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New summer travel FlEE guide p 11 4PIN~ David Steel inter- INSIDE! view p 12 - & - I ( --~ $S- ~ l know ol no better trammg ground tor manliness than the rugger ficfc[ , Rugger is no kid-glove affair. Neither is life. .\s the poet says, " Life is real." Rock: gigs you • So is rugger. Without the traming and 11"illingncss to gi,·c and take no person will become a successful ruggcr player. It is a tough game in 1d1ich hard knocks missed p 14 arc given and taken. Of course, in the- right spirit. 1 believe there is something in rugger that is not found in any other game. It cannot be played without hard knocks. I have never heard players say that they rnjoycd a soft game. The tougher and harder it is the more they enjoy it. Thus 11·c sec amidst the thrills, - McK" '{ + O"fH~ G oop C,l T, Z.c:NS \men bowled ovq, but coming up for more. 2 The Student Thursday, 21st April 1983 Peace BLOOD NEW LIBRARY New The Mobile Blood Donor Unit Petition will be at the Chaplaincy Centre FOR next week. Their last visit was cut short to only two days and terrible By a Student Hack weather at King's Buildings EDINBURGH Unit deterred donors so that they fell new library ·w,11 enable scientists While us students have short of the target set. Giving The National Library of from all over the world to gain been enjoying a (no blood doesn't take long - only Scotland has announced the access to a wealth of scientific Or David McQueen, BA, doubt well-earned) break, half an hour which includes time establishment of a new library - material. Mr Alex Fletcher, MP and MA, Seo, has been for a rest, tea and biscuits. The the Scottish Science Reference Minister for Industry and appointed head of Edin th e hardy campaigners sessions are: 25th, 26th and 27th library. It is a notable step and an Education at the Scottish Office, for peace have been April, 10 am to 5.30 pm at the important one for Scotland. The welcomed the new library. He burgh University's new relentlessly hammering Chaplaincy Centre; 12th May, 10 Royal Society of Edinburgh has called is a "valuable asset to Research Unit in Health provided the foundation for the away. am to 5 pm; 13th May, 10 am to 4 Scotland 's world renowned and Behavioural Change. pm both at King's Buildings Union. library from its collections. The scientific community". The goings-on at Greenham The new unit has been estab Common have already received lished with funding from the extensive coverage from the illus Scottish Home and Health Depart trious mass media barons, so it is ment in association with the Social felt there is little need to add to the Science Research Council and the tomes that have been produced\ Scottish Health Education Group. but things have been happening It is hoped to eventually build up a nearer home. staff of six to eight people. Over 30 peace groups in Edin Dr McQueen is presently burgh have been running a two Associate Professor in the Depart month campaign collecting signa ment of Behavioural Sciences at tures for an anti-Cruise petition the John Hopkins University of that Robin Cook, MP, will present America. His research interests to Parliament. cover socio-cultural factors in Since the campaign was health and illness wi th emphasis launched on March 4, it has met on cardiovascular disease, alcohol with marked success, indicating use, genetic disorders and other that there is widespread chronic diseases. The new unit opposition to Cruise missiles. The REFEREN aims to establish a programme of organisers have said that behavioural research relevant to generally about 60 per cent of health. those approached sign the Ray Clancy petition, and in some areas this figure has been nearer 80 per cent. DUM Un the 5th May the students of Heriot-Watt University The halfway stage of the campaign was marked by a festive are to vote in a referendum on reaffiliation to the event on the Mound. Artists for National Union of Students. Although Heriot-Watt's Peace constructed an eight-foot Students' Association Council is to make no tall cube, which they then proceeded to paint on the spot, recommendation in favour of NUS, it agreed while Pilton's Children's Circus unaminously to ask the University's students. provided live entertainment for the Furthermore the wording of the Edinburgh experienced a bit ot by-passers and casual pedes motion passed at their last The only real question mark Eastern spice last weekend when trians. meeting makes the ma1or motive concerning reaffiliation is tts cost. the Royal Scottish Museum and By the time the campaign for reaffiliation very clear: For when Heriot-Watt left NUS, the Extra-Mural Studies finishes on May 14, the organisers "One way of f1ght1ng £10,000 affit1ation fee which its SA Department joined forces to hope to have collected "a bumper Education Cuts and hoped to gain, was lopped off by present a symposium entitled pile of signatures" and, even more securing decent increases in the University court. However. it "Turkish Culture through the importantly, to have reached many grants is to campaign and the referendum returns a 'Yes to Ages". The concoction of lectures, people that other campaigns negotiate collectively NUS' opinion. 1t ,s felt that they slides and films was given by a haven't touched. through the National Union would be in a strong pos1t1on to get number of leading experts on the of Students.'· the money back subject from all over Britain, And the proposer of the motion to In any case, Heriot-Watt wil including Edinburgh, Durham and the Council of the Students' phase gradually back into NUS, London Univers1t1es. Attracting Association, Mr Stuart Purdy. paying £3,250 for the first year, over a hundred from both the "NEW believes that "With education cuts £6,500 for the second and almost public and student population, it seriously affecting Heriot-Watt £10,000 for the third was a timely reminder about Un1vefS1ty and with proposals for a Simon Cartledge Turkey's importance 1n European BLOOD" student loan scheme certain to be affairs when the University's own included m the government's Turkish Department is threatened The Government has election manifesto, I am confident by closure Edinburgh Travel given the go-ahead for an that the students of Heriot-Watt ···~ Centre has organised two cultural extra 312 university will decide to aff1l1ate by a sizeable tours of Turkey 1n April and majonty September teaching posts to bring When Heriot-Watt left the NUS 'new blood" into informa ,n 1981, they voted to leave by a tion and technology and ma1ority of 281 1n a turnout of 1802 (56%) At tha'. time the Ant1-NUS other subjects for which campaign was led by last yea(s there would otherwise be Chairman of t11e Federation of little recruitment. Conservative Students, Mr Bnan The Monteith. who was recently The posts will be funded by the deposed by Mr Paul Goodman at University Grants Committee at a the FCS Easter Conference cost of £6 million. The posts are following an internal Conservative Secular part of the three-year £100 million Party inquiry into allegations of programme announced by Sir corruption in the FCS Keith Joseph last December. Mr Goodman, who 1s presently The scheme will be followed by serving on the NUS (UK) another 300 posts next year. Mr Church Executive, 1s espected to support John Akker, Oeputy General reaff1l1at1on. And MPs from all the Secretary of the Association of main parties have written to University Teachers, said: "The Heriot-Watt's SA encouraging The role of the Church in number of posts being funded by reafflliatmn the government is derisory secular affairs is the compared with the number of '----------------------------~~-----------...J subject matter for three posts lost through university cuts. " occasions this week. On Sunday, 24 April, Mgr. Bruce Kent, the chairman of CND, is giving a talk, followed by a dis NLSPlays cussion on The Church and I,~ET~1E Pacifism , organised by the CND Catholic Students Union. The talk will be held in the CND AT QUEEN'S HALL Catholic Chaplaincy Cale, 24 at 7.30 pm M1No George Square, at 8.30 pm. On Friday, 22nd April, a public A ma1orexh1b1t1on on Scotland's Host Simultaneously the Rev. Dr forum entitled "Peace-keeping In heritage of printed books and Charles Elliott , Director of the Eighties" will take place at the learning is to be held in the Christian Aid, will be preaching on Queen's Hall.