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News. • • News • • • News ... News. • • News ... Ne Jenkins calls for fair votes NEWS IN BRIEF The all-party campaign, an The Right Honourable offshoot of the Campaign for University links Roy Jenkins called into Electoral Reform, enjoys a broad THE UNIVERSITY OF ST RATH DHT last Wednesday as base of support. Such notable CLYDE have formed a busines figures as Conservative MP Sir Ian part of a nationwide development partnership wit Gilmore and Labour's Austin Irvine new town. The agreemen speaking tour for the Mitchell have spoken on its behalf, involves university staff from th Campaign for Fair Votes. and Mr Holme assured the Strathclyde Business Schoo audience that Cabinet members About 150 students making an efficiency study of 1 Jim Prior and Peter Walker are Irvine companies, plus a genera turned up to listen, close supporters of PR . appraisal of lrvine's industry. among them Fiona ,: The ultimate aim of the 5 campaign is of course to change Murray who reports on Library in danger .a our electoral system. Meanwhile the meeting. ;:l they are in the process of CONTRARY TO WHAT you mlg Ro y Jenkins , ex- Home ~ collecting one million signatures have thought, the KB Cen Secretary and Chancellor of the o to a petition calling for a Library has not been saved. At t Exchequer, now SDP MP, had U: referendum on PR . very moment Its position Is on come to convince us of the evils of ,s The chances of Mrs Thatcher again being reviewed. There our present electoral system and o granting such a referendum, and also no plans to set up a cent, the vi rtues of Proportion al ,g thus endangering h e r own Science library. Representation (PR). o.. political security, are slim. But the Mr Jenkins proclaimed there Ohl This Is Interesting members of the campaign are was "a powerful and obvious case Alliance". Although he predicted coalition governments. He said certainly not naive enough to Cash for books against the present electoral si milar problems for the Labour that a political system based on expect instan t result s. R oy system", which he then proceeded Party in Chesterfield - this, negotiation rather than con Jenkins was extremely hopeful of THE UNIVERSITY HAS decided t to put. however, remains to be seen. frontation was far more desirable, obtain ing PR within the decade. give the library at George Squar The "first past the post" system Mr Jenkins emphasised how the putting an end to the "childish ego The mood of the meeting was an additional £40,000 grant i came under heavy attack as he present system had resulted in the trips" of MPs. one of subdued interest. The lack recognition of the rising cost o accused it of being unfair, un country being sharply divided Mr Holme was a precise and of aggressive questioning from the books. Faculty Libraries in genera representative and damaging to between the 'Blue South' and the convincing speaker, clarifying audience was disappointing and are to receive most of the extr the country. ' Red North . Th is, he said, some of Roy Jenkins' more suggested that Roy Jenkins was cash rather than any specific Not surprisingly the plight of the damaged the country's social and rambling replies to questions from preaching to the converted. project. Alliance was much in evidence. Mr geographic cohesion, with the floor. T his points to the campaign's Jenkins illustrated the iniquities Conservative MPs having little One member of the audience greatest threat, perhaps, that is a Survey scuppered ot tne present system, showing experience of the areas of greatest urged Mr Jenkins to work on his failure to draw its opponents into that in the 1983 General Election it hardship, whilst Labour MPs colleagues on the Scottish Grand the debate. 200 COPIES OF an NUS Dr took on average 36,000 votes to lacked knowledge of the particular Committee to convince them of T o achieve deserved success Abuse Survey were dlstrlbut elect a Tory MP, 40,000 votes for a problems of the South East of the need for PR. Mr Jenkins the campaign must put the issue of around the University before I Labour MP and 34,000 votes to England and the Suburbs. thanked him for the suggestion " fair votes" to the top of the Education Research Commit! elect an Alliance MP. Richard Holme, Director of the but was pessimistic as to the political agenda and capture the decided It was a poor survey. T Naturally he was aggrieved that Campaign for Fair Vot~s . likelihood of convincing h is imagination of the public which it SRC Executive has agreed the " wild blade of the electoral continued this theme in answer to mainly Labour colleagues, sadly failed to do last Wednesday. withdraw It even though It was n system", as he put it, " cut only the a question on the dangers od although he promised to try. really the committee's place to s whether the survey's metho were good or not. Inter Scottish universities Tik-Tok flop PUNTERS AT THE Tik and T concert in Chambers Street Uni on Saturday night were n national try the hard sell amused when the musical tw some performed only tw Scotland's eight univer- learning (universities for 400 lush green lawns. While the numbers - both of them mimed t ·t· f · ter language used is inevitably very a record. Demands for " mor week sities have teamed up to years ) ; t h e t ra d, ,on o in - This year the SRC's Inter nationalism ("the flow of students positive and upbeat - particularly were firmly rebuffed, as we national Week will be held from produce a glossy, tourist- and scholars to and from regarding problem areas such as requests for some robot-dancin 27th February to 4th March. The style promotional bro- Scotland"); the tradition of accommodation in Edinburgh - which is no longer part of their a week will be combining cultural chure in an attempt to practicality("theScottishdes1reto the brochure is on the whole fair it seems. and political events in such a way put practical use before and informative. persuade more Overseas theoretical explanation" ) and the Other British universities have as to place stress on international Media lies affairs of importance today. students to study here. tradition of excellence ("a alreadymountedsimilarrecruiting The events will include talks The brochure, entitled Study ,n reputation for quality and drivesintheMiddleEastandNorth KEN SHOJI, SENIOR President I from various speakers on topics Scotland, is being mailed to over thoroughness of teaching and America. Scottish universities are to write yet another letter o th th ranging from the role of the 1,500 addresses worldwide, such research") . hoping at eir new global complaint, this time about tw Catholic Church in South America as universities, colleges and Much of the brochure is taken initiative will go some way towards articles which appeared In th to the life of Australian Aborigines. Ministries of Education. Both the up with detailed descriptions of restoring the drop of 500 overseas NUS newpaper. One, on th There will also be a Real Aid British Council and the Scottish the individual universities , students they have suffered since subject of the recent NU d ·th f t ·e t res the early 1980s. Game, in which people are invited Development Agency have agreed illustrate w1 requen p1 u James Meek affiliation referendum, accus to participate and discover if they to help with distribution. In all, _o_f_s_t_u_d_e_n_t _su_n_n_i_n_g_t_h_e_m_s_e_lv_e_s_o_n______the SRC Executive of letting th alone can solve the world's 40,000 copies are to be printed. campaign get out of hand In favo problems! Universities saw a sharp fall in ot the no-side. The other, on th Various films will be shown in their annual intake of overseas Socialist Workers Student the Pleasance, including "The students in the early 1980s. One of Society, falsely reported that th NHS goes mobile SRC Executive had banned th Three Brothers" ( directed by the first acts of the new Francesco Rossi) and "The War Conservative government in 1979 The Labour Party's campaign to with home helps. latter body for two years. Game" . was the introduction of "economic save the National Health Service " In the longer term, this The major musical event will be tuition fees" for overseas students, I came to George Square for two government's policy of encourag School left Carmel in Teviot, but there wllalso which meant that they faced a I hours last Friday in the shape of an ing private practice through be an International Party in huge increase in costs. Now, for ambulance with a loudspeaker concessions and other induce hanging Potterrow on Saturday night, with example, the annual tuition fees and a video. Edinburgh Univer ments to private enterprise needs THE UNIVERSITY GRAN Reggae disco, Latin American for a British or EEC under sity's Labour Club had requested to be exposed. This is a policy COUNCIL have delayed making music and dancing and jazz. graduate studying medicine are , that the NHS ambulance - a taking us step by step down the decision about H e riot-Watt On Saturday, during the day, £480; their overseas counterpart publicity gimmick - should stop road to a two-tiered system of School of Pharmacy until Mar there will be an International would have to pay £7,500. in the University area during Its health care - private for the 22nd. They claim the departme Societies Fair held in the One result has been a loss of day in Edinburgh. This was part of better-off and a second-class is the least cost-efficient an Pleasance. This will give people income to Scottish universities of a nationwide tour by the health service for the masses." academically, most weak in t another chance to join Societies, over £2m each year. But it is not ambulance to publicise the threat David Martin , Labour' s country, despite its 100% gradua read their literature, buy their only this which concerns them: the which Labour believes govern prospective candidate in this employment record. wares and enjoy International food government's action has made it ment policies pose to the NHS. year's European elections, was and drink. It will also give publicity more difficult for poten t ial Using the ambulance, the Labour also there. He said: " In Lothian the Stirling mobbed to the Societies Involved students who are academically Party hopes to get one million cuts so far proposed will lead to a STIRLING UNIVERSITY h (especially newly formed ones). able, but poor, to study in Britain. signatures for their petition to closure of at least seven hospitals. reported a massive 12% lncre The week will finish with a The 16-page colour brochure defend the Health Service. Longer queues for operations will In applications for places. T debate on Government aid to the features a photo-montage cover, As well as the familiar student give stimulus to the private sector compares with an average 1 Third World (In Tevlot), to which showing students walking up a faces of Deacon, Burnside and co., which 1111 recently was non nationwide. 11 ,000 applicants we have Invited four vivacious and picturesque part of the Royal Mile, 'real' politicians from the outside existent In Scotland." competing for only 640 places. emphatic speakers. skiing and sailing. Inside, the world came along to try to raise the So students were assailed for many areas Stirling Is now hard Other minor events will be introduction describes to potential consciousness of apathetic two hours by politicians handing to get Into than Edinburgh. taking place throughout the consumers" ... one of the world's students. Gavin Strang, MP, said: out leaflets and asking them lo University, including cultural greenest and least crowded lands " Our purpose Is to focus attention sign petitions ' while the evenings In the Overseas set in a splendid northern in the very real threat which faces loudspeaker blasted out its Caelic College Students' Centre, lunches and landscape, whose highlands and the NHS, a threat which comes message and Nell Kinnock spoke SCOTLAND'S ONLY displays on Palestine, Chile and islands, lochs and sea shores, first from cuts being made in the on video In the back of the higher ed u cation institutio Oxfam relief work. ancient villages and cities. have level of provision, very significant ambulance. Sabhal Mor Ostaig on the Isle Any profit made from the events drawn and inspired visitors from cuts when one takes into account " If you write to mei" he said, "I'll Skye, have mounted an appeal f will be sent to Salvadorean all over lhe world" the growing numbers of old make sure the government knows £300,000 to complete restoratio refugees resources centre. The introduction goes on to list people. We also want to focus exactly how you feel." But will they of their 19th century farmhou Juliette Lowe the Scottish univers1t1es " four attention on cuts being made in write? base and es tabl ish an endowme External Affairs Convener traditions"· the tradition of areas of welfare, as for example Eric Carlin fund to ensure the college's futur THE STUDENT Thursday. 23rd February 1984 3 News. • • News ... News . .. News. • • News ... New Edinburgh and ESP Edinburgh University wi l l Prince Charles, the Chancellor parapsychology research in the learn very soon whe ther it of Cardiff University, was reported United States, at universities and is to be the home of to have been keen that the Chair other institut ions , but no should go there. But Edinburgh professorships. The precedent for Britain' s first Chai r o f seems to be the current favourite, the Koestler Chair has in fact been Parapsychology , pro- main l y because it has an set by the University in Utrecht in v ided for i n the legacy of established tradition of para the Netherlands, which already psychology research. Dr John has just such a post within its writer Arthur Koestler, Beloff, a senior lecturer in Psychology Department. w ho d ie d la st year . Edinburgh's Psychology Depart- Dr Beloff said that the Chair Koestler had developed a strong ment, has conducted research into would, if awarded to Edinbµrgh, interest in the paranormal, and ESP for many years. the have little impact on staff or decided to bequeath the value of department even has its own student places. There would be his entire estate, estimated to be parapsychology laboratory. The more opportunities for post worth about £500,000, to a results of Dr. Beloff's research, graduate psychology students University prepared to institute a while not conclusive, have been interested ih the paranormal, and parapsychology professorship. sufficiently encouraging to justify there would be the possibility of The estate's executors met last continued study. lectures being included in the weekend, and decided who would Dr Beloff was a close friend of undergraduate syllabus. Arthur Koestler's, and was one of Study of paranormal pheno receive the Chair. But they were the four trustees involved in not planning to announce their mena may not always be the decision for some days. deciding who should receive the purely academic exercise it Chair. Despite his strong personal seems. While the British Although a large number of interest, he claims to have been Universities originally expressed government and industry have so interest, the choice in the end lay quite impartial in weighing the far shown no interest in this field of merits of the two competing rd nd research, there are rumours that between only two, ca iff a Universities. The other three America's Central Intelligence Edinburgh. Many Universities trustees cire Koestler's former were put off by fears of the harm Agency are pursuing para they could do Jo their academic solicitor, his publisher and his psychological studies of their reputation by officially acknow- literary agent. ' own. !edging the va lidity of research r-r-There______are many centres of J a: m: e:s:::M e~e-k into such esoteric phenomena as Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and telekinesis. The Mole Presidents plan opposition Scottish SRCs are in the were contained In a UGC letter. presented at a meeting of the SRC flnal stages of preparing a With so many groups involved In at the end of the month. the discussions it has not been an Under the direction of Convener response to last year' s easy task to reach a consensus on Mark Smith, the National Affairs worrying government issues of detail. Committee has already completed proposals for the future of "We wanted to keep our reply as part of its response. It challenges concise as possible," Ken Shoji the assumption that student Universities. They are said, "so we concentrated on the numbers will fall In the future. An expected to make their main Issues." These Included increasing trend for mature and Positively the last ago and now as permanent hacks opposition to any moves questions concern i ng c urrl female students to go to University they look forward to collecting their old age pensions. towards a fall in student culums, research and the whole should make up for any fall in story on NUS nature of Universities, as welt as school-leavers, It argues. Aberdeen boasts one of the numbers, privatisation or the more nilly-gritty subjects of It is also opposed to the Hundreds of National Student worst run SRCs in Scotland. greater priority for money and numbers. introduction of a significant newspapers sit behind the Elections are purely on the party of the candidate (no election vocational courses An early draft of the reply degree of private finance into the servitor's desk at the Pleasance. indicates that most Scottish SRCs University system because of the crouching evilly like a toad in the addresses are offered) and once in crystal-clear. are totally opposed to the control wh ich th is would bring hot sun. power successful hacks get free At Dundee last Friday, February government's proposals. Their private sponsors over higher Rather than distribute them as meals and booze paid for by 17, Ken Shoji, Senior President hostility Is likely to be shared by education . A restructuring of per usual, the NUS Society is Societi es. that receive grants and seven other Scottish SRC this University's SRC Academic h i gher educati on on more desperately trying to think of a way according to (claimed) member Presidents met in conjunction with Affairs and National Affairs specialised lines, it concludes, to dump them - before they get ship only. the Scottish NUS to discuss the Committees. The latter, at present, would be equall y un welcome. into the wrong hands. That is, In Dundee University last Friday oufllne of a joint submission over are preparing their own responses Edinburgh University students. at a meeting of Scottish the government's plans which to the lefter which will be Graham Chalmers This is all due to ·· news" articles Sabbaticals Ken shoji had the on the front page which put the pleasure of a free three-course referendum in a bad light, to say slap-up meal. wine and port the very least. included, all in view (through a Chinese Under a sub-heading 'Leeds and glass door) of the wrteched Hull give big votes for NUS' 1t is student masses queuing for some Arts windfall described how some hacks at burnt offering. twins General Meetings at Hull and Edinburgh is too well run for It's not e v e r y day that (much of) this kind of thing to intend to do with the £25,000? E dinburgh City C o u ncil Leeds rejected disaffiliation while at Newcastle Poly the Union occur. someb o d y drops two The Institute has been around is currently discussing a President "democratically" ruled hundred a nd f ifty t hou si nce 1969 and encoruages study p r oposed "friend s hip discussion of NUS disaffiliation Students Strike! sand smackers into the in the Fa culty of Arts, especially of re lated subjects. Its Fellows are l ink" wit h X i'an, China's out of order. (Another NUS story) Great victories indeed. They are hands of a Unive rsity usually post-doctorate sc holars or ancient capita l , and The 23rd strikes a vibrant chord to democracy what Marcel departme nt. The Ins titu t e established scholars who spend a secon d best- known c ity . in the heats of Edinburgh t\i,arceau is to radio. revolutionaries. It is the glorious of Adva n ced S t u dies i n few months on research subjects Originally suggested by an anniversary of the Scott at the Institute. Edinburgh councillor in April the Humanitie s h as, Edinburgh Joke Poll Monument and DHT occupations The major project being 1982, the idea was put to the however, b een o n the This year bigger things are planned by the Institute for the Chinese Government, and after Under the subjead,ng 'Edin future focuses on Scottish burgh Poll is a Joke', conversely, a planned - a national melt-down receivin g e nd of a m o st private ·talks with the Chinese referendum where over 4,000 of higher education (or was it shut Enlightenment, comparing the ambassador during last year's generous gift from Mrs S . people voted is offh andedly down?). All students will leave si tuation in the period 1750-1800 Edinburgh Festival, an approach M. W. Gifford, the w if e of a dismissed. their classes at 11 o'clock and to th e present day. The multi was made to Edinburgh by Xi 'a n. NUS President Neil "Beerbelly" march 1n the streets of London or former Chan ce ll o r ' s disciplinary project will fea ture The matter is expected to be Stewart is quoted -" Ken shoji's Glasgow to terrify and eventually Assessor of the U n iver lectures and exhibitions and will discussed by Edinburgh Council's performance was pathetic." bring down the Tory Reactionary run from March 1st to October 1st General Purposes Committee at sity. "Beerbel ly" ludicrously expected Imperialist Junta! 1986. the end of this month, and wi th the S hoji t o censor everything Edinburgh 1s sending one bus T he Inst i tu te is naturally It is indeed encouraging in th ese support of both Labour and days of education cuts and th e published. this afternoon to G lasgow you'll be delighted and 1s now looking Conservative groups, seems set to Well, this "joke" cost a bit - pay pleased to hear. But how will Edin forward to planning a wide and steady dismantling of Scotland's be approved. for polling station clerks, th e work burgh's teeming thousands (who varied programme of events, a universities to see someone Edinburgh was first twinned in of the Returning Officer, the so desperately want to go) welcome change to surviving from contributing to further studies in 1954, to Munich, and since then counters, the £800 of posters and squeeze into 1t , I want to know. year to year on a low budget. Humanities, a discipline normally has made similar connections with Midweek So what is the Institute of the victim in today's educational Florence, N ice, San Diego, leaflets, the pages in and Student - Ad vanced Studies 1n the policy. Vancouver and Dunedin, New all th is added up to Put your feet into it thousands. Humanities and what do they Alan Munro Zealand. The planned " friendship Uni on President Heat her link" with Xi'an will thus be The peculiar thing 1s no one at Lament was speaking to a senior Edinburgh's lirst with the Eas t. It Edinburgh found it funny - NUS member of the University admin will be significant too for seemed to be a bigger joke. istration. While being shown some Edinburgh University, wi th its pictures of the 1960s Union Pala1s Antidiluvian Aberdeen large number of Chinese students in Tev,ot she smartly remarked to and closer cultural links cou ld well Beerbelly Stewpol and "Fat him, "Looks a real cattle market to brink more Chinese rnvolvement Bob" Mclean (NUS Scotland me, ha ha'" to the Edinburgh Fest1val.a1T1,ongst chairm an) emerged lrom the The administrator was not other schemes. primeval antidiluvian depths of amused. "Well, I met my wife Alastair Dalton Aberdeen Urnversity many eons there," he announced stiffly 4 THE STUDENT Thursday, 23rd February 1984
News. • • News • • • News ... News. • • News ... New University's Buses travel RAF new index to NUS demo row Students at this Univer- President, said that the SAC had As a result of a breach of . h 'd .. " t been supporting NUS events f 'd t · l't h sity may ave sai no O whichwereinaccordwithitsviews con I en ,a I Y, a arm- the NUS but the SAC's for years. less presentatiori at links to it remain as strong The Scottish NUS has called on George Square Thea,re as ever. Today, Thursday SRCs and students in general to today, Thursday February . d b organise strikes or local protests , has become the centr 23 , two SAC - h ire uses during the ·oay of Action·. 23 are travelling to an NUS However, Ken Shoji believes that of controversy within the " New Deal for Students" the response will be minimal. "As SAC. faraslknow,"hesaid,"notmany Teresa Bray , Honorary demonstration in G las- places are doing anything." Treasurer, wants to know why the gow. The two buses, which leave from University's Information Officer, The demonstration, which will Appleton Tower at 1 pm, are the Ray Footman, gave the RAF a list be attended by representatives of SRC's only contribution to the of Societies' Secretaries to help it most colleges and universities in 'Day of Action·. "We could not forward invitations withoug going Scotland, is part of tire Scottish think of anything which would through the normal channel of the NUS long heralded 'Day of Action'. really be constructive", Ken Shoji Societies Council. She fears that The main aim is to draw attention said, "we've tried the occupations this breach of confidentiality may to its demands for a brighter future in the past and we've tried the adversely affect the job prospects for universities and a minimum work-ins." in the Civil Service of members of grant of £30 tor all those in full- More action is planned by the some of the more controversial time education and training. Scottish NUS for Saturday, March societies such as Troops Out or Withtheresu ltoftherecentNUS 10, this time over government Anti-Apartheid. affiliation referendum still fresh in proposals tor the future of The man unwittingly their minds, some members of the universities contained in a UGC responsible for the whole si tuation SAC argue that it would have been letter. Ken Shoji believes that a is Ken Shoji, Senior President, better if the NUS society had hired better day tor both events would who gave the Information Officer the buses, rather than the SRC have been a Wednesday afternoon permission to release_ the list of
project to carry out, but recruiting the fir$! The first issue of a new I EExecdutive,~ Bnut Kben Suhojir, Segnior h debGrahaam tChaelmers s;rau~:s,ctocth eeRAFSS,n monthly index to The staff via the MSC has provided the unit with a keen, inexpensive Scotsman newspaper workforce. was pu bi ished last The unit sought, and got, 21 During the past month, the "non-smoking, intelligent Is immoral''. Despite personal read the relevant issue of Student Wednesday by Edinburgh Union Debating Hall at Glasgow introverts . . who had not been opinion, the girls bounded Anyway,In the final, our lntrepl University's Unit for the has played host to a debating defeated by the experience of victoriously on into the second twosome faced Glasgow, they o competition between the eight Study of Government in long-term unemployment". round to meet Aberdeen. the unbeatable reputation. If yo Scottish universities, on a Several of the people recruited are In round two our team had to thought that the girls have had a Scotland (USGS). knockout basis. Chaired by in their fifties; others are support the motion that raw deal so far where sides of the The unit's new project, based at Magnus Magnusson and filmed by physically handicapped. The mix " Feminism is a prop for argument were concerned, the 21 Buccleuch Place, is financed BBC Scotland, coverage is due to of educational standards is broad. inadequate women". Remember final turned out to be a real treat. jointly by the Manpower Services start this Sunday with the debate The International Thomson that this is an all-girl team and The motion here was "This House Commission (MSC) and the Inter between Glasgow and Dundee on Organsiation's cash - £10,250 - you'll see Hilary and Fiona's belteves that Brita in can b national Thomson Organisation, the good old subject of "The enabled the unit to buy computers problem! However, they coped defended without nuclea which owns The Scotsman. Monarchy". As a special treat in to speed up the laborious process admirably and moved on again weapons," a proposal which Hilary The index to January 1983 is the this one the guest speaker is ot indexing. triumphantly. and Fiona had to attack. Fine, you first index of a Scottish newspaper Count Nikola tolstoy, descendant John Bennett admitted that he The astute of you will be now may think but then Hilary was to be published since the Glasgow of the man himself. could not predict what the market have realised that round three was member of the CND (she still is, Herald ceased indexing in 1968. It The Edinburgh team was made would be for the product, but said the final. Although the final was but as she says " no longer blind! aims to provide, month by month, up of HIiary O'Neil and Fiona that he was aiming to break even. held on Saturday the 18th, CND"). How did they get on? Well, a comprehensive alphabetical Macleod, though they won't be on Libraries seemd the most protocol (and Hilary) has visits to the Students' Associatio listing of characters and events the telly until 12th March. In the forbidden me from revealing the Offices apart, you'll have to wai featured in The Scotsman. Leader promising customers. The service will cost approximately £150 first round the lasses met result, suffice to say that it you and see. columns, reviews and letters will Strathclyde, where they had to annually; for this the customer want to find out you'll either have Elaine Presto be covered together with news and support the motion that " Abortion to watch It, some time in April, or features. gets 12 monthly indexes and a John Bennett, who is in charge, single hard-backed bound volume hopes that his team will eventually detailing the information be able to go back over previous published over the year. years and annolate them as well. The project team are also The index is the brainchild of Or compiling an index of · births, Vandals wreck Carnival Henry Drucker, a senior lecturer in marriages and deaths published in the University's Politics Depart The Scotsman since it was The annual Architects' ment and chairman of the USGS. It founded in 1817. was originally thought too costly a James Meek Carnival on Friday 17th was badly marred by some troublemakers who Arts reps chosen found their way into the building and proceeded Representation of students in publicity the Arts students in an the Arts Faculty took a major step overwhelming display of apathy to spoil an otherwise forward last Thursday with the first produced no nominations for the successfu l night. Win meeting of the Arts Students' 3 posts. Representatives were dows were broken and Council being held in DHT Faculty selected for most departments at wallets were stole n Room South. The purpose of the the meeting although some ASC is to • bridge the com departments, including English during the course of the munication gap between students Literature , remain as yet evening. As a result, the and their representatives and unrepresented. Mr Colin Hancock, future of the event is in departmental reps in wider forum. the present SRC Arts Faculty The primary aims of this well Convener and acting ASC chair jeopardy. Michael Devlin attended first meeting were to person, offer his position for reports. select representatives from each election but no one took up the of the faculty's 23 departments to challenge and so Mr Hancock was The Carnival, which is serve on the ASC and also to elect reaffirmed as ASC chairperson. Mr organise d by second-year office-bearers for the ASC. It had Mark Poustie was the Council's architects, takes place each year been planned to hold a faculty choice for secretary and Mr in the architecture building in found their way inside also. year's profits rather than going to wide election tor ASC office Vernon Shilliday was the Chambers Street. The trouble More trouble ensued before the blind school as intended will no bearers on the day of the NUS unanimous choice for the post of began on Friday night when six party was finally broken up at be used to pay for the dama elections but in spite of excellent treasurer people were discovered going three o'clock. At this point one of caused on Friday night. last ye through pockets in one of the the Hells Angels threw a pool ball the architects managed to rais studios. They were also found to through a glass pane in the front £700 for the Pilton playgroup, an have smas hed some windows door. Graeme Stuart, an it seems a shame that this sort upst{lirs in the building. As a architecture student, then left the charity may now have to stop. Short of Cash? result, the police were called and building to investigate the Mike N ewman, this year' the offenders were duly removed incident. When he challenged the Carnival organiser, tofd me that from the premises. five individuals he was beaten up the event runs again, it will eith Sellers needed for Student newspap?r. The party then proceeded well to· such an extent that it left him be in the architects' building on until two o'clock when a fire alarm badly bruised. rill informed a srualler scale, 'Or the same size · Guaranteed hourly r<1te. was deliberately set off and the passing policeman that he had jusl , an alternative venue. Heestimat ' •. ,.·, \ ·' 11u,!d1ng was, evacuated !qr hall an been assaultoo,,Tf,:e,f.(l,fing bot>by , ·.Jtl.8_ \ia[Qjj~e JI~ o/:_il1Q in-h'U~ .\ ,0;11 ~ .1 'Buccl~llbh Pl~ce
aye right Wainwright aye right inuff aye right inuff definitely Night Works aye bit naw bit a stull think yi huvty say sumhm" Stills, the Scottish Photography Group Gallery , in close He did. He was an original " talking conjunction with Chris Wain the right way of spellin" After the wright, the photographer, 1s event the visit b ecame an exhibiting his work in two parts. occasion. The first part explores the process, Tom Leonard, born in Glasgow through drawing and contact in 1944, clamours, complains and sheets, which this photographer creates: loudly. That colon is the uses to obtain his final product. only signifyi ng object that The second part is the final separates the tonal quality of: product. Chris Wainw right has spent "YIZIR AW PINE THEY FERZ most of his life in Derbyshire, and THI MORRA" takes many of his photographs in (A Scream) his native county. Joseph Wright, a painter of the 18th century, had a from the final poem in " Intimate profound affect upon Wainwright. Voices" which states: Two examples of Wright's night The work of Chris Wainwright. paintings are exhibited alongside normally long-term accumula steps involved. Maybe that way the "The poetry reading is over. the photographs, each painting tions of work by an artist. exhibition contravenes the artist's I will go home to my children" has a magnetic structure of light, Wainy,right's photographs have ideas about conformity as merely (Fathers and Sons) shadow and reflection. beerf taken in 1984. He was catering for consumers, without Wainwright works with artificial recently commissioned by the individual thought and interpre books In between are 48 titled pieces, tation. The time between parts light creating his won light and gallery to photograph the ruined often in parts, sometimes in prose dark. He draws with torchlight in St Andrew's Cathedral and the seems too long to completely hold Tom but always the unmistakable voice darkness in front of the camera quarry in Fife from which the rock the interest of the exhibition-goer. of a committed man. He is a like a pencil does on paper, then came to fashion the cathedral. To derive the best from this Leonard speaker. Tom is a poet. The hurt It is difficult to fully assess the exhibition see the first part just later re-exposes the film to his Intimate voices: voices revenging for their general subject under flashlight. work without a final image to look before March 3 and the second vulnerability in "Ghostie Men" is upon immediately after seeing the part as soon as possible. This exhibition is, unlike most. writing 1965-83 part of the rogue-parcel that he has marshalled in his throughtful in tensifies and Gally seems to Some poetry readings are poem " A Priest Came On at S U dden I mpac t forget his anal fixation. Some delivered into the silent past with Merkland Street" which cares attempt 1s made to create a sinister mimed appreciation; the about the " innocent" and "Go ahead, make my day," atmosphere by having much of the deprecating shrug, the inclination irredeemably damns the film growls Dirty Harry Callahan as he violence take place at night with of the hands , the lowered " Hawkhead Mental Asylum". The points his 'buddies' at the the colourful lights of a funfair as eyelashes, the defiant stand. Then author states in the body of the sweating head of a young robber. the backdrop. It doesn't quite there are the audiences; busy poem: It's a good line and Harry knows it. come off though since the only rustlings into position, paper, pen No one can stand up to that sort of reaction Harry shows to this new and posture, before limiting "My name is Ozymandias cynicism for long. Harry Callahan scene is to take off his sun themselves to a reference book king of Leithland Road At First Sight (Clint Eastwood) is a street-wise glasses. Callahan meets the with glossary, of comparative Pollok homicide detective. beautiful artist with a secret in a occasions. And of course there are Glasgow SW3. Wiseass the street dirt homicide restaurant, and they exchange always those who are critically inspector is now in big trouble; loaded dialogue. "I do what I have listening, those who appreciate which is chimed with the "awful The fact that there are so few "The Commissioner is climbing up to do," growls the homicidal the ti mes when the event lifts the lonely" cry of: fine and intelligent films about my ass ove this one Harry," growls detective and you know that he 1s poet into a performer of the life women makes the appearance of Captain Briggs. This is obviously articulating both their feelings. that is his work. "maybe I would just stay the same Diane Kury's " At First Sight" even causing much discomfort to the The Dirty Harry films (of which In a variety and a vanity of ways way for years just thinking about more welcome. Dispensing with constipated Captain and so he this is the fourth) began in 1971 Tom Leonard achieved this something else all day" the stupefying stereotypes of orders Harry to take a vacation With ''Dirty Harry" and provided bruising - to -the-h ealth but allowing us to identify with his Holywood it presents a thoughtful, until the matter blows over. But the hero that the 70s see med to elevating-to-the-mind state when reflection n escape in the last line: sensitive and witty portrait of the Harry can't keep out of trouble and want. reading in the Third Eye Centre to emotional constraints placed on is sent out of town to follow up a Eastwood the star, producer and celebrate the publication of his "brackets watch him he has a women by their style of life. lead in a homicide case. It turns director of this film has said, " Intimate Voices: Writing 1965- stoop and funny eyes" Set amidst the middle-class out to be the first in a series of " People are edgy about the rights 1983" (Galloping Dog Press). "In tranquillity of post-war Lyons, " At ritualistic acts of revenge by a of criminals taking precedent over the beginning was the sound". Mr Besides the poems this First Sight" explores the relation beautiful but bitter rape victim the rights of victims. I think the Leonard has many echoes to his invaluable new collection also ship between two women: Lena artist, played by Sandra Locke. public is interested in justice and credit; the "Sound & Syntax" includes several prose pieces. In (Isabelle Huppert) and Madeleine From here on in the violence +hat's what Harry stands for." Festival in 1978 and his own "Text "The Examination System Seen as (Miou Miou), both of whom ar The dl'lectable Isabelle Hupper1 ln,.•A•' t •.'.".'_s 1..oh•t· " ------, by Kirkegaard" , followed most Florence Nightingale" subtitled being strangled emotionally by recently by the asundering with "There is Nothing, Like a Dame" marriages imposed, not out of friends of a piece called "Glasgow, originally written as an editorial for love, but out of war expediency. My Big Birdie" at least year's Glasgow University Magazine in They immediately form a deep " Mayfest". the late 60's he quotes Sartre: relationship that ba la nces But in " Intimate Voices" there 1s "Things have broken free from delicately between the spiritual the presence of the man called their names." In 1973, for Scottish and the sexual. Both women fill the "Tom" so that the heaves and early International, he wrote "The Proof void in each other's lives created bronchitic horrors of " Mr Chesty" of the Mince Pie" which essentially by the inadequacies of their wrapped in fresh Kleenex" are are question the literate-qualititative respective husbands. and together placed in perspective by the poet value of culture in a literry manner: they discover and nurture those when he humorously presents the qualities buried by the i r horrors of blow-football to the " it seems to me that when the domesticity. ?.sthmatic. As in listening to music object or end result of the study is Intolerant of the seemingly there is a lot of hearing to be done an exam, then this debases and ambiguous nature of their between the lines. There are colours one's whole attitude to relat ionship, their husbands movements. Inhaled are words what is being studied, in the light create a situation where both F- working out an oral tradition in of the ultimate exam. The exam is women are forced to leave their blunt forward movements , simply an incitement to vanity." homes and live together. An Fringe Film Festival: Third Cinema news: straight, harsh and thought Leonard's examination is a far intolerance not caused by malice This year's Fringe Film Festival Tonight (25th) at 7.30, Scottish provoking. The tradition is that of more strict, personal and self or the male ego but out of will run from 5 to 11 August (the film-maker Brian Crumlish heckler rather than that of demanding one. In an important frustration in not being able to week before the official test.) returns to Third Cinema following preacher. As he moved on to more piece of William Carlos Williams comprehend the type of same-sex According to Harold Tobermann, the success of his first visit. familiar poems (to me) I began to (Poetry Information 16: Winter re lationship women find so natural th e Fes ti val director, " it's After some initial problems 3-C notice the quality of his afternoon 1976) entitled "The Locust Tree in but men seem incapable of. Guy philosphy is more thematic (than now seems to be establishing an audience. Poets Edwin Morgan, Flower, and Why it had a Difficult Marchand as Lena's husband the official lest.), juxtaposing past identity for itself as a centre for the Aonghas MacNeacail and Lz Flowering in Britain" he ironically gives a terrifyi ngly accurate and present film making," and for exhibition and discussion of Lochhead were crouched among comments on " R eceived portrayal of a sympathetic man this year the test. directors are independent film/ the only one in the tourists. Prose writer Jim Pronunciation", declares that " the whose si mplisti c love enables him preparing " a look at women and Edinburgh). A recent general Kelman and novelist Alasdair Gray British are very se nsitive about to understand his children. But the cinema; film-makers or meeting saw the finalisation of a sat and Mr Leonard spoke of the voice", and then pronounces on when applying the same rules to images? " To provide a historical constitution and broad policy inability to exorcise the " Ghosties" Ian Hamilton Finlay and Bob his wife is left with a vague baffled perspective a restrospective of a statement. Inc luded in the of pain, hurt and loneliness in the Cobbing who, together with awareness that this love is not major woman film-maker of the statement is a commitment to the vulnerable exposed nerve-lines of Leonard, have looked under "the enough, leading to feelings of 30's is being put together. "It is development of productio n those poems. As machine made of words" of bitterness and anger. hoped " the press release fa cilities by 3-C itself. As yet it is some sound poems crackled in the Williams to better effect than any "At First Sight" is a stimulating continues, that contemporary still ea r l y. days but such background , one quietly other contemporary writers. He and entertaining film that contributions will complete the commitments do hold out genuine applauded and recognised that (Leonard) has l is tened to sensitively observes relationships picture. Understandably priority hope for the long-term develop this was one of Scotland's great language, sense and meaning. He from all sides enabling the w ill be given to recent ment of accessible independent achievers, a great " performer" risks going into language without audience to identify and independent productions. One film production in Edinburgh. giving an afternoon gift of his the constant reassurance of an sympathise with both male and only hopes that the addition of th e Third Cinema meets every other poems and presence to his approved di c tionary . Tom female characters. This film is word :·scott1sh " will not lea.d to an Thursday at 7.30 pm (at present in friends. Leonard is always original when head and shoulders above most imbalanced or blinkered view of the Filmhouse's Cinema 3) and It was with some reluctance the he writes well , which is often. films 1n the genre and 1s definitely independent cinema. membership is open to anybody poet ended with a poem called woth a visit. Watch the 'Student' for further with an interst in films. (Student's " hangup" which so und-stitched Hayden Murphy details. Duncan Swan su bscription £2.50 pa.) its way through noes like- (of the 'Irish Times'} THE STUDENT Thursday, 23rd February 1984 7 AQTS theatre Sounds of the East Theatre Works hop managed to blend more "Belcikal" is a recently formed traditional Western jazz sounds group of three musicians from with the Eastern tempo. Occasion Morocco, Tunisia and Belgium, ally the relaxed beat threatened to who are touring Britain for three become tedious, yet on the whole weeks this month. Indeed, it is this it was a memorable performance Southern wide range of musical back for its refreshingly different style. grounds that is undoubtedly Inspired by the unusually Discomfort responsible for inspiring such a enchanting rhythms of " Bel varied concoction of hypnotic and cikal's" music, three shadow plays TIie Swing exciting sounds. were performed on a screen BICll•m Theatre What was so immediately behind the group during the Wednesday lunchtime striking about " Belcikal" was their concert. These short, imaginative very relaxed presence on stage, an pieces were very simple The setting of Edward Bond's unflummoxable calm which went structurally yet effective in the striking, bizarre piece - the hand-in-hand with the carefully skilful handling of the puppets American Deep South in the first paced mesmeric quality of their whose movement was tuned decade of the 20th century - was Eastern styled music. The perfectly to fit in with the musical chosen not so much for the powerful rhythms of Hassan accompaniment. The shadow opportunity it gives to portray Erraji's voice merged beautifully plays seemed more suited to the racial conflict, as to provide a with the Moroccan lute and theatre setting; the concert itself general background of violent various percussion instruments, would have benefitted from a more bigotry, in which lynchings and while Luk Mishaille on saxo informal environment. kangaroo courts were a reality for phones and Jean Demey on bass tan MacGregor bOth black and white. The play centres around the rape of the daughter of a vaudeville actress, and the subsequent execotion of her su pposed attacker in a theatre Mistero Dario Portraits of by citizens who have paid for the satisfaction of shooting him. T raverse Theatre It is a play designed to confront Loren Thyssen - "Am t Rosencrantz or Gullden stern? young artists Mlstero Bu ffo us with the dangers of muffling reality with illusion, of blurring art Still on Stage - SSOF and li fe. At the beginning, and at PYROTECHNICS AT THE The Italian medieval mystery Bedlam Theatre the end , we see the widowed plays adapted by Dario Fo into actress Helen Kroll on a swing, Mistero Buffo take on with ease an Pretension that subject surrounded by flowers, in a scene BEDLAM undeniably contemporary satirical especially dreaded among of almost roccocco sweetness. significance. Perhaps this is students - is the theme of " A Rosencrants and Gulldenstern But this is the same whing to which firework displays between them - because they always had their feet Portrait of the Artist as a Young are Dead. we will the victim of Southern theatrical pyrotechnics on a stuck firmly in the mud of ordinary God", one of the Scottish Student justice lashed. Helen Kroll's Wed 22-Sun 26, Bedlam T heatre moderately grand scale - which human life with all its injustice, Drama Festival selections. frustrated, bookish daughter are undoubtedly the best even if their heads were supposed " Portrait" attaches this theme urges a man to love her, citing the Like two silky black flies trapped moments of the play. Thyssen to scrape the spiritual ceiling. through the mind of an egotistical passi o n of Homer's warring in a bottle, Rosencrantz and cuts, clear as crystal, across the Theatre 1982 at the Traverse last young " poet". Greeks and Trojans. But when Guildenstern buzz in bewilder dialogue,. beautifully comple week , performing the piece Despite its rather fragmentary faced with real blood and violence, ment around the stage, slowly but menting the plodding, round ensemble rather than as a one format - many brief scenes form imbecility Wright sustains so well his thoughts , dreams and she goes mad. inexorably winding down to a man show, captured on the whole as Rosencrantz. The Player is the The cast, under the able death for which they could neither just the right spirit of vivacity, memories - the play still has expected Mephistopheles figure, direction of Bridget Biagi, coped prepare nor understand. The play scatology, satire and humanism, surprising continuity, helped by played with ncie ambiguity and well with a straight production of a is more a circus spectacle on a provin~ that medieval theatre is some beautifully rhythmical most unstraight play. Their theme of life and death than a faintly disturbing charm, though very much alive, alive-a. passages. The rather static quality Henderson - Manix surely has greatest challenge stemmed from theatrical piece. But the very There were a few weaknesses in was unfortunate and decreased more malevolence in him. Perhaps the variety of tone which the Edward Bond's jesire to implicate density of the script is the greatest the performance: the actors work he wasn't showing it that day. Pity. performance might have had. the audienca in the final challenge to any company brave without a director, which may It is a satisfying evening's execution. ThJs, while the first or foolish enough to attempt it. explain why individuals some entertainment, even though, like half appears as an American EUTC's production is not entirely times fell into recurrent physical any sideshow, the images and bourgeois tragedy in the tradition successful, suffering from an un mannerisms that were occasion ideas impressed upon the of Arthur Miller or Tennessee necessarily distracting set and ally irritating. Also, the plays speak audience are but fleeting. The Williams, there is a sudden shift patchy supporting performances. eloquently for themselves, and same questions about life and after the raping of the daughter to However, the virtuosity of the additional political comment over death have been asked before and emphasises the point and so a different genre, the genre of three leading actors, Angus with more art. And EUTC haven't weakens the piece as drama. vaudevi ll e, farce and melodrama. Wright and Lorne Thyssen in the risked any radical new interpre The transition was signified t i t le r o l es, and Vincent Nevertheless, this untrained, tations. But for the sheer enjoy non-equity collective have pulled partly by a very subtle lighting Henderson-Manix as The Player, ment of seeing some masterful off a considerable feat. The pace change; partly by the changed dispels initial doubts. T hey keep and intelligent performances, it was snappy, the comedy happy articulation of the cast's voices. To the piece alive (no mean task - must be very hard to beat. and the movement inventive. mimic a Southern United States Stoppard seems intent on burying Helen Martin accent is difficult enough; to do so it) and on occasion p roduce little Kerry Richardson with such variatioris of tone is even harder. Eleanor Zeal, as Helen Kroll, managed this particularly welt, altering abruptly from a sultry, worldly actress to a melodramatic, heartbroken Anarchy 1n the theatre -Dario Fo mother. Jeff Howitt also handled the part of Skinner the storekeeper with great skill - first as the Claxon Trombettl Corporation and its workers company, Claxon loses its archetypal redneck, simple in his E Pernacchle Claxon was put in its social and immediate impact on a British " The Typists", a more conven ideals and his b rutality, then as the Traverse Theatre political context. The events of the audience. The entertainment tional drama, explores the familiar jovial, revivalist- p reacher-style first act were then sketched in and shines through, the politics do. themes of wasted lives and foiled Master of Ceremonies at the the reading got under way. not. aspirations. We watch the ageing execution. Rachel Anderson as Doubtless it was assumed that The play itself revolves around a Sure enough it's there. And and mellowing of Paul and Sylvia, Greta Kroll overcame the Dario Fo's latest play, C/axon . .. , confusion of identity: Agnelli, the PFK's post-rendition discussion trapped by the futility of their lives difficulties of portraying lunacy once translated into English would boss of Fiat, has had his face brought it out as Ed Emery steered and inability to do or even realise without merely alternating rant inevitably follow in the rebuilt following a car smash to us through the maze of Italian what they want. Both Paul and and whisper, and Aaron Cass·s commercial footsteps of its appear like that of a certain politics. With a little help the Sylvia are excellently played to the manic Clown, though somewhat forebears on to the West End Antonio, an ex-worker of his made elements of the play were slotted last detail. Their characters are salf-indulgent, was a brilliant stage. Money, however, does not redundant following the strike. into place as we heard of the Aldo convincingly developed, and there virutoso performance. grab us all. And Fo refused to This is patently the material Moro murder, the round-up of left is a full perspective on their lives If the p roduction was flawed, it release the performance rights farce, and Fo exploits it to the full. wing activists, press blackouts, and situations. At the same time was in that the audience were not until he can receive assurances Even with the cast of six sat in their and all the other bits and pieces. their ageing is firmly evident. sulticiently involved in their role as that Claxon will be produced in a chairs for most of the time, with But is Fo expecting a bit much if The high standard was main executioners to become aware of manner that fully honours its stage directions read aloud, the he expects a full-blown perform tained by "Three-Leafed Clover", a the menace of mass hysteria. political contents. performance was startlingly ance to bring these clearly into the moving examination of the decay Getting your audience to stand up Thus Theatre PKF chose to give funny. Sometimes the laughter open for a British audience? Little in the relationship of two lovers. It and sing "God Bless America" is C/axon its first airing in Scotland was uneasy - police brutality and short of a comprehensive is, of course, inevitable, but also Qu ite a feat, but a British audience in the form of a play-reading at the torture isn't always funny. But the rewriting of the script, perhaps, as painfully funny. The characters is far less likely to be affected by it Traverse. And perhaps it was this political references were on the was suggested, with Northern are very accessible with their than an American one. Perhaps if billing that was the cause of a whole Italian, and were clearly Ireland as the social backdrop, realistic balances of strength and we had all been issued with rather sparse audience. Yet the missed by an audience unversed could give it the direct impact Fo weakness. revolvers, the threat of the mob few that had gathered were in for in Italian affairs. It therefore came hopes for. These performances give a would have become more obvious. no ordinary play-reading. as a surprise to hear in the For now then, Claxon hangs in variety of originality, drama and James Meek After being warmly welcomed discussion that followed the show limbo. Companies such as PKF humour and keep one's constant and seated by PKF's luminary that C/axon was met on its first may occasionally drag it out to attention with their scope and Arts - Next Week George Byatt, the play was performance in Italy with shocked whet our minds. But for the diversity. They should be an introduced by Fa's translator, Ed silence and stunned amazement. present Fa's humour must be excellent contribution to the Pirates of Penzance Emery. Through a series of slides And here appears the problem: reckoned too funny for the good Scottish Student Orama Festival tracing the history of a 35-day even in the neutral setting of a he wants. opening 27 February in Glasgow. Elaine Louden struggle between the Fiat play-reading by a sympathetic Simon Cartledge Rose Jane Leshe 8 THE STUDENT Thursday, 23rd February 1984 WHAT'S ON Film
Filmhouse Film Society (228 2688) (557 0436) At First Sight Thur 23-Sat 25 The Kiss, The Cabinet of Dr 18.00, 20.30 Wed 15.00 Caligari, Metropolis Director Diane Kurys moves into Friday 24th GST 18.45, 20.00, the top rank of film-makers with 21.10 this subtle and poignant depiction A superb triple bill accompanied of the relationship between two by live piano - not to be missed! women both seeking fulfilment in The first is a Garbo in which she is their otherwise'barren existences. accused of the murder of her Set against the background of the jealous husband; the second a exuberant fifties. Starring Isabelle hypnotic story of fairground Huppert and Miou-miou. Fr. 1983. murders and madness (1919) and the third the well-loved Rosie the Riveter Metropolis, an eerie depiction of Thur 23rd 16.05, 19.30, 21.00 unrest and evil in a city of the Not a perverted horror movie but a future. Dir Fritz Lang 1926. fascinating look at female industrial workers during the 40s. Local Hero Discriminated against and Sunday 26th Feb GST 18.45, 21 .00 suffering great hardship their lives Two showings of this deservedly were not the glamourous and reknowned Scottish film enriching ones promised by concerning the fate of a coastal government propaganda. D ir fishing village. Warm, very Caley Connie Field USA 1980. amusing and beautifully filmed. Dir Bill Forsyth 1982. (229 7670) The Janitor and The Stunt Man Fantasia F ri 24- Sat 25 18.30 Nlnotchka, Key Largo 14.15 Sat (£2) 18.15, 20.25 Wednesday 29th Feb. Pleasance Walt Disney's animated musical The first is Peter Yates· thriller set 18.45, 20.45 classic for all ages. in small hours New York. Murders, Another Garbo, this time an dark corridors and spine-chilling enchanting comedy about a Paris Church Hill King's Theatr evidence. The Stunt Man has Peter playboy who falls for a communist. ABC (447 7597) (229 1201) O'Toole as a egomanical film Dir Ernst Lubitsch 1939. Key Largo Scottish Women's Institute The Belle of New York director who may have sent a is a typical Bogart - tired (228 1638) Drama Festival Mon 27th-Sat 3rd, 19.30. stuntman to his death in striving gangsters in a dingy Florida hotel Thurs 23rd, 19.00. The Southern L i ght for realism USA 1979. Scarface come face to face with Humphrey 14.30, 19.30 Three one-act plays. Company present this a in an alarming climax. 1948. Vampyr Al Pacino is Tony Montana, a Scottish Community Drama story of a young heir who Tues 28 18.15, 20.15 Cuban imported to Florida, where Association marry a music hall entert Very much a part of the season 'In he claws and bites his way to the Sat 25th, 19.00. the Twilight Zone of the top of a ruthless mafia. Three one-act plays. Bedlam Thea Imagination' - greys, shades, Odeon All in the Country mists and phantoms. Nothing is as Sudden Impact (225 9893) 14.00, 17,00, 20.00 Wed 29th-Sat 3rd, 19.30. it appears to be in this remake of (667 3805) A play by Allen Bennett , Rosencrantz and Guilden an ancient legend. Dr Carl Dreyer Clint Eastwood is Dirty Harry - Thurs 23rd-Mon 27th 19. Gorky Park the cop who takes the law into his performed by the amateur group 1932. Thp Makars. Fn and Sat 20 .00 13.25, 16.25, 19.35 own hands and twists 1t. Revenge Tom Stoppard's satiric Murder, intrigue and romance in Serall tragedy at its best Traverse thought-provoking play, Russia - see Dominion for details. by Martin Groome and Sun 26-Mon 27 17.45, 20.15 Never Say Never Again (226 2633) Calvert. Written and directed by Eduardo Jungle Book 13.30, 16.40, 20.00 Songs from the Front de Gregorio, this French film is 14.15., 17.45, 20.15 Sean Connery is James Bond in Thurs 23rd-Sat 25th, 20.00. described as an erotic fairy-tale Kipling's story is adapted by Walt the never ending saga . Don't Singer-actress Elaine Loudon Royal Lyceu and a thriller of the unconsious. Disney in this amusing film. Great worry, Her Maiesty is well premieres her new show. Witty, (229 9697) Sub-titles. tunes! protected from all international satlncal and compelling lyrics, Pirates of Penzance baddies. which convey some of Loudon's The Year of Living Dangerously The Honorary Consul Thurs 23rd-Sat 25th 19.3 personal and political 'fronts·. Sun 26-Fri 2nd 20.30 please check times. The University's own Sav Mel Gibson and Signourney combine with a varied assortment Club performs this favo Weaver star in this story about Michael Caine plays a cynical Dominion of music for exciting, lively and Gilbert and Sullivan comical theatre. romance abounding amid the drunk in the way only he can do, (447 2660) La Giaconda cultural and political intrigue of while Richard G ere proves he is Tues 28th-Sat 3rd March 1965 Indonesia. just another pretty face. Gorky Park Theatre Yet another opera. T 13 40, 16.40, 19.70 performed by Edinburg William Hurt plays a Russian Workshop Opera. * ... ··~ detective who gets tangled up in (226 5425) the sinister workings of the KGB. Little Lyceu The Fetishist Never Say Never Again Fri 24th-Sat 25th 20.00 (229 9697) FDLMHOUSE: I 14.00, 17.00, 19.55 Chris Cra1g's one-man show has Scottish Ballet James Bond film - See ABC for just arrived from London where it Wed 29th, Thur 1 March 88 LOTHIAN ROAD EDINBURGH 031-228 2688 details. received rave reviews. Translated Nework '84 - a colle from the French play by Michel modern works. Local Hero Tournier 1t concerns a character 14.00, 17.00. 20.00 Time is running who has a fetish for women's Cinema 1 Thur 23-Sat 25 6.00/ 8.30 . . , out - this warm and wonderful under-wear! The play, premiered Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand 1n Diane Kurys film won't be here forever. at the 1983 Festival Fringe and AT FIRST SIGHT (Coup de Foudre) 11•> . ,. "The subtlest. most tough-minded mainstream mov1e of the year makes its last stop in Edinburgh. Film Comment Cinema 1 Sun 26 8.30 Mon 27-Sat 3 Mar 6.00/ 8.30 . , Mel (Mad Max) Gibson and Sigourney Weaver in Peter Weirs THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY iPGi . " The world on the~dge is magically realised" City Limits Sport required for Cinema 2 Thur 23 6.15/7.30/9.00 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER iPGl and f A powerful and witty film by Connie Fields Cinema 2 Fri 24 6.30 Sat 25 2.15/ 6.30 Soccer William Hurt, Signourney Wealer in Peter Yates' thriller Applications THE JANITOR 11•> Hlbs v. Aberdeen +Peter O'Toole in the wonderfully enterta ining by 5 pm Easter Road. 15.00 Athletics THE STUNT MAN 1••1 Popmobility without the pop? Tuesday nights at Upper Trust Cinema 2 Sun 26-Mon 27 5.45/8.15 Gym, Pleasance 18.30. Changed programme - the following film replaces 'Duelle' Shinty Bulle Ogier, Leslie Caron and Corin Redgrave in Location: Board Edinburgh v. St. Andrews Uni. SERAIL ps1 . . . If you enjoyed 'Caline and Julie Go Boating' don't miss this film Date: M Peffermill. Throw up at 14.00 Time Greyhounds Full details in free monthly programme brochure American Powdcrhall , Bca,erhall Rd , 7.30 pm. Student Concession £1.50 All Performances Football **•Desert Rock Please sign up (remember to bring your Studentcard!) •• Liquid Mcrcur) submitti Anyone interested? Meet Sunday Ka vcy K:rn em in Middle Meadow Walk. 14.00. Monday 27th EU Conservative Association Bill Talk by Brian Meek. Convener for Lothian Region. Middle Reading Room, Teviot, 13.00.
EU Anti-Apartheid late Christopher Fyfe will give a talk on the current situation in South Africa. DHT Faculty Room South, 13.00. g: second 1n series. ogswell of Canada. Central , 19.00. Also: Sunday 26th Tuesday 28th Fran ce and Jenny . Ecstalic Hour son, translation of Russian Chambers Street House. 20.00- Christopher North House 21.00. Plus live folk. 20.00. And: Te ssa Ransford from her new book "Fools Scottish Literature Society Angel s" at the Netherbow, Professor David Daiches gives a , Mon 27th talk on Scottish literature and culture. PGSU, 19.30. Maths Society lives on Crime Analogue Computer Practical /Ice - talk by Alex Session with Dr Searl. JCMB. Rm • n. Secretary of State's Wednesday 29th 5312, 1300Wednesday Police Adviser. Chaphancy MUSIC , 13.10. Green Banana Club International Week Potterrow. Plus Ecstatic Hour. Talks ,n the Ochil Room. the 21.00-22.00. Free Pleasance Duncan McLaren from day 24th SCIAF will give a talk on The Debate Union Palais Church of the Poor ,n Latin )rhe This House believes that ~ With Charlie McNair's Jazz Band. Amer,ca, 14 00. Chambers Street should be g,ven Two discos. two happy hours. £1 Ed inburgh Oxfam Resources back to the women. Licence until 2 am. Centre: TheRea/AidGame.15.00- Signet Library Chambers Street, 19.00. 17.00 . Queen's Hall o~itsch and the Nightset Sarah Hayward from WUS gives a (225 6138) The Von Trapp Family (668 2117) otterrow. Plus disco and late slide show on Namibia, 17 00 Scottish Baroque Ensemble H its Edinburgh from Thursday, 1st Mondrian Trio .• 1cence, 60p. Ecstatic hour 20.oo Also: on Thursday 1 st. Third World Thur 23rd 19.45 Thurs 23rd 19.45 n1 1.oo. March with the Modern Musical First will present three films at Members of the ensemble perform Society's production of The Hadyn's Trio in C major, John Pleasance Theatre, 19.30: The Wa r Mozart's String Quintet in G Sound of Music 1n Adam H ouse McLeod's Piano Sonata No. 2 (first J ree Diaco Game, The Big If, Exiles in their performance), Mendelssohn's minor, Schoenberg's Verklarte 1 Theatre. ~hambers Street House Plus late Own Land. Tno in D ma1or, Op. 49. Nacht and Mendelssohn's Octet. ,cence. Tickets from Usher Hall Box Platform Jazz Office. :e-Ecstatic Hour Fr, 24 th 22.00 'leasance Bar, 19 30-20.30 Plus Featuring Abdullah Ibrahim Usher Hall ·ve folk music (Dollar Brand), the well-known pianist whose style combines the (228 1155/ 6) ~,ilarianne Moore best of South African folk music Scottish National Orchestra Tal k by visiting scholar Dr David with more contemporary Fri 24th 19 .30 'ullon. WRB, 16.00. influences (Ellington and Monk). Elgar's The Dream of Geronr/us Joining Dollar Brand is Carlos with th e SNO Chorus. Sir 1:eilidh for Greenpeace Ward . the American saxophonist Alexander Gibson rs th e :ea turing the Wilde Cigarillos and and flautist. conductor. !1 acomo Salami . Chambers ilreet, 20.00-1.00. Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra Reid Concert y Sat 25th 19.30 ,rSaturday 25th Leon Coates conducts the ESO in Hall their 21 st anniversary concert· University Concert lallroom Blitz Copland's Fanfare for the Thurs 23rd 19.30 1s:hambers Street, 20.00-1.00. 80p. Common Man, Elgar"s Cockaigne Robert Spencer plays the lute in IS Overture, Kenneth Leighton·s this lecture-recital. :ocktall Happy Hour Dance Swte (first performance), fe v1ot Row, 19.30-20.30. Plus free and Beethoven's Seventh Lunchtime Concert iisco. Symphony Fn 24th 13 10 Peter Backhouse on the organ. Silver, Reeds and Brass Admission is free Sunday 26th Sun 24th 20.00 ,cstatlc Hour Peter Moore conducts music by 9 . Ex~ibitions Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington. :I fev1 or Row. 20.00-21 .00. Plus live Grainger, Shostakovitch and olk music. Free. others. Featuring Carol Kidd, Jazz Stills Gallery Printmakers Workshop si nger, and Sandy Taylork, pianist. Night Works Graphic Work Sounds Romantic Until 3 March. Until 5 March Wed 29th 19 30 Tue-Sat 12.30-18.00. Please check times. The Scottish Philharmonic Club 1s First part of an exhibition of Graphics by Ian Fleming. promoting this concert of music photographs by Chris Wainwright Theatre Workshop spaper ranging from 1760 to 1870. The New 57 Gallery Photographs perfor'mers are Scottish Virtuosi, Until 3 March. Sculpture some ·outstanding young singers' Please check times. Tonight Thurs Feb 23rd 111 Sunday 261h Until 3 March. and members of the Scottish ELAINE LOUDON & Band m ,sue this term Mon-Sat 10.30-17.30. An exh1b1t1on of work by Graham Philharmon1c Singers and Cl,ark. and Roseanne Lynch. SONGS FROM THE FRONT Work by William Brotherston. instrumentalists. Music played on From Brecht to Chic by way ol rock - National Gallery Vera Lynn 11 1sn·t1 i t term Scottish Gallery period instruments. Rembrandt to Seurat Thurs-Sat 8 pm, Sunday 3 pm Middle Eastern Paintings Until 29 April. Sunday Feb 26 at 8 pm Theatre Pk! otudent Manager Until 7 March. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00 MEDIA TRANSLATIONS Please check times. Sun 14.00- 17 .00. Playhouse Action Readings & Discussions of Work by Ian Cook. ALL FALL DOWN 1d 27 February Paintings by Rembrandt, lngres, (557 2590) by Torqu1I Barker Netherbow Arts Centre Manet. Goya, Whistler acquired by Hawkwlnd and Bronze Nexl Week Feb 28-March 1 Cecil~Collins the Mational Gallery over the last Thurs 23rd. MACHINEHEAO writers & machmes in ,t1s: Until 31 March. five years perlormance begins with GLASGOW ZEN words, visuals & music Please check times Open Eye Gallery Whitesnake pl Buccleuch Place from Alan Spence. Mary Walters & A retrospective exhibition of Cecil Marjorie Bond, Helen Firth Wed 29th. Jimmy Anderson 1 7 February Collins· work. and Anne Lightwood Coasters LIVE MUSIC This Week - Until 3 March. Jnwards National Museum of Twisted Nerve Friday JACK GRAHAM"$ JAZZ BAND. Please check times. Saturday NORTH SEA GAS, Antiquities New paintings and ceramics. Sun 26th. Sunday STELLA'S BABY Alexander Selkirk - The Man Gallery of Modern Art Membership and details from the Spear of Destiny dterview time when Behind Daniel Defoe·s Robinson Box Office, 112 West Bow. British Art 1900-1939 Mon 27th. gtation Crusoe Until 29 April Edinburgh (Tel. 226 2633). Until 3 March. Mon-Sat 10 00 1111 dusk. Please check times. Sun 14 00 till dusk. 10 THE STUDENT Thursday, 23rd February 1984
The Edinburgh Playhouse was sold out - it seemed like ·most of the western -c,--t hemisphere was wedged -:::c: around its stage, head r-- 1. a ft er-head craning c:-:,c:,:, anxiously upwards as if waiting for Moses to :::c: c::::: come down from the 2. mountain with the tablets. ::z::-. c:, And there he was - Fish - a :c gaunt, hollow Gabriel from c::, I C 3. heaven, standing at the front of the stage with his hands over his face. Or was it? For 4. seconds later another Fish stepped from the catwalk and MARILLION staffed the first one to death in 5. huge jigsaw-shaped mirror which an act symbolising the struggle gave a heightened meaning to that goes on within every man's Fish's elaborate hand movements. soul. The first one was, in fact, It is possible to go through so a stage hand, not the real Fish. many changes at a Marillion gig You could have lit matches off that a beautiful, exhilarating the look Fish gave the audience as dream and a nightmare can turn he grasped the microphone and into the same thing. Compared to launched into "Assassin", a new this Genesis are just another song off the forthcoming album talentless pop group, another "Fugazi!". "We don·t look upon Men-at-Work. ourselves as political leaders or Stop! Rght - that's it. I can't go instigators of some sort of on any longer. I like Men-at-Work, renaissance," he said in an Men-at-Work are alright but I hate interview recently, " we just Marillion. they were so bad - the provide windows." biggest lot of Gabriel/ Genesis rip For an hour-and-a-half on off merchants ever to grace the Sunday night, Fish and his band Playhouse. This is a thin line Maril lion, the ultimate glazers, got between a real artist and a pseudo right out on the ledge of the artist and Gabriel and Fish are on window. And because they are opposite sides of that line. If I had a 7. Alastair Dalton previews The Smiths' forthcoming great they did not tumble into the pound for every time Fish made a appearance at Coasters. and assesses their just- abyss below, but stared instead daft sign with his hands I'd be a released debut album. deep into its black heart as if to say millionaire by now. "sod you!" If Marllion's music is The guy's so ugly. No wonder he 8. poetry (and it is), then their stage covers his face in make-up like Morrissey puts it down to his lyrics Last year's success story, show is drama, brilliant theatre in Boy Goerge. Pretentious? Give being very strong and "written Manchester quartet The Smiths any sense of the word. When a full Marillion the "You Real ly Got Me" very openly from the heart are an important pop develop bank of lights shone through the riff and they'd turn it into a 30 which is something people aren't 9. ment. Having been together for large web behind the band during minute magnum opus epic. Most really used to." little more than a year, they have "Forgotten Sons" and onto Fish's people at their gigs probably end 10. Perhaps what carried the band already had three hit records, all of face, a thunderbolt of pure up as bankers - or wankers! Just through that dark period to this them still in the lndie charts top 10 emotion seemed to shoot from him don't send me to anymore year's growing success was Nik at and at the top end of John Peers into the crowd in one sudden Marillion gigs. Morrissey's awe-inspiring self Festive 50. Their substantial and moment of musical joy. "Forgotten Sons", long hair - Some belief and boundless confidence, widespread popularity , as Another new song "Jigsaw that some would call arrogance. In pah' s t i II reflected in being voted NME Best Puule" saw the appearance of a The Soul Brothers New Act of 1983, has been marred interviews, he is hardly modest only by an attempted smear about the band: "I think The campaign by the gutter press, who Smiths are something quite claimed that one of their songs beyond popular music," and: "for a condoned paedophilia. lot of people, we're the event of the ~1 . - ·) The Smiths aren't like other decade." Last year the Smiths CATERING ~~~-u-0 ' - bands, or so they say. Their name refused support dates with The itself was especially chosen Police; Johnny Marr: "It didn't because in being so utterly make artistic sense. We're more SERVICES --~---- ordinary it was an antidote to the important than they ever were or prevalent idea that groups only ever will be." 1 need a far-reaching, multi-syllabic And so their new album, which DEPARTMENT ~ -\ name to authorise their artistry. In was released on Monday through addition, their distinctive sound Rough Trade. Eponymously titled, attacks the depersonalised the Smiths' first LP contains ten sterility of ·modern· groups whose tracks which illustrate their clinical synthesised rhythms, they diverse talent, united by the claim, have left audiences feeling omnipresent voice of Morrissey, STUDENTS, STAFF AND VISITORS non-human and petrified of which, though powerfully showing emotion. expressive, at times lacks melodic Morrissey (the voice) and and rhythmic feel and verges on Are Welcome at: guitarist Johnny Marr have very vocal dirge. definite ideas about songwriting. While the album doesn't contain Their primary concern is to either Handsome Devil or communicate, and with a pop Charming Man, it does include the BRISTO SQUARE KING'S BUILDINGS song they reckon to have an supereme Reel Around the effective means to write Fountain, and their first single, University Refectory K.B. Refectory and something fundamentally Hand Jn Glove, whose naive powerful: Writing, as far as sentiments have made it such a and Coffee Bar. Carry Out Service. Morrissey is concerned, "is a memorable and pleasurable track. human necessity". The subject of The Smiths' songs are catchy, many of their songs is an melanchoiic, but finally optimistic, Bristo Bar and Buffet. K.B. Union and expression of the fluidity of sexual in a whimsical, elusive way. (next to the Health Centre) and emotinal definitions, often Morriseey's lyrtcs are the essential Coffee Bar using phraseology that has simply element in each track and they never been used before, as to them determine the mood, which is then COLLEGE OF "it wasn't enough to employ the skilfully interpreted and expanded usual pop terminology." by bassist Andy Ritchie and the OLD COLLEGE However, Morrissey seems to be drums of Mike Joyce. Miserable A GR/CULTURE viewing live and emotion from a Lie and Prelty Girls Make Graves Carry Out Service - delached, distant ~osition , contrast Morrissey's purity with Snack Bar. referring with an illicit longing to the carnal instincts of his partners: "She wants ii now/and she will not by West College Street unrequited love and to supreme JAMES CLARK loneliness. His lyrics express an wait/but she's too rough/ and I'm ambiguous and complex attitude loo delicate. " MAXWELL BUILDING to sex, and it was on this ambiguity Elsewhere in the album, othet that that guardian of right wing highlights include the expansiv, Common Room morals, the Sun "exposed" a story guitar chords of/ Don't Owe You GEORGE SQUARE that had appeared in Sounds anything, which is soon to be claiming that Hndsome Devil, the recorded by Adndle Shaw too, and David Hume Tower b side to their first single, referred the lament for the victims of the SUMMER HALL to and exonerated the molesting of Moors murderer, Myrla Hindley, in Refectory children. Basing their evidence on Suffer Little Children: "Oh Royal (Dick) School a fabricated interview with Manchester, so much to answer Morrissey, The Sun's claim was for." Main Library Coffee Bar enough to prompt the BBC to But The Smiths are in no way an Veterinary Studies withdraw the song from a session unassailable, unapproachable on Kid Jensen's programme last band: "But you've got everything September. now/abd wgat a terrible mess I've made of my life." their appearance This slur had a very damaging at Coasters on 5th March is likely ALSO: Private Functions. Weodings, Receptions etc. Enqu,ries to · effect on the band at the time, but to create a wild, warm response. Catering Officer, 63 South Bridge, Edinburgh. (Tel. 667 1011 Ext. 4400) THE STUDENT Thursday. 23rd February 1984 11 Musik CLASSICALr-----;::::..-===---==----. FOR THE GENERAL Thursday 16th February Although it was general John Reid's Memorial Concert it was fortunate that only two of his uninspiring works were featu red in an otherwise varied and interesting programme Mention Orange Juice (ex Josef K) and Zeke Manyika for given by the students of the new line-up. Together they Edinburgh's Music Faculty. and the usual response brought out a new , more (apart from Kia Ora) is of "sophisticated" album (sounds Nevertheless ceremony must be observed and the concert began that cute little Scottish like the Altered Images story!) in 1982, called "Rip It Up". Gone with his "solo no. 2", a nondescript band who play shallow were the old twangy guitars, the piece, just short enough, and little songs your mum bad notes, the amateurishness, played with sufficient skill and virtuosity not to be mind and in was a polished slickness. would like. But that is only bogglingly boring. For that reason the album was one very limited point of criticised, and suddently the By far the most interesting pieces in the concert were those view. Golden Boy of Glasgow found himself out of favour. People failed composed by the students - a few In fact, Orange Juice have been more would have been very to notice the diversity of going for years. they released welcome. influences on the LP - Motown, some of their best singles as early Chris James's "Five Sculptures" as 1980, on the now legendary African rhythm, funk and the old twee Orange Juice style, in for the piano were fascinating and Postcard record label. (Postcard highly intense pieces. In contrast "Louise" and "Tenterhook". The also produced Aztec Camera and Kevin Mayo's "White Waves" also critics and fans wanted them to Josef K). They were a group for piano was perhaps more stay young forever, to keep brimming over with optimism, accessible to fans of Rick sentimentality and naievety, which pumping out quaint songs about love. they wanted to trap them in. Wakeman or rock audiences. Both may sound corny now, but was th ese works were expertly Only now is the album being wonderfully different then. songs performed by Chris who exploits appreciated. "Rip It Up" was a like " Felicity", " Falling and the sonorities of the piano to the brilliant song, and Orange Juice Laughing" and "LOVE" soon had a full. even made it on to Top of the Pops cult following in Glasgow. Orange The other student composition with it, looking such coy boys. But Juice seemed to capture the mood - Julia Craig-McFeely's choral of the time when they sang about the follow up singles flopped.and the inevitable rumours started that work "The Dream" belongs very adolescence, romance, broken firmly to the English choral the band were splitting up. Zeek hearts and trying to be hip, on their tradition. It was full of contrasts DOLBY TECHNOLOGY started drumming with the Style first album, "You Can't Hide Your and beautiful vocal effects and at Council, while Malcolm Ross and Love Forever". It was incongruous the same time remained coherent. Dave McClymont have been that such an idealistic group The Faculty choir sang well The stage is a morass of obviously a crowd fave rave - for working with Aztec Camera and should come from a ha rshly especially the soloist - Katie electronic equipment: two huge me one of the best in the set (with Paul Haig recently. This week it realistic city like Glasgow - Wylie. lenses are suspended from the accompanying noises from the was announced in NME that maybe that's what made them so The bass trombone is a pretty cailing, screens for double vision, computer). There is an amazing Orange Juice have been reduced popular. "What can I do but learn unlikely solo instrument but Nigel double perception - yours and stillness in Dolby's music which to a nucleus of two, Edwyn and to laugh at myself?" Edwyn Gaston's rendering of Boutry's his. Images are flashed over them cannot really be explai ned - he is Zeke. This must have come as a crooned, and that was what they "Tubaroque" was syrprisingly - a scientist raves at his lecturn, one of the few modern musicians shock to the old Glasgow hipsters were all about. But when Edwyn lyrical - almost horn-like and and he is going to change your to use high-tech equipment with who kept hoping that one day stopped laughing at himself and Suzanne Hill's accompaniment world view: any ingenuity and imagination. Orange juice would revert to their grew up, it was time for change. was responsive and lively. He's not afraid of exploiting former, "twangy" sound. But with Petty jealousies and bickering To end the performance was a "The earth is FLAT!!!" convention, either: New Toy was the departuer of Malcolm Ross resulted in James Kirk and multifarious collection of foot unshamedly rocky in rhythm, yet and Dave McClymont it seems Stephen Daly leaving Orange stomping humdingers by the brass And suddenly it was . one would never have said it was clear that Orange Juice will Juice to later form their own group - from 16th century dances boring or trite. continue experimenting with their group, Cormorant. through Bach, to a rather laid back Thomas Dolby stands alone at a funk-influenced style. By now Orange Juice had their send up of the General's "March single keyboard - a solitary, Their new single, " Bridge", out supporters in the music press, who For The 12th Regi ment of untidy figure in a crumpled cream on the 3rd February, seems to bear hyped them up in the same way Dragoons' " - all played with suit. Amidst air the banks of that out. II is not a brand new song, they are currently doing to "The superb skill and gusto. The final keyboards and the flickering but has been treated to a revamp. It they are currently doing to The heart-rending trumpet cadenza screen of the Fairlight computer, does not have an immediately Smiths and Prefab Sprout. Groups was clearly too much for the he does seem ver alone - but then obvious impact, and Orange Juice like The Bluebells and Friends trombonists who dabbed their he is rather unique (and he knows have certainly written some better Again sprang up around Glasgow, eyes pitifully. it) . in the same mould as Orange songs, but, like warts, it grows on Yet, watching from his portrait, To kick off was White City, you . Ewdyn ' s warbling is Juice. Bu t it was Orange Juice General Reid kept a stiff upper-lip hich at once stated the devide who pioneered what is so often distinctive, if nothing else, and it - his benign smile never flinched between loudness and power. If deserves to be a huge hit. referred to as the " Scottish for a second. ou play loudly enough, people sound". (although it won't be). ill hear you, but they won't listen edwyn recruited Malcolm Ross Lesley Stephen unless you have the power to get inside their heads. There is omething irresistibly arresting about well-planned disharmony, a avourite Dolby device which of course always works. Next on was Puppet Theatre in which the excl)llent backing band. came into heir own. The bass especially was · ust so funky - we were all So, after the emotion and dancing on the streets, Thomas moodiness of songs like Airwaves. TIK TOK TIK TOK there was sudden explosion (not dear. Many people must have thought entirely unexpected) into a the Queen's Hall to be an· completely OTT Hyperactive in inappropriate venue for one with which again the female pianist/ Technical hitches, old rold me. Now they nave aropped 1..,nanting and clapping broke out. so much gear; but whilst smoke backing vox really let it rip. Europa robotics complete from the stage The road manager, Steve Marr, the as being ejected from either side was next, and Dolby's voice Qhosts, narrow-minded show. "Maybe again in ten years", DJ and Tik and Tok tried to explain f the stage, I began to see why: it's started to crack up: he finished Punters inaccurate they said. Meanwhile, the punters that a dance competition was to be big enough to hold a fair number with probably my favourites She Publicity and more on growled outside. held, to no avail - nobody heard f people, yet intimate enough for Blinded Me With Science and Windpower. Saturday night in They bombed at Henry Afrika's them over the chanting clapping a strong rapport to be maintained on Friday due to the agent getting and shouts of abuse. A pity. If the between stage and audience. It is I went to the gig apprehensive Chambers St. them the wrong venue on the event had been staged as a promo very much a venue for someone that all I was going to hear was recording studio-style repro Like the people who came too v.rong night and they bomed at evening and not as a concert, it who wants to combine music with late to see Bowie as ziggy or Chambers St. due to misleading may have gone better. Next week a Gertain amount of performance ductions of his songs. But I was wrong - there were mistakes and Townahend smash his guitar, the posters and an incomprehensible they go to New York for a series of out - I am thinking of The many a voice out of tune: ''Thank Punters were not amused when sound system. " In concert" on appearances after which they go Residents gig here last June which God", I thought, " the man's not a the two beings on stage were not posters means something entirely back into the studio to record a also worked very well. less-than-human automatons, different from a promotional new single and album followed by On the more relevant things and total genius . " Wendy Barrel moving to precise auto-funk. Tik event, which is what Tik and Tok a British tour. Saturday night was a One of our Submarines - and Tok are havi ng problems thought they were to do. mis-timed and badly planned trying to get the sorpse of their Unfortunately the punters came to farce. I hope they are not, like creation to lie still in minds of the see a concert. When two totally Frankenstein, des troyed by a masses. Robotics brought them un-robotic people appeared on monster of their own creation. massive media exposure on TV stage and sang only two songs Robotics ,s ,dead, long live Tik and and in movies (most notably 'Star ('Summer ,n the City' and a Tok. I Wars'), but "mime didn't sell lecherous version of 'Show Me Campbell George ·HYPERACTIVE records", a rather despondent Tok Love'), the punters became ugly. 12 THE STUDENT Thursday, 23rd February 1984 Feature Martin McCrindle examines the plight of our health services. How the axe falls on the NHS Kathy rose quickly from her armchair; she'd been slouched in front of the TV for most of the evening, and it was time to move. She felt the rapid, strong beat of r- her heart, and made a mental note that, at 42, you J,, " really ought not to make such sudden movements. Some time later that evening her still furious heartbeat turned surprise to anxiety, and prompted an urgent visit to the nearest hospital. She felt some relief ment warned that they would be when what was diag unwilling to meet the revenue nosed turned out not to consequences of the second be a heart attack, but a phase. They proposed a series of less serious "tachy severe measures which would have to be enacted if phase 11were cardia" a c h ance to go ahead. abnormality in the heart A reduction in the scale of rate . Her heart' was phase 11 - probably by the electrically restimulated, removal of one or more floors. Replacement of phase II by a normalising its beat, and smaller phase, to be built on a course of the drug the same time-scale. Dijoxin prescribed to Leaving voids within both keep the heart rate down. phases of the development. Completing the building but Within hours Kathy fe lt moth-balling parts of it. well again, although an • Simultaneous closure of exploratory "probe" was Bangour General Hospital. planned, to check that Abandonment of the develop ment of a Burns Unit to be nothing more serious was attached to the Royal wrong. this is a relatively Infirmary in Edinburgh. simple technique, where Despite such formidable a catheter is inserted in an obstacles, Lothian Health Board continue with the planning of the artery, manoeuvred into second phase; its realisation the heart, and the seems less than likely. pressure and operation of The optimism expressed in December by Scottish Minister of the various valves Health John MacKay, MP, when an checked.
Lothian Health Board must fin d £16 million to meet the running costs of new capital projects in the 1980s - from within existing budget levels.
An anxious wait of a few months add1t1onal £106 million had been preceded what was to be a four allocated to the NHS in Scotland day check-up. From the probe for '83/'84 , provided little comfort came the reassurance that her in Lothian. The region had been heart was operating normally; yet selected in July 1983 as one of something had gone wrong. For Scotland 's three best-funded three and a half weeks following health boards, for a cut in funding the in vestigation Kathy felt ill and of over £1 .9 million. Secretary of weak : eventually a minor State Younger called this a "small operation removed a blood clot, real reduction in their resources and her recovery was complete. for revenue expenditure". people waiting too long for someone on only £3 ,000. My making by the current govenr No blame for the clot could be His justification: " Those who treatment? 75 per cent of hospital personal opinion was that it was a ment, but as evidence of a major attributed - the bad luck of the understand how gre
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