NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY $(2-CHi'j£r5 |i. 3 - s u NOT TO BE REMOVED volume Keeords, Ridley Place. 287 wins lunch for two (value £5) donated by 885 wins 2 complimentary tickets donated by the Barley M ow, Sandgate. the Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street 421 win* 2 complimentary tickets donated by 241 wins 2 compimerrtary tickets doneted by The the Gulbenklan Studio (by arrangement). Studio, New Bridge Street (by errangement). 960 wins 2 complimentary tickets donated by Tyne Theatre Co. (by arrangement). 465 wins 2 free meals (value £5) doneted by Wimpy, Northumberland Street 740 wins a £5 voucher donated by Kard Bar of Croat Street. 377 wins a 12' single doneted by R.P.M 693 wins a £5 voucher donated by Flip, Cross Records, Level 5. Street 1002 wins e bottle of wine doneted by Grants of 859 wins two free tickets doneted by Cannon St. James. Cinema, West gate Road. 521 wins 2 free tickets to a Union Event (See 637 wine a Sunday Lunch for two, donated by Sid. Ents Supremo). Luckies Comer Bar, S t Mary's Place. 023 wine dinner for two (value £10) doneted by 997 wine film developed 1 hour service by Joe Rlgetoniee, St. Mary's Place East Qulckpics, 37 Nelson Street PRIZES TO BE COLLECTED BY MONDAY 14/3/88 Thursday, 10th March, 1988 No. 782 Price 15p VAN D ALS P.2 TAX NEWS A proposal was passed by the Residential Accom­ modation Committee (RAC) last Wednesday incur­ P.3 ring an extra £30 to be paid by all students applying for places in Halls of Residence (including Leazes NEWS Terrace) at the start of the forthcoming academic year. The resulting finances will be 'pooled' to cover PERSONALS the cost of vandalism under the heading of 'caution m oney'. This will effectively mean that It also seems to have been the P.4 the University has created a Castle Leazes wardens who have £60,000 (approx.) account over­ pushed this through and of LETTERS night. the interest from which will course it will mean an easier life be used to cover administration for them drawing direct from this costs. A similar system existed new account so that searching during the '60s but was abolished out the individual responsible through Union pressure in '72, need no longer be a priority. P.5 after which vandalism did not However, rather than a deter­ increase, there being, therefore, rent to vandalism, this new fee Paradise will now cost £30 extra SHITSTIRRER no reason to suppose that this may well mean students no lon­ scheme will decrease the ger fearing retribution for their QUENTIN amount of existing vandalism. actions and even believing that When first put forward, the their payment has given them a 'caution money' was in no way license to destroy property in returnable and although that order to 'get their money's proposal was overturned, the worth'. Let's face it, a fire exting­ P.6/7 University estimates that stu­ uisher looks all the more temp­ MINIBUS MADNESS Student Union minibus services may be decimated if plans currently under discussion dents are likely to receive a max­ ting when you've paid for it. ARTS imum of £5 in refund, if at all. by the Department of Transport are accepted. A consultative document has been A sub-committee has been set introduced ahead of proposals to create a common-format driving licence, and under As Rob Williams (Accommoda­ up to look into the details of these anyone driving a minibus would need to qualify for a PSV licence. This tion Officer and El Presidente complex administration that this requirement poses a serious threat to student users and community groups who rely elect) stipulates, "The idea for 'caution money' will involve and on young, volunteer drivers. Rob Williams is set to try to P.8 making residents more aware of The cost of training and testing operating two minibuses for one ensure maximum concessions being put together, including let­ the cost caused by needless van­ each driver would be prohibitive, for the students involved. The would again be prohibitive, and ters of support and illustrations of AMNESTY dalism is basically sound. Howev­ around £600, given that the Uni­ would require an even larger pool final decision will, of course, rest the consequences of this prop­ er, this represents yet another versity has 700 drivers reg­ with the University council. It of drivers to be available, all of osed change in legislation. HESELTINE charge for students to bear at a istered, the scale of the prospec­ whom would have to be over 21. Treasurer Sam Bousfield rightly would be foolish indeed to under­ time of increasing financial diffi­ tive problem is obvious. This is an essentially non­ stated that the Societies and mine the importance of controll­ LIFT MAN culty". The alternative would be re­ political issue, on which the Un­ Clubs would be financially crip­ ing the increasing, costly and placing our minibuses and/or hir­ ion executive are taking a united pled. She is compiling a list of the This is all too true. With a mindless vandalism inherent in ing smaller ones, but the cost of stance. A protest package is number of times each society has student poll tax of £60 looming, the Union and residential Uni­ used a minibus from the begin­ housing benefit being drastically versity buildings, but the issue ning of the year, and A.U. Presi­ P.9 cut, the new housing bill increas­ here is the method of control, as ing rent levels in the private sec­ Mr Williams concludes "the vast dent Rachel Sims is doing the same for the sports societies.. CAW WEEK tor (limiting the escape route majority of students who are in­ Both agree that a much greater from higher cost . hall accom­ nocent of vandalism will have to PICS modation), the University have LOANLY? expense would be incurred by bear the cost incurred by the each society, public transport increased the deposit charged on minority who perpetrate it. There Radical proposals for reforming financial support for stu­ residents' accommodation from is no justice in that." dents are now being drawn up by Government Ministers. being so much more expensive, £22 to £30. Empty pockets all Loans will be made available to all students, irrespective of and in some instances totally round. Clemency Firth their parents' income. impractical. Sorry, no canoes on Under the present system, many middle-to-higher income families this train, love. P.10 either have to pay a large contribution towards the cost of their Chris Ford, Union President, children's higher education or receive no help from the State. has undertaken to write to Jim NHS IN The new proposals - yet to be finalised by the Department of Cousins MP, asking for his sup­ Education — would make available a 'top-up-loan' of up to £1000 a year port. and the Deputy President, CRISIS CARRIED-A-WAY available to all students. Sarah Bishop, is composing let­ Although the idea of student loans arouses fierce controversy. A CAW event ended in disaster last week as the Ministers believe that supplementing student grants in this way would ters to the Chancellor and Pro- Vice-Chancellors asking for their money raised for local charities was stolen. ease the pressure on parents, while making a new source of finance available to hard-pressed students. backing. Should the proposed Havelock Hall held a CAW Benefit disco up on Level 6 Meanwhile, grants would be reduced, or at least not rise in future changes be implemented, it P.11 featuring the blues band The Heavy Feathers'. Despite it's years, and entitlement to Housing Benefit would be withdrawn, the would be "to the detriment of the success, the evening failed to provide any money for CAW proposals outline. University", said Sarah. She went PORRIDGE as the £150 raised was mysteriously stolen from Castle Repayment of the loans would be at low rates of interest over a on to explain that the A.U. would period of 10 years, with safeguards if students later became certainly be adversely affected, Leazes Halls. unemployed, thus preventing the large debts incurred by students and this to some students is "the At the end of the event, the organisers took the funds borrowing money from banks with high interest rates. icing on the cake", swinging their back to Castle Leazes and put them in a locked box which With indications that the idea of loans is gaining wider acceptance choice from another University to P.12 was itself locked inside a room. Despite these safety among Tory M.Ps, the idea was attacked in the Commons last week by Newcastle. Sarah hopes that this measures, the money had disappeared by the next morning. Mr Richard Livsey, Liberal M.P. for Brecon and Radnor as "totally "effort to tidy things up" did in SPORT The Porters were unable to comment on the theft, but the unacceptable". fact overlook the implications for Mr Kenneth Baker, the Education Secretary, assured M.Ps that community groups and student Havelock Junior Common Room are said to be devastated student loans would not be added to the Government's Education unions, and wondered whether and plan to replace the money from their own Committee Reform Bill now before Parliament, but added that "top-up loans are the Department of Transport had funds. one of the ways of going forward". considered the proposition fully. Debs Dudgeon Nigel Vincent Philippa Young T SHIRTS AND POSTER FLAGS Pop, Humour, Union Jack, Stare 'n' Stripes, Confed 6 “D a y t - Militaria Clothing, 58 Webbing, all bought and eold.