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New Cut In Gra11ts The government last parental contribution towards so as well. "Considering that the their grant do not, in fact, receive Government usuall yu announces week announced a 4% the full amount. A problem which the grant increase in February/ rise in student grants for its all students is the increasing March," he said. "we still have time next year, representing proportion of the grant consumed to change the Government's by the cost of accommodation. In mind." another considerable cut 1979/80, fees in Pollock Halls Effects of the recent cuts in the in the real value of the accounted for 51 %of the fu ll grant. Unive r sity's recurrent g r ant grant agsint inflation. On present trends, Hall fees at (which is distributed from central funds through the Universities Mark Kennedy, Sen ior Edinburgh will account for 66% of the grant in 1982/ 83. Grants Com mission) a re President of the Students' In recent years, students have beginning to be made clear. II now Association, has issued a been cushioned against the full seemes likely that there will be no press statement drawing effects of the decline in the value redundancies among library staff. of the grant by the generosity of The consequence of this will be attention to students' banks in granting overdraft that the level of funding available financial plight. facilities. This means of support for such items as the purchase of may well be less readi ly available books will be reduced. in the future, as the shortage of An Open Forum on the subject The va lue of the student grant vacation employment and the high of the cuts in university spending has gradually declined since the rate of graduate unemployment will be held in the George Square Sixties. This decline, however, has has led to stu de nts bei n g Theatre on Monday at 7 pm. The been particularly marked in considered a "bad risk". Rector, Principal and Secretary of recent years and it wou Id now The demise of the student grant the University, as well as the senior require an increase of 17.4% to system has highlighted the split Presiden t o f the Stu den t s' restore the grant to its 1979 value. within government ranks over its Association, will lake part. This is the size of increase which approach to public spending has been claimed lly the National policy. William Waldegrave, Union of Students, and this claim Under-Secretary for Highe r is fully supported by our own Edu cati on, recently admitted to an Students' Association. NUS delegation: "Your case is Mr Kennedy's statement draws reasonabl e and intellectually you attention to particular problems have won th e argument." which students face. It estimates Mr Kennedy has urged that The Garrison Threat that 70% of Edinburgh students students should write to their MPs who are expected to receive a and encouraqe their parents to do
On Monday night, Jim Garrison, amounted to was a report on the "permanent war economy" of the author of From Hiroshima to Russian-in-the-streets view of the superpowe~s and their increasing Harrisburg, gave the second of his West which was, Garrison rel iance on frighten i ngly NATO Attacks two talks on "The Russian Threat". maintained, strikingly similar to inefficient computer technology. Though obviously a confirmed the American-in-the-streets view Then came criticism of the British unilateralist, Garrison mercifully of Russia. He then set about goVernment's willingness to let us avoided, for the most part, the describing the plight of the USSR, become the USA's "advanced Stornoway reliance on meaningless statistics encircled by hostile forces and aircraft carrier" and a somewhat which such speeches are prone to with vast numbers of nuclear depressing review of Britain's missiles pointing menacingly at its Last Monday, the the event of war. Mr Maxwell also and concentrated instead o n position in a prospective nuclear straightforward argument. cities. Bearing this in mind, war. No dissenting voice was Glasgow Association of stressed the damage this development would cause to one A f ter commenting o n the Garrison asked us to try to forthcoming from the audience Gaelic Students organ of the last 'Bastions' of the Gaelic "collective paranoia" of the world understand the Soviet dilemma. who, judging by the quiet nods powers and producing the The talk was followed by lengthy ised a demonstration out cultural heritage. The fact that this throughout the talk and the development was going ahead inevitable arms expenditure but lifeless question and answer applause at the end, seemed to side I\Jew St. Andrews figures, he went on to the Russian session which gave Garrison the was yet another sign of Gael agree with everything Garriso n House in the St. James situation itself. Basically what this chance to launch an attack on the impotence when faced by the said. Centre to protest about demands of central government. NATO plans to double the The demonstration was attened size of the NA TO airbase by approximately 60 people and at Stornoway in Lewis. was a very good humoured gatheri ng despite what at times David Harvey reports. seemed almost like deliberate Best Bar None provocation from nearby workmen; The decision to proceed with the for example, as soon as the A f ter renovat ions costing summer have created a warm project at the airbase has been speeches commenced there was a attraction of the new bar - be £10,000 the PGSU Bar is arguably cosy, intimate atmosphere whict used more extensively. It is nov. taken despite strong local marked increase in the noise level the most attractive bar in the opposition. The Western Is les as a lorry began to be loaded n6 other Union bar can claim. possible for the entire top fl oo, Union. The lemon walls and black (there's three) of the PGSU to be Council voted, also on Monday, by The tur n out was goo~ vinyl chairs have disappeared to hired for a function and societie~ twenty votes to six to continue in considering it was two o'c lock on a be replaced by decor of the period Ian Mercer, PGSU President anc can use individual rooms free ol their opposition t_o the plans and to Monday afternoon and very cold. when the PG S U building Richard Habb, PG SRC Convener ca ll for a public enquiry. charge. After the speeches, a petition (Buccleuch Place) was first feel that the expensive renovatiom This decision to increase the signed by representatives of erected. The actual capacity of th e are fu lly justified and are in fa ct in size of the base shares a si milar various ,9roups who were there. eg bar has been doubled by investment. The bar's custom ha~ Although the new bar doesn' history to that of other military CND, was handed in to New St. transforming two adjoining rooms improved dramatically and ii is fell have an al I day I icence it does have bases. First, plans for an initially Andrews House. A petition was the into one and the bar itself has been that the other facilities in the a late licence on Friday, Saturday small base are pushed through only option, no one inside would remodelled. The improvements PGSU , both domestic anc and Sunday nights and on Sunda; with assurances that there will be talk to the demonstrators. which were begun during the ·recreatio nal ,will now - due to the no increase in the size of the base nights Nutty Slack, "a very gooc and as little damage to the j azz band ", provide tne environmental and local culture as entertainment. On Su nday possible. Later, the need for the morning the PGSU serve cookec base to be increased in size is breakfasts from noon o nwardE outlined and implemenWld. This is and three choices of hot lunche~ what happened for example, with along with hot snacks are providec Auld Reekie News daily. the rocket testing range in South Uist. Edinburg h Tory 1dmlnlatrat1on Next year's Edinburgh Festival Tory councillor Brian Meek has There were three speakers at the plan to cut council spending by Fringe is to last for four weeks with accused officials responsible for meeting. Mark Kennedy of EUSA £7 ½ million next year. Hardest hit It's quite easy'"ror t-'l:iS to maKE around 70 groups putting on tourism in Lothian of wasting outlined the way in which in this will be recreational facilities with full use of their Union and the ne-, shows. £5,000 on use l ess touris t democratic society, local demo libraries and sports facilities bar, but it seems that UGs, cratically expresed opinion has closing. brochures. The brochures, in eight although "extremely welcome" in been ignored by a government different languages, apparently the PGSU, can only be admitted if which was not elected by a duplicate other pamphlets and signed in by a PG; an understand majority of Scottish voters. Also he A charity show to raise money for were produced to give the officials able measure when one considers stressed the cultural damage • something to do. that the PGSU is the only Union Amn eaty lntern atlon al is lo be held which would be caused by this Two Edinburgh Labour council at the Playhouse this month. II is lo specifially for PGs. It seems that type of 'development'. Stephen • Ugs wishing to visit this very lors, Neil Lindsay and Alex Wood, include a staged "capture" of the Maxwell for the SNP described have written to Mr Michael Foot audience by "armed revolutionary different Union bar will just have to how the plan for Stornoway was criticising his attack on the soldiers" in order to "get across integrate with the PG students. y e t an othe r development proposed Labo ur candidate for what Amnesty is trying to do". This, in itself, isn't a bad idea. contributing to the present the Bermondsey by-election, Mr escalation in the arms race and Peter Tatchell. II that this development would lead to Stornoway beooming a target in • • • The Student 10 December 198i 3
lime we scrapped these bloody stu pid quotes. Assistant Editor
Satire Lives ... Dear Sir, If John and Tom in their 'Stone Contents... Foxchase· ca rtoon of last week lay 4 N e wsends How the claim to any inspiration by A. A. Wesay ... University treated a crippled Milne, they would perhaps have David Tuttle, The Feminist been wiser to have been better Column and other University protest will almost certainly flop, doing ,i nformed concerning the charac The Flexible Response News. us no good at all. ters of Piglet and Rabbit. If they 5 Perspective - Censorship h~d attended the showing of There are only two cred ible and freedom - the feminist the Pooh and Tiger Too" in Teviot viewpoint. swso·s call for Last week the Government awarded responses to the Governmen t's offer. on November 22nd, or even taken action against the cuts and !he students a rise in their grant for next One is the Edinburgh Students' Asso the bother to read the original 4% Tories put the knife in the texts, they would have perceived year, well behind the rate of inflation. ciation approach of presenting NUS. that A. A. Milne's characters do not 6& 7 Student's Christmas We can really expect no better from the reasoned argument for our case, in the use such degenerate or base Special - Featuring a most doctrinaire government Britain hope that more enlightened leaders language, nor are of violent seasonal short story, a dispositions. I can only conclude has had. · will take the reins of power.The other is fantastical quiz of the year, a that such degeneration of Piglet to cause such a serious threat to public poem by the Rector and other The National Union of Students has and Rabbit reflects similar festive goodies. called for a week-long "strike" in order that the Governmen t is degeneration in Tom and John. It 8 & 9 What's On - At a loss what is indeed a shame that the positive protest against the Government' s frightened into making concessions. to do ? No problem - here's powers of pleasant imagination short-sightedness. We surely could We suggest that any student worried Edinburgh's most complete encouraged by A. A. Milne can be entertainments guide. Plus have expected better from the about the grant offer should follow d istorted by "adu lts" who, the w,t of Stone Fox Chase. relatively level-headed leadership either of these approaches rather than attempting to create such a 10 Reasons to be Doleful Part 3 variation on an original theme, currently in charge of NUS. This taking part in the NUS " strike" - Scotland 1981 - the show a childish perversion. shocking truth about a young Yours sincerely, generation lhrown on the Hilary McClintock. scrapheap of mass unem ployment. 11 Ian Paisley's 3rd Force - An Lepra eye-witness account of the You say... ''Doctor's" day of action. Sir, 12 & 13 Arts - A retrospective I have recently returned to feast of a term's theatre, Normal Norman Nein AGM was completely justified. existent. The portrayal of Woman Scotland after doing two years in her "traditional" role on a leaflet cinema and music. Danke Seated as I was at the back of the voluntary work on the Pacific hal l, I can verify his claim that about a political iSsue was also 14 The Street- The lave ha cks Dear Sir. island of Papua, New Guinea. from down your way suffer the I was so rry to read that Norman t here were a number of people irritating. Who can afford to print There I saw for myself - leprosy this type of bullshit anyway? Slits, love Steve Harley, bop M. Fraser did not enjoy the AGM of eager to express their views to the - a terrible illness which no General Meeting but who were Please, somebody write an with the Bluebells and see the November 26th, along with longer afflicts us in Scotland but greatest band in the world. "everyone else". Nevertheless I completely ignored in Kennedy's informed article about the reasons still disables more people determined drive to gratify his why EU should not reaffilia te with 15 Sport - Volleyball, rowing, can only admire his confidence, elsewhere in the world than any SRC intimates. the NUS. Or is the reason why the sailing, hockey, intra-mural, implicit in his claim to represent other disease known to man. FCS find it impossible to do so results. Magic! the· opinion of the majority It would be boringly typical of Leprosy disables its victims by mean that there aren't any? 94 Page 94 - The wackiest page (excluding the hacks), namely the "Roberts", " K ens" and causing a loss of feeling in various "Julians" of this self-important Yours faithfully, around - this week featuring two-thirds of the General Meeting. parts of the body. Little accidents how to gatecrash, an X-mas X The bulk of students who attend SRC clique to reply to Norman's Barbara Young. may therefore result in serious letter by attacking his personal word and more cartoons from General Meetings, I am sure, have injuries, often causing the loss of 2000 AD. no intention to speak; yet their integrity and defending their right fingers and toes. Wasting of the very presence and action of voting to monopolise an open debate. I muscle and destruction of bone am sure the majority of students indicates their interest and The Great Kit-Kai brings about further disability, participation in particular or all (da re I say " normal" students?) while eye damage may result in would support Norman's view that Swindle The Firm mo tions, whether of an intra or blindness. The saddest part of all extra-mural nature. If these an unacceptable degree of Dear Sir, is that sufferers are often asked to students find the whole process nepotism has crept into Kennedy's I would like. through your paper, leave their communities so as to EDITOR unenjoyable. undemocratic and chairmanship and I am equally to ask why the coffee room in the avoid infecting others. For this Chris Kershaw the monopoly of the hacks. they convinced that the greater number basement of the Main Library is reason today, as in biblical times, would not waste an evening by of students would be anxious to "conning" students out of their having leprosy can mean both Assistant Editors already pitiful grants. going along. Thus, if "hackless" hear th e Senior President's disability and lonely isolation. Jim Levi What am I talking about? Well, Norman fee ls he ought to voice the justificati on of h is partiality In Papua, New Guinea, my wife Patricia Togneri you no doubt have heard of a. popular opinion, he should set towards his SRC " bed-fellows". helped to treat a villager with Kit-Kai biscuit, that wafer" thing himself at the head of the 11, 500 Is this a case of primus inter leprosy. It showed us how easily News Editors sold in a red wrapper with the price students who do not go at all, since pares? leprosy can be cured ir. the early Mary Braid 8p neatly incorporated into the they are inevitably the ones who Yours. stages. but it heightened the David Harvey do not enjoy themselves at Tony Law. print. Ah. but not so in the coffee tragedy of seeing the broken General Meetings. figures of people for whom Features Editor Participation in student affairs is treatmen t had never been Lindsay Macdonald something which Mark Kennedy available. Now. as the Scottish sincerel y belie ves in; th e organiser of Lepra - the British Arts David Stead increased number of General Leprosy Relief Association - I Cinema Graham Gamble Meetings is evidence of this. want to ask if I may appeal to your Pop! Graeme Wilson Admittedly some speakers are readers for help. We need Caroline Binnie familiar. but the number of people volunteers to form new fund What's On Mandy Cole prepared to get up and debate is raising committees, Co-op stamps Jill Fabian very few . New speakers are to reach our target of one stamp Sport Keith Nunn welcomed on al l sides and for each of the world's four million Pa~e 94 Elspeth Macgregor especially by Mark Kennedy; children with leprosy; and, of Contributors Zerina Haniff however they would be wel l course, donations of money (just Kay Goodall advised to place themselves well £30 can cure an early case). Pat rick Cunningham forward considering t he difficulty As· we buy gifts for our friends lain McIntosh of seeing d istant hands in and look forward to our own Frances Wood somewhere the size of McEwan Christmas celebrations, perhaps Sandy Murray Hall. Chairing a General Meeting we can also remember the millions George Square is not an easy task and Edinburgh of children for whom the chance of Charlotte Square has a particularly high •tandard of a healthy, active future would be Colin Macilwain order and fairness. Norman the best gift of all. If any of your Graphics Toby Porter Fraser's opinion on how the Senior FCS: The Awful Truth room. where the nice "8p" has readers would like to help. Kay President selects speakers is Dear Sir, been neatly (that's a laugh') particularly towards Lepra·s work Photos GaVin Fulton pair,ted over with liquid paper. vicious and unfounded; could it I would like to comment on the in Blantyre. Malawi, please ask Gordon Boyd Why, you may ask? Because this spring from his own desire to be lea/let entitled " The Truth About them to contact me at the addres~ John Foldes placed among the illustrious order N US" which Steve Evans enables them to slap a 50 per cent below. I will gladly send a receipt Neil Dalgleish of the hacks? mentioned in his art icle on ''The increase on them, raising the price for any donations of money Advertising Neville Moir 1 Norman found the speeches Changing Face of the FCS", to 12p together with information about pedantic and boring: we welcome published in last week's Student. I When I first came here I thought the way in which it will be used. th e day when he rises to the found it hard to believe that it was student cafeterias etc. were meant Alastair McIntosh, platform since his oration will no written by anyone with any to be cheaper than those at the Scottish Organiser, doubt surpass all others. intellectual capabilities whatso outside world. Seems I was wrong, Lepra, 30a Walker Street, STUDENT Yours faithfully, ever. It looked like the sort of or is there some sane explanation. Edinburgh EH3 7HU. Susan Elkington. material found in teenage Douglas Sloan. magazines such as the ''Jackie" P.S .. Just think. th ere must be The Basement! and "Oh Boy". At last we know some person locked in a room On the other hand ... where the Federation of Conserva somewhere. with boxes of K1t 1 Buccleuch Place. Sir. tive Students (FCS) get their ideas Kats, neatly painting over the price I cannot fail to agree with the from. - perhaps the extra charge pays 03'1-667 5718 sentiments expressed by " Normal Apart from being pathetically the person's wages and for the Norman" in last week's Student. abusive to left-wing students its l1qu1d paper, or could 1t be another Founded 1S89 His denunciation of Kennedy's argument for non-affiliation to the exploitation of the Youth perfidious behav,our at the recent NUS was primitive if not non- Opportunities scheme? Student, A party on paper' 4 The Student 10 December 198 t NEWSENDS The University Sued Over Feminist Or. Blythe, who was in charge of the exercise and witnessed the accident himself, did not want to Column comment in case it was "sub judice". by Debbie Fspart Fall Meanwhile, Mr Capstick of the Commercial Union. said that the University denied all liability, and By Patrick Cunnlnghame that there is no law insisting on the 1 mean, like, I feel really inti use of safety equipment when midated by this phallic symbol of a climbing trees. This state~ent pen I've got to write with. Like, I'll On November 11th last goes in the face of an International bet it was designed by a man. To year, Davi d Tuttle, a Forest Science Consultul lory fourth year Ecology Report on the accident which frighten us women out of wr!ting emphasised the importance of t~e the truth about male oppression. student fell thirty feet Like, OK, I mean it's really cra.zy use of safety equipment and that 1n how the world is fi lled with from the top of a tree any event the trees _should ~ot examples of the male phallic during a Forestry Man have been climbed 1n the first place. If David had been given a fixation. Like nuclear missi les, agement field trip at the concorde, David Hume Tower, safety harness he would not now Boch Estate, just outside be paraplegic. pork sausages. It's just amazing Edinburgh. His spinal So far the only real financial and how men have designed these things to intimidate us women, column was severed as a pensation he needs to live a The whole mc1dent has also moral help David has received has relatively fu ll life again, has drawn attention to the inadequate been through the appeal fun you know! result, paralysing him h i ghl i ghted the enormous provisions as regards students organised last March by Hazel from the waist down difficulties that the physical! under current Health and Safety Piper of the University Canoeing wards for the rest of his handicapped face, even in this so Work leg islation. A similar Club. Over £5,000 was raised from Men! life. However, it is only called Year of the Disabled, from accident had happened only a few all over the country, enabling him the extremely slow legal process months earlier when a post to buy a specially adapted car. And that's another thing. Like, now, over a year leter that and the hard-faced real ism of graduate student fell from a cliff David would like to thank all those OK I mean so I shouldn't be he has been able to Legal insurance companies. He now face and broke his back during a involved, and also those who have wri1ing for the male-dominated press. But, I mean, really, the good Aid on appeal, and so take faces considerable loss of future geological field-trip. so readily accepted him back into earnings due to his immobility, David's accident happened the community. sisters of the anarcho-feminist the University to court to whether or not the Commercial when he was "stepping-over" from vegeta rian collective who sue for damages. Union, the University's insurers, one tree to another (apparently At the moment, a summons is normally write this column have pay up, not to mention the unclimbable from the ground) about to be issued by Dav id's given me this great chance, OK, to reach all the oppresseo womer1 continuing psychological and during an exercise to work out !he lawyer and sent to the University David's struggle over the last physical damage caused by his volume in the estate, which who will be sued for around who read this instrument of male twelve months to get the corn- handicap. required measurement of the £200,000. However, the case won't hegemony (like, I mean, if Y?U rnll diameter near the top of several be heard tor 3.t least another year. up the paper you'll see 1t s 1ust trees. In fact. normal practice is to So David, once on the Scottish another phallic symbol). either cut some trees down and National Canoeing Team and now And anyway, like, the good measure them on the ground, or confined to a wheelchair, must sisters are going to make sure that use optical instruments. David has soldier on through his final year at no men get to read th is , OK. You also informed me, that various University, having to cope with know, like even the typesetters Rats Join lecturers on the course have incontinence and occasicnal (men, of course) are going _to be admitted to "steping-over" on severe pain in his legs, without the blindfolded while they type 1t out! frequent occasions themselves, iacilities and help which could reinforcing the impression of slack improve his life and make .his Sinking Ship safety standards on the field-trip. handicap less painful to ltve with. Men!! And that's another thing. Right, The new informal style was lost he could envisage the so a lot of people say that there's of lunchtime debates was fragmentation of the Labour Party lots of women involved in the and so the first priority must be to male-dominated press. But, I launched in the Middle mobilise agairist the Tories. mean, it must be really o bvious to Reading Room at Teviot Peter Kravitz, second speaker Getting Up Steam every woman that here's this on Friday with the motion, for the motion, criticised the party argument that it's just an attempt for a lack of imagination and its to draw our attention away from "This House believes that proposes closure of the steamies failure to involve "fringe groups" Earlier this year Edin male opporession. Like, the whole the Labour Party is a such as the Women's Movement burgh's Tory Council along with libraries, public baths argument is just a piece of male and other recreational facilities. sink i ng ship". The and the CND. He fe lt that there was threatened to close down logic, you know. meeting was given an un too much emphasis on tactics and The steamies look set for the chop I mean, right, it must be really that the Labour Party was out of Edinburgh's three re unless another successful public obvious that women who write for expected boost in the touch as a result. maining public wash campaign can be mounted, and the press are just pseudo-men. mounted fast. · form of MP Norman The slick professionalism of the houses, the "st'eamies". OK. Like the press is really male Buchan, presumably in SDP which Mr Kravitz admired Scepticism about the Tories' dominated, so women who want to was condemned by Maggie Regular users fought commitment to the steamies write for it have to act like men. the role of lifeguard. Young, the second speaker back, claiming that began immediately after the You know, that just proves it! Hilary O'Neil.I was first speaker against the motion. Commitment, although they were reprieve when charges were for the motion, introduced by the she felt, was more important, and increased - hardly a move to chairperson as a " lefty young she stressed that socialism was money losers the steam encourage users. Last month Men!!! lady" , a c harge which s_he still fighting . The Tory Party was ies provided an essential however, a gleam of hope admitted going on to describe not united either, but cracks presented itself in the form of a And that's another thing. Like herself further as a feminist. The service and could be should not be papered over but mad·e more popular by publicity .leaflet designed to some bad sisters say I'm not Labour Party, she said, had failed filled with solid socialism. encourage steamie users. It feminist at all, that I've just got a on these and other issues, and had Despite an audience mad,e up effective publicity and emphasises the unique service Obsessive hatred of men, you been declining steadily since the largely of Labour Club members offered - washing machines, know. OK, so that's a really setting up ot the British welfare encouragement to users. (was the sinking du e perhaps to sink,;. tumble dryers, rotary difficult question. But it's really state. The current disarray of the A special meeting was called by overmanning?) there was a lively ironers - and boasts of 'wash and obvious that's the sort of question party could do nothing but the Labour opposition on the exchange from the floor as well as dry in under and hour', a service a man would think up. continue to lessen its original Council and an understrength the platform: the absence of the with which the launderettes can~ I mean, OK, so we could spend impetus, and was destructive and Tory group was defated after rormal structure arid irltimidating compete. Only a fortnight ago all our time answering male unproductive. representations were heard from setting of the Deb_ating Hall Tory Councillor, Margaret members of the SOS campaign, questions. Like we would never Mr Buchan opened the debate seemed to achieve the chair MacAlpine, was featured in the including Edinburgh University get anywhere if we were force.d to for the opposition by saying that person's aim of bringing back local press doing her washing at justify ourselves. Anyway, nght, Students' Association. A reprieve he felt the difficulty was. really a some spontaneity and excitement the local steamie. All this seems a navigational one, and likening the of one year was won with promises these mushrooms have really to student debates, and promised trifle ironic in the face of the now gone to my head! Labour Party to a weapon with the w ell for ·future lunchtime of a campaign to increase usage of public, carefully conceived and strength of the working class meetings. the steamies and popularise them thought out plans to do away with behind it: but it was a weapon with a broader section • of the the service! The steamies won't Men!!!! which needed sharpening and population. Their Image was to be close, however, without another there would be inevitable off-cuts updated and the name "steamies" fight. All those students who use in the form of the SDP. The party replaced with the clinical term And that's another thing. Like the service at present should some people say that if all men must secure control of wealth " public laundries". Despite the continue to do so, and encourage production for the producers and modernity of their equipment they were castrated then after a while their friends! During this crisis there would be no people about, not the bureaucrats - but thanks rema i n " steamies" to most period all steamie users, past, to changes and debate within the Going to• the Dogs Edinburgh folk but call them what you know. But, I mean, there's present and future, must get party the Community were now in artificial insemination . And, you like they're once again under together to preserve this unique a position to influence events and threat! anyway, I don't see the point in service for the dwellers in achieve this aim. He was fairly Last week's three-star tip in the A massive package of cuts has having children when about half of Ed inburgh' s tenements and them are going to be men, OK. And optimistic, seeing discussion as Student Grey hound Column came been proposed by the Tories to bedsits. healthy, but he pointed out that in at 8-1 . This week's column is on bring them into line with govern like, without people there wouldn't France, R. Wood time was short. If the next election the What's On page. ment spending guidelines. ft be any acts of male aggression . To be c ntin The Student 10 December 1981 5 PERSPECTIVE [> [> t> [> [> [> [> [> Censorship and Freedom In the light of the censorship is opposed by those means nothing short of social seeking to protect the freedom of revoTution. My aims in demanding ~I Dressed to Kill the individual. Now, I too wish to the withdrawal of " Dressed to Kill" protect: indeeo further, individual and si milar films are less con-troversy, Liz liberty. However, I do so in ambitious. The films in question Bondi writes on recognition of the fact that our glorify violence against women, society does not distribute /1 and in so doing support a wider feminism and cen freedom equally. Like Orwell's double standard which, on the one "equal" pigs, it is a case of some hand purports to condemn sorship. people being more free than violence, but on the other says others. Therefore, I must ensure that, really, when it comes to I wholeheartedly supported the that my efforts to further individual women, it's OK - wife battering Genera l Meeting moti o n liberty do not favour one already isn't to be taken too seriously and demanding the withdrawal of privileged group at the expense of rape, well, it provides a good bit of " Dressed to Kill" and its others less fortunate. So I favour titillation for the newspapers to supporting film, by the Film legislation attempting to protect capitalise upon. I want to see a Society. I also oppose censorship. 'the (relative) freedom of blacks world in which those latter views Those opposing the motion have from racial harassment - I cannot simply don't exist - it would then invariably refused to acknow really call the suppression of be unthinkable to see, to show and ledge the latter claim. I reconcile racism "censorship" and yet in a even to produce films that these views not by some sleight of sense it does impose limits upon implicitly . condone violence hand or inl~llectual gynmasucs. individual expression. We five in a against women. In the meantime I My argument, as follows, operates world as riddled with misogyny as am not interested in legislation on two levels - it is a matter of it is with racism. The parallel is banning them. But I do think it both theory and practice. simple and direct. Women, unlike possible for cinema proprietors or The proponents of -censorship men, are not free to conduct their a university film society to take the typically argue that censorship is lives without the fear or actuality of responsible choice of not showing necessary in order to protect the sexual harassment. I want to them. moral fibre of society. And this eradicate such harassment in all The point of the original motion they pursue by attempting to ban, its manifestations, and further the was not to censor these or any amongst other things, anything ability of women to partake in the other films, but to draw attention related to sex - making no liberty enjoyed by men. This is not to the issues and, in the light of differentiation between, say, censorship. these, to encourage a particular enlightened sex education and Sexism and misogyny are so body of people - students - to pornography. On the other hand, pervasive that their eradication take exemplary action. Cuts Crisis NUS: Cuts are being made in Your Education but TheTruth how can they be This time the Tory groups, passed at its conference a fought? SWSO policy of opposing NUS by truth from Adrian highlighting its undemocratic and give their view. Linacre. unrepresentative nature. Many of the faults of NUS stem The quorate motion on the culs, Four years ago, Edinburgh from its basic structure. The passed at the Annual General students overwhelmingly con National Union's sovereign body Meeting, was a necessary start. firmed their previous decision to is the twice yearly conference at However, to think that a little over withdraw from the National Union which the Executive are elected. 300 voting for the motion will solve of Students. With the possibility of Only 50 of the 700 universities and /::>urproblems is a dangerous error. another referendum on the colleges eligible to send delegates In January the University will be question of reaffiliation it is actually have cross campus implementing £2.7 million worth of necessary that the two facts about ballots to elect their delegations. cuts to our education. Mark NUS are made known. As a result the conference Kennedy and his mob have come Edinburgh University's affilia represents the views of less than 6 out with a trendy line: let's play it tion fee to NUS would be about per cent of all students. This has gently with the University and £45,000. In return we would resulted in the extremist nature of maybe they will be able to help us. receive absolutely nothing. NUS. Of the 19 members of the The reality of the situation is that The services once provided by Executive, 17 are members of the instead of fighting the cuts, the NUS have been curtailed: NUS extreme left. . Dave Aaronovitch Principal has accepted them. Travel went bankrupt in 1976 the Communist chairman of NUS Unlike the Principal and the losing £70,000; Endsleigh Insur is regarded as a moderate! Students' Association, SWSO ance was sold to a Dutch company The real nature of NUS is have a coherent programme to to offset further losses. NUS exposed at conference. Over the save class libraries, library services are now nearly non years the policies supported at opening hours, staff jobs and our existent due to financial conference include: support for education. incompetence; of its £1 million both wings of the IRA; for the PLO The University should spend in income, 90 per cent is wasted on and SWAPO. There was even a 1982 the same amount as in 1981 We call on all students who If we win, it will give hope and bureaucracy. motion congratulating the USSR w ith a sufficient increase to value their education to picket the encouragement to universities This could perhaps be on 60 years of socialist revolution! counterbalan.ce inflation. That Court meeting on 14th December and colleges throughout the excusable if NUS had fulfilled its These are just some of the way there wil be NO cuts. The at 1.30 p.m. at the Old College. If United Kingdom who in most role as a representative body for "student related " topics University will run up a bank students · turn up in their cases are receiving much worse British students. Here, NUS has discussed. Highlights of confer overdraft. The pressure is then thousands, no longer will the cuts than we are. It will give hope' been totally inept, the student ence include: a collection for the thrown over to t he Tory authorities be able to iQnore us. If to the three million (if you believe grant has declined by 36 per cent H-block, knowing full well the Government. Either they close not, we are condoning and Government figures) unemployed since 1962. The absurdly high money was going to the IRA; a Edinburgh University down or foot supporting the cuts. who have no future. Laurence demands have been ignored by standing ovation given to Derek i the bill. We guarantee that the If we are ignored , logically the Scoit's workers are leading the successive Labour and Conserva Robinson (Red Robbo) for his Government would never be able next step is occupation. We fight by refusing to accept tive Governments. In 1979/80 NUS statement, "We shall bring the to close the University. increase the pressure each time, compulsory redudnacies . We claimed 37 per cent. we received country to a halt as well as ru nn ing It is up to us. to put sufficient until eventually the authorities will ho pe you will all join the fight, 13.2 per cent; in 1980/ 81 NUS . down British Leyland"; and loud pressure on the University to remember that it is us, the before you find that there is no job demanded 24 per cent, we applause when it was heard the defend our interests and take up students, the academic and non tor you in the post-University received 14.8 per ce~t; in 1981 / 82 President Reagan had been shot. our policy. After all, the Principal is academic staff that they are meant Thatcherite Nuclear Age. the claim was 21 per cent, we Students at a university which is there to protect the University and to be representing. Let's not lie down and die, let us received 7.3 per cent. affiliated to NUS cannot opt out; not to participate in the orgy of In a broader context, our not even die with a whimper, let us Not surprisingly, more and more the National Union of Students is a destruction that will take place in struggle is the struggle of all those get up and make our voice heard. students are questioning the closed shop. Yet individuals at this January. who are being affected by the cuts. We started in a small way at the relevance of NUS, two Scottish university can pay £2 if they like AGM, let's increase the pressure universities recently disaffiliated NUS so much, without insisting on on 14th December. If the usual 200 and many English universities are us all joining. NUS in effect has 1.2 PERSPECTIVE is a page on which anyone can put. or so activists turn up we will be expected to have referenda this million conscripts. ver their personal viewpoint on any subject ignored. You can spare an hour of year. After seven years of trying to NUS is undemocratic, unrep harsoever, to a. large extent ou1with editorial control. your revision time for your reform and moderate NUS, the resentative and irrelevant to education, we certainly can! Federation of Conservative students. This university has Articles around 500 words long should be addressed Students, the largest and most flourished without NUS and is to the Editor at 1 Buccleuch Place. 'vv''v'vv'v'v' influential of all student political better off out. 6 The Student 10 December 1981 Your Festive Christmas Present
lcHRiST RAN S'TU"'1BLING
Christ ran stumbling down the street on little twisted feet; small blue hands1over the place where somebody had bruised his face. His starved, thin body shook with tears ·and quick short gasps of fear.
Bitter the December day, -streets and sky an equal grey; no brightness, but the neoned pub where city men with Christmas grin forgetfully went out and in.
When did we see you? Folk will say, at the last day. Anthony Ross
On a blustery day shorily before a happier time for the poorest Christmas, Anthony Ross - a people. student at Edinburgh University - . Like the down-and-outs from was walking down the High Street. the Grassmarket who get a special A young boy ran past, screaming dinner in the Chaplaincy at 6 pm and howling pitifully. He was quite on Christmas Day. "We invite all ignored by those around him who those whom we know, and, if there were sho'pping for .Christmas, an are empty places at the tabie we irony that didn't escape Anthony drive down to the Grassmarket Ross. and invite some more folk up. " The irony became a poem il"l his "The same as the Master's head which he made up as he Feast in the Bible", Father Ross trudged back to his lodgings in mused, "where all the wealthy Buccleuch Place. This is the guests turned eown their poem. invitations. One clairTled he "You know, people wrap couldn't come because· he was Christmas up in holly and eating ox elsewhere, another mistletoe. They forget that couldn't come because of his wife! Christmas is after all about helping So the master went out and the needy among us, the very gathered in the old and the poor, young, the very old, and the very the lame and the crippled, and poor". they were truly glad for his Father Anthony Ross is the kindness." Rector of Edinburgh University Father Ross himself receives now. His own Christmas will many kindnesses at Christmas. certainly be devoted to helping the ''Especially clothes, and · I am needy. happy to give many of them away On Christmas Day itself he'll be to friends in the Chap_laincy." at a boys home in Glasgow. At His spiritual wellbeing is The ideal stocking-filler. . the latest book. from Edinburgh University Edinburgh University meanwhile, ensured also ... "I'll get whisky as his colleagues at the Catholic well, of course. Two bottles, or ~ ''"' ,,o,;,.,roo, ,,.,,.'"'"",mm,, "' M'""' "'" Chaplaincy in George Square will three, or maybe four. I do a lot of 1' also be helping to make Christmas en tertaining! " Lindsay Macdonald Christmas
ANSWERS Past Find out how much you can .. in which Captain Cock gets my Lute and Puller's History, at 5 Marcus Moody and Nicholas. half-drunck, the maid gets slagged which I stayed all alone in my remember about Edinburgh Grier comprised half of which University 1981 in our light for her sluttery, and everyone Chambeitill 12 at night; and so to· successful squad? WOOJS0V, 8~!V, l I hearted Student Christmas quiz. concerned lets it all hang out for a bed. 6 Who was seen sitting on Mark (a) pue (q) 11 Award yourself one mark for every day of merrymaking. It was more Ree\les's knee w'ith her eye~ M8l.lSJ8>1 Christmas Day, 1661 question (or part of a question) difficult getting hold of Mr Pepys blackened? S!J4:J pu~ uaII!8 1a61N 01 you answer correct1: · for an interview about what he'll be 7 What's the link between Scott 6u11~s 6 A good sermon of Mr Mills. Nell Drysdale up to this Christmas: probably Joplin and Allan Hunter? jjlUEH EU!Jaz (p) '.AJJaqJOH Dined at home all alone. And Who wrote a ·book about because he's already started the 8 Who acquired the nicknames? MaJpu11 (o) :aonJ9 146,u>t taking occasion, from some fault Prince Charles? eating and drinking binge that he (a) "Megaphone Mark" ~JOtJ (q) :,1pauua>1 ~rnv; (e) 8 in the meat, to complain of my 2 What sabbatical post did seems to enjoy every Christmas. maid's sluttery, my wife and I fell (b) " Rarely Bright News" J8U/E/J8/U3 a,u L Still, at least he always get along to Graham Richardson hold until out, and I up to my Chamber in a May? (c) "Wee Drew Strawberry" sa~Ino~ ua6ow1 9 the inevitable Mr Mills sermon. (d) "Miss Chambers Street" wea1 ,,a6ua11e4:J discontent. After dinner my w1ve 3 where did the Exploited po~e Bring on the burnt(?) wine! ,l11sJaa,un .. s,46Jnqu1p3 s comes up to me and all friends •(!).for a Student cover picture? 9 What sport does Ross Blyth excel in? . ·p1euoo a!wer (p) './SOd again; and she and' / to walk up on 4 Who or what expressed the Christmas Day, 1660 10 Who edited 1981 's first and ,
Some men are born to we've got a coup-le of tins of bully frowned . "It seems to me ther"e stopped at all costs from reaching can't fi nd his way back to the tent." beef left and some_s hip's biscuits, '\,'Pear to be an awful lot of wal lahs the South Po le before we do." Scott improvised. "I think it was preach for God, and but we' re saving those for a special walking around in the middle of Brightly shone the moon that a noble gesture on his part. He occasion. Like a funeral." the South Pole. We are su pposed night, though the frost was cru-ell, obviously realised that we were others are born to fight for "Excuse me," said Lawrence to be the first expedition, you when Lawrence imagined that running out of food. and went Honour and Glory. Oates, "but you haven't seen any know." Gerald came in sight. Except that away so there would be one less Snowm en wanderi ng around , "And how far are you away from he wasn't gatheri ng winter fuel mouth to feed. In fact, that's Laurence Oates was born have you? I don't mean the nasty, your goal?" (and if he was, he was going to be exactly the way it'll go down in the horrible Abominable sort, but your "We don't know. It's not as if unlucky, 'cos they'd drunk it all) . log - is that clear? And there'll be to look for a snowman friendly Xmas card type - all pipe we're going to see a bloody big With a piercing yell that would no more talk about this Gerald, called Gerald. In this and gra nd ad's muffler and old sign with flashing lights saying have awoken the kraken, right?" t'le looked searchingly into clothes and the like . " 'This is the South Pole'. Wilson Lawrence leapt out of his bed and everyone's eyes like an ant-eater special Yuletide tribute, "Is he mad or what?" asked Dick here has an idea there really wi ll be . started pulling on his clothes. poking around under a stone (he to Scott, R. a South Pole - striped, like your "He's here, Gerald's here," he was making a meal of it). Student remembers One "Snow madness. It can affec't a barber's. Oates thinks that we'll shrieked. "I can see him ." There was a further shock when Man's Idiocy. man within a few hours. Except find the Ice Palace of the King of Rabbie Scott rubbed bleary it was discovered that Ronald Oates here has had it for the last 22 the Snowmen. Lieut. Bowers has eyes. "How can you see him?" he Adamson had also taken his leave years." this idea that the South Pole is just asked snoozily. " Isn 't he the same - or, to put it in the words of Lt . Lawrence Oates was one of the Lawrence Oates had an eager a sheetrof thin ice , ~nd that we'll colour as everything else out Bowers, "The bastard must have all-purpose all-time British heroes look on his face - the sort of look fall straight through ,t to the centre there?" woken up." He had expressed his alongside Gordon ol Khartoum, doctors encourage other people to of the earth." "No, he's not - he's got dirtier appreciation of their hospitality by Oougie Bader, Dan Oare et al. A "humour". "Am ie Sackneusen!" since I saw him last . He's a sort of taking all the maps he could find, Com pulsive dietist si nce the age of "Listen to me," he orated finishing off the cold remains of four, he was essentially a loner and messianically. "Listen to me! Bower's boot. and by leaving an used to hide himself away in the Gerald will take us to the Land of obscene message in Scott's log fam ily ice-box for days at a time. At the Snowmen, and we shall never which was extremely rapidly torn the age of seven he suffered a want again! The King of the out. traumatic experience when Snowm(!n will fulfil our every It was only over breakfast (a Gerald, the snowman he had need!" couple of old cardigans washed p ainst akingly created, dis-. "This 'King of the Snowmen'," down with mouthfuls of fresh appeared ove rnight. When told by began Dick sarcastically, "is he by snow) that Helen hit upon an his over~ protective parents that any chance related to Father explanation. Gerald had gone to meet his Christmas?" "Maybe it was Adamson that brothers at the South Pole, "Santa Claus, please," replied Oates saw leaving, and thinking Lawrence determined then and Lawrence primly. "Or more that it was Gerald, he followed him ihere that it would be his life's properly, Saint Nicholas. He was and got lost in the process," she mission 19 seek Gerald out and actually a livi ng s·aint in Germany," suggested plausibly. ne'er part from him again. he ad ded authoritatively, "and " Oates was stupid, but not that "For God's sake!" exclaimed although not related to the King of stupid," reasoned Scott sensibly. Robt. Scott, leader of the Antarctic the Snowmen as sv ch, he was a "No, I'm sure Adamson left after expedition of which Oates was a distant rel ation, by a second wa rds - the cad." member, "how many moret1mesdo cousin's third- r;n arriag e, to Good "Bless you. I should watch-that dirty grey now. But he is there, I tell After breakfast, the expeaition I have to tell you? Gerald doesn't King Wenceslas." cold if I were you - you'll ca tch you! Come on - we've got to got going again. The snowstorm exist - and if he does, it's " 'When the snow lay round your death." follow him! He' ll show us where to ha d a bated but comp lete ly probably as a puddle of ditchwater about, deep and crisp and even'," Dick contorted the features of get food and where the South Pole covered the tracks, so th at it was in Stoke Newington." chanted Scott, grimly ironic and ·his face into what he hoped was a is, and Eve rything!" impossi ble to tell whether there "I don't care," answered Oates enunciating the vowels svec lo urd. s h re W'd ex p ressio n . " An d Robbie Scott turned over to go we re two sets or th ree. It was three monomanically, "I know that I am "Pass me some of that winter fuel, yourself? Wh at do you think lies in back to sleep. "Okay, Lawrie old days later when a Norwegian flag · right. Gerald is out there some Lieutenant Bowers," ind icating a wait for us at the South Pole?" bean , you go off with jolly old was seen· ah ead of them in th e where, waiting for me. Waiting to half-full bottle of Napoleon Robbie Scott assumed a shrewd Gerald and bring us back lots of approximate site of the dead take me to the Kingdom of the brandy. expression back . "Well , between nice food. Silly Sod," he added, centrf of the South Pole. Yet more Snowmen, where al l good " Perhaps we ought to explain you and me, I've got a nasty sotto voce. puzzling, and infinitely more snowpeople go. There, their pipes our presence here," began Helen, susp'icion about that Rooald; Th e f o l l owing morning cryptic to the rl)embers of the never fall out; their scarves never warming herself by the fire and Adamson bod . ~is foreign 1.ccent· Consternation reigned (Con Scott expedition was a black clay blow off or get dirty; their hats .. " trying to ignore the leering looks for a start. That's why we've been st ernation 11 , son of C o n pipe discovered at the foot of the "Shut up," snapped Robbie of some of the inhabitants of the KEiep1ng him drugg·ed. We don't s t e rnati o n I and Queen flag. It might have been left by a want anyone getting to the Pole Pandemonium) and Scott 's member of t he Norweg ian before jolly old Blighty. But I've authority was deposed to such an expedition, but on the other got the impression he's not alone." extent that he felt like abdfcating hand . " The Snowmen?" all responsibility altogether. " It's too bad," muttered Scott " No, not the Snowmen," "What did you let him go for?" darkly. "Not only have that swine snapped Scott testily. " I'm talking asked Eddie Wilson . " He's Adamson's lot beaten us, but about . his bum-chums. whatever p robably got himself hopelessly Oates hasn 't even come back with nationality they are. They must be lost following a polar bear and any food from the Snowmen."
ACCOMMODATION UNIVERSITY HALLS AND HOUSES
Scott. "Everyone's bloody sick of tent. "We have no control over our There are vacancies for both male and femaie students in Pollock you going on about your fucking destiny. A fiendish, Machiavellian snowman. If you don't shut up arcti-maniRulator is casting us · Halls and in shared rooms in University Student Houses at about It now, we're all going to back and forth in time and space present and a very limited number of vacancies in shared rooms throw you out of the tent." for his own grisly ends ..." in flc1ylne's Court. There was a rustling at the tent "Brandy?" flaps, which pulled back to reveal "Er, thanks. Napoleon? Has it the really-very-cold faces of Helen got any arsenic in it?" There may also be additional vacancies aris(n_g in-Poll~k Halls of Troy and her chum Dick the "No, we got it from the British between now and the end of term. Irishman, who were outside the Consulate." _ tent looking in. Helen swugsome and passed it "Yes?" shouted R. Scott above on to Dick over the head of a· Studen*s interested in any of these vacancies should.contact the the noise of the blizzard, "can we grizzled figure in grey whi was Student Accommodation Service as soon as possible. help you?" dozing. "Well, we wouldn't mind some "Who's he?" warm cl9t_hes. And is (hat stea~. "We don't know exactly. He that's cooking on the Ii re?" came to the tent two or three days STUDENT ACCOMMODATION SERVICE "No, actually it's Lieutenant ago asking for a map. Said his Bower's left boot. We're running. name was Ronald Adamson, or pretty low on the old food front - something." Robbie S cott 30 BUCCLEUCH PLACE - 667 0151 I 8 The Student 10 December 1981 Film
Sun 13th Dec JJ"s Sophisticated Boom Boom A Glaswegian riot of colour, fun Thurs 10th Dec Pop! and sex. Will they appear playing EU Women's Group: 1 pm, on top of the bar? Plus the DHT. sensually wonderful disco. ' Born-Again Christianity America" - series of tal ks Tues 15th Dec Owen Dudley Edwards. 1. 10 Fri 11th Dec Odeon Chaplaincy Centre. Heriot Watt Union Rose Tattoo Societies Centre, 60 Pleasa Private 1-D In order to raise themselves to Variety Concert o f music, sl A white reggae band from fame. a heavy metal band must and words featuring The Rick Cameo Aberdeen! Sounds unlikely but in have a gimmick. The concept of Boys. 7.30 pm. £1 . Dominion 1-2-3 spite of their handicaps they get it Rose Tattoo is to be Australian and Churchhill The French lieutenant's Woman right. to have your epidermis rendered Fri 11th Dec (AA) 3.00, 5.30, 8.20 blue. Central Committee SWP: 1. Chariots of Fire (A) 2.20, 5.00, Ingenious, intriguing, superbly Thurs 10th Dec Playhouse cuts and how to fight them·· 8.00 executed parallel love-story. Societies Centre Japan Cliff. 1 pm. DHT. Unashamed style, romance Frustrated Victorian (Jeremy Music David Sylvain, alias "the world's CANUC Day of Action; Pick and glamour of two very different Irons) drawn to enigmatic ·fallen Featuring Tibs. Gasthof Klamn, most beautiful man" and his Edinburgh City District Cou runners' (Ben Cross and Ian woman· (Meryl Streep) while actor Geoffy King and Rigor Mortis. entourage return for an evening of 12-2 pm. Charleson) quest for success in and actress enjoy adulterous What? Don·t ask me John. but at sensible electronicism and Economics Society: Pub lun 1924 Olympics. Absolutely unmis affair! least it's cheap and a viable sensual eye make-up. Truly pm Southsider. sable. alternative to Toppy. wonderful gig of the week. Ski Club; Lunch in Ochil Roo 2. For Your Eyes Only (A) 2.45, 5.24, 8.03 Odeon Still time to catch Roger Moore Thursday-Saturday ripening before your eyes in the Kramer vs . Kramer (A) 4.30, 8.45 Mediterranean sun of the Deservedly Oscar-winning story lusciously located latest lack of divorced couple (Dustin lustre Bond epic. Hoffman and Meryl Streep) 3. Gregory"s Girl (A) 3.00, 5.20, fighting for custody of child 8.15 (Justin Henry). Three outstanding What? You still· haven't seen it? performances in only occasionally The accuracy of Bill Forsyth"s goo-ey gem. award winning comic portrait of plus teenage ·relationships· is what The Jazz Singer (A) 2.15, 6.25 makes it so embarrassingly funny. Jewish cantor Neil Diamond See yourself in it. wants to sing. Poppa Larry Olivier says no. Very improbable and Olivier's embarrassing but ABC Edinburgh Film Diamond doesn"t cact badly and I Centre rather liked the music (what have I said?). 1. "10' (X) 3.35, 8.10 Sporadically funny tale of composer Dudley Moore 's Saturday 11 .15 pm menopausal fling notable mainly for Bo (presumably short for The Deer Hunter (X) "body") Derek's sex-symbol debut Magnificent, understated epic of and 'liberated' Julie Andrews friendship, faith and war seen ------"'Ill talking about orgasms. through Vietnam experiences of plus steel worker Robert de Niro and Private Benjamin (AA) 1.20, 6.00 friends. Fri 11th Dec Wed 16th Dec Giggly Goldie Hawn joins the From Monday Astoria Odeon US army but does little for the The Fox and the Hound (U) The Reggae Klub Nils Lofgren causes of either) feminism or Programme times yet to be Nile Club An all-American non-posturing original entertainment. Eurhythmics announced non-rockist guitar hero. The sort 2; Monty Python's Life of Brian Familiar (in all senses) Disney Having clapped out the Tourists of musician I've not t1eard enough (AA) 1.30, 5.05, 8.40 sentimentality of fox cub and concept, Annie Lennox returns of to like or dislike. "He's not the Messiah! He's just a pupy. friendly as "kids" and then with "a loose knit musical unit". very naughty boy!"" Pythonisation forced against each other as Evrhythmics is not a method of birth control but exercising to of the life of somebody rather adults· failed to appeal to me. famous. Perhaps l"m getting old. music. Ho hum. Thurs 17th Dec plus Odeon Airplane (A) 3.15, 6.50 Sat 12th Dec Stray Cats As if the crisis-crammed series Calton Studios Note Club 'Third of a depressing series of Alex Harvey of 'Airport' films didn't send itself The Postman Always Rings Twice three from the Rank Organisation. Once a cult figure, this ageing up this film does the job admirably. (X) 5.30, 8.15 The Stray Cats fame is built on the non-megastar is still looking for a Rather funny. Jack Nicholson and Jessica adulation of teenage girls, a proper job. Could this be the 1973 Lange compellingly act out a kind fatuous motorcycle mystique, the 3. Mammie Dearest (AA) 1.10, ned revival we predicted some 4.10, 7.20 of modern tragedy o f destructive size of their haircuts and tt1eir weeks ago? preference for American hair oil. Film of Joan Crawford' s animal passion. daughter's book revealing Friday and Saturday 11 pm neuroses and nastiness beneath star's veneer. Look-alike Faye Looking For Mr Goodbar (X) Dunaway rants in totle role. Filmhouse Lothian Road Caley Three Brothers (A) 6.00 , 8.30 Death Hunt (X) 2.00, 5.25, 8.50 Scottish premiere of director Tough-guy Mountie Lee Marvin Francesco Rossi's new and highly d oggedly tracks tough-guy ,praised look at modern Italy. Music harles Bronson, {framed for murder). Not for the faint-hearted. Discuss. Classic Nicolson St. lus Friday and Saturday 11 .00 Playhouse Theatre he Big Brawl (AA) 3.35, 7.00 Scum (X) Jackie Chang kungs and fus his Appropriately nasty, brutish and 9th and 11 th De·cember: ··La ay through legions of baddies. not at all short slice of life in a Traviata· ·. 10th and 12th rgiastic violence. Borstal. Banned by the BBC - December: "Die Fledermaus". aturday 11 .00 which should increase its popularity. he Extremists (X) Usher Hall Self-appointed vigilante wipes ut evil-d0ers with variety of plus The Groove Tube (X) npledsant weapons - mincers, SNO co nducted by Kurt Trendy. flashy look at the Sanderling. Mozart's Requiem and, lame-throwers, chain-saws etc. trendy. flashy mediums of TV and lus Golden Lady (X) Symphony No. 25 ,n G minor. video. Friday. 11th December. ble The Student 10 December 1981 9 Exhilitions The Torrance Gall ery 29b Dundas St National Gallery of Christmas Exhibition - water Scotland colours and jewellery. Untrl 24th Poussin - Sacraments and December. Bacchanals. 60p. Until 13th December. The Scottish Gall ery 26 Castle St Christmas Exhibition. New 57 Gallery Until 24th December. 29 Market St Sat 12th Dec Work by students from Glasgow Chambers St ree t: Disco. Wed 16th Dec The French lnstitule School of Art. 13 Randolph Crescen t Until 22nd December. Sun 13th Dec Noel en Provence - by Michelle SWSO: 5.30 pm in Chaplaincy Andree. Scottish Amnesty Show: Varied Centre: meets weekly. entertainment 1n aid of Amnesty Calton Gallery Fruit Market Gallery International. Playhouse Theatre, Tom Fi e lding - A Perso n a l Market Street Christmas Exhibition - British 7.30 pm, Tickets £2 .50. Anthology. Queen·s Hall. 7 45 pm. Du tch painter, Ger Van Clk Runs and European watercolours of the Film Soc: "Goin' South" and until 19th December " Electric Horseman" Odeon, 6.4 19th and 20th centuries. 11th to Ski Club: Lunch in Ochil Room, 23rd December. 6.45 pm. Pleasance, 12.30-2 pm. National Library of Mon 14th Dec Underneath the Arches SANE: Meets weekly in the London St Scotland Poetry Society: 7 pm, DHT Chaplaincy Centre SRZ at 2 pm Winter - an exhibition. Until 271h February 1982. Conference Room. 1st Floor. Until 25th December. ·· Treasures for Scotland"'. Christmas double bill: Irish poet EUGC: Gliding Club meets 1.30 Throughout December and Haydon Murphy and L IZ pm in TV room in Chambers Street The City Art Centre January: "A Curious Lrfe for a Lochhead. Free wine. Union. Morton House, Bfackfriars St Lady". Isabella L. Bird (1831- ur Club: DHT Faculty Room David Roberts, RA - one of 1904). Tues 15th Dec Film Soc: ·· odd Man Our· and "The , rth, 1 pm. Scotland's most famous painters. EUFSS: Fo lk Song Society Jester's Tale". George Square ~ Ecology Party: Lunch in 12th December to 9th January Workshop . at the Crown . Theatre, 6.45 pm. asance Bar. 1-2 pm. Drummond Street, 8 pm . The Scottish National , Soc: "'The Good Earth'" and 1 Fine Art Soc iety: Life Drawing, Malcolm Innes Gallery Gallery of Modern Art · ovIe Movie .. , George Square EU Women's Group: Meets weekly 219 Bruntsfie fd Place 6.30-8.30 in Fine Art Dept. 19 5th December-24th January .eatre, 6.45 pm. at 6.30 pm 1st of May Bookshop, Prints for Christmas. 1 George Square. sop per sess ion. Kathie Kollw1tz: ''The Graphic Candlemaker Row. Until 19th o"ecember. Works"
w rTH <'11LET" 111-1D RA%e,,-r; King's Theatre Jack and the Beanstalk
Terry Scott and Jimmy Logan star in this re-re-re-revival and Stage Allen Wright of The Scotsman likes 11. So there.
"The Dragon of Wa ntley" "Born in the Gardens" "The Happy Prince" Bedlam Theatre Royal Lyceum Theatre Workshop A last chance to see Peter Christmas production of Oscar A Eighteenth Century Bur NichoIs·s ("A Day in the Death of Wilde's "'The Happy Prince". lesque complete with Hero, Joe Egg") recent black comedy. Family show comprising of music. Heroine and Dragon. A Past To be performed on Thursday 3rd mime, dance, slapstick, panto Prandial Christmas Romp. December at i.30 pm, and on mime and special effects. Being Running for about 20 minutes, this Friday (4th) and Saturday (5th) at performed all week and in fact for play shouldn't drag-on longer than 8 pm. the whole of December. you Want(ley). Sport of inside fast starters interfering poofters the hammering they Thurs 10th Dec with each other to come off the deserve. Greyh ounds: Powderhall Stadium second bend in front and make a Any road, it should be a stirring procession of the race encounter - both during and after 7.30 pm. l"m tempted lo take Drurnbeg the match. Black and white Garnet for the one-star selection. scarves may be hired from the 'Outcast' the 16 metres being a helluva start and Student office. one which could produce a Forecast winning time of 40.65 if Garnet races at top performance. and the 465m B v,lle Black Cusl11e Popeyt· dogs behind have no hope of Spene!.! Lass E19g Greenlane Sandy clocking this. However. Mooki Coohn (;hamp 465m Walch 1he Wind Lady Mof1da River. who made nothing on his ·sole Prince. Cabinet Pay Athlacca Gio11e handicap rivals in the race to the KnockmcJ Sam bend last Thursday. looks like 465m- Precious Opal Ballyknock Hulk leading this field and could Blue Highway Ross1ee Queen Hannahs Son DySNI HE::ro produce the same kind of run 465m Hurdles Handy Orum (Ser) Senga down the back straight to slay on Fun (4) Kylerue S,ivcr (9) Casile Sailor (9) for a comfortable win. Outlandish ( 13J Ballvoughly Blt1e J 13) Bui Drumbeg Garnet Is still ueen's Hall Messiah by the John Currie 465rl' N imble T imb1e Roving Mick Singers. 7.30 pm Thurs 17th Dec. Bright Taylor Keenest Rate Finn Punt worth a wager off this mark! Tickets £2. £3. Band 1or L,fe ... SOLO'S OUTCAST iday, 11th December 465m - Shah Miller Bcnhar Boy C,.;illee ·MOOKI RIVER King Fust Born. Kiowa Flash. Solo's Kav ey Kanem zz from the Al Grahani Quartet Outcast. d the Kenny Fraser Trio. H!;![c:l Hall -165rn V,king Pnnce Woodh1U Band11 Thurs 10th December Donal s Boy Bred,1 s Blue Johns1own Sat 12th Dec 7.30 Concert by students of the Champ Mooki Ri~er. 1t 12th (SCf) Music Faculty 650rn H cap Hideaway Specml G re yhound s: Sat. 7.30 pm. 1d10 Forth Youth Orchestra - Cuban Caress..i (9) Woodh1lt Fly t 1 11 Hn1g s Powderhall Stadium itten 's Simple Symphony, Del1ghl (11) Mayfield P1x1e 11 11 Drumbeg McEwan Hall Garnet !16) Football: Hearts v. Ayr United at gner's Siegfried Idyll and The last three races on the card Tynecastle KO 3 pm. Fri 11th December '1!lbert's Unfinished Symphony. look "omenous" for the punters 1 pm Organ recital by Ronald Now that we·ve got rid of n 13th Leith Bach. Saint Saens. tonight -- traps 6-6-6 looking like they could produce the winner 1n Mac1lwaIn and McDougall, ethoven, Stravinsky and Hindemith and Tournem,re each case perhaps the crawling sycophancy ' hu bert by the Edinburgh for Hearts can be brought to an artet Having already shown the abll1ly Edinburgh University to produce a fast time. the nap end, and we can get back to some >n 14th Renaissance Singers selection goes lo SOLO 'S real , objective football reporting. OUTCAST In the sixth Un This Saturday, the Jammies take delhon Quartet - Haydn, Lyell, Recital directed by Colin Heggie. 8 douted ly dropped In class. on the might of Ayr United, and l"m sswe11 , Schubert. pm. Wed 16th Dec SI Mark·s Outcast can take advantage of sure we can rely on Derek Frye and hand 20th December Unitarian Church Castle Terrace. his trap posI1Ion and tl1e l1k eilhood the lads to give the Gorg1e ol ncerts Students 80p 10 The Student 10 December 1981 Reasons To Be Doleful
THE ENTERTAINER Part3 It's no longer quite the struggle it was By the time some youngsters when I was a kid. Ghost Town West Lothian have paid their fares, they are at Neil K. Drysdale best, only a few pounds better o ff - Norman Tebb itt , Government talks to some of the for a week's work. "The vast I asked several unemployed majority of yo ung people would Employment Secretary, on life on the million unemploy teenagers in Erlinburgh , rather be on a sc heme than out of Livingston and Bathgate last week work completely," Jack Dromey, dole ed youngsters in about their reaction to Lord TUC co-ordinator of the Jobs for Scarman's report on the riots. Youth Campaign, told me, "but too wage regard less of years, with the training boards and employers' this country, and Roughly 50 per cent of them had no many have no proper training inevitable result that employers associations. now try to avoid hiring school- wonders whether idea who Scarman was (a fact provision. And the kids often feel If the whole scheme - drawn up which in itself indicates how that they are being taken on as free 1eave rs. H ence the young by the Manpower Ser vices unemployed." This sounded a C ommission - is approved later the Government's apathetic and/ or ignorant many of labour while older workers are reasonable argument, but why do today's teenagers are) , the other sacked." this month by ·the Cabinet, new "National Ser half were predominantly sceptical The teenagers I talked to, who so many Tories always attempt to legislation would be introduced to blame everything on the unions? about the report's findings. had been on YOPs in Edinburgh, make training compulsory {t here vice" plan is a good The plain truth is that YOP is a One young black told me: "It's drew the following conclusions are other ways of introducing only a matter of time before a from their experiences: " It's a badly devised , ineffectual scheme. National Service again. you know!) remedy? Thankfully, it may not be with us for similar situation happens in waste of time and a waste of money and the present allowance paid to much longer. Details of a £1 billion Scotland because most of us are .. the Government could be using youngsters on YOP sc hemes just as pissed-off here as the kids it to find kids proper work ... we're plan to give every school-leaver in would be increased by£4.50to£28. More than a million young Britain under the·age o f 18 at least a Mr Tebbitt is expected to people in Britain (standardised by down south." An 18-year-old white just given these temporary jobs to year of systematic job training announce the Government's the EEC, they are all under 24) are girl agreed : " Pe ople think distort the unemployment figures arrived last week on the desk of Mr decision before Christmas and the c urren tly out of work. For every everything's calmed down, but the .. : the money should be invested in Norman Tebbitt, the Employment MSC are understood to have school-leaver who has found a riots will spread to Scotland. It's the private businesses where at least Secretary. Th e " confidential'' heavily emphasised the need for proper job, another is still looking. only way we can get noticed, the we'd have some incentive ... or project involves phasing out by immediate and positive action. But And while many will ultimately find only way we can say we're here. We used to send kids tocollege."Of the 1983 the Youth Opportunities are these steps really enough? work, tens of thousands of others, exist." 52 people interviewed (24 male, 28 Programme and o ther youth They do not seem to me to come now officially among the long-term Her opinion was not shared by female, all aged between 16 and 19) training schemes which are now near solving the ··problem·· - they unemployed, justifiably fear they most of the other people I talked to, only seven (13.5 per cent) said they catering for 400,000 out-of-work merely sweep it under the carpet. may never claw their way away but there was universal condem fe lt the scheme was worth while. youngsters. In their place the new And that may not be enough for from the scrapheap. nation of the Government's scheme would provide eve ry Britain's discontented youngsters. Of the multiple causes of youth indi f fe r ence and a truly Blame it on the Unions youngster, immediately on leaving We shall see. But I am reminded unemployment today, few are widespread detestation of the However, a Conservative d is trict school, with a training programme of a long conversation I recently likely to disappear within the next Youth Opportunities Programme, councillor suggested to me that the set up two years ago. By Christmas, blame for th e number of - whether or not they have a job to had with a passionate socialist who decade. The collapse of industrial goto. output - which hits the young over half a million youngsters will youngsters on the dole lies more had just lost his job - at 58 he was naturally bitter about the Con hardest for it is obviously easier to have been on one of its courses this with local government unions such servative administration's attitutde stop taking workers on than fire year and,· if anything, YO P has as NALGO and NUPE who have Return of Nati onal Service older ones - may conceivably be grown too rapidly, at least for the "wrecked Britain's apprentice to the blight of unemployment. and reversed. The Employmen t limited resources of the Manpower system" than with the present Unlike most YOP schemes, th e he had a stark message for Minister with special responsibility Services Commission, whi ch Government new training programmes would everyone: "The politicians are for Youth, Michael Alison, claims supervises the scheme. At the "Before the war, in this country, involve each youngster being always telling -us about the that the young will be helped more moment the best YOP courses boys and girls starting work assessed, attending day-release recession's bottoming out, and than others by such a recovery, but include formal training, often in received only a fra ction of what courses, and residential training that there's light at the end of the most independent projections special workshops, but most YOP their parents could earn. Even away from home in some cases as tunnel. Well, as someone who's suggest that even in the unlikely courses are WEEPS (unfortunate today, in most foreign countries, well as receiving on-the-job worked over forty years, all I can prospect of an immediate five acronyms both!), Work Experience newcomers at work earn less than a train ing from employers. In say is ... it's been a long fucking billion pound reflation, there will in Employers' Premises, six-month third of the wages of trained addition, they would get a tunnel!" still be 1.2 million young people out jobs with a weekly allowance of workers. On the other hand, the certificate at the end of their I think that many youngsters in of work in two years time. £23 .50, unchanged fo·r two years, local government unions here have training based on standards set by the next few years will discover just Meanwhile, the flooding of the paid by the Government. fought for and obtained a standard examination bodies, i ndustry how true that statement is. job market by the baby boom oft he 1956-62 period is likely to abate only slightly through the 'eighties. Consequently, most youngsters will find that they arenotjusttaking longer to find a job, but that they Half Price Travel for Students face the prospect of spending their early twenties on the dole as well. If there has been an authentic, original voice of this "lost genera tion" - as the newly elected SOP and Anyone Under 24 MP Mrs Shirley Williams fears we may have to call today's young jobless - it is the "two-tone" pop music of the West Mdlands. Coventry, for example, was the ghost town of the recent Specials It used to be that to get half price travel N ow , students and anyone under 24 - A m in imum fare of £2 O rdinary hit ("no jobs to be found in this on the train you had to be at college or student or not - can get a R ailcard. single and Awayday and £4 Ordinary country . people getting under 16. Just think how much you and your return applies up to 1800 on m ost angry ..." ) which, prophetically, friends cou ld save on holidays, days dates but not at weekends, Bank was number one just before this Not now. summer's riots. away or visiting friends and relatives. H olidays or in June and July. Over the last year or two, the A J3.ailcard ca rd costs only £10 and with centre of Coventry, once a symbol i t you get 50% off the follow,ng fares . To qualify, you must be of prosperous Britain, has visibly (i) under 24 years of age at time of changed. Denim-clad punks and skinheads hang aimlessly around • Ordinary Single or Return tickets purchase, or (ii) a student of any age who is in full the shopping precincts, there has e Awayday Return tickets been a frightening in~rease in time education anending arr On Sealink services to and from the street crime, racial attacks, glue e Educational Establishment for over snif f ing, shopl ifting and Channel I slands, the I rish Ports and 15 hou rs weekly and for at least 20 alcoholism. Headmasters report the Isle of M an. weeks of the full academic year. that older pupils are losing any e On th rough raiVship journeys to and For full details pop into your motivation they still had to learn. from the I sle of Wight. nearest rail station an d ask for an Gloomy words indeed! But it e Travel on I nter-City sleepers subject applica tion form. And remember , certainly no longer seems overly to payment of the full second class a Ra1lcard purchased now is valid pessimistic to prognosticate that sleeper supplement. the anarchic scenes of violent until 30 September , 1982! despair which occurred in the Toxteth and Brixton areas could eventually escalate into a total collapse of law and order in inner This is the age of the train* city streets all over Britain. Thq Student 10 December 198111 Unchai n1ng• the Third Force
refuse we will have no other More than anything else The chilling sight decision to make but to do it however. the Ulster Protestant is of I an Paisley's ourselves." most angry over security. To him it As for personal poli tical ambitions is incomprehensible that an army hooded men mar Dr Paisley true to his cunning o f Britain's might is unable to ching through the chara cter called for Unionist unity. defeat the IRA terrorists - and fully realising that it was indeed the common beli ef today is streets of Newton imposs ible and added: that the Government is perfectly .. but 1t that evades us l will go on to able to defeat the IRA it j ust ards two weeks ago lead you and those who will not doesn't want to. The· call is for areater police powers - "to hell come can fall behind." has been likened to with civil liberties-what civil We have no option but to make 1t a scene from Nazi In summing up he spoke once liberties does a dead man have." again of his 'Third Force· in a However the Government doe$ impossible for Mrs Thatcher to govern Germany . Sam policing role: not agree. Ove~ he last six years or so the policy of the government the province. "We demand that the handcuffs be Curry, who wit has been to try to win over th e taken off the security forces. One of ·-Ian Paisle support of the Republicans living nessed this "show my commanders said to me 'any in Catholic areas so they will spurn rat will suck eggs in the presence the IRA and hopefully turn them it is also the most threatening and to predict (that is of course 1f Or of strength", fears of a chained dog' That is what the over to the police. By removing important. Paisley does all he says he is going IRA vermin have been doing in the for the future of his grass roots support fort he terrorist to do - personally I belleve the presence of the chained dog of the the government argues, he will Third Force will greatly decrease own country. security forces. If the dog is not eventually be defeated The The Third Force: What in numbers if anything more unchained we will be the actualllles of this policy have dangerous than parading around unchamed dog." Monday, 23rd November, and meant that the greater police Now? town streets is requested) . Despite the crowd in Conway Square. powers Protestants have been Dr Paisley's assurances that the Newtonards, was 2,000 strong. calling for and the more The past year however hc!S Third Force 1s we ll disci plined ~nd They were braving the cold night The Third Force: Why? determined military policy to embittered the Protestant innocent people (Roma n- Catholic to hear " The Big Man", as Rev. tan defeat the IRA have not been populat19n more than anx o·f the and Protestant) have nothing to Paisley is referred to by some. enforced. In a nutshell then, the preceding twelve. While the fear. it will almost certamly result But the rhetoric I had heard In 1969 as a result of British Ulster Protestant looks upon the international press, and to some in a similar collective security before - I was there to see his. public opinion and pressure from thousands of IRA victims as extent 1nternat1onal sympathy {eg policy be,ng adopted in Catholic force; to see if it was what had Roman Catholic leaders in results of the government's "half President Mitterand) was centred areas. This will greatly benefit the been envisaged by people wnen Northern Ireland, the British hearted' security policy which is on the self-i nflicted deaths of the I RA. Or Paisley has annoyed many they first came to decide that a Government disbanded the designed to appease the Roman• ten hunger strikers in the Maze respe c table Uni on i sts and form of collective security outside vo l unteer U ls ter Special Catholic community rather than to pri'son. the deaths of 64 people Loyalists in Northern Ireland by of the existing security forcr. - was Constabulary, disarmed the RUG eliminate the IRA. murdered by the I RA in Northern this frightening show of st rength. '!Vh~t was needed . After the usuaJ and took over security in Northern Ireland during the same period At a time when people should prayers and a minute's silence for Ireland by the stationing of troops passed almost comp letely frown at the government's inept members of the Army, the . RUG there. Rightly or wrongly the bulk Other Forces unreported - sympathy, it security policy, they are instead the UDR and other 'loyalist' dead of P rotestant opinion was seemed, was being extended to sickened by the piCtures of Dr Paisley led his Third Force into absolutely appalled by th e the murderer instead of the masked men on their TV screens the Square which had erupted with disbanding of the 'B Specials' and murdered. By mid September the Few Unionists would argue that cheering voices. Th e first the d isarming of th e RU G. Thus t he IRA have fi nally broken hunger strike was over. The IR A some form of collective securit y is company was the "elite corps" They acquiesced, however, as at the back of Unionist reliance on having been ·defeated, resumed , uiidesirable. Indeed there is from the border areas which least Britain was asserting her Government measUres. Dis their terror campaign with great common agreement that it is marched with military precision all sovereignty over Northern Ireland illusionment with one government success in London and even more necessary. However it shou ld not hooded and carrying cudgels and by the presence of troops there. meant that people looked for so on the border. The week from take the appearance of masked batons. In all I estimate there were · Thirteen years later there another, and nowhere else in the November 15 to November 21 saw men wielding batons and cudgels 5,000-6,000 volunteers o n· d isplay 8/8 now over 2.500 dead and over• United Kingdom could offer so six murders culmmating 1n the and whistling loyalist tunes. marching swiftly and forcefully to .90,000 injured from an area tpat, many choices as Northern Ireland. assassination of Robert Bradford. F,undamentally however fault their commanders orders of " Left, is approximate in its size to the The 'day of action· Monday As Protestants saw it the lies with the government - If they Left, Left-Right, Left. county of Yorkshire. Furthermore November 23rd, was not only Government was failmg to do its were protecting their citizens The speeches were of typically the security problem is worsening called by Or Paisley's Democratic most important duty - that of property there woula be no need Paisley fashion - . raising the rather than improving and all the Unionist Party, but also by the protecting its citizens: therefore it for a Third Force. The sad thing is, crowd to cheers for Ulster and major British political parties have Official Unionist Party, the Ulster was time for them to defend if· the government continues witt1 boos for Mrs Thatcher and Mr made it plain they seek a solution Popular Unionist Party, the Ulster themselves. Basically then, the what Dr Paisley sees as an inept. Prior. He finally bellowed down in a united Ireland. To the Ulster Defence Association and the reason for the moves to o rganise security policy - the Third Force the microphone the roll of his Protestant the last thirteen yea rs Ulste r Loyalist Cen t ral Co ·private army· protection was a (or pa rt o f it) may take to the 'Third Force· : and the present solution sought is o rd inating Committee. Con widespread feeling that the legally streets. Inevi tably this will lead to "We demand that the IRA be a great betrayal by the British sequently, for that day Northern appointed security forces were not conflict with the forces o f lhe exterminated from Ulster .. . Here Government and this disgust has Ireland shut. Air links and sea links being used properly because of Crown. Will Rev. Paisley still call tonight are men willing to do the manifested itself in the presen t with µre{lt Britaiii were closed weak government pol icy. himself a loyalist, or a unionist. or job Recruit them under the anger with the Governmen t and and tMe Day of Action was an The effect the Th ird Force will w ill he become an Ulsterman and Cro wn and the~ will do it. If you the appear~nce of the Third Force. unquestioned success .. but for have on the community is not hard an independent one at that?! whom? Rev. Paisley closed the Day of .Action with a display of force in Newtonard's. As usual , the media in typically su perficial fa shion declared him thewinnerof the day with complete disregard for the protests o f the other Unionist g roups. However Or Pai sley's 'Third Fo rce" is on l y one such organisa ti on of this iiature in Northern Ireland. The Official Unionist ,>arty in South Armagh under Harold Mccusker. and Ken McGinn is have arranged a collective secu rity body of their own. However in no way does it resemble Dr Pais ley's Third Force. The Third Force under their charismatic leader has obviously attracted the attention of the The First Force-British soldiers patrol British streets 1 media and as ii is the biggest force The Third Force-Loyal1sts marching throu9h Newtonards '12 The Student 10 December 1981
• DANCE • EXHIBITIONS • BALLET • M!ME
Firpark Win Elizabeth Elvin-Hill who is in "Jack and the Beanstalk" at the News Citizens, was one of the judges in an art competition for handi capped people. Winners included Firpark, Motherwell, Kennyhills, East Bay, Helensburgh, Lang Stirling Festival 1982 lands, Richmond Park and Scots actor Russell Hunter is to Westpark Schools. An Italian Summer be honorary president of the first Scottish Student Drama Festival to be held in the MacRobert Arts Although the Edinburgh Festival By Vicky Taylor Ravmond Leppard, and the Welcome Folk 1982 seems a long way in the Scottish Baroque Ensemble undef Centre between 23rd and 27th The Edinburgh Folk Festival is future, preliminary programme Eric Fenby February. EUTC's entry is "Meta Dresden· Staats to be sponsored by Welcome Inns; plans for this the 36th Edinburgh Festival the The success of any festival morphosis". Incidental ly this International Festival were being karello and lhe Philadelphia obviously depends on the support festival wil be held in Edinburgh the massive fi rm have· pumped made in the city last week. Orchestra will be sure to attract it can raise from the public. As part next year. £24,500 into the event. It means that the artists will perform in The theme for the 1982 Festival many visitors. of a programme to encourage is Italy, exploring the influence of more people to attend concerts in Baroque Gift public houses and makes the Fourth Festival the biggest in the Italian musicians, dramatists and 1982 theFestival Box Officeis now Would you believe it? "What can country. artists on European culture. The selling ticket vouchers of £5 each you give for Christmas that is just a programme of events which are to which will be retuned for tickets little out of the ordinary. doesn't focus on Italy was announced by when they go on sale next year. cost the earth to buy or a fortune John Drummond, the Festival They can be bought in Christmas to post?" Can't you guess·? "It's And finally ... Director. presentation packs, which the d ignified, different it's the From Vicky, Cathy, Graham, In the third week of next year's organisers hope will encourage Scottish Baroque Ensemble Gift Roddy, Sarah, Frances, David, Festival the Florence Festival 11 people to plan in advance their Token." Altogether, what could Leigh, Jenny, Allan, Sam. Fred and opera will perform two work$ Ot Festival 1982. simpler, or more gratifying? me. Happy Christmas. Italian opera, Leonardo Vinci's La The theatre programme is to be Zite'ngalera (1722) which is said to announced later although Mr be a witty burlesque, and Drummond hinted there would be Salvatore Sciarrino's Macbetto. a distinct show of young Scottish One of the "firsts" for the 1982 writers which would suggest the Festival is the first performance of new Scottish Theatre Company Lets Butlin it a fu ll-length Puccini opera with a Mr Drummond assured would will be asked to perform during the production of Marion Lescaut by be Festival-goers that although Festival. the Scottish Opera Group. Other the flavour of the 1982 Festival is Mr Drummond's closing note as high points of this Festival wil be distinctly Italian the Scottish he announced the plans for the Ron Butlin subJects for Scots verse, bllt the opening concert, Verdi's influence will not be forgotten. To 1982 Festival sum up the dilemma nevertheless one of the many Requiem, Strauss's Ariadne auf this end there will be perform any festival director mu·st now be personal experiences which often Naxos , and Mozart 's Die ances by the SNO under Sir facing, with Edinburgh proving to Poetry Reading form the basis of his wOrk. It was a Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. Of the Alexander Gibson. the Scottish be no exception: " We'll be as good good poem with which to start the Chamber r · Orc_hestra I under orc_hestras performin at the as we can afford to be. " By Leigh Biagi reading, and was indicative of the diverse topics dealt with by Butlin Twenty or so assorted members in his work, wnich ranged from of the English Literature Society highly metaphysical concepts crammed themselves into a tiny, such as " primal oneness" (a little • Theatre • Exhibitions stuffy room in the Postgraduates' difficult to g rasp at a first hearing). Union last Wednesday evening to to his dreams of playing football hear Ron Butlin, this year's Writer for Scotland in the World Cup. His in Residence, give a reading of his translated poetry was. as he own poetry. himself said, interpreted rather Bullin began by slotting the than translated. sometimes only isney do Well Quality selected poetry into three incorporating one line of the categories: Scots verse. transla~ original poem, and it was a good The Fox and the itself is, on the whole, 1Ignt tions of other poetry and non deal harder to get to grips with hearted and totally captivating Craft Work dialect verse. Talking abowt his than his more colloquial writing. Hound The relationship between Copper Scots verse he explained that Happily, Butlin's delivery was and Tod being the more serious Garvald Training having been taught to speak both relaxed and casual. He pays side of the film is complemented " English" at school he had rather strong attention to rhythm and By Sam Curry by the comical antics of Boomer abandoned his native speech. cadence in reading his poetry, Centre until, spurred on by the words of lt'S Christmas time again and the Woodpecker and Dinky the using these devices to avoid Edwin Muir, " I think in English, true to traditioo Disney has taken Sparrow in th·eir attempts to By Sarah Murray monotony, which proved useful on and feel in Scots", h"e became over the Odeon for the festive capture a caterpillar. A.II their From December 1st to 15th the !wednesday in his fight against a inspired to write in dialect. The season. Last year we had the old antics are truly hilarious and both Co,:nmonwealth Institute is fiercely hot and sleep-inducing first poem he read described a classic "Snow White and the come over as the real stars of the showing a small exhibition of gas fire. A fight which, judging by transvestite orgy in Morrison Seven Dwarfs" - this year it's the show. The success of the film lies craftwork by the Garvald Training the requests for more at the end of Street - not the most traditional of latest production, " The Fox and in the fact that each animal is given Centre. The Centre itself is run to the evening, he won. the Hound" a human character with which the help young people with problems The story is simple enough for audience can identify; everyone such as deafness, blindness, even students to understand - knows someone like Chief. the autism, epilepsy and emotional two innocent playmates, Copper farmer's old dog, who after disturbances. Five days a week are the Hound and Tod the Fox have to breaking his leg is determined to spent working at the Centre whose become the hunter and the hunted get as much sympathy as is facilities include a bakery, a when grown up to conform with " humanly" possible. pottery, a joinery, a weaving society. Disney puts it: "The two All in all it's a film well worth workshop and an educational friends who didn't know they were · going to see - but take your group. As well as this, remedial supposed fo be enemies." But tissues with you because it work is given with additional help although there are definite moral brought a lump to my throat and 1 from doctors, careers officers, undertones to the story, the film don't even like foxes. teachers and ministers. On average, pupils spend three years at the Centre, after which aid is given in establishing them into a normal working life outside the Go East, Friend Centre, living in hostels and "digs" It is encouraging . to hear that students at the Centre receive East pearian rhetoric demands a full financial support from the response, but what response is local authority. Bedlam there left to make? We can take or 1 Th8 exhibition consists of some leave the gratuitous updatings into of the work that the Centre has by Jenny Turner skinheads and punks; however produced. This includes clothes, set, this play would be relevant - toys, tapestries, furniture and "An elegy for the East End and fi lth is always relevant - and as pottery and much of the work is of its energetic waste" - but no oozy Berkoff realises, this doesn't say a very high standard. However, I sentimental Weske r ings in much for The Human Race As A feel that the exhibition does not do evidence here, thank God. Theatre Whole. justice either to the work of the ,About Glasgow • take Steven . Technically and artistically, pupils, or to their training centre. Berkoff's rantin vitr;Qi~'"'tlic 'East' TAG could hardly be faulted. They The work seems to be placed at Poetry and render it as una1...... ~~ table as it prove, unequivocally, that they random on tables or on the floor. could possibly be. Raw, bitter can take a play that a less No indication is given as to the amphetamine energy seizes us adventurous company would names, ages or disabilities of the from the word go: it battles and think the sole property of one man, artists. Also, more could have Thomas Hardy'.- Christmas. 1924 bruises, shocks and outrages and and make it their own. This is been done to display information finally, contemptuously, drops us prooably the best bit of theatre about the Centre and its pupils. "Peace upon earth!" was said We sing it. back in the shit from whence we seen in Edinburgh since the This is disappointing for, as I said, And pay a million priests to bring it. came.Decadence akimbo. The Festival. and no doubt it'll be long the quality of the work is excellent After two thousand years of mass characters are bigoied, bestial and enough before we see its likes and the Garvald training scheme a We've got as far as poison gas." nihilistic; their obscene Shakes- again. F ... this for a laugh. productive and helpful one. r he Student 10 December 1981 13
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Reflections .. Hopes The Netherbow started well wi th Review to Forrest Hoad, a show Looking Ahead Harapes and Bart make therr Looking Back a superb Equus but never Jenny Turner dismissed as first appearance on 23rd recovered from a very Resistible "amateurish slop" Gu1zer Theatre Ballet and December 1n "Crnderella" and Theatre Rise of Arturo U1. Most ambitious Company rareo better at the hands there are no performances on of al l, however. have been Bedlam of Fiona Bullock who wrote that Pantomime Chnstmas Day, January 1st or w ho as weil as producing several The Vamp,re "brought fun, games January 4th. By David Stead University Plays have hired out the and excitement" to the audience Meanwhile, at the C1t1zens· theatre to outside groups The first The big guns had a fluctuating By David Stead Theatre 1n Glasgow, Carey Wilson The Arts Page 1h1s term has season . The Lyceum chugged on and Elizabeth Elvm·H1II star 1n covered almost 30 prod uctions. Giles Havergal's production of as usual presenting Capital q uite a feat for a ten-week term. It "Jack and the Beanstalk". The play Offence ,n October which I has been a surprising ly acti ve From 22nd Decemoer to 5th enjoyed but everyone else didn't, 1s designed by Colin MacNeil and w inter for the stage. w ith all th e January the Scottish Ballet will be and cont1nu1ng with The Doctor's choreographed by Sue Leton. The ma in theatres producing revrving "Cinderella'' at the Dilemma and Born ,n the Gardens; pantomime runs through to interesting programmes and the Playhouse Theatre and from 5th- January 16th 1982. The King's, all very acceptable. Orama came 9th January the production smaller companies developing Edinburgh. also has a " Jack and to the King's with Ken neth Hargh changes to " The Nutcracker" some exciting fringe work. It has the Beanstalk" with a more famous and Joss Akland in The Dresser been a pleasure. for example. to Vlast1m11 Ha rapes will be joining cast that includes Terry Scott, which I described as "a fa scinating see the Th ea tre Work shop for~i ng the company as a guest artist for play". Rad1oact1ve from Oxford Jimmy Logan and Una Maclean. its attention on t he public, star1i ng the Chnstmas season. Harapes. i,layed one week and then Ballet Take your ch'l!_,?,e\. back in October with Edinburgh who has appeared during the Rambert appeared for a rather Goes lnro Orbit and following with 1 Festival time 1n Edinburgh, 1s a - '\.. anti-climactic week of new dance. The Oecameron, Th e Zoo Sto ry, People's A rtist of Czechoslovakia The Traverse has been strangely -w Peer Gyn t. Gotcha and The Happy Diane Walker and a principal with the National disappointing Wedding Belles Prince. Vicky Taylor left The main term play was . t.veling s Theatre of Prague He has danced Vibrations; a difficult play well and Green Grasses pleased Leigh all over the world and has Decameron with "no complaints handled by the cast and director Biagi but The Hot Hello did appeared 1n several films. w hatsoever about the perform H,rtmg Town took the stage in nothing for anybody. As a top five Also appeanng m both "Cinder ance", and Cathy Florin found mid-November and was 1ust that we'll go, in no partrcular order. for ella" and " The Nutcracker· 1s Peer Gynt "unforgettable and li ttle bit disappointing. October Equus. V1brat1ons, The Dresser. Graham Bart who will dance beautiful" brought the Ed inburgh Mime The Decameron and Peer Gynt Pnnce Ramiro and Dandini Unmemorable Season
Looking Back wond rous unveiled to trumpet intimate and pleasing Head over over, nothing to joyously respond CILTOD f~ Heels and Melvin and Howard was *****STUDIOS Films to or spread the word on. Despite like a damp squib on Guy Fawkes the muted enthusiasms for The night 24 Calton Road , Edinburgh By Allan Hunter French Lieutenant's Woman or a Finally, and by now almost Tel: 031-556 7066/ 5S7 2179 Heaven ·s Gate too o ften there has traditionally, I am allowed the Wh e n t he most readily been the shaken-head dismissal of indulgence of a personal selection recollected events o f the past term Progs. 5.30 & 8.15 pm th e emp t y ,c r assness o f of the year's best. In terms of are the trag ic deaths of two majo r Cannonball Run 1 o r the hidden acting Burt Lancaster was in Ho llyw ood stars, William Ho lden depths of Mer10,rs of a Survwo·, splendid form in Atlant,c C,ty THE POSTMAN ALWAYS and Natalie Wo od, then 1t is trans W hil e film s a nd video w hilst tan Holm was the fine and lucently apparent that it has not prod uction may be booming, fiesty in Chanots of Fire. On the RINGS TWICE (X} been the most memorable of cinema-going, so they tell us, is no distaff si de Jessica Lange was Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange seasons for new films. long er addictive. In Edinburgh th e something of a revelation in The There ha s be e n n o th i n g tell-tale sig ns are o bvious w ith the Postman A lways Rings Twice and Fri./Sa t. 11 pm recent c losure o f the Ritz and the Faye Dunaway made an incredible news that the existing structure of stab at Joan Crawford in Momm,e LOOKING FOR the Odeon, no longer able to run Dearest .' o n a Soun d commercial basis Gregory's Glf/ was a total joy. offenng " 1,800 seats at every MR GOODBAR (X) Raiders of .the Lost Ark and Diane Keaton pe rfo rmance", will give birth to Superman II were immensely triplets in April. Al l because o f the p leasurab le entertainments an d From Mo n. 14th December les s e n i ng d e sire t o spe n d Tess was unadulterated in its bid Saturday night at the m ov1es. for q uality. However, as reg ular MY BODYGUARD (A) Any film is now a hit or a miss, readers r111ght have suspected, the middle-ground has caved m Chariots o f F,re must remain the and and thus whilst th e hype worked /1lm of the ye ar. If the Bri tish for the uneven History o f th e picture industry is dead then BREAKING AWAY (A) World, Part 1 the l>ox offi ce someone fo rgot to tell the makers performance of the likes ot the of this film.
Smashing Strauss ARE YOU FED UP WHH FR IDAY N IGHTS? NOT REV ISING AFTER ALL? V oca l hi g h l ight s w ere a a few other pre-C lassical masters AT A LOSS WHEN THE PUBS Looking Back haunting i nt e rpreta ti o n of and 19th century Romantics. One CLOSE?· has to look a bit harder fo r more Bruckner's second mass by the Classical Music ... T HEN COME DOWN T O modern composers o r, indeed , for SCO with the Scottish Phil By Frances R. Wood much out of the o rdinary. Despite harmonic Singers and a perform 60 Ttie Pleasance this there' s lots to enjoy and this an ce o f Nicholas Maw's 'La Vita There's no shortage of concerts term was no exception. Nuova'. The latter was one of the for the classical music lover in Many fine visiting solo ists few o utings for an adventurous, Edinburgh these days, w i th displayed their wares but I modern work and m et with c ritical regular performances by the particularly enjoyed last week's approva l but the usual po lite but Scottish N at iona l Orchestr a. vi sit of the Ko rean violinist Kyng unenthusiastic response fro m the TOMO RROW - Scottish Baroque Ensemble and audience - a response, in my Wha Chung. She played Bach in a FR IDAY 11th DECEMBER, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as experience, reserved for anything way which made it mo re lovely and FRO M 7.30 UNTI L 2 a.m . well as many others. This is fine if less stark than many imaqine it can unfamilia r and remotely modern. : one's taste is for a liberal dose of Fi lms, videos, discos, roc k bands, be. The aud ience was enraptured Edinburgh audiences ar8 a Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven. Bach, I but C hung·s Bach is no t . no t conservative lot who alternate food , Cuntry Danc ing, Mulled Wine, I everyone's taste - Conrad W1 l~on between two extrem es - David Allison, coffee and tea, raffles thought it ··sugary·· . H einz sycophancy for the known an and a bit more. Hollig e r 's o bo e e ntw1n e_d loved: and restraint and disdain fo r I the new. ALL THIS INCLUDED IN THE beautifully with the violin part 1n TICKET PRI C EI Ba c h 's Conce r to f o r t he Fa vourite of the term. ho wever, instruments and earlier in the term was the SNO 's dramatic and 7.30-9.00 (£3) 9 .00-10.00 (£2.50) Gyorgy Pa u k and R a l ph c rashing performance o f Richard 10.00- 11 .00 (£2) 11.00-12.00 (£1 .50 ) Kirs hbaum gave a po lis he~ Strauss·s 'Ein Heldenleben' with 12.00-2.00 (£1) Entry subject to its marvello us horn section and performance of the Brahms space ber ng ava rl able. standard, 'Concerto for violin and lots o f good , o ld -f ashioned cello'. excitement. - 14 l he Student 10 December 1981 lbe street
0 ! Timeless Flight Caroline Binnie · change the faithful who attended. Atypical Girls/ 0 d\ The old verve and dash are still 0 searches for lost there . though , admittedly . O . aO °o acoustic stuff, like the timeless Best Years of Our Lives , worked The Slits slip into youth amongst the. better than the numbers where he utilised the cranked-up session irrelevance. Jim Playhouse's empty musicians who make up the ''new" Levi was there. Cockney Rebel. , seats. Harl ey can be pretentious and A confession: this is not an One of the great joys of visiting grandiose. but unlike Gary Glitter objective review. A scenario: the Nite Club is that everyone's etc, he hasn't become a parody of scenes of enthusiastic acned drunk - or maybe it's just the himself {yet). adolescence, a school Xmas people I know. Anyway. that"s how An attempt to capture lost dahce. orange juice. platform it"s possible to have a good night youth? I'm not sure. I'm older and shoes, plastic mistletoe, Roxy, despite bad bands, a commodity wiser than I was when I bopped to Mud, Slade and Cockney not in shqrt supply on this night - Mr Soft on six-inch platforms. I Rebel. Another scenario: scenes maybe the ones glued to the tellies know now that icons have clay 1 of frightfully atmospheric· had the 'right idea. feet , and big egos, and even bigger desertion at the Playhouse .. and There was a support band bank balances, but what's wrong Cockney Rebel. whose name I never got hold of. with trying to recapture As Steve Harley takes the stage. Dominant in their performance adolescent naivety for an evening? he"s older, fatter and smaller than were funky bass and drums - and Harleys not relevant to kids; he was in his halcyon days. Come UK. the bar remained packed. This now. but he"s part of the past for a to think of it. so's his audiEmr.P group was a perfect example of lot of people and shouldn"t be Harley's in an inconqro,us why I hate the new wave of p. (-.c..·,1111 I tilton any beauty, nothing was a mighty rejected just because he's not the ! position. Subvers(ve in his day, he "Britfunk": it 's spawned a for reggae ethnicity. The feel is scream of defiance and nothing next big thing. He enjoyed the gig, multitude of boring bands that natural, earthy almost, and quite sounded· like the product of ! was a seminal influence on many new wave bands (look locally: the and we enjoyed it. What do you play tuneless crud which I pleasing - something in it oozes a women inspired. The Slits are 1 late lamented Scars, the Freeze, ...vant from live? Why analyse his wouldn"t dance to if paid. This lot desire for a rustic tropical another component of ·· rock" that I validity? were a prime example of said simplicity. Fram this lot it seems a begs the question of what the hell and the magpies. Those French phenomenon. trifle silly and almost an aural the point is . The answer: none at G irl s) but, at the same time, Harleys not afra1d to exr11·ou past glories. He gave us the "' Never mind."" thought.I, '" there·s copout. all . and there's other activities and damned the punk explosion , classics we wanted. along with still The Slits to enjoy:· Oh dear; On stage there's still much art-forms far more worth while at hoping ihat if he buried himself in some OK new stuff. He's recording The Slits can be remembered as fooling about and Viv's bass sound · the moment. A drunken laugh isn't transatlantic decadence it would either an absurdist thrash or the continues to throb and sway really enough. disappear. It didn't, and now he's• an album produced by the ultra purveyors of the unique hypnotically - the atmosphere is For a second encore they faced with the unenviable task of slik Midge Ure. I'm interested. but magnificence of Cut, but now. one of joy. Yet the songs seem to performed Let"s Do the Split. an recovering lost ground. there's something pathetic in his Now, I fear. is the time to lack conviction while the whole set unmusical 77 sound rant. Ari Upp There was a peculiarly person-: alliance with Ure. a futile attempt discard and ignore. smacks of pretence and a group forgot the words and the rendition alised atmosphere at this gig, no to capture some '80s action. With the addition of a black girl fast running out of ideas. threatened to fall apart. it was the bouncers, no orchestra pit , almost Tonight he remained a wonderful as second vocalist they've gone in Nothing The Slits did possessed best thin9 performed all night. no audience. Marley° didn't short anachronism. I ' Scottish Bluebells ~ =--- Graeme Wilson that sitting on one would provoke even more than Aztec Camera. it to envelop you in its folds. Their music is so light and dreamy braves Buster Appearances can be deceptive - it floats melodic and ethereal, a Brown's for The under that foamy exterior lurks a sweet you can eat between meals heart with edges and bumps and without tasting it. Like candy floss lumps in all the wrong places, Bluebells, and is without the candy. totally lacking Ho. ho, ho! lt"s a festive Gal that And now, for your aural delight. I inducing anal anaesthesia within -i n substance. The Bluebells seem greets you this week, brimming now present saved only by their minutes. intent on using their 15 minutes to o,er with festive spirit. The one Moan, groan, drown in the have a laugh but with nothing to thing that spoils my otherwise Gal's Seaonal buying him a disco, compete with dry ice. In a say. They achieve all the jovial frame of mind is that the sudden and unprecedented rash beverage. disposability of great pop. with benevolence of Jenners' Father ~Char~ of taste. the DJ gives us 30 none of the tacky charm. Their Christmas impostor does not 1. Big Gold Dream Fire Engines Nice place, Buster Brown's. seconds of Der. Mussolini but songs are sometimes embarras extend to those of us who have 2. 4 More from Toyah Nice if you like red that is. Nicer if singly trite with Everyone is exceeded the tender age of 14. All I Toyah Wilcoxth you like red and you're rich. Moan, takes it off when no one dances. At Someone's Friend like a sound wanted_ was a R 'Jland Polysnth. 3. Sugar Sugar David Gamson groan, can"t afford to get pissed, least it reminds me that real life track from the Wonderful World of 4. Lie Dream oi a Casino Soul unlike the 14-year-olds that exists somewhere and helps me to Disney. Most punters seemed 6 6 6 6 1-au comprise half the clientele. The retain my sanity. slightly irritated by the unwelcome It's possibly a combination of 5. Colourless Dream other half consist of balding men But what about The Bluebells? invasion of live music into this the cold air and the warmth of and younger women, middle-aged At first reduced to fits of laughter emporium of 12" disco remixes. At Sad Lovers and Giants humanity at this time of year that This is Your Captain Speaking spreading executives treating by th e sheer superficiality of the least The Bluebells held tlieir 6. makes people behave in such odd Captain Sensible themselves to a night's infidelity place, they resign themselves to it interest and one middle-aged ways. Witness for example the odd It Goes Waap Higsons courtesy of their flexible friend . and put on a performance for couple waltzed in double time 7. sight of Johnny Walter. Edin 8. Don't Let Them Grind You Don't like the seats much either. 11yself and six or seven mates. If around the floor. Makes me feel burgh"s Sounds stringer and Down Exploited/ Anti-Pasti They give the impression of the name Bluebells has a Scottish. young again. The Bluebells died in winner of this week's "Health 9. Forever and Ever consisting of marsh.mallow, ring to it, it's well placed as they spite of prompting from the DJ in Conscious Makes Me Sick" award Academy One freshly piped out of a giant icing cr1ricature the POstcard sou nd that w.hat must be th e worst and least bag only minutes previously and has come to define Scottish pop likely venue in Edinburgh. for his performance of Seb Coe 1 O. Soul Kitchen By Chance style exertions through the back Ch:Jrt comp1lea oy l1uiter A,/t 1Si<:. streets of Stockbridge under cover >-fo na·,H5nn Paw. of darkness. Gal's Season of Lizzy 6666 Goodwill playlist- Christmas is nothing if not a The Playhouse on Thursday time for friendship, and it thaws 1. When a Child is Born night felt the excitement and my otherwise cynical heart to see Johnny Mathis anticipation that is the norm at any the very special friendship that 2. Leslie Whittle The Scars THln lizzy gig. The stage set was exists between Postcard 's 3. Production The Fakes new and even more dramatic than mainman Alan Horne and NME's 4. Agitated Die Electric Eels before: red ""Renegade·· flags Glasgow mainperson Kirsty ~- Lifted XS Discharge above the stage, wire COVtHS over McNeil. I cannot bring myself to 6. The Complete Works. the entire backline, the band believe that the recent Jazzeteers Dlschar11e. performing on the moniiorS, and article in NME by the latter of this ·comme d'habitue an excellent 7. The Plough talking a bit on couple. which might be described Instant Classic Notsensibles light show. as "a little over the top'', was 8. Persuasion Throbbing Gristle The music? It was pretty good motivated by anything other than s. Vindictive The Slits too, kicking off with the excellent enthusiasm for the band 's 10. WMC Blob 59 The Fall "Angel of Death" and two others potential. Chart compiled by Gal and the from the new "Renegade" album, 6666 and then some of the old firm at the Edinburgh Journalists It seems that Paul Haig has dyed favourites - '"Jailbreak "". ""Bad Collective Convention, 5.12.81 in Reputation", "Rosalie· ·, etc.; but his hair blond. This is part of his the Dundee Arms. could it be possible that Lizzy·s new role for which he wears the hat (well, haircut) of promoter. TV21 Competition refusal to play their first hit It see;ns he may well be " material perhaps indicates that Winners they do realise that music must ~ttempting to wheedle your Lynoft"s u;;den,able skill of g:iting Christmas bonus out of your change and are not just doing the 1st: Davis Wilkie (22" colour). the audierrce ''into it" it's hardly pocket 1 and into his by staging a same thin~s as they were over a 2nd: Adam Hiddleston (B/ W surprising that these guys were on few gigs ·neatt, the decadent portable). decade ago. It was a reaf/y TV about 21 .years before any of Th chandeliers of The Assembly 3rd: Derick Ward (Sinclair enjoyable gig and with Phillip the new ··,n " bands were cloned. Is Rooms this Yuletide. M ,c rovision) . The Student 10 December 198115 • ••••• • II ••II • ••••••• •••••• •111111 • seconds ahead of the Men's El ite • ••••• Four in sixth place. Chasing a powerful Elite crew down the cou rse. both crews were badly '. Plain delayed by other boats and put in Blunt Spikes 'That excellent performances which I their finishing positions belie. Delay and collision also EU Women played two National Sinking hampered the Men's Senior 'C' iSailing League matches last weekend, Four, but they rowed well to finish with the fi rs t game against Larbert in 17th place overall. HSFP II on Saturday. Mistakes The Ladies· 1st Four's chances Volleyball of winning their division were were made both in attack and defence, largely attributed yet Feeling literally sunk when they struck a Edinburgh University Sailing submerged post before the start of MEN again to a lack of confidence and Club started its competition in this concentration, but not to a lack of the r ace. Thankfully , they year 's Scottish Universities' managed to row to the bank and capability, as it has been shown to Leagues with an overpowering safety, before their boat becamn Edinburgh University 2 be present in training. Con Winter rowing competitions win . With the ·competit ion' Fife Thanes 3 too submerged to row. However, sequently, their resu lti ng 3-0 take the form of long distance provided by Glasgow and Dundee, the Ladies· 2nd Four rose to lhH defeat did not add to th e little ··nead ot River" races, tests of Edinburgh men won both matches occasion and finished 1n fourth confidence Edinburgh had in th eir strength, skill and endurance · without dropping a single point. approach to the game aga inst St. usually ra ced over three to four place. This was an exceptionall:1 Saturday saw the University creditable performance since th1:; Glasgow wer~ beaten by 11 ½ to 30 Andrews University on t he miles. On Saturday, EU Boat Club play host to Fife Thanes, the crew consisted of two novices whc, points, Dundee by 53/, to 15 (match fo llowing day. travelled to the River Clyde tor the leaders of the Second Division were gaining their first rac€i conceded before second leg Nonetheless, the warm-up went first of these events and had an (East) and undefeated so far this experience - they can be well sailed). The team was captained w ell and Edinburgh had a eventful day. season. This turned out to be a far pleased with their result. by Ronald Millar, with James tremendous start with some closer game than was expected, Top marks must go to the Men's So a day of mixed fortune for the Ricketts and Ken Haroer helming. with the University playing at the strong serving from Andrea Cifelli Senior 'A' Four. D. Austin, G. club , but a good overall Not _ to be outdone, Edinburgh top of their form to wrestle two sets allowing St. Andrews to make all Painter, J. Homan, P. Smith and P. performance which earned Ladies dropped only 2 points to and almost steal the match. the mistakes , whilst still Robson (Cox) who clinched a second place in the Victoludorum. Glasgow Ladies ( 13½ to 28) , and PredicJ__a bly , Edinburgh continuing to control all play that decisive victory in their division A good start to the winter season none to Dundee (5¼ to t5) . The struggled in the first set, finding it came their way. culminating in a after rowing over the course at an with the strong performances of Ladies team was ably led by Fiona very difficult to get into rhythm set score of 15·6 for Edinburgh. incredible rating of 33 strokes per the top two men's fours promising Ravenscroft, with Gwyneth Jones against a very tall and strong Having reached this situation it minute. A well deserved and good results in the Eights Head and Aillth Foggo. The overall T hanes attack. First set: 9-15. was St. Andrews who proceeded statisfying conclusion to their early next term. The Ladies must result - only two points dropped However, in the second set the to allow the home team to make all w'eeks of intensive training. also take encouragement from ·in four matches - points to a University managed to stamp their the fau lts - with servi ce reception this result. promising future for both this authority on the game, and used and a general lack of under Indeed, the Senior 'A' crew also Paul Hally years teams. their varied attacks to great effect. standing between the team finished fourth overall, seven 'Central-hitters' Lincoln Wallen players being the main causes. and Oliver Sc h oett wer e Despite having fought back mid· particularly effective, hitting way through the set, Edinburgh let intelligently round and against a it slip and lost the set 15-11 . strong and well-formed Thanes However, with belief that a victory back. The University won a close was within reach witti a little more INTRA MURAL Hockey fought set 16--14. effort, Edinburgh displayed some _g reat talent in the 3rd set. All Better was still to come in the Stockbridge Ya-Ya s by the aspects of the game went well for FOOTBALL EUHC 3 <;,range O third set as the University shortest of short-heads, (same them, especially retrievals of any capitalised to move into a 6·2 lead WEDNESDAY LEAGUES percentage , same points, Last Sunday, the University took Despite Fi fe Thanes coming back attack that St. Andrews made, and on the 'chaps' of Grange HC. Early With the winter season now marginally superior goal at them, the University managed to t he good sett i ng from Ina on, that teenage heart-throb behind us, Teviot Row Rowdi.es difference). Let's hope this does keep ahead and won the set 15-12. Thompson aided their own attack are champions of the Premier not discourage the Ya Ya 's too Bottari flashed an Italian smile at So it looked as if a shock result which soom accumulated the the umpire following a series of Division. Geogsoc. having lost 7-2 much ,as their weekly team sheets was on the cards. The Untversity magic 15 points for a loss of only 3. laughable decisions. Owing to the to Teviot in the first week, are a source of amusement to al l. were two sets to one up and 6--6 The fourth set unfortunately language difficulty, Bottari left the proceeded to win all their ACKB are relegated. ahead in the fourth. However, Fife proved to be a duplicate of the field, but still managed a few well remaining games, finishing a Division Three has the only Thanes used their 'outside hitters' second, only difference being the remembered English phrases in highly creditable second. The undefeated side out of 29, The to full extent and pulled back level score of 15·9. The fifth and his verbal assault on the umpires. Engineers pipped long-time Brewers. Unfortunately, who joins at 10-10. They then moved on to deciding set was closely balanced Morpeth once more netted a leaders Donald Pleasance into them in the Second Division is not take the set for the loss of only one bu t the clear seven point lead that brace, modestly scoring o ne 1n third place. FUDGE and Napier yet known, the match between more point: 11·15. Ed inburgh bui lt up disappeared as each half. Olivier and Beale made Utd. A join Red Star Tandoori on Falling Stars and Grant House The final set lasted for at least 26 a consequence o f service flawless debuts, the former with a the relegation route. being subject to a stewards inquiry minutes as the University reception errors: further points splendidly attacking game at full In the end, Medics Marauders (dope tests?'). struggled to stay in tne match. were equally divided, but without back, the latter giving full scope to won the First Division a shade The leagues will start a!resh in Although they fought hard, some any attack Edinburgh could not his fierce hits and long legs, before cleverly, beating in the final two . January with space for 4 or 5 new of the earlier fluidity of movement achieve the victory they so realising his dream with a cracking weeks their nearest challengers, sides. Any such side interested in and attack seemed to have '.Jesperately wanted, and a set goal. the Agrics and Dynamo Dong, 5-0 entering a team should either deserted them. Nonetheless, they score of 15-12 meant a With Kell. ably supported by and 3·0 respectively. The Agnes leave anote in the Wednesday pushed Thanes hard in losing the disappointing and rather Fowlie, dominating midfield, the stayed on into second place Soccer pigeon-hole at the set 9-15. depressing defeat of 3-2 sets. task of demolishing the oppos1t1on leaving Dong to ponder on what Pleasance, or pin a note to the was made to look mere child's might have been. Eldorado c,ty notice board downstairs in Teviot, play. and Bobbies, some way adrift of where all 1-17 football fixtu res are J. Clarke Please think about this over the the rest, are relegated. posted. (alias Scoop O'Hara) holidays, and if you are interested The Second Division has been A J Cottam (Get back to Ireland - Ed) Notice in organising ri igby for 150 fellow won by Fraser House, pipping League Secretary I have tried, unsuccessfully, to idiots, (or can think of anybody persuade the Rugby Club to take else who can read, write and speak over the organising of 1/ M Rugb¥ - the major requirerTients) starting in October 1982, as I am contact me EARLY next term. or neither able nor willing to run the during the holidays if you·re section for a third year. Therefore staying in town - 441 4172. if a new section organiser is not Your co-operation in this matter forthcoming this season, it means would be greatly appreciated - if t,,at some poor Fresher is going to you want to play rugby next year, ::,1O.;X~I( t). T.--.E BANSHEES ONCE UPON A llME GAT HITS have his arm twisted and things it's in your own interests to do something about this. ~:,~:~i;';.~T,sl T~~~Eui~cc"~i?.~rJ~: iftsTt7JAINJE6"'HEEL will be as bad as last year' It would DIANA ROSS 20 GOLDEN GREATS 2 99 be advantageous if next year's Note - There are no games on DIANA ROSS- ALL THE GREAT HITS 399 DIANA ROSS - WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE 3 69 organiser had some idea of the 16/ 12/81 but there will be a full (ilRLS AT OUij BEST - PLEASUHE 2 99 programme on 13/1/82. POINTER SISTERS- BLACK 4 WHITE 349 running of the section and also the POINTER SISlERS- ENERGY- 349 workings of fMSA, and therefore I There may be a Sports' Llay early PHIL SPECTOR - CHRISTMAS ALBUM 3 99 M EAT LOAF - BAT OUT OF HELL - 2 99 am asking for a volunteer next term, probably Sunday 17th MEAT LOAF - DEAD RINGER - 2 99 assistant, preferably in first or January, so look out for posters PRE TENDERS t - 1 99 PRETENDERS II - 1 99 second year, who isn't too busy o n when you come back next term. UB 40 - SIGNING OFF - 2 99 EAGLES - GRT HITS - 2 99 Tuesday evenings. lain McIntosh RV COOPER BOP TILL YOU DROP - 2 99 CHRISTOPHER CROSS - SAME - 2 ~~ BILLY JOEL - SONGS IN THE AT nc - 2 99 KEITH JARRET - SOLO CONCERTS - 3 LP BOX - 8.9,5 Kt.11 H JAHHC I I - KOLN CONCERTS - 2 LP - 5 99 KEITt1 JARAETl - NUDE ANTS - 2 LP- 599 KEITH JARRETT - SURVIVORS - 3 99 PAT METHENY - BRIGHT SIZE UFE - 399 1 THE FINEST SELECTION OF CUT-PRI CE LPs & TAPES IN TOWN,AT Results FOOTBALL UNBEATABLE PRICES
HOCKE¥ ;Wed 2/ 12/81 1st XI 5 H.Watt 1 (P hilp, McCaig, EUHC II 0-0Watsonians II S_m ith, Dolva, Gillespie) Heriot-Watt 2-2 EUHC Ill (N.unn, 2nd XI 3 H.Watt 1 (Hardie, Fraser, Fretz) Stewart) Colts 6 H.Wa tt 3 (Kinloch 5, EUHC 3 Grange O Har Party Piece Charlotte Square more problems. Here it is uses her vast ex advisable to at least know someone with a few tickets. When perience and tells the bouncers are fairly lax, en try is easy, ei th er just follow, or lose 1 us about The Art of yourself amongst a crowd of Gatecrash ing. guests, or rush in saying you must give an urgent message to the It happens to everyone once in a party-g iver. If admittance is not while - all dressed up but no forthcoming, 1t usually isn't worth parties to go to. Not that th ere is arguing tor too long. If 1t is that What an Xmas nothing else to do, but real gate difficult to gain entry, it can't be all crashing is almost as much fun that good a party. downer . . George (a nd often proves to be better) In times of total desperation the than the party itself. best strategy is to wander round a 1 Square discusses There are numerous strategies st udent area. Marchmont 1s always I which can be adopted. Probably a good bet. Telltale signs are top barbiturates the best and most popular is to flats, with a red light on, blaring spend the evening in a pub where music emerging from it and I domestic li fe. Because barbitur receive a genuinely convincing you will know people. Clutching usually a few people rushing out Hypocracy of public attitudes. ates are prescribed by doctors to explanation refuse them. If you are the obligatory "carry-out" gives looking ill. Entry is usually That is the reality of barbiturate support the social system by 1n doubt seek a second opinion. the impression that you have a facilitated by the fact that most / consumpti on. The topic of drugs making people tolerate ways of (2) Under no circumstances must party already lined up. Then spend pa rty-givers are in extreme states seems to many to be associated living that wou ld otherwise be un someone suspected of a n the evening being generally of inebriation as they have spent \ with onl y a select grouping of bearable, society complacently overdose of barbiturates be left to sociable, occasionally asking the whole day worrying about chemicals which have only their accepts damage from them that sleep it off. Immediate admission acquaintances what their post gatecrashers. , illegality in common. would not even be contemplated to hospital is essential. If a person closing time activities are. It may The main problem with gaining 1 Barbiturates do not en ter this from other drugs. reaches hospital li ve there is a 98% be necessary to pretend that you unsolici ted entry is that you never category because they are Barbiturates cannot cure chance of recovery. are already booked up that night know quite what sort of party it will prescribed by doctors and of anything! All they can do is (3) If you feel strongly about the - then people are more likely to be. The worst type is the aged course they must know what 1s suppress the symptoms of a drugs issue and want to make this divulge their party locations. A hippy party - usual ingredients sate - or do they? problem. Further, to keep your community a better place, turn good excuse is that you must go to .being a kitchen full of halt-eate n About 3,000 people 1n Bnta,n die pro bl ems suppressed neces your attention away from the a get-together ot old friends, coleslaw (home-made), garlic from drug poisoning of all types sitates continual use of these oppressed hashish user and wh ich unfortunately you can't bread and plank from Safeways. If each year. Of these 3,000, 2,000 drugs. challenge the complacency invite anyone else to as it is a quiet it is really bad the kids will be people die each year of barbiturate That t hey a r e physically surrounding barbiturates. gathering, but it is bound to be running around, usually in poison mg! add1ct1ve is not doubt, a dose of The plight of the barbiturate extremely boring anyway. pyjamas shouting " Mummy, About 17 ,000,000 prescriptions 0.4g per day w,11 suffice. Indeed user 1s a more pressing social There you have it, usually during Mummy, someone's just thrown tor barbiturates are dispensed the withdrawal symptoms are even problem than say that of First an evening of concentrated effort up in my bed." each year - about 7% of all NHS more catastrophic than for heroin. World War veterans. They gave at least two or three parties can be A close contender rs a "teenage prescriptions. This point cannot be stressed too their lives in full knowledge tor found. One friend (a seasoned party" when someone's parents go 16,000 people are admitted to much. th eir country. The barbiturate gatecrasher) always notes down away for th e weekend any hospital annually for the treatment I know for a fact that there are a user gives his life in ignorance for all relevant details. Place, nature of everyone tries to prove just how of barbiturate poisoning This number of students out there who the sake of the profits of the party and the name of at least one drunk they can get. Fortunately, being over 2% of all hospital are regularly prescribed pharmaceutical companies. of the hosts or hostesses. Always you usually stick out like a sore admissions barbiturates. I find this depressing useful if any difficulties are thumb at these parties and so can You Still think these drugs are and would otter perhaps three . encountered when trying to gain ' mumble some excuse and wander safe? points of advice to the student entry. off into the night - on to the next With barbiturates we have a body as a whole. party. Ticket functions present a lot social situation which 1s the (1) If a doctor prescribes these reverse of that surrounding the drugs question him! Too often ill1c 1t drugs . Here , abuse, they are doled out as a placebo Wee addiction and suicide with the when the doctor doesn't really X-Mas X-Word drug are taken as normal events of know what to do. Unless you ACROSS 27 Influenced by social pre Frees tensions (8) Contest in which th e runners DOWN understandably s t agger 1 Belts of Dave and Deirdre? (6) Bar Staff urgently required to work drunkenly? (4-4) 2 Search anew for one who over Christmas and N ew Year at 5 Thus, Medusa provided en ter pursues (6) Playhouse. Phone Mike Paton on tainment (6) 3 Engineers' main-stay (6) 557 2692 9 They indicate the ways prams 4 Ch,et of police, a really do a manoeuvre (4 , 4) venomous type (10) Bicycle: 10 speed, 25 ½", Carlton 10 Estimate Fools' son (6) 6 Military intelligence has to frame, in good condition: going fo r 11 Proposrttons raised by emphasise her (8) £75 o. n.o. Call Tony o n 229 1915 property vendors (8) Barker, expected to told at (ho me) or 667 1081 ex t 27 02 12 Support the Spanish drive trials (5-3) (work). forward (6) 8 Shows like ·· Prosperine" and The Rickshaw Boys: " Experi 14 Literary work suggesting th at " Dr Faustus"? (8) mentations w ith Musical Styles" - Renee's actually a Thatcher 13 What to do about an urgent T onight at 60 The Pleasance, 7.30 ite? (5, 5) letter or a bad debt (5, 2. 3) pm. Doom and Funk. 18 Replacement tor papers set by 15 What the escaping bank Lost: One legally o rientated faculty (5, 5) robbers did tor ba ngers (4, 4) marsupial wearing bow tie. fu nny 22 Fade out very quietly on the 16 Court to meet the delicit (4, 2, nose and enjoys curling up in ice East coa~t of France (6) 2) boxes. It you find him, you ca n 23 H is enthusiasm cou ld shock 17 Breathed that the Commun- keep him (A,G,A&A) . people (4-4) ists were ripe for reform (8) This year's Sons-in-Need Award 24 A politician before becoming 19 Make secure once more? (6) under the patronage of the Mark a physicist? (6) 20 Eat the magazine . . . (6) Kennedy Su rro1i ate Mothers' 25 No abstract argument against 21 ... which 15 dearer perhaps, Society goes indisputably to Allan new Minoan kingdom (8) 1 but studied tw,ce (6) Li tt le. Pr esen tation wil l b e 26 Retiring. inwardly eccentric. Composed by performed by honorary member and badly turned out (6) Neil Drysdale Mark Kennedy.