TRLBOTRICE GLASGOW GRLLERY HERALD Old College MODERN PRIMITIVES 26 Oct-23 Nov · AWARD An exhibition of paintings and sculpture of a highly personal WINNER nature by self-taught artists. Mon-Sat IO am-5 pm 1985
2.10.85 Fresh Fruit! A scene from Sunday after Monday morning in the Stu noon at Pollock Halls when the dent Centre was equally hectic. Student leaflet team went into The Accommodation desk was action - a leaflet under every going like a fair , and the Stu door. dents' Association offices were Lights were flashing , cars packed. were crashing (well, nearly) and Occasionally an overworked the sound of T. Rex blared from· office-bearer would hurry by, Where to eat, drink, shop, get-fit somewhere in the direction of clutching a bundle of posters or a and get clever. Entertainment, cul Fraser House. pile of leaflets. ture, welfare, information for "Where's the Freshers' Week, ·Freshers' Week; Student brings Director?" cried one secretary, you its comprehensive guide to In the midst of it all, new stu Edinburgh. dents were arrivirif- alone in venturing out amongst the palm taxis - into a new world of can trees. teen food and non-stop pub "He went that way - quarter crawls. The lunar landscape of of an hour ago!" was the reply. Arthur's Seat looming large in And the mayhem continued. Desperately the background reminded Stu By noon, already one sparkling Seeking Juliet dent of Neil Armstrong's small new matriculation card was lost step . . . which turned out to be and on display in the window of giant. the Potterrow. · Outside the Student Accom Junior Common Room Com modation Service up the road" mittee members soon bounced from the Student office in out to greet the doubtful looking Buccleuch Place, a mob of irate students and carried suitcases up looking students sat on suitcases to the smallcells to which their ... waiting. owners had been .confined for a Its not all all pub-crawls and _year. And once again they were wholefood lunches. What a on their own. week. ·
Is your name Juliet? Have you ever been to India? If the answer is · dinburgh-Moscow EUSA takes "yes" to both of these questions, you could be the lucky girl we're looking for. Student "Personals" puts people in touch- right across the globe. ~~~~~~-r~~~;oos = hcld """' grants initiative lions, the latest in a series of discus- mally and in private, but they play -page5 sion meetngs between leading an important role in · sustaining within the University and a unfted British Soviet, and American East-West links, especially when The University's Students' Association is to sustain· a major defence and international relations Moscow and Washington are not _ Students Association."" The Secret experts, has been deferred as a otherwise communicating, as Dr Education Campaign •from the ary explained that a build up of the result of the recent round of spy Burnett underlined: beginning of the new session -pre functions of Faculty Councils, and Good Loo expulsions. "We, at 1he University, have in sented as a massive united front the Students Representative Coun Only 36 hours after Britain's the past laid considerable impor against further Government cut cil, would he"lp with the fight Guide decision to expel 25 Russian tance on maintaining such contacts backs which are likely to affect '. all against what have aready been "agents" from London, the Soviet under academic auspices through students. identifiea as . government target party to the Conversations decided times when the international politi areas. that itwould be preferable to defer cal climate has been critical." the meeting. Among those who were to have Housing Benefit is likely to be In response, Edinburgh Univer- taken part in the Conversations are abolished altogether this year, and sity, under whose auspices the Con.- members of a number of influential the level of both student grants and versations take place, made it clear and decision-making bodies in their eligibility for social security during that though it regretted that the respective countries. The Soviet vacations are both likely to be meetings could not take place as group includes a senior Foreign affected yet further. scheduled, the invitation still Ministry official, and one from the The lobbying of disaffected Con-. stands. Defence Ministry; the deputy servative MPs proved effective dur chairman of the US Arms Control ing last year's grants campaign, and Dr John Burnett, Principal and and Disarmament Agency is among The essential complement to the will be continued this session. welter of information at your.i Vice-Chancellor of the University, those representing the USA, while Trade Union and NUS support will said that they would be "discussing fingertips. If you don't want to sit British participants include Dr Bur be canvassed, and University offi with legs cross at your interview with the other participants, as well nett and Professor John Erickson, cials including Rector Archie Mac with your Director of Studies, turn· as those from the USSR, the feasi Head of the' University's Depart pherson are also to be lobbied. straight to the Loo Guide. bility of holding the meeting at later ment of Defence Studies, and MPs date." John Smith and Nicholas Soames. Robbie foy explained that the The Edinburgh Conversations SRC Executive had conducted a -page 16 The meetings were to have taken were initiated in 1981 by academics series of meetings about the Educa- place here at the University bet · here, as an annual meeting of 1ion Campaign, and it had been rec ween September 15 and 18, on the· prominent national figures, scien Robbie Foy ognised that there was-a need to continuing theme of 'Survival in tists and experts from Britain and EUSA Secretary Robbie Foy oppose Sir Keith Joseph's ideology theNuclear Age'. Prospects for the Soviet Union. The Conversa said at the beginning of Freshers' ·which "revolved around the impor agreement on arms control, and the tions have alternated between Week that a much more "broad tance of courses relevant to voca differeing attitudes and perceptions Edinburgh and Moscow, and since based" education campaign would tions" - particularly Science and of the superpowers were due to 1983 representatives from the USA now be available to build on the Technology related courses. have been discussed this year, 'have joined the discussions, but in a successes of last year's grants cam The Secretary likened the new issues particularly significant in smaller capacity. paign. Education Campaign to "fighting view of the forthcoming Geneva "We hope to achieve a broader against a huge, incoming tide." WEEK! summit between Presidents perspective, building support Oevin Scobie Reagan arid GOibachev. AlasWr Dalton 2 STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985
Dental training goes on Support· New Chair lifts off Few academic appointments in been highlighted. past months can have received mor.e It was important th~refore that School saved organised media attention than has the ~ect Dr Morris stated that his approach The tong-running battle to standards of teaching and dental sion to make Dr Robert Morns, of to the parano~al is essentia]J) th Ed'10 b it De tat care would at least be as good as the Syracuse {!!)iversity '. N~w ,.-York sceptical. "I am still not totally con. save . e urg n existing set-up. vinced by the evidence for psi," he Hospital and School has finally An effective campaign was for State Edinburgh Umvers1ty s Pro fesso; of Parapsychology. This is the says, and he describes his role~ been won - subject only to the organised during the summer vaca that of an investigator, not an adv~ formal approval of new plans tion by the Students' Association, first post of its kind in' the UK and .because of its unusualnature the~e cate . by the Secretary of State for and . Secretary ~obbie ~oy apartheid was 3 great interest when Dr Morris Scotland which is expected explamed that a .umted campaign A new right-wing Scottish -South ·made an early visit to Edinburgh He says cautiously that "A CTude before the end of this year. by students, staff, trade umons ~nd. African Union is to be declared at recently to describe his view of,, body of knowledge app~ars to be the general pubhc had helped bnng this month's Conservative Party parapsychology, and the direction emerging that we ~an build upo0; about the successful result. Professor John Southam, Dean conference - but despite press his researches will take. and his research will be undertaken of Dental Studies, outlined tlie situ Professor Southam said he and reports this week, organiser Noran The new Professorship is funded in JI quiet and systematic man ner. colleagues in his department were ation this week following a crucial Richmond has no official connec by a bequest of over £500,000, avoiding the · sensatioDll "very satisfied" with the outcome meeting between representatives of 'tions as a student at Edinburgh. which was left by the writer ,Arthur "Ghostbusting" image that ,ill which, he felt, was due more to the Scottish Home and. Health Confusion began over an article Koestler for the establishment of have to be fought if his work is to be political and public support rather Department, the University Grants in last week's Scotsman claiming such a position in Britain. Ho~ taken seriously, exposing fakes an.j that Richmond was a 2nd year Law ever, in the search for the most suit considering non-specific exp!. student at Edinburgh .University., able candidate, the controversy ations at all times. Curiously this bogus claim was surrounding this type of study has AnneMcNaup positvely verified, when Student spoke to the Conservative Party's Central Office for Scotland, in Edinburgh. Mr Richmond himself, however, pointed out that he has EUSA defends Unions nothing whatsoever to do with the resentation of the differing vie11 University. . . The ED Students' Association He is, in fact, an Honours Politics sabbatical students, and their Scot and perspectives held amilD! and Economics student at Glasgow tish Universities' colleagues, have 10,000 students." University, and is taking a year out met to respond to the section in the The • Government Green r~ to further political aims. He has an Government's Green Paper, Edu suggests that the policies of studem The Edinburgh Dental hool option, it seems, to study law at cation in the 1990s, which accuses unions have "not always been ~ Committee,Edinburgh University, either Edinburgh or Glasgow next student unionism of bejirg . un resentative of the student body & and Lothian Health Board. sure. year. representative of its membe'i-ship. whole . . . their policies are de11r. A new dental hospital is to be The present Dental Hospital and The Tory Party has already dis mined and implemented by , built within the next four or five School in Chambers Street has very owned the new union - despite A Functional Assessment of minute proportion of their u · years on the large car park area of serious deficiencies, ·and will be· which Mr Richmond is hopeful that Edinburgh University Students' membership." George Square. This area was orig sold when the new buiding is ready "support" groups might be set up at Association has been prepared, and The EUSA paper will be talcent: inally earmarked for a massive £8 to open. University Principal John Universities across Scotland. He it argues that the basic concept of million school and hospital Burnett said that "the proposals hoped that Edinburgh University EUSA is that services should be the SRC, the Student Affairs Cm development, but shelved in the represent a compromise, but. the - · which substantially supported provided "for the students by the mittee, and the Court for appr01, wake of government cutbacks. The scheme will be effective both from Nelson Mandela's candidature for students". It argues that "EUSA The Edinburgh document, a. new building is expected to cost the point of view of patients and Rector in March - might have its has structured itself and adopted those of the other Scottish Unim about £3.9 milliori , and assurances. dental students alike." own group within a year. election policies which seeks to sities' Associations will be rot were made at the meeting that the Devin Scobie Devin Scobie ensure the widest possible rep- ' piled into a single document. 11111 EUSA: To use or abus The name, Edinburgh University Students' Association, is the operations of the Union houses come the six sub-committees of the is the "Cabinet" of the SRC, ane another of those titles whkh gives scope to the "in" crowd. You overall. SRC. These have directly-elected work is referred to the "Legi. know you've arrived when you start talking about "EUSA" or The · Students' Representative conveners, and cover subjects such ture" , the full SRC - the F ''The Association". Getting to grips with the name is one thing. Council is, in the minds of some as Accommodation and Welfare. Conveners, the SRC Conven( people, the place for "hacks". Getting to grips with what's in thename is quite another. Every The ordinary members of the six the sabbaticals, and the ordi~ Hacks are people who gain the sub-committees.are drawn from the matriculated student becomes a member ofEUSA, and members , Faculty-representing members.: reputation of being almost obses- ranks of the SRC Faci'ilt):' reps ·who, complete the analogy, the Gelli have numerous venues open to them to become involved in the Meeting is "sovereign" over '. running of their Association. Unfortunately, few people take SRC::. There is no higher auth~ advantage of such openings. than the General Meeting ' assuming that that meeting is q~ Theoretically, EUSA operates recognises. It and Pubs Board, are ate, and that motions are passe( by "µeneral Meeting demonc fairly easy to define, since they are a majority-of votes. racy", in that all members, and individual entities whose activities • There is one other major cJ office-bearers, are accountable to are explained by their names. The · mittee which is part of the SI the various "GMs" of EUSA mem complications arise when the work The Finance Committee adrni bers held throughout the year. ings of the Unions and the SRC are trates the financial dealings Anything an office-bearer does can concerned. Basically, the Unions BUSA, and its members come fi1 1 be overthrown or altered by the deal with the social sideof student various parts of the AssociatioD action of a General.Meeting. How t life; the SRC with the political side. well as three direct!y-elected ml ever to change the policies of the bers. Association in that way requires the· There are three .Union houses: presentation of a motion to the GM Teviot Row, Chambers Street, and The SRC is a phenomenally signed by 100 people. For the Student Centre. (The Kings Build plicated organisation. However motion to be put into effect, a ings , Sports, and Postgraduate an ordinary member of BUSA majority of those present have to Unions are independent of elect class members on to support it -with a minimum of 300 EUSA). Each of these houses has Faculty Councils, and you elect votes in favour. The last GM had an its own convener and committee. dents from your Faculty as ordi attendance of around 50. The conveners and some ot tne members of the SRC. The There are an awful lot of office ordinary committee members are opportunity to do this will bearers in ·EUSA. For starters, elected. Other committee members later in October, with bye-elec they're on three flouse commit are co-opted. for first year reps to the SRC. tees, six SRC commiJtees, and nine At the top of the Union hierarchy ordinary members form the Faculty Councils. For the sake ofi are the.Committee of Management SRC sub-committees, and you simplicity, EUSA is made up of and the Union Executive. The And through the round window, you can see how bureaucracy operates. the conveners of those sub-co only four main parts: the Students' Union Executive is mainiy made up tees. The six conveners join sed by the internal goings on in the unlife their class-elected col Representative Council (SRC), the of the house conveners, and the four sabbatical office-bearers, SRC. And a Tot does go on in the leagues, are directly elected by Unions, the Societies' Council, and four EUSA sabbatical office-bear you also elect, on the SRC Ex ,SRC. At the bottom of the SRC their respective entire Faculties on the Publications Board. ers: President, Deputy President, tive. All these people - except ' to the SRC. The Publications Board is the Secretary, and Treasurer. The deci pile are the nine Faculty Councils class-elected reps - are on the The six conveners from the sub only student owned and run pub sions made by the Union Executive and their nine Faculty Conveners. dents' Representative Co committees form the SRC Execu lishing house in Britain. As well as have to be approved by the Com The Faculty Conveners are elected together with the Faculty Con by student members of the Faculty, tive, along with the four sabbatical extetnal projects, suchas the publi mittee of- Management, which is ers and the members of the Fin whereas the ordinary Faculty Com office-bearers previously men cation of books like Scottish Foot made up of Union office-bearers, Committee. mittee members are elected by clas tioned. The sabbaticals take a year ball: A Pictorial History, The Pubs representative from the University In the end, the SRC is answ ses. The Facufty ·councils deal with out and hold "Association-wide" Board also publishes Student. Administration, a Finance Secret=' ble to a quorate General Mee the specific problems of Faculties responsibilities which come under The Societies Council co-ordi It is up to you to make those 111 ary, ans,I some elected members. As and departments. the titles of President, Deputy Pres nates and helps to gide the activities in~ _quorate, and to vote in its name would indicate, the Com ident, Secretary, and Treasurer: of the 100-plus societies which it tions, if you care enough to do mittee of Management manages Next to the Faculty Co1Jn~ls Very generally, the SRC Executive · Alan Y . . .. , '> , f I . ., . . '. ~ l .) . • l l I J .J I I I > • STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985 3
Frc..,hcr..,· Guide..,
The ocieti Fair · held at the way Crom Ochil Room to Some get their grimy paws on your pre- .Societies is, in fact, generally the their arachnid pose exerts an Pleasance from Wednesday rville Room. provide the dedi cious hekel (particularly precious ea iest of all unwanted attentions to irresistible fascination on the gulli 2nd to Friday 4th October, 11 cated observer of human nature if you haven't got your grant yet). fob off. The studious stare in the ble punters ...and before they know what's happened, they've am to 4.30 pm. This mar· with, a they say, a plentiful upply. Panicularly choice are the gesticu signed away their groats and blown ketpl i y ur Big ban e to lations, which run the entire gamut their macho image by joining the join anything up to 120 Socs, or expression from, "Hi doll, Ballroom Dancing Soc or the though you would be advi ed to remember me? I'm the ultra-cool Bridge Club. exercise some measure of hipster you met at the Pollock party The secrets of successful Socializ restraint. last night" to "Get that umbrella ing are to remain alert at all times, The most effective survival out or my groin, you bastard". A never relinquishing your money technique to deploy when tackling faint miasma pervades the atmos until you know exactly what the hell this gropers' fiesta i to "be pre phere, an earthy smell com you're letting yourself in for, and pared": legions or malevolent dan pounded of sodden parkas, fetid generally keeping your phaser on ge awai1 the unwary punter and trainers and most agrics. stun. Witli these provisos in mind, his groat . The perilous scamper If you survive the crush in this Soc-hunters can be assured or find through the vast endurance tesJ seething morass of frantic sapients ing almost anything they Caney (and which comprises the societie Fair (a visit to the bar beforehand is quite a lot that they don't) during i fraught with anguished mental recommended), then, and only the long trek through the turbulent decision a well as physical then, does the agonising over which hordes at the Pleasance. The brain hazard . The ne" ly arrived ques- Soc 10 join commence. Make no melting mental gymnastics 1o rs are ucked into a veritable vor mistake, despite the cries or the involved in deciding which of your hawkers and the urgent tones of the many undoubted tafonts to indulge tex or jostling humanity, and find Gu the Society. ls it the Archie (MacPherson) Appreciation Soc, or the more subtly persuasive, this is a 1s the main problem - if you're an 1hemselve. propelled around lhe Pollock Food Fan Oub? Phoro by David Yarrow ietie obstacle course with all buyers' market - it's up to you to incurable dither, then the experi 1he velocity or a rabid 1011oise. choose. desoite the dubious tactics The direct, bludgeoning 01herdirection, 1hecla icside-step .:nce of Soc Fair ·ss could well Thi luggish bu1 inexorable tide or those Socs offering cheap booze approach favoured as a recruitment and the blunt verbal refusal (pick prove fatal. or vencbrates, as it congas its weary or a ' nite on the town' in order to tactic by the more Draconian your own terminology) are only At the end of the day, as one some of the better-known evasion 'regards the battered remnants who techniques. Other Socs adopt the emerge, bone-tired and battle 'noise level' ploy, relying on the weary, from their Herculean age-old premise that he who endeavours in ttie bowels or the bouts loudest get beard . . . Pleasance, one pauses awhile to hence the periodic blasts of mu ic wonder: was it worth it? Will their from groups trying 10 win new suffering pur them on 10 create a member by d' playing their vir-. bener world for the generations 10 1u ic talen at cxce ive volume. come? Or will their high ideal 1hers ill. inth" chao1icjungleof founder on the rock of apathy, verdraft in ad11.ance rather than advertisement, remain seemingly televi i n and interminable Pollock write cheque t blllin h. M t aloof; quiet poo of tranquility corree·drinking i n after a pal managers will give one if there' a amidst the v leanic erupti all try t bree wee ? good en ugh re n, particularly r und. But beware. the I uer are Pr bably. uch gr un delayed b ing often the m . 1 m idi us of au for Htalhtr Folty bencft Thi year. ·nth gone up nee again. and many 1udents may find the are pa 1ng m re than £15.75 a week . bove th magic figure. I ------·. ------, me r the e cess may be claimed h using benefit upplemen1. I Rate rebat are leul tcd pa· rately. and. rate are !ten included in th um paid rent. 11' EDINBURGH worth checking eligibilit . laim ! ALBA f rm re a ailnble fr m MA or the ffice . I with m t servi we come a r the occasional qu ti n we I can't an wer. in which= we refer I 10 the relevant rgani!,311 n; but we can help ludents with m I oftbeir VOUCHER VALID Tll, NOV. 5TH traighlforward enquirie . 0 vi £ 5 ously the continuati n, and expan- 100, of M d pend on the pe pie involved. There are two main recruitments in the year- the fir:;t in October. and again in sec ALBA produce beautiful designer knitwear. hich bank 10 u is an impor· ond term. tudents willing to lant con ideration for tudent become involved mu I attend a Our products are sold in shops all over the mo I bank offer some kind of .. ini- weekend trainings ion where the m t frequeotl encountered prob world. lerm are covered by a speaker from The new craft centre in Waverley Market, the itizen Rights Office. The vol unteer work on a rota tern cov· Princes Street offers a unique opponunity to enng, at the moment, three lunch time a week. Meetings are held buy our superb jumpers direct from the each Wegnesday to bring together manufacturer. any critici~ms or new ideas f r impr vement. As an added incentive we 'JI give all students ibi year we h pe 10 expand ,MA to cover more areas of the {5 offany jumper bought in Waverley Marke ni11ersi1y, with a view to reaching - but hurry, offer closes November 5th. ..._____,/ _MONEY ArMa CENTRE -'___. as man tudents as ible. Pr • pective volunteers hould contact To obtain the lS discount bring the cut-out Cathy Preslaod in the EUA week (Monday - Teviot Row; tial incentive" offer to encourage office . or a k omeone on a M voucher above and student I.D. Tuesday - KB Refectory; Wed student custom - hoping to con· desk! nesday ' tuden1 entre); tinue that custom after graduation The more volunteers we have, N.B. only one voucher per purchase, although there are the oa:a ional into w;ell·paid employment! But it' them re information desk we can vouchers redeemable against purchase of additional venue . During useful to find out a few facts about pro ide. ThtJ'!.lim oTtheservice i to Freshers' Week there will be a the bank. For instance, do they give students enough information jumpers and is not valid for purchases of MAC desk in the tudent Centre charge for tran ction on tudent • to be able to cope with financial (under the dome) every afternoon accounts; what are their overdraft problems themselves; and to com· accessories-gloves, scarves etc. until Friday - look out for the red terms? Sometimes bank are more municate to them their entitlement MA banner. willing to give overdrafts if parents to cenaio benefits. We are anticipating a busy first hold an account with the same It' an intere ting service and few weeks with late arrival of grants bank. It i also worth keeping on good fun tobe iovolvedwith. liyou being a major problem; coupled good terms with tbe bank manager. want to know more - ask me: with the large increase in rates (and Wheo the account starts to dwindle Cathy Presland {Welfare Con· consequently rents) in the Edin- the best advice is to arrange an vener). 4 STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985
' ATERING I'. SERVICES-11i&"",itgar<.u111b11~ EPARTMENT
AT KING'S BUILDINGS
K.B ..CENTRE REFECTORY COFFEE BAR CAR#Y-OUT K.B. UNION DINING ROOM (for Lunches and Teas) Nominations are open for 1st Year seats on SNACK BAR IN TV LOUNGE the SRC in the following Faculties:-
J.C.M.B. & COLLEGE OF Science (3 seats) Law (1 seat) ARGICUL TURE BUILDINGS SNACK BARS Medicine (1 seat) Arts (3 seats) PLUS Social Science (2 seats) HOT AND COLD DRINKS AND In addition there are 2 seats for Post SNACK VENDING MACHINES graduates from any Faculty.
Get more information and collect a nomina tion form from the EUSA offices. Nomina tions must be returned by the candidate, in person before 1.00 pm Thursday 17 October to EUSA offices.
Items for What's On, Letters, Small Ads, Inside Back Page or unsolicited articles, reviews etc. , can now be submitted for publica tion by placing them in the big red Student box, under the dome in the Student Centre. Please leave your name, address and contac tphone number wi_th all items-to avoid disap pointment. The box is emptied every Monday at l.OOp.m. STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October-1985 S
A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF STUDENT
11111Student was originally set up "to provide a basic training in jour nalism" for those involved - that Established in 1889 published by EUSPB. was 97 years ago. This, of course, is the function of most student news papers. However, unlike most stu What's in a name? dent newspapers, we are not just a society sponsored by the Students' On my journeys through Pollock on Sunday, spreading the word of Representative Council (SRC). We Student by leaflet, one girl in particular took exception to its first two run ourselves as a commercial worcls: ''Dear Fresher •.•"; she read out ironically. This reminded me enterprise, with a special commit of my own feelings two years ago when I was in exactly the same situa tee of Edinburgh University Stu tion. dent Publications Board (EUSPB Of course, ''fresher" is better than the American ''freshman" in or "Pubs Board" - see page 13) being a non-sexist and fairly ideologically sound word. But the connota appointing the editor. This means tions of newly shaved rosy cheeks and/or neatly ironed St Michael under that we have complete editorial wear are still there. freedom from the University and What I'm saying is simple: we were a// freshers once. Whether a sec the Students' Association - and ond-year Business Studies student, President of the Students' Associa we have to appeal to the students of tion, hippest dude on campus, or any combination of the three at one the University in order to sell our time or another, we have all walked round George Square carefully con print run. cealing our Fresher's Handbook as we search for a partly fictitious The articles in Student are not ali Polish Anthropological Society wholefood lunch. written by the staff. The names in So forgive us for using the words "Freshers Guide" in our special the staff-list are those of the people ''Freshers"' issue. We can't think of anything better. "Orientation responsible for editing, layout and Week" is too classical; likewise "Week Zero Minus One". No, ''Freshers' weeklr writing for a team. Week" it is, unless someone comes up with a better !dea. It's used The Friday Meeting almost entirely subconsciously and it's only a name. Friday at one o ;clock in the Perhai,s we should ask for even more forgiveness for including the basement of 1 Buccleuch Place is article on .Student itself on this page. It may seem self-indulgent, but I where the Student week starts ( see believe it is an important step in opening our doors as wide as possible to photo). this year's . . . ''freshers". There must be no mystique surrounding The editor's office is usually the size of the paper you are read ters come and pick up our "art what goes on here in the basement of 1 Buccleuch Place. crowded with standing people, and ing, marked out in columns. The work". In the evening, 2,000 papers It is important for every student at this University to feel that, if they there are quite a few new faces pre s'!b-editor decides at this stage are returned, and it is up to the Stu how s/he will layout the articles, & want to, they can be a part of their student newspaper. Student is run by sent. If you come to one of these dent manager to begin selling them . students for students and is owned by - yes - students. Some are sold that same evening at meetings, don't worry if it seems as writes on them which typesize, Whether anyone should want to contribute articles, take photo typeface and column widths are .Pollock Halls and also at the Stu if everyone knows everyone else. graphs, help with layout, help with management, or just ignore us, they required. The articles are then dent Centre outside the "Green Likely as not, the guy/girl next to must not be treated as morally obliged consumers of the product of some taken upstairs to the two typeset Banana Club." you isn't feeling any better. I still ters. students who would like to be journalists. It is not for us at Student to say feel like that, and I'm the editor. By Thursday that people ought to buy the paper just because we put a·Iot of work into the time you've been to a couple of Tuesday Sellers ( earning Sp commission it. 1t is our job to make it accessible to as many students as possible. At meetings, you'll know the faces On Tuesday morning, the photo on each copy) go out all over the the moment we havt a circulation of about 1,500 copies per week, and we almost as well as I do. graphs are developed, and the sub University this mooing. You can believe that two or three people see each copy. In a university this size editors must decide what size they recognise a Student seller by his or there is no reason why we can't sell 2,500. It is now that articles and photo graphs are commissioned for the are to be on the page. The enlarging her fluorescent orange bag and per If you don't have a good time in Freshers' Week, all is not lost. Many next issue (reviews, news stories, and reducing is done at the same suasive manner. Papers are also people are slow at making new friends, or need to find a common interest time as the "screening" of photos distributed to many (leading) Edin in order to do so - other than a dislike of Pollock food. So run the sports items etc.) and people with particular ideas for articles can dis this involves turning the tones of the burgh newsagents. · gauntlet of Societies Fair and join a few "socs" - while you've still got photograph into "dots", and is Friday the cash. cuss them with the sub-editors. Even if you don't have any ideas, done in the Student Centre. If you're still interested in writing Of course, it costs nothing to get involved in Student. Why not come come and· speak to me , and we'll All day on Tuesday, typeset arti for Student after reading this, to the basement, 1 Buccleuch Place, for our training session on Friday at cles are proof read, and as many you're probably crazy. But, you can 10.30 am? Or the meeting on Friday at 1.00 pm? We'll do our best to work out some sort of theme for an article· from what you're interested errors as possible are corrected. become involved at whatever level make you welcome. in. Unfortunately, we often find our suits you - whether you write one Feel free to come down to the office any time and leave your name, selves with no time to correct all the music review a term , or apply for address and telephone number. We'll be in touch as soon as possible. errors when the deadline arrives on the editorship. Letters and comment are always welcome. Monday Wednesday at 11 am. The best thing to do in Freshers' If you're lucky enough to have :mrted out accommodation, grant On Monday morning, most of Layout begins at 6 pm on Tues Week (apart from attending the whatever "that is), banking, your course, matricuJation etc, this week is the articles are submitted to the day evening, once the photographs Wednesday "Launch Lunch") is to or having fun. various sub-editors, whose job it is are brought back from screening. come to the "Training Session" at Good luck and have a good week from l\11 of us at Student, to go through them - taking bits This is done by cutting out the gal 10.30 am , on Friday in our base out if necessary, cutting them down leys, screened photographs, ment office, 1 Buccleuch Place (see to the necessary )ength, and cor adverts etc, and pasting them to map). Or, come along later onFri recting any spelling/grammatical the grid sheets. There are many day to the meeting at'l pm. If you errors etc. other stages to laying out a news don't make it that Friday , come any The articles then need to be paper, which you really have to see , Friday at 1 pm , or come any Mon "typeset". When an article has rather than read about. day or Tuesday lunchtime and ask been typeset, it consists of a "gal Wednesday to speak to the editor. If I'm not ley" approximately four feet long On Wednesday morning, head there, leave your phone number, and one column wide. This will lines and photo-captions are · name, address etc, in an envelope eventually be cut and glued down typeset, and work goes on until the marked "Editor" and I'll get back to a grid sheet - a sheet of paper deadline of 11 am, when the prin- to you. Staff Featuces Editor John Petrie Writings Assistant Editor Peter Carroll Sport News Alan Young Richard Mawdsley David Cline Andrew Wyatt Alastair Dalton David Yarrow Jenny Dunn Anne McNaught Photography David Yarrow Davin Scobie James Laidlaw rr WP6 HE. What's On Sally Greig John Lindsay COl.lLD El/9'JUJ-~ UFt"f\ PE>.\ "lO 11.>RTTE 1t>1HE. Ct-I"' l'ECPLE Katrina Phillip Chas Ross 1,UHOCl::M.D=HIM- , S1\IDENT': 3Llef' ~ Music Keith Cameron Illustrations Stella Collier \~ I\~ INCIJ'6
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Not surprisingly, the capital has a AT GEORGE SQUARE number of good bookshops, even though Glasgow has the oldest one in the countrv. BRISTO SQUARE Nearest to the University, and stocking many academic texts, is James Thin at 53 South Bridge. CEN-TRAL AREA You'll find it opposite Old College, and it's big (reputedly the biggest in OAVID HUME TOWER Scotland), if rambling. There's also a smaller branch in Buccleuch· REFECTORY Street. Better Books, beside the University has an excellent stock of new paperbacks, as well as a dis MAIN LIBRARY count section at_the pack. Also near COFFEE BAR ·ihe University, for general needs, 1s Eauermeister's (19 George IV Bridge), which has a separate paperback shop. Further afield, t~e STUDENTCENTRE best plces to go are Waterstone s UNIVERSITY REFECTORY and The Edinburgh Bookshop (114 and 57 George Street), but sizeable . COFFEE BAR book sections an: also to be found BRISTO BAR (LICENSED) at John Menzies ancl W. El. Smith (107 and 109 Princes Street). For special requirements, OLD COLLEGE Donald Ferrier has the most com- prehens\v.e m~dical stock. (8 T~v_iot CARRY-OUT SERVICE Place, opposite Medical School), (by West College Street) Firsi of May (43 Candlem_a~er Row) is the place to go for pohttcal and media literature, including ROYAL (DICK) SCHOOL some set books, while Womanzone (117 Buccleuch Street) and Laven VETERINARY STUDIES der Menace (lla Forth Street) have REFECTORY good selections of feminist and gay/ lesbian matenal respectively. Finally, the location of the Science Fiction Bookshop is 40 West Crosscauseway . .. Alastair Dalton 8 STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985
M FILMHOUSE M U s I C I L INSIGNIFICANCE SNO 2to 50ct; 2 OCTOBER Usher Hall A B C 0 D E 0 N 6.00, 8.30, 2.30 on 4 Oct A WHOLE NEW JUNGLE 7.30pm Nicholas Roeg (Man Who Fell To The Jailhouse Rimsky-Korsakoff. Debussy. Pro. Earth) presents a marvellous film (229 3030) (667 7331) CHARLIE McNAIR'S JAZZ BAND kofiev dealing with private life and RAMBO- FIRST BLOOD PART II DESPERATELY SEEKING Preservation Hall 1.40, f55, 6.10. 8.45 SUSAN interaction between four stars as 5 OCTOB E R compared to the feelings of all the THE BOOTHILL FOOT-TAPPERS Sly 'Ugh' Stone lumbers over to 2.io. 5.30. 0.15 AUTUMN 1904 You've heard the record, gasped at non-stars. Coasters Vietnam, kills a lot of people and Napier College Freshers' Ball The Jailhouse comes back a hero etc, etc. You've the wedding, now see Madonna in heard the hype, now watch the her very own film. Actually, she MAD MAX BEYOND AN EVENING OF BEETHOVEN THE BLUl!'S BROS. great American Dream. Probably has a cameo role and it's meant to THUNDERDOME Usher Hall Preservation Hall the best comedy they've produced be very funny and not just part of 2 Oct; 8.00; £2 .20 7.45 pm JUDIETZUKE in years. the publicity machine. An intrigu A special preview with director Conductor-Sir Alex Gibson The Playhouse ing plot which is far too corppli George Miller. Only the Austra Piano-Emanuel Ax SCOTIISH CHAMBER ORCH ESTRA fLETCH cated to spoil for you. lians could make Max as well as they do and only Mel Gibson could The Queen's Hall 2.20, 5.20, 8.35 3 OCTOBER 7.45 pm American comedian Chevy Chase A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET . play him as if he's missed an Mozart, Janacek. Martinu plays a daft investigative reporter 2.00, 2.40, 5.45, 6.25, 8.25, 9.05 evolutionary link. Also stars Tina TH E GOVERNM ENT Schumann. perfomred by Emanuei who goes through a variety of dis Now this is a different kettle of Turner as the empire-building The Jailhouse Ax with the SCO strings and Wind guises and lots of jolly japes. piranhas. Really scarey. Very, very Aunty Entity. If you can't get tic PAU L HAIG AND TH E RH YTHM OF kets, it will be on general release in Ensembles scarey. Probably because it's well LIFE a week or two. Personally I can't BREWSTER'S MILLIONS made not just blood and guts hor Coasters 2.55, 6.10, 8.45 ror. Dreams of murder become wait. Eat your heart out, Stallone. 6 OCTOB ER Richard Pryor stars in this remake frighteningly real amongst a LISASCOTI TAM WHITE AND DEXTER$ of an old comedy. If you don'tthink group of teenagers. Familiar plot, MARIA'S LOVERS Preservation Hall Preservation Hall 3 Oct; 2.30; £1. 20, cone. 50p it sounds funny, which is hardly unfamiliar treatment. BENJAMIN LUX AN D DAVID WILLI THE LONG RYDER$ possible with Richard Pryor, just John Savage plays the soldier The Queen's Hall whose love for Nastassja Ki nski SON how would you spend one million (228 2688) Scottish National Museum - Main in a day? ALL OF ME finally destroys him. Set in small town America, Pennsylvania actu Hall 7 OCTOB ER 2 to 5 Oct; 2.30, 6.45, 8.45 8 pm (Doors open 7 pm) Very funny American comedy ally. Robert Mitchum is also fea IV1R ROCK 'N' ROLL tured. Lux sings Victorian Ballads and the which deals with a misplaced soul songs of travel by Vaughan Williams The Jailhouse DOMINION transference resulting in a split THE HEATERS A PRIVATE FUNCTION accompanied by Willison on piano. personality - but half male half Preservation Hall female? Steve Martin, largely 6-9 Oct; 6.15, 8.30, Oct 2.30 4 unknown, stars with Lily Tomlin, Excellent British comedy about t he OCTOBER (447 2660) ex-Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in. kidnapping of an illegal pig during 8 OCTO BER RAMBO- FIRST BLOOD PART 11 rationing in 1947. Michael Palin CLOSE TO THE BONE The Jailhouse PLAGUE OF FOOLS Seems to be a lot of him to go (ex-Monty Python) and Maggie The Jailhouse round. See ABC for details or any Smith sta r, though top billing must FILM HOUSE THE CHRIS THOMPSON BAND 24HOURS daily tabloid. surely go to the pig. Preservation Hall SOVIET FOLK 1 and 2 Preservation Hall A VIEW TO KILL 1; 60ct; 8.15 BLADE RUNNER DEAF HEIGHTS THE SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 The first of two groups of contem 7 Oct, 5.45; 8 Oct, 5.45, ll.1 5 Napier Union-Sighthill Queen's hall Bond is most definitely back, with porary films about Russian culture Imagine The Maltese Falcon set in Cajun Music (Deep South/Louisiana 7.45pm the _usual mix of beautiful people, and life. This group concentrates the 21st century, imagine Harrison type music) plus ceilidh - part of Pierre Feit on oboe and Joel Pantet stylish heroes and good old on the arts and crafts of the Soviet Ford as the rough and ready Napier Freshers' Week. on harpsichord play concertos by fashioned excitement delivered Union and not just in White Russia Bogart type, imagine Los Angeles Handel Vaugham Williams. Bae~ with class, style and pure cheek. but the outlying states as well. in the 21st century-no brave new and Stravinsky. OK, but where do Duran Duran fit 2; 7 Oct; 8.15 world but large corporations and into that? The second group. of films urban degradation. Now, let loose examines the way of life, customs four dangerous androids and give UNIVENT WITNESS throughout the Russian year. Harrison Ford the job of catching 2.00, 5.00, 8.00 These films are remarkable, if only them. Ridley' Alien' Scott provides 2 OCTOBER THE COLLECTOR Brilliant thriller with Harrison Ford to show there is life beyond the one of the·definitive films of the GREEN BANANA CLUB featuring and AUTUMN 1904 as a cop on the run from cops in news reports, and one rich and '80s; Science Fiction w ithout the THE STYNGRITES Teviot Debating Hall the strange Armish community. deep in the culture illustrated. Space battles. Potterrow Rown Lounge 8.00 pm-2 am 8.00 pm-1.00 am Non-Freshers £1.00 UNDER THE VOLCANO Non-Freshers £1 .50 Happy Hour 9-1 0 pm 80ct; 2.30 Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm One day in the life of a British Con 5 OCTOB E R sul in Mexico. It also happens to be _3 THE BIG DISH plus OCTOBER TE ENAGE DOG ORGY his last day as, spurned by his wife, ZEKE MANYIKA AND DR LOVE the alcoholic consul drinks himself Potterrow Row an Lounge Teviot Debating Hall 8.00 pm-1 .00 am to death. Albert Finney is the con 8.00 pm-2.00 am sul with Jacqueline Bisset and Non-Freshers £1.50 Non-Freshers £1 .50 Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm Cinema I Anthony Andrews. October 2 at 8.00 pm only 4 OCTOBER SPECIAL PREVIEW, MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDEROOME, with Mel G;bson and THE PRINCESS LES BIAN AN D GAYSOC. WINE 8 OCTOB E R Tma T~rner._ George Miller. creator of Mad Max, witl be present to discuss his work after the 9 Oct; 6.00, 8.15 AN D CHEES E PARTY ROCK DISCO screenmg, with Time Ouc writer. Tony R.ay ns. First in a series of recent Hunga Pleasance Cheviot Room Ch ambers Street Cinema I rian cinema. A study of adolescent Bpm-10 pm 9.00 pm-12.30 am Until Saturday S 6.00 and 8.30 (no 8.30 performance Wed 2) dreaming which falls flat as a Everybody welcome. Nie Roeg's explosive black comedy young girl struggles to bring up INSIGNIFICANCE ( 15) NEW YORK PIGFUNKERS 9 OCTOB E R Four Very Famous People are thrown together on a hot night in New York in 1954. The fitm her friend's illegitimate child, Potterrow Rowan Lounge GREEN BANAN A CLU B explores ~-connections between science and sleeping in the bath. Theresa Russell is Monroe, whilst she too is merely a child. An 8.00 pm-1.00 am Potterrow !°"Y Curtis 1s McCarthy, Gary Busey 1s DiMaggio and Michael Emit is Ei nstein. Relatively speak. award-winning black and white Non-Freshers 50p 7.30 pm-1.00 am mg. film. Cinema2 Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm Until Saturday 5 6.45 and 8.45 ALL OF ME ( 15) "'."'hen ~e _prim soul of Ed:'ina Cutwa~er takes over one half of the body of a lowly attorney.cum- 1azz musician (Steve Martin) the ensuing battle is inevitable, and hilarious. E X H I B s Cinema 2 Sun Sand Cinema I Moo 7 to W ed 9 6. 1Sand 8.30 CITY ART CENTRE NATIONALS Alan Benneu 'sh,1.,.,.. A PRIVATE FUNCTION (1 5) (225 2424) T I L L s Michael Palin and Maggie Smith and an illicit pig in 1947 ration-book-strangled Yorkshire. THE EMPEROR'S WARRIORS GALLERYG A L L E R y 50p Mati nees • Till 1 Nov (556 8921) MARIA'S LOVERS ( 18) Thunday 3; INSIGFINICANCE( IS) f,;day 4; ALL OF ME ( 15) Sat A marvellous exhibition featuring TRIBUTE~O WILKIE (5571140) N~~= ~E VOLCANO (I S) T ue..tay 8 and A PRIVATE FUNCTION ( 15) Wednes- W. EUGENE SMITH !;~9 terracotta figures from the tomb of Till 130ct the founding emperor of the Oin An in-depth study of the Scottish RETROSPECTIVE 1943-1 973 Dynasty, which were discovered painter. 2 to 9 Oct ~m~ngst. an army of over a 1,000 This gentleman is one of the rn hfes,z~ f,g_ures near Xiar.i, Edin famous photo-journalists, . burgh_s twin town. This is the only GALLERY OF worked for t he influential Arne place m Britain they w ill be shown. MODERN ART can magazine Life. This exhibiti . features a la rge selection frorn . FRUITMARKET (556 8921) work during the Pacific War, ~ GALLERY GERMAN PRINT SEASON most famous essay 'Spanish (225 2383) Till 27 Oct lage' from 1951, and also his es CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN A display of prints made in Ger on Albert Schweitzer entitled ·M ANDREW WALKER many between 1880 and 1933. of Mercy'. From50ct STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October lQR~ 9
,\ Mary MacPherson of the Ski Club introduces the Edinburgh niversity Ski Show, to be held in the Chaplaincy Centre, Stu ent Centre House on Thursday 10th October. Why a ski show? Well, what bet which for the first time is to l;iave its ter way to inform people of the own ski tour operators associa state of play. There is little pressure tions. There are in fact over 100 to spend - simply browse round tour operators with skiing interests. questioning the experts of the vari At the ski show we will have a fair ous fields, to discover how to get representation of the Scottish the best from your skiing. At a based or Scottish orientated tour promotion such as this, the sales operators. Ranging from our own people are there for this purpose Edinburgh Travel Centre through and therefore do not feel under such pressure to extract money from you! " a new venture, an attempt to fill a void which There is obviously an seems to have appeared iri the bsolute need for the grass roots of he sport to be promoted - this capital." eans you. However, don't let the argon put you off, and be prepared o look beyond the blue skies and nowseovered mountains of .the to the complete package deals rochures. It is the responsibility of offered by Neilsons. Between them Photo: Dave Yarrow ll the professionals involved in the a large selection of the 300 or so Michela Figini - Olympics and World Champion. ki industry to develop the sport resort presently on offer will be available. nd to ensure that those who want ski wear range through the day-a to fill a void which seems to have laincy Centre, we are at the hub of omething out of skiing also have to range which promises to be a new appeared in the capital. London the University. A large number of ut something back. Not only will the tour operates departure for them. We will not has a well established and very suc people will find themselves in the themselves be represented but also only be concentrating on the cessful show with Glasgow not far vicinity at some point during the budget end of the market but also Skiing as it currently stands in everything else required to make behind. Both of these started as day, whether on their way to Pot your skiing a success. This includes moving into the higher price and small concerns and it is only terrow or trying to squeeze yet ritain is subject to a rage of quality bracket. owth which is still ready to absorb · ski manufacturers and the retailers through the amount of feedback to more money out of the bank. Pop in any amount of new enterprise. One of both equipment and clothing. exhibitors at such a show that their for a few minutes - it could make futures can be assured. all the difference to your outlook articular area of expansion is the In fact, C&A are going to be pre The Edinburgh University Ski on the winter to come! usiness of the -tour operator, senting a fashion show of their new Show is a new venture, an attempt By holding the show in the Chap- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY SKI SHOW THURSDAYlOOCTOBER lOam-5 pm STUDENT CENTRE HOUSE, BRISTO SQUARE Featuring EDINBURGH TRAVEL CENTRE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY SKI CLUB NEILSON BLIZZARD EN'{ERPRISE C&A YU GOTO URS SKISPORT & SUN NAT SPORTS CONSCIOUS ACTIVITYTRAVEL EUROPASPORTS TOP DECK ELLIS BRIGHAM HILLEND INTASUN FASHION SHOWS SKI SHOW STALLS Free Prize Draw Free Entry 10 STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985 .\\us1c Venues [ilii Before one says anything tion. Like Coasters, Rumours is small, cramped and also exceed about music venues in this fair ingly sweaty (watch the mirrors city it should be noted that the steaming up!) . The decor sucks best is out of bounds - tem- somewhat but any new venue porarily at least. The Caley ,,should be w_e lcomed. . Palai~on Lothian Road is cur- An occaslonal host for rock gigs rently closed for renovation,· is the Queen's Hall on ~Jerk Street, th den in Edinburgh of the a con".erted church . with excellent us Y , g . t d' acoustics. Normally 1t offers us clas-. prime, m1d-s1ze a11 ·S an mg sical and jazzy but in the past Aztec concert hall that Glasgow Camera and Billy Bragg have enjoys in Barrowlands. graced its stage, whilst this Sunday Nevertheless, .there alterna- the Long Ryders do likewise. Per tives . . . J' sonally , I thoroughly welcome any The Playhouse, situated at the alternative venue for r~ck/pop and , top of Leith Walk, is the big one as well as the Queen s Hall, the where all your favourites go -Ali- Assembly Rooms on George Street son Moyet, U2 , Simple Mlnds etc. and Lothian Road's Usher Hall However, as with all large theatres, have been successful m th,~re spect. Photo: James Laidlaw The House Of Fun? it is not the best place for rock gigs, Two venues fauly ad1acent to with the 3000 seats simply adding to each other in the Cowgate - Edin the sense of alienati9n from the burgh's own Elysian Field - are stage. The bastards, sorry, boun- Wilkie House and La Sorbonne. Get Fresh! cers are reputedly the meanest in The former initially made a name Norman Rodger, formerly of Ayr shire's finest TV21-or then again , maybe you won't. Alternatively you could spend Friday evening at Potterrow in the company of Edinburgh's own New York Pig Funkers, a truly irresisti ble blend of frenetic rhythm and punchy'brass, somewhat in the Pig bag mould. Why wait for the next time - go and see them NOW. Or if, you find yourself down at KB l.!9ion on Friday ni~t why _not checkout A Walk Through H, who are so eager for success that they've Photo: Dave Yarrow given the Music Pages their demo- tape; megastardom follows. Scotland ·and tasteless beer at 90p a for itself by providing a refuge for With an inevitable logic we come pint doesn't help matters. the cabaret of Cafe Graffitti and its to Saturday but alas, no Gene Nevertheless, for many bands it is subsequent offerings have incl uded Some New York Pigs funking. Photo: John Lindsay Loves Jezebel as stated in the the only option and so you 'd better Talking Drums, 'Scotland's !Jot test · Freshers Guide. Yup, those Welsh make the best of it. pop prospects. As for La Sorbonne, WeU, my children, if you're arranged" in the Fresh.ers Guide. weirdosI d have p pulled outb only s to ·be h Many smaller "name" bands well the only word for it is ''U n-' rep ace · at qtterrow ,y cottJs appear at Coasters on West ique". Suffice it to say, that both its stiU able to stand are somewhat However, the good news is that the weirdos Big Dish, about whom I Tollcross. This is a disco first and dazzled by the musical delights very wonderful Zeke Manyika has . k · 11 h. · h clientele and lugubrious setting been slotted . in and will bring his hnow v1rtua yd notChi mgc except · · t1· at foremost and tends therefore to get (something akin to the Somme) of Edinburgh then allow me to engaging. fu sion of Afro-gospel- th. ey supported h na · ns1s ear ier very cramped on "big" occasions, make it a veritable haven for those direct you to the wondrous pop to the Teviot Debating Hall., t 1s year·b an t at vanousd' sourcesH most memorably when the Smiths who like both their music and treats organised by your Zeke was drummer in the late- descn e them as "melo ic" · ope- appeared there 18 months ago. booze hard and fast. Regrettably, it friendly Students' Association lamented Orange Juice and has fullyD othe near'll legendary·11 b Teenage· However, there is always a good would seem that various "inci· og rgy w1 sh e supporting, a atmosphere and the pre-band since been receiving very favoura- b d h k h J d .L, dents" have endangered La Sor· which not only present some of O ble reviews for his new band Dr. an w ma e t e esus an music is often v•y fine . One should 'bonne's future as a live venue, so go the best home-grown music Mary Chain look like boy scouts; · also mention the Hoochie Coochie around but are also FREE Love. He is living proof ofthe fact f · ·1 · ·f along now while you can and savour that drummers can actually sing notb Mam1 y entertamment, , or sure, Club which is in residence every (that's right) to aU Freshers. a true cultural experience. whilst his stage manner is positively ut ummyh canth stop ·you Inow. f Sunday night upstairs at Coasters First of all , tonight at Potterrow s This brief tour has come to an charming, a blend of his A fri can o· _t ere1· you dave · kit: P entyb oh and provides a vital platform for up we have the self-styled "Kings of end, and there are still a great many roots with his Glasgow upbringing. Emusic · to 1stenh'ld to, nn ·to ,11 or ot · and coming Scottish talent. more pubs and clubs around the Schlock and Roll". The Styngrites, I The band are a superb outfit, the llJOY, my c ren , enioy.. A walk up Lothian Road brings city that provide venues for live a riotous four-piece from single Heaven Help Us is one of the you .. to Rumours Discotheque Greenock. These boys, with their music - making the effort to veo· year's lost hits . .. oh, I give up. If Keith Cameron which is fast becoming a credible big quiffs and even bigger riffs, ture beyond the Playhouse can you .go to only one event in venue for live acts, thanks largely to prove very rewarding. played a capable support to the Freshers' Week then make it this. the imaginative booking policy of Ramones earlier this year and' will After Mr Manyika on Thursday, Napier College Students' Associa- doubtless keep your ears a-bumin' Keith CameroP Friday sees two events competing L------and your feet a-shufflin' well into for your attention. Firstly, there is Jhe alcohol-stained early hours. the Teviot Mega Disco which boasts. Remember: big guitars plus b!g two fine bands, Autumn 1904 and The Message boots equal a big headache. The Collector, both of whom have . As for Thursday, the bad ·news is recorded acclaimed sessions for The Music Pages are a verY that the orginally scheduled 10,000 Uncle John Peel himself. The active part of Student and it iS Maniacs will no longer, be appear- - observant amongst you may spot in ing - hence the tantalisin<_> "to be vital that we have lots of fresh The Collector Ally Palmer and faces with fresh ideas for the year ahead. We need people to write, organise lay-out and generally lend a hal}d. It's great fun and can be very rewarding. So, please come down to the Editorial Meeting at 1 pm every_ Friday in the Basement, 1 Buccleuch Place and ask for Peter CarroU o~ Keith. Cameron. Remember, Would you buy a used guitar from these men? pop-pickers, Don't be a clo -come on down!! STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985 tl By the time you've paid your rent, bought a few books, bought round of soft drinks and paid Uncle Harry back the money he ent you last Easter, you~II probably be on a starvation diet until hristmas. If you are fortunate (or careful) enough to have any oney this term, you'll need to explore all sorts of avenues -on nd off the beaten track - for clothes, as Petra MacDonald exp ains. Meanwhile, Alastair Dalton suggests some worthwhile mporia to be visited for other wares. Princes Street has been called the ost famous shopping street in the SECONDHAND orld. Its distinctive feature is that: Take a promenade down Leith USA on your very own doorstep as having a good selection of afford nly one side has shops, while the Now is the season of mists, mel Walk to discover the other Edin (the So~th Bridge), Flip offers. able knick-knacks, Echo is gener ther borders Ofl the lush Princes low fruitfulness and Jumble Sales. burgh of Leith , and charity shops recycled 1950's classics. ally very fairly priced for shops of Street Gardens. However, it is by Often cited as causing the biggest along the way. A word of warning: don't be daz its genre. A short walk away in the no means the most imaginative or stir are the McEwan Hall bazookas. Moving on to the major con ·zled by the profusion of "unique" Cowgate, there are a couple of best place to go shopping. It's the More adventurous hunters should glomerations of commercial sec clothes in any of the above shops. more basic second-hand shops. )ace where you'll find the chain scan the 'Evening News' small ads. ond-hand shops - St. Stephen Be honest with yourself when Claims that a jacket is "jist in" from tores and huge Saturday crowds, On Friday evenings in order to plan Street in Stockbridge and the deciding on whether a potential Paris are always slightly suspect nd it's worth looking their plunderous route for the Grassmarket. The Grassmarket purchase is actually worth it or not. here! - Jsewhere ... Saturday. shop itself is good value, and just up Keep doing the rounds if you want There's an Antique Fair on at the To find all the shops mentioned However, that glow of charitable the road on Bread Street there's to pick up goodies. Lastly, what Assembly Rooms in.George Street elow, it is most advisable to buy intention can be sustained through Herman Brown. Pluck up the cour could proveto be a hot tip - Por tomorrow (Thursday). For a small he invaluable Bartholomew map out the year by paying regular visits age to saunter into the joint and tobe/lo (Porty belly in 'the vernacu admission ~harge of 30p,. a glorious f Edinburgh (purple cover, costs to charity shops. Oxfam on Mor flick through the jazzy cravats. lar). A number 5 bus will take you collection of both over- and under 1.25 and available from Union ningside Road is among the 1930's and onwards junkies are to this largely unexplored and vir priced curios is open to you. hops) which has an excellent lay cheapest, but beware of tetch old soothed by trips to the likes of Echo gin territory for dedicated style Flip . The very name conjures up ut and will remain extremely use ladies in their natural habitat and (St. Mary's Street) and Allez Cats sluts and plain bargain hunters pictures of bobby sox and ul to you throughout your time in maintain politeness at all times! (just off CockburnStreet). As well alike. bubblegum. A little corner of the dinb11rgh. •CLOTHING To supplement those bargains obtained from second-hand shops, try The Ivy League and Helter Skel ter (41 and 33 West Nicolson St) for alternative and innovative apparel. Look also Underneath the Arches (42 London St.) while The Leather .. Centre (102 Nicolson St.) is good or bags and belts. The new Flip of ollywood (South Bridge, opp. Id College) is well worth a visit for heap jeans, while the Levi's and ickers districts here are Cockburn t. and Rose St. •HAIR Award-winners Cheynes (57 outh Bridge and 37 Dairy Rd.) is he obvious place to go for a trim or complete restyle , but consider lso the numerous salons in the outh Clerk St., area, especially nd Dimensions (No. 94) , which ives student discount Mon-Thurs. hey have another branch at 3 ohnston Terrace. Hair Workshop n Broughton Street is also recom- ended. •JEWELLERY Good range and value to be ound at Stolen (3 Greyfriars Place nd 129 Rose St.). John Lewis (St. ames Centre, top of Leith Walk) is ood for earrings. ECORDS heapest in town ( especially for lan k tapes) is The Other Record hop (46 High St.). Nearby, Rip ing Records (91 South Bridge) is he place to get tickets for gigs. As or the chains, the expanded Virgin 131 Princes St.) is apparently now he biggest outside London. HMV ave recently opened up almost ext door (125 Princes St.) and at's pretty big too ... · For blassical music, it's Baur eister's (19 George IV Bridge). STATIONERY ...Where you need us. Nearest to the University, and ontaining innovative cards is WALK (14 Teviot Place). lsewhere try Studio One (10 Staf Clydesdale Bank rd St.) and .Waterston's (92 rn. eorge St.). The Only Bank in The Union. SUPERMARKETS Essential for flat dwellers an.ct TEVIOT ROW UNION BRANCH ose in self-catering: cornershops Open Monday to Friday 11am to 3pm. ay be open late, but they're rarely heap. Safeway in Morningside Rd. Plus 24 Hour AutoBank. good, but if you're near to KB or cky enough to have access to a ar, head for the Sava Centre C'ameron Toll, Lady Rd.). Both ave in-store bakeries producing 1gh quality bread, as does Laws Nicolson St. - very close to the niversity). 12 STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985 Working Women lltll larly promised to listen to · Half the students at Edinburgh University are female; it is this vidual students' grievances. y half that I address. Why write an article for women students? female students obviously did Simply to make you aware of the problems you are as likely to consider it necessary to have encounter at university as elsewhere in society. woman in the most importmit Unlike some ·universities, iec- away from fiome, but everybody cial post. ,tures, halls of residence and union must accept the responsibility of However, this "apathy" houses are mixed at Edinburgh. their own safety. The University suggest that women are content Unfortunately, you may still area is always busy but never be Edinburgh University. Femi encounter examples of discrimina- tempted to take a 'short-cut' across tends to be a retaliation against tion - whether it's a sexist joke the Meadows alone at night, or feeling of male exclusivity. from a tutor or the way that you are ·wander about the Cow gate and accounts for the large fem· treated by fellow students. Such Grassmarketarea. If you're coming groups set up in universities such incidents are often trivial and the home late from a party, or only Cambridge where male chauvm· best response is often a lighthearted working until library closing time, is acutely felt. The Women's Gr reply that conveys your opinion. always ensure that you feel confi at Edinburgh is small compa However, if you feel stron~ly dent about your travel plans. with those at other universities. It about, for example, a tutor's sexist Psychologists say that girls are as basically a discussion group attitude then firmly but politely tell double the number of men doing Consider what you would do if inhibited in the lecture hall as in the doesn't have the same determi him so. postgraduate work in !his area. aggression found elsewhere. attacked: could you get out of such classroom and lack the drive to Even in vocational faculties such as Sexual harassment is a serious a situation unharmed? The Stu excel. They don't have the confi -Law or Medicine which attract a problem that is more difficult to dents' Association organises a dence t lcction of short stories Not Not Series and the New Scottish Fiction While The Giro was published by Series. The first is one of the largest Polygon in 1983, sold out, and is contributions ever made by a.Scot now being reprinted; his first novel, tish publisher to Russian literature; The Busconductor Hines, a work of the first batch of books, listed astounding originality and techni below, should appear at the start of cal kill was published by us in 1984, 1986, and more arc currently being and rcccntlyappcared in paperback planned: Pasternak's Collected from Everyman. (It tells the story, Prose. (Vol. 1: Early Prose And largely through interior ,AutoJ)iography), Love is the monologues that are in tum hilari Heart of Everything (the love. let ous and harrowing, of a rt of ters of Mayakov ky and Lili Brik), ncrvou breakdown uffcred by a and Bely's revolutionary modernist GI gow bu,conductor as hi wife novel The Dramatic Symphony. threaten to leave and the world The second Seri ~ould also tart generally crumble about hi cars). to appear next pring, initially Kelman' cond novel, A featuring a trio of outstanding novels by young Scotti h writers: Thin Wealth by Alan Jamieson, The Comeback by Alex Cathcart, and The F1ood by Ian Rankin. edi contd f29 I have only pace to mention the perioaical : Clanjamfrie, a literary broadsheet appears poradically, is edited by tudcnts, and is a large hcct of poetry prose and graphics designed to be u d as a poster; Edinburgh Review appears quar terly and h been transformed by recently appointed editor Peter Kravitz into perhaps the only magazine with a trong Scotti h base but a truly international out look. h carri fiction , criti · m, Mide " and poetry, all of it informed by an awarcn of a lcft of-ficld cultural traditi n largely at odds with the current c tabli h mcnt' ide about literature. th t I'm ;.:;.~.:..:_:..::.:..:...:..:.:._.:..._:..:...:_~...:...:.::...:,:_.::.::.:..:..=.:=-:.:.:.:.::...:...:.:=.:._:.:.::.:.::.:....:...:..:.::.:..:.:.:~-...;.;:,-----:...:::.---_:_-_:::;.:.:.:.:::..!...::.:.:.:.::.:.:...;=.::;~PB . 1985 PRESIDENTS' BALL TEVIOTROW HOUSE MBER 19 S Featuring The Mari Wilson• Jazz Quartet £9 withou• t dinner £15 with dinner TICKETS AVAILABLE AT UNION SHOPS HERE WE GO Mark Laughlin, Edinburgh University's first ever "sabbatical" Sports Union President (that means he gets a year off - Ed.), outlines the facilities available for sport in the University and puts Edinburgh University has always forward his aims for the Sports Union. had a strong sporting tradition. For many students a particular sports The Sports Union believes it has sport will also be there to give you club provides the place where something to offer everyone, not more details of the 1-M Sports friends can be made outside the just the potential mega-stars. Programme and to encourage you faculty and intet'ests can be shared. Obviously, the more accomplished to take part in the 'Sunday of Sport' This new academic year is very a competitor is , the thougher the this Sunday. mu.ch a 'new age' for the University training and the higher the level of The Sports Union office is based sports Union. Not only have commitment required. For at 48 The Pleasance where myself facilities been greatly improved instance, the University football and the office staff will be more with the acquisition of a superturf team have been training here in than willing to answer any queries pitch at Peffermill, but perhaps of Edinburgh since mid-July. you may have. greater importance is turning However, just as important a The sports Union handbook the role of President of the Sports part of University sport lies in the offers the best guide to student Union into a sabbatical post - a programme organised by the Intra sport. You should have received move which promises to improve Mural section which provides an one in your freshers' mailing: if you publicity and administration. excellent alternative for those haven't got one, there are copies The main hub of sporting activity students who wish to participate in still avail able at the office-so why takes place at the Pleasance where sport at a less demanding level of not come on down? an old , somewhat foreboding, : commitment than regular club I fe el very lucky to have been exterior houses a superb sports hall participation requires. All that is able to take this year out and suitable for five-a-side football , necessary is enthusiasm; any devote myself full time to the basketball, badminton, tennis, standard is welcome (honest!). The administration and perhaps more netball, volleyball and indoor usual way of joining in is through importantly the encouragement of hockey. There are also nine of the Sports Conveners of Societies or student sport at all levels. A finest squash courts in Scotland, an halls of residence. Various Sunday sabbatical President has been the ·excellent multi-gym complex, a tournaments both indoors and chief administrative aim of the combat salle, · archery and rifle outdoors are held throughout the Sports Union for a long time. I'm in ranges, a fitness laboratory (the list year and, for the slightly more a position to fully represent the is endless!) as well as two smaller serious, there are also outdoor and interests of student sport to the sports halls and a table tennis indoor leagues run on a weekly relevant authorities within the whichC,ilnbridge inspired by Sc studio. basis in sports such as rugby, University, without the risk of Gavin Hastings proved too g Field sports such as rugby, football, volleyball, hockey, failing my degree(!). aption: 'Last years Club and 1st for the Scottish Universities si hockey, football, cricket, shinty squash, badminton and rifle Universitysport needs greater XV Captain David LecKie anxi Next week, David Leckie talks and lacrosse are based at the shooting. publicity as many students are ously looks on a Cambridge back is the Student about his old te· University's sports fields at In order to get involved and simply not aware of the facilities tackled by his opposite number chances in the unchartered hei Peffermill. where an artificial make your education at Edinburgh and opportunities available . I'd during last weeks tour_ match in of the Scottish third division'. superturf pitch should be available more complete, the first step is to like to remedy that situation so that at the end of the month. come along to the Sports Fair on if students are not using the · available Scottish Universities requirements. By bei ng availal Perhaps the most exciting facility Thursday and Friday of this ~eek. facilities it's through their own Championships. As well as full time I hope that I can achir is the Firbush Point Field Centre by It's. on from 10 am to 4 pm m the choice and not through ignorance. maintaining these standards on the these aims and improve , Killin on Loch Tay, 75 miles from mam sports ball of the Pleasance. Edinburgh has an unequalled sports field, the administrative Edinburgh's position as them, Edinburgh, which provides an All 49 clubs w1Bbe there trymg to record and reputation in inter structure has got to continue to successful and efficiently organi, excellent base for courses in a host persuade you to JOm them,. and the university sport We are at present improve and run efficiently to deal Sports Union in Scotland. of outside pursuits. V1ce-Pres1dent of Intra-Mural champions in over half the with specific club problems and I On tap in selected bars.and pu?lichouses will be McEwans 80 Shilling cask-conditioned ale. Over 100 years old and strll breV>(ing, and when Y NOISE. 'Tll GOOl>I\\E.SS l:.Nttws ONE EVENINC ... WHl'ir HCAA OF "THE. ~NINC. .. GOSSIP .. . P~VNKEN HOOi.ie.ANS ..• 0 0 0 0 . . . Oh how are the mighty fal 1 I fARTY I .fJ len: on the way into a reception for SRC hacks at the Students' Associ ation offices, who should I see out fAKTY side wearing newspapers wrapped ·around his feet but Bilbo Tragic, last year's failed first year science SJ mI ,rep candidate. Tough luck Bilbo and here's hopin' the winter ain't too cold in the gutter . . . Mean spells SUN backwards/ he mum-· while inside at the reception, pert bles wickedly. Laugh! l was· v10- * breasted Nocturnal Affairs con lently ill all over the floor ...... Back in the women's toilets, Of Molars and Man vener Susie Cbuckiesinlove tells me she'd be absolutely thrilled to Anti-Petspirnnt Committee hac kette Amal Militia kicks me throw herself in front of a Sinclair news, I'm afraid, is that problems follows night you'll be chomping 01 repeatedly in the groin when I try to CS if only I'd print her name within Address to Freshers do crop up. china fangs by next Eastei go through her famous "diary of a 25 words of David Bowie's, all in Let me explain.·(smile while dic (Jeremiah, Ch 4, v 7). thousand nights. Don't worry, bold type-sorry Susie, no dice, try Introducing Student's tating. pause. resume) · ·But seem ·10· be digressing! Oi Amal, I only saw a couple of pages, i' throwing yourself under me and Moralist and Theologian in So often· in the welter of delight course keeping your tee\h clean ii maybe we can make a deal ... but really is it true.? With him? And to think we all thought he died in Residence, from the Ecumeni and excitement that accompanies not the only problem: you may b( . . . amazing really, the tricks arriyal at University, a new student the seventies . . . · cal Church of St Michael, lonely, unhappy, desperate, miser> that some people will get up to: Youth Liaison Officer at Bar finds that he or she is neglecting, able, depressed, morbid, heartbro Midweek "journalist" Crosby ... On the way out I bump into shall we say, the inner man or wo ken, lost, or any combination ofth1 Stillsandgorbacbev has apparently good time girl, seventy-four stone nurnock Community Centre, man. Perhaps, also, you are neg foregoing, but ask yourself, "Whal resorted to removing all his clothes Narcotics convener, Alice Frump, the Very Reverend · Gilbert lecting the little things in life that can Gilbs possibly do for me if I before having a bath in an effort to who tells me she's worried about Hairdo. allow you to face each dawn and won"t start by helping myself?" Thi boost sagging circulation figures! her "body image". Can you dusk with a clear conscience. Are answer, I'm afraid, is very little What a waste: sorry sweetie but imagine. Forget the image, hon Hi there! Gilbert Hairdo here! you, for example, remembering to The Lord, and his appointed rep you'll have to do better than scrub eybunch, worry about the body ... Just arrived in Edinburgh? How 's brush your teeth? Far be it from me . resentative at Barnurnock Com your armpits before you take the . .. that's all for now folks, see . it going so far? Well I hope you're to don the mantle of busybody' munity Centre (viz. me) help tho~ stinlc" oufof that rag ... meanwhile ya later and remember not to do I going to enjoy my warm, friendly, interferng dentist cum vicar - I who start by helping themselves. S< at the soup counter who should I any~hin·g naughty if I'm not there to 1· come-on-in-and-chat, exclamation mean I was young too once, believe at least twice a day. Check yoUI chance to meet but pert breasted see tt ... mark-riddled prose! Isn't the big it or not! - but these things are brush: when did you lasfrenew iti Mel Gibson-lookalike Art John Hodge. ·wide world just jam packed full of important. Oh I remember only too Five minutes regular firm strokes Bloomsbury, sometime presiden ·surprises! I daresay that like a litter well how disgruntled I felt at the Try doing it to music: the Lon, tial candidate and hideously inept of newborn puppies you Freshers ttme on being cautioned ·by his Hol don Symphony Orchestra's versiot rep for the Faculty of Unethical are finding new sights, · sounds,. iness the Pope on what I regarded of "Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellov. Procedures, "long time no see," he smells, tastes, and feelings with as a minor aspect of dental hygie,ne. polka dot bikini" is especially suita, , says, his arm casually slung around every moment that passes in your' "Use floss," he whispered to me ble for this purpose. All contributio~s to this section of 1· the waist of his new companion -a the paper are welfome. Anyone new environment. And you know, one morning when I was but a That's all for this week, kids. n life size marble statue of Dame Vera interessted shouJ,P contact John in my travels around the University trainee choirboy's · apprentice you have any problems with you! Lynn. Yeah, Art, and let's keep it I meet many young people in your as he said it, Hodge at the Stumfst offices as soon reserve: I was furious dentition or any other aspect ol that way .. . situation, and I find that with my but, on reflection he was of course as possible: the best times to try are your spiritual life then feel free t< ... More stimulating company is Tuesday evening or Friday lun considerable experience of getting right. Yes, these things are impor ·stop me around the University OI tant: if your teeth have rotted, your found in the bar where the most .chtime, or leave a message with a on really, really, almost unbelieva drop in at the Centre, anl consistently witty hack, pert telephone number at which you can bly , well with young people I am soul is next. The converse is also .remember, I understand yount Bert Prested, often able to help them with any true, by the way, if your soul is any breasted is discours be reached. people like you. Happy smiling! ing on the subject of the NUS; "it problems that crop up. And the sad thing less than pure then sure as day. l ~ • 0 I ( • I t I • . ~ '- J, ...... & I ... I I l I. I • • 16 STUDENT Wednesday 2nd October 1985 Freshers· Guides 11 1 ~i 1: =:=::.-:11=:c:-.-:=:-.-::-1.:_:_:,=:-.:_.::,./s.1,-:=:-:i11~i1:,:,:,.:.:::.:?=,-,:.:,./ PUBS AND TOI LETS 1 1111111111111111111 1111 · .· · r&•CY I DBI.It Fact: There a lot of pubs in Edinburgh. 523 according to the the same street, in fact. The phone book. Fact: The Licensing Laws are amazingly liberal. So Antiquary, The baillie and Raffles are all in St Stephens Street as well why is it that some students stick to only one pub for four years? as being popular student/young/ This little guide gives you no excuse for rotting in the corner of the New Town Trendy pubs. Shambles Pear Tree from term to term. What's the Pear Tree? Read on round the corner in Raeburn Pl. is Pint Pullers. intriguing as it's on about five levels If you're English, the good news chmont/Bruntsfield area, there inside. Not recommended for the is that the licensing laws are great aren't that many decent pubs. The paralytic as you'd never find your - the pubs don't close in the after Earl of Marchmont in Marchmont back from the loo. noons (except on Sundays in some Rd. is passable. with a good The Royal Mile provides another cases) and stay open till at least jukebox, The Kings · in the naturally formed pub crawl - you 11.30 pm ail week long, with a Bruntsfield Hotel is at least handy. don't even have to walk up hill. generous amount of late licences till In treading the beaten trail from Start off in Nicky Tams or Preserva 2 or 3 am. The bad news is that the Pollock to the Unions, a pub crawl tion Hall in Victoria St. , the halls serves good food but deteriorater large busy and your best bet :first visit home is likely to result in can be originated by stopping off at also featuring live music most as it gets dark. Wighams Wine Bar_ music as there are li ve bands e 1severe frustration and a bad case of the Gold Mdal, opposite the Pool, nights, then head up to the Mile for next door is much better-a gigan night. the shakes. which holds regular dodgy discos . . Deacon Brodies - upstairs prefer tic cellar with attached restaurant All the discos in Edinburgh Once you've investigated all the At the corner of E. Preston St. and ably - then just stagger down the (though it can be pricey). Heading be tarrecj by the same brush unions, there are still a lot of good South Clerk St. The Wine Glass is Mile. Turn down Niddry St. for up along George St_. - there is · expensive, tacky cattle mark pubs near the University. The good for a laugh, a very poppy Bannerman's very quaint, nothing on Princes St. itself - Their only redeeming feat ur Bristo opposite the Student Centre video screen and a squad of 'young' pseudo bierkeller, eg stone floors , Madogs serves better cocktails than that many of them operate i and the Pear Tree almost qualify as drinkers. Crawling further up the spit-in-the-sawdust, fefectory New York, or so I'zm reliably pendent club nights throughout Honorary Unions. Both serve good road the Southern has been reno tables, etc. Don't go on your own in informed, but is not recommended week - watch the Music food , coffee etc. The Pear Tree has vated relatively tastefully, while the dark. for claustrophobics. There are lots What's On pages for details If a great beer garden for getting wet Hi'cups opposite the Odeon holds Th~ Tollcross/Lothian Rd. crawl of pubs on the streets which cross want to risk your sanity or an)1 in while the Bristo has board the TV AM award for the loudest has fallen into disrepute due to its George Si. , all easy to find and else for that matter you can games. A Trivial Pursuit , indeed. landlady. takeover by the young Top Shop easier to forget. Hendersons wine Coasters at West Tollcross w Next door to the Pear Tree are the Every pub guide mentions the Squad. Mind you , somethings bar in Hanover St. is attached to the has probably the most varied p quieter Patridge and Maxie's Wine Canny Man in Morningside Rd. never change. The Tap o' Louriston vegetarian restaurant, a good place ramme and range of club ni Bar and Restaurant - take Mum and it's really worth a visit to see the in Lauriston Pl. is still full of very for an evening out. In Rose St. The Annabels in Semple St., is good and Dad here and pray you don't roomfuls (literally) of clocks weird , trendy people and Bennets Rose Street Brewery is just that, a parties but pricey, Mad Hatte meet the rugby club. Down the antigues, stuffed witches and other plus the Green Room next to the good bet for homebrew therefore. the Royal Mile has a good coc road in Buccleuch St. is Proctor's assorted curios. Elsewhere in Mor Kings Theatre is still immune. At The pubs around St Andrew happy hour, Sinatra's in the smaller but still bery popular - ningside The Merlin and The Belha the bottom end of Lothian Rd. , Square are as endearing as Lothian James Centre is small bu1 while round by Forrest Road and ven are bad examples of plastic. Joe's Garage is big and worth a trip Road, Rakes, Gatsby's and Mister good lunches, while Cinder the Bedlam is The Doctors - very brewery p-ubs but the atmosphere if only to see the Morris Minor Mustard's only ever come aliveat Rockerfellas in St. Stephen St.· old Edinburgh and usually not so is none the worse for the garish stuck on the wall-I kid you not. In night if alive is the correct word. In such bad taste has to be seen t busy in the evening for a quiet dec9r. · between give Reflections, Burnt the new Waverley Market, the Cafe believed. This is where they h drink. Take in some sights by going The Edinburgh New Town has Post, Lord Toms, Bull and Bush Noir is becoming popular and good Radio 1 DJ's. Enough said? to Greyfriars Bobby at the tope of lots of hotels with public bars, and Palmers a wide berth, espe reports are winging .thi s way. A Generally use your own tas1e Candlemaker Row, getting drunk which are quite cheap and open cially on Friday and Saturday must for Chariots ofFire groupies is common sense. Get a big Lot and staring out the window at the late. These are probably your best nights. If not slap on some fake tan, the Cafe Roya~in West Register St. Region Transport map from little doggys statue. This place is bet for a quiet drink or all night ses wear lots of white with something The Cafe Royal is where Ben Cross office on South Bridge and k always busy and open late. sion. Both The Claret Jug in Great inpenetrable like a siz 6 leotard and Jan Holm had a cosy chat half where you are and how to get b This of course isn't much good if King Street or Tilted Wig in Cum underneath and make sure you way through the film . Imagine the buses, etc. Edinburgh has a pu you're stuck in your flat and fancy a berland St. are small and classy but know your exists. film and you've got te atmosphere every occasion several ti mes drink at 10.30. A quick round-up of tend to have an older, arty clien When you reach Princes St.I of the place. Go on past St James so make the most of your the ghetto watering holes, tele. Another student ghetto Town Centre, things are getting Centr_e and take a. sharp right down years. By the way, that's rou nearby is Stockbridge, simply over methinks. Considering the student/ really tough. Starting at the Wes1 Caltopn Rd. Now follow your ears. 130 pubs a year. normal person ration inthe Mar- flowing with good pubs - three in End. Bianco's next to Frasen That loud noise is The Jailhouse ;, Sally With a full bladder and. a stout find death, decay and destruction heart I worked my way south from Are you sitting comfortably, ment of mirrors so that you can strewn about with great liberality cross-legged, with a tense look Chambers Street to George and he describes the atmosphere as yourself in gory detail from e Square, going boldly where many about your face that can only be conceivable angle. However, one of "malaria and slow death". described as desperation? If you men have obviously gone before, Exactly. . toilets are situated at the botto have this 'need to go', then read some a good deal more obviously And now to the post-war, brave the building: so, if you happen_t these words beforehand for they than others. civilisation, wrote Eric new world splendour of George en joying a drink and a boogie 1 provide the means by which satis Idle, comes down to having a good Square where the toilets in the Debating Hall, it is well advi faction from your present predica sewage system: he may well have DHT, William Robertson Build to plan pit stops well in adv ;ment may be gained. The rest of the been right but he didn't mention ing, Adam Ferguson Building, a seating area is provided for paper supplies ample pleasant anything about civilisation also George Square Theatre, and Main eration before the long trek up reading whilst 'on the throne'. having nice clean toilets with soap, Library are all much of a muchness. stairs again. Chambers Stree1 Many confused males have been towels and/or hot air driers, and All rather inhospitable and renovated last year so the w puzzled by that fetish of females to good ventilation, which is just as uniform, they do at least make a comparatively free of the p well since by those criteria several stab at regular cleaning and a stan disappear to the toilets in pairs, scrawlings found elsewhere. localities here mentioned might dard of hygiene greater than that clutching their handbags. Surpris As for the University buil well fail the test dismally. seen in the Third World. These ingly; there is a sound, logical well . . . The David Hume 1i .... Starting at Chambers Street places also have a lot of graffiti on reason for this - besides the obvi basement was the place to be Union: toilets here are small , fea susceptible surfaces, most of which ous one of being able to catch up on w&ile back but only by a tureless, and are usually permeated is pretty boring and hardly the stuff the gossip away from the blaring tom. The William Ro with a fine mist of Motorhead one might hope for in such a distin noises of the disco and drunken Building is currently carrying roadie vomit. Unless the latter is a guished seat of learning as Edin <:hatter-and that is that the unsus survey on the pros and quality you admire in a public ~on burgh: "Bloke seeks another for pecting female student does need being a Scottish student at a venience then the place is best · mutual body rub" is not this inves the moral support of a friend in tish university - interesting avoided. tigator's idea of well-written van order to face up to the formidable: ing with soem valid poin1s A rigoeous, attic-to-basement dalism. sights that greet here behind the made. ,l\.ny strong feelings search of the Old College revealed No graffiti of any sort is found in door marked 'Ladies'. subject-drop in for a scribb n'3t even a hint of a urinal. Presum the pristine environment of the It is a pity that this prestigious Main Library m.iy leave you ably it is a feature ot a training in toilets in the Erskine Medical Lib establishment fails to provide the quandaryfor the toilets once Law that. you have to become far rary where students of things medi members of the fairer sex with (hint - try anything that too too dignified to do anything so vul cal scrub themselves down with adequate facilities (by that J mean a broom cupboard) present a gar as acutally pass water. wire wool and sulphuric acid in an meeting an acceptable level of problem - where are the A short trek across Bristo Square attempt to kill all known germs. hygiene) for bladder relief and nose towels? Knowing this could w powedering. and one finds oneself in the toilets And finally, to the Pyschology the difference between an or To start with Potterrow, where at Teviot Row. In keeping with the Department where the servitors and an honours degree. females have to put up with a dis ~est f this neo-Vict!lrian · mock ·asked deep searching questions · To finish , I must give a 5 tinct lack of toilet roll -of the hard Gothic edifice, these toilets are in about my motivation for wanting to reminder to all females of th and _crunchy variety - and poor need of some repair, spelt "demoli enter the building, and were uncon Scout code of Survival: be lightmg, meaning that retouches to tion". Entering them, one is vinced by my plumber disguise. So pared, i.e. ALWAYS caITY make-up so carefully applied a few reminded of the scene in the Psychology toilets remai,n hid ket of Handie Andies. "Apocalypse Now" when Martin den, raising the question of what hours before can go disastrously Sheene arrives at Kurtz's base to they were trying to hide. wrong. On the other hand, Teviot has a wonderful circular arrange- John Hodge and Katrina