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isTuDENT:: 0.G.M. TUES 25th Feb INDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER Riley Smith Hall 1pm FIGHT THE DEMOLITION CREW DEMONSTRATE AGAINST FOWLER - WED 26th FEB If Norman Fowler's proposals are passed in NUS estimates that the average student income Parliament, as a student, you can kiss goodbye to will shrink by i840 a year as a direct result of the a decent or esen subsistent standard of living. Fowler proposals. It would seem that this Government is doing its If this news is not bad enough, to make matters utmost to segregate society further by promoting worse Keith Joseph's Department of Science and a breed of student that at one time appeared to be Education has 'increased' - the grant by 2 per dying. but no►i looks as if it vs ill he the only type cent which, in effect is a drop of 20 per cent in that will be able to afford further education. real terms. How students are meant to pay their a LUF's Welfare office has calculated that, if the rent and their bills; buy food, hooks and equip- Norman Fowler: Sucking the life blood ouf of students. Government has its way, the weekly value of the ment and still have change from £30 for student grant will he £30. that is. equivalent to apparently trivial things like clothes and shoes, I supplementary benefit. However. unlike those on- don't honestly know but it doesn't seem to he HOW STUDENTS LOSE OUT supplementary benefit students won't he eligihle bothering the Government. to hay e their rent paid For them by the council Students are already amongst the impo%er- ' Unable to claim Supplementary Benefit 0 the short vacations and as a result will he worse off than those who ished of this country, how far will this gov- ' Ditto unemployment benefit. claim supplementary benefit; unless. of course. ernmental demolition crew go to crush yet ' Unable to clam Housing Benefit if kving in college they are lucky enough to he bailed out by their another outspoken voice? accommodation. parents. • Unable to claim Housing Benefit in the long vacations if absent from the accommodation ' Different calculation tot Housing Benefit to £12.45, reducing the amount students will be able to claim during term time. CARLISLE FE Colleges are even worse off • ' Full time students from 19863 will not be able to claim Supplementary Benefit during the academic year. CALLED OFF ' In the lonoer term the Government has stated that It wants to remove all students from the welfare sector, grant aided or not The visit ofJohn Carlisle MP meeting could be held in 'a safe fully in the intellectual batik'. to Leeds Polytechnic, plan- and orderly manner'. Leeds It has been alleged. how NUS- by "deliberately using ned for Thursday, has been Labour MP Derek Fatchett had that the FCS has been in- speakers on the far Right with postponed following the de- already called for the abandon- strumental in inciting disorder well-known contentious views POST monstrations which took ment of the meeting, which he at venues where Conservative on immotive subjects to stir up predicted might he 'violence- place at similar meetings in speakers are present, to create trouble in Student Unions.- By stimulating'. publicity. Dave Green, West Bradford and Oxford last drawing attention to -issues like These demonstrations have No Platform Mr Green feels the FOWLER week. raised an important issue; that Report by FCS are trying to 'cloud' more Critics of Mr Carlisle claim of the conflict between freedom RACHEL important issues, such as grant A joint letter, written by the he is a Far ist; hence the violent of speech and the Mn Platform cuts. Vice Chancellor and I.UU presi- durn , insiiation at Bradford policy. Although Mr Carlisle SMITH dent Kevin Shute will be sent to linisersit where he had his fin- has had to accept the advice to all parents of current University ger broken in an attack. and at John Bercow said in reply postpone the Leeds meeting, Yorkshire NUS Area Convert- that the allegations were `laugh- students informing them of the Oriel College, Oxford, where a his secretary did say, on Mon- said he had been told by the Fowler proposals. peaceful sit-in prevented the able' and Mr Carlisle's secret- day, that he saw this as 'an issue Bradford Asian Youth Move- ary said that as far as she was ['he letter will outline the con- meeting from taking place. Mr of free speech' and Mr Car- ment that they had received aware he had 'no complaints siderable fall in income that stu- Christopher Price, Leeds Poly lisle's 'belief in free speech is so dents face if the Fowler White messages from the I=CS before about the EC'S'. Director, said on Wednesday. strong that he is determined to Mr Carlisle's visit, which he Paper is passed and urges pa. the postponement of the meet- fulfil his speaking obligations'. considers to be a deliberate rents to write to their MPs to ma had been agreed after con- John Bercow, of the Federa- attempt to provoke a strong It has not been decided when express their concern about the Mr. Carlisle will visit Leeds: it sultation with the police and the tion of Conservative Students. reaction. proposals. probably won't be elore the University and Poly authorities, said that the Conservatives up- This. Mr, Green believes. is ► It is hoped that this action will :uat umn- since it was felt that there was hold the right of free speech, `without a doubt' pail of Sys, pressurise MPs, particularly no suitable venue where the even for the 'red fascists who temativ FCS campaign to dis- those with marginal seats, into soil the opposition benches' in credit the Left and draw atten- f lowevcr. the general hope is opposing the cuts. Mr Shute Parliament. He also said the tion to the views of the Righi that wiener.: of this kind will commented that the University Bradford 'incident' was 'an out- Wing. He said the -ultimate ni 0 he seen on campuses again. is paying for this mail shot and rage' but it illustrated that the aim of the FCS is the destruc- Rachel Smith hopes it will stop the cuts From INSIDE 'Left wing can't engage success- tion of Student Unions and the being passed in parliament. A DAY IN THE ELECTION SPECIAL GAY AWARENESS LIFE OF LEEDS PAGES S + 13 POLY + UN! ENTS 4 PAGE PULL OUT -'9, 10, 11, 12 Page Two NEWS IN BRIEF PARLIAMENT LOBBIED A campaigning w eekend of Last Wednesday saw the first ing the Fowler proposals. de- Mr Kinnock wholeheartedly have the guts to do this." These workshops and discussion major step in the NUS `No clared that it was unwise to pledged the support of the comments led to Waldon being groups organised by CND will Chance Fowler'• campaign make any promises concerning Labour party for the NUS cam- the subject of much questioning take place at Leeds University against benefit cuts, with a mass Alliance policy in this direction paign. and promised that when and considerable abuse, until he this weekend. lobby of the Houses of Parlia- if they came to power. returned to power the Labour eventually suggested rather Rather than have the tradi- ment. party will restore the value of shakily that "none of this is con- tional conference style format. Well over 1.000 students went Kinnock, however, was a lot the grant to its pre-Thatcherite crete" and if students sent de- CND have opted for workshops to Westminster: perhaps the less reticent. His scathing attack level, and guarantee a place in tails of' their losses under the and discussions on such topics numbers look the organisers by on what he called "this anti- higher education to anyone with new scheme to the Social Ser- as military research. ways to surprise as they were forced to opportunity government" cen- the necessary qualifications and . ice■. Advisory Committee he stop countries involved in nuc- create an overflow hall for peo- tred mainly upon a person's skills. was sure they would be taken lear research coming to careers ple arriving at Central Hall for right to a free education. He The students now turned into account. fairs and the possibility of mak- the first meeting of the day. ridiculed Mrs Thatcher's recent their full attention on the Derek Fatchett, Labour MP ing universities and Dr David Owen and Ned Kin- comment in the House that "a Houses of Parliament itself, and for Leeds Central was most wel- polytechnics nuclear-free nock joined Phil Woolas, NUS number of students may take up lobbying began in earnest. It is coming to the Leeds lobby, zones. At least 60 people will President, in protesting against loans privately twe call them hard to say how many NIPS were listening at length to the stu- he coming from universities and both the threatened benefit cuts overdrafts) which they are. of lobbied, but the number must dents' complaints and pledging polytechnics around the coun- and the alarming drop in the course, free to do." "When we easily run into three figures. support. try and it is hoped this will give value of the student grant. need to raise an overdraft in During the afternoon there Labour backbenchers are student CND a much needed around 20 per cent since the order to be educated, this is the was also a debate held in the apparently attempting to bring boost after having lain dormant Thatcher Government came to day we are no longer free," de- grand committee room where the matter of grants and higher for three years.