LEE[IS SllJ[IErJT No. 51 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd 1973 Price Jp No second year for sabbaticals FINESTEIN FOILS ELECTION PLANS ATTEMPTS by sabbatical officers to secure a Students in halls of re second term of office have been foiled by the sidence throughbut Leeds Insurance are being plagued by University Union Elections Committee. hordes of insurance sales touts invade Deputy President for Communications, John Fines men. ., Some first-years have tein, handed in Pres idential nomination papers on been lured into buying halls Wednesday_ morning. At the same time he al so gave If this debate is anything to policies, only later to re tout from the Graduate the Returnmg Officer a complaint which objected to go by, it is probably a good gret their action. Assurance Bureau who hi s own candidature. job that sabbatical officers Last Sunday, Sadler lieci, saying that he hla.d are not allowed a second Hall alone received no "I did it simply to create term of office. permission from the a test case and force a de less than seven visits from Union. cision by Elections Commit If they spend all their time insurance touts. The Union has not An independent solicitor H aving circularised given any students names tee on the matter of sabbati filing fake nominations and cal officers standing for a has upheld Mr Hai's P~si trying to manipulate the most of the University to the three firms. dential ruling that John Fine balls, the insurance touts Unsolicited approa second year," he said, "I Union Constitution to get didn't at all intend to stand stein could stand for election a second term, they cannot move in on the pretext of ches such as thris, whilst and even get elected. How answering personalised they are a nuisance, are for President." be doing as much for the ever, he would not be able Union as they should be. reply-paid card enquiries. not strictly illegal, al -Left debtors All the present officers to take office on August 1st They knock on every door though the tout can in deny that rhey have any as the new constitution oomes There is too much.I electioneer in the hall making un some cases be guilty of a aspirations about standing into force then, forbidding ing at this time of year as solicited approaches to civil offence, trespass. for a second term but a second sabbatical year. it is, without creating a sell life assurance. "The only real answer suspended President, Abdul Hai, admits system where Union officers Titree of the firms con is to close the door in The University U nion that, after abandoning plans The Elections Committee spend their whole year of cerned are the Graduate tlreir face," said a !J)Olice Young Socialists Society to stand for NUS President ruling still stands because of office trying to get re Assurance Bureau, Lynn spokesman. (YSSS) has had its funds he did consider standing for the obvious illogicality of elected. Assurance Services and A spokesman for Uni frozen by the Cultural Affairs another year as President of having a candidate who can the University Assurance versities Assurance Ser Committee. the University Union. not possibly take office even By all accounts this year's sab Service. vice told Leeds Studem The YSSS hired a coach However, at last week's if he wins the election which baticals would have little All Have somehow that representatives from at a cost of £70 from the AGM, an amendment to al- would leave the Union with chance in these elections, managed to get lists of his firm would not make Union Services Section for low sabbaticals to stand as out a President, anyway. addresses of students in unsolicited calls, however, an event in London. many times as they want, was halls in order to person he did say that sometimes Only 20 people, each pay- rejected outright, shattering alise their circulars. when a reply card has ing a £1, went on the coach. Mr. Hai's hopes. been filled in incorrectly, When Services Section sent Following this he gave a Forceful with the wrong age or YSSS the bill it was not paid, Presidential ruling that under In training for Since the Christmas address then an agent Now YSSS has lost its the present constitution sab- vacation, touts have made would call to try to as recognition as a Union society batical officers could stand about 30 visits to Sadler, certain the correct facts, until the bill is paid. again in any case. ?isturbing every resident "and, of course, some Asked to explain their John Finestein commen- times these agents call at continental dash in the hall. accounts, the YSSS said it ted: "Although I personally Sadler Hall President, the wrong address in the ::: ::;!~af~oor~a; r~: bs~ 1~!agr~G~ithov~~vh~:/i~~f; THREE students from Bodington arc planning to Geoff P ye, commented course of these enquiries, 0 "lnese people are very but I would hardly call Norman Kay, Cultural voted against second term tour Europe at Easter with a barrel of beer. forceful. About half a that unsolicited." Affairs Secretary, said: "It is sabbaticals. They will form one of fifteen teams of students who are to dozen first-years here Thie other two firms up to YSSS to meet the cost "In the face of this I think compete for the prize for the most unusual route between have been talked into mentioned by name could of the bill. If it is not paid it would be against the best Edinburgh and London in the annual Younger's Great Tartan signing bankers orders not be contacted by a by the end of the session it interests of the Union to allow Race. and now regret it." Leeds Student reporter, will be paid instead of a grant fellow sabbaticals to mani- Their original intention was to make the journey via the Bodington, too, is cur through normal channels. for next year and no society pulate the constitution to al- North and South Poles, but they decided this would be im- rently polluted by simi ~~~~~~~~~~~~_ig:r,ra~n:'.'.t-"w~ill~b~e~aw~ar~d~ed~.~"__ _l____l: lo"'w'_'_th~em:'.'.'.'s'.:e~lv':_e~s ~t_a_o_:s".'rn".'.n:'.d~. ___'.___IJ P_"os:_ss:ttib~le~ i:'.nsisi_a_de~t::h:_e _'_4'_1t-d~:_aY:'__ limit imposed by tlne organisers. lar attacks. 'Putting leaf Instead they will pass by l train through as many Euro lets under doors is com II mon practise," said Mr. pean countries as they can Marsh, Warden of Seton before arriving in London. House, Bodington. "But trebles The three, Mick Hooper, societies' income Rich Hughes and Dave persistent calls by an un Union Chamberlain, have already solicited rep have now that the time has gone when we were occured." The amount spent on clubs and socie gone into "training", and ties has unexpectedly trebled to £20,000 by the News Staff small enough to spend our income on a are closely studying inter . One student, was per day-to-day basis. With an income of over sistently troubled by a at the Poly Union and now stands at one national timetables. third of the Unions total income. £60,000 we need to budget our expendi If t~y win they will re introduction of compulsory membership ture in advance, after careful thought." ceive £250 between them, Drastic measures are being taken to fees in all societies. and a further £250 will go to prevent this from happening again. Previously budgets have been sub Evidenc,e Leeds University Union, CAS marries mitted throughout October; the proposal whom they have nominated Compulsory Fees to move this back to the end of the pre The introduction of compulsory mem as the charity of their choice. A secret wedding was an vious session will allow better overall bership fees is intended to stop club I nounced in the University This was revealed in a report pub budgetary control. officials lying about how many active Union Exec Office at lunch lished on Wednesday by Rob Armstrong, members they have when their budgets I Worthy flop tbne yesterday, Cultural Affairs Vice-President, who is This, however, flouts the Union's long are being allocated. Arts Festival started badly standing principle that one year's money N Cultural Affairs Secretary, responsible for all non-athletic clubs and Fees will also provide evidence as to on Wednesday when only ten societies. should not be spent by thle previous year's the number of students actually benefitting people paid to sec the Island onnan Kay married Union administration. Council member, Kate Berry The situation is to be remedied by the from the enormous sums spent. night in the University Union. at 11.30 a.m. in Leeds Regi submission of budgets at the end of each Mr. Armstrong's report states: Mr. Armstrong believes rha t less It was turned into a free stry Office, session for the following year and the "Admirable as this principle is, I think than 500 people benefit. event, l LEEDS ST UDENT - Friday, February 2nd l97J
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impressed me wi th a list of name-gro FROM the middle of last term ,he had booked including The Who p: almost all of the University Newsight Floyd, Free, Yes, Canned Heat and J Ck Union Hops have been losing Bruce. But how did she d~fend ~h ( losses and disorganisation? ' money. Until Wizzard played She emphasised, for a start, how mi ,~ on Saturday the total loss was East Anglia U n iversity was compa~ 11 to Leeds, with a ~tudent population of in the region of £900. ~s°o~O and a hall with a capacity of only TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE - They began to lose money, in fact. when the former Socia l Sec of But she countered my suggestion th This magnificent mansion, now a museum and an art p~rhaps sh~ had been thinking far t: gallery, rises grandly out of a 935 acre park. East Anglia University, J anc big, by saying that the wOOle Universit. Its architecture is mainly Jacobean, though it was en Beeken, took over Ents and al preferred to lose money and have b} larged in the lalc 18th century, The park started life as though she has tried to shrug off name~ than to have no hops at all ,g a farm for the Knights Tcmplar - hence the name - and some of the blame (some of the m.:rely mediocre ones. or the present grounds were laid out by the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown. groups had already been b,x,ked No evidence The house contains some beautiful architecture, pride by her predecessors) it is beginni ng of place going to the Gallery, the culmination of a fine suite to seem ra ther distu rbing in view of She fo und it more difficult to expta· of 18th century rooms decorated between 1738 and 1743, the vast amoun ts she los t at East the disorga nisa tion and the theft an~ still rctainlng the original furniture. One of the older made no comment on the fact that a chambers is lined with Tudor liner>-fold panelling, which, Anglia some reports allege as friend of hers, Stuart M~lennan, disap.... together with an elaborately carved bed, well display the much as £7,000, and she herse lf pearcd co AmMerdam via Scotland soon talents of 16th century craftsmen. admits to losing £4,400. after the theft of the money at the Free Sold to Leeds Corporation by the Earl o[ Halifax in concert and is now in France. ~ polic, 1922 the House still retains a number of Halifax family however, have been unable to find enough portraits, among them a Reynolds and one by Phillip No excuse ev idence to convict anybody. Mercier and a series of compositions from the Marco Ricci Jane Bccken - Uni·vcrsity Ems Sec It m ight come as a surprise that most sc hool, brought back from Vienna in 1706. Now, in the ~econd term, she has no of the E!1ts Comn:iittee, including Chair There is, in fact, far more to see than can be described excuse to fa ll back on. Of her booking man, H ilary Wright, are behind Misl here. The best thing to do is to go and see for yourself - of the relatively unheard of group, Beeken. Hut, I suppose, with the estab-, you could even make a day of it and eat in the restaurant in Daryl Way's Wolf, for a mid-week hop l ish.....--d Leeds Ents organisation behind the stables, unless you prefer the 'Soo et Lwn.iere' program by Lloyd i with very little publicity, all she can say Terry her she has co nsiderably more frttdom mes held in the evenings. is that it was a mistake. Even the com lO think as big as she was thinking at paratively successful \Vizzard hop was A dmission 10p. East Anglia without the venue and finan marred by chle fact that, due to an on in a tent in the pouring rain and in cial setbacks. Open daily 11. 30 to 18. 15 (o r dusk) error of judgement, she booked the ~mai fact eventually lost £ 71 8 of which at Ho w to get there: No. 22 bus from Central Bus Station (7p) ler of the two halls ava ilable to her. The least £334 was ~tolen . Some money was result was that, as well as dangerously never collected from ticket agencies, Scoop by ANDY JAROSZ fi packing over one thousand people into money from tickets being sold at the She has already pulled off the scoop "'m1wummu11111111111m1111m111mnmlllllH011111mlTIIIl111111mm1lllllmrum1mm111111m1UDJ111111mmlBIIJJllllllDlilllllDl:IIIIIIIIDllii a hall with a fire limit of 750, she turned Social Sec's office d isappeared from the of having the only University dat, on away over 400 people (ie £240) at the jam jar being used a~ a ti ll, and on the the forthcoming Elton John tour and m.s door. night of the concert, money being col certainly got the necessary dynami!ln: L~.!~.!.o DRIVE At the same time a report has been lected in the boot of a car got wet and "The bigger, the better, in fu rure, 0 she received by Norw ich had to be taken home and dri ed in front says, " But we will really hav, to bave 111.NJOnable kac. for Stud9nta Leeds Swdeut from KJ descri bing the series of events leading up of a fi re! so lid student support." Fully Q1,allfted ln,tructDr. to one of the last concerts M iss Beeken \Y/e can come to no other conclusion But Miss J ane Beeken, while she ought DISCOSERVICE Contact M. Lavil"• organised. as an employee of East Angli a from all this than that Miss J ane Bceken to be given a second chance, has yet to HALIFAX 67828 3 OfB.Y-IOOO DRIVE. LEEDS I . University Uni on . is, to say the least, not exactly an efficient rea lly prove herse lf. Let's hope, for all T•litphone '61593 or 66 1141 The concert, starring F ree, began by organiser or a financial gen ius. our sakes, that she'll be as successfu l as be ing bound to lose money. It was put When I spoke to her on M onday she she anticipates.
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This is your chance to find out how Britain's the fu nctio n on which they have finally decided. We analytical abi lity coupled w ith a defi nite drive to biggest packaged -foods company could give have an approach to management training w hereby succeed . Our sc hool of big bu si ness is asking a lot you the ground ing y ou need in m anagem ent you will be trained to use your an al ytical abilities from its students. Because it will do a lot for their methods. against the challenge of actual management future. We're called United Biscuits. As a company, you problems. This is similar to the methods used in the We're interviewing at this University soon. Geta may never have heard of us. However, we are world's most famous business sc hools. We operate copy of our brochure from the A ppointments Board responsible for over40% of all biscuit sales in the an advanced M anag ement Devel opment programme and make a date to see us. U.K. Our products are on the shelves of nearly every and pla n the careers of selected in dividuals so that grocer and supermarket in the country-a £1 00 m. they obta in the experience necessary to provide for plus business. proper ma nagement succession. We don't need very many graduates. But those Because we don't need many graduates, we are who do join us are given a really thorough grounding setting very high standards. We seek only men -and LB in commercial and management activities working in women - with real management potential : with United Bisc uits, Syon Lane, lsleworth, Middx. t.nDS STUDENT - Friday, February 2nd 1973 3 Rival student travel service• threat N.US TRAVEL are planning to set up a rival concern to steal business from the existing The invisible University Union Travel Service ('LSTB). The NUS p rop osal to set up a bra n ch office in Leeds bus was a tta c ked by Hilary Wright, Deputy Presid ent for Services, on M onday a t U nion Counc il. ST ANDREWS Thirten students waited until Apart from conde mn- was, "because of the profits The Gay Liberation Soc. The University has rejec 12.45 on Saturday nigbt ing the " unfavo urable we make and they do not like has been refused recognition for. a bus they claim did not ted the Student R epresen business methods" em- paying us commission ." by Queen's University Aca amve. tative Council application ployed by NUS Trave l T he profit made by the demic Council because of for a second sabbatical offi Leed, City Transport (LCT) (N U ST) at other U niver- T ravel Bureau over the last possible legal repercussions cer. Senate paid almost no in Northern Ireland. however, claim that the bus sities, she c ritic ised their financial year was £1,400. attention to the application had been iliore from 11. 5 5 In England and Wales and instead offered an ad "continuous bad service". A t the same time she ro- there has been a relaxation until 12.20. They said that cognised the limitations of ministrative officer. The the bus driver had spoken This included late delivery of homosexual laws since SRC has rejected this as it LSTB as fa r as business was the Sexual Offences Act of to some students at the time. of tickets, non-attendance of concerned. She realized that cannot afford to pay a They informed bim that NU S representatives, lack of 1967 but this has not applied £2,000 sa lary. the LSTB stood in need of to Northern Ireland. there was "a do going on co-ordination at NUST expansion. Ami here's a,wther person and they'd be another hour headquarters and inefficient This would give thle out allowed into the University The Council told the at least." accounting methods. lying colleges a better service Un ion AGM without a union society: "Those members CAMBRIDGE When the area manager of by making money and trans card. who wish to form a society At 12.20 he contacted his H e is three-momh-old Nicho NUST visited Leeds last port more easily available. to change the law or public The President of Law control and then went rt>me. December, he said the L STB las Dillon whose life-member attitude would be well ad Society has received com At Newcastle, NUST set fat her, M ike, was persuading vised t-O take legal advise on plaints about a student ex LCT said that tbey could not was " inefficient" and did not present its customers with the up and th:en asked the mana the meeting to allow life the purposes of such a change scheme run by the see any gain to the driver geress of the LSTB to take members voting and panici society." society. The scheme allows from not doing the job and "right attitude." M iss Wright said thle real over at the branch ofrfice. T his pation rights. Cambridge law students to they were happy with his action would have rendered ie The name Nicholas means go and work in South statement. reason why the NUST wan ted to take over the LSTB the LSTB inoperative. " Power co the People". BIRMINGHAM Africa while students from Despite this assertion that Students living in Bir the University of Witwater they lr.,ve fulfilled their part mingham University H alls srand are sent to Britain to of tbt arrangement, John are to receive a rebate of work in solicitors' offices. Finestein, who instigated £5 - £10 for the present At present only white stu Big NUS grants dents are sent from South the service, said that LCT term and a further £5 in the had agreed not to charge summer. The fee for 31 Africa. the University Union. weeks will now be £246 for a single room. The bus is hired by the Union push begins This has been made pos YORK from LCT for £4.50 as a sible by "improved manage service to the residents of Four students, three from ment, increased conference Bradford University and one Bodington and Sadler Halls, THE NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS boosted income and very substantial its campaign to increase students grants on Monday. from Sussex University, were but it has never been well Stackridge at help from the student resi jailed at York Crown Court supported. This is only the dents." C urrently over 40 U ni- Mr. Randall explained that for forgery and deception latest of several problems Thie students are not at the Kitson versities and Colleges t.he broad mass of students offences from which they that the scheme hlas en moment on rent strike. obtained a total of £9,300. countered. Kitson College Students nationwide are commit- felt strongly over the issue, Union is to hold its first-ever ted to ren t strikes and and would give the campaign The offences began in Ticket holders are being re concert. sustained and vigorous sup- NOTTINGHAM 197 1 when one of the Brad funded tbe !Op fa re . The Featuring Stackbridge with catering boycotts. port. A " rent-a-glass" project ford students opened an ac service should be running their new stage act, it will To coun ter inflation, which H e said, "The number of bas begun in a hall bar in count at the Leeds Univer normally this weekend. take place on Mar
ADVERTISEMENT LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS ARTS ARTS ARTS FEST . FEST FEST Selected Previews Japanese musician• • 1n• theatrical rock show ON August 6th, 1945 the Japanese city of Hiroshima was devastated by the detonation of the world 's fi rst atomic bomb. H omes a nd factori es, schools and hospitals. farms a nd o rcha rds - a ll were laid bare. M any thousands of people died, wiped in the space of a few seconds from the face by Tony Brai nsby of thle earth. Many, many more were maimed and dis The story of 'Thk:: Man figured, condemned to the From T he East' is told agonies of a slow and linger through the medium of ing death . rrnditional Japanese theatre, Such is the holocaust of embellished by modern dance Hiroshima, realised by Japa and mime, and enacted in an nese composer and percussio environment created by the nist Stomu Yamash'ta as the music of Stomu Yamash'ta central and climatic move and his musicians. One could ment of 'The Man From T he describe the production as East' which, performed by 'rock theatre' or even as a Yarnash'ta and his new jazz 'rock musical' - but no con Viv Sranshall, Andy R oberts, John Gorman, M ike M cGear, Neil I nnes, Brian Patten, rock outfit, Suntreader, can be venient encapsulation ade Roger M cGough: Grimms at zhe Poly on February 9th Stomu Y amash'ra seen as part of A rts Festival, quately embraces the artistic at the Town H all, next and emotional complexity of Thursday. the performance, the music from which can be heard on T hursday. Poetry with a difference The best event Di scovers Music THEY'V E given me 300 theatre actor, appears to rep words to tell you about by Charles Street resent the underground ele Stomu Yamash'ta has be{"n ment. From him one can only described by Kachlaturian - Leeds Arts Festival's expect the unexpected. an opinion endorsed by John Poetry at the Playhouse, four factors of British poetry Add to these the individual of the term Cage, H ans Werner H enze on Sunday, 4th February. that Arts Festival has assemb narratives of Vernon Sc.annel, and many other leading musi led for your enjoyment. T he a poet who's work when ren THE Festival Folk night, both quality and quantity, cians and composers - as With 300 words I can't tell others being, popular, under dered by his O\yn lips bounces you much, certainly not as will be for many music lovers the best event this the \Vorld's greatest percus ground and individual. into a life of controlled won tenn. sionist. H is music is a unique much as I'd like to. Adrian Henri, founder der, tinted wit.l"l the sparkle of fusion of classical and I had this story worked member of the Liverpool vibrant h'umour, D. J . En Steeleye Span need no in Mr. J asper Carrott - traditional, modern and avant out about Peter Porter, Scene, and now touring with right; who spent 20 years troduction: The Yetties are wit, singer, storyteller, general garde, that somehow trans back in the SO's and 60's., the Grimms ( F ebruary 9th), teachring in the east, and per !amed for jigging and reel dogsbody, will be the compere cends the accepted categories closing the bookshop door naturally representing the haps learnt more than he. mg their aduiences into for the evening and will of modem music. He discovers hind him, and meeting popular. His influence on caught. Of him the critic, helpless, happy hleaps: T ony appear in several places simu music in the rhythms and George Macbeth, and the two poetry being indicated by the John Gross has said, "He ~apstick is a fine drinker, ltaneously. resonances of his environment. walking down Oxford Street fact that George Macbeth will laughs at literary cant Joke teller and all-round en F urther features include: His instruments are drums, together. be joined on stage by two because he has a sense of tertainer ( see his impression the distribution of free food cymbals, bells, steel plates, musicians, Nick Strutt and proportion and he always sees of Diana Ross) . of unnatural appearance, a wooden blocks, vibrating rods T hat was wi"ren they were Bob Pegg. literature in its human con The ladies of the evening late bar for the continued re on stage, he might be involved with The Group ... Jeff Nuttall, once pianist text." are among the best of the freshment of the assembled surrounded by fifty or sixty now famous for its literary and trumpet player in his own Last, but by no means liast., very few lady musicians in multitudes, and the assembly percussion units. He moves criticism. jazz band, editor of an under the striking physical appear the country. Barbara and and spectacle of characters between chem with the easy, From there I was going to ground magazine, creator of ance of Jolm Silkin. What Brigid have the prime sup in fancy dress, baubles, ban frenetic grace and visual bal say how they represented the a comic strip for International needs to be said about this port- spot of the evening, gles and beads, known as leticism of the true inspira tradition of British poetry; Times, artist, poet, author, art ex-labourer, except perhaps JUst before Steeleye Span. Morris Men. tional artist. and how this was one of the tutor at Leeds Poly and street once seen never forgotten. LEEDS ARTS FESTIVAL EVENTS 2-ARGENT, JOAN ARMATRADING. FRI. Pol y Hall. Q20. AMERICA HURRAY. RSH 8 pm. 20p. CALABASH REVIVAL DANCE. The Superbad plu s 8 pm . 50p (P.U .B.V.). I.C.E.S. Electric Media Event. MON. Poly Common Berm uda Steel Band. FRI. Poly Refec 8 pm ( late Room I pm. Free. bar). 60p (P.U.). 3-Julie Felix plus Gnome Sweet Gnome plus Mike 10-Beck, Bogart and Appice plus Flash. SAT. Univ Maran . SAT. Univ Refec 8 pm. 50p ( P.U.). 6-FESTIVAL FOLK. Steeleye Span, Yetties, Brigid St. Jo hn, Tony Capstick, Jasper Carrott, Barbara Refec 8 pm. 60p ( P.U.). 4--POETRY AT THE PLAYHO USE. The Magnifi cent Dixo n PLU S Morris an d C log Dancers. Free Food. I I- FESTIVAL THEATRE by Last Knockings. 'Come 7 read. George Macbeth with Bob Pegg plus Ni ck TUES. Univ Refec 8 pm (late bar ). 65p (P.U.B.). Quietly/Silver Story'. SU N. Univ RSH 8 pm. IOp Strutt, Vernon Scannell, D. J. Enright, Jeff Nnttall , ?-Acker Bilk & Paramount Jazz Band, Dick Auden ( pay on door). Adrian Henri, Jon Silkin, Peter Porter. SUN . 2.45- Band. WED. Town Hall 8 pm. 50p/40p (P.U.B.). JAZZ AT THE POLY. Collage Combo plus Bryan 5.30 pm. )Op (P.U.B. Pl ayhouse). Mallon Group. SUN. Poly Common Room 8 pm. 8-STOMU YAMASH'TA WITH SUNTRADER. A JAZZ AT THE POLY. George Kristafi x plu s Youth Free. special composition for Leeds Arts Festival. Improvisation Group. SUN. Poly Common Room 12-IRISH NIGHT (Irish Centre). Planxty plus Vin THURS. Town Ha ll 8 pm. 40p/30p ( P.U.B.V.). 8 pm . Free Garbutt. MON. 8 pm. 30p (P.U.B. Irish Centre). 9-GRIMMS. Fearuring M. McGear, R. McGough, J. POLITICS AND CULTURE. Featuring: John Quail, S-AFRICAN/WEST IN DIAN EXHIBITION. Scul ~ Gorman, V. Stanshall, N. Innes, A. Henri, B. Patten, Pete Brown, Mike Evans, The Loch Ness Monster, ture, Paintings, Wea pons, Clothes. MON. Un1v A. Roberts, A. N . Others, R. R. Ban d, PL US Albert Hunt's Theatre Group. MON. Poly Parkinso n Court. Free. Loonies. FRI. Poly Hall 8 pm. 50p ( P.U.B.V.). Common Room 8 pm. Pay on door.
FURTHER IN FORMATION: Co llect AF Handouts, read Leeds Student ( available from Poly and Univ Unions on Fridays), read the Evening Post, listen to Radio Leeds, watch loca l TV, or phone t he Poly Union-Leeds 30171 or Univ Union-Leeds 39071 LEEDS STUDENT - Friday, February 2nd 1973 6
Above: A Royalist flag party awaiting orders • 1!tbt ~ftgt 27tb Jan
"THE people who come to these affairs Because the Parliamentary forces were VJ : either like a bloody good fight or are torious at the original battle, the organii , had to transfer Pennyman's regiment to r real poofters." other side. Thus the Poly Cavalier Socii That was what 200 people were doing in fought its first battle for the Roundheads t I Nantwich last Saturday dressed in 17th at least they were on the winning side! i ~ century costume, according to a member of a The troops for the battle were made up w r Royalist artillery regiment led by a gunsmith people from as far apan as Essex and Ken t from Pudsey who had blown the end off hlis Even within one individual regiment thi cannon the previous week. were members from the West Riding and G I They were in fact members of the Sealed way Bay. c Knot Ltd. who were re-creating the siege and NANTWICH battle of Nantwich on its 329th anniversary. Among the participants were members of Leeds Poly Cavalier Society who combined with a group from Sheffield to form Sir William I Pennyman's regiment which came from York A definite class system was noticeable wit. £ shire in 1643. This was their first real battle the pany. The commanders tended to be r and altbbugh tl:u:y had to borrow pikes they tired soldiers or professional people with m , were really looking forward to the experience. of tl;te rest being skilled workers or studcr But when they arrived at Nantwich only a There was even an 83-year-old banker fr, t few Roundheads had turned up, although Epping Forest who attended every battle~ t Roundheads rather surprisingly outnumber the was appointed Padre! Above: The seige of Nantwich 1643-44 Royalists by 1200 to 800 in the Sealed Knot. The whole business was taken very serioi ~ with plenty of drilling and long discussi t ~~o~~w~e~ft~ e:~~1~en:! f~:t~ers as to l l Indeed one girl (one of the few girls II t actually took part in the fighting) broke off f engagement because her fiance would not her join the Sealed Knot. The battle itself was fought on a cri~ t ground. A rope marked the course of a Il : which overflowed at one stage when little D came out and moved the rope back. Tll! am lined up in their positions for the siege 1 "t proceeded to spend half an hour dischari = muskets and cannons, apparently filled v. 11111 tennis balls. Every so often people would down dead and then the commentator anno1 ced that the Royalists had withdrawn from tl attack on the town. At this point the role of t many women in the Sealed Knot was reve8' ~ ~ i: ~ne bunbrtlf miles for a ,, 5tben mtnut ,
The Leeds team meet their former Royalist comrades in a seven minute punch up puntb=up LEEDS STUDENT - Friday, February 2nd 1973 7
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:y were camp followers, hence the frilly For these people the shortness of the battle , and they dashed out to apply bandages was a disappointment, thley normally last for bsJjjngs of stage blood to the wounded. about two hours. As one said disgustedly: "100 bloody miles for a seven minute punch-up." Uhen this had been completed various The events are better attended during the actual toeuverings went on to enable the Round season (April to October). These involve three j's reinforcements to come on the field. day stays in Scotland. The one planned for h armies approached each other warily and this year will take place over 90 square miles l the charge began. with everyone camping out. °' actual method of fighting was for Despite the feeling of disappointment every 10sing groups to rush together with their one seemed to have enjoyed themselves by thle !S held aloft and push against each other time the evening was over; possibly because the • kind of distorted rugby scrum. The offi- Mayor of Nantwich was so impressed by the 1, .however, tended to involve themselves performance that he gave a barrel of beer to 1 m personal combat: the more they had the fighters. But what seemed to sum it all up nt on their costumes the less actual fighting best were the words of the Leeds Poly organi Y semed. to be involved in. Some regiments zer, Dick Cavadino: "You don't have to be daft by John McMurray ~ have been made up entirely of officers, for to join us but it helps." A sentiment which, as Pile the slippery and muddy conditions they an impartial observer, I echo to the full. naged to remain spotless. Pictures by Bob Rae and Bob Boddey Within minutes of the real battle starting ~ commentator was saying "And so the .tle ended with the Royalists in retreat." 1Wever the troops were not to be denied their >n and they refused to stop. Consequently eh the commentator making vain appeals for : fighting to stop, the crowd of spectators ode{! the field as the skirmishes continued. rptisingly only one person was at all badly n, With a broken nose. Finally t~ battle did end and everyone roar ed, with various degrees of discipline, back to ! headquaners. ~crew it
People spend their time doing this for various lSOns. Some have a genuine interest in the s~ry of the period. Charles Kitely, a pro ssionaJ historian, had an ancestor killed in the irs so his interest was in finding out what ent on in a battle rather tlian in the socialis- terwards. As the leader of the Parliamen s he has found that these activities have ~ up perhaps too much of his time: "It's very well being a dictator but there are '.lles When you just want to say 'Screw it' and >ou~ to the pictures." Others, the ·'poofters', devote all their time Ill!the. dressing up. For them the fighting is iy ~ng to be avoided and at the price they 0 ~ ~ir. costumes, up to a £100 in some ~ It 1s little wonder. 'i1'hh type who enjoys the fight and the drink h a erwards is probably the most common. 'l? are concerned with the historical aspects tu are prepared to stray a Ii ttle from st~ct Co~cy - in one case to the extent of using It.est .44: 'It may not be authentic but it • bloody loud bang." LEEDS STUDENT - Friday, Februa ry 2nd 1973 8
Chilling images Adolf Milligna • ID drugs fantasy the well-known THE coming of a new Ice ICE Age, when the entire earth by Richa rd Munro filming error is slowly but relentlessly narrator's habit of unannoun covered by a creeping mass ced t ransitions; but eventually 1 NO doubt Milligan fans Odeon Twin of ice, swallowing up all ~~cts~i;~~~: ~:c ~ ~~fe;~ will flock to see the film t by Jenny Naylor living things, is by no but because it is unimportant. version of Spike's recent means an original vision Th e na rrator is ob.s esse d semi-autobiography. of the end of the world. with the idea of rescuing a But if, like me, you expect rors_ of war are only embar Yet, wh ile such a visio n young woman from the 100 minutes of the unique man rass1 ng to _watch and dro wn forms a large part of the sub- clutches of another man. She ·himself. (an exhausting any potential comedy which stance of Anna Kavan 's Ice, is t he ete-rnal victim - both thought), then be prepared might have existed. ( P1i cador 40p), there can be of her fellow man and of for a disappo'intment. The ~ilm has very little to no denying the book's out- cirumscance. But as the " hero" Adolf H ider - My Part in ~ffer, apart from some bril standing originality. pursues the " heroine" and the His Downfall follows Spike's llant camera work. Jim Da le lt is the work of a woma n "vill'ian" across a war-torn momentous career In the Royal gives 3: convincing p erformance in the final years of a long world unde r the threat of Artillery, from his reluctant as Spike; but _his talent is and harrowing add'iction to the approaching ice, the roles re cruitment and sub-seq uent rather wasted m that it is heroin which was soon to of all three become ambi- e ncounter with the Medical impossible to get to the kill her. The imagery su gges- guous; just as the distinction Board to the battery's intoxi depths of such a unique ted by -Che ice and by the im- between reality and illusion is cating celebrations on the ,eve character as Spike - he is possibil ity of escape is un- IO!St, so too is that between of its departure for the front. inimitable. mistakable. the victim and the violator, Life in the training centre Spike's one and only bri ef. So too is the torment of between ene my and ally. but brilliant, enry ( playi ng his 1 allows the new recruits plenty being unable to distinguish Owing som eth ing to Science of opportunities for' mil itary father) is the high!,ight of a reali'ty from i!lusiion, a prob- Fiction, to the psychological Spike Milligan played by Jim Dale, takes things to o far in horseplay in true Dad's Army lengthy film. lem crucial to the book. The thriller, perhaps to the " A do lf Hitler - My Part In His D ownfall" tradition, yet the comedy in An enjoyable evening's enter reader may at first feel that adventure story, certainly to evitably falls flat through the tain~en~, but for a Milligan it is a fa'ir11y simple matter to Kafka "Ice" can only be des- uncomfortable introduction of fanatic like myself, nothing can separate the two, despite the cribed a,5 unique. an emotional element be substiituted for the genuine Reformed Schools A freak sinking Spike's reactions to the hor- article! IF you enjoy an adventure Odeon Twin Endgame venom "Radical School Reform" Radical School Reform film with plenty of action ed. by Beatrice and Ronald by Elizabeth Hall and not too many survi by Julia Stone THE publicity at the Lon Workshop Gross (Penguin 60p) is don debut of Samuel probably the most val artlildes. This is a collection vors, then see The Posei Theatre uable single book upon the of che best. motto that God he,lp,s those Beckett's latest play, Not don Advent ure. who help themselves ; and subject of schools reform Paul Goodman summarises I, made this Workshop by E lizabeth Hall the basic tone of the book Ernest Borgnine as a dumb which has yet been The Poseidon is the name but reliable character'. Shelley with "the bel'ief chat Theatre production a par stage, at the beginning of the produced. of a luxury liner which is on Winters is impress'ive as a highly industrialised society its way from New York to ticularly timely one. play, was a feat in itseH. Na gg requires twelve to twenty Jewish Grandmother who is Athens, when on New Years ( David Kibart) and Nell It is a virtually complete years of prior processing of good at swimming and keep Endgame is one of Beckett's Eve it i~ hit by a freak gigantic ( Penelope Smyth) are collection of writ'ings upon the young is an illusion or a ing the party together. On the earlier works, but too in wave which overturns and the hideously disintegratlng this subject during recent hoax.'' There are also con whole the script is unsenti· frequently staged. years; and, although the almost sinks it. The adven parents, degenerating in steel tributions from Edgar Frieden mental and realistic and the The character of Endgame cans. majority of articles are con ture is of a handful of people characters qui'te believable. berg, Marshall Mcluhan and who desperately fight their are four diseased being exist - . ~ndgame is a play of repe cerned with education in the educ3.tionalists, such as Herbert American context, the trans way to the propeller shaft Although the film is almost ing as perpetual prisoners tition and venom. Beckett's Kohl, John Holt and Johna ference value to Britain of where there is a chance of two hours long there is enough locked in a mutual dependence humour serves only to illu thon Kozel. Kozol was dis most of thils is very obv'ious. escape. On the way they en excitement to stop you watch· of hate and continuing misery. minate, briefly a scene of missed from one Boston counter fire and flood as well ing the dock. If there is any They await their release, a deadness, hopelessness and school for "fa•iVing to teach During the 1950s there was as various personal di,sa:sters. moral in the film it is perhaps never reached end. misery. In Nell's wordi: from recognised and approved vastly increased expenditure to make sure you can swim Hamm, a part powerfully "Nothing is funnier than un publication;s." He argues that upon education in the States. The liner used for many of before you embark on a cruise played by Max Wearing, is che happiness". the school '~ destroys the minds However, this was directed at the shots is the Queen Mary; and get a sound knowledge of blind and paralysed tyrant in Brian Parkinson's direction and hearts of our children.'' making the formal syistem there is some impress'ive the layout of various shafts in valid, warring with his de- was excellent and the perfor There is aha a contribuoion more efficient; the underlying camera work of an upside· a l'iner, to say nothing of a pendent servant-.son Clar m~n~es of the four players from A. S. Neill , founder of goals of what we should want down world to which our crash teach·yourself survival ( Michael Fry). Clor"s ten c~1ll_1ngly and horribly con Summerhill School. to achfeve by educating survivers adapt with amating course. minutes of immobility on vincing. children, and whether or not For everyone concerned rapidity. schools, as we know them, have about the ways in which we any value, was not questioned attempt to "educate," or Memorable performances are until the 1960s. There was, "proce·ss" children th'is is a those of Gene Hackman - a then, a vast prol"ife-ration of book which must be read. preacher who be-1:ieves in the Peace for modern turmoil Meanwood Park Hospital The Prose Poems are an School THIS whole collection of Stories and Prose Poems Stories and Prose Poems asp_ect ?f Solzheninsyn's wo rk August Holiday Play Cent re by Pauline Whyte which 1s unfam iliar to most by Alexander Solzhenitsyn of us. They show the tremen· 30th July • 24th August 1973 (Penguin 30p) displays the can be taken as representative dous imagination of the author same quality of writing as of all Solzhenitsyn's work. in turning a single common Leader and Assistant his great novels "Ivan Every story gives an impress ion incident into a work of an. of some aspect of life seen They are reflection,s o n life, needed for Playcare for Denisovich" and " Cancer beauty, and desire for approx. 60 mentally through the eyes of a central Ward" . freedom. Seats 40p to £1 (Studenu JOp off seats over iOp. Sat. mats. ha lf-price) handicapped ch ildren. Age character, and is easily read range, mainly 5-16 Y.ears. In the shortest story, Sol able. Some seats available for our ' Leed s' version of zhenitsyn de-scribes how he W hen it appeared in t!he I would recommend these THE WIZARD Of OZ would like to pa'int a picture USSR in 1963, the first story. prose poems to a nyo ne who For Further Details Ring of an Easter Procession at the " Matryona's House," was taken 1s overcome by the turm oil Tomorrow (2.30 and 7.30); next Sat. (2.30 and 7.30} and Patriarchal Church of Pere a,s showing che stubborn per of modern liv'ing; they inst ill Sat. 10th (2.30 and 7.30} only LEEDS 7835n delkino half a century after sistence of inherent Russian a feeling of peace and present the Revolution. This one piece values under all condit!ions. a new outlook on li fe. FILMSt SATURDAY ( 11.15) - FLESH ( Andy Warhol) SUNDAY (7.30) - WE WILL BEAT ANY PRICE IN TOWN RAOiEI., RAOiEL (Newman) DANB Y'S
Next Week1 Mon .. Tues., W ed . (7.30 ) - COME AND TRY US FOR RECORDS PARAPHERNALIA 166 A FLEA IN HER EAR ( Opp. Parkinson Bulldln1) the farce by GEORGES FEYDEAU Best Progressive Department and Selection in the Area (Also Feb. 19, 20, 21) For • SWEDISH CLOGS - GIFTS BOOK NOW FOR. OUR SPRING REPERTO IRE: INDIAN COTTON DRESSES VICE, VIRTUE and VIRGINITY JEWELLERY Lorca's BLOOD WEDDING ( Opens Feb. 14th) SCENE AND HEARD MEASURE FOR MEASURE ( Opens Feb. 28t h) Large Selection of CANDLES Vanbruah's THE RELAPSE ( Opens March 28th} opposite LITTLEWOOOS- on KIRKGATE - CENTRAL LEEDS and a wld• rana• of other ,ood• ------·- LUDS STUDENT - Friday, February 2nd 1973 9
Robert Bolt - has he finally shot his WHEN a film so well pro rather pointless. The climax Odeon of the film and Caroline's fate duced and written and do not move the audience be with two really fine per by John McMurray cause it is impossible to feel fonnances proves as dis really sympathetic to the main it. The h;s-torical Caroline character. appointing as "Lady Caro lamb may have been of in line Lamb", there must be terest as a figure of contem All this is a shame because some basic structural flaw. porary gossip; however this is the Him is beautifully made. The .screenplay is full of Bolt's In this case, Robert Bolt not enough to .support a writing at its and both seems to have spent a great major work of this type. best deal of effort on a subject The result of this weakness the photography and the score are very effective. which is not really worth of is to make the film all seem The two outstanding per formances are Jon Finch as Caroline'tS wronged and be wildered husband and Mar garet Leighton as his mother, Enoch and the determined to make him divorce Caroline after her Margaret Leighton and Sarah Mills in "Lady Caroline Lamb" affair with Lord Byron. Sarah Miles as Caroline and Gorganzola Richard Chamberlain as Byron are both presented rather as Adolf Hitler VD's part LAST week, Charles Lew Playhouse caricatures. the This technique is much • son gave a reading at more successful for Byron and, Playhouse of his heroic by Jenny Naylor Chamberlain presents a suit ID his downfall poem, "Enoch and the ably romantic, if slightly card Gorgonzola", an hilarious board, figure. TO the many books on strategies which, all ied with Hitler the weakness of Euro~an interpretation of England's installed in the National Gal The weakness in the part Adolf Hitler, Pan-Ballan reluctant entry into the lery for (dubious) posterity. of Caroline makes Miss Mil es' state-smen, allowed Hitler to tine have added yet by Fred Kerr obtain much as he did. This festering fungoid foreig performance ineffective: It as Common Market. Consideration 'Should also ner swells rapidly to menac seems to be very obviously another in their Illustra 'acted' because their is no real have been given to the Spanish The traditionally formed ing proportions, consuming ted History of World plot is devastating on impact; character there to support the Civil War ( where the techni with relish British Bobbies and War II series on War ordered to de-stroy all Hitler's beginning with a heart histrionics. que of Blitzkrelig was per Piccadily Tarts alike. personal records in 1938. rendering protest at the in Leaders (Hitler by Alan fected) and the German in Total catastrophe is aver There has been a shortage The author does, however, tru sion of "nasty, greasy" con of good new films in the Wykes - SOp) . volvement with Italy which ted, however (naturally), by omit important details about tine ntal ~ting habits into the Leeds area recently. Despite absorbed so muoh German sacred realm of Roast Beef the arrival of Gentil Knight Tlhe author goes into the the weakness of the German strength at later stage-s. Enoch, an "unrivall 'd" Paki the big reservations expressed details of Hitler's VD whkh Government in the 1930s: thiis and Yorkshire Pud - the in this is one of the best around. stigator of t his terrible crime basher from Wolverhampton, helps to explain his later was as much a cause of Hit In spite of these omissions , being Childe Edward ,.an up who in true heroic fashion Not exactly .a flawed mas irrationality. Definite proof ler's rise as was h- is own dema this book is still hirly com start musical male spinrter", come-s galloping over the t!rpiece but a very corn petent has always been difficult to gogy. Yet more serious is the prehensive and value for the who, lured by the smell of gar horizon and gallantly snatches piece of work all the same. find after the Gestapo were omission of his diplomatic price. lic, hauls himself through the Albion from the clutches of most bizarre situations in his the "pres umptuous immi- IJUIWU-!Pml'"lihiiliililii 4immBlillllllllllDlliili 1ulllH1111llllllHillllliUlll1mWmmWlilll1UllillllilllllWiliiliWIIUnlliliiUllllil!il:llliliMUllOl!llillllll fan.tic.al pursuit of the " Con grant". tinong". Hi s frenzied dreams Sir Enoch steers This Blessed GRAND ire fin ally realhed when he Isle from the garlic-festered succeeds in anchoring Albion LH Dawson a.nd Ronnie Hilton waters of France to tranquil in Goody Two Shoff IC 7 p.m. exhibitions to the shores of Europe by isolation, where, " free from Matinee, Hon. - Thurs. and Sat. means of 300 harpoons. strange ways and customs un D D D u: 1 p.m. toward", the poem closes u~ Disatter strikes, however, CITY V ARlETIES PARK SQUARE in the shape of the "'thrice on him "fix'd most fast in GALLERY Ct1rsed" Gorgonzola, procured icey cold devotion", to " float TOWER Another S)l.ntomim e: Jxk and forever on that Northern the Bunstalk with Charlie C,airoli during Ted's visit to the For This wttk and next: Marlon and his aana. Hon. - Fri ., Sat. 11 S...t":rd~r;:~f;,archttbr)u:tr /!h..; bidden land , and triumphantly Ocean." cinema Brando as The Godfather @ at a.m._, l p.m. , 4.4S p.m., 7.30 p.m. ~tt - Pa intinp aod Oraw 11.40, 4.00, 7.30 p.m. Matinee Tues., Wed. 2.30 p.m. mp. Mon. - Fri. I O a.m. - S p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. • I p.m. ABCl CLOCK This week: Final week of The CIVIC EXHIBIDON HALL Gr.at Waltz: ~ starrin1 Hont Tl'tis week: Tn,e Grit ii), star Huchhol:r and Mary Costa. 2.30, rina John Wayne at SAS, 8 p.m. Toniiht and Tomor,row: Leeds CITY SQUARE 7,30 p.m. Sep.al"ate Performan~.s. Next week: Lin Hinnelli in Teachers Drama Workshop present And all that Next week: Ro~rt Bolt's Lady Cabaret ®· LCP 7 p.m. Week the World Premier of John Ma~~~~a!h: ~u-:z/: tbefn«=y: Caroline Lamb @ starrin1 Sa.nah da.)'$ LCP 8 p.m. fjgdi;.~n-Feather's &sy Strut. and exhibition of Japanue arts Miler, Jon Finch .ind Richard and crafts. Hon. - Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. · LOVERS of the unique Jazz Chamberlain. (Stt R~~r Sep. WUNGE February 6th • 10th: Oliver might catch the co-opera :~or~=:~yssul~){ li'.\o !:!~ This week: Danny La Rue, ~d~h;th~~~ ~~ps~t~~)O by Pat Evans Lance Percival , and Alfred Marks p.m tion between the Edwar in Our Miss Fred @@ at 6.30, 8.50 p.m. With Eric Sykes and television dian "City of Leeds Col Harry Sea>mbe in Rhubarb. This is the only non- BRADFORD 1USl....G lege of Music'' and the commercial jazz even in the Next week: Jon Voi1ht in ALHAMBRA country. Impecunious music Deliverance @. Sunday from in \.:n~e:te~~s:~: S~~en~~ New Society Leeds Poly 4.30 p.m., LCP 6 p.m . Week Yet another pantomime: Derek lovers are not charged. All days from 6.SO p.m. Saturday Salbe LETTERS An inimitable brand TERRIBLE TERRY Dear Si r, I was pleased to see Terry ( now Montague} Lloyd has re tu~ne~ to the paper but displeased at his new style. Terry ha.s all uni1on1tes laug·hi.ng ~t the court and its ~ocial implications. in the of Wizzardry same paper which 1s devoted to reporting the aMics of Union superstars and the tike. Don't be hypocritical, Terry! W e don't want to know about WITH purple hair, green and red cords so you've got the voice for a start. the Royal Fam ily un'less they attack students - stick to exposts Basically we're going out to play rock of the HMV recordshop or full frontals of Waxum. warpaint, and tartan trousers, and roll but with jazz leanings". Britain's wild man of pop, Roy There's another side to Roy Wood, the Yours, Wood, with his new group Wizzard, rock and roll writer, with songs such as took the University by stonn on the single 'Blackbery Way' and Whisper Stephen Anthony Hey. in the Night' on ili, ELO album. Saturday night. Appreciators of these songs will be able The inimitable brand of Roy Wood to find similar ones, as well as a few rock, including the current bit single rockers on a forthcoming solo album, by "Ballpark Incident" had the packed Riley which multi-instrumentalist Roy really ON MY RIGHT ... Smith audience shouting for encore after means SOLO: encore. "I know Northern audiences are Dear Sir, supposed to be good but you're easily the best we've ever played to," said Roy. Solo •I woul_d like to make a few br.ief comments with regard to In the dressing-room afterwards I your article on the Drug Investigation project. watched the transformation of this sch!i.zo "It's always been an ambition of mine phrenic character. Off came the purple to make a solo album and, not wishing to Firstly, the ar.ticle was misleadi~g. The Union DID NOT expose wig, the paint and the wizard's cloak be egotistical, but what I consider to be students. to poltce probe. All Unton Council decided was that it and on went a conventional green duffel a solo album is like mine where I play would give the go ahead for these researchers to contact stude,nb coat. all the instruments, do all the voices, the final say would ~e ~~tirely up to them and Union Councii Roy's real hair is long but a bit neater write all the songs and produce it and ?ave not n~med any md1v1duals. Moreover you failed to mention than it appears on stage. Apparently hie paint the cover. But you get some people in your article that a letter will be sent to 500 stutfents in th used to actually dye it purple in the who say they're going to make a solo very first instance, asking them if they would like to partcip.1te~ Move's 1Brontosaurus' days but he could album and they have the best musicians never get the dye out aftenvards: now he in the world on it. And, you know, that's They are not obliged to return this and they can say no. uses the wig. hardly fair.'' Union Council was convinced that the Security aspect was Wizzard, Roy hopes, will be the band sufficiently fool proof and we felt that We could allow students Visual to enable him to break into the album to decide for t hemselves whether Otey wanted to partcipate. market and, more importantly the coveted Off-stage he describes hamself as American market. The Move, as far Yours sincerely, "pretty quiet really." His stage act, he as America was concerned were always a says, gives him chance to give vent to minority interest, he said, comparing their John E. Finestein, DPC. his feelings: "I enjoy acting like I do Roy Wood position in the States with Grateful on TV, but I don't scream round the Dead's position in Britain. streets with war-paint on or anything". However, for over two years before With the Move, and now even more so the formation of Wizzard, Roy Wood 1 ... AND ON THE LEFT with Wizzard, he is in the forefront of by Terry Lloyd together with Jeff Lynne, had carefully rhe trend towards a highly visual stage nursed the concept of the Electric Light act; Roy seemed pleased that the rest of Orchestra. Then suddenly, last summer Dear Sir, the pop world is now concentrating on when ELO finally made it, Roy shocked tH.is side: " I think the days are gone when a With. reference t? your a,:ticle con_cerning the proposed drugs band walks on in old jeans and a T the music world by walking out and leaving it in Jeff Lynne's hands: sur.:e.y In your last issue, I wish to point out that Union Council's shirt and if the audience don't like - dec1sron .was. by no means unanimous. Seven members requested t00 bad. The audience needs to be visually that their dissent be minuted: they were Jim Rodgers, frank entertained as well as the musical side." Original Moore, Pete Reader, Neil Taggart, Abdul Ha i, Paul Worthington, Top of the Pops, however, doesn't and myself. Other non-voting members also expresised grave exactly encourage imagination and al "It was an atmosphere thing really. I concern, notably Gerry Borgeat. though, Roy always comes up with new didn't leave for th:e usual music policy ideas the whole concept is restrictive: thing because I enjoyed playing with the V{_e ~ere not at all satisfied with several aspects of the in "With\ Wizzard we did about five v~st1gat1on. lt seeme Est 1900 HIGH-CLASS TAILORING Toi 26573 UP THE MIDDLE LANE for Ladl" and~ To prevent vandalism and hooliganism Dear Sir, it , PHILIP DANTE U RAGLAN ROAD, WOODHOUSE LANE, LliD5 l Union Council have decided to re-introduce You have completely failed to understand the serious objections ( 2 door,, from PackhorM Howl ) to th~ Leeds City Council's plans to " develop" Woodhouse and SOO Ootht co c:hoow from In wonoads, mohair.. twffds. etic:. Head1ngley Lanes. 112'. Own =J~J~•o;ed In ~~r!:~ <::u;:;: ~~ta The rfesidents' associations - representing people of all districts t.: from Woodhouse to W eetwood - are not objecting to the CARD CHECI(S prov!sion of bus-only lanes, as your report ( "Around Town") - * Superior Quality Loons only £1.99 on production 1mpl1es, but to the large-scale destruction of their communities ;tt of Un ion Card which this expressway will cause. ¥°" AT WEEK-ENDS This multi-million pound scheme will not solve any of the ·* South Sea Bubble - Tight-Fitting Jackets and problems of traffic in Leeds, but will in the long term only Loons in Brushed Denim or Velvet make them worse. The only answer is to follow Nottingham's example, Instead of. wasting £100 million on road builcing to The very latest Embroidered Loons from £3.99 accommodate the private car, they have used the interest save-cl * Always carry your Union card to provide a free, faster and greatly improved public transport sys.tem,. at the same time restricting other forms of transport. This ~111 be to the b~nefit of all the people of the dty, rathtr JOHN GRAHAM with you than Just a small section. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED Yours sincerely, 34 NEW BRIGGATE (next to Plaza Cinema), LEEDS 1 Tony, Dessain, Nick, Lamming, Alan Burkitt, LUU Society for Social Responsib'ility in Science, LEEDS STUDENT - Friday, February 2nd 1973 11 Poly victory run ; continues 1n• style THE Poly 1st XI extended its fine run of victories with a creditable 1-0 win over St Cup returns Bedes Old Boys at Bradford on Saturday. The UAU Cyclo-Cross The game opened with both sides playing attaclcing Cup was brougrut back to and emertaining football, and with a quick goal look Leeds for the third time in ing inevitable. H owever, it was not until the 35th four years last Sunday. This year's winner was minute 1hat vhe firsl and only goal of 1he game was P ete Williams who finished scored. the_ course over a muddy It came after a free-kick, Leicester council dump which was quickly taken by Roses win twenty-five seconds ahead of Terry Glover. His pass went Milner of Loughboro'. Wil to Jotm Souter who hit a On Saturday, the Univer liams, who was National superb 25 yard drive into the sity 1st XIII met Liverpool Junior Champion in 1970, corner of the net, giving the in a match which they had was unable to affect the re goalkeeper little chance. The to win to keep alive any hope sult in the team event. This Poly continued to attack and league. Tries by Parkes and went to Newcastle, who were were unlucky not to score Learoyd and three goals from t~ only University to field a full team. agai~ before the interval. T aylor enabled them to re The second half started verse an earlier defeat at the with St Bede's doing all the hands of Liverpool and run XENOPUS attacking, but thie Poly de out winners by 18-7. Xenopus, the Leeds Stu fence, ably marshalled by On Wednesday, the first dent crossword compiler Pete Caunt ne\'er looked in team moved into the quarter announces with regret that any real trouble. As the game finals of th;, UAU 11-a-side his contribuQ.ons will be Poly pirhoueue on Saw,·day progressed the Poly took more KO Cup by beating Shef henceforth, fortnightly, due t~ control, with both Phil Read field 39-8. finals. • • man and Mick Moran com Welsh team ing close to scoring on several Fine Win 1n WIVAB occasions, and it was only a fine performance by the Old MANCHESTER LADIES 1 ... LEEDS LADI ES 4 scuttled Boys' goalkeeper that kept Defence first step LEEDS Women's 1st XI hockey team produced a the scoreline at 1-0 until the fine cohesive display in their 4-1 victory over Man In the quarter-finals of the final whistle. UAU Badminton, Leeds were THE Leeds University 1st XV took the first chester in the quarter-finals of the WIV A B Cham much too strong for Cardiff pionships. and they won by 9-0. step in regaining the Christie~Shield by travel The home team was under Leeds were attempting to Salford ling to Manchester on Wednesday and coming co ntinual pressure from the Rugby Union win back the title lost last bully-off and this led to an yea r and they were never away with a fine 15-7 victory. ea rly goal by Ann Glced. troubled in thli.3 match!, all the go down Manchester were kept on the capitalise on their chanecs. games being won comfortably. Leeds produces a find de From the first five minutes defence for long spells and After forcing a comer, Angela Cardiff reachied the it became apparent that the Hockey this Leeds domination was re Dawson scored with a well termined performance to de quarter-finals by winning the feat a dour unimaginative game would hinge round the warded by a second goal, placed shot and a good so lo opposing scrum-halves, Lewis U niversity of \Vales Cham Salford side by 1-0 at \Veet again scored by Gleed. effort by Jan Brown in pionship. And this match and T omason, the formers' creased Leeds' lead to 4-0. wood on Saturday. tactical kicking and the lat The first try of the game Because of this all--0ut attack highlighted the great dif came after 33 minutes when the visitors were left vul Lack of concentration by ference in standard between The game had hardly ter's lightning bursts being Leeds allowed Manchester to started when Leeds took the two of the main features of Leeds flanker Walden broke ne rable at the back, but Englsh and Welsh badmin clear and with only the full Manchester were unable to score a late consolation goal. ton. lead. A poor clearance by the the match. Salford keeper went straight back to beat he kicked ahead. Next week the Individual to Blanshard who calmly Leeds opened the scoring The full-back batantly char ( B U S F) Championsh!ips chipped the ball into the with Lewis kicking two angled ged hlim down and the referee Poly win despite mistakes take place at Crystal Palace. vacant net. penalties in the sixth and had no hesi tation in award The second half followed eigh.lth minutes. Manchester ing a penalty try, which Lewis THE Poly won this closely-fo ught battle despite much the same pattern, and only replied by forcing three five gratefully converted to give generosity on their part in giving way penalties in stout defensive work preven yard scrums in as many Leeds a 12-0 lead. In the net Before half-time, Man dangerous ,positions. ted Leeds from gaining a minutes, but were unable to T he University Netball larger victory margin. cross the Leeds line. chester scored a deserved try team won a place in the semi by blind-side flanker Hazlett The only score in the first finals of the \VIV AB com af~er a move along the line; half was an unconverted try petition by bearing Lancaster this, added to a T omason by I. Mathy, who broke from 24-18. Team romps home in penalty made the score 7-12 a ruck to dash 30 yards and opponents posts to gain a after 40 minutes. nother six points. This proved Their opponents in the touch down in the corner. In the second half Man Five minutes after the inter to be the final score in an next round will be Birming the mud exciting game which con ham where the match will chester were again on the val the lead was increased OVER a testing, muddy course of 7{ miles at Pudsey offensive almost continuously when K. Charlton covered tained much good rugby. take place next Saturday. 50 yards before crossing at last Saturday, the University Junior (under 20) team and yet they could not break romped to victory over a class field in the Yorkshire through a Fort Knox defence the posts for a try which in whlich Newman, Lockett was converted by T. Hors Club Championships. and Croft deserve special fall to give the home side a 10--0 lead. Bosketboll round-up T he outsanding perfor- }~as aw~?n~{ Jitn4~~5~~f ~~~: mention. mance was by Paul Haywood placings were Mike Lambert Le~~tl~na~~ am~~~:e!x~s~~ St John's began a come THE University Women's Basketball Club started off the tem1 back with a goal folowing a very well by winning their first two matches. :U~~s fin~::r:d t~~i;r~thre:~~ (second), Tony Bird (fifth), into the home half and from sixth), Mark Duddridge Robin Britton (-Wth), John a scrum infringement Lewis disputed penalty, but a fur In a closely fought match against Carnegie, they grasped ( ther try by M. Truebridge vict-Ory in the closing seconds. Trailing at half-time by 8-15 (seventh), and Tony Brierley Harper (55th), and Frank kicked a penalty, which put for the Poly put the result Leeds finally won by 18 points to 17. ' (eighth). The teams total of IT-=B=i=,d=(=8=2=n=d=)·====- ---..:::.th=e=r=e=su=l=t =b=e:::yo::n::d:=.:d.:.o.:.ub::_t::_.-== beyond doubt, even though On Friday, with a squad of only five players, Leeds played 24 points gave them a ten , the conversion was again un brilliantly in their away match with Doncaster Panthers. With point victory over Bingley. successful. only three players on court in the final stages, Leeds still kept ST. CHRISTOPHER their lead and finally won by 54 points to 26. As reported briefly last Seven minutes from the Jane Richardson was t()p scorer in both matches with 14 week, the Senior team did DRIVING SCHOOL fina l whistle rhle visitors and 26 points respec:tivey. ' well in gaining third place to0k advantage of a silly Team: Jane, Richardson, (Capt.), Janet Banford Gwyn in the Queen Mary Cham Allen, Barbara Rowe, Jo Parkin, Liz McClarty. ' ~ in~n~f__:heir pionships. 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Labour alternative to Tory framework A REVOLUTIONARY programme in the field Main Office: 155 Woodhouse Lane of post school education has been set out by Tel University 39071 ( ext•- 39 & 58). Polytechnic 30171/ . Tragedy of the Parlmentiaray Labour Party in a Green Initial deposit STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 1971 & Friday, February 3rd 1973 Paper published on Monday. The Poly Union African the quiet man Society is being allowed to The proposals include: open its own bank account. Revelations in the Press con e The abolition o( the by Ian Coxon It is the first Poly club or EDITOR: PAUL VALLELY cerning the past life of a binary system. society to be allowed this MARTIN CHARLESWORTH University Sociology finalist to be replaced by compulsory privilege. News Editors: Univers ity have surprised students in ,e Comprehensive "adul t Poly ..... Vacant release classes. The society needs a bank ..... JOHN McMURRAY his deparunent. . education" for all stu A student body numbering Reviews Editor . Details leading up to Enc dents over the age of account because it is running Sports Editor . STEWART McMEEKING one million by 1980 is called a Pan-African Week with the ...... BOB BODDEY Moss, aged 37, being found for by the Paper. The Pictures Editor dead in h,is car together 18. University Union African Ads Manager ,, ...... YVONNE TAYLOR Compulsory full or Government are making pro ...... Vacant with h!is nine-year-old son ,e vision for three-quarters mil Society. National Ads Manager . last weekend, have shocked part-time education At the University all clubs Sales Manager (University) ANNE GILKS lion students by this date...... DAVE SMITH his colleagues who described between 16 and 18. The National Union of have their own account!:i. No Subscriptions Manager ...... PETE READER him as a 'nice, quiet man." Students have praised the other Poly Society has one. Business Manager ...... There was a shotgun at their e A 25 % increase in the number of stu Green Paper wh.ich contains The Poly conside.. r that the Other contributors: Andrew A. Alexander, Andrew side and a police spokesman a nwnber of ideas initially University system is less Baldwin, Ian Coxon, Alan Glover, Elizabeth Hall, Andy said: "No other persons dents plarlned for promoted by NUS itself. secure than thleir own. Jarosz, Andrew Jones, Fred Kerr, Terry Lloyd, Richard were involved." 1980. Munro, Jennifer Naylor, Bob Rae, Ian Steele, Julia Stone, Althougli there had been Heather Vallely, Pauline Whyte, Chris W illiams, Mo, Barry. vague rumours even Mr. e Grants for all students Moss's closest student over 16. friends had not fully reali The idea behind the Labour zed the extent of his Party plan is to give those troubles. students presently deprived of Support over victimisation While a company director he a university place the chance had been deeply hurt by his to receive education of a The Poly Board of Reps has come out strongly in suppon wife's divorcing him but similar standard. of girls in the Department of Institutional Management woo more particularly by her The Green Paper proposes have complained of victimisation. being granted custody of the that every student between The girls allege that they are told off every time they miss son. 16 and 18 should receive F ollowing gaol sentences for either full or part-time edu :i. single lecture. They are sometimes even forced to do the contempt of court, involv cation. Statutory grants for lecture work again in their own time. ing the seeing of his son he all full or part-time students This Department and the Department of Educational Studies was eventually gaoled for over 16 are demanded, as well still consider themselves as the old Yorkshrire College of Home "incitement to murder" his as the abolition of evening Economics, and refuse to recognise themselves as part of the ex-wife, His ex-wife's classes for students under 18, Polytechnic, Reps heard. parents and a Mr Cogbill, now his ex-wife's hrusband. A reunion with his son had OGM quorum stays down gradually become an obses sion - finally without any "DEMOCRACY in the Union will be best served by Union to sue society hope. raising the quorwn of Ordinary General Meetings to In a letter of 1968 he said: " It is my wish and earnest plea 200," said John Finestein at the reconvened University that my son and I should AGM on Tuesday. be laid to rest together in But Fred Milson pointed out that had the quorum been 200 over return of grant? death, as we were denied in this session then none of the OGMs so far would have been life." Eric Moss was buried quorate. LEGAL action is being out to Sadler Hall, wbert alone on Tuesday. "An OGM of 150 is more representative than a Union contemplated by the Uni by Paul Vallely the society was formerly Council of 30. If the quorum veristy Union to recover based. This led to unfounded inquorate and the Union will accusations being made a is raised all OGM's will be money which it gave gainst Ernie Kirkby, the NORTHERN UNIVERSITIES away during the summer. The money was granted by Staff President of the Society be in the hands of a UC Exec during the summer 1 dominated by sabbaticals." and Warden of Sadler Hall. The grant of £ 120 was vacation but when Union He won his point and the given to the Clog Dancing Council returned on October Mr. Kirby told Leeds Seu. AND motion failed to get the two Society when they found thet 9tt», they refused to ratify it. dem, "The money was paid to Sadler Hall from lhe COMPETITION thirds majority required. The they had not raised enough Many UC members felt BALL voting was 304 for, 155 money to finance their tours society's funds because it was that the society, which has against with 47 absentions. of Poland and France. owing to the University fortbc not re-applied for recognition accommodation of the teams with the MAYFAIR DANCE ORCHESTRA this session, had become a in Sadler H all during the re Union society in March, for hearsing days before we left the sole purpose of getting FEBRUARY 9th RfFEC. for Europe. LATE HIGHT Union money for the summer. " I t is not true that the Suspicion was aroused by Sadler Hall Rapper Dancm 7.30- 12.00 SOp and Buffet Extra the sudden withdrawal of the registered as a Union society Society's funds in a lwnp simply to get money, we BUS SERVICE sum, 120 on a cheque made wanted more people to join." Next OGM 12.00 outside Parkinson Steps GOD HAS SPOKEN TUESDAY TALKS - FRIDAY and MONDAY FEBRUARY 6th TO BODINGTON and SADLER 8.00 pm - R.B.LT. 1.00 pm Tickets 10p from Porters * by Crabtree Lecture Theatre LEITH SAMMUEL and MICHAEL COLE Eng. Block Tonight and Saturday MONDAY, 5th - TO BE DISCUSSED : Grants - Freeze - Clay Cross - Drugs Survey and every Weekend "IS FAITH IN GOD 1A DELUSION?" A R.EPRESENT ATIVE DECISION IS VITAL WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE LAST WEEK ALL ARE WELCOME LEEDS POLYTECHNIC UNION l1HURSDA Y, 8th ,fiEBRUA:ltY 1973 - at 2 pm TECH HAUL ALL LECTURES CANCELLED FOR THE AFTERNOON If t he democratic framew~rk of the Union i~ t~ be upheld it is essential that you should attend the Annual General Meeting, as the Cons.t1tut1on can only be dealt with at a quorate AGM. AGM Business in by 2 pm today Published by ""Leeds Student", 155 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds 2 and Printed by Regent (Printers) Ltd .• 29 Leathley Road , Leeds LSIO )BG . 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