cont. Review "to name a few. Please make sure your information is reUable or at least researched next time, you cosmic clown. The Aspiring Joumo's Friend - - 'V-r UQU AGAINST ONYANGO Dear Editors, . . . murderer, . . . tyrant, must be Letters over SOO words are annihUated, a leader can change so my cut off and marked with support for one could also change, only asterisks. .African member of the club and its STUDENTS STRIKE FOR EDUCATION president, . . . very popular here and that's why other Africans are jealous, was mentioned in Pariiament, an assurance With campuses througliout Australia taking votes on whether or not to that applications for poUtical asylum support a national student boycott on April 28, students nationally are. y^EROSa would be favorably considered, . . . like '.Rhodesia and South Africa so why getting a chance to say what WE think, and the message is clear. Both Dear Sir, shouldn't we also criticize him. . . I keep nationally and within Queensland the decision of students has been to ' Why are so many people so uncon to myself . . . other Africans are hypi- strike in support of better conditions of education. scious of what they are doing to their cri tical. We have taken up the demand that ALL students should be paid a living world? Every day, mUlions of people ' These are only a few jibes which could dcodarise themselves, "de-stick" their wage rather than some students getting a subsistence TEAS, and that be gleaned from the Ugandan dissident, fry-pans, freshen up their toilets, kUI Charles Okwiny-Onyan^o, during the they should not have to pay it back at the end of study. insects, stiffen up their clothes and their dying minutes of a drinking session at the Students and staff alike are expressing opposition to Fraser's. hatchet hair, lather their faces, and paint their Royal Exchange Hote. attitude to education and welfare which began with last year's budget. furniture with substances that come out Coming from Sydney and having heard The initiative for the strike action has come from the AUS annual of aerosol cans. They appreciate the con the expression of worry from some I venience of having so much at their conference of constituent members attended by over three hundred Sydney University Ugandan students I finger-tips, but few of them seem to ^ve about possible repercussions when they delegates. any thought to the fact that acrosal return home from AustraUa having been All Queensland campuses who have voted at the time of going to press cans are harmful to health, and well- identified with the Onyango move, I have supported these initiatives It is interesting that even those campuses being. feel it duty-bound to touch on the who have seceded from AUS, eg Mt Gravatt CAE and QIT have voted The next time you press a button on a Onyango move and how so unnecessary spray can, look at the way the corftents it is. For brevity let me summarise. to strike. come out in a beautiful fine mist, then Forming ah AustraUa-Uganda Friend It is unfortunate that some union councils such as QIT saw fit to vote on give some thought to the nasty little ship Club is so unneccessary for the the issue without taking it directly to the students - but then they seceded chemicals that make them into such a foUowing reasons: lovely spray-flourocarbons. from AUS this year without directly consulting the students! a. Australians don't envy Ugandans This harmless sounding name concleas On such an important issue as the second national students strike, it is for being persecuted by Amin. a far from harmless compound that is imperative that referenda be democratically constistuted, ie that students b. AustraUans dcn't have to be con capable of killing a man-not through vinced that Amin is bad. The press here be directly consulted. poisoning, but through sheer physical is already doing that. bombardment. If you have difficulty AUS cannot direct its members to act democratically - it is up to indiv c. To organise an anti-Ugandan move imagining such an eventuation, put an ment in a place half the globe from idual campuses to get students involved in running their own affairs. aerosal can in a fire, stand well back, and Uganda is unrealisUc. And most campuses which hold general meetings, althouKh uettine onlv. then think of a fireman in a fiercely burn d. The expressed intention of seekmg ing house. a relatively small attendance, have suceeded. political asylum for Ugandans studying Those who cared enough to come to a meeting have voted to strike - These vicious little compounds also here is unrealistic because many have the angelic property of being students were asked and they answered: Strike on April 28! Ugandans intend to go home anyway. It capable of destroying the ozone layer in has been the Ugandan govemment our atmosphere. The ozone layer filters poUcy for the past six years (which is as ultra-violet rays from the sun which are far as I know) to send people here to do capable of causing skin-cancer. Recent short term courses especiaUy in town CHOICE surveys have shown that incidents of skin- planning and In teaching in specialised CORRECTION Dear Eds, cancer arc on the increase around the areas. At present only.six Ugandans in In the days before the student strike world. Scientists and doctors are becom AustraUa have stayed longer than three In the last issue of GAMUT we stated on April 28 (here will no doubt be many ing more and more worried about the years. One of these b married to an inadvertantly that the ABC's ratings requests for lecturers to show their sup effects of'flouro-carbons on the atmos AustraUan woman in Melboume. port for students by cancelling classes. pheric ozone and therefore on us. So far, were 4.3%. This should have read that Given these points one could only I have seen only one positive effort to Students should resist these requests conclude that Onyango is being motivat the ratings of the ABC's 4QG were 4.3%. control this menace. The State of for the following reasons: ed by personal reasons. If this conclu Oregan in the USA ("the conservation 1 By cancelling classes lecturers sion is correct, that too is unnecessary. would effectively be fordng individual State") has banned the use of flouro- Fintly, about to get an MSc in Vet students to take part in a campaign which carbons in aerosal cans with heavy fines Science his chances of getting a job here they may not support. If classes are can for offenders. I would Uke to know why is very good. celled, the free choice of students; which flouro-carbons aren't banned all around tertiary institutions of all places should the world. How long wiU people keep Secondly, he holds an AustraUan GAMUT COLLECTIVE be upholding, is denied. their heads burned in the sand and their Government Scholarship, not a Ugandan Government scholarship. 2 By the samv token, the moral force fingers firmly on smaU plastic buttons Thirdly, he did obtain a lectureship UQU: Ross Peake of the campaign is diminished by cancell before they realise that ozone is more position in Ghana (not Uganda) outside Radha Rouse ing classes. The point of the strike Is to important than convenience? Uganda. . measure student opinion by the number Sheryl Hansen Mark Wolff The apparent success of the Onyango KGCAE: Tony Geilic boycotting classes. If this number DDIAE includes unwiUIng students recruited by campaign, seems to me, to be under DDIAE: John Coulter/ the cancellation of classes the credibiUty standable within the context of the Devid Creagan of the results is placed in doubt, and the nature of the press here. ART'COLLEGE: David Briar contribution of students genuinely in COMIX ALIVE Being completely anti-Black majority favor of the campaign risks being w^ted, rule, and forever receptive to anti-Black Dear Editors, African poUtlcs, the local press found PASTEUP 3 StUl more seriously, it would lake 1 am afraid that your fearless masked Onyango a most fetched-up leader in the the decision to strike out of the hands of journalist, Andromeda, has had the dick anti-Black thought movement. individual students and thus negate the Steve Qarry and the editors as far as his article on underground * • • • whole point of the campaign which is to as usual comix. He states that the Oz underground George Kweifio-Okai show student opinion. . comic scene is dead-his education is (Former holder of the' foUowing posi Any decision to cancel classes would TYPESETIING sorely'lacking if he has never heard of tions: Organiser of, the All-African be an attack on the freedom of choice of such wonderful weekly productions as Students Union of AustraUa; secretary aU students, both those who wish to GregAdanMNi Captain Goodvibes (ask any surfer) in of the African Students Union of Q'ld, abstain and those who wish to take part. tracks, or Zen and the Art of KiUing Asastant secretary of the UQ AUS, It must be resisted to the fullest. Biggies Off and Nature Notebook, aU hy , Secretary of OSS, Vice president: of the ^ R;L. Samson Col Buck (keep, fit) Chudleigh in Nation International House Students Qub.) UQU
WE ONLY SCREEN THE-BEST WEDHESDAY THURSDAY. FRIDAY _7| 5pm MARY. QUEEN OF 271 B.I 6 MONTY PYTHON 1pm MONTY PYTHON'S 291 1pm MONTY PYTHON & ffj SCOTS (NRC) 5.16 MONTY PYTHON'S aJ —J THE HOLY GRAIL Fin 2.30 ' AND THE HOLY GRAIL AND NOW FOR SOMETHING GlendB Jsctaoo, Venesja Redgrwe. ANO NOW FOR SOMETHING 8.00 ONSTAGE (NRC) Another film completely COMPLETELY DIFFERENT INRC) Not continuous Fin 7.15 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (NRC) ' THE GANG SHOW different from ipme of the other Starring the "Campett," Hall's 7.30 SHAMPOO (R) Stan Graham Chapman, John Cleete, Isold out-no tickets available) Stan Warren Beattie (alio producer/ Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Teny films which aren't quite the same as Grannies, The Banana Fiend, The Gay Lumijerlack, The Bashed Parrot, 11,30pm PERFORMANCE (R) writer), Julie Chrijtle, Goldia Hewn Johef & Michael Patin and the this one is. Nominated for 26 Oscan, Mick Jagger in Nicholas Roeg's 9.30pmTAXi DRIVER IRl character! they play are demonic, 3 Brians, a Maureen and 1 Serglol The Uppar ClessTwit, The Lethal. Joke, and a host of others too ridicu controvenlat film about madness, Stan Robert De Niro as a lonely disturbing, devious, dalightful and Makes Ben Hur look lil<0 an epic. sanity, MX, perversion, death, . N.Y. (jab driver. A Martin Sconeia Just pteln daffy. Fin 6.46 • Fin6.45 lous tomen'tibn...• •':, Fin 2.30 NO EVENING.SCREENING live, Vice & Vena. film. Grand Priie C8nne»'76 NO EVENING SCREENING' NO EVENING SCREENING. 1.30am JIMI HENDRIX Im). • Finll.35 FREE CAR PARK AJR-COfJOmONED 3711879 Students plan health conference WE WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY HEALTH SCHEMES NOW by Ros.s Peafic nti)iiiuiuiiiiimfiT^ Tlie medical profession will be under attack at the ftrst national cotiference of health and welfare students to be held later this year in Sydney.
Tlic medical profession will that the nurses, medical, social finish'-but you can start chang be under attack at the first work and occupational therapy ing it now in small ways. national conference of health students at the meeting were "You could see it as some To rV^K and welfare students to be held very keen to become involved sort of reform process rather later tliis year in Sydney. in community health. than upkeeping the system. Ken Smith, National Co "Students are interested in ordinator of the Students Initia seeing whether they can make a "Try to be dynamic" tives in Community Health contribution at the 139 Club. Donna O'Sullivan said (SICll) scheme, was in Brisbane "The Club is funded by the people at the Brisbane meeting last week to disucss planning for Queensland Council for Social also felt they did not want to the conference. Services IQCOSSl and is a wait until the end of their Smith is a social work student refuge for homeless people,*' courses before doing anything. at the University of New South Donna said.. "They are keen to see what Wales. He completed third year "But it may have to close they can do now." she said. in 1976, and has taken a year down later 'his year if the State Both Ken and Donn; from study to be the group's and Federal Governments do not do not want the organisation to organiser. continue to fund QCOSS. become bureaucratic, or to SOUR ENERGY The impetus for student "The Family Health Program establish only laudible aims and involvement in community is operating in Queensland, and then achieve nothing. health began when a group of we hope to be involved in "We try to be dynamic-we medical students looked at defi child-care and epilepsy work. have the resources in Queens WORK STOPPED ciencies in their own training. land so that students can come In May 1975 the then Labor Inadequate on sex education to the program with suggestions by Marie Wolff Avistralian Government funded "Students have also said they for involvement, and they can be An acknowledged world authority on solar architecture, the Community Health Pro want to organise a seminar on included," Smith said. Mr S. Szokolay, is "absolutely hamstrung" through lack gram. sex education and counselling, as "Interested students can con of funds, Prefessor Lyons, co-ordinator of the University The main initiative of this they believe their present tact Michael Muller on 265 3167 of Queensland Solar Energy committee, said last Thurs scheme has been the Family courses are inadequate. for more information. day. Health Team Project, where "I realise from my four years three health and welfare stu of medical studies that the Mr Szokolay who was a dents in a team under a pro course is a gradual socialisation senior lecturer at the Central London Polytechnic before he fessional health worker counsel process. By the time you are in came to the Univeisity of one family. fifth or sixth year, you ARE a 4ZZZ to pay Queensland has been described doctor, but even now people are as Britain's leading solar archit tiarning up for lectures at 8.30 Community health issues ect (in the May 5, 1974, Sunday Ken Smith said the aim of in the moming wearing ties. Times). "They see themselves in the the conference was to get stu He is concerned with the role of a doctor and then take dents to look critically ^t new royaltiesdesig n impUcations of solar on the other attitudes and community health Issues, and to power-especially solar heating characteristics of the profes see where student involvement and cooling. would be appropriate and de sion." 4ZZZ-FM is the first public broadcaster in Australia "One man working part time sirable. Ken Smith said he would like to seek to renegotiate conditions under which fees are Hke Szokolay in Architecture is to see a demystifying of the 'The conference will be held paid for the broadcasting of certain music recordings. ridiculous if you health and welfare professions. from Monday August 29 tp reaUy want results," Professor "A lot of these people are Australia's public broadcast Thursday September 3, and we have agreed to pay the perform Lyons said. will have speakers from both in there for their "own good, ers are seeking to vary agree ing rights association ltd 2 per the govemment bureaucracy and rather than the community's ments under which they pay cent of their gross income. More work needed the grass roots level. benefit. fees to a limited company, the "For community stations and "He ought to have people "We are becoming involved in Australian Performing Rights ethnic access stations the PBAA making and testing new solar bereavement counselling, the AMA anti-democratic Association Ltd. proposes smaU fixed yearly devices. He could do with five^ asthma and the epilepsy founda "Just look at the AMA's Thid decision was made at a fees." or six people working fuU time."' tions, and social policy plann attitude towards Medibank. The recent national conference of In Brisbane, the co-ordinator Mr Szokolay beUeves that' ing," he said. Gallop Polls showed that 60 public broadcasters in Canberra. of Radio 4ZZZ-FM, Denis Rem basic research and development "A national health and wel per cent of people wanted a The chairman of the Public hardt, said he was appaUed at is one tiling but putting the fare students association is need universal health care scheme, but Broadcasting Association of Aus the decision of Apra Ltd to seek larger body of knowledge avail ed. At the moment the only the doctors ignored the com traUa (PBAA), Mr Michael Law, an injunction stopping 4ZZZ-FM able today to actual use is an national students body apart munity's need. said that as most pubUc broad broadcasting any musical work other. from AUS is the AustraUan "They are a powerful pres casters are supported by pubUc for which Apra holds the rights "Much work needs to be Medical Students Association. sure group, and they had the subscription they are seeking a to authorise broadcast. done to put these ideas into The first meeting' of health power to change what was scale of performing rights fees He noted that 4ZZZ-FM had practice in buUdings," Mr and ' welfare students held in - practically a democratic decision which meet the ability of forwarded Apra Ltd a fee of one Szokolay said. Brisbane this year attracted 80 of the people. smaUer stations to pay. per cent of subscription income. Szokolay's recent appUcation people. 'They are not there to serve "For stations which have a Mr Reinhardt said that a for research funds was refused the community but to maintain substantial music content the David and GoUath situation was last Tuesday by the Housmg Keen to get involved their interests and relativity. public broadcasters are seeking emerging where several public Research CouncU. The proposal - Donna O'Sullivan, a fourth "It would be easy to go an agreement under which one broadcasters like 4ZZZ-FM was for money to fit a house at year medical student and a through four years of, say, per cent of their subscription would be forced into agreements MoggiU Farm with solar air member of the SICH steering social work and say 'I'm going income is paid in fees. without proper negotiations, by conditionmg and test its per committee in Queensland, said to change the world when I "At present some stations the threat of costly legal formance and design implica proceedings. tions. A chUl air unit for solar The Chairman of the PBAA, use was bought from Japan by^ Mr Michael Law, said from the Architecutre department for Sydney that such a heavy hand tliis purpose and is now sitting in ed attitude was to be deplored. the Architecture Department QUAUTY Pad/lcMMl "4ZZZ-FM has the fuU unused. Mifujm umtt Itf. 118 «y»,— Mw > ti«»> support of the PubUc Broad casting Association which takes A possible boost wiiii yn pici ip fffir pWOTi in all of the 13 station on air Mr Szokolay and Professor WI WW r^nn fl VRIrV PtdHc Cilif Prtil llliN and a further 15 Ukely to com Lyons applauded Mr •tMimeeit mence broadcasting in the near Anthony's proposed S9 mil future." Uon ' boost fir solar Mr Law said that the co Last year only $700,000 ordinator of 4ZZZ, as the was spent in Australia com treasurer of the national associ pared to some hundreds ation, had been empowered by of miUions in countries the recent conference to negoti like Japan and the United ate with Apra Ltd. States. FILM He regretted that Apra Ltd "It's about time AustraUa had acted against an individual developed a science-based Repiacemen station so soon after the con industry of its own, instead ference, appearing not to want of relying upon foreign at Campui Pharmacy, Qid Utii and Campus Shoppe, Griffith Uni to recognise the PBAA as the technology," Professor nebotiating body. Lyons said. RECORDS $5.50one more week
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And enjoy a and ask to speak to the Dental social life and camaraderie that .Postcode I oPEmmoi Careers Officer of the service of is unique. your choice. __AArDP 45.204.27 J UNIVERSITY OF Aulhoriisd by Director-General of Reenilting. DepL ot Derence Q'LD UNION SHOPPING ARCADE Pro-uranium campaign begins Through their lobby group, the Australian Uranium Producers Foruin, the major mining companies will launch a massive national advertising campaign presenting the case for uranium mining starting next month. Tlie expend iture for the propaganda exercise will exceed 5500,000 in the first three months alone. The advertising campaign will launch power plants. With only limited finance at about the same time as the second the anti-nuclear forces could only go out Greg Adamson Fox Report is due for release. The in the streets on house to house visits and initial promotional burst is likely to end letter box drops. The two to one against as the Federal Labor Party conference stricter controls. gets under way in Perth next July. BEETHOVEN REHABILITATED The Federal Labor Party's official Heavy bombartment policy is to be determined at the-con The anti-uranium mining groups, led Tlirec years ago a visit by the Pliila- ference. The ALP is deeply split over the by the Uranium Mining Moratorium don't deiphia Symphony Orchestra to China issue, with Whitlam favoring export have $500,000 to spend in the next three touched off a tirade against with controls and Uren favoring a total months and have only enough resources Western music in the Chinese press. ban. to organise community meetings and hold Classical compositions, especially by a national signature drive. Beethoven and Schubert, along with some "Balanced" view Judging by the Califomian CAperience, modern works, were denounced as The campaign is to be framed as a Goebbels and the Coca-Cola company degenerate and reactionary. A subsequent "public information program designed to are right-there's nothing like a heavy tour by the Vancouver Symphony try to give people a balanced view of bombardment of propaganda to make up was cancelled after the orchestra refused what's happening in the uranium the people's mind for them. to submit to prior censorship of their industry" and is designed to influence the Mark llaycs and Mark Wolff program. public and thereby the A.LP's decision. Tastes seem to have changed, how A survey conducted by Doyle, Dane, ever. A Canadian brass quintet currently and Banbach has found that 90 per cent visiting China and playing everythin g of the population were indifferent to from Bach and Beethoven to pieces by uranium mining and that 5 per cent were contemporary Canadian and American in favor and 5 per cent against. The composers has won unqualified critical report said that people want to think acclaim from the Peking press. The that there were others who think like Chinese Communist Party paper Jenmin them. Jih Pao praised the group's concerts In the USA last year, the pro-nUclear saying, "Its skill, fidelity in interpreta lobby spent an estimated $10 million tion and lively, bright performances leave throughout California to prevent the audiences with a deep impression." Califomian people voting in favor of stricter safety regulations for nuclear BRITISH STUDENTS FIGHT FOR EDUCATION In the last few weeks upwards of 100,000 students have joined protests against fee increases and education cutbacks proposed by Britain's Labour Government. Students occupied more than 35 campuses for several weeks in March, and thousands pressed their demands in AUS Womens Officer reports massive street demonstrations. The largest action occurred on March 9, drawing 40,000 students and trade unionists to rallies in London, Glasgow, Leeds, and Exmouth. The National Union of Students is calling on the government to abolish Regional collective operating financial eligibility, tests for student grants and to eliminate fees that hit foreign and part-time students particu During my visit in Brisbane, 1 talked with a lot of women on variuos campuses, but unfortunately I didn't larly hard. Fees for overseas students have time to visit everyone. 1 will be back and hope to meet more of you. have increased from 250 pounds in While at Kelvin Cover CAE I worked Forums on sexuality menstruation, lesbianism, abortion auu 1967 to 650 pounds this year for under graduates and 850 pounds for with Greg Weir and went to the Monday For example at the first Regional women's health and hopefully will graduates. The NUS is demanding a night and Wednesday night meetings. The Women's Collective meeting a decision stimulate a lot of people into thinking guarantee that no student be forced to Monday night meeting decided to have was made fo run sexuality forums on about these issues. If you're interested in leave school because of any fee increases. meetings every Monday at the Camp various campuses during one week in helping organise it contact Julie Walking- Club Rooms, 373 George Street in the September finishing with a women's ton. Shirley Williams, Labour's secretary of city at 8 pm to discuss what it is like dance at the end of the week. This acti All the Regional Women's Organisers, state for education and science, has being a homosexual and also "coming vity viill disseminate a great deal of interested women, the secretary to the replied that education must accept its out" and what that really means. information on birth control, rape, Women's Department and myself attend share of cutbacks under the government's If any of you arc interested in coming the National Women's Policy Collective austerity program. along alt lesbians and male homosexuals (NWPC) meetings (ive times during the are welcome. There is also the Campus year where we exchange infonnation on Lesbian Collective which meets every what is being organised in all the regions. Thursday 1 pm in Music Room I at BAD YEAR FOR GOVERNMENTS the University of Queensland if any It is at the NWPC meetings that the lesbians would like to attend. women's policy to be presented ut Incumbent politicians and parties were annual AUS council is decided upon and either turned out of office or weakened AUS Women's Collective also what and how the national women's in most countries that held confensted Julie Walkington, Women's Officer at campaigns are to be run. I am directed by elections within the last year. Kelvin Grove has a lot of literature and the NWPC as well as bineg a resource In the United States, Sweden, and posters for sale that I left with her. person. India, ruling parties were defeated. In The Regional Women's CoUective had France, voters favored opposition Union its'first meeting while I was in Brisbane. of the Left candidates in a majority of The Regional Women's Collective consists Resource centre the municipal elections. Quebec voters of women from all the AUS affiliated rebuffed Prime Minister Pierre Elliott There are a lot more areas the campuses in the region. The Queensland Trudeau's Liberal Party, replacing it with Regional Women's Officer is Julie Women's Department in AUS is involved the Parti Qucbecois. Walkington if you want to contact her. in, including our Resource Centre if you need specific information on women Dr Walter Bumham, a professor of The first thing that happens at for essays, projects, or for yourself just political science at the Massachusetts Regional Women's Collective meetings is Institute of Technology, offered several each woman gives a short report on what contact me c/- AUS, 97 Drummond St, Carlton 3053. possible explanations for the trend is going on at Iter campus with regard to against incumbnets, which he said is I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to women's issues so that everyone gets to "probably unprecedented in the recent Brisbane and have learned a lot during my know what is going on at their neiglibor- history of the West." He cited growing stay. If there are any women who feel ing tertiary institutions. All women are hostility on the part of voters "to what isolated contact the various groups I welcome to attend these meetings which bureaucracies are doing to them," have mentioned and if all else fails you serve to break the isolation between "the declining relevance of the traditional can always contact me or Lyn Birnie, campuses and can lend support to those patriotic symbols of the nation state," Secretary to the Women's Department who need them. Pooling resources and and the general economic downturn at AUS. information can then facilitate the direc (quoted in the New York Times). tion of the collective to organise action. Gabby-AUS Women's Officer / CEIITRE Wayfarers" and experienced artists who nmn STIVELI- were "booked" to do a bracket, there was time for newcomers to perform be fore an audience. And if you felt like ClOSES singing along with the choruses, you were welcome. CEITIC ROCK! It is impossible to estimate the number of people who have been influenced by Alan Stivel, sone of harp-maker Jord Cocheveleau, is one of a new breed of musi the Folk Centre's just being there. cian. Politically aware, alert not fust to musical innovations and departures but to alt The beginnings were the outcorne of the winds of change in society. A Breton by birth, he believes that ethnic culture enthusiasm, effort and much dedication should not only be preserved but revitalised. He has lifted Celtic music from a confiri- and it has ben the same dedication that ed and restricted category, set it in a rock format and made it into a living form. In Stan and Kathie Arthur have continued May 1971 he won first prize at the Folk Song Festival of Killarney, in May 1972 to pour into the place that has made it Renaissance of the Celtic Harp won the grand prize of the Academy Charles Cros and live so long. in December 1973, Melody Maker voted him Folk Personality of 1973 and voted The Foi- Centre has closed its doors Certainly no one has made money out CHEMINS DE TER RE as the Folk Album of that year. for the last time. Why? Because the area of the Folk Centre, but how d6 you In November 1974, Alan Stivell gave two live concerts at the National Stadium in will be used for a car park! judge success? Dollars or the pleasure of Dublin. Both concerts were total sell outs and, at the end of his set each night, the Since it opened in January 1964, how listening to someone who has rehearsed entire audience rose to its feet, linked hands, £ d danced to the compelling Celtic many people have enjoyed the relaxed and given time, as Donovan sang, to "sing harmonies, atmosphere there? No one hassles you for for you"? Is opera or ballet provided (and Alan Stivel draws his music from the Celtic traditions of Brittany, Ireland, Scot anything-you could get coffee, fruit svailable) for many of the population? land, Wales and Cornwall. He uses folk music in a unique and pure fashion. juices and snacks (if you wanted); you For those of you who have enjoyed Alan Stivell should not be written off as just another performer complicated by the could play chess or draughts if that was any time at the Folk Centre, you'll feel fact that he sings in a foreign and little known tongue. He uses folk material, not as an your choice; and for three evenings out of as I do-sorry for those who won't have end in itself, but to lay the basis for a new kind of popular music, national in content every week you couW be entertained for the chance to enjoy- it also. Dollars- and international in appeal. He is not alone in this; there are obvious comparisons with four hours at a price you could hundreds of thousands of them can be the work of other groups like Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Hedgehog Pie and afford—where else could you get so much given for sport, but have you ever heard Horselips. for 80 cents? of private enterprise sponsoring such a He commences his concert using traditional instruments such as harp, bagpipes, There was no age limit, no apparent place as the Folk Centre? flutes, and drums, and is then joined by his band with the instruments and equipment generation gap, no feeling of being an If a suitable venue (suitable in area of tiie rock world. outsider. and financially) could be found, maybe But, in the purity of his vision, and the wide ranging breadth of his influences, Alan For those who wanted to listen, it was there are enough enthusiastic people to Stivell is probably unique. And as far as Australian audiences are concerned this easy, just be there. For those who wanted get another folk centre open again in unique musical genius from Brittany will be presenting some of the most memorable to play or sing, opportunities were Brisbane-or are we to progress to occa music heard from Australian concert stages in years. provided. Inb etween the regular per sional visits by artists from interstate or formances of the group colled 'The overseas? Alan Stivel and his band will appear at Mayne Hall on Saturday April 23, at 8 pm. THE CONCERT MACHINE PRESENTS THD MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR FROiM CELTIC ROOTS ALAN STIVELL . LIVE IN CONCERT 'Vv- ". r>f rickets: S7.50 (incl.) :iv;ijlal)k' jimv ;tl Kcstivnl Hall (229-4Z50) :ind V() Proituis OiKT;Ui.n\ tudi'iu mul I'arlv ('^!:!..•(.•^SH Mayne Hall UQ. Saturday April 23,815p,m. AUILTI-MEIHA Eduim^ taken at the Beatles bhea btadium into the multi-media experience thing, concert, the biggest they ever did, and a but there must be better ways to look at Kitchen clip for Lenon's song "Universe" which, the Beatles than this. if the artwork is any indication, was Americanised Beatles . . . yeech. prepared for "Yellow Submarine" but Rather offensive was the "Birthday" never used. Wherever the instand produc sequence ... the song comes from the tion used film from the Beatles work, 1968 Double Album, and is a good be it from "Help" or "Let It Be" or even rocker, but has nothing to do with the "Concert for BAngIa Oesh" the pro American Bi-centennial, as this gang ducers messed the whole thing up with seemed to think. There were a few inappropriate music or pointless slides. sequences of attempted social comment, It would be a good idea, too, if they like the Manson sequence, where UIIFH could tell their computer to turn down Manson's references to "Helter Skelter," the decibel level, and add some bass, again from the 1968 album, prompted es'pecially during Lucy in the Sky with the producers to play the song while Diamonds. The noise was quite offen racing through slides about Manson. sive at times. Mostly, however, they failed, terribly. How did vou go with the tripe? It appears quite clear that, at least in Finally, the audience. Many of them Would you believe that there was a some parts of the event, the producers looked old enough to think that the recipe in last Sunday's Sun Herald for have made little or no attempt to really Beatles v;ere a new group formed after tripe and the cook there recommended discover just what the Beatles were Wings split ... "I didn't know Paul was the use of" sour cream to go with it. If trying to say in their music. The most Away With Words playing with George Harrison" . . . but, you're really interested it might be outstanding example of this was the The Beatles they sang along with just about every worth checking that particular recipe Harrison song "Within you, Without song! Nostalgia from people scarcely out. Her Majesty's theatre you" from the Pepper album. The song is born when the rest of us sat around our I was out of town last week, down about people and the distances between radios listening to the Beaties arriving at south, and when I got back to oie Brissie Very disappointing. The advance pub us and how Harrison felt that distance Eagle Farm one wet day in 1964. it was quite clear that winter has arrived. licity for this multi-media attempt at could be overcome. So the gang who Overall, I'd say that this mish-mash Beaudy! One good thing about winter is capturing the magic of the Beatles was dreamed up this show decided that the attempt to do something or other around that you can really go in for all those clever, but once I got to the theatre, I got best way to capture the idea of the song the Beatles is a rather tasteless, and pies and lovely casseroles that take hours the feeling that I had been had. It is a was to get a color TV, hook it up to a expensive. Better go see "Let It Be" or to cook-keep the kitchen -cosey. And very slick, experimental, and shallow pattern.generator, and probably a com "Help" than waste your money on this then there's that delicious bullock's heart interpretation of what the Beaties were puter, and film the result. Very far from crass attempt to cash in on the obvious that takes seven hours to cook. But But and are to the world. I think I'll stick the mark. There is something for every money to be made from memories of But let's get back to basics and start with to my memories, and old records. body here: nostalgia fiends, smaltz the Fab Four. a very simple casserole. freaks, and if you are stoned, you may Mark D. Hayes, who was a Take about two pounds ot some Messed the whole thing up have a good trip. There are very few truly interesting Beatles fan when he was fairly lean chuck steak, some red kidney parts in this thing. six years old. So there...! beans that you buy in a tin. Chop the Americanised Beatles mean up into some 2 inch cube chunks. There are some bootleg shots of film I wasn't, and I didn't. Maybe I'm not Put it into the casserole bowl and sprinkle over it about a level desert spoon of plain flour, sprinkle over that a heaped tea spoon of sugar and a couple of pinches of nutmeg. Stir it all in together. Sprinkle some salt and some ground pepper over that. Make up a sauce with some tomato paste, a tablespoon of wostershire sauce and a half a cup of beef stock. Pour that over and stir it into the meat and then when it is all loose add the kidney beans (don't stir it so much because it breaks up the beans). Put the lid on the casserole bowl and light your, oven, set it for 350'' and put the casserole straight into the oven. Let the whole lot warm up together. Leave it in the oven for two and a half hours and then serve it up, preferably with plain boiled veges. This is the simplest of basic recipies and it tastes quite OK. Apple crumble is a nice pudding that can follow after that and that is as sim ple as anything to make up. Use a small : casserole bowl for that and liberally butter the bottom and half way up the sides. Peel some granny smith applies and dice them up into the bowl. (Some people like to stew the applies for a bit but that depends on whether you vvant sloppy apples or not. Either way is fair enough.) Squeeze some lemmon over the applies, it stops them going brown and SPAG'S. also adds a bit of flavor to it. Make up the crumble with about a cup and a half of plain flour, a half a cup of sugar (brovtm or white—brown makes the top of the •:• i •i#jf crumble go brown in the cooking). Sprinkle in a couple of big pinches of ground nutmeg and/or cinnamon. Use a mmDLY PEOPLE Happy coats, happy pants, caftans, couple of desert spoons of firm butter wrap-around skirts, batik, Chinese, and use the back of the spoon to break and Indian clothes for him and the. butter into the flour. Use as much her, at our Oriental Bazaar, dt butter as you need to make the flour 393 George Street. crumbly (of course). Spoon the crumble BYQG. overthe applies and make it firm with the 10% Student Discoiint back of a spoon and then sprinkle some iPritchards - a fair dinkum Mum ntilk on the top. Put it in the oven for 406 Milton Rd. Auchenf lowef. and Dad store about three quarters of an hour at 350°. When you serve it up do so with cream 4i30-12.00pm. Tdays. ^ustard or ice cream. 'f?hohe 370-2690. Ilicatcr Dnmn THE HIGHER RESTHETICS HOV/ CAMARATA AND QTC COMPARE Okay, so most of us learned to hate Shakespeare at school. Who can't remember cramming misunderstood speeches down their throats to spew them out again come summer? All the while dreaming of surf and sex and humming the Beatles or Bob Dylan. Well, for those who are willing to give Shakespeare another go, unfettered by the moronic principles of school, there are two productions on in Brisbane at the moment. At the SGIO Theatre the Queensland fessionals' "Merchant of Venice." Damn versity newspaper). However, Brisbane Theatre Company are playing "The the higher aesthetics; it felt better. For costuming people in the know estimate Merchant of Venice." Their version much of its action "The Merchant of that Si 50 to $200 per costume is a fiariy accentuates the spectacle of Shake Venice" is a jumble of actors' egos vying conservative figure. 55 costumes were speare's plays, using very elaborate sets for a piece of the stage; it is a series of made, so a figure of between $8250 and and beautiful, though "very expensive individual portrayals, whereas Camerata $11,000 would cover costuming alone. costumes (of which more later). Though truly co-operate towards their common The set is as elaborate as the costumes, visually grand, the spectacle is hampered end and their play is both warmer and though no one would hazard a guess by the SGIO Theatre which makes you tighter for it. The staging in "Merchant at its cost. feel like you're watching Shakespeare in of Venice" is so styleised as to be clumsy Apparently ihere's nothing new in the bowels of a spaceship. at times, whereas though less slick, this. In last year's production of Meanwhile, the homeless and Camerata is truer to the feeling of their "Hobson's Choice" QTC had to dress a orphaned Camerata Theatre are playing character in a costume of rags. They did play. When comedy was required of the Richard Michael as Polixenes, and 'The Winter's Tale" at the Avalon QTC actors they tended to lapse into it with raw silk. Estimated cost $70 to Theatre in Sir Fred Schonnel Drive. They camp versions of their roles whereas the $80. Robyn Treney as Paulina, in are still looking for a new venue as even tomfoolery in "Winter's Tale"" is always Of the 55 costumes made for the "The Winter's Tale." the Av isn't suitable since it's been ap|jropriate to the meaning. present production, some weren't even them as rent for the SGIO Spaceship/ carved up by the University. "Winter's Watching Shakespeare is hard work used when it was found that there wasn't Theatre, they can still afford a costume of raw silk for rags. Tale" is a strangely structured play and compared with watching television, but time for the required changes. I'm told it's relatively difficult to stage. very rewarding with a bit of concentra- • After the production the costumes will Meanwhile late last week Minister for Certainly it doesn't seem too difficult to tion. For my own taste though I would be retired to storage in Salisbury North. Education and Cultural Affairs Val Bird the actors who handle it very com recommend the rock-hard seats of the Here they await people to hire them, but said that Queensland leads Australia in petently. The middle section is good Avalpn to the plush lounges of the other theatre groups say that they can't the dramatic arts. The tragedy is, he riotous fun and a stark contrast to what SGIO. But then so would the man who afford to use the service. They claim that, probably believes it. There is a strong schoolteachers told me was Shakespeare wrote the plays. a pair of boots will cost $5 for a week. lobby among the political/cultural axis an comedy. Camerate Theatre spent less than that believes QTC is the best thing that's $400 for the whole production of "The Extravagance versus survival happened to live theatre since John Direct contrast Winter's TAle"; it wouldn't surprise me if The expenditure on costumes for Wayne, In direct contrast to the QTC produc a single costume in "The Merchant of "Merchant of Venice" must be compared To give QTC its due, it has done some tion, it is indeed a bit pathetic when you Venice" cost that amount. to the expenditure of other groups trying good stuff, and it probably can't be first walk in to the Avalon to stumble to survive in Brisbane. As I've said, blamed for accepting the fat cheque It's over wooden boxes and scramble to a Raw silk rags Camerata does a batter production of lobbed every year. Still, it is iniquitous schooldesk chair with only about 40 In an attempt to bring the play closer Shakespeare for $400. La Boite has a that they can squander on costumes alone others in the capacity audience, but as to a 20th century (and all that) audience, ceiling of $400 for any production, and 20 to 30 times what is spent in total on the play proceeds it becomes quite inti director Alan Edwards has arbitrarily that has to cover anything from painting better and more adventurous produc mate and the audience becomes quite chosen the year 1812 for his costuming. the floor to posters. 'The Merchant of tions. close to the action, something that would It seems a bit like going to Brisbane on Venice" itself was produced by the QTC could spend its money on diversi never happen in the SGIO. The costumes your way from Sydney to Melbourne College Players for around $400 in 1968. fication of its activities, employment for and sets, too, are in direct contrast, but it works wekk enough." Each costume The true Brisbane theatre scene is the many actors who can't find work, or camerata making do with hand-me- is -historically .accurate to the last collar reflected by the fact that Camerata can't on taking theatre to schools and country downs white the QTC costumes are and cuff and no expense was spared in even find a venue and are frankly scepti areas. The State Government could fund immaculate and lavis. (Of which more hunting out the exotic materials. QTC cal about receiving any government fund Queensland theatre a little more later.) will admit that they cost "a fortune" ing while QTC gets a massive $500,000 equitably. The student-based Camerata do a but refused to be more specific than that to $600,000 a year. Even though much They won't. better production by far than the pro (because I said I was writing for a. uni- of this is immediately ripped back off Steve Gray Soapbox Circus, featuringMatch box and the Australian Perform ing Group will happen at Mayne SORPROKaRniS Hall, University of Queensland, on Sunday April 24, at 8.15 pm. Cost Tickets will be $3.50 ; students It took 10 years of knock-about wight-lifting trainers. theatre from the Australian Performing and Triple Z subscribers, $3.00. Group from the Pram Factory in Mel THE CLOWNS: Singing, leaping, news bourne, and 10 years of knock-about paper-eating clowns who spit out very, music from the Captain Matchbox very funny acts. Whoopee Band to set the stage for that REVOLUTIONARY ' SUICIDE rare and at the same time, well done CHORUS: Singing in Greek and Italian animal-the SOAPBOX CIRCUS. wherever people of the world come up Popular theatre, popular music-they with a stirring song. •just had to get together. Who better to In 14 months, the Soapbox Circus has bring the music than "is nothing sacred" performed to 75,000 people at rock 'n' Matchbox? Playing the music that vtnjn't i;oll venues, factories, surf clubs, theatres, stay still. Matchbox's music draws inspira music halls, pavements, parks, • prisons, tion from Fats Waller, Django Reinhardt, shopping centres, plus on radio and tele Dan Hicks, Randy Newman and the jug vision." band greats. Their repertoire lurches ". . . the troupe eschew sophistica from bop to rock, shuffle to suburban tion." swing and is full bf humor, Australiana Rolling Stone, February 24,1977 and caustic irony. 0 "... the audiences here have applaud Put all that together and the result is ed the efforts of this company with un-' astounding Here's jsut a sample: guarded enthusiasm, from factory worker ACROBATS: The Great Stumble to dole bludger, rock fans and families. Fonward-risking life and limb 15 feet This is a soapbox with enough to up, juggling anything in a sweaty effort entertain and amuse just about anyone." to meet jug band music energy. Ram, November 5,1976 STAPONI FAMILY: Direct from the 'The greatest spectacle since wilds of Banalla. A genuinely grotesque Hannibal." family of animals and their fire eating. Vatican News, February 1977 10 -UOtmMMI WARNING TO WOMEN I SPIN-OFF STUDEHTS n^ 2!J"' Attacks on women on campus have Also they're very bad, health-wise, for increased this year. Unfortunately, they ankles and backs. Long, tight skirts are not being reported to relevant bodies also mean you have difficulty in running. CAMPUS and information is often obtained only 2 If walking along a street, keep an indirectly. The Women's Rights Commit eye out for lit houses, and don't hesitate tee is concerned at the situation, as is to knock on someone's door if you think On Tuesday April 26 the Queensland Tony Franks, head of University Securi you're being followed. About a week ago, Ballet is coming to Uni. Tlie Relaxation ty. We urge women who have been a man followed me down a street at Block has been made available for assaulted, threatened or raped to report night, calling out to me to stop and talk students to watch members of the Ballet their experience so that action may be to him; I passed four or five houses be Company doing class and rehearsals. taken to lessen the risk of attack with fore it occurred to me to go in to one and The workshop class begins at 10 am and which every woman in our society is knock on the door. will happen in the back room of the confronted. If you'd prefer not to give Glance behind you frcquentiy. In Relax Block. At 12 midday the company your name when reporting an attack, bushy areas, walk on the road, not foot will begin a rehearsal. The promotions that's fine; there'll be no pressure on you path. persons of the Ballet, Averil Trevrick, to give names. !f you'd prefer not to 3 Shriek at the top of your lungs if said that in conducting this open class actually see us, that's fine too-phone. attacked. Carry a whistle around your rehearsal, students of this University Women's Rights may be reached through neck if you're likely to be too scared to might become more aware of how a the Union 371 1611, ext 53; Tony scream. ballet is put together. At 1 pm the Franks may be contacted on 370 3333. 4 Invent mytlucal flatmates, savage Company will do a lunch time perform But whatever you do, don't keep it to dogs, or husbands whenever you're in ance of ballets from their SPIN-OFF yourself. By reporting these incidents, doubt of a stranger's intentions. program to be shown at Twelfth Night you can help us construct a pattern of 5 Memorise your local police number, Theatre commencing on May 18. attacks on campus; with this knowledge, Women's Right Committee number, and Students are invited to watch and ask it is possible to take action to ensure that University Security's number. questions. The company of dancers women will one day be able to exercise Women's Rights (daytinie~371 1611 wants to be informed as to how a ballet the freedom of movement which is our ext 53. progresses, from the first idea to a com right. In the meantime, more and more plete performance. women are taking self-defence courses University Security-370 3333 (24 hours) It is part of the Queensland Ballet's to end our condirioned vulnerability. The artistic policy to produce as much new Women's Rights Committee is currently 6 If you're attacked, aim for the eyes, throat, and groin. Two fingers thrust into work by Australian choreographers, com running such a sourse, and will probably posers, decor artists and writers as repeat this next semester. someone's eyes sounds horrible-and is. A strong, sharp jab to the front of an possible. attacker's neck can wind him. And we've The Company's desire to fulfil this Self-defence tips all been told by our mothers about the policy has resulted in the creation of the 1 Dress sensibly. Six-inch clogs are effectiveness of a swift knee jab to the ballet SPIN-OFF for 1977. The philo difficult to walk in, let alone run in. groin. sophy behind this artistic policy is that it will make a viable contribution to Aus tralian Art, if it strives to assert its own individual style in its creative acti vities. The Company is not merely content to import or emulate style. Eiglit ballets will be shown during the 1W^ SPIN-OFF season which commences at the TWELFTH NIGHT theatre on May 18. There is a special discount for stu PESO dents, admission will be $2.50. ^ # -V/ RESEARCH •frflin '^•'iO a,r*i.-ayi Op£rt '9 vi To Absent Friends.,. A BUND Film A supply of raw rum tainted Hisfory might with insecticide was responsible Censor ? no, not Qld. for killing eleven people at a tavern in a Managua, Nicaragua, Clarktown, New Jersey, has- repeat Ifseif ? slum area called Vietnam. Police appointed a 60-year old blind discovered that the tavern owner man to be its chief cinema We arc in the year 301 AD stored the rum in an unwashed censor...See no evil. (in Ancient Rome). The prob container that had previously lem of ever increasing living container insecticides. costs has reached crisis point. In a public effort to clear When \T\ Rome The emperor, Dioclatian, under his name, the tavern owner the pressure of an outburst drank some of the rum himself. of public anger, publishes a He died, too. Since the Romans had ao price control statue, The Edict Bibles on which to swear, it of Maximum Prices, which estab was the custom to place one's lishes a maximum price for Crown Secrets right hand on one's testicles all comoditics, with no exept The Melboume TDT crew #hcn swearing to tell the truth. ion - foodstuffs, raw materials, last year wanted to find out The English word testimony is manufactured articles, profess some more about the Beech derived from this practice. ional charges, wages of work men. Report on PoUce, which had been leaked to some media. Finally , the sanctions: death They approached the Crown Klippety-klop, for the merchant who contra Law Office, and the reply venes the edict, death to the was "That would be like the buyer who is party to a breach New Yqrk Times asking the and death to those who comer Generals at the Pentagon for pyippefy-plop. or hold illegal stocks. permission to print the Penta gon Papers. The edict had from the be©n- Jury Service ning one outstanding result - Stinginess in an enormous general increase in prices. The result was that Who is eligible for juiy service The last Trees in in Queensland? ..^ V.I .•'„.• ^\t• the law soon became unenfor High Places ceable and was abandoned. Town Gone West According to the 1976 Qld.. Year Book, every man under The premiers and their 40 Swedish kids don't get away 65 and, woman under 60 is. odd advisors attending the with anything. ...300 demonstra Illiterates are disqualified, and recent conference in Canbena A Lifetime's Reward tors aged 8 years and up fought also (because of 'occupation')" have experienced Mr Fraser's police in their playground - a MPs, lawyers, and doctore, •\ study freaks take note: Last grove of trees the children had famous edict on life first hand century, the Rev William Cow been occupying for a week. All through the sessions, att' "Women may elect not to herd, after conpleting a vast They were protesting against endants have been taking in scree by giving due notice tome of 6144 numbered art a government decision to build trays of coffee for the PM, without stating reasons. Male • icles illustrating Bible truthes, a new school in the grove. the Treasurer and the Artomey persons who apply to be excused died of a disease induced by About five kids were charged General, but they pomtedly must show good cause." p223. over-studying and lack of with rioting, and ten for viol haven't offered coffee to the physical exercise. ent resistance against officers. State delegations. Sleuth's best Sleuth yet I A large block of frozen green I material that through the roof The drivers of horse-drawn of the home, of Mrs Esther carriages in Charieston, South sc Kochanowicz in Alden, New Carolina, have worked out a Yoric, has been identified as compromise with the city c^r>i\ k^Verlet| human waste from the toilet fathers in a dispute over horse of an airplane. droppings on the streets. The The object, which was almost city council had passed an or two feet in diameter and weigh dinance requiring all such horses ed more than fifty pounds, to be specially diapered, to tore through Mrs Kochonowicz's which the drivers loudly object roof, striking her favourite chair. ed. The council finally agreed It then shattered into little not to enforce the ordinance pieces. when the drivers offered another solution: Each carriage will A scientist said the green contain a two-way radio with colour of the substance was indicative of a disinfectant used which to immediately dispatch in the .toilets of commercial a motorcycle cleanup man to the airplanes. scene of any horse droppings. rixr: ITHE VipEfi, I HAVING KIllED J BOTH OF THE (WARbS AT THE PUMP, OPENS ITHE STOLEN kREVCAUa Rl oir^s on Thursday April 28, Nationwide Satutday April 23 6.30 pm, Monday April 25 Public meet student strike called to lobegnrenawayrisaanen FREE concern Qld Ballet Co uig of Citizens for Demo protest the lack pf educ doe and 1 saanen buck in Concert Shell of Botani cracy, Trades HeU, Edward ation funding. Join it to a good country home cal Gardens Bris. ..St, 8 pm, Frank Hardy and move mountains with contact the GAMUT office and Sam Watson on the us. or call at 543 Giand View 7.30pm cultural night, struggle for domocracy. music singing, Indian snacks FrWty May 6"7.?0pm Fiji Stu- onSaturdayand -talk to and drinks. India.Club in Thursday April 28 'fChina and dents Assoc, "Island Nite" in .Mark. Relax Block, UQU the Worid"; lecture by Refec, UQU Floor shows and iday April 24 Soapbox Circus Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, for band, May 21.23, Socialist' Youth Al- $3 Student tickets at door, mer ambassador to China Roxy's of course every Sunday. , .;llancc 7th. Natlbiial" Confer- niunday.May.i6,8pm.Con.- 8 pm , Conservatorium of night at Relax Block, UQU. :! ' e?.ce, Melbourne. Uni. Con- Svi^^*?^'Creek Club, South Bri!*ano;T jTbrmal. Band- Music, Gardens Point, for late-owls, from 8 pm; t«ct UQ SYA aub -?dr. • George St. •• ' details. Gentle Art $8. - t ''!•• • ' ' ' n •'