S4'p°R.B Rent Campaign Launched CND March on American Air Base
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Theses Bindings Save £££’s . We are fast gaining a reputation £ amongst students for high quality ; . bindings at a low, low price (£4.90 per copy) 8 May 1981 Collection and delivery service, Friday afternoons 2 - 4 pm in the University Union Extension, next to the games room Samples available for inspection, all enquiries welcome Craft Print Finishing Traditional Bookbinders Stonebridge Mills Wort ley, Leeds LS12 4QL Tel 795296 Elvis to gig in bigger hall University Union Ents Secretary It is expected that by the time of Andy Kershaw, this week an the concert the capacity of the nounced his latest scoop. Elvis refectory will have been increased Costello and the Attractions will from 1500 to 1800. This is a result play at the University Refectory of the addition of a new fire on Tuesday 23rd June. escape, to be built from the East ( 'H e u t h e Trinity and All Saints College wall of the refectory down to the "1 Students Union (TASCUS) have Mr Kershaw said, “ Elvis missed courtyard near the extension. recently installed a Xenon pinball us out on his recent British tour by £lv*s (yO sttlio s4’p°r.b machine, identical to the one a cruel twist of fate, so I re Mr Kershaw first investigated the removed from the University negotiated for a special one-off possibility of a further fire escape Union last week. The University for after the exams. Leeds Univer last year, but was told by the - f - / machine was kicked out because it sity will be the only concert he University authorities that this makes female sexual noises which plays before touring Ireland and would cost £10,000. However, he were felt to be overtly sexist. But will probably be his last for a long has since got an independent p a r e TASCUS President Martin Healy time.” estimate and expects to go ahead said “ I will not take any action with this contractor. Mr Kershaw over the machine unless I receive a explained, “ It is worth bearing in substantial objection to its mind that the cost of the escape presence.” can be met out of the profits from a couple of sell-out concerts. It Thomas Danby College is running will enable us to book really big up to its Executive elections for bands again.” The new capacity 1981/82. Hustings will be held at will be equal to that of Tiffany’s, the Czar Street site on May 8th and previously the biggest regular 14th, and at Whitehall Road on venue in Leeds. May 11th. Hustings at the Roun- dhay Road site are still being ar Tickets for the concert should be ranged. on sale in about ten days time - watch for the announcements in Trouble is brewing at Carnegie Leeds Student, Feedback and the Hall, at the Polytechnic Beckett usual places. Elvis Costello’s last Park site. The Carnegie Trust, gig at the University was in which funds the hall and certain January 1979. Rent Campaign Launched PE students at the college, is in Pictured above - Andy Kershaw sisting that all their students live in The University’s intention to in A further amendment by Jim Carnegie Hall, while at the mo crease Hall and Flat fees by 11 % Murtagh and Karen Robinson was ment some of them live in other CND March On has produced a fast reaction from defeated. In it they proposed that Halls at the site. This means that the Students Union. the reason for the strike should be seven Hall Committee members In the first OGM of term, a com changed, saying that students who are Carnegie students will American Air Base bined motion from the Executive already enjoy a reasonably high have to give up their posts if they and the Socialist Worker Students standard of living, and that the move out of their Halls and into Bank Holiday Monday saw a mile- Cryer, the Labour MP for Organisation called for a rent only reason the rent strike should Carnegie. long march pass the Menwith Hill Keighley, who warned that Men strike to be organised to start on be supported is to ensure that American Air Force base in North with Hill would be one of the first the first day of the new session. resources be used to ‘ fight poverty A special general meeting was held Yorkshire, protesting that its targets in the event of a nuclear The motion pointed out that the and injustice not only in this coun on Tuesday, and a motion stating presence could cause Harrogate to war, which would result in Har University increased fees at the try but also internationally.’ This that “any member of a Hall of be a prime target in the event of a rogate facing a “nuclear start of this session by 17.5% for was defeated almost unanimous Residence Committee nuclear war. holocaust” . He went on, stating Halls and 20% for Flats, and that ly. democratically elected within Hall that “we want to be friends with grants are only being increased by constitutional requirements Duncan Campbell, an in the American people but it does 7°7o. These increases, says the mo should not be re-placed in any vestigative journalist, claimed two not mean that this country must be tion, ‘Constitute a further erosion other Hall” was passed years ago in the New Statesman turned into a United Kingdom of the living standards of students unanimously. that the Menwith Hill base is an in parking lot for American missiles at a time when many already find ternational telephone tapping cen and bases. it hard to manage through no fault Inside: More TASCUS news - students tre run by the United States In of their own.’ there have produced an exhibi telligence Service. The march, which was attended by The SWSO part of the motion, ex The Undertones tion, commissioned by LUU CND representatives of Leeds CND pressed in an amendment to the society. The exhibition, which It Was this information which pro groups, was closely supervised by main motion, and proposed by Tess shows how the Leeds area would mpted Donald Dean of the Har the police, who estimated that it Brian Gallagher, deals more with Free Competition be affected by a nuclear attack, rogate Campaign, for Nuclear was attended by only 4000, in the practicalities of the proposed will be displayed at TASC and Disarmament. In a field near the cluding 1500 who had marched strike, such as making sure that then loaned out to libraries, sixth base, where the estimated 7000 from Harrogate. The march pass ‘fresher’s mailing includes infor form colleges and so on in the marchers assembled for a picnic, ed off entirely without incident. mation on the strike and the area. they were adressed by Mr Bob reasons behind it.’ UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY T F o - o f * . Theses Bindings Save £££'s . We are fast gaining a reputation amongst students for high quality bindings at a low, low price (£4.90 per copy) Collection and delivery service, - | ; P e e Friday afternoons 2 - 4 pm in the University Union Extension, next to the games room Samples available for inspection, all enquiries welcome Craft Print Finishing Traditional Bookbinders Stonebridge Mills Wortley, Leeds LS12 4QL Tel 795296 Elvis to gig in bigger hall University Union Ents Secretary It is expected that by the time of Andy Kershaw, this week an the concert the capacity of the nounced his latest scoop. Elvis refectory will have been increased Costello and the Attractions will from 1500 to 1800. This is a result play at the University Refectory of the addition of a new fire on Tuesday 23rd June. escape, to be built from the East Trinity and All Saints College wall of the refectory down to the "I (Hw the Students Union (TASCUS) have Mr Kershaw said, “ Elvis missed courtyard near the extension. recently installed a Xenon pinball us out on his recent British tour by " £lvi$ CostlH o S^pporP machine, identical to the one a cruel twist of fate, so I re Mr Kershaw first investigated the removed from the University negotiated for a special one-off possibility of a further fire escape Union last week. The University for after the exams. Leeds Univer last year, but was told by the machine was kicked out because it sity will be the only concert he University authorities that this makes female sexual noises which plays before touring Ireland and would cost £10,000. However, he were felt to be overtly sexist. But will probably be his last for a long has since got an independent p u r e TASCUS President Martin Healy time.” estimate and expects to go ahead said “ I will not take any action with this contractor. Mr Kershaw over the machine unless I receive a explained, “ It is worth bearing in substantial objection to its mind that the cost of the escape presence.” can be met out of the profits from a couple of sell-out concerts. It Thomas Danby College is running will enable us to book really big up to its Executive elections for bands again.” The new capacity 1981/82. Hustings will be held at will be equal to that of Tiffany’s, the Czar Street site on May 8th and previously the biggest regular 14th, and at Whitehall Road on venue in Leeds. May 11th. Hustings at the Roun- dhay Road site are still being ar Tickets for the concert should be ranged. on sale in about ten days time - watch for the announcements in Trouble is brewing at Carnegie Leeds Student, Feedback and the i Hall, at the Polytechnic Beckett usual places.