Nger As LUU Sports Clubs Declare UDI
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LEEDS • 'Leeds Student comics special INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER starts page 9, ounkll• nger as LUU sports clubs declare UDI In a shock unilateral declaration of independence. LU I s sports clubs decided at the last General Athletics Committee meeting to form the University of Leeds Athletic Union. LUU General Secretary Ger- maine Varney has condemned the move as "saddening, divisive, and • Your gonna gel yours! LUUs Austen Garth and Germaine Varney amid the flour and water chaos that was Wednesday's pandering to the government in the campaign against student Action Sedan Race The frolics raised f140 in donations unions." The result of the proposal cent behind the proposals. he would be sports clubs opting 111.1i concluded: -1 realise the biggest of LUl l and establishing a sep- stuntbling block will be calls for Hunt Sabs to be expelled arate emit\ , possibly !lased in a united front, but quite trankts the NI)! s centre, with its own sportsmen just want to set on financial and administiati‘e and play sport and don't give a contb-11 damn about student po- after 'week of chaos?' liticking." Varney denied the University At least four Hunt Saboteurs could face expulsion from the Report by Assistant Registrar Dr David Martyrs Ziegler was on either side, and attacked University following a week of chaos in the Lake District during the Brooks confirmed this week that the unwillingness of the or- Easter vacation. the University were taking a ganisers to discuss the pro- Angry residents of Seathwaile, in the Duddon Valley, have "very serious" view on the all- fain Shaw, LUU Rugby Club posals: "Nobody has consulted accused the hunt subs of wrecking two cars parked outside a local eged incidents. The four Captain, whose brainchild it me. The sports budget has nel, er pub. students were interviewed on was, had been planning the been pinned down. The whole But the Sabs claim they were to have used the Hut during the Tuesday and more could face move for some time "ft has problem is a lack of communica- attacked by a mob of 15 regulars week. It is supposed to hold no questioning at a later date. been in my mind for the last tion. and the best e'. as to cam- from the Newfield Arms. more than 30. These were al- "We're ruling out nothing at three years." he explained. "I paign against the government is A report. on several inci- most certainly not all students. this stage." he told Leeds found out that Manchester has to work together." dents, is at present heing pre- But it is the incident at the Student. "in extreme it could had an Athletics Union for the "If it is all based around things pared by Deputy Registrar Da- Newfield Arms that could prove mean students will he asked to last 50 years. and based the such as the defacing of the vid Birehall for the attention of to be the most costly for the leave the University." constitution on theirs.- notice. then it really is sad." she Sir Edward Parkes. the Univer- Saboteurs. Local residents are A University spokesman. When questioned about his concluded. sity Vice-Chancellor. It is ex- reported to he 'furious' at sug- who did not wish to he named, motives. Shaw admitted they Sports clubs were generally in pected to be completed next gestions that they attacked three admitted that following the inci- were both personal and a desire favour of the idea. although at month, and could involve ser- Hunt Subs and have claimed the dent. the ersity's name "Is to protect student sport: "I can't the hockey club's AGM, the ious disciplinary charges being whole story to be a 'pack of lies'. like mud" up in the Lake Dis- stand politics getting involved majority voted against it. Leeds brought against the un-named They claim to have four wit- trict. with sport," he told George Acquaah. parachute individuals. nesses to the incident on the And a University member of Student. "Political factions tend club captain. echoed Shaw: "It The investigation centres on evening of April 11) where two staff was forced to take the un- to distort the facts. and petty is purely for financial reasons, the visit by the Hunt Sabs to the parked cars were rammed by a heard of step of visiting all the things in the past have annoyed we want to subsidise and have University Moutain Hut at Dale yellow transit van belonging to farmers in the area in an attempt me" - referring specifically to control over our dubs.- Head. in the Duddon the Hunt Subs, to calm them down. the incident when the rugby club between April 3 and April 10. Police have confirmed that "They have put our position was censured in the Union Nick Edwards. volleyball cap- During what Chris Bishop. they are investigating the inci- in the Duddon Valley in severe Council for defacing a poster tain. was not so sure: "It seems spokesman for the Hunt Sabo- dent. jeopardy - we could lose our with allegedb, anu-semitic graf- as though they are trying to get it teurs Association. called "a A local National Trust war- lease through these bunch of titti. through quickly and worry most successful week", several den was reported to have been idiots. l-k said his over-riding con- about the details later. There Lake District hunts were pre- nearly forced off the road by the As to the future of the Hunt cern was to protect clubs if Un- were a few things in the constitu- vented from going ahead. van racing up the Valley from Sab Society, LUU Exec mem- ion income is cut by the govern- tion I didn't like." But Leeds Student under- the pub. He followed it back to ber Tony Austen confirmed that ment proposals of voluntary The next stage is if the sup- stands that the University is the but at Dale Head. no action would he taken until student union membership. lie porters of the at union investigating claims that. during The opinions of local resi- the findings of the report he- added that an independent ath- collect 400 signatures and call a the week, several local residents dents on the Hunt Sabs have came known. letics union would he more special constitutional general were intimidated by the Hunt been undisguised. In a local Members of the Hunt Sab likely to attract sponsorship, meeting tow aids the end of Saks, Mountain Hut regulations newspaper report. one irate vil- Society could not he contacted and could protect all clubs, how- term. It the proposals are passed arc also helieved to have been lager branded the Saboteurs as fur comment. ever small_ in that. then October 198V will scri4iusly flouted. "the smelliest, most evil piece of Emphasising that the clubs sec a completely reformed Over 60 people are believed rubbish imaginable." Neil Amos and the 'nivcrsity was WO per ARTS SQUARE ONE MUSIC PLUS SPECIAL CONDOM TARBY CONFESSIONS MI 151 OF AN FILE INSIDE ELECTION OFFER COUNTER MADNESS Page 2 NEWS SASF Megablast Last term's SASF benefit gig at LUU, in playing. But these and other problems which over 100 bands took part in a 24 were overcome, and the gig generally hour, four-venue event, raised almost ran smoothly according to Exec. exactly £4,500 for •Education for Li- Since then, the promoters (the Mag- beration'. nificent Seven, plus Tony Austen) have However. £700 worth of equipment been able to replace most of the losses was lost or damaged during the day. and with secondhand equipment, leaving the there was panic among organisers early final bill at 090. on when it seemed that these losses would prevent subsequent hands from Karen Thornton Hey, Mr Pharmacist! Financial Affairs Secretary, Tony Au- wool buds and corn plasters. stin, has revealed plans by the Union to Other new additions to the University locate a chemists on University campus Union for next year include the intro- by the beginning of the coming academic duction of foreign language type- year. writers, which will he available in the The proposal has been submitted to print room for all those students wishing the University who arc described as to type in Arabic and Hebrew. being 'very encouraging'. There are also plans underway to Enquiries have already been made introduce a new free journal. The 'Pink from several chemists who would oper- newspaper. aimed at the gay cOmmun- ate the store, on a franchise basis, on a ity, and which is to he distributed from site to be situated next to the Union's the Union. opticians. The new store will dispense prescriptions as well as the usual cotton J. UnderhiU Action man! Rag time Nestling in Meanwood Park is a large hospital for people labelled 'mentally handicapped'. Its site, well away from Despite a very low-key rag this year —yes the town, was no coincidence to the town it did happen — Leeds Polytechnic have planners of the day. nevertheless managed to scrape together Now that 'care in the community' has about £7,000 plus a few foreign coins, for many and diverse reasons become for charity, without any help From Uni- accepted Government policy the hospit- versity students. al has thinned down to a third of its I.00 people. Throughout the year, Poly students Yet adjusting to any valuable com- managed to find time to get hypnotised, munity living is not always straightfor- tie each other together and drink a lot, ward to people who have lived up to 7(1 hitch to Paris, dress up as assorted fluffy years in an institution.