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Women's GM-MoreRhetoric Self­ As usual, last Thurs­ suggested that Union trading day's General Meeting profits be an alternative source of was a blend of the serious maintenance income. Mr Smith defence requested that the proposed and the not-so-serious. resolutions for the GM therefore Ken Murray injected be taken separately. some humour into. the Mark Reeves, seconder for the Classes motion, was unconvincing in his proceedings at a very insistence that financial support early stage with his for the nursery could be obtained question to the Union from the "composite fee fund". In response to the recent attacks The GM was, therefore, confu;;ed o n the Meadows and the general President (in Office­ by the information being~ put increase in violence, women's self­ Bearers' Question Time) before it. It was admitted that the defence classes are once again concerning the sale of Day Nursery was outwith what being set up. Organised by the whale from El Salvador in UGC policy permitted the Welfare Committee and Women's composite fee to be used for but Group, a se ries of 10 weekly Union shops. the proposers of the motion stated sessions will take place on Following office-bearers' cases where this policy had been Wednesday evenings in Teviot question time there was a report to blatantly ignored. The GM, after a Row Debating Hall. the General Meeting from the slip-up by Mark Kennedy, finally Although the self-defence recently formed Anti-Cuts resolved to take the resolutions classes, which were started at the Committee, informing students of separately. The first resolution David Robertson end of the last academic year, its current activities. Then, as concerning general opposition to political ends, and not for the good general unrest among the Polish collapsed, it is hoped that this time there were no objections to the closure of the Day Nursery and of stu·dents. Julian Gun due to living conditions, rather the response will be better. constitutional amendments, the to support any actioo in relation to Cunninghame, perhaps not sur­ than the correct description of the Classes will accommodate 25 GM proceeded quietly to the first this was passed overwhelmingly, prisingly, didn't share Robert­ state. The motion, however, was women and will be taught by a motion. but the second resolution was not son's opinion of SWSO's motives eventuall y passed with no male private instructor. The enrol­ It seemed that this motion was to so readily accepted by the GM. and claimed that SWSO cared amendments. ment fee is £6 each, but the SRC be dealt with in the same manner The llOte, when finally taken, "pass ionately" about cuts. The final motion, concerning are donating £250 towards the as it had been approached. No resulted in 103 for the motion, 36 Richard Smith contributed once opposition to militarism and al l its project by paying the weekly fee of direct negative was offered to this against and 46 abstentions. again to the GM in a useful and manifestations, accepted amend­ £1 per person. If there is sufficient motion proposed by Julian SWSO members Alistair Walker humorous manner in his opposi­ ments concerning the OTC's demand, another course will be Goodare, hence it was quickly and Eileen McAndrew proposeo tion to the motion. It was··'plain activities at university quite easily. I organised at a later date for those passed by the GM. Basically, the the third motion to the GM. This bloody stupid" to think there The proposer of the direct women who could not get into the motion asked the GM to recognise emergency mo.tion epitomised the would no cuts. One of the best negative to this motion was a very class this time. political repression in many parts conflict between official SA policy speakers of the evening, Richard coherent and convincing speaker. I The actual classes -w ill start on of the world, to condemn this and in relation to cuts and the policy Smith was difficult to follow as H is argument was further 17th February but a general also to support Amnesty lnter­ adhered to by SWSO. The motion Mark Kennedy admitted before enhanced by the weak arguments information meeting was held on national's "disappearance" called for the GM to organise a summing up his direct negative. put forward by Peter Dow in Wednesday, 3rd Fe bruary, forthos campaign. As Mr Goodare himself picket of the next Court meeting The vote concerning this motion proposing the motion. The major interested. For further details, remarked, violation of. human and to adopt a general policy of No was 40 for, 135 against with 10 contention seemed to rest on the contact Pete Chapman, Welfare rights is one of the few issues Cuts. The present EUSA policy on abstentions. fact that some people saw the Convener, in the Association which people from all political this matter. as Mark Kennedy The seeming simplicity of the dismantling of the army as a Offices. beliefs can unite. pointed out, is that the EUSA motion calling for support for somewhat idealist action while Zerina Haniff Debate, up till this point, was oppose cuts in principle but that Solidarity was destroyed by others considered it totally markedly missing from the GM. cuts have to be accommodated amendments put forward by practical. Robert Jenkins pointed The second motion, however, once there is no possibility of their James Arnott and Alistair Walker out to the GM that problems do concerning the possible closure of being avoided. which resulted in a political arise when someone doesn't agree the Day Nursery, promised to be Eileen McAndrew didn't have as discussion as to what kind of state with another's pacifist stand. The A.I. · more controversial. The much faith as our Senior Poland really was. James Arnott proposer of the direct negative to controversy of this motion did not President's in the viability of felt that Poland could not be this motion influenced many due in fact take root in the considered negotiating cuts once they are termed a socialist country, to his convincing argument and validity of the Day Nursery. f!oth unavoidable. As she pointed out, whereas David Carson claimed the final voting was 116 for the Plea the proposer of the motion and the Mark Kennedy had himself that Poland had a specific kind of motion, 74 against and 27 proposer of the direct negative admitted to being disappointed socialism. abstentions. were convinced of the need to over the reception of the recent It took someone like Roddy Those who didn't attend the GM Torture. censorship, detention keep it open. The conflict arose paper on cuts presented by EUSA Manson , not particularly once again missed a very without trial exist in many nations. when Richard Smith, proposer of to the University. renowned for profound political enjoyable evening, and it is they The recent military take-over in the direct negative, put it to the GM David Robertson, speaking observations, to bring some sanity who are to blame for the fact that it Poland has resulted in the authori­ that the money for the Day against the motion, condemned back to the motion. For him the was inquorate. ties adopting a more positive Nursery could not be taken from SWSO for what he called their use situation in Poland was due to Mary Braid attitude to con control of the the "composite fee fl,!nd" and of the cuts issue for their own practical considerations, e.g. population and from official sources over 5,000 persons are now detained though the value of (unofficial reports estimate more these figures is, of course, than the 5,000 claimed by the dubious. As reported elsewhere, Iran SA expresses Polish Government have been conditions under which these detained); wheth e r Krzyst of detainees are being held are Sliwinski; Tadensz Mazowieki, grossly inadequate considering Ludwig Kohn have died in their location in Poland's frozen March disquiet over north. Senior members of Soli d arity, includin g Krzyztof Sliwinski and Ludwig Kohn, are This Saturday sees a feared executed as a result of their rally to "condemn execu­ Poland trade union membership. Out of the news for many tions, torture and repres­ Following iast week's mnoths. the hid~ously repressive sion in Iran". unanimous but inquorate government under Ayatollah The rally, being organised by General Meeting decision Khomeini continues to crush Iran SolidaritY. (Scotland), will ruthlessly any opposition to it. assemble on the Mound at 12 noon supporting Solidarity, This nation now accounts for over and is to be addressed by Ron Senior President Mark enquiry; a list of detainees and half the world's executions, estim­ Brown MP and Robin Cook MP. requests details of place of ated to be around 450 per month. The protest is intended to Kennedy has written a internment and details of release Torture and repression in Iran are publicise the current state of letter to the Poli sh rights and regard anyone detained (if any). to be the subject of a rally in human rights in Iran. The Ambassador in London .. as prisoners of conscience," it The letter concludes by stating Edinburgh this weekend. oi:ganisers claim that since 20th continues. support for an end to Martial Law, Continuing the tragic saga of Et June last year more than 8,000 express ing EU SA's Further concern is expressed at release of all prisoners. restoration Salvador, in the light of US people have been executed in Iran disquiet at the current the cold and overcrowded of a civilian government and the Government support in terms of and there are more than 30,000 .conditions in which people are introduction of full civil and limitless weapons and military political prisoners in the nation's situation in Poland. being held while "considerable democratic rights including the ··advisers'', torture. murder and prisons. Apart from this, torture is The letter states the concern felt distaste" is noted over the guarantee of a free and disappearances continue at an widespread, there are five million by EUSA that the Polish imposition of the death penalty as independent Solidarity Trade ever-increasing rate. unemployed, and Kurdistan is authorities admit to having one of the punishments provided Union. Those wishing to enquire after under economic blockade and detained 5,000 people without for under Martial Law. Finally Mr Kennedy requests 'individuals who have disappeared suffers regular bombardment charge while there have been The SP also asks the that the Polish Ambassador or to protest at the detention which has taken more than 10.000 reports that several have died Ambassador three questions. (Stefan Staniszewski) inform the without trral of others are urged to lives. while in internment. "We believe These refer to; how many people Polish authorities of Edinburgh contact Amnesty International, Ron Brown MP 1s Iran Solidarity these people are interned for have been interned since the Students' concerns. c/ o Julian Goodare, in the (Scotland) president. exercising fundamental human beginning of Martial Law Jim Lev, Students' Association Offices. Graeme Wilson THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 3

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Letters to the Editor equation of anti-Zionism with anti­ General Meeting in the hope of Never had it so good? semitism is completely false and is hearing an informative debate on put forward solely to blur the issue the crisis in Poland. The reason I of the su ffering of the Palestine submitted the motion on Poland Dear Sir. STUDENT people expelled from their rightful was to enable Edinburgh students So Fred Price reckons that The Basement, 1 Buccleuch Place. homeland. to add their vo ice to the mounting students shouldn't raise a finger in Yours, movement of protest against opposition to a policy of sinister 031-667 5718 Alastair Walker. martial law and its consequences. authoritarianism, but in fa ct In doing so the hypocrisy of some should joyfully exclaim "We've never had it so good!"' as dole Founded 1889 And again Western leaders could be condemned. So could the double queues swell with school leavers Sir, standards of some Edinburgh FCS unable to find university places, I feel that I have to reply to the students who support the right of · and courses are eradicated as are General Meeting - the shame reaction to my article on Zionism Polish students to have their own the jobs of those who teach and and clarify still further the independent self-govern i ng administrate them? distinction between anti-Zionism students' union, the NZS, while at Let's not be so gullible as to At last Thursday's poorly attended General and anti- Semitism and the the same time actively work to pretend that the Tories priority in favour of such "urgent" social Meetin g, Senior President Mark Kennedy asked how arguments against Zionism. undermine British students' There is no way that I would independent union, the NUS. necessities as nuclear missiles many members of the SAC were present. A mere attempt to minimise the suffer­ These opportunities for dis­ and "law and order", at the twenty hands were raised - and that from a council ings of the Jews, especially under cussion were all missed because expense of education and th e the Nazi regime and during the SWSO insisted on using their right social services - as Joseph which has around sixty elected members. Russian pogroms, but Zionism is to amend the motion knowing that himself so blithely pointed out on a The Association, Miq,Vfeek and Student are not the solution to anti-Semitism. this would divert discussion away "Nationwide" interview - is part of As a response to persecution in from the essence of the motion an overall strategy aimed at constantly berating the populace to attend General Russia, many Jews retaliated by into definitions of what is undermining and eventually doing Meetings, though in all honesty, it is understandable forming the Jewish Workers' socialism and what is not. That away with the post-war welfare that the majority of students do not feel the need to go League, and many others joined most students found th is dull and state, whatever the social and with Poles, Ukrainians and other uninteresting is hardly surprising. economic cost. With its demise, a along - that is a problem, for EUSA to solve. exploited minorities, to work General Meetings are not the "Brave New World" will be ushered What is not acceptable is that two-thirds of the SAC, towards bringing down the vicious place for such self-indulgences. in, with the multinationals an d the system which fostered racism. It would seem that SWSO place City of London reigning supreme who are after all elected to represent the rest of the Many of the leading revolutionary more importance on defining over a semi-educated, semi­ student population, should not honour the GM with socialists at the time, Trotsky and Poland as state capitalist than in skilled population of political eunuchs (aren't the Japanese their presence. Rosa Luxemburg among them, winning support for Solidarity, a were Jews. However, the Zionists point underlined by the fa ct that al wonderful!). cowed by mass un­ Presumably, some SAC members had good reasons viewed anti-Semitism as being least one of their members could employment. the re-emergence of for not being there, but the rest, in the words of inherent amongst Gentiles, and not even bring himself to vo te for poverty on a wide scale, and all­ exploited it in order to attract Jews the motion because the powerf ul, al l-seeing security President Kennedy deserve to be kicked hard; or to an exclusively Jewish state. It is amendment was not included. Sad forces. If students and their should do the decent thing and resign. ironic that a state set up to days indeed. teachers, supposedly among the counteract ra cism should itself be Apologies once more to all who more politically aware and active based on a racist ideology. attended and were disappointed. It sectors of the population, have Squabbling (1) namely those by Caroline Rose Caroline Rose says she is can only be hoped that the neither the guts nor the vision to and Peter Fint, made some attempt '"dubious" about my mention of diversion created has not harmed make a definite and uncom­ Dear Editor, at argument and raised some blatant discrimination and the prospect of Ed inbu rgh promising stand against the threat Whilst reading last week's poirits which have to be answered. atrocities perpetuated by the students contributing in the most to the whole fabric of our society edition of The Student, it occurred The Palestin ian population Z ionists in Israel. If I had the space effective way possible to su pport that underlies the UGC cuts, then to me that the paper has become before 1948 was about 900,000 I could quote many such examples Solidarity and for the ending of frankly they deserve to shiver in little more than a forum for the and the first Israeli census from reliable sources. It is not martial law in Poland. the denuded libraries - those of editor's personal amusement at counted 60,000 Palestinians. The widely know, for example, that in Yours sincerely, them that aren't already kicking the rather dull, predictable, question which the defenders of 1948. the lrgun, Zionist extremists David Carson. their heels on a dole queue. It is immature and potentially un­ Zionism never like to answer is, led by Begin, the present Prime time our ''representatives", democratic activities of the what happened to these people? Minister of Israel, massacred 254 Weak solidarity wi th including Mark Kennedy, who was University's more extreme The answer is quite simple. The F-alestinians in the village of Deir 'Solidarity' not elected to preside over the political activists, and, further­ Nazi holocaust in Germany gave Yassin. Even the Britis h military implementation of the cu ts but to more, for the petty intra-party an immense credence, quite administration were appalled. Dear Sir, oppose them, started to effectively squabbles of certain members. understandably, to the Zionist It is clear that the only solution Last Thursday a mere 200 protect us, and the future of Surely, if the paper is to attain any cause and the refusal of the US to any form of racism is to bring students expressed support for education in this country. from the political credibility, its focus and the European countries (many about a radical change to the Solidarity. SWSO were among whims of Whitehall bureaucrats should be on the more relevant of which had a history of anti­ system which c reates racist them. and crackpot America n econo­ activities of the more moderate, semitism) to take Jewish refugees conflict, namely the capitalist The motion was .unfortunately mists. and representative political led many Jewish people to believe system, through revolutionary badly worded. This was admitted Patrick Gun Cunninghame by the proposer's acceptance of parties. that the best alternative was to go socialism. David Vaughan. to " ... the land without people", On the question bf the PLO, the amendment to the first resolu­ namely Palestine. Many Jewish there is no way I would condone tion. By accepting only half of the Squabbling (2) immigrants were shocked to find, terrorism but it has to be realised amendment, the debate over the when they arrived, that there were that the Palestinians had no semantics of the word "socialism" Staff. .. Dear Editor, indeed a large number of alternative . F ou r million was unfortunately inevitable. I Why must there be contrived inhabitants. There was an unemployed refugees don 't stand by the arguments we gave EDITOR trivial exposes of an already alternative to pushing out the represent a pressure group in then but will not enter into them Chris Kershaw discredited political minority? Palestinians and seizing their land society - they can't go on strike. now. Furthermore, why must these un­ - that was to join the resistance Having been driven from their To say that the original motion Assistant Editors men t ion a b I es get hal f the movement, of which Tony Cliff, homeland, they had no option but was based on Solidarity's words Jim Levi newspaper in which to express the founder of the SWP, was to turn to armed struggle - but not his, and that our amendment Patricia Togneri their backbiting and immature a member, of Jewish Anti-Zionists. this can never succeed while Israel showed SWSO using the debate views? The best policy is to ignore To reply to persecution with has the military strength of for our political ends, represents News Editors them, like everybody else, and persecution was for them not the America behind it. The state of extreme arrogance on the part of Mary Braid thus confine them to their proper answer. However, what did Israel was set up by the imperialist the proposer. Would Solidarity David Harvey place. We all know they prefer happen was the forced expulsion powers of the West to maintain have su bmitted a motion to the violence (or "direct action" as they of thousands of people. Most of their hold on the wealth of the General Meeting themselves and Features Editor call it) to thinking. It is just this sort the letters were full of Middle East's oilfields. Only with a then have been stood corrected by Lindsay Macdonald of coercion to get their views condemnation of PLO "terrorism" revolutionary movement which SWSO? heard that reminds me of Hitler but no mention was made t>f the breaks down the division between In future if a proposer requires Arts David Stead and his fascist cronies in their constant attacks on Palestinian the Palestinian and Jewish unanimous support for a motion, Cinema Graham Gamble he or she should submit it for efforts to get to power. Don't listen refugee camps by the Israeli air workers, the majority of them the Popi Graeme Wilson to their bullying. force . Is the slaughter of Sephardi, will ii then be possible to discussion in these pages before Caroline Binnie an agreed motion is set before a Mandy Cole I. Marr. Palestinian women and children confront both Zionism and the What's On not terrorism? corrupt ruling classes of the Arab General Meeting. Jill Fabian Finally, I would like to ask the The reason that SWSO get so There were references to the states who have repeatedly sold Sport Keith Nunn much coverage is because they " Holy Land" as though the out the Palestinians. Only then will 9,800 absent students what was Page 94 Colin Macilwain are the ones who get off their Zionists immediately hit upon there be the possibility of crea ting more important on Thursday .Lifestyle The Firm backsides and write to us. Nutt Palestine as the place to which a democratic secu lar state In evening than adding weight to Contributors Zerina Haniff' said?- Ed. they should go. However, the Palestine with equal rights for all their Student Association 's Patrick Cunninghame Zionis ts considered Uganda, its citizens, irrespective of their support for Solidarity? When we Kay Goodall Patagonia and Syria as possible racial origin or beliefs. are oppressed in the future (i.e. lain McIntosh The Anti-Zionists hit destinations also, because they Yours sincerely, toss of our Students' Association), Frances Wood back were relatively unpopulated, EIieen McAndrew. similar to what Solidarity Is Sandy Murray Dear Editor, SWSO stand in full solidarity suffering now, we would value George Square This correspondence now Last week's Student printed six with the many Jewish anti-Zionist 1s highly a similar message of Toby Porter cfosed.-Ed. Graphics letters attacking Eileen Mc­ socialists throughout the world support from Solidarity. Kay Yours sincerely, Andrew's article on Zionism. Four and we totally condemn antI­ Photos Gavin Fulton of the letters were insults to Eileen, semitism. We were the only group GM - An apology Julian Gun Cunnlnghame. Gordon Boyd P.S.. How about a quorate SWSO and the thousands of in the University to raise the issue John Folds,s condemnat i on of nuclear Palestinians at present in refugee of the anti-semitic slogans in the Dear Editor. Neil Dalgleish library and we act1vely campaign I would like to apologise to all weapons and power at the next camps, being n othi ng but Advertising Neville Moir hysterica l abuse. Two letters, against anti-semitism . The those who attended the last GM? 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982

lnt. Salvador March Week Expose Three hundred demonstrators marched through It is under such a climate that the Edinburgh last Saturday to protest against the regime is planning to hold "fr8e elections" later this year - with all Next week is " Inter­ atrocities of the ruling Junta in El Salvador and major opposition groups national Week" but for American support for the regime. Jim Levi reports. effectively banned throuah having most students this title is not self-explanatory. Ian The march, which was planned Mac Gregor investigates to go to the US Consulate on Calton Terrace to the Mound, was in order to find out the called by the Edinburgh Latim purpose of this week and Column American Solidarity Campaign. It further details concern­ in fact started from Regent with over Terrace as the police refused ing its events. permission for people to assemble ·· international Week" is organ­ 5,000, 000 readers outside the Consulate itself ised by the Students' Association (perhaps remembering its brief and this year will be concen­ Candidate occupation last May during trating on the subject of African another El Salvador protest). 1 affai rs. An extension of the very McBroom (104) However, a three-man deputation, successfu l " International Day" of including Aon Brown. MP for last year, most of the week's events Nominations have yet to close Leith, took a statement to the will be in Teviot Row. where a for the Rectorial election, but Consul. number of speakers have been already the front runner ' s Before leaving, the demonstra­ invi ted to discuss various issues campaign is well under way. As tion was addressed by Manuel each lunchtime. revealed exclusively in last week's Bravo of the Latin American On Monday, starting what column, supporters of Union sex Solidarity Campaign who called promises to be a very full and symbol Mike McBroom planned to for an end to the El Salvador varied programme of events, Mr launch him on the road to government " systematically Stephen Maxwell (from the immortality by presenting him elminating political opponents by Scottish Education and Action for with the opportunity to answer disappearances and murder." The Development) will talk about the awkward questions at last week·s colourful march, including to produce a list of 20,000 implications of the Brandt Report General Meeting. Things could becoming increasingly serious as numerous Latin American exiles, a members before being allowed to while on Monday evening two hardly have gone better. The US military involvement increases wide array of Leftist organisations compete in elections. films on Namibia will be shown in McBroom Campaign revealed right wing "hit squads" believed t~ and Trade Union delegations, then the Pleasance. " Namibia- A Trust itself as a powerful alliance of well­ be sanctioned by the government Robert White, former US proceeded to the Mound. After a Betrayed" and "Follow the Yellow­ established political nonde­ continue to murder and refugees ambassador to El Salvador said brief talk from Ron Brown the cake Road" are the two films and scripts, Tory Ken Murray leading flock from the country. In 1981 the " It's an impossible illusion to marches then dispersed - many speak of elections while El admission is free with the with a brilliantly penetrating Junta is said to have murdered of them to a rally in Teviot Row Salvador is in the midst of a Civil programme beginning at 7 p.m. question about whale-meat 15,000 people while 300,000 Union that included speeches and War ... The representatives of the Continuing the lunchtime talks· products being sold in Union refugees fled the terror. El music. Reagan administration are still there will be a speaker from the shops and public school Trot Salvador is also under martial law, against a peaceful solution. they World Development Movement Julian Gun Cunninghame El Salvador has one of the worst whir.h i;nohibits oeaceful are for a military solution." It is discussing ·'Aid" on Tuesday, following with a request for records in the world for meetings, strictly censors the while on Wednesday Ms Jane information about the sale of government infringements' o·f against this that Europeans march media and has militarised many and the El Salvadorean people Goldsmith will examine the Polish imports. Thus prompted, human riohts and the situation is factories and work places. fi ht. subject of "Women and Develop­ McBroom was able to display his ment". Following up Monday dazzling ability by saying in the be seen as a direct answer to the Peter Blaker and Is Intenaea to evening's films, Mr Tony Dynkes most authoritative way imagin­ 'The War Game'. the anti-nuclear help persuade the public to accept will be presenting his view on able that he did not know. war documentary banned by the Trident and Cruise missles rather "Namibia", again in Teviot Row at MoD 1 p.m. BBC in the 60's, and is expected to than the "over-simplified" appeal Candidate Fspart be launched in the spring. of unilaterialism. Laurence O ' Donnell , the Much as the University The MoO point out, however of unilateralism. External Affairs convener for the authorities might wish that all Film that their film will not take the It is hoped that the film will be SAC, who is organising the week's candidates for the position of same dramatic view as did The shown to debating societies, activities, said that he hoped that In an attempt to counter the Rector were as able and respect­ War Game", and they see it as environmental groups, and in " International Week " would in.creasing popularity for CND, the able as Mr McBroom, it is certain more as "pro-deterence". rather particular, protest organisations. engender more interest and Ministry of Defence has produced that groups on the political fringe, than anti-CND. The Ministry also hope to have it act i vity among students a film explaining the official policy such as the Social Democrats, will The film is something of a distributed through the cinema concerning Third World and on nuc lear deterence.. attempt to use the contest as an personal initiative by the Ministe1 circuit, a privilege never allow to especially African affairs. He opportunity to pursue their own The film, it is acknowledged, will of State for the Armed Forces, Mr 'The War Game'. suggested that an " Anti-Apartheid minority obsessions. Candidates Society" should be set up, and supported by such disreputable Evonne Strachan·s Friday lunch­ gangs of fanatics have no chance ti me speech on ·· Apartheid" of being elected, of course, but should raise some interesting they do disrupt the real contest points on this topic. Coping With Careers between .. serious·· candidates. At It is hoped to organise some the last election, the proceedings photographic exhibitions, "and were so badly disrupted that the highest standard (the copies whereas the CV is a once for a make use of pe titions and This week, the Careers "serious" candidates, most of should look indistinguishable season effrot, each covering letter collecting cans". The focus point Column looks at specula­ them well-known solely for being from the original). Each copy must be individually tailored to the for the fund-raising activities will famous, were beaten by a man tive job applicants, and in should be signed as you sent it out. particular prospect. be a specially organised disco in whose only merit was that he was For written approaches, the CV As to sources of names of th e Potterro w o n Saturday particular, the dreaded perfectly suited to do the job. Such will not stand by itself but requires possible employers, this will evening. Laurence O'Donnell said an upset might well recur, CV. a covering letter. Brevity is the depend on the types of work you that the pro fits were to be used to following the selection by the key-note, except possibly for jobs have in mind. The 'type of work' buy Braille sets for the Royal Feminist Supremacy Group of in the media where you can be a files in the Careers libraries and Commonwealth for the Blind: he This season many types of Debbie Fspart, much acclaimed little more fulsome . Three your Careers Adviser will guide. needs all the support he can graduate employment will call for public speaker and mushroom paragraphs: in the first, explain A good general directory is the muster. Any other funds raised a variety of speculative enthusiast. Full details of the that you are graduating this year Register of Graduate Employment during " International Week" will approaches beyond straight launch of her campaign will from Edinburgh University and and Training (ROGET) which is be put towards the recently application to advertised appear in this column next week. that full details are in the attached available for reference in Careers developed South African vacancies. Preparation begins CV: in the second paragraph, say Libraries and is cleverly indexed to Scholarship scheme which with the Curriculum Vitae (CV) why you are particularly interested provide easy access. Extra provides aid for South African which will serve, not only in written in this type of work and give a A Misunderstood research to find the name of a key students in financial difficulties. approaches, but also in the follow couple of pointers to your position holder will greatly If there is enough student Genius up to personal or telephone sui'tab1lity; and in the final interest and participation this year contacts. paragraph, make a clear and increase the chances of positive it is hoped to make ·· international Th e Rent-a-Scruff Manso n Consult the sample layout and response. specific request, eg 'Could you Week" an annual event. Memorial Award for Insipid Public content available in Careers Beginners in the employment give me 20 minutes of your time to Speaking wilt soon be perman­ Offices. Unless you are a mature advise me how I might further my jungle rarely realise just how many ently bestowed upon a suitable student with a long employment ambitions.· such speculative approaches they person of sufficiently low public record, both sides of an A4 sheet are going to need. The secret lies Opinions are divided as to standing, following its founder's should suffice. Strive for a balance whether covering letters are best in a steady effort, achieving a failure to deliver a suitably dire between the academic side and hand-written or typed. Some target of so many per week, and Ein? Zwei? ... speech at last week's General your non-academic interests and potential employers would prefer then periodic reviews to consider Meeting. Although we knew in our involvements. The aim is an all the less clinical but warmer shifts of emphasis or tactic. Unmasked! The man respons­ hearts that Mr Manson would have purpose ducument which will be approach of your own hand but, Peserverence pays. Do not be if ible for last week's "University to depart from the public stage equally applicable where you are afraid to follow up those who do there is the smallest doubt about Challenge" article, who adopted sometime, we cannot help feeling canvassing two or three different legibility and tidiness, then play not offer some response; after all the imaginative nom de plume of a touch of sadness at the demise of types of employment. safe and have it typed. The most employers are interested in ·'Ein Robertson", is in fact Eric such a well-loved figure. No The CV should be professionally practical difficulty here is that, people who do not give up at the Robertson, the aspiring lawyer flowers, please. typed and photocopied to the first fence. from Old College. -The Hack THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 5

No to Religion In Defence A Critique of Religion by of Israel Dominic Acland. pawns. A reply to Miss Another fa ct that Mi ss McAndrew's article: McAndrew may find enlightening Though I shall concentrate on is that Israel is approxi mately the more relevant religion of Once Repressed, 16.7% of old Palestine, whilst Christianity, what I have to say Jordan is 74.9%. So why have the applies to all religions, for they all Now the Oppres­ Pa lestinian Arabs not tried to get serve the same basic purpose: to Jordan back? Well, they tried, but act as a prop for the various sors by Micha Klng Hussein set his Bedouin inadequacies that people find in Marks. armies on them in the late 1960s - themselves towards their society back to refugee camps in other and world. In certain religions, The closing words of Miss Arab states. mostly confined to the Orient and McAndrew's article last week Miss McAndrew also fails to the nearly extinct indigenous betrayed her despite her very mention that Israel has schools for races of North America , cleve r argument throughout. She Arab children and universities individuals have reached some uses the phrase " International (they also can and do attend other sort of ''illumination" which Zionism"; a phrase which has been universities in Israel). In addition appears to be perfectly whole­ learnt from the new Right's Israel has Arab mayors and MPs, some, though incomprehensible attempts to respectabilise its anti­ how many black MPs or mayors to people who have not achieved semitism. I am not accusing Miss are there in this country, not to the same state. What follows is not McAndrew of anti-sem1t1sm, mention Christian (or Jewish) relevant to these admirable but merely pointing out that she uses politicians in any Arab state? In fast-disappearing groups. anti-semitic arguments un­ fact, most Arab leaders are there In prehistoric times, gods were wittingly - this is often the case because they happen to have the result of mankind 's when one takes up trendy political killed off more of their rivals. Iran is puzzlement at such phenomena as views without much Understand­ an extreme example but also libya, rain, lightning, volcanoes or the ing and knowing even less. Clearly Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, to cycle of the seasons. Thus deities her argument about "the socio­ name but a few. were attrib<;ted to each or to many political conditions in Bourgeois There remains no room to of these mysteries. On a larger Europe'' fails to hold water if one mention not only Israel's links with scale the same solution was used. only knew a little about the South Africa but also Britain's and The Haida tribe of North America treatment of Jews in Muslim many Black African states who. explains the origins of mankind in apologise for the gross simplifica­ .. whoever believes in Him countries - better than in the like Israel, are dependent on South a legend handed down through tion.) shall not per,sh bul have Christian world but by no means Africa for foodstuffs and other the generations. Raven, walking I believe that turning to any eternal life" (John 3: 16). perfect - and the appalling anti­ goods. A link with South Africa along the beach, saw a clam in the religion when you "feel Losing a fear of death, nowever semitism which exists today in need not mean that a state is wet sand. The two halves of the inadequate" is both dangerous subconscious that fear may be, Russia. Apartheid which Miss McAndrew shell began to open and a small and narrow-minded. If you are can only be a healthy experience; Her argument that it is absurd to seems to imply. face appeared. Raven whispered, scared of death, if you have but when it is quashed by the accuse a Jew of anti-Semitism is I am surprised that no one has "Come out, come out," and with "temptations" which you can't doctrine expressed above the fear to me final proof of her naivety. struck out at Palestinian organisa­ much sighing hordes of little faces resolve, if you are "contemplating is not removed, but dominated by But there is more, and perhaps tions in Britain and the rest of looked out; pushing the shell open marriage", the answer is to something external. Religion is an outline of some of the history Europe who cause havoc in our they emerged to populate the land understand yourself, what you are as useless an agent for which Miss McAndrew seems so cities. It is not the fault of the and were the first people. and what you want more fully. The reinforcing a damaged ego as are ignorant is needed. Firstly, never Israelis or Jews that there are four Nowadays Christianity concen­ answer is not to clutch at an drugs, and it can be abused in once m the history of Palestine did million hom'eless. It 1s the Arabs trates less on such questions, artificial code and structure of exactly the same way. Arabs ever have political control - who have the oil money. That since science has to a large extent belief on which to hang your ego. In any argument with a Christian from the biblical kingdoms of money goes to arms and answered them. The emphasis is Avoiding such problems by the one is faced by the blank Judea and Israel to the Turks to propaganda: it's a shame that the on more personally relevant adoption of religion is to close illogicality of "faith", which is why I the British. Hence Herzl was right majority of Arabs in and out of problems like death, goodness your eyes to what is the real cause have not tried to put forward any The Balfour Declaration of 1917 refugee camps are still illiterate, and the way one goes through life. of these problems. · orthodox criticisms of Christianity which promised a British­ poor and half-starved while there If death is something frightening It is the fear of death that is the here. Not that I am appealing to sponsored Jewish commonwealth is so much money in so few hands. for you, there is a comforting little mainspring of religion. Ternfieo Christians especially, but to in Palestine, finally came about in I have no doubt that it 1s doctrine that says: "Actually, the by the prospect of rotting people in general to reappraise the t 948. After. the British Mandate of impossible to persuade the world important part of you, the spirit, unnoticed in the ground, nature of religion in society; where Palestine was divided into two that all Israel's minorities are doesn't die at all, and everything's Christians turn towards the claims it had come from and where it may parts. The Arab part was called treated perfectly and now that hunky-dory in heaven." (I of the Bible: be leading to. Trans-Jordan and the Jewish part Miss McAndrew has started this Israel. series of articles expressing her A day after the birth of Israel the concern - albeit ill-informed - I five neighbouring Arab states am sure we can now look forward declared war. Their leaders to much more significant articles actually told the Arabs living in dealing with the treatment of the GoforGod! Israel to get or they might be killed Kurds by the Iranians, the Syrians Who do you say by mistake while they devastated by the Syrians, the Saudis by the the country. Fortunately, the new­ Saudis etc. He is? Re ligious born state survived after nearly However, I doubt that these will two years of seige. Some arabs appear because these are neither survey by Philip who left. returned and have sufficiently trendy issues nor do remained in Israel. having been they have the massive resources of Ringrose. rehoused with modern amenities . Arab propaganda, Eastern bloc Unlike their counterparts in the p ro paganda. and neo- nazi This questionnaire was carri ed Arab states who have now been hate-mongering to Infiltrate them out last term by around 80 living in refugee camps for nearly into the minds of political Christian Union members 34 years, being used as political innocents. throughout ·the University in an effort to prompt stude11ts to think with Jesus and would be only too Still pray 33.1% on the issue: ''Who do you say happy to tell you. Never prayed 16.0% Jesus is?". We were pleasantly Many students have had experi­ surprised to find that the normally ence of the Chr~st1an Church a taboo subject of religion was at What do you think Is Important In young age (Sunday school etc.), generally openly discussed; some life? (answers placed under wrote off Christianity in less than reflected by the fact that 77 per general categories) cent of students possess a Bible ­ 60 seconds, but many spent time Happiness/Self-sat is. 51 % to Consider the questions. It is but how many believe that Jesus Good of others/Benefit 20% was the Son of God, and how worth noting that this is a survey of of world etc. those willing to answer- obvious, many actually re3d their Bibles. God, spiritual, religious 8% Why has a so-called "Christian" Academic ambitions but in a sense biased. 2% 51 per cent of you think finding others" were common replie 47 per ce nt of the survey. What this nation rejected the God of the Other categories (e.g 19% personal happiness is the most the question on values in life. "something" may be is unclear to Christian Church? The answer. I "Tennants & Tiswas") important thing in life. Great' but Possibly people did not have most - reincarnation perhaps? To think, is that we have lost the 59 per cent th ink Jesus is relevant enough time to consider this the Christian it is the person of person of Jesus Christ in our Do you think there is anything to living today. Can you ignore the question adequately, but surely Jesus Christ who demonstrated religion-making . after death? fact that believing Christians find happmess is only a secondary life beyond death. " So what," I Questionnaire Yes 46.8% deep personal happiness because result of the state or situation you hear you say, ''I'm not particularly No 24.5% they have discovered that Jesus is find yourself in, so that the pursuit interested in Christianity anyway Do you believe In God? Don't Know 28.7% relevant to living today? One thing of happiness itself must be - why bother with Jesus?" This is Yes the questionnaire brought out very pointless - we must look9for the precisely the question the 53.6% Is Jesus relevant to living today? clearly was that the pursuit of things that produce happiness. Christian Union will put . to the No 24.4% Yes 59.1% happiness is widely regarded as There is something after death University this term. Most Don't Know 2!.9% No 26.4% one end ln itself - "love, friend­ (or the nuclear holocaust as the Christians have very real reasons Do you pray? Don't Know 14.4% ship, enjoyment without hurting case may be) according to almost as to why a person should bother Have prayed St.0% Total number surve ed: 1,650. 6 THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 ULSTER LandinT,\.~v. ~ _,owNPA1111CK of the border tomorrow would Sinn Fein view of isolationism and ·,i>,\'... 9\e 'i;..l"~' ~ "?,'O• 3434 uncertainty. It does not work in solve nothing, indeed it would Romantic Nationalism. But this is Northern Ireland because the a,1,-' c:,oll"'o _ i. 184,,•hlnch Appr1ntlo Boy, probably increase the Protestant to listen to a nationalism that boundaries of the state were \. MO s, iJ ,Ho Surr.nder- Club sense of insecurity and spark of 111 consists of flags, songs and the drawn to exclude uncertainty for 0 sectarian warfare more severe beating of drums and has little to all time. 00-..ttslt:!"'o*~t'.4 E Bl.Jftt-MNG OF LUNDY than anything the Province has yet do with jobs or housing. It also Meanwhile the killings continue, suffered. The withdrawal of troops neglects the fact that the vast lhe murder of the Rev. Bradford 'L!AAS t1tG~~o:.t1C r -~ARADE~ '"'t>II resent tragic state of Northern vec. V. ,.Unless accompanied by a longer­ majority of Irish people are bi­ brought a new edge of inhumanity reland - although they would ~ 0.. ~/, term political programme that is cultural or tri-cultural if they speak to an already savage situation. iolently contradict one another as ~- -'" G: . IJ/f, acceptable to all sides in the Irish. John Hume said every voice oon as they tried to define what . K. PaJ•.- tJ, ,-,//, , dispute, would result in a It still remains that in both should now be raised in one just ritain's mistakes have been." W'ELCOMl. Ar ~ ,C'isr;. bloodbath. communities, the Church and the demand - stop the murder. But why does Britain fail so -1c ,, /9 ~~ e-.,_e-1. school are the focal points around It is a demand which wilt fall on 1 adly in Ireland? ,, ~.,. To look at Northern Ireland in which people gather: Church "''s.s,0 Dlt deaf ears, for if one thing has It has been easier for Britain to . ~ -,, 11- . ».,,, '"18[;1/ purely class terms is also too attendance is not only a religious emerged clearly over the years it is ubjugate Ireland than to .'# to simplistic. It is the working class but also a political act, an outward that the Republican Movement nserstand the Irish. When the which is the most divided - expression of sectarian solidarity; doesn't know when to stop. Even rish fai led to behave in the way the J;,. e,_Oo thanks to past Westminster and seg regated education only helps when they achieve a victory they ritish predicted they were the details of how to set fire to a Stormont policies of 'divide and to create and sustain their ghettos. fight on till it becomes a defeat. haracterised as backward, building or bus are learned from a rule'. As Tom Nairn has pointed If we are to tackle the real roots If their simple primary aim is to irrational and superstitious. long folk memory that is passed on out it was the Protestant working of our problems, then it is these get the Brits out of Ireland then Indeed the British have thought it from one generation to the next. class which made the Ulster two important areas which must their political 'whiz kids' - if any - ssential to control Ireland from Resorting to violence has been nation. Its 1974 general strike be deart with immediately. Every should now have assessed the I least the 16th century not only the stragety of both Planter and defied and defeated three effort must be made to prevent the position. If the IRA were a jet plane or reasons of strategy and -Gael to ensure that their bourgeois governments and the Catholic Church sustaining and out over the Atlantic then currently imperial pride but also because of grievarices receive a hearing. It British Army. " It was without expanding its control over they are very close to the point of he need for a convenient source was the threat of violence by Ulster doubt the most successful education of the Catholic no return. At that point a decision f agricultural goods, land, rent Protestants from 1912-14 that kept political action carried out by any community. It will not be an easy must be made and every fact must nd cheap labour. In this context them out of a United Ireland. It was European working class since job, but the past two decades have be considered. The well-being of f colonial exploitation it has been the violence of the IRA campaign World War 2." It was also the most witnessed the decline of the power the passengers is always the helpful for the British to regard the of 1920-21 that obtained reactionary! of Catholicism, particularly in the deciding factor. Irish as their inferiors - for they independence for the 26 counties. One of the problems of course, South where close Church and Are we all on a flight from ould hardly have had the same Resorting to violence is a sympton is that Ulster Protestants do not_ State relations are now more reality? THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 7 Weekend With Solidarity Solidarity's battle Lord Provost of Glasgow. As shop and protest rally in Glasgow two pay her collosal debts to the West. Throughout the two days. what the stewards at the stormy Ursus Saturdays ago. Two busloads The members led the Polish­ people in the audiences failed to for survival under tractor plant in Warsaw, they were from Edinburgh joined 1,500 speaking m ember s of the note was that the signifcance of especially invigorated by their people in marching from Queen au dience in singing the Polish Solidarnosc is that it has been able .martial law is in the meeting with the men at BL's Margaret Drive, through the National Anthem. This caused to wed b oth r eligion and news again.Greg doomed tractor division in Hillhead constituency, to the some disquiet amongst some "nationalism" into its psyche. Bathgate. Partick Burgh Hall~. members of the audience. This Solidarnosc members ar e Drozdz, a first­ Despite the fact that the Jimmy · Reid was his usual was too right-wing to stomachl practising Christians and members looked tired and drawn eloquent sel f, accusing Reagan "nationalist" in the sense theft. In generation Pole, after their exhausting schedule, and Thatcher of double standards. common with most Poles, they their minds were very alive to the Not content to leave matters there, have a great feeling of national listened and talked 1mpl1cat10ns of the questions from he fired a vitriolic salvo across the pnde. The campaign is in danger to two Solidarity the floor. Needless· to say , as bows of the whole Labour of becoming a platform whereby '"freedom fighters" in the flesh, movement, accusing them of socialist critics of the Communist members when they were asked for their reactions s,nk,ng to the depths of hypocrisy. Party can thrust the dagger in The to Ireland, South Africa, Turkey What everybody had patientl y campaign must receive a broader they visited Edin­ and the "Imperialist Banks". They waited for were the speeches from cross-section of support. As much burgh Trades carefully sidetracked questions on the Solidarnosc members . as the crisis in Poland 1s about Mrs Thatcher and the somewhat Gozlowski, punching the air with workers· rights, it ts now about Council. tacit support fo r Solidarnosc from his fists Walesa style, received an human rights and human the TUC hierarc hy. overwhelming welcome. Words suffering. The two Solidarnosc meinbers, The meeting was disappointing such as "totalitarianism" and Inspired to action by our innate Pitur Gozlowski and Marek 1 in that even more people did not "Stalinism" were used with non­ compassion and understanding Koslowski, have just left Scotland attend, especially students. The chalance. Both members called for fellow men, we should support after a week-long tour of the blame must rest on bad publicity. for a "blacking" of Polish goods, Solidarnbsc in any way we Central Belt, meeting factory There was no doubting the for with no market for her produce, possibly can. It must not be just a workers and dignataries like the . support. however, of the march Poland was unlikely to be able to People's leader Walesa weekend with Solidarity.

Few British students ·have actually had first­ hand experience of government by totalitarian or military regimes. Here, two overseas students at Edinburgh - one from Southern Africa and the other from Poland - describe what life is really like under political oppression.

The only greenery for miles entrance was somewhere beneath both were determined to fig ht for it all. He shru~ged his shoulders, Anne Gollifer is along the tar-road was shared street level behind the station, their country to the end - they pulled the "pass" out of his pocket from Botswana and between the irrigated gardens of through a couple of grimy tunnels were white. and patted it with a cynical smile the farcical S. African embassy that led directly to the platforms. I had to move into the next. I don't ever say what I think; I'd last year paid a visit and a hotel. The hotel is an oasis of Johannesburg immediately compartment later as women lose my pass. Then I'd be picked drinking, gambling and whoring struck me as a te nse city: nervous travel separately from the men on up by the authonties and fined, to the neighbour­ set up for the moral S. African to wh ite faces , closed to all overnight sleepers. The ladies sent home. Luckily f"m from ing state of South quench his thirst for immorality. strangers, the black and coloured bolted the door and spent some Jo'burg anyway, but that doesn 't Something that does not go on in were either servile or sly and time explaining how unfortunate mean I 'd get work again. Africa. She found S. Africa proper, but is wholly jeering from the safety of their own we were to be on a black train: One The whole system is a Catch-22 acceptable for any white home­ streets. Unfriendliness seemed to never knows what those kaafirs - to change the system you need there a terrifying landers anrl their frustrated otty be the rule; unfnendliness mixed will do if they get the chance. to be in the centre of thi ngs - the visitors. with arrogance and fear. The train was made up of about city. To be there. you need a gap between the The twins dropped us at We caught the night train to 30 carriages; in the front two of ·"pass", a work permit. One wrong few and the many, Jo'burg's impressive railway Durban, a sunny seaside resort. these we whites travelled in move and the "pass" is confiscated station, and with cheery The atmosphere was definitely spacious comfort. The other 28 - house arrest or sent back to the the white and the goodbyes, sped away on their less oppressive, but we still met Were packed : knee- to- knee, roots. Starvation - physical and business. Rich blacks who could with the same suspicious shoulder-to-shoulder with blacks spiritual - in the homelands. black: a gap which drive triumphant through the defensiveness. and coloureds. We had seats that In S. Africa there is no real ,no one seems will­ streets of the city and return home The train journey back to pulled out into beds - they had change. The rest of the world to Botswana where it is no criminal Jo'burg a week later found us in a nowhere to sit let alone sleep on· guiltily accepts the lalse hope that ing to cross. offence to speak to a white in your compartment with two conscripts .that 12-hour, one-stop journey to thingi'are changing. They are not. own tongue, let alone on an equal who were under the impression Jo'burg. Whites are not authorised The bus driver's voice suddenly basis. that all foreigners under 30 were ·to buy tickets below the price of dropped to a whisper - we turned Johannesburg station was big dope-smoking radicals; probably second class. to see a young unifor111ed white, and beautiful but relatively empty. Communists. The more en­ Morning came and the ladies got hands on hips, grim-faced, glaring We bought tickets for the Durban lightened of the two said: "We ready to depart. Their talk down at 1Js, not five yards away. We roared into Jo'burg 1n the night train the following evening rnally are backwards here; we consisted of worries about how We returned the stare indignantly customised, electric-blue land­ and left to look for a cheap hotel. aren't even allowqd to read dirty they were to squeeze through the - the disapproving stares of cruiser. People on the pavements The first apartheid sign caught us mags~ the governm~nt bans them. throng of black workers on passers-by had been bearable. but glanced with obvious admiration unawares: no blacks allowed to They talked of the Terrs up at the Germiston station. It was about. so obvious an intrusion into a as we pulled up sharp at the traffic­ use the entrance to the plush border and one them wanted to get 6.30 a.m. One lady tremulously private conversation was a robot: flashing red. But the station wait_ing area. Their out of S. Africa eventuallv: but said: I'll have to walk through different th ing. Our friend rose admiration soon changed to looks them. As they left I heard a thinking of his "pass" - we got up of surprise and puzzlement as the reassuring remark about showers too. He told us how to get to the pedestrians realised the vehicle at home. -only place in Johannesburg where was driven, not by a white Charles Johannesburg again and the we could share a coffee with Atlas, but by a couple of coloureds black and white signs applying to Glorianne, the black girl with him. with two whites - us - in the THIS LIFT IS FOR EUROPEANS ONLY\ various buses , shops and He also told us to say we were back . . From Gabarone-Botswana benches; I always felt conscious of student colleagues of hers from to Johannesburg- S. Africa , SERVICE LIFT IS PROVIDED FOR TRADESMEN.\ being in the wrong place and Swaziland - just passing through, standards change. NON-EUROPEANS .. DRAMS g. DOGS . doing the wrong thing. Eventually, and that she was his wife. As we The twins had picked up my however, we found solace at left a group of blacks stopped him friend and I as we hitched at the Jobert Park in the city centre. and angrily asked him what his Tlokweng border-post between NO HAWKERS ALLOWED. There we met the first person business had been with us. He told Botswana and Bophutatswana. who spoke his mind openly. He them the same story. We left him at The latter is one of S. Africa's so­ was a black bus driver. One minute the street corner with our sincere, called homelands: a toy-town he was servile, begging a fag. helpless handshakes. state that surplus "Kaafirs" are "You aren't S. African?" - the Glorianne took us to the Calrton herded back ,nto, out of the white rucksack and offered cigarette said centre. She was glad she was from Swaziland. Her trip to Jo'burg was cities. A thorny, dry wilderness in a no' He patted the grass beside him turning out to be lonely and state of supposed independence and we sat down. miserable. She was going home as from S. Africa but us)0g the Rand He drove buses for blacks, as currency and the Afrikaans coloureds and whites His white soon as possible She saw us off at ·ranguage (which it is an offence to colleagues working the same the airport bus terminal. She kept saying: It's no good here For some discard in presence of an hours were paid double his wage I asked h,m what he thought about odd reason she cned when we left /f,.frikaaner). 8 THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982

Films

Film house Thurs 4th Feb I, The Conductor !_ I Anglican S~ciety Archaeology Societyun· Thursday 6.15, 8.30 1 23 While Andrez Wajda's success has Ploughman s Lunches at pm a · Dr J. Rifle will give a talk on The been partially brought about by George Square. Ancient Egyptians as Tourists and "Ill r the Polish crisis, he earns it well. Antiquarians at 7 pm, 19 George Douglass Dunn author of Terry ,1 Here , he examines the various Square. Street, Love or Nothing, The tensions brought about in a Polish y Happier Life and Barbarians will community by the appearance of b read from and talk about his latest J ohn Gi e l gud, a f amous work St. Kilda 's Parliament at 1 pm Fri 5th Feb conductor from the other side of in Conference Room, DHT. th e Curtain. Escogrilfes product ion (see That Obscure Object of Desire PleasanceDisco Thurs). 7.30 George Square Fri and Sat 6.15, 8.30 Theatre. Including student band Moscow Luis Bunuel exammes the middle Life and videos. B0p. 7.30 pm-1 am Labour Club meets DHT Faculty classes with humour and insight. Room North at 1 pm. Night Moves Escogriffes French drama group Economics Society Pub lunch at 1 Fn and Sat 11 pm Tueur Sans Gages by Eugene pm m Southsider. A private eye is engaged to find a lonesco. George Square Theatre Yoga and Relaxation i n runaway teenager. Described in 7.30 pm. Chaplaincy Centre Seminar Room Halliwe/l's as "a smart-ass enter­ German Society 2 at 1 pm. tainment for eager trendies". By Die neven Leiden and Des Jungen UNEco (EU Ecology Party) Lunch Arthur Penn with Gene Hackman. Werthers in DHT Language Lab. at in Pleasance Bar. Between 1 pm-2 7. pm. pm. ABC Dominion 1-2-3 Arthur 5.00, 7.50 1. Sometime Next Year Odeon An American comedy which 4.38, 8.28 Lady Chatterley's Lover suffers fr om a weak and All Night Long Lawrence·s novel turned into a dull hackneyed rich boy/ poor girl plot. 2.55, 6.45 and turgid soft-porn movie. Sex The film is rescued in part by the Two romantic comedies, the just doesn't make the impact it did Music acting combination of Dudley former with Alan Alda and Ellen in his time. The Playhouse Theatre Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Burstyn, the latter with Gene Scottish Opera present Gielgud , and by a script Hackman and Barbra Streisand. L'Egisto by Cavalli, on Fri 5th Feb, containing some very funny lines. EUFS 7.15 pm; and Cosi Fan tulle by The relationship between Moore Forthcoming events Mozart, on Thurs 4th and Sat 6th as the boy who never grew up and 2. The Four Seasons Feb, 7.15 pm. Gielgud as his dry, acid-tongued 2.20, 4.55, 7.30 Fri 5th Feb The Climax Blues Band on Mon tutor, is particularly well done. Very fine Alan Alda film with the Pleasance 8th Feb at 7.30 pm. Enjoyable, but the drunk jokes excellent American comedienne, 6.45 pm Charlie Chaplain's silent A become tiring. Carol Burnett. Woman Of Paris. The Queen's Hall 8.15 pm Boris Karloff in Bride of 2. Torn Between Two Lovers Frankenstein. Cantilena: Lunchtime concert on 1.20, 4.55, 8.35 3. Gregory's Girt Sun 7th Feb, at 12.45 pm. The Last Snows of Spring 3.00, 5.20, 8.15 Sun 7th Feb Scottish Baroque Ensemble. 3.00, 6.45 Still packed out every night, this Playhouse Julian Byzantine (guitar), on Tues Two weepies directed towards a wonderful Scottish comedy 6.45 pm Scum 9th Feb at 7.45 pm. middle-aged and sentimental deserves the attentiof) i t 's 8.35 pm Quadrophenia audience. receiving. The Usher Hall Wed 10th Feb Scottish National Orchestra, George Sq. Theatre classical concert, on Fri 5th Feb at 3. Gallipoli 1.45, 4.35, 7.35 6.45 pm Jonathan Demme's Last 7.30 pm. Very good Australian film about Cameo Embrace the massacre of the Anzac forces Kramer versus Kramer 8.30 pm King Kong t I in the First World War brought 4.30, 8.40 St Cecilia's Hall about by Churchill's bungling. The Jazz Singer Scottish Early Music Consort Predictably compared to Chariots 2.20, 6.20 Andrew Phillips at 7.30 pm on Thurs 4th Feb. of Fire for its portrayal of two young athletes. The sense of McEwan Hall waste and inevitability about their deaths is particularly well brought Organ recital by Ian Hare at 1.1 0pm on Fri 5th Feb. out.

Caley Enter the Ninja Exhibitions .55, 8.00 Talbot Rice Art Centre Palace of Holyroodhouse Violent, martial arts trash. Contemporary British Tapestry. Royal Wedding Gift Exhibition. Nlghtwlng Until Fri 5th Feb. Wedding dress. bridesmaids' 2.15, 6.00 dress and page's uniform. National Gallery Mon-Sat 9.30-16.30. is of Scotland · Sun 1400-1800. ,1 Calton Studios David Allan: Sacraments and Until 28th Feb. Bacchanals. Watercolours and Tess 7.00 drawings on sacred and profane Beautifully photographed version themes. Until 28th Feb. of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess pi the D'Urbervilles. Directed by Roman Polanski with Klaus City Art Centre Kinshi's daughter, Nastassia, Soviet Ph otography 1917 to 1940. playing the leading role. Well Until 13th Feb. worth seeing. Twentiet h-cen t u ry Edinburgh painters. Until 27th Feb. Mephisto Another German film examining the corruption of Nazi Germany. The Fruitmarket Gallery This one is particularly good, Vladimir Mayakovsky. concentrating on a stage actor and Until Wed 24th Feb. comparing him with his role as Mephisto in Goethe's Faust. Starting Monday 8th. Scottish National Portrait Gallery The Scottish Empire. A sidelong Classic look at the role played by Scots, both famous and obscure, in the Kiss Me With Lust building of the British Em pire. 12.30, 3.15, 6.00 Naked and Lustful These are sex films. Drawings by John Walker. THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 9

Hot Spot

Tues 9th Feb Anglican Society Pl oughman's Lunches at 1 pm, 23a George Square . s EUFS Folksong Society Workshop at the Crown, Drummond Street at Wednesday 10th Feb 8 pm Fine Art Society Life drawing, 6.30-8.30 in Fine Art Musica Viva (Edinburgh) Concert Dept. 19 George Square. Contact 556 4248 for further info. Dvo rak: Win d Serenade Chambers Street Stravinsky: Concerto in D Happy Hou r 8 pm-9 pm Spirits Warlock Capriol Suite 29p, Beer 39p. Mozart. Symphony No 29 St. Mark's Unitarian Church, Amnesty lnternation EU Group Castle Terrace. at 7.45 pm £1.50. Business Meetings. at 1 pm 1n (concessions £1) Tickets at door. H~ing Chaplaincy Centre, Main 'd t,s/1 communist view of Auditorium. Amnesty International EU Group P by Monty Johnstone in General Meeting 7 pm In -, Council (Lower Lounge) at Pierre d'A ix presents David Allison Chaplaincy Centre. in concert. Chambers Street The Grand Edinourgn· Adventur­ Union at 8.30 pm 8th Feb ing Society Meets in Pleasance at Before . and ... After Nick Keir 7 pm. Transcendental Meditation St1t TV meet from 6.30 pm in Contemporary f olk music. 4 West NewIngton Place Ht 8 pm. P ce. Pleasance Bar 7. 30.

Obscure music lor the new Bernard's The Dragon's Castle aesthetics fromEyelessir. Gaza. As 20 Abercrombie Place 21 Castle Street lor The Lemon Kittens , I've only The This excellent Chinese restaurant got Spoonted and Wnth1ng to go The most elegant French and cocktail lounge is open seven Pop on. and it's rotten! 1 restaurant 1n the New Town. days a week. Scuffles are their spec1al1ty and there are gourmet or standard menus. Downstairs. La Grenou 1lle Thurs 4th Sunday 7th offers jazz every night (except RB's, Nite Club Horrible Sexy Vampires. JJ's Sun.) and a la te licen ce. The RB's are a Perth outfit who The band doesn't really matter, jumped on the ska bandwagon, cos we go here for drink and and dropped their original title of c hatter (OK, it doesn't scan). The Istanbul Kebab The Rude Boys when it all got so Horrible Sexy V ampires are Restaurant passe. Still, their en ergetic set admitte d a more in terest ing 96 Dairy Road should pass the time. proportion than the Usual JJ's Raffaelli Turkish cuisine in Turkish decor. fodder. 1O Randolph Place Charcoal-cooked kebabs, Turkish This quality restaurant offers desserts, wine, liqueur and Florentine cuisine in Florentine cocktails. Friday 5th decor, dishes and glass-ware, and The Twinsets/ Hey! Elastic, Nile Mon 8th a wide range of Italian wines Club. John Otway and Wild Willy The Twinsets inept renditions of Barrett/The Europeans, Assembly girlie standards fail to endear me Rooms towards them. Contrived chaos The return of the gruesome two would be a charitable way to sum some to inflict Really free and Mogul Restaurant them up. However, we hear that Headbutt on the clieatele of the 129a Rose Street Hey Elastic are an interesting new Assembly Rooms Assembly Rule's Restaurant The best Asian style eating house proposition. Rooms? Wait a minute . 19-21 Dundas Street in Edinburgh. Asian and Punjab This spacious. comfortable dishes, mogul curries prepared The Climax Blu e s Band , restaurant offers the best in with halal meat and fresh Playhouse Scottish food. Open for breakfast, vegetables. Specialities - Mughal Saturday 6th The Climax Blues B ( 1) are lunch, tea and dinner. and Islamic Indian dishes. Eyeless in Gaza/ Lemon Kittens definitely out to lunch in a big way. Nite Club 'Nuff said.

omln Soon Theatre Sport he Printmakers The Ro_yal Lyceum Theatre Workshop Thursday 4th Feb orkshop Theatre 34 Hamilton Place Greyhound Racing Powderhall l\og raphs by Alberto The Scottish Theatre Company The Guizer Theatre · Company pm. ometti. presents Heroes and Others present Fools Fathom Five ·, Sana Fin by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska (especially for 5-11-year-olds) !ii 14th Feb. Thurs 4th Feb. World premiere (all A charming extravaganza of the Sat 6th Feb seats half-price). sea with dances, songs, colourful Greyhound Racing Powderhall 7 Until Sat 13th Feb. costumes and glittering scenery. pm. 'he Netherbow Sat 6th Feb at 2 pm. ,rts Centre Bedlam Theatre The Greyhound Racing cock-up The Ed inburgh University Theatre Churchill Theatre saga goes on - this week, 11lercolours by Bill Donaldson. Company presents The One-Act Play Festival Powderhall 'forgot' to send us the Iii 27th Feb. Look Back in Anger Thurs 4th Feb, 7 pm. race-card. Kavey Kanem is " sick by John Osborne The Link by Lee Torrance. as a parrot" about it, and promises e Scottish Experience, From Wed 10th Feb until Sat 13th To Catch a Mackerel he'll resume service as soon as est End Feb, at 7 pm. Matinee on Sat at 3 by Marjorie Witham possible. Best of 369 Gallery. pm. All tickets £1 . Conversations with a Golliwog ntemporary Scottish painters. by Alexander Guyan. lil 27th Feb. King's Theatre Fri 5th Feb, 7 pm. Football Jack and the Beanstalk Husbands Supplied Until Sat 13th Feb. by Falkland Cary est Register House, Ritual for Dolls by George Green Scottis h League, Premier D1v1s1on harlotte Square Long Christmas Dinners Hibern ian v. Dundee Utd .. Easter ntten heritage: Life in the past by Thornton Wilder Road KO 3 pm. round some of the National Trust Teviot Row Agonlstes by T. S. Eliot Scottish League. Division One r Scotland's be s t-love d Debating Hall Sat 6th Feb, 7 pm. 0pert,es The Trial by Anthony Booth East Stirlingshire v. Hearts, Firs Circus/ Cabaret Night Alas Oear Reader Park, Falkirk. I ncludes Hyp n otist, Visual by Va lene Mankell tional Library Illusionist, Mime Artist, Fire-Eater, Cabbages by Gay Houston Scottish League, Second D1vis1on Scotland Tap Dancing Poet and Magic Meadowbank Thistle v Sten­ Curious Life for a Lady - Circle Magician. Tickets £2 from Traverse Theatre housemuir, Meadowbank. KO 3 lella L. Bu nel (1831-1904). Union Shops. Only Wed 10th Feb pm I 13th Feb. at 7.30 pm. Closed. 10 THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982

More student humour with Sgt. Robespierre Coldbigg, Unwin, and all their friends! ..• It Babbles For Thee. ..

Dick took a deep draught of the bartender for possible fule. You have your pint in your Guinness in preparation for the Michael-extraction and found hand. Therefore this pint here ·ordeal ahead. There was no mews none, only instead a vile amount of must be mine." So saying. Sgt. '"Ot avenue of escape. nasal hair. The bartender started. Coldbigg took a large slurp with The wino in the seat adjacent to to wipe the bar with a cloth and the kind of melodramatic theatri­ Dick peered at him squintingly whistled an old polka. Dick cality that brooked no question­ through three-over-the-top vision decided to proceed further, ing of such unquestionable logic, and swayed slightly bn his stool, against his better judgement. and munched into his cheese and grinning inanely but amiably. "But where's the connection onion crisps (they had run out of "Gud evening, sir." between this pub and Anton salt and shake). Dick looked at him in a way Chekhov?" which suggested the two thoughts "Well, the sign was done by a "I drink therefore I am," said running through his head at the painter with a Russian name." Dick and inwardly thought, "God, same time: (1) ''And a good even to Dick decided to make that pint that was witty, l'm really sharp this you, sir" and (2) "Shut your bloody his last and turned round to say evening," but surprisingly Sgt. gob and get on with your drink." goodbye to the drunk, but he had Coldbigg was amused. '"Scuse me, sir." disappeared. A half-finished beer Dick felt a sinking feeling that glass remained as a poignant "Ho-ho-ho-," he belly-laughed. the wino was obviously going to token of his departure. "Very good, sir, very good." He First Bite try and engage him in conversa­ Helen had grown tired of waiting looked around furtively and Unwin was a train-spotter. He'd trolley and rucksack onto the rack tion. for Dick to order her a drink and secretively beckoned for Dick's noted down 4,231 numbers and, above him, Unwin sat down and '"Scuse me, sir, but did anyone had also decided to engage a lughole to approach his mouth, even though they were of the same thought of mullet. Unwin liked ever tell you you look like Matt stranger in conversation. -after which feat having been train, his mother was so proud. mullet. His mother used to say: Munro?" He was the type of person · accomplished, he whispered: Squinting through his binoculars, "Eat your mullet, Unwin, and you'll Dick decided to adopt the dry people ususally classify as he registered the same train for the have a crop of hair like Ronald sarcastic approach that he usually "secondhand car dealer", his eyes 'The d"'arkest hour is just before 3,232nd time in his little green Reagan.'' This appealed to Unwin, reserved for garrulous alkies. alone had clocked up 75,000 miles. the dawn.'' notebook. He felt like Montgomery as he too wanted to be a world sex "I can't say as they have, no Actually he was a bus· inspector of Manchester Victoria. calculating symbol, and use shoe dye on his hair. However, Unwin remem­ sirreee!" and owned a push-bike and was "Dick kept looking forward wilh the best plan of attack for empty The drunk wobbled his head. called Sid. blank incomprehension and then. seats. bered his mother hadn't wrapped "I once went to see Matt Munro. "Excuse me," said Helen, "you feeling it was somehow required of All Unwin could see (between any mullet in his pyjamas this time, Backstage. I went backstage to might think this very forward of him. emitted a feeble ambassa­ their gobfuls of "Quality Street") so he made do with an apple. Boy, see Matt Munro and when I saw him me. but I'm bored stiff and I need dorial chortle. were shoals of senior citizens' was he hungry! Thinking about Mullet always made him hungry. I said, 'Matt, I've come all the way some scintillating conversation. snouts bouncing off the mini­ backstage to see you.' And he said, Have you got any going spare?" "'A stitch in time saves nine" aquariums with shark-like Unwin bit into his apple with the ferocity of a Ramadan-fasted 'We don't normally allow people Sid eyed her ov_er as if reviewing he answered. · inquisitiveness.· Unwin didn't backstage,' and I said, 'Well, I'm really know what Montgomery Piranha with Esther Rantzen here now,' and he said, 'Well, would have done in this situation. falsers. The " Kkkkrunch !" echoed seeing as you've come all the way But, he did know the guy had once and shook throughout the train, backstage you might as well stay driven a tank, and looked like a the suburbs of Knutsford, and its 1 now,' and I said, 'Thanks, Matt' and gerbil with medals. Without further adjoining areas. But at east asked for his autograph. But he delay, Unwin clambered into his everyone had dropped their didn't have a pen." British Rail "Chieftain" trolley, newspapers, and he could see "I see." adjusted his balaclava, and sped their faces. There was a pause. into battle. The result was perfect. '"Scuse me, sir. I don't suppose Suitcases seemed to spray into the Mullet Love you are Matt Munro, by any air in the wake of the new war It must have been only his 92nd chance?" hero's vehicle. Unwin left a bite when their eyes suddenly met, "No. I am not Matt Munro." January clotheswear sale and a but 92nd bite or 93rd, Unwin "Only I never got his autograph troop of irate stowaway Bolivian instinctively knew he'd fa llen in 'cos he didn't have a pen and my pygmies strewn upon the love. She was the most beautiful one had just run out. So I just platform. girl he'd ever seen. To him she was shook his hand," said the drunk as Unwin beamed with Dobermann total perfection and sophistica­ if he had lost a pound and found delight at his work, and immedi­ tion. You know, she was that rare twopence. ately dashed into the carriage to breed of woman that has an " But you enjoyed the concert?" track down an empty seat. uncanny resemblance to typhoid, said Dick. has " Billy Smart's Circus" as "Eh?" Sun-stroked Brie make-up advisers, and Michael "The concert - you enjoyed it? Soon, Unwin found he was Foot as a dress designer. Unwin Matt Munro ." said Dick, gasping and sweating like a slab of had taste. Not only did this guy like breathing harder and waiting for sun-stroked Brie. It was then that Montgomery and mullet, but his the twopence to drop. Unwin concluded he wasn't much women resembled them too. "Oh, that, well I never actually a cas8 of seat-slashing. "We're Sgt. Coldbigg choked on his of a "multi-gym-goer"', when he From the emotional turmoil saw that. I was just walking past putting the fares up against next mouthful of alcohol and seemed realised the combined weight of inside Unwin knew it was now or outside and I saw the stagedoor month." greatly amusedy When he caught rucksack and British Rail trolley never, but he was at a loss for had been left open." · "Oh, really?" she replied his breath he wheezed: "A rolling on his back was slightly excessive. words. His rational side kept on " I see." brightly. ·Still, I expect they need stone Qathers no moss.'' Still, at least, he'd found a says ··cross between concrete the money.'' Dick returned with The landlord approached and "First to the gate, first to the compartment with an empty .seat. mixer and Sebastian Coe", but the her gin and tonic and sized up.Sid. asked Dick what he wanted to slaughter." As Unwin slid open the door, his words that kept repeating more drink (fair enough, it was a pub Used-car salesman, his synapses fellow itinerants seemed to squirm powerfully in his head were "a after all). flashed. Sid meanwhile sized up· dirty weekend in Bogner" and "A hungry hound will not refuse ("bubblegum on my bum" fashion) "Tell me," asked Dick to the Dick. Fare dodger. People fell into "Paracetomol". a tiny bone.'' and shift uncomfortably in their barman by way of passing the time three distinct categories in Sid's seats. But maybe this had In a blind passionate fit Unwin estimation: fare dodgers, fare while he was getting his booze, '" It is in vain to offer a drowning something to do with the way crammed his apple core into the payers, and employees of the "why is this pub called 'The Gun'?" man champagne.'' Unwin was carrying his mother"s ticket inspector's palm and turning "On account of how Anton transport system (who didn't pay budgie paste and branston butties, to'"the woman of his dreams said. Chekhov once said, like, if there's fares anyway). " Ask not for whom the brook on the sole of his best left hiking '" Gnnnfjooph Qgnnargme Dick turned to Sgt. Robespierre a gun mentioned in a play it has to babbles . boot (Unwin only wore left hiking mullethead?" Unwin had not be fired at least once by the end of Coldbigg. "Here's your drink." . It babbles for thee." boots, but this was the best one. as finished eating. act two," he replied enigmatically. ·· 1 know that, young man. I'm not it had a shoelace ,n 1t) . lain Osborne Campbell Dick surveyed the features of blind you know. Neither am I a A. Pile Eventually, after depositing and Stella Artols THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 11

Stirring Finale Haring Off

command, but according to the Edinburgh University 2nd XI 3; Not content with this late reprieve, Nothing but lavish praise will appearance and finished 11th. dictates of cup football, fate Spartans 2nd XI 2 the University stretched the limits suffice for the Hare and Hounds Dave Gould too ran well and cruelly intervened and Spartans of plausibility with the game's last who ran so · magnificently on finished in 15th position. The Peffermill staged a rousing cup­ were restored to their lead kick. Reid, revelling in his self­ Saturday to lift three team and two coveted 'A' team prize was the lie of Boys Own proportions on courtesy of a dubious penalty appointed role of front-runner, individual titles at the SUSUF sweetest victory of all, however, Saturday as the 2nd XI began their award. Once again the home side latched onto a through-ball from Cross-Country Championships, at the title returning to Ed inburgh defence of the Holyrood Cup. The searched for the immediate reply hardie. His shot struck the Meadowhead Park, Edinburgh. after a period of nine years. Callum action was largely confined to the but near misses from Gilzean and advancing McKay and spun to The hilly course and blustery Henderson led the way with a extra-time period which followed Brodie amounted only to fumbled Rankin, who defied both conditions proved a severe test of superb run , finishing in 2nd upon 90 goalless minutes. lines. opposition and the Peffermill wind stamina as well as speed, but position. Peter Sigmundson too It was Spartans who served a However, rather than a defiant by coolly lobbing the ball into the Edinburgh's Hare and Hounds ran supremely to finish in 5th timely reminder of the game's parting shot, this was only a unguarded net , and in so doing excelled themselves and totally position, with Colin McIntyre 6th, primary object when they forged foretaste of what was to come. sparked off a minor field invasion decimated the opposition. a flu-ridden Ken Mortimer 7th, and ahead in the first period of With two minutes remaining the by the handful of spectators . Such The ladies· three-mile race was young Graeme Haddow 10th. additional play. The University, marauding Reid imposed his ecstasy was matched only in its won deservedly by Jean Lourden, These outstanding performances obviously learning by example, slender frame upon the match. extremity by the dejection of a who was closely followed by Sally were matched by equally brave were level within a minute, as Abandoning positional discipline, disbelieving Spartans side. Goldsmith (2nd), Alice Linton and committed runs from team­ Rodgers supplied the finishing he appeared on the end of a cross The Onlooker (3rd), Frances Clarke (5th) and mates Pat Graves who finished touch. Edinburgh now seemed in to head-flick past a static McKay. Clare Herdman (6th). Needless to 11th, the sixth counter in the say, this team won the first winning team , and club captain championship prize of the day, Charlie Cottam (16th), whose set ting the pattern for the men's untiring commitment to the club events . over the last four years has at last Volleybqll The men's 'B' race over six miles been rewarded. Thanks, Charlie! again resulted in a clear victory for And thanks, too, to all who Just the Hare and Hounds who claimed competed , everyone without A It had to happen - after riding seven of the first ten posIt1ons The exception ran to the best of their high on three consecutive league individual winner was Alan Murray ability and everyone met with the wins, and a bit of good tournament success they and the club deserve play, the men's volleyball team let with team-mates Steve Murdoch 2nd, Paul Cackette 3rd, Peter Edinburgh University Hare and the opposition off easily. On a Game? Duthie 4th, Andy Thinn 6th and Hounds are now undisputably the breezy and hazy (perhaps only in Ewan McQueen 8th . Again greatest university cross-country In the worst weekend for the previously knocked them out of the mind) morn mg . muct') too early Edinburgh·s total dominance won club in Scotland, and just to cap Hockey Club this season, the 1st The Scotsman Cup) and once (11 am) , the gladiators gathered the team prize and deservedly so , things off. Saturday nights XI lost both its league games, again, despite constant pressure, took courage, travelled to face the but the other members of the team SUSUF beer-drinking champion­ whilst the 2nd XI dropped out of they were unable to score All the Pentland Volleyball Club. But not must not be forgotten either. Neil ship was also won by an the cup and threw away a home same, the 1-0 defeat can perhaps without some concern, as we had a Dennison ran particularly well to Edinburgh University select with a point. be seen as mildly acceptable in the previous win to maintain; yet we finish 10th , while Allistar sparkling performance from Zoot! On Saturday the t st XI, without light of much sadder news For head rumours that they had once Hargraves made a most welcome Who can beat us now? the reliable C. Abraham and the David Law, club captain and long­ again started to train. Horrors! injured T. Stobie, lost 2-0 to servinq goalkeeper, may have to Would we have a struggle on ou r Morgan FP in their National retire from the outdoor game due hands? League Div ision 3 game. to the recurrence of a nagging As it turned out, yes, we did . We Meanwhile, the 2nd XI lost 2-1 to shou lder injury. started with a first-set win , largely Linlathen in the third round of the The 2nd XI, playing at home on on the st rength of our stolid Reserve Cup. This fiery game saw Su nday, were unable to defeat an consistency and Pentland's errors . much ill-tempered behaviour, enthusiastic lnveresk side. The2-2 However, Pentland soon settled vicious stick tackling and poor draw resulted from a late lnveresk down into form . Unfortunately, we hockey, despite the admirable goal, the 2nds having led through­ also settled into a fairly debuts of newcomers D. Gorman out the second half. In spite of mechanical, un insp ired style - and N. Macleod. Two soft goals their greater speed and skill, and a execution without fluidity or by Linlathen were too much for the brace of goals from P. Lyall, the assertion. Even with a few major unfit University side, who could team could not secure the two vital changes in positioning, and lain's only manage a late penalty-flick league points. ankle's premature return to play, from Lickley. If anyone says "It's just a game", we managed only brief moments The misery extended to Sunday. I'll be round with the boys! of dynamic play. We lost the next The 1st XI returned to Dunferm­ two sets without much notice line to play Carnegie (who had Anne Von Looker other than general. frustration . Results Shock Service

Football: Wed 27th Jan v. Glasgow - 1st XI won 2-0: 2nd XI Omission won 3-2: Colts lost 1-3. Sat 30th Jan-1st XI 4, Selkirk 2: Edinburgh University 1 O; wi th the strong wind at their backS , 2nd XI 3, Spartans 2: Colts 2, H­ Portobello 6 attacked almost ceaselessly, but Watt FPs 2. Edinburgh University skipper managed only two penalties by Hockey: Sat 30th Jan- 1st XI v. John Peters has been left out of McCorquodale and a try by prop Morgan, National League, lost 2-0; the Welsh XV to play France this Willy Jack, to lead 10-0 at half­ 2nd XI v. Linlathen, Reserve Cup, Saturday in one of the major time. lost 2-1; 4th XI v. lnveresk, friendly, selectorial upsets of the decade. In the second half Edinburgh won 4-1. Sun 31st Jan-1st XI v. The news is particularly surpris­ were encamped in their own 22 for ing in view of Edinburgh's hard­ long periods as Portobello hurled Dunfermline Carnegie, National earned, courageous victory over assault after assault on the Edin­ League, lost 1-0: 2nd XI v. the up-and-coming Portobello at burgh goal-line. A converted try lnveresk, East League, drew 2-2. Canal Field last Saturday, in Mr making the score 10-6 meant an Peters' first match as captain. agonising last 20 minutes for th e 1 Unfortunately, Mr Peters is a home side, who just managed to shade inarticu late, and his hold on for a deserved victory. If 1-M News one had to pick a man of the energetic vocabulary cannot be Forthcoming Attractions: reprinted here, but after the match match, it would be hard to ignore lock Angus Pottinger, who was February 21 st: 1/ M Volleyball he expressed his pleasure at the Tournament, Sports Hall, 10.3 result. much to the fore in the loose and looked unusually fit. am . Mixed teams of six. Entries to He had good reason to be lain Manson (667 6848). pleased because there was much The twit of the match was a toss­ up between the referee and a February 28th: 1/ M Netball that was encouraging in Edin­ Tournament, Sports Hall, 10.30 burgh's display. The pack showed Portobello supporter. The latter, wandering in the in-goal area, am . Mixed tea ms of seven . Entries up well in all phases of play against to Gwen Adoor (556 9890). a determined Portobello eight, and denied his side a possible try by picking up the ball wh en it was March 3rd: 1/ M Rugby 7's in the second half the whole team Tournament, Canal Fi eld, 2 pm. d isplayed resilience under loose in the area; he was un cere­ moniously fl attened for his efforts Entries on entry forms (avai lable pressure, though the tackling at from Sports Conveners or SU times was indecisive. The only and it was slightly surprising that someone didn't do the same to the Office) to SU Office by February disappointment was that the Edin­ 26th. Details from lain McIntosh referee. burgh threequarters saw so little of (441 4172) , the ball in the first half: Edinbur h John Hamilton 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982

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Arts News On Stage End Design Multi-111 edia Macbeth By Jo Wilsbn reflecting suicide by a smasnea -entrance door, by steps set in false Dadayama The Winter School of Architec­ perspective lea"ding to nowhere, ture held last week was an over­ by an angled mirror showing the Bedlam whelming success. 650 stud~nts kitchen littered with food and enjoyed the opportunity of By Jenny turner pans, by peeling wallpaper, by a working with impressive, TV set spewing out rubbish from If The Residents appeared at the celebrated lecturers from abroad, its screen and, finally, by a dummy Bedlam, it might be a bit like this ­ working in groups in a non­ who had just committed suicide. an eclectic blend of Dada ethic competitive, experime ntal Two fourth year students and aesthetic. Formlessness atmosphere. As well as bringing Oescribed the projects in which manifests itSelf in computerised together students from around the they were involved during the lntertia, then suddenly erupts into country, who clearly benefited week. D. P. Corse took part in the from this "alternative education", a few moments of mechanical group led by the Danish lecturer it established a rapport between madness. Banks of media Jorn Skauge, whose aim was to the arc.hitecture schools of equipment, masked men, an opera show the importance of the Edinburgh University and the without music, a refrain of language, or semantics, of Edinburgh College of Art (whose screaming slides, slogans, live architecture. After discussions the Professor, James Dunbar­ television, image upon image, group divided into three, each Naismith. warmly congratulated impossible to take in. Music! group choosing three adjectives the organisers from Edinburgh Debussy=Bourgois Jazz. A such as ''bold" or "feminine" and University) and involved the lengthy harangue pays lip service designed petrol stations on the participation of 200 outsiders to every name previous to early basis of th~ given adjective. Each interested enough to attend the twentieth century avant garde. group endeavoured to guess the wide-ranging lectures through­ Hermes Thoth stars, as an certa in adjective from the design. out the week. Articles have ambivalent Ubu figure, almost This experimental project appeared in The Scotsman, the human beside the geometric encouraged the observer to Architect's Journal, Building masks of the modern men. Dada as explore and appreciate the design Design, The Times Higher Educa­ history - analysed . resyn­ and the aim of the designer, tion Supplement and the Scottish thesised. Dada as a lot of fun. however, the students found some Times Educatio(I Supplement, all Tibs' show is extremely baggy at supporting this original venture to di fficulty in ·portraying the the edges, but it gets off with.it. 'ft',s make education " fun " An meaning they wished to convey. I. a bit pretentious and under­ interview was also conducted on N. Girder took part in the project of rehearsed, but it gets off with it. It BBC Radio Scotland. American Steve lzenour, a constitutes pure effect -- the The student organisers would designer with Ve nturi and Rauch, 'Tibs' - "Image upon image, Photo - Gavin Fulton meaning lies in the meaningless­ like to thank the University for whose aim was to make people impossible to take in." ness, I guess. their co-operation, particularly in aware of American roots and allowing a bar to be set up in the culture through the signs and Architecture Department, which symbols used in daily life, such as Bedlam ;wo expressive actors not only in actions, tne stnkmg of the dagger obviously contributed to a more hamburgers. doughnuts, the Las their appearance but by their th rough the crown to demonstrate relaxed attitude to work and Vegas strip or Disneyland. The Lunchtime effective use of props and tone of Duncan's death, and theaxe transformed the department into a first day was spen t looking at by Vicky Taylor voice. through the crown to demonstrate hive of activity. The bar managed housing studies in Las Vegas and One of the main advantages of to get through 30 barrels of beer, Atlanta City, then the student set The second performance a Macbeth's death, worked well in a lunchtime theatre is it offers approximately 4,500 pints (there to work designing either a house personal view of set scenes from confined stage such as the directors and actors the chance to Macbeth is an awesome task for Bedlam's. was a 60/40% ratio men/ women on tbe seafront of Long lsland·or a experiment. Last week's two which clearly shows that archi­ Miss America museum on the pier any one to stage and direct for So presentations of "The Shadows of tectural design is thirsty work) of the same place. The project died macbeth the dialogue and Macbeth was played well oy Us Men" and "So died Macbeth" music had been pre-recorded so The projects were extremely taught the students how to cope Justin Baldwin who gave life to the directed by David Allison proved varied, including John Penton's with architecture in a commercial all action was mute and created an original idea to create on stage this point. aim to design a Residential Unit for environment. atmosphere of erriness on stage. Macbeth·s thought as the handicapped and elderly people, Looking back at the week's The former was a short powerful This was also achieved by the Macduff's axe descended on his adaptation of a selection of Tony Hunt's desire to cover activities, the exhausted present of the three supernatural head. Waverley Station and Princes organisers were pleased with their metaphysical poems, so chosen to witches on stage, played by Jane The fourth section of the piece present the two sides of the nature Street Gardens with a pedestrian success and hoped that the Scott, Lottie Horsman and Ruth was a recording of music written deck, and a theatrical " Revue" "Winter School" had made some 'bf love. One, the "bad" side aptly Adinatt and the incantorary "fair is and performed by David Allison. about architecture, performed on impact on the education of archi­ attired in black, Nitin Desu foul, foul is fair" surrounding This showed great sympathy for a contrasted well with the "good" them. the Saturday evening. One of the tecture in British schools and that play which to portray in twelve most original projects was called students had benefited personally "Side dramatised by Simon Bell. Macbeth as a play works largely minutes and convey its powerful "The Front Room Experience", a from their project work with The success of this short piece by imagery, David Allison's inter­ atmosphere is a feat which model of a corner of a room eminent lecturers. I Norked by the contrast of these pretation of events as symbolic deserves only praise. Music Scottish National Music SCO/Rattle As Anna, Mary King created a stature. Taking each movement unleased only at its close, the coda absolute precision of the different sensation, using her lithe form and steadily, he missed not a single of the first movement and the moods made this the best part of Queen's Hall expressive, variegated voice to rhetorical point in the darkness- awesome reconciliation with the evening's entertainment. Short convey the hardness and cheap 1ig h t struggle of the fi rst death approached sublimity in a as it was. The Symphony No. 6 in C movement, the heaven-storming SNO/Gibson eroticism of Anna I, and the way unthinkable for Solti and the major followed next, conveying Usher Hall moving sadness of his "sister". Funeral March and the energetic Chicago symphony's streamlined once again the many qualities of Anna's family in Louisiana were Scherzo and finale (the· scherzo but frigid Festival Hall perform­ By David Nice the orchestra. The soothing intro­ characterfully sung by the London wild and demonic, like Berlioz's ance last year. here, with the Simon Rattle has a flair for duction , the delicate and Voices - Mum a bass in drag - Witches' Sabbath). And the con­ strongs covering up their defects unusual musical combinations. undulating strains of the Andante, and the SCO dazzled with their ductor's opinion of his orchestra: and the brass heroically emphas­ Even if the fascinating coupling of the dynamic yet graceful ~cherzo usual incisiveness, achieving a "The piece works best with a ising its supremacy, is a reading Weill and Beethoven is less and, finally, the extraordinarily wonderful sleaziness-- for the chamber orchestra. They're which should impress its London startling than a flamenco dancer quick changes in pace of the cabaret-music. Aattle's incredible magnificent; no London orchestra audience this week. Allegro were all presented with a followed by Stravinsky's "Pulcin­ instinct for phrase-shaping was could play near as well as this." ella" - encountered at his South rounded cogency of rare much in evidence here, and in One could add superlatives SNO/Herbig excellence. Bank Summer Festival last year - indefinitely, though the strings it is still something of a break­ After the interval we were and the oboist, Robin Miller, Usher Hall treated to what Beethoven's through for Edinburgh. Kurt dese rve special praise as always. Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins", with contemporaries complained of Contrast between darkness and £/y Fred Price being a symphony of ''inordinate libretto by Brecht, presents a light, love of live and approach to satirical tale with a twisted length" - the No. 3 in E flat Major. death, is also central to Mahler'3 Conducted by Gunther Herbig, morality: Anna I, with the hardness It was indeed long, and by the end Ninth Symphony. In Friday's the SNO gave a fine performance of acquisitiveness of the "petits one felt drained from the effort of performan·ce Sir Alexande r of a programm" featuring bourgeois" has, in her quest for concentration needed to fully Gibson and the SNO failed to music by Weber, Schubert and money, to subdue the "sins" of her appreciate this complex work. So make this fluctuation as terrify­ Beethoven. Weber's D er other self, such as Pride (self­ an enthralling and extremely ingly clear as had Rattle, but there Freischutz, varying between the respect), Lust (honest love) and pleasant evening's entertainment were many insights. If the scherzo exhilarating and the sombre- as it Anger (bitterness at injustice). ended to prolonged applause, was hardly grotesquely "clumsy" traced the fortunes of Max the "Practicality" triumphs in all its leaving us to confirm what we and "Munt E tappisch sehr derb" Marksman, was presented with all ugliness, but results in spiritual Beethoven's " Eroica" Symphony it knew al r eady: the Scottish as it headed), and the savagery the verve and vigour one has come emptiness. acouirerl ~lmoi:.t Beechamesaue ,s National Orchestra is one of the of the Rondo-Burleske was to expect from this orchestra. The best in Britain. CiiriS=~:-:~:~~THE STUDENT Thursday,M:M· 4th~~ February 1982 13

Arts Views - Opera On Screen The Don in Love Rustic Lust Producer Roger Savag.e talks to David Stead about the Opera Club 's Sir John in Love later this month Lady Chatterley's Svlvia Kristel Lover Opera, like ballet, suffers from fact I'd like to see the two brought He is less happy about George an excess of myth. Busty women closer together to prevent the Square Theatre - ever the Odeon taking a long time to die in Italian is scepticism about the performing platform for big events - which is an image lodged in many a mind. arts among academics and to unsuited to the demands of opera. By Rupert Gordon Since 1967, the Opera Club has reduce the prejudices against There is no orchestra pit and the annually sought the dismissal of academics in the theatre. I enjoy acoustics are bad. Mills and Boon addicts this is for such prejudices and few support working with students. Very " If one is standing in the middle you. We all know the plot, or lack the cause more than Roger much." of the stage, no music can be of plot, but. largely disregarding Savage, producer of 16 shows and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Sir heard, and therefore all the action the essential social conflict and sexual vitality of the novel, the the man behind Sir John in Love. John ,n Love is based on Shake­ has to be confined to the front. "I'm not sure what sort of reputa­ speare's Merry Wives of Windsor This means it cannot be a box set beginning of this hollow film tion Opera Club has," he reflects, and was previewed in 1929 at the production using elaborate drags, the middle drags one off to the Lethe's somnolent shores (my certificate canon. From tne "but there seems to be a regular Royal College of Music, London. It scenery. So I thought I'd do it on a moment Ann Mitchell's sinister audience. is an ambitious choice because rostrum stage with the minimum of editor had to pinch me awake - "that was quite erotic"), and the Mrs Bolton suggests some " fresh "Some people see the opera as like this composer's other operatic props and almost Brechtian air and good healthy exercise" for works - The Pilgrim 's Progress, end drags one half-way back, to an too difficult or as 'dodo' form of art lighting. To accommodate quite a the listless. loveless lady, one is Old King Cole and The Poisoned large orchestra the seats in front of irritating semi-restfulness. There's a feeling that all opera has transported into a world of soft for example - did Just Jaeckin has attempted to to be 19th century grand. You Kiss Sir John the balustrade a re being focus , soft porn and soft not "set the inter-war Thames on woo both a Lawrentian audience know, Lohengrin and Rigoletto. removed." surreptitious slumber. Nicholas fire". It is rarely staged, not only and the dirty mack brigade. but Our own choice of opera is quite Clay gives the best performance because both Verdi and Nicolai After his 16-year affair with the has failed on both accounts, singular. We rarely do the Classics as the earthy, wood-chopping, have covered the same ground but Opera Club, Roger Savage would though the latter may gain some Scottish Opera handles them. I rabbit-gutting Mellors, whilst because demands a large not repudiate an amicable satisfaction posing as the former. What's the point of putting on Cosi it Shane Briant's Clifford is about as separation. To date only one Even the opening Bridesheadsque Fan Tuite if you can see it down chorus. Dr Savage was attracted to I flexible as Mellors' John Thomas the opera not only by the prospect student has directed an opera but scene of pre-Great War dignity the road? Grand opera is only a on a good night. of using a sizeable cast but also no one could deny that the job is augurs the risible inadequacy of branch ... there's a whole range of By the way, if you are having because it's production would difficult. Few people can combine things to come. things available. My interest in conscience problems with your fulfil a personal ambition. musical talent with an ability to.' Sylvia Kristel , the moony opera is in music theatre." love-life, it might be useful to "We decided on this work direct, "though Jonathan Miller unsmiling Lady Chatterley, strives Roger Savage's passion for the know, as Nicholas Clay points out because I had a crush on Vaughan can't read a score and he's one of once more to grope her way to stage is unashamed. His lectures with endearing rusticity, that Williams when I was about 15, the liveliest producers around". recognition as an actress, but are mini one-man shows, he runs driving two nails into the nearest though I hadn't heard of Sir John Similarly. one usually finds merely addes some impressively lhe Honours Drama course, he has tree will " make it legal". directed pla ys for Theatre at that stage. Then 10 or 12 years singers who can't act and actors eclectic disrobing to her _x- Company; even the sight of his ago I saw the RSC production of who can't sing: the good director wispy white hair swept back in the the Merry Wives of Windsor which must ensure that "the two talents slipstream of his bicycle suggests was one of the great theatrical can strike sparks off each other". he enjoys appearing as something experiences of my life. I wanted Sir John in Love sees 35 people of a caricature. Yet he pauses to then to do the play itself. sparking on stage supported by a consider whether a professional Eventually opera and theatre production team of about 20. I f~ mistakenly referred to them en -C8LTOD career in theatre would have , combined in Sir John in Love and _proved attractive. as resources were available we masse as a company. **'***STUDIOS ''I'm not sure .. I really don't thought we'd do it this year. It was " Oh, no .no!" smiled Dr know. I'm quite happy being an a gamble on whether or not a big Savage. "We are a Club! Not a MONDAY-SATURDAY PROGS. 7 p.m. academic among theatre people enough cast could be found, but company. Drama people like to and a theatre person among they're now working ve ry well call th emselves a company but Roman Polanski's academics. I enjor both worlds. In together and I'm fairly happy." we're quite happy being a club." TESS (A) ••••••••••• With NASTASSIA KINSKI, PETER F IRTH and Fred Price explores LEIGH LAWSON the rest of the best FR IDAY/SATURDAY 11 p.m. Th e Renaissance Singers , one of the two other major choral JAMES TAYLOR in groups affiliated to the Societies' Council, have _something of a BLACKTOP (X) sombre and refined air about them. Specialising in 16th and 17th century church and religious FRIDAY-MONDAY 8th FEBRUARY music, their excellent concerts are attended by audiences who are Firs/ Edinburgh screening for looking for good quality, un­ accompanied and accomplished MEPHISTO (AA) harmony singing. The choir numbers about 30, and normally Starring KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER performs twice a term, with its next concert taking place on 6th March (venue undecided; it could be at St Mark's Unitarian Church, but watch out for publicity). A fair grasp of sight reading is necessary THE REGGAE KLUB to join. as members are e>,Leith Theatre the elderl y to sing a few songs. The Singers enjoys a fai rly big, active (15th-20th February - tic_kets Gala Nigtit (Tuesday 16th, tickets Wl------1 membership (130) and huge from Usher Hall box office or £6.50 minimum) is this year's FRIDAY 19th ADMISSION £I.SO audiences wherever it performs. Alison Robertson 343 1042) after a charity event, however. Last year THE SOUND SYSTEM Specialising, as it does, in Gilbert term-and-a-half of preparation. £2.500 was raised, so go along in and Sullivan productions. the, This year is actually the Savoy's ------1 emphasis is on jolly smiles, light­ 21st anniversary, so it would be Victorian costumes and be ready FRIDAY 26th ADM ISSION £2.00 hearted fun and plenty of laughs. nice to see it a really big success. to waltz your way into the MALAIKA Behind the exterior of showyness, On top of stage entertainment, the morning. For any details, Alan however, much work goes into group sings at the University Carol Fairful (228 6840), the secretary, and THE SOUND SYSTEM each set of performa~ces. Service inGreyfriars ~hurchevery will be gl,ad to help. From Leeds '' 14 THE STUDENT Thursday. 4th February 1982

Tearsare Fab Gadget zombie-like, then su ddenly continuing show. As he writhes in More songs about thrashes into life to the drum front of me he looks up and his synthesised heavily rhythmic tongue sticks out of a blank, not enough shaving foam and backing beat - flailing his rod. impish face - a gesture I return an amplified " syndrumstick" and this is perhaps the reason Im hair-Peter Wrench against anything solid, creating a one of the ones he beckons on hysteric addition t o the stage later during the encore of his is affected by Fad synthesised rush. excellent first single " Back to The Fad Gadget dance is a manic Nature". The sight of half the Gadget. clown/ puppet/cosack mix which audience dancing with the uses every bit of the specially performer on stage at the Nite cleared stage. His screams and Club is a (sadly?) none too Fad Gadget's first Edinburgh gig growls mingle with the amorphous common sight these days. His produced a stormy turnout from bass/ keyboard/ percussion unsm i ling exuberance is lovers of the bizarre - and they maelstrom.He cowe rs and infectious and I for one will admit were not disappointed. crouches, jumps and bounds, but to being affected by it. The suppo rt , Aberdonian takes a break from the dull His lyrics are sinister - often gobsworths APB performed hard, confines of the stage to jump alarming - chosen to shock us rhythmic pop-funk (this moment's through the audience and shin up out of our apathy, a sentiment the fashion , boys!) : Popular a gantry while continuing to sing. BBC have objected to by banning danceability, unimaginative lyrics To illustrate his message in his latest single "Saturday Night and each song indistinguishable "Lady Shave" he disposes of Special" - underlining the from the next. smock and proceeds to extract stagnant hypocrisy ruling our lives Fad Gadget's (Frank Tovey's) 1hair's from all parts of his body (yes - the very thing his songs aim to initial presence is unnerving and all') and fl ick them at the disturb. sinister. Dressed from head to toe enthralled fans. This being Frank Tovey's intelligence in black: Buster Keaton hat, smock followed by a liberal smearing of shows through Fad Gadget's and fatigues; he points a long rod shaving foam over his body, which clownish facade in his attempt to at random spectators while staring he used to great effect in the overcome apathy and mediocrity.

Can Kevin Stapleton Cope? Passionate friends fumble for your ticket, be mis­ new Manchester, Teardrops directed to your seat by staff, sit piloted Mersey Ferry to fame. Now no more? Graeme down, consume! the bla nd , popless Wilder Stand up! The band are on. continues their fall from the Wilson sheds one Hoardes of juvenile adulationists heights of Kilimanjaro. Greatest for The Teardrop sweep to the rront, reaay (steady rapture is reserved for older songs, go!) to adore. When the 1~rarops Reward and Treason the greatest. Explodes. left the Culture Bunker, they did it For even though these are played by a different door to me. Now, in aimlessly, they seem nearly to Hallo! I'm Julian Cope and this is the midst of rapturous euphoria, justify the lack of care that has Greetings, afficandos. You can my show. I come on last so you can demo is surprisingly impressive, Cope has become the teenage idol plc!Ced them in their hole. stop holding your breath now, cos, and one hears that there's a adore me in my own right, no he always aimed at. Baiting the Having read of their exploits with Anna Conda's here again to confusion with the rest of the possibility of them doing a single female element "Wou/d'nt you like Club Zoo and wish to return to polarise your predilections. Read band, adore me as a star! with The Assoclate's producer to sleep with me?" He regards smaller, more intimate perform­ Snakes and Ladders and win Hallo! I'm Julian Cope - but Mike Hedger. When you 've them with the sneering disdain ances, my disappointment at their friends and influence people by which Julian Cope am I! Am I this recovered from the shock rush out that's been de rigeur for teen idols lack of spectacle is complete. Only dropping the right names in the months Oh Boy hunk or a serious and spread the word. No better since James Dean. with the last song does Cope Potterrow. popsinger, a naive dreamer or a way to amaze and amuse your attempt any communication with A desire for aversion led me to friends than quoting Snakes and cynical exploiter. I'm all, I'm what The Teardrops have fallen into us, shining a red spotlight into the abandon the Edinburgh scene on Ladders. When you're out to lunch you make me. You make me a star. the trap that blind worship darkness and leaving the stage Friday, and journey to Glasgow in you eat alone, but everyone loves a Every time I come to a gig in a prevented them from seeing. They abruptly, an air of passe, of a vaguely defined quest for fresh hipster. ve nue this size, I swear I'll never do play listelessly without the Waaht yesterday's heroes fi lled the air, not fruit(ion) in foreign places. it again. I never thought I'd that brought them their 15 minutes the sleeping gas that Cope told us Despite the fact the eight actually forget how to behave in a ol press darllnghood. F or those to believe in. To sleep, and perhaps misQuided record companies had seated venue. Leave the bar. moments when Liverpool IJQ'as the to dream. wasted money sending reps to Maestros both the nype and ·1·he Renovate Your Cooltones failed to impress your d i scriminating columnist . Record Collection However, the immense guest list Laugh? I nearly cried meant that ybu could (thankfully') This week exclusively pre­ ignore the band and play Anna senting the choices of Gordon receiv~d. If you think I'm being Conda's very own star spotting Sharp, vocalist with The Freeze. Barry Manilow sarcastic, get your finger out your game instead. Ten points if you backside and listen. People love saw Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet lngliston Show­ Barry Manilow because he and Clare Grogan (Talloohlah expressed feelings they share, Gosh? OK, so you read NME too ­ ground - Saturday. without apologising. He sings Gosh ! ) getting intimate . gooa Love songs superbly, with Discussing ways to get to unstained sincerity. NUMBER ONE, one wonders? " You know what they say about Spec1f1ca lly: women love him Altered Images are In the studio guys with big noses . . " quips because he says what their " men" at present with everyone's fave Barry, briefly abusing smut to are too proud to say. Men hate him millionaire producer Martin excite an excited audience. because he's a sap, or, more Rushent recording their next " They 've got big hearts'" smash! album. Been in two weeks Eighteen thousand eyes sparkle precisely, because they could never say what he says. Students and only down three tracks - Nith delight. laugh at him because he is so that's what I call perfectionist. "Oh Mandy, "superficial". Still on the Altered ones, You came and you gave without This concert was about as drummer Tlch is gettin' hitched in taking, the near future. So now you know. And I sent you away" " superficial " as say, Edinburgh ' s mushrooming All oressies c/ o Epic Records will Nine thousand hearts . 1. Song for Europe: Roxv Musir. suicide rate . Barry sings be g!atefully accepted, thougt) he, regrets he's too busy signing 2. By This River: Brian Eno I shouldn 't have been at beautifully about the Beautiful autographs to write his thank you Slow Water: Brian Eno lngliston on Saturday night. Like Emotion, mixing in some trivia to keep his people's feet on the letters. yourse lves, I was fully aware of 3. A Louse is not a Home: Peter ground. As another song drifts The SCOOP o f the week, that Manilow's mindlesness; I was a Hamill over the hall, every lyric finding Adam and the Ants have split, puts student, totally above the pathetic 4. Nobody's Scared: Subway every heart, no cynic can withhold a new reflection on getting out emotions of his stupid, ignorant, Sect middle - aged women from the truth - Barry Manilow is while the goings good. After ageing followers . Grimsby, buying our tickets half­ Wonderful. An trap it's a case of split up before 5. White Cell: Clock OVA Wh ile the world starv e s, price at the door (no matter the You think about your essays, the going gets infinitely worse. Poland rots, Cruise cruises in, the 6. Sweet Home Under White demand, there are always spare your flat , where your next screw/ The queue at the brew gets Tories destroy, Barry Manilow Clouds: Vi rgin Prunes ti ckets going cheap, come eight drink/ smoke/ giggle is coming longer .. and longer. The Freeze sings about Love. 7. The End: The Doors o'clocl<) to take our places, a full from. He thinks about where he have sacked their bassist and While I'm contemplating how hundred y ards fro m Barry's went wrong, if he should have drummer though the creative 8. Ven u s i n fu r s : Velvet I'm going to make the world a pregnant piano. cared more, or less, if he hurt her, nucleus o f the band remains Underground better place for all, stamping out Three hours later. Exit. What do I why she hurt him, if they'll come intact. Also, did 1 hear a whisper Show of Strength: Echo and all injustice, bigotry and war (and see? round, if she'll smile again, if he'll that some Simple Minds are soon the Bunnevmen Hibs supporters - Ed). Barry's A bouncer. A familiar Edinburgh make lt through the rain, if he'll to be redundant (OK, so I dtd, but 9. Small Mercies (Evas Song): contemplating Love. monkey man. Has a tear running ever love again. my lips are sealed for the Lemon Kittens 7.30. Chnst, how self-satisfied down his cheek. This is true. If you'd been there, you wouldn't moment) 10. Propaganda: Theatre of Hate we felt then, driving out to the Barry Manilow was worthy of scoff. The final startling news of the Blank Generation: Richard Show round past coaches of every ounce of adulation he Colin Macil ain week is that The Delmonte's new Hell and the Voidoids THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February 1982 15

It's Fashion! Portrait of the and guys. Consun,er Clothes, haircuts, Haircuts are begoming more daring to match the clothes. Back­ make-up, fun - coming and greasing hair are in what can I say?! vogue again (back-combing ruins asanArtist your hair but looks great and I grease is good for your hair, but is No. 3 Tynecastle Park ByBIC hellish to wear), and we can now With the emergence of Adam have temporarily coloured hair, in nine goals m two games and must and the Ants in the Eighties, various shades, from pink to bright win today. fashion became dramatic, green. Girls, as well as guys are "Can you HEAR theatrical and. yes you've guessed going for short-crops, which looks the Hearts tans SING it, romantic. Shirts were white. briliant if you've got a good bone The Hibbies ran away flouncy and very dashing. They structure. And there are all kinds and Bertie Auld and his are also hard to wash and even of bits and bobs to add lo that muppet men harder to iron, but that's fashion. 'crowning glory', ribbons, combs, got I ked on New Year 's These days, we see very baggy headbands. scarves etc. Day!" harem-pants, which look great on Geometric styles, hair lifted into The noise under the shed is now tall, slim people but on us smaller Toyah-like spikes, intricate and deafening. people, well, enough said! I elaborate shapes go side by side Kick-off and we take it to them! usually find, like baggy jeans, they with simple cuts, light perms and Nearly score three times, crowd look better on men anyway. The sleek waves. surges. chants, yells, loves it. Hall­ latest thing; ie relatively, as Paris Even make-up is taking a new Gorgie Road -home of Heart of an-hour passes m t,ve minutes. Oh or London, the 'prophets' of what's shape. For those of us daring Midlothian Football Club. no. Motherwell unflustered, in, are usually six months ahead; enough, we can smear on new Maroon and White. steady, gaining control; maroon are bermuda shorts or (trews). patterns and we are last moving Capacity - 40,000. Average this nerves, tempers going, Hearts which tend to inspire comments away from the classic make-up season - 6.000. losing the place, Motherwell like "Hey hen, you've lost half yer routines ie eyeshadow on eyes. Last Saturday, the 81g Match, at score. Crowd struck silent, trousers!" I can't help feeling that blushers on cheeks and lipstick on home to Motherwell, Division One broken, Hearts crack, lose 3-0. bermudas look great on bare, lips. I wear my lipstick on my eyes, leaders. Unfortunately, D1v1s1on The consumer reacts· suntanned legs in summer, but my blusher as a highlighter and my One is really Division Two and By leaving early (everyone) slightly incongruous with wooly cream eyeshadow as a lip stick. promotion is the target. By chanting tor Hearts players tights, rather like a bikini with Something else I'm please to see 2.30 p.m. - filling up steadily. not on the park (part-time Doc'&. to men wearing make-up. Before The Stand - old men, etc. hooligans). One trend I was please to see the you squeal In horror girls, think. At Cynics. By chanting for Motherwell fans' return o f, was the mini-skirt. These or nothing (!) irl summer. As for last now maybe, they'll understand The huge Gorgie Road end - blood (lull-time hooligans). now come in all shapes and sizes Tukka boots which are surely the why we take so long to get ready vis1tng support, exposed to wmd "Fortunately, " tho', this kind of - swirling, straight, gathered and most practical and comfortable when we go out, and so long to get and, we hope, rain. defeat is now de rigeur ar all sorts of weird and wonderful thing since Kickers, are not for ready for bed! These days, fashion The McLeod Road end - huge Tynecasrfe, and most regard it colours. They can be worn all year those of us who try to be original is originality. I think it's true to say home support. hum of anticipa­ phllosophically. round; with warm tights in winter as EVERYONE'S got them, girls that at last, anything goes! tion. One Thousand Voices under Everyone wilf be back again the "shed'', confident and noisy, when the next false dawn shows, boisterous and young. because the Hearts supporters - Songs on-former glones those that remain - derive a grim - hat,ng Hibernian satisfaction from followmg them - N. Ireland (tsk, tsk) · thru these hard times. So Bourgeois - self ridicule - " We 're crazy The "mentals" go to the Gorgie we 're mental, we 're off our t kin' exit in their vain search tor momentarily engaged by the The Highway Code p47? - we heads!" vi'olence, which they seldom find. Introducing Ms. unfamiliar shape of M. Toth. The noted the lack of female They roll about and pogo and The other 10,000 pour up Gorgie dear o ld gent has talent, contribution, unless, of course, spit at the police. Road in sombre mood, sustained Poison Ivy, Life- something we fear no amount of ttie Meaningful aspirates of the Hearts come on, rousing only by the inviolable truth, Hearts electronics can synthesize. As if Bedlam Ladies in the audience reception, tension; they've scored shall rise again. styfes' new cor­ they realised that Hermes was were a necessary part of the stealing the show, he and his performance. first of all. We were at a loss to respondent, with cross-bar were escorted off by The profundities on Time had understand the participants' one of the identi-friends so they the delightful effect of making time apparent and fulfilled desire to put an alternative look itself slow to a virtual standstill, but their heads in (delightfully Poetry could (again, Mein Gott?) show us we were enlivend by a holiday cine the holiday snaps. One felt a slight dis1turbing!) cardboard boxes urltil at the Tibs Project passing sense of ... deja-vu. shot in . Woolworth's, which, we too had experienced an hour of Did we detect a few influences? other than dear Hermes, was the their Art. Kraftwerk? The Banana Splits? best piec~ and should have come Do catch them next time. dear~-. Corner My darlings, you know what Thames Police Friday evenings are. My A good time girl, eh? companion and I grew weary of -have a drink or two, enjoy discussing the criteria of Art and yourself. instead dropped in on The Tibs Like... Too Much We 're loaded - .l'lidundancies you Project. Who was that masked know, man? The dear M. Hermes Thoth wife and kids at home. had us literally riveted to our seats; system. Subjectively it produces health is apparent in the whole Brian i~'t married anyway more than we can say for his four· The latest in George enhanced concentration and industry. For example the -we were mates at school you identi-friends who tried relieves anxiety. introduction of the Tobacco know. endearingly hard to offend our Square's seemingly Nicotine ls a combination of Quarterly (1979) states "The world bourgeois principals - just a pyridine with methylpynolidine. It tobacco industry registered A 'provocative· low-cut dress, teensy-weensy bit ... passe, don't. endless series on is a · liquid alkaloid with strong another modest advance last with braless, you think? basic properties and is used, increased output and consump­ Lipstick with all the adorn­ Alas, one tends to find that, after drl,!gs - this week, sometimes, as an insecticide. tion of cigarettes". There was, ments. the first time one has heard music The amount of nicotine in a needless to say, no suggestion Bored, she accepts - they enter played, shall we say, backwards, it' it's tobacco ... large cigar (60 mg) if extracted and that the industry should foot the car. beg ins to sound uncommonly like consumed would be fatal. hospital bills for the 25,000 that She knows not the house. music played backwards. A Cannot feel it - being bundled However when smoking, one annually die under the age of 65 as shame. There followed, as my This weet< we look at our receives less than 10% and a direct result of cigarettes (Royal into the house: companion sagely remarked, a countries second socially · nicotine is rapidly destroyed by College of Physicians 1977). Shock, trauma - degradation good deal of talk about Art, but and bloody abuse. acceptable drugs, Tobacco. As metabolism. Subjectively tobacco has always pompously little ol it. Did the with all drugs the question has two The effects that tar and carbon appeared as a rather strange audience ... shu/1/e a little during 'Are you sure love?' major strands. (1) The medical monoxide have on the smoker substance to use as a drug. Its M. Alton's tirade? Was it, we effects and (2) the attitudes have long been the subject of effects on the central nervous wondered. a satire on bourgeois 'Are you sure you weren 't relating to consumption. debate. Current thinking traces a system are minimal (compared pseudo-intellectualism, or was it asking for it?' Before discussin either of these, link between tar and lung cancer with other drugs) and its health merely bourgeoise pseudo­ Certain? Fairy tales? a very brief historical assessment. and Pirani found retarded foetal risk high. Presumably if intellectualism? Frankly, we found Means court, swabs, smears, Tobacco was first brought to growth in expectant mothers. governments had been more it hard to care. My dears, we felt a probes, intrusion. Europe ·rrom Mexico by Francisco Numerous dogs and especially informed in previous generations · slight passing sense of . . ennui Questions, embarrassing - how Hernandex in 1560. It was hampsters have given their lives so it would have been made illegal. ,when the identi-friends aaain took considered a panacea and sold for us humans can find out what's many? ejaculations? to their consoles to show us sqme about its own weight in silver. The wrong with smoking. However At present there is little govern­ Done it before? with whom? tor holiday snaps. first tax on this drug amve medically interesting this research mental pressure against tobacco money? Forgive us if we are slightly, indirectly In 1644 in the form of a is, it is largely futile as tobacco has as at the current tax rates, what's comme on-dit, out of touch with duty on pipes. . for long been associated with high good for the industry is good for Who gives a shit anyway? post-modernist futurism, we Medically there are three main profits and an industry with a the government. Besides the other 'It's what they're here for.' missed the conflict and factors involved, Nicotine, tar and strong vested interest in keeping 25,000 who die annually aver the 'She asked tor it.· exuberance of the Dada we knew carbon monoxide. Nicotine Is the the medics in the background and age of 65 (1978) save the Contributory negligencll in the old days. Our attention was main drug feature as it ls a the ciggies in the shops. government an awful lot of blame them all. G.S. stimulant on the central nervous This notion of economics befare pensions. 94 THE STUDENT Thursday, 4th February i982

Proble111s Dear Auntie Bessie, Dear Auntie Bessie, Rock'n'Roll-Phew! I've been a lesbian-feminist, I don't know how to put this, but I punk rocker, anti-nukes, SWSO share a room with this wonderful Old hippies never member since I came to blue-eyed boy. You guessed it, University. It's the milk round next I'm gay. the problem is that he die - they just week what do you suggest? doesn't seem to notice my attentions. In fact, he seems more smell that way. Former idealist student interested in smoking dope and Dear FIS, taking LSD than in having Try conforming - works for it romance with me. Auntie, I'm in J ust my luck ! STV had most people. Anyway it's about torture, everytime I see him scheduled the hilarious "Slap· time you grew up and became a undress .. . What can I do? shot" for the Saturday night when l re sponsible member of society. Perturbed, Pilton was going to see All-American Dear Perturbed, Pi/ton, singer/ songwriter/ guitar hero Dear Auntie Bessie, I don't approve of homo­ SAMMY HAGAR. I'd paid £4 for a I don't suppose you'll answer sexuality or drugs, tor that matter. ticket though (no freebies for your this letter because I've heard that Why is it so fashionable to be poor reviewer you know) so it was you just make them up yourself queer or a junkie these days? In off to the Playhouse for95 minutes anyway but this is a matter of life my day, all boys were interested in of HM. and eath. was football. Men were men and An an excellent decision it was, I'm very short-sighted but I don't women were women. What you with Sammy and his band on top like to wear my glases when I'm both need is clean healty social form. especially second guitarist with my boyfriend Alistair. integration. Try joining the OTC ­ Gary Pihl who handled all the However after two suicide bids discipline will do you both the opportunities to show o ff that (w_ell how else could I explain world of good. If you really can 't came his way admirably , walking in front of a double decker conquer your filthy perversions especially when Hagar eschewed bus) Alistair is beginning to have why not stick you head in the gas guitar playing for his cordless firstly 'Tve Done Everything For the PA. As you can expect this had doubts about me. He's even overt. microphone. It was Sammy who You" (the nearest thing he's ever Dear Auntie Bessie, the punters jumping on the seats suggesting I visit the 5th floor of was the star of the show though. had to a hit single. It reached the Can you help me? I share a room and going apeshit much to the the Health Centre to see a with his Robert Plant loks, vaunted position of number 36) with this guy that keeps watching annoyance of the bouncers. psychiatrist. I long to unburden excellent singing, dynamic guitar followed by superb renditions of me while I undress. I think he's And that was that. One of the myself and tell him the truth but playing and the most delightfully "Rock Candy" and "Space Station gay, but rm only interested in most enjoyable concerts I've been will our relationship survive? crass patter that has come my way, No. 5", the old 'Montrose smoking dope and taking LSD. at for a long time even though it Short-sighted student since Ted Nugent. There was just standards. Dear SSS, Sex turris me off, what can I do? must be said his new material no holding him down as he The band then left the stage What you need a good doze of Extremely perturbed, Pilton didn't reach the standard of the scampered around the stage, again before returning to treat the feminism. It 's stupid to go to such Dear Extremely perturbed, older numbers. Finally, I must audience to their so called "secret" lengths to impress a male. Alistair You and your friend have got · running and jumping right till the admit this concert did not make end, playing a crowd faves such as encore that they reserve for good is the cause of all your problems. problems, See above. That's all I me think, but then again meither The instability in your relatjonship can say. "Trans-Am", "This Planet's on crowds. Most of the audience had do trendy bands like Blue Rondo a been let in on the secret though is causing your vanity so go to the Dear Aunti8 Bessie, Fire" and "There's Only One Way la Turkeys. Except for thinking of root of the problem - get rid of I've got this really unsurmount­ to Rock". (including myself) so nobody was the quickest route to the toilet. him. able problem. You see, for three After leaving the stage to frantic really surprised when the riff for years I've been intensely involved applause the band returned for "Whole Lotta Love" started over Peter Forster Dear Auntie Bessie, in a political joke, but I really fancy I don't su ppose many boys write this girl in the Potterrow. The to your page but I really don't problem is that she smokes know who to turn to. I'm a science Soubranie and reads the Daily WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM student and I really like this girl Express, and I can't tell her how I who does English Literature. It's feel because I'm in SWSO, and I'm not that I'm ashamed of doing supposed to be Revolutionary. All computer science but after talking my militant friends would laugh at NEW about what program I've prepared me. You see, I have a reputation for recently I run out of things to say. being a middle-class socialist If I did ask her out I don't know anyway and if I went out with a where I'd take her. I don't know if Tory I'd lose all credibility as a MAN AND DOG she'd really apprecate a KB free champion of the people. I really boose. She wears mini skirts and can't live without her, and another wee boots and scarfs and things hassle is that 1 know she's very and she always laughts at my keen on a guy who wears a dicky Adidas bag I've tried to become bow. Please help me I'm Eve ry man loves his dog. New Man more trendy but people laught at desperate. and Dog is a new guide for dog-lovers me at KB if I wear straight jeans. J.G.C. who wish 10 develop the inter-species What can I d9? Dear J . G. C., rapport necessary fo r true anumacy Downhearted Computer Lover I think you need to go through a with their canine co mpanion. Dear DCL, radical change of image. Stop Experts in veter inary medicine and Your real problem is your KB playmg politics and pull yourself animal psychology have collccIcd the inferiority simplex. But we're all together. Soeeches at GMs don 't knowledge of ordinary Kennel Club got our crosses to bear - I mean impress anyone. From what I hear, members 10 bring you frank articles really - I've had more problems non one goes anyway. Wear smart on the foll owing: than you've had hot dinners. Short suits and use brillcream and it all of giving up your course, I don '/ else tails, plank yourself at the really see what you can do. same table with a Pina Colada and BODY TALK I However, it isn't unknown tor a hi,:. a copy of Sporting Life, and ask When a man and dog meet. the way George Square female to tall tore her it she's going to Ascot this they arrange their bodies, sniff each V weed from KB. So keep your chir year. other, and allow eye contact s hows their interest. Can you read the signs?

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