the speakers from Britain and Europe, being a allowed to return to Britain This number was sold by the floor were a number of member of the group repre­ to continue his studies was PLEA 9 p.m. and the and the motion was declared other Germans and a couple Hall was passed nem con. senting Britain at the Inter­ passed. already crowded. Talking to of American students. national Student Theatre Firooz Shirvanlou, who is A N appeal for church Union News, two members Mr. Bob Whan urged the The motion was defeated Union Festival at Erlangen, twenty four, took an Arts of Entertainments Commit­ house, in another private by a large majority. Germany, recently. degree at Leeds and is now unity is contained tee, John Ferguson and motion, to delete the word “ socialist ” from debates She is taking pictures of a student of textiles at Hud- in a joint circular by Doug Currie, said that they the village of Chapel Aller- had wanted to use the Social during this session. To be­ the Rev. John Banks, Room to ease overcrowding. come one of the elite of the Periodicals Secretary ton, “ the most beautiful vil­ Doug Sandle, who was lage in Leeds,” to remind the Methodist Chaplain However, they were told debating chamber, he said, Bazaar day it was necessary to always thinking of resigning from her of her birthplace. “I’m in the University, and that this was out of the use socialist platitudes. Union Committee, will not very much afraid that the the Rev. George Bur- question for Wednesday be doing so after all. He is whole place will have been results hops. “ It remains to be Alan Hunt opposed this beginning a Post-Graduate pulled down by the time I ningham, the Anglican seen,” they said, “ if we can and attacked Mr. Whan for course in English and will return, and I won’t recog­ \yiTH Communists find a way to prevent this using platitudes. The motion so retain his post. nise it,” she said. Chaplain. The circular overcrowding occurring was defeated. and Conservatives is being sent to mem­ ag ain .” The main motion, “ this house believes that the at adjoining tables, bers of the Anglican Western Powers should bazaar days got going and Methodist societies. abandon West Berlin,” was OFFICULL OUTFITTERS on Monday. Societies in proposed by Jeremy Haw­ The two clergymen sug­ thorn and Pete Kennedy and TO LEEDS the Riley-Smith Hall gest each society should ap­ UN talks opposed by Dave Cooper and UNIVERSITY UNION and Sports clubs in the point twelve members to Herman Wellenreuther, a study last year’s report Mr. Brian Ur quart, in Social room did a brisk issued by representatives of charge of United Nations trade. both churches regarding operations in the Congo, J 500 different designs always in unification. and Sir Kenneth Younger, stock Including the full range of Final figures are not yet Secretary of the Royal Skopje students Jtoversity Ties. available but the political A list of questions drawn Institute of International societies seem to be losing up by the Bishop of Ripon Affairs, were the main for Leeds ♦Press Wear HireScrvjcgt members or at least not could be used by the parties speakers at an ISMUN con­ increasing their numbers. for guidance. The circular ference held at Sheffield Students from the earth­ For any occasion you can hue the Of political societies, the also suggests that each University last weekend. quake-stricken town of complete outfit and for such a Conservatives hav§ about society should invite their Skopje in Yugoslavia will be moderate charge; opposite numbers to their The 70 delegates from 24 70 new members, similar to countries, including Poland studying at Leeds this year. last year, Labour Society m eetings. The British Council have and Ghana, discussed vari­ Yes, you’re within easy reach has 80, Liberal Society 54, The Anglican Chaplaincy ous aspects of United arranged for emergency 23 down on last year, C.N.D. is to hold a series of experi­ Nations’ work. scholarships to be given to of the Student’s Best Friend 84, very much down on last allow four students to do a mental lunch-hour ad­ Leeds UNSA was repre­ year, and Marxists over 30. dresses at Emmanuel year’s course in the English J a m UNSA had 85 new mem­ Church by distinguished lay sented by secretary Jane department. bers and European Society speakers. The first will be Shaw who described the The announcement came conference as “ very suc­ 109 Two non-political Dr. Kathleen Bliss, Secre­ only this week and as yet h a j r r > y ’ s . societies did well. Film tary of the Church of Eng­ cessful.” Union officials know nothing Society have a new record land Board of Education, on A report of the proceed­ of the details. The Yugoslav 57-59 New Briggate, Leeds 1. Tel: 24226, of 710 new members and “ The Awakening of the ings will be published in students are expected to Official Outfitters to the University Union, Theatre Group 187. Laity,” on October 31st. the near future. arrive in the next few days. 2 UNION NEWS— Friday, 4th October, 1963 CONFERENCE NUMBERS FALL Lodgings —FEWER FRESHERS a restrictions Don't wed young” Vicar First tells students will be Impressions By OUR CONFERENCE CORRESPONDENT j^FTER several weeks of preparation, Freshers’ lightened Conference secretary, Ted Addison, and his RESTRICTIONS on assistants were surprised last weekend to find that visitors in student only just over a thousand students wanted to attend lodgings have been the Conference. Following last year’s large lightened. From the numbers (about 1,400 sentiment was in favour of beginning of this term came) they had expected early marriage, even though guests of both sexes may 1,600 this year. it gave the highest incidence of divorce, the Canon de­ First-year student Mary Holton sees the point. be entertained in “digs,” clared. with the permission of Unless the total num­ Canon Morley felt that ber of new students at stu d e n t service to w ard s the landlady, until 11 others was not as strong as p.m. on weekdays and the University has fallen it once was, and he appealed it seems that more to students to come forward Chaos again at until 11-30 p.m. on Satur­ and help in youth club work days and Sundays. Freshers than usual did in the city, many of whose not want to attend the youth clubs were of “ the This change removes the Conference. tougher kind.” anomalies of the previous Talking to Union News Freshers’ debate regulations. Until now, men Those who did attend were about the Conference, Addi­ could not have women guests welcomed by the Vice-Chan­ son said he thought it had in their private rooms after run smoothly. There were INNOVATIONS for the Freshers’ Debate, includ­ 10 p.m. without the permis­ cellor, Sir Roger Stevens, and Three Freshers, Graham the Lord Mayor of Leeds, few inquiries at the informa­ sion of the Lodgings Warden. Alderman Loy Wooler. They tion desk in the Union and ing the holding of two separate meetings, were Women, however, needed Bennett, David Pickup also heard, among others, Mr. queues were kept to a mini­ made this year, but the scene in the Riley-Smith only the permission of their R. E. Morgan, Director of mum except at certain hostess for male guests to and Clare Barber, swap Physical Education, and Dr. periods in Refec. Hall was the same as usual. Paper darts, bags of stay after 10 p.m. This could R. J. Still, the University only be done on Saturday and stories about Leeds and Medical Officer. flower and rolls of lavatory paper showered the Sunday nights. the Conference outside In his speech to the speakers and audience, and although there was less The revised rules are the Freshers, the Vice-Chancellor same for men and women the Parkinson. said, “ excessive class-con- Parking noise than las year, some I scousness and a lack of com­ people had difficulty in of support for the Govern­ munication between people of ment, attacks on the Govern­ different professions, trades getting a hearing. ment, and some Welsh and and crafts ” were the two problems Irish patriotism. greatest drawbacks to pre­ The recent arrest of South The motion was defeated by sent-day life in Britain. African student Dennis 232 votes an d a tten d an ce w as Brutus was condemned in an ab o u t 700. ahead anti-apartheid motion pro­ No Barriers posed in Private Members’ J>ARKING space will be Business by Andy Tudor. It Life in a university could in great demand next was passed with one person, help to overcome these draw­ Mr. Michael Laycock, voting backs and make Britain a) session. The Clarendon? against, “ because of certain better place. “ I think you will Road car park will be out reservations.” A similar find there are no class bar motion was passed in the Arts riers here,” he added. of use from the begin­ Lecture Theatre debate. ning of October, when a Tim Olsen called on CND “ University life/’ he con­ to disband as its purpose was tinued, “ is what you as indi­ start is being made on achieved. He was unsuccess­ viduals make it. You may at times feel lonely, frustrated, the new Henry Price ful. and anti-social, but if you student flats project, and A motion from Firoz Karim seize your opportunities you supporting the South Viet­ can be very happy.” half of the Hilary Place namese Buddhists in “ their car park has already fight for religious freedom” Sir Roger reminded the was passed with no opposi­ freshers that they had en­ been lost to make way tered University through a for a new bank. tion. narrow gate ” and outside there were milling: crowds of Old jokes students, some waiting to get House Secretary, Mel- in, others who had been vyn Eastburn, told The debate on the motion, turned away. Union News that when “ this house has full confi­ dence in England and St. On Sunday the Conference the Hilary Place park George,” was opened by Tim Service was held in Em­ was originally construct­ Olsen. He claimed the Eng­ manuel Church and the ser­ lish are gentlemen, praised mon by the Vicar of Leeds, ed for the Union, English lavatory paper, told a Canon Fenton Morley, earned the University had not story about some American mention in the national news­ prunes, and finished with a papers. been informed of the couple of old jokes about There was an extraordinary building proposals. Now Christine Keeler. Student with “ trophies.” and increasing tendency to­ they have no option but Alan Hunt opposed St. wards a new sort of narrow­ George because he apparently mindedness about sex, he told to accept the situation. was a capitalist and quoted N U S the Freshers. An increase in the number the fact that he had been de­ The new narrow-minded­ of students and last year’s moted to a lower grade of ness was that sex was the police ban on parking in saintship by the Church. Annual Council only and all-important ele­ Cavendish Road, enforced last No-one heard very much of ment in relationships, and session, will not improve the Mr. Laycock, but through the that there was something present position. noise he was heard to support Meeting wrong with relationships the Conservatives. He proved based on ordinary friendship Nothing can be done at pre­ he was a gentleman by toast­ MARGATE, and comradeship. “ This is the sent, although alternatives ing the House with a stiff tot kind of pressure which I hope are being sought. In Novem­ of w ater. ber, many of the houses in NOVEMBER the student will debunk,” Virginia Road will be de­ Seconding the opposition, Canon Morley said. John Urquhart put in a good Motions should be handed molished and this will provide word for Scotland and said some waste land for parking the motion was a question of in to NUS Office by Concern purposes. Until then, car- complacency. Supporting the noon Saturday, October •.. they say “money burns a hole in your pocket.” owners will have to make do motion meant being com­ 12th. Don’t leave it to the Stating that there had been with the back streets and the placent. Speakers from the next man. Your voice So if you have to live on a shoe-string surely the a certain increase in the inci­ small amount of car-park left floor added little except words must be heard. dence of venereal disease and to them . sensible way to hold on to what little you’ve got of mental breakdowns, Canon Morley continued that it was is to keep it in a bank. Anyway, that’s what I do, a matter of real concern to the medical and University Empty-Handed and since I opened an account I’ve managed to authorities when the career of a girl student was arrested ^FTER a recent out­ make ends meet and even save a bit. At my bank by pregnancy. “ Students care break of vandalism at JOIN deeply about such things as lots of the customers seem to be students like me. race hatred and starvation, the Weetwood sports fields, yet they may commit the the football pavilion was Perhaps it’s the friendly atmosphere that attracts cruelty of bringing into the UNION world an unwanted child.” entered on Sunday, but the people of my age... intruders left without tak­ Student marriage was sur­ rounded by a halo of ing anything. romance, but nine out of ten The previous week, NEWS I’m glad 1 use Martins Bank times, marriage was a hin­ Rugby posts, hockey posts drance rather than a help to 1-15 p.m. TODAY — Committee Rooms students, who usually got and nets were found lying worse rather than better on the ground after having Martins Bank Ltd. University Branch: 6 Blenheim Terr., Woodhouse Lane, Leeds 2. degrees when married. Public been removed by hooligans. UNION NEWS—Friday, 4th October, 1963 3 A full-bosomed matron swept onto the scene and hustled them off, cooing comfortingly and persuas­ SEDUCTION ively into their ears. In a very short time they gathered enough to realise that she was the keeper of GREG CHAMBERLAIN a house of ill-repute, and BY WIRE that she had definite plans VOU never hear much about Greg In the past, whenever It appears that two for their future. They Chamberlain. He doesn’t speak in young ladies were return­ declined her proposals, and Debates, has never dreamed of calling for my search for interest­ ing to their lodgings rather finally escaped with their an and confined his activities on ing trivia in this hay­ late at night, and were honour, if not their purses, Union Committee last year primarily to offered accommodation by intact. voting. stack of a Union got on Miss X said later, “ At Nevertheless, as an ex-Editor of Union top of me, I would first I thought it was just News, he performs the useful functions a place where they had of Union pundit, know-all, errand-boy, retreat to one of the Gilbert orgies and things.” printing consultant and general Eminence phone-boxes and con­ Well, what else can you Grise. expect from foreigners? Above all, he is interesting. template the infinite in Darrow Show Greg a packet of fish and chips, relative silence for ten Naughty! and he will not only quiver with desire says.. but will also tell you which shop they minutes or so. Naughty! came from . Now even this last refuge has been snatched The Women’s Toilets now Similarly, a five-second snatch of Wagner two very charming Span­ hold no secrets from me, will call forth a stream from me. I slipped into a iards. holds only one attraction in the printed tea-towels box the other day and but I regret to say that the of ecstatic moans, the experience was in every name and act of the for him—the prospect of draped round the walls was well on the way to One of the ladies is a opera, and a brief, two- a career in journalism, like tapestries. Nirvana when the spell member of Union Commit­ way disappointing. One hour summary of the for which he is admir­ In the middle of this was shattered by a husky tee, and so I shall refer to thing engaged my atten­ plot of “ The Ring.” ably fitted. Not only has riot of colour and jour­ contralto saying, “ Yes, her simply as Miss X. tion though: the decor. he at one time or an­ nalistic relics Greg will O.K., tonight, then.” I had You remember how I Just for the record, other held almost every sit on and on into the conducted a hasty but As it happened, their bitched last term about the this chip-eating sensual­ post in Union News, he small hours, typing news thorough search of the escorts proved not to be Social Room colour- ist is 21, comes from was also in charge of the stories, reading “ Time ” cubicle before I realised gentlemen, and the scene scheme ? Well the same Colchester, Essex, is technical production of magazine, or mumbling th a t m y “ seductress ” w as that ensued, so I am told, thing’s happened again. reading Finals History, la st year's “ T yke,” and Latin American obscuri­ in fact on the other end resembled a Mediterranean Vast areas of jet-black and has the temerity to of the Union booklet on ties to anyone who will of a wire, in the next Whitehall farce involving are relieved only by this hope that he witl “ Higher Education,” at listen. booth. slamming doors, pouncing shattering shade of “ cycla­ graduate. present circulating seducers and the brandish­ Nevertheless, mid-day I hurried to another box m en.” He claims a truly vast among the schools of the will see him up, bright ing of guns. West Riding. to continue my siesta. And Could it be that the little knowledge of world and early, ready to another. And another. It can only be Santa darlings have taken to affairs, and can back his Listing the man’s plunge into his own At last, distracted and Maria di Alcanza herself writing naughty words on claim by a detailed reci­ achievements is easy world of the Union, who saved them from the the walls in lipstick, and tal of the governments enough: when it comes printing, talking from an nearly in tears, I was struck by the horrid truth: more unfortuante possibili­ this is simply a counter­ of every country, com­ to capturing his charac­ apolitical viewpoint on ties of such a situation, but measure using the prin­ plete with the names of ter on paper, the task the weighty matters of none of the new phone- assumes baffling propor­ boxes are soundproofed. saved they were—only for ciple, “ If you can’t beat office-holders from the the world, and the con­ greater surprises. ’em, join ’em ?” Premier down to the tions. stant search for a new Bang goes my peace of most insignificant variety of Refec. bun. mind. And so does any . The best way is per­ hope at all of a private Under-Secretary. He will haps to describe his en­ If you see him about do thisi on the slightest conversation in the damn vironment — his flat at the Union, don’t go up to things. pretext. No. 14, Blandford G ar­ him and say, “ Excuse More specifically, dens. me, aren’t you THE Greg Latin America is his first The keynote is news­ Chamberlain ? ” Tanned And. . . love, and he has recently papers—clippings, whole Just leave him alone. front pages, piles of All the old faces, and contributed two leader- He is happy as he is, some of the new ones, page articles to the obscure Continental and unspoiled by the heady S. American journals. have come back with sun­ Yorkshire Post on Haiti fumes of praise, end­ tans as deep as their fund and Argentina. Light relief is provided lessly searching for the “ One day,” he vows, of holiday reminiscences, by large colour-reproduc- hottest story, the perfect I’ve been about a bit, too “ I will work my passage tions of food, and G re g ’s girl, and a Chinese rest­ to South America, and penchant for “ cloths, aurant where the bean- and oddly enough, I hit just drink it all in.” and stuffs, and bright, shoots are sixpence Barcelona just in time to The immediate future pick up the tenderest gay colours ” is reflected cheaper. morsel of scandal I’ve encountered in a long time, On Being Go Iked From Unreality rpHE great appeal of Candid Camera ” lies in the tive)—that is, put On when ambition beckons too public’s eagerness to laugh at the discomfort of Camera. far. others. We pity, but we still Later Golk recruits him, Dr. Stern’s comment laugh. laugh at him and pity and Hondorp meets Hen­ comes when Golk finds that Richard G. Stern, in Golk him. dricks, a twenty-two- his name (which he’d (Penguin, 3s.), has carried The real hero of the year-old divorcee who invented and adopted for the “ Candid Camera ” idea book, Herbert Hondorp, is roomed with a Belgian its “ vague and ugly sug­ to extremes. Golk is the more real, although at first lesbian at school and paid gestibility ”) was at one founder and guiding light we think not. A pampered 20,000 francs for her first time a common word for U v th Q of “ You’re On C am era,” a boy, now in his thirties, left real sex experience from a “ fool ” or “ cuckoo.” New York television show by his doctor father to his hotel liftman. But in conception and own devices, he has no treatment, Golk is great. It that sets out to explore Ambition Oh - and explode people’s lives. need to work, and spends worthily ranks as one of “We give the victims a his time wandering round There is Elaine, too, a the great modern satires— backcloth,” says Golk; “ we New York. rich Negro heiress who’s in though not recommended 9 make them more real than Until, in a bookshop, he it for kicks. Hondorp, from for first-year females they are in life.” Most find is “ golked ” (the name is sheltered immaturity, straight from demure it a great joke. all things to the pro­ learns fast. schools. Gbcestrihij? Dr. Stern (Ph.D. from gramme, noun, verb, adjec­ Golk’s fall is inevitable GORDON WALSH Iowa, assistant English prof. at Chicago) is con­ TO ALL UNION MEMBERS: cerned to satirise the whole Practically everyone has to —from the inveterate make-up of American tele­ YOU WANT YOUR IDEAS HEARD? vision. At times he succeeds We have the means for you — midnight oil burner to the most dedicated Union brilliantly: in style and SOUND GROUP plans to run a Sound Magazine type. Some people, of course, manage better than treatm ent. The m ain diffi­ in the Riley-Smith Hall for 15 minutes before Union culty is that his characters Cinema on Sunday evenings. As part of the pro­ others. It’s all a question of balance and balance is are too credible. We can BEER! gramme, your views in writing on matters exactly what you will have if you open an account believe in them, and sym­ controversial or otherwise are invited for broad­ pathise with them, too casting ..... at the Midland Bank. readily. In satire there should be some outlandish Send YOUR letters to SOUND GROUP Sec. or the feature, some improbable Society Secretaries marked “ Magazine.” There’s nothing difficult about opening an account exaggeration in setting and with the Midland; just a few simple formalities and characterisation, to give it TETLEY focus. Ores swear Hire Service the job’s done. Have a word with the manager of Sex CHARLIE GOULD LTD. your nearest branch. Here, apart from the extreme concentration on Morning, Dinner For all occasions—our Gentle- You’ll find him very helpful. sex (and the great sexual t ii c m*n’t Drasswaar Hlrt Strvlce prowess) of the characters, Leads 11,1 It always rtady to advise and all is normal. Only Golk, y NrV £1 p*r day Y°* Kxcluslva Tallor- large and lovable, with a tag, with a wide ranft of great domed pear-shaped 4 GRAND (Th’tra) ARCADI * « - ensuring a Mrfact At- MIDLAND BANK bald head and his assumed THE BREWERY, LEEDS 10 name, is larger-than-life. M ~ M b * . . LI i d s , I University Branch: We can recognise him, 2 7 BLENHEIM TERRACE, WOODHOUSE LANE, LEEDS 2 4 UNION NEWS—Frida/, 4th October, 1963 UNION NEWS How the Vacs are spent

Weekly Newspaper of Leeds University Union gOME witnesses who have come before us have three, but not over five, by reading. Students read less 11 per cent., and over five in the vacations today. Editor: JOHN MACRAE emphasised the increasing difficulty, as the hours by 5 per cent. There They buy fewer books, and Assistant Editor: A N N A MILLER volume of work increases, of compressing into a was relatively little differ­ there is some evidence that ence in the hours claimed the sums included for book News Editor ...... PAT FERG USO N three-year course all they think a science student by finalists (45 per cent, of purchase in awards to Features Editor ...... JEREMY H A W T H O R N should master before graduation. There is no the sample) and other students are too often used Pictures Editor ...... PETE FRAZIER students, but older students for other purposes. doubt that this difficulty is responsible for the were somewhat more dili­ A student who has Sports Editor ...... BOB GATTIE heavy programmes of gent than younger. The accepted public money to Business M anager...... C H R IST IN E FIELDEN or other work to be done daily averages claimed by undertake a university Advertisement Manager ...... i STEPH EN C R O W T H E R teaching with which during the vacation. To students of arts or social course—and all students this, 58 per cent, of Sales Manager ...... JAN KANJI students, particularly studies were higher than have done so, at least respondents answered yes, those claimed by scien­ indirectly—should pursue Other contributors: Richard Wagner, Greg Chamberlain, of science, are faced. 71 per cent, in the field of tists. it single mindedly and Brian Glover. arts and social studies, 47 steadily, except for reason­ In this situation it is per cent, in the field of pure Paid employment not natural and necessary to primarily designed to able holidays, to its con­ science and 31 per cent, in clusion, and by so doing ask whether the best use the field of applied science. further their studies was is being made of the vaca­ taken by 62 per cent, of will make the best use of tions, which account (even Students were asked for the sample, and about the money spent on his THAT WORD AGAIN when the terms are of 10 how long they undertook three-quarters of those who education. weeks, and not of eight as paid or unpaid field or took such employment Y criticising student marriage and sex, the at Oxford and Cambridge) practical work in order to took it for over four weeks, Travel for some three-eighths of promote their understand­ the median duration being B Vicar of Leeds, Canon Fenton Morley (see a three-year or four-year ing of a subject in their 6.3 weeksi The daily aver­ Another pressure which page 2) has created a good deal of controversy course. The current cost to course. Of the sample 40 age of study of those who tends to divert the student public funds of a univer­ per cent, said such work took four weeks or less of from study in the vacation and gained nation-wide publicity — as he no sity student is estimated at was not applicable to their such employment was is the opinion now widely doubt intended. £850 a year. courses. Of the other 60 actually slightly higher accepted among students Full value is not obtained per cent., only half did any than that of those who that the most valuable way Before he had finished speaking to the Freshers in for this expenditure if for such work. Of those who took no such employment. in which they can spend Emmanuel Church on Sunday, the B.B.C. was giving three-eighths of the period the vacation is in foreign news flashes of the “ meat ” of his sermon. It seems of his course the student’s travel. The climate of time (apart from that This week Union News publishes extracts from opinion is such that a pretty obvious that there was a pre-release of what he needed for reasonable student can earn prestige was going to say. relaxation) is not used to “The use of vacations by students ” a recent simply by accomplishing a advantage, and if univer­ interim report of the Committee on University In the last few weeks the public has been attacked long and difficult journey. sity plant and buildings are Teaching Methods set up by the University Some travel is certainly frequently by the country’s professional moralists. Thus, less fully used than they Grants Committee. valuable as a broadening the Bishop of Coventry said last week-end: “ We now might be, consistent with experience, but we think have a sexually sick society, whose pre-occupation with the needs of senior mem­ the pendulum has swung bers of the University too far. this aspect of human relations has been known to stagger engaged on research and did any such work, about There was a very marked one in three did it for over difference between the From such travel there other cultures, such as Russia.” Now it is the turn of scholarship. can be undoubtedly real, if students to take a beating. two months. daily hours of study claimed by those who at sometimes imponderable Survey Each respondent was benefit to the student as a Our society is not sexually “ sick the present con­ then asked to estimate the the end of the vacation had scholar; and surmounting fusion is caused by attitudes and mores undergoing a A statistical survey was average daily hours for to undergo some examina­ tion, test or inquiry, and the difficulties of travel in process of rapid change. Meanwhile, the clergy and others organised in which a which he worked at a sub­ a strange land on a very sample of about 2,000 ject in his course during those whose vacation was limited budget will call into continue to thunder about the dangers of sex and about students of the second and periods of the vacation clouded by no such pros­ pect. play qualities which are “ declining ” standards. Having been forbidden pre­ later years were questioned, when he was not using not brought out by the marital sexual intercourse, Canon Morley now warns by interview, on the use University premises, or When a majority of abroad as a foreign lan­ student’s university course, students about marriage with unsupported statements they had made of the long students came from homes but w hich are needed for vacation of 1961 for the guage student, or doing about how it results in worse degrees than if they re­ field or practical work to with a tradition of univer­ the full development of his mained single. purpose of their studies. personality. The question (The sample included mem­ promote his understanding sity work, and reading, as is how far these indirect Presumably, students must continue to sublimate bers of Leeds University— of a subject in his course. distinct from practical benefits outweigh the loss their natural feelings in dusty tomes and energetic sports E ditor.) A daily average of an work, loomed larger in of time for study. in a great effort to remain “ pure.” Obviously, there are Students were asked hour or less during such university courses than it whether they had received periods w as claim ed by 53 does today, it was the dangers in indiscriminate sex, but most students realise any advice from any of per cent, of the respond­ normal practice of the Suitable this. their teachers as to books ents, over one, but not over serious student to spend How ridiculous the whole affair must seem to the on their courses to be read three, by 31 per cent., over much of his vacations We think that for many Man from Mars or, indeed, the inhabitants of any sex­ students the most suitable time for prolonged foreign ually enlightened country. What students and the general travel, or other broadening public are sick of is being continually criticised about the experiences which develop state of their morals by clergymen and others. However Steam pudding sermon the personality would be well meaning, most are so obviously out of touch with J ENJOYED Freshers’ Conference. The meals, did he thunder so? True, either during the interval student marriages do fail between school and univer­ the way we live now. the quick queues, the big beat hop, the eager sity, or during that between In the circumstances, then, it is welcome to hear that and are publicised. But bright eyed students, even the speeches. How what of the thousands that graduation and a perma­ the University authorities have lightened restrictions on refreshing to be told again and again to criticise, succeed in private ? nent job. visitors to student lodgings. Men and women may now, to argue, to ask questions! And then it came— Haven’t we had a bit too There is much to be much sex from the pulpit said for using the former with the permission of the landlady, be entertained in on Sunday, a day of rest—reversal of policy, all interval for some broaden­ “ digs” until 11 p.m. on weekdays and 11-30 p.m. on this y ear? critical judgment suspended, no questions to be Would it not have been ing experience, provided Sundays. asked, straight from more constructive to sup­ that it does not last long The next step is to scrap the antiquated rules in port young couples— enough to impair the the University pulpit do better than single student’s capacity to think operation at women’s halls about entertaining men. Pro­ one great steam students, probably because students or otherwise? To castigate those who exploit academically. It is at least bably, Oxley, for example, is not alone in having twelve of their greater maturity arguable that many a boy pudding of a sermon. and sense of responsibi­ the young couple’s search large duplicate sheets of general regulations covering all for housing, to advocate, or girl coming straight aspects of hall life. In particular, men may be entertained “ Student marriage sur­ lity ? from school is too imma­ rounded by veils of say, the abolition of forms ture in personality (how­ in students’ rooms only from 2 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, romantic fiction”; “married of tax which affect newly weds most, and to plead ever precocious intellectu­ and from 2 to 11 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. students usually get worse LETTER ally) to reap the full bene­ than better degrees”; “ the for a re-examination of fit of a university course, unwanted child.” Where is Does the vicar expect student facilities to help and that this immaturity the justification for such students contemplating those in holy matrimony. lies at the root of some of sweeping statem ents ? marriage to find other Yours, single, the problems to which we What makes students means of expressing their JOHN URQUHART, shall revert in our final marry? Sex? Romance? I love? Fornication? I know Leeds University Union. report. would suggest it is some­ the Church of England WHITEHEAD thing that happens to us tried to get rid of the devil all, even vicars—the pull last year, but this is ridi­ 164, Woodhouse Lane of the mating instinct. culous. Societies which ignore such (opposite University) Why should there be an instinct do so at their unwanted children? People WHAT'S ON peril. get married to have child­ After all, most students’ ren. Is the student form TODAY Charles Longbottom, M.P., speaks friends and contemporaries any less valid? Far better to Conservative Association, CIGARS, TOBACCO outside college and Univer­ a child of married students T.V. Room, 1 p.m. sity are contemplating than unmarried ones. Ballad and Blues, Peel Hotel, CIGARETTES marriage or are married. What a way to greet SATURDAY, 5th Are students any different ? freshers: “ You can’t have 8 p.m. FANCY GOODS Why should those prepared pre-marital intercourse— SUNDAY, 6th Sound Magazine, Social Room, to give greater service to and you mustn’t get 6-45 p.m. the country be more pen­ married either!”1 Acute Union Cinema. GIFTS alised? Do such men make nervous tensions don’t arise worse students? Does one only from the presence of THURSDAY, 10th Joe Harriott at Jazz Society Club ignore completely the sex. D, Moorside Social Club. learned surveys which I admire Canon Fenton show that married students Morley’s courage. But why FRIDAY, 11th Union News on sale everywhere. UNION NEWS—Friday, 4th October, 1963 5 UGC reduces proposed BRIEFLY Sound A LETTER received by Union President, Tony Group Union area Lavender, last week invites Leeds University to take part in a National Tiddlywink Competition LOST! for ‘the Prince Philip Silver Wink.’ goes on N her first day in O Leeds during the New building ready Leeds have been drawn against Hull, where it Freshers’ Conference last appears there is a competent team. If Leeds Friday, an eighteen-year- the air old girl student left the By A STAFF REPORTER makes no challenge before November 15th Hull Union at night only to passes into the second round. m H O S E who forsook the find she couldn’t remem­ Other information given includes the rule that F re sh e rs’ D ebate on ber where her digs were. QUTS in the proposed area of the new Union And she didn’t have an all matches shall be played ‘according to the Inter­ Sunday for the quieter plea­ address! have been asked for by the University Grants national Rules of Tiddlywinks and the news that sures of Union Cinema were This was because they Committee. Negotiations between the Committee results will appear in the March issue of ‘Winking present at the first trial of were temporary, last- Sound Group’s weekly news­ minute digs, as her regu­ and the Union have been progressing during the World.” reel. Entitled “ Soundings,” it lar landlady was not summer vacation, says a Union Executive state­ ¥ -¥■ will be heard every week at ready to receive her. A NEW scheme for the insurance of students’ She remembered the ment and now a compromise is being sought for Union Cinema and will last approximate area where personal effects was introduced this year. For for about fifteen or twenty she lived, however, and this deadlock. ten shillings a year it is possible to insure anything minutes before the films are with the help of friends shown. eventually found her new “After a careful comparison with other up to a hundred pounds. home after a search of Unions,” says the statement, “the U.G.C. has asked Among accidents not covered by this policy Programmes will include over an hour. are such things as loss, damage or destruction by news, Union events, sport and for a cut in the Social, Games and Society Rooms “radioactivity from nuclear fuel, by War, Invasion, interviews. The latter, said a of four to five thousand Act of Foreign Enemy, Hostilities, Civil War, Sound Group member, will be square feet, equal to “ one of our main stand-bys.” FINANCE Registration Rebellion, Revolution, Insurrection or Military or Interviewing would be easier, between six and seven Usurped Power or Looting, Sacking and Pillage.” he added, when they could HALTS per cent.” Seems a fairly good risk ! buy their own portable tape- runs * * recorder. Executive Committee has J-JANKS moved in last week to break a Stock UNION considered this and is offering INTERVIEWED minor reductions amounting smoothly Market syndicate of twelve Hull University Interviewed this week for NEWSREEL to just over 5 per cent, as a students. They had been using their grants to “ Soundings ” were Sir Roger compromise. Part of the cut, gamble on the Stock Exchange and some seem to Stevens, the Vice-Chancellor, it is suggested, can be —secretary and several leading members “K . appears very un­ achieved by abolishing the have made large profits. of the Union. likely at the moment proposed committee room and ^H E last of the nearly using a dual purpose room When an offer of shares was expected to be Among other projects that Union Newsreel will with partitions as both six thousand mem­ over-subscribed the students would send in applica­ planned by the Group are the society and committee rooms. production of features for the soon become a regular bers of the Union will be tions from large numbers of people, or at least in BBC, which has already feature,” said a Film The majority of the evi­ large numbers of names. In any draw they would shown interest, and a radio dence has been accepted by registering today. Union programme for the local Society committee mem­ the U.G.C. and it is hoped stand a good chance of holding a large number of hospitals. ber this week. The pilot that sketch plans will be pre­ Secretary, John Sutton, shares. Prices would rise, project last term was pared during this term. who has had to organise The new Terrapin building, they would sell the successful but Film completed during the long it, said earlier this week shares and again have Society cannot afford to vacation, is ready for use but will not yet be available for that he was satisfied money in the bank to run it out of their own room bookings. House Secre­ with the way it had meet the cheques with funds. tary Melvyn Eastburn told Union News that the porches gone. which they originally The film shot last term was connecting it with the main bought shares. Graduation intended to assess the poten­ Union building have yet to be “I am grateful to all who tial of the scheme and to gain built. helped,” he told a Union News No-one actually made the approval of Union Com­ reporter. In the Union Com­ a loss but it was pure mittee. However, the promo­ mittee Rooms registration Day! ters of the idea do not expect Out of use was carried out for Freshers gambling. The banks that the Committee will grant When work on this starts, by some members of Union th e £300 needed fo r processing in the near future, the rooms Committee and some volun­ found a simple way of and editing equipment. to be connected to it will be teers. Non-freshers were dealt stopping it. They merely Anything done until this is out of use. The TV Lounge, with in the Great Hall at the obtained must be financed by Social Room and Women’s same time as University refused to sell argle Film Society, which has plans Common Room will not be Registration. to continue experiments. Five available for society meetings While Union registration cheque books (250 in or six scripts are under pre­ which will have to be held in was done in the Union by each) to students. paration, although, says Pub­ the new building. volunteers, in the Great Hall licity Manager Dick Whitley, It is hoped that the build­ it was done by post-graduate more are wanted. ing schedule will be far students, who were being paid Whitley said he believes enough advanced by the end for it. Pay was at the same that the project should con­ of term to begin the conver­ rate at those who were doing tinue, but attacked the apathy sion of the Social Room and the same job for the Univer­ of Film Society members. part of the Women’s Common sity. Room into a new bar. This “ We have the largest Univer­ Four thousand diaries were Personal sity Film Society in the coun­ work will be carried out dur­ ing the Christmas vacation. ready for sale at the begin­ try, but four people do all the ning of the week. Said Secre­ work/’ he told Union News. The Terrapin building was put up as an emergency mea­ tary Sutton, “they cost the YOU can advertise here for sure to ease overcrowding Union about 6s. 6d. to print, only 2d. a word. Copy to Union members get them for pending the construction of Union News Office w ith pay­ Union extensions. Of a pre­ 3s. 6d.” Seven hundred Copies fabricated design, it was are reserved for medical stu­ ment by Monday before pub­ WHY erected in just over a day on dents and the rest are sold lication. Thin rule box 1/6. previously prepared founda­ generally. Box No. 1/-. NOT tions. LORD SALISBURY and Nabarro w rite SUCCESS in Blue Rag, on sale Tuesday. Price 3d. SEND Been on holiday Free to Tories. through NUS this \ LEEDS graduate has passed one of the senior DANCE ORCHESTRAS, Jazz Bands, UNION NEWS' year ? Beat and Twist groups always avail­ examinations for the Civil able at competitive fees. — KEN So your plans went Service. Mr. G. E. Rees, who BAXTER DANCE ORCHESTRAS. 3, HOME? wrong ? graduated in economics with Tilbury View , Leeds 11. Tel. 74223. an Upper Second-class degree, Subscription rates only Why not contact the FAVERSHAM. For parents and friends NUS Secretary, in the has qualified as an assistant — a licensed, reasonably priced hotel 127- a year Principal at the Board of within a few yards of the University. office 1—2 p.m. every Trade. — Springfield Mount, Leeds 2. day ? A spokesman for the Ap­ The day I came out of the beginner class in Call, or write to THE BRANDON. Comfortable accom­ The situation can pointments Board said, “there modation near University. Electric money matter s.,The day I went to the THE SUBSCRIPTIONS only be rectified is a standing prejudice that it blankets and fires. Terms 19/6 Bed Westminster. Now—I use cheques to pay my is not worth-while to enter and Breakfast. — Springfield Mount. if you complain Tel. 27290. bills. The warrants and cheques I receive SECRETARY — loudly! these competitions because candidates from Oxbridge POST-GRADUATE RECEPTION. Tea. gc> straight into my bank. And if some were so successful.” This, he address by the Vice-Chancellor, film, money problem turns up that I don’t thought, was merely a matter “ The Admirable Crighton.” Thursday, of the number of candidates. October 10th, 5-15 p.m. Refec. All understand, there’s a friendly and well-informed Leeds students have now new P.G.’s invited. bank manager to help me deal with it... This succeeded in this exam three WANTED. Staff for all jobs for Union ‘graduation’, from beginner to near-expert years running. News. in SOUND GROUP money matters, is very easily achieved. Just call at the nearest branch of Westminster Bank and DO YOU WANT YOUR IDEAS HEARD ? enquire about banking service for students.

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jj^ L L members of Leeds This is all very well, but Union — in many ways what exactly is NUS ? How equivalent to the annual University Union are does it work. What does it conference of most political automatically members of do? organisations. All affiliated the National Union of Put simply, it is the unions are entitled to send u representatives, however Students. The NUS has body which represents large or small their mem­ over 165,000 members in students and their inter­ ests nationally. bership. institutes of higher educa­ The Executive, respons­ tion throughout England, NUS policy is determined ible for carrying out the at the two councils held Wales and Northern decisions of Council, is every year. Council is the elected at the Easter meet­ Ireland. governing body of the ing. Exec, consists of 14 s members, of which only the President is a full-time ap­ pointm ent. His is a job covering an enormous range of activi­ ties. Not only is he respon­ sible for the day-to-day run­ ning of the Head Office in London, involving grants, travel, publicity, and the many other concerns of NUS, but he is also the Union’s spokesman both at home, and abroad at Inter­ national conferences. Delegates in the cowded assembly rooms of an The main purpose of NUS NUS Council meeting. is to represent its members ferences, Councils, festivals, among these are a Drama in matters affecting their tournaments, sells publica­ Festival, a Debates Tourna­ welfare. It attempts to tions and deals with mem­ ment, and a student jour­ achieve its aims by winning bership problems. nalist conference. public support and bringing NUS publishes an in­ pressure to bear on national creasing number of book­ Against Apartheid and local authorities. lets, as well as the only penny national newspaper— NUS is a member of ISC, Increased Grants “ Student.” an international body for In recent years the “ Student ” is a monthly student co-operation and Union has been instru­ publication, having a circu­ co-ordination. By way of mental in increasing lation of about 20,000. It this organisation, British Training College grants, contains news of student students are able to express bringing about the aboli­ affairs both at home and their support and encour­ abroad. agement for other student tion of The Pledge to bodies in various parts of Teach, as well as urging Student Tastes the world. improvement in Technical An example of this is the College conditions. Other publications in­ consistent support given to NUS Travel Department clude those on careers, the National Union of is the oldest student travel travel, an NUS song book, South African Students in service in the world. It is a guide to London, and a their struggle against the only one which is an year book. apartheid. officially recognised travel Certain events, catering agency, with its own stock for most students’ tastes, NUS is your body. of tickets. Students going are regular features on the Without you, it cannot abroad, either individually NUS calendar. Numbered continue to function. or in groups, can book their seats at station prices to anywhere in the world. Tours are arranged dur­ ing the three vacations. A Refreshing Change Those planning to take ad­ vantage of NUS cut-rate rJpHIS year’s Freshers’ Conference play, “The services can get their Inter­ Dumb Waiter,” was an excellent choice. The national Student cards dur­ ing term. These enable performance showed no signs of the haste and them to gain free entrance confusion traditionally associated with this to most museums and art occasion, rehearsed as galleries abroad. it is in a few days and worried by his situation A travel insurance sys­ and surroundings. tem whereby students can under difficult condi­ Their playing was a little insure themselves or their tions. hurried and unsure to begin luggage, at a small cost, is Adrian Yorke’s ingenious with. Once they had settled Will it all seem worthwhile also provided. and economical set per­ down, they played to each The travel service has fectly conveyed the atmo­ other with great under­ recently come under fire sphere of Pinter’s room. standing, and handled some as a result of its ineffi­ The lighting, so often the of their exchanges expertly. ciency. Concrete improve­ Achilles heel of student But it did seem that the 5 YEARS FROM NOW? ments must be made. productions, was here correct relationship be­ The only effective way to admirable. For once, one tween the two men was not At Turner & Newall we give a considerable big that the essential 'human touch' is accomplish anything, is for could believe that the room clearly established. It those with complaints to was really illuminated by should be apparent, from amount of thought to the question of a man's endangered. report them as soon as pos­ the single hanging bulb. the beginning, that Gus is dominated by Ben and that future. And our graduate training scheme is This balance is reflected in our executive sible, either to the NUS The authentic sound- Secretary or direct to NUS effects kept up the high the latter is “The Senior planned to be adaptable to his individual needs development training which, far from tying a Head Office. technical competence of the Partner ” in fact. production. Mr. Maclldowie, as I - to employ and extend his attainments to the man down to any one type of career - Not Aware The performance was have said, gives a fairly full. production, sales, administration - allows him smooth and lucid, each convincing performance of Too few people are aware development of the plot’s Ben. Naturally he is not You May Know Our Name But . . . just to time to discover his true potential. of the many concessions progress being clearly able to produce the strength that a profession­ remind you - we are not only the dominant This way, we invariably find that the graduate available to NUS members. marked. The acting was of These are many and varied. an encouragingly high al actor of, say 35, m ight asbestos group in Britain, w e also have a large assumes managerial responsibility more con­ London theatres, cinemas, standard. Douglas Mac- bring to the part. In this are art galleries offer re­ Ildowie as Ben, was faced context Mr. Wilson’s Gus and growing stake in plastics, in insulation, in fidently — and certainly earlier - than is usual duced rates, as do many with a difficult part for a is not a weak, ineffective enough character. mineral wool, and in glass fibre . . . all adding in a modern industrial complex. shops throughout Britain. student. Ideally Ben should 'Certain newspapers and be a strong, powerful man Mr. Wilson is a very up to a £100,000,000 business with some Ask your Appointments Board for further periodicals offer cheaper hardened by years of tough intelligent actor. Every subscriptions to NUS mem­ living. thing that he does on the 40,000 employees. Big enough to give a man details, or write direct to : bers. Mr. Maclldowie dealt stage is deft and confident. scope. Yet, because each of our nine British Management Appointments Adviser, Turner & Lists of concessions can with the initial problem So far, I have not men­ be obtained from NUS presented by his boyish tioned Adrian York as companies largely runs its own affairs, not so Newall Ltd., 15 Curzon Street, London, W.1. Office. good looks, by devising an Producer. This particular Perhaps the most versa­ excellent make-up and by production was well inte­ tile department is the Vaca­ finding a convincing and grated. TURNER £ NEWALL LIMITED tion Work and Events Sec­ suitable bodily shape. The production is being tion. In addition to running In contrast, Geoff Wilson remounted at the Civic TURNERS ASBESTOS CEMENT CO LTD • TURNER BROTHERS ASBESTOS CO LTD • FERODO LTD • THE WASHINGTON Theatre in a fortnight. CHEMICAL CO LTD • NEW ALLS INSULATION CO LTD • J W ROBERTS LTD * BRITISH INDUSTRIAL PLASTICS LTD Farm Camps and finding presented a sly, ferret­ ST O U T E PRODUCTS LTD • TURNERS ASBESTOS FIBRES LTD AND 15 OVERSEAS MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES jobs, it also organises Con- faced little man, constantly MIKE BRENNAN. UNION NEWS—Friday, 4th October, 1963 7

guage, is unthinkable to there is police brutality, all but an enlightened and but to inflate stories of it far-outnumbered few. Yet it would bring realisation suggests that one’s ideo­ DREAM WORLD OF THE logy needs some such of a new order so much closer. As things stand at negative wall to bang present, there is no chance against in order to be of it. Unfortunately, most effective). of those who do see what COMMITTED is needed to radically In fact, is the committed change the attitudes of the student against things fJ^HE demonstrating student is a world-wide masses have no inclination rather than for things? I to convert their knowledge stereotype. As one of Britain’s most politi- into action. This is the think so. He is selfish. His cally-conscious universities, Leeds provides a barrier between the theore­ own beliefs are too com­ ticians and the storm- fortable for him to move. better opportunity than most for an analysis and troopers. re-appraisal of student ------The more extreme, the It is the storm-troopers more comfortable. political commitment. By Our Political who must change. But they are content to stay in their Why is he committed ? Correspondent own dream-world of neatly- Ideology Should he be committed? interlocking theories. His ideology satisfies a Is he effective in his com­ Indeed they speak of mittedness ? action, action, all the time, basic psychological need people with little sense of but faced with the oppor­ for a belief—any belief That he is committed in direction. tunity for it, rarely fail to the first place, is largely (why else does he sing and due to a revolutionary What should a university mismanage and bungle it smile on a march against be? Should it remain an through unconcern with change of thought about nuclear death?). the function of the student ivory tower, or should it the consequences and in a university. One only submit to the tremendous effects of their actions. To realise this is to pressures all around it to become disillusioned with has to look at a picture of, become a passive instru­ or read the writings of, the ment of an increasingly Immaturity the ideology itself, which is Leeds students of 10 years a bad thing. Ideologies ago, to realise how far avaricious industrial and They are not really removed they are from the bureaucratic society which have changed the course of itself has lost all sense of storm-troopers at all in students of 1963. fact. The affluent British history, often to the good, purpose and direction? Are they really interested in communicating their and they will continue to To those students who student—and he is affluent Students and staff have ideas to the public? do so. took any great interest in reacted against both alter­ compared with most of the politics in 1953, it seemed natives. To avoid the new world’s other students, The committed student only a stimulating hobby, threat, the old order must despise both the old univer­ way can the ordinary has much to give the world. sity ideal and the pressures person identify himself or many of whom know what a part-time affair, which be rejected. The new threat But the world won’t listen one engaged in politely, of the materialistic world. his problems with those of real physical political con­ must be fought with new the student. And it is the unless he can state his case and at the right time and weapons. And the student That is why he is com­ flict is like—reveals his place. Universities then student who creates the political immaturity by clearly, cleverly, and in the must first of all be totally mitted. He has been barrier every time. were much nearer to ivory aware of what is happen­ alienated. And it is healthy such things as often world’s language. This is towers of learning. ing to his life. He turns that he should be com­ inflated stories of police the problem. It must be away from the academic To dress like a “ bour­ Since then, the race for mitted. Society thrives in geois,” to speak his lan­ brutality (I do not deny solved. expansion and technologi­ environment to face “ real proportion to the number cal development has bowled life ’* outside the university. of differing opinions at play over the stately old gentle­ He becomes aware of in it. men, and sufficiently certain injustices in “ real But there are serious shattered the university life ” and embraces ideo­ frustrations and problems ideal to produce a con­ logies in an attempt to for the adherent of any > fused, amorphous mass of right them. His ideologies ideology. For the student £ adherent, they are much greater. & h In the first place, the / GOOD AND BAD public is against him for i trying to “ interfere ” in X> their everyday life. Since fit* By JEREMY HAW THORN he is young and passionate, > I N a blaze of glory, educational institutions of he is “ not old enough to <0 1 this country are able to know what it was like in flour and toilet rolls, produce people who are the War,” for example. He my unlamented depar­ really fit for a University is also a bit too clever. ture from the honoured education. Hence the dismal failure However, Debates do of all his attempts to rouse f t chair of Debates seem to have improved in the common people. reporting has at last the last year, unless it is -d materialised. just that one grows accus­ Tragedy tomed, as the saying goes, Ay My successor, God help to mediocrity. The text-books say the him, will be chosen in strict There are good speakers workers are the torch- S' accordance with preced­ in the Union, and when bearers who will lead the ence. Applications should they bother to turn up and way to Utopia. But so far, be made directly to me speak then Debates can they have not surprisingly b * accompanied by a blank well merit the attendance displayed, if not a hostile cheque or similar proof of of those who only come dislike, at least a firm ability. along to listen. rejection of their pre­ Let it not be said that determined role. democracy has not been The tragedy is, th a t for done—in the best traditions Peculiar all his awareness of of all that England and As it is, and as I have society’s problems, the St. George were seen to found out, prolonged committed student does stand for in the Riley attendance at Debates has not realise his own failings. Smith on Sunday. a peculiar effect on one. I The CND member still dog­ Debates in this Union at rather feel that anyone gedly distributes leaflets at least, represent both the who does manage to enjoy the factory gate to impas­ best and the worst of Debates consistently has a sive men, and the anti­ Union life. On the one side somewhat masochistic apartheid supporter still we have the brainless nature, if not a positive marches in brave little pro­ barrack room mentality of tendency towards lunacy. cessions through the centre the intellectually sterile A year ago I had some of Leeds, only to be spat I BEG YOUR HUMBLE PARDON BUT I HAVE MY JOB TO DO student, who not only finds positive suggestions to on and jeered at by a that he can shout at least make, but now I am hostile public. And he By working as "Pushers” at tube stations, Japanese students can earn as loud as anyone else, but utterly beaten, and as I seems perfectly satisfied also that his lungs can slink back to respectability, with the situation: “ One extra money. This drastic solution to the rush-hour crush would never operate quite successfully defeat has to be conceded day they’ll see we were do in England but population pressures do affect our daily lives, often without the use of any to mammon, in the shape right.” mental effort. of the eternal imbecility of on the most personal level. And at this level a thorough knowledge of the Freshers Debate. A fit­ family planning can contribute immeasurably to well being and ting end you might perhaps Impotent future happiness. Everything relevant to this important subject, M inority think — the inevitable What's the use of that? On the other side it must triumph of the Philistine. The truth is that he is not including details of the latest developments in family planning, is be admitted that the con­ Finally, I should like to the slightest bit interested fully discussed in the booklet, "Modern Family Planning”. Send for structive side of Debates apologise to all those in the problem of communi­ goes beyond the adolescent people that I have unjustly cating his ideas to the your free copy. idealism which is suggested maligned in the past two public. His ideology, which ------1 by those who dislike the terms. After all, in the teaches that compromise is To: Family Counsel Publications, 12 Oval Rd., London, NW1 implications of a vocal Valley of the Blind the one- immoral, thereby renders Please send me a free copy of ‘ Modern Family Planning’. I am student body. eyed man is King, and itself impotent. He wants Unfortunately those standards are meant to be the masses to join him, but married or about to be married. people who are prepared to comparative only on a local he doesn’t want to join use the advantages of the level. them. Modern NAME... Debating chamber in a Who knows, there might family constructive manner are in be an embryo genius of His bizarre appearance, plan ni hl? ADDRESS.. a minority. They will rhetoric in our midst. And and his language (especi­ remain in a minority, it there again, there might ally if he is a Marxist) .58/s seems, until the secondary not. isolate him at once. In no a UNION NEWS—Friday, 4th October, 1963

A s every summer, Theatre Group took a play on tour to an international drama festival this summer. After a week’s run of a double bill at the York Festival, they took a partial revival of their production of Machiavelli’s “ The Mandrake” to the International Student Theatre Union festival, at Erlangen in Germany. The Group first presented this play in the Union eighteen months ago.

The highlight of the festival was the pro­ duction by Neue Buhne Frankfurt of “ The Peace ” by Aristophanes. This amateur production, done in the Brechtian style with passages from Brecht inserted in the text, was better received than the recitation by a troupe from the Berliner Ensemble (the only professionals attending) itself.

On the left, the masked Goddess of Peace shows the Dove of Peace to the world, after being rescued from the abyss into which she had been thrust with her two handmaidens, by the God of W ar.

W hat made Erlangen particularly interesting, was to compare an essentially English production of an essentially English transla­ tion of an Italian play, with the same play as seen by an Italian group. The Italians decried the English production as alien to the spirit of Machiavelli’s writing— it lacked the rosy glow of Italian ardour. When the curtain went up on their version, the stage was immediately bathed in an amber light, that remained on almost throughout the performance. The rosy glow of Italian ardour? Possibly not, but their produc­ tion seemed about as full of life and ideas as this. The songs between the acts, which contain some of the most biting comment in the whole play, were played as pastoral. The producer went as far as to say, that he actually wanted to have nymphs and shepherds on stage, but was unable to do this. He had to be content with three shepherds, singing sweetly to soft instruments. They took the whole thing too seriously. Their production was altogether too exactingly carefree and light, albeit truer to Machiavelli’s own ideas of production than Leeds’s. Instead of offering us a living watershed of European drama (for the play marks the division of the “ Roman ” and “ Modern ” styles of writing), the Italians offered a somewhat faded exhibit from a museum, and jerked it about to give it some semblance of life, no matter how remote. Two groups from Yugoslavia appeared at the In complete contrast, the English “ Mandrake ” was full of a festival. That from Belgrade performed three folk-tale boundless, bouncing joie de vivre. Unfortunately, this production dramas, in the manner of the silent comedies. The text often stretched its material to barely unjustifiable limits. was cut ruthlessly, actions being substituted for words The producer (Noel W itts, this and the previous time) took the ideas and business in the first presentation, as a jumping off wherever possible. point. He almost seemed to assume that the audience were Here, the anonymous woman waits for her lover thoroughly conversant with its method of attack, and attempted to give them something more. to arrive. The theme of the eternal triangle was To develop secondary avenues of thought, as if at a second expanded to the eternal quadrangle in this, the second reading we were toying with the play. He seemed to be holding of the plays. The wife is waiting for her lover at the it up to the light in all directions, to see what appears to be there same spot as the husband waits for his mistress— in a through half-closed eyes. cafe.

Probably the most theatrically interesting of the other plays (23 in nine days) were the two experimental pieces by Koln Theatrewissenchaft group, both written by students of the academy, and one produced by the author. Both were ill received by sections of the audience, though probably more because of faults in Pictures their construction than for their content. In fact it was difficult to tie down exactly what By either was about. The author of the second (Die Bohne), pictured left, described it as being intended to Renata show the Theatre of the Absurd as being absurd.” On V. the surface, it was about psychoanalytic beans that could make automatic responses to commands given Mangold by the professor (centre). In the traumatic climax, the play was somewhat Pinterian, but without the carefully normal introduction. This was the main construction fault— the play was pitched too high from the start.

Best-selling review Edited by John Fn Have you seen this week’s New Statesman? Fridays, one jrjm shilling UNION NEWS—Friday, 4th October, 1963 9 LEEDS UNIVERSITY-1975

Policy Decisions Work to start “The 1960 report proposed that three thousand “ Although there is, as yet, no evidence actually students should be housed within the main Uni­ visible on the ground of the future developments versity Precinct, and this has been accepted as a forecast in the I960 report, many decisions of matter of policy. . . . A deputation visited various great importance have been taken, which, if acted on new project Continental countries to study the problem of upon, will make it possible to bring about the living accommodation. Already, some ideas which realisation of those parts of the development plan they reported on have found acceptance to the proposals which the University wishes to see extent of being incorporated in the designs of the implemented.” this year residential buildings soon to be erected ” Preface to the Development Plan Review Preface to the Development Plan Review By PAT FERGUSON

JT is unlikely that many and it announces that the be built between the Riley- Further plans to bring the New Senior Common convert an old university the accommodation up to students now at the first work will start in the Architect, and Doctor Room is now built at the into a new one is very laud­ autum n. Belton, visited Universities the 3,000 figure will include bottom of what is now able and the project is University will still be Of the 7,000 students in Scandinavia, Germany, a residential area of halls Mount Preston. obviously worth carrying here in 12 years time, at proposed for 1970 and France and Italy and in of different sizes with their As Woodhouse Lane will out one thing is puzzling. least, not as students. In after, 3,000 will live in the their report brought the own catering arrange­ be classified as an urban Why is the future number 1975 the undergraduates University site. This is continental student house ments. This will be sited motorway there will be no of students to be only considered one of the most idea. Each group of study in an area surrounded by direct entrance from it to 7.000 ? This is less than of Leeds will live in sur­ important parts of the plan bedrooms is self-contained University Road, The the University. From the 2.000 more than there are roundings vastly different and the work starting in with its own “ common Union, the Hostel of the City Centre the main at present at Leeds and all from those of the present the next two years will be room ” or parlour which is Resurrection and Claren­ entrance will be up Calver- statistics show that more time. The university will on residential buildings. used for meeting, cooking, don Road. It will be linked ley Street from where a and more university places eating. This parlour takes with the already completed submerged road will take will be needed. Other uni­ extend over an area more the place of the Dining and Albert Mansbridge college vehicles to the Parkinson versities will grow but than twice as large as the Common Rooms in Halls of in Clarendon Road. and across to emerge in Leeds will eventually present site. Residence. The Henry Price Clarendon Road. Pedes­ become static. The old The first of these is the Building, which, when com­ trians and motor vehicles story of the annual lodg­ The boundaries of Wood- Henry Price building, a pleted will house 690 will be strictly segregated ings crisis could continue house Moor, Clarendon block of small flat-units, students, is modelled on everywhere. even at the best designed Hoad, Leeds Infirmary, the Many of the landmarks with eight or nine rooms this. of the present university While the decision to University of the future. Technical College, and grouped round a com­ Woodhouse Lane will will disappear. All the munal cooking-" parlour.” departments in Cavendish enclose the new precinct. This will be built on the Except for two sunken Road, including Sociology, Reservoir Street car park Russian, Economics and Delegates tour slums access roads for vehicles, and although this will be the whole area will be a The other residential Student Health will be DISAPPOINTMENT at the response from pedestrians-only zone. closed while the building is project, the Charles Morris moved elsewhere. The being constructed, it is Hall, to be started next buildings between the Arts British universities is contained in the final intended to provide park­ year, will occupy a site in Block and the Brotherton report of the European Seminar held at Boding- ing space underneath the the Virginia Road-Mount will be demolished leaving finished block. Part of the Preston area. It is the first the Great Hall standing ton last Easter. European Society played a big Henry Price building will mixed hall of residence and alone. part in organizing the conference. These plans for the be open to house 216 will have two men’s blocks Woodhouse Cemetery redevelopment of the The Seminar was at­ students next October. An and one women’s block, will become a University tended by more than 100 comments on the city University are a result of early start was facilitated initially of 80 units each houses: “ Some of these the design and report first Garden, between the Henry delegates of seventeen by the fact that there was with married quarters for Price building and the houses date back to the published in 1960. The no site clearing to be done. nationalities, representing Chamberlin Plan. The the warden of each unit Parkinson building and the thirty-six universities in 1780’s and contain two Early last year a deputa­ nearby. Common Rooms re-routing of Woodhouse eleven countries. rooms only, with extremely first supplement to this has tion consisting of the and dining rooms will be in primitive and limited sani­ been published this year Lane will leave another Twelve British universi­ Bursar, the Resident a central block. open space where Blenheim ties and colleges were re­ tary arrangements. In these Terrace now stands. It is presented. areas, gardens are un­ intended to use a small “ This is no mean known, and washing is Reviewed by part of this for a Vice- achievement, and for mere hung across the street M. F. Bull Chancellor’s Lodge. breadth of representation, simply because there is no­ Next Week's The extensions to the the Seminar can be where else.” i Union, for which the acknowledged as holding an Mention is also made of Films finances are now being important position in the the fact that the Leeds- I negotiated with the Univer­ European university field,” Bradford area has the sity Grants Committee, will the report states. “ highest incidence of bron­ Q^HIS WEEK I’m afraid I have only four reviews thing the Plaza has shown Smith Hall and University Dealing with the tour chitis in the world,” and of for some time and you Road. University House made by delegates of Leeds Harrogate, where “ many of for you, but cinema booking deadlines and should see it while you can. ‘Union News’ deadlines are occasionally out of will also become available slums and the surrounding the businessmen from Leeds TATLER for Union purposes when countryside, the report and Bradford live.” cycle. This, unfortunately, is one of those weeks. Freaks (Director Tod However, what little Browning, with Wallace space this allows me I ing and adequate films of Ford). For thirty-one years crisis. 80,000 Suspects is this film has been victim would like to use in one such effort concerned AT YOUR LOCAL CINEMAS telling you of Bradford of a censor’s ban. As a with a town’s reaction to result many people will be Civic Playhouse. a smallpox epidemic, and going to see it for all the This small cinema shows although it is one of his wrong reasons. They’ll get CARLTON COTTAGE Rd. CAPITOL better works I cannot their horror and their CARLTON HILL, Leeds 2 HEADINGLEY, Leeds 6 MEANWOOD, Leeds 6 consistently good pro­ really commit myself to grammes and, on produc­ macabre laughter, but if Circle 2/3 Stalls 1/9 Circle 3/- Stalls 2/- Circle 2/6 Stalls 1/9 tion of your Union card, advice. There are at least they have any sensibilties Bus Nos. 1, 30, 33, 36, 56 Bus Nos. 1, 30, 33, 36 to Bus Nos. 8, 32, 44, 45, 52, S3 two more impressive films Headingley Depot Stop to Mean wood you can get in for the on this week. at all (something which I to Fenton Street Stop reduced price of two sometimes seriously doubt) Sunday, Oct. 6— 1 Day shillings (except on Satur­ PLAZA they’ll get something they Sunday Oct. 6— 4 Days day nights). They adver­ didn't really bargain for. BEN JOHNSON Sunday, Oct. 6— tise in the evening papers, Mondo Cane (Director They’ll find a film which, FORT BOWIE © HOW ARD KEEL in but failing this there pro­ Gualtiero Jacopetti). The although it has something gramme can usually be title means “A Dog’s Life,” of M.G.M. commercialism, Also A TERRIBLE BEAUTY FOR SEVEN DAYS THE DAY OF THE found in the glass case and if the thirty or so epi­ is filled with sympathy and © opposite the p o rter’s office sodes presented in this indeed respect for the TRIFFIDS ® Monday, Oct. 7— 3 Days or on Film Society board. documentary are anything freaks who are its subject. Sophia Loren Also Stewart Granger Next week they are to go by it certainly is. It This is like a Bunuel of CLIFF ROBERTSON showing Michael Cacoyan- is a sort of enlarged The far greater understanding THE LEGION’S LAST nis’ Electra, and I can Savage Eye which, instead and far less crudity than P.T. 109 © Anita Ekberg PATROL ® thoroughly recommend the of travelling round the that of Viridiana etc., and Also trip. This brilliantly photo­ U.S.A., takes in most of I respectfully suggest that THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW Romy Schneider Thursday, Oct. 10— 3 Days graphed, directed and acted the world. Each lovingly anyone who is interested in © film had a long and suc­ photographed episode, from film or humanity should go TOMMY STEELE cessful run in London and the effects of atomic radia­ to see this film; NOBODY Thursday, Oct. 10— 3 Days is as good as anything tion on animals on Bikini can afford to miss it. CHARLIE DRAKE BOCCACIO' IT’S ALL you’re likely to get in the to Malaysian fishermen HAPPENING ® Yorkshire vacuum for a stuffing sea-anemones down TOWER THE 70 long time. Complete pro­ a shark’s throat, is just Summer Magic (Director CRACKSMAN © Colour © grammes start at 7-15 p.m., horrifying enough to make James Nielson, with Colour ® Also Brian Rix in Hayley Mills and Burl Also Philip Carey and the 6-35 train gets you you sit up and take notice, BLACK GOLD @ NOTHING BARRED © there just in time. while all thirty produce a Ives). This is a good bet kind of numbing effect. for those of you with child­ MAJESTIC Unfortunately it suffers ren old enough to visit the ★ SpecLal Ballroom Adrmssion Price Concessions to Students ^ 80,000 Suspects (Director from the same fault as The cinema. It’s also a good bet SEE UN IO N CONCESSIONS LIST Val Guest, with Claire Savage Eye, a lack of any for fans of Hayley Mills. CAPITOL BALLROOM, ASTORIA BALLROOM, Bloom). Val Guest is a definitive attitude and an For anybody else it is MEANWOOD ROUNDHAY ROAD ■ reasonably efficient direc­ impression of total nihil­ sheer, unadulterated rub­ Every Saturday from 7-45 p.m. Every Saturday from 7-45 p.m. ■ tor given to making hold­ ism. Nevertheless, the best bish. Disney can do better. I 10 UNION NEWS—Friday, 4th October, 1963 Only thirty Competitors at World Student Games, but... BRITAIN TAKES 12 MEDALS RUGBY Morale praised Early start to season Old firm gives By THE SPORTS EDITOR Join the confidence JN spite of the cool reception which the British news-hound for soccer players W INNERS of the Christie Universities Sports Federation (B.U.S.F.) ^FT E R last season’s rather disappointing results " * Shield and semi- ranks the Soccer team has made a determined and finalists in the U.A.U. received when it was formed last year, the World early start to the season. Championships last season, University Games at A week before the Rugby Club are con­ A R E you interested in fident of greater success this Porto Alegre, Brazil, the last event of all, the the beginning of season. 4 x 400 metres relay. term, under an FA. were a success for Only the poor accommoda­ sport? If the answer coaching scheme, With a large number of tion, poor transport facilities is yes have you ever several members last year’s players return­ Britain. and a bad, slow track, com­ started trai n i n g. ing, along with many pleted only on the morning considered yourself as Jackie Charlton, promising freshmen it is Apart from the successes of the first events along Leeds United centre hoped that most, if not all, of gold medallists Peter with an organisation that a sports writer? half agreed to of the six rugby teams will Jacobs, Adrian Metcalfe, can only be called impro­ coach the fourteen be successful. To date well John Whetton and the 4 x There is nothing to reporting vised and frantic, detracted live sport — it is simply a or so players who over 150 people have signed 400 m etres relay team , and were contacted from the overall success of matter of describing what on for this club. supporting cast of Mike the Games. Nevertheless during the vacation Lindsay, Mike Hegan, Britain can be proud of her you saw. If you are in any and who will form Richard Steans, John performance. team then you could be the the nucleus of the ATHLETICS Boulter, Sue Dennier, Joy person on the spot when a team. Catling and Ron Hill, the story develops. After w arm ing greatest thing was the BOXING up, Charlton put the British team spirit. Foreign If you are going to watch a Swedish tour University game or are players through officials praised the morale Captain may return details of match of our representatives. playing in one, then why situations, free- win not enquire if we are cover­ to fight kicks, corners, and \ N exhausting trip to W orthwhile ing the story, and, if not, so on, putting T AST year’s boxing club whether you could do it? It emphasis on defen­ Sweden by members of Britain’s successes, some Jackie Charlton the cross-country and captain, Ronnie Griffith, is only with such co-opera­ sive marking as hoped for, and others out of will most likely be compet­ tion that we can hope to well as on different attack- Further co-operation from athletic clubs, along with the blue, made everything members from Leicester and ing against his old team present a complete picture ing movements and it is to Leeds United is shown by a worth while and the final during the forthcoming be hoped that results will practice match to be played Exeter University, was made medal tally of four gold, six of the week’s sporting successful by an overpower­ session. events. be reaped from this scheme, at Elland Road on Sunday. silver and three bronze put Having gained a degree in ing win against Karlstad B ritain fifth of the 33 com­ Athletic Club. economics last June at And don’t forget that any peting nations. Leeds he has moved to person on a job for Union Apart from the pole This was with only thirty Loughborough Colleges for a News is entitled to claim vault, every event was won competitors, for at £250 per expenses for travel to and and performances were quite twelve months diploma in from the match and for any head, the B.U.S.F. could not education course. telephone calls, etc. good. The local club was afford to send more, whilst very co-operative and put the 80-strong team from Spare a thought for those the track and equipment, Russia and the 70-strong JUDO along with a fibre-glass pole, Hungarian team were at the party’s disposal. State-sponsored. The teams who will never get a of France and Germany (60 each) had one-third of their Narrow defeat in ATHLETICS expenses paid by their proper meal in governments. Metcalfe’s two wonderful British finals International 400-metre runs brought him their lives two gold medals and there Jj]NGLISH Universities’ champions, but narrowly wag no man there who signs on looked remotely capable of defeated in the British finals by bad luck and \ MONG the many freshers beating him. Glasgow—that’s the Judo Club. joining the Athletics The Judo Club is now Club is an Indian student of Determination Spare a penny for some distinction. faced with an extensive Dinshaw R. Irani, 24, was The excitement on the Freshers’ training pro­ STOP PRESS National Champion and last day when John Whetton gramme plus the difficult second in the shot-putt in came through against all task of preparing at short Lyddon Church, where the odds and forecasting to many Union societies WAR ON WANT the Asian Games of last notice for the Northern year. He is here on a post­ win the 1,500 metres will store equipment — is to Area Team eliminations. be demolished in the grad course in metallurgy long be remembered as will next few weeks. All from Poona University and the determination and The team which reached societies using the in addition to the shot he courage that took Peter the national finals spent a church will have to does discus and weight­ Jacobs through 12 hours of week in Paris sponsored by leave by October 31st. lifting. As well as the Asian battle for the epic title and the Union. I t w as a “ hard ” The demolition, which Games he has competed in Britain’s gold (thanks to trip, opponents including is part of the develop­ international matches in Menzies Campbell, Steane, Pariset and other inter­ ment plan, will affect Germany. Boulter and Metcalfe) in such societies as Sailing national stars. Club, Theatre Group and Despite unfortunate losses Rag. Keen, hardworking “ f l HE GUISELEY SCHOOL OF MOTORING,” caused by exams, and termination of courses, the Club still has two second The duplicator in the imaginative ? Then join 15, Ings Lane, Guiseley, N r. Leeds. Dans, two First Dans, and post-grad, room is now numerous middle - Kyu locked — a blow to sev­ Qualified Instructor— grades. eral societies which relied on it for their K. G. HUDSON, M.I.A.M., C.A.M.D.A. printing needs. UNION NEW S' All Students 15/- per hour Expert Tuition Pick-up Service It is believed that today at a meeting in W rite or Phone Guiseley 4382 information contained in the new Union Diary about room bookings COMMITTEE ROOM C may be subject to GO TO change, as the new rules have not been passed by Union Committee. at 1-15 p.m. (better, speak at)

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